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Protestors critique law school donor

New York, New York. Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 stood on the stage of the Apollo Theater yesterday and asked New Yorkers to vote for her in the New York primary on April 19. “I am not taking anything or anyone for granted. We are going to work for every vote in every part of this state, just like I did when I ran for the Senate,” Clinton said. The 2016 hopeful also called on New Yorkers’ support when she ran for president in 2008.

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released a report yesterday, shedding light on admissions processes at universities such as Harvard and Yale. Under 1 percent of U.S. undergraduates attend universities that have acceptance rates under 10 percent such as Harvard and Yale, FiveThirtyEight reported. 4 percent, they reported, attended schools with admission rates less than 25 percent.

I made that student famous.

The Yale College Council invited students to apply to perform in this year’s Spring Fling via email yesterday. The YCC is seeking both student bands to open the April 30 event and student DJs to perform between each of the performers, which include Vince Staples, Janelle Monae and A-TRAK. Interested students should submit clips to the YCC by April 8.

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Asian American Cultural Center at Yale will host a conversation with Shinchi Daimyo NUR ’18 — a student at the Yale School of Nursing and senior advisor for mental health at Partners in Health — in a conversation about “Identity, Mental Health and Social Justice.” The talk will take place at the center at 6:30 p.m. this evening.

Ezra Style. Yale Interzone, an organization devoted to raising awareness about the persecution of North African migrants in the European Union, is hosting a screen of the movie “The Land Between” in Ezra Stiles College at 8:30 p.m. tonight. The film tells the story of African migrants in Morocco.

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1985 New Haven Mayor Biagio DiLieto announces that the city’s tax base has increased by 3.7 percent which will generate an additional $3,190,000 dollars in revenue in the coming year.

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were involved in the protest. The rally took place just four days after hundreds of Yemeni-Americans rallied before the United Nations on the one year anniversary of the start of the Saudi’s military operation in Yemen.

“The reason we rally outside the law school is because Yale took $10 million from Saudi billionaire Abdal-

Only one week after a proposed tax on Yale’s $25.6 billion endowment generated heated discussion at a public hearing, Gov. Dannel Malloy’s administration has denounced the bill.

Malloy sided with Yale on Tuesday, the same day Florida Gov. Rick Scott extended an invitation for Yale to relocate to the Sunshine State should the tax bill move forward. Malloy’s rejection of the bill — which comes amid the attempted resolution of a state budget crisis — follows vocal opposition from the University and state Republicans, who claim that a tax on Yale’s endowment is unnecessary because the University already contributes significantly to the state economy. Democratic lawmakers from New Haven and local city officials have backed the bill, arguing that the tax would spur the University to fund higher education, the state’s technology sector and student tuition.

“Many proposals are put forward during the legislative session, and many stay as just that — proposals,” Malloy’s spokesman Devon Puglia said in a statement. “As the governor has made clear, we don’t believe that new taxes should be part of our solution as Connecticut adjusts to a new economic reality.”

The proposed S.B. 413, “Act Concerning a Tax on Certain Endowment Funds of an Institution of Higher Education,” tar-

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Stoll, a former president of the Harvard Crimson, suggested that Yale relocate to Boston.

The proposal came in response to Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s invitation to Yale to move to Florida after Connecticut suggested that it might tax the University’s $25.6 billion endowment. According to The Boston Globe, “Yale in Boston is a bad idea. The town ain’t big enough for {both Yale and Harvard.]”

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Protesters rallied outside the law school criticizing the school for accepting a $10 million donation from a Saudi businessman.

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER A group of around 20 protesters rallied outside Yale Law School on Wednesday, criticizing the school for accepting a $10 million donation from a Saudi businessman last year and calling for an end to Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen.

Chanting “Stop the bloody Yemen

War,” protesters lined up outside the law school for an hour in the early afternoon, holding signs about Saudi Arabia’s killing of Yemeni civilians and the school’s Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization, which was established last September. The group consisted mainly of activists and residents from the greater New Haven area; no law school faculty members or students

Campus responds to terrorism in Europe After attacks, confronting Students abroad Islamophobia largely unaffected

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Recent security concerns in Europe over threats of terrorism have had a limited impact on Yale students studying abroad this semester, though they have taken a heavy toll on students from countries that have been targeted over the past month.

The U.S. State Department issued an advisory on March 22 alerting travelers to the risks of going to Europe, following a series of coordinated bombings in Brussels earlier that day that killed 32 civilians and wounded over 300 others. Subsequent investigations into the attacks, which were perpetrated by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, revealed a larger terrorist network in Europe and linked the Brussels attacks to last November’s Paris attacks, which left 130 dead. While no Yale students are participating in study abroad or fellowship programs in Brussels, 26 students are currently in continental Europe on programs coordinated through the University.

Government officials in Europe have since warned that further attacks could occur in other major cities. Jane Edwards, dean of the Center for International and Professional Experience, said her office has not been in contact with students abroad in Europe, as coordinators for individual programs can be more effective at providing oversight and support to students than the Yale administration.

“When a broad warning of this kind is issued by the State Department, we ordinarily only communicate with students abroad if it suggests that there is significance of which students might not be aware, or if there is something that we can do to be helpful, or reasons why we are anxious about their safety,” Edwards said.

The State Department also issued a warning on Tuesday against travel to Turkey following recent terrorist attacks in the country’s major cities. On March 19, a suicide bombing took place on a busy Istanbul shopping street, killing four foreigners. Six days earlier, a bombing took place in the capital city of Ankara, killing 37 people and injuring 127. The State Department’s message cautioned that terrorists may be explicitly targeting U.S. tourists. No Yale students are currently studying in Turkey, Director of Study Abroad Kelly McLaughlin said.

McLaughlin said none of the students abroad in Europe have contacted the CIPE expressing safety concerns with respect to terrorism. Edwards, however, said “one or two” students have indicated that they will not be participating in programs in Brussels this coming summer because their parents are anxious for their safety.

Three students interviewed on campus said they would not be any less likely to study abroad in Europe because of the recent attacks or warnings by the State Department.

“To not would be ceding victory to the terrorists, and terrorism is just something we have to deal with in the 21st century,” Thomas Yabroff ’16 said.

But this sentiment appears not to be shared by the general population: The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that hotel occupancy rates plummeted in Brussels, Paris and London within days after last week’s attacks. After the Paris attacks, the United Nations World Travel Organization in January predicted a smaller rise in tourist arrivals in Europe in 2016 compared to last year.

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On March 22, two bombs exploded in Brussels Airport killing at least 17 people as part of an organized attack on the Belgian capital.

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER In the wake of last week’s terrorist attacks in Brussels, statements made

by Republican presidential candidates about how to control radical Islam have fueled concerns and raised questions among Muslim Americans and conservative constituents alike about current political rhetoric and its consequences for Muslims both nationwide and at Yale.

Following the deadly March 22 bombings in Belgium that were claimed by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, several presidential candidates made statements both expressing solidarity for victims in Brussels and proposing action steps for preventing

future attacks, some of which blamed Muslim communities worldwide for inspiring homegrown terrorism. Ted Cruz released a statement saying that he would “empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.”

Donald Trump, currently the conservative front-runner, reiterated his earlier statements that “we have no choice” but to impose a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. For many Muslim students interviewed, the statements made by Trump and Cruz represent a moment in American political discourse that focuses on fear before reasonable policy and disagreement.

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ccording to the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, “biodiversity refers to the variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that sustain it.” In the environmental sciences, biodiversity is heralded as fundamental in sustaining life.

Without a variety of environments, geographies and organisms, life could not exist.

Biodiversity refers to the physical sciences, but this principle is applicable to sociology as well.

Social groups need diverse kinds of people to maintain a healthy, intellectual and flourishing culture. A popular TED Talk by writer and lecturer Susan Cain called “The power of introverts” hails the interconnectedness of introverts and extroverts alike.

People with varying personalities and degrees of sociability are able to make different kinds of physical, emotional and professional contributions. Though introverted and extroverted humans belong to the same species, they can serve distinct roles because of their differences. Cain’s talk helps prove that all sorts of diversity are necessary.

Recently, discussions about “diversity” in academic settings inevitably center on race and ethnicity. While these are necessary discussions, diversity is about far more than one dimension of identity: People come from different geographic origins, cultural affiliations, economic conditions, political beliefs and aptitudes. For many of us at Yale and similar institutions, we were drawn to such schools because they boast diversity in every sense.

When students move offcampus, they isolate themselves from such diversity. The vast majority of students who leave the residential college system during junior or senior years stick with people of similar origins, identities and interests. Over the years, my friends and I have made countless jokes about the kinds of Yalies and where they tend to live.

Certain streets belong to Greek organizations; other buildings seem to be entirely upper-middle-class and white. Though everyone is entitled to making their own choices, they’re also confining themselves to a smaller set of people and potential interactions. This seems to counteract Yale’s institutional commitment to broadening our intellectual and cultural stimuli. The Elmhurst building doesn’t have the same diversity that Jonathan Edwards College enjoys.

My favorite thing to do is stand in the middle of Old Campus at night. I often consider that I now know only a fraction of its inhabitants. L-Dub is three years removed from me and my freshman year. I watch the yellow lights as they emanate from the windows, and then consider how all these twinkling lights and Target desk lamps will move throughout New Haven (and the

world) in the next few years.

By the end of sophomore year, many of these kids will conADRIANA sider moving off-campus.

MIELE Some of my best friends Check moved off campus, and yourself technically, Yale needs this because there aren’t often enough dorms in every residential college. (Junior year annexing is real, and it is annoying.) I know that plenty of people move off-campus for real, legitimate reasons: food allergies, financial advantages or a sense of independence. I personally benefit from my off-campus friends' living quarters because it’s nice to have access to real kitchens and living rooms — larger spaces to mix drinks and enjoy those drinks.

Sometimes people just feel better living physically separate from Yale. Much like people choose suites, they choose off-campus roommates. But off-campus housing is much less centralized; you can’t wander into any apartment in your building.

Freshman year, we arrive eager to meet everyone. I’m sad that we lose that wonder. I’m sad that so many of my peers don’t think more critically about creating a diverse world for themselves.

Off-campus living can be isolating. In the last four years, I’ve known many upperclassmen that elected to live off-campus and later resented their conditions, or questioned their choices. They felt stuck. They were lonely and distant. The majority of them missed the interconnectedness of freshman year on Old Campus, even those L-Dub bunk beds and dim lights in Lawrence Hall.

While freshman year is exhausting, it also facilitates interactions with people who challenge us, change us and sustain us. Far too many upperclassmen are stuck around the same kinds of people from the same kinds of places with the same kinds of interests as them. Journalists need to debate policy with pre-meds; artists need to engage with anthropologists. Such occurrences are more likely in an on-campus residence.

Yale cannot represent the diversity of our entire world, but it makes a fine attempt at creating a holistically representative student body. We came to Yale to take advantage of this, and it would be a shame to waste such an opportunity. Our livelihood relies upon mutuality, and that means engaging with all kinds of people.

Stay on campus. Don’t stick with your own kind. Your survival depends on it.

ADRIANA MIELE is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .

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ale has its own standards of politeness. Almost without exception, if you sit down for a talk outside of Yale, you stay to the end. At Yale though, not so much. Many of us leave talks early — whether master’s teas or shopping period lectures — and weigh our time spent listening against insurmountable piles of homework. In Yale’s business of busyness, this behavior is not really rude. But unfortunately, Yale’s business of busyness also applies to our approach to friendships. Our social selfishness is making us bad friends.

Let’s start at the beginning. In freshmen year, our social catchphase is a pithy: name, college, where you’re from. It’s a trading of driver’s license facts, the basics necessary to find someone online. Friendships arbitrarily form around entryways and freshman counselor groups as freshmen race to accept Instagram followers, attend a cappella shows and trek to Woads.

In this rush to know everyone, we don’t really know anyone — just names, colleges and where they’re from.

The sophomore slogan holds more sobriety: “We should get a meal sometime,” followed by the ultimate punch line: “ … actually.” It’s a line delivered with the awareness that you probably won’t get that meal (or if you do, you probably won’t get another).

From the freshmen feeding friend-sy comes tightening groups and shrinking circles. It boils down to a numbers game:

With only so many hours to socialize in a week, should you spend quality time with a few people, or one hour apiece AMELIA many?

