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Making history. Boola boola!

Men’s hockey captain Andrew Miller ’13 scored the overtime goal in yesterday’s Frozen Four matchup between Yale and UMass-Lowell. After last night’s win, the Bulldogs are now one game away from their first championship title. The final matchup is Saturday in Pittsburgh.

Where’s Nate Silver when you need him? Elections for

the 2013-’14 YCC Executive Board, which began yesterday morning, will conclude tonight. Yalies looking to cast their ballot before 5 p.m. can find the polls on YaleStation.

Do the lo-Koh-motion. Law school students can now view the Sterling Professor of international law in a new light. Yesterday evening, the Yale Law School unveiled a portrait of former Dean Harold Koh during a ceremony in Levinson Auditorium. No word as to whether Koh’s former State Department boss, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73, stopped by for the festivities.

A perfect match. Three years ago, John Oppenheimer ’14 joined a bone marrow registry during the annual Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive. Now, Oppenheimer has just made a life-saving donation of stem cells to a 41-year-old leukemia patient in Europe.

Big Green, red cups. Over at

Dartmouth, a new student initiative called the Dartmouth Social Cups program promises to bring students together.

Their method? The students outfitted a popular dining hall with red plastic cups.

Diners can opt for the colored glassware, or the traditional and translucent. According to the Dartmouth student paper, students who grab red cups will do so to show their nearby peers that they are “open to sitting with strangers.”

Spring fakers? James Franco,

our favorite (erstwhile) graduate student, shocked and wowed critics with his performance in Harmony Korine’s latest film, “Spring Breakers.” But the academic actor has since endured the ire of Riff Raff, a rapper who claims Franco unfairly used his persona as inspiration for his performance. According to numerous Hollywood insiders, Riff Raff is pursuing the beef by playing a character named “James Franko” on an upcoming episode of “One Life to Live.”

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Triumphing over UMass-Lowell in overtime, the men’s hockey team will advance to the Frozen Four national championship for the first time in the program’s history.

By Alison Griswold and Ashton Wackym senior reporter and staff reporter PITTSBURGH — The Bulldogs were 5–0–2 in overtime games this season entering the Frozen Four. On Thursday evening against UMass-Lowell, they made that record 6–0–2.

Six minutes into overtime in the Frozen Four semifinal, Carson Cooper ’16 forced a turnover just inside Yale’s blue line and spun around, chipping it off the boards and out of the zone. Captain Andrew Miller ’13 shot up the center of the ice and lunged for Cooper’s loose puck, barely beating a UMass defender.

Miller sped down the right

side of the ice, navigated his way around a defender and broke away toward the net. He faked left, slid the puck to his right side and tapped it through the legs of UMass’ sprawling Connor Hellebuyck.

The Yale crowd exploded, Miller punched the air in victory and head coach Keith Allain ’80 rushed onto the ice with his

Devising around challenges

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un by School of Drama students, the Yale Cabaret serves as the primary home for collaboratively developed, or “devised,” theater on campus. But students hoping to pursue nontraditional paths in the professional theater world encounter unique challenges.

Anya grenier reports.

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In contrast to the more conservative School of Drama, the Yale Cabaret has served as a hotbed for the experimental and collaborative approaches of devised theater.

Acting student Jackson Moran DRA ’13 came to Yale’s School of Drama from “a more traditional background.” Once cast in a play, he expected to know his character from day one, learn lines from a script and follow a director’s lead. He thought that was how it always worked.

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hustling their opponents. Yale opened up an 11–5 edge in shots during the first period and continued to outshoot its opponents in every period. When the buzzer signaled the end of the third, Yale had built a 40–18 shot advantage.

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Yale to replace turbines

By Sophie Gould Staff Reporter Over the next two years, Yale will spend roughly $50 million to replace the gas turbines in the Yale Central Power Plant.

At the Yale Corporation’s annual meeting about the capital budget last weekend, members of Corporation approved funding to replace the three turbines at the Central Power Plant, which pro-

duces all heating, cooling and two-thirds of the electricity used by Yale’s central campus. The existing turbines are gradually becoming less efficient and have already been overhauled twice during their lifetimes, said Thomas Starr, manager of the Central Power Plant. By installing new, more high-tech turbines within the next few years, Yale will be see turbines page 6

Spring Fling budget stays steady

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1868 Attendees at a New York fundraising event “for the benefit of the University Crew” were treated to the theatrical stylings of Harvard’s famed Hasty Pudding Club.

Hasty Pudding’s three-act performance “extravaganza” included characters called “Prince Poppyfeet” and “King Cockalorum,” among other fanciful titles.

team to celebrate the 3–2 victory and Yale’s first trip to the Frozen Four final in program history.

“To me, up until right now, that was probably the biggest goal in the history of Yale hockey,” Allain said.

Twenty, 40 and 60 minutes into the game, it was clear that the Bulldogs were bent on outshooting, outskating and out-

“I was taught there was a hierarchy in the rehearsal room,” Moran said. “I knew experimental theater was out there, but I didn’t think that was where I wanted to go.”

But this past fall, Moran began working on a play that he and his collaborators staged in February at the Yale Cabaret as “All This Noise,” inspired by his family’s experiences with mental health treatment. Moran said he spent weeks driving around New England in search of source material, collecting stories from patients, physicians and other families facing similar situations as his own.

Moran called “All This Noise” an example of “devised theater.” Andy Horowitz, founder and editor of contemporary performing arts blog “Culturebot,” explained that “ensemsee theater page 4

By Kirsten Schnackenberg Staff Reporter Even though the Spring Fling budget only grew by $2,000 this year — a smaller increase than that of previous years — the Spring Fling Committee will likely still have plenty of resources left after paying for the headlining act, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, based on the amount other universities paid Macklemore this spring.

Over the past four years, the Spring Fling budget has steadily increased — the YCC spent $150,000, $175,000 and $175,278.96 on the concert in 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively.

But in 2012, the YCC originally

allotted $183,000 for the concert — nearly $10,000 more than the year before — and this year’s budget of $185,000 marks just a $2,000 increase. Recent Macklemore & Ryan Lewis appearances have cost other schools from roughly $27,500 to $50,000, but YCC Secretary Joey Yagoda ’14 said he would not disclose the amount the Yale College Council will pay for the duo.

Yagoda said he cannot release information about how much the YCC paid headliner artists in past years, but he added that the YCC has some flexibility to adjust its budget if necessary. “[The Spring Fling Comsee macklemore page 6

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new legislation expected to increase costs

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Toward a culture of sexual respect W

e live in a culture where rape isn’t surprising.

Sexual assault fits too neatly into our expectations about sex and gender: normalized sexual pressure lays the foundation for coercion and force. When things go wrong, we too often blame the victims (“Why was she drinking?” “Why didn’t he say ‘no’ more clearly?”) and excuse the perpetrators (“Why didn’t anyone tell them this was wrong?”).

And we work hard to push back against this narrative that it’s our fault — even as we take self-defense classes, watch our drinks and stick with our friends late at night.

We must go farther, however, than learning defense strategies that normalize the occurrence of sexual assault in our society, and our responses to it. Highly (and troublingly) publicized incidents of sexual assaults in Steubenville, OH and Torrington, CT make it imperative that we change this culture, rather than learning to survive within it.

In 1978, a group of activist women took a stand against rape. Their goal in organizing the first Take Back the Night was to shatter the shame and silence that too often surrounds survivors of sexual assault. TBTN is now an annual event on college campuses and in communities across the country, traditionally incorporating a march through local streets and a speakout encouraging survivors to share their stories. We acknowledge that traditional Take Back the Night events offer necessary space for discussion and public support of survivors. We do not, however, believe that this format actively challenges our society’s problematic contextualization of rape.

Take Back the Night speakouts, however well intentioned, normalize a narrative of sexual violence, and set a script that survivors may feel obligated to follow. Marches through local streets shift blame away from the majority of perpetrators of sexual assault on our campus, who are themselves Yale students.

This year, we want to do something different. While we acknowledge the need to hold our community responsible for sexual assault, we also recognize the need to emphasize positive avenues for change.

Let’s create a culture where sexual respect is taken for granted. What does this look like?

Sexual respect means respect for yourself. It means having the opportunity to

notice and validate your own desires, rather than feeling pressure to conform to social expectations regarding sex. It also means having the opportunity to participate, judgment-free, in all the glorious consensual sex you want.

Sexual respect means respect for your partners. It means getting rid of the expectation that a short skirt or a tight shirt means that someone wants to hook up. If they do, it means moving beyond “tell me when to stop,” and instead paying attention to what feels good between you and your partner(s). It means that just because he wanted to last time doesn’t mean he wants to tonight.

It's time to change our culture Sexual respect means respect for those around you.

It means recognizing the validity of all types of consensual sexual relationships and people’s right to label (or not label) these relationships, or themselves, in whatever way they want. It means not making people’s physical appearance subject matter for casual conversation. Respecting those around you means recognizing the pressures put on people of all genders — pressure to make (or not make) the first move, to want to have casual sex (or to save it for a relationship), to bulk up (or slim down).

Fully realizing a culture of sexual respect will not be an easy transition. Events like this year’s Take Back the Night are a start. The event will be a campus-wide discussion sponsored by campus groups ranging from Yale Women’s Center to Greek organizations. On Saturday afternoon, April 13, Yale students, faculty and performance groups will gather on Cross Campus to lend their voices to this movement for change. We challenge you to join this conversation.

What does sexual respect mean to you? suzanna fritzbeRg is a junior in Calhoun College and and rachel looff is a senior in Timothy Dwight College. They are, respectively, the Public Relations Coordinator and the Business Coordinator for the Yale Women’s Center Contact them at suzanna.fritzberg@yale.edu and rachel.looff@yale.edu .

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Reconsider SWUG

f you haven’t been reading the News, The Atlantic Wire, Jezebel, New York Magazine’s The Cut or Gawker, SWUG stands for Senior Washed-Up Girl.

I am a senior. I am not washedup. I usually call myself a woman, not a girl.

Some claim SWUG is much more than the four words it suggests, though; it is a lifestyle, an ethos. As it has spiraled through the media, the term has picked up definitions on the way. For some, being a SWUG is biting into a beer can in Zeta basement on a Sunday, and for others, being a SWUG is accepting a “wine-filled decline of female sexual empowerment.”

A SWUG has been described as both someone who “seeks love in the face of alienation” and “a girl who has been through the meat grinder.”

There is no clear theory of SWUG, but its lack of clarity is exactly what has SWUG splattering blog headlines. A bunch of 22-year-old women at Yale College call themselves washed-up and undesirable because… they’re no longer 19? It’s a ridiculous and newsworthy idea. It’s an excuse for the media to talk about college hookup culture, and the perennial favorite, Yale’s college hookup culture.

“Yale’s college hookup culture” is a misleading phrase with this topic, though.

SWUG life addresses and diana describes the saverin lives of a very select few. It’s For the Birds not a culture.

It’s a group of friends. I emailed a varied group of women I know to see what they thought of the term. One said she felt, reading the articles, like she didn’t even go to Yale. Another thinks SWUG refers to approximately five women on campus.

Another said it refers to three (she named the specific three; I’ll refrain). But, according to the New York Magazine piece, being a washed-up girl is a “pervasive part of student life at Yale.”

The intended scope of the term seems to apply to communities where the older men are exclusively interested in younger women. But hookups happen outside of this specific scene. While I’m wary of pseudo-statistics when it comes to sexual culture, I am pretty sure that most random hookups, sustained hook-

ups, unrequited crushes, committed relationships, flirtatious friendships, ambiguous coffee dates, unambiguous dinner dates and finals week romances happen outside of such a scene.

