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Mock Trial Association won the national championship title in Greenville, South Carolina yesterday. This is the first national victory for YMT, which was founded in 1994. Last year, the team lost narrowly to Harvard in the final round. Yesterday, Yale beat out the University of Virginia — and 46 of the other best teams in the country — to clinch the title. In the City of New York.
Students at Columbia are rallying behind of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 ahead of the New York primary election, which is tomorrow. Columbia Clinton supporters interviewed by The New York Times said it is sometimes difficult to support the candidate on a campus dominated by millennials backing her opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders. Res(Eli)ence. Yale students
and Connecticut residents alike are taking action to provide resources for earthquake relief in Ecuador. The South American country was devastated by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake that took at least 272 lives and injured more than 2,500. Maia Eliscovich Sigal ’16 will sell portable phone chargers with the “iCharge Ecuador” logo for earthquake relief.
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BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Leading with 41.73 percent of the vote, Peter Huang ’18 was elected Yale College Council president Friday night. Sarah Armstrong ’18 was closest behind Huang, with 23.36 percent of the 2,581-person vote, not including abstentions. Diksha Brahmbhatt ’18, Josh Hochman ’18 and Carter Helschien ’18 earned 15.65, 11.43 and 7.83 percent, respectively. The vice presidential election, in which there were originally four candidates, will conclude with a two-person run-off on Tuesday between Christopher Bowman ’18 and Kevin Sullivan ’18, who garnered 33.21 and 28.49 percent of the vote, respectively. Lauren Sapienza ’18 and Zach Murn ’17 were elected the new events director and finance director in uncontested races. “I feel like this moment is very surreal … because I absolutely believed 100 percent that there would be a [presidential]
run-off,” Huang said. “I’m also excited for the opportunity, but I’m also overwhelmed with the news.” According to the YCC constitution, a candidate can win with between 40 and 50 percent of the vote if he or she beats out the nearest candidate by at least 5 percent — a provision that secured Huang’s victory. Because Bowman earned less than 40 percent of the vote, he would have needed to defeat Sullivan by at least 10 percent in order to win the vice presidential election without a run-off. Huang ran his campaign on a three-pronged platform: University services, academics and student life. His platform included several large-scale, overarching projects within the three areas, such as eliminating the student income contribution and promoting an increase in resources for ethnic studies. It also included several smallerscale, more short-term initiatives, such as better integrating transfer students into the Yale
community and creating a database for Yale alumni to provide input on their extracurricular groups. “The way I grouped [my platform] was two groups, one being macro-level issues, like faculty diversity, and the other was supporting student groups,” Huang said. “I want to tackle faculty diversity first.” Many of the other candidates plan to continue serving on the YCC. Brahmbhatt said she hopes to be appointed a position on the YCC executive board, adding that if nothing else, she will serve as an associate member. Similarly, Helschien said he will remain involved with the YCC, though he is still deciding in what capacity. Hochman said while he does not plan on holding a formal position within the council, he hopes to mentor the next YCC academics director — the position he holds this year — and ensure that this year’s projects be continued. SEE YCC PAGE 4
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Peter Huang ’18 was elected YCC president on Friday evening.
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1991 Lee Bass ’79 donates $20 million to fund graduate programs for the study of Western civilization. His gift is the third record-breaking donation from the Bass family in the past year. Four years later, Bass requests that the University return his money because the courses were not instituted. Follow along for the News’ latest.
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opponents’ support for free-trade agreements and pledged to bring jobs back to the working class of northern Connecticut. “The economy of the state of Connecticut has experienced absolute devastation about manufactur-
Yale’s announcement last week that it divested $10 million from fossil fuels has prompted debate in the investment community over the ethics, legality and practicality of fossil fuel divestment. Following Chief Investment Officer David Swensen’s April 12 email to Yale’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility announcing the move, climate change activist group Fossil Free Yale praised the partial divestment but called on the University to take steps toward complete divestment. Furthermore, FFY members said Yale should be more conscious of the ethical implications of its investments, although financial experts said universities often prioritize the will of donors over moral quandaries when investing. “For me, Swensen’s letter had no ethical grounding,” said FFY organizer Elias Estabrook ’16. “There was a lot missing.”
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interview with Vanity Fair, Meryl Streep DRA ’75 singled out her performance in the lead role in “The French Lieutenant’s Woman,” for which she received the Golden Globe award and Academy Award nomination for best actress, as the one she would go back and redo. “I didn’t feel like I was living it,” Streep told Vanity Fair.
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of American Ambassadors, a nonpartisan organization that supports the Department of State, selected Madeline Bauer ’17 as a 2016 Ambassadors Walter and Leonore Annenberg Fellow. Bauer is one of six rising college seniors awarded the CAA fellowship.
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BoolaMarket, a peer-topeer online marketplace and student startup, launched its 2.0 version over the weekend. The updated website includes, among other features, the ability to donate items to local charities. BoolaMarket, which was launched a year ago, has nearly 2,000 users from across the University.
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Thousands gathered Friday to hear Trump talk. BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Donald Trump mania came to the Nutmeg State Friday, as thousands gathered in the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford to hear the New York businessman and frontrunner for the Republican
presidential nomination speak. Trump’s speech — relatively brief, at only a half-hour — touched on the themes his campaign has peddled since he entered the race last June, but with a local flavor. In an area devastated by the loss of manufacturing jobs over the last two decades, Trump denounced his
Pay cuts plague seventhyear grad students BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY STAFF REPORTER Christy Thomas GRD ’16, a seventh-year music student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has taken an extra job this year at the Center for Teaching and Learning to support herself as she finishes her dissertation — “a recipe,” she says, “for instant insanity.” Thomas is one of 100 seventh-year graduate students, around 3.5 percent of the overall Graduate School population, who has had to adjust to significant pay cuts announced last year as part of a broader budgetary reshuffle that administrators describe as a necessary “restructuring” designed to
200 walk for HIV/AIDS BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER
accommodate sixth-year funding. For their first six years, graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, who on average take more than six years to complete their degrees, receive a fixed stipend of around $10,400 per semester to cover their living expenses. But graduate students who remain at Yale for a seventh year receive funding based solely on the number of hours they teach. Before the cuts, seventh-year students received stipend-level funding if they taught two courses per semester. But the new policy requires seventh-year students to take on an additional course to earn roughly the same level
New Haven’s 12th Annual AIDS Walk drew a crowd of 200 on Saturday, raising around $6,000 for AIDS support organizations in Greater New Haven. Beginning and ending at the New Haven Green, participants walked five kilometers to raise money for support services aimed at individuals and families affected by HIV and AIDS in the Elm City. In addition to raising money, Kaitlin O’Boyle, a University of New Haven graduate and executive director of AIDS Walk New Haven, said the organization seeks to increase awareness, promote preventative measures and help destigmatize HIV and AIDS. “Someone in my life is HIV-positive and has kept it a secret all their life, so I wanted to get involved to
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his is my final column for the News. Three years ago, I started writing for these pages because I felt strongly that student voices were not being heard in Woodbridge Hall. I chose the column name, “Back to Blackmon,” partially because of my love for Amy Winehouse. But more importantly, I was drawn to the idea that only when we write through the lens of our own experience are we able to effectively teach other people something worth knowing. It’s a Herculean task to sum up four years of Yale into a single column, but if I may be so bold to try, I’d like to use my parting shot here to reflect on what Yale means in the grand scheme of things. And for me, I think our time here comes down to a single idea: Yale is a place for dreams.
THE TRUTH IS WE ALL NEED DREAMS TO SURVIVE WHAT’S TO COME This is true, of course, in the traditional sense of the American dream. Yale is a place where I, a kid who grew up in a mobile home in the rural South, can be catapulted into a world of the intellectual, financial and social elite in the course of just a few short years. We are far from perfectly accessible, and we still have a long way to go in terms of fighting for racial justice and financial equity on campus. But four years later, there are still days when I shake my head in disbelief at how lucky I’ve been to have my life so fundamentally transformed by this educational adventure. But on a more abstract level, the Yale experience — encased in a bubble that shields us from the outside world — is itself a place for dreams, granting us the ability to think creatively about how to build a better world without the burden of having to ground every bold new idea in the pragmatism that the real world demands. That dreamlike trance in which we find ourselves may help explain the constant disconnect between students and administrators. The voices of those who make decisions for us are tired, cracked and worn — simultaneously strengthened and burdened by experience. But in students’ voices, you can almost hear a purity that seeks to inspire. To borrow a line from playwright George Bernard Shaw, those outside this dreamland we’ve built for ourselves see things and ask “Why?” But we dream things that never were and ask “Why not?” I do not mean to belittle older
generations of thinkers and doers. The truth is we probably need both kinds of voices to come to TYLER some kind BLACKMON of workable solution. But Back to there is a raw power that Blackmon feeds this place where we dream. Imagine. Imagine. Imagine. This is our creed — in the laboratories where we toil away to find cures that don’t yet exist, in our social lives where we confront romantic taboo and in the 3 a.m. conversations over wine about what kind of world we want our grandchildren to inherit. Together, Yalies share an unflinching, collective commitment to refuse to let anyone outside our walls ever tell us that we cannot when we know we can. That’s why we march. That’s why we protest. That’s why we dream. It’s of course true that Yale, just like our dreams, can sometimes take a turn for the worse. We’ve seen our fair share of heartbreak, mental instability, social injustice and class division. But every time we get knocked down, we get right back up and fight back with a collegiate optimism that convinces us we have the power to make things right. No one can take those dreams away from us. For better or for worse, this dreamland we call Yale is a place where we go for some small part of our lives to cast off the shackles of pragmatism and construct our own reality in its place. Some distant buzzing in the back of our mind begs us to recognize that, eventually, we’ll need to wake up. We’ll need to take on the challenges of the real world tomorrow after we’ve rested up. We’ll need to leave academia and all its distorted wonder behind. But for just a moment, this place allows us to dream. The truth is we all need these dreams to survive what’s to come. And the world as a whole cannot keep turning without this continual churn of students who are too idealistic to be bothered by reality. It needs us to tear down stale institutions and replace them with fresh ideas about what life could be if we dared to dream bigger than those who came before us. Because ultimately that’s what Yale is: a place where we think about life not as it is but as it could be. And those are the most powerful dreams of all. TYLER BLACKMON is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. His column runs on alternate Mondays. Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu .
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orget your “favorite” sport — an actual baseball game is America’s best athletic event. Action in basketball, hockey, soccer and lacrosse is unceasing. Those sports permit lazing, idle chatter with neighbors and even getting a drink during play. Excitement in baseball comes in packets of seconds. Every play earns attention with its brevity. And the breaks between at bats permit good if focused conversation. So baseball’s worst alleged weakness — that it’s too darn slow — is actually a merit. All sporting events are social occasions, but baseball best balances the fan’s desire to speak with friends and his reason for coming out in the first instance: to see some ball. Now, it is true that in baseball, fewer things “happen” — if what you care about is hitting. But while there’s a case that hitting a baseball is the toughest job in sports, I’d like to argue that it isn’t even the most beautiful task in the game. Permit me to make the case for pitchers and catchers as the better objects of our admiration. The pitcher’s publicity requires that I start with him. Unlike some other actions in baseball, a pitch can take one of an infinite variety of forms. Fourand two-seam fastballs, cutters, splitters, curveballs, sliders, breaking balls, change-ups (of
several sorts) and screwballs are just some of the denominated methods of getting the ball to the plate. Pitches at the profesCOLE level ARONSON sional vary between 70 and north Necessary of 100 miles hour. and proper per Though it may not seem so to the hurlers themselves, pitchers have a large invisible screen through which their throws may pass: 17 inches by about 2 feet, depending on the distance between a batter’s knees and shoulders. The many interpretations of a pitch constitute a relatively private art. Fans may remember a hanging breaking ball that turns into a homerun — but mostly they’re upset about the dinger, not the pitcher’s choice. And indeed, the many pitching styles aside, the pitch’s important content — and the way we judge a pitcher’s skill — is easy to measure: strikes, balls, strikeouts, walks, hits allowed and whatever Nate Silver’s contrived from his fancy statistics. They're how we tell a good from a bad pitcher. A good catcher is harder to discern. There are ways to tell a
terrible catcher — lots of passed balls, for instance. But a catcher’s excellence is subtle. I remembered this watching Andrew Herrera ’17 catch for the Bulldogs this past Sunday. If there were runners on base, Herrera rested on the insides of his cleats instead of his toes, ready to ascend into throwing position lest an ambitious runner take chances with a steal. The position prepares him to execute the most beautiful out in baseball: a runner caught stealing second. The catcher spends most of his time in a contortion. Seventy degrees may be fine weather for fans, but with a catcher’s gear on, even inaction is taxing. Herrera does it with no knee-savers and a full head of brown hair — a pricey luxury under a helmet and mask. Blocking an 80-mile-hour hard ball with your body requires years of practice and instinctive courage. Herrera is a Great Wall of China behind the plate, throwing himself in front of pitches in the dirt to keep runners from taking a free base. There’s a debate in baseball about which player is the captain of a team’s defense. Some say the short-stop or center fielder. This is nonsense. They are mere regional officials. The catcher alone sees the arrangement of his team before each pitch, directing players this way or that. This is his most underappreciated
job: A misplaced fielder might have been better positioned had his teammate with the best view told him so. How many outs have been made because the fellow behind the plate told the second basemen to walk five feet to the left? I have no answer to whether the catcher or the pitcher has the more beautiful work (I’m inclined to the former, but as a former catcher, I’m biased). I wrote this column because Sunday I saw a game for the first time in five years. It reminded me why, besides the playing, I think baseball is the greatest sport. Baseball names are the best names: Drew Scott ’18, Brent Lawson ’16, Mason Kukowski ’18 (rough day, Kukowski. Get ‘em next time). College players heckle, just like in elementary school. And The Star-Spangled Banner inaugurates every game. Although the Bulldogs lost the game I saw, I was mostly disappointed with the lack of attendance. What are Sunday afternoons for, if not baseball? The field is nearby, and games are fast. The next time I go, I hope to see more of my classmates cheering on our boys in blue and white, playing America’s greatest sport. COLE ARONSON is a sophomore in Calhoun College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at cole.aronson@yale.edu .
