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IT INSIDE WEEKEND SWUGGIN’ WHAT IT MEANS TO THE NEWS BE A SENIOR GIRL // FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2013
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CROSS CAMPUS “We are the 79 percent.”
Wielding a slogan reminiscent of the Occupy movement, an anonymous dissident sent an email to the Yale community Thursday afternoon in a call to arms for a “loud, non-violent protest” against proposed changes to the University’s grading policies. Faculty members will vote on whether to change Yale’s grading system to a 100-point scale on April 4.
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Admit rate at record low GRAPH IVY LEAGUE ADMISSION RATES 20
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Full Spring Fling lineup announced BY KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG STAFF REPORTER
A dramatic achievement.
Drama professor Ming Cho Lee, who chaired the Design Department at the School of Drama for 43 years, has been named the recipient of a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. Lee, 82, arrived at the Drama School at 1969 and has been previously awarded the National Medal of Arts, the highest national award given in the arts. He will accept his award on June 9 at the 2013 Tony Awards.
“Of the students we could offer admission, we know that the ones choosing Yale will bring us astonishing talents and aspirations,” Brenzel said, adding that he believes that virtually all of the students rejected this year will be “successful students at other great colleges and universities.” All Ivy League admissions decisions were announced today under the Common Ivy League Agreement, which stipulates that all eight
Though the Yale College Council unveiled the full lineup for this year’s Spring Fling Thursday, students said they still remain most excited about Macklemore. According to a promotional video the YCC posted on the Spring Fling website Thursday afternoon, independent artist Best Coast, DJ RL Grime and band Grouplove will join Macklemore and Ryan Lewis at this year’s Spring Fling on April 29. The YCC announcement came more than a month after the News reported on Feb. 9 that Macklemore will headline Spring Fling and a few weeks after the News published that Grouplove would also perform. The majority of 15 students interviewed said they are most looking forward to Macklemore and are not as familiar with the other bands. “I love Macklemore — he’s going to be nasty,” Sam Shleifer ’15 said. “I don’t know the other groups that well, but I don’t think the back-up performers will matter that much. It’s going to be a great time.” Indie band Grouplove is best known for the hit song “Tongue Tied,” and the band’s first single, hit song “Colours,” rose to No. 12 on the Modern Rock charts. Best Coast — also an indie artist — has released hit songs including “Boyfriend,” “Our Deal” and “Crazy for You.” The Spring Fling Committee has been planning the concert since the beginning of the school year. Members of the committee met with the Women’s Center in October to discuss sex and gender sensitivity issues surrounding Spring Fling artists and brainstormed ways the committee could choose performers that would not make any students uncomfortable. The YCC declined to release the results
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Harvard Quiz Bowl team was stripped of its last four national championship titles after evidence arose that a former team member had illicitly accessed tournament questions prior to competitions. The student apologized in a statement to the National Academic Quiz Tournaments, citing mental health issues as a factor, but later denied the allegations in an interview with The Harvard Crimson. Student entrepreneurship.
Marketing software firm HubSpot has announced that it will acquire PrepWork, a startup company founded by Daniel Wolchonok SOM ’13 that helps users build strong business relationships through “smart” interpersonal data. PrepWork also sends clients emails with relevant blogs and social network profiles to prepare them for upcoming meetings.
No grade inflation.
Connecticut received a “C+” on transparency in a recent report by the ConnPIRG Education Fund, which ranked 48 states based on online transparency and access to government spending. Though Connecticut slipped from a B grade to a C+ in the annual report, ConnPIRG’s director said the falling score does not mean the state is becoming less transparent, but instead that other states are “improving faster.” THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1917 The Undergraduate Committee of the Athletic Association votes to cancel all athletics in the event that the U.S. government decides to enter World War I. This puts a number of athletic events, including a scheduled crew race against Penn, in limbo during Easter break. Submit tips to Cross Campus
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BY AMY WANG STAFF REPORTER For over three months, 30,000 high school seniors have been holding their breaths. But Thursday, with the evening release of Yale’s admissions decisions, a mere 6.72 percent of those students received offers of admission to the class of 2017 — the lowest acceptance rate in University history. Yale accepted 1,991 students from a record pool of 29,610 this year, com-
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pared to 1,973 out of 28,975 last year. In 2009 to 2011, the acceptance rate hovered steadily around 7.5 percent. With the decisions made and the official acceptance letters sent out, the admissions process for most aspiring members of the class of 2017 is finally over. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said in an email to the News Thursday afternoon that the Admissions Office has seen “another extraordinary applicant pool” and faced “another challenging selection process” this year.
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BY JASMINE HORSEY STAFF REPORTER Four residential colleges have been hit by several incidents of breached security over the past few weeks. Berkeley, Jonathan Edwards, Timothy Dwight and Davenport colleges have all been targeted in a recent spike in campus crime, leading to several police investigations. During spring break, the Berkeley subbasement was accessed by several people from outside the Yale community. The break-in was followed by an act of vandalism in the JE dining hall on Sunday morning, in which perpetrators covered the dining hall with a cloud of foam released from a fire extinguisher. Later on Monday evening, an intruder was discovered in a TD entryway, and Davenport was struck by a series of thefts early this week. Police investigations into the Berkeley, JE and Davenport incidents are currently ongoing, and all perpetrators are thought to have come from outside the Yale community. Assistant Yale Police Department Chief Steven Woznyk could not be reached for comment. Berkeley Master Marvin Chun said in a Monday email to the News that the subbaseSEE CRIME PAGE 8
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Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis sought to address faculty concerns with the Singaporean college at a Thursday meeting. BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER Roughly 20 professors discussed Yale’s venture in Singapore during a closed-door meeting hosted by the Faculty Advisory Committee on YaleNUS on Thursday afternoon. Most faculty interviewed said the meeting did not adequately address
their major concerns about Yale’s partnership with the National University of Singapore, which they said included the impact of Yale-NUS on Yale. Though 11 faculty members involved with the Singaporean college went to the meeting, attendees said they were dissatisfied with the number of Yale administrators and Faculty Advisory Committee members pres-
ent. Out of the 10-person Yale-NUS Faculty Advisory Committee, only four members came to the meeting — a number that several professors said was insufficient, especially because committee chair Marvin Chun did not explain his fellow committee members’ absence. SEE YALE-NUS PAGE 6
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Of monks and mason jars E
ight centuries ago, a couple of bros in England decided to band together to rent a house. With a little backing from their friend the Bishop of Ely, the monks shacked up in a mass bachelor pad they decided to call “Peterhouse,” I can only assume because “Animal House” was taken. That was the beginning of Cambridge University, and Peterhouse, the oldest college in Cambridge, still stands today. Lots of things have changed since the foundation of Peterhouse. For example, women: Apparently, women are now smart enough for college (a moment of silence for the lost sausage fest). On the other hand, we can no longer drink through dinner. But one iconic part of the undergraduate experience has remained more or less unchanged: dorm life. There’s slightly more indoor plumbing and probably a lot more sex, but for at least eight centuries, the “college experience” has been entirely immersive: residential and academic all-in-one. But living in dorms kind of blows. Personally, my least favorite thing about living on campus is sharing a bathroom. Last year, the handicap facilities in my hall of singles were co-opted by a suite of sophomore boys. They produced a lot of smells. I barely know what day of the week it is anymore, but intuition tells me that the rest of you underclassmen with lives and futures have begun the process of planning your housing for next year. I bet a lot of you — especially those of you who have lived downwind from a group of 19-year-old boys — are considering off-campus living. I know I did.
CAN'T THE DREAM WAIT UNTIL AFTER WE GRADUATE? I would advise you to think twice. As someone who tried to cook over spring break and set off a smoke alarm three times while frying one omelet, I urge you not to overestimate your domestic skills. Gas stoves are basically little death machines. Toilet paper depletes much faster than you think. Are you really ready to endure these constant threats to your wellbeing? Yes, I hear you say. You are so excited to scrub the moldy floor of your shower. You love finding bits of eggshell in your runny scrambles and discovering what receptacles are and aren’t oven-friendly. With your ever increasing workload, you
will have all the time in the world to ruin your every dinner for an entire month. Also (and this is legitiMICHELLE mate) you TAYLOR are going to save tons of Tell it Slant money and thousands of utils of pleasure by at last escaping the meal plan. Also, you add confidentially, people who live off campus are cool. Really cool. And you want to be one of them. You’ve heard that their closets are magical. Their shoes multiply. You want to drink tepid coffee out of Mason jars — real ones — and you’re ready to eat only pasta sauce for a month to acquire a full set. You want to be able to say, “I love New Haven. People really need to get out of the campus bubble,” and you want to mean it. You want to go there, on your attractively battered fixie bike. It is, I agree, a beautiful dream. But can’t it wait? Look, I might be biased, and I’m certainly jealous, but dorm life is the quintessence of college. It’s in the name: co-legio. We read together, we eat together, we sleep together and wake up together in the middle of the night to the faint moaning of other people who are also (albeit more actively) sleeping together. We enjoy the whole gamut of adolescent emotionality on display — in the library, in our common rooms, roaming the basement at 3 a.m., everything from self-absorbed lust to self-absorbed stress to, again, self-absorbed lust. I think Old Ely was onto something when he moved his “worthy but impoverished fellows” into their quarters on the river Cam. There’s something (don’t laugh) attractively monastic about the on-campus lifestyle. Okay, so living at Yale is pretty much the opposite of poverty, chastity and obedience, but — more broadly — like monks, we also do without: not without luxuries, no, but without the world, and our sense of self in the world. We give that up in order to be together, to be absorbed into the college, into that life. Is that dangerous? Yes. And that’s why it can only last four years, and why, probably, Milton (a Cambridge grad) believed in the fortunate fall. There is world enough, and time — we have a whole life of glorious offcampus living ahead of us. For now, we’re in college — where being there, together, is enough. MICHELLE TAYLOR is a senior in Davenport College. Her column runs on Fridays. Contact her at michelle.a.taylor@yale.edu .
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n most of the stories I tell, something goes wrong. There’s the one about the time I hitchhiked with a broken leg and no water or cash in a rural part of Chile. Or the time I ran out of water in the Grand Canyon. Also, the time I got lost on a glacier in southeast Alaskan fog. Most of these stories I tell happen during breaks. They’re a highlight reel of a particular life I fancy myself to lead — one that’s adventurous and free. Much, of course, happens outside of this reel though. In fact, most of my breaks have happened this way: There have been long books, long Skype calls home, long conversations about transit options, long bus rides wondering whether I should ask the driver where to get off, long walks looking for coffee shops with Wi-Fi, long mornings wishing I had something other than instant coffee, long naps. But memory is selective. I tell the highlights, and eventually, forget the rest. I tell the story of the highlight reel because I want to remember it — the fiasco, the stupidity, the pain. I want to keep those moments of ecstatic presence, when I couldn’t reel forward or backward in time. The challenge helped me pay attention. I think we see and feel more when things are going wrong. I felt my skin clench after dropping from a rock into 58-degree water, tiny bubbles of water frosting my goosebump-coated legs and clumping my eyelashes together. I saw the frozen patterns of teal waves in a Colorado lake during a blizzard. I felt my shoulder blade when mosquito bites made my skin like Braille after I slept too close to the netting of an emergency bivouac. It’s only been a week since break. Just last week, I was in my tent, snuggling with my frozen Camelback. Since I haven’t been able to live that kind of story with my skin for a few days, though, I’ve kept those past lives alive by talking about them. It’s spring right here, though; I can see it through the squares in the library window beyond my laptop screen. I felt sun on my face today, saw crocuses push through the dirt lining the sidewalks, heard songbirds trickle melodies in the bushes. Another season has arrived with the equinox, too: Bucket List Season. In this season, especially for seniors, summer’s start serves as a deadline. It inspires us to stay up late, like our other deadlines, but with this one, we binge on the lives we didn’t get to lead during our past four years. We’ll leave
our comfort zones; we’ll try new things; we’ll live the stories we’ll tell over and over later. We’ve proc ra s t i n a te d DIANA long enough. SAVERIN We will pilgrimage up to For the Birds the farm for pizza and roll down the hill until the gravel driveway crunches below our backs; we’ll plan to watch the sun rise from West Rock, get there too late and have brunch at Bella’s instead; we’ll cartwheel on Cross Campus, have floating dance parties in the stacks, go to Wednesday night Toad’s. We’ll break routine, realizing designated “breaks” aren’t the only chance to do so, and later forget how much routine reigned. We’ll tell stories of Yale in which we star as adventurous and free students, engrossed in the glamour of our exploits, recounting the details of the calamities that ensued. I don’t have too many stories when things have gone wrong here: Getting scraped by the underbelly of highways while ducking in a canoe was kind of exciting; once the Yale police told us not to go streaking; this winter I ran around in the blizzard and the wind was a big thing. I think I can do better, though. The few times during breaks when I’ve said “yes” to the adventures that have landed me in precarious situations have defined those trips. The memories have expanded. I want to say “yes” in the same way here. I know that what I say yes to will expand as well, blotting out the nights I have spent responding to emails and drinking too much coffee. I want to open myself up to the possibility of something going wrong. I want to do the things we’ve marked as off-limits. So, here’s a start to a bucket list: Run around New Haven with no map and no phone and see where you end up. Research a paper you have no idea how to make into an argument and won’t be able to write in one night. Sleep outside. Do something cool you tell no one about. Ask someone out. ________________. DIANA SAVERIN is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact her at diana.saverin@yale.edu .
