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CROSS CAMPUS Free bird. A turkey has been wandering Beinecke Plaza and High Street over the past few days, to the delight and confusion of passing students.

The popular theory is that the turkey may have escaped the chopping board of a nearby residential dining hall, perhaps Berkeley or Calhoun.

All men must die. Dean

of Silliman College Hugh Flick has reserved Silliflicks, Silliman’s movie and television theater, every Sunday for the rest of the year so the college can gather to watch “Game of Thrones,” according to an email sent to Silliman students. Cue theme song.

Procrastination nation.

Customized versions of the online game 2048 have been taking over campus, utilizing a website that allows students to replace the numbers with pictures of themselves or each other. One version of the game features members of New Blue.

Other iterations of the game are themed around suites or even individual Yale students.

The Reichenbach fall. A

prankster has covered Bass Library with printed images of actor Benedict Cumberbatch mid-jump, appearing to hang off fire exits or pinned to bulletin boards. No sign of Martin Freeman.

One man’s trash, another man’s recycling. Graduate

students are whiling away an afternoon of arts and crafts today. An event titled “Upcycled Magazine Coaster Making” encourages students to bring their old magazines — and presumably piles of old campus publications — and give them a better life as drink coasters. “No creativity necessary” the event description specifies.

Facilities Appreciation Day. According to a recent

email from the Yale College Council, Thursday is Facilities Appreciation Day, “a small reminder to recognize all the hard work and effort our facilities staff make every day fixing, cleaning, and keeping our colleges running even during heavy snow.” Just imagine if Yale had to cope with the snow on its own …

Selling Harvard. Mark Zuckerberg is featured in a new video from the Harvard College Admissions Office that welcomes admitted students of the class of 2018 according to the Harvard Crimson. “Congrats, you’ve been accepted to Harvard. …

I hope you go to Harvard and they hope you stay a bit longer than I did,” Zuckerberg says in the video. So, are students supposed to find the setting of “The Social Network” an appealing place to spend four years?

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Meeske to step down

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES AND WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTERS John Meeske ’74, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources, will step down from his post this summer.

In a Tuesday email to selected members of the Yale community, including students involved with the Dean’s Office, Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry announced Meeske’s retirement. After a career spanning more than 40 years at Yale, Meeske has chosen the voluntary layoff option offered by the University, Gentry said. Meeske — whose responsibilities include overseeing student housing and the renovation of the 12 colleges — told the News that he chose to leave now rather than later to take advantage of the incentives conferred by the voluntary layoff options, which Meeske said makes it more attractive for senior administrators to retire.

“It’s not connected at all to student organizations or difficulties of the job or anything else,” Meeske said. “It’s purely just where I am in my career and what I want to do with my life and that sort of thing.”

In the announcement, Gentry said Meeske’s departure was a major loss to the University, adding that he will be missed.

University President Peter Salovey said Meeske has been supportive of dozens of student organizations.

“Dean Meeske is someone who has given his life to Yale,” Salovey said.

“Behind the scenes, he is one of the people that makes Yale College tick.”

Salovey added that he will miss seeing Meeske at Commencement as the Old Campus Marshall who bears the staff that bears the mythic creature called “The Yale.”

Yale College Dean Mary Miller said Meeske’s deep knowledge of Yale has made him an invaluable part of the Dean’s Office.

“No one in the [Yale College Dean’s Office] has deeper knowledge across more fronts, from current officers of a student [organization] to the location of a closet on the Old Campus,” she said.

“His gentle but firm guidance has led us through countless commencements, class days and openings of the year.”

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Associate Dean John Meeske ’74 will be stepping down from his role after working with Yale for 40 years.

SCOTUS Justice Scalia talks religion

BY ANDREW KOENIG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defended the rationality of Christian faith last night at Saint Thomas More Chapel, speaking to a full house of undergraduates, law students and local residents.

Scalia — a practicing Catholic who has served on the Supreme Court for nearly 30 years — gave a talk entitled “Not to the wise:

Christian as Cretin.” The event, which drew nearly 300 people, stood at the intersection of law and religion, as well as secular higher education and spiritual life at Yale.

Scalia, at the request of former Yale Law School Dean Guido Calabresi ’53 LAW ’58, came to deliver a speech that criticized disparaging attitudes towards Christianity in academia and media. Scalia invoked the notion of Christians

as “fools for Christ” and transformed it into a badge of honor rather than ignorance.

“My point isn’t that reason and intellect need to be laid aside,” Scalia said, emphasizing the importance of rationalism. “A faith that has no rational basis is no faith.”

Scalia took up the life of Saint Thomas More himself to exemplify the defensibility of rational Catholic faith, which Assistant Pastor Eddie DeLeon called

Parks, Public Works in crosshairs of budget

“a nice touch … since Saint Thomas More is the patron of the center.”

Calabresi — in whose honor the chapel’s Fellowship for Religion and Law was endowed eight years ago — complemented Scalia’s speech with his own take on the relationship between conscience and judicial adherence to the law as the final word. His speech included statements that diverged from Scalia’s, prompting Scalia to gently mock after-

The city’s Public Works Department has been deteriorating over the past 15 years.

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER A facility for equipment repair needs repair of its own: New Haven’s Public Works Department has lost nearly 30 percent of its personnel and 20 percent of its budget over the past 15 years.

Deep cracks wind their way through the garage’s concrete floor, the result of salt residue from snowplows that has eroded the steel and cement. A full repair would cost upwards of $4 million, more than a third of the department’s current operating budget. Instead, the department is weighing the option of picking up and moving from its facility on Middletown Avenue altogether, relocating to the old CT Transit headquar-

ters on the corner of James and State streets.

If there is a comparable image of municipal disrepair at the Public Works Department, it is the loss of regular park rangers at many of the city’s parks, including Edgewood Park.

“The result of the lessened parks budget is this: There used to be a ranger dedicated to Edgewood Park. There used to be people walking around picking up trash,” said Willie Hoffman, president of the Friends of Edgewood Park. “Now there aren’t. There are no eyes and ears on the ground.”

Public Works and Parks are the poster children for New Haven’s budget woes. The demand for services has remained the same, SEE PUBLIC WORKS PAGE 6

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Committee talks dean search

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wards: “I thought [Judge Calabresi] said you’ve got to bend the law for it to conform to your conscience.”

The event took a turn towards the legal during the questionand-answer session, when audience members asked Scalia questions on topics such as the role of religious life at an elite higher education institution and Scalia’s journey to the

With the search process underway, the criteria for the reelection of Yale’s three new deans are slowly emerging.

In late April, the dean search advisory committee will present a list of candidates for the three deanships to University President Peter Salovey.

Though committee members interviewed declined to name specific candidates, psychology professor and committee Chair Marvin Chun said in an open forum with students last week that the list will comprise some dozen names for three dean positions: Yale College dean, Graduate School dean and Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean, a new position that will oversee faculty affairs and carry some of the burden of the Provost’s Office.

Chun said Salovey has given the committee all of April to make its recommendations, with a timeline to collect information within the next few weeks so that the committee can spend the rest of the month in deliberations.

“It’s very unglamorous — pretty much like sausagemaking,” Chun said of the search process.

Chun said Salovey wants the committee to “take its time,” but that the list of candidates has to be complete in time for a

decision to be made by the end of the academic year.

While the ultimate appointments are a toss-up at this point, Chun’s pointed to several qualities he deems essential for the deanships, many of which narrow down the pool considerably.

At the meeting, Chun said the candidates should be full professors and well-regarded scholars, which will help them obtain the respect of colleagues they will have to manage.

Chun also emphasized Salovey’s commitment to diversity in the search process.

Though he acknowledged the three new deans will have to work together as a team, Chun said it would be hard for the committee to recommend candidates in groups of three.

Instead, he said, the committee will name individuals and specify which positions the candidates may be suited for.

Chun added that administrators who attended Yale as students have an easier time fundraising, which is a key task of the deanships.

All five previous Yale College deans had been academic department chairs. The past three College deans — Mary Miller GRD ’78, Salovey GRD ’86 and Richard Brodhead ’68 GRD ’72 — have held Yale degrees.

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Finding our inner bookworms W

hen I was eight years old, my brothers nicknamed me “the bookworm who knits.” As the youngest child with two older brothers, I was subject to dozens of unendearing, unflattering and untrue nicknames throughout the years but this one, unfortunately, was accurate. My grandmother had insisted on teaching me how to knit, a hobby that unexpectedly stuck, and there was no denying I had always loved to read.

Some of my fondest memories from childhood were Sundays spent at the bookstore: hours spent getting lost in the aisles between seemingly infinite shelves of books, making the excruciating decision of which to take home and then sitting in the bookstore cafe with my dad, him with his coffee and me with my hot chocolate, eagerly reading the first few pages of our respective books before returning home to devour them entirely.