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ew Haven without Yale would be like Bridgeport.” Ever had someone snidely say this to you? Over the past four years, I’ve heard many wanna-be pundits unquestioningly trot out this cliché. A critical examination of this aphorism reveals it to be not only wrong but loaded with problematic assumptions. Let’s unpack this two-for-one mockery of Connecticut’s great cities. Bridgeport is the state’s largest city, a town of just under 150,000 people a half-hour west of New Haven. “The Park City,” as Bridgeport is called, was once one of America’s most important industrial centers — so crucial to the World War II home front, for instance, that it is rumored to have been first on the Germans’ potential bombing list. From whale oil to sewing machines to ammunition, Bridgeport supplied the nation. But like nearly every older American city, deindustrialization hit Bridgeport hard. Crime spiked; unemployment rose; businesses shuttered. During these tough years, Bridgeport’s ill-informed reputation took shape. Recent decades of rebuilding Bridgeport as a cleaner, healthier, more productive city have been ignored. Bridgeport runs in my blood. Born in the Park City, my grandfather worked at Bridgeport Hospital and Bridgeport’s free clinics for half a century. My grandmother, who still lives there, volunteered in Bridgeport civic organizations and schools. When my great-grandfather came over
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from Europe to make a better life, he chose Bridgeport as the place to realize this dream. My father, his brother and the rest of my family get together in Bridgeport frequently. An insult to Bridgeport is an insult to them and to me.
BRIDGEPORT IS A GREAT PLACE, FROM ITS OLMSTED PARKS TO ITS LONG ISLAND SOUND BEACHES Bridgeport is a great place, from its Olmsted parks to its Long Island Sound beaches to its Brazilian food. It’s no Paris, sure, yet Bridgeport hosts popular attractions from the conventional (theaters, arenas, universities and Connecticut’s only zoo) to the eclectic (the P.T. Barnum Museum and the nation’s only self-proclaimed “feminist vegetarian restaurant”). Yes, feel free to joke about Bridgeport’s oftcorrupt politicians or shake your head at the staggering inequalities of its metro area. But violent crime is at a decades-low, and new investments are pouring in. Bridgeport has a long way to go, but it’s on the up-and-up. I don’t need to do the job of a tourism bureau, though, to show
A broader Bluebook
In “A better Bluebook,” (April 15, 2016) Daniel Tenreiro-Braschi ’19 argues that fields such as political science and ethnicity, race and migration have become little more than niches of inquiry invented by an increasingly desperate academy, and that the questions they raise are not only narrow and esoteric, but also utterly inconsequential. He has clearly never taken one of these courses, the briefest encounter with which yields questions that are rich, varied and deeply relevant to the daily lives of all students. Consider ER&M: Apparently, the discipline is narrow and intellectually circumspect. And yet, the implications of migration and diaspora span multiple continents, cultures and individuals, by definition. A single lecture in Latinx studies, for example, may leap from Spain to Mexico City to Texas and beyond, exploring the histories of hundreds of thousands of people. This does not seem narrow to us. Moreover, the notion that race is a niche issue of little consequence is absurd. In the United States, race is universal — believe it or not, everybody has one, even the intellectuals listed on the Directed Studies syllabus.
how wrong the original comparison is. In the eyes of those who make such remarks, a “good” location is like a stereotypical 1950s suburb — low crime, great schools and a booming economy. However, these statistics lie on shaky ground: White-collar crimes and middle-class drug use go unprosecuted, high test scores mask massive historical inequities in education spending and racial exclusion makes neighborhoods as whitewashed as their picket fences. The naysayers’ metrics are thus not how we should assess cities. Economic and crime stats are only one way to determine the “suitability” of a place, and America’s metropolises will nearly always score worse. Yet people all over the world flock to our cities anyway, for their diversity, culture and history. Bridgeport is certainly not perfect, as its residents would be the first to tell you. But when someone calls it a dump, ask yourself — by whose standard? The saying not only slanders Bridgeport but New Haven as well. The Elm City would be just as bad as Bridgeport if Yale wasn’t here, or so the implication goes. To be clear, Yale is a worldclass institution that provides the area great benefits. However, New Haven offers so much more, as anyone who steps outside the “Yale bubble” can tell you. The Elm City, believe or not, has other economic drivers and its diverse, creative neighborhoods are the envy of any likesized city. Of course, Yale is New
Haven’s largest employer, but it’s not New Haven’s only asset — if it were, Yale would not want to call this city home. Let’s turn the tables: Imagine Yale without New Haven. No workers and no neighbors, first and foremost. No water, no restaurants, no stores, no roads, no trains, no city life. Yale depends on New Haven far more so than the reverse. In order words, Yale would be no better than Trump University without this city. Couldn’t another town provide the same people and services? If Yale moved elsewhere, someone might argue, it would survive; New Haven would not. This blithe generalization glosses over three key truths. First, a mid-sized city like New Haven (or Bridgeport!) provides unique advantages for Yale: the vibrancy of a metropolis without the anonymizing tendencies of a larger urban center. Second, in the absurd hypothetical where Yale could feasibly leave, it's likely another comparable institution would take its place in a spot as good as New Haven Most importantly, this whole conversation is the wrong one to have. We should stop asking what New Haven would look like without Yale and start asking the reverse. So the next time you hear people use this old slander, urge them to take a day-trip to Bridgeport. They might just change their minds on the place.
In addition, categories such as race organize power in our society; they determine everything from who gets to speak in class to who gets paid enough to make the month’s rent. The questions ER&M and related fields raise are neither narrow nor inconsequential; they have real consequences for everyone at the seminar table, and their answers can change the way we live our lives. Unfortunately, Tenreiro-Braschi’s column ignores this fact. He argues that, instead of wasting our time studying these irrelevant disciplines, we ought to focus on “life’s deeper questions.” Despite a vague gesture to literature, he never quite clarifies what these deeper questions may be. He does not have to. “Deeper questions” is almost always coded language for questions raised by white, male, Western intellectuals, whose privileged place in the academy causes people to view their work as “universal” or “human.” The work of
people of color, women, queer people and other marginalized identities, on the other hand, is treated as “fringe” or “niche.” Socrates and Descartes did not exist in a void; they, too, were people with certain identities living in a certain society at a certain time. Their views originate from their unique lived experiences in exactly the same way as Spivak’s or Lorde’s, and are at once as niche or universal as any other. To say otherwise disregards the works of all but a small group of intellectuals — ironic, considering that the disciplines TenreiroBraschi dismisses as niche actually strive, by nature, to create a more inclusive, intellectually diverse academy. It would seem he is not so troubled by narrowness after all.
JACOB WASSERMAN is a senior in Saybrook College. Contact him at jacob.wasserman@yale.edu .
HANNAH SCHMITT AND RITA WANG The writers are a sophomore in Pierson College and a freshman in Morse College.
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Yale to replace Classes*v2 with Canvas BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Beginning in fall 2017, Yale will officially replace learning management system Classes*v2 with Canvas. Following the review of a pilot program last fall in which 71 classes tested the course management software as a possible substitute for the aging Classes*v2, the Learning Management System Steering Committee — composed of administrators, professors and graduate students —recommended in February that the University switch to Canvas. The committee then presented the recommendation to the deans of Yale’s graduate and professional schools and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences department chairs, giving them the opportunity to weigh in and provide their own suggestions. The FAS Senate expressed approval for the switch at its April meeting, and University Provost Benjamin Polak accepted the recommendation soon after. “All software transitions require change, but I think it will be fantastic to have this learning management system for the University and the kind of innovation it will make possible in our classrooms,” said Deputy Provost for Teaching and Learning Scott Strobel. “There is the opportunity to bring new teaching tools to campus, and I am excited about what it will do for teaching for at Yale.” Strobel, who chairs the LMS Steering Committee, said the 2016–17 academic year will serve as a transition period, during which lecturers and professors will have the option of using either Classes*v2 or Canvas. During this time, the Center for Teaching and Learning will hold a number of public events and workshops so that faculty can work with the new system and ensure that the transition proceeds as smoothly as possible, according to Lucas Swineford, executive director of the Office of Dissemination and Online Education. Instructional Technology Manager at the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning Pilar Abuin said Yale is currently collaborating with peer institutions that use Canvas, sharing tools and code in an open-source community, much in the same way that contributed to the initial growth of Classes*v2. She highlighted Canvas’s easy integration of cloud and web-based tools as one of its strengths, noting that its extended functionality is part of its appeal. As functionality and needs are identified
by the campus community, she said, meeting those demands will be easier than ever. “The way that Canvas allows faculty to organize their course material makes it very efficient for the students and allows faculty to focus more time on their teaching, as it should,” Swineford said. “That is really the critical part of it.” Still, Canvas does not immediately come with all the tools professors will need. Center for Teaching and Learning Executive Director Jennifer Frederick said the “out-of-the-box” version of Canvas does not come customized for Yale’s campus needs, as it lacks features such as a photo roster and tools to communicate with students via email. These weaknesses were already apparent when the LMS Steering Committee made its initial recommendation to switch to Canvas in February, but Frederick noted that these amenities will be added when the campus implements the system. Canvas’s constantly developing nature allows Yale to provide input and steer its growth, she said. The impetus for the change came from the uncertainty surrounding the viability of and decreasing satisfaction with Classes*v2, especially as many peer institutions have decided to use Canvas. Many universities integral to the development and advancement of Classes*v2, including Stanford, the University of Michigan and Indiana University, have since moved to Canvas. Other Ivy League schools currently using Canvas include Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth. Students previously interviewed by the News when the initial recommendation was made agreed that they preferred Canvas over Classes*v2, citing the latter’s lack of user-friendliness. “Canvas provides an opportunity for people to think in new ways about how they are teaching and providing access to course materials for students,” Frederick said. “Instead of having everything separated out into a folder for readings and assignments with links to other places, it can all be pooled together in a nice chronological way so everything you need is packaged together and right there.” Canvas has been selected by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction as its statewide LMS as well as the LMS for the California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative. Contact JOEY YE at shuajiang.ye@yale.edu .
