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Coach served as Montague’s UWC adviser

The most expensive lunch of all time. After finishing a meal

for $21.47 at a restaurant last week, former President George W. Bush ’68 and former First Lady Laura Bush left a $40 tip for waitress Leisa Smith. Later Smith tweeted a picture of herself with the Bushes with the caption, “Bush did 911 but he did me a solid and left me a hella tip #,” and the tweet went viral. The comment gained so much traction that Smith had to tweet out a clarification that it was intended to be a joke.

Going for four. The UConn women’s basketball team beat out Texas 86–65 in Bridgeport last night, earning their ninthstraight bid to the NCAA Final Four. If the Huskies continue to win, they’ll take home their fourth-consecutive national championship. UConn’s next game will be the semifinal against Oregon State — which beat Baylor in a close contest yesterday — on Sunday night.

It’s (Uti)Lit. Emily Schwend

is the winner of the Yale Drama Series Prize — awarded annually to an emerging playwright — for “Utility,” her play about a mother supporting her struggling family in Texas. Schwend’s work was selected from a pool of over 1,600 submissions. As part of her award, Schwend will receive $10,000.

Money talks. The Yale Law and Business Society, along with the YLS Social Entrepreneurs and Yale FinTech, will host a discussion about financial technology at the Law School this evening. The list of panelists includes the founder of a software company aiming to fight poverty and the CEO of a firm conducting business crowdfunding.

Open season. The Yale College

Council will host a mandatory information session for all students interested in running for YCC officer positions as well as class council president and residential college representative positions. The session will be held at 8 p.m. this evening in Sudler Hall.

ARod ’n Anne. Former Yankee

star Alex Rodriguez’s newest girlfriend is Anne Wojcicki ’96, who graduated from Yale with a degree in biology. Wojcicki is the CEO of personal genomic company 23andMe. Her sister, Susan Wojcicki, is the CEO of YouTube.

Get Buck out of there. A car

crashed into a convenience store on Winchester Avenue, close to Science Park and down the street from the Chi Psi fraternity house yesterday.

Police are still investigating the cause of the collision.

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1974 Former U.S. Attorney Elliot Richardson visits Yale as a Chubb Fellow.

Richardson resigned from his cabinet position in the Nixon administration because he objected to the White House’s tactics on the Watergate case.

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BOE resolves membership controversy

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him, one source said. Jones did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The role of the adviser is to offer “personal and moral support” and help the complainant or respondent prepare for meetings, according to UWC procedures. Advisers may not speak for their advisees during interviews or hearings and may not submit documents on the individual’s behalf at any point in the process.

Board of Education members on Monday reached an official consensus on an aldermanic settlement that would allow BOE member Daisy Gonzalez to continue serving on the board until December 2018.

The settlement, approved unanimously by the Board of Alders on March 21, permits all eight BOE members to retain seats on the board until the respective expiration of their terms. But while all eight members remain on the board until year’s end, only seven will be able to vote at any meeting. Per the March 21 settlement, one appointed member of the BOE will have his or her voting privileges suspended in two-week increments until Dec. 31. Mayor Toni Harp said since the board usually only meets once every two weeks, each appointed board member will only be suspended from voting at one meeting.

“The settlement agrees that at each BOE meeting we’ll have one of the five appointed members on leave for that night, so they won’t be able to participate, sit up [with the rest of the board] or have a vote for that night,” New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 said at Monday’s BOE meeting. “It wasn’t what we set out to do, but at the end of the day, we are happy that the settlement resolves our mutual concerns over the tenure of the members.”

The alders alleged in a Jan. 26 civil suit that BOE member Daisy Gonzalez and the BOE defied the 2013 referendum to the city’s charter, which calls explicitly for a BOE com-

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Montague allegedly violated University sexual misconduct policy in October 2014.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS Yale men’s basketball head coach James Jones served as the adviser for former captain Jack Montague during his hearing process before the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, according to sources with knowledge of the case.

Montague allegedly violated University sexual misconduct policy in October 2014 in an incident of nonconsensual sexual intercourse. A com-

plaint was filed with one of Yale’s Title IX coordinators a year later, and Montague was expelled on Feb. 10, 2016, after undergoing the UWC process for a formal complaint.

According to UWC procedures, both the complainant and the respondent in a case of alleged sexual misconduct may be accompanied by an adviser of his or her choice at any stage of the process. While residential college masters or deans are a common choice, Montague chose “the person he was closest to” on campus to advise

Access Yale raises $195 million for financial aid

BY DAVID SHIMER AND JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTERS With three months until the completion of Access Yale, a two-year fundraising initiative to raise money for financial aid, the University is $55 million shy of its $250 million goal.

Following a strong first year in

which Yale raised $130 million for the program, the Office of Development increased the overall goal from $200 million to $250 million. The initiative was launched in July 2014, partly in preparation for the 800 new students who will arrive over four years once the two new residential colleges open in 2017. According to a Jan-

Students shed light on refugee crisis

BY RACHEL TREISMAN STAFF REPORTER Two Yale students traveled to Berlin over spring break to meet with nongovernmental organization leaders, German citizens and Syrian refugees for an Ivy Council project.

The Ivy Council, a nonprofit organization of student leaders across all eight Ivy League schools, is spearheading a Syrian refugees project under its Global Roundtable program this semester. This program is geared toward engaging council members in discussion about global issues. As part of an eight-person team working on the project, Lelina Chang ’18 and Noora Reffat ’19 visited Berlin for four days to conduct interviews and film footage for a newsletter and video about the Syrian refugee crisis. After leaving Berlin, the students sent their videos to

their team members, who will edit and compile the material by the end of the semester to present at the council’s fall conference, Chang said. The team hopes that their project will show the refugee crisis in a more personal light.

“I hope that people obtain a new perspective on the crisis through this project,” Reffat said. “We really want to highlight the resilience of the Syrian people and educate our peers on the crisis in a way that is different from the media.”

Chang and Reffat, along with a student from Dartmouth, were the only team members able to receive university funding for the trip. The Yale students received funding from Dwight Hall through an application process a little more than a week before the trip, Chang said.

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uary YaleNews release, the new students will cost the University an additional $18 million per year in financial aid.

Just over half of the funds raised so far have been designated toward Yale College by their donors, with the rest directed toward the graduate and professional schools or the Uni-

versity more generally, according to Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Joan O’Neill. Though Yale still needs to raise just under a quarter of its total goal by June 30, O’Neill said she expects donations to spike in the weeks just before the end of the initiative.

“I am optimistic we will hit

the [$250 million] by June 30, though it is going to be a push,” O’Neill said. “But we have a number of very good gifts in the pipeline, and several of them are donors in reunion years so they are motivated to finalize their commitments in time to have it SEE FUNDRAISING PAGE 6

Law students assess mental health reforms

BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER On Monday, amid the usual classes and activities at the Yale Law School, law students also participated in events such as silent meditation, a mindfulness session and a webinar on stress management. The events, which were planned as part of the American Bar Association’s Mental Health Awareness Day, are part of a larger monthlong initiative at the Law School to tackle mental health challenges particular to law students.

While the Law School has held Mental Health and Wellness Month every year since 2013, this year’s programming comes after renewed discussion about mental health at the Law School. A spring 2014 survey conducted by the school’s student-run Mental Health Alliance showed that 70 percent of respondents have struggled with mental health problems during their time at the Law School. The survey results — first released in December 2014 — prompted the Law School to implement a number of reforms, and during a Feb. 24 discussion organized by the Mental Health Alliance, attendees evaluated the changes and their impact. Alliance members, students and professors inter-

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Law school administrators have worked to reduce the stigma around mental health issues, but students say more needs to be done. viewed agreed that the school still has more to do.

“The administration made some progress on addressing

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.COMMENT “All you need to prove systemic victimhood is to shout the word 'systemyaledailynews.com/opinion

In all modesty W

hen I arrived as a freshman, I found the Yale community billing itself as proudly, fervently capital-F feminist. My first few weeks here did not disappoint — I was surrounded by strong, brilliant female role models, all the communities that I joined declared themselves feminist spaces and my conversations were passing the Bechdel test on a regular basis. Left and right, women were validating each other, insisting that they had the freedom to do whatever they chose.

Refrains of “you do you” were ubiquitous, and like most of my peers, I embraced them.

Sex and sexuality were the subject of many early conversations with my female friends — about forays into hookup culture, excursions to Toad’s, whether the condom bag in the hallway looked a little emptier this morning than it did yesterday afternoon. Everyone seemed to be making the most of their newfound college freedom, and Yale plied us with a variety of resources to accommodate as much sexual choice as possible.

As time went on, however, I started to pay closer attention to exactly which choices were being accommodated — and what even qualified as a choice to begin with. The sex education programs I attended as a freshman almost exclusively discussed and validated lifestyles in which people actively choose to participate in sex at college. We examined all the risks and various scenarios in which sexually active students — especially women — might find themselves. But there were no discussions of students who might want to remain abstinent and how they were to navigate Yale’s sexual climate. In fact, no one seemed particularly interested in having non-despairing conversations about the absence of sex in their life.

I am abstinent and secular, and I am also an unapologetic intersectional feminist. Balancing my preference to be abstinent, my womanhood and my feminist philosophy is not at all difficult or contradictory in my mind, but it seems to be incongruous with Yale’s broader, aggressively sex-positive feminist spaces. This is especially true in queer circles where there is an even greater expectation that one talk openly about sex and conceive of one’s identity as fundamentally connected to sex. Talking to others about my sexual modesty and how I’ve experienced it at Yale has been a disappointing and isolating experience. My female peers tend to react with either incredulity or suspicion. They incorrectly perceive my attempts to talk about abstinence and sexual restraint as a kind of slutshaming; they act as though the experiences and reasons behind

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my decision somehow make me less of a feminist.

The prevailing narrative on campus is SHERRY LEE that most people are A classical having sex and femiact nists must be sexually liberal. Accordingly, campus resources — both material and emotional — are overwhelmingly allocated to those who are sexually active. Very few options exist for abstinent women at Yale to talk about their feminism or how their college experiences have been affected by their decisions. Any formal conversations on this subject are largely left up to religious or conservative groups to hold privately. Besides friendly reminders from freshman counselors around Screw season that no, I didn’t have to sleep with my date if I didn’t want to, there was zero institutional acknowledgement that sexually conservative lifestyles exist in the Yale community.

This reflects a deeper problem with our campus consensus on sexuality: Abstinence and modesty are not viewed as real choices. Women who participate in a sexual lifestyle are the only ones making “real” decisions with “real” risks.

