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CROSS CAMPUS They grow up so fast. Yale

men’s hockey captain Andrew Miller ’13 has signed a oneyear entry-level contract with the Edmonton Oilers. Miller, a political science major who scored 41 points in 37 games for the Bulldogs this season, will join his teammate and future Anaheim Ducks player Antoine Laganiere ’13 in the big leagues. In the meantime, the New Haven Register reported that junior forward Kenny Agostino ’14 decided to stay with Yale for another year instead of jumping to the National Hockey League.

Woof woof. It looks like the moose has adopted another one into the pack. Ezra Stiles Dean Camille Lizarríbar announced in a Wednesday email that the college has a new member: a 16-week-old Cavachon puppy. The puppy, named Mambo Moose Gizmo — or “Mambo” for short — is the newest addition to Lizarríbar’s fabulous family, which includes two cats, Moxie and Bliss. It looks like Mambo will fit in well at Yale: According to Lizarríbar, he already has his own social calendar.

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SUSTAINABILITY

MAYORAL RACE

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Unlike other colleges, Yale has yet to commit to a carbon-neutral campus

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Bulldogs fall short of comeback against Sacred Heart in 3–2 loss

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Post-Newtown, Senate rejects gun reform

BY MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTER Despite a massive push from the White House and families of the Newtown shooting victims, the U.S. Senate rejected a proposal Wednesday afternoon that would have mandated universal background checks for gun buyers and banned certain assault rifles modeled after mil-

itary weapons.

Senators struck down the bipartisan amendment, proposed by Republican Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia, by a vote of 54–46, short of the 60 votes required to overcome a Republican filibuster. Four months after 26 students and teachers were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elemen-

tary School, the Senate’s inability to pass the background check proposal — a measure polls have found 90 percent of Americans’ support — signals the slim chances of any gun legislation moving through Congress this year.

“Today was heartbreaking — one of the saddest and most shocking days of my life in public service,” Connecti-

cut Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 told the News following the vote. “The hardest part of today was deciding how to explain to families that a 90 percent majority of American people and 54 senators could vote for a measure and yet have it fail, when it would save lives like the ones that were lost on Dec. 14. That is beyond shocking and shameful for America.”

President, Princeton University Investment Co. (1995)

DONNA DEAN

Chief Investment Officer, Rockefeller Foundation (2001)

SETH ALEXANDER

President, MIT Investment Management Co. (2006)

PAULA VOLENT

Giving back. Yale and 11 other campuses have been named beneficiaries of the Livestrong Community Impact Project and will receive $10,000 to launch a university-based weeklong summer camp, called “Camp Kesem,” for kids with parents affected by cancer. The effort began at Stanford and has since grown to 41 camps serving more than 2,000 children each year.

You’re fired. Maybe. Twenty-

nine New Haven teachers may lose their jobs at the end of the school year for poor performance as the district implements its new teacher evaluation system, which lets go low-performing teachers and those who fail to improve to the “effective” level over three years. Out of those 29, 18 were rated in the “needs improvement” category.

PETER AMMON

Chief Investment Officer, University of Pennsylvania (2013)

ANNE MARTIN

Chief Investment Officer, Rockefeller Foundation (2010)

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RANDY KIM

Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Swensen, who joined the YIO in 1985, said in a Wednesday interview with the News that departures like Ammon’s are “bittersweet” but that he is proud of the YIO’s reputation as a training ground for future leaders in the investing world.

Chief Investment Officer David Swensen told the News in a Wednesday interview that he plans to return to teaching in the fall and has no plans to leave his position at Yale in the near future.

Swensen, who leads the Yale Investments Office in managing the University’s $19.3 billion endowment, stopped teaching his undergraduate seminar “Investment Analysis” in mid-September after being diagnosed with cancer last year.

Though he declined to comment on the type of cancer or give any information on his prognosis, Swensen said Wednesday that he is in good health, that he is currently working full time at the Investments Office and that he intends to begin teaching again in September.

“It’s good,” Swensen said when asked about his health. “I’ve been working very much a full schedule.”

Swensen said he has told Yale Investments Senior Director Dean Takahashi ’80 SOM ’83, who is the co-instructor of the “Investment Analysis” class and Swensen’s deputy in the Investments Office, that he plans to return to teaching the seminar next fall. The class, which is intended primarily for senior economics majors, is taught every fall semester and involves topics related to institutional

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KIMBERLY SARGENT Managing Director, Packard Foundation (2009)

Chief Investment Officer, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (2008) YALE

Alumni of the Yale Investments Office have left Yale to enter senior-level management roles at universities and foundations nationwide.

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER Another protégé of Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen is leaving the nest.

Last week, Peter Ammon GRD ’05 SOM ’05 — a Yale Investments Office director who works under Swensen — was named

the University of Pennsylvania’s next chief investment officer. When he leaves Yale this summer, Ammon will join the ranks of YIO alumni who have gone on to manage investments for prestigious universities and nonprofit foundations such as Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wesleyan University, Bowdoin College, the Hilton

NO PLANS TO STEP DOWN AS CIO AFTER CANCER DIAGNOSIS

Vice President for Investments, Bowdoin College (2006)

Saving a life. Yale Athletics

will hold its annual Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive outside Commons today in an effort to encourage 1,000 people to join the marrow donor registry.

The drive is named after Mandi Schwartz ’10, a Yale women’s ice hockey player who died after a 27-month battle with cancer in 2011. Last year, the drive registered over 500 people as potential marrow donors. One donor, football player John Oppenheimer ’14, made a life-saving marrow donation last January that helped a 41-year-old man in Europe diagnosed with leukemia.

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Swensen to return to teaching

Investments Office alums excel

ANDREW GOLDEN

Senators who opposed expanding the background check system argued that such a measure would be ineffective in preventing criminals from procuring guns. They said it may also lead to the creation of a federal registry of gun owners, which is currently prohibited under federal laws.

University galleries fundraise for future

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oth the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art are committed to free entry.

As the two museums face increased costs — the YUAG in managing its renovated spaces and the YCBA in expanding its modern and contemporary art collections — the financial sustainability of their promises will be challenged. YANAN WANG reports.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1962 Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., participates in a Yale Political Union debate in Woolsey Hall in front of a large crowd. Deriding pacifists as “unrealistic,” Goldwater told the assembled masses that “we will either be defeated by [Communist regimes] or else we will triumph in both West and East.”

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The atmosphere at the Yale University Art Gallery last December was one of celebration.

UPCLOSE Following a 14-year construction process, the art museum opened its expanded and renovated spaces to an eager and impressed public. The YUAG’s revitalized design was lauded by art critics, architects and educators alike as a paragon of both architectural and curatorial excellence. What most visitors on the YUAG’s reopening day did not know, however, was that the

project had once been a hair away from coming to a halt completely.

In December 2008, a throng of workers in hard hats was preparing to begin construction on the gallery.

Ten days before they were set to break ground, University President Richard Levin announced a policy change that stopped the shovels.

In a memo to the entire University, Levin explained that due to the recession, all construction projects from that point on needed to meet 100 percent of their funding needs before they could begin. At the time, the YUAG SEE ART GALLERIES PAGE 4

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The University’s two art galleries, across from each other on Chapel Street, have adopted distinct fundraising philosophies.

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OPINION

.COMMENT “Yale's student body seems to have more heart” yaledailynews.com/opinion

Embracing identity F

eelings of unity are fleeting. The thrill of school spirit, the brief communal identification that animated campus after Yale’s recent hockey victory lasted mere hours. Students partied for an evening and then went back to their business.

When limited to apathy about school sporting events, a lack of communal identity isn’t all that concerning. Institutional loyalty to a university is a lovely feeling, but it hardly constitutes a central component of a meaningful life. I wonder, however, whether underlying our collective indifference is some deeper antagonism toward identity.

For years, communal identity has been under a sustained attack. Robust affiliations with religious, national and ethnic groups are viewed as sources of conflict and animosity. Identities, after all, create divisions among people. Divisions lead to defining some people as “others,” and “others” — we are told — are inevitably subjected to dehumanization and violence.

Violence, of course, is something we all want to avoid, and so communal identity is tainted with the negative consequences of which it is supposedly the cause.

Now, I don’t mean to imply that we consciously avoid expressions of collective identity. And I certainly don’t imagine that students think to themselves, “I know identity is dangerous. I better get it out of my system quickly by focusing on something relatively inconsequential and doing so only briefly.”

But it seems likely that we have been conditioned to feel discomfort at strong and extended displays of communal and exclusive identity. Too many of us have grown accustomed to rolling our eyes at affirmations of national unity and to viewing expressions of patriotism as quaint and unsophisticated. And as we begin to try to come to grips with recent events in Boston, I think back to last year’s University memorial for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

In this cosmopolitan, global university, the event became a tribute to universalism, with America barely meriting a mention.

As last Sunday showed, we still gravitate naturally toward the occasional expression of collective identity. But in deference to the ethos in which we live, we only embrace those identities that make few demands and that will last only briefly. But if we have let the international intelligentsia curb our passion for meaningful association in their pursuit of a world free of identities, then we have made a costly error.

I hope, of course, that our lack of sustained identification with Yale and its sports teams are a sign of healthy perspective and

m a t u r i t y, rather than an aversion to identity.

And if I were not simply looking for a current events leadYISHAI to this colSCHWARTZ in umn, I would likely praise Dissentary our brief celebration as proper and proportional.

But I worry that our apathy is a symptom of something deeper, a self-defeating fear of the evils that identity might cause.

Last Monday, former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky visited campus. In a Pierson College Master’s Tea, he spoke about the interconnectedness of freedom and identity — bemoaning an intellectual climate in which the two are increasingly presented as at odds with one another.

Sharansky described how he was raised in an environment of doublethink, where fear kept citizens’ true beliefs and opinions locked beneath an uniform veneer of loyalty to the Soviet state. He discussed the moment when he discovered the courage to simultaneously pursue his Jewish identity and publicly oppose the Soviet’s systematic violation of human rights. And he spoke movingly about how his commitments to both Judaism and freedom strengthened him as he defied the KGB over nine years in the Gulag.

Sharansky insisted that he saw no contradiction in devoting his life both to the particular cause of Jewish nationalism — as a minister in successive Israeli governments and the chairman of the Jewish Agency — as well as advocacy for universal human rights. As Sharansky explained, the meaning provided by his identification with the Jewish past, present and future is precisely what justified and motivated his struggle for freedom.

