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CROSS CAMPUS

HISTORY ON ICE REACTIONS TO THE HOCKEY WIN

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TRACK AND FIELD

Despite student support, mixed-gender housing will not be a fall option

DISABLED ACTIVISTS FIND NEW BAN DISCRIMINATORY

Yale and Harvard join forces to defeat a Cambridge-Oxford squad

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Salovey inherits a stable Yale

Saving lives. A total of 847 people registered at the fifth annual Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive, which was held yesterday outside Commons.

Named after Yale women’s ice hockey player Mandi Schwartz ’10 — who passed away after a two-year battle with cancer — the drive added about 300 more potential donors than last year’s drive, and the effort has included more than 3,000 people to the “Be the Match” Registry in total.

MIXED SUPPORT FOR ELECTED BOARD OF EDUCATION SPOTS

Hath he returned? James

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER

Franco, formerly GRD ’16, was spotted outside LinslyChittenden Hall yesterday. No word yet on whether Yale’s most famous almost-alum will return to study beneath these Ivy-covered walls.

Just do it. A Yale College Council report released Thursday evaluated and offered five recommendations to improve the University’s alcohol culture. In addition to proposing dry, largescale events for students to socialize without alcohol, YCC representatives called on University President Richard Levin to make a “public statement advocating for a reconsideration of the U.S. legal drinking age.” Maybe Levin should run for Congress after his tenure at Yale ends.

O say can you see? Every other year, Yalies migrate to Boston for The Game against our northern, Crimson-colored rival.

But this Saturday, the Yale Precision Marching Band will visit Boston for a very different reason: The group has accepted an invitation to perform the national anthem at the Red Sox game in Fenway Park. Yalies are patriotic, y’all.

Awarding teaching. The Yale College Dean’s Office announced the 2013 winners of the six annual teaching prizes, awarded by the Committee on Teaching, Learning, & Advising, yesterday.

A group of 37 women at Occidental College filed a

Title IX complaint with the Department of Education on Thursday alleging that the school has fostered a hostile work environment by not offering effective prevention and response programs for incidents of sexual misconduct. According to the complainants, the college did not teach consent, discouraged victims from reporting assault and did not remove perpetrators from campus.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1906 Secretary of War William Taft 1878, called “Yale’s most prominent graduate,” announces that he will deliver a speech at the University on “The Responsibilities of Citizenship.” Taft’s talk will kick off the four-part “Dodge Lectureship Series,” which was founded six years prior after a generous $30,000 gift from William E. Dodge.

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fter years of grooming President-elect Peter Salovey for his new job, University President Richard Levin will leave behind a more stable Yale than the version he inherited 20 years ago. Soon, Salovey must chart the University’s course as its new leader — in the shadow of the Levin era. JULIA ZORTHIAN reports.

On the afternoon of Nov. 8, 2012, faculty and administrators crowded into the McDougal Center to meet Yale’s next president, with rumors circulating that the current provost would take the reins of the University.

UPCLOSE So when Provost Peter Salovey

appeared with University President Richard Levin and Yale Corporation senior fellow Edward Bass ’67 ARC ’72 at the side door, he had to walk through a standing ovation and chorus of cheers in order to reach the podium in the front. No one looked surprised. The clamor did not die down quickly, but eventually Bass took the podium to announce Salovey’s unanimous election by the

Yale Corporation.

“Rick [Levin] leaves a lasting legacy of exceptional leadership, one on which our next president can build with confidence,” Bass told the audience that day. “This legacy continues with Peter’s appointment as the next president of Yale.”

Levin has built this legacy over SEE SALOVEY PAGE 4

Three years ago, the Elm City began a School Change Initiative that sought to completely transform New Haven Public Schools.

School Change had ambitious goals and an equally ambitious plan. Through scholarships, parent workshops, a school tiering system, community partnerships and a new teacher contract, the district pledged to eliminate the achievement gap, cut the dropout rate in half and prepare every student for college. So far, the program, although in its infancy, has shown moderate success. The district’s graduation rate has risen 12.4 percent and the dropout rate has decreased by approximately 10 percentage points, while at the same time more students are qualifying for New Haven Promise, a Yale-funded college scholarship program.

The city now stands on the brink of electing a new leader, who will have power to influence the reform process in the coming years. So far, former President of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Matthew Nemerson, Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, plumber Sundiata Keitazulu, State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield and former city Economic Development Administrator Henry Fernandez LAW ’94 have announced their candidacy for mayor. And each election contestant brings with him a different plan for how education reform in New Haven should proceed.

THE BASIC PLATFORMS

Though all candidates emphasized a strong commitment to improving New Haven education, their plans for how to continue School Change vary in focus.

Nemerson, a proponent of early childhood education, said that he would like to see universal preschool for city residents. He said SEE ED REFORM PAGE 6

Aldermen change Quinlan to take on admissions ward map

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER In a unanimous vote Monday, the Board of Aldermen redrew the borders of two New Haven wards, bucking the legal recommendation of the city’s top lawyer in the process.

The redistricting came well after the city concluded the once-per-decade process of redrawing ward boundaries last year. Despite the advice of city Corporation Counsel Victor Bolden, the Board of Aldermen voted to move Jocelyn Square, a small city neighborhood, from Ward 9 to Ward 8, and to add a block near Hillhouse High School to Ward 21.

The board justified the changes by citing issues with last year’s redistricting process, and it pointed to the opinion of New Haven attorney Martyn Philpot in defending the legality of the move.

“Redistricting is hard,” said Ward 9 Alderman Jessica Holmes, whose ward shrunk slightly as a result of the change. “I’ve never had any intention to have a hostile take-

over of any other wards in the city, and so I was amenable to this change.”

Bolden told the board it could not redraw the borders of wards more than six months after the state’s creation of new districts last June.

“The City’s Office of the Corporation Counsel issues opinions based on a careful analysis of the relevant law and the applicable facts, and this situation is no different,” Bolden told the News.

Philpot, whose website states he has experience in personal injury, wrongful death, civil rights and criminal law, among other areas, declined to explain the legal reasoning for his recommendation to the board, citing attorney-client privilege. Holmes declined to explain the logic behind the decision to redistrict. She said she saw no problem in the Board of Aldermen seeking, and taking, advice from outside counsel over the city’s own lawyers.

“It’s not unusual for two

Last weekend, Yale-NUS Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeremiah Quinlan was in Singapore, introducing admitted students to the campus they will call home starting in August. A 20-hour flight later, Quinlan — the future dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale — was back in New Haven to participate in Bulldog Days on Monday morning.

Having simultaneously served as both dean of admissions and financial aid at YaleNUS and deputy dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale for the past two years, Quinlan is used to flying to and from the Southeast Asian island on short notice. But Quinlan, who will officially succeed current Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel on July 1, said he is looking forward to the opportunity to focus on Yale despite feeling “bittersweet” about leaving the new liberal arts college. Though Quinlan said he is planning to use the experience he gained at YaleNUS to re-evaluate several elements of Yale’s Admissions Office, he said he will proceed

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A bloody reminder he Taliban launched another brazen attack in Afghanistan earlier this month, this time on a packed courthouse in Farah.

The attack was classic Taliban, their indiscriminate use of automatic weapons and suicide bombs resulting in dozens of innocent civilians killed and wounded. The carnage came as no surprise to those who are familiar with how the Taliban operate and how little they actually care about the people of Afghanistan. What does come as a surprise is that some still believe they should be given a role in the future of Afghanistan.

We should never forget what the Taliban stand for and what life was like under their rule. Public executions in Ghazi stadium. Women denied basic rights such as education, employment and access to health care. People stoned, whipped and mutilated for minor infractions. Religious intolerance and the destruction of ancient Buddhist statues.

Refusal to accept humanitarian aid during periods of drought and starvation. Schools used to promote violence and hatred.

Ethnic cleansing. Nearly every form of sport and entertainment banned.

It has been almost a dozen years since the Taliban were ousted from power. Since that time, they have maintained an effective shadow government, hoping to retake control of the country at some point in the future. They continue to prey on villages that aren’t protected at all times by coalition or Afghan security forces, severely punishing anyone suspected of violating their strict religious code. Suicide bombers target crowded markets in order to disrupt the economy and intimidate the population.

Government officials, village elders, teachers, doctors, students and aid workers have all been victims of assassination.

Some believe the “new” Taliban has tempered its fundamentalist views and is willing to accept change. They are portrayed as more rational and approachable than the hardliners that dominated the pre-9/11 ranks, and perhaps more amenable to dialogue and diplomacy. Proponents of engaging in peace talks with the Taliban are also quick to point out they weren’t the ones who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks, and that Al Qaeda remain the real threat.

It is true that not everyone that fights under the Taliban banner is deeply loyal to their cause. Many align themselves with the Taliban because they dislike or distrust the Karzai government. Some have cho-

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sen to fight against coalition forces because they perceive them as occupiers. Others do it simply for money or pride. The promise of a future marked by peace, stability and prosperity may be enough to convince many of these individuals to embrace reconciliation, and every effort should be made to reach out to them.

WE CANNOT FORGET AFGHANISTAN Yet those who control the organization from inside Pakistan are still fundamentally opposed to anything that supports democracy, human rights and religious tolerance. While it might be possible to convince the Taliban leadership to sever ties with Al Qaeda, it is wishful to expect they will renounce violence and commit to the key elements of the Afghanistan Constitution. Their strict, distorted interpretation of Sharia law conflicts with most everything that Afghanistan has become and hopes to be in the future. They cannot simply morph into just another political party, because their view of what is acceptable can only be achieved through violence and terror.

The massacre in Farah should serve as a reminder of who the Taliban really are and why we must proceed cautiously on the diplomatic front.

While a negotiated settlement is the right approach to end the conflict, the real question is whether the Taliban leadership can or should be part of Afghanistan’s future. They continue to promote hatred and intolerance, conduct targeted assassinations, threaten young schoolchildren, and oppose basic human rights.

Those things are not likely to change with the shaking of hands or the signing of a document. They would like nothing more than to see the country return to the dark days that preceded 9/11, and we owe it to the people of Afghanistan not to let that happen.

Closing the trust gap S

terling Professor of political science David Mayhew once noticed that "Probably half the adverse criticism of Congress by elites is an indirect criticism of the public itself." Few truer observations about contemporary political discourse have been made in recent memory. The public gripes about an inactive Senate, but within that institution, there are Senators, and behind Senators, there are primary and general elections.

The blame, then, is meant really for the voters themselves.

Money talks, but few issues or candidates without the potential for widespread appeal catch fire among the electorate, no matter the financial advantage: see Romney, Mitt. Similarly, some sociopolitical shifts are so great that it makes no sense to try to wage political campaigns on them, as will be the case for gay marriage for the foreseeable future.

Over the last 40 years, this same kind of a shift happened with gun politics. The popular notion that the National Rifle Association was once a gun control-loving fraternal organization is not exactly true. In fact, the NRA began vocally opposing various federal measures in the early ’70s, after originally having supported certain elements of the Gun Control Act of 1968.

But the narrative that the American voting public was in favor of stricter gun control in the past certainly is correct. Indeed,

in the late ’60s, public support for tightening gun laws hovered between 60 and 70 percent.

As gun control measures were passed, and new ones were increasingly being suggested, mobilization against them grew more sophisticated. But even in 1994, 61 senators and 235 representatives (including 46 Republicans) passed a 10-year ban on specific assault weapons. But in 2004, things changed. Despite continuing violence, the political wind behind gun control was gone, revoked by the people.

Is it because ignorance in America grew? Did the people in what coastal cosmopolitans consider “flyover country” become more reactionary? A disturbing number of people I talk to at Yale think so. Certainly, opposition to gun restrictions became better organized — but, nationwide, citizens’ trust in their government also declined rapidly.

The bottom has fallen out of trust in national government.

Congress’s approval rating hovers in the single digits, and a litany of surveys also find that people want private organizations and state governments to replace the federal government in a wide swath of executive functions.

This narrative of alienation has been getting louder since the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War (before then, Americans liked their government a whole lot more). It grew also as a result of the repeated

squandering of political goodwill, from Johnson to Nixon to Clinton to Bush. People want to see their choices for political leaders vindicated. They tolerate one big mess, or two — but eventually, after years of disappointment, they just throw up their hands.

And so, alienation invades. This is especially true for gun control legislation, where stories of government malfeasance have dominated the pro-gun discourse.

