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From the highest mountaintops. The organizers

for graduate student life at the McDougal Center spiced up their regular happy hour with an “on the road” version up on Science Hill. The affair, held in the lobby of Kline Biology Tower last night, was titled HHH (Happy Hour on Science Hill). No word on how many attendees made it back down the hill.

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Bestseller. Ryan Greenwood,

the current Rare Book Fellow at the Yale Law School Library, was featured in the “Bright Young Librarians” series in the Fine Books & Collections Magazine. In the piece, he reveals that one of the favorite rare works he has handled is a tiny manuscript of the Magna Carta. Greenwood also said he collects bookseller catalogs, a sort of “meta-collecting.”

said would devastate property value and drive them from the city.

Particularly troublesome, many insisted, is the increased allowance for Harp’s own office, up nearly 50 percent over the amount allotted in the current fiscal year.

In developing Yale’s two new residential colleges, the University had planned to increase the size of the incoming freshman class by 200 students in the fall of 2016. But now, the ad hoc committee on Yale College expansion has recommended that the process be delayed by a year.

In a Thursday faculty meeting, roughly 75 faculty members gathered for what was meant to be a tying together of loose ends on two major debates: grading policy and the two new residential colleges. While the faculty members tabled the discussion of grading policy — which concerned only a minor point about independent study grades — they discussed the logistics of increasing the student body by 15 percent over four years, touching on the impact on discussion sections and housing.

The ad hoc committee on Yale College expansion presented its recommendation that 200 new students be added to the class of 2021 instead of the class of 2020 as was previously considered. The University initially planned to move some 200 incoming freshmen to Swing Space in the fall of 2016 and then have them move along with new freshmen in 2017 to the new residential college buildings.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller said this plan ultimately proved logistically troublesome, as Swing Space is occupied by

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Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest. Yale is playing host

to a symposium entitled “Performance and the Sea” this weekend, an affair sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center and Interdisciplinary Performance Studies at Yale. The event will feature scholars conducting research on marine painting, sailor songs, shipboard theatricals, vernacular port performance and other specific, sea-related forms of expression.

Congratulations? Selections

for freshman counselors are being released around noon today. The results follow an intensive interview process that included soul-searching questions such as: What do you do if a freshman calls you in the middle of the night?

(Turn your phone off?)

Ce n’est pas a typical game night. Reynolds Fine Art

has organized a “Surrealist Game Night” for the Arts On9 festival. The affair has been advertised as a “handful of games that will stimulate your unconscious mind.”

Endless winter. The

International Festival of Arts and Ideas decided to begin advertising for this summer’s festival by sticking a countdown clipboard in the snow on the New Haven Green that most recently read “100 Days to June 14.” Here’s hoping the snow has melted by then…

A sit-down interview. The

Columbia Spectator recently printed a fictional interview with asculpture on their campus — a marble bench in front of Columbia’s Barnard Hall which carries the inscription “Stupid people shouldn’t breed” and “It’s crucial to have an active fantasy life.”

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1980 The Connecticut state legislature reconsiders the drinking age.

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Ward 4 Alder Andrea Jackson-Brooks responds sternly to Ward 19 Alder Mike Stratton over comments about the budget.

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER In response to a 2014-’15 budget proposal Mayor Toni Harp unveiled just one week ago, nearly 70 city residents appeared at a public hearing on Thursday to send a unanimous message: do not raise

our taxes.

Over the course of two hours of public testimony, more than two dozen people asked the 10-member finance committee of the Board of Alders to take a scalpel to the budget before it goes into effect July 1. As it stands, the budget calls for tax hikes that residents

Civil rights in New Haven questioned

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER As a civil rights court case gears up for another round of hearings, local leaders are calling on the city to take stronger action to ensure its municipalities fairly represent the racial demo-

graphics of the people they serve.

The plaintiffs are a group of 10 AfricanAmerican New Haven Police Department officers who allege that they were prevented from being promoted to the rank of sergeant because of their race, despite

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passing the department’s exam in 2009. On Feb. 21, Judge Matthew Frechette from the Connecticut State Superior Court denied the city’s motion to drop the case; and so, what has come to be known as the New Haven 10 case will be brought to trial starting April 25.

Project Longevity’s William Mathis, along with many AfricanAmerican leaders from around the Elm City, said he believes the case is part of a larger struggle to promote more minority leaders to the to the highest ranks of public office. “ C r i t i c a l to t h e

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Online housing centralized

BY NICOLE NG STAFF REPORTER

Google Glass — a computer system worn like a pair of glasses — will soon become available for student and faculty use at the Bass Library media center.

Google Glass is not yet on the market, but a partnership of three Yale organizations — the Yale University Library, the Student Technology Collaborative (STC) and the Instructional Technology Group (ITG) — applied to beta test the product last year. Since Google Glass arrived at Bass in mid-January, the three groups have been exploring the device’s uses and ways to introduce the technology to the greater Yale community.

Soon after spring break, student and faculty groups will be able to fill out an online application to use Google Glass for spring or summer projects, and the device is slated to become available for general use beginning in the fall.

“We realized that if we could potentially add this to the Bass media equipment col-

To streamline the complicated and often dramatic housing process, nine of Yale’s residential colleges are switching to a new online system this year.

For the past several years, many colleges have experimented with their own online housing systems.

After these systems gained popularity and other colleges sought computerized programs, the Yale College Dean’s Office began developing of a more centralized system in 2013. Hosted by Yale Information Technology Services (ITS), the new system uses StarRez — a student housing software program popular at many universities.

It can perform all aspects of the housing process, allowing students to register, form suite groups and select their rooms online. Though residential colleges have opted to adopt the system to different degrees, administrators said all colleges will still

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advancement of those felt left behind [or] marginalized is the opportunity to see people who look like them and originate from their community as positive role models and in significant leadership positions,” Mathis said.

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GUEST COLUMNIST JOHN GONZALEZ

Leaving Neverland O

n Feb. 17, each hapless member of the class of 2014 received what I’m assuming is the annual “look out y’all commencement is nigh” email. My response, swamped by midterms and other unthinkable Yale-type horrors, was to go into full-on Peter Pan mode. I won’t grow up, Yale! I won’t do it. I’m stealing all the pixie dust and I’m hiding it and I’m never leaving the Neverland that is Yale.

The email, of course, wasn’t actually a surprise. Commencement isn’t a dark nebulous cloud, looming high above the endless sky of senior year, always threatening to rain the real world down on us. Commencement is so much stealthier than that. It’s a mist that permeates everything. It’s in the job applications. It’s in the “so what are you doing next year?” inquiries. It’s in the way we make bucket lists, and ask each other about them without a trace of sarcasm. It’s in the way the casual-yet-hollow ‘let’s get a meal soon and catch up!’ suddenly rings with new earnestness. It’s the silent but ever-present knowledge that this is the final round. The last time.

COMMENCEMENT REMINDS US OF THE COULDHAVE-BEENS When I came back to school last fall for my senior year, I thought that I would be consumed by an overwhelming sense of lasts. Everything would be a last. The last fall semester shopping period! The last Harvard-Yale! The last Bees & Cheer! The last round of holiday parties! The last January snow! The last time I would ever be overcharged at Durfee’s on a Tuesday! The last time I would ever traipse through the cold for a Yorkside milkshake on February 3 at exactly 8:43 p.m.!

I thought I would drown in all those lasts. But as it turns out, commencement makes you more painfully aware of the could-have-beens. Commencement reminds you that you’re running out of time.

You’re special, here in Neverland. Here you can be anything, but the real world will tell you that it’s too late. That endless promise is so hard to let go of.

Yale isn’t perfect, but in a way it’s a fairytale and its sparkle is undeniable, and how can you leave a place that reflects all that sparkle onto you? Every star — if you just sprinkle a lit-

tle pixie dust — is within reach.

It’s so easy to get lost in all the could-have-beens. The friends you could have made, the things you could have done, the people you should have kissed, the astronaut-soccer star-comedian-fire swallower you might never get to be. Commencement is a weird funk, and I don’t know how to deal with it. Maybe it is the time to be totally gung-ho. Maybe it is the time to romp around and drink too much and sleep too little and write an op-ed and do everything I’ve ever wanted to do and tell everyone everything I’ve ever wanted to say and because it’s the last time and there are so many things I haven’t done and so many things I have to do!

But sometimes I wonder if that places too much of a premium on regret. I’d be lying if I said I had no regrets, and maybe I should be more gungho about them. Maybe I’m too cautious. In the midst of all the could-have-beens, though, we risk ignoring the things that have been. I’ve laughed and cried and loved and certainly drank too much and definitely slept too little, because I wouldn’t be a real Yalie if I didn’t complain about how sleep-deprived I am. I’ve tried on a thousand different faces looking for the one I liked the best, and it turned out, strangely enough, to be the one I always had.

Commencement is scary because it means letting go of Yale, where it seems like anything can happen. Our bright college years might be winding down, but the thing is, Yale doesn’t really end. I mean, we get JSTOR access for life and that nifty aya.yale.edu alumni email address. Or maybe some of us actually have our priorities in order and are moving to Yale Part II, also known as New York City. Then, reunions!

Yale Club! And, in case we’re feeling neglected, a lifetime of calls asking for donations!

Maybe we each have a million regrets; maybe we each have none. There’s no cure, I suppose, for commencement, but maybe it’s time to take a look around. Look at the people we love, the people who love us. The fact that they’re there at all means we probably did Yale just a teeny tiny bit right, whether we have jobs or still haven’t a clue what we’re doing with our lives.

