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Yale admits 6.27 percent of applicants

20/20 vision. Hundreds of thousands of high school seniors suffered through “Ivy Day” and opened college decisions from the Ancient Eight schools yesterday. All but two Ivy League universities — Brown and Dartmouth — demonstrated lower acceptance rates this year than last. Harvard had the lowest rate, admitting only 5.2 percent of its applicants.

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Janelle Monáe, this year’s Spring Fling headliner, Instagrammed a screen shot of the News’ announcement and directed her followers’ attention to the statement that said she will be the first black female headliner in University history. “Excited to be a part of history. Long time coming but it came,” Monae wrote.

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Facing taxation, Yale recruits alumni support

BY MICHELLE LIU AND JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTERS

“As we emerge from this incredibly challenging selection process, my colleagues and I are inspired by Yale’s extraordinary applicant pool,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said. “Students admitted to the class of 2020 represent all 50 states and 63 countries.

They expressed interest in majoring in more than 70 Yale academic

In light of a controversial proposed state tax on Yale’s $25.6 billion endowment, the University has begun significant outreach to alumni and the general public alike with the aim of defeating the bill.

Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development Bruce Alexander ’65 wrote a Wednesday email to alumni living in Connecticut, voicing the University’s concerns about the bill and urging recipients to reach out to state legislators if they share similar worries. Alexander stressed that the General Assembly has overstepped its bounds on proposing two bills this legislative session targeting the University.

The first bill, S.B. 413, aims to tax unspent returns on university endowments of $10 billion or more, while S.B. 414 seeks to clarify which property taxes Yale pays on its nonacademic buildings. Though New Haven lawmakers, Senate President Martin Looney and Rep. Toni Walker have backed both bills, Gov. Dannel Malloy’s administration denounced the bill proposing an endowment tax earlier this week.

“My colleagues and I are confident these unprecedented proposals do not pass constitutional muster and we would challenge them vigorously if passed,” Alexander wrote in his email to state alumni. “It is ironic these attacks come at a time full of much

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All up in the kitchen in my heels — dinnertime. This

Sunday, New Haven will kick off its annual spring restaurant week. Nearly 30 of the Elm City’s finest restaurants will offer multi-course prix fixe lunch for $20.16 and dinner for $34. Participating restaurants — which include Florian, Zinc, 116 Crown and Union League Cafe — encourage patrons to make reservations as soon as possible for the coming week.

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Yale accepted 1,972 students to the class of 2020 from a pool of 31,455 applicants.

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER The Office of Undergraduate Admissions has accepted 1,972 students to the class of 2020 from a pool of 31,455 applicants, Yale’s largestever pool by more than 500 applications.

This year’s acceptance rate is slightly lower than last year’s rate of 6.49 percent, and is almost iden-

tical to the 6.26 percent rate for the class of 2018, which was Yale’s lowest acceptance rate ever. This is the fifth year in a row that Yale’s acceptance rate has remained in the 6 percent range, after hovering around 7.5 percent from 2009 to 2011. The class of 2020 will be the last class of roughly 1,360 students, as subsequent classes are set to expand by 15 percent for the four years after Yale opens its two new residential colleges in fall 2017.

Connecticut takes action.

Gov. Dannel Malloy signed an executive order yesterday that banned state-funded travel to North Carolina. The order came in response to the Tar Heel State’s House Bill 2 legislation which dictates how businesses treat gay, lesbian and transgender patrons, especially with regard to public restrooms. Malloy dubbed the legislation “unacceptable.”

Felt a spark. Tomorrow, Net Impact Yale Undergraduates will host “Spark 2016,” Yale’s inaugural social entrepreneurship conference, at the School of Management.

The conference will feature speakers, events and workshops, including keynote speakers Garrett Melby ’88, CEO of GoodCompany Ventures, and Andrew Yang, CEO of Venture For America.

Yale Internet hacked, down for hours

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Yale’s Internet network came under attack Thursday evening after unknown hackers jammed the YaleSecure network for hours into the night.

Starting at 3:42 p.m. Yale’s network was flooded with a wave of “fake requests” — a kind of online notification that impedes an Internet server’s flow of information — from an outside source. As of 3 a.m., Yale continued to experience

intermittent network connectivity problems. Yale Information Technology Services staff would not identify the source of these attacks to the News, but according to ITS, the majority of such attacks originate in China and Russia. Although Yale is

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clogging a toilet up with toilet paper.”

For each false request, ITS adjusts the protective firewall.

Bachman said he expects that either the hackers will cease

On Feb. 26, Yale took the court wearing customized shirts that sparked controversy the following week.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS The day before the Yale men’s basketball team played its first NCAA Tournament game in 54 years, head coach James Jones spent the final minutes of his press conference addressing not the play of his team as a whole, but the controversy surrounding one former player.

“I’ve been a head coach at Yale for 17 years,” Jones said in

a press conference. “This is the first time we’ve made the tournament since 1962 … So I think that’s a great story. And I’d like to tell that one going forward.”

The team struggled this season to keep media attention focused on its performance on the court after news broke that former captain Jack Montague had been expelled from the University for sexual misconduct on Feb. 10. Montague announced that he would sue the University three days before the tour-

nament began. In multiple press conferences, Jones and players attempted to deflect questions pertaining to their former captain back to the sport. Some fans, too, argued that the team’s historic performance ought to be viewed separately from the off-the-court drama surrounding its expelled member.

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Intl. Festival of Arts & Ideas kicks off

BY IVONA IACOB STAFF REPORTER

BigFOOT Poobah. Sources reported a mystery sighting of a figure resembling Bigfoot in the walkway between Bass Library and Sterling Memorial Library late last night. As of press time, sources within the library could not confirm whether or not the intruder had left the premises.

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regularly attacked by hackers, ITS hotline staffer Jason Bachman said that most attacks do not block the network entirely.

“It’s a game of cat and mouse at this point,” Bachman said, describing the hacker’s effect on the network as “just like

American singer-songwriter George Clinton, Mexican-American singer and actress Lila Downs, Palestinian music collective 47SOUL and band M.A.K.U. Soundsystem will headline New Haven’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas this June, festival planners announced on Tuesday.

The annual festival brings a diverse group of international artists and performers to the Elm City.

Featuring a variety of events including concerts, lectures and theater performances, the festival aims to offer New Haven residents a unique cultural opportunity, said Mary Lou Aleskie, its executive director. This year, the program will present two world premieres, eight U.S. premieres and three original commissions, among them the global debut of “The Square Root of Three Sisters,” a play organized in collaboration with the School of Drama.

This year’s festival will run from June 10 until June 25.

Aleskie said the festival places particular emphasis on the audience’s experience.

“The balance of the festival isn’t necessary in the performances offered, but in what the audience thinks and how the program can have local resonance,” Aleskie said. “We seek to attract a diverse group of people that otherwise might not come together.”

The event will also feature a concert by Indian “party band” Red Baraat and a collaborative performance between the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Cirque Mechanics, an American circus.

Chad Herzog, the festival’s director of programming, noted that the event’s lineup of artists represents the culmination of a much longer collaborative process. Herzog added that the event organizers have, in many cases, been working with the performers for quite a while or have followed their work for a number of years. He said that the festival’s organizing team SEE FESTIVAL PAGE 6

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Right answers, wrong reasons

GUEST COLUMNIST NATA L I A D A S H A N

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f you Google “hookup culture,” you’ll read some version of the following: We would have clean energy by now if we spent as much time banging away at our laptops as we spent banging each other. And, the next time you feel tremors in your body you’re probably causing an earthquake somewhere.

You’ll also read that hookup culture is a good thing, giving men and women more choices about whom they're with and when and where. You’ll hear about the girl who doesn’t have time for a relationship, or the guy on Tinder who loves it but still feels kind of weird about it. You’ll probably feel slightly sad and slightly annoyed and slightly like you can relate to it.

Everyone seems to write about hookup culture’s long-term impact on society. But who really cares? What even is a hookup?

Everyone has their own personal definition, which makes sense, since aren’t hookups supposed to be inherently selfish anyway?

Despite the subjectivity of “hookup,” there seems to be some collective understanding of what the term refers to — and it’s generally considered an okay thing to do even if you do it really, really badly.

THE ONLY WAY WE “LEARN” ANYTHING THROUGH HOOKING UP IS BY TRIAL AND ERROR People are supposed to be gaining some kind of skill when they hook up, some sort of “experience.” So then why are people so bad at having sex — and even worse at navigating their ensuing emotions?

Sometimes casual sex is fun, but many times it’s not. There can be casual sex that is great, nurturing, caring and fulfilling, just as there can be public buses that can be comfortable. You can find them, but only if you’re really lucky. You can get great casual sex, but only if you hit the lucky jackpot, or if you’re skilled, yourself.

How do you become skilled?

People learn from feedback.

The problem is that giving feedback is scary. When people have sex, they are very vulnerable.

Almost by definition, the people involved in a hookup don’t know each other very well (or, at least, they pretend that they don’t). It’s much easier to mask your emo-

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tions than to be vulnerable. And it’s much easier to forget that you witnessed a microexpression than to ask what’s up. There’s a reason to hide how you’re feeling with somebody new — you have no idea how the other person will react.

One way to have better sex is to communicate what you want.

But during hookups, people are generally uncomfortable giving direct feedback. They rarely care enough to sacrifice their own mental comfort to help the other person grow, especially when it will be over in two minutes anyway.

Without verbal communication, we are left to rely on body language and subtle cues. Unfortunately, people are pretty bad at picking up on signals, feelings and intentions. Here’s a game: Go to Commons and stare at a stranger for a bit. Round 1: Try to guess how much sleep they’ve had last night. Round 2: Try to see how sober they are. Round 3: Repeat during Finals Week. Round 4: Repeat with a close friend. The misperception is astounding. If we can’t tell how much sleep our closest friends have gotten, how are we supposed to know what our sexual partners are thinking, especially if we’ve just met them?

The only way we “learn” anything through hooking up is by trial and error — not the best way to learn. If you just pick up a book on computer programming without getting any feedback on your code, chances are your code will suck. The same principle applies to sex. There’s a lot to learn — none of which is taught in Yale’s (in)famous Froyo workshops. Sex often results in many emotional complications, which can be more difficult to navigate than the sex itself. You sleep with someone who says they’re single, and then you find out they’re dating your sister. Or that hot 28-year-old is actually a 40-year-old widower. Or they’re your professor’s ex-roommate.

Or you realize you just want to sleep and so you kick them out, realizing a week later that that was pretty mean. Or they message you three times next week because it meant something to them. Or you fall in love.

The thing about learning by trial and error is that it’s one big double entendre. On the one hand, the trials are attempts.