Women who do not are perceived as passive and without sexual agency. There is no recognition of abstinence as a legitimate choice or of the women who choose it as autonomous actors. There are no resources for dealing with prude-shaming or protecting oneself from sexual assault when one chooses to be abstinent. There is no respect for the many reasons why women of all races, sexualities and political backgrounds might choose abstinence: to deflect objectification or fetishization, to avoid perpetuating stereotypes or simple preference.

But Yale’s culture of relentless sex positivity effectively silences these narratives. At best, most Yalies consider modesty to be a state of sexual neutrality. At worst, they condemn it as an unfortunate product of indoctrination or patriarchal oppression, and the women who participate in it as prudish, brainwashed, unfeminist, repressive, repressed.

Rather than treating sexually conservative women as a threat or an unpopular opinion, we should practice what we preach and respect the lifestyles and choices of all women.

We deserve better.

SHERRY LEE is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Contact her at chia.lee@yale.edu .

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ic' loud enough.”

hey think they’re so much better than us.”

In my time here at Yale, few strains of argument have made me feel more uncomfortable, upset and troubled than those that seem to come from a place of moral superiority. Those arguments that either explicitly or implicitly seem to claim something about who I am as a person in a particularly normative sense. It's the kind of divisive posts that say "if you support X, we're no longer friends" or "if you're not with us, you're against us and against history" that have a way of getting to me. It's these arguments — ones that intend to divide people by creating moralist hierarchies — that get under my skin most.

Often, these types of arguments seem to come from the liberal left. Or at least, that’s what many of my friends and my own experience seem to indicate. It’s a part of the reason why so many people tend to say the phrase “P.C. culture” with a touch of vitriol.

And it’s hard to deny that the rhetoric of the far — or not so far — left has this kind of moralist tinge to it. Granted, it’s hard to deny that any kind of rhetoric has a moralist tinge. Still, that of the left, at least at Yale, seems to have

its own special way of upsetting people.

Perhaps it’s so upsetting because it’s hard to believe anyone has the right to LEO KIM imply moral s u p e r i o r i ty.

On us But what’s to be expected?

We Yalies aren’t known for our humility, and it’s not as if our big egos in other situations have prompted such criticism. So that doesn’t seem to be quite it.

I have a lingering suspicion that, at least for me, these arguments get to me not because I think they’re wrong, but because I think that they’re right. And realizing that I’m wrong in an argument phrased in moral terms, realizing that I was morally deficient, is what stings the most.

Now, this may be the point at which one would expect me to criticize the moralizing nature of these arguments. I may say that we should use more “logical,” more “impersonal” arguments to change minds without inciting irritation. After all, if such arguments are truly “right,” we shouldn’t need to rely on mor-

alization to change minds. The moral aspect only acts to breed resentment, so that it actually impedes progress. If only we were to rein it back in, maybe more people would understand the argument and we could have less divisive discussion.

But I won’t say that. Instead, I’d like to defend this all-tooannoying moralization as an effective means for catalyzing change. Because now, I’m beginning to see the value in, frankly, getting on people’s nerves. The value of these arguments lie precisely in them being, among other things, alienating and nagging.

The simple fact is, at any given moment, I could be thinking of a million and one different things.

Despite our cognitive capabilities, our mind has far more things to focus on than it can handle, and capturing someone’s attention for an extended period of time is no easy task.

Sure, logical, nonmoral arguments delivered in a calm voice could have the same effect. But that would require the listener to meditate on those arguments, to rethink them and somehow keep it in their heads. That’s a lot of work, and to be honest, it’s a process I’d rather do for my classes than anything else.

The remarkable thing about arguments that annoy us is that they stick in our heads. They become the topic of internal conversations and conversations with others. They inspire op-eds and counterprotests, and make people feel something, one way or another.

And while we may still have a long way to go, it’s this kind of rhetoric that helps create the incredibly egalitarian culture that I believe makes Yale special.

By keeping these topics on the forefront of everyone’s minds, the moralization ensures that something happens.

So I’m offering a defense for the people who just have a way of getting under my skin. Keep on doing what you do, because it’s forced me to keep something in my mind for longer than I would have otherwise. By capturing public attention, both good and bad, this kind of rhetoric — far from creating stagnation — seems to be the only mode we have of truly moving forward.

Because at the end of the day, even if we complain, it gets us talking.

LEO KIM is a junior in Trumbull College. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu .

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Impeach Rousseff I

n 2014, some members of the Brazil Club at Yale vowed to throw a massive celebratory party if President Dilma Rousseff did not win the re-election.

At that point, Brazil had already fallen into a deep economic crisis — although not quite as dismaying as the one we are currently in.

During her first term from 2011 to 2014, Rousseff managed to turn a booming country into an alarmed one, clocking in the third-worst average GDP number in the country’s history. Amidst corruption scandals and economic decline, Rousseff had proved herself a stubborn, uncompromising and ineffective leader. From allegations of her attacking domestic workers with hangers, to depositions accusing the governing power of pocketing around $200 million to finance political campaigns and around $6.2 billion of losses to corruption just within the state-controlled oil company Petrobras, many of us were done.

We occupied the streets in the hundreds of thousands, calling for a change in government and more transparent, honest politics. But by a small margin, Rousseff prevailed in the election and won another four years in office.

There is a saying in Portuguese that aptly describes what happened next: “foi de mal a pior” (it went from bad to even worse). In 2015, Brazil suffered a historic 3.8 percent contraction in its economy (the worst shrinkage in a quarter century), leaving 9.6 mil-

lion workers unemployed. President Rousseff’s approval ratings fell to below 10 percent. To say chaos ensued in the country is an understatement. While the possibility of impeachment seemed mildly far-fetched in 2015, it is an ever more likely future. On March 29, the coalition party, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), will meet to decide whether to officially withdraw its ties to the governing Workers’ Party. A decision in the affirmative would signal an acceleration of the impeachment process — Rousseff’s vice president, Michel Temer, is the national president of PMDB, and the next-in-line in the presidential succession chain should Rousseff be removed from her role.

If there is even a chance of recovery in the next two years, it will be if Brazil is able to regain at least some confidence in its future. While Temer is not the ideal president, he would serve as the convenient option for the next two years until direct elections are held. It would give parties a time to select prospective candidates and prepare for elections outside the context of absolute political crisis, ensuring a more democratic and effective electoral process. Meanwhile, a Temer interim presidency would offer some stability to Brazil, where its population overwhelmingly supports the impeachment of the current president. An indication of a future rebound can

be seen through this past week’s improvement in numbers — once the impeachment proposal was officially submitted to the judicial branch, the real (Brazil’s currency) saw its first bounce-back and strengthening in years. Foreign investors, especially, need Rousseff to step down in order for Brazil to regain credibility.

That is why I say the following statement without an inkling of hyperbole: Dilma Rousseff ruined my country. Her ill-fated policy choices delivered a blow to an otherwise promising economy.

By imposing price controls on gas and electricity and cutting taxes on other domestic industries, she essentially bankrupted Brazil’s public energy companies. She encouraged credit overstretch by reducing federal interest rates without any economic basis for it, triggering a loan crisis across the country. Rousseff also withdrew funds from banks to cover budget shortfalls, and Brazilian economist Antônio Delfim Netto argues that Rousseff “deliberately destroyed the public finances to obtain re-election.” She violated Article 85 of the Brazilian constitution by offering a legal shield to former Brazilian President Lula da Silva, who is accused of money laundering to the highest-ranking minister position in the country: Chief of Staff of Brazil. Brazil’s Lawyers Order, equivalent to the U.S.’s Bar Association, is presenting in front of the Brazilian Congress a new request for

impeachment this week, citing fiscal backpedaling and obstruction of justice as its main motives.

Rousseff has affirmed that an attempt at impeachment would be considered a coup d’état, one that is “illegitimate and illegal.” This statement is false — impeachment processes fall well within the scope of the Brazilian constitution. Every democracy has in place mechanisms to regulate its executive power, and Brazil is no different.

I am so tired. I have had the privilege of studying at Yale and being fairly removed from the worst of the crisis, but I cannot say the same about the people close to me. My mother called me this weekend to tell me the government is not going to pay her retirement pension for the next few months because of the crisis. Had this happened during my junior year, I would have had to withdraw from Yale. Most of my friends back home are having a difficult time finding jobs and internships that pay appropriately. But this is merely personal evidence — the overall unemployment and recession numbers are what truly leave one aghast. I would like to one day be proud of being Brazilian and have confidence in the people I elect — for the past few years, I have not felt either.

JÉSSICA LEÃO is a senior in Calhoun College. Contact her at jessica.leao@yale.edu .

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“I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.” WILLIAM SHATNER CANADIAN ACTOR, SINGER, AUTHOR

CORRECTIONS

BOE budget debate heats up

MONDAY, MARCH 28

The article “City’s first Black LGBTQ-led church launches” incorrectly stated that the Restoration Church of Connecticut is progressive Presbyterian; in fact, it is progressive Pentecostal.

The article “Law School receives $30 million donation to rename China Center” incorrectly stated that the center relied on grants from the Law School. In fact, the Law School does not give out grants.

The article “Demolition Begins at Church Street South” incorrectly stated that Church Street South residents filed a lawsuit against Housing Authority of New Haven in the 1990s. In fact, residents of the Elm Haven complex filed the suit against HANH, which also managed Church Street South at the time.

The article “Yale alum alleges disability discrimination at Princeton” mistakenly described an anecdote given by Rachel Barr FES ’11 as an explanation of her disability. In fact, Barr was describing her experience writing a general exam with malfunctioning computer software.

Number of alumni interviews sets record

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER The Office of Undergraduate Admissions offered more interviews to applicants this year than ever before.

Over the past five months, Yale alumni and Admissions Office representatives interviewed 20,228 prospective students out of a group of 31,439, which was also the largest applicant pool in the University’s history. The number of students interviewed has traditionally been just over half of all total applicants, though that number has been rising each year since 2012. Last year, 18,988 total interviews were conducted; this year, however, interviews with alumni alone accounted for roughly the same number following a recent push by the Admissions Office to expand the network of alumni interviewers and streamline the reporting process. Because there are not enough alumni volunteers, the Admissions Office cannot offer an interview to every applicant.

“Conducting 20,000 interviews this admission cycle was a major landmark for our interviewing programs — alumni and oncampus — and the Yale Undergraduate Admissions Office,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said. “Given the growth in the applicant pool, the fact that alumni have to cover more ground, I am incredibly impressed by the energy and dedication of our alumni volunteers to keep pace.”

Alumni conducted roughly 19,000 interviews for the class of 2020, while the remaining applicants were interviewed on campus by senior interviewers.

The Admissions Office rolled out a new interview portal in the fall of 2014 that made communication with interviewers more efficient and provided more qualitative guidance to interviewers when producing their reports. Due to the improved quality of the interview reports and the increasing size of the applicant pool, the “spontaneous interaction” between the applicant and his or her interviewer is becoming more and more valuable as a metric to distinguish applicants, Quinlan said in November.