Because that’s the kind of love — although commencement is still terrifying — that makes us believe enough to fly out of Neverland.

Far and close A

s we head off on spring break, many of us will be returning to ever-changing home environments. For one thing, college is often the first major life juncture where we experience deaths in our families, and returning home can be scary, alienating and confusing. That is an environment I’ve been lucky enough to be unfamiliar with, until now.

Two weeks ago, I learned that my grandfather from South Korea passed away. I met him only a few times in my life and have just two conscious memories of him. He lived almost completely in the stories my mother told, and in this way, he is as alive as ever.

My mother is an immigrant from South Korea, who came to the United States after high school. My father is the son of Mexican immigrants, who gained their legal statuses after years of hard, honest work in Northern California.

Being a second-generation immigrant leaves me in a strange middle ground — not quite knowledgeable of the culture my family left behind, but fully cognizant of the important sacrifices made by relatives. I find myself constantly in limbo, balancing expectations from parental stories of how “back in my day we didn’t have running water,” but also explaining to friends how “that’s just

not something my people do.”

In relation to my cultural identity, I am both far away and close, complicated even more by a mixed heritage that leaves people always asking, “what are you?” The question digs so much deeper than just skin color or appearance, and is made even clearer in light of a family death.

Since my grandfather’s death, I have spent many days crying, not from memories or denial, but from grappling with the relationship between who he was and who I am. The emotions have been complex, and I have sometimes felt shame for not feeling enough.

As time goes on, I am seeing this period as an opportunity to think about how my family’s history fits into my identity.

Most importantly, the grieving process has helped me to acknowledge the many sacrifices my parents have made. To create a better life, sacrifices are necessary, and family ties are often given up in the process.

My mother could have stayed in Korea and maintained a closer relationship with her relatives, but instead she set out for her chance at the American Dream.

These complicated feelings I have are a part of that deal she made. It was a choice supported by my grandfather, and in this way he will always be with us.

Those familiar with the immigrant experience under-

stand the weight put on families that pursue the American Dream. Every second on a phone call and every moment spent in person carries infinite meaning, while the instant after goodbye can feel like forever. This weight even applies to our relatives in the United States. My Mexican grandparents live just 15 minutes away from me, but because of language barriers, I sometimes feel oceans apart.

GOING HOME, I FEEL BOTH FAR AND CLOSE TO MY IDENTITY Still, at the heart of the immigrant experience — beyond the weight of distance and time — is the love expressed in the unspoken. While weeks could go by without communication, my grandfather’s unconditional love for my mother and our family spoke far more than words.

When I left for college, my Mexican grandfather pointed to his heart and said in broken English, “I will always be here.”

It was a simple gesture that communicated all I needed to know.

As a mixed race, second-gen-

eration immigrant, my relationship with identity is complex and frustrating. My grandfather’s death has taught me to love these complexities and try to communicate them as best I can, though real love is not something that needs to be expressed in English.

The sacrifices of immigrants in my family have left a mark that will not be seen in my accent, dress or appearance. But their marks remain within me: through my parents’ toughness, my sisters’ resiliency and my experiences at Yale.

Caught between two cultures, I feel both deeply rooted in my history and also somewhat disconnected. And I know that’s not a sense unique to those from immigrant families — that’s something all of us feel, neither fully part of Yale nor of our families. It’s a disconnect that deepens when we return home for spring break, every trip back broadening the gulf between who we were and who we are, leaving us both far and close to a sense of identity.

But let’s take the next few weeks to consciously think about our families, and appreciate how their actions, both good and bad, are integral to the people we are.

JOHN GONZALEZ is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at john.gonzalez@yale.edu .

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he book caught my eye. It was red, and large, and in Hebrew. A book of poetry.

Who else is reading Hebrew poetry, I wondered, glancing at the name of the person who had requested it from the Sterling Memorial Library. Taken aback, I saw the name of an old professor, a man who I had never before suspected of knowing Hebrew or liking poetry. Suddenly, the moment felt intimate.

I had trespassed on knowledge not meant for me.

This year, due to the construction in Sterling, the book request service has become self-serve. What this means is that instead of picking up books from the front desk — like we did before the recent renovations — you head to the back room of the new publications room (the old publications room, by the way, is reopened and beautiful), and find your name along the alphabetized stacks. Each book you have ordered is waiting for you, and your name is inserted into the book on a slip of paper. It’s efficient, easy and might outlast

the temporary construction changes.

Accidentally flicking through the names of others is unavoidable.

SHIRA It has also TELUSHKIN made public i n fo r m a t i o n Behind that was once private.

Blue Eyes I have been surprised this year by how strange it feels to see the choices of others. As I’ve scanned the “T” section, collecting even more books for my thesis, I’ve noticed books on Chinese art waiting for philosophical friends, books on mathematical equations designated to the TA who once ran a section in my religious studies lecture, or even the more expected British novels awaiting a friend writing a thesis on British literature. I’ve had to wander through the books ordered by professors whose courses I’ve

only shopped, or other students whose names I know from the emails they send, if not by face.

It’s weird. It’s like when you see the Gmail account of someone in seminar or look through a passing window into a first floor bedroom. In some ways, to know what another is reading is to gain insight into their mind.

W. Somerset Maugham, one of the great British writers of the late 18th century, wrote a fictionalized memoir called “The Razor’s Edge,” which in a somewhat roundabout way documents the life of Larry, a wealthy boy in search of meaning. At one point, Maugham the character is speaking with Larry’s soon-tobe jilted widow, and she is trying to recall a name that Larry had mentioned to her. In the novel, she wonders if this was a friend of Larry’s she had forgotten, but Maugham recognizes the name as an ascetic philosopher, and immediately understands the turns of Larry’s mind. He knows at that moment Larry will leave her.

The question of “What are

you reading now?” is at its best an intimate question. If we are in the game of believing that ideas matter, then the ideas we pursue are more revealing than any bikini. Our books indicate what we are, currently, taking seriously in the realm of thought.

The shelves in the back of Sterling are sagging with the weight of personal interests, random curiosity and academic necessity.

I’ve since avoided, in some ways, connecting the books I see with the people who requested them, feeling a sense of impropriety in knowing this information from those who have not actively chosen to share it with me. I don’t know how the system will change when Sterling reverts back to its regular, beautiful self. But for this brief moment among the change, I’ve been reawakened to the power of the books we read.

SHIRA TELUSHKIN is a senior in Pierson College. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact her at shira.telushkin@yale.edu .

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Inside the elevator T

he man behind the curtain can’t hide forever — just ask John Lefevre. Last month, The New York Times outed the Texas banker as the guy behind @ GSElevator — a popular novelty Twitter account whose G and S stand for “Goldman” and “Sachs,” respectively. There, under his virtual nom de plume, Lefevre posted what he claimed were raw, uncensored comments he’d heard while working at Goldman Sachs. Things like: “What’s a ‘non-essential’ employee?” And: “I just want to be rich enough to not be motivated by money.” And: “I could probably still get laid in Crocs.”

The tweets made Lefevre’s account a viral phenomenon. As of last night, he’s sitting on a cool 651,000 followers, which, for the sake of comparison, is 515,000 more people than the actual Goldman Sachs account can boast. The firm, of course, wasn’t pleased with the gag. According to The Times, Goldman executives even launched an internal investigation to uncover the mole’s true identity.

But surprise, surprise — the man behind the curtain did not work at Goldman Sachs. Lefevre, a 34-yearold former Citigroup employee, has never been employed at the firm.

For his part, Lefevre told the Times that he started the account as a “joke” to entertain himself.

From his perspective, the tweets were wry one-liners aimed at skewering Wall Street culture, not fac-

tual descriptions.

Still, DealBook editor Andrew Ross Sorkin presented the situation as an issue of authenticity, writing that the MARISSA incident under“conMEDANSKY scored cerns about the veracity of what Little Fables is published and the identity of authors.”

In an article published earlier this week, Lefevre responded to these claims. “I’ve always expected to be outed,” he wrote on Business Insider. “Any person who actually thought my Twitter feed was literally about verbatim conversations overhead in the elevators of Goldman Sachs is an idiot.”

That candor is what helped make Lefevre an Internet sensation.

Twitter is home to many a parody account, but few ever stick. What distinguished GS Elevator was its authorial voice: a frank blend of excess and inhibition, or something akin to a cross between Tucker Max and Jay Gatsby. That voice struck a nerve after being smartly repackaged with the neon Goldman banner.

Good timing also helped. Lefevre started the account back in 2011, during the throes of the Occupy movement. Those protestors eventually dispersed, but public demand

persisted for bankers on their baddest behavior. Movies like “Wolf of Wall Street” fueled that fire, and the three-year reign of GS Elevator serves as testament to its enduring glow. (Remember, three years is an eternity in Internet time.)

THOUGHTS ON THE UNVEILING OF @GSELEVATOR'S IDENTITY Much can be said of GS Elevator’s particular popularity at Yale, where many a future analyst has attempted to sublimate his or her anxiety into the stuff of well timed retweets.

Here, perhaps more than elsewhere, these things resonate. A good chunk of Yalies pursue careers in consulting and finance — around 14 percent, in recent years — and at least some are destined to one day push buttons in that Goldman Sachs elevator.

This is not about Goldman or finance per se. There are other elevators in other places, like the White House and The New York Times or any comparable house of power.