The response from steadfast supporters of the state, instead of turning a critical eye towards government waste and incompetence, has been to condescend those who’ve felt alienated.

“Of course government can be trusted! Take your conspiracies elsewhere!”

OUR CRITICISMS MAY BE MISPLACED PayPal founder Peter Thiel has often observed that New Dealstyle engineering simply cannot be envisioned today. To wit, a very postmodern skepticism has set in about the limits of government.

The answer to this trust gap is more normativity, not less. We need more “values” rhetoric that asserts American exceptionalism and capability, and more politi-

cians who, instead of shying away from proposing Fourteen Points or manifestos for fear of being lampooned, sketch out a vision for a new American century.

And the private vs. public distinction as it’s currently understood needs to vanish, too. Presidents kiss babies, they lead the nation in grief and they represent American vitality. If they were Politburo-style technocrats, perhaps they could live immoral personal lives. But they aren’t, and they can’t.

People’s views towards gun control were different in the second “era of good feelings” leading up to the ’70s. Yes, the NRA was a different organization then — but so was the government. No matter how reasonable the gun control regulation, a critical mass won’t be in favor if people think they are living in a banana republic.

We’re not, of course. But there’s enough government garbage to make many think so. A new era of virtuous example in leadership — and a rebirth of moral language, responsibly used — is sorely needed in today’s public discourse to reverse the “leave me alone” narrative of alienation.

Only then do significant gun control laws, and an American renewal, stand a chance.

JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at john.aroutiounian@yale.edu .

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wo weekends ago I ventured out of New Haven and made a three-hour trek to Newark, N.J., for Taylor Swift.

Anybody who knows me a even little bit knows that I am a huge Taylor Swift fan. Probably nobody knows it better than my poor roommate, who had to endure me playing "Red" at full volume incessantly when it came out in October (“Did Claire leave already?” said one suitemate the night before Thanksgiving break. “No, she’s probably the one blasting the Taylor Swift.”).

Lately, TSwift has been getting a lot of flak. To that, I want to say — hey, leave Taytay alone!

I think it’s unfair to judge a person we’ve never met based on a couple of tabloids or flash media appearances or a few lines from a song here and there. She seems all right in her cat videos to me, but I don’t really know her, so I’m not going to try to assess her as a person.

I do think, however, that we have something to gain from her music. I am speculating that most of you find a guilty pleasure in it. Maybe you listen to it “ironically.” I want to encourage you to drop the guilty and the

ironically.

Taylor Swift is a pleasure because she lets me indulge in my emotions simply and unabashedly, and I think that’s important. Old dead philosophers advise us to follow reason and suppress all those terrible appetites. But without addressing the emotions that we all have, we’d probably just bottle them up and explode.

Taytay captures that shared need. Every day, she takes ordinary feelings and validates them by putting them into music with which you have no trouble singing along. Yes, there is beautiful poetry and there is beautiful music. But sometimes all you really feel is nothing more complex than “Stay, stay, stay, I’ve been loving you for quite some time” — as TSwift sings on "Red" — because it’s occurred to you that you’d like to hang out with a person for your whole life, this person who carries your groceries and has you always laughing.

Sometimes we know what the mature way of dealing with a breakup is, but sometimes we don’t want to be mature. Sometimes we want someone who will just let you gripe about that ex with the cooler-thanyours indie record. Sometimes

we want someone who will disdainfully say things like, “Ugh, so he calls me up and he’s like, I still love you.” Taylor Swift is that person.

WE ALL CAN RELATE TO HER MUSIC AND EMOTIONS There are times memories seize us. Not tragic, epic, novel-style ones, but the tender little moments. Taylor Swift sings about dancing around in the kitchen in refrigerator light at midnight, or autumn leaves.

We all have those moments, whether it’s swing dancing at Spider Ball or singing “My Heart Will Go On” at Crushes and Chaperones. They might have felt like movie scenes. We miss them, and we want to, like Taylor says, dance for all that we’ve been through.

Taytay was there when I was pining in my freshman year of high school about an unrequited love — “And there he goes, so perfectly, the kind of flawless I

wish I could be.” She was there when I fell in love for the first time — “You are the best thing that’s ever been mine!” — and she was there when it ended.

She was there when I graduated high school — “I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you” — and when realized I was growing up: “I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone.”

She was there without any pretention. She sang what I felt, and I could sing along.

I think we sometimes feel the need to make all our emotions seem deep and tragic, or that everything we appreciate and love needs to be Art with a capital A. But Taylor Swift reminds us that it’s OK to just express your feelings plainly for what they are.

“I write songs about my feelings,” Taylor said during that concert in Newark. “I’m told I have a lot of them.”

Taylor is right. We all have a lot of them, and it would do us good to embrace them. I love that Taylor Swift does and invites us to feel them with her.

CLAIRE ZHANG is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact her at claire.zhang@yale.edu .

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AL GORE "The presidency is more than just a popularity contest."

YALE TALKS FOSSIL FREE POINT

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GUEST COLUMNIST A L E X A N D E R K N I G H T, PA AVA N GAMI AND KEVIN LIU

Selling our right to vote O

ur generation is often criticized for “slacktivism” and armchair protests; all too often we care only about that which affects us in our isolated Yale bubble. With this in mind, we applaud Fossil Free Yale for bringing an important dialogue to prominence on campus. Global warming is a serious problem, but we take issue with Fossil Free Yale’s proposed solution. Now is the time for Yale to take the lead, but not by lobbying in favor of a dramatic, but likely futile, gesture: divestment. We must overcome the tendency towards hyperbole and advocate practical solutions to address the problem at hand.

There are several issues with the divestment proposal. First, the Yale endowment is a fund of funds. It does not directly invest in stocks, but rather in hedge funds and other asset managers. It cannot directly divest from any companies involved in the production of fossil fuels any more than it could invest in companies working to further world peace or get Peter Salovey to regrow his mustache. In order to do as Fossil Free Yale asks, the endowment would have to either demand these funds divest from fossil fuel companies (they are unlikely to comply, as they have many clients) or withdraw from these funds.

The latter option would significantly affect our overall returns. To put things in perspective, up to 36.4 percent — that’s $7 billion of the endowment — could be invested in funds that invest in companies related to fossil fuels. The University’s investment portfolio is a major reason why Yale can offer us an incredible variety of opportunities to make positive impacts on the world. What will Yalies lose out on if FFY’s campaign succeeds?

DON'T UNDERESTIMATE OUR POWER AS SHAREHOLDERS Second, we reject the artificial binary that FFY attempts to draw between fossil fuel companies and other firms. Oil companies like Exxon, Shell and BP are also some of the largest private sector investors in alternative energy. It seems arbitrary to only target companies directly involved in the extraction of fossil fuels, and not the firms that transport oil or provide drilling rigs and machinery. In fact, if being involved in fossil fuels is a crime, a large portion of the US private sector is complicit. The solution is not to condemn all such companies, but rather to look to the incentive structure that enables them to continue to engage in

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socially unproductive activity. Even if it were possible to directly divest from companies that were exclusively involved in fossil fuels, what would divestment actually mean in the context of global warming? The term divestment is really a misnomer — we would merely be selling our shares in these firms to another party. The companies in question would continue to profit, but Yale would no longer benefit from dividends and returns that might otherwise have been directed towards the School of Forestry or a student working to conserve the environment in the future.

Lastly, ownership in fossil fuel companies does not mean Yale supports environmental destruction. Because Yale is a fund of funds, its ability to directly influence companies is limited, but it has much more leverage with money invested in asset managers. Owning a share of common stock entitles you to a vote. Shareholders elect members of the Board of Directors,determine executive compensation and present shareholder proposals. FFY argues that divestment sends a principled message, but the stronger message would be to encourage shareholder action by pushing for internal change.

If FFY really wanted to change how a company operates, it would make more sense for Yale to lobby for more responsible corporate governance as a respected member of the investment community, and to use its close relationships with fund managers to put ethical directors on corporate boards. If Yale divests, we will be left with no leverage and no influence.

The appropriate time to divest is when there is grave social injury and no possibility to remedy the situation, but this is not the case here. In the meantime, lobbying for divestment alienates the very businesses we ought toengage with directly.

We cannot merely distance ourselves from the problem and hope it disappears. The deteriorating environment is a pressing issue, and one that we as a University should address. However, divestment is not an effective means to do so. What Yale should do is encourage its fund managers to push for corporate responsibility as shareholders in all the companies they hold: to be activist investors for a healthier and safer world. Ultimately, Yale can have greater influence on fossil fuel companies by retaining its influence than it can by giving up its right to vote.

ALEXANDER KNIGHT is a sophomore in Pierson College, PAAVAN GAMI is a sophomore in Silliman College and KEVIN LIU is a junior in Ezra Stiles College.

Contact them at alexander.knight@yale.edu, paavan.gami@yale.edu and kevin.liu@yale.edu .

Reconsidering ‘Richard III’ Is it really true, as suggested in your article ("The power of seduction in ‘Richard III," April 5), that Shakespeare’s “Richard III” is often performed without Queen Elizabeth, who has more lines than any character but the two leading men? Your readers are also told that “[Queen] Margaret is the only character that Richard never fully conquers.”

The play’s Act IV, Scene 5, requires rethinking Elizabeth’s apparent capitulation to the seducer (on behalf of her daughter) in the previous scene. In light of its

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Yale’s commitment to ethical investing T

his year, the Yale College Council almost included a student-wide referendum on its election ballot for the first time since 2005. This move would have allowed the student body much needed access to Yale’s political process. Whether Yale should divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry would have appeared on the ballot, but the referendum was postponed because of a perceived lack of campus-wide knowledge of the details of divestment.

As a result, it is now even more important for us to educate ourselves about divestment.

We can all agree that climate change has dire consequences for life on earth. Climate change contributes to 300,000 deaths annually — from increased malnutrition, reduced water availability, greater incidence of vector-borne diseases, etc.

Even worse, the nature of climate change is such that if we wait too long, the problem will grow out of control. Mitigation efforts now will save us monumental future costs associated with inaction.

Whether Yale should divest is not a question of taking a political stand or a pie-eyed plea to help polar bears. It is a question of Yale meeting its own binding guidelines for responsible investment outlined in “The Ethical Investor.” Because the following three conditions are met, Yale has a structural obligation to divest.

First, Yale is in close proximity to the problem. Proximity is a function of awareness; the more Yale notices a problem, the greater its responsibility to act. Yale touts its position at the forefront of sustainability and environmental research.

It seems ideologically inconsistent for Yale to advocate sustainability policies and projects while investing its endowment in fossil fuel companies that counteract the very goals behind Yale’s green initiatives.

Second, Yale has capability to make a considerable impact on climate change without inflicting self-harm. The effectiveness of Yale’s proposed divestment is enhanced when added to coordinated efforts of other universities within the national movement of over 300 universities. Due to the size of Yale’s endowment, our divestment would lead to increased national attention and a greater possibility of divestment nationwide.

Empirically, nationwide university divestiture has led to tangible policy action. During the ’70s and ’80s, universities divested from companies in South Africa in response to apartheid. Their efforts helped influence U.S. action when Congress passed the Comprehensive AntiApartheid Act of 1986. By acting in accordance with a nationwide effort, Yale has greater capability to make an impact on climate change, and thus a greater ethical obligation to do so.

Would divestment hurt financial aid and other parts of Yale’s operational budget? A grow-

ing body of financial literature negates this claim. For example, a white paper released by Aperio Group, LLC reports that even a full divestment from fossil fuel companies poses a low relative risk to universities’ endowments. Additionally, if Yale were to divest, the investments office would be able to independently determine the maximum amount of divestment it can afford while still preserving Yale’s operating budget.

Third, Yale has considered the reasonable alternatives. University President Richard Levin mentioned that divestment from a company is an option worthy of consideration only if all attempts at using Yale’s shareholder voice to effect company change would fail.

sequel, IV.4 can no longer be taken at face value as a simple rehash of Anne’s earlier surrender to an unwelcome suitor. In retrospect, Elizabeth’s acquiescence becomes a calculated expedient, because as soon as she’s safely out of range, she does the opposite of what she promised the provocateur, and bundles her daughter off to the Earl of Richmond.

Richard’s contemptuous interpretation of Elizabeth’s giving-in (“Relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman”) is thus ironically deceived, and the latest harbinger of his impending comeuppance.

