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6 Foot 7 State. Actress Kate McKinnon played Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 in the Saturday Night Live cold open this weekend. McKinnon performed a monologue in which Clinton reflected on her recent seven-state losing streak in the primary and looked ahead to the New York primary. McKinnon poked fun at Clinton’s attempts to appeal to masses by eating street food and riding the subway.

The girl from “Girls.” Popular comedy duo Jake and Amir performed their show “If I Were You Live!” at Toad’s Place last night. They were joined on stage by special guest Allison Williams ’10.

Jake Hurwitz, one half of the duo, is from the nearby town of Hamden. Williams, who stars in the hit HBO show “Girls,” has appeared as a guest character, Cheryl, on Jake and Amir’s web-series.

Trump’d. The Connecticut

Post interviewed politicians in the state to gauge the potential reaction to a Donald Trump nomination. Former gubernatorial candidate Joe Visconti, a Trump supporter, defended the frontrunner against allegations of racism.

Rep. Elizabeth Esty LAW ’85, who supports Clinton, said, “You have to acknowledge what people are feeling,” and acknowledged Trump’s appeal.

Dancing in the dark. The Asian American Cultural Center at Yale will host DarkMatter — a trans South Asian performance art duo — in SSS at 8:30 p.m. this evening. Composed of Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian, DarkMatter shares personal stories about navigating the world from their perspectives as trans South Asians.

The New York Kimes. Mina

Kimes ’07, a senior writer at ESPN magazine, will give a master’s tea at the Ezra Stiles master’s house at 4 p.m. this afternoon. Prior to working for ESPN, Kimes wrote for Bloomberg News and Fortune Magazine. Kimes writes a column about the business and culture of sports.

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Master Marvin Chun will host producer Terence Winter for a master’s tea at 6 p.m. this evening. In 2014, Winter’s screenplay for “The Wolf of Wall Street” was nominated for an Academy Award. He is the co-creater of new HBO drama “Vinyl,” and he has previously worked on “The Sopranos” and “The Great Defender.”

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1969 Harvard students vote to go on strike to protest campus events. The student group, called the Harvard “Community,” releases a list of demands that include banning the use of police force on campus and restructuring the Harvard Corporation to ensure the representation of students.

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After the Yale Corporation’s meeting this past weekend, administrators said Salovey will announce naming decisions in the coming weeks.

Decisions to be announced “soon”

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER After seven months, four Yale Corporation meetings and repeated student demands, the University will publicly resolve its three naming debates within the next month, before final exams begin.

In the aftermath of the Corporation’s meeting this weekend, University President Peter Salovey told the News that he will “soon” announce the names of the two new residential colleges and whether the name of Calhoun College SEE DECISIONS PAGE 8

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Names now in Salovey’s hands

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER After repeatedly stating that he would not submit formal recommendations to the Yale Corporation as it decides upon naming issues, University President Peter Salovey appears to have pivoted toward a more assertive, unilateral approach.

For months, Salovey has said the Corporation as a group will decide what to name the two new residential colleges and whether to change the name of Calhoun College and the title of master. While historically, almost all Corporation decisions have been grounded in presidential recommendations, Salovey has presented these

three as unusual, far-reaching issues that the Corporation would decide by consensus.

But after the Corporation’s fourth meeting this past weekend, it appears that Salovey’s strategy — or at least its public presentation — has changed.

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Venture capital boosts endowment

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER With Yale’s endowment at an all-time high of $25.57 billion, the University’s investment success has been buoyed by startups like Uber, Airbnb and LinkedIn. The 2015 Yale Endowment

Report, a 40-page document released last week by the Yale Investments Office, revealed how the endowment’s investments with venture capital managers — who invest in early-stage companies with substantial risk but potentially high yield — have regularly earned Yale outsized

returns. But the report’s focus on the success of venture capital, and on the network of Yale alumni venture capitalists at the Investments Office’s fingertips, showed a reliance on a market known for its risk.

Over the past five years, Yale has steadily increased the per-

centage of its endowment invested in venture capital. Yale’s venture capital assets grew from 10.3 percent of total assets in 2011 to 16.3 percent in 2015.

Recent investments in startup companies, which the report said illustrate “the home-run potential of venture capital investing,”

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Astro dept. ahead on sexual harassment

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER In a span of four months during the fall of 2015, three highprofile incidents of sexual misconduct in college astronomy and astrophysics departments around the country rocked the astronomy community.

The three cases, which occurred at the University of Arizona, the University of California, Berkeley and the California Institute of Technology, all involved allegations of sexual harassment made against men who were tenured professors at the time. These cases moved to the forefront of a national conversation about the treatment of women in science.

After news of the cases broke, the American Astronomical Society made a point of addressing sexual harassment at its January 2016 conference, a five-day event that hundreds of members attended.

There, AAS President Meg Urry,

also the Israel Munson Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Yale, moderated a panel about harassment in the astronomical sciences.

Urry is, in some ways, considered the face of a Yale science department that holds a unique place in the national dialogue.

With a faculty that is 28.6 percent female — well-above the American Institute of Physics’ reported national rate of 19 percent among astronomy departments — Yale astronomy has created, according to several undergraduate and graduate students, a more open, welcoming environment for its women.

“We are talking about a problem nationwide while existing in a culture that doesn’t suffer from it as much,” astrophysics major Lauren Chambers ’17 said. “Other departments around the country that aren’t as open as Yale are facing much more aggravated rates of these SEE ASTRONOMY PAGE 6

have allowed Yale’s venture capital portfolio to outpace the Standard & Poor’s 500 index by 10.1 percent per annum over the past 10 years.

“Yale’s venture capital managers are strong, cohesive and hunSEE ENDOWMENT PAGE 6

University fights property tax bill

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Urry is the president of the American Astronomical Society.

Payne Whitney Gym, the Yale Repertory Theater and the Yale Center for Genome Analysis could all be subject to a controversial proposed state tax, according to University spokespeople.

S.B. 414, which aims to clarify how much of Yale’s $2.5 billion in properties across 12 state municipalities is taxable, moved forward by a 28 to 22 vote in the General Assembly’s Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee last week. In an email to University management and professional staff April 8, Associate Vice President for State and Federal Relations Richard Jacob criticized the bill, calling the proposal a “dramatic departure from bedrock policy toward charities.” The email is another step in a series of attacks the University has lobbed against the bill, which surfaced to public attention in a March 22 SEE PROPERTY TAX PAGE 8

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The Skittles club I

n December 2013 Beyonce saved Yalies from finalsperiod monotony by dropping a fifth album in music video form. Its fourth track, “Blow,” showcases Queen B and a posse of girlfriends in ’80s-esque disco attire. They spin around a neon-lit track crooning suggestive innuendos that come to a lyrical apex with the stanza “can you eat my Skittles?/it’s the sweetest in the middle/pink that’s the flavor/solve the riddle.”

“Blow” was one of my favorite pop anthems until December 2015, when I renounced its feminist overtones and utter pinkness — in all forms — in a fit of hyper-masculine frenzy.

Transgender men often succumb to problematic strands of patriarchal attitudes in an attempt to fit into a traditional gender mold. I was no exception. “Blow” was a symbol of my fragile masculine identity after years of faux femininity. “Blow” was Isabel, not Isaac.

After extensive contemplation, however, I re-examined the Y chromosome from the unique vantage point of a natal female transitioning into a masculine social persona. I pinpointed, in diplomatic parlance, many areas for improvement in the realm of sexual justice. All of a sudden, “Blow” was resurrected on my workout playlist.

It took on, to my utmost astonishment, a quality of moral allure.

To be specific, I became cognizant of a breed of men who don’t reciprocate in bed — a breed of men who don’t honor Beyonce’s Skittles. My disgust at this epidemic of oneway sexual gratification is not unfounded. In one landmark study, 43 percent of respondents agreed that men expect to be given oral sex whereas only 20 percent agreed that women harbor the same expectation.

In a second study, 55 percent of men aged 22–24 had given oral sex to women compared to 74 percent of women who had given oral sex to men. Other studies indicate that as men age they become more willing to reciprocate, but in college, “men” consistently demonstrate less regard for their partner’s satisfaction.

Anecdotal evidence at least partially corroborates these statistics on our Gothic campus. Yale’s hook-up culture prioritizes short-term carnal satisfaction over longer strokes of well-delivered pleasure. It’s as if we’re turning sex into a onesided conversation at Blue State instead of a rich Socratic backand-forth in a three-hour-long English seminar. Indeed, reciprocation a la Socrates is necessary to maintain emotional well-being: Receiving without giving demotes the organic desires of a significant other.

This chaotic sexual inequality has led me, in a fit of creative fury, to form a new global

society of men called the Skittles Club, dedicated to honoring pink candy without crossing into ISAAC the dubiAMEND ous realms of fetishism The or evangelicalism. If the Iconoclast Skittles Club were a niche movement in the French Revolution, it would have flaunted a slogan of “diversity, liberty and reciprocity.” If it were a Latin eating club at Princeton, its motto would be “Carpe diem, carpe noctem, carpe Skittle.”

But from the land of Marie Antoinette to New Haven and back, Skittlemen always operate with two tenets firmly ingrained within their sexual conscience.

The first is consent. Skittlemen understand that sex is only appropriate when all parties agree to the desired activities. Skittlemen also understand that their sexual practices aren’t superior to any others that also operate under the bedrock principle of consent. In other words, Skittlemen realize that sex comes in a slew of different forms and that individuals exercise complete freedom over their choices in bed.

The Club’s second tenet is reciprocity. In honor of the Club’s namesake, Skittlemen respect their partners’ sensual desires as much their partners value theirs.

Working in tandem, these two tenets redefine antiquated patriarchal norms and create a new sexual paradigm that equalizes troubling power dynamics in bed. Skittlemen stamp feminism into their sheets and displace a culture of phallic superiority to make way for feminist sexual ideals, which have suffered cultural stigmatization for too long.

So, when the time comes for me to cook a French dinner and light a circle of candles for a romantic date, I’ll abide by a Skittle code of conduct. We’ll talk about iconoclastic literary production over buttered escargot and Bordeaux. But, if after more than a few glasses of wine I glean nonverbal cues of “no,” I’ll wait and practice Beyonce’s advice another time. See, Skittlemen are not merely creatures of sensual exuberance. We respect that the monosyllabic cadence of “no” carries just as much imperative as the sonic waves of “yes.”

With that last addendum, I invite all men to join me in seeking lifelong membership in the Skittles Club.

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Thoughts on Gettysburg I

have spent 10 weeks with our 16th president in a class called “Lincoln’s Statecraft & Rhetoric.” I feel a patriotic debt to President Abraham Lincoln, because he saved the Union and purified it of slavery, and also a personal debt, because his speeches, writings and biography have taught me about the methods and ideas proper to American statesmanship. The only way to requite his contribution to our politics is to secure it against the enemies of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Certainly for better, my youth disqualifies me from shifting our national life more than one vote this way or that. But I have some space in this newspaper, so I’d like to honor Lincoln by commenting on my most recent reading assignment — his address given in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on Nov. 19, 1863.

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” The first sentence moves across time, beginning with an allusion to the Bible’s 19th psalm and ending by invoking Thomas Jefferson’s declaration of natural equality.

Linking the two is the word “conceived,” a reference at once to the Immaculate Conception and to rationality. America’s birth was

pure, because it was thought of and articulated — conceived — in good ideals by certain minds.

“Now we are engaged COLE in a great civil ARONSON war, testing whether that Necessary nation, or any and proper nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.” How? A passage in Lincoln’s first inaugural address assists us. The plainest cause of the Civil War was the South’s secession from the Union, and, as Lincoln said at the war’s outset, “the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.” Whoever spurns this doctrine, or secedes from a nation practicing it, “does of necessity fly to anarchy or despotism.”

Anarchy — because secessionists have no principle to refute future secessionists, and on and on until there is no government at all.

Despotism — because the equality of men requires them to have an equal say in government.

A ruling minority, when questioned, will ultimately assert the inequality of men to justify its rule. It will assert a self-evident falsehood. The Civil War tested whether men were fit to govern themselves by testing whether the American experiment in selfgovernment could survive a challenge that no true government can fail to survive.

“We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.” But, Lincoln adds, “the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”

What to make of this memorial meditation on memory? Lincoln abjures any power to hallow the battlefield on which the soldiers fought and died. But he sees an opportunity to honor their sacrifice by pursuing their unfinished work — work that extends beyond this particular battle to every nation.

What dignity does this chance confer? The living take only

ISAAC AMEND is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

Contact him at isaac.amend35@gmail.com.

“increased devotion” from the soldiers’ “last full measure of devotion.” Dying in war is an unequaled contribution. But why is it so important that the world “can never forget what they did here?” Because of “that cause” to which the soldiers devoted their lives and deaths. In Lincoln’s words, “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

In an earlier speech, Lincoln argued that maintaining America’s free institutions might be harder even than establishing them. He thought America’s government to be the best government, but when Lincoln gave this earlier speech in 1838, the hardest part of living under America’s free and constitutional government — preserving it — was a then-unperformed task.

The soldiers performed that task in the most devoted manner possible. They cannot be forgotten, because they made the greatest sacrifice for the highest political good. They prove that men will die to defend their once won, now threatened constitutional liberty.

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

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Make things less bad D

espite our political differences, the one thing we can all agree on is that I am the only candidate running for Yale College Council president. And even though I’ve spent two years on the YCC, we all know that the best insider makes the best outsider.

If you’re like me — and I know I am — you’ll recognize that the YCC has made Yale basically perfect. But they told me I have to have issues, so let’s talk about some issues.

First, with two new residential colleges opening and 800 more students coming to Yale, Toad’s is going to have to expand. In what direction? It is not yet clear. But I will build a great, great Toad’s — nobody builds Toad’s better than me, believe me — and it’s going to be a beautiful Toad’s, and Quinnipiac is going to pay for it. Mark my words.

Second, many have asked if

YCC ELECTIONS Yale is ready for coed libraries. I say yes, the time has come. In previous elections, candidates have said that “conquering death and coed libraries are both important but equally implausible.” I say it is possible, and as the only candidate, no one can contradict me.

Also, while we’re on the subject of libraries, are you aware that Yale has many rare books and manuscripts? We should build them a library. Maybe it can even have a cool and memorable shape, like a grey Rubik’s Cube or Stephen Schwarzman’s ’69 head.

Third, I pledge to normalize relations between Fish Stark ’17 and Sarah Eidelson ’12. The peace of this great nation depends on it.

Frankly, the News’ coverage of this conflict has been highly biased.

It’s time we stop pointing fingers and reach a two-person solution.

Fourth, water. We all use it. We all love it. We all know it.

And finally, I promise to increase President Peter Salovey’s intramurals participation rate. In his three years since becoming the 23rd president of Yale University, Salovey has yet to play an IM sport. While divesting from fossil fuels, campaigning to change the name of Calhoun College and eliminating the student income contribution are noble goals, I will direct my focus to the broader issue of encouraging Salovey to play Spikeball or inner-tube water polo.

I do recognize the practical limitation, however, that only the Yale Corporation can officially force Salovey to participate in coed water polo or a similar IM sport. Blackmail and coercion are a different approach, however, and I’m all about using out-ofthe-box ideas.

All kidding aside, I’m run-

ning for president to bring imagination, focus and humor back to the YCC. While these qualities alone can’t solve the challenges we face, they will help inject fresh energy and enthusiasm into the Yale community. Together, we can build a college council and campus that students are proud of and excited about, and that affects real, authentic and lasting change.