NIERENBERG with Most pick the former, Close to prioritizing their handhome ful of capitalf Friendships over an ever-widening circle of lower-case-f friendships.

This social winnowing, however, does not have to be a source of guilt. The ubiquitous use of “friend” to describe those who realistically are our “acquaintances” creates a confusing culture of social selfishness without clear boundaries.

Between acquaintances, we permit and expect selfishness from one another. Acquaintances can skip each other’s improv shows, thesis presentations, even birthdays. Acquaintances do not talk to each other about breakups, or bad grades, or trouble at home. Therefore, being “there for” someone is not within the role of an acquaintance. With an acquaintance, though, we chat, we grab an occasional meal, we dance at parties. While it’s earnest, pleasurable and interesting, it’s low-stakes and low-commitment. We evaluate our time with acquaintances economically: What’s the marginal utility of

an hour spent with this person, rather than an hour spent doing something else?

And here’s the taboo thing for me to say — there’s nothing wrong with that. “Acquaintance” is not an insult; it’s a truth. Let’s introduce “acquaintance” into our vocabulary to describe the people we like, but do not love.

It is also in this post-freshman social navigation that those who took Directed Studies (or some version of DS, in my case) might find Aristotle suddenly deeply relevant. Aristotle broke friendships down into three categories: pleasure, utility and goodness.

The first two, friendships of pleasure and friendships of utility, are what I am calling acquaintances — ephemeral, accidental and transactional. You scratch my back; I’ll cheerfully scratch yours in return. Maybe we will add this little massage party to our Snapchat stories — who knows?

True friendships are another beast entirely. But if not just pleasurable, then what makes a “friend”?

Aristotle answers this question: a friendship born from mutual admiration for, and attempts to help the other person realize, intrinsic goodness. Unlike pleasure, goodness endures. And unlike utility, we work throughout a friendship to help each other be our mutual best selves. True friendship is rare. It takes time, but it’s the best and most important of the three variations on friendship.

Or to quote Woody Allen: “80 percent of success is showing up.” Successful friendships require the mutual expectation of “showing up,” which does not yet hold at Yale. It’s found in my father’s explanation of why his best friend (Steve) is his best friend. It’s a simple story — Steve picked my dad up from the airport after my dad unexpectedly needed to go to San Francisco (where Steve was living at the time). And despite the rain and the 90-minute drive, Steve was there, right on time. “Friendship is not that he came to get me,” Dad likes to say. “Friendship is that I never doubted that he would.”

Friendship is above the costbenefit time analysis we accept from acquaintances at Yale.

Instead, friends take each other to the hospital. Friends stay up to talk through a breakup, even with an early practice or class the next morning. Friends should remember each other’s birthdays without Facebook (although I’ll let this one slide). Being a friend is hard, time-consuming and requires constant and unflinching support.

If we call our acquaintances our “friends,” we normalize selfishness and weaken true friendships. We cannot pick 500 people up from the airport, nor should we.

AMELIA NIERENBERG is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Her column runs on Thursdays. Contact her at amelia.nierenberg@yale.edu .

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hen I first heard about the attack in Brussels, I wasn’t sure whether I was shocked. I was certain, however, that Europe had fallen.

It is now clear that the attack was carried out by Belgian nationals with ties to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, in a style similar to the Paris attacks last year. The pro-refugee European left must have breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that the attacks were not directly linked to migrants from the Middle East and North Africa.

Nonetheless, the attackers were descendants of immigrants from the region. Why were those European-born, homegrown terrorists influenced more by ISIS than their home countries? Do they consider Europe home at all?

At the very least, the attacks prove that the multiculturalist experiments in Europe have failed miserably. When the older generation of immigrants first arrived, they didn’t manage to integrate into their new home.

Instead, they formed their own communities, preserved their old language, culture, values and sometimes even justice system, and passed everything on to the next generations.

It’s not surprising these “homegrown” terrorists don’t consider the land where they were born “home.” Letting people in without helping them adjust to the new identity is irresponsible. Social engineers love

the term “multicultural society,” because it sugarcoats their incompetence and the fact that the society has become increasingly segregated. The present influx of refugees and migrants from the Middle East and North Africa may not cause any problems immediately, but how do we know their children (born and brought up in Europe) will be equally benign?

Europe clearly brought in too many immigrants too fast. But why? Economic benefits and compassion.

With their aging populations, major European economies worry they need fresh blood in order to keep their generous pension schemes afloat. A large inflow of low-skill workers, so the thinking goes, could help keep labor costs, and thus prices of most products, low. But unemployment across Europe remains high, with only a few exceptions. Furthermore, official unemployment figures usually don’t include those who are not actively seeking jobs. Why not hire underutilized domestic labor first, in the unlikely event that there is a real labor shortage in Europe? One may also argue that high welfare spending permits Europeans to live relatively comfortably without going to work.

If that is true, then the European countries should cut such spending and motivate people to work longer hours. Furthermore, an influx of low-skilled workers will

only drive wages down. It’s surprising that more European labor unions haven’t protested open door immigration policies more strongly — perhaps because the left-leaning political parties they typically endorse favor such policies.

The other motivation for unrestricted immigration is compassion. We don’t like to see others suffer. But we mustn’t let compassion override common sense.

In the wake of horrific terrorist attacks, compassion should no doubt go to one’s fellow countrymen first. Paris and Brussels have clearly shown that security risks outweigh the pleasant feeling of “doing good deeds.” If we truly care about refugees and migrants, we should address the root causes of their suffering. If their homelands are underdeveloped, we should promote free trade, which benefits everyone. If their homelands have been torn apart by war, we need to help people achieve peace. Importing troubled people doesn’t make their problems go away; it just brings in more unnecessary troubles.

What about ISIS? Some seem to believe that the West has been tough on the organization. But they haven’t been Putin-tough.

Russia received criticism for its callous attitude towards collateral damage and its willingness to target groups other than ISIS. But the Russians achieved their strategic goals, namely weak-

ening ISIS, stabilizing Assad regime and strengthening Russian presence in the region. The strategic goal of the West hasn’t been clear since the beginning.

It appeared that Western leaders wanted to remove Assad, install a friendly “moderate” regime, avoid a humanitarian crisis and possibly more. These goals, by nature, contradict each other. Assad had a monopoly on force, so the best way to avoid more suffering would have been to let him win the civil war as quickly as possible. The “moderate” rebels were only “moderate” because they didn't have the weapons and money to be more violent (all sides in the conflict, after all, were very brutal to their captives). The West’s incoherent military strategy allowed ISIS to advance all over the place, inevitably creating huge waves of refugees and migrants.

Europe has fallen. Its leaders are incompetent on both domestic and foreign fronts. And Europe is not alone. The US is facing similar challenges: mass (illegal) immigration from its Southern neighbors and a growing number of homegrown terrorists brainwashed by ISIS and the like. Fortunately, it’s an election year. Let’s hope American voters make their votes count.

SHAOYAN LIANG is a postdoctoral associate at the Yale School of Medicine. Contact him at shaoyan.liang@yale.edu .

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The article “Systemic issues overshadow faculty diversity initiative” incorrectly stated the percentage of minority ladder faculty members at Columbia University. In fact, minority faculty professors constitute 23.5 percent of the ladder faculty body.

YLS students defend deported state residents

BY MICHELLE LIU AND JAMES POST STAFF REPORTERS In front of a federal judge Monday, two Yale Law School students argued for the return of deported Connecticut residents Paula Milardo and Arnold Giammarco.

In late February, Connecticut state Sen. Eric Coleman and state Rep. William Tong subpoenaed Giammarco and Milardo to appear in a public hearing slated for April regarding the consequences of Connecticut’s immigration laws on immigrant families, according to a joint declaration of Coleman and Tong. Both former residents had been deported to Italy in previous years — Milardo in 2011 and Giammarco in 2012 — for criminal convictions accrued in the U.S. Yale Law students Claire Simonich LAW ’16 and Avinash Samarth LAW ’16 from the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization are representing Giammarco’s and Milardo’s cases, while Giammarco and Milardo are still currently in Campo di Fano and Melilli, respectively.

Simonich and Samarth have argued in court that the in-person testimonies of the residents are necessary to best convey their clients’ experiences.

But Elizabeth Stevens — assistant director of the Department of Justice’s Office of Immigration Litigation — who represented the federal government in court March 28, claimed video conferencing could provide an acceptable alternative to in-person testimony. After hearing over two hours of arguments, U.S. District Judge Vanessa Bryant failed to reach a decision.

There’s a long-standing tradition of having live and in-person testimony .

CLAIRE SIMONICH LAW ’16 “There are other empirical studies that show that the outcome of a case can hinge enormously on whether or not it’s video conferencing versus in person,” Simonich said.

Milardo, now 66, moved to the U.S. legally in 1961, according to the YLS Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic.

She married a disabled U.S. Army veteran in 1970 and now has six grandchildren. After her husband was diagnosed with cancer, Milardo developed a gambling addiction, which led her to steal $30,000 from an elderly friend. After she served a prison sentence for her criminal conviction, Milardo was deported.

Giammarco, a U.S. Army veteran who immigrated in 1960, developed a drug addiction after the collapse of his first marriage and received several convictions for larceny and drug possession offenses. After he was arrested, Giammarco — now 60 years old

— was deported.

After hearing Giammarco and Milardo’s stories, the Connecticut General Assembly identified the petitioners as potential testifiers at the April 4 informational hearing about the impact of Connecticut immigration laws.

Giammarco and Milardo may also be candidates for a pardon, which would clear their criminal records, Simonich said.

The Assembly’s Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas to Giammarco and Milardo so that the two could return to the United States to testify in person about their crimes. But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials denied their reentry into the country. In response, and with the aid of law students, Giammarco and Milardo filed a petition on March 16 to force ICE to allow their re-entry.

That petition led to the Monday court hearing, at which a federal attorney argued that Giammarco and Milardo should not be allowed to return to the U.S. to testify in person. The attorney presented video conferencing as an acceptable alternative to inperson testimony.

“They can do it through a video conference,” ICE spokesman Shawn Neudauer told the Connecticut Law Tribune on March 18. “It is neither necessary, nor in the best interests of public safety, for previously convicted criminal aliens to be physically present in the United States to give testimony before a legislative body.”

On Monday, Stevens argued that video conferencing is widely used in courts around the world for remote witness testimony.

ICE has also offered to provide video conferencing equipment in Italy for Giammarco and Milardo.

But Simonich and Samarth argued that video conferencing was an unacceptable alternative to in-person testimony.

Simonich added that the federal court should comply with the specific request of Connecticut legislators that Giammarco and Milardo testify in person.

Simonich also said social science research supports the argument against using video conferencing as testimony: 95 percent of social cues are given through in-person testimony, Simonich said, and those cues are lost in a statement made on video.

“Throughout the legal tradition, in rules of court procedure, in different court cases, there’s a long-standing tradition of having live and in-person testimony that’s only really supposed to be broken in very compelling circumstances,” Simonich said.

Justice Department spokeswoman Nicole Navas declined to comment on Monday’s court proceedings.

At YLS, the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization provides legal aid to individuals and organizations unable to afford private attorneys.

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BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER For the second straight evening, city officials came before the Board of Alders’ Finance Committee to make their cases for their requested levels of funding in Mayor Toni Harp’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2017.

Though most changes from last year’s budget are minimal, several departments are asking the alders to increase their funding. But with Gov. Dannel Malloy proposing drastic cuts to the state’s budget and purses tightening in New Haven, the specter of a tough fiscal year hung over Wednesday evening’s workshop.

While dates for finalizing the budget have not yet been set, the alders must vote on a budget before July 1 — the beginning of the new fiscal year.

The City Plan Department was the first to present its request to the alders. Executive Director Karyn Gilvarg said the department is asking for two new positions: a legal secretary and an urban design coordinator. If approved, those two new positions would bring the department’s staff size up to 10. Gilvarg said the legal secretary would increase the department’s capacity to deal with city plan work.

“If we had in-house someone who could greet the applicant and work with the applicant, that would free up the professional staff to do things that would lead to a bigger and better New Haven,” Gilvarg told the alders. “To do the things that I think are most important and would touch constituents more, and would lead to better growth for the city, these positions would be an enormous help.”

