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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013 · VOL. CXXXV, NO. 121 · yaledailynews.com

UNDERDOG VICTORY NO. 15 SEED YALE WINS FIRST NATIONAL HOCKEY TITLE, SHUTS OUT NO. 1 QUINNIPIAC 4–0

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Yale’s defeat of Quinnipiac followed upsets of Minnesota, North Dakota and UMass-Lowell in the NCAA Tournament. By the time they beat the Bobcats, the Elis had defeated the top three teams in the national rankings.

BY ALISON GRISWOLD AND ASHTON WACKYM SENIOR REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER PITTSBURGH — Quinnipiac beat Yale all season. Except when it mattered the most.

The Bulldogs stunned the Bobcats, the CONSOL Energy Center and the college hockey world on Saturday as they rode a wave

of upsets to its completion: the national championship.

Sticks and helmets flew, goaltender Jeff Malcolm ’13 disappeared into a sea of players and the Yale coaching staff swarmed head coach Keith Allain ’80 as the team sealed a 4–0 victory over Quinnipiac to claim its first NCAA Division I title in program history.

It was Yale’s first Frozen Four appearance since 1952, and made the nation’s oldest college hockey team the 19th program to join the list of DI national champions.

Malcolm stopped all 36 shots he faced, captain Andrew Miller ’13 scored one and earned a record-breaking 114th career assist, and Jesse Root ’14 put away the game with an empty-

netter at 13:02 in the third period.

“This is a goal of ours and a dream,” said Malcolm, who celebrated his 24th birthday on Saturday. “I’ve been tearing up earlier, but I mean it’s just an unbelievable feeling to share with the coaches and the team.”

The Elis broke through nearly 40 minutes of deadlock to take a 1–0 lead with just three-and-

YUAG ‘irreplaceable’ to teaching At 2:08 p.m. on a Wednesday afternoon, class is in session. Huddled together, eight students circle around a small Elizabeth Catlett painting. Talk turns to brushwork and background before professor Key Jo Lee interrupts to reference “Parks and Recreation.”

Laughter echoes along the room’s blinding white walls. A far cry from the familiar woodwork of WLH, this class has no desks, no blackboard and no chalk. Above Curly Raven Hotlon’s “Bred for Pleasure,” gently lit white letters announce the location: “Jane and Richard Levin Study Gallery.”

Located on the top floor of the Yale University Art Gallery, the Levin Gallery opened as part of the museum’s 14-year renovation project, which finished in December and cost $135 million

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in total. The gallery, a single room, is a microcosm of the museum’s breadth: a grab bag of ancient Indian coins, graphic prints of Vietnam and religious panels.

As a teaching tool for Yale professors, the space showcases pieces related to specific University courses. During the Wednesday afternoon sessions, the gallery plays host to “Re-Visioning Subjectivities: Art, Literature, and Black Womanhood,” an American and African-American Studies class taught by Lee and professor Hazel Carby.

But efforts to expand the museum’s educational offerings have not stopped with the Levin Gallery. The Nolen Center for Art and Education, also built during the renovation, includes two object study galleries and a library open to the public. The Mimi Gates study gallery, on the first floor, houses a bourgeoning collection of Islamic art.

Since its conception, the YUAG has

enjoyed a close relationship with the University’s academic programs. Deputy Director for Collections and Education Pamela Franks estimated that 48 courses visited the museum in the 2011’12 academic year, excluding those in the History of Art Department. Including art courses, the gallery hosted 578 individual class sessions that same year.

The physical might of the renovation effort, which linked the museum’s Kahn, Street and Swartwout buildings along High Street, mirrors an effort to diversify the breadth of the YUAG’s collection. Along with the growth in capacity comes a more involved relationship with the University and New Haven communities.

But students and professors are still struggling to define the YUAG’s new place in the Yale community.

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turn in the third.

Left-winger Charles Orzetti ’16 started what would become a third-period scoring spree at 3:35, picking up his own rebound and niftily sliding it past Hartzell to put Yale up 2–0. Nine minutes later, right-winger Miller added to the tally for his second goal of SEE HOCKEY PAGE B1

YCC faces low election turnout

ART GALLERIES

BY HAYLEY BYRNES STAFF REPORTER

a-half seconds remaining in the second period. Defenseman Gus Young ’14 snagged a loose puck inside the blue line and shot it low on net while Clinton Bourbonais ’14 screened Hobey Baker runner-up Eric Hartzell, then deflected the shot through his legs.

That set the stage for the momentum to take a definitive

BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER At the end of an election with an unprecedented three seats left uncontested, Danny Avraham ’15 was officially named president of the Yale College Council for the 2013-’14 academic year.

In a Friday email to all undergraduates, the YCC announced that Leigh Hamilton ’15, Andrew Grass ’16 and Ben Ackerman ’16 were elected to the positions of treasurer, secretary and Undergraduate Organizations Committee chair, respectively, while Avraham, Kyle Tramonte ’15 and Eli Rivkin ’15 each won with 100 percent of the vote, running unopposed for president, vice president and events director. Tramonte said this year’s YCC elections — which took place from Thursday at 9 a.m. to Friday at 5 p.m. — were more

relaxed than last year’s because of the three uncontested spots.

While official vote counts were not included in the Friday email, Elizabeth Henry ’14, chair of the elections committee, said that 725 people voted for Avraham and 228 abstained in the election for YCC president. In the 2011 and 2012 YCC elections, when vote counts were released to the student body in a campus-wide email, 2,618 and 2,704 students, respectively, voted for president. In the vice presidential race, Tramonte received 667 votes, with 135 abstentions, compared to 2,379 and 2,311 total votes in 2011 and 2012, respectively.

Hamilton defeated Eugene Yi ’15 with 581 votes and 60.71 percent of the vote, Ackerman captured 32.13 percent of the vote to beat out Brian Lei ’16, SEE YCC ELECTIONS PAGE 4

CELEBRATION BULLDOG VICTORY IN PHOTOGRAPHS

MAYORAL ELECTION

DIPLOMACY

BASEBALL

Probate judge Jack Keyes announces his decision not to run

HENRY KISSINGER TALKS POLITICS ON A GLOBAL SCALE

After two doubleheaders, Yale and Harvard remain tied in league standings

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YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013 · yaledailynews.com

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ur hopes for the prospective members of the Class of 2017

Today, we celebrate a national championship.

Our men’s hockey team left the Frozen Four with a NCAA Division I title to their name, and we left our seats — in Pittsburgh, Payne Whitney and common rooms across campus — having borne witness to a display of the stunning self-confidence and determination that should always define the culture of this campus.

Saturday night, we pulled on our Yale sweaters, excited and optimistic, but hesitant. We were unsure if we could win; commentators, critics and Quinnipiac all doubted us. But we were willing to come together as a community for our friends, our classmates and our fellow Yalies.

If we did not always believe — our team did.

The nation’s oldest intercollegiate team, clad in Yale Blue, reminded us what athletics can achieve — and, in doing so, they showed us what Yale can be at its best.

We are honored to share in that pride.

We hope you will continue this celebration. That you will remember the way that Yalies walk with an extra bounce today, taking pride in an accomplishment of epic proportions and a community that is connected by something that transcends the groups to which we are so connected.

It is our college pride — given voice in the chants that echoed from Pittsburgh to New Haven.

Stepping onto Old Campus for the first time, you might imagine the Yale of tradition. And it is a place with tremendous history; you will find it all around around you. But if you look closely, you will see the times are also changing.

We are excited to welcome you to a Yale not only of tradition, but also transition.

Yale has been celebrating its president this year.

After 20 years, University President Richard Levin is stepping down in June.

He has had remarkable successes, and you will see them as you tour Science Hill or wander the recently renovated residential colleges. Yale has never been stronger, and you will hear it in the sounds of discussions and debates, practices and performances taking place perpetually around our home.

But when you start your first year, your freshman class will be joined by a freshman president: Peter Salovey. As the two of you begin together, things will

be changing, and you will be able to help change them. As a class, more than any other in two decades, you will have the ability to define, for Yale and for the world, what it means to be a Yalie. We hope this is a challenge you will choose.

Yale can give you the chance to experience college like nowhere else — the chance to simultaneously succeed in both classes and clubs. But we hope you will not take this culture for granted.

Sometimes this means you must be critical of the University. Other times, it means you will be congratulatory. This is our challenge at the Yale Daily News, and we hope you will visit 202 York St. this evening at 9 p.m. to examine that challenge with us.

Part of our obligation as Yalies is to leave after eight semesters, having made this campus a better place in some way. That is the spirit which unites us, and we hope you join us in that spirit and in our love for Yale.

ou may not know me yet, but I’m basically Yale’s unofficial arbiter of wisdom. When the Whiffenpoofs almost switched their tuxes for matching cheetah print sweats, I’m the one who convinced their pitch that spots don’t go with his complexion. When Presidentelect Peter Salovey considered changing our school’s mascot to Justin Bieber, I’m the one who reminded him that in a fight-tothe-death chess match, a bulldog would probably win. When Yale asked me for guidance as it planned the two new residential colleges, I’m the one who pointed to the hideous monoliths of Ezra Stiles and Morse and shook my head forebodingly. You can thank me later.

More confusing than Salovey’s Bieber Fever, however, is the delightful conundrum before you today: You have two days at Yale, and approximately 2,439 different activities listed on your online calendar. You have probably read through 2,438 of them, because you’re really smart and serious and you terrify me, just a little bit.

My children, if you’ll let me, I can cut your Gordian knot. In my opinion, during your brief preview of Yale, you can commit yourself to one of two equally

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MICHELLE TAYLOR Tell it Slant

noble undertakings: You can either schedule all 48 of your hours around consuming as much Claire’s Cake as possible, or you can d e l i b e ra te ly seek out the worst experiences avail-

able to you.

