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CROSS CAMPUS Back in the game. Democratic

candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign gained some much needed momentum in the most recent contests over the weekend.

Sanders swept opponent Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 in the Alaska, Hawaii and Washington caucuses. He also challenged Clinton to a debate in New York before the state’s April 19 primary.

ALL TIME LOWELL HOCKEY LOSES IN SEMIFINAL TO UML

$30 MILLION

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Yale Law School receives donation to rename China Center after alum

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Chaos in Orange. Speaking

of Easter egg hunts, a local children’s event in Orange, Connecticut went awry over the weekend. The third annual PEZ Easter Egg Hunt — containing close to 10,000 eggs — ended quickly after it began Saturday, after a crowd of parents broke rules and rushed the hunt fields alongside young children.

The Price is right. “The Ten

Commandments” — Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 religious epic film about the life of Moses —was streamed on several television channels last week to celebrate Easter. The film stars alumnus Vincent Price ’33 as the villain Baka. Price, who majored in art history at Yale, also founded the Vincent Price Art Museum in California.

New Haven 2 Nairobi. AFRICA

SALON, a contemporary African arts festival at Yale, is organizing “portals” from New Haven to Nairobi on Cross Campus this week. Members of the Yale community can step into gold-shipping containers equipped with audio and video technology which brings them face-to-face with someone from the “Kwani?” literary community in Kenya.

Welcome to my Haus. The

Yale College Democrats will host Doug Hausladen ’04, New Haven’s director of transportation, traffic and parking, in the Branford Common Room at 7 p.m. tonight. Hausladen helped secure a federal grant to find problem areas in the city’s transportation system.

Sungover. The Yale SOBs

will be joined by the Cornell Hangovers at their weekly performance at Mory’s tomorrow night. The two allmale a capella groups will battle each other in a singoff at 7 p.m. Tuesday night.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1994 Yale increases the student income contribution portion of financial aid by 4.9 percent, which is equivalent to the percentage increase in the term bill.

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Controversy looms over historic season Elis beat Baylor, fall to Duke

Former captain to sue Yale

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS

Hide and seek. The Yale

College Council has hidden 1,600 candy-filled eggs on Old Campus and Cross Campus for a collegewide spring egg hunt.

Several students had already discovered eggs before the YCC sent out a campuswide email at around midnight.

Be warned: According to the email, some eggs aren’t in plain sight.

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All five starters were on the court to celebrate Yale’s upset victory over No. 5 Baylor in the NCAA Tournament first round.

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER In the Yale men’s basketball team’s first NCAA Tournament in 54 years, the Bulldogs made the most of their time in the national spotlight.

With a 79–75 victory over Baylor on March 17, Yale produced the first major upset of the 2016 tournament and the program’s first ever March Madness win. Two days later, the No. 12-seeded Bulldogs fell to defending national champion and No. 4 seed Duke, 71–64, in a rematch of a November regular season contest.

The game between Yale and No. 5-seeded Baylor proved to be a physical matchup won by Yale’s hot shooting and fierce rebounding.

Point guard Makai Mason ’18 made his name known, scoring a gameand career-high 31 points on 9–18 shooting from the field.

The four-point win over Baylor set Yale up for a Round of 32 game against No. 4-seeded Duke. The Blue Devils opened up a 27-point lead late in the first half before the Bulldogs came storming back, cutting Duke’s lead to as little as three points before ultimately coming up short.

The 2015–16 season marked the

fourth time in seven years that the Ivy League’s representative pulled off an upset victory in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.

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

MORE INSIDE For full coverage of the Yale men’s basketball team’s performance in the NCAA Tournament, see B1.

Just three days before the Yale men’s basketball team won its first NCAA Tournament game in program history, former captain Jack Montague announced that he will sue the University following his expulsion last month for sexual misconduct.

In the subsequent days, many in the Yale community struggled to reconcile the excitement of a historic postseason run with the controversy surrounding Montague’s dismissal and its broader implications for Yale’s sexual climate. Even after Yale was eliminated from the tournament by defending national champion Duke on March 19, national media continued to dissect the Montague case, especially as members of two other NCAA Tournament basketball programs, at the University of Oregon and University of California, Berkeley, are under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct as well.

Together, these cases have led to a renewed conversation about the way in which universities adjudicate sexual misconduct complaints and the position of athletics within that system.

The announcement of Montague’s lawsuit, which was written by his attorney Max Stern and released by Polaris Public Relations, claimed the University’s decision to expel Montague was “wrong, unfairly determined, SEE MONTAGUE PAGE 4

State aims to tax University endowment

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER In a year with severe budget woes, some Connecticut legislators are considering a tax on Yale’s $25.6 billion endowment.

During a public hearing on March 22, the General Assembly’s Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee heard over

seven hours of testimony on seven bills, two of which center on university tax regulations.

The first, S.B. 413, would impose taxes on private college endowments of over $10 billion — effectively singling out Yale, the only university in the state with an endowment of that size. S.B. 414, meanwhile, seeks to clarify the regulations regarding taxable

property owned by certain Connecticut colleges, including Yale.

New Haven lawmakers in the General Assembly have vocally backed the bills alongside local city officials. The bills follow a national effort led by Republican leaders of two congressional committees to scrutinize private universities with hefty endowments.

Demolition begins at Church Street South

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Bulldozers arrived at Church Street South last week to raze the first of the 300-unit apartment complex’s concrete structures — poorly maintained remnants of a 50-year-old housing project, which is due for demolition after the city condemned them last fall.

Northland Investment Corporation, the private development firm that purchased Church Street South in 2008, demolished the complex’s laundromat and day care center last Monday. Northland and the New Haven Building Department now seek licenses to complete demolition once the remaining families — which numbered 273 in January of the original 300 — still living at the complex are relocated. The city, Northland and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development aim to move all families out of the complex by September, regional HUD spokeswoman Rhonda Siciliano said.

Residents at Church Street South endured unlivable conditions such as moldy water and chronic leakages for at least the past decade. After several residents filed litigation last sum-

mer against Northland, the company began relocating residents before announcing complete demolition. “[The demolition] begins the next chapter for this Church Street South development and its residents,” Mayor Toni Harp said in a statement last Monday afternoon. “While no one is celebrating the overdue relocation of these families, there’s some consolation knowing they’ll now be in healthier living quarters and HUD-subsidized apartments nationwide which will be inspected using new guidelines and standards.”

Jordan Yorks, marketing assistant at Northland Investment Corporation, said Friday that Northland had no comment regarding its plans for the Church Street South property, which sits across the street from Union Station. Northland — which specializes in market-value and high-end residential buildings — bought the complex in 2008 when former New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. urged the company to rebuild Church Street South as a mixed-income apartment complex.

The Board of Alders stalled Northland’s plans in 2012 when it requested that Northland add more affordable SEE DEMOLITION PAGE 4

The University opposes both bills, which Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Richard Jacob described as “unprecedented, ambiguous and sweeping” in his written testimony.

“We would be very concerned about both the fiscal stability of the University as well as the views of donors if we were subjected to

a different set of legal constraints about how we managed gifts to the University,” Jacob told committee members regarding S.B. 413 last Tuesday.

If passed, S.B. 413 would be the first tax regulation of its kind, at both the state and national level, imposed upon an endowment as SEE ENDOWMENT PAGE 6

Patient sues YNHH after botched surgery

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Yale doctors are being sued after operating on the incorrect rib of a patient and allegedly trying to cover up the mistake.

BY PADDY GAVIN AND JAMES POST STAFF REPORTERS The University faces a lawsuit seeking over $15,000 in damages after Milford resident Deborah Craven filed a legal complaint on March 14 in the Connecticut Superior Court against the Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital for a botched surgery. Anthony Kim and Ricardo Quarrie, the Yale cardiothoracic surgeon and surgeon-in-

training who directed the procedures, are also included as defendants in the suit.

In May 2015, Kim and Quarrie performed a procedure to remove a precancerous lesion from Craven’s eighth rib at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Although the eighth rib was marked with a metal coil and dye, the doctors mistakenly removed part of Craven’s seventh rib, leading to severe back pain caused by the SEE LAWSUIT PAGE 6

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nti-Semitism, antiZionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California,” stated the UC Board of Regents — which oversees the school system — in their report on intolerance, released earlier this month. The public rebuke to anti-Zionism, with its many adherents in the academy and at UC in particular, is certainly welcome.

But the regents might have refrained. This is another threat to free speech in the university, and those who think schools need more debate, not less, should oppose it.

First, anti-Zionism seems to abound in the UC system. Just a few examples: In 2014, graffiti saying “Zionists should be sent to the gas chamber” and “Death to Israel” was found on the UC Berkeley campus. Last year at UCLA, Rachel Beyda, a candidate for student government, was asked, “Given that you’re very active in the Jewish community, how do you see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?” A Jewish fraternity at UC Davis found swastikas on its house in January 2015, two days after their student government passed a resolution in support of divestment from Israel.

But even though the regents were trying to address a real problem, universities should not rule certain opinions as having “no place” on a campus.

Bigotry is just a distasteful form of error. And the way to correct an error, about metaphysics or politics, is to prove its dissonance with the truth. How can you honestly think something, of course, unless you’ve considered and disproven its opposite? In ruling anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism unspeakable, UC regents hinder Zionists and philo-Semites from thinking as they do in the most rigorous way.

Free speech will probably survive this latest assault. But there’s a further risk that the regents’ move will encourage Jewish students to talk about and understand themselves as victims to win favor from administrators and others. This might not convince anyone to abandon his anti-Zionism, but it's bound to corrode Jewish pride and will.

How many undergraduates are so pliant that they’ll stop thinking something because an adult with a title tells them to do so? Not many. Now, some may not speak from fear of discipline, but that’s not persuasion. Jewish Zionists want their opponents to stop believing that Israel is a wicked country. The only way to do that is to explain Israel’s humanity and liberalism. In Israel, Arab Muslims vote in fair, contested elections, which is not true of most countries where Arab Muslims are the majority. Israel has a growing Christian population.

Israel alone in its region respects the rights of women and gays. Those who hate Israel must be shown COLE that, to hate ARONSON Israel, they must disNecessary count many and proper things that they profess to love.

Silencing distasteful views addresses only the public symptom of the problem.

But say Jewish students wanted to get administrators to ban anti-Zionist speech. To make the case credible, Jews would have to claim to be victims of “systemic” forces.

Anecdotes of slights wouldn’t suffice. But if young Jews learn to refute the charge of “oppressor” by becoming victims — will it have been good for the Jews?

No. A victim is overpowered and enervated. To think yourself a victim is to concede that you have already lost and are asking around for mercy or, worse, pity. It is to resign your agency, and therefore, your responsibility. If Jews teach themselves to be victims, they will default to blaming others for their failures — spiritual, political and cultural.

Jews need look only to the last century for the best case against Jewish self-victimization. They should recall the creations of the state of Israel and the American Jewish community. The leaders of each project rejected the centuries-old European history of Jewish impotence, exhibiting instead the Jewish potential for strength. David BenGurion, the first prime minister of Israel, and Solomon Schechter, founder of the United Synagogue of America, practiced auto-emancipation, not victim politics.

It is right to fight anti-Zionism with reason and history.

It is wrong to avoid the fight because you would rather revel in Jewish victimhood — thus lowering the standards for Israel — than assume the awesome responsibility of Jewish strength. This requires viewing Israel not as a concession to the helpless or as a faultless beacon, but as one imperfect liberal democracy among many.

The Jews may earn some of their foes’ tolerance if they persuade them that Jews are foremost victims. But if Jews persuade themselves, their children will learn that Jews were chosen only to wait, piteous and miserable — rather than to act, now and always, as a strong and just people.

COLE ARONSON is a sophomore in Calhoun College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .

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'THEONLYONE' ON 'CHUA: THE OTHER SIDE OF DIVERSITY'

GUEST COLUMNIST WENBIN GAO

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couple of weeks ago, I went to a lecture hosted by the William F. Buckley Jr. Program. At the end of the lecture, a friend of mine asked the speaker a question: I understand most Yale students are very cosmopolitan, but Yale is still primarily an American institution. Shouldn’t we first consider American interests and then talk about serving humanity?

That was the first time I felt really uneasy at Yale. But I knew instantly that he had a point.

Although international students are a visible presence on campus, we don’t really belong here.

Every Chinese student who plans to attend an American university is warned about culture shock — but that doesn’t lessen its impact. The first time I heard the term “hook up” was at the sexual education workshop, so I secretly asked my freshman counselor what it meant, keeping my voice as low as possible. On the first day of class my freshman year I unwittingly induced eyerolls and cringes when I referred to the professor as “sir” (in China, such formality is the norm). To this day, when I go out to eat with my friends, I don't know what to

order for the "side" of a burger (I still find the term weird), so I always ask the waiter, "What do you recommend? I don't have a preference." However, believe it or not, those are the more pleasurable moments in life. Clumsiness can be an asset — you actually make more friends through it.

Americans like clumsy foreigners.

But there was another, more serious aspect to culture shock: Americans share a common set of political and empirical assumptions that I had never encountered.

In one of my courses on human rights, we discussed the Amish population in Wisconsin. I said, “What’s the difference between their separation policy and racial segregation?” Other students immediately flared up, “They have the freedom to do it! It’s their right!” I hadn’t meant to offend anyone. As a Chinese student, I am not so sensitive to the distinction between voluntary and coerced action. Right now, that distinction is less prevalent in Chinese politics.

In addition, many Americans assume that luxuries common in the West are common everywhere. I fell ill in the second

semester of my freshman year, so I took the rest of the year off.

When I applied for reinstatement, I realized that Yale had assumed I would do it the American way.

Yale thought there would be a community college system in China where I could take two courses prior to my return. It also thought there would be a mental health hospital in my city where I could get treatment. I struggled to meet these requirements.

I made it, but only after a great deal of stress and special arrangements.

I am not criticizing anyone. Don’t get me wrong. Yale is heaven for international students.

