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Smells like spring. You know it’s spring in New England when people start pulling out the salmon-colored shorts, the quintessential look for a preppy college student. And based on a new Tumblr “whiteboysinsalmonshorts,” it seems that Yale may top the list of salmon-defined preppiness: As of press time, more than half of the photos in the Tumblr featured Yale men sporting the shorts as they lounged on Cross Campus or strolled past Bass Library.
BY JANE DARBY MENTON AND AMY WANG STAFF REPORTERS
The mystery continues.
More than five months after city authorities discovered a skeleton under a tree on the New Haven Green, they have continued to unearth city treasures. On Wednesday, workers discovered two copper tubes under the tree, which may prove city historian Rob Greenberg’s theory that a time capsule was buried beneath the Lincoln Oak when it was planted in 1909. The tubes have been taken to the state archeologist for scanning. Practice for Spring Fling? In the midst of finals studying and papers, it’s important to keep the brain active and body prepared for Spring Fling, whether that means thrift shopping or listening to Grouplove on repeat. Yalies across campus got a preview of Spring Fling yesterday afternoon when the Guild of Carillonneurs played an abridged version of Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” from atop Harkness Tower. Studying selectivity. A recently updated study from two economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research found that students who attended more selective universities did not tend to earn more than their counterparts who earned similar SAT scores but attended less selective colleges. The economists used data from 30 colleges, including Yale, Wesleyan, Columbia, the University of Michigan and Pennsylvania State University. One last lecture. After 44 years teaching at the University, Sterling Professor of Classics and History Donald Kagan, known for his popular “Introduction to Ancient Greek History” course, will deliver his final lecture at 4:30 p.m. in SSS 114. The topic will be “a liberal arts education.”
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SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW For the next few days, the “Global Rainbow New Haven” project will be shining every night from dusk to 1 a.m., kicking off a citywide celebration of the 375th anniversary of New Haven. Launched Wednesday from East Rock, the project features a laser light sculpture that projects a full spectrum of the rainbow that can be seen for 35 miles.
This summer, roughly 30 incoming freshmen will head to campus for the University’s first-ever bridge program aimed at helping students transition from high school to college. Freshman Scholars at Yale — the invitation-only pre-college academic bridge program that covers all tuition, housing and transportation fees for participants — was initially conceived in 2008, but financial constraints forced Yale College to put the project on hold until this year. The five-week program is designed to introduce students whose high school backgrounds may not have fully prepared them for Yale’s environment to academic and social life at the University, said Yale College Assistant Dean William Whobrey. Whobrey said the Admissions Office is currently reviewing the newly accepted class of 2017 and will send out invitations to a select number of students after the May 1 deadline for students to accept offers of admission. SEE BRIDGE PROGRAM PAGE 5
Fighting city crime with social welfare
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ity hall officials and police administrators have worked for over a year to implement a community-oriented policing strategy in New Haven. But crime experts say this policy must work in concert with social assistance programs to eradicate crime. LORENZO LIGATO reports.
When Dean Esserman took the helm of the New Haven Police Department in November 2011, his marching orders were clear: reduce violence in the city and improve police relations with the community. The city then was in the midst
Salovey to reside in president’s house BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER President-elect Peter Salovey just cannot stay away from Hillhouse Avenue. Salovey arrived on the lush hill as a graduate student in psychology in 1981, receiving his Ph.D. from the department at 2 Hillhouse Ave. in 1986. He continued to teach in the
of a tumultuous year, reaching a 20-year high of 34 homicides.
BY LORENZO LIGATO STAFF REPORTER
UPCLOSE Seventeen months later, the number of homicides in the Elm City has dropped by 50 percent to 17 — a fall that Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and other
city officials have largely attributed to the police department’s switch to a model of community policing that moves officers away from their desks and puts them on walking patrols throughout the city. But despite the success of Esserman’s community-oriSEE CRIME PAGE 4
YEI offers summer Tech Bootcamp
Psychology Department, with an office in its building until 2003, when he then took on the first of his two deanships. Five years later, he relocated to the Provost’s Office on the other side of the street at 1 Hillhouse Ave. And now, when it looked like he would finally leave the locale and move his office to Woodbridge Hall, SEE SALOVEY PAGE 5
THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
1988 Yale joins the Elm City in commemorating the city’s 350th anniversary. University and city leaders attended a tribute — entitled “A Concert of Celebration, the Story of New Haven, a Yale salute” — the day before as performers narrated the histories of Yale and New Haven.
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The Yale Entrepreneurship Institute accepted roughly 15 students to Tech Bootcamp — an intensive 10-week crash course in web programming.
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President-elect Salovey will live in the president’s house at 43 Hillhouse Ave. with his wife Marta Moret SPH ’84 during his tenure as Yale’s president.
The Yale Entrepreneurship Institute is piloting a program this summer to teach roughly 15 students how to build the next Reddit in exchange for over 400 hours of their time. On Wednesday, YEI accepted students into its first ever Tech Bootcamp — an intensive 10-week crash
course in web programming from May 22 to July 26 that is free and comes with two meals a day plus a $1,500 stipend for housing and living expenses. Through a fast-paced curriculum geared toward fostering student tech start-ups, participants will leave as web developers who can handle all aspects of online applicaSEE TECH BOOTCAMP PAGE 5
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write these columns to remind myself that certain things are true. When the columns are good, they remind other people of the true thing, too, a sort of collective remembering, but at their heart is a simpler goal: to put feelings to words so they will keep. Now that I don’t have many words left — these 700 are my last — I find myself considering all the columns I didn’t write. I didn’t write about the times I felt my soul being wrung in my chest when I wondered: What is the point? There have been columns about the highs that counterbalanced these lows — about the moments I felt so happy I wished time would slow its pace — but I never wrote about the days when my limbs grew so heavy that I struggled to get them out of bed. I didn’t write about the white flowers that blossom on the tree by Byers in the Silliman courtyard. Now they are wilted, but a few weeks ago, on a late afternoon when the sun was orange, the light filtered through the petals so each flower became a tiny lantern. When the wind blew, the petals fluttered — a hundred thousand wings on the verge of flight. I didn’t write about the heat that comes in August, in the weeks after move-in. In the first days of the year, humidity makes composure impossible, so people become vulnerable in a good way. The nights of late August are to be spent together, under the starless New Haven sky, lying in hammocks or sitting on rooftops or ledges. These things — the sadness, the flowers, the thick August nights — were true. I saw them, touched them, felt them. The columns about these things went unwritten because of scarce resources — hours in my days and space on the opinion page — but also because they are complicated: ephemeral, intangible. Good columns have straightforward narratives for which these subjects are ill-suited. They are details that are hard to fold into the stories I tell myself about Yale. Under the right light, the tree in the Silliman courtyard can give you pause, but its flowers are improbable subjects for a 700-word opinion piece. Still, I’m afraid of forgetting. The present exists with a depth of color that doesn’t keep. “The sound of anything coming at you — a train, say, or the future — has a higher pitch than the sound of the same thing going away,” Wallace Stegner wrote in Angle of Repose. In this version of the Doppler Effect, the “thing going away” is memory, lower in frequency and muted, faded. Memories carry implicit nar-
ratives that flatten the details for ease of storage. I wonder if I’ll look back on my college TEO SOARES years when I’m wizened and Traduções remember the petals caught in the orange sunlight. I hope so. It’s through these details I feel most alive. To be human is to experience life at its extremes of sadness, of beauty and of happiness. The lows, the highs, the fluttering flowers and the headiness of late summer: They elude the narrative of memory precisely because they are too vibrant.
TO BE HUMAN IS TO EXPERIENCE LIFE AT ITS EXTREMES OF SADNESS, OF BEAUTY AND OF HAPPINESS For example: Last Tuesday, like most Tuesdays this year, I went with some friends to a bar on Temple Street for trivia night and five-dollar pitchers of Miller Light. We weren’t expecting to win — we hadn’t even broken third the past twenty-something tries — but we went into the last round only 15 points behind the leader. At the end, as the announcer read the scores, we held hands in a circle, and when he called our name in first, we leapt off our seats. We cheered and thumped the table and spilled our beer, but we were too giddy to care (and, anyway, the money we won bought us another four rounds). At that moment, at the bar, I felt a happiness that was too big for my chest. My response was probably disproportionate to the feat — this was trivia, not a national championship — but it was real. And despite the vibrancy of the moment, the details have already begun to flatten. I forget the questions asked and the music played and the anticipation I felt as the scores were read. But I’m doing my best to hold on: I write this column to remind myself it was true.
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n the next week, I will hand in my last Yale papers and attend my last Yale seminars. As I prepare to do so, I get wistful and consider what advice I might have given myself four years ago. One word comes to mind: linger. Linger over meals. The thousands of pages we read, and the hundreds more we wrote might stick with us for a time. The organizations we led and the initiatives we spearheaded may have felt important in the moment. But for the vast majority of us, the memory of it all will fade in just a few years. What will not fade are the effects of the lunch that followed an enraging seminar — the camaraderie that flows from criticizing the jerks in one’s class, the satisfaction that comes from finally bringing around a sparring partner, the ecstasy that accompanies the moment of clarity when you finally understand why someone believes something radically different. The relationships forged in the hours of conversation after the dining hall was meant to close, the transformations in character triggered when you finally accept the point a friend simply wouldn’t concede — these are
what will last. Linger in the hallways. The best of what I learned from my professors didn’t come in the lecture hall YISHAI or the semiSCHWARTZ nar room, or even in office Dissentary hours. It came in the halfhour after class when most students had dispersed, but a few of us lingered in the hallway. Classes and appointments are scheduled in advance; you enter with a plan and leave at an appointed time. But the moment after class ends is the moment when requirements and formality fall away. The issues nagging and gnawing at you for the previous two hours can suddenly burst forth and be addressed directly. There’s no hand-raising or phony pontification in the hallway. Professors let their hair down and engage, and you learn what they really believe, enjoying the freedom to press and push. And when they make little sense, you can interrupt and
question and argue, free of the fear that you’ll look stupid in front of your classmates. Over our time here, responsibilities build up and obligations crowd our schedules. We find ourselves dashing out of seminar and racing off to meetings. In the process, I worry we have lost some of our best moments. So for me, the corridor outside of LC201 will forever be the center of campus; the place where I learned to think. Linger on the street-corners. MIT held a memorial service yesterday for Sean Collier, the campus police officer whose murder sparked the ferocious chase that led to the killing and capture of the Boston terrorists. MIT’s students wrote letters recounting their daily interactions with Collier. One letter, read aloud at the service, described how the “geeky” Collier might have passed for an MIT student. The service contained all the pomp and circumstance MIT could muster, and the university’s board voted to make Collier an honorary member of the school’s alumni association. The tribute was beautiful and fitting. But in read-
ing the reports, I realized that I know only a handful of the Yale employees who surround me every day. Many of us take pride in our relationships with dining hall workers and maintenance staff, departmental assistants and the guards who sit at the entrance of Bass. Nevertheless, most of us, I imagine, can do more. None of us are capable of developing a meaningful friendship with every acquaintance. But gratitude to those who protect and sustain us is a value in itself. At Yale, it easy to imagine that everyone that matters is a 20-year old with a backpack. But if we can break that habit of narrowness now — if we made the time to know each other a little bit better, noting absences and exchanging greetings with names rather than nods — then all of our lives will be richer. So both at Yale and beyond — at meals, after class and on the street — remember to leave yourself time before the next thing. Remember to linger. YISHAI SCHWARTZ is a senior in Branford College. This is his last column for the News. Contact him at yishai.schwartz@yale.edu .
