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CROSS CAMPUS Going green in the dark. The Yale Office of Sustainability organized Earth Hour this past weekend. From 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, participating students turned off their lights to conserve energy. Meanwhile, an event was held on Old Campus with live music, dancing, movies, free food and booths from student groups.

Environmentally themed performances featured Tangled Up in Blue, Word, Stepping Out, Teeth and other groups.

Model, actress, app developer.

Victoria’s Secret supermodel Lyndsey Scott came to campus on Saturday to discuss her life and career at a talk. Scott has modeled for brands including Calvin Klein, Prada, Gucci and Louis Vuitton, in addition to her work for Victoria’s Secret.

However, Scott also develops phone apps in her spare time.

After graduating from Amherst College with a dual degree in Computer Science and Theater, she has designed apps including Educate and iPort.

Death by housing draw. Ezra Stiles College Dean Camille Lizarribar held a watch party for the season four finale of “The Walking Dead.” “As many of you know, your Dean is a huge fan of apocalyptic narratives (it helps her get through housing season, among other phenomena),” her invitation email read.

She also invited students to share conspiracy theories and enjoy zombie-themed snacks involving gummy worms.

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City celebrates inaugural ball

BY POOJA SALHOTRA AND ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTERS Mayor Toni Harp entered the glimmering aviation hangar at TweedNew Haven Airport on Saturday night to the sound of Alicia Keys’ “Girl on Fire” — the soundtrack to last fall’s victorious campaign.

Paired with the sound of shattering glass to represent breaking the glass ceiling, the song’s significance was lost on no one.

The city had gathered to celebrate its 50th mayor and its first-ever female chief executive.

Harp commemorated that breakthrough alongside 1,300 of her friends, supporters and colleagues at an inaugural ball formally honoring the city’s new administration.

Just three months into her tenure as mayor, Harp

took a break from leading the city to dance, dine, pose for photographs and thank those who help run New Haven beyond City Hall.

The result of all the revelry: The event raised $100,000, based on an unofficial count, for an endowment fund for the city’s youth and elderly, to be managed by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. Tickets to the black-tie event went at $250 for an introductory reception and $75 for general admission to the ball. It brought together leaders from the state, city, Yale University, business people, nonprofit directors and community activists.

To kick off the gala, state and city elected officials processed down a red carpet at the center of SEE HARP PAGE 4

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Mayor Toni Harp celebrated the beginning of her term at a grand reception and inaugural ball on Saturday.

Malloy enters race

Teach-in focuses on sexual violence

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND NICOLE NG STAFF REPORTERS

On ice! The Yale Figure Skating

Club held their end-of-year celebration at Ingall’s Rink on Sunday afternoon. The affair included show performances, awards and a free skate. Basic skaters performed with their groups. Advanced skaters performed freestyle and dance routines. Team Esprit, the Hamden Figure Skating Association synchronized skating team, also performed.

Bitcoin comes to Yale. At

Yale, there is truly a club for every crowd. A new undergraduate organization recently popped up on campus called the Digital Currency Club. The club held their first informational meeting this weekend and discussed the details of crypto-currencies.

Advertising for the club appealed to student interest in Bitcoin, the digital currency created in 2009.

Spiking your Spring Fling.

The sale of alcohol-themed Spring Fling apparel is now underway from a website called BulldogFathers. The site is offering tank tops designed around variations on a theme, with the theme being alcohol.

The four designs resemble Pabst Blue Ribbon, Heinekin, Absolut and Jack Daniel’s.

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Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy announced Friday that he will seek re-election this year.

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER There were no balloons, cheering crowds or adoring spouses looking on when Dannel Malloy announced Friday morning that he and Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman will seek reelection this year.

Malloy made the longawaited declaration in

response to a routine question at a press conference following a meeting of the State Bond Commission. The incumbent joins six Republican candidates and a Democratic challenger in a highly competitive race that will determine the future of Connecticut’s economic, education and fiscal policies. The governor had been widely expected to seek reelection,

but he had previously said he would wait until the conclusion of the legislative session in May to announce his plans for November.

“Nancy and I have talked about the race, and we both reached a mutual conclusion that we should go to the people of Connecticut and ask them for their support to conSEE MALLOY PAGE 6

The long-running battle against sexual violence at Yale continued Saturday with a student-led teach-in on legal rights, University policy and empowerment.

Approximately 30 students attended the three-hour teach-in held in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, which sought to bring the campus community together in solidarity against sexual violence. Organized by Students Against Sexual Violence at Yale (SASVY), it centered around a discussion of Title IX, the law banning discrimination in educational programs. It also included a workshop on discussing and formulating an effective sexual harassment policy on campus and a visual art project with the intention of raising awareness of sexual harassment at Yale.

The teach-in began with a discussion led by Alexandra Brodsky ’12 LAW ’16 — who was part of a group that filed a complaint against the University in 2011 — about students’ rights under Title IX, the gaps left in the federal law and what universities need to do to better prevent sexual violence on campus.

“Schools have really been able to bank on students’ ignorance of their rights for a very long time,” Brodsky said, adding that when she was an undergraduate she “had

no idea that the school was required to do anything” about complaints of sexual harassment.

Brodsky added that while laws can be a limited but effective tool in combating sexual violence, university policies still play a major role.

The teach-in comes seven months after SASVY formed last August with the intention of combating sexual violence, sexual assault and rape at Yale through institutional and policy reform.

The group’s most visible effort thus far was an open letter to University President Peter Salovey asking for policy changes that include the use of expulsion for those found guilty of multiple counts of sexual violence and the requirement of mandatory disciplinary hearings for students reported for sexual violence more than once.

Following the address on Saturday, representatives from Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER), a New Yorkbased organization that fights sexual violence through student-led campaigns, hosted a workshop on reforming sexual harassment policy. Approximately 15 students attended the workshop.

“I’m hoping that people feel inspired to make change and say no to what’s been happening,” said Adaku Utah, a SAFER facilitator.

The workshop included disSEE SASVY PAGE 4

CT senators respond to Ukrainian crisis

BY ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, who serves as the chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on European Affairs, is standing at the forefront of America’s response to the struggle in Ukraine.

Murphy accompanied a bipartisan delegation to Ukraine of eight senators from March 13–16, in an attempt to assure

Ukrainian leaders that they are supported by the United States.

Following the trip, Murphy and his colleague, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, have twice updated New Haven residents on U.S. involvement in Ukraine.

These updates took place on March 19 and yesterday.

“I knew, in those scary first few days of the Russian invasion, that nerves would be fraying in [Kiev],” Murphy said in a statement. “A strong, unified mes-

sage of support from Ukraine’s friends in the U.S. Senate could make a difference.”

The March trip was Murphy’s second to Kiev, following a visit in mid-December during the most violent days of protest in the Maidan, Kiev’s central square.

In the interim, Murphy and Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona collaborated on a comprehensive bill, which included one billion dollars of aid relief to

the new Ukrainian government and sanctions against Yanukovych and Russian officials involved in orchestrating the Crimean invasion.

On Thursday, the bill passed with an overwhelming 98-2 vote.

“Senator Murphy and Senator McCain have been instrumental in drafting of this bill,” said Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin. “The bill reflects similar actions taken in Europe. It

makes clear to Russia that sanctions will only increase with further action.”

The Senate was due to vote on the aid package before the bipartisan delegation departed for Europe. However, Murphy said “the isolationist wing of the Republican party” delayed the vote due to objections over assistance it would have allocated to the International MonSEE UKRAINE PAGE 6

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For equal summer options T

he spring semester is traditionally full of races for prestigious internships, senior society spots and, perhaps most importantly, summer fellowship funding. A new email seems to appear in my inbox each week announcing a fellowship for research in Israel or language study in Asia. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Yale fellowships do not apply to a critical summer expenditure for the 52 percent of students on financial aid — the summer income contribution.

Freshman year, I was offered a position as a project supervisor in Paraguay for Amigos de las Américas, a program in which I’d participated while in high school. The program would cover the costs of my airfare, food and housing, but the position was unpaid. I looked into the possibility of applying for a Yale fellowship to cover my summer income contribution, the $3,000 portion of my financial aid package meant to be paid with summer earnings.

After struggling to find my way through the confusing fellowship website, I found that most fellowships explicitly stated that they could not cover the student income contribution for financial aid.

Yale’s online page of advice on preparing a fellowship budget states, “Fellowships are not intended to cover lost wages from summer employment. However, if you are concerned about the loss of summer earning needed for termtime expenses, you make seek advice at the Office of Student Financial Services.”

I decided to take the website’s advice. I called the financial aid office to discuss my situation, explaining that I wanted to participate in an unpaid summer program that could cover my living expenses. The representative I spoke to gave me three options: Find a way to earn the additional money during the academic year, ask my parents to cover the cost or take out a student loan.

I was a little surprised that loans were presented to me as an option, given that Yale prides itself on its no-loan policy. And the other two options did not seem to be particularly viable. Earning the money during the year on top of the money required through my term-time job would require working around the maximum 20 hours per week, if not more.

Doing so would make it very difficult for me to keep up with my academic and extracurricular commitments. Many jobs do not offer students the option of working that many hours, meaning that I would need to pick up multiple jobs.

For example, my dining hall job only assigns hours for two or three meals per week to each student associate.

Having my parents cover the additional cost was not an option for me.

If the financial aid office is providDIANA ing families ROSEN with packages that accuLooking Left rately reflect the amount of money they can afford to contribute, then how would families be able to cover their children’s summer contributions as well?

I ultimately chose to take a paid internship in my hometown of Chicago. It worked out well, but I wish I’d at least had the option to go to Paraguay instead.

The Richter Fellowship is the only Yale fellowship I know of that can be applied to the summer income contribution.

There may be others, but the complicated nature of searching for fellowships on Yale’s website has prevented me from finding them. Even the Richter Fellowship specifies that it can only be applied to the summer income contribution “if a project is compelling enough.” The fellowship provides a maximum of $1,000, less than a third of this year’s increased summer contribution.

Yale College Council representative Sara Miller ’16, a photo editor for the News, presented on this issue at Saturday’s Yale College Council meeting. After discussing how Yale’s fellowship policy disadvantages students on financial aid, the Council voted unanimously to approve Miller’s proposal to allow students to put Yale fellowships towards the summer contribution.

According to YCC President Danny Avraham ’15, the Council will be conducting additional research before presenting a formal proposal to the financial aid office and Center for International and Professional Experience.

The administration should act on this proposal in time for next year’s fellowship application cycle. The student income contribution is an important financial consideration for over half of the student body, so it stands to reason that fellowships should be able to cover it. This time of year, many students are competing for summer opportunities — but current fellowship policies don’t level the playing field for students of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. By revising this policy, Yale will expand summer activity options for a large number of students.

Why cancel my class?

