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CROSS CAMPUS ‘Til next fall. We hope all you

prefrosh enjoyed yourselves here — grab some pizza as you leave, bask in the glory that is senior spring, and then make the right choice: Boola Boola.

“Luillapalooza.” That’s what the Asian American Cultural Center is (informally) calling its celebratory event today, in honor of history professor Mary Lui’s appointment to the Timothy Dwight mastership.

Lui will be the first AsianAmerican female to serve as a residential college master.

Mightier than the sword.

As a parting act, seniors in the English Department’s writing concentration will read excerpts from their final projects — all Great American Novels, of course — at tonight’s Concentrators’ Ball. We’d be disappointed if they didn’t actually use typewriters, as the event’s Facebook invitation seems to suggest.

Reflective reading. Professor

Elizabeth Alexander ’84 will also be reading some of her work today, showcasing poems from her latest book, “The Light of the World,” a memoir that honors her late husband.

Like “Interstellar.” But real. On Tuesday, YaleNews announced that NASA is enlisting the help of Yale researchers for a project searching for signs of life beyond the solar system.

In this case, habitability will be measured by observing biological interactions with a given exoplanet’s atmosphere, interior and geology. We remain hopeful.

Still the best. Before

you get too excited about extraterrestrial life, however, take a second to appreciate the planet that we’re currently on: Today is Earth Day. The University will be holding an Earth Day Neighborhood Cleanup around Science Park from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Save it. Fittingly, The Daily Mail ran a piece yesterday about a Yale report that profiled all 50 states and their respective view on global warming. Survey says: Roughly 66 percent of Connecticut adults believe that global warming is happening.

Sparks flying. School of Management professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld has managed to make headlines yet again. After The New York Post wrote on his (emphatic) willingness to back the CEOs of various companies in the media last week, Fortune detailed a dispute between Sonnenfeld and hedge fund manager Nelson Peltz over the corporate future of the chemical company DuPont on Tuesday.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1932 The News announces plans to dedicate its building, located at 202 York St., to Briton Hadden ’20, a former chairman of the News and founder of Time Magazine.

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A redefined role for the Yale College Dean January was not kind to Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway.

Over the span of less than 15 days, campus was racked with tragedy: the loss of a student’s life, two publicized allegations of sexual assault and a slew of robberies in Trumbull College. An attempt to catch the thief, in which a student was briefly detained at gunpoint, brought national attention to Yale’s policing practices. And it all happened surrounding only the second snowstorm to shut down Yale’s classes in 37 years.

This fall, the University is expected to launch a comprehensive “wellness” website that centralizes information on mental health, spiritual wellbeing and clinical care.

The proposed launch comes amid student calls for increased transparency on a range of University-related mental health policies. The new website, developed by the office of Kimberly Goff-Crews, the University secretary and vice president for student life, will reach beyond just clinical options to include other aspects of wellness at Yale, including spiritual and physical well-being, GoffCrews said. Her office initially intended to do a soft launch of the website this spring. But, after feedback from students suggested it could be better to delay the website and seek more input from students about what information it should contain, the official launch was delayed to next fall, Goff-Crews said.

These efforts will help remedy some of the most fundamental issues with mental health on campus, said Eli Feldman ’16, president of the campus organization Mind Matters and a member of the Coalition for Mental Health and Wellbeing. He added that

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Title IX Committee promises changes

are Gendler’s domain.

This change brings Yale — which was formerly an “oddball” — into closer alignment with its peer institutions, Deputy Dean of Yale College and Dean of Undergraduate Education Joseph Gordon said. Most major research universities in the U.S. already had a dean of the FAS faculty by the time Yale shifted to the new model. As of now, nearly all of Yale’s Ivy League peers have a dean of the faculty in some capacity.

Deborah Prentice, dean of the faculty at Princeton, said neither structure is superior; rather, it depends on the people filling the roles.

And the change was necessary, to some degree. Miller, who left the post

The Yale College Council and Yale Women’s Center released a joint report Tuesday afternoon on the state of sexual misconduct policies and procedures at Yale. The report included the responses of the University Title IX Steering Committee to the report’s recommendations.

The report’s findings are based on responses to a survey distributed to Yale College in January, and it summarized the feedback of 75 undergraduates regarding Yale’s sexual misconduct reporting mechanisms and support services. Student responses, the report said, revealed that undergraduates are misinformed about the University’s policies and often feel a lack of guidance while navigating the complaint process.

After reviewing students’ responses, the study’s authors developed a series of proposals for reform that they then presented to the Title IX Steering Committee, a group of administrators that advises University Title IX coordinators on effective ways of combating sexual misconduct. Of the report’s 14 recommendations, the steering committee accepted 11 as in progress or nearly completed.

The remaining three are still under discussion.

“Unlike previous reports, this report is unique because it not only contains recommendations, but also commitments from relevant administrators,” the report said.

“It outlines action steps that will be taken to implement the proposals that arose from our findings, along with deadlines for their completion. By forming a strong collaboration between students and administrators, we were able to determine feasible proposals and achieve concrete results.”

Among the most significant of the steering committee’s promised changes were an increase in resources devoted to the Title IX

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n recent years, a number of structural changes have drastically altered the role of the Yale College dean. But 10 months in, Dean Jonathan Holloway has brought something of his own to the position as well. EMMA PLATOFF reports.

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WITH A NEW DEAN, A NEW DEANSHIP

Less than one year into his tenure, Holloway has already endured some exceptionally trying times. But Holloway also stepped into his role at a critical moment in Yale’s history.

The year 2014 saw not only a Yale College dean new to the role, but also a redefinition of that deanship. With the creation of the new position of dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, currently filled by Tamar Gendler, the role of dean of Yale College was roughly split in half. Previous Yale College Dean Mary Miller spent nearly half her time dealing with issues of faculty promotion and tenure, a responsibility she split with the dean of the Graduate School. Now, these faculty concerns

University plans new wellness website

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New men’s soccer coach brings a more intense approach to the team.

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UPCLOSE Holloway had entered the second term of his deanship with new ideas. Before those “weeks of crisis,” he had been planning for new projects that would feature students’ voices on campus. But one chaotic day, he turned to Yale College Director of Strategic Communications Paul McKinley and told him they would have to put those plans on hold. He needed to spend the time “putting out fires.”

“For me that was a lesson, of a type. I find it hard to believe that we would replicate that kind of intensity during my term as dean,” Holloway said, knocking on the wooden arms of his chair.

As the former master of Calhoun College, Holloway had weathered his fair share of storms. After a few especially harrowing incidents woke him late at night, he never slept quite as soundly for as long as he was master.

But experiencing tragedy on campus is different in his new role.

The highs are extremely high, he said, but the lows are “crushingly low.”

“You occupy the space in a different way — there are different expectations placed upon the dean of Yale College,” he said. “The great beauty of being a master is you know the constituents you’re dealing with, and the constituents’ families. As dean of Yale College you don’t — it makes it more difficult to navigate the conversation.”

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clear platforms of information are key to ensuring that students are well-informed.

“A website [that consolidates resources] is hugely important,” Feldman said. “I don’t actually think a lot of the issues that are really at the center of mental health at Yale were even brought up during [this semester’s] increased discussion — how we can be better friends to others, teaching students how to reach out for help.”

Director of University Events Heather Calabrese, who works under Goff-Crews, said Goff-Crews’s office will host two open forums next Tuesday for any interested students to preview the website and offer suggestions. New features and functionality will be added as students begin to use the platform, she said.

“We are trying to move as quickly as possible,” GoffCrews said.

Joel Bervell ’17 attended a visiting lunch with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway last Friday. According to Bervell, Holloway told Trumbull College students attending the luncheon that one of the reforms to Mental Health and Counseling services would be a centralized database, ostensibly referring to the wellness SEE MENTAL HEALTH PAGE 6

Med school will fight racial discrimination legal complaint

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER Facing a legal complaint alleging retaliation on the part of Richard Lifton, professor and chair of genetics at the School of Medicine, Yale faculty and administrators are prepared to fight what they consider to be a “frivolous” complaint.

The Oct. 24, 2014 complaint states that Syed Rafi, who was employed as a lab technologist at Yale from August 2001 to March 2003, has been unable to find employment in clinical cytogenetics despite submitting what the complaint claims amounted to over 70 job applications. The complaint alleges that Lifton told other institutions not to hire Rafi — an act the complaint claims was part of persistant acts of retaliation.

University officials and medical school faculty said the complaint has no merit.

“This lawsuit could not be more frivolous or more unfair to Professor Lifton and the School of Medicine,” said University Spokesman Tom Conroy. “If and when the complaint is served, Yale will promptly seek its dismissal and has every expectation of success.”

Rafi worked as a lab technologist at the school for 19 months under the supervision of Mazin Qumsiyeh, professor of cytogenetics. In the complaint, Rafi claims that Qumsiyeh was unfairly fired from the school for imposing his religious and pro-Palestine political views on others and creating an uncomfortable and disruptive working environment. According to the complaint, Rafi wanted to leave Yale, but Lifton retained him in hopes of using him as a defensive witness in the event that Qumsiyeh decided to file a lawsuit against the school for unfair dismissal and racial discrimination.

The complaint alleges that Lifton coerced

Rafi into writing a confidential report — which is included in the complaint — in favor of Qumsiyeh’s removal in 2003.

This lawsuit could not be more frivolous or more unfair to Professor Lifton and the School of Medicine.

TOM CONROY University Spokesperson But according to Tian Xu GRD ’90, professor and vice chairman of genetics at the School of Medicine, Qumsiyeh was not fired.

Rather, he was not promoted to a higher ranking professorship elsewhere and so left the school, Xu said. Maurice Mahoney, a professor of genetics at the medical school who knew Qumisiyeh but not Rafi, also expressed skepticism regarding Rafi’s allegations against Lifton, saying that Rafi’s 2003 confidential report does not seem logically sound.

In a Monday email to the News, Qumsiyeh denied the allegations made against him in the statement written by Rafi in 2003, adding that he did know of its existence before being contacted by the News.

“The allegations about my personal and professional character and conduct are lies and very bizarre,” Qumsiyeh wrote, adding that he will consult lawyers and friends about pursuing a legal remedy for what he considers to be defamation.

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t’s Bulldog Days, which means that Yale students (or at least the ones who aren’t too jaded to partake) and professors alike are busying themselves trying to sell Yale to incoming students. And I wish them all the best — Yale is an amazing place, and with only three classes left in my entire Yale experience, I’m feeling pretty nostalgic about the wonderful and life-altering experiences I’ve had here. (If you’re reading this, prefrosh, come to Yale!)

That said, however, I think Bulldog Days is also the very first instance of a common Yale trope.

No doubt, at multiple talks and meet and greets around campus at this very moment, faculty and students are enticing prospective new Yalies with a seductive promise: If you come here, you will be important. Just by virtue of your admission, they say sweetly, you have already proved your importance. I can’t tell you how many classes I’ve taken where professors say, almost conspiratorially, that they’re teaching us what they’re teaching us because we are the future leaders of the country. That someday, when we’re important, we’ll use these skills to further our important goals.

WHAT IF WE GAVE UP ON IMPORTANCE? That’s all well and good, and I’d be lying if I said that some part of my ego wasn’t smug at being told (by “important” professors) that they deem me important. It’s a brilliant ploy to bring you into their inner ring. But let’s be honest: I’m not important. And, chances are, you’re not important. I don’t mean to be rude or down on myself — rather, I’m just questioning the use of “importance” as the relevant standard. Why prioritize importance instead of, for example, added value?