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Fernandez for mayor F
or the first time in 20 years, New Haven has a competitive mayoral race. With Mayor DeStefano stepping down, the race is wide open. However, despite the fact that there are five candidates vying for the job, Henry Fernandez LAW ’94 is the clear choice as the next mayor of New Haven. He is the only candidate with both the vision to move this city forward and the experience to ensure that he can do so from his first day in office. Fernandez has lived in New Haven for the past 23 years and currently lives in the Fair Haven neighborhood with his wife Kica and their eight-year-old son Henry Jr, who attends the Edgewood public school. When Fernandez talks about ensuring that every child in New Haven gets a high-quality education, he is talking about his son, his neighbors and his community. He believes that the number a family draws in the public school lottery shouldn’t determine whether their child has a promising future. This is why Fernandez’s campaign slogan is “One City.” It’s more than a catchphrase for posters, but rather a commit-
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ment that will affect each decision he makes as mayor. If there is a problem in one school, then that affects us all as one city. Every safer street will draw us closer as a community, while revitalizing downtown New Haven will boost our overall economy. One city means listening to every member of the community, from the Board of Aldermen to Yale’s administration to each resident of New Haven, to ensure that we prosper together. What sets Fernandez apart is not only his vision, but also his experience. After graduating from Yale Law School, he co-founded and served as the executive director of LEAP. This nationally recognized youth agency trains and employs high school and college students to serve as tutors and mentors to younger, underserved children in New Haven. When Fernandez works to ensure that all of New Haven’s children have high quality youth centers to attend, he not only understands why they are necessary, but how we can make this hope a reality. Fernandez served on the Obama-Biden transition team to develop policy relating to
the national issue of homelessness for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He will draw on this extensive experience to work especially with the chronically homelessness to transition them to homes. As a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, he has written extensively on civil rights, immigration, community development and education. He serves on the board of Junta for Progressive Action and provides strategic support for social justice issues across the country. We don’t mention all of this simply because it’s an impressive resume, but rather because it shows the depth of experience that Fernandez will be able to draw from on his first day in City Hall. In fact, he has already built off this experience to begin to repair our city. As New Haven’s Economic Development Administrator he led the charge to bring Ikea to Long Wharf, providing numerous high-paying jobs for New Haven residents. By fighting for Gateway Community College to open downtown, he ensured that New Haven residents have direct access to the education
they need today for the jobs of tomorrow. And his development of over 300 new homes in Newhallville, Dixwell, Fair Haven and across the city is one step closer to guaranteeing that every family has a place to call home. Fernandez’s commitment to New Haven is unquestionable. He has shown this time and time again with his works both for and outside city government, from LEAP to his tenure as New Haven’s Economic Development Administrator. Now is the time to give someone with his level of expertise the chance to improve our Elm City. Only with a man as committed to uniting New Haven as Fernandez is, can we expect the real change that we desperately need and deserve. A vote for Henry Fernandez is a vote for New Haven, a vote for us to become one city. EMMA JANGER is a sophomore in Trumbull College and KATE PINCUS is a sophomore in Calhoun College. Janger is the president of Yale for Fernandez, and Pincus is its vice president. Pincus is also a member of the News' copy staff. Contact them at emma.janger@yale.edu and katharine.pincus@yale.edu .
GUEST COLUMNIST RICHARD ESPINOSA
On HIV, don't repeat history G
ay men of the Gay Ivy: We are a generation that’s come of age in the wake of half a million Americans lost to AIDS. Since that devastation, what was once a certain death is now a manageable disease. We are a generation that knows HIV, and we know how to protect our partners and ourselves. Despite this hard-won knowledge, HIV transmissions among men who have sex with men, or MSM, are on the rise after years of decline. and now comprise the majority of new infections. Almost half of college-aged gay men will be HIV+ by age 40. For black MSM, the number jumps to 57 percent. While these numbers are startling on their own, what sounds the alarm is that we've seen them before. In San Francisco. 20 years ago. History is repeating itself. To reconcile these statistics with the current state of HIV prevention and education, a group of about 30 Yale undergraduates, graduate students, alumni, faculty and local activists met this month. The workshop revealed that those spared the early, darkest years of the plague also missed the critical lessons that succeeded in slow-
ing its spread. Questions that once protected a man's health have become part of an online hookup culture, flattening once-valid concerns into cheap phrases that no longer bear the urgency under which they were initially created. On apps like Grindr and websites like Manhunt, men post profiles complete with their status, most recent test date and acronyms like “DDF” and “neg UB2.” People ask, “Are you clean?” Degrading language aside, serosorting — when HIV- men only partner with HIV- men, and HIV+ with HIV+ — doesn’t really make sense. A negative test result is not a license to have unprotected sex. A gap of months separates the time you are infected with HIV from the time a test will reveal you are positive. In this gap, your viral load is greatest, which means you are more likely to infect others. Any protective effect of having unprotected sex with negative partners is cancelled out by this potential, untestable increased virality. Safeguards exist to prevent possible exposure. Yale students seem generally unaware of PEP and PrEP: post- and preexposure prophylaxis, respec-
tively. The former, if administered soon after exposure to the virus, can dramatically lower the likelihood infection. The latter, if taken daily before exposure to the virus, will do the same. But attributing this rise in transmission to just misguided health choices misses a deeper issue. To paraphrase art historian Douglas Crimp, a chronic illness is abstract until it’s not. As young people, the reality of living with HIV — the regimen of daily medications, their side effects, and frequent doctor visits — is far beyond our imagination. Culturally, the conversation has deviated from the health crisis as well. The Gay Rights movement, galvanized by AIDS, has turned to assimilationist advocacy for gay marriage, relegating mortal crises as secondary. Placing HIV transmission alongside other epidemics facing our community — the violence and victimization of gay men, the burden of depression and heavy use of alcohol and other drugs — it is no surprise that young gay men, already four times more likely to commit suicide than their heterosexual peers, might value and protect their bodies less. To address
the crisis of rising HIV transmission, we need to make these social and mental health issues as important and visible as the push for marriage rights. Silence, violence and stigma that feed this shame and misinformation are reproduced at all levels of public and private life, but schools and universities should be the exception. “Light and truth” should be an imperative, not a motto. Yale must foster open discussion and remove all barriers to quick and easy testing for HIV and other STIs. Half of Yale’s gay male students are in peril, and Yale has taken no apparent action to specifically focus on HIV. We must share knowledge and reject historical amnesia. We must speak frankly about sex before, during and after. Assume everyone you sleep with is HIVpositive, use a condom, and explore nonpenetrative sexual practices. Our hope lies in our rejection of the statistical fate that awaits us should we choose to do nothing. RICHARD ESPINOSA is a 2010 graduate of Berkeley College and an incoming student at the Yale School of Art. The Yale AIDS Memorial Project (YAMP) contributed writing.
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Yale awarded InterAsian grant BY RAYMOND NOONAN STAFF REPORTER Twelve years ago, Helen Siu founded a tiny intercultural studies program in Hong Kong. At Yale, she will now head a halfmillion-dollar program to connect Asian scholars across the world. Last week, the Carnegie Corporation of New York accepted Siu’s $500,000 grant to Yale to support the “InterAsia Initiative,” an effort between Yale and six other universities and think tanks from New York to Lebanon to encourage collaboration between scholars of different Asian cultures. The grant, which is planned to last two years, will pay for two InterAsian studies post-doctoral fellows at Yale, a number of Yale professors and graduate students to attend an Interasian conference in Instanbul this fall, an Interasian studies conference on campus in 2015 and an online database for the sharing of Asian studies scholarship. Siu, who is an anthropology professor and helped bring the funding to Yale with fellow anthropology professor Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan GRD ’96, said she hopes the grant will break down traditional divisions in Asian studies scholarship and inspire a new generation of scholars to see the multiple interconnections between different Eastern cultures. “Many of us have been exposed to a century of humanities and social science that is land-based, nation-state focused and emphasizes rather static populations and economies,” Siu said. “We want to break down those categories.” The “breakthrough” for the initiative came in 2008, Siu said, when the Social Science Research Council in New York approached her and former University of Chicago professor Prasenejit Duara at an Interasia conference in Dubai about working on a collaborative intercultural studies conference. But Yale was not formally a partner of the project until 2011, when the SSRC approached Siu again asking her if Yale would be willing to be the American partner for a SSRC Carnegie Foundation grant proposal that would bring an institution from the United States into the Interasian initiative. Siu said she checked with Yale’s three councils on Asian studies — the Council on South Asia Studies, Council on Southeast Asia Studies and Council on East Asia Studies — and ultimately she and Sivaramakrishnan became the principal investigators with SSRC for the grant. Siu said part of the grant money has already been used to
recruit two post-doctoral fellows who will teach courses with Interasian content to undergraduates next year — Rajashree Mazumder, currently a history doctoral candidate at UCLA, will teach a course on the history of trade across the Indian Ocean, and Chika Watanabe, an anthropology doctoral candidate at Cornell, will teach a course on humanitarian aid between Asian countries. Siu said she hoped the courses, in addition to the Yalehosted workshop, will get undergraduates interested in Interasian studies. The Carnegie grant will fund Yale graduate students and faculty to travel to Koç University in Istanbul, which will host seven workshops on topics from Asian Postneoliberalism to “Oceans, Borders, and Culinary Flows” as part of the Interasian conference this fall. Siu said the grant will fund a conference similarly focused on Interasian studies that will be held on Yale’s campus in 2015. Nancy Ruther, associate director of Yale’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, said such conferences are worthwhile because they let scholars debate cultural studies issues in person. But because these face-to-face meetings are expensive, she said, scholars need an existingnetwork to allow relationships to develop. “Academics work in networks,” Ruther said. “The more networks you have, the more pieces in the spider web, the more filaments connecting the parts, the stronger the network.” The rest of the Carnegie grant will go toward an online database that will host resources for Asian studies research and teaching, including Interasian-focused research papers, background materials, bibliographies and curricula. Siu said the database will broaden the scope of Asian studies scholarship. Anthropology professor Erik Harms, who will be leading a panel at the Istanbul conference on master-planned communities throughout Asia, said the database will encourage new ways of teaching how to reconcile a global perspective with the typically granular discipline of area studies. “It’s going to take experimentation and sharing of knowledge and best practices [to teach Interasian studies],” Harms said. “You can’t just have an old-fashioned lecture sometimes if you want these people to see these new ways of seeing the world.” The Carnegie Corporation of New York was founded in 1911. Contact RAYMOND NOONAN at raymond.noonan@yale.edu .
Liquor permit law extended
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A 2012 law extended last week requires New Haven establishments filing for liquor permit renewals to notify the city’s chief of police. BY ROSA NGUYEN STAFF REPORTER With the extension of a program that increases police involvement in liquor license renewals, New Haven bars and clubs must stay on their best behavior. Beginning in January 2012 under Senate Bill 880, the pilot program requires New Haven establishments filing for liquor permit renewals to notify the chief of the New Haven Police Department, who may offer his opinion on the renewal to the state Department of Consumer Protection, which issues permits. Although the program was originally due to expire at the end of this year, the extension, which passed 18 to 0 in the state senate last week, prolongs the program’s duration to June 2014. “Most permit holders abide by the law and take the terms of holding that permit seriously,” said Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney in a statement accompanying the renewal. “However, as we’ve seen in the city of New Haven, some individuals do abuse the system. While local police deal on the front line when there are issues at these bars, it makes little sense that they would have no ability to comment should a permit come up for renewal.” Before the original bill was approved two years ago, the NHPD chief had no say in preventing or condoning potential liquor license renewals. Police involvement was limited to initial license applications, and the NHPD was not notified of additional renewal applications. The bill was instigated by conflicts between government officials and “problem bars,”
such as a case in which Taurus Café owner Larry Livingston, after getting his liquor permit revoked, obtained a new one by having his sister and girlfriend apply. The currently active nightclub, deemed a “nexus” of crime and “thuggery” by Mayor John DeStefano Jr. in 2011, has been a center of violence and illegal activity for years, according to city officials. “This is a public safety issue,” said Adam Joseph, spokesman for the Senate Democrats. “The chief of police should be able to weigh in on the public safety impact that a license renewal may have.” NHPD spokesman David Hartman said the Department of Consumer Protection, a state agency that ultimately denies or approves liquor license renewals, may not be aware of problems occurring at a local level.
have been denied a liquor permit renewal since the bill was introduced, he added the majority of New Haven establishments comply with state laws, a statement echoed by all four club managers and employees interviewed. “[The bill] is just one hurdle to go through, and it probably won’t affect us much,” said Eric Dickerson, manager of the Anchor Café. “We’ve had very limited intervention from the police.” Toad’s manager Ed Bingus also said the bill was “not really a big deal,” explaining that the facility does its best to abide by state laws. But not all reception has been positive. BAR waitress Kate Turnbull said she is “not a fan” of the stricter liquor permit renewal process, though she said that she “doubts” that it affects her place of employment. And prior to initial approval of the bill in May 2011, club owner Jason Cutler protested the pilot program by filing a lawsuit against the city in the U.S. District Court. Looney, who led the passage of the bill’s extension, said he believes it is possible that the pilot program will be made permanent. Discussions regarding the transformation of the bill into a permanent law will take place next year, Looney said, and other Connecticut cities, such as Hartford, Bridgeport and Waterbury, are interested in creating similar programs. The original law was passed on June 8, 2011.
[The bill] is just one hurdle to go through, and it probably won’t affect us much. ERIC DICKERSON Manager, Anchor Café “The police department has the most expertise in chronic problems that the state may not be aware of, varying from violent crimes and drug-dealing to service of people who are underage,” Hartman said. He said that the police would first attempt to mitigate any problems before denying a permit. Recalling only two bars and nightclubs in New Haven that may
Contact ROSA NGUYEN at rosa.nguyen@yale.edu .
