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HORIZONS “ICARUS” DEBUTS AT UNIV. THEATER

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NO TAX HAVEN

Yale ITS creates training program to prevent email phishing attacks.

INT’L STUDENTS DEAL WITH AN EXTRA COST.

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Participants are given an hour to solve a puzzle and escape the room.

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Key to assault adjudication, barring contact difficult in practice

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER

Remember that you are dust.

Shifting gears from Mardi Gras yesterday, today is Ash Wednesday. Saint Mary’s on Hillhouse Avenue and Saint Thomas More on Park Street will hold Mass and distribute ashes over the course of the day.

Last May, as seniors gathered at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for their time-honored, week-long celebration before commencement, a female student and a male student found themselves a few feet away from each other on the beach. This encounter would have been just like any other that week — except that these two students were barred by the University from interacting with one another.

Several months before, in February, the female stu-

Give it up. And with Ash

Wednesday comes the beginning of Lent, for which many students on campus will be making (small) sacrifices through Easter. Still, it could be a good opportunity for the non-religious to revisit their New Year’s resolutions and see how far a little self-restraint can go.

Like Humility. Faith-practicing or otherwise, Yalies would agree that human values are fundamental, wherever they might originate. Dipesh Chakrabarty, a professor from the University of Chicago, is on campus today to offer his thoughts on “Climate Change as Epochal Consciousness,” the initial of a three-part series of “The Tanner Lectures on Human Values” this week.

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dent had filed a formal complaint with the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct alleging that, in the midst of an otherwise consensual sexual encounter, the male student had engaged in nonconsensual anal contact with her.

After roughly two months, in which an independent factfinder investigated the claim and a UWC panel held a hearing, the five-member panel determined that the male student had not violated Yale’s sexual misconduct policies. It did not recommend any follow-up measures. Then-Yale College Dean Mary Miller upheld the panel’s

findings, according to her written decision, which — along with the fact-finder’s report, the panel’s report and the complainant’s response to the panel’s decision — was provided to the News.

But at the request of the female student, Miller asked that the no-contact order between the students, which had been registered when the formal complaint was first filed, remain in place. She further recommended that the male student meet with his residential college master and pursue SEE NO-CONTACT PAGE 4

Top: Then-Yale College Dean Mary Miller provides UWC Secretary Aley Menon with her final decision in a case involving two undergraduates. The decision was rendered April 23, 2014.

Bottom: Jennifer Czincz of SHARE writes to then-UWC Chair Michael Della Rocca on March 25, 2014 to relay the complainant’s concerns about the no-contact order.

Back to debauchery. Yalies

— well, mainly seniors — still let a little loose at last night’s Feb Club event, a Star Warsthemed party named “Jar Jar Drinks” held in a Jonathan Edwards suite. The creativity is strong with these ones.

Expert commentary. This week’s news about the University’s sanctions against SAE has drawn a wide range of reactions from an even wider collection of sources. Add Total Frat Move to the list, which expressed some, shall we say, surprise at the ruling.

Also, recycling an old picture from the News? TFM. They’re kind of a frat. The

Whiffenpoofs managed to do Mardi Gras the right way, parading through the streets of New Orleans yesterday. By Tuesday night, however, they were on their way back from the trip, while the rest of us in New Haven tried to improvise with buckets of Cajun chicken for a little Fat Tuesday kick.

Behavioural decision making.

The Center for International and Professional Experience seems to be fully prepared for anyone with questions about the London School of Economics summer session.

Having already hosted several info sessions about the study abroad program, the CIPE will hold another one today to help make the decision even easier for those considering it.

Don’t forget. Applications for everything from fellowships (e.g., the Libby Rouse Fund for Peace) to Fling (i.e., this year’s Spring Fling logo) are due today.

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Students call for Af-Am House dean’s removal

BY STAPHANY HOU AND AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTERS Members of the Afro-American Cultural Center presented a petition calling for the removal of Assistant Dean of Yale College and Director of the Af-Am House Rodney Cohen at an external review meeting on Tuesday evening.

During the meeting — which was chaired by Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews — Elisia Ceballo-Countryman ’18, a member of the Af-Am House and freshman liaison for the Black Student Alliance at Yale, presented a 60-page petition signed by 147 students, outlining the students’ grievances about Cohen’s leadership. Students who spoke during the meeting, which drew roughly 40 attendees, and who wrote letters that were included in

the petition shared complaints about Cohen’s lack of accessibility, his character and financial management of the cultural center. They also unanimously expressed the view that Cohen should be relieved of his directorship.

“We demand widespread change that begins with the termination of Rodney Cohen’s term as director of the AfroAmerican Cultural Center,” the petition reads.

The petition, which includes letters from current students and alumni, lists steps taken by house members to improve Cohen’s leadership of the house since he stepped into the position in 2010. Complaints were already lobbied against Cohen after his first semester, and two internal reviews were conducted regarding his leadership between 2010 and 2014, petition organizer Micah Jones ’16 said in an interview with the SEE AF-AM PAGE 6

CT senators propose replacing Metro-North

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTERS As Metro-North Railroad comes under scrutiny for a series of fatal accidents in the last two years, two Connecticut lawmakers are calling for the state to reconsider its deal with the beleaguered commuter rail operator.

The proposed legislation — submitted to the General Assembly’s Transportation Committee by State Senators Toni Boucher, R-Wilton, and Tony Hwang, R-Fairfield — would force the state to put the contract for the operation of rail lines up for bid-

ding. Such a change could result in the replacement of Metro-North as the line’s operator. The state’s current contract with Metro-North, signed three decades ago, lasts 60 years, with amendments possible every five years.

Boucher and Hwang, however, want the General Assembly to authorize an immediate renegotiation of the contract.

“Reliability and a safe working infrastructure are a state’s core function,” Boucher said in a statement.

“We are in desperate need of better service, replacements, repairs SEE METRO-NORTH PAGE 6

Study questions divestment’s costs

BY JED FINLEY AND LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTERS The cost of divestment may be too high for institutions to bear, according to a study published last week by researchers from Compass Lexecon, an economic consulting firm.

The study found a “highly likely and substantial” potential for lower investment returns on divested institutional portfolios.

Critics, though, have argued that the study’s results merely reflect the interests of the pro-energy group that financed the report, the Independent Petroleum Association of America.

The report — which analyzed the effect of divestment over a 50-year period — cited higher trading costs, diversification costs and compliance costs as among the potential consequences of divestment.