Over the past two years, the Admissions Office has also begun

to incorporate Skype and FaceTime interviews to reach applicants in regions where Yale alumni communities are small or nonexistent. Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions Bowen Posner, who has helped oversee the development of the interview initiatives, said there was an effort in place this year to recruit “Virtual Ambassadors” — recent alumni who would conduct electronic interviews to students in parts of the country with fewer alumni.

Since last year, the number of interviews administered online jumped by nearly 400, from 1,529 to 1,927.

Posner added that recent Yale graduates have been instrumental in being able to offer more interviews, and that this group is typically enthusiastic and eager to discover outlets for Yale service.

Around 4,000 alumni who have graduated in the past decade currently volunteer to conduct interviews, while the Alumni Schools Committee, which coordinates the alumni interviews, has about 6,500 active volunteers.

Scott Williamson ’80, chairman of the Yale Alumni Schools Committee in Chicago, said there will ideally be a point when Yale has the means to interview every one of its applicants. However, he added that Yale could alter its policy in the future if Yale comes close but is not able to reach this goal.

“I could see a point where Yale Admissions might decide to just use interviews in the early application process, since the ASC program might realistically come close to interviewing all the early candidates,” Williamson said.

Interviews are correlated with higher rates of acceptance, Williamson said, though he noted that this may be because alumni are able to interview a greater portion of the early applicant pool, which typically has a higher acceptance rate than the regular pool. Furthermore, with limited resources, ASC Area Directors may direct interviewers toward schools where students are seen as having a greater chance of admission, he said.

Regular decision notifications for the class of 2020 will be released Thursday at 5:00 p.m.

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

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BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER Despite having nixed a contentious equity-based funding model for New Haven Public Schools’ 2016–17 fiscal year, NHPS Chief Financial Officer Victor De La Paz sparked heated debate at a Monday Board of Education meeting as he continued to advocate for more equitable school funding.

BOE member Darnell Goldson, one of the co-chairs of the board’s Finance and Operations Committee, recommended on March 21 at the committee’s meeting that De La Paz and his nine-member school funding committee relinquish efforts to construct this year’s budget using the proposed hybrid equity model, which provided baseline funding to each public school in the district and allocated additional weighted funding to schools considered the most in need, including those with high numbers of students learning English as a second language or students from lowincome households. The hybrid equity model was deemed unfeasible due to lack of input from stakeholders in the district

and concern over the model’s ability increase equity to NHPS. Although De La Paz and NHPS Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 said they were “moving past” the equity model for this year’s budget and proceeding with the traditional funding model, De La Paz’s Monday proposal incorporated elements aimed at redistributing school revenue to some higher-need schools.

“The formula-driven equity proposal is tabled for now,” De La Paz said. “We are proposing that significant investments be made in high-need schools, but that it not be systematic across all schools.”

De La Paz added that the board will consider a formulabased systematic approach for future years, which would redistribute funds districtwide. In the meantime, he said, “guideposts related to equity” will direct next year’s budget.

De La Paz’s Monday proposal determined that NHPS would operate on a $435 million budget for fiscal year 2017 — which includes $93 million inkind from the city, with the rest coming from the state’s general fund, grants and the federal gov-

get,” Goldson said. “When you make an agreement you stick to it.”

Goldson said the Finance and Operations Committee moved on March 21 for the reapproval of a Feb. 21 motion calling for De La Paz’s use of a traditional funding model and the attachment of a certification on which each school leader will support or contest their schools’ budgets.

The motion, which Goldson said passed unanimously at last week’s Finance and Operations Committee meeting, also encouraged the eventual formation of a committee composed of all NHPS stakeholders — school administrators, parents and students — to develop a methodology for the fiscal year 2017–18 budget.

“We need to account for every penny we spend in this school district, and help the public understand how we’re spending it,” Joyner said. “Equity is already built into our system.”

The BOE will vote on a final budget at its April 11 meeting.

ernment. The proposal allocates $187 million to district schools, with $175 million funding traditional schools and an additional $7.5 million funding alternative schools, which are available to at-risk students with severe behavioral or psychiatric disorders. De La Paz said $2 million of the net amount of $3 million left over from the general fund should be redirected to the highest-need schools across the district.

But BOE member Edward Joyner, a former NHPS teacher and administrator, said De La Paz’s equity model was “misleading,” arguing that lowincome schools already receive state and federal grants, including Title I federal funding.

Goldson took issue with De La Paz’s proposal, expressing frustration that De La Paz continued discussion of the equity model even though it had already been ruled out for this school year.

“We’ve had several long, long conversations about equity.

We all agree that this budget doesn’t provide equity. We agreed that we weren’t going to spend a lot of time at this BOE meeting discussing this bud-

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

Yale joins carbon pricing coalition

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Yale is the first university to join an international coalition of businesses involved in carbon charge programs.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Yale has joined a global network of businesses combating climate change, but some energy experts say the University’s carbon footprint reduction strategies are still not comprehensive enough.

On March 14, Yale announced at the World Bank’s Corporate Carbon Pricing Leadership Workshop in Mumbai that it would join the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, a partnership of governments, nonprofits and private sector companies working to strengthen carbonpricing policies. Yale was the first university in the world to implement a carbon-pricing program, with a pilot program launching in November 2015, and it was also the first university to join the coalition. Yale’s six-month-long pilot program monitors the energy output of a number of campus buildings and seeks to change the energy use habits of students, faculty and staff.

Increasingly, Yale has begun to harness international networks like the coalition to engage with a larger range of businesses and universities working to improve carbon charge systems, both at the national and local levels.

Yale Carbon Charge Project Coordinator Ryan Laemel ’14, along with Jennifer Milikowsky FES ’15 SOM ’15, represented the University last week at the India Climate Policy and Business Conclave in New Delhi, which took place the day after the World Bank’s Mumbai workshop.

“We hope to learn from, and add to, the CPLC’s network of companies, governments and nonprofits,” Laemel said. “I find the potential for collaborative, leading-edge research on policy solutions and institutional design particularly exciting.”

Although Yale’s role as a member of the CPLC is still undefined, Laemel said membership will give Yale opportunities for further research into carbon pricing. Yale will collaborate with CPLC member companies to research better ways to implement carbon pricing.

Yale is one of a small but growing number of institutions across the world looking to use carbon pricing to improve their energy efficiency, said Yale environmental law and policy professor Daniel Esty LAW ’86, who will help lead campus discussions about how Yale can contribute to the CPLC. Esty said there will be challenges in implementing the carbon charge program on campus, but he said Yale is well-positioned to demonstrate how carbon pricing can work.

But even as Yale joins forces with the likes of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, other schools may still be miles ahead of Yale in the energy efficiency arena. While Yale’s sustainability leaders extolled the University’s new carbon-pricing program, some experts in the sustainability community said the new program is not targeting the problem of carbon emissions at its source: campus power plants. “[Schools] talk a lot, but they don’t want to back it up

with actual action. Just go clean up the power plant, man, it’s that easy,” said Joseph Stagner, executive director of Sustainability and Energy Management at Stanford University.

An extensive carbon reduction program at Stanford successfully reduced Stanford’s carbon footprint by 70 percent over five years.

Stagner said Stanford found that a carbon charge system like Yale’s, which puts the onus on students and faculty to change their energy consumption behavior, has a limited ability to substantially reduce carbon emissions. Only around 5 percent of all possible carbon reduction action can be taken by the campus community, he said, which means a carbon charge system has minimal power to reduce emissions.

Instead of charging campus buildings and trying to change community members’ behavior, Stagner said, universities should change the way they produce energy, going to the utilities and transportation directors to find renewable energy options.

“You can tax students and administrators, but all you’re doing is collecting money,” he said of carbon charge programs.

“It’s a hope-based system. You might as well cut to the chase.

If you’re serious about reducing the carbon footprint of the campus, map out what your footprint is.”

Yale’s Office of Sustainability is currently in the process of measuring the University’s greenhouse gas inventory for fiscal year 2015, Laemel said.

Despite some critiques of Yale’s model, Laemel said other

institutions have expressed interest in adopting carbon charge programs like Yale’s.

According to Yale Office of Sustainability Director Virginia Chapman ARC ’85, Vassar College, Swarthmore College, Duke University, the University of Oregon and several University of California schools have made inquiries into Yale’s carbon charge program.

“Now that Yale has become the first university member of the CPLC, we hope more will join Yale in this effort,” Laemel said.

In an effort to connect with other peer institutions, the Office of Sustainability has engaged in a number of interschool sustainability groups including the Ivy Plus Sustainability Consortium, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and the Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium, Chapman said.

In a March 11 letter to the World Bank Group, President Peter Salovey said he was pleased that Yale’s Carbon Charge Project had generated international interest, adding that he hopes the new partnership with the CPLC will inspire Yale’s peers to take similar steps toward advancing carbon pricing.

In addition to the Carbon Charge Program, Yale has also recently built a 1.34-megawatt rooftop solar array on West Campus and invested $21 million in on-campus energy efficiency.

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

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FROM THE FRONT Montague chose coach for UWC adviser

“[We] who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back — it’s hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.” NAOMI SHIHAB NYE POET

Students interview refugees REFUGEES FROM PAGE 1

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James Jones served as the adviser for former captain Jack Montague, number 4 above, during the UWC process.

MONTAGUE FROM PAGE 1 One source questioned Montague’s decision to name Jones as his adviser, noting that deans and masters are generally more knowledgeable about UWC procedures than other members of the Yale community.

Because advisers in UWC cases serve largely supportive roles, residential college deans in particular are among the most common choices.

“I was told by the Title IX coordinator that I could choose anyone that I wanted as my adviser.

The coordinator also told me that people often chose their dean or someone from [the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center] to advise them,” said a student who went through both formal and informal UWC proceedings as a complainant and wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the issue.

But residential college deans may not always be the best option, according to a student who was a respondent to a formal UWC complaint. The student was informed that the “usual protocol” was for a college dean to serve as an adviser and complied without hearing about additional options.

The student said the adviser did not serve a helpful role in that particular case, adding that the adviser “seemed to view the claim

more from the complainant’s point of view than mine.”

“Most of my communications with my adviser were limited to the procedural and scheduling aspects of the process,” said the student, who also wished to remain anonymous. “I think my adviser tried to give me emotional support, mainly by giving me hugs. But what I really needed was actual advice on defending myself against an accusation that I had committed sexual misconduct under circumstances which I could not recall. After my hearing and a subsequent telephone call, my adviser completely abandoned me to face the response and appeal process alone.”