When finished, I would place each book on a shelf in my room, possibly to be reread or to be lent to a friend, but more so as a stamp of my pride, a tangible reminder of what my brain was capable of. My first picture-less book, my first chapter book, my first Shakespearean novel, all lined up in my room to be appreciated and admired like a wall of trophies.

Through the years, I have done my best to continue this tradition and, for the most part, I’ve been successful. I still have a shelf in my bedroom full of my cherished reads. My favorite afternoons are those spent browsing aimlessly in bookstores, but due to the increase in popularity of eBooks, and thus the decline of printed books, many of my favorite establishments have closed. In Baltimore, where I’m from, and now in New Haven I have my go-to bookstores but whenever I’m on vacation and looking for a place to buy books, I end up driving all the way out to a Barnes & Noble that’s gone out of business or a small bookstore with an incredibly limited selection.

In situations like these I am tempted to succumb to the times and buy an eBook. My father, whose job requires him to travel very frequently, loves his Kindle as he never has to weigh down his suitcase with heavy books. If he forgets to bring a book and is without access to a bookstore, all he needs is an Internet connection and within seconds he’s reading the book of his choice.

It saves paper, it’s lightweight and it has an unlimited selection. Thus, our movement towards the eBook makes

sense; it’s convenient and, for the environmentally c o n s c i o u s, it’s ecofriendly.

ALLY A friend of mine is in DANIELS a seminar in which all of Take the the students Back Ally are provided with iPads for the semester, enabling them to pull up videos, pictures, readings and any other information pertinent to the class material.

But paradoxically, this same class also encourages students to utilize Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library as a resource. The students are encouraged to access primary resources, handwritten letters and poems composed on typewriters, all dating back to rich historical time periods, offering them a sense of intimacy with that era that would never be achieved through an online document. If we continue this shift towards iPads and eBooks, eventually putting a stop to printing books entirely, how will students in the future have the authentic experience of delving into our ancient texts at a place like Beinecke?

In my Italian class last semester, we were able to read some passages from one of the earliest editions of Dante’s Inferno in Beinecke. Reading from this edition dating back thousands of years was infinitely more powerful than reading a copy printed off the Internet.

It’s not just the authenticity that we lose when we revert to eBooks; we also lose the aesthetics. I have some books that are so beautifully crafted that their significance to me is not just the content but also the tangible features — the cover, the texture of the pages, the font. And then there are my own additions: names marked on the inside of the front cover, dog-eared pages, scribbles along the margins. All of that is lost to the online reader.

This University is meant to value authenticity, antiquity and intricacy — when administrators and faculty urge a shift to eBooks, they should take care to also preserve the unique experience of reading a printed text. And as members of this community, we must all remind ourselves of our inner bookworms (knitting optional), put down our iPads and take a trip to the bookstore.

Diego’s murder

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éxico is one of the richest and most diverse countries in the world.

It is blessed with great weather, a legacy of great civilizations and countless touristic attractions that hundreds of Yalies enjoyed over spring break.

But my country is also at war.

It is not a war against another nation but one between my own people. It is a war caused by the lack of rule of law and the structural conditions that push some people to find unlawful and violent means of surviving. This, I guess, is the tale of the developing country.

I am convinced that if we are to change our country it will have to come through education and change in the mindset of the people. A minority of the population has access to higher education and even less to quality education. Those of us who do have the responsibility to try to create better conditions for our fellow countrymen.

Unfortunately, some of those students who are committed to bringing about change to our country fall victim to the violence and do not live long enough to realize their dreams.

One month ago, I was codirector of the Yale Mexican Students Organization’s flagship event of the year. It was a confer-

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ence called Convergencias 2014 and featured many top speakers from various fields in México and gathered around 100 Mexican students representing 17 U.S. colleges. What did we all have in common? The desire to talk about the topic that endears us most, México.

One of the students was Diego Fernández Montes, a Boston University freshman who, like me, was from México City and in his first year studying in the United States. I had the opportunity to chat with him in Pierson College and WLH, and we shared dinner at Shake Shack. In Diego I saw a student who studied economics with a genuine desire to change things back home. He came from a socioeconomic background that allowed him not to worry about money, but instead of just pursuing wealth, he was interested in improving the lives of people in México. He commented on how happy he was to come to Yale and find more people with the same mindset. We quickly continued our chat on Facebook, and I was supposed to pay him a visit in Boston soon so that we could continue our conversation on how to improve México.

But that was not meant to happen. About two weeks ago, we learned that Diego died during a robbery while visiting home in

México City. I was in shock for a few days, considering our city is safe in comparison to large cities in the U.S. and that this crime happened on a street I have driven through, and that he was taking a taxi from a mall I have frequented. Diego was the victim this time, but it could have also been me. What is outrageous is that no one has been held accountable so far.

Diego’s case is not the first one.

Four years ago, two fellow Excellency Scholarship students from Tec de Monterrey were murdered by soldiers of the Mexican army while the soldiers were chasing drug lords. The way this case has been managed has been outrageous: Top national authorities tried to cover their status as students by planting weapons next to their bodies, hid the video recordings and tried to fool the country by inventing a lie that they were drug dealers. This version of the story was quickly dismissed. Four years after, however, nobody has been held accountable and no apology has been issued. The lives of Jorge Antonio Mercado Alonso and Javier Francisco Arredondo Verdugo seem to have been taken away for nothing.

With those types of cases one could be scared and decide not to go back home. We could look

for a job here on Wall Street or a large multinational. But we shall not forget our origins because, in the end, they have formed us and define who we are.

Those murders motivate me even more to go back to my country and change it for the better.

I feel empathy because I could have been the student exiting a library from Tec de Monterrey or taking a cab in México City — but I wasn’t, and I am still here.

Only going back and trying to do things better is how we can avoid more cases like those of Diego, Javier and Jorge. Saying that “It is México’s fault” is a bad excuse because all of us make up the Mexican nation.

Change can only be achieved if we are committed to becoming good citizens. We don’t have to become social activists or public policymakers. Just going back to México with a mindset of doing our work well will help.

In the end, returning is not a sacrifice. Those of us who have the privilege of education have a larger responsibility.

DAVID ALATORRE LÓPEZ is a visiting international student in Jonathan Edwards College. He is a fourth-year International Relations student from Tec de Monterrey Campus Estado de México. Contact him at david.alatorrelopez@yale.edu.

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rates the proletariat with fat.”

hen I signed my firstever sublet agreement this week for summer housing, I had to make a confession to the leaseholder: I couldn’t offer him payment right then, because I don’t own a checkbook. He didn’t mind, but the implications of that admission seemed to run much deeper for me. What am I doing signing this contract if I don’t own a checkbook? I’m trying to pretend I’m a grown-up, but I’m clearly doing a terrible job.

As of late, I’ve felt acutely aware of my place on the bridge that traverses the gap between adolescence and adulthood — and it seems as if this metaphorical bridge is missing a few planks. Certain activities feel farcical, like a child playing house. When I go to doctor’s appointments and present my own insurance card, when I schedule lunch dates and meetings with professors, when I dress in business attire for important interviews — in all these situations, I’m certain everyone sees how ridiculous I look. I’m just out of high school, putting on my best front of maturity.

Recent studies, articles and even feminist campaigns have popularized the concept of “Impostor Syndrome,” when an individual is convinced his or her

accomplishments are u n d e se rve d or fraudulent and that the rest of society views them as such.

CAROLINE My handle on adulthood POSNER feels similar — even the Out of Line responsibilities for which I am prepared seem to me like superficial attempts to break out of adolescence. This seems like a pretty universal side effect of the freshman transition to college life. It's one that remains difficult to solve, no matter how many times I Google search: “How to Pretend to be a Grown Up.” The university system, particularly the type of undergraduate environment found at Yale, is a major force in shaping this conflicted sense of personal adulthood. On the one hand, the climate for undergraduates is nurturing, concerned and in many ways parental — decanal checkups, texts from my freshman counselor, advisor emails and even motherly reminders from professors. At the same time, we’re held to adult expectations of self-management for which we have no prior experience —

like in my case, finding my own housing for the summer.

The leap from high school to college independence is a thrilling one; for freshmen in particular, the paternalistic nature of the support system here and the emphasis on nurture can feel at odds with the relative freedoms and accountability these years afford us. Like the younger sibling who protests his earlier bedtime, we’re apt to interpret a certain amount of condescension in the attitudes meant to ease our transition. But the contrasting messages can be legitimately confusing when it comes to determining our identities as no-longer-teens-butnot-quite-grown-ups, and the expectations that govern our agency and responsibility don’t match up across most situations.