Okay, so one of those options is self-explanatory: Cake is great and this week all of it will be free.

That’s a no-brainer. But why, you wonder, do I want you to be miserable?

It’s simple: It is my belief that it is impossible to be miserable at Yale.

During my Bulldog Days, the sky literally opened up and took a massive dump on campus. It rained interminably, unrelentingly, like the last scene (spoiler alert) in One Hundred Years of Solitude. And it was cold: Coming from Louisiana, I felt like I’d taken a time machine back to December. From that dusky, drizzly Monday evening to that gray, soggy Wednesday afternoon, I don’t think my feet were dry once. I could be wrong,

though, because they lost feeling halfway through.

So I was cold, wet and enraptured. I knew almost immediately — standing in front of Commons Rotunda bumping umbrellas with the other pre-frosh — that I had found the most wonderful spot on the planet. Not because Beinecke Plaza is particularly beautiful at night — there are better views on campus — but because I was surrounded by some of the most invitingly intellectual, unexpectedly engaging people I’d ever met.

The super secret, super awesome superpower of Yale is that nothing can dim her. Oh, Harvard and Princeton are pretty enough in the summer, but strip the trees of leaves and the grass of green and suddenly the defining motif on campus is the scowl on everyone’s face. Yale, on the other hand, glows in the dark: Winter brings out her shapes, her edges and etchings, her solemn majesty, her sky-bound spires. In the spring, she blossoms. In the fall, she molts like phoenix, blazing.

As I learned from my last relationship, attractiveness matters.

And Yale — architecturally and personally — is hella attractive.

So, my dear pre-frosh, amidst this beauty and this joy, you should try to be unhappy. If you

commit yourself to the path of attempted misery, avoid Claire’s Cake. Eat tofu in the dining halls, and greasy A1 Pizza when you go out. Attend an event with the Tory party; force yourself to stay until the very end. Sleep in Ezra Stiles for a night, and if you’re really brave, attend an a cappella concert. Attend several.

Even if — and this is almost certain — you decide you could be perfectly content to never hear a four part harmony again, you will not, I promise, be miserable. And when you leave this Wednesday, you’ll know, at last, what I knew as I sat under the Vanderbilt arch, watching the rain pour down on my last view of Yale until August: It’s not classes, or majors or even having right angles in your living spaces that matters. It’s not the quality of the food, or the location or — yes, I’m going to say it — even the endowment (though it pays to be well endowed). You’re not looking for the right mascot or the best colors, the most sports victories or the highest median SAT scores. What you want, for the next four years, is to be happy.

And you’ll be happy here.

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

GUE ST COLUMNISTS WILL JORDAN AND STEVEN MORALE S

For the fans

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hough it is 400 miles away from New Haven, on Saturday night, the Consol Energy Center may as well have been The Whale. From the drop of the puck until the team left the ice, over 200 students in the Yale section controlled the atmosphere in the arena nearly as well as the Bulldogs controlled play on the ice. We were their sixth man, and every one of us will look back on this weekend as a highlight of our college experience.

But the Yale-sponsored buses that brought students to Pittsburgh for the Frozen Four almost weren’t sent. After the administration made its initial decision not to subsidize student transportation to the games, it seemed that only a handful of students would be making the trip. It took a wellcoordinated last-minute effort by the Athletics Department, the Dean’s Office and the Yale College Council to send one bus to Pittsburgh on Thursday and then the caravan on Saturday night to support our boys. The full buses to Pittsburgh and a packed viewing party at Payne Whitney suggest that Yale students care more about athletics than our administration assumes. Yale should

view the excitement and college unity generated by this momentous weekend as a glimpse of what sports really mean to this campus.

Athletics are an integral part of the Yale experience and have been since the early days of Yale football. Unlike other extracurriculars, which tend to divide students into small pockets of individual interests, athletics are transcendent by nature. They unite us beyond our unique backgrounds, our idiosyncratic political loyalties and our residential college bubbles. After graduation, cheering on the Bulldogs keeps alumni tied to Yale and — if the conversations we had this weekend in Pittsburgh are any indication — gives students and alumni a sustainable common bond. Athletics also cross town-gown lines and bring Yalies and New Haveners together as a community — except maybe when we play the Bobcats.

These are the reasons we, as a university, must make every effort to bring out the Bulldogs fan in every student.

We have a number of suggestions that we believe can help foster the culture of athletic support that is so important. First, when freshmen arrive on campus in the

fall, they should automatically receive the weekly Yale Athletics emails that currently go out only to students who “opt-in.” Other organizations put forth an incredible effort at the activities bazaar to recruit freshmen for their panlists, and some groups even go to the length of adding all freshmen to their email lists. Currently, Yale Athletics has no presence at the activities bazaar and no way to reach out to potential new fans.

Having a means of communication would enable the Athletics Department to keep students informed and engaged.

Second, we need a group of students to help the Athletics Department understand and capitalize on student interest and effectively rally Yale’s campus fan-base. The Whaling Crew is a good start, but we need an organization that has the official backing of the Yale administration to really solidify their position in the eyes of students.

Third, the Athletics Department should track attendance for the most popular sports and reward the most loyal fans, whether it be with a free bus to the basketball game at Harvard, an exclusive dinner with a head

coach or a free t-shirt. This would require students to swipe in to games that already require tickets, a practice that is commonplace at other universities. Not only would this give students incentives to go to games, but it would also allow Yale Athletics to connect with their biggest fans.

Finally, the administration needs to change its attitude toward the value of sports on campus.

This is not just about hockey; it’s not just about this national title — athletics are a critical part of what makes the Yale tradition so great.

The athletes who wear our university’s name across their chests represent each and every one of us and deserve our institutional support. They are our classmates, roommates and friends and we are their biggest fans. It is time for Yale to take the steps necessary to help us show our support for them every single game. Our campus is ready and the time has never been better.

WILL JORDAN AND STEVEN MORALES are seniors in Branford College. Contact them at william.jordan@yale.edu and steven.morales@yale.edu .

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Liliana Varman

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EDITOR IN CHIEF Tapley Stephenson

school"

s Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, the first nonDeStefano participant, signed on to New Haven’s ‘Democracy Fund’ a couple days ago, I had a thought that many who follow politics in this part of the country are all too familiar with: “Only in New England!”

Only in New England could a candidate for mayor of a city constantly strapped for cash kick his campaign into high gear by spending his future constituents’ money on himself!

However, after having read the terrific series of investigative articles in the News earlier this month

by Diana Li ’15, comparing New Haven’s still very limited public financing laws to a more advanced system in Arizona, my initial contrarian reaction turned to deep concern. What if, as suddenly seems possible, public financing moves from being the exception to being the rule in New Haven?

It seems high time that we asked, particularly amid an election season which promises to make use of it more than ever, whether this policy really makes sense for New Haven. By using the fund, participating candidates for mayor (and possibly, in the future, alderman) receive a matching grant from the city after they reach a certain fundraising threshold. The program continues to match donations, meaning

that a candidate effective at fundraising can collect public funds into the hundred thousands.

The program is JOHN justified by MASKO the claim that a proThe gram which level Unmasked helps the amount Truth of campaign cash between candidates will lead to a stronger, more diverse, more open political culture.

The public financing idea rests on a very dubious assumption: that campaign donations, when left to their own devices, do more harm for the democratic process than good. It assumes that for one candidate to accumulate more cash than another through effective fundraising is at best illegitimate, at worst sinister.

Neither I nor, I suspect, anyone else would try to make the case that big donations always favor the best candidate. It is far more presumptuous, though, to conclude that such ‘unfairness’ justifies using taxpayer funds to manipulate fundraising.

Not only does public funding artificially try to level the play-

ing field between candidates of differing levels of seriousness or strength. It also severely inhibits the ability of the democratic process, imperfect as it may be, to help advance better candidates.

In an Orwellian inversion of the democratic ideal, the “Democracy Fund” can force a New Haven taxpayer to support a political candidate in whom he has no interest, or whom he perhaps vehemently opposes. Failing to let candidates rise and fall on the strength of their own candidacies does little to bolster democracy. On the contrary, it delivers it a stinging blow.

In New Haven, this policy, already questionable in theory, becomes a farce. Implicit in the name “Democracy” fund is the hope that in New Haven, lowering political barriers to entry will promote a vibrant exchange of contrasting political ideas. Unfortunately, in the years since the Fund has existed, one of only three candidates to use it has been incumbent Mayor John DeStefano, a political dinosaur seeking to keep a marathon career afloat. It’s really unclear whether funding more candidates, most of whom have very similar policy platforms, will add any diversity to the city’s politics. More likely, it will continue to give voters a lot of different personalities to choose from but no real choice.

And let us not forget that ours is

a city on fiscal life support. As we bounce from year to year between running $40 million deficits, greedily pouring one-time stimulus grants into closing budget gaps, and begging for more money from Hartford, we sustain a program which in all likelihood will only give us more politicians to promote the same failed policies.

Maybe it’s time to reevaluate our priorities. Is the $200,000 used to replenish the Democracy Fund for the next fiscal year really being put to its best possible use? I, for one, would have used it instead to hire five new first-year public school teachers for next academic year.

While the New Haven program remains in embryo, Li’s report on the Fund’s colossal sister program in Arizona should give us great caution and concern. As the Fund’s increasing relevance in the coming election indicates, it is far from out of the question for the Fund to assume a dominating role in New Haven politics. As the power to determine the success or failure of political campaigns devolves more and more to government, New Haven will become a true pioneer, a proprietor of one of the nation’s most effective anti-democracy funds.

