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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013 · VOL. CXXXV, NO. 111 · yaledailynews.com

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CROSS CAMPUS Public service announcement.

Today is chicken tenders day.

Still full from Easter dinner?

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POLYCHROMASIA ARTSPACE HONORS GHEBREYESUS

MUSTACHE

NOODLES

BASEBALL

The most important issue facing our University this year

MULTICULTURAL EATERY LED BY STUDENT CHEFS

Bulldogs earn their first Ivy win of the season against Princeton

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FOUR GOD, FOUR COUNTRY AND THE FROZEN FOUR

Academic overhaul. The Yale

College Ad-Hoc Committee on Grading held an emergency meeting on Saturday with members of the Yale faculty to discuss proposed changes to the University’s grading system. After prolonged debate, the faculty voted in favor of transitioning from a letter-grade system to a 100point scale with a rubric for grade distribution. But current juniors can breathe a sigh of relief: The policy will not go into effect until the 2014–’15 academic year.

Minnesota? Check. North Dakota? No problem. Nobody gave Yale a chance, but two dramatic upsets later, the Bulldogs are heading to the Frozen Four.

BY LORENZO LIGATO STAFF REPORTER

On Friday, the Bulldogs surrendered a two-goal lead in the third period, but responded to complete the 3–2 upset over the Gophers just nine seconds into overtime. The next night, Yale was held scoreless for the first 52 minutes of play before unleashing a four-goal onslaught and defeating the NoDaks 4–1.

New Haven registered its third homicide of the year early Saturday, interrupting a 65-day murderless streak.

At approximately 2:01 a.m. on Saturday, the New Haven Police Department dispatched officers to the area in front of 39 Thompson St., in the Newhallville neighborhood, after receiving reports of gunfire, said NHPD spokesman David Hartman. The NHPD officers located Eric Forbes, 33, suffering from a gunshot wound to the back.

Forbes, a Hamden resident, was transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.

Detectives from the department’s Major Crime and Bureau of Investigation divisions have commenced their investigation into the murder, Hartman said. A preliminary investigation has led detectives to learn that the victim had left the Taurus Café — a nightclub located at 520 Winchester Ave. — just minutes before he was shot. According to the account of several witnesses, Forbes had been involved in an altercation with two unknown men.

The nightclub, which is in the heart of the Newhallville neighborhood, has a checkered past. In addition to Saturday’s murder, the Taurus Café has been home to a series of incidents of gunfire, the last of which occurred roughly a month ago. On Feb. 15, two New Haven residents were shot when gunfire erupted outside of the Newhallville nightclub around 12:43 a.m. Chris Erkerd, 19, and Leonard Brown, 57, were taken to

SEE FROZEN FOUR PAGE B3

SEE CRIME PAGE 4

Mrs. Clinton goes to New Haven. Former Secretary of

State Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 has been named a new senior fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs for the 2013– ’14 academic year, Jackson officials confirmed to the News yesterday. Since leaving her Cabinet post, Clinton has been considering different teaching offers and recently signed on to lead two seminars at Yale — one on the Arab Spring and another on the worldwide empowerment of women.

And he canceled. If you

were excited to go thrift shopping this Spring Fling, you might want to think again.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ agent confirmed to the News on Sunday that the hip-hop duo will not be performing at Spring Fling this year, citing scheduling concerns.

Macklemore had previously canceled scheduled concerts at Columbia and Williams earlier this month allegedly to appear on MTV. As of press time, the Yale College Council could not be reached for comment.

STEM no more. After the

Admissions Office announced that it has reached its target goal for STEM recruitment — with 40 percent of the freshman class pursuing a STEM major — it has decided to scale back its science recruitment efforts, cancel YES-Weekend and reduce the budget for science research grants. The announcement puts an end to a six-year initiative that aimed to boost Yale’s reputation in the science and engineering industry.

Juice Haven? The Elm City

will welcome its first juice joint this summer, when a new Jamba Juice franchise opens on Chapel Street right next to Chipotle, Jamba Juice representatives confirmed on Friday. The popular drink shop is scheduled to open in early August, so Yale students returning for the fall semester will be able to enjoy fruity smoothies and juices while riding out the summer heat.

Refreshing.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2013 Spring is finally here.

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YALE ATHLETICS

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Sixty-one years. That’s how long it’s been since the men’s hockey team has been this close to an NCAA championship. On April 11, the Bulldogs will take the ice against UMass-Lowell in the Frozen Four only two wins away from the first national title in team history.

On Friday, March 29, and Saturday, March 30, in Grand Rapids, Mich., the Yale men’s hockey team finished one of its most explosive weekends ever, beating both the No. 2-ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers and a second WCHA competitor, North Dakota, to advance to the Frozen Four for the first time since 1952, when the NCAA tournament only consisted of four teams.

New CPA deadline announced

BY ANYA GRENIER STAFF REPORTER For the first time, students seeking funding through Creative and Performing Arts, or CPA, awards for projects next fall can secure resources and performance spaces before leaving for the summer.

The Council of Masters, the organization that administers the awards, announced in March a new April 1 deadline for project proposals that will be produced before October recess next year. Yale Drama Coalition President Irene Casey ’14 said the group submitted a proposal which included ideas for new deadlines to the Council of Masters at the end of last school year. The council worked closely with both the YDC and Associate Dean for the Arts Susan Cahan in altering the system, said Stephen Pitti ’91, Ezra Stiles College master and chair of the Arts and Awards Committee on the Council of Masters.

“This doesn’t change anything about the funding itself, just when people know about the funding,” Pitti said.

Casey said the new April deadline comes as part of a yearlong series of changes to the CPA award system. For the first time last September, students could apply for funding to stage shows that would take place second semester before spring recess, Casey explained, adding that the April deadline will give people “additional security.” Prior to this year, students were required to submit CPA proposals only at the beginning of the semester for projects being staged that same semester.

Casey added that students can still apply in the fall for fall show funding, and that this new deadline merely provides students SEE CPA PAGE 6

New Haven sees first homicide in two months

Campaign pledge sparks debate

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER This fall’s election may determine more than New Haven’s next mayor — an escalating debate between mayoral candidates over party primaries and public financing could redefine the procedure at the very heart of city elections.

On the steps of City Hall Thursday, Connecticut State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield laid out the terms of his “Clean Primary Pledge,” promising to adhere to the public financing system established by the New Haven Democracy Fund, reject special interest money and abide by the results of the Democratic primary. He asked his opponents to do the same.

But Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 and Henry Fernandez LAW ’94, CEO of the consulting firm Fernandez Advisors, have opted for somewhat different strategies. Elicker — who, like Holder-Winfield, has already promised to use the Democracy Fund — announced that he would run in November’s general election as an independent should he lose the Democratic primary scheduled for Sept. 10. Fernandez has taken the opposite tack, agreeing to abide by the results of the primary but passing on the Democracy Fund, which limits individual campaign donations to $370 or less in return for a $19,000 grant and matching funds of up to $125,000. A fourth registered mayoral candidate and plumber, Sundiata Keitazulu, could not be reached for comment.

In a city dominated by registered Democrats, the Democratic primary has determined the winner come November in every election since 1954. Elicker said this process disenfranchises thousands of people, as there are currently 18,700

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Mayoral candidate Gary Holder-Winfield unveiled his “Clean Primary Pledge” Thursday and asked his opponents to adhere to the pledge as well. unaffiliated voters and 494 belonging to minority parties, compared to 48,887 registered Democrats, according to the New Haven Independent.

“The city has a strange situation where generally the only viable candidates are Democrats. That means elections are decided in the primary,” Elicker said. “But there are nearly 20,000 people in New Haven who are not registered Democrats, and those people need to have a voice in who our next mayor should be.”

Elicker’s move has precedent. In

2011, Jeffrey Kerekes lost the Democratic primary only to re-enter the fray as an independent and give Mayor John DeStefano Jr. his toughest re-election challenge in his 20-year-tenure.

Elicker said his decision was motivated by his concern that a candidate could win the primary, and thus functionally clinch the mayor’s office, with less than 50 percent of the vote. With four official candidates and two more — probate Judge Jack Keyes and HillSEE CAMPAIGN PAGE 4

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GUEST COLUMNIST BAOBAO ZHANG

The empirical kids are alright

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WARNER TO WOODBRIDGE

The face of our University

When he assumes his office in Woodbridge Hall this June, President-elect Peter Salovey will face a number of institutional challenges — few with clear solutions. But in fact, our University’s most pressing issue is the one staring our future president back in the face. It is the issue right under his nose.

It would be a grave mistake for Salovey to believe he can face the challenges ahead without the friendly caterpillar that once adorned his countenance. It is time for Yale’s most treasured tonsorial achievement to return triumphantly.

President Salovey must be brave; this we believe.

The leadership of our University has been embodied by 23 white men; it will take strength for this alsowhite man to distinguish his image.

If Salovey believes in hair, so will we.

We want a president with the courage of his convictions.

Nicholas Dirks, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, has doubled

his university’s follicular fortitude, bolstering his proud soup-saver with a parallel one across his brow. We cannot let Yale fall behind. Baldness plagues our provost; a shining scalp is the scourge of our police chief.

If there is a place for walrus whiskers at Yale, there will be place for mutton chops, mohawks and mullets. If there is a place for one proud nosewarmer, there will be a place for every one of us. If we know our president for his bigote, there will be no place for anti-beard bigots at this University.

But there will be a place for a small family of birds to nest.

Our leaders are fallible; this we have seen. Even Salovey has succumbed to the temptation of the razor. Mistakes have been made. But Salovey must believe that past wrongs can be righted. And just as hope springs eternal, so does facial hair.

Today, the first of April, we must ask you a question: President-elect Salovey, is your face cold?

am an empirical kid. And I’m proud of it.

But kids like me, who value evidence-based research, have come under criticism. Last Friday, New York Times columnist and Jackson Institute for Global Affairs senior fellow David Brooks lamented young “wonksters,” who he believes lack passion and idealism. Brooks drew upon a paper written by Victoria Buhler ’13 that attempted to convey the zeitgeist of our generation.

