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CROSS CAMPUS Poster boy. The Yale College Council’s annual “Mr. Yale” event took place last night, pitting representatives from each of the 12 residential colleges against each other.

Though he’s just a freshman, winner Thomas Gurin ’18 just can’t stay out of the limelight, having already been profiled by the News in a March feature about the Carillonneurs.

Misrepresentative. Among Thursday’s most popular New York Times articles was a piece in the newspaper’s Dealbook section that shed light on the dealings of Joshua Newman ’01. Newman, who began his investing career while still here on campus, now finds himself owing lots of money to former business partners due to deals and relationships turned sour, the article said. Did they really need to highlight that he was a Yale graduate in the headline?

Winter is over. In case you haven’t noticed, the sun has been out in full force, making it easy to forget that the ground was covered in snow not long ago. It has all since melted — and generally for the better — but Fox CT reported yesterday that the Connecticut River has eclipsed flood stage levels.

Spring Fling lite. The Sophomore Class Council is hosting a Yale Spring Picnic on Sunday to take advantage of the fact that this is actually the most wonderful time of the year in New Haven, at least with regard to weather.

Featuring food, music and other “activities,” the event sounds like a perfect prelude to next Saturday’s event.

He’s got your back. School of

Management professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld was the subject of a New York Post story yesterday. The piece recapped moments from the past two years in which Sonnenfeld took to the media to vociferously defend various CEOs and companies he deemed worthy of his (emphatic) support.

In the afternoon. This year’s

Take Back the Night, which has been held annually since 1975, begins before sunset today. Highlighted by a speak out opportunity for survivors of sexual violence, events will take place across campus.

This isn’t Canada. Still, moose

sightings are up across the state, according to a Thursday article by the Torrington Register Citizen. “It’s a small population, but it’s getting bigger,” a state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection representative told the newspaper, also noting that “moose can feel threatened and become aggressive.” Keep your eyes peeled.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1980 The University Budget Committee informs Athletic Director Frank Ryan of its plans to cut $290,000 from the athletic budget, forcing Ryan to consider eliminating entire varsity teams.

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Univ. makes new college groundbreaking official

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER With cranes already towering above and workers bustling around the site, the University officially broke ground on the two new residential colleges yesterday.

“Two years from now, in 2017, this bustling construction site will have been transformed to a place of architectural splendor and a thriving hub of student activity,” University President Peter Salovey said. “And the year 2017 will be a particularly auspicious one for this particular moment in Yale history.”

On Thursday afternoon, roughly 150 alumni, administrators, faculty, students and members of the Yale Corporation filed into a tent outside of Ingalls Rink to celebrate the official start of construction on the two new colleges, a project set to be completed over the next two and a half years. The invite-only event included speeches from Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, former University President Richard Levin, project architect and Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M.

Stern, and former Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation Edward Bass ’67 ARC ’72. The groundbreaking was an opportunity to acknowledge the donors who supported the project and to further outline the vision of this “new Yale,” Salovey said in his remarks. Still, some details, most notably the names of the two colleges, are yet to be disclosed.

“As you can tell from the heavy equipment and the amazing construction towers across the street, the ground for the project has already been broken,” Holloway said. “We are not actually at a groundbreaking … but I like to think of this moment instead as a celebration.”

Work on the site began in the fall. Though the original groundbreaking was slated to occur in February, the event was moved to the spring to due to concerns of weather and convenience, Salovey told the News in February.

However, with temperatures in the 60s on Thursday, University leaders — hard-hats and shovels in hand — were able to walk around a portion of the construction site and pose for

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Yesterday afternoon, there were roughly 150 people celebrating the two new colleges. ceremonial photos with the mounds of dirt and concrete foundations in the background.

Mayor Toni Harp said the construction will make a “huge

Frugal or faulty? The cost of mental health in Connecticut

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iscussions on the Governor’s proposed budget for 2016 and 2017 are in full force, and its cuts to mental health stand in direct contrast to the recently delivered recommendations of the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission. Can Connecticut make progress in mental health without the resources to help its most needy populations? APARNA NATHAN reports.

Friday, March 6 was a particularly busy day in the state capital. For most of the day, the Appropriations Committee worked its way through the final day of budget hearings held in response to Gov. Dannel Malloy’s proposed state budget for fiscal years 2016 and 2017.

The theme for the day was health, and the budgets of the Department of Public Health, the Department of Developmental Services, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services were the topics of discussion.

UPCLOSE In short, they were being slashed.

Removed from the proceedings on the floor above, the Sandy Hook Advisory Committee, formed in the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, was holding its final meeting in a conference room on the first floor of the Legislative Office Building. Over the course of two years of testimony and discussion, the group of community leaders had crafted a 256page report outlining recommendations in the areas of school safety, gun control and mental health.

Malloy joined the committee for this final meeting to accept their final report, and as he delivered closing remarks in the committee meeting, he offered his gratitude for the group’s work.

But in the press conference that followed, the sentiments were less optimistic. Journalists hounded Malloy with questions about the cuts in DMHAS funding, and it became evident that the committee members’ recommendations were just that — recommendations.

“No budget is easy, and some budgets are more difficult,” Malloy said.

“Let me assure you, the cuts are less than they might have otherwise been.”

Almost immediately after Malloy spoke and the press conference concluded, the Appropriations Commit-

tee opened its doors to a public hearing. Testimony ranged from hospital administrators to patients at risk of losing treatment. Many of the cuts they argued against, including maintaining decreased grant funding and changes in Medicaid rates, were in stark contrast to the recommendations accepted by Malloy only a few hours earlier.

“It was an agonizing day,” said Carl Schiessl, director of regulatory advocacy for the Connecticut Hospital Association. “It’s an example of the two faces of Connecticut when it comes to addressing the needs of mental health in our state.”

CUTS, TWO YEARS IN THE MAKING

Going into the process of developing the budget, the state faced daunting deficits. As of April 1, the comptroller’s office had forecasted a deficit of $172.8 million for the 2015 fiscal year, and a joint report by the Office of Policy Management and the Office of Fiscal Analysis in January predicted a $1.14 billion deficit for fiscal year 2016 if cuts were not made.

To address that dire possibility, the governor’s office had proposed a series of comprehensive cuts, including those to the DMHAS budget.

But one of the main cuts was not even part of the proposed budget — rather, it was a relic of the last one. In the budget for fiscal years 2014 and 2015, $25.5 million was cut from DMHAS’s state grant funding for mental health and substance abuse services, reducing the agency’s previous sum of $41.3 million in grant funding by 62 percent.

But the $25 million cut was never realized due to a fortuitous combination of outside and internal funding. In fact, DMHAS was able to offset the cost by a full $20 million, pulling $10 million from the Tobacco Health and Trust Fund and scraping together $10 million within the department, said DMHAS Public Relations Manager Mary Kate Mason.

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economic difference” in the city.

“I think we are very excited about the construction and what it means to the vibrancy of the city,” Harp told the

News. “One of the things we are pleased with is the agreement we have with Yale … [that SEE GROUNDBREAKING PAGE 6

Only two head pantry workers return to colleges

BY TYLER FOGGATT AND DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTERS Two former head pantry workers have decided to return to their residential college dining halls, though their assignments will be different from what they were prior to their original departure.

Last June, the University announced that the production of salads, dressings and deli items would be shifted from the residential colleges to the Culinary Support Center, an off-campus food preparation facility. In August, head pantry workers were relocated from the colleges to the new facility. Workers were so upset by the changes that Yale’s bluecollar union, Local 35, was driven to file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board in September.

In March, Yale Dining and Local

35 finally reached an agreement to give former head pantry workers the opportunity to return to their residential college dining halls.

“It wasn’t a tough decision for me,” said Sally Notarino, a former head pantry worker who just returned to Silliman. “I guess for me it wasn’t even a question. I was waiting for this to happen. I already knew when the chance arose that I would jump on it and do whatever I had to do to come back.”

Silliman Chef Stu Comen said the dining hall has been in need of extra hands ever since they began serving hot breakfast this year. Notarino has returned as a server and has been assisting with hot breakfast, and she has been a tremendous help to the staff, Comen said.

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YLS conference invites policing discussion

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Even though Ferguson, Missouri is over 1,000 miles away from New Haven, the events that occurred there continue to be part of academic and community discussion in the Elm City.

On April 16, the Justice Collaboratory, a group of academics at the Yale Law School dedicated to the study and practice of criminal justice reform and policy, invited over 50 law students, police officers, academics and community activists to The Study at Yale.

There, the conference attendees heard from speakers who discussed how policing in the United States has been, or should be, affected by the shooting of black teenager Michael Brown and the protests that followed.

In Thursday’s keynote address, Vanita Gupta ’96, acting assistant Attorney General for the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice, described the DOJ’s recom-

mendation on how the city repairs tore community and police relations.

“Change is going to require commitment at a local level,” she said.

Gupta praised the New Haven Police Department for the example it has set to the nation regarding community policing. She described NHPD Chief Dean Esserman as one of the most “important police leaders in the country.” On March 12, the NHPD’s unique community policing methods were featured on the cover of The Wall Street Journal. In an interview with the News earlier this week, Esserman described the NHPD’s community policing structure, which requires all new police officers who graduate from the NHPD police academy to take on a year-long walking beat in a particular neighborhood. This walking beat, Esserman said, helps to strengthen relationships between officers and the people they serve.

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his Tuesday, I turned 22, and as I drove to Safeway for some last minute groceries, I thought about how I’ve changed since turning 21. At first, 21 felt like a big deal. I’d get a rush of pride whenever bartenders asked for my ID. A year later, my right to a Bud Light is less exciting. Legal booze just meant I had gotten older, not necessarily more mature. But standing in line with tonic water and limes, I realized that at 22 I finally feel more like an adult than a child.

This is because, a year ago, I decided to take a year off from Yale. The University has shaped my life for the better in more ways than I can describe, but there are also aspects of the Yale experience that made it difficult for me to grow up. Growing up means different things to different people, but one essential theme is self-awareness. Adulthood entails a sense of who you are and what you want. At Yale, who I was and what I wanted was in flux — my major, my crushes, my clothes. These changes are part of college life in the liberal arts, and such breadth of experience is a boon to well-rounded kids looking for their groove. But it’s only a boon when you can slow down and think.

I HAD SPACE TO STOP, LOOK AND THINK I didn’t. After three years, I was still moving too fast to look at myself. I didn’t parse passion from pastime, and was drawn to attention and prestige. Was the person in my bed a fling, a friend or a future fiancé? It was too exhausting to figure out.

Rather than asking myself what I wanted, I made big decisions by choosing whatever was “most efficient.” Fulfillment became extracurricular.

Maturity also entails preparing for the future. By my junior year, any postgrad plans I had — about politics, medicine, writing — were still incoherent. I spent my efforts on English classes and pursuits with little explicit relation to my future ambitions. I was too busy with rehearsals to write columns. I didn’t appreciate Moby Dick because the book brought me no closer to understanding the life of a campaign staffer, cardiologist or columnist. I couldn’t settle the cacophony of my life into a calling.

These were impatient, unreasonable expectations. Yale is a university: Its duty is not vocational. It was my fault for not trying any of the medical, political and journalistic opportunities on campus. The school is also great at providing the kind of clarity you find at a career

fair, but that wasn’t what I needed.