This problem would be best met with a Peter Pan attitude, an eagerness to retain some hold on our childhoods and guiltlessly defend our youth — at least, that’s what I espouse on days when I still want to order from a kid’s menu. In reality, as hedge fund-bound seniors and summer consulting interns could probably attest, the perception of our maturity and adulthood clearly impacts our treatment and opportunities. Maybe that’s why I’m so eager to shed the last remnants of adolescence that

make my attempts at adulthood feel fraudulent: the promise of being perceived as “grown-up” and the opportunities that come with it.

Spring semester emphasizes the gap between recent high school graduates and departing Yale seniors, and underclassmen like myself watch in mixed suspense, jealousy and excitement as near-graduates are planning the rest of their lives. That’s not to say we’re ready for college to be over, but the paths on which graduates will soon depart reflect on diverse, fascinating opportunities down the road.

Those graduates will have checkbooks and know how to sign leases and feel comfortable dressing in business attire, and they won’t be playing at grownup the way I am now. But, I realize, those dean’s emails and froco group texts that inform me of my lingering dependency are also small comforts that will disappear in my real grown-up years. Maybe we’re faking adulthood, but the support systems that remind us we’re not there yet — parental as they may be at times — aren’t ones we’d soon give up.

CAROLINE POSNER is a freshman in Berkeley College. Her columns run on Thursdays. Contact her at caroline.posner@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS

Chap’s Grille served “Stop Work” order

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The article “Yale to face new mandates under Clery Act” misspelled the name of Anne Hedgepeth.

Due to an editing error, the article “Students stage divestment demonstration” incorrectly stated that 43 percent of undergraduates voted in the Yale College Council referendum on divestment.

Childhood trauma can affect community

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER Recent scientific findings showing a link between urban violence and psychological problems have steered activists, academics and public officials in New Haven to support programs that address the aggregate effects of violence on the mental health of innercity residents.

Several recent studies have illustrated that, in urban neighborhoods with prevalent crime and gang activity, the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder is on par with that of military veterans.

The traumatic effects of violence are so potent that they can even impact community members who are not directly involved in individual incidents of crime.

About half the people we interviewed knew, personally, somebody who had been murdered.

KERRY RESSLER Professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Emory University Late last month, Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy convened a round-table discussion to solicit input on potential solutions to the issue of gang violence in New Haven.

In attendance was Yale Child Study Center researcher Steven Marans, who shed light on the prevalence of post-traumatic stress and similar disorders in urban environments, where men, women and children are repeatedly exposed to potential sources of mental trauma like violence, gang activity and abuse.

Marans directs a clinic at the Child Study Center that seeks to treat at-risk individuals early on in their lives and repeatedly throughout, before they have a chance to spiral down dangerous path involving guns, drugs and alcohol.

His work falls in line with that of many others nationwide, who are attempting to zero in on potential solutions that may create a more stable lifestyle for inner-city residents.

“The outcomes of not recovering from trauma, which include PTSD and depressive and anxiety disorders, are also at the root of drug and alcohol abuse and inability to sustain healthy relationships,” Marans said. “As they get older, these outcomes can interfere with learning and academic achievement.”

Marans added that, in general, allowing these disorders to go untreated inhibits a patient’s ability to truly achieve independence and autonomy. This can result in their decision to join gangs, in which youth can find ways to cope with a negative mental state through promises of inclusion and belonging, he said.

Beyond the emotional toll sustained by those close to homicide and shooting vic-

tims, Marans said that other stressors include neglect or abuse at home.

“These are complex issues,” he said. “In some of these kids, [joining a gang] can serve as an antidote to feeling inadequate.”

Among the items called for by local activists seeking an answer to the decades-old problem of gang violence in New Haven is increased support for programs like the Child Study Center’s Childhood Violent Trauma Clinic.

Through the program, patients work with Yale clinicians trained to intervene in the post-traumatic stress cycle early and repeatedly enough to ward off any dire consequences, leveraging available family members to better reach patients and to foster positive relationships.

“A unique aspect of the clinic program is the focus on providing intervention early after a potentially traumatic event in an effort to prevent negative reactions,” a description on the clinic’s website reads. “Treatments provided through the Clinic include Trauma-Focused [cognitive behavior therapy], ParentChild psychotherapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy and family therapies.”

Kerry Ressler, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University, has also conducted extensive research into the prevalence of PTSD in the urban communities around Atlanta, where Emory is located.

For one of his studies called the “Grady Trauma Project,” Ressler and his team surveyed several thousand impoverished medical patients, most of whom were African-American, to determine how many had some kind of potentially traumatic event.

“About 90 percent had experienced severe trauma that would be sufficient for PTSD,” Ressler said. “About half the people we interviewed knew, personally, somebody who had been murdered, about two-thirds had been attacked, themselves.”

One of the major conclusions that Ressler drew from the data was that the rates of PTSD in this population were as high, if not higher, than in military service-related populations. In a follow-up study, he found a correlation between those suffering PTSD in this context and violent behavior down the road.

He added that, as a result, he believes an approach to the urban violence issue backed by informed medical research would yield encouraging results.

“If we could have a medical model approach to PTSD and inner-city violence, it may change the conversation,” Ressler said.

Sixty-seven percent of people exposed to mass violence have shown a tendency to eventually develop PTSD, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.

Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .

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BY J.R. REED STAFF REPORTER In the most recent installment of the Connecticut Labor Department’s crackdown on New Haven food establishments, a “stop work” order was posted Monday afternoon on the door of Chap’s Grille on Chapel St. The Department of Labor (DOL) specifically cited the store for allegedly paying its workers in cash without paying workmen’s compensation insurance, which provides benefits for employees injured on the job.

Chap’s reportedly also classified workers falsely as independent contractors, thus depriving them of employee benefits.

However, according to the director of the DOL’s Wage and Workplace Standards Division Gary Pechie, the stop work order only lasted one full day. Chap’s reopened on Wednesday after instituting a workers’ compensation policy and placing all employees on payroll — eliminating payments of cash “off the books”.

“They have done everything

that an upstanding business should do,” Pechie said. “They can reopen now that they have complied with what we asked them to do.”

Pechie added that Chap’s could still incur a small fine, as a $300 fine is assessed for each day that an employee works while not on proper payrolls after a “stop work” order is issued.

Chap’s owner Alex Elsankary said the DOL provided his restaurant time to get workers’ compensation insurance, which establishments must provide now by state law.

While Elsankary said he did not know about the issue until the labor department alerted the restaurant, he said he believes that DOL representatives are dropping in on businesses around the Elm City.

“I believe it has to do with the Affordable Care Act, and they have to make sure everyone’s covered,” Elsankary said.

According to the New Haven Independent, the department did not act on a tip from an employee, and it was, as Elsankary suggests, dropping in on

Elm City businesses in order to ensure fair labor practices.

Unidad Latina en Acción organizer Megan Fountain ’07 said she believes that this stop work order falls within the DOL’s efforts to more strictly enforce the minimum wage and overtime laws, as her organization has heard from the community that these laws are “being broken on a regular basis.” ULA is a local community organization that informs workers of their rights and negotiates on behalf of workers to resolve wagerelated disputes with employers.

During her experience as a volunteer with ULA for the past seven years, Fountain said that in general the state government has not prevented the problem of wage theft, and owners don’t take the government very seriously. “[Employers] see these fines as a slap on the wrist,” Fountain said. “Now government is responding and sending a message that this is serious — that if you break the law, you’ll be accountable.”

Fountain added that, under state law, each establishment

must hang a poster featuring information on worker protection laws, including the minimum wage and mandatory reporting of sexual harassment.

She said he does not believe most businesses in New Haven actually do so.

Chap’s run-in with the DOL follows wage-related incidents at other area businesses. Last month, Chung Cho, the owner of popular 24-hour convenience store Gourmet Heaven was arrested on numerous felony counts of failure to pay wages, failure to pay overtime and defrauding immigrants.

Last week, J & B Deli was served a “stop work” order for failing to pay its workers the minimum wage and overtime compensation.

Chap’s is not managed by the University Properties office.

Last Wednesday, the Connecticut State Legislature approved a law that will raise the minimum wage to $10.10 from its current rate of $8.70 over the next three years.

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

Yale Bakery seeks cookie input

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Pastry chefs from the Yake Bakery surveyed students for their cookie preferences in Commons Dining Hall on Wednesday,

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER For the first time, Yale students will have the power to decide just how the cookie crumbles.

On Wednesday during lunch in Commons Dining Hall, two pastry chefs from the Yale Bakery offered students free cookies in hopes of answering the ageold question: crunchy or chewy?

After a blind taste test, students were given a questionnaire that asked them to choose their favorite of the two cookie recipes. The winning cookie will be served in Yale’s dining halls every week going forward on “Chocolate Chip Cookie Wednesday.”

