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CROSS CAMPUS

THE GREEN DAY IN THE HEART OF THE ELM CITY

SEXUAL ASSAULT

CLIMATE CHANGE

LIGHTWEIGHT CREW

Committee considers broadening definition of physical helplessness

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Elis begin five weeks of season competition against Navy

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Forum hosts grade debate

Lawful activism. Members

of the Yale Law School community have submitted amici curiae briefs to the Supreme Court in Hollingsworth v. Perry, which will decide whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits California from defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Law professors Harold Koh, William Eskridge LAW ’78 and Bruce Ackerman LAW ’67 joined alumni and legal experts to defend samesex marriage and urge the Supreme Court to do the same.

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system to a 100-point scale and a rubric for grade distribution.

If adopted, the changes will come into effect in the 2014–’15 academic year. But student opinion at the event had no clear consensus, and YCC Vice President Danny Avraham ’15 said at the end of the forum that he thinks the faculty should postpone their vote.

“The proposed changes could

When Yale Law School sends out its coveted admission letters, the nation’s topranked law school may not be guaranteeing an equal shot at success for all members of its future classes, a new report has found.

According to a study compiled by 12 Law School students this academic year, a majority of J.D. candidates who responded to a survey the team distributed last fall believe that their class background and socio-economic status have influenced their experiences at the school. Based on 243 student responses to the survey, the report highlights student concerns related to class differences — such as access to informal networks that are only available to upper-class students — and recommends strategies for addressing them.

Most students and professors inter-

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It’s not so lonely at the top. Roughly 83 percent of

candidates accepted to Yale Law School for the 2012–’13 academic year decided to matriculate, making Yale Law the most popular law school in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report. At a time when many law schools are witnessing a significant drop in application numbers, Yale’s yield continues to rise.

According to an annual survey of 190 U.S. law schools, Yale’s yield is more than three times the national average. Boola boola.

YALE COLLEGE COUNCIL SURVEY

BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER In the days leading up to the April faculty meeting, at which professors will consider changing Yale College grading policies, members of the committee that proposed the changes met with roughly 60 students for nearly three hours Wednesday evening.

At the forum, which was hosted by the Yale College Council and

included members of the Yale College Ad-Hoc Committee on Grading, students shared questions and concerns about the committee’s preliminary report. The document, initially presented at the February Yale College faculty meeting, states that 62 percent of grades awarded at Yale College last spring fell in the A-range, and recommends measures to combat this grade compression, including a transition from a letter-grade

Study finds class affects Law School experience

Frat city? Rumor has it that

rapper Tyga will bring his “Rack City” moves to Harvard on April 13 to perform at the school’s spring concert, Yardfest. According to The Harvard Crimson, the news of Tyga’s possible appearance was leaked after two undergrads wrote a computer program to access a hidden image of the rapper on the Yardfest website. Tyga is also scheduled to perform at UPenn’s Spring Fling just one day before going to Harvard.

In memoriam. Applications

are currently being accepted for the Marina Keegan Award for Excellence in Playwriting, an annual award established to honor the memory of Marina Keegan ’12, a prolific writer and activist who died last May. The award is jointly sponsored by the English and Theater Studies departments, and is open to graduating seniors in both departments as well as those who have studied playwriting at Yale.

Applications are due at noon on Monday, April 8.

Safety alert. When a fire alarm

goes off, people are typically expected to run away from the potential danger. But not at Yale — at least, not yesterday afternoon in KBT Café when an impromptu fire alarm had almost no effect on nearby students. According to one eyewitness, café workers had to step in and force students to leave their studies and flee from impending doom.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1929 The League of Nations Model Assembly rests after a productive meeting held the day before in the Trumbull common room — as planned — in which participants discussed foreign policy with N.J. Spykman, a professor of international relations and the “godfather of containment.”

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New software system chosen

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER After using the same administrative software system for over a decade, Yale has begun the process of moving to a new, updated system.

Following more than a year of deliberations, administrators selected Workday last fall as Yale’s next software system. The current system, Oracle E-Business Suite, was installed over a dozen years ago and has “reached the end of its useful life,” said Shauna King, vice president for finance and business operations.

Though planning for the shift of

the University’s human resources operations and payroll transactions to Workday will begin this spring, the new system will not go live in those two areas until late 2014, and the final phase of the project is expected to be completed in 2016. “[This is] a massive, big-scale change,” Provost Benjamin Polak said. “[Oracle] is the software backbone for everything — payrolls, pension systems feed into the [software] system — and it needs to work with anything Yale is doing.”

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City organizations seek federal funds

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER In a public Board of Aldermen hearing that lasted well over two hours Wednesday night, city departments and community organizations participated in an annual clamor for federal funds.

The hearing featured testimony from applicants — ranging from the city’s Office of Management and Budget to Hispanic advocacy group Junta for Progressive Action — for the funds on the city’s Consolidated Annual Action Plan for fiscal year 2013–’14. The document outlines the city’s proposal, which will not be finalized until June, for awarding the funds, which are intended mostly for local community development programs. In its testimony, each organization sought to convince the Board of Aldermen’s Joint Commit-

tee on Community Development and Human Services of the importance of funding its programs with the grants.

Weighing over the testimonies, though, were likely cuts in the federal grants that could trim as much as $301,230 from the $3,673,534 the city received in the 2012–’13 fiscal year.

“We do not have a lot of money in [Community Development Black Grants],” said Ward 26 Alderman Sergio Rodriguez, who co-chairs the committee with Ward 21 Alderman Brenda Foskey-Cyrus.

“This is always very tough for those of us who sit at this table.”

Each year, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development gives the funds — Community Development Block Grants, HOME Investment Partnerships, SEE FEDERAL FUNDING PAGE 4

Surveys detail neighborhood health Diet Sugary drinks

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BY RAYMOND NOONAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the cafeteria of New Haven’s Augusta Lewis Troup School last week, Alycia Santilli asked everyone to get up out of their seats and moving.

Given three Post-it notes each, over 30 parents, neighborhood residents and employees in Yale’s Community Alliance for Research and Engagement voted on their most pressing priorities out of five options the CARE team compiled from a health survey of six of New Haven’s poorest neighborhoods the organization conducted last year.

The overall findings of the survey, published earlier this month, found that while residents of Dixwell, Fair Haven, Hill North, Newhallville, West River/Dwight and West Rock/West Hills tend to report poorer health on average than residents of Connecticut or the United States, more were behaving healthfully since CARE last surveyed the neighborhoods in 2009.

The survey results have been supported by findings in a similar survey released around the same time by DataHaven, a New Haven-based nonprofit, which also show that certain city neighborhoods experience lower resident health.

“Data is knowledge, and that knowledge is best used in the hands of neighborhoods,” said Billy Bromage, a CARE neighborhood community organizer who presented at the school meeting. His presentation focused on health in the West River/Dwight neighborhood in which the school is located, but also shared information collected from all six neighborhoods.