In Sharansky’s mind, freedom without identity is substanceless and vulnerable. The whole point of promoting freedom is to preserve an individual’s ability to access a communal identity. Similarly, identity is what gives the individual courage and motivation to fight for freedoms. In the increasingly cosmopolitan world in which we live, it is worth taking Sharansky’s words to heart.

So we ought to ask ourselves, with whom do we identify and for what would we give our lives? In other words, for what purpose do we value our freedom? We know should fight for the right to identify as we wish, but what do we do with that freedom the day after we have won it?

YISHAI SCHWARTZ is a senior in Branford College. Contact him at yishai.schwartz@yale.edu .

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Defending a broader academy M

y last column, on the subject of grade inflation, attracted a group of commenters who made the interesting case that grade inflation itself is not a problem.

Rather, it is departments and classes that teach subjects relatively new to the academy (read: gender, race, sexuality) that create grading imbalances.

Such disciplines, the argument goes, allow students to earn high grades with little work. Students who study these subjects fill themselves with bits of obscure pseudo-knowledge and propaganda, and are thus challenged less than those who study physics or philosophy.

This imbalance penalizes students who study “traditional” topics and debases the value of a Yale transcript. Political correctness is exchanged for scholarship.

Outside the question of relative difficulty — and according to the Ad Hoc Committee on Grading, grade inflation is a problem that persists equally across departments and areas of study — a larger antipathy towards the study of minorities, gender and sexuality is shockingly common.

Earlier this month, writers in the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal jumped to the defense of a businessman who claimed

to have been ridiculed by the president of Bowdoin College after suggesting that the school put too much emphaHARRY sis on an illLARSON defined diversity. Not only Nothing in are the people at colleges Particular too liberal, the subjects of inquiry are, too. Particularly illuminating is an accompanying video interview in which the interviewer asks incredulously how parents could pay for a college education that features a class called “Racism.”

The narrative that American higher education has devolved since the 1960s into an ideologically self-reinforcing attack on American values — one that shuns Western achievements and accomplishments in favor of minority groups — is no longer the pet story of a few grumpy conservatives.

Do these criticisms bear up?

Some claim evidence for them simply by sifting through our Blue Book. They point to classes like “Refuge, Racism, and Religion in African Canadian His-

tory.” But for each of these classes, one can find “Ancient Notions of Time” in the Classics and Philosophy departments, or “Alliterative Poetry in Middle English” in the English Department. Specificity and a focus on the arcane are also present in those departments that teach almost exclusively about the work of dead white men.

Indeed, it is hard to look at the Directed Studies reading list and conclude that much has changed over the last 50 (or 500) years in terms of what works the academy values. If anything, I would guess that we devote far more resources to the study of obscure elements of the Western experience (“Sources for Medieval Hispano-Jewish Civilization”) than we do to the study of all of Africa.

As for the other criticism — that when we study America and the West, we pollute that study with unfair and out-of-context indictments of Western leaders — it’s true that our historical understanding has become more critical, though our appreciation of the artistic accomplishments of great white male writers has hardly been diminished. But is the former really a bad thing?

Surely a college that can spare classes that examine the scars inflicted by the Peloponnesian

War can also allow classes about the scars slavery has left on American society. Both types of classes contribute to our understanding of our past.

Somehow it’s become mainstream to think that any class on African literature is a direct attack on Plato, or that any class on gender and sexuality means we must reject everything done by straight men. Students should be given more credit; we can learn the bad parts of Western and American history without ignoring everything that’s good about them. By refusing to trust us to be fair, as well as critical, would-be defenders of the West’s reputation cast doubt on the very values and traditions they seek to uphold.

Critics of the post-'60s academy often speak as if classes on women or minorities have totally replaced the classes that used to define college. A glance at nearly any college’s course catalogue demonstrates that this couldn’t be further from the truth. Maybe it’s not the exclusion of white men, but the inclusion of women and minorities, that these critics object to.

HARRY LARSON is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at harry.larson@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST SAM COHEN

Not-so-friendly fire O

ne in three women in the United States Armed Forces has been the victim of sexual assault at the hands of another service member. That doesn’t even include the rates of sexual assault on servicemen.

Only 14 percent of those sexual assaults will ever be reported. Only 3 percent of the assaults reported go to a courtmartial, the military equivalent of a trial. Only 27 percent of those court-martials result in conviction for rape or serious sexual assault.

Fortunately, under the leadership of former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, current Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and outraged members of Congress, policies are being implemented to address this unconscionable problem.

April has been designated Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and in addition to the awareness campaign and mandatory sexual harassment and assault trainings in the military, concrete steps have been taken to provide victims with more resources.

The recently passed 2013 National Defense Authorization Act included the Shaheen Amendment, finally allowing military insurance to cover the cost of abortions in the case of rape, rather than forcing servicewomen to cover the cost out of pocket. That is a good step forward. Even federal inmates

have had insurance coverage for abortion in the case of rape, coverage servicewomen have not had since the early 1980s.

No longer can the military offer “moral waivers” to hire people with felony records of rape, sexual assault or sexual abuse, as was allowed when the military faced low recruitment numbers. Neither Honor, Courage nor Commitment — the principles of the Navy and Marine Corps — should ever be waived.

Each branch of the military has established or is establishing a Special Victims Unit composed of specially trained personnel to deal specifically with cases related to sexual assault.

This will help give sexual assault the special attention it deserves from military justice channels.

And just a few days ago, Hagel announced a major shift in military policy. Hagel stripped the ability of commanding officers to overturn court-martial convictions, and they must now direct sexual assault reports to the closest colonel or captain in their command (an 0–6 level officer). This issue exploded into the spotlight in the case of Air Force Lt. Col. James Wilkerson, a man convicted of sexual assault.

He was sentenced to a year in the brig and discharged from the Air Force. But Lt. General Craig Franklin, the commanding officer, decided to reverse the jury’s decision, releasing and reinstating Wilkerson. Such a process

makes a mockery of justice, and thanks to Hagel it will no longer be allowed.

But it is shameful that it took a documentary — “The Invisible War” — and a storm of media attention to bring about these changes. And it is shameful that these changes are all relatively new — the issue of sexual assault in the military certainly is not.

And there are still steps that need to be taken moving forward.

First, while commanding officers can no longer overturn convictions, they can still unilaterally lessen sentences. Commanding officers should have no ability to modify a court-martial sentence — that’s the point of an appeals process.

Second, the process of reporting, investigating and ordering courts-martial all still takes place within the chain of command. While usually a good system, keeping the process within the same chain of command creates a massive powerdynamic issue. What if the commanding officer is friendly with the accused rapist? What if the investigator wants to help out his buddy by ignoring some evidence? Investigations should be conducted, and courts-martial should be convened, outside of the chain of command.

Third, Congress should pass the Ruth Moore Act. This bill would change the requirements for a veteran applying for disability benefits. Currently, the

application requires proof that a disabling event (a stressor) happened while the member was serving.

But because sexual assault is so underreported and stigmatized, there is often no original report of the attack, meaning that under the current system there is no proof of a stressor. The Ruth Moore Act would modify the requirements to allow legally binding sworn statements to serve as proof.

Military Sexual Trauma (MST) is the leading cause of PTSD among servicewomen, yet the Department of Veterans Affairs rejected two-thirds of MST claims between 2008–'10.

Both the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments need to make these changes now — not after another documentary, not after another media frenzy and not after another rape. Panetta and Hagel have made real progress and must ensure it continues. When men and women take an oath to defend the Constitution “against all enemies foreign and domestic,” they shouldn’t have to worry about defending themselves from sexual assault.

SAM COHEN is a sophomore in Calhoun College and a midshipman in Yale NROTC. This column expresses his personal views only, and not the views of Yale NROTC, the Department of Defense or any other entity. Contact him at samson.cohen@yale.edu .

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andi Schwartz '10 died on April 3, 2011. She was my teammate and my friend. We played ice hockey together at Yale until her leukemia stopped her. Every April since Mandi’s original diagnosis, the field hockey, football and ice hockey teams have sponsored a joint bone marrow drive, and the event continues today in her memory. Each year, we try to recruit as many people to join the bone marrow registry as possible. Each registrant means one more chance that someone with leukemia will find a life-saving match.

Mandi never found her perfect match; she was only 23. Our hockey team flew to Wilcox, Saskatchewan, to attend her funeral.

Fittingly, it concluded on the ice, at the Notre Dame Hounds arena. It was the very place Mandi had spent so much time,

where she had grown up, the place she loved the most. April 6, 2011, would be her last skate with the team. I stood beside her father on the ice as he held her urn. He turned, handed it to me and said: “Take good care of her.”

Never have someone’s words hit me so hard.

Even though you may never have known Mandi, anyone can understand what it means to lose a friend. That’s why the bone marrow drive is so important to me. It’s part of Mandi’s legacy: a way for former teammates, friends and family to tell her we haven’t forgotten about her.

But it’s also more than that.

It’s a way for us to keep someone else from experiencing this kind of loss — to keep someone else’s parents from having to hold their little girl in a box, knowing her beautiful life was cut short.

We weren’t able to help Mandi,

but already, just through bone marrow drives organized at Yale, we’ve had 17 lives saved from 17 donor matches.

Bone marrow drives at Yale have been so successful because of the sheer number of people who have taken the time to stop

by Commons and register. You only have to sign up once. It only takes 15 minutes to enter you into the registry. After that, you may or may not receive a call.

Every year, as the database grows, it becomes increasingly difficult for us to find new registrants. But I am always amazed and inspired by the turnout — a crowd of not only students, but also staff and members of the Yale community. Most of you probably never had the chance to meet Mandi, yet you take the time out of your day because you know what it means to her teammates, her friends, her family and

us. And you know what it could mean to someone still looking for a match. So, thank you.

There are a million good causes that demand your time, attention and even sometimes your wallet, too. At this year’s drive, we won’t be asking for your money or any significant time commitment.

Simply fill out some paperwork, get your cheek swabbed and hope that you will get a call giving you the opportunity to save someone’s life.