You don’t have to believe in your own importance to believe that you said something useful in seminar, or that you contributed something good to the community through this or that extracurricular.

I think what I’m saying is that valuing importance as the primary indicator of worth is a ubiquitous Yale trait. It’s drilled into us from the moment we step on campus, and we absolutely internalize and propagate it, in ways that deeply affect campus culture. At every step of our Yale career, we seek the “importance” that has been ascribed to us — we seek “important” internships, we apply to “important” classes, we court “important” professors.

Part of the reason that the society process is so harrowing is that we view admission to or rejecVICTORIA tion from a society as a HALLcomment on PALERM our “importance” as The a campus presence.

Notorious What if VHP we gave up on importance? It doesn’t mean thinking any less of ourselves, but rather thinking of our worth, ambitions and contributions differently. Because the other thing about being told by the president of an established university that you’re important is that we are somehow made complicit. We have somehow bought into a value system that I, at least, didn’t intentionally sign up for. What if I don’t want to be important by some crusty establishment professor’s metric? What if I want to rebel against the values that he touts as important? By wrapping all of us into these traditional conceptions of importance, we are in some ways deprived of an easy way to challenge those entrenched standards.

This is a weird time. I’m less than a month away from graduation, and yet am currently confronted with droves of people who have a full four years of Yale ahead of them. Whatever side of the Yale juncture we’re on, though, if there’s one message I want to leave you all with, it’s to fight against the allure of “importance.” It doesn’t make you a better person to achieve campus importance, and it certainly doesn’t make you a lesser one to go about your life and your passions without much attention. Importance isn’t the same as talent, as inspiration or even as the value of your contributions to your chosen field.

So much of what gave me anxiety over these past years is the idea that my ambitions weren’t important enough — that they would leave me wallowing in obscurity as my peers launched themselves into prominence.

I’ve come to believe that it doesn’t matter. Importance just isn’t a value judgment that I want to believe in. And if you’re just coming into Yale, I urge you not to let anyone here force you to believe in it; and if you’re on your way out, now is the time to assess whether you want to believe in it, too. And if you don’t, then it’s time to leave this bizarre, competitive metric behind.

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hen I think of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, I think of her ridiculous neologisms like “conscious uncoupling,” which she used to describe her divorce. I think of her chipper guest appearance on Glee, where she covered a PG version of Cee-Lo Green. I think of her namesake lifestyle blog, “goop,” which she “curates” with her favorite pseudoscientific health claims, new recipes and entire articles dedicated to things like monogrammed jewelry. She’s the uncontested queen of bougie, but last week, she decided to come out of her Fabergé-egg shell and decided to eat frugally.

As part of the national “Food Stamp Challenge,” chef Mario Batali challenged Paltrow to participate in a campaign to raise money and awareness for the Food Bank for New York City, in which she would subsist on $29 of groceries for an entire week.

That’s the amount, allegedly, that a recipient of food assistance benefits is able to spend.

The challenge has seen a number of iterations — our very own senator, Chris Murphy, participated in the challenge two years ago.

“Dubious that I could complete the week,” Paltrow wrote on her website, “I donated to the

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Food Bank at the outset.” She predicted her own fate: After four days of working on the challenge, she cracked, splurging on chicken, vegetables and half a bag of licorice.

In attempting this “challenge,” Paltrow brought attention to the sorry state of SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the flagship American welfare program that provides benefits to qualifying low-income people to spend on food. That she couldn’t follow through with her temporary experiment shows how difficult it has to be to face hunger as a reality every day. The challenge was a well-meaning effort on Paltrow’s part to leverage her celebrity status to some activist end. But with celebrity comes responsibility to inform and inspire — a responsibility she failed to fulfill.

I’m not the first person to question Paltrow for her antics.

An article on Vox pointed out that the food stamp challenge and its $29 figure is based on many faulty assumptions. The way SNAP benefits actually work is much more complicated. Rather than a fixed number, SNAP dollars are calculated on an incomebased sliding scale and are meant to supplement whatever income a recipient spends on food, not

replace it altogether.

I’d add that Paltrow is privileged with easy access to food — a nearby grocery store, transportation to get there, free time, cooking equipment and culinary know-how — privileges that SNAP beneficiaries don’t usually have. Though the challenge is rife with inaccuracies, Paltrow took no opportunity to address them, doing a disservice to the issue that she was trying to bring to light.

Maybe that’s too harsh. A Slate article lauded Paltrow for using her celebrity status to talk about something that isn’t as inane as monogrammed jewelry for once.

But to what extent was this stunt meant to discuss the intricacies of a struggling government program, and to what extent was it for Paltrow’s own benefit?

In the context of her website, the stunt seemed more concerned with Paltrow and her selfrighteous aura. She has used her blog as a platform to share her favorite juice cleanses and crash diets, and her endorsement of the food stamp challenge seems less like a call for social change and more like an attempt to showcase yet another trial of dietary self-control. Paltrow benefits from the lived experience of someone else’s poverty, from the do-gooder appeal she

acquires by participating in the challenge. But the low-income person she’s playing does not.

Maybe if Paltrow enlisted her stretch limo of a readers to do something about hunger in the U.S., her “poverty tourism,” as one Time article called it, would be a little more acceptable. But she leaves no course of action for her followers to take, other than a half-hearted plea to donate to food banks. But even then, that recommendation is shortsighted — Paltrow spent four days realizing the drawbacks of an underfunded and poorly understood assistance program, and yet makes no call to action to get to the root of the problem.

A more appropriate end to Paltrow’s food stamp fiasco could have been to ask her followers to advocate for food assistance by calling a member of Congress or voting for pro-entitlement candidates. At the very least, she could have acknowledged the flaws inherent to her challenge and the complexities of hunger. Not only did Paltrow fail the challenge — she didn’t do it justice, either. Her engagement with poverty was a mere publicity stunt.

AUSTIN BRYNIARSKI is a junior in Calhoun College. Contact him at austin.bryniarski@yale.edu .

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ollowing a March 21 New York Times article that accused college students of “hiding from scary ideas,” there's been a lot of criticism of the concept of safe spaces at Yale. The brunt of these critiques has been aimed at the tightly moderated, membersonly Facebook group “Marginalized Groups' Safe Space at Yale” (MGSS@Y) which often bans participants who post content that is deemed to be offensive.

Many conservatives argue that the existence of such spaces is antithetical to the free exchange of ideas and vigorous debate that define the college experience. They characterize liberals as irrational, cocooning themselves in echo chambers of others who agree with them, rather than convincing outsiders with the logic of their ideas. In my view, this opinion is deeply misguided.

Conservatives fail to recognize that, for marginalized people of all kinds, political conversations that deal with discrimination are not just abstract intellectual debates. They strike at the heart of their identities, often calling into question their humanity, intelligence and the legitimacy of their rights. In that sense, these conversations are deeply personal and provoke strong emotions.

Therefore, there are two levels on which minorities must deal with these political conversations. Firstly, there is the intellectual level. Legislative change in any democracy requires consensus, meaning that we must convince the majority of Americans that the institutional discrimination minorities face is real, is deeply unjust and must be tackled. Therefore, many marginalized people choose to participate in what we might call unsafe spaces, in which any and all viewpoints are welcomed. Organizations such as the YPU provide active forums for minorities to try to persuade their peers.

But even those who do not want to participate in such spaces are forced to. Every lecture and seminar that we attend is, by definition, an unsafe space.

Safe spaces address a need that is particularly relevant in the collegiate stage of our lives.

In these spaces, minorities can shape their identities alongside others who are struggling with similar restrictions. Many minorities want to engage with these spaces, not necessarily to turn their experiences into an intellectual debate, but to process and discuss them on an emotional level, with others who have similar experiences.

Participating in this kind of

space does not, and in fact could never, preclude minorities from participating in more traditional debate forums.

Additionally, MGSS@Y has a plethora of other benefits. It allows students to distinguish between the individual and the systematic. A poorly worded comment by a professor who is otherwise consistently fair and balanced cannot be treated in the same way as a discriminatory comment from a professor who has a long history of prejudiced behavior towards minority students at Yale. These spaces enable students to discuss these instances and advise one another on how to move forward after the event.

MGSS@Y also allows marginalized people to explore intersectionality. It is often taken for granted at Yale that identity is deeply complex. For example, I am discriminated against on the basis of two facets of my identity (my race and my gender), whereas I benefit from great privilege on two others (my socioeconomic status and my sexuality). Engaging in this safe space has allowed me to get an honest and unfiltered look at the experiences of students who face discrimination that I don't.

Finally, it gives a voice to underprivileged people who are either never addressed in the

media, such as Native Americans or the white working class, or are only discussed in the context of clunky and reductive stereotypes, such as the 'model minority' paradigm of Asian Americans.

If the entirety of marginalized groups at Yale were retreating into such spaces, I would be extremely critical, primarily because I want to see real actionable change much more than I want to vent. This is why I often think that jokes riffing on 'straight white men's tears' in spaces such as Overheard at Yale are unhelpful. They distract us from the critical issues at hand, antagonize other members of our community and don't advance equality in any meaningful way.

With all that considered, the desire to eliminate safe spaces is ill-advised. It relies on the premise that not only must minorities include everyone in every discussion of deeply personal experiences, but they must also always do so in the tone that the privileged majority deems appropriate. Critics would do well to question whether such a premise can really be defended.

MEZ BELO-OSAGIE is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at ameze.belo-osagie@yale.edu .

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Man arrested outside SSS

Two homicides in two days take count to five

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER A man was arrested outside Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall after disrupting a lecture Tuesday morning.

Two Yale police officers escorted a man out of SSS 114, the building’s main lecture hall, after he entered and climbed onstage while history professor David Blight was delivering a lecture for “The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877.” Blight continued his lecture, speaking over the man in an attempt to control the disturbance. When the man still refused to exit, Blight and a teaching fellow led him off the stage and to the back doors of the hall, where he was met by Yale Police Department officers.

Outside of SSS, the YPD officers, who wrote a citation for the man, were joined by two New Haven police officers. The man departed SSS in a Yale police vehicle.

A YPD officer, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to discuss the matter, said the YPD received reports of the same man disrupting two Bulldog Days events in SSS. The first was a Yale Political Union debate with Howard Dean ’71, the former Vermont Governor and 2004 presidential candidate, that took place on Monday evening. The second, which immediately preceded Blight’s lecture, was a science forum hosted by current students and faculty in STEM fields.

The YPD was called to the scene after each of the three occurrences, but an arrest was not made until after the third incident.

“It was unfortunate, but we only lost a few minutes,” Blight said after the class. “It seemed that he was describing the travails of his family.”

Although several students in the class said they could not hear clearly what the man was saying because he did not have a microphone, Blight, who stood with the individual on stage for a few

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Tuesday morning, a man was arrested outside SSS after disrupting several Bulldog Days events. minutes, said he believes that the man was telling personal stories in an effort to solicit money.

Aia Sarycheva ’16, president of the Yale Political Union, was present at Monday evening’s disturbance. She said an individual, whom YPD officers confirmed was the same man that disrupted Blight’s lecture, stepped up to the podium and began to speak.

The man was escorted out of the lecture hall by a member of the audience.

Kate Halabi, a prospective student from Connecticut who

has not yet matriculated to Yale, attended Tuesday morning’s science forum. She said the disruption at the forum was similar to what occurred during Blight’s lecture and during the YPU event.

Prior to Blight’s lecture Tuesday morning, the man was spotted in the Timothy Dwight College dining hall at around 8:30 a.m. The YPD was not called to the scene during this sighting.