GUEST COLUMNIST CLAIRE ZHANG
Reliving Decision Day R
emember your own Decision Day, and the subsequent blur of senior year? Remember how shocked and disbelieving and then, finally, ecstatic you were when you heard the singing bulldog? Remember when the Facebook group for your class wasn’t just advertisements or demands for lost cellphones but instead a collection of soon-to-be Yalies bubbling with excitement and anticipation? Remember how nice everyone was? Today is Decision Day, and soon, we’ll be inviting a bunch of new prefrosh into our dorms. We’ll gush about how Yale is literally the best college ever and how much we love it. They’ll think of Yalies as the friendliest people at any college they’ve visited, and that’s why they’ll come. Yet, what I seem to hear more often in our daily lives is a chorus of groans and moans about the struggles we experience here. The nebulous phrase “so much work” seems to loom over us as we begin our second week of classes, and somehow ends only when finals are done. We complain about how the show we’re rehearsing for and the articles we’re editing eat up all of our hours. And, of course, “midterm season,” which should probably just be called “the semester.” What happened? Where did all our bubbly excitement go? We freak out about the fact that, “Oh my god, we’re almost halfway done with college!” But at the same time, we also seem to constantly count down the days until the next break. How is it that we can somehow spend an entire semester mumbling about “midterms”? There are times when I walk the well-trodden path back to my suite, and I am suddenly hit by the realization that Yale has become my daily, routine life. I attend classes in the building where the Milgram experiments took place, and we discuss books that I love. I run around to extracurricular meetings and practices that take place in beautiful castles with heavy iron gates. Somehow this place, with its long history, grandeur and beauty has become normal for me. I wake up, and this is life. Most of the time, I don’t think twice about it. It’s easy to exclaim “I love Yale!” when we get Macklemore or Morgan Freeman, but some-
times it’s the ordinary things that are magical. Here are brilliant professors that we see regularly. Here our main job is simply to learn and deeply think about the cool things that interest us. Here we’re encouraged to pursue our passion projects and extracurricular activities with zeal. Then there are our classmates, each with their own fantastic story to tell. As a good friend once observed so astutely, “Isn’t it crazy that we go to a school where everybody got into Yale?” This same friend also once commented that the funny thing about Yale is that we all choose to be busy. We don’t really have to do any of the extra things that we do. We could very easily just go to class, eat, go back to our rooms, do our homework and go to bed. But we choose to do more. I think there’s a part of us deep down that does love it all. So — in the midst of all the midterms, papers, problem sets, shows, rehearsals and applications — let’s take a deep breath and savor it, this rich feeling of having so much to do with our lives. Feel the enthusiasm emanating from your professors and classmates when they get to their favorite topics. Let it be contagious. On my way home over spring break, as I stood in the aisle of the plane, I started talking to a man behind me who happened to be a Yale alumnus from back when girls weren’t allowed at Yale. We talked a little bit, and between us, I felt the connection of a mutual affection for our school. He said to me: “Enjoy your time in New Haven. It’ll be the shortest, brightest years of your life.” Today, those bright years will just begin to dawn for a crop of new freshmen as our years march steadily to their end, swallowed up by time. Remember again that thrill we felt at all the possibilities unfolding before us that summer? Let’s revive it. Let’s remember how incredibly lucky we felt that day, and how these prefrosh feel now. Let’s try to relish the time we have left here. Try to resist the temptation to hit fast forward, even during midterm season. It already feels so short. CLAIRE ZHANG is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact her at claire.zhang@yale.edu .
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FRIDAY FORUM GUEST COLUMNIST IKE SWETLITZ
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ast month’s report on grading is a dangerous document. It attempts to tackle an immense challenge with a solution based on flawed premises, and it shifts the conversation in an unproductive direction. Instead of asking how to best promote student learning, the report exacerbates an already ineffective system and creates a whole slew of problems. The proposal, which specifically adopts a numerical grading system and provides University-wide grading guidelines, is based on incorrect assumptions and will cause much damage. Even though our current system is not perfect, it is preferable to the proposed alternative. Instead, we should continue this complex and valuable conversation about how to best provide feedback to students. The proposed grading scale, which would require professors to assign grades on a scale from 60 to 100 in 1-point intervals, assumes that professors can, to within 0.5 points, determine what grade a student deserves. Professors cannot do this with current evaluative tools because the tools are designed to measure success to the nearest letter grade. Perhaps a numerical grading scale could work if the numbers were reported with confidence intervals. But that's what we have now. Our current system is not perfect - sometimes, what separates an A and an A- is really just a minus sign - but it's certainly better than the alternative. Changing to a numerical grading scale, as many students warned professor Ray Fair two nights ago, would make students needlessly worried about the minutiae that would impact their grade. We all know that a dropped minus sign or a foolish arithmetic mistake has no bearing on our ability to understand scientific concepts. And yet that is how grades are currently calculated. The new system would enhance these meaningless differences, while the current system at least obscures them. Furthermore, the proposal’s suggestion to provide guidelines for grade distribution rests on the dangerous premise that not everyone can succeed. Even if the distributions were recommended and not mandated, professors would still feel pressure for their grades to follow the recommendations. Instead of cultivating an atmosphere where every student feels as though he or she can succeed, the proposal would instill unnecessary competitiveness that is inappropriate for the learning environment, although it might have its uses outside of school. What does success mean? “Did a student succeed?” could mean, in terms of a class, “Does a student sufficiently understand the concepts that the class was designed to teach?” In this case, a simple “yes” or “no” is extremely infor-
mative. The question could also mean, “To what extent does a student understand these concepts?” In this case, a simple “67” or “95” tells a student nothing. A well-thought-out paragraph, perhaps accompanied by a list of the concepts and comments next to each one describing the student’s understanding of each, would be extremely informative. An idea like this exists, and it’s been in the education literature for many years — standards-based grading. I suggest that any serious evaluation of our methods of feedback consider this.
SUBSTANTIVE FEEDBACK IS IMPORTANT If feedback is provided to students at multiple points during the year, and if students are given time to digest the feedback and improve their abilities, students would greatly benefit. Students often receive feedback after it is too late to improve in a way that will affect their officially reported measures of success. The feedback that “matters” comes in the form of points deducted from assignments, and if few enough points are deducted, it is easy for the student to ignore the feedback because it doesn’t impact the final grade significantly. This is because the final grade is a weighted average, not a holistic evaluation. But humans are not weighted averages, and my family is not paying Yale tens of thousands of dollars to turn me into one. I implore the faculty and the administration to stop talking about grades as grades and start talking about the more complicated and important issue of how to best provide feedback that enhances student learning. That might mean fundamental change — if it is difficult to provide substantive, individualized, helpful feedback in a 300-person math class, then the solution to that problem is to get rid of the 300-person math class and replace it with a setup that is conducive to learning. The fact that some students stayed at the YCC’s Open Forum on Grading for nearly three hours on Wednesday night demonstrates that students understand the importance of substantive feedback. I hope our faculty and administration will come to a similar understanding — or if not, consider our feedback like we would from them. IKE SWETLITZ is a sophomore in Silliman College. Contact him at isaac.swetlitz@yale.edu .
POLONIUS FROM 'HAMLET' “This above all: to thine own self be true.”
GUEST COLUMNIST NAT H A N KO H R M A N
GUEST COLUMNIST JOSH BARRETT
For YCC, brief Breaking spring with is beautiful
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n about a week, the deluge of the Yale College Council elections will begin. April is a flood for everyone at Yale as our performances, practices and exams sweep away our free time and demand our attention. But nothing insists we care as doggedly as the YCC elections do. On Monday the News published what is likely to be the first of many editorials critical of the YCC ("News' View: Legitimizing student government," March 25). Unlike many of the editorials on the YCC that I’ve read at Yale, it seemed like the intention was to look forward rather than just throw mud. But the piece largely made suggestions for President-elect Peter Salovey. I think YCC elections, specifically, could use some reconsideration. Officially, the elections last the course of a week (though if this year, they are anything like every student council election ever, they started months ago). Candidates scurry to and from endorsement meetings, debates, interviews and student dorms. Invitations to “Vote for Me!” saturate Facebook news feeds. Brightly-colored, large-fonted, poly-exclamatory emails sprout in our inboxes like April flowers. After a semester and a half of relative anonymity, the YCC is all over campus. This visibility does few favors. This was my experience from both a personal and institutional perspective. Last year, I ran for YCC treasurer. I wrote a policy platform, made posters and came up with a slogan. (“Money in the BaNK,” the posters read. The NK in “bank” superimposed my initials — a mediocre slogan inspired by the lyrics of an equally mediocre Spring Fling performer.) At the best of times it felt like season 7 of “The West Wing” — exhilarating but clunky. At the worst of times it was soul-sucking. I could feel people getting tired of me, almost see it on their faces. My classmates and acquaintances listened to me with raised eyebrows as I waxed on about YCC’s summer storage program. My friends did too many of the favors I asked of them. I sent more inane, beseeching messages in that week than I ever care to in my life — all to people I barely knew, and for a position they barely cared about. I got crushed in the election, but when I look back on that week now, I’m more embarrassed by the emails I sent than by having lost.
The week was harrowing, but I signed up for it. The entire campus, however, did not. I think that the YCC elections can and should be condensed, both for the sake of the YCC’s legitimacy and for the inboxes across our entire campus. Having an election cycle as long as it is now does not reflect the student body’s feelings toward the YCC. Conventional attitudes toward student government, particularly student government at Yale, think that elections do not demand a week of campus time. From an outside perspective, it seems as if a week would be necessary. It gives candidates enough time for knocking on doors to get their message out, and gives the student body a week of dialogue. But this doesn’t hold up. You don’t need a whole lot of time to get your name out there. You can send a panlist-wide email in minutes. Knocking on doors and shaking hands is more personable, but is no longer the best way to reach voters. Why would anyone go to the endorsement meeting if they can read about the candidates on Facebook? Yale students are capable of educating themselves about student government. I just don’t think they care to do so. When I began knocking on doors last year, people were pleasantly surprised to see someone asking them to spare a few moments “to hear a YCC spiel.” But by the fifth day, most people had seen “a million YCC candidates” and weren’t interested, if they had even been interested in the first place. While I think many Yale students vote based on what they have learned about the candidates' policies, many more vote based on less concrete criteria (e.g., who they know, who their friends know, who is better-looking, who emailed them, who didn’t email them, etc.). I believe a two- or three-day election cycle is both feasible and necessary. One day for campaigning and educating, and two days for voting. If people see the YCC as an irrelevant organization, the YCC should spend less time demanding attention for its candidates. It would be a step toward self-awareness in a largely self-indulgent process. In the end, this change could be the most popular result of the campaign season. NATHAN KOHRMAN is a sophomore in Saybrook College. Contact him at nathan.kohrman@yale.edu .
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rowsing through Facebook upon my return from break, I have to admit I was a little jealous. I saw pictures of friends in Cabo, frat guys partying in the Bahamas and sorority gals channeling their inner Selena Gomez. But 11 other Yale students and I, along with everyone else who participated in a service trip, chose a different way to spend break. Our group traveled to Bocas del Toro, Panama, to volunteer, learn and better understand the culture. We worked with an organization called Floating Doctors, a group of health care professionals led by CNN Hero Ben LaBrot. Our group had interests in medicine, public health and public policy, making Floating Doctors the perfect partner. We hoped to advance our medical skills while providing health care to patients who hadn’t seen a doctor in years, if ever. We hoped to use our two weeks of break to provide and learn rather than indulge. We navigated barely functioning motorboats around lush archipelagos searching for the selected village to set up our clinic for the day. Once found, our group treated patients suffering from parasites, infections, rashes, diarrhea, you name it. Using a portable ultrasound machine, we performed examinations on pregnant women and patients with gallstones. We translated between patient and doctor, explaining the patient’s complaints and describing the prescribed treatment. The doctor-to-patient relationship is challenging enough, let alone when each speaks a different language. Occasionally, I could only hope that I had understood and translated properly. Some people may view service trips as an excuse to party in a foreign country. That was certainly not true for our group. So long as there was daylight, there was a job to do. Along with the medical clinics, we labored in muck, elevating water pipes traveling through sewage to prevent bacterial contamination. We spent days with patients at a nursing home, feeding them meals and listening to their stories. After all the assistance our group had provided, upon returning I still fielded numerous questions about why I had gone in the first place. Why hadn’t I just spent spring break working around our local New Haven community? I could have saved on airfare, reduced my carbon footprint and provided assistance somewhere not 2,000 miles away. Few projects in the United States would task college students with the challenges we faced. Where in the States could students be forced to think of and construct a way to raise water pipes to prevent contamination? What hospital would entrust students to translate, diagnose and prescribe the proper treatment? Only in Panama — where we were challenged to problem solve and stretch our capabilities in ways that far outpaced typical local projects. We gained confidence and training, while these communities gained medical care and improved infrastructure.