Nonprofits apply for funds from corporations BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER The Board of Aldermen’s Human Services Committee convened Wednesday evening to allow over 40 nonprofit organizations in New Haven to solicit corporations for donations through the Neighborhood Assistance Act. The NAA Tax Exemption Program, run by the state’s Department of Revenue Services, encourages corporations to donate to community service organizations by giving them 60 percent of the amount donated back in the form of corporate tax credit. The size of donations can range from $250 to $150,000, though over half of the nonprofit organizations applying this year indicated they would request the maximum funding from corporations. Like the other Connecticut cities participating in the program, New Haven’s municipal government acts as a liaison between the organizations and the state, approving the list of organizations’ requests. Cathy Carbonaro-Schroeter, deputy director of the New Haven’s Housing Preservation and Development division, testified for the committee in favor
of approving the list of organizations’ requests for funding through the NAA. “It benefits the corporations because they get tax exemptions, and it benefits community programs because they get more money in their budgets,” she said. “It’s a win-win.” Corporations funding certain programs directly aiding energy conservation efforts get back 100 percent of their donation in the form of corporate tax exemption from the Department of Revenue Services. This year, almost half of the projects fall under this exemption, including those by the Shubert Theater, Neighborhoods Housing Services of New Haven and Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven. The committee approved the order unanimously after Carbonaro-Schroeter testimony, and the proposals will now proceed to the Connecticut Department of Revenue for final approval by July 1. CarbonaroSchroeter said the longstanding NAA process remains practically the same from year to year. In their proposals for eligibility for the program, community organizations must include a detailed description of the specific programs they intend
to fund, sources of other funding or revenue and a full program budget, according to a memorandum distributed by Carbonaro-Schoeter. The organizations have to apply for funding from each corporate donor individually. The businesses that have supported the program in the past will most likely do it again, said Ward 11 Alderwoman Barbara Constantinople. CarbonaroSchoester, meanwhile, stressed that none of the nonprofit revenue generated by the NAA would come from the cash-strapped city budget. Ward 1 Alderman Sarah Eidelson ’12 said it it beneficial that the city be involved in the funding process to some extent by approving the organizations. “It’s nice to have a moment in the process to check on it,” she said. The list of organizations that applied to participate in the NAA includes Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Arts Council of Greater New Haven and Junta for Progressive Action. Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .
GRAPHIC FUNDS REQUESTED BY SELECTED NONPROFITS THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSISTANCE ACT Columbus House, Inc. $150K
Yale-New Haven Hospital
$150K
$450K
New Haven Ecology Project Edgewood Corners, Inc.
$150K New Haven Jewish Community Council $150K
Yedidei Hagan, Inc.
Edgewood Village $150K
Teen Challenge New England $150K
$150K
Greater New Haven Community Loan Fund $150K
The Connection Fund $150K
Habitat for Humanity New Haven $150K
Yeshiva of New Haven $150K
Edgewood Elm Housing $150K
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven $150K
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FROM THE FRONT
“Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.” OSCAR WILDE IRISH WRITER AND POET
Beyond community policing, city fights crime CRIME FROM PAGE 1 ented policing strategy, larger structural issues remain key drivers responsible for the city’s crime rate — problems that city officials and crime experts said must be addressed in conjunction with community policing to eradicate the sources of crime. The fundamental problems are deeply rooted in the economic and social fabric of the city. New Haven remains one of the most socially fragmented cities in the country, with neighborhoods like Newhallville, Fair Haven and West River home to nearly 85 percent of the Elm City’s homicides over the last eight years. The city is also plagued by one of the highest recidivism rates in the nation: DeStefano said that 70 percent of New Haven violent crime in the last few years involves ex-offenders, highlighting the need to find strategies to address those returning to the city post-incarceration. As part of the effort to confront the structural problems driving crime, city officials have partnered with the NHPD and local organizations on a series of social assistance programs to reintegrate ex-offenders and to assist disadvantaged strata of the population, including youth and low-income families. Elm City officials are looking to welfare programs and social services, from prison re-entry initiatives to large public housing transformations, as additional instruments to bring down violence and crime in the city. And as New Haven continues to bring community policing back to the fore, it remains to be seen whether city officials and local activists can effectively supplement policing efforts with social and economic programs that discourage youth from committing crimes, redevelop crimeridden neighborhoods and integrate ex-offenders back into civil life.
PREVENTING CRIME BEFORE IT BEGINS
In March, city and police officials gathered at the NHPD headquarters at 1 Union Ave. to announce that 107 new cops will hit the streets of New Haven by the end of the year. Following Esserman’s model of community policing, each newly swornin police officer will be assigned to walking patrols throughout the city’s neighborhoods. But as new police officers walk their beats, they will find a collection of communities that suffer from racial divisions, barriers to economic growth and a culture of crime, and the success of their efforts to reduce crime will be contingent on a growing network of social programs aimed at alleviating these tensions. Predominantly AfricanAmerican neighborhoods like Dixwell and Newhallville have historically been plagued by poverty, illegal drug use and violence. In contrast, the communities surrounding Downtown and East Rock, a location inhabited by many professors and graduate students, have been relatively safe havens for years. All of the neighborhoods hit by two or more homicides in the past seven years have been predominantly African-American, like Newhallville, or Hispanic, like Fair Haven, according to a map released in January by Data Haven, a nonprofit organization that compiles public information for the New Haven Greater Area. “Economic inequality is one of the major factors driving crime trends,” said Mark Abraham ’04, executive director at Data Haven. Twelve percent of the AfricanAmerican and Latino residents of New Haven could not afford to pay for housing in 2012, compared to just 4 percent of white residents, according to a March 2013 report compiled by the Greater New Haven Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The same report highlighted that 25 percent of African-Americans and 40 percent of Latinos did not have enough money to buy food at some point during 2012, compared to 15 percent of nonminority residents. With New Haven now characterized by high levels of wealth disparity, city officials are looking to welfare programs to bridge the wealth and education gap between minority and nonminority residents. From teen crime prevention services to food shelters, the city has established
an extensive safety net for New Haven’s most fragile and vulnerable citizens. “We have a responsibility to one another. We have a responsibility to our community,” DeStefano said. The Elm City has long been home to a wide array of social assistance services. In the early 1960s, the first welfare programs started sprouting up in the city as part of the War on Poverty, poverty reduction legislation spearheaded by then-U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, and since then, the city has seen the growth of services including youth programs and vocational training workshops. “New Haven has a strong tradition of welfare and social assistance — the city was, and is, a national leader in redeveloping programs and human services programs,” said William Ginsberg, president of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, which distributed over $21 million in grants last year to hundreds of city nonprofits. “This is my general philosophy: Whatever we can do — not only with social assistance, but also with education and professional training — it all contributes to people’s individual success in life and to a more stable and prosperous society.” Ginsberg said many of the New Haven social assistance programs deal with youth-specific issues. Some programs, like YOUTH@WORK, provide summer and year-round workplace exposure to youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged families.
We have a responsibility to one another. We have a responsibility to our community. JOHN DESTEFANO JR. Mayor, New Haven The most recently instituted program, Project Longevity, offers current gang members services like substance abuse therapy and career counseling as alternatives to a life of crime but promises no tolerance to those who continue to commit violent crime. “Project Longevity will send a powerful message to those who would commit violent crimes targeting their fellow citizens that such acts will not be tolerated and that help is available for all those who wish to break the cycle of violence and gang activity,” said U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at a Nov. 26 press conference announcing the initiative. Developed by U.S. attorney for Connecticut David Fein’s office in collaboration with local, state and federal government, Project Longevity is modeled after similar programs that have reduced gun violence in Boston, Chicago and other cities across the country, though Connecticut’s version is the first implemented on a statewide basis. The State of Connecticut and the federal government also look to welfare to reduce New Haven wealth disparities. The Elm City is the third biggest beneficiary of food stamps and welfare checks in Connecticut, right after Hartford and Bridgeport, according to data compiled by the Connecticut Department of Social Services. Between July 2011 and June 2012, 19,107 households in New Haven benefited from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a nutrition program that helps low-income families buy food. During the same time frame, 2,019 families received monetary benefits through the Temporary Family Assistance program, the nation’s primary cash-welfare program for families with children. While DeStefano, Abraham and other social services administrators in New Haven said welfare is necessary to combat poverty and bring down crime, critics of the system said these kinds of cash benefits for needy households and individuals might have the opposite effect. Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute — a Washington-based libertarian think tank — said that as “welfare contributes to the rise in out-of-wedlock births and single-parent families,” family values are eroded
and criminal activity increases. Tanner also added that young African-American men are marginalized by the welfare check in “their role of father and breadwinner”. The timing of welfare payments leads to an increase in criminal activity at the end of the month, said finance professor Fritz Foley. Foley, who teaches at Harvard Business School, said that individuals who receive their welfare checks at the beginning of the month often exhaust these payments rapidly. As more crime takes place in the latter half of each month, Foley suggested that many welfare recipients turn to crime to supplement their income. An increased frequency of welfare payments would mitigate patterns in crime, Foley said. Ginsberg and others involved in Elm City social programs said they do not find these critiques particularly surprising. “These are arguments that one typically hears in the political debate about funding for these kinds of program,” Ginsberg said. “The truth is, welfare programs have made huge difference in the lives of the society.” Neil Gilbert, a professor of social welfare and social services at UC Berkeley and author of the 1997 book “Welfare Justice: Restoring Social Equality,” said criminal behavior is “too complex” to claim a definitive causal relationship between welfare programs and the crime rate. Numerous factors — such as police surveillance, demographical concentrations, gun possession and economic circumstances — affect crime trends in urban areas like New Haven, Gilbert explained. But while food stamps and welfare checks provide a safety net for low-income families, poverty in New Haven remains disproportionately concentrated in certain neighborhoods of the city — areas that become particularly vulnerable to crime and violence.
DESIGN CRIME OUT OF NEIGHBORHOODS
Over 2,000 families in New Haven live in public housing complexes located throughout the city. Densely populated, lowincome public housing highrises are symbols of an underprivileged socioeconomic reality and, often, hot spots for crime. Extensive revitalization projects can supplement the NHPD’s community policing efforts to reduce violence and crime in these areas, city officials and crime experts said. Sociology professor Andrew Papachristos said the connection between public housing complexes and higher crime rates can be partly explained by Oscar Newman’s “defensible space theory.” The theory claims that the physical characteristics of a residential environment can allow inhabitants to ensure their own safety, Papachristos said. For example, he said, highrise public housing complexes, like those found in the Elm City, tend to foster gang violence because of their compact nature, which allows prospective criminals an easily accessible view into the lives of their neighbors. The debate over the “high rise, high crime” theory is an ongoing one, with crime experts and architects alike speculating over whether the crimes occur as a result of the built environment, or if they are merely symptoms of pre-existing problems. Other U.S. cities, such as Atlanta and Chicago, have effectively brought down crime in densely populated, crime-ridden neighborhoods through extensive revitalization projects. In the early 1990s, both cities faced serious problems with their public housing, as high-crime developments were marginalizing residents and contributing to the neighborhood’s decline, said Abraham, Data Haven executive director. In the past 20 years, the two cities undertook the nation’s largest public housing transformations, launching ambitious efforts to transform old developments into new, mixed-income communities. Between 1996 and 2011, the Atlanta Housing Authority tore down public housing that isolated thousands of citizens from the rest of the city and relocated approximately 10,000 households to the private market, said Renee Lewis Glover GRD ’72, CEO of the Atlanta Hous-
ing Authority. Similarly, Chicago relocated about 6,400 households between 1999 and 2008. Gun violence subsequently decreased by 4.4 percent in Chicago and violent crime dropped by 0.7 percent in Atlanta. “Just a decade ago, Chicago was the poster child for failed public housing policy because of its inability to serve lowincome families and the city,” said Charles Woodyard, CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority. “Today, we are a model of housing and community revitalization.” Following the two cities’ example, the Housing Authority of New Haven will soon start an extensive revitalization of Farnam Courts, one of the oldest public housing complexes in the city. Located across the Interstate 95, near the intersection of Hamilton Street and Grand Avenue, Farnam Courts is a development of 240 one-, two- and three-bedroom homes for families with children. Over the years, the World War II-era brick complex, with its narrow, dark hallways, has been home to shootings and robberies. The revitalization project will turn the crime-ridden area into a mixed-income neighborhood, with a combination of owned and rented homes, said New Haven Housing Authority executive director Karen DuBois-Walton ’89. DuBois-Walton said the relocation of families will start later this year, and the current housing complex will be demolished beginning in 2014. Once the new homes are completed, residents displaced by the demolition will have the option of moving back, she added. The Farnam Courts transformation project will be paid for by a $30 million Choice Neighborhood grant, which is awarded by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development for neighborhood revitalization. “The Choice Neighborhood grant program is highly competitive, but redeveloping Farnam Courts is a worthy project,” U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro said in an email in January. “Awarding the funds would help revitalize not just Farnam Courts and its residents, but also the surrounding area, which would be a positive step for the whole city.” Farnam Courts is not the first public housing transformation the Elm City has undertaken. In 2006, New Haven rebuilt Quinnipiac Terrace, which had previously suffered from similar chronic crime as Farnam Courts, through a HOPE VI federal government grant. And back in 1993, the city received another $45 million Hope VI grant to build the 35-acre Monterey Place on the site of the former Elm Haven public housing project on Webster Street. “Building communities that are not simply concentrated pockets of poverty yield many benefits that contribute to well functioning communities,” DuBois-Walton said, adding that each redevelopment has been marked by reductions in crime, improvements in lease compliance and fewer evictions. As New Haven embarks on these redevelopment projects, police and city officials expect to see decreases in crime. But to bring social support programs full circle, the Elm City cannot ignore the thousands of offenders released from Connecticut prisons every year.