According to the CARE survey, 40 percent of residents in the six neighborhoods

reported “excellent” or “very good” health, compared to 64 percent and 56 percent of residents in Connecticut and the United States, respectively. Thirty percent smoked cigarettes — double the rate in Connecticut and about one and a half times the rate of the United States — and percentages of residents who had suffered from a stroke or struggled with asthma, diabetes and heart disease were higher than state and national numbers. The survey also found that more neighborhood residents were obese or overweight than their peers across the country.

Despite these findings, 39 percent of the 1,298 residents CARE interviewed felt their health was better than it was a year earlier, and 58 percent reported making healthy changes to their diet, including consuming smaller portions, fewer sweets and fewer sugary drinks. An additional 42 percent said that their neighborhood has changed in ways that has made healthy living easier.

Jeannette Ickovics, professor of epidemiology and psychology and the founding director of CARE, said that environmental factors help explain why residents of the six neighborhoods had relatively worse health than their peers elsewhere.

“What we find is disparities in wealth cooccur with disparities in health,” Ickovics said.

The DataHaven survey supports Ickovics’ statement, as 51 percent of Elm City lowerincome neighborhood residents reported “excellent” or “very good” health in the DataHaven survey, compared to 84 percent of New Haven residents in higher-income areas. Individuals making less than $30,000 a year also more frequently reported hyperSEE CARE PAGE 4

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Parents in perspective I

n late December, my father flew me to Brazil. It had been a year and a half since I had last seen him, and it felt right to go back before graduation, which he and his wife probably won’t attend on account of work and the trouble of traveling with my 9-year-old sister.

What transpired took place a day or two after New Year's.

We were sitting by the pool, waiting for dinner: ovenbaked fish, which my stepuncle caught and my father filleted. I was a little drunk and very sunburned, and my father very drunk, and something about that moment — either the angle of the sun catching the water, or the weight of the heat bearing down on my shoulders, or the cadence of my father’s words tripping over themselves — made me realize that for a long time I had been wrong.

IN MY PARENTS, I SAW ECHOES OF MYSELF Why I had resented my father doesn’t matter. Ours was a relationship stunted by circumstances both within and outside our control, and I won’t share them here because they are personal and also irrelevant. What matters is that I did — I resented my father quietly but intensely, in the way that children sometimes resent their parents.

What I’m describing is not exceptional. Antagonizing one’s mother and father is every child’s birthright, and I’ve exercised mine fully for as long as I can remember, mostly through long spells of passive-aggressiveness.

Growing up in Texas, I sulked when my mom and stepdad corrected my Portuguese, when they refused to let me paint my bedroom orange, when they ordered the same things I did at restaurants, when they refused to let me quit middle school jazz band, when they told me to take out the trash, when they flew out of town for work and when they stayed at home too long during vacations. In short, I was a teenager.

But these were petty grievances, and leaving home made them moot. Lucky for me, new ones weren’t long in coming, and these were the ones that warranted resentment. Even as a freshman I had already begun the more or less universal exercise of learning to dislike myself. The questions I asked — Why was I not more sociable, fun, clever,

happy?

Why was I not less l a m e , shy, anxious, awkward? — I answered home, TEO SOARES at o v e r ThanksTraduções g i v ings and Christmases and spring breaks. In my parents I began to see echoes of my lame self — and it made sense! Of course: They had raised me!

No wonder I had turned out that way!

I tend to think that you’re most bothered by others when they show the faults you see in yourself. Misdemeanors are mildly aggravating when perpetrated by others, but they can stir hurricanes in your soul if you know yourself to be guilty of the same crimes. And when it comes to your parents, matters are even worse: You see their faults in yourself, and you can’t help but connect the dots. You’re not the problem. They are.

Which brings me back to my father. You see, there is a reason I hadn’t gone to Brazil in a year and a half. I never resented my father dramatically, the sentiment was never vocalized, but it was always there, simmering. I wasn’t being coy when I spoke about the irrelevance of why: There were hundreds of reasons why, some very great, others very minor, but they were all rooted in the belief that his errors had made me who I was. At one point, for example, I resented him for not having taught me how to play soccer; that I couldn’t kick a ball straight was in my eyes the reason that I hadn’t made more friends in elementary school.

But it occurred to me while sitting by the pool in Brazil — with the sun catching the water and the heat gripping my shoulders and my father’s words tripping over themselves — that I had been wrong. Yes, I am my parents’ child, but blaming them for my every fault is neither fair nor accurate. They loved me and did their best, but they are human and neither perfect nor all-powerful. To think that I’m the inevitable consequence of their efforts, that my personality was preordained by my upbringing, forgets that part of growing up is assuming responsibility for who I am.

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Yale’s innovator’s dilemma

n 2008, Gary T. DiCamillo gave a talk at the School of Management discussing his experience as a former chief executive of Polaroid. The story he told was neither rare nor revolutionary — a large firm choked by its own inertia and falling prey to leaner, meaner market competition. In the case of Polaroid, the company went from producing the most innovative camera on the market, the iPod of early personal photography, to filing for bankruptcy in 2001.

Why? By the time it noticed the dawn of digital cameras, it had become too weak, too slow and too dependent on a single revenue stream to play in the new field of photography.

Polaroid’s dilemma is often cited in business circles, but it offers a pertinent lesson for Yale. Our dawn is not the digitalization of photography, but rather the globalization of communication and education. In this context, we face the same opportunity and imperative to innovate.

When Polaroid started, its founder Edwin Land defined its purpose as making cameras that “go beyond amusement and record-making to become a continuous partner of most human beings.” Somewhere along the way, Polaroid encoun-

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residential colleges, an NUS partnership and public interest in our MOOCs. The second reason is thus characterized by imperative — the stakes for losing focus now are high. Technology is universalizing discourse in concrete ways. Universities are partnering around the world at ever increasing levels. The Web is transforming funding structures for cutting-edge projects.

The highest-quality debates occur as much outside of universities as within them. As we reflect on so many international spring break trips, we must not fool ourselves into thinking that there will always be a place for Yale to lead as long as each college has its own plates or a cappella groups sing at Mory’s.

This is our Polaroid moment.

We have tough choices to make as we shape President-elect Peter Salovey’s agenda in a changing era. We can either recognize global diversity as the bedrock of our excellence, or confuse protectionism for purpose. If Gary DiCamillo was here, he’d tell us we don’t have that long to decide.

CRISTO LIAUTAUD is a junior in Davenport College. Contact him at cristo.liautaud@yale.edu .

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Why, not how

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Yale’s portfolio of partnerships with top schools and professors around the world, such as the recently closed Yale–PKU program, remains modest. We can expand this network, and support studying abroad by removing Yale’s two-course credit cap for non-Yale programs. Financial aid students have trouble paying for summer job opportunities outside of the U.S. We can help alleviate the summer financial aid contribution. We are looking on as others use the Internet more productively. We can gear our Web efforts towards creating global conversations rather than growing the lecture hall.