“The economic evidence demonstrates that fossil fuel divestment is a bad idea,” former dean of the University of Chicago Law School and lead author Daniel Fischel wrote in the study. “These costs have real financial impacts on the returns generated by an investment portfolio, and therefore, real impacts on the ability of an educational institution to achieve its goals.”

The conclusion of the report was based on a study comparing two portfolios — one “optimal equity portfolio” without divested assets and one divested non-energy stock portfolio.

After analyzing the investment returns over the timeframe from 1965 to 2014, the study found a gross reduction in returns of 0.7 percent per year due to divestment.

Over the past decade, Yale has earned an average 11 percent annual return that has brought the endowment total to $24 billion as of June 30, 2014.

Senior vice president at Compass Lexecon Alexander Rinaudo, who was part of Fischel’s three-person team of researchers for the study, said divested portfolios may have lower returns due to decreased diversification of assets.

Rinaudo said that compared to other industrial sectors in the market, the energy industry is the “least correlated” sector.

He added that because energy stocks are not closely tied to the performance of other stocks, they have provided a stable source of investment for years — despite the recent fall in oil prices.

The School of Management finance professor Roger Ibbotson said that though SEE DIVESTMENT PAGE 6

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OPINION

.COMMENT “Time to wake up and smell the coffee, kiddies...” yaledailynews.com/opinion

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I’m still cold

I PREFER TO WANDER I often dismiss my nomadism as a side effect of being an extrovert. I joke that it’s because I’m a child of divorce.

Or because I’m biracial. A therapist once suggested that it’s a way for me to keep the constant movement of my past in the present. I remember hugging a pillow when she said this. But I fancy myself too young to seriously consider commitment issues. I’d rather complain about the cold.

As a little kid in Virginia, a small flurry was a huge deal.

Schools would grant halfdays so parents could get their kids at lunchtime. The D.C. metropolitan area lacked adequate snow plows, and the roads turned miserable before the ice melted the next day. I didn’t have a white Christmas until I was nine, visiting my grandfather in western Massachusetts. I looked out the window of his living room as a blizzard passed through the Berkshires.

When I began college, I decided that New England’s seasons were precisely what I needed. Leaves! Mittens! Cute boots! I was sick of afternoons waiting for my Florida town’s trolley on hot grass outside my

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school, ants crawling up my ankles, praying for a change in our uniform policy that would legalize khaki shorts. I was sick of central air conditioning so potent that you had to carry a thick sweater to the mall in mid-July. I hated the South Florida staleness, how so few people I knew were proud to be from the place where we lived.

I always feel like everyone in Miami is from somewhere else, which is true for most immigrant cities. For that reason, I often joke that Miami isn’t a real place. I remember choosing Yale because it felt real and grounding.

But belonging to a place like Yale is hard. It’s a real place that comes with real stress, hardship, trauma, breakups and Elm Street traffic. To get by here, you often burn yourself out until you realize that you need to cut down on all-nighters and double-shot lattes.

I slept through my 10:30 lecture this morning. When I woke up, I considered getting upset with myself. Then I saw that it was 12 degrees outside.

Lately, to stay inside, I make fewer runs to Blue State.

Instead, I sit in my room and try to organize my life. I color code my Google Calendar.

Sometimes I even plan my outfits. Other times, I sleep until 1 p.m. on a Thursday. The cold has made me spend more time still.

I am settling into a life here.

I don’t need to grab a meal with everyone who laughs at my jokes because I already know people who like me. I don’t need to try so hard anymore. I don’t need to push myself. While relieving, it reinforces the impermanence of my time at Yale. There are few beginnings left for me.

Maybe this is what I was supposed to always do. I was always supposed to settle into this campus, settle into a routine of oatmeal breakfasts and group texts. I was always supposed to turn this place into a home, despite my impulse to the contrary, despite the feeling in the back of my mind that the only way to make Yale my own was to know as much of it as I could.

Nowadays, I fantasize about April: It’s a golden afternoon, and I’m lying out on Cross Campus, looking collegiate. I might be sleep-deprived, but whatever. Later on, I’ll consider a walk down Hillhouse or Whitney. I’ll take off my shoes.

There might even be ants, but for the while, I’ll stay still.

ADRIANA MIELE is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .

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All incidence is not equal

GUEST COLUMNIST ADRIANA MIELE

fter three years here, I’ve decided February is the worst month. Spring semester is always less fun than the fall, and I don’t do dining hall coffee. I also think that the best way to spend a free afternoon on campus is to go on a walk, preferably longer than 45 minutes. Sometimes with company, sometimes alone, never following a predetermined path. I prefer to wander.

But this winter, it’s been too cold to wander. I don’t want to walk or move or communicate beyond iMessages and Snapchats. I understand that most people reading this are likely aware of the weather: the cancelled events and classes, the biweekly blizzards, the cold-flu things going around.

These are probably more newsworthy inconveniences than my inability to walk in circles for fun, but wandering is my emotional homework.

My oldest friend calls me a nomad, which makes sense considering the way I grew up.

I spent 17 years hopscotching the East Coast: Virginia to the Boston suburbs to South Florida. Then Connecticut.

Halfway through Yale, I transferred from Berkeley to JE.

'WHITEYMARSH' ON 'SAE

espite representing only 13 percent of the U.S. population, African Americans account for nearly half of all new HIV infections each year. Rates of transmission among injecting drug users, black women and black infants born to seropositive mothers continue to decline, but HIV incidence among gay and bisexual men who are young and black has charted a steady rise.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates are jarring: Their numbers suggest that one in five black men who have sex with men (MSM) living in a major city already has HIV. Forty percent of these cases will progress to AIDS. This is all compounded by the fact that black MSM are the most likely demographic subgroup to date other members of their own race.

Yet, if we ask Americans where the virus destroys lives, a majority will point beyond our borders.

A very clear transitive relationship exists: Socioeconomic issues associated with poverty — limited access to health care, housing and HIV prevention education — undoubtedly increase the risk of infection. The poverty rate is higher among African Americans than other racial and ethnic groups. Therefore, we should expect baseline incidence of HIV among black Americans to be higher than for other groups.

But while nearly all accept this reality, sensationalized characterizations of the black community promote misconceptions about the primary reasons for high incidence.