SERVICE TRIPS CAN REALLY BE ABOUT SERVICE NOT SHENANIGANS In addition, spring break provides us with the opportunity to get away from home and learn from cultures other than our own. College must be our time to see the world, before the commitments of graduate school, families and jobs keep us grounded. It’s also the time to ask questions, discover passions and plan futures. What are the obstacles to health care that locals face? How could our experience with inequality in Panama be compared to the disparity of wealth in our nation? Our trip was only two weeks. We didn’t save the world; we didn’t cure every sick, indigenous Panamanian. But our actions in these communities encouraged change and delivered essential resources. To ensure that we were not perceived as “the American rescuers,” we made sure to enlist community support. By incorporating the community, we promoted cooperation and empowerment, rather than a system of dependency. Most importantly, our trip set the foundation for each member to commit to future service. The prospect of delivering aid and providing hope will certainly provide us with the motivation to push through late nights of studying orgo. There’s certainly nothing wrong with spending break relaxing at a resort and sipping drinks by the pool, but nothing brings the sense of fulfillment and purpose like service. Partying in Mexico doesn’t come close. JOSH BARRETT is a sophomore in Branford College. Contact him at joshua.barrett@yale.edu .
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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS IRISH POET
Sandy Hook details released
Interest in teamteaching increases BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER
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Additional information about the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Conn., bolsters current gun-control legislation proposals. BY MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTER Spurred by pressure from lawmakers across the state, the Chief State’s Attorney’s office released new details Thursday from its ongoing investigation of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December. Earlier this month, several news articles revealed previously classified information about the shooting, including evidence about gunman Adam Lanza’s fixation with other school shootings and his meticulous collection of weapons. As lawmakers work on crafting a legislative response to the shooting — a bill including gun restrictions, changes to the mental healthcare system and bolstered school security efforts that is due for a vote on Wednesday — several politicians, including House Minority Leader Laurence Cafero, demanded that the investigation officially release its findings thus far. “The information contained in the release of the warrants today, I believe, validates much of the work we have as legislators undertaken to this point,” Cafero said in a statement on Thursday. “While some of it was
reported in general terms previously, we now have the benefit of official documents to guide as we we move forward.” Indeed, the facts released are only likely to fuel the urgency of gun control advocates as they highlight the vast stores of weapons and ammunition in the Lanza home. The bill expected for a vote on Wednesday will likely ban the purchase of assault-style weapons and ammunition magazines containing more than 10 rounds. According to a search warrant released by the Chief State’s Attorney’s office, Lanza killed 20 children and six educators in under five minutes. He fired 154 shots in total from a Bushmaster XM15 rifle, and police found 15 more rounds in his rifle as well as three 30-round magazines on his body. At his home at 36 Yogananda St., Lanza’s mother Nancy was found dead in bed with one bullet in her forehead. A rifle was found on the floor, and a gun safe was unlocked. Investigators found four more weapons in a safe in Lanza’s room next to a gaming console as well as news clippings about other mass
shootings. The warrant stated that the Lanza home housed over 1,000 rounds of ammunition in all, as well as a collection of knives and three samurai swords. At the Lanza home, police discovered an NRA certificate and a holiday card addressed to Adam with a check made out for a firearm. Police also seized three books, including an NRA tome entitled “The NRA Guide to Pistol Shooting” and two books about living with autism. But the warrants released offered no explicit narrative explaining why Lanza may have been motivated to go on a shooting spree at his old elementary school. “This is exactly why we need to ban high capacity magazines and why we need to tighten our assault weapons ban,” Malloy said in a Thursday statement. “I don’t know what more we can need to know before we take decisive action to prevent gun violence.” The final police investigation report is expected to be released in June. Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at michelle.hackman@yale.edu .
For the fourth year in a row, proposals for classes team-taught by graduate students and professors have reached a record high. The Associates in Teaching program, which started in the 2009-’10 academic year, gives graduate students an opportunity to co-teach a course for undergraduates with a professor. Director of the Yale Teaching Center Bill Rando said the program has already received 25 course proposals, and he will select 20 to be offered in the 2013-’14 academic year this spring. Rando said the AT program fills an important gap in graduate school education by providing students with the opportunity to teach their own course rather than serve as a teaching fellow, but he added that financial constraints currently inhibit further expansion. “The level of collaboration, the necessity to engage another mind throughout the process, the feedback and the opportunity to stop and reflect on your way of doing things in light of the way somebody else leads a discussion or chooses to organize a lecture is one of the best ways to become a better teacher,” Rando said. Rando said he reviews the courses at the end of each semester and has been “overwhelmed” by the positive responses of the students and the teachers. This year, Yale College offered 18 AT courses, up from 12 in the previous year. Graduate students must serve as teaching fellows for one semester before they can participate in the AT program. He said he hopes to see the program continue to grow in the future to meet steadily increasing demand, adding that Yale does not offer many opportunities for graduate students to teach outside of teaching fellows positions. But Rando added that having two teachers for one course is expensive and could result in a shortage of TF’s. “To me, this is turning into an ideal chapter in a graduate student’s teaching career and one that many more graduate students would benefit from,” Rando said. Professors interviewed said participating in the AT program enabled them to broaden the range of their course offerings. Music professor Daniel Harrison, who has taught two courses with graduate students, said both courses included information beyond his expertise and that he felt he had learned from the experience along with his students. English and comparative literature
professor Katie Trumpener, who supported the program from the start and is now teaching her second AT course, said Associates in Teaching allows graduate students to have direct teaching experience instead of simply assisting in a class, which will help them in their later careers. “I remember finding the TF experience pretty frustrating because you’re stuck with someone else’s course whether or not you like it,” Trumpener said. “This program exposes to students the mechanisms by which professors figure out how to teach.” Trumpener added that she feels the dynamics of a student and professor team-taught course allowed the class to be more creative and experimental than if she had taught it herself. Four students interviewed who have participated in the Associates in Teaching program said they feel the experience has positively impacted their teaching abilities and overall experience at Yale. Ksenia Sidorenko GRD ’15, who is teaching a course on graphic novels with Trumpener, said having autonomy over a syllabus and the opportunity to teach a topic that specifically interests her made the AT program more rewarding than a TF position. “It makes a difference when it’s your own material and things you care about,” Sidorenko said. “When a new idea is voiced in class, it really feels like you’re generating knowledge in the field you are working in.” Though Sidorenko said she was initially concerned that undergraduates would be less receptive to her than the professor during class, she said she has never felt any discomfort while teaching the class. Roman Utkin GRD ’15, who cotaught a course titled “Modernist Berlin, Petersburg, Moscow” with comparative literature professor Katerina Clark, said his experience strengthened the relationship he had with Clark — his advisor — and helped him better understand how to teach actual class. “It just enriched me personally and professionally, and I now have a course that I will certainly use in my portfolio when I apply for jobs,” Utkin said. “I wish every student could do it at least once because I think it is indispensable in a graduate students’ career. Proposals for the Associates in Teaching program are reviewed by a committee of faculty and graduate school deans. Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .
Conference center may mark turning point for West Campus BY DAN WEINER STAFF REPORTER When the West Campus inaugurated its newly renovated $4 million conference center — a sparkling new cafeteria and gathering space — on Wednesday afternoon, it represented for many a turning point for the sprawling 136-acre complex. Yale, which bought the West Haven facility from Bayer Pharmaceuticals in 2007, envisioned the campus as a new hub for science research at Yale. Soon after, the recession slowed progress on expensive lab renovations and faculty recruitment. Looking back on the early days of West Campus, faculty described the space as “desolate” and lacking an intellectual environment. Nevertheless, growth is accelerating: While the facility is only at 25 percent capacity, administrators anticipate that West Campus will be full in approximately five years. Within the next few, extensive renovations will have modernized all West Campus research institutes. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place next week for new digitization and conservation spaces for Yale’s art galleries and museums, and next fall the School of Nursing will relocate to a renovated space on the campus. Faculty say they were attracted by the opportunity to mold the growing hub up scientific research. “The question we would get at the very beginning is ‘This looks like a great place, but I don’t really want to be here by myself,’” said Vice President for West Campus planning and program development Scott Strobel. “I think we have reached the point now where people aren’t asking that question anymore.”
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Strobel, who assumed leadership of West Campus in early 2011, said young faculty recruits were drawn to the campus by the potential to help shape the growing facility. Two of three junior professors interviewed said they were actively engaged in their institute’s recruitment process. Physiology professor Erdem Karatekin said he feels like faculty are being “listened to” in defining the future of West Campus. When cell biology professor Jesse Rinehart GRD ’04 established his lab at West Campus in July 2010, there was very little activity in the sprawling complex. He said the research facility was “quiet,” far removed from the activity at the Yale School of Medicine seven miles down the road. But he said he was intrigued by the possibility of helping to influence the young campus. “It happens all the time, everywhere across the country that a department will reinvent itself, that a hiring process will bring in new people, but I really can’t tell you if it’s ever happened at a place like Yale, at a top-tier institution, where an entire campus and an entire collection of research programs were brought online and bring an entirely new research direction to a University,” he said. “That was exciting to me.” Financial incentives have also helped draw researchers to the West Campus. Professor of cell biology Malaiyalam Mariappan said that of the handful of institutions he considered, Yale offered him the most generous package. Still, the promise of a vibrant intellectual environment on the West Campus was the most important factor in his decision to come to Yale last year. A $25 million gift to the West Campus in the fall of 2011 estab-
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Professors and researchers hope that the opening of the newly renovated conference center on West Campus will bolster the energy and sense of community growing there. lished the Energy Sciences Institute. Searches are currently under way for a director of the institute and junior faculty, and renovations to research spaces are forthcoming, said Strobel. But for some, the promise of a growing research hub is not enough. No number of faculty recruits will shorten the seven-mile ride to central campus. While Yale shuttles transport community members back and forth from central campus every half hour, the commute makes it difficult to attend many of the seminars that take place back in New Haven, Mariappan said. Rinehart said potential faculty recruits still ask about the iso-
lation from other areas of campus, though it does not typically emerge as a major concern. Karatekin suspects at least one of the faculty searches the West Campus lost last year was because of location. “He ended up going to London,” he said. “I think probably because it was London versus the West Campus.”
A TURNING POINT?
According to Strobel, the new conference center — which has been in use for the past few months — has “entirely changed the vibe” of West Campus and marks a turning point for the complex. The space fosters a sense of community among pro-
fessors, who socialize over meals or games of pool, and allows prospective faculty and students to envision themselves enjoying the space as well. The center serves as a much -needed gathering place for the community, Rinehart said. More broadly, West Campus has transformed since he arrived almost three years ago. “We have a critical mass today — a vibrant community that is productive and growing — I think we’ve done it,” he said. But some members of the West Campus community, like cell biology research scientist David Baddeley, doubt West Campus has reached its tipping point. Members still return to the main
campus for many of the seminars and lectures, a sign that the West Campus still lacks the significance to draw talks away from the main campus. More faculty and more laboratories are needed for the facility to reach its critical mass, he said. President-elect Peter Salovey helped cut the ribbon on Wednesday afternoon. Karatekin said he was pleasantly surprised to see the administrator make the journey down to West Haven. “I think there was a message there, and the message was that the West Campus is important,” he said Contact DAN WEINER at daniel.weiner@yale.edu .