In his conclusion, Brooks wrote that our generation has “an empiricist mind-set, a tendency to think in demoralized economic phrases like ‘data analysis,’ ‘opportunity costs’ and ‘replicability,’ and a tendency to dismiss other more ethical and idealistic vocabularies that seem fuzzy and, therefore, unreliable.”

His conclusion, however, might be too harsh. Most of the empirical kids I know, both in the natural and social sciences, seek to better society. They spend countless nights in labs researching ways to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. They travel to developing countries to evaluate and improve projects that alleviate poverty. They set up programs in public schools to teach civics and to deter bullying.

Today, one can easily be an “idealist” do-gooder. Just hop on a plane to volunteer in India

or Uganda during spring break.

If that’s too much to ask, one can donate $20 to Oxfam over the Internet — or “like” the Human Rights Campaign’s Facebook page. But superficial activism does little to actually help the world relative to more sustainable policies. What the world needs is not just another good cause to rally around, but rigorously tested solutions that actually benefit people.

Empiricism driven by the desire to challenge the status quo has already made big impacts. There are too many examples to list, so I will limit them to my discipline, the experimental social sciences.

One example is how field experiments have aided efforts to get out the vote. Two decades ago, my advisers, professors Donald Green and Alan Gerber, became concerned with low voter turnout in the U.S. Using randomized field trials, they found the most effective way to increase voter turnout is door-to-door canvassing. Their findings have been used by campaigns, including President Obama’s, and civic groups to increase political participation in the U.S. and abroad.

Another example is how field experiments have aided economists to create effective poverty alleviation programs in developing countries. Although many development NGOs have good

intentions, much of their aid money is often wasted on ineffective projects. To combat these inefficiencies, nonprofits like Innovations for Poverty Action and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab use randomized evaluations to test programs, select the best ones and improve them before introducing them to large populations. Today, established development agencies, such as USAID, have recognized the importance of these kinds of rigorous program evaluations.

Surrounded by this type of research, our generation lives in an exciting age of empirical analysis. Unfortunately, many of us are passive consumers of data rather than active participants.

We are flooded with reports, surveys and news articles. There are plenty of poorly conducted surveys, garbage-can regressions and assumption-leaden models in print and on the Internet. What can we trust? Who can we turn to for advice?

Due to this confusion, we might become indecisive, cynical or apathetic. Big data seem daunting, but our Yale education can and should help us navigate this brave new world. Our quantitative course requirements should not be viewed as mere chores, but as training to become savvy consumers and creative users of data.

Not all of us will become

researchers fluent in the latest statistical methods. But those of us who will become policymakers, reporters or simply informed citizens should also actively engage with empirical works to make prudent decisions. Furthermore, those in leadership roles should provide accurate and lucid explanations of empirical studies to the public and not deceive them through deliberate misinterpretations.

Like it or not, we live in the age of empirics. We can bemoan the impersonal aspect of big data and yearn for a groovier past. The famed generation of the 1960s questioned the injustices of their society and pushed for social and political change, and we should seize their activist spirit when engaging in research to tackle the problems facing our own times.

Our generation faces socioeconomic inequality, climate change and an unsustainable welfare system. But picket signs, marches and protests are not enough to overcome these challenges. By combining empirical analysis with political action, we can begin to innovate solutions to these complex problems.

BAOBAO ZHANG is a senior in Calhoun College and a former multimedia editor for the News. Contact her at baobao.zhang@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST SAM GREENBERG

Missing chances to make change L

ast Wednesday, I went to the open forum held by the University Council Committee on Alcohol. I arrived late to the meeting, but my interruption was welcomed since I managed to double the student attendance at the meeting.

Staring at the empty room in Woodbridge Hall, it hit me that students seem to have given up their voice at this university.

The alcohol committee made student participation as convenient as possible: multiple campuswide emails announced two open forums the week after break, when students have minimal work. The other session drew only nine students, which seems like a crowd in comparison.

The committee asked for email comments from those who could not attend, yet few bothered to reply — when I walked in with a nametag labeled “Sam,” a committee member said, “Oh, you must be that student who emailed us!”

Despite being given a chance to influence policy, we failed to voice an opinion. Apathy seems to be the new norm with regard to how Yale is run. As Yalies we are admirably active on many causes, and feel

we can make a difference in anything from state politics to global health — so why do my friends often feel that they have no chance of changing anything at Yale? Am I wrong in thinking that more than 11 students here care about alcohol policies?

Yale has become stricter in enforcing its alcohol and party regulations recently, and judging by comments from my friends, most students are concerned about the changes. Alcohol is one of the most important issues being considered at Yale right now, as it has such a large impact on student health, sexual assault and the campus social scene.

If the committee makes suggestions that upset the student body, there will probably be many complaints overheard in the dining halls, and many frustrated columns on this page. Yet no one will be able to accuse Yale of failing to solicit student input in the process.

“Activist” or “radical” is the last thing my friends would call me.

And yet, I think it is critical that students speak out and step up to shape what kind of university Yale becomes.

Often, students can make

changes without serious conflict with our administration. The people who run Yale generally work here because they care about students and want to make the Yale experience as enjoyable as possible. Students can find success by voicing frustrations, or presenting sound and well-researched arguments about why a certain policy is flawed.

And in cases when the administration is truly at odds with students, we must still find a voice on this campus. Student campaigns in recent years made Yale substantially expand its financial aid packages and pass gender-neutral housing. In previous generations, students advocated for the creation of the African American Studies Department and the cultural centers. Serious student campaigns can yield real results through public pressure and Yale’s concern for maintaining its image.

Successful campaigns require both good leadership and mass participation. We need more leaders who are willing to step up and put in the hard work required to lead campaigns — and that includes a Yale College Council that focuses more on serious policy changes. At the same time, the

average student needs to become more involved in joining these efforts, which would often take relatively little time and energy.

In a time without organized student campaigns, we encourage our administration to take student voices less seriously. If I were the chair of the next alcohol committee, I wouldn’t bother soliciting student opinions. In keeping quiet, we show the administration that they can, in fact, get away with anything they want.

I know that my Yale experience has been made richer thanks to the work of students who came before me. And that is why I believe that even seniors, who will never benefit from any of the changes Yale is currently considering, should participate in the discussion over what our campus should look like.

As Yalies, we always believe we are able to make a difference.

Helping Yale to continue being the best college in the country is, in my humble opinion, a cause worth fighting for.

SAM GREENBERG is a senior in Saybrook College and a former associate editor for the News. Contact him at sam.greenberg@yale.edu .

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ew laws that aim to end the undercover documentation of cruelty to animals in factory farms are currently pending in six states, and are already on the books in over a dozen more.

You’ve likely seen some of the undercover videos that show the grisly details of what goes on at some factory farms. They are so disturbing they’re hard to watch.

But they are good for the public, who has a right to know where our food comes from, and they’re good for farm animals, who need protection from abuse. But they threaten the companies and industries caught on camera.

Over the past few decades, large, indoor, industrial animal factories have rapidly replaced small to medium-scale livestock farms in the U.S. With this shift, our supply of animal food products has become invisible to the public. We trust government inspections, and companies themselves, to stop any wrongdoing immediately.

But to date, undercover videos have proven that these regulations are woefully insufficient.

For example, in 2012 the

Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) released footage that showed a California slaughter-plant worker ramming a “downed” cow with the blades of a forklift to try to force her to her feet. This footage led to the largest meat recall in history and two indictments on animal cruelty charges.

An HSUS undercover video of a veal slaughter plant in Vermont taken in 2009 showed veal calves being skinned alive and thrown around carelessly. The plant was shut down, and there were criminal convictions.

Now the meat industries are fighting back against animal welfare “terrorists,” like the people who filmed these acts, with legislation titled the “Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act.” The pending bills proposed under this act make it difficult or impossible for farm animal welfare advocates to investigate and document cruelty and food safety cases in six states — California, Nebraska, Tennessee, Indiana, Arkansas and Pennsylvania.

If the bills pass, it will be a crime to make videos at any agri-

cultural operation in Indiana, Arkansas and Pennsylvania. In California, Nebraska and Tennessee, anyone collecting evidence of animal abuse must turn it over to law enforcement officers within 24 to 48 hours, which advocates say ensures that they do not have sufficient time to adequately document illegal activity under federal humane handling and food safety laws. Undercover animal abuse and food safety investigations often take weeks, according to animal welfare groups.

The proposed Arkansas bill goes even further, prohibiting anyone other than law enforcement officers from investigating animal abuse cases. One of the key reasons animal welfare organizations release their undercover videos to the news media is because law enforcement often fails to act in a timely manner.

These are just the latest efforts by the meat industry to throw a cloak of secrecy over factory farm and slaughter operations. Last year Iowa passed a bill making it illegal to deny being a member of an animal welfare organization on a factory farm job application.

Utah passed a law that outlaws all unauthorized photographs on farms.

People have a right to know where their food comes from, and animals have a right to be protected.

Given that we do not have anywhere near the number of inspectors needed to monitor what is happening in the hundreds of thousands of factory farms across our nation, we depend on whistleblowing employees and animal welfare and food safety groups to be our food supply watchdogs. We need more of these watchdogs — not fewer — and they need to be free to do the job the government is not doing, and the industry does not want done.

If you hail from California, Nebraska, Tennessee, Indiana, Arkansas or Pennsylvania, call your congressional representatives and make your voice heard.

Tell them to vote these pending subterfuge laws down.

VIVECA MORRIS is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at viveca.morris@yale.edu .

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“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”

W.C. FIELDS AMERICAN COMEDIAN AND ACTOR

Newtown spotlight overshadows street violence

BY NICOLE NAREA STAFF REPORTER As lawmakers continue to draft legislation in response to the December shooting in Newtown, state officials have urged that such reform not overlook street violence in New Haven, particularly among youth and minorities.

A March 6 Quinnipiac poll found that 68 percent of Connecticut respondents support expanding the state ban on assault weapon sales in the wake of Newtown; however, the proposed legislation is not solely focused on preventing large-scale shootouts. Nancy Lefkowitz, co-founder of gun violence advocacy group March for Change, said that Newtown represented a “tipping point that opened people’s eyes to the violence cities face every day,”

citing a high incidence of violence in Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport. Over 85 of New Haven deaths from assault since 2007 were caused by handguns, occurring on public streets, sidewalks and parking lots, and homicides have doubled since 2005, according to the New Haven Health Equity Alliance.