Shakespeare’s historical tragedy derives much of its moral force from Elizabeth’s brave if necessarily devious subversion of the tyrant’s sociopathic agenda. Her behavior also foils any neat political reading of the play as a whole. Those wishing to “take back the night” from the male marauder should consider Elizabeth as an exemplar, not just another sucker for his dubious charms.

TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT DIVESTMENT But could Yale simply leverage its investments to pass a resolution that would commit fossil fuel companies to the higher environmental standards necessary to reduce social injury? Well even if Yale were to successfully file or vote on such a resolution, it would likely not pass. It would be difficult to get significant support for said resolution from other shareholders when they may not share Yale’s binding commitment to ethical investing.

For example, in May 2008, 73 of 78 descendants of Exxon Mobil founder John D. Rockefeller, Sr., filed a resolution suggesting Exxon pursue cleaner energy alternatives. Their resolution failed 89.6 percent to 10.4 percent. In 2010, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System — with an endowment almost nine times that of Yale — filed a resolution only asking BP to draft reports on the risks of its oil sands projects. It failed 85 percent to 15 percent. These cases are not isolated incidents.

Thus, it becomes abundantly clear that shareholders’ voices are largely impotent in an industry without an existing incentive structure to reward environmental action. And when faced with the futility of our voice, according to Levin, “exit in the form of divestment is the final step.”

Divestment is a concern best dealt with behind closed doors of a Yale Corporation boardroom. But for the issue to even make it there, the Corporation needs to know that the student body believes it is an issue worth discussing. Divesting from fossil fuel companies is not an issue for just the environmentalist, but for all students at Yale.

ALEX NGUYEN is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College and GABE RISSMAN is a freshman in Ezra Stiles College. Contact them at minhalexander.nguyen@yale.edu and david.rissman@yale.edu .

MURRAY BIGGS April 7 The author is a professor of English and theater studies at Yale College.

GUEST COLUMNIST NNAMDI IREGBULEM

The cost of making money T

he income tax is essentially the government-imposed cost of making money. In other words, if your tax rate is 20 percent, then making $1 costs you 20 cents. As with anything else in life, the higher the cost of something, the less of it you will demand. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that raising taxes (or, the cost of making money) would reduce people’s eagerness to make money, since it essentially makes earning money more expensive.

Despite the simple and obvious truth just described, many people willfully and knowingly argue against something that is undeniably true: Raising taxes causes people to work less, and therefore earn less.

This behavior reflects simple downwardsloping demand, and yet so many ignore it just to satisfy their political leanings.

If we can all agree that higher food prices will hurt anyone with some desire to consume food (i.e., everyone), or that higher oil prices will hurt anyone whose life is directly affected by oil production (i.e., everyone), then why can’t we all agree that artificially raising the price of making money is going to harm anyone who makes money and has some level of income (i.e., just about everyone)?

The arguments reach true absurdity when discussing taxation of the rich. The common line of reasoning is that, since the rich have so much money and have such high incomes, they either don’t respond strongly to changes in taxation or simply don’t care. This argument does have some intuitive appeal; it makes sense to think that someone who already has a large amount of something wouldn’t care much if the cost of acquiring even more increased.

WE SHOULD CLOSE THE LOOPHOLES IN OUR TAX CODE However, I find it odd that some of the same people who claim that the rich are not responsive to taxes and are not very much harmed or affected by them will, at the same time, claim that the rich are greedy people who tightly cling to their money and are eager to accumulate even more. One cannot claim that the rich both desperately want to make more money but simultaneously don’t mind having it taken away from them, and yet this is the exact argument made by many who wish to “soak the rich.”

In fact, data shows that the claim that the rich are not responsive to taxes is entirely false. Not only that, the data also shows that higher-income people are in fact the most responsive to taxation of all income groups. A paper written by liberal economists Jon Gruber and Emmanuel Saez in 2000 showed that taxpayers with annual incomes of $100,000 or more had a taxable income elasticity of 0.57, which means that a 10 percent increase in tax rates would lead these taxpayers to reduce their taxable income by 5.7 percent, a sizable reduction.

Taxpayers with income below $100,000, however, only had an elasticity of 0.18, meaning that the same increase in taxation would cause them to reduce their taxable income by 1.8 percent. This data soundly destroys the argument that the rich don’t react to taxation.

Now, what is the policy implication? The implication is that, instead of focusing so much on taxing the rich and making them “pay their fair share,” which they already do (the top 1 percent paid 28.9 percent of their income in federal taxes in 2009, whereas the middle quintile of households paid only 11.1 percent), more emphasis needs to be placed on reforming our broken, loophole-ridden tax system. A large amount of this sensitivity to taxation that Gruber and Saez show can be explained by the litany of tax loopholes and exemptions that the rich have access to, along with the accountants they can afford to help them find these tricks.

With so many methods of reducing taxable income at the disposal of higher-income individuals and families, it should come as no surprise that they are the best at hiding money from Uncle Sam. Loopholes and exemptions distort taxpayers’ behavior and the wider economy, as any economist would agree. Many economists also agree that low tax rates levied on a broad base of income earners are the most efficient way to tax income. The rich are just as responsive, if not more responsive to changes in taxation. Until we fix the loopholes, they will respond in force to any increase in taxation, as the data convincingly shows.

NNAMDI IREGBULEM is a senior in Davenport College. Contact him at nnamdi.iregbulem@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence.”

ROBERT FROST AMERICAN POET

Levin’s influence to linger after departure

“Arthur Twining Hadley was liked, but he had no strong objectives.”

JAMES ROWLAND ANGELL, 1921–’37

“Angell was energetic but disliked by Yale College faculty — he presided over the Sterling and Harkness buildings, he disliked Jews, did not tolerate freedom of expression and was very right-wing.”

CHARLES SEYMOUR, 1937–’50

“Seymour was a Yale man to the depths caught by the remains of the Great Depression and World War II — all the odds were against him.”

A. WHITNEY GRISWOLD, 1950–’63

“Also a Yale man … an outstanding teacher who was concerned for undergraduates … and did not get along well with the graduate and professional schools.”

KINGMAN BREWSTER, 1963–’77

“Very much a Yale man — he presided over the admission of blacks, ended the discrimination against Jews and presided also over the admission of women to Yale College; his weakness was on the economic side.”

BART GIAMATTI, 1977–’86

“Bart Giamatti was admired by most alumni who admired his essays, but he fought the labor unions and took all policy criticism as an attack on himself.”

BENNO SCHMIDT, 1986–’92

“Benno Schmidt from Columbia Law School considered that the faculty needed to be controlled; his instantaneous resignation in 1992 was unprecedented.”

INHERITING A HEALTHY YALE

When Levin stepped into the presidency in 1993, Yale was in shambles.

Benno Schmidt had abruptly resigned a year before over Commencement breakfast with the Yale Corporation. Buildings were literally falling apart.

Relations with New Haven had hit an all-time low following the murder of Christian Prince ’93 on Hillhouse Avenue. In the face of a $22 million deficit, the size of the faculty was shrinking and whole departments were in danger of elimination under Schmidt’s proposed budget cuts.

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With stability, Yale is no longer desperate for change. In fact, members of the Yale community are excited for Salovey to continue the progress Levin started.

After 20 years of work, Levin’s influence on the direction of the University permeates every facet of Yale life. Since Salovey is inheriting a stronger Yale than the one which fell onto Levin’s lap, the University community is not thirsting for a new beginning like it was in 1993.

Dean of the Medical School Robert Alpern said he came to Yale 19 years ago because of Levin, and he expects Salovey to extend Levin’s “real vision to advance science” at Yale.

Meanwhile, at Yale-NUS, Levin will stay on the new college’s governing board even after leaving Woodbridge Hall, and Yale-NUS Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn told the News last month Salovey, as a result, may take a “less hands-on approach” to the new college than his predecessor. After meeting with Salovey regularly, Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis agreed he does not expect a change in approach from Salovey.

Chair of the Association of Yale Alumni Board of Directors Jimmy Lu ’77 and AYA Vice Chair Mike Greenwald ’75 both said they and the alumni body as a whole are pleased with the amount of money Levin allocated to their initiatives through the recession — and they are confident Salovey will continue

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Sitting atop a table of framed photographs below a window in Levin’s Woodbridge Hall office is a candid snapshot of Levin and Salovey embracing one another.

The photo stands propped up before the other photos on the table.

When asked to describe how he and Salovey differ, Levin did not skip a beat.

“He’s a better musician, and I’m a better tennis player,” he quipped. “There you have it.”

Those close to Levin and

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the past 20 years, during which he increased Yale’s global presence through initiatives such as the creation of Yale-NUS, improved Yale’s relationship with New Haven by integrating the University into its surroundings, significantly increased the percentage of international and science students in Yale College, and oversaw the reconstruction of a campus once in disrepair.

After the announcement of Salovey as president, Chair of the Presidential Search Committee Charles Goodyear ’80 told the News the committee had thoroughly vetted around 150 candidates and ultimately chose Salovey because he was a “hand-in-glove fit” with the presidential search statement, which the committee had released Oct. 9. The statement stipulated the new president had to be a scholar and a global thinker, in addition to exemplifying the “highest ethical and moral standards,” maintaining a positive relationship with New Haven, and supporting the diversity of the Yale community.

In other words, the Corporation wanted a president who would continue along the successful trajectory Levin set for the University.

While the similarities between Levin and Salovey are numerous, their presidencies will start at vastly different points. Levin transformed the campus he took charge of, which was ringing with calls for a better future, into one of the world’s strongest universities — and Salovey has little damage to repair. He has not yet announced concrete plans for his presidency, and his broad goals remain vague.

But Levin is leaving behind a number of unfinished projects and newborn initiatives, so though the “Levin era” will formally end when he packs up his Woodbridge Hall office on June 30, his influence will likely linger.

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President-elect Peter Salovey is expected to continue the trajectory of President Richard Levin’s administration and expand upon its successes.

Yale was in need of a visionary leader to rebuild the school, and Levin — with his goals of globalization, integration with the city, creation of shiny new facilities and more — seemed promising, if inexperienced: He became a full professor at the School of Management in 1982, eight years after joining the Yale faculty, and had served as the dean of the Graduate School for less than a year before the Yale Corporation chose him.

Smith, the Yale historian, noted that Levin had clear, strong objectives — more so than any other president the University has seen thus far.

He set a five-year plan to balance the budget, which included raising tuition fees to $25,000 after a Yale Corporation vote.

He immediately started working with Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and set about to negotiate with Yale’s labor unions. In his Oct. 1, 1993, inaugural address in Woolsey Hall, Levin pledged to broaden Yale’s walls, encompassing the world.

“There’s been a real lack of leadership at Yale over the past few years,” News Editor in Chief David Leonhardt ’94 told The New York Times in 1993 as Levin stepped into office. “The people in positions of authority — the dean, the president, the provost and members of the Corporation — have not put as a priority honestly evaluating problems and seriously attacking them.”

So it comes as no surprise that Bass, Goodyear and Yale Corporation fellow Jeffrey Bewkes ’74 all praised the profound impact Levin has had on Yale.

Goodyear and the rest of the search committee made their approval of Levin clear when they outlined the qualifications necessary for Yale’s future president in an Oct. 9 statement, which included a global outlook and a strong moral code.

So after an unexpectedly quick, two-month presidential search, the Corporation considered the Presidential Search Committee’s recommendations and selected the new leader.

Had they wanted a change of agenda, the Yale Corporation would have chosen “outside blood,” said Joseph Zolner SOM ’84, the senior director of Higher Education Programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a specialist in higher education administration.

Selecting a president with Levin-like qualities and immense institutional knowledge guarantees the most seamless transition possible on June 30. The path in front of Salovey could not look more different than the one Levin started down 20 years ago: While Levin jumped into action, appointing new administrators and setting objectives, Salovey is not a symbol of a new Yale.

But Salovey’s lack of novelty, in this case, may be a good thing.

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Salovey repeated this sentiment, if not so succinctly. While they may seem different in conversation, Salovey is closer to a younger carbon copy of Levin.

Outside work, they are also close friends.

Both received undergraduate degrees from Stanford University: Levin in 1968, and Salovey 12 years later. Both earned their doctorates from Yale, then also climbed the ranks of the faculty to hold administrative positions.

Right before Levin became president, he served as the Graduate School dean, a position Salovey held before becoming Yale College dean in 2004 and provost in 2008.