Take for example the false claim that HIV/AIDS is a product

of irresponsibly foregoing condom usage. Black MSM confront a great paradox in HIV incidence: MetaKYLE from TRAMONTE analyses researchers at the Green on CDC showed in 2012 that the Vine black MSM reported fewer high-risk behaviors than MSM of other ethnic groups. Still, at the time the authors published their study, black MSM had three times the chances of testing HIV positive and six times the chances of having undiagnosed HIV. Disparities in condom usage on racial and ethnic grounds do not provide a real explanation for this crisis.

Incarceration due to the war on drugs has of course disproportionately affected people of color.

But pointing the finger at maleto-male transmission in prisons to explain the crisis is similarly incorrect. From July 1988 to February 2005, Georgia implemented mandatory HIV testing upon prison entry and subsequent voluntary testing by request or by clinical indication.

Of those found to be HIV positive in Georgia prisons and jails, 91 percent were positive upon entry. The real danger of living with HIV in prisons is not the risk of infecting another inmate, but the stigma and abuse that stems from a positive diagnosis.

HIV/AIDS in the black com-

munity, in many ways, is not an isolated crisis but rather the child of a more familiar one. It is the same American dilemma of historical racial subjugation. When considering America’s HIV crisis among African Americans, especially MSM, we must look back to that first relationship between socioeconomic status, HIV incidence and black Americans’ persistent struggle to overcome structural inequalities.

Years of discrimination in housing and other resources, inadequate sexual health education in our crumbling public schools and persistent racism are the primary culprits in this crisis. And while mass incarceration doesn’t cause HIV incidence to explode in prisons, it certainly affects those who are not jailed. The women and men left behind in society must encounter a numerically restricted sexual network, increasing the chances that they will come into contact with an HIV-positive individual in small, high-prevalence communities.

HIV will not disappear without an offensive strategy. There are many factors that contribute to the crisis, but expanding access to high-quality health care is the integral first step to decreasing the racial disparity in incidence. The concept of following through on the “treatment cascade” or “care continuum” is vastly important — individuals must be diagnosed, then linked to care, then remain in care, then eventually achieve viral suppression to prevent transmission.

The problem is that far too many black MSM are unable to access

medical care with the frequency that other groups do.

The Affordable Care Act, in part, tried to address this crisis by eliminating discrimination practiced by insurance companies based on pre-existing conditions and by expanding Medicaid.

But almost 20 states continue to deny Medicaid expansion, which would help those most vulnerable to HIV infection break into the care continuum and receive treatment. This is most potent in the South, where nine states have denied expansion, where African Americans are twice as likely to be uninsured and six times as likely to have HIV. And, according to a recent complaint filed with the Department of Health and Human Services, a number of insurance providers are actively discouraging HIV-positive individuals from enrolling in their plans through adverse tiering practices.

For many young black men who have sex with men, access to our health care networks is a question of life or death. We must confront this reality and take steps to ensure that they live.

KYLE TRAMONTE is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at kyle.tramonte@yale.edu .

The first step in combatting the HIV/AIDS crisis is getting tested. If you or someone you know would like to receive free, confidential HIV testing, please call 203-936-8669.

GUEST COLUMNIST GRAHAM AMBROSE

Bring meritocracy to Model UN

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henever boasting to friends that I never engaged in a high school extracurricular designed to pad my college resume, I secretly harbored a major exception: Model United Nations, the simulation of international diplomacy and coalition building that engrosses thousands of young adults across the globe. I don’t have anything against the type of students who do MUN. Many, in high school and at Yale, are some of the most ambitious, intelligent and funloving policy wonks around.

But having participated in MUN conferences across the country and recently having staffed YMUN on campus, I have come to terms with problems that are inherent and unique to the activity. For all its good — the camaraderie, the learning about international affairs, the emphasis on speaking skills — MUN is a pursuit that systematically values all the wrong qualities. Most notably, the disproportionate role wealth plays in a student’s MUN experience.

Until only recently, the brotherhood between wealth and diplomacy made sense. Travel was decidedly expensive, and only the well-connected could afford the cultural and physical niceties needed by a diplomat.

Furthermore, the type of education you would receive at bastions of elitism such as Oxford or Eton were tailored for future diplomats. Whereas most schools

emphasized math and science, these institutions trained their students in rhetoric and other aspects of a classical education.

But today, as schools like Yale have become more accessible to everyone, you would think that the field of international relations would be more democratized. Even if Yale’s student body is still on average quite wealthy, the commercialization of transportation and the arrival of the Internet has made real-time knowledge available to virtually everyone.

But MUN is loath to catch up. It is, in every aspect, a game couched in money. According to Best Delegate, the uncontested authority on Model UN team rankings, only three of the 10 best college teams in the country hail from public universities. At the high school level, the public-private gap persists. Although only nine percent of American students attend private schools, three of the top five squads in the nation are private, according to 2012–13 rankings. Worse yet, in the Northeast, just six of the top 25 teams are public, non-magnet schools. There’s strong evidence that wealth correlates with MUN success.

What’s going on? Well, for starters, MUN isn’t free. First, conferences charge for registration. On campus, YMUN requests a non-refundable down payment of $325 on top of $80 per student, $40 per advisor

and $50 to $100 for the entire team, depending on the size. Not to mention, of course, mandatory hotel rates — delegates must stay in a designated, conferencesanctioned hotel — that can amount to over $500 by weekend’s end. And this doesn’t even include transportation costs — a hefty cost for delegations outside the area. Before uttering even a word of foreign policy, delegates and their schools are forced to muster thousands of dollars simply to attend the conference.

These costs are even higher in cities such as Washington D.C., New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, where the best conferences are held.

But this isn’t a one-time show. To ascend the rankings and become a respected MUN power, your school has to perform commendably at as many conferences as possible. For most competitive clubs, this typically requires attending at least three conferences. And although MUN conferences, including those at Yale and Harvard, are beginning to roll out financial aid policies — yes, imagine FAFSA but for a four-day conference — they remain more gestures than commitments.

Let’s now finally step inside the actual committee room.

Sadly, though there are exceptions, committees are not egalitarian platforms of debate and disagreement. They are cage fights, brimming with personal

animosities and hyper-competitive zeal. Those who thrive generally exhibit several traits all empirically conducive to attaining wealth and positions of power: height, aggressiveness and physical attractiveness.

They are, no doubt, traits invariably important across life. But that doesn’t mean they ought to be qualities cultivated and lusted for in our nation’s youngest and brightest. Furthermore, wealthy students learn skills such as networking and diplomatic flattery at the dinner parties their parents host, if not in the classrooms of New England prep schools.

This is not to condemn the intent behind MUN, but to bring to light existing problems in one of the most prominent high school pastimes.

