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CROSS CAMPUS
BASEBALL ELIS WALK OFF WITH WIN IN 12TH
CYBER-SECURITY
MEDICAL MARIJUANA
DANCE
Flashback virus invades campus, hits dozens of student computers
LEGALIZATION BILL PASSES HOUSE, HEADS TO SENATE
Choreography of late legend Cunningham makes Yale debut
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PASSION PIT, T-PAIN DRAW SPRING FLING REVELERS
It’s almost over. Savor today’s
issue of the News, because it will be the last one we publish until August. For breaking Yale news over the summer, check yaledailynews.com for periodic updates.
BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER
A winner. Former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney cleaned up with Connecticut’s voters in Tuesday’s Republican primary, taking 67.5 percent of votes and all 25 of the state’s delegates. Ron Paul came in second, followed by Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. Romney swept Tuesday’s primaries in four other states, making him the presumptive nominee to oppose President Barack Obama in the fall. EARL LEE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Low turnout. Tuesday’s
primary was marked by low turnout among voters — only 14.4 percent of registered Republicans voted for a candidate. Only one voter showed up to a polling place in West Rock, though eight wild turkeys made an appearance, according to the New Haven Independent.
More competition. Yale College Chess Club held its fourth annual Bulldog Chess Classic last week. Around 30 competitors entered. Gordon Moseley ’12 went undefeated and won the tournament. Spread the joy. Happiness
came to Bass Library on Monday as a young woman delivered flowers to the various students preparing for finals, bringing out smiles and the spirit of the spring.
Odds, your favor, etc. Yale
B.U.T.A.N.E. announced Wednesday what we’ve all been waiting for: The Hunger Games are coming to Yale. Modeled after Suzanne Collins’ best-selling young adult franchise, Yale’s Hunger Games will require each of the 12 residential colleges to choose one boy and one girl, called tributes, to participate in a series of “tests of mental and physical skill” that will span the course of several hours.
Go 2013! Associate Dean of
Student Organizations John Meeske sent an email to the class of 2013 on Wednesday to announce a special election for the position of senior class treasurer. “No one applied for the position of Treasurer,” the e-mail reads, “so we will hold a special election for that position next week.” Interested juniors have to submit a 150word statement by 5 p.m. Thursday.
Ignore the cutest. Silliman
is holding its first-ever pet contest. Nineteen students submitted photos of their pets, and students will vote on whose pet is whose.
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YSD nets record $18M gift
WAKE UP, ‘SLEEPYHEADS’ Students turned out in droves for Tuesday’s Spring Fling, which featured performances from 3LAU, T-Pain and Passion Pit, pictured above. Check out reviews of the acts in WEEKEND, B2-4.
At tonight’s premiere of “The Realistic Joneses” at the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Yale School of Drama will announce that it has received its largest donation ever, an $18 million gift from the Minneapolis-based Robina Foundation. The gift will go toward supporting the Yale Center for New Theatre, which was established in 2008 with a $2.85 million grant from the foundation and was originally scheduled to be funded only until June 2012, said School of Drama Dean James Bundy. The Center for New Theatre, which has funded and staged new works by over 30 commissioned artists at the Yale Repertory Theatre since its inception, aims to make an enduring commitment to advancing the frontiers of the American theater, Bundy added. “There have been large grants before SEE DRAMA SCHOOL PAGE 4
Blue Book returns, for now Students join labor march BY ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTER
Despite last fall’s announcement to the contrary, Yale College’s printed course catalog, affectionately termed the “Blue Book” by students and faculty, will come out for at least one more year. Administrators announced last September that the Blue Book — formally titled the Yale College Programs of Study — would no longer be available in print after this academic year, as the Registrar’s Office works to develop an improved online course listing system that incorporates all the information from the YCPS. But University Registrar Gabriel Olszewski said Wednesday that his office has not yet finished the online design, so the change
BY BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER
HARRY SIMPERINGHAM/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Administrators reversed a decision to stop printing the Blue Book beginning next fall. to the printed Blue Book will be postponed. “We were not really comfortable that we had the design that would meet everybody’s needs
yet,” Olszewski said. “We figured we could put the ceasing of the printing off until we knew that SEE BLUE BOOK PAGE 6
More than a thousand students, labor union members and community activists flooded Yale’s campus and downtown New Haven in a call for the University and the city to provide more youth opportunities and union jobs. The “Let’s Get to Work” march and rally was jointly organized by the undergraduate community advocacy group Students Unite Now, the Local 34 and Local 35 unions that represent University technical, clerical and dining
hall employees, the Graduate Employees Student Organization (GESO) and the non-profit progressive advocacy group Connecticut Center for a New Economy. While the organizations leading the march identified different goals, leaders from each group said protesting together provides a “show of force” to Yale administrators and city officials that youth employment and union jobs are important issues for New Haven residents. “I’m marching today because there is a movement SEE MARCH PAGE 6
Search for Reichenbach A long march to commencement replacement A nears end G R A D UAT I O N
fter a car crash in 2003 involving eight other Yale DKE brothers, Brett Smith ’12 spent several years recovering from his injuries. This May, he will graduate from Yale — overcoming challenges his doctors did not believe could be surmounted. RAISA BRUNER reports.
BY TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTER The search for Vice President for Development Inge Reichenbach’s successor will finish in two to three weeks, University President Richard Levin said Wednesday. Reichenbach announced in November, five months after the conclusion of the five-year, $3.88 billion Yale Tomorrow fundraising campaign, that she would step down at the end of the academic year. At the time, Levin said the search for Reichenbach’s successor would be conducted “nationwide” and would consider candidates from both inside and outside Yale. Levin said the University is close to making a hiring decision, though he declined to specify what remains to be done or how many candidates are in “small number” that makes up the final pool. “We’re looking for a strong leader SEE REICHENBACH PAGE 6
This May, Brett Smith ’12 will walk through Phelps Gate with the graduating class of 2012. But nine years ago, a doctor told his family that Smith would not graduate at all. Early in the morning on Jan. 17, 2003, Smith — then a freshman on the football team — and eight other Yale students were in a car driving back to New Haven from New York City when they crashed into a tractor-trailer that had jackknifed on an icy Interstate 95 outside Fairfield, Conn. Five of the students — all pledges and members of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity — survived the accident: Three left the hospital after a few days, and a fourth, Eric Wenzel ’04, also soon made a full recovery. All returned to campus within a year after the accident and graduated by 2006. For Smith, now 28, the path to graduation was not so simple: He was in a coma for four and a half weeks and
spent the next four years at home working toward rehabilitation. Doctors were not optimistic about his recovery, but he always expected to come back to Yale, his mother Darlene Smith said. Known by friends and family for his hardworking and focused character, Smith has defied expectations by returning to Yale and completing his degree in history. “They never had a patient like Brett,” his mother continued. “If somebody says to you Brett’s as good as he’s going to get, then they have failed Brett.”
‘FORTITUDE AND DETERMINATION’
After the car accident, Smith spent six weeks hospitalized in Norwalk, Conn., before being transferred back to Omaha, Neb., where his family was living at the time. There, he continSEE SMITH PAGE 4
KAMARIA GREENFIELD/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Brett Smith ’12 will graduate in May, over nine years after he sustained serious injuries in a car crash near Fairfield, Conn.
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OPINION
.COMMENT “At some level, every class at Yale is ‘applied’ (unless you’re hanging out in yaledailynews.com/opinion
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‘UHLENHUTHM’ ON ‘MAKING YALE COMP SCI RELEVANT’
G U E S T C O L U M N I S T S J O S E P H O ’ R O U R K E A N D K A T H E R I N E L AW R E N C E
Remembering Zach Brunt ’15
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Reflecting on a year at Yale
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or many of us, the stories that defined our year didn’t make the
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The large patch of trampled grass on Old Campus near the post office can only mean Spring Fling has come and gone. On the other side of College Street is a similarly barren area where the Occupy encampment stood until last week. The protesters were a constant of this school year and their departure seems just another sign that summer is upon us. Classes are over, papers are looming and T-Pain is gone, even if he didn’t really sing much while he was here. As we look back on the year, it is easy to remember the stories that made national headlines: controversy over Sex Week, the crash at the Game’s tailgate, debate surrounding Yale-NUS, questions about Patrick Witt’s Rhodes Scholarship candidacy. These stories defined our school in the national eye. People talked about our frats gone wild and our heroic football captain’s fall from glory. These stories mattered to us. Students rallied around the Muslim Students Association when it was discovered to have been the subject of police surveillance. We organized panels and pronounced our views on Yale-NUS. We wondered how Yale will change when ROTC arrives. In the national press, the University’s name pops up around major issues and then recedes again until the next issue. Title IX is indeed vitally important — but it’s more to us than a headline when the suit is filed and then again in the context of Patrick Witt’s story. It has been an ongoing dialogue since last spring, and the changes that matter don’t always fit into national news stories. But we talked about other things this year, too: our classes, outrageous speakers, IM standings (well, maybe
not) and the upcoming arrival of Shake Shack. For most of us, this wasn’t the year of Sex Week or even Occupy New Haven. We didn’t spend most of our time thinking about national controversies, even when we were key players in them. We spent our time in dining halls with friends, reading in libraries and ordering Wenzels. We should remember those stories this year that didn’t make national headlines but affected our daily lives. Hurricane Irene ushered in this year, disrupting Camp Yale and forcing freshmen to bond indoors. Many offcampus residents lost power, but they could at least turn for solace to the brand-new Box 63. Flavors opened, launching a froyo fray that made all our lives better. Then Chocopologie joined the fray. It is the sweetest, best sort of war. New Haven saw 34 murders in 2011 — and then almost two months without a homicide at the beginning of 2012. New police chief Dean Esserman generated excitement with his commitment to community policing. Two undergraduates ran for Ward 1 alderman. Student interest in the election reached unprecedented levels. We mourned Zach Brunt ’15, Ralph Verde ’11 and John Miller MUS ’07. But we also found much to celebrate. None of those stories made it onto “The O’Reilly Factor,” but we will remember them. Each of us has our own roster of stories, too: a particular dinner, a night out or a class we will remember for the rest of our lives. Those are the memories we will take with us into this summer. They are what will keep us itching for September to come or remembering Yale as we head off into the real world.