ANNELISA LEINBACH/ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR

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am sympathetic with the efforts of Yale administrators in the Provost’s Office to cut the multi-million-dollar Yale budget deficit. But the last place they should look for cuts are in good, well-taught undergraduate course offerings — particularly in laboratory courses which tend to be more costly than lecture courses.

I refer here to the putative cutting of the “Laboratory in Electron Microscopy-EM”, a lab course in the important area of cell biology, in the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department, for next fall. This course, initiated many years ago, has proven itself to be a popular, in-demand, undergraduate course taken by students in MCDB and MB&B; there are approximately 30 students taking the course this semester, and 10 students are already signed up for next year’s course.

The students do not only learn how to prepare tissue for electron microscopy, but also the delicate procedures required for thin-sectioning with ultramicrotomes and staining. Lastly, they learn how to use the electron microscope by themselves.

While learning the technology, they also learn a lot about cell ultrastructure.

DIANA ROSEN is a sophomore in Pierson College. Her columns run on Mondays. Contact her at diana. rosen@yale.edu .

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The undergraduate course critiques give the course and its instructor very high marks. So, where is the problem?

Our department, and I suspect all academic departments at Yale, has been instructed by the Provost to lower our operating budgets for next year. MCDB has been asked to trim about $125,000 from its budget. The MCDB faculty, when confronted with this situation, voted to remove the laboratory in electron microscopy course. No alternative measures for cost-cutting were given.

THERE ARE BETTER WAYS TO SAVE COSTS THAN CUTTING CLASSES In 46 years as a professor in the biological sciences at Yale, I have never witnessed a faculty voting to cut one of their colleague’s courses, so I have no historical perspective on this action.

I would imagine, however, that most of the faculty members voting on the issue do not have

firsthand experience with the technology, and if they need EM analysis, either contract the work out, or have undergraduates, who have taken the EM lab course, do the work for them. Finally, in this case, the course instructor was not even informed of the imminent vote.

The equipment in this course is expensive to buy and maintain, but it is functional. It would easily last another two or three years, at which point we can gather funds, probably from federal grants, to purchase new equipment. Cutting the course now would mean not only cancelling it in the fall of 2014, but probably forever.

This class is an offering that adds a little bit extra to the education in biology at Yale, and one has only to skim recent issues of the journals in cell biology to realize the importance of the course as one of the few practical labs taught. Students who take it have an easier time gaining employment on summer and post-graduation jobs in labs. In addition, the instructor in the course also individually teaches graduate and post-doctoral students EM preparatory techniques and use of the equipment for their thesis research. And the faculty often sends their technicians to the EM lab to learn the technology.

I can think of a few other ways, off the top of my head, in which one might cut expenses in the biological sciences at Yale.

First, we can mothball part of the new and partially unoccupied West Campus, which costs millions in upkeep — paid for not by grants of investigators residing there but out of pocket by Yale.

Second, we can take a hard look at undergraduate courses in our department which are teamtaught by at least three faculty and with as few as 12 students.

Third — as a general University fund-saver in tough economic times — do not add new deans to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Each new dean, with the accompanying support staff, will cost thousands in new funding. Instead of more administrators, put the money into undergraduate teaching, like the course described above which is being cut.

The bottom line is: One of the primary missions of the faculty is teaching in Yale College. We should not be cutting important undergraduate courses that underlie this mission.

JOEL ROSENBAUM is a professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology. Contact him at joel. rosenbaum@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST SAM TEICHER

Counter Putin through clean energy

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and arguments.”

T

he best thing about studying history comes from the lessons we can learn to better inform the actions we take today. During my freshman year at Yale, my class in “Global Environmental History” discussed a drought that struck a settlement in part of the Levant. The villagers faced a choice: Adapt to the transformed conditions, move or die. They failed to adapt, they chose to stay put and they suffered the consequences.

President Vladimir Putin’s recent annexation of Crimea and the uncertainties surrounding his potential next moves demand that the United States and her allies re-evaluate their strategy toward Russia. Adapt to these new realities, or suffer the consequences of inaction and perpetuating the status quo.

There are several moves that can be made to counter Russia and hopefully motivate it to reassess the costs of continuing its hostilities. But among the most impactful is energy. If Europe wants to be the master of its own destiny, it needs to get off of Russian fuel and transition to a clean energy society.

Significant action by Europeans is largely handicapped by their dependency on Russian fossil fuels. Nearly one-third of Europe’s crude oil and nearly 40 percent of its natural gas is supplied by Russia. Europe can be grateful for its mild winter (unlike us here in New Haven), which has left gas storage at around 45 percent of capacity when it’s usually depleted at this time of year.

While this may give Europe a small deal of maneuverability in the short term, it cannot bank on such luck again. They’ll likely need Russian fuel for the next several years (although the United Kingdom’s shortsighted deal to buy Russian gas coming into place this year seems to limit the country’s options to diversify). But if Europe can chart a new long-term course for energy security, then they may deprive Mr. Putin both of one of his best bargaining chips and sources of national revenue.

Even if a future Russia is capable of sustaining itself without European markets, Europe will have removed a powerful choke hold Mr. Putin currently possesses.

Fossil fuels provide the financial power for Mr. Putin to execute

his hostile and illegal actions.

Let’s cut him off.

Two legitimate options exist for the U.S. and Europe moving forward: Shift Europe’s primary natural gas source to the U.S. and significantly boost development of renewable energy projects.

Now full disclosure: I’m an environmentalist. And that’s exactly why I’m considering this situation from a geostrategic perspective. There are several important calculations to consider with this strategy, and they all deal with cost. Can Europe afford the bump in prices when switching from Russian to American gas? When would such a shift be able to realistically occur? How many renewable projects can be implemented that substantially reduce Europe’s fossil fuel portfolio, and at what price? When will sufficient safeguards be put in place for natural gas drilling so that development doesn’t come at ruinous costs to human and environmental health (like fracking)? These questions can’t be answered quickly. But the most important take-away from them is that the cost of inaction is a too steep of a price to pay, and less oil,

safer natural gas extraction and transportation and better integration of renewable energy offer a legitimate way forward that avoids incurring the bill.

Just as with dithering and business-as-usual for addressing global warming, surrendering our resolve to act intelligently puts human welfare and safety at risk. Energy, the environment and security are inextricably linked.

Vladimir Putin has just given us an impetus and an opportunity to both weaken his position and address the threat multiplier of climate change by asserting that our energy future will be cleaner.

If there was ever a time to recognize the strategic argument about the power of renewable energy to reduce the influence of fossil fuels and break one of Russia’s main financial spigots and leverage points, it is now. As if all the other reasons weren’t good enough.

Mr. Putin is taking the long view, and our leaders must as well.

SAM TEICHER is a first-year student in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Contact him at sam.teicher@yale.edu .

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“Room service? Send up a larger room.”

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CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, MARCH 28

JE Room Service expands

The WEEKEND article “We’re Not in Troy Anymore, But it Feels Familiar” stated that the production of “The Trojan Women” was supported by the Dramat. In fact, the Dramat was not involved in the production.

The On Campus section incorrectly listed the Yale Center for British Art as the site of the Sat. March 29 Birds of Prey event.

In fact, the event took place at the Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Workshop discusses women’s leadership HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Beginning this weekend, the student-run brunch delivery service made popular in Jonathan Edwards College will expand to Calhoun.

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER When students in Jonathan Edwards College began receiving baked goods on Saturday morning from a student-run service, others in the remaining 11 colleges still had to bide their time until brunch for morning pastries. But beginning this weekend, Calhoun College students are able to enjoy some cinnamon scones of their own.

JE Room Service — a student-run baking company that delivers pastries on Saturday mornings — is now expanding to other colleges. Each week, students can fill out an online order form through the company’s website, specifying which baked goods they want and at what time they prefer delivery on Saturday mornings.

The company is the brainchild of Hall Rockefeller ’16, who wanted to start a campus baking company with her close friends and suitemates. Rockefeller, a longtime baker, said she wanted to take advantage of the resources provided at Yale to those looking to launch their own businesses.

Rockefeller called the decision to start JE Room Service, which launched the first week of spring semester, “a ‘Why not?’ moment.”

“There are the resources here to do it, and there’s a lot less resistance than one would encounter in the real world,” she

said.

Behind the scenes, Rockefeller and her team spend an average of 10 hours per week prepping and baking the food.

Until last week, the team’s limited personnel and kitchen space hindered expansion to other colleges. Rockefeller said it was also unclear how many extra orders would result from offering to deliver beyond JE, as the business received an average of 15 orders per week within JE alone.

Rockefeller said that when a group of friends in Calhoun offered to help deliver the baked goods beyond JE, she attended last week’s Calhoun College Council Meeting to make sure there would be no objections to the expansion.

Despite the first delivery weekend to Calhoun being “sort of rushed,” Rockefeller said she was pleased with the number of orders that came in.

Once the team establishes its presence in Calhoun, Rockefeller said, members hope to franchise JE Room Service in order to expand it to all 12 residential colleges.

Planning for this expansion will take place over the summer, she said, and small steps will be essential.

Frequent patrons of JE Room Service celebrated the convenience of waking up to baked goods of their choice — such as carrot cupcakes and coffee. One student even opened a tab with the company to ensure weekly delivery.

“I eat their leftovers,” said Carolina Rivera ’16, who helped deliver to Calhoun last Saturday. “The cinnamon scones are to die for. I had one this morning, and it just made my day.”

Calhoun student Amanda Farrell ’16 said she usually has to rush to grab coffee or a pastry before she starts work at 9:30 a.m. With the new expansion, however, Farrell said she has all she needs waiting at her door.

Emmett Kim ’15, the first person to order an entire loaf of banana bread from the company, said that while he would not be willing to spend money on pastries from other for-profit businesses, he is happy to support JE Room Service. Kim called the team “really friendly” and said the members are always cooking in the JE kitchen.

To Rockefeller, the most important part of her business comes from the feeling that she and her team are contributing to life at Yale.

“It’s nice to have something that exists only because you made it exist,” she said.

“In a lot of things here, you’re contributing to someone else’s vision, so to have something of your own within Yale is satisfying.”

Students outside JE or Calhoun can pick up orders from the JE Buttery on Saturday mornings.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

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Female students and faculty from across the University gathered Friday for a conference with women’s leadership guru Théres Stiefer.

BY HAILEY WINSTON STAFF REPORTER On Friday, nearly 50 women from across the University paired up and interviewed one another about their backgrounds and personal stories.

Students and faculty members gathered last week at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies with women’s leadership guru Théres Stiefer, who led a five-hour workshop intended to guide women in self-discovery and confidence building. Stiefer is currently the director of Executive Education at the Sam M. Walton College of Business in Arkansas. Throughout the workshop, participants brainstormed ideas and presented their conclusions to the group.

