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CROSS CAMPUS Endowmeant to be. Yale’s Investments Office released a public report earlier this week.

The comprehensive report revealed that the University’s venture capital portfolio has earned an annualized return of 18 percent per year for 10 years. The University’s success, according to The Wall Street Journal, is in part due to its investments in startup companies such as Uber and Airbnb.

Kerry out. After arriving in Bahrain on Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 broke the record for most miles traveled by a U.S. secretary of state. Kerry was appointed in 2013, and has traveled over 1.06 million miles since.

Harder, Better, Foster, Stronger. In honor of the 40th

anniversary of “Taxi Driver” — Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film in which Jodie Foster ’85 played one of her most famous characters, Iris the teenage prostitute — Foster and Scorsese spoke with Vanity Fair. “It’s odd to think that four decades have passed since we shot Taxi Driver on the streets of a very different New York City,” Scorsese said of the experience.

Better than Rory. Melissa McCarthy confirmed on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” that she will be returning for the reboot of popular sitcom “Gilmore Girls.” On the show, McCarthy plays Sookie, best friend of Lorelai Gilmore, the beloved mother of Yalie Rory.

The episode of “Ellen” in which McCarthy announces her return will air at 4 p.m. today.

WILBUR CROSS NEW HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL PROFILED

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Gibbs Laboratory construction raises parking questions

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BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER Though a controversial proposal to tax the University’s $25.6 billion endowment has died in committee, a concurrent bill aiming to clarify Yale’s taxable property advanced in the state legislature this Thursday.

The General Assembly’s Finance, Bonding and Revenue committee approved the property tax bill 28 to 22 votes this Thursday afternoon. Overshad-

owed in the national media by a controversial proposal to tax the University’s unspent endowment returns, S.B. 414 seeks to ensure University property on which commercial activity of over $6,000 annually occurs can be taxed accordingly, as per current state law, supporters said. Rep. Roland Lemar, D-New Haven, who has backed the bill alongside the rest of New Haven’s state delegation, stressed during the committee meeting that the bill would not tax Yale’s academic

a cappella group, the Yale Spizzwinks(?) will host Jam! — their 102nd annual show — at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Battell Chapel. This year, the concert is presidential electionthemed.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1991 A group of 15 students from Trumbull and Calhoun colleges organize a “sleep-out” on Old Campus to protest the lack of guaranteed housing in their residential colleges. The students sleep in a tent, which they dub “The TrumbullCalhoun Annex.”

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buildings or any of the ventures originated in taxable University property. While lawmakers in Hartford have struggled to piece together a workable budget plan this legislative session, Lemar said the bill would only generate revenue at the municipal level.

“This would be a local property tax issue,” Lemar said. “It is in no way intended to solve a state budget deficit or budget crunch.”

Republican members on the SEE PROPERTY TAX PAGE 4

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Governor Malloy has come out against the endowment tax bill.

ULAs expand to other CS courses

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Undergraduate Learning Assistants — who worked for the first time in a computer science course last term — will be a presence in the department’s other courses in the coming academic year.

In a faculty meeting Thursday, faculty members passed a proposal to expand the employment of Undergraduate Learning Assistants — at first used only in CPSC 100, a class more commonly known as CS50 — to

all other undergraduate courses in the department. An appeal for the use of ULAs was first approved by the faculty in November 2014 for a threeyear trial so that they could teach in CS50, a course structured around an undergraduate teaching presence. The Thursday vote extends the ULA experiment to the department’s other undergraduate courses. Before November 2014, undergraduates were only allowed to hold office hours and serve as peer tutors, but never for the same course.

Department chair Joan Feigen-

baum said the fall semester course evaluations for CS50 have reflected such enthusiasm about the ULAs that the department decided to expand the program to its other classes. She noted, however, that the decision is not a final one — the experiment will run for two more years, when the entire ULA program will come under review.

“My Yale computer science colleagues and I are delighted finally to have the opportunity to involve our SEE ULA PAGE 4

Success sparks outside interest in coach

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTERS In August 1999, four months after being named head coach of the Yale men’s basketball team, James Jones told The New York Times that an ideal head coach of Yale’s pro-

gram is “a guy who doesn’t want to be here for 15 years.”

“He should want to use this [position] as a stepping stone, and to do that he has to get it done and [an Ivy League championship] gets it done,” said Jones, who was 35 years old at the time. “When I close

School will host an event titled “Race (In)Action: 2016 Critical Race Theory Conference at Yale” to discuss racism and its influence on the law. The conference, which will be held on Saturday, is free and open to all students who register online.

I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 102. All-male

Yale University Press teams up with other school presses

Endowment tax fails, property tax advances

Let’s get critical. The Yale Law

I want you to STAY. The Students and Alumni of Yale invite undergraduates to join James Rohrbach ’05, the CEO of language school Fluent City, in conversation at 4 p.m. today in the Rose Alumni House. Fluent City currently offers classes in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia.

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Jones speaks at a press conference before Yale’s NCAA Tournament game against Baylor in Providence, Rhode Island.

my eyes, I see me and my staff hugging on the court at the end of our last game because we’ve won the league and we are going to the Big Dance.”

On March 5 of this year, that is exactly how Yale’s regular season ended. In his 17th season at the helm of the program, Jones’ Bulldogs earned an outright Ivy League title, entered the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 54 years and won its first tournament game in program history.

After his team’s performance on the national stage, rumors have begun to surface of the Bulldogs’ success potentially becoming that stepping stone to another program.

In the past month, Jones has been mentioned in connection to head coaching vacancies at Pitt, Rutgers, Tulane and Vanderbilt — all of which are members of conferences with more national exposure than the Ivy League.

The most serious interest reportedly came from Tulane, which The New Orleans Advocate reported had “mutual interest” in Jones during its search for a new head coach.

The other three programs were con-

Yale sends endowment info to Congress

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK AND DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTERS Earlier this week, Yale disclosed information about how it spends and manages its $25.6 billion endowment in response to questions from members of the United States Congress about how wealthy institutions spend their endowments.

On April 1, Yale submitted the endowment disclosure, which included a cover letter penned by University President Peter Salovey, to three leaders of both the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Ways and Means, marking the second time in the past decade Yale has provided endowment-related information to Congress. The report answers to an investigation conducted by the two committees, which requested in February that 56 colleges and universities with endowments over $1 billion provide information on their endowment management.

Yale could not do all it does now … if the endowment, which funds a third of the University budget, were diminished by legislation.

TOM CONROY University Press Secretary While endowment experts interviewed said these Congressional concerns — some of which question whether universities like Yale spend their endowments with the interests of students in mind — are misguided, Salovey’s letter sought to reassure legislators that Yale’s endowment is essential to furthering its educational mission. The letter also attempted to show that Yale spends and saves money in efficient and effective ways, despite concerns from Congress. The deadline for colleges and universities to respond was April 1, and many

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Spanish prof to appeal tenure denial

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER The Spanish and Portuguese Department has once again found itself embroiled in controversy after senior faculty members in the department recently voted to deny Associate Spanish Professor Susan Byrne tenure — prompting renewed accusations of abuse of power and unfair retaliation within a small yet divided faculty body.

Byrne, who has been at the University since 2008, came up for tenure review in 2015, but deliberations for her case were postponed due

to an external climate review of the Spanish department triggered by allegations that senior faculty members had created an environment of fear and intimidation. On Feb. 15, Byrne was informed that she had been denied tenure at the departmental level.

While promotion denials are not uncommon, professors interviewed suggested that Byrne’s tenure review was shaped by an already problematic faculty power dynamic within the department.

The department’s climate woes have been well-publicized. A six-month review of the department, the results

of which were shared in a December 2015 meeting with members of the department, revealed fissures between the five senior faculty members and alluded to “authoritarian decision-making” within the department, whose chairmanship has been passed back and forth between current chair Rolena Adorno and Spanish professor Roberto González Echevarría GRD ’70 for years. Both professors and graduate students within the department alleged that senior faculty have engaged in misconduct ranging from sexual harassment to unfair decision-making, in particular with the controver-

sial denial of tenure to former Portuguese associate professor Paulo Moreira in 2015.

Byrne said Adorno and González Echevarría have explicitly told her that they are against FASTAP and would not grant any junior faculty member tenure, regardless of their academic record.

“The Department of Spanish and Portuguese has once again disgraced itself, and the administration has allowed it to do so,” Byrne said. “The result is that my years of dedicated work were ignored in the service of their open SEE SPANISH PAGE 6

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Byrne submitted two appeals.

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s I wrap up the excruciating process that is writing my senior essay, I’ve been thinking about some of the Great Big Ideas that have come out of the paper that will hopefully stay with me as a badge for losing so much sleep. I would say that sounds cheesy, but I’m writing about a fad diet that people followed in the 1970s, and cheese was actually forbidden, so I won’t.

To elaborate, I’ve been working on a history of the macrobiotic diet (a regimen of brown rice and vegetables), trying to understand the ways in which the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s intersected with issues of food and agriculture. Fearful of environmental contaminants, skeptical of the ingredients in processed foods and infatuated with the potential curative powers of Eastern mysticism, folks — mostly young folks — took to eating “health foods” as a way to maintain some semblance of control within a society they believed was uncontrollable.

In his book, “Appetite for Change,” food historian Warren Belasco dubbed this food trend the “counter-cuisine,” which developed in opposition to mainstream norms. Brown, unprocessed, “natural” bread opposed suburban, industrial, additive-laden white bread.

Cooking and eating communally would replace convenience foods that were canned or frozen for the sake of saving time.

For proponents of this counter-cuisine, food choices were a means of subversion. To avoid meat entirely was to eschew the meat industry; to eat organically grown food, free of pesticides, was to oppose the militaryindustrial complex that brought pesticides into being in the first place. Communal cooking by women and men blurred the boundaries of dearly held gender roles, just as men began to grow their hair out. Eating to prevent disease challenged the authority of the doctor and the medical industry in matters of personal health. In a suburb where the supermarket was chock full of “plastic” foods, a small co-op of “natural” fare offered culinary refuge. Food choices were political, and radically so.

Food’s political valence reflected the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, part and parcel to the greater yearning for social change put forth by the countercultural types. As students at Yale demonstrated against an unfair criminal justice system during the trial of Black Panther Bobby Seale in 1970, they fed each other brown rice between chants. A year later, Yale’s dining hall director announced that macrobiotic health foods would be served, recognizing that “people are becoming increasingly concerned about their environment and consequently, the quality of the food they eat.” Food

was a powerful political medium for the counte rc u l t u ra l m ove m e n t because it was a tool of protest, AUSTIN demBRYNIARSKI where o n s t ra t i o n was daily and Guns & personal.