OUT OF PRISON, BACK TO SOCIETY
In its efforts to deter crime, the city’s police department is going to great lengths to strengthen ties with New Haven residents. But a large portion of criminal activities in the city often involve former offenders who, unable to transition into civil life, gravitate back toward crime and violence. While the Department of Correction was unable to provide specific recidivism rates for the city of New Haven, a February 2012 state survey reported that 79 percent of 14,398 ex-offenders released from prison in 2005 were re-arrested within five years of their release; 69 percent were convicted of a new crime and 50 percent were returned to prison with a new sentence, according to a study completed by the State Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division of the Office of Policy and Management. In addition to ex-offenders that have been released from
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New housing developments and extensive revitalization will go into cleaning up crime-ridden sections of New Haven. prison, the Connecticut Department of Correction also handles approximately 250 parolees who are currently living in the city of New Haven, as well as mental health, DUI and sex offenders, according to parole manager Stephen Noto. City Hall is taking action to create social services dedicated to assisting parolees and individuals coming out of incarceration. Every month, about 60 exoffenders visit Eric Rey, the coordinator of New Haven’s Prison Reentry Initiative,in his second floor City Hall office. Many of them have been just released from prison after fully serving their sentences. Others are still on parole. They come with questions on employment guidance, child support, medical treatment and driving permits, Rey said. “Some of them just come in for a pep talk,” Rey added. Launched in 2008 to combat recidivism, the Prison Reentry Initiative aims to facilitate and support the reintegration of formerly incarcerated residents into the New Haven community. DeStefano, who spearheaded the initiative, said the city needed a “coordinative point of entry” for ex-offenders to navigate the array of social services offered in the city post-incarceration. The initiative, he said, helps ex-offenders connect to career agencies, educational resources and medical assistance centers. “The more access ex-offenders have to services, the more likely they are to put behind them some of the things that put them in trouble in the first place,” Rey said. In particular, increasing access to employment opportunities, as well as education and professional training, plays a huge role in preventing recidivism, Rey explained. “When you have a job you feel good about yourself — you look at yourself differently,” he said. “The more time goes by, the less you think about yourself as criminal.” The Prisoner Reentry Initiative pushed for passing a “Ban the Box” ordinance in February 2009. The ordinance, which was drafted by the City’s Community Services Administration, removed the question about an applicant’s prior convictions from all city-related job application forms. According to the ordinance, the city can review a candidate’s criminal history only after a provisional employment offer has been made. Rey said the ordinance “takes off the pressure” that makes jobhunting especially intimidating for ex-offenders. “This ordinance really levels the playing field for those coming out of incarceration,” he said. “It helps to provide a vehicle by which the city can make decisions on hiring the best person for the job, regardless of whether you have a criminal history.” The initiative also works in conjunction with community partners, state agencies and
other stakeholders to direct exoffenders toward employment opportunities, Rey said. Workforce Alliance, for instance, is one of the largest workforce development agencies in the New Haven area to run prisoner reentry programs. With three careers centers — in New Haven, Hamden and Meriden — the organization provides a host of free services to citizens in search of a job, including resume writing and interview assistance and skills development workshops. Of the 16,000 individuals who benefited from the organization’s services last year, 300 were ex-offenders, according to Robert Fort, marketing director for Workforce Alliance. He added that about 200 of those people successfully found an occupation within several months of signing up to Workforce Alliance programs. “This was a tremendous success for our ex-offenders program,” Fort said. All of the programs offered by Workforce Alliance are funded through money from the federal government. However, for some experts, funding for the reintegration of formerly incarcerated residents should come from private enterprises rather than taxpayers. Gilbert said the presence of private investments in prisoner rehabilitation programs reduces recidivism while saving the government money, adding that Connecticut’s high recidivism rate shows a weakness inherent in the publicly funded reentry system. “We spend a lot of money locking them up, but then they go back [to prison] because it’s difficult for them to find jobs,” Gilbert said. “But you have a lot more at stake when private investors are involved, because private enterprises aren’t going to invest unless they know they can make a difference.” Several prisoner reentry programs in the United Kingdom are funded by a “social impact bond,” also known as a “pay for success” bond. If the program succeeds in diminishing recidivism, investors will be partially reimbursed by the city. If the program fails, the investors lose their money, saving taxpayer expense. The model has also been recently adopted in a handful of U.S. cities, such as a prisoner rehabilitation program in New York City funded by Goldman Sachs. While it remains to be seen whether New Haven will follow suit, the efforts of social assistance organizations will continue to play their part in lowering crime rates and complementing community policing. “People talk to us; they might not talk to the 911 operator, but it’s amazing how they reach out to their police officers,” Esserman said. Contact LORENZO LIGATO at lorenzo.ligato@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT Salovey sticks to Hillhouse SALOVEY FROM PAGE 1 Salovey and his wife Marta Moret SPH ’84have decided to live in the President’s House at 43 Hillhouse Ave. during Salovey’s tenure at the helm of the University. “We just thought it would be fun and convenient,” Salovey said. “People seem excited when we tell them. I’m not quite sure why. There’s a certain way in which people are charmed when you tell them you’re going to live on campus.” The house, which was constructed in 1871, is more than just charming — the red-brick, three-story mansion has 28 rooms and boasts walls covered in paintings from the Yale University Art Gallery. It has mostly been used as a venue for receptions and meetings in recent years, and has not been truly occupied by a University president since Bartlett Giamatti moved out in 1986. Salovey said he has been thinking about the move since the announcement of his presi-
dency in November and that he and Moret have not yet heard from the University about when they can relocate. The couple will keep their East Rock home, from which Moret operates a consulting firm. University Richard Levin, who has lived with his wife, lecturer Jane Levin, in their East Rock home during his tenure, said Salovey’s second house will provide Salovey and Moret the option to escape from the fastpaced life of the presidency. In addition to occupying the home, Salovey said he will continue to use the house for official and ceremonial purposes, such as hosting large parties and alumni receptions in the highceilinged living and dining rooms off the foyer or housing guests of the University overnight in one of the plush upstairs guest rooms. Behind the house lies a spacious backyard, in which Salovey said Moret, a master gardener certified by the State of Connecticut, is excited to start
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President-elect Peter Salovey has been thinking about the move since the announcement of his presidency in November.
planting. “While the Yale landscape team takes care of the grounds there,” Salovey said, “I suspect they won’t mind a little help from Marta.” But Moret called the garden both “beautiful and stately” and said she does not want to change anything about the residence. “I would not disturb such awesome serenity,” she added in a Wednesday email to the News. Though the Levins have not lived in the house full-time, they have certainly kept it in regular use — Richard Levin said he estimates that he and Jane Levin have hosted over 150 events there per year. Richard Levin said they chose to keep their original home to avoid uprooting their four children, the youngest of whom was in elementary school when Levin was named president in 1993, because they had friends in the neighborhood. Since that home is merely minutes away from campus, he added, they never felt disconnected from Yale life. Both have been public about how happy they are with their decision. At a Feb. 14 panel, Jane Levin said she did not want her children to look back on their childhoods and think that “those were the glory days when we lived in a 28-room house with our own Renoirs.” Richard Levin agreed with her, adding that though they love the house, it is a public space and “really not cozy.” Living in the Hillhouse residence was expected of Yale presidents until 1986, when President Benno Schmidt chose to live primarily in New York and use the president’s house for overnights on campus. That choice did not go over well with members of the Yale community who criticized Schmidt for being disconnected from the Yale community, said Yale historian Gaddis Smith ’54 GRD ’61. President Charles Seymour first moved into the house in 1937, after Henry Farnam bequeathed the building to Yale upon his death in 1883. Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .
“How come every time you come around, / My London London Bridge want to go down?” FERGIE SINGER-SONGWRITER
Program aims to ease move to Yale BRIDGE PROGRAM FROM PAGE 1 “I think given the opportunity, these students will naturally achieve things like familiarization with the campus and getting the sense or feeling of what it’s like to live in the colleges, and maybe reduce the normal social anxiety and anxiety in general,” Whobrey said. While the program will help students transition to a new environment, Whobrey said, administrators view the program as an early introduction to Yale life instead of one designed to fill gaps in student knowledge. He added that the program is currently in a three-year pilot mode and lessons learned from this summer will help administrators shape the initiative in the future. Participants in FSY will attend the second Yale summer session and live in residential colleges with student counselors. All enrolled students will take English 114, an introductory writing course designed to help students develop stronger reading comprehension and writing skills. “One of my goals is that for students who may be first generation in college, [the program] will give them extra support and a stronger set of writing skills to launch into first semester,” said Yale College Dean Mary Miller. “[They’ll take] one of the most valuable course credits that a student ever takes in terms of unlocking the rest of the treasures of the Yale curriculum.” President-elect Peter Salovey said in a Wednesday email to the News that in setting up the program, administrators “looked at these kinds of programs on other campuses and have generally been pretty impressed with what they’ve discovered.” Although the program is not explicitly geared toward high school students from any particular socioeconomic background, summer bridge programs at universities nationwide typically enroll many students from low-income backgrounds who may not be as academically prepared for college as some of their peers. Experts emphasized the importance of introducing students to university resources and ensuring they have a comfortable transition. Christopher Avery, a public policy professor at the Harvard Kennedy School who recently co-authored a study on the low number of high-achieving low-income students at selective universities, said making students from low-income backgrounds “feel comfortable” in both the admissions and enrollment processes is extremely important. “It’s a discouraging landscape for many,” Avery said, adding that because many students do not know how to access tools such as fee waivers or financial aid, colleges have an additional responsibility to provide low-income students with information.
FRESHMAN SCHOLARS WHAT
The program will introduce participants to Yale’s resources through workshops on note-taking and academic citation. Participants will also take English 114, an introductory writing course. WHY
The program aims to help students who are less prepared for college life than their peers. WHO
Participation is invitation-only, with roughly 30 participants per year. WHEN
The program will run in July as part of the second Yale Summer Session. WHERE
Participants will live in residential colleges with student counselors. Regardless of students’ socioeconomic background, said Jennifer Delahunty, dean of admissions at Kenyon College, making sure students have a good transition to college is “part of [universities’] responsibility to students.” Delahunty added that bridge programs are “not remedial at all” — rather, they work to familiarize students with campus and provide additional support. Multiple guidance counselors said the move between the high school and college environments can often be intimidating. Jon Reider, college counselor at University High School in San Francisco, said bridge programs can teach students skills both on an academic and social level — including note-taking, academic paperwriting, personal management and adjustment to life in a campus dorm. “The students coming to Yale through these programs are very bright and did very well in high school, but Yale is still a complex and often daunting place compared to their high schools,” he said. University classes for the fall 2013 semester are set to begin on August 28. Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu . Contact AMY WANG at amy.wang@yale.edu .
YEI teaches web development TECH BOOTCAMP FROM PAGE 1 tion design of moderate to significant complexity, said course instructor Adam Bray ’07. “What we see at YEI a lot of times is students come in with great ideas for web businesses but don’t have the technical skills to build them or even to build an initial version,” said YEI Program Director Alena Gribskov ’09. “We started this as a way for students to become their own technical co-founders.” Due to time constraints, the program may not cover all the programming skills students need to create a startup right away, Bray said, but it will offer a thorough overview of the fundamentals that will allow students to conceptualize their own technological projects. The syllabus condenses material that typically takes students a year to learn and covers the conceptual logic behind designing applications as well as the skills to create visual, layout and interactive elements, he added. Coursework will include a daily lecture, intensive self-study and two major assignments over the course of the summer that will require students to clone a popular website and then to construct their own online application, Bray said. He added that the curriculum primarily uses Ruby on Rails, a popular web development framework, but students will also learn HTML, CSS and other programming tools. The YEI received 34 applications for the Boot Camp, Gribskov said, which were pared down through a two-phase application process, the second of which was a short coding project. The significant time commitment required by the Tech Boot-
camp — students will attend class from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday— will allow Bray to offer a much more thorough curriculum than HackYale’s workshops do, said Zack ReneauWedeen ’14, director of HackYale. “While we’d love to teach the more advanced — and more interesting — topics like those covered by the new YEI initiative, it is much harder to find and sustain a classroom of students for that kind of material during the school year,” said co-founder of HackYale Bay Gross ’13. “Most students can’t commit without course credit in return.”