Westville Alder Adam Marchand GRD ’99, who sits

on the City Plan Commission, noted the city has recently completed its decennial Comprehensive Plan of Development. He asked Gilvarg why the completion of that report has not freed up staff to work on other projects.

Quite honestly, I don’t know how we would be able to function without the proposal that’s before you.

LIL SNYDER Interim Committee on Equal Opportunities Chief Gilvarg responded that while completion of the development plan’s report has freed up staff, projects concerning hazard mitigation and flood insurance now occupy most of their time. A legal secretary, she said, may serve as the department’s receptionist and allow creative minds to flourish. In response to a question from Annex Alder Alphonse Paolillo Jr., Gilvarg said she would prioritize the legal secretary position over the urban design coordinator.

Gilvarg noted that the department had an urban design coordinator until 2010, when the position was phased out after a retirement. She described the proposal before the alders as “restoring” the position to the department.

Other re q u e s t s fo r increased staffing came from the Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking. Doug Hausladen ’04, the department’s director, said the request for five new parttime crossing guards — at $5,500 apiece — at the city’s

schools will go a long way toward improving children’s safety on their walk to school.

“They’re fairly inexpensive when it comes down to it, but their value is invaluable,” Hausladen said. “We do not currently have one crossing guard per school, but five new crossing guards will bring us a lot closer. $5,500 is pennies on the dollar for the value that these crossing guards provide.”

The alders also had street safety on their minds. Fair Haven Alder Ernie Santiago questioned why the department is painting green bike lanes across the city while his ward still has an inadequate number of crosswalks.

The lack of crosswalks makes traveling around the neighborhood unsafe, he said. As a result, he added, he has received many complaints from his constituents.

East Rock Alder Anna Festa agreed. She said street safety is a crucial issue, especially in her ward, where many children walk to school instead of taking buses.

“We have an issue with traffic control and I think it needs to extend past [the Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking], what needs to be done,” Festa said. “Before a child or pedestrian actually gets killed, we need to look further than just crosswalks …

Striping the streets is just not enough, in my opinion. And that’s a complaint that I get a lot from my constituents.”

Hausladen said his department has allocated $125,000 for constructing safe routes to school. He said his department is working to ensure every second grader in New Haven has a class on transportation safety. The department is working with local parentteacher associations to make that possible, he added.

Hausladen said the painted bike lanes are mostly covered by federal grants, and the city spends its $100,000 allocation for nonannual pavement markings quickly.

According to members of the Committee on Equal Opportunities — a commission that works to ensure women and minorities are hired for city contracts — the staffing situation is more dire. Lil Snyder, the interim CEO chief, said the commission started with five employees, but attrition means it will soon be left with only two. She said acceptance of the proposal would rejuvenate the department.

“We know that you’re looking at a very difficult budget, and we know that our finances are difficult, but at the same time, the office is experiencing also a very difficult situation,” Snyder said. “We are out of special funds. Right now, we’re at a point where we’re asking you to help us out. Quite honestly, I don’t know how we would be able to function without the proposal that’s before you.”

Economic Deve l o p ment Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81 said the commission has played a major role in ensuring residents are employed in the city’s building projects.

But budget realities could not be avoided. Festa asked Snyder to submit to the alders a prioritization list of the eight positions the commission is requesting. Both the city and the state, Festa said, are “in a real bind.”

The alders will continue their scrutiny of the mayor’s proposed budget on April 7 in Augusta Lewis Troup School.

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Peabody celebrates 150 years in style

BY CAMERON HILL STAFF REPORTER The Peabody Museum of Natural History’s Great Hall — home to the Peabody’s largest mounted skeleton, a brontosaurus — played host on Wednesday evening to more than its usual crowd of dinosaurs. The museum, currently celebrating its 150th anniversary year, opened the commemorative exhibit, “Treasures of the Peabody: 150 Years of Exploration and Discovery,” with a wellattended event featuring food, drinks and jazz music.

The jazz, played in front of a backdrop of triceratops skulls, began at 5:30 p.m. when dozens of invited guests were already milling through the first-floor exhibit halls. More than 150 attended the event, which lasted through much of the evening. In his opening remarks, Peabody Director David Skelly said the exhibit aimed to tell the story of the museum and its place in Yale history. Skelly’s predecessor, former director Derek Briggs, said they chose displays they thought would resonate with the public.

“Objects in this room helped crack some of the biggest problems in science that humanity faced, for example articulating a theory of where biodiversity came from and how it is maintained, that is, evolution,” said Thomas Near, Saybrook College master and associate curator of vertebrate zoology at the Peabody. “On one hand, it is, I think, a wonderful overview of the history of science and cultural anthropology here at Yale, but on the other hand it’s also a celebration of the contribution that those objects and studying those objects have contributed to science globally.”

The exhibit features a timeline of the Peabody, beginning with the founding of Yale in 1701 and ending with recognition of the museum’s place as a world leader from the 1960s to the present. Among the artifacts displayed through the timeline is the Culpeper/Loff Double Microscope. The College purchased this, Yale’s first microscope, in 1735, seven decades

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To celebrate the Peabody’s 150th anniversary, curators selected a few of its greatest treasures to represent the 13 million-piece collection. before a professor of science arrived at the school.

Farther into the exhibit hall, some of the greatest, select few treasures of the Peabody’s 13 million-piece collection are on display — normally, only 0.04 percent of specimens in collection can be on display at one time. The selection process lasted about a year, with curators seeking submissions from collection managers of each of the Peabody’s 10 departments.

Although the official curators of the exhibit, Skelly and Near, called for submissions of specimens to exhibit from the curators and collection managers of each of the Peabody’s 10 departments, in the end, the selection process lasted about a year, he said.

Near explained that the exhibit linked past scientific discovery with modern research.

“I think that there are very important contemporary issues that we’re able to deal with in the context of our objects,” Near said. “For example, we have [an] ivory-billed woodpecker, which is presumed extinct, and a frog specimen that represents a type specimen of a new species of frog, discovered in Staten Island, New York. In that sense, biodiversity conservation is here, and also biodiversity discovery, even in our own back-

yard, is still an ongoing process.”

Near said it was difficult to encapsulate the entirety of the museum’s 150-year history, given the size of the museum’s collection and the significance so many of its pieces bear to the scientific record. Nevertheless, the Peabody curators succeeded in creating an exhibit that unified artifacts from across the departments and the museum’s archives in both an aesthetic and informative manner, he said.

Geology and geophysics professor Bhart-Anjan Bhullar ’05 described the Peabody’s vertebrate paleontologists as the modern-world successors of O. C. Marsh, who graduated from Yale College in 1860. Marsh, who contributed extensively to the museum’s collection, was a paleontologist and the nephew of the Peabody’s founder.

“We still go out there. We dig up fossils,” Bhullar said. “But in the lab, during the year, we’re doing advanced 3-D processing of CT-scanned data to pull things from the fossils that no one was able to do before.”

While much of his work is, driven by technology, Bhullar said he remains committed to the principle of tactile display as a medium for museum exhibition, and the centrality of physical objects to the historical record.

Bhullar noted that imaging

technologies and 3-D printing could allow for new modes of physical displays that could translate research at the genetic level to large-sale, threedimensional, visual displays, but he acknowledged that scientific discovery could not revolve solely around the microscopic.

“The fossils are the things that record the actual story of life on earth. You’ll never get that from genes, you’ll never get that from the lab, you have to explore, you have to find new sites, you have to find new fossils. They’ll tell you surprising things that you would never have predicted.”

Skelly chose to view the exhibit not just as a celebration of the museum’s past, but also wanted to look forward to the Peabody’s next 150 years of impact on science education.

“I think [the Peabody] will be doing what it was doing 150 years ago and what it’s doing now, supporting the research and teaching initiative at the University,” Skelly said. “Getting people into museums is going to get harder and harder … but what this shows, I think is that people want to see the real thing, so I hope they’ll keep coming.”

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“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ELIE WIESEL AMERICAN ROMANIAN-BORN JEWISH WRITER

Rally questions U.S.-Saudi relations, law school’s role PROTEST FROM PAGE 1 lah S. Kamel to establish a center to study Islamic law at the Law School,” Stanley Heller ’69, executive director for the Middle East Crisis Committee in Connecticut said in a March 28 press release.

“Kamel’s family owns Dallah Avco which Newsweek has said has extensive ties to the Saudi Defense Ministry.”

Kamel is the former chief executive and current chairman of the Dallah Al-Baraka Group, a Saudi conglomerate with investments in real estate, banking and health care.

The 2012 Newsweek article cited in the press release described Dallah Avco, a subsidiary of the Dallah Al-Baraka Group, as an aviation-services company with “extensive contracts with the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation,” which protesters accused of dropping bombs and killing civilians in Yemen over the past year.

Heller, also a main organizer of the protest, said he found “real problems” with the Kamel Center, adding that this protest is only one of the first steps his group will take to raise awareness. Though he does not have specific plans for future actions, he will “eventually” ask for a meeting with Yale Law School Dean Robert Post.

Co-director of the center and former law school dean Anthony Kronman did not return request for comment regarding the protest. Kronman told the News in the fall that Kamel and his company were “thoroughly vetted” by

the law school and Yale’s Office of General Counsel.

This is not the first time the Kamel Center has come under scrutiny. Days after the school announced the donation, the donor attracted national media attention. In a Sept. 14 Huffington Post article, Omer Aziz LAW ’17 highlighted Kamel’s ties to the Saudi Royal Family, who Aziz said has ruled the country under a totalitarian regime, and attacked Yale for accepting money “stained with both blood and oil” and “prostrating at the feet of the Saudi Royal Family.” In the article, Aziz also mentioned Dallah Avco’s ties to the Saudi military.

Aziz did to return request for comment.

In addition to the alleged link to Saudi air strikes in Yemen, Dallah Avco was also criticized for previously employing Omar al-Bayoumi. A Saudi citizen who provided housing for two of the 9/11 hijackers in Los Angeles in 2000, Al-Bayoumi was accused in a court complaint of befriending and helping fund the two terrorists. However, a FBI investigation concluded that Al-Bayoumi did not know the pair were al-Qaeda terrorists.

In addition to the donation, protestors came to Yale Law School because they said Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen pertains to international law. Heller told the News that Saudi Arabia has no right to interfere with the Yemeni civil war, and still “the U.S. has been helping” by selling weapons to Saudi Arabia.

“What is a better place to bring

[the issue] up than a law school?”

Heller said.

Henry Lowendorf, co-chair of the Greater New Haven Peace Council who attended the protest, said hardly any of the attendees at the protest were YemeniAmerican. The group is made up of people who have been active in the peace movement for decades, he said.

Lowendorf said the protest concerns law school students because there have been many cases of human rights violation in Yemen, and a number of law school graduates will end up working for nonprofits or human rights advocacy groups. He also questioned what the center had done concerning the Saudi-Yemen conflict. Hope Metcalf, executive director of the Schell Center, declined to comment on the war in Yemen and its relationship with the law school.

Protesters gave out two flyers to passersby and drew an initial crowd, which soon dispersed. The flyer by the Peace Council criticized Saudi royals for disseminating their religious extremism and the U.S. government for selling weapons to Saudi Arabia; it made no mention of Yale Law School.

The other flyer, prepared by the Middle East Crisis Committee, focused on Saudi Arabia’s involvement in Yemen. It noted the “extensive ties” between Kamel’s company and the Saudi military and accused Kamel for operating a TV station “long known for its extremism and anti-semitism.”

Two law school students interviewed expressed confusion about the protest, saying they did not

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Yale established the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization in September. understand the link between Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen and the reason for protesting at the law school specifically. Another two students said they appreciated the protestors’ call for greater attention to the Saudi-Yemen issue from the law school community, but declined to comment on the Kamel Center.

Lowendorf said he is concerned about the U.S.-Saudi alliance and that the law school’s participation in such an alliance through the acceptance of a huge sum of money from a Saudi businessman is a “shameful act.”

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was frustrated that Yale accepted the “tainted money” from Kamel.

She called the killings of civilians in Yemen “anti-humanity,” adding that a law school that upholds international law and human rights should question the sources of the donations it receives. Janczewski Allan, a protester from New York City, said he came to the protest to call for the law school to “stop its complicity with Saudi Arabia” by accepting donation from a Saudi Arabian billionaire.

Kamel has been the chief executive of the Dallah Albaraka Group since 1999.

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be quiet? Support something?”