Despite its near irrelevance, people want to keep SWUG around because they say it’s playful. Sure, it’s playful, but I’m worried about it, too. There’s more at stake here than library sweatpants and Mason jars. The term is so fun to say that we are forgetting what we are saying. Its catchiness masks its meaning. I remind you that the term claims that 22-year-old women are undesirable because they are no longer like the 19-year-old women. By so emphasizing this lack of desirability, the term is not only degrading and disempowering such women, it is also robbing them of agency. According to SWUG, the degree to which men want women determines the identities of such women. Do I have to waste a sentence here claiming that we shouldn’t define ourselves based on our hookups? Playful, innocuous, ironic — no matter how earnestly we are deploying this term, it’s still defining women based on how men perceive and judge them.

Because the term is accepted

and embraced, though, it allows people to respond to the women the term signifies in similarly reactionary ways. It turns them into things, instead of friends. As I mentioned earlier, a sophomore quoted in one article described a SWUG as “a girl who has been through the meat grinder.” We know how wrong this is, but we are so fixated with the endeavor of having SWUG encapsulate and explain all of our experiences, we get carried away and try to translate those four letters into whatever we want them to mean.

I tried to think of some catchy anecdote about my romantic life or senior year for this column, but I realized I have zero desire to share any such stories. I don’t want to play anecdote wars, using loudly told individual stories as evidence for some theory about campus culture. I don’t want to keep pinning everything that happens in the lives of senior women to one acronym. We are hundreds of women with a few years of a crazy-good education under our belts; does calling ourselves washed-up girls do us justice? diana saverin is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact her at diana.saverin@yale.edu .

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Consider the crapshoot

y favorite story about ending up at Yale involves a tattoo and a bet. Senior year in high school, my friend’s chemistry teacher, in a somewhat last-ditch attempt to convince my friend to apply to Yale, offered her a wager: If you’re accepted, we’ll get matching tattoos. My friend now jokes how the delicate ink “Y” on her ankle casts her off as some angsty philosopher, but to me, it represents her most admirable qualities — complete humility combined with openness for anything.

A little more than a week ago, high school senior Suzy Lee Weiss published a supposed satire in The Wall Street Journal criticizing the college admissions process. Her piece was largely a knee-jerk reaction to her rejection from several Ivy League colleges, Yale among them. Hearing from current high school students always unearths my willfully buried memories of senior fall, of falling asleep over calc homework while still in shin guards, of three-bite breakfasts, of looming college deadlines. The stress of college applications has a sinister ability to consume, and we’ve all served due time as its fodder.

What I struggle to sympathize with, however, is the expectation of acceptance that seemed to underlie her tirade.

I didn’t want to apply to Yale. I just didn’t think I would get in. I’d witnessed the deferrals and rejections of previous classmates with better grades and far sexier activities than mine, and I assumed their fortunes plainly spelled out my own.

While my dad did not offer to get a tattoo with me if I got into Yale, he did urge me to apply early.

For a while, I refused to even field his opinion, rebutting that I didn’t want my first letter to be a rejection. But my mom and dad, as they always have, thought that I had as good a chance as anyone — I was, after all, their daughter. And I probably couldn’t have had it any easier; I also attended a pretentious prep school and had a college counselor who guided me through the whole process.

I wanted to make my parents happy, so I applied. As I waited, I focused on finishing up my more realistic applications while my parents started secretly picturing themselves in blue. On the day early decisions were announced, I tried to postpone my forthcoming

grumpiness until a friend of mine sat me down in front of her computer and wouldn’t let me go until I checked. It took us 30 minutes to find the right link, but somehow it paid off.

Few of those currently at Yale expected to be admitted. I have friends here who were rejected, in rapid-fire succession, from five other schools before Yale took them in. Many were the first to apply from their high school, while an incredible number navigated the process without help from parents or counselors. Others applied here on a whim, on a dream or on a bet.

Once on campus, there are of course those people who stroll about with the sense that they are “entitled” to be here, whether due to legacy, money or some numerical marker of intelligence. But for me and most of the people I’ve met at Yale, we spent the first few weeks wondering how we’d wound up here — where students were experimenting with both vodka and stem cells, writing plays for theater festivals and creating smartphone apps faster than I can read Mockingjay.

These feelings of befuddlement and awe, of being a scruffy stray

among sleek Great Danes, persists well beyond freshman fall. Most of us are continually seeking means to confirm our right to be here, up until the day we graduate, because we know that throughout the grand college crapshoot, our SAT scores determine about as much as our bowel movements.

In her piece, Weiss exalts such “killer SAT scores” and bemoans her lack of diversity. She says that colleges don’t want to hear about how you worked at the local pizza shop or were the slowest on your cross-country team. But it’s always been my understanding that admissions officers don’t care whether you write about counting change or curing chimps, as long as you show the capacity to think and reflect on your experience.

These days, applying to Ivies is like playing the slot machine.

You’d probably agree to get a tat if the cherries lined up, right? You might well deserve to be here, but you can’t forget how lucky you are — because that’s just it. Beyond a certain point, it’s nothing more than luck. tao tao holmes is a junior in Branford College. Contact her at taotao.holmes@yale.edu .

guest columnist scot t greenberg

Eliminating UOC fraud I

t’s often difficult for students to see how the Yale College Council affects them, but one very real connection between this week’s elections and everyday student life is the Undergraduate Organizations Committee, which controls funding for our student groups.

Especially at Yale, which places such an emphasis on a vibrant extracurricular scene, having a group like the UOC is essential. If we took the time to think about it, one of the reasons why we pay the student activities fee that funds much of the UOC’s budget is not because we necessarily care about every activity our friends are a part of, but rather that we believe they each contribute to the general welfare of our campus.

That being said, there is a real problem with the UOC funding process that many of us have heard of but has rarely been discussed in a systematic way: fraud.

It comes in two main forms. The first is the submission of receipts unconnected to an organization’s activities (printing from TYCO, food from G-Heav), the reimbursement of which is usually used to fund alcohol. UOC is generally unable to apply the degree

of oversight necessary to prevent this type of fraud.

A second, more pernicious type of fraud comes from the creation of front groups. A front group is one that technically meets the criteria for UOC funding, but which is suspected of funneling its funding toward another group’s activities. Simply put, this group exists mainly to support another undergraduate organization financially. A front group rarely holds activities of its own — and if it does, the participants are nearly identical to the membership of the parent organization and the activities duplicated.

Fraud really exists. Last year, the News wrote about organizations created to provide one-time funding for a drama production (“Musicals pose unique challenges,” Nov. 9). When I met with current UOC Chair Aly Moore ’14, she estimated that around 10 percent of registered groups are front groups (a total of about 40) including an even larger percentage of the 50 groups created this year.

Fraud is a problem because it’s simply unfair — the UOC uses its full $200,000 budget every year and has to deny funding to

numerous organizations. Every additional front group takes away funding from a legitimate organization. Any organization that needs an extra $600 so much that it is willing to create a fraudulent group ought to develop its own channels for donations or alumni support.

The past few years have seen UOC’s role change from mere clerical work funding to a role of group support and group approval. But reducing fraud may be one of the most important roles of the UOC in the coming year.

It is disturbing that a brief glance at all four of the platforms authored by this year’s candidates for UOC chair reveals that none of them mention fraud or front groups at all. Yet there are several ways that the UOC can use its developing role to fight fraud.

A first is to shift the way we feel about funding, from a sense of entitlement on the part of organizations, to a paradigm where funding is viewed as a more discretionary evaluation of how the organization’s activities are affecting campus life.

The questions to ask are simple: Is the money necessary for

the organization to exist? Has the organization proven that it intends to be permanent?

A second is a more rigorous process for determining whether a new organization will be approved at all, driven by UOC’s expanded role in overseeing group registration.

Perhaps UOC could apply a more rigorous process like Dwight Hall’s, to determine whether an organization really deserves to be institutionally recognized — whether its plan is to stay around, whether it will affect some substantial number of people, whether its activities will overlap with those of other existing organizations, etc.

It’s difficult to agree on the value that a group provides to the Yale community, so the UOC’s model of roughly equal funding to every organization is probably the least bad strategy for distribution. Yet UOC will never be able to provide funds for all groups, and the most reasonable place for our new UOC chair to begin his term will be to crack down on funding for front groups.

Scott greenberg is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at scott.greenberg@yale.edu .

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Yale talks spring

After spring ends W

hen it was warm enough we sat on a slab of rooftop that we made into a makeshift balcony.

We left the window open so we could hear Manchester United playing City on the TV, but the sound of the game was drowned by the humming of cars and the chirping of the primary schoolers crossing the street below. (A little girl in a pink puffy jacket held the red stop sign as her teacher waited for a break in traffic.) We sunk back in plastic chairs with wobbly legs and loafed until the sun dipped below the trees, and then we were cold and went inside. This was last Monday.

The stories about the times I’ve been happy at Yale often take place in the late spring.

There was the time we ordered Chinese food to our common room so we could watch the Masters in hopes that Tiger would make a comeback. (He didn’t. By the time I finished my lo mein, he was still four places behind Mickelson.)

There was the time we sat in the Silliman courtyard, four people to a bench, and committed, through herculean effort, to doing nothing. The way I remember it, someone was playing music, and the melody became part of the cacophony that comes when the weather is warm and people venture outside: footballs thudding as they’re caught, voices wandering from open windows, ice rocks tumbling inside plastic cups of Blue State coffee.

And then there were the times we skipped classes, the times we played bocce, the times teo soares we brought books outTraduções side to read but used them as pillows instead. Late spring was when the sky was bluer, East Rock redder and the buildings on Cross Campus somehow beiger.

Nights were cool and smelled of rain, and days were warm and smelled of grass. Legs were longer.

So part of my happiness came from the weather. But part of it, too, came from what spring stood for: the end of a semester and the promise of a new one to come. In late spring I could set the present aside and bask momentarily in the endless possibilities I had coming my way. The cramped double I lived in, the weight I had put on, the essay I had hacked my way through — they all became trifling when I considered the apartment I’d score in the fall, the 20 pounds I’d lose over summer and the heartbreaking works of staggering genius I’d write next year. People, I think, are generally happier in the future tense.

On Monday, while we sat on the makeshift balcony, it dawned on me that this is my last spring at Yale. I had seen it

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coming — it’s been four years in the making — but I was surprised to find myself happy.

At times this year, I’ve played the part of the senior who desperately tries to stave off graduation. It came naturally, given that it’s April and I still don’t have a job, but I can’t say I succeeded in either staving off graduation or persuading myself that I want to. Don’t

get me wrong: I’m not trying to fast forward through the next month, but in its own way, this spring is similar to the last three. The principal difference is one of scale: What comes after May is the rest of my life.

I’ve found no good answer as to why we spend four years in college. Four is not a neat number (unlike five), and it’s not three, the number of years most

students spend at Cambridge and Oxford. It’s even conspicuously absent from the Fibonacci sequence: one, one, two, three, five …

Still, I think that four is the right number of years: Fewer, and I would resent leaving; more, and I would feel burned out. Despite its wonders, Yale can be a trying place.

This spring, my fourth, will

be the last I spend skipping classes, napping on courtyards and playing bocce on the Silliman lawn, but instead of dwelling on these “lasts,” I find myself considering what comes next — and I find myself happy.

With levels lower than the federal coffers, it’s no wonder you felt terrible all winter. The first time you encounter real sunshine, it’s going to be a revelation (I, for example almost cried with euphoria) that will soon flower into an obsession. It doesn’t matter if the air is a little brisk: The layers are coming off. Now is the time for shorts and sundresses, tanks and T-shirts, and those weird kids with the hookah in Branford.

(Also, if you’re as pale as me,

aloe vera. Because sunscreen smells like moms, and that’s way too Freudian to be a turn-on.)

This sun exposure triggers the second symptom of spring fever: amnesia. When your parched, pasty skin toasts in the sun’s affectionate rays, your brain toasts with it. It’s called being sun-drunk, and it’s a real problem. You start to forget things: your Tuesday schedule, the concept of moderation, that you should hydrate after you drink.