“If we do not address the type of gun violence that we see on a regular basis as we look at a response to Sandy Hook, then we will have failed to properly address the issue of gun violence in Connecticut,” Democratic State Rep. Gary HolderWinfield said at a Feb. 28 press conference in response to legislation proposed by Gov. Dannel Malloy’s Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.

The concentration of violence in New Haven correlates with the city poverty base and high

school dropout rates, according to the United Way of Greater New Haven. In fact, a February DataHaven report indicates that one-third of city neighborhoods, including Newhallville and Fair Haven, have been the scene of nearly 85 percent of homicides from 2007 to 2011.

There is also a higher incidence of street violence among minorities and youth: The DataHaven report indicates that, in areas with more than two homicides from 2007 to 2011, 35 percent of residents are Hispanic and 46 percent are African-American, while 9 percent are teenagers ages 16 to 19 not enrolled in school.

Mark Abraham, executive director of DataHaven, said given that New Haven violence is 10 times higher than the state average in a handful of neighborhoods, the city’s approach

to prevention is insufficient. He added that creating more livable communities — with parks, community gardens, public plazas and proper surveillance — can cause dramatic reductions in crime.

But Jack Healy, president and CEO of United Way of Greater New Haven, said that the city is doing all that it can with the resources that are allotted to it.

He cited the city’s Street Outreach Worker Program, which attempts to intervene in teen gun violence by engaging at-risk and high-risk youth to improve individual and neighborhood well-being.

He added that Connecticut cities are challenged to come up with resources for support services, heavily relying on continuous state and federal support and the residential tax base for growth. Ward 5 Alderman Jorge

Work of Ghebreyesus honored

Perez said he is most concerned that Malloy’s budget proposal will result in cuts to city education funding, which can lift youth out of poverty and therefore combat urban violence.

“The United Way tries to even the odds so that kids have alternatives to the urban violence and a way of having aspirations in their life beyond the street,” Healy said, citing the organization’s funding focus on youth violence prevention in schools.

Though Perez said there is no “silver bullet” to eliminate community violence, Lefkowitz said she is encouraged by how urban and suburban communities are collaborating on gun legislation that would combat street violence. Ron Pinciaro, executive director of advocacy group Connecticut Against Gun Violence, said in a Feb. 26 release that registration of handguns

CHRISTOPHER GARDNER

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER A new exhibit at Artspace pays tribute to the colorful work of Ficre Ghebreyesus ART ’02, the late artist and New Haven restaurateur.

“Ficre Ghebreyesus: Polychromasia,” a collection of 28 of Ghebreyesus’ later paintings, opened at Artspace New Haven on Saturday. Well-known in New Haven as the co-owner of Caffé Adulis, a celebrated local restaurant featuring innovative Eritrean cuisine, Ghebreyesus lived in the Elm City for nearly 30 years before his sudden death in spring of 2012. Although he had long resided in an Erector Square studio in Fair Haven, Ghebreyesus rarely presented his work publicly, preferring to focus his attention on the creation of art itself, Artspace gallery associate Caleb Hendrickson DIV ’13 said.

Key Jo Lee GRD ’15 organized the current exhibition, which represents just a small sampling of Ghebreyesus’ prolific body of work — estimated to number around 800 pieces — and an introduction to his varied, eclectic style.

“He had unusual exposure to an incredibly wide range of influences, and he had the artistic temperament to take it all in,” said Ghebreyesus’ wife Elizabeth Alexander ’84, 2009 inaugural poet and chair of Yale’s African American Studies Department.

Lee, one of Alexander’s graduate students, undertook the task of cataloguing Ghebreyesus’ extensive collection of work last September. Working with Connecticut-based

photographer Christopher Gardner, she has documented 715 of the paintings from his studio and storage unit, though she pointed out that this figure does not include works that are in private collections or owned by Ghebreyesus’ family.

Prior to his move to the United States, Ghebreyesus had left his birth country of Eritrea and sought refuge in Sudan, Italy and Germany. He spoke eight languages, Alexander said, adding that she would characterize him as a “world artist” rather than an African-American artist.

“Sometimes when the work is of an artist who is not necessarily from the U.S., the work can get trapped in a particular geography,” Lee said. “What I love about [Ghebreyesus] is that he didn’t sign or date a lot of things — he wasn’t interested in having his work be nailed down to a particular time frame or history.”

Alexander met Ghebreyesus in 1996, when the Yale School of Drama was staging her play “Diva Studies.”

Ghebreyesus and his brother, Gideon, hosted a party at Caffé Adulis in celebration of the show’s opening night.

Alexander was still living in Chicago at the time, and she joked that once she and Ghebreyesus met properly, she “didn’t really go back.” Over the course of their marriage, she said the two also shared a strong artistic relationship, as her husband was always the first person with whom she shared her poems.

“We were both always talking about how to make space for one another’s work,” Alexander said. “Our faith in

each other’s art was absolute.”

On April 19, Alexander will host a poetry reading at the Artspace gallery featuring writers including Hettie Jones and Pulitzer Prize-winner Yusef Komunyakaa, who were friends of Ghebreyesus and admired his work.

Lee said text is a constant theme in many of Ghebreyesus’ paintings, as he often made references to poets who informed the gestures and markings, themselves reminiscent of words, that figured in his art.

Artspace Executive Director Helen Kauder noted that many New Haven residents will be attracted to the exhibit because of their fondness for Caffé Adulis, which she said was a favorite among city locals. The restaurant featured Eritrean cuisine mixed with culinary influences from around the world, counting among its regulars New York Times food critic R.W. Apple Jr. and history of art professor Robert Farris “Master T” Thompson.

Hanna Calchani, of Cheshire, Conn., said she went to the exhibit as a show of support for the late restaurant owner and was impressed by the vibrance of his collection.

“The paintings are like a kaleidoscope,” Calchani said, remarking that just like the food at Caffé Adulis, they hearkened back to Ghebreyesus’ diverse roots.

The exhibit will run through April 24.

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

Contact NICOLE NAREA at nicole.narea@yale.edu .

Students start noodle restaurant

BY EMMA GOLDBERG STAFF REPORTER

An exhibition of 28 paintings by the late artist Ficre Ghebreyesus ART ’02 opened at Artspace New Haven on Saturday.

with annual renewal and the stipulation that the law-abiding purchaser is still in possession of the handgun will prevent illegal trafficking — a “major contributing factor to urban crime.”

“The Gun Violence Prevention Task Force needs to be mindful of the problem of urban gun violence as they consider additions to the proposals made

by Gov. Malloy,” Pinciaro said.

“Those proposals are a good starting point, but more can be done to help our urban communities.”

Roughly 90 percent of homicide victims in Connecticut in 2011 were African-American or Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Last Friday, Yale’s first student-run pop-up restaurant opened its doors to serve noodles to 60 customers in the Davenport basement.

Lucas Sin ’15 recruited three souschefs and a business manager in January to create the Underground Noodle Collective. The pop-up restaurant opened for business in the Davenport buttery on Friday from 6–9 p.m., selling bowls of noodles for $8 to students who had made online reservations in advance. Sin and his sous-chefs — Mariona Badenas ’16, Rafi Bildner ’16 and Sarah Strong ’16 — chose to create the collective in order to address a lack of affordable alternatives to the dining hall for weekend meals.

“People get tired of the dining halls, and you hear about students being dissatisfied with the food at Ivy Noodle, but unhappy about the prices at Barcelona,” Sin said. “People get excited about good food, and we want to exploit those empty stomachs.”

The Underground Noodle Collective menu features a basic noodle bowl with toppings that include pork belly and egg, and asks customers to select their own broth with options such as tomato, curry and a weekly special. Sin said one of the restaurant’s strengths is that each chef has a different culinary background: Bildner attended a French culinary school, Strong has an American focus and Sin is familiar with Chinese cuisine. Kay Teo ’16, the restaurant’s business manager, brings to the team an understanding of Japanese food.

Bildner said the Underground Noodle Collective team hopes to keep prices affordable. The students said they do not aim to make a profit from the cooking, adding that they charge only enough money to cover the costs of ingredients and capital. Still, Bildner said the Collective will donate any additional profit it generates to the Forks and Knives Society, an organization Sin founded last semester that offers weekly culinary training with Ron DeSantis, director of culinary excellence for Yale Dining.

Bildner said he and the other students committed to the project largely because they were looking for an opportunity to try out new recipes and practice cooking techniques.

“There’s a huge food culture at Yale, and people appreciate student cooking,” Bildner said. “I think it was clear that we’re filling a niche because reservations for Friday night were all filled up within a few days.”

Members of the Underground Noodle Collective team spent the semester crafting an image for the restaurant, Sin said. Because the food is being served in the Davenport basement, Sin hopes the atmosphere will feel “grungy.” He said the chefs played rock music and cooked in the buttery so they could talk with customers who were eating at the counter.

Sin said he chose his sous-chefs through a complex tryout process, adding that the application tested students’ creativity by asking questions such as, “What dish can you make out of citrus, pork belly and garlic?” Qualified applicants were then invited to do tryouts in Commons, where they performed tasks such as preparing a meal in under two minutes. Students who join the team must commit at least eight hours a week to the restaurant.

“We weren’t trying to put pressure on applicants, but we needed people who were cool-headed because we’re running a business and we want it to be professional,” Sin said.

Customers who came to the Noodle Collective on Friday night said they enjoyed the food and found the service very professional. One customer, Vaskar Pahari ’14, said he thinks the restaurant was a fun alternative to the dining hall, but he added that he thinks the Noodle Collective may not attract business in the long term unless they make their pricing more competitive.

Sin said he hopes the Noodle Collective team will open a new pop-up restaurant next semester featuring a different type of cuisine. He said he was inspired by startups like the Reading List, which opened this semester and delivers breakfast to students’ rooms on weekends, and Northern Greening, a catering startup students created last spring, though he added that the Noodle Collective differs in that it does not do catering or delivery.

Next Friday night, the Noodle Collective will accept customers without reservations.

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

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Undergraduate Noodle Collective, a student-run pop-up restaurant, opened in the Davenport buttery last Friday.