Lowendorf asked. He cautioned against the school’s “unwritten duty” to the donor, although he said he doubts it will take the form of restricting research freedom at the Kamel Center. “[The influence] will be more subtle. Yale is a sophisticated corporation,” Lowendorf said.

Still, Lowendorf said his frustration is not targeted exclusively at the Kamel donation, adding that he wanted to take the advantage of Wednesday’s protest to speak out against the broader U.S.-Saudi alliance.

Elizabeth Neuse, a resident of Hamden, Connecticut who participated in the protest, said she

ing whatsoever on his daily life.

He added that he has not noticed an additional police presence and life in the city has remained unchanged.

Likewise, Leigh Vila ’17, who is participating in Yale-in-London this semester, said the attacks have not impacted her daily life in the city. She suggested that the lack of major change may be due to the attacks that London has endured over the years, and the sharpened security measures as a result.

“Londoners have always known that their city is a major target for attacks, but they don’t let this knowledge stop them from going out, using the metro, et cetera,” Vila said. “That would just put life to a standstill, and the last thing that they or anyone else should do is let the fear of terrorist attacks stop them from living.”

However, Stephanie Anaya ’17 said the coordinators of her study abroad program, the Consortium for Advanced Studies in Barcelona, have become very strict about ensuring students register their trips with the program for safety reasons. Anaya said she was in the airport in Barcelona on the day of the bombings in Brussels and saw special police with large guns on patrol there and in the metro.

Besides the Brussels bombings, however, Anaya pointed to several other incidents that have made her uneasy about safety while abroad in Europe, even though they were not connected to terrorism. Last week, a bus returning to Barcelona from a music festival in Valencia crashed, killing 13 international students. Her professors also commemorated the first anniversary of the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, in which 150 people died after boarding the plane in Barcelona.

“All of this tragedy occurring really makes us nervous about traveling and wanting to enjoy our time abroad,” Anaya said.

Though no students are currently studying abroad in Turkey or Belgium, students who come from the two countries say they have been significantly impacted by the attacks, with many having been home on spring break when they occurred.

Taha Ramazanoglu ’17, a student from Istanbul, spoke to the emotional strain the attacks have put on him.

“I started thinking more about comforts like safety and security that we take for granted in our everyday lives, particularly when we are focused on our studies at Yale,” Ramazanoglu said.

Mehmet Saka ’17, who is also from Istanbul, said he was home in Istanbul when the bombings happened on March 19. He said the explosion occurred 50 meters from his high school, and that most of his friends were depressed and afraid to leave their houses that day.

Beatrice Beressi ’16, whose family lives in Brussels, said she and her family were in the city at the time of the attacks, adding that the events have been at the forefront of her mind since they occurred.

“I have been pretty much living and breathing this continuously,” Beressi said.

Leyla Levi ’16, a student from Istanbul, was in San Francisco during the bombings, but said this was even more difficult as her family and friends were at home in Istanbul and she felt disconnected from the events and a community with which to grieve. This sense of disconnection was enhanced by the apparent lack of media coverage of the bombings in Turkey by Western news media, she said.

Other students also spoke to the lack of media coverage of the

bombings in Turkey. Saka said that once he returned to Yale from spring break, he was disappointed to find that some of his friends were unaware of the bombings, at times mistakenly believing that he was referring to the Brussels bombings in their conversations.

Vila said she was concerned about how much more attention was being paid to suffering in Western cities like Paris and Brussels when compared with Yemen or Afghanistan, which see terrorist attacks regularly. Dozens of people were also killed earlier this month in blasts in Pakistan and Nigeria.

Amen Jalal ’17, who is from Lahore, Pakistan, where a bomb exploded on Easter Sunday and killed 72 people, said waking up and having to call her family to make sure they were unharmed was incredibly stressful.

“Even though my friends and family were safe, I am, to this moment, still deeply disturbed, frustrated and angered by the fact that Lahore, after all these years, has once again been targeted by terrorism, and that too through its women and children,” Jalal said.

Jalal added that she has accepted that strife in Pakistan will always receive less media coverage.

Though Levi was frustrated with how much less attention was being paid to the bombings in Turkey, she said these instances are opportunities for people to come together and grieve for the victims of attacks that happen all over the world.

“If anything, we should be latching onto the similarities of these tragedies everywhere as sort of a radical project in empathy,” she said.

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Second student recovers from possible meningitis

BY PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER In the wake of the rehospitalization of the Silliman freshman who first contracted bacterial meningitis last month, and the testing of a second Yale undergraduate for the disease during the recent spring recess, the president of the National Meningitis Association has urged Yale students to vaccinate themselves against the infection.

Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin notified the Yale community on March 18 that the female freshman student, who contracted the serogroup B strain of the disease in February, was rehospitalized while in another state on spring break for what was later confirmed as a recurrence of the disease. A source close to the affected student confirmed that she has not yet returned to campus. University Deputy Press Secretary Karen Peart could not confirm whether either of the students are back on campus for medical privacy reasons. The second student, whose identity has not been confirmed, was tested inconclusively for meningococcal disease and is awaiting the results of further investigations, according to a March 22 email to the student body from Genecin. However, in a Wednesday email to the News, Peart affirmed that the second Yale student has recovered, but would not verify whether the student had tested positively for meningitis. In the March 22 email, Genecin added that Yale Health was contacting individuals who had been in close contact with the second student in order to provide them with preventative treatment. Genecin also reminded the student body that a vaccine against the serogroup B variety is available at Yale Health.

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The National Meningitis Association has urged Yale students to get vaccinated against serogroup B meningitis. cials and will be communicating additional information as soon as possible,” Peart stated in the Wednesday email to the News.

The affected students could not be reached for comment.

“We continue to work and consult with the New Haven Health Department, the Connecticut Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and we will be back in touch with more information when we have results from the additional testing,” Genecin wrote in the March 22 email.

Genecin did not confirm in his emails whether the two students had any contact with each other prior to the testing of the second student, and he did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

In a statement to the News, Lynn Bozof, president of the

National Meningitis Association, called on Yale students to receive the vaccine against serogroup B meningitis, which is available at Yale Health. She also recalled her own experience of losing her son to meningitis in 1998 and urged other members of the Yale community to educate themselves about the infection.

“When I hear about hospitalization, it reminds me of what my family went through,” Bozof said.

“It still feels like yesterday but 18 years ago my son, Evan, called to say he had a terrible migraine headache. Hours later, he was in intensive care. That began the worst 26 days imaginable.”

Bozof went on to describe the complications suffered by her son as a result of the infection that eventually led to irreversible brain damage causing his premature death. She added that she hopes

education about meningitis will advance its prevention at Yale, given that the disease is potentially preventable by vaccine.

While acknowledging the difficulties associated with diagnosing meningitis because of the similarity of its symptoms to the common flu, Bozof also advised the Yale administration to maintain communication with the student body on the disease and to encourage vaccination.

“I encourage the administration to keep the community updated about meningococcal disease on campus and to encourage students to get vaccinated against serogroup B,” she said.

“Recognizing the symptoms early can lead to lifesaving treatment.”

On the same date that Genecin alerted the Yale College community to the rehospitalization of the student who fell ill in February, a

Rutgers University undergraduate was hospitalized with the same strain as the Yale student. Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health and Wellness at Rutgers Melodee Lasky alerted the Rutgers student body to the student’s infection on March 21.

“The student, who was hospitalized on March 18, is receiving treatment and is recovering,” Lasky wrote in an email to the student body. “Rutgers Health Services is coordinating its response with local, regional and state health officials. Those who had close contact with the student are being notified so they can receive antibiotics as a preventative measure.”

Laskee later wrote to the student body on March 23 with details of a vaccine against the disease available at Rutgers’ health center and urged students

to get vaccinated, adding that no other cases of meningitis have been reported in the Rutgers student body. Lasky did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

On March 22, Rutgers’ student newspaper The Daily Targum reported that the New Jersey Department of Public Health, which is working with Rutgers on the meningitis case, has not recommended the cancellation of any activities or scheduled events on campus in connection with the diagnosis.

According to Bozof, 32 campuses in the U.S. were affected by bacterial meningitis in the last three years, and only five experienced outbreaks of the serogroup B strain.

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu .

Columbia sets student wage at $15 an hour

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Student workers at Columbia will soon be earning more cash per hour than their Yale counterparts.

In a Monday email to students, Columbia Provost John Coatsworth announced that the school would gradually increase the wage of all part-time hourly student employees to $15 per hour over the next three years. Currently, the average hourly wage for Columbia students who work on-campus jobs ranges between $7.25 and $12. The new wage of $15 is not only significantly higher than Columbia’s current average pay, but is also $3 higher than the minimum wage for students employed by Yale, which has been set at $12 per hour for the past three years, according to Director of Student Administrative Services Heather Abati. The highest wage for student workers at Yale is $15 an hour.

Abati said Yale reviews its wage policies every year, adding that next year Yale’s five pay rates will all increase by 25 cents. But despite Columbia’s more dramatic increase, students interviewed all agreed that Yale is under no pressure to do the same.

“I think it would just be greedy to raise it,” said April Alessandro ’18, who works for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. “The minimum wage is fine because it’s already way above Connecticut’s. If somebody were taking a job in New Haven and a Yale student was being paid more, I don’t know if that’s necessarily fair if

they’re doing the same work.”

Connecticut’s legal minimum wage is currently set at $9.60 per hour.

In his email, Coatsworth noted that Columbia’s increase was in recognition of a higher cost of living in New York City, as well as a “discussion of income inequality and economic fairness, including the minimum wage.”

The announcement came amidst student lobbying and a national organization called Fight for $15.

Yale’s minimum wage, in addition to being higher than Connecticut’s, is also significantly higher than those of its peers: at Princeton, the minimum wage is $8 per hour, while Harvard, which does not have an official minimum wage, recommends $10 per hour.

Upperclassmen on financial aid at Yale are expected to pay $3,350 per year that they earn from on-campus jobs, while freshmen have to contribute $2,850. Student jobs are open to anyone enrolled at Yale, but jobs give hiring preference to students receiving financial aid during the first two weeks of each term.

Ronald Ehrenberg, an expert on student employment and financial aid who works at Cornell University, said Yale could increase wages to reduce the number of hours students on financial aid have to work, but that $15 is especially high for a student wage.

Yale College Council President Joe English ’16, who made financial aid reform central to his campaign, said increasing the minimum wage is likely not an efficient policy to reduce the financial burden of attending Yale for low-income students, since nearly as

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many students who are not on financial aid have on-campus jobs. That money would be better spent on bolstering scholarship or fellowship programs for these specific groups of students, he said.

“Based on my conversations with students, I think Yalies are happy with the Yale minimum wage,” English said. “It’s not uncommon for someone to even get $13 or $14 per hour. I think there are other issues related to financial aid — summer income contribution, term-time work requirements, et cetera — that are more salient.”

Chris Bowman ’16, who works at Bass Library, said Yale does not need to raise the minimum wage, adding that he has friends at public universities who make far less than he does at Yale.

Alessandro said that Yale students, unlike many adults nationwide, are not supporting families on minimum wage and in many cases are still supported by their parents.

Still, Tarek Deida, a freshman at Columbia, said he approved of Columbia’s wage increase, given how expensive it is to live in New York City.

“I think this upgrade in pay will motivate students to work harder as well as make them feel that Columbia community appreciates their contributions and the sacrifices in balancing both a job and their studies,” Deida said.

Over half of Yale College students hold at least one student job, Abati told the News last February.

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Malloy sides with Yale on endowment tax bill TAX FROM PAGE 1 gets schools in Connecticut with endowments exceeding $10 billion. The bill singles out Yale — the only Connecticut institution of higher learning with such an endowment. The University considers the bill an inappropriate measure because it targets a single institution, according to University spokesman Tom Conroy.

The bill would impose a tax of approximately 7 percent on annual University endowment returns. State Rep. Toni Walker, D-New Haven, estimates that Yale would pay an annual $78 million to the state through the tax.

The resulting tax revenue amounts to over 30 percent of the $220 million in cuts made by lawmakers through a bipartisan plan to close an immediate budget deficit Tuesday, the same day that the Malloy administration shot down S.B. 413 and Scott held a press conference inviting Yale to Florida.

