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The road to the nomination.

Over the weekend, voters cast ballots in the Super Saturday primaries. Among GOP candidates, Donald Trump took Kentucky and Louisiana, while Sen. Ted Cruz won in Kansas and Maine.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 took Louisiana and Sen. Bernie Sanders secured Kansas and Nebraska. Michigan will have its Democratic primary today.

Happy berthday. Per ESPN’s

latest prediction, the Yale men’s basketball team is slated to enter the NCAA Tournament as a 12-seed, against Iowa State. The current prediction has the Elis traveling to Denver for the first round of March Madness, which begins on Thursday, March 17. The last time the Yale men earned a berth in the tourney, they lost to Wake Forest in Philadelphia, back in 1962.

True heroin(e). Rep. Rosa

DeLauro visited New Haven yesterday evening to attend a screening of “Heroin: Cape Cod, USA” — an HBO documentary about the American opioid crisis, told through the personal stories of former addicts in New England. After the screening, which was held at the NHFPL, DeLauro led a discussion focusing on a potential bill that would provide $1 billion in funding for drug treatment.

Cleaving the system. The Yale

Political Union and the Black Students Association at Yale will jointly host Emory law professor Kathleen Cleaver for a talk about police brutality and flaws in the criminal justice system called “Police are not heroes.” Cleaver was the first communications secretary of the Black Panther party. She will speak at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Sudler Hall.

Wallace in wonderland. The winners of the 2016 Wallace Prize in fiction and nonfiction were announced yesterday.

First-prize winners in both categories were members of the class of 2019. Madeleine Lee ’19 won in fiction, and Rachel Calnek-Sugin ’19 took first place in nonfiction.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1991 University Police are authorized to hire 10 new officers to join their forces.

The new hires will increase the YPD force to 66 and will allow the department to put more officers on nighttime patrols.

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Coliseum hotel to be selected

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website also features more than 100 narratives from students illustrating the hardships that the student effort has imposed on their lives at Yale.

Isadora Milanez ’18, an organizer for SUN, said the purpose of the project is to bring conversations about financial aid policy into the open and to pressure the administration to act.

After four years of renderings, pitches and site visits, real estate advisory firm LiveWorkLearnPlay has narrowed the list of hotel companies competing to put a new location in the Coliseum parking lot from nine to three.

LWLP spearheads the project to transform the Coliseum parking lot at the intersection of Orange and George streets into a 5.5-acre, roughly $300 million complex with apartments, businesses and a four-and-ahalf-star hotel. The firm solicited nine letters of intent from hotel companies beginning in 2012, LWLP co-managing partner Max Reim said. As LWLP considered the strength of each company’s brand, international marketing and loyalty program, it eliminated six companies, he said. Reim, who is working under a May 15 deadline set by the city to determine a hotel partner, said he hopes to make an official announcement within the next 60 to 90 days.

“The value of investment to develop the hotel is between $100 [million and] $140 million,” Reim said. “We don’t just want to slap in another hotel that you see all over the place. Once we make a decision, we are married to them for 10 to 30 years.”

LWLP aims for the first phase of con-

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In memoriam. Elizabeth

Garrett, the first female president of Cornell University, died of colon cancer Sunday night. Garrett, who was 52, was appointed to the post only eight months ago. During her short term, she led an effort to establish a college of business.

Before heading the Cornell administration, Garrett was the first female provost of the University of Southern California from 2010 to 2014.

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Student Financial Services is located at 246 Church St.

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER A website went live Monday morning that calls for the total elimination of the student effort portion of financial aid — the latest push in a yearslong battle between students and the administration to level the playing field for low-income students at Yale.

The website, financialaidatyale. org, was created by undergraduate activist group Students Unite Now and presents a report criticizing Yale for its failure to eliminate the student effort — a yearly sum that students on financial aid must contribute to their educations — despite the challenges the expectation poses for students on financial aid and the size of the University’s swelling endowment. The

Plans stall for civilian board to oversee police

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND JAMES POST STAFF REPORTERS Two-and-a-half years after voters approved the creation of a civilian review board as part of New Haven’s once-adecade charter revisions, the board has yet to materialize.

A provisional civilian review

board — which would oversee investigations into allegations of police misconduct — was established by an executive order from former Mayor John DeStefano Jr. in 2001. The provisional group ended its meetings in September 2014, after which Chief Administrative Officer Mike Carter suspended meetings of the provi-

Students demand private prison divestment

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER A fledgling group of Yale undergraduates is demanding that the University divest from for-profit prisons — the latest attempt by students to use the endowment as a tool for social justice.

Founded last semester, Yale Students for Prison Divestment — a branch of the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project — wrote an open letter to the University administration and Yale Corporation over the weekend highlighting the injustices committed by private prisons and outlining the ways in which continued investment in the industry does not align with Yale’s ethical investment principles. The letter claims that private prison facilities have limited government oversight, are free to offer substandard living environments, and are especially susceptible to corruption.

According to the YUPP website, the number of inmates in private prison facilities is nearly 130,000 nationally.

The letter had over 289 signatures from undergraduates, graduate and professional students by press time Monday night. Although students who signed the letter said they

would be willing to take more direct action, such as protests or sit-ins, to push Yale to divest, the fate of YSPD remains murky as it follows in the footsteps of groups like Fossil Free Yale that have unsuccessfully demanded divestment.

“We find the practice of investing in the private prison industry to be morally incompatible with Yale’s mission,” read the open letter. “We therefore demand … that the Yale Corporation immediately divest from the for-profit prison industry, publicly denounce the for-profit prison industry and affirmatively state that it will not invest in the for-profit prison industry in the future.”

This is the second time since 2005 that students have exerted significant pressure on Yale to divest from for-profit prisons.

In 2005, the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, a group of students, faculty and staff members which advises the Yale Corporation on investment decisions, made a public statement defending investments in the Corrections Corporation of America — a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers — because the ACIR said SEE DIVESTMENT PAGE 6

sional group in anticipation of the creation of a new, formally codified board. The Board of Alders held a public hearing in January 2015 to discuss what this new board would look like.

Hundreds turned out to deliver testimony on the importance of creating a board backed by subpoena power and fully independent of the New Haven

Police Department. But more than a year out, progress on the board has come to a standstill.

“The Board of Alders had promised that they were going to vote one way or the other on it and we haven’t heard anything,” said Norman Clement, a prominent member of the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition, which has orga-

nized many anti-brutality protests in the last two years.

Carter said he has little involvement with the process of creating a new review board.

Though he said he is unaware of any progress on this new board, he noted that Mayor Toni Harp’s committee on SEE REVIEW BOARD PAGE 8

Power outage strikes campus

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Sterling Memorial Library was one of several central campus buildings that lost power Monday.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Yale’s central campus was hit with a power outage on Monday morning, shutting off lights and Internet access in academic and residential buildings for almost an hour.

The outage began around 10:25 a.m. and affected campus buildings from Timothy

Dwight College to Sterling Memorial Library. Buildings on Science Hill, including the Arthur K. Watson Hall, were also affected. Evans Hall, which houses the School of Management on Whitney Avenue, was evacuated, and students gathered outdoors while alarms sounded inside.

The outage shut off power in all 12 residential colleges,

as well as in the Yale Health building. Power returned around 11:20 a.m.

According to a campuswide Yale Alert sent at 11 a.m., the power outage was the result of a failure at the University’s central power plant. A Yale Facilities employee on the FaciliSEE POWER OUTAGE PAGE 6

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udgets reflect values. It’s easy, and often empty, to declare solidarity with a cause or compassion towards the suffering. It’s the sacrifices we make — of time, of money, of energy — that show where our hearts really lie. When families set aside money to give to charity or their place of worship, when universities set aside money for financial aid, when cities set aside money to care for their neediest residents — these are the truest reflections of how deep our professed beliefs really run.

Last week, when Mayor Toni Harp released her proposed budget for the coming year, the big news was that — for the second straight year — there would be no new tax increases. This is a relief for local homeowners and small businesses, and reflects the mayor’s talent as a fiscal manager.

The lack of a tax hike rightfully got a lot of press, but the headlines said far less about what the budget actually did include. Even while holding the tax rate flat, the mayor increased funding for programs that benefit New Haven’s most vulnerable residents.

For example: A report last summer noted that adult illiteracy was a major barrier facing unemployed New Haveners; accordingly, Harp budgeted for three additional library staff, part of her initiative to make New Haven “the city that reads.”

Too many kids in New Haven’s public schools have health problems that go undiagnosed and untreated, sapping their focus and stifling their achievement, because most schools only have a nurse a few days each week.

The new budget would hire seven additional full-time school nurses to serve Elm City kids.

And despite the considerable investments and progress this administration has already made in helping dozens of the city’s chronically homeless residents find housing, the mayor’s budget increased funding for homelessness services by a quarter of a million dollars.

I don’t mean to blow these decisions out of proportion. They aren’t monumental increases.

Rather, they continue New Haven’s long tradition of compassion for youth, the elderly, the homeless and the poor. Furthermore, the Board of Alders still has to approve the budget, which could mean these figures change.

I don’t agree with everything in the proposed budget. The Mayor’s office, for instance, does not need three full-time receptionists.

But the fact remains that, when facing tough choices, Harp chose to prioritize school nurses, literacy and the homeless. Every resident of New Haven should be proud that those are the priorities our city has chosen. I certainly am.

But I wish I could be as proud of Yale’s priorities as I am of New Haven’s.

B u r ied deep in the budget, among c o u n t less sources of revenue, are the FISH STARK details for Yale’s financial conElm city tributions emphasis to the city.

Yale makes a yearly voluntary contribution of around $8 million, slightly more than 1 percent of New Haven’s overall budget. This represents about 0.25 percent of Yale’s budget for the 2013–14 year, and around 0.03 percent of Yale’s massive endowment. It is dwarfed by the amounts Yale pays hedge fund managers to grow its pot of gold every year.

It’s not enough. Yale is the largest property owner in the city, even though it pays no taxes except on its small parcel of retail properties, and has an endowment of nearly $26 billion. Yale, its students and its professors are the economic “1 percent” of New Haven. Surely we should contribute far more than 1 percent of the city’s budget.

I’m not asking Yale to liquidate its endowment and shower money on New Haven. That would be ridiculous. I recognize that it’s difficult and expensive to run a university, and that Yale cannot fund every worthy cause. At the same time, it’s nonsense to pretend the reason we don’t provide more aid to New Haven is that all Yale’s money is being spent wisely on meaningful things like professor salaries, financial aid and research. There is tons of waste and ostentatious gluttony at Yale, and we should redirect that to fulfill our obligations to New Haven.