According to Culinary Operations Manager Veronica Arcoraci, this type of outreach is part of a broader effort on the part of Yale Dining to incorporate student opinion in its menu-planning.

“The bake shop is currently located in the basement of Commons, and many people don’t even know [it exists],” Arcoraci said. “We wanted to get them out and meet with students to get

feedback.”

Students crowded around the booth to taste the cookies and mark their ballots, filling out the bubble next to their preferred cookie — Option A or Option B. The eight-question survey also asked students to rank other Yale bakery dishes, including danishes, cobblers and crisps on a scale of “Dislike,” “They’re Ok” and “Love!” Students were also asked open-ended questions about their three favorite cupcakes, three favorite cookies or bars and all-time favorite dessert.

Rusty Hamilton, one of the Yale bakers, said this type of interaction allows the Yale Bakery to better serve the students.

He said his team does not have the opportunity to see what foods are popular and which are uneaten in dining halls on a regular basis.

Hamilton said he hopes this will be one of many events that allow him to take a break from baking to interact with students.

Students interviewed said they enjoyed the cookies and were happy to share their opin-

ions.

“We feel like we have an input, which is kind of exciting,” Jillian Kravatz ’17 said. She added that she was not familiar with the Yale Bakery before but hopes to get involved in the future.

The bake shop is currently located in the basement of Commons, and many people don’t even know [it exists].

VERONICA ARCORACI Culinary Operations Manager Ryan Dailey ’15 said he appreciated the outreach effort, but is unsure how effective it will be at improving the quality of dining hall fare.

Shaunak Bakshi ’15 said he hopes there will be more of this type of event in the future. Since students are the “customers,” the food should reflect their tastes,

he said.

Still, Pauline Marcou GRD ’15 said the buzz around the event was slightly misleading. Because the booth was located inside Commons, the cookies were not truly “free” because students had to use meal swipes to access them, she said.

Students were divided on which cookie they preferred.

Irene Chung ’17 said both versions tasted pretty similar. Hamilton said he preferred the consistency and flavor of Option A, while Kravatz said she preferred Cookie B. When asked for her own opinion, Arcoraci said she does not want to weigh in on the debate because she wants the decision to be left to students.

The final question on the survey invited students to submit their email address for a chance to win a box of two dozen Yale Bakery cookies of their choice.

During the academic year, Yale Dining serves more than 14,000 meals per day.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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“So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.”

RUTH BADER GINSBERG SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

Scalia speaks about justice, faith SCALIA FROM PAGE 1 bench.

Although he was willing to speak on past decisions and general opinions, Scalia was tight-lipped when attendee Angela Pollard ’16 asked about his thoughts on corporations and organizations taking religious stances.

“You will soon know,” Scalia said cryptically in response.

Scalia also spoke about his experience on the bench at large. In particular he highlighted the positive changes he believes the Supreme Court has undergone during his term.

Since he has joined, the Court has gone from a “cold bench” to an environment in which justices ask more frequent questions, he said.

“By my light, the law has marginally improved in the long time I’ve been on the court,” Scalia said. “I think with religious clauses we do a better job than we did 30 years ago.

I like what we’ve done on the Second Amendment, needless to say, since I did it.”

In 2008, Scalia wrote the majority opinion for District of Columbia v. Heller, defending the individual’s right to own a firearm.

Students at the event said they came for a variety of reasons.

Rodney Evans ’14, who is writing his thesis on theories of punishment, said the religious focus of the event was notable.

“It was much more sermon-esque [than I was expecting],” he said, adding that he was impressed by the amount of theology in Scalia’s speech.

After the event, Scalia fielded requests from interested audience members asking for photo-ops and Scalia’s advice on law schools. Security was tightened for the event, and bags were checked in front of the chapel and inspected by dogs able to sniff explosives.

Scalia is also speaking at Yale Law School on Thursday to the Federalist Society, a group that emphasizes constitutional originalism and textualism whose lecture circuit he regularly travels. ”I’m a big fan of Justice Scalia — I think he’s incredibly intelligent, and obviously any opportunity to hear a Supreme Court justice is an amazing one,” Catherine Shaw ’16 said. “This is the reason why you come to Yale, for stuff like this.”

Saint Thomas More Chapel Chaplain and Father Robert Beloin, who helped organize the event, said that speaking engagement such as Scalia’s allow the chapel to open up a dialogue with other sectors of the Yale population and promote Catholic intellectual life on campus.

Scalia is the longest-serving justice on the current Supreme Court.

Contact ANDREW KOENIG at andrew.koenig@yale.edu .

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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke at Saint Thomas More Chapel Wednesday evening, defending the use of Christian faith in law.

Speculation surrounds next deans DEAN SEARCH FROM PAGE 1

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Ever since Yale College Dean Mary Miller GRD ’78 was announced to resign in January, the dean search advisory committee has been compiling a list of viable candidates to fill her role.

Still, Chun said the search committee will not restrict itself to fielding candidates who have served as department chairs.

“There are many types of administrative experience that would make someone a strong candidate,” Chun said in an email.

Candidates that meet the criteria specified by Chun include Tamar Gendler ’87, the current deputy provost for the humanities, who successfully led the Philosophy Department for three years prior to moving to Warner House.

Gendler, who will finish her oneyear appointment in the Provost’s Office this summer, said “the structure for next year’s Provost’s Office is still under discussion.”

When Yale was in the process of evaluating whether to add a Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean position this winter, Gendler traveled to Stanford University to learn about Stanford’s implementation of a similar decanal structure.

Another potential candidate is Calhoun College Master Jonathan Holloway GRD ’95, who is stepping down as master at the end of this academic year. Holloway currently chairs the African-American Studies Department and sits on the ad hoc committee on the expansion of

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“With the dawn of the new colleges, Yale College will be a yet more demanding responsibility for the dean,” Miller said.

Philosophy professor Michael Della Rocca said the new residential colleges, along with the future of online education, are the two most urgent issues for both faculty and students at the moment.

Calhoun students interviewed expressed enthusiasm at the potential of Holloway assuming the Yale College deanship.

“He would be great for the job,” Sang Won Lee ’17 said. “He has terrific leadership and understanding of the student body … he has a certain charisma.”

Brian Lei ’16 called Holloway “an excellent role model” who leads by example.

The pool for a graduate school dean is larger than that for the Yale College dean, as medical school faculty members are also eligible for the position. Indeed, successful graduate school deans in the past were dark-horse candidates from the medical school, Miller said. Susan Hockfield, who later went on to be the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a neurobiology professor in the medical school when she was announced as the graduate school dean in 1998.

Still, most undergraduates interviewed showed a lack of awareness about the dean search.

“I really haven’t been keeping up with it,” Wendy Chen ’17 said.

The open forum last week — organized by the Yale College Council — was poorly attended, with about a dozen students in the audience, of whom most were members of the Yale College Council. Students in attendance raised a variety of issues that they hope the new deans will confront, ranging from alcohol policy to same-sex housing.

Despite their indifference to the search process, most undergraduates and graduate students interviewed agreed that the new dean should concentrate on student life, communicate transparently and be open-minded about student concerns.

Lee said the new deans need to have an understanding beyond the narrow confines of academia.

“The dean should be able to communicate very well with students, understand their needs and ultimately, be able to meet those needs,” Faizah Zakaria GRD ’17 said.

Miller was appointed Yale College dean in 2008.

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu and AKASH SALAM at akash.salam@yale.

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“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.” JAMES JOYCE IRISH NOVELIST

State approves new charter schools

BY POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER After a years-long effort to start a new charter school in Dixwell-Newhallville, Reverend Eldren Morrison got state approval on Wednesday to open the school next fall.

Morrison’s proposal for Booker T. Washington Academy in New Haven was among the four charter school proposals that the Connecticut State Board of Education approved by unanimous vote at its meeting on Wednesday. Two of the approved schools — Booker T. Washington and Great Oaks Charter School in Bridgeport — are set to open this year, while the other two, in Bridgeport and Stamford, will open the following fall.

The Board’s approval was met with enthusiasm from parents, educators and community activists who had crowded the State Department of Education building on Wednesday to advocate for the proposals.

If you look at any model of things that are successful in America, it’s based on the fact that people have a choice.

MICHAEL SHARPE Chief executive officer, FUSE “It was such an exciting atmosphere,” said Booker T. Washington Academy board member Chaka Felder-McEntire. “You can’t shout and scream in [the building], but everyone was definitely very excited. There were a lot of hugs and a lot of handshakes.”

As a Pastor at Varick Memorial AME Zion Church, Morrison first came up with the idea for the charter school back in 2008, with the goal of boosting the academic achievement of minority students.