JOHN MASKO is a junior in Saybrook College. Contact him at john.masko@yale.edu .

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Republicans eye Ward 1

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Not a single Republican ran for elected office in New Haven in 2011. The Yale College Republicans want to make sure 2013 is different.

In an email to campus Republicans last Thursday, Ben Mallet ’16, who serves as the YCR’s political director, announced plans to field a Republican candidate in November’s ward 1 aldermanic election. Mallet said the YCR is currently in the process of talking to a “pool of interested people” about entering the race, despite what he admitted were their slim chances for victory in a ward that leans heavily Democratic.

“We want to show that Yale is a diverse campus and that it’s not inconceivable for us to elect a Republican,” Mallet said. “It’s been a very long time since a Republican was fielded, and we want to have a role in shaping the debate over what kind of city we want.”

Mallet said a number of students have already signaled interest in running.

Though he declined to provide a specific number who have reached out to him, he said the figure was “substantial” and “more than expected.” As they work to recruit a candidate, members of the YCR have begun meeting with the representatives of the Republican Town Committee, the group responsible for organizing local Republican Party politics and for endorsing Republican candidates for city office, according to Nancy Ahern, who is the committee’s treasurer and a former Republican alderman from Westville. Mallet said the YCR will have to decide upon a candidate before the end of the school year, as the committee chooses whom to endorse over the summer.

Mallet said that a Republican will face an uphill battle in ward 1, which is made up almost entirely of Yale students living in eight of the 12 residential colleges and Old Campus, the vast majority of whom are Democrats. Eighty-two percent of the 1,346 votes cast in ward 1 in last November’s presidential election were for President Barack Obama, a figure that helps explain why the position of ward 1 alderman, currently held

by Sarah Eidelson ’12, has typically been dominated by Democrats. The last Republican to run in the ward lost to Democrat Josh Civin ’96 LAW ’03 in 1993.

Republicans have had slightly better

luck in a few of the other 29 wards making up the Elm City, with Arlene DePino serving in East Shore’s 18th ward up until 2011 when she decided not to seek re-election. In the city as a whole, registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans 48,887 to 2,627, according to the New Haven Independent. The city has not had a Republican mayor since 1951.

“New Haven is an incredibly lopsided city, and so now it’s been four years since we had our last elected Republican on the Board of Alderman,” Republican Town Committee Chairman Richter Elser ’81 said. “But with the mayor retiring and at least one member of the Board of Aldermen running for mayor, this year presents an interesting dynamic.

We’ve made it clear around the city that we’re looking for Republican candidates, but so far not a single person has told me they’re interested in running.”

It’s been a very long time since a Republican was fielded, and we want to have a role in shaping the debate over what kind of city we want.

BEN MALLET ‘16 Political Director, Yale College Republicans But with the election nearly seven months away, Eidelson has not yet decided whether she will run for a second term in November, a decision that will likely determine the field of other Democratic candidates. Drew Morrison ’14 and Jon Silverstone ’15, both of whom had expressed interest in running, have now decided against doing so.

Ward 1 co-chair Nia Holston ’14, who leads the ward committee along with fellow co-chair Ben Crosby ’14, said she would confidently endorse Eidelson should she choose to run again. She said she “couldn’t say for sure” about the prospect of other Democratic candidates. Holston added that a Republican candidate would “certainly make the race exciting” but doubted the success of any such campaign.

Former YCR Chairman Elizabeth Henry ’14 criticized Eidelson for not being sufficiently connected to the Yale

student body, adding that she hopes the Republican candidate will be someone who would be a current student during his or her full term in office.

Yale College Democrats Communications Director Tyler Blackmon ’16 said the Dems will neither field nor endorse a candidate in the aldermanic election, instead simply working for the candidate endorsed by the Democratic Town Committee.

Amalia Skilton ’13, former Ward 1 co-chair and a volunteer for Eidelson’s 2011 campaign, said a Republican campaign for ward 1 alderman would be a “waste of time,” though she said a more moderate-minded Independent would likely give the Democrats a run for their money. She cited the 2005 aldermanic race as an example, when Independent Nick Shalek ’05 defeated Democrat Rebecca Livengood ’07. Though he was registered as an Independent at the time of his election, Shalek was “basically a Republican,” Skilton said, and had a staunchly conservative record as a member of the Board of Aldermen’s finance committee.

Elser said he is optimistic about the prospects of a Republican alderman in ward 1 — and even more so in less heavily Democratic wards, such as 18 and 25.

He said a successful Republican campaign would focus on what he said was the “single most important” issue facing the city: the budget.

Elser criticized Yale aldermen for using the position as a stepping stone for careers in politics instead of taking the needs of the city seriously.

“Ward 1 is really just a Yale petri dish in politics,” he said. “It tends to get people who are attracted to politics without any real serious thought about the implications for those of us who actually live in New Haven. Some aldermen in ward 1 have proposed policies that are great from a student perspective but make no sense when you consider the broader budgetary issues of the city.”

While Mallet acknowledged that the odds are against Republicans in ward 1, Henry said the effort is not a pipe dream.

“We intend to run a real campaign and to let the students represented in ward 1 decide,” she said.

Aldermanic candidates will face off in the general election on Nov. 5.

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

Keyes decides not to run for mayor

BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER As one candidate declined Friday to enter the race to replace Mayor John DeStefano Jr., the field of candidates for the city’shighest position is nearly settled.

Probate judge Jack Keyes — who last month indicated interest in joining the race — announced in a Friday statement that he ultimately decided not to enter the contest. But even as Keyes exits public speculation, Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina, who has flirted with the idea of a run in recent months, could soon join the race.

“After long consideration, I am not going to run mayor. I love my current job and want to stay,” Keyes said in a press release. “I thank, greatly, the people who were kind to me, and will honor them always. This city is my home; I love it, and will hope to be part of its fabric.”

With Keyes’ decision not to run, four candidates remain officially in the race: Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield, former city economic development director Henry Fernandez and plumber Sundiata Keitazulu.

Board of Aldermen president Jorge Perez, who was rumored to have considered a run in the wake of DeStefano’s retirement announcement and was considered a likely favorite in the race had he chosen to do so, officially stated last month that he would not be joining the race.

Carolina, meanwhile, has talked about a potential candidacy in the past, going so far as to form an exploratory committee two weeks ago. When reached for comment Sunday afternoon, Carolina declined to comment on whether he will run for mayor.

Carolina’s exploratory committee held an event at the Elks Club Tuesday night. According to exploratory committee member Jack Paulishen, over 400 peo-

ple showed up to the event that was promoted by word of mouth, as the committee does not have a social media presence or formal communications.

Paulishen added that the exploratory committee has worked to spread the idea that Carolina is considering a mayoral run and test whether Carolina would be a viable candidate in this fall’s race. He said that he has seen “overwhelming support” for the idea of Carolina’s campaign.

This city is my home; I love it, and will hope to be part of its fabric.

JACK KEYES Probate judge “I will say that there has been nothing that has come up that has led me to believe that [Carolina] is not going to be a viable candidate — everything has been positive,” Paulishen said. “[At the Elks Club event], you couldn’t get in the place — people were standing in hallways and standing outside — and things have turned out extraordinarily well.”

Elicker and Holder-Winfield have told the News that the entrance of new candidates will not change their strategies or their campaigns.

Carolina has committed to using the Democracy Fund, New Haven’s public funding system for mayoral races, if he chooses to run this fall, joining Elicker, Keitazulu and Holder-Winfield in their use of the system. Fernandez, meanwhile, has opted out of the system, arguing that his late entry into the race will preclude effective use of the Democracy Fund.

The Democratic primary will be held on September 10.

Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .

For second year, Morse wins Freshman Olympics

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER Danielle Dobosz ’16, the cocaptain of the Morse College team at this year’s Freshman Olympics, said she felt the pressure of maintaining the college’s glory from last year’s olympics when competition began on Saturday. And the Morse class of 2016 did not disappoint.

Morsels racked in 24 points at the Freshman Olympics, edging out second-place Jonathan Edwards College by three.

Though the games ran slightly behind schedule because heavy rain made the Freshman Class Council postpone opening ceremonies from Friday to Saturday, all team captains and freshmen interviewed said they are mostly satisfied with the council’s leadership during the event, but three team captains said they think the

FCC representatives’ decisions about the outcomes of certain games seemed “arbitrary.”

We had to make a couple of tough calls and stick by them, even though some people were saying it was unfair — it was kind of like pulling off a bandaid.

GRANT FERGUSSON ’16 Member, Freshman Class Council “We had to make a couple of tough calls and stick by them, even though some people were saying it was unfair — it was kind of like pulling off a bandaid,” said

Grant Fergusson ’16, one of two FCC members responsible for organizing the event. “Sometimes, even though people wanted to pause and spend more time on some decisions, we couldn’t do it in the interest of time. It became a bit easier as the day progressed, however, as we really fell into the confidence of leading the event.”

Fergusson and Vicky Chou ’16, the other FCC member in charge of the event, said FCC referees used standardized principles to make decisions throughout the games and tried to accommodate everyone’s interests, but added that ensuring all students are satisfied was difficult given the competitive nature of the event.

To minimize misunderstanding, Chou said the FCC created a handbook outlining the rules of each game prior to the tournament.

But Irene Jiang ’16, a co-cap-

tain of the Trumbull team, said some of the information the FCC gave teams on the day of the olympics differred from the information contained in the handbook — a discrepancy she said was irritating. Apurv Suman ’16, a co-captain of the Pierson team, said Pierson freshmen competing in the event “weird relay” thought they had beat other teams when competition ended, but FCC representatives later told them that the rules were different than the ones the Pierson competitors used to devise their strategy and Pierson lost as a result.