As a lower-middle-class kid, I get a free education here. Residential college deans and masters take care of us like parents. What else can I expect? So I find a lot of campus talk about cosmopolitanism absurd. Yale is not a cosmopolitan institution and it should not be. It is an American school with a strong international element, and thank God for that.

But we do need to solve some practical problems. Mental health counseling is rare in China, and Yale doesn’t seem to know that.

That’s why I went on the record

with the News to talk about my struggles with Yale Health. I was afraid. Publicity is scary, especially when other internationals aren’t speaking up. Our fixation with identity politics often overlooks more concrete, practical issues such as the challenges international students face. I bet most internationals had their uneasy moments — moments when we hoped dearly that there could be a little more understanding. An American institution has no obligation to accommodate each and every need of foreigners, but it should at least make an effort to understand those needs.

Boasting about cosmopolitanism won’t help. We need to get down to real issues: possible exemptions for certain reinstatement requirements and more courses on non-Western thought where students learn to think in nonWestern ways (instead of using Western feminism to critique Confucius). Internationals can contribute much more to this campus by speaking up than by pretending to be American.

WENBIN GAO is a freshman in Silliman College. Contact him at wenbin.gao@yale.edu .

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y grandpa died unexpectedly over spring break in Seattle. I was the only family member to witness his last labored breath, a piercingly soulful event. The night before his stroke we stayed up late drinking liquor. He warned me over Jack Daniels that aspiring novelists have trouble filling their pockets; I stated over Bombay Gin that my pockets were already relatively secure thanks to his success. I also attempted to tell him that I had felt like a man since puberty, but that latter exchange never materialized. I wish it had — Grandpa was a socially liberal Republican who wouldn’t have given a damn.

My I-wouldn’t-have-givena-damn Grandpa taught me three things: to love fierce women, to treasure a painting’s subjects over its landscape, and to maintain a sense of humor in the face of acidic tribulation.

In his last hours though, I also gleaned a fourth insight from him.

Before spring break I had been agonizing over the decision to undergo hormone replacement therapy, in which transgender men receive testosterone injections to actualize a masculine physique. HRT is a lifelong process that increases body satisfaction through eventual elimination of gender dysphoria.

So I traveled to the Pacific Northwest to spend time with Grandpa and contemplate this

decision among the region’s stunning natural beauty. I hoped that the profundity of the Olympic MounISAAC tains and the AMEND t ra n q u i l i ty of the Puget The Sound would alleviate my iconoclast clouded netherworld of indecisiveness. The ruggedness of snow-capped peaks and oscillating contours of salty tides soothed a bit of mental turmoil, but still didn’t produce the sturdy resolve I needed to finalize my difficult decision.

There actually exists a niche community of scholars who dedicate their entire careers to studying the science behind decisions. They float around buzzwords such as “recognitionprimed subject,” “macrocognition” and “complexity-environment model” in an attempt to understand why people make the choices they do. After delving into this field of study, I made a mental decision myself that it stretched beyond the flaky realms of academia.

In 1989 a psychologist called Gary Klein pioneered the field of Naturalistic Decision Making that rejects the idealistic assumption that people make

choices in prolonged and hyperanalytical fashion. Instead, Klein sought to discover how people made tough decisions under limited time, uncertainty and high stakes. Klein developed scores of mental schema that highlighted the pivotal contribution of prior experience in rapidly categorizing situations. NDM has since generated millions of dollars from theoretical and practical adoption by the profiteering defense community, which has ingrained it into the Army Field Manual on Command and Control (FM 101-5).

Additionally, in 2008, a team of Harvard researchers studied more deliberative decision making that counteracts the time restraints imposed on Klein’s model. They specifically outlined “System 1” and “System 2” forces. System 1 flexes implicit emotional muscles of intuition whereas System 2 refers to slower and effortful rational thinking. The Harvard team studied how humans can delicately move between intuition and reason to develop more nuanced and responsive decision-making skills.

But this academic literature still didn’t give me the resolve to undergo HRT, even after I probed the depths of my intuition and reason, and conducted Kleinesque thought experiments mirroring a time pressure environment.

I only found my resolve after

my Grandpa let out his last labored breath. I was simultaneously shocked and enchanted by the power of his death. In his last hours, he taught me about the fleeting nature of life and injected urgency into a situation that was overly deliberative. I think Klein and the Harvard researchers and other like-minded experts ignored the influence of profound external events — of heartbreaking emotional stimuli — on a decision maker’s conscience. Part of their literature succumbed to a troubling American tradition of egotistical intellectualism. You’d be absolutely foolish to believe that decision-making capacity solely comes from the self. It does not — it is influenced by ubiquitous powers beyond our control.

A spiral of new neurons had coalesced in my brain to turn on a decision-switch, and I won’t complain. Instead, I’ll consider its magic to be my grandpa’s fourth lesson. I might even tattoo the date of his death in Roman numerals on my ankle as an aesthetic ode to his last teaching.

So, Grandpa, your legacy will be etched in two forms of ink. It will live on in the way members of your family confront profound decisions.

Rest in peace.

ISAAC AMEND is a junior in Timothy Dwight College.

His column runs on alternate Mondays. Contact him at isaac.amend35@gmail.com .

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“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”

ALBERT CAMUS PHILOSOPHER

City’s first Black LGBTQled church launches

BY RACHEL TREISMAN STAFF REPORTER The LGBTQ community has not traditionally been welcomed into churches with open arms. But with an inaugural mass March 20, the Restoration Church of Connecticut has become the city’s first black LGBTQ-led congregation.

The “progressive” Presbyterian church, which holds services at Elm City Phoenix Club on Wallace Street every second and fourth Sunday of each month at 3 p.m., aims to provide a place of worship for people of all races, genders and sexualities. With roughly 20 founding congregants, the church hopes to grow its membership to around 50 by April 10, when their next mass is held in New Haven. Although the church is still in its infancy, Overseer Yvonne Harrison — the principal pastor — expressed her view that churches must provide a safe space for their LGBTQ members.

“It’s a very isolated, abandoned place when you know that you love God and have a relationship with Jesus, but you don’t have a place to worship Him and remain in communal fellowship,” Harrison said. “We wanted a place where all people felt welcome.”

Restoration Church of Connecticut was co-founded this year by Elder Betty Lorde and Kim Jenkins in response to feelings of isolation from the LGBTQ community that stemmed from the traditional church’s stance on homosexuality.

Jenkins, who was born and raised in New Haven, said she was inspired to establish an inclusive church after belonging to one during the years she lived in the South. Jenkins said she gradually distanced herself from the traditional black church because of their disparate views on homosexuality. Jenkins, who is in a relationship with a woman, said it was difficult reconciling her religious beliefs with her sexuality while growing up in the church, because the traditional churches preach against homosexuality.

She said there were also subtle reasons why she felt uncomfortable in traditional churches.

“I love my girlfriend as much as a man loves his wife, but we can’t hug in [traditional] church like they do,” Jenkins said. “We have to wait until we get home.”

After attending a moving service at Restoration Temple Ministries in New York City slightly more than a year ago, Jenkins and Lorde were determined to bring Harrison to New Haven to lead services for the city’s LGBTQ Christians.

Harrison, who is the founding pastor of the New York church, planned to branch off and establish churches in other cities. She held a service in Bridgeport in March 2015, and is officially the current overseer of the Restora-

tion Church of Connecticut.

“My goal is to develop a congregation that is personal, intimate and communal,” said Harrison, who agreed to pastor at both churches. “We have to be the change, make the change, transform ourselves and then transform our sisters and brothers and communities.”

Over the past year, members of the black LGBTQ community have gathered at Jenkins’ home for bible study and “free to be me” gatherings, Jenkins said.

These gatherings ranged from cookouts to bingo games to fundraising activities for the church.

Harrison said the Restoration Church of Connecticut chose to use the Elm City Phoenix Club as its base because some of the attendees were familiar with it, since it is often used for community gatherings and social events.

Harrison also said the space is ideal for her congregation for now, but hopes to move to a more permanent space as the church grows.

“The response was overwhelming, with probably over 150 people in attendance this past Sunday,” Executive Pastor at Restoration Temple Ministries NYC Rose Hardy said. “This included Restoration Temple Ministries coming out to support our sister church’s launch.”

The community response has been positive, Jenkins said, who added that it took her two days to respond to all of the phone calls and social media postings she received following the launch.

The church’s current focus is to grow and reach more residents of the city, and to eventually fill positions such as elder and assistant pastor, Jenkins said. Harrison added that after six to eight months, she will decide whether to remain in New Haven full-time or to install a new pastor. Harrison said she hopes to branch into full-time ministry every Sunday and become a “full-time Church.”

“We want to grow, of course.

All are welcome,” Jenkins said.

“When I see someone that looks like me, I put a flyer in their hands and say ‘This is who we are.’”

Harrison said that on the Sundays the church does not meet — the first and third of each month — members of the congregation will focus on community service, with emphasis on the homeless, nursing homes and young adults facing substance addition.

Transformation of members’ personal lives can transform the entire community, Hardy said.

“The most exhilarating thing, pastorally, is to see someone disconnected from God because of who they are now be restored and refreshed,” Harrison said. “You can see the glow on their lives because there’s a place for them.”

Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.treisman@yale.edu .

ELSIE COFIELD 1924-2016

New Haven AIDS activist passes at 92

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Hundreds gathered in City Hall on Friday to celebrate the life of Elsie Cofield.

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAF REPORTER Few New Haveners, if any, are granted the privilege of having their wake in City Hall.

But on a cloudy Friday afternoon, hundreds of mourners gathered there to celebrate the life of Elsie Cofield — a prominent New Haven HIV/AIDS activist — who died earlier this month at the age of 92.

Born in North Carolina in 1924, Cofield told her kindergarten teacher that she would become a teacher and marry a preacher. She realized both of those dreams in New Haven, where she taught in Hamden for 40 years and was the “first lady and surrogate mother” of the Immanuel Missionary Baptist Church, where her husband Rev. Curtis Cofield II preached.

After her retirement from teaching, Cofield refused to let up. Instead, she set her sights on tackling HIV/AIDS, and in 1987 founded the AIDS Interfaith Network to combat the growing epidemic in the city.

The Network provides housing, transportation and other social services to New Haven residents living with HIV and AIDS. The memorial service celebrated the significance of Cofield’s life, as well as the number of lives her work impacted. Pastors preached and a choir sang, while Con-

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with AIDS. The nursing home, established roughly 20 years ago, still stands today.

For Mayor Toni Harp, who worked alongside Dyson and Cofield as a state senator, Cofield’s death has given Cofield a kind of renewed life.

“This week, [Cofield] was once again the caring, nurturing school teacher,” Harp said.

“She was once again working tirelessly alongside her late husband, and she was once again caring for and nurturing HIV/AIDS patients through the interfaith network they cofounded.”

Cofield’s influence on her community extended far beyond her work with HIV/ AIDS patients. As a schoolteacher in Hamden, she touched the lives of hundreds of students who passed through her classroom. As the wife of a pastor, she was also involved in the spiritual life of her community.

Rev. Keith King of the Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church, remarked on the influence of Cofield’s late husband before he read from 1 Corinthians. Rev. Curtis Cofield, he said, was a “giant of a man,” but his wife was also a “giant of a woman” who stood outside his shadow.

For Veronica DouglasGivan, Cofield was a mentor and a friend. Referencing a West African proverb that says it takes a village to raise a child,

she said Cofield was “an important part of that village” and “a pillar in our community.”

Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 remembered Cofield as a model of public service, a woman who focused on giving all she could and said she always tried to look for the good in people, no matter their external circumstances.

Cofield did not toil silently in her efforts to end the scourge of AIDS in New Haven. Yale Divinity School gave her an honorary degree, and she was a recipient of a Gandhi, King, Ikeda Legacy of Building Peace Award. Not far from Yale’s campus, a street in the Dwight neighborhood was named in her honor. And, when President Bill Clinton LAW ’73 announced a new initiative to combat AIDS in inner cities, he invited Cofield to stand by his side.

Though Cofield is gone, the work she has done will live on, Dyson said.

“She was an individual who committed herself to do those things that others would not,” she said. “Her manifestation of caring for others lives on long after. Let the work I’ve done speak for me, and Elsie’s work speak for her, and it will inspire many others.”

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

Donation to rename law school China Center

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER

The Restoration Church of Connecticut has become the city’s first black LGBTQ-led congregation.

necticut dignitaries delivered remarks celebrating and eulogizing Cofield’s many years of service.

“There are a few people who we can say changed the face of our community,” U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro said. “Elsie was a pillar of this community, and she can never be replaced.”

Cofield, DeLauro said, predicated her life on loving her neighbor, a model of civic participation for us all, DeLauro added.

William Dyson, a former state representative who worked with Cofield on the AIDS Interfaith network, credited Cofield with taking on the challenge when nobody else was willing to.

“There was a time in this city in which the issue of AIDS was not to be discussed, as it wreaked all kinds of havoc throughout the community,” Dyson said. “There was one voice that spoke for a community that did not want to embrace this notion of AIDS …

Elsie embraced that fact, and it was such a blessing.”

When Cofield began her work on AIDS in the late 1980s, the disease remained taboo among many Americans who were unwilling to face the threat it posed. Dyson noted that the city has benefited greatly from Cofield’s work, especially from her establishment of a nursing home exclusively for people

Yale Law School announced on March 21 a $30 million gift to its China Center, which be will be renamed the Paul Tsai China Center in recognition of the donation.

The gift came from Joseph Tsai ’86 LAW ’90, executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group, the largest e-commerce company in China. Tsai made the donation in honor of his father, Paul Tsai, LAW ’54 LAW ’57, who was the first student from Taiwan to earn a J.S.D. degree from the Law School. Founded in 1999, the center supports research dedicated to boosting understandings of China in the U.S., as well as projects aimed at furthering China’s legal reforms.

“Today, as I think about giving back to an institution that represents the confluence of experiences that shaped who I am, I can’t think of a better initiative than the China Center at Yale Law School under the leadership of Professor [Paul Gewirtz LAW ’70],” Joseph Tsai said in a Law School news release on March 21. “This is the most meaningful way for me to remember my father and to recognize the development of China, its increasing role on the world stage and the importance

of U.S.-China relations.” Tsai could not be reached for further comment.

