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CROSS CAMPUS All aboard the Hogwarts Express! The Sophomore

Class Council hosted their annual Harry Potter Week last week, filling Yale’s courtyards and colleges with magic and fantasy. Forget the movie marathon, the greatest week of everybody’s lives also included a Quidditch Workshop and a Tri-Wizard Trivia Tournament. In TriWizard Tournament tradition, the Yule Ball was held Saturday in Davenport College.

Potions. Oaxaca Kitchen

hosted specials for National Margarita Day this Saturday. Their offerings include Coconut, Blueberry and a creation called the Chiporita.

BASKETBALL WINNING STREAK SNAPPED

HARP TRANSITION

THROUGH THE LENS

Team recommends Mayor raise taxes next fiscal year

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Reports exonerate authorities in See’s death BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Authorities involved in the arrest and detainment of Samuel See were not responsible for the death of the late Yale assistant professor, according to two reports obtained by the News on Sunday. Internal investigations conducted both by the Connecticut Judicial Branch and the New Haven Police Department found that judicial marshals and police

officers complied with all procedures and exhibited neither brutality nor negligence in their dealings with See, who died in police lockup last fall. See, on unpaid leave from Yale at the time, was detained on Nov. 23 following a domestic dispute with his husband, Sunder Ganglani. He was found dead shortly after 6 a.m. the next morning. A toxicology report certified his cause of death as a methamphetamineinduced heart attack.

Ten hours earlier he was treated for a cut above his eye at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The Judicial Branch, which oversees the lockup center at 1 Union Ave. where See was held, released a report which includes summaries of interviews with 13 marshals present during See’s confinement. An internal affairs report of the New Haven Police Department includes statements from arresting officers as well as interviews with judicial marshals on duty at the time of

See’s death. Both reports also include detailed descriptions of video surveillance showing marshals checking in on See — even having conversations with the inmate two hours before he was found unresponsive on the top bunk of his cell. “There is no evidence to support the fact Samuel See’s death … was the result of negligence or inattention by Judicial Marshal Services staff,” the Judicial Branch’s investigation concludes.

Dems canvass for Access CT

Fifteen going on sixteen. La

Casa brought the Quinceañera tradition, the celebration of a young woman’s fifteenth birthday, to campus this Saturday. The affair titled QuinceYALEa was recreated in the Ezra Stiles dining hall, featuring Erica Yurvati ’15 accompanied by a court of damas and chambelanes. The semi-formal celebration included dancing, music, food and an after-party.

Cutting it down. The teams have been announced for this year’s Final Cut competition. The Silliman team took their photo with no shirts on. From the Berkeley team, Angela Ning ’14 said her favorite thing to prepare is “the blood of [her] opponents.” The Jonathan Edwards team includes Caitlin Purdome ’17 who said if she were a Yale dining dish, she would be “potato pie because what is inside [her] is a mystery.” Fixing fraud. According to a recent piece in the New York Daily News, Yale professor Ian Ayres has started a project to help those who were cheated by Jordan Belfort, who was the inspiration for “The Wolf of Wall Street.” The Belfort Victims Fund was kicked off with a $22 donation from Ayres himself. He says the amount reflects what he paid for two movie tickets to the film, which made him think about how watching the film was indirectly deriving happiness from the misfortunes of others. Facebook’s founding. The

Harvard Crimson released a piece about the current state of Mark Zuckerberg’s old dorm room in Kirkland House. Seven other students live in the suite now, none of whom has yet managed to turn a dorm room company into a billiondollar company. Strangers have apparently entered the suite before to have drinks in celebration of Facebook’s decade anniversary.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1967 Joseph P. McDermott ’67 successfully trades places with his twin Edward, who attends Harvard. The swap was merely for fun, and lasted for a week. The two hitch-hiked to each other’s campuses, and took each other’s classes. Submit tips to Cross Campus

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The police department’s sudden death investigation, conducted by Detective Michael White, found that marshals “followed their protocols and checked all inmates every 15 minutes.” Based on the statements of four arresting officers, Detective Craig Dixon reported finding no evidence that any departmental rules or gender orders were violated. He deemed the officers SEE SAM SEE PAGE 6

YPD reports 2 sexual assault allegations BY MAREK RAMILO, POOJA SALHOTRA AND WELSEY YIIN STAFF REPORTERS

ster Streets in Dixwell, where Tyler Blackmon ’16 and Becca Ellison ’15, members of the Yale College Democrats, were canvassing residents to sign up for health care under Connecticut’s exchange. Revealing her health care needs in frank terms, Peterson said the

The Yale community received three emails last week reporting two separate complaints that two Yale students were sexually assaulted on the night of Feb. 8 at the same off-campus location. Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins reported the two statements in separate emails to the University community on Feb. 19 and Feb. 21. The messages stated that the alleged assaults occurred at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house, and the second email corrected the first by reporting that they were both said to have taken place on Feb. 8. “I write to let [the University community] know that the Yale Police received an anonymous report today that a second Yale student was the victim of a sexual assault by an acquaintance, who is also a Yale student,” Higgins said in the Feb. 21 email. On Feb. 22, President of the Yale Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter Andrew Goble ’15 issued a statement saying the fraternity allowed another student group to lease a room in its house for a private event on Feb. 8. The statement said the event was open to guests of that organization, which remained unnamed.

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Dozens of the Yale College Democrats canvassed New Haven to help residents enroll in the state’s health care exchange. BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Alex Peterson is crossing her fingers that, by Thursday, she will have health insurance. She needs it, she said. Peterson, a Dixwell resident, is unemployed and addicted to heroin. Her state insurance policy lapsed in September,

four months after she lost her job at Dine In Connecticut, a third-party food delivery service. In search of Medicaid coverage, Peterson went last Thursday to the webpage of Access Health CT, Connecticut’s health exchange. Signing up online took 45 minutes, she said Saturday afternoon, standing on the corner of Ashmun and Web-

Avraham to advise dean search BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER When University President Peter Salovey looks to a 14-person committee for advice on selecting the next deans of Yale College and the Graduate School, two students — Yale College Council President Danny Avraham ’15 and an undetermined graduate student — will be there to give their two cents. Last Tuesday, Salovey invited Avraham and Graduate Student Assembly Chair Brian Dunican GRD ’15 to choose

a student for the advisory committee. Both Avraham and Dunican chose to place selection responsibility in the hands of their respective elected assemblies. “I have always been a great supporter of gathering student input when making decisions that affect students,” Salovey said. “The development of the slate of candidates I will consider for these two positions will certainly benefit from student input.” After a debate over whether the Yale College Council should choose the representative or put the matter to a campus-wide vote, the YCC voted to select Avraham

on Saturday evening. Dunican said the graduate student representative will be chosen by a vote of members of the Graduate Student Assembly at their next meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 26. Although Dunican said that the decision to elect the graduate representative at the weekly GSA meeting is in line with GSA policy, Avraham’s selection by the YCC followed a contentious discussion about how the body should choose the representative. At the Saturday YCC SEE YCC PAGE 4 meeting, YCC Vice

Forums revive grading policy discussion BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTER After months of radio silence from administrators over grading reform, the ad hoc committee on grading has reached out for student opinions. The committee was commissioned in September 2012 to examine a possible restructuring of Yale’s grading policies. In a series of three forums this month — one each for juniors and seniors in the social sciences, arts and humanities,

and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) — the committee and Yale College Dean Mary Miller solicited student feedback on their experiences with grading at Yale. With the committee slated to hand in their general recommendations to Miller sometime in the upcoming weeks, the open forums put Yale’s yearlong conversation on grading policy in the home stretch. Though buzzwords such as grade deflation and grade inflation have been the focus of many

student debates and protests in the past year, they did not figure heavily into the forum discussions this month, according to administrators and students in attendance. Instead, the overarching student concern was that letter grades can fail to provide adequate feedback of student work. “The overall tone that emerged from these discussions was a completely responsible view of students toward how to make the most out of their education,” Miller said.

According to Miller, students at each of the forums, especially the social science forum, expressed a desire to use grades as an opportunity for further learning and for improving their writing and research skills. Miller said students pointed to some English courses that assign multiple short papers — and in some cases offer the opportunity to revise and resubmit papers — as exemplary models of this sort of constructive grading. Julia Mattison ’14, who

attended the arts and humanities forum, said students expressed an overwhelming desire for comments in addition to grades on their end-of-term projects, which professors often do not hand back to students. “Students turn in substantial pieces of work at the end of semester and all we get back is a grade on our transcript,” said Leah Sarna ’14, who also attended the meeting. “Students are looking to learn from SEE GRADING PAGE 4

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or more than a decade, Yale World Fellows has represented a growing network of emerging global leaders from nearly every discipline and over 81 countries. We are health professionals, lawyers, artists, bankers, politicians, urbanists, diplomats, journalists, environmentalists and writers. Today, I write on behalf of my cohort of the 2013 World Fellows. What unites us in this strong, diverse network is not just the shared, intensive experience of the Fellowship and our strong relationship with Yale. It is also the desire and commitment of each and every World Fellow to challenge the status quo and foster change that can provide dignity and justice to all. But as World Fellows know well, change does not come easy.

AS MEMBERS OF THE YALE COMMUNITY, WE CANNOT LET INJUSTICE AGAINST VECCHIO GO UNNOTICED Nobody knows this better than Carlos Vecchio, a 2013 World Fellow. Carlos gave up a comfortable life as a corporate lawyer in his home country of Venezuela to become a political activist because he cared deeply about the fate of democracy and social justice in his country. He cofounded Voluntad Popular, which has grown to become the main opposition party in Venezuela today. As many of you will know, in recent days the Venezuelan government has launched a ruthless campaign of intimidation against its political opponents. On Feb. 18, security forces raided the offices of Voluntad Popular and arrested its leader, Leopoldo López, on charges of sedition. As senior deputy to Lopez, Carlos is now the de facto leader of Voluntad Popular. That means he is now a hunted man, too. Carlos is currently underground, trying to avoid arrest on trumped-up charges. He has made it clear that he will

not give up his fight but has also told us his life and liberty are in danger. Amnesty International has highlighted the risks that Carlos is facing. As his friends and fellow cohort members, we are deeply concerned for Carlos’s safety and security. Therefore, we are appealing to the Yale University community for help. Carlos is a beloved and popular leader within Venezuela but unlike López, he is not an internationally recognizable figure (yet). Media outlets outside of Venezuela have yet to report on his situation. We worry that his relative anonymity will allow government forces to arrest Carlos and violate his human rights with impunity and without fear of any international repercussion. Please join our efforts to raise international awareness about the dangers that Carlos is facing. We are appealing to the authorities in Venezuela to respect Carlos’s human rights and his right to due process. We urge you to do all that you can to raise awareness about the dire situation in Venezuela and the danger that Carlos and other pro-democracy activists in Venezuela are in. This is the time to stand up in solidarity for the safety of a member of the Yale community. If you, or your organization or someone you know can help keep Carlos safe, or can stop the Venezuela government from intimidating its own citizens, this is the time to do something about it. But the least that all of us can do is spread the word: to international organizations, to media outlets and to governments in Venezuela’s neighborhood and elsewhere. And of course, please make your friends and acquaintances aware of Carlos’s situation through Facebook, Twitter and other social media. Carlos has sacrificed and suffered much already for a cause he believes in passionately. During his semester at Yale, Carlos devoted his time to sharing with the Yale community his hope for a democratic and progressive Venezuela in which all Venezuelans could enjoy a better quality of life and taste the kind of freedom that many of us take for granted. Let’s do what we can to help Carlos continue his work in safety. ENRIQUE BETANCOURT is 2013 Yale World Fellow. Contact him at enrique.betancourt@yale.edu .