Freshman Olympics and Dwight Hall’s Spring Day of Service overlapped for the second year in a row on Saturday. The conflicting schedules over the past two years have not been intentional, according to Dwight Hall Institutional Service Coordinator Abby Troy ’18. In an effort to increase attendance at events this year, Freshman Class Council and Dwight Hall collaborated to incentivize attendance at the Day of Service, offering 20 points to the residential college of each participating student. Dwight Hall organizers said the point system likely contributed to the Day of Service’s high turnout of over 100 volunteers. “We’re really excited to partner with FCC and give freshmen the opportunity to both serve their colleges and their community on the Day of Service and Freshman Olympics,” Dwight Hall CoCoordinator Anthony D’Ambrosio ’18 said. “We were able to work with FCC in really productive ways this year and found a really great compromise.” Last year, Dwight Hall worked with FCC to adjust the timing of Olympic events and publicize service opportunities, as well as set aside two volunteer sites specifically for freshmen who wanted to get back on campus in time for competitions, Dwight Hall CoCoordinator Briana Burroughs ’17 said. This year, none of the 16 work sites were freshman-specific, but there was increased collaboration with FCC, Troy said. She added that residential college captains were made aware of the conflict and that both institutions worked to advertise the Day of Service. “It definitely was not intentional, but as soon as we identified the fact that Freshman Olympics was happening on the same day as the Day of Service, we immediately ‘sprung into action’ — pun intended — and wanted to make it so that we could have as much participation from the freshman class as possible,” Troy said. “People want to win Freshman Olympics and want their res-
idential college to do a great job, and service is a great way to contribute to that.” Students participating in Day of Service reported to Dwight Hall at 9 a.m. for breakfast and registration, while the Olympic Opening Ceremony began at 10 a.m. The length of service projects varied, but most finished in the early afternoon and gave students the opportunity to take part in the competitions, Troy said. Students worked on a number of projects, ranging from helping registering participants at Saturday’s AIDS Walk to volunteering at the Mitchell Branch Library. Day of Service turnout might have even been increased due to the points awarded, as nearly 100 students signed up, including over 50 freshmen, Dwight Hall Underclassmen At-Large Coordinator Matthew Coffin ’19 said. “I was planning on doing service either way, but I think the fact that Freshman Olympics was on the same day was a nice way for us to get people to sign up and spread awareness about Day of Service,” Coffin said. “Giving people points toward residential colleges did help sign-ups and was a smart move.” Attendance was also bolstered by volunteers from several communities on campus, such as the Afro-American Cultural Center and Asian American Culture Center — co-sponsors of the event along with Dwight Hall — and Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Alpha Phi, Kappa Kappa Gamma and ROTC, Troy said. While the points system mobilized many freshmen, several participants said it was not the main draw for them. “Dwight Hall is a huge part of Yale’s community and they do a lot of great work, so this is something I really wanted to be a part of,” Nafeesa Abuwala ’19 said. “The points are just an extra good thing.” Dwight Hall holds three Days of Service each year. Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.treisman@yale.edu .
Students relay for cancer research BY RACHEL TREISMAN STAFF REPORTER Students streamed into Payne Whitney Gymnasium on Friday evening, but not for the usual athletic activities. Instead, the nearly 100 attendees gathered for Relay for Life, which lasted from 6 p.m. until midnight. Relay for Life, a national event held annually on high school and college campuses, aims to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Relay for Life’s New Haven event was organized by the Yale chapter of Colleges Against Cancer in collaboration with the American Cancer Society. Proceeds of the event go to the ACS and to funding cancer research at Yale. While this year’s turnout was considerably smaller than last year’s, Relay for Life organizers still deemed the event successful. The event capped off a year of fundraising that earned about $13,000, which amounted to half of Yale’s goal for the year, Relay for Life Community Manager Ericka Ganley said. “The mood was great and I actually feel like I got to know more people because of the intimacy,” Ganley said. “It was good to see a lot of really good things happen throughout the event.” Some of the highlights included an opening speech about cancer research and prevention by Yale Cancer Center Deputy Director Daniel DiMaio, bubble soccer and décor and activities inspired by this year’s Olympic theme, Ganley said.
In previous years, Yale’s Relay for Life has lasted from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., but it was shortened this year to condense attendance and coordinate better with students’ busy schedules, Event Co-Chair Thomas Tolton ’16 said. “We thought it was better to have a shorter, more substantial fun-filled event from 6 to midnight,” Tolton said. “[This year] there’s not really the sparsely populated times we used to have; we have a good critical mass of people pretty much the whole time.” There were about 30 students in the gym at any given point, most talking in groups or walking the track. Tolton attributed the decreased turnout to multiple other events happening Friday night, Relays being held at other nearby universities and the business of this time of year. “There’s always a huge fundraising push the week before Relay that happens every year, which is great,” former event co-chair Danielle Currin ’16 said Friday. “Over the last week — even over the past few hours — we’ve raised so much compared to similar time periods in past weeks and months.” The event included a Luminaria ceremony, when attendees walked a silent lap with the lights off in honor of individuals they know affected by cancer. Following the lap, attendees were encouraged to share their personal experiences about relatives and friends fighting cancer. More than 10 spoke in front of the crowd. Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma
and the women’s basketball and hockey teams volunteered at the event, Ganley said. Staff illustrator for the News Zishi Li ’18, a member of Kappa, described the Relay as “very touching.” Also contributing to the more personal feel of the event, were individuals such as the general manager of New Haven’s Shake Shack, who came to personally scoop custard for attendees, and a local cancer survivor named Fred who has stopped by Relay for multiple years. “I like how people can come together for a cause,” attendee Mari Kawakatsu ’18 said. “It’s important to spend time just thinking about how hurt people can be and how people are going through such tough things.” Planning for next year’s event began immediately after Friday’s Relay, Tolton said. The first steps include evaluating this year’s event and brainstorming how to improve, then thinking of committees and chairs before their winter kickoff event, he added. After assigning leadership roles, the volunteers can prepare to begin outreach efforts within the first few weeks of the fall semester, Ganley said. “We hope that maybe we can make some more connections and just keep building off of things,” Ganley said. “We have to get a good leadership in place and then we’ll be good to go.” This was Relay for Life’s 11th year at Yale. Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.tresiman@yale.edu .
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Students gathered in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium Friday for Yale’s Relay for Life.
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FROM THE FRONT
“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.” OTTO VON BISMARK PRUSSIAN STATESMAN
YCC president elected, VP runoff to be held YCC FROM PAGE 1 “I am very satisfied that I ran a campaign on my own accord and kept up the positive spirit and heartfelt approach to the community,” Brahmbhatt said. “I am really happy I went through like that, seeing everyone supporting each other, and I am very excited for YCC’s future.” Both Sullivan and Bowman said they would continue campaigning in preparation for Tuesday’s runoff election. Sullivan said the results were much closer than he expected, adding that he would be on Cross Campus in the upcoming days to inform students of his platform as well as to ensure as high a turnout as possible. Similarly, Bowman said he will not take the chance for granted and will work to mobilize as many voters as he can to hear his message. Still, both candidates also said they understand that the student body may be weary of the YCC elections by this point, with each noting that he would strike a balance in how hard he campaigns. This year’s race saw a 48.3 percent turnout, with 2,633 total votes cast. This is a 43.7 percent increase from last year’s election, when there were only three presidential candidates and one vice presidential candidate. Students interviewed attributed the rise in turnout to both the increase in candidates and the racial protests on campus last semester. Matthew Johnsen ’18 said this year’s more crowded candidate field led to a greater proliferation of campaign material on social media, bringing the election to more students’ minds. Albert Cao ’18 said the competitiveness led to a diversity of opinions and approaches to campaigning that caught the attention of many Yalies who otherwise would have been apathetic. In addition, more people may have been interested in this year’s elections because of events on campus last fall, Jae Hyung Kim ’18 said. There were 52 abstentions in the presidential election, 763 in the vice presidential election, 530 for events director and 644 for finance director. Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .
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Christopher Bowman ’18 (left) and Kevin Sullivan ’18 (second from right) will compete in a vice presidential run-off election Tuesday.
Trump train stops at Hartford TRUMP FROM PAGE 1 ing,” Trump said. “[Ohio Gov. John] Kasich voted for NAFTA — NAFTA has ruined Connecticut, it’s ruined Hartford. You can’t
vote for people who voted for NAFTA. It’s no good.” Trump also made reference to the heroin epidemic currently sweeping through New England, saying a wall on the Mexican
border would “stop drugs from pouring in,” a claim he also made throughout his campaigning in New Hampshire earlier this year. Trump is currently the heavy favorite to win Connecticut’s
primary, which will be held on April 26. Prediction markets currently estimate Trump’s chances of victory in Connecticut at 86.6 percent. Despite multiple disruptive
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The Trump rally drew both supporters and protesters.
incidents involving protestors, some of the night’s loudest jeers were directed at the press, who spent the evening confined in a media pen. After Trump referred to reporters as “the most dishonest people you’ve ever met,” the crowd turned and hurled insults at the press. Typical of Trump’s events throughout the country, the rally was marked by intermittent scuffles with protesters demonstrating against what they see as Trump’s racist rhetoric. Before Trump arrived on the stage, a recorded voice told attendees to raise their Trump signs above their heads and chant the candidate’s name if they found a protester in their vicinity. Attendees followed this order several times throughout the course of Trump’s speech, each time giving rise to cheers. The tensest moments of the night came after the rally’s conclusion, as thousands of attendees exiting the rally were directed by police into the path of several hundred protesters assembled outside. The protesters were a diverse mix, shouting anti-racist slogans and holding up Black Lives Matter signs and some with flags bearing a sigil of Anarchism — a red star against a black background. What could have boiled into violence instead simmered in tension, as thousands of Trump supporters entered into a collective shouting match with protesters. In response to chants of “Black Lives Matter” and “Bernie,” Trump supporters yelled “Get a job” and “Free stuff,” among other vulgarities. Whereas a host of state Republican dignitaries attended Kasich’s town hall in Fairfield earlier this month, fewer turned up to Trump’s rally. Trump has met a lukewarm reception among many establishment Connecticut Republicans. State Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano ’81, R-North Haven, has announced his dislike for Trump, saying he will likely vote for Kasich. And Jonathan Wharton, the freshly elected chairman of the New Haven Republi-
can Town Committee, has vowed not to support Trump should he win the nomination. One of those who did attend, though, was August Wolf, a Stamford financier who is currently seeking the Republican nomination against Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73. Though Wolf said he has yet to make up his mind about who he will vote for on April 26, he had words of praise for Trump. “He’s making a lot of points that people have been afraid to make,” Wolf told the News. “He’s obviously a very talented individual, and no one in the Republican party took him seriously, and he showed them that he was 10 times better than all their candidates. He is, in many ways, a genius.” Wolf noted that his moniker for Blumenthal — “Lyin’ Little Dick” — is inspired by Trump’s nicknames for Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio respectively. The nickname, Wolf said, fits what he called Blumenthal’s small physical size and his tendency to play “small-ball” politics. Trump’s route to the nomination is currently in doubt, with Cruz, his main opponent, boasting a better-organized network of supporters. To remedy that deficit, Annalisa Stravato, the vice chairwoman of the Connecticut Republican Party, urged attendees to engage in getout-the-vote efforts on behalf of Trump, including phonebanking and door-knocking in advance of the Connecticut primary. “We can win this,” Stravato said. “Donald Trump can be the next president of the United States. What I need is for everyone to be part of the grassroots efforts.” Polls show Trump holds a commanding lead of 29 percentage points over Kasich in New York — which holds its primary Tuesday — with Cruz sitting in third. Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
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“Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists... They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.” STEVE JOBS AMERICAN IT ENTRPRENEUR
Start-up provides coding instruction BY ANAMIKA VEERAMANI CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This summer, a recently founded New Haven startup aims to teach students how to code. Alena Gribskov ’09 conceived the idea for CodeSail, an eightweek, full-time boot camp that aims to teach enrolled students how to program, with her two co-founders Tiffany Pang and John Cadengo. Regardless of their previous coding experience, the students will learn full-stack Web development by the end of the eight weeks, Gribskov said. The program originated to fill the gap left by the discontinuance of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute’s Summer Tech Boot Camp — a 10-week program that taught students to launch their own Web application or website — which ended in 2014, Gribskov said. Gribskov formerly worked as the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Program Director and ran the YEI Summer Fellowship, a 10-week entrepreneurial incubator. Through her work with both programs, Gribskov noticed a trend. “I noticed that, in my meetings with student entrepreneurs, they would have this great idea, but they wouldn’t have the technical skills to build it themselves,” she said. “They were all looking for technical co-founders. That’s when I started thinking — what if these guys could be their own technical co-founder?” CodeSail draws on Gribskov’s prior experience with entrepreneurship, Cadengo and Pang’s experience with teaching soft-
ware engineering and takes inspiration from the former YEI Summer Tech Boot Camp. Unlike other tech boot camps, CodeSail will try to incorporate entrepreneurship lessons into the tech education framework. Gribskov remarked that she is particularly interested in “lean startup methodology,” a philosophy that emphasizes publicly mobilizing ideas as quickly as possible. She is actively infusing that methodology into the infrastructure of the CodeSail summer program, in order to teach students both technical skills and management skills. “We want to teach students the full life cycle of a product, everything from development to market adoption,” Gribskov said. The boot camp will culminate in “Demo Day” where students will pitch their capstone projects to potential investors and the general New Haven community. John Cadengo, one of the CodeSail co-founders, spoke about how his experience with entrepreneurs who were not yet skilled in coding motivated the team to start the company. “One of the things that I noticed at YEI was that, one of the number one indicators of whether a startup would be successful was whether they had an engineer on the team. As an engineer myself, I was always being approached by these startup teams to be their engineer. My advice to everyone who asked me was — why don’t you learn on your own? That’s how CodeSail was born.” Based on the success of for-
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CodeSail is an eight-week, full-time bootcamp that aims to teach students how to program and includes web development skills. mer, similar programs she has worked with, Gribskov said she believes CodeSail will fill a need among entrepreneurs and others. Several former students spoke to the influence former YEI programs had on their career trajectories. David McPeek ’17, who attended YEI Summer 2014 Tech Boot Camp, the inspiration for
CodeSail , said the program had a huge impact on his time at Yale. “I was an English major before I attended the boot camp,” McPeek said. “I entered the program because I didn’t really know where I saw myself. I was entering this boot camp because I wanted to gain some hard skills. Turns out, I didn’t just learn these hard skills, but I learned a
totally new perspective on what I could do with my career, my life — creatively.” The boot camp influenced McPeek to take a semester off, get an internship with a tech company. Then, when he returned to Yale, he switched his major to computer science. “Since Yale was no longer offering [the YEI Tech Boot
Camp], and I had seen what great outcomes had come out of it, I thought, why couldn’t we provide the same kind of immersive experience?” Gribskov said. CodeSail costs $7,800, with some partial scholarships available. Contact ANAMIKA VEERAMANI at anamika.veeramani@yale.edu .