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e were supposed to fly today. At Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, undergraduates from around the country are currently preparing to perform myriad science and engineering experiments in zero gravity aboard a Boeing 727 affectionately nicknamed “G-Force One.” And we, as members of the Yale Drop Team, had planned to be among them. Since January, we have worked for countless hours to design, build and test our own experiment through NASA’s Systems Engineering and Educational Design program, and we were excited to reap the benefits: visiting mission control, talking with astronauts and, of course, experiencing zero gravity. But last week, as we were packing, we heard the horrible news that our friend and fellow team member Zachary Brunt ’15 had died. he world stopped. Our plans were put on hold as our eager anticipation was replaced with boundless despair. Zach’s death completely blindsided us. We knew him only in the context of our project, but in the countless hours we spent working side by side, we saw only his passion, optimism and kindness. Since his death, we have scoured our memories for any sign of
Zach’s troubles — how could we not? — but sadness and anxiety are incongruous with the Zach we knew. Zach met the Yale Drop Team last fall at a presentation we gave to the Society of Physics Students about our 2011 fluid mechanics project, an experiment that returned unexpectedly incredible results. In December, when the SEED program accepted our proposal, we realized that we had space for another member in our flight crew. Zach responded to an email blast and eventually became part of the team. Undergraduate projects are usually piecemeal efforts, typically part of something larger and rarely pursued to a final conclusion. However, NASA gives a few undergraduate teams the opportunity to have ownership of a complicated project from its inception to the final data analysis. Signing up for these programs is no small decision; this has been a defining extracurricular of our undergraduate careers. Still, progress on our project was steady and sure. We spent our weekends working together on Science Hill but avoided frantic all-nighters and near-deadline panics. Our experiment was simple but significant. We aimed to test the performance of surface ten-
sion screens, which separate liquid propellant from gas in spacecraft fuel tanks to prevent explosions or other disasters. For technical reasons, realistic tests of these screens cannot be performed in Earth’s gravity; without precise knowledge, engineers are forced to add large margins to hardware designs, causing cost increases and delays. When we first met Zach, we were inwardly intrigued — this guy, with his unapologetically wild hair and blindingly orange jacket, wants to design and build our electronics system? — but we trusted that his technical skills would match his obvious energy and excitement. Ultimately, Zach’s prowess with electronics and programming was unparalleled and essential, but his most valuable contribution to our project was what we first noticed: his personality, uplifting and bright. Zach epitomized reliability. He attended meetings that others would shirk, and he always met his deadlines, even when they were self-imposed. When unexpected setbacks sowed discouragement and doubt, Zach shrugged off the difficulty with a helping hand and a cheerful word. Seeing Zach’s orange coat draped over a chair when we entered the lab never
failed to brighten our moods. His presence reassured us that progress was possible. At last Thursday’s vigil, we learned that Zach similarly inspired and uplifted all those in his life. We did not know Zach as well as many, but his unwavering dedication and cheerfulness were infectious. They were what we — and all his friends — relied on in moments of doubt. We regret not fully expressing to him how much we appreciated every ounce of his effort. We regret not talking with him more about the other facets of his busy life here. But most of all, we regret not being able to be for Zach what he was for us: a reminder of the inherent joy of scientific research, a steadfast partner always eager to help, an inspiration to pursue your passions no matter the obstacles. Only in the harsh light of Zach’s absence do we fully appreciate the crucial role that he served on our team and the profound impression he left on us. Our memories of Zach encourage us to brighten others’ lives as he brightened ours. JOSEPH O’ROURKE is a senior in Silliman College and a staff columnist for the News. KATHERINE LAWRENCE is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College.
My date with Monty I
t’s common this time of the year for seniors to consider all the things they’re going to miss about Yale. The real world is shockingly devoid of grassy quadrangles, 3 a.m. Wenzels and outdoor concerts on spring Tuesday afternoons. Being the contrarian that Yale has taught me to be, I’ve also recently been thinking about the things I’m not going to miss about this place. When I leave New Haven, I’ll happily say goodbye to sugar-free Red Bulls, individual study carrels and flats blackened by the Toad’s dance floor. But perhaps the single thing I will miss least about Yale is its stress. I know — or at least have been told — that the real world is stressful, too. But, neophyte though I may be, I have this hunch I’m going to experience less anxiety during the next year than I have during the last four. Don’t get me wrong: I love Yale. If you gave me the option to return to my freshman year room come September, I’d have my shower shoes and boyfriend pillow in the trunk of my parents’ car within minutes. But for me, there’s something about this place that has always produced a specific species of unshakeable Yale stress.
For my final Bucket List installment, I thought I’d bid a stylish farewell to this strain of anxiety. With just over a week ZARA my KESSLER before senior writing project was Bucket List due, I walked up to the desk at the Lillian Goldman Law Library and giggled as I announced, “Um, I’m here to check out the dog.” Monty is a Jack Russell-border terrier mix, a trained therapy dog, and over the last year he has given Handsome Dan a run for his money as most famous dog on Yale’s campus. Monty’s March 2011 arrival for a pilot program at Yale Law School was splashed across media outlets from The New York Times to Good Morning America. On Thursday, April 12, I wasn’t only relieving stress. I was meeting a Yale celebrity. Bass Library is where I’ve always gone when I want my studying with a side of socializing. The Law Library is where I’ve always gone when I’m so anxious about fin-
ishing a paper or studying for an exam that I don’t want to see anyone I know. I hope I’ll be able to soak up some of the intensity of all those polo-clad 20-somethings by osmosis. For me, it’s only fitting that Monty lives in the Law School. When I had signed up for my slot with the dog the previous week, a few things were made clear. I would not be allowed to walk Monty or take him outside. I would be shown to a room and given about half an hour to frolic with him. I could bring friends. I petted Monty along with two people close both to me and to this column: Vivian Yee ’12, former editor-in-chief of the News, and Kate Lund ’12, who’s been writing on alternating weeks (and to whom I must give credit for first adding the stress dog to her bucket list). The three of us met Monty in the office of his owner, access services librarian Julian Aiken. We sat on a couch and put Monty on our laps. We fed him biscuits and yelled “Sit!” and “Down!” like versions of ourselves a decade younger would have done. Kate called the experience “nice.” Vivian enjoyed the simple act of making Monty happy. But I found myself heading back to work
in the Law School Library (yes, it was one of those days) surprised that I actually felt less stressed. Though Monty was cute, I decided it wasn’t really the dog that had cheered me up. It was the wholly random nature of the experience, the weirdness that had attracted all of those media outlets — it was so comical, so weird, so Yale. And so, if I might offer a bit of unsolicited advice in this final installment: Underclassmen, don’t find yourself with too long of a Bucket List. My mom tells me that exercise will clear my brain and help me study better. What I’ve found this semester is that just as Yale has its own species of stress, it also has its own species of unwinding in all the strange, quirky events, engagements and activities that it uniquely offers. Explore old books and brains and stand in the corner of a dodgeball game. Find yourself a half-hour with a different variant of Monty every day. Use Yale’s oddities to remedy its stresses. Just don’t procrastinate until second semester senior year to do so. ZARA KESSLER is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at zara.kessler@yale.edu .
GUEST COLUMNIST GABRIEL ZUCKER
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Co-opting conservative ideas
f idealism reaches its peak in college, then it is especially easy to unconditionally accept liberal values at Yale. In academics, politics and service, we live in a liberal echo chamber, with little incentive to self-critique. But four years here have taught me the value of five ideas that liberals at Yale — and everywhere — tend to neglect. First, liberals allow conservatives to claim exclusive title to the gospel of personal responsibility. While liberals object that circumstances can be nearly insurmountable, conservatives maintain simply that individuals must be held responsible for their actions. This mantra allows the right to claim credit for work-based programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit while painting leftists as proponents of unconditional, perpetual cash transfers. Of course, that distinction is fictitious; rejecting the universality of personal responsibility does not entail erasing it. But liberals should not forget that responsibility is an excellent rule of thumb, and policy should — usually — help citizens regain it. Weaning long-time welfare recipients off of benefits, if they are willing and able to work, is a no-brainer. Universal responsibility is nonsense given individuals’ radically different circumstances, but complacency in the
face of unnecessary dependence is demeaning and just as dangerous. Second, liberals are too quick to dismiss the power of markets. Liberals are largely correct to reject the radical privatization of the Reagan Revolution; Friedman-esque blind faith in the market has brought us failed schemes like voucher schools and private-insurancebased universal health care. But just as conservatives can mindlessly advance privatization for its own sake, liberals often adopt a righteous distaste for any reform with a private business involved. Markets often fail, but they define capitalist society and they deliver the overwhelming majority of goods and services. When private means can indeed ethically and effectively achieve liberal ends, liberals should enthusiastically accept them — not reject them for fear of conservatism-by-association. Third, Republicans have long been the only skeptics of the welfare state. They (questionably) cite its costs and (reasonably) question its success in addressing our society’s ills. As terrified hostages, liberals have unconditionally defended welfare policies, hoping to keep the little that is left. But liberals should be, if anything, more skeptical of the welfare state than our conservative counterparts. If
policy has made inadequate progress in fighting poverty, then we must condemn existing policies. The difference is in the takeaway. Conservatives deduce that government supports never work and proceed to dismantle social programs. Liberals should reflect, study and build a better system. We are in an age of unprecedented research; more knowledge on social policy is being created every day. Critique does not imply that all is lost; it is a call to build the safety net this country deserves. Fourth, and similarly, conservatives have long cast a disdainful eye on well-intentioned liberals whose organizations fail to achieve much change. Unqualified defense of these “do-gooders” comes from leftists who hope to bring everyone into the fight, valuing service, struggle and passion. Unconditional support for independent initiatives, however, is just as futile as unconditional support for government welfare. As with public programs, there are good and bad private nonprofits — and the ineffective ones waste resources and engender skepticism that anything can create change. Liberals should have the courage to discriminate between effective social ventures and well-intentioned failures. Finally, the Republican party purports to be the party of values.
Conservatives publicly hold firm to deontological beliefs of loyalty, individuality and freedom, alleging that liberals are weak-willed moral relativists. Liberals have been too eager to concede this point. With a wellfounded fear of cultural imperialism, liberals often enthusiastically relinquish universal values and focus on ad hoc, utilitarian arguments. But liberals must embrace the extremely strong values we already hold, denying that conservatives have exclusive title to values. Liberals do hold absolute values — equality, justice, opportunity and cultural difference, to name a few. Liberals must remember these strong intellectual counterweights to conservatism. None of these five ideas are things liberals reject. The New Deal was built on social insurance so as to put personal responsibility center-stage. The civil rights movement was a huge exercise in valuerooted liberalism. In the 1940s and 1970s, liberals proposed full employment legislation as a cornerstone of the safety net — a policy rooted in markets. Now, in an era of embattled liberalism, is not the time to abandon them. GABRIEL ZUCKER is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at gabriel.zucker@yale.edu .
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Flashback Mac Trojan Virus The Flashback Trojan virus has infected over 650,000 Apple computers worldwide by exploiting a Java security vulnerability that Apple only recently patched up. Mac users only needed to visit an infected site in order to get hit — no user interaction was required.