To arrive there is an accomplishment, not an intrinsic moral failing.

This is to say that you must be the

change you wish to see in the Goldman Sachs elevator. At its best, GS Elevator inspires these moments of internal reflection, whether through sheer revulsion or the shame of selfacknowledgment.

But at its worst the account perpetuates less benign behavior. Many of its jokes are infused with tones of racism, classism and sexism. Plagiarism, too: At Gawker, Sam Biddle found that Lefevre had lifted jokes from other Twitter comedians. And I’ll confess a personal slight: I’ve actually been blocked from following the account for upwards of a year now, probably because I once tweeted a forgettable and likely pretty lame response to one of its posts. That burn still stings.

Yesterday, likely due to a combination of all of these sins, Lefevre lost his book deal with Simon & Schuster. But in the spirit of the account he created, the man remains undeterred. His book, he has tweeted, is still coming. And he has responded to his detractors in the familiar tone of his account.

This ambition, corrupted and caricatured, lies at the center of the world Lefevre depicts, and perhaps, to some extent, his own actions. But in purer form, the lesson is a good one — once you fall off an elevator, you get right back on.

MARISSA MEDANSKY is a junior in Morse College and a former opinion editor for the News. Her columns run on alternate Fridays. Contact her at

GUEST COLUMNIST YIFU DONG

Reflecting on terror

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ou are never told what really happened. You are only made to hate in confusion, fear in confusion, live in confusion and die in confusion.” Among the millions of comments after the terrorist attack in Kunming last Saturday, no one said it better than a reporter in this popular quote.

On the night of March 1, eight terrorists stormed the Kunming Railway Station, in southern China’s Yunnan Province. They attacked civilians indiscriminately with knives, leaving 29 dead and 143 wounded in a span of 12 minutes.

Although the authorities have been careful not to emphasize the identity of the attackers as extremists from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, many Chinese people are fully aware that something is gravely wrong with ethnic relations in the country.

The general population has limited knowledge of the history of contemporary Xinjiang; official propaganda focuses primarily on the “peaceful liberation” of Xinjiang in 1950, though it also mentions fighting bandits in the region. Over 10 million Uyghurs, a Muslim people, currently live in Xinjiang, mak-

ing up 45 percent of the population.

In the past several years violent incidents have erupted, and most Western media outlets place blame on the repressive policies in Xinjiang. But most Chinese people do not know about the troubles caused by ethnic policies in the region. Immediately after the attack, hate messages flooded the Internet. Uyghurs cannot enter hotels and cannot pass security checkpoints on highways in many parts of China. “Xinjiang” and “Uyghur” are closely associated with “terrorist” in popular vocabulary, although propaganda emphasizes that Xinjiang is an inseparable part of China and that all ethnic groups live in harmony.

Beyond the fear and hatred, a surprising number of people refuse to reflect. As I jot down my thoughts, I can imagine the cold stares and nasty words some of my countrymen would offer in response to my attempted reflection. They simply deem rational discussions irrelevant. After all, many of them were the mindless ones in China who applauded 9/11. Now that the blades feel closer to their necks, they finally agree to grieve at terrorist attacks, some going as far as calling for eth-

nic cleansing on the Internet, but still refuse to reflect on the reasons behind the tragedy. Constant censorship — or harmonization, as we optimistic teenagers like to call it — has successfully bred a rejection of reason and truth. Sadly, sometimes ignorance can really be the strength in China, but people also have a right and a responsibility to know about the problems our country faces.

One of the authorities’ most effective approaches to problem solving, of course, is to cover up and pretend to have no problems.

On Wednesday, when the annual National People’s Congress and Political Consultative Conference convened in Beijing, public attention needed to be directed away from the terrorist attack. So official media outlets immediately capped the terrorist attack with the good news in two short paragraphs: two days after the attack, the three fleeing terrorists were finally captured.

Although first deeply disturbed by the bloody images I saw on the Internet, I felt fortunate to have viewed them before countless such posts were censored on the Internet.

In this way, the case is sealed, with no follow-ups on the victims

or the terrorists, let alone the bigger issues that are even beginning to trouble ordinary people. As one Kunming residence asked the question shared by millions of Chinese people, “What had aroused so much hatred in the terrorists that they would commit such an act?”

Unfortunately, such questions can only be asked, not answered.

Chinese people will continue to “live in confusion” and “die in confusion,” as the popular quote goes.

The majority of people in cities and countryside alike suffer from air pollution, worry about food safety and experience economic insecurity. Underprivileged people can only suffer, little by little, through a chronic confusion that they cannot overcome.

Now, as the cold stares shine with hatred and the lips blurt out profanities, accusing me of writing “illegal” reflections, I can only smile and acknowledge that whatever they are saying will be mainstream for a while. If only someone can give us a better answer.

YIFU DONG is a freshman in Branford College. Contact him at yifu.dong@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST SCOTT REMER

Tackling the hardest subject “K

now thyself.” Inscribed at the Oracle at Delphi, it’s hard to know exactly what to make of the ancient aphorism — is it an invitation, a command, a challenge? We come into the world knowing nothing of anything. As we grow older, our knowledge of the world blossoms, but our self-understanding accumulates slowly. By the time we come to Yale, most of us can recite the quadratic formula and periodic table, but how many Yalies know the specific gravity of serenity or how to define success?

We often gain self-knowledge indirectly.

When we investigate the external world in labs, we examine ourselves slantwise.

Learning about the world is a way of learning how we can better to relate to it. The books we read and movies we watch can spark us to rethink our lives by forcing us to consider how we relate to the characters and scenarios they present to us.

Despite these possible avenues for selfexamination, we never get much of a formal education in sorting through our feelings.

As people uncomfortable with not knowing a surefire algorithm for resolving problems, it’s tempting to bury ourselves in academics, work, extracurriculars and TV marathons as a way to avoid confronting our innermost desires.

Even if we were given explicit instructions, the quest for self-understanding is hardly a cakewalk. Life constantly changes, and our yearnings ebb and flow along with it. On any given day, we experience countless flashes of irritation, lust, joy or sadness — sometimes prompted by the world, sometimes out of the blue. Many times, these stirrings don’t dovetail with our “true selves,” who we imagine we would be if we could remove ourselves from the tumult of the world.

Traditionally, self-knowledge has been associated with this kind of solitude. Aristotle and Plato preached the virtues of contemplation. The Romantics sang the praises of nature and solitary walks. Buddhists, Daoists and Hindus practice forms of meditation to cultivate inner awareness, and Christians, Jews and Muslims have longstanding traditions of asceticism.

As Yalies, we might throw in a spritz of meditation here and a yoga class there, but we’re too busy to engage in the sustained reflection our ancestors recommended.

With lives filled with classes, meetings, lunch and dinner appointments, and more meetings, the idea of taking time to think about ourselves seems quaint and selfindulgent.

This is a problem — meditation and contemplation are essential for self-knowledge — but I think we should question the idea that turning inwards will magically create clarity. It assumes that the self is a harmonious whole and that this self needs to be dug out from layers of encrusted custom through a period of hermitlike isolation. Philosophers today talk about the “problem of other minds” like we could exist apart from other people. But we are social animals, and as psychological research has demonstrated, everyone has a little bit of the chameleon lurking within. The desires swirling within us are largely socially conditioned, and we can be different people in different social contexts. Perhaps this is why person comes from the Latin for “an actor’s mask.”

In Hamlet, Polonius declares, “To thine own self be true.” Using the traditional definition of the self and traditional methods of self-knowing, this might be impossible to fully achieve. We don’t live as atomic islands of individuality. We depend upon others.

We swim in a sea of ideas, memories and traditions. Colleges like Yale exist because knowledge is a collective endeavor.

Truth springs from communion with others. Other people bring out different aspects of ourselves, like a clapper drawing out a bell’s hidden resonances. They often understand us better than we do ourselves: One of the best ways of sorting through the messiness of human existence is to mull things over with friends and family.

As in all things, balance is key. The truth lies somewhere in the middle; we need community, but we also need time alone to recharge and become attuned to the quiet voice that speaks within us. Spring break offers us the perfect opportunity to reevaluate our choices, to rebalance ourselves. Have we structured our non-vacation lives to include both quiet contemplation and time to connect with friends and loved ones?

We must also bring aspects of vacation into the school year. Yale is hectic, but we must build time into our daily routine to replenish our energies and tackle the most difficult subject — ourselves — head on.

SCOTT REMER is a sophomore in Pierson College. Contact him at scott.remer@yale.edu.

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FROM THE FRONT

“Let justice be done, though the world perish.” FERDINAND I HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR

Police officers bring civil rights to court CIVIL RIGHTS FROM PAGE 1

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The New Haven 10 case, regarding allegations of racism in the New Haven Police Department, will be brought to trial April 25.

Grading change delayed COLLEGES FROM PAGE 1 juniors and would not provide the incoming freshmen — who would belong to the two new residential college communities — with the traditional residential college experience.

I don’t think it’s wise for a committee to be making those determinations now.

MARY MILLER Dean, Yale College “You can just imagine the complexity of not having a dining hall, not having a college,” Miller said. “You might have a master and dean, but all the great advantages lie waiting.”

The last major expansion of the college system was the addition of Morse and Stiles colleges in the 1960s. University Provost Benjamin Polak noted that today’s University was enormously impacted by that change and called the future addition of new students

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“transformative.”