Suddenly, it’s time for section, and all you have to show for your day are pink shoulders and an intimate knowledge of the first two pages of Anna Karenina.

Third, the air of spring is different, lambent: It makes things — and people — glow as if they’ve been very subtly and tastefully Instagrammed. Saturated in the opiate air, everyone and everything becomes irresistible: that dumb kid in your section, that party at AEPi, even a lukewarm Natty Lite. What in the harsh light of winter seemed pathetic and disgusting is now deliriously appetizing. The thirst is real, and Yale Facilities just reopened the Springs Eternal.

How, then, are we to gather ye rosebuds and still graduate in a timely manner? How to soak up the sun and still slump through that gut science? How to sit outside of the shade, and still see your computer screen well enough to dash off a five pager?

Is there hope? Or are we already midway down the exhilarating Slip ' N Slide to academic failure?

Children, I’m going to be frank: I don’t know. I don’t know how I made it through the last three springs. I don’t know if I’ll make it through this one. I remember a lot of late sunrises, if that helps, and cold morning walks back from the library. I’ve started running regularly again, although that may be related to symptom number three than anything else. Maybe there’s a way to take the buzz and verve in the air and work it towards Milton. I don’t know. But if you need me, I’ll be pinking in the Davenport courtyard — with an unread book over my face.

teo soares is a senior in Silliman College. Contact him at teo.soares@yale.edu .

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f you’re in JE, the tulips are blooming; if you’re in a poorer college, I’m sure they have flowers, too. Cross Campus — once a barren wasteland — has transformed into a coral reef of bare legs and biceps. Old Campus is basically an outdoor Toad’s, and while I could do without all the freshman PDA, I have to admit the whole thing makes for a very pretty picture.

Spring has sprung. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and you think you’re in the

clear. You’ve made it!

You’ve made it through fall; you’ve made it through winter; you’ve made it Michelle through the first parataylor graph of my c o l u m n .

Tell it Slant You’ve survived flu season, snow season and whatever

that day was when literally even the atmosphere was slushy. Give yourself a hearty pat on the back — you deserve it.

But don’t open your hatches just yet. Spring may seem innocuous, but dear reader, be warned: We are now entering the most perilous season of all. Like a villainous Spenserian harlot, spring will charm you out of your pants and leave you lost in the deep, dark woods of despair — by which I mean, on Cross Campus, adrift in a sea of bare legs.

Spring fever is catching, and you can’t Purell your way out of this one. You can’t even tell you’re sick: The symptoms are objectionable only in hindsight.

Like your first college relationship, spring is, ultimately, a distraction that’s just not worth it — it all seems like harmless fun in the sun, but in the end, you’re going to get burned.

The first sign of spring fever is an almost inexplicable sense of elation. This is mostly because of your latent vitamin D deficiency:

Aube Rey Lescure/staff Illustrator

michelle taylor is a senior in Davenport College. Contact her at michelle.a.taylor@yale.edu .

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“No matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else — problem solving, communication, discipline.” Laura Linney American Actress

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ble,” “devised,” “collaborative” and “collective” have become interchangeable terms for any work not written by a single playwright. The term “devised” encompasses shows created through a wide variety of methods, from interview-based projects to shows developed through movement and dance. “[Working on ‘All This Noise’] would be exhausting [and] energizing,” Moran said. “Some nights, I would feel, ‘This is a disaster, we are nowhere,’ and didn’t want people to see it. Other times, it was exhilarating. It’s scary, whereas if you have an Arthur Miller play, you always have that script to return to.”

Moran said he now looks at theater differently. He still loves language plays, such as those of Shakespeare, but he feels a “more expanded sense of where to go from here” — and a greater chance of reconciling his dream of pursuing theater with his desire to stay involved in politics and create meaningful work. And he is not alone: 14 current and former Yale College and School of Drama students interviewed said they hope to go into ensemble-based work.

But creating devised theater often means working outside of the established system, leading to extra risks not all artists can afford to take.

Creating in a Community

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When applying to the School of Drama, students choose one of nine specialties. Acting, directing, design and playwriting all operate as distinct departments, with separate courses of study and corresponding required roles in curricular productions. Students gain further experience working at the Yale Repertory Theatre, a professional regional theater. The Drama School’s website describes its relationship with the Rep as “analogous to that of a medical school and a teaching hospital.”

This model contrasts sharply with the education Charlotte Brathwaite DRA ’11 received at the Amsterdam School for the Arts in the Netherlands prior to enrolling at the School of Drama. At the Amsterdam school, Brathwaite’s training was focused on work generated by performers, which often relied more on physical movement than language, she explained.

Brathwaite, who has worked largely on experimental theater since graduating, added that in the Netherlands, students are not strictly categorized according to discipline — they are all considered “performers and theater-makers” rather than directors or lighting technicians.

Students also retain complete control over their time beyond class, allowing them to pursue their own self-directed productions more easily than students can at Yale, she explained.

“It was a very different use of your time and use of your creative energy,” Brathwaite said.

Sara Holdren ’08 DRA ’15 said “the sheer time crunch” partly explains why fewer School of Drama students pursue devised work: With every moment scheduled between class and required productions, extracurricular shows at the Cabaret often do not rehearse until after 11 p.m.

“On the whole, [the School of Drama] is very conservative in its approach,” said Thomas Sellar, professor of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at the school and editor of the scholarly THEATER magazine.

“We really train to make drama that begins with a text, [with the] playwright at the center of the process.”

Sellar said that while the Drama School recognizes this is not the only way to make theater, it provides students with rigorous training that lays a foundation for whatever students may decide to pursue. Still, Sellar said he feels that there is a discrepancy between the amount of devised work he features in THEATER magazine and thinks about as a scholar of contemporary theater, and the kind of traditional, text-driven shows created around him at the School of

Drama.

Michael McQuilken DRA ’11 said that while he has always hoped to focus on creating new. collaborative work, the intensity of the training he received as a directing student at the school, as well as experience managing both people and money, has helped him after graduation.

The only skill he has not yet used is “script interpretation.”

But for some students, including Monique Barbee DRA ’13, the School of Drama has also served as an introduction to devised theater. All acting, directing, dramaturgy and playwriting students complete “Drama 50s” projects in their first semester in which students are thrown together into groups and told to create a work of theater from the ground up, with only a general theme for guidance.

Sellar said he views these projects as a way to introduce students to the concept of collaboration before they break off into their respective disciplines.

“Now I approach each piece like it’s a devised piece … even with classic texts,” Barbee said.

Gabriel Levey DRA ’14 said the school’s Acting Department consistently requires students to exercise the type of creative ownership necessary for devised work. For instance, each third-year actor takes on a project in which he or she attempts to transform into another person whom he or she interviews, without the guidance of a director.

It’s a conundrum, because at what point do you become a professional artist? You’re a professional if you get paid to have a fulltime job as artistic director of a professional theater, but if you have another job … in our society you’re just an amateur.

Andy Horowitz Founder and editor, Culturebot Still, Holdren said that for actors, simply getting to the School of Drama means working through a conventional theater model that requires endlessly preparing monologues, and attending auditions and callbacks. Breaking out of a process that defines one so clearly as an “actor” can be difficult, she said.

“We introduce ourselves by discipline. I say, ‘Hi, I’m Sarah, [and] I’m a first-year director,’” Holdren said.

“You feel like you’re surrounded by a lot of people who are really driven, very focused on [their] individual [careers].”

Holdren added that she aims to balance her curricular specialty, directing, and her diverse background working on many different aspects of productions — a working method she became accustomed to through the undergraduate “Control Group,” in which no one stuck to strictly defined roles. She said she partially chose to attend drama school to meet other students interested in working through a collaborative model, adding that she is slowly meeting like-minded peers.

Levey explained that the sense of community created through professional school, where students work within a consistent artistic environment for several years, makes the pursuit of ensemble-based work particularly attractive to graduating drama students.

Tea Alagic DRA ’07 said she finds the professional world isolating relative to drama school, because going from show to show means working with a different team each time.

“I was there for three years, and

you start to know everybody,” Alagic said. “You create your own community. When you start doing it professionally … you don’t always work with the same designers.”

Holdren noted that the school is diverse in terms of students’ career aspirations, with many of her classmates aiming to work in regional theater as well.

Michael Bateman, who worked on the devised “Dilemma!” that went up at the Cabaret earlier this year, said that while the experience had been “tremendous fun,” he does not see devised work as a high priority in terms of his professional aspirations.

Bateman said he is looking to enter the theater development field, hoping to eventually serve as the executive director of a theater years down the line.

“I think that’s great — all of those paths are challenging, legitimate and interesting,” Holdren said. “But I don’t want to be a job director, who flies in for three weeks to do a show and flies out. I want a home base.”

Asking for Work

At the end of his final year at the School of Drama, Brett Dalton DRA ’11 participated in a showcase where industry professionals came to see him and his fellow acting graduates to decide whom they might be interested in representing.

Once he signed with an agent, Dalton said the realities of the professional world caused him to adjust his expectations: He spent nearly a year auditioning — at least once and as many as three times a day — before booking his first acting job on a television show. Dalton said he had never planned on doing film rather than theater, but is excited to be working again. He added that it is nearly impossible for an actor to make a living doing only staged work. Moreover, having a daughter after graduation caused him to change his outlook on acting.

“It doesn’t mean all of the things it used to mean to me,” Dalton said. “It really puts your priorities in the right order [and] makes you see that it’s a job — it’s a fun job, but it’s a job.”

As she completes her final year in the School of Drama’s acting program, Barbee said she is confronting the fact that commercially viable and artistically fulfilling work often feel mutually exclusive.

Levey noted that whatever a theater artist chooses to do in the professional world, getting a job comes down to the same thing: asking for work. He has tried to break out of this model, spending two years selfproducing devised work in New York prior to coming to the Drama School. “[Creating your own work is] a way to stay sane because in theater there are no guarantees — no foundation, no job security,” Levey said.

“How do you keep fueling that [passion] if no one is giving you an opportunity to act?”

Levey added that trying to make a living through self-produced theater is “nuts” in the long term. Despite securing two artistic residencies, he said he did not make a livable income from the shows he worked on in New York, especially after paying for the performance space and other artists involved.

Alagic led her own ensemble company that focused on purely devised work when she was in her early 20s, but now works largely as a director of “premade” shows. She said while devised theater has always been her passion, she is not thinking about self-producing again at the moment.

“I just think that I’m personally not made for raising money,” Alagic said.

Horowitz said the funding pool for theater artists seeking to work outside of established theater remains small, as money is largely funneled into institutions that can better create the impression of stability and fiscal accountability for donors. He added that artists often find themselves working another job to make a living, while self-producing on the side.

“It’s a conundrum, because at what point do you become a professional artist?” Horowitz said. “You’re a professional if you get paid to have a full-time job as artistic director of a professional theater, but if you have another job… in our society you’re just an amateur.”

Rachel Alderman, a member of the all-volunteer, New Havenbased ensemble company “A Broken Umbrella Theatre,” said the group is made up of artists who work at professional stages, including the Long Wharf Theatre and the Yale Repertory Theatre, but still choose to devote their free time to shows with “Umbrella.” Alderman said the company puts all the money it receives toward the shows themselves, but it does what it can to help the artists, such as providing food or child care at rehearsals.

“It’s definitely a second job,” Alderman said. “I would say a lot of people put in up to 30 hours a week or more.”

Alderman said that even with grant and donation money, “Umbrella” would not be financially sustainable without free labor and expertise. She said she enjoys the sense of creative ownership provided by working in the ensemble. Still, she thinks most members of “Umbrella” are proud to be making a living in the traditional theater realm.

“For a lot of us, it’s what we set out to do when we were little,” Alderman said. “Every professional experience I’ve had has taught me a tremendous amount. … Theater is what everyone loves, [and] many just feel lucky to be able to work in it on a regular basis.”

