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CROSS CAMPUS Finally. At long last, the Yale College Council will announce the performance lineup for this year’s Spring Fling at Woad’s tonight. We’ve essentially confirmed Klingande, but things are pretty much up in the air otherwise. Let’s hope it’s worth the wait, YCC. Not off the hook. But we’re still waiting to hear about another headliner: the Class Day speaker. For comparison’s sake, John Kerry ’66 was named the guest of honor for 2014’s ceremony on Feb. 10 last year. Grand Strate-jealous. Former
United States Army General Stanley McChrystal will be taking students in his GLBL 790 Leadership seminar to Gettysburg, Penn., to romp around old battlefields and bask in their alpha-ness. Meanwhile, the Grand Strategy students will be triplechecking to make sure they’ve written their names on their next assignments. Pulling a fast one. Inspired
in part by Frank Abagnale Jr. (of “Catch Me if You Can” fame), Guillaume Dumas spent four years of his life sneaking onto campuses such as Yale, Stanford and Brown in an attempt to get the elite college experience without paying a dime of tuition money. Fast Company profiled the Canadian’s escapades in a Tuesday article, confronting issues like online education and pre-professionalism.
Crank up the hype machine.
Not that anyone down here needed a reminder, but Sports Illustrated chimed in on Friday’s men’s basketball matchup between Harvard and Yale yesterday, noting everything riding on the game’s outcome. Yeah — we’re all pretty excited about it. Looking to join the family.
“Modern Family,” the Emmywinning ABC comedy, airs a new episode tonight (as it does every Wednesday) to follow up on last week’s installment, which revealed resident smart child Alex Dunphy’s decision to apply to Yale. Based on the first word of her essay, “Nietzsche,” we’re sure she’d be a delight to have in section. Will they read Nietzsche? This
evening, English professor Anne Fadiman and her students will host the aptly named “9th Annual Reading by Anne Fadiman and her students” at the New Haven Free Public Library on Elm Street.
Probably No. 11. On Tuesday, NerdWallet ranked the state’s top 10 cities for young families for home affordability, education quality and friendliness. New Haven seems to have just missed the cut. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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Internal review clears YPD officer in Blow case BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTERS An investigation by the Yale Police Department’s Internal Affairs Unit into a complaint that a YPD officer inappropriately used a firearm in detaining Tahj Blow ’16 has found that the officer’s actions complied with department policy. Blow was stopped on Jan. 24 after the YPD received reports that an intruder had entered Trumbull College. The report was amongst a series of thefts in the college. The intruder was described as a tall African-American male who was wearing a red and white hat and a black coat. According to the report, the release of which was announced in a campus-wide email early
Tuesday afternoon, the officer did not point his firearm at Blow, but instead held the weapon at the “low-ready position.” The position, the report noted, is “a technique that involves a firearm pointed in the direction of, but not directly at, a potential suspect.” The report further stated that video surveillance showed that officer’s finger was “indexed along the receiver or frame of the gun,” a technique which keeps the finger away from the trigger. The report’s conclusion stated that the officer — whose name, along with Blow’s, was redacted — “was working well within the established and accepted procedures for a law enforcement officer.” In particular, the report states the officer did not violate department policy on patrol operations, the use of force policy
and the post use of force policy. The report added that the internal unit found “no fault with the actions of [the officer], in their entirety, as they relate to this event.” The 24-page document includes statements from Tahj Blow and the officer, as well as reports from the YPD’s emergency dispatch center, other witnesses and an analysis of video surveillance. Although the report conceals the names of individuals cited, the content of the report matches details of the investigation previously made public by Blow’s father in a column published in The New York Times.
THE INVESTIGATION
The campus-wide email, sent by University President Peter
Salovey, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins, noted that “the student who was detained endured a deeply troubling experience.” The Jan. 24 incident quickly garnered national attention. Tweets authored by Charles Blow, the New York Times columnist and Tahj Blow’s father, thrust the investigation into the national spotlight. Charles Blow said he was left “fuming” by the stop and that he had “no patience for [people] who try to convince me that the fear of these young [black] men feel isn’t real.” He attached the hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #ICantBreathe which have been associated with the movements responding to the recent events of Ferguson and Staten Island, in which Afri-
Stark ’17 to vie for Ward 1 BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Eight months before the municipal election, Ward 1 has its first candidate in Fish Stark ’17, who formally declared on Tuesday afternoon that he would run for alder in the Yaledominated district. The announcement — which came just over a week after Stark formed an exploratory committee to investigate a possible campaign — makes him the only declared candidate for the seat, one of 30 on the Board of Alders. The ward is composed almost entirely of Old Campus and eight residential colleges. The ward’s current alder, Sarah Eidelson ’12, has yet to announce whether she will seek re-election. Should she run, Eidelson would be seeking her third term; she first won the seat in 2011. Eidelson did not respond to multiple requests for comment on Tuesday evening. “I’m running for Ward 1 alder because I love New Haven, and I love Yale, and I know that these two communities are strongest when we engage meaningfully with one another and work together towards progressive change,” Stark said in an email to roughly 400 Yale students, sent just after 5 p.m. Tuesday. Stark and Eidelson met early
can-American males have been killed by police officers on duty. “We also must continue to recognize that this incident intersected — in ways that were both public and very painful — with current national conversations on race, prejudice, policing, and the use of force,” the campus-wide email read. “As we said in our earlier message, these are important and difficult issues, and there are real challenges here that we, as members of the Yale community and as citizens, must face. We will be creating opportunities in the near future to discuss these challenges as a community and hope that you will participate.” On Tuesday afternoon, in response to the internal investiSEE BLOW PAGE 6
Larger ISA won’t include student contribution BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER
a candidate or promote one from its student board. “Given that we are a whopping nine months away from Election Day, we are sure that there are plenty of qualified candidates who may wait a respectable period of time before announcing,” she said. In his email, Stark outlined his involvement in New Haven politics
This year, the International Summer Award will be capped at a higher amount, though it will no longer include money for the student income contribution. According to the website of the Center for International and Professional Experience, the ISA provides eligible undergraduate students receiving financial aid from the University with a stipend to fund one summer experience abroad. The ISA funds a portion of a student’s study abroad program budget, based on the student’s demonstrated financial need. In past years, the ISA was adjusted to cover a portion of the student income contribution — the component of a financial aid award that asks students to contribute money made over the summer to their tuition. For the 2014–15 academic year, the minimum student contribution for freshmen is $1,625. This figure is $3,050 for sophomores, juniors and seniors. “In past years, students received an allocation which was specifically intended to
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Fish Stark ’17, who was reported to have investigated a run for Ward 1 alder, has formally declared his candidacy. last week to discuss the position and Stark’s exploratory committee. Stark said he made his decision to announce his candidacy independently, without seeking Eidelson’s approval. No Republican candidate has yet to enter the race. Amalia Halikias ’15, the Yale College Republicans’ communications director, said the YCR is awaiting the entry of any additional candidates, but will not formally run
Yale’s cash allocation rises to $836m BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Though the Yale endowment may have over $800 million of “cash” on hand, it is unlikely these funds are just bills sitting in a University bank account. According to the 2014 Endowment Update released last week, the University Investments Office increased its allocation of cash assets — which includes short-term government bonds — from 1.6 percent to 3.5 percent over the previous fiscal year, bringing Yale’s total holdings of this asset class to over $836 million. This rise comes in contrast to the period following the 2008 financial crisis, in which Yale actively borrowed funds to increase liquidity in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Though the report did not specify the reason for this rise in cash or cash equivalents, financial experts interviewed said Yale is likely pursuing opportunities to put this money back to work. “What you see here with this 3.5 percent — relatively high in terms of recent years — is the potential that Yale wants to have ‘dry powder’ to invest in things that are well valued in the endowment office’s point of view,” said William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Commonfund Institute, a nonprofit consulting
firm. “This is cash that is being accumulated so when Yale sees investments with those ‘uneconomic sellers’ — things that are priced favorably — they can write a check immediately.” Jarvis said other parts of Yale’s portfolio may be responsible for this rise in cash allocations, specifically returns from mature private equity programs. He added that another source may be profits from Yale’s investment in limited partnerships in real estate as managers sell property and get cash in return. School of Management Professor Roger Ibbotson said Yale may either distribute this capital among existing investments in the portfolio, or the University may be “piling up” its cash before investing that sum with a new money manager. Yale’s 3.5 percent allocation to cash fell in fiscal 2014 slightly below the 4 percent average allocated to short-term securities, cash and other cash equivalents among other institutions with endowments of over $1 billion, according to the NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments — the most comprehensive annual report on higher education endowments. SEE ENDOWMENT PAGE 6
SWINGING FOR THE FENCES
The Yale baseball team embarks on its 150th season this weekend, hoping to take home an Ivy championship for the first time since 1994. PAGE 12
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GUEST COLUMNIST KIRA TEBBE
Take a day off W
henever I fill out a form that asks for my occupation, I always feel a bit strange writing down “student,” because frankly it doesn’t fit the traditional role of a job. It’s not 9-to-5. We usually don’t get penalized by our professors for being late or missing class. And, most noticeably, we never really get a break outside of scheduled academic recesses. Combined with the trend to spend as much time on extracurriculars as classes, we never really get a day off. Yes, we have weekends. But Saturday and Sunday are less “days of relief” as they are “days of catching up.” Ask someone how their weekend was, and most responses will include, “You know, did some work” or “Tried to do some work, but wasn’t too successful.” Even if we don’t have a p-set, paper or project looming, we have this pervasive sense at all times that there is more work we could be doing. We could benefit from doing our reading, studying for that test a few weeks down the line or starting a p-set early. I have never once, except after finals, gotten a sense that I was done with work for the day.