I was blessed to have known Mandi, and I want you to know her, too. Please come to Commons today, see the good work that Mandi continues to do through her teammates and friends, be inspired, and join the registry.

SAM MACLEAN-GAMBLE is a 2011 graduate of Davenport College .

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“There’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!” BEN STILLER ACTOR

CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, APRIL 5

The article “The power of seduction in ‘Richard III’” mistakenly stated that only theater studies and English professor Joseph Roach is teaching a production seminar on Shakespeare’s “Richard III.” In fact, it is being co-taught by Roach and postdoctoral associate Lynda Paul.

FRIDAY, APRIL 12

The article “Putting the sex in Shakespeare; Richard III seduces audiences” also mistakenly stated that only Roach is teaching the seminar, when in fact both Roach and Paul are teaching the course.

Campaign manager faces guilty plea

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER A former congressional campaign manager entered the fifth guilty plea in an investigation that has ensnarled the inner circle of the previous speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives.

Joshua Nassi, 34, who worked as campaign manager for thenSpeaker Christopher Donovan during his ill-fated 2012 run for Congress, pled guilty to a conspiracy charge before a judge in U.S. District Court in New Haven last Friday. In a deal with prosecutors, Nassi admitted to making a false statement to the Federal Elections Commission but was assured that he will not face any other charges or be required to testify against anyone. The charge is a felony that may result, at most, in five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Nassi admitted to accepting “straw” donations for Donovan’s campaign, when owners of Connecticut tobacco shops gave funds to individuals without formal connections to the tobacco industry, who then gave the money to the campaign. Along with Donovan’s former campaign finance director Robert Braddock, Nassi is accused of running a “pay-toplay” scheme, in which he and Braddock agreed to thwart state legislation that would levy new taxes on the shops in exchange for the donations. In total, the improper donations amounted to $27,500.

“I knew that there were contributions given to the campaign that were in the name of others,” Nassi told the court. “I allowed those contributions to be accepted by the campaign, knowing they would be submitted to the FEC.” Judge Janet Arterton, who presided over Friday’s plea hearing, will sentence Nassi on July 16. In the meantime, he remains free on a $100,000 bond, which is backed by his mother’s house in Fairfield, Conn.

Nassi’s attorney, William Bloss, said he remains confident in the wake of the plea that Arterton will hand down a less severe sentence than the maximum penalty, suggesting that

Nassi’s otherwise clean criminal history might lead the judge to exercise leniency.

“I expect that she is going to put together a fair sentence that reflects all of the issues that she has to take into consideration,” Bloss said Wednesday.

According to Bloss, Nassi has had no contact with Donovan, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing, this year.

Shortly after news of the campaign finance scandal broke in the spring of 2012, Donovan lost his bid for the Democratic nomination for Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District to Elizabeth Esty, who went on to win the seat in November.

There are consequences for those who undermine the integrity of the legislative process.

KIMBERLY MERTZ Special agent in charge, FBI Nevertheless, Donovan issued a two-sentence statement on Friday lamenting the recent turn of events, but also maintained his distance from Nassi.

Nassi’s plea came on the same day as another guilty plea from an individual involved in the scandal, this time an employee of Waterbury’s Smoke House Tobacco, Ben Hogan. Hogan also faces up to five years in prison.

“Today’s guilty pleas serve as a reminder that there are consequences for those who undermine the integrity of the legislative process by engaging in a concealed pay-to-play system,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Kimberly Mertz said in a statement issued Friday.

Approximately two-thirds of the “straw” funds funneled to Donovan’s campaign came from an undercover FBI agent posing as an investor in a rollyour-own tobacco shop.

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

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Joshua Nassi, former congressional campaign manager for Christopher Donovan, above, has pled guilty to charges of conspiracy.

Mayoral race expands to 5

BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER Matthew Nemerson’s entry into the mayoral race on Wednesday makes him the fifth candidate to join the field so far.

Nemerson, who is the president and CEO of the Connecticut Technology Council, has served as the president of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce. By joining the race, Nemerson enters an already crowded field of city residents who are vying to replace Mayor John DeStefano Jr. after he announced earlier this year that this would be his last term.

Nemerson said he thought about what he could offer as a candidate after Probate Judge Jack Keyes declined to enter the mayoral race last week, and he ultimately decided to run following some consideration. He said that his ability to form partnerships and his willingness to work with others makes him uniquely qualified for the position of mayor, adding that he hopes to take advantage of relationships with manufacturers in the city and expand New Haven’s jobs sector.

“For a lot of us who have been involved in city politics since the 1980s, there haven’t been many political opportunities to get involved in New Haven,” Nemerson said. “A bunch of people have been thinking about whether they’d ever have the chance to run for mayor. … This is about a huge personal investment of one’s whole being into something that is very challenging, difficult and rewarding, but it’s not something you do lightly.”

He said that the next mayor is going to have many “difficult decisions” to make and will have an opportunity to “steer” the city in new directions.

Nemerson helped with the launch of the Science Park Devel-

opment Corporation and served as its founding vice president, later serving as the president of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce as well.

“I’ve dealt with job creation and innovation and trying to really grow all these different parts of the state’s economy,” Nemerson said.

The latest candidate, however, said that he will not participate in the Democracy Fund, the Elm City’s public financing system for mayoral elections, due to concerns that he will not be able to raise enough funds, as well as declared mayoral candidate Henry Fernandez’s LAW ’94 intention to eschew the Fund.

Nemerson added that he might be willing to re-evaluate the decision regarding the Fund if Fernandez changes his mind.

“Maybe if there were some way we could convince [Fernandez] to be a part of it, maybe we could be part of it,” Nemerson said. “Maybe even if [Fernandez] doesn’t accept a plea to join the Democracy Fund, we might still abide by it: Maybe we’ll still limit ourselves to the limits the Democracy Fund poses.”

Fernandez, the city’s former economic development administrator, said that he knows Nemerson from his role as Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce president. Fernandez said that he is still “focused on the issues” and does not expect Nemerson’s entry into the race to affect his campaign.

Neither does mayoral candidate and Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, who said he will still participate in the Democracy Fund despite both Fernandez’s and Nemerson’s decisions not to do so.

“We’re still plugging ahead and focusing on what we can control, which is working hard and knocking on doors and fundraising,” Elicker said. “It’s dis-

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Matthew Nemerson, the fifth candidate to join the New Haven mayoral race, has chosen not to participate in Democracy Fund public financing. appointing that Fernandez and Nemerson will not be using the Democracy Fund. It’s clear that the vast majority of Americans and the vast majority of New Haveners want to see big money stop influencing politics.”

Nemerson said that as someone who has “been out there in the business community for 30 years” he would be able to fundraise, but that the idea that he

would be beholden to those who donated to him is “ridiculous.”

Nemerson is the fifth candidate to enter the mayoral race, joining Elicker, Fernandez, plumber Sundiata Keitazulu and State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield, who could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.

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

Yale boasts unique GHG emission plan

BY EMMA GOLDBERG STAFF REPORTER Across the nation, 665 university presidents have committed to eliminating net greenhouse gas emissions from their campuses — but Yale is not among them.

This month, Colby College achieved its objective of going carbon-neutral two years ahead of its 2015 deadline. Colby administrators said that the campus has had a net-zero carbon footprint as of April 4, making it the fourth college nationwide to fulfill the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment.

Assistant Director of the Yale Office of Sustainability Melissa Goodall said that by the time the ACUPCC was created in 2007, Yale had already made its 2005 carbon reduction commitment.

“Since Yale already had a climate commitment when the ACUPCC was established, it didn’t really make sense for Yale to shift gears,” Goodall said.

In 2005, Yale committed to reducing its carbon emissions by 43 percent by 2020. Office of Sustainability Project Manager Keri Enright-Kato said that as of 2012, Yale had reduced its carbon emissions to 16 percent below its 2005 level, which she said puts the University on track to reach its 2020 goal. According to the Office of Sustainability’s annual report, this reduction is particularly significant because the campus has also increased in size by 12 percent since 2005.

Enright-Kato said Yale’s strategy for greenhouse gas reduction has focused on reducing the energy intensity of campus buildings, adhering to sustainable construction and renovation standards, and investing in renewable energy technologies on campus. The Office of Sustainability also worked with the University administration to convert Yale’s standard power plant to a cogeneration plant that recaptures the heat lost during the creation of electricity.

The University’s sustainability goal primarily focuses on reducing emissions from purchased electricity for the central and medical campuses, accord-

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ing to the 2012 annual report.

As a separate effort, the University is also working to reduce fuel and electric purchases for West Campus and off-campus buildings.

The ACUPCC carbon commitment involves a more significant reduction than Yale’s pledge, but Enright-Kato said she thinks it was designed primarily to catalyze universities that had not previously undertaken sustainability initiatives to make public greenhouse gas commitments.

Colby College Director of Communications Ruth Jacobs said that in pursuing its carbonneutral goal, Colby employed

some strategies similar to Yale’s and also implemented some more large-scale sustainability initiatives. Jacobs said Colby constructed a biomass heating plant that uses wood chips and forest waste to replace the heating oil Colby uses, adding that the plant reduces the amount of oil Colby burns by 1 million gallons annually.

Student leadership was a key factor in pushing for Colby’s carbon reductions, Jacobs said. The Colby Environmental Advisory Committee brings together students, faculty and administrators to devise initiatives that can reduce the school’s greenhouse gas emissions. Jacobs said Col-

by’s greenhouse gas inventory project was entirely student-led.

“Every major sustainable initiative we’ve done had students at its genesis,” Jacobs said.

Enright-Kato said Yale’s commitment to carbon reduction has been driven primarily by University President Richard Levin, adding that she is confident that the University’s commitment to sustainability will remain under President-elect Peter Salovey’s administration.

Cornell University is currently the only Ivy League University that has joined the ACUPCC. Contact EMMA GOLDBERG at emma.goldberg@yale.edu .

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Years ago the Yale University Art Gallery was established.

The YUAG, which opened in 1832, is the oldest college art museum in the Western Hemisphere. Harvard’s Fogg Museum opened 64 years later in 1896.

Free of charge, galleries face increasing costs ART GALLERIES FROM PAGE 1 had only raised 50 percent, the original requirement for the project. YUAG Director Jock Reynolds said that when he received the news, he had been preparing to take his first sabbatical since being hired in 1998. Instead, he held an emergency meeting with his management team.