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

Two murders in the Elm City in the course of less than two days have nearly doubled the city’s homicide count this year, taking it from three to five.

Jericho Scott, 16, and Lyndell Moore, 29, died of gunshot wounds early Sunday morning and Monday afternoon, respectively.

Amid steadily declining rates of violent crime, the homicides have rocked the city, which has aimed to make prevention of youth violence a priority.

Brenda Foskey-Cyrus, an alder in the Newhallville neighborhood, where the Monday shooting occurred, said she knew the victim’s family personally. She said community members are gathering next week to devise measures to quell the recent bout of violence.

“At this point the town is just devastated with the matters going on,” Foskey-Cyrus said. “We’re still in the planning stages of how we’re going to go about handling the situation. You have to come out with a strategy.”

The strategies the city has instituted, including YouthStat — a program designed to identify and assist at-risk children — appear not to have protected Jericho, who was caught in a shooting over the weekend.

Shortly after midnight on April 19, the New Haven Police Department received a report of a double shooting on Exchange Street.

Upon arriving at the scene, officers found two victims of gunshot wounds. One, identified by NHPD Spokesman David Hartman as 20-year-old Justin Compress, was shot in his shoulder, hand and wrist, but was in stable condition. The second victim was identified as Jericho by the New Haven Register. He was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital, but died of his injuries later that morning.

New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 released a statement that day expressing grief over the loss of the high school student.

“Each child lost to gun violence leaves an indelible mark on our community and is a heart-wrenching reminder of our urgent need to stop the killings,” Harries said.

Harries, a central leader of YouthStat, said members of the team would be meeting the following day, Monday, to address the youth’s murder.

Detectives later discovered a third victim, Tyrese Little, 19. Little, who had sought treatment for a gunshot wound at Bridgeport Hos-

pital, told detectives that he had been shot in Milford. But the detectives ascertained that Little, who was “less than cooperative,” according to a NHPD release, had lied. In fact, he was shot on Exchange Street, along with Compress and Jericho.

NHPD investigators have evidence to suggest that the crime was not a random one, and that the group was specifically targeted. However, there have been no leads on suspects.

Less than 38 hours later, police responded to another call. At 1:22 p.m. Monday, a police officer heard a vehicle crash at the intersection of Orchard Place and Charles Street.

When additional officers arrived at the scene, they found Lyndell Moore, 29. He was unconscious in the driver’s seat.

According to Hartman, Moore was shot inside his car on Townsend Street, but continued to drive until crashing at the intersection. The first officer, who reported that Moore was unconscious, requested EMTs to the scene. When the emergency responders removed Moore’s shirt, they discovered that he had been shot several times in the torso. He was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he succumbed to the gunshot wounds.

Mayor Toni Harp did not address the homicides publicly. Her spokesman, Laurence Grotheer, said she “joins all city residents in somber regret for this recent rash of violence.”

As of Hartman’s last briefing on Monday evening, there is still no suspect information available other than an earlier unconfirmed report that three men wearing grey sweatshirts were seen leaving the area. Another report suggests one man wearing a greyhooded sweatshirt was seen leaving the area, according to an NHPD release.

Despite the short span of time separating the two homicides, nothing has yet been said to connect these two crimes, according to Grotheer.

Foskey-Cyrus said the shootings have reopened debates over safety in the Elm City.

Previous data had shown dropping homicide rates in New Haven, with a 64.7 percent decrease from 2011 to 2014.

“Once [the police] started focusing on the shooting, they had it tied down,” FoskeyCyrus said. “Now we’re going back to that old shooting pattern.”

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

Book authors, community members recall May Day protests

BY MATTHEW STONE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In commemoration of the 1970 “May Day” protests in New Haven, three Yale alumni who witnessed the events discussed their new book before an audience of former protesters, students and National Guardsmen at the New Haven Museum Tuesday evening.

Photographers John Hill ART ’60 and Thomas Strong ART ’67, along with author Henry “Sam” Chauncey ’57 discussed their experience documenting the event. Chauncey was, at the time of the protests, assistant to then-University President Kingman Brewster. In addition to talking about their newly released book — “May Day at Yale, 1970: Recollections: The Trial of Bobby Seale and the Black Panthers” — Chauncey lamented the decline of outrage and protest on campuses across the nation today.

The May Day protests were in response to the trials of several members of the Black Panther Party for the 1969 murder of Alex Rackley, a member of the Black Panthers suspected of being a police informant. During the trials, tens of thousands of protesters — including Yale students — gathered in New Haven.

In the wake of an earlier protest in April at Harvard that hospitalized over 200 people, and threats from demonstrators to destroy Yale and New Haven, tension and outrage were high in the lead-up to the protest. Barbara Oliver, a New Haven resident at the time, echoed the fear building up in the community

April 23, 1970

August 1969

March 19, 1970 After the Panthers had called for supporters throughout the nation to come to New Haven on May Day 1970 to protest the trials, Panther Chief-of-Staff David Hillard vowed that protesters will "burn buildings" and "take lives" in protest of Seale's trial.

before May Day. “You can’t imagine the rumors of what was going to happen in New Haven,” she said. “[People said] ‘Do what you can and get out of there.’”

On May 1, 1970, 15,000 people filled the New Haven Green, under on-looking armed National Guardsmen, in what resulted to be a largely peaceful and nonviolent protest. But that same day, two bombs exploded in Ingalls Rink during a concert that was part of the protests. No one was injured.

Since the protests, Chauncey has been

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May 4, 1970

University President Kingman Brewster says he is "skeptical of the ability of black revolutionaries to achieve a fair trial anywhere in the United States." Days earlier, Yale opened its gates to house and feed protestors — a move that elicited much controversy.

Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale charged for orchestrating the murder of fellow Panther Alex Rackley, according to testimony of one of the confessed killers.

credited with helping to prevent tensions from escalating further.

During the protests, Brewster suspended academic expectations for students, and Yale opened its gates — most notably Phelps Gate — to those protesting the trials. Yale coordinated sleeping arrangements and provided food to the protestors in residential college courtyards David Pilot, a community member in attendance at the event aiming to make a documentary about the protests, applauded Yale’s involvement in the pro-

Four unarmed students at Kent State University protesting the Vietnam War are shot and killed by National Guardsmen.

May 1, 1970 Approximately 15,000 protesters, including Yale students, fill the New Haven Green, under watch from many armed National Guardsmen. Besides instances of tear gas usage, the protest remained non-violent. Later in the evening, two bombs explode in the basement of Ingalls Rink. There were no injuries and to this day no identified suspects.

test because of the way it unified the University and New Haven.

“It was a moment that brought the Yale community together with the New Haven community, and that’s a powerful thing,” said Pilot, a local high school student at the time of the events.

On Tuesday, Chauncey described this period of the late 1960s and early 1970s as not simply an anti-war period in response to the Vietnam War, but a time of complete civil unrest.

“I choose to call it the period of challenge to authority, the period in which

young people were challenging the establishment, the people who were in charge of governments, of business, of academia, and said we need to have a change,” he said.

But that desire to challenge authority has since dissipated, Chauncey said.

“We need more outrage among young people,” Chauncey added. “Because today’s radical ideas might as well be tomorrow’s gospel.”

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society” MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR AND HUMORIST

A new deanship for Yale College’s newest dean UP CLOSE FROM PAGE 1 last summer, explained that during her tenure, the faculty affairs time demand only grew. McKinley said it was hard to imagine how it was “humanly possible” to manage all of her duties.

Still, Biology professor Thomas Pollard, who served as Graduate School dean from 2010–14, said there were several advantages to the former structure.

“Our combined but very distinct expertise allowed us do a better job [governing faculty affairs] than either of us could have on our own,” Pollard wrote in an email to the News.

Even beyond the large shift in faculty governance, Gordon noted several other major structural changes to Holloway’s position. The creation of the Center for Teaching and Learning, which now includes several offices that were formerly governed by the YCDO, has lifted some responsibilities off Holloway’s shoulders.

And some changes were implemented even before Holloway stepped in. In 2012, University Secretary and Vice President Kimberly Goff-Crews’s position was created and took over some responsibilities formerly housed within the YCDO. A number of offices that used to report solely to the YCDO — such as the Office of Gender and Campus Culture — are now the shared responsibility of the YCDO and Goff-Crews, Gordon said. Goff-Crews said she and members of the YCDO work together closely on issues such as mental health policy and the cultural houses. Still, Associate Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry said his role remains largely unchanged by the shifting responsibilities.

“Those are three major changes … and as far as I can see they’re all still works in progress,” Gordon said. “It’s not an exaggeration to say that almost every day thus far something has come up where people have been a bit unsure as to who has authority over a particular detail or a particular aspect of some process.”

Gordon, whom Holloway considers a mentor, has worked in the YCDO for nearly three decades and at Yale for even longer. But even with his long memory, he describes the structural changes to the Dean’s Office that were put in place in the past few years as “huge.”

Similarly, McKinley — who attends many of Holloway’s meetings with him — said he does not remember seeing so much change all at once during his 20 years at Yale College. And Jane Edwards, dean of international and professional experience, described the present as a time of “unprecedented change” in this era of Yale’s history.

The structural changes to the YCDO took a great deal of work off Holloway’s plate, but hardly left it empty. Gordon said the dean would have more time to closely involve himself in admissions and financial aid policy, as well as in issues of pedagogy. For example, Gordon said that soon it will come time for a curricular review to better tailor Yale’s requirements and offerings to the 21st century. And with the University planning a roughly 15 percent increase in the size of its undergraduate student body with the two new residential colleges, Holloway will certainly have enough to keep him occupied.

“CAPACITY FOR UNCERTAINTY”

The redefined role of the dean came at a welcome time; soon, Holloway will be responsible for even more undergraduates.

Chief among his responsibilities is planning for the two new residential colleges that will open in the fourth year of his term, a rare opportunity that might ulti-

mately define his tenure.

“I know I’m not alone in making this a … top priority, but I think it will mainly fall to me to make sure that the two new colleges only enhance Yale,” Holloway told the News last May. “It’s going to be a fascinating challenge.”

But nearly a year later, little surrounding the new colleges has been made concrete — even if the colleges’ foundations along Prospect Street have begun to be poured. Students and faculty alike continue to express concerns about how Yale College will accommodate hundreds of new students without compromising already strained campus resources — from physical spaces to teaching resources. Throughout the year, professors and students interviewed have called on Holloway to publicly provide specific details about the form these colleges will take.

While part of his role is to ensure that all of these concerns are being considered, many of these long-awaited answers are simply not Holloway’s to give.

Naming the colleges, for example, is a process Holloway is entirely uninvolved in. That charge falls to the Yale Corporation.

Similarly, the issue of faculty hiring has come under some fire this year. The discussion is especially contentious given the University’s assertion that the ladder faculty will not grow, as it grew in advance of the colleges’ opening.

“When the University says we’ve already hired all these professors, I think some attention needs to be given to how much all those professors are actually involved in the teaching of undergraduates,” senior French lector Ruth Koizim said. “What are we going to do to educate [800] more students?”

And English and American Studies professor Wai Chee Dimock described the new residential colleges’ effect on undergraduate and graduate education as “a question that would benefit from more extensive conversations.”

Gendler’s office will take the lead on this issue, working with Provost Benjamin Polak, Holloway said.

But other issues with the residential colleges fall squarely within the purview of the YCDO. This semester, for instance, Holloway has begun to work on a review of the college’s advising system, with the hopes of implementing improvements prior to the opening of the new colleges.