As Belasco butter argues, food became less and less political as the food industry began to co-opt the tropes of the counterculture — the very capitalist machine the counterculture attempted to subvert through eating alternatively. Even if natural foods were no longer protestant, they nevertheless endured, thanks to the vision and imagination of the counterculture.

To me, the power of the student activists to envision new ways of living and thinking and bring them into reality is nothing short of inspiring. The most extreme forms of this struggle for utopia played out on communes, which were free from the interference of the rest of society and its technological demons. But college campuses in the 1960s were particularly powder-keggish places of foment. A commune in its own right, the university functioned as the stage for student protests against the war in Vietnam, environmental degradation, racism, censorship and the rest of the issues with which the Left was most concerned.

The idea of protest as a “living theater,” where students could perform their visions for a better future through demonstration, resonates. That college could be a Petri dish for new ways of organizing society is awesome, if not a little scary. And I hedge at the idea that, should we grow some cultures we like, we have to spread them immediately.

That’s the Great Big Idea, and now I’m thinking about how living theater might manifest on this campus in the future as it has in the past. People who questioned the protests last semester often wielded the idea of the “real world” to explain how reimagining one’s surroundings was for naught. But using college as a sort of social sandbox helps us avoid essentializing problems that persist in the “real world” as necessary or inevitable. The counterculture sparked change because it refused to take the status quo as absolute.

The counterculture may have died down, but such is the transient nature of college. I’m graduating soon, but if you aren’t, and you’re reading this: Play in the sandbox.

AUSTIN BRYNIARSKI is a senior in Calhoun College.

His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at austin.bryniarski@yale.edu .

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VIEW Time for a decision Yale has deadlines. Whether writing a lab report or an essay, we as students have come to expect that when we’re given an assignment, there’s a clear window of time in which it should be reasonably completed. Even the most generous of extensions have expiration dates.

But for the Yale Corporation, such rules do not seem to apply — at least for the questions most pressing and urgent to many students and alumni. It’s been over a year of silence since the previous managing board of the News called for the renaming of Calhoun College, a push that has built upon decades of pressure by students and alumni seeking to strip John C. Calhoun, one of the nation’s fiercest advocates of slavery, of his Yale legacy.

So with the Yale Corporation set to convene this weekend — one of only five meetings that occur throughout the entire year — the time has come for Yale to make up its mind.

The myriad of think pieces, opinion columns, public protests and campus discussions over the past 12 months — and decades prior — have provided the Corporation ample opportunity to explore all sides of this issue. Therefore, we will not use this space to rehash the relative merits of keeping or discarding the name Calhoun. One more column is unlikely to add

much to the conversation.

But the fact remains that early thousands of students walk through the Calhoun gates every day. Students and alumni have been debating for issue for long enough. Each of us deserves an answer.

One need only look to our peer institutions to see that Yale is trailing behind. Just this week, Princeton’s board of trustees announced that it would preserve Woodrow Wilson’s name on all campus buildings and programs, a decision that followed pressure by students this fall to drop the name in recognition of Wilson’s staunch support of racial segregation. While the content of Princeton’s decision is a separate debate, we commend the quick response of the administration. But the decision is only one of many examples of swift administrative response across the Ivy League in the last 12 months.

In December, both Harvard and Princeton also decided to replace the title “House Master,” a debate at Yale also expected to be addressed by the Corporation.

While both Harvard and Princeton formed special committees that met frequently with the specific task of resolving these naming issues, Yale did not. A group of Princeton trustees, for instance, met nine times between December 2015 and late March. During the same period, the Yale Corporation met

only twice. Unlike its peer bodies, the Yale Corporation is not treating this issue with the urgency it deserves.

Of course, the decision to rename Calhoun is more than a routine administrative operation, such as approving an annual budget or rubberstamping faculty appointments. But the Corporation’s wavering is not a procedural necessity — it’s an affront to the many students and alumni for whom the outcome is intensely personal. For many who call the college home and who share the campus emblazoned with his name, the name Calhoun is a daily reminder of Yale’s long legacy of bigotry and racism. Even those who defend retaining the Calhoun name are likely frustrated by the lack of resolution. The extended silence tells us that the issue just isn’t a priority.

When Stephen Schwarzman ’69 donated $150 million to renovate Commons, it took only a few months before the old plaques disappeared and shiny blue signs bearing the Schwarzman name were nailed onto its marble exterior. No student referendum.

No town-hall discussions. No online forum titled, “An open conversation.” It was a decision that, relative to Calhoun, seemed to occur overnight.

It’s possible the Corporation is deliberately elongating the decision process. Rather than announce what will

likely prove a divisive verdict while classes are in session and students are on campus, they may be biding their time until their next meeting — slated to occur over Commencement weekend — in order to diffuse backlash, while also upholding their promise to make a decision before the end of the academic term.

Students on summer break will naturally be more distracted and disengaged. We’ll be away from campus, and it will be difficult for any sort of organized response to gain traction.

We can only hope the Yale Corporation has enough courage to stand by its decision and welcome the conversation it will inevitably generate. They should not delay the decision out of fear of the reaction it will provoke.

Decisions like this one provide us with a natural opportunity to reflect on our values and identity through open conversation. Informing us in a Universitywide email over break will not allow for that.

In his freshman address, which centered on whether to retain the Calhoun name, University President Peter Salovey said if “this kind of conversation cannot or does not happen on the campuses … then we should be concerned whether it can happen anywhere.” But discussion means little without action.

After years of conversation, it’s time for a decision.

On hold no more I

have a confession to make: I am a voyeur — an intellectual voyeur. In my free time, I sometimes go to the hold shelves in Sterling Memorial Library, located in the room between the majestic nave and the soulless stacks. There, I examine the unsuspecting books, waiting to be checked out by some student or scholar, redeemed after years — perhaps even decades — in purgatory.

That room is my favorite place at Yale. It is completely stripped down, functional and unpretentious. The collegiate Gothic architecture of Harkness Tower may be stunning, and the vastness of Commons might inspire awe, even terror, but the hold shelves embody what the university is truly about.

On the hold shelves, a biography of Van Gogh can sit right next to a monograph on the origins of the Equal Rights Amendment; a compilation of nineteenth century literary magazines can lie next to a Russian tract on Sovietera economics. Despite a great deal of ideological convergence on a number of sociopolitical issues at Yale, the hold shelves alert us to the intellectual diversity which continues to animate much of the academic enterprise.

In an age of overspecialization, the hold shelves serve as a reminder of the books I will never read or even know existed.

As we grow more attached to our fields, it is easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do or study holds the key to the world.

The hold shelves humble us, for they expose the many doppelgängers out there, working equally hard on projects with just as much merit and significance as our own.

As I look at the hold receipts sticking out of the books, I sometimes wonder about the patrons who made those requests. These are people I have never met and, in

all likelihood will never meet, and I can only speculate about their lives.

What made them interested in gender studJUN YAN ies or the fall of the Roman CHUA Empire? Are they checkThe out a book wallflower ing for a paper or for sheer personal interest?

In a world of strangers, the hold shelves create a moment of intimacy, however fleeting or whimsical or pointless that moment might be.

Occasionally, I might recognize one or two big-name professors on those hold receipts. The hold shelves become exciting because they are a tableau of scholarship in progress. They literally contain the footnotes which will appear

in a Pulitzer Prize-winning book five years down the road, or the parenthetical citations which will be in the next Nobel Prize-winning paper. Compared to the hold shelves, the “Hot off the Press” section of the Yale bookstore is an antique shop.

Yet the hold shelves also possess an essentially democratic quality. A book reserved for an endowed professor can lie right next to a book reserved for an undergraduate; the only discriminant is the alphabetical order of one’s last name. In this sense, the hold shelves represent what the academy aspires to be: a space defined by ideas rather than hierarchy or pedigree.

Having said that, the neatness of the hold shelves belies the many inequities that persist at Yale. On the one hand, they make me grateful for the incredible array of staff who keep the library and the university running. The work we do at Yale may be intellectually demanding, but it is no

more or less significant that the labor required to keep an institution of this size operational.

On the other hand, the hold shelves also remind me of the need to advocate for these workers. Be it the student worker trying to pay her student income contribution or an ITS employee at risk of being laid off, we owe it to them to listen to their concerns.

But mostly, I find the hold shelves reassuring. During the long nights at Sterling, when I sometimes feel completely, utterly alone, the hold shelves whisper to me that somewhere in the history of human knowledge, someone must have confronted the same academic or personal problem I now face. Above all, the hold shelves give me hope: However obscure, the story I am writing may one day be read.

JUN YAN CHUA is a sophomore in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at junyan.chua@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30

Construction plan raises parking concerns

The article “City charter school partners with water authority” misstated Kate Cebik’s title; in fact, she is Common Ground’s development assistant. It also inaccurately stated that the Regional Water Authority provides 46,000 gallons of water each day; in fact, the RWA provides an average of 46 million gallons per day.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

The article “First female Ph.D.s memorialized” misstated Laura Wexler’s title; in fact, she is a former co-chair of the Women Faculty Forum.

The article “DeLauro promotes wage theft reform” incorrectly stated that Axel Tubac and Henry Tubac did not receive six weeks of pay in 2015; in fact, he did not receive seven weeks of pay.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

The article “Students call for Clinton support” misstated Howard Dean’s title; in fact, he is the former governor of Vermont.

Board of Alders pushes for new elementary school

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER New Haven residents urged the Board of Alders to accept Mayor Toni Harp’s proposal to build a new public elementary school on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University at a Finance Committee hearing on Thursday.

In last spring’s city budget submitted to the alders, Harp proposed building a new Strong Magnet School to replace its current location in The Hill. But after a protracted budget fight, alders rejected the proposal, even though the lion’s share of its funding would have come from the state.

Harp re-proposed the school in her budget for fiscal year 2017, forcing the alders to reconsider the issue. The proposal to bond $10.6 million in funding for the school’s construction is identical to the proposal Harp presented to the alders last spring.

Residents who spoke at Thursday’s hearing at the Augusta Troup School on Edgewood Avenue said a new Strong School on the campus of SCSU would be a vast improvement to its current cramped quarters in The Hill.

Emma Woods, a special education teacher at the Strong School who works with autistic children, said her small classroom hinders her ability to help students.

“They need to learn how to … take in the world around them, how to function in a socially acceptable way,” Woods told the alders. “You can imagine that this would be difficult under the best circumstances. Now imagine it with a gym class happening right outside your door.”