Let’s say Yale gave New Haven the $17 million it spent renovating President Peter Salovey’s mansion. That could have fully funded New Haven’s Youth@ Work program, which provides part-time jobs for 750 teenagers per year, for the next 26 years.

What if we’d given the city half of President Richard Levin’s $8.5 million golden retirement parachute? New Haven could have hired 88 new school nurses, or 95 new librarians, or 62 new police officers this year.

As Yale makes its own budgetary choices, we should look hard at New Haven’s example. In her budget, Harp put her money where her mouth was. Yale should do the same.

Through voluntary contributions to New Haven we can make real commitments to the values of service, access and equity that we loftily profess.

n my freshman year suite, I had a bay window with a built in seat that faced the Silliman courtyard. Because it was so nice to open the windows and we attempted to produce drinkable vodka sodas with freshmanyear-quality vodka, for at least the duration of Camp Yale, we were able to establish ourselves as “the girls’ party suite” — a designation that we lost almost as soon as classes began and “the boys’ party suite” achieved their hegemony. It was the period when hardly anyone knew anyone and the people who drifted through my suite knew each other through either FOOT, Harvest, high school, across the hall, Toads — or not at all.

Nobody had decided what they were majoring in, or which extracurriculars they would devote their time to, or what campus job they would have. People who would soon sequester themselves in disparate corners of Yale were joined together by my palatable vodka sodas and the courtyard breeze. A lot has changed since those early nights. For one, I’ve switched to gin and tonic.

For another, the group of people who I grab drinks with on a regular basis has become increasingly homogenous. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve had a drink with anyone who frequented my suite from that week since. The people I see on a regular basis are homogenous in ways that make sense in the context of what friendship means — we share similar interests, have fun doing

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the same activities, live near each other in our o f f- c a m p u s apartments.

In this position last CAROLINE spring, I spoke with my forSYDNEY mer roommate Rebecca, Selfa senior at the time, about absorbed “society” and whether or not I should “do” it. I came into the tap process deeply skeptical.

I really loved, and still love, the friendships that I had spent three years discovering and establishing, and I didn’t want to take time away from them to give to people I perhaps had never seen. But homogeneity can become dangerous, less a unifying factor and more of a vacuum. Rebecca was not shy about leveling this sharp critique at my friend group, which at the time felt harsh, but in hindsight was necessary. And so she convinced me to buy in to the whole tangle of exclusivity and new friendships associated with society and accept my tap invitation.

Approximately half the senior class joins a senior society, so clearly there are many people who find themselves in similar situations at the end of junior year and conclude that society is the answer to their issues of, if not social dissatisfaction, at least social isolation. Because of last

year’s initiative to create societies to meet demand, the society experience is one solution available to all. And in many ways it does solve the problem: I have made friends in pockets of Yale that I would never have known about otherwise and have learned about life experiences incredibly distant from mine. Still, the perceived need for society and the deep desire for the kind of social structure and intimacy that it provides speaks to some deeper lack in the ways that communities and those networks between them form on this campus.

IN AN IDEAL YALE, PEOPLE LIKE ME WOULD NOT REACH SENIOR YEAR WITH AN OVERBEARING SENSE OF SOCIAL HOMOGENEITY Why does society work? It could be the exclusivity. It could be the serious commitment that’s required from those who choose to participate. It could be the chemistry that emerges when a somewhat random group of people is thrown together. It’s probably a combination of fac-

tors, but it would serve this community well to isolate some of the key ones, because I think that in an ideal Yale, people like me would not reach senior year with an overbearing sense of social homogeneity and the need to confront it in such a directed and structured fashion like society.

Scale is important. We need more forums that bring small groups of different minded Yalies together. This will only become more crucial as the size of each class grows and the possibility of meeting larger swaths of Yale becomes more difficult. We need to foster a culture of mingling and of openness to new social connections.

Time commitment is key. It takes time to seek out and find these out of the way social connections. By eliminating the student contribution, Yalies will be released from obligations that they do not elect to form.

It also requires deep trust and openness, qualities that are typically earned and not assumed.

Still, if rather than seeking out the little flickers of self-recognition in the people with whom I ultimately became closest, I had gone through Yale assuming that people trusted me as a friend and wanted me to place my trust in them in turn, I may not have needed society to introduce me to them this year.

CAROLINE SYDNEY is a senior in Silliman College. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu .

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he list of steps that the Yale administration could take to better support working people on campus and in New Haven is long. Yale should agree to a union election free from intimidation for graduate teachers and researchers. They should protect the good jobs in my union, Local 35 UNITE HERE, the union of service and maintenance workers, and our sister union, Local 34, from cuts and outsourcing.

Yale should continue to lead on solving New Haven’s jobs crisis.

The list goes on. But in the long lineup of things that Yale can and should do, one thing is particularly straightforward. Yale should eliminate the student contribution for undergraduate students on financial aid.

This should be an easy one. Students across campus have been vocal about the need for the contribution to be eliminated. They have made clear that by making students on financial aid pay the contribution, the administration creates two different and not at all equal Yale educations. Students on financial aid are forced to make tough choices and to pass up opportunities available to their

peers who are not on financial aid.

They have to find jobs and work enough hours to earn $3,350 every school year, in addition to the $2,600 they’re required to pay in the summer, for a total of $5,950 per year. Or they are forced to take out loans to cover these payments and start their lives after college in debt.

YALE COULD DO BETTER THAN TO FURTHER WEIGH DOWN ITS STUDENTS WITH DEBT As a parent, I’ve seen what it looks like to have your child face that decision. My son took out loans to finance his college education. He graduated from college burdened by student debt, and he is still working to pay it off.

In these tough economic times,

young people already face major hurdles to getting a good job and achieving financial stability. Yale could do better than to weigh down its students further with debt.

Students on financial aid have to make difficult choices every day in order to meet Yale’s demand for this contribution. But for the administration, there should be nothing difficult about solving this problem. Last fiscal year, the Yale endowment broke records and surpassed $25 billion. Yale makes an average of $10 million every day in investment returns.

Eliminating the student contribution entirely for all students would cost the University less than two days’ endowment earnings.

Put a different way, in the last fiscal year the endowment earned an average of $6,658 every minute. Meanwhile, the administration requires that students on financial aid pay $5,950 each year.

For Yale to earn the same $5,950 that it currently takes from its students on financial aid each year would take approximately 54 seconds per student. As I said, this should be an easy one.

So why is it that the Yale

administration refuses to resolve this problem? Their refusal to hear the voices of students on this campus and respond with substantial changes in financial aid policy is not a matter of budgetary difficulty. It is simply a matter of priorities.

As a second-generation worker who has been here at Yale for 40 years, I have seen how workers and students standing together can shift this institution’s priorities.

There is a long history of undergraduates and workers fighting alongside one another to make this campus a better place.

Throughout our union’s 75 years of fighting for working people at Yale and in New Haven, students have stood by us. Our union has been strengthened by the support of students who know that Yale can do better. We are grateful for your support. And we will stand together with you in your fight for financial aid reform until the Yale administration decides to change its priorities.

BOB PROTO is the president of Local 35 UNITE HERE. Contact him at proto@yaleunions.org .

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YDC meeting discusses race in Yale theater

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER A small group of students from the theater community gathered in Linsly-Chittenden Hall on Monday night to discuss the future of Yale theater and to address issues of inclusivity and racial diversity.

Hosted by the Yale Drama Coalition, the open town hall meeting was designed to discuss YDC plans and initiatives for the upcoming year and to address rising concerns among students surrounding representations of race and gender, as well as accessibility and inclusivity for people of color in the theater community. YDC President Michaela Johnson ’17 said the inspiration for the gathering came from a discussion held last semester about diversity in Yale theater amidst calls for greater representation of minority groups in campus performances. But though the hundreds of undergraduates involved in theater on campus are all affiliated with the YDC, only about a dozen attended Monday’s event, and only a handful of participants came from outside the YDC board.

“The YDC Board has sat and talked for a long time about what we need to do, and we need to take action now. We really want to get feedback from the community so we can address these issues and not just talk about them,” Johnson told the News. “We want to take steps to make the current situation better and it matters to us that everyone is involved in every step of the process.”

During the meeting, attendees discussed possible solutions to creating a more racially diverse undergraduate theater community. Some ideas included hosting regular, cam-

puswide discussions on diversity and inviting an ethnically diverse range of theater figures to come speak and teach at Yale. Vice President of YDC Aviva Abusch ’18 said the major purpose of Monday’s gathering was to make the YDC more open while improving the way the organization reaches out to minorities.

Some found the low attendance unsurprising. Dave Harris ’16 — who did not attend the event but who last semester helped to write a show called “Exception to the Rule” which featured an entire cast and production team of people of color — attributed the small turnout to the fact that conversations are meaningless unless concrete action is taken. Part of the reason people did not attend is that they did not have time this week, he said, but mostly it is because the goal and actual advantages of the meeting were unclear.

“The problem of representation and inclusivity in Yale theater is a fairly clear one that we’ve been talking about for my four years here, yet the only ones who seem to be actively taking steps to change this are people of color,” Harris said. “I mean this in terms of putting up shows that necessitate diverse casts and actually create opportunities. The town hall struck me as more of a ‘Let’s talk about this’ rather than a ‘Let’s accept culpability and then actually do better,’ and there comes a point where talking about it becomes only a fraction of the work.”

Harris said the actual issue with Yale theater specifically in regards to inclusivity is one of opportunity and not of talent. When opportunities arise for actors, directors and writers of color, they not only show up but they excel, he said, citing the fact that three of the five

winners of the 2016 Yale Playwrights Festival were women of color. He added that one possible solution would be requiring the Yale Dramat — the largest undergraduate theater organization at Yale — to do a certain number of plays written by women and people of color.

Still, attendees were not ove rwh e l m i n g ly d i sco u raged by the low turnout. 2016 Yale Playwrights Festival winner and meeting attendee Stefani Kuo ’17 said she came to the event because as an Asian playwright, she does not see others from the same background as her represented in the theater community. YDC Liaison to the Yale School of Drama Hannah Friedman ’17 said the event was a good way to carry over last semester’s conversations on race and inclusivity, adding that theater events in general draw small crowds due to people’s involvement with only specific aspects of the community. Caroline Francisco ’18 agreed, adding that part of the reason for the low turnout is because it is difficult to get people invested in Yale theater as a whole because many are often wholly occupied with individual shows rather than the community at large.