After Occupy, Green restoration begins
THURSDAY, APRIL 26 12:00 P.M. “The Role of Justice in Environmental Progress: A Panel Discussion on the Role and Future of Environmental Justice Lawyering.” Brent Newell of the Center for Race, Poverty, and the Environment, Al Huang of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Eugene Benson of Alternatives for Community and Environment will speak. Moderated by Yale Law School visiting professor Gerald Torres. Sterling Law Buildings (127 Wall St.), room 129. 1:30 PM “The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood: Testimonies of Coexistence and Genocide from Buczacz, Galicia.” Omer Bartov of Brown University will give this Genocide Studies seminar. Institution for Social and Policy Studies (77 Prospect St.), room B012. 4:00 PM “Chondrogenics.” Caroline Dealy, scientific founder of Chondrogenics Inc. and UConn Health Center Senior Director of Life Sciences James Heym will speak. RSVP to biohaven@yale.edu or (203) 785-6209. Anlyan Center (300 Cedar St.), room N-107. 4:15 PM “Post-Soviet Russia: Understanding the Language of Violence in the Chechen Wars.” Emma Gilligan of the University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute, author of “Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights commissioner, 1969-1996,” will give this Human Rights Workshop. Sterling Law Buildings (127 Wall St.), faculty lounge. 4:30 P.M. “Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst.” Global equity investor, financial media commentator and Yale lecturer Vikram Mansharamani will speak. Copies of his book will be available for purchase. Refreshments will be served. Yale-China Association (442 Temple St.). 4:30 PM “The Lettrist Mystic ’Abd al-rahman al-Bistami (d. 1454), the New Brethren of Purity, and the Sources of Ottoman Historical Consciousness.” Cornell Fleischer, the Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at the University of Chicago, will speak. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), room 203. 5:30 P.M. “The Secrets of Field Notes: Capturing Science, Nature and Exploration.” Michael R. Canfield of Harvard University will share stories, anecdotes, maps, photographs and drawings from historical and contemporary field notes to reveal scientific knowledge, expeditions and important discoveries. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.).
Mac virus hits campus BY LIZ RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDO STAFF REPORTER A computer virus that affects Mac operating systems has spread to Yale’s campus after infecting over 600,000 computers across the world. Roughly 50 students have reported to Information Technology Services that their computers have the Flashback virus, which can go undetected while stealing personal information such as passwords and credit card information saved in files, said Adam Bray, assistant manager for the Student Technology Collaborative. Bray said students can help protect themselves against the virus by installing antivirus software available on the ITS website, and students can enlist the support of student techs to remove the virus if their computers are already infected. “Once a computer has been infected, the virus hijacks certain web browsers, and silently runs a program in the background,” Bray said. “This allows the application to monitor web browsing, capture passwords and other sensitive information, and send this information back to remote servers.” The virus enters computer systems though a variety pathways, such as corrupted websites that have Java applets or by posing as an update installer for Adobe Flash Player, Bray said, adding that in some cases the virus does not need owners to enter their administrative passwords in order to infiltrate the systems. Macs running on the latest updates for Mac operating systems — Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 or 10.7 Lion — are immune to the virus, Bray said, but users who contracted the virus before installing the update can remove the virus through the Apple Flashback Malware removal tool on Apple’s support site. Students can check whether their computers have the virus by visiting Flashbackcheck.com, according to a campus-wide email about the virus sent on April 11 by ITS.
But computers that are running on Mac versions 10.5 or earlier need to install an antivirus utility such as Symantec Endpoint Protection, which is available for free at the Yale Software Library on ITS’s website. Lesya Chopivsky ’15, whose laptop was affected by the virus, said she took her computer to student techs to be checked and found out her computer had been infected. She had initially decided not to install anti-virus software because of Mac’s strong reputation of protection against viruses, she said, and she has already changed her passwords and may call her credit card companies to make sure there has not been any irregular activity. She added that she was asked by ITS not to use the YaleSecure network as a precautionary measure until the virus was removed, a process that took her about one day.
Once a computer has been infected, the virus hijacks certain web browsers. ADAM BRAY Assistant manager, Student Technology Collaborative Bray said the number of students requesting computer support has spiked in recent weeks, but that the end of academic terms are normally busy for student techs since students want to avoid computer trouble during finals period. “Students choose these times to bring problems to us that may have been occurring for a while, but not serious enough to warrant concern until the computer is more important to the student academically,” he said. The Flashback virus was first discovered last September. Contact LIZ RODRIGUEZFLORIDO at liz.rodriguez-florido@yale.edu .
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Several months are likely to pass before the damage the Occupy New Haven encampment did to the soil and trees of the Upper Green is undone. BY LILIANA VARMAN STAFF REPORTER Although Occupy New Haven was evicted from its encampment on the Upper Green April 18, it may take months for the city to undo the damage the protest did to the Green’s trees and soil. Restoration of the Green began immediately after last Wednesday’s eviction, said Christy Hass, deputy director of the city’s parks department. The encampment, which Occupy protesters inhabited for more than six months, caused soil compaction and erosion due to the Green’s slight slope, said City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton. She added that the rough estimate of the restoration’s cost to taxpayers is approximately $4,000, significantly less than the initial expected cost of $25,000. The total cost of the protest to the city was roughly $145,000 in police overtime and other city services. “When the soil is compacted to that degree, not only does it mean that it’s difficult for grass to grow, but it also creates challenges for the root structures for some of our trees,” Benton said. As a result, she added, the soil must be aerated and fertilized to prevent further erosion. On Wednesday, lime was added to the fractured soil in order to meet the pH level required for plants to grow, Hass said, and Friday marked the start of the air spading process, which fractures the soil in order to allow passage of air and nutrients. The most important goal, Hass said, is to restore the grass area and allow it to grow a root system. There are plans to create a seed
bed that will be hydro-pumped in order to hold the seeds to the soil, Hass added. The hydro-mulch, Benton said, will hold moisture to the ground and prevent erosion. After the grass restoration process is underway, the city can focus on the Green’s elm trees, which may need to be re-fertilized in the coming months to prevent further damage caused by the soil compaction, Hass said. Currently, she added, there are no plans to plant more trees on the Green.
expertise.” The Green’s restoration process does not have a fixed end date, but Benton said the space is expected to return to pre-Occupy conditions within a few months. Patrick Bowe, director of the remediation division of the Bureau of Water Protection and Land Reuse — a part of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection — said the Green’s landscape renovations are similar to what a high school or
college would do to treat its football field at the end of a playing season. The current state of the Upper Green, he added, resembles “your backyard after you’ve had a big party.” The Occupy site will remain roped off for a few months to allow grass root structures to take hold, Benton said. Contact LILIANA VARMAN at liliana.varman@yale.edu .
When the soil is compacted to that degree … [it] creates challenges for the root structures. ELIZABETH BENTON City Hall spokeswoman “We’re trying to relieve the stress and give the trees an opportunity to breathe and give them a chance to heal,” Hass said. Although the city originally estimated a $25,000 cost to repair the Green to its pre-Occupy state, Benton said that due to monetary, material and equipment donations, the cost to taxpayers is expected to be around $4,000. These costs, she added, are not final values and could change as a result of ongoing work and testing. Although some Occupy protesters had expressed interest in returning to the Green to help remedy the damage caused during the protest, which began on Oct. 15, Benton said the restoration process requires “professional
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The city has roped off the site of the former Occupy New Haven encampment on the Upper Green for restoration.
Corp, YCC consider mental health BY MADELINE MCMAHON AND TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTERS A six-month review of Yale’s mental health resources conducted by experts from peer universities was presented to the Yale Corporation this past weekend. University President Richard Levin said the review was scheduled as a routine examination of Yale’s mental health services, and covered general policy issues and resource organization. During the same period of time, the Yale College Council planned and implemented a mental health program within the residential colleges, which was evaluated as part of the peer review and presented to the Corporation by the YCC. Because of the recently concluded review, Levin said the University will not conduct another assessment of its mental health resources in response to the death of Zachary Brunt ’15 last Wednesday, which was ruled a suicide by the state medical examiner’s office. “We bring in outside experts to do periodic evaluations,” Levin said. “That’s the way we measure
ourselves and calibrate ourselves by having outside experts from other institutions take a look at our academic units and our nonacademic support units.” Levin described the review as “very positive,” though he declined to comment on specific findings. University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer said the report was not for the public. “The [external committee] reviewed relevant materials and visited the campus to view the facilities and interview members of the department and the Yale community,” Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler said in a Wednesday email to the News. “Although the external committee has not yet submitted its final report, I can tell you that the exit interview and initial feedback from the reviewers has been quite positive.” Though Brunt’s death was mentioned at the Corporation meeting, Levin said the tragedy was not a major factor in discussions of the peer review. Still, the YCC concluded Wednesday that the number of students using their residential college services has increased in
the week following Brunt’s death. “The past week has shown that the program has the ability to be proactive and reactive,” outgoing YCC Vice President Omar Njie ’13 said. The YCC announced the new mental health fellows program, which places a professional from Yale Health in each of the residential colleges, at the beginning of the fall semester and began to implement the initiative toward the end of March. Receptions or workshops introducing the mental health fellow to each college’s students have been held in six residential colleges, Njie said. He added that events are scheduled in some of the remaining colleges before the term ends, though some colleges will not hold events this year. Njie said he thinks the Davenport reception, which was scheduled in early April and took place Wednesday afternoon, was particularly valuable because it focused on helping students manage stress from reading week and finals. While the YCC had aimed to implement the fellows program at a faster pace, Njie said the council is now hoping to finish
the process by the early fall. “Throughout the year we hit a few roadblocks,” Njie said. “Things progressed slower than we would have hoped but it gave us a chance to outline the program again.” Beginning this coming fall, incoming freshmen will meet their residential college’s mental health fellow during freshman orientation, Njie said. Follow-up meetings will take place in October, he said, as “school can be a blur” in the first few weeks. He added that the fellows will also hold a few workshops that are open to all members of their residential college. Njie said the number of freshmen who see mental health counselors at Yale Health has gone up this year, which helped motivate the YCC to gear its mental health program toward freshmen in the fall. The first mental health fellow reception was held in Berkeley College on March 21. Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu and TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .
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The Robina Foundation The Robina Foundation is a Minnesota-based private grantmaking foundation that seeks to positively impact critical social issues by encouraging innovation and financially supporting transformative projects of its four institutional partners, says the Foundation’s mission statement.