Sellar explained that when public funding for the arts in the United States began to decrease in the 1980s and early ’90s, theaters were forced to change their production model to become increasingly reliant on box office sales, corporate donations, gifts and subscriptions.

“That changes what you can do,” Sellar said. “It’s harder to experiment with new collaborative theater-making. These are big budgets — there’s a lot of risk involved in ensemble-created projects.”

With the devised piece “Dilemma!” Bateman said the team did not have enough time to flesh the show out into all he had initially envisioned. Levey said he understands that the opportunities being at Yale provides through a free performance space at the Cabaret are a luxury.

Moran, who spent time working as a professional actor in New York before coming to the school, said he relishes the freedom of creation he has had at the Cabaret. “[Working in New York was] at the service of somebody else,” Moran said. “Here I’m still trying to do good work, but not trying to please people all the time. It’s more working for yourself, for your own sense of purpose.”

A New Kind of Language

Sellar said many regional theaters were founded partly to get away from the commercialism of shows on Broadway and to stage plays with more local significance. But while some still do, he said many have moved away from their original purpose, staging local productions of shows that have already opened in London and New York instead.

When Levey was working in New York, he said he became increasingly aware of how much devised work in the city was not actually developed there. With the high costs of living and finding space in large cities, many ensembles create their work in smaller communities.

Jen Wineman DRA ’10, who has spent time devising site-specific works with a company based in Telluride, Colo., said the small-town community, which does not have many other theater options, tended to be open to experimentation.

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1. “All This Noise” at the Yale Cabaret (Photo by Nick Thigpen) 2. “Abyss” at 278 Park St. (Photo by Samantha Gardner) 3. “The Bird Bath” at the Yale Cabaret (Photo by Maria Zepeda) 4. “Ain’t Gonna Make It” at the Yale Cabaret (Photo by Nick Thigpen) 5. “Dilemma!” at the Yale Cabaret (Photo by Nick Thigpen) 6. “Cat Club” at the Yale Cabaret (Photo by Nick Thigpen)

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“Tap Day arrived at last, cloudy and misty.

He had slept badly in fits and starts, nor had the others fared better.” Owen Johnson in his novel “Stover at Yale”

Gun bill costs questioned

By Rosa nguyen Staff reporter With the passage of Senate Bill 1160, an act intended to prevent gun violence, the state faces millions in projected costs.

The bill, proposed in the wake of the Newtown shootings and passed by the state Senate and House last Thursday, may cost the state an estimated $200,000 to $300,000 in fiscal year 2013, $8.6 million to $9.6 million in fiscal year 2014 and $7.3 million in fiscal year 2015.

These costs stem from the law’s stipulations, which call for expanded mental health services, larger school security grants, stricter penalties for crimes related to the illegal use and transfer of firearms and restrictions on firearms and ammunition. “[The bill] is certainly worth the cost,” said Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, who co-chaired the Democratic subgroup of a bipartisan taskforce combating gun violence.

“In the aggregate, all of the changes that we made will make what happened at Newtown less likely.”

Under the new legislation — which passed with a 26 to 10 majority in the Senate and a 105 to 44 majority in the House of Representatives — $15 million in bonds issued by the state to fund projects will be authorized, raising future debt predictions to $22.9 million. Security audits, enhanced background checks, stricter permit requirements and the development of a registry of gun offenders may cost the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection at least $200,000 in the current fiscal year and $2.2 million in fiscal year 2014. In the same year, the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services may face costs of $4.6 million to expand mental health services, and the Department of Children and Families may need an estimated $1.8 million to establish behavioral health programs.

Fu r t h e r m o re , the Department of Correction might have to address costs of up to $25.3 million in 2017 as stricter penalties for gun-related offenses increase prison costs due to additional incarcerations. But Looney said he hopes the law may have a “prohibitive effect,” in which stricter measures and longer prison sentences will discourage criminal activity.

Craig Miner, a ranking Republican member of the Appropriations Committee, disagrees with the rigid measures that the new bill would inflict on gun owners. “[The bill] runs the risk of criminalizing individu-

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als who otherwise would not be criminalized,” Miner said.

Certain regulations, such as carrying a firearm with over 10 rounds, would qualify more individuals for a felony, rather than a misdemeanor offense.

Miner, who opposed several parts of the bill, also said he believes the fiscal estimates are far from the true costs.

“If you do the calculations, you would get a totally different fiscal note,” Miner said. “I think the number is heavy – higher than what the true costs really are. I don’t believe the administration wanted to end the [criminal] early release program, and the only way to make [the bill] look like a bad idea is to make the fiscal note higher.”

In addition to overestimated prison costs, Miner said the state can use other alternatives to reduce the costs detailed in the bill. Rather than using a state database of firearm-related offenders, he suggested the use of a free federal database to cut costs.

In the aggregate, all of the changes that we made will make what happened at Newtown less likely. martin looney Majority leader, Connecticut Senate Miner also criticized Gov. Dannel Malloy for calling for stricter background checks while cutting $250,000 from public safety funding.

By the end of fiscal year 2015, the state Office of Fiscal Analysis estimates that the new law will incur state costs between $16 and $17 million. The Office acknowledged that the affected departments will need funding, although the source of that funding is yet to be determined by state legislators.

“The cost of this bill will have to be accounted for in the budget that we pass,” Looney said. “[The Appropriations Committee] will propose a budget that will reflect some of the governor’s proposals with our own changes.”

Miner predicted that Democrats will support an appropriations package that both exceeds revenue estimates and takes into account costs associated with Senate Bill 1160.

The State Appropriations Committee will propose a new budget in late April.

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

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Dressed in a variety of elaborate costumes, juniors roamed campus as part of senior society Tap Night on Thursday.

By Cynthia Hua Staff Reporter A junior in a leprechaun costume, complete with shoes and top-hat, hid behind a tree outside Jonathan Edwards College Thursday night waiting to be inducted into one of Yale’s senior societies.

Throughout the evening, cloaked figures descended on campus, rushing to initiation events, dropping off mysterious packages and generally drawing attention for their antics. In an email to the campus Sunday evening, Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry told students to follow undergraduate regulations — which prohibit “activities that involve indecent exposure, extreme mental stress, blindfolding, confinement, assault” and several other activities — during society Tap Night on April 11.

“If you’re tapping new members, I’m counting on you to provide leadership to them, by showing them how to plan a big event and play by the rules,” Gentry said in his email. “If you are being tapped, I’m counting on you to speak up and refuse to participate if anyone asks you to break rules or laws, violate your conscience, or risk your safety.”

Gentry also said he knew “how exciting Tap Night [could] be” and hoped students would enjoy the event.

Throughout the day, students dressed as Darth Vader, Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and other superheroes invaded campus locations such as Commons and various dining halls, said students interviewed.

By 6 p.m., a junior girl dressed as Luigi from the popular Super Mario video games was stationed outside the York Street entrance to Davenport College,

where she was stopping passersby.

“Well, I’m not really sure what I’m supposed to be doing,” she told the News. “I was told to stand here in this costume and insult Mario — so … I hate you Mario!”

A block down, a masked student sat by the steps of the University Theatre in a mock Hazmat suit. He said he was told to dress “so he doesn’t get dirty.”

Next to the student sat an empty goldfish bowl, filled with pebbles and water.

“I have killed my fish Rachmaninov,” he said and did not explain further.

Another student in a similar Hazmat suit, also carrying an empty goldfish bowl, stood outside the Yale Center for British Art until a student in a black cloak and mask relieved him around 6:30 p.m.

Meanwhile, a masked and

cloaked senior rushed down High Street with a two-page printed tap night schedule in hand that listed in detail who was supposed to be where, when and how they were supposed to be dressed up. She had organized a scavenger hunt for juniors about to be inducted into her society earlier that night and was now on her way to Sigma Nu to meet up with the “tapped” juniors.

The Tap Night shenanigans drew the attention of New Haven residents.

An elderly man walking along High Street stopped to gawk at a crowd of colorfully costumed girls, some in togas, some wearing wings, others with tiaras.

“Must be society Tap Night,” the man said.

Last year, Tap Night took place on April 12, 2012.

Contact Cynthia Hua at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .

College Summit prepares for next admissions cycle By monica disare Staff reporter With College Summit gearing up to begin this summer, the program will use Yale space, but not Yale students, to accomplish its goal of promoting a collegegoing culture in New Haven.

College Summit, which has grown to serve 50,000 students annually in 12 states, helps students in the Elm City through the college application process by providing a peer leader program and a summer camp for rising seniors. Both programs are designed to help New Haven students with essays, the common application, financial aid and other steps in the college

application process. Though the program is now accepting applicants who wish to be writing and college coaches at the summer program, these positions will likely not be filled by Yale students.

Yale students are not recruited to be writing or college coaches at the summer camps because the writing coaches must have a bachelor’s degree and the college coaches must have a formal background in college counseling, said Veronica Delandro, the executive director of College Summit for the Connecticut region.

Occasionally the program utilizes students from Yale or Quinnipiac to talk to students

but those instances are “few and far between,” Delandro said.

I think part of the Yale experience is interacting with the New Haven community. evan linck ’15 Although College Summit does not regularly employ Yale undergraduates, the program still has a strong connection to Yale. The founder and CEO of College Summit, J.B.

Schramm ’86 is a Yale alumnus and the University lends College Summit space for their summer program with participants spending nights in the dorms, Delandro added.

And despite the lack of Yale student participation in College Summit, other programs working throughout New Haven Public Schools do regularly involve Yale students. Boost!, which pairs New Haven schools with community volunteers to create additional programs for students, has over 200 partners, and many of them are affiliated with Yale, Boost! Director Beth Pellegrino said. She noted that Yale Model Congress, the School of Management and

Dwight Hall all have relationships with New Haven Public Schools.

Students i n te rv i ewe d expressed mixed views about whether they would be interested in helping New Haven students through the college application process, even if New Haven Public Schools specifically asked for Yale students.

Those interviewed cited their heavy course load as an impediment to volunteering in the Elm City.

Evan Linck ’15 said that while he tutored in high school and believes tutoring is important, his workload and life on campus makes it difficult to volunteer in New Haven.

“I think part of the Yale experience is interacting with the New Haven community, but many people find it hard to devote a large portion of their time to that relationship,” Linck said. “I’ve been off campus in the last month maybe twice.”

There is no deadline for when College Summit will stop accepting applications for potential writing tutors; rather, applications will close when the all spots are filled, Delandro said.

Contact monica disare at monica.disare@yale.edu .

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“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” James Whistler American Artist

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Rachel Alderman and her husband Ian, the artistic director of “Umbrella,” said the artists in the ensemble are driven by their desire to reach communities that may not connect with or be able to afford more conventional theater outlets.

“One of the reasons we’ve been able to have all these artists continue to volunteer their time and energy and skills and talent is because they believe in what ‘A Broken Umbrella’ is trying to do for the community of New Haven as a professional group of volunteer artists,” Ian Alderman said.

The New Haven-based ensemble “Collective Consciousness Theatre,” which is staffed by professional actors and artists, tours schools as well as theaters, said Dexter Singleton, the group’s artistic director. The ensemble’s most highly acclaimed show, “Stories of a New America,” was created from more than 80 interviews with refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan who live in the New Haven area.

“Theater is so powerful: It’s immediate [and] it reflects real life … so people can see a reflection of what they’re like, to see what our faults are and strengths are, what we need to have solutions for,” Singleton said. “It’s something so much more powerful and different than what you get on film or from reading.”

Mary Laws DRA ’14 worked on the show “This” at the Cabaret last year, which used interviews from the Yale and New Haven communities as source material. She said it was thrilling to create a piece of theater where each night at least a few audience members’ stories ended up onstage.

In the future, Laws said she wants to pursue more projects along the lines of “This,” explaining that the experience opened her up to possibilities for theater she had not considered before — as something with the power to heal and teach, as well as entertain audiences.