Maybe after three or four or five sexual encounters you’ll learn something. But these trials are also challenges, tests of patience, stamina and character. They involve people getting hurt.

And one of those people will probably be you.

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pring break has come and gone and social media is, as usual, buzzing with pictures of everyone’s trips to Cabo and Puerto Rico. True to form, Yalies are a preppy bunch — you don’t have to look too hard to find photos of drunken teenagers clad in only the finest boat shoes and pastel shorts. There’s one type of apparel, however, that seems to be worn a little less frequently than you might expect from traveling Bulldogs: Yale gear.

This isn’t a huge surprise, of course. Many Yalies make a conscious effort to avoid advertising their university. I can’t say I blame them — the clothes ain’t cheap. Besides, many argue that donning the familiar “Y” sweater invites ridicule or judgment from folks back home. Perhaps the most common argument is that doing so is tacky and simply serves to increase Yalies’ already overinflated sense of self-importance.

Whatever the reason may be, it’s an unspoken rule on campus that Yale gear stays at Yale.

Yalies have a point. We probably shouldn’t flaunt our “Ivy League pedigree” all too often.

If several years of complaints in The Harvard Crimson are any indication, people make assumptions about us once

they find out where we go to school — often not very pleasant ones.

So in this case, listening to the collecSHREYAS tive advice of seems TIRUMALA campus like a good idea. But is it Rhyme and always?

Popular reason opinion often builds on the seeds of perfectly reasonable premises, only to devolve into caricatures shortly thereafter.

Is it right to suggest that Yalies ought to have a sense of modesty about where we go to school?

Probably. But it doesn’t make much sense to tiptoe around saying “Yale” by playing coy in conversation (“I attend school in Connecticut,” is a phrase that pops to mind). Should we be discerning about when we wear Yale gear? Yes. But contrary to what some students may suggest, throwing on a Yale hoodie doesn’t mean you haven’t checked your privilege.

The strange thing about this campus is that we often come to rational conclusions for somewhat irrational reasons. From the debate over renaming Calhoun

to the Halloween costume controversy, questions about how to treat those who feel offended and hurt have abounded over the past year. We’ve asked ourselves whether enough students feel uncomfortable with Calhoun College to warrant changing its name. We’ve explored whether the history behind the term “master” justifies its continued use. We’ve questioned whether Yale is doing enough to address racism.

THE STRANGE THING ABOUT THIS CAMPUS IS THAT WE OFTEN COME TO RATIONAL CONCLUSIONS FOR SOMEWHAT IRRATIONAL REASONS Yalies generally came to reasonable conclusions. Most agree that Yale should take a more

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active role in fighting racism, that it’s not a good idea to dress up as a Native American warrior on Halloween and that the term “master” is probably not intended to subjugate students.

But far too often, the arguments that lead to these conclusions are incomplete. The best example of this is the debate over Calhoun College. Calhoun should be renamed — but not only because he was a racist. Renaming buildings because their namesakes held deplorable moral views will inevitably prove a costly endeavor. Instead, the college should change the name because it’s clear that it has been negatively impacting the experience of a fairly large contingent of students for some years now.

When it comes to wearing Yale gear at home, the jury’s still out. It does seem a bit condescending to assume that people can’t handle the news that we attend Yale with grace. Then again, there can be compelling reasons to keep mum. At the very least, it’s worth giving that unwritten rule a second look.

SHREYAS TIRUMALA is a sophomore in Trumbull College. His column runs on alternate Fridays.

Contact him at shreyas.tirumala@yale.edu .

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ach year, as winter melts into spring and our attention shifts toward the next academic year, the ugly issue of house and home rears its head.

“I just can’t room with him anymore. Being sexiled is not a lifestyle.”

“If she’s out of the suite next year, I’m in. Otherwise I’m going for the standalone single.”

“We’re just going to fake a fight. And then halfway through we’ll just say, ‘That’s it! You can’t live with us next year!’”

These quotes — words I actually heard in different butteries around campus — are indications of the chaos Yale's housing process kicks off.

The housing process — in my residential college, at least — starts innocently enough, with a reminder email from (this year) our affable sophomore housing reps. “Given that this is everyone’s second time around, we hope that this is a fairly stressfree process,” their email read, with little indication of the problems to come.

Those opting out of on-campus housing escape the restrictions of fixed suite arrangements, but for others, going for the “12-Pack” soon becomes a tactical endeavor in eliminating possible competitors. Singles, good lighting, large com-

mon rooms and basement access quickly become prized commodities, as prospective residents tour suites, noting down the pros while running through all the permutations of the housing draw in their heads.

THE HOUSING PROCESS PROVOKES TENSION AND SELF-DOUBT IN EQUAL MEASURE But the rooms are only one consideration — more immediate, and more pressing, are the people. Coming into Yale, we were randomly assigned a set of suitemates, who likely all checked the middle box on the “How much do you think of a suite as a social space?” spectrum. We got to know them over the course of a year, and learned to love them, or began to hate them, or ended up somewhere in between. The housing draw is freedom from the situation Yale imposed on us; it is the liberty to make our own decisions about our own lives. But freedom comes at a cost.

Niceties, sympathies and good intentions are cast aside in favor of the desperate pursuit of the perfect set of living mates.

Seemingly innocuous issues — a tendency to leave clothes on the floor, an aversion to taking out the trash — are now major sticking points, the deal breakers that justify cutting people out and making some enemies. Conversations turn from accommodation to negotiation — rather than focusing on inclusivity, we focus on the easiest and least awkward way to eliminate the unwanted link.

In housing, ruthlessness rules.

In some ways, the housing process can be overwhelmingly positive, as it forces us to encounter and examine our strengths and flaws. We learn that different people have different preferences, and that being out of sync with our suitemates is not just common — it is normal.

But often, the housing process provokes tension and selfdoubt in equal measure. Going through the housing draw for the second time, I cannot help but view the draw as a necessary evil — one in which you do what you have to do in order to best serve yourself. In the struggle to juggle friendships, living hab-

its and suite limitations, there is often an odd man left out, either excluded from his old suite or not included in a new one. The dog-eat-dog nature of the process ensures that one person’s preferences may only be satisfied at the expense of another’s.

We justify our maliciousness through a multitude of trite statements: “He’s old enough to take care of himself,” “I’m not responsible for her well-being,” “We can’t all be happy.” There is undoubtedly merit in taking charge of your own situation to the best of your ability. But to do so without regarding another’s feelings is callous and speaks to a lack of empathy. We should value the sensitivities of our suitemates over our often unrealistic aspirations of perfection.

Consideration and communication are essential to smoothing out what is inevitably a turbulent process. When forming our suites we must act with equal measures of sense and sympathy, of logic and lenity, of good sense and goodwill. We must eradicate the ruthlessness that defines the ways we choose how to live. We must end some fights — fake or otherwise — before they begin.

MRINAL KUMAR is a sophomore in Silliman College. Contact him at mrinal.kumar@yale.edu .

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The article “Endowment tax bills spotlight Yale” stated that Rep. Toni Boucher, R-New Canaan, referred to General Electric in a March 22 public hearing. In fact, it was Rep. Laura Devlin, R-Fairfield, who made this comment.

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The Haven edges forward

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER The Haven — an upscale $200 million West Haven shopping outlet housing 100 shops, six restaurants, a waterfront promenade and a 200-seat amphitheater — moved one step closer to construction Wednesday night.

The West Haven City Council voted on Wednesday evening to allow the city’s attorneys to negotiate agreements with the owners of eight private properties still located on The Haven’s future location — the West River Crossing Site less than four miles from Old Campus. As of Wednesday night, Gordon Group Holdings — the private development firm building the 24-acre complex — reached a formal agreement with the owners of 32 of the 40 private properties on the West River Crossing Site. Per Gordon’s 2013 contract with the city to develop the waterfront area, the city’s attorneys will help secure the eight properties that Gordon has not obtained after private negotiations, said attorney Gary O’Connor, whose firm represents West Haven.

“Once the developers provided us with the evidence of what they did, then we would have the opportunity to negotiate in good faith with those property owners,” O’Connor said. “We can’t do that until the City Council makes that determination tonight. It would have been illegal.”

[The Haven is] going to be a very coastal and beautiful use of that waterfront.

MATT ARMSTRONG Executive Vice President, Gordon Group Holdings A point of contention for City Council members on Wednesday night was the city’s possible use of eminent domain to seize two private properties — one a residence and the other a gas station — whose owners have publicly objected to selling their property.

In two hours of public testimony Wednesday night, concerned West Haven residents approached the podium to condemn what they saw as the undemocratic character of eminent domain. Public testimonies addressed a panel of the mayor and City Council members to

urge the city to avoid eminent domain in its negotiations with the private property owners.

“I just want to ask a question without an answer,” concerned city resident John Pascale said during his testimony. “If each one of you and each one of your own people were in the same situation, would you give up your house?”

West Haven Mayor Ed O’Brien assured attendees that the city would invoke eminent domain only as a last resort. O’Connor added that state law mandates that Gordon and the city help relocate their businesses and homes, as they have done for the 32 private properties already acquired.

Several West Haven residents also urged the City Council to vote in support of The Haven’s completion. The project’s official estimates say that The Haven will create 800 full-time and 1,000 part-time jobs and generate over $3 million in annual tax revenue, West Haven Public Relations Information Coordinator Mike Walsh said.

“The only way to lower the taxes is to get some economic development,” said a West Haven resident. “You’ve got to start someplace with economic development and this is a major point.

This could be West Haven’s anchor.”

The city of West Haven has unsuccessfully attempted to build on the West River Crossing Site — a four-acre stretch of waterfront that had been occupied by the Connecticut Refining Company — for over the past two decades. The state government showed its faith in the project in 2014 by approving Gov. Dannel Malloy’s request for up to $30 million in funding.

As soon as Gordon acquires the necessary property, construction will begin on the West River Crossing. In his presentation to the City Council Wednesday night, Gordon Executive Vice President Matt Armstrong contrasted photos of the area’s empty streets and overgrown lots with artistic renderings of the shopping complex.

“It’s going to be a very coastal and beautiful use of that waterfront which has been dilapidated for so long,” Armstrong said.

Gordon’s projects have included the Beverly Center in Los Angeles and the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

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

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Retail locations in the Greater New Haven area will be supplemented by The Haven’s shopping outlet in West Haven.

Conference seeks providers for refugee care

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER A recent influx of refugees to the Elm City has necessitated additional medical resources to accommodate the new arrivals.

The pilot event “Physical and Mental Health of Refugees: A Primer for Healthcare Providers” aimed to educate students and practicing professionals on the challenges and logistics of health care for refugees on Thursday evening.

The program, which attracted over 80 students and practicing professionals to the medical school, featured seven speakers, who walked attendees through each step of the health care process for refugees who enter the United States.