Waiv connects Yalies with campus events BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER
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The Waiv app allows its users to see current and upcoming events in their area and filter them based on genre.
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Once classes are over, blue books have been turned in and final papers and projects sit forgotten on computer hard drives, the only remainder of most classes is a letter grade. But CPSC 113/MGM 659: Technology and Entrepreneurship is not like most classes. The course, cross-listed in Yale’s School of Management and taught by SOM Director of Entrepreneurship Kyle Jensen, requires all members to develop a web application as a final project. Waiv is one of the projects that has emerged from this class. A centralized events platform, Waiv allows its users to see current and upcoming events in their area and filter them based on genre. Though Waiv was created for a class at Yale, the creators said they ultimately hope to expand to other college campuses, as well as other cities. “Waiv is different because the founders seem invested in the project beyond the scope of meeting the requirements for CPSC 113,” said April Koh ’16, one of four undergraduate peer tutors for the class. “ All of the projects this year for the class are excellent, but Waiv is unique in that the team consider themselves founders, rather than teammates working on a project or a group of students trying to pass a class together.” Created by Colleen McCormack ’17, Sara Lee ’17 and Lance Chantiles ’19, the web app is, as Chantiles described, a cure for “FOMO” — the fear of missing out. Users can open the app and see a map with pins displaying a function’s name and location as well as a brief description. People can also search for
events by category: filtering by parties, concerts, sports, speaking events and more. “From all the user interviews we did, it was clear that people suffered from FOMO, so to speak,” Chantiles said. “On a given Friday night, you don’t know what or how many events are going on … Waiv shows what’s around you, from spontaneous to scheduled events.” Waiv represents the culmination of a semesterlong project that required the three-person team to pitch, create, test and market its own Web-based application. As opposed to other projects, which developed just a Webbased application, the team behind Waiv also designed an additional mobile application available for iOS and Android users, according to peer tutor Jason Brooks ’16. “The biggest challenge the team had to overcome was figuring out how to get the application into the hands of students by the end of the semester,” Brooks said. “The deployment process for Web-based applications is very easy — the second a team is ready to deploy their service, the application goes live. With Waiv, however, since they decided to go with a mobile application for an optimal user experience, this process becomes much harder. Apple often takes weeks to approve mobile applications and modifying the app after it’s approved by Apple is a major challenge that involves a lot of time, so the Waiv team had to polish and finish their app in a significantly shorter time frame.” The idea was born from Chantiles’ experience at Bulldog Days, when he recalled searching for events identified only by building codes that were unfamiliar to
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the marketing effort. “I think one reason people are like, ‘Oh, we have Facebook events, it’s a great platform,’ is because Facebook has so much user investment in it,” Lee said. “But you only see events your friends have gone to or event’s that you’re invited to … Waiv cuts that out and specializes in current events so you can see what’s going around you but in real time.” Adding that Waiv works only if users buy into it, Lee said she hopes users see the app’s convenience. Once the class concludes, the team is looking forward to adding new features, such as user profiles, the ability to import events from Facebook, “can’t miss” events and push notifications. The group has even discussed the possibility of adding a feature that allows users to conduct polls. “If the team applies themselves with the same level of focus and passion as they’ve been doing so far, the app will go far,” Koh said. “Apps like this depend on tenacity and perseverance for success … College events apps are super cool when you are doing them in school, because not having FOMO is the most important thing in the world as a college student. But after you leave school, you realize you want to solve other problems, like helping adults do adult things like file taxes. You outgrow the idea of eradicating FOMO. But if Waiv is passionate and resilient, it can go far.” Users can download Waiv from the Apple App Store or the Android Play Store on Friday, April 22.
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him at the time. The three hope to bring the app full circle by encouraging prospective members of the class of 2020 to use it during their Bulldog Days, which runs from April 20 to 22. “We’re Yale-centralized right now, because we’re looking to get it out by Bulldog Days,” McCormack said. “We think it could be a great test of our app to see how a huge group of students unfamiliar with the environment around them use it to experience the events around them.” After a brief crash course in the computer science concepts necessary to construct a Web application, the team conducted user interviews and received feedback from dozens of students from a wide cross-section of the University, Lee said. Chantiles, who had a basic foundation of computer science after taking CS50 in the fall, praised CPSC 113’s crash course, saying the class taught him how to learn computer science rather than one specific language or framework. Once it came time to form groups for the final project, the team came together “naturally,” McCormack said. She and Lee have been friends since freshmen year, and McCormack and Chantiles met in a section for a lecture class they both took last semester. From there, team members divvied up tasks according to each individual’s strengths. McCormack, an electrical engineering–computer science major, entered with the most programming experience, so she worked primarily on the backend coding; Chantiles did the majority of the front-end and design work. Lee conducted user interviews, worked on customer acquisition and took the lead on
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FROM THE FRONT
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOUNDING FATHER OF THE UNITED STATES
Seventh-year grad students decry wage cut PAY CUTS FROM PAGE 1 of funding. Only 6 percent of the seventh-year graduate students enrolled at GSAS have chosen to teach a third course this year. Before the changes, which went into effect last fall, seventhyear students could earn around $10,000 each semester for teaching 15–20 hours per week. But now, students receive only $8,000 for the same time commitment, though they are permitted to take on additional hours in order to reach stipend-level funding. The January 2015 announcement triggered a furious backlash from graduate student leaders who argued that seventh-year students would be left financially vulnerable as they hunted for work in the highly competitive academic job market. And now, 15 months after the University announced the cuts, those predictions appear to be coming true, as seventh-year students report exactly the logistical and financial hardships they expected would follow the funding adjustment. “The seventh-year pay cut has definitely had a negative impact on students financially,” said Nicholas Vincent GRD ’17, public relations chair of the Graduate Student Assembly. “Students … may feel strapped into taking on the extra teaching in order to earn more money, but it often comes at the expense of completing their dissertations in a timely manner.” But administrators say the pay cuts were a crucial part of a budgetary compromise that ensured humanities and social sciences sixth-year students would receive stipend-level funding. And according to Graduate School Dean of Strategic Initiatives Pamela Schirmeister, the University actually pays “substantially
above market rate” for non-stipend teaching. Still, Schirmeister conceded that the changes have made life difficult for seventhyear students. “I wouldn’t say [7th year students have] adjusted smoothly,” she said. “They are paid less than in the past, and we know that this can represent a financial hardship.” Christie said she has enjoyed working at the Center for Teaching and Learning, but that the pay cuts have made her last year as a graduate student one of her worst. “Given the financial pressures as well as the pressures to finish and get a job, this has been by far the most stressful year during my time at Yale,” she said. Another seventh-year humanities student, who asked to remain anonymous for privacy reasons, said the cuts forced him to teach a third course, creating mountains of grading that have weakened his dissertation and caused him unnecessary stress as he looks for a job. “If you’re in your seventh year and you’re teaching, you’re almost definitely in the job market,” said Mark Rodgers GRD ’18, who chairs the Academics and Professional Development Committee of the GSA. “The problem with the pay cut is that in the year when you have the least time to devote to finding other resources of funding in addition to teaching, you most need to find those additional sources of funding.” The funding changes — which also affect science graduate students who have already completed their teaching requirement, as well as master’s and professional students — provoked fierce backlash last spring from graduate student leaders who said the pay reduction would make living in New Haven
unaffordable. In March 2015, the GSA called for the changes to be delayed by one year so that fifthyear students planning to stay at the University for another two years could plan their finances accordingly. But Schirmeister defended the changes as a budgetary compromise that emerged from negotiations between students and administrators. “In consultation with the GSA and the faculty, we determined that sixth-year funding was a top priority, and to make that possible, we had to reduce the rate at which students not on the financial aid package are paid to teach,” Schirmeister said. But graduate students interviewed called that trade-off an unfair, punitive arrangement bound to jeopardize the financial stability of an already-vulnerable
group. “That’s a bit of a Faustian bargain that none of us was ever asked to agree to,” Rodgers said. The student who requested anonymity said the new policy treats seventh-years as if they are “delinquent or inattentive,” despite the clear difficulty of finding work straight out of graduate school. “There are simply not enough academic jobs out there to expect every doctoral candidate at Yale to get an academic job by his or her sixth year,” the student said. “The administration’s current policy refuses to acknowledge that reality.” Nearly 3,000 students are currently enrolled in GSAS. Contact DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY at david.yaffe-bellany@yale.edu .
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Students activists have consistently called for divestment.
Estabrook said FFY will continue to push for a divestment decision that is an ethical commitment rather than the kind of request to external managers that Swensen wrote in August 2014, which asked managers to consider the financial risks associated with climate change when making investment choices. The argument for divestment has gained momentum recently, spurred on by Yale’s participation in the 2015 Climate Change Conference in Paris. But while last week’s announcement may indicate that Swensen is approaching Yale’s assets with climate change in mind, complete divestment is a long way off, endowment experts interviewed said. “Yale’s values are broadly humanistic, but they are not the values that would lead to the consistent application of socially responsible investment,” said William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Commonfund Institute, an institutional investment firm. “Climate change arguments don’t change the way investment law is set up.” Many of the over 500 institutional endowments that have divested from fossil fuels are faith-based institutions. Jar-
vis said these schools often rely on moral or religious reasons, rather than economic ones, to rationalize divestment. Because 75 percent of Yale’s endowment is restricted, the Investments Office must navigate a complex network of legal agreements with donors before making a decision to divest and that universities often seek legal counsel before deciding to do so. Although the Investments Office did not specify whether the $10 million portion of the endowment that was divested came from restricted or unrestricted funds, Jarvis said he suspected the money was unrestricted and thus easier to move around without legal implications. According to the 2015 Endowment Report, around 6.8 percent of the endowment was invested in natural resources in fiscal year 2015, a decease from the 8.3 percent average of the previous four years. “The Yale stakeholder community has many different perspectives,” said Andrew Lo ’80, a professor of finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With his August 2014 letter, Swensen was building on a theory of “stranded assets,” Jarvis said. A stranded asset is an investment expected to have
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value, but which underperforms prematurely. Industries like tar sands and thermal coal — industries Yale divested from last year — could be devalued by international climate regulations. Jarvis cited the demise of Peabody Energy, a coal company which declared bankruptcy last week, as an example of the increasing instability of the fossil fuel industry. But fossil fuel companies are not the only market at risk from regulation, Lo said. Pharmaceutical companies have also been subject to restrictive pricing regulation from the federal government, he said “There’s a complicated landscape between the government and the private sector,” Lo said. But while Lo and Jarvis said universities should be cautious before making sweeping divestment decisions, other financial experts interviewed said Yale should be more focused on comprehensive divestment from greenhouse gas producing industries. Jess Gaspar, who oversees low-carbon initiatives at the Commonfund Institute, told the New Haven Register last week that Yale could significantly reduce its dependence on investments that most threaten the environment without damaging the endowment. FFY views itself as playing a
central role in helping Yale traverse these complex financial, ethical and legal questions surrounding divestment. As Yale enters uncharted territory with a $10 million fossil fuel divestment, FFY members said they believe student activism has been a key player in the debate. “Students have been critical in making not only the [Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility], but also Yale administrators more broadly, think about what an investment in fossil fuel means and the full range of ethical questions related to that investment,” Estabrook said. “We see David Swensen’s 2014 commitment as inspired in part by the work of Fossil Free Yale with the ACIR.” Estabrook added that last week’s announcement not only sent a message to other U.S. colleges and universities to consider divestment, but that it was also an encouraging signal to climate change activists on college campuses nationwide. “We recognize that even this slight shift of money is sending a political signal,” Estabrook said. “It said to the rest of the divestment movement, ‘Hey, things are moving.’” Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .
fight the stigma,” O’Boyle said. Krystn Wagner MED ’96, an HIV/AIDS specialist who treats patients at the Fair Haven Community Health Care Center, informed attendees about the breadth of resources now available to prevent HIV and AIDS. She said this year’s walk was different from previous years because it did not solely focus on people living with HIV. This year, Wagner said, she and others sought to educate the public about strategies to protect themselves from becoming HIVpositive. Wagner highlighted the efficacy of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, a prescription pill which, if taken daily, prevents the HIV virus from establishing an infection in the body — by up to 92 percent — by blocking its replication. She said while Truvada, the brand name of PrEP, is covered by private insurance, nine out of 10 people she spoke to at the walk had not heard of Truvada previously. The walk featured Elm City community members who described their experiences living with HIV/AIDS. Rev. Alexander R. Garbera, a pastor living with HIV and the first founding member of the New Haven Gay and Lesbian Community Center, opened the program with a moment of silence to commemorate the lives lost to HIV and AIDS. Victoria Wiggins, a New Haven resident who is also HIV-positive, emphasized the importance of getting tested in her speech. While some walkers personally suffer from the virus, many walked in support
or remembrance of family members who fell victim to HIV/AIDS. Carmen Rosado, a resident of Kissimmee, Florida, joined her Connecticut family this year in memory of her brother, Raymond Rosado. Rosado died from AIDS in 1992 at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and his local family members have walked for the past five years. Carmen Rosado said the walk is effective in providing support for HIV/AIDS patients and penetrating the ignorance surrounding the illness. She said her brother researched the illness before he died to educate her and her family about the methods through which the virus is transmitted, adding that at the time of his death, many members of the public believed HIV could be transmitted through touching patients or touching surfaces with which patients had come into contact. “You don’t just stop touching someone you love,” Carmen Rosado said. “You don’t give up.” But, she said, many community members remain relatively uneducated regarding the virus and its transmission. Aryssa Damron ’18, one of Yale’s organizers for the event, said she became involved with the organization last year because HIV/ AIDS advocacy still remains obscure in her small hometown in Kentucky. Proceeds from the walk benefit Mayor Toni Harp’s Task Force on AIDS — an 11-member coalition that advises city policy surrounding the virus and advocates for HIV/AIDS victims. Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?� ERNEST HEMINGWAY AMERICAN NOVELIST AND JOURNALIST
Sleep event calls for prioritizing rest BY ANDREA OUYANG STAFF REPORTER As midterm season evolves into finals week, sleep — or the lack thereof — is a pervasive complaint among students. So at 6:30 p.m. Friday evening, Commons was packed with hundreds of Yalies attending #SleepRevolution, an event designed to promote awareness of and provide resources for sleep issues among students. The event, cosponsored by The Huffington Post, Yale Office of Public Affairs & Communications, the Office of the Secretary and Vice President for Student Life, Student Wellness at Yale Health and Being Well at Yale, is part of a nationwide Huffington Post tour for Arianna Huffington’s new book, “Sleep Revolution,� which calls for a national change in the way Americans approach sleep. “I think it’s something that everyone can rally around — undergrads, grads, professional students and faculty and staff,� said Tracy George, a student wellness educator who staffed a booth at the event offering health resources. “Sleep is something that people struggle with, whether you’re in school or not, whether you’re in the working world or not.� The event featured a number of free raffle giveaways, including 13 “sleep kits� containing various items such as Bluetooth speakers and Land’s End pajamas, as well as Marpac white noise machines and BedGear mattress sets. Raffle tickets were drawn at intervals, after Meir Kryger, sleep expert and professor of medicine and clinical professor of nursing, delivered each of his thirteen “Sleep Commandments� — tips for increasing sleep quality. Among these sleep commandments were “Use the bedroom for sleep and sex only,� “Avoid bright
electronic displays at night� and “If you can’t fall asleep after 15 to 20 minutes, get out of bed and do something else that is relaxing.� Other features at #SleepRevolution included free giveaways of copies of the book “Sleep Revolution,� sleep-inducing foods and teas prepared by Yale Hospitality, Willoughby’s, and Chobani as well as IKEA room models offering examples of sleep-friendly furniture configurations. Peer Wellness Champions hosted an interactive sleep chart station, in which students placed stickers indicating the number of hours of sleep they received on an average night. As of 7 p.m., most participants had reported sleeping between seven and eight hours a night, with a large portion reporting between five to eight hours a night. Students i n te r v i e we d expressed interest in improving the quantity and quality of their sleep, but said that they found it difficult to balance demands from their schedules and workloads with a healthy sleep schedule. “I hope this [event] will be a good start to better sleep and to our [sleep] habits,� said Kyaw Sint GRD ’17, who won a sleep kit in the raffle. Sint said his workload as a graduate student often prevents him from both getting enough sleep and maintaining a consistent schedule for going to sleep and waking up. When asked about the sleep commandments, Sint said he already knew some of them, but that they were difficult to follow since he often needs to finish work late at night. Other students also expressed a combination of awareness of the need for better-quality sleep and frustration with the lack of a work-sleep balance in the university setting. “I think it’s really nice that Yale has an event dedicated to how we don’t get enough sleep here and
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The majority of attendees reported sleeping between seven and eight hours a night, with a large number reporting between five to eight hours a night. we need more, but I think it’s also a little hypocritical because of all the things we have to do,â€? said Fernanda Ribas ‘16. Ribas cited her job, for which she wakes up at 6 a.m., and her classes and extracurricular activities later in the day as obstacles to getting enough sleep. “I think it’s kind of the Yale mindset that you can do everything ‌ [and sleep is] always the first thing that we sacrifice.â€? According to a June 2014 study published in the journal Nature of Science and Sleep, 50 per-
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK MONDAY, APRIL 18 7:00 p.m. Soy andina II, directed by Mitch Teplitsky, (PerĂş). Documentary ZRUN LQ SURJUHVV 4 $ WR IROORZ ZLWK Ă€OPPDNHU Mitch Teplitsky. Part of the Latino & Iberian Film Festival At Yale - LIFFY sponsored by Latin American & Iberian Studies and co-Âsponsored by Ezra Stiles College. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
TUESDAY, APRIL 19 12:00 p.m. Monica Martinat, UniversitĂŠ de Lyon2-ÂLumière, “Justice in the Market Place: The ‘Just Price’ in Economic Theory and Practice (15th to 18th Centuries)â€? Part of the speaker series New Approaches to the Old World: Italy and the Mediterranean, 1400-Â1800 sponsored by European Studies and the Edward J. and Dorothy Clark Kempf Fund. Room 208,Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street. 4:30 p.m. Inta Mierina, Juris Spring 2016 Baltic Studies Juris Padegs Fellow, “Integration Context and Outcomes of Migrant Integration: Experiences of Latvian Migrants.â€? Sponsored by the Baltic Studies and European Studies. Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 12:00 p.m. James Pickett, Postdoctoral Fellow, Inter-ÂAsia Initiative & South Asia Studies, Yale University, “Persianate Cultures of Documentation under the Specter of Colonialism: Bukhara and Hyderabad, 1747-Â1920.â€? Part of the Brown Bag Series sponsored by South Asian Studies. Room B012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street. 4:30 p.m. Noura Erakat, George Mason University, “From Occupation to Warfare: The New Phase of Palestinian-ÂIsrael Relations.â€? Part of the CMES Colloquium sponsored by Middle East Studies. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. 4:30 p.m. Nnedi Okarofor, University of Buffalo, “Alien Invasion: African Science Fiction.â€? Part of the Fall Lecture Series sponsored by African Studies. Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
THURSDAY, APRIL 21 12:30 p.m. Efe Igor, Yale University, “Body of Shame: Encounters with Power in Southern African Examination Rooms.â€? Part of the Brown Bag Lunch Series sponsored by African Studies. Room 241, Rosenkranz Hall, 115 Prospect Street. 6:30 p.m. The Square, directed by Jehane Noujaim (USA, 2014). In Arabic and English with English subtitles. Introduction and Post-ÂFilm Discussion with Jonas Elbousty, Yale University. Part of CMES Cinema sponsored by Middle East Studies. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
THURSDAY, APRIL 21 - SATURDAY, APRIL 23 A Tribute to Tomås GutiÊrrez Alea (Dec. 11, 1928- April 16,1996). Cuban actress, Mirtha Ibarra, will present a tribute to her late husband, Cuban ÀOPPDNHU 7RPiV *XWLpUUH] $OHD DND ´7LWyQ¾ LQ KRQRU RI WKH WK DQQLYHUVDU\ RI his passing. Part of the Latino & Iberian Film Festival At Yale - LIFFY sponsored by Latin American and Iberian Studies. Luce Hall Auditorium and Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.
FRIDAY, APRIL 22 11:30 a.m. Sid Tarrow, Cornell University, “The Dark Side of Pluralism: The Ambivalences of Infrastructural Power.� Part of the CHESS Workshop sponsored by the Center for Historical Enquiry & the Social Sciences. Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street. 12:00 p.m. Rose Wellman, Princeton University, “Feeding Moral Relations: The Making of Kinship and Nation in Iran.� Part of the Colloquium Series sponsored by Iranian Studies and Middle East Studies. Room 105, Anthropology Building, 10 Sachem Street. For more information or to subscribe to receive weekly events email, please visit macmillan.yale.edu.
cent of college students reported daytime sleepiness — for which the most common cause is sleep deprivation — compared to 36 percent of adolescents and adults. Additionally, about 70 percent of students in the study reported getting less than 8 hours of sleep a night, the amount considered sufficient for young adults. Concerns about sleep are not specific to Yale, but extend to many universities across the country, George said. She added that she believes Yale students understand the
importance of sleep. But often students feel like they cannot achieve the appropriate amount of sleep due to all the work they need to get done. “It’s just the American culture and the university culture to not prioritize sleep as it should be prioritized,� George said. George expressed hope, however, that #SleepRevolution would spark discussions on how to better structure student life for healthier sleep. “Hopefully this event will be a good kickoff to a conversation
that needs to happen on campus for how we all need better sleep, because it’s not happening now, and we all need to work together, not just students, not just the administration, but everyone needs to come together and think about systems that can help them sleep better,� she said. According to the National Sleep Foundation, humans are the only mammals to willingly delay sleep. Contact ANDREA OUYANG at amdrea.ouyang@yale.edu .
North Korean activist urges awareness BY BRITTANY SMITH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend at Yale, North Korean defector Park Yeonmi shared her story of struggle, frustration — and resilience. At a lecture and discussion held by the undergraduate group Yale for North Korean Human Rights in conjunction with the United States Military Academy at West Point, 22-year-old Park stood in Davies Auditorium Saturday afternoon and advocated for awareness and action against ongoing human rights abuses in North Korea. Although American interest and involvement remains low due to the current focus on issues in the Middle East, Park said, she strongly believes students and politicians alike can work on small scales to increase awareness and effect change. Park’s appearance marked the first formal collaboration between Yale and West Point on North Korean human rights. “It is rare to escape; it is rarer to escape to America,� Park said. “I am ridiculously lucky. And I realized that in order to be free, as a price for my freedom, I would have to tell my story.� During her years in North Korea, Park lived in a normal middle-class family, with a peaceful life. Park noted that in North Korea there are only three classes: the elites in the south; “the wavering class,� the middle class found elsewhere in the north; and the bottom class, also found in the north. The bottom class lives in extreme poverty, and the middle class is just that: right in-between the worst possible existence and the best. When the North Korean government imposed a ration cut in the early 2000s, the elites — centered in Pyongyang — did not suffer. The middle and bottom classes, however, suffered a loss of 3 million people over the course of three years due to starvation. Park and her mother left North Korea for China in 2007. There, for fear of being sent back to North Korea, they allowed themselves to be sold into sex trafficking. In 2009, they escaped through the Gobi Desert to South Korea. Park now studies economics at Columbia University. Park described how education in North Korea focuses on propa-
ganda and misinformation. North Korean schools teach children only about the existence of North Korea, China, an allegedly imperialist Japan, San Francisco and somewhat about South Korea. Before escaping in 2009, Park did not even know Africa existed, and the little she was taught about South Korea held that it was colonized by the United States. Only thanks to their “Dear Leader,� formerly Kim Jong Il and now Kim Jong Un, was North Korea free from American rule, Park added. “The brainwashing is very deep,� Park said. “A lot of people are very brainwashed, especially the older generation. Someone had to tell me the truth, in private, before I knew.�
It is rare to escape; it is rarer to escape to America. PARK YEONMI North Korean Defector Open dissent and internal movements toward revolution are unthinkable, she added. According to Park, a North Korean citizen can face immediate individual sentencing to labor camps or execution, in addition to sentencing of his or her families, for so much as improperly folding a printed piece of propaganda. Attendees of the event all noted the need for an increase in awareness and exposure. Peter Han ’17, a visiting student from South Korea, emphasized a sense of responsibility and a hope for change. “I feel there is a responsibility to know what’s going on, especially in the U.S.,� said Han. “The U.S. should get involved. This is human rights. This is universal. That is why this deserves much attention.� Han also noted that the issue of North Korea’s human rights violations is now becoming more prominent in the political sphere, especially among young intellectuals. Han said he hopes this trend increases interest among Yale students as well. Malina Simard-Halm ’18, Co-President of Yale for North Korean Human Rights and an organizer of the event, shared
Han’s sentiments and added that the situation in North Korea is one of the most alarming and most egregious human rights cases in the world. Because of the severity, Simard-Halm said, Yale students should be aware of and care about the problems at hand. “[Our organization] wants to engage the military community, Yale student community and a civil-military relationship,� she told the News. “We wanted to bring two schools together that care deeply about these issues but bring different perspectives to the table.� Stephen Mettler ’18, another organizer for the event, said a major end goal would be to get the knowledge out there about stories like Park’s. He said the Yale community needs to be more aware of events not only outside the Yale bubble, but outside the American bubble as well. He said he was excited to have Park come back again after last year’s College Freedom Forum — a human rights conference co-hosted by Yale for North Korean Human Rights — and share her story once more. Both Mettler and Park said students might feel powerless in the face of an uninvolved federal government, and feel like there is no real way to contribute. However, even if the American federal government does not do much, they said, seemingly smaller measures such as spreading the message, and educating students and the public at large about the groups making change in North Korea, allows everyone to have a part. Students from West Point interviewed said the collaboration is part of an attempt at West Point to diversify the academy. “We are all Korean Americans, so we feel we should use our diversity to better serve as an American soldier,� said Ellen Cho, a junior at West Point, in reference to the contingent of Korean American West Point students who attended the conference. “Identity helps shape the importance of this event.� Several students from both Yale and West Point said this weekend’s event may lead to many more collaborations between the two institutions. Contact BRITTANY SMITH at brittany.smith@yale.edu .