So I left.

Daunting at first, the prospect of 14 unscheduled months NATHAN was freeing.

KOHRMAN I had time to try what I At the might want seam to do. For the summer and fall, I worked on campaigns in Colorado, lived on my own budget and learned how to cook. I spent the winter shadowing heart surgeons and psychiatrists at the Mayo Clinic.

This spring I’ve done research for journalists in D.C. All year, I’ve been writing columns for the News.

I don’t have a calling yet, but I developed a sense of what my future holds: helping people and seeing their faces. For me, campaign memos and columns sometimes lost their urgency.

Doctors, patients and surgery never did. My day-to-day experience with these jobs answered questions that reading Moby Dick could not.

I had so many attachments to Yale, and though these connections stretched me thin, they also made me feel like I was part of something much bigger than myself. My greatest fear about leaving was loneliness. But instead of loneliness I found solitude.

Removed from the thrall of Yale, my life became clearer.

I had space to stop, look and think. My preoccupations with society tap and the Whiffenpoofs began to seem cosmetic.

I’ve begun to walk away from pastimes like singing and theater to spend time cultivating passions like medicine and writing.

With fewer people in my orbit, my relationships also became clearer. This year I’ve only had expectations of a few dozen people.

I miss Durfee’s and the Harkness bells, but leaving Yale was the best decision of my life.

When I return to Yale, I certainly will not have everything figured out. But I feel that I am on my way, uncertain but moving forward.

Most people who pass through Yale do not choose to take a year’s leave. Ninety percent of us will graduate in four years, and many of us will emerge with purpose and poise. But I think that there are many who might benefit from a year of adulthood before we’re handed our diplomas. If you take anything away from this column, my last one of the year, let it be that you can leave Yale, and it might be the best thing you ever did.

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An inclusive Take Back the Night

oday, from 1 to 3 p.m. on Cross Campus, the Women’s Center and the Communication and Consent Educators will host Yale’s annual "Take Back the Night Speak Out." TBTN is an international event that seeks to draw attention to sexual violence. In so many ways, TBTN brings the Yale community together. Groups will come to the event wearing their respective gear; friends will come out to support each other; individuals will pause to listen as they walk across campus. It is a powerful, complex and meaningful experience for those who share their stories, thoughts, songs and poetry, as well as for those who listen.

It is a chance for Yale students to come together and support survivors of sexual violence, a chance to be inspired by each other’s courage and creativity — a chance to build a stronger campus. It’s also a chance to give a voice to students with a broad range of sexual experiences.

The event is a mosaic, a space for all types of stories. At the speak out, you’ll hear about violence and violation, but also about respect, personal agency and empowerment. Someone may stand up and say two words. Another will glide and twirl and express their thoughts with movement and dance. Someone will sit on the steps and place a hand on the back of a friend. There will be

poetry, there will be song. There will be many who cry, both during and afterwards, and many who find empowerment in the conversations that happen later with friends. There is space for it all, because we can only see real change if the conversation can welcome everyone. Experiences of sexual violence come in many forms. We hope to make room for all of these stories at today’s event.

Yale’s Take Back the Night is thus structured to reflect the diversity of ways we express our power and show our support.

There are so many ways we think about, talk about and respond to sexual violence. The event is powerful because it moves away from the idea that there is one only one standard story, only one type of survivor. Sharing a story of personal violation at TBTN can be incredibly empowering, but we know it is only one of many paths to finding support. We honor all the ways we share (and don’t share) our stories, all the ways we build a community of love and respect.

The Women’s Center has been working for several years to modify Take Back the Night on Yale’s campus; for the past three years, the CCEs have teamed up with the Women’s Center. Previous TBTNs were generally held at night, and consisted of a speak out and a march through spaces that needed to be “taken back.” While well-

intentioned, this model of TBTN too often presumed (and enforced) a very narrow version of being a survivor. And too often, it led mostly to despair. We are working to create a Take Back the Night that is both inclusive and uplifting; we are striving to make space for a broad range of experiences and to focus on empowerment. To change the tone, we hold our event during the day, encourage more diversity in the ways people speak and share at the microphone and no longer march. By moving away from the typical survivor narrative, we hope to make TBTN a more powerful and relevant experience for everyone.

There will be smaller events before and after the speak out as well. Everyone is welcome to join the CCEs and Women’s Center staff members Friday morning to color Cross Campus with chalk so that the physical space is warm and welcoming. The speak out creates a lot of energy — on Friday night, there will a floating dance party to channel that energy into a fun, positive and respectful physical presence. We know that people often wake up on the next day wanting to talk, so we will host a casual brunch at the Women’s Center on Saturday morning, with representatives from the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education Center and the CCEs. People also leave the speak out inspired by the

NATHAN KOHRMAN is a junior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at nathan.kohrman@yale.edu .

power of honest speech — and so on Sunday, the Purple Crayon will lead a workshop on using improv techniques to be more present, open and real with romantic and sexual partners. Finally, members of SHARE will be at the Women’s Center next Thursday evening for an office hours-style event to reflect on lingering concerns and reactions from TBTN that may affect students later in the week.

We hope this calendar of events will offer everyone on campus opportunities for reflection, learning, empowerment and growth. Yalies across the spectrums of gender, race and sexuality are struggling to respond to the impact of sexual violence and working to build a more respectful sexual culture. As organizers of Take Back the Night, we hope to offer an event that has space for everyone who wants to be part of this project. We hope to foster an environment in which people with all sorts of experiences feel safe expressing themselves. Join us this afternoon for the TBTN speak out.

CASSIE LIGNELLI is a freshman in Davenport College and the Special Events Coordinator for the Women's Center. Contact her at cassandra.lignelli@yale.edu . COREY MALONE-SMOLLA is a junior in Timothy Dwight College and a Communication and Consent Educator.

Contact her at corey.malone-smolla@yale.edu .

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ust as the spring flowers begin to open up, so too does the Elm City. As trite as it sounds, I honestly believe that the warmer weather transforms New Haven into a larger place for students. When long walks become pleasant rather than prohibitive, the number of places I’m willing visit on a given day increases exponentially. A woman I work with at the Yale University Art Gallery moved to New Haven from Brooklyn with her family a few years ago, and her sons refer to the Greatest Small City in America as “half a city.” And sometimes being here does feel like being in a city that has just a little bit less of everything than a full city. Ultimately, the boundaries of New Haven are non-negotiable. For a long time, it felt that the only way to leave campus was to go to New York.

But in fact we’re able to either accept or challenge this smallness.

Mind games that distort size and distance can prove quite effective. Walgreens, for example, felt like a foreign kingdom to my freshman self, a journey I could embark on only with a friend, and only in times of

e m e r g e n c y.

(For instance, two years ago this week I ran out of Sudafed and was completely debilitated by CAROLINE the aforementioned SYDNEY spring flowers blooming and Selfcould hardly absorbed breathe or open my eyes.) But in subsequent years, I’ve gone to Walgreens to stock up on allergy meds without hesitation. Some places, however, still feel just a bit too far when I have to navigate through snow banks and walk into the wind to reach them.

Warmer weather brings Wooster Square and East Rock closer to my usual orbit.

By car, however, these seasonal sensitivities to location change. Everything in New Haven is a 10 minute drive or less. Back in 2012, months of time at Yale passed before I really drove anywhere. The first time driving down Chapel was jarring. Being in a car felt con-

fining and unnatural. I couldn’t wave at people, and all those faces I recognized didn’t see me.

Everything moved so quickly. I discovered that I knew none of the one-way streets, leading to so many wrong turns I probably could have beat myself walking. I’m from Dallas, one of the most driving-dependent cities in America, so it’s not as if the world by car was foreign to me.

Somehow, New Haven by car felt uniquely unrecognizable.

Over the past three years, I’ve had more and more occasion to drive. Whether I’m driving to Union Station or The Place, I’ve found myself behind the wheel with increasing frequency. I still have to drive in a loop to get back to my apartment, but at least I know I can turn right on Howe from Chapel. Last weekend I drove to the Book Barn in Niantic and R.J. Julia in Madison to acquire a stack of summer reading and spend time with friends outside our usual haunts. Driving made the occasion feel special, almost more like a miniature road trip rather than a lunch 20 minutes away.

Next year, however, my roommate is bringing her car to cam-

pus and so, for the price of half the parking spot, I’ll have a car too. I wonder if I’ll use these powers for good or for evil. Yes, it will make grocery shopping quicker, but it will also mean that I won’t walk pass the Green and contemplate the way that our hub and spoke public transit system isolates pockets of this city. If I’m taking a class on science hill, will I drive? In some ways, I’ll be grateful for the saved time, but I might miss walking through Beinecke Plaza. In the best case scenario, having a car won’t encourage me to leapfrog lazily through Yale’s campus, but instead enable me to venture beyond it more often. There are a million little road trips at my fingertips and this past weekend reminded me of that.

Having a car will both make New Haven a bigger city and stretch my Yale experience beyond the city limits. New Haven can be more than half a city if I choose to venture beyond its more accessible half.

CAROLINE SYDNEY is a junior in Silliman College. Her column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu .

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FRIDAY FORUM: WARD 1

SCOTT WALKER “Elections have consequences.”

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ew Haven is our home.

While many students have not yet taken this statement to heart, others have acted on it. But calling New Haven home isn’t a motto about self-identification. Like in the hometowns where we each grew up, we have a civic right to participate and shape the decisions made here. Often overlooked, though, is our complementary duty to give back to the place that has given us so much. If we view the complex relationship between college students and the city as one of both rights and responsibilities, then another truth becomes clear: Ward 1 is also our home.

THE ALDER SHOULD HELP STUDENTS GIVE BACK TO THE CITY Ward 1, encompassing Old Campus and eight residential colleges, has served for decades as the nexus through which students interact with the rest of New Haven. Through its alder, its ward co-chairs and its representatives on city commissions, Ward 1 allows Yalies both to exercise their rights and fulfill

their responsibilities. So while Ward 1 is largely a student ward, in most ways, it is no different from any other ward in the city.

But why care about Ward 1 in the first place? To the naïve eye, students’ only needs are, or should be, fulfilled by Yale. Why get involved in city affairs if our housing, tuition, health care and many other services are tied up with Yale alone? Because, to paraphrase President Obama, “Yale didn’t build that.” The sidewalks you use, the safety of your walks to class, even the water you drink — all come from New Haven city government. Even the Yale Police Department is governed by New Haven’s Board of Police Commissioners. And, of course, rare is the Yalie who never once steps off campus, beyond Yale’s aegis. Every day, undergraduates rely upon New Haven’s resources, and Ward 1 is how we have our say in them.

But perhaps more importantly, to separate Yale and New Haven is a false dichotomy. Influential as it might be, Yale is still an organization incorporated in New Haven, just like Claire’s, Stop and Shop or the Shubert Theater.

The TFs who grade our papers, the students who check out our books in Bass and the administrators who decide our University’s direction are all New Haven workers like any other. In honor of New Haven Bike Month (PSA: it’s in

May), here’s an analogy: It would be nonsensical for someone to care about bike wheels but have no care at all for bikes. The same applies to Yale and New Haven: One is a part, the other is a whole.