Stiefer, who began teaching hands-on leadership workshops to women over 20 years ago, said she believes exceptional leaders have the ability to tell stories, ask questions and value other people.

“Leadership is more than just a style or title, but knowing yourself and being able to know others,” Stiefer said. “You have to value yourself and others and want to learn about yourself and others.”

Stiefer began the workshop with a video of Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg speaking about her Lean In campaign to promote female leadership. Following the presentation, workshop participants broke into small groups to discuss their own experiences as leaders.

Associate Director of Career Development of the Forestry School Kathy Douglas said she invited Stiefer to conduct the workshop at Yale to help women learn to articulate their leadership experiences and styles confidently, especially in situations like job interviews.

“This workshop is for people to learn about their own strengths,” Douglas said. “Students need to be able to talk

about themselves in interviews and articulate what kind of leaders they are.”

Participants interviewed said they enjoyed collaborating with other women across different graduate and professional schools and Yale College.

Amanda Lounsbury GRD ’17, who attended the workshop, said the atmosphere and activities created a safe place to be vulnerable and learn about herself.

“I’ve started to see gender inequality myself as I’ve gone further in my education,” Lounsbury said. “It’s an important thing to deal with.”

Students need to be able to talk about themselves in interviews and articulate what kind of leaders they are.

KATHY DOUGLAS Associate Director of Career Development, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Nora Hawkins FES ’14 said the topics discussed throughout the day demonstrated a greater need for women to debate the issues facing them.

She added that it is difficult for women to find a balance between being confident but not “overly self-endorsing.”

Annie Barry ’14 said the message that leaders must know and understand the people they are leading particularly resonated with her. Although leaders are often concerned about their own leadership styles, they should focus more on learning about their community, she said.

60 percent of Forestry School students are women.

Contact HAILEY WINSTON at hailey.winston@yale.edu .

Bill could require anti-harassment policies

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTERS Under a bill introduced in Congress Thursday, colleges and universities would be required by the federal government to enact anti-harassment policies for the first time.

The bill — named for Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers freshman who committed suicide in 2010 after being harassed by another student — would require policies prohibiting harassment at any institution receiving federal student aid funding. Because nearly all colleges and universities in the United States — including Yale — receive some level of federal student aid funding, the mandate would effectively be universal.

Although the University is among those that already have harassment policies in place, the bill would nevertheless seek to strengthen federal support for and control over such policies.

The bill would prohibit harassment by other students, faculty or staff on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. Included in the bill is a recognition of and prohibition on cyberbullying. If passed, colleges and universities would also be required to distribute their anti-harassment policies to students and employees.

“No student or employee should have to live in fear of being who they are. Our schools should not be, and cannot be a place of discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation or violence,” said Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who introduced the bill, in a statement. “This legislation is an important step forward in not only preventing and addressing harassment on campus, but also making sure our students have the freedom to succeed in safe and healthy communities of learning and achievement.”

Though Yale has not publicly taken a stance on the bill, University spokesman Tom Conroy said Yale is firmly opposed to harassment and discrimination of any kind.

Baldwin cited a 2004 study by Rowan University in which 27.5 percent of college students indicated they had seen students bullied by other students. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender stu-

dents are twice as likely to experience harassment, according to the study.

If passed, the bill would also create a competitive grant program, run by the U.S. Department of Education, through which institutions can apply to create, expand or improve anti-harassment initiatives.

“The reason why it’s important to have this legislation explicitly is because it holds institutions accountable to creating a hostile environment rather than just the perpetrator of the harassment,” said Hope Brinn, a co-founder of college preparation resource The Collegiate Blog, and an activist against sexual violence at Swarthmore College.

No student or employee should have to live in fear of being who they are.

TAMMY BALDWIN Democratic U.S. Senator, Wisconsin Students at Yale indicated that though the bill may not have immediate ramifications for Yale specifically, it demonstrates the government’s increased attention to the problem of harassment.

“I personally think this is a great step forward in the right direction by the U.S. government,” said Winnie Wang ’15.

“This bill reminds us that harassment is a form of sexual and gender-based violence, is greater than ‘just a women’s problem,’ and that we should have zero tolerance for such behavior on college campuses across America.”

Lindsay Falkenberg ’15, who is involved in the Undergraduate Title IX Advisory Board, said she is generally glad to see the bill focus on harassment through technology. Though cyberbullying may be more relevant to younger generations college-aged adults are still not entirely safe from technology-based harassment, she said.

But Falkenberg is also wary of an approach to minimizing sexual misconduct exclusively through policy.

She pointed to work that could be done on the “micro level,” such as changing

campus climate through discussions and awareness events.

“There is already so much discussion of policy and efforts on policy [at Yale],” she said. “But there’s only so much that policy can do.”

The bill currently has 32 co-sponsors in the House and seven in the Senate, among them Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73. All of the cosponsors in both chambers are Democrats.

A number of civil rights, legal and education organizations have thrown their support behind the bill, including the Human Rights Campaign, the National Women’s Law Center and the American Association for University Women. Nevertheless, the bill has a slew of hurdles over to jump before landing on President Barack Obama’s desk.

When an earlier version was introduced by Senator Frank Lautenberg in 2011, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) took a strong stance against it, claiming that existing laws already protected students against on-campus harassment. FIRE added that “young adults don’t need special laws that treat them like children.”

Brinn countered FIRE’s claim that existing laws are enough. Because homophobic harassment can be construed as harassment based on gender presentation, Brinn said, it can fall under Title IX. However, she added that it is still important for institutions of higher education to explicitly state that homophobic harassment is not tolerated on their campuses. Introduced in February 2013, the House version of the bill has remained in committee for over a year. It remains to be seen whether the introduction of the Senate bill will lead to movement in the House.

The House version of the bill was introduced on the same day that Rutgers announced the creation of a Tyler Clementi Center, which aims to support teaching and research that address challenges students face when transitioning to college.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu and WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Ball in Tweed celebrates Harp

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX AMERICAN AUTHOR AND POET

SASVY hosts teach-in SASVY FROM PAGE 1 cussions on the dynamics of sexual assault on college campuses and necessary factors to consider in developing an effective sexual harassment policy.

Schools have really been able to bank on students’ ignorance of their rights for a very long time.

ALEXANDRA BRODSKY ’12 LAW ’16

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A glittering crowd of politicians, dignitaries and happy ball-goers was on hand to celebrate Mayor Toni Haro’s inauguration Saturday.

HARP FROM PAGE 1 the hanger, followed by a presentation by roughly 30 members of the Governor’s Foot Guard.

Harp made a point of shopping local.

She wore a custom-made silver dress crafted by the local Jamaican designer Neville Wisdom and donned jewelry from two Chapel Street designers — Peter Indorf and Derek Simpson.

In brief but emphatic remarks, Harp predicted positive economic and social development in New Haven.

“We are on the move in New Haven, and the move is up,” she said to a cheering crowd. “We are going to have jobs here, we are going to have the best urban education here and we are going to have the safest streets here if we just all work together.”

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy introduced Harp, addressing a politically starstudded crowd one day after announcing his re-election bid. He praised Harp’s successes as a state senator, including her work to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and to create more opportunities for early childhood education.

Some attendees said Saturday’s ball was their first, including Maria Damiani, director of the New Haven Health Department’s maternal and child health division. She said she came to show her support for the new administration and the potential it brings to the city. Particularly significant, Damiani said, is Harp’s “new and unique perspective — a

woman’s perspective.” The event’s blowout attendance was a testament to the immense political support Harp has in the state and city. Harp’s immense political support, Damiani said.

Others were longtime ball-goers. Tom Dubno, a consultant for the shipping company Gateway Terminal, said he has been going to inaugural galas for 50 years, since the tenure of Mayor Richard Lee in

We are on the move in New Haven, and the move is up.

TONI HARP Mayor, City of New Haven the 1950s and ’60s.

Harp’s colleagues in Hartford came out in droves, including not only New Haven’s delegation but legislators from across the state. State Rep. Pat Dillon, who served alongside Harp for more than two decades, said Harp has assumed executive office with vast preparation as a legislator. Dillon called her a disciplined and optimistic leader. State Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor ’93 LAW ’98 said he anticipates that Harp will keep New Haven Public Schools at the forefront of education reform.

For those close to the mayor, the event marked the culmination of a personal investment in Harp’s political career.

Cheryl Henderson, a psychologist in the

city, said she was “over the moon” when Harp told her she was running last spring.

She remarked on the mayor’s dry sense of humor and her unassuming leadership style.

Elsie Chapman, a New Haven resident, said Harp’s mild-mannered nature masks an inner zeal.

“People think she’s so disarming and nice, which she is; but you don’t stay in politics for 20 years without being tough and grounded in what you believe in,” Chapman said. “If you cross her, you better expect trouble.”

Harp’s children were also in attendance, her daughters having flown in from Georgia for the celebration. Martyn Philpot, a New Haven attorney who got to know the mayor through her late husband Wendell Harp, called her election “the realization of a dream for her and her family.”

Toni Nixon, a supervisor at the Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic who has known Harp for over 11 years, said Harp’s devotion to her hometown is unique among politicians. “[She] could have stayed [in Hartford], but she came back home and I think that’s amazing,” she said. “[Harp’s] heart has never changed.”

The event also featured entertainment from local groups, including The Bernadettes and Mikata Salsa and Latin Jazz Orchestra.

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu and ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at

SASVY members also encouraged students to contribute to the Clothesline Project, an art project involving T-shirts with messages about sexual violence.

The completed project will be hung on Cross Campus in order to raise awareness about sexual assault.

“One of the things I’m really impressed by with the group

is the discussion of ownership of campus culture,” said Ella Wood ’15, who is not involved in SASVY. Amy Myers, a staff member at Yale’s Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education Center, said she thinks events such as Saturday’s are important opportunities for members of the community to communicate about issues of sexual violence.

Organizer Winnie Wang ’15 said SASVY plans to host similar events in the future. Ideally, she said, the group will host teachins once a semester, though she added that SASVY’s ability to host will depend upon donations that fund bringing speakers to campus.

The 2011 Title IX complaint was filed by Brodsky and 15 other students.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloydthomas@yale.edu and NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“The environment is everything that isn’t me.”

ALBERT EINSTEIN GERMAN-BORN THEORETICAL PHYSICIST

CT residents rush for coverage

BY ABIGAIL BESSLER STAFF REPORTER As the Monday deadline for enrolling in Connecticut’s new health care exchange approaches, many health care experts have judged the exchange to be one of the best run in the country.

Over 190,000 people in Connecticut have enrolled in private insurance or Medicaid as of Sunday, far higher than the 100,000 sign-up target first set by Access Health CT, which manages the exchange. Enrollment, which began after the passage of the federal Affordable Care Act, has recently reached 3,000 to 4,000 people a day, according to Kevin Counihan, the CEO of Access Health CT. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, who said Connecticut’s exchange has been defined by its “lack of glitches,” has voiced strong support for the Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as Obamacare, since its passage.