“With this new board, we wanted to think of new ways to create connections with the theater community,” Abusch said.

“Our board meetings are usually open but there is typically little to no attendance by the general community outside of the board, and one way we wanted to increase interactions with the community is with these regular town hall meetings.”

The YDC was founded in 1999.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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Students gathered in LC to discuss racial representation in Yale’s theater community.

Hillhouse academy system under scrutiny

BY SARA TABIN STAFF REPORTER After indulging in stuffed clams, salmon and salads prepared by Hillhouse High School culinary students Monday afternoon, four New Haven alders met with roughly 30 students, teachers and school board members to informally review the school’s year-anda-half year old academy program.

The academy program, which places students in specific classes depending on which of three streams they choose to enroll in, began at the start of the 2014–15 academic year in response to concerns about the school’s negative track record, including a 46 percent graduation rate in 2011.

Monday’s informal review came in anticipation of a March 16 public hearing at City Hall that will respond to renewed concerns about the school, including questions of whether the school has supported its students during the transition to academy status. Despite these concerns, Baker said the school is faring much better than it did in the past, with a 74 percent graduation rate last year. She attributed these gains to the personalized approach to education the school has implemented.

“We had to try a different approach, a more innovative

approach,” Hillhouse Law, Public Safety and Health academy Principal Zakiyyah Baker said.

The academy system allows students to choose one of three specialized academies: the Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship and Action academy, the Law, Public Safety and Health academy (LSPH)and the Career and College Readiness academy for seniors. A fourth academy, entitled the Social Media and the Arts academy (SMART), was launched for freshmen at the beginning of this academic year. Baker said the purpose of placing students in specialized programs is to ensure that everyone is given the skills and resources to graduate and succeed in college.

She said that while she recognizes Hillhouse has not yet succeeded at this goal, their gradually increasing graduation rates show that they are on the way.

To gather as much constructive feedback as possible, Baker said the tours presented the school in a frank and transparent light.

“The intent is not to camouflage our challenges,” she said. “We want it to be apparent what our challenges are and what our successes are.”

The alders met first with a group of student leaders of differing ages and academy membership. Although the students were positive about the programs that the school offered,

they expressed concern about the lack of communication between academies at the school.

“Everyone always speaks about how Hillhouse is family, but we barely know half of the kids we are going to graduate with,” said SMART academy freshman Tanayja London, noting that there is little interaction between students in different academies.

The students also told the alders that there is insufficient funding for resources including books, uniforms and computers.

Devonte Fletcher, a junior enrolled in the LPSH academy, spoke passionately about his positive experience in the school’s dance and band group, Shades of Blue. He said being part of the group has given him invaluable leadership experience, but added that few will be able to see their work, which has included performing at some Yale basketball games, unless they get new instruments.

“We have taken New Haven by storm,” Fletcher said. “People are gonna stop saying I want to get out of New Haven, they will start saying I want to get into New Haven, but we need new instruments. People want to be a part of something. Help us with some money; let us soar and make New Haven an attraction.”

But the teachers interviewed were far less positive about the state of the school and less optimistic about the progress the new academy system has afforded it.

A group of teachers met with the alders after the student discussion to talk about grading, the logistics of teaching in an academy system and their ability as educators to advocate for change.

Several criticized the manner in which academies limit students’ class choices within the school. Some said it is difficult for students to switch tracks or take classes in different academies if they find something that piques their interest.

“I would love to see some way that we can get personalized academies without getting kids locked into a certain track.

They should have some choice to explore,” civics teacher Jack Paulishen said.

As the event drew to a close, Wooster Square Alder Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18 thanked the students and teachers for their honesty, remarked that the session “exceeded expectations,” and suggested future meetings with teachers and school seniors.

Roughly 980 students are enrolled at Hillhouse High School.

Contact SARA TABIN at sara.tabin@yale.edu .

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Four members of the Board of Alders met with Hillhouse High School students and teachers on Monday.

Yale-NUS grads to become AYA members

BY SHUYU SONG AND QI XU STAFF REPORTERS When Yale-NUS’s inaugural class of 157 graduates next year, its members will find themselves alumni members of both of the school’s parent institutions. These graduates will receive a degree from the National University of Singapore, securing an alumni membership in Singapore’s oldest and largest university. And though they will not graduate from Yale University, Yale-NUS graduates will also become members of the Association of Yale Alumni.

Unlike students whose Yale degrees automatically earn them a place in AYA, Yale-NUS graduates fall under the special AYA membership category of “international affiliates.”

The AYA Constitution allows its Board of Governors to confer membership to people not pursuing a Yale degree, such as Yale World Fellows, postdoctoral fellows and international affiliates. International affiliates are not eligible to serve as delegates of the AYA assembly — a position exclusive for Yale degree-holders — nor on the AYA board. Jeannette Chavira ’89, acting executive director of AYA, said the decision on how to categorize Yale-NUS graduates was made shortly before the school opened in 2013 and “in consultation with” Linda Lorimer, former vice president for global and strategic initiatives. “[The decision] was based on the idea that Yale-NUS graduates would enrich the Yale alumni family, as do the other categories of affiliates [such as] World Fellows and postdoctoral fellows,” Chavira said.

Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said this is a longterm arrangement, meaning that Yale-NUS students will continue to be members of AYA even after the young school establishes its own alumni base in the coming years. Chavira called the future of the arrangement “open-ended,” adding that it is independent of the eventual

establishment of Yale-NUS’s own alumni programs.

In a October interview with the Octant, a Yale-NUS student publication, Austin Shiner ’11, Yale-NUS senior manager of alumni affairs, said the AYA will encourage all Yale Clubs, except for the Yale Club of Singapore, to welcome Yale-NUS alumni as members.

He told the News he hoped Yale alumni will get to know Yale-NUS alumni through Yale Clubs, whose administration is independent from AYA. The reason for excluding Yale Club of Singapore, Shiner explained, is that the Yale Club of Singapore is relatively small, and in a few years’ time the number of Yale-NUS alumni in Singapore will exceed the number of Yale alumni.

“This situation [in Singapore] is unique, and it makes sense that the Yale Club would want to maintain its own character,” Shiner said.

President of the Yale Club of Singapore Bill Hatch ’09 said he agreed with Shiner’s reason, noting that the club has only around 300 members, and Yale-NUS will have enough graduates for its own alumni association in Singapore, which may not be the case in other cities.

Hatch said that though graduates will not become members of the Yale Club of Singapore, he expects a lot of interaction between the YaleNUS alumni network in Singapore and the group. Lewis said members of the Yale Club of Singapore have been “very helpful” to the school so far.

Lewis added that Yale Clubs in most cities have been eager to welcome Yale-NUS graduates. Representatives from Yale alumni clubs interviewed said they are willing to engage Yale-NUS alumni in club events, though they did not comment on club membership for Yale-NUS students.

The Yale Club of Singapore was founded in 1985.

Contact SHUYU SONG at shuyu.song@yale.edu and QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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the stanley h. arffa lecture series

Constructing Jewish Gender Moshe Rosman Professor of Jewish History Bar Ilan University

Next Lectures: March 8 March 10

Moshe Rosman was born in Chicago, USA and studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Columbia University. He has lived in Israel since 1979 where he teaches in the Koschitzky Department of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University. In 2010 he served as the Horace Goldsmith Visiting Professor at Yale. Rosman specializes in the history of the Jews in the early modern period in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. His books include: The Lords’ Jews: Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov; and How Jewish Is Jewish History?

5:00 pm March 2

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Comparative Literature Library, Bingham Hall, 300 College St., 8th Floor

A Protofeminist’s Challenge to Gender Order: Leah Horowitz’s Tekhino Imohos Reception to follow

March 8

Gender Under Construction: From Genesis To Hasidism Reception to follow

For information, please contact Renee Reed at (203) 432-0843 or renee.reed@yale.edu sponsored by the judaic studies program at yale university

March 10

Reconstructing Gender: Market, Literature, Halakhah, Synagogue Reception to follow

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“I can’t live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It’s not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.”

SYLVIA DAY JAPANESE-AMERICAN WRITER

Program trains local female coders

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER This semester, some of Yale’s youngest coders are cooking up projects featuring volleyball, virtual pianos and the planet Venus.

SheCode, a program established last fall by Joyce Chen ’16 and Erika Hairston ’18, teaches the fundamentals of coding to middle and high school girls from the Elm City, enabling these students to create websites, games and designs. The program, which features three sessions each semester that are two hours long each, will engage students in programming languages like Scratch and Python through lectures and handson activities. In this semester’s first session, held last Saturday, roughly two dozen participants learned the basics of Python and brainstormed ideas for projects they will complete over the course of the spring. SheCode aims to empower local, young female coders in what Chen and Hairston describe as a male-dominated field, organizers said.

“Imagine hearing about computer science when you’re that young,” Hairston said. “That’s why SheCode is so awesome. These seventh through 11th grade girls can be with each other and realize that they are at the same level.”

Chen, an economics major, said the program began out of a shared belief between her and Hairston regarding the importance of teaching female students how to program, given that neither woman had similar support networks for

computer science as they grew up.

The program is funded by the University’s Amy Rossborough Fellowship, which targets projects that benefit women in New Haven or have a feminist mission.

Ten Yale undergraduate teaching assistants, all but one of whom are female, also work on the program, Hairston said.

These TAs, undergraduates who study a broad range of subjects at Yale, serve as role models for the participants due to their diverse backgrounds, said Hairston, who is a computer science major.

“It’s nice to give examples of living, breathing females who code,” Chen said.

Nick Friedlander ’17, the only male TA for SheCode this semester, said it is important for malebodied individuals to demonstrate their support for female-bodied individuals in STEM fields.

While the students this semester have varying degrees of familiarity with programming, all participants expressed a desire to learn how to code, Friedlander added.

“It’s that point in time where everyone’s trying to figure themselves out, what they like to do, and how they’ll fit into the world,” he said.

Hairston said she enjoyed seeing students use their imaginations to create significantly different projects from their peers despite learning the same set of coding tools and objectives.

Chen added that though all SheCode participants used

Scratch to build mazes for a final project last semester, each student approached the task differently, with some creating unique elements such as a teleportation device within the maze.

Thirty to 40 girls attended each session last fall, according to Chen. This semester, SheCode organizers anticipate 20 to 30 students, with about 75 percent of spring students returning from the fall session. Because this semester’s session of SheCode teaches Python — generally considered a more challenging language than Scratch — organizers sought out previous participants or students who already have some programming experience.