The event will serve as the first of many training sessions for regional health care providers on the topic of refugee health.

This pilot conference seeks to enable and encourage local providers to accept refugees in the area as patients, Director of the Yale Adult Refugee Clinic Ani Annamalai said.

“We are using this event both as an educational tool and also to encourage and recruit more providers into our refugee care,” Annamalai said.

The program, co-sponsored by the medical school’s Department of Internal Medicine, Office of Global Health and Office of International Medical Student Education, sought to

describe the political context of refugee resettlement and evaluate the health needs of newly arrived refugees. Other learning objectives of the program included helping clinicians recognize special considerations in providing health care for refugees and to identifying resources for refugee services in the New Haven area.

Annamalai said language barriers and differing cultural expectations can be a challenge in administering health care to refugees.

The recent global migrant crisis has spurred an increase in the number of refugees arriving in the United States, Annamalai said. In November of last year, after a series of linked terrorist attacks occurred in Paris, a number of state governors — including those of Texas, Georgia and Michigan — began refusing the entry of Syrian refugees to their states.

After Indiana Gov. Mike Pence ordered a ban on Syrian refugees to his state last November, a Syrian family originally headed to Indiana instead resettled in New Haven, garnering national attention.

That month, Gov. Dannel Malloy maintained that the state would continue to accept refugees from Syria.

The New Haven-based Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, one of the state’s several contracted refugee resettlement agencies, helped 240

refugees make Connecticut their home this past fiscal year.

The refugees arrived mainly from Middle Eastern countries, primarily Iraq, although Syrian refugees have recently begun making up a larger percentage of IRIS clients, Annamalai said. Refugees from sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia also comprise a significant portion of clients IRIS takes on.

We are using this event both as an educational tool and also to encourage and recruit more providers.

ANI ANNAMALAI Director, Yale Adult Refugee Clinic The agency has requested that the U.S. State Department double the number of refugees placed through IRIS this year, said Leslie Koons, IRIS health and wellness programming coordinator. Accordingly, IRIS anticipates resettling 490 refugees this year, she added.

In taking on the task of accommodating these refugees, IRIS has begun preparing on all fronts, from housing to employment to health care, Koons said.

The agency currently part-

ners with the medical school and the Yale-New Haven Health System to provide refugees with health care. Two clinics in the YNHHS currently serve refugees, but speakers and organizers of Thursday’s program highlighted the need to expand accessible clinics across the region.

Refugees qualify for Medicaid immediately upon arrival to the U.S., according to Alison Stratton, the Connecticut Department of Public Health’s state refugee and immigrant health program coordinator.

Likewise, the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement provides some funds to agencies to accommodate translation costs, while federally funded health care providers are required to provide free interpreters for patients under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Stratton acknowledged that smaller providers could find such provisioning difficult, but stressed that those involved in the care process, from providers to refugee case managers, ensure adequate care for refugees through sharp problemsolving skills.

“People are always creative in getting done what they need to get done,” Stratton said.

The United States admitted fewer than 2,000 Syrian refugees last year.

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

Yale professors shape New Haven biotech culture

BY STEVEN LEWIS STAFF REPORTER The recent relocation of homegrown biopharma company Alexion to 100 College St. in New Haven, combined with the news that General Electric is moving its headquarters from Connecticut to Boston, highlights the paradigm shift from a reliance on larger Connecticutbased companies to a focus on smaller biopharma companies, according to molecular, cellular and developmental biology professor Craig Crews, who founded Proteolix and Arvinas, two biotech start-ups. In New Haven, health care innovation is driven by the interface between Yale professors and local biotech startups they found or guide through consultant and advising relationships.

“If we’re going to develop drugs that will actually improve the health of our patients, we have to engage with industry,” Yale School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern said.

Crews and molecular biophysics and biochemistry professor Thomas Steitz are both research scientists who saw their decades of work through to commercialization by founding biotechnology companies.

Steitz’s lab at Yale focuses on the structural basis of DNA replication, transcription, protein synthesis and the structure of the ribosome. In 2001, he founded Melinta Therapeutics in New Haven to develop ribosome-targeted antibiotics for various infections, especially those considered drugresistant, including acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections. The Crews lab at Yale focuses on discovering chemical applications to biology, for example cellular differentiation and cell signaling. Crews founded Proteolix, which brought a drug for multiple myeloma through to FDA approval in 2012. The company was acquired by Amgen — a biopharma company with 18,000 employees and a revenue of $20 billion per year — in 2013. Most recently, he founded Arvinas, which is developing novel drugs for cancers by degrading harmful proteins instead of just binding and inhibiting them as most drugs do, Crews said.

Steitz said his role with Melinta Therapeutics has changed over time. Even in the early years, he did not commit “a huge amount of time” to it and was primarily involved in hiring the executive staff, interacting with investors and then working as a consultant. He described attending meetings

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Professors Craig Crews (left) and Thomas Steitz (right) have both founded biotechnology companies. several times a year and checking in with lab staff to discuss their research.

“An advantage of a small startup company is that everyone is talking to each other, which leads to cooperation and a fun atmosphere to work,” Steitz said. When the company was founded, he insisted it be located in New Haven, rather than in California, so that he could easily stay involved without distancing himself from his research.

Steitz said he believes similar skill sets are required to do research in an academic and a biotech setting, but research in industry cannot be done in a university research laboratory because it involves too broad a scope of expertise. He said small company labs contain experts from several disciplines who would be dispersed across several departments at a university. He did say, however, that it is common for his colleagues at Yale to be involved with biotechnology companies as consultants.

When Steitz founded Melinta 15 years ago, he said there was little to no institutional support from Yale other than the requirement that professors seek approval from a patent office before founding a company.

“They’re more involved now,” he said.

Crews, who entered academia and the biotechnology sector afterward, can attest to that.

“There is institutional support for entrepreneurial efforts here at Yale and this is becoming an attractive feature for incoming students,” Crews said. He pointed to the 1980 Bayh–Dole Act as a turning point in biotechnology, making universities key drivers of innovation. Prior to the act, National Institutes of Healthfunded research was owned by

the government. Now universities own the research and are thus responsible for patenting and commercializing it. This led to the founding of Yale’s Office of Cooperative Research in 1982, which has grown in presence on campus, according to Crews, who has collaborated with the office.

Crews also said the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute — which supports undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty with resources and education for entrepreneurship — has helped to create a culture of entrepreneurship on campus.

Crews said he believes this culture shift is driven by a new paradigm in industry: outsourcing of research and development by big pharma companies to young biotech spinoffs from university laboratories, like his and Steitz’s, which have demonstrated commercial success.

“Large pharma companies need a robust pipeline of academic researchers starting biotech companies for the purposes of translating projects out of basic research labs. These new biotechs also provide landing spots for interested young researchers,” he said.

Steitz, Crews and Alpern all described an interdependence and mutually beneficial relationship between academia and biotech, although they do have differences.

“Biotech and big pharma companies want to work with and need academia but they may sometimes see us as inefficient,” Alpern said. “But they respect us for our science and we have a respect for their efficiency.”

He characterized industry as generally more team-oriented because, at a university, each professor is an independent researcher. But he believes this culture in academia is changing because technologies are

becoming more advanced and diverse teams are necessary, as no single person can know all the technology a research project may need.

The two sectors also have different motivations.

“The focus in academia is following one’s scientific curiosity, whereas the focus in biotech is product development,” Crews said.

Similarly, Alpern said universities are more focused on the “advancement of science … rather than profit.” But both entities are focused on saving lives, he added.

The interface between biotechnology and academia, as well as between public and private sectors in health care innovation, is constantly developing. For example, Crews is leading an integrated Yale–University of Connecticut initiative called the Program in Innovative Therapeutics for Connecticut’s Health to create new local biotechnology companies out of academic research innovations. The initiative provides $10 million in funding over three years to bring together the resources of the Yale Center for Molecular Discovery — which is directed by Crews and evaluates the potential efficacy of molecules as drugs — and leaders in academia, biotechnology and the venture capital community.

“We’re de-risking academic projects and moving them a step or two closer to being sufficiently attractive for a venture capital firm to launch a biotech company,” Crews said.

“The goal is to provide the infrastructure to help faculty become faculty entrepreneurs.”

Melinta has two drugs in phase three of development, and Kyprolis, a drug developed

by Proteolix, is expected to reach $1 billion in sales in 2016.

Contact STEVEN LEWIS at steven.lewis@yale.edu .

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“Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.” NARAYANA MURTHY INDIAN IT INUDSTRIALIST

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his first choice.

Jack Tubio, an admitted student from Davie, Florida, also expressed disbelief at having been accepted.

“I was in complete shock,” Tubio said. “I wasn’t really expecting a lot.”

Tubio, who was also accepted at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt, said Yale is his first choice. As he has never visited campus before, Tubio said he is excited for Bulldog Days, when admitted students are invited to campus for three days of programming that showcase Yale’s academic, extracurricular and social offerings. Bulldog Days will be held this year from April 25 to 27.

Director of Outreach and Recruitment Mark Dunn ’07 said the Admissions Office also has other recruitment programs in place, all of which center around connecting admitted students with current Yale students.

Dunn said more than 300 current students have signed up to participate in the Admissions Office’s Prefrosh Advisors program, in which they will call admitted students with whom they share similar backgrounds or interests. Student employees will be hosting Virtual Student Forums for admitted students to ask questions about Yale, and other current students have put together a series of videos to showcase various aspects of campus life.

The yield rate for the class of 2019 was 69.5 percent.

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programs. They will graduate from more than 1,350 secondary schools around the world.”

Quinlan also spoke to the increasing diversity of Yale’s applicants, admitted students and freshman classes over the past several years. Since 2013, the number of applications from African-American students has increased by 36 percent.

In the same period, the number of applicants who identify as members of a minority racial or ethnic group has increased 18 percent. Yale also admitted 51 students through the QuestBridge National College Match program in December.

Yale released its decisions at the same time as every other Ivy League school. Acceptance rates in the Ivy League remained relatively stable this year, with no school’s rate changing by more than 1 percentage point. Cornell reported the greatest change, falling from 14.9 percent to 13.96 percent. The acceptance rates at Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton dropped slightly as well.

Harvard saw its admissions rate drop from 5.3 percent to 5.2 percent.

In addition to the 1,177 students admitted to Yale on Thursday, 1,095 were offered a place on the waitlist. Quinlan said that since students on the waitlist are not ranked, the Admissions Office prefers to keep a large pool to draw on to make its final decisions over the summer. Only about half of the students offered a spot on the wait-

list will choose to remain on it, Quinlan said. Fourteen students were admitted from the waitlist for the class of 2018.