This semester, the work of Holloway’s six-member staff working group and larger steering committee has focused on issues of peopling and advising the colleges. The working group has presented to the steering committee their recommendation for how to populate the colleges. After consulting with the steering committee, which is a larger body consisting of students, staff, alumni and faculty, Holloway will work with Polak to determine a final plan.

But much of this work takes place behind the scenes, which perhaps explains why many on campus remain frustrated with the limited information they have surrounding the new colleges.

And still more is yet to come.

With more than two years to go before the colleges open, many major issues, including teaching and advising, will not be firmed up this semester. But Holloway said several of these considerations — the new masters’ budgets, for example — will be made concrete during the upcoming academic year.

“It’s amorphous, I must confess, and one has to have a large capacity for uncertainty during a time like this,” he said. “But I do think for me, it’s feeling less amorphous with each month.”

A CHANGE IN AGENDA

When three new deans — Holloway, Gendler and Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley — stepped into their offices this year, Holloway was the one working with the most stable circumstances. While Cooley dealt with staff transitions and Gendler navigated an entirely new position, Holloway was “steady as can be.”

But three months later, departure announcements began to flow in.

This year, the YCDO has lost several crucial players. Former Associate Dean of Yale College and Director of the Teaching Fellow Program Judith Hackman left this spring after 40 years at Yale.

Former Dean of Summer Sessions and Special Programs Bill Whobrey left for Stanford in January.

Gordon also announced in January that he would retire one year later.

Further, Director of the Afro-American Cultural Center Rodney Cohen resigned this term after students repeatedly demanded his removal.

That left the YCDO with three searches for cultural house directors. And most recently came the announcement that Gentry will leave his post for Sewanee at the end of this academic year.

Holloway said it was these staff departures, among other unforeseen circumstances, that prompted an internal review of the YCDO, which is still ongoing. “[That examination] wasn’t even close to being on my agenda, but is one of the most important things we’re doing right now,” he said. “So circumstance forced my hand there.”

The internal review will yield greater clarity on the YCDO’s shape moving forward. But perhaps the biggest change to his position — the amount of time he now has to interact with students — is already obvious. With his desk free of the “stacks and stacks” of faculty tenure and promotion materials that littered Miller’s, Holloway has more time to focus on what many see as his key constituency.

During her tenure, Miller attended a great deal of artistic, cultural and sporting events.

Even still, she missed the oneon-one face time she had with students as the master of Saybrook College. After she became dean, there was “simply not time in the day or evening” to develop those relationships broadly, she said.

McKinley said that while Miller made herself very available to students, Holloway has even more time now to build on her work. “[Some] time has been freed … so I’ve been working to find a way to do the thing I love the most, which is interact with students,” Holloway said. “Function followed form.”

GETTING TO KNOW “DR. J”

When Lillie Lainoff ’17 arrived at the JE dining hall for lunch with Holloway last month, she was expecting to talk policy. Instead, the meal was accompanied by the kind of conversation “anybody would have over lunch,” Lainoff said — spring break stories, personal lives, academic interests. An hour later, Holloway had memorized the names of the dozen or so students seated around the table and shared with them some of his anxieties about his new role. He also revealed his true motives for the meeting.

“He said [the meal] was mostly for ‘his own selfish purposes,’” Ye Seul Byeon ’16 said. “He really enjoyed interacting with students as master, and missed getting to know students on a one on one level.”

On Wednesdays, between dozens of other obligations, Holloway squeezes in one of his favor-

ite meetings of the week — a meal with undergraduates he calls “Lunch with Dr. J.” Each week he dines with a different student group — members of one residential college, students involved with the cultural centers, undergraduates in service groups.

“I’m proud to say it was my idea,” Holloway told the News in October, shortly after the practice began. “It seemed silly — I could [go] all week long [without seeing students]. I had to take some sort of proactive initiative. And I was nervous — I didn’t know if people would sign up.”

He need not have worried.

When the opportunity was first offered in the fall, 108 spots were available for nine lunches. Within hours, 400 students had entered the lottery.

But not all students have been consistently impressed with Holloway’s efforts to engage. At a mental health forum in February, Yale College Council president Michael Herbert ’16 challenged Holloway and other administrators to respond, point by point, to the YCC’s recommended changes to mental health policy. When Holloway did not acquiesce — he later told the News that he would not give into “litmus test politics” — Herbert told the administrator that actions like these made students distrust the University.

Earlier this month, the YCC announced that Holloway and Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin had accepted several of the group’s proposals.

Others — such as Casey Lee ’17, a student active in the Asian American Cultural Center — are still asking for more, despite the measures that have already been taken during Holloway’s tenure. Following the cultural house review, for example, the University announced several renovations that will be made to the centers. But Lee said the renovations the University announced were insufficient, as the AACC needs an entirely new space.

But opportunities like Holloway’s lunches have given students the chance to better understand the difficulty that accompanies administrative positions, according to students who attended.

“Behind the administrative job is a human being — that was the main part for me, seeing how difficult it is to respond from an administrative perspective,” said Abhinav Menon ’18, who attended one of Holloway’s lunches in March. “The administration, especially Dean Holloway, takes a lot of flack from students … Students see one piece of the pie. More interaction with administration opens you up and makes you mature in the way you make demands.”

EFFORTS TO ENGAGE

On the evening of April 11, Holloway stood on a stage in the New Haven Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, arms raised in the “V” made famous

by Alvin Ailey Dance Theater as he introduced the Yale Dance Theater’s yearly performance.

He performed several steps of the famous dance, jutting his arms out to different angles and bending over at the waist, before speaking briefly on the importance of Alvin Ailey in the U.S. dance history and praising the dance group’s efforts.

His student engagement has taken more formal shape as well.

When he first stepped into his new role, Holloway was surprised to learn that he was not required to attend any YCC meetings. This semester, he became the only Yale College dean in recent memory to have attended a YCC meeting, according to Herbert. While Holloway said it would be inappropriate to attend all meetings, he hopes to meet more with mem-

bers beyond the YCC leadership in order to bolster the group’s importance.

While Miller met with YCC leadership formally only once per semester, Holloway meets with them once or twice each month.

Danny Avraham ’15, who served as YCC president during Miller’s final year, said the addition of the FAS dean position was likely the primary factor in changing the amount of facetime the dean has with the YCC. YCC Vice President Maia Eliscovich Sigal ’16 said Holloway seems to be more engaged than Miller was, though she acknowledged that she did not have the same perspective during Miller’s tenure.

“I think he is the best administrator we have at Yale,” Herbert said. “Every time we have brought a problem to him, he has either resolved it or he’s explained to us why it can’t be resolved.”

Soon after being named to the position of dean last spring, Holloway told the News one of his major goals would be to increase the transparency of the office — an adjustment, he said, that largely comes just from being present. This year, Holloway has hosted and attended numerous town halls and forums, on topics ranging from mental health policy to resources for the University’s four cultural centers, and launched reviews on many of the issues that students care about most.

Holloway confers with his colleagues on issues of student life in the residential colleges in monthly meetings with the Council of Masters — a group he knows well from his former role.

Silliman Master Judith Krauss, the current chair of the Council of Masters, said that while it is too early to tell, she thinks the redefined position leaves the dean more time to approach big issues of student life.

Beyond changing policy to better meet student needs, Holloway has committed to instilling his values in the broader campus community.

“Holloway himself is interested in issues of community, civility, leadership and the ways in which we deliberate on issues of community-wide concern,” Gordon said. “That’s a kind of thing that every dean of Yale College has done, but he wants to bring much more to the forefront — more deliberately.”

In February, Holloway hosted a day-long leadership summit with Citizen University, a nonprofit that promotes communitybuilding and leadership in civic life, alongside Eric Liu ’90, the organization’s founder and CEO. The idea was originally born out of conversations with University President Peter Salovey, but Liu said when Holloway became involved, he “got it immediately.”

“He practices what he preaches — he is the kind of citizen leader and open-minded, tough-minded creative framer of problems and solver of problems that he’s trying to get more undergraduates to be themselves,” Liu said. “[Holloway] understands what Yale’s job is — which is to prepare people for greater service in the wider world. He understands that deeply.”

A ROLE OF HIS OWN

When he first began the job of dean, Holloway gave his executive assistant a strange request: one hour a day that she was not to schedule. But important meetings arose, and the rule did not survive for long. Ten months later, the compromise has been stretched out even further.

Weekly lunches with students remain sacred, but a lot else — including Friday morning bas-

ketball, and his academic work — has largely been put aside in favor of administrative responsibilities.

If you ask most students what the role of an administrator entails, they are likely to get it wrong. Part of this confusion likely stems from the enormity of his job description, perhaps best communicated by a quick scroll through Holloway’s packed iPhone calendar. His position, it turns out, is all-encompassing.

As Yale College dean, Holloway is responsible for just about every aspect of the undergraduate experience; the addition of Gendler’s position eliminated some major demands on the dean’s time, but in large part those hours have been filled by increased student engagement and the challenge of planning for the biggest expansion of Yale’s undergraduate body in decades.

Each flick of his thumb reveals another duty.

“It’s breathtaking at times,” he said. “Registrar meeting. Executive committee of FAS Steering. Programs for minors. Liability issues. Meeting with parents, Course of Study Committee, development work. YCC meeting. Charging committees.”

There are also some unexpected quirks, he adds. “It’s a lot of eating, in my job — going to receptions, honoring different groups.”

The role of an administrator was never one Holloway actively sought. A decade ago, when he stepped into the role of Calhoun master, he told the News that he had “never imagined” being offered such a position. But after the surprise — and a year during which he describes the learning curve as “practically vertical” — Holloway found that he was well suited to an administrative role. And, perhaps more importantly, he realized that he found it rewarding.

Historians spend years on their projects, even decades. After spending the beginning of his career studying African-American history, Holloway found the idea of conceiving and completing a project within a semester or even mere weeks exceptionally gratifying.

“I got hooked on the idea. It brought me pleasure,” he said. “I was also discovering that basic ideas, even ethos — the way I was raised — translated very well into being a master: to set standards for a community, to take care of one another.”

As dean, it remains difficult to keep an active research agenda, Holloway said, and he hopes that when he returns to full time academia he will not have lost track of the field. He does what he can to maintain a teaching role.

Although it is unlikely that he will take on any new advisees in the future, he is currently still advising a handful of graduate students who are close to or already working on their dissertations.

And he remains a teacher at heart. When faced with amateur questions about the University’s endowment, he is likely to simplify without condescending and explain using easy numbers and chicken tenders analogies.

Less than a year into his tenure, Holloway is not prepared to speculate on what he will do at the end of his five-year term. But his focus for the next four years seems clear.

“I know there are lingering hurt feelings or frustration over perceptions that the YCC or students aren’t listened to. But students are really listened to here,” he said. “The fact that they don’t feel they’ve been listened to is a failure of communication along the way. I’d like to do what I can to change that.”

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

TIMELINE HOLLOWAY’S CAREER AT YALE

1995 receives PhD from Yale's History department

1999 returns to Yale as an assistant professor

2005 named Master of Calhoun College

2009 serves as chair of the Council of Masters

2014 named Dean of Yale College

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“Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.” HILLARY CLINTON FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE

Following gun violence, police to request funding

BY ALEC HERNANDEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After several months of continued gun-related homicides, the New Haven Police Department has requested further funding to help prevent violence in the city’s communities.