“Enrollment in the new health care law has totally exceeded our initial expectations,” Murphy said. “In a lot of ways Connecticut has been the model for the entire nation.”

As of Sunday, there are 73,000 people enrolled in insurance plans under the state’s commercial exchange, and the other 117,000 have signed up for the state’s Medicaid program, according to Counihan.

Murphy said the exchange has encountered few setbacks because the governor and the legislative delegation were united in their support of the Affordable Care Act. “In Connecticut we made a commitment from the top down to implement the law rather than undermine it,” Murphy said.

“We had a unity of purpose and a governor who made a really good choice when it came to who he put in charge of the exchange.”

Murphy also pointed to a recent New York Times article that described Connecticut’s website as “smoothly functioning” and said officials are “offering to sell their expertise to states like Maryland,” a state that had severe website problems.

After Monday, the penalty for not enrolling in health care will kick in, which will fine people who have not signed up at 1 percent of their household income or $95, whichever is higher. In the last two days, around 6,000 people have signed up, with around 60 percent going on Medicaid and 40 percent joining the commercial exchange, Counihan said.

“Classic human behavior,” Counihan said, adding that he expects sign-ups on Monday to be “crazy.”

Counihan said the high enrollment numbers are reflective of a functioning website, which is separate from the problem-riddled federal site, as well as standardization across the insurance plans and successful door-todoor outreach efforts to promote the exchange.

He said Access Health CT has been promoting enrollment through social media as well as organizing a team of community outreach workers, church leaders, health center employees, students and health care “navigators” and “assisters” to help people enroll.

In a lot of ways Connecticut has been the model for the entire nation.

CHRIS MURPHY Democratic U.S. Senator, Connecticut

The state’s 14 health centers that have been helping people sign up when they come in to receive care have seen steady enrollment in the health care exchange, according to Deb Polun, spokeswoman for the Community Health Center Association of Connecticut.

Polun said staff members at health care centers have been effective in signing people up for insurance because they are already trained, are typically community members who know patients well and can explain insurance in various languages and in ways people understand.

Twenty-nine percent of health care patients in the state are best served in a language other than English, and 75 percent are racial or ethnic minorities, Polun said.

Health Care centers are involved in Access Health’s “March to Enrollment,” with more Access Health CT staff going to centers to boost enrollment right before the deadline.

Access Health CT also set up two “retail stores” to sell insurance, including one at 55 Church St. in New Haven. The New Haven location sees an average of 175 customers per day, Counihan said.

Although enrollment numbers have been higher than expected, the enrollment process has not been without issues.

Polun said that although sign-

ups have generally been going well, health centers have experienced some problems with the Access Health website. She said the website sometimes rejects people, says a person is wrongly Medicaid eligible or ineligible or is simply down.

The weekend before the deadline was particularly slow, she added.

Counihan said the slow connections can be attributed to the “unprecedented level of complexity” in the website and the fact that the state’s website connects with federal data, which often loads slowly.

The Gallup-Healthways WellBeing Index showed earlier this month that the uninsured rate, now at 15.9 percent nationwide, has decreased by over a percentage point since the end of last year. Connecticut currently has an uninsured rate of 8 percent, according to Counihan.

The biggest problem facing the exchange right now, Polun said, is communication between Access Health CT and the state’s Department of Social Services, which administers the newly expanded Medicaid program.

The Department of Social Services is in the process of replacing its eligibility system, Counihan said. For now, the department cannot process PDF documents and must retype them into their system.

“It leads to a lot of errors and delays,” Polun said, adding that she has seen the department take months to process Medicaid applications.

Polun said 23 percent of health care center patients are uninsured, and many sign up for Medicaid.

Medicaid enrollment has expanded greatly throughout the country, Murphy said, adding that Connecticut already had a “generous” Medicaid program, so the state did not see as large of a surge in sign-ups as other states experienced.

Counihan said it will take four to five years to see how the legislation ultimately plays out.

“Implementing a massive social program like the Affordable Care Act requires patience, and we live in a highly impatient society,” Counihan said.

“There’s going to be people after [Monday] who are going to declare the law a success or a failure, but it’s way too early. It’s going to take a while to adjust.”

The enrollment period for 2015 will run from Nov. 15, 2014 to Feb. 15, 2015.

Contact ABIGAIL BESSLER at abigail.bessler@yale.edu .

Yale bridges food today and food past

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Alice Waters and professor Paul Freedman led an exhibition of food-related materials in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Saturday.

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER On Saturday afternoon, renowned chef and co-founder of the Yale Sustainable Food Project (YSFP), Alice Waters, along with Professor Paul Freedman led an event at Yale to view the aged cookbooks and recipes, and other food related materials in Beinecke Library.

They were joined by a cohort of people involved with the YSFP, including many alumni, the founding co-directors, sustaining donors and some recent graduates. The event was the last in a weekend that celebrated the Yale Sustainable Food Project’s 10th anniversary, and looked forward to the next 10 years of sustainable food at Yale.

“This is partly to show what kind of things students can use for research,” Freedman said, “and partly to show the various ways in which a mainly biological phenomenon has manifested itself across cultures.”

Waters is the founder of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California restaurant famous for its menu’s focus on organic and locally grown foods. She has been a national supporter of organic foods for over 40 years, as well as an advocate on the national level of school lunch reform, which she has promoted through programs like the Edible Schoolyard program at Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley, California.

Freeman gave the attendees of the event a brief summary of the materials that they were looking at and explained how these materials fit into the larger context of sustainable food at Yale.

Materials displayed included a stone tablet from the Babylonian collection with cuneiform inscriptions of recipes dating from 1750 B.C., a reprinting of the only Roman cookbook known to survive, and materials from the founding of the YSFP. According to the curator of the Babylonian collection, Ulla Caston, it is the old-

est cookbook still in existence. Attendees were invited to leaf through the materials presented and even touch some of the ancient stone tablets displayed.

“I think it’s important that we know what was happening in places of the world that connect health and gastronomy,” Waters said. “We have to find our way back home,” she said, speaking to how in the past smaller farms put a higher premium on the quality of their product, but today’s farms are more concerned with quantity.

Waters said how she herself has recently taken an interest in ancient grains such as farro, barley and others that were eaten by civilizations of the past. She is also very interested in spices from the Middle East such as turmeric, which are not only a source of “natural and delicious” flavor for her cooking, but have also been linked to health benefits.

The Beinecke event was the conclusion of the YSFP’s 10th anniversary weekend celebration, which included a trip to the Yale Farm, several panels featuring speakers affiliated with YSFP and a Friday night dinner honoring Waters and former University President Richard Levin.

Jacquline Lewin, programs manager for international and professional experience for the YSFP, said she felt that the weekend reflected the importance of sustainable food both on the farm, in the classroom and around the world.

“We have to really do the research, and the YSFP is doing that,” Waters said. “I hope that we can go all the way here at Yale,” she added.

Waters stressed how important it is for those who work with food today to take into consideration the information that has been cultivated about food over thousands of years.

The Yale Sustainable Food Project began in 2000.

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu .

Environmental film festival to engage audience

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER Today marks the beginning of the sixth annual Environmental Film Festival at Yale (EFFY), a weeklong showcase of environmental films organized by students at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Founded in 2008, EFFY is now the largest student-run environmental film festival in the world, according to Elizabeth Babalola FES ’14, codirector of EFFY. The festival uses films — most of which are documentaries and all of which are under a year old — to help raise awareness about environmental issues.

This year, EFFY’s coordinating team has added more activities to engage with audiences, Co-Director Lexi Tuddenham FES ’14 said.

The festival will feature an outdoor block party to display the short films, a storytelling workshop for audience members interested in environmental filmmaking and a nature walk through New Haven.

The seven-day festival will include 10 feature films and 18 short films, including a world premiere. After each viewing, EFFY will sponsor a Q&A or panel session with a diverse array of experts, ranging from filmmakers to professors. Organizers interviewed said they hope these discussions can bring exploration of issues tackled by the films to the next level.

“I think this year the focus has really been on incredibly high quality, visually compelling films with the best storytelling,” Tuddenham said.

Co-Director Rebeka Ryvola FES ’14 said this year also marks a turning point in EFFY’s independence.

In previous years, Richard Miron ’13 was involved in the festival’s planning, and though he still maintains a seat on EFFY’s board, this is the first year he has not been directly involved in programming, she said.

Though EFFY is a Yale-sponsored event, the festival has had a significant public draw in recent years.

About 30 percent of attendees at previous festivals have been non-Yale affiliated New Haven residents, Tuddenham said.

Looking forward to this year’s festival and beyond, Tuddenham said EFFY hopes to maintain its public appeal while also fostering a stronger following within the Yale community, especially within Yale College. She added that EFFY also hopes to attract more high school students to its events.

Dean of Alumni and External Affairs at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Gordon Geballe, who advised the students who planned the first year of EFFY, said he has always been inspired by the event’s potential.

“At a place like Yale that has such strong humanities, it asks the question ‘Why we don’t ask more scientific questions using the humanities?’” he said.

Though Geballe said it is difficult to asses whether such a marriage between the humanities and the environmental sciences has proved successful, he said it has certainly enabled students involved in EFFY’s planning to think more deeply about the issues featured in the films.

The first film to be featured tonight will be “Il était une forêt.”

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .

YALE FILM FESTIVAL

The Environmental Film Festival at Yale, which exposes audiences to contemporary documentaries, began in 2008.

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FROM THE FRONT Malloy to run for reelection MALLOY FROM PAGE 1 tinue the work that we’ve been undertaking,” Malloy said at the press conference Friday.

A Quinnipiac University poll released earlier this month showed Malloy tied with Republican Tom Foley, the Greenwich businessman he defeated by fewer than 7,000 votes in 2010.

Foley and the other Republican candidates — Senate minority leader John McKinney ’86, Danbury mayor Mark Boughton, Shelton mayor Mark Lauretti, former Attorney General candidate Martha Dean and former West Hartford Town Councilor Joe Visconti — have relentlessly criticized Malloy’s record on the economy, education and the budget.

Gary Rose, chairman of the Department of Government and Politics at Sacred Heart University, speculated that Malloy decided to announce his reelection bid earlier than previously planned so that he could respond more vigorously to Republican criticisms.

“Basically, he was like a punching bag without punching back,” Rose said. “Now he realized, ‘I better start doing something.’”

Foley said in a statement that he was glad that Malloy had joined the race.

“New leadership to take the state in a better direction is what voters want,” Foley said. “With Governor Malloy in the race, voters in November will have the clearest choice possible about the future leadership of their state.”

Lauretti said he believes Malloy will ultimately be damned by his economic record, which has emerged as the single largest issue of the campaign. In 2013, the U.S. Department of Commerce ranked Connecticut’s economic growth worst in the nation.