What we see at YEI a lot of times is students come in with great ideas for web businesses but don’t have the technical skills to build them. ALENA GRIBSKOV ’09 Program director, YEI Reneau-Wedeen said HackYale offered a series of introductory lectures last summer that received around 50 attendees in total, but the group has no plans to offer the summer workshops again, in part not to compete with the YEI. A similar immersive, summer learning camp offered by the company General Assembly in eight cities around the world costs $11,500. Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .
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Investigation extends to Russia BY DAVID CRARY AND RODRIQUE NGOWI ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — From Boston and Washington to Russia, investigators pressed for answers Wednesday about the Muslim radicalism believed behind the Boston Marathon bombing, while more than 4,000 mourners paid tribute to an MIT police officer who authorities say was gunned down by the bombers. Among the speakers at the memorial service in Cambridge was Vice President Joe Biden, who condemned the bombing suspects as “two twisted, perverted, cowardly, knockoff jihadis.” Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was listed in fair condition as he recovered from wounds suffered during a getaway attempt. He could get the death penalty if convicted of plotting with his older brother, now dead, to set off the pressure-cooker bombs that killed three people and wounded more than 260 on April 15. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in a shootout with police. The bombs were detonated by remote control, according to U.S. officials close to the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. It was not clear what the detonation device
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Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, visits the makeshift memorial to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings on Copley Square Plaza in Boston. was, but the charges against Dzhokhar say he was using a cellphone moments before the blasts. U.S. officials also said Dzhokhar has told interrogators he and his brother were angry about the U.S. wars in Muslim Afghanistan and Iraq. After closed-door briefings on Cap-
itol Hill with the FBI and other law enforcement officials, lawmakers said earlier this week that it appeared so far that the brothers were radicalized via the Internet instead of by direct contact with any terrorist groups, and that the older brother was the driving force in the bomb plot.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island is on a path to becoming the 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry after a landmark vote in the state’s Senate on Wednesday. The Senate passed gay marriage legislation by a comfortable 26-12 margin, following a House vote of approval in January. The bill must now return to the House for a largely procedural vote, likely next week, but the celebration began Wednesday. Hundreds of people filled the Statehouse with cheers following the vote. “I grew up in Rhode Island and I’d like to retire in Rhode Island,” said Annie Silvia, 61, who now lives with her partner of 30 years just across the border in North Attleboro, Mass. “No. 10 is a nice round number, but I’d like it to be bigger. Fifty sounds good to me.” Heavily Catholic Rhode Island is the last remaining New England state without gay marriage. Marriage legislation has been introduced in the state for nearly two decades, only to languish on the legislative agenda. Supporters mounted a renewed push this year, and the Senate vote was seen as the critical test after the House easily passed the bill. Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an independent, called Wednesday’s vote historic. “I’m very much looking forward to signing this,” he told The Associated Press as he congratulated supporters. The first gay marriages in Rhode Island could take place Aug. 1, when the legislation would take effect. Civil unions would no longer be available to same-sex couples as of that date, though the state would continue to recog-
nize existing civil unions. Lawmakers approved civil unions two years ago, though few couples have sought them. Hundreds of opponents also gathered at the Statehouse for the vote, singing hymns and holding signs as the Senate deliberated. Rev. David Rodriguez, a Providence minister, said he was disappointed by the vote. He said he planned to continue to stand up for traditional marriage. “Marriage between a man and a woman is what God wanted,” he said. “We will continue to do what we know how to do: Keep praying and preaching.”
Marriage between a man and a woman is what God wanted. DAVID RODRIGUEZ Minister The Roman Catholic Church was the bill’s most significant opponent. During the Senate’s emotional debate several senators said they struggled mightily, weighing their personal religious beliefs against stories they heard from gay constituents or their families. Sen. Maryellen Goodwin, D-Providence, said she lost sleep over her vote but decided, despite opposition from the Catholic Church, to vote “on the side of love.” “I’m a practicing Catholic. I’m proud to be a Catholic,” she said, adding that it was the personal stories of gays, lesbians and their families in her district who convinced her. “I struggled with this for days, for weeks. It’s certainly not an easy vote.”
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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, APRIL 25 4:00 PM Japan Colloquium Series: Poetic Culture and the Folding Screen in Keicho Japan During the Keicho period (1596–1615) in Japan appeared new and nuanced approaches for the inscription of waka poetry on the screen format. This talk will look at screns inscribed with verse from noted poetry anthologies and examine the dialogue between text and image, past and present, and object and setting in these so-called merely “visual” anthologies. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Room 202. 4:30 PM Stefan Collini: What, Ultimately For? The Elusive Goal of Cultural Criticism This talk concerns itself with the often overwrought, often pretentious — and, yet, often down-to-earth — field of study known as “cultural studies.” Professor Stefan Collini of the University of Cambridge interrogates this central question of the field by asking the titular question: “What is cultural criticism ultimately for?” The answer might surprise you. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Auditorium.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26 2:30 PM Ambassador Rudolf Bekink: Exploring the Potential of the New EU/US Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership His Excellency Rudolf Bekink, Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United States, will speak about relations between the Netherlands, the European Union, and the United States. Sterling Memorial Library (120 HIgh St.), Lecture Hall. 7:30 PM Tiviya Tiviyam: Bharatanatyam Dance and Live South Indian Carnatic Music Concert Bharatanatyam dancers Sisira Gorthala ’13 and Sakshi Kumar ’16 will be accompanied by a talented team of classical musicians: Vijay Narayan ’12 as Carnatic vocalist, Fugan Dineen on mridangam, Sneha Ramesh on violin, Sudharshan Mohanram ’13 on flute, Srikar Prasad SOM ’14 on veena. Morse College (302 York St.), Crescent Theatre.
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fter years without a house of their own, Native Americans on campus are finally getting a space to call home. The construction of a new cultural center for Native students at Yale represents just one of many recent events marking a resurgence of Native American life on campus, from concerts and performances to lectures and other special events. SARA MILLER reports.
Dinee Dorame ’15 and Reed Bobroff ’16 are co-presidents of the Association of Native Americans at Yale.
Sebastian Medina-Tayac ’16 hangs prayer ties on a tree outside Welch Hall as part of a seasonal ceremony to continue his tribe’s spiritual traditions away from his home and burial grounds in Maryland.
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fter years without a house of their own, Native Americans on campus are finally getting a space to call home. The construction of a new cultural center for Native students at Yale represents just one of many recent events marking a resurgence of Native American life on campus, from concerts and performances to lectures and other special events. SARA MILLER reports.
Dinee Dorame ’15 and Reed Bobroff ’16 are co-presidents of the Association of Native Americans at Yale.
Sebastian Medina-Tayac ’16 hangs prayer ties on a tree outside Welch Hall as part of a seasonal ceremony to continue his tribe’s spiritual traditions away from his home and burial grounds in Maryland.
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WORLD
“[Jack Donaghy’s] the best gift giver in the world. I tried once. I bought him a $95 bottle of olive oil. In return, he got my sister out of a North Korean jail.” JONATHAN “30 ROCK” CHARACTER
Clashes suggest Sunni anger boiling over in Iraq BY ADAM SCHRECK ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — With Sunni gunmen beginning to confront the Shiite-led government’s security forces head-on in northern and western Iraq, fears are growing fast of a return to full-scale sectarian fighting that could plunge the country into a broader battle merged with the Syrian civil war across the border. With more than 100 people killed over the past two days, it’s shaping up to be the most pivotal moment for Iraq since U.S. combat troops withdrew in December 2011. “Everybody has the feeling that Iraq is becoming a new Syria,” Talal Younis, the 55-yearold owner of a currency exchange in the northern city of Mosul, said Wednesday. “We are heading into the unknown. ... I think that civil war is making a comeback.” A crackdown by government forces at a protest site in the northern town of Hawija on Tuesday triggered the latest unrest. It has enraged much of the country’s restive Sunni Arab minority, adding fuel to an already smoldering opposition movement and spawning a wave of bold followup clashes. It is too soon to say whether the rage will lead to widespread insurrection in the largely Sunni cities of Mosul and Ramadi or, more significantly, spiral into open sectarian warfare in the streets of Baghdad. The Iraqi capital is far more tightly controlled by security forces than the remote towns hit by the latest unrest, but insurgents continue to launch regular, well-coordinated waves of attacks inside Baghdad. Outright threats
that all but disappeared as the last bout of sectarian fighting waned in 2008 are making a comeback too, like the leaflets signed by a Shiite militant group that began turning up on the doorsteps of Sunni households in Baghdad earlier this year. The exact circumstances of the Hawija bloodshed remain murky, but there is outrage over the government’s handling of the unrest and the fact that most of the 23 killed at the site were among the Sunni demonstrators.
The crime in Hawija clearly shows that people have lost faith in their armed forces. TALAL AL-ZOBAIE Lawmaker, Iraq Talal al-Zobaie, a Sunni lawmaker from the opposition Iraqiya bloc, described this week’s events as a pivotal moment for the country. “The crime in Hawija clearly shows that people have lost faith in their armed forces, which have been turned into a tool in the hands of the prime minister,” he said. “Some people now think that the only way to protect themselves is to take up arms.” The raid in Hawija sparked clashes and a spate of other attacks, mostly targeting Sunni mosques, that killed at least 56 people on Tuesday. Raids by Sunni gunmen on army checkpoints broke out in the hours following the protest camp raid and continued into Wednesday.
In the most dramatic incident, armed tribesmen sealed off approaches to the Sunni town of Qara Tappah, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of Baghdad. When Iraqi troops backed by helicopters arrived to try to clear the makeshift roadblocks, fierce clashes erupted. Police say 15 gunmen and seven soldiers were killed. Sunni tribesmen also battled soldiers throughout Wednesday in the town of Suleiman Beg, about 150 kilometers (95 miles) north of Baghdad. Four soldiers and 12 others, including gunmen, were killed. The sense that violence could be spreading from a local dispute to other parts of the country is particularly worrying to many Iraqis. “This could open the door for broader clashes if things are not contained soon,” said Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish lawmaker. “Hawija is a small town and it can be controlled, but the real problem will arise if Mosul or Ramadi decide to enter the armed struggle,” he said. Three gunmen were killed Wednesday when they attacked a security checkpoint near the former al-Qaida stronghold of Mosul, about 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad. Later, a car bomb struck a police patrol north of Baghdad, killing a policeman and two civilians. Another car bomb exploded after sunset near a bus stop in Baghdad’s mostly Shiite neighborhood of Husseiniyah, killing seven people and wounding 23. Hospital officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information to reporters.
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Mourners chant slogans against Iraq’s Shiite-led government as they take bodies of slain protesters for burial. Human Rights Watch urged Iraqi authorities to ensure that any investigation into the Hawija killings Tuesday take into account allegations that security forces used excessive force. The rights group noted that there have been reports that security forces attacked demonstrators without provocation. Iraq’s Defense Ministry said it entered the protest area to try to make arrests over an attack on a nearby checkpoint several days earlier, and its forces came under heavy fire from several types of weapons, as well as from snipers.
“This is one of those cases where ... a singular spark escalates tensions and mobilizes the population for renewed conflict,” said Ramzy Mardini, an analyst at the Beirut-based Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies. “War fatigue in Iraq is losing its pacifying effects and the rationale to pick up arms and fight again is finding fertile ground in Sunni land(s).” The increasingly sectarian lines drawn in the Syrian civil war and the rise of Sunni Islamists in the region in the wake of the Arab Spring is also having an effect on
the Sunni protest movement playing out in Iraq, he noted. Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime is fighting against largely Sunni rebels who draw support from Turkey and Sunni Gulf states. Assad’s Alawite sect is a branch of Shiite Islam, and his regime is backed by Shiite powerhouse Iran. “Given what’s happening at the regional level, there’s a dangerous mixture of Sunni hubris and Shiite fear. These emotions coupled with political volatility and uncertainty renders an environment where miscalculations are most likely to occur,” Mardini said.
N. Korean soldiers put down arms to help plant crops BY JEAN H. LEE ASSOCIATED PRESS SASI-RI, North Korea — The North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone is a hive of activity - not of fighting, but of farming. Beyond the barbed wire, ruddy-faced North Korean soldiers put down their rifles Wednesday and stood shoulder to shoulder with farmers as they turned their focus to another battle: the spring planting. As neighboring nations remain on guard for a missile launch or nuclear test that South Korean and U.S officials say could take place at any time, the focus north of the border is on planting rice, cabbage and soybeans. In hamlets all along the DMZ, soldiers were kneedeep in mud and water as they helped farmers with the spring planting. Inside the DMZ, hundreds of North Korean soldiers marched in a line with backpacks. On a hilltop above them in North Hwanghae province, Col. Kim Chang Jun said they were being dispatched to farms — but still prepared for war if need be.