I invite you to learn more about me and my platform — which addresses financial aid, mental health, ethnic studies programs and cultural resources and reforming sexual assault policy — on my Facebook page and website: carterycc2016.com.

Together, we can make things less bad.

CARTER HELSCHIEN is a sophomore in Morse College.

Contact him at carter.helschien@yale.edu .

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YCC ELECTIONS

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE “A leader is a dealer in hope.”

THE ISSUE In preparation for the Yale College Council election at the end of this week, the News solicited statements from each of the presidential candidates.

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his election is about supporting student advocacy.

After a year marked by Yalies fighting for important and necessary progress, our student government cannot offer unmet proposals and half-hearted promises. The Yale College Council must facilitate action that is bold, inclusive and heard. It’s time for the YCC to speak out on the issues that matter.

Our community’s compassion fuels my dedication to create a better Yale experience for those around me. In my mind, student government positions are service roles. From day one, I wanted to find ways that I could serve others, both on campus and throughout New Haven. I became community service chair and freshmen screw chair for the Freshman Class Council, and I joined social justice groups that provide support to local organizations. I spent my whole first year at Yale thinking of ways my classmates could have the best year possible and made many of those ideas a reality.

I currently serve as sophomore class president. I decided to run for this position because it allows me to impact the lives of my classmates most directly and creatively.

Everyday we redefine expectations for this organization. Our small

YCC ELECTIONS budget (less than $2 per sophomore for the entire year) challenged and motivated us. I knew nothing would hold us back if we could effectively advocate for student initiatives to the administration, and that is exactly what we did. Our budget grew to be eight times its original size, we started a new Yale College tradition called “Sophomore Brunch” and I wrote a comprehensive proposal calling on the administration to implement shopping period reforms. I also partnered with the alumni association to launch a new mentorship program that connects past and present Yalies.

Now, I am running for YCC president. This is not about political gain or trendy platforms — my service will never be motivated by the title attached to it. I am running because Yale is for everyone, but there is real work that needs to be done before everyone can say that confidently. Yalies all over campus are already pushing for vital changes. Unite Against Sexual Assault at Yale is leading the fight to create an inclusive, intersectional and respectful sexual climate on campus. Members of all

four cultural centers have identified key policy changes that will better support students of color in our community. Students Unite Now has published a detailed report advocating for financial aid reform and the necessary elimination of the student income contribution. If elected, I will appoint leaders from every corner of campus to work directly with the YCC on the issues that matter most to them. I will ensure that these advocates have unprecedented access to the administration, allowing for vital action that reaches our student body.

My platform comes directly from students closest to the issues. I worked with LGBTQ Co-op members to identify new ways to support LGBTQ students. I spoke with Mind Matters to develop concrete recommendations for increasing access to mental health resources.

Dwight Hall leaders shared their vision of a collaborative relationship with the YCC on community service initiatives. Students advocating for divestment taught me the importance of having a more transparent Yale Corporation.

Athletes explained where Yale falls short in representing them. Fellow students with disabilities helped me outline better accommoda-

tions. Together, we will champion these causes through supportive partnerships between the YCC and student groups that are already leading the fight.

But our momentum cannot stop at symbolic proposals. As president, I will eliminate bureaucratic structures within the YCC and streamline the processes by which students communicate with the administration.

For our student government to effectively address campus needs, its leaders should be as diverse as the community we represent.

However, in an editorial addressing the importance of electing a female YCC president (“NEWS’ VIEW: We need a female Yale College Council president,” April 6, 2015), the News wrote, “A combined 15 years will pass with only one woman at the helm of our student government.” This should be a shocking and disturbing fact for anyone who cares about gender equality and the diversity of its constituents and works proactively to support them.

The next Yale is not an idea for the distant future — it’s time for the Yale we deserve right now.

SARAH ARMSTRONG is a sophomore in Trumbull College. Contact her at sarah.armstrong@yale.edu .

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s we all try to chart our own unique Yale paths, I am sure that we are all aware that the paths we travel on will not always be well-paved roads. Student government should help students better shape their Yale experience by improving academic, University services and student-life resources.

To provide the best support to students, student government should be well-connected with the different student groups on campus. Because student groups are niches of student interests, to thoroughly understand the views of different student groups is to understand the issues on campus that students care about.

Through my two years of student government experience at Yale, I have emphasized communicating and collaborating with a variety of student groups outside of the student government.

In my first year of student government at Yale, I acted as the first semester chair of the Freshman Class Council, leading the group on new initiatives such as emphasizing community service. I am currently a Yale College Council representative. For projects I have taken charge of, such as distributional credit research or major offerings review, I focused on gaining the perspectives of a diverse spectrum of student groups, from the Yale

YCC ELECTIONS Undergraduate Aerospace Association to the International Students Organization.

As a project manager in the YCC Events Committee, I am in charge of “Reality Checks,” an initiative that offers real-life skills workshops. I have worked with various groups on campus such as the Student Wellness Center, the Office of Career Strategy, Yale Undergraduate Mindfulness Education Initiative and YMindful to enhance the education we receive while at Yale.

Outside of student government, I am the intercultural liaison for the Asian American Students Alliance and a member of the Asian American Studies Task Force, and I work to improve communication between the members from all the cultural centers.

My focus on student government has been and always will be toward student groups and working with them to address common campus issues. I see the mission of the YCC as twofold. First, the YCC should address macro-level campus issues, including but not limited to the reduction and elimination of the student income contribution and the increase in the number of on-campus student jobs. Second, the YCC should sup-

port student groups, for example, working to bring transfer students more into the Yale community.

Past YCC representatives have spoken with student groups, but I plan to go beyond simply asking them for their feedback. Student government should actively work with student groups on all campus initiatives. I plan to work with the cultural groups to hold the University accountable for faculty diversity on campus. YCC will conduct a comprehensive survey with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and then release the results so that Yale students can understand exactly how each department is approaching faculty diversity. Based on student feedback, the YCC will then work with cultural groups to establish steps for solving faculty hiring and retention problems.

I will fight to increase the number of campus student jobs in different departments of the University. One such department is the Financial Aid Office, which can hire students to organize newsletters and information packets that the office sends to both current students and prefrosh. I will push for increased program funding for Freshman Scholars at Yale and the Cultural Connections program.

To push for the reduction and elimination of the student income contribution, I will work with stu-

dent organizations such as Students Unite Now to approach the Office of the Provost to understand the exact fiscal impact of the reduction and elimination of the SIC on the University budget.

Student government will work with students with disabilities to understand the exact needs of students and the shortcomings of University resources. To continue to improve the campus sexual climate, I want to work with the Women’s Center to increase the frequency and reach of the Women’s Center programming. I promise to work with the LGBTQ Co-op to continue to understand and address the challenges faced by non-cisgender and non-heterosexual students on campus.

This is without a doubt an ambitious list of goals for student government, but it is an ambition grounded in the wealth of Yale student groups.

I want to help enact policies and improve campus resources for the sake of the Yalies here on campus right now and for the sake of the Yalies who come after us. Let us work together to ensure that we make not only concrete but also lasting improvements.

PETER HUANG is a sophomore in Silliman College. Contact him at peter.huang@yale.edu .

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What does YCC mean to you?

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hat does the Yale College Council even do?”

Well, this answer depends on what you are looking for. Many students do not “engage” with the YCC because they do not feel a pressing need to. Not all of us have grievances that need attention from the administration or from the YCC, but that doesn’t mean that those who do should struggle to find an outlet or platform to do so. This organization can only be successful in its mission of shaping University policies and improving student life if it delivers the value that people are seeking. For some, this may mean enjoying Spring Fling and the Farm Tours in the fall. For student groups that organize around issues like sexual climate, cultural diversity and financial aid reform, however, this may mean taking an active part in creating reports that go to the administration, finding platforms like town halls through which they can open up schoolwide conversations and having easier access to face-to-face conversations with relevant administrators. For example, Mind Matters — an organization that hopes to raise awareness about mental health issues — has faced frustrating setbacks with arranging meetings with masters and deans to discuss programming like “How to Help a Friend.” This is where the YCC can help facilitate those discussions: by inviting Mind Matters to a meeting with someone like Assistant Dean Hannah Peck DIV ’11 or gathering an audience to attend a workshop on helping friends emotionally and helping them access resources.

Dean Jonathan Holloway has made it clear to the Council that he sees it as his looking glass into the student body. We need to continue to convey that message to students and continue to legitimize the YCC as an organization that will not just wait for student groups to seek support, but rather will always reach out to these groups, looking for new ways to maintain a constant formation of partnerships. This culture of actively seeking can be cultivated within the Council with efforts from the YCC leadership. All the representatives are Yalies who interact with friends, classmates and people in their residential colleges. Their projects need to follow the task-force model when relevant, bringing in student groups to partner with them on joint projects, such as organizing events for undergraduates to get help from graduate students with planning their summers, or making sure professors ask students for their preferred pronouns during the first class.

“What does the president even do?”

YCC ELECTIONS After asking Joe English ’17 about his year as the YCC president, I heard one thing loud and clear: It is crucial that the next president maintain relationships of trust and open communication with administrators in order to garner respect and decisionmaking power for the student body. Many Yalies have no idea what the president’s role entails.

A big part of it is being the face of the student body for the administrators. This means meeting with them in their offices to discuss initiatives, priorities and collaboration. Since the leadership of the Council changes each year, we need to make sure there is continuity in the administration’s exposure to the Council and that no bridges are burned.

This means working closely with the previous year’s executive board and being sure to have a realistic idea of what has been done and what can continue to be pushed. As candidates, we should not make lofty promises without understanding the struggles and efforts that have come before us.

The president needs to first and foremost be empathetic in order to understand and deeply care about our concerns. When it comes down to it, effectively conveying emotion and gravity to administrators in an office will go a long way in mobilizing human interactions. We need someone who cares and someone we can trust to always care, regardless of whether a title or position is on the line. Human instinct can be surprisingly powerful. While all of the presidential candidates can run a campaign on a set of values and ideas, we need to prioritize relationships, connection and involvement in the student community to ensure that we will be able to accurately and passionately assert student experiences and priorities to the administrators who are not, and do not have to be, our enemies.

“Diksha, what is something you want the student body to know about you?”

Thanks for asking that question, Diksha. I hope the people I interact with every day know that I care deeply about them, about Yale and about the student experience. That care and respect is something I can promise to translate into advocacy, dedication and determination without losing sight of all of our experiences.

At the end of the day, we do what we do for the people that we love.

Trust me, there is plenty of love in my heart to go around.

DIKSHA BRAHMBHATT is a sophomore in Berkeley College.

Contact her at diksha.brahmbhatt@yale.edu .

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Equity and accountability T

his year has been one of powerful conversations.

Next year needs to be one of transformative change.

The Yale College Council is tasked with channeling the energies, aspirations and frustrations of the student body into concrete change. This year, these energies, aspirations and frustrations have been charged, vivid and clear. Yale students do not all have the same access to the Yale experience. And even though I have not personally experienced the pain and frustration felt by marginalized groups on campus, the conversations last fall stirred in me a will to speak up and be an ally.

We want to go to a Yale where there is equity: a Yale that belongs to everyone equally, supports everyone equally and respects everyone equally. We want to go to a Yale where there is account-

YCC ELECTIONS ability: where student voices are heard and respected by the YCC, administrators and the Yale Corporation.

Achieving this Yale will take sustained engagement from all of us, as well as a YCC president who is no stranger to advocacy, who listens to all campus communities before he or she speaks and who has a record of achieving results.

I will unite the YCC around the agenda of the student body, so that students are both connected to and genuinely heard by it.

Last year, I served as president of the Freshman Class Council, where I led a team that compiled a policy report on the freshman experience and planned memorable events like the Freshman Dance and Freshman Olym-

pics. This year, as academic policy director of the YCC, I managed a dozen policy projects and advocated directly to Dean Jonathan Holloway for reforms to Credit/D/Fail deadlines, as well as urged academic deans to put ethnic studies on the administrative agenda. I engaged the student body in every project I managed by meeting with studentathletes, STEM students and advocates for Latinx and Asian American Studies so that I could best hear and understand others’ experiences.

Student government shouldn’t be about writing reports that are never acted upon or professing to care about an issue for which one has done little work. At least, that’s not what student government is to me. Instead, it’s about dedicated, persistent advocacy on behalf of our peers. I’m no stranger

to advocacy. I’m no stranger to engaging students. And I’m no stranger to speaking to administrators about the issues that matter most. As YCC president, I will reshape our agenda to mirror the energies, aspirations and frustrations of the student body.

That means prioritizing issues of equity. I want to go to a Yale where we expand ethnic studies, robustly support the cultural centers and achieve successful implementation of last fall’s reforms for racial equity. I want to go to a Yale where we achieve a positive sexual climate by increasing resources for undergraduates in the Title IX Office, improving enforcement of no-contact orders and clarifying the informal complaint process. I want to go to a Yale where we continue to advocate for an elimination of the student income contribution and a removal of lim-

its on paid work hours per week.

And I want to go to a Yale with an LGBTQ student center, more mental health counselors of color and improved accessibility to University buildings for students with physical disabilities.

As president, I will also prioritize sustainability: it is time for Yale to designate sustainability as one of its development objectives and reinstate the Climate and Energy Institute. I will prioritize our relationship with New Haven and the University’s support for public service: Dwight Hall should be more robustly supported financially by Yale, fellowships that sponsor Yalies’ work in the city should grow and the Office of Career Strategy should allocate more resources to support students entering public service careers.

You can read more about these

ideas — the concrete reforms I believe Yale should implement, and the specific actions I know YCC has the power to take — at my website, josh4ycc.com.

I have a bold vision for the YCC, but it’s concrete. I know both the limits and the promise of the YCC, as I helped set its policy agenda this year. Yale is my home. It’s our home. I’ve spent time listening to the experiences of our peers this year, and these conversations have shaped my platform. There’s more work left to do to make sure that everyone has the same access to the Yale experience. If I’m elected to do that work, the YCC will not relent. We’ll fight — persistently and vocally — for a Yale that is equitable and accountable.

JOSH HOCHMAN is a sophomore in Berkeley College. Contact him at joshua.hochman@yale.edu .

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“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” ELBERT HUBBARD PHILOSOPHER

YCC presidential candidates sign positivity pledge

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER For the first time in Yale College Council history, all presidential candidates have formally pledged to run “positive, substantive” campaigns.

All five of this year’s presidential hopefuls signed the pledge, which presidential candidate Josh Hochman ’18 proposed on Wednesday, the day before candidates officially announced their candidacies. The document is meant to serve as a supplement to the official YCC campaign rules, which stipulate that candidates may not engage in fraudulent, intimidating or derogatory publicity tactics. Hochman’s pledge contains four statements, some of which overlap with the official rules but some of which go a step beyond them. Specifically, each candidate promised to speak positively about each of the others with no personal attacks, to not marginalize any group on campus, to respect other candidates’ posters and to not leave anonymous comments on public forums.

The other four candidates — Peter Huang ’18, Diksha Brahmbhatt ’18, Sarah Armstrong ’18 and Carter Helschien ’18 — said they look forward to a positive campaign season, although they differed in their opinions of how important the pledge would be in creating that positivity.