Yesterday evening, the Board of Alders’ Public Safety Committee voted unanimously to approve a resolution that would allow the city to submit an application for a federal grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance. If granted to New Haven, the funding would provide the NHPD with $42,000 to expand several existing programs, including mental health training and the SpotShooter gunshot detector, and upgrade their computer system.

Speaking alongside Assistant Police Chief Anthony Campbell, Sandra Koorejian, the executive director of New Haven’s Domestic Violence Services — an activist group that offers services for victims of domestic violence — underscored to the committee the importance of the extra funding. According to Koorejian, the funding would be used in four specific ways: expanding the ShotSpotter gunshot detection service, upgrading computer equipment, purchasing privacy barrier screens for crime scene investigations and providing mental health training for all sworn personnel.

“We had a number of choices to make when deciding where the money should go, and these four were very important,” said Koorejian.

Campbell echoed her sentiment, adding that the new computing system would allow New Haven’s police force to process warrants and arrests more quickly. The new computing system would also help officers more accurately identify homicide victims using forensic material, he said.

After acknowledging the need for the new computer system, Campbell went on to underline the need for an expansion of the SpotShooter

system used in the city. SpotShooter — a gunshot detection service used in numerous cities across the country — is an essential factor in the prevention of gun-related homicides because it helps police track and map gun activity in the city, he said. The city first implemented the system in 2009 and now has over 20 sensors throughout the city.

“When a shot goes off, we can estimate its origins up to four feet,” Campbell said. “ShotSpotter makes it so that we can apprehend the perpetrators — they’re going to get caught.”

Ward 15 Alder Ernie Santiago, who represents Fair Haven, voiced concerns about the limited area of the city that the system covers.

Campbell mentioned that while the system covers a good portion of the city, it does not cover Fair Haven and other communities, prompting Santiago to ask how the program can benefit the entire city. Campbell explained that the police department hopes to continually expand ShotSpotter until it can cover the entire city.

“If we can show that this really works, we can win more grants and continue to expand across greater New Haven,” he said.

Other alders on the committee expressed enthusiasm about the prospect of expanding SpotShooter.

Ward 17 Alder Alphonse Paolillo, who represents East Haven, encouraged an expansion of the system because he said it promotes community policing. While he did not think that the technology could solve all of the city’s problems with violence, he said he sees the system as a good supplement to police patrols.

“True community-based policing is about preventing the next occurrence and finding the root causes and trying to get behind what the shooting was about, and I think that SpotShooter would be good for this,” he said.

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

Grad students design humanities classes

BY QI XU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As a part of Yale’s project to rethink the humanities, five Yale graduate students designed and taught undergraduate humanities seminars this semester.

The project, entitled “Re-imagining Humanities Education at Yale: an Integrated Approach,” was supported by a $1.95 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2012. The four-year grant funded a new cross-disciplinary graduate concentration, which was offered for the first time to 12 graduate students during the 2013–14 academic year. In addition to taking a seminar, “Technologies of Knowledge.” the graduate students in the concentration were given the opportunity to collaborate in designing and teaching humanities seminars for undergraduates. Two seminars — “The Grid: Knowledge, Histories, Visualization,” and “The Classical Tradition” — were offered this semester as a result of the initiative.

Emily Greenwood, director of undergraduate studies in Classics and a member of the faculty team who taught the graduate concentration seminar last year, said that she visited “The Grid” classroom. The class, taught by Adrián Lerner Patrón GRD ’17, Anna Bokov GRD ’17 and Stephen Krewson GRD ’17, is a class that encompasses architecture, history, urban design, computer science, environmental studies and politics, according to its course description.

Greenwood said she was impressed by how the instructors and students worked together to analyze the development of an electronically con-

nected society.

“I saw two student presentations which were diametrically opposite. [They were] very, very confident, and they spoke to each other, ” Greenwood said. “It just struck me as a really good example of the way in which Yale liberal arts curriculum gives faculty and graduate instructors the freedom to explore.”

Students in the class have produced expository writing, cast cement in high density foam, composed poems, presented original research, and wrote code, Krewson said.

It just struck me as a really good example of the way in which Yale liberal arts curriculum gives faculty and graduate instructors the freedom to explore.

EMILY GREENWOOD Director of Undergraduate Studies, Classics The other class, “The Classical Tradition,” was taught by Emily Hauser GRD ’17 and Geoffrey Moseley GRD ’16. Hauser and Moseley said they aimed to bring together classical texts from both the West and the East and cross-examine their influences.

Greenwood said that by designing such interdisciplinary seminars, the graduate students are prepared for the changing direction of teaching and research in the humanities, both

nationally and at Yale.

Students’ responses to the seminars were largely positive.

Hilda Huang ’17 said she enjoyed “The Classical Tradition” because it is a small and intimate class, with only four students enrolled. As a chemistry major, she said she chose the class because she wanted to try something different. “[The course instructors] did a really good job in [bridging the East and the West tradition],” Huang said.

“It is really important to use a holistic approach so I can better understand where history and humanism come from.”

The seminar instructors said that designing and teaching their own courses was a valuable experience.

Unlike teaching a section taught

by Yale faculty, there was no predesigned structure for the course, and as a result, Hauser said she had to build the entire curriculum from scratch. Designing the course from the beginning required a lot of imagination, she said, adding that it offered her the freedom she would otherwise not have when teaching at Yale.

“The Grid” instructor Lerner Patrón also said the opportunity to design the course gave him more freedom as opposed to being a teaching assistant or teaching fellow. He added that because he was able to decide what assignments to give and what types of questions to ask, he felt a “more direct relationship” with the students.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation was founded on June 30, 1969.

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FROM THE FRONT “Wellness” website to launch in fall MENTAL HEALTH FROM PAGE 1 website.

Bervell said he believed the website could increase the ease with which students can navigate MH&C services available at Yale.

Such a development could actually increase the number of students able to take advantage of MH&C’s services, Bervell added.

“If there is a more streamlined manner for students to get their information, many more students will be able to get the help they need,” Bervell said.

This help may not even need to come through MH&C, Feldman said. A more comprehensive website could guide students to the plentiful other resources on campus, such as Walden Peer Counseling, which Feldman called “hugely underutilized.”

The key, Feldman said, is getting the message out there in the first place. “[Goff-Crews’s website] will definitely be useful if they can make it widespread,” he said. “It sounds like they are going to make it very intuitive. I think those are the keys, because if they don’t, it just becomes another list somewhere that people don’t actually look at.”

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

“Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes. TOM COCHRANE MUSICIAN

Title IX Cmte. acts on YCC, Women’s Center report YCC REPORT FROM PAGE 1 Sexual Misconduct, a redesign of Yale’s Sexual Misconduct Response website, an expansion of freshman orientation programming about sexual misconduct and the creation of a pool of advisers that will be available to complainants and respondents alike.

The report concluded that the number of students — even those who had been through the system — who were misinformed about University policies was “concerningly high.”

Over 25 percent of respondents mentioned confusion, the report said, and 31 percent of responses contained some degree of inaccurate information.

“I wouldn’t say I was surprised [by the findings], but I would say that it reinforced some suspicions we had before, which was just that this is a complicated issue with a lot of moving parts,” said Elizabeth Villarreal ’16, one of the report’s authors and former head coordinator for the Women’s Center.

The steering committee noted that it has already secured additional time in this fall’s freshman orientation schedule for additional programming on the system and available resources.

Additionally, the current information on Yale’s Sexual Misconduct Response website, which lists avenues for potential complainants, will be transferred to a more user-friendly platform with the help of an external consultant.

Other grievances highlighted in

the report include barriers to reporting and the long and potentially confusing complaint process. Some students said in the report that they were deterred from reporting by social stigma and the seemingly long timelines for resolution. Students also raised concerns about a lack of diversity in the UWC’s membership and a dearth of adequate advising resources during the complaint process.

In response, the steering committee committed to clarifying UWC procedures so that communicate that there is “flexibility within the complaint timeline” due to possible scheduling conflicts. The committee will also utilize an expanded budget next year to hire more staff for the Title IX office and UWC. In the past year, a UWC secretary position and project manager position have already been added “in response to the significant increase in the number of formal UWC cases,” the report said.

Students also expressed concern that advising resources for complainants and respondents are uneven: Complainants have access to trained advisors at the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center, the report said, while respondents normally have to rely on their residential college deans, who could also turn them away. As a solution, by this fall, the steering committee will create a pool of trained advisers that are available to either party.

Other proposals had less concrete responses and resolutions. Some respondents suggested that sexual misconduct cases be left to law

enforcement because University disciplinary outcomes were too severe; subsequently, the authors recommended that the UWC better promote and communicate its informal complaint process. The existence of two informal processes — via the UWC or the Title IX coordinators — has the potential to create confusion, the report said, recommending that administrators consider eliminating the UWC route. The steering committee responded that it would explore the possibility.

Villarreal said she was not concerned that the response rates to the survey were relatively low. Because the survey questions were free-response, the authors were most interested in receiving thoughtful responses — and the students who did respond provided constructive suggestions, she said. Additionally, a wide range of students were represented, she said, including complainants, respondents and students who had no experience with the system, and they expressed a diversity of opinions.

Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd said that even individual or idiosyncratic experiences can provide valuable insight into University processes. “[This survey] has … provided all of us who are involved in developing and stewarding Yale’s Title IX programs with direction regarding the areas where we should expand our communication and education efforts,” University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler wrote in an email. “[This] direction comes at

a good time, as we have been engaging our student advisory boards and other community stakeholders in discussions about the ways we convey information about our programs, and we have plans to retain outside expertise in a focused initiative to improve communications.”

The survey data affirm the value of several initiatives already underway, Boyd said, and will help prompt new initiatives as well.

Sarika Pandrangi ’17, another of the report’s authors and a YCC representative for Calhoun College, said she was pleased with the administration’s willingness to listen to the proposals. The conversation ensured that rather than being a mere summary of recommendations, the report would demonstrate tangible improvements, she said.

“One of the reasons we did this report was to bridge some of that gap between students who feel very frustrated — maybe for good reason — and administrators who are working hard but are sometimes confused about what they can do to make things better,” Villarreal said. “One of the things we can do is get together all these voices, draw some common themes and especially communicate the voices of people who never make it in front of the administrators … because they are choosing not to file a complaint at all.”

The YCC’s Sexual Health Task Force was formed in October 2014.

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

Complaints against Lifton “bizarre” and “frivolous,” officials and profs say YSM LAWSUIT FROM PAGE 1 yeh about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, emphasized that he did not see Qumsiyeh as someone who would make others uncomfortable or who would be unable to supervise someone with different ideas from him.

“I saw him as someone who wanted to educate people,” Mahoney said.

Several faculty members in the Genetics Department, many of whom did not know the complaint had been filed, were quick to refute Rafi’s claim that Lifton was racially biased or retaliatory in his dealings with others.

Haifan Lin, professor at the School of Medicine and director of the Yale Stem Cell Center who has known Lifton since joining the University in 2006, said Lifton is a fair and sensitive leader. Lin explained that through his meetings with Lifton, he has found that Lifton cares about the well-being of minority members of the Yale community. Murat Gunel, a professor at the medical school who co-directs the Yale Program on Neurogenetics and directs neurovascular surgery, said he was surprised to learn that someone would accuse Lifton of racial discrimination.

Conroy said the complaint makes neither factual nor legal sense, adding that Lifton did not hire or supervise Rafi, and therefore, Lifton would not have been able to fire Rafi. Conroy also said Lifton did not discuss Rafi’s suitability for employment with any-

one at other institutions and that he has never attempted to interfere with his employment prospects.