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YCC’s broken YCC knew best promise GUEST COLUMNIST SCOTT GREENBERG

n Jan. 8 of this year, the Yale College Council sent out an email to the entire student body with a bold new mission: to “foster greater representation of the student body.” As someone who both reads the YCC emails (crazy, I know) and cares quite a bit about University policy, I was ecstatic. This Council, known for its insular politics, would finally become the accessible, democratic organization students needed in order to have a collective voice in the University’s decision-making process. But when the 24 voting members of the Council had the chance to put these democratic words into action, they reversed course. This opportunity arose when the Council was charged with deciding whether or not to allow the student body to vote on their representative to the advisory committee that would help choose the next dean of Yale College. As a refresher, after Dean Mary Miller announced in January she would step down from her position, students immediately launched a hard-fought campaign to ensure that we would have a voice in deciding her successor. And, despite much skepticism from the administration, we won. What’s more, President Salovey gave YCC President Danny Avraham complete discretion in how to choose our single vote on the advisory committee. I thought the logical next step was obvious: Just as we elected so many people on YCC to serve on that council, we would also hold a campus-wide vote to choose this unprecedented position on one of the most important bodies at Yale. But I was sorely disappointed. The meeting itself took place in Phelps Hall on Saturday afternoon and featured nearly two hours of contentious debate, in which representatives discussed everything from the timing of the election to their role as representatives to Avraham’s qualifications as a leader. Yet members of the student body, which this council claimed to represent, also showed up to express their concerns. Staff from publications, an administrator of Dwight Hall and members of campus fraternities took time to come to this meeting to show their support of a directly elected student representative to the advisory committee. And for a brief moment, it almost looked like we had won. But when it came time to make a decision, only nine representatives ultimately voted to allow the student body to have a voice in this process. Many on the council unfairly characterized my objections to unilaterally appointing Avraham to the committee as a criticism of the qualifications of

the YCC as a whole or of Avraham in p a r t i c u l a r. To be clear, I have no personal grudge a g a i n s t Danny AvraTYLER — and BLACKMON ham at least until Saturday, I Back to respected his efforts Blackmon throughout the year to plan activities in which I participate and advocate for issues that I support. Indeed, had Danny himself run for the position, he could have run on his qualifications as YCC president and won legitimately. But Danny Avraham was not elected last April to help select the new dean of Yale College, for such a role was not even in the realm of possibility at the time of his uncontested election. This is not the column I wanted to write. The YCC has gone to great lengths to rebuild its sometimes tattered legitimacy on campus this year, revising their constitution, redesigning their graphics and proudly sporting a banner on their website reading, “Reinventing YCC.” And despite what others may think, I have been actively rooting for them to succeed. But the YCC soiled both its rebranding process and its legitimacy with Yale undergraduate students when it made perhaps its most important decision of the year on Saturday. Of course, it is important to give credit to the future of the YCC — namely, those nine individuals who, despite pressure from the Executive Board, cast a vote in favor of a direct election: Khalid Attalla ’16, Vicky Chou ’16, Yaphet Getachew ’16, Jaime Halberstam ’16, Richard Harris ’15, Allison Kolberg ’16, Kevin Kory ’15, Michael Leopold ’16 and Sara Miller ’16. If any one of these nine chooses to run for Executive Board this spring, that person will have my full support. Unfortunately, decisions like the one on Saturday help us set precedent for years to come. I know many of the members of the YCC personally, and I do not doubt that many on that Council thought they were making the right decision. But in ignoring the chorus of voices calling for a direct election, there is no doubt the YCC broke its pledge to “foster greater representation of the student body.” To rebrand the YCC as a more democratic organization requires more than just a redesigned logo — it requires a fundamental shift in the way the council approaches difficult decisions. TYLER BLACKMON is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. His columns run on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him at

any students are rightly frustrated by the Yale College Council’s decision on Saturday to choose YCC President Danny Avraham ’15 as the undergraduate representative to the advisory committee for selecting the next deans of Yale College and the Graduate School. It was a move slightly reminiscent of George Bush’s selection of Dick Cheney as his running mate, previously the head of Bush’s vice presidential selection committee: Avraham, tasked by President Salovey to nominate an undergraduate to sit on the committee, delegated his responsibility to the YCC, which ultimately nominated and selected Avraham himself. There is no question that the selection process was mismanaged, and I know this first-hand. Last Tuesday, less than three hours after the News announced that Avraham would have the authority to nominate a student representative, I emailed him expressing my interest in the position. I did not receive a response until four days later, at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, when Avraham apologized for the delay in emailing me back and informed me that the YCC would be meeting in two hours to determine its method of selecting the undergraduate representative. I was unable to make the meeting on such short notice. From this story and other accounts, it is clear that the YCC did not make a good faith effort to consider a wide variety of potential candidates other than Avraham, and the Council should be held accountable for this narrowmindedness and favoritism. Nevertheless, I believe that critics of the YCC’s decision go too far when they claim that the YCC should have opened up the nomination process to a campus-wide election. A task like this — nominating a student representative to an administrative committee — is exactly the reason that YCC exists: to be a group of students who are informed and invested in the policies of Yale’s administration, in the midst of a largely apathetic undergraduate community. There is ample evidence that undergraduates are largely apathetic about University policies. Fewer than 100 undergraduates took the opportunity to ask questions of and raise complaints to President-elect Salovey at the February 2013 Open Forum. Last March, the University Council Committee on Alcohol held a panel on the University’s alcohol policies in which the nine students in attendance barely outnumbered the eight panelists — for a discussion regarding the administrative policy that arguably affects student life more than any

other. While the most controversial administrative policy over the past year, a proposal to change Yale’s grading policy, drew over 1,300 signatures in opposition on an online petition, only around 60 students showed up to protest the policy in front of Davies Auditorium. These are indicative of a general rule: When asked, Yale students will give their opinions about administrative policy, but don’t usually care enough to educate themselves about the issues at hand or to take action. This apathy isn’t necessarily a bad thing: It means that the University is in a healthy place, such that most students need not concern themselves with the decisions of the administration. The Yale undergraduate community’s apathy toward administrative policies is the reason that YCC exists. Council members are the ones who sit on standing committees, discuss the nuances of undergraduate organizational registration and Yale Dining’s budget, pore over the academic calendar and department offerings, research other universities’ approaches to minors and housing policy, meet with members of the administration frequently, issue reports in collaboration with the Office of Institutional Research and regularly take the pulse of undergraduate opinion to ensure that they are aware of the values and needs of the students they represent. Any reasonable person should prefer that the YCC make important decisions such as the nomination of a representative to the advisory committee, rather than a generally uninformed student body that would not likely take the time to acquaint themselves with the issues at hand. Which students would go to the trouble to evaluate potential representatives’ opinions on faculty tenure or the recently proposed decanal restructuring — two issues that would certainly come up in the consideration of potential deans? At the end of the day, the student body needs an organization such as YCC to represent our concerns to the administration. The YCC draws on its familiarity with administrative policies and interactions with administrators to make decisions on behalf of the student body — and this includes recognizing which students have the knowledge, experience and vision to represent the student body on important committees. The YCC’s decision to choose Avraham was probably ill considered and irresponsible, but it was certainly better than the alternative of a campus-wide election. SCOTT GREENBERG is a junior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at scott.greenberg@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, FEB. 21

The article “Yale-NUS criticized at panel” incorrectly states that Robert Amsterdam urged students and faculty to put pressure on Yale-NUS. It should say Amsterdam urged students to put pressure on Yale. In addition, the article misrepresents Phil Robertson. Robertson did not say that Yale-NUS banned any books, but that the Singapore police might stop a student with a banned book off campus. The article also does not properly explain the context for the comment from the Singaporean student. She was discussing whether Yale would have leverage to affect change in Singapore if it threatened to pull out. Finally, the article misrepresents Professor Jim Sleeper’s comment. He did not contest the speakers’ claims but argued in support of them. He said that when Singapore’s government let opposition leaders Chee Soon Juan and Kenneth Jeyaretnam speak at Yale in New Haven after banning them elsewhere, it made a tactical concession to Yale shortly before YaleNUS’ opening. He said that in light of the government’s continuing, deeply repressive policies toward dissenters, letting Chee and Jeyaretnam speak in New Haven reflected not an advance for the rule of law but a handling o Yale with kid gloves that left Singapore’s government deciding which unalienable rights it will honor and when.