The committee, co-chaired

by Polak and Miller, presented “key areas of focus” to the faculty meeting. The planned agenda included the timing of the expansion, increased demand for gateway classes and the anticipated constraints on extracurricular resources.

Polak added that some details still need finalizing, including the possibility of extra shuttles up Prospect Street, the need for more rehearsal spaces and organizing sections of large classes like “Introductory Microeconomics.”

Miller said the University is still waiting on part of a subcommittee report on how to best restructure discussion sections in light of the expansion, since graduate students will be scarce for teaching fellow positions.

School of Engineering Dean Kyle Vanderlick presented a proposal for a joint body of deans, provosts and graduate and professional students to communicate quickly at the beginning of each semester as need for teaching fellows is negotiated.

Miller, who is stepping down

this summer, said the next Yale College Dean will manage the transfer of upperclassmen to the new residential colleges.

“I don’t think it’s wise for a committee to be making those determinations now,” Miller said, adding that students should be part of the brainstorming process.

Committee member and music professor Gundula Kreuzer said Thursday’s meeting was the last open forum for faculty input on the issue, although suggestions via email would still be considered. She added that she anticipates the committee’s report to be ready by the end of the semester.

While Miller emphasized that financial aid will grow to accommodate the larger student body, she admitted that the funds will increasingly have to come out of annual alumni donations.

At the meeting, the faculty also voted to postpone a vote on changing grading for independent studies from letter grades to a written report.

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ments, according to its founding document “By taking responsibility for our advancement and liberation and accepting accountability for it, whether those on the peripheral or outside community assist or not, we will do it and take the lead for it,” Mathis added.

Local attorney John Williams, who is representing the defendants, said that the timing of the New Haven 10 case is particularly interesting, as it comes on the heels of Ricci v. DeStefano, another civil rights case in New Haven that was decided by the United States Supreme Court in June 2009.

Ricci v. DeStefano was brought to court after a similar promotional exam within the New Haven Fire Department on which 17 Caucasian firefighters and one Hispanic firefighter received the highest marks, while no African-American firefighters did.

Though the city claims to not have been engaging in discriminatory employment practices, the United States Supreme Court ruled that New Haven acted outside the law, forcing the city to pay millions of dollars in legal fees and reparations, Williams said.

“Fear of litigation alone cannot justify the city’s reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions,” the Supreme Court’s official ruling reads.

Williams added that, before the New Haven 10 case was launched, the city’s Civil Service Board voted to approve the results of the NHPD’s exam for only one year instead of the usual two, in light of the Ricci v. DeStefano ruling and the fact that no Hispanic officers had garnered high marks.

This means the results of the examination had expired before Williams’ clients could be promoted, leading them to seek litigation for unfair employment

practices.

“We feel that this is a pretty close carbon copy of the Ricci case,” Williams said. “We filed a complaint with the State Civil Rights Commission, hoping that the city of New Haven would come to it and settle the case. In fact, the city refused to negotiate and took the position that they were standing along with what they did.”

City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer and attorney Nicole Chomiak, who is representing the city, declined to comment so as not to interfere with the proceedings of pending litigation.

Fear of litigation alone cannot justify the city’s reliance on race to the detriment of individuals.

RICCI V. DESTEFANO U.S. Supreme Court opinion, 2009 Mayor Toni Harp has the ability to agree to a settlement and end the case immediately, something that Williams said he hopes will happen, but cannot predict. He concluded that there is little reason to believe that New Haven has worse racial discrimination than any other city, and that his clients have continued their duties as public safety officers as the case continues.

“I think it is always a desirable thing to achieve the goal without breaking the law to have your public institutions reflect the community,” he said. “It makes them more sensitive to the community and it inspires such trust that the people are being heard.”

14 firefighters were promoted as a result of the Ricci decision.

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

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A teaser on the front page incorrectly stated that Barack Obama spoke in Hartford, Conn. In fact, he spoke in New Britain.

Asian-American students talk mental health

BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER On Thursday night, approximately 25 members of the Yale community gathered at the Asian-American Cultural Center to discuss how mental health is a taboo subject in the AsianAmerican community.

According to Karen Zheng ’16, an Asian-American Studies cocoordinator at the AACC, the event was intended to be a facilitated discussion on the mental health experiences of AsianAmericans at Yale. The evening featured Dr. Jenn Fang, a postdoc at the Yale School of Medicine who has done personal research on mental illness and blogs for reappropriate.com, the first Asian-American feminist blog. After Fang’s presentation, attendees discussed their own experiences with mental illness and encounters with counseling at Yale.

According to Fang, AsianAmericans report symptoms of depression more frequently than caucasians, but they are 50 percent less likely to seek help for these symptoms. At Cornell University, where Fang was an undergraduate, 13 out of the 21 suicides that took place between 1996 and 2006 were committed

by Asian-Americans, she said.

Still, Fang said people do not talk about this issue often enough.

“It’s hard to find data on our community,” Fang said, adding that there are few scientific studies documenting mental illness in Asian-Americans.

Although Fang does not have academic training in clinical psychology or mental illness, she said these issues affect her personally. Many of her family members suffered from mental illness, and her grandfather killed himself before she was born, she said. More recently, her mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, an affliction that Fang said went undiagnosed — and then misdiagnosed as depression — for years.

Fang and other students who spoke at the event agreed that there is a culture of silence in the Asian-American community that exacerbates the stigma against both having a mental illness and talking about mental illness.

Fang said the only person with whom her mother is willing to talk to about her sickness is her general practitioner. Fang said she has only spoken with her mother about the illness once, and her mother still has not seen a mental health professional.

Similarly, students at the event who shared their personal stories said it was nearly impossible to talk to their parents about their illnesses and to make them understand.

Students also voiced dissatisfaction with the University’s mental health resources and treatment procedures, telling personal stories of how the University failed to help manage their symptoms. One student mentioned that, despite the fact that half of all Yale students seek mental counseling at some point during their undergraduate careers, the wait time to see a counselor can vary from one to

four months. The same student suggested that some counselors see patients not to help them, but rather because they care about their image.

Fang questioned whether Yale’s resources, adequate or not, were relevant to AsianAmerican students in the community, as the University’s recommendations may not take into account the cultural context of the patient’s issues.

At the end of the discussion, Fang said the situation at Yale sounded worse than she had imagined, especially compared to Cornell’s handling of mental health, where the issue is a high priority. She urged students to take action and tell their stories directly to the administration.

“I think it’s important to organize and get students in the room with administrators,” Fang said.

“Get them to start acknowledging that this is a problem. That’s already a huge step.”

Zheng said she thinks the event was successful, both in contributing to the conversation about mental health at Yale and in relating discussions of the topic to the Asian American community. Zheng said she feels strongly about mental health, adding that it affects the AsianAmerican community in particular because of the tendency toward self-concealment and the cultural stigma against seeking help.

AACC Director and Assistant Dean of Yale College Saveena Dhall said the center hosted this discussion and other similar events in order to help students de-stress and talk about a subject that is not frequently addressed. “[We’re] invested in making sure we’re providing spaces and conversation opportunities with various events,” Dhall said in an email. “Furthermore, in recent years, students have been more open to having conversations about how it impacts their lives, ways we can offer support, and how to normalize these conversations within our community and in general.”

Andrew Chun ’15, a peer liaison for the AACC who attended the event, said he thinks these discussions are important because Asian-Americans face a lot of risk factors for mental illness, such as low socioeconomic status, discrimination, language barriers with parents and familial pressure to succeed. However, he said he is optimistic because the community attitude toward mental illness seems to be changing.

“Something that’s really encouraging is how many AsianAmerican students speak with their parents about mental health illnesses and seeing their parents respond with understanding,” Chun said in an email. “As a society, we’re growing to accept these disorders as products of genetics and external forces, not as signs of weakness.”

Earlier this academic year, Fang gave talks on mental health at the Intercollegiate TaiwaneseAmerican Students Association 2014 East Coast Conference and at the AACC. Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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Members of the community met at the Asian-American Cultural Center to discuss taboos and risk factors surrounding mental illness.

Malloy moves to protect SNAP

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER Governor Malloy’s move to protect the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits from federal cuts has won praise from hunger activists and spurred imitation

by New York, Pennsylvania and other states.

The Farm Bill, signed by President Obama on Feb. 7, reduced spending on SNAP by targeting 15 “heat-and-eat states,” including Connecticut, where beneficiaries of the LowIncome Heating and Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) automatically qualify for SNAP. The Farm Bill raised the minimum LIHEAP benefit necessary to qualify for SNAP from $1 to $20.01, making 50,000 families statewide ineligible for food assistance. The governor announced on Feb. 24 that he would raise the minimum benefit to meet the new standard, which will adapt to the policy and mean that no families in Connecticut lose their SNAP benefits.

“Malloy responded very quickly to protect the most vulnerable citizens that we have in the state,” said Mary Ingarra, communications director at the Connecticut Food Bank.

“There’s about 2.4 million meals that he saved every month.”

The benefit increase will cost $1.4 million and preserve $66.6 million in SNAP benefits, according to a statement from the governor’s office. A total of 227,000 Connecticut households are enrolled in SNAP. Nicole Berube, executive director of CitySeed, a New Haven nonprofit that works to expand low-income people’s access to healthy food, said she was pleased by the governor’s move. She said New Haven is particularly affected by food insecurity compared to other cities, with 36,000 residents on SNAP. The Farm Bill cuts would have taken away $112 in monthly

benefits from each affected family.