Echoing a common line of Republican criticism, Lauretti said Malloy’s agenda was aimed at securing reelection long before he officially entered the race.

“He’s been campaigning for three years,” Lauretti said. “Everything he does is part of his campaign. He spends all his time focusing on getting

“The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.”

FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT SWISS PLAYWRIGHT AND NOVELIST

Murphy talks trip to Kiev

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JENNIFER CHEUNG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Recent polls show Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy tied with his Republican opponent. reelected as opposed to doing things that benefit the greater good. “ But Ronald Schurin, associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut, said that many voters will find Malloy’s achievements compelling. The day before he announced his plan to run, he signed a law giving Connecticut the highest minimum wage in the country, $10.10.

The same poll that found Malloy tied with Foley also showed 71 percent of voters supported raising the minimum wage, though not all wanted the increase to be as significant as the one passed.

Schurin said Malloy will aim to present his policies as friendlier to the poor and middle-class than those of Republican opponents. Schurin believes that tactic could work particularly well if Foley wins the nomination.

“If his opponent is Mr. Foley,” Schurin said, “then that will be kind of a reprise of in some ways the ObamaRomney campaign, where Foley is

perceived as someone who speaks for the advantaged and doesn’t have a real understanding of what ordinary people’s concerns are.”

The Quinnipiac poll found Foley leading the Republican primary field with 36 percent of the vote.

Among Democrats, the lack of pomp and circumstance surrounding the announcement did not deter celebration. New Haven mayor Toni Harp said she was “delighted” by the news that Malloy would seek reelection.

“As a former city mayor, he is particularly sensitive to the needs of New Haven and has been a good friend to our city,” Harp said. “New Haven will be well served by a second term for the Malloy-Wyman administration.”

The Republican and Democratic state conventions, where each party will nominate a candidate for the general election, will both be held on May 16.

Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy traveled with a delegation to Ukraine to assess the political situation and present a unified message of support.

UKRAINE FROM PAGE 1 etary Fund.

According to Cardin, the relief part of the IMF package was removed from the bill to ensure strong bipartisan support for the legislation.

“There have been differences between the parties,” said Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois on the floor of the senate on Wednesday. “But there comes a moment, and there always has, at least in the past, where we decide to stand together as a nation, particularly when it comes to issues of foreign policy.”

Blumenthal visited St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in New Haven yesterday to update members of the Ukrainian community on the passage of the bill.

“The [Ukrainian] community is very gratified by the resolution, but still concerned about the future,” Blumenthal said. “I was inspired and moved by the dedication of the community towards the need for democracy and self-determination for Ukraine.”

Blumenthal said he and Murphy have worked as a team and talked extensively over the past few weeks about connect-

ing Connecticut’s Ukrainian community to the action in Washington.

More recently, the U.S. has coordinated with its allies to prepare for stronger trade sanctions against Russia, Blumenthal added.

While in Ukraine, Murphy and the delegation heard news of possible Russian movement into the Crimean region to seize a gas terminal and halt flow into Crimea as an effort to manipulate Ukraine by restricting energy supply.

Murphy wrote that the delegation sought to present a unified message to Ukrainians regarding the invasion before the end of the trip.

“We stayed together, on message, and strong in our support of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and right to self-governance,” he wrote.

In addition to Murphy, the delegation, including Republicans McCain, Jeff Flake of Arizona, John Barrasso of Wyoming, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and John Hoeven of North Dakota and Democrats Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse ’78 of Rhode Island.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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WORLD

“The law is silent during war.”

CICERO ANCIENT ROMAN PHILOSOPHER AND ORATOR

No objects from search linked to Flight 370

BY ROB GRIFFITH AND GILLIAN WONG ASSOCIATED PRESS PERTH, Australia — Despite what Australia called an “intensifying search effort,” an international hunt Sunday by aircraft and ships in the southern Indian Ocean found no debris linked to the Malaysian jet that vanished more than three weeks ago.

Several dozen angry Chinese relatives of Flight 370 passengers demanded “evidence, truth, dignity” from Malaysian authorities, expressing their frustrations at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur as the mystery drags on.

Nine aircraft and eight ships searching the waters off western Australia found only “fishing equipment and other flotsam” not connected to the Malaysia Airlines plane, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said. The Boeing 777 disappeared March 8 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard.

But at least four orange objects that were more than 6 feet in size were seen by the crew of an Australian P3 Orion search plane, said the pilot, Flight Lt. Russell Adams, after returning to base.

“I must stress that we can’t confirm the origin of these objects,” he said, adding that images of the items have yet to be verified, and a GPS buoy was dropped and ships must still investigate.

Adams said it was “the most visibility we had of any objects in the water and gave us the most promising leads.”

The planes and ships are scouring a search zone that was redefined Friday based on satellite data from the Boeing 777, but they have

found no debris associated with the flight, said Australian Navy Commodore Peter Leavy. The zone lies in a shipping lane where sea trash is common, complicating the effort.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott insisted the “intensifying search effort” was positive because objects “have been recovered from the ocean” in the zone after a weeklong search in another area saw items from planes that ships never managed to find.

The planes taking part in Sunday’s search included three Australian P3 Orions, a Japanese P3, a Chinese Il-76, a Korean Orion, a U.S. Poseidon and two Malaysian C-130s. Eight ships were on the scene, an area roughly the size of Poland or New Mexico, about 1,150 miles west of Australia. The vessels include the Australian navy supply ship HMAS Success, which was designated to carry any wreckage found.

Ten planes and 10 ships will take part in Monday’s search, the maritime agency said, with some parts of the zone expected to experience low clouds and rain — similar to Sunday’s weather.

“We have got to have conclusive visual evidence of debris,” said Cmdr. William Marks, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet, appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “That is the most important thing. So we have to keep flying these missions out of Perth.”

Abbott said a former Australian defense chief, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, will head a new center in Perth for search and recovery operations, coordinating the international effort.

Although searchers were ham-

AARON FAVILA /ASSOCIATED PRESS

People light candles during a ceremony for the passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday pered by rain and low clouds Sunday, they were still were able to look for debris because of visibility of about 6 miles. It takes planes about two-and-a-half hours to get to the area, allowing a five-hour search before they must return.

Other objects spotted so far

Brazil police push into Rio de Janeiro

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Navy armored vehicles are seen during an operation to occupy the Mare slum complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, March 30, 2014.

BY BRADLEY BROOKS ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO — More than 1,400 police officers and Brazilian Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro’s international airport before dawn Sunday in the latest security push ahead of this year’s World Cup. Not a shot was fired as the Mare complex of 15 slums became the latest impoverished area to see security forces move in to take control and try to push out heavily armed drug gangs that have ruled Rio’s shantytowns for decades.

In the coming days, Army soldiers will begin patrolling the virtually treeless, flat area of about 2 square miles (5 square kilometers) in northern Rio that hugs the main road to the airport and is home to about 130,000 people.

Security forces will eventually set up permanent posts in Mare as part of the “pacification” program that began in 2008 and is meant to secure Rio ahead of not the World Cup and also the 2016 Summer Olympics. Police have installed 37 such posts in recent years in an area covering 1.5 million people.

Sunday’s operation comes at a critical time for the security effort. In recent months, gangs have brazenly attacked police outposts in other shantytowns on orders from imprisoned gang leaders who want to stymie the spread of “pacified” slums. With each area policy occupy, gangs lose valuable territory for the manufacture and sale of drugs.

Hilda Guimares, an elderly woman

who slowly shuffled down a street on her way to church in Mare as officers from Rio’s elite BOPE police unit quickly moved past, said she welcomed the presence of the state.

“This had to happen and it’s about time,” said Guimares, a longtime resident of the area. “We’ve needed to clean up this neighborhood for so long, but we’ve always been ignored.

For too many years these gangs have been ruling this place.”

Other residents, most of whom were too afraid of both the police and the gangs to give their names, had mixed feelings.

Over the arc of the 5-year-old “pacification” program, shootouts in the affected slums are unquestionably down. But many residents complain of heavy-handed police tactics.

More than 20 police who patrolled in Rio’s largest slum, Rocinha, are facing charges for the torture, disappearance and presumed death of a slum resident there, whom they were questioning in an effort to find caches of drugs and guns in the community.

Additionally, residents say that after police set up permanent posts in slums, the state is not following up with strong social programs that would improve their lives.

“I didn’t believe the police would actually come until I saw them enter before dawn,” said Sabrina, a 15-yearold girl working at a snack stand who asked that her last name not be used, saying she was afraid of retribution by gang members. “Those of us who live here are stuck between the gangs and the police; we don’t know who is really going to control this place.”

include three with white, red and orange colors by the Chinese plane, China’s official Xinhua News Agency said. The missing Boeing 777’s exterior was red, white, blue and gray.

For a full week, searchers relied on satellite imagery from various

countries as they tried to find the plane in a zone to the south of the current area. They abruptly shifted the site Friday after authorities concluded the plane could not have traveled as far as they had thought based on its estimated speed and fuel consumption.

That prompted the change in the search for the plane’s likely entry point into the sea and the possible location of its flight recorders, or “black boxes,” which should contain clues to what caused the aircraft to fly so far offcourse.

Ukraine discussions stagnant

BY MATTHEW LEE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — The United States and Russia agreed Sunday that the crisis in Ukraine requires a diplomatic resolution, but four hours of talks between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov failed to break a tense East-West deadlock over how to proceed.

Sitting face-to-face but not seeing eye-to-eye on any of the most critical issues, Kerry and Lavrov advanced widely different proposals on how to calm tensions and de-escalate the situation, particularly as Russia continues to mass troops along its border with the former Soviet republic. As he called for Moscow to begin an immediate pullback of the troops, Kerry also ruled out discussion of Russia’s demand for Ukraine to become a loose federation until-and-unless Ukrainians are at the table.

“The Russian troop buildup is creating a climate of fear and intimidation in Ukraine,” Kerry told reporters at the home of the U.S. ambassador to France after the meeting, which was held at the Russian ambassador’s residence and included a working dinner. “It certainly does not create the climate that we need for dialogue.”

The U.S. believes the massing of tens of thousands of Russian soldiers, ostensibly for military exercises, along the border is at once an attempt to intimidate Ukraine’s new leaders after Russia’s annexation of the strategic Crimean peninsula and to use as a bargaining chip with the United States and the European Union, which have condemned Crimea’s absorption into Russia and imposed sanctions on senior Russian officials.

Kerry noted that even if the troops remain on Russian soil and do not enter Ukraine, they create a negative atmosphere.

“The question is not one of right or legality,” he said. “The question is one of strategic appropriateness and whether it’s smart at this moment of time to have troops massed on the border.”

U.S. officials said Kerry proposed a number of ideas on troop withdrawals from the border and that Lavrov, while making no promises, told him he would present the proposals to the Kremlin.