MUN would be well served by abolishing awards, a practice that rewards a winner-take-all mentality that is antithetical to the spirit of diplomacy. Additionally, YMUN should use its revenue to increase financial aid and make the conference more accessible.

Still, in an entrenched system held dear by many, the opposition is stiff. That’s life, the counterargument goes. But can’t a club designed to grapple with fake crises solve a real-world problem?

GRAHAM AMBROSE is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at graham.ambrose@yale.edu .

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“I’ve always liked simple. Growing up, I wore corduroys and Lacoste shirts, Maraolo flats, and maybe one gold bracelet.”

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CORRECTIONS MONDAY, FEB. 16

A previous version of the article “European Student Conference encourages activism on campuses” misstated that the conference accepted 80 students due to budgetary constraints. In fact, the number of participants was predetermined.

TUESDAY, FEB. 17

Due to an editing error, a previous version of the article “Senator, students discuss affirmative consent bill” misstated the quote of Vincent Kennedy ’16. The article also stated that Eliot Levmore said affirmative consent is hard to define, when in fact he said it is hard to enforce. The article has further been revised to clarify his view on the presumption of innocence or guilt.

A previous version of the article “CS grad students call for larger department” misspelled Debayan Gupta’s name on the first reference.

For int’l students, taxes bring unexpected cost

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER Despite Yale’s commitment to meeting full demonstrated financial need for its students, international students on full financial aid face an additional, often hidden cost.

All applicants to Yale, both domestic and international, benefit from the University’s need-blind and need-based financial aid policies, guaranteeing that students will be admitted regardless of their ability to pay tuition. However, according to Internal Revenue Service policies, financial aid in excess of tuition — often used to cover textbook costs or travel expenses — is classified as taxable income, requiring universities to withhold 14 percent in taxes for international students with nonresident status.

Thus, international students receiving financial aid above tuition in order to cover the additional costs of attending the University are often subject to extra fees. For international students on full financial aid, this adds up to roughly $900 per semester that students are responsible for paying, Elizabeth Casey ’18, a student from the United Kingdom, said.

“The tax bill is greatest for the poorest students, who receive the most aid above basic tuition,” said Iain Barr ’17, a student from the United Kingdom. “For me personally, it has meant that despite the University promising to help cover expenses such as international flights, books …

I have to mostly cover these on my own. The money that’s supposed to pay for those expenses gets eaten up by the tax at the start of the semester.”

Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi said tax and withholding issues are not exclusive to Yale. These are issues that confront all international students, he said, regardless of which U.S. institution they attend.

“All scholarships above the level of tuition and qualified fees are taxable,” Storlazzi said.

“This is true for all students, both international and domestic. [But] federal tax laws require institutions of higher education to withhold taxes in respect of taxable scholarships for international students, unless there is a tax treaty between the U.S. and the student’s home country.”

Storlazzi added that the subject of tax treaties can be complex, because the tax treaty status of a country may change from year to year, requiring students to apply for tax treaty benefits.

Office of International Students and Scholars Director Ann Kuhlman said OISS works with Student Financial Services and the Yale International Tax Office to help incoming international students understand the intricacies of U.S. federal taxes.

“Because it is such a complicated issue, OISS and SFS explain the subject in depth during the orientation for international freshmen, as part of longer discussion of how Yale financial aid works,” Kuhlman said.

However, international students interviewed criticized the University for neither informing them of the tax before arriving on campus, nor factoring the tax into the coverage of their advertised financial aid packages.

“I wasn’t aware of the tax

until I arrived at Yale,” Barr said.

“It’s not included in the [estimated] student expenses by the financial aid office. This seems ill-informed and quite misleading, considering that it’s by far the largest single expense I incur every semester.”

New students are advised to schedule appointments with the Yale International Tax Office, Kuhlman said, and are told whether they are beneficiaries of a tax treaty. She added that general information about taxes and withholding is available on the Yale website.

But Casey echoed Barr’s statement, noting that had the tax been included in her initial financial aid letter under estimated expenses, she would have appealed her financial aid package and asked the University for a larger scholarship.

Both Kuhlman and Storlazzi said scholarships for international students are adjusted freshman year in order to cover the 14 percent withholding for their first two semesters. However, Kuhlman said, students are informed at the orientation that the University only covers the withholding for one year.

Because international students are able to request a refund of tax withheld, OISS purchases a non-resident tax filer software program in late February of each year, Kuhlman said. Most international students will use this software to prepare their federal returns, she added, and access to the software will become available next week. Kuhlman said OISS will also hold information sessions on how to use the software, including a session that is particularly targeted at international freshmen.

“At the orientation, we explain that [the increase of financial aid to cover the tax] will only happen in the [freshman] year, and that the student will need to budget accordingly for the subsequent three years,” Kuhlman said. “For some students, it is a significant amount of money, but the refund of some of the taxes paid, as well as earnings from a campus job, can help offset the withholding — emergencies notwithstanding.”

But Barr said the refund he received from last year’s tax only amounted to roughly onethird of this year’s bill, and that international students are not assisted in paying the bill remaining after the tax refund.

If the University is committed to meeting full demonstrated need, he added, it should include the tax in financial aid calculations beyond freshman year.

While Casey agreed that Yale should consider adjusting financial aid packages to cover the tax all four years, she said the main issue is the University’s lack of transparency.

“It seems fundamentally wrong that you get to show up to campus with these rosy views of what Yale is going to cost for your family, and then they tell you that you’re responsible for paying an extra sum of money each semester,” Casey said.

“They should at least tell students in the ‘expected cost’ part of their bill that this tax exists, before they actually arrive at school.”

Each year, over $16 million is given to international students in scholarships by the University, Storlazzi said.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

ITS prepares students for phishing attacks

BY ANDI WANG AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Facing an increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape, Yale’s Information Technology Services debuted an interactive e-learning training module to the Yale community last week in order to raise awareness on the dangers of phishing.

According to the ITS website, phishing is a technique that uses email servers to fraudulently obtain private information. The Phishing Awareness Training module can be found on the ITS website and aims to help users recognize email threats and implement proper procedures for countering the threats. Although most students and professors interviewed were unaware of the new training module, they acknowledged the dangers of phishing attacks and proposed alternative methods of combating cyber theft.

“There is some truth to ITS’s claim that ‘web security is your responsiblity’, but it’s a joint responsibility,” professor of computer science Michael Fischer said, adding that ITS could take additional measures to combat cyber threats against the Yale community.