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FROM THE FRONT Regardless of primary, Elicker to run in the fall CAMPAIGN FROM PAGE 1 house High School Principal Kermit Carolina — likely to enter, Elicker said that’s a distinct possibility. The scenario Elicker described played out in 1979, when Biagio DiLieto ousted incumbent Mayor Frank Logue after winning the primary with only 47 percent of the vote.

James Campbell, a political consultant and clean-campaign finance advocate who is managing HolderWinfield’s campaign, assailed Elicker’s strategy as disingenuous and unfair to city taxpayers.

“If you’re already planning on losing the primary and then running again in the general, why run? It’s crazy,” he said. “You’re using New Haven taxpayer dollars under the Democracy Fund to subsidize a dry run.”

Under Democracy Fund rules, a candidate is not allowed to stay on with public financing in the general election after losing the primary, Campbell said. That means Elicker would have to switch to entirely private funding should he run as an independent.

“We’re not going to say, well, we’re going to run in the primary and then we’re going to run in the general election,” Holder-Winfield said outside of City Hall on Thursday. “We’re going to do what we say we’re going to do.”

Fernandez also said he would abide by the results of the Democratic primary, adding that he would “not switch parties.” He also challenged Elicker’s suggestion of disenfranchisement by emphasizing that two elections are still held and that everyone gets to vote in November.

Though he praised the Democracy Fund for expanding the potential field of candidates, Fernandez said he would not be using the system due to time constraints as a “late-entering candidate.” Under the fund, candidates must collect 200 contributions of $10 or more from registered voters to qualify for public financing. Elicker

said he fulfilled that requirement in five days.

Fernandez also condemned the idea of campaign pledges, telling the New Haven Independent they were “silly” and saying they distract from the substantive issues of the campaign.

“I’m not going to focus on these process questions,” Fernandez told the News Sunday. “I plan on focusing on reducing crime, improving our schools, creating youth centers for our kids and creating jobs.”

Meanwhile, the Holder-Winfield and Elicker campaigns are casting issues of process in a different light, saying they determine whether government is efficient and accountable to people.

Campbell cited criticisms of DeStefano’s 20-year tenure in office as evidence of a desire for more accountability and democracy in campaign finance. He said how candidates choose to finance their campaigns influences how they govern.

“This is not a process issue — it’s a governance issue,” he said. “If you have contractors spending $1,000 a pop to buy the mayor, that guy won’t represent the average New Haven resident. Who signs onto the Democracy Fund is an indication of who will be supportive of the popular will of the people.”

Elicker agreed, saying the Democracy Fund is a way of “leveling the playing field.” He added that he is having no trouble fundraising without special-interest money, breaking his own $50,000 fundraising goal for the March 31 filing deadline.

Fernandez declined to comment on fundraising strategy, but said that Connecticut’s election laws made funding streams “highly transparent” even without the clean-finance pledges embraced by his opponents.

The general election will be held on Nov. 5.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

“Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.”

HENRY FORD FOUNDER OF THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Nightclub linked to shooting MAP NIGHTCLUBS LABELED ‘HOT SPOTS FOR TROUBLE’ BY DESTEFANO

CRIME FROM PAGE 1 hospitals in the area for treatment and were released shortly afterwards.

In January 2007, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. identified five nightclubs that he considered “hotspots for trouble” — among them Taurus Café — and called for the nightclubs to be closed. The Taurus Café finally lost its liquor license in June 2007 after a lengthy fight between DeStefano and the club manager, Larry Livingston, in an attempt by DeStefano to close down the nightclub. But after Livingston secured a new permit under a friend’s name, the Taurus Café reopened in November 2010 despite DeStefano’s attempts to keep

the club closed.

Saturday’s murder ended the longest homicide-free window since February 2012. In late January 2013, two homicides hit New Haven in close succession, the only other two city murders this year.

Saturday’s murder comes not long after the city reported a 50 percent drop in homicides from 2011 to 2012. The fall has largely been attributed by DeStefano and other city officials to the success of NHPD Chief Dean Esserman’s switch to a model of community policing in the city in November 2011. Community policing, which takes police officers out of their cruisers and puts them on “walking beats” throughout the city

to build relationships with the public, began in New Haven under former NHPD Chief Nick Pastore in the early 1990s and was largely credited with the resulting drop in the crime rate.

According from data from the NHPD, the city registered only two nonfatal shootings in March, marking a 75 percent reduction from the eight nonfatal shootings reported in February 2013.

At this time last year, the city had recorded two murders, en route to a three-year low of 17 homicides.

Contact LORENZO LIGATO at lorenzo.ligato@yale.edu .

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“I have a bad feeling that whenever a lesbian looks at me, they think, ‘That’s why I’m not a heterosexual.’” GEORGE COSTANZA CHARACTER PLAYED BY JASON ALEXANDER IN THE TV SERIES “SEINFELD”

Cole Porter centennial celebration continues

BY ROSA NGUYEN STAFF REPORTER Nearly 100 years after Cole Porter 1913 graduated from Yale, historian Robert Kimball ’61 discussed the musical legend’s college life at a Jonathan Edwards College Master’s Tea. Over 30 students, faculty and alumni gathered last Friday to attend the Tea, one of a series of events celebrating the centennial of the composer’s graduation.

Both a master class sponsored by the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater — a program of courses administered by the Department of Music — and a Master’s Tea, the event consisted of performances by Shen Curriculum students and a lecture by Kimball detailing Porter’s work in musical theater and his relationship with the University. “[Porter] was a great champion of civil entertainment,” Kimball said. “He wanted people to be enjoying themselves in the theater. Period.”

The Tea was part of a yearlong celebration entitled “100 Years of Cole Porter at Yale,” through which the University is commemorating Porter’s graduation and musical influence with a sequence of performances, lectures and social activities. The centennial began with the January production of “Kiss Me, Kate,” which involved both student and alumni performers.

On March 2, the Graduate Club was the site of the Cole Porter Swing Dance, featuring performances by the Bales-Gitlin Band and student ballroom and swing dance groups. The Porter centennial will conclude next fall with a gala concert featuring notable Cole Porter experts and student performers.

Students and alumni from the Shen Curriculum kick-started

the Tea with performances of Porter’s songs. Accompanied on the piano by Alex Ratner ’14 and Andrew Rubenoff DRA ’83, singer Kelly Hill MUS ’13 gave an operatic rendition of “In the Still of the Night.” Nathaniel Janis ’14 performed “Easy to Love,” followed by Rebecca Brudner ’16 with “Goodbye Little Dream, Goodbye.” Amber Edwards ’82, a former student of Kimball’s, tackled two of Porter’s hits — “At Long Last Love” and “My Heart Belongs to Daddy.”

After the performance, Robert Kimball addressed the history behind the five songs. Each was composed in the 1930s, the peak of Porter’s career. The origins of “At Long Last Love” revealed Porter’s dedication to his art — having been thrown from a horse, the composer thought of the song’s iconic lines as he lay prostrate on the ground.

Kimball also read an excerpt from “Cole Porter at Yale,” an essay that will appear in his 2014 book commemorating the 50th anniversary of Porter’s death.

The excerpt depicted the arrival of the freshman class of 1913, a celebration that would include “torchlight parades” and the “shepherding” of freshmen to York Street. Porter, who came to Yale from Indiana, had to reinvent himself, history professor Jay Gitlin ’71 MUS ’74 GRD ’02 told the News in September. “[Porter] was an outsider, but he had a wonderful time at Yale,” Kimball said.

A boy who “mostly roomed alone to play piano into the night,” Porter got his start in songwriting by composing football songs. By the time he graduated, Porter had written “Bingo Eli Yale” and “Bulldog.”

Also involved in multiple music groups and the Yale Dramat, Porter composed four musicals

for Yale productions during his undergraduate career, as well as an additional show after he graduated. After failing to succeed on Broadway with “See America First,” Porter returned to Yale, writing the score for the Dramat’s 1925 production of “Out of Luck.” “[The University] gave him his start in musical theater,” Kimball said. “He was forever grateful to Yale for that.”

During the 1930s, Porter became “the foremost person in musical theater,” Kimball said.

He composed nine Broadway shows that ran for over a year, surpassing all other composers to date. His risqué lyrics received a great deal of controversy — “I’ll Get A Kick Out Of You” mentioned cocaine, while the lyrics of “Love For Sale,” a song about a prostitute, were censored across national airwaves.

“Porter was a man who began the tradition of writing adult songs for musical theater,” Kimball said. “His willingness to take chances made it easier for lyric writers to tackle any subject.”

Five audience members interviewed said they enjoyed both Kimball’s lecture and the student performances.

“It was very interesting that the style of each performance was so different,” said Suzanne Lovejoy, a librarian at the Music Library in Sterling Memorial Library. “The first one was operatic. The second was like he was speaking to you, like it was a cabaret. And of course, Amber [Edwards] has great presence.”

Hill called Kimball’s lecture “a beautiful narrative,” noting Kimball’s apparent “love and dedication” for Porter.

Piyumi Fernando ’13 said Kimball helped her see the composer as more than just a great songwriter, adding that the songs and

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Historian Richard Kimball ’61 discussed the college years of musical theater giant Cole Porter 1913. the lecture reinforced her love for Yale.

“Cole Porter, as a proud son of Yale and as one of the most accomplished songwriters in history, gives every Yale musical theater composer, writer and

performer permission to dream big and to pursue their own voice in the next generation of writers and thinkers in this great American art form,” Dan Egan, coordinator of the Shen Curriculum, said in an email.

The Shen Curriculum will host its next master class, featuring “In the Heights” director Tommy Kail, on April 8.

Contact ROSA NGUYEN at rosa.nguyen@yale.edu .

Seinfeld star talks acting

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Jason Alexander, who played George Costanza on “Seinfeld,” reflected on his acting career in a Master’s Tea.

BY DHRUV AGGARWAL STAFF REPORTER Jason Alexander, a Tony Award-winning director, producer and actor best known for his role in the television series “Seinfeld,” spoke about his early career and his path to acting success at a Jonathan Edwards College Master’s Tea Sunday evening.