After an application-reading process in January and February, two admissions committees met per day for about five weeks. Director of Undergraduate Admissions Margit Dahl ’75 said that while the Admissions Office’s staff has expanded with the size of the applicant pool, very little has changed in Yale’s process since the late 1970s.

“In the ‘old’ days we could get through the applicant pool with only one committee over a somewhat shorter period of time, but the committee process itself has changed very little,” she said.

Dahl added that the committee also relies heavily on input from faculty and staff from the Yale College Dean’s Office. This year, 28 faculty members and 27 Dean’s Office staff participated in admissions deliberations for one to three days each, she said.

Quinlan acknowledged that this could be the most selective admissions year for some time due to Yale College’s coming expansion, but noted that it is hard to speculate on how the acceptance rate will be impacted in the future.

For admitted students interviewed, there was a common reaction to Thursday’s news.

“I’m speechless,” said Mohamed Anwer Akkari, an admitted student from Tunisia.

“I can’t believe it.”

Akkari said he burst into tears after seeing that he had been accepted, adding that Yale was

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Alums weigh endowment tax ALUMNI FROM PAGE 1 positive news to share about our university: how it strengthens access, and how it strengthens its home community.”

A YaleNews press release from the Office of Public Affairs & Communications Thursday morning reiterated Alexander’s concerns to a broader audience of current Yale students, faculty and staff. Headlined “Yale opposes legislation to revoke its tax-exempt status,” the release reiterated the University’s consistent stance that the bills are unconstitutional and go against Yale’s right of non-taxation, established by its charter in 1701.

While Alexander’s office works to rally alumni against the bill, some former students said they doubt the bill will even pass the state legislature.

“From what I understand, it doesn’t sound like it really has legs,” Jenny Chavira ’89, acting Association of Yale Alumni executive director, said.

T. Wayne Downey ’57, who lives in Guilford, said alumni have maintained a sense of humor about the proposal, noting Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s March 29 invitation for Yale to relocate its campus to the Sunshine State.

Alumni living in Connecticut, however, expressed no clear consensus on the bill.

Milford resident Susan Beck ’75 said the proposal is preferable to other methods Malloy has used to try to balance the budget, such as cutting state funding for individuals with mental disabilities.

“So many of the other things [Malloy] wants to do are so unpalatable, and as usual, strike at the people who always come up on the short end of the stick,” Beck said.

But Downey said the bill was unnecessary, given the positive impact that Yale has on New Haven.

In his email, Alexander noted that Yale is one of the state’s largest employers and that New Haven was Connecticut’s only major city to see job growth from 2004 to 2014, with 7,000 new jobs created during that period.

Downey also referred to other, more intangible benefits that Yale provides to New Haven, like free art museums and music recitals that are open to the public.

Lisa Beth Savitz ’88, president of the Yale Alumni Association of Greenwich, said the legislation seems to misunderstand Yale’s commitment to New Haven and Connecticut. Like Downey, she said Yale’s presence has allowed for an economic revitalization

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Bruce Alexander ’65 wrote an email to alumni Wednesday expressing concern about a proposed bill that would tax the University’s endowment. in New Haven, adding that the University is also committed to ensuring that college is affordable for all qualified students.

“I just think it’s a very cynical political ploy by [Looney and Walker] to come up with this sort of a repressive proposition at this point in the history of our country, and at this point in Yale’s relations with New Haven, which I’ve thought have been generally … very good and continuing to get better,” Downey said.

Alexander also mentioned in his Wednesday email the current annual voluntary payment of over $8.5 million Yale has made to the city of New Haven, totaling over $96 million in the last 25 years.

Rep. Pat Dillon MPH ’98, D-New Haven, told the News she has not had a chance to look over the endowment tax bill closely, but voiced a preference for tax revenues on Yale to be directed to the city of New Haven rather than to the state at large. Dillon enthusiastically backed the other bill concerning Yale’s property taxes, however.

In 1990, Dillon spearheaded a similar bill reframing the University’s taxable properties. Though that bill did not pass, the legislation was instead used as leverage by the city government to force Yale into making the voluntary payments Alexander referenced, Dillon said.

During the bill’s public hearing in front of the state finance

committee March 22, committee ranking member and Sen. Scott Frantz, R-Greenwich, questioned whether taxing Yale’s endowment would lead to a “chilling effect” on donors.

Testifying in front of the committee, Associate Vice President for Federal Relations Richard Jacob said a new law regulating the University’s management of gifts would lead Yale to be concerned about both the University’s fiscal stability and the views of its donors.

Most Connecticut-based alumni interviewed by the News, however, said the tax would have a negligible effect on how they gave to the University. Likewise, alumni still living in the Nutmeg State stressed that, tax or no tax, their engagement with Yale will remain the same.

“Those are all numbers that don’t have much to do with my feeling about Yale, and what I feel is my debt both emotional and financial to the organization,” Downey said.

At least six lawmakers currently in the General Assembly have graduated from either Yale College or one of the University’s professional or graduate schools.

The state legislature also includes James Albis FES ’16, a Democratic representative from East Haven.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu and JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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“A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.” HIPPOCRATES FATHER OF WESTERN MEDICINE

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BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate released a report Thursday about faculty parental policies to FAS professors, highlighting ambiguities within existent guidelines.

The senate, which voted to approve the dissemination of the report to all faculty members at its March 10 meeting, had turned its attention to the issue after senators discovered that junior faculty members are particularly concerned about issues with parental leave and support. According to history of science professor Bill Rankin, the lead author of the report, many junior faculty members raised issues with the tenure review and how parental leave can change work productivity expectations. Rankin said the report aims to clarify certain terms, refine policies and equalize the University’s support for faculty of all ranks and gender. Rankin said the situations some faculty members currently face do not correspond with the policies in place.

“A lot of the report tries to align the reality with the policy,” Rankin said. “We want to get away from an adversarial attitude toward parenting. We want faculty members who are parents to succeed at Yale.”

The report identifies several general flaws of current parental policies, including teaching relief, leave and tenure-clock extension.

The report notes that some elements of existing policies contain “ambiguous wording” and that they afford different treatment to different ranks of faculty — ladder, non-ladder and research faculty.

Under the current policy, junior ladder faculty can suspend their tenure clocks for child-rearing purposes. However, Rankin said faculty members have been told that the pause in the tenure clock may raise expectations for their academic productivity during that year, which would run contrary to the aims of the policy. Because of this, Rankin added, some faculty members are reluctant to pause their tenure clocks.

In order to resolve the ambiguity about tenure review expectations, the report recommends that “the expectation among the faculty — not just the parents of young children, but also chairs, divisional committees … should

match the policy.”

The Committee on Faculty Advancement, a subcommittee within the senate, was charged with writing the report, according to Beverly Gage ’94, senate chair and history director of undergraduate studies. This committee has been working on a variety of “faculty work-life issues,” and the parental policies report represents the first written piece of its work this academic year.

The report also puts forth 16 specific recommendations for changes. These cover five general issues: removing restrictions on eligibility for teaching relief or leave, clarifying tenureclock extension policies, equalizing accommodations for teaching relief for all faculty, expanding leave for research faculty and addressing a range of special cases and issues.

Gage highlighted the confusion and ambiguity concerning tenure expectations for junior ladder faculty, who take parental leave, as a particular concern.

“In academia, there is a general timing problem,” she said. “The decade that faculty members have kids is also the time they are junior faculty and coming up for tenure.

How individual faculty members and the institution manage this is a big issue.”

The report also recommends that teaching relief be considered an automatic eligibility for faculty for childbearing purposes in practice. It estimated the cost of replacing the teaching responsibilities of all faculty who are taking teaching relief as roughly $560,000 per year.

The report is one of three reports the senate has recently approved and distributed to the FAS. The two other reports concern the faculty standards of conduct and Yale College’s expansion.

Gage said the parental report is more policy-specific than the two other reports, which tackle broad issues.

Rankin said that following the report’s distribution to the FAS body, the senate will look to follow up with appropriate administrators within the FAS Dean’s Office and the Provost’s Office.

“The report is hopefully the beginning of a conversation about the issue,” Gage said.

PA program awaits online accreditation

BY PADDY GAVIN STAFF REPORTER Almost a year after the Yale School of Medicine’s online physician-associate program failed to receive accreditation from the profession’s governing body, the medical school is still waiting to hear back on the program’s second application.

The online program, which was originally announced in March 2014 and encountered vocal opposition from P.A. students and alumni, was refused accreditation from the national Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant in April 2015. In applying for accreditation, the medical school described the online program, which will accept up to 350 extra P.A. students a year, as an expansion in size of the original on-campus program, and the application was rejected due to a technicality that requires educational institutions to wait four years after their most recent application before applying for an increase in a program’s class size. According to James Van Rhee, director of the Yale P.A. program, the University is currently in the process of reapplying for accreditation for the online program as a program separate from the on-campus program, meaning that it will confer a separate but equivalent degree. The ARC-P.A. will make its decision in September 2017, and if the program is approved, Yale’s first class of students will most likely matriculate in January 2018, Van Rhee said. If accepted, the online P.A. class would accept up to 350 students a year. The existing on-campus program accepts only about 36 students a year.

In the most recent correspondence to the P.A. community on March 24, Deputy Dean for Education at the Yale School of Medicine Richard Belitsky said the School had submitted a formal request for the new program and had been notified that the ARC-PA would conduct an on-campus visit at Yale in June 2017 as part of the accreditation process.

He added that the goal of the program was to increase access to a Yale physician associate education and to “encourage careers in primary care to meet the growing needs of our society.”

Van Rhee said he believes the online program will enhance innovation in the medical education provided by both the medical school and the existing P.A. program.

“For example, the anatomy faculty at the School of Medicine are already developing and using video dissection to enhance the lab experience for both P.A. and medical students,” Van Rhee said. “Our goal is to provide a high-quality education to all P.A. students and assist with meeting the primary-care needs of patients around the country.”

Students and alumni expressed mixed views about

the introduction of the online P.A. program. Their concerns included concerns over the quality of online teaching, lack of past engagement between administration and student body concerning the implementation of the online program and the devaluing of the existing P.A. program degree.

The most common concern among students and alumni interviewed was that administrators did not sufficiently engage with students on the subject of the online P.A. program, although many agreed that this engagement had improved over time.

Lauren Prince MED ’17, a current P.A. student, said she did not believe the medical school administration had adequately considered student perspectives in previous preparations for the online program, adding that it was unclear whether the opposition raised by the students had influenced the ARC-PA’s decision last April.

She said that the separation of the online and on-campus P.A. programs somewhat justified the administration’s lack of consideration for student opinion. She stressed, however, that the separation of the programs only happened after the ARC-PA rejected the proposal to accredit Yale’s online program as an expansion of the existing program.