“It was important for us to keep going because otherwise we would have lost a tremendous amount of momentum,” Reynolds said, recalling the pressure to remain on track despite the new financial expectations.

“People were ready to start working, and we couldn’t break up our team.”

Although construction projects University-wide are still stalled due to the recession, the YUAG’s fundraising team raised the remaining 50 percent in just nine months following Levin’s announcement, and Yale’s two art galleries — the YUAG and the Yale Center for British Art — emerged from the recession relatively unscathed.

The art museums are now undertaking new, costly endeavors. As the YUAG grapples with the increased costs of maintaining a space nearly double its original size, the YCBA is gearing up for its own fundraising initiative.

As a museum that has relied on the donation of its founder Paul Mellon ’29 since its opening 36 years ago, it will face new challenges in raising money beyond the Mellon endowment to meet its increased space and conservation needs. YCBA Director Amy Meyers said the center’s new direction involves both acquiring more modern and contemporary works and constructing an additional building to house the new collections, in addition to a refurbishment project beginning this summer.

And while art museums across the country see rising entry fees, both University art galleries remain committed to free entry.

As the University galleries’ growth demands higher spending, the sustainability of their philosophies of open access will be put to the test.

FUNDS TO BE FREE

The first New York Times article on the YUAG’s reopening was not about its art collection or architectural remodeling, but rather about Reynolds’ financial savvy. In a Dec. 6 piece titled “A King of Art With the Midas Touch,” reporter Charles McGrath ’68 credited the director for spearheading the fundraising efforts, noting that the project’s $135 million price tag was “an immense sum in this economy.”

But while five YUAG employees and donors interviewed agreed that Reynolds’ charm has helped him sell his vision for the gallery, the process was not as “effortless” as the Times suggested.

Many of the construction projects championed by the Yale Tomorrow capital campaign, the University-wide fundraising initiative from 2006 to 2011 that included the YUAG, were delayed due to the recession.

Some of these initiatives, such as the new residential colleges and Yale Biology Building, have yet to be completed.

“It was an aggressive fundraising effort by Jock Reynolds that made the difference,” said Eugenie Gentry, the University’s associate vice president for development.

After the recession, Reynolds said he first aimed to determine whether the donors who had made major pledges would be able to fulfill their promises.

But the gallery’s major contributors were not overwhelmingly

affected by the recession, recalled Jill Westgard, the YUAG’s deputy director of museum resources and stewardship.

Reynolds then reached out to past donors and rallied their support — a task he took on with fervor, Westgard said. As the Times wrote, “[Reynolds] has mastered a rare and difficult form of performance art: raising money.”

Reynolds, who was himself “leery” about the glowing profile, described the moment the museum reached its fundraising goal as “an enormous relief.” But while it is clear that Reynolds is talented at raising money, those who have worked with him are hesitant to call him a salesman.

“This may sound strange, but I never felt like he was selling me the idea,” said David McCullough ’55, a historian and contributor to the campaign. “I felt that I wanted in on it — I wanted to be a part of this exciting project.”

Westgard said Reynolds did not use a “sales pitch” to attract prospective donors to the gallery. Instead, she said he was especially gifted at matching the interests of donors to the YUAG’s own philosophies, using his “infectious sense of enthusiasm” to get people excited about the gallery’s potential.

A large part of that philosophy is the YUAG’s free-education, open-access policy. Since its early years, the YUAG has not charged for entrance to either its permanent collections or temporary exhibitions. This rare history sets Yale’s galleries apart from many of the country’s largest art museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago.

During a press conference leading up to the YUAG’s reopening in December, Chief Curator Laurence Kanter addressed — and readily dismissed — the question of entry fees. While he iterated the museum’s commitment to remaining free and open to the public, he did not explain how it would adapt to the increased costs of maintaining enlarged spaces. Westgard explained that the gallery does not factor potential ticket fee revenue into its budget calculations because free entrance has been such a long-held tradition.

When The Art Newspaper conducted a 2011 survey asking 30 of the nation’s leading museums about their entry fees, the publication discovered that institutions were divided on whether they should focus on revenue generation or community access. The study found that most major museums charged at least for special exhibitions and that regional cities with “fewer tourists to exploit” were more likely to be altruistically minded.

Galleries such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York cited financial necessity as the reason behind their recommended fees, The Art Newspaper reported.

The Met came under fire last month for these fees — $25 for adults. The information board that greets visitors upon arrival states that the ticket prices are merely recommended donations, but many people do not notice this fine print. A class-action lawsuit accused the museum of “misleading and defrauding the public” by not clarifying that the fee is recommended rather than mandatory. According to the suit, the museum’s entrance staff behaves under the assumption that everyone will pay the “recommended” amount, directing them to cashier lines and issuing “admission” buttons only to those who have paid.

The suit claims that the entrance fee, which is higher than the cost of entry to Paris’s

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Paul Mellon’s founding donation to the Yale Center for British Art in 1966 The cost of the Yale University Art Gallery’s 14-year renovation project.

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Louvre Museum, is turning the museum “into an expensive, feefor-viewing, elite tourist attraction.”

In a letter to the public, Met Director Thomas Campbell defended the museum’s recommended pay system, which has been in place since 1970. “[Relative to 1970], the Met is now twice the size and must fund the maintenance of far more expansive galleries and a significantly larger collection, visited by three or four times as many people,” Campbell wrote. “Our costs — everything from guards to insurance to publications — have increased commensurately with this growth.”

The parallels between the Met’s history and the YUAG’s recent, dramatic growth are difficult to ignore. The renovations to the YUAG increased its exhibition space by more than 70 percent to create a total area of nearly 70,000 square feet. Of the 4,000 holdings currently on view, 1,000 were pieces acquired during the expansion process, and a slew of new staff has been hired to accommodate both the enlarged facilities and collections. These enhancements have also increased the YUAG’s visitor traffic dramatically: Last year, the gallery welcomed around 98,000 visitors, and by the end of this week, this year’s total will have already surpassed this amount.

With the YUAG’s commitment to free entry, Reynolds acknowledged that the costs associated with such rapid development will present a challenge in the coming years.

“We’re taking a fabric that’s been torn, stretched and a little bit abused in the past and trying to make it very healthy,” Reynolds said. “We just need a little more financial stability.”

A DISCREET LEGACY

In most museums, including the YUAG, donors are recognized with galleries in their honor. But at the YCBA, only one person’s name is immortalized within the museum’s walls. Even then, the inscription is a nondescript one. Situated to the left of the front door, letters that meld into the wall’s gray lining recognize Paul Mellon for founding the museum.

Born to billionaire American banker Andrew W. Mellon — whose donation established the National Gallery of Art — Mellon devoted his life to two great passions: horse racing and art.

Known for his heavy involvement in both fields, Mellon is remembered by members of the YCBA as a man of humility and discretion. Despite his massive fortune, six sources said Mellon was more interested in sharing his resources with others than living in largesse himself.

“He genuinely loved giving his money away,” said Elisabeth Fairman, senior curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts at the YCBA. “He thought that was his job on this Earth.”

Mellon’s generosity remains the bedrock of the YCBA to this day, nearly five decades since his initial gift of $164 million for the center’s founding, and 14 years since his death in 1999, prior to which he was an avid participant in the institution’s programming.

Along with his substantial financial contribution — which was, at the time, an unprecedented donation for a university gallery — Mellon also bequeathed to Yale his entire collection of British art, rare books and related artifacts. Before this gift, the YUAG served as one museum for all of Yale’s art collections.

Mellon outlined a few conditions for his donation, foremost among them that the gallery should not be named in honor of him. This philosophy of “quiet giving,” as Meyers called it, has always been reflected in the center’s fundraising approach and has as much to do with the character of the man himself as with the nature of his giving.

Questions about the museum’s finances would likely have made him uncomfortable, said Beth Miller SOM ’90, the museum’s associate director of advancement and external affairs.

Meyers explained that while the YCBA is currently embarking on a fundraising push, she is hesitant to call the initiative a “campaign.” She explained that the center generally fundraises privately with donors who have previously expressed interest in the museum. At the YUAG, on the other hand, outreach to past

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The Yale University Art Gallery, top, and the Yale Center for British Art, bottom, are committed to free entry. contributors was supplemented by brochures, a website and other publicity materials related to the Yale Tomorrow campaign.

“To respect the nature and enormity of Paul Mellon’s gift, we choose to handle our fundraising more discreetly [than other museums],” Meyers said.

“He left us such an unassessable, massive gift that we would never want to posit ourselves as an institution that was in need.”

Representatives from the YCBA said they could not divulge the current value of the museum’s endowment — which is comprised largely of the Mellon endowment in addition to other funds — but Meyers said the amount is enough to sustain the institution without the help of an entry fee. She added that Mellon mandated the museum never charge its visitors, in part because his fortunate upbringing made him more aware of those in need.

Becky Sender, YCBA deputy director for finance and administration, said that according to the Association of Art Museum Directors, the center ranks seventh among all museums in the United States in endowment size.

While it is clear that Mellon’s legacy is still deeply important to the center, his influence is felt equally by the donors who are inspired by his memory. Many of these contributors are members of the Friends of British Art, a group of individuals who each pay the gallery at least $1,100 annually for privileged access to tours and private collections.

Some of the most substantial gifts to the YCBA have come from members of the group, Meyers said.

Despite the museum’s emphasis on quiet fundraising, there is a sense in which its policy of discretion is also a public demonstration to its donors.

“Future donors need to know that we respect their interests,” Meyers said. “We need to prove that we respect the nature of Mellon’s gift, as well as the spirit in which it was given, in order to show [other] donors that we will treat their gifts the same way.”

Henry Hacker ’65, a longtime contributor of art, said he views his donations to the YCBA as a way of paying “homage to a great collector and benefactor.”

Referring to Leonard Lauder’s recent billion dollar donation to the Met, Hacker said, “That’s the kind of collector Paul Mellon was — if not greater.”

MODERNIZING AFTER MELLON

The YCBA’s Rare Books & Manuscripts library is located beside the museum’s regal Library Court on the second floor, where high ceilings and the paintings of George Stubbs make it an area commonly used for receptions. Meanwhile, the library itself is a quiet space: Generously illuminated by almost constant natural lighting, it is where researchers and students knowledgeable about the museum go to do their work.