Chen and Hairston aim to expand the program in future years with new coding languages, more sessions and students from a wider range of Elm City schools. Currently, participants are recruited from the University’s Pathways to Science for local students interested in STEM, Chen said. She added that collaborating with Pathways is beneficial for measuring SheCode’s success because the Pathways to Science program tracks students in a database until their college graduation.

“Five years down the line, we can see how girls [in the program] have increased interest [in STEM] — hopefully in computer science,” Chen said.

19 percent of Yale’s computer science majors are female.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

Union withdraws UConn contract

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER After Gov. Dannel Malloy urged lawmakers in Hartford to reject a new contract for 1,900 nonteaching staff at the University of Connecticut, the UConn union withdrew the contract from the General Assembly’s consideration.

Now that the contract has been withdrawn, neither house of the state legislature will need to vote on it. The contract would automatically have taken effect on Wednesday if neither house had voted against it.

After Malloy’s intervention, the contract faced an uphill battle in the state Senate, with Democratic leaders saying the body would likely reject the deal. Speaking to reporters in Hartford Friday after the contract’s withdrawal, state House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden, said initial withdrawal talks stemmed from a “technical glitch” in the contract’s language that would have proved fatal to the deal.

But the main reason for the contract’s withdrawal was to permit both parties to negotiate a new deal with a better chance of passing in the General Assembly, Sharkey said.

“The parties have agreed to withdraw the contract and take another look, potentially, at going back to the bargaining table,” Sharkey said. “The bargaining unit … really needs, I think, some time to go back to their rank and file and discuss the possibility of reopening the negotiation and as a result, that’s the reason for their withdrawal.”

Whether the contract’s withdrawal was in fact the result of a “glitch” in its language remains unclear.

In a Friday statement, state Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano ’81, R-North Haven, said the language flaw was a pretext for “legislative Democrats to get … out of taking a vote on this contract,” though he added that the contract, all told, would be a bad deal for the state.

When Director of Labor Relations Michael Egan submitted a revised version of the contract to the state Senate on Wednesday, it appeared that any glitch had been corrected.

The state Senate planned

to vote on the contract on either Friday or Monday, said state Senate President Martin Looney, D-New Haven, at a Thursday press conference. When pressed on whether he thought the contract would pass, Looney refused to give a direct answer. But Sharkey said on Friday that the contract would likely have been voted down by the body.

Looney did say on Thursday, however, that the situation had “deteriorated” in the period since the contract was approved by the Appropriations Committee the week before. In the intervening time, the size of the state’s budget deficit was revealed to be even larger than expected, amounting to up to $266 million.

Looney said the original contract was already “straining the very edges of sustainability” and that the new budget revelations meant the contract had become unaffordable for the state. Looney also questioned the need for the contract’s changes at a time when Malloy’s approach to the state’s finances is rapidly changing.

This collective bargaining process was both sides … This was both sides, give-andtake.

LORI PELLETIER President, Connecticut AFL-CIO Union The contract had become a controversial issue in Hartford following Malloy’s proposal of harsh budget cuts last month that would, he said, better reflect the state’s new economic reality. Though UConn said the five-year cost of the contract would come to $56 million, the nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis estimated the cost at just under $94 million. Looney said the contract would work against the interests of Connecticut’s workers and would result in more layoffs for UConn staff as time goes on.

In his statement to the legislature Wednesday, Malloy said the contract —

though “negotiated in good faith” between UConn and its union — fails to reflect a new economic reality. Malloy said the contract, which would provide pay increases over the next five years, is unaffordable while the state makes cuts in other departments.

Lori Pelletier, president of the state’s AFL-CIO union, expressed displeasure at the controversy in Hartford Friday, saying the state was unfairly turning away from a contract that it had already negotiated.

“We were not happy with the idea that the governor and the legislature … said that this should be voted down,” she said. “This collective bargaining process was both sides. This wasn’t just the union going in and saying ‘we want all of this.’

This was both sides, giveand-take, and for a long period of time.”

Pelletier added that the governor and legislature had failed to “respect the process” of negotiation. Because unions are democratic, she said, it will ultimately be up to the members to renegotiate a contract to submit to the General Assembly.

When asked whether the withdrawal of the contract amid a likely rejection sends a message to the state’s public unions, Sharkey said the message is already evident in the sheer size of the states’ deficit is the message.

But the acrimony was not only directed from the union to the legislature, but also from the legislature to the governor. Sharkey criticized the last-minute nature of Malloy’s intervention.

“It was only in the 11th hour, when we were considering a vote, that the governor weighed in,” Sharkey said. “So I’d also hope that the governor, if he has concerns about these contracts, that he step in a little bit earlier and not expect the legislature to solve all these problems in the 11th hour.”

The UConn contract is one of 14 contracts that were open for negotiation this year, though it is the only one that will be submitted to the General Assembly.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu.

COURTESY OF JOYCE CHEN

SheCode teaches female middle and high school students the fundamentals of coding.

Panel celebrates Scalia’s legacy

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia last month has sparked speculation at the Yale Law School — which has produced 10 former justices — about who will succeed the conservative justice.

Local and national political publications said the list of possible Supreme Court nominees includes Cory Booker LAW ’97 and current Yale Law professor Harold Koh. At a panel discussion at the Law School Monday night, Yale Law professors who had previously worked with Scalia said the late justice, who attended Harvard Law School, was dedicated to the law and leaves big shoes to fill. But President Obama’s nomination could shift the court away from the Ivy League, and Scalia himself had even previously criticized the court for including nine lawyers who studied at either Harvard or Yale Law School.

At the Monday evening panel, the Yale Federalist Society hosted a discussion between three law professors on Justice Scalia’s legacy. The professors took turns giving anecdotes about Scalia and commenting on how he transformed the Supreme Court into a place for dynamic and intense legal debate.

“He was a law professor, he was a New Yorker and he was Italian,” said Boston University Law professor Gary Lawson LAW ’83, who worked for Scalia as a clerk.

“We shared a passion for getting the law right, and that was really all that he cared about more than

anything else.”

Yale Law Professor William Eskridge LAW ’78 called Scalia the “conscience of the Supreme Court,” adding that Scalia did not tolerate political compromises or flimsy arguments from his fellow justices.

Lawson, Eskridge and Edward Whelan — a lawyer, the president of a conservative think tank and the third panelist — credited Scalia with influencing their own legal careers. Lawson, who attended Yale Law School in the early 1980s, said Scalia’s dissents on the court were often controversial, but ultimately changed the world of constitutional law by inspiring debate instead of defaulting to party precedent.

“Going to Harvard or Yale increases the likelihood of other measures of professional success, such as clerkships and academic appointments,” Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of University of California, Irvine Law School, who was not at the panel, told the News.

While the current state of judicial appointments favors Ivy League schools, law professors interviewed said places like Yale and Harvard should not necessarily be the only breeding grounds for potential Supreme Court appointees.

In an interview with the News, Yale Law professor Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84 cited passages from “The Law of the Land,” his seminal work on constitutional law, that deal specifically with the legal education of Supreme Court justices past, present and future.

The passages point out that many current justices both attended

and taught as law professors at America’s elite law schools. But Amar questioned whether picking justices from a small range of elite schools was prudent.

“Don’t get me wrong, I love Yale Law School,” Amar said. “It would probably be good for me personally if all would-be justices had to take my courses and learn constitutional law the way I think it should be taught. But would this be good for America?”

In his book, Amar also questions whether there is any value in a “broader and more diverse pattern of legal mentorship,” though he does not ultimately reach a conclusion.

But despite being a member of a circle of legal elites, Scalia was often portrayed in the national media as an outsider to the East Coast Ivy League world of law, as evinced by the way he criticized the lack of educational and geographical diversity on the court.

A Feb. 15 article in The New York Times speculated that Scalia would have wanted Obama to “find someone who did not go to law school at Harvard or Yale.”

“The predominant attitude of tall-building lawyers with respect to the questions presented in these cases is suggested by the fact that the American Bar Association deemed it in accord with the wishes of its members to file a brief in support of the petitioners,” Scalia wrote in a 2015 dissenting opinion.

Scalia died on Feb. 13 in Texas in his sleep after a day of quail hunting.

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

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The Yale Federalist Society hosted a discussion on Justice Scalia’s legacy Monday evening.

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FROM THE FRONT

“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular.”

WINSTON CHURCHILL FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

Coliseum hotel selection process progresses COLISEUM FROM PAGE 1 struction — which will create 400 mixed-income residential units, 30 retail spaces, the hotel and convention center — to begin by this summer, Reim said. The second phase will build roughly 250,000 square feet of office and lab space for biopharmaceutical companies and an additional 500 mixedincome apartment units, he added.

Though Reim would not identify the hotel companies in consideration, Starwood Hotels — which is based in Stamford and owns the four-and-a-half-star Westin Hotel brand — was one of the initial candidates, city economic development administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81 said.

But news outlets in the city have speculated that Starwood is no longer in contention because it was purchased by Marriott last November, Nemerson said.

Reim declined to comment on speculation that LWLP is no longer in talks with Starwood.

“We are talking to three of the best,” Reim said. “Every decision that we’re going to take on this project we’re going to take very carefully and deliberately. There are a lot of stakeholders in the city and state level, and we want to

make sure that everyone is happy, especially when it comes to the hotel.”

LWLP seeks a hotel that will contribute to the success of businesses in the complex by attracting visitors to the area, Reim said. City officials also consider the future hotel a key part of the complex, city spokesman Laurence Grotheer said. New Haven is short of sufficient hotel capacity to accommodate biotech company Alexion’s future visitors and employees, parents and students drawn by Yale’s expansion and city tourists, Grotheer said.

The city also needs LWLP to finalize a hotel partner in order to release all funds of a $21.5 million state grant to connect Orange and South Orange streets, Nemerson said. This grant will link the area around the Coliseum to Union Station and downtown by building commerce and residential spaces, Nemerson said. Gov. Dannel Malloy granted the city this funding in November 2014 to facilitate the Coliseum redevelopment.

Marriott’s purchase of Starwood last November made it the world’s largest hotel chain.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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The complex will include apartments, businesses and a four-and-a-half-star hotel.

Campus buildings lose power

Students call for prison divestment DIVESTMENT FROM PAGE 1

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Some students lost work as a result of the outage, which came in the midst of midterms.

POWER OUTAGE FROM PAGE 1 ties Emergency Request Hotline said Monday night that the cause of the failure was still unknown and that Yale Facilities was still investigating. An email update regarding the outage will likely be sent to the campus community once the cause is discovered, the employee said.