Alexander, who played the role of George Costanza in the popular television series, kept the audience of 70 students and theater enthusiasts riveted throughout the event with funny anecdotes. Alexander explained to the audience how he had grown as an actor over the span of his career from the time he was a shy and introverted 6-year-old.

Alexander said he attended magic camp as a 12-year-old and hoped to pursue a future in card tricks, but his magic instructors told him that his hands were not big enough to play cards and he “did not have the right build” for escapes. He subsequently played theater roles in various towns before a management com-

pany signed him when he was 14 years old. He then started working professionally in commercials and auditioning for shows on and off Broadway.

“I also auditioned off Broadway,” he said. “Illinois is a long way off Broadway.”

The actor said he faced considerable challenges early in his movie and stage career. His first film, the horror movie “The Burning,” failed miserably at the box office and Alexander’s first Broadway show, “Merrily We Roll Along,” also performed poorly. Alexander learned tap dancing around this time, he said, since “me getting into ballet tights would be a sin against man and God.” In an industry in which most people were either “extremely beautiful or funny and odd,” Alexander said he could play adult roles at an early age because he started losing hair when he was only 17.

Alexander discussed how he managed to maintain a family life despite being in the entertainment industry. He was lucky to be acting on “Seinfeld” when his two sons were born, he said,

because it gave him a more manageable work schedule.

“Theater is a bad schedule for parenting — it’s hard to be a hands-on parent then,” he said. “A four-camera sitcom is as close to a 9-to-5 job an actor gets.”

He stayed in Los Angeles, where “Seinfeld” was taped, and did not return to New York after the show ended because he wanted to continue spending time with his family, he added.

Audience members praised Alexander for his humorous talk.

Blake Smith ’16 said Alexander was “too funny” and “struck a nice balance between being informative and being funny.”

Katie Harmer ’15 said she found Alexander just as funny in person as she had found him to be on “Seinfeld,” and Sonia Taneja ’13 said it was one of the “most hilarious afternoons” of her life — “a childhood dream come true.”

Alexander’s son, Gabe Greenspan ’14, is a member of Jonathan Edwards College.

Contact DHRUV AGGARWAL at dhruv.aggarwal@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.”

LADY GAGA AMERICAN SINGER-SONGWRITER

April awards ease fall show production CPA FROM PAGE 1 with the option to apply earlier.

She said she thinks the deadline changes will be particularly positive for students because the CPA financial guidelines require students to have secured the grant before they begin making purchases for the production.

YDC Vice President Ethan Karetsky ’14 said the new deadline will be especially important in alleviating the “time crunch” for students planning shows early

in the fall semester. He added that with the previous CPA deadline, students returning in the fall would not have any information about theater allocation or funding until nearly a month into the semester, making it difficult to begin any work on design or blocking.

“With the new deadline, we’re encouraging people to apply in advance and come back to school knowing they have funding so they don’t have to spend the first two weeks of rehearsal stressing about

that,” Karetsky said. “This really rewards planning in advance.”

Pitti said the Council of Masters also hopes that instituting the April deadline will encourage more students to use the residential college theaters in the first half of fall semester, explaining that these spaces tend to be used less during the first six weeks of the year.

Kathryn Krier DRA ’07, the head of the Undergraduate Production office, said in an email that since last September, the Off Broadway Theater application

cycle has been timed to match the CPA funding cycle. Now, the organization has added a third round of applications to match the new April deadline. She added this will allow students to learn about funding and space assignments at the same time.

“There has been some recent interest from student groups in early fall slots at the OBT,” Krier said. “These student teams are, necessarily, planning well in advance of the production, and it is a great benefit to them to be able

to plan over the summer knowing which venue they will be using in the fall.”

Krier explained that this space allocation model was piloted earlier with “Spring Awakening,” which was granted use of the OBT space before school let out for the summer, allowing the production to use the extra time to plan.

Karetsky said that when he was producing “Spring Awakening,” which went up in the OBT last October, he applied for use of the theater before the team was eli-

gible to apply for a fall CPA award under the previous deadline system.

“The new OBT application cycle formalizes [the new space allocation model], and we hope that we will continue to see students taking advantage of this opportunity,” Krier said.

April CPA awards will be announced by April 16.

Contact ANYA GRENIER at anna.grenier@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, APRIL 1 7:00 PM Yale-New Haven Hospital Merger Desert Panel Join the Public Health Coalition for a panel on the Yale-New Haven Hospital and St. Raphael’s merger, as discussed by Dr. Herbert, Yale-New Haven Hospital chief of staff, and Dr. McLean, head of the American College of Physicians. Branford College (74 High St.), Trumbull Room.

TUESDAY, APRIL 2 4:30 PM “Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History” John Fabian Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, will give a public lecture sponsored by the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and International Security Studies.

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7:00 PM “Art, Aesthetics and Astronomy: Why is the Universe Beautiful?” Michael Faison from the Department of Astronomy will give a talk. A free planetarium show will take place at 8 p.m., and there will be stargazing and viewing with telescopes after the talk, weather permitting. Free and open to the general public. Leitner Observatory (355 Prospect St.), Lecture Hall.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 4:00 PM “How Tomorrow’s Technologies Will Shape Your World” Craig Mundie, senior adviser to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yale’s 2012 Gordon Grand Fellow, will talk about how computer technology will continue to shape the future and demonstrate transformational technologies in development at Microsoft. Attendees are eligible for a raffle of Microsoft products, which include several new Surface tablets. Following Mundie’s talk, audience members will have an opportunity to interact with the technologies he will demonstrate. Free and open to the general public. Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall (1 Prospect St.), Room 114.

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Rubio: Reports of immigration deal ‘premature’

BY PHILIP ELLIOTT ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Even with one of the largest hurdles to an immigration overhaul overcome, optimistic lawmakers on Sunday cautioned they had not finished work on a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants.

The AFL-CIO and the probusiness U.S. Chamber of Commerce reached a deal late Friday that would allow tens of thousands of low-skill workers into the country to fill jobs in construction, restaurants and hotels.

Yet despite the unusual agreement between the two powerful lobbying groups, lawmakers from both parties conceded that the

negotiations were not finished.

“With the agreement between business and labor, every major policy issue has been resolved,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat who brokered the labor-business deal.

But it hasn’t taken the form of a bill and the eight senators searching for a compromise haven’t met about the potential breakthrough.

“We haven’t signed off,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. “There are a few details yet.

But conceptually, we have an agreement between business and labor, between ourselves that has to be drafted,” he added.

Yet just before lawmakers began appearing on Sunday shows, Sen. Marco Rubio warned

he was not ready to lend his name — and political clout — to such a deal without hashing out the details.

We have said we will not come to final agreement till we look at all of the legislative language.

CHUCK SCHUMER U.S. senator, New York “Reports that the bipartisan group of eight senators have agreed on a legislative proposal are premature,” said Rubio, a

Florida Republican who is among the lawmakers working on legislation.

Rubio, a Cuban-American who is weighing a presidential bid in 2016, is a leading figure inside his party. Lawmakers will be closely watching any deal for his approval and his skepticism about the process did little to encourage optimism.

Rubio, who is the group’s emissary to conservatives, called the agreement “a starting point” but said 92 senators from 43 states haven’t yet been involved in the process.

The detente between the nation’s leading labor federation and the powerful business lobbying group still needs senators’ approval, including a nod

Rivals prepare for abortion battle

BY DAVID CRARY ASSOCIATED PRESS Rival legal teams, wellfinanced and highly motivated, are girding for court battles over the coming months on laws enacted in Arkansas and North Dakota that would impose the nation’s toughest bans on abortion.

For all their differences, attorneys for the two states and the abortion-rights supporters opposing them agree on this: The laws represent an unprecedented frontal assault on the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a nationwide right to abortion.

The Arkansas law, approved March 6 when legislators overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe, would ban most abortions from the 12th week of pregnancy onward. On March 26, North Dakota went further, with Republican Gov. Jack Dal-

rymple signing a measure that would ban abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, when a fetal heartbeat can first be detected and before some women even know they’re pregnant.

Abortion-rights advocates plan to challenge both measures, contending they are unconstitutional violations of the Roe ruling that legalized abortion until a fetus could viably survive outside the womb. A fetus is generally considered viable at 22 to 24 weeks.

“I think they’re going to be blocked immediately by the courts — they are so far outside the clear bounds of what the Supreme Court has said for 40 years,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights.

The center will be leading the North Dakota legal challenge and working in Arkansas alongside the American Civil Liber-

ties Union’s state and national offices. Both Northup and ACLU lawyers say they have ample resources to wage the battles, and they expect victories that would require their attorneys’ fees to be paid by two states.

Dalrymple, in signing the ban, acknowledged that its chances of surviving a court challenge were questionable, but said it was worth the eventual price tag — at this point unknown — in order to test the boundaries of Roe. North Dakota’s attorney general, Wayne Stenehjem, initially said lawyers from his office would defend any lawsuits but is now considering hiring outside help. His office is working on a cost estimate for the litigation that could be presented to lawmakers soon.

“We’re looking at a sufficient amount to adequately defend these enactments,” Stenehjem said.

A lead sponsor of the Arkansas

ban, Republican state Sen. Jason Rapert, said threats of lawsuits “should not prevent someone from doing what is right.”

He contended that the ban had a chance of reaching the U.S. Supreme Court through the appeals process and suggested that the victory predictions made by abortion-rights lawyers amounted to “posturing” aimed at deterring other states from enacting similar bans.

In both Arkansas and North Dakota, the states’ lawyers will be getting pro bono assistance from lawyers with Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian legal group.

Mathew Staver, the group’s chairman, said supporters of the bans were resolved to fight the legal battles to the end, and issued a caution to the rival side.

“They ought to hold off on their celebrations,” he said.

“The cases have a long way to go through the court system.”

from Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican whose previous efforts came up short.

“I think we’re on track. But as Sen. Rubio correctly says, we have said we will not come to final agreement till we look at all of the legislative language and he’s correctly pointing out that that language hasn’t been fully drafted,” Schumer said.

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., also noted the significance of the truce between labor and business but added that this wasn’t yet complete.

“That doesn’t mean we’ve crossed every ‘i’ or dotted every ‘t,’ or vice versa,” said Flake, who is among the eight lawmakers working on the deal.