At a separate news conference at the Russian ambassador’s house, Lavrov did not address the troop issue.

Instead, he made the case for Moscow’s idea of Ukraine as a federalized nation with its various regions enjoying major autonomy from the government in Kiev. Russia says it is particularly concerned about the treatment of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers who live in southern and eastern Ukraine.

Lavrov said that Ukraine can’t function as a “unified state” and should be a loose federation of regions that are each allowed to choose their own economic, financial, social, linguistic and religious models.

He said every time Ukraine has elected a new president, the country has adopted a new constitution, proving that “the model of a unified state doesn’t work.”

Ukrainian officials are wary of decentralizing power, fearing that proRussia regions would hamper its Western aspirations and potentially split the country apart. However, they are exploring political reforms that could grant more authority to local governments.

The U.S. has been coy about their position on a federation. Washington has encouraged ongoing political and constitutional reform efforts that the government in Kiev is now working on but U.S. officials insist that any changes to Ukraine’s governing structure must be acceptable to the Ukrainians.

Kerry said the federation idea had not been discussed in any serious way during his meeting with Lavrov “because it would have been inappropriate to do so without Ukrainian input.”

“It is not up to us to make any decision or agreement regarding federalization,” he said. “It is up to Ukrainians.”

“We will not accept a path forward where the legitimate government of Ukraine is not at the table,” Kerry said, adding that the bottom line is: “No decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine.”

Lavrov denied that Moscow wants to “split Ukraine.”

“Federation does not mean, as

some in Kiev fear, an attempt to split Ukraine,” he said. “To the contrary, federation ... answers the interests of all regions of Ukraine.”

Lavrov said he and Kerry did agree to work with the Ukrainian government to improve rights for Russian-speaking Ukrainians and disarm “irregular forces and provocateurs.”

Sunday’s meeting was hastily arranged 48 hours after U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone in a conversation in which Obama urged Putin to withdraw his troops from the border with Ukraine. Putin, who initiated the call, asserted that Ukraine’s government is allowing extremists to intimidate ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking civilians with impunity - something Ukraine insists is not happening.

That call did little to reassure U.S. officials that Russia is not planning to invade Ukraine after its Crimea annexation that drew U.S. and EU sanctions, sparking reciprocal moves from Moscow.

In the interview with Russian television, Lavrov called the sanctions a “dead-end” strategy that would not achieve results and accused the West of hypocrisy. He said it was inconsistent for the west to refuse to recognize Crimea’s annexation, which followed a referendum on joining Russia that was overwhelmingly approved, while at the same time accepting the new government in Kiev, which was formed after the pro-Moscow president fled the country.

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before the start of their meeting at the Russian Ambassador’s residence about the situation in Ukraine, in Paris Sunday March 30, 2014.

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Mudslide death toll rises

Man dead after shooting at Ga. university

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Search work continues at the site of the massive mudslide that struck the community of Oso, Wash. on March 22, 2014.

BY JONATHAN J. COOPER AND LISA BAUMANN ASSOCIATED PRESS DARRINGTON, Wash. — Many of the dogs essential in the search for victims of the deadly mudslide that buried a mountainside community will take a two-day break, rescue crews said Sunday, as the official death toll rose and more bodies were recovered.

The dogs can lose their sensing ability if overworked in the cold and rain.

“The conditions on the slide field are difficult, so this is just a time to take care of the dogs,” said Kris Rietmann, a spokeswoman for the team working on the eastern portion of the slide, which hit March 22 about 55 miles northeast of Seattle and is one of the deadliest in U.S. history.

Dogs from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that arrived more recently will continue working.

On Sunday evening, the number of people who have been confirmed dead increased from 18 to 21, said Jason Biermann, program manager at the Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management.

Fifteen of the victims have been identified by the Snohomish County medical examiner, and six have yet to be identified, Biermann said.

Another four bodies were found in the debris field on Sunday, but they won’t be added to the official count until the medical examiner receives the bodies. Biermann said 30 people remain missing.

Authorities have said the task of finding and identifying victims from the debris field has been extremely challenging, and not all may ultimately be recovered.

Crews have completed a makeshift road that will link one side of the debris field to the other, significantly aiding the recovery

operation.

They have also been working to clear mud and debris from the highway, leaving piles of gooey muck, splintered wood and housing insulation on the sides of the road.

Searchers have had to contend with treacherous conditions, including septic tanks, gasoline and propane containers. When rescuers and dogs leave the site, they are hosed off by hazardous materials crews.

The slide dammed up the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River, causing water to pool up on the east side. The river cut a new channel through the mud, but the rain has raised the water level nearly a foot, Rietmann said.

In at least one place, the water level got so high that it covered areas that have already been searched, said Tim Pierce, leader of Washington Task Force 1, a search-and-rescue team.

Albuquerque police face hundreds of protesters

COLUMBUS, Ga. — A man was shot and fatally wounded by campus police on Sunday near student apartments at Georgia’s Columbus State University after they responded to reports that someone had been seen loading a gun, campus authorities said.

No one else was hurt and the campus in western Georgia, about 100 miles southwest of Atlanta, was never put on any lockdown during or after the shooting episode, campus officials said. They added that the man was not a student at the school.

University Police Chief Rus Drew told The Associated Press that officers were called at 2:35 p.m. Sunday and arrived three minutes later to an area near some campus apartments and began chasing the man on foot.

“There was a short foot chase, and, at some point, the suspect turned and faced the officers and shots were fired,” Drew said by phone. He added that while there were some student witnesses, no lockdown was ordered because events unfolded rapidly and authorities had determined that an “isolated threat” had been removed.

He added that no students appeared to have been placed in potential danger, though he said there were some student wit-

nesses. He did not elaborate, and campus officials declined to say how many students were in the apartments or nearby at the time.

Bill Sutley, a university spokesman, later told the AP in a statement that campus police had received a report of a man seen loading a gun near the apartments before the chase and that he had been shot by officers.

He said he had no further details about the shooting or why the man was on campus.

The university statement added that a local coroner’s office had confirmed to campus police that the man was later pronounced dead at a hospital where he had been taken by ambulance at 3:15 p.m.

The identity of the man was not immediately made public pending notification of the family, authorities said.

The university said it was cooperating with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, a state law enforcement agency that routinely investigates policeinvolved shootings. It also said counselors would be made available to students if needed.

“This is a terrible tragedy,” CSU Tim Mescon said. “We’ll cooperate fully with the investigation … Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved in this as well as their families.”

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BY RUSSELL CONTRERAS ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hundreds of protesters marched past riot police in Albuquerque on Sunday, days after a YouTube video emerged threatening retaliation for a recent deadly police shooting.

The video, which bore the logo of the computer hacking collective Anonymous, warned of a cyberattack on city websites and called for the protest march.

Albuquerque police said their site had been breached early Sunday afternoon, but it was visible late in the afternoon after being offline for hours.

The department could not immediately be reached for comment Sunday evening.

Earlier Sunday, police spokesman Simon Drobik said investigators had not uncovered the source of the hack.

“We can confirm that the website disruption is due to a cyberattack,” he said.

The site was not “connected to any critical services,” Drobik said.

The demonstrators, meanwhile, arrived at Civic Plaza holding signs protesting recent police shootings, and activists called on various city officials to resign.

The protest began Sunday afternoon and continued into the early evening as demonstrators marched around the city.

By about 6 p.m. Mountain time, a few hundred demonstrators had gathered downtown near police headquarters where they confronted about three dozen officers in riot gear.

Authorities announced over a loudspeaker that the protest was an unlawful assembly. Demonstrators, meanwhile, chanted, “No justice, no peace!”

Alexander Siderits, 23, said he was protesting because he was “fed up” with how police treat citizens. “It has reached a boiling point,” he said, “and people just can’t take it anymore.”

Albuquerque police have been involved in 37 shootings, 23 of them fatal since 2010.

Critics say that’s far too many for a department serving a city of about 555,000.

The U.S. Justice Department has been investigating the department for more than a year, looking into complaints of civil rights violations and allegations of excessive use of force.

Last week, Albuquerque police fatally shot a man at a public housing complex.

Authorities said he shot at officers before they returned fire.

In the shooting on March 16 that led to the YouTube posting Tuesday, a homeless man was killed in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains on the east side of Albuquerque. The shooting was captured on video and followed a long standoff.

Anonymous, a loosely organized worldwide hacking group, has been blamed for breaking into confidential information and defacing websites.

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4:00 PM “Under the Covers: A Visual History of Decorated Endpapers.” Every Monday during the semester, come to a 4 p.m. tea at the Beinecke Library. Each week will include a gallery talk on an item in the library’s current exhibitions. This week Elana Herzog, lecturer at the School of Art, is the guest. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.).

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eyond the exhibits displayed in the halls of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History lies the marvel of the Peabody Collections. Each division of the museum has its own collection of organisms. The Vertebrate Zoology collection houses specimens of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, which are available for scholarly research and are sometimes incorporated into museum exhibits. PAIGE CURTIS reports.

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NCAAM Connecticut 60 Michigan St 54

NCAAM Kentucky 75 Michigan 72

SPORTS QUICK HITS

NCAAW Maryland 73 Tennessee 62

NCAAW Stanford 82 Penn State 57

MONDAY “We will continue to make adjustments that we know we are more than capable of making, and we will thrive as the season continues.”

LINDSAY EFFLANDT ’17 SOFTBALL

BRIAN HOGAN ’16 MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING Hogan, a sophomore from Scarsdale, NY, represented the men’s swimming and diving team at NCAA championships this weekend, placing 18th in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 1:43.31. He also competed in the 500yard freestyle and 200-yard freestyle.

JAMES JONES MEN’S BASKETBALL Jones was selected as a finalist for the CollegeInsider.com Ben Jobe award, awarded to the best minority coach in Division I men’s basketball. Jones passed Joseph Vancisin as the winningest head coach in Yale men’s basketball history this season.

NCAAW Louisville 73 NCAAW

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Studentathletes try to unionize

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poor showing for us.”

Yale opened the scoring just over five minutes into the contest after midfielder Eric Scott ’17 beat his defender with a quick alley dodge and buried his shot in the bot-

The phrase “student-athlete” has always been common in collegiate athletics, but a recent decision to allow Northwestern football players to unionize may promote the athlete-student rather than the studentathlete.

On Wednesday, Peter Sung Ohr, representative of District 13 of the National Labor Relations Board, which enforces labor laws under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, ruled that Northwestern football players should be able to unionize. Ohr’s ruling is the first of its kind and may open up the doors for student-athlete unionization at other private institutions around the country, which could have second-order effects on universities governed by the NCAA such as Yale.