International engagement does not decorate Yale’s leadership; it decides it. Our pursuit of knowledge is limited only by our ability to attract the broadest perspectives. For centuries, this institution has dug the trenches at the frontlines of liberal education. We built our first library with donations from a Welshman’s riches garnered in India.

We welcomed the first Chinese national to matriculate at any U.S. college or university. We are one of the only institutions to offer need-blind international financial aid. It is because of this track record that we can afford to debate the merits of two new

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tered the innovator’s dilemma: The company lost Land’s core vision in a fog of short-term financial pressure and secondary distractions.

Yale’s mission, on the other hand, is “to create, preserve, and disseminate knowledge” under the banner of “Lux et Veritas.”

In 2013, the University’s financial commitments have never been larger and its distractions seldom so numerous. Yet a focus on international engagement can and must provide a strategic compass for staying on mission in the coming years.

The reasons for this are twofold. The first is characterized by opportunity. Yale is strong now — we must continue to grow from this position of strength.

Our current prominence and prosperity affords us the ear of almost any educational institution, corporation or government in the world. With admissions policies and programs such as Yale-NUS, the Global Health Leadership Institute and Yale World Fellows, President Levin’s tenure has already started to use this advantage.

A lesser institution would sit back; we must recognize more needs to be done. The College’s international student population still sits at only 10 percent; we can raise it to at least 25.

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very once in a while, my grandmother calls to check up on me. In a recent phone call, after giving her an update on my life, I asked her what was new in hers. My grandmother, a Mexican woman of Japanese descent who worked as an accountant up until her early 70s, was taking up French.

I asked her how her class was going, and she laughed softly with a hint of embarrassment in her voice. She then told me that she was planning on failing her final exam on purpose in order to have the opportunity to retake the class.

While I understand the value of my grandma’s strategy — achieving near-perfect comprehension without regard for failure — to fail a test on purpose would be out of the question for me. It is a luxury that I cannot afford. In a world in which we are evaluated by our grades, it often seems as if we do not have the option of subordinating them to the desire to truly learn. We are represented by our scores. Whether it is your SAT score or your cumulative GPA, in the eyes of colleges, graduate

schools and companies, we are simply numbers.

AS WE GROW UP, THE QUESTIONS WE ASK CHANGE As children, we make sense of life by asking questions. At a young age, the stress of college acceptances and obtaining jobs is far in the distance.

We learn due to our innate curiosity, and we explore the subjects that excite us. The question that a child always asks is, “Why?” Why does the moon change shape as the days go by?

Why does a rainbow form after a storm? Why do ships float in water?

But as we grow older and the pressures of achievement and success loom over us, the question we begin to ask ourselves is, “How?” How will I get into a prestigious college? How will I get the internship I want? How will I get a job? More often than

not, the answer to this question is academic achievement, which is measured by our grades. We become incentivized to learn by the prospect of future rewards.

Instead of satiating our thirst for curiosity, learning becomes part of a formulaic process, the necessary tool that will propel us to our next benchmark of success.

This way of thinking clouds our judgment. We make decisions about which courses to enroll in or which academic programs to pursue based on how well we might perform in them — rather than how much we believe we can take away from them or how much enjoyment we can derive. Our opportunities are then limited by our fear of failure.

While we are still in our formative years, we need to let our intellectual pursuits be less guided by the numbers that we mistakenly believe represent us as people. Let’s take a lesson from our former selves and begin to ask the “whys” again instead of the “hows.”

So the next time that you open a book, or the next time that you decide to sit in on a

class, ask yourself why you are interested in Machiavellian literature or why you want to learn about macroeconomic theory.

Take the time to think about your motivations for acquiring knowledge. Think back to a time when your pursuit of knowledge was fueled by an eagerness to understand. The innocence of youth does more to promote learning than our ambitions as adults.

I now know why the moon changes shape, why rainbows form after storms and why ships float in water. Reflecting on my grandmother’s example, I also now know that I must approach learning differently. While many of the questions that I used to ask as a child have been answered, I continue to question without reservation. We must ask ourselves why we want to learn things, and in turn, what constitutes success. Maybe that will force us to reconsider what it means to learn.

IDA TSUTSUMI ACUNA is a sophomore in Saybrook College.

Contact her at ida.tsutsumiacuna@yale.edu .

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Panel takes on climate change

CORRECTION AND C L A R I F I CAT I O N TUESDAY, MARCH 26

The article “Chi Psi fraternity returns to campus” mistakenly stated that Yale’s Chi Psi chapter has the largest alumni network of any chapter. In fact, it had the largest alumni base until about 10 years ago, when it was overtaken by two other chapters. The article also misstated the number of living alumni. The chapter has 508 living alumni, not 300 to 400.

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The article “Fernandez to enter mayoral race” stated that Ken Krayeske, administrator of the Democracy Fund, said that the Fund expects all candidates to participate in public campaign finance. Krayeske was not commenting on this year’s race specifically, but on the Fund’s expectation for the future.

State considers sexual assault law

BY MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTER New legislation currently being debated in Hartford could expand the enforceability of sexual assault charges.

The state’s Judiciary Committee is considering legislation that would broaden the definition of physical helplessness in sexual assaults to include people with severe mental and physical disabilities. Although similar legislation was proposed in three previous legislative sessions, it has gained more traction this year after the state Supreme Court ruled in the 2012 case State v. Fourtin that a man who had sexual contact with a woman with cerebral palsy was not guilty of sexual assault. The woman, who could not walk or talk, was technically not physically helpless because she could have expressed unwillingness by kicking, biting or screaming.

The bill currently under review would expand the definition of helplessness to encompass anyone physically unable to resist an act of sexual contact. That would include people with severe disabilities as well as people who are unconscious or physically restrained, encompassing the circumstances of a 1987 case in which a woman was allegedly sexually touched by a paramedic while she was on the way to the hospital and physically restrained.

“It’s hard to fault the court for doing their job,” said Anna Doroghazi, director of public policy and communications at Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services or ConnSACS. “They pointed out a loophole, and the law is not as robust as we’d hoped.”

The challenge for lawmakers in crafting such a bill has been to ensure that they do not inadvertently outlaw adults with severe disabilities from engaging in sexual activity if they so choose. Previous iterations of the bill never passed because members of the disability community feared that the bills’ wording would prohibit people with disabilities from having intimate contact.

“We all know who we want to protect — the people who are most vulnerable,” said Rep. Gerry Fox, the House co-chair of the Judiciary Committee.

“We just want to make sure that the umbrella isn’t so big that we don’t include people we don’t want to.”

Fox said that in previous years, the Judiciary Committee feared its language would not withstand an appeal if a person were to be convicted under a broadened sexual assault law. However, he added that the analysis of the 2012 court decision helped his committee include more precise language in this year’s bill — language that has gained the support of disability advocates and looks poised to become law.