University spokesman Tom Conroy said in a March 18 statement not specific to the Montague case that UWC Secretary Aley Menon recommends that complainants, respondents and their advisers meet with her so she can provide a “detailed explanation of the process.” The parties agree to do so “in almost every case,” the statement read.

The UWC procedures specify that, should a student wish to use an external lawyer as an adviser, the student must inform the UWC secretary at least four days in advance of any meeting the adviser will attend.

Max Stern, Montague’s current attorney, did not represent

Montague during his Yale hearing, according to Karen Schwartzman of Polaris Public Relations, the firm working with Montague and his attorney. Montague did not retain Stern until early March as the former captain was preparing for a lawsuit against the University, Schwartzman said.

Margaret Clark, master of Trumbull College — of which Montague was a member — declined to comment. Trumbull College Dean Jasmina BesirevicRegan did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

In another formal UWC hearing process — one for which the News gained access to the documents — the complainant and respondent were in the same residential college. In that case, the respondent was told his dean was “not eligible to be [the student’s] adviser,” but that the dean of another residential college had “indicated his willingness” to serve instead.

The SHARE Center provides a 24-hour hotline, supplies individual services and counseling, facilitates support groups and offers other services and workshops for individuals affected by or close to sexual assault.

She added that while they originally wanted to focus on younger refugees, child protection laws prevented them from conducting interviews with minors. Because the trip was only four days long, timing also posed a challenge, Reffat said. Chang said that by the end of the trip, the team had spoken with six or seven refugees in depth.

“We were fortunate enough to have several interviews lined up back-to-back, so a lot of the trip was spent running around Berlin meeting and speaking with people,” Reffat said. “There was very little rest to be had.”

Chang added that they were fortunate to make connections with refugees and NGO leaders through networking and word-of-mouth, and the people they spoke with were patient and informative.

She said during one interview, a man realized that he was telling details of his story he had not reflected on in years, such as his experiences on the boat that brought him out of Syria. Chang added that similar personal conversations with refugees show why it is important to learn about refugees from their experiences instead of making assumptions.

“The way the news portrays [the crisis] is very pessimistic, but people in Germany are very openhearted,” Chang said. “As much as the media is saying they don’t want refugees there, the NGO leaders were saying the opposite.

It shouldn’t be a question of whether Germany can help, but how Germany can help.”

Some stories were particularly moving for the students, such as the experience of a

Syrian woman who had been in Germany for two years and was well-assimilated, ambitious and outspoken, Chang said. The woman now goes to law school and told Chang that most assume she is not religious because she does not wear a hijab. She was especially passionate about disproving the stereotypes that Syrians are all Muslims and all Muslim women are oppressed, according to Chang.

A Jesuit NGO leader spoke about how refugees are not necessarily the burden to Germany that the media portrays them to be. In fact, many refugees will fill jobs in sectors and schools that would otherwise close, she said. The NGO leader said they also have a lot to teach citizens about humanitarianism, according to Chang.

“People that made it all the way to Germany are strong.

They’re willing to work and they are going to help contribute to the economy,” Chang said. “Of course there will be difficulties, but there’s so much more that hasn’t been expressed.”

Footage for the video was also filmed at a nonviolent demonstration, when Syrian refugees and NGO leaders marched from the Brandenburg Gate toward the Russian Embassy, Chang said. She added that while she did not understand the chanting in Arabic, she understood that it meant a lot to the participants.

Other interviews took place at a language cafe run by Give Something Back to Berlin, an organization that works to deconstruct language barriers for refugees, Reffat said.

The stories and conversations further humanized the experience, she added.

“I was really surprised to

see the diversity of the people we met, both in terms of the refugees themselves and those helping them,” Reffat said. “Everyone involved was from a different walk of life and decided to get involved for different reasons, and it was really fascinating to see how this crisis has truly been a unifying force for the people of Berlin.”

The team is also working to produce a one-time newsletter that compiles 12 to 15 articles that include profiles, briefs, policy overviews and a written call for students to educate themselves about the refugee crisis and take action, Chang said. She added that she hopes the video and newsletter will educate people about the complexity of the refugee crisis and inspire them to mobilize American politicians. Harvard sophomore Hugo Yen, vice president external of the Ivy Council, said the newsletter will be published on the Ivy Council website and that he also plans to work to publish it through United Nations platforms.

Yen said he hopes that the team’s work will encourage students to empathize more with refugees and seek additional ways to offer aid.

A video and newsletter that focuses on individual narratives and experiences will make the refugee crisis more personal for students, Yen said.

“I want more people to understand what this is about and to understand that we’re not too far away,” Chang said.

“Learning more about the crisis is the first step, and we shouldn’t stop there.”

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

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“I wish they would only take me as I am.”

VINCENT VAN GOGH DUTCH POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER

Sup. Court denies Night Café appeal

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BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER The U. S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of a case concerning ownership of The Night Café, a van Gogh masterpiece valued at $200 million, leaving the painting in Yale’s possession and ending a yearslong legal battle between the University and Pierre Konowaloff, who argued that the painting belongs to his family.

On Jan. 15, lawyers representing Konowaloff filed the appeal, which the Supreme Court rejected without comment. U.S. District Court Judge for Connecticut Alvin Thompson dismissed Konowaloff’s claims in March 2014, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected Konowaloff’s subsequent appeal in October 2015. Now that the Supreme Court has done the same, both Yale and the plaintiff’s legal representation told the News that the case has run its course.

“This is the end of the road,” Konowaloff’s attorney Allan Gerson said. “There is not much I or anyone can do except respect the rulings of the court, but I do believe there has been a miscarriage of justice.”

Gerson added that while he held out “hope against hope” that the Supreme Court would hear the case, the body receives many requests for review, and it is difficult to convince the court to accept one particular case. About 7,000 to 8,000 cases are appealed to the Supreme Court each year, and the court grants and hears oral arguments for about 80 of them.

Alexander Dreier, the University vice president and general counsel, said the University never expected the Supreme Court to accept the appeal.

“We were confident that the

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The Night Café was donated to the University by Stephen Clark, class of 1903.

Supreme Court would leave the appellate ruling in place, and we don’t see any opening for a new challenge to Yale’s ownership,” Dreier said.

Gerson said that going forward, he does not expect to communicate with Yale about the case, as it can go no further than the Supreme Court.

The Night Café will remain at the Yale University Art Gallery, where it first arrived in 1961. The painting depicts the interior of a nearly empty café with just five patrons seated at tables along the walls.

Stephen Clark, class of 1903, acquired the painting in 1933 when he bought it from a New York art gallery and bequeathed it to Yale upon his death in 1960. Konowaloff claimed the Bolsheviks unlawfully took the painting from his great-grandfather in 1918, making him its rightful owner.

University President Peter Salovey told the News in October that paintings like The Night Café are of high value to the Yale community and the general public.

“Yale’s collections are of immense value for both research and teaching,” Salovey said. “Like other museums, our galleries and museums showcase important works like The Night Café for the public to enjoy and appreciate.

But we also make all of the objects we own available to our own faculty and students, as well as to researchers around the world.”

Dreier said the YUAG’s retention of The Night Café is a just end to the case and clearly mandated by the law.

Van Gogh painted The Night Café in 1888.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

Bernard Bates, a Yale-NUS professor and former professor in the Anthropology Department, passed away in his sleep earlier this month. He was 55 years old.

Anthropology Department Chair Anne Underhill told members of the department that Bates had died of a heart attack in his sleep during a writing fellowship at Stanford University. Bates, who was a world-renowned expert in the South Asian language Tamil, was also known for his exceptional undergraduate teaching. He taught popular courses on critical, ethnographic and historical approaches to South Asia at both Yale and Yale-NUS. “He was known around the world for his Tamil skills and he was someone who can take a seemingly arcane subject and make it relevant and exciting to undergraduates, which is the mark of an exceptional teacher,” said anthropology professor William Kelly, who was department chair when Bates was hired.

Bates taught at departments of anthropology at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D., the University of Michigan, Columbia University and Yale, where he completed a 10-year term appointment. During his time at Yale, he taught a variety of classes in the anthropology of language and in South Asian Studies, including “Language and the Public Sphere,” “Poetics and Performance” and “Oratory and Rhetoric.”

As a scholar, Bates largely focused on the study of Tamil. His first book, “Tamil

Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic,” examined the revolution in Tamil that corresponded with India’s democratization following its independence in 1947. Kathleen Morrison, the anthropology department chair at the University of Chicago, described Bates’s work on Tamil political oratory as “breathtakingly original and analytically incisive,” according to Underhill’s email.

[Bates] was someone who can take a seemingly arcane subject and make it relevant.

WILLIAM KELLY Anthropology Professor Morrison said Bates was “one of the most generous, capacious and decent people” she had met and noted that he used his Tamil skills to make friends across the world.

Kelly said Bates helped revive an undergraduate anthropology society as well as a student anthropology journal while at Yale. He also noted that Bates advised more award-winning theses than any other professors in the department.

Bates was also among the first group of faculty members hired at Yale-NUS and Kelly said he played a large role in designing and putting the school’s curriculum into place.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Quality of life on the rise in the Elm City

BY SARA TABIN STAFF REPORTER Perceptions of safety and community satisfaction in the Elm City are on the rise, but inequality remains intractable, according to a recent study conducted by local nonprofit analytics group DataHaven.

DataHaven released last month the results of a survey coauthored with public opinion polling organization Siena College Research Institute. The researchers partnered with more than 100 government and nonprofit organizations in Connecticut to conduct interviews about participants’ overall quality of life throughout the state. Of the 16,219 adults surveyed, 800 were New Haven residents. The proportion of New Haven residents who feel safe walking through their neighborhoods at night increased by 10 percent since 2012, reflecting the city’s falling crime rates.

“In this instance, when results of a survey seem to support existing crime statistics, the news is gratifying and encouraging,” New Haven City Director of Communications Laurence Grotheer said of residents’ increased perceptions of safety in New Haven.

There were just 13 New Haven homicides in 2014, a significant drop-off from the previous year, when 20 homicides occurred.

2014 also saw five fewer shootings, and the total number of gunshots known to have occurred in the city dropped from 227 to 178, the New Haven Register reported.

New Haven residents interviewed also reported greater satisfaction with the police and a decrease in food and employment scarcity. There was an 8 percent increase in the proportion of New

Haven residents who reported that the police was doing a good or excellent job in 2015, as compared to 2012. However, satisfaction across the state varied greatly with wealth.

In Connecticut, overall satisfaction with the areas participants lived in dropped from 90 percent to 73 percent as individual salaries dropped from $200,000 to incomes below $15,000 per year.

According to DataHaven Executive Director Mark Abraham, 85 percent of the New Haven residents who felt safe walking at night in their neighborhoods also felt satisfied with where they lived. Of those that did not feel safe walking alone at night, 59 percent felt satisfied with where they lived.