“The fact remains that this program was initially proposed as a class-size expansion of our current program, and would have had significant impact on our current program if it had not been denied by the ARC-PA,” Prince said.

Prince said that although she never felt extremely supportive of the online P.A. program because she felt it constituted a “cheapening” of her degree, she feels less strongly opposed to it now than she did, given that the program will confer a separate degree and will involve separate faculty.

She added that this development has alleviated her concern that on-campus P.A. students would suffer from lack of faculty attention, were the online P.A. program to go ahead.

President of the P.A. program’s class of 2017 Michelle Giwerc MED ’17 emphasized that despite the separation of the on-campus and online programs and the differences in training, the two programs will confer an equivalent degree, a Master of Medical Science.

“While the degree will be separate, it will be an equivalent degree,” Giwerc said. “It will actually be the same type of degree, which I think has important implications since our training will inevitably be quite different. It also remains to be determined if the online cohort will have to complete a thesis or even the same types of rotations that we complete, as discussed at [a town hall meeting on the online P.A. program hosted by Belitsky last August].”

Mark Volpe MED ’15, who graduated last year from the

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on-campus P.A. program, said he and the significant majority of alumni share the same oppositional views to the online program: the concern that it would devalue their own degrees. However, he added that because by now it seems to him a “foregone conclusion” that the program will go ahead, he felt it was important that the University, student body and alumni body work together to help the online program succeed.

Volpe said he thinks such a program has the potential to be successful because of the increased numbers of graduates it will yield. But he is not convinced that the graduates of the online program will be trained as well as those in the on-campus program.

Van Rhee said he has met with current students on several occasions since the August town hall meeting on the online P.A. program in order to share information from the ARC-PA. He added that the medical school is in the process of developing an advisory committee for the online P.A. program that will include P.A. students, alumni and faculty, as well as other members of the medical school community.

Giwerc praised the administration’s intentions to form an advisory committee for the online P.A. program, adding that she hopes the formation of the committee will demonstrate transparency to the P.A. community and “seriously consider” the concerns of all stakeholders in the process.

Volpe said the administration’s increased engagement with the student body about the online P.A. program made a “meaningful” difference to the student and alumni bodies. One of the major reasons for initial student opposition to the program was this indifference of the medical school administration.

“From a student perspective it appeared that the University made a decision to go forward with the program, prior to asking students their opinion,” Volpe said. “Rather than saying, ‘We are thinking of starting an online program, how do you feel about that?’ [the administration’s attitude] was, ‘We are starting an online program and have already signed a contract with 2U to be our partner, how do you feel about that?’”

Lindsay Novak MED ’14 said that despite some concerns, she sees many ways in which the program can have a positive impact. She identified the lecture-based element of Yale’s P.A. training as an area in which the online program could improve upon the residential model.

She added that during the lecture-based year of the Yale P.A. program, she had over 400 lecturers, many of whom did not coordinate with each other as to the material being taught, thereby disrupting the flow of instruction. Issues like these would likely be improved in an online program, she said.

“I think [by] doing an online

program, they could probably get more quality instructors and have fewer people teach a course, and there’s a lot to be said for someone to be able to pause a lecture when they’re missing a point,” Novak said.

“There are a lot of people doing flipped classrooms now, so I see a lot of potential for the didactic year to improve dramatically in terms of continuity and quality of lectures.”

Novak said she has concerns about the reasoning behind the online P.A. program, which she said was partially intended to help solve the national shortage of health care workers choosing to go into primary care. But most Yale P.A. graduates enter specialty care fields, making it difficult for Yale to justify an online program of the proposed size, she said. Novak also suggested that the high cost of the program, which is excessive, is at odds with the philosophy of making careers in primary care more accessible.

“Part of the rationale for this is [to attract] people who might already be in a rural community and may not be able to afford going to school in a new place, so it’s supposed to increase people going into the primary care profession,” Novak said. “The reality is, to me, you need to make the price lower if you actually think that’s going to work, and then the other thing to me is, Yale has not yet shown a history of being able to get most of their P.A. graduates to go into primary care … I can tell you that the majority [of the class of 2014] went into specialty care and about half went into surgery.”

Opponents of the online program have criticized it on the basis that online students’ clinical rotations can be completed in their hometowns rather than at Yale — a criticism Novak said she disagrees with because rotations at Yale are not necessarily of a higher standard than rotations completed elsewhere.

Novak added that some of the worst rotations of her time in the P.A. program were completed at Yale, while the best ones were those she sought out at other medical centers.

She said she believes that on average, rotations completed away from Yale are likely to be just as good as those at Yale, because students are likely to receive more attention from their supervisors and have more responsibility.

Nova k added that although she has not yet been approached by the medical school administration to be part of the advisory committee for the online P.A. program, she has volunteered herself in this capacity and is happy to work with administrators in their planning for the program.

Yale and Cornell are the only ARC-PA-accredited physician-associate training programs offered at Ivy League institutions.

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

Captain controversy linked to basketball program BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 1 donned controversial T-shirts in support of Montague, it reaffirmed its commitment to “a healthy, safe and respectful campus climate.”

“Our recent actions to show our support for one of our former teammates were not intended to suggest otherwise, but we understand that to many students they did,” the statement read.

But for certain members of the basketball program, these attempts to detach themselves from the controversies are at odds with their public involvement in Montague’s situation.

The team’s head coach himself served as the former captain’s adviser in his University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct proceedings, the News reported Tuesday.

And Montague’s teammates inserted themselves into the discussion with their decision to take the court wearing customized warmup T-shirts featuring Montague’s number and nickname on the back and Yale spelled backward on the front before a nationally televised contest against Harvard on Feb. 26.

“We knew, when we wore those shirts, that there was going to be a reaction, and this is the reaction; we just want to stick together as a team and remain focused,” forward Justin Sears ’16 told the News after posters appeared around campus calling on the team to “stop supporting a rapist.”

The posters’ allegations were leveled despite no official comment from the University on the

nature of Montague’s expulsion.

Jones did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Still, even as more information about the basketball program’s intimate involvement in Montague’s case comes to light, those who supported the team during its March Madness run continue to do so. And even though the implicit support of the team’s T-shirts appears to differ from the direct support of Jones as Montague’s adviser, no students interviewed seemed to find the distinction notable.

When asked if the news about Jones’ role in Montague’s UWC hearing process affected his decision to support the team during its NCAA run, Mallet Njonkem ’18 said the information had no impact on his choice.

“I don’t think it’s odd that Jack asked his coach of several years to be his adviser for the case,” Njonkem said. “That being said, I doubt knowing that would have made me feel any different about supporting the team during the tournament. I don’t see what there is to gain by not supporting the team during the tournament.”

Andy Hill ’17 pointed out at that the team apologized for wearing the T-shirts, adding that because of the nature of the alleged incident, only the two people involved could know what actually transpired.

“I didn’t have any qualms about going to the [NCAA Tournament] game,” he said. “I was proud that the team recognized the harm that their display had caused and chose to apologize.

The members of the team that I know staunchly oppose any type

of sexual misconduct, and I know of no allegations against any player on the roster that day. I am a proud Yalie, just as the members of our athletic teams are.”

Athletes and coaches interviewed emphasized how strong the relationship between a coach and his or her players typically is.

“If a coach feels like a captain has a problem, the coach will stick with [the captain]. The captain is like a coach’s right hand, sometimes,” fencing head coach Henry Harutunian said.

“It’s somebody the coach sees every day, and they go through the same emotions in the sport … they just spend so much time together that they’re bonded.

Harutunian, who said he was not familiar with the details of Montague’s case and could only speak more generally to the coach-captain relationship, said that sometimes, team members and coaches will be closer to each other than they are to members of their family.

And while several athletes interviewed said they would not necessarily choose their coach as an adviser, they added that since the nature of the relationship between coaches and members of their team can differ, they understood why Montague made this choice.

Montague’s high school coach Dennis King described to the News his particularly close relationship with Montague, who served as the basketball captain during his high school career at Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Tennessee.

“I feel great loyalty to my players, but especially Jack,” King

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Men’s basketball head coach James Jones chose not to comment on Montague’s expulsion. told the News. “He might be my favorite player of all time, and I have coached 42 years as a high school basketball coach. The bond you have with the captain, it’s special … Next to my son, Jack is as close to family as you get.”

Earlier this month, King published a letter expressing his support for Montague in the Brentwood Home Page. King told the News that after speaking with

Hackers jam YaleSecure

Montague and Montague’s parents about the case, he wanted to express his feelings to the Brentwood community about the “injustice” that had been done to Montague.

Montague seems to have developed a similarly close relationship with his coach at Yale. In a postgame press conference on March 5, after Yale locked up the NCAA Tournament berth, Jones

affirmed his affection for the former captain despite the allegations hanging over him.

“Jack knows how we feel about him — we love him. He’s a great young man, and we love him,” Jones said.

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

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Hackers jammed the YaleSecure network late into Thursday night.

HACKING FROM PAGE 1 their efforts or ITS would successfully block them from the server.

Yale’s information security team will investigate whether the hackers, once identified, can be prosecuted under U.S. law, Bachman said. ITS reported unplanned network connectivity issues throughout the attack.

Students said the outage impeded their studies on Thursday night. As midterm exams approach, Cooper Sullivan ’18 said he was downloading class notes when the wireless Internet

shut down. Sullivan said he was inconvenienced for several hours as he struggled to get online from his cell phone.

Students also decried the lack of communication from ITS in the wake of the hacking.

Unlike the Yale Alerts that followed a campuswide power outage earlier this month, ITS did not notify the Yale community about the loss of wireless Internet access on Thursday night.

“Some update would have been nice,” Sullivan said. When he lost access, Sullivan wondered whether his password had been hacked.

yale institute of sacred music presents

Msgr. Timothy Verdon A Saint, a Theologian, and a Painter

Francis, Bonaventure, and Giotto in the Basilica of Assisi Saturday, April 2 · 4 pm Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale 268 Park St., New Haven Book-signing follows Free; no reservation required.

Presented in collaboration with Paraclete Press ism.yale.edu

Stephen Barmore ’18 said the lack of communication made him question whether his laptop was the cause of the problem, not the Yale network. Barmore, who was in class when the outage began, said he could no longer access the readings online, which hindered his participation.

The Yale ITS website contains a “system status” page with details about the functioning of Yale’s emails, servers and a myriad of technology services.

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

designs the lineup based on prior experiences with audience reactions to the artists.

This organizing team is comprised of roughly a dozen individuals who work throughout the year to plan the festival, especially to secure the U.S. and world premieres of new works for the event, Aleskie said. She added that an additional 190 people staff the festival’s core events in June.

“We are proud of how many world premieres and U.S. premieres are coming to be a part of the festival,” Aleskie noted.