Perhaps the most important shared experience was the way both professors rose to the chairmanship of their respective departments at an early age, gaining an appreciation for the experience of faculty members while having the maturity and self-confidence of leadership thrust upon them, Levin said.

“If you can handle being the department chair of people you took courses from, you can handle anything,” Levin said.

As Levin rotated Salovey through Yale College committees, two deanships and a fouryear term as provost, the two administrators became attuned to each other’s institutional values, collaborating on the vast majority of decisions that faced the University. Neither could recall an instance of disagreement.

“I can’t think of a case when the No. 2 on the academic side had worked so well with the president,” Yale historian Gaddis Smith ’54 GRD ’61 said. “The smooth way in which they work together is really quite unique in Yale’s history.”

In conjunction with Levin, Salovey has shaped all major decisions for the University — not only the celebrated, but also the controversial.

For instance, Yale-NUS, the joint liberal arts college that Yale is opening with the National University of Singapore, is the capstone of Levin’s 20-year push for globalization. With the first class of Yale-NUS students enrolling this fall, Levin’s project will come to fruition just after the president leaves office.

Though the venture has endured public scrutiny since its inception, detractors should not expect Salovey to chart a new course for Yale-NUS. The president-elect has shaped the new college since he and other professors and administrators first visited the site of the future college in 2009.

Of course, Salovey’s involvement with Yale-NUS and several other major University initiatives has not gone unnoticed by many involved with work at Yale.

“Both [Levin and Salovey are] deeply woven into the fabric of the institution,” Council of Masters Chair Jonathan Holloway said.

So with a voice in all of the major decisions of the University for the past few years, Salovey said he does not have plans to divert the University’s course significantly.

The few commitments Salovey has voiced are either minor or not new at all. The president-elect has described plans to reinvigorate internal communications at Yale and pursue pre-existing renovation and construction projects that were halted during the recession.

But while the presidentelect’s values will stay relatively constant with the initiatives that marked Levin’s presidency, the contrasting Yales of 1993 and 2013 mean the experiences of Salovey and Levin’s presidencies themselves will prove extremely different.

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to show similar endorsement.

Randy Nelson ’85 chairs the Board of Directors for the Yale Alumni Fund, which gives the school unrestricted currentuse funding. Nelson said the fund plans on providing the new president with increased support next year, adding that he, and the alumni he with whom he works, expect to collaborate just as well with Salovey as they have with Levin. “[Levin’s] strategic vision is brilliant, and I don’t see any reason why Peter won’t be the same,” Nelson said.

The sentiment is the same over numerous other subjects.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller expects Salovey to continue Levin’s dedication to the arts, Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill expects the same for existing fundraising projects and Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael Peel echoed similar hopes for Salovey’s commitment to diversity.

Of course, there are those who hope Salovey will depart from some of Levin’s policies — most prominently, students and alumni who hope Salovey reverses Levin’s decision eight years ago to reduce the number of athletic recruitment spots in each class to 180 from the 230 allowed by the Ivy League.

Salovey said he will not decide upon policies regarding athletics until he has met with the other universities in the Ivy League.

While Salovey’s position is preferable to the problematic situation Levin had, it poses a different challenge for the new

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president, said Judith McLaughlin, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who specializes in University leadership and chairs the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents.

“You’re not coming in as a hero to solve the messes,” she added.

SIGNS OF CHANGE

Though he has no pressing issues to dodge and does not plan to depart from Levin’s vision, Salovey has given his constituents reason to expect a different approach to the presidency.

Administrators and alumni noted “stylistic” differences between the two. While Levin exudes the reserve and authority of a president, Salovey comes across as more of a “social animal,” Holloway said.

Although both are similarly approachable at alumni and fundraising events, O’Neill said, Salovey is more likely to pepper his conversation with vignettes from life or teaching.

Their distinct characters seem a natural parallel to their disciplinary differences. Salovey and Levin are both highly regarded in their respective fields of psychology and economics, and many noted that their personalities reflect their chosen subjects. Salovey said his academic background is the main difference between the way he and his predecessor approach problems.

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NEWS

“I think we risk becoming the best-informed society that has ever died of ignorance.”

RUBEN BLADES PANAMANIAN MUSICIAN

CORRECTION THURSDAY, APRIL 18

A photograph accompanying the article “Investments office alums excel” misidentified Anne Martin as the chief investment officer for the Rockefeller Foundation, when in fact she is the CIO for Wesleyan University.

Faculty to attend Mellon workshops

BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER Faculty members will participate in a new round of workshops designed to discuss the teaching of undergraduate humanities courses this May as part of a broader focus on humanitiesbased education in Yale College.

In July, the University received a $1.95 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation intended to enrich its humanities teaching. Though the grant — which funds an interdisciplinary concentration in the graduate school, a program for postdoctoral students and the faculty workshops — does not directly fund undergraduate coursework, the first set of workshops held last June and August generated course proposals and recommendations for interdisciplinary teaching in the humanities that faculty and administrators aim to implement across Yale College, said Pamela Schirmeister, associate dean for Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Schirmesiter said she hopes that conversation and collaboration will continue in May’s workshops, which will focus on utilizing Yale’s art and library collections in the classroom.

“The proposals we see in these workshops can be a way of bringing students who otherwise might not be interested into the discipline where they actually discover they really love it,” Schirmeister said. “If you create interest, [you] might end up educating people about something they didn’t know they were interested in.”

Schirmeister said she thinks that the upcoming workshops will offer faculty the opportunity to develop interdisciplinary courses that focus on current topics, such as technology or globalization. Interest in the humanities has been declining across the country in the last several decades, she said, and

courses that are relevant to students’ lives might motivate them to explore new fields of knowledge that would be pertinent to them.

“Universities think of knowledge as a long term prospect, so we have departments in subjects that have been around for a long time and we think will be around for a long time,” Schirmeister said. “We might want to devote five to seven years of pulling people together to work on more immediate topics … this is a way of being flexible and supporting creation of new knowledge without creating structure you can’t get rid of.”

Following the first round of Mellon workshops, Yale College Dean Mary Miller called on the faculty to develop more team-taught courses that would cross disciplinary boundaries and expose students to new approaches to learning. Miller said the Course of Study Committee received multiple proposals for team-taught courses this year, though she added that the number of team-taught courses offered will not significantly increase for several years.

School of Management professor William Goetzmann said his class often uses materials from the Beinecke, such as 17th century bonds, “to get people excited about the development” of economic concepts. Goetzmann will also be co-teaching a course on rural finance with history professor Valerie Hansen next fall and he said he thinks the class will add a new dimension to students’ understanding of familiar topics.

The Mellon grant also funds an interdisciplinary concentration in the graduate school entitled “Technologies of Knowledge,” which recently selected its first cohort of students.

No mixed-gender housing for sophomores

BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER Gender-neutral housing will not be offered to sophomores in the fall, despite recent efforts by the Yale College Council to extend the option.

Students have mixed feelings about the expansion of genderneutral housing to freshmen and sophomores, said YCC Vice President Danny Avraham ’15, according surveys conducted by the YCC to gauge underclassmen interest in mixed-gender housing. A Feb. 7 survey of 384 freshmen and 406 sophomores found that 72.1 percent of freshmen supported the extension of gender-neutral housing to sophomores, while 60 percent of sophomores supported it and roughly a quarter said they were indifferent. YCC President John Gonzalez ’14 said the YCC will

continue to advocate for gender-neutral housing for sophomores next year.

No changes will happen this year, but conversations regarding the expansion of genderneutral housing will continue into next year.

PAUL PARELL ’15 Member, Yale College Council “No changes will happen this year, but conversations regarding the expansion of genderneutral housing will continue into next year,” said Paul Parell

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .

’15, a YCC member in charge of the gender-mixed housing initiative.

Fifty-three students out of 86 students currently in gender-mixed suites said they believed sophomores are “mature enough” to live in gender-neutral arrangements, with 12 reporting that they disagreed, 20 saying that they are unsure and one student leaving the question blank, according to the YCC survey. The survey also showed that 55 supported allowing gender-neutral housing for sophomores, while 16 were indifferent and 15 did not support the proposal. Out of the freshmen surveyed, 26.3 percent supported offering mixedgender living to freshmen and 64.1 percent did not support the proposition.

YCC members will discuss the results of the survey with

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Though seniors and juniors can live in mixed-gender suites, sophomores will not have that option next year.

President-elect Peter Salovey when he meets with YCC on May 7, Gonzalez said. The decision ultimately lies in the hands of administrators and can take a long period of time to implement, Avraham said.

“Policy changes don’t happen in a few months,” Avraham said.

“It’s a process within Yale that takes a very long time.”

In 2010, administrators approved gender-neutral housing for seniors, and University President Richard Levin and the Yale Corporation agreed to extend gender-neutral housing to juniors in February 2012 after an initial proposal was rejected in spring 2011.

At an April 3 panel discussion on mixed-gender housing organized by the Communication and Consent Educators, students offered reasons to expand gender-neutral housing options to freshmen and sophomores, said CCE Emily Hong ’14. Certain students, such as those who identify as transgender, may not be comfortable in the housing arrangements currently offered to freshmen, Hong said, adding that during the panel, students considered ways to find and provide for those with specific living requirements.

“We talked about how to make the housing form more specific, even for freshmen coming in,” Hong said.

At the time of the survey, nearly 130 sophomores out of 403 surveyed said they were currently considering genderneutral housing for the coming year.

Deans and student housing representatives from Branford, Pierson, Trumbull and Saybrook colleges each reported roughly one to three gender-mixed suites registered for the upcoming academic year. Administrators said they have not yet collected data on the demand for gender-mixed housing during housing draws this year.

Seventy-nine students currently living in gender-neutral housing reported that mixedgender living arrangements have positively impacted their residential college experience, according to the survey. Five students said the effect was neutral, and one said the experience was negative.

Gender-neutral housing was first approved for seniors in 2010.

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

Professors debate poor global health report card grade

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER Yale is used to scoring high on rankings, but the University’s place on a global health impact report card fell far below expectations.

On April 4, the organization Universities Allied for Essential Medicines released its first ranking of various universities for their “contributions to urgent global health research and access to treatment worldwide.” The report ranked Yale University 29th out of 54 universities based on three categories: Innovation, Access and Empowerment. Yale received a D- in Innovation, a C in Access and a B- in Empowerment for an overall score of C-.

The report card scores are based on two types of data — publicly available information and supplemental questionnaires to deans and department directors at the universities — said Bryan Collinsworth, executive director of UAEM. Founded

by Yale Law students in 2001, UAEM aims to compel universities to use a larger percentage of their funding for neglected disease research.

Yale School of Public Health Dean Paul Cleary raised strong objections to the report card’s methodology, calling it “so inaccurate, it’s hard to describe.”

Both Cleary and epidemiology professor Rafael Perez-Escamilla, who is also the director of the Office of Public Health Practice, took issue with how the UAEM report card ranked categories that were unanswered on the surveys. Cleary noted that

assigning a zero for cases in which there is no response to a question “makes no sense.” Perez-Escamilla said though he understands the “frustration” of unresponsiveness, this method is scientifically incorrect.

But members of UAEM said numerically equating zeroes in the data with “no responses,” when the information was not available publicly, was purposeful and in the interest of promoting transparency. Hannah Brennan LAW ’13, who heads Yale’s UAEM chapter, said that if public data provides information on a certain topic the school will not be penalized with a zero.

“Sometimes, when we get no response, it doesn’t just mean that they missed an email — it shows a larger unwillingness to come to the table,” she added.

In an April 11 email to UAEM members and faculty of the School of Public Health, Cleary specifically took issue with the 1 out of 5 rating Yale received in international health grants. The report card stated that only 0.41 percent of the University’s total 2010 funding from the National Institutes of Health came from Fogarty International Center grants, suggesting that Yale is less focused on international neglected disease research than other research areas. Cleary said that since 2009, Yale has received 10 Fogarty Grants, which he suspects is “a very large number relative to our number of faculty members.”

Using G-FINDER, a public search tool that shows how much money Yale received for neglected disease research,

UAEM calculated that Yale devoted roughly 2.65 percent of its total NIH funding to neglected disease research in 2010, the most recent year for which data is available. Because G-FINDER data accounts for more than just NIH funding, using its information means Yale’s score of 2.65 percent is “generous,” Collinsworth said.