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“Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.” WALT WHITMAN AMERICAN POET, ESSAYIST AND JOURNALIST
City rolls out jobs pipeline
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8 BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER Less than a year after a campaign finance scandal sunk his bid for a seat in Congress, former State Representative and State House Speaker Christopher Donovan has once again found himself in hot water. Documents recently made public by legislative officials show an ongoing investigation by the FBI into Donovan’s relationship with Mark Masselli, a major contributor to Donovan’s congressional campaign. Masselli also runs a chain of nonprofit health clinics, Community Health Center Inc., that was appropriated $15 million in state funds in the waning hours of the 2012 legislative session. The investigation suggests federal authorities suspect Donovan of improperly intervening in the state’s bond allocation process on behalf of CHC. As of yet, Donovan has not been charged with any crime and has publicly denied all wrongdoing. In lieu of commenting, Masselli has hired public relations consultant Andrea Obston, who in a statement emphasized the state’s long history of supporting free health clinics, which it established in the 1960s. “The state of Connecticut has used bond funds for many years to support the work of Connecticut’s health centers and other nonprofit health and social service organizations, which have limited options for financing capital projects,” Obston said. Last October, the FBI issued subpoenas to the General Assembly’s Office of Legislative Management, requiring that the office hand over all documents related to the bond package in the speaker’s office. In the initial version of the bond package in early April 2012, the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee set aside $20 million to distribute in a competitive grant process to 14 community health organizations across the state. But by the end of the legislative session on May 9, the funding had been increased to $30 million, with $15 million set aside for CHC and $15 million for the 13 other organizations. How the change occurred is a question that remains unanswered. An examination of the minutes of the committee’s minutes between April and May 2012 provided no further clues. State Rep. Betty Boukus, who chairs the bonding committee, told CT Mirror that she could not remem-
ber having conversations, including any with Donovan, about dividing the funds into the two sets. Boukus said she told federal investigators the same thing. Instead, Boukus emphasized the importance of the CHC’s work. Community health organizations provide healthcare for 300,000 residents across the state. “I was just blown away by the work they do,” Boukus told the CT Mirror. Despite the approval of the bond committee, the CHC is unlikely to see the $15 million. Once passed by the legislature, bond authorizations still need to be officially allocated by the State Bond Commission, which Office of Policy and Management Secretary Ben Barnes said the state has no plans to do. Masselli founded CHC as a free clinic in 1972 with a group of Wesleyan students. Since then, it has expanded across the state, with revenues of $66 million. The investigation into the health clinic bonding process follows a campaign finance scandal last spring during Donovan’s ill-fated attempt to fill now-Sen. Chris Murphy’s seat in the state’s fifth congressional district. Masselli assisted Donovan with fundraising and donated $6,300 to the campaign. Donovan’s former campaign manager and finance director were accused by federal authorities of channeling $27,500 into Donovan’s campaign coffers from employees and owners of smoke shops. In exchange, the two agreed to put a stop to legislation that would levy hefty fees on roll-your-own tobacco businesses. Four of those tied to the smoke shops have pleaded guilty, with charges pending for the rest of the eight charged. Donovan has not been charged with any wrongdoing, and no evidence is yet to surface showing he was aware of the agreement. According to Andrew Doba, communications director for Gov. Dannel Malloy, the governor’s office has not been asked to provide any information to federal investigators, although he expressed the office’s willingness to provide the investigators and the public with information on bond allocations for CHC. Masselli was paid $363,703 in 2010 and $629,073 in 2011 by CHC. Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .
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BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER A new city initiative that will be fully operational this spring promises to help New Haven residents find jobs at businesses across the Elm City and inside Yale’s Ivy walls. In January 2012 the Board of Alderman created a Jobs Pipeline Working Group tasked with helping solve New Haven’s unemployment problems. The solution they are implementing is called New Haven Works, an initiative that will attempt to match 1000 residents with jobs in New Haven over the next four years by assisting applicants with the hiring process. The board of New Haven Works is stacked with business and political leaders with connections that could prove vital for residents looking to break into the New Haven job market, including Board of Alderman President Jorge Perez, Mayor John DeStefano Jr., Bruce Alexander ’65, vice president for New Haven and state affairs and Vincent P. Petrini, senior vice president for public affairs at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. These officials contend that supporting residents through the application process may be the missing link to connecting many qualified New Haven residents with employment. “Applicants have difficulty navigating a hiring system,” said Diane Young Turner, the director of New Haven Community Hiring Initiatives. “We’re trying to diminish that by going out and talking with community agencies
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and explaining the process.” New Haven Works, which has begun to test the waters of its operation but will but not will not fully launch for a month, will not create any new jobs at Yale, Turner said. Instead, the program seeks to match residents with jobs that are already posted, through methods such as teaching the ins and outs of the Yale hiring system and helping potential applicants complete their resumes.
What makes the program so exciting is that it’s really a full service organization. People there will see them all the way through. SARAH EIDELSON ’12 Alderman, Ward 1 The program will help examine whether the primary barrier to employment in New Haven is a lack of communication and knowledge of the hiring process, Alexander said. Program supporters said preliminary findings give a positive indication that the theory behind the Pipeline is correct — Mary Renolds, the director of New Haven Works, has already begun reading resumes and has found that there are many qualified people who lost their jobs during the recession and should be helped through New Haven
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Works, Alexander added. “We know that there is a high unemployment rate in New Haven, and our desire, or rather our goal, is to figure out what the obstacles are to reducing unemployment and to remedying those obstacles,” Alexander said. Ward 1 Alderman Sarah Eidelson ’12 added that New Haven Works may have a unique approach to eliminating those obstacles, since it works with people through the entire process of getting a job, instead of running a singular workshop. “Part of what makes the program so exciting is that it’s really a full service organization,” Eidelson said. “People there will see them all the way though.” University officials said that New Haven Works is not about mending a weak relationship between Yale and New Haven but rather strengthening an already mutually beneficial one. “Many Yale employees now are New Haven residents and many New Haven residents are Yale employees,” Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93, Yale’s deputy chief communications officers, said in an email to the News. “It’s not a matter of some terribly broken system, but of how to improve what exists and build on other efforts that have shown good results.” According to the United States Department of Labor, the unemployment rate in New Haven as of Jan. 13 was 9 percent. Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu .
Donation funds psychological support for cancer patients BY PAYAL MARATHE STAFF REPORTER The Yale School of Medicine received a $100,000 gift on Wednesday from a pair of brothers, Tariq and Kamran Farid, to improve its psychological support services. The Farid brothers, who founded Edible Arrangements, chose the School of Medicine’s Pediatric Oncology Department as the next charity for the Farid Foundation to support. The family has a special connection to Yale New-Haven Children’s Hospital, as Kamran was treated there for leukemia as a child. Because of the brothers’ personal experience, they specifically donated the money to the oncology department’s Psychosocial Service, a resource that fulfills patients’ and families’ psychological needs during treatment and recovery from cancer. The donation will help sustain the Psychosocial Service program, which has only formally been in existence for the past five years, said Gary Kupfer, chief of the Pediatric Oncology Department. He added that this contribution is the largest gift that has ever been made directly to the program. Kupfer said he hopes to allocate a portion of this donation money to hiring more staff who will provide “direct patient care
in the form of psychological support.” Still, he said, it is equally important that the donation will fund research efforts to grow the hospital’s psychological support services and improve quality of life for patients and families.
Emotional and psychological support are essential in helping somebody heal. GEORGE LISTER MED ’73 Chair, Pediatrics Department Pediatrics Department Chair George Lister MED ’73 said he is glad the Psychosocial Service program is getting attention, because it “often falls by the wayside.” Cancer centers “have to think about things above the direct administration of treatments,” he said, adding that donations to psychological support programs are “integral to the functioning of major cancer centers.” “Emotional and psychological support are essential in helping somebody heal. They are a fundamental part of the complete provision of healthcare,” Lister said. Pediatric treatments cannot be limited to the patient, Kupfer
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The Farid Foundation donated $100,000 to the School of Medicine’s Pediatric Oncology Department on Wednesday. said, since families — especially siblings — are deeply affected by a child’s cancer. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a common occurrence in the parents of patients, although there are a wide range of psychosocial issues that arise following a diagnosis, he added. Beyond treating cancer, an
oncology department should attempt to restore children to their normal lives as much as possible, and to make the hospital experience “less horrendous,” Lister said. The Farid Foundation’s gift is something to celebrate, he added, because psychological support services have received limited consideration
and funding in the realm of cancer treatment. Robert Alpern, dean of the School of Medicine, called the donation a “critical” contribution to the Pediatric Oncology program. Not only are oncologists “thrilled” to have more money for psychosocial services, but they also appreciate
the donors’ personal connection to the hospital. The Farid Foundation was established in 2005, and the Yale School of Medicine is now one of 26 projects that the foundation supports. Contact PAYAL MARATHE at payal.marathe@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT Faculty bemoan administrator absence YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 “There was a lot of dissemination of information, but I am not sure it was fully processed because some respondents who are involved with the college talked a lot about their personal experiences and relationship with Yale-NUS — their responses were anecdotal,” said Yale College Dean Mary Miller, the only Yale administrator who attended the meeting. “And to a certain degree, I would not say I would make policy based on individual responses to the project.” Computer science professor Michael Fischer said he thinks Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis anticipated that the main concern of attendees would be academic freedom in Singapore, as Lewis had prepared slides addressing the issue. But many of the faculty’s concerns were unrelated to Singapore, Fischer said, and instead focused on the way Yale faculty who choose also to teach at YaleNUS will balance their commitments to both schools. Whether Yale will be able to maintain the strength of its academic programs while granting course releases to professors who take on visiting positions at Yale-NUS was the question on most attendees’ minds, Fisher said. Earlier this month, Yale-NUS administrators announced that Yale faculty will have the ongoing option of applying for temporary teaching positions at Yale-NUS. The visiting faculty will have the opportunity to teach two-week or semester-long courses at the Singaporean liberal arts college on a regular basis, and Lewis told the News that administrators have not set a cap on the number of Yale faculty who will take positions in Singapore. Some Yale faculty have also undertaken consulting professorships at Yale-NUS: Alongside having the option of teaching at the school, they will be involved in developing Yale-NUS’s curriculum. Lewis said he expects the total number of course releases granted to professors who go to Yale-NUS to range from five to 16 per year. Given that 200 members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are on leave from Yale at any one time, Lewis said the relatively small number of professors who will leave to teach at Yale-NUS will not prove a burden on Yale’s academics. Lewis said he thinks he adequately responded to the faculty’s concerns, but added that some of their questions were better suited for Yale President Richard Levin, President-elect Peter Salovey or members of the FAS Steering Committee, which will work with the Provost’s Office to grant course releases to Yale faculty who want to teach at Yale-NUS. Chun said all professors wishing to teach in Singapore will need the approval of their department chairs and the FAS Steering Committee, adding that the Yale administration will actively review the impact of professors’ departures on Yale’s academic life. Most professors interviewed said they were disappointed that Levin, Salovey
and Provost Benjamin Polak, as well as relevant steering committee members did not attend the meeting. French and African-American studies professor Christopher Miller, a noted opponent of the Singaporean college, called the meeting a “sham” in part because Chun and Lewis deferred a lot of questions to the absent Yale administrators. Chun said in a Thursday email that Thursday’s meeting was announced as a discussion with Lewis, adding that there was no suggestion that Levin, Salovey or Polak would attend. Lewis said faculty can have their lingering questions answered by Polak during an FAS faculty forum in April and by Levin during a May faculty meeting. Professors said Chun announced at the meeting that Yale-NUS faculty and administrators are preparing a report about Yale-NUS that they will present during the Yale College faculty meeting in May, but some added that they were not given a clear description of the report’s contents. As a result, Mary Miller said she thinks faculty members interested in knowing more about the demands placed on Yale-NUS visiting faculty have high expectations for the amount of new information that will be discussed during the May meeting. Chun said the report will reflect the opinion of all members of the Yale-NUS advisory committee. “We want to prepare an objective and balanced report that covers what is exciting and going well at Yale-NUS College, and that articulates areas of concern about Yale-NUS College or the college’s impact on Yale,” Chun said. Frank Slack, a biology professor who will be a visiting professor at Yale-NUS, said a significant part of the 90-minute meeting focused on the Yale-NUS faculty hiring process, adding that he thinks it should have lasted longer. French senior lector Ruth Koizim said the general impression she got from the meeting was that faculty need more detailed information about the new college and more transparency on the part of its leadership, adding that she expected the meeting to be more “meaty.” She said she was not satisfied with the content of the meeting. “We don’t know what’s going to happen with anything, as there was no indication of the administration’s take on our concerns,” Fischer said. Lewis said he thinks attendees included a group of faculty who were skeptical about the project, an equally large group of Yale-NUS supporters and faculty members who were there to learn about the college. Chun said attending faculty expressed views ranging from supportive to critical. The Yale-NUS Faculty Advisory Committee’s task is to inform Yale faculty about the progress of Yale-NUS and to advise Levin and others at Yale on how to approach issues of concern. Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .
“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” GEORGE SANTAYANA, AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER
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Macklemore and Ryan Lewis will be joined by independent artist Best Coast, DJ RL Grime and band Grouplove for Spring Fling. SPRING FLING FROM PAGE 1 of the October Spring Fling Survey, which asked students to rate their top choices for bands they wanted to see perform at the event in April. Spring Fling Committee Chair Ethan Karetsky ’14 said the process is much more complicated than just taking the survey’s top results and recruiting those bands. “I think a lot of people don’t think much about how complicated a task it is to select artists that are affordable, appealing to as many Yalies as possible, complement each other, willing to perform and still within our budget,” YCC Events Director Bryan Epps
’14 said. “It’s a challenge every year, and I think we’ve pulled together a great lineup for Spring Fling 2013.”