“From the outside, it looks peaceful: Farmers are out in the fields, children are going to school,” he said. “But behind the scenes, they are getting ready for war. They’re working until midnight but come morning, if the call comes, they’ll be ready to go to battle.” To the west, inside the Joint Security Area that is the heart of the DMZ, a tense quiet hangs over the area that divides North from South. This is the spot that foreign tourists see, a stage where the observation decks, pavilions, pine trees, cherry blossoms and azaleas belie the tanks and traps hidden from view along the 2.5-mile-wide (4-kilometer) buffer zone. South Korean soldiers stand with fists curled at their hips in a combat-ready mode borrowed from taekwondo. Across the way, a unit of North Korean soldiers goosesteps into position, rifles slung across their backs. Visitors on a tour bus from the South Korean side peer up at a North Korean building known as Panmungak. Because of the tensions, tourists are not allowed inside the
three blue conference halls straddling the border, North Korean Lt. Col. Nam Dong Ho said. Typically, they are allowed to go into the meeting rooms as soldiers from both Koreas stand guard.
Is there anyone in the world who doesn’t worry about war? NAM DONG HO Lieutenant colonel, North Korea “This is a place that the whole world is watching, so of course it seems quiet on the surface,” said Nam, who guides tours to Panmungak. But he said the prospect of war is always on the minds of soldiers manning the world’s most militarized border. “Is there anyone in the world who doesn’t worry about war?” he told the AP on Tuesday. “We don’t want a war. But if the American imperialists provoke us unjustifiably, we will answer with a nuclear war.”
Since early March, North Korea has steadily and dramatically ramped up the rhetoric warning of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula, though it has quieted in recent days. Leader Kim Jong Un ordered soldiers in charge of North Korea’s arsenal of missiles on standby and North Korean officers at the front line severed communications with the South Korean military. North Korea takes issue with tightened U.N. sanctions punishing Pyongyang for carrying out a long-range rocket launch in December and conducting a nuclear test in February in violation of Security Council resolutions. Pyongyang also is incensed by joint U.S.-South Korean military drills taking place now south of the border, annual exercises that this year have included nuclear-capable bombers and fighter jets. South Korean defense officials say the North has moved missiles to the east coast, including a medium-range missile believed to be designed to strike U.S. territory, but there has been no indication of when they
Canada terror suspect grew more radical BY ROB GILLIES AND CHARMAINE NORONHA ASSOCIATED PRESS TORONTO — One of two men accused of plotting with alQaida members in Iran to derail a train in Canada became radicalized to the point that his father reached out to a Muslim support group for help and advice, a local religious leader said Wednesday. Muhammad Robert Heft, president of the Paradise Forever Support Group Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides support to Muslims in Canada, said Mohammad Jaser came to him several times citing concerns about the radicalization of his son. “He came to me about his son saying he how concerned he was getting about the rigidness of his son and his interpretation of Islam. He was becoming self-righteous, becoming pushy, pushing his views on how much
they (his family) should be practicing as a Muslim,” said Heft. Jaser’s son, Raed, 35, has been charged along with Chiheb Esseghaier, 30 with conspiring to carry out an attack and murder people in association with a terrorist group in their plot to derail a train that runs between New York City and Montreal. Canadian investigators say the men received guidance from members of al-Qaida in Iran. Iranian government officials have said the government had nothing to do with the plot. “His son was becoming overzealous and intolerant in his understanding of the religion,” Heft said. “Those are the telltale signs that can lead into the radicalization process.” The discussions took place between 2010 and 2011, while the father was renting a basement apartment in Heft’s home in Markham, Ontario. On Wednesday, the other sus-
pect appeared briefly in court where he made a statement suggesting he did not recognize the court’s jurisdiction. “This criminal code is not a holy book,” Esseghaier said at the hearing. “We cannot rely on the conclusions taken out from these judgments.” At the hearing Esseghaier rejected the allegations against him and declined to be represented by a court-appointed lawyer. Jaser had appeared in court Tuesday and did not enter a plea. The court granted a request by his lawyer, John Norris, for a publication ban on future evidence and testimony. Both men were ordered to return to court on May 23. “We are waiting for the disclosure and we will be defending against the charges,” Norris said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. Norris declined to com-
ment when asked if he wanted his client’s case separated from Esseghaier, who has spoken out twice in court despite being advised not to. Police — tipped off by an imam worried by the behavior of one of the suspects — said it was the first known attack planned by al-Qaida in Canada. The two could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted. The case has raised questions about the extent of Shiiteled Iran’s relationship with alQaida, a predominantly Sunni Arab terrorist network. It also renewed attention on Iran’s complicated history with the terror group, which ranges from outright hostility to alliances of convenience and even overtures by Tehran to assist Washington after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Canadian police said this week they didn’t think it was a case of state sponsored terrorism.
might test-fire the weapon. When asked about North Korea’s plans to fire a missile, Lt. Col. Nam said he didn’t know anything specific, adding with a chuckle, “That’s a national secret, top secret among secrets. But we have made it clear: Our army is capable of striking any place on earth.” As diplomats in the region conferred about how to bring down the tension and rein in an increasingly belligerent Pyongyang, Nam and Col. Kim reiterated in separate interviews this week that North Koreans want peace. But they said North Korea will not give up its nuclear weapons, seen here as a necessary deterrence against the powerful “American imperialists.” “We want to live peacefully and happily, but we will not sit by for one second if we are provoked,” said Kim, whose job involves telling tourists about a concrete wall that the North says the South built in the late 1970s just south of the DMZ. North Korea considers the structure an affront to the goal of reunification.
“If a (nuclear) war breaks out, the death and destruction would be heartbreaking,” Kim said. “But we may have no other course but to defend ourselves if we are provoked.” It remains unclear how far North Korea’s nuclear weapons program has progressed in the years since six-nation negotiations to provide aid in exchange for nuclear disarmament fell apart in 2009. After pledging to mothball its plutonium-processing plant in 2008, Pyongyang announced last month that it would restart the facilities and continue enriching uranium, which experts say would provide North Korea with a second way to make atomic bombs. Last month, Kim Jong Un enshrined the pursuit of nuclear weapons, along with building the economy, as key goals for the nation. Col. Kim, at the lookout point along the DMZ, called nuclear weapons “the lifeblood” of North Korea. “If we don’t have nuclear weapons, we’ll continue to be threatened by outside forces.”
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AROUND THE IVIES
“At Princeton, I was in a secret society. One time, we snuck up to Dartmouth, put their mascot in a box, and sent it to Mexico City.” JACK DONAGHY “30 ROCK” CHARACTER
THE DARTMOUTH
Following threats, college cancels classes All undergraduate and graduate arts and sciences classes are canceled today following the threats sent to those involved in the protest at Friday’s Dimensions accepted students welcome show, the President’s Office announced around 6 p.m. Tuesday evening. Classes will be replaced by programming aimed to unite community members “to discuss Dartmouth’s commitment to fostering debate that promotes respect for individuals, civil and engaged discourse and the value of diverse opinions,” according to the email. A total of three hours of events will be held for students. Campus backlash has ensued since over a dozen protesters stormed into the Dimensions show at the Class of 1953 Commons on Friday night, rallying around cries of recent incidents of homophobia, racism and underreported sexual assault on campus. The welcome show, a beloved College tradition, is a highlight of the accepted students weekend, as first-year students perform songs and dances celebrating Dartmouth culture for prospective students. Interim President Carol Folt and Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno decided to cancel classes in light of the “threatening and abusive online posts used to target particular students” after the protest, the email said. The email did not address the act of the protesters themselves, who appeared to have broken College rules outlined in the Dartmouth Student Handbook, which bans conduct that “prevents or dis-
The protesters said that they felt unsafe and endangered. MICHAEL BRONSKI Professor, Dartmouth University Nearly all confirmed protesters declined multiple requests for comment, citing threats to their personal safety due to a photo that accompanied an article by The Dartmouth. As a result of the letter, over two dozen faculty and administrators met this morning to discuss how to respond to the aftermath of Friday’s protest,
sociology department chair Kathryn Lively said. Associate dean of student academic support services Inge-Lise Ameer led the meeting, and Folt, Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson and the student protesters were all in attendance. Protesters explained the weekend’s events and discussed the fiery criticism they have received since, women’s and gender studies professor Michael Bronski said. A wide range of faculty were asked to attend the meeting, including those from the women’s and gender studies, economics, biology and history departments. Lively described the meeting as extremely “powerful.” The students invited faculty and administrators to read out loud signs that displayed offensive posts about protesters on Bored at Baker, an anonymous message board that serves as an independent forum for campus gossip. “The protesters said that they felt unsafe and endangered,” Bronski said. “They said that they were targeted by name for rape and assault at Bored at Baker.” Students reportedly ripped up a copy of Dartmouth’s Principles of Community at the meeting to demonstrate how they feel the principles have been ignored. While faculty members discussed the Greek system’s role in the protests, women’s and gender studies department chair Ivy Schweitzer said they did not propose any changes to Greek life. “It is not the only thing to blame, but it is one of the prime factors we need to consider,” she said. After the discussion, the faculty decided unanimously to cancel classes on Wednesday. Bronski added that some faculty members are considering holding discussions on Thursday after classes
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Interim Dartmouth President Carol Folt announced classes were canceled in response to backlash against protesters on Friday who rallied around recent incidents of homophobia, racism and underreported sexual assault. resume. Many faculty members had been unaware of the campus backlash since the protest, and most said they did not fully understand what Bored at Baker is. Schweitzer said she found the online comments disturbing because it was impossible to track their authors. “We don’t know the extent, how many students are writing these threats,” Schweitzer said. “It’s terrifying because they are anonymous, and you could be sitting next to the person who wrote them and not even know it.” Comments on Bored at Baker include derogatory remarks about
several protesters’ sexualities as well as what protesters called rape and death threats. Many students unaffiliated with the protest, however, say the website is merely a forum for outrageous and unfounded conversation. Bored at Baker is currently offline. The forum’s moderator, known as Jae Daemon, announced that the removal of Bored at Baker is unrelated to the current dialogue on the site, but a result of server problems. The site is expected to return today. “I would never take anything seriously on Bored at Baker,” Tyler Crowe ’16 said, pointing out that the site is anonymous and unregulated.
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Ankan Dhal ’13 estimated that fewer than 150 students are actually on the site at a time, and said he has not accessed the site in over a year. While many log on at least a few times in their Dartmouth careers, few are active and consistent users, students said. “At the end of the day, people who stick with it buy into it,” Dhal said. He emphasized that Bored at Baker, like Reddit, has a “hive mentality” that quickly compounds opinions to the lowest common denominator. Due to the total anonymity of the site, students can post anything without taking responsibility for their words.
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rupts the effective carrying out of a College function or approved a c t i v DARTMOUTH ity, such as classes, lectures, meetings, interviews, ceremonies and public events.” Folt declined requests for further comment. Classes were most recently canceled in February 2007 due to blizzard conditions. The last time they were canceled as a result of campus uproar was in 1986, when students destroyed shanties, an anti-apartheid campus symbol, leading to a rally on the Green. On Monday, students involved with the protest allegedly presented a letter to the administration requesting that it address their concerns for their safety on campus, according to The Dartmouth Review. The letter asks for a “day of campus-wide reflection” in lieu of classes.
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SPORTS
“If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment. That … stays with you the rest of your life.” CHRIS EVERT FORMER WORLD TENNIS NO. 1 AND 18-TIME GRAND SLAM CHAMPION
Elis extend skid to thirteen against Army BY GRANT BRONSDON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In a brief respite from Ivy League play, the softball team extended its losing streak to 13 games Wednesday night after dropping a pair of road games to Army, 10–2 and 8–0.
SOFTBALL “We had some really good at bats today; even when we were down in the count we fought back to get a walk or a base hit,” team captain Christy Nelson ’13 said. “We just couldn’t string the hits together.” Starting pitcher Chelsey Dunham ’14 took the mound for the Bulldogs (8–34, 3–13 Ivy) in the midst of a rough patch, having allowed at least nine hits in each of her previous five starts. She got off to a solid beginning, surrendering only one hit in the first three innings. After third baseman Hannah Brennan ’15 hit a solo shot in the top of the fourth to tie the score, the game was tied at one. “We definitely felt like we were in the game,” Nelson said. “We wanted to bust the game open, but on defense we made too many errors and that put us too deep in a hole to come back.” From then on, the Yale defense struggled mightily, committing five errors in the final three innings. A two-out error by shortstop Brittany Labbadia ’16 plated two in the fourth for Army (26–20, 8–8 Patriot), and after Nelson singled home catcher Sarah Onorato ’15 in the fifth to cut the gap to one, a throwing error combined with a two-RBI double made it a 6–2 ballgame.