“The motivation behind NCAA athlete unionization is to get paid on top of athletic scholarships because being a college athlete requires as much time as a full-time job,” said offensive lineman John Oppenheimer ’14. “There definitely is some argument for athletes at big-time schools getting paid because of the revenue they bring in to their respective schools such as SEC football and Big 10 basketball.”

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The men’s lacrosse team fell to Penn 6–5 this past weekend.

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER On a rainy Saturday at Reese Stadium, the No. 11 men’s lacrosse team fell to Ivy League foes Penn 6–5 after a defensive struggle that produced season low scoring for

both teams.

Yale (4–3, 1–2 Ivy) was held below six goals for only the second time in five years. The Quakers (4–3, 1–2 Ivy), who scored four unanswered goals in the second half, won the statistical majority of the groundball, turnover and

faceoff battles while also besting the Elis in shots and saves.

“We knew going into the game Penn was going to have a good defensive showing,” attackman Brandon Mangan ’14 said. “We had far too many turnovers, and Penn’s great goalie play translated into a

Elis take Lehigh and California at home

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s lacrosse team had this past weekend off from Ivy League play, but it used two non-league games against California and Lehigh to gain key momentum heading into the latter part of its conference season.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE Playing in rainy weather at Reese Stadium in both contests, the Bulldogs (7–3, 1–2 Ivy) netted 17 of 26 shots to top UC Berkeley 17–6 on Friday and then held out to beat Lehigh 8–7 yesterday.

“Winning the two games this weekend [was] really great for us,” captain and defender Adrienne Tarver ’14 said in an email.

“It was important for us to win them both so that we could get back on track before we face Princeton next weekend.”

Goalie Erin Mullins ’15 agreed, noting that the weekend’s games ended a three-game losing streak for the team and righted the ship before the team faces Princeton.

Attacker Nicole Daniggelis ’16 fueled both Eli victories with a combined 10 goals against Cal (2–6, 1–1 MPSF) and Lehigh (5–6, 2–2 Patriot), including six of Yale’s eight goals against Lehigh. With 29 goals so far this season, she currently sits at the top of the Ivy League goals leaderboard alongside Cornell’s Lindsay Toppe.

Daniggelis was also the major reason that the Bulldogs held a significant advantage in draw controls over the two games.

With Daniggelis taking a majority of draw controls for Yale, the Bulldogs won 16 of 25 against Cal

and 11 of 17 against Lehigh.

“It is extremely difficult to defend a player of Nicole’s caliber, and I think she continued to frustrate Lehigh on both the offensive end and the draws,” said starting goalie Erin McMullan ’14. “Lehigh was forced to hold the ball on offense because they were unable to win the draw. Nicole consistently forces teams to change their game plans.”

Defensively, the Elis allowed Cal and Lehigh just 14 and 12 shots on goal, respectively.

McMullan saved 13 of those, increasing her season save percentage to 46.8 and her save total to 66. Both figures are third in the Ivy League.

“Our defenders have done a great job of keeping us in tight games,” McMullan said. “By causing turnovers on the defensive end, they give our attackers more opportunities to score.”

Friday against Cal, Daniggelis took an early lead for Yale with a goal three minutes into the first half. The Golden Bears scored twice seven minutes later to grab the advantage, but the Bulldogs soon took back the lead and never let it go.

Daniggelis scored two goals consecutively, making the score 3–2, and midfielder Christina Doherty ’15 and attack Jen DeVito ’14 followed up with a goal apiece to extend the lead.

Cal kept the game close for most of the contest, and backand-forth scoring led to a 9–6 score midway through the second half.

At that point, though, the Bulldogs appeared to decide that three goals was not a satisfactory margin of victory. Nor SEE WOMEN’S LACROSSE PAGE 2

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The women’s lacrosse team topped California and Lehigh this weekend.

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CONSECUTIVE GOALS SCORED BY THE WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM TO CLOSE OUT FRIDAY’S 17–6 VICTORY OVER CAL. The Bulldogs led by only three midway through the second half before piling on the goals to blow away the Golden Bears.

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“Where trade unions are most firmly established, there are the rights of the people most respected.”

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The men’s lacrosse team will play at Providence Tuesday night.

MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 1 tom left corner of the goal. However, the teams traded goals until 11 seconds before halftime when attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15 scored his team leading 17th goal of the season to give the Bulldogs a 3–2 lead going into halftime.

Oberbeck hit the back of the net after a nice feed from Mangan found his teammate cutting from behind the cage.

The second half started brightly for the Elis after Mangan increased Yale’s lead to two goals just over six minutes into the half. The Quakers, however, would take control of the game after that. Penn attackmen scored two goals in 24 seconds to tie the game at 4–4 in the third quarter. Isaac Bock evened the game, scoring low after nice transition play by the Quakers to break up field after a Yale turnover.

Penn continued its scoring run in the fourth quarter, adding another two unanswered goals. The game-winning goal came with just over three minutes left in the final period. After sloppy play resulted in Yale failing to clear the ball, the Quakers had an odd-man advantage and scored to give themselves a two-goal lead late in the game.

“Penn got more groundballs and pushed the ball in transition every chance they got,” midfielder Michael Keasey ’16 said. “They scored three unsettled goals. We knew that was a huge part of their offensive scoring, and

we did not do a good enough job stopping that or executing our own game plan.”

Oberbeck scored with just 1:16 remaining on the clock, sending the fans at Reese Stadium into a frenzy hoping for a late comeback. The Bulldogs got their chance, intercepting a pass in their defensive end to give their offense a shot to tie the game. With less than 20 seconds remaining, Oberbeck curled around the left side of the cage and released a shot that Penn goaltender Brian Feeney saved low to condemn the Elis to defeat.

Feeney made a number of crucial stops throughout the game, totaling 13 saves on the afternoon. The netminder has the third most saves as well as the third best save percentage in the Ivy League.

The Bulldogs struggled to get much going on offense, totaling a season low 32 shots. In addition, despite being ranked second lowest in the conference, the Elis committed a season high of 23 turnovers.

This recipe for disaster was made even more sour by the fact that Yale also lost the groundball battle by a large margin 32–26 and have the second fewest GBs in the Ivy League.

“I thought that we played with a lot of grit and heart on Saturday, but unfortunately we did not play smart,” captain Jimmy Craft ’14 said. “Collectively, as a team we have to become smarter; we made some uncharacteristically unintelligent plays, and we have to make sure

that we get better in that department.”

The loss most likely leaves the Bulldogs out of contention for an at-large bid for the NCAA tournament, meaning the Elis will have to win their remaining three Ivy games as well as the conference tournament if they hope to return to the Division 1 championships for the third straight year.

The Bulldogs have responded well to losses this season, plastering thennationally ranked Lehigh 10–2 and pulling out a close 16–15 victory against Ivy power No. 15 Princeton after their two previous defeats.

“We really need to cut down on turnovers and clear the ball better,” Mangan said. “We are not even thinking about the at-large bid. The only thing that matters is Providence on Tuesday. We are just trying to get back on track with a hard fought win.”

Yale travels to Rhode Island this Tuesday for a 7 p.m. night game against Providence.

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

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“We were especially effective offensively against Cal due to our ability to capitalize on fast break opportunities,” McMullan said. “Both our attackers and our midfielders contributed goals and assists, and this forced Cal to worry about all seven offensive players on the field rather than concentrating their efforts on one or two players.”

Daniggelis and DeVito contributed four goals each in the win, often assisting each other as the leaders of Yale’s attack. DeVito netted all four shots that she fired towards Cal goalie Helen Hansen.

While Cal committed five yellow card penalties in the game, leading to two man-up goals for Yale, the Bulldogs did not commit one until there were 12 seconds left in the contest.

The Golden Bears returned to warm Berkeley, Cali. following the game, but the Bulldogs reported back to Reese Stadium on Sunday to play Lehigh in the same rainy weather they had seen two days before.

Daniggelis opened up scoring again with a goal one minute into the game.

She then proceeded to score four more consecutive goals for Yale, with one Lehigh goal between them. With eight minutes remaining in the first half, Yale boasted a 5–1 lead with all scoring thanks to Daniggelis.

Unlike Cal, however, Lehigh had the ability to recover from the deficit. The Eli lead was quickly shrunk from four to one as the Mountain Hawks scored three goals in five minutes. DeVito and Doherty were able to tack on insurance in the final minutes of the first half, and the teams headed to the locker room with Yale up 7–4.

The Bulldogs only managed to score

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The women’s lacrosse team will return to action next Saturday at Princeton. a single goal in the second half on a free position shot by Daniggelis. But they held the Mountain Hawks to three in the half, just enough to preserve a one-goal lead.

Yale gained possession on a save by McMullan with five minutes left in regulation and passed the ball around for almost the entire time to prevent Lehigh from having a chance to score.

The clock ran out as Doherty fired a shot off the post, the only shot in the last five minutes, and Yale finished

YALE 8, LEHIGH 7

with the 8–7 victory.

“Against Cal, our attack worked well as a unit and executed our plays extremely well,” Mullins said. “Against Lehigh, we succeed in limiting our turnovers, which was a major focus for the weekend.”

The Bulldogs return to conference play on Saturday when they play at Princeton.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

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Players seek to unionize ATHLETE UNIONS FROM PAGE 1 Despite the unprecedented decision at Northwestern, the smaller scale of the Ivy athletic programs in terms of profits generated for the school coupled with the lack of a scholarship contract for Ivy players makes unionization unlikely.

University President Peter Salovey said in an email that he did not believe that the case applies to the “Ivy Leage in general or Yale in particular.”

“There are no athletic scholarships in the Ivy League,” Salovey said. “Varsity athletes are considered students first, and their financial aid is provided on the basis of need, just as it is to any Yale College student. If a varsity athlete were to stop playing his or her sport at Yale, it would have no financial aid implications.”

The decision to render Northwestern players as employees and permit them to be subject to proper employment laws and unionization came after Ohr was able to separate scholarship athletes’ academic roles, under which capacity they are students, from their athletic roles, in which they are employees of the university. Ohr’s decision hinged on ruling that athletes who receive scholarships are employees. In the Northwestern decision, Ohr found that the players’ situation met the four prerequisites for a union: The scholarship offer is an employment contract, the millions of dollars in revenue the school generates due to football are the employer benefits, the stringent rules of the coaches are imposed control and the scholarship amounts to employee payment.

While at Yale student-athletes are not under contract to play and do not have scholarships to play their respective sports, the decision may end up transforming NCAA regulations, which could in turn disrupt all of Division I athletics.

Though Northwestern plans to appeal the decision, Northwestern would be obligated to bargain with the players for their benefits if the union were to form. However, the NCAA has inflexible guidelines on what players can and cannot receive as benefits for their collegiate athletic experience.

As a result, NCAA guidelines would either have to change or the bargaining would be severely limited. In more drastic potential reform, rival bodies could form to contest the NCAA’s control.