“This time around, there does appear to be consensus among state attorneys, human rights and advocacy groups, and there does not appear to be any opposition to it,” said Molly Cole, executive director of the Connecticut Council on Developmental Disabilities.

“In fact, we are very hopeful that it will pass this time.”

The Judiciary Committee held a public hearing on expanding the definition of physical helplessness on Monday.

Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at michelle.hackman@yale.edu .

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Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73, right, discussed public opinion on climate change in a Wednesday panel.

BY EMMA GOLDBERG STAFF REPORTER Hurricane Sandy, February’s blizzard and President Barack Obama’s re-election have created a window of opportunity for urgent action on climate change, Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 told Yale students and academics Wednesday night.

Blumenthal addressed a crowd of approximately 100 in Kroon Hall at a climate change panel that also included Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication Anthony Leiserowitz and Nadine Unger, atmospheric chemistry professor at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The panel, moderated by the environment school’s Associate Dean David Skelly and sponsored by the Sierra Club and the environment school, focused on clean energy policy and public opinion on global warming.

“The majority of Americans feel we can and should do something about climate change,” Blumenthal said. “We need to seize this moment to push forward as quickly and forcibly as possible with measures that are achievable.”

The panelists discussed shifts in Americans’ attitude toward climate change and the forces that have prevented politicians from taking decisive action. Blumenthal said policymakers have to weigh environmental concerns with economic issues, crafting policies that will incentivize investment in renewable energy without

cutting jobs. He emphasized that climate change presents substantial opportunities for economic growth.

Leiserowitz said that in order to push for climate change policy, environmental advocates should understand that opponents of renewable energy are motivated by more than ignorance. He said that, like environmental advocates, those who deny climate change are motivated by a fear of “big government” and a desire to protect American liberties.

“Climate change is just one front in a much bigger war in this country,” Leiserowitz said. “It’s about the proper role of government. These people [renewable energy opponents] don’t trust Al Gore or Barack Obama.”

While Blumenthal said he has hope that Obama’s oratory will continue to generate support for action against climate change, Leiserowitz responded that renewable energy opponents are skeptical of the president and his views. He warned that if the president uses the “bully pulpit” to try to shift public opinion, he will inevitably elicit a stronger backlash from those who do not support government action on environmental issues.

Unlike the politics of climate change, the physics of global warming is not controversial, Unger said. She explained that the Earth experiences natural shifts in climate primarily caused by changes in its orbit, but in the past half century, humans have drastically altered these natural climate cycles through industry, carbon dioxide emissions and air pollutants like

aerosol particles.

“We have been enjoying the benefits of the Industrial Revolution without too much of a cost yet,” Unger said. “But payment will come. Air pollution has reached intolerable levels and must be reduced to protect the environment and human health.”

Urging Connecticut residents to minimize their use of road vehicles, Unger told the audience that individual behavior can also be effective in combating climate change. Leiserowitz also emphasized the importance of individual action, calling for an organized social movement demanding political change. He added that advocates for environmental action need to resist the temptation to look for “silver bullets” from policymakers and should instead research the issue to generate a range of solutions for climate change including forestry conservation and waste minimization.

Angel Hsu GRD ’13 said she enjoyed the panel because she feels environment school students often focus on academic research on climate change without discussing political perspectives on the issue.

“Right now at FES, we’re all looking toward D.C. to see how policymakers will harness the power of events like Sandy, Nemo and Obama’s re-election to push for action on climate change,” Hsu said.

The event was broadcast live on YouTube.

Contact EMMA GOLDBERG at emma.goldberg@yale.edu .

Nonprofit head emphasizes challenges of humanitarian aid

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Sophie Delaunay, the U.S. executive director of Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières, spoke Wednesday afternoon about the increased number of challenges that humanitarian organizations face as their influence grows.

At the lecture — which was sponsored by the Yale International Relations Association and entitled “The Instrumentalization of Aid and the Challenges of Negotiating Space for Humanitarian Action” — Delaunay spoke about the challenges faced by her organization, a humanitarian nonprofit that sends medical professionals to over 70 countries to provide health assistance. Delaunay said the process of finding locations where MSF can conduct nonprofit work often involves compromise with local leaders and sometimes fails altogether.

“Compromise is always driven by potential outcomes,” she said. “If you know your intervention is going to be life-saving, you are likely to compromise.”

MSF often accepts roles of limited access and visibility in certain regions in order to maximize the potential benefit of its work, Delaunay said.

In Myanmar and Pakistan, for example, MSF was prohibited from entering specific areas despite the critical health needs of the areas’ inhabitants. Delaunay noted that violence against health workers, including the killing of two MSF employees in Mogadishu, Somalia, two years ago, contributed to a reduction of viable zones in which MSF could operate.

Though compromise has been necessary to remain active in as many regions as possible, Delaunay said it is important to “never compromise your capacity for judgment.”

Delaunay said that governments often feel ambivalent about MSF because the organization refuses to favor specific factions or governments as an independent and impartial organization. She added that MSF draws attention to health problems that invariably become political problems. In Niger, MSF’s work helped begin a dialogue about malnutrition that continued until the government expelled the organization.

Currently, the stakes are higher for humanitarian groups because as they gain more resources, they have the potential to impact a larger group of people, Delaunay said.

“What makes us nervous these days is that we have more to lose now — we are treating patients by the thousands, and so we have a lot to lose if we’re not granted access,” she said.

“You know people are starving. If you cannot act, it is really heartbreaking.”

Audience members interviewed said they enjoyed hearing an honest conversation about a field typically characterized by high-minded idealism.

Sophia Clementi ’14, executive director of the Yale International Relations Association who helped plan the event, said she wanted to have a representative of MSF speak to students in order to look at the field of international relations through a humanitarian lens.

Ruchit Nagar ’15 said he found Delaunay’s discussion of the dangers of political issues particularly interesting.

“I’m happy that [Delaunay] acknowledges the problems of politicizing humanitarian aid,” he said.

MSF was founded in 1971.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

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Sophie Delaunay of Doctors Without Borders examined the problematic intersection of politics and humanitarian aid.

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“I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools or made the most money.” BEN STEIN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHWRITER AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING GAME SHOW HOST

YLS report spurs discussion of class CLASS AT YLS FROM PAGE 1 viewed said they are glad that the report has spurred discussion about class issues within the school, because class is a factor in student life that members of the Law School community often neglect.

Roughly one-fifth of respondents said they think the faculty is understanding of the experiences of people from all socioeconomic backgrounds. Many said they think professors assume all students come from comparatively privileged backgrounds, which leads them to assign expensive textbooks and make comments that can intimidate or alienate students. Just 30 percent said they think their peers are sensitive to the experiences of students from all socio-economic backgrounds, and many respondents said they think the Law School student body is ignorant about issues of class.