The outage only affected campus buildings powered by the central power plant. Buildings powered by the electric public-utility company United Illuminating were not affected, according to the Yale Alert message. Non-Yale-affiliated buildings near central campus

saw no loss of power, and several business and shops along Wall Street were unaffected.

Emergency backup power came on in many buildings that did lose power.

Yale Dining services were largely unaffected, although Commons Dining Hall opened 15 minutes late. The New Haven Fire Department arrived at Commons because an elevator there lost power during the outage and became immobile, a NHFD member told the News.

Students were affected differently by the brief loss of electricity. Mechanical engineering major Victoria Ereskina ’18 said she had fortunately backed up all her work on her computer

before the campus lost power.

But graduate students in the School of Architecture were less lucky, she said, and some found their work compromised by the outage.

Architecture major Julia Medina ’18 was working in Paul Rudolph Hall when the lights went out. She was about to use the laser cutter on the seventh floor to cut a sheet of Plexiglas for a project when she discovered the cutter did not have power. Although Medina said her work was not impacted in a major way, she added that many architecture students who had been printing large models using 3-D printing equipment were less fortunate. 3-D print-

ing is expensive and time-consuming, and projects that were mid-print during the outage would have to be started over again, she said.

In a post on the popular Facebook group “Overheard at Yale,” Ereskina said the power outage, which came in the midst of midterms, had caused several architecture students to lose projects they had been working on for 24 hours. “[The outage] reminded us of how vulnerable we all are without electricity,” Ereskina told the News.

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

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the company did not constitute a “grave social injury.” According to Yale’s investment handbook, “grave social injury” is one of the thresholds that should prompt the University to consider divestment.

The University indirectly divested from a private prison in 2006, although the decision was made for financial rather than ethical reasons. Farallon Capital Management, a hedge fund that invests a portion of Yale’s endowment, sold all its stock in the Corrections Corporation of America.

Farallon cited a lack of profitability, rather than the corporation’s alleged human rights abuses, as the reason for divestment. At the time, the Graduate Employees and Students Organization took credit for successfully pressuring the University to divest, although Yale administrators said Farallon had made its divestment decision independent of Yale.

To date, the ACIR has made no public amendments to its 2005 policy statement. Letter coauthor Joseph Gaylin ’19 said the YSPD has contacted the ACIR, and the committee has agreed to meet with YSPD after spring break, although no specific date has been arranged. ACIR Chair and Yale Law School professor Jonathan Macey LAW ‘82 did not respond to request for comment on Monday.

YSPD was founded with the support of YUPP, and although YUPP Advocacy Co-Chair Korinayo Thompson ’18 said the two groups are nominally distinct, there is some overlap in their membership and missions. YUPP hosts a page for YSPD on its website.

The open letter said since 1970, the number of incarcerated people in the United States has increased by 700 percent. A large percentage of the country’s black population is imprisoned — more than were incarcerated in even apartheid South Africa. The YUPP website describes private prisons as “dangerous, damaging and altogether horrible institutions.”

Student signatories said private prisons are often out to make money and are not in business of rehabilitation.

“Cutting costs isn’t a good thing if it undermines the purpose of the prison from the outset,” said Ben McCoubrey ’17, who signed the open letter.

Paul Eberwine ’18 said he signed the letter because he sees something perverse in the idea of an elite university profiting off imprisoned human bodies.

Students also expressed frustration with what they increasingly view as dysfunctional channels of communication between students and University administrators.

Gaylin described the University’s current process of making investment choices as “secluded and opaque,” and he said YSPD’s larger mission, beyond divestment, is to force students to question Yale’s investment strategies.

But students were split over what direction YSPD should take if Yale is unresponsive to the open letter. Some, like Eberwine and Scott Remer ’16, said they would be willing to participate in protests that called on Yale to divest from the private prison industry.

Jade Chowning ’19, who signed the letter and has helped organize with YSPD, said he anticipates that “increased student action will be scaled to match increased resistance from the Yale Corporation if and when we face it.” Likewise, Eberwine said the recent efforts by Fossil Free Yale — which advocates for divestment from the fossil fuel industry — to communicate with the University administration, including a sit-in inside Woodbridge Hall, demonstrate that “sometimes stepping outside the normal boundaries of communication is a necessary step.”

Other students took a less activist view of YSPD’s future.

Gabriella Martin ’19, a member of YSPD, said that if the Yale Corporation is unresponsive to the open letter or does not meet YSPD’s demands, the advocacy group will put its efforts toward educating the Yale community about incarceration in the U.S. It is unclear whether YSPD will follow in Fossil Free Yale’s footsteps, and Thompson said YSPD will wait for the University to respond to its open letter before making a move.

“Our plans right now are to get in contact with the Yale administration and really work through the official channels that are set up,” Gaylin said. He would not say whether YSPD would be willing to take direct action on the issue.

That will depend on what happens in the future, he said.

Although Eberwine said he doubts Yale’s divestment would significantly impact the profits of the prison industry, he added that responding to the open letter with divestment could rebuild students’ trust in the administration.

“Divestment would demonstrate that students actually have some power to shape the Yale they want to see,” Eberwine said.

“After the events of this past year, such an affirmation would be very encouraging. This could be a significant step towards building student trust.”

In total, there are about 130 private prisons in America, and the industry makes roughly $3.3 billion in revenue annually.

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

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SPORTS

“There is something about 18 years. Eighteen is a good number.” PEYTON MANNING 18-YEAR NFL VETERAN

Individual bests at IC4As, ECACs YALE MILE RECORD OVER THE YEARS 1969: FRANK SHORTER ’69

1990: ROBERT LESKO ’91

1991: RICK WEMPLE ’92

2014: JAMES SHIRVELL ’14

4-minute barrier

FEB. 13: 2016, JAMES RANDON ’17

MARCH 6, 2016: RANDON ELEANOR PRITCHETT/PRODUCTION AND DESIGN STAFF

TRACK & FIELD FROM PAGE 12 “[Randon] and coach [Paul] Harkins deserve a great deal of credit for creating a plan for success,” head coach David Shoehalter said of the performance.

Randon bested the previous Yale record — which he also held — by almost two seconds, less than a month after finishing just a few hairs short of reaching this milestone at the Valentine Invitational, where he ran a 4:00.53.

This marks the second time this season that Randon has set the Yale record in the mile.

Along with Randon, Andre Ivankovic ’17 and Matt Chisholm ’18 also qualified for Sunday’s final heat in the mile, finishing fifth and eighth, respectively.

Randon, Ivankovic and Chisholm all received Second Team All-Ivy honors last week for their performance at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships on the distance medley team.

The other record-breaking performance for Yale came courtesy of the 400-meter relay team, led by Marc-André Alexandre ’17 along with the freshman trio of Connor Hill ’19, Alex McIntyre ’19 and Gregory Campbell, Jr. ’19.

The squad finished with a time of 3:10.96 in Saturday’s preliminary competition, which was also the top qualifying time. Having entered the weekend with the goal

Elis soundly defeat Stony Brook WOMEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 12 day, it will have been more than a month since the duo lost a match.

“Playing doubles with one of my fellow classmates has been a lot of fun,” Li said. “I’m glad that our compatibility off the court has transferred on court so well in the past few matches.”

After starting the season 0–5 against strong competition in January, the Bulldogs found themselves in need of a positive spark.

Captain Ree Ree Li ’16 explained that following the win-

less start, the team has shifted their focus from simply winning to improving their play and “enjoying the process.”

“There were many factors that contributed to this change, including individual players really stepping up and taking ownership of their game, but I think one of the biggest factors has been the increase of intensity and the focus on strategy in practices,” Li said. “And this shift has allowed us to compete with the right mindset and have fun while doing it.”

That shift is working for the

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After losing its first home match on Feb. 12, Yale has since won five consecutive matches in New Haven.

team, which has not lost since early February and has found comfort at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center, where the team is now 5–1.

Multiple players have noted the amount of positivity surrounding the team lately, adding how that has translated into improved performance on the court.

“I think that a key factor came from our success in cheering and supporting each other both on and off the court,” Elizabeth Zordani ’18 said. “The cheering was especially important in the last couple matches because it helped the players close out their tough matches.”

There was more than one close match on Saturday for the Bulldogs. After losing her first set 3–6, Courtney Amos ’16 fought her way back with a 7–5 win in the second set before clinching the match with a 6–4 third set victory.

Amy Yang ’19 also lost her first set, but was able to battle back and force a third set, which she was winning before play was interrupted due to Yale’s team victory.

“We’re on an upward trend and our focus is to be peaking in April in time for our Ivy League matches,” said Lynch, with conference play set to begin on April 1 versus Penn.

Yale’s win streak will next be tested in Florida on Sunday when the team faces South Florida.

While in Florida, the Bulldogs will also face the South Alabama and Florida International, before returning home on March 25.

Contact EMMY REINWALD at emily.reinwald@yale.edu .

in mind of breaking the school record, the group elected not to compete in Sunday’s final competition after already setting the new mark.

“We have been working toward running a fast time since the beginning of the year,” Shoehalter said. “This is a special group and there will surely be much more to come.”

Having received Second Team All-Ivy honors last week, the relay team bested the previous record, set in 2005, by almost a second in Saturday’s heat. Nearly a year ago to the day, Alexandre had a historic performance at this same tournament, breaking Yale’s 400-meter record twice in one weekend.

The other competing relay team was the distance medley team, comprised of Thomas Gmür ’18, Chandler Crusan ’17, Alexander McDonald ’17 and Trevor Reinhart ’19, which ran in place of the aforementioned Second Team All-Ivy winning group that competed at Heps. Despite the change, this team secured Saturday’s fastest qualifying time and ultimately placed sixth in the finals with a time that was more than five seconds slower than its time on Saturday.

Another notable performer for the men was pole vaulter Austin Laut ’19, who placed fourth with a height of 4.95 meters one

week after finishing fourth at Heps. Captain Brendan Sullivan ’16, who finished third at Heps after clearing 5.07 meters, did not compete this meet.

For the women, Rizzo’s victory continued Yale’s hot streak in the mile, propelled this season

by Randon and Frances Schmiede ’17, among others. After winning the preliminary heat with a time of 4:52.50, Rizzo ran a time of 4:44.11, which was good for the fourth-best mile time in Yale indoor history.

“I went in planning on doing everything I could to put myself in a position to win,” said Rizzo, who edged out the second-place finisher from Connecticut by onetenth of a second. “I felt very calm and collected about it which was a really fun feeling to have.”