ONE DAY OFF WON’T RUIN YOUR GPA OR EXTRACURRICULARS, BUT IT CAN DO WONDERS When I finally dropped CPSC 223 (sorry dad!), I officially had no classes on Wednesdays. Amid rooming chaos, summer internship rejections and midterm pressure, I was feeling overwhelmed. I considered studying abroad next fall just so I could take a break from the campus culture that often resembles a pressure cooker. In an attempt to get away from all of the stress on campus, I actually got away. I left. I took a train last Tuesday night to Grand Central, crashed at my brother’s place in Queens and spent this past Wednesday on a break. I didn’t bring my laptop to try to finish cover letters or get a head start on my reading. On the train, I chatted with a guy from West Haven who asked to borrow my phone charger. I finally read my favorite magazines and newspapers that I haven’t
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been able to get to for the past few weeks. On Wednesday, I slept until 10:45 a.m., grabbed a banana for breakfast and navigated the subway system up to the opposite side of Central Park. I was an hour early for the lunch I had planned with my friend at Columbia, so I stumbled into a bookstore and bought a guidebook for spring break. I got a manicure, chatting with the Ecuadorian woman across from me about the frigid New York weather. I had a lazy lunch with my friend, talking aimlessly and eating gluttonously (who would’ve thought to put bacon, mac n’ cheese and avocado all on a burger?). When we finished, we decided to go to the Met. We wandered around our favorite exhibits, taking Snapchats posing as various statues. When our knees started to hurt, we left and went our separate ways. I had wanted to go to more places, but was feeling a bit sick, so I headed back to Queens and took a nap. I woke up around dinnertime, ordered in some Thai food with my brother and then made my way back to Yale. I am no Ferris Bueller. I fully recognize that I did not live out this past Wednesday to the fullest, stuffing my day full of adventure and memories. But that was never my intention. I wanted to get out of Yale, geographically and mentally. I wanted to remind myself that often problems that occur at Yale aren’t as large as they seem. I wanted not to feel so trapped by my academic and extracurricular obligations. Yes, I had to ask somebody else to send an email for me on Wednesday afternoon to my club gymnastics team. Yes, I’m slightly more behind on my reading and p-sets. I took my day off, and now I resume life as a student. Some of you may read this and immediately think, “That sounds nice, but I can’t afford a day off.” I implore you to think about how unsustainable that lifestyle is. Weeks and weeks of working daily, only using weekends as time to do more work, cannot possibly be good for your mental health. One day off won’t ruin your GPA or extracurriculars, but it can do wonders for your mental wellbeing, which is vital for success of every kind. Take a break. Leave campus. Go do something else for a day. If being students is our job, we owe a day off to ourselves.
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would venture a guess that, for those who undergo routine STI testing, it is not uncommon to play the “What if” game — “What if I have an STI (be it gonorrhea, chlamydia, whatever)?” The answer to that question is pretty simple for most sexually transmitted infections: You get on antibiotics for three to seven days, clear up the problem and hopefully learn a lesson regarding unsafe sexual practices. But for many men who have sex with men (MSM), the “What if” game includes the question “What if I am HIV positive?” A week’s worth of antibiotics certainly is not the answer. Tyler Curry, senior editor at HIV Equal Online, confronted this reality when he unexpectedly received a positive diagnosis. “Trying to hide your status is like being in the closet again,” he told me. “Now, it was a much smaller closet to wrestle with given that the population of HIV-positive people is smaller, but it was still a new type of closet.” The problem with smaller spaces, though, is that they more frequently induce claustrophobia. A positive HIV diagnosis can be isolating. Achieving viral suppression requires summoning the courage to get tested and then adhering rigorously to a prescription drug regimen for life. Imminent death is no longer the certain result of HIV. But while the virus has transitioned from “plague” status in the eighties and nineties to a chronic and manageable illness
today, we as a society have struggled to catch up in terms of how we perceive the virus. Fear about how individKYLE uals will react TRAMONTE at home, discriminaGreen on tion in the workplace, the Vine the implications for a future love life and concern for one’s own personal wellbeing are completely understandable responses for a person with HIV. Still, regardless of how much we empathize with these concerns, a counterproductive tendency exists in both the gay and straight communities. Most of us feel that only those who are HIV positive need to understand the virus, which results in condemnation out of misplaced fear. And, as Curry notes, this can lead people to try to “escape” a positive diagnosis through purposely avoiding testing or hiding their own status from those closest to them. Despite the presence of antiretroviral drugs (ARTs) on the market for nearly two decades, 44 percent of Americans believe that treatment does nothing to help prevent the spread of HIV. And while the portion of Americans who report knowing someone who died of AIDS or currently has HIV has increased in recent years, only about half of
people surveyed in a 2012 study from the Kaiser Foundation report being “very comfortable” working with someone who has HIV or AIDS. To point out what might seem obvious to some but nevertheless eludes others, unless you are having unprotected sex or sharing needles with someone who is HIV positive, you are not at risk for contraction. Either the workplace is a lot more interesting than I previously thought, or ignorance is a major culprit in the “othering” of HIV-positive individuals. Misinformation and stigma propagate themselves in many different forms. Regardless of how stigma presents itself, though, we must make a conscious effort to root it out. Efforts to fight stigmas come in many forms. The easiest place to begin is a linguistic adjustment. Stop describing yourself as “clean” when you talk about your own status. You are either “negative” or “positive,” and “positive” does not always mean the virus is transmittable. Reforms to the judicial system prove a little less accessible to the general public. At least 33 states currently have laws related to exposure and/or transmission of HIV, and five states lack state laws but are on record as prosecuting individuals on HIVrelated grounds. Some of these laws are genuinely rooted in preventing the malicious and purposeful spread of HIV, but many are not. Take for example Texas, which
in 2008 convicted a homeless man of assault with a deadly weapon after spitting on a police officer while HIV positive. The CDC has no record of HIV transmission via saliva. Many states have similarly uninformed statutes, prescribing harsher sentences for HIV-positive people when there is no risk of transmission. These laws should have no place in our country. Last, we must make every effort to inform the public about the realities of HIV. This is, of course, difficult given our historical predisposition to condemn sex between men. Nevertheless, it is a prerequisite to crafting a society that confronts HIV rather than runs away from it. We must incorporate information on HIV among MSM into our sexual education programs. We can begin to defeat stigma today. As an exercise, play a modified version of the “What if” game: What if your brother or best friend received a positive diagnosis? Would your response be constructive or destructive? If you think it would be destructive, revisit what you know about HIV and make some necessary changes. In the fight against the HIV epidemic in America, anything that encourages people not to seek regular testing or to hide their status must go, including our fears and unawareness. KYLE TRAMONTE is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at kyle.tramonte@yale.edu .
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The need to fail
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ale has some of the most amazing, talented people I’ve ever met in my life. But it also has a worryingly high amount of people who are constantly stressed out, seemingly lurching from one crisis to another. And I think that maybe these two are related. Yale is filled with overachievers — high school valedictorians, student body presidents, people to whom anything lower than an A means the end of the world — and when you put all these brilliant people together in one place, not everyone can be on top again. By definition, “below average” necessarily includes 49 percent of the student body. And, even though we don’t admit it, this comes as a shock to most of us. People who have never failed in their lives are suddenly faced with the prospect of not being the best anymore. Thus the crux of the matter is this: Yalies don’t know how to fail. But after a semester or two, you might expect that this problem should have worked itself out. We should have messed up enough times to know how to deal with it. Yet this is frequently not the case — upperclassmen are often as highly strung as freshmen, if not more so. And it
might be because Yale makes it too easy for us not to fail. Take, for instance, one straightforward example: grade inflation. Sixty-two percent of grades awarded in the 2010–12 academic years were As and A-s. What this means is simple: Students can frequently leave their coursework or studying to the last minute, become increasingly stressed over it, cram everything they were meant to learn in one term into one day, pull an allnighter and still get an A. For too many students, it’s a process they’ll rinse and repeat for four more years. But surely this isn’t a problem, you say. If students can get by with bad, or nonexistent, time management and still get top grades, then more power to them, right? But this misses the point entirely. By making it nearly impossible for us to fail, Yale not only places us in a state of perpetual and unresolved stress, but the University also leaves us unprepared to cope with greater challenges later in life. Too many students make bad decisions during the weekend — they stay up all night getting really drunk or binge watching Netflix — and then complain about the workload at Yale and
panic. Too often grade inflation and lax professors level the playing field for everyone in the lecture, no matter what you did the night before. We need to learn that our actions have consequences, and, even more importantly, to accept and deal with them. In many cases, the repercussions are not nearly as bad as they might first seem to be. Surely a B or even a B- on our transcript is just a tiny hitch in the greater scheme of things. On YikYak — unquestionably the source of all our collective wisdom at Yale — I saw one student post that “getting a B was the most liberating experience of my life here.” We’re constantly told by peers and administrators that we’re all amazing and future leaders of the world. Yes, some of the people I’ve met here fit that description. But most of us aren’t actually that special, and we need to stop being coddled. Instead, I’m asking the University to give us just that much more room to fail And, as students, we need to take ownership of our decisions and learn from our mistakes. Instead of expecting to be bailed out every time, we need to be able to stare failure in the face, to confront and face the consequences of our actions and
then to pick ourselves up, ever so slightly worse for wear, and move on. And perhaps, looking back, we’ll find that things weren’t so bad after all. Our greatest glory should not be in never falling, but in rising up every time we fail. It is often said that college is a safe space for us to experiment, to make mistakes and to find ourselves. (I’m still not too sure about the last bit though.) But what people often forget is the logical corollary to this statement — that we have to learn from our mistakes and perhaps come out just a little bit tougher and wiser from them. And sometimes, there is no better way to learn than by screwing up and then picking ourselves up and moving on, as we have done plenty of times and will continue to do for the rest of our lives. Failure is inevitable in life after Yale — whether you miss out on the promotion you felt was deserved, or see a marriage fall apart. Not much of what we learn at Yale will actually be useful in the real world. But learning to fail is. MARTIN LIM is a freshman in Berkeley College and a copy staffer for the News. Contact him at martin.lim@yale.edu .
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CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, FEB. 27
A previous version of the article “State completes first homeless youth count” incorrectly stated that the CCEH will estimate the state’s homeless population under 18 years of age. In fact, the CCEH’s cutoff age is 25. TUESDAY, MARCH 3
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Bill may provide access to experimental drugs BY APARNA NATHAN STAFF REPORTER New legislation may expand medical choices for terminally ill patients in Connecticut. The Public Health Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly is currently considering a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to take experimental drugs if they have exhausted all other medical options. This type of law, known more generally as a “Right to Try” law, has gained momentum nationally and has been passed in five other states — Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Louisiana and Arizona. The Public Health Committee held a public hearing last Monday to hear testimony on the bill. “When there’s a possibility that somebody who’s been diagnosed with a terminal illness could extend their life or cure themselves, why should the government get in the way?” said state Sen. Kevin Witkos, one of the bill’s cosponsors. The bill would serve patients whose terminal illnesses have not responded to other treatments. Patients who have explored all other options would be permitted to use drugs that are currently undergoing clinical trials. The drugs must have already passed Phase I trials, which determine safety and side effects, and the patients must be fully educated on possible outcomes of treatment. Patients who choose to try experimental drugs will be responsible for the medications’ costs, which insurers will not be required to cover. The drugs may only be dispensed to those patients upon recommendation from a doctor, but if a patient dies as a result, the doctor will not be held accountable, and the patient’s family will not be responsible for any remaining drug expenses. State Rep. Matt Ritter, chair of the Public Health Committee, said that, to his knowledge, this is the first time a law like this has been proposed in Connecticut. If the bill is voted out of committee, it may have to enter other relevant committees such as General Law or Judiciary before being scheduled for a vote, Witkos said. Debra Gove of Durham, Conn. testified at the public hearing in support of the bill, drawing from her recent experiences with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, more commonly known as ALS. Gove, who is currently participating in a clinical trial, emphasized in her testimony the importance of exploring new treatments that may have a chance, however small, of succeeding. She noted her recurring worry that she may have received a placebo and not the drug being tested. Those who testified primarily included friends and family of patients with terminal illnesses, as well as legislators. Sandi Isner, who suffers from emphysema — a condition characterized by decreasing lung capacity — was one of those patients who testified at the hearing. She worries that her lungs are continuing to deteriorate. A clinical trial at Yale-New Haven Hospital caught Isner’s eye. The trial tests the use of lung coils to treat emphysema, and although she is not yet a candidate, she said she knows the trial could benefit
her in the future, and believes that patients should be able to choose to use such treatments. “If you’re of sound mind and the drug is for your specific illness, I really think you should be able to help yourself,” Isner said. Opposition to the bill has centered on both ethical issues and questions about who has the jurisdiction over the issue — the state or the Food and Drug Administration. Some people are concerned that experimental drugs favor high-income patients who can afford out-of-pocket costs, Ritter said. Additionally, the drugs may exacerbate families’ stress by providing “false hope” for recovery, said attorney Jann Bellamy, who is also a contributor to the blog Science-Based Medicine.