Gewirtz, founder and director of the center, said in the release that the gift gives the school a chance to contribute to the future of U.S.China relations. During President Bill Clinton’s LAW ’73 administration, Gewirtz led the U.S.-China legal cooperation initiative that Clinton and then-president of China Jiang Zemin launched at their October 1997 summit. Last year, Foreign Policy magazine named Gewirtz one of the top 50 people shaping the future of U.S.China relations.

Gewirtz told the News that since the center launched 17 years ago, it has relied on gifts from alumni and grants from the Law School for funding.

This $30 million gift will provide the “solid footing” and “ongoing support” that the center needs to continue its almost two decades of work.

In the same statement, Law School Dean Robert Post called the gift a “source of great pride,” adding that it signifies the “special place” of the Tsai family in the Law School’s history.

“Under Professor Paul Gewirtz’s inspiring leadership, the Paul Tsai China Center will continue its important work at the forefront of the

United States’ engagement with China,” Post said.

Paul Tsai received Taiwan’s President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Government Services in 1963. He has previously endowed the Myres S. McDougal Professorship at the Law School, in honor of his mentor during his time at Yale, as well as the Paul C. Tsai Professorial Lectureship.

Joseph Tsai followed in his father’s footsteps by studying at Yale. After graduating from the Law School and working as a tax attorney in New York for five years, Tsai moved to Hong Kong and later joined Alibaba as one of its founding members. The Chinese online sales giant went public with the largest initial public offering in history in September 2014. In the statement, Tsai said he is fortunate to have participated in the tremendous growth of China’s economy and technology development. He was ranked the 12th among Hong Kong’s 50 richest people in 2016 by Forbes.

William Alford GRD ’74 GRD ’75, Harvard law professor and director of the East Asian Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School, congratulated Yale Law School and its China Center on the donation, adding that the gift is a recognition of Yale’s “very fine work” regard-

ing China.

“The study of Chinese law in the U.S. is robust,” Alford told the News. For example, there are over 90 students enrolled in his comparative law class concerning China, he said.

The gift came amid strong interest in Chinese legal studies across the nation. For example, both Columbia Law School and the University of Michigan Law School have centers or programs dedicated exclusively to the study of Chinese law. At the University of Chicago Law School and Stanford Law School, there are student societies and projects aimed at promoting the understanding of Chinese legal issues.

Gewirtz said that at the Law School’s newly renamed center, both Yale and visiting faculty and scholars collaborate with experts in China and the U.S., and work on projects pertaining to different aspects of legal reform in China, including administrative law, criminal law and judicial reform. In the past, the center’s faculty have taught courses on U.S. foreign policy and Chinese law and policy issues, Gewirtz said, adding that the center is holding a research seminar on contemporary China this spring.

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“If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it’s a failure.� DOUGLAS COUPLAND CANADIAN NOVELIST AND ARTIST

Montague controversy colors basketball season MONTAGUE FROM PAGE 1 arbitrary and excessive by any rational measure.� Although players and head coach James Jones declined to comment on Montague as the team prepared for its March 17 contest against Baylor in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, asking for the focus to stay on basketball, some Yale fans decided they could not support the team given the current circumstances.

The University has not publicly commented on the impending lawsuit, which spokeswoman Karen Schwartzman of Polaris said would be filed within a month of the March 14 announcement. But shortly after the release of Stern’s statement, University spokesman Tom Conroy said the decision to expel a student is made only after “the most careful consideration, based on the facts and, when appropriate, disciplinary history.� Only one out of 10 cases heard by the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct ends in expulsion, Conroy said.

The alleged incident of sexual misconduct took place between Montague and a current female junior at Yale who, according to the UWC fact-finder’s report, had “developed a relationship that led to them sleeping together in [Montague’s] room on four occasions in the fall of 2014.�

Only the last of those incidents is disputed as nonconsensual.

A year after that encounter, the statement continued, the female student reported the incident to one of Yale’s Title IX coordinators, and a Title IX official — not the student herself — filed a formal complaint within the UWC. The UWC panel that heard Montague’s case determined that he had violated University policy and recommended a penalty of expulsion. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway accepted the recommendation on Feb. 10, 2016, and University Provost Benjamin

Polak, who hears appeals from students, upheld the decision, according to the statement.

Stern criticized both the UWC process and the severity of Montague’s penalty. He highlighted the fact that the decision to expel Montague came shortly after the release of a report from the Association of American Universities, which estimated that 16.1 percent of all Yale students, undergraduates and graduate students, have experienced an attempted or completed sexual assault in their time on campus. That percentage is nearly five points higher than the AAU’s aggregate figure, which estimates that 11.7 percent of students across the 27 universities surveyed experienced nonconsensual sexual contact by force or incapacitation during their time at school.

Arguing that Montague “has been pilloried as a ‘whipping boy’ for a campus problem that has galvanized national attention,�

Stern’s statement hinted that the AAU report, “which was highly critical of the incidence of sexual assault on the Yale campus,� was related to Montague’s expulsion.

But Barry Toiv, vice president of public affairs for the AAU, said the report did not criticize the participating universities either individually or collectively.

Rather, the report was meant to help the universities gain a better understanding of their students’ experiences and attitudes, he wrote in an email to the News.

Stern also cast doubt on the female student’s claim that the encounter in question was not consensual. The incident, which occurred in October of 2014, involved two encounters between Montague and the female student in the same night.

According to the statement, the female student joined Montague in bed, voluntarily undressed herself, and had sexual intercourse with Montague — an encounter the female student later alleged was nonconsensual.

The two then got up, left the room and went separate ways; later that same evening, the female student reached out to Montague to meet up again. She returned to his room and spent the rest of the night in bed with him. “We believe that it defies logic and common sense that a woman would seek to reconnect and get back into bed with a man who she says forced her to have unwanted sex just hours earlier,� the statement said.

Stern’s reasoning drew criticism from experts, victims’ advocates and sexual assault survivors, who argued that the language Stern used in the statement blames victims. “I cannot explain this woman’s behavior, and, perhaps, neither can she,� said a female Yale student who has gone through the UWC informal and formal complaint processes but chose to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the topic. “I did some things during and immediately following my own assault that didn’t make sense.

The way that a person reacts to being assaulted doesn’t have to follow a formula, it doesn’t have to be logical.�

Laura Dunn, the executive director of SurvJustice, an advocacy group for sexual assault victims, said that any time sexual violence occurs within an ongoing relationship, it can be challenging for a victim to determine what to do next. She added that the statement’s suggestion that a victim of sexual violence would not return to stay with the accused assailant is based on a “lack of understanding� of the dynamics of dating violence.

Student group Unite Against Sexual Assault at Yale also criticized the “false notion� that a woman would not reconnect with her assailant in a statement released in response to Stern’s announcement.

Still, others saw value in Stern’s critique and identified

systemic flaws in the UWC process. “Cross examination is one of the most important tools in the legal system to assess [credibility], but Yale, like a lot of schools, does not allow for it,� said Samantha Harris, director of policy research at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. “What we are seeing in a lot of schools is that the process wasn’t fair and reliable.�

Because in cases of sexual assault there are often only two witnesses, determination of credibility is crucial, particularly in cases where there are conflicting statements, Harris said.

Since 2011, there have been more than 85 lawsuits against universities by students accused of sexual misconduct who allege they were denied due process rights, according to Harris.

Stern’s statement, which marks the first public comment released by Montague since he told the News on Feb. 17 that he was taking a “personal leave� from the team, kicked off a media firestorm around a team in the midst of a program-best postseason run.

After amassing a 13–1 record in conference play, the Yale men’s basketball team advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 54 years. However, the announcement of the lawsuit partially overshadowed the excitement around the team’s historic March Madness berth.

As No. 12-seeded Yale went on to defeat No. 5-seeded Baylor 79–75 to notch Yale’s firstever NCAA Tournament victory, students and alumni were confronted with what many described as a difficult decision: whether to actively support the team, which had publicly demonstrated its support for its former captain.

Despite Montague’s absence on the court, the team maintained close relations with him, FaceTiming and texting him

Church St. South razing starts DEMOLITION FROM PAGE 1 housing units than the company said would be profitable.

While Northland prepares for Church Street South’s complete demolition, it is working with HUD and the Housing Authority of New Haven, the local arm of federal housing programs, to distribute housing vouchers over the next few months to the 198 families who opted for them. An additional 43 families wait — either at Church Street South or at a temporary residence due to health concerns — for HUD to identify federally funded affordable housing units as their future homes, Siciliano said.

She added that HUD has identified two apartment complexes in the Elm City willing to accept a federal grant to provide affordable housing for Church Street South families. HUD cannot release the names and details of those deals while parties negoti-

ate, Siciliano said. She said HUD is continuing to identify more potential landlord partners.

As residents trickle out of Church Street South and the complex’s concrete walls crumble, New Haven loses an icon — a poorly maintained remnant of the federal government’s 1960 housing programs. Prominent 20th-century architect Charles Moore designed the building and was lauded for his designs, said Jonathan Hopkins, a New Haven resident who wrote his master’s thesis in architecture on Church Street South.

But the complex suffered from a lack of funds and routine maintenance after construction began. The city lacked funds to complete an additional building that would have housed more expensive market-price apartments and added socioeconomic diversity to the complex. In the 1980s and the 1990s, crime rates in the complex skyrocketed due

to the rise of a gang called the Jungle Boys. In the 1990s, residents of the complex won a lawsuit against HANH for mismanagement.

But Hopkins added that the demolition of Church Street South could benefit the city economically. Former Mayor Richard Lee, who led the Elm City in the 1960s, intended for the complex’s land to house commercial developments and marketrate housing, as real estate near a city’s train station often does, Hopkins said. Lack of investor interest led Lee to propose Church Street South instead. “It should have been a place of investment,� Hopkins said. “But it has not benefitted from investment in a long time. So it’s a positive that this area might become new and usable for a large portion of the city’s residents.�

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Former men’s basketball captain Jack Montague cheered on his old team just days after announcing a planned lawsuit against Yale. before games, according to current players. Montague attended both the Baylor and Duke games, where he cheered the team on from the stands.

Montague was one of thousands of Bulldog fans who made the trek to Providence, Rhode Island, for both games. But others chose not to make the trip. “The reason I cannot support the men’s basketball team is really simple; I can’t support an organization that has fostered rape culture on our campus and derailed conversations about sexual violence and assault,� Joshua Tranen ’18 told the News. “It would take a whole lot of cognitive dissonance for me to cheer on the Yale basketball team while less than a month ago they were publicly supporting their captain who was expelled for sexual misconduct.�

Tranen said that although he recognizes the momentous-

ness of Yale’s NCAA Tournament berth, the pervasiveness of rape culture is a larger issue.

But other students said they were able to separate the team’s performance on the court from the controversy surrounding it off the court. “In my opinion, the team’s performance has overshadowed the recent events,� said Celine Yeap ’19, a member of the women’s squash team. “They worked hard to get to where they are, and I think all we Yalies and Bulldogs want to see is a great basketball game.�

The team ended its March Madness run on March 19 with a loss to defending national champion Duke in the Round of 32.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”

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Yale alum alleges disability discrimination at Princeton

BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER In May 2011, Rachel Barr FES ’11 sat down for her first meeting with Princeton’s Office of Disability Services. Barr, who had recently graduated with a master’s degree from Yale, was set to begin a Ph.D. program at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

During that meeting, Barr alleges that Eve Woodman, the director of the office at the time, told her that disabilities are “not part of the zeitgeist at Princeton.”

Now, Barr — who has been diagnosed with dyslexia, attention deficit disorder and anxiety disorder — is openly claiming that Princeton did not provide appropriate accommodations for her disabilities. She says this contributed to her failure to secure the necessary grades to continue as a graduate student at the school.

Barr’s student status at Princeton was terminated in September 2014.

Woodman is no longer director of Princeton’s Office of Disability Services and directed all requests for comment to a university spokesperson. On Feb. 4, 2016, Princeton posted a job description in search of a new director, and Woodman’s absence has not been explained publicly.

Barr said that in telling her story, she wishes to open a dialogue with Princeton’s administration and help establish a more welcoming environment on campus for students with disabilities. If the administration is not responsive, Barr said she is considering a lawsuit against Princeton to seek appropriate reparations. She has already filed an appeal of her termination with the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.

“The environment at Princeton was not only isolating but toxic,” Barr told the News. “I didn’t feel very safe there because of my disabilities.”

TWO GENERAL EXAMS

Because of her dyslexia, Barr notes at the end of most emails that her messages are transcribed

by Siri. The emails sometimes contain spelling mistakes, and Barr said it takes time for her to organize her thoughts.

Barr said she disclosed her disabilities during her application process for Princeton’s Science, Technology and Environmen-

tal Policy Ph.D. program at the Woodrow Wilson School. After being admitted, she began school in August 2011 and would have graduated with her cohort this year if not for a series of events that led to the termination of her student status. Specifically, Barr did not meet the requirements for two general exams that all Ph.D. students in her program must pass to receive their degrees — she needed a B+ or higher on one exam and no less than a B- on the other.

Barr alleges that while she asked to have oral components in her exams in place of written ones, her request was denied. Instead, Barr said she was forced by the administration to take a qualitative exam entirely in writing that highlighted her disability.

“If you’re trying to write an exam with a broken pencil, and you have no sharpener, you can’t write the exam no matter what thoughts you have,” Barr said to describe her disability.

Barr took her first exam in May 2013 and received a B. As a result, she had to earn a B+ or higher on her second exam. But when she took the second exam in January 2014, the computer with the text-to-speech software that Barr needed to transcribe her thoughts into written words broke down.

Her final grade on that exam was a B-, but she was granted an opportunity to retake the exam in May 2014. If she did not pass on this second attempt, her student status would be revoked.

Though she again asked for an oral exam alternative, Barr said she was again denied that option.