“That’s no small change,” Berube said. “That’s the difference between a child not eating dinner the night before he gets to school for a lot of families.”

Across the state, 149,000 of 424,000 SNAP beneficiaries are children.

Though the economy has been gradually improving since the 2008 recession, Ingarra said food insecurity has not declined accordingly. Persistent high unemployment and benefit cuts have increased the need for assistance from nonprofits like the Connecticut Food Bank.

Ingarra said that in 2012, just under half a million state residents reported chronic food insecurity, defined as frequently being unsure of whether they would be able to eat their next meal. In 2013, that figure had risen to just over half a million.

Rick Durance, assistant to the executive director at the Community Soup Kitchen on Broadway, said the kitchen served 7.5 percent more meals in 2013 than in 2012, as the first round of SNAP cuts took effect. So far in 2014, traffic has been down, but Durance thinks the decline is not due to improvements in the economy or food security.

“Folks can’t even get to the soup kitchen here because it’s still so cold,” Durance said. “The weather conditions are so bad that people just can’t even come in whether they want to or not.”

Durance feels that this situation underscores the need for programs like SNAP, which enable people to find food for themselves rather than relying on soup kitchens or food pantries, which might not always be conveniently located.

Rachel Sheffield, a policy analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said Malloy was wrong to raise the minimum LIHEAP benefit to prevent the SNAP cuts from taking effect.

She said the move undermined

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Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has fought hard to save food stamp benefits from federal cuts in the most recent Farm Bill. efforts to reduce enrollment in SNAP, which is paid for by the federal government, causing it to rise dramatically instead.

“States aren’t accountable for these dollars,” Sheffield said.

“They’re not paying [for] any of it, so they don’t have a problem with boosting the food stamp amount.”

David Dearborn, communications director at the Department of Social Services, said in an email that Malloy’s move protects benefits while maintaining full compliance with federal law.

Malloy announced the initiative to protect SNAP benefits a week before the release of a Quinnipiac University poll

that found him in a dead heat against Republican challenger Tom Foley.

“Addressing the issues of poverty, hunger, joblessness and homelessness are all key to creating a better future for Connecticut by improving the social and economic health of our state,” Chris Cooper, spokesman for the Foley campaign, said in an email. “Those issues will be a central focus of a Foley administration.”

Nationwide, 850,000 households could lose SNAP benefits due to the Farm Bill.

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

CT students call for DREAM

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER HARTFORD — Junior Sierra, a junior at Brien McMahon High School, stood before 75 activists, three TV cameras and a half dozen media outlets, grinning from behind a microphone.

“My name is Junior Sierra, and I am undocumented and unapologetic,” he began.

He proceeded to explain the ways in which his immigration status has stunted his educational opportunities—notably, he will not be eligible for needbased financial aid from any public college or university in Connecticut.

Sierra is part of Connecticut Students for a Dream (C4D), a grassroots organization comprised of students and activists that works to provide undocumented students with access to higher education. The Legislature passed The Connecticut DREAM Act in 2011, allowing undocumented Connecticut students to pay in-state tuition at public universities. But the law does not address the issue of financial aid.

Many undocumented students cannot afford to pay full in-state tuition, and because they do not possess social security numbers, they cannot apply for need-based aid from colleges and universities using the FAFSA. “I’m tired of seeing students with so much potential drop out, or have to work three jobs, because they can’t afford higher education,” said Lucas Codognolla, the director of C4D. “The community is still faced with the issue of college affordability.”

C4D launched its “Afford to Dream” campaign at a highenergy press conference Thursday morning at the Center for Latino Progress overlooking downtown Hartford, in order to pressure the state’s Board of Regents of Higher Education to extend institutional need-based aid to undocumented students.

The organization had originally tried to push legislation [that would allow undocumented students access to institutional aid], but the bill

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Undocumented students have gone public in order to defend the DREAM Act. stalled in committee, said C4D activist Kenneth Reveiz. Now, they are petitioning the Board of Regents, which controls the state’s universities and community colleges.

After the rally, students and activists drove to the Board of Regents office and submitted a rule-making petition requesting that public colleges and universities stop requiring students to provide their social security numbers to receive needbased aid from the institution.

They also presented the BOR with over 2,000 petition signatures, including 15 state legislators, over 50 community organizations, over 50 educators and over 25 student clubs – a collection of signatures that took them two months to compile.

“We want to end discriminatory barriers that prevent highachieving students from reaching their full potential,” Sierra said. “We fight as a community.”

Though individual members of the Board of Regents have been supportive of C4D’s pro-

posal, they have not taken action as a body, according to C4D Policy Coordinator and Founder Camila Bortolleto. The organization hopes to garner enough attention to encourage the Board to approve it. It has 30 days to make a decision.

Reveiz said he is hopeful that the University of Connecticut’s separate Board of Trustees will follow suit.

According to the Board, 15 percent of the tuition students pay goes toward financial aid for other students. Thus, undocumented students pay into the financial aid fund but cannot benefit from it, said Irini Anta LAW ’15, who works at the law school’s Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, who has worked with C4D since 2012.

Seventy-five activists, members of the press, local high school students and DREAMers were in attendance, chanting and cheering after every speaker.

“My name is Faye Philip, and I am undocumented and unafraid,” another activist began

as she approached the podium.

Philip, who is now 25, had to drop out of Norwalk Community College because she could not apply for financial aid.

She said going through high school knowing she could not afford college was very discouraging, citing the fact that one in six undocumented students drop out of high school.

She said that if Afford to Dream is successful, she could finally return to school.

“I was the first to graduate high school in my family, and I can and will be the first to graduate college,” she said. “Board of Regents: You have the ability to allow us to spread our wings and fly. Show us that dreaming is worth it.”

Four states currently offer institutional financial aid to undocumented students: Texas, California, New Mexico and Minnesota.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINATAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AMERICAN STATESMAN

Residents decry proposed tax increase BUDGET FROM PAGE 1 Larry Shanbrom offered a cautionary tale. After his business — West Haven Lumber Company — fell on hard times, Shanbrom could not afford to pay the property taxes he was incurring for his home on Prospect Street. He made the tough decision to move out of the city, where he has lived since 1949, and relocate to Milford.

“For the last three years my property taxes have accounted for 40 percent of my net income,” Shanbrom said. “I can no longer afford to live here.”

He asked the Board of Alders to not merely “rubber stamp” the mayor’s proposed $510.8 million budget, which calls for a 3.8 percent increase in property taxes.

Shanbrom offered an alternate solution: “cut staff, cut spending.”

That is the strategy a breakaway group of alders is pushing as well. Prior to Thursday’s meeting, the People’s Caucus — the six-member coalition critical of the labor-backed majority on the Board — circulated a list of 10 suggestions they allege would absorb the multi-million dollar rise in fixed costs, including pensions and debt service, without raising taxes.

Ward 19 Alder Mike Stratton, one of the caucus’ main organiz-

ers, held a short information session following the general hearing to pitch some of those ideas.

These include fighting for additional Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) from the state and nonprofit organizations, boosting taxes for property owners who live outside the city and combining or eliminating many city departments, as well as conducting sweeping layoffs in what Stratton described as “needless administrative positions.”

The most original of the solutions concerns a piece of city spending that has been hidden in the budget for decades, Stratton said. He estimated that the city is spending $50 million on health benefits for teachers and administrators in the school district — money not currently counted within the city’s contribution to the school district.

Debt service and workers’ compensation payments drive the city’s contribution up to roughly $85 million. Stratton said the city should take that money back and force the school district to cover those costs.

But Board President Jorge Perez and City Controller Daryl Jones said they were skeptical of Stratton’s claim that education spending has not been correctly appraised in the city’s budget.

Altogether, Stratton said, the solutions he proposed could save

the city up to $105 million and enable a mill rate — the calculation of taxes based on assessed property value — of as low as 25. It currently stands at 40.80, meaning a homeowner pays $40.8 for every $1,000 of assessed value.

“I don’t see the logic behind these proposals,” Jones said of the People’s Caucus’ fiscal plan. “Our budget is backed up by facts, it’s fully fleshed out.”

Dissent among the alders themselves also emerged during the hearing. When Edward Bednar asked if the lawmakers respond to public testimony or merely listen, Stratton deferred to the committee’s chair, Andrea JacksonBrooks, before announcing that he would stay after to share his thoughts about the budget with constituents. His comments drew a sharp rebuke from JacksonBrooks, who told him he was “out of line.”

During his informal follow-up meeting, Stratton told constituents that an electoral strategy is necessary to “beat these people back in 2015.” Jackson-Brooks is among the majority coalition of alders elected with the backing of Yale’s UNITE HERE unions, Locals 34 and 35.

After the meeting, Perez said that he understands the aversion to raising taxes. “We feel the pain, too,” Perez said, promising to “look really hard to see what we

Yale acquires Google Glass GOOGLE FROM PAGE 1 lection, it would be a really interesting collaborative opportunity to see what faculty, students [and] staff could do with it,” said Tom Bruno, associate director for resource sharing and reserves for the library.

Bruno said he received an invitation to purchase the device last summer after expressing interest to Google.

The library, STC and ITG are sharing the $1,500 cost of the product, he said.

According to Bruno, representatives of the library, STC and ITG will meet next week to discuss the criteria for evaluating student and faculty proposals for projects involving Google Glass.

Though there is only one device available at the moment, Bruno said Bass may be able to add another Google Glass to its collection later this year. If so, a device may be available for general circulation as early as the fall, he said.