Suman added that Pierson, which finished fifth at the Olympics, was not able to compete in some events because the teams did not know when and where the events would take place.

“There was a lot of communication beforehand, but I wish communication between FCC

representatives and players were a little better on the day of the games,” Suman said. “When players are in the middle of a game and one person says one thing and another one says another thing, it can be really tough and frustrating.”

Daniel Hwang ’16, the other co-captain of the Trumbull team, said he thinks many participants would have preferred the events to be more spread out, adding that the tournament’s tight schedule prevented some colleges from participating in more games. Still, he said he thinks all freshmen appreciate the work the FCC put into organizing the event.

Suman, Dobosz and Joshua Rosenfeld ’16, the other co-captain of the Morse team, said they understand the difficulties of organizing such a large-scale event. Though Dobosz said the Morse freshmen were frustrated

with some of the controversies surrounding the tournament, she added that she thinks all participants had a good time overall.

Six freshmen interviewed said they enjoyed the games even though their colleges did not earn first place. Most said the spirit of the freshman class overshadowed the olympics’ minor organizational issues.

“There was definitely drama and definitely intrigue, but I don’t think there was any foul play,” FCC member Aaditya Tolappa ’16 said. “At the end of the day, it seemed like people had fun, including the colleges that didn’t do so well.”

Ezra Stiles College came in last with two points.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Since I am an active member of the Student Activities Committee, I would say, yeah, I care.” DAMIEN “MEAN GIRLS” CHARACTER

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LET’S GO FLY A KITE On Saturday, Yale students, faculty and other members of the New Haven community celebrated Basant, the Hindu festival for the first day of spring, at Farnam Memorial Gardens. Kite-flying is one of the main festivities to mark this joyous occasion.

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ART, UN-PROGRAMMED

The academic advantages of the YUAG are central to Yale’s Art History Department. History of Art professor Robert Nelson described the museum experience as irreplaceable in understanding the scale, coloring, materiality and general condition of art. “[The museum experience] always changes the class dynamic,” Nelson said.

“It’s always liberating — like we’re going on a field trip every single day.”

This semester, Nelson is teaching “Critical Approaches to Art History,” a seminar constructed around the YUAG’s offerings. Each week, he introduces a broad “academic” theme that students consider in the context of a particular work of art from the museum — “a sort of serendipity,” Nelson said.

Professor J.D. Connor, former director of undergraduate studies for History of Art and current Film Studies director for undergraduate studies, said he considers that serendipity one of the museum’s highlights.

“For me, the gallery serves as both a place I can go to find things to teach, but also as a source of inspiration,” Connor said.

Using the YUAG’s upcoming exhibits, Connor developed a class for next semester based on Gary Winograd’s photographs of the Democratic National Convention of 1960.

Professor Youn-mi Kim, who began teaching at Yale this year, said she has drawn inspiration from the gallery for her spring semester course, “Chinese Landscape Painting.” Kim noted the close relationship she has fostered with the museum’s curators, adding, “Whenever I can use the collection, I will.”

Kim said that while every collection has its weaknesses, any holes in the YUAG’s can easily be supplemented by nearby museums in Boston and New York.

But students debate whether professors should base their courses on the gallery’s collections or merely use the museum as a teaching supplement.

Stephanie Wisowaty ’16, a gallery guide

at the YUAG, came to Yale because of its “incredible art galleries.” As a gallery guide, she has familiarized herself with the YUAG extensively. Still, she said she chose not to major in History of Art because she feels the department’s teaching style does not use the YUAG’s resources to their fullest, instead relying on them as a complement to their individual course topics.

“Teachers teach based on what they’re experts in, which makes sense,” Wisowaty said. But given the breadth of the gallery, “it’s a shame,” she added.

Elena Light ’13, an art history major and gallery guide, defended the department’s educational model. She said the department uses the gallery “to the best of [its] ability,” adding that “every professor has made a point to use the gallery, even if it isn’t the most ‘relevant.’” She also noted that with the renovation, the gallery is large enough that professors can choose from a wide range of pieces to incorporate the museum into their courses.

History of Art major Cristina Vere Nicoll ’15 said the department strikes a balance in its use of the YUAG’s resources.

“You can always do more — every lecture could be in front of a painting, but maybe that’s not conducive to learning,” Vere Nicoll said. “There’s definitely something to be said for taking a more academic standpoint.”

A UNIVERSAL TOOL

But art history is not the only focus of the YUAG’s teaching mission, said David Odo, the assistant curator of academic affairs. Vanessa Lamers FES ’13, who creates lesson plans based on the YUAG’s collections according to her discipline as a Gallery Teacher, said art is valuable for all disciplines.

“In literature, you analyze an original source. [When] you come to the gallery, you analyze another original source, an original story,” Lamers said.

Professor Stephen Davis, the director of undergraduate studies for Religious Studies, said he considers art to be an irreplaceable academic resource.

“An exclusive focus on text forgets what motivates the historical imagina-

tion,” Davis said. “Visuality, seeing how spaces worked, is crucial for developing a multimedia sensibility.”

In the fall, Davis taught a lecture course on the history of Christianity and used the YUAG’s Dura Europos exhibit, which displays finds from early 20th century excavations in Syria. He plans to develop a course on early Christian archeology that would use the Dura Europos exhibit more heavily.

Traditionally, the YUAG’s teaching influence has extended throughout Yale’s humanities departments. And since the renovation, Odo explained, the museum is working to foster closer relationships with STEM programs by featuring art related to the human form and inspired by science and medicine, in addition to partnering with science-related organizations like the Public Health Coalition.

“We’re ramping up our collaborations in terms of really thinking together with scientists about how our work can be mutually beneficial,” Odo told the News earlier this month.

Given Lamers’ science background in the School of Forestry, she has advocated for more direct overlap between art and science. She pointed to the Renaissance as a time when art and science were especially interconnected, adding that the YUAG is trying to recapture that interaction.

The YUAG’s pursuit of a more multidisciplinary role underlies a deeper question about the museum’s place within the University. Davis said he sees the gallery as part of the larger network of Yale’s museums, a place for academic intersection rather than isolation. Light compared the gallery to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, a resource with enough breadth that most classes are able to use it in some way.

Given the museum and University’s shared goals of teaching and learning, Odo calls the gallery’s interaction with Yale “a wonderfully symbiotic relationship.”

Contact HAYLEY BYRNES at hayley.byrnes@yale.edu .

Zenas Han ’16 and Grant Fergusson ’16, and Grass overcame Rohan Goswami ’15 by 11 votes, taking 50.64 percent of student votes.

Avraham said this year’s YCC will be particularly significant because it coincides with the changing of major University leadership.

“For the first time in 20 years, Yale is soon going to have a new President,” Avraham said. “And with that, there’s a great momentum to change the YCC — to make it a relevant and strong student government that has the ability to reshape policies and let students help determine the direction of our university.”

Members of the newly elected executive board said they aim to take advantage of the transition in University leadership to increase the YCC’s influence over schoolwide policy — they are considering expanding the executive board to include new positions focused explicitly on policy, Avraham said.

The group also hopes to appoint more YCC members to Yale College’s standing committees, which are largely responsible for shaping undergraduate policy, he added.

The new YCC executive board will meet with President-elect Peter Salovey before the year ends, Tramonte said, adding that he hopes they will be able to focus the new president’s agenda on student life issues.

“President [Richard] Levin had his stated policy goals and objectives that he’s had for a number of years, which we were able to add to each year,” Tramonte said. “But here we have chance to put student life issues at the top of [Salovey’s] list.”

Avraham added that the new YCC leaders plan to work over the summer with programmers to build an online framework for storing information about YCC projects in an effort to improve institutional memory.

Current YCC President John Gonzalez ’14 said he thinks those chosen for the next executive board are hard workers who will continue to build relationships with administrators — one of the “hardest things we do.”

Ackerman, who participated in the most contested election, with three other candidates, said he had been expecting the race to go into a runoff and was shocked to learn he had won.

A runoff election for Junior Class Council president will be held Monday and Tuesday between Nancy Xia ’15, who captured 32.58 percent of the vote, and Rachel Tobin ’15, who received 29.21 percent of the vote.

The new executive board will meet for the first time in the coming week.

Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .

Danny Avraham ’15

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Ben Ackerman ’16

Andrew Grass ’16

Leigh Hamilton ’15

Eli Rivkin ’15

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“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” TOM LEHRER SINGER-SONGWRITER AND SATIRIST

Yale launches institute to study networks

Kissinger talks diplomacy

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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, left, discussed international relations on campus Friday.

BY JOSEPH TISCH STAFF REPORTER Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger came to campus Friday afternoon to discuss his experience as a diplomat and his views on international relations.

University President Richard Levin and history professor John Gaddis interviewed Kissinger to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his book, “Diplomacy,” as part of a two-day conference sponsored by the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Kissinger, who served as secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 under former presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford during the Cold War, emphasized the connection between the academic study of history and the work of realworld diplomatic policy to effect change.

“I do not accept the distinction between realism and idealism,” he said. “You can not walk into a policy-making situation and say, ‘I have this abstract notion.’”

The study of history “should be almost a prerequisite for higher office,” Kissinger said, adding that his work has been more influenced by reading history and biographies than theories of international relations.

Kissinger also touched on his outlook on the United States’ current and future rela-

tions with China, North Korea, Europe and the Middle East.

Since the opening of China in the early 1970s, Kissinger said every U.S. president has identified the relationship between the two nations as one that requires moving from adversaries to cooperative partners.

You cannot walk into a policy-making situation and say, ‘I have this abstract notion.’