In addition, Barr said she requested a “stop the clock” option, which would have effectively discounted the time she needed to dictate and transcribe her thoughts during the exam.

Her request was granted by the Office of Disability Services, Barr claimed, but the office did not forward that request to the exam graders.

“Neither my examiners nor my department penalized me for stopping the clock in the May 2013 and January 2014 exams,” Barr said. “However, when I formally asked, in advance, to stop the clock without penalty, requesting a disability or religious accommodation, select department and university officials repeatedly thwarted my efforts for accommodation on those same exams.”

According to Judith York, director of Yale’s Resource Office on

Disabilities, once a person is identified as having a disability, the institution is legally responsible for providing reasonable accommodations. Each case is unique, York noted, but the law does not require institutions to “fundamentally alter” the essential elements of their educational programs.

Asked about the “stop the clock” option, York said Yale rarely offers this accommodation unless there is some unpredictability involved, such as when students with diabetes experience sugar spikes or when mentally ill individuals undergo panic attacks.

“To us, ‘stop the clock’ means the exam is temporarily halted and the student is still ‘in residence’ taking the time to do what is necessary to return to the test,” York said. “This is pretty uncommon and not done for persons with reading disabilities. Instead, we would appropriate extra time — planning for a specific amount before the person took the test.”

The environment at Princeton was not only isolating but toxic. I didn’t feel very safe there because of my disabilities.

RACHEL BARR FES ’11 Emails provided to the News between Barr and Cole Crittenden, associate dean for academic affairs at Princeton’s Graduate School, show that Barr was given 72 hours to complete her retake exam. Crittenden noted that other Ph.D. students in the STEP program were given between eight and 36 hours to write a general exam and called Barr’s accommodation a “generous consideration.”

Crittenden directed questions from the News to a Princeton University spokesperson. Barr’s advisor and STEP program director Michael Oppenheimer declined to comment, and Barr’s exam graders could not be reached for comment.

On her May retake, Barr received another B-. Her student status now in jeopardy, Barr decided to appeal her test result, alleging that Princeton administrators had not provided the appropriate accommodations and

thus discriminated against her disabilities.

APPEALING THE OUTCOME

During the summer of 2014, Princeton carried out an internal investigation of Barr’s claims as part of the appeal process. On Sept. 8, 2014, Barr’s appeal was denied, and her student status at Princeton was revoked a few days later.

Not willing to stop there, Barr filed an appeal with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in December 2014 and January 2015 respectively.

In October 2015, Dianne Piche, former deputy assistant secretary and special counsel for OCR whom Barr consulted for advice, wrote a letter to the New York OCR director regarding Barr’s case.

“The insensitivity and discrimination to which Ms. Barr was subjected by Princeton University is above and beyond anything I have ever seen in the context of graduate education and an individual with ‘invisible’ disabilities similar to those Ms. Barr has documented and disclosed,” she wrote, in an email Barr provided to the News.

But the EEOC notified Barr that there were no records of her employment as a precept — Princeton’s title for an undergraduate discussion group leader — and as a result, her complaint could not be processed by the EEOC. When Barr brought her concerns to Princeton’s attention, she was told that the university maintains the right to determine which student records are relevant for retention under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. “Please note that FERPA does not generally require that specific records be maintained, or that records be maintained for a specific period of time,” Princeton University Counsel Hannah Ross ’94 wrote to Barr in an email exchange that Barr provided to the News. “[Princeton’s Office of Disabilities Services] determines what records are relevant to retain, and the period for which they need to retain those records.”

Barr’s complaint with the Department of Education is still under review, but she said a lack of evidence to support an allegation is one of the main reasons why Department of Education complaints are dismissed. Princeton not only deleted her employ-

ment record, Barr alleged, but also information related to her disability accommodations. “[Princeton] is using a loophole in FERPA to scrub my record,” Barr said, adding that without documents showing her employment at Princeton and her request to “stop the clock” during her May 2014 retake exam, as well as proof of her disabilities in general, her case with the Department of Education may be dismissed. “That’s the reason why I’m speaking out and on the record. We need help, and people need to know how to protect themselves.”

Yale administrators also deleted admissions evaluation records last March, following Stanford University’s resolution not to maintain admissions files after several Stanford students requested to view their records using a FERPA provision.

Princeton University spokeswoman Min Pullan told the News that due to federal student-privacy law, Princeton cannot speak specifically about Barr’s case.

Nevertheless, Pullan emphasized that Princeton has clear processes for accommodating all disabilities and addressing complaints.

“The Office of Disability Services has a careful and holistic process through which their staff work interactively with students to provide necessary academic accommodations,” Pullan said. “The overwhelming majority of accommodation requests are approved by [the office]. The Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Equity & Diversity has a well-publicized internal process that gives thorough consideration to any complaints about discrimination of any kind.”

THE ENVIRONMENT AT PRINCETON

Other Princeton students with disabilities interviewed by the News spoke more positively of the general environment on campus.

Rebecca Lutzy, who is in the same Woodrow Wilson School program that Barr was in, said Princeton’s Office of Disability Services has acted fairly in her case. Lutzy suffered from a severe brain injury in spring 2011, and she said she often experiences fatigue and a lack of focus as a result. Like Barr, Lutzy did not pass her second general exam for a Ph.D. degree in the STEP program, but she will be allowed to graduate Princeton with a master’s degree this May. Lutzy described the exam

accommodations determined by the Office of Disability Services as “fair.” Still, Lutzy said she would have appreciated more guidance from her examiners and a more standardized grading system.

Lutzy added that because her disability developed during her time at Princeton, she has noticed that students and administrators at Princeton were more comfortable with her before she became disabled.

“The general environment [at Princeton for students with disabilities] is not an open-armed one,” Lutzy said. “Still, I am not upset at the school. Some administrators have been quite fair with me.”

Sofia Gallo, a junior at Princeton who is legally blind, said she has had a very positive experience as a student with a disability on campus.

The Office of Disability Services has assisted her with everything she needed, even outside of academics, Gallo said. Staff at the office helped her convert books into the proper format, schedule exams with alternative accommodations and navigate campus more easily. Members of student organizations and professors have also accommodated her needs, Gallo added, often without being prompted by the Office of Disability Services.

“I did work with Eve [Woodman] in the past. I don’t know why she left, but she was always responsive to my concerns,” Gallo said. “Overall, I’ve never had any problems at Princeton and my experience here has been positive.”

Colin Lualdi, also a junior at Princeton, said his experience on campus as a deaf undergraduate has been “incredibly positive.” He has worked closely with multiple staff members at the Office of Disability Services, and Princeton has been “very supportive” in providing him with the necessary accommodations, Lualdi added.

Still, Barr said her ultimate goal is for Princeton administrators to stop turning a blind eye to her story and start fixing their mistakes. At the Woodrow Wilson School — named after a former United States president who suffered from dyslexia — disability discrimination is especially galling, she said.

“It’s incredibly ironic and a call to action,” Barr said.

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FROM THE FRONT Bill targets endowment ENDOWMENT FROM PAGE 1 large as Yale’s. The bill would tax the annual endowment earnings that the University does not spend. Over the past fiscal year, the endowment grew by $1.7 billion.

Senate President Martin Looney and Rep. Toni Walker, who both represent New Haven, said the bill would incentivize the University to further invest in the state economy by stimulating the state’s technology sector, backing higher education and mitigating tuition costs.

Se n s. Sco t t Fra n tz , R-Greenwich, and Toni Boucher, R-New Canaan, voiced concerns on the consequences of S.B. 413. While Frantz suggested that the bill could have a “chilling effect” on donors, Boucher noted that spending over 4.5 or 5 percent of the endowment would make it much more difficult for the University to provide the same benefits to future students as it provides to current ones.

“To me, it’s as un-American as the state government coming in and telling the state basketball coach how to coach his team,” Frantz said.

Yale graduate students and undergraduates alike testified in favor of the bill.

They argued that the student income contribution, rising tuition rates and the inadequate size of the faculty body are all incongruous to the size and recent growth of the University’s endowment and the amount paid to its private equity managers.

The University has projected that 2016 fiscal year endowment spending will amount to $1.2 billion, approximately 34 percent of the University’s net reve-

nues. Chief Investment Officer David Swensen GRD ’80 declined to comment on S.B. 413.

Last February, leadership of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee sent letters to 56 of the nation’s private colleges seeking more information on the management and spending of their endowments, all of which were above $1 billion.

A release from Yale News Tuesday morning said the University pays taxes on all of its nonacademic properties and has paid over $4.5 million in property taxes for the current fiscal year. The University’s additional voluntary payment to the city this year totaled over $8.2 million, making it the single largest payment made by any university to any single city in the U.S. The release also reports significant growth in the city’s tax base and job numbers over the recent years, with a 9 percent increase in jobs between 2004 and 2014.

However, some city and state officials still seek to hold Yale accountable for its property taxes.

Mayor Toni Harp, who joined the Board of Alders on March 15 in support of S.B. 414, said at the March 22 hearing that the bill aims to distinguish between the University’s commercial and educational real estate holdings.

“We don’t want our colleges competing with our small businesses,” Harp said.

The mayor has not publicly stated her stance on the taxation bill for the endowment, although the Board of Alders also backs S.B. 413.

Rep. Roland Lemar, D-New Haven, said he and other City

Hall officials were concerned that some of Yale’s commercial activities occur inside nontaxable buildings, such as academic buildings.

Supporters of S.B. 414 said the University has long outgrown its current statute, which they say is outdated and unclear.

Attempts were made in 1977 and 1990 to remove the 1834 statute completely, said Susan Valentine, research analyst for national labor union UNITE HERE. But removing it would require a state constitutional amendment. At the time, Yale defended its tax-exempt status by citing the 1819 Supreme Court decision in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, which upheld Dartmouth’s charter against state revision.

Jacob contended that both bills are unconstitutional and that the University would defend its constitutional right of non-taxation, established by its charter and backed by the 1818 state constitution.

Valentine assured lawmakers that the new bill is not a new tax. Rather, S.B. 414 specifies that certain colleges can be taxed for leased commercial property, some event venues and the sale of products and services.

Joanne Berger-Sweeney, president of Trinity College in Hartford, also appeared at the Tuesday hearing, where she spoke against both tax bills.

At roughly $562 million in 2015, Trinity’s endowment is the third highest in the state.

“Our endowments, in essence, allow us to take creative risks,” Berger-Sweeney said. “Connecticut needs that desperately.”

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

“I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor’s office was full of portraits by Picasso.” RITA RUDNER AMERICAN COMEDIAN

Patient to sue over surgical mishap LAWSUIT FROM PAGE 1 coil rubbing against the musculature of her back. After the mistake became apparent, Craven, 60, had to undergo a second surgery the following day. The lawsuit alleges that Quarrie — who at the time was completing his medical residency in Yale-New Haven — tried to cover up the surgical mishap by telling Craven that he had not removed enough of her eighth rib.

“The fact that the surgical team operated on the wrong rib despite a clear indication of the proper site is, of course, negligent,” said Craven’s attorney, Joel Faxon of Faxon Law Group in New Haven.

Craven claimed that the coverup had taken place among the medical staff at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Although Kim, the lead surgeon, admitted to Craven that a mistake had occurred, Quarrie misinformed Craven of the reason for a second surgery, telling her that not enough of her rib had been removed.

Additionally, according to the complaint, Craven’s husband requested that only Kim be involved in the second surgery because he did not believe Quarrie was trustworthy after the initial mistake. However, medical records obtained by Craven’s legal team show Quarrie was indeed involved in the second surgery.

Faxon said that even though Craven herself is a health care worker, her anger at this “abuse” led Craven to seek legal action with Faxon in the fall of last year.

“She’s gotten to the point where there’s only so much you can take,” Faxon said. “Had they come to her before and said, ‘Look we made a mistake, we want to fix the mistake, here’s what happened, everything is going to be alright’ — if that had occurred at Yale, this never would have resulted in a lawsuit. Only the deceit, cover up and lying after the fact in addition to that, that made her blood boil to

the point where she said ‘Something has to be done here.’”

This lack of candor led to the additional lawsuit allegation of unfair trade practice — the use of deceptive, fraudulent or unethical methods to obtain business, which Faxon said is very rare.

Faxon added that of the thousands of cases he has handled, he can recall only two that involved an unfair trade practices allegation.

Mark D’Antonio, Yale-New Haven Hospital media coordinator, released a statement defending the hospital’s practices and disputing Craven’s claims, arguing that Craven was made aware of the mistake at the time it occurred.

“Yale-New Haven Hospital and Yale Medical Group are committed to providing the safest and highest quality of care possible,” the statement said. “With respect to the case of Ms. Craven, we recognized that an error was made, we informed and apologized to the patient, and we immediately reported it to the Connecticut Department of Public Health.”

D’Antonio declined to comment further on the case.

As a result of state law, before filing a lawsuit, Craven and Faxon had to have the case reviewed by a board-certified physician who specializes in the same field as the accused, Faxon said. That surgeon, who is not identified for legal reasons, provided Craven and Faxon with a certificate of good faith affirming the legitimacy of the lawsuit.

The surgeon said the care Craven received “deviated from appropriate standards,” noting that Craven’s doctors should have done more to ensure that the surgery was properly executed.

“Dr. Kim and his resident/fellow, Dr. Ricardo Quarrie, failed to meet the standard of care expected of a thoracic surgeon in operating on the wrong rib because he failed to confirm the correct rib intra-

operatively with an X-ray or fluoroscopy,” the anonymous surgeon said.

An intraoperative fluoroscopy — an imaging technique that uses X-rays to obtain moving images — is an appropriate technique commonly used in operations that would have revealed to doctors that the metal coil was still in Craven’s eighth rib. However, the radiology equipment at Yale-New Haven, which would have been used to perform the fluoroscopy, was “broken or busted or defective,” Faxon said. He added that this was not disclosed to Craven at the time of her surgery.

Yale-New Haven Hospital’s statement acknowledged that mistakes in a medical organization are inevitable.