“It’s wonderful to be recognized as an outstanding asset, but Yale, New Haven and Connecticut have been on common ground to great mutual benefit for 300 years,” Conroy told the News on Wednesday.” We’re looking forward to reaching even greater heights in education, research and civic engagement over the next three centuries and more.”

Scott’s invitation for the University to pull up stakes and seek

refuge in warmer weather came with a promise that the Florida governor would not impose taxes.

Scott indicated he has not raised taxes since he took office in 2011, but has instead slashed $1 billion through tax cuts over the last two years. In June, Scott traveled to Connecticut to urge other Connecticut businesses to relocate to Florida.

Others have said the proposed endowment tax could drive Yale from the state, referring to the recent departure of General Electric from Fairfield for Boston, suggesting that the bill reflects an attitude that stifles economic growth.

In the state finance committee’s public hearing for the bill on March 22, state Sen. Toni Boucher, R-New Canaan, said business taxes drove GE from Connecticut. She questioned the effect of a similar tax on Yale.

A March 28 opinion article by FutureOfCapitalism.com Editor Ira Stoll suggesting that Yale follow GE to Boston gained momentum online. Stoll cited multiple advantages to such a move, such as shorter travel time for the Harvard-Yale football game and lower taxes for professors who relocate with the University.

The bill has picked up the attention of many state and national news organizations, including the Hartford Courant, which published a March 25 editorial extolling the University’s prudent financial planning under

Chief Investment Officer David Swensen and condemning what it called the “shambles” of Connecticut’s finances.

“The word ‘plan’ isn’t in the vocabulary of our leaders in Hartford,” the Courant wrote. “It is easy to understand why legislators are so eager to raid the ivycovered coffers of those blueblooded showoffs in New Haven.”

We’re looking forward to reaching even greater heights in education, research and civic engagement over the next three centuries and more.

TOM CONROY University Spokesman But the sentiment that private pools of money should be taxed by the government predates last week’s proposed bill, said William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Commonfund Institute, an institutional investment firm.

Since the 1960s, legislators have attempted to direct the earnings of large university endowments with laws like the Tax Reform Act of 1969, Jarvis added.

“It’s a sentiment that will not go away,” Jarvis said. “Right

now, universities are written about more [and] watched more.

They’re regarded as financially sophisticated and successful investors.”

But Jarvis noted that many proposals to tax endowments stand on false assumptions about those endowments, which are not undifferentiated pools of money.

Instead, around 75 percent of Yale’s $25.6 billion endowment is restricted, meaning it can only be spent on certain parts of the University like financial aid or athletics.

This legislative session, state lawmakers have also proposed a bill clarifying Yale’s property taxes, S.B. 414. Although New Haven Mayor Toni Harp has not commented publicly on the proposed endowment tax, she has vocally supported the property tax bill.

Jarvis said this proposal is tied to historically poor towngown relations between Yale and New Haven, which are exacerbated when Yale shrinks the city’s tax base by purchasing new property. These tensions have improved in the past few decades due to former President Richard Levin’s efforts to channel more Yale funding into the city, Jarvis added.

Beyond the historical precedent for both bills, Yale suggested the bills may be unconstitutional. Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Richard Jacob argued that the University

would defend its constitutional right of nontaxation in front of the finance committee on March 22. This right, according to the University, was established by its charter in 1701 and backed by the state’s 1818 constitution.

Jacob also reminded lawmakers in Hartford about the University’s impact in both New Haven and Connecticut as the city’s largest and state’s fifth largest employer. In addition, Yale voluntarily pays New Haven more than $8.2 million each year, totaling $96 million since 1991.

The University has begun an aggressive outreach effort battling both bills. On Wednesday evening, Vice President and Director of New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development Bruce Alexander ’65 emailed University alumni living in Connecticut, imploring former students to share their concerns on the “unprecedented and extraordinary bills,” which Alexander alleged were prompted by union lobbying to local lawmakers.

“As some organizations cut back, and some corporations moved out of state, Yale has remained a steadfast leader in contributing to the prosperity of its hometown and state,” Alexander wrote. “Singling out a longstanding partner for criticism threatens long-lasting harm to Connecticut’s ability to attract other partners to promote prosperity for its citizens.”

Alexander emphasized that, in spite of support from the Courant and the Malloy administration regarding the endowment tax, the bills remain a “serious concern” during this legislative session.

In his written testimony to the finance committee, President of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Anthony Rescigno argued to reject the endowment tax bill. Rescigno estimated that Yale contributes $8.7 billion to Connecticut’s economy annually. He pointed out that nonprofit organizations like Yale are already required by law to use money for the public.

“This bill ignores the economic impact created by Yale,” Rescigno wrote. “Lacking any connection to reinvestment in the community, the bill misses the larger picture.”

This larger picture, Jarvis said, is that in addition to educational resources, Yale benefits the town by providing jobs and bringing students to the city.

Jarvis added that although universities like Yale do tremendous good, many people in the U.S. see them as “overweening” in their wealth.

Before moving to New Haven in 1716, the University was located in Old Saybrook.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu and FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

Candidates’ remarks on terrorism spark debate ISLAMOPHOBIA FROM PAGE 1 “My reaction to Cruz’s statements about surveillance was ‘Isn’t the police already doing that?’” Didem Kaya ’16, who is Muslim and from Turkey, wrote in an email to the News. “You don’t have to go very far; NYPD was reported on having spied on the Muslims right here on our campus. If the people reading this article right now do not have a problem with that, there is your real problem. Realer than Donald Trump … I do not think he believes all the things he is saying … He is simply bringing back an old American idea, nativism, and putting it back in the market.”

Mujtaba Wani ’17 said that though Cruz and Trump’s statements should be “disqualifying” remarks for a presidential candidate, he was not necessarily surprised by the rhetoric, echoing Kaya’s reference to the New York Police Department’s 2006– 07 monitoring of the Muslim Students’ Association at Yale, as well as similar student groups around the northeast. For Muslim students reacting to candidates’ statements, concern was not necessarily about their proposed policies, but rather over the fact that statements calling for placing restrictions on Muslims have been so popular with voters.

But for Trump and Cruz supporters interviewed, this type of political rhetoric from the candidates is justified given constituents’ real fears in the face of rising terrorism. Supporters of these politicians cited Pew Research Center studies that look at Muslim demographics and attitudes both in the U.S. and abroad. According to a Jan. 6 Pew study, Muslims comprise 10 percent of legal immigrants coming to the U.S., and about 1 percent of the total U.S. population, a number expected to double by 2050.

The rise in Muslim immigration from countries with high support of Sharia law — according to a 2013 Pew study — legitimizes concern about Islamic terrorism, Daniel Wasserman ’19, a Cruz supporter, said. Karl Notturno ’17, a Trump supporter, referenced a 2014 Pew poll in which Muslims in Middle Eastern, South Asian and African countries and territories were asked about support of suicide bombings to “defend Islam from its enemies.” The answers “often” or “sometimes” averaged about 25 percent for the 18 countries polled — as low as 3 percent in Pakistan and as high as 62 percent in Gaza — and are a cause for concern, Notturno said. In a 2011 Pew poll conducted in the U.S., 86 percent of Muslim Americans answered “rarely” or “never” to the same question, and 48 per-

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Following the attacks in Europe, leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has restated his proposal to prevent Muslims from entering the United States. cent responded that Islamic leaders are not doing enough to combat extremism.

“You look at the beliefs of Muslims, and many Muslims would like to institute Sharia law,” Wasserman said. “There are many peaceful Muslims. There are many Western Muslims who share our values that are assimilating into American culture. But to be scared of Muslim terrorism, of radical Islamic terrorism — in the words of Sen. Cruz — is reasonable. It is a very reasonable fear to have because it is a legitimate threat. To imply it is a phobia, to imply it is irrational — it’s not irrational to be afraid of Islam when people have these beliefs and people take these actions.”

These fears are shared by many Americans post-9/11, said Omar Zaki ’18, who is Muslim American and identifies as a conservative, adding that the important thing during presidential elections is to consider how candidates and voters choose to act on these fears. Mary Turfah ’16, who is also a Muslim American,

and others interviewed agreed that the fear of ISIS and Islamic extremism is justified. However, ISIS’s terrorism, though frightening because of the way fighters practice their Islam, is not the result of an abstract religion, but rather of the individuals’ manipulation of it, making any “lumping together” of the entire religious group — one of 1.6 billion people — “ridiculous,” Turfah said.

Because of Islam’s portrayal in the media, ISIS fighters have become the face of Islam for many Americans who are not exposed to Muslims in any other context, Turfah added. Muslim students interviewed referred to Islam’s “otherizing” effect which separates Muslims from the larger community as a result of Islam’s cultural and religious differences. To many, Islam is an unknown entity, and thus becomes something to be feared, particularly when high-profile political figures play on this “otherness,” Turfah said.

“I think [Trump and Cruz]

are smart enough to know that Islam is far more complex than what they are portraying it as, and they are using it to play on … ignorance about Islam among a lot of the electorate, especially among their voters,” said Andrew Walchuk DIV ’17, who organized an anti-Islamophobia campaign at the Yale Law School following the San Bernardino shooting in December 2015. “They are using this lack of exposure to Islam to create this ‘bogeyman’ that people are afraid of and they need to be protected from. They are able to create these essentialized notions of Islam that people just don’t have the daily context to counteract.”

Both Muslims within the Yale community and those supporting Cruz or Trump said that the policies proposed by the candidates are unlikely to be implemented but rather function as rhetorical strategies to garner support in today’s political climate. Furthermore, these issues are not isolated to conservative politics but exist also on the left, Wani

said. Kaya added that despite the continuation of the use of weaponized drones in the current presidential administration, supporters of President Barack Obama tend to overlook fatal drone strikes “that kill innocent ‘brown’ people” due to Obama’s support of LGBTQ rights taking primacy in voters’ minds. The same danger, she said, can happen with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73, who though championed by white feminists, could continue similar policies.

Moving forward, Muslim students emphasized the role that education and inclusivity will play in shifting the rhetoric away from both Islamophobia and a presidential campaign run more on emotion than rationality.

Turfah said that though politicians have always used feelings to attract support, the ratio of rhetoric playing on prolific fear to “actual conversation” is skewed.

Another primary issue with the dialogue is that it “draws a line” between Muslims and other

Americans, protecting the latter group at the expense of the former, Walchuk said. Zaki added that media rhetoric calling for Muslims to assimilate into Western society is equally damaging.

Hints of Muslim suppression on the news raise questions that lead to a higher risk of terrorism, especially for young Muslim Americans who, if exposed to rhetoric that implies America “hates” Muslims, could turn to ISIS instead, Zaki said.

“What is important to realize is at the end of the day, we are all people,” he said. “I won’t stand here and say that some refugees entering America tomorrow don’t have thoughts of ‘I hate America.’ There will be people who don’t like America coming to the United States. At the same time, what actions can we take now to make these people feel more included rather than excluded, because exclusion is what leads to terrorism.”

Contact AYLA BESEMER at ayla.besemer@yale.edu .

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Student-athletes discuss mental health

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER At a panel Wednesday, three female student-athletes opened up about their personal experiences in an effort to facilitate discussion on the intersection of athletics and mental health — a topic many at the panel described as taboo.

The event, which took place in LC 101 on Wednesday and was organized by the student organization Mind Matters, featured administrators from both Yale athletics and Yale Health, as well as the three panelists who detailed their stories of mental health issues at Yale. Sixty-four people attended, the large majority being female student-athletes.

Conversations centered largely around the student panelists, who shared their struggles with anxiety, panic attacks and eating disorders, and the best methods to cope with such conditions while still performing as a Division I athlete and an Ivy League student.

“The expectation of happiness at Yale is so ingrained in our minds that not being okay doesn’t seem to be an option,” panelist and field hockey forward Alyssa Weiss ’17 said during the event. “You feel like you can’t talk about it.”

Weiss, who has experienced anxiety and depression since the seventh grade, highlighted the difficulty of balancing a mental health condition with her practice schedule and challenging coursework.

Adding to the difficulties, swimmer and panelist Isla HutchinsonMaddox ’17 said, is the fact that mental health disorders are often a difficult topic to discuss at Yale.

Gymnast and panelist Brittney Sooksengdao ’16 said she did not share with anyone until April of her freshman year that she was having panic attacks as frequently as twice a week.