Schumer negotiated the deal

between AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka and Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue during a late-Friday phone call.

Under the compromise, the government would create a new “W” visa for low-skill workers who would earn wages paid to Americans or the prevailing wages for the industry they’re working in, whichever is higher. The Labor Department would determine prevailing wage based on customary rates in specific localities, so that it would vary from city to city.

The proposed measure would secure the border, crack down on employers, improve legal immigration and create a 13-year pathway to citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants already here.

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WORLD

“Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn’t misuse it.” POPE JOHN PAUL II

Pope pleas for world peace

BY FRANCES D’EMILIO ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis marked Christianity’s most joyous day with a passionate plea for world peace, celebrating his first Easter Sunday as pontiff in the enthusiastic company of more than 250,000 people who overflowed from St. Peter’s Square.

With eloquent words in his Easter message, Francis lamented enduring conflicts in the Middle East, on the Korean peninsula and elsewhere, and remembered the world’s neediest people. With physical gestures, he illustrated the personal, down-to-earth caring he brings as a pastor to this new papacy — cradling a disabled child held out to him in the crowd and delightedly accepting a surprise gift thrust at him.

Francis shared in his flock’s exuberance as they celebrated Christianity’s core belief that Jesus Christ rose from the dead following crucifixion. After Mass in flower-bedecked St. Peter’s

Square, he stepped aboard an open-topped white popemobile for a cheerful spin through pathways in the joyous crowd, kissing babies, smiling constantly and patting children on the head.

One admirer of both the pope and his favorite soccer team from his Argentine homeland, Saints of San Lorenzo, insisted that Francis take a team jersey he was waving at the pontiff — “take it, go ahead, take it,” the man seemed to be telling the pope. Finally, a delighted Francis obliged, briefly holding up the shirt, and the crowd roared in approval. He handed the shirt to an aide in the front seat, and the popemobile continued its whirl through the square.

In a poignant moment, Francis cradled and kissed a physically disabled boy passed to him from the crowd. The child worked hard to make one of his arms hug the pope back, then succeeded, smiling in satisfaction as the pope patiently waited for the boy to give his greeting.

Francis has repeatedly put concern for the poor and suffering at the center of his messages, and he pursued his promotion of the causes of peace and social justice in the Easter speech he delivered from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, the same vantage point above the square where he was introduced to the world as the first Latin American pope on March 13.

The Roman Catholic leader aimed his Easter greetings at “every house and every family, especially where the suffering is greatest, in hospitals, in prisons.”

Francis prayed that Jesus would inspire people to “change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace.”

As popes before him have, he urged Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace talks and end a conflict that “has lasted all too long.” And, in reflecting on the two-year-old Syrian crisis, Francis asked, “How much suffering must there still be before a political solution” can be found?

Abbas clamps down on critics

BY KARIN LAUB AND DALIA NAMMARI ASSOCIATED PRESS HUSSAN, West Bank — Mahmoud Abbas’ government in the West Bank is getting tougher with critics, interrogating, prosecuting and even jailing several journalists and bloggers in recent months for allegedly “defaming” the Western-backed Palestinian leader.

Rights activists say the legal hassles are meant to silence dissent and that the campaign is intensifying despite promises to the contrary by Abbas. Targets of the crackdown include supporters of Abbas’ political rival — the Islamic militant Hamas — and political independents who have written about alleged nepotism and abuse of power in Abbas’ Palestinian Authority.

Abbas’ aides insist the Palestinian leader opposes any curb on expression. They blame overzealous prosecutors and security officials, but government critics say Abbas could easily halt the clampdown.

“It’s a good cop, bad cop routine. The bad cops are the security services, and the good cop is

the benevolent president,” said Diana Buttu, a former Palestinian Authority insider. They want to send a chilling message, she said, “and it works.”

It’s a good cop, bad cop routine. The bad cops are the security services, and the good cop is the benevolent president.

DIANA BUTTU Former member, Palestinian Authority Abbas’ foreign backers, who view him as key to delivering any future peace deal with Israel and maintaining quiet in the West Bank, have said little in public about the issue. Instead, during a visit to the West Bank in late March, President Barack Obama showered Abbas and his security forces with praise for their efforts to prevent militant attacks on Israel.

The new tactic of taking jour-

nalists and bloggers to court has invited speculation about timing and motive.

Some say Abbas and his inner circle are lashing out at critics because they feel increasingly vulnerable politically. Others suggest the 78-year-old Abbas is either an old-school Arab politician not used to criticism or an out-of-touch leader getting bad advice.

“It’s a weak authority and that’s why it’s doing this,” said Shahwan Jabareen, who heads the human rights group Al-Haq. “They fear the criticism is growing — that they will lose the [Palestinian] authority — and they are trying to keep it by acting like this.”

Such insecurities are rooted in the political split of 2007, when Hamas seized the Gaza Strip from Abbas.

Since then, Hamas has been going after sympathizers of Abbas’ Fatah movement in Gaza, while Abbas’ security forces have tried to dismantle the Hamas infrastructure in the West Bank to prevent a similar takeover there.

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ithin New Haven’s Peabody Museum, entomologist Maishe Dickman’s vast collection of insects continues to astound and disgust. These particular specimens from French Guiana only make up a small portion of the Peabody’s assortment of insects, which totals about 2 million. KATHRYN CRANDALL documents the buggy beauty.

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NCAAH St. Cloud St. 5 Notre Dame 1

NCAAH Quinnipiac 5 Union 1

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QUINNIPIAC JOINS YALE IN FROZEN FOUR TEAMS COULD MEET IN FINAL Yale may be the giant-slayer of the NCAA men’s hockey tournament, but overall No. 1 seed and local rival Quinnipiac also advanced to the Frozen Four with a win over Union on Sunday. On Saturday, the Bobcats beat Canisius to advance to the regional final.

NCAAB Louisville 85 Duke 63

NCAAB Michigan 79 Florida 59

NBA Miami 88 San Antonio 86

MONDAY

YALE BEATS THE ODDS IN FROZEN FOUR RUN JUST FIFTH NO. 4 SEED TO ADVANCE Since the tournament implemented its current format in 2003, just four other No. 4 seeds have made it to the Frozen Four. St. Cloud State also advanced this year, bringing the total to six. While two No. 4 seeds have advanced to the final game, neither won the championship.

“We’re going to get to work the next two weeks, and we’re halfway home.”

JOSH BALCH ’13 FORWARD, MEN’S HOCKEY YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013 · yaledailynews.com

CINDERELLA STORY

MEN’S HOCKEY

For the third time in four years, the Bulldogs needed just one more win to reach the Frozen Four. The third time was the charm. PAGE A1 YALE ATHLETICS

Jesse Root ’14 scored Yale’s game-winning goal against the Minnesota Golden Gophers nine seconds into overtime. The Bulldogs won the match 3–2.

First conference win comes in OT

Second-half scoring propels Yale to two wins

BY FREDERICK FRANK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Buoyed by two second-half offensive explosions, the women’s lacrosse team finished the weekend with two wins against nonleague opponents.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE On Friday, the Elis beat California 10–7 at Reese Stadium, and the team added another win on Sunday at Lehigh with a 16–8 victory. This season, the Bulldogs (6–4, 0–3 Ivy) have played very well against opponents outside the Ivy League. They have not lost a nonconference game since dropping their season opener to Holy Cross 16–13 back in February.

The Elis were engaged in a back-and-

forth battle for most of the first half against Cal (5–4, 3–0 MPSF). Despite Yale opening up a 3–1 lead 10 minutes into the game, the Golden Bears went on to score five of the next six goals to take a 6–4 lead over the Bulldogs. Team captain Devon Rhodes ’13 scored five seconds before halftime, and Yale tied the game seven minutes into the half, but Cal again took the lead 7–6 at the 17-minute mark. The Elis, however, scored four unanswered goals to close the game and condemned the Bears to defeat.

The game featured six different scorers. Midfielder Nicole Daniggelis ’16 led the team in scoring with three goals on seven shots and one assist.

Rhodes scored two goals and assisted SEE WOMEN’S LACROSSE PAGE B3

BLAIR SEIDEMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Midfielder Dylan Levings ’14 won nine of 17 faceoffs and picked up five ground balls in Saturday’s 7–6 overtime win over Penn.

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Yale Athletics earned its second overtime victory this weekend when men’s lacrosse attackman Kirby Zdrill ’13 found the net just over two minutes into overtime.

MEN’S LACROSSE On Saturday, the men’s lacrosse team (4–3, 1–2 Ivy) defeated the No. 13 Penn Quakers 7–6 at Franklin Field in Philadelphia in its third conference

game of the season. Despite Yale’s 40–27 shot advantage, the game was played very close with each team winning roughly half of the faceoffs (Yale with nine of 17 and Penn with eight of 17) and both competitors scoring on each of their man-up opportunities.

“Peter Johnson ’13, [Michael] McCormack ’13 and Jimmy Craft ’14 all played unbelievably, with the defense causing 21 turnovers,” longstick midfielder Mike Quinn ’16 said. “Eric Natale ’15 had a great day between the pipes making some huge saves late in the game.”

Penn (5–3, 1–2 Ivy) jumped out to a quick lead, notching two goals and keeping the Bulldogs scoreless in the first quarter. But the Elis bounced back quickly. In the second quarter, Yale was able to net three goals to put them up 3–2 going into halftime.

The first two goals to even the score came when Yale was a man up.

Attackman Brandon Mangan ’14 scored first on an assist from fellow attackman John-William McGovern ’16. Just 46 seconds later, the BullSEE MEN’S LACROSSE PAGE B2

TOP ’DOG JESSE ROOT ’14

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Nicole Daniggelis ’16 led the Elis with four goals and set the Ivy League record for draw controls on Sunday.

THE JUNIOR FORWARD WAS NAMED THE MVP OF THE NCAA WEST REGIONAL. Root scored both the game-winning overtime goal against Minnesota and the goahead goal against North Dakota as the Bulldogs advanced to the Frozen Four.