“Even in the best organizations medical errors may occur,” the statement said. “When they do, our goal is to acknowledge them, learn from them and ensure that we minimize any chance that they ever occur again.”

Neither Kim nor Quarrie, who remain affiliated with the University, could be reached for comment.

Craven’s lawsuit will most likely be settled outside of court or go to trial in about two years, Faxon said. He added that the vast majority of cases handled by his firm are settled outside of court rather than by a jury or by arbitration.

The next step in the case involves Faxon’s collecting depositions, which may include testimony or documentation, from Kim, Quarrie, an administrative representative of the hospital and possibly others involved in Craven’s medical treatment.

Yale-New Haven Hospital was founded in 1826.

Contact PADDY GAVIN at paddy.gavin@yale.edu and JAMES POST at james.post@yale.edu .

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“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”

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New campus dining website unveiled

BY JACOB STERN STAFF REPORTER Just before spring break, Yale Hospitality — the department that encompasses residential college dining, Yale catering and other food-related operations — introduced major updates to its website for the first time since 2008.

The redesigned website makes basic information on dining hall hours, menu options and upcoming events more easily accessible, and boasts a number of new capabilities, such as allowing students to purchase Eli Bucks online, according to Michael Van Emmenes, Yale Hospitality’s Director of Business Intelligence and Optimization and the leader of the team that managed the redesign. The new site also has a distinct mobile format designed to accommodate a variety of screen dimensions. In addition to improving the clarity and navigability of the site, Van Emmenes’ team worked to address student complaints about outdated information and broken links. Van Emmenes said the recent changes represent only the first phase of the new website’s release, and further updates will follow in the coming weeks. Launched about a year ago, the project to redesign the site was conducted by a team selected from within Yale Hospitality with the support of both Yale Information Technology Services and external consulting firms.

“This new site was built primarily to enhance the user’s experience in both a desktop and mobile device, and we were able to do this by engaging students, faculty and staff in the process,” Van Emmenes said.

Yale Hospitality elected not to advertise the redesign to students, and the vast majority of those interviewed seemed unaware that anything had

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Asian Amer. Studies pioneer dies at 66

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Yale Hospitality updated its website shortly before spring break. changed in the days following the initial unveiling on March 7. Of the 23 students interviewed about the new website, just one knew that an update had occurred.

Director of Residential Dining Cathy Van Dyke SOM ’86, however, said she was not concerned about the website’s unceremonious introduction. Van Dyke compared the website’s initial launch to the “soft opening” of a restaurant, saying that Yale Hospitality would issue a formal announcement to students as a “grand opening” after perfecting the website’s makeup.

The one surveyed student who did notice the update, Amy Cheng ’19, a staff reporter for the News, said she uses the website every day to decide where to eat.

Cheng offered a mixed review of the new site.

“I find it slightly less convenient even though the interface looks much nicer and [more] aesthetically pleasing,” she said.

Multiple students interviewed expressed an interest in seeing an update to Yale Dining’s “Fast Track” mobile application, adding that they use it far more fre-

quently than they do the website.

According to Van Dyke, however, Yale Hospitality currently has no plans to redesign the app, which was last updated in 2013.

The website update comes on the heels of the Yale College Council’s comprehensive report on Yale Dining, which was released March 4. Although the report’s authors from the YCC’s dining task force were aware that work to redesign the website was already underway, they still highlighted specific issues the redesign should address. The report’s recommendations included making the website more aesthetically pleasing and easily navigable, as well as making feedback forms and nutritional information more accessible.

Kevin Sullivan ’18, the leader of the dining task force, said the website update met all of the group’s specifications.

“It pretty much covered everything we could have wanted out of it,” Sullivan said. “I probably couldn’t be happier with this website. It’s really great.”

Contact JACOB STERN at jacob.stern@yale.edu .

The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK MONDAY, MARCH 28 7:00 p.m. Africa Salon presents Horses of God (2013). Directed by Nabil Ayouch. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. Free and open to the public, registration is required. Register at africasalon.org/register. Visit africasalon.org/lineup for complete Africa Salon event informaiton.

Don Nakanishi ’71, founder of Yale’s first Asian American Students Association, died March 21 of cardiorespiratory arrest in Los Angeles. He was 66 years old.

Nakanishi is widely credited as one of the founders of the field of Asian American Studies and as a key figure in establishing the field’s legitimacy. In 1971, while a senior at Yale, Nakanishi cofounded the Amerasia Journal, the country’s oldest academic Asian American journal and one of the leading publications in the field. After leaving Yale, Nakanishi served as national president of the Association for Asian American Studies and director of the University of California Los Angeles Asian American Studies Center. Last year, Nakanishi returned to his alma mater to give the keynote address at an Asian American conference hosted by Yale’s Asian American Studies task force and Asian American Studies Center. Nakanishi, who was born in East Los Angeles, is survived by his wife and his son.

“The fact that Nakanishi graduated from Yale and was director of the most eminent Asian American studies center in the country has encouraged us to build on his legacy because we’re in a sense following his footsteps as Yale students,” said Alex Zhang ’18, co-chair of the Asian American Studies Task Force.

“His career trajectory shows that you can build great things even if the institutions you’re embedded in can’t support you as fully as you would like.”

As an undergraduate at Yale, Nakanishi played an active role in jumpstarting the college’s scholarship in Asian American Studies. Together with sev-

eral other members of AAAS, Nakanishi helped make Yale the first Ivy League school to offer a course in Asian American Studies. Beginning in the spring of 1970, the class was overseen by political science professor Chitoshi Yanaga, although the students largely taught it themselves.

After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard, Nakanishi went on to teach at UCLA. However, Nakanishi was later denied tenure at the school, leading to a lawsuit challenging the decision. The lawsuit drew national scrutiny of UCLA’s decision, and following the case, Nakanishi was granted tenure.

“For so many young scholars, his fight for tenure gave inspiration, and even validation, for so many faculty of color who struggle through the sometimes isolating, disempowering and racially charged experiences of securing one’s ‘place at the table’ through tenure,” said Loan Dao, an Asian American Studies professor at University of Massachusetts Boston and speaker at the Asian American Conference.

“Moreover, Professor Nakanishi shared his lessons learned and advocated for younger generations of scholars who have faced the seemingly insurmountable challenges of the tenure process.”

Outside of his contributions to the field of Asian American Studies, others have pointed to Nakanishi’s ability to unite people as one of his greatest strengths. Nakanishi, along with 10 other Latino students at Yale, helped form a group called Los Hermanos — Spanish for “the brothers” — which later evolved into Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, or MeChA. He also helped found what is

Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

today Yale’s peer liaison program.

All of these organizations are still important to undergraduates today, and Nakanishi’s work demonstrates how important it is for students of color to come together, said Adrienne Gau ’17, who attended last year’s Asian American Studies conference.

Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center David Yoo GRD ’94 said Nakanishi’s legacy includes his students and colleagues as well, adding that Nakanishi spent much of his career mentoring and guiding others. Not only did Nakanishi help establish Asian American Studies, Association for Asian American Studies President Linda Vo said, but he has also been a community and network builder.

During his career, Nakanishi received numerous awards, including the Yale Medal from Yale University in 2008 and the inaugural Engaged Scholar Award from the Association of Asian American Studies in 2009.

He is also the namesake for the Nakanishi Prize in Yale College and the Don T. Nakanishi Award for Outstanding Engaged Scholarship for Graduate & Undergraduate Students at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

“The very fact that we have an Asian American Studies program at the University of Connecticut and I have a job is directly attributable to him,” Association for Asian American Studies president-elect and UConn Asian and Asian American Studies professor Cathy Schlund-Vials said. “He fought a lot of battles that I didn’t have to fight.”

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

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TUESDAY, MARCH 29 11:30 a.m. Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University, “After the Independence of Brazil (1822): Rebuilding Portuguese Colonialism in the South Atlantic World.” Part of the Early Modern Empires Workshop sponsored by European Studies. Room 241, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospectd Street.

12:00 p.m. Myriam Greilsammer, Bar-­Ilan University, “The Image of Italian Moneylenders as ‘Baptized Jews’ in the Low Countries (14th-­ 17th Centuries).” Part of the New Approaches to the Old World: Italy and the Mediterranean, 1400-­1800 speaker series sponsored by European Studies.

Room 211, HGS, 320 York Street.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 12:00 p.m. Joseph Massad, Columbia University, “Islam in Liberalism.”

Part of the CMES Colloquium sponsored by Middle East Studies. Room A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.

12:00 p.m. Cheri Kuncheria (Fox Fellow), Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, “‘A Changed Outlook’: The ‘Improvement’ of Tobacco in India, 1850-­1939.” Part of the Brown Bag Speaker Series sponsored by South Asian Studies. Room B012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.

6:30 p.m. My Father and My Son | Babam ve Oglum, directed by Çagan Irmak (Turkey, 2005). in Turkish with English subtitles. Part of the Contemporary Turkish Cinema Series sponsored by Middle East Studies.

Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

7:00 p.m. Miguel Rueda, Colombia, “Animated Filmmaking in Latin America” and SUHPLHU RI WKH QHZ DQLPDWHG VKRUW ÀOP La Ballerine. Bilingual 4 $ ZLWK ÀOPPDNHU Miguel Rueda. Part of the Latino & Iberian Film Festival at Yale sponsored by Latin American Studies. Room 250, Loria Center, 190 York Street.

THURSDAY, MARCH 31 9:45 a.m. Does Quebec Need a Written Constitution? A Symposium.

Convened by Richard Albert with Academic Associates: Patrick Baud, Sameer Jaywant, and Leonid Sirota. With the support of MacMillan Center; Research Support Program on Intergovernmental Affairs and Québec Identity; Québec / United States University Grant Program. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

3:00 p.m. Migration and Human Safety. An International Conference at Yale.

Keynote Address: Baroness Emma Nicholson, House of Lords, Executive Chairman, AMAR International Charitable Foundation. Sponsored by the Fox International Fellowship. Sage Bowers Hall, 204 Prospect Street.

Professor, Sociology and International & Area Studies

JULIA ADAMS Wikipedia and the Enlightenment Project: The Perils of Crowdsourcing Scholarly Knowledge Host: Lynn Cooley, Dean,Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Tuesday, March 29, 4 pm, 2016 Room 119, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street A reception will follow in the McDougal Center Common Room

FRIDAY, APRIL 1 11:30 a.m. Ignacio Gallup-­Diaz, Bryn Mawr College, “Pirates Into Frenchmen: Shifting Imperial Perceptions of a Hidden Community in Eastern Panama.” Part of the CHESS Workshop. Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street.

12:00 p.m. Houchang Chehabi, Boston University, “Culture Wars and Dual Society in Iran.” Part of the Iran Colloquium sponsored by Middle East Studies and Iranian Studies. Room A002, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, MARCH 28 5:30 PM Theory and Media Studies Colloquium and Digital Humanities Lab: “Dark Data: Modeling Racial Discourse and Inequality in the U.S. Novel.” Richard Jean So is an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago. He works on critical and computational approaches to modern American culture. His book, “Transpacific Community,” is forthcoming at Columbia University Press. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 319.

7:00 PM Africa Salon: “Horses of God.” Award-winning Moroccan drama that follows the fictional account of the lives of the men responsible for the suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.).

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11:30 PM “After the Independence of Brazil (1822): Rebuilding Portuguese Colonialism in the South Atlantic World.” A meeting of the Early Modern Empires workshop series with speaker Roquinaldo Ferreira, Brown University. Rosenkranz Hall (115 Prospect St.), Rm. 241.

5:30 PM “mo(ve)ments: African Digital Subjectivities” Opening Reception. “mo(ve)ments: African Digital Subjectivities,” legitimates and foregrounds the use of technology as a means of accessing and experiencing contemporary African art on the continent and in the diaspora. The featured artists include Nairobi creative duo 2 Many Siblings, South African photographer Kent Andreasen, Namibian academic and artist Nicola Brandt, Namibian visual artist Helen Harris, Austro-Nigerian visual artist David Uzochukwu and Nigerian photographer William Ukoh. Yale School of Art (36 Edgewood Ave.), Second Floor Gallery.

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asketball fans across the country were captivated by a dynamic March Madness this spring, and Yale fans were able to see their team compete in the tournament for the first time in 54 years.

Enthusiastic Bulldogs headed to Providence, Rhode Island, bringing all their Yale spirit with them. THE YALE DAILY NEWS reports.

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NCAAM Syracuse 68 Virginia 62

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KEI HYOGO ’18 ALL-AMERICAN IN MILE Hyogo, who raced alongside captain Brian Hogan ’16 at the NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships, placed eighth, becoming the first Yale swimmer to place All-American since 2009. The Yokohama, Japan native finished the mile in 14:48.03.

NBA Warriors 117 76ers 105

NCAAW Washington 85 Stanford 76

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MONDAY

YALE BASEBALL ELIS NOTCH FOURTH WIN OF SEASON In what has been a slow start to the campaign for Yale, the Bulldogs got some momentum going this weekend with a 2–2 record against Bucknell. Full coverage of the Yale baseball team’s spring break performance can be found in Tuesday’s News.

“This is what you live for as a student-athlete and as a college basketball player at the Division I level. At any level, really.”

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MEN’S HOOPS SHINES IN THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT Elis pull off upset against No. 5 Baylor Yale nearly makes history — again — in second round MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS The 2015–16 Yale men’s basketball season featured the end of the second-longest tournament drought in the NCAA, a new individual record for consecutive field goals made and an upset victory over Baylor that marked the Yale program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament win.

MEN’S BASKETBALL And during the second half of Yale’s Round of 32 matchup with No. 4-seeded Duke, on March 19, the No. 12-seeded Bulldogs had much of the nation wondering if they might add another historic achievement to that list.

Over a 22-minute stretch that began

in the first half, Yale (23–7, 13–1 Ivy) cut a 27-point Duke (25–10, 11–7 ACC) advantage to just three with 40.1 seconds left, putting itself in position to potentially set the record for the largest comeback in NCAA Tournament history. The Bulldogs, spurred by a 15–0 run and the energy of an electric Yale-heavy crowd in Providence, Rhode Island, had a berth to the Sweet 16 — and the defending national champions — within striking distance.