With this in mind, how should the Ward 1 alder best represent us? First, our alder should press for student interests — but also recognize that, on a fundamental level, we students generally seek the same goals as other New Haven residents. Everyone in the Elm City, students included, desires a safer, cleaner, more employed and better educated city. Our alder should thus aim to find consensus solutions to these problems with input both from constituents and from fellow leaders across the city.

By working within this framework, an alder can avoid charges of paternalism while also keeping a close eye on the unique needs and wants of the student body.

Of course, Ward 1 alders need not worry quite as much about filling potholes, dealing with landlords or the other day-to-day tasks of alders elsewhere. Past Ward 1 alders have used that freedom to work on living-wage initiatives, public financing for municipal elections and improved access to education and youth services. But all of these pursuits still rely upon both strong relationships on the Board and

strong connections on campus.

This vision may seem grand if most of us will only call New Haven home for four years. But far from minimizing the need for involvement in city politics, our short tenure precisely demonstrates the importance of Ward 1 alders.

We all have an obligation to give back to the city that has so generously hosted us in our shared home — and we only have four short years to do it. The job of our alder, then, must involve channeling and focusing student efforts to fulfill that responsibility. Ward 1 alders not only must show Yalies that they should care about New Haven, but also must demonstrate how to best put that care into action.

New Haven is a city of hyperlocal government. I don’t know of any other city of similar size with wards so small or alders so rooted in their communities. While working on local politics may not seem as glamorous as international relations or the campaign for the White House, it’s here in New Haven that change actually gets done. So use your home in Ward 1 to get involved.

Because it’s not only your right; it’s your responsibility.

JACOB WASSERMAN is a junior in Saybrook College and a Ward 1 co-chair.

Contact him at jacob.wasserman@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST DIMITRIOS HALIKIAS

Eliminate Ward 1

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ale students do not need an alder.

For all the specious platitudes to the contrary, the honest truth is that the vast majority of Yalies have nothing whatsoever to do with the city of New Haven. With few exceptions, we aren’t from here, and we certainly aren’t staying. We live in this city eight months a year, and when we are here, we enjoy the privileges of an extraterritorial colonial power. We walk on streets that are literally owned by the University, we are protected by our own private police force and as the lamentable state of sexual assault litigation makes clear, we are even tried (and typically acquitted) by our own nebulous judicial system. What then gives us the right to help legislate on behalf of the 120,000 people who actually live here?

Armed with the self-confidence of a future McKinsey executive and the self-righteousness that infects so many who adopt the label “activist,” candidates for Ward 1 alder find in New Haven the perfect opportunity to launch their political futures and experiment with their policy prescriptions of choice. What’s worse, they disguise their rank opportunism in the language of democratic representation and civic engagement.

Yale students are not in need of having their interests represented — the University, with an endowment over

70 times this city’s annual budget — does a perfectly good job taking care of them. And the suggestion that democracy demands student representation on the Board of Alders is downright shameful.

Democracy, as it was defined by the ancient Greeks, is a regime in which the people rule and are ruled in turn. Yale students clearly have an appetite for ruling other people, but they seem to have a much harder time grasping what it means to be ruled. For all the hours they spend sharing glossy logos on Facebook and canvassing door to door, most Yalies will not have to live with the consequences of their electoral choices. Real New Haven residents will be forced to deal with whatever legal legacy this city’s government leaves behind; we students, gone in four short years, safely inhabit the world of altruistic intentions, never experiencing the costs of our adventure in other people’s lives.

It is of course wonderful that so many Yale students do sincerely dedicate themselves to making New Haven a better place. Our peers who devote so much of their lives volunteering and serving this city deserve our utmost respect. But there is a world of difference between volunteering in the community and working as a paid politician with an actual vote in city government.

Of course, some Ward 1 candidates are worse than others. I was disappointed when Paul Chandler '14 lost to Sarah Eidelson '12 last year, and I certainly hope someone at least slightly to the right of Bernie Sanders jumps into this year’s race. With the dire economic challenges it faces, New Haven could use an alder who does not reflexively bow to the unions that are driving this city to bankruptcy (and who just so happen to be our current alder’s fulltime employers). It would also be nice to have an alder who hadn’t been planning his campaign from the minute he learned the office existed during Camp Yale.

YALE STUDENTS DO NOT NEED ALDER REPRESENTATION But the problem is not simply the two rather pathetic candidates we have been presented with thus far. The kind of candidate who is drawn to run for Ward 1 alder is in all likelihood someone who values self-promotion over real service. With a student body so disconnected and dissimilar from the

city, it is easy to see why we are cursed with representatives who are slavishly beholden to corrupt, ideologically driven outside interests or who wish to use the office to kick-start their incipient political careers.

What then is to be done? Desirable though it may be, it would probably be rather constitutionally difficult to legally disenfranchise Yalies from city politics. New Haven therefore should redistrict. The city should carve up our campus into as many existing wards as possible, eliminating the guaranteed Yale position. Without the getout-the-vote appeal of a Yale student or recent alumnus running, and with the increased complexity brought by assigning students to distant polling places, I am fairly optimistic in the city’s ability to successfully suppress the Yale vote.

As Yale students, we have all been granted golden tickets into the echelons of the American elite. Lamentable as the prospect might be, it is all but certain that our ambitious peers will go on to positions of enormous power and influence. But please, just this once, let’s leave local government to the locals.

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represent Ward 1.

I’m not the only one who thinks she’s unfit for the job. Last year, Paul Chandler ’14 ran a historic campaign in an effort to unseat her. For the first time in over 20 years, Republicans ran a Ward 1 candidate. Although Chandler did not win, in a race with registered Democrats outnumbering registered Republicans eight-and-a half to one, he was able to receive over one-third of the vote. The fact that so many Yalies were willing to cross partisan lines and vote for a Republican signals just how upset people are with local Democrats in general and Eidelson in particular.

THE WARD 1 ALDER IS NOT MEANT TO LEAD NEW HAVEN To be clear, Stark is not much better.

He is cut from the same cloth of career Democrats who seem interested merely in taking advantage of Ward 1 for their own gain. The son of recently unseated Democratic Congressman Pete Stark, the younger Stark seems to be following

THE WARD 1 ALDER SHOULD BE A CURRENT STUDENT

in the footsteps of Eidelson. He wants to be a politician and assume a leadership role in New Haven. The problem is, New Haven doesn’t need Stark like Stark needs New Haven. The role of the Ward 1 alder is simple: be accessible, represent the voice of the students and show up to the meetings that are held about twice a month. Stark has grand designs that will look great on his resume two years from now, but that’s not what this position ought to be about.

Yalies are transient. We live here for a bit and then graduate and leave. We usually don’t build our families here.

We usually don’t build businesses here. And it would be unreasonable to expect us to. Ultimately, the candidates should be concerned with staying out of the way of the local community while ensuring that the interests of Yale students are respected.

There is still room in the race for someone to fill the gap. We need a candidate who recognizes his or her limited role in New Haven politics. The Ward 1 alder is not meant to lead New Haven; the alder is meant to represent students.

SAM SUSSMAN is a junior in Davenport College. Contact him at samuel.sussman@yale.edu .

JOSH CLAPPER is a junior in Davenport College. Contact him at joshua.clapper@yale.edu .

DIMITRIOS HALIKIAS is a junior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at dimitrios.halikias@yale.edu .

Representatives, not politicians tinction. Representatives ought to be intensely local, easily accessible and focused mainly on being the voice of the people they represent. Politicians, on the other hand, are professionals — they have a duty to cultivate a higher level of understanding of the problems their community faces. Politicians deal in problems that are not easily understood by their constituents. Ward 1 needs a representative, not a politician.

It is nearly impossible for Eidelson to be a representative. She’s three years out of Yale. If elected, she will be a full generation removed from her time as a Yalie. Instead, she represents intensely distinct interests. Her job at Local 34, the union of clerical and technical workers at Yale, means that she is divided between representing the students of Ward 1 and her employer. This past fall, amid concerns over the consolidation of a food preparation facility, the News wrote that some dining hall workers believed there would be a strike in the next 12 to 18 months. How can we believe that she will act in the best interests of the students if such a problem arises when her employer is the union? She doesn’t rely on the dining halls, and she doesn’t face the exorbitant price of meal plans at Yale. This is a clear case in which she would fail to

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little more than six months from now, a few Yalies will wander down Elm Street to cast a vote at the public library in the election for the Ward 1 alder. Ward 1 runs from the bottom of the New Haven Green at Church Street up to Park Street, encompassing all but four of Yale’s residential colleges.

Unfortunately, not enough students will participate in this election. I predict that fewer students will vote for Ward 1’s representative to the New Haven city council than voted in this year’s Yale College Council elections.

Of course, it’s easier to vote online than to walk several blocks to stand in line at the polling place. But I see a bigger problem of apathy, of taking for granted our place as residents of this city. I think most Yale students see the Board of Alders as less relevant to their day-to-day life than the Yale College Council, which is saying something. Electing a current undergraduate as Ward 1 alder could facilitate student engagement with the issues facing New Haven.

Sarah Eidelson ’12 has represented Ward 1 since January 2012. She graduated from Yale College four months later. My primary concerns don’t have to do with her efficacy as an alder or the increasing value she may provide with more years of experience on the Board. What I am concerned about, however, is connecting Yale students with the city of New Haven. A current student on the Board of Alders would do more to connect the student body to the surrounding and outlying communities than even the best non-student alder. It’s a matter of access and connecting constituents with the issues that impact the city.

Under University President Rick Levin, the University started a new chapter in its relationship with New Haven. I see the fruits of this renewed partnership in New Haven Promise and the growth of Science Park, initiatives that highlight Yale's investment in its neighbors and their futures. The undergraduates living in Ward 1, who make up a majority of the population in that district, should engage by voting and running for office in Ward 1.

With the number of students involved in Dwight Hall and throughout the city, we have no shortage of passionate, service-oriented Yalies. But our apathy about local elected office is still worrying. Yale alone in the Ivy League has a tradition of student participation in the local city council. Other Ivy League students serve in their communities but not with equal powers as the elected representatives.

Students have, on occasion, been elected to seats on the city council at Cornell and to regional positions at Dartmouth. But these have been one-off events rather than longstanding traditions. Yale’s tradition of students in publicly elected office on the Board of Alders is unmatched.

While the dynamics and districting of other university cities do not lend themselves to consistent student representation, here in New Haven we have a unique opportunity.

New Haven provides us with a classroom for understanding how federal, state and city policies shape urban spaces. Whether through affordable housing, gentrification or mass transit, the city is in the process of crafting responsive solutions that fit the needs of local residents.

I hope I will be proven wrong in November; I hope the ballot for Ward 1 alder is filled with student candidates and that students vote in large numbers. While the thick walls and iron-clad gates of the residential colleges provide us refuge from the city when we need it, I believe that we must take a step out into the city that is a new kind of home for our four years here.

GUEST COLUMNIST SAM SUSSMAN

ard 1 is between a rock and a hard place. Sarah Eidelson ’12 and Fish Stark ’17, the current choice of candidates, represent two sides of the same Democratic, highly political machine.

Eidelson’s time in office might best be characterized by her absenteeism.

Where is she around campus? The district is about 12 square blocks. If you’ve ever tried to avoid someone, you know how small Yale actually is. Yet how often have we seen Eidelson in our district? It is a running joke that Eidelson’s lack of a presence on this campus is because she actually lives in New York.