It’s a challenge ever year, and I think we’ve pulled together a great lineup for Spring Fling 2013. BRYAN EPPS ’14 Events director, Yale College Council Nine of 15 students interviewed
said Macklemore is the only performer they know from this year’s lineup, and five of the students had looked up songs by the other bands after watching the YCC’s video this afternoon. Four students said they are excited about the number and variety of bands to be featured at Spring Fling this year. Jon Silverstone ’15 said he thinks the YCC selected performers who appeal to a variety of music tastes. Doors open for this year’s Spring Fling at 2:30 p.m. Contact KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG at kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .
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“Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won’t buy, but it’s very funny — have you ever tried to buy them without money?” OGDEN NASH AMERICAN POET
Harvard professor talks money and happiness BY AARON LEWIS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Money can indeed buy happiness, according to Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton. Addressing an audience of 50 in William L. Harkness Hall on Thursday afternoon, Norton’s talk was the first in the new Yale Distinguished Speaker Series on Happiness. The talk was cosponsored by two undergraduate organizations — InspireYale and Yale Flourish — both of which aim to promote and explore the academic study of human happiness. Norton, whose extensive research on the role of money in happiness has brought him prominence in the scientific community, is the first of four speakers that will visit Yale in the next month. “If you think money can’t buy happiness,” Norton said, “you’re not spending it right.” People normally spend their money on themselves, Norton said, but the professor’s research has shown they would be happier if they spent more of it on others. He and his team tested this theory on students at the University of British Columbia. After asking students how happy they felt, the researchers gave money to two different groups — one that was told to spend it on themselves and another that was told to spend it on somebody else. When researchers contacted both groups later that day, those who spent their money on other people reported feeling much happier than those who did not. “It’s less about the amount, and more about what you do with the money,” Norton explained. His team replicated the experiment in Uganda. Even though subjects purchased different products, Norton found the results were the same. “It turns out that giving to other people — whether it’s a silly scarf or life-saving medications — is roughly the same,” he said. Norton has also used his findings to help organizations explore how money might be used to improve happiness among their members. In one of his studies, team productivity and relationships improved when subjects on
sales teams were given money to spend on their teammates. In his talk, Norton also said he thinks current corporate philanthropy practices should be restructured. According to his research, employee happiness and morale improve if employees are allowed to participate in their company’s philanthropic giving and donate to the causes they care about. Toward the end of the talk, Norton assured his audience that though they are now aware of this phenomenon, they can still experience the psychological benefits of spending money on others. More than anything, Norton said he hopes to “liberate people to be nice” by making being nice less awkward. “When people do nice things for you, you often think, ‘What do they want?’” Norton said. “The only thing we have left to be nice to people is to forward them links to YouTube and The New Yorker.”
If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. MICHAEL NORTON Professor, Harvard Business School This point resonated with Socheata Poeuv SOM ’12, who said Norton’s idea would give people more confidence to help others without being perceived as strange. Laurel Cohen ’16 said her experiences as a community service organizer made more sense in light of Norton’s findings. “It’s so interesting the ways you can trick people into going to something that they’ll feel good about doing later,” she said. Norton’s new book “Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending,” which explores his findings in greater depth, will be released on May 14. Contact AARON LEWIS at aaron.z.lewis@yale.edu .
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Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton discussed his research on how spending habits can affect happiness.
New church opens amid city nightlife BY JIWON LEE AND CHRISTOPHER PEAK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER A new church, launched right in the middle of New Haven nightlife, wants to see New Haven change. Journey Church, founded by pastor Felix Quinones, 31, had its first service last Sunday at a rented ballroom on Crown Street. The young pastor, who grew up in New Haven, has been reaching out to the community since last August and started the church with 28 on the launch team. The first service, held in a contemporary style, attracted 102 New Haven residents including children. After serving in several churches in Detroit, Quinones returned to New Haven last year to launch his own. “New Haven was always close to my heart,” he said. “There are 130,000 people in New Haven
but only about 3.9 percent of those are reached by an evangelical church. We want to make Jesus famous here.” The church has been pushing forward many community outreach efforts since last fall, including giving out granola bars on the street on busy Monday mornings. Last November it hosted a children’s fair attended by almost 300 people. “I want our church to make a difference in the community,” Quinones said. Jorge Vargas, Quinones’ cousin and a member of the church’s leadership team, said the outreach efforts were not only about advertising the new church, but also about “blessing people.” While he said not everybody was receptive to the church’s efforts, overall recruiting leading up the first service had been “very effective.” Since he began preparing for the launch, the greatest challenge for Quinones has been find-
ing a good place for service, which took more than six months for the young pastor. The ballroom they finally settled on is located in the center of downtown nightlife, housed in the same building as NYX Ultra Lounge, a dance club and bar. “I know it can be crazy on Saturday nights,” said Quinones, “but it does not give us any special challenge. There are just as many broken people here as anywhere else.” Kari Maidment, who joined Quinones in the move from Detroit to New Haven, said the central location will help draw followers from across demographics. “We want younger and older, every race and background, from people living in the projects to doctors and lawyers downtown, Yale students and community college students,” she said. “We did not want to be somewhere that would culturally exclude us.”
Maidment, who said she came to New Haven “blind,” is now a member of Journey Church’s leadership team. Maidment said she had never lived on the East Coast and had only visited New York once, but she added that New Haven has been “such an easy city to fall in love with.” The church has no proclaimed denomination, but Quinones received his credentials through Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal organization. Maidment said that the Elm City already has many active churches, but said she noticed “a lot of unreached people that aren’t going to church.” On a recent Sunday, during the St. Patrick’s Day parade, revelers filled the streets, apparently not planning to attend Sunday services, Maidment said, but she stood on a corner and invited people to worship at Journey Church. “This is one of the least churched areas in the United States,” she said. “There was a
need here.”
We want younger and older, every race and background, from people living in the projects to doctors and lawyers downtown. KARI MAIDMENT Member, Journey Church’s leadership team Journey Church has received financial and organizational support from the Association of Related Churches, a group based in Birmingham, Ala., with the goal of “planting” 2,000 new churches across the United States. In addition to Journey
Church, ARC has supported Catalyst Church in Middletown and partnered with Vertical Church in West Haven. Representatives from ARC could not be reached for comment Thursday afternoon. According to Maidment, ARC set benchmarks for Journey Church to meet, such as having a certain number of people on the leadership team, before it could receive matching funds. “They’ve really equipped us for what we have to do,” Maidment said. “It’s like if we’re kids buying a house for the first time, and they’re our advisors. They have the know-how.” New Haven’s first public worship was held beneath a large oak tree on April 18, 1638, the first Sunday after colonists arrived. Contact JIWON LEE at jiwon.lee@yale.edu . Contact CHRISTOPHER PEAK at christopher.peak@yale.edu .
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“The shortest, gladdest years of life / How swiftly are ye gliding by!” HENRY DURAND FROM HIS SONG “BRIGHT COLLEGE YEARS,” YALE’S ALMA MATER
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CRIME FROM PAGE 1 ment situation was “discovered and resolved in a timely fashion.” He confirmed that the subbasement was accessed but said he did not know by whom. “The police are actively investigating the possibilities and have made sure the area is secure,” he added. JE’s vandalism incident, which postponed Sunday brunch by 30 minutes because it took dining hall workers over three hours to clean, occurred after perpetrators took a fire extinguisher from the Master’s Office and sprayed it in the dining hall. JE Master Penelope Laurans said she blamed the incident on “alcohol stupidity” and that she regretted that the brunt of the cleanup fell on dining hall workers. Laurans said she was “shocked and disturbed” by the behavior, adding that she does not think the culprit was a member of the Yale community because she could not “believe that anyone from Yale would do anything like this.” TD Master Jeffrey Brenzel confirmed that a student reported “one apparent stranger in one entryway” and urged students to continue to be alert to their surroundings.
[I cannot] believe that anyone from Yale would do anything like this. PENELOPE LAURANS Master, Jonathan Edwards College Eddy Wang ’16, who witnessed the incident in TD and reported it to the police, explained that he saw a man in a headband “walking quickly” who caught “the [entryway] door as it was closing.” He added that the intruder went up to the third floor before running back down the stairs and leaving. Wang said that despite the breach of security in his college, he still feels residential college life is “pretty safe.” “This is the first time that I’ve experienced something like this,” he said. “I think if they can improve security of course it will be better, but it’s also not that hard to get in in the beginning.” Davenport Operations Manager Carolyn Haller informed Davenport students in a Monday email that the college had “been victimized by a recent rash of thefts and graffiti.” Davenport Master Richard Schottenfeld ’71 MED ’76 could not be reached for comment. The thefts are not the first time Davenport has been targeted in recent years. In fall 2011, several desktop and laptop computers were stolen from the college library and a Blu-ray player and audiovisual receiver were reported missing from the buttery. Despite increased patrols by Yale Police Department officers around the college, none of the stolen items were recovered. In September 2011, nine computer thefts were reported campuswide. Contact JASMINE HORSEY at jasmine.horsey@yale.edu .
YALE UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS
This year, 1,991 students received acceptances to Yale College for an admissions rate of 6.72 percent, the lowest in the University’s history. ADMISSIONS FROM PAGE 1 schools release their decisions on the same date. Harvard — hitting a record 5.8 percent — accepted 2,029 of its 35,023 applicants, and Princeton posted an acceptance rate of 7.3 percent. As of press time, all Ivy League institutions released their admission rates except Dartmouth, and each school reported lower rates from the previous year. In a time of overflowing application counts and plummeting acceptance rates at most selective universities, various high school college counselors said their students have been more anxious about college applications than students in their shoes were 10 years ago. Roland Allen, director of college counseling at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in California and a former admissions officer at Stanford and MIT, said he has grown used to the “hyperselective” nature of college admissions at Yale and its peer institutions, adding that small per-
centage changes do not hold much significance. “Honestly, a change in selectivity — a percentage point at Yale, Princeton or Stanford — doesn’t upset the apple cart as much as drastic shifts in selectivity at the usually predictable places like Boston University, Carnegie Mellon,” Allen said.
The second I saw the word “welcome,” I just left my computer and started screaming. GREG WANG Admitted student, class of 2017 Accepted students took to social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to share the news, minutes after reading their decisions.
Popular college forum College Confidential experienced server downtime for roughly half an hour, as enthusiastic students began posting their results. Greg Wang, an accepted student from Phillips Academy Andover, said logging into the online decision portal and finding out he had been accepted felt “absolutely amazing.” Though Yale was his first choice, he waited until after he had read all the decisions at his second-choice schools to go to the Admissions Office’s website, where his decision was waiting. “The second I saw the word ‘welcome,’ I just left my computer and started screaming,” he said. Another accepted student, Rebecca Dendy from Pinnacle High School in Phoenix, Ariz., said she will wait to hear back from a few other schools before making a final decision, but plans to attend Bulldog Days in April to get a sense of the University’s offerings and is “pretty sure” she will choose Yale.
Yamen Abbas, an international student from Israel, said he “bolted out of his chair” upon seeing his acceptance and woke his parents up, though it was past midnight. Abbas added that he felt “incredibly fortunate” to have been accepted, but was unsurprised to hear of the low acceptance rate because of Yale’s selectivity in the past. He said he would urge prospective students to “not let this number scare them away from applying.” In addition to the 1,991 acceptances, Yale placed 1,001 students on the waitlist and expects to enroll roughly 1,350 students in its incoming class — a target number that has stayed consistent over the years. Last year, Brenzel said, Yale ultimately accepted 70 students from its waitlist of 1,001. Students have until May 1 to respond to their admissions offers. Contact AMY WANG at amy.wang@yale.edu .
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SUNDAY, MARCH 31 5:30 PM “Night and Fog” and “The Damned” The Film Cultures Colloquium and Screening Series presents “Night and Fog” (1955), directed by Alain Resnais, and “The Damned” (1969), directed by Luchino Visconti. Free and open to the general public. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Auditorium.