Ballet Folklórico turns 15 BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER Erica Yurvati ’15 is 21 years old. But this weekend, for the purposes of tradition and celebration, she stepped into the shoes of a 15-year-old quinceañera. QuinceYALEa, sponsored by La Casa Cultural and Ezra Stiles College, took place in the Stiles dining hall on Saturday evening. The event was held in honor of the 15th anniversary of the founding of Ballet Folklórico, one of La Casa’s oldest student organizations, and attracted approximately 120 students and University administrators including University President Peter Salovey, Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd ’90. The event was modeled after the traditional Latin American quinceañera ceremony, which commemorates a 15-year-old girl’s entrance into womanhood. Yurvati was chosen to be the quinceañera through an application process in which girls who had been unable to have a quinceañera previously were considered. Throughout the night, quinceañera traditions such as the changing of the shoes and the court dance were upheld, and a number of groups performed, including Ballet Folklórico. Speakers at the event said the night was meant to feel personal while reaffirming connections within and across cultural groups and campus organizations. “This is a celebration of Erica, of course, but also a celebration of Ballet Folklórico,” Director of La Casa Rosalinda Garcia said in her remarks. “[I] see all of the time that you put into your student groups. We don’t take your work for granted.” When it was Yurvati’s turn to speak, she tore up her prepared remarks. She spoke about the difficulty of coping with her father’s leukemia, which had initially prevented her from having a quinceañera, and his subsequent death. When she first arrived at Yale as a freshman, she said she felt sad and scared and had wondered if the decision to attend Yale was a mistake. Although Yurvati said it has not become any easier to deal with her father’s death, she said she appreciates the support of her friends and the Yale community. “I came to Yale and I felt like there was support [here] to figure out who I was and where I want to go next,” Yurvati said. Addressing audience members, she added that people at Yale have understood her in ways that people back home could not. Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti and Associate Master Alicia Schmidt Camacho served as the padrino and madrina, or godfather and godmother, to Yurvati during the ceremony. Pitti proposed a toast to the idea of having a home. He gave a brief history of Ezra Stiles, an 18th century minister who studied Native American houses and homes, and of Ezra Stiles College, explaining that many of the first inhabitants of the college transferred in because they felt like outsiders in their respective communities. William Genova ’15, who helped plan QuinceYALEa, said he was proud of the event and all those who helped with its organization. QuinceYALEa showcased a cele-

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La Casa Cultural celebrated a traditional quinceañera for the 15th anniversary of Ballet Folklórico in Ezra Stiles College dining hall on Saturday. bratory aspect of Latino culture, he said, and was particularly notable because it was held outside of La Casa and was therefore more inclusive and welcoming to students from other cultural groups and backgrounds. Other attendees praised the event for uniting cultural groups within La Casa and promoting Latino traditions to the Yale community. Mariel Novas ’10, who attended the first quinceañera that La Casa hosted in 2007, said it was inspiring to see the Latino community still be so active on campus. She said this year’s event, like the one she attended as an undergraduate, started as a small endeavor, but took on a life of its own. Jennifer Ramos ’10, who was in the court of the first quinceañera, said the Latino presence at Yale has been historically dominated by Puerto Ricans and Mexicans. Quinceañeras help unite Latinos and showcase different cultures, she said. Maria Brumell GRD ’04, assistant dean of Yale College and former director of the Asian Chicano Cultural Center at Yale, said she was happy to see Yale appreciate the diverse cultures of its students. “It’s very easy to see that traditions are not just being maintained, but enriched,” Brumell said. Rather than asking for traditional gifts from attendees, organizers asked guests to sign up to be bone marrow donors. Mahbuba Tusty ’16, who heard about the event because her suitemate is a staff member at La Casa, commended the event planning team for this decision. Having worked on a marrow drive before, she said she knows that it is difficult to get minorities to sign up to donate and to recognize its importance. All attendees interviewed said the event was a success. Still, Garcia and Genova both said the QuinceYALEa would not be annual. Genova said the occasion will probably be reserved for celebrations of other groups’ 15th anniversaries, while Garcia said she hopes the event will be held once every four or five years so that all students have the opportunity to attend one. La Casa Cultural was established in its current position in 1977. Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

Harp considers tax increase BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Citing the city’s dire need to raise revenue, Mayor Toni Harp warned on Friday that Elm City residents might have to pay more property taxes in the fiscal year beginning July 1. Harp received the official 106-page report of her mayoral transition team at a Friday morning press conference. Addressing media during the event, she said she is considering including a tax hike in the budget she must present to city lawmakers by March 1. “I know that [raising taxes] is something that people really don’t want to do — and I certainly didn’t want to do it — but one of the things that the report points out is our bad revenue position,” Harp said. Harp said she would raise taxes before selling tax liens, which would mean trading rights over unpaid taxes for a lump sum. The transition team report specifically mentioned tax liens as one revenue-raising tool in the city’s arsenal but warned of such a move’s the political impact. The city is due a total of $11.2 million in unpaid real estate taxes dating back to 1998. Under a tax liens sale, the government empowers a private company to recover unpaid real estate taxes, as New Haven did in 1995 with Breen Capital Services Corporation. Breen cut a profit by chasing down debtors, while the city used the money to help fund its school construction project. Though selling tax liens is in the realm of possibility, Harp said, she is strongly inclined to pick another route to financial solvency. When asked if she will raise taxes, then, Harp declined to say. “But you may be hearing that we [have to] raise revenue,” she added. Harp said New Haven’s mill rate — the calculation of property taxes based on assessed value — is low compared to

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Mayor Toni Harp ARC ’78 is considering raising taxes for the coming fiscal year to cover budget shortfalls. other cities of comparable size. The current rate, 4.08 percent of assessed value, is lower than Bridgeport’s, Hartford’s and Waterbury’s but a good deal higher than the rates in surrounding suburbs. She said the city’s revenue stream is ultimately unsustainable, pointing to her transition team’s report as evidence. City departments, including Public Works and Parks, are vastly underfunded. The recent string of storms revealed the extent of personnel and equipment shortages, Harp said. In introductory remarks, the transition’s leadership emphasized New Haven’s difficulty raising revenue. The city is highly dependent on property taxes, while nearly half of its grand list is nontaxable. “We are in a difficult phase in terms of revenue,” said transition team chair Edward Joyner, a retired education professor at Yale and Sacred Heart Universities. Attorney Mark Sklarz, the team’s vice-chair, said longterm thinking is critical. He said New Haven has suffered from a desire for instant gratification, calling city gover-

nance a marathon, not a sprint. Joyner and Sklarz led a team of 14 transition team volunteers named by Harp in the wake of her election last autumn. Both said the hours of work spent studying every facet of the city reignited their passion for New Haven. “I love [Harp] like a sister, and I’ve grown to love [Sklarz] like a brother,” Joyner said. Harp enumerated five items from the report that are immediately actionable, including a few on which she has already begun work. She said a new, youth-oriented outreach center at the Bethel AME Church in Dixwell will help answer the report’s call for a more coordinated system of youth services in the city. She said she would heed the report’s suggestion of partnering with the Connecticut Main Street Center, a nonprofit that seeks to revitalize commercial downtowns, to identify four streets in the city ripe for development. Harp also said the report backs up her requests for the creation of a Minority and Small Business Initiative and a centralized grants-writing office in City Hall. The Board

of Alders has so far hedged on both requests, seeking more information before alders move forward. Finally, Harp said, she will direct Doug Hausladen ’04, her newly appointed transit chief, to identify low-cost or no-cost traffic-calming measures. The report’s other recommendations include redesigning the city’s website, creating a transit district to streamline zoning and street redesign, hiring more police officers and developing alternative education for at-risk students within the city’s public schools. The report focuses centrally on fiscal issues across departments — including police and fire overtime and school district deficits. It indicates that the current fiscal year may yield a deficit of up to $4 million, in part due to unexpectedly low returns the city will receive from building permits for Yale’s two new residential colleges. The 2013–’14 budget amounts to roughly $497 million. Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

Yale startup develops acid reflux treatment BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER A group of Yale students has been awarded $100,000 from the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute’s Innovation Fund to develop a product for heartburn relief. The product, known as Tummyzen, was created by the Yale startup Eli Nutrition. Eli Nutrition had previously worked with the YEI, securing a $20,000 grant from the YEI Summer Fellowship program and a $12,000 grant from the Yale School of Management in 2013 to help with the development of Tummyzen in its early stages. In December, members of Eli Nutrition learned that they had received the $100,000 investment from the YEI Innovation Fund — a fund created by Yale, Connecticut Innovations and First Niagara Bank. “We didn’t really have the words,” said Yulia Khvan SOM ’14, Tummyzen’s Chief Financial Officer. “It was mostly screaming [with joy].” Eli Nutrition is run by a group of Yale students including Khvan, Hasan Ansari SOM ’14, Faisal Hamid ’14, Srikar Prasad SOM ’14 and Fanni Li SOM ’14. The team began working with Dr. John Geibel, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine, through Yale’s Technology Commercialization Program. The program matches faculty members from different areas of the University with students at the School of Management to create successful businesses using joint research. Geibel, who has been researching acid reflux for years, led the medical research behind the antacid, while the students developed the business model. Geibel said his medical team met up with Ansari a year and a half ago to discuss creating a product based on his patented research. “We are all so passionate about Tummyzen because we

know that the product will help a lot of people in a deep and impactful way,” said Li, who is the Chief Operating Officer for Tummyzen. “We have seen first-hand how folks who take prescription acid reflux drugs, or even have surgery to reduce their reflux symptoms, have found significant relief from our [dietary supplement].” According to Geibel, 25 to 35 million people per year are diagnosed with acid refluxrelated illness. Tummyzen is unique in that it uses zinc to relieve acid reflux symptoms, Geibel said. This natural mineral can be more effective in reducing acid secretion than even prescription drugs, Geibel said, adding that its soothing effects can last for four to five hours.

Because of its natural base, Tummyzen also does not have the side effects associated with acid reflux drugs, he added. Deputy Director of YEI Erika Smith said Tummyzen was originally selected for the YEI Summer Fellowship because of its high probability of success. She added that she thinks the most recent investment will bring Tummyzen to the next level in terms of production and marketing. Ansari, who suffers from acid reflux himself, said the next step will be using the $100,000 to get the product on shelves in stores across the country. The money will also be used to educate consumers about Tummyzen, Li said. Geibel described Tummyzen as a “nutriceutical,” meaning

that the product does not have to undergo a full trial with the Food and Drug Administration. Consumers can buy Tummyzen much like they would other vitamins and minerals at the grocery store, he said, adding that the product was also recently posted on Amazon. Members of the team who have watched the product grow from its inception to now said they have found the process rewarding. “We made this happen,” Ansari said. “The best part is when people take [Tummyzen] and we’re just [ecstatic about] how much relief they get. It’s really the best feeling in the world.” Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

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The YEI’s Innovation Fund has awarded a group of students a grant to develop a new antacid.