This joke, regardless of its truth value, reflects a fundamental problem: She isn’t actually visible. One factor in this lack of visibility is simple: She’s not a student. This ward is comprised almost exclusively of Yale undergraduates.

Re-electing her is unwise because, very simply, she is not one of us. We don’t see her in our classes. She doesn’t walk through Cross Campus five times a day to get to her extracurriculars. You won’t find her casually in a dining hall.

(Sometimes, you won’t even find her at her own office hours.)

Fundamentally, the role of our alder is to be a representative. At this level of local politics, this is a meaningful dis-

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FROM THE FRONT

“Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo, and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” ADAM ANT ENGLISH MUSICIAN

CT budget cuts add barriers to mental health access MENTAL HEALTH FROM PAGE 1 This year, though, the department does not know if it will have those same sources of revenue, and thus, the recipients may finally feel the full blow of the cuts, Mason said.

The cuts to outpatient services, which will comprise the bulk of the losses, are some of the most damaging, said Heather Gates, president and CEO of Community Health Resources. Outpatient services include walk-in appointments, medication evaluations and regularly scheduled check ups.

They are the mental health equivalent to primary care.

They are also available to the largest number of people, Gates said.

“It is the most obvious place to access health care and usually helps keep people out of higher, more expensive levels of care,” she added.

The cuts will be compounded by others in the newly proposed budget, including a change to Medicaid eligibility. The income threshold to qualify for HUSKY A, Medicaid for parents with minor children, will decrease from 201 percent to 138 percent, permitting fewer people to enroll in the program.

Currently, over 20 percent of Connecticut residents use Medicaid, and that number is even higher among mentally ill patients.

As Medicaid eligibility decreases, mental health agencies in Connecticut will instead be turning to the state government for help in subsidizing the cost of treating these patients.

But if the proposed budget is passed, they may have no place to turn.

MAINTAINING SERVICES, WITHOUT THE MONEY TO DO IT

Paul Hammer SOM ’85 was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1997. With a family history of mental illness, he has been in and out of treatment, receiving a combination of talk therapy and medication.

But in 2014, his provider told him he could no longer receive individual therapy.

He could only meet with his therapist once a month, and weekly group therapy would have to suffice for his weekly needs, his provider told him. But all the groups were held during the day, when Hammer was working, so he ultimately had to find a new provider.

Hammer suspected that these changes were because of financial reasons, a common Achilles heel of many mental health centers, he said.

Roberta Cook, president and CEO of BHcare, has seen the same budgetary constraints at work at her center, where funding has remained constant for the past seven years, despite the increasing cost of living.

As a result, some patients who used to receive individual therapy for one hour every week or on alternating weeks are now only able to receive group therapy. These groups, each comprising eight patients, only meet once a month. For other patients, appointments that used to be one hour have been pared down to half an hour, Cook said.

“We’ve been trying to manage with [the cuts], and we’re cutting

back, but you can’t give patients the same level of care,” Cook said.

Unlike Hammer, many of these patients do not have an alternate provider to which they can switch.

If a local mental health authority, which receives state grants from the DMHAS to serve lowincome patients, such as BHcare loses its funding, its displaced patients may have nowhere else to go.

“We are looked at as the provider of last resort for many lowincome, seriously mentally ill folks,” said Barbara DiMauro, president and CEO of Bridges, another LMHA. For Bridges, the budget cuts could signify the end of its adult outpatient clinic, DiMauro said.

Bridges has already experienced a preview of the impending budget cuts and is in the process of eliminating two more clinical positions in anticipation of further budget cuts, DiMauro said. Each clinician at Bridges has a caseload of 65 patients, on average. Cutting two clinicians would likely leave 130 patients without a doctor.

“We always struggle with waiting lists and not having the staff to meet demand,” DiMauro said.

“If the need keeps increasing and funding keeps decreasing, how will we be able to keep up?”

MEDICAID’S SHORTCOMINGS

The Wheeler Clinic in Plainville, Conn., serves more than 19,000 people each year, 500 of whom are uninsured. If the budget cuts are passed, the clinic will have to stop serving all 500 of those patients, said President and CEO of the clinic Susan Walkama in her testimony to the Appropriations Committee.

Though not an LMHA, the clinic still receives funding from the DMHAS and a significant portion of its patients are covered by Medicaid.

One of the major problems facing the Wheeler Clinic and others like it is inadequate Medicaid reimbursement, the effects of which will only be exacerbated when cuts to DMHAS’s grant funding are implemented. Medicaid typically only covers 50 percent of the cost of services, Cook said.

Take, for example, the Clifford Beers Clinic, 95 percent of whose patients are on Medicaid. The clinic loses $100 for every unit of service — one doctor’s visit, for instance — provided to patients on Medicaid, said Alice Forrester, executive director of the clinic.

The balance is supposed to be offset by state grants — the very same ones that have been cut.

Part of the reason that clinics find themselves only partially reimbursed comes from Medicaid’s definition of “billable expenses.” Clients on Medicaid typically have greater needs than the average client, Cook said, and they require additional services to support them, including housing advocacy, employment assistance and referrals to related services such as addiction treatment.

These expenses, considered nonmedical but often crucial to the patient’s treatment, are left to the clinic to shoulder.

The administrative costs of maintaining a Department of Public Health license — and even the administrative costs of Medicaid — are also sizable. Twenty-five cents of every dollar of funding are

spent on administrative processes, said Michael Hoge, professor of psychiatry and director of the Yale Behavioral Health program.

Many private providers accept Medicaid patients, but, if reimbursement rates do not improve, Polun fears this may come to an end.

The decrease in funding may especially be a problem for patients in rural Connecticut, said Sheldon Toubman, an attorney at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association who primarily works with clients on Medicaid. As an urban center, New Haven has a wide variety of providers, but in places like southeast Connecticut, there may only be one specialist who accepts Medicaid, he noted.

Psychiatry is one specialty in which it is more difficult to find providers who accept Medicaid, according to a 2014 study carried out at Weill Cornell Medical College. In 2010, fewer than 45 percent of the psychiatry providers that were examined accepted Medicaid, in comparison to 70 percent of all other specialists.

If a provider stops accepting Medicaid, patients have two options: They can pay the full cost of their treatment, which can be upwards of $100 per hour, or they can find a new provider, Hoge said.

But for those who are living on the bare minimum, like many of Toubman’s clients, the latter is impossible.

POOR AND MENTALLY ILL: A TRYING COMBINATION

For many who are low income, the question is not where they seek care, but whether or not they do at all. For them, insurance can not only provide an affordable way to access mental health care, but also the impetus to seek out care at all.

For Hammer, an attempt to take his own life was the turning point.

In 2004, Hammer attempted suicide when he jumped from the top of East Rock Park. He survived the fall, which ended a period of five months in which he had not been receiving treatment. Unemployed since 2002, Hammer had no way to pay for treatment. He received COBRA, a temporary insurance for the unemployed, for the mandated 18-month period, but once his coverage ended in December 2003, he was left uninsured.

“If I had been in my right mind, I could have looked for free care here and there,” Hammer said.

“But I was not in a space to have resources to do that.”

Because it reflected mental illness, Hammer’s suicide attempt qualified him for disability and Medicare, while his lack of income qualified him for Medicaid to pay for his recovery. Now, after years of being treated in a variety of mental health settings, he has found the right medication and treatment plan to manage his mental health.

Inability to advocate for oneself plagues many low income people suffering from mental illness, Hammer noted.

In DiMauro’s experience, there is a correlation between mental illness and low income. Patients with multiple hospitalizations are more likely to be unable to hold down a job or may even have a low level felony as a result of their untreated mental illness, DiMauro added.

“I think having a serious mental illness clearly predisposes one to,

if they’re not already low-income, become low-income,” DiMauro said.

The relationship may even be reciprocal. At Bridges, DiMauro has seen an increase in self-referrals over the past five years, ever since the economic downturn began. She thinks financial stressors could trigger a depressive episode in people who are predisposed to depression but may not have displayed symptoms of serious mental illness in the past.

CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS MENTAL HEATLH

Claire Bien had suffered from depression since her mid-teens, and by college, she had decided to see a psychiatrist. A decade later, when she first began experiencing symptoms of hearing voices, she had had enough experiences with mental health services to know there was a problem.

In retrospect, Bien credits her successful recovery to having a supportive family, private insurance and knowing that early treatment is essential for mental illness — three advantages that a lowincome individual might not have, Bien admits.

When she went for doctors’ appointments, for instance, she was able to accurately communicate her symptoms, which she said she thinks allowed the doctors to make correct diagnoses. But these language and social skills are ones that many people who grow up in poverty do not have, said Bien, who now works with low-income clients through The Connection, Inc. “[Providers] make diagnoses based on what a person is telling them at that time,” Bien said.

“People live with those diagnoses for years, if not decades.”

If low-income patients face significant barriers, patients who are both low-income and come from marginalized communities often find it even more difficult to get treatment. All of the patients who come to the HAVEN Free Clinic, a student-run partnership between Yale and the Fair Haven Community Health Center, are uninsured, said Marina Di Bartolo MED ’15.

But for the two thirds of the clients who are undocumented immigrants, there is the added stressor of being displaced from one’s home country, she said.

Compounding these struggles are cultural differences, Di Bartolo said, explaining that none of the clinic’s patients have come in with the chief complaint of mental illness.

“In our culture, we’re trained to think about mental health,” she said. “We point out, ‘I’m sad. I need help.’ Many patients can be sad, but won’t acknowledge that as a reason to seek medical help.”

Even when doctors refer them to behavioral health programs, patients at HAVEN often refuse treatment because they see it as unnecessary, Di Bartolo said.

Bien has seen similar cultural stigmas among populations that she works with, especially among people of color or religious patients, for whom, she said, mental illness signifies a lack of faith.

Especially in the inner city, people living in poverty often do not trust physicians, the very people who are able to diagnose them with a mental illness, Bien said.

Even in her own experience, Bien’s Chinese parents were horri-

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Proposed cuts to mental health in the Connecticut budget undermines a recommendation made by the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission.

fied when she began seeing a psychiatrist, who they equated to a “witch doctor,” she added.

Hoge noted that, although one in five adults has a diagnosable mental health condition, only 39 percent of those adults receive any care.

“Unless it’s a seriously debilitating mental illness, people continue to suffer quietly and tough it out,” Hoge said.

FLAWS IN THE SYSTEM

The budget proposal is not, however, an attempt to cut off the state’s most needy residents from the health care they deserve, but rather an attempt to adapt to the Affordable Care Act. The ACA sets up health exchanges to serve as affordable alternatives for patients who do not qualify for Medicaid but cannot afford private insurance. Those whose incomes fall between 139 and 400 percent of the federal poverty line — $33,708 to $97,000 for a family of four — qualify for the health exchanges, which in Connecticut is known as Access Health CT. But there has not been as much migration to the exchanges as expected. At Community Health Resources, for instance, the percentage of uninsured clients has only decreased from 12 percent to 7 percent.

“There was a flawed assumption that everyone would be insured, so there would be no need for grant dollars,” said Cook, who has seen no change in the 10 percent uninsured rate among clients at BHcare.