Xu agreed that Lifton had nothing to do with Rafi’s exit from Yale.

Conroy also raised concerns about the legal basis for the complaint. The Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has already reviewed Rafi’s claims and has found that Lifton committed no legal violations, Conroy said. Furthermore, since the complaint has not yet been served to Yale’s lawyers, the University is not yet able to file an official response.

According to a Motion for Appointment of Counsel, dated April 7, 2015, Rafi’s request for a court appointed attorney has been rejected.

Mahoney, who has a law degree and has read the complaint, said the complaint and the confidential report about Qumsiyeh that Rafiwrote are “in many places, confused to purpose and to related facts and opinions.”

He also expressed doubt that Lifton’s behavior resulted in the alleged lost opportunities for employment that are noted in Rafi’s legal complaint.

“I do not believe that Professor Lifton would have done what he was accused of. I hope the truth will prevail,” Lin wrote in a Monday email.

Lifton has been chair of the Department of Genetics since 1998.

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

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The School of Medicine is preparing to fight a racial discrimination complaint against Richard Lifton that has been described as “frivolous.”

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Class of ’77 discusses removal of Patton

Mental health task force will address identity

Members of the class of 1977 have been discussing whether Susan Patton ’77 should be removed as alumni class president due to some concerns regarding her alleged abuse of the office.

The critical point in these discussions occurred when Patton allegedly censored classmates who criticized her on the class Facebook page, Robert Gilbert ’77 said.

Patton gained fame for writing a letter to the editor of The Daily Princetonian in March 2013 encouraging female students to find a husband on campus before graduation.

She later published a book, “Marry Smart: Advice for Finding the One,� with similar advice in March 2014. “There has been a movement to seek removal of Susan Patton from office for multiple abuses of office: for commercial exploitation of the Princeton name for personal gain, for censorship, for doubling down on the censorship by closing down the class of ’77 Facebook page, for accusing critics of tax violations and for her forfeiture of the essential role of an alumni class president which is to unify the class and promote good feelings,� Gilbert said.

Patton did not respond to requests for comment.

Patton is one of the five administrators of the class Facebook page and used the page most frequently out of everyone, Gilbert said, adding that questions have been raised about the other administrators and whether

they actually acted as administrators.

One of the main questions surrounding the debate is PRINCETON whether Patton or an accomplice censored content on the Facebook page in response to posts made

by Gilbert.

On the morning of April 4, Gilbert said he posted an Atlantic article called “The ‘Princeton Mom’ Controversy and Campus Rape Today� three times on the class Facebook page. He said he quoted one sentence from the article in the posting in which Patton was quoted saying, “I could’ve just as easily called [the ‘Princeton Mom’ Twitter account] the ‘Manhattan Artist’ or the ‘Bronx Baker’.�

Gilbert said he had added four words of his own commentary after the quote: “Precisely. A good solution.�

Minutes later the post was taken down, he said, and he subsequently contacted classmates and asked them to watch what was happening.

He said he then posted it again, and his classmates watched it go up, and then down. He then posted it for a third time, he said.

On April 5, Gilbert said he wrote a letter to the class council listing multiple of what he considered to be Patton’s abuses of her office over the past two years, culminating in the alleged acts of censorship. Gilbert addressed

the letter to the class officers and included Patton as well as several other concerned classmates as well.

Two days later, Patton posted on the page that she and John Nealon ’77, class vice president, had decided to shut the page down.

Nealon declined to comment.

Class of 1977 council members Eve Lesser ’77 and Peter Sismondo ’77 did not respond to request for comment, and Peter Angelica ’77 declined to comment. Recently resigned former class secretary James Barron ’77 also declined to comment.

Since then, Gilbert and other alumni have voiced increasing concerns about Patton’s abuses of office.

According to Gilbert, Patton sent an email on April 9 asking her supporters in the class of 1977 to email the class council with their support. “There is a vocal group of very angry classmates who can’t seem to separate my professional and personal opinions ‌ [and] feel that my resignation may be necessary,â€? she wrote in the email, which was obtained by the ‘Prince.

Several members of the class of 1977 declined to comment. “There is an ever escalating pattern of abuse of office by Susan Patton in an effort to attack or silence fellow alumni who are critical of her misuse of office,� Gilbert said.

Members of the class of 1977 class council met on April 15, according to Gilbert, presumably to discuss concerns over Patton’s alleged abuses, although the content of the meeting remains unclear.

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Members of the Mental Health Task Force are hoping to secure a meeting with University President Lee Bollinger before the end of the school year to discuss a proposal to expand mental health resources on campus.

In response to the death of first-year Joshua Villa, the group sent a proposal to Bollinger’s office on Dec. 9 requesting a meeting with the central administration to discuss five topics of concern: academic accommodations, administrative crisis response, prevention programs, and the size and diversity of psychological services staff.

But late last week, the task force released a letter calling for administrators to take action on the issue after not meeting with members of the central administration so far this semester. The task force also released the results of a survey conducted by the task force on students’ identity-based concerns with counseling. The survey found that students who identified themselves as queer, transgender, and/ or people of color were less satisfied with psychological services.

In the proposal, the task force asked for more staff members at Counseling and Psychological Services and Furman Counseling at Barnard, as well as for more staff members of color.

Anecdotal responses to the survey — which received 172 responses since it

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centers.

According to task force member Brennon Mendez, it can be difficult for students to set up an appointment with psychologists of particular racial, religious, or ethnic identities in a timely manner, even if they are on staff. “There are students who are waiting and waiting and cannot get in,� he said.

The survey notes that because of low sample size, respondents were grouped into “white� and “nonwhite� categories for race, “straight� and “non-straight� categories for sexuality, and into three categories — cisgender men, cisgender women, and transgender people — in its analysis of gender, though the survey included more specific identity categories.

According to members of the Mental Health Task Force, students can also face long wait times—two to three weeks for appointments and three to four hours during drop-in hours. “Even if they’re not looking for a specific counselor, we still see wait times that can be several weeks long,� task force member Harry Munroe, said.

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SPORTS

“Personally, I don’t like the term ‘success.’ It’s too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It’s usually someone else’s definition, not yours.”

ICHIRO SUZUKI SEVEN-TIME MLB GOLDEN GLOVE AWARD WINNER

Men’s soccer adjusting to new coach SOCCER FROM PAGE 12 hey, this is nothing compared to what you guys have been through.”

As he has said since arriving at Yale, Stannard expects his team to be the hardestworking group in the Ivy League.

He also wants to change the team’s mentality to a “defend to attack” mantra.

Following a season in which the team scored only seven goals — for comparison, 126 players matched or exceeded this number across the country in 2014 — Stannard said improvement in attacking opportunities was showcased in the team’s spring games.

“I think it’s been pretty organized within training and there’s been a clear target objective for each training session for what we’re starting with and what we’re

building to,” Stannard said.

“We do a lot of functional training, so in soccer terms that means we’re working with a specific group in a specific area of the field for a specific purpose.”

This targeted coaching style has allowed Stannard to experiment with different formations and systems. As a result, he said he and his staff were able to evaluate players’ capabilities in a variety of positions.

Bond contrasted Tompkins’s and Stannard’s coaching philosophies, explaining Stannard’s emphasis on hard work has translated to a tough practice schedule, whereas Tompkins’s focus was more on the detailed tactical elements of the game.

While there was an adjustment period to the change in coaching style, Bond acknowledged, he also said

everyone has grown accustomed to it and improved.

“A big thing I’ve noticed is that I think the team as a whole is a lot fitter, which was definitely apparent in the spring games,” midfielder Archie Kinnane ’18 said.

“Our goal is to be the hardest-working team in the Ivy League, and this spring season has definitely sharpened our edges. Hopefully we can all have a good summer, also, so that when the fall season comes we can be on the winning side of a lot more games.”

Before last year, the Bulldogs had not finished a season with only one win since 1922, when they finished 1–3–2.

Marc Cugnon contributed reporting.

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

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Yale head coach Kylie Stannard replaced longtime program leader Brian Tompkins in December.

Bulldogs trump Cardinals BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12

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Though he did not pitch against Wesleyan, right-hander Chris Lanham ’16 has thrown the most innings this year among Yale pitchers.

A dream worth living COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 We lost the first three games of our four-game stint with Harvard. But on Sunday, in the fourth and final game, we came away with a late-game rally to win 3–1. It was the first time in my four years we had beaten Harvard — in fact, it was the first time Yale had beaten the Crimson since 2009. For the first time and last, I walked away from a win on Solider Field.

What Harvard reminded me of was something that I too often take for granted: that playing a sport in college was at one point not just something I did. It was a dream. I was reminded of the countless hours spent working and watching and striving and hoping to one day step onto that field.

I remember the players I looked up to and the Sunday morning spent hitting in my basement. I remembered playing catch in my backyard with my dad. I had a long time ago — so long that I had almost forgotten — decided that this way my dream and I would do anything to chase it. Following a dream and seeing it realized seems, at least to me, to carry with it some sort of meaning.

All the work, the sweat, the hours and weekends were not spent alone, either. I walked away from Harvard’s field the other

day surrounded by nineteen friends. Beyond the fences were more friends and family cheering me on. And for all the years spent striving towards this goal, there have been dozens of others teammates and coaches, mentors and friends who have been a part of it all.

Towards them, I have nothing but gratitude. Those relationships, too, have given the entire experience meaning.

Only a few more days stand between me and the end of my career. My body is sore, my spikes worn down, my mitt on the verge of coming unraveled. This weekend, I play for my teammates. I play for the name of the front of my jersey, a jersey I dreamed of pulling on for so long. I play for the little girl who used to play catch on the pitchback in her driveway, who couldn’t wait for spring to roll around and who spent every weekend of every summer at the ball fields. I play for the girl who dared to dream, and who too often forgets to be thankful for the opportunities she’s been given and to those who have made those possible.

To me, it doesn’t get more meaningful than that.

SARAH ONORATO is a senior in Silliman College. This is her last column for the news.

Contact her at sarah.onorato@yale.edu .

singles by the top of the order, designated hitter Robert Baldwin ’15 reached base on an error

by Wesleyan second baseman Andrew Yin that also gave Yale two runs. Toups then doubled to bring first baseman Eric Hsieh ’15 home, and following a walk and a pop out to shortstop, the Cardinal pitcher balked to send Baldwin home.

“It was definitely nice to start out the way we started today,” left fielder Harrison White ’17 said. “It always is. The fact that our offense had been sputtering lately just made today’s start that much more satisfying. It helps us get comfortable as a team knowing that we have a cushion to work with.”

The Bulldogs also added two runs in the fifth inning, using a single and back-to-back doubles to extend the lead to 7–1. The seven runs scored mark the most that Yale has put on the board in nine games. The Elis tallied 10 against Dartmouth on April 11.

The lineup notched 11 hits during the afternoon. Second baseman Nate Adams ’16, Hsieh, White and Toups all had multiple hits. Additionally, Hsieh had two steals, but his 3–4 was the most notable part of his day. It constituted his first performance with at least two hits since April 11, and it raised his batting average to an Ivy-best 0.371.

“It definitely felt good to get back in a groove and see the ball a little better than I have in the last week or so,” Hsieh said. “And it’s nice when everyone contributes because it shows what we are capable of doing.”

The freshman pitching tandem of righties Drew Scott ’18 and Mason Kukowski ’18 held the lead. Scott held a strong Cardinals lineup, hitting 0.297 on the season, to just three runs on five hits over seven innings.