Grace Brittan ’16 also competed in the mile and finished sixth with a time of 4:55.15, after posting a slightly faster preliminary time than Rizzo. Star miler Schmiede did not take part in this tournament, as she was resting since she will be the sole Yale competitor, for both the men’s and women’s teams, at the NCAA Indoor Championships next week.

Representing the Bulldogs in the 800-meter run was Emma Lower ’19, who impressed in her debut ECACs. Coasting through the preliminary stage with a time

of 2:11.64, she ultimately finished fifth with a time of 2:12.18, good for fifth place and the accompanying four team points.

“I was really just aiming to qualify through to Sunday,” Lower said. “Once that happened I just wanted to run on a fast tack with girls who would push me. It was great to end the indoor season on such a high note for everyone.”

After receiving First Team All-Ivy honors for her win in the 800-meter run at Heps last week, Shannon McDonnell ’16 competed in the 1,000-meter run at ECAC. She easily qualified for Sunday’s final with a time of 2:53.00 in the prelims, and went on to set a new personal best with a time of 2:49.56 in the main heat, securing a fifth-place finish. McDonnell’s time is the alltime third-best time in the event.

“We ended the season on a very good note at the IC4A/ECAC,” Shoehalter said. “If we can build on the momentum and enthusiasm of this past weekend, it should be a very exciting outdoor year.”

Neither team will compete again until after spring break. The outdoor season kicks off at Princeton on April 8.

Contact SEBASTIAN KUPCHAUNIS at sebastian.kupchaunis@yale.edu .

Yale matches top score GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE 12 lowed by Tatiana Winkelman ’17 with a 9.675. Jessica Wang ’19, who has led the Bulldogs on the apparatus with some consistency this year, scored a 9.600, while Anderson began her day with a 9.500.

Yale then scored a 47.800 in its beam rotation, which was the team’s lowest score of the day despite multiple strong individual performances.

Wang led the Bulldogs with a 9.775, tying her career high, while Winkelman scored a new career mark of 9.725. Anderson continued all-around competition with a 9.600, while Roxanne Trachtenberg ’19 posted a 9.500 and a fall from Megan Ryan ’18 resulted in a score of 9.200.

“We tied our season high [overall] score which was really exciting, and we got that score with counting a fall on beam,” captain Camilla Opperman ’16 said. “The last time we got this score, everyone hit their routines. This time, we were counting a fall on beam, which means that we are getting better overall.”

Floor was the highlight of the Bulldogs’ day, with their 48.675 putting them in third behind George Washington and Maryland. Because Yale lacked a sixth competitor, the Bulldogs were unable to drop their lowest score, but this did not end up mattering: Every Bulldog managed a career- or season-high score, with the exception of Opperman, who still led the team with a 9.850.

Alleyne tied this score, which for her was a career high, and

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On vault, Yale’s last event, the Bulldogs posted a 47.850.

Ryan rebounded from beam to tie a career high of 9.750.

The Bulldogs finished on vault with a 47.850, where Opperman again led Yale with a 9.675, while Trachtenberg scored a career-high 9.650.

Wang, who had not yet competed on vault during her Yale career, debuted with a 9.500, and Anderson concluded her all-around competition with a 9.425. Anderson finished with a career-high 38.175 all-around score, which placed eighth out of nine for the day, followed by Yale’s other all-arounder Ryan, who scored a 38.000.

“Generally beam and bar are our strongest events, but we really stepped up our game on floor and vault,” Opperman said. “We felt that our scores were more reflective of our performances this week. We have been focusing on detailing our floor and vault performances, which showed at this meet.”

Trachtenberg added that the team is still working to combine the strong beam and bars performances from previous weeks with the successful vault and floor performances from this past weekend. Detailing and mental toughness are being emphasized in practice along with keeping energy high, she said.

George Washington won the meet with a 195.725, and the Bulldogs’ performance, though tying a season best, was more than a point below fourthplace Pittsburgh, which posted a 193.475.

This coming weekend, Yale will compete in two competitions. The first meet will take place at Bridgeport on March 10, before Yale again faces George Washington on the road on March 13.

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

Coed team shakes off the rust SAILING FROM PAGE 12 three domination of Brown in the regatta’s first round.

At the Sharpe Team Race Trophy, Nick Hernandez ’19, Eric Anderson ’16 and Casey Klingler ’18 skippered Yale to a seventh-place finish against nine other teams. Yale won its races against Harvard, Rhode Island and Bowdoin, nabbing two first-place results and a one-two-three against Rhode Island. The other six races saw a Yale boat consistently place in sixth, while the other two boats moved between third, fourth and fifth.

Conditions were challenging due to light and shifty winds, crew Amelia Dobronyi ’17 said. The group of sailors that competed had not previ-

ously raced together in a team race event, and went into the weekend with only two days of practice in the spring season, she added.

In the Bob Bavier team race, Ian Barrows ’17, Mitchell Kiss ’17, Malcolm Lamphere ’18 and Nic Baird ’19 rotated skippering throughout the regatta, where they placed fourth out of 10. During the first round, the Bulldogs won six of their nine matchups, placing first and second in all but one race.

Yale faltered in the second round, winning four races — in which they consistently placed first and second — but losing five. The Elis lost every race in the third round, including an incomplete race against Stanford. Though Yale came back to nab two first-place finishes in

its final round, fifth- and sixthplace finishes lost the Bulldogs two of the three races.

“Everyone has a really steep learning curve when they start,” Baird said. “We know we are starting at least at the same level as everyone else, if not ahead of them, as far as boat handling and speed and skill, for lack of a better word. We just want to make sure that we are learning faster than everyone else; that’s the way you win nationals.”

The four skippers switched out every two races, making the chemistry for the regatta difficult, Baird said. Furthermore, because only three crews were in attendance, each crew competed during every race, which Baird said was tiring.

Though the goal in this

regatta was to continue learning rather than win, the fact that last year’s team won this regatta though they had not sailed prior to the weekend set up an expectation that was not met, he added.

“All of the regattas in the spring except for qualifiers and nationals are the same. They are all for learning, we don’t care if we win them or not,” Baird said.

“We only want to win nationals, and the rest of it doesn’t matter.”

The Yale coed team transition to fleet racing at the Ice Breaker Regatta next weekend, while the women’s team will sail in Annapolis, Maryland at the Navy Spring Intersectional.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage without a college education.”

MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR AND HUMORIST

Years later, civilian review board plans slow REVIEW BOARD FROM PAGE 1 police-community relations has met regularly in recent months.

Emma Jones — the mother of Malik Jones, who died at the hands of East Haven police after a car chase nearly two decades ago — said she has also heard little about the new review board since the flurry of hearings and testimonies that took place last year.

Rev. Steven Cousin, the pastor at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in New Haven, said alders held discussions with community members in the middle of 2015 to help draw up plans for the board, but said he does not know if anything has come of those discussions.

The formation of a civilian review board is an emotional issue for many New Haven residents, dozens of whom came out in force last year to share their stories of harassment at the hands of police. Beaver Hills Alder Brian Wingate, who chaired the Public Safety Committee throughout 2014 and 2015, said the sensitivity of the issue makes legislation difficult.

“This is something that you’ve really got to take your time on,” Wingate, who is now the vice chair of the Public Safety Committee, said. “With this kind of situation, not everyone’s going to be happy.

The expectation for the review board is so great.”

Wingate said the alders began reaching out to community members to crowdsource ideas for the review board last year.

Since then, he said, he and other alders have discussed drafts of new legislation with East Rock Alder Jessica Holmes, who chairs the Legislation Committee all new ordinances must pass through, did not respond to a request for comment for this article.

Wingate said turnover in

committee chairmanships has caused some of the delay. But he said he expects an ordinance will be passed in the near future.

“With the new chair [of the Public Safety Committee Quinnipiac Meadows Alder Gerald Antunes] and everything, we’re trying to get this done in the next few months,” Wingate said.

“By midsummer, we should be able to close this out.”

Throughout the process of drafting the ordinance that will empower a new board, activists have been adamant about the powers that board must have. Not only must the board be independent from the police department, activists say, it must also have the power to compel police officers to submit evidence during the course of its inquiries.

Clement said the importance of allowing the review board to conduct its own investigations into allegations of misconduct cannot be understated. The current system, which allows the police department’s internal affairs division to run inquiries, exhibits pro-police bias, he said, adding that any organization investigating itself necessarily is at a higher risk of bias.

Jones said she traveled across the country after her son’s death to research civilian review boards. One of the strongest she found was in New York. She said she incorporated some of its powers into the proposal her anti-police brutality organization drafted.

“Number one was that the board should definitely be independent from the police department itself,” Jones said, emphasizing that the new board should not be a “paper tiger.” “Number two, there should not be any police officers on the board.

And number three, and probably most importantly, the board should have subpoena power.

And number four, that it should have a budget and an independent staff from the city.”

TIMELINE CIVILIAN REVIEW BOARD FORMATION April 14, 1997 — Malik Jones was shot to death by a police officer. Two weeks later, Emma Jones, his mother, founded the MALIK organization.

Summer 2016 — The new Civilian Review Board should be established, said Beaver Hills Alder Brian Wingate.

March 2001 — A provisional Civilian Review Board was established by an executive order from then-Mayor John DeStefano Jr.

November 2013 — New Haven voters passed a charter revision that called for the creation of a Civilian Review Board in New Haven.

January 2015 — The Board of Alders held a public hearing to discuss what a new Civilian Review Board would look like. In subsequent months, the Board of Alders held several similar hearings.

September 2014 — Meetings of the provisional Civilian Review Board were suspended.

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On the last count, Jones is likely to be disappointed, at least for the coming fiscal year.

Harp’s budget for fiscal year 2017 allocates no funds for a board or any staff members.

Though the civilian review board has not yet moved past the drawing board, the city has pursued other means of fostering relations between the police and community members. Cousin is an organizer of a clergy ambassador program, through which members of the city’s clergy reach out to police officers to talk to them about

the issues that matter in their communities.

“The clergy ambassador program is for clergy to go and actually talk to our communities about the work the police department is doing and enable to police department to share information with the clergy,” Cousin said. “The clergy can also go back to the police department to talk about the issues that affect our communities.”

Cousin said the program’s members meet monthly with NHPD Chief Dean Esserman and

his assistant chiefs to discuss issues concerning the police department. For instance, he noted that the program gave police officers implicit biases training Feb. 24 in order to help officers become more aware of the subconscious prejudices they may hold. Cousin said the program aims to foster closer ties between the police force and the communities it serves.

Despite tensions between the police and public across the country, Cousin expressed optimism about the department that calls New Haven home.