Project chairs Chase Sackett

LAW ’14 and Grant Damon LAW ’14 said they hope the report will bring about a combination of immediate improvements and more long-term, structural changes within the school.

Sackett said he thinks the report is particularly effective in raising awareness about class issues among students who may not have acknowledged them prior to the report’s release on March 12.

“We don’t just want to fix things in the short term — the aim of this report is to foster a long-term policy change that becomes part of the school’s culture,” Sackett said. “At many universities nationwide, the issue of class is under the surface, even at universities with open cultures regarding issues such as race, gender and sexual preference.

But social class comes through [here], even in everyday conversations, such as when students talk among each other about where they went on vacation.”

Sackett identified several

quick measures the school could adopt to lessen class imbalances among students, including offering an orientation program that addresses class alongside issues such as race, gender and prior education. The report also recommends that the school rethink courses that students can only take after obtaining permission from the instructor, given the different comfort levels students have interacting with professors outside of the classroom.

The speed and scope of the proposed changes will depend on the extent of faculty cooperation, Sackett said, adding that faculty support will be crucial for a longterm shift in the school’s culture because of the dominant role of faculty governance in the Law School community.

Some professors said they think the faculty is aware of socio-economic diversity and questioned the report’s definition of class. Law professor Peter Schuck said class is an opaque

social category, adding that he thinks professors should treat students as individuals rather than as “exemplars of larger, constructed and often misleading social categories.” The survey did not provide respondents with a definition of social class, but the report states that the project team acknowledged the many factors that contribute to class distinctions.

“Judging from the summary, the report seems more confident than I am that there is a standard way in which students experience their own class backgrounds and that professors can know enough about that standard experience to adapt their behavior to it,” Schuck said. “I suspect that the more faculty are asked to focus on class, even for benign purposes, the more awkward and artificial faculty-student relationships will be.”

Associate professor David Grewal LAW ’02, whom respondents identified as particularly sensi-

tive to socio-economic issues, said he thinks class is an important and relatively neglected part of conversations about inclusivity at the Law School, adding that he is pleased students are discussing the issue.

At the beginning of each semester, Grewal tells students to approach his assistant anonymously if they cannot afford to buy the textbook for his class, and he purchases books for these students with funds out of his own pocket. He said this practice may have caused students to single him out as more sensitive to class issues than his colleagues.

“I know that coughing up a couple hundred dollars at the beginning of every semester is not easy for every student,” Grewal said. “I don’t want to be insensitive to the fact that people have different budgets that they are working within.”

Visiting professor Abraham Wickelgren said he has not noticed class issues affecting the

atmosphere in his courses, but said his perception of the issue might be affected by his limited experience teaching at the school.

Five professors said they have not heard of the report, and Law School spokeswoman Janet Conroy said the administration looks forward to receiving and discussing it. The project team and several students met Wednesday to discuss the next steps in spreading the report’s analyses and recommendations among the school’s faculty and administration. Sackett said the team is preparing a handbook for faculty members that will compile the most effective strategies for addressing student concerns.

Students at Yale Law School could access the survey for the report from Oct. 31, 2012, to Nov. 8, 2012.

Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .

Faculty to vote on grading proposals in April have a huge effect on every aspect of Yale, not only academically but also on the social culture,” said Avraham. “Given the complexity of the issue, we really think it’s important that as many students as possible get the chance to voice their opinions.”

Avraham opened the meeting by presenting results from an ongoing survey conducted by the YCC about the committee’s preliminary report. Seventynine percent out of approximately 1,700 students surveyed said they were against the committee’s proposal to move to a numerical system, and the same percentage stated that they believed the effects of changes proposed in the report would be negative.

During the open forum, students in attendance posed ques-

tions to the committee on topics ranging from the theory of grading at Yale to the potential ramifications of a 100-point scale on Yale’s collaborative culture.

Economics professor Ray Fair, who chairs the faculty committee and stayed in the LinslyChittenden lecture hall until about 10 p.m. to respond to students, said he and the committee think extreme grade compression in the upper levels is detrimental to students because it renders grades less effective as evaluative tools. Though Fair said he appreciates students’ concerns about a 100-point system, he added that he does not think grade compression can be reduced without a change in the way grades are evaluated.

“Many of us perceive a problem, and we’re trying to figure out how to deal with it,” Fair

said. “We think by changing the units [of evaluation], signaling a change of regime, having distribution guidelines that hopefully will be roughly followed and having information available to the public, there might be change.”

Fair added that discrepancies across departments and differences in class formats make it difficult to find a proposal that can address the problem completely. He said he will convey his conversation with students to the faculty at next week’s meeting and take the perspectives expressed in the forum into account while finalizing the report, noting that many students think Yale’s current grade distributions are problematic.

Fair said he would also include the results of the YCC’s survey in his presentation, though he

added that he thinks they might be skewed by sample size and framing of the questions.

Given the complexity of the [grading] issue, we really think it’s important that as many students as possible get the chance to voice their opinions.

DANNY AVRAHAM ’15 Vice president, Yale College Council Avraham said the YCC’s Academics Committee was concerned by the lack of student representation on the Ad-Hoc

Grading Committee and the absence of faculty members from large humanities and social science departments, including Political Science and History, which he thinks would be most affected by the proposed changes because they draw greater numbers of students.

The committee was made up of a representative from the Office of Institutional Research, five professors from science and social science departments, Dean of Academic Affairs Mark Schenker, a German professor and an East Asian languages and literatures professor.

He said he hopes voting on the committee’s proposal will be postponed until after April’s faculty meeting so that the committee has more time to consider and solicit student input.

“We’re extremely apprecia-

tive for Professor Fair’s time and patience listening to students at the open forum for nearly three hours,” Avraham said in an email after the forum. “However, the committee should have been willing to hold this event in October, November, December or January, when they began their process, and not one week before the vote on their proposal. In less than a week until the vote they do not have the time nor the ability to truly consider the myriad of ideas that were conveyed.”

Yale College Dean Mary Miller emailed the preliminary report of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Grading to students on Feb. 19.

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .

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“To keep the body in good health is a duty. … Otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” BUDDHA

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(5 servings per day) CARE FROM PAGE 1 tension, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, asthma and obesity.

Other neighborhood attributes, such as safety, walkability and access to healthy foods can also affect a community’s health, according to the CARE report, because they influence the probability one engages in healthy behaviors and activities.

Lower-income New Haven residents surveyed by the DataHaven report were less likely to report that they had high-quality pub-

lic parks, many stores and banks within walking distance of their home, or safe sidewalks on which to walk. They were also less likely to agree that people around their neighborhood were willing to help or be trusted.

The experiences of some attendees at the meeting last week echoed these findings.

Ann Greene came to the meeting because after working as a surveyor for the 2009 CARE study, she became convinced that individual and communal health are connected. She has lived in West River for five years and feels that

social isolation and a dearth of resources contribute most heavily to the health problems lowincome neighborhoods face.