“There is oftentimes a gap between the YCC and the student body, and these elections are opportunities for the YCC to convey to the student body what the YCC is about,” Hochman said.

“We wanted to emphasize from the beginning that this is a campaign that will stress how the YCC is a productive body and will not be about bickering.”

The pledge acknowledges the role elections play in shaping students’ perceptions of the YCC. It declares that the candidates are committed to creating a

YCC culture that is “representative, approachable and fair,” and that focuses on each candidates’ visions and plans.

Hochman said he proposed the pledge because he wanted to ensure that the campaigns focused on ideas important to the Yale community instead of mocking any individuals or campus discussions. The agreement illustrates the high quality candidates the YCC has this year, because everyone decided to sign on, he added.

It is unlikely that the document will become a permanent part of the YCC election process each year: Several candidates interviewed agreed that the pledge was not necessary, because they expected a positive campaign process regardless.

Huang said he never anticipated anything but a productive election week. Brahmbhatt highlighted the rules and guidelines the YCC already have in place to ensure that the entire campaign process remains positive.

Current YCC President Joe English ’17 said whether or not the agreement was necessary, it is a positive sign that shows the earnest nature of each candidate.

Like Brahmbhatt, English said the YCC’s election guidelines and informational meetings already do a good job of outlining proper election week behavior, but he added that he would not be surprised if comparable agreements were made in the future.

Despite presidential candidates’ confidence that the election process will remain largely positive, campaigns have taken negative turns in the past. Two years ago, in the 2014 election, several personal attacks and allegations were made against candidates.

After each of the four candidates that year published a column in the News explaining their campaigns, the columns generated numerous comments which centered around personal attacks. On

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YCC presidential candidate Josh Hochman ’18 has proposed a pledge to maintain a positive election season. the same day then-presidential candidate Sara Miller’s ’16 column was published, former YCC President Danny Avraham ’15 posted a comment claiming that Miller had spread “malicious rumors” and that students had filed complaints to the Council Elections Commission about her. Miller, who was a photography editor for the News, told the News in 2014 that an investigation had occurred but determined that she did not violate any regulations. In addition, Michael Herbert ’16 — who was

eventually elected in a runoff vote — addressed his personal political views at a YCC presidential debate, after several commenters criticized his alleged opposition to gay marriage. Herbert denied that he had ever made any such statement.

All four candidates running for office that year told the News in 2014 that the atmosphere around the election week had become increasingly negative.

This year’s candidates agreed that the upcoming presidential

election atmosphere will be different from that of two years ago.

Both Huang and Armstrong said all of the candidates have known each other since their participation in student government as freshmen, adding that this would contribute to the positivity of the entire campaign process. And Helschien said he believes the campus has shifted dramatically from the culture of the 2014 YCC elections.

“I think it’s great that they’re agreeing to run a positive cam-

paign, and I have complete faith that they’ll be able to talk about substantive policy issues,” English said. “I really hope Yale students and the publications that endorse the candidates will take their platforms seriously, as well as the way they represent themselves and the YCC.” Last year, English was elected YCC president with 68.25 percent of the student vote.

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

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Former prof and master dies at 88

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER Harold Morowitz ’47 GRD ’51, a former faculty member and Pierson College master, died on March 22. He was 88.

Morowitz received a B.S. in physics and philosophy, an M.S. in physics and a Ph.D. in biophysics all from Yale and was a professor in the University’s Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry from 1955 to 1987. Trained as a physicist, Morowitz became best known for applying thermodynamics theory — normally studied in physics — to biology. His book, “Energy Flow in Biology,” posits that natural energy flows create ecological systems to sustain life.

[Morowitz] codified and made available the best contributions to biology that physical science could make.

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Harold Morowitz died on March 22 at 88. death. At George Mason, he founded the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, an institute which seeks to understand the human mind. He was the chairman emeritus of the science board of the Santa Fe Institute, an interdisciplinary education center, and was the founding editor of the scientific journal Complexity. He authored or coauthored 19 books.

Beyond his roles as an educator and researcher, Morowitz also used his expertise in industry.

He was a longtime consultant at

NASA, advising on experiments conducted remotely on the surface of Mars and inside Biosphere 2, the world’s largest enclosed ecosystem.

In 1983, Morowitz testified in McLean v. Arkansas, a case that successfully challenged a state law mandating the teaching of creation science in Arkansas public schools.

Morowitz is survived by his wife, Lucille, and four sons.

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

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“I strongly appreciated his contributions of physical understanding to biology in his effort to reunite what specialization had torn apart,” professor emeritus of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Robert Shulman said. “Harold, by writing on thermodynamics, codified and made available the best contributions to biology that physical science could make, then and now.”

Shulman added that thermodynamics is essential to the understanding of biochemical reactions, adding that Morowitz’s research made it possible for biological scientists to deal with “confusing terms” like entropy.

Morowitz also served as master of Pierson College from 1981 to 1986. After leaving Yale in 1987, he taught at George Mason University from 1988 until his

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“The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.” GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO POLITICIAN

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The article “Conservative speaker’s planned costume draws ire” mischaracterized Kodi Alvord’s ’17 remarks. In fact, Alvord believes conservative pundit Milo Yiannopoulos has demonstrated that he is not equipped to engage in productive debate at Yale and should not come to campus.

Kasich comes to Fairfield

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Kasich brought his campaign to Sacred Heart University on Friday.

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER After months of campaigning across the U.S., presidential candidates have finally turned their attention toward Connecticut.

Politicians vying for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations have traversed the nation over the last year, crisscrossing from Iowa to Massachusetts to, most recently, Wyoming.

But the Nutmeg State, with its primaries scheduled late in the cycle on April 26, had been overlooked — until Friday. That was when Ohio Gov. John Kasich, contender for the Republican nomination, became the first candidate to hold a rally in Connecticut with his town hall event on the Sacred Heart University campus in Fairfield.

Kasich is running as a moderate against businessman Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

Connecticut, with its history of center-right Republican governors and congressmen, is seen as favorable territory for him. As a result, it comes as no surprise that he, and not his rivals, has chosen to campaign in Connecticut just under three weeks before its primary.

Kasich’s stump speech in Fairfield focused on the common themes of his campaign: community, conciliation, togetherness.

“If you want to see the spirit of our country renewed, if you want to see hope come back to America — it’s in you,” Kasich said. “It’s in what we do in our neighborhoods, what we do in our parishes. What’s happened is we’ve lost confidence in our ability to change the world in which we live.”

Kasich has emphasized the element of human sympathy at his town halls across the country, and he repeated that pattern in Fairfield. When a Sacred Heart student in the audience told him of her family’s wrangling with the Department of Veterans Affairs after her father died of factors related to exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam, Kasich vowed to make sure the VA resolves her family’s case.

One outsized personality hung over the town hall, though his name went nearly unsaid — Donald Trump, the race’s current frontrunner. Presidents, Kasich said, should foster unity, rather than drive wedges in the nation.

“We’re not winning? We’re winning everything,” Kasich said.

“People have got to stop whining about America. What that is — that’s playing with people’s fears.

Great leaders don’t drive people into depression, great leaders don’t divide people. They bring people together, and they solve divisions.”

The factors inspiring the country’s current division, Kasich said, are complex and nefarious. He singled out special interest groups for particular scorn, saying they have pushed agendas “designed to

separate us from one another.”

Kasich’s style at the town hall was open and — in keeping with his campaign theme — honest. One attendee, saying she was attracted to Cruz’s proposals for a flat tax, asked Kasich what he thought of the idea. Kasich responded in comedic fashion.

“Why don’t you and I just meet at the airport tonight and just flap our arms?” he said to laughter around the room. “Because that’s easier than changing the tax code to a flat tax.”

Questions from around the room dealt with a variety of subjects, including Common Core, fracking, the nation’s medical system and the arcane rules of the Republican convention in Cleveland — a complicated slate of rules that will likely prove vital to Kasich’s bid for the nomination.

In an area not known for extremist tendencies, Kasich’s accompaniment at the town hall reinforced his moderate credentials. Kasich’s opening speaker was Chris Shays, a former representative for much of southwestern Connecticut, who campaigned for Arizona Sen. John McCain in 2008 on Sacred Heart’s campus.

Shays described Kasich as a candidate with experience in practical governance, equipped with the skills to create jobs and get the country’s financial house in order.

Shays urged attendees to reject Trump’s demagoguery and Cruz’s inexperience.

“The promise of America has had some problems, and you all have a right to be angry, and there is a solution,” he said. “The solution is not to elect an angry man that acts like a seventh-grade bully — excuse me, that would be giving seventh-grade bullies a bad name — and it’s not to elect a oneterm senator. Been there, done that.”

Also introducing Kasich was state Sen. Tony Hwang, R-Fairfield, Kasich’s state chair for Connecticut. Citing Kasich’s record of solid budgetary management and job creation, Hwang compared Ohio’s economy before Kasich’s tenure as governor to Connecticut’s current economic malaise, arguing that Kasich’s economic record provided him with “real substance beyond the sizzle.”

A host of Connecticut Republican dignitaries attended Friday’s town hall. August Wolf, a candidate for the Republican nomination against Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73, worked the crowd, shaking hands with voters and vowing to “take lyin’ little Dick and send him home” while his staff handed out mug cozies.

Wolf’s opponent for the Republican nomination, Rep. Dan Carter, R-Bethel, was also in attendance, along with numerous former and current Republican state legislators.

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

USAY hosts first Fearless Conference

BY MONICA WANG STAFF REPORTER Around 60 attendees filled the Dwight Hall Common Room Saturday morning for Unite Against Sexual Assault Yale’s inaugural Fearless Conference, which sought to discuss how sexual violence can affect communities both on and off Yale’s campus.

Founded in fall 2015, USAY has been active lately in facilitating discussions about a healthy sexual environment on campus, especially following controversies surrounding the expulsion of Jack Montague, former captain of the Yale men’s basketball team, in February for violating the University’s sexual misconduct policies. Last Monday, USAY and the Yale Black Women’s Coalition organized a town hall that drew hundreds of attendees to discuss Yale’s current sexual climate. At this Saturday’s conference, USAY hosted three speakers — political science professor Elisabeth Wood, Program Manager of the Women of Color Network Zoe Flowers and Co-Founder of “Know Your IX” and Senior Editor of feminist website “Feministing” Alexandra Brodsky ’12 LAW ’16 — who discussed how sexual violence can take on many forms and impact various communities in different ways.

Representatives from over 20 student groups on campus, including fraternities and sororities, the YBWC, the cultural centers, the Black Men’s Union and the LGBTQ Co-op, attended the conference. According to USAY CoFounder and Co-Director Helen Price ’18, the goal of the student-led, student-run conference was to take an intersectional look at sexual violence and to promote a broader conversation that would appeal to multiple constituencies on campus.

“It’s cool for me to come here

and see representatives from communities that I don’t generally associate with advocating against sexual assault on campus,” USAY board member Lindsey Hogg ’17 said, adding that it was valuable to know that there are people in all of these communities who want to see change and establish a more supportive environment for survivors on campus.

Wood opened the conference with a presentation about the use of sexual violence in war.

Discussing the various circumstances in which sexual violence is accepted, prohibited and tolerated, Wood reviewed the social dynamics under which each of the three situations arise.

Ultimately, Wood said, she found that combatting sexual violence in war requires a prohibition from a leader and strong institutions or disciplinary systems that encourage individuals not to engage in the behavior.

Flowers then presented on the impact of sexual violence on women of color, opening with a scene from her play “From Ashes to Angel’s Dust: A Journey Through Womanhood.” A survivor of sexual assault herself, Flowers combined personal stories, videos and photos to explain why women of color do not report their experiences.

She cited reasons such as loyalty and collusion, shame and misogynoir — a form of misogyny directed at African-American women in which gender and race play a role. Still, Flowers highlighted the importance of self-care and concluded her talk with a discussion of her own healing process.

“Healing is possible and accessible,” Flowers told the News after the event. “It does take work to heal, but it’s possible with community [support].

I would also say [to victims of sexual violence] tell your story, because when you tell your story, you give other people the

courage to tell theirs. Don’t be silent.”

When asked how the Yale community can come together and improve the sexual climate on campus, Flowers cited the need to open conversations about masculinity and gender.

Sexual violence comes down to issues of power and control, she said, and discussing power dynamics would be “a great place to start.”

Brodsky, the final speaker of the day, gave a brief talk on her experiences as a plaintiff in a 2011 Title IX compliance suit brought against Yale by the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. As a result of that complaint, Yale dramatically revised its sexual misconduct policies, including creating the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct.

Five attendees interviewed after the conference agreed that what drew them to the event was the cause of supporting survivors of sexual violence.

Clara Yang ’17 said the town hall meeting last Monday prompted her to think about the climate on Yale’s campus, but she attended the conference because she is also interested in hearing outside perspectives.

Price also said that while the town hall was a discussion about issues specific to Yale, the conference hoped to take a broader look at sexual misconduct from a variety of perspectives. The goal was to promote conversations that lead to tangible change, Price said.

Hogg said USAY wants to make sure that people know there are others on this campus who care about these issues and that survivors feel supported by communities outside of their immediate social groups.

Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Director of the Office of Gender and Campus Culture Melanie Boyd said she was impressed by the number

of students who attended the event, as well as by the various speakers, adding that she particularly appreciated Flowers’ political take on the necessity of self-care.

“It was great to see so many students turn out — early on a Saturday morning, no less — to learn more about sexual violence,” Boyd said. “The conference had an excellent range, drawing on faculty, outside speakers and students to address the issues from a variety of angles.”

University Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler also said she was “pleased” to attend the conference and see the level of campus interest.

She added that she “learned a lot” not only from the speakers but also from her conversations with students in attendance.

Aakeem Andrada-Allahjah ’18, the incoming vice president of Sigma Nu and a conference attendee, said his biggest takeaway from the event is the importance of showing unconditional support and love for survivors. He added that members of Sigma Nu have also been holding each other accountable as a group: Communication and Consent Educators have hosted training sessions for the current pledge class, and USAY also organized a workshop for the fraternity.

The conference closed on Saturday afternoon with final remarks from the USAY board.

Though the media has displayed Yale as a divided campus following the fallout of the Montague case, Price said, the diversity of the Fearless Conference’s attendance indicated that this is not the case.

“This is our community, our home, and we all have responsibility,” Price said.

Maya Sweedler contributed reporting.

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

Second student BOE election decided

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Jacob Spell won with 29.3 percent of the vote across the 2,830 students who voted.

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER Jacob Spell won New Haven Board of Education membership Friday in the second student election in Elm City history.

Spell, a sophomore at North Haven’s Hyde Leadership School, took 29.3 percent of the vote. All New Haven Public Schools high school students were eligible to cast ballots, but only 2,830 students — roughly half of all NHPS high school students — voted in this year’s election. Spell beat out six other candidates and will replace current BOE member Kimberly Sullivan, a Sound School senior, when she graduates later this spring.

“I’m ready to represent New Haven,” Spell said at City Hall Friday. “Let’s work together to make a change.”

In his campaign video, Spell highlighted his desire to promote a culture of respect

among students and school officials and his hope to increase the prominence of student voices in BOE decision-making.

A 2013 referendum and revision of the New Haven City Charter stipulated that one junior and one senior sit on the BOE each year as nonvoting members. In last year’s inaugural election, Sullivan and Coral Ortiz, then a sophomore at Hillhouse High School, won BOE membership.