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Obama: ‘Shame’ if Congress forgets shooting BY ALAN FRAM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Thursday not to forget the heartbreak of the Newtown elementary school massacre and “get squishy” on tightened gun laws, though some lawmakers in his own Democratic Party remain a tough sell on an approaching Senate vote to expand purchasers’ background checks. “Shame on us if we’ve forgotten,” Obama said at the White House, standing amid 21 mothers who have lost children to shootings. “I haven’t forgotten those kids.” More than three months after 20 first-graders and six staffers were killed in Newtown, Conn., Obama urged the nation to pressure lawmakers to back what he called the best chance in over a decade to tame firearms violence. At the same time, gun control groups were staging a “Day to Demand Action” with more than 100 rallies and other events planned from Connecticut to California. This was on top of a $12 million TV ad campaign financed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg that has been pressuring senators in 13 states to tighten background-check rules. But if political momentum was building after the nightmarish December shootings, it has flagged as the Senate prepares to debate gun restrictions next month. Thanks to widespread Republican resistance and a wariness by moderate Democrats from Southern and Western states — including six who are facing re-election next
year — a proposed assault weapons ban seems doomed and efforts to broaden background checks and ban high capacity ammunition magazines are in question. In one statement that typifies moderate Democrats’ caution, spokesman Kevin Hall said Virginia Sen. Mark Warner is “still holding conversations with Virginia stakeholders and sorting through issues on background checks” and proposals on assault weapons and magazines.
I know that we can go after and prosecute criminals without the need to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of lawabiding North Dakotans. HEIDI HEITKAMP U.S. senator, North Dakota In stronger language this week, Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota said, “I do not need someone from New York City to tell me how to handle crime in our state. I know that we can go after and prosecute criminals without the need to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding North Dakotans.” Expanding federal background checks to private sales at gun shows and online is the gun-control effort’s centerpiece and was the focus of Obama’s remarks. The system, designed to block crimi-
Prosecutors will not accept Holmes’ plea
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James Holmes, a suspect in the Aurora theater shooting, sits in the courtroom during his arraignment in Centennial, Colo. BY DAN ELLIOTT ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — Prosecutors said Thursday they are not ready to accept an offer from Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding the death penalty. In a court filing, prosecutors criticized defense attorneys for publicizing Holmes’ offer to plead guilty, calling it a ploy meant to draw the public and the judge into what should be private plea negotiations. They say the defense has “steadfastly and repeatedly” refused to provide key details they need to consider a plea. No agreement exists, and one “is extremely unlikely based on the present information available to the prosecution.” Legal experts say the case pivots on whether Holmes was legally insane when he opened fire in a packed theater in Aurora, killing 12 people. Holmes’ attorneys disclosed in a court filing Wednesday that their client has offered to plead guilty to killing 12 people at a midnight screening of the latest Batman movie, but only if he wouldn’t be executed. Prosecutors say defense attorneys are trying to pull the judge into a possible plea agreement, and criticized comments to the media, including The Associated
Press, from Doug Wilson, who heads the state public defenders’ office. Wilson didn’t immediately return a call Thursday. George Brauchler, the current Arapahoe County DA, is scheduled to announce Monday whether he will seek the death penalty for Holmes. Brauchler hasn’t publicly revealed his plans. He has refused repeatedly to comment on the case, citing the gag order and his spokesman didn’t immediately return a call Thursday evening. Pierce O’Farrill, who was shot three times, said he would welcome an agreement that would imprison Holmes for life. The years of court struggles ahead would likely be an emotional ordeal for victims, he said. “I don’t see his death bringing me peace,” O’Farrill said. “To me, my prayer for him was that he would spend the rest of his life in prison and hopefully, in all those years he has left, he could find God and ask for forgiveness himself.” A plea bargain would bring finality to the case fairly early so victims and their families can avoid the prolonged trauma of not knowing what will happen, said Dan Recht, a past president of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar. “The defense, by making this public pleading, is reaching out to the victims’ families,” he said.
nals and the mentally disturbed from getting firearms, currently applies only to transactions by licensed gun dealers. The National Rifle Association opposes the expansion, citing a threat that it could bring federal registries of gun owners, which would be illegal. The NRA says what is needed is better enforcement of the existing system, which it says criminals too easily circumvent. Democratic sponsors are sure to need 60 votes to prevail — a daunting hurdle since the party has just 53 of the Senate’s 100 seats, plus two Democratic-leaning independents. In a sign of potential trouble ahead, six Democrats backed a failed GOP proposal last week that would have required 60 votes for all future bills restricting guns. “The week after Newtown, we thought it would be a tough road to 60 votes but we’d get there,” said Mark Glaze, director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group that Bloomberg helps lead. “Three months after Newtown, it looks like a tough slog but we’ll get there.” Exactly how they can achieve that has yet to be demonstrated, with Obama’s turn Thursday as arm-twister-in-chief underscoring the political pressure that proponents feel is needed 104 days after the Newtown killings. “Now’s the time to turn that heartbreak into something real,” said Obama. While not naming the NRA, he chided opponents for trying to “make all our progress collapse under the weight of fear and frustration, or their assumption is that people will just forget about it.”
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President Barack Obama discussed measures to protect children from gun violence Thursday.
GOP begins gay marriage shift BY JOSH LEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — For years, American opinion on gay marriage has been shifting. Now lawmakers are in a mad dash to catch up. In less than two weeks, seven senators — all from moderate or Republican-leaning states — announced their support, dropping one by one like dominos. Taken together, their proclamations reflected a profound change in the American political calculus: For the first time, elected officials from traditionally conservative states are starting to feel it’s safer to back gay marriage than risk being the last to join the cause. “As far as I can tell, political leaders are falling all over themselves to endorse your side of the case,” Chief Justice John Roberts told lawyers urging the Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down a law barring legally married gay couples from receiving federal benefits or recognition. It was the second of two landmark gay marriage cases the justices heard this week, the high court’s first major examination of gay rights in a decade. But the focus on the court cases — replete with colorful, camera-ready protests outside the court building — obscured the sudden emergence of a critical mass across the street in the Capitol as one by one, senators took to Facebook or quietly issued a statement to say that they, too, now support gay marriage. For some Democrats, like Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and Montana Sen. Jon Tester, the reversal would have been almost unfathomable just a few months ago as they fought for re-election. The
potential risks were even greater for other Democrats like North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan and Alaska Sen. Mark Begich, already top GOP targets when they face voters next year in states that President Barack Obama lost in November. After all, it was less than a year ago that voters in Hagan’s state approved a ban on gay marriage. Those four Democrats and two others — Mark Warner of Virginia and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia — were swept up in a shifting tide that began to take shape last year, when Obama, in the heat of his re-election campaign, became the first sitting president to endorse gay marriage. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a potential contender in the next presidential election, followed suit in mid-March. As support among party leaders builds, rank-andfile Democrats appear wary of being perceived as hold-outs in what both parties are increasingly describing as a civilrights issue. “They’re reflecting what they’re seeing in the polls — except the most extreme of the Republican base,” former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican who supports gay marriage, said in an interview. “From a purely political perspective, if you want to be a leader of the future, you look at the next generation. They are overwhelmingly in favor of this.” Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party, cautioned in a USA Today interview that the GOP should not “act like Old Testament heretics.” Among Republicans, whose party platform opposes gay marriage, the shift in position has mostly been limited to
former lawmakers and prominent strategists. Still, a distinct change in tone was palpable this month when Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican whom presidential candidate Mitt Romney vetted last year as a potential running mate, declared his support, citing a personal conversion stemming from his son coming out to him as gay. Rather than blast Portman for flouting party dogma or failing an ideological litmus test, Republican leaders shrugged, indicating that even if Republicans, as a party, aren’t prepared back gay marriage, they won’t hold it against those in their ranks who do. In the Republican-controlled House, where most members come from lopsided districts heavily skewed to one party or the other, GOP leaders are not wavering publicly from their staunch opposition. In fact, when the Obama administration stopped defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court, it was House Republicans who took up the mantle. Democrats said Thursday that Republicans have spent as much as $3 million in taxpayer funds to defend the law, now before the Supreme Court. “It’s like immigration. The party realizes they are on the losing side of some of these issues,” said former Rep. Jim Kolbe, an Arizona Republican. Kolbe came out as gay in 1996 while in office and will mark another milestone in May when he and his longtime partner get married in Washington. “They want to make the shift, but you have got to do it in a politic and strategic way,” Kolbe said. “It’s a matter of how and when you take down one flag and run up the other.”
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Kevin Coyne of Washington rallied in support of same-sex marriage in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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“Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.” PLATO CLASSICAL GREEK PHILOSOPHER
US sends B-2s to S. Korea
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A U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber flies over the Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea. BY HYUNG-JIN KIM AND SAM KIM ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, South Korea — In a show of force following weeks of North Korean bluster, the U.S. on Thursday took the unprecedented step of announcing that two of its nuclearcapable B-2 bombers joined joint military drills with South Korea, dropping dummy munitions on an island range. The announcement is likely to further enrage Pyongyang, which has already issued a flood of ominous statements to highlight displeasure over the drills and U.N. sanctions over its nuclear test last month. But there were signs Thursday that it is willing to go only so far. A North Korean industrial plant operated with South Korean knowhow was running normally, despite the North’s shutdown a day earlier of communication lines ordinarily used to move workers and goods across the border. At least for the moment, Pyongyang was choosing the factory’s infusion of hard currency over yet another provocation. U.S. Forces Korea said in a statement that the B-2 stealth bombers flew from a U.S. air base in Missouri and dropped dummy munitions on the South Korean island range before returning home. It was unclear whether America’s stealth bombers were used in past annual drills with South Korea, but this is the first time the military has announced their use. The statement follows an earlier U.S. announcement that nuclearcapable B-52 bombers participated in the joint military drills. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. was making sure its
defenses were “appropriate and strong” as North Korea continues to test and seeks to extend the reach of its weaponry. “When a country says the kind of things that the DPRK is saying, you have to take it seriously,” Nuland told reporters Thursday, referring to the North by its formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “You have to ensure that when you say in response we can and will defend our nation and we can and will defend our allies, that that is credible.”
When a country says the kind of things that [North Korea] is saying, you have to take it seriously. VICTORIA NULAND Spokeswoman, State Department But she reiterated that the path was still open for North Korea to come out of isolation if it fulfills its international obligations, including on denuclearization. The announcement on the bomber flights will likely draw a strong response from Pyongyang. North Korea sees the military drills as part of a U.S. plot to invade and becomes particularly upset about U.S. nuclear activities in the region. Washington and Seoul say the drills are routine and defensive. North Korea has already threatened nuclear strikes on Washington and Seoul in recent weeks. It said Wednesday there was no need for communication in a situation
“where a war may break out at any moment.” Earlier this month, it announced that it considers void the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953. But Pyongyang would have gone beyond words, possibly damaging its own weak finances, if it had blocked South Koreans from getting in and out of the Kaesong industrial plant, which produced $470 million worth of goods last year. South Korean managers at the plant reported no signs of trouble Thursday. Analysts see a full-blown North Korean attack as extremely unlikely, though there are fears of a more localized conflict, such as a naval skirmish in disputed Yellow Sea waters. Such naval clashes have happened three times since 1999. The Kaesong plant, just across the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone that separates the Koreas, normally relies on a military hotline for the governments to coordinate the movement of goods and South Korean workers. Without the hotline, the governments, which lack diplomatic relations, used middlemen. North Korea verbally approved the crossing Thursday of hundreds of South Koreans by telling South Koreans at a management office at the Kaesong factory. Those South Koreans then called officials in South Korea. Both governments prohibit direct contact with citizens on the other side, but Kaesong has separate telephone lines that allow South Korean managers there to communicate with people in South Korea. Factory managers at Kaesong reached by The Associated Press by telephone at the factory said the overall mood there is normal.
ROME — Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of a dozen inmates, including two young women, at a juvenile detention center in a surprising departure from church rules that restrict the Holy Thursday ritual to men. The Mass was held in the Casal del Marmo facility in Rome, where 46 young men and women currently are detained. Many of them are Gypsies or North African migrants, and the 12 selected for the foot-washing rite reportedly included Orthodox and Muslim detainees. Because the inmates were mostly minors — the facility houses inmates aged 14-to-21 — the Vatican and Italian Justice Ministry limited media access inside. But Vatican Radio carried the Mass live, and in his homily Francis told the detainees that Jesus washed the feet of his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion in a gesture of love and service. “This is a symbol, it is a sign — washing your feet means I am at your service,” Francis told the youngsters. “Help one another. This is what Jesus teaches us. This is what I do. And I do it with my heart. I do this with my heart because it is my duty, as a priest and bishop I must be at your service.” Later, the Vatican released a limited video of the ritual, showing Francis washing black feet, white feet, male feet, female feet and even a foot with tattoos. Kneeling on the stone floor as the 12 youngsters sat above him, the 76-year-old Francis poured water from a silver chalice over each foot, dried it with a simple cotton towel and then bent over to kiss each one. Previous popes carried out the footwashing ritual on Holy Thursday in Rome’s grand St. John Lateran basilica. The 12 people chosen for the ritual
were always priests to represent the 12 apostles whose feet Christ washed during the Last Supper before his crucifixion. As archbishop of Buenos Aires, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio would celebrate the ritual footwashing in jails, hospitals or hospices — part of his ministry to the poorest and most marginalized of society. He would often involve women: Photographs from his days in Buenos Aires show him washing the feet of a woman holding her newborn child in her arms.