The Black Knights then ended the game early in the sixth with four more runs, all of which were unearned. Dunham and Kylie Williamson ’15, who relieved Dunham midway through the sixth, combined to allow eight hits and 10 runs, but only two of those 10 were earned. “We’ve had pitching, fielding and hitting at different points in the season, but what it comes down to is putting them together,” Onorato said. “[That] is something we’ve struggled to do consistently.” Game two of the doubleheader took a drastic turn for the worse in the second inning. The Black Knights broke out for four runs in the second and one in the third. Then, a walk-off single from Marina Northup brought in two runs to clinch the mercy rule victory for Army in the fourth. While Onorato led off the game with a single, extending her hitting streak to seven games, the Bulldogs managed just two more hits all game. Army rained down 13 hits over four innings to rack up eight runs and again invoke the mercy rule after the top of the fifth inning. The Elis have only six games remaining, including four games against Brown on Friday and Saturday. “Our team goal is to sweep Brown,” Dunham said. “We have the talent and skill to do so — we just need to play to our potential.” Senior night for the team is this Friday. First pitch from DeWitt Family Field is at 2 p.m. Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .
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The Elis were overmatched against Army Wednesday night, falling by the mercy rule in both games of a double-header.
Superb second half not enough WOMEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 and really peg us back in the opening stages of the game.” The Elis (7-7, 1-5 Ivy) did not really get going until there were 12 minutes left in the first half. Head coach Anne Phillips changed goalkeepers and inserted Erin Mullins ’15 in goal for her first minutes of the season. This seemed to have enlivened the Elis, who went on to score four of the next six goals to close out the half. Captain Devon Rhodes ’13 capped her first-half hat trick, and midfielder Erin Magnuson ’15 scored one of her three goals with 39 seconds remaining to leave the halftime score at 12-6 to BU. But Yale came back with a spectacular second half. While the Terriers scored the first two goals of the second period, the Bulldogs showed their teeth for the first time in the contest and scored six unanswered goals in five minutes. Rhodes started the charge in the final home game of her career, scoring at the 12 minute mark before her joint top scorer, Nicole Daniggelis ’16, tallied her fourth goal just over a minute later. Attackers Jen DeVito ’14 and Kerri Fleishhacker ’15 scored their only goals of the contest before a further Daniggelis brace brought the Bulldogs to within two of the Terriers. However, BU scored with 10 minutes remaining to increase its lead. The Terriers then stood firm, counting on goalkeeper Christina Sheridan to make three big saves before top scorer Danielle Etrasco added her sixth goal of the contest with only 4:20 left on the clock. But Yale’s leading scorers Rhodes and Daniggelis refused to give up.
They each scored their fifth goals of the game to bring the Bulldogs within two goals with three minutes remaining on the clock. Magnuson added her third goal with two minutes remaining, but that was all the fight the Bulldogs could muster before the final whistle. “We just came out in the second half with more intensity and hustle,” Carney said. “We played really well as a team and refused to give up, and I think it showed through our amazing comeback. While it always hurts to lose, it was great to see the team fight all the way through the final whistle as we tried to win our final home game for our two seniors.” The Bulldogs’ increased defensive and offensive effort in the second half took Yale to within one goal of a spectacular comeback. The Elis held the Terriers to four goals in the second half and improved in nearly every statistical category, beating BU in draw controls, shots, ground balls and clears while committing fewer turnovers and fouls. Defender Adrienne Tarver ’14 anchored the Yale defense, picking up four ground balls and causing two turnovers in the second half. Mullins also had a solid game in her fist outing in goal, with four saves on 10 shots. Yale’s much improved offense, which featured six players recording over 20 points on the season, was again led by top scorers Rhodes and Daniggelis, who both rank in the top 10 in the Ivy League in points per game. “We had a lot of players step up in the second half and take one of the last opportunities we have to be a leader on the field this season,” midfielder Tori Virtue ’16 said. “We have fallen
COLUMN FROM PAGE 14 to be a championship year for the men’s hockey team — that chance had “supposedly” come and gone during the 2010-11 season when Yale held a No. 1 national ranking for much of the regular season. The Elis had missed the NCAA Tournament last year, and this year’s bid was looking precariously shaky after two bad losses in Atlantic City during the ECAC tournament. But once they got in, the Bulldogs didn’t take the opportunity lightly, riding their plucky underdog status to a first-ever national championship. You know the rest of the details.
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The women’s lacrosse team will look to carry its momentum from its second half against Boston University into its final game of the season against Brown. into this ‘second half comeback’ type of team, and the game today proved this true and highlighted the need to change this starting Saturday and carrying that into next year. The team that took the field during the second half completely won the game for the time being. Unfortunatly, our first half let-up led us to fall just short of our goal for the game as a whole.” While the first half is definitely one to forget for the Bulldogs, there was
solace in seeing the second half comeback the Bulldogs displayed. Though Yale must be able to start its final game better than it did the penultimate, the Bulldogs will be able to take their second-half momentum to Providence. Yale takes on Brown in the final game of the season this Saturday in Providence, R.I., at 1 p.m. Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .
Elis ready for Ivy Championship GOLF FROM PAGE 14 cess and a desire to keep the school’s momentum going, the golfers attacked the course at the Rhode Island Country Club from the tournament’s outset. “We were riding off the coattails of the hockey team, which was really inspiring,” head coach Chawwadee Rompothong ’00 said. Although the gap between Bulldog victories this season was as wide as could be — the team won its first and last regular season contests — the team won in the same way both tournaments, leading from start to finish. Yale posted a firstround team score of 309, three strokes in front of second-place Harvard. Park tied with four other golfers, including Harvard’s Bonnie Hu, for first after the first round with a score of 75.
Park emphasized that entering the second day of competition, the team aimed at not relinquishing its first round lead. The Elis ended up doing much more than that, posting by far the best team round of the tournament with a score of 295. Park again paced the Elis with a score of 72 which, combined with her first round score, brought her into a tie for the tournament title with St. John’s Jennifer Neville and BU’s Kristyna Pavlickova. A number of other Elis excelled throughout the course of the tournament. Marika Liu ’15 finished the tournament in sixth overall, shooting a 77 during the first round and a 74 on Monday’s round to finish seven-over for the tournament. Two other Bulldogs placed right behind Liu, as both Seo Hee Moon ’14 and Shreya Ghei ’15 finished at +9 for the
Year in review
tournament to tie for seventh with three other golfers.
Right before Ivies, we wanted to test ourselves … so that we’re mentally ready for Ivies. SUN GYOUNG PARK ’14 Women’s golf “This was our last event of the season before our conference, so we really hyped ourselves up for this,” Liu said. “[We knew] it would be a critical tournament in which we would prove ourselves to the rest of the field.” The Elis certainly improved by accru-
ing such a wide margin of victory at the invitational. Now, the Elis will have to demonstrate a strong performance at Ivy League Championships this weekend amidst higher expectations. The team finished third at last season’s championships, buoyed by performances by Moon, who finished eighth, and Park—who, by placing in the top-five in third, garnered an all-Ivy first team selection. “We joked around a couple days ago, ‘What if we all got top-five, and we win, and we all get first team all Ivies,’” Park said. Ivy League Championships, the Elis’ last meet of the season, will begin on Friday and run through Sunday. Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .
WINNING THE RIGHT WAY IS NO LONGER JUST A LOFTY GOAL. IT’S A REALITY But like I said earlier, maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised. This team — and head coach Keith Allain ’80 — always had the goal of winning championships, and no other major Yale squad has had as much sustained success as the hockey team over the last half-decade. As Coach Allain said before the Frozen Four, taking the Yale job in 2006 came with a belief that “at Yale you could have the best of both worlds: the best education in the world and compete in hockey at the highest levels in the country of Division I hockey.” Allain has accomplished his goal, and Yale is now the proud owner of a national championship. As USA Today columnist Christine Brennan said at an on-campus lecture last week, college athletics are continually being reshaped by the turmoil of conference realignment and monetary incentives, but the 2012-13 Yale Bulldogs — in all sports —are the example that you can still do athletics right. Winning the right way is no longer just a lofty goal. It’s a reality. Let’s celebrate a historic year for Yale, and look forward to next fall — when we’ll do it all over again. Contact EVAN FRONDORF at evan.frondorf@yale.edu .
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SPORTS
“Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.” STEVE PREFONTAINE FORMER MIDDLE AND LONG-DISTANCE RUNNER AND 1972 U.S. OLYMPIAN
Cross country hopes for future BY MAX DE LA BRUYÈRE SENIOR REPORTER Ryan Laemel ’14 was fading. Just over 2.5 miles into the subvarsity race at the New England Championships, the Yale junior had fallen five meters behind the lead pack of runners. In a distance race like these eight kilometers through a park in Westfield, Mass., gaps are dangerous. Once you have let one form, you have broken contact with the runners ahead of you. You can start slowly to fade away.
MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY PART 1 OF 2 Yale men’s cross country coach Paul Harkins, who had sprinted from one vantage point near the two-mile marker to this turn into the woods, saw Laemel sinking slowly behind the leaders. Another one of Yale’s runners, Ahmad Aljobeh ’16, was leading the three-man pack at the front. Harkins gave a shout of encouragement as Aljobeh passed, but he saved his voice for Laemel. “Get with them!” he screamed. “You’re as fast as these guys. Get with them! Get with them!” Laemel sped up slightly, inching a stride or two closer to the leaders. Then he made his turn into the woods and out of sight, and the main pack thundered by Harkins’s spot along the course. The coach looked for his two other runners in the race and shouted encouragement as they passed. Then they too were gone, and he started walking toward Yale’s tent, where the runners who would compete in the varsity race were starting to warm up. Laemel and Aljobeh would not be out of the woods for another 10 minutes. All Harkins could do was wait. Halfway through the fall and with three weeks to go until the Ivy League championships, 2012 was a hopeful season for the Yale cross country team. The year before, Harkins’ first at Yale after four as an assistant at New Mexico State, the Elis finished a distant sixth of eight teams at Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. That was a slight improvement over the previous three seasons, when they consistently finished seventh. “People are asking, ‘Is this the year Yale finally gets its head out of its a**?’” team captain Kevin Lunn ’13 told me as we drove from New Haven to Massachusetts to watch the New England Championships. He believed it was. Though the team lost its traditional dual meet against Harvard on Sept. 14, it made up for that with its performance at the Paul Short Invitational in Pennsylvania two weeks later. A year after finishing 19th in the 37-team field, Yale ran its way to seventh place. Going into the race, the team was confident in its abilities compared to the year before. But the extent of their improvement at Paul Short, a week before New Englands, was shocking.
STUDENTS AND ATHLETES
Distance running is an unforgiving sport. The only number that matters is seconds on the clock. There is nothing else to hide behind. The runner cannot pad his statistics against an inferior opponent or shrug off a poor performance due to a rival’s impressive play. There is only the cold, objective truth of minutes and seconds. He is defined by his times. Statistics only approximate a football or basketball player’s performance, but a 4:05 miler is a 4:05 miler. Period. When, on one perfect day, he runs a 4:02 mile, his place in the world will have shifted. Until then, he knows he is greater than every 4:06 miler in the world, and less than every 4:04 miler. Those times take on even more meaning in college cross-country. Of the six races in which Yale’s varsity team competed in 2012, only two truly counted: Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, or Heps, which determined the pecking order within the Ancient Eight, and the NCAA Regional Championships, the team’s chance to qualify for NCAA Nationals and a spot among the elite of the college running world. Races like Paul Short and New England Championships are nothing more than opportunities for the team to gauge its progress and readiness for competition relative to its rivals. Impressive performances at those meets are exciting, but everything is decided at Heps and Regionals.
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From left, Isa Qasim ’15, Matthew Thwaites ’13, Demetri Goutos ’13 and Duncan Tomlin ’16 run a track workout. Qasi, a walk-on, placed fifth at Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. Neither meet has treated Yale well in recent years, and the team has spent the better part of a decade mired in the bottom half of finishers at Heps. Its struggles can be explained a variety of ways. The number of athletic recruits at Yale has declined steadily over the past 20 years, and that change has affected varsity rosters. Yale had 25 men on its cross-country roster this year; Harvard had 35. Because of recruiting holes, the Elis depend more heavily on walk-ons than most comparable programs. Perhaps most importantly, there is a self-fulfilling nature to college athletic programs. Teams that win lure the most talented recruits. Yale has not done much winning recently. But the team keeps running. They do so on a campus where a column appears in this newspaper on an almost annual basis calling for an end to recruiting, and where student attendance at the vast majority of sporting events is all but nonexistent. Many Yalies do not hesitate to declare varsity athletes less intelligent than their nonrecruited classmates. For fear of the assumptions their professors would make, many athletes avoid wearing team apparel to class. I wanted to understand what motivates the members of one of Yale’s 33 varsity teams to commit themselves to the elusive pursuit of a kind of success few of their classmates understand, let alone value. So I approached Kevin Lunn ’13, the cross-country captain, in early September and asked if he would be willing to let me unofficially walk on to the team. I would practice, eat and travel with the Elis, doing everything short of competing. Lunn agreed, and Harkins, the head coach, did too. Yale’s NCAA compliance director found no regulations that would ban my participation, and I was cleared to run. On Monday, Oct. 1, I met Lunn and his teammates for the bus ride from campus to Yale’s athletic fields. Mondays are an easy day of training: seven to 11 miles, depending on the individual athlete’s conditioning schedule. Then the team convenes at the track for sprints and abdominal work, followed by a trip to a grungy basement weight room in Smilow Field Center. The bus for practice left at 2:45 p.m.; we were back for dinner four hours later.
runs like this, conversation helps the athletes keep going. A training run is almost a social experience. The coach doesn’t run with the team, so for this hour in the wooded trails off campus, it was just us, moving at a steady but not backbreaking pace. “The way conversation works on the trail is like a moving cafe,” said Duncan Tomlin ’16, a walk-on unsure about whether he wanted to stick with varsity athletics through the winter and spring. “Guys will speed up to join one conversation, then slow down as it changes to talk with other guys. You’re always having to find new topics of conversation, different kinds than you would find for non-running conversations.” After about 25 minutes along the trails, we ran into Laemel and headed back with him toward the track. Conversation turned almost immediately to racing. Laemel had been one of the 10 runners Yale sent to the starting line in its successful Paul Short appearance three days before this practice. In a college cross-country meet, only the top five finishers count toward the team’s score. The overall place of the sixth and seventh finishers on a team are also important, as they are counted in the case of a tie, and can bump other teams’ bottom runners down the leaderboard. This early in the season, Harkins was not sure who his top five would be. He received some pleasant surprises: Matt Nussbaum ’15, a sophomore, had a breakout performance and finished first among Yale’s competitors. Kevin Dooney ’16, a freshman from Ireland whose brother had graduated as one of the team’s top runners the year before, finished fourth on the team. Laemel, a junior coming off a solid outdoor track season the spring before, finished dead last on the Yale team and tied for 206th in a 332-man field. On the bus home from Paul Short, as the team celebrated the day’s success, he sat quietly by himself looking out the window, wondering what went wrong.