But all stories must end at some point, and the story of this Eli team was finally sealed with less than 10 seconds remaining in the game. Yale point guard Makai Mason ’18, fresh off a heroic 31-point outing versus Baylor, heaved a desperation three that never hit the rim, leading SEE DUKE PAGE B3

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Forward and senior leader Brandon Sherrod ’16 celebrates with point guard Makai Mason ’18, who scored a career-high 31 points.

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS On March 17, the Yale men’s basketball team snapped an NCAA Tournament drought of epic proportions in dramatic fashion.

The No. 12-seeded Bulldogs (23– 7, 13–1 Ivy) relied on the same identity they had shown all season — tight defense, aggressive rebounding and strong play from their starters — to stun the No. 5-seeded Baylor Bears (22–12, 10–8 Big 12), 79–75, in the first round of March Madness.

Despite the controversy and widespread media attention surrounding the recent expulsion of former captain Jack Montague, and his planned lawsuit against the University, the Elis managed to capture headlines with their play on the court in Providence, Rhode Island, as they notched the first upset of the NCAA Tournament.

“I thought it was a really well-played

game by my team,” Yale head coach James Jones said. “They did a tremendous job at following the scouting report, and the best statistic I can look at on this sheet here is that we outrebounded Baylor. They’re a big, strong, physical team … We did a great job making sure we got the lion’s share, though. It was the difference in the game.”

The Bulldogs last attended the Big Dance in 1962, but had never secured a victory prior to that Thursday meeting, compiling an 0–4 record in three previous appearances. Buoyed by what was essentially a home crowd, with Bulldog supporters far outnumbering those cheering on Baylor, Yale put together a dominant performance that featured a 64 percent shooting clip in the first half and gritty defense in the second.

However, despite trailing much of the contest, Baylor found itself with an opportunity to thwart a potentially program-defining victory for Yale. But

one final defensive stop and a pair of clutch free throws from forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 enabled the Bulldogs to outlast the Bears and make school history.

First-team All-Ivy point guard Makai Mason ’18 made sure all of America learned his name on college basketball’s most prominent stage, leading the Bulldogs with a career-high 31 points in the contest, including 17 in the first half alone.

“I thought Mason really controlled the game,” Baylor head coach Scott Drew said. “We had a difficult time matching him. We didn’t want to try to foul him at the end because he was 11-for-11 [at the line].”

Yale, led by Mason’s 9–18 shooting from the floor, exploited the 1–3–1 defense of the Bears, who held a distinct height advantage in the contest. Drew started two players standing at least SEE BAYLOR PAGE B3

No. 3 Bulldogs stay perfect

BRANDON SHERROD

BY MATTHEW MISTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Reflecting on the season of glory “Life comes down to few short opportunities. Small opportunities. You may not even know that they’re there. This is one of them.”

— Yale head coach James Jones As the final seconds ticked off of the game clock in the Dunkin’ Donuts Center, I was overcome with disappointment. My collegiate career had come to a close, an unbelievable comeback attempt was stymied by Duke and a historic season was halted. Upon arrival in New Haven, I was forced to grapple with the competing feelings of pride and disappointment. Over the course of the past week, I have had the chance to put these feelings into context of my

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In a matchup with Brandon Ingram — the projected second overall pick in the NBA draft — Yale forward Justin Sears ’16 contributed 12 points and 11 rebounds.

entire college experience.

After my four years of collegiate basketball, I’m persuaded that success and peaceful unity go hand-in-hand. That there is a greater good to which each one of us has a very real and tangible responsibility. And that without an understanding of that responsibility to not only our own good but to the good of our society (in my case, my team), we are lost.

Additionally, without sincere belief in God and the greater good, which is much bigger than my own self, these two entities cannot be intertwined. Knowing that if you make the hard decisions, if you do SEE SHERROD PAGE B3

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The Yale men’s lacrosse team entered the 2016 season with heightened expectations, receiving a No. 10 preseason ranking from Inside Lacrosse that projected the Bulldogs finishing second in the Ivy League. Now boasting the program’s best start since the 1990, Yale is making a case for top team in the country, let alone in the Ancient Eight.

MEN’S LACROSSE Wins over Fairfield, Cornell and Princeton over spring break extended the now-No. 3 Elis’ perfect start to seven games, though Saturday’s victory over the Tigers was not an easy one. Despite trailing Princeton 6–5 early in the third quarter, Yale’s offense propelled the Bulldogs (7–0, 2–0 Ivy) to victory as the defense allowed its most goals in a game thus far this season.

“The defensive effort today was poor and definitely our

worst showing of the year,” captain and defender Michael Quinn ’16 said. “The offensive guys bailed us out and put up some big numbers so we were able to stick out the win.”

The Yale offense started hot, scoring the first three goals of the contest. Midfielder Brendan Mackie ’19 scored on the team’s first possession of the game, less than a minute into the action at Reese Stadium.

Long-stick midfielder Robert Mooney ’19 and attackman Ben Reeves ’18 added goals off failed clears by Princeton (1–5, 0–2 Ivy), demonstrating the Yale offense’s ability to pressure Princeton even during an afternoon in which the defense struggled. Princeton could only clear one of its five attempts under the pressure of Yale’s ride.

However, the T igers responded with four of the next five goals to draw even in the second quarter. A bounceshot into the lower corner by midfielder Jason Alessi ’18 gave the Bulldogs a 5–4 lead heading into halftime.

But that halftime advantage was short-lived. Two quick goals by Princeton midfielder Austin Sims gave the Tigers their first and only lead of the game at 6–5 with 13:33 remaining in the third quarter. While Princeton clung to the lead for over four minutes, Yale bounced back in the midst of the upset threat from the Tigers, who possess the second-worst overall record in the Ivy League.

“We wholeheartedly believe that if we focus on the details and our fundamentals and commit to the process that [head] coach [Andy] Shay has instilled in us that we will be able to overcome almost any obstacle we might face in a game,” said goalie Phil Huffard ’18, who made three saves against the Tigers.

Princeton’s Sims found himself open a few minutes later after giving his team the lead and fired a shot that barely missed the net. Yale defender Christopher Keating ’17 dove after the shot to ensure possession for the Bulldogs.

On the ensuing possession, midfielder Mike Bonacci ’16 drove from behind the net and scored to tie the game.

“Attacking from behind the net has always been a large part of my game,” Bonacci said. “I played attack in high school and was converted to midfield my freshman year here. I think that has allowed me to be effective up top and behind.”

Bonacci was not the only Bulldog effective below the goal in the third quarter.

Attackman Jack Tigh ’19 also beat his man from behind the net and passed the ball to wide-open midfielder Michael Keasey ’16, who finished the play to tally his 13th goal of the season and push Yale back ahead.

Princeton notched an equalizer soon thereafter, but Reeves and Bonacci proceeded to score from behind the net on back-to-back possessions with Bonacci’s goal looking almost identical to his first.

The two scores propelled Yale SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE B3

THE NUMBER OF POINTS BY WHICH THE YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM OUTSCORED DUKE IN THE SECOND HALF OF ITS NCAA TOURNAMENT SECOND-ROUND GAME. The Elis brought a 27-point deficit to just three with 40 seconds remaining, but were unable to complete the comeback.

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“It’s the fans that need spring training. You gotta get ‘em interested. Wake ‘em up and let ‘em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.” HARRY CARAY FORMER MLB BROADCASTER

River Hawks come back to win in NCAA tourney MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 category — including a near-goal on a shorthanded wraparound effort from forward Joe Snively ’19 — and the top two defensive teams in the country headed to the locker room tied at one.

The score remained that way for over half of the second period, as the teams traded offensive looks but failed to beat either opponent’s netminder. It took some beautiful puck movement and a rifle of a shot to break the tie, which came from two underclassman linemates.

Forwards Ted Hart ’19 and Hitchcock gained the UML zone with a series of passes between them, the last of which was ultimately sent by Hart. Hitchcock took his offer near the left dot and sent a blast over Boyle’s shoulder, giving the Elis a 2–1 lead with 7:48 to go in the second.

The teams closed out the penalty-free second period knotted at 20 shots apiece, and with Yale

holding that one-goal advantage.

Coming into the game, UML had been 0–6–0 when trailing after two periods. “[UMass Lowell isn’t] a team that has a tradition of coming from behind, so I think another goal would’ve made all the difference,” Allain said.

The Elis had their best chance for the rest of the night to get that goal scarcely 20 seconds into the third period, when Snively got behind the River Hawk defense and had a clear breakaway on Boyle.

But the senior stopped Snively’s initial attempt, and Snively slipped going after the rebound — which lay next to the open net — to keep the teams separated by just one goal.

“I think I got kind of lucky there,” Boyle said. “I thought [the puck] was in my glove and it really wasn’t. I think I was maybe halfway to our bench at that point.”

Although the Bulldogs had the majority of offensive chances in

the second period and start of the third, one Eli turnover near the team’s offensive blue line proved costly midway through the final frame.

Yale’s defense was caught out of position, and defenseman Anthony Walsh ’19 was left as the lone man back to cover a two-onone against Gambardella and forward C.J. Smith. Walsh managed to help turn aside an initial River Hawk effort, but he ran into Lyon in the process.

Gambardella, trailing behind, knocked the puck into the open net, tying the score at two with 14 minutes to play in regulation.

Despite several attempts by the Bulldogs’ leading scorers and linemates John Hayden ’17 and Snively, the Elis could not reclaim the lead in the remaining minutes. Lyon and the Yale defense held UML off to end the third frame with a 2–2 tie, sending Yale’s NCAA tournament first round contest into overtime for the third time in as many tourna-

ment appearances.

The River Hawks had played the longest game in program history just a week earlier, a triple overtime win against Providence in the Hockey East semifinals, but they finished off the Bulldogs in just 1:37. On assists from John Edwardh and Chris Forney, Gambardella sent a hard shot between Lyon’s pads to score his second goal of the night — and send his team to the East Regional final.

“We had a lot of confidence,” defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 said.

“We were playing well. It just goes to show you how one little breakdown can end a season. Hats off to them. They played a great game.”

The 2016 Frozen Four, which will feature No. 1 Quinnipiac, No. 3 North Dakota, No. 5 Boston College and No. 6 Denver, begins in Tampa, Florida on April 7.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu and DAVID WELLER at david.weller@yale.edu .

California trip ends with three wins SOFTBALL FROM PAGE B4 fourth inning, she extended the Bulldogs lead over the Matadors with a triple that plated captain and right fielder Allie Souza ’16. Labbadia then went on to score the final Yale run of the game on a double off the bat of third baseman Allison Skinner ’18.

“We have good chemistry and great talent this year and now it is a matter of fitting all the pieces together to reach our goals,” Souza said. “We know that we need to focus on keeping our energy up and executing our small-ball play.”

Yale’s win against Southern Utah, the first game of the break held at the Mizuno Classic in Riverside, California, showed just how difficult it can be to fit all the pieces together.

The Elis built a three-run lead in the first two innings only to see it disappear in one fell swing of Megan Reed’s bat, as the Southern Utah first baseman drilled a three-run shot to even the score.

The score remained locked at 3–3 until the bottom of the sixth, at which point Do drove in the go-ahead run with her second hit of the day, a double to right. Madison Sack ’19 tacked on an insurance run with a single, earning her first collegiate RBI. Later in the week, Yale faced off against San Diego. The Bulldogs managed to edge the Toreros 3–2, capitalizing on a costly San Diego miscue. Two of Yale’s three runs were the result of an error by San Diego pitcher Megan Sabbatini, which cost her what could have been a complete-game win.

The Elis lost both parts of a doubleheader to UC Riverside, the first 8–0 and the second 8–1. UC Riverside, 23–9–1 this season, managed to hold Yale to only one hit in the first game and its pitchers did not give up a single earned run on the day. In the nightcap, Yale had 11 players on base over the course of the game, but only one reached home — center fielder Shelby Kennedy ’19 in the first inning, who scored on an error after leading the game

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UML goalie Kevin Boyle stopped 35 of the 37 Eli shots fired at him, including all 17 over the course of the third period and overtime.

Yale starts Ivy season 2–1 W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 those [close game] situations daily and prepare for moments like that. Each player did their job and stepped up at the right moment.”

Against Brown, another home game for Yale, the Elis gave up the game’s first goal as well but proceeded to go on a five-goal run, with three of the early scores coming from McEvoy.

The Bears then went on a run of their own, scoring three unanswered to bring the game to 5–4.

McEvoy then once again emerged, pushing the lead back up to two.

With 10:48 left to play Brown managed one last goal to bring the score within one, but the Bears were unable to find a tying effort for the remainder of play.

Along with McEvoy’s four goals, Nicole Daniggelis ’16 earned the Elis nine of their 10 draw controls, while the Bears secured just three during the game.

The Elis’ first game of the

break, at George Washington, was a much more straightforward win. Yale’s offense proved too much for the Colonials to handle, highlighted by a four-goal run in the first half, and a series of seven unanswered goals in the second half.

Five players tallied multiple goals in the game: Midfielder Lauren Wackerle ’16 scored four, McEvoy, Granger and midfielder Lily Smith ’18 all had hat tricks and attacker Hope Hanley ’17 netted two of her own.

“These three consecutive wins have certainly given us momentum for [our next games against] Albany and Boston College,” Marks said. “Those games will definitely be challenging, but we’re coming into them with such fire and confidence.”

The Bulldogs compete at home again this Saturday with a contest against Albany. The game will begin at 3 p.m.

Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .

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Yale, currently sitting at 5–15, has two games against Fairfield this week before Ivy League play begins. off with a bunt single.

In the two losses to UC Riverside and in subsequent losses to Cal State Fullerton, UC Riverside and Northridge, Yale ran into a familiar problem: an inability to score with runners in scoring position.

“We play a game of inches and a game of failure, and the key is to learn from the failures to make the little adjustments it takes to tie things together,” Kennedy said.

Over the course of spring break, Yale left more than six runners on base on average in its 15 games.