Many of Toubman’s clients are among those who would be affected if the proposed budget is passed. These clients cannot afford the marketplace’s insurance premiums, so if Medicaid eligibility is changed, insurance may become a luxury they must forego, Toubman said. Even those who are able to scrape together enough to buy insurance may choose not to use it to avoid copays. For lowincome clients, even a $1 copay is an impossible luxury, after paying for food and utilities, Toubman added.

“Very often people can barely afford insurance to begin with,” Gates said. “They can’t use benefits until they’ve paid deductibles, but they can’t afford to pay deductibles. It’s a vicious cycle.”

Based on Toubman’s experience, half of those who fall short of the new Medicaid eligibility requirements will likely forego pri-

vate insurance and instead opt for the penalties, he said.

According to Gates, this would leave many of them in difficult situations. Some may end up homeless or committing crimes that leave them in the even more overburdened prison system.

IN LIMBO

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School occurred on Dec. 14, 2012. On Jan. 24, 2013, a little over a month after those 20 first graders had been killed, the Sandy Hook Advisory Committee convened for its first meeting.

“The recommendations you will craft over the coming weeks and months will no doubt take us towards the goal [of] better mental health, better safety in our schools and a system that is set up to stop the glorification of violence,” Malloy said at that meeting.

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter was in attendance as well to share his experience leading his state years after the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School. Among his suggestions was a reflection on the role of mental health in the Columbine report. In retrospect, mental health should have been more of a focus, Ritter said, and he encouraged the SHAC to consider that in their recommendations.

Ritter also echoed Malloy’s comments about the power that rested with the commission, noting their that their recommendations could actually make a difference.

But as the commission adjourned from its last meeting over two years later, there is still the sense, for some members, that its mission is somewhat unfulfilled.

“It’s disappointing to understand that we handed the governor this pretty extensive report … but there doesn’t seem to be any impetus to make any of the changes suggested,” said Forrester, one of the members of the commission.

There are still weeks of discussions to go before the budget comes to a vote. Legislators have been proposing bills that fit the commission’s recommendations, Forrester noted with optimism, but the budget remains in limbo.

“Increases in mental health funding are often tied to tragic events,” Hoge said. “But the commitment to mental health is very short lived.”

Contact APARNA NATHAN at aparna.nathan@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.”

CHUCK PALAHNIUK AMERICAN NOVELIST

Bazelon: Write carefully, daringly

BY ALEC HERNANDEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Emily Bazelon ’93 LAW ’00 returned to her Yale roots on Thursday afternoon in a Pierson College Master’s Tea, sharing with current students lessons on the importance of creative writing in nonfiction fields.

In an hour-long conversation with a small group of Yale students, Bazelon, a reporter for The New York Times and author of the bestselling nonfiction book “Sticks and Stones,” discussed the importance of writing for a broad audience and the challenges involved in writing about social issues, in particular sexual assault on college campuses.

Bazelon, who currently teaches a seminar in creative writing to students at the Yale Law School, said it is important for law students to know more than just legal jargon.

This is essential, she said, for them to reach a wider range of readers.

“There’s a famous discontent with the law school genre,” Bazelon said. “The idea behind what I want to teach is translating their legal expertise into writing that people who are interested, but may not know as much about the topic, can also absorb.”

Upon graduating from Yale, Bazelon traveled to Israel on scholarship to work as a freelance writer and later returned to the United States to write for a small California news-

paper. Unhappy with her job there, she said, she decided to return to Yale to pursue a law degree.

Bazelon said she rediscovered her love for journalism during her time at the law school.

“I went to law school, but then realized I wanted to keep writing about people,” she said, adding that she initially struggled with making her legal training relevant to her journalism. Only later did she find a way to strike a balance between the two disciplines, she said.

When asked about the challenges of reporting on sexual climates and assault on college campuses, Bazelon mentioned the mistakes made in the Rolling Stone piece titled “A Rape on Campus,” about an alleged rape case at the University of Virginia. This incident, she said, served as a reminder to reporters on basic journalistic techniques: checking facts and listening to more than one side of the story.

Bazelon said she learned how difficult it is to report on issues relating to sexual misconduct through writing her own piece, published in February, on an assault case at Stanford University for The New York Times Magazine.

“These processes are very opaque. They involve a lot of private information, which I don’t think should be made public,” she said. “But the lack of transparency is doing everyone a disservice because schools won’t explain how

they arrived at their decision.”

However, Bazelon encouraged students to overcome the fear of making mistakes while reporting. She said that while it is important to take certain precautions to ensure clarity and factual accuracy while writing, fear of harsh criticism should not inhibit the writing process.

“You can’t write or produce anything with that fear sitting on your shoulders — you have to just go for it,” she said.

Students interviewed after the tea said they found Bazelon’s talk refreshing and insightful.

Adam Jenkinson ’18 said Bazelon’s talk offered him advice on how to approach creative and nonfiction writing from varying perspectives and on several platforms. He said that because he is interested in creative nonfiction writing, Bazelon’s insight was pertinent to him.

Sophia Kecskes ’17 said she was glad to hear that Bazelon thought there may not always be more than one side to a story, and that journalists should be able to decide what is factually right or wrong while reporting.

“I’m glad that journalists can recognize that and are not just committed to being as unbiased as possible,” she said.

Bazelon’s husband, Paul Sabin, is an associate professor of history at Yale.

Contact ALEC HERNANDEZ at alec.hernandez@yale.edu .

Harp talks vision with NAACP

BY MATTHEW STONE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Mayor Toni Harp addressed a room full of community leaders and members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People about her vision for New Haven and the progress her administration is making in its effort to improve community life.

The Greater New Haven Branch of the NAACP welcomed Harp as a guest speaker during its monthly meeting in St. Luke’s Church at 111 Whalley Ave. yesterday evening. Harp said she has focused her agenda on three categories: safety, education and employment, and economic development, or the “SEE” approach. She also noted her administration’s approach to improving the quality and availability of education and after-school programs for New Haven youth in order to prevent further youth violence. She said that when she first came into office, she was surprised by the amount of youth violence in the city.

“I didn’t know being the mayor meant you were the top funeral-goer in the city, especially for young people,” Harp said.

Education programs that look after at-risk youth are critical to keep young people engaged and safe, she said, adding that all schools should run from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. in order to provide the after-school support students need to stay off the streets.

Harp emphasized that New Haven’s schools have not properly handled disengaged youth

Activists condemn Mexican government, Zedillo

BY JIAHUI HU AND MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTERS Six months ago, Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz was kidnapped, along with 42 other students, from the Mexican city of Ayotzinapa. On April 16, de la Cruz’s sister, Anayeli Guerrero de la Cruz, stood outside of the office of former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo GRD ’81 to raise awareness of human rights violations.

Anayeli Guerrero de la Cruz was joined by roughly 20 protesters calling for greater accountability by the Mexican government.

People who have experienced the violence in this community really believe that [Zedillo] is an assassin and he is a murderer.

ALINA AKSIYOTE ’16 De la Cruz is one of three family members of the missing students who are visiting New Haven as part of Caravana 43, a United States tour composed of family members of the kidnapped students. These family members joined approximately 20 students from the Yale Divinity School and other community and campus activists Thursday to protest in front of Betts House on

Prospect Street, where Zedillo’s office is located. Protesters linked Zedillo, who currently directs the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, to a 1997 massacre of 45 indigenous townspeople in the village of Acteal. They claimed that he, along with other Mexican leaders such as current president Enrique Peña Nieto, are part of a corrupt system of government.

“With his globalization project, [Zedillo is] putting in place a system of exploitation of man against man,” Felipe de la Cruz Sandoval said at the protest. Sandoval is the father of a student who survived the attack leading up to the students’ kidnapping.

Although the protestors linked Zedillo to a violent massacre carried out by a paramilitary group, Zedillo said in a Wednesday email that during his six years in office, he and his cabinet never instigated nor tolerated violence by paramilitary groups. He added that neither he nor members of his cabinet were accused of corruption during his tenure, and that third-party analyses of his presidency demonstrate that the protesters’ “calumnious allegations” are inconsistent with his track record.

Alina Aksiyote ’16, a Mexican student who attended the protest, said the protesters targeted Zedillo because they identify with those who lost family members in the Acteal massacre and that the government must be held accountable for protecting its people.

“Zedillo is a symbol of power, so he’s just an important target because he was the president during the Acteal massacre,”

Aksiyote said. “People who have experienced this violence in this community really believe that he is an assassin and he is a murderer.”

Akisyote added that she trusts the accusations protesters were making against Zedillo even though hard evidence against Zedillo is difficult to find.

The protesters, including individuals from Unidad Latina en Acción and the Mexico Solidarity Committee, engaged in a series of song, prayer and sermon, as well as a recitation of the names of the 43 missing students.

The three family members — Clemente Rodriguez Moreno, Sandoval and de la Cruz — shared their personal experiences of loss following the kidnapping. They also expressed their hope to receive the students alive, discounting the Mexican government’s claim that the students were been murdered.

Later in the evening, the protesters held a community discussion at the New Haven Labor Council. They will be holding a brunch at La Casa Cultural Friday morning, before they leave for Boston, their next stop on their tour of the Northeast.

In an interview with the News before the protest, de la Cruz recounted the day that her brother disappeared.

De la Cruz said that at 10 p.m. on Sept. 26, her family received an ominous phone call from school administrators urgently asking them to visit. Police took Cruz’s family to a morgue and presented them with the body of a man wearing the same shoes as Cruz’s brother. The man had been tor-

tured to death; his face had been skinned and an eyeball had been dislocated by police, de la Cruz recounted.

However, the body turned out to be that of a student protester who had been arrested and tortured to death . The family then realized that Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz had been among the 43 students who disappeared on the way to the protest, de la Cruz said.

She added that the police and government of Mexico have consistently denied any involvement in the students’ disappearance.

Caravana 43 aims simply to raise awareness of the Mexican government’s human rights violations during the tour, Cruz added.

“We don’t have a goal per say when we [will] finish our tour,” de la Cruz said. “We are here to denounce. This is a very long process and we are going to continue to do this until we find answers to see what happened to these students.”

Aksiyote said she hopes the parents are able to raise awareness on Yale’s campus about the occurrences in Ayotzinapa. Aksiyote said very few of her friends on campus are aware of events happening in Mexico, despite its proximity to the United States.

The three groups of family members touring the United States will converge in New York City to protest outside of United Nations headquarters on April 26.

— instead of implementing programs that engage disruptive students, schools tend to remove these students. Students with poor attendance records and who are earning grades in the D and F range are the ones most frequently suspended or expelled, and are precisely the ones who need the school’s attention, she said. “[Removing these students] makes things easy for the school, but a nightmare for our community,” she added.

Emphasizing that suspension and expulsion must only be used as last resort measures, Harp said her administration is working to add a “Restorative Practices” program to New Haven Public Schools, through which schools will work to restore the child’s place in the community.

One such program Harp’s administration has focused on is “Youth Stat,” a data-driven support system that uses academic information to identify and support at-risk youth. The program is driven by a committee of leaders of youth support groups in New Haven, such as child guidance clinics, the juvenile prison system and the New Haven school board — organizations that normally work individually rather than collectively to help youth. Currently, Youth Stat monitors and supports 450 at-risk youth in New Haven.