“We hope to be able to add more devices sooner rather than later because there’s already been a lot of interest,” Bruno said. “As Google Glass becomes more mainstream, we expect to it to be just part of the regular rotation of things that go out of the Bass media collection.”

With a frenzy of application development currently underway, Bruno said possibilities abound for Google

Glass. Students and faculty could take advantage of any number of the device’s features, including the capability to take video footage, creating a first-person immersive experience for viewers.

We hope to be able to add more devices sooner rather than later because there’s already been a lot of interest.

TOM BRUNO Associate director, Bass Library Bruno said that depending on the availability of the device, library-specific uses may be developed this summer. For instance, librarians could wear the device to view citation and location information to find books more efficiently. They could also save time by scanning materials on site with a first-person scan-and-deliver application, he said.

“Aside from the definite potential that faculty and students are going to bring to it, I think the library is excited to be an equal partner in this as well, not just to loan the device out but also to see what we could do with it,” Bruno said.

Cindy Greenspun, access services information tech-

nology manager and a member of the disability services committee, said she believes Google Glass also has the capability to assist the disabled because it is hands-free and voice-activated. For the hearing-impaired, the device could employ a speech-totext application to provide a real-time transcript of what people are saying, she said.

Over the past year, news outlets such as the New York Times have reported on controversy surrounding Google Glass. According to critics, the device poses a privacy threat to society because of its ability to surreptitiously capture footage and immediately upload it. This summer, eight Congressmen sent a letter to Google demanding answers to privacy concerns. A London-based advocacy group called “Stop the Cyborgs” has campaigned for limits on where the device can be used, and some bars and casinos have banned the device.

Matthew Regan, senior academic technologist for ITG, said students and faculty who wish to use Yale’s Google Glass will be expected to follow Google’s published guide about how to use the device respectfully.

Google announced the technology behind Google Glass in April 2012.

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can do.”

Gerald Khan, a resident who gave testimony, likened the tax hike to “being kicked in the stomach.” He said he has testified year after year before the finance committee only to see his taxes continue to rise. He warned that if the mayor’s proposed tax increase goes through, by next year he may no longer be a New Haven homeowner.

New Haven is a depressed and dying city. We’re living in sin. I wish us all better times.

ADRIENNE LEWIS Resident, New Haven Others said that as their taxes have gone up, city services have degenerated. A handful of people pointed to the city’s incomplete response to the recent spate of snowstorms as evidence that the government is not meeting its reciprocal obligation to provide for public works and maintain roads and parks.

More than a dozen residents queried staff additions to the mayor’s office, asking why Harp is growing her own office while

asking taxpayers to pay more to foot the bill. Harp’s budget calls for the addition of about a dozen staff members and the elimination of six. The additions include six in the mayor’s office — such as a bilingual receptionist and a legislative director— as well as an assistant city/town clerk and two new senior-center directors, among others.

Meanwhile, budget watchdog Ken Joyner said, Harp has proposed cutting police and fire overtime and eliminating a tree trimmer from the city payroll.

Christine Bishop, who sits in the financial review and audit commission, blasted the personnel expansion, saying the budget does not outline their purpose, thus failing to justify the major expenditure.

“There are no goals outlined for this new [Office of Development and Policy],” Bishop said.

“If you want to spend $246,000 for salaries plus thousands on pensions and benefits, you would really think that the budget should mention what your lofty goals are.”

Harp has defended the new office by saying that it will be tasked with writing grants that will ultimately cover the cost of the added positions.

Residents appealed to the alders’ political interests, saying they would reward them at the

ballot boxes for voting against the mayor’s budget.

Adrienne Lewis offered the evening’s darkest appraisal of the city’s fate.

“New Haven is a depressed and dying city,” Lewis said. “We’re living in sin. I wish us all better times.”

Not everyone agreed with Lewis’ assessment; Dick Lyons said New Haven is as beautiful as he can remember it being. Multiple people testified about the state of the city’s parks — and asked alders to do more to preserve what they described as natural treasures.

Jones and Michael Harris ’15, Harp’s liaison to the Board, defended the budget following the hearing. Jones said further reduction to city departments are not possible. Harris added that the city’s staff has already been cut by 20 percent over the last 12 years.

Jones said a number of Stratton’s proposals, including the pension buy-back plan that would encourage workers to move to defined contribution, could run into legal problems.

The next two public hearings on the budget are scheduled for April 3 and May 1.

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

Housing moves online HOUSING FROM PAGE 1 conduct the lottery process in person to maintain transparency and preserve tradition.

According to Associate Dean of Physical Resources John Meeske, Berkeley College, Ezra Stiles College, Pierson College and Saybrook College will be using the full system this spring, while Branford College, Jonathan Edwards College, Morse College, Silliman College and Timothy Dwight College will be using limited versions of the system. Trumbull College, Davenport College and Calhoun College will not be using the new system this year.

“It was a challenge to design something that works for everyone, but [the new system] is flexible enough that it can accommodate everyone,” Meeske said.

Meeske said three or four different electronic housing systems of varying capabilities existed among the colleges last year, but it was difficult for the YCDO to maintain multiple systems. Other colleges did not use an online system at all, with some sticking post-it notes onto white boards with floorplans when students chose their suites.

After consulting Yale ITS about how to create a more centralized system, Meeske said the office decided to use StarRez, which has been successful at other universities. Yale Conference and Event Services had also already purchased the program for its own use. Director of Strategic Communications and former Dean of Saybrook Paul McKinley said StarRez offered the level of technological support and flexibility necessary to meet the needs of Yale’s housing process.

McKinley said a more centralized system will help the University implement any future largescale changes to undergraduate housing more efficiently. Information in each college’s system will be automatically sent to the Registrar’s Office and seeded into the Registrar’s software, rather than delivered in stages, Meeske said.

The new system also accommodates variations in each residential college’s housing process rules, architecture and suite configurations, McKinley said. Berkeley, for example, designates specific suites for sophomores, while housing options for sophomores in Pierson depend on the choices of seniors and juniors.

Because students will be able to see others forming or dissolving suite groups on the new system, Pierson Dean Amerigo Fabbri said the new system will hold students accountable in making decisions and reduce drama.

“It makes it public, rather than keeping it unspoken, which will help in the end,” Fabbri said.

“There will be hard feelings but [the new system] requires people to address the situation.”

Fabbri said the new system will also decrease the margin for error. In the past, student housing committees had to manually determine the number of students planning to live offcampus, the number of rooms required for each class and the number of required annexed rooms. These calculations will now be computerized, he said.

Administrators from the nine colleges using the system this semester said they have chosen to use the system in different ways.

Fabbri said Pierson is using the system for every step of the

housing process. Though the Pierson room draw will take place in the Pierson Dining Hall, Fabbri said the new system will keep track of which suites remain available as the draw progresses. If students bring their laptops to the room draw, they will be able to see suites disappear from the list as the draw progresses.

Trumbull Dean Jasmina Besirevic-Regan said she chose to keep Trumbull’s existing housing system, in part because it allowed her to start the housing process earlier in February to minimize stress for her students.

“The system they’re offering has bells and whistles, but I don’t need it,” Besirevic said.

“Sometimes, the simpler, the better, so my college has chosen to hold on to our own system and see how things go.”

McKinley said Calhoun chose to use its own, more familiar system because the Dean of Calhoun’s term only began in January. Davenport, he said, decided to see how the system works this year before implementing it.

Alexandra Krause ’15, cochair of TD’s housing committee and a former Production & Design Editor atthe News, said she supported her college’s decision to partially adopt the system while still conducting room selections manually.

“I think the manual way tends to work better because it allows for talks and negotiations,” Krause said. “You can talk to people to make sure you can still live with them.”

Approximately 87 percent of Yale’s 5,409 undergraduates live on campus.

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Peck Place students adjust to Yale

BY POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER Two months after a burst pipe caused severe damage to Peck Place School, the school’s elementary students and faculty members are adjusting to their temporary home at Yale West Campus.

In early January, a pipe burst at the public elementary school located in Orange, Conn. and the resulting water damage exposed asbestos in the adhesive holding down the floor tiles. Just last week, $109 million was allocated to continue renovations at Peck Place.

In the meantime, students and faculty are adjusting well to their unconventional school on West Campus.

Yale University agreed to house the students in Office Complex South at West Campus for the remainder of the school year so that Peck Place can undergo an emergency abatement and other renovations.

“The biggest challenge has been regaining a sense of normalcy in our new space,” Peck Place School Principal Eric Carbone said in an email. “We are so fortunate to have this space and would be lost without it.”

After the pipe burst, Yale facilities workers and Peck Place faculty members worked together to transform the office building into a school in less than three weeks, and students have since had to adjust to the larger and more open space.

One critical difference at West Campus, Carbone said, is that classrooms are not walled off, requiring teachers and students to transition to “open space teaching,” a system that he said gained popularity in the 1970s to promote a greater sense of community among students in different age groups. Dividers separate classrooms, but students can see and hear what is happening in surrounding classrooms.

Ellen Miller, a Special Education teacher at Peck Place, said teachers and students have learned to speak softer to avoid distracting other classrooms, but that overall the change has not negatively impacted student learning.

Yale’s three-story complex is also larger than the one-story Peck Place School building, so students and teachers have been forced to adjust to walking farther between classes, said Superintendent of Orange Public Schools Lynn McMullin. She added that teachers are not complaining about this change, noting the advantages it offers instead.