In fact, generating conversation around an often stigmatized topic was a main goal of the event. Women’s tennis player and Mind Matters member Elizabeth Zordani ’18 first presented the idea for the event during a Mind Matters meeting because she felt mental health for

athletes is a “pressing issue” that is not discussed enough.

“It is something very relevant to me because I am an athlete who has struggled with mental health and have teammates who have had similar issues,” Zordani told the News.

When speaking, MH&C Associate Director Howard Blue highlighted the small male presence in the audience; only 12 of the 64 people present were male, and all three members of the volunteer panel were female.

He added that mental health issues are “common struggles” experienced by student-athletes and non-athletes of both genders, though many people are silent about them.

“I struggle with the idea that because a person is part of a group they are going to have special kinds of issues.” Blue said. “There are certain things that are special to certain groups, including athletes. I think the reality is that all of us struggle at times, and that’s the nature of the human condition. The question is whether it knocks you down, keeps you from getting up or whether you can seek out the help and support you need to keep on going.”

Although the discussion focused specifically on the experiences of student-athletes, member of Mind Matters and women’s swimmer Michelle Chintanaphol ’17 said the event was not aimed at separating student-athletes from the rest of the students at Yale. Instead, its goal was to promote awareness that mental health may affect varsity athletes differently because of obligatory commitments to practices and competitions , as well as the close-knit communities of teams.

It is this closeness of teams that can help improve mental health conditions, all three student panelists noted. Hutchinson-Maddox and Sooksengdao also said that therapists at Yale Health’s Mental Health and Counseling Department were important in their recovery processes.

“My team is a constant support system,” Hutchinson-Maddox said. “But I wish [mental health for athletes] was a bigger part of the

collective conversation. A stage to address the issue such as this [one] is very important.”

After each of the three student panelists spoke about their experiences for approximately 15 minutes each, the event was opened up to questions, which had been either previously prepared by event organizers or submitted anonymously during the event.

When asked about the ways mental health issues affect athletes in particular, Chief of Student Health and Athletic Medicine Andrew Gotlin noted that student-athletes put significant stress on their bodies during practices and competitions. Both Gotlin and Brian Tompkins, senior associate athletic director of student services, said that coaches, physicians and trainers should be on the lookout for any signs of potential mental health issues on Yale teams.

“It’s time for athletics, not just at Yale, but collegiate athletics, to wake up,” Tompkins said. “It’s time to look at the role of administrators, trainers, coaches, in looking at athletes much more holistically. The intent is there, our athletic department has the well-being of student-athletes at heart. However, we need to hear form testimonies like these and other sources what the issues are and how to fix things, how to do things proactively.”

After the event, students present said the panel stimulated a positive discussion environment. Multiple students also thanked the panelists for sharing their experiences in a public setting, which they said helps facilitate conversations about mental health at Yale.

Eli Feldman ’16, a member of Mind Matters and the main organizer of the event, said he was “very pleased” with the turnout at the event, and said it had promoted a healthy discussion environment.

At the end of the event, Carole Goldberg, director of the Yale Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center, was available to speak to students who wished to seek support.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

City diabetes program unveiled

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER Senior citizens at the Constance Baker Motley housing complex can now access free Type 2 Diabetes screenings, treatment and education due to a unique collaborative effort between the city government and private sector.

Last month, the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, Elm City Communities/Housing Authority of New Haven and city municipal departments launched the 12-week Diabetes Education and Management program, with the help of a grant from the Philip Marett Trust Fund in conjunction with trustees from Bank of America, N.A. Mayor Toni Harp and officials from a variety of New Haven private and public organizations announced the partnership at a Tuesday press conference hosted at Constance Baker Motley, a West Rock housing complex for the elderly, named after an African-American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, state senator and Borough President of Manhattan.

“Just as they say a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, this partnership is strong because each of its components has gone out of its way to make it strong,” Harp said.

“All of this is to combat the scourge of diabetes.”

Harp praised the “innovative, collaborative” partnership, which aims to reduce diabetes in at risk seniors, improve their Body Mass Index and blood pressure levels, and teach individuals with diabetes how to manage symptoms long-term.

Ultimately, the participants will be able to serve as “peer navigators” for fellow residents, teaching them proper nutrition and self care, said Martha Okafor, New Haven’s community services

administrator.

The weekly program began with three introductory sessions open to all city residents. After performing diabetes screenings, subsequent sessions were tailored toward the needs of individuals who suffer from diabetes, on-site provider Natalie Lourenco said. Since then, this group has discussed topics such as neuropathy, kidney disease, the dangers of smoking, maintaining a healthy blood pressure and nutrition.

Several participants praised the program. Constance Baker Motley resident James Pittman, 68, said he looks forward to every Wednesday session and expressed his gratitude for being part of it. Pittman, who has Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, added that the educational component “gave [him] direction.”

City resident Marcus Thomas, 72, echoed Pittman and said that learning portion control allowed him to enjoy his favorite foods while improving his health.

“Because we’re elderly, we have to understand [the disease],” Pittman said. “We don’t want diabetes to be a source of discomfort. I feel good about myself, and I’m … pretty sure other organizations in time will step onboard because we so need it.”

The participants’ ages — all residents in the Constance Baker Motley house are at least 62 years of age — are significant.

Physician and Director of the New Haven Health Department Byron Kennedy noted that much of today’s information about diabetes is extrapolated from surveys of middle-aged adults. This program, he said, is valuable because it creates an opportunity to learn more about diabetes and senior citizens.

“Sponsoring this fund for this perfectly-timed program

is excellent. I join you in celebration because help is on the way,” said Migdalia Castro, the director of the New Haven Department of Elderly Services, at the press conference.

According to Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center CEO Michael Taylor, the Diabetes Education and Management curriculum had been in development for over three years when Okafor approached him. Okafor began by reaching out to senior citizens in an attempt to understand the effects of and the struggles associated with living with diabetes.

“After listening to their stories, there was no doubt in my mind that we have to take action,” Okafor said. “We want to hear more of your stories. Many people do not understand what it means to live and suffer, thrive and overcome diabetes. Your stories will help all of us do better and do things differently.”

In addition to Harp, New Haven alders Brian Wingate of Beaver Hills and Delphine Clyburn of Newhallville spoke at the event.

Both shared the effects of diabetes on their personal lives. Clyburn recounted how she watched a family member undergo amputations due to complications arising from the disease, and Wingate described his own struggles with Type 2 Diabetes.

“Diabetes has such a long history of debilitating our community,” Wingate said.

“But anyone can beat this disease.”

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of 2014, approximately 22 million Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes, and 50.5 percent of them are diagnosed at age 55 or older.

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

New Haven courthouse burgled The William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale Presents

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BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Despite the building’s high levels of security, New Haven’s Federal Courthouse was broken into last weekend.

At least one burglar entered the courthouse through a second-story window after scaling nearby construction scaffolding, but the burglary did not extend past a room on the second floor. A wall-mounted television was stolen from the small, second-floor gymnasium, which is used by the U.S. Marshals Service employees. The courthouse is located just two blocks from Yale’s Old Campus, across the New Haven Green. Neither the U.S. Marshals Service nor the NHPD had released any information concerning suspects in the case as of Wednesday night.

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“We’ve never had a break-in since I’ve been in the district,” said acting Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Brian Taylor, who has worked in New Haven since 2002.

The break-in this weekend is the courthouse’s first in 14 years since Taylor started working in New Haven.

The burglary did not trigger the courthouse’s security alarm system, and the building’s employees discovered the intrusion when they came to work on Monday morning, Taylor said.

Shortly after, authorities began an investigation, but Taylor said he could not give further details.

State and local authorities are investigating the crime scene, as the courthouse falls under the jurisdiction of the state government. New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.

Taylor added that the courthouse has increased its security in the wake of the burglary.

The burglars circumvented the courthouse’s rigorous metal detectors that prevent visitors from bringing electronic devices into the building. But the intruders were prevented from further penetrating the courthouse because the gymnasium area is secured by doors with coded locks, Taylor said. The building contains some sensitive court files, but the burglars did not access them.

Still, Taylor said the break-in is worrisome, according to the Hartford Courant.

“I am concerned,” Taylor told the Courant on Tuesday. “If somebody gets into our building, it is a problem and we are addressing it.”

The scaffolding that facilitated the burglary was erected by a windowpane company along two walls of the courthouse. The scaffolding remains standing, and Taylor told the News he did not know how long the windowpane company intends to keep the scaffolding there.

The New Haven courthouse was converted from a post office, and currently houses the court clerk’s office, the U.S. Marshals Service and judges.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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Celebrating 10 years as THE WHITNEY AND BETTY MACMILLAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL & AREA STUDIES AT YALE

with these special events throughout April April 1 “Fishtown Blues: A Century of Greek Music in Tarpon Springs, Florida,” Panagiotis League, Harvard University. Followed by a concert—Shades of Eros: Greek Songs of Love and Loss for Laouto and Voice. Luce Hall Room 203 at 4:30pm.

April 2 Interactive Fashion Show—African Fashion Salon. Featuring menswear company Ikiré Jones and Yale alumni-founded couture brand House of Chihera.

Theatre Studies Ballroom at 4:00pm.

April 2 Performance—An African Ballroom. Featuring Lacina Coulibaly, Yale University; dancer and choreographer for Faso Danse Theatre, a Burkina Faso-based dance company and DZANA, Yale’s urban African dance troupe. Theatre Studies Ballroom at 5:30pm.

April 4 “Braudel, Menocchio, and the Qur‘an: Exploring Continuity Through Philology,” Pier Mattia Tommasino, Columbia University. Luce Hall Room 203 at 4:00pm.

April 5 “European, Post-Soviet or Baltic? Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the Twenty-First Century,” Daunis Auers, University of Latvia. Luce Hall Room 202 at 4:00pm.

April 6 Retired Lieutenant-General, the Honorable Roméo Dallaire will give the Inaugural Charles E. Scheidt Family Lecture on Atrocity Prevention. LinslyChittenden Room 102 at 7pm.

April 7 “The Golden Dawn’s Nationalist Solution: Explaining the Rise of the Far Right in Greece.” Luce Hall Room at 4:30pm.

April 11 “The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment,” Alexander Bevilacqua, Harvard University. HGS Room 211 at 4:00pm.

April 11 “Dismantling Developmentalism: Japan’s Political and Economic Struggles After Achieving Success,” T. J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley. Luce Hall Auditorium at 4:45pm. The Seventeenth Annual John W. Hall Lecture in Japanese Studies.

April 12 Conference—Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution. Faculty Lounge Yale Law School at 8:30am.

April 12 Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah of Morocco will give the Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on “The Arab Spring Reloaded,” Luce Hall Auditorium at 4:30pm.

April 13 “Eurozone Unemployment Insurance: The Next Step of EMU Reform?” László Andor, former European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion; David Cameron, Yale University and Georg Fischer, EU Studies Visiting Fellow. Luce Hall Room 202 at 12:00pm.

April 13 “Modernity’s Environment: Rubber Plantations and the Making of Vietnam, 1897-1975,” Mitch Aso, SUNY Albany. Luce Hall Room 203 at 12:00pm.

April 15 Conference—Muslim Men: On Love, Nurturance, Care, and Fulfillment. Luce Hall Room 203 at 9:00am.

April 15 “Homo Auctor: Orphans, Merchants and the Making of the First Greek-American Citizen in the Nineteenth Century,” Nikos Poulopoulos, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Rosenkranz Hall Room 241 at 4:30pm.

April 16 Conference—Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Kroon Hall Burke Auditorium at 12:00pm.

April 19 “Integration Context and Outcomes of Migrant Integration: Experiences of Latvian Migrants,” Inta Mierina, 2016 Juris Padegs Fellow. Luce Hall Room 202 at 4:30pm.

April 20 “From Occupation to Warfare: The New Phase of Palestinian-Israel Relations,” Noura Erakat, George Mason University. Luce Hall Auditorium at 4:30pm.

April 20 “Alien Invasion: African Science Fiction,” Nnedi Okarofor, University of Buffalo; Sci-Fi Novelist. Luce Hall Room 202 at 4:30pm.

April 21 “The Medical Profession in Ancient India: Its Social, Religious, and Legal Status,” Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas-Austin. Luce Hall Room 203 at 4:30pm.

April 22 “Feeding Moral Relations: The Making of Kinship and Nation in Iran,” Rose Wellman, Princeton University.