Harp also emphasized the importance of maintaining community-based policing efforts, in which the community and police force actively work with one another to ensure neighborhood safety.

Questions following Harp’s

address focused on employment opportunities, particularly on whether the city is creating developmental and rehabilitative programs for prisoners and felons. Harp said that while New Haven is applying for funding to implement rehabilitative programs, there is still much work to be done to curb the city’s high recidivism rate.

Overall, NAACP members in attendance applauded the progress Harp has made, particularly in improving transportation efficiency, establishing youth programs and balancing the budget. “[We] asked her to come, and she immediately agreed to do it,” said President of the Greater New Haven Branch of the NAACP Dori Dumas. “Having her come shows her commitment to the community, the NAACP’s mission and to the New Haven community, which is exactly what we want our mayor to do.”

Dumas said it is difficult to critically evaluate Harp’s effectiveness after only one year in office, but she and the NAACP are satisfied with Harp’s prioritization and progress on education. Diane Petaway, who has been a member of the Greater New Haven NAACP for over 15 years, echoed Dumas’s approval.

“Mayor Harp was upstanding and enthusiastic, explaining things as they are without sugar-coating any of it,” Petaway said after the address. “I don’t recall the last time a mayor has come [to this meeting].”

Contact MATTHEW STONE at matthew.stone@yale.edu .

yale institute of sacred music presents

nate klug & danielle chapman poets

Anyone and Delinquent Palaces: Two First Books

yale literature and spirituality series

Thursday, April 23 · 5:30 pm Marquand Chapel 409 Prospect St., New Haven Free; no tickets required. Book-signing follows. Presented in collaboration with Yale Divinity Student Book Supply. ism.yale.edu

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu and MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

Yale Camerata

marguerite l. brooks, conductor

Yale Glee Club

jeffrey douma, conductor friday, april 17 · 8:00 pm woolsey hall, 500 college st.

War Dreams

Bernstein · Vaughan Williams · Wadsworth Free; no tickets required.

Presented by Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Glee Club. ism.yale.edu · gleeclub.yalecollege.yale.edu

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FROM THE FRONT Only two return from CSC PANTRY FROM PAGE 1 Notarino and Debbie Ruocco, who previously served as head pantry worker in Berkeley, chose to return to uncertain roles. Ruocco said she will not know the details of her new position until she meets with the Berkeley dining hall manager on Monday, her first day back.

“I don’t know what I’m going to be doing there since my job doesn’t exist anymore,” she said. “But I decided to return because I didn’t really like working at the CSC.” Notarino said Yale Dining made it “loud and clear” that the return offer was a one-shot deal, after which it would be much more difficult to

transfer out of the CSC. Comen added that former head pantry workers who wish to return to their dining halls will now have to “bid out,” thereby losing their labor grade. But because Notarino and Ruocco took advantage of the compromise between Yale Dining and Local 35, their pay grade will remain the same, Comen said.

According to Notarino, part of her job used to be improving the appearance of dishes and spontaneously adding novel options to the menu.

“I’ve been in residential dining for 21 years,” Notarino said. “We have pride here at Silliman and we want to strive to be number one here on campus. This is our home, so we do what-

ever we can to make it the best.”

Davenport College Dining Hall Assistant Manager Hugo Vergara said he does not know what Davenport’s former head pantry worker, whom he declined to name, would have done if she had returned. Head pantry jobs no longer exist, he said, and he understands why she chose to stay at CSC. “The one that was here doesn’t want to come back, and we’re okay with that,” he said. “She said she is happy where she is — she likes the hours there a lot.”

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

College names may come “sometime soon” GROUNDBREAKING FROM PAGE 1 means] New Haven residents and contractors of color [and] small businesses can participate in this project.”

For major construction projects such as the two new residential colleges, city policy mandates that a certain percentage of construction jobs must go to city residents, minorities, women and small businesses from the city. For the new colleges, at least 125 New Haven residents will be employed on the construction site in some capacity, Nichole Jefferson, executive director of the Commission on Equal Opportunities, told the News in March.

Levin described the groundbreaking as a “dream come true” following years of planning and delays following the 2008–09 financial crisis, which brought a halt to the project in 2008. He thanked major donors in attendance such as Len Baker ’64, Roland Betts ’68, Bass and most

notably, Charles Johnson ’54, who donated $250 million to the project, the largest gift in University history, in 2013.

Despite the a particularly difficult winter in New Haven, Senior Fellow Margaret Marshall LAW ’76 said she was proud of how much progress had been made on the site.

“When the people mentioned today were first talking about [the creation of two new colleges], it seemed like an enormous undertaking, which it is,” Marshall said. “My only regret is that I won’t be here for the 50th reunion of the first graduating class.”

At the end of his speech, Salovey announced that the University would be putting together a time capsule of mementos and memorabilia, the contents of which would be opened on the occasion of the 50th reunion of the first graduating class from the colleges.

Some of the object to be placed in the large metal case — which will be

located in a wall in an underground corridor connecting the two colleges — include Thursday’s issue of the News, the New Haven Register, the architects’ renderings of the colleges and photos from the groundbreaking.

With all the pomp and circumstance of the event and many of Yale’s most influential leaders all gathered under one tent, the anticipation of whether Salovey would use this opportunity to announce the names was palpable. However, he dismissed the idea that today would be that occasion. “[The two colleges], like their 12 predecessors, will become unique communities with their own tradition and identities, with their own mascots with their own nicknames, with their own rivalries and with their own camaraderie,” Salovey said.

“And sometime soon, their actual own names.”

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

“Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It’s a slogan.”

JAMES Q. WILSON AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENTIST

YLS community discusses Ferguson’s relevance LAW SCHOOL FROM PAGE 1 was devoted to discussing the interim report of a presidential task force focusing on 21st century policing. President Barack Obama created the task force in December 2014 to investigate how to strengthen community policing and restore trust between law enforcement officers and their communities. The interim report, released in March, outlines lessons learned from Ferguson.

“Recent events across the country [...] have underscored the need for and importance of lasting collaborative relationships between local police and the public,” the introduction of the report reads.

Mai Fernandez, executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime, reiterated the importance of developing relationships between police and community. Fernandez spoke as part of a panel called “Us and Them?: Police-Community Relations,” which included speakers from groups who have felt victimized by police, including Muslim Americans, those identifying as LGBTQ, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and immigrant residents.

Susan Shah, a program director at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, said at the conference that the issue of police-community relations had been a “fringe issue” for a long time. But even though nationwide protests have brought the discussion into the spotlight, there are still elements of the dialogue — including language barriers and lack of cultural understanding between officers and immigrant communities — that need to be discussed, she said.

She added that police departments across the country need to take larger steps in community policing strategy in order to achieve change.

“It can’t just be about one tactic,” she said. “It’s about a wholesale change within a [policing] agency.”

To illustrate the practical benefits of a community policing model, Fernandez

described her own experience working at a Latino youth center in Washington, D.C., where a staff member was shot and seven youths were injured during a party one Friday night. She described the lack of communication between police and individuals after the incident, but added that the area saw a drastic drop in violent crime when the community center began making a conscious effort to form relationships with police. She said the community center invited police officers in to share meals with the youth, and the subsequent increased police presence near the center improved security in the area.

It can’t just be about one tactic […] It’s about a wholesale change within a [policing] agency.

SUSAN SHAH Program Director, Vera Institute of Justice Echoing the words of others on the panel, Fernandez said there are many positive side effects of successful community policing.

“A lot of times, victims can only get services if they report the crime,” she said, explaining that poor relations with the police can often discourage citizens from reporting crimes. “Having really good relations is important, so victims can get these services.”

Friday’s program will include panels titled “Is Ferguson the Exception or the Rule?” and “The Future of Policing,” including further remarks from Esserman and Philip Eure, inspector general of the New York Police Department. The conference will close on April 17.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

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“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” DEEP ROY ACTOR, STUNTSMAN, AND PUPPETEER

Inspire Yale event draws hundreds sity hospital deviated daily from their job descriptions by caring for patients and saw their work as highly skilled and emotionally fulfilling.

Students in attendance said they were impressed by the quality and diversity of the speakers.

The professors were humble about their accomplishments, but shared their inspiration with the audience, said Hilde Dahmer SOM ’16.

The GPSS plans to host the event in the future with renewed efforts to draw more speakers and increase the size of the space to offer more tickets, which are free of charge.

“It’s nice to put yourself into perspective with the rest of what everyone else is doing,” said Trisha Blake MED ’16, a student in Yale’s Physician Associate Program. “I think it would be a shame if it didn’t become an annual, cornerstone, end-of-the-semester event.”

Professors at the Yale School of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing shared how their scientific research had been influenced or shaped by other disciplines.

Robert Camp, associate research scientist in pathology at the Yale School of Medicine, criticized the use of Power-

BY JACOB MITCHELL AND FINNEGAN SCHICK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER Hundreds of students from each of Yale’s graduate and professional schools sat in crowded Edward P. Evans Hall on Thursday as 16 professors showcased their research and fields of study.

The event, “Inspiring Yale,” was created and sponsored by the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, and drew together some of the University’s top professors to deliver speeches of roughly seven minutes each. The speakers were elected by vote of the students in each school and spoke on topics ranging from “Linguistics and Architecture” to “Nursing and Medicine.” GPSS leaders said they hoped Inspiring Yale, which grew out of student demand for more cross-disciplinary conversations, would become an annual event that unites and showcases the work of the University. “[Inspiring Yale] is a way to get the movers and the shakers of Yale into one room and give the students access to them,” said Steve Reilly GRD ’15, Inspiring Yale co-chair and former GPSS president. “Students often feel siloed by what’s going on at all the other professional schools. This is a great way to find a mentor outside your discipline.”

The 600 tickets available for the event at the School of Management sold out within 12 hours, said Elizabeth Mo GRD ’18, Inspiring Yale co-chair.

The speeches were brief but offered each professor the chance to describe the nature of his or her work.

“I’ve been at Yale for 33 years, and this has never yet happened,” said Robert Shiller, economics professor and Nobel Laureate, during his talk on economic bubbles. “We all give insights to the same sorts of problems.”

Amy Wrzesniewski, professor of organizational behavior at the SOM, began the event by discussing her research into the motivations behind professional work. Her study of university hospital cleaning crews found that about half of all the cleaners at an unnamed univer-

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“What I propose is that we start teaching students how to solve problems, not memorize facts,” Camp said.

Yale Law School professor Amy Chua discussed how contractual agreements are often exploitative and noted that there is widespread disagreement on the conditions under which it is permissible to break a contract. Chua suggested that the law is only ever as good as the society that produces it.

Although the topics of each talk were different, the common thread of an interdisciplinary approach ran through the entire event.

“If you take different views of the same problem, you have a much better chance of solving your issues,” said William Stewart, surgery professor at the Yale School of Medicine. “Look outside of your own discipline for ideas and collaboration.”

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu and FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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BY EDDY WANG STAFF REPORTER Low-income residents and families could soon see more housing options, thanks to decisions made at the Board of Alders’ joint community development and human services committee Thursday evening.

At the meeting, committee members approved amendments to city appropriations of four federal grants aimed at providing more housing options to specific groups of city residents. Each of the grants targets a particular demographic in the city — the homeless, low-income persons with AIDS and low-income families, among others. These grants, administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, will take effect in the upcoming fiscal year.