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BY CAUVERI SURESH Over 40 protesters, led by Columbia Divest for Climate Justice, gathered on Friday afternoon to call for Columbia President Lee Bollinger to publicly recommend divestment from fossil fuels to the Board of Trustees and in solidarity with students who have been occupying Low Library since Thursday afternoon. Friday’s protest is part of a concerted escalation effort that began when members of Barnard Columbia Solidarity Network staged a protest in solidarity with CDCJ members who were conducting a sit-in at Low on Thursday afternoon. Sixteen students remained in Low overnight and began occupying Bollinger’s office this morning. CDCJ leaders on Friday led the march to windows on the west side of Low, where students occupying the building joined in chanting with them. Students inside Low called for Bollinger to meet with them and reiterated that they would remain there until their demands were met. “We support you. You are so brave. Braver than Bollinger will ever be,” Columbia Divest for Climate Justice member Daniela Lapidous said. Lapidous, who led Friday’s protest, said that their demands go beyond meeting with Bollinger. “For three years we have been engaging with the community, we have met with President Bollinger, we have met with the trustees, and the Earth Institute supports us. But PrezBo has refused to act,” Lapidous said at the protest. Protesters also addressed high school students visiting Columbia for Days on Campus. “Prospective students should
know this university does not va l u e our futures,” protesters chanted. “This univerCOLUMBIA sity puts profit over people.” Along with CDCJ, students from Barnard Divest, Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace and Student Worker Solidarity were among those protesting. Protesters then marched to Bollinger’s home, where members of SWS and SJP read statements of support for CDCJ where they addressed the effects of the fossil fuel industry on communities of color, poor communities and workers. Protesters then returned to Low Steps, where they remained after the protest ended. Jackson Sap, a junior at NYU and onlooker at the protest, said that it was effective to stage the protest during a time when prospective students are on campus. “It was awesome that they chose today, because I don’t think it’s fair for students to come to this school and not know what their administration is doing,” Sap said. Protesters said that failure to recommend divestment demonstrated a lack of courage on Bollinger’s part. “When our leaders lack courage, we must step up and demonstrate what real leadership looks like,” Lapidous said. “That’s why we are sitting in, that’s why we will not leave until PrezBo recommends divestment.” Ainsley Brandowski, Larson Holt, Aaron Holmes and Jessica Spitz contributed reporting.
BY C. RAMSEY FAHS Charlie Storey, president of Harpoon Brewery, announced his resignation as graduate president of the Porcellian Club and further apologized for comments he made last week about sexual assault and all-male final clubs at Harvard. “I am sad that I have disappointed so many people that I care about,” Storey wrote in a statement posted on Harpoon’s website. “As I think it is best for all involved, I have resigned my position as the graduate president of the Porcellian Club.” In a “Letter to Employee Owners” Storey apologized again for the statement he sent to The Crimson criticizing the Harvard administration’s scrutiny of final clubs and defending the 225-yearold Porcellian Club. Storey’s letter kicked off a wave of national media attention, with many news outlets and public figures criticizing his claim that “forcing singlegender organizations to accept members of the opposite sex could potentially increase, not decrease the potential for sexual misconduct.” Storey’s most recent apology responded directly to criticism he said he received for an initial apology on Wednesday, when he wrote that he “chose [his] words poorly and it came out all wrong.” “By saying earlier that my words were misinterpreted, I did not take full responsibility for what I said,” Storey wrote in the most recent statement. “I am doing that now. Plain and simple what I said was wrong. No excuses. I want to be clear here that I am apologizing for
what I said, not just for wh o I offended with my words.” StoHARVARD r e y ’ s statement and subsequent
apologies come at a time of unprecedented pressure from Harvard administrators for the historically single-gender final clubs to adopt gender-neutral membership policies. Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana previously issued a deadline of April 15 for final club leaders to inform
him whether or not they intend to go coed. It is unclear what penalties a club may face if it does not go coed, though last week, Khurana suggested one possible sanction could be barring undergraduates in allmale final clubs from holding leadership positions and receiving fellowships.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 19 8:30 AM Ernesto Zedillo: The Conundrum of International Reforms Stalling When They are Most Needed. Former President of Mexico and Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization Ernesto Zedillo will be joined by Qi Ye, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center, via video conference from Yale Center Beijing in this discussion. Evans Hall (165 Whitney Ave.), Rm. 4430.
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n Saturday, April 16, Yale’s class of 2019 participated in Freshman Olympics. They competed in a wide variety of events, ranging from dodgeball, to tug of war, to a dance-off. After the day’s activities were over, Trumbull College emerged this year’s champions — their second first-place finish since the event’s creation. OTIS BAKER reports.
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YALE MEN’S GOLF B-TEAM WINS SPRING INVITATIONAL The Yale men’s golf team officially placed third at its Spring Invitational on Saturday with a team score of 37-over, but its unofficial B-team, made up of captain Joe Willis ’16, Henry Cassriel ’18, Jake Leffew ’19 and James Park ’17, posted the event’s best score of 34-over.
“We don’t like to lose, but it was an incredible game.” ANDY SHAY HEAD COACH, MEN’S LACROSSE YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2016 · yaledailynews.com
Perfect season ends against Brown MEN’S LACROSSE
BY MATTHEW MISTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In a game to decide Ivy League supremacy and order amongst the top teams in the nation, the No. 1/2 Yale men’s lacrosse team dropped its first contest of the season at the hands of No. 4/5 Brown in front of a packed and raucous crowd on Saturday. Brown prevailed 14–12 in a windy, fastpaced battle in Providence, Rhode Island between the top two Ivy League teams despite trailing by as much as four in the third quarter. Yale (10–1, 4–1 Ivy) took a 9–6 lead into halftime, but Brown (10–1, 4–0) dominated faceoffs and ground balls in the second half to power past the Bulldogs and put itself in prime position to claim the regular season Ancient Eight title and home-field advantage in the Ivy League Tournament. “This was a big gut check for the team,” Yale captain and defender Michael Quinn ’16 said. “They got a lot of 50–50 ground balls which translated into possessions which they cashed in on. We didn’t do as well on the faceoff wing in the second half.” Despite its second half woes, Yale performed decently at the faceoff X in the first half given that Brown’s faceoff man Will Gural came into the contest-winning 68 percent of his draws, the third-highest rate in the nation. Yale midfielder Jonathan Reese ’16 won the opening faceoff, leading to a goal by longstick midfielder Reilly Naton ’16 just 14 seconds into the contest. Yale finished the half having won seven of 16 faceoffs, neutralizing Gural’s effectiveness. After midfielder Jason Alessi ’16 scored in transition to give Yale a 2–0 lead, Brown answered with two goals within 11 seconds of each other, demonstrating an explosiveness that eventually sunk the Bulldogs. Yale countered Brown’s momentum with SEE MEN’S LACROSSE PAGE B3
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The loss to the Bears will drop the Bulldogs from the top of the national rankings in the coaches poll, a spot Yale has held since the end of March.
Lightweight upset highlights crew weekend
Men end five-year drought against Harvard BY AYLA BESEMER STAFF REPORTER Notching first-place victories in 10 of the 19 events, the Yale men’s track and field team snapped a five-year losing streak to Harvard on Saturday in the Bulldogs’ annual dual meet with their rival.
TRACK & FIELD The Yale men scored in 17 events en route to a narrow 83–80 win that may have been wider had Yale not dropped out of the 4x400-meter relay after already securing the meet win. Meanwhile, the Yale women’s team fell to Harvard by a more lopsided score of 95–58, notching two contested and four uncontested first-place finishes over the course of 19 events. “We hadn’t had an outdoor meet
where our whole team competed until Harvard–Yale, so it was awesome getting to see everyone compete and do so well,” men’s hurdler Torren Peebles ’17 said. “It’s a huge step towards our bigger picture goals for the season, and it gives us some great momentum heading into the huge meets we have coming up.” Paedyn Gomes ’18 and Marc-Andre Alexandre ’17 claimed four of the Yale men’s 10 victories. Gomes nabbed a wind-aided personal best of 14.24 in the 110-meter hurdles, and in 400-meter hurdles, an event in which he had never previously competed in his career, Gomes also took first with a time of 56.67. Meanwhile, Alexandre also achieved a windaided personal best with a 21.62 in the 200-meter dash, and a time of 48.57 won him the 400-meter dash by a wide marSEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE B3
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The Yale lightweight varsity eight defeated No. 1 Cornell, the defending national champion. BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale entered this weekend already boasting the No. 1 heavyweight crew in the country. After a pair of clutch wins by the Yale lightweight crew on Saturday and Sunday, yet another Eli team will likely join the ranks of the nation’s best this week.
CREW The Yale lightweight varsity eight,
currently tied with Columbia for No. 2 in the nation in the USRowing poll, defeated Columbia and No. 6 Penn on Saturday before upsetting No. 1 Cornell at home by almost seven seconds on Sunday, continuing an undefeated spring season. Meanwhile, the Yale heavyweight crew won all four of its races against No. 12 Penn and No. 18 Columbia this weekend, and the No. 5 Yale women’s team won two of its four races. The Eli women lost the Eisenberg Cup against No. 9 Princeton and No. 11 USC, but the varsity four
remains undefeated.
MAJOR VICTORIES FOR LIGHTWEIGHTS
In addition to the first varsity eight’s perfect weekend, all other Yale lightweight boats won their races on Saturday against Columbia and Penn before falling to Cornell the next day. “The results are what they are,” head coach Andy Card said. “The crews executed up to their current
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In the men’s 3,000-meter race, Trevor Reinhart ’19 was the lone point-scorer for Yale with a second-place finish and time of 8:24.36.
THE NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE SHUTOUT INNINGS TOSSED BY YALE SOFTBALL PITCHER LINDSAY EFFLANDT ’17 ON SUNDAY VERSUS HARVARD. Besides pitching effectively in both Sunday games, she threw eight innings while allowing just two runs on Saturday.