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“Thunder on! Stride on, Democracy! Strike with vengeful strokes.” WALT WHITMAN AMERICAN POET

Dems promote health care HEALTHCARE FROM PAGE 1 website promised results within seven days for subscribers with no income. In non-dire situations, the website explained, enrollment can take 30 to 90 days, she said. “I would call my situation dire,” Peterson said. “I’m sick. I can’t get a job because I’m addicted.” Peterson is just one of roughly 20,000 people without health insurance in New Haven. Nearly a dozen Yale Dems members sought to help whittle down that number on Saturday, joining a group of volunteers organized by the Black and Hispanic Caucus on the Board of Alders with the help of volunteers from Planned Parenthood. Leaving New Haven’s enrollment center at 55 Church St., canvassers split off to five different city wards, focusing on the Dwight, Dixwell, Newhallville, Fair Haven and the Hill neighborhoods Armed with ward maps, fact sheets and scripts, volunteers could have been pulling votes. But instead they were employing battle-tested election tactics to encourage people to sign up for a health care plan by March 31, the 2014 deadline for coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Kevin Counihan, CEO of Access Health CT, said he sees no reason Peterson should not be swiftly granted

Medicaid coverage. Though the state Department of Social Services manages Medicaid enrollments, the signup is available on Access Health CT’s webpage. A monthly income of $1,273 or below qualifies an adult with no children for Medicaid in Connecticut. Since the rollout of Access Health CT last autumn, more than 126,000 state residents have found a health plan through the exchange. Roughly 260,000 residents remain uninsured statewide, Counihan estimated — including about 20,000 in New Haven. Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison, who helped organize the canvass, said Access Health CT provided alders with a numerical breakdown of uninsured residents by city ZIP code to help focus the canvassing on high-need neighborhoods. Within each ZIP code, she said, it is impossible to know more specifically who is covered and who is not. She said the goal Saturday was to knock every door in the five specific wards. Even if most people who they reach are insured, the information spreads, Morrison added. “I talk to you and you might have health insurance, but then you talk to your brother or cousin or your neighbor and make sure they get signed up. Blackmon and Ellison traveled north on Ashmun Street, cutting through the center of Dixwell’s Ward 22. Many knocks went unanswered. A hand-

ful of residents opened the door only far enough to say they were too busy to talk. When canvassers did reach their targets, most said they were already covered, primarily under the state’s Medicaid program, known as HUSKY. Gary Liston, a 66-year-old Vietnam War veteran, said he is covered both by HUSKY and through Connecticut’s Department of Veterans Affairs. He said he was injured when he jumped into a foxhole defensive position toward the end of his two tours in Vietnam. Now he said he is more worried about his heating bill than his health plan. Counihan said ensuring broad awareness is the most effective way to boost enrollment figures. In terms of actually locating uninsured individuals, he said, the process is complex. Strategies of engagement depend on ethnicity, income and age. “One person on our staff is dedicated to the Hispanic community, but there are 14 different Hispanic communities within our state,” Counihan said. Dems members knocked just under 400 doors and logged about 150 conversations, Ellison said. All told, the canvassers knocked 1,037 doors and had about 300 conversations. Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

YCC president elected to search committee YCC FROM PAGE 1 President Kyle Tramonte ’15 presented three options for picking the student: nomination and selection by the YCC, an application process vetted by the YCC or a campus-wide election. After an extensive debate, 12 members of the YCC voted for the Council to select the representative, while nine members voted to conduct a campus-wide vote. During the discussion, YCC members who favored having the Council select the representative argued against both members and nonmembers in attendance who favored a campus-wide vote. Those arguing for selection by the YCC suggested that, as a representative body, the YCC was well positioned to choose a student representative. They added that YCC members have a more thorough understanding of the role of the Yale College dean and the issues he or she will be responsible for handling, and that a campus-wide election could garner a low participation rate. “We have talked about every facet of the Yale community,” said YCC Representative Ewurama Okai ’17. “The 24 of us probably cover the entire campus.” YCC representative Saifullah Khan ’16 argued that a campus-wide election would become a popularity contest. Because Salovey wanted the representative chosen by Monday, Khan, along with several others, said the short time-frame made a campus-wide vote impractical. Still, others disagreed. YCC Representative Khalid Attalla ’16 said that he saw no harm in having a large number of students vote for the position. Several non-YCC members present vehemently defended a campus-wide vote, including Scott Stern ’15, Tyler Blackmon ’16 and Diana Rosen ’16 — the three of whom are columnists for the News — and Sterling Johnson ’16. Stern argued that the YCC needed to set a democratic precedent for the future. Noting that he wanted the Coun-

cil to come to an independent conclusion, Avraham did not speak until near the end of the debate, when he argued strongly against a campus-wide election, pointing to the challenges of conducting an election in which any student could run and of having to infrom the student body about the election within a day. Avraham said the decision about the process for selecting a representative for the advisory committee should be made by the YCC members rather than by the nonmembers at the meeting because the YCC was elected by the student body. YCC Representative Leah Motzkin ’16, who is a staff reporter for the News, first suggested electing Avraham to the position during the debate. Several others quickly voiced their support for Avraham as well. Blackmon was also nominated after a discussion about the need for an opposing candidate. Once the process had been determined, YCC members present were asked to vote for a representative. Avraham won 17 votes, Blackmon won one vote, and three members abstained from voting. Salovey’s announcement that students will be included in the advisory committee comes several weeks after the announcement that the committee would be created. Earlier this month, Salovey said that he expected committee members to consult broadly with students but said the composition of the advisory committee had not yet been determined. At the time, Salovey and other administrators said having students on the committee raised the issue of confidentiality, because the committee will likely discuss the personal lives of candidates and their abilities to take on the job. “I am quite confident that when students serve on University committees that require confidentiality, they have honored that obligation by taking it seriously,” Salovey said earlier

this month. “The issue now is to think about the juxtaposition of what faculty would be willing to discuss with students in the room versus the need to have a robust process for encouraging and listening to student input. That’s the issue.” Salovey said on Tuesday that his decision to include students was influenced by student interest in the new deans and his long-standing commitment to listening to student concerns. Several administrators said the Yale Corporation’s meeting this weekend likely focused on the creation of a Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a position that would significantly change the role of the Yale College Dean. Should the Corporation and Salovey choose to add such a dean, the 14-member committee would also advise on that appointment. The decision about the faculty dean, along with the committee’s composition and mission, will likely be announced this week. Administrators interviewed said the 12 faculty members on the committee will likely come from a range of disciplines and will have been at the University for different lengths of time. Although the YCC meeting on Saturday was publicized in a YCC email, as well as a Facebook post just under two hours before the meeting, none of 14 students interviewed had been aware that the vote would take place. Students interviewed voiced mixed opinions on the Council’s decision. “It was a good decision from the YCC,” Petter Wehlin ’17 said. “It makes the process more efficient.” But Jordan Lee ’17 said that he thought there should have been a campus-wide vote, despite the logistical challenges. Yale College Dean Mary Miller’s term ends on June 30 of this year. Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

YPD investigates assault claims ASSAULTS FROM PAGE 1 “The members of Yale’s SigEp chapter were shocked and saddened to hear allegations that sexual assault may have occurred in our facility on an evening when the chapter had leased event space to another campus organization,” Goble said in the statement. “At this time, SigEp does not believe that the allegations are against members of their chapter.” In a Sunday email, University spokesman Tom Conroy said that he was not aware of who rented the house, or for what purpose. On the same night of Feb. 8, a private party in connection with the Women in Power Society (WIPS) senior society, took place at the SigEp fraternity house. Nine students interviewed said that party had a “dominatrix” theme. Several attendees declined to provide additional details about the annual party. The WIPS said in a statement to the News, “We are not commenting out of respect for the privacy of the individuals involved in this situation.” A student who attended the party and spoke on the condition of anonymity said the WIPS’ mission is to promote female empowerment. Two attendees with knowledge of the party’s planning process said no money was exchanged between WIPS and SigEp. In an email exchange with the News, Goble did not respond to questions about the party or the terms of the lease and said, “Out of respect to the ongoing investigation, we are going to allow the disclosure of information to be managed by the University and the investigating authorities as they feel it is appropriate.” University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler fol-

lowed Higgins’s alerts with a Feb. 21 email to the University community, indicating that details they contained were sent under the regulations of the Federal Clery Act. “I am writing to make you aware that my office is actively pursuing these allegations,” Spangler wrote in the email. The Clery Act mandates that university police departments alert students, faculty and staff of any on-campus incident involving the Clery-reportable crimes, which include forcible and nonforcible sex offenses. Though SigEp’s housing facility is not a Yale building, its location within the University’s geographic boundaries necessitated Higgins’s reports. Higgins’s emails did not include information on status of any YPD investigation, and New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman said that city police will not pursue the case until the department is approached. “We don’t want to let people think that we don’t think something happened,” Hartman said. “But without a victim, there is no investigation.” In response to complaints voiced following the publication of the University’s July 2013 of sexual misconduct complaints that perpetrators did not receive adequate punishments, administrators released eight scenarios explaining examples of sexual misconduct and the disciplinary action involved in each case. The SigEp fraternity house is located at 31 High St. Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu and WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu.

Students talk grading GRADING FROM PAGE 1 teachers, and a great opportunity for learning is grading not by numbers but by feedback.” The STEM forum raised similar concerns, according to Ike Swetlitz ’15, who said he attended the meeting in order to raise concerns that grades currently do not provide enough information to students. Swetlitz pointed out that grades currently serve multiple functions, from providing feedback to students on their skills and competency in a certain field to providing information to prospective employers and graduate schools about the quality of applicants. Grades might be more effective if their different purposes were detangled and different metrics were used for each of their functions, Swetlitz said. While Swetlitz praised the discussion as more civil and productive than the Yale College Council grading forum held last year, he also noted that the discussion failed to address the philosophical elements of the grade debate.

“We were working at the level of changing within the current system instead of asking questions like ‘What is success?’” Swetlitz said. Miller said students at the STEM forum raised concerns about the deceptive nature of curved grades, through which students could be receiving one grade all semester only to see a different grade on their transcript. According to Miller, only three students attended the social science forum. Mattison said around seven attended the humanities and arts forum, while Swetlitz said attendance at the STEM forum was around 10 students. Sarna said she was disappointed by the poor attendance at the forums. “If students want the administration to listen, we have to reciprocate by actually talking,” she said. The ad hoc committee on grading policy is chaired by economics professor Ray Fair. Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu .

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east that really addresses the socioeconomic policy of Mexico among people who get to have an education in the United States,” she said. Cynthia Ingrid Ortiz, a senior at Long Island University, also spoke of the need for such a dialogue on her home country. Ortiz said students need to be focused and prepared for the next change in Mexico, as the country looks towards reforms in areas such as the oil industry. Planning for the conference started in May 2013. According to event organizer and Yale Mexican Student Organization board member Murat Naim Dagli ’14, organizers choose the theme of “Mexico rising” because they wished to play off the dynamic differences between Mexico’s positive outward image and its inward reality. According to Dagli, getting the speakers was not difficult, as they were all fairly responsive. However, Dagli added that some of the speakers had

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ency and violent drug conflict control. “Real hope relies in the context of greater demand from below — with the emergence of citizens who fight for rights and not just the spoils of government,” said Mexican political scientist Denise Dresser, the conference’s keynote speaker. Dresser urged students to become more politically active. The conference featured other speakers who addressed Mexico’s political environment and place in the global arena. Experts included prominent political scientists, diplomats, entrepreneurs, urban planners and journalists. Students from around the country attended the event. Alexa Gallegos, a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, said she felt it was important to come to the conference as a Mexican international student educated in the U.S. “I feel like this is the only conference in the north-

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“I get a ride or I take the cab home most days,” she said. “It costs me $10 — I take the cab at least four times a week.” New Haven’s public bus system is so ineffectual that most Yale employees working downtown choose to forgo that option. Stanley said that, of the 28 employees in the Calhoun dining hall, 10 of them use the public bus system. According to Diane Seller, who works in the Ezra Stiles dining hall, about five of 28 do. Those who work outside of the downtown have no easier a time. The Divinity School parking lot, which is relatively close to campus compared to other Yale professional schools, charges $120 a month for parking, according to Denys Turner, the Horace Tracy

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Pitkin professor of historical theology. Miroslav Volf, Henry B. Wright professor of theology at Yale Divinity School and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, said in an email that he finds the parking system available to him every bit as inconvenient as the one downtown. “Those who park on the lot, pay for it, and pay what I think is a handsome sum,” he said. “Unless I can find a free parking somewhere on the street, I have to refill the meter myself.” Turner said that, in contrast to where Yale staff typically lives, the Westville neighborhood where he used to live received excellent service from New Haven’s public transit system, making either owning a car or worrying about parking unnecessary. Turner said that, although the parking situation in New Haven is difficult, he could not think of e a solution. “There does seem to be an imbalance there, but that seems to be pure luck doesn’t it? If you’re downtown it’s much more crowded — where is there space where you could have much more parking?” Some Yale employees did have solutions to offer. Chyquaan Adams, who works in the Davenport College dining hall, suggested that, if Yale cannot provide lots for its employees, they could at least mitigate the cost of parking in New Haven. “I feel Yale employees should have a parking pass, a discount,” he said. Regardless, according to Yale Parking and Transit Services Department, the parking fees are already the lowest they can go. Given that current parking fees cover only 65 percent of the cost of maintaining lots, in the organization’s view, the debate

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Yale employees regularly find parking in downtown New Haven difficult, and there does not seem to be an end in sight. While Yale’s professors enjoy easily accessible lots on some parts of campus for a fee, other Yale staff members and business owners in downtown New Haven endure an untenable parking situation — not enough spots, high cost and a public transit system that does not effectively serve the city’s populace. Those interviewed acknowledged that the city and University have a difficult situation on their hands — while they said their current parking options are unacceptable, they remain doubtful that downtown New Haven has the requisite space for building new parking lots. New Haven and Yale officials in turn indicated that the current parking fares barely fund the cost of maintaining those lots. Chief Deputy Communications Officer Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93 said in an email that Yale “is able to provide parking to all staff who seek it” and that its needs are different, given where its employees live and the steps they take to commute sustainably. “It’s notable that many staff live in New Haven, often nearby, and a good number choose to walk, bike, or ride the shuttle to work,” he said. “New Haven and Yale have shorter commute times to work than most peers, and a higher number of people who get to work sustainably compared to so much of the rest of the country.” But five of the seven Yale employees interviewed said Yale could do more to step in and accommodate its employees’

transportation needs. Yale provides lots for its downtown employees, mainly behind the Payne Whitney Gymnasium. However, parking in these lots require purchased permits and they are not available for anyone without a permit from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. LaTanya Stanley, who works in the Calhoun College dining hall, said there are more dining hall employees who are interested in these permits than there are permits available. Since Stanley has heard that the parking permits are not an option, she has turned to costlier options.

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A group of eight students, faculty and staff from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES) recently received a grant from Google to map a 22,000-acre ranch in Wyoming. The partnership between the Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative (UHPSI) and the Ucross Foundation, which owns the ranch, will allow the FES students to construct a detailed map of the vegetation and topography of the land. The project will help the ranch monitor spurge, an invasive species of vegetation, and fits into a larger initiative of cataloging land by analyzing satellite images. “Upon receiving the GEE award, we were gifted the capacity to bring our complex modeling work back to those who need it most,” said Charlie Bettigole, co-director of UHPSI. “This project has been all about understanding how Yale, with its wealth of resources and expertise, can enhance the already tremendous work being done at Ucross.” One of the project’s top priorities is to identify leafy spurge, an invasive species on the ranch, said Charlie Bettigole, co-director of UHPSI. Detection of spurge is the first step to monitoring and controlling the inva-

sive species, said Henry Glick, co-director of UHPSI, adding that the task is challenging for land managers. On the ranch in May, Lindsi Seegmiller FES ’14 will lead a team collecting unique spectral signatures of leafy spurge and other vegetative cover types. After gathering data, Seegmiller and Devin Routh FES ’14 will design algorithms that convert the images to data describing vegetations patterns. The results of the project may eventually be incorporated into Google Earth, where the algorithm could evaluate vegetation anywhere on earth where sufficient imaging exists, Seegmiller said. She added that the project will allow the public to access information typically only accessible to academics. “This way more people can do this analysis to inform their research or curiosity,” Seegmiller said. Bettigole said the project exemplifies a broader mission of UHPSI to apply Yale’s resources to solve land issues in the Western United States. UHPSI and Yale FES partnership is funded by Raymond Plank ’44 and directed by FES professor of forestry and environmental studies Chadwick Oliver. Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Heaven gives its favorites early death.” LORD BYRON ENGLISH ROMANTIC POET

Police reports clear authorities in See death SAM SEE FROM PAGE 1 involved in the incident exonerated. See sustained the cut above his eye during a tussle with arresting officers in the bedroom of his home, the internal affairs report states. Officers Vincent Deleo and Daniel Hartnett were “trying to gain control” of See when all three men fell forward into a wall, causing a laceration above See’s left eye, according to statements from the officers. See threatened to kill Harnett as he was being handcuffed, Deleo reported. Reached Sunday, Kelly Flanagan, See’s sister, said she remains unsatisfied with the statements of authorities regarding the events leading up to her brother’s death. She said there are “major discrepancies” in both reports but declined to specify further given that the family is still considering legal action. Flanagan told the News in January that the family was weighing a wrongful death lawsuit against both the police department and the Judicial

Branch. The attorney for See’s family, Yale Law School professor David Rosen LAW ’69, said he is still actively pursuing information about the circumstances of See’s death. Rosen declined to comment on the reports. In an interview with White, Ganglani reportedly said his husband had taken up methamphetamines to “counter act the psych meds” he was taking for bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and manic depression. Marshals quoted in the Judicial Branch report said See was cooperative — even polite — and complained of no injury or medical ailment. Marshal Roberto Ortiz, tasked with intake when See arrived at the lockup center, told investigators that he could not tell if See was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. “All he was talking about was how he screwed up with the police officers,” the report quotes Ortiz as saying. See was arrested at his home in Wooster Square

after his sister called police to the scene to separate him from Ganglani, who had returned to retrieve his belongings after leaving voluntarily the day before. See and Ganglani had protective orders registered against each other.

All [See] was talking about was how he screwed up with the police officers. ROBERTO ORTIZ Marshal, Connecticut State Judicial Branch

Ganglani, who was also arrested, was kept in a nearby cell. Lead marshal Timothy Reilly said the two men may have engaged in a brief argument between their two cells. According to interviews with marshals described painstakingly in the 81-page report, See was otherwise quiet through-

out the night and early morning, alternating between sitting and lying down and at times rotating between the bottom and top bunk. Marshal Anthony Rilley said he did not hear See make any noises that would have indicated that he was in distress. From video surveillance, marshal Michael Harrington can be seen conversing with See shortly after 4 a.m., the report states. Harrington is quoted saying that See had asked him if his sister had called. Harrington checked with Rilley, who told him that See’s mother, Ann Sturdivant, had called to say “something about his medication” and that she was going to bring it to him, the report quotes Harrington as saying. When Harrington told See, the inmate remarked: “what, is she going to perform a miracle?” as See’s mother resides in California. During his conversations with See, Harrington reported, the inmate did not look well. Indeed, he looked like a “concentration

camp person,” Harrington said. But See never indicated that he was sick or suffering, Harrington told the investigator. Marshal Christopher Dadio said See “seemed fine” and “did not seem altered at all.” Between 4:30 and 5:30 a.m., Dadio observed See sitting “Indian style” on his top bunk. He said See asked for juice, which he would have received at 6 a.m., when food was next distributed. Marshalls complied with his previous requests for juice, the report states. See did not ask to make any telephone calls and never indicated that he was in pain, according to another marshal, Donald Abdul-Lateef. The first sign that something was wrong came at around 6 a.m., when marshal Alberto Rivas was handing out meals to inmates. See “didn’t look right,” according to Rivas. Reilly, who was conducting a routine tour at the time, reported noting that See’s right arm was hanging over the side of the top bunk at an unusual angle.

“It wasn’t normal,” Reilly is quoted as saying in the report. He said he could not recall if See’s arm was in that position during his 5:45 a.m. tour. After prodding See’s foot with no response, Reilly entered the cell and found See’s mouth and eyes wide open. The report states that Reilly found See’s eyes “glazed and glassy.” There were no signs of suicide, he said: no choking or signs of distress to the neck. Marshals reported administering CPR for roughly eight minutes before emergency response personnel arrived, according to Detective White’s police report. See was declared dead at 6:15 a.m. See’s body was covered with a blanket and left in the custody of the chief medical examiner’s office, the report states. “The patient … was gone,” Harrington said in his statement. “There was nothing else to do.” Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

SAM SEE CASE IMPORTANT EVENTS Sep. 18, 2013 See and husband Sunder Ganglani are arrested on charges of third-degree assault and a breach of peace.

Fall 2013 Yale assistant professor of English Samuel See takes an unpaid leave of absence from the University, citing health reasons.

Nov. 24, 2013 See is found dead in the cell in which he was being held by State Judicial Marshals following the Nov. 23 arrest.

Nov. 23, 2013 NHPD officers respond to a domestic dispute report at See's home, eventually arresting See for violating a protective order, interfering with police and threatening in the seconddegree.

Dec. 10, 2013 Protesters descend upon the NHPD's Union Ave. headquarters, calling for police accountability in light of See's death.

Dec. 9, 2013 NHPD Detective Michael White clears state judicial marshals administering the detention facility of wrongdoing

Jan. 10, 2014 See's sister, Kelly Flanagan, announces her family is considering a lawsuit against the NHPD and State Judicial Branch.

Jan. 6, 2014 Chief State Medical Examiner James Gill reports the cause of See's death to be a heart attack resulting from the consumption of methamphetamines.

Feb., 2014 state Judicial Branch investigation clears marshals of wrongdoing.

Jan. 26, 2014 A memorial service honoring See's life is held in Battell Chapel.

Feb. 4, 2014 NHPD Detective Craig Dixon clears arresting officers of wrongdoing.