Suzanne Lyons, the interim chair of the Aldermanic Committee on Student Elections and a member of the BOE College and Career Pathways Department, said the committee used the “best practices” from last year’s inaugural election to improve this year’s process. While last year’s ballot counters were unfolding ballots until 1:30 a.m. on election night, votes were counted and announced by 8:30 p.m. this year.

To galvanize student engagement, Mayor Toni Harp, the current BOE president, greeted voters at Hillhouse High School on Thursday, though voters were able to cast their ballots at their own schools. Polls opened at schools at different times, with the earliest being at 7:45 a.m. on Thursday. Polls closed citywide Friday afternoon such that ballot counting could begin at 3 p.m. that day.

Lyons said the committee is still working to increase student engagement in both the election process and in the district.

“I’m excited to see if and how the awareness levels have changed and to see the excitement levels of students coming out tomorrow,” Lyons said on the eve of the election.

While Lyons said student councils and some district schools such as High School in the Community, near State Street, made announcements

and conducted election-oriented activities to mobilize student voters, this year’s turnout was lower than last year, when 3,469 students elected two student members.

Wilbur Cross, a high school in East Rock, had the lowest voter turnout of any school both years, with roughly 20 percent of students voting this year.

The election is intended to mirror a real municipal election, according to Wooster Square Alder Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18, a member of the student elections committee. In order to qualify for candidacy, each of the seven high school sophomores had to collect 100 signatures: 50 from students at their own schools and 50 from students across the district.

Spell will represent the approximately 22,000 students enrolled in NHPS. Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

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“I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.”

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Astronomy dept. sets bar on sexual climate ASTRONOMY FROM PAGE 1 incidents.”

Still, despite the strides the department has made, students and professors interviewed stressed there is still work to be done.

THE GEOFF MARCY CASE

“To be a woman in physics or astronomy is to feel out of place, consciously or subconsciously,” begins the Baltimore Charter, a 1999 document written by Urry.

Then-employed by the Space Telescope Science Institute, an independent organization that operates the Hubble Space telescope for NASA, Urry had spent the last 20 years working in “supposedly enlightened ‘nondiscriminatory’ times,” but she was still just the second woman hired by the Institute.

The charter, Urry told the News, was partially inspired by the fact that although 15 to 20 percent of Ph.D.s in astronomy were awarded to women at the time, only 5 percent of the hires at the Space Telescope Science Institute were female.

“Another issue was young women felt unsafe going observing at night, alone or with a senior male colleague,” Urry said. “Maybe I didn’t understand that at the time, but it was a symptom of a larger problem.”

The ’80s and ’90s were “a completely different time,” Debra Fischer, currently a professor of astronomy at Yale, pointed out, describing the environment as one in which a female researcher could walk into an optics lab and see calendars with nude women on the wall.

“In the 1990s, [Urry] would write these articles that would be published in the American Astronomical Society newsletter, and I would read them and think, this woman should be careful about being so outspoken,” Fischer said. “I thought she would never get a job. But then she was hired by Yale, and that made a huge impression on me.

That told me it was okay to be outspoken on this issue.”

But the issue did not capture national headlines until last October, when Buzzfeed published an investigative article revealing multiple complaints of sexual harassment made against tenured Berkeley astronomy professor Geoff Marcy. The

article incorporated interviews with multiple complainants and detailed the hostile environment created by Marcy’s inappropriate behavior.

We’ve basically drummed out talent. I personally know two, probably three women, who had to change fields because their advisers were harassing them.

MEG URRY Astronomy Professor In the ’90s, as a post-doc at San Francisco State University — where she studied for her master’s degree under Marcy, who also sat on her Ph.D. committee — Fischer recalled approaching an older male colleague who had stated he was available to talk if she needed. But when Fischer explained her concerns about some inappropriate behavior, the colleague responded by suggesting Fischer switch from studying exoplanets, her and Marcy’s area of expertise, to star formations, a different field.

“There was a sense that this guy, Geoff Marcy, owned the field,” she said. “So I grew up thinking there was no way to change. It’s going to slowly evolve, and as this generation of male astronomers dies out, the next generation will be more enlightened and slowly we’ll see a change in the way sexual harassment and sexual misconduct are perceived.”

Today, Fischer is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on exoplanets and multiple-planet systems, according to Astronomy Magazine.

The Buzzfeed article quickly went viral, and Marcy — according to multiple members of the astronomy community from across the nation — resigned.

Several students and professors interviewed highlighted the significance of the Marcy case, pointing out the speed at which it transcended the relatively small astronomy community. Christina Richey, chair of

the AAS’s Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy, said the Marcy case led to a change in tone in conversations about sexual harassment, which began to occur in a larger forum.

Within a month of the story’s publication, over 2,500 academics had signed a petition pledging support to the women who were affected by Marcy’s harassment.

At Yale, the case represented a spark that would revitalize an ongoing conversation about the position of women in the Astronomy Department.

“The news from Berkeley really hit hard with a lot of the department members,” Louise Edwards, a lecturer in the Astronomy Department at Yale, said. “Right away, our chair, Pieter van Dokkum, set out a letter to the entire department stating in strong terms how unacceptable this type of behavior is, and immediately the department made plans to bring in a professional to help us talk about these issues.”

Urry similarly praised her male colleagues for their rapid response to the Marcy incident, calling it “a wake-up call” and noting that nearly every department in the country was discussing it.

Claire Dickey GRD ’20 recalled walking into the Astronomy Department’s common area the day after the Buzzfeed story was published and feeling the “somber” atmosphere.

“Suddenly, dirty laundry is getting aired in a public way, and outside of the field. That gave the story staying power,” she said.

“This hasn’t happened in our department, but it could. You always want to think it happens to someone else.”

After the story, Dickey said the Astronomy Department began having departmentwide conversations about the issue of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct at Yale.

“Maybe it had happened previously on a smaller scale, but this was a very open conversation,” Dickey said.

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In December, the Astronomy Department sat down together to answer a simple question: What is sexual harassment?

“The idea to do a seminar sprung from the feeling that

we needed to have this conversation with everybody and get everyone on to the same page,” Dickey said. “It was enabled by our chair, Pieter van Dokkum, and Debra Fischer and Meg Urry being really supportive … They all said that’s great, we’ll make it mandatory.”

Every single professor in the department attended, Fischer said, as did observers from Yale’s Title IX office.

After attending the meeting, Stephanie Spangler, University Title IX coordinator and deputy provost, said she was impressed with the initiative the department chair and senior faculty demonstrated by organizing the event, noting specifically how comfortable students and faculty were when asking questions.

Chambers, the only female junior majoring in astrophysics at Yale, said the Astronomy Department has put together several events that discuss issues of diversity, sexism and gender bias. The events arose organically from the faculty’s interest in addressing such problems, she said, adding that though there is still work to do, she is “sufficiently happy” with how the department has handled the issues thus far.

Fischer said the December meeting marked the beginning of a longer, broader conversation — one that she ultimately hopes will result in the creation of a new system of reporting sexual harassment or misconduct.

“An issue right now is if a student comes to me and reports some kind of sexual misconduct, I have to take it up the chain,” she explained. “That’s my responsibility and I’m required by law to do that. That already sets a barrier for some students who need someone to talk to but aren’t sure they want to report it. We want to establish an ombudsman program.”

Though she emphasized that there was no formal plan for the ombudsman program — an informal method of cataloguing complaints — Fischer said the department will continue holding these meetings in order to develop the idea further.

Dickey, who was present at the meeting, described the ombudsman program as one that creates institutional memory. A pattern of harassment, which can span a career, often extends beyond

one particular Ph.D. student’s stay. The hope is to have a person at each level — undergraduate, graduate, post-doc and faculty — that an individual can speak to about inappropriate behavior.

Individuals will not be required to give the details of their experiences, Dickey said, and it allows individuals to share their experiences without having to go to the department chair, the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education Center or Title IX. “Especially for grad students, Title IX and SHARE don’t feel like they’re for you,” Dickey said.

“What would you do if it was your thesis adviser? When that person has paid for you to be there and you’ll be working with for four years? That’s such an intense relationship, and it can lead to great things, but it’s easy for lines to get crossed. Nobody benefits when these things happen.”

Urry voiced a similar concern, pointing out the necessary acknowledgement of the power imbalance that is inherent to the adviser-graduate student relationship. Additionally, she said, people need to stop using the “great man” defense — excusing a man’s inappropriate or predatory actions because he brings a lot to the world of science.

“Once we see the damage to the individuals, we should see [harassment is] also very damaging to science. We’ve basically drummed out talent,” Urry said.

“I personally know two, probably three women, who had to change fields because their advisers were harassing them.”

Though the program has yet to materialize, the Astronomy Department’s efforts have not gone unnoticed.

“This fall, at one of our first monthly meetings, we will have presentations from departments that have made effective strides on climate issues. Astronomy will certainly be one of the departments that we ask to present,” Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Tamar Gendler said.

MOVING FORWARD

That December meeting played out on a much larger stage in January at the AAS conference. Given the proximity of the meeting to the Marcy scandal, Urry said, it was natural to put together a panel about harass-

ment at the conference.

Richey, who has been the chair of the Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy since August of 2015, presented the preliminary results of a survey of 426 members of the astronomy community.

Her informal results nevertheless supported what Urry has been fighting against for years: pervasive, consistent genderbased harassment in the workplace. 82 percent of respondents had overheard sexist remarks in the workplace, and 32 percent said they had been verbally harassed because of their gender.

The survey is still under review and will hopefully be published in the spring with results broken down even further, Richey said, and will include how women of color are impacted.

“One of the big things that people are requesting is assistance to those who have been harassed or assaulted. We get so stuck on the punitive measures that we start to forget about the person the damage has been done to,” Richey said. “I’d like to see more in regards to that, as well as accountability. We need to be making sure our leaders know that allyship and inclusivity is important.”

Chambers said she hoped the department will continue to emphasize diversity in new faculty hires, adding the fact that her first astronomy professor was a young black woman who had a “huge impact” on her career in astrophysics.

Students at Yale reiterated that female leadership in physics and astronomy has played an integral role in creating the openness that sets the Astronomy Department apart.

Once a semester, Dickey said, all the women in the department go out to dinner to talk, get to know one another and remind themselves that there are supportive women nearby.

“What we’re seeing now is made possible by changes that have happened at every level of academic and societal settings,” Dickey said. “We can’t underscore how important talking about this is, and talking in the open and where everyone can hear you. People have to listen, and that does a lot.”

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

Venture capital risky but profitable for endowment ENDOWMENT FROM PAGE 1 gry teams with proven ability to identify opportunities early and support talented entrepreneurs as they build early-stage businesses,” the report stated.

“The University’s vast experience in venture capital provides an unparalleled set of manager relationships, significant market knowledge and an extensive network.”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology finance professor Andrew Lo ’80 said Yale’s portfolio has had better returns than other venture capitalists.

He speculated that this is due to Yale’s extensive network of contacts, which includes alumni and seasoned portfolio managers.

But while venture capital has a reputation as a risky investment, the diversity and long-term time horizon of Yale’s endowment portfolio, combined with its access to top managers, allows the Investments Office to take on greater amounts of uncertainty.

“There are unique risks associated with taking on venture capital,” Lo said. “There’s always a concern when you’re investing in a very ‘hot market’ that you end up being part of a bubble that ends up bursting … But Yale can afford to take the risk because the endowment is so large.”

Chief Investment Officer David Swensen could not be reached for comment.

Economists and market observers have noted that investors have flooded the venture capital market recently, causing some private venture-backed startup companies to become more highly valued while remaining private rather than going on the public market. Private technology companies valued at over $1 billion, nicknamed

“unicorns” by the financial community, include both the ridesharing service Uber and the home rental business Airbnb, both of which are recent Yale investments.

“In venture capital, a lot of companies fail and a lot do well,” School of Management professor Roger Ibbotson said, adding that he does not think Yale needs to be concerned with risk because the endowment is well-diversified and would absorb any substantial losses.

As Yale increases investments in venture capital, the Investments Office has also gradually over the past five years reduced Yale’s assets in the U.S. equity market, which Lo said is a traditional investment for most institutions. Lo said Yale’s shift away from U.S. equity demonstrates that the University’s endowment managers are looking elsewhere for strong returns.

“Despite recognizing that the U.S. equity market is highly efficient, Yale elects to pursue active management strategies, aspiring to outperform the market index by a few percentage points,” the report said.

The report distinguished between Yale’s former venture capital successes in “the highflying 1990s” with companies like Amazon, Google and Yahoo!, and a second wave of promising investments in recent years in Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat and Uber.

The $2.7 million investment Yale made in LinkedIn five years ago has produced $84.4 million in gains since then.

Risk aside, where venture capital is concerned, Yale’s alumni network has helped the endowment beat the market.

This year’s report included a separate section devoted to “Entrepreneurship, Technology

and Yale,” which featured 12 Yale alumni venture capitalists and 11 Yale alumni entrepreneurs.

It included short profiles of and quotations from these alumni, including Elevation Partners Co-Founder Roger McNamee ’80, managing partner of Maverick Capital Ventures David Singer ’84 and Bing Gordon ’72, who was a longtime executive at the video game developer Electronic Arts.

Like Lo, the report stressed the impact that entrepreneurial and venture capitalist alumni have had on Yale’s investment strategies. Long-term relationships with top venture capitalists have ensured the success of Yale’s own venture capital investments, the report said.

“Entrepreneurship has been a cornerstone of my American dream,” McNamee wrote in the report. “My first startup began at Yale and paid for my undergraduate and graduate degrees.”

The report credited campus organizations like the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute for fostering interest in venture capital among students. YEI offers three programs devoted to venture capital: the Venture Creation Program, the YEI Fellowship and the YEI Innovation Fund.

According to Ibbotson, Yale has encouraged students — especially those at the SOM, where Ibbotson teaches — to enter venture capital. Ibbotson said he did not know whether Yale encouraged students to become venture capitalists to allow the Investments Office to make future connections in the market.

Yalies play a significant part of the venture capital community, said Erika Smith, who is in charge of graduate and faculty programs and investments at YEI. Smith

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said the endowment’s success has been strengthened by Yale’s ability to connect with aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs.

YEI regularly hosts alumni venture capitalists to speak on campus, Smith said. These have included Gordon, who was featured in the 2015 endowment report.

Alumni noted how their Yale educations helped them on the road to joining the ranks of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists that make up Yale’s alumni network.

“The core skills that allowed

me to launch many Internet companies over the past 20 years were learned and nurtured at Yale,” Internet entrepreneur Kevin Ryan ’85 wrote. “I am glad Yale is even more focused than ever on developing entrepreneurial instincts.”

Ellen Su ’13, co-founder of the health technology company Wellinks, said YEI was integral in getting her startup off the ground while she was an undergraduate at Yale. She also noted that Yale’s alumni network, particularly in the startup and venture capital industries, facili-

tated her startup’s success.

“Yale has really helped us out getting started and helped us explore ideas,” Su said. “One of the mentors we had invested in our company.”

In fall 2015 the University announced an endowment return of 11.5 percent for fiscal year 2015, which falls well above the national average of 2.4 percent, according to the Commonfund Institute, an institutional investment firm.

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

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“Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.” MARTHA GRAHAM DANCER

Yalies dance for kids

NHPS introduces restorative justice

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER Joe Brummer, a mediator and consultant, spoke about integrating restorative justice practices into New Haven Public Schools at Thursday’s New Haven Families Connect meeting.