This is a symbol, it is a sign — washing your feet means I am at your service. POPE FRANCIS That Francis would include women in his inaugural Holy Thursday Mass as pope, however, was remarkable given current liturgical rules restrict the ritual to men. Canon lawyer Edward Peters, who is an adviser to the Holy See’s top court, noted in a blog that the Congregation for Divine Worship in 1988 sent a letter to bishops making clear that “The washing of the feet of chosen men … represents the service and charity of Christ who came `not to be served, but to serve.’” Peters noted that bishops over the years have successfully petitioned Rome for an exemption to allow women to participate, but that the law on the issue is clear. “By disregarding his own law in this matter, Francis violates, of course, no divine directive,” Peters wrote Thursday. “What he does do, I fear, is set a questionable example,” particularly as it regards adherence to liturgical rules.
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Pope Francis kisses the foot of an inmate at the juvenile detention center of Casal del Marmo in Rome on Thursday.
US-Russian crew blasts off for space station BY DMITRY LOVETSKY ASSOCIATED PRESS BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man crew blasted off Friday from a launch pad in the steppes of Kazakhstan, for the first time taking a shorter path to the International Space Station. Instead of the two-day approach maneuver used by Soyuz spacecraft in the past, this journey to the station would take NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin just under six hours. The Soyuz TMA-08M lifted off on time from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome at 2:43 a.m. Friday (2043 GMT; 4:43 p.m. EDT Thursday). It’s set to dock at the space outpost at 10:32 p.m. EDT Thursday (0232 GMT Friday). The trio are “on a fast track to the International Space Station,” NASA spokesman Josh Byerly said, adding minutes after the launch that all was going well and the spacecraft went into orbit without any problems. The new maneuver has been tested successfully by three Russian Progress cargo ships, an unmanned version of the Soyuz used to ferry supplies to the space station. Vinogradov joked at a pre-launch news conference at Baikonur that the journey to the station would be so quick that it could allow the crew to even carry ice cream as a present to the three men currently manning the orbiting outpost. “It wouldn’t melt in such a short time,” he said. On a more serious note, Vinogradov added
that the shorter flight path would reduce the crew’s fatigue and allow astronauts to be in top shape for the docking. He said that it takes about five hours for the human body to start feeling the impact of zero gravity, so the quicker flight would allow the crew to more easily adapt to weightlessness in much roomier space station interiors. The downside of the accelerated rendezvous is that the crew will have to stay in their spacesuits, which they don hours before the launch, through the entire approach maneuver. Other Russian cosmonauts in the past have described the two-day approach maneuver in the cramped Soyuz as one of the most grueling parts of missions to the orbiting station. The spheroid orbiting capsule allows the crew to take off their bulky spacesuits, change into more comfortable clothes and use a toilet, but its interior is extremely confined. The ship’s spartan layout lacks adequate heating and fails to provide an opportunity for the crew to get hot food. It contrasts sharply with the spacious U.S. space shuttle, whose retirement has left Soyuz as the only means to deliver crews to the space outpost. Russian space officials said the longer approach was necessary at a time when the station was in a lower orbit required for the shuttle flights. After they ended, it was raised from 350 kilometers (217 miles) to 400 kilometers (249 miles), making a quicker rendezvous possible. NASA is working on the development of its new generation Orion spacecraft. Orion’s first trip is an unmanned mission in 2017, and the first manned mission is set for 2021.
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The spaceship carrying a three-man crew to the International Space Station blasts off in Kazakhstan on Friday.
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“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.” MARILYN MONROE AMERICAN ACTRESS, MODEL AND SINGER
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CIO warns of Fighting gender disparities at HLS divestment BY CAROLYN KRUPSKI STAFF WRITER In response to students fighting for Cornell to divest — or remove its investments — from the fossil fuel industry, Cornell’s chief investment officer said pulling the University’s investments out of the industry may negatively impact its endowment returns. CIO A.J. Edwards said that although divestment may seem to be “a clear and straightforward objective … the reality is far more complex.” “If the University decided to exclude [energy sector] investments from its endowment, this decision would have a material impact on the return of the endowment and its contribution to the operating budget of the University,” Edwards said. According to Edwards, the expected rate of return on investments in the energy sector is one of the highest of all of the asset classes the University invests in. In contrast, to date, investments in alternative energy strategies in general have rarely produced returns that meet Cornell’s risk and return requirements, Edwards said. As a way to pressure the University to divest, the Student Assembly passed a resolution in early February, calling for the “divestment of all fossil fuel related investments by the University” by 2020 and reinvestment in local and sustainable energy companies by 2030. Currently, $60 million of the LTI is invested in renewable and alternative energy, sustainable forestry and environmental credit investments. Becca Maccies, co-author of the resolution and a member of Kyoto Now!, said she and other campus supporters of divestment believe investment in sustainable energy companies, instead of fossil fuel companies, would generate greater returns to the endowment in the long run. “A significant portion of fossil fuel resources are based on speculated amounts of oil — assumed success, rather than actual success. The value of these investments will decrease as the value of speculated reserves are not realized,” Maccies said. Edwards, however, said that ultimately, the purpose of Cornell’s long-term investments — where most of the University’s $5 billion endowment funds are located — is to “provide essential funding for and to strengthen the University’s core academic mission of teaching, discovery and engagement.” To meet this goal, the University must balance social and environmental considerations with “[maintaining] real purchasing power over time,” Edwards said. “The investment committee and the investment office have long sought to be mindful of the issues surrounding sustainability and climate,”
Edwards said. I n addition, divestm e n t could add r i s k by CORNELL d e c re a s ing the diversity of Cornell’s investment portfolio, according to Edwards. Despite the findings of a recent study by the Aperio Group — an investment management firm — which argue that divestment would not increase financial risk, Edwards said these findings are not applicable to Cornell’s LTI investment strategy. “By excluding an entire economic sector, we would by definition decrease the diversification of the LTI as a whole,” Edwards said. “[Because] the Aperio report only incorporated publicly traded stocks into its methodology … the findings are not relevant to Cornell, due to the high proportion of private partnerships present in our portfolio.”
We’re asking [Cornell] to put people above profits, or at least on the same level. ANNA-LISA CASTLE Co-author, Resolution 32 Currently, only three American colleges — Unity College, Hampshire College and Sterling College — have divested from fossil fuel companies, according to Kyoto Now! Vice President Aubree Keurajian. In a recent Unity College webinar, Unity College Sustainability Coordinator Jessie Pyles said that divestment over the past five years has had “no noticeable impact on returns.” “Simply by moving out of this big energy portion of our portfolio, we’ve seen no impact on returns on investment. In fact, our portfolio over these past five years has exceeded market benchmarks,” Pyles said in the webinar. Supporters of the S.A.’s Resolution 32 have said that it is important that Cornell aligns its investment strategy with its commitment to sustainability and alternative energy development, evidenced through its Climate Action Plan. “Though we care very much about a responsible transition, we’re not basing our decision on profit margins alone; that’s not what this movement is about. We’re asking the University to put people above profits, or at least on the same level,” said Anna-Lisa Castle, who co-authored Resolution 32. “There are experts in the field, as well as global banking firms, that are pointing to divestment as a feasible and crucial movement as we find our way toward a just and sustainable future.”
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The new Shatter the Ceiling coalition, which aims to mitigate gender disparities, held its first meeting at Harvard Law School. BYD EV A. PATEL STAFF WRITER In response to statistics revealing gender bias in Harvard Law School clubs and classrooms, a new coalition called Shatter the Ceiling has drawn hundreds of students together to seek new ways to address the School’s gender disparities. Over 275 students attended the organization’s kickoff event earlier this month, and a solidarity letter outlining the coalition’s goals has garnered approximately 300 signatures. Signers include Law School professors Robert H. Mnookin and Duncan Kennedy as well as several clubs such as the Democrats, the American Constitution Society, and the Harvard Association for Law and Business. The primary goal of the coalition is to engage the entire Law School community to question the source of the disparities and find solutions to mitigate them, said Lena M. Silver, a third-year Law School student and the cochair of Shatter the Ceiling. In an opinion piece published in the Harvard Law Record, Silver cited several statistics that prompted her to found the coali-
tion. She noted that female faculty members represent less than 20 percent of the HARVARD 92 current professors and assistant professors listed on the Law School website. She also cited the low number of female staff members at the Harvard Law Review, which spurred a new genderbased affirmative action policy to be implemented at the journal this summer. First-year Law School student Jessica R. Jensen, who attended the coalition’s first open meeting on Wednesday night, said she has noticed a large gender disparity on campus. “It seems like there are a lot of clubs that have a very large percentage of male leadership, especially in law journals and organizations that lead into academia, which is already a very male-dominated field,” Jensen said. The coalition’s leaders hope to gain access to more data in an attempt to identify the source of the issue. In particular, they
want to obtain an update on old numbers cited in a 2004 study on the experiences of women at Law School. “We feel like we have a right to it, and we will work hard to get it,” Silver said.
There are a lot of clubs that have a very large percentage of male leadership, especially in law journals. JESSICA R. JENSEN Student, Harvard Law School At this point in time, coalition leaders have made no concrete demands on administrators because they are still developing their plan, Silver said. At Wednesday’s meeting, attendees discussed the possibility of asking for a change in the way that first-year Law School students are assigned professors. Currently, the Law School Registrar’s Office tries to assign all students to at least
one class taught by a female faculty member during their first year at the Law School, according to Ellen M. Cosgrove, dean of students at the Law School. But the coalition hopes to pressure administrators to ensure that this exposure to a female faculty member occurs even earlier — during a student’s first semester at the Law School. Attendees also proposed asking administrators to conduct a study examining the effect of gender on classroom participation. Cosgrove said that she is “delighted” by the group’s establishment and is willing to discuss ways of working together. “Regardless of whether or not the group exists, it’s something the School is always mindful of and thinks about when we’re making any sort of plans,” Cosgrove said. Second-year Law School student Jean N. Ripley, the other cochair of the coalition, said that although the general reaction to the new organization has been positive, it has spurred debate on campus. “Having backlash is better than being ignored,” she said.
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Students petition for updated sex survey BY ANNA MAZARAKIS STAFF WRITER An online petition calling for the commissioning of an updated “Sexual Experiences Survey” has amassed over 1,100 signatures since it was first circulated on March 10. The petition was authored by Shreya Murthy, Siofra Robinson and Kellie Valladares, with input from Kanwal Matharu, earlier this month in response to the publication of a previously unpublished survey from 2008 showing that one in six female undergraduates reported nonconsensual vaginal penetration. “We were definitely shocked when the initial article had come out, but it seems that once we started asking questions it didn’t really seem like the University was necessarily trying to hide it or intentionally suppress it — more that they had just used it internally and hadn’t necessarily thought to make it as public, as perhaps students would want it to be,” Murthy said. In response to the petition, Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey, Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education Program Director Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse and Wom-
en’s Center Director Amada S a n d o va l met with Murthy, RobPRINCETON inson and Va l l a d a re s on Monday to discuss efforts that can be made on campus to address sexual assault. “When we met with the students [who crafted the petition], we had a productive first discussion on how to continue to further our efforts in this area,” Director of News and Editorial Services in the Office of Communications Daniel Day said on behalf of Cherrey. “During the conversation, we found that the students’ goals aligned closely with much that’s already in progress, such as a potential online education program and expanding bystander intervention initiatives.” After discovering that the University is currently participating in a national study by the American College Health Association that will survey about 50 percent of University undergraduates on topics that include sexual assault, the petition’s authors said they will no longer push for an additional survey,
since one is already in the works. They said they plan to shift their focus toward determining ways that the data collected on sexual assault may be used on campus. However, they encourage students to continue to sign the petition.
We want to direct our attention towards prevention and awareness efforts of sexual assault on campus. KELLIE VALLADARES Co-author, petition “We think that there will be some sort of publication of data at some point and they will make the final call on that, but we want to direct our attention towards prevention and awareness efforts of sexual assault on campus,” Valladares said, adding that they want to focus on creating “some more prevention awareness initiatives to supplement what already goes on campus.” The University has not yet
received the data collected in the ACHA survey but anticipates completing the analysis of the data this summer and will release it soon after, according to Day. Until that data is released, Murthy, Robinson and Valladares said they have at least two major initiatives under way to raise greater awareness for sexual assault on campus, one of which will work in conjunction with SHARE’s Take Back the Night event in April. “They’re focused on reaching the wider student body,” Robinson said. “It’s less for people that are already passionate about this kind of stuff and more for people that really would never think about it unless they were confronted with it.” As all of the authors are seniors, they said they hope to be able to incorporate underclassmen in their plans so they can see these projects continue after graduation in June. “I was very pleased with the response, and I’m glad to see that people are discussing these issues, thinking about the meaning of consent, and it looks like the administration has been very supportive,” Matharu said. “It looks like we were successful at bringing this issue to light.”