“Our individual health benefits from communities that we sense are safe, neighborhoods where we feel comfortable letting kids outside to play, and where there is more casual and random social interaction,” she said. “All of us benefit from communities like that.”

In the West River neighborhood, CARE has provided funding for a community garden, mobile farmer’s market and annual

International Day of Peace during which bands, clergy and community groups come together to espouse nonviolence in the city.

Greene said that these community initiatives brought people together and changed their expectations of what their environment could be, as well as giving residents a sense of self-efficacy.

“Here’s something I can do. I can walk across the street or block and grow some of my own food,” Green said. “As simple as that sounds, it wasn’t an expectation a few years ago for a lot of people.

It is now.”

Bromage said that members of low-income communities do not have as easy access to medical care, exercise facilities or healthy food. He said the food industry was set up in a way that people in poverty cannot easily purchase healthy food, making living a healthy lifestyle more difficult.

“People just don’t have access to whole grains and fresh fruit because of the way the system works. Those things are more expensive than potato chips or 89-cent macaroni and cheese,” he said.

Mario Garcia, the director of public health for New Haven, said that both the CARE and DataHaven studies have helped the city look at public health comprehensively. He hoped the studies would not just guide public investment but also encourage private agencies, such as YaleNew Haven Hospital and United Way, to invest in more public health programming.

CARE will release a plan for further action this summer.

Contact RAYMOND NOONAN at raymond.noonan@yale.edu .

City planning for 8.2 percent cut in federal funds FEDERAL FUNDING FROM PAGE 1 Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS and Emergency Solutions Grants — to the city, which is then charged with distributing them through a competitive process.

The exact reductions the grants will face remain uncertain and are unlikely to be finalized for at least two weeks, according to Elizabeth Smith, a project coordinator in the city’s OMB. Smith, who testified to the committee, said that the city planned for an 8.2 percent reduction in funds from last year after consulting with HUD. Yet she added that a HUD deputy secretary recently told the city that the funds could be reduced by as little as 5 percent, or potentially not at all.

Beyond federal budget considerations, HUD determines the size of the grants awarded to cities based on a formula that takes into account housing stock, income levels and numerous other factors. Cities whose needs are deemed greater are awarded more grant money.

Smith said that the city is currently debating how it would alter the grants should the cuts

be reduced by less than 8.2 percent. Two options are available, one in which additional grants would be awarded and one in which organizations already awarded grants would be given additional funding.

Several testimonies highlighted the competitiveness of the application process, the results of which largely determine what projects the city’s government and community organizations can afford to take on.

“I know that everyone before you will have a wonderful story,” said Jim Travers, the city’s director of traffic and transportation. “We have more projects than we have opportunities for funding.”

Because of the high number of applicants and worthwhile projects, the city this year encouraged organizations to attempt to work together in their proposed projects.

“We wanted to work towards collaborative programs so the funding isn’t spread so thin,” Smith said.

Wednesday’s hearing came nearly a year after a legislative push, led by Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10,

sought to reduce the length of CDBG hearings, which in the past have lasted even longer. As a result, organizations and city departments that have received funding for two consecutive years are no longer required to testify before the committee.

However, many still chose to.

Ronald Manning, a deputy community services administrator, said that although Emergency Solutions Grants have been awarded to a seasonal homeless shelter for at least eight years, he still chose to testify in order to emphasize the grants’ importance in providing for the city’s homeless.

Looking out over the over 50 representatives of organizations and departments at the start of the hearing, Rodriguez hinted at the continued length of the meeting.

“Next year, you may be seeing a change in the way we do this,” he said.

Last year’s CDBG funding saw a 5.6 percent decrease from fiscal year 2011–’12.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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Oracle system costly and complex to support SOFTWARE FROM PAGE 1 notice any changes, all business offices that use the current Oracle system — including Yale Shared Services, the center that handles accounting services for many Yale departments — will be impacted by the change, administrators said.

King said Oracle served Yale well for years, but has become costly and complex to support and continues to fall short of meeting basic requirements for managing grants and other administrative needs. Workday is structured with the needs of higher education in mind, she said, rather than being specifically tailored toward

businesses.

Workday, which offers Internetbased software systems to handle the financial operations of areas such as financial aid, pensions and payroll information, has also agreed to collaborate with the University to incorporate functions specific to major research universities into its system, King said.

“Part of what’s going on is you can’t buy these systems off the [rack],” Polak said. “You have to have them tailored.”

Polak added that the shift to Workday will require a large financial commitment from the University.

“I don’t have those cost num-

bers. But these systems are very expensive,” he said in a Wednesday email.

Ronn Kolbash, assistant vice president of Yale Shared Services, said Workday is a good choice because it will allow Shared Services greater flexibility than Oracle does through its online update system that does not involve replacing hardware. He said he hopes the new system will enable administrative tasks to be completed more efficiently so faculty members can focus on teaching and scholarship.

Polak said he wants the new system to be more user-friendly, citing Apple products as a model of a simple interface.

The transition to Workday will take three to four years, said Marc Ulan, senior director of strategic initiatives and business intelligence for Yale Information Technology Services, and Polak said there will likely be mistakes made as Yale adjusts to the new system.

“There will always be something that goes wrong,” Polak said.

“My paycheck will be sent to some undergraduate, and I’ll get his or her financial aid. But we want to minimize that.”

To facilitate the transition, Kolbash said administrators overseeing the project must communicate with different departments to get feedback about how they want

the new system to work. A March 4 message from King on the ITS website said that “process design groups” — focus groups made up of staff members in the University’s business offices — will be formed soon so Yale business staff can influence the design of the new system. A website providing information about the University’s Workday project will debut soon to inform the community about the progress of the transition, King said in the message.

Ulan said Yale will continue to update the Oracle system every year during the transition to “remain compliant with tax laws and legal regulations.” The current

upgrade from Oracle 11 to 12 will be completed in May. In fall 2008, the University considered upgrading Oracle as part of the $20 million YaleNext campaign, which would have consolidated updates to the University’s computer systems into a four-year period. After the recession hit, the project was canceled but many of the initiatives have continued at a slower pace.

Other customers of Workday include Georgetown University, Brown University and Cornell University.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie.gould@yale.edu .

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BY MARK SHERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Concluding two days of intense debate, the Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it could give a boost to same-sex marriage by striking down the federal law that denies legally married gay spouses a wide range of benefits offered to other couples.

As the court wrapped up its remarkable arguments over gay marriage in America, a majority of the justices indicated they will invalidate part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act — if they can get past procedural problems similar to those that appeared to mark Tuesday’s case over California’s ban on same-sex marriage.

Since the federal law was enacted in 1996, nine states and the District of Columbia have made it legal for gays and lesbians to marry. Same-sex unions also were legal in California for nearly five months in 2008 before the Proposition 8 ban.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the decisive vote in close cases, joined the four more-liberal justices in raising questions Wednesday about a provision that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman for purposes of federal law.