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5-­7pm 4 months 3 Weeks 2 Days (Romania, 2007). Introduction by Andrew Dudley.

Sunday, April 17 2-­4pm Tabu (Portugal, 2012). Introduction by David Jackson.

5-­7pm Uncle Boonme (Thailand, 2008). Introduction by Rikker Dockum.

Tuesday, April 26 7-­9pm Katiyabaaz (India, 2013). Introduction by Rohit De. Thursday, April 28 7-­9pm Poetry (South Korea, 2010). Introduction by Dima Miro.

Friday, April 29 5-­7pm Though I Am Gone (China, 2006). Introduction by Denise Ho. 7:30-­9:30pm Timbuktu (Mauritania, 2014). Introduction by Louisa Lombard.

Saturday, April 30 5-­7pm A Separation (Iran, 2011). Introduction by Jose Dario Martinez.

7:30-­9:30pm Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia, 2015). Introduction by Margherita Tortora.

April 27 “Archeology and the Reconstruction(s) of Early Vietnam,” Nam Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Luce Hall Room 203 at 12:00pm.

April 28 Two panel discussions highlight the 10th anniversary celebration. Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses at 3:00pm. Global Debt: Challenges for Political Governance and Financial Stability at 4:30pm. Luce Hall Auditorium.

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Art program explores gender

BY SARA TABIN STAFF REPORTER Up to 16 New Haven high school students can explore gender identity this summer through art mediums, ranging from painting to poetry, thanks to a summer apprenticeship program run by Artspace, a nonprofit contemporary art gallery in New Haven.

Artspace, which will give New Haven residents currently enrolled in high school until June 1 to apply for a spot, will offer the program for three weeks in July. The apprenticeship is set to meet on weekday afternoons and will bring local artists together with the young people to discuss gender and identity issues and help them create their own pieces.

The students’ work will be put on display at Artspace from July 22 to Sept. 10. Participants will also receive a $150 stipend if they attend every day of the session. But above all, Artspace gallery director Sarah Fritchey said, participants will benefit from exploring their own identities and communicating them to their communities artistically.

High school is the time when you are figuring yourself out and questioning your identity.

SARAH FRITCHEY Artspace Gallery Director “High school is the time when you are figuring yourself out and questioning your identity,� Fritchey said, adding that

the program will provide “a new level of access� as well as mentorship for high schoolers to discuss issues around gender and sexuality.

The theme for Artspace’s summer apprenticeship changes each year, with last year’s focus being on race and incarceration.

In line with the gallery’s desire to continue having socially engaged projects, Fritchey said gender was chosen as this year’s focus to ensure that a positive space exists for LGBTQ teenagers.

Titus Kaphar ART ’06, whose work focuses on race and has been featured in New York’s Museum Of Modern Artwork and the Yale University Art Gallery, served as the program’s lead artist last year. Last year’s participants created works of art based on his Jerome Project, a series of inmate portraits he found while looking for his father’s prison records, Fritchey stated. To inspire the students, Fritchey said, the high schoolers met with visiting speakers, some of which had been formerly incarcerated, and went on a field trip to a correctional facility.

The students used art to either reflect on mass incarceration in broad terms, or tell a personal story of how incarceration had affected them, Fritchey said.

Ruby Gonzalez, a high school senior who splits her school day between New Haven Academy and the ACES Educational Center for the Arts, explained that her final project was an abstract painting of her own representation of the prison she visited. “The windows were so, so small and foggy,� she recalled. “It was dehumanizing.�

Gonzalez added that the mental image of the windows

stuck with her, lingering in her mind throughout her car ride home. It was the image’s salience, she said, that helped her realize she should base her piece on it.

Gonzalez noted that although she did not expect the program to be as impactful as it was, it ultimately made her a more political and socially conscious artist and helped her combine her passion for activism and feminism with her passion for art.

She said members of her family who have been deported to Mexico were kept in deportation centers that she described as “zoo-like jails.� She said that what she has been told about these centers also informed her art.

Wardell Milan ART ’04, who will be this year’s lead artist, has experience in a number of different mediums including photography, collages and painting.

He said his work deals with ideas of femininity and gender, particularly the space between the traditional gender binary of male and female. His current work features these themes displayed within large dioramas — 3-D models of landscapes.

Milan said the program will give students the opportunity to collaborate with a number of different artists, including performance artists, to create works informed by different mediums.

But most importantly, he said, the program will enable students to speak to “their own personal maturity as it relates to sexuality, gender and politics and how they interact with and view the world.�

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BY SARAH STEIN STAFF REPORTER On Wednesday, before a crowd of hundreds of Yalies and other community members, renowned gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler GRD ’84 discussed altruism and the role it plays in contemporary politics.

Butler is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley who is best known for her book “Gender Trouble,� which is widely credited with creating the idea that gender is a social construct. She has also been vocal about her philosophy of nonviolence, and her Wednesday talk — titled “Why Preserve the Life of the Other?� — was the first of a series of lectures on “Interpreting Nonviolence.� Her lecture considered several philosophical, psychological and ethical dilemmas, mainly focusing on why people would choose to help others. “I propose to pose a simple question, related to moral psychology,� Butler said. “What leads any of us to seek to preserve the life of the other?�

Butler posed several other questions as well: Whose lives count as worthy of preservation? Whose life counts as a life?

What structures or institutions are in place to safeguard the life of a population? After an explanation of various philosophical arguments about the answers to these questions, she then discussed how those philosophies can apply to contemporary issues such as the economy and current politics, including the “thrill to racism� that politicians like Donald Trump have created.

She said people separate themselves from the victims, making it easier “not to give a damn� about issues like climate change and violence in foreign countries.

Butler described the idea of

“radical equality of grievability,� which argues that all lives should be equally grieved, especially in the eyes of governmental institutions that take responsibility for health care, immigration policy and human rights. She acknowledged that grieving can become impersonal when the loss is at a distance — geographically or figuratively — but she said a loss of life is still a loss.

People could change the political world, she said, by adopting an “egalitarian view on the grievability of life� and treating people as equals. By protecting the vulnerable with the paternalistic power that institutions already have, she said, society would prevent loss of life. “If a group is called vulnerable, then it has a claim to protection,� Butler said. “The question is, who is the group that takes responsibility for the claim?�

She then offered several philosophical theories for why people might be kind to each other.

According to Kantian philosophy, she said, people do not attack each other because of an act of unconscious substitution, by which people imagine that others have the same violent thoughts they do. The knowledge that there could be a counterattack prevents people from inflicting violence on others, she said. “It is my own aggression that comes towards me in the form of another’s action,� Butler said. “It is my own action, but I assign it to another’s name. What I do can be done to me.�

She then described the words and ideas of Melanie Klein, an innovative theorist of the “object relations theory.� This theory argues that people help others to vicariously role-play their own unfulfilled wishes and goals. Essentially, she said, guilt and self-interest are what create the social bonds that pre-

vent people from harming one another.

Attendees had mixed opinions about the different theories Butler used to justify her view that altruism is really a form of selfishness. Andrey Tolstoy GRD ’17 said that though Butler addressed important contemporary problems, she was too quick to accept psychoanalytic theory as the explanation for these issues. “Butler’s argument hinged on redefining selfishness as a form of altruism. Maybe that was the point, but to someone who still sees altruism as altruism and doesn’t believe psychoanalysis is universal, it seems intellectually dishonest,� Tolstoy said.

However, others who attended the lecture or hosted it expressed greater satisfaction. Alice Kaplan ’81, interim director of the Whitney Humanities Center, said she was “thrilled, but not at all surprised by the big turnout.�

Political science professor Karuna Mantena said the reason that Butler’s work has such “great following� is because of her “impulse to apply her philosophical concerns to political issues,� which has led to innovations in all of the fields of the humanities.

German professor Henry Sussman said he found Butler’s use of psychoanalytic theory to be an innovative approach to the subject matter of her lecture. “It’s a very courageous appeal to Melanie Klein and to object relations psychology in general, for a new approach to aggression and above all preempting the destruction that we may yet commit,� Sussman said.

The “Interpreting Nonviolence� series continues with lectures on Thursday and Friday at the Whitney Humanities Center.

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“Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.” BILLIE JEAN KING AMERICAN TENNIS ICON

Penn and Princeton in town

Ivy road trip on docket

WOMEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 12

MEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 12

54 Rice at home.

Contributions from deep in the lineup, including two doubles victories and a dramatic comefrom-behind win for Courtney Amos ’16 in the No. 5 singles match, snapped a three-game losing streak and put the Bulldogs in the win column for the start of conference play.

“Each week we have come out stronger and hungrier to win,” Sunday Swett ’18 said. “That win [against Rice] is going to give us the positive and exciting momentum we need as we enter into Ivies.”

The Bulldogs’ first matchup of the season, against Penn (7–6, 0–1), is a historically favorable one. Yale has bested the Quakers in the first weekend of Ivy play each of the last eight years and dropped just three sets in the teams’ last meeting, cruising to a 7–0 victory in the 2015 opener.

Despite an emphatic win beginning their season, the Bulldogs nevertheless found themselves tied with Penn in the bottom half of the final standings at the end of the year.

“Penn is going to be a tough match for us because they’ve improved a lot this year,” Zordani said. “This match is important for us because it will set the tone for the rest of the season.”

The Elis will round out their home weekend hosting Princeton (9–7, 1–0) on Saturday. The Tigers downed Yale 5–2 in its 2015 opening weekend en route to an Ivy-best 6–1 record and the program’s 12th conference title.

In the teams’ most recent meeting in February, during the consolation final of the ECAC Championship, the Tigers won by a match score of 4–0.

Princeton enters the 2016 season relying on a balanced attack of underclassmen and upperclassmen contributors, with members of each class winning matches in the team’s 5–2 win over Penn in its Ivy opener last weekend. The Tigers represent

have an uphill battle in exceeding last year’s 2–5 conference mark.

“We are looking forward to surprising some teams [this season],” captain Jason Brown ’16 said. “I think we are viewed as the underdogs in most of the matches we play, so I’m excited to play with nothing to lose.”

The Bulldogs’ Ivy campaign begins in Philadelphia on Friday versus Penn (5–11, 0–0).

Yale has not lost a conference match to Penn since 2008, and the Elis handled the Quakers with relative ease last spring, coming out on top 5–2.

Penn, which finished last in the Ivy League with an 0–7 record last year, enters this weekend having lost five of its last six matches.

“In the next few weeks, we’ll expect to fight for every point and try to pull [off] some upsets,” Alex Hagermoser ’17 said. “We have a great chance against Penn this weekend

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The Bulldogs enter the Ivy season with momentum, having upset then-No. 54 Rice last weekend. some of the stiffest Ivy competition that Yale will face this year, and the Bulldogs will need to be focused and prepared to start their season strong.

“Women’s tennis in the Ivy League has become really competitive in the last few years,” Caroline Lynch ’17 said. “Every weekend we’ll face tough matches and strong opponents.

We’re going to take it one match at a time and focus on the things we can control.”

Yale will begin play against Penn at 1 p.m. on Friday and against Princeton at 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center.

Contact MATTHEW STOCK at matthew.stock@yale.edu .

COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

Yale carries a healthy 12–6 record into Ancient Eight competition this weekend.

Third consecutive one-run win SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 innings.

After the two wins, Yale now holds a three-game winning streak for the first time in nearly two years.

“We played through some adversity today, and stayed strong mentally to pull out the wins,” head coach Jen Goodwin said. “They were two team wins, where everyone contributed. We had some big defensive plays, some clutch hits and our pitchers kept us in the game. You can’t ask for much more from your team.”

In the first of two games played in Fairfield, Connecticut, the Bulldogs built multirun leads over the Stags on three separate occasions before their opponent nearly came back in each case. The last of those occasions was in the seventh inning, when two insurance runs driven in by Yale right fielder Rachel Paris ’17 turned out to be crucial for Yale’s win. Pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18, given a threerun lead in the bottom of the inning, hit some turbulence and just managed to end the game before Fairfield could complete its rally.

Jerpbak held the Stags to just two runs, only one earned, and four hits over five innings.

The freshman hurler, who was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll last week, credited her mentality as a pitcher for her success.

“Today everything seemed to be working pretty well.” Jerpbak said. “All of my pitches were hitting their locations, which left the batters trying to guess where the pitch was going in terms of inside, outside, high or low.”