“No police department is perfect, just like humanity is not perfect,” Cousin said. “But I do believe that New Haven’s police department is a shining example in trying to get it right. And they’re trying to use whatever resources they have to make policing in the 21st century better for communities of color.”

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and JAMES POST at james.post@yale.edu .

Students Unite Now launches protest site

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Students came out in force to protest the student effort expectation last year.

WEBSITE FROM PAGE 1 “We’re ready to put it on Yale to take the next step to eliminate the [student effort],” Milanez said.

Milanez said the website is the culmination of an ongoing project by SUN — which advocates for minority groups in general and not just low-income students — to bring financial aid issues to the forefront of campus conversations. She deferred to SUN organizer Jesús Gutiérrez ’16 for information on the project’s timeline and logistics, but Gutiérrez did not respond to requests for comment.

The new website has received the endorsement of 12 campus groups, including the Asian American Studies Task Force, Fossil Free Yale and Yale NAACP. Students are also invited to submit testimonies about the negative impact the student effort has on campus life. Current testimonies come from students of all financial backgrounds — not just those on financial aid — and detail stories from having to quit extracurriculars to considering dropping out altogether due to financial pressure.

“Yale is stealing from me,” Cristobal Trujillo ’16 wrote. “Yale has the ability to make people do unpleasant things and be thankful for it — office jobs, library jobs

all of which I have held unwillingly but inevitably because I am not rich enough to own even my own time.”

The website’s unveiling comes three months after Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan and Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi announced that the student summer income contribution would drop from $4,050 to $2,700 for students with the highest need and $3,600 for all other students. The term-time student employment expectation has remained at its current value of $3,350 for upperclassmen. The shift came in response to student activism, as well as a January 2015 Yale College Council report that called for several changes to financial aid policy, among them the elimination of the student effort.

But there is widespread support among the student body for the elimination of the student effort entirely, as opposed to a reduction in either the student summer income contribution or the student employment expectation.

Last March, SUN staged a protest against the student effort in front of Woodbridge Hall, and then they presented a document containing 1,100 signatures to five top Yale administrators and every residential college master.

At the December town hall,

Quinlan and Storlazzi said the reduction measures were not final and that conversations about further reforms were ongoing. Storlazzi also emphasized, however, that Yale could not afford to completely do away with the student effort, despite the University’s enormous endowment.

Still, SUN’s report begins by highlighting the University’s multibillion-dollar endowment gains over the past few years, contrasting this success with the financial contribution expected of students on financial aid, who constitute 52 percent of Yale’s undergraduate population. Storlazzi declined to comment.

Students on financial aid interviewed said the administration’s measures to alleviate the burden that the student effort causes have failed to solve the problem of “two Yales”: widely divergent undergraduate experiences depending on financial need. Milanez said the website again demonstrates a student consensus that the student effort should be eliminated.

“I think [the December announcement was] a good step, but I don’t think it solves the problems that we’ve talked about here,” said Matthew Massie ’17, who submitted a testimonial to the website. “Only the total elimination of this fee is going to solve these divi-

sions that it is creating along race and class lines here at Yale.”

Massie told the News his comparatively weak secondary school background made it difficult for him to juggle the demands placed on him after arriving at Yale, which has led him to drop classes.

Going into his senior year, Massie has only two ways to graduate on time: take six classes his senior fall or take classes during the summer.

However, the student summer income contribution rules out any hope of being able to take summer classes.

Likewise, H. McCormick ’17, who prefers “they” pronouns, said the student summer income contribution prevents them from taking unpaid internships, which has created anxiety about job prospects after Yale. Furthermore, McCormick added, the student effort puts an unnecessary strain on their academic performance, as they typically work 17 to 20 hours per week.

“I came to this institution to learn, but right now all it feels like I’m doing here is working,” McCormick said.

For the 2015–16 academic year, Yale’s financial aid budget is $122 million.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Link found between gene and melanoma growth

BY ROBBIE SHORT CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale researchers have identified a link between a gene associated with melanoma and the disease’s growth that may signal an avenue for new treatments.

The researchers found that DNMT3B — a DNA methyltransferase, which is an enzyme essential to mammalian development and associated with several types of tumors — plays a regulatory role in the growth and spread of melanoma. The overexpression of DNA methyltransferases — which can contribute to tumor formation and growth by controlling whether genes are “on” or “off” and end up being expressed — is common in melanoma and other cancers, but little is understood about the role of individual enzymes like DNMT3B. The researchers published their findings early online in the journal Cell Reports on Feb. 25.

“If [DNMT3B is] not present in melanoma, the melanomas really don’t grow very much or at all,” said School of Medicine professor and senior author Marcus Bosenberg. “That’s interesting for a couple of reasons. It’s interesting because it tells us about how melanoma works a little bit more than we knew … [and because it] also identifies this gene as a potential target for drug development.”

The researchers evaluated the effects of DNMT3B on melanoma growth by inducing changes in the gene in mice. They found that all

mice with induced overexpression of the gene developed melanoma quickly. The researchers also found that lowering the DNMT3B levels of mice with induced melanoma caused a “striking delay” in melanoma formation and significantly lengthened survival. The researchers connected the effects of DNMT3B to a resulting inactivation of mTORC2, a protein complex that regulates cellular metabolism.

The researchers also analyzed the genetic profiles of a cohort of human melanoma patients and found that high expression of DNMT3B was associated with significantly shorter survival. Bosenberg said it is “quite likely” that a drug that would inhibit DNMT3B expression in humans could be made. He has been working with several other researchers at Yale outside of the study to develop early candidates for such a treatment, which he said would likely be targeted toward patients with melanoma diagnoses.

“This probably wouldn’t fall into the category of things that you’d call preventative medicine,” Bosenberg said. “Some melanomas are probably induced by exposure to sunlight — or UV light — and this inhibitor could potentially work to prevent melanomas, but it would probably be too expensive and too big a risk to just give a drug for that possibility.”

Viswanathan Muthusamy, a

research scientist at the medical school and study co-author, said researchers were surprised to see that DNMT3B had such an effect on melanoma growth. They initially expected another gene, DNMT1 — which Muthusamy said has been considered to be “the major DNMT transferase” — to be responsible for controlling the disease’s growth.

According to Ze’ev Ronai — the scientific director of the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute who has conducted similar research, at times in collaboration with Bosenberg — the study should lead to additional research in the field.

“More needs to be done in the field in general,” Ronai said. “Now that Dr. Bosenberg has made this observation, it paves the way toward inviting additional studies that will explore this particular member of the [methyltransferase] family with respect to melanoma.”

Malignant melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, with 76,380 new cases and 10,130 deaths expected in the U.S. in 2016.

Contact ROBBIE SHORT at robert.short@yale.edu .

ASHLYN OAKES/ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR

Researchers identify new path to mitigate effects of aortic stenosis

BY GRACE CASTILLO STAFF REPORTER New research from Yale points to more effective treatments for supravalvular aortic stenosis, a disease in which dangerous narrowing of the aortic valve opening to the aortic artery increases patients’ risk of cardiovascular disease.

In order to learn more about factors that harden or constrict the aorta, one of the body’s biggest arteries, researchers studied mice that had been genetically modified to lack a copy of a gene which codes for elastin, which helps keep arteries supple and functioning optimally. By comparing tissue samples from these mice with tissue samples from humans with supravalvular aortic stenosis, researchers were able to hone in on a specific protein, called integrin beta3, which appeared in higher levels in diseased human subjects and genetically modified mice. Scientists treated mice with an integrin beta3 inhibitor and found that the narrowing of the aorta

was less pronounced in the treatment group.

This finding suggests that developing equivalent drugs for humans could help control levels of integrin beta3 and thereby reduce the impact of supravalvular aortic stenosis in humans.

“To the best of our knowledge, no one has ever shown that interventions for elastin-null mice could successfully increase their lifespans,” said Daniel Greif, study coauthor and professor at the Yale School of Medicine. He noted that the researchers were interested in the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the disease, and using modified mice allowed them to isolate key factors of interest including the role of integrin beta3 and reduced elastin.

In a Feb. 8 news release, Ashish Misra, the first author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow at the Greif Lab, noted that longer lifespans of treated mice had never been observed in previous cardiovascular studies.

Greif likened t h e va sc u lar system to a hose: The more rigid and narrow it is, the harder it becomes to pump fluids through. Supravalvular aortic stenosis hardens the opening to the aorta and narrows the artery itself in a similar way, putting a strain on the heart or “pump,” he added.

Elastin is a critical part of maintaining flexible arteries, so the modified mice, which lacked copies of the elastin gene, were at very high risk of developing the mouse equivalent of supravalvular aortic stenosis.

Grief noted that their research points to a way to

prevent aortic stenosis from worsening in diseased patients, and that their work could even eventually result in reversing some of the damage in patients’ aortic stenosis.

Risk factors for aortic problems include smoking, being male, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

Contact GRACE CASTILLO at grace.castillo@yale.edu .

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“Even though optics present that there are differences in color, these do not state that they should necessarily be treated as different.”

EDWARD BOUCHET GSAS CLASS OF 1876 AFRICAN-AMERICAN PHYSICIST

Study illuminates need for research on transgender issues

BY MAYA CHANDRA STAFF REPORTER A new Yale study indicates that hormone therapy leads to significant improvements in mental health for many transgender individuals.

The report, published in the premier issue of the journal Transgender Health, is a systemic review — a compilation of multiple studies with data on the mental health effects of hormone therapy in transgender patients, said Jaclyn White Hughto SPH ’20, doctoral student at the Yale School of Public Health and lead author of the paper. Hughto chose three studies with data on the mental health and quality of life of 247 transgender participants. Each study met a set of criteria Hughto decided upon, one requirement being that the research was longitudinal and focused on the isolated effects of hormone therapy.

“Systemic reviews really help complete existing literature, to prove if something is either good or bad or null,” Hughto said. “We looked at six different psychological outcomes and how they were effected by hormone therapy. My goal was to select the most sound studies that report on those outcomes.”

The work arose from an assignment in the YSPH class “Evidence Based Medicine and Health Care,” in which Hughto was a student, said Michael Bracken, epidemiology professor at the School of Public Health who taught the class. The students were tasked with completing a systemic review of their choice, and Hughto, who was already working in the field of health care for the LGBT community, chose to study the effects of hormone therapy on various key indicators of mental health in transgender individuals, including depression, anxiety and the World Health Organization’s standard measures for “quality of life.”

The research is a part of the inaugural issue of Transgender Health.