With donation, Drama School looks to support new works DRAMA SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1 for artistic programming in the history of the American theater, but, to my knowledge, there has never been a grant this large or [one so] focused on endowing a program’s capacity into perpetuity,” Bundy said. Prior to this gift, the largest donation ever made to the School of Drama was a sum of $3.2 million donated by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation in 2007, Bundy said, adding that the Greene Foundation grant was earmarked for scholarship endowment. The Center for New Theatre will now be renamed the Binger Center for New Theatre, after Robina Foundation founder James H. Binger ’38, said Steven Padla, senior associate director for communications for the School of Drama and the Rep. After the foundation initially funded the Center for New Theatre in 2008, other funding sources like the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and individual donors contributed to its continuation, Padla added. The Robina Foundation’s latest gift provides $3 million towards operating costs and $15 million for a permanent endowment for the Binger Center. “The Robina board chose to support … the Yale School of Drama because of Mr. Binger’s
great love and knowledge of theater,” said H. Peter Koffman, a member of the foundation’s board. He added that Binger, who died in 2004, once owned the Jucamcyn Theaters company in New York, now the third-largest theater owner on Broadway. The foundation has been regularly evaluating the Center it funded at the School, Bundy said, and approved a gift of $950,000 in 2010, to continue the Center for New Theatre’s operations up to June 30, 2012. Last year, he added, the Foundation invited the School to submit “a transformative proposal,” the document from which the $18 million gift evolved. The Center establishes relationships with playwrights, agents and colleagues in the field to ensure that it considers a range of new work when planning its programming, said Jennifer Kiger, the director of New Play Programs for the Center for New Theatre and associate artistic director at the Rep. “The big thing when selecting the work that will be commissioned is that we’re reading to get a sense of the artist’s voice, a sense of the body of an artist’s work over time,” Kiger added. “When we start having a conversation with them, we’re responding to them as artists, not just based on an idea or a pitch. It’s really about a long-
term conversation and relationship.” She said the Center for New Theatre promotes the work it produces at the Rep even after a play has moved beyond New Haven through a production enhancement fund that supports later stagings by companies across the world. The Robina Foundation chose to invest in the development of new theater, Karoff said, because it is “the hardest aspect of the arts to fund.” He added that the foundation took note of Bundy’s leadership in identifying and promoting emerging playwrights. Last November, the Acting Company, a New Yorkbased classical theater organization, awarded Bundy its John Houseman Award. At the time, Gerry Cornez, an Acting Company spokesman, said Bundy has earned a reputation for promoting regional and national premieres of plays during his time at Yale. Kiger said Amy Herzog ’00 DRA ’07 — the author of “Belleville,” which premiered at the Yale Rep last October and is now set to go up in New York in a production by the New York Theatre Workshop — is a good example of the new talent the Binger Center hopes to identify. Finding funding for new works
is a persistent challenge for young playwrights, she added. “There’s no shortage of incredibly talented artists out there right now, but it’s honestly difficult just to make a living,” Kiger said. “One thing that the Center enables [the Rep] to do is to identify artists whose voices we believe should be on the stage and encourage them to keep making theater, which has a big impact on the field, I think, because more and more artists write for the theater and more and more plays come to fruition.” Karoff said the Robina Foundation sees the role of private philanthropy as “critical in maintaining and deepening the tradition” of American theater. He added that the foundation’s board hopes its gift will inspire other donors. Bundy said shows sponsored by the Center for New Theatre, which are staged at the Yale Rep as part of the theater’s season, supplement the education of students at the School of Drama. “Fundamentally, in the profession, there are only two things you can do: make something old new again or create new work,” Bundy said. “We actually need to be able to train people to do both things, because the questions you ask from collaborators when a play has never been in front of audience are different from the questions you ask collaborators when
YALE REPERTORY THEATRE
“POP!”, which ran from November to December 2010, is one of the productions whose world premiere was funded by the Yale Center for New Theatre, which will now be known as the Binger Center for New Theatre. the play has been done thousands of times.” Kiger said the Center for New Theatre aims to help artists with their long-term paths, not just individual projects. “We keep in touch with artists obviously because we’re invested in them as people, but we also are invested in the continued life of
their work,” she added. Using funds from the Center for New Theatre, “The Realistic Joneses,” by Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Will Eno, will premiere tonight at the Yale Rep and run until May 12. Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .
‘Stubborn streak’ caried Smith ’12 back to Yale SMITH FROM PAGE 1 ued the process of recovery that would draw upon the strength and mental determination he had developed as an athlete and a student. “When you have a trauma, you have two choices: wallow, or fix it,” his mother said. During the five years before
BULLDOGS CA R E FO U N DAT I O N Founded in 2007 in memory of the four Yale Bulldogs who died in the 2003 car accident — Kyle Burnat ’05, Andrew Dwyer ’05, Sean Fenton ’04, and Nick Grass ’05 — the Bulldogs Care Foundation raises money for academic and athletic summer programs that serve disadvantaged youth. One organization they support is the New Heights Summer Academy in New York City, which teaches seventh and eighth graders writing and quantitative analysis skills along with sports. Many DKE brothers are actively involved in the foundation. Eric Wenzel ’04 serves on the Board of Directors, and Brett Smith has attended their events in New York City.
he returned to Yale, Smith relearned to speak, walk and drive a car. Smith had already dealt with a range of challenges growing up, when he had adapted to new places as well as recovered from physical injuries. Because his father was a doctor for the Air Force, his family moved often. Since Smith’s birth, the family has called seven different states home. When he attended high school in Nebraska, Smith played football and basketball. At one basketball practice during his freshman year, he broke his right arm: The injury required two plates and 13 permanent screws to be inserted into his arm. Doctors told him he would never throw a football again, but Smith bounced back from the injury, even excelling in his throwing. Three years later, Yale began recruiting him to play quarterback, in part because of the “fortitude and determination” that assistant head coach Larry Ciotti said later helped him through his recovery. Years later, in the 2003 accident, Smith broke every bone in his face except his mandible, and he also broke his sternum. He suffered from traumatic brain injuries to his Broca’s area, which controls speech, and to the part of his brain that controls movement of the right side of the body. “We were told to put him in a home. We were told he would never go to college, let alone Yale,” his mother said, adding that he could neither walk nor talk for two months.
But Smith’s family rallied around him: His brother resigned from his job to return to Omaha and help out, and his mother became his full-time caretaker. Smith said he would not be where he is today without his family. “I have a stubborn streak — I think it’s hereditary,” he explained. “I told myself if I’m going to do something, I’m gonna do it.” Mike Ranfone, Smith’s athletic trainer who works with him almost every day at a training center in Hamden, Conn., said he sees that drive today in Smith’s commitment to rehabilitation and training: “Everything that he does is with everything that he has,” Ranfone said. “He just tries to make the most out of every moment, every set, every rep. I’m sure he’s the same way taking notes in English class or doing his homework … The guy is just always on.”
A NEW ROLE
A year after the crash, in the summer of 2004, Smith enrolled in classes at Laramie County Community College in Wyoming and then at Colorado State University — all with the goal of gaining enough credits to be readmitted to Yale. In 2008, Smith returned to New Haven. All of the students and fraternity brothers he had met as a freshman had graduated, his master in Ezra Stiles College had left and even some of the football coaches were different. His role at Yale had changed: Today, rather than focusing on football, Smith said he spends
the majority of his time on his schoolwork, on his physical fitness with his personal trainer and on his role as a deacon at the University Church that meets in Battell Chapel. Originally a biology major, Smith switched to history upon his return because physical and occupational therapy take up too much time for him to continue with lab classes, he said.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a more dedicated senior essayist. JOHN MACK FARAGHER Professor, Yale History Department When Smith came back to campus, he looked to Yale’s Resource Office on Disabilities for academic support, director Judy York said. Smith added that he now receives twice the time for tests as well as copies of notes for his classes. “It’s been difficult for me because I have to manage my time between therapy and work. I have to be on top of my game at all times,” he explained, noting that the brain injuries he sustained require him to spend more time on work that he used to complete quickly. But his senior essay advisor, history professor John Mack Faragher, said he has been consistently impressed by Smith’s commitment to academics. “I don’t think I’ve ever had
a more dedicated senior essayist,” Faragher said, adding that Smith’s organization and diligence have paid off in his work. Although Smith’s physical shape has improved significantly since the accident, the sensitivity of his skull has made him unable to go back to the football field and resume his role of quarterback, Smith said. The hardest thing for him today, he said, is remembering his time spent with the football team, which was his original reason for coming to Yale. “I went out to a football practice last week … and it is so difficult to sit there,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any sweetness about it, it’s all bitter. It is what it is, but I wish that it would have been different.” Instead, Smith has worked with a neuromuscular massage therapist for the past four years and has gone three to five times a week for the last two years to work on strength and conditioning with his trainer Ranfone. Last year, Smith impressed everyone by completing a “box jump” on the tallest box, which required jumping with both feet on top of a 30-inch tall stand, Ranfone said. “That was very important to him to get that. That was a very quantitative, measurable gain,” Ranfone said. Reconnecting with the community of brothers in DKE has been part of Smith’s process of rebuilding his life at Yale. When he returned to campus, Smith attended meetings and participated in the chapter’s philanthropy projects, providing an
example of hard work and loyalty to other members, said fellow DKE member Reed Spiller ’12, a friend of Smith’s and current defensive lineman on the football team. He added that Smith’s legacy will remain with the fraternity even after he leaves. The whole fraternity continues to take the accident seriously since the nine students — who were returning from pledge activities in New York City — were involved in the 2003 crash, Spiller said, explaining that potential new members learn about the incident and its aftermath during the current pledge process. After Yale, Smith said he plans to continue his education and pursue his dream of becoming a doctor by getting a second Bachelor’s degree in physiology at the University of Wyoming, where he has already been accepted, and then going to medical school. Smith added that his efforts to regain the abilities lost in the accident will continue: “The recovery and rehabilitation period is still going on,” he said. As he has worked toward graduation, Smith continues to progress in both his physical and neurological recovery, his mother said. “Every time I see him, he’s grown, he’s improved,” she said. “It’s a moment that nine years ago, we didn’t think would ever happen.” Contact RAISA BRUNER at raisa.bruner@yale.edu .
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“I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine.” STEPHEN KING AUTHOR AND MAINE RESIDENT
Murphy, McMahon lead primary packs Yale Health revises coverage BY MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTER
BY GAVAN GIDEON STAFF REPORTER On Friday, Yale Health announced several shifts to its health insurance coverage intended partially as a move toward greater compliance with upcoming changes to federal health care regulations. The changes, which take effect on Aug. 1, expand coverage to include free oral contraceptives and free preventive care immunizations for students enrolled in the University’s health plan. They follow recommendations made to the Provost’s Office by Yale Health’s Student Coverage Task Force, which was convened in 2008 and is made up of undergraduate and graduate students, an outside professional services consultant, University administrators and medical professionals. Deputy Provost for Health Affairs and Academic Integrity Stephanie Spangler said in a Wednesday email that the task force considers concerns over coverage options raised by students, as well as changes in health care regulations and medical practices when making recommendations. All of the changes bring Yale Health’s student coverage in line with new federal health care regulations that take effect in 2014, according to the Friday announcement. Spangler said the addition of free preventive care immunizations is “intended to make preventive medical care affordable and accessible for students” and “closely aligns” with Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law in March 2010. The introduction of free generic oral contraceptives also follows from federal health care reform — a requirement that met criticism from religious groups this spring. The changes also include alterations to co-payments for emer-
gency room visits, surgeries and admissions for hospital stays. Bariatric surgery and breast reduction are also no longer covered under the health plan.
[The addition of free immunizations] is intended to make preventive medical care affordable and accessible for students. STEPHANIE SPANGLER Deputy Provost for Health Affairs and Academic Integrity Though Yale Health initially announced in a Friday afternoon email that free generic oral contraceptives and free preventive care immunizations would be made available to all students under the University’s basic coverage program, two hours later students received a follow-up, correction email stating that only students enrolled in the more expansive hospitalization and speciality coverage program — which can only be waived if students have outside coverage — would be eligible for the changes. Spangler said Yale Health’s Student Coverage Task Force considers the benefits, cost and potential impacts of proposed changes before making recommendations, which are ultimately approved by both Yale Health administrators and the Provost’s Office. The task force will review the changes and consider potential further improvements during the 2012-’13 academic year. Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu .
Candidates for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Joseph Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67 are gearing up for this May’s nominating conventions. Senate hopefuls have campaigned and participated in debates in advance of Democratic and Republican primary conventions held on May 12 and May 18, respectively, where delegates at each convention will endorse one nominee and allow any candidate with at least 15 percent of delegates’ votes to be put on the ballot. U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, while former wrestling executive Linda McMahon will be endorsed by the Republican Party. A Quinnipiac University poll released on March 22 — the most recent numbers available on the Senate race — shows McMahon, who ran against Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 in 2010, ahead of former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays by nine percentage points. Murphy, meanwhile, leads the Democratic pack with 37 percent, ahead of former Connecticut Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz ’83 by 12 points and State Rep. William Tong by 33 points. According to the poll, McMahon would lose the seat to Murphy 52 percent to 37 percent and to Bysiewicz 49 percent to 39 percent, while beating Tong 49 percent to 39 percent, should she win the nomination. Shays, however, would run neck and neck with both Murphy and Bysiewicz, trailing Murphy by one percentage point and leading Bysiewicz by the same margin.
The voters are seeing five candidates when there are really only two or three on each side. My sense is that it will settle down by may. DOUGLAS SCHWARTZ Director, Quinnipiac University Poll Douglas Schwartz, the Quinnipiac University poll director, attributes the uncertainty reflected in the poll numbers to the crowded fields in both parties. Currently, five candidates are running in each party’s primary race. “It muddles things because the voters are
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Former U.S. Rep Christopher Shays, R-Conn, right, gestures while seated next to 2010 U.S. Senate nominee Linda McMahon, during a debate for the seat being vacated by U.S Sen. Joe Lieberman.
seeing five candidates when there are really only two or three on each side,” Schwartz said. “My sense is that it will settle down in May.” As a result, Schwartz added, debates have attracted little attention from the media and general public. During the debates, Shays spoke of his electability and McMahon touted her business experience as the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, according to the Connecticut Mirror. So far, McMahon and Murphy have raised the most cash in their fields. According to campaign finance figures released on April 13, Murphy’s campaign has over $3 million on hand, while McMahon’s has just under $2 million. Bysiewicz has $1 million, and Tong’s campaign reported slightly above $200,000. Schwartz said that commentators expect McMahon, who spent $50 million of her own money on her 2010 Senate bid, will contribute private funds to this year’s campaign. So far, McMahon has already loaned over $1 million and donated over $600,000 to her campaign. Schwartz emphasized that McMahon faces a tough primary race even with her financial advantage.
Despite trailing Murphy in both fundraising and popularity, spokesmen for the Bysiewicz and Tong campaigns both expressed optimism about their candidates’ futures. Jonathan Ducote, Bysiewicz’s campaign manager, said Bysiewicz is the only candidate on either side to represent the middle class, as she is the only candidate with a plan to regulate Wall Street once she arrives at the Senate. Marc Bradley, campaign manager for the Tong campaign, highlighted Tong’s personal story as an immigrant, noting that he managed to widen his support base from Stamford, Conn. — which he representes in the state House of Representatives — to the entire state. “I think [Tong] has built a strong base of support, and we look forward to having that conversation in the summer and onto the fall,” Bradley said. A Republican has not been elected to the Senate from Connecticut since 1982. Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at michelle.hackman@yale.edu .
House votes to legalize medical marijuana BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER The legalization of medical marijuana moved a step closer to reality in Connecticut after a Wednesday vote by the State House of Representatives. The House voted 96 to 51 to pass a bill that would legalize medical marijuana in the state following an afternoon of debate and a lastminute attempt by opponents to block it. If the legislation clears the Senate, Gov. Dannel Malloy has said he will sign it. Under the bill, patients suffering from certain illnesses like AIDS or cancer could obtain a onemonth supply of marijuana for medical use with a doctor’s permission. The bill would also license and regulate medical marijuana producers. “We’re authorizing physicians
to make smart medical choices with how they treat their patients,” said Rep. Roland Lemar, a freshman Democrat representing New Haven. “It’s been proven over and over that marijuana has positive side effects that other drugs have been unable to offer.” Opponents of the bill, meanwhile, argued that the bill would violate federal laws that prohibit marijuana use and that its language is too loose in terms of the illnesses it would make eligible for treatment with medical marijuana. State Sen. Robert Kane, a Republican from Middlebury, said he does not support the bill because it covers “less severe” illnesses like chronic back pain, and because of the “direct conflict” between the bill and federal law. While Kane acknowledged that states such as California and Colorado have not yet faced prose-
cution over their laws permitting medical marijuana, he said they could be challenged at “any time” in court. Both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney’s campaign have said they will start prosecuting states that permit medical marijuana, he added. State Senators Michael Mclachlan and Toni Boucher, Republicans from Danbury and Ridgefield respectively, solicited a letter from David Fein, Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney, emphasizing the problems they said would result from the bill’s contradiction of federal law. “Growing, distributing, and possessing marijuana” is illegal under federal law, Fein wrote in the letter, “regardless of state laws permitting such activities.” Because the bill would violate federal law and undermine federal attempts to regulate marijuana,
he wrote, the U.S. Department of Justice could consider “civil and legal” penalties against anyone involved in medical marijuana dispensaries.
We’re authorizing physicians to make smart medical choices with how they treat their patients. ROLAND LEMAR State Representative (D-New Haven) Proponents of legalization, though, said the clash with federal law has not impeded other states’ efforts to provide medical marijuana, such as that of New Jersey, which passed a similar bill in early
2010 and has not faced any federal action on the issue. Learning from these examples, Lemar said, has helped the General Assembly put together a bill that could survive a federal challenge. “We put in restrictions that should protect any users or suppliers or dispensers from federal law,” said State Senate Majority Leader Looney, a New Haven Democrat. We believe we’ve crafted a law that protects individuals of Connecticut.” The bill also has the support of a majority of Connecticut residents, according to a March Quinnipiac University poll. Of the poll’s 1,622 respondents, 68 percent supported legalizing small amounts of marijuana for use by patients with chronic illnesses, with only 27 percent saying they were opposed. The state legislature has brought up a medical marijuana
bill in eight of the past 10 years, but has only passed it passed once, in 2007, when it was vetoed by thenGov. Jodi Rell, a Republican. Last June, the legislature passed a bill decriminalizing the possession of less than half an ounce of marijuana. Under the previous law, first-time offenders could face a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail. The medical marijuana bill now heads to the State Senate, where Lemar said it will likely be debated sometime next week. Lemar said the “votes are there” for the Senate to pass the bill, which has more political support in Hartford than the decriminalization bill enjoyed last year. Medical marijuana is currently legal in 16 states, including Maine, Vermont and Rhode Island. Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nick.defiesta@yale.edu .
Climate change awareness rises, researchers find BY MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTER A new Yale study finds that more Americans are acknowledging the dangers of climate change than did two years ago. Researchers at the Yale Project on Climate Change, a Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies initiative, have been studying American attitudes toward the phenomenon since 2002. In 2010, their poll found that 63 percent of Americans “understood” that climate change was taking place. In their new report, they discovered that a large majority of Americans attribute recent extreme weather events to climate change, an uptick since 2010. The study was precipitated by extreme weather patterns this past year, including Hurricane Irene, which hit the northeast in late August, droughts across Texas and the Great Plains, and floods along the banks of the Mississippi River Valley. In total, 14 major natural disasters cost the United states
$53 billion in damages this year, according to the study. The study also said that America saw a record high temperatures this winter, with temperatures across the contiguous United States averaging 6.0 degrees above the long-term projected average. “[The change in perception is] driven by the experiences Americans have gone through over the last few years,” said Anthony Leiserowitz, lead author of the study and director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. “We went through a very unusual winter in the United States, and we wanted to see if Americans were connecting between the dots between that and climate change.” The researchers conducted 1,008 interviews across the United States in March 2012 and discovered that 82 percent of respondents said they have experienced at least one form of extreme weather. Fifty-two percent of respondents said that weather patterns are getting worse, and a large majority, 72 percent of respondents, attributed
these extreme weather events to climate change. According to Leiserowitz, this figure represents an increase from the 55 percent of people who were very or somewhat worried about global warming in the 2010 survey, which asked a slightly different question. He said that this percentage has steadily risen since 2002 and peaked in 2008. This rise, Leiserowitz said, can be partially attributed to climate change’s prominent status in the media. In the past decade, both former Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received Nobel Prizes, increasing awareness of the issue. Ben Cashore, professor of environmental governance and political science at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, said that this trend can be largely attributed to the performance of the economy. When the United States went into a recession in 2008, Americans’ concerns about jobs overrode their concerns about
the effects of climate change. “The economy almost always trumps climate concerns even though, in the long term, we know that is a ridiculous comparison to make,” Cashore said. “They’re only [at] loggerheads in the short term.” The study also found that media sources — especially weather forecasts — rarely discuss climate change. Only 20 percent of respondents reported witnessing their local weather forecaster mention climate change, though over half said they would like to see climate change mentioned with relation to weather. Leiserowitz said that coverage of climate change by national broadcasters NBC, CBS and ABC has dropped 90 percent since its peak in 2007. Joshua Benton ’97, director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, said that a false sense of balance in environmental reporting may also be contributing to the problem. When reporters write stories having to do with climate change, he said,
they try to source both sides — inevitably giving naysayers more weight in a story than their science deserves. He added that many news organizations have been forced by financial difficulties to cut their environmental beat reporters. “Most people know about the issue only through what they read in the media,” Leiserowitz said. “Now, it’s out of sight and out of mind. It hasn’t totally disappeared, but it’s just not salient anymore.” Despite Americans’ renewed belief in climate change, not many are prepared for a natural disaster like those that climate models forecast. Only 36 percent of the study’s respondents said they had an emergency plan for natural disasters. Cashore says that this individual inability to take long-term precautions is affecting the government’s ability to legislate long-term preventive and adaptive strategies to deal with climate change. Some experts believe that longterm action to combat climate
change is unnecessary, said Gary Libecap, professor in corporate environmental management at the University of California at Santa Barbara and a fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank. Libecap said that scientists and lawmakers are extrapolating off a span of extreme weather that is too short to draw significant conclusions. “In the 1930s we had nearly 10 years of unprecedented (in our experience) drought and heat in the Great Plains,” he said. “But would we attribute the Dust Bowl to climate change?” Thomas Moore, another Hoover Institution fellow, echoed Libecap’s sentiment. He said that people should be prepared for a warmer climate, but it will not bring “the catastrophe that Al Gore predicts.” In March alone, 15,292 warm temperature records were broken. Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at michelle.hackman@yale.edu .