But Jerpbak’s heroics were not confined to the pitcher’s circle. Her own 3–4 record at the plate and two runs scored in the first game was the cherry on top.

In total, the Bulldogs outhit the Stags 10–6 in the contest, with three of those coming from Jerpbak and two from Paris.

to get to start the Ivy season strong.”

Following Penn, the Bulldogs will take on Princeton (12–6, 0–0) on Saturday in New Jersey. Following a 4–3 record and fourth-place finish in the Ivy League last season, as well as the graduation of first-team All-Ivy selection Zack McCourt, the Tigers have opened 2016 with a strong showing in nonconference play. Princeton has knocked off six ranked opponents, three of which came against higher-ranked programs including a 6–1 victory versus then-No. 24 Penn State on March 5.

Since that win, Princeton has dropped two of three matches, though all against higher-ranked opponents.

The Tigers’ current No. 34 ranking trails only No. 28 Columbia among Ancient Eight teams, and is Princeton’s highest ranking of the season.

Though they are one of only three Ivy teams not ranked by the ITA, the Elis remain

“The fun part about this team is that we have a different hero every day, so at any moment any player can step up and be ‘the one,’” Goodwin said.

The nightcap was also a close game, with the Bulldogs ultimately coming out one run ahead. The two teams traded the lead twice over the course of the game, and Yale did not pull away for good until a three-run top of the sixth inning. The Elis once again outhit their opponents, this time by a narrower margin of 10–9.

Right fielder Carlin Hagmaier ’19 continued her stellar performance. She entered play on Wednesday as the newly crowned Ivy League Rookie of the Week for her 0.545 batting average, first career tri-

ple, a walk-off RBI and perfect defensive play in 26 opportunities.

Her hot streak certainly did help, as she went 3–4 at the plate in the second game with two runs scored and an RBI. Hagmaier was part of the sixth-inning Eli rally that allowed the team to reclaim the lead and win the game.

“At the plate I really just like to focus on hitting the ball solidly and to swing at good pitches,” Hagmaier said. “A hot streak can definitely affect my mentality, I just try to keep a similar mentality no matter what happens so my previous plays don’t affect the present.”

Catcher Camille Weisenbach ’17 continued an impressive performance on the day overall. After recording an RBI single in the first game, the

junior backstop had two hits, two runs scored and another RBI in the second. Center fielder Shelby Kennedy ’19 was also an integral part of the doubleheader with a total of four hits on the day, including a two-RBI triple in the crucial sixth inning of the second contest.

Although starter Lindsay Efflandt ’17 was charged with five earned runs over five innings, she still earned the win thanks to Yale’s offensive performance. Jerpbak made a relief appearance to claim the save and close off a strong day.

The Bulldogs look to extend their win streak against Ivy League opponents at Columbia on Friday.

Contact FLORA LIPSKY at flora.lipsky@yale.edu .

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During the third in a string of 17 straight doubleheaders, Yale swept Fairfield by scores of 5–4 and 6–5.

excited to embrace the challenges of the difficult matchups on their schedule.

That enthusiasm persists despite entering this weekend as the losers of two straight matches, including a 4–3 defeat at the hands of then-No. 58 St. John’s. With Ziqi Wang ’18, Martin Svenning ’16 and Dennis Wang ’19 all earning victories and two more teammates forcing third sets in their losses, Brown noted that the team has been improving throughout the season with the tight loss to the ranked Red Storm marking a “peak.”

“Last weekend against St. John’s was a particularly encouraging match because, regardless of any posted scores or results, the team finished the day feeling confident in each other and our starting lineup, and our ability to compete at the highest levels of Ivy tennis,” Ziqi Wang said.

If the St. John’s match serves as any indication, youth will play a key role for this year’s Eli squad, with underclassmen starting in four of the six singles matches.

A pair of sophomores, Fedor Andrienko ’18 and Stefan Doehler ’18, also started the first doubles match for Yale.

Still, Ziqi Wang noted the key role Brown and Svenning, the team’s lone two seniors, will serve in conference play.

“We’ll particularly be looking to the experience of the senior class to lead the team through the next few weeks, and to the sophomores and juniors to step up at the top of the singles and doubles lineups to clinch key victories over our toughest rivals,” Ziqi Wang said.

Yale’s matches against Penn on Friday and against Princeton on Saturday will both begin at 1 p.m.

Contact MATTHEW STOCK at matthew.stock@yale.edu .

Yale on losing skid entering Ivy play BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 entered the game having tossed 10 innings while allowing five earned runs in his two prior starts — the freshman settled down and retired eight consecutive batters between the third and sixth innings. He wound up allowing a fifth run in the sixth, exiting the game after 5.1 innings.

Unfortunately for Nambiar, the Yale offense was unable to provide any run support. The Bulldogs left nine runners stranded overall in the game, unable to break through against lefty James Taubl.

The sophomore picked up his first win of the season and second of his career — interestingly enough, his first collegiate win also came against Yale, in a meeting last April.

In the bottom of the fifth inning, the Elis had perhaps their best chance to score. With two outs in the inning, second baseman and leadoff hitter Simon Whiteman ’19 singled to left field and then stole second base. Center fielder Tim Degraw ’19 then walked to put two men on the basepaths, but righthanded pitcher Mason Kukowski ’18, who pinch hit for right fielder Harrison White ’17, flied out to center field to end the inning in just his fourth career at-bat.

Sacred Heart scored four runs in the seventh inning to put the game out of reach. First baseman Victor Sorrento and catcher Cody Doyle combined for six hits, five RBI and two runs scored.

The Bulldogs, meanwhile, were shut out for the third time this season.

Whiteman, who finished 2–4 against the Pioneers, carried his hot bat into Wednesday’s contest at Hartford.

“I’ve been asked this year to hit from a few different spots [in the lineup], but I’ve tried not to think too hard about the position in the order,” Whiteman said. “I just try to see the ball well and hit it hard, putting pressure on the defense to make things happen.”

Whiteman doubled down the left field line to begin the third inning.

Third baseman Richard Slenker ’17,

who did not play against Sacred Heart, returned to the lineup on Wednesday and drove Whiteman in on a sacrifice fly to center field.

Slenker and Whiteman are currently tied for the most hits on the team with 19, while Slenker has also driven in eight RBI thus far, secondbest on the squad.

The Elis added two more runs in the third as Benny Wanger ’19 belted a two-run home run, the first of his career, over the right field fence to push Yale ahead 3–1. The blast aided Wanger’s own cause, as he started the game on the mound for the Bulldogs.

The lead did not last long, however, as the Hawks plated nine runs in the bottom half of the inning in an offensive explosion that included a three-run home run from Ashton Bardzell. Hartford registered 10 hits in the inning, forcing Wanger to be relieved by righty Chasen Ford ’17.

Tasked with another lopsided scoreline to overcome, Yale added two runs in the fourth on a double from White only for Hartford to answer with three runs of its own.

Bardzell continued to haunt the Bulldogs as he knocked a RBI double down the right field line and later scored as part of a 3–4, four RBI day.

Whiteman finished 3–5 with two runs scored for the Elis while Wanger finished 2–2 with the home run as well as a pair of walks.

“Our pitchers are finding the zone and getting hitters out more consistently,” Whiteman said. “Our hitters are swinging well.”

The two teams combined for 29 hits in the offensive slugfest. The Bulldogs added two runs in the eighth and one in the ninth, but Hartford’s lead was never in doubt in the 15-8 victory.

After a stretch of three victories in four games last week, Yale has now dropped three consecutive contests heading into Ivy action.

The Bulldogs will square off in a doubleheader with Columbia on Saturday followed by two games at Penn on Sunday.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .

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Ivy League Tennis Season Preview Women look to bounce back in 2016 Underdog men WOMEN’S TENNIS eager for Ivy play

BY MATTHEW STOCK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After finishing in the bottom half of the Ivy League for two straight years, the Yale men’s tennis team will look to change its fortunes this season against a difficult slate of Ancient Eight opponents.

MEN’S TENNIS The action begins this weekend as the Bulldogs (12–6, 0–0 Ivy) travel south

to take on Penn and No. 34 Princeton, which is one of five conference foes currently ranked among the top 56 schools in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.

Despite what seems to be tough competition, Yale will attempt to build upon its 12–6 nonconference record thus far this season. However, with their usual No. 1 singles player and 2015 All-Ivy First Team selection Tyler Lu ’17 sidelined for the season with an injury, the Elis may SEE MEN’S TENNIS PAGE 10

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The Ivy League campaign, featuring seven matches in just 23 days, marks the culmination of Yale’s 2015–16 season.

BY MATTHEW STOCK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s tennis team played a lengthy nonconference season this year, competing on 30 different days over six months and amassing a 6–8 dual match record. But come Friday, only one such statistic will matter: 0–0, the record with which Yale begins its Ivy League season this weekend.

The Elis (6–8, 0–0 Ivy) will match up against their familiar Ivy League foes over the remaining four weeks of the season, attempting to improve upon their fifth-place finish in the

Ancient Eight standings a season ago with a 3–4 conference record. The 2016 Ivy season will begin for Yale with a pair of home matches on Friday and Saturday against Penn and Princeton. “[The Ivy League season] is the most exciting time of the year for us,” Elizabeth Zordani ’18 said. “Every day that we practice throughout the year is for these next few weeks.”

The Ivy League tennis season features seven matches packed into just 23 days and determines the Ivy League championship, given to the team or teams with the best conference record at the end of April. The Bulldogs won

at least a share of the title in the 2011, 2012 and 2013 seasons, but their performance declined in the following two, placing second in 2014 and tying for fifth last season.

This year, Yale got a chance to face two Ivy League foes at the ECAC Indoor Championships but lost to both Princeton, last year’s Ivy champion, and Columbia, the favorite to win the 2016 title. Still, the Bulldogs have winning momentum on their side as they begin Ivy play, finishing their nonconference schedule last weekend with a thrilling 4–3 victory against then-No. SEE WOMEN’S TENNIS PAGE 10

Offense powers Yale over Fairfield

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The men’s tennis team will have to contend with five nationally ranked Ivy League schools during the conference season.

Yale falters in midweek contests

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER With two games against three-time defending Ivy League champion Columbia looming this weekend, the Yale baseball team had two final opportunities to fine-tune its play before the beginning of Ancient Eight competition.

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some of the best offense they have posted all season, and they needed exactly that performance at the plate to defeat the Stags (10–12, 0–0 MAAC) by narrow scores of 5–4 and 6–5. Pitcher Terra Jerpbak ’19 also played a large part in the day’s success, earning a win in the first game and a save in the second with just one earned run allowed across seven total

However, back-to-back losses on Tuesday and Wednesday leave the Bulldogs with little momentum entering the Ivy portion of the calendar. Yale (4–15–1, 0–0 Ivy) dropped a 9–0 decision to Sacred Heart (10–10, 4–0 Northeast) on Tuesday before falling 15–8 against Hartford (16–5, 2–1 America East) Wednesday afternoon in a high-scoring affair.

“Hartford did a great job of hitting the ball today,” captain and right-handed pitcher Chris Moates ’16 said. “There were lots of times where our pitchers made good pitches and Hartford just did a good job of getting the bat on the ball and letting their turf infield take care of the rest. They are definitely a strong hitting team.”

The host Elis found themselves in an early hole versus Sacred Heart, as the Pioneers loaded the bases after three batters against Yale newcomer Kumar Nambiar ’19. He wound up surrendering two runs in the inning and two more in the second frame, as Sacred Heart built a 4–0 advantage.

Making his third career start — Nambiar

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After a stretch in which the Bulldogs lost 11 of 13 games, Yale has reeled off three consecutive victories with Ivy League play set to begin on Friday.

BY FLORA LIPSKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With a weekday sweep of Fairfield in a Wednesday doubleheader, the Yale softball established key momentum entering Ivy League play on Friday.

SOFTBALL The Bulldogs (7–15, 0–0 Ivy) produced

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Benny Wanger ’19, who has 15 hits in 42 at-bats this season, hit his first collegiate home run on Wednesday.

THE NUMBER OF COMBINED HITS BETWEEN THE YALE AND HARTFORD BASEBALL TEAMS IN WEDNESDAY’S 15–8 YALE LOSS. The Bulldogs registered 14 hits in the contest, their secondhighest total of the season, led by three hits apiece from Brent Lawson ’16 and Simon Whiteman ’19.