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SPORTS

“Having trouble processing the possibility that the national championship hockey game could be a Battle of Toads Place. #allroads” KATIE BAKER ’05 STAFF WRITER FOR GRANTLAND.COM

OT goal crushes Quakers

Bulldogs split weekend BASEBALL FROM PAGE B4 breakout performance with a 2-for-4 showing at Cornell on Sunday. His RBI-squeeze bunt single in the top of the first helped the Bulldogs jump out to a 5–0 lead, but the Big Red answered with a five-spot of their own in the bottom of the frame. Cornell tacked on runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings to complete the comeback victory.

“We needed to step on their throats,” Piwinski said. “We let them back in the game. … We needed to keep working to extend the lead.”

Three errors by Cornell led to four unearned runs in the first inning, but the Big Red made just one more fielding mistake the rest of the way. Yale had no fielding

miscues on Sunday and just two all weekend. The Elis had come into the past three games with 32 errors as a team — second-most in the Ancient Eight.

The Elis played all three games this weekend without the help of Cale Hanson ’14 at shortstop.

The preseason first-team AllIvy selection had been feeling discomfort in his wrist for several weeks, according to Piwinski, before being taken out of the lineup against Holy Cross last weekend. Piwinski added that the injury is to Hanson’s non-throwing wrist, and the junior will continue to pitch for the team.

Yale will finish its series with Cornell today at 11 a.m.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .

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Attackman Kirby Zdrill ’13 found the net two minutes into overtime and led the Elis to a win.

MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE B1 dogs evened the score at two when the man-up chemistry worked in the reverse direction with McGovern putting one past Penn goaltender Brian Feeney on a feed from Mangan.

The Elis were not done yet, as just 39 seconds later, midfielder Colin Flaherty ’15 found the net to put the Elis up 3–2.

All three goals came in a fiery 1:25 span.

The rest of the game was more balanced, with Yale and Penn trading blow

for blow and goal for goal. Zdrill finished the game when he ripped his only shot on net off of a feed from Mangan, who notched his second assist of the contest.

Mangan had an impressive four goals and two assists in the matchup, and was involved in all but one scoring opportunity with a total of 15 shots on goal.

Flaherty’s unassisted goal was the only score he did not contribute to. “[Coach Andy Shay] switched up our offensive scheme a little bit by putting Brandon [Mangan] in the midfield, and

I think that we definitely benefited from it,” McCormack said. “Overall it was a great effort and nice to get a league win.”

After two straight away games, the Elis will head back home to take on Providence tomorrow at 7 p.m., and Dartmouth on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Reese Stadium.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

Elis win the Johnson Cup

ADLON ADAMS/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Bulldogs snapped an 11-game losing streak with a 9–1 victory over Princeton in game two of a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon.

Men’s tennis warms up for Ivies MEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE B4 2 and came out on top with a win in three sets. Brown and Dean also won in three sets at the No. 5 and No. 6 positions, respectively.

At No. 3, Hoffman earned the win in two sets 6–2, 6–4. The No. 4 player Martin Svenning ’16 followed suit, 7–6, 6–3.

“The win against St. John’s was great for momentum going into the Ivies,” Hoffman said.

“It’s nice to win those out of con-

ference matches, but the next seven matches will be some of the most important we play all season.”

The Elis will open up Ivy League play against the nationally ranked No. 52 Princeton Tigers and the unranked Penn Quakers next weekend at home at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven.

Contact ADLON ADAMS at adlon.adams@yale.edu .

BRANDON BLAESSER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Elis retained the Johnson Cup, which is given to the winner of the Yale/Navy regatta, after winning all the races against Navy.

LIGHTWEIGHT CREW FROM PAGE B4 with driving the Bulldogs to victory.

“We had one sophomore in the boat, Greg Hawkins ’15, who did a great job setting a great rhythm for us,” Ruck said. “We also had four juniors who performed well and executed.”

Ferraro said that the Yale crew relished the opportunity to compete again after last weekend’s scrimmage against Trinity, especially against Navy’s skilled team.

“We’re a competitive group, and there’s nothing like testing yourself against a quality opponent. It’s why we love to row,” he said.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs will compete at the first of two home regattas this season when they take on MIT and Georgetown in at the Gilder Boathouse in Derby, Conn. Card said Georgetown has often been a strong opponent and that MIT’s varsity eight includes talented freshmen that could make the Engineers faster than they were last year.

Last year, the Elis won all four races against Georgetown and MIT by an average of 10.4 seconds, and they are looking to repeat that dominant performance next weekend at home.

A spectator bus will leave from Payne Whitney Gym at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday morning and return to campus in time for brunch.

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

MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Elis came out with a 5–2 win on Saturday against the Redstorm and are now 14–3 in the regular season.

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SPORTS

“Yale’s hockey team is like [Florida Gulf Coast’s] basketball team with less dunks, dreads [and] super model wives. Very similar teams.” CHRIS PETERS UNITED STATES OF HOCKEY EDITOR

Yale shocks hockey world NCAA MEN’S HOCKEY BRACKET First Round March 29-30

Second Round March 30-31

Semifinals April 11

Semifinals April 11

Second Round March 30-31

1 Quinnipiac

First Round March 29-30

MEN’S LACROSSE IVY SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

1

Cornell

3

0

1.000

9

1

0.900

2

Princeton

2

1

0.667

6

2

0.750

3

Brown

1

1

0.500

5

3

0.625

Harvard

1

1

0.500

4

5

0.444

Penn

1

2

0.333

5

3

0.625

Yale

1

2

0.333

4

3

0.571

Dartmouth

0

2

0.000

2

6

0.250

5

1 Mass.—Lowell 1 Quinnipiac

7

1 Mass.—Lowell

4 Canisius

OVERALL

4 Wisconsin 1 Quinnipiac

1 Mass.—Lowell

3 Union

3 Denver 3 Union

WOMEN’S LACROSSE IVY

2 New Hampshire

2 Boston College 2 Miami (Ohio)

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

Dartmouth

3

0

1.000

7

3

0.700

Princeton

3

0

1.000

6

3

0.667

Penn

3

0

1.000

4

4

0.500

4

Cornell

2

2

0.500

6

3

0.667

5

Brown

1

2

0.333

7

2

0.778

Harvard

1

2

0.333

2

5

0.286

Yale

0

3

0.000

6

4

0.600

Columbia

0

3

0.000

2

8

0.200

2 New Hampshire

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS April 13

1

2 North Dakota

2 Miami (Ohio)

2 North Dakota

3 Minn. State—Mankato

3 Niagara 4 St. Cloud

4 Yale

4 St. Cloud

4 Yale 4 St. Cloud

4 Yale

1 Notre Dame

FROZEN FOUR FROM PAGE A1 The two games highlighted the Bulldogs’ prowess on both sides of the ice, but one key to each of their victories was their ability to make plays when it counted.

MEN’S HOCKEY “Actions speak louder than words,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said at a postgame press conference. “That’s what you saw for six periods and nine seconds, and it speaks to the mental toughness of this team.”

Leading scorer Kenny Agostino ’14 tallied the Elis’ first goal of the weekend 7:08 into the second period against Minnesota when he ripped a shot over the shoulder of Gopher freshman goaltender Adam Wilcox on a powerplay feed from captain Andrew Miller ’13. The Bulldogs struck again eight minutes later at even strength when defenseman Gus Young ’14 scored his second goal of the season on a pass from forward Clinton Bourbonais ’14.

Goaltender Jeff Malcolm ’13 and the Yale defense held the Gophers scoreless through the first and second periods and most of the third, but Minnesota broke loose when Nate Schmidt and Zach Buddish leveled the game in a five-minute span between the eight and 13-minute marks.

As both teams headed to the locker room, the ESPNU announcers commented on how

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1 Minnesota

Yale would be lucky to survive the first several minutes of overtime, but only seconds later announced, “Yale comes out and shocks everyone” when the exact opposite happened.

Nine seconds into overtime, Agostino flew up the ice on the forecheck and scooped up the puck behind the Gopher goal, hitting West Regional MVP Jesse Root ’14 for a one-timer right in front of the net that Root slammed past Wilcox to win the first round of the West Regional tournament.

The Bulldogs’ play looked less encouraging at the beginning of the North Dakota game, and they fell behind 1–0, but Yale kept up the pressure for the first and second periods and slowly chiseled away toward a victory until a block of goals came all at once.

“We had a pretty good third period going, but we had a couple penalties that pushed us back on our heels,” North Dakota head coach Dave Hakstol said at the press conference.

Just over halfway through the final period of action, Anthony Day ’15 threw a low shot on net from wide on the right side that Josh Balch ’13 knocked in on the rebound to level the score.

Two minutes later, goaltender Jeff Malcolm ’13 was tripped behind his own net when he stepped out to play a loose puck, giving the Bulldogs a key power play late in the third period.

As Miller and Root raced up the ice together, Miller dished a

cross-ice pass to Root on the far left faceoff dot, who then zipped a low shot over goaltender Clarke Saunders’ left pad for his second game-winning goal in as many days.

The Bulldogs sealed their first Frozen Four appearance in the past 61 years just two minutes later when forward Stu Wilson ’16 batted Anthony Day’s ’15 rebound out of the air and past Saunders to put the Elis up 3–1.

Yale hockey has meant the world to me, and it will continue to do so.

KEITH ALLAIN ’80 Head coach, men’s hockey Agostino put the final nail in the coffin with one minute remaining when North Dakota turned the puck over in their own end after pulling their goalie. Agostino corralled the puck in the middle of the ice and put away an empty net goal to finish the scoring at 4–1.

“It’s a great accomplishment.

It’s a great accomplishment for any team,” Miller said.

The Bulldogs’ last Frozen Four appearance was in 1952 when two teams were selected from the East and two from the West to compete in a tournament for the NCAA championship. Yale is the first Ivy League team to make the Frozen

Four since the NCAA introduced the 16-game bracket format in 2003.

“We’ve been close the first two years [in the tournament],” said Balch, who made it to the NCAA regional finals with the Bulldogs in 2010 and 2011. “We’ve got a lot of will, a lot of heart. We’re going to get to work the next two weeks and we’re halfway home.”

Allain, who played goaltender for Yale from 1976–’80, left his position as goaltender coach for the St. Louis Blues to take over the head coaching job at his alma mater in 2006, and has coached his team to four NCAA tournament appearances in the past five years.