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“A compendium of roughly 2,000 courses to be offered in Yale College in 2011–’12, the Blue Book is a book to use. Turn down pages you wish to return to; bend the spine so it opens to subjects you find yourself called to.” MARY MILLER YALE COLLEGE DEAN
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MARCH FROM PAGE 1 building across the city for economic and social justice,” said Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 in a speech at the march. “We can only make the change if thousands of us take to the streets — it’s about all of us fighting for change.” Organizers said yesterday’s march was designed to be this year’s equivalent of last March’s “We Are One” rally, in which students, labor unions, clergy and other activists marched on City Hall in protest of Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s demands that city employees make significant concessions on their benefits to help balance the city budget. Local 34 and 35 members interviewed said this year’s protest comes at a key time, as the Yale unions are currently in negotiations with the University over the terms of future union contracts. Leaders of the unions could not be reached for comment. Members of GESO, Local 34 and 35 as well as Students Unite Now gathered at separate locations at approximately 5 p.m. Undergraduates convened outside Dwight Hall, where members of Students Unite Now distributed signs and delivered speeches about the importance of Yalies’ advocating for city youth and employment issues to a crowd of around 120 students by 5:30 p.m. Following the speeches, the Students Unite Now group marched down High Street and through Cross Campus before merging with GESO and Local 34 and 35 members at the United Methodist Church on the corner of College and Elm Streets. The group shouted chants including “Together we stand, divided we fall,” “We’re coming together to make it all better” and “Jobs for youth, jobs for all.” Police blocked off part of the College and Elm Streets intersection to vehicle traffic as a crowd of more than one thousand chanted and band of drummers and trumpeters played “The Saints are Marching In.” The crowd then marched to the center of the New Haven Green and toward the march’s final destination — the Yale School of Medicine. “I’m excited by the turnout and the energy,” said a Local 35 union member at the protest who works in one of Yale’s residential colleges. “This kind of unity shows Yale that we mean business and we’re willing to fight for
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More than a thousand people marched downtown Wednesday in a rally for organized labor and city jobs. good jobs.” Seven Local 34 and Local 35 members interviewed said that in the current contract negotiation with the University, they hope to see the preservation of the Yale’s current retiree health care policy as well as strong wages and job security. With “nothing set in stone” yet, one Local 34 member who works within IT support at Yale said Wednesday’s protest helped ensure that workers’ concerns would not go unheard. GESO marchers also stressed the protest’s significance in the group’s nearly 20-year struggle to win recognition from the University. The organization was formed in 1991 and since then has advocated for the collective bargaining rights of graduate teachers in the humanities and social sciences without success. “The march is really a way to demonstrate the growing consensus among graduate students that they desire to organize,” said Kate Irving GRD ’15. “We came to Yale’s graduate school because we believe in the power of teaching and shaping the school and
world around us — we want to have more of a say in the shape and planning of our program.” While undergraduates are not members of the union groups present at Wednesday’s protest, members of Students Unite Now said all students have a stake in the city and thus have a moral responsibility to be involved in advocating for progressive change. Tom Stanley-Becker ’13, a member of Students Unite Now, said the newly formed group came about as a result of last fall’s aldermanic campaigns, as students learned about the major issues affecting New Haven. In the past several months, he said, the group has been surveying the student body to determine which city issues Yalies care about most. With New Haven’s unemployment at 11.7 percent, Stanley-Becker said advocating for greater job accesibility, particularly for the city’s youth, is a key issue for the group. “If you look at the endowment figures and fundraising from the Yale Tomorrow capital campaign,
the University isn’t hurting in terms of cash right now. I think Yale can be a progressive partner in getting more jobs in New Haven,” he said. “Yale could put money directly into places like Dixwell Avenue and create training programs for residents.” Stanley-Becker added that Yale could also work to ensure the continuation of strong labor contracts and hire more local residents to work on some of the University’s large-scale construction projects, such as the two new residential colleges slated to be built on Prospect Street. But not all Yalies agree with Students Unite Now’s vision for the University’s role in the city. Three students interviewed said they do not think Yale needs to devote more money to local causes. The “We Are One” rally, one of a series of well-attended protests on the Green last year, took place March 30, 2011. Contact BEN PRAWDZIK at benjamin.prawdzik@yale.edu .
Successor to be named in ‘weeks’ REICHENBACH FROM PAGE 1 for the operation who can maintain the strong base of support that was generated by the campaign, and continue to bring in a base of financial support for the major priorities of the University,” Levin said. It remains unclear whether Yale will hire someone external to the University or from within the office of development, and Levin declined to comment on the backgrounds of the final candidates. Reichenbach came to Yale from Cornell in 2005, the same year she concluded a record-breaking $386 million annual fundraising campaign in Ithaca, N.Y.. But her predecessor at Yale, Charles Pagnam, was appointed in 1997 from within the University’s central office of development, where he had served continuously since 1984. In the past, Levin has commended Reichenbach for her ability to train staff within the office. “She really has done a great job
of building up a strong team in the development office and nurturing and advancing the careers of several people in the office for future leadership,” he said in November. Reichenbach said she knows the announcement will come soon, but she has not been involved with the search, as is typically the case with Yale administrators and their successors. The timeline of the current search is roughly in line with the six months it took to hire Reichenbach. Though the task of choosing the University’s next vice president for development ultimately falls under the authority of the Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, Levin said the Corporation delegated the authority to appoint Reichenbach’s successor to him. The public phase of Yale Tomorrow began in September 2006 and concluded at the end of June 2011. Contact TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .
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we had the right pieces in place.” While the YCPS is available online through the Yale College website and the most up-to-date course listings are on the Online Course Information system, Olszewski said his office will need to make “radical changes” before the online information is “as usable as the paper Blue Book.” He said that the paper version of the Blue Book is especially useful for faculty advisers because it details the requirements and curricula of different majors, adding that this is not readily accessible from OCI. In the next week, students will receive a notice about the Blue Book, Olszewski said. They will be able to opt into receiving a printed copy either by mail this summer or when they arrive on campus. Olszewski notified faculty of the change in an email Wednesday evening. The Blue Book has not been automatically sent to students since 2009, when administrators announced that students would need to opt in to receive a copy — a step they said would be more environmentally friendly and save money. When Yale College Dean Mary Miller told the News last fall that the Blue Book would no longer be printed at all, she said cost was not a major factor, but that the change was motivated by students’ preference for the online system. Nine of 12 directors of undergraduate studies said they were happy to hear the Blue Book would be printed again, calling it particularly helpful for advising purposes. Kirk Wetters, director of undergraduate studies for Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Stanley Eisenstat, director of undergraduate studies for Computer Science, said they much prefer using a printed Blue Book during advising meetings rather than looking at online information. Kurt Zilm, director of undergraduate studies for Chemistry, called OCI “cumbersome” when advising students on issues such as what semester they should take a course and what programs of study are possible, though he added that the Blue Book has become less useful as it has eliminated information about when
classes meet. Unlike in previous years, the 2011-’12 Blue Book did not list class times. Olszewski said this is because too many class times tend to change after the book goes to print. Beatrice Gruendler, director of undergraduate studies for Modern Middle Eastern Studies, said while the Blue Book is “always behind” OCI in terms of accuracy, it is an “indispensable” and quicker means of finding general academic information. She and several other professors said they believe the option to receive a Blue Book should always be available. Eleven students interviewed all said they predominantly rely on online course listings to plan their schedules. Six said they enjoy having the ability to leaf through a physical course catalog, but they said they rely on OCI for updated, reliable information. “Just being able to have [the Blue Book] has some type of sentimental value, to have a record of the classes that were available during the year,” Sohini Bandy ’13 said. But she added that she does not regularly use the catalog in its printed form. Lauren Toler ’14 said she finds the Blue Book a more convenient way to look through all the courses a particular department offers, rather than having to sort through the fall and spring listings separately on OCI. Bijan Aboutorabi ’13 said he believes the Blue Book is important for disseminating information on Yale’s academic regulations, which he said students often “don’t go to the trouble of looking up online.” But many students said they do not see a reason to keep the Blue Book in print. “If administrators work more on making the online version more efficient, I don’t think we’d have to look back at the Blue Book,” Jose Limon ’15 said. This year, 1,359 Blue Books were automatically reserved for freshmen and 1,631 other students opted to receive the catalog in print, Laurie Ongley ’81 GRD ’92, managing editor of Yale College Publications, told the News in September. Contact ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .
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“You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else’s style, their flavor.” JANET JACKSON PERFORMER
Cunningham choreography makes Yale debut classes or workshops at schools, she said, this often includes determining how to structure the educational component of each collaboration. “As someone who danced with [Cunningham], I’m particularly interested in the authenticity of a group’s experience with the work,” Lent said. “It’s a very important part of sharing his work, since it’s not just about how it looks during the performance. It’s about the work in progress.” Since Yale is not a conservatory, YDT’s approach to the project has been more geared toward studying the thought process behind the choreography than focusing on technical perfection, company member Elena Light ’13 said, adding that the conceptual nature of Cunningham’s style lends itself to a serious intellectual approach. “Cunningham’s work is basically philosophy in motion,” Coates said. Light added that the group views the performance as the culmination of a project, which includes a blog kept by YDT members on their experience. Lent said when she worked with Coates to design the project, Coates requested three Cunningham company dancers from different generations so that the group could study his work from multiple points of view. YDT rehearsal director Meg Harper, who performed with Cunningham’s company in the 1960s, said she has never worked to put on a performance of Cunningham repertory with a university dance company before, instead teaching classes without the goal of a final show. The pressure to prepare for a performance has caused the dancers to advance their technical skills relatively quickly because of the combination of technique classes and practice in choreographed
BY NATASHA THONDAVADI STAFF REPORTER After a semester of rehearsal, the Yale Dance Theater program will bring the choreography of the late dance legend Merce Cunningham to the stage in the first performance of Cunningham’s work since his company dissolved in January 2012. In two performances on Friday, Yale Dance Theater aims to explore the future of Cunningham’s legacy d, said program director and theater studies professor Emily Coates ’06 GRD ’11. The YDT project was started last year as an initiative to study the work of influential choreographers, Coates said. “The overall project is to look at this question of legacy for an artist who is creating in live movement that is based on time and space,” Coates said. “We’re looking at the form this takes three years after [Cunningham’s] passing, and how to think about its preservation.” When Cunningham passed away in 2009, his company embarked on a two-year international tour. After the company’s final performance at New York City’s Park Avenue Armory in December 2011, the Merce Cunningham Trust gained control of the licensing rights to Cunningham’s vast choreographic repertory. Now, the trust develops projects for professional dance companies and universities that wish to interact with Cunningham’s work, said Patricia Lent, the Cunningham Trust’s director of repertory licensing and former company dancer. Lent added that the goal of the trust is to spread Cunningham’s work as far as possible, while designing projects that meet the specific needs of each dance company. Since the Cunningham Trust also arranges for former members of the company to lead
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Students rehearse for the Yale Dance Theater project’s performance of the late Merce Cunningham’s choreography on Friday. The students were directed by three former members of Cunningham’s dance company. Friday’s performance will be held. Coates said that the company elected not to practice in the space until today. Goggans said that when she danced with Cunningham’s company, the dancers did not get a chance to adapt to the space until hours before the performance, so the Yale performers’ experience emulates Cunningham’s improvisational style. Coates said that while John Cage’s 1979 score for “Roaratorio” will play from a record-
ing, musicians from the School of Music have composed a piece meant to accompany the “MinEvent.” This piece, based on Cage’s technique of replicating the sounds of everyday life, is not correlated to the dancers’ movements, she added, explaining that Cunningham’s style called for independence between music and dance. The dancers take their cues from an internal rhythm in the choreography, rather than from moments in the music, Coates said.
Accordingly, the dancers practice in silence, Goggans said, pacing themselves based on the rehearsal directors’ snaps and claps until they internalize the rhythm with no external accompaniment. Yale Dance Theater gave its inaugural performance in Spring 2011, featuring Twyla Tharp’s piece “Eight Jelly Rolls.” Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .
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Supreme Court hints OK on Ariz. immigration law BY MARK SHERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Bucking the Obama administration, Supreme Court justices seemed to find little trouble Wednesday with major parts of Arizona’s tough immigration law that require police to check the legal status of people they stop for other reasons. But the fate of other provisions that make Arizona state crimes out of immigration violations was unclear in the court’s final argument of the term. The latest clash between states and the administration turns on the extent of individual states’
roles in dealing with the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants. Immigration policy is essentially under the federal government’s control, but a half-dozen Republican-dominated states have passed their own restrictions out of frustration with what they call Washington’s inaction to combat an illegal flood. Parts of laws adopted by Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah also are on hold pending the high court’s decision. Civil rights groups say the Arizona law and those in some other states encourage racial profiling and ethnic stereotyping, and debate over such laws could have
an impact on this fall’s elections. More than 200 protesters gathered outside the court, most of them opposed to the Arizona law. However, in an unusual comment, Chief Justice John Roberts made clear at the outset of the administration’s argument Wednesday that the court was looking only at state-versus-federal power, not the civil rights concerns that already are the subject of other lawsuits. “So this is not a case about ethnic profiling,” Roberts said. That matter dealt with, both liberal and conservative justices reacted skeptically to the administration’s argument that the
state exceeded its authority when it made the records check, and another provision allowing suspected illegal immigrants to be arrested without warrants, part of the Arizona law aimed at driving illegal immigrants elsewhere. “You can see it’s not selling very well,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor told Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. Verrilli tried to convince the justices that they should view the law in its entirety, and as inconsistent with federal immigration policy. He said the records check would allow the state to “engage effectively in mass incarceration” of immigrants lacking documentation.
He said the law embodying Arizona’s approach of maximum enforcement conflicts with a more nuanced federal immigration policy that seeks to balance national security, law enforcement, foreign policy, human rights and the rights of law-abiding citizens and immigrants. But Roberts was among those on the court who took issue with Verrilli’s characterization of the check of immigration status, saying the state merely wants to notify federal authorities it has someone in custody who may be in the U.S. illegally. “It seems to me that the federal government just doesn’t want to know who’s
here illegally and who’s not,” Roberts said. Verrilli did not mention Wednesday that the administration has deported nearly 400,000 people a year, far more than previous administrations, although the information was included in written submissions to the court. The other provisions that have been put on hold by lower federal courts make it a state crime for immigrants not to have registration papers and for illegal immigrants to seek work or hold jobs. Arizona’s Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the law two years ago, was at the court Wednesday.
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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, APRIL 27 6:00 PM “Arctic Rhythms: A Cultural Response to Climate Change.” New York City musician, artist and writer Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky) will be performing with musicians from the Yale School of Music and speaking about his work, which features compositions for DJ and string quartet with image projection, which create a sonic and visual portrait of climate change. Kroon Hall (195 Prospect St.), Burke Auditorium. 7:00 PM Asempa! presents: “A Tale of Two Sons.” Yale’s only Afro-pella group presents its spring concert. Branford College (74 High St.), common room.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 28 11:00 AM “Brain Tour: The Cushing Brain Collection.” This tour, by Terry Dagradi, the collection’s curator, is offered as part of Obscura Day, an international celebration of unusual places. Sterling Hall of Medicine (333 Cedar St.), Cushing Center. 7:00 PM Yale Raga Society presents: Shri. O.S. Thyagarajan. This legendary vocalist’s effortless oral expression and authentic traditional background have gained him huge popularity and esteem as a senior Carnatic vocalist. With master accompanists Shri G. Chandramouli on the violin and Shri Umayalpuram Mali on the mridangam, this concert promises to not only be an exciting, dynamic performance but also a unique experience in Indian culture, heritage and tradition. Battell Chapel (400 College St.).
SUNDAY, APRIL 29 2:00 PM “As You Like It: A Yale Children’s Theater Production.” Part of Shakespeare at Yale. Dwight Hall (67 High St.), common room.
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COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 important. We have to be better all the time. It’s not as though Yalies of previous generations were perfect either. And I’m not saying we have to be perfect, just that we have to be better and smarter in how we craft the place and image of Yale athletics in the community. It’s not just the obvious stuff that shows up in the News every once in a while and gives rise to unfair stereotypes. It’s everything we do. I’m as much an offender in fulfilling stereotypes of athletes as anyone else: it’s so easy after a long day of class and practice to go to your room, lock your door, and isolate yourself from the Yale community, or see only your team for days in a row. It’s something I regret having done for four years as I have tried to balance school, sports and other activities at the expense of fully experiencing my college. Athletes living off campus together rather than integrating themselves in their residential colleges — also an issue, but not at all a conscious knock on Yale life. The bonds forged on teams foster a mutual understanding that makes living together a natural choice. I get it. But we have to get creative here, and changes in how we interact with Yale in general — even if we are doing a good job 99 percent of the time — are a part of that. That said, I want to make this clear: regardless of what is mentioned above, there is no team or athlete at Yale that owes the administration anything for being a Yale athlete. No apologies, no extra effort on behalf of this school other than a classy and concerted effort in the classroom and on the field, no feelings of inferiority. Nothing. Still, if we are going to incite change, we are going to have to go out of our way to do it. We have to make a positive stamp on the Yale community that is impossible to ignore, though I know we’ve tried already with a laundry list of community service projects, the Mandi Schwartz Bone Marrow Drive, etc. Yale athletes are doing good, but, to return to the bad referee analogy, the ones making the calls aren’t seeing the game the way they should. Last week I wrote to express my frustrations with the use of statistics to say athletics are ruining the University environment. I stand by what I said: statistics tell a story, but they don’t tell every story, and I simply can’t justify relying entirely on numbers to determine the impact of an athletic scene here when its impact is as positive or negative as the people who are a part of it choose to make it. It’s that simple: it’s not sports that our administration has a problem with. It’s their place in the community as they see it. Their view is influenced by statistics in a variety of areas, and confirmed by a few isolated incidents over the years that cement the place of athletics in their short-sighted view. Anyone who is a Yale athlete or supporter of the Yale athletic program has to commit all they have to creating an image of Yale athletics as impossible to ignore, as an invaluable part of this Yale community: we shouldn’t have to, but we must start changing minds. We’ve been here before: Yale athletes have to work harder and overcome greater odds than any team they take the field against, and have always had the responsibility (and privilege) of upholding a tradition more weighty than most. So we’re well-trained to fight for this cause, however steep the hill may seem. But we, as current Yalies, alumni or fans, are not alone in our quest: we have over a century of former Yalies who have made massive impacts in the world in a variety of capacities, but always with hearts tied to Yale. We who love Yale and know how important athletics are must remember there are centuries of Yalies who feel the same, but a decade of deterioration simply must be reversed. Even in a tradition centuries long, there are formative moments, those moments that make Yale what it is today. This is one of those moments. Lose Yale sports to irrelevance, and you lose a part of the Yale tradition that cannot be replaced or duplicated. Lose Yale sports, and you lose a part of Yale that has shaped this community and its alumni through the generations. Anyone who loves Yale sports has to act now. The trends are undeniable, and the future is dark. We must do all we can to show the administration that athletics are a part of this community and a tradition that it cannot do without. It will take a team effort, but unlike Yale sports teams crippled numerically by edicts from Woodbridge Hall, edicts that deeply slice the number of recruited athletes while requiring that recruits meet higher academic qualifying standards than any other school in the Ivy League, we have a loaded squad: Yalies past and present realize that this is a crucial moment, and Yalies past and present each have a different role to play in shaping a future grounded in the past. Not a past where numbers ruled and haughty academia reigned in New Haven, but rather a past where well-rounded character and hard work in all facets of life was the distinct mark of a Yalie. Whether in alumni networks or in the actions of current Yale students, we must do all we can now or never, lest we lose the Yale we know and love forever. Contact CHELSEA JANES at chelsea.janes@yale.edu .
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The men’s golf will head to the Ivy League Championships next weekend.
Saturday, 20-knot puffs later on and 8 to 12-knot winds on Sunday. Skipper Marlena Fauer ’14, who sailed in the A division, said, their success was driven by the team effort afforded by this rotation, allowing the sailors to minimize their physical and mental fatigue during the regatta and to motivate one another. Yale earned a comfortable 44-point lead on Brown University. Billing, who sailed for part of the B division races, attributed Boston College’s 60-point margin for first place to the team’s home water advantage. A second place finish automatically qualifies the Bulldogs alongside eight
Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu .
Softball takes tough losses at Army BY MASON KROLL STAFF REPORTER As the season draws to a close, the softball team suffered two close losses to Army on Wednesday.
SOFTBALL The Bulldogs will play their last games of the season this weekend against Brown in the hopes of ending the year on a high note. The Bulldogs outhit Army, committed fewer errors and showed strength on defense, but this was not enough to finish with a win. “We have been keeping out heads up and are really excited to play Brown this weekend,” captain Christy Nelson ’13 said. “Today we had some tough losses, but we all played really well.” For the majority of the first game, the Bulldogs (10–32, 3–13 Ivy) held a commanding lead over Army. After Army scored one run in the top of the first, Yale responded with three of its own. Jennifer Ong ’13 began the inning with a single, and Nelson walked, filling the bases for Sarah Onorato ’15, who hit a three-run homer, her first home run at Yale. “The home run felt good,” Onorato said. “It was nice to get a good piece, since I’ve been struggling lately at the plate.” Four hits in the bottom of the fifth added another run to the Elis’ score and gave them a 4–1 lead. But the Black Knights seized control at the top of the sixth and scored four
runs, three of which came with two outs. Yale answered with two runs in the bottom of the sixth, including one from a double by Hannah Brennan ’15. Army took an 8–6 lead with three more runs in the top of the seventh, and while the Bulldogs secured runners on second and third, a double play ended the inning, and the Elis lost the game. Over the course of the game, the Bulldogs had 14 hits, the largest number the team has attained in a game the entire season. “We were ready to go,” Brennan said. “We knew we were going to have a challenge with Army, but we were ready and had very positive attitudes.” In the second game, the Bulldogs struggled offensively. Although runners made it to base — Yale actually outhit Army in both games — the Elis could not bring them home. Yale lined the bases in the bottom of the seventh and scored one run, but they lost the game 2–1. Over the past three matchups, the Bulldogs have been especially good at hitting home runs. Five of the team’s six season home runs have been in the last week. “We don’t plan on hitting home runs; we focus more on base hits,” Nelson. “But it is great for team momentum when we get one.” According to Nelson, the team had some of the best defensive plays of the season on Wednesday. Strong moments in the field included a few diving stops from Meg Johnson ’12 at shortstop and some great catches
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The Elis finished in the lower half of the eight-team tournament, held from Apr. 21 to 22 in Purchase N.Y. This upcoming weekend, the team will travel to Galloway, N.J., for the Ivy League Championships. Yale scored a 625 over the two days of competition, but the effort was not enough to top Rhode Island (600), Harvard (606), Princeton (617) or Dartmouth (624). “I don’t think last weekend will affect us one way or another [at Ivy League Championships],” Hatten said, “Ivies is a completely different ball game.” On the first day of the tournament, the team was in third place with a score of 303, which trailed both Dartmouth and Rhode Island. At the time, the Bulldogs were only seven strokes behind first-place Rhode Island. But on the second day of competition the team added 19 strokes to its score and dropped to fifth place in the standings. The Elis played in the latest wave of tee times and faced difficult weather conditions, including pouring rain and cold. Sam Bernstein ’14 said Saturday was one of the worst days of golf he has seen throughout his career, but Bradley Kushner ’13 added that the awful conditions were no excuse for the team’s place because every team faced them. Yale’s top scorer, Jeff Hatten
’12 earned a 153 and tied for ninth in the individual standings. Hatten was tied for fourth place with a score of 73 and scored an 80 on the second day. Russell Holmes ’13 had a strong Saturday as well and finishing only two stokes behind Hatten with a 75. Despite the weekend’s tough Sunday round, team members said they remain optimistic about the Ivy League Championships. Kushner said last weekend’s loss may even be a “blessing in disguise” because after the team members are not over confident heading into the championships yet are still comfortable with their own abilities after this weekend’s performance. Hatten agreed that despite losing to three Ivy League rivals this weekend, the tournament will not have a negative effect on Ivy League Championships. “Everyone goes in [to Ivy League Championships] with the most intensity, pressure and excitement,” Hatten said, “and we’re right where we need to be to contend.” The Bulldogs managed to beat Brown and Cornell last weekend. Since the Elis saw such difficult weather conditions on Sunday, they will be better prepared to play through them at Ivies, should the conditions take a turn for the worst, Kushner said. Hatten added that the Elis have already practiced in bad weather this week in preparation for the tournament. When the Bulldogs took the Ivy title last year, the team also faced difficult conditions. Last year, the Elis bested second-place Columbia by 20 strokes.