Whenever a student becomes aggressive, Woods said, she must move all other students into the hallway due to the classroom’s small size. She said a larger classroom — like those the proposed new Strong School would house — would have enough space to cordon off aggressive students without disrupting the rest of the class.

Charles Warner Jr., a school climate specialist at Strong, said approving a school on the SCSU campus would allow the city to fulfill its promise to encourage matriculation to college among public school students. Warner, a graduate of Hill Regional Career High School and Morehouse College, said a new Strong School would provide its students with the resources and facilities he enjoyed as a teenager.

“These young people need an environment where they can be challenged daily to achieve,” War-

ner said. “New Haven has made a commitment to push its young people until they attend college, and this is right in with that.”

Warner noted that many cities across the country have developed lab schools on college campuses. The University of Chicago; Columbia University; and the University of California, Los Angeles all have lab schools on their campuses, he said.

SCSU Dean of the School of Education Stephen Hegedus said the Strong School proposal represents “a groundbreaking effort … to make a concerted effort that will impact the lives of our children in New Haven.”

Hegedus said a school on SCSU’s campus would allow students in the New Haven Public Schools district, NHPS teachers and SCSU undergraduates to work closely with each other in the same environment. Wood added that being on a college campus would provide her access to new educational methods and techniques currently unavailable at The Hill location.

Will Clark, the NHPS chief operating officer, compared the proposed Strong School to the existing Troup School. The Troup School, he said, is a cornerstone of Edgewood; the Strong School, if built, can be the same for its neighborhood in Amity.

Carlos Torre, a former BOE president and current member, spoke in favor of the Strong School proposal, arguing that its approval would benefit students, parents and the Elm City.

But New Haven resident and budget watchdog Ken Joyner was dubious of the proposal.

“This is the identical proposal that the aldermen rejected last year,” Joyner said. “Now, the City has come before you in this budget proposing to make a new attempt to bond the $10.6 million for the Strong School without providing to you any documentation for why this proposal is any more valid than the one they proposed last year.”

Joyner’s remarks on the Strong School were part of his extended testimony on the city’s capital budget — funds allotted to construction. He criticized the city for a “lack of accountability” on its spending plans, and especially its apparent inefficacy in addressing the city’s $808 million debt.

The Finance Committee will hold its next meeting in City Hall on Monday evening.

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Budget discussions continued Thursday at Troup School.

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Monday night, city leaders took steps to determine whether the J.W. Gibbs building project warrants an aldermanic parking review.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER As the decadeslong planning of a new biology building to replace the J.W. Gibbs Laboratory on Science Hill nears completion, the city may be looking into whether the new building warrants the creation of additional nearby parking spaces.

At an aldermanic meeting Monday night, city leaders took steps to determine whether the building project warrants an aldermanic parking review. While Yale looks to finish the proposed building, which has undergone two redesigns and one postponement, New Haven has its own concerns about dwindling parking spots for residents.

The question of available parking hinges on whether the new science facility will increase the number of faculty and staff working there. According to science professors, this number will not change.

“The size of the molecular, cellular and developmental biology faculty or staff will not change much,” said MCDB professor Thomas Pollard, who formerly chaired the MCDB Building Committee. “We are simply moving from our current quarters to the new building, which will replace Gibbs.”

On Monday, city officials asked an outside legal counsel for a recommendation on whether the proposed building plans require an aldermanic review.

The new building will fill the footprint currently occupied by Gibbs Laboratory,

which houses physics labs and the Astronomy Department. The 291 parking spaces currently nearby will see no increase or decrease as part of the construction. Currently, staff and students use a parking lot adjacent to Science Hill.

But the proposed construction would temporarily close the lot for construction crew operations for a short period of time during the building process, which is scheduled to last around two years.

Yale has said it will reassign parking during the construction period — which is expected to be completed in 2019 — to Lots 16 and 22V and the Pierson–Sage Garage, which are all located further up Whitney Avenue on the same block.

While the building’s occupancy is not expected to increase considerably, Executive Director of the City Plan Department Karyn Gilvarg pointed out in a recent letter to the alders that the “new building and the below-grade service spaces [are] somewhat greater than the existing Gibbs Laboratory building.”

The proposed building is 280,300 square feet and six stories tall, and will include a rooftop penthouse with a small greenhouse. The design uses the slope of Science Hill to bury the first two floors underground. A network of belowground tunnels will connect the new biology building with Kline Biology Tower. The new lab will be accessible from all of its sides and through hallways under the Kline Biology Tower Plaza.

But it still remains unclear whether the slight increase in the building’s size will influence either the occupancy of the building or the amount of parking needed nearby.

According to the 1998 towngown agreement “Overall Parking Plan,” Yale is allowed to determine where and how many parking spaces are built on University property. Gilvarg said Yale meets frequently throughout the year with the City Plan Department. For every Yale building project proposal, Gilvarg said, the University provides the city with relevant information including occupancy changes.

The next monthly City Plan Commission review is on April 20.

According to Gilvarg, Yale officials have said anecdotally in meetings with the city that the new biology building will bring no significant change in faculty or staff. Although the square footage of the site is growing, this may not increase the number of faculty and staff who work there, Gilvarg said.

Students are not required to have nearby parking, she said, so faculty and staff numbers are more relevant when considering parking availability.

Parking near Science Hill has also been reduced temporarily by the construction of the new residential colleges, Pollard said. When the construction workers at the residential college site using parking spaces leave the site, more parking will become available, he added.

Yale officials have previously said in public testi-

monies that Yale encourages employees to take shuttles and public transportation, but also provides off-street parking to all employees, for a price. But previous aldermanic proposals have addressed worries that Yale workers often take street parking from nearby residents.

Gibbs Laboratory is bordered by residential communities on Whitney Avenue and Humphrey and Bishop streets.

Parking is an especially vital issue for New Haven’s alders, who have repeatedly sought to relieve city residents of parking woes. City leaders have expressed concerns that the increasing demand for parking, coupled with a growing number of building projects, reduces available parking or does not create any new spaces.

For example, Yale’s plans to construct a new graduate student dormitory on Elm Street on the current site of a parking lot garnered opposition from Deputy Director of Zoning Tom Talbot in February 2015.

“There is an incredible demand for a vanishing supply of land,” City Plan Commission Chairman Edward Mattison LAW ’68 said at a November 2015 City Hall meeting.

A new biology building has been planned for the Gibbs Laboratory site since the 1990s, but construction was postponed in early 2009 due to the 2008 financial crisis that tightened Yale’s wallet.

The J.W. Gibbs Laboratory was built in 1955.

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

FAS Senate releases conduct standard report

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER The drawn-out debate over recently created faculty-conduct standards and draft procedures may soon turn into tangible action as a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate report spurs the administration to consider charging a new committee to re-examine the policies.

The conduct standards and draft procedures have been a major source of discussion among FAS professors, raising concerns about issues of faculty governance and administrative overreach, since an administratively appointed committee released a draft of the standards for faculty feedback in February 2015. Despite significant faculty pushback, the standards were formalized in the Faculty Handbook at the start of the current academic year. The senate released a report last week to the FAS, reaffirming its concerns and calling for a new ad hoc committee to re-examine various aspects of both the standards and the procedures by which alleged misconduct would be judged. While administrators said discussions are still ongoing, senate members interviewed expressed confidence that a new committee will

be charged, per the report’s recommendation.

“We have met with [University President Peter Salovey] and [FAS Dean Tamar Gendler] together to talk about the report.

Our understanding is that a new committee will be appointed to think about the procedures and standards,” Senate Chair and History Director of Undergraduate Studies Beverly Gage said.

The report, which synthesizes faculty opinions previously submitted online or shared at town hall meetings, reiterates the senate’s stance that the current conduct standards and the draft procedures are unacceptable. Religious Studies Chair Kathryn Lofton, one of the lead authors of the report, said the standards are vaguely worded and that examples of misconduct used in the description are “disparate and odd.” She added that the draft procedures need serious revisions.

“Despite the admirable work of the faculty committee that constructed them, the current standards do not yet meet the intellectual or ethical conventions of our community,” the report states. “As a result, they have no legitimacy among the FAS faculty, whose dissatisfaction with them is significant and widespread. Standards for faculty conduct have no value if

they do not reflect faculty consensus about proper conduct.”

The report offers a series of recommendations to reexamine both the standards and procedures. It states that “it is unclear what types of behavior the standards were created to address.”

Lofton, who is involved with the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, said the report could be improved by emulating the way sexual misconduct cases are shared with the community. The University releases a Semi-Annual Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct twice each year, detailing specific instances of sexual misconduct complaints without identifying individuals involved. Scenarios and examples of faculty misconduct, Lofton said, could be shared in a similar way.

The report also states that the procedures should place greater emphasis on using “informal mediation of complaints” and recommends that chairs and deans receive additional training and resources to handle informal resolutions.

The report also recommends that the FAS hold a binding vote on the standards and procedures when they have been further re-examined — a recommendation the senate has pushed for consistently. This

binding vote, Gage said, remains the “trickiest part” of the discussion. Gendler reiterated her willingness to hold an FAS vote, but Gage noted that since the standards and procedures are currently University-wide, the FAS could vote against the conduct standards but still potentially be subject to the policies if other schools’ faculty bodies approve them.

“There is no resolution to that fundamental question yet,” Gage said.

Lofton said one possible system would include a broad University-wide set of standards, complemented with local, school-specific adjudication procedures for each of the University’s teaching units.

It is unclear whether the administration will accept these specific recommendations, but the report has sparked further discussions among administrators.

Polak said he has received the report and discussed it with Gendler.

“I am considering the next steps, and will be consulting with the deans of the other schools,” he said.

The FAS Senate was established in December 2013.

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

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FROM THE FRONT Bill to examine Yale property advances PROPERTY TAX FROM PAGE 1 committee protested what Sen. Toni Boucher, R-New Canaan, called a “persistent attack of the nonprofit sector.”

Sen. Scott Frantz, R-Greenwich, said the bill would establish the dangerous precedent of a state taxing the real estate assets of a nonprofit for the first time — though, in fact, the bill would allow only municipalities, and not the state, to tax University property. Frantz suggested the bill could lead to a “slippery slope,” opening up other non-profits, like churches and synagogues, to taxation.

“The legislation is a step backward,” University spokesman Tom Conroy said in a statement to the News. “It would diminish Yale’s ability to invest in the community and discourage faculty from launching companies, or staying in New Haven. It is ultimately an attack on nonprofit colleges and universities that are among the best assets in Connecticut.”