Brennan said that Yale should be “proud” of its Empowerment score, which primarily focuses on public health education initiatives. Yale suffered low scores in licensing and research funding allocation due to a lack or responsiveness in Yale’s Office of Cooperative Research, which is responsible for the patenting and licensing of research and medication, Brennan said.

A major issue within licensing is that taxpayer-funded research does not necessarily benefit the taxpayers, Brennan said. Medicines developed by university researchers are often sold to large, for-profit pharmaceutical companies, which charge high prices for the medications, she added.

“Universities aren’t taxed because they do research for the public good, but then it doesn’t come back to the public,” Brennan said.

Perez-Escamilla said he thinks the only funding calculated in the report was the development of neglected disease medicines.

This system does not factor in the funding for awareness programs, a large part of the field of public health, he said.

Cleary took issue with Yale’s low score in innovation, under which the neglected disease

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In assessing global health contributions, UAEM ranked Yale 29th out of the 54 universities it evaluated. funding question falls.

“The building I am sitting in as I write this e-mail has 8 floors,” Cleary said in an email to UAEM members and School of Public Health faculty members. “Since I arrived in 2006, four of those floors have been or are in the process of being renovated to create

state of the art laboratory space, including a BL3 lab, and much of the research conducted on those floors is on neglected diseases.”

Perez-Escamilla said there has recently been “increased focus” on neglected disease research in the school. In addition to offering multiple elective courses related

to global health, he said every lecture “highlights inequality of access to instill a sense of social responsibility” in students.

The School of Public Health was founded in 1915.

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR AND HUMORIST

Mayoral candidates reflect on city education

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From left, mayoral candidates Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, Henry Fernandez LAW ’94, Matthew Nemerson and State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield have shown different education priorities.

ED REFORM FROM PAGE 1 studies indicate that high-quality preschools are critical for future educational success, and that by the time students are behind at upper-grade levels, it is very difficult to close the gap. Nemerson has also proposed the idea of a selective New Haven Public High School, similar to Boston’s Boston Latin, which would provide great educational opportunities for students and draw people to the city.

Elicker champions character and early childhood education as keys to school success. Character education, he said, is about building school culture around principles, like integrity, perseverance and citizenship.

But Fernandez cautioned against education cure-alls, adding that he is committed to what he called the “actual hard work of school reform” — focusing on improving low-performing

schools.

“Some of these ideas are thrown out there as silver bullets,” Fernandez said, “What we’re doing is going to be hard.”

Besides new initiatives, Fernandez and Elicker both stressed the need for greater transparency in the school system. As the parent of a second-grader in New Haven Public Schools, Fernandez said he knows that NHPS provides a lot of information to parents, but the information is often difficult for parents to understand.

Holder-Winfield could not be reached for comment.

HYBRID BOARD

One of Elicker’s proposals to increase transparency and hold the Board of Education accountable is to give New Haven residents a chance to elect at least part of the school board.

On Tuesday night the charter revision commission, which meets once every 10 years to sug-

gest changes to the city’s charter, suggested that two of the seven members of the New Haven Board of Education be elected rather than appointed by the mayor.

Elicker said the change would help increase accessibility and parental input.

The other candidates have shown less support for a hybrid board model. Nemerson said that around the country, big cities have had much success with school boards that are appointed by a mayor, but the political climate in New Haven may call for a change.

“Whether it’s New York or Chicago or other cities, there’s real trend in well-run cities to have school boards and school systems run with the accountability as a department of government,” Nemerson said. “We are entering a point in the city’s history when people are really hungry for reallocating power.”

Fernandez had a similarly cautious reaction to the hybrid model

proposal. On the one hand, he said it is important to hold the mayor accountable for the success of a school system guided by a Board of Education he appoints. But at the same time, Fernandez said New Haven residents should have a voice in their school system.

At a discussion about education reform hosted by Yale Students for Holder-Winfield in early April, Holder-Winfield was not entirely supportive of the idea of electing members of the Board of Education. He said that his ideal model for the Board of Education would be a hybrid board dominated by appointed members.

“There’s certainly a lot of value that comes with having an appointed board,” HolderWinfield said. “As for an elected board, I’m not sure it would solve all of the problems people have been talking about with appointed boards. You could still have elected members who represent particular interests that

don’t have anything to do with the schools.”

MOVING FORWARD

Candidates have different opinions of New Haven’s current school reform effort, ranging from skepticism to praise.

Nemerson alluded to the various school reform programs that New Haven has created in an attempt to build successful schools with a college-going culture, including New Haven Promise and Parent University.

“I think it would be impossible to say that people aren’t throwing a lot of spaghetti at the walls and seeing what sticks,” Nemerson said.

On the other hand, Fernandez praised the current teachers’ contract system in NHPS. Unlike many others around the country, the city’s contract outlines a teacher evaluation system that has been accepted by both the teachers’ union and the administration.

He called the agreement between the union and the administration a “unique situation” that should make New Haven residents proud.

All candidates interviewed said education will be one of their top priorities as mayor. Beyond being intrinsically valuable, both Fernandez and Elicker said that education is linked to decreasing crime and increasing economic development. Nemerson said that graduating from high school is not like playing collegiate soccer: There is only one division, and everyone must have the ability to be competitive.

“The important thing is that everybody graduates from the 12th grade with the ability to compete in America,” Nemerson said.

“As long as you can look every parent in the eye, I don’t care what system we have.”

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

With Yale-NUS experience, Quinlan to lead Yale office QUINLAN FROM PAGE 1 carefully because of the vast differences between the two institutions.

“Being the dean of admissions at Yale-NUS has been an exercise in forward and flexible thinking — an exercise in having to anticipate what’s coming up next, and not being afraid to change some elements of the Yale admissions process to adapt them to a Southeast Asian reality,” Quinlan said. “Throughout the University, there is a sense that Yale’s leadership, faculty and staff can capitalize on new energy and enthusiasm and use it as opportunity to build relationships, reevaluate priorities, take a fresh look at old practices, [and] my time at Yale-NUS has prepared me for this.”

Quinlan said he hopes to reinforce the Undergraduate Admissions Office’s role in global conversations about college admissions as institutions redefine the meaning of diversity in their admissions processes and discussions about the rising costs of higher education grow louder.

Once he assumes his new post, he will also examine the relationship between the Undergraduate Admissions Office and the admissions offices of Yale’s professional schools, he said, adding that the Undergraduate Admissions Office might have to change how it presents the Yale College experience as President-elect Peter Salovey plans to bring the College closer to the rest of Yale’s schools.

Brenzel said Quinlan’s enthu-

siasm for the University has been a valuable asset to the Admissions Office, adding he has been a “key factor” in most of Brenzel’s accomplishments. “[Quinlan] is equally capable at addressing national issues as addressing the host of institutional and management issues that will always face an admissions dean here,” Brenzel said.

Quinlan — who worked as a tour guide as a Yale undergraduate and was offered a position as an assistant director at the Undergraduate Admissions Office immediately upon graduation — said he thinks the opportunity to navigate the admissions processes of both Yale and Yale-NUS simultaneously while preserving the unique elements of each has prepared him to lead the Undergraduate Admissions

Office during a time of shifting leadership at the University and in New Haven. Quinlan’s colleagues at the Undergraduate Admissions Office see him as “both an insider and an outsider,” he said, adding that his experiences working in both New Haven and Singapore have allowed him to discern which elements of each school’s admissions process are transferable and which are not.

“I do think my appointment [as dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale] is a testament to the close relationship between Yale and Yale-NUS, and to how valued the progress of Yale-NUS is at Yale,” Quinlan said. “But I think that Yale-NUS will definitely stand on its own once it opens.”

Both Yale-NUS Dean of Fac-

Salovey aims to expand Levin’s Yale SALOVEY FROM PAGE 4 and costs versus benefits, and maybe a psychologist is more likely to think about the behavior … and relationships among individuals in an organization,” Salovey added. “Both are necessary. But in our backgrounds we have different starting points.”

Since he became president-elect, Salovey has been more accessible than Levin to the Yale community as he makes the rounds on his listening tour — which brought him to New York, the West Coast, Europe and Asia to gather the thoughts of students, faculty, staff and alumni in regards to Yale’s next 10 to 20 years — because he does not yet have the president’s packed work schedule. In recent weeks at Yale, Salovey has sat on panels, held forums, and met with professors and administrators throughout campus, and he has even been spotted at athletic events.

All this exposure to the many facets of the University may seem unnecessary for someone who has served in four major administrative positions within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, starting with the chairmanship of the Psychology Department. But Salovey said he aims to gain an understanding of people’s “hopes and aspirations” for Yale in the next decade or two.

Gauging people’s thoughts now will prime Salovey to make informed changes and decisions in the fall, said Zolner, the senior director of Higher Education Programs at the Harvard Graduate School of

Education and a specialist in higher education administration. The mere existence of Salovey’s listening tour may be an implicit promise for change.

Despite any differing impressions Salovey and Levin may leave with people, the perfect storm of circumstances — marked personality differences, disparities in visibility between Levin and Salovey, and the listening tour’s implications that Salovey is gearing up for action — have come to suggest that Salovey will bring in a new era of leadership at Yale.

THE GIFT OF TIME

Salovey will have every opportunity to create his own legacy, even if the task at hand does not involve forging a new path for the University.

There is a difference between continuity and stagnancy — and no University governing board would appoint a president hoping for the latter, McLaughlin said.

“I view as my challenge many of the same issues that President Levin viewed as his challenge,” Salovey said, specifically noting Levin’s contributions to Yale’s academics and facilities, in addition to his work on town-gown relations and globalization. “These big issues are still the big issues. Where [Levin and I] might see some difference is in strategies and tactics more so than large goals.”

And Salovey’s vision focuses on expanding Levin’s Yale — as he has repeated since he was appointed, he hopes to create a “more unified Yale, a more innovative Yale, a more accessible

Yale and a more excellent Yale.”

Building upon a successful predecessor’s foundation and resisting the temptation to leave one’s “own particular fingerprint” on a University is the mark of an astute leader who will be more open to increasing existing successes than changing them for the sake of revolution, Zolner said.

When Salovey takes a look at the University with fresh eyes, he is likely to draw from his background in emotional intelligence to increase the sense of unity on campus and implement a new system of communication between different University departments. But much of the future president’s work is up for speculation. Administrators and faculty can expect some reorganization at higher levels, Miller said, given the natural tendency for new presidents to shuffle their subordinates and Salovey’s history of doing so in previous roles.

Regardless of what Salovey does with his years in Woodbridge Hall, the luxury of taking charge of a stable campus has left him with the gift of time — something more significant than room for groundbreaking initiatives. With the end of his listening tour drawing near and no urgent messes to mop up when he steps into the presidency, Salovey has time — years, even — to figure out how to bring others on board with whatever his priorities may be.

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

ulty Charles Bailyn and YaleNUS President Pericles Lewis commended Quinlan’s ability to create and manage the YaleNUS admissions team and said he will remain a part of the Singaporean liberal arts college as an informal adviser. Bailyn said the admissions processes of the two schools will remain completely independent despite Quinlan’s new position, adding that he does not think Quinlan’s new role at Yale will significantly impact Yale-NUS. But some members of the Yale community have expressed concern about the implications of Quinlan’s new position, in particular because this year’s applicants to Yale had the option to automatically send their application materials to Yale-NUS free of charge. Political science

lecturer Jim Sleeper, a noted critic of the Singaporean venture, said Quinlan’s involvement with Yale-NUS complicates the relationship between the two schools.

“Quinlan ascends to his new post in a cloud because all applicants to Yale College this year were offered the option to apply simultaneously to Yale-NUS without having to give any reasons,” Sleeper said in an email.

“Was this designed to make Yale-NUS look more competitive? What does that say about Yale College’s integrity?”

Quinlan graduated with honors from Yale with a bachelor’s in history in 2003.

Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.

Jocelyn Square moves to Ward 8 REDISTRICTING FROM PAGE 1 attorneys to have two takes on a situation,” Holmes said.

She added that only in the past year has the board set aside funds for consulting with outside counsel, which she said is “about being able to get an additional opinion if [the board] feels that it is required.”

Board of Aldermen President Jorge Perez, speaking to the New Haven Independent, said that if the board took Bolden’s opinion, it would never be able to redistrict. Perez could not be reached for comment Thursday.