Meanwhile, the Bulldogs scored less than 2.5 runs per game during that same span.

“Our talent and ability to compete was evident throughout the trip and I think going deeper into the season we will make the adjustments necessary to play at the top of our

game all the time,” Kennedy said, as the team prepares for conference play on Friday.

Earlier in the season, Souza identified runners left on base as a problem the team was looking to improve upon during season.

The trip to California was a chance for Yale to identify its weaknesses and strengths going into Ivy play.

“After being inside all winter, it was extremely helpful to be outside so we could get in as much playing time and at-bats for our team in preparation for a successful season,” Jerpbak said.

After returning from California, the Bulldogs played four games back east, including two at Central Connecticut State and two at home against Wagner. Yale lost the first three games, but closed out the break with a thrilling 1–0 win over

Wagner.

In a pitcher’s duel, neither team could push a run across for seven innings, extending the game into extra innings.

Jerpbak stayed in the circle and wound up going nine for her second complete game and the first shutout of her collegiate career.

Clinching the victory was another freshman, first baseman Carlin Hagmaier ’19. After Do and Jerpbak strung together a pair of one-out infield singles, Hagmaier smacked a liner into left-center to bring home Do and earn Yale its first victory of the season at Dewitt Family Field.

Yale will face Fairfield next in a doubleheader this Wednesday, before kicking off Ivy play at Columbia on Friday.

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

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The Bulldogs bested all three of their opponents, including Ivy foes Brown and Columbia, over the break, advancing to 2–1 in conference play.

Class of 2016 key to program’s resurgence SENIORS FROM PAGE B4 All-ECAC honoree, the 2015–16 ECAC Best Defensive Defenseman and twice the ECAC Defenseman of the Year. Drafted by the Boston Bruins in the fifth round of the 2011 NHL draft, O’Gara is the most professional-ready player of the bunch, and Allain has said that he has the potential to be a top-four NHL defenseman.

But after Joe Gambardella’s overtime winner for UMass Lowell on Saturday, that future was the last thing on the New York native’s mind. “[This team has] my 27 best friends in the world,” O’Gara said.

“Like [captain and defenseman] Mitch Witek ’16 said … every day you put on this jersey, it’s a new best day. That’s how I’ll remember this team.”

The team’s three senior defensemen, leaders of the nation’s top defense and the best penalty kill unit in the history of college men’s hockey, were close this season not just in the locker room but also on the stat sheet: O’Gara, Witek and Ryan Obuchowski ’16 all had exactly 12 points, sharing the team-high defenseman mark.

Obuchowski, who played in 134 of Yale’s 135 games over his four seasons, was named to the AllIvy Second Team, and Witek was

named to the All-Ivy Honorable Mention list.

Characterized by their forechecking and grit, the 2015–16 Elis were a reflection of their captain, who led the team to its best winning percentage since the 2010–11 season.

“Especially with our class, I’m really going to miss coming to the rink every day and being with [this team],” Wilson said. “I hope we’re remembered as a team that worked our absolute bags off and gave everything we had.”

Rounding out the list of awarded Eli seniors was forward Carson Cooper ’16, who was recognized as the ECAC’s Best

Defensive Forward after winning over 50 percent of his faceoffs for the third straight year.

Although his linemate Cody Learned ’16 received no 2015–16 honors, Learned produced one of the Bulldogs’ most noteworthy performances of the season with a six-game point streak between Jan. 29 and Feb. 13, including a pair of game-winning goals against Harvard and Colgate. In addition to his regular-season contributions, Learned notched three assists across Yale’s three 2016 playoff contests.

Two other Eli seniors did not play on Saturday against the River Hawks. Forward Matthew Beattie

’16, who has skated in just a single game since Jan. 23, 2015, missed the entirety of the 2015–16 season due to injury. The forward is the only player in the class other than O’Gara to have been drafted by an NHL team, as the Vancouver Canucks selected him in the seventh round in 2012.

Forward Charles Orzetti ’16 also watched Yale’s postseason from the sidelines, having last dressed for the Bulldogs on Feb. 27. But Orzetti holds the distinction of being the only member of the 2015–16 team to score in the 2013 national championship game against Quinnipiac.

That 4–0 win will be the most

lasting legacy that the class of 2016 leaves behind, even as the group leaves with a combined five spots on All-Ivy teams, three on All-ECAC teams and a 0.626 composite winning percentage.

“It’s a unique group. I think of them as a group, but they’re individuals as well,” Allain said. “And what they brought to Yale and to the Yale hockey community is something that I’m going to be benefitting from for the rest of my life.”

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu and DAVID WELLER at david.weller@yale.edu .

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“A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That’s how I want you to play.”

MIKE KRZYZEWSKI WINNINGEST COACH IN COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL HISTORY

Mason ’18 leads Elis to historic win BAYLOR FROM PAGE B1 6-foot-8 in forward Johnathan Motley and forward Taurean Prince. Forward Rico Gathers, who has said he will enter the NFL draft as a tight end, and his 6-foot-8, 275-pound presence came off the bench for Baylor to add another imposing body on the Bears’ frontline.

Mason’s impressive first-half showing included a streak from 10:58 to 7:06 in which he made five consecutive field goals, including four pull-up jump shots and a three-pointer to turn a 17–13 deficit into a 24–23 Yale advantage.

“I thought if I missed it, I

was sure our coach would have screamed at me,” Mason said of his three-pointer, which came on a fast break. “Luckily, I was able to knock it down. I just kind of felt in the zone and was able to hit some shots.”

The duo of Mason and forward Justin Sears ’16 combined to score 18 of Yale’s 39 firsthalf points. Baylor, meanwhile, put up 34 thanks in part to a 12-point first-half from Prince.

But following a 6–1 Baylor run to open the second frame, the Bears and the Bulldogs found themselves tied at 40 points apiece.

Yale battled foul trouble for much of the second period.

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Mason and Sears, Yale’s leading scorers in the game, combined for 49 points, seven assists and 10 rebounds.

Sherrod, who finished the contest with 10 points and six rebounds, played just eight minutes in the final stanza while Sears sat for nearly nine minutes, as both had four fouls. Fellow starter, guard Nick Victor ’16, also battled foul trouble and played the final 4:39 with four fouls, though the defensive stalwart wound up playing 39 of a possible 40 minutes.

With Sherrod and Sears sidelined, the Elis received crucial contributions from the bench, which totaled 13 points as compared to 17 from Baylor’s reserves. During one sequence, starting guard Anthony Dallier ’17 and forward Blake Reynolds ’19, who provided 10 minutes off the bench, hit back-to-back three pointers to put the Elis ahead 51–45 with 13:02 left in the contest. Forward Sam Downey ’17 collected eight points and seven rebounds in his 16 minutes of action, providing valuable depth in the frontcourt.

“There have been a lot of naysayers that have said we don’t have any depth and we just have guys who are always ready to step up,” Sherrod said. “Coach talked before the game [about] just everyone doing their job and knowing where they need to step in. And it’s really awesome to see Sam Downey who has stepped

up every game this year and really given us great minutes, and then Blake Reynolds coming into his role and just really having the guts to knock down a big-time shot.”

The Eli advantage swelled to as many as 13 in the second half, but the Bears cut the lead all the way down to four points with 1:24 remaining on the clock, capped by a three-pointer from Prince.

On the ensuing inbound, Baylor guard Ishmail Wainwright stole the pass and fed the ball to fellow guard Jake Lindsey for an open layup that moved the score to 72–70.

In the final minute-and-ahalf of play, the Bulldogs made nine of 12 free throw attempts, though Prince connected on two clutch three-pointers to keep Baylor within striking distance.

After Victor split a pair from the line to push Yale’s margin to 77–75, the Bears possessed a chance to tie or win the game with less than nine seconds remaining on the clock, but Baylor point guard Lester Medford turned the ball over.

Sherrod corralled the loose ball and, after being fouled with just two seconds on the clock, calmly knocked down a pair of foul shots to extend the lead to two possessions. Trailing by

four, Baylor heaved a desperation three from beyond half court as the Bulldog celebration began to spill onto the court.

Despite the nail-biting finish at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center, Yale led for the final 14:06 of the contest. The Bears have now been bounced in the first round two seasons in a row, each time losing as the favorite entering the matchup.

Prince paced the Bears with 28 points on 12–24 shooting from the field, including fourof-seven shooting from beyond the three-point line. The forward also grabbed four rebounds and dished out three assists.

In what figured to be a physical matchup between two of the top rebounding teams in the NCAA, Yale outrebounded Baylor 36–32. Following Downey’s team-high seven boards was the trio of Mason, Sherrod and Victor, with each snatching six rebounds. Sears scored 18 points to go along with four rebounds and six assists.

The Ivy League’s automatic NCAA Tournament bid has now earned five wins over the past seven tournaments.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

Thrilling contest caps Yale’s season DUKE FROM PAGE B1 Yale to foul point guard Grayson Allen after the ensuing rebound.

When the final buzzer sounded, Duke had clinched a 71–64 victory over the Bulldogs.

“I thought we took some illadvised shots, but we got it back in the second half, and our guys fought,” Yale head coach James Jones said. “I couldn’t be more proud of what they did … And I told these guys in the locker room, there are 351 teams that play Division I basketball. We made it down to the final 32, and we’re three possessions away from the being in the final 16.”

In many ways, Yale executed as it had hoped. The Bulldogs relentlessly attacked the glass at both ends of the floor, outrebounding Duke 42–28 while grabbing 20 offensive rebounds to Duke’s five.

That effort resulted in a dramatic Yale advantage in second-chance points. The Elis translated those additional opportunities into 21 points while Duke scored just two on second chances.

“That’s what we hang our hat on, offensive rebounding,” forward Justin Sears ’16 said. “We have that advantage. I think we did pound the glass very hard and very well, and that’s what led to our comeback.”

However, the discrepancy between the two teams’ shooting from three-point range proved too much for Yale to overcome.

Twenty-one seconds into the game, Duke’s freshman phenom Brandon Ingram nailed a three

from the left wing that signaled bad things to come for Yale.

The Blue Devils shot 60.7 percent from the field in the first half, including a remarkable 9–15 performance from beyond the arc. Meanwhile, Yale made just 11 field goals total in the frame, hindered by a 1–11 effort from deep.

“It was one of those halves where everything we shot went in,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They had open looks … At halftime, I said, you know, we have kind of like fool’s gold a little bit, in that we think we’re playing better defense than we are. Because their two wings [Mason and guard Nick Victor ’16] are 40 percent three-point shooters, and they didn’t hit a shot, and in the second half they did.”

Yale could not find an answer for Duke point guard Grayson Allen, who nailed four of six three-pointers en route to 22 points in the opening period.

At one point in the half, Allen had outscored Yale by himself, 22–19.

The sophomore guard finished with a game-high 29 points on 10–15 shooting — including 5–7 from beyond the arc — from the floor.

The Bulldogs, meanwhile, turned the ball over five times in the first half, and Yale’s leading scorers on the season, Mason and Sears, were kept in check in that first frame, as Mason scored six points while Sears was held scoreless. Sears, the two-time Ivy League Player of the Year, struggled to operate effectively against the length of Duke’s

frontline, led by the 6-foot-9 Ingram.

The Blue Devils’ dominant first half included a 17–0 run, as the Bulldogs went scoreless for a stretch of 4:53 that allowed Duke’s lead to swell to 46–19 with less than three minutes remaining in the period.

Tasked with a 48–25 halftime deficit to overcome, Yale began to rewrite the game’s story with an 18–2 run early in the second half to cut Duke’s lead to seven with 11:40 to play.

“Allen as well as Ingram hit some tough shots, and all you could do was throw your hands up and say, OK, next play,” Sears said. “Coach told us at halftime eventually they’ll start missing, go cold, and that’s what happened the second half. We played a little harder, got in their faces a little more and eventually the shots stopped falling.”

Consecutive three-pointers from guards Anthony Dallier ’17 and Victor moved the score to 54–38 with 14:43 remaining. The Bulldogs then tacked on nine more unanswered points, five of which forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 contributed.

In that time, Duke missed six consecutive shots.

Dallier turned in one of the best games he has played all season. The junior tied his seasonhigh scoring total with 12 points in the contest, including two three-pointers, and collected five rebounds.

An emphatic slam from Sears with 12:36 left brought the deficit to single digits for the first time in more than 17 minutes. A Sherrod layup capped

the game-changing run, which captivated and enthralled much of the 11,000-plus members of the crowd at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center. Sherrod wound up pacing the Elis with 22 points on 10–17 shooting from the field.

The two teams then traded baskets with the Duke lead stabilizing at nine with exactly six minutes remaining. For the next 2:26, neither team was able to score until Ingram snapped the drought with a three-pointer that pushed the lead back to double-digits.

Down 65–53 with just a few minutes possibly remaining in their historic season, the Bulldogs put together one of their best two-and-a-half minute stretches of basketball all season long. Sears, who tallied seven offensive rebounds, tipped in a Victor miss, then Sherrod blocked an Ingram layup attempt and converted that into another two Yale points.

“I just tried to do what I could for my team,” Sherrod said. “We had the home fans. It felt like a home game, and I was feeding off the energy from the crowd as well. We wanted to give them what they bought their tickets for, wanted to give them their money’s worth with the effort that we put in in the second half.”

Coming out of its final timeout and up by five with 0:52 on the clock, Duke fouled Sherrod under the basket. The senior drained the first but the second rimmed out, and Blue Devil center Marshall Plumlee inadvertently tipped in the missed free throw. The two points were

awarded to Sears, who finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds — his sixth double-double of the season.

Thanks to the tip-in, the Elis were down by a single possession with 39 seconds remaining, as Duke clung to a 67–64 lead.

But ultimately, Yale failed to fully close the gap, as Ingram knocked down a clutch pair of foul shots to extend the lead. On the following possession, Sherrod missed a layup in traffic, forcing Yale to foul again.

This time, Ingram missed the front end of a one-and-one with 16 seconds left, giving Yale one more chance to cut into the lead.