The University launched a series of public attacks on both bills after Associate Vice President for Federal and State Relations Richard Jacob testified against them before the finance committee March 22. Yale has maintained that it would fight the bills, if passed, in court. The University has claimed a constitutional right to non-taxation, established by its 1701 charter and later affirmed by the state constitution.

Yale is New Haven’s the fifth-largest taxpayer. But the University does not consider property taxes the sole measure of its contribution to the city, according to Conroy. Yale has also provided $96 million in voluntary payments to the city, as well as community investments such as the Yale Homebuyer program and New Haven Promise.

Preliminary fiscal notes released by the state’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis April 7 stated that the property bill would require private colleges with real estate valued at $2 billion or more to pay taxes on certain property. The bill would single out Yale, the only university in Connecticut with such property holdings.

The OFA indicated that on the 2011 Grand List, the University owned property in 12 municipalities valued at about $2.5 billion.

If not for its tax-exempt status, Yale would have paid $65.2 million in taxes to these municipalities in fiscal year 2013, with New Haven receiving $62.8 million of that revenue. But the OFA was unable to determine how much of that payment would be from properties impacted by the bill.

Lawmakers on the finance committee had previously voiced concern on a lack of information regarding which of the University’s properties contain commercial activity in the public hearing for the bill March 22.

The gain in revenue from taxes would be offset by a loss in funds from the state via the Payment in Lieu of Taxes program, according to the OFA. Sitting alongside Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim and Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin ’01 LAW ’06 in a panel hosted by the Office of the State Treasurer Thursday afternoon, New Haven Mayor Toni Harp said she was only supporting the property tax bill, making no comment on the endowment tax proposal. Like Lemar, she argued that the bill would not impose new taxes on the University, but would only define how mixed-use properties containing commercial operations can be taxed by the city.

According to Harp, current law states that private college property annually generating $6,000 or more in commercial activity can be taxed, but that municipalities had never utilized the statute. Some local supporters of the bill think that University facilities in which pharmaceuticals and patents are being developed for later, potential commercial use might fall under that law, Harp said.

“There are some other instances in which something started out as a university-only operation, like a travel agency, and then it starts selling services outside of university services,” Harp said. “Should a portion of that not be considered for property tax? And so, the bill I’m supporting is the one that basically seeks the clarification of existing law.”

The accompanying endowment tax bill, which the committee did not put on the agenda April 7, was opposed by Gov. Dannel Malloy’s administration March 29.

In an op-ed in the Hartford Courant on April 2, Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development Bruce Alexander ’65 alleged that lawmakers raised the “unprecedented” bills due to requests from Yale’s unions seeking University recognition of Yale’s graduate student union, Local 33, formerly known as the Graduate Employees and Students Organization.

Although members of Local 33 and national union coalition UNITE HERE testified in favor of both bills March 22, New Haven officials and the city’s state delegation have avoided attributing the bills’ origins to the city’s unions.

Lemar told the committee Thursday that the mayors of West Haven and Middletown had also backed the property proposal.

If passed by the General Assembly, the bill would become effective Oct. 1.

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

“The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.”

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Admin answers Congressional endowment probe ENDOWMENT FROM PAGE 1 of Yale’s peer institutions submitted similar letters.

“The congressional questionnaire provided us with a welcome opportunity to explain in detail to members of Congress how the endowment works and its fundamental role in allowing us to maintain Yale as a world-class university that is accessible to students from families across the income spectrum,” Salovey told the News.

Salovey said he sought to emphasize three points in his cover letter: that the endowment is the source of support for Yale’s substantial financial aid programs, that endowment funds cannot be spent however and whenever University leaders would like and that endowment spending is guided by an effort to balance current interests with those of future generations.

Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor said that in Salovey’s letter, the University tried to emphasize that even during years when the endowment performs well, Yale has to be careful not to overspend.

The congressional inquiry was particularly concerned with Yale’s spending rate — the percentage of the endowment put toward the operating budget each year. Over the past 10 years Yale’s spending rate has averaged 5 percent. Salovey wrote that this constant spending rate provides a stable flow of resources to the operating budget.

“For us, this was really explaining the purpose of the endowment,” O’Connor said. “We were trying to explain how we aim to strike the right balance between careful spending to support programs and ensuring that we will be able to provide that support for future generations. That is a key part of this.”

Salovey’s letter answers a total of 13 questions about the market value of the endowment, the University’s spending rate over the past 10 years and the percentage of the endowment devoted to financial aid.

Richard Jacob, associate vice president for federal and state relations, said he believes the questions stem from lawmakers’ desire to learn more

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about university endowments generally before potentially engaging in comprehensive tax reform. He said a number of University employees worked on the letter, though he declined to specifically name them.

“Frankly there is a lot of overlap with the questions proposed in 2008 by the Senate finance committee,” he said. “We view it as an information request and took it in stride and will keep an eye on that issue and continue to engage with those committees as we go into 2017 and potential changes to tax policy in general.”

Yale’s letter came amid a statewide discussion, prompted by state legislators in Hartford last week, on whether Connecticut should implement a tax on endowments larger than $10 billion. Yale’s is the only endowment of that size in the state. In January, Republican Rep. Tom Reed drafted a bill that would require wealthy schools to spend a flat rate of 25 percent of their endowment returns, with penalties for institutions that did not comply, but the bill did not pass.

In January, University Spokesman Tom Conroy called Reed’s proposed bill “highly problematic,” adding that any legislation concerning Yale’s endowment has the potential to

limit the University’s ability to pursue its educational mission.

“College endowments exist to support financial aid for students, support research and advance these institutions’ charitable missions,” Conroy told the News. “Yale could not do all it does now on campus and in the community if the endowment, which funds a third of the University budget, were diminished by legislation.”

William Jarvis ’77, executive director of the Commonfund Institute, an institutional investment firm, said it is not unprecedented for U.S. politicians to be skeptical of large private endowments. The dislike of private pools of money outside the democratic process dates back to the 19th century, he said, adding that today, university endowments are often thrust into the public spotlight as the federal government looks to manage these endowments.

“Right now universities are written about more, are watched more.

They’re regarded as financially sophisticated and successful investors,” Jarvis said. “It’s a battle between the social service sector and a secular state.”

But these congressional inquiries have not always been futile, said

CS Dept. expands ULA program

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All computer science courses can now use Undergraduate Learning Assistants.

ULA FROM PAGE 1 brilliant undergraduates more fully in instructional support,” Feigenbaum said.

“We hope to learn a lot from the remaining two years of the experiment and then continue with a more polished form of the ULA program.”

The approval makes all undergraduate computer science courses eligible to employ ULAs under the same terms as are used in CS50. Selected students will receive training from the Center for Teaching and Learning and may run discussion sections, hold office hours and grade assignments.

The expansion of the ULA program may go a long way toward filling the gaps left by a small graduate student population often unable to properly staff all department courses. Still, unlike graduate teaching assistants, ULAs may not work during reading period or final exam period.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said the approved proposal does not change the fact that the entire ULA program will be reviewed in two years.

“The debate mainly involved the truly fine details of the program,” he said. “Bottom line: There’s no substantive change to the ULA program except that it will be available in more CS courses.”

Computer science professors have spoken highly about the undergraduate learning assistants and peer tutors, and said they were excited about the expansion of the ULA experiment.

However, Feigenbaum noted that the expansion of the ULA experiment will not affect the positions of peer tutors and undergraduate course graders, who will still be available for instructors and students who prefer those arrangements.

Computer science professor David Gerlernter ’76 said ULAs are a great idea and added that undergraduates are more than capable of serving as teaching assistants.

“Undergrads can do this job and, at their best, they do it superbly,” he said.

“They understand what it’s like to take these courses — they see practical problems clearly that a grad student … might not see at all.”

Others have also highlighted the department’s “cutting edge” role in developing the ULAs. At a recent town hall meeting, computer science professor and lead CS50 instructor Brian Scassellati said the department should put time and energy into the project because the experiment could be replicated across the University if successful. However, he noted that the proper training sessions for undergraduate assistants may be substantial and time-consuming.

Last fall, CS50 had a team of 29 teaching assistants and ULAs. Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Jarvis. Starting in the 1960s, several decades of congressional pressure on universities to increase financial aid spending has changed how universities like Yale and Princeton spent their endowments, he said.

Jarvis said legislation often overlooks the fact that university endowments are restricted, meaning they can only be spent on certain things, like financial aid.

Yale’s endowment consistently outperforms its peers under the guidance of Chief Investments Officer David Swensen. Congress asked Yale how much it spends on endowment management in the form of both salaries and benefits for employees in the Investments Office and in fees charged by external endowment managers.

In fiscal year 2015, Yale employed 49 people to manage the endowment, spending a total of 1.36 percent of the endowment’s market value of $25.54 billion in the same year on endowment management. This means Yale spent roughly $347 million on endowment management last year.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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“Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore’s, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.” PETER L. BERGER AUSTRIAN SOCIOLOGIST

Yale-NUS hosts ambassador after controversy

BY QI XU STAFF REPORTER Two months after some YaleNUS students voiced concerns about a speech by Chan Heng Chee, Singapore’s ambassadorat-large, where she defended Singapore’s sodomy law, Chan came to campus for a closeddoor dialogue on March 30.

Earlier in January, Chan, who also serves on Yale-NUS’s governing board, defended Singapore’s decision to uphold Section 377A of the Singapore Penal Code at a United Nations human rights review session. In the days after the speech, several YaleNUS students called for Chan’s removal from the school’s governing board, saying that her defense of a sodomy law that criminalizes sex between mutually consenting adult men contradicts the school’s mission of diversity and inclusivity. Other students disagreed, arguing that Chan’s role as an ambassador — which requires her to represent her country — is different from her role as a school governor.

In light of the campus debate, the Yale-NUS student government and the G Spot, a student group that raises awareness on issues of gender, sexuality and feminism, invited Chan to campus to speak and answer questions from the college community. Regina Marie Lee YNUS ’18, president of the Yale-NUS student government, said Chan offered to speak to students about Singapore’s human-rights approach even before her organization and the G Spot sent a formal invitation.

The event was closed-door at Chan’s request, Lee said. A G Spot Facebook post publicizing the event said that it was Yale-NUS only because of an

overwhelming interest from the community. Attendees interviewed did not offer specifics about the conversation but said the dialogue was positive overall. Around 50 Yale-NUS students, staff and faculty attended the session.

“I believe our community had a fruitful and engaging conversation with Ambassador Chan about Singapore’s humanrights approach and treatment of migrant workers and LGBTQ individuals,” Yale-NUS Executive Vice President Tan Tai Yong said.