HENRY KISSINGER Former U.S. secretary of state “They feel that a conflict between China and the United States would have worse characteristics even than World War I,” he said.

Kissinger said he does not see North Korea as a major threat to the United States and is not worried about a large-scale Korean attack because an attack would be “suicide” for Kim Jong-un’s “inherently fragile regime.”

In the formation of the European Union, he said, he sees “an enormous decline in what made Europe what it is.” He thinks Europe should emphasize political integration in the coming years to create a Euro Zone that

can accommodate a common fiscal policy, he said. He added that the United States must maintain a strong relationship with Europe in the coming years.

Kissinger said he thinks it is time to reconsider the role of the United States in the Middle East since the conditions in the region today are very different from those that existed during the Cold War. He discussed the problem of re-establishing authority following a revolution, adding, “the best-organized group, often a minority, prevails.”

Attendees of the talk — who included Global Affairs majors, Gaddis’ students, and students in Directed Studies — said they enjoyed the opportunity to hear from one of the most prominent diplomats of the 20th century.

“It was an amazing opportunity to hear a person that shaped American diplomacy and diplomacy in general,” Joao Pedro Drechsler ’16 said.

Andrew Grass ’16 said he had previously read “Diplomacy” and was familiar with Kissinger’s views but still found the discussion to be cohesive and fascinating.

Kissinger donated his papers to the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs in June 2011.

Contact JOSEPH TISCH at joseph.tisch@yale.edu .

Yale will launch an Institute of Network Science, or YINS, this summer to study the nature of complex interactions in fields ranging from sociology to biology.

The center, based out of 17 Hillhouse Ave., will serve as a hub for interdisciplinary research as well as a forum to develop innovative ways to teach about networks ranging from microscopic cells to human populations. The institute will be led by Yale computer science professor Daniel Spielman ’92 and Harvard sociology professor Nicholas Christakis ’84, who will join the Yale faculty this summer.

“I think it’s a very exciting opportunity to gather researchers from many different disciplines together who have a common interest,” Spielman said. “It is a chance to really foster interactions on problems that seem to be related to each other. I have great hopes for what it is going to do.”

Among many initial research objectives, Spielman said YINS will investigate how social networks influence public health and how to build robots that explore an environment by communicating with one another as opposed to a central base. Spielman won a MacArthur “Genius Grant” in 2012 for his work on communication networks.

Apart from research efforts, Christakis said he hopes to use the center to devise laboratory courses in the social sciences. For example, he said students can use online labor markets like Amazon Mechanical Turk to study networks.

“You are not just doing psychology experiments on individuals, you are doing experiments on whole social systems — whether it is markets

James Baron Olav Sorenson Marissa King

or networks or other kinds of social systems,” he said. “I think it should be possible to develop classes where students learn about things like networks or markets and then go to a laboratory and actually create their own networks and markets and see how real people behave in them.”

Yale faculty proposed the idea for YINS about a year ago, said Deputy Provost for Science and Technology Steve Girvin. While seed money from Yale will help establish YINS, faculty affiliated with the center will ultimately support operations with external grants, Girvin said.

Christakis holds many ties to Harvard, with appointments in the sociology department and at the medical school. Since 2009, he has also served as Master of Pforzheimer House at Harvard College. In that year, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Girvin called it a “real coup” for Yale to have recruited Christakis, not only because of his research accomplishments but also for his skills as a “fabulous” teacher. Christakis, who will hold a primary appointment in the Sociology Department at Yale next year, will bring “Medicine and Disease in Social Context,” a popular undergraduate course at Harvard, to Yale undergraduates.

He added that he may also help lead “Great Big Ideas” in the fall.

“I think what is happening at Yale is very exciting to me at the moment,” Christakis said.

“It was moving much more in the direction I was moving in the intersection of the natural and the social sciences.”

The institute will open on July 1.

Contact DAN WEINER at daniel.weiner@yale.edu .

School of Management

Sociology Scott Boorman Emily Erikson Andrew Papachristos

Economics Dirk Bergemann

Electrical Engineering

INSTITUTE OF NETWORK SCIENCE

Sekhar Tatikonda

Statistics

Mark Gerstein

Computer Science Ronald Coifman Mark Gerstein

Mathematics Ronald Coifman

Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry

Nicholas Read

Psychology David Rand

Physics

Faculty from a number of disciplines will be a part of the Institute of Network Science.

Amid budget woes, aldermen divide federal grant funding

BY JIWON LEE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A greater number of New Haven’s nonprofit organizations will share a smaller pie of federal grant money for community development programs in 2013’14 than in the current fiscal year.

The city finalized a plan on how to distribute roughly $3.4 million of Community Development Block Grant funds to 60 agencies and programs for social services after the federal funding was cut by about 8 percent this year. The Joint Community Development and Human Services Committee of the Board of

Aldermen approved the budget based on a March 27 public hearing when applying agencies and community members gathered to discuss how to allocate the money.

The grant, funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, supports community efforts for providing good living conditions and economic opportunities for lowincome individuals.

“The program is inspiring but sad at the same time,” Ward 1 Alderman Sarah Eidelson ’12 said.

“The money is nowhere near the level that [the community agencies] need.”

Because of the cut in federal spending, many nonprofit agencies received much less financial support than they applied for. BHcare Birmingham Group Health Services, Inc, which provides services to adult victims of domestic violence and their children, received $5,000 for its outreach program — less than half of last year’s funding of $12,437.

A smaller budget will require many social service programs to provide benefits to fewer people.

For this reason, many of the local organizations appealed to the joint committee regarding why they need the funding at the public hearing, said Eidelson.

“It’s important money,” Ward 26 Alderman Sergio Rodriguez said. “It’s money that they wouldn’t get anywhere else.”

Because of the increase in the total number of applicants and decrease in total grant money, aldermen gave priority to programs that support job training and employment opportunities, youth development activities, homelessness prevention and rehousing projects. Some applicants were rejected because of incomplete paperwork or overlaps with other programs in sevices provided.

The number of agencies that applied for funding for the

first time this year affected the decrease in the available funding.

Among the 60 groups and agencies that applied this year, 18 were first-time applicants, including housing projects, nursing facilities, health services and afterschool programs.

“Some good people that didn’t get money [in previous years] got good money this year,” Ward 29 Alderman Brian Wingate said.

Eidelson said that it is difficult for new organizations to apply because of the complicated application process, which includes tedious paperwork and participation at a public hearing.

The city government is trying to

lessen the burden for the agencies, she said.

Together with CDBGs, the Committee also approved the budget for other social services programs, including federal funding for the Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA), Home Investment Partnership (HOME) and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG).

These federal grants were cut by 10, 26 and 8 percent from last year, respectively.

The CDBG program started in 1974.

Contact JIWON LEE at jiwon.lee@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, APRIL 15 5:30 PM “Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps” Aaron O’Connell, assistant professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy, will give a talk on his book “Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps.” Sponsored by the International Security Studies program. Free and open to the general public. Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.), Room 211.

TUESDAY, APRIL 16 7:00 PM “Feast of Burden” at Yale There will be a screening of Eugene Kotlyarenko’s “Feast of Burden,” an episodic YouTube comedy, thriller and melodrama made in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. The screening will be followed by a Q-and-A with the writer and director, Eugene Kotlyarenko, and prepared comments from the production designer, Ben Wolf Noam. 212 York St., Room 106.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 4:00 PM “Writing George Kennan’s Biography” History professor John Lewis Gaddis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “George F. Kennan: An American Life,” will give the Medical Library Associates Lecture. Free and open to the general public. Cushing/ Whitney Medical Library (333 Cedar St.).

5:00 PM “Museums in Motion: Paradigms, Practices and Publics in Interdisciplinary Conversation” The Public Humanities Working Group will host an interdisciplinary conversation on the current state of the museum as a site of innovation and community engagement. Through dialogue with representatives from diverse institutions, this panel will discuss the museum’s social and political roles and the contemporary challenges that it faces. Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.), Room 119A.

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Close vote expected on background checks

BY DINA CAPPIELLO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Senate proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers gained the backing of one Republican and the potential support of a second Sunday as sponsors said the vote expected this week was too close to call.

The plan would “strengthen the background check system without in any way infringing on Second Amendment rights,” Maine Sen. Susan Collins said in a statement explaining her support for the measure. But she

added that “it is impossible to predict at this point” what will be in a final bill.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, who has a B+ rating from the National Rifle Association, said he was “very favorably disposed” to the proposal that has emerged from Sens. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. “I appreciate their work,” McCain said. “And the American people want to do what we can to prevent these tragedies.

And there’s a lot more that needs to be done, particularly in the area of mental health.”

It was in McCain’s home state that a gunman with schizophrenia shot then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head during a 2011 rampage in Tucson that left six people killed.

Collins and Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois are the only two Republicans besides Toomey who are expected to vote for the compromise as of now.

It will take 60 votes to pass, meaning that more Republicans will have to come on board because some Democrats from gun-friendly states are expected to oppose the measure.

“It’s an open question as

to whether or not we have the votes. I think it’s going to be close,” Toomey said.

If you are a law-abiding gun owner, you’re going to like this bill.

JOE MANCHIN U.S. senator, West Virginia The measure requires background checks for people buying guns at gun shows and

Scott wins in a playoff at Augusta

BY DOUG FERGUSON ASSOCIATED PRESS AUGUSTA, Ga. — Adam Scott finished the job this time, and put an end to more than a half-century of Australian misery at the Masters.

With the two biggest putts of his career, Scott holed a 20-footer for birdie on the 18th hole of regulation that put him into a playoff with Angel Cabrera, and then won his first major championship Sunday with a 12-footer for birdie on the second extra hole.