Robert Garofalo, the editor-in-chief of the journal, said he hopes the journal will bring increased academic attention to the issues facing transgender individuals. The low number of studies Hughto found which fit her criterion is not unusual. There is a pronounced lack of published literature on the mental health issues specific to transgender individuals, and very little research has been done in the United States, Garofalo said.

“Research like this takes an impor-

tant first step in getting health care providers to firmly believe that by providing hormone therapy to transgender individuals we can improve their health outcomes,” Garofalo said. “We’re really at a tipping point in this country where issues related to the health of transgender individuals are becoming more mainstream, and more accepted within health care systems.”

As America becomes more invested in devoting academic attention to the unique issues faced by transgender individuals, researchers across the country are conducting more studies to fill in data and research gaps that Hughto’s paper revealed. Hughto described her research as an ongoing project, stating that even five years from now the review would have to be updated with the data from studies that are currently underway. Garofalo himself is involved in research on the topic funded by a National Institutes of Health grant, the first of its kind, to study the effects of hormone therapy and puberty blockers for transgender

individuals nationwide.

Hughto and Garofalo agreed that there are changes to be made in the health care system to better accommodate the transgender community.

Garofalo said transgender individuals should not have to travel far distances to specialized centers or clinics to get the health care they need. They should be able to get care in their own communities, he added. Hughto is currently involved in a project aiming to improve the health care experiences of transgender individuals in correctional facilities.

According to the DC Center for the LGBT community, on average,

50 percent of the transgender community suffers from mental health issues compared to 5 percent of the LGB community and 2 percent of the heterosexual population.

Contact MAYA CHANDRA at maya.chandra@yale.edu .

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A team of researchers from the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale Cancer Center published a study which sheds light on the needs of cancer survivors nearly a decade out from their initial diagnoses.

The study, published in January in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship, found that cancer survivors surveyed at least nine years post-diagnosis expressed interest in the information provided in a Survivorship Care Plan. The SCP is a document provided after completing cancer treatment that summarizes both the treatment and information about future cancer screening, long-term treatment side effects, healthy lifestyle habits and available resources for financial and psychosocial support. According to the researchers, the survey results affirmed that there is an expressed, unmet need for the type of information summarized in an SCP among cancer survivors who have never received one.

“Think of [the SCP] as a sort of bookend,” said Tara Sanft, study co-author and professor at Yale School of Medicine. “You come in with your cancer diagnosis, and then you go through all this treatment, and at the very end, [the SCP] summarizes all the stuff that happened to you and all the things you need to know about it going forward.”

All of those surveyed had been diagnosed nine or more years ago, before it was standard procedure for health care providers to distribute SCPs, and therefore had never received the information typically included in an SCP, Sanft said.

Despite completing treatment, the majority of subjects still wanted more information about their health choices, said study co-author Brenda Cartmel,

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senior research scientist and lecturer in epidemiology.

“Survivorship … never really goes away,” Sanft said. “It’s a part of who you are after you’re done [with treatment], and … there are still things survivors wonder about years and years later.”

The cancer survivors surveyed expressed the greatest interest in personalized, printed information, such as a magazine or other publications.

Less directly tangible information sources such as using an interactive CD were less popular, with the least popular information source being an online support group, according to the study.

This, however, may have been a result of generational differences, as most patients surveyed were around 65 or 70, Cartmel said. Cartmel noted that future generations of cancer survivors might not necessarily have this preference.

According to the American Cancer Society, in 2006 the Institute of Medicine recommended that every cancer patient receive an individualized SCP that includes guidelines for monitoring and maintaining their health. While current cancer patients are provided an SCP after completing treatment as part of standard practice, the study makes a case for providing one retroactively to long-term survivors who had never received one, Sanft said.

“To me, this study raises awareness that all survivors out there deserve a Survivorship Care Plan, regardless of when they were diagnosed,” Sanft said.

The researchers said that in the future they want to determine whether SCPs successfully satisfy the information needs of cancer survivors.

“We’re confirming that the Survivorship Care Plan is going to address … the information needs that the longterm cancer survivorship patients are expressing,” Cartmel said.

In 2012, the American Cancer Society, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, estimated that there were 13.7 million cancer survivors alive in the U.S. They also estimated that this number will grow to almost 18 million by 2022.

Contact ANDREA OUYANG at andrea.ouyang@yale.edu .

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YALE MEN’S LACROSSE FINAL FOUR FORECAST? Also making waves in the national polls is the Yale men’s lacrosse team, which has moved up to the No. 4 spot in the country. The Elis have been incredibly impressive thus far in their 3–0 start, having scored 39 goals while conceding just 16.

“We only want to win Nationals, and the rest of it doesn’t matter.”

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Win streak extended to five

BY EMMY REINWALD CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s tennis team extended its win streak to five matches this weekend with strong performances by the junior class. Tina Jiang ’17 was the only Bulldog to win both a single and doubles match, while Sherry Li ’17 and Caroline Lynch ’17 extended a streak of their own by winning their sixth doubles match in a row.

WOMEN’S TENNIS Defeating Stony Brook 5–2 on Saturday, the Bulldogs moved to 5–5 on the season as they head into spring break. Fresh off two 7–0 victories, Yale continued its impressive stretch of play, losing

just six of the 19 sets completed on Saturday.

“This weekend was great for us as a team,” Lynch said. “Our team is definitely gaining confidence as the season progresses and we’re learning to capitalize on opportunities in important points.”

Madeleine Hamilton ’16 and Jiang won their top-ranked doubles match 6–2 over Elizabeth Tsvetkov and Yana Nikolaeva, and Lynch and Li won their doubles match 6–3 over Becky Shtilkind and Devanshi Bhimjiyani to secure the doubles point for Yale. Lynch and Li’s personal win streak began against Syracuse in early February, and when the team returns to action on SunSEE WOMEN’S TENNIS PAGE 7

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James Randon ’17 broke the Yale record in the mile run on Sunday, a record he previously set less than a month ago.

BY SEBASTIAN KUPCHAUNIS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER To conclude the indoor track season, the Yale men’s and women’s track and field teams traveled to Boston University this weekend for the IC4A/ECAC Championships, for which 23 Bulldogs qualified. In the regional tournament, which brought together competitors from more than 50 schools from the East Coast, the Yale men tallied 22

points and placed 15th while the women placed 11th with 23 points, tying with Harvard’s women’s team for the best Ivy performance at the meet.

Highlights for the men, who finished second among the six Ivy schools in attendance, included the record-breaking performances put forth by James Randon ’17, who joined the sub-four-minute mile club in his victory this weekend, and the men’s 4x400-meter relay team. For the women, the mile

continued to be a source of strength for Yale as Meredith Rizzo ’17 posted an impressive victory of her own.

“Any track and field runner could tell you that the fourminute mile is a mythic barrier that every miler aspires to break,” Randon said. “To break it is simply a dream come true.

I didn’t feel amazing coming in honestly, but I knew it was my best shot until next year.”

Randon started the weekend off strong by winning his pre-

liminary heat, and proceeded to shatter the elusive four-minute barrier with a time of 3:58.85.

Winning by a substantial margin of nearly five seconds, Randon bested the IC4A Championships’ previous event record of 4:00.06, set by Georgetown University’s Mike Stahr in 1988.

This means he is the owner of the first-ever sub-four-minute mile in both Yale school history and IC4A history.

Bulldogs tie season best

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER The Yale gymnastics team left Maryland this weekend as the fifth-place finisher in a five-team meet. The only number that truly mattered, however, was not fifth, but 192.275: a season-high score for the Bulldogs that brought them ever closer to a qualifying score for the USAG National Collegiate Championships.

GYMNASTICS In a meet that pitted Yale against four top programs,

including No. 22 George Washington, the Bulldogs achieved the result thanks to consistent performances on all four apparatuses. The 192.275 improved Yale’s regional qualifying score from 190.885 to 191.400, less than five tenths below the 191.885 RQS that qualified the 2015 Bulldogs for the USAG National Collegiate Championships. Many gymnasts nabbed career highs during their rotations, including Anella Anderson ’17, whose cumulative score in four events was a career high for all-around.

“Notoriously, we are a lower team compared to the teams

we competed against,” Kiarra Alleyne ’19 said. “But when we went in, we were really proud of how we competed.

We belonged in that competition with them.”

Yale started on uneven parallel bars, where the Bulldogs scored a 47.950. Though this was the team’s secondstrongest performance of the day, it fell below season highs amassed at competitions over the past several weekends, making it the team’s thirdlowest bars score of the season. Allison Bushman ’18 led Yale’s scores with a 9.700, folSEE GYMNASTICS PAGE 7

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Despite a fall on beam that counted towards Yale’s score, the team still matched its season-best.

STAT OF THE DAY 3:58.85

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During Yale’s five-match win streak, the Bulldogs have outscored their opponents 28–7.

Women highlight first weekend

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER The Yale coed and women’s sailing teams cruised to mixed results in their first weekend back on the water, with the No. 3 women’s team taking first place at home while two separate units from the No. 1 coed team nabbed fourth and seventh place finishes in warmer waters.

SAILING Women’s teams from four schools travelled to Yale for the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women’s Team Race regatta, where the Bulldogs won 13 of their 15 races. Meanwhile, at the Bob Bavier Team Race in Charleston, South Carolina, the coed team took fourth out of 10, with 11 wins and 13 losses, and at the Sharpe Team Race Trophy in Providence, Rhode Island, Yale placed seventh out of 10, winning three of its nine races. “[We] all approached the weekend as a major opportunity for learning,” Claire Huebner ’18 said. “The regatta was so early in the season that most teams have had a few days of practice at most. We went into the weekend aiming to get back into the swing of general skills like boat handling and starting … It was a great event to help us start to see situations on the water during races that we had only talked about during the offseason.”

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The Yale women’s team won in its first regatta of the spring season.

The style of the three regattas was team racing, a type of sailing in which three boats from each school compete in a series of round robins, and each boat’s finish sums to a total score, which must be 10 or below in order for a team to win.

At the NEISA regatta, Marly Isler ’16, KB Knapp ’18 and Hueb-

ner skippered the three Yale boats, while five crews rotated throughout the weekend. In 15 races across five rounds, Yale lost only twice, both times to Bowdoin. In eight of the races, Bulldogs carried first and second place, with a notable one-twoSEE SAILING PAGE 7

THE MILE TIME OF JAMES RANDON ’17 AT THE ECAC CHAMPIONSHIPS LAST WEEKEND. With the time — which broke his own Yale record, set a month ago — Randon became the first Yale runner ever to break the four-minute mark in the mile.