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“You can learn something new everyday, especially if you don’t know very much.” VIN SCULLY 67-YEAR BROADCASTER OF THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS
Bulldogs come up empty on road W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 seven straight Yale shots to open the second half but the Bulldogs would never notch an equalizer. Once again, it was Leto who took control as she scored her fourth goal and then dished out her first assist of the day to push the lead back up to three and take the air out of Yale’s comeback. With her scoring average now boosted to 3.45 goals per game, Leto currently ranks 10th in the nation. The Bulldogs put together one last push to tie, as Wackerle scored again, but Dartmouth again responded in full force, scoring three straight to squash the comeback attempt and ice the victory. In the low-scoring Yale performance, attacker Tess McEvoy ’17 was held without a goal for the first time in eight outings. Over those eight prior contests, the team’s leading scorer — McEvoy’s 32 goals are 18 more than the next highest, Hanley — averaged more than three goals per game. “Dartmouth’s game plan was definitely to shut [McEvoy] down,” defender Victoria Moore ’17 said. “They face-guarded her and it was difficult for her to get a shot off. This week we will get back to the basics and playing our game no matter what the other team’s defense throws at us.” Dartmouth goalie freshman Charlotte Wahle, who entered the game with the 11th-worst save percentage in the nation, had arguably the best game of her young career. Wahle tied her personal best for saves with 10 and posted her sec-
ond-highest single-game save percentage, at 66.7 percent, in slowing the Bulldogs. “We were generating shots but couldn’t get enough to fall,” head coach Erica LaGrow said. “A
few of our shots hit the post during critical moments of the game. We needed that to change the momentum.” Many of the peripheral stats reflected Walker’s belief that the
game might have been closer than the final scoreline suggested. Dartmouth outshot Yale by only two, it acquired only one more groundball and actually committed three more turnovers than the Elis. Still,
the final score pulled Dartmouth even with Yale in the Ancient Eight standings, as the two teams are now tied for fifth. The Elis play their second-tolast game of the regular season
against Penn next Saturday at 3 p.m. with a chance to climb into the top half of the Ivy League. Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .
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While Yale boasts an impressive 4–2 record at home, the Bulldogs are just 1–6 on the road.
Yale drops three to Crimson BASEBALL FROM PAGE B4 The junior and his fellow Saturday starter, Politz, have emerged as rocks from the mound in the Ivy League season. With Politz pitching the early game and Ford taking the late game in three conference weekends in 2016, the two have pitched 43.1 out of a possible 48 innings while recording a 3.55 combined ERA. “Scott and I just try to go out on Saturday and get a good start to the weekend, and establish our team as contenders,” Ford said. “We know how important it is to give our team a chance and save the bullpen as much as possible in our starts which can help a lot on Sundays.” Ford’s opponent, Harvard righthander Sean Poppen, posted a similar performance, allowing just two earned runs and four hits in seven innings, but was able to get the win. On Sunday, Crimson starter Ian Miller one-upped his teammates, nearly tossing a complete-game shutout in the weekend’s only blowout win for either team. “We ran into some pretty decent pitching this weekend,” White said. “All four of Harvard’s starters threw really well. They had hard fastballs with movement and they had command of their offspeed pitches for the most part so that made it tough for us to hit.” The Bulldogs managed to break up Miller’s shutout bid in the bottom of the final inning, when Lawson singled and stole second before being driven in by a single from catcher Andrew Herrera ’17. The run was too little, too late, as the Crimson had already scored nine times
off a combination of five Yale pitchers to put the game far out of reach. Harvard scored two runs in the top of the first and added four more in the fourth to take the early lead off of righthanded pitcher Mason Kukowski ’18, and after Kukowski left midway through the fourth frame, the Crimson built upon that margin with three more runs off Yale’s relief pitchers. Harvard carried that offense into the second contest, racking up 15 hits over the nine-inning game and jumping out to a 3–0 lead after the top of the first inning. The Crimson added a run in the second and did so again in the fourth — the same inning in which the Bulldogs pushed across their only runs of the contest. Center fielder Tim DeGraw ’19 and first baseman Alex Hoeschel ’17 each had RBI singles during the frame, though left fielder Tom Ruddy ’18 and catcher Alex Boos ’18 grounded out to leave two runners stranded on base. Right-hander Chris Lanham ’16 was charged with the loss in the start after giving up nine hits and four earned runs in 2.1 innings. Righty Drew Scott ’18 was effective in limiting the damage, however, as the sophomore entered in the third and surrendered just one earned run while fanning seven over the course of the final 6.2 innings. In the contest, third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 finished 2–2 with two walks from the No. 3 spot in the lineup. The Elis will take the field again on Wednesday when they host Wesleyan at Yale Field at 3:30 p.m. Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .
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Starting pitcher Chasen Ford ’17 tossed 7.1 innings and gave up just three earned runs in the second game on Saturday, but the Bulldogs lost due to late scoring by the Crimson.
Offense struggles in 1–3 weekend
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Allison Skinner ’18 drilled a game-winning RBI double in the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader versus Harvard. SOFTBALL FROM PAGE B4 pitching duel. Despite pushing a run across in each of the first four innings, Yale was unable to hold onto its leads of 3–0 and 4–2. Pitcher Terra Jerpbak ’19 was saddled with the loss after allowing five runs over 4.1 innings, including a pair of home runs in the fifth that gave Harvard a lead it would not surrender. At the plate, the Elis saw strong performances from a couple of their up-the-middle position players. Catcher Camille Weisenbach ’17 was the only Bulldog to record more than one hit in the first matchup. Second baseman Laina Do ’17 went 2–3 with an RBI and a run scored in the second game of the afternoon. However, the team was unable to score the runners in scoring position, most notably in a bases-loaded walkoff opportunity in the bottom of the seventh inning of the opener. Sunday’s split doubleheader showed off two ends of the spectrum for Yale. Among the positives were another two stellar pitcher performances from Efflandt who threw a total of 21.2 innings this weekend, while allowing a remarkable two runs. Among the negatives were lackluster batting performances and an especially short outing for pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18. Yale battled through the first game of the day and eventually estab-
lished a one-run lead that was just enough for the win behind the arm of Efflandt. The run-scoring hit was a double off of the bat of third baseman Allison Skinner ’17. Skinner fouled off several balls making for a long at-bat before scoring Sydney Ginsberg ’18. The moment marked a point of pride for head coach Jen Goodwin. “With two outs in the bottom of the sixth, to see Sydney Ginsberg get on base, I just knew Skinner would come through,” Goodwin said. “Moments like that make me so proud to be the coach of this team.” Skinner and Ginsberg’s two hits marked the only two off of Morgan Groom, who pitched her second complete game of the weekend. The Crimson lost to the Bulldogs despite outhitting them 6–2 in Sunday’s first game, as Efflandt stranded five runners during her shutout victory. Fortune did not continue to favor Yale later in the afternoon, however. The opening third of an inning was a long one for the Elis. Casalino gave up six runs, which sullied her in-conference ERA, inflating it to a stillrespectable 3.73. Casalino left the game after facing seven batters and recording only one out, her shortest outing of her 19 appearances this season. She handed the ball off to Efflandt who was lights-out for the rest of the game, holding the Crimson scoreless for the remainder of the game to com-
plete a scoreless 13.2 innings of work on the day. However, those six runs were more than enough for Harvard to defeat a Yale team lacking offensive punch. Harvard pitcher Kathleen Duncan managed to no-hit the Bulldogs through five innings before Yale introduced pinch-hitter Cristina Teems ’19. With only three previous at-bats this season and none in Ivy play, Teems knocked a single to short to break up the no-hitter and record her first consecutive hit — the hit would also be Yale’s sole one of the loss. “I had the opportunity to try to get a hit and I was able to get the job done,” Teems said. “I didn’t realize at the time that it was the only hit of the game and I think that finding out after the game that I’d busted a Harvard pitcher’s no-hitter felt better than knowing that I got my first hit.” After this weekend, Yale is tied for last with Brown in the North Division. The Bulldogs next head to Fairfield to play Sacred Heart before taking on defending Ivy League Champion Dartmouth, which remains undefeated in Ancient Eight play, in Hanover. The first game of the doubleheader against Sacred Heart will begin at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Contact FLORA LIPSKY at flora.lipsky@yale.edu .
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“I want to practice to the point where it’s almost uncomfortable how fast you shoot, so that in the game things kind of slow down.” STEPHEN CURRY 2015 NBA MVP
Top-ranked Elis stumble MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE B1 a few goals of its own and was set to carry a 5–3 advantage into the second quarter until Brown attackman Kylor Bellistri scored his second goal of the day with eight seconds to play in the period to cut Yale’s lead to 5–4. Although the first quarter and much of the game was played at the frenetic pace that has characterized Brown this season, Yale head coach Andy Shay insisted the quick tempo was not a factor in the defeat, noting the shot difference between the two teams on Saturday. The Elis attempted 42 shots to Brown’s 37. Still, that total for Brown marked a season-high for any Yale opponent, as Bulldog opposition had averaged 28.5 shots per game. Both teams opened the second quarter with a nearly nine-minute scoring drought, a rarity for each side considering Brown entered the contest as the nation’s most prolific offense with 16.9 goals per game, with Yale not far behind at 13.3 per game. Yale attackman Shane Carr ’16 snapped the scoreless stretch with an extra-man goal from a narrow angle to give the Bulldogs a 6–4 advantage. The man-up unit was a bright spot for the Elis, who converted on three of their four opportunities. However, Gural won the ensuing faceoff for Brown and added an unassisted goal. He finished the day with two goals and two assists, a productive day for the faceoff man and a clear show of Brown’s ability to strike quickly from the faceoff X. Three straight goals gave Yale a
9–5 lead, the largest of the day by either team, with 13 seconds remaining in the first half. The Bulldogs received contributions up and down the lineup, as nine different players scored Yale’s nine goals in the half. However, the tide turned for the Bulldogs when the nation’s leading scorer, Brown attackman Dylan Molloy, scored his first of the contest as time expired in the half. Molloy’s strike blew life into his team and the 3,400-plus fans in attendance before the intermission, but he was quick to credit his teammates for Brown’s second-half success. “The key in the second half was our faceoff play and getting back to the basics,” Molloy said. Brown secured 11 of the 13 faceoffs in the second half, while also scooping up 22 of the 33 ground balls. Although Reeves scored with 11:05 remaining in the third quarter to put Yale up by four once again, Brown tallied the next six goals. Molloy provided three of them en route to a fivegoal performance, two more than any other player for either team. Yale was held scoreless for 16:26 of game time after the Reeves goal, until midfielder Eric Scott ’17 reduced the deficit to 12–11 with just under 10 minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. Scott had a chance to tie with 3:48 left, but his attempt hit the post, the second Yale shot of the fourth quarter to ricochet off the cage. Brown goalie Jack Kelly made three crucial saves in the final period on a day when the nation’s top goalie by save percentage — Kelly entered Saturday with a 63 percent mark — stopped 48 percent
of the shots he faced. “This was definitely a great result for us,” Kelly said. “Yale is a great team and really well-coached. We knew it would be a battle. We just made more plays.” Bellistri, the fourth-highest scorer in the country despite being overshadowed at times this year by Molloy, added his third goal of the game with 2:32 remaining to give Brown a 13–11 advantage. Soon thereafter, however, Yale midfielder Michael Keasey ’16 finished an outside shot on an extraman opportunity to bring the Bulldogs within one with 1:24 to play. But following the trend of the whole second half, Brown won the ensuing faceoff and bled the clock as Molloy added his fifth goal of the game on an empty net with 15 seconds to play. “We don’t like to lose but it was an incredible game and both teams played hard,” Shay said. The Bulldogs will have to recover quickly, as they face another top10 opponent next weekend. No. 6/7 Albany visits Reese Stadium on Saturday in Yale’s final nonconference matchup of the regular season. Also in the picture for the Elis is a potential rematch with Brown in the Ivy League Tournament, which begins on May 6. “There is some solace in the fact that we might run into them again down the road,” Quinn said. Yale defeated Brown 11–10 in the Ivy League semifinals last year. Contact MATTHEW MISTER at matthew.mister@yale.edu .
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Brown’s offense was the first to score more than 10 goals versus the stout Yale defense.