Scott leaned back and thrust his arms in the air after the putt dropped on the 10th hole, a celebration for all of Australia and personal redemption for himself. It was only last summer when Scott threw away the British Open by making bogey on his last four holes to lose by one shot to Ernie Els. The 32-yearold handled that crushing defeat

with dignity and pledged to finish stronger given another chance.

“Next time — I’m sure there will be a next time — I can do a better job of it,” he said that day.

Australia is a proud sporting nation, and this is one notch in the belt we never got.

ADAM SCOTT Australian golfer Scott was close to perfect, and he had to be with Cabrera delivering some brilliance of his own.

Moments after Scott made his 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a 3-under 69 to take a one-shot lead — “C’mon, Aussie!” he screamed — Cabrera

answered with an approach that plopped down 3 feet from the cup, one of the greatest shots under the circumstances. That gave him an easy birdie and a 2-under 70.

They both chipped close for par on the 18th in the first playoff hole, and Cabrera’s 15-foot birdie putt on the 10th grazed the right side of the cup.

With his long putter anchored against his chest, Scott’s putt was true all the way.

The Masters was the only major an Australian had never won, and Scott was among dozens of golfers who routinely rose in the early hours of Monday morning for the telecast, only to watch a horror show. The leading character was Greg Norman, who had four good chances to win, none better than when he blew a six-shot lead on the last day to Nick Faldo in 1996.

There was Jim Ferrier in 1952,

Bruce Crampton 20 years later, and Scott and Jason Day only two years ago. Norman, though, was the face of Aussie failures at the Masters, and Scott paid him tribute in Butler Cabin before he slipped on that beautiful green jacket.

“Australia is a proud sporting nation, and this is one notch in the belt we never got,” Scott said.

“It’s amazing that it came down to me today. But there’s one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that’s Greg Norman. He’s been incredible to me and all the great golfers. Part of this belongs to him.”

Scott was just as gracious in victory as he was last summer at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. He and Cabrera flashed a thumbsup to each other after their shots into the 10th hole in the playoff, and they walked off the 10th green with their arms around each other when it was over.

online. Background checks currently apply only to transactions handled by the country’s 55,000 licensed gun dealers. Private transactions, such as a sale of a gun between family members, would still be exempt.

Manchin urged lawmakers to read the 49-page proposal. He said it should dispel any misconceptions about infringing on the constitutional right to bear arms.

“You can imagine for what, the last two or three months, that all you heard is they’re going to take this away from you and that away,” and all of the gun

groups are trying to outdo each other, Manchin said Sunday on Fox News Channel. “And the bottom line is when you have a group now — Alan Gottlieb, the chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, said, ‘We read the bill, we like the bill’ and it protects law-abiding gun owners like myself. And they are supporting it now. That is huge.”

Gottlieb did not respond to a request Sunday to provide more details of the position taken by his group.

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WORLD N. Korea lets in tourists, athletes

BY ERIC TALMADGE ASSOCIATED PRESS PYONGYANG, North Korea — Despite North Korea’s warnings that the threat of war on the Korean Peninsula is so high it cannot guarantee the safety of foreign residents, it literally trotted out athletes from around the world on Sunday for a marathon through the streets of its capital — suggesting that its concerns with an imminent military crisis might not be as dire as its official pronouncements proclaim.

As it prepares to celebrate its most important holiday of the year, the birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung on Monday, the mixed message — threats of a “thermonuclear war” while showcasing foreign athletes and even encouraging tourism — was particularly striking on Sunday.

Pyongyang crowds lined the streets to watch athletes from 16 nations compete in the 26th Mangyongdae Prize Marathon in the morning and then filled a performance hall for a gala concert featuring ethnic Korean performers brought in from China, Russia and Japan as part of a slew of events culminating in Kim’s birthday — called the “Day of the Sun.” After racing through the capital, the foreign athletes and hundreds of North Korean runners were cheered into Kim Il Sung Stadium by tens of thousands of North Korean spectators. North Korea’s official media said the marathon was larger than previous years and that enthusi-

asm was “high among local marathoners and their coaches as never before.”

“The feeling is like, I came last year already, the situation is the same,” said Taiwan’s Chang Chia-che, who finished 15th.

Showing off foreign athletes and performers as part of the birthday celebrations has a propaganda value that is part of Pyongyang’s motivation for highlighting the events to its public, even as it rattles its sabers to the outside world. In recent weeks, Pyongyang has said it could not vouch for the safety of foreigners, indicated embassies consider evacuation plans and urged foreigners residing in South Korea to get out as well.

But there does not appear to be much of a sense of crisis among the general population, either.

Pyongyang residents are mobilizing en masse for the events marking the birthday, rushing to tidy up streets, put new layers of paint on buildings, and erect posters and banners hailing Kim, the grandfather of the country’s new dynastic leader, Kim Jong Un. Pyongyang’s statements are commonly marked by alarming hyperbole, and it has not ordered the small number of foreigners who are here to leave. Several embassies in Pyongyang refused to comment on the suggestion they consider evacuating, referring questions back to their home countries. But there were no reports that any diplomatic missions had actually left.

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16 killed in attack on Somali court

BY ABDI GULED AND JASON STRAZIUSO ASSOCIATED PRESS MOGADISHU, Somalia — A barrage of bullets and two car bomb blasts rattled Mogadishu on Sunday when nine al-Shabab Islamic extremists stormed Somalia’s main court complex, officials said, in a two-hour attack that shows the country’s most dangerous militant group may be down but not defeated.

A preliminary death toll stood at 16, including all nine attackers.

The government didn’t immediately publicize the number of security forces, government employees and civilians who died during the attack.

The assault was the most serious in Mogadishu since al-Shabab was forced out of the capital in August 2011. Al-Shabab controls far less territory today than in recent years, and its influence appears to be on the decline, but Sunday’s attack proved the extremists are still capable of pulling off well-planned, audacious assaults.

The top U.N. official for Somalia, Augustine P. Mahiga, said he was shocked and outraged by the attack. Mahiga said the total number of dead wasn’t clear, but that reports indicated that “many innocent civilians were killed including women and at least one

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Somali soldiers carry a wounded civilian from Mogadishu’s court complex after a siege by militants. child.”

The attack on the Supreme Court complex began at around 12:30 p.m., sparking running battles with police and army forces.

One car bomb detonated outside the court, and gunmen were seen on the roof of a court building firing shots, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said. Police

officer Hassan Abdulahi said he saw five dead bodies lying at the entrance to the court.

The militants took an unknown number of hostages during the siege. Many other government workers and civilians in the court complex — a confusing labyrinth of buildings and rooms — hid while fearing for their lives.

Western officials knew militants had been planning a major violent incident. The British Foreign Office on Friday released a travel warning for Somalia that warned of a high threat of terrorism. “We continue to believe that terrorists are in the final stages of planning attacks in Mogadishu,” it said.

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fter the men’s hockey team won its first NCAA Division I championships in program history, the players and crowd went wild. BRIANNE BOWEN documents the celebration.

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Quinnipiac goaltender Eric Hartzell was a Hobey Baker Award finalist and a first-team All-American — but he was no match for Yale’s explosive offense the fourth time around.

MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE A1 the Frozen Four. The Yale captain picked up the puck in the middle of the ice, broke away, and fired a low shot through Hartzell’s five-hole.

Down 3–0, the Bobcats

made a risky decision with nearly seven minutes remaining and decided to pull Hartzell in a 4-on-4 situation to give themselves a 5-on-4 advantage in hopes of breaking open the scoreboard.

But the plan backfired when

Root won the faceoff and Miller shot out of the zone with the puck. He made a bounce pass off the boards to Root, who swooped in and scored on the empty net to seal the deal for the Bulldogs, 4–0.

“One of the things that I felt

coming into the game tonight that gave us an edge is [Quinnipiac] hadn’t seen our A-game in the previous three games,” Allain said. “They saw the result of it, but I don’t think they knew what we had become as a hockey team. And I thought we could

surprise them a little bit with that.”

Quinnipiac, which topped the national polls for most of the season, had beaten Yale in each of the teams’ previous three meetings. In their first matchup on Feb. 2, the Bobcats erased

Yale’s early 2–0 lead with six unanswered goals. Yale fell to Quinnipiac again on Feb. 22 and in the ECAC consolation game on March 23, both times by a margin of three goals.

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Malcolm ’13 celebrates birthday with shutout

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER PITTSBURGH — “Happy Birthday, dear Malcolm,” the Yale student section chanted as goaltender Jeff Malcolm ’13 rose the NCAA Division I national championship trophy above his head.

On his 24th birthday, the senior stopped all 36 of the shots he faced in the final game of his collegiate career, earned his third shutout of the season and, to put the icing on the cake, led Yale to its first national title.

Quinnipiac’s Eric Hartzell was considered to be the nation’s top goaltender for most of the season. He was a Hobey Baker finalist and a first-team AllAmerican, played the most minutes of any goaltender in college hockey, accumulated five shutouts and ended the season ranked No. 3 in goals against average.

But while Hartzell bested Malcolm in the ECAC third place game, Malcolm got the better of Hartzell when it really mattered — in the national championship. “[Malcolm] played out of his mind tonight, like he has all season for us,” forward Jesse Root ’14 said. “Every time we got in trouble he was there to bail us out.

His play gave us so much confidence.”

Shot after shot, Malcolm “stood tall,” according to head coach Keith Allain ’80.

He stopped several breakaway opportu-

nities for Quinnipiac and kept his composure throughout the most important game of his life. On two of the breakaway opportunities, one by Jordan SamuelsThomas and one by Matthew Peca, Malcolm maintained his position without biting on the Bobcat forwards’ fakes and knocked aside what could have been two quick goals for Quinnipiac.