“People would not be able to see them in other places, so it will feel very special.”

Additional events and performances in April will kick off this year’s festival, Aleskie said, and are intended to pique New Haven residents’ interest for the festival’s core events in the early summer. The first of these performances is a play from the National Theatre of Scotland, “The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart,” which runs at the Yale Cabaret from March 30 until April 3.

The majority of events at the Festival of Arts and Ideas are free, Aleskie said, noting that the event typically brings in an audience of approximately 100,000 to 120,000 people, among them Yale students, the broader New Haven community and visitors from further afield.

Shalisa James ’18 and Nicole Cai ’18 both expressed interest in the event, noting that it presents an interesting cultural opportunity for Yale students remaining in the

yale institute of sacred music presents

Su’ad Abdul Khabeer in

Sampled

Beats of Muslim Life A one-woman show using poetry, theater, and movement to explore issues around race, hip-hop, and Muslims in the United States

Friday, April 1 Q 8 PM Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Auditorium 1 Prospect St., New Haven Free; no tickets required. Presented with support from the Yale Ethnicity, Race, and Migration program ism.yale.edu

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The annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas brings artists from around the globe to the Elm City.

Elm City during the summer recess.

“I believe that this is a great opportunity for Yale students who will be spending the summer in New Haven to discover

more about the city as well as various international performers,” James said.

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .

yale institute of sacred music presents

The Choir of Merton College, Oxford wednesday, april 6 · 7:30 pm Trinity Church On The Green 230 Temple St., New Haven

Benjamin Nicholas, conductor Peter Shepherd and Alexander Little, organ Music of Guerrero, Duruflé, Byrd, Howells, and Weir Free; no tickets required. ism.yale.edu Presented in collaboration with Trinity Church on the Green

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“On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a completely narcissisic moron.” H.L. MENCKEN GERMAN-AMERICAN JOURNALIST

Alders mandate quarterly financial reports

New restaurants to serve noodles, beer

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER

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The committee voted to approve the city’s spending under the Consolidated Action Plan, a community development spending program.

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER The Board of Alders met Thursday to preliminarily approve a portion of Mayor Toni Harp’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2017 at a Board Joint Community Development and Human Services Committee meeting.

The committee tentatively affirmed the city’s spending under the Consolidated Action Plan, a community development spending program largely funded by federal Community Development Block Grants. But the approval was not without modifications. Before the meeting, four committee members met hastily to add an amendment requiring the city’s Small Business Service Center and Small Contractor Development Program to provide quarterly updates on their spending and performance.

The alders were positive in their deliberations on the Consolidated Plan spending. Fair Haven Alder Santiago BerriosBones said the Human Services Committee has the ability to affect residents’ lives more directly than most other branches of city government.

“I find that Human Services has a particular opportu-

nity to give something back to the community in a very straight way,” Berrios-Bones said. “Giving money to the community is a wonderful thing — it doesn’t have to wait until everything is approved years from now. It’s something that’s almost instantaneous.”

Beaver Hills Alder Brian Wingate noted that Thursday’s meeting was the culmination of a long process of determining the level of community development spending, involving numerous committees across city government.

The alders’ amendment to the motion, read by Amity Alder Richard Furlow at the beginning of the meeting, will mandate that the Small Business Service Center and Small Contractor Development Program — city programs that focus on improving New Haven’s economy and making jobs available to residents — provide the alders with quarterly performance updates.

Some of the performance metrics align closely with trends in New Haven politics in recent years. One metric — the total number of private-sector jobs created and retained for New Haven residents — mirrors rhetoric from the alders, Harp and the

UNITE HERE unions surrounding the city’s “jobs crisis.”

Budgetary issues are still at play, though.

Jackie James, director of the Small Business Service Center, told the alders at a Finance Committee meeting Wednesday that her department is currently severely understaffed — besides her, she said, the only other employee is an administrative assistant whose contract is due to expire on June 30. She said this severe level of understaffing could force the center’s doors to close. Hill Alder Dolores Colon ’91 said she was concerned the alders might be handing the department a request it cannot fully comply with.

Furlow said requiring the departments to submit reports to the alders is essential to protecting transparency.

“I think it’s good for us as a committee,” Furlow said. “As we’re giving out so much money, I believe this is going to help our credibility as we’re charting and tracking the money we’re giving out, especially to city agencies. I’m a little fearful that any department or agency would run without financial reports.”

Dwight Alder Frank Douglass Jr. agreed. He said upholding

adrian van sinderen lecture

When Is a Book More Than a Book?

Glen S. Miranker, b.s. ’75 Thursday, April 20, 4:30 pm Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall A longtime bibliophile and former chief technology officer of Apple, Miranker has been building his extraordinary collection of Sherlockiana since the late 1970s. In this lecture he will explore his passion for book collecting, and particularly, for tracking down the backstories that he describes as part of the thrill of the chase.

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transparency in the city’s government is crucial to his constituents.

Alders have raised disputes with City Hall over failure to provide reports in the past. On Tuesday night, Annex Alder Alphonse Paolillo clashed with Mendi Blue, director of the Office of Development and Policy, over the department’s alleged failure to submit quarterly reports to the alders.

Other committees have also embraced the role of an oversight body that hears from departments about their progress.

Wingate said, last month, that he would like to see the Youth Services Committee, which he chairs, hear testimony from the city’s youth services departments on their duties and operations.

The first of those testimonies will take place next week, when the committee will hear from the directors of “The Escape,” a youth homeless center in Dixwell.

The motion to approve the funds passed the committee unanimously. The motion will appear before the full Board of Alders later this month for final approval.

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

Two establishments — one serving craft beer and the other Asian fusion noodles — will join downtown New Haven’s bar and restaurant scene in the coming months.

Owners of the The Beer Collective — a bar that will serve beer produced by small-scale specialty breweries — signed a lease in late February with New Haven real estate investment firm Olympia Properties for 130 Court St., a vacancy three blocks from Old Campus that previously housed an Italian restaurant. The bar is on schedule to open this summer, owner Craig Sklar said. Olympia Properties signed a second lease on March 7 with the owners of Mecha Noodle Bar — a Fairfield-based restaurant chain that serves Asian-inspired cuisine — for property on 201 Crown St., Olympia owner Chris Nicotra said.

Though Nicotra said he could not disclose details, the owners of Mecha plan to build a novelty restaurant similar to establishments found in New York City.

“The owners of Mecha are talking to me about a brand new concept that would be an incredible addition to some of the stuff in New Haven, such as Barcade,” Nicotra said. “Underneath Mecha Noodle is a 4,000-square-foot basement. It would be really unique and is really hot in New York City.”

In a Thursday statement to the News, Mecha management said they were not yet ready to unveil the plans for their new Elm City property.

The additions of The Beer Collective and Mecha Noodle Bar are the latest in a recent trend of businesses that actively seek to invest in the Elm City. The past several years have seen a spike in investor interest, Nicotra said. In contrast, during the course of almost all of his two decades in the New Haven development business, Nicotra had to pursue potential investors, he said.

Owners of Mecha Noodle Bar and The Beer Collective were both based

outside of New Haven and competed with several other businesses for their current properties in the Elm City, Nicotra said. Nicotra has recently met with two investors from New York City and Boston who seek to buy property in the Elm City and he will sign leases with two other business ventures within the next week.

“The point is that literally in the past month I have done four deals,” Nicotra said. “Last year I don’t know if I did four deals in an entire year. Those are hard-core facts and statistics that you can visibly see.”

According to Sklar, the recent growth in the city convinced him to return to New Haven for his business venture. He had been working in New York City’s beer industry for roughly seven years.

Nicotra and Sklar added that the cost of rent in New York City — which has skyrocketed in the last few years — has been a significant impetus to convince business owners to invest in New Haven. Though Elm City rent has appreciated in recent years, it has remained well below the levels in the Big Apple, Nicotra said.

Once The Beer Collective opens this summer, it will serve spirits from a variety of local breweries around Connecticut as well as those from Europe.

Though Mecha has not yet announced the specifics of its New Haven product line, it serves Ramen and Pho for roughly $12 a bowl in its Fairfield location.

On the same block as The Beer Collective’s future home sits a 2-year-old bar called the Regal Beagle. Like Sklar, owner Matt Longley grew up in New Haven and wanted to open a business in the city. The addition of a new bar on the block, Longley said, is good business for everyone around.

“I 300 percent agree that more businesses around our area is good for our business,” Longley said. “The more to the area the better.

I only wish the city would add more parking to our area downtown.”

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

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

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

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

Theatre Studies Ballroom at 4:00pm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anthropology Building Room 105 at 12:00pm.

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Sunday, April 10 2-­4pm Ajami (Israel, 2009). Introduction by Hadas Fischer-­Rosenberg.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Visit macmillan.yale.edu for information on each event.

All events are free and open to the public.

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“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOUNDING FATHER OF THE UNITED STATES

Uncommon permanently closes for Schwarzman Center

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Uncommon permanently closed over spring break.

BY JACOB STERN STAFF REPORTER Uncommon — Yale Hospitality’s small health- and wellnessoriented retail outlet located just left of the entrance to Commons — permanently closed over spring break after fiveand-a-half years in operation.

According to Yale Hospitality’s Director of Auxiliary and Catering Operations Adam Millman, the closure comes in preparation for this summer’s transformation of Commons into the Schwarzman Center, and the space previously occupied by Uncommon will likely

serve as a field office for the project team tasked with planning the construction. Originally, Uncommon was set to close at the end of this semester, but regular flooding due to refrigeration malfunctions and frequent traffic from architects and engineers readying for the renovation led Hospitality to close the outlet early, Millman said. All the products unique to Uncommon will now be available at Durfee’s Sweet Shoppe, and some will also be available at Thain Café and Becton Café.

So far, Hospitality has seen no significant consequences of the shuttering, though some stu-

dents interviewed said they had been inconvenienced by the closing.

“There’s been a very minimal impact,” Millman said. “[Uncommon has] been closed for a week now and there hasn’t been any negative feedback from any students on the facility being closed.”

According to M illman, Uncommon draws relatively few customers, registering an average of just 25 student meal swipes and per day. Durfee’s, by contrast, processes approximately 800 meal swipes daily — 32 times more than its counterpart at Commons.

Despite Uncommon’s lowvolume sales, however, some students expressed displeasure at the premature shuttering.

For Noora Reffat ’19, a pre-med student who spends much of her time shuttling up and down Science Hill, the closure will make already-tight lunch breaks even more rushed. “ Un co m m o n wa s ve ry nice just because I could run through, grab some food and then go up the hill and make it in time for lab,” Reffat said. “[The closure] means I either have to get food at KBT— the cafe up on Science Hill — which is kind of hard because it’s usually very

full and I only have 10 minutes before my lecture starts after lab.”