Sellar said he does not see anything new in the desire to work with an ensemble, an idea that extends as far back as Ancient Greece.

“What’s new is the way dramatic fiction is being discarded [and] the interest in real documentary sources, buildings, sites [and] communities as sources for

performance-making,” Sellar said.

“Collective Consciousness” attempts to make its shows accessible to lower-income groups by bringing theater directly into neighborhood schools and churches, and by offering a range of ticket prices, anywhere from $10–40.

Singleton explained that tickets at stages like Long Wharf Theatre are not affordable for everyone in the New Haven community.

“That’s why I do it, to touch that audience that would never be touched in a large theater on Broadway,” Singleton said. “If a person can’t afford to go, we don’t turn them away. We generally find some way to get them in.”

A kind of language comes out of devising, a malleable sense of play with rhythms so entirely different than what you can get from a script. It can speak specifically to a community, can speak in that community’s voice. cole lewis dra ’14 Singleton himself has performed at stages including the Long Wharf, but he said these experiences did not lead to the same kind of interactions or connections with audience members as he has experienced after shows with “Collective Consciousness.”

“Umbrella”’s shows are typically inspired by places around New Haven and the way they reflect the city’s history. Their most recent show was inspired by — and transformed the physical space of — the New Haven Public Library. Alderman said the artists in “Umbrella” are motivated not only by the chance to pursue their artistic passions, but also by the ways they are able to serve the New Haven community through portraying the city’s forgotten or overlooked spots in a new way.

Sellar said theater institutions have been grappling with how they attract a primarily “aging” audience since their inception.

Turbine update to cost $50M turbines From page 1 able to save money over the long run and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, said Provost Benjamin Polak.

“The turbines are not at their expected life, but are beginning to fail a bit early,” Polak said.

“They need replacing.”

Polak added that that Yale probably “didn’t buy the best model” when the turbines were installed in 1997.

University President Richard Levin said planning for the turbines’ replacement was “already in the works” before the power outage last week, which Polak said was completely unrelated to the turbines.

I’d like to buy the Ford Taurus of gas turbines — a real, proven, established product.

Thomas starr Manager, Yale Central Power Plant Much like cars, turbines become less efficient the more they are used, Starr said. Overhauling a turbine can restore most of its efficiency and extend its life by a few years, he added, but the operation costs $2.5 million per turbine and the existing turbines have already been overhauled twice.

Though the current turbines were manufactured in 1996, Starr estimated that their design dates back to the 1970s.

“While we’re plodding along with this vintage technology, not only is the efficiency of these machines dropping off, but the efficiency of the other competitor machines that are on the market that have new technology gets better and better,” he said.

Starr said staff were already talking about finding new turbines when he arrived at the Office of Facilities eight years ago, but the office decided to overhaul them two years ago before beginning the actual process of replacing them. He said it does not currently make sense “to pour more money into machines that are clearly legacy machines.”

The power plant is beginning to talk to potential contractors, Starr said. Though manufacturers will bid for Yale to use their turbines, he said, the University will only consider two turbine manufacturers in this size range: Siemens Energy and Solar Turbines.

“I’d like to buy the Ford Taurus of gas turbines — a real, proven, established product,” he said.

Starr said turbines use natural gas to generate electricity, and the waste heat from that process is then used to produce steam for heating and cooling the campus.

The entire process, known as cogeneration, is more than twice as energy efficient as traditional methods.

Yale began using cogeneration in 1995.

Contact Sophie Gould at sophie.gould@yale.edu .

McQuilken said one of his goals is to create new work that will excite younger audiences.

“The stigma is that theater is old and boring to a lot of young people: Things like movies, television [and] live music are all more typical ways for young people to spend their money,” McQuilken said. “But there’s a beautiful communion between audience and creator when you go see theater, something that kind of surrounds you.”

Before coming to the School of Drama, Cole Lewis DRA ’14 spent 10 years with a devised theater company in Canada that created site-specific shows in places like bars, buses and storefronts. She said finding performance spaces where audience members can behave more naturally than they might in a theater is important to her.

“How can you make an audience behave as though they’re going to see a band they like?”

Lewis said. “I think that’s where you see real audiences. I like audiences who cough, who unwrap candy, who drink. I hate polite audiences.”

Lewis said the audiences she encountered at these shows, which were often pay-as-you-can, ranged from university professors to factory workers. She called these “the smartest audiences around,” explaining that casual viewers who did not spend a great deal of money on tickets feel freer to criticize the work.

“A kind of language comes out of devising, a malleable sense of play with rhythms so entirely different than what you can get from a script,” Lewis said. “It can speak specifically to a community, can speak in that community’s voice.”

‘A struggle here and a struggle there’

For decades, some American artists looked across the ocean to Europe or north to Canada, where extensive state funding long helped make theater production less of a commercial enterprise.

Sellar said European countries have historically supported more theater festivals and events that bring devised work before a wide audience.

“The European experimental scene is … not in some offBroadway, falling-apart theater, [but in the] mainstages in their big houses,” Alagic said.

In Canada, public arts fund-

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ing takes pressure off box offices to generate enough subscription revenue to sustain theaters and companies, which in turn lowers ticket prices, said Aaron Craven, artistic producer of the Vancouver-based Mitch and Murray Productions.

Craven added that government boards in charge of allocating funding look more favorably upon shows that promise to offer payas-you-can options or to tour schools.

After the recent economic crisis, though, public arts funding in countries across Europe has been one of the first areas to receive drastic cuts. Between 2012 and 2013, the Netherlands reduced its federal arts budget by 22 percent.

“I think [public funding] is slowly dwindling away,” Brathwaite said. “[European countries’] systems are starting to look more and more like [they do] here. Artists are looking for creative ways to fund their projects. … It’s a struggle here, and it’s a struggle there.”

Craven said he believes the bureaucracy that comes with applying for government funding ultimately limits artistic freedom by overwhelmingly favoring shows written by Canadian authors. His own company, which tried to produce plays by international writers, has applied and been turned

down for state funding several times.

“It’s more about fulfilling a social mandate than the quality and audience potential for a show,” Craven said. “It’s not really a meritocracy where you’re looking at quality bottom line.”

Horowitz said that while the European model worked well for many years, the theater community in the United States must look elsewhere for solutions. Craven said the Internet is making “crowd funding” for shows a more viable solution for small companies, in combination with larger donations. “Abyss,” a music- and movement-based devised production that went up at Yale in March, launched a Kickstarter campaign that eventually raised $15,000 toward the show.

“It’s hard to raise the money to sustain a nonprofit,” Alderman said. “We’re trying to be realistic and not lose sight of the fact that we founded the company out of our garage. … We want it to be fulfilling [and] we’ve grown really fast. But [we’re] also trying to take it fairly slow to make sure we stay true to our mission.”

Horowitz and Sellar said many established theater institutions are beginning to take notice of devised work and program already devised

shows into their seasons. But these same institutions find it difficult to sponsor the creation process in-house, in large part because the time frame for devising theater can be both longer and more unpredictable, with the time frame for development ranging from several months to several years. The experimental theater company “Elevator Repair Service” spent an entire decade developing its now widely acclaimed show “Gatz.”

But Horowitz said he believes the solution is for the next generation of artists to simply leave the institutions behind altogether — to make a convincing argument to the funding world for their work rather than hope the institutions themselves will change.

“That change is going to happen outside of those institutions, not inside,” Horowitz said. “What is really needed right now is to have thoughtful, passionate people to take a good hard look at how things have been and how they are. … People are trying to have that conversation, but they’re not necessarily interrogating assumptions of why things are the way they are.”

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

Macklemore likely not costly

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Performances by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, this year’s Spring Fling headliners, have cost other colleges from $27,500 to $50,000. macklemore From page 1 mittee] need[s] to stay under budget, but there’s flexibility potentially as we choose how to allot the rest of the budget as the year goes forward,” he said.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are currently charging $80,000 for performances, said Kacie Thomas, an arts and entertainment coordinator at the University of Northern Colorado who said she recently acquired an updated list of prices for artists. The University of Northern Colorado, where Macklemore & Ryan Lewis performed on March 3, secured Macklemore for $27,500 by booking far in advance, Thomas added.

“Fortunately for us, we started a contract process with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis in October, before ‘Thrift Shop’ really exploded,” Thomas said. “Because he wasn’t really well-known yet, we got him for $27,500.”

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will also perform at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on April 26 — three days before Yale’s Spring Fling. Bruno Faviero, a news editor at MIT’s student newspaper The Tech, said the Undergraduate Association Events Committee paid Macklemore & Ryan Lewis $50,000.

Spring Fling Committee Chair Ethan Karetsky ’14 said he cannot release infor-

mation about when Macklemore was booked because of contractual obligations. The Spring Fling Committee sent out a survey asking students for feedback about potential headliner artists in October and met with the Women’s Center to discuss potential artists in November, and the News reported on Feb. 9 that Macklemore & Ryan Lewis would perform at this year’s Spring Fling concert.

Best Coast, DJ RL Grime and band Grouplove will join Macklemore & Ryan Lewis at this year’s Spring Fling.

Contact Kirsten Schnackenberg at kirsten.schnackenberg@yale.edu .

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By DONNA CASSATA Associated Press

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Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., right, and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., finish a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, announcing that they have reached a compromise on background checks for gun buyers.

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON — Watched by tearful relatives of Newtown school massacre victims, gun control supporters in the Senate won the first showdown over how to respond to the December shootings in Connecticut, defeating an effort by conservatives to derail firearms restrictions before debate could even start.

Thursday’s 68-31 roll call gave an early burst of momentum to efforts by President Barack Obama and lawmakers to push fresh gun curbs through Congress. The National Rifle Association, along with many Republicans and some moderate Democrats, say the proposals go too far, and the road to congressional approval of major restrictions remains rocky.

“The hard work starts now,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said after the vote.

As he spoke, relatives of Newtown victims watching from the visitors’ gallery above the Senate floor wiped away tears and held hands, and some seemed to pray.

The vote came four months after a gunman killed 20 firstgraders and six staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, spurring Obama and legislators to attempt to address firearms violence. Congress hasn’t

approved sweeping gun restrictions since enacting an assault weapons ban 19 years ago, a prohibition that lawmakers failed to renew a decade later.

On Thursday, 50 Democrats, 16 Republicans and 2 independents opposed the conservative effort, while 29 Republicans and 2 Democrats supported it. Gun control supporters needed 60 votes to block the conservatives.

The vote opened the door to an emotion-laden debate on the legislation, which would subject more firearms buyers to federal background checks, strengthen laws against illicit gun trafficking and increase school safety aid. Advocates say the measures would make it harder for criminals and the mentally ill to get weapons.

Opponents argue that the restrictions would violate the Constitution’s right to bear arms and would be ignored by criminals. Despite their defeat, conservatives were threatening to invoke a procedural rule forcing the Senate to wait 30 hours before it could begin considering amendments.

Before the vote, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who was supporting the conservative effort, said the legislation would restrict the constitutionally protected rights of relatives and friends to sell firearms to each other.

“This bill is a clear overreach that will predominantly punish and harass our neighbors, friends, and family,” McConnell said.

After the vote, Obama spoke by phone with some Newtown families, saying he would “keep fighting for the votes they deserve.”

The roll call came a day after Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., two of the most conservative members of their parties, unveiled a lessrestrictive compromise on federal background checks, requiring them for gun shows and online transactions but exempting noncommercial, personal transactions.

“Those two leaders stepping up is a very good way to start,” said Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who is seeking re-election next year and has stressed her support for both the right to bear arms and reducing gun bloodshed.

“How it ends, I don’t know.”

Toomey said Thursday he believes supporters of the proposal that he and Manchin have advanced will be able to beat back any filibuster attempt. “Beyond that, I just don’t know yet,” he said in a nationally broadcast interview hours before the critical vote.