It is also where Fairman, the department’s senior curator, has her office — and alongside it, an extensive, eclectic collection of pieces, both old and new, that she has acquired for the YCBA over the years.

“We aim to have material that will speak to the things that we already have,” Fairman said, calling Mellon’s original collection a “ballast” that has anchored new

acquisitions to a common theme or idea.

Like many of her colleagues at the YCBA, Fairman recalled Mellon’s frequent visits to the center, during which he would examine the art on display and provide his input on exhibitions in progress.

He had always been interested in ensuring that new acquisitions connected to the YCBA’s founding principles, she said.

But with the museum’s founding principles, as outlined in the Mellon endowment letters and through his frequent conversations with museum administrators, came restrictions. The paperwork states explicitly that Mellon’s contributions can be used only for acquisitions of art dated no later than the year 1850 and acquisitions of prints and drawings from no later than 1900. The center’s current fundraising project, which remains in its early stages, aims to meet resource needs that do not fall under the purview of the Mellon endowment.

Meyers said the center is now considering expansion into modern and contemporary art.

Museum administrators will need to reach out to a community of donors open to supporting these new interests.

“The collection as a whole is encyclopedic in aspiration, but it would be fair to say that the 21st and 20th centuries are underrepresented,” YCBA Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture Angus Trumble said.

Meyers explained that because Mellon funded the construction of the Kahn building that currently houses the YCBA, museum administrators have deemed it inappropriate to establish too large of a modern presence there.

To accommodate the YCBA’s vision for a more complete modern and contemporary art collection, Meyers continued, the center hopes to ultimately construct an additional building near the Kahn building — continuous with the architect’s design — in which to display these works.

“A new building would be a wonderful complement to the core collections,” Sender said. “It would enable other kinds of dialogue to take place.”

Gesturing toward a row of old books and prints laid out on the table before her, Fairman explained that a large part of her job is making connections between seemingly disparate and often historically distant works of art. She pointed to a collection of rare books that she is compiling for an exhibit on illustrations of flora and fauna from as early as the 1500s and as late as 1996. The display, which will unite selections not around a specific time

period but rather a single subject matter, will use new acquisitions as a way of illuminating the old.

Other stipulations in the Mellon endowment letters are tacit understandings, such as the YCBA’s acknowledgement that Mellon funds should not be used to fund conservation efforts for the newer acquisitions.

Currently, most conservation efforts take place within the center’s walls, where space limitations make dealing with larger pieces and newer works difficult.

Mark Aronson, the museum’s chief conservator, said the sheer magnitude of the collection as a whole presents a financial challenge for conservation efforts, which would ideally be handled by a larger staff. He added that as technologies evolve and old machines become obsolete, the museum will have to continually adapt to new devices.

“In the old days, you could buy a film camera and it would be good for a few decades,” Aronson said. “But now a camera won’t last three years. It’s a question of how to stay up to date.”

Meanwhile, the YCBA is slated to begin its first refurbishment of the Prints & Drawings and Rare Books & Manuscripts departments this summer, which will require funding out of Mellon’s endowment.

Despite the museum’s heightened demand for funding, its discreet fundraising philosophy will largely remain the same.

Meyers said that first and foremost, the YCBA’s new direction will not compromise its policy of free entry. She added that she does not foresee a need for public campaigning in the future.

But Meyers did not rule out the possibility of having named galleries within the proposed modern and contemporary facility.

It is principally the Kahn building — “Mellon’s building” — that must be protected, she said.

AN INSTITUTIONAL ADVANTAGE

While both University art galleries will require increased funding in coming years, they have the advantage of alumni support on their side.

When McCullough, the historian and YUAG contributor, was an undergraduate history major at Yale more than five decades ago, the gallery still shared its facilities with the art school, and the YCBA had yet to be established. Even so, McCullough found a home among Yale’s arts resources — from the myriad history of art courses to the teachers he met at the Art School, who all fostered in him a “lifelong interSEE ART GALLERIES PAGE 8

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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

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Journalist discusses lack of privacy

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER Society has entered an age in which data is taking over and privacy is becoming increasingly less important, according to Jacob Ward, the editor in chief of Popular Science magazine.

At a talk attended by roughly 30 students on Wednesday afternoon, Ward discussed today’s innovations in data-based technology, which is becoming a prominent fixture in every aspect of life from location services to health care. He said privacy is becoming unimportant as people are increasingly more willing to share their information.

“In the future, our children are

going to have weirder and weirder perspectives on privacy, giving their information away in ways that are changing everything,” Ward said.

Ward said software innovation for phones and computers is becoming dependent on the amount of data that is shared instead of the actual sophistication of the technology.

A team of five universities is currently working on developing the concept of “machine vision,” which would enable devices to replicate the same mechanisms that allow humans to recognize faces and objects and is based on data technology, he said. Ward said these devices will be able to identify the locations in which pictures were taken based on pixel data and to accept text que-

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Jacob Ward, editor in chief of Popular Science magazine, examined how data-sharing technology will revolutionize business models by reducing privacy.

ries describing a person and return relevant data in the form of photographs.

“Someone’s vacation photo will have the Boston bomber in the background,” Ward said, “and the technology will be able to detect that just based on pixel data.”

Our children are going to have weirder and weirder perspectives on privacy, giving away their information in ways that are changing everything.

JACOB WARD Editor in chief, Popular Science Ward said he believes that the “demise of privacy” and the “incredibly granular rise of data” will create a new market that will change business models and human behavior generally — for example, data sharing could prompt supermarket patrons waiting in line to buy certain items with personalized cellphone advertisements.

Ward also discussed the possible advantages that information sharing could provide in the health care and security industries. He said the decline in privacy comes with some benefits because people who are more willing to share medical information, such as their genetic code, could allow for significant advances in health care research.

“I am fundamentally optimistic about the future,” Ward said. “I think it’s just going to get better and better.”

Audience members interviewed were enthusiastic about Ward’s eagerness to introduce them to potential future changes in technology that could affect their own lives.

But they also said they were struck by the idea of raising children in a world without privacy.

Peter Tobin GRD ’15 said Ward made him interested in learning more about mobile software technology.

“We’re realizing that the next generation is going to have a completely different perspective on data access,” Daniel Kent SOM ’15 said. “I echo Ward’s concerns about having to raise a son or a daughter in this environment.”

Popular Science is the most widely read science and technology magazine in the nation.

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .

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Edmar Bacha GRD ’68, the former head of the Brazilian Development Bank, reflected on the trajectory of Brazil’s economy over the past 30 years in a Wednesday talk.

BY J.R. REED STAFF REPORTER Edmar Bacha GRD ’68, the former head of the Brazilian Development Bank, discussed Brazil’s recent major economic growth and the structural challenges the country currently faces to a crowd of roughly 30 professors, law students and undergraduates on Wednesday evening.

Bacha, who is currently serving as the director of the Casa das Garças Institute for Economic Policy Studies in Rio de Janeiro, explained how the country transitioned from a nation undergoing redemocratization in 1985 to one experiencing a middle-income trap beginning in 2011. During the talk, Bacha said Brazil has seen vast economic success over the last 20 years, but that its citizens still suffer from some social problems.

“The Brazilian people are very active in political problems, and there’s increasing consensus on what these problems are — high taxes, too much social security, too little investment and awful education,” Bacha said. “The problem for politicians is how to package a particular program in a politically attractive way.”

Following the country’s return to a democratic system, the gap between lower- and higher-income families has decreased, unemployment has decreased to a level of 5 percent, government debt is falling and real interest rates are the lowest in Brazil’s history, Bacha said. Though the country experienced high debt levels during the 1980s, he added, it has become a creditor abroad with a quickly rising gross domestic product.

Still, Brazil faces structural challenges such as rising inflation rates that accompany rapid GDP growth, a costly social security system and a low rate of invest-

ment — 18.7 percent of GDP, compared to the South American average of 21.7 percent, Bacha said. He added that the nation will age quickly because the rate of children born per woman has fallen significantly in the last 50 years, so it could face bankruptcy if social security is not reformed.

In addition, the quality of Brazil’s education system remains low — in 2009, Brazil ranked 63rd in the Program for International Student Assessment rankings.

“Although we have put every kid in school, the problem is that they aren’t learning anything,” Bacha said. “We haven’t been able to provide them with the skills necessary to face the labor market.”

Yale law professor and Director of the Law School’s Latin American Linkages program Daniel Markovits said he thought Bacha did a good job of breaking down complex economic concepts.

“I think it’s deceptively difficult to lay out the 20-year course of an economy in a way that [audience members] can understand,” Markovits said.

Paulo Costa ’14, a Rio de Janeiro native, said he enjoyed the lecture but would have liked to hear Bacha’s opinions on how he expects the Brazilian economy to perform in the coming years.

“He gave the audience a nice balance of all of the important things that have happened in Brazil recently,” Costa said.

“He was mindful about the fact that people were interested in Brazil, but not necessarily very knowledgeable about the country.”

Bacha wrote his thesis for a Ph.D. in economics on the Brazilian and international coffee markets.

Contact J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .

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“Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.”

STEVE WOZNIAK CO-FOUNDED APPLE WITH STEVE JOBS AND RONALD WAYNE

STUDENT TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATIVE T

he Student Technology Collaborative is part of Campus Technology Services, the group within Information Technology Services tasked with supporting the students, faculty and staff of Yale. STC’s goals are both to provide necessary IT services and support to students and to provide valuable, real-world work experience for student employees. The STC accomplishes this through four distinct student groups.

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STUDENT TECHS Student Techs provide general tech support for undergraduates in Yale College and graduate students in the School of Arts & Sciences, the School of Engineering & Applied Science and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

STs help with troubleshooting software and hardware issues with students’ personal devices, such as their laptops and smartphones.

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STUDENT DEVELOPERS Student Developers work with various groups and departments around Yale to create, support and maintain web applications. Examples of their completed projects include the reservation application used by the Bass Media Equipment Checkout Service and the housing draw application used by Trumbull College.

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CLUSTER TECHNICIANS Cluster Techs support over 300 Yale-owned computers, kiosks and printers around campus.