The Phishing Awareness

Training, which is open to all Yale staff, faculty and students, includes interactive quizzes and an informative slideshow. The training module informs users on a wide range of information regarding cyber theft by introducing the concepts of phishing, social engineering and malware — programs that steal information from computer hard drives. Victims of phishing may accidentally divulge essential information such as their social security number, direct deposit information and student data, according to the presentation.

The training module also provides examples of several common phishing techniques, such as the impersonation of yale.edu email addresses and fraudulent Yale login pages that tempt students to enter login information. Users are shown fake Yale emails and login pages and are asked to spot the mistakes of the forgery.

Three of five computer science professors interviewed said they had heard of one training material, while only out of 10 students said they knew of it.

Computer science professor Michael Fischer said it is difficult to protect a large institution and all its members from

cyber attacks. He said recent examples involving major companies, such as Sony, falling victim to cyber attacks showcase this difficulty.

“The general sentiment in the security community right now is that any organization will be hacked; it’s just a matter of time,” Fischer said.

Nevertheless, Fischer said he believes there are steps ITS and the University can take to better protect students and faculties from phishing and other cyber attacks. He said one of the most dangerous types of phishing at Yale are those emails that ask students to take counterfeit surveys or update their information signing off as University authorities — often faking to be ITS itself. In face of such threats, Yale could make an official website for people to find the exact time, sender and content of all emails sent by University authorities, Fischer said.

Associate professor of computer science Bryan Ford, who specializes in cybersecurity, said the email phishing threat can be countered using an authentication system — called Domain Keys Identified Mail — that blocks emails coming from outside of the Yale network, using a false Yale address. This

technology is already supported

by Google and Google Apps, through which Yale’s email portal, EliApps, already operates.

But students interviewed said they believe that the most important defense is still for individuals to be aware of phishing risks and to stay alert.

John Roethle ’17 said he was once a victim of a phishing attack when he mistakenly gave his account information for a video game to a counterfeit version of the website he usually used. Roethle said he has educated himself about phishing and stayed away from suspicious emails and links since.

Still, Nils Metter ’18 said ITS could better inform students about cyber attacks that are happening in the community.

“If ITS discloses how many attacks and frauds happen every year at Yale, and how many were stopped, I would have a much better sense of [whether the Yale network is secure enough,]” he said.

ITS introduced an additional security screening to all incoming Yale emails last month.

Contact ANDI WANG andi.wang@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG v.wang@yale.edu .

Bracelet boutique Alex and Ani closes

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The Alex and Ani store on York Street closed at the beginning of February, moving the majority of its products to Wave on Chapel Street.

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER The window display to the right of Blue State on York Street will no longer showcase stacks of charm bracelets.

Alex and Ani, an accessoriesonly boutique, which opened its second store in Connecticut two years ago at 284 York St., closed at the beginning of February when its lease ended. After learning that the store decided to close, Wave, a gift shop and jewelry store on Chapel Street, decided to expand their preexisting Alex and Ani collection to include their full line of products.

“They didn’t close because they weren’t doing good business,” said Phyllis Satin, owner of Wave. “When I spoke to the

people, it was really a matter of needing a larger store. They need more space and better parking.”

Satin added that Alex and Ani will be opening another flagship store in an East Windsor, Connecticut mall.

Alex and Ani representatives could not be reached for comment.

Of 10 students interviewed on York Street, only one had shopped at Alex and Ani in the past. The other nine all said the store was not popular within their friend groups.

Ella Wood ’15 said she received some free products from Alex and Ani during College Night — an evening of discounted shopping, free food and live music in the Broadway Shopping District — and she does not especially like the products.

But the local demand for Alex and Ani products, Satin said, is only partially reliant on Yale students. Satin added that she decided to expand Wave’s Alex and Ani collection because she was confident in the company’s success..

Jessica French, an employee at Wave, added that only a fraction of the customers are Yale students.

“We get a real combination of both students and people that are out and about having dinner, going to the theater and the movies,” French said.

Moreover, despite the general ambivalence, some students expressed disappointment that the store had closed. Soraya Conille ’18 said there are limited choices for accessory shopping near Yale, and Alex and Ani’s

closing has only aggravated the issue.

Hannah Greene ’18, who lives in New Haven, said the charms went through periods of popularity and made for great gifts.

She added, however, that the brand’s availability at Wave will make up for the lack of a flagship shop.

“It was like a craze for a while,” Greene said. “I have a good amount of bracelets. They were just so accessible and so cheap that they made for great presents, birthdays, graduations. Like for [high school] graduation, I got the Yale [bracelet].”

Alex and Ani was founded in 2004 in Rhode Island.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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No-contact orders are a common outcome of sexual misconduct complaints that come before the University. Among new formal UWC cases included in the most recent semiannual Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct, every case that is no longer pending resulted in either an expulsion or a no-contact restriction. Across all seven reports released since the first such summary of complaints was published in January 2012, virtually every case that did not end in the expulsion, suspension or probation of the respondent resulted in a ban on contact between the parties involved.

At a University with 11,250 students — on a central and medical campus that is smaller than 350 acres — it is difficult to avoid running into someone. And when most complaints occur between parties who know each other, no-contact orders are simultaneously fundamental to the integrity of a formal disciplinary hearing and difficult to enforce.

Using documents from formal complaints of sexual misconduct, interviews with parties involved in these cases and University officials charged with administering these orders, this story examines the purpose and the efficacy of barring contact between members of the community on opposite sides of assault complaints.

SAFETY AND WELLBEING

No-contact orders are put in place between a complainant and a respondent the moment the respondent is notified of the formal UWC complaint, said UWC Chair David Post, who is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. The order, which is an interim protective measure, remains in place until the case is finalized. Among the possible sanctions it may hand down, the UWC has the option of specifying that the order continue after the case has been finalized.

While no-contact orders vary in details and scope, they at a minimum typically include restriction on physical, verbal and virtual contact between the parties, according to Yale College Title IX Coordinator Angela Gleason, who supervises the implementation of no-contact orders for undergraduates.

University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler said these orders are vital to the safety and wellbeing of students who choose to report sexual misconduct.

“No-contact directives are among the actions that we can take to ensure that complainants are — and feel — safe, are free from retaliation for bringing a complaint and can pursue their Yale activities free from sexual discrimination and misconduct,” Spangler said.

She added that contact restrictions may also result from informal complaints and reports to the Title IX coordinator, which, unlike formal UWC proceedings,

do not typically result in disciplinary action.