“The problems that we have are not law-abiding gun owners like Joe and myself,” Toomey said on “CBS This Morning.”

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel rejected the suggestion that President Barack Obama tapped him to “cut the heart out of the Pentagon,” pointedly reminding lawmakers Thursday that Congress approved the smaller, deficit-driven military budgets long before he took the job.

Faced with a $487 billion budget cut over a decade, Hagel and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Pentagon had no choice in drawing up the politically unpopular reductions in the president’s proposed $526.6 billion budget for next year.

The blueprint calls for another round of domestic base closures, higher health care fees for retirees and their dependents, and a smaller pay raise for personnel. Dempsey cast the choice as between a well-compensated force and the readiness of the nation’s war fighters.

Cost-conscious lawmakers have clamored for fiscal austerity in a period of trillion-dollar deficits, but often balk when the cuts hit military bases in their home states or affect powerful veterans’ groups. That disconnect was on stark display during the nearly four hours the Pentagon leaders testified before the House Armed Services Committee.

In one exchange, Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, questioned Hagel on what his role is - managing the decline in defense spending or warning of the dangers of military cuts.

“There is a widespread view that you were brought into the Pentagon to cut defense,” Thornberry told Hagel.

The secretary, on the job six weeks, said the cuts were law, part of the budget agreement reached between Obama and congressional Republicans in August 2011. Added to those reductions are $41 billion in automatic, across-the-board cuts, commonly known as sequestration.

Military leaders have warned that the automatic cuts would do harm to the military, but deficit hawks in Congress prevailed over defense hawks and the cuts kicked in March 1. Tea partyers, Republicans and Democrats continued to disagree over whether to reverse them.

“I can’t lead my institution into a swamp of knife fighting over protesting what’s already in place,” Hagel told the committee.

He dismissed any notion that he was a hired gun at the Pentagon to gut the budget.

“The president did not instruct me, when he asked me to consider doing this job ... to go over and cut the heart out of the Pentagon.

That wasn’t his instruction to me, nor in any implication in any way.”

The hearing underscored the difficulty the

Pentagon faces in persuading Congress to accept what it says are cost-saving steps.

Republicans and Democrats on the panel criticized any additional base closings, arguing that the upfront costs were too high. Hagel said the base closing system was “imperfect,” but argued it was a “comprehensive and fair approach” that would result in considerable savings in the long term.

I can’t lead my institution into a swamp of knife fighting over protesting what’s already in place. chuck hagel Defense Secretary The Pentagon has proposed $2.4 billion over five years to cover the initial costs of closings, set the round for 2015 and indicated that the closures would not be implemented until a year after that.

Hagel, along with his two predecessors Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, have called for increased fees for military health care, especially for retirees under the age of 65. The leaders pointed out that those in the TRICARE program once paid 27 percent of health care costs. Now their cost is 11 percent.

The overall health care program is some $50 billion and accounts for 10 percent of the Pentagon budget. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost could reach $65 billion by 2017 and $95 billion by 2030.

But several Republicans and Democrats on the committee, including Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., chairman of the military personnel subcommittee, dismissed the notion of raising fees.

Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, the committee’s top Democrat, summed up the difficulty for the Pentagon.

“There are places where we can cut the defense budget that will not affect our national security, that Congress rather consistently stops you from doing,” he told Hagel.

One exchange - over the disputed program known as MEADS missile defense - captured the lack of consensus within Congress.

Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., challenged Hagel’s decision to spend $310 million for the last year of the program despite a prohibition in this year’s defense policy bill. Hagel answered that he checked with Pentagon lawyers who advised that the department was obligated to make the last payment under the federal spending bill that Congress passed last month.

“Well, I, respectfully, think you need to get some new lawyers,” Shuster said.

Senate group wraps up work on immigration bill

By ERICA WERNER Associated Press WASHINGTON — Democratic and Republican negotiators have reached agreement on all the major elements of sweeping legislation to remake the nation’s immigration laws and expect to unveil the bill next week, lawmakers said Thursday.

After months of arduous closed-door negotiations, the “Gang of Eight” senators, equally divided between the two parties, had no issues left to resolve in person, and no more negotiating sessions were planned.

Remaining details were left to aides, who were at work completing drafts of the bill.

“All issues that rise to the member level have been dealt with,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement. “All that is left is the drafting.”

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said the bill probably would be introduced on Tuesday.

The landmark legislation would overhaul legal immigration programs, require all employers to verify the legal status of their workers, greatly boost border security and put the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally on a path to citizenship. A top second-term priority for President Barack Obama, it would enact the biggest changes to U.S. immigration law in more than a quarter century.

Deals gelled over the past day on a new farm-worker program and visas for hightech workers, eliminating the final substantive disputes on the legislation.

Next will come the uncertain public phase as voters and other lawmakers get a look at the measure. Already, some on the right have made it clear their opposition will be fierce.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., complained that the bill will ensure that millions get amnesty but border enforcement never happens.

“This is also why it is so troubling that (Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.) has rejected the GOP request for multiple hearings and that members of the Gang of Eight have publicly announced their

intention to oppose any amendments,” Sessions said in a statement Thursday. “To proceed along these lines is tantamount to an admission that the bill is not workable and will not withstand public scrutiny.”

Pro-immigrant activists also were gearing up for a fight even as they expressed optimism that this time, Congress will finally succeed in passing an immigration overhaul bill. Many of those pushing for the legislation were involved in the last major immigration fight, in 2007, when a bill came close on the Senate floor but ultimately failed.

“I think it’s a pretty remarkable breakthrough that eight ideologically diverse senators are working so well together on such a challenging issue,” said Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, a group advocating for an overhaul of U.S. immigration policy. “And I think the fact that they’ve come up with a bill they can all support and defend suggests that it’s the heart of a bill that will finally pass into law.”

Once the legislation is released, it will be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has scheduled a hearing for next Wednesday and will likely begin to amend and vote on the bill the week of May 6. From there, the bill would move to the Senate floor.

Both in committee and on the floor, the bill could change in unpredictable ways as senators try to amend it from the left and the right. The Gang of Eight - Schumer, Durbin, and Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo. - have discussed banding together to defeat amendments that could significantly alter the legislation.

Even more uncertain, though, is the conservative-led House, where a bipartisan group is also crafting an immigration bill, though timing of its release is uncertain.

Many conservatives in the House remain opposed to citizenship for immigrants who have been living in the U.S. illegally.

Significant details of the Senate legislation have already become public, through comments from senators or aides, leaks or statements by outside groups.

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“You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.”

Henry Kissinger american political scientist and diplomat

N. Korea hints it will soon launch a missile

By JEAN H. LEE Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea — Hinting at a missile launch, North Korea delivered a fresh round of war rhetoric Thursday with claims it has “powerful striking means” on standby. Seoul and Washington speculated that it is preparing to test-fire a missile designed to be capable of reaching the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.

The latest rhetoric came as new U.S. intelligence was revealed showing North Korea is now probably capable of arming a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead.

On the streets of Pyongyang, North Koreans shifted into party mode as they celebrated the anniversary of leader Kim Jong Un’s appointment to the country’s top

party post - one in a slew of titles collected a year ago in the months after his father Kim Jong Il’s death.

But while there was calm in Pyongyang, there was condemnation in London, where foreign ministers from the Group of Eight nations slammed North Korea for “aggressive rhetoric” that they warned would only further isolate the impoverished, tightly controlled nation.

North Korea’s provocations, including a long-range rocket launch in December and an underground nuclear test in February, “seriously undermine regional stability, jeopardize the prospects for lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula and threaten international peace and security,” the ministers said in a statement.

In the capital of neighboring South Korea, the country’s

Chavismo’s unfulfilled promises

By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press VALENCIA, Venezuela — It’s just after nightfall and the power is out again in untold hundreds of thousands - probably millions - of Venezuelan homes. If the government knows how many, it’s not saying. It hasn’t issued reports on problems in the public power grid since 2010.

In Venezuela’s third-largest city, Pedro Martinez dons a shirt for visitors drawn by the flicker of candles inside his one-story, cement-block house in a middle-class district. The Caribbean heat is sticky thick inside.

A mesh hammock hangs by the front door.

“This happens nearly every day,” Martinez says of the blackout, holding a candle close so a reporter can take notes. It’s the day’s second outage. The first struck just after noon.

It’s been like this for five years, pretty much everywhere but Caracas, the capital. Worsening power outages, crumbling infrastructure and other unfulfilled promises witnessed this week in a trip through the country’s industrial heartland could be an important factor in Sunday’s election to replace socialist President Hugo Chavez, who died last month after a long battle with cancer.

His political heir, Nicolas Maduro, is favored to win, largely on the strength of Chavez’s generous anti-poverty programs, which Chavez emphasized over public works with one big exception: housing.

But polls show that support may be eroding and the outages are a testament to the neglect many Venezuelans consider inexcusable in this major oil-producing state. Violent crime, doubledigit inflation, official corruption and persistent food shortages are other factors.

Some of the rolling, intermittent blackouts are still scheduled. But most are no longer

announced. They generally last three to four hours a day on average, said Miguel Lara, who ran the power grid until Chavez forced him out in 2004 for being “a political risk.”

Jose Aguilar, a U.S.-based consultant with extensive and more recent experience in Venezuela’s electrical industry, says it is suffering “a downward spiral of deterioration.” Insufficient transmission lines are running so hot that 20,000 distribution transformers burned out last year, he said. “They run them cherry red.”

Electrical substations are in a precarious state, Aguilar and Lara said. If one goes offline, others fail. Employees don’t even have fuses, said Lara. “They have to cobble together their own to keep things running.”

“There’s no money to buy parts for something that breaks,” said Giovanni Rinaldi, a 15-year employee at a hydroelectric plant in the eastern city of Ciudad Guayana, which he said is plagued by four or five power outages a week despite being in the region that generates more than 70 percent of Venezuela’s electricity.

He was fired this week, he said, after posting photos on Twitter of a state utility company vehicle that was to put distribute Maduro campaign posters and other material around town.

“We had put our own money into keeping those vehicles running because the company didn’t,” Rinaldi, a 40-year-old father of two, said by phone. “It’s not right.”

The government hasn’t adequately spent to expand and strengthen the power grid, critics say.

They also blame problems on Cuban, Iranian and Uruguayan technicians brought in to run by Chavez to run the system. Accidents are up tenfold, and there are places in remote states that suffer outages for as long as three to five days, says Lara.

point person on relations with the North, Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae, urged Pyongyang to engage in dialogue and reverse its decision to pull workers from a joint industrial park just north of their shared border, a move that has brought factories there to a standstill.

“We strongly urge North Korea not to exacerbate the crisis on the Korean Peninsula,” Ryoo said.

North Korea probably has advanced its nuclear knowhow to the point where it could arm a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, but the weapon wouldn’t be very reliable, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded. The DIA assessment was revealed Thursday at a public hearing in Washington.

President Barack Obama warned the unpredictable com-

munist regime that his administration would “take all necessary steps” to protect American citizens.

Nobody wants to see a conflict on the Korean Peninsula. barack obama President, United States In his first public comments since North Korea escalated its rhetoric, Obama urged the north to end its nuclear threats, saying it was time for the isolated nation “to end the belligerent approach they have taken and to try to lower temperatures.”

“Nobody wants to see a conflict on the Korean Peninsula,” Obama added, speaking from the Oval Office alongside United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was headed to Seoul on Friday for talks with South Korean officials before heading on to China.

“If anyone has real leverage over the North Koreans, it is China,” U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress on Thursday. “And the indications that we have are that China is itself rather frustrated with the behavior and the belligerent rhetoric of ... Kim Jong Un.” In the latest threat from Pyongyang, the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, a nonmilitary agency that deals with relations

with South Korea, said “striking means” have been “put on standby for a launch and the coordinates of targets put into the warheads.” It didn’t clarify, but the language suggested a missile.