In his proposal for the school,

Morrison teamed up with Family Urban Schools of Excellence (FUSE), the organization that runs the Jumoke charter schools in Hartford. The school’s gubernatorial board has hired FUSE to implement the Jumoke model, which focuses on strong family outreach and development of the “whole child.”

“Being out in the community and seeing that our kids weren’t reading at grade level, I was realizing that we had really failed our own kids,” Morrison said. “I thought that we can definitely do a whole lot better.”

He added that the school is named after the founder of the Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college in Alabama. He called Washington the “epitome of the example to set for kids.”

The school is set to open on Blake Street this September, with 300 students in grades pre-K through 3. The school will add on one grade level each year to serve up to eighth grade by 2019.

Charter schools are tuitionfree schools that admit students on a blind lottery system, accepting all students regardless of academic ability. Charter schools operate independent of the public school system, but they must perform up to state education standards in order to stay open.

Michael Sharpe, Chief Executive Officer of FUSE, said that charter schools provide an important alternative education option.

“Kids should be able to go to a great charter school, a great private school, a great public school or a great magnet school,” he said.

“If you look at any model of things that are successful in America, it’s based on the fact that people have a choice. People should have that same choice when it comes to education.”

Sharpe has worked for charter schools for over 18 years, and he said the Jumoke model is successful because of its rigor and focus on enrichment activities.

Students have the option of coming to school for part of the day on Saturday, when they focus on language arts, mathematics and English. After school, kids can choose from a range of enrich-

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The Connecticut State Board of Education approved four charter school proposals — including the Booker T. Washington Academy in New Haven. ment activities, including debate, strings ensemble and cooking club.

Sharpe said that both the afterschool program and the Saturday sessions will be part of Booker T. Washington’s model. The new school’s proposal also calls

for smaller class sizes, teaching assistants in every classroom and more parental engagement, all of which Morrison said he believes will improve academic achievement.

In addition to increasing academic achievement, Booker T.

Washington will have a positive impact on the Dixwell-Newhallville neighborhood, Morrison said.

“I think this is part of the solution to youth violence issues,” he said. “A school like this will get the kids before they grow and

start copying the bad elements that they see around them.”

FUSE currently operates five different charter schools in Hartford.

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

Be fearless but humble, says Gilt CEO

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER The future of retail is at a turning point, according to Michelle Peluso, CEO of the popular webbased shopping network Gilt.

Peluso discussed her career path and the importance of an entrepreneurial mindset to a crowd of about 30 at a Yale Women’s Leadership Initiative event on Wednesday.

In a question-and-answer session between Peluso and School of Management lecturer Sarah Biggerstaff, Peluso spoke about how her job is well-balanced because she is able to work with creative entrepreneurs, engineers and analysts alike. The job requires “an amazing blend of right brain and left brain all day,” she said, adding that she is proud of what the organization has accomplished at large.

“Gilt is such a unique way for brands to tell their stories,” Peluso said.

Peluso said her guiding light has always been her passion for the people with whom she works.

She added that she has always been interested in the intersection between technology and the consumer — a relationship that she got to explore while working at Travelocity and further developed at Gilt.

Peluso said making bad decisions is an inevitable part of the being a CEO and being able to deal with those failures is part of being a strong leader. She added that being in a position of vulnerability can be a learning experience.

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Peluso offered a bit of advice for future business leaders: Surround yourself with diverse people who can offer all kinds of opinions and keep you grounded in reality. Too often, business

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leaders communicate only with those who share their views, which can lead to problems down the line, she said.

Elle Brunsdale ’15, president of the Yale Women’s Initiative, said she found the talk inspiring and helpful.

“One of the best pieces of advice that she gave was for us to

be fearless and have the courage to be humble,” Brunsdale said.

Biggerstaff said one of Peluso’s strengths as a speaker was her ability to convey the story of her career path in a way that audience members could relate to.

Stephany Rhee ’16 said she appreciated that the tone of the conversation was simultaneously

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Peluso receiver her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and her master’s degree from Oxford University.

Before joining Gilt, Peluso was the Global Consumer Chief Marketing and Internet Officer of Citibank from 2009 to 2013,

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Peluso also worked for the Boston Consulting Group and was a White House Fellow and Senior Advisor to Labor Secretary Alexis Herman.

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

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Percent personnel lost in Public Works

In addition to the 30 perecent drop in staffing, the Public Works Department has also lost 20 percent of their budget in the last 15 years.

Public Works dept. stretched thin

Meeske ends long Yale career MEESKE FROM PAGE 1

best.”

Acting Parks Director Rebecca Bombero said the department is stretched thin, with about 50 budgeted positions managing 142 parks and 65 playgrounds. She said most of the cuts have been in mid-level manager positions, clerical staff, park security and the recreation division. Still, she said, “our parks are flourishing.”

“Parks are cornerstones of our community,” Bombero added. “They give character and pride to neighborhoods.”

If New Haven is to market itself as a “city of the future,” Hoffman said, it cannot afford to neglect its parks. Young people searching for a city where they can set down roots and start a family want opportunities to access the outdoors. If they cannot find that in New Haven, he warned, they will go to Portland, Ore. instead.

Harp’s proposed 2014-’15 budget gives $11.6 million to Public Works and $5 million to Parks.

of Yale College and director of the Latino Cultural Center, said Meeske has tremendous institutional knowledge and is a valuable resource to have when discussing new issues.

“It’s really hard to think of the Deans Office without him,” Garcia said. “It’s so valuable to have someone in the room who has seen a lot of changes.

Losing him is a big loss for our department.”

Meeske is the chair of the Yale College Classroom Committee and the vice chair of the Standing Committee on Undergraduate Organizations.

Meeske said the University has dramatically improved since his time as an undergraduate 44 years ago. The University is doing more for students now, he said.

“I’m seeing Yale become a better and better institution,” Meeske said. “It’s been exciting to be a part of that.”

While Meeske said his exact plans for retirement are not certain, he will travel to Mongolia with his wife, and look for a house in Europe. He is still unsure whether he will stay in New Haven or move elsewhere, he added.

Students interviewed who have worked with Meeske said the associate dean has provided a kind and helpful administrative voice.

While working with Meeske on the planning of Spring Fling, Ethan Karetsky ’14 recalls how he and fellow students gathered in Sheffield-SterlingStrathcona Hall to hold a meeting with several other senior administrators. During the meeting, Meeske let the students run the meeting and made them feel as if they were on equal footing with the other officials, Karetsky said.

“That’s a moment I’ll certainly remember,” Karetsky added.

Benjamin Ackerman ’16, chair of the Undergraduate Organizations Committee, said he will miss Meeske’s “can-do positive attitude.” Ackerman, who currently interacts with Meeske on an almost a day-to-day basis either through email, phone conversations or in person, said he has benefited from Meeske’s calm composure.

“Overall, he’s just tremendous … I’d call him a friend,” Ackerman said. “[I am] very happy that he can move on and spend more time with his family.”

Still, Ackerman said Meeske’s departure represents a “loss of an ally” because Meeske has worked hard to help student organizations.

Meeske was also instrumental in the planning phase of every major Freshman College Council event, said Thomas Rosenkranz ’17, a member of the Freshman College Council. Rosenkranz added that Meeske is a “markedly kind and approachable man” who has helped students understand and deal with administrative regulations.

Abhijoy Mitra ’17, another member of the Freshman College Council, said Meeske has always been eager and cheerful to help.

“He always agreed to feature in the promotional videos for events,” Mitra said. “And [he] stole the show every time.”

As an undergraduate at Yale, Meeske was a member of the Alley Cats and the Whiffenpoofs.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

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The Parks Department, down 50 percent on staffing, has been surviving on volunteers and interns filling in on previously eliminated full-time staff positions.

PUBLIC WORKS FROM PAGE 1 if not increased, while budgets have fallen sharply since the early 2000s.

Mayor Toni Harp called the departments “critically understaffed.” She said they exemplify the implausibility of calls for further budget cuts.

“In Public Works and the Parks Departments, we’ve already cut almost 50 percent of the staff over the last 15 years,” she said during an interview about the budget. “To cut any more, we would really have to ask ourselves ‘do we want to have these departments at all?’”

For Public Works, the problem has resulted from the lack of a strategic plan, said department head Doug Arndt. For a number of years in the early 2000s, the department did not even have a full-time director but instead relied on the city engineer.

The budget, which has diminished by roughly 20 percent over the last 15 years, is slated to fall by another $37,000 under Harp’s proposal for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

Winter snowstorms laid bare the impact of staffing and equipment shortfalls. The city has too few plow

trucks — and the ones it does have are too old. The department used to sweep the city twice a month; now it sweeps only once.

“We’ve been able to maintain core services,” Arndt said. “It’s a question of doing all the things everybody wants us to do or just the core services. Our people can only work so much, so hard, so fast. It’s a factor of manpower.”