Days after the speech sparked a debate in early February, YaleNUS President Pericles Lewis told The Straits Times, Singapore’s most-read newspaper, that the school would not consider asking Chan to relinquish her position. In a February online survey conducted by a Yale-NUS student publication, The Octant, 85 percent of the 117 respondents did not think Chan should resign from the governing board. Still, 62 percent said they thought Chan should engage in a dialogue with the student body.

Peter Ooi YNUS ’18, who attended the March session, said he was glad to have engaged in “an honest and genuine” dialogue with Chan. He added that hearing Chan speak does not end the campus debate, but only adds more material to the ongoing conversation.

Nik Carverhill YNUS ’17 said he also attended the session but declined to provide further comments to the News. On Feb. 3, Carverhill published an op-ed in the Octant on the issue, arguing that the school does not have to accommodate the government’s official position on gay rights within its leadership ranks. The column was widely cited in Sin-

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Chan came to Yale-NUS for a closed-door dialogue on March 30. gaporean news.

Six other Yale-NUS students interviewed said they did not attend the dialogue due to other commitments, but said they were glad the dialogue took place.

Tinesh Indrarajah YNUS ’17 said although he was unable to

attend the session, he has been following the ongoing campus debate and called the meeting “productive” based on what he heard afterward.

“Many of the individuals who had issues prior to the meeting were able to get their views heard, and they seemed satis-

fied with Ambassador Chan’s replies,” Indrarajah said.

Geoffrey Martin YNUS ’19 said a dialogue with Chan was the right move because “air needed to be cleared” in a manner that was not purely sensational. He added that many students were unhappy about

Chan’s speech and wanted clarifications of her position on the issues.

Chan served as Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the U.N. from 1989 to 1991.

Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

Banh mi arrives on Orange Street

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Duc’s place is located on 167 Orange Street.

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Duc Nguyen — who spent 13 years as a researcher at the Yale School of Medicine — will see his dream to open a Vietnamese restaurant become a reality Monday, with the opening of Duc’s Place on 167 Orange St. Nguyen conceived of Duc’s Place last year after he quit the Yale School of Medicine’s research team to pursue his restaurateur dreams. Nguyen signed a lease for the Orange Street space in October, hoping to open the following month, but renovations delayed the launch until the spring. Once open, the restaurant specializing in the Vietnamese specialties of banh mi and pho will serve streetfood-style banh mi for roughly $9 per sandwich.

“I wanted to take a break from science,” Nguyen said. “I was going cold feet and jumping in, and got some savings and started looking for a place.”

Nguyen, who takes photographs for on-campus dance groups such as Rhythmic Blue, wanted to pursue a second career in either photography or food, his two great passions. He ultimately

settled on food because opening a restaurant had been his longtime dream.

Nguyen said he also wanted to open the restaurant because there are not many Vietnamese food establishments in the city. Other Vietnamese offerings in New Haven include Chef Brody’s Banh Mi food truck and Pho and Spice, located on 76 Orange St. “Every day I wanted to have a craving for banh mi, I had to go to New York City, Hartford or Boston,” Nguyen said. “I think this offers very unique Vietnamese food. Also, the concept of banh mi street food compares to offerings like [those of] Subway or other sandwich places.”

Chi Tong ’18, who hails from Hanoi, the capitol of Vietnam, shared Nguyen’s laments about the shortage of quality Vietnamese food in New Haven. Pho and Spice, the only restaurant option in the city for Vietnamese food, is decent, Tong said. She added that she hopes to visit Nguyen’s new restaurant when it opens.

Nguyen, who is entering the business without a partner, drew funding from his own savings and contributions from his family. He said his family, which includes

four brothers in academia, were initially shocked but then supportive of his decision to trade his white coat for an apron.

Once the store is open, Nguyen plans to publicize it through word of mouth and social media. The marketing campaign has already begun. After leasing the location this fall, Nguyen has posted updates on the business on his Facebook page, which had received 174 likes by Wednesday afternoon.

Monica Amore, an IT employee at Quinnipiac University and an acquaintance of Nguyen, said she learned about Nguyen’s venture through this page. Nguyen’s business, Amore said, will be successful because of Nguyen’s kindness, excellent cooking skills and the busy pedestrian location on Orange Street.

“I was surprised, but thrilled for him,” Amore said. “He is incredibly kind and generous, and will care about his customers and make sure they’re satisfied.”

The French introduced banh mi, which means bread in Vietnamese, to the country during colonization.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”

BOB MARLEY SINGER-SONGWRITER

Spanish dept. tenure policy comes under scrutiny SPANISH FROM PAGE 1 political stance against [the tenure system]. I am appealing to the provost, and hopefully his office will right the wrong.”

Byrne has submitted two appeals to the Provost’s Office.

One is against Spanish professor Noel Valis for her role as chair of the departmental review committee in Byrne’s tenure case.

Valis informed Byrne of the decision and was one of the five voting senior faculty.

The second appeal is against Gendler for failing to enforce fairness in the review process.

In particular, Byrne pointed to a Faculty Handbook policy that dictates that anyone with a personal or professional conflict of interest must recuse him or herself from voting. Because of Adorno and Gonzalez Echevarría’s allegedly open opposition to the tenure process, Byrne asked the two professors to recuse themselves from her case in April 2015. Both refused to do so.

She then requested that Gendler’s office recuse the two individuals. But on Jan. 19 — nine months after her request and one month after the conclusion of the external climate review — Gendler informed Byrne that both professors would be allowed to vote on her case. Two faculty members from outside the department were asked to take part in the review in order to ensure impartiality, but they were not given voting power.

“Once I knew about that, I knew what the result would be,” Byrne said. She said the vote was 3–2 — the same split as in Moreira’s case — but no other

faculty interviewed could confirm the details of the vote due to confidentiality rules.

Byrne said her two appeals address the perceived bias and unethical motives of some individuals in the tenure review as well as the administration’s failure to ensure a fair process.

“For me to have the fair and equitable tenure review on my merits promised in the Yale Faculty Handbook, the recusals were necessary,” Byrne said.

“I knew that, and the administration knew that. I acted, they failed to support me. It couldn’t be clearer: The administration protected those it knew to be corrupt.”

Both Gendler and University Provost Ben Polak declined to comment on Byrne’s case, citing University confidentiality policies.

Byrne said her case illustrates the departmental leadership’s policy not to grant tenure to any junior faculty members. Both Portuguese Director of Undergraduate Studies Kenneth David Jackson and Spanish Professor Anibal González-Pérez GRD ’82 said the department has not granted tenure to any junior professors since the 1990s. Spanish professor María Rosa Menocal, who died of melanoma in 2012, had been promoted to professor in 1992 after she was first hired as a visiting professor. Before her, the most recent tenure case both professors recalled was that of Professor Nicolas Shumway, who received tenure in 1986 and was promoted to full professor in 1992. Shumway is no longer at the University.

Jackson said many junior faculty members before the current

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FASTAP system did not come up for tenure review. “Under the old tenure system, they knew that they would not get tenure from the start,” he said.

According to Byrne, both Adorno and González Echevarría openly told her they would not grant her tenure, regardless of her academic merits. Non-tenured associate professors usually receive a one-year sabbatical to focus on their research and to prepare for the tenure review.

However, Byrne’s application for the sabbatical was declined by the department’s leaders.

“When [Byrne] was promoted to associate on term, her publication was praised. But she did not get a year off, which is unusual,” Jackson said. “This is part of her claim — that the discrimination and bias started earlier on in the process.”

Adorno and González Echevarría did not respond to multiple interview requests.

Byrne is the second junior faculty member in the department to be denied tenure since FASTAP was implemented in 2007. Last year, the denial of tenure to Moreira sent shock waves through the department. Jackson said Moreira had significant publications and was so shocked by the decision that he failed to submit an appeal within the necessary time frame of 45 days.

Byrne added that during a meeting in December 2015 following the climate review, administrators specifically pointed out the department’s “flagrant rejection of FASTAP,” but did nothing to address the issue in her situation.

Byrne’s tenure case and pending appeals also reveal the

challenges in identifying and addressing potential abuses of power in academic decisionmaking. The climate-review report suggested that graduate students rarely voiced their concerns about departmental climate due to fears of retaliation, sometimes in the form of subjective judgement of their scholarship. Byrne said this same tactic has been the “department’s road-tested method to deny advancement to junior faculty.”

Byrne said she is “completely confident” that she deserved tenure. She said she does not accept Valis’ explanation that

“there were questions” about her scholarship, which she said was praised when she was promoted to associate professor on term.

The decision to deny her tenure, she added, was “subjective judgment used as cover for improper motivations.”

Other professors in the department vouched for the quality of Byrne’s scholarship.

“Not granting tenure to Professor Byrne was — as in the case of Professor Paulo Moreira — another missed opportunity to renew the professorial ranks in [the department] by not promot-

ing highly qualified — indeed, internationally distinguished — junior faculty at Yale,” GonzálezPérez said. “I think this is a further demonstration that, under its current leadership and faculty composition, the [Spanish and Portuguese] Department is incapable of reforming itself.”

Byrne said the Provost’s office will send her appeals to a review committee. The committee has 90 days to come to a determination, according to the Faculty Handbook.

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

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Jones attracts outside interest JONES FROM PAGE 1 nected to Jones by sports analysts suggesting possible candidates for the teams’ new vacancies.

All four coaching positions have been filled since Yale’s tournament appearance. Still, communication with both Jones and athletic administrators from relevant schools neither confirmed nor refuted that Jones intends to change programs, or that Jones has been a candidate for any vacancies this year.

“The rumors you speak of regarding [Jones’ potential departure] I pay no attention to,” Yale Athletic Director Tom Beckett said. “The Yale men’s basketball team has experienced a record-setting season … Coach Jones and I, as we have done for the past 17 years, discuss all aspects of the season. We review and plan. That process is underway.”

Jones, the 16th-longest active tenured head coach in Division I men’s basketball out of 351 programs, told the News in March 2015 that his contract with Yale had four years remaining, and that he was discussing a potential extension of the contract

with Beckett. When asked on Thursday if the contract had in fact been extended, Beckett said he was not able to comment on personnel matters.

This is the second consecutive year in which Jones’ name has been floated as a potential hire following a successful season. Last year, after earning the program’s first share of an Ivy League championship since 2002, Jones was rumored to have interviewed for the head coach position at Fordham University, which competes in the Atlantic 10 conference with regular NCAA Tournament contenders such as Dayton and Davidson.