New spam filter leads to confusion BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Anna Mann ’16 did not know if she had made it to the next interview round, even though the company had emailed her with an invitation to an upcoming event. The message had been lost in her spam folder. “[The company] was really understanding since they were experiencing similar things with all the Yale students,” she said. “So they called me and said I needed to start checking my spam folder.” Mann is not alone. Since the University began automatically applying an extra layer of protection to all incoming emails in December, students have begun to notice that a wide range of “safe” emails — including messages from corporate accounts, Google alerts and even LinkedIn notifications — have been relegated to the spam folder. Though the problem appears to have impacted only some students, the consequences for others has been real and often frustrating. Zach Austin ’17, public affairs
officer at the Yale Student Investment Group, said that over the past semester, important emails sent to the group from individuals in the corporate world started to appear in his spam folder. One message, he recalled, that was part of a communication thread to secure a speaker for the group’s alumni banquet was also discovered to be in his spam folder days after it was sent. “This was the moment we realized this was a problem, and that we needed to do something about it,” he said. As a result, Austin said he has adjusted his email habits to be particularly wary of how email is sorted. Sergio Nazaire ’18 said he had been experiencing issues with certain social media account notifications, including LinkedIn, which were now being marked as spam even though they had not been separated from his inbox last semester. He said he had to change his email settings to trust the sender. Still, the gains from this new layer of protection may ulti-
mately outweigh the personal difficulties faced by students. According to the December email sent to all students, faculty and staff from Yale ITS, the improved security on Yale’s network will help guard against malware and phishing attempts. “The new protection assures that URLs embedded in emails are safe to use,” Associate Director of Strategic Communications for ITS Susan West wrote in a Jan. 12 email, when the new layer was first applied. “We would be very interested to hear any issues with the new technology that are impacting people.” ITS could not be reached for comment on how this new layer of security may be impacting the precision of the spam filter. Brita Belli, communications officer for the Office of Cooperative Research and the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, said the YEI had issues with emails being sent to spam by the University when it was using Hubspot, an inbound marketing and sales platform. However, the problem was resolved when it
switched to University Messaging System. “At the time, we asked Yale ITS to ‘whitelist’ certain IP addresses provided by Hubspot, but there were still lots of people, even in our own offices, not receiving our newsletters and updates when we ran trials,” Belli wrote in an email. “[University Messaging] is not as robust a service, overall, but the emails reach their recipients — many of whom, of course, are at Yale.” Still, most students interviewed said they rarely check their spam folder or have not been seriously impacted. Lindsey Hiebert ’15 said that though she had some problems with email going to spam unnecessarily, they are usually not too important. “Only one of the 88 messages [in my spam folder] is relatively important — the rest are random studies that I signed up for, but none are important,” Matt Ribeiro ’15 said. Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .
App aims to prevent teen dating violence
[If] the drug is for your specific illness, I really think you should be able to help yourself. SANDI ISNER Right to Try laws may give states unconstitutional authority over drug regulation, Bellamy added. Ritter noted that the FDA has not stepped in to block other states from implementing their versions of the law, but agreed that the bill potentially creates issues for pharmaceutical companies distributing drugs without FDA approval. Since the drug companies are given a choice about whether to offer experimental drugs, some might simply be unwilling to offer them, Ritter said. Current FDA regulation requires that a drug pass three phases of clinical trials before being made available to the public. But that means it can take almost a decade for a promising drug to reach the market, said Stephen Mendelsohn, a member of Second Thoughts Connecticut — an advocacy group that opposes assisted suicide — who provided written testimony for the public hearing. “This is very limiting for people with life-limiting illnesses,” Mendelsohn said. “The risk-to-reward ratio is very different [for those with terminal illnesses].” The FDA currently has an expanded access, or “compassionate use,” program for patients to use unapproved drugs, which was used on a large scale during the Ebola outbreak to treat cases with experimental drugs. But even that process is often hindered by bureaucracy, and completing the paperwork can take about 100 hours, said Public Policy Assistant at the Family Institute of Connecticut Nicole Stacy in her written testimony to the committee. The FDA has announced that it will work to simplify the expanded access system. The bill has bipartisan support, with both Republican and Democrat sponsors. According to Mendelsohn, similar bills have had bipartisan support in other states as well, and have faced very little opposition. In May 2014, Colorado became the first state to pass a Right to Try law. Contact APARNA NATHAN at aparna.nathan@yale.edu .
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The Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence has launched an app named td411, which seeks to inform teens about dating violence. BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER A free cell phone application launched Wednesday by the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence aims to prevent dating violence in teenagers. The app, called “teen dating 411” and designed as part of Teen Dating Awareness Month, explains to adolescents how to identify potentially abusive behaviors. The app also instructs teens on how to stay safe if their partners begin to behave aggressively, as well as listing ways that adolescents may reach out to one of the state’s 18 domestic violence organizations. Karen Jarmoc, chief executive officer of the CCADV said adolescents often find it difficult to identify when their partners are acting extremely possessive or jealous. “If I’m a young person who
might be in a relationship for the very first time, and my significant other is texting 40 times a day and asking prying questions, that might seem flattering on its face, but really, they’re elements of very controlling behavior,” Jormac said. “This app will help them realize that.” Jarmoc also said the app aims to share information with teens who may be uncomfortable speaking about these issues with parents and teachers. According to a 2011 survey conducted by the CCADV, one in three teens nationwide report being physically, sexually or emotionally hurt by their partner. In Connecticut, 17 percent of high school students report being emotionally abused by a boyfriend or girlfriend and 8 percent report being physically hurt. Furthermore, the survey found that only 32 percent of teens in abusive relationships end up confiding in their parents.
The CCADV’s Director of Diversity and Accessibility and td411’s Project Director Wendy Kasango said the recently launched app is an updated version of one the group originally designed for a 2011 release. The CCADV eventually opted out of distributing the 2011 app because it wanted to make the app more user-friendly. Between 2011 and 2014, the organization had focus groups composed entirely of teenagers test and comment on the app. Based on the responses of 50,000 teens, CCADV added several new features to the app, including video tutorials, links to the websites of domestic violence organization as well as an option to view the app in Spanish. The CCADV held a press conference last Wednesday to advertise td411. The organization hopes to further publicize it via its website and during domestic violence training sessions that it holds for high
school students. Jill Spineti, president of The Governor’s Prevention Partnership — an organization dedicated to addressing youth issues — cited the app as a valuable step forward in correcting dating abuse. “All teens can benefit from using this app by gaining insight into their behavior and learning how to reach out for help when they want to make a change,” she said in a Wednesday press release. Caroline Treiss, Executive Director of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women said in a written statement to the News that she applauded the CCADV for developing an “ingenious way to reach young people via technology.” Td411 is available on the iTunes store and the Android Google Play Pen. Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your motherin-law.” BENJAMIN WALKER AMERICAN ACTOR
ISA capped higher, will not include student contribution INTERNATIONAL SUMMER AWARDS, 2014 13% BY CLASS YEAR BY GENDER Juniors: 54
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Internship: 40 $216,391
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ISA FROM PAGE 1 cover a portion of the summer SIC, prorated for the duration of the experience,” Dean of International and Professional Experience Jane Edwards said in an email. “However, since it came to students as part of a single check in May, and since many students’ summer programs cost more than the allowed ISA amount — there is a cap — this money was often used by students to cover portions of their summer expenses.” Because students studying abroad are not able to work summer jobs, a portion of the student income contribution was included in their ISAs, based on the length of their program. The ISA was also formerly capped at $10,000, which was the amount received by students on complete financial aid. For the summer of 2015, the maximum ISA
has been increased to $10,500, and the award will no longer take into account the SIC. Edwards said the University recognized that the majority of students receiving the ISA are high need, and that an increasing number of students were hitting the $10,000 cap each year, either due to program cost or the addition of the SIC award. Of the 186 students who received complete awards of $10,000 for the summer of 2014, 161 of these students participated in programs that cost more than $10,000, meaning that they received no SIC funding at all, she said. Because most students receiving the previous maximum of $10,000 were still not receiving enough aid to fully fund their trips abroad, Edwards said, it was necessary to raise the cap. Updating the calculation of the ISA, both by raising the overall
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cap and eliminating partial coverage of the SIC, is designed to help the students with the highest amount of financial need, she said. “The majority of students who received the previous maximum of $10,000 were receiving less aid than we calculated they needed,” she said. “Based on this, raising the cap was necessary, but since funding was not increased we needed to think critically about how best to allocate those funds.” The ISA, which provided funding to 421 students last summer, is unique to Yale, Edwards said. She added that although the award is supported generously by donors, the University contributed $1,696,344 from its operating budget to ISA funding last year. Students who received full awards of $10,000 last year said they supported this year’s cap
increase, since it guarantees an extra $500 to students whose programs may not have been completely funded by the ISA otherwise. Amanda Aguilera ’17, who received an ISA of $10,000 last year for a Yale Summer Session program that cost roughly $13,000 overall, said that although she was awarded the maximum amount of aid possible, she was still responsible for both funding a portion of her trip abroad and paying the SIC the following academic year. “Increasing the cap by $500 will help a great deal of students, since the ISA was not always sufficient before,” Aguilera said. However, students not receiving full ISAs dissented, claiming the policy change mainly places a burden on middle class students. Adam Gerard ’17 said that although some students will receive an extra $500 in ISA
87%
Study Abroad: 366 $3,214,995
money this year, this amount is still much less than the prorated amount that many students would have received to cover parts of their student income contributions. He added that raising the cap does not help students who are not receiving full financial aid. Gerard added that he had no knowledge of the changes to this year’s ISA until he met with someone at the CIPE about his trip abroad. “I made a budget based on what I expected to be spending, and now this budget is completely not functional because the ISA is not providing for that,” Gerard said. “So it’s really pushing out middle-class students who could really benefit from that type of financial assistance.” William Conlon ’17 said he first noticed the changes to the ISA when he calculated his projected award on the CIPE web-
site and saw no reference to the award being adjusted to partially cover the SIC. He added that he later attended a study abroad info session, at which a passing reference was made to the change near the end of the presentation. None of the five students interviewed aside from Conlon and Gerard said they had heard about this year’s changes to the ISA. Aguilera said that because many students still are unaware of the policy change, they might be calculating their budgets the wrong way. Because the change can have a positive effect on students receiving full financial aid, Aguilera said, it is in the interest of CIPE to publicize it more widely. The deadline for applying for an ISA for the summer of 2015 is May 1. Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .
Incumbent’s plans not a factor for Stark STARK FROM PAGE 1
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Sarah Eidelson ‘12, the current Ward 1 alder, has yet to announce whether she will seek a third term.
and community affairs since arriving at Yale in 2013. He volunteered for Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 in his 2013 campaign for mayor and spent last summer working as a President’s Public Service Fellow with Squash Haven. In addition he served as the membership coordinator for the Yale College Democrats last semester. Stark’s campaign website — which describes his experience, goals and visions — went active at roughly the same time that news of his candidacy hit email inboxes around campus. Sergio Lopez ’18 will be Stark’s campaign manager, and Hedy Gutfreund ’18 will serve as the campaign’s treasurer. A political science major in Jonathan Edwards College, Stark hails from a town near Annapolis, Maryland. He comes from a political family: His father, Fortney Stark Jr., served as a congressman from California for nearly 40 years. In an interview with the News, Stark said he deliberately chose to make his announcement early in the season — no candidate has
announced this early since Minh Tran ’09 declared her candidacy in February 2009. Stark said the early announcement will give him more time to meet with Yale students and city officials, adding that he has spent recent weeks having conversations with Yale students about the race and the relationship between Yale and New Haven. “Really what’s important to me at this point is hearing what people’s ideas for the role of Yale students in New Haven are, what people’s ideas for the role of Yale as an institution in New Haven is and how the Ward 1 alder can facilitate meaningful partnerships,” he said. Stark said he plans to spend one week in New Haven over the spring recess to meet with community leaders, alders and city officials. He added that he will discuss his own visions for Ward 1 and the city, but hopes to gain from listening to the ideas of others. Stark’s campaign also released a press release to supplement the email. The document included statements of support from a dozen Yale students — many of them members of the Yale College Democrats board — and from two
New Haven figures, including Lee Cruz, a community organizer in Fair Haven, and Julie Greenwood, the executive director of Squash Haven. In an interview last week, Tyler Blackmon ’16, president of the Dems and a columnist for the News, said the Dems will not endorse a candidate should both Stark and Eidelson run. The campaign will hold a formal kick-off event in the first week after the spring recess, Stark said. Additionally, Stark said he will hold office hours, which will give students an opportunity to meet with him and present their ideas. Gutfreund, the treasurer, said the campaign does have the infrastructure to accept donations, but has not yet begun a fundraising push and has no plans to do so in the near future. The “Make a Donation” page on the campaign website states that the online donation system has not yet been completed, and instead directs potential donors to Lopez, the campaign manager. Contact NOAH DAPONTESMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .
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“The best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.” KENNETH GRAHAME SCOTTISH WRITER
With expansion, changes to recruitment policy unclear
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Although the future opening of two new residential colleges will come with an increase in the undergraduate student body, any increase in the number of recruited athletes is yet to be determined. BY GREG CAMERON AND RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTERS With the opening of two new residential colleges in the fall of 2017 will come an increase in the undergraduate student body by 15 percent. Among the 800 new students will be singers, engineers and poets. But whether or not this figure will include additional student-athletes has yet to be determined. Coaches and students interviewed, however, contend the expansion poses an opportunity to increase the size of athletic rosters. “Although the Yale Corporation has had a preliminary conversation about the composition of the expanded class entering in fall 2017, we will not settle on a strategy for some time,” University President Peter Salovey said in an email. “However, I look forward to the opportunities presented by being able to admit about 200 more undergraduates per cohort.” Salovey said such decisions on athletic recruitment involve conversations with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan and Director of Athletics Thomas Beckett, all of whom, Salovey said, are in agreement about the University’s present recruiting and admissions strategies. Salovey added that the number of recruited athletes changes from year to year and that questions surrounding athletic recruitment are revisited annually, and will continue to be deliberated upon going forward. Salovey said a school’s maximum number of recruited athletes depends on the number of teams and their allowed squad sizes, not the size of the undergraduate student body as a whole. “I believe that no school in the Ivies enrolls its maximum number of allowed athletes,” Salovey said. Beckett added that season-ending and career-ending injuries are reasons that this number can fluctuate, and that the final decision on recruiting slots rests with Salovey and the Yale Corporation. For the class of 2015, the last class for which Beckett disclosed recruitment statistics in 2012, 177 students, or 13.1 percent of the class population, were recruited as student-athletes. With approximately 200 additional students matriculating at Yale in 2017, the University could maintain this percentage by recruiting 26 additional athletes. Salovey added that just as Yale’s fellow Ivy League institutions do not release their numbers of recruited athletes from year to year, the University sees little reason to make its numbers public. However, Salovey said all Ivy League schools use the same fixed number of recruiting slots for football annually. According to Yale football head coach Tony Reno, that number is 30. Women’s crew coach Will Porter, whose roster is currently tied for the smallest in the Ivy League, said that if the Admissions Office maintains a balanced student body by accepting more students with many different interests, he hopes that it will include athletes in this mix. “Athletes, like any other group at Yale, if they have to be classified, have a passion,” Porter said. “There are a lot of groups at Yale that have passions — musical groups, science students, people who are interested in the arts, and so many different things that people are passionate about. I think for athletes, their passion is no less important than any of those other passions.” Women’s soccer coach Rudy Meredith said the number of recruitment slots is the main restriction facing his recruiting strategy. He noted that one additional slot over four years amounts to four additional roster spots for a team, which can have a major impact on a team’s performance. Particularly in the Ivy League, Meredith said,
additional recruiting slots also play the role of taking academically strong players away from the teams Yale faces every year. Meredith noted multiple examples of players he was unable to recruit who went on to earn Rookie of the Year or all-Ivy League honors for another school. “Especially the kid that you really wanted, now that kid is mad at you, because you didn’t take them at your school, and when you play against them, they have the game of their life,” Meredith said. Both Meredith and Porter, however, said that they while they are hopeful for a future increase in recruits, they are comfortable with the current relationship between the Athletic Department and Admissions Office, which work together alongside Salovey to determine the number of recruitment slots each year. The women’s crew and women’s soccer teams both saw a slight increase in recruitment slots for their team two years ago. Paul Harkins, Yale men’s cross country, middle distance and distance coach, said the track and field teams’ slots have remained relatively constant since he joined the team in 2011. He added that in last weekend’s Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, in which the Yale men’s team finished last by 34.5 points, the Elis did not enter a long jumper or triple jumper because they have decided to use their recruitment slots for other events. Princeton’s men’s team, which won the meet, has 63 athletes on its roster, compared to Yale’s 50. Andrew Sobotka ’15, co-founder and former president of the Whaling Crew, a student fan group, said he would expect to see backlash from the athletic community if the number of recruitment slots did not increase in 2017. In February 2013, Sobotka wrote the athletics section of the Yale College Council Report to President Salovey addressing athletic department issues such as recruiting, coaching evaluations and student-athlete health. “Yale is well known to have the toughest kind of recruiting standards, quantitatively and academically, within the Ivy League,” Sobotka said. “If there were 800 students added and not a single one was a student athlete, I think that would definitely come as a surprise.” Chuck Hughes, president and founder of the admissions consulting service Road to College, said universities like Yale, which is smaller than Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, tend not to push the upper limits of the Ivy League’s allowed recruitment slots — that simply would comprise too high a percentage of the overall student body. But when asked about whether an expanded Yale College would be reason to approach those thresholds, Hughes said it is important to consider other categories of students that could benefit from a place at Yale, namely international students and those from traditionally underrepresented geographical regions. Once room is made for these types of students, Hughes said it would be nice to see 10 to 15 slots added for recruited athletes. Hughes, who graduated with a degree in psychology from Harvard College in 1992 and was a goaltender for its 1989 NCAA Men’s National Championship Ice Hockey Team, contends there is no reason athletes cannot be successful students. “I am a firm believer that you can do both and do both well,” Hughes said. “I think it’s more about asking the question of why can’t Yale athletes be good students and be good athletes? If admissions does its job in terms of bringing the right kids and coaches do the right thing in scrutinizing the right character … players don’t need to be segregated from the undergraduate experience.” Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu and RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .
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Lower TF salaries a cause for worry BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Studying at Yale and living in New Haven may become less affordable for some graduate students next year with the restructuring of the Teaching Fellow Program. On Jan. 22, Director of the Teaching Fellow Program Judith Hackman announced that teaching fellow compensation schedules will be divided in just two categories for the 2015–16 academic year: six to 10 hours or 15 to 20 hours each week. As a result of this change, graduates in their seventh year or above, science graduate students who have already completed their teaching requirement, and master’s and professional students will earn reduced stipends per course. TFs teaching six to 10 hours per week will earn $4,000 per term, and those working 15 to 20 hours per week will earn $8,000 per term, Hackman said in the email. In some cases, these new rates will result in significant pay decreases for TFs. For example, the highest stipend for teaching, $10,120 per term, will be reduced to $8,000 next year. However, administrators noted that graduate students will be able to teach in three courses per term, up from the current
two course per term limit. “Next year, if they wish, [students] may teach up to three assignments, for a total of $24,000, which is about $4,000 more than they are permitted to receive this year,” Dean of Strategic Initiatives for Yale College, the Graduate School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Pamela Schirmeister said in an email. Still, graduate students interviewed said the reduced stipends still made living in New Haven less affordable. “I appreciate that there are budgetary considerations but it seems to me that you have to ensure that New Haven has cheaper housing before undertaking that kind of a pay cut,” Sarah Bowman GRD ’15 said. “You cannot live in New Haven for $17,000 a year.” Bowman, who is a TF for history professor David Blight’s “Civil War and Reconstruction” class, said the salary cuts will affect her if she decides to continue studying for a seventh year at Yale next semester. Reducing her paycheck, which is already taken up largely by housing expenses, would put pressure on her finances, she said. The TF salary is an important supplement for many graduate students who need the money, John Calhoun LAW ’15 said in an
Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .
Legislators weigh electronic tolling BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTERS As the debate on toll implementation has recently garnered attention during this legislative session, the Connecticut Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration are set to present a federal study on electronic tolls to the state General Assembly. The study was approved by the FHA in 2012 in an effort to gather facts about the potential for electronic tolling in Connecticut. The report looks into the effectiveness of an electronic tolls system pilot program that is based on value pricing, in which toll prices can vary so drivers are incentivized to take different paths or travel at different times, thus clearing up road congestion. The pilot program marks an exception to a federal prohibition on installing new tolls at federal highways and enables states to use tolling as a revenue source for highway construction activities as well. “The federal government is looking for ways to alleviate these restrictions on states so that they can collect more money for infrastructure projects,” said State Rep. Antonio Guerrera, a Democrat representing Newington, Rocky Hill and Wethersfield. The legislature is currently considering a bill that would establish electronic tolls at state borders. The bill, presented during a hearing in front of the Transportation Committee last week, received mixed testimony from legislators. The 500 testimonies filed on the committee’s website are overwhelmingly negative, however. Michael Riley, president of the Motor Transport Association of Connecticut, testified against the tolls at the hearing. Riley told the News that the problem with border tolls is that state officials believe they are necessary to accumulate
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revenue from drivers entering from out of state. However, he added that every driver on Connecticut roads ends up paying in some way or another, often through a fuel tax. Fuel taxes require drivers to pay a tax on all fuel consumed in the state, regardless of where it is purchased. All drivers already bring in some sort of revenue, Riley added. But Gov. Dannel Malloy said in a press conference Tuesday that fuel tax receipts have rapidly declined in light of recent gas price drops and a general decrease in gas use, and those decreases would only become more pronounced in upcoming years.
The project is to provide incentives to use alternative transit options along the same route. MICHAEL J. RILEY President, Motor Transport Authority of Connecticut
Malloy added that the state as a whole must first reach a consensus on the necessity of transportation reform before considering how tolls might help to fund that reform. He said he plans to go over the implications and limitations of the Federal Highway Association’s tolls pilot program with State Department of Transportation Commissioner Jim Redeker. At the hearing, Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management Ben Barnes said that if the tolling system is implemented at a particular location, its maintenance fee will be relatively low. He added that he is certain the state could devise a way in which residents near the tolls would not be penalized, cost-wise, based on their loca-
tion. In addition to bringing in more revenue, value pricing tolls would also promote the use of alternative modes of transportation, New Haven Director of Transportation Doug Hausladen ’04 said. However, Riley noted that those alternative transit options do not exist in the locations where the tolls are being proposed, such as Danbury, Union or Stonington. Judd Everhart, director of communications for the state DOT, stressed that the study, which is due to come out in “another month or so,” is simply gathering facts about the potential for electronic tolling in the state. Once released, the initiative will need to be approved by both the General Assembly and the governor. Malloy also said Tuesday that, regardless of what program the state approves, it is important to ensure that all transportation revenue be used for transportation initiatives. “There should be a more comprehensive funding for transportation, but nothing should be done until the state of Connecticut and the people have got the constitutional amendment to protect the funds,” Riley said. “That’s important.” Legislators have proposed a series of joint resolutions that would amend the state constitution so that money in the transportation fund could only be used for transportation projects. One of these resolutions specifies that toll revenue would also remain in the transportation fund. Connecticut discontinued its tolling system in 1986. It had previously been implemented on the I-95, the Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways and several Hartford-area bridges. Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .
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email. “The cuts will certainly make it harder to make ends meet,” he said. Alice Baumgartner GRD ’19 agreed, saying for her, the cuts make it difficult to reside in New Haven without drawing on savings or securing a second job. TF positions are “one of the few part-time jobs” that can help students pay — at least in part — for tuition, Taylor Daily SPH ’15 said. Still, Bowman said teaching positions are already difficult for students to obtain, and asking graduate students to make up the difference by working more hours in more courses might be unrealistic. Schirmeister added that compensating TFs $8,000 per course is substantially above the market rate, and at least $3,500 more that any other school in the Connecticut area, she said. But Joshua Fincher GRD ’15 questioned the University’s statements that compared Yale’s compensation schemes to other schools nearby. “Does it befit one of the wealthiest universities in the world to pay their students a salary that could qualify them for food stamps?” Fincher said.
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FROM THE FRONT
“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.” JOHNNY CASH AMERICAN MUSICIAN
Investments Office’s cash assets rise to 3.5 percent ENDOWMENT FROM PAGE 1
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Still, it appears likely that the University will look to re-invest this cash when the opportunity presents itself. Though Chief Investment Officer David Swensen could not be reached for comment, he has previously spoken publicly about the potential harms of holding cash for the long-term. “The modest transaction cost incurred in selling assets pale in comparison to the drag on returns created by holding cash as a standard part of an institutional portfolio,” Swensen wrote in his book, Pioneering Portfolio Management. “Based on delivery of poor real returns and failure to serve as a riskless asset for long-term investors, cash plays no significant role in a well-constructed portfolio.” Swensen added that while some investors argue that cash provides necessary liquidity for endowment funds, there are massive amounts of liquidity already resident in institutional portfolios. This includes interest income, dividend payments and rental streams. Over the past decade, however, the University has faced moments in which it has been pressed for cash. In November 2009, Yale borrowed money by issuing $1 billion of taxable bonds — a debt that has since been largely repaid, according to the 2013 endowment update. Ibbotson said it is possible that last year’s 1.6 percent cash allocation was “cutting it pretty thin.” He said cash on hand can often serve transitional purposes as the investment officers move money in and out of accounts. Still, Jarvis said it is not always easy to immediately return cash to the market since many investments, such as domestic securities, appear to be fairly valued. Rather, since Yale’s strategy is often driven by a “bottom up” investing philosophy — focusing attention on a specific company or firm — pressures of the market do not often dictate how the University will act. “In real assets, like other asset classes, Yale seeks value and behaves in a contrarian manner,” the University’s 2010 endowment report stated. “Investments reflect compelling opportunities and the University’s ability to find suitable managers, regardless of activity in the broad market.” Yale’s Endowment generated a 20.2 percent return in fiscal 2014, bringing its total size to $23.9 billion. Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .
Univ. to review YPD procedures BLOW FROM PAGE 1 gation, he tweeted “So, according to Yale, this was “in compliance with department policy”? No apology? #sigh,” linking to a YaleNews article discussing the report. Neither Charles nor Tahj Blow responded to requests for comment Tuesday. In conflicting statements in the report, Blow said the officer did raise his gun at him, but the officer said it remained in the low-ready position throughout the encounter — which the officer said lasted no longer than 20 seconds. He also told investigators that he believed any officer in his position would have done the same thing. In a statement to the News, the Yale Police Benevolent Association, a union representing roughly 65 patrol officers and detectives in the YPD, said they were pleased with the results of the investigation. “ We h ave m a i n ta i n e d throughout the investigation that our officer did nothing wrong,” the statement read. The statement added that, while the benevolent association empathized with the student who was stopped, police officers have to exercise the utmost caution in conducting a felony stop as one hesitation could cost an officer his or her life. The officer, in his statement, added that he contacted Blow the following evening in order to explain the reason for their interaction and to assure the complainant that “he was just doing his job.” He added that he immediately changed his tone when he realized that Blow was not a threat, but the situation — including the poor lighting, the fact he was alone, the fact that Blow matched the description he had been provided with and a lack of knowledge as to whether the suspect was armed — required him to be initially cautious. B l ow ’s co m p l a i n t wa s received on Jan. 24 in a phone conversation with a YPD lieutenant. When contacted regarding the investigation, Blow declined to be interviewed, opting instead to send an emailed statement. According to the report, the complaint intake form indicated that Blow understood being stopped, but he said
he was concerned with the use of a handgun. It was treated as the initial complaint and began the internal investigation. YPD policy states that “all officers and employees who receive misconduct complaints against other department employees, shall immediately inform a supervisor … so that the supervisor ensures proper intake of the complaint.” While not all complaints require internal review, an investigation was ordered by the chief. The report added that Charles Blow also filed a complaint, implying in a conversation with a lieutenant that the stop was based on the complainant’s race as opposed to any wrongdoing. The original incident attracted national attention and discussion, University spokesman Tom Conroy said the University took the correct action in ensuring a full review of the case took place, and then sharing the findings of the investigation. “Different people can have their own opinions about it, but the important thing is that everyone has the fullest possible information,” Conroy said. “If they’re going to make some judgments, they can certainly make them based on all of the facts that are available.”
GOING FORWARD
In addition to releasing the results of the investigation, the email said the University has convened an independent review panel that will consult administrators on addressing an array of issues that have emerged since the events of Jan. 24. For instance, the panel will review the YPD’s investigation process to ensure that it meets the highest standards and has been invited to offer recommendations to the YPD regarding policy, procedure and training. Berkeley College Master and professor of psychology Marvin Chun will chair the review panel, which includes former federal judge Stephen Robinson and former president of the New England Association of Chiefs of Police Charles Reynolds. Chun declined to comment during the panel’s review, but confirmed that the panel is made up of just Robinson, Reynolds and himself. Conroy said the panel is comparable to the campus climate committee that was created
under former University President Richard Levin in response to an investigation that claimed Yale had violated Title IX. Levin recruited senior fellow of the Yale Corporation Margaret Marshall LAW ’76 and University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly GoffCrews, who was vice president for campus life and dean of students at the University of Chicago at the time, to offer recommendations and insight on the University’s sexual misconduct policies. “A small group with impeccable credentials was asked to take a look at an issue from a very informed and fresh perspective,” Conroy said in reference to the Title IX group. Martha Highsmith, a senior advisor to the president and provost, said the panel was selected for its expertise in law, policing and knowledge of the Yale community. She added that senior leaders, including the president, identified and invited individuals who could give excellent advice. The investigation already identified three areas of deficiency in YPD policy. According to the report, there needs to be clarification in regard to the definitions of “low ready,” “pointing a firearm” and “body camera activation.” The report noted that appropriate training for police officers should follow. In the campus-wide email, University administrators said they recognized that the investigation publicly intersected with current national conversations on race, prejudice, policing and the use of force. As a result, administrators will be creating opportunities for students to further discuss these challenges, according to the email. “These are important and difficult issues, and there are real challenges here that we, as members of the Yale community and as citizens, must face,” the email said. No details of these opportunities were given at the time, but Highsmith said students can expect to hear further details after spring break. Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .
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Three undergraduate writers will join Anne Fadiman, the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale, to read from profiles of a glassblower, a driving instructor, and an 83-year-old dollhouse dealer. Fadiman will read from a work-inprogress about her father.
THE STUDENT READERS:
Sophie Dillon ’17 Nimal Eames-Scott ’15 Jacob Osborne ’16
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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 12:30 PM Performance, Lunchtime Chamber Music. Enjoy a free midday concert of music from a colorful variety of chamber ensembles. The performers are graduate students in the Yale School of Music. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.). 4:00 PM The War in Ukraine: An Update. The European Studies Council and the program in European Union Studies present a panel discussion with professors David Cameron, Thomas Graham and Timothy Snyder to discuss the war in Ukraine. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Aud. 5:00 PM A Reading and Public Conversation with Claudia Rankine. Acclaimed poet Claudia Rankine has published three collections of her work, the latest of which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 101. 6:00 PM 9th Annual Reading by Anne Fadiman and her students. Three undergraduate writers will join Anne Fadiman, the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale, for an evening of profiles. New Haven Free Public Library (133 Elm St.).