The statement was the latest in a torrent of warlike threats seen outside Pyongyang as an effort to raise fears and pressure Seoul and Washington into changing their North Korea policies, and to show the North Korean people that their young leader is strong enough to stand up to powerful foes.

Referring to Kim Jong Un, Clapper told Congress that “I don’t think ... he has much of an endgame other than to somehow elicit recognition,” and to turn the nuclear threat into “negotiation and to accommodation and presumably for aid.”

Syrian gov starts counterattack

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A Syrian woman stands amid the ruins of her house which was destroyed in an airstrike by government warplanes a few days earlier.

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT — Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive in the south, capturing a town and killing at least 45 people including women and children, opposition activists said Thursday.

The attack on the town of Sanamein followed a rebel advance in the area in recent weeks. They opposition fighters captured army bases and a major town in the strategic province of Daraa along the border with Jordan.

“They slaughtered any person they found,” an activist in the nearby town of Busra al-Harir who goes by the fake name of Hamza al-Hariri told The Associated Press via Skype. He would not give his real name for fear of government reprisals.

“This is the ugliest massacre since the one in Houla,” he added, referring to a region in the central province of Homs where more than 100 civilians were killed by government forces in May last year.

Rebels advancing in the south in recent

weeks have been aiming to secure a corridor from the Jordanian border to Damascus about 60 miles away in preparation for an eventual assault on the capital.

Regional officials and military experts note a sharp increase in weapons shipments to opposition fighters by Arab governments, in coordination with the U.S., in the hopes of readying a push into Damascus - the ultimate prize in the civil war that has killed more than 70,000 in two years.

Rebels already control vast portions of northern Syria bordering Turkey.

State-run Syrian TV said the armed forces “wiped out terrorist groups” in Sanamein and the nearby town of Ghabagheb. It added that troops were targeting rebel hideouts in different parts of Daraa.

They included the villages and towns of Tafas, Jasssim, Dael and Tseel and the report said they had inflicted casualties in those areas.

The city of Daraa, the provincial capital, was the birthplace of the uprising against President Bashar Assad in March

2011 The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group reported clashes on Thursday in the city of Daraa and said there were casualties among regime troops.

State-run Syrian TV said government forces killed or wounded dozens of gunmen in the city of Daraa, including foreign fighters.

The Observatory said at least 45 people, including five children and seven women, were killed in the attack on Sanamein. It said they were killed by “shooting, shelling and field execution,” a reference to people reported to have been shot at close range.

The Syrian National Coalition, the main opposition group, said more than 60 people were “brutally” killed in the town. After troops stormed Sanamein, the group said they used some civilians as human shields and took others as hostages before looting some homes.

The differing death tolls could not be reconciled.

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around the ivies

“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

John Burroughs American naturalist

C o l u m b i a d a i ly s p e c tat o r

Committee approves pass/fail policy

By BEN SHENG staff writer The School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Committee on Instruction approved a proposal on Wednesday to allow SEAS students to pass/fail up to six credits of their non-technical electives.

Currently, SEAS does not offer credit for any classes taken pass/fail. All SEAS students need to complete nine to 11 credits’ worth of non-technical electives to graduate.

The new policy will be implemented next semester as a twoyear pilot. If, at the end of the second year, the COI decides two years of data is not conclusive enough to vote on, the program will last another year.

The SEAS pass/fail policy differs from CC’s pass/D/fail policy in a few ways, including the exclusion of D grades. Additionally, only 3000-level classes or higher will be eligible for pass/ fail, classes required for a minor will not be eligible, and SEAS students will not be allowed to uncover their grades afterword.

Spearheaded this year by Engineering Student Council Vice President for Policy Bora Kim, SEAS ’13, and class of 2014 Vice President Tanya Shah, SEAS ’14, the proposal was set in motion in the spring of 2012 by then-Vice President for Policy Logan Donovan, SEAS ’13.

Shah and Donovan both admitted that they actually expected the proposal to be rejected. Shah said that before the proposal was voted on, she’d already started thinking about

bringing in another proposal in the fall. “ I wa s actually already columbia p l a n n i n g how we could incorporate [incoming SEAS dean] Mary Boyce into our plans for next year to get this through,” she said, laughing.

“I had no impression it was going through,” Donovan said.

“So I was sitting in class, and I got the text from Bora, saying, like, ‘It passed!’ and I was like, ‘What?!’”

The proposal’s supporters hope the pass/fail option will allow engineers to explore subjects they might otherwise have avoided to preserve their GPAs. “This will provide a confidence boost for those students who really wanted to take that hard poli sci course,” Kim said.

“Now they can.”

ESC President Tim Qin, SEAS ’13, encouraged SEAS students to take advantage of the leeway the pilot program offers by trying out challenging subjects.

“Look, now’s your chance,” he said. “Show that you’re interested in the hard classes.”

The proposal brought to the COI represented over a year of work and almost two semesters of cooperation between ESC and SEAS Vice Dean Soulaymane Kachani, who is the chair of the COI for SEAS. Kachani advised the writers of the proposal to frame the pass/fail proposal as a matter of expanding students’ educa-

tional opportunities as opposed to one of improving grades, which had been a focus last spring. Many of the stipulations in the proposal, such as the 3000-level rule, were added to deter use of the pass/fail option as a way to inflate grades.

“I think there were enough protections and enough thought into structuring this in a way that seems that it’s really not compromising on the rigor of the curriculum,” Kachani said.

The vice dean and the dean’s office conducted research into whether the lack of a pass/fail option was really causing students to shy away from more difficult non-technical classes.

After sifting through two years’ worth of course registration data, Kachani’s research concluded that students were indeed not taking as many challenging non-technical elective courses as the school wanted them to.

Kachani’s findings, combined with the results of a SEAS-wide survey Kim conducted on the subject of pass/fail, formed much of the empirical basis for COI supporting the proposal.

For Shah, the legacy of the successful pass/fail proposal will be more than curricular or academic.

“I think it’ll show students that if there’s something that students are really passionate about, and want to push for, and push for it, the faculty will eventually listen,” Shah said.

Kachani said significant policy changes like the pass/fail proposal rarely make it into the University’s curriculum, and he

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Vice President for Policy Bora Kim said the new proposal will give students confidence to take difficult classes. noted that the ESC proposal was the culmination of a perennially sustained demand from the student body.

“We have to start with the premise that curriculum has to be stable, and it is stable for very good reasons,” he said. “However, when, over a number of years, a certain voice or a certain plea or a certain policy issue comes back again and again and again—not because the graduating class passes on the agenda

to the other classes, but more because, independently, students think and care a lot about a certain issue—then we have to listen.”

Donovan took great joy in seeing her year-long personal cause finally vindicated.

“The reason that I’ve always wanted this is because I want people to use those credits to take things that are meaningful to them and interesting, because that’s the point of being in col-

lege, and that’s what I hope will come through,” she said.

The passage of the SEAS pass/ fail policy comes just three days after Columbia College Student Council passed a resolution that would mandate first-years take all first-semester, non-Core classes as pass/D/fail. That more ambitious proposal faces a longer approval process, however, and would go into effect in the fall of 2014 at the earliest.

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Attorney to investigate search

Penn to gain Alpha Delta Pi

By NICHOLAS P. FANDOS and SAMUEL Y. WEINSTOCK staff writers University President Drew G. Faust acknowledged in an interview Tuesday that administrators do not yet have a complete picture of the sequence of events surrounding secret searches of resident deans’ email accounts, but said she hopes a forthcoming review by esteemed Boston attorney Michael B. Keating will clarify lingering uncertainty.

“It should have been evaluated more carefully,” Faust said. “I think that Michael Keating is going to help straighten out some of the facts surrounding what were the searches, who knew what, and we’ll have a better answer for some of those questions.”

Faust first announced Keating’s investigation at a April 2 faculty meeting where administrators admitted to inaccuracies in their original account of events put forth in a March 11 statement. She said on Tuesday that the original statement contained errors because administrators were under “a lot pressure”

to respond quickly to a March 9 Boston Globe story first reporting the searches.

K e a t i n g ’s review, she said, harvard is intended to “make sure that all the facts that we now understand to be the facts about the searches are indeed accurate and complete, because you’ve obviously seen that we’ve found the record-keeping spotty.”

In their March 11 statement, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith and Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds said that the email searches only queried subject lines and were limited to resident deans’ administrative accounts. At the faculty meeting, they said that neither claim was true. And on Monday, four other College administrators told The Crimson that the administration’s updated account of events contained even more inaccuracies and mischaracterizations. Faust said she was unaware of those addi-

tional accusations when she spoke with The Crimson Tuesday, and FAS spokesperson Jeff Neal has declined to comment on the matter.

Amid the opposing narratives, Keating will attempt to set the record straight. Following his review, Keating will report to a newly created subcommittee of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body.

Four Corporation members will comprise the special subcommittee: Faust, intellectual property attorney William F. Lee ’72, trial lawyer Theodore V. Wells, Jr., and Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow.

Lee, a former visiting lecturer at the Law School, will serve as the subcommittee’s chair.

In an emailed statement Wednesday, Keating wrote that he met with Faust on Tuesday and was “impressed by the seriousness with which Harvard is approaching the issue.”

Even though Keating will report to that subcommittee, Faust said he adds an external perspective and “doesn’t take our procedures for granted.”

By LAURA ANTHONY staff writer The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life is “thinking big.”

OFSL Director Scott Reikofski said he has been interested in expanding the Greek community for several years, and OFSL has been taking steps within the recent past toward this goal. Their next step is supporting the colonization of Penn’s ninth sorority, Alpha Delta Pi. According to Alpha Delta Pi Growth and Development Manager Jennifer Dickinson, the sorority will officially begin colonizing in spring 2014, but will hold informal marketing and outreach events next fall.

College junior and Panhellenic Council President Jessica Stokes said in an email that while ADPi will not participate in formal recruitment in spring 2014, they will be able to recruit in both the fall and spring of the 20142015 academic year.

Dickinson expects that the chap-

ter of ADPi will be installed on campus before the end of the spring 2014 semester, since their colonization process typically takes penn eight to 12 weeks.

Reikofski said the sorority will hold an information event at Open House during the first round of formal recruitment next year, and Dickinson said they will begin recruiting new members shortly thereafter in January 2014. ADPi is hoping to attract students of all class years who are leaders on campus, are interested in their philanthropy, the Ronald McDonald House, and who are generally, “wellrounded women excited about the opportunity to go Greek,” Dickinson said.

A few years ago, Panhel started working toward “extension”, the process of colonizing more chapters on campus, according to Stokes.

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sports

“Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.”

Wayne Gretzky Former professional ice hockey player

Yale, QPac to vie for first D1 title

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Yale and crosstown rival Quinnipiac will battle for the NCAA national championship on Saturday at 7 p.m. Both teams are seeking their first Division 1 title.

By Alsion griswold and ashton wackym Senior reporter and staff reporter PITTSBURGH — When Yale and Quinnipiac face off on Saturday evening, the stakes will be the highest their programs have ever seen.

This is no normal East Coast Athletic Conference hockey game. This is the NCAA Division I national championship. And both the Bulldogs and the Bobcats are seeking their first D1 crown.

While Quinnipiac’s Hamden campus is just down the road from New Haven, the two schools’ paths to the Frozen Four could not have been farther apart.

Quinnipiac has topped the national polls for most of the season and was the clear No. 1 seed heading into the postsea-

son. Yale has been upsetting higherSaturday, 7 p.m. ranked seeds vs. since it slipped into the NCAA to u r n a m e n t after Notre Quinnipiac Dame’s defeat

of Michigan gave the Elis the last available slot.

The Bobcats have walked to the national championship, defeating all three contestants in the NCAA tournament handily. They beat Canisius 4–3, Union 5–1 and St. Cloud 4–1 on their Division I hockey conquest. Yale, on the other hand, has scratched and clawed its way to the national title game, upsetting Minnesota, North Dakota and UMass-Lowell, two wins of which the Bull-

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dogs fought to pull out in overtime.