They proactively check on over 20 separate computer clusters around Yale, from the clusters in Bass Library and Dunham Laboratory all the way to the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at the School of Medicine.

MEDIA TECHS Media Techs staff the new Bass Media Lab and support the Bass Media Equipment Checkout Service. At the Bass Media Lab, they help students with software such as Adobe Photoshop and Final Cut Pro and assist students with multimedia projects. The Bass Media Equipment Checkout Service allows students to check out high-end media equipment such as DSLR cameras, high definition camcorders and microphones. MTs assist students with the equipment if they have questions and advise students on what equipment would be best for their project.

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“Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.”

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STUDENT TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATIVE T

he Student Technology Collaborative is part of Campus Technology Services, the group within Information Technology Services tasked with supporting the students, faculty and staff of Yale. STC’s goals are both to provide necessary IT services and support to students and to provide valuable, real-world work experience for student employees. The STC accomplishes this through four distinct student groups.

Photos by VICTOR KANG.

STUDENT TECHS Student Techs provide general tech support for undergraduates in Yale College and graduate students in the School of Arts & Sciences, the School of Engineering & Applied Science and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

STs help with troubleshooting software and hardware issues with students’ personal devices, such as their laptops and smartphones.

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CLUSTER TECHNICIANS Cluster Techs support over 300 Yale-owned computers, kiosks and printers around campus.

They proactively check on over 20 separate computer clusters around Yale, from the clusters in Bass Library and Dunham Laboratory all the way to the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at the School of Medicine.

MEDIA TECHS Media Techs staff the new Bass Media Lab and support the Bass Media Equipment Checkout Service. At the Bass Media Lab, they help students with software such as Adobe Photoshop and Final Cut Pro and assist students with multimedia projects. The Bass Media Equipment Checkout Service allows students to check out high-end media equipment such as DSLR cameras, high definition camcorders and microphones. MTs assist students with the equipment if they have questions and advise students on what equipment would be best for their project.

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FROM THE FRONT ProtĂŠgĂŠ to depart YIO for Penn INVESTMENTS FROM PAGE 1 In 2011, roughly a third of all YIO alumni since 1986 were holding leadership positions at endowments or foundations, and half of those leaders were holding the title of CIO, according to the 2011 Yale Investments Office annual report. Former employees of the YIO interviewed attributed their career success largely to Swensen and YIO Senior Director Dean Takahashi ’80 SOM ’83 — leaders who not only taught them how to invest wisely, but also inspired many of them to work for not-forprofit institutions after they left Yale. “We look for people that care about Yale’s institutional mission,â€? Swensen said. “So if you buy into the mission and you get very strong training in the investment world, that’s a pretty powerful combination, and it’s not surprising that other not-for-profits would be interested in hiring people with experience at the Yale Investments Office.â€?

Andrew Golden SOM ’89, a former employee of the YIO who now serves as CIO for Princeton, said the YIO has become a “spring� for leading investors because of the tight-knit nature of the office, which allows even the most junior employees to interact on a daily basis with the office’s top professionals.

Though Dennis Hong ’05, a former YIO employee who now works as a principal at Altimeter Capital, said he thinks Swensen would be happy if YIO employees “stayed forever,� Golden said the office is supportive of people moving up to take more senior jobs at other organizations. “If [the office] were shortsighted, they’d focus on how [departures] will set the office back temporarily,� Golden said. “But they’re wise enough to be long-term oriented. If you build an office that’s a great place to be and a great place to be from, that creates a virtuous cycle in terms of ability to acquire talent.�

Former YIO employees said that having the YIO on their resume has proved invaluable for their careers. “It’s kind of like being an assistant coach under one of the renowned sports coaches,� said Jay Kang ’02, director of investments for

the Hilton Foundation. “Once people hear that you worked at the Yale Investments Office, they immediately give you kind of a lot of respect.�

Paula Volent SOM ’97, a former member of the YIO who now manages Bowdoin’s endowment, said she has been able to apply much of what she learned from Swensen to her current job, and she credited Swensen with furthering her interest in both investing and education.

Volent said she has found managing endowments fulfilling because her work supports an educational mission and provides financial aid dollars to students who otherwise would not be able to attend schools like Yale or Bowdoin.

Given the soaring endowment performances the YIO achieved over the past 25 years, with average returns of near or above 20 percent in the mid-2000s, Golden added that he is not surprised that other institutions are eager to hire YIO alumni. In the investing world, the YIO is famous for creating a new endowment model that sought opportunities in inefficient markets among other strategies, said Charlton Reynders, a financial adviser with Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management who is not affiliated with the YIO. Though the YIO’s “unparalleled� reputation was bruised by the endowment’s poor performance during the financial crisis — the endowment dropped almost 25 percent in value in fiscal year 2009 — the office’s long-term record remains stellar, Reynders said.

Swensen said the YIO hires many of its employees from Yale College and the School of Management. “As an undergrad[uate], if you look around at your classmates and see who are the whiz kids, a lot of them are going to end up working for the Yale Investments Office,� Provost Benjamin Polak told the News in January. “It’s been a wonderful educational stepping stone for a lot of people.�

Ammon did not respond to requests for comment.

The Yale endowment posted a return of 4.7 percent for the fiscal year that ended on June 30.

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

Accessibility attractive to donors ART GALLERIES FROM PAGE 4 est in and admiration for art.� “My affection for and respect for the importance of the art gallery goes back 67 years,�

McCullough said. “What you have going on right in that corner of the town is enough to perk you up in all kinds of ways.�

Similarly, Hacker said the galleries’ connection to the school has been one of the key factors behind his attraction to the YCBA. Like McCullough, he said the exposure to art history and aesthetics that he received as a Yale undergraduate has remained with him, motivating him to get involved with the YCBA as a donor. Hacker said contributing to the museum has allowed him to join a community of artists and art historians, and he often attends the museum’s lectures or purchases its publications. “The happiest people are those people who give strategically,�

Hacker said.

Despite the two galleries’ different fundraising philosophies, they are driven by a common goal: making art educational, free and accessible for the widest audience possible. Thanks to

a University policy stating that the digital image of any work not subject to copyright must be available to the public for free, both galleries are now working to create online databases of their collections. Three donors interviewed said the art museums’ connection to the University, and the educational emphasis of that relationship, is vital to contributors’ perceptions of these institutions.

One of the YCBA’s major contributors is the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, a philanthropic organization founded by a late Yale Law School alumnus and art collector. The foundation’s current president and CEO, John Rowe, said Joseph McCrindle LAW ’48 took the center’s association with an educational institution into major consideration, adding that the YCBA’s connection with an elite university assures the foundation’s board that its donations will be kept safe for many years to come. “A big factor is the teaching,�

Rowe said. “Promoting interesting art at a younger age will motivate people to be museumgoers, supporters and donors in the future.�

This emphasis on teaching extends to the YUAG’s collaborations with the School of Art, whose graduates often show work in the gallery. Cathleen Chaffee, the YUAG’s assistant curator of modern and contemporary art, said six out of 18 pieces in the recent “Once Removed� exhibit at the gallery were created by School of Art alumni. She added that the YUAG has also put aside acquisition funds specifically for the purchase of alumni-created art.

To both Reynolds and Meyers, the public support their galleries have received is due in large part to the museums’ commitment to education. And for supporters of the YUAG and the YCBA, the galleries’ philosophy of free entry is intrinsic to their identity. “It would be naive to subscribe to the philosophy that all museums should be free,� Meyers said. “But when you behave generously and make it clear with the public that you want to be generous in this way, sometimes you have constituencies that appreciate this and want to give more.�

“Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away.� JIM CRAMER HOST OF CNBC’S “MAD MONEY�

Gun reform takes hit GUN REFORM FROM PAGE 1 “Criminals do not submit to background checks,� said Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Democrat who voted against adopting the amendment.

Four Republicans voted in favor of the amendment, and four Democrats opposed it. It is still unclear how the Democraticcontrolled Senate will proceed after this defeat. Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy told the News that Senate leadership may pursue other avenues to reintroduce a background check proposal, including proposing a watereddown amendment or tacking the proposal onto future legislation.

Blumenthal and Murphy have been lobbying the Senate for the past several months to pass the background checks amendment.

More recently, family members of Newtown victims have joined the national debate, traveling to Washington to lobby Congress and appearing alongside President Barack Obama in Hartford earlier this month.

Steven Barton, a Connecticut resident who was wounded in the Aurora movie theater shooting last July, traveled with the Connecticut delegation to persuade senators to adopt what he considered were “common-sense� gun-control measures. In a press call held soon after the vote, he expressed frustration at the insensitivity he experienced from senators unwilling to support his position. “I can’t tell you how discouraging it is and how insulting it is to sit across from a senator and have them tell you that a back-

ground check is a bridge too far,� he said. “While this is a setback, we’re not leaving — we’re not going anywhere.�

Murphy said that since a majority of senators had voted in favor of background checks, he will move to actively fight the filibuster rule. “This vote has turned me from a proponent [of abolishing the filibuster] into a revolutionary,�

Murphy said. “There’s never been a bigger gap between the American public and a Senate vote.�

Also on Wednesday, a ban on assault weapons fell 40–60, and a ban on high-capacity magazines was rejected, with 46 senators voting in favor and 54 against.

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

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Despite support from President Barack Obama and a majority of Americans, measures to expand background checks failed to pass the Senate.

Swensen in good health SWENSEN FROM PAGE 1 investing, including asset allocation, investment strategy and manager selection.

University President Richard Levin told the News on Wednesday that he hopes Swensen makes a full recovery. “The entire Yale community hopes he will return to full health and is back teaching next year,� Levin said.

Swensen said he does not have plans to step down from his position as CIO any time soon. “No, I love my job,� he said. “I’m going to miss [University President Richard Levin] enormously, but I’m looking forward to working with [President-elect Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak.] I think that’s going to be great.�

Since Swensen’s arrival in 1985, Yale’s endowment has grown from just over $1 billion in the late 1980s to $19.3 billion as of June 30, 2012. Swensen is widely credited with redefining the model for institutional investing, pioneering a nontraditional strategy that favors illiquid, alternative assets and that has been widely emulated by many of Yale’s peers.

During the mid-2000s, the Yale endowment saw investment returns of near or above 20 percent before losing nearly a quarter of its value following the onset of the economic recession in 2008. It has since recovered much of its value, posting a 4.7 percent return on its investments

in the latest fiscal year.