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THURSDAY, MARCH 5 5:30 PM Song without words: The Romantic Experience. Romantic art is perhaps best defined by its refusing definition. Intensifying the subjective nature of human experience, Romantic artists reached toward willfully indeterminate goals. See if you can define it after this lecture at the Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).
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SPORTS
“I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.” LARRY DOBY SECOND BLACK MLB PLAYER
Baseball enters 150th season BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12
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In 2014, the Elis finished last in the Ivy League in ERA, with a 5.85 mark.
More than just 42 COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 Minoso’s contribution to the integration of baseball, but I fear that the rest of America might forget too. The generation of men who integrated America’s game is slowly passing beyond our reach. Robinson passed away way back in 1972, but many more have left us in the past few years. Larry Doby, the first black man to play in the American League, died in 2003, while Cubs legend Ernie Banks died earlier this year. These men were some of the last links to one of the first successful integration struggles in 20th century America. It is easy to see how these men were relegated to footnotes in what has become a far too simplistic version of integration. They weren’t “the first,” and it is easier to glorify one man rather than the host of players who struggled for years to level the playing field. This is not to take anything away from Jackie Robinson, but he was only the first in a long line of those who stood up to racism in baseball. Take Doby. Although he said, “I’ll take second. Second ain’t all that bad” in his Hall of Fame acceptance speech in 1998, he is too often forgotten. He broke in just six weeks after Robinson, and since most cities only had one Major League team, he was the first black player many Major League fans ever encountered. Yet the anniversary of his first game, July 5, sees little fanfare, while April 15 is “Jackie Robinson Day.” Or take Dan Bankhead, the first black pitcher in 1947, who struggled because the threat of repercussions for hitting a white player with a pitch kept him from throwing the ball inside. A feared
Center fielder Green Campbell ’15 will also return a strong bat as well as some eye-catching speed, a trait coveted by head coach John Stuper, who is entering his 23rd year at the helm of the Elis. Campbell, a Louisiana native who played a critical role in last year’s upset of Louisiana State University, swiped nine bags last season to tie infielder Nate Adams ’16 for the team lead. Moreover, he displayed more than just prowess on the bases, as he was second in the team in RBI and among the team leaders with 36 hits. The Bulldog center fielder is confident that this Eli squad will be able to carry its
own weight this year and grant its pitchers a wider margin of error. “Offensively, I think we will be a completely different team this year,” Campbell said. “We have some seriously good hitters in the lineup, and this preseason I have been astounded at the types of swings guys are taking. From top to bottom, I honestly think we will be really strong.” Offensive questions aside, a major storyline to watch develop will be where infielder Tom O’Neil ’16 plays, as he and fellow infielder Derek Brown ’17 have been competing all offseason to fill the substantial void left at shortstop by former captain and All-Ivy first team member Cale
The team’s veteran presence will be complemented by a class of seven freshmen that Stuper has spoken highly of, including a pair of right-handed pitchers, Eric Brodkowitz ’18 and Drew Scott ’18, who will fight for a spot in the starting rotation. Additionally, Mason Kukowski ’18 will attempt to carve out a utility role on the mound as well as in the infield. The Elis will head to a more temperate climate for their annual spring trip, opening their season with a doubleheader in North Carolina on Saturday against Richmond and Davidson. Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .
Bulldogs remain unbeaten LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12
fireballer on the Negro League circuit, Bankhead fizzled and only appeared in 52 big league games. Take Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, Oscar Charleston or Martin Dihingo, all great ballplayers denied the chance to play in the Major Leagues because they were born too soon and their stars had faded by the time Major League Baseball was willing to take down its racist barriers. All of these men deserve credit for fighting to integrate the game, even if all they did was play baseball so well that nobody in their right minds could believe that “black players couldn’t handle the Major Leagues.” All of their legacies, along with Minoso’s, deserve to be remembered and to be honored. The integration of baseball was a crucial step towards equality for all races in America, and it took the combined efforts of all of these individuals to push baseball out of its backward past. One place where Minoso’s legacy is not lost, however, is on Major League rosters. In 2014, 28.4 percent of those on Opening Day rosters identified as Latino, whereas only 8.2 percent identified as Black or African-American. Every Latino player who has followed Minoso into the Bigs since 1949, from Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente to White Sox slugger Jose Abreu, owes their chance to the struggle that Minoso went through decades ago. As the generation that helped to integrate America’s game begins to fade away, it’s time for all of us to remember the sacrifices they made. CHARLES CONDRO is a senior in Trumbull College and a former sports editor for the News. Contact him at charles.condro@yale.edu .
Hanson ’14. Despite the undefined state of the lineup, at least one Bulldog is not worried about the Elis’ ability to field a strong team across all facets of the game. “I had a nice streak in league play last year, but I attribute most of [my] success to the team as a whole,” said Lanham, who was 4–0 in Ivy competition and piled up three shutouts. “We had a lot of timely hits and played great defense. I think we’ll have those again this year so that’s a great confidence booster.” Lanham credited the experience of seven returning starters in the field and five Elis who started at least one game on the bump for his lack of concern.
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The Bulldogs won despite committing six penalties for 4:30, while St. John’s committed zero infractions.
“We got a big face-off win, James Tjarksen [’15] got a ground ball and pushed transition,” midfielder Michael Bonacci ’16 said. “Jon Reese [’16] made a great skip pass to the back side to Jeff Cimbalista, who had a big finish … Players came up big when they needed to, especially Cimbalista at the end.” Oberbeck continued to be the leading offensive contributor for the Bulldogs, scoring another three goals to give him a teamleading 14 scores on the year so far. His goal in the second quarter moved the senior attackman past Adam Puritz ’88 into second alltime on Yale’s career goal-scoring chart. Cimbalista also added two goals, including the game-winner, and an assist, continuing his excellent sophomore season. The rest of the team’s goals came from a variety of sources. The Elis got two scores from midfielder Michael Keasey ’16 and one from attackman Ben Reeves ’18, giving him eight on the season. Additionally, midfielders Eric Scott ’17 and Jason Alessi ’18 picked up where they left off against Bryant, adding a goal each. All in all, though, the heavy snowfall turned the game into a sloppy dogfight for possession and left both teams struggling to complete a successful string of passes. Although the call was made to switch from the traditional white ball to a neon orange ball midway through the game, visibility issues plagued both teams in their attempts to maintain a cohesive offensive game plan. “This was probably the first time that any of us played in a snow storm. It makes things different, footing is … a little bit of a curveball,” defenseman Michael Quinn ’16 said. “The end of the game was maybe the craziest two
minutes of lacrosse I’ve ever seen.” Despite the conditions, goalie Eric Natale ’15 turned in a stellar performance, making 11 saves against the Red Storm attack. Bonacci credited Natale for playing through the snow, which he termed as “every goalie’s nightmare.” In addition to the contributions of Natale and Oberbeck, several other Bulldog seniors turned in stellar performances, providing the team with much-needed veteran experience in the face of its first significant adversity of the 2015 season. In particular, Tjarksen and defenseman Alirio DeMeireles ’15 grabbed two ground balls each to help the Bulldogs maintain ball control in the back-and-forth contest. One of Tjarksen’s ground balls, notably, came just prior to the game-winner for Yale, and DeMeireles caused a key turnover in the game’s final minutes that kept St. John’s from setting up an important offensive possession. “[DeMereiles] is a guy who finally got a job to break through into the lineup this year … he grew up in the program and he’s gotten better every day, and he was a vital part of our defense today,” Quinn said. Despite the excellent undefeated start, the close call today reminded the Bulldogs that they still have room for improvement. Entering Tuesday’s game, the Bulldogs were just sixth in the Ivy League in caused turnovers per game and fifth in save percentage. “I know nobody’s satisfied with four wins,” Scott said. “We need to keep working hard to get better.” The Bulldogs return home Saturday for their final game before the beginning of Ivy play, facing in-state rival Fairfield University. The game begins at 1:30 p.m. at Reese Stadium. Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .
Yale takes fourth at Towson GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE 12
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This meet marked the second time this season the Bulldogs have traveled to face nationally ranked teams.
“Floor has kind of been a weak spot so that’s really the place the coaches have directed their attention,” Opperman said. “We’ve been really focusing on cleaning up the landings. Before it was about making routine. Now it’s making a routine well and making sure we get all of our leap points and our landings.” Opperman tied for fourth and earned the Bulldogs’ highest score on the apparatus with a 9.825. For her performance, which earned the highest score obtained by an ECAC gymnast this weekend, Opperman was named conference Specialist of the Week for the second time this season. Opperman’s fourth-place finish was the highest of the day for the Bulldogs. The team’s other top finishers were Anna Merkuryev ’18, who was 10th on vault; Traina, who was 16th on bars; Anella Anderson ’17; and Li, who tied for 18th on beam. One week removed from the Ivy Classic, the Bulldogs are looking to finish their season on a high note. “After Ivies comes what we call the post-Ivy slump,” Winkelman said. “We put so much energy into the Ivy championship. It’s so easy to relax, but we need to be doing the exact opposite. Now is when we really need to focus and work on the details. When we compete in ECACs, it’ll be at home. We can go in really confident, knowing we can hit 24 for 24.” But before hosting ECACs, Yale hits the road for a spring break road trip. The Bull-
dogs will start at George Washington University, competing on March 8, then head north to compete at Brown on March 15. In the meantime, Yale is working on fine-tuning their routines. “We’re working on tightening up all of our skills, focusing on landings, and the little things that could bump our scores up,” Megan Ryan ’18 said. “I’m really looking forward to seeing if we can build on our team score. I think we can keep the positive scores up. We’re really working on details and trying to set a new high score.” The ultimate goal, according to Ryan and Opperman, is to qualify the whole team for the USA Gymnastics Nationals. The team must finish in the top eight in a bracket composed of teams that offer fewer than seven-and-a-half full scholarships. Opperman noted that despite the limitation, the competition is still varied because there is a huge difference between a team that can offer seven scholarships and a team, like Yale, that offers none. Seven girls, Opperman pointed out, is almost half of a team, and often means the Bulldogs are up against tough competition. “I don’t know when the last time we qualified as a team,” she said. “Right now, it’s looking pretty good, so going into GW, we really want to make sure we post the highest possible scores.” ECACs occur on March 21 in the John J. Lee Amphitheater. Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
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POETRY R EADI NG AN D CONVERSATION Wednesday, March 5 5 PM at Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 101 63 High Street, New Haven Claudia Rankine’s latest collection of poetry, Citizen: An American Lyric, was a finalist for the National Book Award and is currently a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in two categories: poetry and criticism. Her other collections include Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004) and Nothing in Nature is Private (1994), which won the Cleveland State Poetry Prize. Rankine has been awarded fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lannan Foundation. In 2013, she was elected as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and in 2014 she received a Lannan Literary Award. She has taught at the University of Houston, Case Western Reserve University, Barnard College, and Pomona College.