“Ideally, someone would create a competitor to the NCAA, in

which it would better redistribute the revenue college sports make on their athletes so that the athletes were able to reap the benefit through improvements in long term medical coverage and scholarship contracts, but not in player compensation,” said 2013 football captain Beau Palin ’14.

Furthermore, football at Northwestern is a massive money maker. One of the four required criteria to be met in order to form a union is that the employer receives benefits.

In the case of the Wildcats, the football team brings in millions of dollars per year at the university. At Yale and other Ivies, however, there are no athletic teams on par with Northwestern’s football program in terms of revenue.

There are no athletic scholarships in the Ivy League. Varsity athletes are considered students first.

PETER SALOVEY President, Yale University Athletic administrators at Yale said they were “not ready to completely evaluate the situation.”

Yale and other Ivies have been the subject of labor reviews overseen by the NLRB before, albeit under very different circumstances.

In 1995, Yale graduate students went on a “grade strike” due to what they thought were unfair working conditions. In 1997, a trial between Yale and the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) took place before the NLRB, where Yale argued the strike was partial and interfered with University activities. The judge sided with Yale’s argument and later GESO appealed the decision, leading to a settlement. GESO dropped all unfair unemployment charges, and Yale promised to publicize its “commitment to freedom of expression,” according to Yale’s NLRB webpage. A similar ruling occurred at Brown in 2004.

Kain Colter and other union representatives from the Wildcats will be in Washington, D.C. this week to discuss potential legislation.

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

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“I’d stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.” JIMMY CARR ENGLISH STAND-UP COMEDIAN

Softball drops two in doubleheader SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 4 Columbia struck first against the Elis in game one, scoring a pair of runs in the home half of the second inning.

Yale, still hitless in the game entering the sixth inning, was able to score following a double from second basemen Laina Do ’17 and a sacrifice fly from shortstop Brittany Labbadia ’16. Columbia, however, retaliated in its half of the inning, scoring an unearned run following an error by the Bulldogs.

The Elis, down two runs going into the last inning of play, scored again in their final at bat. Third baseman Hannah Brennan ’15 homered on the seventh pitch of her at-bat with no outs in the seventh inning. Down only one run, Yale was unable to string together any more hits, losing 3–2.

In six innings of work, pitcher Lindsay Efflandt ’17 was impressive in her Ivy League debut, allowing two earned runs on eight hits, none of which were extra base hits, while striking out three.

The second game of the doubleheader was not as competitive.

Yale again only mustered two hits throughout the entire game. Captain and center fielder Tori Balta ’14 doubled in the first inning, and Labbadia singled in the fourth inning.

An error doomed the Bulldogs in the first inning, accounting for two unearned runs. Columbia scored a total of five runs in the first inning on five hits, including three singles and two doubles.

The Lions had another spurt in the third inning, helped along by an error from Yale, piling on three runs through a solo shot over the fence and three singles.

With Yale unable to score any runs, the game ended in the fifth inning as a result of the mercy rule.

The Elis dropped the game 8–0.

Pitcher Chelsey Dunham ’14 started the game for the Bulldogs, allowing six runs, four earned, on six hits and three walks. Pitcher Kristen Leung ’14 relieved Dun-

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The softball team will take on Penn in a doubleheader today beginning at 3 p.m. ham in the third inning and faced 10 batters, allowing two runs, one earned, on four hits and one walk.

The weekend is not over for the Bulldogs yet, as they have a dou-

ble header against Penn today.

“We will continue to make adjustments that we know we are more than capable of making, and we will thrive as the season con-

tinues,” Efflandt said. “We always stress that every day we make a 1 percent improvement both as individual players and as a team.

After this weekend, we will have

more reps and more games under our belt. We will be even hungrier for more wins than we already are.”

The Elis will look to end this

eight-game skid when they face the Quakers starting at 3 pm.

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

Elis top William & Mary, fall to Rice

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The women’s tennis team will take on Princeton and Penn at home next weekend.

WOMEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 4 tough as they’re a very strong team in doubles and singles in all positions,” Caroline Lynch ’17 said. “Everyone had a great match with some tough opponents and fought and competed well on their court.”

Ree Ree Li agreeed with her teammate, adding that she felt

personally disappointed in not having won her singles match.

The Elis’ contest against William & Maryproved more favorable: The squad posted an authoritative 6–1 win against an unranked Tribe team. Yale managed to win five of its six singles matches, as Hamilton again led the charge at the No.1 seed, continuing her breakout weekend

by posting another straight-sets win. Sullivan had perhaps the most dominant singles win of the day, securing a 6–0, 6–0 straight sets win while denying William & Mary’s Nabila Farah a single game win. Yale’s only dropped point of singles competition came when Ree Ree Li retired in the third set of her then-level match against Mélanie Roy.

“Everyone went out there and did what they needed to do to get their point,” Ree Ree Li said.

“We bounced back from the loss against Rice, and finished the weekend with a win.”

In doubles, Yale swept William & Mary. The duo of Sherry Li and Sullivan managed an 8–4 win, while Hamilton and Amber Li ’15 posted a decisive 8–2 vic-

tory. Ultimately, Yale finished off its weekend on a high note, taking home five of six available points in singles play against the Tribe and claimed the doubles point.

“Our match against William & Mary was very good all round,” Lynch said. “The girls did a great job of taking the doubles point with great play on all courts.”

Looking ahead at next week-

end, Lynch said she and the rest of the team are excited for the start of Ivy League play and noted that the women’s tennis season is just getting started.

The Bulldogs currently sit at No. 52 nationally and have posted an 8–7 overall record.

Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

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“Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.” NANCY GREENE CANADIAN SENATOR

Softball swept by Columbia

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The softball team dropped both games of its doubleheader against Columbia yesterday.

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER

SOFTBALL

In its only doubleheader against Columbia this year, the softball team came up short in its conference opener on Sunday afternoon, falling 3–2 in game one and 8–0 in five innings in game two.

Due to inclement weather, the Bulldogs had their weekend schedule rearranged. The Elis were originally slated to play Penn on Friday afternoon, but rain pushed those games to

Monday afternoon. Thus, Yale opened its Ivy League schedule with a doubleheader against Columbia on Sunday afternoon.

The Bulldogs have high hopes for this season, and they have been preparing diligently on both the offensive and defensive ends, according to pitcher Rhy-

dian Glass ’16.

“Our batting lineup has significant depth and power, and over these past few weeks, we have been focusing on making solid contact, putting the ball in play and really just being smart and aggressive up at the plate,” Glass said. “We’ve been prepar-

Crew rolls in tough conditions

ing so much since the fall, at this point we are putting all the pieces together, in particular our mindsets and game strategy. “ Yale (3–15, 0–2 Ivy), however, could not apply all its skills on Sunday and had a rough start, losing a tight first game to Columbia (13–9, 4–0), 3–2,

before dropping game two 8–0 in five innings.

Columbia began its conference play on Mar. 28 with a sweep against Brown, and the Lions carried their momentum into their games against the Bulldogs.

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Elis split weekend on the road

BY MARC CUGNON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The weekend proved eventful for Yale tennis as the women’s squad traveled down to Williamsburg to take on Rice and the College of William & Mary. Coming off of a two-match winning streak, the Elis looked to continue their winning ways and create momentum heading into the most important portion of the season: Ivy League tennis.

WOMEN’S TENNIS In Williamsburg, the women’s team faced a heavily favored No. 30 Rice team just a week before the beginning of Ivy League play.

In singles, Yale won three of six matchups against Rice as Madeleine Hamilton ’16 led the way

with an impressive 6–2, 6–2 straight sets win at the No. 1 spot over Rice’s Natalie Beazant, currently the 72nd-ranked player in the nation. Team captain Annie Sullivan ’14 also posted a decisive straight-sets win, while Sherry Li ’17 pulled out a victory at the No. 5 spot in a difficult three-set match that earned Yale its third and final singles point.

Doubles proved Yale’s downfall as Rice swept the Bulldogs, earning an 8–5 victory over Ree Ree Li ’16 and Hanna Yu ’15, and an 8–6 win over Sullivan and Sherry Li. In the end, Rice, one of the best teams in the country, proved too much for the Bulldogs to handle and they fell 3–4 in a thrilling contest.

“The match against Rice was SEE WOMEN’S TENNIS PAGE 3

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The lightweight and women’s crew teams won their competitions over the weekend.

BY ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale men’s lightweight crew team opened its season with a victory against Navy, while the women’s team triumphed over Ivy opponents Penn and Columbia at home this weekend.

The lightweight team headed south to Princeton and bested the United States Naval Academy in three of four races on Lake Carnegie to reclaim the Johnson Cup. The Eli women retained the Connell Cup with five wins, sweeping the Quakers and Lions.

MEN’S CREW “Each boat learned a lot through this race. And I am excited to see the team progress from here,” said lightweight captain Matt O’Donoghue ’14.

The coxswains, Ilana Usiskin ’14, Eli Block ’16, Ashley Wu ’17 and Emily Baczyk ’17, deserve credit for steering through tough weather conditions, O’Donoghue added. The boats braved rain and cross-headwinds.

The four men’s boats had tight races.

The first varsity eight finished in six minutes, 20 seconds, beating out the Navy boat by just under five seconds.

The second varsity and first freshman boats edged ahead in even closer faceoffs, winning by three and two seconds, respectively.

The only lightweight boat to fall to Navy was the third varsity eight, which finished in seven minutes, 10 seconds, 22 seconds behind the opposing third, and 15 seconds behind Navy’s fourth. “[This weekend] was our first chance to test ourselves in a cup race, and the team did well,” O’Donoghue said.

The women’s crews saw wider margins of victory on the Housatonic against Penn and Columbia, with the third varsity eight finishing just under seven seconds before its opponents in the closest race.

The first varsity eight pulled a 6:12 on the 2000-meter course and finished seven seconds before Penn and nine seconds before Columbia.

“Our team performed well at our first home race of the season,” said women’s

captain Maddie Lips ’14. “It was particularly great to see our freshmen stepping up and racing hard in their first home race.”

The women’s first varsity four was comprised entirely of freshman rowers, with Emily Patton ’17, Olivia Maclean ’17, Kate O’Brien ’17 and Schuyler Ritchie ’17, from the bow. In addition, freshman Lydia Keating ’17 sat in the second eight, Casey Wizner ’17 and Caroline Hart ’17 rowed in the second four and Sara Locke ’17 and Jackie Cloud ’17 both pulled in the third eight.

According to Lips and women’s head coach Will Porter, the team sees room for improvement despite Saturday’s success.

“We’ll definitely be building on our success and learning from what we could have done better as we look forward to racing Cornell,” Lips said.

Next weekend, the lightweights will take on Georgetown and the women will face the Big Red. Both races will be at home.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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The women’s tennis team split its action over the weekend, falling to Rice but topping William & Mary.