Brummer, addressing a crowd of 40 NHPS parents, school officials and community members at Hillhouse High School, defined restorative practices — a philosophy that revolves around communication and teaching students how to respond to and learn from misbehavior — and discussed how NHPS can most effectively implement them districtwide.

“Restorative dialogue and restorative practices aren’t responding to behavior, but used to actually create environments in school where those misbehaviors don’t exist,” Brummer said in an interview with the News.

“When implemented well, they reduce suspensions and referrals and can be a way of creating better school climates.”

Brummer said one restorative practice involves using the circle process, which brings together the victim and perpetrator of an action, within the classroom context. He said restorative justice practices teach stu-

dents how to react appropriately to each other and aim at community development in schools.

Jennifer Ricker and JoAnne Wilcox, members of the steering committee of New Haven Families Connect — a coalition of NHPS parents who are dedicated to providing feedback to the district — helped organize the event.

After a complimentary dinner and Brummer’s speech, NHPS Project Director Cameo Thorne addressed the way in which restorative practices are being implemented on the ground at schools around the district.

Brummer said he has been working with school officials at West Rock’s Brennan-Rogers Magnet School and New Haven Academy to implement restorative strategies.

Nijija-Ife Waters, another steering committee member and meeting attendee, said the meeting’s good turnout indicated the level of enthusiasm surrounding the introduction of restorative practices in NHPS. Waters said her kindergartener attends a local magnet school within NHPS while her older son attends St. Martin de Porres Academy, a private faith-based school that uses restorative justice practices.

She noted that she thinks students at St. Martin de

Porres experience fewer daily behavioral issues thanks to students’ increased awareness of appropriate behavior and response to conflict, encouraged by the school’s use of restorative techniques.

Wa te rs also highlighted the increased level of accountability to which restorative practices hold students.

“I think implementing restorative practices will solve a lot of the problems inside the system,” Waters said. “You don’t want to ask the child, ‘What did you do?’ because they already know — it’s now about saying who did you affect by doing what you did and how can you not do that again?”

Wa te rs s t re sse d t h e importance of restorative practices in urban environments, where suburban teachers or classmates may not understand some of the unique struggles inner-city students face.

Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 also addressed the parents Thursday, ending the event with a question and answer session.

Former Superintendent Reginald Mayo founded the Citywide Parent Team — now called New Haven Families Connect — in 2009.

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Yale students took over BAR’s dance floor Sunday night for a fundraiser.

BY RACHEL TREISMAN STAFF REPORTER

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

Early Sunday night, the dance floor at BAR attracted a different crowd than usual.

In addition to pizza eaters and billiards players, the restaurant hosted Yale students, who took over the dance floor to raise money for adolescent and young adult care programs at Smilow Cancer Hospital at YaleNew Haven. Yale For the Kids, an entirely freshmen-run student organization founded this year, coordinated the dance marathon as a fundraiser for a new Teen Center and program director, which would provide additional psychosocial support for the hospital’s adolescent cancer patients. Psychosocial support includes mental health counseling, group support and education.

“It’s really hard to imagine transitioning into adulthood while also going through cancer treatment,” Yale For the Kids member Kristy Kim ’19 said.

“It’s a psychological burden on the family and of course on the patient, so we’re raising funds to help with those services.”

The idea for the event stemmed from popular dance marathons at other schools, such as the charity dance marathons at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Pennsylvania State University, said Bennett Byerley ’19, who spearheaded the project. The Yale For the Kids team, all members of Freshman Class Council, originally wanted to organize the dance through the Council but ultimately decided to take ownership in order to stay involved in future years.

While BAR donated use of the venue, registration fees for the dance marathon helped cover the cost of the pizza and postage for a letter campaign scheduled to follow the marathon, Byerley said. He added that attendees were asked to provide addresses for family and friends who will be contacted through the letter campaign. Byerley said the campaign will hopefully raise additional funds through mailed checks.

“College students will only get you so far, but college students have family and friends who are willing to support them for a good cause,” Byerley said.

“We’re going to send out individualized letters to everyone we get addresses for, and hopefully we can develop a relationship with the donors this year.”

Event organizers emphasized that they did not expect to raise a tremendous amount of money in their first year, but wanted to start small and learn from the experience in order to grow over the years. Kim said the team set no monetary goal, but rather focused on raising awareness about Yale For The Kids to create a “snowball effect” that will hopefully popularize the organization for future events.

While the turnout was modest, Yale For The Kids member Jason Hu ’19 said that even if only two students had showed up to dance, it still would have been a contribution and a valuable learning experience. He added that the importance of the cause was an effective motivator in planning the event.

“We’re starting really small this year, just looking to learn more about how to work through this process and how we can best grow and develop,” Byerley said.

“The impact we’re really looking for is to contribute over the course of these four years to funding a program director who would be in charge of making sure that young adults get the psychological and social support they need as they’re going through cancer treatment.”

Kathi Croce, a psychologist who works on the Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital and who attended the event, said the hospital was especially grateful for the marathon and fundraising because the Adolescent Young Adult Oncology Program is multifaceted and important. The Adolescent Young Adult Oncology Program provides physical and psychological care for teen and young adult patients, but the program is looking to expand its psychosocial services. Croce added that

funds can help decorate and support the space, fund the programs themselves and pay the salaries of psychosocial workers.

Also at the event was Doug Berv, a New Haven psychologist whose 22-year-old daughter is a cancer patient in Smilow’s pediatric oncology unit. He said that while cancer is “devastating” at any age, it is especially difficult for the young adult population.

He added that his daughter has found the hospital’s psychological support system very helpful.

“The medical care is critical, but the emotional experience is an incredible struggle as well,” Croce said. “We need to do what we can to help people survive that, not only physically but psychologically, to help them adjust and be courageous and support survivorship. Resilience is critical to get to the other side.”

A teen program would benefit not only patients, but their families, caregivers and friends as well, Croce said. She added that research shows psychosocial support is critical for surviving cancer and for successfully readjusting to life as a survivor.

Attendees — mostly Yale freshmen — said they found out about the dance marathon through friends on Yale For the Kids and other publicity efforts, adding that they were happy to contribute to the cause. Camille Kima ’19 praised the event for its “great pizza and great music.”

Yale For the Kids hopes to hold similar events in the future and incorporate community service into student government by having Yale College Council sponsor future marathons, Byerley said.

Hu said next week the organization will sell tickets for Toad’s on Wednesday and plans on reaching out to incoming freshman to expand in the fall.

“We’re trying to figure out how to gain support and get students to be passionate about it, because that’s what makes this happen,” Byerley said. “We’re laying the groundwork this year for something bigger and better next year and in years to come.”

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.” JONATHAN SWIFT SATIRIST

Naming decisions to come “soon” DECISIONS FROM PAGE 1 and the title of residential college master will be changed.

Throughout the academic term, the Corporation has sought to resolve these three issues, which received increased attention during campus protests in the fall, when student activists called for the two new colleges to be named after people of color, for Calhoun to be renamed and for the title of master to be eliminated.

Salovey said before this weekend’s meeting that he expected the decisions to be reached by the end of the academic year.

Rather than continue deliberations at the Corporation’s next meeting around the time of University Commencement in May, Vice President for Communications Eileen O’Connor said Salovey will instead announce the decisions in the coming weeks.

“We had a robust discussion at the Corporation meeting, and we will be announcing decisions soon,” Salovey said. “By ‘soon,’ I can say it is my intention to make these announcements while students are on campus this semester, and not during exams.”

Corporation Fellow Donna Dubinsky ’77 told the News in February that she wanted all three issues to be announced at once, and O’Connor confirmed that this will be the case.

O’Connor also said while the University is finalizing details, there is no need for Corporation involvement before the announcement is made. The body will not meet again until commencement.

As the Corporation gathered this weekend, Yale’s peer institutions had recently resolved their own naming issues. Harvard and Princeton eliminated the title of master in the fall. Harvard announced last month that it would replace its law school shield — which featured the crest of an 18th century slaveholding family — and

Princeton announced that it would not remove the name of former president Woodrow Wilson from campus schools and buildings.

Still, despite Harvard and Princeton’s movement, Salovey said external factors did not come into play during this weekend’s meeting.

“The actions of our peer institutions have no effect on our timetable and no effect on our decisions,” O’Connor said.

“This is a decision for Yale and Yale alone.”

We will be announcing decisions soon. By soon, I can say it is my intention to make these announcements while students are on campus this semester, and not during exams.

PETER SALOVEY President, Yale University Thirty-eight of 40 students recently surveyed by the News said the University should be moving more quickly to resolve these decisions, and five students interviewed Sunday evening said they are eager to know what they are.

Emily Everlith ’19 said she, like many students, is looking forward to learning what the University has decided.

“I am glad they are reaching conclusions because I know a lot of people have been upset and captivated by these issues for quite a long time,” Everlith said.

The Corporation is composed of 17 members, including Salovey.

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

Salovey asserts power SALOVEY FROM PAGE 1 “It is my job as president to recommend to the board what I feel is best for students, faculty, staff, alumni and the institution on every issue. This one is no exception,” Salovey said Sunday afternoon.

O’Connor said that as president, Salovey consistently gives recommendations to the Corporation and that these three decisions are “no different.”

University presidents have historically presented recommendations to the Corporation with the expectation that they will be followed. Typical issues settled by presidential recommendation include the construction of new buildings and the raising of the Yale College term bill. In saying that the decision-making model for these naming issues is “no different” and “no exception,” O’Connor and Salovey seem to be suggesting that the president will, in fact, determine the outcome of these three decisions, too.

Yet in more than half a dozen wide-ranging interviews with the News over the past four months, Salovey has said the opposite.

“These are ultimately Corporation decisions,” Salovey said in February. “Rather than the usual process of coming with a specific recommendation and asking the Corporation to endorse it, in the case of the naming of the new colleges, Calhoun College and the title of master, we’ll instead lay out options for them to consider.”

For example, Salovey said in February that he submitted nearly two dozen names for the new colleges for the Corporation to consider. Last semester, Salovey said that while he could express an opinion in his capacity as president, he still saw himself as just another member of the Corporation for these decisions, and he saw his opinion as just one of many.

Both Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill and Vice President and Sec-

retary Kimberly Goff-Crews have previously told the News that Woodbridge Hall would provide the Corporation with background information on the three issues, not recommendations.

When asked on Sunday about the apparent shift in his approach, Salovey suggested that he has aimed for a middle ground between overriding presidential recommendations and consensusbased decision-making. While he continued to emphasize the importance of collaboration, he also described how his opinions have helped move Corporation conversations forward.

“This discussion has been characterized by everyone on the Corporation having an opportunity to weigh in,” Salovey said. “At various points, I weighed in with my opinions, shaped in the form of recommendations. At one point, I recommended focusing on a shorter list of names and provided that short list.

And somewhat more recently, I provided specific recommendations as a guide. I would still describe the conversation, however, as inclusive and thorough.”

The University’s plan for announcing the decisions seems also to have changed.

O’Connor told the News on Sunday that Salovey will make the announcement in the next few weeks, and the Corporation will have no further involvement until then.

But just two weeks ago, Corporation Fellow Charles Goodyear IV ’80 said he expected the three decisions to be presented as Corporation decisions, perhaps in an email from one of its members.

“At the end of the day, my expectation is the Corporation will say we have decided to do the following, whatever it is,” Goodyear said. “This is [our] decision to make, and [we] will take ownership of it. My guess is that everyone will communicate that as we normally do: If the Corporation owns the decision, the Corporation

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The University will publicly resolve its three naming debates before finals period. owns the decision.”

Five students interviewed Sunday evening expressed hope that Salovey had taken the lead in resolving the issues, explaining that they do not know the motivations or views of Corporation members.

Ryan Campbell ’16 said he would rather Salovey hold power than the “faceless Corporation.”

“Salovey is the best liaison,” Campbell said. “I would rather have him decide than the entire Corporation.”

Stephanie Siow ’17 also said she would be more comfortable with Salovey making decisions because he is a

familiar administrative figure and more in touch with students.

Meanwhile, as Salovey and the Corporation have attempted to reach a consensus, Yale’s peer institutions have resolved their own naming debates. With broad agreement that a consensus-based approach was prolonging the decision process — and as students almost unanimously expressed impatience with Yale’s relatively slow pace — a heavier hand from Salovey was perhaps what was required.

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

Tax will not create jobs, Yale argues PROPERTY TAX FROM PAGE 1 hearing before the finance committee. While S.B. 414’s supporters say the bill seeks only to clarify which of Yale’s properties are commercial as opposed to academic and tax-exempt, the University has alleged that the bill would indeed tax academic property. In fighting the bill, the University has repeatedly cited its contributions to New Haven — many of which are voluntary — and stressed its tax-exempt status under state law.

“In Yale’s view, this bill misses the point,” Jacob wrote in the message. “Connecticut needs to grow its economy, and the partnership between New Haven and Yale shows that investing in education, neighborhoods and research creates jobs. Taxing Yale won’t create jobs.”

Jacob wrote that the University, in conjunction with groups such as the American Council on Education and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, has recognized bills such as S.B. 414 as threats to independent higher education and to “Connecticut’s ability to attract partners for economic growth.”

As defined by the bill, commercial activities include any of the following occurring on University property: rents or other payments; fees collected for admission or use of any sports or entertainment facility; fees, charges or royalties for any goods designed, produced, manufactured; and fees or charges for any services rendered to the public or any for-profit entities.

Jacob told the News that S.B. 414’s proponents have cited the University’s Center for Genome Analysis and mentioned laboratories of faculty who are involved in launching start up companies as potential sources of tax revenue.

According to the state’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis, the bill targets only Connecticut

universities with real estate valued at $2 billion or more, effectively singling out Yale.

If the bill is passed, Connecticut would become the first state to tax the academic property of a nonprofit university, Jacob wrote.

Connecticut needs to grow its economy, and the partnership between New Haven and Yale shows that investing in education, neighborhoods and research jobs. Taxing Yale won’t create jobs.

RICHARD JACOB Associate Vice President for State and Federal Relations, Yale University Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison, who has backed the bill alongside the rest of the Board of Alders and Mayor Toni Harp, said the bill has been mistakenly perceived as an attack on the University. She and other supporters have stressed that the bill is not a new tax, but merely a clarification of current state law, which allows municipalities to tax commercial college and university property generating $6,000 or more income annually.

Before the finance committee voted on the bill April 7, Rep. Roland Lemar, D-New Haven, one of the bill’s most vocal supporters, said the bill would “absolutely” not tax Yale’s academic properties.

In preliminary notes released April 7, the OFA reported that if not for its tax-exempt status, the University would have paid $65.2 million in taxes to 12 municipalities in 2013, with New Haven receiving $62.8 million of that revenue. But the OFA was

unable to determine how much of that $62.8 million would be from properties affected by the bill in 2013. Likewise, Jacob told the News that the University has not calculated the incremental property tax burden the bill would impose.

As of fiscal year 2015, the University had 171 taxable properties, paying $5.8 million in property taxes that year, according to the University Controller’s Office.

Since 2008, when Yale paid a record $6.6 million on 193 properties, the University’s number of taxable properties has fluctuated between 166 and 193.

In his message, Jacob acknowledged that the bill would not touch how Yale pays taxes on commercial properties, such as the Shops at Yale on Broadway.

Currently, the University pays $4.5 million annually on these properties.