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ARTS & CULTURE YUAG-YCBA exhibition examines diversity of Romanticism BY ROHAN NAIK STAFF REPORTER For the first time in their history, the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art are hosting a joint exhibition. “The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760– 1860” will open this Friday at the YUAG. Consisting of over 300 works, the show was assembled using mostly the University’s collections, with only a few objects on loan from various private collections. The exhibition seeks to provide a comprehensive view of European Romanticism as well as counter the view that Romantic artists were solely concerned with depicting themes of fantasy and internal reflection. “We wanted to broaden out the idea that most people have about what romantic artists are,” YCBA Curator of Paintings and Sculpture Cassandra Albinson said. “We want people to think of these artists not only as inventive but also as responding to political and social change.” According to curators from both museums, the idea of a joint exhibition arose roughly two years ago when the YCBA informed the YUAG it would be closed for renovations in 2015. While the YCBA would be closed for more than a year, Albinson explained, the center still wanted the public to have access to its collections. Albinson said the decision to dedicate an exhibition to Romantic art came naturally, as both institutions own several well-known works from the period. Laurence Kanter, the chief curator and the Lionel Goldfrank III curator of European art at the YUAG, said that while the YUAG’s collection of 18th-century European art is relatively small, its early 19th-century collection is quite strong. He noted that the collaboration with the YCBA enabled the exhibition to cover both centuries of the Romantic movement in depth. In contrast to other YUAG exhibitions, “The Critique of Reason” will divide its works thematically rather than chronologically. Paola D’Agostino, the Nina and Lee Griggs assistant curator of European art at the YUAG, explained that the themed sections will serve to help the viewer obtain a more comprehensive understanding of Romanticism, as certain sections take a historical approach to art while others focus on the artistic process. For example, the section entitled “Nature: Spectacle and Specimen” looks at how some romantic artists used a scientific approach in interpreting the natural world. Another section, titled “The Changing Role of the Sketch,” focuses on the technical process of creating sketches. Izabel Gass GRD ’15 , a graduate research assistant at YUAG and YCBA, added that since there was no unified Romantic movement in Europe, the period is notoriously difficult to define. She noted that honing in on various themes avoids having to define the movement as a single idea. Gass added that the exhibition emphasizes the broad range of art that the term “Romantic” encompasses, noting that viewers would not be able to appreciate this degree of variety by reading an art textbook. Both Kanter and D’Agostino said they were unsure why the YCBA and YUAG have never put on a joint exhibition until now. But they noted that the YCBA’s mission to promote the study of British culture is not directly aligned with the YUAG’s goals. Albinson added that a collaboration with the YUAG was more appealing than sending the YCBA’s works on tour during the center’s renovation process. “The Critique of Reason” will close July 26. Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .
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“The Critique of Reason,” an exhibition jointly hosted by the Yale Undergraduate Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, will open this Friday.
West Bank conflict presented through dance BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER
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Award-winning choreographer Arkadi Zaides performed his new dance, “Archive,” at the Off-Broadway Theater.
Through film footage, dance performances and a human rights movement, Yale audiences were able to see through the eyes of firsthand witnesses to an ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Arkadi Zaides, an award-winning choreographer based in Israel, brought his most recent work to the Off-Broadway Theater last night with a live dance performance of “Archive.” The performance directly engages with video footage from B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization. Zaides culled this footage from the roughly 4,500 hours of film compiled through B’Tselem’s “camera project,” a movement that has provided cameras to civilians living in conflict-riddled areas such as those in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. “I saw very important testimony in those materials which I sensed holds a key, or a core, about the repercussions of an ongoing cycle of violence,” Zaides said. In “Archive,” Zaides mimicked actions performed by people from the B’Tselem footage, which is projected on a wall behind him. Often, clips that are only a few seconds long are repeated for a few minutes, with Zaides posing, dancing and shouting to replicate the movement and behavior of the scenes shown on screen. The video footage exclusively depicts Israeli settlers in the West Bank from the perspective of Palestinians, who recorded the footage. Zaides said he made a conscious choice to exclude nonIsraelis from the footage, adding that this angle allowed him to reflect more profoundly on his own society.
“Capture Practice,” an installation that accompanies Zaides’s performance, incorporates much of the same footage, movements and themes of “Archive.” The installation is set up with two walls that serve as screens displaying two synchronized video loops. One wall shows Zaides in a closed, windowless studio. The other runs a series of clips from B’Tselem’s archives. Because the images on the two walls face one another, it appears to the viewer that Zaides is watching the footage on the wall across from him directly responding to it. Margaret Olin, a Divinity School, Religious Studies and History of Art professor, met Zaides last year on a trip to Israel. She said Zaides’s representations of the behavior on screen allow the viewer to witness actions that they might have missed in just watching the footage itself, adding that his particular depiction of Israeli settlers provides a unique perspective on the West Bank conflict. “People often depict the side that they’re in favor of as either victims or as heroes, and both sides in the Israeli-Palistinean conflict have done that,” Olin said. “By not even letting you for a moment think about looking at the people who are being thrown out of their homes, you’re really focusing on how it feels to be someone who is involved in these injustices.” Dina Roginsky, a lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, pointed out that “Archive” and “Capture Practice” are both anomalies in modern Israeli performance art because most of these artists choose not to confront Israeli violence or the faults of the Israeli government.
In January, right-wing protesters in Tel Aviv attempted to prevent a performance of “Archive” from taking place in the city. Protesters also appeared at the show’s premiere in France last September. Zaides said he is not trying to push forth a political agenda with his work, but is instead trying to make members of his society — and the international community — to examine the West Bank conflict more critically. “It’s not that I’m saying that I am opposing, I’m questioning,” Zaides said. “The work strives to open questions, and not to give answers and give statements, but to make us really look and watch and observe what is happening to us.” Keeping his own emotions at bay has been the greatest challenge to presenting the footage objectively and without personal commentary, Zaides added. He explained that because the original footage is fraught with raw emotion, he must constantly fight the urge to incorporate his own emotions into his performance. Olin said she was captivated by the repetition of Zaides’ movements, of video clips and of sounds throughout “Archive.” Zaides said that repetition was an essential aspect of his work in general and was particularly appropriate in depicting the Israeli conflict, which he described as “repetitive and never-ending.” “This is what art should be. I am very disturbed, in the way that I should be,” Roginsky said. “I am physically sweating, even though it is snowing outside.” Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .
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New exhibition “illuminates” artwork by William Blake BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER A prolific poet, printer, painter and publisher, William Blake is finally getting a place in two new Yale exhibitions. “Illuminated Printing: William Blake and the Book Arts,” a new exhibition that opened Monday in the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, traces the influence of the English artist through the historical development of book art and illuminated prints — an art form that Blake is credited with inventing. The exhibit includes works by Blake and contemporary artists he influenced, acting as a companion to an upcoming exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery, which will contain several of Blake’s works. Blake pioneered the fusion of written text and images, using copper plates to print illuminated books on religious, mythological and literary themes. “It’s like painting with words and writing with images,” Nina and Lee Griggs Assistant Curator of European Art at the YUAG Paola D’Agostino said. Acting Associate Director of the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library Jae Rossman said she believes that the exhibition reflects a growing atten-
tion in academia to “art books” — uniquely designed volumes that are meant to be appreciated as works of art. Blake’s most famous books of prints, “Jerusalem” and “Songs of Innocence and Experience,” contain dozens of pages that combine written verse with images of angels, men and fantastical creatures of his own invention. Blake engraved, printed and painted all the text and images himself, backwards. “The images have just as much meaning as the text,” D’Agostino said. Each Blake print is smaller than a letter-sized sheet of paper, and was produced through a process known as relief etching. After painting the images on a copper plate with an acid-resistant varnish, Blake submerged the plate in an acid bath. The acid corroded all of the copper except for the areas that he had painted, leaving behind the image. Sutphin Family Senior Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the YUAG Lisa Hodermarsky noted that while the copper plates could be reused to reproduce the designs, the watercolor paints that Blake used to embellish the original prints varied between prints and cannot be reproduced.
Using this process, Hodermarksy added, Blake produced many such works in his own home, which is one possible explanation for why they never circulated widely. The exhibition also features the work of contemporary artists who have tried to recreate Blake’s method of relief etching, as well as other illuminated books that were produced using the same process. In the YUAG exhibition are eight of Blake’s prints from a book titled “America a Prophecy” that was published in 1793. The prints depict scenes from the American Revolution. Blake chose this theme because he saw the American Revolution as the “harbinger for all revolutions,” Hodermarksy explained. D’Agostino described Blake’s work as a reflection on religious themes mixed with his own mythological creations. His unique character and the way he combined poetry, printing and publishing make Blake a model for book artists, said Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship and exhibit curator Patricia Guariolo. “Illuminated Printing” will close on Aug. 21. Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .
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Two new exhibitions — one in the Haas Family Arts Library and one in the Yale Undergraduate Art Gallery — showcase artist William Blake’s illuminated books.
Student play explores friendship, love BY IVONA IACOB CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
you personally relate to the QDo play’s storyline?
is the main theme that A QWhat the play explores and how does this production present it?
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The main question is, “Can two people sustain a relationship that lies right between friendship and lovers?” You have your friends, and you have your lovers, and you’re something in the middle. And so the question is can you stay in that relationship where you aren’t really friends and you aren’t really lovers? If so, for how long, and if not, why not? That’s what we explore in the production.
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What was the playwriting process like for this play?
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For this class, we met twice a week for two hours each time, so it was a lot of class time. And so most of the process was in that class for me. You’re just writing the whole time, then you bring it to class, you choose actors in the class to read your scene, and then you keep writing. So it’s very open-ended, you get to decide if it’s the week when you want people to read yours or not. And then after that class ended the process changed, we had a few rehearsals, read parts of the script and then talk about them and I ask the actors if they like it or not, if it’s weird to them or not, or what they think we should change. The crazy thing about this process is that the actors that play the two main parts have known their characters for just as long as I have. They read the first scene I ever wrote with them.
It is a really personal play. It is inspired by the diary of a woman named Frances Willard, who is someone I read about in a class my sophomore year titled “U.S. Lesbian and Gay History,” and it was a really important text to me. It’s beautiful, strange, haunting and confusing. This woman is writing about how much she loves this other woman without even realizing that she is talking about love. Q Why high school as a setting?
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I didn’t want to write a play about people older than 17. I don’t think you can honestly write that well about a theme that you haven’t really wrapped your head around yet. I’m still in the middle of college. Also, in high school, you are so in your own world. You don’t even really know that there are places beyond your own high school. You are a lot more raw, more sensitive and even more vulnerable.
beach as the poster for the play?