Jones denied applying to or interviewing for the Fordham job in March 2015, but this year, he did not comment when asked if there had been interest in him for other coaching vacancies.

“I am committed to making Yale basketball the best it can be,” Jones told the News when asked on Monday about the rumors.

Assistant director of sports publicity Tim Bennett acknowledged that Jones’ name had been mentioned in connection with certain coaching vacancies, but he noted that it is natural in

Division I men’s basketball for head coaches to receive interest from other programs after leading a team through a successful season.

Last year, Jones told the News that while no coach could ever rule out leaving his or her program if the right job was offered, his focus was on his current role.

“There are certainly jobs out there that you look at and say, ‘God, that’d be a great job,’” Jones said in March 2015. “But for me, I live in the day and in the moment, and right now, my moment is at Yale.”

After the 2015–16 season, Jones won Ivy League Coach of the Year for the second-consecutive year, in addition to four other national and district-level awards.

“With the success Yale has enjoyed under Coach Jones, it’s not surprising there are rumors,” Bennett said. “He has done a remarkable job at Yale, and I hope he remains the head coach for a long time.”

Though the season ended in elation, it was marked by a tumultuous few weeks after news broke that former captain Jack Montague was expelled from the University for violating

sexual misconduct policies four weeks into league play.

Jones, who was the adviser for Montague during his University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct hearing, has reiterated in press conferences since the expulsion that he is focused on the basketball elements of his job.

“I’ve been a head coach at Yale for 17 years,” Jones said in a press conference before Yale’s NCAA Tournament First Round game against Baylor. “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.”

When asked if Jones had been interviewed for the head-coach position, athletic administrators at Vanderbilt, Rutgers and Pitt said they could not comment on specifics of coaching searches.

An athletics administrator at Tulane did not return multiple requests for comment.

Yale went 23–7 in 2015–16, marking its best winning percentage since 1945–46.

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

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“There are worse crimes than burning books.

One of them is not reading them.”

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Olympia finalizes new leases

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Alexion Pharmaceuticals and Sportsometry, a nonprofit that teaches Elm City students math through sports, found reason to celebrate Wednesday afternoon as they signed leases for additional space.

Alexion — a biotech company that specializes in medication for rare diseases and last year generated $2.6 billion in revenue — rented 3500 square feet of the Olympia Building at 142 Temple St. from Chris Nicotra, owner of Olympia Properties and landlord of the space. The biopharmaceutical, which relocated to a new 14-story, 500,000-square-foot headquarters at 100 College St. in January, will utilize its recentlyacquired holdings as temporary office space to accommodate employees while construction at 100 College St. continues, Alexion spokeswoman Emily Vlasak said.

Five blocks away on 103 Whitney Ave., Sportsometry signed a lease to trade in its 800-square-foot space for a larger 1,000-squarefoot space at the Flagg Building on 101 Whitney Ave., Nicotra said.

“New Haven is a city for notfor-profits and meds and eds,” Nicotra said. “It is really kind of interesting just talking about it out loud. One is a pharmaceutical,and the other a nonprofit, [they] are expanding, doing well and having a positive effect on this city.”

Alexion was founded in New Haven Science Park in 1992 and moved to Cheshire, Conn., in 2002. But in 2014, Alexion leaders decided to move back to New Haven to bring the pharmaceutical closer to the Elm City’s critical mass of scientists, biotech and collaborative research opportunities.

Sportsometry, founded roughly 10 years ago by CEO Annick Winokur, provides educational after-school services to schools, churches and other organizations.

Sportsometry’s programs teach math, physics and other quantitative skills to students by pointing out connections between those disciplines and sports.

The nonprofit decided to expand this year to accommodate the full number of children enrolled in their programs throughout the year, Winokur said. Roughly 30 children participate during the school year, she said. But 150 are enrolled during the summer months, putting pressure on their current space, she said.

Expanding the program to fit different populations caused us to think that expanding the space would be easier for us.

ANNICK WINOKUR CEO of Sportsometry “As things are changing you have to kind of move with the flow,” Winokur said. “Expanding the program to fit different populations caused us to think that expanding the space would be easier for us.”

Winokur added that the hefty price of real estate in the commercial Chapel Street corridor prevents nonprofits from leasing space. The space that Sportsometry had been using, the basement of 103 Whitney Ave., did not provide internet access and proved a challenge for publicity because it neighbored no well-known commercial spaces.

Though the new space on 101 Whitney Ave. is near the former one, it is larger than many locations that nonprofits can afford to lease, Winokur said.

Nicotra — whose other tenants include Yale radio station WYBC and the Pho Ketkeo restaurant that will open on Friday — added that the success of both Alexion and Sportsometry show that New Haven is a viable home for a variety of businesses.

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

Universities form joint book sales team

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Harvard, Yale and Princeton are commonly known as the “Big Three,” but for booksellers, that moniker will soon change.

Beginning in the spring 2017 bookselling season, Yale University Press, Princeton University Press and MIT University Press will launch a collective sales team. The cohort will represent all three presses to independent and museum bookstores. The change comes following a decision by Harvard University Press to leave its partnership with Yale and MIT, a move made in part due to the retirement of several sales representatives. Harvard University Press will be joining Columbia, while Yale and MIT have opted to join with Princeton, with sales reps from the three presses saying the institutions complement each other well.

“Yale University Press is one of the largest presses along with Princeton, University of Chicago and Harvard, and there are very few presses outside of us that are independent,” Yale University Press Director John Donatich said. “On the negative side, we have to bear all the costs of being independent, and this is a way of solving that problem while keeping our editorial independence.”

By coming together, each of the presses will reduce the costs they otherwise would have incurred by working independently. Yale University Press Sales Director Jay Cosgrove said each press can support the other two by pooling together and sharing the costs of sales. Donatich added that the partnership also offers efficiencies of scale similar to how other publishers operate when they consolidate. When sales representatives present inventory to potential buyers, such as independent bookstores, they will be offering a unique combination of Yale, MIT and Princeton works all together, Donatich said.

The change, which was

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approved in March, was partly spurred by the similarities between the presses. Princeton University Press Director of Sales Timothy Wilkins said that due to the nature of the three publishing programs, there is a lot of complementarity between the books that Yale, Princeton and MIT publish. He cited Yale University Press’s strength in art history as an example, adding that this speciality would work well with Princeton’s edge in natural history works.

“The point of creating this joint venture is to overcome our own size limitations and gain an economy of scale by sharing the costs, experience and expertise of the sales reps across three presses,” Wilkins said. “It would be a problem for us if we did not have the combined size of the three presses together.”

Wilkins said each of the three presses will have joint ownership over the three-person sales team and will manage

the group by mutual consensus. Despite the new arrangement, each of the presses will still independently sell their accounts in bulk to large chains like Barnes & Noble as well as Amazon, as is common for many other university presses.

Prior to the partnership, Yale, Harvard and MIT Presses jointly operated a distribution warehouse in Rhode Island.

Harvard University Press will be signing on with Columbia University Press for a selling season beginning in September. Harvard University Press Director of Sales and Marketing Susan Donnelly said Harvard University Press’s sales partnership with Columbia University Press will be largely run by Columbia — Columbia will manage the sales group and Harvard will simply be represented by it.

“Like all businesses, we thought it would be a good time to make some tweaks to that channel of independent book stores and museum

stores,” Donnelly said. “It was a moment of change for the four presses in question.”

The sales representative group is comprised of David Lepere and Patricia Nelson, with a third person yet to be decided. Cosgrove said members of the group are not employed by an individual press. Nelson said that she is the publishers’ representative in the West, which includes the Northwest, Southwest, the Rockies and California regions. Lepere will cover the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast while the final member will be in charge of the Midwest. Cosgrove added that the presses hope to have the final member selected by July.

Yale University Press, which is financially and operationally independent of the University, was founded in 1908 and became an official Yale department in 1961.

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

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AIDS Project New Haven hosts PrEP event

BY ANDREW RUYS DE PEREZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On a rainy Thursday afternoon, a group of 40 gathered at the Criterion Cinemas to learn more about pre-exposure prophylaxis — the new HIV-prevention medication physicians and public-health workers are promoting in Connecticut.

At the event, which was hosted by the AIDS Project New Haven, guests chatted with medical experts and publichealth providers in the theater’s lobby while enjoying a buffet.

A similarly well-stocked table offered pamphlets, condoms and informational packets on safesex and STI prevention. At a formal presentation an hour into the event, a panel of speakers explained the process of obtaining PrEP. “PrEP is a relatively new tool for HIV prevention,” Fair Haven Community Health Center HIV physician Krystn Wagner said.

“More specifically, it’s a medication called Truvada that when taking once a day is highly effective in preventing HIV infection.”

Panelists included Wagner, other doctors and medical specialists from the area, as well as several individuals currently using PrEP. “There are so many folks who still don’t known what PrEP is,” New Haven’s Director of Health Services Byron Kennedy SPH ’01 MED ’04 GRD ’04 said.

He emphasized that HIV/ AIDS continues to be a publichealth problem both worldwide and locally — an estimated 1,500 people in New Haven have HIV.

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The event was held Thursday at the Criterion Cinemas.

Speakers shared their personal stories and advocated for those present to not only learn more about the drug, but also to share the information they learned with family and friends.

“I think that there has been an

increase in awareness over the last several months, but there are still many people who are not aware that they have this option,” Wagner said.

AIDS Project New Haven’s PrEP Services Coordina-

tor, Bradford Briggs, said he felt the public-health campaign was a success. He specifically highlighted the growth of one of New Haven’s clinics, where the number of patients taking PrEP has increased threefold since Octo-

ber. Currently, 90 clinic patients take the medication.

The event also included a film explaining the mechanisms behind PrEP. The medicine creates a protective barrier around T-cells, a type of white blood

cell. Taking PrEP daily reduces a patient’s risk of an HIV infection by up to 99 percent.

Contact ANDREW RUYS DE PEREZ at andrew.ruysdeperez@yale.edu .

Author speaks at Peabody Museum

BY CAMERON HILL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Over 100 people crowded the Great Hall of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History on Thursday evening for an event celebrating the museum’s 150th anniversary year.

The event’s main attraction was a talk by Richard Conniff ’73, a noted nonfiction science author and columnist for The New York Times, whose Yale-commissioned book titled “House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth” was released this month. In conjunction with the book’s release, the Peabody has also launched “Treasures of the Peabody: 150 Years of Exploration and Discovery,” a special exhibit displaying some of the museums bestknown artifacts.