Lunn came over, and Laemel asked for advice. “There’s a key difference between disappointment and despair after a race,” Lunn said. “Being disappointed means asking yourself, ‘What could I have done better, what areas could I have improved on?’ Despair means giving up. Take some time to be disappointed now. And then figure things out in practice.” I asked Laemel what separates a good race from a bad one. “It’s all psychological,” he said.
It’s about who can control it the best … who can withstand the hurt. They’re the ones who are going to come out on top. PAUL HARKINS Head coach, men’s cross country In Laemel’s telling, there’s something like a cauldron in the middle of your body, somewhere in between your hips and just below your belly button. In the second mile or so of a race, that cauldron starts to bubble and ooze over, and to hurt, he said, “Like hell.” The rest of the race depends on the runner’s ability to ignore the pain from that cauldron. At Paul Short, Laemel had let the cauldron get to him. He would not allow it to happen again. And yet there he was just over a week later at New Englands, fading behind the leaders in the subvarsity race as he turned into the woods.
CONTROL THE HURT
New England Championships don’t matter. The sub-varsity race matters even less. The race’s lofty name stopped meaning anything years ago; it’s one of the bigger meets in the region each year, but it attracts mostly second-tier Division I programs and Divi-
sion III liberal arts colleges. Yale had not even brought its top seven runners, nor had Ivy League rival Dartmouth, which was favored to win the upcoming varsity race. Those top runners would be flying to Wisconsin the next week for what was likely to be the most competitive meet of their season. Winning New Englands was, at most, an afterthought. And winning the New Englands sub-varsity race was not even an afterthought — it was impossible. Yale was running four men in the race, one short of the five necessary to contest the team title. Harkins was having those four run because he didn’t need to win. He just wanted them to race. He wanted Laemel, for one, to exorcise the demons of Paul Short. So as Laemel rounded the turn into the woods behind the leaders, Harkins scowled briefly before jogging back to Yale’s tent, where the men who would be running varsity were warming up for their race. Ten minutes after Laemel and Aljobeh entered the woods, Jacob Sandry ’15, a sophmore on the team from Minnesota who had wandered off in the general direction of the racecourse, came sprinting over. “Ryan’s killing it, guys!” he shouted. “He’s all alone.” Warm-ups were forgotten, and Sandry and his teammates sprinted over to the course. Laemel’s bright, closely-cropped red hair soon appeared around a turn, 25 meters ahead of his closest competitor. His teammates shouted encouragement as he passed, then waited for Aljobeh, who had dropped back into fourth place in the woods. Then it was time to jog back and stretch. Their race was approaching, and there was no time to see the finish. It was a foregone conclusion anyway. This might not have been a high-caliber race, but Laemel ignored the boiling cauldron and managed the gap. He was back. Harkins was ecstatic. “With racing, everybody’s going to feel like s*** at some point
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— even the winner,” Harkins said, bouncing on the balls of his feet about 20 minutes after the subvarsity finish as he waited for the varsity race to start. “Ask Laemel. I’m sure he felt like s*** today. But you just have to be able to get through when everybody’s hurting, you have to realize that everybody’s hurting. It’s about who can control it the best, who can control the hurt, who can withstand the hurt. They’re the ones who are going to come out on top. “Laemel was right on the edge, I felt like, through two miles. He was controlling it, but he was like, ‘Do I really stick with these guys, do I trust it, do I go with it?’ Then I just yelled at him to get up there, he responded, got up there, then all of a sudden he comes out of the woods...” Harkins trailed off. The Dartmouth coach was approaching, and the two men started talking numbers. Both were running their B teams today, as their top runners trained in preparation for the big Wisconsin meet the next week. Harkins didn’t care who the men running today were. His team finished 17th here the year before. He thought they could win this year and show their competitors that their roster was deep enough that they could not be counted out. “There is nothing to get in your way,” he had told his runners in a huddle before the varsity start. “Run tough through the middle. No gaps. We’re going to f****** win this thing.” Behind a strong finish from Sandry, Yale went on to finish third in the varsity race. Especially on the heels of the Paul Short success, that was a huge victory. As the team huddled following the finish, Harkins was bouncing again. “You’ve got to test the limits now and then, and you went after it,” he said. “Keep running, run with a little more confidence, and we’re going to beat some good f****** teams.” Contact MAX DE LA BRUYÈRE at max.delabruyere@yale.edu .
THE CAULDRON
The pace at this Monday practice six days before New Englands was easy enough that I could keep up, and I ran alongside Laemel for the second half of my seven miles. Due to injury trouble the year before, he was running only 60 or so miles a week, in addition to bicycling and swimming. Less injury-prone members of the team will run up to 80 miles in a given week during the season. Over the summer, some run more than 100. After pre-run stretching at the Yale track, we took off down Derby Avenue, past a cemetery, two used car dealerships, a liquor store and a Dunkin’ Donuts, breathing exhaust fumes and watching out for stoplights. Then, with a quick turn onto a hidden trailhead, we entered the woods of the Maltby Trails and the sound of cars started to fade. Voices picked up; on long
yan Laemel ’14, a geology and geophysics major who was elected cross country captain in November, has been running the trails on which Yale practices since his days on the team at Amity High School in Woodbridge, Conn. After fighting hip injuries for much of his Yale career, he was recently diagnosed with a perpetual bone injury called hip impingement. Though doctors advised surgery, he decided to forgo it because the six-month recovery period would have jeopardized his cross country season. “My goal is to be resilient,” he said. “I want redemption next fall and I will not be satisfied until I get it.”
en’s cross country head coach Paul Harkins, who ran cross country and steeplechased at the University of Washington, took a job as a banker after graduation. But he hated the job and started to volunteer coaching runners at a local high school in his spare time. His first college job was at Missouri State, and he moved from there to Brown — where his future wife, a former Columbia runner, was also coaching — and then to New Mexico State. At Yale, he has applied more individualized training approaches for his athletes and emphasized recovery and injury prevention. He says one of the keys to making the team more competitive is psychology: simplifying training and making competition feel no different than a regular day of training.
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DAVID HICKEY ’14 AND JACOB HUNTER ’14 ELIS NAMED TO IVY HONOR ROLL Hickey, right, gave up four hits in his complete-game shutout against Dartmouth this week to stretch his streak without surrendering an earned run to 23.2 innings. Hunter hit .625 (10–16) in five games this week with a .750 slugging percentage.
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A year to remember
Out on the trail somewhere MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Last year was one to forget for Yale Athletics. After months of Rhodesinduced controversy, resignations and tragedy, it was time for a fresh start. And this year, a national championship and a host of promising new beginnings did exactly that. In September, the new era of Yale football got underway with a bang — a 24–21 win over Georgetown highlighted by the longest touchdown pass in Yale history. The magic didn’t last long, and the team would sputter to a 2–8 finish under first year head coach Tony Reno, but the Elis were hampered by so many injuries that running backs and wide receivers who had never seen a college snap took the reins at quarterback at different points throughout the season. There were gleams of hope — 2012’s edition of The Game was the most entertaining (and closely contested) in years, and Coach Reno has proven himself to be a skilled recruiter with signings of a four-star linebacker and a quarterback transfer from Clemson. Canadian transfer Tyler Varga ’15 was perhaps the most unstoppable running back in Division I FCS football last season, and behind an improved team next year, the Bulldogs should be competitive very soon.
THE 2012–’13 BULLDOGS — IN ALL SPORTS — DEMONSTRATED THAT YOU CAN STILL DO ATHLETICS RIGHT Other fall sports won big as well. The volleyball team battled to an undefeated Ivy League season and an NCAA tournament bid, winning its third consecutive Ancient Eight title. Kendall Polan ’14 was named the Ivy League Player of the Year for the second straight season, and with Kelly Johnson ’16 as Ivy Rookie of the Year, the volleyball team seems destined to hold onto its spot as the volleyball powerhouse of the Ivy League. While Harvard men’s basketball was the Ivy basketball program that drew national attention for its upset over New Mexico in the NCAA Tournament, Yale looked promising as well, with a crop of exciting freshmen and developing sophomores that made every game competitive this year despite an extremely tough nonconference schedule. Look for Justin Sears ’16, Javier Duren ’15, Armani Cotton ’15 and the rest to pose a challenge to the Cantabs next year. And before I get to the biggest wins of all, athletic culture here at Yale made progress outside of the win-loss column. The Whaling Crew flourished into a recognizable student organization dedicated to highlighting the achievements of athletes across all sports and their gear is now ubiquitous on campus. Athletes and Allies paved the way for LGBTQ peer support among college athletes, receiving signatures from more than 230 athletes during a pledge drive earlier this year. President-elect Peter Salovey could be seen in the stands and dancing with the YPMB during hockey and basketball games, demonstrating his commitment to athletics before his presidency begins in earnest this summer. The greatest moment, of course, came from an unexpected source — but perhaps one that doesn’t seem so surprising in hindsight. This wasn’t “supposed” SEE COLUMN PAGE 12
Senior reporter Max de La Bruyère spent six weeks this fall with the members of the Yale men’s cross-country team. This is the first in a two-part series on what draws them to their sport. PAGE 13 BRIANNE BOWEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Yale lost its annual dual meet against Harvard Sept. 14. Demetri Goutos ’13 (No. 811) placed second and Matthew Nussbaum ’15 (No. 818) finished third for the Elis.
Elis’ dramatic comeback falls short
Women’s golf eyes Ivy title BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER The women’s golf team came out of the gates hot this academic year with a wire-to-wire victory at its fall season opener, the Dartmouth Invitational. But despite three top-five finishes, the squad had failed to capture another victory in a large invitational since that competition ended on Sept. 16.
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goals in the opening 18 minutes of the contest to open up a lead they would never lose. Though the Bulldogs pushed back in the end of the first half, they ended their last home game on a loss. “They were just out-hustling us to so many ground balls and draw controls right from the faceoff,” Flannery Carney ’16 said. “They also made smart decisions on their attack and were able to bury their shots
That trend ended last week with a Bulldog victory at the Brown Invitational held on April 14–15. The Elis posted a score of 604 for a massive 17-stroke victory over second-place Seton Hall, dominating a field that included Ivy rivals Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth and tournament host Brown. The win could not have come at a better time, as the team next heads to the Ivy League Championship meet, which will be held this weekend at Trump National in Bedminster, N.J. “We’ve been improving slowly,” Sun Gyoung Park ’14 said. ”Right before Ivies, we wanted to test ourselves … so that we’re mentally ready for Ivies.” The night before the Brown Invitational began, the women’s golf team learned of the men’s hockey team’s championship in the NCAA tournament. Motivated by Yale’s suc-
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Despite dominating the second half, the women’s lacrosse team could not overcome the Terriers’ 12-goal first-half performance. The Bulldogs fell to the Terriers 16–15. BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER Maintaining a season-long trend, the women’s lacrosse team could not overcome its opponent’s strong first half, this time succumbing to Boston University 16-15 in the final game at Reese Stadium.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE The Terriers (6-8, 2-4 Am. East) scored 10
STAT OF THE DAY 15
THE NUMBER OF GOALS THE WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM SCORED AGAINST THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY TERRIERS. Although the Bulldogs fell to the Terriers 16–15 Wednesday night at home, the Elis scored nine goals in their attempt at a second half comeback.