He picked up his first win of the season in the process, throwing 65 of his 99 pitches for strikes against 28 batters.

“Drew Scott did a great job of getting ahead of hitters, being

aggressive on the mound and keeping that cushion for us,” White said. “It makes everyone’s job a little easier when we’re playing with a lead as opposed to a deficit.”

The Henrico, Virginia native then turned the ball over to Kukowski, who finished the game without allowing another hit.

The dominant reliever shut down Wesleyan, facing the minimum six batters over two innings, to lower his team-leading earned run average to 4.01.

The victory boosted Yale’s winning streak to three games, tied for the longest of the year, and also bumped the Elis’ advantage in the historical series against the Cardinals to 62–18–2.

Yale begins a four-game series against Brown to conclude Ivy play on Friday afternoon, including the final games at Yale Field for the seniors.

James Badas contributed reporting.

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

Elis take fifth at home GOLF FROM PAGE 12 one stroke ahead of Harvard (+27) and 11 strokes behind Duke (+15).

“The course was tricky to navigate this weekend, but I think we adjusted pretty well and were able to have a respectable showing,” captain Will Davenport ’15 said.

Due to this year’s harsh winter conditions, the Yale Golf Course only recently opened up for practice. Course conditions were therefore not optimal; this was something the Bulldogs had to overcome during the tournament, Jonathan Lai ’17 said.

Despite the course’s bad conditions, players still highlighted that playing at home was an overall positive experience for the team.

“Playing at home is a unique opportunity,” Davenport said.

“We felt very supported this weekend by the staff and volunteers, as well as by our friends and families that were able to come watch us play. That aspect of a home tournament is something we all cherish.”

Lai said the team was feeling especially confident after coming off of a win from the previous weekend at the Princeton Invitational. Lai added that he personally felt he had a good round at the Yale course the weekend before in very windy conditions, so he went into this weekend confident about his performance. His predictions turned out to be right.

After the first day of play, Lai led the Bulldogs with a stroke count of +1. Lai kept up his strong performance the second day, finishing in fifth place overall. Davenport said that, above all, he was pleased with Lai’s performance, who came up with two quality rounds to lead the team.

Joe Willis ’16 said Lai carried the team this weekend, playing with confidence and composure

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Michigan, Duke, Clemson and Wake Forest were among the teams competing in this year’s Yale Spring Invitational. to earn an impressive top-five finish in a tough field.

“I don’t want to sound cocky, but I had the best tournament of my season,” Lai said. “Knowing the course definitely helped, since I was always comfortable out there. I knew exactly what to expect on every hole, and that helped keep me loose while still playing my best.”

This weekend, the Bulldogs

will begin Ivy competition with a three-day tournament from April 24 to April 26 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Bulldogs will depart the day before, on Thursday.

Until then, the Bulldogs are hoping that the expected rain will leave a few dry spots for them to practice.

“The forecast for this week is a bit dodgy, but we will do every-

thing possible to be fully prepared and confident heading into the biggest weekend of the year,” Davenport said.

Although the women’s golf team did not compete this weekend, they will also be traveling to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for their Ivy Championship on April 24.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 6:00 PM Sage Magazine Print Party. The Annual Sage Magazine Print Edition will be unveiled on Earth Day this Wednesday. Come celebrate! Kroon Hall (195 Prospect St.).

7:00 PM New Haven High School Choral Festival. Join the Yale Glee Club and local New Haven high school communities for their annual cooperative celebration of music. Woolsey Hall (500 College St.).

THURSDAY, APRIL 23 5:30 PM Crusade, Conquest, and Conversion in the Medieval Iberian (1250-1550). A talk by David Wacks, associate professor of Spanish, University of Oregon. Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.).

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 11:30 AM Last Day of Classes Spring Planting. The YSFP will celebrate the end of the school year and the beginning of a new growing season with live music, delicious food and a spring planting. Yale Farm (345 Edwards St.).

SATURDAY, APRIL 22 3:00 PM Yale Baroque Opera Project Presents Cavalli’s Erismena. An exciting labyrinth of a tale comes to the University Theatre this April, as the Yale Baroque Opera Project mounts its 11th production, Cavalli’s Erismena. University Theatre (222 York St.).

3:00 PM Dante Behind Bars: Incarcerated Men Reimagine “The Divine Comedy”. Fragments of Dante’s poem adapted by men in prison and performed by the students in Professor Jenkins’ course “Sacred Texts and Social Justice.” Marquand Chapel (409 Prospect St.).

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ARTS & CULTURE Art majors close out undergraduate careers with thesis show

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER As the latest exhibition at the Yale School of Art draws to a close, a group of seniors is preparing for the final critique of their undergraduate artistic career.

The Yale 2015 Undergraduate

Art Thesis Show, which began last Tuesday and ends tonight, showcases the works of 20 senior art majors and features many different media, ranging from digital installations and graphic designs to sculptures and photographs. Today, the students will have their work judged by a panel of professors in the second round

Festival highlights contemporary Italian film

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER This weekend, both the Yale and New Haven communities can enjoy a view of Italy from the seats of the Whitney Humanity Center auditorium.

Between Thursday and Sunday, the 10th annual Yale Festival of New Italian Cinema will screen five recent Italian films at the center. The screenings will be accompanied by guided discussions led by graduate students from Yale’s Italian Department.

Professor of Italian Millicent Marcus GRD ’74 explained that when she established the festival, she was looking to emulate a similar festival held at the University of Pennsylvania. Marcus said the festival aims to expose an American audience to new Italian films, many of which are not widely distributed in the United States.

“Our mission is to create a receptivity to the contemporary Italian film culture by bringing films,” Marcus said. “It’s been 10 wonderful years, and we’ve built up a huge following in the community.”

The “showcase film” of this year, according to Marcus, is “La Mafia Uccide Solo d’Estate” or “The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer,” which will be screened Saturday evening. The movie, Marcus explained, approaches its serious subject matter in a satirical, comedic manner. The film includes both the story of a young boy as he grows up and falls in love and a decades-long history of clashes between the Sicilian mafia and the Italian government.

Marcus said the festival committee, which consists of Italian Department graduate students who travel to Italy and watch newly released movies, aims to select films that are accessible to most audiences because they do not require a great deal of background knowledge. She added that the five films also serve as social critiques.

“They are engaging but at the same time, [they] promote thought, and ultimately promote social commitment” Marcus said. “There’s a desire to create a better world.”

Chris Kaiser GRD ’15, a com-

mittee member for the festival, highlighted another film, “Il Capitale Humano” or “Human Capital,” which follows two families after a Jeep runs a cyclist off of a mountain road. Kaiser highlighted the film’s sense of mystery and heightened drama. The festival poster also labels the film as a piece of social commentary.

Kaiser noted that his responsibilities as a committee member in charge of the screening for “Il Capitale Humano” include facilitating a post-screening discussion between audience members. He emphasized the diversity of the festival’s audience, which has historically included not only Yale faculty and students, but also many individuals from New Haven’s Italian-American community.

“I want to put these different voices in touch with each other,” Kaiser said.

Our mission is to create a receptivity to the contemporary Italian film culture.

MILLICENT MARCUS Professor, Italian Luca Peretti GRD ’17, another member on the committee, said the festival helps to give audience members “a small map of Italy.” He noted that over the course of its existence, the festival’s turnout has grown to a point where attendees fill the WHC auditorium.

Festival organizers emphasized that the festival’s loyal audience base stems from its established connection with the Elm City’s Italian-American community over the past 10 years.

Marcus said the festival emulates the community experience of going to a movie theater in the small towns of 1940s Italy, noting that the theater was often the “only place where people found entertainment and community.”

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

of critiques, which began yesterday. As the show may be their last one at Yale, featured artists interviewed said it represents a rare glimpse into the professional arts world by allowing students to work outside the boundaries of the classroom.

“What’s good about this final assessment is being able to find out whether your work can operate independently without you being there to explain it,” said David Shatan-Pardo ’15, a participant in the show. “In the real world it operates like that — a work is in the gallery, a piece of design is in public space and it can’t be supported by its creator.”

According to Lian FumertonLiu ’15, another participant in the show, there is no overarching theme that binds the works in the exhibition together. Rather, she explained, the show highlights each artist’s individual chosen concentration and forms of selfexpression. Victoria Pierre ’15 said her piece depicts the naiveté and misconceptions of young men going off to war. Christina Martin ’15 said her photographs explore how a woman’s identity is perceived based on the way she looks and the context in which she is seen. Because each artist has a unique style, the show is an amalgamation of all the artists’ skills, Fumerton-Liu noted.

All five artists interviewed highlighted the freedom that students can exercise in making artwork for the exhibition. Though assignments often require specific responses, Shatan-Pardo said he was able to exercise full control over every aspect of this project.

“For all of us, it was a matter of making work that embodied everything we’ve been work-

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The Yale 2015 Undergraduate Art Thesis Show, which showcases the work of 20 senior art majors, ends tonight. ing for over the past few years,” Fumerton-Liu said. “It’s not like making another thing to add to our portfolio but really making something that is the culmination of everything.”

Martin said the largest challenge in preparing her work for the gallery was making alterations so that it would fit in the allotted gallery space. She noted that she ultimately submitted 11 photos instead of 20 because her portion of the gallery space did not have enough room.

But Pierre said her greatest difficulty was finishing her piece in time, as her four-minute long animated short story required more than 2,000 frameby-frame colored drawings and roughly 60 painted backgrounds.

“I finished the work on the last possible day, in typical Yalie fashion,” Pierre said. “As for the animation itself, one of the most difficult things was to at once make the narrative understandable, but avoid making it too corny or obvious, especially without dialogue.”

Shatan-Pardo said that as the featured artists will not be able to accompany their works and explain their meaning to the panel of critics, he is nervous to see how well his work will stand alone without his own narration.

Yale’s undergraduate art major offers five concentrations: graphic design, filmmaking, photography, sculpture, painting and printmaking.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

Student play follows family

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER In an upcoming play, a psychic who could have changed the flow of history instead ends up fleeing from his home and beginning a new life.

“The Last of the Maple Leaves,” written and directed

by Alcindor Leadon ’17, opens tonight at the Morse-Stiles Crescent Underground Theater. The play follows the story of an nontraditional family as they flee New York City in the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The central family, which consists of the protagonist Ashton and his children Holy and SaberBlade, takes up residence in a cabin in rural Ontario and must learn to adapt to their new home. Wissem Gamra ’18, the show’s producer, said the play’s title refers to the children’s gradual loss of innocence over the course of the play.

“This play is mostly about how it’s getting harder [for kids] to mature in a healthy way as we go on from the ’80s and ’90s into this millennium,” Leadon said. “It’s definitely easier to lose your innocence faster and maturity is sometimes described as a good thing, but that maturity I’m talking about is experiencing loss and dissatisfaction.”

In the play, Ashton is a psychic who has a vision of the 9/11 attacks before they occur but chooses not to act on it. Throughout the play, Ashton is haunted by a feeling of guilt, Leadon noted.

Jay Majumdar ’18, who plays the six-year old Saber-Blade,

said that while his character is largely unfazed by the move to Canada, Saber-Blade’s brother Holy is angry at Ashton for having changed their lives so abruptly.

As the youngest character in the play, Saber-Blade experiences the largest loss of innocence, according to Majumdar. He added that Saber-Blade’s youth makes his emotional changes more amplified, which allows the audience to see a more dramatic shift in emotions over the course of the play.