other teams for the national championships, while the sailing teams that placed third through seventh last weekend will have to race at a semifinal regatta on May 30. The top nine teams from this regatta will also qualify for the championships. The coed team won the two-division Thompson Trophy at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. Although the Elis came fourth in the A division, they were able to hold a 20-point lead in the B division to earn first place overall by 18 points. At the Admiral’s Cup at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, the Bulldogs fell to eleventh, but Leonard said many of the sailors learned a great deal from their mistakes at the event.
“Sometimes even when the result doesn’t look great on paper, it really helps them in the long run,” Leonard said. The women’s team will practice more intensively in New Haven as they head into the postseason, working out three times a week and practicing daily on the water at the McNay Family Sailing Center for over two weeks before flying to nationals in Texas. Next weekend, the coed team will sail at the New England Team Race Championships hosted by MIT and the George Morris Trophy at Boston University, both along the Charles River. Contact CLINTON WANG at clinton.wang@yale.edu.
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The Bulldogs had their most hits of the season in the first game against Army. by center fielder Riley Hughes ’15. Additionally, the Elis committed fewer errors than Army, two to West Point’s four. The Bulldogs will end their season with four games against Brown (8–25, 5–11 Ivy), the first two in Providence on Friday and the last doubleheader back in New Haven on Saturday. Currently, Yale is in last place within the Ivy League. But if the Elis win at least three of the four games this weekend, they will tie or overpass Brown in the standings.
“We’re extremely ready to take all four from Brown,” Brennan said. “We really want to end the season on a good, solid note especially for our seniors. We just have to play solid defense, hit the ball as well as we did today and have our pitchers perform as well as they did today. If we do those three things again, we should come out on top.” The first pitch is at 2:00 p.m. Friday at the Brown softball field. Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .
Elis walk off winners BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 11–5 Patriot) tied the game in the top of the sixth, Yale’s pitchers kept the Elis in the game until Hunter ended it with his heroic hit. Four Bulldog hurlers combined to throw 9.2 innings while striking out ten and giving up the lone run in the sixth. Greg Lyons ’12 took the mound with runners on first and second and only one out with Yale (10–30-1, 2–14 Ivy) down three in the third, but he induced an inning-ending double play that initiated Yale’s defensive dominance. Hanson finished the game by switching from short to pitcher and throwing two scoreless frames to earn
his second win of the season. Despite pitching in just three games, Hanson is second on the team in wins behind Eric Schultz’s ’12 four. “I was just trying not to walk anybody to be honest,” Hanson said. “Every time I go out [to pitch] I’m just kind of winging it.” The win ends the Bulldogs’ nonconference schedule on a high note as the team heads into the final weekend of the season. Yale will host a doubleheader against Brown (8–30, 5–11 Ivy) on Saturday before traveling to Providence to end the season with a twin bill against the Bears on Sunday. Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .
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ALECA HUGHES ‘12 WINS COACH WOODEN CITIZENSHIP CUP Hughes was recognized Wednesday night for her efforts to save lives in memory of her teammate Mandi Schwartz ‘10 through the Mandi Schwartz Foundation, among other efforts. The Wooden Cup is presented annually to one collegiate and one professional athlete who have made the greatest difference in the lives of others.
FENCING NEW CAPTAINS FOR TEAMS Cornelius Saunders ’14 and Robyn Shaffer ’13 were elected by their teammates to be captains for the men’s and women’s fencing teams next season. Lauren Miller ’15 and this season’s men’s team captain Shiv Kachru ’12 won the MVP awards for the season.
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“Despite our record, I am so proud of this team... they came out with energy and played hard.” JOHN STUPER HEAD COACH, BASEBALL YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
CHELSEA JANES
Elis clinch 12th-inning comeback
Eli athletes must step up Well, here we are: the last issue of the News before we leave for the summer, and for some of us, before we leave forever. Today, however, I am writing with a call to action rather than a closing argument. For weeks now, I’ve used this space to air my concerns about the state and future of Yale athletics. I’ve made good arguments, bad arguments and tried to outline both sides of the story (at least as far as my bias will allow). I have — I hope — at the very least voiced the concerns of a worried corps of Yalies past and present. At the most, I hope I have given members of the Yale community who have read my thoughts something to think about. But my goal, inspired by the response I’ve gotten over the past few months and my own feelings about Yale and its athletics, is change. One of the lessons I’ve learned from my efforts as a Yale athlete is that change takes time. I will never forget the quote our strength trainer handed our team a few years ago, a metaphor about a stone cutter who hammers at his rock hundreds of times, seeing no effect, making seemingly no progress. Yet he persists, and finally, with one fateful blow just as he is wondering if his quest is futile, the rock splits in two. We have to keep hammering, but unlike the stonecutter, our rock is not defenseless. Far from it, as the Yale administration has the power to decide the fate of athletics on a whim. But that doesn’t mean we can’t take action. It just means we, as Yale athletes and fans of Yale athletics, are at a familiar disadvantage. We’re used to fighting the odds, particularly the odds set by those in Woodbridge Hall, so if we are to effect change we must do it as we do every day on the field, in the weight room and in every aspect of our lives: with hard work, perseverance and class.
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Jason Hunter ’14 drove Cale Hanson ’14, above, in with one-out double to give Yale a walk-off win over Holy Cross Tuesday. BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER Second baseman Jason Hunter ’14 doubled home shortstop Cale Hanson ’14 to end the game with one out in the bottom of the 12th inning, and the Elis pulled a 5–4 win over Holy Cross on Tuesday night.
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The RBI was Hunter’s second of the game. In the bottom of the fifth, he drove home catcher Ryan Brenner ’12 with another double to cut Yale’s deficit to 3–2. Hunter finished the day 3–for-5 with two doubles and a triple. “[Chris Piwinski ’13] told me ‘Win it just like you’re on center court [at Wimbledon]’,” Hunter said. “That was it. He was in my head and I heard him in the dugout
yelling ‘Wimbledon!’ ” Hunter was not the only player hitting the ball well on Tuesday. The first four Bulldog hitters in the lineup collected ten of Yale’s eleven hits and drove in all five runs. After falling behind 3–0 through three innings, the Elis charged back to regain the lead in the fifth. Outfielder Joe Lubanski ’15 led off the inning with a walk but was sitting on third with two outs when the
top of the order came up. Brenner drove him in with a single — the first of four straight Yale hits — and then Fortunato’s two-run double brought Yale into the lead. “Ryan, Cale and Jake just had three hits in a row that got us back in the game,” Fortunato said. “I was just trying to get them in.” Although the Crusaders (26–18, SEE BASEBALL PAGE 11
Women’s team qualifies for Nationals
ATHLETES MUST WORK TO COUNTER THE ADMINISTRATION’S VIEW OF THEM. The administration, in this case, is like a bad referee: unbelievably frustrating. Like the bad referee, the administration puts you at a tremendous disadvantage. It feels better when you complain about it, but ultimately you have to deal with this figure as an obstacle to your goal. Regardless of whether a foul actually is, or a strike actually isn’t, the only choice you have is to control what you can and hope it’s enough. And that is precisely what we must do. But here comes the tough part: We have to be better than we are right now. Preface this next section with a strong caveat — if anyone reading this thinks I am anything but the biggest supporter of every Yale athletic team, they haven’t gotten my message at all. But it is because of that love for Yale sports that I ask us to be better. For current Yale athletes, the administration has a clear perception of our place in this community, and it’s not a good one. Ninety-nine percent of the time, it is a complete misconception. But that 1 percent is what gets remembered. Even the smallest of incidents involving Yale athletes justify everything being done in Woodbridge Hall to those doing them. Yes, things happen everywhere. But Yale isn’t everywhere. Yale tradition doesn’t exist everywhere, and it’s not everywhere that the administration is looking for a reason to ruin something so good and so SEE COLUMN PAGE 11
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The women’s sailing team qualified for the national championships last weekend with a second place finish at New England championships. BY CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTER The No. 4 Yale women’s team finished second at the New England Championship this weekend and qualified for the Nationals Championships to be held from May 31 to June 2 in Austin, Texas.
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The Elis finished their season on a high note at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women’s Championship. The first two teams of the 17 teams competing automatically qualify for championships. The Bulldogs attained a score of 157, behind host Boston College’s 97. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y. Yale’s No. 1 coed team heads to the National Semifinal Championships at the Naval Acad-
emy on May 12 to 13 “We did pretty well overall and a great job at the Thompson,” sailing head coach Zachary Leonard ’89 said. “Our teams have made a lot of improvements in a lot of ways since the start of the season.” The New England Championship, called the Reed Trophy, consisted of 17 fleet races in the A and B divisions. In each fleet race, one Yale boat competed against one boat from each of
the other 16 teams at the regatta. With eight sailors participating, the team rotated sailors on the boats in both divisions during the race. Women’s captain Emily Billing ’13 said this allowed the team to utilize the particular strengths of each sailor for the variety of conditions they faced. The sailors encountered shifty five knot winds early on SEE SAILING PAGE 11
THE NUMBER OF INNINGS PLAYED BY THE YALE BASEBALL TEAM IN TUESDAY NIGHT’S VICTORY OVER HOLY CROSS. Second baseman Jacob Hunter ’14 hit a double to right-center field in the bottom of the 12th to score Cale Hanson ’14 and give the Bulldog’s their 10th victory of the season.