“They have tackled the change in space eagerly,” McMullin said.

“Adults teachers are saying they are getting good exercise by going up and down the stairs all day.”

She also noted some benefits of the new school building, such as private offices for each teacher where students can work one-on-one with tutors. At Peck Place, students would typically work with tutors in the corner of a classroom, but they now have a quieter space.

The recent funding allocated by the Orange Board of Selectman and Board of Finance will help them move onto Phase II of the abatement, which involves abating the remaining classrooms and library. So far they have already abated the 11 heavily impacted school classrooms.

McMullin said that the additional money will also go towards new floors, ceilings, paint, cabinetry, lighting and plumbing.

The school is hoping to complete the renovations by Aug. 1 to leave time for teachers to prepare their restored classrooms for a new school year.

Peck Place school was founded in 1969.

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

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The Peck Place School was given space in a building on West Campus, after a pipe burst led to damage in the school building.

After 2 years, Franke Program evolves

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER Though many Yale students view the humanities and the sciences as opposite ends of the academic spectrum, the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities promotes interdisciplinary academic experiences such as workshops on the philosophy of biology, or the overlap between physics and dance.

The program, which celebrated its second anniversary this month, has hosted various events and is now working to engage more undergraduates by developing an undergraduate fellowship program that had its first application deadline earlier this week.

“We’ve been putting together lots of programs that have filled lots of little niches,” said ornithology professor Richard Prum, the program’s director. “There’s no corner that we’re calling out of bounds.”

Prum said he is excited about continuing the program’s agenda of providing interdisciplinary opportunities for all levels of the University — but in particular, he is looking forward to attracting and engaging students from Yale College.

Towards this end, the Program initiated the Franke Undergraduate Fellowship this year, which provides funding to rising seniors interested in conducting interdisciplinary research that bridges the gap between the sciences and the humanities.

Prum also said he hopes the program’s events can bring together more Yale undergraduates who major in the sciences but want to satisfy their interests in the humanities, and vice versa.

“We’re eager to ensure that our programs are welcoming to undergraduates, and they’re going to continue to be a really important part of our planning and strategy,” Prum said.

Franke Program Assistant Director Justin Eichenlaub said that though the program has already hosted a variety of events, he and his colleagues still look at it as similar to a start-up company. In addition to holding lectures and workshops, Eichenlaub said, this year the program may also begin

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By focusing on engaging undergraduates, the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities hopes to expand interdisciplinary opportunities. hosting day-long events with an overarching topic, such as computers in the humanities.

Prum also noted that because 2014 will mark the anniversary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon, the program may sponsor a performance of an obscure, 19th-century symphony inspired by passenger

pigeons as part of a larger series on extinction.

Sarah Demers, an assistant physics professor and a member of the program’s Interdisciplinary Arts and Science Research Working Group, said the program has also tried to “support the art-science collaboration already in place on campus,”

particularly by sponsoring certain student theater productions. Though she acknowledged it can be difficult to work within the constrains of Yale’s packed calendar, she said the program has brought “an additional richness” to the existing sciencehumanities dynamic at Yale.

The Franke Program was

funded by a gift from Richard Franke ’53 and Barbara Franke, who wanted to foster interdisciplinary research between sciences and humanities. Though the program has a physical and administrative home at the Whitney Humanities Center, it receives no direct financial support from the Center and has

independent programming.

The next Franke Program event will be biology professor Gunter Wagner’s talk, “The Metaphysics of Homology: the Molecular Basis of Character Identity” on April 1.

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

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS EVA FABIAN ’16 The sophomore on Yale’s Swimming and Diving team will represent the Elis at the NCAA Championship meet, where she will compete in the 500- and 1,650-yard freestyle events. Fabian received first team all-Ivy honors in both of those events.

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The women’s basketball team will take on Harvard and Dartmouth on the road this weekend.

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The women’s basketball team enters its final weekend looking to close its season out on a high note against Harvard and Dartmouth on the road.

Yale (12–14, 6–6 Ivy) has an opportunity to finish its overall season at 0.500 and conference play with a winning record with wins this weekend. The Bulldogs are searching for their fifth straight top-four finish in the conference, and they have the opportunity to play spoiler in Harvard’s quest to finish at the top of the conference.

The Elis had a tough weekend against the top two teams in the conference last weekend, falling to Princeton 85–63 and Penn 62–48.

“We need to play better, and I would not want this team to have to finish the year on this kind of a note,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said following the team’s losses last weekend. “I hope we get it

together for [this] weekend.”

Looking to rebound from a pair of home losses, the Elis travel to Cambridge on Friday night to face Harvard (19–7, 9–3). The Cantabs have won the two teams’ last nine meetings, but Yale nearly came away with a win last time around, losing a narrow contest 58–57 on Feb. 8.

The Bulldogs will be facing a Harvard team that is riding a two-game winning streak following victories at Cornell and Columbia. The Elis will need to match the Crimson offense, which is currently the secondhighest scoring offense in the Ivy League. Harvard is averaging 71.4 points per game, compared to the 65.9 points that Yale puts up each night.

The difference can also be seen in their field goal percentages, with the Crimson shooting 42.6 percent to Yale’s 37.7. Both teams shoot well from behind the arc, with the Bulldogs averaging 34.3 percent from downtown against Harvard’s 34.0 percent. Yale lags

behind Harvard in number of rebounds per game, 38.5 to 43.4.

The Elis will need to watch out for Crimson forward Temi Fagbenle, who is the current Ivy League Player of the Week after averaging 21.5 points and 12.5 rebounds last weekend. Guard Christine Clark, the leading scorer in the Ivy League, will be another key contributor for Harvard.

The Bulldogs will then travel to Dartmouth (5–21, 2–10) on Saturday night for the final game of their season. The Big Green is looking to crawl its way out of last place in the Ivy League, although Yale dominated the last meeting between the two teams, winning 86–52 on Feb. 7.

Dartmouth, however, has been the only Ivy League team besides Princeton to defeat Penn, with a 53–50 win two weeks ago. The Bulldogs, on the other hand, lost 62–48 to the Quakers lasts weekend on Senior Night.

Yale looks to have the advantage across the board, as Dart-

Basketball: Will they or won’t they?

MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 mouth averages 57.1 points per game, a 28.6 shooting percentage from behind the arc and 32.0 rebounds per game. The Big Green, however, does shoot 39.2 percent from the field, which is slightly higher than the Elis’ shooting percentage.

The Bulldogs will need to watch for guard and forward Fanni Szabo, who leads Dartmouth with 13.4 points per game.

The Elis will be led by guard Sarah Halejian ’15, who is averaging 15.9 points per game, and they will be bolstered by forward Meredith Boardman ’16 in the paint, where she is averaging 5.8 rebounds per game.

“We hope to finish out the year strong against Harvard and Dartmouth,” Halejian said.

Yale will tip off against Harvard on Friday night at 7:00 p.m. before heading north to Dartmouth for the season finale on Saturday at 7:00 p.m.

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

MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12

give us their best shot.”

Yale has seen how dangerous teams can be when they are looking for revenge. Over the past two weekends, the Bulldogs have fallen victim to vengeful Columbia and Princeton squads, who each atoned for losses to the Bulldogs earlier in the season.

Head coach James Jones pointed out that the Bulldogs must contain the three-headed perimeter monster of Siyani Chambers, Brandyn Curry and Wesley Saunders. In the Elis’ win at Harvard, the trio combined to shoot just 13–32 from the field and assisted on just nine baskets between the three of them.

“We can’t have them have a 17-assist day. They [as a team] only had 12 assists on 23 baskets, that’s pretty good for us defensively,” Jones said.

Jones also highlighted transition defense and rebounding as two final keys to potentially toppling the Crimson once more. Offensively, Yale must also take care of the ball.

In the Bulldogs’ past two wins, they have averaged just 9.5 turnovers per game, versus 15 turnovers per game in Yale’s two most recent losses. Against the Crimson, Yale was incredibly fortunate to pick up the victory despite turning the ball over 19 times.

“We were a bit loose with the ball,” forward Matt Townsend ’15 said. “We have talked about taking care of the ball. We got called for a lot of travels. We’ve been working on sharpening up that footwork so we don’t get called for many of those.”

It is important to note that Harvard has stepped its game up considerably since the wake-up call from the Elis a month ago. The Crimson has won its past five outings by an average of 22.6 points, and only one of those five opponents managed to score more than 47 points against a resurgent Harvard defense.

Root ’14 said. “If we get a chance to score some power play goals, that will help us with momentum.”

On the defensive side, the Bulldogs should have little trouble with Harvard. Yale has allowed just 2.55 goals per game in conference games, good for fifth in the ECAC. Harvard’s offense, however, is anemic, tying for last in the conference with just two goals per game.

In their three games against each other this season, Harvard put up a total of five goals, while the Elis registered five goals in each of their victories over the Crimson.

“They’re [still] a very dangerous offensive team. They have a lot of skill,” Root said. “We need to make sure we take that away, and hopefully that’ll translate into offense for us.”

Should the Bulldogs win this series, they will likely face No. 6 Quinnipiac in a rematch of last year’s national championship game.

The men’s basketball team will host Harvard on Friday and Dartmouth on Saturday.

If Yale can dig down deep and outlast its rival again tonight, the Bulldogs will move on to Senior Night on Saturday, when they would look to keep their NCAA tournament hopes alive with a victory over a struggling Dartmouth squad.