He said requests for eight new plow trucks and a collection of other key vehicles will help lessen the load for vehicles that have been on the roads for up to 27 years. They will come at an estimated cost of $3,813,601 in the department’s capital funds budget.

The city needs a minimum of 22 heavy plow trucks to do its job, Arndt said. It currently has fewer than 14.

The impact on quality of life is clear: The streets will go unplowed.

Alan Bush, deputy director for Public Works, said the online service request tool SeeClickFix has helped the department streamline nonemergent requests while coping with a diminished staff.

SeeClickFix founder and CEO Ben Berkowitz said the problem-solving

instrument — founded in New Haven but now used by cities nationwide — means Public Works does not need to employ its own inspectors. Residents input problems online, where they move smoothly into the city’s workflow. The number of calls for service more than doubled from 2012 to 2013 on issues ranging from potholes to trash and recycling, signaling its expanding role in the dayto-day work of city departments.

For the Parks Department, volunteers and interns have filled in where full-time staff positions have been eliminated, said deputy director Bill Dixon. Staffing has fallen by roughly 50 percent over the last 15 years and the budget by nearly 40 percent.

But services, including outdoor adventure programs, have actually increased over that same time frame, Dixon said. Hoffman offered a less rosy account: He said cuts administered by the previous administration left a “vacuum” in the city’s system of parks.

Multiple park rangers said they were not authorized to discuss the condition of the parks they patrol.

Dixon said they are not authorized to speak because, “their boss knows

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, APRIL 3 5:30 p.m. Lecture: “In Between Places: Contemporary Art and the Middle East.” Glenn D. Lowry, the director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, will discuss contemporary Islamic art and its relationship to the changing cultural and political forces that are shaping the Middle East. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

6:10 p.m. “Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age.” Join the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Yale Climate & Energy Institute for a conversation with Mary Wood, the faculty director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Program at the University of Oregon School of Law. She will be discussing her recent book, “Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age,” which defines the frontiers of public trust law and maps out a full paradigm shift for the way government agencies manage public resources. Sterling Law Buildings (127 Wall St.), Rm. 128.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 4 4:30 p.m. Chubb Fellowship Lecture: Leymah Gbowee.

Leymah Gbowee, a Nobel Peace Laureate and Liberian peace activist, will present on her life and work and field questions by the audience. Sponsored by the Timothy Dwight Chubb Fellowship and Yale Association for American Peace and Development.

Sterling Law Buildings (127 Wall St.), Levinson Aud. 7:00 p.m. “Teaching to See + Learning by Heart.” Two short films and a discussion on the work and teaching of Inge Druckrey and Sister Corita Kent with comments by Inge Druckrey and Barbara Glauber, moderated by Pamela Hovland. Yale School of Art (1156 Chapel St.), Design Aud.

SATURDAY, APRIL 5 8:00 p.m. Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415: Bach’s “St. John Passion.” The Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415 will perform Bach’s “St. John Passion,” with Masaaki Suzuki conducting. Markus Rathey will give a preconcert talk. Woolsey Hall (500 College St.).

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“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?” PAUL GAUGIN FRENCH POST-IMPRESSIONIST ARTIST

Stolen Gaugin on Sicily U.S. objects to Iran ambassador choice kitchen wall for years

BY FRANCES D’EMILIO ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME — A Paul Gauguin still life stolen from a wealthy collector’s home in Britain decades ago has been recovered after hanging for 40 years in a Sicilian autoworker’s kitchen.

The worker bought the painting along with one of lesser value by another French artist, Pierre Bonnard, for about $100 at a 1975 Italian state railway auction of unclaimed lost items, said Maj. Massimiliano Quagliarella of the paramilitary Carabinieri art theft squad.

Italian authorities on Wednesday estimated the still life’s worth in a range from $14 million to $40 million.

“The painting, showing fruit, seemed to fit in with dining room decor,” Quagliarella told The Associated Press about the nowretired autoworker’s choice of placement in his kitchen, first in Turin, then in Sicily.

The painting is believed to have “traveled” on a Paris-to-Turin train before it was found by railway personnel who put it in the lost-and-found depot, said Gen. Mariano Mossa. After the autoworker retired to Sicily, the man’s son, who studied architecture at university, noticed a telling detail: a dog curled up in the corner.

Dogs were sometimes a signature motif for Gauguin’s work.

The man’s son contacted an art expert to get an evaluation. The expert concluded the work was likely a Gauguin painting, and contacted the Carabinieri’s division dedicated to recovering stolen and trafficked art and ancient artifacts.

The painting — named “Fruit on a Table with a Small Dog” — depicts two bowls brimming with

brightly colored grapes, apples and other pieces of fruit. On the front is a painted “89” — an indication it was created in 1889. It now measures about 18 by 20 inches — slightly smaller than when Gauguin created it because the thieves cut the painting out of its frame, police said.

The painting will remain in the custody of the art squad because the police have yet to receive an official notice that it is stolen, Quagliarella said. The art squad traced it using newspaper articles in 1970 reporting the theft of a wealthy London family’s art collection.

Italy’s culture minister, Dario Franceschini, called the painting’s recovery an “extraordinary” find.

London’s Scotland Yard has been in contact with the Italian police but said in a statement Wednesday it had not been possible to trace the records of the theft.

Italian police found a photo of the painting in a June 28, 1961, auction in London.

Chris Marinello of Art Recovery International, which helps track down stolen artworks, said the story of treasures ending up in lost-and-found departments was not unprecedented.

In 2006, the Duchess of Argyll lost a tiara, a diamond Cartier brooch and other jewels at Glasgow Airport. Six years later they were put up for auction — it turned out they had been sold by the airport as unclaimed property. After negotiations, they were returned to the duchess.

Marinello said there could be a battle for ownership of the recovered paintings in Italy. Under Italian law, the autoworker could have a right to them if he could prove he bought them in good faith, he said.

“I’m sure this is not the last we will hear of this,” Marinello said.

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (front right) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (front left) met at the Russian Ambassador’s Residence in Paris, March 5, 2014.

BY LARA JAKES ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The U.S. objected Wednesday to Iran’s anticipated selection of a former hostage-taker at the American Embassy in Tehran as its newest ambassador to the United Nations. But the Obama administration stopped short of saying it would refuse him a visa to enter the United States.

State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf called the potential nomination of Hamid Aboutalebi “extremely troubling” and said the U.S. has raised its concerns with Tehran. Lawmakers in Congress who usually disagree on everything — ranging from liberal New York Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer and conservative Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz — have demanded that

Spy may be key in peace talks

BY JOSEF FEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — In an improbable twist, the fate of an imprisoned American who spied for Israel could now play a big role in rescuing Middle East peace negotiations after a dramatic Palestinian rebuff to Secretary of State John Kerry.

With Kerry’s efforts in tatters, a three-way deal that includes the United States releasing Jonathan Pollard could provide incentives for Israel and the Palestinians to break the deadlock and extend the talks.

But critics say the sudden focus on Pollard has turned attention away from the real issues that need to be addressed to end decades of conflict. And it may have raised the Palestinians’ asking price: They realize that with Israel so eager to free Pollard, they may be able to hold out for broader Israeli concessions.

Palestinian officials, for instance, say they have discussed the possibility of seeking the

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release of the top Palestinian prisoner held by Israel, Marwan Barghouti, as part of any arrangement involving Pollard. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose internal deliberations, said they have to date been hesitant to raise the issue in connection with Pollard for fear of being seen as meddling in internal American affairs.

Negotiations on a peace deal hit a major snag late Tuesday when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas abruptly renewed a campaign for recognition of the “state of Palestine” in international bodies.

Abbas had promised to suspend the campaign when peace talks resumed in July but angrily reversed course after Israel failed to carry out a promised prisoner release. The move forced Kerry to cancel a planned trip back to the region and threatened to derail the talks completely.

U.S. officials said Kerry spoke with Abbas and Israeli Prime Min-

ister Benjamin Netanyahu during the day and that negotiators from the sides would meet later Wednesday in Jerusalem.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the U.S. was “disappointed by the unhelpful unilateral actions that both parties have taken in recent days.” He said Kerry remains in close touch with negotiating teams, but added that the parties “must take the necessary steps if they want to move forward.”

Palestinian officials said Wednesday they had no desire to quit the negotiations.

“We hope that Kerry renews his efforts in the coming days,” Yasser Abed Rabbo, a top Palestinian official, said in the West Bank town of Ramallah. “We don’t want his mission to fail.”

Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour, who delivered copies of the recognition documents to U.N. officials Wednesday, expressed a “willingness and a readiness to continue engaging in the political process.”

Aboutalebi be barred from living and working in the United States.