“The Peabody was put together not as an exhibit museum first,” museum director David Skelly said at the exhibit’s private opening on March 30. “This is a research museum. This place is what it is because it has been driven by research and a teaching mission, the core missions of this University.”

Skelly described the new celebratory hall as an “all hands on deck effort” by the Peabody staff to tell the museum’s story, and highlighted the difference in breadth between most exhibits and “Treasures of the Peabody.”

While exhibits generally involve a small team of designers and curators and only a few museum divisions in their creation, all 10 departments of the Peabody as well as the museum’s archives are represented in the special showing, Skelly said at the opening.

[The Peabody Museum] is what it is because it has been driven by research and a teaching mission.

DAVID SKELLY Peabody Museum Director Similar to the exhibit, “House of Lost Worlds” is a wide-reaching work. Describing the museum’s history and its greatest contributions to science, including O. C. Marsh’s fossils and the characterization of the giant squid, the book also chronicles the museum’s lesser-known stories.

When Yale first approached Conniff in 2013 to tell the story of its research museum, Conniff knew little about the Peabody.

Although he had been a Yale College undergraduate, by his own admission, Conniff rarely made the climb up Science Hill. Moreover, Conniff said he was unsure

that the Peabody had a whole book’s worth of stories in it. As a test, Conniff wrote a profile of paleontologist and Yale professor John Ostrom, who eventually provided an endpoint for “House of Lost Worlds.”

“When I was working on the book, I just discovered one great story after another,” Conniff said.

“They were stories that weren’t just about adventure for its own sake; they were stories that led to discoveries that changed the world.”

Conniff told Thursday’s audience stories of the museum’s paleontologists, including that of James Dwight Dana, an 1833 Yale College graduate responsible for much of the early knowledge of Hawaii’s volcanoes.

Attendees were largely impressed with the museum’s rich history and Conniff’s remarks.

Amber Polk, a 17-year-old from Milford, Connecticut, with an interest in paleontology, made a rare trip to the Peabody to hear Conniff speak. Rachel Dunkley, another Milford resident, said she was struck by the mark the Peabody has made on history and science.

The Peabody Museum holds 13 million specimens, only 0.04 percent of which can be displayed at any one time.

Contact CAMERON HILL at cameron.hill@yale.edu .

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Richard Conniff ’73 spoke at the Peabody Museum on Thursday evening.

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“Forget about style; worry about results.”

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Tough test for Yale W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 prepared to take on Princeton having competed with BC this week.”

Princeton has earned its No. 11 ranking with a slew of impressive wins this year. The Tigers trampled then-No. 4 Virginia 14–7 in their season opener and also defeated Ivy foes Harvard and Dartmouth, both of which received votes in the most recent Inside Lacrosse top 20 poll.

In order to win this weekend, the Elis will need to put up strong offensive numbers against one of the nation’s premier goalies.

Ellie DeGarmo’s 54.8 save percentage ranks second in the nation, and her 10.11 saves per game are ninthmost in the NCAA. “Ellie DeGarmo has had a tremendous year,” head

Elis heavily favored against Dartmouth

coach Erica LaGrow said.

“We will have to value our possessions and take smart shots.”

A strong offensive performance against DeGarmo will likely go through Eli attacker Tess McEvoy ’17, who has lit up the stat sheet all season. McEvoy has 30 goals this season — 17 more than attacker Hope Hanley ’17, who is second on the team — and in her last three games alone, McEvoy has netted 11 goals. In addition to her goal-scoring prowess, McEvoy can dish assists, as she leads the team in that category as well.

Yale’s contest against Princeton will begin at 3 p.m. on Saturday.

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

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Midfielder Michael Keasey ’16 has scored 19 times this year while scooping up nine ground balls.

MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12

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Attacker Hope Hanley ’17 scored two goals in Yale’s 15–11 loss to Boston College on Wednesday.

gives the team momentum for the journey to Hanover, New Hampshire.

“The Sacred Heart game was the first time in three or four weeks, probably since the Bryant game, where we really came out and played our brand of lacrosse,” Quinn said. “We were able to flip the script on some of the performances the last couple of weeks where we got the win but didn’t play at the level we need to this time of the year.”

The Bulldogs showed tremendous improvement on faceoffs and extra-man offense against the Pioneers on Tuesday. The Elis went 15 of 26 at the faceoff X against Sacred Heart, winning 58 percent of draws even though they came into the game winning only 46 percent on the season.

Yale also converted on 60 percent of its extra-man opportunities in

Elis back to Yale Field BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 contests. It was something of an offensive outburst for the Tigers, who, with a league-worst 0.233 batting average, have yet to see sustained success at the plate to match their performance on the mound.

Right-handed pitchers Scott Politz ’19 and Chasen Ford ’17 will draw the starts for the Friday doubleheader, which was originally scheduled for Saturday but moved up a day, as weather forecasts show rain headed for the New Haven area on Saturday.

Although the Bulldogs are avoiding the forecasted inclement weather on Saturday, both Friday and Sunday project to be in the mid-40s — certainly not ideal baseball weather, but nothing the team has not faced.

“The conditions were pretty tough for hitters [on Wednesday] because it was cold and windy, but it very well could be just like that this weekend, so we should be well prepared,” outfielder Harrison White ’17 said.

Cornell, meanwhile, was up and down during the nonconference portion of its schedule, at one point winning five in a sixgame stretch before dropping five straight in late March. But the team responded when it entered Ivy League play last weekend, taking both games of its doubleheader against the Crimson before two Sunday matchups with Dartmouth were postponed to later this month.

The wins over Harvard were not without some drama, as the Big Red had to rally late in both games to secure the sweep. Reaching base in both Big Red outbursts was Cornell infielder Tommy Wagner, whose team-leading 0.431 onbase percentage ranks fourth in the conference.

Unlike Princeton, Cornell has no standout unit; both its hitting and pitching rank near the middle of the Ivy League.

Yale righty Mason Kukowski ’18 will take the hill in Sunday’s first game against that Big Red offense, and the starter for game two was unannounced as of Thursday

night. Left-hander Kumar Nambiar ’19 was Yale’s fourth starter in last weekend’s Ivy League contests, but Penn knocked the freshman southpaw around for seven earned runs and four homers over 2.1 innings of work.

“The boys have had another good week of practice and midweek games and we are all ready for another challenging weekend,” said Politz, who was saddled with a 3–2 loss in a strong complete-game effort against Penn last weekend. “Now that I’ve gotten my first conference start out of the way, I’m ready to go get my first conference win with the help of a solid defense and aggressive offense that can outhit any team in the Ivy League.”

Politz and the rest of the Elis will take the field at 2 p.m. on Friday, with Sunday’s first pitch scheduled for noon.

Jacob Mitchell contributed reporting.

Contact DAVID WELLER at david.weller@yale.edu .

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In 44 at-bats this season, outfielder Nate Adams ’16 has produced a 0.409 batting average.

the win, after only converting on 22 percent of chances through its first eight games.

That improvement on faceoffs and extra-man situations may continue against Dartmouth, a team that is 54th in the nation in faceoff percentage, winning only 42 percent of draws, and 60th in man-down defense, allowing goals on 45 percent of its opponent’s opportunities.

The biggest question mark for the Bulldogs heading into Saturday’s game is in goal. Goalie Phil Huffard ’18, who started the first eight games, missed Tuesday’s contest with a leg injury, and his status against Dartmouth has not been determined.

“It will probably be a game time decision whether I play or not, but [my leg] is feeling better everyday,” Huffard said.

Netminder Hoyt Crance ’19 made his first collegiate start against Sacred Heart in place of

Huffard and made nine saves while only allowing two goals in 50 minutes of action.

Quinn said the team will be in good position no matter who suits up in net.

“If it is a long-term injury, then we’ll be focused on the next guy up,” Quinn said. “[Crance] played really well against Sacred Heart. It was great to see him step up.”

Crance is not the first freshman to play well when called upon this season. Long-stick midfielder Robert Mooney ’19 has seen increased playing time in the last few weeks after long-stick midfielder Brian Pratt ’17 sustained an injury. Mooney has caused 10 turnovers and picked up 10 ground balls thus far in his freshman campaign, including a collected ground ball that led to Yale’s thrilling game-tying goal versus Penn with less than a minute in regulation. The Bulldogs ultimately won that game 11–10 in overtime to

preserve their unblemished mark.

Also among impact newcomers are midfielder Brendan Mackie ’19, who has been playing with the first-line midfield recently. Attackman Jack Tigh ’19 has started every game this season, scoring six goals and tallying six assists. The freshmen attribute much of their success to the veteran leadership on the team, whose roster includes eight seniors.

“We tip our hats to the upperclassmen,” Tigh said. “They brought us in together and made us a family since day one. They were there helping us move in and everything.”

Yale has not lost to Dartmouth since the 2009 season, when the Bulldogs dropped a 14–13 overtime contest. Saturday’s action begins at 1 p.m.

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

Key conference weekend SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 which came against Harvard (12–13, 2–2). As is the case with Yale, all of the Tigers’ conference losses were heartbreakers decided either by one run or in extra innings.

Despite forcing extras against Dartmouth in its first game, Princeton ultimately fell 12–9 in 10 innings. The Tigers lost their second game against the Big Green 5–4, and, in a pitching showdown with Harvard, Princeton fell by a score of 1–0 despite strong pitching from starter Ashley La Guardia.

The Yale bats will likely have a crack at pitchers La Guardia, Shanna Christian and Claire Klausner, who have so far totaled 80.4 percent of innings for the Tigers.

The team’s five pitchers have a collective earned run average of 4.15 overall — fifth in the Ivy League.

“At the plate it is always necessary to make adjustments from each at bat to be able to be successful,” outfielder Carlin Hagmaier ’19 said. “Going up to the plate with a plan in mind for hitting is also important.”

O f fe n s ive ly speaking, Princeton shares seventh place with Yale in the Ivy League batting average standings. Both teams hit for an average of 0.252 in the 28 games played thus far. Princeton does, however, have some power with 11 home runs on the season, while Yale is the only Ancient Eight team with zero round-trippers this season.

On Sunday, Yale will face off against Cornell, which shares the same 1–3 record with Princeton in Ivy League play. The Big Red split a doubleheader with Harvard and got swept by Dartmouth in a higher-scoring weekend of games than that of Princeton.

The offensive success for

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Pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18 has a 4.44 ERA and 47 strikeouts in 2016.

Cornell and its opponents was due to both powerful hitting and poor pitching for the Big Red. Cornell suffers from the worst earned run average, 9.14, in the Ivy League, and none of the Big Red’s five pitchers can claim an ERA below 8.00.