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24 5:00 p.m. 40th Hanan Rosenthal Memorial Lecture: “Making the World’s Best Clock.” Professor Jun Ye from JILA at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado will be speaking about the latest technological breakthroughs over the past century that have allowed us to be more precise in our ability to tell time. Open to the general public. Sloane Physics Laboratory (217 Prospect St.), Rm. 59. 6:30 p.m. Film Screening: “Voices Across the Divide.” The Council on Middle East Studies and the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights is sponsoring a screening of “Voices Across the Divide,” a film exploring the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through personal stories. The documentary is narrated by Alice Rothchild, an American Jew raised on the horrors of the Holocaust. Open to the general public. Sterling Law Buildings (127 Wall St.), Rm. 127.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 7:00 p.m. “How to Build a Career in Documentary Filmmaking”: An Evening with Lawrence Hott. The Yale Film Studies Program is bringing Lawrence Hott, who made “Imagining Robert,” a film about two brothers grappling both directly and indirectly with mental illness. Hott, who is experienced with working with PBS and the National Endowment for the Humanities, will talk about his film and give advice. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Film Study Center.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 6:00 p.m. Emotionally Intelligent Parenting Workshop. Join Marc Brackett, Robin Stern and others from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence for a workshop on the importance of emotional intelligence for you and your children. The talk will be filmed and participants must sign a film release in advance. RSVP at sarah.delaney@yale.edu. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse St.), Rm. 102.

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THROUGH THE LENS

ew Haven is home to many churches, ranging from small colonial houses of worship to grand and impressive cathedrals. The earliest churches were established in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the buildings have played an important role in the community ever since. From the historic black churches in Dixwell to the towering St. Mary’s Cathedral on Hillhouse Avenue, the city’s churches come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Here are a few. NICK DEFIESTA reports.

IF YOU MISSED IT SCORES

NBA Washington 96 Cleveland 83

NBA LA Clippers 125 OKC 117

SPORTS QUICK HITS

US COLLEGIATE SQUAD CHAMPIONSHIPS MEN’S FENCING The men’s fencing team competed at the US Collegiate Squad Championships at Penn this weekend, a unique fencing event because each squad competes for titles in saber, epee and foil. The Elis placed fifth, fourth and fifth in those events, respectively.

NBA Miami 93 Chicago 79

NBA Toronto 105 Orlando 90

M OLY HOCKEY Canada 3 Sweden 0

MONDAY

US COLLEGIATE SQUAD CHAMPIONSHIPS WOMEN’S FENCING The Bulldog women also took part in the championship event at Penn, finishing fourth in saber, fifth in epee and sixth in foil. Next on the schedule for Yale will be the NCAA Northeast Regional, held in Wellesley, MA on March 9.

“Whenever we play Harvard, it’s a rival game, and it changes things.” JAIMIE LEONOFF ’15, WOMEN’S HOCKEY YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014 · yaledailynews.com

Yale rotten in Big Apple MEN’S BASKETBALL

Elis earn three points on final road trip BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER In the final road test of the regular season for the No. 14 Yale men’s ice hockey team, the Bulldogs demonstrated their resilience by earning three points, but a late Dartmouth goal prevented a clean sweep.

MEN’S HOCKEY

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 (No. 22) averaged 16 points in two games this past weekend. BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s basketball team came one trip to New York City short of sweeping its fourth consecutive weekend of Ivy League action. Instead, the Bulldogs had to settle for a split in Ivy play. The Bulldogs were able to dismantle Cornell Friday night, but Columbia snapped Yale’s sevengame win streak yesterday. Stout interior defense, a remarkable propensity to get to and convert at the free throw line and command of the rebounding battle had fueled Yale’s streak, its longest since 2001-’02. That streak reached its zenith when Yale (14–10, 8–2 Ivy) overcame Cornell (2–22, 1–9) in a fairly straightforward matchup that saw Yale build an early lead before padding on at the end to win 82–65 in

Ithaca, N.Y. The story of the night was Yale’s point guard situation. Point guard Javier Duren ’15 was unable to see any action Friday night due to a high ankle sprain suffered during last weekend’s win against Princeton. Starting in place of Duren was guard Isaiah Salafia ’14, who did his part in orchestrating the Yale attack, primarily by moving the ball well and finding the open Bulldog. Salafia, however, did not take a single shot — that’s where guard Jack Montague ’16 stepped in. Montague, who had been averaging just 2.1 points per game in very limited minutes due to the strong play of Duren, erupted in the first half, coming off the bench to hit four of his five three-point attempts. “They left us with a lot of open 3’s,” Montague said. “I felt hot and just tried to

take what they were giving us.” Montague’s 12 points before the break were matched by forward Justin Sears ’15, who entered play having earned his leagueleading fifth Ivy League Player of the Week award the weekend before. In addition to the output of the insideoutside duo of Montague and Sears, the Bulldogs dominated in just about every facet of the game in the first half. Behind 60.7 percent shooting from the field, the Bulldogs entered the half with a comfortable 45–31 lead. Cornell, which has struggled this year, fought back to cut the lead to seven points with 13:45 to play in the game, but the Big Red would get no closer. Yale would outscore Cornell 29–19 the rest of the way to secure the win.

The Elis (14–8–5, 9–7–4 ECAC) thrashed rival Harvard 5–2 on Friday before tying Dartmouth 3–3 on Saturday. Dartmouth’s goal with just 1:36 remaining in the third period leveled the score and put a damper on an otherwise solid weekend for the Blue. “There were positives and negatives from this weekend,” said forward John Hayden ’17. “To start, we had a great win at Harvard, and obviously winning is difficult in this league, especially on the road. We were trying to take the sweep against Dartmouth, and we fell short just at the end. … There’s a lesson there that we need to play the full 60 minutes.” It was clear heading into Friday’s game that the entire weekend would be crucial for Yale’s chances of making it to the NCAA Tournament. The PairWise rankings, which determine the overall field, had the Bulldogs ranked 21st, and only 16 teams will receive bids to the tournament. Since the rankings were modified this season to give additional weight to road victories, it was paramount for the Elis to take advantage of their final road contests of the season. And against Harvard (9–14– 4, 5–11–4), the Bulldogs came

out strong. After a scoreless first period, Yale broke the game open with three goals in the second period, including a pair of power-play goals. The first tally came after forward Stu Wilson ’16 flipped the puck on goal about halfway through the power play, and it found a hole between the near post and Cantab goaltender Steve Michalek. About five minutes later, defenseman Gus Young ’14 smartly knocked the puck loose from a Harvard player and unleashed a long pass ahead to forward Matthew Beattie ’16, who used the open ice ahead of him to deke Michalek and calmly slot the puck past the Harvard netminder to double the Elis’ lead. The next power-play goal came off the stick of defenseman Ryan Obuchowski ’16. His one-timer came following a nice pass from forward Kenny Agostino ’14, and the score extended Yale’s lead to 3–0 with 6:37 remaining in the second period. “It’s huge for us,” Hayden said of getting three consecutive goals like the ones against Harvard. “It’s big for our confidence and mentality as a team. Whenever we score, we need to ensure that we stay on the attack and don’t give up, and that’s what we did against Harvard.” Though the Crimson scored 4:31 into the third period on a power play, captain Jesse Root ’14 salted the game away with a power-play goal of his own with eight minutes remaining. Root added an empty-netter in the final minute to make it 5–2. SEE M. HOCKEY PAGE B3

SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE B3

Bulldogs score weekend sweep BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The women’s basketball team avenged its loss to Cornell earlier this season on Friday night, then held off Columbia to complete a weekend sweep.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL “We were motivated to get back on the winning track this weekend and that helped us to sustain our energy and focus throughout the weekend,” said guard Sarah Halejian ’15. “We shared the ball on offense and our defensive pressure was key towards creating a lot of turnovers.” After losing to Cornell (13–11, 5–5 Ivy) 65–56 in Ithaca, N.Y. on Feb. 1 Yale (12–12, 6–4) reversed its fortunes, defeating the Big Red 60–52. The Bulldogs started off the game slowly, trailing 10–2 less than three minutes into the game. Down 15–10 with 8:40 to play in the first half, the Elis started a 15–1 run that would extend into the second half. Yale headed into the locker room up 22–16 after posting its first lead, 18–16, with 2:04 remaining in the first period. The Bulldogs maintained their momentum heading into the SEE W. BASKETBALL PAGE B3

OLUFOLAKE OGUNMOLA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The women’s basketball team beat Cornell and Columbia at the John J. Lee Amphitheater this weekend.

STAT OF THE DAY 28

HENRY EHRENBERG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Captain Jesse Root ’14 (No. 20) scored three goals for the Bulldogs this weekend to help Yale earn three precious points.

MEDALS WON BY THE UNITED STATES AT THE OLYMPICS.

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SPORTS

Gardner cultivates new deal Speedy outfielder Brett Gardner secured his financial future yesterday, inking a four-year extension with the New York Yankees worth $52 million. Gardner stole 24 bases and led the American League with 10 triples last season, in addition to playing spectacular outfield defense for the Bronx Bombers.

Men’s lax tops St. John’s M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 McArdle, who had five points on the day, scored with just 47 second left in the third. The Bulldogs responded after Levings won yet another face-off, allowing midfielder Michael Bonacci ’16 to score his second of the game with just eight seconds remaining in the quarter to restore the Elis’ four goal cushion. Mangan and McArdle each scored in the fourth quarter to finish off the scoring at 10–6. “Offensively we didn’t perform as well as we would have liked,” Mangan said. “We did a lot of good things, yet it could have been better. That said, it was great to have such balanced scoring. It’s great to see guys like Jimmy Craft and Mark Glicini go coast-to-coast to score a goal. Before Bryant we could really improve on our pace of play and starting the game a little stronger.” The Bulldogs head east to face the Bryant Bulldogs next Saturday. Face-off for the game is set for 1 p.m.

ST. JOHN’S

OVERALL

SCHOOL

Harvard

0.900

0.846

Yale

0.800

0.583

Columbia

0.600

0.630

Brown

0.600

0.583

Penn

0.444

0.304

Princeton

0.333

0.652

Dartmouth

0.200

0.375

Cornell

0.100

0.083

IVY

YALE 10, ST. JOHN’S 6 2

IVY

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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

YALE

MEN’S BASKETBALL

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OVERALL

SCHOOL

Princeton

0.889

0.739

Penn

0.778

0.739

Harvard

0.700

0.708

Yale

0.600

0.500

Cornell

0.500

0.542

Columbia

0.300

0.250

Brown

0.200

0.333

Dartmouth

0.100

0.167

The men’s lacrosse team will take on Bryant and Fairfield on the road next weekend.