Men win, women fall against Harvard
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Frances Schmiede ’17 and Shannon McDonnell ’16 placed second and third, respectively, in the women’s 800-meter run. TRACK & FIELD FROM PAGE B1 gin of 0.58 seconds. Both Gomes and Alexandre also competed on the 4x100-meter relay team, which started the meet strong with a season-best 41.96 and defeated Harvard by 0.87 seconds. Eli distance runners added another two first-place finishes, with Duncan Tomlin ’16 leading the 3,000meter steeplechase and James Randon ’17 winning the 1,500-meter run. In the 800-meter run Alexander McDonald ’16 placed third, while in the 3,000-meter run, Trevor Reinhart ’19 took second. “[The meet] was a good way to test us to see if we could close it out and have everyone perform at their best when we needed them to,” Gomes said. “We have had a good team energy and unity that’s been going on.” In the field events, Yale athletes scored in every event in which they competed, including the top two places in both high jump and pole vault. Michael Koller ’18 and Cody Clements ’19 jumped 1.97 meters and 1.92 meters, respectively, while captain Brendan Sullivan ’16 and Austin Laut ’19 vaulted 5.10 and 5.00 meters. In hammer throw, Luke Persichetti ’17 claimed first with a personal best 50.85 meters, while Marcus Downs ’19 claimed a second-place personal best in discus, throwing 46.77 meters. In shot put, Jacob Hoops ’18 finished second with a distance of 14.78 meters, while Persichetti took third. “This year we’ve had a lot less injuries than we used to have,” Laut said. “I think we are doing just the right amount of training on the track versus in the gym, just to better our bodies and make us stronger. Our team camaraderie and teamwork is increasing.” The women’s team racked up four of its victories for the day in track events, including the only two contested Eli victories on the day. The highlight was the 3,000-meter run, in which all three top-place finishes went to Bulldog runners. With a time of 9:48.49, Elizabeth McDonald ’16 paced
a nine-runner field that included three athletes from Harvard. Captain Sydney Cureton ’16 also beat out two Harvard competitors for first in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.81 seconds, 35 hundredths ahead of the second-place finisher. The Bulldogs ended the 4x100-meter relay with a 49.81 finish time, claiming the first-place points despite not having competition from Harvard. Also without competition from Harvard, Rachel Jones ’17 took first-place marks in the 3,000meter steeplechase, Kate Simon ’17 won the hammer throw and Rachel Wofford ’17 garnered first-place points in the triple jump. In the 800-meter run, Frances Schmiede ’17 notched a second-place finish — and the fifth-best score in Yale history — with a personal best of 2:08.61. “I think that this weekend was a great starting point for our team,” Simon said. “Going up against Harvard at this point in the season is really helpful for us because we can see where we stand. It was a great competitive effort, making sure we were beating the girls running next to us. Harvard is a very competitive team, and even though we didn’t win, coming close to them and giving them a run for their money was really good.” Yale enters championship season on May 7 and 8 with the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, followed by the ECAC and IC4A Championships on May 13 through 15. NCAA East Preliminaries occur in late May, and NCAA Championships take place at Oregon in early June. Next up for the Bulldogs is the Virginia Challenge, hosted by the University of Virginia next weekend. “We are very excited,” Sullivan said. “I think the one thing a lot of people have to keep in mind is that this is just a stepping stone to performing well at outdoor Heptagonals … Even though we are very excited, we are still looking towards the future and not getting complacent early on.” Contact AYLA BESEMER at ayla.besemer@yale.edu .
Lightweight varsity eight upsets No. 1 Cornell CREW FROM PAGE B1 capabilities at the moment in the two regattas, and it’s given the coaching staff valuable insight into how to proceed.” The Bulldogs notched their first win of the day early in Philadelphia. After starting strong, the fourth varsity eight built on its lead en route to an 11-second victory. The next two races were more closely contested, but still dominant performances from the Elis. The third varsity eight was able to distance itself slightly more than one length from Columbia, which finished sec-
ond, and ultimately posted a time of 5:54.0 on the 2,000-meter course. The second varsity eight also won with open water, earning a time of 5:47.2, compared to 5:54.5 for Columbia, which placed second. The competition concluded with the first varsity eight race, which the Bulldogs won by a length over Columbia. Penn finished more than 30 seconds behind Yale. On Sunday, the Bulldogs stayed at home to race Cornell, the defending national champion. The Big Red earned a commanding victory in the fourth
varsity eight race, finishing 13.7 seconds clear of the Bulldogs. The third varsity eight race was closer, with Cornell crossing the finish line less than two seconds ahead. In the second varsity eight race, Yale gave up its early lead of a length and ultimately fell 5:44.46 to 5:41.99. Yale, however, managed to earn its sole win of the day in the event’s most important race. The first varsity eight led from start to finish and ultimately won by almost seven seconds. The lightweights will next travel to Hanover, New Hampshire on Saturday to race No. 9
Dartmouth for the Durand Cup.
WOMEN’S VARSITY EIGHT FALLS TO PRINCETON
The Yale women’s team had mixed results against Princeton and USC in New Jersey, losing the varsity eight Eisenberg Cup but winning two other races. Princeton won the first varsity eight race by a length, while video-review concluded that Yale had tied USC for second with a time of 6:33.1. The Bulldogs fared better in the second varsity eight, emerging victorious with a time more than three seconds faster than the Tigers and 16 faster than
the Trojans. Yale lost the third varsity eight race by nine seconds before posting its biggest victory of the day, in the varsity four race. Yale won with open water, earning a time almost seven seconds faster than USC. With this additional win, the varsity four is still undefeated through six races in the spring season. “Right now we are working in all boats to reach our top speed in the next three to four weeks,” captain Colleen Maher ’16 said. “This is an important time in our season, and every boat wants to make improvements, whether coming off of a loss or a win. The week-by-week results are just indications of where every team is in their development, and all we need to focus on is making our own boats go as fast as possible.” The women will stay at home next weekend, set to race Radcliffe (Harvard) for the Case Cup.
HEAVYWEIGHTS DOMINATE
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The Yale heavyweight crew, currently the No. 1 team in the nation, won all four of its races this weekend.
The nation’s top-ranked heavyweight crew had a successful weekend, sweeping Columbia and Penn throughout every race in Philadelphia. “Overall, the performance of the entire squad of boats was very pleasing,” captain Hubert Trzybinski ’16 said. “There was nothing that we really can complain about. Our coach said at the end that he [was] very proud and con-
tent with our performance.” Yale’s third and fourth varsity eight competed in the same race against Columbia’s and Penn’s third varsity boats. Despite this abnormality, both boats still placed in front of the Lions and the Quakers, a testament to the depth of the Yale team. The third varsity came in first with a time of 5:40.4, and the fourth varsity came in second with a time of 5:49.2, two seconds faster than Penn. The next race of the day was the second varsity eight, which was hotly contested down to the final meters. After beginning to pull away at the 600-meter mark, the Bulldogs withstood a late Quaker comeback to win by 1.9 seconds. The first varsity boat raced next and emphatically earned the Blackwell Cup with a time of 5:26.9, compared to 5:43.4 for Penn and 5:45.1 for Columbia. The first varsity and second varsity boats remained undefeated this season. Trzybinski said that the string of successes validated the team’s efforts, but added that the team has a tough weekend ahead and would not be overconfident. Yale will seek to continue its success with races against No. 8 Cornell and No. 3 Princeton on Saturday for the Carnegie Cup. Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .
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“I expect to go nine and get 27 outs every time I step on that mound. I take a lot of pride to give those relievers that day off.” DAVID PRICE FIVE-TIME MLB ALL-STAR
Bulldogs win one, drop three to Harvard BASEBALL
Efflandt ’17 shines despite team struggles BY FLORA LIPSKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale softball team remains mired in last place in the Ivy League’s North Division following a disappointing weekend against Harvard at home.
SOFTBALL The Bulldogs (12–26, 5–7 Ivy) entered play on Saturday with high hopes for their four showdowns with the Crimson (20–14, 9–3), but instead were met with three frustrating losses. The first two games of the series continued the trend of tight inconference losses for Yale as it fell 2–0 in an eight-inning affair before dropping a tight 5–4 second game. The team did win Sunday’s by a 1–0 margin, but the redemption did not last long as Yale took its worst beating of the Ivy season in a 6–0 loss to cap the weekend. “We expect to continue to compete and win, especially against our Ivy opponents,” captain and right fielder Allie Souza ’16 said. “We respect the competition in our league this year but also realize that we are
good enough to beat any of these teams if we do the little things right.” In a faceoff with Harvard pitcher Morgan Groom, righty Lindsay Efflandt ’17 put together a gem on the mound. She and Groom matched zeroes for the first seven frames of the game, forcing extra innings in which the Crimson lineup up finally posted two runs on the board. To do so, Harvard smacked a pair of doubles as part of a three-hit, gamedeciding inning. Though Efflandt took the loss, it marked a continuation of her strong conference season. Efflandt allowed no runs on only four hits up until the eighth inning. So far this year, she has a 1.56 ERA in 49.1 Ivy innings. “I’ve always loved competing against Harvard because they way they hit is just very good for me,” Efflandt said. “It’s easy to get them off balance and you can [do that] with the off-speed pitches and throwing outside so they have a tough time.” Saturday’s second game also came down to the wire, though not because of a SEE SOFTBALL PAGE B2
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Yale was outhit 36–22 and outscored 22–9 over the course of four games against the Crimson. BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER Yale and Harvard entered this weekend’s pair of doubleheaders at opposite ends of the Ivy League’s Red Rolfe Division — the Bulldogs in first by a clear margin, the Crimson four games behind in last place. But after the four contests, a 1–3 record against Harvard has slowed down the Bulldogs’ march toward a divisional title. Following a close 3–2 triumph in the first game, Yale (12–22–1, 7–5 Ivy) dropped the final three games this weekend to the Crimson (12–19, 5–7) by scores of 6–3, 9–1 and 5–2. The three losses lessened the Bulldogs’ divisional lead over Dartmouth from three
games to just one heading into a four-game battle with the Big Green next weekend. “We battled, we fought and we never lost enthusiasm,” designated hitter Harrison White ’17 said. “Moving forward, we have to keep playing with that heart and that energy and I’m sure we will be alright. All we can do is take care of our game … At the end of the day, as long as we play to our potential, I am confident we will have success.” The Bulldogs struck first during the early game on Saturday, scoring two runs in the bottom of the first inning on RBI singles from left fielder Brent Lawson ’16 and White. In the top of the second inning, however, the Crimson countered with two runs of
its own off a sacrifice fly and a run-scoring triple. The triple was one of just three hits allowed by Yale right-hander Scott Politz ’19, who started the game for the Bulldogs and struck out seven. He did not allow another run to score after the second inning. The game was Politz’s fourth consecutive complete game, and resulted in his second straight win when a Harvard throwing error in the bottom of the fifth brought home Yale second baseman Simon Whiteman ’19 to produce the go-ahead run in a 3–2 win for the Elis. Back-and-forth scoring resulted in another 3–2 Yale lead late into Saturday’s second contest, with two of those Eli runs
coming on a home run by shortstop Tom O’Neill ’16 in the fifth inning. Just as before, the Bulldogs held that advantage through seven innings, but the nineinning contest went awry in the penultimate frame. Two passed balls and a hit batsman by relief pitcher Griffin Dey ’19 gave the Crimson a lead, and two more Crimson players scored after Dey was replaced by left-hander Kumar Nambiar ’19. Despite a no-decision in the 6–3 Yale loss, starter Chasen Ford ’17 continued what has been a strong conference season, giving up five hits and three earned runs in his 7.1 innings of work. SEE BASEBALL PAGE B2
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Pitcher Lindsay Efflandt ’17 allowed just two runs in 21.2 innings of pitching this weekend.
Dartmouth doubles up Yale, extends Eli losing streak BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s lacrosse team traveled north over the weekend to face Dartmouth, where it only mustered half its opponent’s goals, falling 10–5 and thus dipping below 0.500 in Ivy League play for the first time since March 3.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE At the end of the up-and-down game, the Bulldogs (5–8, 2–3 Ivy) fell to extend their longest winless streak of the season to four games while the Big Green (6–6, 2–3) extended its own run by winning its fifth consecutive home game to remain undefeated at Scully-Fahey Field. Saturday’s contest was more competitive than the scoreline may indicate, as Yale remained within three goals of its opponent until the final five minutes. But in the end, Dartmouth midfleider Jaclyn Leto — one of the nation’s top scorers — proved too much for Yale to handle. “I don’t think the final score is entirely reflective of the strong effort we put forth on Saturday,” captain and defender Kate Walker ’16 said. “Our defense was particularly gritty, and the entire team hustled and fought to the very end. Ultimately, it wasn’t enough to put us ahead of Dartmouth but I’m proud of the toughness we exhibited and I think that it bodes well for our final two regular season games.” Yale was the first to strike with attacker Hope Hanley ’17 scoring off an assist from attacker Kiwi Comizio ’18 nearly seven minutes into the afternoon. Yale was able to hold Leto, and the entire Dartmouth squad, scoreless for more than 10 minutes, but the prolific scorer could not be contained much longer, eventually beating the Eli defense to knot the game at one-apiece. Less than a minute later, Comizio notched one of her own to push Yale ahead once more. At that point Dartmouth initiated the game’s first lopsided run, scoring four unanswered goals, two more of which came from Leto. Dartmouth carried a 5–2 advantage into the locker room at halftime, after outshooting Yale 12–8 and controlling seven of eight draw controls. The Elis came out of the intermission with a pair of goals, the first from attacker Lauren Wackerle ’16 and the second from Comizio, to cut the deficit to just one. The surge came in the midst of SEE WOMEN’S LACROSSE PAGE B2
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Goalie Sydney Marks ’18 made all six of her saves in the first half of Saturday’s loss to Dartmouth.