“The results for this particular question on neighborhood safety help illustrate that perceptions of safety have a major impact on community health and wellbeing as a whole,” Abraham said.

“The results can help community leaders work with residents to address the specific neighborhoods or streets that are perceived to be unsafe.”

Abraham said that while the percent of adults who believe the “job done by the police to keep residents safe” is “excellent” or “good” rises slightly as household income level increases, there is a larger racial disparity in the answers to this question.

44 percent of adults earning less than $30,000 per year and 51 percent of those earning $75,000 per year or more describe the work done by police as “good” or “excellent.” However, while 58 percent of white adults in New Haven believe the police is successfully keeping residents safe, only 44 percent of Latinos and

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36 percent of African-American adults feel the same.

Grotheer said Mayor Toni Harp has made efforts to address violent crime in New Haven since she took office two years ago, including the development of City Youth Stat, an initiative to bring resources together for at risk youth. City Youth Stat is run in collaboration with the New Haven Police Department, the New Haven Fire Department, the New Haven Public School System, the Youth Services Department and various religious and nonprofit groups.

Grotheer said both Harp and the NHPD are committed to citywide community policing.

Nora McDonnell, a Westville resident who has lived in New Haven for over 26 years, said she thinks the city is “definitely improving.”

Although McDonnell said it is important to take precautions such as walking in groups and staying in familiar areas, she said she felt safe raising her children in the Elm City and likes the “little pocket” of New Haven that she lives in.

But not all residents interviewed shared McDonnell’s perspective. Twenty-year-old Kenshell Mitchell, who lives near Grand Avenue and has lived in New Haven all her life, said she believes the city has “gotten worse.” Although she said she felt safe in the city, she noted that there seems to be a lot more violence and added that it has become more difficult to find work.

New Haven has an average annual household income of $82,393.

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FROM THE FRONT Law School mental health reforms weighed LAW SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1 do,” said Bethany Hill LAW ’18, a Mental Health Alliance organizer. “One current objective of [the Mental Health Alliance] is to define specific metrics by which to measure success, so that we can concretely assess administrative progress.”

According to the 2014 survey results, law students reported feeling afraid to confide in Law School faculty and staff. Student also struggled to access treatment at Yale Health’s Mental Health & Counseling department and found the Law School administration “unhelpful” in accommodating students who face mental health challenges, the survey showed. As a result, the alliance gave the administration three overarching recommendations: improve access to and quality of mental health care, prioritize programming that reduces stigma and promotes wellness, and develop “demystifying” programming for common sources of stress at the Law School.

In response, administrators have engaged in discussions with Yale Health, urging them especially to increase accessibility to care and allow more flexibility in their insurance plans. Mental Health and Wellness Month and Mental Health Awareness Day also seek to address students’ concerns, aiming to raise awareness of the high incidence of mental illnesses in the legal profession, reduce the stigma attached to mental illness and prompt students to seek help.

Concerns with the accessibility of mental health care are not unique to the Law School, as undergraduate, graduate and professional students alike have long called for MH&C to reform and streamline mental health care at Yale.

A Jan. 21 message from Yale Health Director Paul Genecin showed that MH&C increased its clinical staff by 2.5 full-time equivalent employees last fall.

But the Mental Health Alliance noted that increased demand has offset the additional capacity at MH&C. Law School Associate Dean Ellen Cosgrove, who oversees the school’s Offices of Student Affairs and Career Development, said she is “pleased” to see the additional staffing, adding that the Law School administration has been working closely with Yale Health to address the wait times that students sometimes face when seeking treatment for mental health. The administration has reached out to MH&C on behalf of students, recommended ways to expedite student appointments in urgent cases, detailed other resources available and informed students about the expected peaks and valleys for wait times throughout the school year, she said.

Another concern detailed in the December 2014 report is more specific to law students: health insurance coverage for mental health treatment, especially during the summer when most law students are away from New Haven. According to Cosgrove, the majority of law students are either on the Yale Health Plan or are covered by their parents’ policies. But the Yale plan does not cover students when they are off campus, except in case of emergencies.

Yale Law School professor Yair Listokin LAW ’05, who contributed to the December 2014 report, said this model does not fit most law students’ needs.

“From my understanding, Law School coverage doesn’t fit well with Yale Health Plan assumptions. Law students spend more time away from New Haven than most graduate students, and many law

students are not eligible for parental coverage — unlike many undergrads,” he said.

“As a result, the Yale Health Plan is not a good fit for law student health needs.”

The Mental Health Alliance has advocated for an expansion of coverage during breaks. Listokin said the administration has “seriously pursued strategies to close this gap” but said he does not know if the gap has been filled.

Cosgrove added that while the Yale plan provides additional coverage for students who travel for academic reasons, it does not address the needs of law students who are usually off campus for summer jobs.

“We have been working with Yale Health to advocate for more flexibility in summer coverage and they have been exploring options,” she said.

Another source of stress for law students is often the clerkship process, which can be highly competitive and influential in a young lawyer’s career.

Cosgrove called the process a “significant” stress factor, even though she said Yale students do “exceptionally well” on the market. She noted that the process is chaotic, since different judges often hire at different times. In addition, the process has also been moved earlier and puts a disproportionate emphasis on first-year spring grades, she explained.

The Mental Health Alliance has previously recommended that the administration help improve clerkship application structures and processes as part of its mental health programming. While H ill declined to comment on how administrators could help improve the clerkship process, she listed three steps that both students and administrators can take to combat mental health challenges at the Law School in general: advance programming that emphasizes the pervasiveness of mental health problems in the legal profession, integrate mental health awareness initiatives into other existing programming and advocate for the elimination of mental health treatment questions on bar exams and job applications.

Four Law School students interviewed agreed that the administration has made progress on mental health reforms at the Law School, but that the stigma and other challenges attached to mental health persist. All four said they had seen posters for Mental Health and Wellness Month around the school but had not actively participated in any of the events.

Listokin emphasized that mental health problems are just as pervasive at other law schools, and that Yale is not unique in these challenges.

Nevertheless, he said Yale Law School has more data and is “trying harder to do something about it.”

Listokin said he suffered from severe depression and anxiety during college and graduate school but thought he was the only one struggling. Over the years, he said, he discovered that he was not alone. Instead, Listokin said there are many treatments available to “ameliorate” these mental health conditions.

“From many conversations with [Law School] students, I get the impression that there are still too many of us who have the same mistaken beliefs about mental health that I did when I was in their shoes,” he said. “To the extent that we can get the message out that mental health problems are very common and treatable, we can hopefully start to chip away at the problem.”

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu.

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS IRISH POET

Financial aid fundraising nears goal FUNDRAISING FROM PAGE 1 count toward their class totals, and that’s a June 30 deadline …

The reunions are kind of like mini campaigns.”

Ellen Lewis, senior director for marketing and communications at the Development Office, said that while the initiative was a focus at meetings with key volunteer groups during its first year, the initiative has maintained a presence on social media and other Yale websites throughout its duration. The first year’s total also included a bequest from the estate of Richard Urowsky ’67 LAW ’72, she added.

Amounts pledged by donors, but not necessarily given before the deadline, also count toward the $250 million.

The goal of the initiative is not only to expand access to Yale College, but also to provide graduate and professional school students with more aid. O’Neill said generous donations have been given to schools like Yale Law School, the Divinity School, the School of Nursing and the medical school, which, unlike Yale College, are not need-blind. “[Unlike Yale College,] they’re trying to increase the amount of money they’re giving in financial aid,” O’Neill said. “They could get gifts that increase the amount they give, because they can’t always meet demonstrated need.”

However, given Yale’s $25.6 billion endowment, students have criticized the administration for years over its refusal to eliminate the student effort, an amount currently set at $6,400 per year that the nearly 3,000 undergraduates receiving need-based financial aid must contribute to their educations. That number is set to drop by $1,350 next year for students with the highest need and $450 for all other students.

When Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi ’75 MUS ’84 and Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan ’03 announced the decrease in December, they cited budget constraints as the reason why it could not be eliminated. Yet

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despite the increased funds that will be brought in by Access Yale, the financial aid office has not announced any change in policy.

Storlazzi declined to comment.

Administrators have emphasized in the past that a significant portion of Yale’s resources directed to financial aid are endowed funds that cannot be drawn on at will. The current budget for financial aid in Yale College is $122 million. That number will increase by $2 million starting in fall 2016 as a result of the decrease in the student effort.

Peter Huang ’18, who receives financial aid, said that while the initiative seeks to keep Yale affordable for students, it should also aim to improve students’ experiences while they are on campus.

“I understand that students across the country are also work-

ing to pay their way through college, but Yale has the resources and the ability to ensure that Yale undergraduates do not have to choose between paying for college and classes and extracurricular activities.”

If Yale wants students to be better able to pursue their aspirations after college, Huang said, they should be able to put more time and energy into laying a foundation for their aspirations while they are students.

Tyler Blackmon ’16, who coauthored a January 2015 Yale College Council report calling for the elimination of the student effort, said he hoped Yale would raise money for this purpose if it could not be eliminated due to budget constraints.

“I think it’s great that Yale will now be accessible to a greater number of low-income people

in terms of raw numbers,” Blackmon said. “But there’s no reason why Yale cannot also continue to make progress for existing students by eliminating the student effort altogether.”

When Access Yale launched in January, Salovey told the News that financial aid policies are evaluated on an ongoing basis and are independent of the fundraising initiative.

O’Neill, too, said the purpose of Access Yale is to ensure the University remains able to support its current financial aid offerings, not to change the financial aid formula.

Last academic year, 41,582 alumni donated to the University.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

BOE to retain eight members BOE FROM PAGE 1 prised of seven voting members: the Mayor, two elected members and four mayoral appointees. Two nonvoting elected student members also sit on the board.

The November election of new BOE members Edward Joyner and Darnell Goldson, when only one then-member’s term was set to expire, resulted in an eightmember BOE. This compelled the BOA to vote on Dec. 21, 2015 to remove Gonzalez — widely regarded as the BOE spokeswoman for NHPS parents — because she was the most recent mayoral appointee to the board, having been confirmed by the alders on Oct. 20, 2014.

“The settlement agreement allows the Board of Education to operate smoothly with current

membership for the remainder of the calendar year, after which the transition to a newly configured board will be complete,” city spokesman Laurence Grotheer said.

Goldson, who advocated consistently for the board’s compliance with the city’s charter throughout the litigation process, said that although the settlement is imperfect, it suffices in keeping with the law set forth by the charter.

Alicia Caraballo, the vice president of the BOE and a former NHPS administrator, said she is glad the issue has been resolved.