At that point, however, Mason missed a contested three from well beyond the three-point line. Allen secured the rebound and then scored the final two points of the game from the foul line to seal the 71–64 win.

“We have played in games where teams have kind of crept back in, and that is exactly what Yale did,” Duke guard Luke Kennard, who scored 13 points in the contest, said. “We just have to figure out the way to keep that lead and keep that momentum our way. But hats off to Yale.

They played a great game. They have senior leadership and great players.”

The Bulldogs finished their historic campaign with the most wins in a season since the 1906– 07 squad, which finished 30–7– 1.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

Sacrifice and reward SHERROD FROM PAGE B1 what may be uncool or lame, and dedicate yourself to the greater good, you will prosper. Altogether, it seems abundantly clear, having been fortunate enough to see what I have in my last four years of basketball, that I am a living, breathing product not of my desires, fears or environment, but of a will and dedication to focus and detail toward those around me.

Many people believe that success is glamorous and attractive, and in many cases it is. The NCAA Tournament was full of highmajor amenities, lots of media attention and national stardom (just Google “Makai Mason”). But from my experience, with success I have found the opposite to be true.

People don’t know about the 6:30 a.m. practices, the long film sessions, early morning conditioning — the bumps, the bruises, the ice baths, the rehab or the grind that we’ve had to endure from September to March. These experiences have led me to believe there is no great reward for which one must not sacrifice immensely.

By the same token, the sacrifices we give pale in comparison to the gifts we are able to receive through the trouble of our sacrifices. It is very easy to give into our fears, hatreds, worries, doubts, isolation or shame, and this team has had to deal with a fair share of these. Understandably, all of these negative forces want you to run from responsibility — take the easy way out, lay down and quit.

After this year, I can confidently say that for me, my teammates and my coaches, success has been a synonym for focus, for making a conscious decision about what to focus on and allowing nothing to stop us from dedicating ourselves to our craft.

Today, I am basking in the reflected glory of my teammates.

From top to bottom, I have been thoroughly impressed with each and every one of them both on and off the court. Whether it was time spent in the locker room, grueling road trips to Ithaca or the post-win air guitar solos to “Here I Go Again” by Whitesnake, every moment spent with my teammates was memorable.

Statistics can’t quantify the impact that these moments have had on this team and on my life.

Thank you Eric “E” Anderson, Alex “AC” Copeland, Anthony “Tony” Dallier, Sam “The Franchise” Downey, A.J. “Birdman” Edwards, Khaliq “Liq” Ghani, Matt Greene, Eli Lininger, Makai “Money” Mason, Trey “Bobby Ray” Phils, Blake “Ba-La-Kae” Reynolds, Landon “Lando” Russell, Thomas “Take His Shoes” Ryan, Justin “POY” Sears and Nick “Tex” Victor.

I love y’all, we made history.

BRANDON SHERROD is a senior in Pierson College. He was a starting forward for the Yale men’s basketball team during its 2016 NCAA Tournament run. Contact him at brandon.sherrod@yale.edu .

Perfect start pushes Yale to No. 3 in rankings M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B1 to a 9–7 lead, entering the fourth quarter.

The teams exchanged goals within a minute of each other before Sims scored his fourth goal of the game, top among all players in the game, to bring the Tigers within one at 10–9. On the next possession, Mackie carved through the defense and slipped a shot through the goalie’s legs.

Mackie finished the day with two goals and led a big day for Yale’s freshman class. Between Mackie, Mooney, Tigh and midfielder Joe Sessa ’19, the freshman class tallied four goals and two assists.

“The freshmen’s performance was not a shock to the team,” Quinn said. “It’s indicative of how they play in practice.

They’ve been big contributors since they stepped on campus.

The older guys on the offense have taught them and brought

them along.”

Despite the effort from the freshmen, a Princeton goal from midfielder Zach Courier closed the gap to one goal with 10:02 to play. Yale successfully held its 11–10 lead for the remainder of the game, as the Bulldogs maintained possession for much of that final stretch.

The Tigers had one final opportunity with 30 seconds remaining, but Yale’s offense pressured Princeton as the Tigers attempted to clear and forced them offside to end the game and secure the victory.

“This was our first one-goal game this year and it was great to see some kids respond well,” Bonacci said of his team, which had won its first six games by an average of 6.5 goals.

Besides the key performances from the freshmen and two goals from Bonacci himself, Reeves led all Bulldogs with three scores.

Reeves also tallied an assist, bringing his team-best season totals to 20 goals and 16 assists.

Although Yale escaped with the victory, there were definite areas for improvement. The defense allowed goals on three of Princeton’s four extra-man situations, and the Bulldogs only picked up 27 of 57 ground balls.

“We’re not playing cohesively and communicating on the defensive end,” Quinn said.

“Even though we’ve been winning we’ve got to keep getting better: offense, defense, facing off and goaltending.”

Nevertheless, Yale managed to finish its spring break unscathed.

In the first contest against Fairfield, the Bulldogs took a 6–0 lead into halftime on the way to a painless 10–5 victory. Yale caused 17 turnovers while only committing five to win for the third time in four years against Fairfield.

The Ivy League opener against

Cornell featured a much closer first half. The game was tied until attackman Jeff Cimbalista ’17 scored as time expired in the second quarter to give Yale a 7–6 lead. The Bulldogs did not look back in the second half as they scored four of the next five goals and finished with a 15–9 victory.

Keasey and Reeves each scored four goals in the conferenceopening victory.

The win over Princeton brought Yale to a tie at 2–0 atop the Ivy League with Penn. Brown, picked alongside Yale by many media outlets as a favorite to contend for the Ancient Eight title, is 1–0 in league play and currently ranked fourth in the nation.

Saturday’s game was the seventh-straight regular season meeting between Yale and Princeton that was decided by one goal.

Contact MATTHEW MISTER at matthew.mister@yale.edu .

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The last Yale team to go 7–0 to open its season was the 1990 squad, which won its first 14 games before advancing to the NCAA semifinals.

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SPORTS

“Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.”

WAYNE GRETZKY LEGENDARY FORMER NHL PLAYER

UMass Lowell gets revenge in NCAA tourney MEN’S HOCKEY

For seniors, early exit but lasting legacy

BY HOPE ALLCHIN AND DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTERS When the Yale men’s hockey team’s season ended on Saturday night with an overtime loss to UMass Lowell, so too did the collegiate careers of the Bulldogs’ eight seniors.

But as the those veterans leave behind Ingalls Rink, they also stamp their place in Yale hockey history.

MEN’S HOCKEY Over the course of their time as Bulldogs, the eight helped secure three NCAA appearances for a program that, when the class of 2016 arrived on campus, had just five in the 64-year history of the tournament. And most notably, as freshmen, the current seniors helped the Elis win their only national championship to date in 2013.

All told, the group, which arrived

in New Haven eight years after a 5–25–2 season for Yale, reaffirmed the program’s resurgence onto the national stage.

“They came to work every day, and did whatever I asked them to do,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “I think they maximized their potential as hockey players and as people.”

That potential on the ice may have been most realized this season, as five of the eight — only seven of whom were healthy enough to play in 2015–16 — were recognized for their play during the campaign.

Forward Stu Wilson ’16, who finished second on the team with 26 points, was named to the All-Ivy First Team.

Matching that honor was defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16, whose decorated career as an Eli has seen him named a 2014–15 first-team All-American, twice a first-team SEE SENIORS PAGE B2

COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

UMass Lowell forward Joe Gambardella scored both the game-tying goal and this game-winning score to help his team advance.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN AND DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTERS The score was the same, the scenario was identical and the stakes were nearly as high. Just as the Yale and UMass Lowell 2013 men’s hockey teams went to overtime tied at two in an NCAA tournament semifinal with their postseason hopes on the line, so too did their 2016 counterparts on Saturday night.

Only this time, the victor was not the same — and neither will be the eventual national champion.

The No. 8 River Hawks (25–10–5, 12–6–4 Hockey East) avenged their 2013 Frozen Four loss to Yale with a 3–2 win in the NCAA regional semifinal over the No. 10 and

third-seeded Bulldogs (19– 9–4, 14–5–3 ECAC Hockey) in Albany, New York, 24 hours before No. 1 Quinnipiac knocked out UML in a 4–1 victory.

UMass Lowell forward Joe Gambardella scored the gamewinning goal against Yale 1:37 into overtime, sending the Bulldogs home despite a 37–31 shot advantage, 28 saves by goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 and goals from forwards Frankie DiChiara ’17 and Ryan Hitchcock ’18. The River Hawk win ended the collegiate careers of the Elis’ eight seniors and finished Yale’s season with a 3–2 overtime loss in the NCAA tournament first round for a second consecutive year.

“I’m very proud of the way our team played tonight,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said.

“Unfortunately, overtime is the bounce of the puck. The only thing I would change is the outcome.”

Unlike the teams’ 2013 national semifinal matchup, in which Yale jumped out to a 2–0 lead in the opening period, the River Hawks drew first blood on Saturday. Four minutes into the first frame, the Bulldogs’ defense, going after UMass Lowell forward Michael Louria near the right faceoff dot, cheated a bit too far towards the sophomore winger.

Louria looked up and found linemate Michael Fallon alone at the opposite circle, and Fallon beat Lyon stick-side.

UML continued to control play for a while, building up an 8–3 shot advantage in the first 12 minutes. That stretch included 1:05 of a River Hawk

Yale pushes above 0.500

BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER After a 2–4 start to the 2016 season and a loss to Ivy League foe Cornell, the Yale women’s lacrosse team needed to produce a strong performance over spring break in order to jump-start its conference campaign. In three games over the two weeks, the Bulldogs did just that.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE The Bulldogs (5–4, 2–1 Ivy) first crushed nonconference opponent George Washington (2–6, 0–0 Atlantic 10),

17–7, on March 12, then narrowly bested Brown (4–4, 0–3 Ivy) 6–5 a week later before finishing their perfect vacation with a 10–9 overtime win over Columbia (4–5, 0–3) last Saturday. In a game that was a nail-biter right from the start, Yale midfielder Madeleine Gramigna ’18 delivered the fatal blow against the Lions with a goal midway through the three-minute overtime period.

“It felt amazing, especially the Columbia game,” goalie Sydney Marks ’18 said.

“That game was a battle for the entire 65 minutes we were on the field, and the feel-

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Defender Emily Markham ’17 had a pair of ground balls and a pair of draw controls against George Washington on March 12.

ing after [Gramigna] put the game-winning goal away was unreal.”

Columbia struck first Saturday in New Haven and, despite back-and-forth scoring, kept Yale from gaining a lead until just 8:43 remained in the game. That 8–7 Eli lead only lasted 54 seconds before Columbia drew equal. The Lions regained the advantage less than three minutes later.

It seemed then that the Lions had stolen the wind from the Bulldogs’ sails and would float to victory. But with 1:05 left to play, attacker Tess McEvoy ’17 knotted the game and forced overtime, allowing Gramigna to score the game winner just 1:38 into the extra time. “[Scoring the game-winning goal] felt great because our team has been so determined to win this game since we lost to Columbia last year,” Gramigna said. “We worked extremely hard all week and throughout that game into overtime. It was an entire team effort. I was lucky to have been the one open in the middle, and I am so excited that we pulled out another Ivy League victory.”

Attacker Emily Granger ’18 contributed two goals in addition to a hat trick from McEvoy, and Marks racked up 15 saves. The Elis were a near perfect on clears, going 18–19, and maintained a close 11–10 edge in draw controls.

Columbia held a two-goal lead once, and Yale never held a lead of more than one.

“Our players did a tremendous job performing under pressure,” head coach Erica LaGrow said. “They work on SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE B2

five-on-three, which the Elis managed to kill without trouble, and it saw UML outshoot the Elis 1–0 on Yale’s only first-period power play.

But with just under five minutes to go before intermission, the River Hawks turned the puck over in the Yale zone to forward Cody Learned ’16.

Learned sent a pass over to DiChiara at the high slot, and DiChiara sent the equalizer through the legs of UML goaltender Kevin Boyle.

That seemed to turn the momentum, sparking a run of sustained Yale offensive pressure that lasted until the period’s final whistle. By the time the clock hit triple zeroes, the Elis had rallied off six straight shots to take a 9–8 lead in that SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B2

YALE DAILY NEWS

Yale’s national championship in 2013 highlighted the four-year careers of the Bulldogs’ class of 2016.

Elis warm up against stiff competition

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After opening its season with 18 games away from New Haven, Yale split its first two home games on Saturday.

BY FLORA LIPSKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While much of the student body enjoyed its spring break at various locales across the globe, the Yale softball team faced several different opponents on the West Coast before returning home to New England.

SOFTBALL The Bulldogs went 3–8 on the trip with wins against Southern Utah, San Diego and Cal State Northridge. During the second week of break, Yale (5–15, 0–0 Ivy) went 1–3 in doubleheaders against Central Connecticut and Wagner, though the win came in exciting fashion on a walk-off

against Wagner in the Bulldogs’ second home game of the season to complete a 4–11 spring break.

Despite losing eight of the games played in California, Yale showed its potential in outings such as its split doubleheader against a strong softball program in Northridge, which currently boasts an 18–14 record.

During the action-packed week, two Elis, pitcher Terra Jerpbak ’19 and shortstop Brittany Labbadia ’16, earned spots on the Ivy League honor roll for their performances.

“I pitched significantly better in California than I did at our games before that which was good,” Jerpbak said. “I relaxed and just reminded myself that the team had my back.”

On the trip, Jerpbak claimed her first victory in the 6–2 win over Northridge while building on her initial performances in February. After posting an 8.08 ERA in just two appearances and 4.1 innings in February, Jerpbak has tossed 43.0 innings thus far in March to the tune of a 4.40 ERA. To earn the win against Northridge, one of two over the break, she pitched a seven-inning complete game in which she gave up only two runs on five hits. Notably, Jerpbak aided her own cause early in the contest, scoring second baseman Laina Do ’17 with a first-inning double.

Labbadia’s moment to shine came in the same game. In the SEE SOFTBALL PAGE B2