But Harf noted that except in limited cases, the U.S. is generally obligated to admit the chosen representatives of member states to U.N. headquarters in New York.

“We’re taking a close look at the case now, and we’ve raised our serious concerns about this possible nomination with the government of Iran,” Harf told reporters. She added: “But we do take our obligations as host nation for the United Nations very seriously.”

Hamid Babaei, a spokesman for Iran’s Mission to the United Nations, had no comment Tuesday on his government’s choice for ambassador Aboutalebi was a member of a Muslim student group that stormed the U.S. Embassy

in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. He reportedly has insisted that his involvement in the group — Muslim Students Following the Imam’s Line — was limited to translation and negotiation.

But lawmakers have derided Aboutalebi as a terrorist and a key conspirator in the hostage crisis, and warned that his nomination would escalate tensions in already delicate negotiations aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear program.

In a letter Wednesday to Secretary of State John Kerry, Schumer said Aboutalebi’s association with the student group should make him ineligible for a visa or diplomatic immunity in the U.S. “This man has no place in the diplomatic process,” Schumer said in a separate statement.

“Iran’s attempt to appoint Mr. Aboutalebi is a slap in the face to the Americans that were abducted, and their families. It reveals a disdain for the diplomatic process and we should push back in kind.”

Earlier this week, Cruz questioned the wisdom of negotiating with the Iranian government in light of what he called its “deliberately insulting and contemptuous” choice for U.N. ambassador. The nuclear negotiations are set to resume next week in Vienna.

Harf insisted the nuclear talks and the U.N. envoy were separate issues, even as she noted Washington’s ongoing concerns with Iran on multiple fronts.

“On the nuclear issue, they have upheld their commitments,” Harf said. “We hope they will continue to.”

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The Arizona Diamondbacks revolutionized corn dogs at their concession stands this season. They are now selling 18-inch corn dogs stuffed with cheddar cheese, bacon and jalapenos, called a “D-Bat” with a side of fries for $25. The Diamondbacks reported that the corn dogs were so popular that the organization sold out of “D-Bats” during Tuesday nights game, but they will be ordering more.

Golf finishes third, plays in Northeast

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER With a few tournaments under their collective belts, the men and women’s golf programs will gear up for a pair of tournaments in New Jersey and New York this weekend.

GOLF The men’s and women’s golf squads will remain in the Northeast for their next matches, with the men’s team hosting the Met Intercollegiate in Purchase, N.Y., and the women traveling to Springfield, N.J. to take on Seton Hall. The Met Intercollegiate will be a one-day, 36-hole event on Saturday, April 5, while the match at Seton Hall will span both Saturday and Sunday. This early in the season, the condition of courses in the Northeast could pose problems for the Bulldogs.

“The playing conditions will certainly be challenging this weekend,” said men’s captain Sam Bernstein ’14. “The forecast is for temperatures in the low 50s with a chance of rain. Also, because of the extremely cold winter, the course will not be in great shape.”

In addition to difficult conditions, Yale will be facing off against some of the country’s best programs, as well as the rival Crimson.

Army, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Princeton, Harvard and No. 5 Georgia will all be competing in the Invitational. At the last tournament the men’s squad participated in, the Linger Longer Invitational, Georgia took the top spot with a total score of 27-under against some of the countries’ top teams.

“I’m looking forward to facing off against Harvard, our biggest threat in the Ivy League, and Georgia, one of the top five teams in the country,” Will Davenport ’15 said. “I believe we have the talent to play with anyone, and it will be a real treat to go head to head against the nation’s best.”

In last years’ Met Invitational — which spanned two days — the Bulldogs took the title despite beginning the final day in fourth place. Bernstein and Joe Willis ’16 tied for third place last year to lead the Bulldogs.

Bernstein said that he looks forward to returning to Purchase, not only to repeat his performance from last year, but also because of the personal connection he has with the course.

“Century [Country Club] is where I grew up playing golf. It is a great layout and playing there really does feel like home for me,” Bernstein said.

Although the men’s team had its last match two weeks ago in Greensboro, Ga., the women’s team last stepped on the

course earlier this week.

On March 31 and April 1, the Yale women’s golf team trekked to Beallsville, Md., for the ninth annual Hoya Invitational. In the 16-team tournament, the Bulldogs finished in third place, which astonishingly was their lowest finish of the year.

“It was slightly disappointing because we had only first and second [place] finishes as a team this season. However, we did our best and had exciting competition with teams such as Michigan and University of Pennsylvania,” said Captain Sun Park ’14. “Moving forward, the results of this weekend will give us the momentum to work harder, the motivation to address and attend to different parts of our games, and the strength and the drive to do better on the next tournaments.”

Typically, teams play a practice round prior to the tournament. But due to inclement weather, the Bulldogs were unable to see the course prior to competitive play, which made adjusting to the course more difficult, according to Park.

The men’s team will have the Princeton Invitational and Yale’s home spring opener before Ivy championships, while the women’s team will compete in the Ivy championships after its tournament at Seton Hall.

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The men’s and women’s golf teams will play in New York and New Jersey this weekend, respectively.

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

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The Bulldogs fell to Massachusetts 3–1, 6–1 in a doubleheader yesterday.

Yale scored its first run in 19 innings off a solo shot by shortstop Brittany Labbadia ’16, her first career home run. Labbadia has been on a recent tear, recording a hit in the three games leading up to today’s contests.

UMass would respond in the home half of the first inning, scoring an unearned run when first baseman Taylor Carbone, who reached on an error, scored off a triple from designated hitter Lindsey Webster.

Both teams then went hitless until the bottom of the fourth inning, when the Minutewomen produced two singles.

UMass pushed another run across the plate in the fifth inning, with Webster recording her second RBI on the day. The Minutewomen then added to their lead with another run in the sixth. Designated hitter Lauren Delgadillo ’16 led off the seventh inning with a single, but Yale was unable to capitalize, falling 3–1.

The Elis received another very strong outing from pitcher Lindsay Efflandt ’17 in

Pay them to play COLUMN FROM PAGE 8 pockets of coaches and athletic directors and led to the construction of shiny new facilities for schools. But the group most responsible for the influx of money, the student-athletes, has not seen a single penny. Thanks to the availability of free labor, the profit margin for college athletics trumps that of any professional team.

In the last few years, critics of the NCAA business model have spoken out in favor of giving the athletes a greater share of the enormous profits being made every season.

Multiple class action lawsuits have been filed against the NCAA for its monopolistic stranglehold on commercial privileges associated with college athletics. But last week, football players at Northwestern University took the fight against the status quo a step further.

In a petition to the National Labor Relations Board, the Northwestern athletes argued that they are effectively employees of the University and thus should have the power to unionize and bargain collectively.

Though many thought this was a long shot, the NLRB Regional Director Peter Sung Ohr ruled in favor of the athletes (Ohr is a Democratic appointee. Thanks Obama!), agreeing that they are university employees and entitled to the right to form their own labor union.

It will probably be a while before the athletes are actually able to create a functional union, as Northwestern will certainly appeal this decision. But this should not overshadow the importance of the ruling. The NLRB seems to agree with the increasingly popular public opinion that student-athletes should not just be treated as average college students.

In his decision, Ohr pointed to not just the annual revenue generated by the Northwestern football team, but the intense time commitment by athletes as well. The testimony of the players shows that they spent 40 to 50 hours per week on football-related duties during the season. During the spring and summer, players are expected to devote 20 to 25 hours every week to team activities.

In addition, the football players face additional restrictions that no other students have to face. The coaching staff must approve their off-campus leases, players

cannot deny friend requests by coaches on social media websites and media interviews are strictly prohibited unless the coaching staff approves. These measures, along with the fact that players are recruited and given scholarships for the explicit purpose of playing football, led Ohr to conclude that the players are effectively the employees of the university.

Critics of the NLRB decision still cling to the belief that college athletics represent the highest form of amateurism, and as amateurs, student-athletes should not receive any financial assistance. After all, their scholarships should already count as pay, and their free education only adds value to what they receive from the schools.

But in an era where athletes at major programs often graduate at a rate well below the university average, it is increasingly dubious just how valuable a free education is.

Recently, multiple media outlets reported that the University of North Carolina created a series of easy classes intended for football and basketball players, many of whom still read and write at grade school level.

The administration and coaching staffs, well aware of the existence of these classes, ignored them and allowed functionally illiterate players to graduate with a UNC degree.

Their excuse? It’s not really cheating when everyone is doing it.

The report on UNC’s conduct brings to light something that should be pretty obvious: the free education that many athletes receive is not up to par. The profits they help to generate far outweigh the benefits they receive while in school. Only a small fraction of college athletes ever make it to the professional stage, but I don’t think the coaching staffs of the major programs bring up this fact very often during recruiting trips.