Jacob told the News Sunday that the University continues to reach out to legislators and other interested parties. The University does not anticipate that the bill will pass, he said.

“Furthermore, the scope of Yale’s right of nontaxation has been upheld by the courts in five cases, including two Connecticut Supreme Court cases,” Jacob told the News. “Should S.B. 414 be enacted, we expect that the courts will uphold it for a sixth time.”

Other private institutions publicly against S.B. 414 include Connecticut’s Fairfield University and Trinity College.

In public testimony March 22, Yale graduate and undergraduate students alike testified in favor of the bill, alongside members of national labor union UNITE HERE and BoA members Fair Haven Alder Santiago BarriosBones and Beaver Hills Alder Evette Hamilton.

Yale’s charter was established in 1701.

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

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SOM holds 12th annual health conference

BY MAYA CHANDRA STAFF REPORTER The 12th Annual Yale Health Care Conference took place Saturday at the Yale School of Management, attracting several hundred attendees from multiple sectors of health care.

Each year, health care professionals, students and alumni have the opportunity to spend a day listening to speakers, attending panel discussions on health care issues and engaging with entrepreneurs and experts in the field. The theme of the 2016 Conference was “Creating Value and Sustaining Gains: The Next Decade in Health Care.” The theme remained a common thread as speakers and attendees alike discussed the need for changes in the field — which is often considered resistant to change — as technological capacity and globalization increase.

“This is our time to define how health care is going to be provided in the 21st century,” said Toby Cosgrove, keynote speaker and CEO of the Cleveland Clinic. “To not participate in that would be to miss a huge opportunity.”

The conference itself is almost entirely student-run, said Amy Woodrum SOM ’17 SPH’17, a member of the planning committee. The conference functions as both a valuable learning experience and an important networking event for students and professionals alike, conference volunteer Susan Choy SPH ’17 said.

The Executive Panel discussion focused on the work of three health care entrepreneurs. Each speaker presented creative solutions they had conceived to combat issues plaguing the health care system in America, including the costly effects of unnecessary Emergency Room visits, difficulties consumers face in finding the most effective and cheap-

est prescription medications and the barriers individuals with behavioral health problems or depression encounter in accessing treatment. The speakers emphasized the challenge of reforming the industry from within.

Pramod John, a speaker on the panel and founder of Oration, a prescription management application, pointed out that while technological solutions could save consumers massive amounts of time and money, not all professionals in the health care industry are in favor of overhauling the current systems.

“There’s this incorrect notion that the health care industry wants to fix itself,” John said. “What people need to understand is that one man’s inefficiency is another man’s profit.”

In addition to the Executive Panel and the keynote speakers, there were two hourlong time slots for 16 different breakout discussions. These smaller sessions, which attracted crowds of around 20 to 30 people, allowed audience members to chime in and discuss their views on topics ranging from hacking in health care to the evolution of drug pricing.

Cliff Cavanaugh and Martin Aboitiz, the CTO and CEO of HealthJump, a medical record consolidation and exchange service, led a discussion on using big data mining and analysis in order to improve personalized medicine. Aboitiz praised the panel format and the opportunities it provided to interact with the audience and network with students and professionals. In particular, there were many students interested in talking about where the industry is headed in the coming years, and what the new business models are, Cavanaugh said.

While technology and “telehealth” — the use of digi-

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Attendees discuss telehealth in big data at health care conference. tal communication to interact with physicians and medical experts — were major themes of the discussion, not all attendees agreed with the positive light in which many of the new improvements to the field were portrayed.

“Conferences like this emphasize the heavy technology, late intervention, high profitability approach, while I would like to bring health care more to its roots,” Ali Moravej SPH ’17 said. “Yale likes to engage a lot of stakeholders, but not all of these partnerships are going to be aligned with patient needs.”

In the nine months preceding the conference, the planning committee and volunteers picked the topics, contacted speakers from both academia

and industry and worked through the logistics, Choy said.

With the 2016 conference wrapped up, next year’s planning committee, co-chaired by Woodrum and Lisa Carley SOM ‘17, commences discussions in a few months.

“The conference has done a really good job historically of keeping up with what is a very dynamic industry, and in the span of 12 months there’s going to be a lot that changes,” Carley said. “So our challenge looking to next year is, ‘How do we continue to monitor and understand what’s going on in this industry, so that next years conference reflects it?’”

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

Over the weekend, popular Yale performance groups A Different Drum and The Sphincter Troupe each held STEM-themed senior shows.

A Different Drum, a Yale dance company founded in 1996, held three performances of their show “Patent Pending” on Thursday and Friday at the ECA Arts Hall.

Meanwhile, one night later and several blocks away, The Sphincter Troupe, an all-female sketch comedy group, performed in Davies Auditorium to a crowd of approximately 250 people.

The show, entitled “Women in STEM,” featured jokes about everything from fitness cults to the upcoming election. Neither group’s performance was primarily about STEM, despite the titles.

But group members interviewed commented on the interesting interplay between STEM and the performing arts that has emerged in recent years.

“There’s a lot of crossover between dancers and people who are mathematically minded because there is a lot of dancing that is really formulaic,” ADD artistic director Holly Taylor ’17 said.

There is a misconception that most dancers would be humanities majors because of the “left brain, right brain” dynamic, but many members of the group are STEM majors, Taylor said.

ADD’s performance included 16 dances, many of which were choreographed by the members themselves. The group primarily performs modern contemporary dance, Taylor said. In between the dancing were comedic interludes the group put together during tech week that relate to the theme of the show. This year’s theme was “Great Discoveries,” which included everything from the discovery of gravitational waves to the invention of leggings. The most important discovery the group highlighted, however, was their own founding in 1996.

“We wanted a theme that would tie in the fact that we were celebrating our 20th anniversary, so the ‘Great Discoveries’ theme stemmed from the ‘discovery’ of

our group,” Taylor said.

The interludes alternated between nonsensical, educational and satirical. One notable skit recounted the story of Rosalind Franklin, the female scientist who did not receive the Nobel Prize along with her colleagues James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. The skit drew both cheers and laughs from the audience. The group is currently allfemale, though there have been male members in the past. Taylor attributes the gender ratio to the culture of dance at a college level, where dancers do tend to be predominantly female.

On Saturday, The Sphincter Troupe’s STEM-themed performance was punctuated by raucous laughter at the group’s impressions, and snapping at their social commentary on race, gender and sexuality.

The location of the show, Davies Auditorium, a hall traditionally used for large STEM lectures and presentations, was no accident, group member Yuni Chang ’18 said. But aside from the location, and a humorous but lewd redefinition of the STEM acronym, the scope of the show did not focus too heavily on STEM. The origins of the group are, as Sphincter troupe member Anna Piwowar ’18 says, “very mysterious.” Piwowar estimates that the group originally formed some time in the ’80s, and has recently increased in popularity. The group labels their brand of humor as unapologetic. Much of their sketch routine revolved around making biting critiques of Yale as an institution and society at large.

“What sets us apart from the other comedy groups at Yale is that we seek to have a little bit more insight into the culture of Yale and current events, and to increase discourse about serious things at the same time,” Piwowar said.

After her work on DNA, Rosalind Franklin led pioneering work on the polio and tobacco mosaic viruses.

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BY CLAIRE PARKER Harvard police are investigating allegations that an audio recording device illegally documented sensitive conversations Harvard Law School activists held in a hall they are occupying.

Several students with the activist group Reclaim Harvard Law School said they found a recording device on Tuesday that was taped under a table in the Caspersen Student Center Lounge and contained recordings of their conversations and events since last Saturday. According to a press release Reclaim Harvard Law published Friday, the recorder captured discussion that included personal conversations between students, a sexual assault bystander training at which victims recounted their assaults and Boston-area residents sharing stories of eviction from their homes.

“It was just really scary,” second-year law student and Reclaim Harvard Law member Simratpal Kaur said. “We were really surprised that anyone who maybe disagreed with our movement would go to this length.”

Students in Reclaim Harvard Law have been occupying the Caspersen Student Center Lounge — which they term “Belinda Hall” — since February in order to create the space they say has been denied to minority students at the school.

The students said they waited several days to report their discovery to the school so they could seek legal counsel and ensure that the people recorded on the device would be protected. They came forward with their finding in the press release Friday, and once notified, Harvard Law School spokes-

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“Our mission as an institution of higher learning depends on protecting and promoting the free exchange of ideas in an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect. We deeply prize those values,” London said. “The law school administration is troubled by an allegation that anyone in our community would attempt to surreptitiously record anyone else’s conversation.”

Massachusetts state law states that all parties must consent

to being recorded, and prohibits secretly recording communications. Violators of the law can face up to $10,000 in fines and five years in prison.

HUPD sent one officer to investigate Friday afternoon, but students declined to provide HUPD with evidence, HUPD spokesperson Steven Catalano wrote in a statement.

While the school placed surveillance cameras in the adjacent Wasserstein Hall after a racially charged incident of vandalism in November, it did not install cameras in the student lounge.

The incident comes as activists are embroiled in an intense debate about free speech at the law school. Kaur said the discovery of the recording device has had a “chilling effect” on Reclaim Har-

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“Students are shocked that this would happen, especially since Reclaim has been in this space for months and is super open,” Kaur said. “This almost seems like an intimidation tactic or a threat to say ‘This space was never really yours.’”

Kaur said activists are worried that the incident will create an environment of mistrust in the space. “We’re really going to push back against that, because that’s not the spirit of our movement,” she said.

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rom Science Hill to Crown Street, and from Blue State to Rose Walk, students spend their days traversing Yale’s campus and New Haven at large. Though hoverboards have been banned from campus, transportation has otherwise gone unhindered, with students using bikes, buses, scooters, their feet and other creative methods of transport to explore Yale’s 343 acres. KEVIN BENDESKY reports.

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ALEX LYON ’17 FIRST-TEAM ALL-AMERICAN The junior goaltender, who recently signed an NHL contract with the Philadelphia Flyers, was named to the AllAmerican First Team from the East on Friday. Defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 was named to the Second Team, giving Yale two of the 12 All-American spots.

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MONDAY “[My teammates] were in the stands cheering their wildest. It really motivates you and brings your spirits up when you compete.”

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QUINNIPIAC MEN’S HOCKEY BOBCATS LOSE IN NATIONAL FINAL For at least another year, Yale fans will be able to hang the Bulldogs’ 2013 NCAA championship over Quinnipiac fans’ heads. On Saturday night the Bobcats, who have never won a national title, fell 5–1 to North Dakota in the championship, three years after losing 4–0 to Yale.

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Walk-off wins cap perfect weekend BASEBALL

Bulldogs upset Columbia in weekend split

BY MATTHEW STOCK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Hovering at a 0.500 conference record to start its season for a third consecutive year, the Yale women’s tennis team earned a statement victory over No. 33 Columbia on Saturday before coming down to earth against No. 71 Cornell the following day.

WOMEN’S TENNIS The Bulldogs (8–10, 2–2 Ivy) relied on the steady leadership of their upper-

classmen throughout the weekend, as four of the five Eli upperclassmen in the lineup earned crucial wins against the Ivy League-leading Lions (14–5, 4–1 Ivy) in the 4–3 upset victory. Against Cornell (14–7, 3–2 Ivy) on Sunday, Yale again won the doubles point on the shoulders of three upperclassmen before ultimately falling to the Big Red 5–2 in Ithaca, New York.

“From our first match to now, we’ve established our team culture and have shown that hard work does pay off in SEE W. TENNIS PAGE B3

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Right fielder Nate Adams ’16 had hits in all four games while scoring five runs.

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER Yale Field played host to not one, but two walk-off, extra-inning victories on Sunday to complete the Yale baseball team’s perfect Ivy League weekend against Princeton and Cornell in dramatic fashion.

Behind strong individual pitching performances, the Bulldogs (11–18– 1, 6–2 Ivy) defeated Princeton (13–12, 6–2) by scores of 6–3 and 6–1 before capping off the weekend with two incredible 4–2 and 9–8 extra inning

triumphs over Cornell (8–13, 2–4).

The Bulldogs’ four wins allowed them to retain first place in the conference’s Red Rolfe Division while matching their 2016 Ivy win total of six with 12 games remaining in the season.

“This weekend was huge for us as we work into our half of Ivy play,” right fielder Nate Adams ’17 said. “Not only does it give us a little cushion but getting the sweep with two exciting walk-off wins today gives us a lot of momentum as we take on Harvard next weekend.

Our team is fired up and hungry.”

Head coach John Stuper sent his most

Bulldogs post 10-goal victory at Dartmouth

BY MATTHEW MISTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After coming off a 16-goal victory, the team’s largest in five seasons, the No. 1/3 Yale men’s lacrosse team delivered another knockout punch on Saturday, defeating Ivy League foe Dartmouth 15–5 after outshooting the Big Green 48–27.

MEN’S LACROSSE Yale (10–0, 4–0 Ivy) struggled at times in the game’s beginning, allowing the underdog Dartmouth (1–9, 0–4) to stay within three goals by the end of the first half. But a dominant third quarter, in which the Bulldogs scored nine goals

while conceding none, put the game out of reach and allowed Yale to avoid a severe upset. The win marked Yale’s seventh straight over Dartmouth and the Big Green’s 16th Ivy League loss in its last 17 tries.

“The first quarter was a bit sloppy at times and their goalie made some big saves, but [head] coach [Andy] Shay stressed that we need to keep doing what we do and we would be fine,” midfielder Mike Bonacci ’16 said. “That’s what we did, and we are happy to come out with a win.”

Although Yale outshot the Big Green 14–4 in the first quarter, Dartmouth’s goalie Joe Balaban made eight saves in SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE B3

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A nine-goal third quarter propelled Yale to its 10th straight win.

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promising young arm to the mound for Friday’s first contest against Princeton, and right-hander Scott Politz ’19 delivered to start the Bulldogs off on a strong note. Politz continued to make a name for himself in the Ivy League with a seven-inning complete-game outing in which he allowed just three runs on four hits while striking out three.

Politz pitched well enough to keep the game tied 2–2 heading into the bottom of the fifth inning, which turned out to be the frame that decided the contest.

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COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

Carol Finke ’18, left, and Ree Ree Li ’16 helped secure Yale the doubles point versus Columbia; Li also won the decisive singles match.

Yale crews triumph across board

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Continuing what appears to be a season poised for success across all three Yale crews, each team did its part and emerged victorious this past weekend.

CREW At home on the Housatonic River, the No. 5 women’s and No. 1 heavyweight crews alternated races, with the former earning lopsided victories over Dartmouth and Boston University and the latter cementing its place as the top team in the country with wins over No. 11 Dartmouth. Two hours north in Cambridge, the No. 3 lightweight team rowed to four straightforward victories against MIT and Georgetown.

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The women’s team raced Dartmouth and Boston University on home waters for the Yale Class of 1985 Cup. The Bulldogs swept all races, save for the second varsity four, which was disqualified due to a lane violation.

“I think our races on Saturday really showed how the team can work together as a single unit, even in separate boats,” captain Colleen Maher ’16 said. “We get a lot of energy from watching our teammates race down the course … [and] we are getting better at not being nervous, at enjoying what we do.”

After winning by an average of 15.2 seconds last weekend, Yale’s remaining four boats rowed to even bigger victories against the Big Green and Terriers, posting times that averaged 22.6 seconds better than their nearest

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All three Yale crews will take to enemy waters this weekend. competitors. All of the four races finished with the same standings, with Yale in first, Dartmouth in second and Boston University in third.