“Jeff played great all night,” Colin Dueck ’13 said. “You could tell right from the start he was feeling it. He was getting shots, and he was seeing them and moving well.”

Before Malcolm went head to head with Hartzell and came out on top, he had to outplay two other top-ranked goaltenders to earn Yale a berth in the championship. Minnesota’s Adam Wilcox was sixth in Division I in goals against average, and UMass-Lowell’s Connor Hellebuyck, who had the most shutouts in the country, led the nation with 1.3742 goals against. Malcolm outdueled each of them as Yale took 3–2 overtime victories against both Minnesota and UMass before facing Quinnipiac in the final.

On Saturday he topped both of those performances, transforming into a brick wall on his birthday to deny every scoring opportunity the Bobcats created.

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Goaltender Jeff Malcolm ’13 was named the first star of the national championship game on his 24th birthday after shutting out Quinnipiac for Yale’s first-ever NCAA men’s hockey title.

TOP DOG ANDREW MILLER ’13

THE TEAM CAPTAIN, WHO LED THE MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM TO CLINCH THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE, WAS NAMED THE TOURNAMENT’S MOST OUTSTANDING PLAYER.

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ADAM SCOTT Scott became the first Australian to win the Masters, defeating Angel Cabrera in a play-off after shooting a three-under 69 in the final round to finish nine-under for the tournament.

Elis prevail in all-Whitney Avenue final HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 Yale has been surprising teams since this NCAA Tournament began. The Elis slipped into the bracket after Notre Dame’s defeat of Michigan gave them the last available slot.

Yale successively took down No. 1-seeded Minnesota and No. 2 North Dakota in the West Regional before knocking out UMass-Lowell in overtime during the Frozen Four semifinal. By the time they were finished, the Elis had defeated the top three teams in the national rankings.

[Quinnipiac] hadn’t seen our A-game in the previous three games. … I don’t think they knew what we had become as a hockey team.

KEITH ALLAIN ’80 Coach, Yale ice hockey “If we look down the road and say we’re going to have to beat three number ones and a No. 2 seed, the task might have seemed daunting,” Allain said.

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“But we went into Grand Rapids and focused on Minnesota, took care of that job. We focused on North Dakota. When you chip away at it one at a time, obviously, it took a great deal of effort, but it’s not impossible, for sure.”

As silver confetti rained down at the conclusion of the championship game, Miller was named the third star of the game, Bourbonais was named the second, and Malcolm was named the first.

“Everyone played their hardest and competed their hardest,” said Miller, who was named the most outstanding player of the tournament. “To bring a national championship back to Yale is unbelievable.”

Yale has scheduled a celebration for the hockey team at Ingalls Rick at 5:00 p.m. today.

Contact ALISON GRISWOLD at alison.griswold@yale.edu . Contact ASHTON WACKYM at and ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

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Steven Morales ’13, left, and Will Jordan ’13 led on the Yale cheering section with a poster of captain Andrew Miller ’13.

[The Frozen Four] was such a good college sporting environment, which is something that I thought I might have lost out on by coming to yale. But it turned out that this was far better than I couldv’e imagined.

HAL LIBBY ’15 WHALING CREW CO-FOUNDER

YALE HOCKEY SUPERFANS JORDAN AND MORALES ON THE QUINNIPIAC RIVALRY

ON GETTING TICKETS TO THE GAME

I think they think it’s more of a thing than we do.

WILL JORDAN ’13

On a personal level as a Yale hockey fan I’m ecstatic, but more than that it’s great to see the campus buzzing about the hockey team.

ANDREW SOBOTKA ’15 WHALING CREW CO-FOUNDER

We showed up an hour before they started selling tickets.

STEVEN MORALES ’13

WILL JORDAN ’13

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Jeff Malcolm ’13 and the rest of the national champion Yale hockey team will be honored at a celebration at Ingalls Rink today at 5 p.m.

Despite Malcom’s strong play throughout the regular season — in which he held opponents to 2.2437 goals against — he was not lauded the same way some of the other goaltenders were heading into the tournament. Hartzell was recognized as a Hobey Baker contender and Hellebuyck earned commentators’ praise with the No. 1 save percentage in the country as a freshman.

But few talked about Malcolm’s ability to make saves when it counted.

Malcolm played in eight extra-minute contests this season and stopped every shot he faced.

His championship shutout landed him among an elite group of goaltenders who have earned shutouts in the national title game. He is just the fifth goalie to accomplish such a feat since the NCAA Division I national tournament was

STEVEN MORALES ’13

I wouldn’t say it’s a big rivalry. It’s kinda sad that all their shirts say beat Yale - that’s what they’re all about. For us it’s just another hockey game.

Yale’s ‘rock’ stonewalls Quinnipiac

MALCOLM FROM PAGE B1

I’ve always been a big hockey fan, but this has definitely gotten me way more into it. When you have friends on the team you want to be just right in front of them.

started in 1948.

“He’s been our rock all season,” Kenny Agostino ’14 said.

“Our team had its ebbs and flows all year but no question he has been consistent all season.”

The Lethbridge, Alberta native ended the season with the nation’s 20th best goals against average and 29th best save percentage at 0.919.

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

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Knicks clinch No. 2 seed in the East

Carmelo Anthony scored 25 points and the Knicks topped the Pacers 90–80 with two games remaining in the season. Last week the Knickerbockers clinched their first Atlantic Division title since 1994. The Miami Heat have locked up the No. 1 seed in the East.

Baseball locked in second with Crimson BASEBALL FROM PAGE B4 tom of the fourth. Yale closed the gap to 3–2 on a sacrifice fly by Hunter, but three more runs from Harvard in the fifth finished the scoring and the Crimson won 6–2.

In the second game on Sunday, Toups got the Elis on the scoreboard quickly, drilling a lead-off home run to right field on the first pitch of the game.

“We said we needed to turn the page and jump out on them early,” Scharff said. “[Toups] had a great swing on the first pitch and drove it out of the ballpark. We never looked back from there.”

Leftfielder Nate Adams ’16 brought in another run in the first with a sac fly, but the Crimson would knot the game at 2–2 with two runs in the bottom of the fourth. Adams retook the lead for Yale with an RBI fielder’s choice in the sixth and a second run scored on the play when second baseman Tanner Anderson threw the ball away. Yale handed a 5–2 lead to right-hander Cale Hanson ’14 in the ninth — and Hanson shut the door by striking out the side.

“Our hitters did a great job of putting pressure on the defense late in the game and got us some big runs,” he said.“They made my job easy. I just threw strikes and focused on keeping the ball down in the zone. I was able to throw some of my off-speed pitches when I was ahead in the count and luckily my stuff was moving enough to be effective.”

Both Hanson and Toups also said that they were impressed with Piwinski’s performance. The team captain went five-of-13 for a .385 batting average on the weekend.

He played three games behind the plate and started the fourth at shortstop. “[Piwinski] is our anchor,” Toups said.

“He works so hard behind the plate and brings the energy that everyone feeds off out there. He is great at working with the pitchers.”

Yale will head back on the road to face Sacred Heart (25–32, 19–13 Northeast Conference) in Fairfield, Conn. on Wednesday.

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

After two days and four games, Yale and Harvard remain tied for second place in the Red Rolfe division of the Ivy League. The teams split double-headers on Saturday and Sunday.

Bulldogs keep Olympic Axe HEAVYWEIGHT CREW FROM PAGE B4 as it clocked in 10.3 seconds ahead of Dartmouth.

The varsity race had a much smaller margin of victory, with Yale finishing the course at 5:41.2 — just 2.7 seconds ahead of Dartmouth. Gladstone said although he was happy with the win, he thought the varsity squad had a better race two weeks ago when they fell to Brown, the defending Eastern Sprints champion, 5:25.5 to 5:27.0 on the Seekonk River in Providence, R.I. “Any athlete knows when his performance has been up to standard, and the junior varsity had that on Saturday,” Gladstone said. “The varsity has full respect for Dartmouth, but the squad felt they did not find a rhythm to go at their optimal speed.”

Saturday marked the second race of the spring season for both teams, as Dartmouth fell to Columbia in its three eight-boat races on April 6. Varsity coxswain Oliver Fletcher ’14 noted that Dartmouth’s home river remains frozen longer than at other schools, which can put the Big Green at a disadvantage early in the season.

“Obviously it was good to get a win under our belt, but we saw from Saturday’s race that we haven’t quite managed to mesh all of the pieces together quite yet,” Fletcher said.

“It was a little scrappy and disjointed, and we’ll be looking to remedy that in the coming weeks. That’s not to take anything away from Dartmouth, who raced aggressively and with persistence, but we think there’s a lot more speed that we can unlock.”

The Bulldogs will race against Columbia and Penn next weekend in Philideplhia, Pa. The team will return to take on Cornell and Princeton at the Gilder Boathouse for the final home race of the season on April 27.

Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .

Yale remains perfect at home WOMEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE B4 comeback in the singles. Hamilton snatched a 6-4, 6-3 win at No. 2, with No. 3 Sullivan and No. 4 Yu trumping their opponents 6-1, 6-2 and 6-2, 6-2 respectively. While Epstein was defeated at No. 1, Li and Amos enjoyed relatively comfortable wins in the No. 5 and No. 6 spots. The push in the singles ultimately gave the Bulldogs a 5-2 victory.

Hamilton said that although Columbia is a much-improved team from last year, the Bulldogs were quick to make an impact following the doubles.

“I thought coming into the singles we got off to a very good start,” Hamilton said. “We were really focused and played with a lot of intensity. We showed them how tough of a team we are overall.”