MENS ICE HOCKEY

Squash makes Penn quake SQUASH FROM PAGE B4 ford ’16 swept 3–0 in the exhibition match at the tenth spot. Mao and Annie Ballaine ’16 also came through with sweeps in the eighth and ninth spots, respectively. “To win this one, I just had to go in aggressive and take it point by point,” Ballaine said. After their loss in the semifinal round, the Elis played the Quakers on Sunday in the consolation match to decide third place. The Quakers had prevailed 5–4 when the two squads faced off earlier this season. Yale turned the tables on Penn this time, however, winning 5–4 in an intense match — seven of the nine matchups went to either four or five game sets. Tomlinson, Norman-Ross and Mao all saw wins this past weekend after losing to their Penn opponents at the previous meeting. “It all came down to Issey [Norman-Ross] who went 2–0 down and managed to pull for a comeback and clinch the match,” Kim Hay ’14 said. Hay, along with Fast and Gwen Tilghman ’14, will graduate this year. Some players from the men’s and women’s squash teams will travel to Penn to compete in CSA Individual Championships this coming weekend. KEN YANAGISAWA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The women’s squash team defeated Princeton and Penn at the Howe Cup national championships this weekend.

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

ECAC

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W L

PTS

W L

Union

0.750

Colgate

0.578

Quinnipiac

0.691

Cornell

0.635

Yale

0.611

Clarkson

0.544

Rensselaer

0.500

Brown

0.463

St. Lawrence

0.438

Harvard

0.407

Dartmouth

0.333

Princeton

0.185

WOMENS ICE HOCKEY ECAC

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W L

PTS

W L

Clarkson

.809

Harvard

0.793

Cornell

0.759

Quinnipiac

0.721

St. Lawrence

0.439

Princeton

0.552

Yale

0.397

Dartmouth

0.339

Colgate

0.324

Rensselaer

0.348

Brown

0.224

Union

0.279

Yalies head to playoffs W. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B4 next game against Dartmouth, and so the Bulldogs had nothing to play for except to keep momentum going. The Big Green, however, needed a win to clinch a playoff spot. Dartmouth’s offense was threatening right from the start, putting 19 shots on Leonoff in the first period, more shots than Yale would have in the entire game. “I definitely think Dartmouth wanted it more than us,” Tomimoto said. “We didn’t have the same motivation.” Leonoff stopped all but one Dartmouth shot in the first period, and a goal by Mock late in the first tied the score. Yale went on the power play in the beginning of the second and came close to taking the lead when defender Kate Martini ’16 fired a slap shot off the post. The Bulldogs got four more power play opportunities in the second and third periods but could not capitalize on any of them. The Big Green continued to take shot after shot on Leonoff, and a Dartmouth forward eventually put a hard slap shot past her in the second period. Yale was unable to score for the remaining period and a half, mainly because Dartmouth’s offense dominated possession of the puck in Yale’s zone. When the clock ran out, the Dart-

mouth players rushed to the net to celebrate their playoff berth. Yale’s best-ofthree series with Harvard will begin on Friday in Cambridge. “[Our play] seems to be getting better every weekend,” Leonoff said. “I’m very confident right now, and I know that we’re definitely in Harvard’s head.” After the game, the Yale players lined up along the blue line for a ceremony honoring the Eli seniors after the last home game of their careers. Tomimoto, Kennedy, forward Patricia McGauley ’14 and forward Paige Decker ’14 have appeared in a combined 335 games in their Yale careers. Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

DARTMOUTH 2, YALE 1 DARTMOUTH

YALE

YALE 3 (OT), HARVARD 3 YALE

HARVARD

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The Elis will take on Harvard in the first round of the ECAC tournament.

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SPORTS

“I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.” RODNEY DANGERFIELD AMERICAN COMEDIAN AND ACTOR

Bulldogs in fifth M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 urday’s game, however. Less than four minutes into the game, a twoon-one breakaway resulted in a goal for Grant Opperman to give Dartmouth (7–16–4, 6–12–2) the lead. Early in the second period, the Big Green struck again, making it 2–0 with 16:57 remaining in the frame. But Yale knocked in two goals in a 51-second span to tie the game, with Root and forward Cody Learned ’16 getting in on the action. A third-period score from forward Mike Doherty ’17 delivered the Elis their first lead of the game, which evaporated 8:24 later, when Andy Simpson fired a shot past goaltender Alex Lyon ’17. After a scoreless overtime period, the game ended in a draw, despite the Bulldogs enjoying a 42–27 shot advantage. “I think we just needed to bear down,” Root said. “We had our chances. I think we just need to focus on the execution of those chances. We could have used more traffic in front of their goalie.” With the three points, Yale now finds itself just two points behind Cornell for fourth place in the conference. If the Bulldogs can climb past the Big Red, they will have a bye for the first round of the tournament, as well as home ice for the best-of-three series in the quarterfinals. Getting there, however, will not be easy. Next weekend will see No.

Streak snapped

3 Union, as well as a tough Rensselaer squad, come to Ingalls Rink. Even if the Bulldogs can win their way into fourth place, making the NCAA tournament may require a strong showing in the conference tournament. “We need to keep improving our defense, first and foremost,” Root said. “As we saw this weekend, if we play good defense, that’ll lead to offensive chances. It’s more focusing on our process, which is tight defense and a five-man forecheck, not just one guy doing his job. We need everybody reading and reacting off of each other.” The games against Union on Friday and Rensselaer on Saturday are both at Ingalls Rink, with the puck dropping at 7 p.m. for both contests. Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

YALE 5, HARVARD 2

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Guard Jack Montague ’16 scored a career-high 18 points against Cornell on Friday night. M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1

YALE

HARVARD

YALE 3 (OT), DMOUTH 0 YALE

DART.

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Forward Mike Doherty’s ’17 (No. 24) goal gave Yale a brief 3–2 lead at Dartmouth, but the Big Green tied the game.

Montague finished the night with a career-high 18 points in the absence of Duren, while Sears led all Yale scorers with 19. Forward Brandon Sherrod ’15 also had key contributions, coming off the bench to compile 13 points and seven rebounds. Besides withstanding the second-half charge of Cornell, the Bulldogs also managed to survive despite the play of Big Red guard Devin Cherry, who was firing on all cylinders on his way to a game-high 29 points. Seeking to extend its winning steak to eight, Yale traveled to Francis S. Levien Gymnasium Sunday afternoon to face off against Columbia with a chance to sweep the season series against the Lions. When all was said and done, however, Yale had toppled from the top of the Ivy League at the paws of the Lions. Columbia (17–10, 6–4 Ivy) entered the afternoon seeking to make amends for a 10-point loss to the Bulldogs on Jan. 31 that sparked a 1–4 stretch for the Lions, knocking Columbia from the top of the Ivy ladder. On Sunday though, the roles were reversed and the Lions leaned on an unexpected source to capture the 62–46 victory. Guard Steve Frankoski, who entered the game having scored 10 total points over six games due to a wrist surgery, had a spectacular first half. The sharpshooter scored 14 of Columbia’s first 21 points to build a nine-point advantage over Yale just 11 minutes into the game. “That was a big lift for them. He’s got such a quick release,” said head coach James Jones. “He’s somebody that was in the scouting report, but you’re not worried about him going for [14 points] in the first half.” Yale withstood the assault to an extent, as the trio of Sears, Montague, and guard Armani Cotton ’15 combined for 19 of Yale’s 23 first-half points. Entering the

break, the Bulldogs trailed by just seven despite Columbia shooting over 50 percent from the field. The second half saw the lead teeter around 10 points for a good chunk of the period until a modest 6–0 Yale run capped off by a layup from forward Matt Townsend ’15 brought the Bulldogs within six. But just as in Yale’s only other Ivy loss, which came against Brown on Jan. 25, hot perimeter shooting and a substantial first half lead was too much for the Elis to overcome. Frankoski was silent for much of the second half, scoring only three points. But boy were those three points huge. After both Frankoski and Columbia’s leading scorer, forward Alex Rosenberg, each missed multiple times on potential daggers from long range, Frankoski finally found his range once more with 6:48 to go to put Columbia ahead by 13, a lead that would prove insurmountable. “It felt great. Coach [Kyle Smith] gives me that confidence to go out and shoot the ball. He calls me a home-run hitter,” Frankoski said. “If I’m open, I shoot it. And we were waiting for a nice three to knock down in the second half and we finally got one that kind of put us over the top.” Frankoski would finish with 17, supported by 18 from Rosenberg and 16 from guard Maodo Lo. Such a stat line from a pair of guards and a forward is not unfamiliar to Yale. When the Bulldogs are at their best, it is Duren, Cotton and Sears stirring the drink. On Sunday, however, Sears and Cotton combined for 28 points and 16 rebounds, but there was no consistent third option. “Not having Brandon [Sherrod] or somebody else to score — Armani and Justin scored enough — somebody else had to step up and we didn’t get a good stretch out of anybody today,” Jones said. Sherrod registered a goose egg in the points column, and Yale’s bench as a whole only mustered eight points. Cotton and Sears each struggled as well,

whatever their point totals may say. They were a combined 8–21 from the field and Sears could only hit on 50 percent of his free throws, leaving seven points off the scoreboard. With Duren unavailable again, the Lions concentrated their defense inside and forced other Bulldogs to score, and their strategy worked to perfection. “We didn’t move the ball real well. They packed it in,” Jones said. “Our inability to make free throws affected a number of different areas for us. Our energy level went down because of it and that really hurt us.” As Jones mentioned, the Bulldogs shot poorly from the charity stripe as a team, making just 40.9 percent compared to 77.3 percent for the Lions. The home-weekend sweep for Columbia is the first in five years for the hosts. As for the implications of the Yale defeat, the Bulldogs are now alone in second place — one game behind Harvard. Yale still controls its own destiny, however, as the Elis will welcome the Crimson to John J. Lee Amphitheater on March 7. Before Harvard comes to town, though, Yale will tip off next Week at Princeton (15– 8, 3–6) at 7:00 p.m. Friday night. Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .

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Elis beat Cornell, Columbia W. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE B1 game’s final period and never relinquished the lead. The Elis held their largest advantage less than five minutes into the second half, leading 31–19. Cornell, however, mustered a run that brought the Big Red to within three points, 40–37, with 6:05 remaining. Yale regained control of the game minutes later, pushing the lead to double digits again with under four minutes to play, leading 51–41. Cornell was never able to get closer than eight points, which was the final margin as the Elis won 60–52. “[Cornell] wanted it badly, and thankfully so did we,” said head coach Chris Gobrecht. “We wanted it every bit as much as they did, so that’s why we won the game. It was a battle of whoever wanted it.” Three players scored in doubledigit figures for the Bulldogs, led by Halejian and guard Nyasha Sarju ’16, who scored 18 points apiece. Center Emmy Allen ’16 added 14 points off the bench to go along with three blocks. One of the key differences in the game was free-throw shooting, where Yale went 16–22 while Cornell only managed 9–20 from the line. The Bulldogs also shot 36.2 percent from the field compared to the Big Red’s 33.9 percent and outrebounded Cornell 47–40. Columbia (6–18, 3–7), shooting 51.0 percent from the field, presented a tough challenge for the Elis on Saturday night.