Saturday’s game will be only the second time in tournament history that two ECAC teams have competed in the Frozen Four finals. The first and last instance was in 1970, when Cornell defeated Clarkson, 6–4, and a Big Red defenseman opened up the game with a natural hat trick.

Harvard was the last ECAC team to win the Frozen Four, topping Minnesota 4–3 in overtime, in 1989.

Yale has faced Quinnipiac three times this season. Though the Elis have lost all three games, they have come closer to a win each time. In the teams’ first meeting on Feb. 2, Yale jumped out to a 2–0 lead in the first period but the Bobcats responded with six unanswered goals. The Bulldogs

Bulldogs race to retain Olympic Axe By lindsey uniat Staff reporter Every spring since 2004, the heavyweight crew team has raced against Dartmouth in competition for the Olympic Axe — and on Saturday morning, the Bulldogs hope to extend their nine-year undefeated streak in the annual contest as they host the Big Green at the Gilder Boathouse in Derby, Conn.

Heavyweight Crew Two weeks ago, in their season-opening regatta against the defending Eastern Sprints champion, Brown, the Bulldogs lost by small margins in the varsity eight, junior varsity eight and third varsity eight categories, but managed to win the varsity four race.

“I think at this point in the season the team is in a very good place,” oarsman Zach Johnson ’14 said. “We are showing a lot of speed and have a lot of potential moving forward. While the result of the Brown race was less than ideal, the fact that the margin was so small bodes well for the coming season.”

Coxswain Oliver Fletcher ’14 added that team morale is high going into this weekend’s race and that the team has had two strong weeks of practice since dropping the race to Brown.

The battle-axe trophy became the prize for the varsity eight Yale-Dartmouth race in 2004, and Dartmouth has yet to win it. Last year, Yale swept the regatta at home and the Bulldogs’ varsity eight bested the Big Green with a time of 5:30.7 compared to 5:36.9 in the

2,000-meter course.

Dartmouth is often at a disadvantage in the early part of the season, Fletcher Saturday, 8 a.m. and oarsman Clemens at Barth ’15 said, because the team’s home course on the Connecticut River in New Hampshire stays frozen Dartmouth longer than the rivers on

which other schools race.

Last weekend, Dartmouth’s varsity eight placed second in a race against Columbia, Holy Cross and MIT. This weekend will be the first of two home races for the Bulldogs this season, with the second one taking place on April 27 against Cornell and Princeton.

Johnson said racing on the home course is more personal and can be beneficial because the coxswains know the nuances of the course.

Barth added, however, that at the college varsity level, “teams know how to race a 2000m piece and they will approach it the same way at home on a familiar course or away on a unknown course.”

Saturday’s race is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. at the Gilder Boathouse. The first race of the day will be the third varsity eight, followed by the junior varsity eight, varsity eight and fourth varsity eight every 15 minutes.

Buses for spectators will leave from the Payne Whitney Gymnasium earlier that morning.

Heavyweight Crew

Contact Lindsey Uniat at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .

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Men’s heavyweight crew seeks to maintain its nine-year winning streak against Dartmouth at the Olympic Axe sprint this weekend.

were able to narrow the deficit to three goals in a 4–1 loss on Feb. 22, and in the ECAC third-place game where they fell to Quinnipiac 3–0, but had two questionable goals called back.

Coming into the national championship, the Bulldogs know what to expect from the Bobcats. They will face a challenge they have seen in every game this NCAA tournament: outstanding goaltending. In the first round, Minnesota’s Adam Wilcox stopped 23 of 26 shots and forced the game into overtime.

Against North Dakota, Clarke Saunders boasted a 0.921 save percentage and held the Bulldogs to zero until the third period. Last night against UMass, freshman Connor Hellebuyck stopped 44 of 47 shots for a 0.936 save percentage — something most goal-

tenders dream of having.

When the Elis face off against Quinnipiac, they will take on Eric Hartzell for the fourth time.

Hartzell leads Division I hockey in minutes played, has posted the second-most shutouts of any goaltender with five, and has the lowest goals-against-average in the ECAC at 1.53.

The Bulldogs have momentum and performance under pressure on their side, however. Jeff Malcolm ’13 has kept the Bulldogs in every overtime game this season and has made key saves in two overtime NCAA tournament games in this year’s playoff run.

The schools will be evenly matched on special teams. With a 21.21 percent conversion rate and a No. 10 national ranking, Yale’s power play towers over Quinnipiac’s No. 41 ranked unit. But

the Bobcats will answer Yale’s offensive strength with a penalty kill that has shut down 159 of 175 power plays this season, and a team defense that allows an average of 1.62 goals through per game — both No. 1 in the country. Then again, Yale managed three goals against Minnesota in the West Regional, the nation’s third-best team defense with an average of two goals allowed per game.

Regardless of who wins the game, one team will come out with its first national title and become the 19th program on the list of Frozen Four victors. The puck drops at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

Contact Alison Griswold at alison.griswold@yale.edu .

Contact Ashton Wackym at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

Elis look to break Ivy tie By david whipple contributing reporter It’s always nice to beat archrival Harvard (6-22, 3-5 Ivy), but for Yale baseball this weekend, it is shaping up to be crucial.

Baseball After a 3–2 Wednesday loss to Fairfield followed by a weekend that saw Yale go 1–3 in Ivy play against Columbia and Penn, the Bulldogs (6-19, 3-5 Ivy) will head into a huge weekend series in Cambridge, Mass., looking to climb the ladder in the Rolfe Division playoff race. The Elis have recently enjoyed a string of excellent pitching, highlighted by LHP David Hickey’s ’14 dazzling shutout of Penn last Sunday, and the Elis look to build on the confidence of their pitching staff.

“I do think we’re a better team than [Harvard],” outfielder Josh Scharff ’14 said. “These games are just about as close to ‘win or go home’ as we’ve had in my time here.”

Yale holds a 3-5 Ivy record going into a season-ending stretch, and 12 of its last 13 games will be against opponents in the Ivy League’s Rolfe division, which the Bulldogs must win to make the playoffs. Yale is currently tied with Harvard and is one game behind 4–4 Dartmouth.

“I’d be lying if I said these games weren’t big,“ captain Chris Piwinski ’13 said. “They’re big games, everyone knows it.”

The Bulldogs’ pitching has proven itself to be strong. Hickey and LHP Rob Cerfolio ’14 are both coming off dominant starts, and the pitchers aim to ride that momentum into the weekend, preserving their focus on minimizing walks and hit batters.

His teammates expect nothing less than that type of focus.

“Rob Cerfolio handles himself like a professional,” Piwinski said. “You can look at his face and not know if he’s winning or losing.”

Piwinski added that the poise of the pitching staff can be a starting point for the mental adjustments the rest of the team

Graham Harboe/Contributing photographer

The baseball team heads into an important weekend series against archrival Harvard as the Elis look to climb the ladder in the Rolfe Division. needs to make to avoid last Saturday, 1 p.m. and weekend’s pitfalls.

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A f t e r at stranding runners in scoring position against Harvard Columbia

and Penn, the Sunday, 12 p.m. and Elis need to 2:30 p.m. improve their at approach at the plate to put pressure on opposing pitchers and Harvard

defenses.

With the team’s strong pitching, Scharff said the offense could not wait any longer to step up.

“We’re out of time,” he said.

Yale’s offense could find its groove against a beleaguered Crimson pitching staff featuring only one starter with an E.R.A. under 5.0.

“If a guy doesn’t have a lot of walks or strikeouts, we have to

Baseball

be aggressive,” Piwinski said. If a guy has a lot of walks, make him prove he can throw a strike.”

The Bulldogs will need that same discipline on defense after committing five costly errors last weekend.

“Mistakes are going to happen,” Scharff said. “When you take yourself out of it mentally, that’s when you’re beat.”

Yale played error-free baseball against Fairfield on Wednesday and hopes to continue to do so this weekend. But they left runners in scoring position and lost focus on the mound, which team members said should not be repeated.

Many of the mental adjustments the team has to make, Scharff said, stem from confidence.

“The key, for us, is to remember how to win,” Scharff said.

First pitch on Saturday is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. at Harvard.

Contact David Whipple at david.whipple@yale.edu .

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Another win in OT

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Thursday night’s matchup against UMass-Lowell marked the Bulldogs’ first appearance in the Frozen Four since 1952. The victory over the River Hawks secured Yale’s berth in the tournament’s final round. men’s hockey From page 1 lead in their second-ever Frozen Four appearance when freshman Mitch Witek ’16 tipped the puck over the leg of the UMass goaltender at 12:55 in the first period. The goal was the first of Witek’s Yale career and came during a Yale power play that has proven itself the 10th most efficient in the nation, with a 21.21 percent conversion rate.

Miller notched his 133th assist on the goal — tying him with Bob Brooke ’83 for the Yale record.

Right-winger Antoine Laganiere ’13 added to the tally six

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minutes and 13 seconds later.

After UMass defenders blocked two shots from Matt Killian ’15, Laganiere picked up the rebound and slammed it past goaltender Connor Hellebuyck.

While Yale peppered shots on Hellebuyck for the entire game, the River Hawks had only one major offensive burst in the game and it lasted a mere 14 seconds.

But they made it count.

Yale had just killed the first UMass power play of the game and roughly five minutes remained in the second period when successive goals from team captain Riley Wetmore and cen-

ter Joseph Pendenza put UMass on the board and erased the early lead Yale had taken.

Even then, though, the momentum didn’t switch. The Elis were unable to set the red light flashing in the third, but they kept the pressure on — with 16 shots to UMass’ 13.

“One thing we preached all year and especially in the playoffs is there are going to be some ups and downs,” defenseman Gus Young ’14 said. “They’re going to score some goals. We’re going to score some goals. They are going to give up chances; we are going to give up chances.

… We’ve been in that position before.”

To me, up until right now, that was probably the biggest goal in the history of Yale hockey. keith allain ’80 Head coach, men’s hockey And then came overtime.

Yale has tied or won every sin-

gle overtime scenario it has faced this season. It shocked the nation in the West Regional when Jesse Root ’14 took down Minnesota with a one-timer nine seconds into extra time.

Today, the game-winner came from Miller.

“It was just a matter of time before we popped one,” Miller said at the postgame conference.

His efforts earned him the team award for the game — an old, yellow hockey helmet, which Miller wore to meet the press. The helmet resembles the one worn by Jari Kurri, a five-time Stanley Cup winner and member of the

Hockey Hall of Fame.

Yale’s appearance today was the first it has made in the Frozen Four since 1952. The team has never made it to the final round of the tournament, nor has it won a Division 1 national title.

Yale will take the ice in the CONSOL Energy Center at 7 p.m. on Saturday to face off against Quinnipiac. Both teams are seeking their first Frozen Four championship.

Contact Alison griswold at alison.griswold@yale.edu .

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

“I do think we’re a better team than them [Harvard].”

Josh scharff ’14 Outfielder, baseball

Princeton’s julia ratcliffe sets ivy league record hammer throw Princeton freshman Julia Ratcliffe broke Ivy League records in the hammer throw Thursday, posting a record of a 218–09. Her throw, from the 2013 Sam Howell Memorial Invitational, is the third-best in the United States.

John Oppenheimer ’14 makes marrow donation After joining the Be The Match Registry at the Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive at Yale two years ago, the offensive lineman found out he matched to a 41-year-old man with cancer. He made his marrow donation shortly after the beginning of spring semester.

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Right-winger Antoine Laganiere ’13 elevated the scoreboard by picking up Matt Killian’s ’15 rebounded shot and slamming it past the UMass goaltender, one minute before the first period was over.

top ’dog antoine laganiere ’13

the senior attackman leveled up the Bulldogs’ scoreboard 2–0, with only one minute remaining in the first period.