The Northwestern football team just fired another salvo at a system that is outdated and ineffective. The players are not asking for salaries, but for cost-of-attendance stipends and long-term medical benefits for those injured during their careers. It is about time that we recognize the commercial nature of college sports and compensate athletes for their work.

JIMIN HE is a senior in Pierson College.

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the first game of the afternoon. She scattered 10 hits over six innings of work, allowing only two earned runs. This brings her season earned run average down to 2.38.

“I think we played well against a top-tier team today and competed throughout both games,” third baseman Hannah Brennan ’15 wrote in an email to the News.

With a new lineup in hand, the Bulldogs looked to turn their day around with a win in the second game of the doubleheader.

But they were again limited to four hits, this time by Minutewomen pitchers Tara Klee and Dakota Smith-Porter.

Yale went quietly in the first inning, going three up and three down. UMass put pressure on the Bulldogs early with Carbone bringing in a run on a single in the bottom of the first inning. The Minutewomen would load the bases with two outs, but pitcher Chelsey Dunham ’14 limited the damage by forcing third baseman Anna Kelley to foul out.

In the bottom of the third inning, pitcher Kristen Leung ’14 relieved Dunham. An

error in the bottom of the third inning led to three unearned runs for UMass, and Dunham replaced Leung in the circle. The Minutewomen added one run to their lead in the fourth inning. The Bulldogs would finally string together a series of hits in the top of the fifth, scoring one run. UMass picked up one more run in their last at-bat, pushing the final score to 6–1.

“The score of the games do not reflect how well we hit today,” Dunham said in an email. “Lots of the girls hit the ball very hard, but unfortunately it was right at people. If the girls keep swinging like they are, the hits will eventually find the gaps.”

The Bulldogs will look to get back on track this weekend. Yale will face Cornell in its home opener on Friday afternoon before challenging Princeton on Saturday. The Elis have yet to play on home turf this season due to unfavorable weather conditions and cancelled games.

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Huskies bite Elis

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The loss to the Huskies dropped Yale to 2–6 on its road trip, but its next six games are at home.

BASEBALL FROM PAGE 8 ance and first start of the year as a pitcher.

The Huskies got to Hsieh early, smashing five hits for five runs in the first inning. Pitcher Nate O’Leary ’15 came in to replace Hsieh with no outs in the second frame after two consecutive UConn doubles and one run.

O’Leary held strong for a full three innings without allowing a hit, but the Huskies continued their rampage in the fifth frame when two batters reached on walks, one singled and another tagged O’Leary for a three-run home run to make the score 10–0.

Freshman pitcher David

McCullough ’17 then entered the game and finished the fifth with no additional runs, but allowed four more in the sixth on a combinations of hits and walks.

The Bulldogs would score their lone run in the top of the seventh, after which point UConn could no longer score off the duo of Baldwin and Hanson, despite scratching two hits off of each of them.

But Yale could not plate any additional runs either, and the score remained 14–1 after nine.

Despite the score, the Bulldogs left the field with a few small positives, most notably the strong individual performances of Toups and Campbell, their third and fourth hitters in the lineup.

Toups went 2–4 for the second consecutive game, while Campbell went 1–2 and extended his hitting streak to eight games.

Both players said the most important thing is whether or not any given individual performance can help the team win.

“I’m just trying to keep it going for Ivy League play, because that’s everything that we work for,” Toups said.

Toups will get his chance to do that this weekend, when the Bulldogs host Cornell on Saturday and Princeton on Sunday for doubleheaders.

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

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CHRIS LANHAM ’16 BASEBALL Lanham, from Houston, Tex., earned Ivy League co-pitcher of the week honors for his performance in Yale’s 3–0 shutout of Columbia in the first game of the teams’ doubleheader on Tuesday. In the complete game shutout, he allowed three hits over seven innings.

PHOEBE STAENZ ’17 WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY The New England Hockey Writers Association honored the freshman forward with a spot on the New England Hockey Writers Division I All-Star Team.

The Zurich native led the Elis in points and goals this season and represented Switzerland at the Sochi Olympics.

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“If the girls keep swinging like they are, the hits will eventually find the gaps.”

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game.

In total, the Bulldogs had six hits in the game, while the Huskies scattered 15. “[Connecticut’s pitching] was above average, but nothing more than that,” Campbell said. “It was not anything we haven’t seen all year. Upper 80s to low 90s [miles per hour], but the loss was really on us …

We beat ourselves.”

Campbell added that the Bulldogs made three separate base-running mistakes to effectively run Yale out of scoring chances.

Southpaw Eric Hsieh ’15 got the start for Yale, his third appearSEE BASEBALL PAGE 9

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The Yale baseball team played its fifth game in three days yesterday against Connecticut. The heavy workload appeared to take its toll, as the Bulldogs fell 14–1 to the Huskies in a non-conference game.

A depleted Yale pitching staff pieced the game together, with five different pitchers taking the hill for the Bulldogs. The last two, righthanders Robert Baldwin ’15 and captain Cale Hanson ’14, were the only Eli pitchers to leave the mound unscathed.

“It was just not a good performance overall,” said center fielder

Green Campbell ’15. “We just didn’t have a good pitching performance from anyone. Whenever as a team you don’t have someone up there being a leader on the mound, it’s tough to rally behind them.”

Non-conference losses can occasionally be attributed to a mismatch in competition level, but UConn was a team that Yale topped 15–5 at this point last year.

Campbell noted that the team was worn out after two consecutive doubleheaders against Penn and Columbia, while second baseman David Toups ’15 said it was a matter of which team was having a good day at the plate.

“Last year we were on the other

side of it, and we were sticking hits quite a bit,” Toups said. “This year they returned the favor. It was nothing else, really.”

The Huskies also needed to go deep into their pitching staff for the game, as yesterday’s midweek contest marked their fifth consecutive day of action.

Of the six pitchers that Yale faced, the squad was not able to score until the fifth one, when first baseman Alec Hoeschel ’17 scored on a fielder’s choice off the bat of second baseman Nate Adams ’16 in the seventh frame.

Because Hoeschel had initially reached on an error, no UConn pitcher gave up an earned run in the

Studentathletes should be paid Two weeks ago, ESPN ran a fascinating documentary about the rise and fall of the Big East Conference, which originally began as a conference for powerhouse basketball programs that included the likes of Syracuse, Villanova and Georgetown. To increase its national profile and annual revenue, the Big East signed a lucrative broadcast contract with ESPN, setting the precedent for the commercial model of modern athletic conferences.

But greed, as it turns out, is not always good.

As the Big East expanded to include more lucrative football programs, schools began to look for more profitable opportunities offered by other conferences. By 2013, the mad scramble for money left the Big East in shambles, ending more than 30 years of storied tradition. In the end, capitalism killed the Big East.

The plight of the Big East has not been unique in recent years, as major conferences have undergone multiple rounds of realignment. In 2011, the Pac-12 signed a 12-year television contract worth $2.7 billion. Not to be outdone, the SEC signed a 10-year extension with ESPN, creating its own sports network that is expected to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in advertisement revenues annually.

These massive television deals are just part of the increasingly corporate world of college sports. Last year, NCAA men’s basketball tournament brought in $1.15 billion in advertising money for the NCAA. This number is greater than ad deals for all professional leagues, and will likely rise even more this year.

The cash flow from these deals has lined the

The baseball team lost to the University of Connecticut 14–1 on the road yesterday.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER

JIMIN HE

Softball falls in doubleheader

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The softball team traveled north to face Massachusetts in a doubleheader on Wednesday, looking to stop a 10-game skid.

SOFTBALL The Bulldogs (3–19, 0–4 Ivy), in their first ever meeting against the Minutewomen (5–14, 0–2 Atlantic 10), were unable to come away with a win, falling 3–1 in game one and 6–1 in the rematch. Yale, however, did score in the first inning of play, preventing the Elis from being shutout for a fourth straight game.

“I think we played well overall today and started to hit the ball hard more towards the end of game two,” catcher Sarah Onorato ’15 wrote in an email to the News.

“Unfortunately, we haven’t really been able to put runs on the board lately, which makes it tough on our pitchers.”

UMass entered the game on a four-game losing streak and had not played since March 22 against Saint Louis due to unplayable field conditions. The Minutewomen did not look rusty in their first game in 11 days with pitcher Caroline Raymond limiting the Bulldogs to four hits and one run in a completegame effort.

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Softball dropped both games of its doubleheader against the University of Massachusetts yesterday.

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SAVES MADE BY MEN’S LACROSSE GOALKEEPER ERIC NATALE ’15 AT PROVIDENCE TUESDAY. The junior net minder stopped 75 percent of all shots that the Friars sent his way. Natale leads the Ancient Eight with an 8.12 goals-against average so far this season.