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Alex Rodriguez to earn more than Houston Astros this season
The New York Yankees third baseman — who will miss the entire first half of the season as he recovers from hip surgery and may not play at all this year — will make $29 million dollars, $4 million more than the entire Astros roster.
Bulldogs take on No. 2 Minnesota MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 16
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The Bulldogs are facing the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the West Regional playoff. The Gophers are the No. 1 seed.
ucci Arena and has played with or against “at least six to seven guys” from the Gopher squad. “It’ll be interesting,” Fallen said. “I’ve always wanted to have some bragging rights over these guys.” He also said his family is torn between rooting for the Bulldogs and their long-time favorite team, the Gophers. While Fallen will be playing against familiar players, captain Andrew Miller ’13 will be playing in a familiar place. The Bloomfield Hills, Mich., native, will be just two and a half hours from his hometown when the Bulldogs play in Grand Rapids. Miller, like the rest of the Elis, has experience in high-pressure situations, as he has faced the currently No. 1 ranked team twice already this season. “It’s [our] senior year and it’s [our] last opportunity to win a national championship,” Miller said. “The past two years we’ve learned a few things to help us win.” “We want to make [Minnesota] play faster
with the puck than they really want to,” head coach Keith Allain said. “They play on an Olympic sheet that gives them a little more time.” While the Gophers only have one senior on their roster, their team is overflowing with talent. Minnesota has four players in the top 50 scorers in the nation, including forward Eric Haula whose 1.36 points per game make him the seventh leading scorer in the nation. The Gopher’s goaltender, freshman Adam Wilcox, has also had an outstanding year, posting a .922 save percentage in his freshman campaign. Yale, meanwhile, is not far behind, with Miller and linemate Kenny Agostino ’14 in the top 50 for scoring, having put up some impressive numbers this season. “I think we will have a really good opportunity to surprise some people,” Fallen said. The Bulldogs landed in Michigan Wednesday evening and practiced at Van Andel arena Thursday. The puck will drop this afternoon at 2 p.m.. Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu
Yale looks to repeat last year’s victory MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 16 position last year,” John Radigan ’15 said. “We are a really closeknit unit and we know what we need to do from now on to have a good end to the season.” Yale’s offense is ranked fourth in the Ivy League in both goals and points-per-game. Attackmen Brandon Mangan ’14, Conrad Oberbeck ’15 and Kirby Zdrill ’13 have started all six games and have been key offensive producers for the Bulldogs. Mangan, who ranks second in the Ivy League in points per game and is the team leader in assists, has 26 points thus far. Oberbeck, who leads the team with 17 goals, is second in the Ivy League in goals per game and has 19 points overall. Zdrill is having a stellar season posting 13 goals and 14 points. Yale has also been helped by the stellar play of junior faceoff specialist Dylan Levings ’14, who is ranked No. 1 in the Ivy League with a .624 percentage over the team’s six games and has contributed the Elis’ No. 4
face-off ranking in the nation. Team members said they understand how important offensive possessions will be this weekend and will look to Levings to continue his performances. “We need to limit turnovers and maximize possession time on the offensive side of the ball,” midfielder Colin Flaherty ’15 said. “That way we can keep the ball out of our defensive end and look for the best opportunities to score.” Yale’s defense, returning four-year starters Michael McCormack ’13 and Peter Johnson ’13, has been key for the team this year. The two players are both on the Tewaaraton Award watch list for the best collegiate lacrosse player and have helped anchor a defense that ranks third in the Ivy League in goals against average. The team ranks last in the Ivy League in penalties per game, yet has been bailed out by stellar play of its man down unit who rank first in the conference in penalty killing with a .736 percentage.
“We just need to keep working on the process as our coach says,” David Better ’15 said. “We just need to tighten up a few details but I don’t think we need to drastically change anything.”
We need to limit turnovers and maximize possession time on the offensive side of the ball. COLIN FLAHERTY ’15 The Quakers will face-off against the Bulldogs looking to rebound from their weekend 10-5 loss to Cornell. Chances may be hard to come by due to Penn’s stingy defense. The Quakers rank second in the Ivy League in goals-against-average and caused-turnovers per game. Yale should also be wary of Penn’s man-up unit, which has the highest scoring percentage in the conference. The Quakers are led by attackman
Elis on the road to start Ivy season
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The Bulldogs won one of their first 13 games, though they are still 0–0 in Ivy League competition. BASEBALL FROM PAGE 16 ted the most defensive miscues, leading the league with 33 errors, while Yale ranks right behind in second with 31. Infielder Green Campbell ’15 said that fielding will be key this weekend. “We need to play error-free defense in order to win this weekend,” Campbell said. “And not make mistakes on the bases.” Base running will be key in games between two teams that have not produced many runners on this season. The Tigers (.314) and Yale (.298) rank sixth and seventh respectively in the Ivy League in on-base percentage. Getting men on base has been much less of an issue for Cornell, which ranks third in the Ivy League with a .345 on-base percentage. The Big Red have not had many problems offensively, scoring 86 runs in 18 games. Yale, on the other hand, has managed just 43 runs in its 14 games. The Big Red have excelled on the mound as well, with a team earned run average of 3.32. The Cornell staff is led by sophomore lefthander Nick Busto, who owns a sparkling
1.44 ERA and two wins against no losses over four Saturday, 12 p.m. starts. and 2:30 p.m. Yale’s staff has shown vs. its own flashes of brilliance in recent games. Righthander Ben Joseph ’15 gave up just one hit and no runs in five and a third Princeton innings of relief in the first Sunday, 12 p.m. and game of Sunday’s dou2:30 p.m. bleheader, but Holy Cross vs. (7–13, 0–0 Patriot) prevailed 7–4. In the next game, righthander Chris Lanham ’16 tossed eight innings of five-hit ball, Cornell striking out seven and surrendering just one earned run. Yale’s bats were shut down themselves, and the Crusaders won 2–0. Lanham currently leads the Bulldogs with 20.1 innings pitched.
Tim Schwalje with 23 points on the season. Schwalje should be considered a duel threat as he ranks second in the Ivy League in shots per game while also leading Penn in assists on the year. Zach Losco leads the team in goals with 12 and has 13 points on the season. Penn will also look to avenge last year’s 10-9 loss to Yale at Reese Stadium. “Every Ivy League game is really tough and we know every game is going to be tight and we’ll need to find a way to come out on top,” Flaherty said. “They have a really good defense and we need to create good opportunities off our defensive play and take advantage of our chances.” Yale has won three of the last four meetings between the teams and leads the overall series 47-27. The Bulldogs will square off against Penn at Franklin Field 1 p.m. Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .
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The Eli offense, ranked fourth in the Ivy League in goals, will take on the Penn Quakers on Saturday.
Freshmen to compete on varsity MEN’S CREW FROM PAGE 16 uled on a weekday, will take place on the Seekonk River — the only tidal river on which the Bulldogs will row this spring. The team traveled to Providence Thursday afternoon to practice on the course before the race. Gladstone said that races on a tidal course must be timed to start at high tide, and team captain Jon Morgan ’13 said that the changeable currents can make the course difficult for coxswains steering the boats. This season is the first in the history of collegiate rowing in which freshmen are eligible to race in the varsity boats. Previously, freshmen would race in their own category and move up to the varsity or junior varsity boats in their sophomore year. Three Yale freshmen — Adam Smith ’16, Hubert Trzybinski ’16 and David DeVries ’16 — will be
racing with the varsity this weekend. “We’ve got talented new guys, and it’s been great to have them contribute to the varsity program right away,” Morgan said. The Bulldogs face four cup races before the crucial Eastern Sprints, IRA National Championship and Yale-Harvard regatta scheduled throughout May and June. Gladstone said the team’s goal is, like any sports team, to have its best performances at these important championship races this season. In the fall season, the Bulldogs competed in two head races, or time trials: the Head of the Housatonic and the Head of the Charles. The Elis entered three boats in the collegiate eight event at the Head of the Housatonic and earned second, fourth and seventh-place finishes. Two weeks later at the Head of the Charles, the Bulldogs took 13th place in the
championship eight event. Since then, the team has been dry-land training as part of its winter regimen and spent spring break practicing at its home course at the Gilder Boathouse. Gladstone added that he is happy with the timing of the team’s winter and spring training and that he feels the team’s preparation is on course for the spring season. “Training throughout this year has been on a higher level than my other years here, and I think we’ll see that reflected on the racecourse,” coxswain Oliver Fletcher ’14 said. “We tend not to set any goals other than to be as fast as we can possibly be and let everything else take care of itself.” Friday’s regatta will begin at 10 a.m. Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .
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bly close, with the two games Saturday, 1 p.m. determined by at a combined three goals. Team members said they ex p e c t t h e Penn team to fare better in the Elis’ third Ivy meet of the season. “We have had some tough losses but we were in a similar
Men’s Lacrosse
The men’s lacrosse team will be on the road Saturday for a tough matchup against Ivy League opponent No. 11/13 Penn.
MEN’S LACROSSE The Bulldogs (3-3, 0-2 Ivy) will look to rebound after two straight league losses to No. 3 Cornell and No. 8/10 Princeton. The matches were incredi-
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The No.-4 seed Yale men’s hockey team will face off against the No. 1-seed Minnesota Golden Gophers at 2 p.m. today in Grand Rapids, Mich. BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER
the No. 1 seed. The Gophers have the No. 1 team offense in the Friday, 2 p.m. country and the No. at 3 team defense. Both Yale and Minnesota play a fast-paced and physical game, and the Minnesota Bulldogs hope to come out on top of a game in which anybody could bring home the victory. To win the game, the Bulldogs
Men’s Hockey
The men’s hockey team has grown substantially since last year, earning a spot in the NCAA tournament. At 2 p.m. today, the Bulldogs (18-123) will face off against the No. 2 PairWise Minnesota Golden Gophers at Van Andel arena in Grand Rapids, Mich. The Elis are the fourth seed in the West Regional playoff and the Gophers (26-8-5) are
will stick to what they know. “Play our systems with high-energy and work them down low and get our chances,” top-scoring defenseman Tommy Fallen ’15 said. Fallen, a Minneapolis native, will be playing against quite a few friends in a not-so-friendly contest. Growing up just 15 minutes outside of Minneapolis, he attended many games at MariSEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 15
Yale takes on league foes
Hwt crew opens season
BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER
BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER
With 14 games already under its belt, the baseball team will take the field for its first Ivy League games of the season on Saturday.
The heavyweight crew team will start its spring racing season on Friday morning as Yale takes on Brown, the defending Eastern Sprints champion, in Providence, R.I.
BASEBALL Yale (1–13, 0–0 Ivy) will travel down to Princeton (2–16, 0–0) for a doubleheader, then trek up to Ithaca, N.Y., on Sunday for a twin bill with Cornell (12–6, 0–0). Outfielder Eric Hsieh ’15 said that the beginning of league play is a clean slate for the Bulldogs. “Everybody’s record is 0–0 right now,” Hsieh said. The fresh start comes at a good time for the Bulldogs, as Yale has lost its past 10 games. The Elis have been competitive in most of those losses, with four of those defeats by one run. Princeton has also been struggling recently, losing 11 of its past 12 games. Similar to the Bulldogs, eight of those Tiger losses have been by a single run. Defense has been an issue for both ball clubs, and the two teams are tops in the Ancient Eight in errors. Princeton has commitSEE BASEBALL PAGE 15
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The men’s lacrosse team will travel to Franklin Field tomorrow to take on Ivy League opponent the No. 11/13 Penn Quakers.
HEAVYWEIGHT CREW Each team will race one fourand three eights-person boats,
with the varsity eights ra ce p ro Friday, 10 a.m. viding the vs. f i n a l e fo r the regatta. Last year, the Bulldogs hosted the Brown Bears at the Gilder Boathouse and swept all the events in the matchup. But the team expects Brown to be a formi-
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dable opponent after the Bears bested Harvard in the final race of the Eastern Sprints championship last May. “This opening race will be exciting and interesting,” head coach Stephen Gladstone said. “It will give us a sense of where we are as a team early on since we are racing arguably the fastest squad on the East Coast.” The regatta, unusually schedSEE HWT CREW PAGE 15
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The Bulldogs will look to snap a 10-game losing streak as they head south to take on 2–16 Princeton for a double-header Saturday afternoon.
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The Elis will kick off their spring season against Brown on Friday in their only race on a tidal river this season.
TOP ’DOG TOMMY FALLEN ’15
A MINNEAPOLIS NATIVE, FALLEN IS A TOP-SCORING DEFENSEMAN ON THE MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM, WITH SEVEN GOALS AND 15 ASSISTS THIS SEASON.