“Everything worked out,” said Santiago Berrios-Bones, co-chair of the committee and Ward 14 alder representing Fair Haven.

The alders voted Thursday night on amendments that had been presented earlier last week. Mayor Toni Harp had proposed a division of the grant money among nonprofit organizations and city departments, and the alders made minor reappropriations to these divisions through the amendments.

Berrios-Bones underscored that the money from these HUD grants will go to nonprofit organizations that help the New Haven community. In fact, the four HUD grants will be divided among a variety of organizations, ranging from the Connecticut Native American Inter Tribal Union Council, a nonprofit that seeks to preserve Northeast Region Native American traditions, to Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, a nonprofit aimed

at helping refugees and displaced peoples with pre-employment training, to city departments themselves.

Community development committee member and Ward 29 Alder Brian Wingate, who represents the Beaver Hills area, added that this year’s approval process was smoother than a few years ago.

The city’s appropriations for these four HUD grants are assembled into a document known as the Consolidated Annual Action Plan. Both this document for fiscal year 2015–16, which specifies how the HUD grants will be used, and a five-year Consolidated Plan must be approved by the Board of Alders and submitted to HUD in order for the city to start using the grants.

In the 2015–16 fiscal year, $6.2 million dollars will be available to the city through these grants, a slight decrease from the $6.4 million available to the city in the last fiscal year.

Kellyann Day, CEO of New Reach, a nonprofit homelessness assistance organization, said HUD grant money has previously been used to fund renovations and New Reach’s rapid rehousing programs, which help the homeless find housing. This upcoming year, New Reach is applying for funding to provide subsidies for as many as 24 units of housing and 81 people through the Scattered Site Supportive Housing Program.

The board of alders will deliberate the Consolidated Plan across two meetings and then send it to the mayor for a final look. The New Haven Office of Management and Budget said it hopes to send the final plan to HUD by May 15.

Contact EDDY WANG at chen-eddy.wang@yale.edu .

City app developer adopts Google tech

BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER New Haven app developer MEA Mobile announced this week that its app has been chosen to use Google Wallet Instant Buy integration, a virtual payment system for smartphones.

The program, which aims to make payments more efficient, is now available on one of MEA Mobile’s apps: Printicular, a photo printing service for smartphones that offers home photo delivery and pickup at Walgreens. Bruce Seymour, founder of MEA New Haven, said the app is a response to the recent decline in photo printing that has resulted from the surge in social media applications.

“With digital media, there’s a gap where people stopped printing photos,” he said.

The Google Wallet feature stores user credit and debit card information on a secure account, which allows users to make purchases without re-entering billing and shipping information.

This technology is currently available for 100 other apps in the Google marketplace, according to Seymour. The app connects with users’ social media

accounts to access photos to be printed.

Seymour said that, considering the Google marketplace contains roughly one million applications, he feels fortunate to have been one of the few chosen as a Google Wallet partner.

He added that, before Google Wallet was integrated into his app, there was always the danger of losing customers as they filled out the 12 required fields for photo delivery and pickup.

Now, he said, the app has eliminated this “payment friction.”

“Instant Buy technology turns phones into wallets, allowing for simple, secure online payments as well as tap-and-pay transactions through integrated NFC technology,” Seymour said in a press release. “It securely stores credit cards, debit cards, gift cards, loyalty cards, offers and allows users to shop online and send money.”

According to Seymour, Printicular is the world’s fastest-growing photo printing app.

He said that, during peak periods, the company prints 50,000 photos per day.

Lauren Beecher, a designer for Printicular, said the company’s ability to “stay relevant” in the

tech community has afforded them the opportunity to be at the forefront of the market and adapt to the latest trends in technology.

She added that MEA Mobile is currently working on a number of projects for New Haven clients, including several projects for Yale.

Rohit Sharma, director of finance and innovation programs at the Economic Development Corporation of New Haven, said MEA Mobile has been an asset to the New Haven tech community in designing mobile apps for multiple startups.

He added that the company is unique in that it functions as both a product firm and produces development work for other startups.

“A lot of the companies I’ve worked with needed an app, and MEA mobile is the go-to company,” Sharma said.

Printicular launched in 2012 on Android devices, and has since expanded to iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8 Desktop, Blackberry and Kindle.

Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu .

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“I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.”

LOU GEHRIG SEVEN-TIME MLB ALL-STAR

Yale has penultimate match against Penn W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 10 ing forward to the competition,” attacker Emily Granger ’18 said. “We know we will need to step up our game, and [we] are ready to accept the challenge. Coming off of a win against Dartmouth, we are hungry for another.”

The game against Dartmouth was also the team’s senior day. All seven seniors started on the field, leading the team in a fight against the Big Green.

The competition from the last Dartmouth game to this upcoming game against Penn will surely heighten, according to players interviewed. The Quakers are ranked No. 20 on the national Division I college rankings. For the Quakers, losing to No. 13 Princeton was a well-fought defeat.

“It is going to be a hard-fought game,” defender Maggie Moriarty ’16 said. “But Coach Anne Phillips does not plan our season lightly. [W]e have already played highly ranked teams such as UMass, Denver, Cornell and Princeton. At this point in the season, we are definitely conditioned to play at a consistently top level in any

given game.”

In Ivy statistics, Penn has scored a total of 137 goals to date, while Yale has hit the net 113 times. In contrast, the Bulldogs have surpassed Penn in total number of assists this season with 43, while the Quakers have 38.

In ground ball pickups per game, Yale is still a top contender in the league and sits in third place — one spot above Penn. The Elis reverse their position and trail the Quakers at second place in the league for forced turnovers.

With such similar standings, the offensive and defensive matchups will clash this weekend. Besides the two teams facing off against each other, there will also be a pair of sisters competing against one another on the turf.

“The battle of the defenses is definitely going to be fun to watch, especially with the two Markham sisters out there,” defender Flannery Carney ’16 said. “I believe our team has the tools to beat Penn, and our goal is to come together and play with fight and fire.”

Defender Emily Markham ’17 meets her sister, Quaker defender Meg Markham in a sibling rivalry this

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Yale sits at third place in the Ivy League in ground ball pickups this season. weekend.

For the last month, the Elis have played their games every Saturday with no competition in between. The last four games of the season are all conference play, with Penn and Harvard remaining. Due to limiting competition to only one game per week, the Bulldogs have had more time and energy to prepare for their Ancient Eight playoffs.

Now, 13 games into the season, the Yale women has seen some well earned development and improvements.

Elis face highpowered Albany

“Our team defines the word team in every sense of the word,” Granger said. “We love each other off the field and are willing to fight for one another on the field. Being best friends who will do anything for one another is going to help us step up our game and face the tough competition this weekend.”

The Bulldogs will play against the Quakers this Saturday at 3 p.m. on Franklin Field.

Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

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The Albany offense has averaged 17 goals per game — the highest average

M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 10 defense, but I think Michael Quinn ’16 … and our whole defense is going to do a phenomenal job defending him.”

Thompson, not surprisingly, was drafted first overall in the 2015 Major League Lacrosse draft, which also saw Yale star attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15 selected in the sixth round.

Just like the Bulldogs, Albany comes into Saturday’s contest riding a hot streak, having won three consecutive games against America East opponents Vermont, Binghamton and Bryant.

The Great Danes’ only losses have come against Syracuse and Cornell, both consensus top-10 teams.

Despite facing a challenging opponent, the Bulldogs feel confident with their level of play. But with senior day behind them and road trips to Albany and Harvard remaining on the schedule, Yale must find its comfort zone while playing in hostile road environ-

ments.

“Road games add more adversity,” defenseman Camyar Matini ’17 said. “Whether it’s the tiring traveling process or the heckling away crowd, road games bring another element to the game.

We’ve been trying to work on mental toughness all year, so the next two games will be a great test for us.”

After facing the Great Danes and the Crimson, Yale will return home to await its Ivy and NCAA tournament fate. When asked about the postseason, though, DeMeireles emphasized that the Bulldogs are focused on the task at hand.

“All I care about is the fact that we have an enormous game this Saturday night,” DeMeireles said.

“Successful teams take the season one game at a time.”

The Bulldogs visit Albany on Saturday. Face-off is at 7 p.m.

Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

second in the entire conference, whereas last-place Yale has only won two games, one against Penn and another against Dartmouth.

However, Yale gained some offensive momentum in its most recent win against Sacred Heart on Wednesday and will hopefully carry it into this weekend, according to Onorato. In their split of a doubleheader against Sacred Heart, the Bulldogs lost an extra-inning affair 8–3 in the first game, but took an early 2–0 lead in the second contest and never gave up the lead, ultimately winning 4–3.

“Heading into the Harvard weekend, we’re really focused on attacking pitchers early in the count,” outfielder Sydney Ginsberg ’18 said. “We’ve proven we’re more successful when we stay ahead of the pitchers.”

Yale has several key players who will threaten the Crimson. Pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18, who was named Ivy League Pitcher of the Week earlier this season, has an impressive earned run average of 3.17, enough to lead Yale and rank eighth in the conference. In addition, Casalino is fourth in the league with 76 total strikeouts this season.

Right fielder Camille Weisenbach ’17 will also be crucial for Yale. With a batting average of 0.333, Weisenbach leads Yale in this category and is not far behind Harvard’s senior infielder Katherine Lantz, who leads the Crimson with a batting average of 0.378 and ranks eighth in the conference.

But Harvard also has its fair share of standout players. Named to the all-Ivy first team last season, senior pitcher Laura Ric-

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The Elis are on a seven-game conference losing streak. ciardone currently ranks fifth in the conference with an earned run average of 2.63, 0.54 lower than that of Casalino. Lantz and senior infielder Emily Gusse, each of whom has four home runs this year, will also be strong offensive threats to the Bulldogs.

“The team has worked incredibly hard to work out some kinks,” pitcher Lindsay Efflandt ’17 said.

“We have been relentless in the midst of some tough situations, and I am confident that we will break it open. We must continue to focus on what we can control and never give up.”

Ginsberg said one key will be getting the lead runner out and limiting baserunners to only one base.

Yale will play the Crimson at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. The games will be broadcast on the Ivy League Digital Network.

Contact JULIA YAO at julia.yao@yale.edu .

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Yale won three of its four games against Harvard in 2014, including a pair of victories in extra innings.

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compete for a series win as Yale has at least split the season series with Harvard in each of the past five seasons.

A year ago, Yale won three of four, including a pair of extrainnings victories in the second doubleheader.

“Last year’s success against Harvard hasn’t really been on our minds,” Ford said. “Harvard is having a good year and we need to focus on our game and play well.”

Perhaps the most impressive performance from last season’s meetings with the Cantabs came from ace Chris Lanham ’16, who tossed a complete game shutout in which only three Crimson hitters reached base.

Lanham has been unable to match the production of last year’s Second Team All-Ivy campaign, as he has a 5.85 earned run average against Ivy League com-

petition — a far cry from his 1.05 ERA in conference play a year ago. But he returned to form in his latest start, tossing a complete game against Dartmouth in which he punched out six batters while allowing only two earned runs.

“Having experience is always a nice confidence booster, but when it comes to the actual game I believe it’s more important to focus on personal performance and execution,” Lanham said. “If I rely on the process and make quality pitches, the results should take care of themselves.”