Although plagued with mound troubles, Cornell has a healthy batting lineup with depth. Four of the Big Red’s hitters, including pitcher Meg Parker, have averages north of 0.300 in their 20 games this season. Parker leads the team with an average of 0.371.

Cornell sits at a comfortable second place in the Ivy League in three key hitting categories: batting average, home runs and slugging per-

centage. It also holds third place in on-base percentage.

Yale’s pitchers, however, come off an array of strong outings to enter the weekend.

Casalino gave up only two runs in a complete game loss to Army on Wednesday, and teammate Lindsay Efflandt ’17 has given up just two runs in her last 16 innings.

Yale’s first game against Princeton will start at 2 p.m. on Friday, and Sunday’s action against Cornell will begin at 12:30 p.m. The Yale–Princeton doubleheader was initially slated for Saturday, but forecasted rains pushed the game forward.

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

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, APRIL 8 3:00 PM Curator’s Talk & Opening Reception. Beth Morris, curator of the exhibition “Moving Earth: ‘Capability’ Brown, Humphry Repton and the Creation of the English Landscape,” will give a short talk followed by a viewing of the exhibition and a light reception. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

6:00 PM Humor, Race and Film: Navigating “Blazing Saddles.” A screening of the comedy classic “Blazing Saddles,” followed by a panel discussion with co-screenwriter Norman Steinberg, film studies professor Ronald Gregg, Nicholas Forster GRD ’18 and English professor Margaret Spillane. The discussion will discuss the role of race in Western and comedy films, and specifically in “Blazing Saddles” given its historical context and our relation to it today. Loria Center for the History of Art (190 York St.), Rm. 250.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9 9:00 AM Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition. Graduate students from the Yale School of Music compete for the chance to perform with the Yale Philharmonia in the 2016–2017 season.

Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.

1:00 PM Animal Gratitude Ceremony with Laurie Santos.

The Yale Humanist Community’s first animal gratitude ceremony, led by the Canine Cognition Center at Yale and its director Laurie Santos, will allow us to formally acknowledge the animals in our life, communally express gratitude toward our own companion animals and publicly appreciate how our lives have been enhanced by our animal friends. Bring a photo of your pet for the ceremony.

Canine Cognition Center at Yale (175 St. Ronan St.), Parking Lot. LUNA BELLER-TADIAR is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at luna.beller-tadiar@yale.edu .

SUNDAY, APRIL 10 2:00 PM Treasures from the Yale Film Archive. “3 Idiots” (India, 2009) 171 min. 35mm. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

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“Any competition in the Ivy League is intense, and you develop rivalries over the four years.”

MICHAEL KEASEY ’16 MEN’S LACROSSE

YALE DAILY NEWS · FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2016 · yaledailynews.com

Ivy road trip for undefeated Elis MEN’S LACROSSE

BY MATTHEW MISTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Only one Division I men’s lacrosse program in the nation is carrying an undefeated record into the second week of April.

No. 1/3 Yale, the winner of nine straight to begin its season, can extend that streak to 10 with a win over Dartmouth, one of the weakest opponents on the Bulldogs’ 2016 schedule.

The Bulldogs (9–0, 3–0 Ivy), fresh off a 19–3 blowout victory, over Sacred Heart, biggest blowout victory since 2011, face a Big Green squad (1–8, 0–2) that is ranked 64th out of 68 Division I teams in scoring margin and also fell 10–8 to mutual opponent Sacred Heart earlier in the season. The Bulldogs are not letting the short week or the Big Green’s winless record in the Ivy League lessen their focus on earning a win.

“It’s the same week as always,” head coach Andy Shay said. “We are going to keep working on us and trying to get better. Dartmouth is a huge league game so we’re excited about it. We have a lot of respect for their program and league games are always a battle.”

Dartmouth’s only victory this season came on March 19 in a 13–12 final against Michigan, a men’s lacrosse program founded just four years ago. The Big Green is averaging 18 turnovers per game, the most in the Ivy League.

Dartmouth has also been sloppy on clearing opportunities, having cleared the ball successfully from the defensive zone to the offensive zone 77 percent of the time, the fifth-worst rate in the nation.

The Big Green’s possession woes have been intensified by its struggles picking up ground balls. The team collects 25 ground balls per game, also worst in the Ivy League. Despite Dartmouth’s poor start to the season and lackluster statistics, the Bulldogs

BY FLORA LIPSKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend marks an opportunity for the Yale softball team to make headway in its Ivy League season as the Bulldogs host two opponents whose conference records last year marked the dead center — fourth and fifth — of the Ancient Eight.

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Attackman Ben Reeves ’18 leads the Bulldogs with 25 goals and 21 assists this season. insist they are not taking their Ancient Eight foe lightly.

“Any competition in the Ivy League is intense and you develop rivalries over the four years,” said midfielder Michael Keasey ’16, who has scored 19 goals through nine games.

One Dartmouth player Yale will have to keep an eye on is

attackman Wiley Osbourne, who has been one of the few bright spots for the Big Green. The junior has 16 goals and 12 assists this season, which are both teamhighs and rank among the top 10 of the Ivy League. Yale captain and defender Michael Quinn ’16, who typically guards the opponent’s top attackman, will likely

Bulldogs head to No. 11 Princeton

cover Osbourne on Saturday.

While Dartmouth enters the weekend on a four-game losing streak, during which it has lost by an average of 8.5 goals, Yale enters on the heels of a dominant 16-goal victory versus Sacred Heart — a fact Quinn believes SEE MEN’S LACROSSE PAGE 10

BY DAVID WELLER STAFF REPORTER

Following two straight nonconference losses, the Yale women’s lacrosse team returns to Ivy League play this Saturday in an attempt to hand No. 11 Princeton its first league loss.

A season after tying for the worst record in the Ivy League’s Red Rolfe Division, the Yale baseball team finds itself sitting atop the standings four games into conference play. But to stay there, the Bulldogs will have to meet the challenge being brought to Yale Field by a pair of Lou Gehrig Division opponents that have yet to lose an Ivy League game in 2016.

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Yale (9–19, 2–2 Ivy) looks to do damage in more ways than one, as wins will likely come from silencing a middling Princeton (8–20, 1–3) lineup and flexing the Bulldogs’ offensive power against an underwhelming set of pitchers from Cornell (4–16, 1–3). The Elis, 2–2 in the Ivy League after going 5–14 in conference play last season, could surpass their 2015 league win total just two weeks into the conference season.

“We need to try to keep them in check offensively and our offense has really been top besides those Army games, so I am not worried that we’re going to be shut down by those pitchers,” pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18 said.

On Friday, the Bulldogs will take on the Tigers in a doubleheader that has the potential to feature a sibling matchup. Pitcher Terra Jerpbak ’19 has tossed more innings than any other member of Yale’s pitching staff this season with a total of 70.2 innings, and her sister, Skye Jerpbak, is a senior catcher and utility player

for Princeton who is batting 0.364 in Ivy play.

Terra Jerpbak, who played on a team with her sister for a year in high school, will likely get a chance to pitch to Skye Jerpbak in a game for the first time ever.

“Ever since I started looking into Yale I knew that I would potentially play against my sister,” Terra Jerpbak said. “Now that the time has come we are both very excited for these games.”

Princeton will enter the weekend looking to recover from three Ivy League losses last weekend, two of which came against defending Ivy League champion Dartmouth (15–9, 4–0) and the other of SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 10

COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

First baseman Lauren Delgadillo ’16 has a 0.356 on-base percentage in 23 games.

Interdivision matchups on tap for Yale

BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER

The Bulldogs (5–6, 2–1 Ivy) head to New Jersey coming off a loss to No. 17 Boston College, which dropped their record below 0.500 for their first time since March 12.

The Tigers (7–2, 2–0), meanwhile, mark the toughest Ancient Eight opponent yet for the Elis, whose two conference wins in 2016 have come against teams that are winless in the Ivy League. “[Princeton’s] a really great team and that should absolutely be respected, but I also think we’re good too,” goalie Sydney Marks ’18 said. “If we fight for a full 60 minutes like we did against BC, it’ll be a great game.”

The 15–11 loss to BC demonstrated resiliency on the part of the Elis. After slip-

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good vibes for the weekend,” third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 said.

And the Bulldogs can certainly use that momentum heading into the contests with Princeton, as the Tigers come to New Haven having won five of six and look to continue a remarkable turnaround from their 2015 campaign.

A year ago, Princeton went just 7–32 and ranked among the Ivy League’s bottom three

in batting average, earned run average and fielding percentage.

But this year, the Tigers have been riding their conferencebest 3.72 ERA — a world away from Yale’s Ivy-worst 6.76 — to the Ancient Eight’s top in-conference and overall records.

In its first league weekend, Princeton swept Dartmouth and Harvard in New Jersey by a combined score of 29–15 across four SEE BASEBALL PAGE 10

BASEBALL COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

Defender Victoria Moore ’17 and the rest of Yale’s defense will need a strong performance against Princeton, which has just two losses. ping behind 6–1 early on, Yale did not let its opponent score more than two goals back-toback and were narrowly outscored by the Eagles, 8–7, in the second half.

In the past, contests against top-ranked teams have led to success for Yale. After falling 13–7 to Stony Brook and March 8, the Bulldogs launched a three-game win streak that included their two conference wins. Captain

and defender Kate Walker ’16 thinks the game against BC could have positive effects as well.

“I think it’s so beneficial for us to play these top-tier teams,” Walker said. “Playing BC and Stony Brook has elevated our game, since it’s a faster speed than many of the teams we go up against regularly. I feel that we’re better SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 10

STAT OF THE DAY 1

Yale (7–18–1, 2–2 Ivy) faces Princeton (11–11, 4–0) and Cornell (8–9, 2–0) in a set of doubleheaders this weekend, with the Elis playing two against the Tigers on Friday before a Sunday twin bill against the Big Red. On Wednesday, the Bulldogs split another doubleheader against Fairfield, dropping the first game 2–1 before taking the second game by the same score.

After allowing an average of 8.5 runs per game in its Ivy-opening weekend, Yale’s pitching allowed just five total hits to the Stags over the midweek matchups.

“I think the win [was] important to gather momentum and

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The Bulldogs’ pitchers have combined for a 6.76 ERA this season, which is currently the worst mark in the Ivy League.

THE NUMBER OF VICTORIES THAT THE DARTMOUTH MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM HAS RECORDED THIS SEASON. Yale, which faces the Big Green Saturday at 1 p.m., is a perfect 9–0, setting up a mismatch on paper — but also a potential trap game — this weekend.