“Because my character is so young, it’s an almost tangible loss of innocence,” Majumdar said. “When you have a younger character, it’s nice because the emotions can be magnified more. I’ll go from being happy all the time to going through mood swings.”

Ensemble members interviewed said that while the events of 9/11 set the play’s plot into motion, the attacks do not remain a dominant theme as the story progresses.

Sean Sullivan ’17, who plays Holy, said that Ashton’s initial obsession with conspiracy theories and general distrust for the American government serve primarily to establish him as an eccentric character.

But Leadon said the trope has another purpose as an event that the children must learn to come to terms with emotionally. “[9/11] comes through mostly in [Holy’s] unwillingness to confront his emotions about it,” Leadon said.

Despite the play’s apparent intensity, Majumdar empha-

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Sean Sullivan ’17 plays Holy in “The Last of the Maple Leaves,” opening tonight. sized the unexpected humorous elements that it employs, which are found in Ashton’s quirkiness as a character and his interactions with his children.

Sullivan echoed Majumdar’s sentiment, saying that moments where the awkwardness of being a teenager or being a dad come through give the play a funny edge.

“You can’t believe this dude exists. He’ll be saying swear words in front of his [young] son,” Majumdar said.

Each scene of the play takes place in the cabin and represents a month in the lives of the central family — a sequence presented by an onstage calendar that is updated with each scene.

Gamra said he thinks the intimate setting of the Crescent Theater is well-suited to create the impression that viewers are actually inside the family’s cabin.

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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“Fiction helps me reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.” KAREN RUSSELL AUTHOR

In new musical, characters wrestle with love, loss and alligators

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“Swamplandia! The Musical” weaves unusual elements into a discussion on serious subjects such as family, loss and imagination.

BY JONATHAN MARX CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This week, a senior project production will venture through an alligator-wrestling theme park to delve into themes of family, loss and imagination.

“Swamplandia! The Musical,” an original adaptation of Karen Russell’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel, premieres tonight at the Calhoun Cabaret. With the book written

by Andrew Bezek ’13 and music and lyrics composed by Benji Goldsmith ’15, the show tells the story of a family that lives on an island off the Florida coast and runs the titular alligator-wrestling theme park. Stage manager

Aviva Abusch ’18 highlighted the show’s ability to weave unusual elements into a broader discussion on serious subjects. “[Goldsmith] and [Bezek] took a story that most people would not think to turn into a musical and they did it,” Abusch said. “It is entirely wacky, but also mature and impactful in a way that people might not realize when they hear the title and the premise.”

At the show’s outset, the passing of the family’s matriarch and star alligator wrestler, Hilola Bigtree, sets the plot in motion.

Throughout the musical, characters must discover their own methods of coping with the loss of Hilola and moving on with

their lives. In the process, several strange elements are introduced, including a ghost, a hellthemed rival amusement park and a swamp queen.

Goldsmith said that when he first read Russell’s novel, he immediately recognized its theatrical potential. In composing the music for the show, Goldsmith explained that he blended two different harmonic styles — diatonicism and chromaticism — in order to distinguish between the play’s real and supernatural elements.

Abusch said that given the show’s setting and focus on family tradition, the music becomes important in representing the distinct lifestyle of the Bigtree

clan.

Max Sauberman ’17, who plays Chief Bigtree, the family patriarch, highlighted the show’s realistic portrayal of human emotion.

Cast and crewmembers interviewed said they faced unique challenges during the production process. Alison MosierMills ’17, the show’s producer, said that the production’s complex lighting, props and costume elements were difficult to cowordinate in a venue as small as the Calhoun Cabaret. Sauberman explained that the actors were forced to develop their own interpretations of characters without any previous productions of the show to use as

reference. But he noted that the show’s originality also allows the cast members to take a large degree of ownership in their characters.

Abusch also emphasized that with its combination of humor, drama and suspense, “Swamp-

landia!” is designed to appeal to a wide range of audiences.

Performances of “Swamplandia!” run through Friday evening.

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

Yale Baroque Opera Project to stage rarely performed piece

BY SPANDANA BHATTACHARYA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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YBOP’s first performance in English makes Baroque opera more accessible.

In their upcoming production, members of the Yale Baroque Opera Project will perform in English for the first time ever.

“Erismena,” with music by Francesco Cavalli and libretto by Aurelio Aureli, opens this Saturday at the University Theater.

The show centers on a woman who disguises herself as a male warrior to pursue her love interest. Ethan Heard ’07 DRA ’13, the show’s stage manager, highlighted that the production is a rare occasion because “Erismena” has only been performed a few times in the United States.

“There is only one recording I know of and that is from the 60’s, I have certainly never heard of it [being performed],” Heard said.

Grant Herreid, the production’s musical director, said that 17th-century operas mostly consist of two elements: the recitative and the aria. The recitative refers to the act of speaking text in a musical style, which was a new invention in 17thcentury music. The recitative is typically followed by the aria, a solo vocal part designed to express a character’s emotions.

For the production, YBOP is using a 17th-century English translation of “Erismena.”

According to Heard, the history of the original translation dates back to when an Englishman first watched a performance of the piece in Italy circa 1655 and went back five more times to watch it. He eventually paid for it to be transcribed and translated it into English. Heard noted that performing the piece in English will make the opera more accessible, referring to it as “a wonderful introduction to baroque opera.”

Ariadne Lih ’17, who plays the character Aldimira, said that performing the show in English has been both a blessing and a challenge.

“It is hard because you really have to make sure you are getting the text across, but this will make it more approachable for people,” Lih said.

Courtney Sanders ’16, who plays the protagonist Erismena in the show, noted that while a translated English script was easier to learn, the performers must pay more attention to the substance of the plot because audiences will be able to understand what they are saying.

Heard emphasized that in 17th-century baroque operas, vocal parts are only accompanied by a few instruments, which gives singers a large amount of control over the music, but puts additional pressure on the performers. Herreid also highlighted the complexity of the play’s technical elements, which include scenic shifts and lighting changes.

The orchestra featured in the show includes a number of instruments that were used during the 17th century, such as a theorbo, a plucked string instrument with an extended neck.

Herreid noted that this production offers a unique opportunity for audience members to hear instruments that are rarely used in modern-day shows.

Heard said that since the piece was written roughly 50 years after Shakespearean classics such as “Twelfth Night” and “The Winter’s Tale,” he notices many parallels between “Erismena” and Shakespeare’s works.

“I think of this piece as a sister piece to those two Shakespeare plays. It’s a delightful mix of romance, comedy, mistaken identity and drag performance,” Heard said.

Another innovation of the YBOP’s production of the opera is the introduction of a new character into the original storyline. Heard said after noticing that several characters sing about “Cupid” throughout the show, the production team decided to create a Cupid character, which is now played by a local high school student. While the Cupid doesn’t speak or sing, it acts as the show’s “MC and master magician”, according to Heard.

Contact SPANDANA BHATTACHARYA at spandana.bhattacharya@yale.edu .

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Ivy League championship, while his long-term goal is a national championship.

But, he cautioned, reaching that level will take time.

“This program is not going to just start winning,” Stannard said.

“We’re not going to turn things around overnight. It’s going to be a process. Right now, the spring has just been forming a standard about the expectations, the accountability … When things are tough in the spring or in the fall, we can say,

In the spirit of reflection that the end of every school year and every season brings, I have had a chance to think about softball, being a student-athlete at Yale, and what I might be able to take away from my four years here.

A few months ago, I wrote about last firsts: the last first morning practice, the last first bus trip, the last first home game. Those last firsts have now come and gone, and the lasts have begun to replace them. The ultimate last looms ahead this weekend when my fellow senior teammates, and many other athletes, will pull on their Yale jersey and step onto the field for the last time as a Bulldog.

In a conversation a few weeks ago, a teammate asked me if I ever thought about the fact that softball, or any sport, has little to no meaning outside of the meaning that we give to it. At the time when she asked me, the answer to this question was not really. I had certainly thought about why I was doing what I was doing or what skills I might be gaining in the process, but I had never seriously thought about if any of it really mattered.

This past weekend, my team and I traveled north to face Harvard. Being from just 20 miles north of Cambridge, playing at Soldier Field has always felt like somewhat of a home game to me. I have memories of going to Harvard catching camps as a kid, hitting clinics on Sunday nights, and sitting in the stands watching the Crimson in action over the years. And I remember, more than anything, dreaming about playing on that field.

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Midfielder Henos Musie ’16 was a second-team All-Ivy selection in 2013 after transferring from Chalmers University in Sweden.

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Before its first year under the helm of head coach Kylie Stannard officially begins, the Yale men’s soccer team has already seen drastic changes. Coming off a 1–13–3 season, the team has undergone an intense offseason training regimen.

Despite the difficulty of daily workouts and 6 a.m. runs, players have expressed satisfaction with the results of the new training.

“The whole point of the tough spring is to get us ready for the fall,

and I think we have done a good job preparing for the upcoming season,” striker Keith Bond ’16 said.

“Now it is just up to everyone to maintain their fitness and skills over the summer so that they come back in the fall ready to go. While everyone might not be super enthusiastic about the intensity of our spring right now, it will definitely be worth it come fall when we see our hard work translated into positive results.”

This hard work began with a fitness test. Composed of timed 800and 400-meter runs interspersed

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with shuttle runs, the test allows for minimal rest. It is a high standard, Stannard said, but one that he expects Division I soccer players to meet.

Stannard arrived at Yale after spending six years as an associate head coach for perennial powerhouse Michigan State University.

In his tenure there, the Spartans went to the NCAA Tournament five times, reaching the Elite Eight in back-to-back years.

He hopes his Bulldogs can ultimately achieve the same thing, explaining his short-term goal as an

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In historic game, Yale beats Wesleyan

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While the Bulldogs took fifth in the Yale Spring Invitational, they still finished above Harvard by one stroke.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER In their last tournament before Ivy play, the Yale men’s golf team snatched a fifth-place finish on their home turf during the Yale Spring Invitational.

The 54-hole tournament featured three rounds of play over

two days, with 36 holes on Saturday and 18 holes on Sunday. After a sunny first day and two rounds, the Bulldogs were tied for fifth place with the Michigan Wolverines. The third round of play saw similar results for the Bulldogs, who finished in fifth place (+26), SEE GOLF PAGE 8

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Second baseman Nate Adams ’16 went 2–5 against the Cardinals with a run scored.

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER In a game scheduled to commemorate the sesquicentennials of both programs, the Yale baseball team defeated Division III Wesleyan 7–3 thanks to a first inning that saw five runners cross the plate.

The two schools first met

on Sept. 30, 1865 in each program’s inaugural game, when the Bulldogs notched their first victory against the Cardinals 39–13. Though the teams have played 81 times since then, this was the first matchup between the Connecticut schools since 1992.

“I highlighted this game before the season because of the historical significance

of the game, and playing it meant a lot,” captain and right fielder David Toups ’15 said. “It was a fun game to play, and we wanted to come away with the win just like Yale did 150 years ago.”

In the 2015 iteration, the Elis (13–21, 4–12 Ivy) triumphed over Wesleyan (18–6, 6–0 New England Small College Athletic) largely because

of an abnormally quick start.

For a Yale offense that has struggled throughout the season, hitting just 0.249 during conference play, the first inning served as an antidote to the Bulldogs’ ills, as the first seven batters reached base.

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THE NUMBER OF STROKES BELOW PAR JONATHAN LAI ’17 SCORED BY THE END OF THE 54HOLE YALE SPRING INVITATIONAL. Lai’s performance was enough to earn him a fifth place overall finish in the tournament flush with top-ranked competition.