Gonzalez, who was present at Monday’s meeting, volunteered as the first member to take the week off from voting. Board members praised Gonzalez for her grace throughout the litigation process.

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Gonzalez, who was present at the Monday meeting, volunteered as the first member to take the week off from voting.

“The process has been tough on Daisy; she’s been more than willing to compromise all through this process and I’m glad we were able to work it out,” Goldson said.

Gonzalez’s term ends Dec. 31, 2018 — its original expiration date.

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“I’m a person who prefers to play games rather than train.”

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cus to put out great routines on the other three events. Gymnastics is such a mental sport, and the entire team displayed their mental toughness this weekend.”

The day began with a rough performance on beam, during which three of the six gymnasts suffered falls, forcing Yale to count a 9.000 and 9.125 in its final score. A cumulative 46.900 on the apparatus — led by Brittney Sooksengdao ’16, whose 9.750 tied her for 10th in the event — put the Bulldogs 1.725 points behind the first-place competitor after just the first rotation.

On floor, Bulldogs were able to enter a full lineup for the first time in three meets, as the addition of Jessica Wang ’19 relieved some of the pressure felt during five-person lineups earlier this year. Wang scored a 9.675 in her first floor performance of the season. Kiarra Alleyne ’19 and Camilla Opperman ’16, who had been unable to practice the prior week due to sickness, led the Bulldogs with a pair of 9.750 scores, tying the two for eighth in the event overall. The team scored a 48.450, the fourth-best score on floor in the meet.

“We could have very easily let our rough start on beam kill the rest of the meet for us and knock us out of nationals,” Sooksengdao said. “But the resilience and fight we showed to come back and have an amazing set on floor, vault and bars was a huge testament to the talent of this team and our determination to qualify [for] nationals.”

The Bulldogs continued to fight for their qualification with a vault performance of 48.000, led by a career-high 9.675 from Roxanne Trachtenberg ’19. Wang also landed a career-high of 9.625, a score matched by Megan Ryan ’18. Opperman walked away with a 9.550, and Anella Anderson ’17 with a 9.525. The team placed fifth in the event, and after the third rotation, remained more than two points out of first place.

The meet concluded with uneven parallel bars, where Yale nabbed a season-high 48.800 and won the event overall. Winkelman tied her career high and landed in a tie for first place over-

two consecutive Ivy League losses. This year, Yale has continued to take care of business, beginning its conference campaign with wins over Cornell and Princeton. Captain and defender Michael Quinn ’16 noted that a mentality shift has been key to that consistency.

“We’ve worked our way here by sticking together through adversity on and off the field and worrying about getting better each day instead of focusing on the big picture,” Quinn said.

Quinn has been a leader of one of the nation’s stoutest defenses. The Bulldogs are third in the nation in scoring defense, only giving up an average of 6.86 goals per game. Defender Christopher Keating ’17 leads the team with 23 ground balls picked up and 12 caused turnovers.

By pressuring their opposition, the Bulldogs have limited the shots opponents put on net, allowing goalie Phil Huffard ’18 to develop confidence in his first collegiate starts. Huffard credited his team’s focus in practice for its early success.

“I believe that it is our team’s attention to detail,

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The Bulldogs have now qualified for the USAG National Championships in two straight seasons. all with a 9.825, and Anderson and Trachtenberg both scored career highs with two 9.750 scores. Allison Bushman ’18 and Ryan, meanwhile, tallied 9.775 and 9.700 marks, respectively.

For the first time this season, every gymnast stuck the landing, Winkelman said.

“The pressure was on for bars because we needed to hit a huge team score to lock in nationals qualification, and we more than did that,” Sooksengdao said.

“The energy was huge from the team as we watched and cheered as girl after girl hit amazing routines on bars. It was such a phenomenal way to end the meet on such a high note and send us to nationals.”

Three gymnasts competed in all four events. Though it was Wang’s first all-around competition of the season, she led the Yale competitors with a 38.075, putting her in eighth overall. Ryan and Anderson followed in ninth and 10th places with scores of 37.925 and 37.825, respectively.

Though the winning bars performance was not enough to push the team out of last place at the meet, the Bulldogs finished with a 192.150, which was their fourthhighest score of this season.

Yale’s RQS of 192.025 is the seventh best in the 12-team USAG division. Penn, with a ninthplace RQS of 191.790, was the

highest-performing team in the division that did not qualify.

Head coach Barbara Tonry praised the team for its ability to come together despite multiple injuries, and highlighted the role of the three freshmen on the team, who have competed in every event this season. She added that there remains untapped potential to hit every routine, and emphasis will be placed on form, consistency and dismounts during the practices before nationals.

“I think last year we didn’t know what to expect going into nationals, as it was the first time we had made it as a team in some years, but this year we can go in feeling prepared to hit 24 for 24 routines and put up our highest score of the season,” Winkelman said. “The great, and also frustrating, thing about gymnastics is that nothing is ever perfect — there is always something to improve upon, and you can always get better. YGT has been relentless in that pursuit this season, and we’ll continue working in these next practices to be perfect, and end this historic season on a high note.”

The USAG National Championships begin on April 8 at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri.

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

Elis end break with momentum BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 son, and the familiarity of Yale Field proved to make all the difference.

In the first of a three-game series against Holy Cross, right-handed pitcher Scott Politz ’19 tossed a gem, and the team collected 11 hits en route to the 10–5 win. Over eight innings, Politz struck out six batters and surrendered just one earned run on seven hits.

Slenker cranked two doubles and finished 2–4 with three runs in the victory, while Dey went 2–3 with two runs and three RBI. “I was just seeing the ball

well and finally got my timing down against Holy Cross,” Slenker said. “I thought we played really well as a team in that win.”

Despite the dominant victory on that Saturday afternoon, the Bulldogs later dropped the final two games of the series by scores of 8–1 and 4–2.

In the final five games of the break, the Elis picked up momentum with a victory over in-state rival Quinnipiac and a 2–2 record against Bucknell in a four-game series.

In the 8–6 triumph over Quinnipiac, White went 5–5 with a double in the leadoff

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Second baseman Simon Whiteman ’19, who leads the Bulldogs with 10 stolen bases, is also on a six-game hit streak.

spot, while second baseman Simon Whiteman ’19 drove in three runs and scored one himself. Whiteman, who leads the team with 10 stolen bases this spring, had two against the Bobcats, including one in the top of the fourth that led to his scored run.

Seven Elis pitched against the Bobcats, and Dey ultimately picked up the win.

The Bulldogs secured their third win of the season in the following game against Bucknell. White continued his hot hitting with a 2–4 performance from the plate that included a double and two runs scored in the 5–4 defeat of the Bison.

Right-handed pitcher Chasen Ford ’17 moved to 1–3 on the season with the victory on the mound. He gave up seven hits and three earned runs over 6.2 innings while also striking out five batters, and lefty Kumar Nambiar ’19 came in to get the save for the Bulldogs.

Though Yale dropped the next decision against Bucknell 13–9, the Elis trounced the Bison 10–0 in the first contest on Sunday.

Politz turn in another strong pitching performance and moved to 2–2 on the year with the win. He pitched seven innings, notched seven strikeouts and gave up no runs.

Slenker paced the Bulldogs at the plate, finishing 2–3 with two runs scored and one RBI. Designated hitter Benny Wagner ’19 was 3–3 with a walk, and first baseman Alec Hoeschel ’17 registered two RBI. The final game of the fourgame series resulted in a decisive 5–0 Bucknell win.

The Elis will next take the field in a single game at Sacred Heart on Tuesday. The first pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m.

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

not just on game days, but in everything we do that allows us to focus on the task at hand, whether that be getting a stop on the defensive end of the field or scoring a crucial goal,” Huffard said.

Although the defense has primarily led the Bulldogs, the offense has had no problem scoring crucial goals. Yale has scored at least 10 goals in all but one of its games.

Reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year and attackman Ben Reeves ’18, whose 2.86 goals per game average leads Yale, is fourth nationally with 5.14 points per game.

The sophomore is not the only underclassman finding the back of the net this season — Yale’s freshman class has totaled 20 goals in seven games. Attackman Jack Tigh ’19 leads all rookies with five goals and five assists, while long-stick midfielder Robert Mooney ’19 has scored two goals and defended with poise in a new starting role.

“The freshmen came in as a talented group of individuals, but they have really bought into the program and the process and have worked hard all offseason,” Bonacci said. “I think their extraordinary work ethic coupled with great leadership on the team

has allowed for their class to contribute in a huge way for us.”

With the new contributions this season, the Bulldogs have won games in a variety of ways. They beat St. John’s 13–8 after trailing 7–1 with 11 minutes to play in the third quarter. Four days later, they showed their ability to establish an early lead and hold it when they took a 6–0 advantage into halftime against Fairfield on their way to a 10–5 win.

Despite the success, the road gets harder for the Bulldogs. Before they can think about the NCAA Tournament in May, they host a Penn team this Saturday at noon that is 2–0 in Ivy League play. They also face No. 3 Brown and No. 10 Albany in April.

If Yale can close out the year with a bid to the national tournament, they will strive to be the first Yale team to make the Final Four since the 1990 team, which started 14–0 and finished the season 16–2.

The Yale men’s lacrosse team has never won a national championship in the NCAA era.

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

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Attackman Ben Reeves ’18 is fourth in the nation with 5.14 points per game this season.

Bulldogs dominate Ivy foes CREW FROM PAGE 12 and Columbia. The races demonstrated why the Elis are the second-ranked team in the Ivy League after Brown, as Yale won each of its five races by an average margin of 20.32 seconds ahead of the second-place boat.

“Racing Penn and Columbia is always the start of our Ivy League racing, so it is good that we got off on the right foot with wins in all crews,” Maher said.

“I’m glad that we were able to show our depth as a team, and that we performed well across the board.”

Yale’s varsity four again shone, easily rowing to a 23-second win. The closest race was the second varsity eight, in which the Bulldogs bested Penn by 5.5 seconds and Columbia by 9.5.

The Elis’ last contest of break was against Ohio State, the three-time defending NCAA champion. Impressively, they won two races, the varsity four and the second varsity eight. In the races it dropped, Yale’s biggest loss came in the varsity eight, with the Bulldogs falling by 3.9 seconds, or just more than one length.

“Winning two of the three NCAA races versus Ohio State was a positive, [but] not racing well in the first varsity was a negative and a bit disappointing,” Porter said. “[Varsity eight] is the toughest event in collegiate rowing right now and there is no room to come back on a crew like OSU.” The Yale women’s team will stay at home this Saturday for races against Cornell.

HEAVYWEIGHTS DOMINATE BROWN

The heavyweights almost pulled off a clean sweep against Brown in Derby, Connecticut on Saturday. The first varsity boat easily came away with the Albert Cup, beating Brown by nine seconds.