Reffat added that many students with cross-campus treks and short lunch breaks like her own have likely been similarly inconvenienced by the shuttering.

Students are not the only ones forced to adjust to the closing. Uncommon’s sole employee — who requested to be named only as Jessica — has also had issues with quick turnarounds after Hospitality relocated her to Durfee’s, where she works later hours than she did at Uncommon. A student and

mother, Jessica has between 30 minutes and one hour depending on the day to get from work to school under her new schedule. The short notification she received prior to the transition compounded her difficulties.

“I don’t mind change but it was a bit of a short notice, probably like a two-week span,” she said. “With anything last minute, you know, you’ve got to roll with the punches.”

Uncommon was one of 12 campus retail outlets operated

by Yale Hospitality.

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

Historians discuss 14th amendment

BY LUKE CIANCARELLI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Five of America’s most prominent constitutional and reconstruction historians gathered yesterday evening in Linsly-Chittenden Hall to discuss “Equal Protection: Origins and Legacies of the 14th Amendment,” during which each speaker meditated on the history surrounding the passage of the 14th Amendment and its importance for modern issues surrounding judicial policies and practice at the federal and state level.

Moderated by David Blight, professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, the event brought historian Eric Foner of Columbia University; Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84 and John Witt ’94 LAW ’99 GRD ’00 of the Yale Law School; Tomiko Brown-Nagin LAW ’97 from Harvard Law School; and Amy Dru Stanley GRD ’90 of the University of Chicago. The speakers each gave brief introductory remarks on what they saw as the most important aspects of the history and consequences surrounding the 14th Amendment.

Passed in 1868, the 14th Amendment addressed the rights of citizens and equal protection of the laws. The amendment was a response to the problems of slavery in the South following the close of the Civil War. While each of the five speakers had their respective focuses, an essential point of agreement among the panelists was a fact Blight mentioned at the start of the event — that the 14th Amendment “federalized the bill of rights.” What this ended up meaning for past and present political events, however, was nuanced differently by each speaker.

Foner was the first to speak, drawing attention to the events directly preceding the passage of the 14th Amendment. As one of the leading living scholars of reconstruction, Foner said the period was a dynamic era full of compromise; accordingly, it was no surprise, he said,

that the 14th Amendment was a document formed by compromise. Foner dismissed the historical relevance of interpretive conclusions by current and former Supreme Court justices in regards to the 14th Amendment, eliciting laughter when he characterized the justices as “people uneducated about American history.”

According to Amar, the language of the 14th Amendment was about equality in birthright citizenship. Amar reminded the audience that the Bill of Rights solely applied to law at the federal level, and only the 14th Amendment empowered the federal government to enforce the dictates of the Bill of Rights on the states. As a corollary to this, Amar mentioned how the 14th Amendment functioned to significantly strengthen the federal government, another important theme of the event.

Constantly substituting the names of historical figures and events involved in Reconstruction with names from the present — namely presidential candidate Donald Trump and the War in Iraq — Amar underscored how many of the problems of the era of the 14th Amendment were applicable to current events.

Witt noted that while the 14th Amendment gave Congress new enumerated powers, it marked the end of Congress’s authority stemming from just war. While it brought about the power of a new regime and even created a “mini-constitution of its own,” Witt emphasized that it also marked the end of Congress’s war-time authority over the governance of the South.

Stanley took the podium after Witt, arguing that the 14th Amendment changed the American conception of human rights.

“Slave emancipation gave rise to a new conception of free personhood,” she said. Stanley argued that the Civil Rights Act of 1875, in conjunction with the pressure Congress applied through the 13th and 14th amendments, created a focus on people’s rights to “public rapture” and entertainment.

Quoting the influential author, historian and civil rights activist W. E. B DuBois, Brown-Nagin

framed the era of reconstruction as “black America’s brief moment in the sun.” She emphasized that the 14th Amendment was similarly a brief and incomplete moment for black America, bringing out the idea that reconstruction is “an ongoing process.” Brown-Nagin traced a cycle of “enforcement and neglect” in both Reconstruction and the broader history of civil rights in America, broaching both “the second Reconstruction” of the 1960’s civil rights movement and the more contemporary Black Lives Matter movement.

The floor then opened for audience questions. They ranged from the highly speculative — one audience member asked how Reconstruction would have been different if Lincoln had not been assassinated — to those with a more practical focus — another member asked if new laws for law enforcement were needed for modern American civil rights movements.

Student reactions to the event seemed positive overall.

Jackson Leipzig ’19 said that he especially appreciated the speakers’ attention to historical detail.

“One of the most salient points from the panel discussion was Professor Amar’s emphasis on positioning the 14th Amendment within the context of a U.S. Constitution whose provisions, especially those regarding voting rights, were heavily influenced by the role of slavery in American society,” Leipzig said.

Genevieve Lebaron, a “Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking” fellow with the Gilder Lehrman Center, was interested in the connections the speakers made between social movements and the Constitution. She also noted how the efforts of the Gilder Lehrman Center, including this event, could be seen as the beginning of a response to many of the conversations surrounding race that took place on campus last semester.

Jan. 31, 2015 marked the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 14th Amendment.

Contact LUKE CIANCARELLI at luke.ciancarelli@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“The numbers speak for themselves. We are the best in the world, have three World Cup championships, four Olympic championships. [The men’s players] get paid more to just show up than we get paid to win major championships.” HOPE SOLO U.S. WOMEN’S NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM GOALKEEPER

Yale aims to remain perfect at home

No. 1 Yale seeks 8–0 start M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 second-team All-Ivy selection last season, has scored nine goals this year, he is known more as a distributor. The senior averages 2.9 assists per game, which is the fourth most nationally.

Mathis and Roesner, both freshmen, lead the Quakers with 14 goals each thus far.

Yale goalie Phil Huffard ’18, who has won the first seven games of his career after assuming the starting role at the beginning of the season, will have to continue to prove himself as the Bulldogs progress through the Ivy season. Huffard currently ranks third in save percentage in the conference, though he has faced fewer shots than any other keeper, and his seven saves per game ranks 59th of 69 goalies in the nation. Being in sync with his defense will be key to a successful day for the sophomore against Penn, which is the third-highest-scoring

Ancient Eight school.

“I feel that in order for me to have a good game it starts with communication with the defense to try to limit the quantity and quality of the oppositions shots,” Huffard said. “At the same time, I personally have to be locked in on the ball whether it be a shot or a pass so I can get my feet set and square to the shooter.”

Huffard will not be the only goalie in the game with limited collegiate experience. Penn’s netminder Reed Junkin is only a freshman, but is averaging 12.9 saves per game, which ranks him fourth in the nation and first in the conference. However, his save percentage is just a few ticks higher than Huffard, and he has allowed nearly four more goals per game than Yale’s goalie.

Junkin, a three-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week recipient, will face a Yale offense led by attackman Ben Reeves ’18 who has tallied 20 goals and

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The Bulldogs’ 7–0 start is the team’s best since the 1990 campaign.

16 assists this year, both team highs.

He is not the only underclassman delivering thus far as Yale’s freshman class has combined to match Reeves’ 20 goals in its first seven games. With the team’s new No. 1 ranking now putting a target on the Elis’ back and both Yale and Penn battling for first place, one senior credited head coach Andrew Shay for helping limit any potential distractions.

“Coach Shay does a great job of keeping us under control and focused at the task at hand,” said midfielder Mike Bonacci ’16, who has scored eight goals this season.

The Bulldogs showed this poise last season in their 15–7 rout of Penn, in which then-attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15 scored five goals on 14 shots while the rest of the team scored 10 on 22 attempts.

However, Penn won the most recent game the teams played at Reese Stadium, a 6–5 final in 2014. Recognizing the past defeat at home as well as the importance of this game for his team’s standing in the Ivy League, Shay emphasized the importance of having a large Yale crowd in attendance to establish a true home-field advantage.

“We need Yale students to help if we are going to beat Penn,” Shay said.

The Bulldogs have repeatedly proven themselves at home in recent history, as the team is 19–4 at Reese Stadium dating back to the beginning of the 2013 campaign.

According to the team captain, a Yale victory will also require the hustle that helped elevate the Elis to the No. 1 ranking.

“Ivy League games are incredibly intense and really close,” Quinn said. “You know you’re going to get every team’s best shot. It’s less about schematics and more about competing against teams that don’t like each other.”

The first lacrosse game between Yale and Penn was played in 1919. The latest chapter in the rivalry starts at noon on Saturday.

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Elis head to NYC, Philly BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 hitting in 2015, easily pacing the Ivy League with 7.35 runs per game in conference play.

Yale was a main victim of that hitting last season, being outscored 25–5 in a pair of losses to Columbia.

This season, though little can be learned from Columbia’s relatively low 3.78 runs per game against nonconference teams, two players have emerged with particularly impressive statistics. Second baseman Will Savage leads the Lion offense, hitting 0.362, while left fielder Robb Paller has recorded a 0.313 average and 10 RBIs. “The pitching staff is excited to face the challenge that is Columbia,” captain Chris Moates ’16 said. “Obviously, as defending champs, they are a strong team, but I’m very confident that our staff has what it takes to shut them down. If we throw strikes and limit the free bases we give them, we’ll be a tough team to beat.”

The pitching will also be crucial in Sunday’s doubleheader with Penn. Center fielder Gary Tesch leads the Ivy League with a 0.381 batting average, and the Quakers have outscored their oppo-

nents 99–74 through their first 18 games, despite holding just a 7–11 record.

Right-hander Scott Politz ’19, who will pitch the first game against the Quakers, may provide Yale’s best chance to garner a victory. The freshman has pitched the Bulldogs to two of their four victories, registering a 3.34 ERA over six outings and a team-high 26 strikeouts, which is good enough for fourth in the Ivy League.

“I plan to treat it like any other game and just focus on first-pitch strikes and getting the lead-off batter out each inning,” Politz said. “I know I have one of the best defenses behind me in the league, so I need to throw strikes and challenge the offense, and let our defense keep them off the base paths.”

Penn, which defeated Yale by scores of 8–1 and 17–5 last season, has also distinguished itself as a top Ivy League program in the past few seasons. In 2015, the Quakers’ 16–4 conference record tied for first in the Ivy League with Columbia and Dartmouth, last year’s Ivy League Championship Series contenders.

On their own offensive side, the Bulldogs have shown the capability to pressure other

teams on the base paths. Yale has three players — Whiteman, centerfielder Tim DeGraw ’19 and third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 — among the Ivy League’s top five in stolen bases. Whiteman tops the list with 11 swiped bags this spring.

Whiteman and DeGraw, both projected starters, are part of a strong class of 2019 that will look to make a difference this Ivy League season.