Though Takahashi originally told the students in “Investment Analysis� last fall that Swensen would not be teaching for about one month due to medical reasons, Swensen ultimately did not return to teach the course at all that semester. “After a month passed, Takahashi said that Swensen was doing better and resumed working, but he did not explain why he did not return to class,� one student in the class told the News in January, asking to remain anonymous because he did not know whether Swensen wanted information about his health made public. Takahashi only said that Swensen “regretted� not coming to class this year, the student said.

Yanni Legmpelos ’13, a student in the seminar last fall, said the students in the class “definitely missed out� because of Swensen’s absence. “Swensen’s presence and comments in the first two classes were very interesting and made me feel that he would have a lot more to share in the rest of the semester,� he said. “Those classes were just a warm-up for the semester.�

Last October, Swensen was one of six recipients of the 2012 Yale Medal, the highest award presented by the Association of Yale Alumni for outstanding individual service to the University.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, APRIL 18 4:30 PM “Building Computers that Understand our Emotions” Javier Hernandez, doctoral student at the MIT Media Lab and co-inventor of the MIT Mood Meter, will give a presentation on affective computing and human emotional analysis, including a live trial of the Mood Meter. This event is co-sponsored by the Yale Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Lab, the International Students Organization and the Yale European Undergraduates. Free and open to the public. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Room 205.

FRIDAY, APRIL 19 12:30 PM “Public Health, Health Care and Social Justice: Reflections of a Former Dwight Hall Intern” Join the Public Health Coalition for lunch with Dr. Mark Mullen, public health commissioner of New Haven, to discuss “Public Health, Health Care, and Social Justice: Reflections of a Former Dwight Hall Intern.” Silliman College (505 College St.), Dining Annex.

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BY DENISE LAVOIE AND RODRIQUE NGOWI ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — In what could be a major break in the Boston Marathon case, investigators are on the hunt for a man seen in a department-store surveillance video dropping off a bag at the site of the bombings, a Boston politician said Wednesday.

Separately, a law enforcement official confirmed that authorities have found an image of a potential suspect but don’t know his name.

The development — less than 48 hours after the attack that left three people dead and more than 170 wounded — marked a possible turning point in a case that has investigators analyzing photos and videos frame by frame for clues to who carried out the twin bombings and why.

I know it’s very active and very fluid right now — that they are on the chase. They may be on the verge of arresting someone.

STEPHEN MURPHY President, Boston City Council City Council President Stephen Murphy, who said he was briefed by Boston police, said investigators saw the image on surveillance footage they got from a department store near the finish line, and matched the findings with witness descriptions of someone leaving the scene.

“I know it’s very active and very fluid right now — that they are on the chase,” Murphy told The Associated Press. He added: “They may be on the verge of arresting someone, and that’s good.”

The bombs were crudely fashioned

from ordinary kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and ball bearings, investigators and others close to the case said. Investigators suspect the devices were then hidden in black duffel bags and left on the ground.

As a result, they were looking for images of someone lugging a dark, heavy bag.

One department store video “has confirmed that a suspect is seen dropping a bag near the point of the second explosion and heading off,” Murphy said.

A law enforcement official who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity and was not authorized to discuss the case publicly confirmed only that investigators had an image of a potential suspect whose name was not known to them and who had not been questioned.

The turn of events came with Boston in a state of high excitement over conflicting reports of a breakthrough.

A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told the AP around midday that a suspect was in custody.

The official, who was not authorized to divulge details of the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the suspect was expected in federal court. But the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston said no arrests had been made.

By nightfall, there was no evidence anyone was in custody. No one was brought to court. The law enforcement official, who had affirmed there was a suspect in custody even after federal officials denied it, was unable to obtain any further information or explanation.

At least 14 patients remained in critical condition. Dozens of patients have been released from hospitals around the Boston area, and officials at three hospitals that treated some of the most seriously injured said they expect all their remaining patients to survive.

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Miss. man arrested for ricin letters

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A firefighter dressed in a protective suit walks out of a government mail screening facility in Hyattsville, Md.

BY HOLBROOK MOHR ASSOCIATED PRESS OXFORD, Miss. — A Mississippi man was arrested Wednesday, accused of sending letters to President Barack Obama and a senator that tested positive for the poisonous ricin and set the nation’s capital on edge a day after the Boston Marathon bombings.

FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen said the man was arrested Wednesday. His name wasn’t immediately released publicly.

Authorities still waited for definitive tests on the letters to Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss. An FBI intelligence bulletin obtained by The Associated Press said those two letters were postmarked Memphis, Tenn.

Both letters said: “To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance.”

Both were signed, “I am KC and I approve this message.”

The letters were intercepted before reaching the White House or Senate.

The FBI said Wednesday that more testing was underway. Preliminary field tests can often show false positives for ricin.

As authorities scurried to investigate three questionable packages discovered in Senate office buildings, reports of suspicious items also came in from at least three senators’ offices in their home states.

Sen. Carl Levin said a staff member at his Saginaw, Mich., office would spend the night in a hospital as a precaution after discovering a suspicious letter. The staff member had no symptoms, Levin said in a statement. He expected to learn preliminary results of tests on the letter by Thursday.

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said suspicious letters at his Phoenix office had been cleared with nothing dangerous found. A package at Sen. John Cornyn’s Dallas-area office also was declared harmless, a fire department

spokesman said.

All three packages in the Capitol complex turned out to be safe, Capitol police spokeswoman Makema Turner said late Wednesday. But a man was still being questioned after being stopped in connection with the packages, she said.

All the activity came as tensions were high in Washington and across the country following Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured more than 170. The FBI said there was no indication of a connection between the letters and the bombing. The letters to Obama and Wicker were postmarked April 8, before the marathon.

Capitol Police swiftly ramped up security, and lawmakers and staff were cautioned away from some parts of the Hill complex. After hours of jangled nerves, officials signaled it was safe to move throughout the area and people settled back to normal, if watchful, activity.

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Doctors flee Puerto Rico for US

BY DANICA COTO ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Going to the doctor in Puerto Rico has for years often meant getting in line.

Now, it might mean getting on a plane.

A medical exodus is taking place in the Caribbean territory as doctors and nurses flee for the U.S. mainland, seeking higher salaries and better reimbursement from insurers.

Many of their patients, frustrated by long waits and a scarcity of specialists, are finding they have no choice but to follow them off the island.

Among them is Marilu Flores, a 60-year-old rural mail carrier who is battling advanced rheumatoid arthritis.

She not only is flying to the U.S. mainland to receive treatment; she’s moving to Texas.

“The best doctors left a long time ago,” she said.

In the last five years, the number of doctors in Puerto Rico has dropped by 13 percent, from 11,397 to 9,950, according to the island’s Medical Licensing and Studies Board. The biggest losses are primary care physicians and specialists within a specialty, such as thoracic oncologists.

Of the roughly 400 cardiologists who practiced in Puerto Rico about five years ago, only about 150 remain.

The number of anesthesiologists has dropped from roughly 300 to about 100 in roughly the same time period, said Dr. Eduardo Ibarra, president of the island’s Association of Surgeons.

“Same with the neurosurgeons.

They don’t even number 20 now,” Ibarra said. “There are no specialized surgeons in certain areas.”

Those seeking a thoracic oncologist, for example, have to go to Florida, if they can afford it.

“It’s truly catastrophic,” he said.

The exodus of doctors is part of a larger wave of professionals who have left the U.S. island territory in recent years, settling in states such as Florida and New York, where there

Mexicans welcome US immigration reform

BY MARK STEVENSON AND ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A doctor walks through a hallway at the Centro Medico trauma center in San Juan, Puerto Rico. is a big demand for bilingual workers, especially police and nurses.

Many Puerto Ricans also seek to escape a wave of violent crime and higher cost of living. Almost a million more Puerto Ricans now live on the mainland than on the island.

Medical professionals say they expect the situation will worsen.

President Barack Obama’s new health care law means U.S. states will soon seek more doctors amid an influx of patients, said Dr. Guillermo Tirado, an internal medicine specialist in Puerto Rico.

“All states are preparing to cull a

lot of doctors from Puerto Rico,” he said. “If we have a big exodus now, we’re going to see it get worse. …

There hasn’t been a revolution yet because the escape valve is to buy a plane ticket to Orlando,” referring to the many patients who fly to the U.S. for treatment if they can afford it.

Puerto Rico currently does not meet federal recommendations on the number and types of doctors needed per capita, Tirado said.

The island of 3.7 million people has no more than two pediatric neurosurgeons, even though guidelines state there should be at least one

pediatric neurosurgeon per roughly 80,000 people, he said.

Puerto Rico also lacks 93 fulltime primary care physicians to adequately cover the medical needs of the population, according to statistics from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, which tracks areas suffering from a shortage of health professionals. Of the island’s 78 municipalities, 37 need more health care professionals, including the capital of San Juan and Ponce, the island’s second largest city. The island has roughly 7,000 primary care physicians, Ibarra said.

MEXICO CITY — Mexicans reacted with cautious optimism to the immigration reform bill submitted to the U.S. Senate Wednesday, saying that while it proposes a long wait for migrants to gain U.S. citizenship, it at least gives them a stable path to do so.

“There are some people who would like to become citizens right away,” said Ismael Mota Ortega, 48, who heads the Illinois federation of clubs of migrants from the central Mexico state of Zacatecas. “But there are others who see things sensibly, that you have to demonstrate that you can truly be a good citizen, step by step.”

But Marco Antonio Castillo, who leads an advocacy group called the Popular Assembly of Migrant Families, complained about the numerous conditions the measure would impose on applicants, saying, “The immigration reform doesn’t appear to be as just as possible.”

“We don’t want to be pessimistic, because this is an unusual step” to get a reform bill at least presented, Castillo said. “But it is fundamentally important that the demands of society be met.”

Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department welcomed the proposed reform, calling it “a positive step.”

“The commitment expressed by President Barack Obama and members of both parties in Congress on this issue is very encouraging,” it said. “As the U.S. legislative process proceeds, it will be fundamentally important that the contributions of migrants are taken into account, and that their rights are respected. “ The bill would allow migrants in the country before 2012 to apply for “registered provisional immigrant status.” That would not allow them to collect federal benefits, but they could at least work safely in the United States and visit their homelands.