“A team like Columbia has just been getting better and better,” Gobrecht said. “They played Penn to a seven point game last weekend, they’ve won two in a row, and they were shooting the lights out. … It can be a dangerous time of year.” In the end, Yale was victorious, defeating the Lions 73–68. In a game that featured five ties and eight lead changes, neither team would lead by more than six points throughout the game. Both teams traded baskets early on, with neither Columbia nor Yale able to claim a decisive advantage. Going into halftime, three points separated the two teams, with the Bulldogs on top 37–34. The game remained tight throughout the second half, and with 4:23 to play, the Elis held a slight twopoint advantage. Tough defense from both sides kept the score locked at 67–65 for the next two minutes before Halejian nailed a 3-pointer to give Yale a 70–65 lead. Although free throws from Columbia closed the gap to 70–68 with 32 seconds to play, Yale would hold on for a 73–68 win thanks to made free throws from Halejian and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16. Although the Lions posted higher percentages than the Bulldogs from the field and free-throw line, the Elis were able to force Columbia into 17 turnovers while committing only eight. Yale was also outrebounded 38–36, but the Bulldogs had a strong effort on the offensive boards, which translated into 11 second-chance points compared to only two from

Columbia. Halejian led all scorers with 26 points aided by captain and guard Janna Graf ’14, who added 12 points. The Bulldogs’ bench also contributed, outscoring its Lions’ counterpart 24–6. “I thought Sarah really stepped up big time,” Gobrecht said. “We got some big buckets from a lot of people, and we got some really good hustle plays from [guard Amanda Tyson ’14] and Whitney Wyckoff. I thought Whitney Wyckoff’s defense on 00 [Columbia guard Miwa Tachibana] down the stretch was huge, since she had not missed all night.” The Elis will be at home for one final weekend, facing the top two teams in the conference, Princeton and Penn, on Friday and Saturday night at 7 p.m. Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.eu@yale.edu .

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SPORTS

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” MICHAEL JORDAN NBA HALL-OF-FAMER

Men’s lax opens season with win

Two close games end regular season BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Playing at Ingalls Rink for the last time this year, the Yale women’s hockey concluded its regular season with a tie against No. 5 Harvard and a loss to Dartmouth.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Bulldogs (8–14–7, 6–9–7 ECAC) were leading Harvard (21–4–4, 16–3– 3) for most of the game on Friday, but a late comeback to make the score 3–3 prevented them from upsetting their rival for the second time this year. The next day, Dartmouth (9–18–1, 8–13–1) poured 42 shots on Yale goalkeeper Jaimie Leonoff ’15 and came away with a 2–1 victory. “We played very well against Harvard and played alright [against Dartmouth],” Leonoff said. “It came down to the fact that Dartmouth needed to win to make playoffs, and they really brought it.” Leonoff worked hard to keep her team in the game in both contests, with 33 saves against the Crimson and 40 against the Big Green. Leonoff finished the regular season with a .922 save percentage. Yale ends the season seeded seventh in the ECAC and will play in the first round of the conference championship tournament against second-seeded Harvard in a best-of-three series next week. The Crimson took the lead early on Friday night with a goal just four minutes into the game. Harvard committed its first penalty soon after the goal, and the Bulldogs capitalized immediately to tie the score. Forward Stephanie Mock ’15 won the faceoff following the penalty and passed the puck to forward Hanna Åström ’16. Åström sent it to defender Taylor Marchin ’17, who fired a long slap shot into the net just four seconds after the faceoff. Near the end of the first period, forward Jackie Raines ’15 again scored on the power play. Defender Aurora Ken-

nedy ’14 started the play with a hard slap shot off the pads of Harvard goalie Emerance Maschmeyer. The puck rebounded to the side, leaving Raines with a wide-open net. After those two power-play goals against the best penalty kill unit in the country, Yale has scored seven powerplay goals in seven games. “We’re gelling together, just at the right time, too,” said captain and defender Tara Tomimoto ’14. “We’ve been practicing our power play a lot in practice, so I think it’s paying off.” Five minutes into the second frame, Yale extended its lead with another creative method of getting the puck past Maschmeyer, who was second in the nation in save percentage prior to the game. Defender Madi Murray ’15 ripped a long slap shot to the left of the net, and the puck bounced off of the boards directly to forward Krista Yip-Chuck ’17 on the other side of the goal. YipChuck easily netted a one-timer for Yale’s third goal of the night. Harvard had almost a full two periods to recover, and that is exactly how long the comeback took, as Yale allowed one goal midway through the second period and another in the final minutes of the third. The Bulldogs killed off two penalties in the third, and at the end of the second penalty they were just a minute and a half away from taking the victory. But 10 seconds after Yale went back to full strength, Crimson forward Sydney Daniels fired a shot off the post and in, sending the game into overtime. Yale could not score in overtime despite a power play midway through the five-minute period, and the game ended with the score still tied. Of the six conference games that the Crimson has not won, the Bulldogs have been the cause of two of them. “Whenever we play Harvard, it’s a rival game, and it changes things,” Leonoff said. “We really bring it.” Yale’s seventh seed in the ECAC playoffs was official before the team’s SEE W. HOCKEY PAGE B2

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The men’s lacrosse team beat St. John’s 10–6 in its first game of the season on Saturday. BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER The No. 13 men’s lacrosse team, buoyed by balanced scoring and tenacious second-half defense, blew open a close game in the third quarter, scoring four goals en route to a 10-6 opening victory over No. 19 St. John’s. The Bulldogs (1–0, 0–0 Ivy) had eight different goal scorers while holding the Red Storm (1–1, 0–0 Big East) to three goals in either half.

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The women’s ice hockey team finished its regular season at home this weekend, tying Harvard and falling to Dartmouth.

“We weren’t good off the ground and we turned over a lot of possessions, but everyone stuck to the process and played one play at a time,” said captain Jimmy Craft ’14. “This was a big team effort and a big team win. Now that we have the first game jitters behind us, we can move forward and get better each day.” The much-maligned Eli defense looked tough on Saturday, with solid defensive play from the whole unit. In net, second-year starter Eric Natale ’15 made 10 saves, including three crucial stops in the fourth quarter when St. John’s was pressing for a comeback. Craft and Michael Quinn ’16 each had three controlled takeaways, while Quinn led the team with five ground balls. Freshman Christopher Keating ’17, one of three rookies to start for the Elis, made his first collegiate start and

had two controlled takeaways. “Going into Saturday we had a game plan that everyone was completely confident in,” Craft said. “We knew that if we did our jobs individually that we were going to shut them down. It was definitely a step in the right direction for the defense, however we have a ton to keep working on and we simply have to get better in killing possessions by picking up tough groundballs.” Even though preseason all-Ivy selection Harry Kucharczyk ’15 missed the game due to injury, the Bulldogs’ defensive midfielders were a force to be reckoned with. Midfielders Alex Otero ’14 and Jackson Logie ’14, along with long-stick midfielders Reily Naton ’16 and Jack Ambrose ’14, helped the defense restrict a St. John’s offense that had 15 goals in its last game to just six goals on 29 shots. The Eli offense spread the rock around against the Red Storm, getting four points from attackmen, nine from midfielders and one from defense. Attackman Jeff Cimbalista ’17 scored the first goal of Yale’s 2014 season halfway through the first quarter. The rookie found the back of the net off a feed from face-off specialist Dylan Levings ’14 after one of the midfielder’s 13 wins from the face-off x. After the first quarter the game was tied 2–2, but the Bulldogs lit up the Red Storm’s goal in the second period with 14 shots, scoring three goals to

open up a lead. Yale’s star attackmen, Conrad Oberbeck ’15 and Brandon Mangan ’14, scored their first goals of the season, helping the Bulldogs go into the half up 5–3. Midfielders Mark Glicini ’16 and Eric Scott ’17 each scored shortly after the half to expand the lead to 7–4. In the third period, however, the Bulldogs were pressed by the St. John’s offense, which outshot the Elis 10–8 and threatened to get back into the game. But with less than four minutes remaining in the quarter, Craft broke the back of the Red Storm’s defense, scoring from 20 yards after great collective-play by Yale’s defensive unit. Midfielder Sean Shakespeare ’15 checked an opposing player, causing a ground ball that Quinn scooped up. The sophomore raced up field and found his defensive partner, Craft, open in space to receive his pass. Yale’s captain approached the goal unguarded, eventually releasing a hard bounce shot that nestled in the net for an 8–4 lead. The defenseman’s goal took the sting out of the Red Storm, who was never able to effectively respond. “Jimmy’s goal was a huge momentum surge,” midfielder Colin Flaherty ‘15 said. “It happened at a critical part of the game and we never looked back.” St. John’s star attackman Kieran SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE B2

W. squash finishes third BY ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER It is difficult to out-perform your ranking, especially when you are the No. 4 team in the country, but the Bulldogs did just that this weekend.

WOMEN’S SQUASH The women’s squash team returns from a successful weekend at Princeton with a third-place national finish behind Harvard and Trinity. The Elis (16–3, 5–2 Ivy) competed against the country’s top eight for the College Squash Association’s Howe Cup. No. 4 Yale beat No. 5 Princeton 5–4 in the first round, but the women were defeated by No. 1 Harvard in the semifinals. The Bulldogs earned a victory over No. 3 Penn to finish the tournament in third. The No. 2 Trinity Bantams emerged as national champions, defeating Harvard in the final round. “We took each match as it came and did not underestimate any team,” Millie Tomlinson ’14 said. Tomlinson played at the first position for Yale over the weekend. She triumphed in two of the three

matches, earning a 3–0 win over her Princeton opponent and a 3–1 win in the match against Penn, but she fell to her Crimson foe 3–0. Captain Lilly Fast ’14 had Yale’s breakout performance against Princeton, coming back from a 2–0 deficit to secure the win at the seventh spot. “Lilly was captain of the day, player of the day, and woman of the day,” Mao said about Fast’s comeback against the Tigers. Shiyuan Mao ’17 also defeated her opponent in a tight, five-game set at the eighth spot. She was able to best her Princeton opponent in the championships after losing 3–2 to the same player in Yale’s last match against Princeton. In the second round, the Bulldogs faced the hated Harvard — a team they had lost to 7–2 in their season’s final home match. Harvard won the match 6–3, but the Crimson had to overcome several impressive performances by Yale. Issey Norman-Ross ’15 had a 3–1 victory in the fourth position, blanking her adversary in the fourth game to win 11–0. Georgia BlatchSEE SQUASH PAGE B2

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The women’s squash team finished third at the CSA Howe Cup national championships this past weekend.