THIRTY FEET APART

After the encounter at Myrtle Beach — the precise details of which are disputed by the parties involved — the female student wrote an email to then-UWC Chair Michael Della Rocca, a philosophy professor, requesting that he remind the male student of the no-contact order.

The no-contact order is very vague, but his behavior is making me very uncomfortable.

COMPLAINANT The complainant explained that they were both at Myrtle Beach with the senior class and that she felt some of his behavior was violating the order.

“I know we are not on Yale campus, and the no contact order is very vague, but his behavior is making me very uncomfortable,” she wrote in the May 9 email.

There had been no verbal contact, she continued, but the male student was approaching her in a way that she felt violated her boundaries. Using language that suggested his behavior was chronic, she said he would sit on the beach within six feet of her.

She claimed that he would not leave areas that she had occupied first, and that while she had been making efforts to avoid him, she felt he was not being similarly conscientious.

“I would like to clarify in distance the number of feet we stay away from each other, and I think 30 feet would make me feel safe,” she wrote. “I would also like to clearly establish that the person who is in a location first (e.g., a computer cluster, a college common room) can stay, and the person who gets there after will move the set distance away.”

In an interview last week, the male student involved in the complaint said he had never intentionally violated the nocontact order and in fact had not even been aware of the female student’s presence when he sat down near her at Myrtle Beach.

The female student told the News that the respondent should have done more to avoid her.

When she was first notified of the order, it included no mandate for a specific distance between her and the respondent, the female student said, leading her to request a more strictly defined boundary.

Indeed, the order's limits were evident from the moment of its enactment: She and the respondent happened to be in a class together that semester. As part of the no-contact order, administrators thus required that the male student enter the lecture hall through a particular door and sit on a particular side of the room. But according to the complainant, these rules were not always abided by, prompting her

counselor at the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education Center to write to UWC officials.

The order, which the female student said was communicated verbally and through email and never outlined in an official notice beyond Miller’s recommendation, was “really, really vague.” It dictated no contact without specifying what counted as contact, she said, and so she took it upon herself to request the physical distance because she felt the current order was not giving her the space she needed.

While additional elements can be added to a no-contact order — Gleason listed the possibility of restricting individuals from visiting certain areas of campus, participating in certain student organizations or taking the same class — the two students in question were already enrolled in the same class at the time that the complaint was filed in February.

not appear that the male student had been punished for the incident at Myrtle Beach.

She acknowledged that Della Rocca had never explicitly said the male student had violated the no-contact order. He simply told her that he had reminded the male student of its existence.

Della Rocca did not return requests for comment.

Gleason said any intentional violation of a no-contact order is subject to discipline and may also be considered a form of retaliation. Acts of retaliation for complaints of sexual misconduct are explicitly prohibited under Title IX. She added, however, that accidental violations may occur and that no-contact orders must occasionally be modified to adjust to new circumstances. Such situations are discussed with both parties before any changes are made, she said.

BOUNDARIES, VIOLATED AND MAINTAINED

“Honestly, the whole UWC process was the furthest thing from my mind [at Myrtle Beach],” the respondent in the spring UWC case told the News. “If I had actually been there second, that was my mistake, but there was no attempt to make any kind of contact or communication. In that case, I guess I must have been a little too close.”

He agreed, however, that there were never clear punishments outlined in case a violation did occur. The communications he received from Della Rocca were more of a reminder than a disciplinary notice, he said.

“It was basically them trying to make sure nothing escalates, just as a cautionary procedure,” he said. “It didn’t ever really feel like, ‘If you don’t comply, we’ll be forced to do so and so.’”

In fact, the male student said, he understood the entire nocontact order to be intended as a deterrent to escalation. He said he sympathized with the administration’s decision to impose contact restrictions, even though the UWC did not find him responsible for misconduct, adding that the restrictions were more of an inconvenience — for example, mandating he use a given door as opposed to another — than a punishment.

He added, however, that part of the reason he did not mind the restrictions was because he only had a few months left at Yale. The situation might be different for a student who would be on campus for a longer period of time, he said.

“In my particular situation, since there was really just one semester to go, it was just a question of avoiding until graduation this person I didn’t usually see anyway until graduation,” he said. “But if it happens to some sophomore who has to worry for two more years, I can see how it might be problematic, like if they both want to get into the same seminar.”

While no-contact orders are not designed to be a punishment, Gleason said, she can understand how they might be perceived that way.

The nature of the female student's formal UWC complaint was that the respondent had repeatedly ignored boundaries she had set during the course of an otherwise consensual sexual encounter.

“In particular, the allegation is that [the respondent] had nonconsensual anal contact with [the complainant] even after she had clearly stated that she did not want to have such contact,” the panel report stated. “In addition, [the complainant] alleges that [the respondent] repeatedly acted against her request to be more gentle in his sexual behavior.”

Two days after the incident, the student met with a counselor at SHARE and decided to file a formal UWC complaint. After an investigation by an independent fact-finder, the UWC panel found the complaint was not substantiated.

Regardless, the female student said she felt violated by the experience, which undermined her sense of control over her own body and her space, the factfinder's report said. No matter the result of her complaint, she said, she wanted never to have to interact with the male again.

But it was never clear to her what consequences, if any, would result from a violation of the order that was put in place as the sole mandate arising from the case.

In a May 10 response to the female student’s email, Della Rocca said he had emailed the male student to remind him of the no-contact order and specifically requested that he not come within 30 feet of the female student.

“I reminded him that there is only a short time until graduation and that it is in his interest and yours that the no-contact order be scrupulously observed,” he wrote.

But the female student said she does not know what would have happened had the orders not been scrupulously observed. If she had to guess, she would presume nothing, she said, because it did

ENFORCING THE ORDER

“Restrictions on an individual’s campus activities requires ongoing awareness and care from everyone involved,” she said. “We work with complainants and respondents to implement plans which are comprehensive and viable.”

Still, she acknowledged that coordinating and enforcing nocontact orders on a small campus like Yale’s can at times be challenging.

Honestly, the whole UWC process was the furthest thing from my mind [at Myrtle Beach].

RESPONDENT The female student said that while she expects the University to exercise its administrative power to urge students to comply with no-contact orders, at the end of the day, “they are not the police.” While no-contact orders are a tool Yale can use to promote a safe environment for its students, she said, the onus is ultimately on the parties involved to enforce the orders.

“The whole situation is all very confidential, so it’s not like anyone would be able to enforce it besides the complainant and the respondent,” she said.