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MANDI SCHWARTZ ’10 MARROW DONOR DRIVE REGISTRATION TODAY AT COMMONS The Yale Athletics Department’s annual marrow donor registration drive in honor of women’s hockey player Mandi Schwartz will be held today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The drive has produced at least 17 life-saving donor matches over the past four years.

“We had the opportunities with runners on base, we just put bad swings on the ball.”

ERIC HSIEH ’15 LEFT FIELDER, BASEBALL YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013 · yaledailynews.com

Elis cannot pioneer a comeback

DAVID CARTY

Redemption, for Adam Scott and Australia On Sunday, 32-year-old Australian Adam Scott won the Masters in a playoff over 2009 champion Angel Cabrera of Argentina. The final day of this year’s Masters, hampered by rain, was a true test of nerves. Those in contention either met the challenge or failed.

Take the co-leader after 54 holes, Brandt Snedeker, the fifth-ranked player in the world, who in 2008 collapsed in round four shooting a five-over 77. During his postround press conference on Saturday, the Tennessee native said he had learned from his mistakes and was prepared for the pressures of the final day of a major. Unfortunately for Snedeker, five years’ worth of experience did not seem to help him as he shot himself out of contention with a threeover 75.

This left Scott, Cabrera, Jason Day and Tiger Woods among those in contention. Tiger ran into difficulty of his own on Friday, when his third shot on the par-five 15th hole hit the flagstick and ricocheted into the water. He retook his shot and finished the hole with a six. However, after the round he was assessed a two-stroke penalty after he admitted to dropping his ball 2 yards behind his original third shot. Had Tiger’s third shot not hit off of the flagstick, his final-round 70 might have put him in the playoff alongside Scott and Cabrera instead of tied for fourth. I guess the Golf Gods were against him this week.

Jason Day, who tied for second at Augusta in 2011, led by two standing on the 16th tee after birdying 13, 14 and 15.

However, his nerves got to him and he bogeyed 16 and 17 to finish the tournament in sole possession of third place.

Only Scott and Cabrera were up for the challenge. Both came to the 18th hole at 8-under par and only a few minutes after Scott sank a 20-foot birdie putt to move to 9-under, Cabrera calmly hit his iron to within 3 feet of the flag and tapped in his birdie to set up a playoff. After Cabrera’s third shot chip missed the cup by an inch, both players parred the first playoff hole. On the final playoff hole, Cabrera again missed a birdie by an inch. Scott, on the other hand nailed his 12-foot putt to become the first Australian to win the Masters.

GARCIA IS NOW 0-58 IN MAJORS AND SCOTT IS THE 2013 MASTERS CHAMPION Last July, this moment seemed unlikely for Scott. At that time he lead the Open Championship by four shots with only four holes to play. He collapsed, bogeying every remaining hole to lose the Claret Jug to Ernie Els by a single shot. Some commentators openly questioned how much that loss would affect him. Scott has been on the world golf scene for over a decade, won millions of dollars and been ranked as high as third in the world. He has enjoyed the fruits of his success, dating women like Ana Ivanovic and Kate Hudson. However, for all his success, a Major Championship remained the one piece missing from his resume.

With this win, Scott not only achieves a career breakthrough, but exorcises the many demons Australian golfers have encountered at Augusta National. During his Butler Cabin interview, Scott acknowledged this, saying, “There’s one guy that inspired a nation of golfers, and that’s Greg Norman. … Part of this belongs to him.” Norman, who was the top-ranked golfer in the world for over 300 weeks, infamously came second at the Masters in 1986, 1987 and 1996 but was never able to break through and win at Augusta.

A stark contrast can be made between the leader after the first round and the leader after the final round. Sergio Garcia and Scott have had very similar careers. They both have been ranked in the top three in the world, made millions of dollars, suffered major championship heartbreak (Garcia in the 2007 Open) and never quite lived up to their prodigious talent.

Scott, however, did not succumb to the tragedy of his past. Garcia — who finished tied for eighth after an opening-round 66 — on the other hand, said in a press conference last year, “I’m not good enough, I don’t have the thing I need to have. In 13 years [as a pro], I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place. I have no more options. I wasted my options. …Tell me something I can do.” Garcia has been broken by his past and chooses to look behind him. Scott was hardened by his past, but made more mature. The difference between the two: Garcia is now 0–58 in Majors and Scott is the 2013 Masters champion.

Contact DAVID CARTY at david.carty@yale.edu .

BASEBALL

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After surrendering three runs in the first inning, Yale’s pitchers combined to hold Sacred Heart to two hits and no runs over seven innings.

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER After the Yale baseball team came from behind late in the game in two wins against Harvard last weekend, another Bulldog comeback fell just short against Sacred Heart Wednesday afternoon in Bridgeport, Conn.

After scoring three runs on three hits without making an out off right-hander Chris Lanham ’16 in the bottom of the first inning, the Pioneers (15–16, 11–5 Northeast) hung on for a 3–2 victory over the Yale baseball team (8–22, 5–7 Ivy) at Harbor Yard.

Catcher and captain Chris Piwinski ’13 accepted the blame for the slow start.

“That first inning was kind of on me with pitch-calling,” Piwinski said. “Guys aren’t sitting on [Lanham’s] pitches if I call better pitches.”

After senior designated hitter Rocco Gondek gave Sacred Heart an early lead with a three-run double to left in the first, the Pioneers were held scoreless on just two hits the rest of the way. Lanham settled down after Gondek’s two-bagger to set down the next nine batters he faced — three on strikes.

The rest of Yale’s pitching staff would continue Lanham’s success, with five pitchers combining to shut out the Sacred Heart lineup and surrender just two hits over the final seven frames.

“Pitching the past two weeks has been awesome,” designated hitter Joe Lubanski ’15 said. “So I wasn’t even surprised. Our coach even said after they got the three

runs that they aren’t going to get any more.”

The Elis got a run back in the top of the third. Centerfielder Cameron Squires ’13 led off the inning with a double and came around to score on a groundout by shortstop Tom O’Neill ’16 after Piwinski had moved Squires over to third with a slow roller down the third baseline.

The score stayed stuck at 3–1 until two outs in the top of the eighth. Leftfielder Eric Hsieh ’15 was hit by a pitch to start the rally and advanced to second when Gondek, now pitching, plunked first baseman Jacob Hunter ’14.

Lubanski then drove a single to right field to score Hsieh and pull Yale within one. But third baseman Brent Lawson ’16 flew out to center to end the rally, and Yale could not plate a run in the ninth off of freshman reliever Jesus Medina. Hsieh said that the Elis needed to do a better job of driving the ball against the Pioneer pitching staff.

“When we get ahead in the count, we just need to put better swings on the ball,” Hsieh said.

“We had the opportunities with runners on base, we just put bad swings on the ball.”

Yale tallied just three hits in the game and left seven runners on base Wednesday.

The Elis return home this weekend for a four-game series with Dartmouth (22–6, 8–4 Ivy). The Big Green are three games ahead of Yale for first place in the Red Rolfe Division of the Ivy League.

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

Bulldogs hit seven-game losing streak GRANT BRONSDON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After being swept by Harvard in four games last weekend, the softball team was unable to win either game Wednesday night against Sacred Heart, falling 8–0 in five innings in the opener and 15–6 in the nightcap.

SOFTBALL The Bulldogs (8–28, 3–9 Ivy) dropped their sixth and seventh consecutive games at the DeWitt Family Field largely due to the 11 unearned runs the team gave up over both ends of the doubleheader.

“We’ve [played good defense] in practice, so we can do it in games,” outfielder Riley Hughes ’15 said.

“We need to make the game simple and execute.”

After retiring the first 10 batters in game one against the Pioneers (20–20, 4-8 Northeast), starting pitcher Chelsey Dunham ’14 gave up a single to Jenn Robillard, which was quickly followed by an RBI double to Annie Dreher to start the scoring. A Bulldog error later in the inning brought Dreher in to score, making the score 2–0 headed into the bottom of the fourth.

The Bulldogs could not capitalize off of a leadoff single from Hannah Brennan ’15, who advanced to second before a weak bunt ended the inning and left the Bulldogs runless. It was the Elis’ third straight inning with the leadoff hitter stranded in scoring position.

“We have to have a bit more of a sense of urgency and not think that we can wait until the last few

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The softball team dropped its doubleheader against Sacred Heart 8–0 and 15–6 due to defensive mistakes. innings [to score],” Hughes said.

In the top of the fifth, Sacred Heart broke the game open, scoring six runs to lead the Bulldogs 8–0. Due to the mercy rule, the game ended after just five innings.

In the second game, righthander Rhydian Glass ’16 was given the hill, making her seventh start of the season. After a fairly smooth first inning, defense became her undoing. Two secondinning errors led to three unearned runs scoring on a lone hit for Sacred Heart. The Elis committed two more errors in each of the next two innings, allowing four more runners to cross the plate.

These setbacks, however, could not force the Bulldogs to roll over.

A two-out RBI single from Jennifer

TOP ’DOG ANDREW MILLER ’13

Ong ’13 scored Brennan in the second, and the Elis plated two more in the third after a one-out double from Sarah Onorato ’15 and subsequent singles from Brittany Labbadia ’16 and team captain Christy Nelson ’13.

“The team has shown a lot of fight this year,” Onorato said.

“We’ve been down in many instances and been able to come back.”

Onorato’s double was her 26th extra-base hit of the year. She broke the Yale single-season home run record last weekend against Harvard, and her average remains a robust .419.

“It’s just been about keeping things simple — seeing the ball and hitting it,” Onorato said.

The game remained at 7–3 until the sixth, when Yale encountered more success at the plate. Four hits, including a two-RBI double from Alex Lucas ’14, cut the deficit to just one.

Yale’s comeback did not last long. In the seventh inning, nine Sacred Heart batters reached base on five hits, three walks and a hit batsman, leading to eight runs.

The Elis went down 1–2–3 in the bottom half, ending the game at 15–6.

Dartmouth comes to town this weekend for a four-game series with the Bulldogs. The first pitch is at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

The men’s ice hockey team captain, who scored two goals during the Frozen Four, signed a one-year contract with the EDMONTON OILERS on Wednesday.