DeGraw leads the team with 13 RBIs, and first baseman Benny Wanger ’19, who has also served as designated hitter and pitcher, is second among Bulldogs with a 0.357 batting average in 42 plate appearances.

In total, four freshmen are among the top seven in at bats for the Elis, but they will step up to the plate against Ivy competition for the first time this weekend.

“I think we’re not trying to think too much about expectations heading into this weekend,” Whiteman said. “We’ve been tested by several good teams thus far and have really put the pieces together to some extent.”

First pitch for both doubleheaders is scheduled for 12 p.m.

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Third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 is batting 0.302 with a home run and eight RBI.

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Goalie Sydney Marks ’18 has posted at least a 50 percent save percentage in five of six consecutive games, during which Yale has a 4–2 record.

W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 course of those three games, she saved an astounding 57.4 percent of the shots sent her way — for reference, Kelsey Duryea of Duke, currently ranked first in the nation in save percentage, has a 56.3 percent save percentage this season.

Marks’ play also received recognition in a fan poll called the StringKing Player of the Week, conducted by Inside Lacrosse, in which the sophomore keeper was voted as the nation’s top player — among all positions — last week.

Also encouraging in Yale’s recent winning streak has been its play in close contests. Prior to the streak, the Bulldogs had lost two of their three tightest games, a two-goal defeat to Lehigh and a four-goal loss to Cornell in the team’s Ivy opener.

But in the Elis’s latest nail-biting games they have managed to come out on top — edging Brown 6–5 and Columbia 10–9 in overtime — behind a sudden-death goal from midfielder Madeleine Gramigna ’18.

The thrilling victories have helped provide the team with a barometer moving forward for what needs to be done

in order to emerge victorious in similar action throughout the remainder of the season.

“I think [the close wins] definitely helped to strengthen the team,” Marks said. “We know how hard we need to push ourselves in a close game in order to come out on top. Plus, I think we’ve only gained more confidence in the process as well.”

The Elis have an additional factor in their favor for this weekend’s tilt: The game will be contested at home, where the Bulldogs remain unbeaten.

Yale boasts a 4–0 record at Reese Stadium, compared to a 1–4 mark away from New Haven.

“We are fortunate to play at an outstanding facility and have some of the most loyal fans who attend our home games,” LaGrow said.

The action versus Albany, Yale’s second-to-last nonconference game of the season, will commence at 3 p.m. on Saturday.

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Blank slate to start Ivy play SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 Together, Columbia’s star hitters, second baseman Taylor Troutt and first baseman Kerry Cook, will pose a threat to Yale’s pitchers. Troutt currently holds a batting average of 0.354 along with seven home runs, 21 RBI and a slugging percentage of 0.738.

She received an All-Ivy honorable mention for her performance last year with the Lions.

Cook, who is a junior, received an All-Ivy honorable mention after her freshman season. She is batting 0.341 so far in the season and leading the Columbia team with 28 hits.

In the pitcher’s circle, Yale hitters will likely face a combination of pitchers Kayla Maloney, Tessa Kroll and Tonia Wu. The last of the three is the Lion ace. Wu posted an earned run average of 2.97 in the 2015 season and started 18 games.

She also earned second-team AllIvy honors for her performance at the plate.

“As an upperclassman, I have a lot of familiarity with the teams I’m going to playing,” utility player Rachel Paris ’17 said. “Having had some success against several of these teams and specific pitchers is going to help give me and my teammates confidence going into these marathon weekends.”

Penn (11–9, 0–0), the Ivy League South Division champion for four years in a row, starts conference play against Brown on Friday before its two games with Yale. The Quakers are coming off of two back-to-back losses to Lehigh.

The top of Penn’s lineup looks strong with second baseman Sam Pederson, third baseman Lauren Li and right fielder Leah Allen.

Allen, a power hitter, has an Ivy League-leading 25 RBI and has been awarded the last two Ivy League Player of the Week honors. Pederson is also high up on the Ivy charts with her 0.400 batting average — second best in the Ancient Eight — while Li is right behind her at 0.393.

Perhaps the most impressive player on the Red and Blue squad, however, is pitcher Alexis Sargent, who has claimed the three most recent Ivy League Pitcher of the Week awards. Sargent, who holds a 0.93 earned run average and is also a 0.326 hitter, has just

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Pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18 is 2–6 thus far in 2016 with a 5.02 ERA and 41 strikeouts. one run to her name in her last 33 innings. Last Saturday, the hurler nearly pitched a perfect game against Rider, allowing just one hit and striking out 14 en route to a 5–0 team win.

Sargent will go up against a Bulldog lineup that has performed well this season, with eight players batting above 0.250. Shortstop and occasional leadoff hitter Brittany Labbadia ’16 has appeared in all 22 games so far this season and sits atop the Yale hitting charts with 19 hits and 9 RBI. Supporting Labbadia near the top of the lineup will be current Ivy League Rookie of the Week and utility player Carlin Hagmaier ’19, who owns a batting average of 0.379 and enters the weekend with nine hits in her last 17 at bats.

Pitching for the Bulldogs will likely be Terra Jerpbak ’19, Francesca Casalino ’18 and Lindsay Efflandt ’17, though Goodwin said Thursday that the exact start-

ers for each game were yet to be decided.

Last year, Casalino was the workhorse of the Ivy League season with a total of 60.1 innings pitched in conference play. Casalino, who currently owns an earned run average of 5.02 is recovering from a minor overuse injury to the right forearm, but is nonetheless eager to return to the mound.

“I believe this team can go over 0.500. It’s just tough for us with the powerhouses to start with [Penn and Columbia], who have a lot of good talent,” Casalino said.

“From the South Division teams, we think we can take both games from all of them.”

Yale’s doubleheader with Columbia will begin at 2 p.m. Friday, while Saturday’s matchup against Penn will start at 12:30 p.m.

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BY FLORA LIPSKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Set to make its Ivy League debut, the Yale softball team will travel to New York and Pennsylvania in an effort to extend a three-game winning streak. The Bulldogs will take on Columbia and Penn in doubleheaders on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

SOFTBALL Ivy League play arrives at an exciting time for Yale (7–15, 0–0 Ivy), which comes off two one-run victories over Fairfield on Wednesday. Head coach Jen Goodwin and her team are looking to build on their recent offensive success and strong pitching to climb the Ivy

League rankings.

“We have learned something from every game we have played this season,” Goodwin said. “In our last three games we have had an extra-innings win, a win where we kept our lead the whole game, and a win where we had the lead, lost it [and] had to fight back and hold off a very strong offense.”

The Bulldogs will first square off with Columbia (5–17, 0–0), looking to widen the gap in their alltime series record of 17–14 over the Lions. Still, Columbia comes into Ivy play with the momentum of two consecutive wins this season as well as six straight victories in the past three years against the Bulldogs in its series with Yale.

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For the first time in Yale history, the men’s lacrosse team will take the field as the No. 1 team in the nation.

BY MATTHEW MISTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This Saturday, the Yale men’s lacrosse team will take the field for the first time in program history as the No. 1 team in the nation. Following a gritty 11–10 victory over Princeton last weekend, the Bulldogs host Penn at Reese Stadium in a contest between

two teams tied atop the Ivy League standings.

But the Bulldogs (7–0, 2–0 Ivy) are not letting their No. 1 ranking distract them from a crucial league contest against a surging Penn team (5–3, 2–0) that has outscored its two Ivy opponents 29–16.

“It’s a one-game season in our view,” captain and defender Michael Quinn ’16

said. “Penn is always a really talented team. Our win on Saturday against Princeton was a gutty-team win, but we know we’re going to have to play a lot better moving forward.”

Yale will need to tighten up its defense if it hopes to maintain its perfect start. The Bulldogs allowed 10 goals, the most they have allowed all

season, in last weekend’s battle with Princeton after only conceding an average of 6.3 goals in their six prior contests.

This weekend, the defense will fend off a talented attack unit featuring Nick Doktor, Simon Mathis and Alex Roesner. Although Doktor, a SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 10

Ivy season opens against top foes

Mason Kukowski ’18 has pitched 23.2 innings this year, including a zero-run, 2.2-inning save in Yale’s win over Quinnipiac.

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A new season begins this weekend for the Yale baseball team, as the commencement of Ivy League play offers a much-welcomed fresh start for the Bulldogs.

After an up-and-down start to the 2016 season, the Yale women’s lacrosse team is currently riding a three-game win streak. This Saturday, the Bulldogs will lace up against nonconference foe Albany at Reese Stadium to try and continue their hot streak and remain unbeaten at home.

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In last year’s Yale-Penn matchup, the Elis won the first game 2–1 before dropping the second 12–7.

Yale (4–15–1, 0–0 Ivy), which has struggled in nonconference play, begins its Ivy schedule with one of the toughest weekends in the 20-game campaign. At Columbia (5–13, 0–0), Yale will square off against the three-time defending conference champion, and at Penn (7–11, 0–0), the Elis will face a team that has posted either the best or second-best Ivy League record for the past two seasons.

“This upcoming weekend will be a reflection of the work we’ve put in thus far,” second baseman Simon Whiteman ’19 said. “That’s definitely something we’re very excited about.”

The Bulldogs, who did not secure their first victory until 11 games into the spring, won three out of four games before losing their three most recent contests.

Columbia has also gotten off to a slow start this spring, posting a losing record in a nonconference campaign that has included games against Pepperdine, San Diego and No. 16 Long Beach State.

The Lions dominated with their SEE BASEBALL PAGE 10

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE The Elis (5–4, 2–1 Ivy) clawed back to the positive side of 0.500 with backto-back-to-back wins over spring break, two of which were against Ancient Eight competition. The three wins mark the first time this season that Yale has been able to string together multiple victories, and the team has a chance to make it four against Albany (4–3, 1–0 American East).

“Albany is a well-coached, tough, competitive team and we are looking forward to an exciting game on Saturday,” head coach Erica LaGrow said.

In order to win on Saturday, the Bulldogs will first and foremost have to try and slow down the scoring force that is Albany’s Dakotah Savitcheff, who is currently ranked fifth in the nation with 3.7 goals per game.

But one factor that bodes

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Defender Victoria Moore ’17 is one of six Bulldog players to have started all nine Yale games thus far. well for Yale is the recent play of goalie Sydney Marks ’18, who has been at the top of her game. After her last three games against George Washington, Brown and Columbia, in which she made seven,

five and 15 saves respectively, Marks has vaulted into the top 25 in the nation in both saves per game and save percentage. Furthermore, over the SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 10

THE SPEED IN MILES PER HOUR OF THE FASTBALL BELONGING TO SIDD FINCH ’20. The fireballer was officially admitted to Yale Thursday afternoon and will fight for a spot in the Bulldogs’ men’s baseball rotation next spring.