In the last meeting between the Elis and the Big Green on Feb. 7, Yale came out on top 67–54. Since that defeat, Dartmouth has only managed to scrape together one win in seven outings.

Of course, even if Yale pulls off the two victories, the team will have to pray that when it returns to the locker room Saturday night, it will see that Brown has defeated Harvard.

Even if the Bulldogs cannot pull off the improbable comeback,

Yale needs only one win this weekend to clinch sole possession of second place in the Ancient Eight.

At this point, Sears and company are more focused on taking care of business than paying attention to the possible scenarios.

“We need to come out strong,” Sears said. “It’s great that we’re at home now. We’re going to have the fans on our side. We know the rims here. I think as long as we’re relaxed and we go out there and play Yale basketball, we’ll be good this weekend.”

Tonight’s tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .

new 60 percent save percentage. Defenseman Michael Quinn ’16, a preseason All-American honorable mention, leads the unit with nine ground balls and five controlled takeaways.

Fellow starters Chris Keating ’17 and captain Jimmy Craft ’14 will have to be on their toes going into a matchup with the fourth-highest scoring offence in the nation. The Bulldogs held a similarly offensively skilled St. Johns’ team to just six goals in Yale’s opening game.

“We are going to have to do a great job of communicating on Saturday,” Quinn said. “This Fairfield team is extremely talented, and they have great chemistry on offense, so making sure on offense that we communicate and trust each other are going to be keys to coming out with a W.” The previously 17th-ranked Stags already have a pair of double-digit goal scorers in attackmen Eric Walden and Tristan Sperry, who have tallied 12 and

10 goals respectively. Fairfield, which has a 0.422 faceoff percentage, has lost two straight games after being unable to come back from 6-3 and 10-4 deficits at halftime against Providence and Hofstra, respectively.

Yale has won all seven of its matchups with the Stags since the series began, including last season’s 12–8 win, which included a four-point afternoon from Mangan and a dominating performance from Levings at the faceoff.

“We need to be tough on ground balls, make the best out of our shooting opportunities and play physical in order to get a win on Saturday,” Mangan said. “As long as we execute what we worked on all week in practice and shoot the ball better than last week, we should be in good shape.”

The Bulldogs take on the Stags at 3:00 p.m. in Fairfield on Saturday.

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

Whale of a time ahead at Ingalls

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The men’s lacrosse team won its first two games of the season, against St. John’s and Bryant.

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The men’s hockey team finished tied for fifth in the ECAC during the reguBut Allain said that the team is not looking past Harvard.

“Our focus is on Friday night’s game,” Allain said. “[For me], that’s the only game in the universe on Friday night. I see that game in a vacuum.”

The puck drops at Ingalls Rink on Friday and Saturday at 7:00 p.m. If necessary, the third game would start Sunday at 7:00 pm.

Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, MARCH 7 12:00 p.m. “The Living Side of Dead Wood: Animals, Fungi and Their Environmental Responses.” The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and the Environmental Studies Center are sponsoring Mark Bradford, assistant professor at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, as part of their Friday Noon Seminar Series. There will be a light lunch to accompany Professor Bradford’s discussion on the terrestrial ecosystem. Free to the general public. Class of 1954 Environmental Sciences Center (21 Sachem St.), Rm. 110.

7:00 p.m. “Mes Potes” “Mes Potes” is a short film about encounters and friendship. The filmmaker journeyed among different households in Paris for interviews, giving their inhabitants a simple task: to present a friend. The film begins with a fifth-grade elementary school boy named Arthur. This child presents his friend Louis, and Louis presents another friend of his.

This continuation of interviews provides the basis for the film: a chain of friendships. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Rm. 203.

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The men’s hockey team will host a first round ECAC tournament series against Harvard this weekend.

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER A week after the Yale women’s hockey team battled Harvard in the opening round of the ECAC tournament, the men will take the ice this weekend in a best-ofthree series against the Crimson.

But this series carries widespread implications as the No. 16 Bulldogs look to keep their hopes of an NCAA Tournament bid alive.

The Elis (15–9–5, 10–8–4

ECAC) finished tied for fifth in the ECAC, but a tiebreaker relegated them to the sixth seed and a date with the Crimson (10–15–4, 6–12–4). But a two-point weekend, highlighted by a 5–0 victory on Senior Night against RPI, has head coach Keith Allain ’80 feeling optimistic.

“We haven’t seen the points we like to see, but the last two weekends we’ve played pretty well in both games,” Allain said. “That’s really what you want to do: You

want to control and play your game. Over the course of time, we’ll get the wins.”

For the Bulldogs, there are two routes that would lead to a bid into the NCAA tournament. One is winning the ECAC conference tournament, which would ensure a bid. The other is to earn an atlarge spot through finishing high enough in the PairWise rankings.

Only 16 teams will make college hockey’s version of March Madness, and right now the Elis

sit in 19th. But because each conference receives an automatic slot in the tournament, Yale will almost assuredly need to finish higher than 16th in order to make it.

Before the squad can start dreaming about defending its national title, it must first make it past the 11th-seeded Crimson this weekend at Ingalls Rink.

The two teams have already clashed three times this season, with Harvard pulling out a tie in

the first matchup and the Bulldogs dominating each of the last two games.

“We feel as though we have a pretty good understanding of what their game is, what their strengths are and what we have to watch out for,” Allain said.

In addition to the experience of playing the Crimson, the Bulldogs have another advantage: a lack of injuries. Allain said last Thursday’s practice was the first time all year that every player was

healthy enough to skate.

A major matchup to keep an eye on is on the power play.

Though the Bulldogs rank third in the conference when enjoying a man advantage, scoring on 20 of 93 opportunities in conference games, the Crimson ranks second at penalty kills, stopping 80 of 92 attempts.

“Special teams in general will be really important,” captain Jesse SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 8

Yale, Harvard meet in showdown Lacrosse to take

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER With two games to go in the regular season, Yale sits two games behind Harvard. The math is simple, but its implications are for the Yale men’s basketball team are problematic.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Yale (15–11, 9–3 Ivy) was in control of its own destiny as recently as last Friday, but a crippling 57–46 loss to Princeton put the power to win the Ivy League in the hands of the Bulldogs’ most hated rivals: the Crimson (24–4, 11–1).

With one final weekend of regular season play still on the schedule, Yale must win its matchups against Harvard tonight and Dartmouth (10– 16, 3–9) on Saturday, while simultaneously hoping that Harvard loses once more on Saturday to Brown. If all goes according to plan, Yale will face off against Harvard for the third time this season in a one-game playoff to determine who receives the Ivy League’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

The rivals will square off at John J. Lee Amphitheater tonight with Yale fighting for its March Madness life, while Harvard looks to clinch

its fourth consecutive Ivy League crown.

Tonight’s tilt is certainly not short of significant story lines, one of which is the fact that Yale dealt the Crimson its only Ivy loss almost exactly a month ago, on Feb. 8. In the 74–67 victory, Yale dominated the paint and got to the free-throw line at ease, playing with a slowed-down style that Harvard could not fully adjust to.

Harvard also struggled to keep the Elis off the glass, as Yale outrebounded the Crimson 38–24.

“I think the [Harvard] frontcourt will be amped for this game just to get back at us,” said forward Justin Sears ’16. “We outrebounded them last game, so I think they’ll definitely have a chip on their shoulder.

They’re just going to come back and SEE MEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 8

on Fairfield

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER The no. 10 men’s lacrosse team will head south on I-95 to put its two-game win streak on the line against Fairfield. The Bulldogs (2–0, 0–0 Ivy) face the Stags (2–2, 0–0, ECAC), who, despite averaging over 13 goals a game, have lost two straight contests.

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The men’s basketball team currently sits in second in the Ivy League standings.

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“Our team is getting better everyday,” midfielder Colin Flaherty ’15 said. “Despite the freezing temperatures, snow and injuries, we have not slowed down at all. We just try and find a way to win, no matter what the odds.”

Last weekend against Bryant, the Elis scored six goals in the first quarter and played tenacious defense en route to a 9-8 win. Despite 55 total shots, Yale only broke through nine times due to the fine play of opposing goalkeeper Gunnar Waldt, who ranks second in saves in Division-I lacrosse.

Surprisingly, the Bulldogs also lost the faceoff battle, as Dylan Levings ’14, who finished seventh in the nation with a 0.597 percentage last year, won just 7 of 21 faceoffs.

That is not to discredit the performance of

Fairfield’s Kevin Massa, who currently has a 60 percent success rate on restarts.

Yale’s offense has been balanced so far, with nine different players registering goals.

Conrad Oberbeck ’15 and Brandon Mangan ’14, who was recently named to the Tewaaraton Award watch list along with classmate Levings, are tied with a team-high five points. Midfielders Michael Bonacci ’16 and Flaherty, who recorded a hat trick last weekend, round out the top four scorers.

Despite the freezing temperatures, snow and injuries, we have not slowed down at all.

COLIN FLAHERTY ’15 Midfielder, men’s lacrosse team The Elis revamped defense ranks second in the nation, surrendering seven goals per game so far this season. Second year starter Eric Natale ’15, has recorded double-digit saves in both games this season, posting a SEE MEN’S LACROSSE PAGE 8

EARNED RUNS ALLOWED BY RIGHT-HANDED PITCHER CHASEN FORD ’17 AGAINST LSU LAST SATURDAY. The freshman scattered six hits across 6.1 sparkling innings and struck out two Tigers, but Yale fell to LSU 3–0.