Another former UWC complainant, who also has a no-contact order in place against the respondent in her case, said she frequently sees her respondent around campus. He does not make efforts to leave when they are in the same room, she said, and she does not do so either.

Their no-contact order does not specify a physical distance they must keep from one another, but rather bars "direct or indirect contact with each other while either remains a student at Yale University."

She echoed the other female student’s comment that the parameters of the no-contact orders were never clearly delineated.

“No one ever spelled out what no contact looks like,” she said.

“I don’t know what would happen if [the order] was violated, I don’t who I would contact, I don’t know what it would mean to have violated [the order]. If he came and sat at the same table as me in the dining hall, would that count? I don’t know.”

Still, she said, this ambiguity does not bother her, because the no-contact order never felt relevant to her case. Neither she nor the respondent had any desire to contact each other during or after the UWC proceedings, she said, so any possibility of genuine interaction was moot.

ROOM TO IMPROVE

A student who identifies as a victim of sexual assault — though she did not report the incident to University officials — said a nocontact order would have given her license among friends and peers to avoid the male student

she claims raped her. She said she did not file a complaint initially because her friends insisted she had mischaracterized the encounter, and now because she simply wants to put the incident behind her.

Because her friends did not acknowledge her version of the events, she felt pressured to continue spending time with her alleged assailant in group settings. She coped with this pressure by abusing alcohol, she said.

Ultimately she distanced herself from the social circle she felt had refused to validate her experience.

The first female student said that while her no-contact order did not protect her at Myrtle Beach, it did give her some peace of mind. It made her confident that she would never have to speak to the respondent again, even if he did not respect the physical restriction.

Although the female student did email Della Rocca, through her SHARE advisor, once in March to notify him that the male student was not complying with directions about behavior in their shared class, overall the arrangement worked out, she said.

According to emails between the student and her SHARE advisor, in that situation also, Della Rocca contacted the male student to remind him of the no-contact order.

She said that while no-contact orders are good in theory, in practice they are not as effective as she would like. A way to increase their efficacy, she said, would be fortheTitleIXCOORDINATOrtolay out the parameters of the orders on a case-by-case basis, rather than issuing the generic no-contact instructions she felt she had received.

“These things should be set out on an individual basis,” she said. “Everyone’s situation is different, and everyone has different comfort levels.”

The male student also said he never sat down to discuss exactly what the orders would look like.

When asked about how the specifics of no-contact orders are outlined, Gleason said the orders are implemented on a case-bycase basis, and are always discussed separately with both the complainant and the respondent.

Both parties are encouraged to keep in contact with the Title IX coordinator to report any concerns or request changes to the orders, she said.

Ultimately, the female student said, no-contact orders represent a powerful tool the University has to ensure the safety of students, independent of the conclusion of their formal complaints.

“They’re not the police, and it’s not their job to investigate criminal matters, but as a residential university they do have the responsibility to create a safe space for all students,” she said.

“I think the no-contact orders are definitely a tool they can use to create a safe environment.

They’re a good thing, but they’re just not practiced well.”

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

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Longer liquor store hours proposed

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER The governor’s recent proposal to drive down alcohol prices in Connecticut has been met with frustration by some politicians and business owners.

On the Chaz and AJ morning radio show on Friday, Gov. Dannel Malloy announced his plans to decrease alcohol prices by increasing competition among liquor stores in Connecticut. Extending liquor store hours, allowing retailers to decrease their prices to the wholesale value and increasing the number of store permits one owner can have from three to six were among the measures proposed by the governor.

“It’s time to take it to the next level,” Malloy said. “It will lower the prices of alcohol in Connecticut, and it will allow people to compete. And competition’s a good thing.”

In 2012, Malloy signed a bill permitting liquor sales on Sundays. The governor’s new plan further extends liquor store hours by changing closing times from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. on all nights except Sunday, which would see an extension from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. These new hours would be on par with those of liquor stores in Connecticut’s neighboring states: closing hours Monday through Saturday are 10 p.m. in Rhode Island, 11 p.m. in Massachusetts and midnight in New York for wine and spirits.

Malloy said he aims to bring back liquor sales that are leaking over the border to Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York due to competitive prices in those

states. He added that the current limit of three store permits per owner is an arbitrary number that should be increased.

“If somebody’s really good, let them get bigger,” he said in his radio announcement.

Still, Republican State Sen. Kevin Witkos, a ranking member of the General Law Committee, which will hold a public hearing about the legislation, said the governor’s measures are unnecessary. He said the new legislation could actually worsen competition in Connecticut by attracting “big box” retailers that would put small, family-owned liquor stores out of business.

“Most of the package stores are family owned and operated, and [Malloy is] just adding another 12 hours to the work week for these families,” Witkos said.

Gary Rose, a professor of political science at University of Connecticut, echoed this sentiment, saying that the government does not consider the needs of small businesspeople in the state.

Witkos also said there are only 12 liquor stores owners in Connecticut who have used all three of their allowable permits, and he does not see an outcry for the government to increase the number of permits.

Monica Hannush ’16, who has purchased alcohol from New Haven liquor stores, said that while she supports reducing the price of alcohol, she does not want to see small businesses suffer as a result of bigger retailers entering the market.

Helen Fang ’15 said the longer hours are favorable to students who would be able

to buy alcohol later at night.

“Sometimes every store is already closed by the time you think of it,” she said.

However, Jack Patel, who works at Doug’s Liquor Store on Winchester Avenue, said he does not approve of the governor’s plan because it pushes liquor store employees to work longer hours. He added that staying open into the night also increases the chances of robberies.

He said the store had been robbed “a couple times” while he was working there at night.

Rose noted that the state’s existing closing hours are grounded in practical concerns about late-night robberies.

In 1957, Connecticut changed the closing hours of liquor stores from 11 p.m. to 8 p.m. in response to a series of armed robberies and murders carried out by Joseph “Mad Dog” Taborsky.

Patel also raised concerns about lengthening Doug’s Liquor Store’s Sunday hours. He said the store currently brings in less revenue on Sundays than on other days and that staying open later on Sundays would only decrease profits.

Witkos said lawmakers believed introducing Sunday sales in 2012 would generate an additional $5.2 million in tax revenue, but that the government actually only raised “a couple tens of thousands of dollars.”

Malloy is scheduled to announce his tax and spending plan for the year in a speech to the General Assembly Wednesday.

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

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Gov. Dannel Malloy announced plans to decrease alcohol prices and increase competition among liquor stores.