The varsity eight easily earned Yale the Class of 1985 Cup for the fourth year in a row, pulling away early and ultimately amassing an 18.7-second win over Dartmouth. Yale’s varsity four continued its unbeaten streak with a 17.3-second win.

The Eli women will next travel to Princeton to race the Tigers and USC for the Eisenberg Cup.

TOP DOGS BITE BIG GREEN

Against Dartmouth, the heavyweight Bulldogs defended their top national ranking for the second week in a row. All four varsity boats tri-

umphed against the Big Green.

“The 1V had a really good start again and executed our race plan, and we ended up winning by like 10 seconds,” captain Hubert Trzybinski ’16 said. “We still have a lot to work on, but there weren’t any changes in the first and second boats, which stayed the same.”

The first varsity boat easily retained the Olympic Axe, finishing approximately two lengths in front of Dartmouth. The second varsity boat rebounded from a second-place finish last weekend in San Diego and returned to winning ways with a time of 5:49.2, 5.1 seconds better than the Big Green.

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THE MARGIN OF DEFEAT IN THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE QUINNIPIAC MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM IN ITS TWO TITLE GAME APPEARANCES. The Bobcats lost to Yale 4–0 in 2013, and on Saturday night, Quinnipiac lost 5–1 to North Dakota despite being the overall No. 1 seed.

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M. TENNIS FROM PAGE B4 No. 35 nationally ranked doubles partners Mike Vermeer and Michal Rolski by a score of 6–3.

However, the bottom of the lineup prevailed for the Lions. Nationally ranked No. 21 Shawn Hadavi and Richard Pham defeated Martin Svenning ’16 and Photos Photiades ’17 by a 6–4 margin in the No. 2 match, after which the Bulldogs lost 6–0 in the third and final match to drop the doubles point.

Moving to singles play, it was Andrienko and Doehler again who carried the Yale team. The two sophomores took care of business on the No. 2 and No. 5 courts, respectively, with Andrienko winning 6–3, 6–1 and Doehler winning 6–1, 4–6, (10–6). “[Andrienko] and [Doehler] have been doing great — definitely the two bright spots on the team so far,” captain Jason Brown ’16 said. “Ziqi [Wang ’18] has also played extremely well, competing at a really high level and taking on the responsibility of being the best player on the team.”

Elsewhere, Bulldogs were not able to continue their winning ways, dropping straight-set losses in the remaining matches.

Only Hagermoser managed to win even six games between his two sets, with three of Columbia’s four singles wins including a perfect 6–0 set. With a victory against Brown on Sunday, the Lions now boast an undefeated conference record through five games for the third consecutive season, with their bid for a thirdstraight undefeated Ivy season still intact.

Little changed on Sunday for Yale, as similar storylines persisted for the Bulldogs against the Big Red. After losing the doubles point despite strong showings by Andrienko, Doehler, Hagermoser and Brown, the Bulldogs fell in four of the six singles matches.

With the exception of Wang, who lost a tight 7–5, 7–5 contest in the No. 1 singles match, every other Bulldog forced a decisive third set in their respective losses.

Three-set wins by Andrienko and Doehler in the No. 2 and No. 5

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The Bulldogs have three conference contests remaining to turn around their 0–4 Ivy start.

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pairings marked the extent of the Bulldogs successes against Cornell, as the Bulldogs’ third consecutive ranked opponent sealed the deal at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center.

Yale will try to put its fivegame skid in the rearview mirror as it prepares for some potentially easier competition this weekend, with what the team believes to be two opportunities to make its mark in the league win column.

“At this point, late in the Ivy season, our foremost goal is to win matches — and in particular next week’s upcoming match against Harvard,” Wang said. “All of us, and especially the sophomores, have faced and beaten tough competition this season. If we can all perform to our fullest potential in the next two weeks, I’m confident that the results will follow.”

Yale will embark on a onegame road trip Friday to take on No. 50 Harvard before playing host to fellow cellar-dweller Brown at home on Sunday.

Contact MATTHEW STOCK at matthew.stock@yale.edu .

Yale competed as a team at nationals for the second consecutive season.

GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE B4 9.850, nabbing the top qualifying spot for individual finals and tying Yale’s second-place all-time score. On Sunday, she one-upped herself with a 9.875 to inscribe her name atop the record books. Sooksengdao also qualified for individual finals on the apparatus with a 9.800, which was her season-high and ranked her fifth. Like Wang, Sooksengdao improved on Sunday, recording a 9.825 to finish in fourth. By virtue of their finishes, both women earned AllAmerican First Team honors.

“It honestly hasn’t hit me yet that I won beam,” Wang said less than an hour after the final scores were announced.

“It was an overall great meet.

Both [Sooksengdao] and I hit our beam routines to the best of our ability, and it was so great … The support from the team is really helpful. Even though our team couldn’t be on the gymnastics floor [Sun-

day], they were in the stands cheering their wildest. It really motivates you and brings your spirits up when you compete.”

Yale’s bars lineup took a hit when illness kept Roxanne Trachtenberg ’19 — who has competed on beam, vault and bars throughout the season — from participating. This meant every routine on bars contributed to the final score, rather than the best five of six, including falls from Tatiana Winkelman ’17 that forced Yale to count an 8.375 in its overall 47.400 score. However, both Wang and Allison Bushman ’18 tied their career high on the apparatus with a 9.850 and 9.800, respectively.

The 9.850 was the secondbest individual score on Friday, enabling Wang to move on to the final day of competition in a second event. On Sunday, Wang posted a 9.800 to drop to fourth in the country on bars.

The Elis also competed in floor and vault, starting on

Narrow losses remain common theme SOFTBALL FROM PAGE B4 Yale pitcher Terra Jerpbak ’19, to drive home the game-winning run.

Yale catcher Camille Weisenbach ’17 had the strongest offensive performance for the Elis in the two-game set: She went 4–7 with three RBI and a run scored. Terra Jerpbak and second baseman Laina Do ’17 contributed another three hits apiece against Princeton.

Despite the array of solid bats in the two games, the Bulldogs failed to succeed in several clutch situations.

Over the course of 18 innings, Yale left 24 runners on base, including the would-be winning run in the bottom of the

seventh of the second game.

Sunday had different results in store for the Bulldogs, as they claimed backto-back victories in a sweep of the Big Red. Bats caught fire right from the start, as the Elis scored four in the first inning on their way to a 9–2 victory in the opener.

Third baseman Allison Skinner ’18 carried much of the Bulldogs’ success at the plate, going 3–4 with four RBI and one run scored. Skinner is the team leader in RBI with 16 so far this season, a quarter of which came in Sunday’s first contest alone.

To back those runs, pitcher Lindsay Efflandt ’17 delivered a complete-game two-

run performance. Efflandt’s faced a turbulent liftoff, with six of her eight hits and both runs coming in the first three innings, but she settled down and eventually finished strong.

Efflandt noted that having the right mentality for softball was important for her rebound. “[Softball is] such and upand-down sport, it’s not like basketball or soccer where you are constantly running,” Efflandt said. “There can be lulls and there can be highly energetic parts, but it’s important to have control of that, and that’s why we do a lot of our cheers.”

The second of the two games brought on much of the

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Left fielder Shelby Kennedy ’19 went 2–3 with two runs and an RBI in Yale’s 9–2 win over Cornell.

same stress that the two games against Princeton did, but a clutch pitching performance from Casalino ensured that Yale could write a different ending. Casalino tossed seven innings of one-run ball and led the Bulldogs to their second win of the day, this time by a score of 3–1.

Casalino and Efflandt’s performances were especially impressive given the quality of Cornell’s lineup. Before the Bulldogs’ pitchers shut the Big Red’s batters down over the weekend, they held top-three positions in the Ivy League charts in four team hitting categories: on-base percentage, batting average, slugging percentage and home runs.

Meanwhile, outfielder Rachel Paris ’17 played the role of offensive hero. After the Elis lost a one-run lead in the fourth, Paris came in as a pinch hitter in the bottom of fifth and legged out a two-run triple.

“Pinch hitting is definitely a big challenge, especially in these cold games,” Paris said after the game. “In my at-bat today I just had to stay relaxed, trust my training and be confident that I would be able to deliver for my team.”

The Bulldogs move on to Ivy League North Division play with a four-game series against Harvard next weekend. Before that, however, the Bulldogs will face Quinnipiac during a Wednesday doubleheader in Hamden.

The matchup will be played in memory of Chris Labbadia, who died in a car crash in January. Labbadia was the brother of shortstop Brittany Labbadia ’16 and son of Quinnipiac assistant coach Lynn Labbadia.

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floor where Opperman and Kiarra Alleyne ’19 led Yale with a pair of 9.800s. Sooksengdao followed up with a career-high 9.675, completing what Opperman called Sooksengdao’s best floor routine as a Yale gymnast. Yale finished the first rotation with a 48.400, which ranked fourth in the session. The Bulldogs rotated to vault, where Opperman again notched the top score for her team with a 9.700, tying her career high.

Anella Anderson ’17 also had a career performance, achieving a new personal best with a 9.600. The team walked away from vault with a 47.775, more than a point behind first-place Lindenwood.

The team also had three all-around competitors, with Wang leading Yale scores in just her second all-around of the year. Her career-high 38.775 put her in fifth for Friday’s session. Megan Ryan ’18 and Anderson posted 38.525 and 38.175, respectively, with

the latter score tying Anderson’s previous career-best.

Though she did not qualify for finals, Winkelman was named to the All-American Second Team on balance beam, and Wang earned All-American Second Team honors in allaround.

“Looking back, we were strong and steady throughout the entire season, and I think that is something that’s hard to do with gymnastics with all the injuries — once you get to the end you can get tired,” Winkelman said. “It was great to watch us build, and never have a little lapse in our energy. [The 2015 season], when we first made it to nationals and scored another record-high team score, shows we can build not only throughout the season but year-afteryear. It makes me very excited to see what we can accomplish in the future.”

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Marks ’18 has career day

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The Bulldogs are now on a three-game losing streak, just after being on a three-game winning streak earlier in the season.

W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 guarded by our opponents’ top defenders,” captain and defender Kate Walker ’16 said. “She has an incredibly fast shot, a really high field IQ and the sheer speed needed to dodge effectively and put the ball in the back of the net.”

At half and down six, Yale still stood a chance, however small, of coming back. After Princeton pushed the deficit to seven less than a minute into the second half, the team would not quit, as midfielder Lily Smith ’18 and attacker Emily Granger ’18 scored back-toback goals to bring the game within five.

But the floodgates opened after that, and Princeton poured on its second offensive blitz. The game’s

next six goals belonged to the Tigers, and, at that point, so too did the game.

Yale went on to score one more goal, to which Princeton replied with one more meaningless goal of its own — with one second left to play.

The Bulldogs are now fifth in the Ivy League with a 2–2 record.

Three games remain for Yale to bump itself into to the top four teams, which earn a berth into the Ivy League postseason tournament. The first of those will be at Dartmouth next Saturday at 3 p.m.

“We have to move on and learn from [the loss],” Marks said. “After all, it’s on to Dartmouth now.”

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“I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.”

MICHAEL JORDAN NBA ICON AND MEMBER OF 72-WIN BULLS SQUAD

Yale goes 4-for-4 in weekend sweep BASEBALL FROM PAGE B1 Following a fly-out by shortstop Tom O’Neill ’16 and bunt single

by Adams, second baseman Simon Whiteman ’19 tripled to left field to drive home Adams, who continued his hot hitting with a 2–3 performance at the plate. Although he has missed 10 games this season due to a hamstring injury, Adams paces the Bulldogs with a 0.383 batting average.

During the next at-bat, with Whiteman standing on third base, Yale third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 cranked a home run over the left field fence to score Yale’s second and third runs of the inning.

The teams traded runs in the sixth, securing the Yale triumph by a final score of 6–3.

In the second Yale victory on Friday, right-hander Chasen Ford ’17 tossed the second consecutive complete game for the Bulldogs, as he lasted the entire nine innings of the contest. Ford dominated the Tigers, striking out five batters and surrendering just one earned run on six hits.

“Politz throwing a complete game and getting the win [in the first game] really pumped everyone up, and we had good energy through the whole second game,” Ford said. “It was a battle on both sides but I was able to keep the ball down and get what I needed until the [Yale] bats broke out in the last inning.”

That last inning, which in Yale’s case was the bottom of the eighth, was a rare blip of offense — four runs worth — in an otherwise low-scoring game.

The score was 2–1 in Yale’s favor after the first seven frames, in which Princeton ace Chad Powers gave up just three hits and one earned run before being replaced on the mound by Chris Giglio to begin the eighth.

Giglio lasted through just two batters after he issued back-to-back walks to Slenker and first baseman Benny Wanger ’19 without securing an out. Pitcher Danny Thomson replaced Giglio, though the pitching change could not reverse the damage that was already done. Slenker scored thanks to a fielder’s choice from designated hitter Harrison White ’17, and two batters later, O’Neill drove in Wanger and White with a single to right field.

Adams added another single in the inning that plated center fielder Tim Degraw ’19, and Ford finished off the 6–1 victory without a Princeton threat in the final inning.

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Richard Slenker ’17 had four RBI in Yale’s triumphant weekend.

“Politz and I pitching complete games ended up being huge for our team seeing as both Sunday games went to extras and we had to use multiple guys in both games,” Ford said.

“I’m just glad we could both give our team a chance to win the whole weekend.”

In contrast to the defeats of Princeton, the Bulldogs’ series against Cornell on Sunday did not play out as smoothly, though it was certainly more exciting.

Against the Big Red in Sunday’s early contest, the Elis scored one run in the second inning and another in the fourth to take the early 2–0 lead before Cornell evened the score with two runs of its own in the fifth.

Yale starter Mason Kukowski ’18 gave up a solo homerun to center fielder Ellis Bitar before walking the next two batters in the top half of the fifth inning. Kukowski was replaced by righty Drew Scott ’18, who allowed one more run to cross the plate before eventually ending the inning with a strikeout of right fielder Jacob Weston with the bases loaded.

The tied score, which remained through the seventh inning, meant the teams would have to battle in extra innings.

In the bottom of the 11th, with one out and Slenker standing on first base

Elis remain at 0.500 in league W. TENNIS FROM PAGE B1 the long run,” captain Ree Ree Li ’16 said. “As we’ve started to focus on the process more and less about the results, I think we’ve allowed ourselves to compete better. With that being said, though, I think there’s still so much potential for this team, and I believe that we can show that in the upcoming matches.”

The Elis kicked off competition against their highest-ranked conference rival, Columbia, which appeared to be the prohibitive favorite to win the Ivy League, with a convincing sweep of the three doubles matches. The duos of Madeline Hamilton ’16 and Tina Jiang ’17, and Li and Carol Finke ’18, earned identical 6–4 victories in the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches.

Sherry Li ’16 and Valerie Shklover ’18 took a 5–3 lead in their own match, but were cut short when their teammates clinched the point on other courts.

Entering the singles competition with a 1–0 match lead, the Bulldogs kept pace with the Lions throughout the lineup, winning first sets in four of the six matches. A 6–2, 7–6(5) victory by Finke in the No. 6 match was complemented by a 6–2, 6–2 win

by Jiang in the No. 2 match, who earned her second win of the afternoon against her former team; Jiang played for two seasons at Columbia before transferring to Yale for her junior campaign. But the highlight of the day came from the captain Ree Ree Li in the decisive No. 3 match: after losing the first set 6–0 to Columbia’s Star Makarome, the senior rebounded with consecutive 6–4 set wins

No. 1 Bulldogs now 10–0

to seize the match from the Lions in dramatic fashion.