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The play involves supernatural and communicating with the dead, and it’s also all about being a girl. There are no male characters. So I wanted to have a picture that was feminine and a little spooky, because you can’t really tell if she’s dead or if she is just lying there. To me, a beach symbolizes the idea of being on the threshold, being on the edge. I see the girls in this play as being on the edge of childhood and adulthood because they are now in the terribly awkward moment when you are 17 and you think you are grown up but you are really not.
effect do you want the QWhat play to have on audiences?
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I actually didn’t come up with the title of the play. My girlfriend did. Lips are sensual and evocative, but chapped lips are not. They’re raw and sometimes gross, and you should take care of them. I guess in some way that’s what it feels like this play is about — something beautiful and nice but also so raw that it hurts.
I want people to empathize with these two girls who are going through something so terrifying, exciting and awkward at the same time, but I also want audiences to laugh with them. In a way the play feels like a character study because it mostly consists of just these two girls. You don’t meet their parents, their siblings or other people at their school. They’re acting in the school play but you don’t meet the director of the play, for example. I want people to see, through these girls, how complicated sexuality is, and how it is absurd to think that any person even knows what’s going on inside themselves, and how scary it can be to learn something about yourself. I want people to remember that you can really be a stranger to yourself.
did you choose the image QWhy of a girl lying face down on a
Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .
inspired the title of the QWhat play?
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Playwright festival sees record number of submissions BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER As Edward Columbia ’18 was writing the play “Fiction” while working as an actor and theater intern in New York City, little did he know that he would have the chance to revisit the piece and personally workshop it with experienced theater professionals and faculty. The 2015 Yale Playwrights Festival took place on Saturday at the Morse-Stiles Crescent Theater. Five undergraduate playwrights were chosen by a panel of Yale faculty members to debut original pieces in the form of staged readings in front of friends, Yale faculty and theater professionals. Each play was limited to a maximum of four hours of rehearsal in the Crescent Theater before being performed. “The idea of a staged reading is to give you the chance to hear your play and see if it works and what you want to change,” said Natalie Rose Schwartz ’17, who directed Crystal Liu ’16’s “Dream of a Dragon Woman.” Each play was followed by a talkback session in which students and mentors could provide constructive criticism for the play after its staging. Theater Studies professor Toni Dorfman, who has organized the playwriting festival each year since its inception in 2003, noted that this year saw the largest number of script submissions in the history of the festival. The five plays that were read at the festival were chosen from a pool of 35 scripts. Dorfman added that she has noticed an increase in the number of original student plays produced at Yale over the past 15 years, including plays put on in college theaters by the Yale Dramatic Association as well as curricular productions in the Whitney Theater. Dorfman cited the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater and the Dance Studies cur-
riculum, which is housed within the Theater Studies Program, as examples of programs that contribute to the increase of original theater pieces on campus. Theater Studies professor Deb Margolin, who served as a faculty mentor for the play “Exception to the Rule” by Dave Harris ’16, added that she holds a biweekly cabaret named “Theater of Desire,” which allows students to present new original work in front of peers and faculty. Dorfman, Schwartz and Irina Gavrilova ’17, who directed Eric Sirakian’s ’15 “Anoush,” pointed to the Creative and Performing Arts Awards as a crucial source of funding for original extracurricular student productions outside of organizations such as the Dramat. “Yale is a dream workshop for young playwrights,” Dorfman wrote in an email. Faculty and students involved with the festival added that the festival provides an opportunity for students interested in theater to network with professionals in the field. Gavrilova said the festival provides a rare chance for student playwrights and theater professionals to interact. She added that although the faculty mentors work primarily with the playwrights, her conversations with professional playwrights were some of the highlights of the festival. Gavrilova also noted that while mentorship for aspiring playwrights is not as easily found outside of the festival, Yale offers mentorship opportunities through the Theater Studies faculty members who teach courses in playwriting — such as Deb Margolin and Donald Margulies — and through visiting professional playwrights such as Sarah Ruhl, who teaches in the program. The Dramat’s Spring Experimental Production of 2015 will be an original work by Sirakian, titled “Ermeni.” Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .
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Elis shoot to snap Ivy title drought BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER One hundred and fifty years since the team’s inception, the Yale baseball team enters this historic season more focused on flipping the script of the past 21 years rather than celebrating the past century and a half. Yale has not secured an Ivy League championship since 1994 and has failed to make it to the title game since 1995. A year ago, the Bulldogs came within mere innings of reaching the three-game series that decides the Ancient Eight champion after sitting in the pole position of the Red Rolfe division for much of the season. This year — though the season has been delayed thanks to unpredictable Northeast weather, with today’s season opener against the University of New Haven cancelled due to poor field conditions — the Elis are intent on making their 150th campaign a memorable one for reasons other than becoming the fourth Division I program to have lasted since 1865. “The taste of the opportunity to play for an Ivy League championship was something the program hasn’t had in quite a long time,” right fielder and captain David Toups ’15 said. “This team wants to prove we cannot only get back to that point, but get beyond that point.” Yale’s 2015 formula for success will be predicated upon maintaining its strength on the mound, led by Chris Lanham ’16, whose AllIvy Second Team season last year included a conference-best seven victories. Bolstering the Elis’ staff will be Chasen Ford ’17, who pitched 53.2 innings a year ago, and Chris Moates ’16, who will transition into being a starter after coming out of the bullpen in all 16 of his appearances last season. Moates dominated in his
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game playoff against Dartmouth, in which the Bulldogs fell by an 11–4 final score. However, the Bulldogs are confident that they can build up an offense that sees six of its top eight run creators from 2014 return for this year’s title push. Leading the way will be catcher Robert Baldwin ’15 and third baseman Richard Slenker ’17, who combined to hit 0.326 with 39 RBIs and a 0.367 on base percentage.
Jackie Robinson began to blaze a trail for black baseball players to integrate Major League Baseball in 1947, but he was not alone. However, the battle to integrate baseball was far from over when Orestes “Minnie” Minoso made his first Big League appearance with Cleveland in 1949. He passed away this weekend, and with Minoso’s death we lost another of the game’s underappreciated heroes. The Cuban-born Minoso — the first black Latino player in the Major Leagues — found a home with the Chicago White Sox in 1951, slamming a home run off of Yankees ace Vic Raschi in his first White Sox at-bat (Raschi would win 21 games and lead the American League in strikeouts that year). Minoso stormed onto the national scene that summer in his first full season, leading the American League with 14 triples, 31 stolen bases and 16 hit by pitches. Minoso would lead the AL in both steals and triples two more times, in addition to pacing the Junior Circuit in hit by pitches an astonishing nine more times. A player with a rare combination of speed and power, Minoso would go on to play in seven All-Star games and win three Gold Gloves before retiring in 1964. Despite his storied career and his place in baseball history, Minoso was denied entry into the Hall of Fame both by the Baseball Writers Association of America and by a special vote in 2011 for players from the Negro Leagues. The Hall of Fame certainly overlooked
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Yale lost in a one-game playoff in 2014 that would have sent the Bulldogs to the Ivy League championship series. relief role, spinning a team-best 2.11 ERA and the second-best WHIP — 1.42 walks plus hits per inning pitched — of any Bulldog with more than 18 innings pitched. Toups was adamant in highlighting consistency as the key to Yale’s title prospects this season, a sentiment that Ford can relate to as he prepares for his sophomore campaign. “My main takeaways from last year were just to keep my focus going all year and not get caught in going through the motions,” said the
6’3” righty from southern California. “This year all I can expect from myself is to give my team a chance every outing.” The pitching staff kept Yale in many of its 20 conference games last season, allowing three runs or less in nine Ivy outings. Yale’s offense, on the other hand, was unable to remain in a groove at the plate and struggled to bail out its hurlers. In Ivy games in which Yale allowed four or more runs, the Elis only mustered a 2–9 mark. That record does not include the Rolfe Division one-
Elis near record score, take fourth
Bulldogs survive in OT BY JONATHAN MARX CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Playing its first road contest of the season Tuesday afternoon, the Yale men’s lacrosse team faced a pair of daunting opponents: the Red Storm of St. John’s and the snow storm which left the field coated in white for the game’s final three quarters.
LACROSSE Despite these challenging conditions, however, the Bulldogs once again prevailed. Attackman Jeff Cimbalista ’17 scored just 14 seconds into the overtime period and Yale took down St. John’s by a final score of 11–10.
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When the Bulldogs (4–0, 0–0 Ivy) took a 7–5 lead into the halftime locker room and entered the fourth quarter leading 9–7, overtime seemed like a faint possibility. But the Red Storm (1–4, 0–0 Big East) had other ideas, scoring two consecutive fourth-quarter goals to tie the game at nine. Following a Conrad Oberbeck ’15 score to re-take the lead, St. John’s tied the game at 10 on a strike with only 26 seconds remaining to set up overtime. Despite that late goal, Yale managed to dominate the brief extra period. The quick passing and teamwork that has allowed the Bulldogs to shine offensively this season was most notable in the game’s final seconds. SEE LACROSSE PAGE 8
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Three Yale players have at least eight goals this year: Conrad Oberbeck ’15, Jeff Cimbalista ’17 and Ben Reeves ’18.
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Following a season-high performance at last week’s Ivy Classic, the Yale gymnastics team put up another strong performance, scoring less than four-tenths of a point off of their record at Towson.
GYMNASTICS Earning a team total of 191.875, the Bulldogs ultimately finished last, behind Michigan State, Rutgers and Towson. The meet featured the highest score Yale has seen all year, as No. 23 Michigan State put up a team total of 196.275. “Bars and beam went pretty well,” Camilla Opperman ’16 said. “Beam scoring was harsher than we’ve gotten used to, but in general the team did really well. We didn’t get our highest team score of the season. We were close and overall, we came out proud of what we did.” The high-scoring meet proved to be a success for captain Morgan Traina ’15 and Joyce Li ’15, who came in second and third in the all-around, respectively. Michigan State’s Lisa Burt finished half a point ahead of Traina to claim the top spot. This meet marked the second time this season the Bulldogs have traveled to face nationally ranked teams. “Coming into the meet is kind of intimidating,” Tatiana Win-
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The gymnastics team finished four-tenths of a point below their record score of 191.875 on Saturday at Towson. kelman ’17 said. “Just the sheer number of girls that are there is intimidating. We’re a smaller team — we’re only 13. But we kind of feed off of their energy. I’ll see a girl hit a skill, and I know I can hit my bars dismount just like they can. It makes me want to make my gymnastics better.” Yale still managed to hold its own in what turned out to be
a closer contest than the team scores imply. On bars, for example, only one-tenth of a point separated the top 10 scores. The floor exercise, the Elis’ highest-scoring event for the first time this season, saw only a 0.150 separation between the first and 10th place gymnasts. SEE GYMNASTICS PAGE 8
THE NUMBER OF SECONDS INTO THE OVERTIME WHEN ATTACKMAN AND MIDFIELDER JEFF CIMBALISTA ’17 SCORED THE GAME-WINNING GOAL. Cimbalista netted his second and the team’s 11th goal of the game against St. John’s to set the Bulldogs’ winning streak at four.