The board has long haggled over which ward Jocelyn Square belongs in. After the board moved the small park and surrounding neighborhood to Ward 9 during last year’s redistricting, Ward 8 Alderman Michael Smart sought to reverse the change.

Around the same time, Ward 21 Alderman Brenda Foskey-Cyrus proposed adding a single block, on which Foskey-Cyrus claims a “couple hundred” people live, to her ward from Ward 28.

Foskey-Cyrus did not return repeated requests for comment, but she told the New Haven

Independent in January that she has a particular reason why she would like the ward included in her district. When pressed on the specifics, Foskey-Cyrus said, “I just need it.”

It’s not unusual for two attorneys to have two takes on a situation.

JESSICA HOLMES Alderman, Ward 9 Both Smart and FoskeyCyrus submitted their proposals in October, after which Bolden quickly told the board it could not go through with the changes.

Philpot submitted his opinion to the board in December.

The once-a-decade ward redistricting began early last year, concluding in June 2012 when the Board of Aldermen voted to approve the final ward map.

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

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Conn. gun law faces discrimination lawsuit

BY ROSA NGUYEN STAFF REPORTER With the passage of stricter gun control laws in Connecticut, one organization has already filed a lawsuit to have the new legislation struck down.

Disabled Americans for Firearms Right, a national organization that advocates for the rights of disabled individuals to own guns, filed a suit this Monday in New London Superior Court.

DAFR founder Scott Ennis said that the law in question, Public Act 13-3, is discriminatory as it bans a wide range of features that make guns accessible to those with physical disabilities, thus unfairly infringing on their right to bear arms.

“I personally believe every firearm owner should have the equal opportunity to use firearms,” Ennis said. “[The banned features] are options disabled individuals must have to exer-

cise their Second Amendment rights, and it’s a crime to take those rights away based on disability.”

It’s a crime to take those [Second Amendment] rights away based on disability.

SCOTT ENNIS Founder, Disabled Americans for Firearms Rights Ennis opposes Section 23 of the act, which bans large capacity magazines carrying over 10 rounds of ammunition, and Section 25, which outlaws commonly-used Armalite Model 15 rifles as well as over 100 other firearms, including those with cosmetic features such as vertical handgrips and adjustable

stocks. Disabled people like Ennis, whose joints have been damaged from complications with Hemophilia A, require these features to properly use a gun.

Juliet Manalan, press secretary for Gov. Dannel Malloy, said the state had expected opposition to the new gun legislation and is confident it will sustain such legal threats.

“We believe the bill improves public safety, and we will work with the Attorney General’s office to defend it,” Manalan said. “In prior instances where Connecticut has passed common sense restrictions on firearms, there have been challenges. They have all been unsuccessful.”

Scott Camassar, Ennis’ attorney, said the newly banned features do not make guns any more dangerous than the semiautomatic weapons that the law currently allows. In preparation for the lawsuit, Camassar

said he will use the testimony of firearms experts and engineers to explain how cosmetic features do not increase a gun’s lethality. Members of Disabled Americans for Firearms Rights will also testify.

“The distinction that legislators are making in the weapons ban is not really rational,” Camassar said. “It doesn’t really matter whether one rifle has a pistol grip or not — they shoot the same way.

Camassar also criticized the process by which the law was passed, claiming that the bill was “rushed,” “sloppy” and “poorly written.” Rather than undergoing a routine legislative procedure, state legislators underwent an emergency certification process, which bypasses public hearings to enact laws as quickly as possible and is usually reserved for responses to natural disasters.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, physically

disabled Americans are over two times more likely to become victims of violence than the general population. With a membership of over 15,000 people nationwide and 2,700 in Connecticut, Disabled Americans for Firearms Rights caters to individuals with hemophilia, multiple sclerosis, paralysis, cerebral palsy and missing limbs from war-inflicted injuries.

“As far as self-defense goes, a person with a disability may not have the same options as a non-disabled person in a selfdefense situation,” Ennis said.

“Disabled individuals have spoken to me that they have had assaults or have been attacked at one point or another.”

Calling it “an attack on lawful gun owners,” Camassar said the act overemphasizes gun control while neglecting sufficient focus on the more important areas of school safety and mental health.

But Attorney General George

Jepsen disagreed with Camassar and Ennis, showing confidence in the effectiveness of the law.

“I applaud the General Assembly and Governor Malloy for taking action and passing this bill in order to make our schools and our communities safer,” Jepsen said in a public statement. “It is my belief that this important legislation will withstand a court challenge, and my office is prepared to vigorously defend the law, should any court action be filed challenging its constitutionality.”

Jaclyn M. Falkowski, executive assistant for press and communications for the Office of the Attorney General, said the attorney general is currently reviewing Ennis’ complaint, and will respond in court.

923,000 physically disabled Americans suffered from nonfatal violent crimes in 2011.

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

City departments pitch budget plans

BY RAYMOND NOONAN CONTRIBUTING REPOTER The Board of Aldermen’s Finance Committee met Thursday night to review budget appropriations for 13 city offices and services.

During the 6 p.m. meeting held at City Hall, almost 20 representatives from city offices — including the Chief Administrator’s Office, Public Safety Communications, the Public Library, Parks, Recreation & Trees, Police Services, Fire Services and Engineering — explained the changes that took place under their administration in the last year. Additional discussions focused on each office’s initiatives looking forward.

Robert Smuts ’01, the city’s chief administrative officer, represented New Haven and the Chief Administrator’s Office. He said although the city enjoyed increased tax revenue in the past year because of a higher mill rate and moderate economic growth, citywide revenue had not increased much because of a 20 percent decrease in state aid.

“We’re trying to do more with the same or slightly less,” Smuts said.

Smuts identified pension obligations, health benefits, workers’ compensation and debt service as the city’s fastest-growing financial responsibilities. He added that spending on public safety and education has stayed relatively flat and decreased, respectively, excluding medical and pension benefits from the costs.

Smuts, who accompanied each of the city office representatives, said that the Public Safety Communications office had saved money by implementing civilian, rather than uniformed, supervisors. He said the office plans to reduce costs further by partnering with West Haven to create a regional public safety management system, which would better handle unexpected spikes of calls, receive greater subsidies from the state and take advantage of economies of scale to find operational savings. This, he added, would help address the challenge of increased calls in an age of widespread technology.

“Everyone has a cell phone

now,” Smuts said. “It’s very easy to call 911.”

Finance committee members were not pleased that city spending on libraries in the last 12 years has decreased by a third.

When Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 asked if Mayor John DeStefano Jr. did not like libraries, Smuts responded that although he thought his boss liked libraries, the state had faced budget challenges in recent years.

Ward 22 Alderwoman Jeanette Morrison, who represents portions of the Dixwell and Yale communities, expressed support for expanding afternoon hours of the New Haven Public Library’s campuses. She said such support for libraries in the Elm City’s non-Downtown neighborhoods is especially important because it takes kids off the streets.

“In my ward, the library serves as the after-school program,” she said. “It serves as the safe haven.”

Patrick Egan, the Fire Department’s assistant chief of administration, proposed increasing the maximum number of department lieutenants. Doing so, he said, would allow the department to increase the number of higher-ranked officers without depleting the number of lower-ranked ones. Board of Alderman President Jorge Perez, however, said the Board would not increase the department’s number of lieutenants.

New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman said the department asked for a $500,000 increase in overtime pay — and a $3.9 million overtime budget overall — primarily because there were not enough full-time police officers. The department currently employs 379 full-time officers, with an additional 27 undergoing police academy training, according to Esserman. Without enough officers, he said, others had to work overtime, driving up costs.

“We’re authorized for 494 officers for a reason,” Esserman said. “That’s not a madeup number.”

New Haven’s government must pass a budget for fiscal year 2014 by June 1.

Contact RAYMOND NOONAN at ramond.noonan@yale.edu .

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But you’re reminded of the tragedy and your family, and that it could be you.

DARRYL HALL Firefighter Gov. Rick Perry called the explosion “a truly nightmare scenario for the community” and said he had been in touch with President Barack Obama, who promised his administration’s assistance with operations on the ground.

Authorities said the plant handles both the fertilizers anhydrous ammonia and ammonium nitrate, the latter of which was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and several other attacks, such as the first bombing attempt at the World Trade Center in 1993.

Ammonium nitrate makes big explosions, be they accidental or intentional, said Neil Donahue, professor of chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University. It is stable, but if its components are heated up sufficiently, they break apart in a runaway explosive chemical reaction, he said.

“The hotter it is, the faster the reaction will happen,” he said.

“That really happens almost instantaneously, and that’s what gives the tremendous force of the explosion.”

About a half-hour before the blast, the town’s volunteer firefighters had responded to a call at the plant, Swanton said. They immediately realized the potential for disaster because of the plant’s chemical stockpile and began evacuating the surrounding area.

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FBI issues photos of suspects

BY DENISE LAVOIE AND ADAM GELLER ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — The FBI released photos and video Thursday of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and asked for the public’s help in identifying them, zeroing in on the two men on surveillance-camera footage less than three days after the deadly attack.

The photos depict one man in a dark baseball cap and the other in a white cap worn backward. The men were seen walking one behind the other in the crowd, and the one in the white hat was seen setting down a backpack at the site of the second explosion, said Richard DesLauriers, FBI agent in charge in Boston.

“Somebody out there knows these individuals as friends, neighbors, co-workers or family members of the suspects. Though it may be difficult, the nation is counting on those with information to come forward and provide it to us,” DesLauriers said.

The images were released hours after President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attended an interfaith service at a Roman Catholic cathedral in Boston to remember the three people killed and more than 180 wounded in the twin blasts Monday at the marathon finish line.

The two men — dubbed Suspect 1 (in the dark hat) and Suspect 2 (in the white hat) — are considered armed and extremely dangerous, DesLauriers said, and people who see them should not approach them.

“Do not take any action on your own,” he warned.

The break in the investigation came just days after the attack that tore off limbs, shattered windows and raised the specter of another terrorist attack on U.S. soil. FBI photo-analysis specialists have been analyzing a mountain of surveillance footage and amateur pictures and video for clues to who carried out the attack and why.

Generally, law enforcement agencies release photos of suspects only as a last resort, when they need the public’s help in identifying or capturing someone.

Releasing photos can be a mixed bag: It can tip off a suspect and deny police the element of surprise. It can also trigger an avalanche of tips, forcing police to waste valuable time chasing them down.

Within moments of the announcement,

FBI

These surveillance video images released by the FBI on Thursday depict the Boston Marathon bombing suspects walking through the crowd before the Monday explosions. the FBI website crashed, perhaps because of a crush of visitors.

In the images, both men appear to be wearing dark jackets. Suspect 1 appears to be wearing a backpack. The planting of the backpack is not depicted in the video footage that was made public.

The FBI made no mention of the men’s height, weight or age range and would not discuss the men’s ethnicity.

“It would be inappropriate to comment on the ethnicity of the men because it could lead people down the wrong path potentially,” said FBI agent Greg Comcowich, a spokesman for the Boston FBI office.

The information on the first suspect was developed within a day or so before its release, DesLauriers said. Agent Daniel Curtin said the FBI did not issue the photos earlier because authorities wanted to be meticulous: “It’s important to get it right.”

At the Cathedral of the Holy Cross earlier in the day, Obama declared to the people of Boston: “Your resolve is the greatest

rebuke to whoever committed this heinous act.” He spoke in almost mocking terms of those who commit such violence.

“We finish the race, and we do that because of who we are,” the president said to applause. “And that’s what the perpetrators of such senseless violence — these small, stunted individuals who would destroy instead of build and think somehow that makes them important — that’s what they don’t understand.”

“We will find you,” he warned those behind the attack.

Seven victims remained in critical condition. Killed were 8-year-old Martin Richard of Boston, 29-year-old restaurant manager Krystle Campbell of Medford, Mass., and Lu Lingzi, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate student from China.

Video and photos recovered in the investigation are being examined and enhanced by an FBI unit called the Operational Technologies Division, said Joe DiZinno, former director of the FBI lab in Quantico, Va.

Senators unveil sweeping immigration bill

BY ERICA WERNER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Four Democratic and four Republican senators formally unveiled a sweeping immigration bill Thursday at a news conference attended by traditional opponents from big business and labor, conservative groups and liberal ones. The lawmakers argued that this time, thanks to that broad-based support, immigration overhaul legislation can succeed in Congress.