“Beating Columbia was definitely an exciting match for us,” Elizabeth Zordani ’18 said. “We wanted to take the match away from them and played with a sense of urgency. [Ree Ree Li] played every point with a purpose which is [why] she was able to win those critical points in the third set.”

Following Saturday’s thriller in the Lion’s den, the Bulldogs struggled to replicate success against another ranked conference rival in Cornell. Despite its second doubles win of the weekend courtesy of Hamilton, Jiang, Sherry Li and Shklover, the Elis managed just one singles victory against the Big Red, with Sherry Li earning a 6–2, 4–6, 6–1 decision over Mariko Iinuma in the No. 3 singles match. Cornell swept the remaining five matches, including a 7–5, 6–4 win over Courtney Amos ’16 in the No. 5 singles match to clinch the victory.

“We had a great showing in doubles [against Cornell] but didn’t bring the same level of play to singles,” Sherry Li said.

“There are different things each of us will be working on to prepare for our upcoming matches, and we look forward to more good completion for the rest of the season.”

With just three Ivy League matchups remaining on the schedule, the Bulldogs will face Harvard at home Friday before heading north to Dartmouth for their final road trip of the season. Yale’s current 2–2 Ivy record ranks fifth in the conference standings.

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after a walk, left fielder Brent Lawson ’16 appeared to be hit by a pitch on the foot, though the umpire ruled that Lawson did not make an adequate attempt to avoid the pitch and needed to continue his at-bat.

But in a case of good karma, the decision ended up benefiting the Bulldogs. Lawson belted a two-run walk-off home run on the next pitch to secure a 4–2 Yale win and send his team and the crowd into cheers.

“I went up to the plate with the intention of winning the game, and I was going to do everything possible to put myself in a position to do so,” White said. “I made sure I was mentally ready before each pitch and sticking with a simple approach.”

The Elis followed up the win with an even more miraculous victory in the next contest, as both a late fourrun comeback and walk-off hit were needed to complete Yale’s fifth straight win.

Starting right-hander Chris Moates ’16 exited the game after just 1.1 innings after walking four batters and allowing four runs, though just two were earned.

The 4–0 Cornell lead became an 8-4 lead entering the bottom of the eighth inning, when the Bulldogs’ magic began.

DeGraw, who went 3–5 in the

game, singled to begin the inning, and catcher Alex Boos ’18 reached on an error by Cornell third baseman Tommy Wagner before being pushed over to third base by two consecutive hit batters, the second of which scored DeGraw.

Whiteman, Slenker and Wanger then each drove in an RBI in the next three Eli plate appearances. The 8–8 tie forced the contest into extra innings once again.

In the 10th inning, the bases were loaded when White connected on a walk-off single to right field that plated Whiteman and completed the improbable Yale comeback.

“Getting off to a good start is always huge — whether it’s an inning, an at bat or a season,” White said. “Every game we win just puts us in a better position, obviously, and that allows us to play loose and have fun with it. We’re establishing ourselves in the league and establishing a cushion for ourselves moving into the Red Rolfe Division next week.”

Before the Elis host Harvard at Yale Field for a pair of doubleheaders next weekend, the Bulldogs will travel to Fairfield, Connecticut to face nonconference foe Sacred Heart on Tuesday.

tain Austin Velte ’16 said. “I’m proud of the depth we showed in Boston.”

Similar to the women’s team, the lightweight team also posted huge margins of victory, winning its races by an average margin of 24.5 seconds. The fourth varsity eight opened racing early in the morning with a 37-second victory over Georgetown, a race in which MIT did not field a boat. This was the boat’s first victory of the spring season, as it lost last week to Navy.

The third and second varsity eights continued the trend of large victories, winning by 22 and 20 seconds, respectively. Racing finished at 9 a.m. with the first varsity eight, which posted a time of 6:11, 19 seconds faster than Georgetown and 24 seconds ahead of than MIT. Despite the commanding victories, head coach Andy Card said there is always some area in which the crew can improve.

“Every time down the course you learn a little bit more about each crew,” Card said. “The guys set goals for each race, and then afterwards review the video and see what they can check off and what they need to keep working on.”

The lightweight crew will join the heavyweights in Philadelphia next weekend to race No. 1 Columbia and No. 6 Penn.

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

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

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

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All three Yale crews are ranked among the top five teams in the nation.

After taking last weekend off while the first two boats raced in California, the third and fourth varsity boats competed again, although this time with different lineups. There were several seat changes and a few boat changes from the last competition, which Trzybinski said would likely continue as head coach Steve Gladstone continues to search for the right combinations in each boat. It appeared that these changes were largely successful, as the third and fourth boats posted times 3.95 and 6.98 seconds better than Dartmouth, respectively.

“The goal over the next few weeks is to become smoother and work on smaller details since we worked very hard over the winter to improve our endurance and strength,” Trzybinski said. “For now, we want to improve the technical components and our rowing technique.”

The heavyweight team races Columbia and Penn next weekend for the Blackwell Cup in Philadelphia.

ROAD SWEEP FOR 37TH STRAIGHT JOY CUP

The sole team to compete away from New Haven this weekend, the No. 3 lightweights handily defeated MIT and Georgetown in Massachusetts to earn the Joy Cup for the 37th year in a row.

“This weekend gave us another chance to test ourselves down the course,” cap-

M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B1 the opening period, and the Yale offense was unable to put anything past him other than a goal from midfielder Michael Keasey ’16, the first for either team in the contest. Dartmouth attackman Wiley Osbourne scored with 2:27 left in the first quarter, which finished with the score tied 1–1.

The Bulldogs opened the second quarter with three straight goals, creating a lead that they would never surrender. Midfielder JW McGovern ’16 and defenseman Jerry O’Connor ’18 scored within three minutes of each other before attackman Shane Carr ’16, a recent addition to the extra-man unit, scored on a man-up opportunity with 6:41 remaining in the half.

Yale converted on three of its five extraman chances on the day for the secondstraight game, marking another big improvement from the 28 percent season average with which the Bulldogs entered the game.

“We struggled early in the year [on the man-up], and our confidence was down a bit, but we kind of went back to the drawing board and built a plan we thought would work,” Keasey said. “We stuck to it and had some success.”

Dartmouth answered Carr’s goal a minute later to close the deficit to 4–2, but Bonacci responded soon after by picking up a rebound off Dartmouth goalie Joe Balaban and netting the ball to send the Bulldogs into halftime up 5–2.

The third quarter was all Yale, as six Elis scored all nine goals in the period. Keasey scored three to finish the day with a gamehigh four goals, though he was quick to credit his teammates for his success both on Saturday and throughout the year. The senior, who now has 23 goals in 10 games, has been the second-leading scorer for much of the season.

“I just have been on the receiving end of some good passes from teammates,” Keasey said. “Very few of my goals have been unassisted.”

Also during the third quarter, Carr added his second of the game and Reeves tallied his 26th and 27th goals of the season.

While the offense was piling on the goals, the defense did not allow a score for a stretch of 21:44 that spanned the second, third and fourth quarters. The stifling defense recalled Yale’s game against Sacred Heart last Tuesday night, when the Bulldogs held the Pioneers scoreless for 31:03 of straight game time.

Yale entered the fourth quarter with a 14–2 lead that was essentially impossible for Dartmouth to overcome, but the Big Green put up a fight in its attempt to keep the game close. Taking advantage of six Eli penalties in the quarter, Dartmouth outshot Yale 14–5 and outscored the Bulldogs 3–1.

“I’m a little disappointed with how we ended the game,” captain and defenseman Michael Quinn ’16 said. “We had some pretty uncharacteristic plays and were pretty undisciplined. It leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.”

Although the Yale win proved to come with ease on Saturday, the road gets much harder. The Bulldogs travel to No. 2/3 Brown next Saturday before ending the season at home against No. 6/7 Albany and Harvard the following two weekends. A win over Brown, which has lost just one game this season, would guarantee the Bulldogs at least a share of the Ivy League regular season title.

“Brown is a great team, and this week is going to be very important in terms of preparation,” Bonacci said. “Brown gives us a great game every year, and this time around will be no different. They are a very talented team and we will need to focus on the details in order to be successful.”

Yale’s game at Brown, the highest-ranked opponent on the Bulldogs’ schedule, will begin Saturday at 1 p.m.

Yale crews cruise to wins

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The win served as Yale’s last tune-up before the Bulldogs play No. 2/3 Brown next weekend in potentially their biggest game of the year.

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“On this rare occasion, I’m nearly speechless ... The 80th Masters is always going to be special and dear to my heart.”

DANNY WILLETT 2016 MASTERS CHAMPION

Wang ’19 claims national title on beam GYMNASTICS

BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER In her first year competing as a Bulldog, gymnast Jessica Wang ’19 walked away a national champion after Yale spent a weekend competing, both as individuals and as a team, at the USAG National Collegiate Championships.

The meet, hosted by Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, marked the end of the 2016 gymnastics season, and saw competition from full gymnastics teams on Friday and Saturday, and individual performances on Sunday.

Wang advanced to the individual finals in beam, where she captured first place in the nation, and also finished fourth in bars. Brittney Sooksengdao ’16 joined Wang in the finals on beam, where she earned a fourth-place result. The Yale team as a whole finished fourth in the second of two Friday semifinal sessions, concluding its season with a 192.350 — seventh overall for the meet.

The score was the team’s second-highest of the year, and surpassed the score Yale attained at last year’s Nationals by almost three points. “[The team] really did have an amazing season, putting up our highest team score [on March 10] in [12] years and also the highest [Regional Qualifying Score] since 2003,” captain Camilla Opperman ’16 said. “I think the biggest change that I’ve seen is the confidence in each of the competitors, especially the younger girls. We started the season off a bit timid; now, every girl on the team walks out on to the competition floor knowing that they will hit their routines.”

While Yale fell to Brown, Lindenwood and Texas Woman’s University in the team portion on Friday, the Elis shone in beam. Though at ECACs two weekends ago the team suffered three falls, this weekend it hit six out of six routines, clinching a 48.775, the highest beam score in Yale’s history. In the process, Sooksengdao and Wang advanced to the finals, where Wang tied Yale’s best score of all-time with her championshipwinning routine.

On Friday, Wang led the session overall with a SEE GYMNASTICS PAGE B2

Ivy drought continues for Elis

BY MATTHEW STOCK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Continuing its worst start of the last 12 seasons, the Yale men’s tennis team dropped back-to-back 5–2 contests this weekend at the hands of No. 26 Columbia and No. 54 Cornell.

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Jessica Wang ’19 tied the Yale record in the beam en route to a first-place finish.

The weekend, which shaped up to be the Bulldogs’ toughest of the season, lived up to its billing as the Elis struggled against the strong competition. After losing both conference matches to open Ivy play last weekend, the Elis (12–10, 0–4 Ivy) were unable to defend their home court, though red-hot sophomores Fedor Andrienko ’18 and Stefan Doehler ’18 continued their recent successes with four combined singles wins and a weekend split in doubles.

But the rest of the Bulldog squad could not add an additional victory, and the team remains one of two schools without an Ivy win.

“This weekend has been really tough, but we’ve shown that we belong among the best teams in the Ivy League,” Alex Hagermoser ’17 said. “The sophomores have done a fantastic job this season; all of them

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Stefan Doehler ’18 has now secured victories in nine of his last 10 singles matches. are starting and playing well.

This week we will be working on our doubles, a particular weakness of ours the past two weeks.”

Yale’s Saturday afternoon against the conference-leading Lions began with a somewhat bittersweet performance in the doubles matches. The Bulldogs’ No. 1 doubles duo, Andrienko and Doehler, successfully knocked off Columbia’s SEE M. TENNIS PAGE B2

Split weekend keeps Yale at 0.500 in Ivy play

BY FLORA LIPSKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With two wins and another two extra-inning losses to Ivy League competitors this weekend, the Yale softball team confirmed its standing as a competitive team following a 2015 campaign that yielded the worst record in the conference.

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Shortstop Brittany Labbadia ’16 has gotten a hit in 10 of her last 12 games.

Yale (11–21, 4–4 Ivy) suffered two devastating losses to Princeton (11–21, 4–4) in two games that went into extra innings. On Sunday, the Bulldogs recovered against Cornell (1–7, 4–20) in a doubleheader sweep that featured two complete-game pitching performances from Yale.

“We’ve been having some issues finishing; we get leads in the game and then we just leave the other team in it and they are able to come back and score,” pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18 said. “So these two wins today [against Cornell] were definitely needed

as a team to come back and show that we can come back and finish a game.”

Though the Bulldogs remain at 0.500 in Ivy League play, they have outscored their opponents 38–23 in those eight contests. All four of their inconference losses have been by just a one-run deficit, and each time, their opponents scored the go-ahead run in the seventh inning or later.

The first game of the weekend, a Friday contest against Princeton, was one of those heartbreaking losses. In a 10-inning showdown, the Tigers traded leads with the Bulldogs five times, finally outlasting them to claim a 6–5 victory.

The nightcap was suspended after five innings, and the two teams were forced to split the game over two days due to insufficient light. Yale managed to keep its rival in check with a 4–4 score until the eighth inning, when Princeton catcher Skye Jerpbak singled off her sister, SEE SOFTBALL PAGE B2

No. 11 Princeton blows out Yale, 16–5

BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s lacrosse team headed to the suburbs of New Jersey this past weekend, where the potent offense of No. 11 Princeton overwhelmed the Bulldogs in their most severe loss of the 2016 season.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE Yale (5–7, 2–2 Ivy) was on the defensive all game as Princeton (8–2, 3–0) attacked with an onslaught of shots from the outset of the contest. The 16–5 loss marked the third defeat in a row for the Elis, who had won three in a row prior to this losing streak.

“It just wasn’t a good game across the board, on all areas of the field, because we weren’t playing for each other,” goalie Sydney Marks ’18 said.

“That’s the biggest part; that’s when we truly don’t play well. The whole game was incredibly frustrating for everyone and we just couldn’t buckle down and get the job done this time.”

Marks, despite noting that all areas of the field were deficient on Saturday, had a career day in goal. Against a nearly inconceivable 50 shots, Marks saved

54.3 percent of the 35 that were on net for a career-best 19 saves.

The sophomore, who is in her first season starting for the Bulldogs, played a large part in keeping the game from getting even more out of hand than it did.

“Sydney had an absolutely amazing game,” defender Victoria Moore ’17 said. “She has been so consistent in the net for us this whole season. She works extremely hard day-in and day-out and it is so nice to see her executing in the net and playing so well.”

The Tigers floored it from the drop of the flags and never let their foot off the gas pedal, scoring six straight goals within the game’s first 17 minutes.

Bulldog attacker Tess McEvoy ’17 momentarily stemmed the tide with Yale’s first goal before Princeton netted two more. McEvoy then scored once again with less than a minute left in the half.

McEvoy scored multiple goals for the 10th time in the team’s first 12 games and her seventh in a row. She now has 23 goals in those seven.

“Tess has continued throughout the season to run the offense, even when SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE B2

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The Tigers outshot Yale 50–25 en route to a decisive 16–5 win.