It affects more than 1,100 statutes in which marital status is relevant, dealing with tax breaks for married couples, Social Security survivor benefits and, for federal employees, health insurance and leave to care for spouses.

Kennedy said the Defense of Marriage Act appears to intrude on the power of states that have chosen to recognize same-sex marriages. When so many federal statutes are affected, “which in our society means that the federal government is intertwined with the citizens’ day-to-day life, you are at real risk of running in conflict with what has always been thought to be the essence of the state police power, which is to regulate marriage, divorce, custody,” Kennedy said.

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Same-sex marriage supporters rallied Tuesday as the justices heard a separate challenge to California’s Proposition 8. of DOMA, it would represent a victory for gay rights advocates. But it would be something short of the endorsement of gay marriage nationwide that some envisioned when the justices agreed in December to hear the federal case and the challenge to California’s ban on same-sex marriage.

Still, the tenor of the arguments over two days reflected how quickly attitudes have changed since large majorities in Congress passed the federal DOMA in 1996 and President Bill Clinton signed it into law. In 2011, President Barack Obama abandoned the legal defense of the law in the face of several lawsuits, and last year Obama endorsed gay marriage. Clinton, too, has voiced regret for signing the law and now supports allowing gays and lesbians to marry.

In 1996, the House of Representatives’ report on the legislation explained that one of its purposes was “to express moral disapproval of homosexuality.” Justice Elena Kagan read those words in the courtroom Wednesday, evoking a reaction from the audience that sounded like a cross between a gasp and nervous laughter.

Kagan’s quotation gave lawyer Paul Clement, representing the Republican-controlled House of Representatives that has taken up defense of the law in place of the administration, some uncomfortable moments at the lectern.

“Does the House report say that?

Of course, the House report says that.

And if that’s enough to invalidate the statute, then you should invalidate the statute,” Clement said. But he said

the more relevant question is whether Congress had “any rational basis for the statute.” He supplied one: the federal government’s interest in treating same-sex couples the same no matter where they live.

Clement said the government does not want military families “to resist transfer from West Point to Fort Sill because they’re going to lose their benefits.” The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is in New York, where same-sex marriage is legal, and Fort Sill is in Oklahoma, where gay marriages are not legal.

Opposing Clement was the Obama administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, Donald Verrilli, who said the provision of DOMA at issue, Section 3, impermissibly discriminates against gay people.

NOGALES, Ariz. — A bipartisan group of senators crafting a sweeping immigration bill vowed Wednesday that they would be ready to unveil it when Congress reconvenes in less than two weeks after getting a firsthand look at a crucial component of their legislation: security along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The four senators — Republicans John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona and Democrats Chuck Schumer of New York and Michael Bennet of Colorado — are members of the so-called Gang of Eight, which is close to finalizing a bill aimed at securing the border and putting 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship The lawmakers’ reassurance that their work would be complete by the week of April 8 came after a public feud erupted between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO over a low-skilled worker provision in the bill — a spat that remained alive Friday as Congress began a two-week recess.

But Flake noted Wednesday that negotiations over the worker program had resumed; an AFL-CIO negotiator also confirmed the talks were back on.

During the tour, the senators saw border agents apprehend a woman who had climbed an 18-foot-tall bollard fence.

“You can read and you can study and you can talk, but until you see things it doesn’t become reality,” said Schumer, who toured the border for the first time. “I’ll be able to explain this to my colleagues. Many of my colleagues say, ‘Why do we need to do anything more on the border?’ and we do. We should do more.”

President Barack Obama has urged Congress to pass immigration reform this year.

While ceding the details of the negotiations to Congress thus far, the president has stepped to the forefront of the debate this week to prod lawmakers to finish work on the bill.

Border security also is critical to McCain, and other Republicans, who contend that some areas along the border are far from secure.

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Chelsey Dunham ’14 pitched a complete game shutout as Yale took the first game 4–0, but the Elis were narrowly edged out, 5–4, in the second.

DAVID TOUPS ’15 ELI NAMED TO IVY HONOR ROLL The Yale second baseman was recognized by the Ancient Eight on Tuesday after going 6–22 with a home run and five runs batted in over six games this past week. Toups is leading the Bulldogs with nine RBIs through 14 games this season.

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“It’s late March — the money is in the bank. We are already 95 percent of who we are going to be.”

WILL FERRARO ’13 CAPTAIN, LWT CREW YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013 · yaledailynews.com

Bulldogs to take on Navy LIGHTWEIGHT CREW

Bulldogs in the spotlight

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The Bulldogs open five straight weekends of competition this Saturday when they take on Navy in a regatta held at Princeton.

BY JOSH MANDELL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Wrapping up a long winter of training, the lightweight crew team will open its spring season against Navy this weekend.

Saturday’s regatta, held in Princeton, N.J., is the first of five consecutive weekends of competition that make up the Bulldogs’ regular season. Head coach Andrew Card, who enters his 27th year at the helm of the Yale squad, said in an email that the rowers and the coaching staff are eager for a chance to test out their speed.

“We know we have to move our shells as fast as possible this year,” he said.

Last weekend, the lightweight crew team faced Trinity College in a scrimmage and won all of its matchups. Team captain Will

Ferraro ’13 said that the Elis will continue trying to get faster in their race against Navy.

“We don’t know if we’re fast.

We just need some results,” Ferraro said. “That’s why Navy is going to be a great test for us.”

Gregory Hausheer ’13 said in an email that the team’s strong senior and junior classes will help the Bulldogs achieve their goal of winning every race at the Eastern Sprints championship in May. Matthew O’Donoghue ’14 and Joe Hanlon ’14 have been especially leading the charge with strong performances all year, Hausheer said. Tom Swartz ’13 added that Cam Best ’13, who transitioned from rowing to coxing earlier this year, has been invaluable to the team as a coxswain.

Swartz praised the team’s coaches for its preparation for the first spring regatta.

“Our coaches are really good at developing talent,” he said.

“Getting everyone to row in the same style as a freshman can be difficult. I credit our coaches for doing that really well and building a cohesive team attitude.”

Card is joined by assistant coaches Ian Duthie and Ned DelGuercio. DelGuercio, new to the team this year, is a former member of the United State lightweight national team.

This year is the first in which freshmen will be eligible to compete at the varsity level for the team. However, no Yale freshmen will row in the varsity boat, and the team will maintain the traditional all-freshman boat. Swartz praised his coaches’ choice to keep the freshmen together, adding that it was “an important decision for development and their class.”

In their brief fall season, the Yale eights posted impressive results, including a first-place finish at the Head of the Housatonic and a second-place finish, a mere two seconds behind Harvard, at the Princeton Chase.

Although the spring competitions are just beginning, Ferraro said that the team has reached the home stretch in a grueling quest for a national championship.