Captain Hubert Trzybinski

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The Yale women’s crew team had mixed results against No. 3 Ohio State and No. 4 Virginia but swept its first Ivy League opponents of 2016. ’16 cited the team’s fast start as a factor in the dominant performance. The Bulldogs began to pull away within 30 seconds of the race’s start, and by the one-minute mark, they had put a length’s difference between them and the Bears.

“In general, it was a very strong day for Yale crew,” Trzybinski said. “It shows that we have been training hard over the winter. Brown is always a strong team at the international championships and the East Coast championships, so we’re pleased with the result, but we’re also very aware of the fact that we still need to work on a lot of things in the different boats.”

This pattern of early leads began with the fourth varsity boat, which eventually won its race by more than eight seconds, 6:12.1 to 6:20.6. The second varsity boat also pulled away early and coasted through the finish

line with more than six seconds to spare.

The lone loss of the day came in the third varsity boat, which fell by about one length to Brown. Unlike the other three races, that competition was closely contested, as the lead went back and forth until the 500-meter mark, when Brown surged ahead to the finish.

Trzybinski said he was pleased with the “smart racing” of the boats and their aggressive, unhesitant starts, but he also acknowledged that it is the beginning of the season and there is potential to improve over the next two months.

The heavyweight team continues its season this Wednesday at the San Diego Crew Classic, where its first and second varsity boats will compete.

Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 12:30 PM Gallery Talk, Checkmate: Dada Interventions in Art. To achieve their goal of integrating art into life, Dada artists and writers embraced play as an artistic tool. Dorothea Dietrich ’76 GRD ’86, a historian of modern and contemporary art and a Dada specialist, explores the many forms of Dada play and their effects on later art by focusing on select objects in the exhibition Everything Is Dada. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Study finds two breakfasts are better than none

BY ZAINAB HAMID CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

researchers did not measure the quality or quantity of the breakfast consumed and did not track what the children ate throughout the day, Read added.

“What we didn’t know was what the nutritional content of the breakfast at home was,” Read said. “Additionally, we didn’t really know the children’s diets the rest of the day.”

While the study may have

successfully allayed concerns about the provision of free breakfast in schools, it is only the “first step,” Read said.

Schwartz said she believes it would be helpful if future research focused on establishing a causal link between skipping breakfast and being overweight

among school-age children.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2012, more than one third of children and adolescents were classified as overweight or obese.

Contact ZAINAB HAMID at zainab.hamid@yale.edu .

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A recent Yale study found that children who eat two breakfasts are less likely to be overweight than those who do not eat breakfast at all.

The study, conducted by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health and the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut, involved nearly 600 middle school students from 12 randomly selected schools in the New Haven public school district where children were provided free breakfasts and lunches.

The researchers tracked the students over a three-year period — between fifth and seventh grade — in an effort to explore the association between breakfast patterns and weight status over time among school-age children. The study identified three broad groups of breakfast eaters: inconsistent eaters, regular eaters and double-breakfast eaters. The researchers concluded that there were increased odds of obesity among inconsistent eaters compared with double-breakfast eaters. They also found that the average weight change over three years for double-breakfast eaters was no different from the weight change of students who ate only one breakfast. The study was published in the journal Pediatric Obesity on March 17, 2016.

“Students who ate breakfast at home and then at school were not more likely to be overweight or to gain more weight over the three-year study compared to other students,” said Marlene Schwartz GRD ’96, co-author of the study and director of the Rudd Center.

The study comes in the wake of concerns regarding the School Breakfast Program, a federally subsidized program that provides children free school breakfasts. As of 2010 the SBP was the second largest of the targeted food aid programs administrated by the Food and Nutrition Service, feeding 16 million children, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. While advocates of the program see it as a key way to combat hunger in food-insecure regions across the U.S., critics, including some New York City leaders in pub-

lic health reform who have conducted similar studies, believe the program may promote double-eating and consequently increase the risk of obesity among children. While direct opposition to free breakfasts is less common, criticism is generally directed toward strategies designed to promote use of the program, such as the provision of breakfast in classrooms or in grab-andgo bags. According to Schwartz it was these concerns that provided the inspiration for the study.

“The concern that providing breakfasts at schools increases the risk of childhood obesity is what we really wanted to test,” Schwartz said.

In an interview with the News, professor Mary Rudolf, consultant pediatrician and specialist in infant growth and nutrition, said that while the result seems “a little extraordinary,” when it comes to children, there is definitely a link between eating breakfast and remaining healthy and also performing well academically. Rudolf also voiced her support for programs that provide children free school breakfasts.

“I think we know that many children skip breakfast or aren’t provided with breakfast for a variety of reasons,” Rudolf said. “Therefore, if it’s going to help children in terms of academic performance as much as in weight control, it makes sense that breakfast is offered.”

While the study demonstrated that eating two breakfasts did not put children at higher risk of obesity, it did not seek to explain why this was the case. While it is possible that eating two breakfasts reduces food consumption later on in the day, according to Margaret Read, a study co-author and research associate at the Rudd Center, further research is needed to fully explain the findings.

Read explained that the study, being observational and not experimental, did not establish a causal association between breakfast consumption and weight outcomes. Additionally, the

Parents underestimate children’s weight status

BY GRACE CASTILLO STAFF REPORTER Yale researchers have found that parents are likely to underestimate their children’s weight status, even though parents can often give accurate estimates of their own weight status.

The researchers surveyed 1,007 parents of children between five and 15 years of age, asking the parents to provide feedback on their own eating patterns and weight status — classification as underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese — as well as on the eating patterns and weight of their children. Parents were much more likely to be accurate about their own obesity status rather than the obesity status of their children, with 45.2 percent of parents underestimating their children’s weight status and only 30.1 percent of parents underestimating their own weight status. The findings point to clinical interventions and prevention methods to help treat children with obesity, according to the paper.

“Parents are key stakeholders in their children’s health, and whether they recognize obesity, and recognize it as a problem, is an important firststep to deciding to get pediatric obesity treatment,” said Janet Lydecker, a postdoctoral associate in psychiatry at the School of Medicine and paper co-author. “Although other work has shown that parents think their children are lighter than they actually are, I wanted to know what some of the associated characteristics of this misperception were.”

According to Lydecker, a little less than half of parents correctly identified themselves as having obesity. However, parents were overwhelmingly unable or unwilling to label their children’s weight category as “obesity” when the child’s height and weight fell into that range, Lydecker said. Only about 10 percent of parents correctly identified children with obesity as having obesity, she added.

The 45.2 percent of parents who misclassified their child’s weight range were not inaccurate in the same ways, Lydecker noted.

“Inaccuracy spanned the

researchers found that perceived child weight was more related to parents’ attitudes and feeding practices, including monitoring or restricting what their child could eat

lems. They are more likely to experience high cholesterol, high blood pressure, bone and joint problems, prediabetes and sleep apnea. Children and adolescents with obesity may

help children with obesity is to “improve the diet and exercise habits of [the] entire family.”

“Obesity has become recognized as a public health issue both in the United States and

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whole range,” she said. “Some thought their child was in the overweight range, others thought their child was in the healthy-weight range, and still others thought their child was in the underweight range.”

According to Lydecker, the

or urging them to clean their plates, than it was to the actual weight of the parent or of the child.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, children with obesity face a variety of health prob-

also face social stigmatization and poor self-esteem, according to the CDC. Having obesity during childhood also puts children at an increased risk of having obesity as adults.

According to the Mayo Clinic, one of the best strategies to

in other countries, and many health organizations including the World Health Organization, are working to implement data-driven prevention measures. “Increased political commitment is needed to tackle the global challenge

of childhood overweight and obesity,” said Sir Peter Gluckman, a co-chair of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity, in a January press release.

In a January statement in response to the final report from the World Health Organization’s Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity, Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro said that the “childhood obesity epidemic has reached new levels in the U.S. and around the world, and there are reasonable reforms that we can enact to change our course.”

She stressed the importance of giving “parents the tools they need to make healthy choices.”

Lydecker suggested that pediatricians and school nurses could tell parents what their child’s weight and body mass index meant in terms of weight status. She noted that there are also online calculators, such as one on the CDC website, which could help parents determine their child’s weight status.

“Making healthy lifestyle changes can be some of the hardest changes to make,” she said. “The number one thing that family members and those outside of the family can do is support parents and their children” as they make these lifestyle modifications.

Lydecker said that the researchers have planned several other projects to “better understand parents and the great efforts they are making to improve the health of their families.” One such project will examine families with parent-child weight mismatch — instances where parents at a healthy weight have children with obesity — to investigate if stress or feeding practices could play a role in the observed weight mismatch.

According to the CDC, obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years, and nearly 18 percent of children ages six to 11 had obesity in 2012.

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

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“I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn’t hurt people — except my ex-husbands, maybe.” EUGENIE CLARK ICHTHYOLOGIST

Study finds differences in smokers’ brain connectivity

BY SARAH STEIN STAFF REPORTER A recent Yale study has revealed alterations in smokers’ brains that could provide a deeper understanding of the neurochemistry associated with addictive behaviors.

The researchers, who work in various departments at the School of Medicine including psychiatry, diagnostic radiology, internal medicine and the Child Study Center, used functional MRI to evaluate brain activity in smokers and nonsmokers. They found that smokers’ brains demonstrated different connectivity than nonsmokers’ when presented with imagery related to appetite, stress and relaxation. These findings show that smoking is associated with changes in neural functions, which could serve as targets for therapeutic intervention for addiction, according to the researchers.

“The pattern of connectivity during ‘favorite-food’ imagery again suggests that smokers are desensitized to food-related rewards in motivation and reward brain regions,” co-author and professor at the medical school Kathleen Garrison said. “This may be why smoking is associated with low body weight, and why you gain weight when you quit smoking.”

The inspiration for the current study came from an earlier study that revealed that smokers showed a lower response in the reward areas of the brain in response to drug-related cues, Garrison said. However, the current study did not examine individual brain regions, but instead analyzed the connections between them. Coauthor and medical school professor Marc Potenza GRD ’93 MED ’94 said the researchers tried examining connectivity with this new “intrinsic connectivity distribution approach” because communication between brain regions is important for emotional and motivational feelings and behaviors.

Twenty-three smokers and 23 nonsmokers participated in the study. The researchers generated personalized, guided imagery scripts to be presented during an fMRI based on participants’ descriptions of their favorite foods, c o m m o n relaxing

experiences and recent personal stressful events.

Results showed that smokers exhibited greater connectivity between the supramarginal gyrus, which is located in the parietal lobe, and motivationreward brain regions during favorite-food imagery exposure. According to Potenza, the supramarginal gyrus has been linked to somatosensory processes and connects to corticostriatal-limbic

regions, which are implicated in motivational and emotional responses.

have appetite differences when they’re smoking as compared to when they are not smoking.”