“Powerful outside forces have helped defeat certain other initiatives in Washington, but on immigration, the opposite is proving true,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said a day after senators under intense lobbying pressure blocked a major gun control package. “I am confident this issue will not fall victim to the usual partisan deadlock.”

Support for the bill is already being put to the test as conservatives grow more vocal in opposition. Two Republican senators held a dueling news conference with law enforcement officials to bash the bill’s security provisions, and several conservative bloggers seized on one provision of

the legislation to falsely claim that it would allow people here illegally to get free cellphones.

The 844-page bill is designed to secure the border, allow tens of thousands of new high- and low-skilled workers into the country while requiring employers to verify their legal status, and put 11 million people here illegally on a path to citizenship, as long as certain border security goals are met first.

Realistically there is nothing we can do to induce [all undocumented immigrants] to return to their countries of origin.

JOHN MCCAIN U.S. senator, Arizona “Yes, we offer a path to citizenship to people who didn’t come here legally,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., anticipating opposition to that provision. “They’re

here, and realistically there is nothing we can do to induce them all to return to their countries of origin.”

In addition to Schumer and McCain, the members of the so-called Gang of Eight are Democrats Dick Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Michael Bennet of Colorado, and Republicans Marco Rubio of Florida, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona.

The bill will get its first hearing Friday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Standing behind the senators was a who’s-who of Washington conservative and liberal leaders, representatives from religious groups, Latino activist organizations and others.

Before the senators came to the podium, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist shook hands with AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka, then exchanged pleasantries with Neera Tanden, head of the liberal Center for American Progress. They were joined

by Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, Bruce Josten of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Clarissa Martinez of the National Council of La Raza and others, around two dozen all together.

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WEST, Texas — Rescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments for anyone still trapped in debris while the community awaited word on the number of dead.

Initial reports put the fatalities as high as 15, but later in the day, authorities backed away from any estimate and refused to elaborate.

More than 160 people were hurt.

A breathtaking band of destruction extended for blocks around the West Fertilizer Co. in the small community of West.

The blast shook the ground with the strength of a small earthquake and crumpled dozens of homes, an apartment complex, a school and a nursing home. Its dull boom could be heard dozens of miles away from the town about 20 miles north of Waco.

Waco police Sgt. William Patrick Swanton described ongoing search-and-rescue efforts as “tedious and time-consuming,” noting that crews had to shore up much of the wreckage before going in.

There was no indication the blast, which sent up a mushroom-shaped plume of smoke and left behind a crater, was anything other than an industrial accident, he said.

The explosion was apparently touched off by a fire, but there was no indication of what sparked the blaze. The company had been cited by regulators for what appeared to be minor safety and permitting violations over the past decade.

The Wednesday night explosion rained burning embers and debris down on terrified residents. The landscape Thursday was wrapped in acrid smoke and strewn with the shattered remains of buildings, furniture and personal belongings.

Firefighter Darryl Hall choked up as he described the search.

“You’re strong through it because that’s your job. That’s what you’ve been trained to do.

But you’re reminded of the tragedy and your family, and that it could be you,” Hall said. “Then it’s a completely different story.”

While the community tended to its deep wounds, investigators awaited clearance to enter the blast zone for clues to what set off the plant’s huge stockpile of volatile chemicals.

“It’s still too hot to get in there,” said Franceska Perot, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, later adding that she wasn’t sure when her team would be able to start its investigation.

The precise death toll was uncertain. Three to five volunteer firefighters initially were believed to be among the dead, which authorities said could number as many as 15. But the state Department of Public Safety later said the number of fatalities couldn’t be confirmed.

The Dallas Fire-Rescue Department said one of its off-

duty firefighters, Capt. Kenny Harris, was among those killed.

Harris — a 52-year-old married father of three grown sons — lived in West and had decided to lend a hand to the volunteers battling the blaze.

The many injuries included broken bones, cuts and bruises, respiratory problems and minor burns. A few people were reported in intensive care and several more in critical condition.

First-responders evacuated 133 patients from the nursing home, some in wheelchairs.

Many were dazed and panicked and did not know what happened.

William Burch and his wife, a retired Air Force nurse, entered the damaged nursing home before first-responders arrived.

They searched separate wings and found residents in wheelchairs trapped in their rooms.

The halls were dark, and the ceilings had collapsed. Water filled the hallways. Electrical wires hung eerily from the ceilings.

“They had Sheetrock that was on top of them. You had to remove that,” Burch said. It was “completely chaotic.”

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ON CAMPUS 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. Jewel 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.

8:00 PM Yale Philharmonia Guest conductor Helmuth Rilling will lead Dvorak’s “Stabat Mater” and more. With the Yale Camerata and Yale Glee Club. Free and open to the general public.

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IMF calls for pro-growth policies

Musharraf flees court to avoid arrest

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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde leaves the spring meetings of the World Bank Group and the IMF.

BY MARTIN CRUTSINGER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The head of the International Monetary Fund says the United States, Europe, Japan and China all need to make adjustments to their current economic policies in order to boost a stillstruggling global economy.

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde says the United States and many countries in Europe need to focus more on growth and less on trimming budget balances this year. She said there was a critical need for policies focused on spurring jobs.

Lagarde told a news conference Thursday that “we need growth, first and foremost.”

Lagarde spoke to reporters to preview upcoming discussions among finance ministers and central bank governors of the world’s 20 major economies plus the spring meetings of the 188-nation IMF and its sister lending institution, the World Bank.

Earlier this week, the IMF lowered its outlook for the world economy this year, predicting that government spending

cuts would slow U.S. growth and keep the 17-nation area that uses the euro currency in recession.

Officials of the Group of 20, which includes Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, were scheduled to begin their discussions over a working dinner Thursday night and wrap up Friday with the issuance of a joint communique. The G-20 is composed of the world’s major developed countries such as the United States, Japan and Germany and fast-growing developing nations including China, Brazil and India.

That joint statement was expected to repeat a pledge the group made at their last meeting in February that they would avoid using competitive currency devaluations to gain advantages in trade.

Lew, previewing the U.S. objectives going into the meetings, said that he would press Europe to do more to support growth and would maintain pressure on Japan and China to avoid lowering the value of their currencies to boost their exports at the expense of the United States and other countries.

Lew said it was important that G-20 nations “avoid a downward spiral of ‘beggar thy neighbor’ policies,” the type of destructive trade competition that worsened the Great Depression in the 1930s.

In her comments, Lagarde talked about the dangers of overemphasizing deficit reduction with growth still fragile. She said the United States had avoided the “fiscal cliff” of across-the-board tax hikes and spending cuts at the beginning of this year that could have derailed the U.S. economy but had made a policy error by allowing $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts, known as a sequester, to take effect on March 1.

Lagarde said the United States needed to pursue “better-quality” deficit reductions with less impact coming in the near-term.

She said that a priority for Europe was “to fix its frayed banking system” and also where needed to moderate its austerity programs. Lagarde noted that Spain was struggling with high unemployment and therefore the country needed more time before pursuing aggressive deficit reduction.

ISLAMABAD — Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf fled court in a speeding vehicle Thursday to avoid arrest after his bail was revoked in a case involving his decision to fire senior judges while in power over five years ago.

The harried escape broadcast live on Pakistani TV marked a new low in Musharraf’s troubled return from exile last month to seek a political comeback in the May 11 parliamentary election.

Musharraf made his exit with the help of bodyguards, who pushed him past policemen and paramilitary soldiers and helped him into a black SUV that sped off with a member of his security team hanging on the side of the vehicle. Lawyers taunted the 69-year-old as he roared away, yelling, “Look who is running!

Musharraf is running!”

The car carrying the former military strongman dashed to his luxury farmhouse, which is protected by high walls, razor wire and guard towers. Dozens of police and elite commandos blocked the main road that runs to the compound on the outskirts of Islamabad, keeping a crowd of journalists and onlookers at bay.

About 20 Musharraf supporters held banners and shouted slogans.

None of the security forces protecting the compound made any move to arrest Musharraf, likely because they were awaiting orders from senior officials trying to figure out how to deal with a delicate situation. Musharraf’s legal team said they would appeal the arrest warrant in the Supreme Court.

“A lot of people are going to demand to know why he escaped

the custody of the security forces,” said Rasul Bakhsh Rais, a political science professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Pakistan’s government seems reluctant to wade into the controversy surrounding Musharraf, especially given his connection to the army, considered the most powerful institution in the country.

People are going to demand to know why [Musharraf] escaped the custody of the security forces.

RASUL BAKHSH RAIS Political science professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences Musharraf seized power in a coup in 1999 when he was serving as army chief and spent nearly a decade in power before being forced to step down in 2008. He returned last month after four years in self-imposed exile in London and Dubai despite legal challenges and Taliban death threats.

He has received paltry public support, and earlier this week was disqualified from running in the coming election because of his actions while in power. A court has also barred him from leaving the country.

The upcoming vote is historic because it will mark the first time in Pakistan that parliament has completed its full five-year term and handed over power in democratic elections. The country has experienced three military coups and constant political instability since it was founded in 1947.

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SPORTS

Full NFL schedule released In one of the NFL’s annual “holidays” for football fans, the league released the full 2013-’14 season schedule on Thursday. The season will start with the Super Bowl-winning Baltimore Ravens facing the Denver Broncos in Colorado. Putting the defending champs on the road to begin the season was a break from tradition necessitated by a scheduling conflict with the Baltimore Orioles.

Elis team up with Cantabs

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The Yale-Harvard men defeated Oxford and Cambridge 13-6, with Yale pulling in four of the American victories.

TRACK & FIELD FROM PAGE 12 The men’s Yale-Harvard squad also defeated their British counterparts, and the Yale men accounted for four of the 13 American victories.

“It’s strange,” men’s team captain Tim Hillas ’13 said on competing with the Crimson. “We’re used to seeing them on the track and we’re trained to try to use every muscle fiber to beat them down the stretch … At the same time, it’s a pretty cool event.”

Two of the Elis’ first-place finishes came in running events. William Rowe ’15 torched two Oxford competitors in the 400m hurdles, posting a time of 54.97 to finish first. Yale’s distance team continued its success this season as Hillas outdueled two English runners en route to a 15:28.14 time and firstplace finish in the 500m.

One of the most dominant individual performances of the day came from Eli thrower Mike Levine ’13. He not only dominated the discus, winning the event with a throw of 51.59m, but also nabbed a victory in the hammer throw with a toss of 56.47m, just barely

topping the 56.38m throw of Harvard teammate Ben Glauser.

This [meet] is something that’s impressed on us when we get to Yale.

NIHAL KAYALI ’13 Captain, women’s cross country Hillas said he was proud of the team’s effort, but he added that the mid-week event in between competitions last weekend and this weekend was taxing.

“I thought we performed pretty well. It’s great to get the win,” Hillas said. “Obviously, everyone was getting pretty tired.”

The men’s and women’s track and field teams will continue their seasons today and tomorrow at the Larry Ellis Invitational in Princeton, N.J. Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .

Baseball hopes to take first in Red Rolfe

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A sweep of Dartmouth this weekend would propel the Elis to first place in the Red Rolfe division of the Ivy League.

BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 led to two unearned runs for the Elis on the weekend.

Captain Chris Piwinski ’13 said that Yale will have to focus on trying to put the ball in play and running hard in order to get “free 90s” against Dartmouth. He described the Big Green as a team that emphasizes the fundamentals of baseball.

“They play clean baseball,” Piwinski said. “Every guy they throw out there is going to attack and throw strikes.”

Big Green hurlers have walked just 66 batters through 29 games this season — 24 fewer than the next lowest team. Dartmouth ranks ninth in all of Division I baseball with just 2.41 walks allowed per game. Yale, meanwhile, is fourth in the Ivy League with 3.33 walks per game Dartmouth’s bats will also be a cause of concern for Yale, as the Big Green lead the Ancient Eight with a .308 batting average. In order to keep pace, Piwinski said that the Bulldogs will need to come through at the plate with

runners on base.

“We’re good at getting guys on and getting runners in scoring position,” Piwinski said. “We just need to get a big hit.”

He added that nine inning games give Yale more opportunities to push those runners across. The first game of each Ivy League doubleheader is just seven innings, while the second boasts nine. Yale has gone 0–6 in seven-inning games against Ancient Eight foes this season, but has amassed a 5–1 mark in nine-inning conference games.

Although a sweep would propel the Elis to first place in the Red Rolfe division, Hsieh said that the team is not getting ahead of itself.