Yale’s lineup will once again begin with the fearsome threesome of left fielder and first baseman Eric Hsieh ’15, center fielder Green Campbell ’15 and shortstop and third baseman Richard Slenker ’17. Led by Hsieh — who, despite coming down to earth after his scorching start to the season, is still second in the Ivy

League with a 0.381 batting average — the one-two-three combo are hitting a combined 0.340.

Hsieh also ranks second in the nation in on-base percentage at 0.527, behind Nevada’s Austin Byler, who sports a 0.538 on-base percentage that is greatly inflated by 14 hit-by-pitches.

The rest of the Bulldog offense is hitting a combined 0.233.

Despite the low average, multiple Elis have been able to step up in clutch moments. Captain and right fielder David Toups ’15 is tied for the team lead with 14 runs batted in while catchers Robert Baldwin ’15 and Andrew Herrera ’17 have driven in 13 and 11 runs, respectively.

The pair of doubleheaders kicks off Saturday afternoon, as first pitch from O’Donnell Field in Boston is scheduled for 1 p.m.

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

then, they weren’t a very strong crew. They were in the middle of a cycle, how long I don’t know, of losing to Harvard. I don’t know if they just hated losing so they just wanted to pick on other people or if they really were sexist, but they were so nasty to us. Obviously, the boathouse and the whole issue with the protest was a part of it, but that wasn’t the heavyweights, that was the University being unprepared for women to want to be engaged in athletics.

But by the end of our four years, the guys who had come in in my class were first of all, a little younger and a little more comfortable with the idea of women at Yale … So the other thing is, the men’s crew got stronger, so they didn’t have to pick on anybody. Obviously the women’s crew at Yale became a powerhouse by the time I graduated. We had never beat Radcliffe, and we beat Radcliffe for the first time my sophomore year. We were national champions in ’79, the first national championship for women’s crew … Two of us [would have attended the Olympics in 1980]. We were named. It was me and Mary O’Connor.

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How did the protest color your following three years at Yale?

Actually, it’s interesting. I think it gets a lot more attention today than it did back then. It was a day in our lives … I wasn’t thinking about the implications of our behavior on the greater world … It took some work, certainly on our captain’s part and on [teammate] Anne Warner’s part to plan the protest and get us all engaged, and there were repercussions in the weeks that followed in terms of our coach getting in trouble by the athletics department.

He got lectured by the [department], you know, ‘why aren’t you controlling your women,’ things like that. Can you imagine a coach being told that now? But beyond that, there was some brouhaha for a while, but once the University committed to expanding the boathouse, we were focused on rowing and training and winning. I think we got a boathouse by my junior year, or at least an addition to the boathouse, I can’t remember, and that was great. It made us feel better, or at least like we’d been heard.

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Have you seen “A Hero for Daisy,” the 1999 film on the protest? And what did you think?

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Oh my gosh, of course I’ve seen it. It’s a fabulous documentary. It’s all about Chris Ernst. She deserves 100 percent of the credit for that protest. They were the ones who birthed the idea, and they were the ones who made it happen. I was a freshman. I did what my captain told me to. I really believed in her, I thought she was an amazing woman and I admired her. If she believed it was important, I believed it was important. I was ready to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with her.

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Your memoir, “Course Correction,” came out last Tuesday. What prompted you to write it?

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High school and college and my twenties were actually a tough time for me, even though I was on crew, I was on rowing. Anyway, I was really lonely. Just given stuff that had happened in my family, and I ended up writing the book because I felt if anyone who was in a similar situation picked it up and read it and it helped them, maybe how they looked at life or how they looked at themselves, it would be worth it.

Q A

What’s the significance of this boathouse?

The boathouse now, which was … finished I think in 2000, one of the poetic justices, if you will, is that it was a woman’s family who made that boathouse possible. It was really kind of completing the circle. If you think about what happened with the protest and how the University had to be dragged into compliance with Title IX, and then the entire program got to take such amazing steps forward because of my father’s generosity. Obviously he was generous and interested in supporting the crew because of my engagement in the program. The boathouse would not have been built without the entire community of rowing alums stepping forward. But I love the justice of it, that for so long the women were kind of picked on and made fun of, and the guys felt we didn’t have a right to be there, and then look what the women turned around and helped lead, to make happen … It’s not about me personally. It’s about what women can provide when women can step in and make a difference.

Q A

How did the rest of the money get raised?

There’s this talk tomorrow, and I’m going to tell the story of how we raised the money for the boathouse. It’s an interesting story and not many people know it because at the beginning, [former University President] Rick Levin told us we’d never be able to raise the money needed and told us forget it — it wasn’t going to happen. You just don’t say that to rowers. You don’t tell us it’s not possible. I’m sure he’s very happy, but he galvanized the whole program.

Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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Bulldogs hope to play spoiler In a sports year in which Harvard athletics has been able to deal lastminute blows to the football, men’s basketball and men’s ice hockey teams, the baseball team has a chance to exact some revenge on the Crimson this weekend in a four-game series.

Having dropped 11 of their last 13 contests, including eight in a row within the Ivy League, the Bulldogs (10–19, 2–10 Ivy) sit six games behind division-leading Dartmouth with only eight conference games left to play in the regular season.

Meanwhile, Harvard (16–17, 5–7) finds itself three games back in the Red Rolfe Division and cannot afford to lose much more ground as the Crimson ends its season with four games against Dartmouth. Before Harvard can fight for the division crown, however, Yale can play the role of spoiler in an attempt to get its season back on track.

“With playoff hopes getting slim, the focus is to finish fighting and play our hardest for pride and to give our seniors a good finish because they deserve nothing less,” starting pitcher Chasen Ford ’17 said.

Over the course of Yale’s eightgame conference losing streak, the Elis have lost by an average of nearly eight runs per contest, and the Bulldogs fin-

BY MAYA SWEELDER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On March 3, 1976, 19 members of the Yale women’s crew team marched into the Athletic Department and, completely naked, read a list of grievances stemming from the University’s unfair treatment of male and female athletes.

The protest marked the first high-profile stance and sparked a debate about compliance with the recently enacted Title IX legislation.

WOMEN’S CREW One of the participants was Virginia ‘Ginny’ Gilder ’79. There are a host of potential possible descriptors that can precede Gilder’s name: silver medalist, co-owner of WNBA team Seattle Storm and author. The News talked to the former Yale rower about her college crew career, her experiences at the University and her recent memoir, “Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX.”

Q A

What did you see change throughout your four years as a Yale rower?

Probably the biggest thing that changed was the attitude of the

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Ginny Gilder ’79 was a member of the women’s crew team and recently completed her memoir, “Course Correction.” heavyweight men towards the women.

It was really pretty uncomfortable my freshman year to work out in the same space as the heavyweight men. Back SEE Q&A PAGE 8

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The Bulldogs have lost their last eight conference games in a row. ished within five runs in just two of those games. While some individual performances have stood out both on the mound and in the batter’s box, neither the pitching staff nor the lineup has been able to perform consistently.

The Yale pitchers have allowed more than 10 runs per game on average while the offense has managed just a notch above three runs of support a game.

“It takes a lot of pressure off of me

and the other pitchers to throw strikes, because we get to trust our stars on defense,” righthander Eric Brodkowitz ’18 said. “We just want to win every game, and we’ll see what happens from there. We’re a very competitive team, and we want to win.”

If recent history serves as any indicator, though, the Bulldogs should SEE BASEBALL PAGE 8

Elis gear up for Albany, top-notch Thompson

BY JONATHAN MARX CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The men’s lacrosse team got off to a scorching start this season, winning their first five games in February and early March and rising to No. 6 in the national rankings.

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No. 1 Major League Lacrosse draft pick Albany attacker Lyle Thompson will prove to be a difficult challenge against the Yale defense.

After a two-game slip-up in the early part of the Ivy League schedule, the Bulldogs fell to seventh in the national rankings but have gone on another long winning streak. With a win tomorrow against No. 8 Albany

Softball plays four against Harvard

BY JULIA YAO STAFF REPORTER After splitting a doubleheader against Sacred Heart on Wednesday, the Yale softball team will face Harvard this weekend in two back-to-back doubleheaders in Cambridge.

The Crimson will not be an easy opponent, as Yale fell in all four games to its rival last season, the biggest loss being 11–3.

(10–2, 5–0 America East), the Elis (9–2, 3–2 Ivy) can equal their seasonopening five-game win streak and build momentum heading into postseason play.

Defeating the Great Danes will not be an easy task, however. Albany boasts the nation’s most formidable offense, scoring 17 goals per game, more than 1.5 times second place Syracuse. In one four-game stretch in March, the Great Danes scored 96 goals.

“They have an extremely highpowered offense capable of putting up absurd numbers,” defenseman Alirio DeMeireles ’15 said.

Two Albany players, sophomore Seth Oakes and freshman Connor Fields, rank in the nation’s top 10 in goal scoring. Nonetheless, despite those gaudy totals, neither Oakes nor Fields will be the center of Yale’s defensive attention.

The Bulldogs have constructed their entire defensive game plan around shutting down Albany senior attackman Lyle Thompson, the consensus best player in the country and national leader in points per game.

Indeed, when asked to pinpoint the key to an Eli victory, DeMeireles and attackman JW McGovern ’16 focused on the team effort and communica-

tion required to stop Thompson as a team rather than merely assigning him to an individual defender.

Thompson leads the nation with a whopping 6.5 points per game, ranking first overall in assists per game and 19th in goals per game. In his junior season, he set the NCAA record for points in a single season while sharing the Tewaaraton Award with his older brother. “[He’s] arguably the best player in the country; the best player in the world,” McGovern said. “He’s definitely going to be a handful for our SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 8

Bulldogs set sights on Quakers

17, 8–4), which posted three victories against Brown last weekend. Currently, Harvard ranks SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 8

SOFTBALL The Bulldogs (8–17, 2–8 Ivy) currently stand in last place of the North Division of the Ivy League, behind Dartmouth, Harvard and Brown. With 10 conference games left this season, however, the Elis have plenty of opportunities to ascend in the ranks.

“We are at a key point in our season,” said captain Sarah Onorato ’15, a sports columnist for the News. “We play half of our total league games in the next 10 days, so a lot can happen.”

After losing all four games against Dartmouth last weekend and going 1–1 against Sacred Heart on Wednesday, the Bulldogs will have a tough fight against the Crimson (17–

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Penn has accumulated 137 goals this season while Yale has put 113 chances in the net.

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Yale split a pair of games against Sacred Heart on Wednesday.

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The Yale women’s lacrosse team will travel to Philadelphia on Saturday to play against the Quakers in one of their last remaining games of this season.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE The Bulldogs will play against Penn, a team that lost their first place lead in the Ivy League this past Wednesday. The Princeton Tigers, to whom the Bulldogs lost 7–5, defeated the Quakers in

a close 9–7 matchup. With this result, the Elis (7–6, 2–3 Ivy) look to create another loss for fellow in-conference team Penn (10–3, 4–1 Ivy).

“This weekend we are lookSEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 8

THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF GOALS PER GAME THE ALBANY MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM SCORES. The Bulldogs will face the No. 1 Albany offense as well as the No. 1 Major League Lacrosse draft pick Lyle Thompson this weekend.