The Bulldogs will return to the CullmanHeyman Tennis Center this Friday, when they take on Dartmouth.

Contact JASMINE HORSEY at jasmine.horsey@yale.edu .

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The Yale junior varsity boat outpaced its Dartmouth opponents by over 10 seconds while the varsity eight squeezed out a 2.7 second win.

Track falls to archrival Crimson TRACK FROM PAGE B4 the performances,” sprinter Daniel Jones ’14 said. “I know we’ll get there, but we’re running out of time. Overall, there was some good, some bad, but great efforts all around.”

While the men’s team won nine events to Harvard’s 10, the Eli women almost matched that effort, winning eight events to the Cantabs’ 11.

The Bulldogs’ struggles in the sprinting events extended to the women’s team. The squad man-

aged to win only two events under 3000m. The Bulldogs finished one-two in the 400m hurdles, as Jenna Poggi ’13 won in 1:03.03 with teammate Dakota McCoy ’13 right behind in 1:06.34, but the Crimson did not field any runners. Yale also grabbed the 4x400m title by a little more than a second and a half in 3:53.57.

The team had more success in the distance and field events. Melissa Chapman ’14 and Elizabeth Martin ’13 swept the top two spots in the 3000m, and Isabel Amend ’16 won the 3000m steeplechase running

unopposed. Another freshman, Karleh Wilson ’16, had particular success in the shot put, taking the event with a throw of 13.57m.

The Bulldogs performed especially well in the jumping events, taking victories in three of them.

Emily Urciuoli ’14 won the pole vault and the team swept the top three spots in the long jump and triple jump. Alisha Jordan ’15, Teresa Parent ’14 and Amanda Snajder ’14 finished first, second and third, respectively, in the long jump, and Jordan, Parent and Kristen Proe ’14 did the same in the triple jump.

“There’s a clear sense of competition,” Rue said. “It’s cool to have [a dual meet] against Harvard because that’s been going on for so long.”

When the Bulldogs and Cantabs next compete, they will do so not as rivals, but as teammates. The men’s and women’s teams will both travel to Boston on Tuesday to compete as a joint team against their counterparts across the pond, Cambridge and Oxford, in another dual meet.

Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .

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The women’s tennis team moved up to No.1 in Ivy League after defeating Ivy rivals Cornell and Columbia.

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“Congrats to the Yale Men’s Hockey team on the NCAA Championship!!”

RYAN LAVARNWAY ’09 BOSTON RED SOX CATCHER

Bulldogs defend home court

BY JASMINE HORSEY STAFF WRITER The No. 37 women’s tennis team brought its home winning streak to 33 this weekend, notching victories over New York Ivies Cornell and Columbia.

WOMEN’S TENNIS On Saturday, the Bulldogs (14–2, 3–0 Ivy) continued their quest for a third-straight Ivy title with a 6–1 win over Cornell (13-3, 2-3 Ivy). The next day, they defeated Columbia (11–5, 4–1 Ivy) in a closer 5–2 victory. Hanna Yu ’15 said that thanks to the team’s close bond and challenging training schedule, the Bulldogs feel in great shape as they approach the end of the season.

“We have worked up to this time of the year, putting in many hours in practice, strength and conditioning,” she said. “Our coaches have pushed us every day, getting us better, fitter and stronger physically and mentally.”

The team emerged victorious against Cornell despite tough doubles opposition. Team captain Elizabeth Epstein ’13 and Annie Sullivan ’14 took down their opponents 9-8 in the No. 1 spot and Courtney Amos ’16 and Yu won 9-7 at No. 3, though Madeleine Hamilton ’16 and Amber Li ’15, the No. 2 pairing, succumbed 8-9 to the Big Reds.

With the doubles point secured, the Elis faced a string of tight singles matches.

Epstein, currently ranked No. 64 in the nation for singles, put in a solid performance at No. 1 by defeating Cornell’s Sarah O’Neil 6-3, 6-4.

At No. 2, Hamilton prevailed in another close encounter, winning her match 11-9 in a super tiebreak. At No. 5, Li was unable to close out against the Big Red’s Laila Judeh, losing 5-7, 4-6.

Continuing the dominant tennis she has displayed this season, Sullivan won comfortably 6-2, 6-1 at No. 3.

“Annie [Sullivan] has especially been playing very dominant tennis,” she said. “She is undefeated this season and was the first singles match off against both Cornell and Columbia.”

After their relatively comfortable win against Cornell, the Bulldogs moved into Sunday with confidence in their line-up. Columbia, then the only other undefeated team in the conference, got off to a strong start by winning both the No. 1 and No. 3 doubles 8–3.

Once it became clear the Lions had secured the doubles point, the No. 2 match was left unfinished at 6-6.

Despite the rocky start, Yale made a rapid SEE WOMEN’S TENNIS PAGE B3

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After taking down Cornell and Columbia, the No. 37 Elis brought their home-winning streak to 33 this weekend.

Baseball splits with Crimson

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER The Bulldogs came into the weekend tied with Harvard for second in the Red Rolfe division of the Ivy League, and the standings remained unchanged after the two rivals split their four-game series in Cambridge.

Yale (8–21, 5–7 Ivy) dropped the first game of both of the weekend’s doubleheaders, but came back to beat the Crimson (8–24, 5–7) in the

second game on Saturday and Sunday.

Despite a six-inning, two-run performance from left-handed pitcher Rob Cerfolio ’14, the Elis lost the first game on Saturday 2–1 thanks to a seven-inning, sevenstrikeout gem by Harvard righty Sam Dodge. It looked as if the Cantabs would sweep the twin bill with Harvard up 3–1 heading into the ninth, but captain Chris Piwinski ’13 scored on a double-play ball from centerfielder Cam Squires

’13 to bring second baseman David Toups ’15 to the plate with the Elis trailing by one. Toups laced a game-tying RBI single to left field as Yale exploded for six runs in the top of the ninth to take the game 7–3.

“I was looking for a fastball because I was up in the count,” Toups said. “My approach was to stay inside the ball, get on top of the ball, and drive it up the middle.”

Michael Coleman ’14 pitched eight innings to keep Yale in the

game and earn his second victory of the year.

Yale took a 1–0 lead to start the Sunday doubleheader when designated hitter Josh Scharff ’13 scored first baseman Jacob Hunter ’15 with a single to second in the top of the first. Sophomore first baseman Nick Saathoff retook the lead for the Crimson with a three-run homer to right field off of righthander Chris Moates ’16 in the botSEE BASEBALL PAGE B3

Elis swept

by Harvard at home

BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER As the attention of the Yale campus turned toward Pittsburgh on Saturday to witness a burgeoning local rivalry on ice, the newest iteration of an ancient rivalry took place right on campus.

TRACK AND FIELD

Heavyweight crew retains Olympic Axe

BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER On Saturday morning, the heavyweight crew team swept the annual Yale-Dartmouth regatta, retaining the Olympic Axe for the 10th straight year.

HEAVYWEIGHT CREW Yale’s varsity eight, junior varsity, third varsity and varsity four all bested their Dartmouth counterparts on the 2,000-meter course along the Housatonic River in the team’s first home race of the season. The Bulldogs are undefeated in all race categories against the Big Green since the 2008-’09 season and have won the battle axe trophy every year since 2004, when it first became the prize of the annual contest.

“It was a fantastic day of racing with strong performances from all boats,” team captain Jon Morgan ’13 said.

Morgan, who raced in the junior varsity boat, added that he thought the team showed some technical improvements since it lost three of four races to Brown two weeks ago. Yale’s third varsity and junior varsity won their races by large margins: 5:49.59 to 5:55.70 and 5:46.00 to 5:56.3, respectively. The varsity four also won by nearly 10 seconds, with a time of 6:27.0 compared to Dartmouth’s 6:36.1. Head coach Stephen Gladstone said he was especially pleased with the junior varsity squad’s performance, SEE HEAVYWEIGHT CREW PAGE B3

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In its first home race of the season, the Yale heavyweight crew swept Dartmouth to retain the Olympic Axe for the 10th year in a row.

The men’s and women’s track and field teams hosted the Harvard Crimson in a dual meet this Saturday at home, though neither squad could come up with a win against their age-old rivals. The men’s team fell 97–64 to their counterparts from Cambridge, and the women’s team kept it slightly closer, losing 89–69.

“Obviously we’re never going to be quite satisfied by losing,” men’s team captain Tim Hillas ’13 said. “That having been said, it was really a very good meet for us. We had a bunch of guys perform very well.”

Hillas noted that Harvard took first place in 10 events compared to the Bulldogs’ nine victories, suggesting that Yale’s shortcomings were a question of depth rather than talent — an idea reiterated by women’s team captain Allison Rue ’13.

The Elis and Cantabs split victories in the four throwing events on the men’s side, with Bulldog Michael Levine ’13 taking the discus and hammer throw. The two teams also split victories in the jumping events, as Yale’s Dana Lindburg ’14 took the long jump and Brendan Sullivan ’16 won the pole vault. And while Yale took the 4x400m relay, Harvard won the 4x100m event — a race in which Yale did not field a team.

James Shirvell ’14 won the 800m by almost two seconds, the Bulldogs’ John McGowan ’15, Matt Nussbaum ’15 and Hillas swept the 1500m, and freshman Duncan Tomlin ’16 took the 3000m steeplechase by over four seconds in 9:29.29. The Elis struggled in the sprints, failing to capture a victory in any distance shorter than the 800m except for the 4x400m and the 400m hurdles, which William Rowe ’15 finished in 55.26 for the victory.

“Physically we’re where we need to be, but we haven’t collectively put together all SEE TRACK AND FIELD PAGE B3