“We need to focus on one game at a time,” Hsieh said. “We have to focus on the task at hand.”

First pitch for the top part of tomorrow’s doubleheader is scheduled for 12:00 p.m.

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

M. lax eager for upset MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 like Maryland is a perfect time to try and do so,” captain Michael McCormack ’13 said.

A key for the Elis will be starting quickly and playing better defense than they have in the first halves of recent games. The Bulldogs have not played good first-half offense or defense this season, while the Terps have scored more goals and registered more shots on goal in the first period than any other period. In comparison, Yale’s offense and defense have worked their best late in the fourth quarter, scoring more goals and conceding the least in the last period. While games against Providence, Dartmouth, Brown and Stony Brook have all exhibited Yale’s expertise in fourth-quarter comebacks, Maryland is a high-quality team with the second-highest scoring margin in the nation.

“We will grind and scrap and compete until the final whistle of every game, and that’s something you don’t see too often,” attackman Michael Bonacci ’16 said. “Our team has had the ability to pull out some very close games, and in situations like that you need the never-quit attitude. For us to achieve success, it will take everything that all 38 players have for 60 minutes of every remaining game.”

I rarely think about personal stats because I focus more on how I help the team.

COLIN FLAHERTY ’15 Midfielder, M.lax While the Bulldogs have shown a strong team effort this year, with 20 players playing in over 10 games and 21 players registering points on the season, Yale has developed a few stars to help in the team’s quest to return to the NCAA tournament. Junior attackman Brandon Mangan ’14 has stepped up his role this season and leads the Bulldogs with 28 goals, 21 assists and 100 shots. Often, his late game heroics have led the Bulldogs to victory. Mangan ranks sixth in the nation in points per game and has received Ivy Player of the Week honors twice already.

The entire Yale starting attack has

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Dylan Levings ’14 leads the Elis in posting a .625 faceoff success rate, which is fourth in the nation. been on fire this season, with Mangan, Conrad OberSaturday, 12 p.m. beck ’15 and Kirby at Zdrill ’13 being the top three points getters on the Bulldogs and coming in Maryland second, sixth and ninth in goals per game in the Ivy League, respectively.

Colin Flaherty ’15, in his second season, has emerged as the Bulldogs’ top offensive midfielder, contributing 11 goals and seven assists. Flaherty, who has surpassed most of his statistical highs from last season, has scored three game-winning goals this season and, except for the most recent game against Stony Brook, has registered at least a point in every contest for the Bulldogs this year.

“Being in my second season has really made things easier for me in terms of experience and has definitely taught me to never be nervous in close games,” Flaherty said. “I rarely think about personal stats because I focus more on how I help the team. Going forward, I just want to keep working hard and do everything I can to help this team achieve an Ivy League Championship and then a National Championship this season.”

Harry Kucharczyk ’15 has become an important two way midfielder this season registering eight goals, including last week’s overtime win-

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ner against Stony Brook, 24 ground balls and six caused turnovers. Dylan Levings ’14 has been his usual dominant self from the face-off circle, leading the team with a .625 faceoff success rate, good for fourth in the nation. Yale defense has helped second-year goaltender Eric Natale ’15 post the second best goals against average in the Ivy League. Senior CLASS Award nominee and MLL draft pick of the Charlotte Hounds, defenseman Peter Johnson ’13 ranks 13th in the nation in caused turnovers per game, while his partner McCormack ranks second on the team with 39 ground balls.

Maryland also plays great defense, ranking first in goals against average, second in penalty killing and third in caused turnovers per game in the ACC this season. While the Terps have six players registering over 18 points this season and the team as a whole ranks second in the ACC in goals per game, Maryland does not have a player in the top five in the conference in goals or points per game. The Terrapins have been effective in spreading their offense around this season and have not had to depend on a single star player. The Yale defense will have to be strong at all seven defensive positions to have a chance on Saturday.

Yale faces off against Maryland tomorrow at noon.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

Yale to make field run Red WOMEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 may have an advantage: Although Yale is just 2-2 at home, Cornell (7-5, 3-3 Ivy) struggles on the road, having won just two of the six games away from Schoellkopf Field. Most recently, Cornell was dealt a crushing away defeat 16-4 at the hands of No. 5 Syracuse. But Yale should expect a tough competition from Cornell, ranked fourth in the Ivy League, as both teams enter needing a win to have a chance at a postseason appearance. Yale should also be wary of the Big Red’s offense which is ranked first in goals per game in the Ivy League.

“I think we are both talented teams who are in similar situations at this point in our seasons. It will definitely showcase two teams with a lot to gain,” goalie Erin McMullan ’14 said.

The Elis will rely on top point-getters team captain Devon Rhodes ’13 and freshman midfielder Nicole Daniggelis ’16, to provide the offensive threat, as they have all season. Rhodes, who has 15 points over the last three games, will look to continue her great form and add to her team best 13 assists. Although she did not play in the first two games,

Daniggelis has scored in every one since, averaging four goals per game in her last seven contests.

“I think I’ve been able to score a lot because of how my teemmates set me up. I’m just in the right spot at the right time and my teammates always find me in the open,” Daniggelis said.

On the season, Daniggelis is ranked in the top 30 in the nation and second in the Ivy League in scoring. Daniggelis is also fifth in the country in draw controls per game.

“The Cornell game is definitely our biggest of the year, so I feel we will go into it more ready and excited then ever. We just need to play our game and put together a complete game for 60 minutes and we will come out with the win,” Daniggelis said.

A win against Cornell will require coordination on both ends of the field.

The Bulldogs will rely on McMullan, who saves close to 40 percent of goals on defense and ranks third in the Ivy League in saves per game, to protect the goal from the Ivy League’s bestscoring offense. The Bulldog defenders will have to be wary of Cornell’s Lindsay Toppe, who ranks third in the Ivy League in points per game.

This season, both Cornell’s offense and defense have performed better than Yale’s. The Big Red score 12.45 goals per game to the Elis’ 11.42 and Cornell allows 10.00 goals per game to Yale’s 10.83. Cornell’s scoring margin of 2.45 is in the top 30 in the nation.

The teams’ matchup last year went in Cornell’s favor, 17-9, though McMullan guarded the goal well, saving 19 of the 36 shots Cornell attempted.

The wide disparity in shot attempts in that game (36 to 11) indicates problems on both defense and offense for the Elis. However, Yale has been playing at an offensive level not seen since its 11-win season in 2008 and is confident in its young and ever improving team. McMullan noted the importance of approaching the game with energy.

“Cornell is a scrappy team,” she said.

“If we bring the same intensity on Saturday that we have had all week, we’ll challenge them for every 50-50 ball.”

The face off is at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Reese Stadium.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

Contact DIONIS JAHJAGA at dionis.jahjaga@yale.edu .

SCHEDULE FRIDAY APRIL 19 Track & Field

@ Larry Ellis Inviational

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@ Dartmouth

2 p.m.

Men’s Lacrosse

@ Maryland

12 p.m.

Baseball

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Baseball

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@ Harvard

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Men’s Tennis

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2 p.m.

Baseball

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2:30 p.m.

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We’re trained to try to use every muscle fiber to beat [Harvard] down the stretch.

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Yale-Harvard tops British opponents TRACK & FIELD

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The Yale-Harvard women’s team won 14 events to Oxford and Cambridge’s five. Yale athletes accounted for six of the American victories and joined Harvard for a win in the 4x100m relay.

BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER It is the oldest international track and field competition in history.

Since 1899, ancient rivals — Harvard and Yale, Oxford and Cambridge — have joined forces with their countrymen to battle their opposition from across

the pond. This year’s iteration took place Tuesday at Harvard’s McCurdy Track in Cambridge, and both the men’s and women’s American squads put together dominant performances against their British counterparts. The Yale-Harvard women’s team won 14 events to Oxford and Cambridge’s five, while the American men achieved similar success,

winning 13–6.

“The Harvard-Yale OxfordCambridge meet is steeped in history,” women’s cross country captain Nihal Kayali ’13 said. “This is something that’s impressed on us when we get to Yale.”

On the women’s side, the Yale-Harvard team combined to capture a nine-point victory.

Of the 14 points the American squad garnered, Yale athletes accounted for six victories, Harvard women won seven events and the rivals joined ranks for a victory in the 4x100m relay.

Eli women swept the distance events. Emily Stark ’16 captured the 5000m in 17:20.01, while Kira Garry ’15 beat Cambridge’s Polly Keen by almost 15 seconds

Bulldogs to take on Maryland

BY FREDERICK FRANK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The No. 15 men’s lacrosse team will travel south to College Park to face the No. 4 Maryland Terrapins in a showcase event between the defending Ivy League Tournament Champions and the perennial ACC powerhouse. The matchup is an unprecedented opportunity for the Bulldogs (8-3, 3-2 Ivy) to notch a quality win against Maryland (8-2, 2-1 ACC), a team that has made it all the way to the finals of the NCAA tournament for the past two years.

SEE MEN’S LACROSSE PAGE 11

for the Harvard-Yale squad.”

Yale also had success in short-distance events and in the jumps. Jenna Poggi took first in the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:02.65, and Alisha Jordan ‘15 won the triple jump while Emily Urciuoli ‘14 captured the pole vault.

SEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE 11

Women’s lacrosse looks for Ivy win

BY FREDERICK FRANK AND DIONIS JAHJAGA CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS After notching its first Ivy League win against Columbia last weekend, the women’s lacrosse team (7-5, 1-4 Ivy) will look to add another league win against the Cornell Big Red this Saturday.

MEN’S LACROSSE While Yale started slowly this season, suffering from two close league losses to Princeton and Cornell, the Bulldogs are riding a high at the moment, wining their past five games and knowing that Princeton’s unexpected loss to Dartmouth last Saturday has seen Yale vault into second position of the Ivy League.

“I think that we still haven’t put together a complete game, and playing a great opponent

en route to victory in the 3000m steeplechase. In the 1500m, Kayali ran 4:36.60 for a first-place finish, outpacing Cambridge’s Katherine Turner by almost 10 seconds.

“This meet unfortunately this year fell at an inconvenient point in our season,” Kayali said. “Time wise, I wasn’t really out there to PR … I was out there to get a win

WOMEN’S LACROSSE Following a below .500 performance last year, the team has

played itself to a strong record, but the Elis still need Saturday, 1 p.m. to win their vs. last two conference games — against Cornell and Cornell Brown — to qualify for the Ivy League Tournament. Facing the Big Red at home, the Bulldogs

Women’s Lacrosse

SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 11

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No. 15 Yale, the defending Ivy League Tournament Champions, will take on No. 4 Maryland, a perennial ACC powerhouse, in College Park this weekend.

First place within reach for Elis

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER The math is simple. With eight games remaining in the Ivy League season, the Elis sit three games behind Dartmouth heading into this weekend’s four-game series.

BASEBALL Dartmouth (23–6, 8–5 Ivy) comes to New Haven sitting first place in the Red Rolfe division of the Ivy League, while Yale (8–22, 5–7) joins Harvard at No. 2.

Outfielder Joe Lubanski ’15 said that the

weekend’s series could define Yale’s season.

“This is our NCAA Saturday, 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. tournament heading into this week,” Sunday, 12 p.m. and 1 p.m.

Lubanski said. “David vs.

Toup’s ’15 line is always ‘Survive and Advance.”

It’s a big opportunity in front of us … I have every bit of confidence Dartmouth that we can sweep them this weekend.”

According to Lubanski and outfielder Eric Hsieh ’15, Yale Field will offer a special home-field advantage for the Bull-

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dogs this weekend. While Dartmouth plays its home games on Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park in Hanover, N.H., a field made of artificial turf, Yale’s ballpark has a natural grass field.

“We are used to our field by now, and the hops are a little different between turf and grass,” Lubanski said.

Recent series history bodes well for the Bulldogs, as Yale swept the fourgame set when the Big Green last visited Yale in 2011. Dartmouth committed four errors in the series to just one by Yale, and the Big Green’s defensive miscues SEE BASEBALL PAGE 11

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The matchup between the Elis and the Big Red last year ended in Cornell’s favor, 17–9.

AVERAGE POINTS PER GAME SCORED BY MEN’S LACROSSE ATTACKMAN BRANDON MANGAN ’14 THIS SEASON. The mark places Mangan at sixth in the category in Division I. The junior scored five points in both of Yale’s latest wins over Stony Brook and Brown.