“It’s late March; the money is in the bank,” Ferraro said. “We are already 95 percent of who we are going to be. Right now it’s about focusing on the little things, getting a little bit better each day and trusting the coaching staff.”

Yale has won four of its last five regattas against the Navy Midshipmen.

Contact JOSH MANDELL at joshua.mandell@yale.edu .

Hastings considers spring season

BY CATHERINE WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s crew team, which has produced top 10 finishes at the NCAA championship for 10 times in the past 11 years, will open its spring season on March 30 against Penn and Columbia in Philadelphia.

The team returns 16 rowers that helped last year’s team to a 10thplace finish at NCAA championships. The News spoke with team captain Eliza Hastings ’13 to discuss the upcoming spring season and her time as a Yale rower.

Hastings, a history of art major from Berwyn, Pa., rowed in the No. 2 seat of the varsity eight at last year’s Ivy League championship.

Q

How was the fall season?

A

The fall season was good.

We had some really good results in some of our lower boats.

Our second varsity boat did really well. We won an event at the Head

of the Charles Regatta, and we had the fastest collegiate Championship Four. Overall, it was a strong season. team hasn’t raced since QThe Oct. 28. What has the team been working on since then?

A

After fall season, we went into winter training, which is indoors at Payne Whitney in the tanks. We just erged and trained, preparing for the spring season and focusing on getting as fast as possible. We’ve been working on getting a base fitness that translates well into the water.

does it feel to back on the QHow water for spring training?

A

It’s awesome. Obviously it’s great to be back rowing and being outside. We trained twice a day over spring break getting our technique down, working together and figuring out lineups for the boats.

EVAN FRONDORF

are the team’s goals for QWhat the spring season?

A

We always say, “As fast as we can.” That’s been our motto this year. Every day on the water, we want to focus on gaining speed and being able to show that speed when we race in pressured situations.

Q

How are the freshmen integrating into the team?

A

Really well. We’ve been doing a lot of work this year, more so than in the past. I’m impressed with the freshmen, how they have transitioned into so much training. Some of them are in the top boats, so it’s exciting to have them come in and immediately be big contributors to the team.

Q

It’s your last season here.

What are you going to miss about rowing for Yale?

A

Everything. I’m going to miss the team, my friends, my coaches. When I think of Yale, I’m

going to be thinking of Yale women’s crew, my family away from my family. It’s going to be sad to leave. I’ve been working for four years and have been getting better every year. It’ll be weird for it to be over. a senior and captain, do QAs you have any personal goals for the team or the season?

A

My freshman year we won the Ivy League championship. It was a successful year. I’ve seen this team be really successful in the past, so I want to leave the team with no regrets and perform to the best of our ability.

are your thoughts headQWhat ing into this weekend’s race?

A

I’m really excited for this weekend. It feels like we’ve been training and working towards this for months. I can’t wait.

Contact CATHERINE WANG at catherine.wang@yale.edu .

TOP ’DOG DEVON RHODES ’13

I thought about writing this week’s column on why Harvard, unfortunately, doesn’t suck after their enormous upset of New Mexico in the “second round” of the NCAA basketball tournament. But I didn’t want to give more attention to the Crimson, with their dubious recruiting standards and plagiarism scandal that somehow counts as “adversity” to national commentators. Instead, I thought I’d keep things closer to home, because the men’s hockey team is in an NCAA tournament of its own beginning this Friday.

College football and basketball may draw most of the national attention, but collegiate hockey likely comes in at a respectable third place, especially in the Northeast and Midwest. It’s gaining popularity at a time when the state of North American professional hockey seems to be constantly in flux, and Yale is right in the middle of it all. The Bulldogs’ success isn’t even a new trend — this is the fourth time in five years that Yale has made the NCAA tournament. Instead of 68 teams and a Final Four, it’s 16 top squads and a Frozen Four — along with all of the upsets and heroics that make March Madness great.

Too often I hear that athletics at Yale aren’t worth the time or funding because they’re not nationally competitive. This complaint is completely oblivious to the numerous factors and difficulties that determine a program’s place in college athletics, but one thing is true — Yale hockey has become a national power without many of the advantages of the perennial powerhouses like, say, scholarships. These mainstay teams are names you’ll recognize: Minnesota, Michigan, Boston College, and this year, even Quinnipiac. And Yale is right there.

So there you go, naysayers — here’s your success story.

Support your team.

Here’s a quick primer: The team plays its first-round game Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. in Grand Rapids, Mich., against No. 2 Minnesota, arguably the best team in the country. Despite their basketball program upsetting UCLA in the first round of the tournament last week, you can bet many Minny fans are more interested in this matchup. The Golden Gophers may be ranked near the top of the national polls, but Yale weighs in at No. 15, so this game is definitely up for grabs. It’s a one-seed versus four-seed matchup in the West Regional, for those of you more familiar with March Madness terminology.

The Elis could have been ranked as high as No. 5 among the 16 teams in the tournament before a disappointing weekend in Atlantic City, where the team badly lost two games in the finals of its conference tournament. I’ll blame it on an empty arena, outdated hotels and a massive concentration of elderly gamblers. Instead of riding into the tournament as a No. 2 seed, the Bulldogs were among the last teams to earn a bid.

But this team has shown an ability to recover from these rough patches — better to falter before the Big Dance than during it, right? When star goaltender Jeff Malcolm ’13 was injured midway through conference play, this team dropped five straight games. After he returned, the squad needed to string together some wins to preserve their tournament chances — so they stepped up and won five straight before reaching Atlantic City. They also play their best hockey against the best teams on the road — they tied defending champion and No. 6 Boston College in January, and they beat both No. 12 Denver and Colorado College on a weekend road trip.

Minnesota has lost to both of these teams this season.

And here are some of the names to know: Andrew Miller ’13, the senior captain and Ivy League Player of the Year; Kenny Agostino ’14, a second-team All-ECAC selection and a Pittsburgh Penguins draft pick; and Antoine Laganiere ’13, a swift-skating forward who has drawn the interest of multiple NHL teams this season.

I could go on. This team has the ability to play with the best of them, and they’ll bring their A-game on Friday.

Once again, the game is early Friday afternoon: What else will you be doing? Watch them at 2 p.m. on national TV on ESPNU — in your dorm, at the John J. Lee Amphitheater or one of many local restaurants offering deals.

Listen to them on WYBC-AM 1340 or WYBC.com. The Minnesota squad will have thousands of fans that believe their powerhouse will steamroll these plucky Bulldogs, and those thousands will fill Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids — so push back. Or else you have no right to complain.

Contact EVAN FRONDORF at evan.frondorf@yale.edu .

THE WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM CAPTAIN AND ATTACKER HAS BEEN THE TEAM’S BIGGEST OFFENSIVE PRODUCER WITH 19 GOALS AND NINE ASSISTS THIS SEASON.