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causation — that is, researchers did not conclude if the brain alterations are results of years of smoking or if they serve as a risk factor for smoking, Potenza said. He mentioned that some data suggest that even young children show brain differences that can be linked to substance use disorder in adulthood, but he said that longitudinal studies would be necessary to examine these data further.

Tony George, a former Yale psychiatry faculty member and current professor at the University of Toronto, called the current study “fine work.”

However, he said he would be interested in finding out more about the brain alterations.

“The only question I have is whether these differences are truly due to smoking itself or a vulnerability for smoking,” George said. “Breaking down the non-smokers into former versus never smokers would differentiate between these possibilities.”

Garrison said that in the future, she would be interested to see if the brain differences found in smokers changed when they quit smoking. She wondered if the brain’s reward response to food would “recover” after cessation, which might lead to weight gain.

Further investigation may prove complicated because of all of the factors that play a part in addiction, Garrison said. She and Potenza agreed that there are many factors, both psychological and biological, that must be taken account in prevention and treatment.

“Addiction is a complex disease,” Garrison said. “There are changes related to the effects of nicotine, as well as changes related to genetics, development, experience and environment.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, accounting for more than 480,000 deaths every year.

Contact SARAH STEIN at sarah.stein@yale.edu .

Potential treatment for pancreatic cancer on horizon

BY GRACE CASTILLO STAFF REPORTER New Yale research points to potential treatments for pancreatic cancer, a disease that only 7 percent of patients survive for more than five years after diagnosis.

Building off previous research that had identified the protein renalase as an important growth factor in the body, researchers examined pancreatic tumors to see if cancer cells overexpressed this protein. Looking at pancreatic tumors in mice, researchers confirmed that many of the tumors did overexpress renalase, and tumors with more elevated renalase expression had worse prognoses than tumors that did not overexpress renalase. To determine whether reducing renalase expression in tumors could effectively treat pancreatic cancer in mice, researchers synthesized antibodies that bind to renalase and block its expression. The treatment killed tumor cells. Researchers said these findings point to research focused on developing a similar treatment suitable for combating pancreatic cancer in humans.

“Because renalase is a growth factor, we hypothesized that cancer cells could hijack its signaling pathway to sustain and promote cancer growth,” said Gary Desir MED ’80, study co-author and interim chair of the department of medecine at the School of Medicine. The researchers’ findings — that tumors did overexpress renalase, and

that countering renalase with these monoclonal antibodies, reduced tumor growth — support this hypothesis, he added.

Desir discovered the protein renalase in previous research while investigating why patients with chronic kidney disease often develop severe linked or associated heart disease, which accounts for 50 percent of the deaths in that population. By selecting for previously unknown proteins synthesized by the kidney, researchers identified a protein that circulated in high levels in plasma of healthy individuals and that was reduced in patients with CKD, he said.

This previously unknown protein was renalase, the same protein that pancreatic cancer cells overexpressed.

In pancreatic cancer patients, renalase produced by tumors “alter[s] the tumor environment in a way that hides tumor cells from our immune system and protects them from immune-mediated cell death,” Desir said.

According to the American Cancer Society, risk factors for pancreatic cancer include tobacco use, being overweight or obese, being exposed to certain pesticides, having diabetes or being older than 65 years of age. Certain inheritable genetic mutations may also play a role in promoting the onset of pancreatic cancer.

Because pancreatic cancer often does not cause any signs or symptoms until it is quite advanced, the disease is usually not detected until it has already reached late stages of growth.

When symptoms do appear,

they may include jaundice, loss of appetite, depression or upper abdominal pain. Pancreatic cancer accounts for 3 percent of cancers and 7 percent of cancer deaths, Desir said.

According to a January press release from the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, this year in the United States deaths from pancreatic cancer are expected to surpass deaths from breast cancer. In the press release, Julie Fleshman, CEO and president of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, said the awareness movement needs to be focused on research that could result in new treatment options and better outcomes for patients. In the same release, Gloria Petersen, a professor of epidemiology the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, said it will take a dedicated research effort to bring “urgently needed” progress to this disease.

Desir said the team is currently modifying the monoclonal antibodies to make them suitable for use in humans, and that the team plans to carry out studies in patients with pancreatic cancer and melanoma.

They have submitted a paper describing the role of renalase in melanoma and the efficacy of anti-renalase therapy in animal models, which should be published in the near future, he added.

Almost 50,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year, according to the American Cancer Society.

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

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COLUMBIA MEN’S BASKETBALL LIONS ROAR INTO CIT FINALS While Yale’s season ended in the NCAA Tournament Second Round on March 19, Columbia is one of just 12 NCAA Division I men’s teams still playing. The Lions won their first four games in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament and will play UC Irvine tonight in the finals.

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Elis qualify for nationals

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER Despite a last-place finish in the ECAC Championships on March 19, a score of 192.150 ensured that the Yale gymnastics team can conclude its season at a national championship meet for the second-straight year.

GYMNASTICS The Elis emerged from the six-team ECAC Championships with a Regional Qualifying Score of 192.025, the highest Yale RQS since 2003 and a high enough mark to secure a berth to the USAG National Collegiate Championships on April 9. Cornell won the meet with a 193.925 and qualified for nationals along

with Brown.

The meet, which marked the end of the Bulldogs’ regular season, came nine days after the team posted a 193.700 — the fifth-highest score in school history — against Bridgeport, and six days after a third-place finish and score of 191.775 in a meet with George Washington and Kent State.

“We expected to peak at ECACs, and you could see our scores and our confidence building all season long,” said Tatiana Winkelman ’17, who was recently named ECAC Scholar of the Year.

“We had a rough start on beam, a mentally challenging event to lead off on, but were able to leave our mistakes behind us and refoSEE GYMNASTICS PAGE 8

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The Bulldogs, who are 7–0 for the first time since 1990, have never before been named as the nation’s top team by a major poll.

BY MATTHEW MISTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale athletics has performed well at the national level this year, with the men’s squash team winning a national championship and the men’s basketball team upsetting Baylor in the NCAA Tournament First Round. On Monday, yet another Eli team gained major national recognition.

The Yale men’s lacrosse team (7–0, 2–0 Ivy) was named

the No. 1 team in the nation in both major national polls this week, marking the first No. 1 ranking in program history and the first time an Ivy League program reached the top of the polls since Princeton in 2009.

The Elis have opened their season 7–0, their best start since 1990, but players expressed higher aspirations for their campaign than just a strong beginning.

“Quite frankly, the ranking doesn’t mean much to us

and won’t have any effect on what we do,” midfielder Mike Bonacci ’16 said. “A midseason ranking has never been what we strive for. At the end of the day, we want to be playing our best lacrosse come May, and we have a lot of work to do between now and then.”

Nevertheless, the Bulldogs have had about as good a start to the season as they could have wanted. They have won their games by an average of 5.17 goals, which is the fourth-

highest scoring margin in the nation.

Most impressive among Yale’s first seven games was an 8–5 home win over nowNo. 5 Maryland, the team that knocked the Elis out of the first round of last season’s NCAA Tournament. The 2015 Bulldogs also beat the Terrapins in the regular season en route to a 5–0 start to the season, but they were soon tripped up by

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Despite recording three falls out of six performances on beam, the Bulldogs performed well enough to solidify their national qualification.

Strong start for women, heavyweights

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Over spring break, the Yale baseball team played in three different states, against five different opponents and in 14 different games. It took the Bulldogs just about all that experience to warm up fully for the 2016 season.

The Yale women’s and heavyweight crew teams opened their spring seasons over break, testing themselves against strong opponents in their first races since November.

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Yale (4–13–1, 0–0 Ivy) was winless this spring until March 19, when the team defeated Holy Cross at home in its 11th game of the year. Following that homestand, the Bulldogs proceeded to finish the break with three wins in their last five games, setting a positive tone before Ivy League play begins on Saturday.

“Our goal for the road trip is to get ready for Ivy League play,” third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 said. “It is our chance to figure out what works and get ourselves ready to win conference games.”

The Elis began the road trip with three losses to Navy in which they were outscored 22–8. In the final game of the four-game series with the Midshipmen, however, the Bulldogs scored one run in the top of the seventh inning to finish the game in a 2–2 tie.

Yale then headed to Washington D.C. to face Georgetown and George Washington. The Bulldogs held a 4–2 advantage in their game against Georgetown entering the bottom of the sev-

Both teams defeated all the Ivy League foes they faced, as the women swept Penn and Columbia, while the heavyweights beat Brown in all but the third varsity boat. The women were challenged further by the nation’s No. 3 and No. 4 teams, but managed to emerge with an undefeated varsity four record.

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The Eli women opened with a sole varsity four win against No. 4 Virginia before dominating their Ivy League competition and earning two victories against No. 3 Ohio State.

“Racing against UVA was a good way to start our season,” captain Colleen Maher ’16 said. “They are a consistently high-performing team, and … I think every boat was able to take away a lesson about racing and what we need to improve upon as we continue our season.”

Head coach William Porter added that the experience of the UVA races allowed the Bulldogs to make lineup changes afterwards, which helped the lower boats in

later competitions.

The Bulldog varsity four was the sole winner in Earlysville, Virginia, but it showed its mettle, besting the Cavalier boat by almost eight seconds.

The varsity eight jumped out to an early lead against Virginia, but a late comeback allowed the Hoos to win by 1.3 seconds. Other races were not as close: the second UVA varsity eight posted a time of 6:35.1, compared to 6:39.7 for the Bulldogs, and each of the lower two varsity four races was decided by more than seven seconds in UVA’s favor.

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Outfielder Harrison White ’17 went 5–5 from the leadoff spot in Yale’s 8–6 win over Quinnipiac. enth inning, but the Hoyas scored one run in each of the final three frames to capture the 5–4 win.

Left fielder Harrison White ’17 and designated hitter Griffin Dey ’19 both homered in the loss, and Dey finished 2–4 with one RBI at the plate.

The next day, Yale fell 6–1 to George Washington, with the

Colonials taking a 3–0 lead in the first inning and never looking back. Following the two losses, the Bulldogs were 0–9–1 to begin the season.

The Bulldogs headed back to New Haven on March 19 for its first home contests of the sea-

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The Yale heavyweight team dominated Brown in its first competition of the spring.

THE MARGIN OF VICTORY, IN SECONDS, THAT THE YALE WOMEN’S CREW TEAM AVERAGED IN ITS FIVE RACES AGAINST PENN AND COLUMBIA. Among the Elis’ five wins, the closest was by 5.5 seconds in the second varsity eight, and the largest was by 40.1 in the third varsity four.