“I probably wouldn’t be coaching in college hockey if it wasn’t for the Yale job,” Allain said. “I was pretty comfortable working in the National Hockey League.

Yale hockey has meant the world to me, and it will continue to do so.”

The Elis will take on UMassLowell in the first round of the Frozen Four at 4:30 on Thursday, April 11, at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. The winner will play either Quinnipiac or St. Cloud State the next night in the NCAA Hockey national championship game.

Evan Frondorf contributed reporting.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

OVERALL

BASEBALL IVY

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

1

Cornell

3

0

1.000

15

6

0.714

2

Penn

3

0

1.000

16

7

0.696

3

Princeton

3

1

0.750

5

17

0.227

4

Dartmouth

2

2

0.500

14

3

0.824

Columbia

2

2

0.500

9

14

0.391

6

Yale

1

2

0.333

2

15

0.118

7

Harvard

0

3

0.000

3

18

0.143

8

Brown

0

4

0.000

2

15

0.118

SOFTBALL IVY

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

Princeton

3

1

0.750

17

9

0.654

Penn

3

1

0.750

13

11

0.542

Yale

3

1

0.750

7

15

0.318

Dartmouth

2

2

0.500

12

14

0.462

Harvard

2

2

0.500

9

14

0.391

6

Cornell

1

2

0.333

11

14

0.440

7

Columbia

1

3

0.250

11

13

0.458

8

Brown

0

3

0.000

6

11

0.353

1

4

MEN’S TENNIS IVY

Two straight wins for women’s lax

1 3

W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 on two more while midfielder Cathryn Avallone ’15 added two goals of her own. In addition, Kerri Fleishhacker ’15, Christina Doherty ’15 and Erin Magnuson ’15 each contributed one goal apiece.

“I think our offense has been spectacular due to the selflessness of each attacker on the field,” goalkeeper Erin McMullan ’14 said. “The attackers did a great job to control the tempo and find the open girl. We held the ball and took high-percentage shots.”

Yale won the ground ball battle 18 to 12, and had more draw controls with 11 and outshot the Bears 29–28 to start the weekend on a good note. McMullan also posted a season-best save percentage of 53.5 percent, recording eight saves.

On Sunday against Lehigh (3–8, 1–3 Patriot), Yale used its momentum and scored the first goal of the contest, but the team again was locked in a tight firsthalf battle, going into the locker room in a 4–4 tie. The contest continued to be close well into the second half with Yale scoring five goals and Lehigh adding four to leave the score at 9–8 with 20 minutes to play. From that point on, the Bulldogs dominated the game, scoring seven straight goals to thoroughly bury the Mountain Hawks.

Yale again spread the scoring around with seven players registering goals in the contest.

Rhodes, Magnuson, Doherty and Avallone each scored two goals, while attacker AnnaElise Morello

7

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

Princeton

1

0

1.000

12

4

0.750

Columbia

1

0

1.000

10

6

0.625

Yale

0

0

0.000

14

3

0.824

Harvard

0

0

0.000

12

4

0.750

Brown

0

0

0.000

11

6

0.647

Dartmouth

0

0

0.000

8

8

0.500

Cornell

0

1

0.000

11

5

0.688

Penn

0

1

0.000

8

6

0.571

WOMEN’S TENNIS IVY 1 3

7

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The Elis recorded two wins this weekend, beating California 10–7 on Friday and adding another win on Sunday at Lehigh 16–8. ’16 opened her collegiate scoring with a hat trick. Daniggelis again led the team with four goals. H owever it was her record-setting performance on draw controls that truly set her apart. Daniggelis won 15 controls and tied the Ivy League record for controls in a

single game.

“It’s great setting the record, but I couldn’t have done it without the great circle play and box out from all our middies,” Daniggelis said. “Now it’s just a mark I look forward to try and break again.”

Yale will look to win its first Ivy League game in a noon showdown next Saturday against Princeton at Reese Stadium.

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SPORTS

“Keith Allain is the best coach in college hockey #truth.”

BRIAN O’NEILL ’12 CURRENTLY WITH AHL’S MANCHESTER MONARCHS

Baseball team ends 11-loss skid

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The Elis opened Ivy League play with a 1–2 performance over the weekend at Princeton and Cornell. The Bulldogs are currently fourth in the Ancient Eight with a .237 team batting average through 17 games this season.

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER The last time that Yale baseball won a game, March Madness was still a week away and the majority of Georgetown and San Diego State fans most likely had no idea Florida Gulf Coast University existed. It took until Saturday for the Bulldogs’ slide to halt.

BASEBALL

Left-handed pitcher Rob Cerfolio ’14 threw a gem to stop the Bulldogs’ 11-game losing streak on the opening day of conference play in the Ivy League. The Elis split a doubleheader with Princeton (5–17, 3–1 Ivy) and then dropped an 8–5 decision to Cornell (15–6, 3–0) on Sunday before the second game was rescheduled due to rain. Cerfolio said that he felt he needed to give Yale (2–15, 1–2) a chance to end the streak on

Saturday.

“Every time I go out there, I feel like my goal is to keep my team in the game and give us a chance to win,” Cerfolio said. “I really wanted to give our team a solid effort especially after losing the first game.”

Cerfolio’s masterpiece gave Yale a 9–1 victory over Princeton after the Elis lost the first game of the day 4–0. Cerfolio and catcher Chris Piwinski ’13 both said that

Elis build momentum

establishing the southpaw’s fastball was key to his dominating performance. Piwinski added that the run on Cerfolio’s twoseam fastball was particularly effective.

The backstop also attributed Cerfolio’s success to his willingness to go after the Tiger hitters. “[Cerfolio] wants to challenge guys,” Piwinski said. “He doesn’t mind having two or three pitch at-bats and letting guys hit the

ball. He trusts the defense behind him.”

It took the lefty just 98 pitches — 64 thrown for strikes — to complete eight shutout frames.

Cerfolio also struck out four batters while walking just two in the Elis’ victory.

Although reigning Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Zak Hermans kept the Elis off the scoreboard in the first game of the twin billing, Yale had no problem scoring

runs in support of Cerfolio. RBI singles by third baseman Brent Lawson ’16 and centerfielder Green Campbell ’15 gave Cerfolio a 2–0 lead before he took the mound. Lawson would not slow down for the rest of the game, adding four more singles to complete a 5-for-6 performance in the second game. The third baseman would follow up Saturday’s SEE BASEBALL PAGE B2

Bulldogs sweep Navy in opener

BY JOSH MANDELL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The lightweight crew team started its spring season with a dominant victory over Navy on Saturday, winning all of its races on Lake Carnegie in Princeton, N.J.

LIGHTWEIGHT CREW With the win, the Elis retained the Johnson Cup, which is awarded to the victor of the Yale/Navy regatta, with their third straight win over the Midshipmen.

“We knew that Navy would be giving us their best, and we were prepared for that,” head coach Andrew Card said in an email.

Yale’s third varsity four started off the competition by beating a trio of fours from Navy. They finished the race in 6:59.7, more than eight seconds ahead of the closest Navy boat.

The freshman eight continued the winning trend when they finished their race in 6:14.5, beating the Navy freshmen by 11.6 seconds. Team captain Will Ferraro ’13 said

that he was proud of how well the freshmen performed in their first spring race.

“I’ve been impressed by how this group of freshmen has banded together and rallied around one another,” Ferraro said. “They are a tight group, and they’re committed to getting better every day.”

The third race of the day, between the second varsity eights, was much closer than the previous contests. The Bulldogs jumped ahead early in the race, but the Midshipmen chipped away at the lead and the two boats were level at the halfway point before the Elis pulled away for the four-second win.

“As a boat, we executed certain parts of our race plan well, and there are other parts that we can improve,” said Ferraro, who rowed in the second varsity race.

Yale’s varsity eight followed up that performance to complete the sweep of Navy’s crew with a commanding 13.9 second victory, finishing the race in 6:04.08.

Joshua Ruck ’13, a member of the varsity eight crew, credited his younger teammates SEE LIGHTWEIGHT CREW PAGE B2

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The No. 56 men’s tennis team took down St. John’s 5–2, marking its first victory on the road this season.

BY ADLON ADAMS STAFF REPORTER The No. 56 men’s tennis team extended its winning streak to four in its last match against a nonconference rival before Ivy play next weekend.

MEN’S TENNIS On Saturday, the Bulldogs took on the St. John’s Redstorm (2–12, 0–1 Big East) in their third road trip of the spring semester, coming out of the match with a 5–2 win at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. Yale is now 14–3 in the regular season.

“This win gives us a lot of confidence because St. John’s is a tough and highly competitive team,” Jason Brown ’16 said.

“We had to fight through a lot

of singles matches, and our play this past weekend shows we can come from behind and stay in the match.”

This win for the Bulldogs marks their first victory on the road this season, and their 10th out of the last 11 matches this season. Uncharacteristically for the Bulldogs, they lost the doubles point in the first three matches of the day. St. John’s led the charge at the No. 3 position with an 8–2 by Hugo Morth and Mark Mozer over Yale’s Zach Dean ’13 and Matt Saiontz ’15.

The duo of Patrick Chase ’14 and John Huang ’13 retaliated at the No. 2 spot with an 8–5 win over Michael-John Every and Vasko Mladenov, the latter being the Redstorm’s No. 1 singles player as well. St. John’s was able to clinch the point with a tiebreaking win at No. 1 when Mike

Lampa and Valentin Mihai took out the nationally ranked No. 74 veteran team of captain Daniel Hoffman ’13 and Marc Powers ’13.

“I was happy with how our team played this weekend,” Zach Krumholz ’15 said. “We were able to come back after losing a close double point and take five out of the six singles matches. I think our win over St. John’s bodes well for the Ivy League season.”

The Elis were able to come back and turn the match around later in the day in their singles performances. At No. 1 Huang fell in three tough sets to St. John’s Mladenov, who extended his winning streak to nine straight matches. But the Bulldogs went on to sweep the No. 2 through No. 6 positions. Powers played at No. SEE MEN’S TENNIS PAGE B2

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The Bulldogs notched the Johnson Cup in their third straight victory over Navy.