Community involvement encouraged in Wooster Sq.

BY ERIC LIN STAFF REPORTER As a part of New Haven’s greater efforts to connect the Wooster Square area to downtown, New Haven officials met last night to discuss steps to improve transit options and introduce a more pedestrian and bicycle-friendly environment in the area.

New Haven recently secured a state grant for further research in developing the neighborhood, allowing the city to move ahead with the project. During Tuesday’s Downtown Wooster Square Management Team meeting, City Hall officials stressed the importance of community involvement, in addition to input from the Knights of Columbus Museum and Gateway Community College, in the development initiatives.

Ward 8 Alder Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18, Ward 7 Alder Abby Roth ’90 LAW ’94 and Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81 urged city residents to participate in the steering committee formed as the main avenue for citizen participation in the process.

“We just need to know how people are going to be using the streets,” Nemerson said.

According to Greenberg, the steering committee would hopefully include residents from a wide range of backgrounds, such as owners, landlords and renters.

The city sent in the grant application in November 2014, asking for a total of $125,000, which would go toward two projects in the Downtown Crossing area.

The first initiative noted in the report is a research project to study possible future land use and transportation in the southern section of Downtown and Wooster Square. This area is currently underused, consisting primarily

of parking lots. New projects in the area, including the LiveWorkLearnPlay Coliseum redevelopment, would create over 1,500 housing units in the area.

The second would create a program that would look for ways to reduce single-occupant car usage and increase transit, pedestrian and bicycle use in the neighborhood.

We just need to know how people are going to be using the streets.

MATTHEW NEMERSON SOM ’81 Economic Development Administrator Roth said that, as part of the neighborhood’s development, Wooster Square will see increased enforcement of traffic rules, including the reduction of bad cycling and pedestrian behavior.

The issue of safety in the area was a source of concern, with one attendee recalling a fatal accident on Olive Street last fall, when an 81-year-old woman was killed crossing the intersection of Olive and Greene Streets in Wooster Square.

Those in attendance at the meeting also discussed ways to implement bike lanes to create a more pedestrian and bicycle-friendly environment.

Nemerson noted that state law mandates that bike lanes only operate in one direction. As a result, many streets in Wooster Square would need to create two bike lines, but most are too narrow.

The first meeting for the new steering committee will be held on March 3 at 6:30 p.m.

Contact ERIC LIN at eric.v.lin@yale.edu .

Students dissatisfied with allergy labeling

BY DAVID SHIMER AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS In response to an increase in students with allergies on campus, Yale Dining has been working to increase the accuracy and clarity of its labeling.

Recently, dining hall labels have begun to include not only food ingredients, but allergen and lifestyle violation indicators as well.

Director of Residential Dining Cathy Van Dyke said that while many universities avoid labeling dining hall food due to liability concerns, labeling is a central part of her job. Although there is always progress to be made, Van Dyke said Yale Dining recently increased label accuracy could prevent serious repercussions.

“Allergic students I work closely with — these people’s lives depend on our labeling, so we’ll be the first ones standing next to them,” she said “We try to get the labels as accurate as possible, but I tell students we can’t be everywhere.”

Issey Norman-Ross ’15, who is hypoglycemic and a celiac, said dining hall labels are accurate in some respects, but there is room for improvement in a variety of areas.

“They don’t state that steel cut oatmeal has gluten in it, but it’s not made with gluten free oats,” she said. “They also sometimes list [ingredients] not there — often chicken is listed as a sandwich, as it’s supposed to be eaten with bread, so that will say it has gluten in it when it doesn’t.”

But Van Dyke said the oatmeal does not contain gluten, which the sourcing manager is careful to avoid. She added that students who discover mistakes on recipe cards should inform her so that she can correct them as soon as possible.

Trumbull Dining Hall Manager Christine Centola said the importance of protecting students with allergies has risen, and Yale Dining has taken steps to train its employees on allergens.

“We take labeling very seriously, since there has been a huge increase in the number of students with allergies in the last five years,” she said. “We just had a great sixhour training session on food allergies for our head pantries and cooks.”

Silliman chef Stu Comen said that because students are allergic

to a variety of substances, chefs on campus are cautious not to change recipes spontaneously. He said that if he runs out of a certain ingredient, he opts to leave it out rather than replace it with a potential allergen.

Comen added that adjusting recipe cards is a central part of the biweekly meetings that Yale Dining holds for its staff.

“Any product we use that comes from a company doesn’t have the nutritional values on it because it isn’t our recipe,” he said. “That’s why certain things — the ravioli, pizza dough — just say ravioli or pizza dough because they aren’t our recipes. They’re vendor products.”

Though improvements have been made in recent years to dining hall ingredient labels, several students interviewed have still noticed labeling errors.

Lauren Sapienza ’18, who is celiac and lactose intolerant, said there have been many cases in which she noticed labels only said “ingredients” and failed to give any other description. In other instances, she added, ingredient labels were missing altogether.

“If there’s a shadow of a doubt, I opt for the salad bar,” Sapienza said. “The salad bar is usually safe but the problem with that is there are no nutritional labels out for the dressing.”

Two weeks ago, the Yale College Council approved a project seeking to correct mislabeled ingredients, led by Tyler Mikulis ’17, who also has celiac disease.

The project drew inspiration from a 2009 suit filed involving Lesley University, in which a student contested a lack of accommodations for celiacs and other students with allergies. Under the agreement reached by the Department of Justice and Lesley University, the university agreed to provide gluten- and allergen-free food options in the dining halls as well as display labels concerning any food allergies.

Although the Lesley case occurred six years ago, Van Dyke said the University’s General Counsel’s Office found Yale Dining already had been following all of its provisions.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and JOEY YE shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

Escape New Haven poses mental challenge

BY CASSANDRA DARROW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Two board game connoisseurs are offering a new type of entertainment in which participants are locked in a room for an hour, working together to escape.

On Feb. 12, Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent ’13 and Max Sutter ’11 opened Escape New Haven on 111 Whitney Ave. The room escape challenge has teams of two to nine people who attempt to solve a series of brain teasers in order to break out of the room as Sutter and Rodriguez-Torrent monitor the team and administer clues via a computer from a separate control room. Puzzles and hints can include anything within the room: Furniture, books, coded messages and locks could all be the key to escaping — or a red herring.

“We take a team of people, we stick them in a scenario, we close the door behind them and say, ‘You have 60 minutes to escape. Go,’” said Rodriguez-Torrent.

Room escape games have been surfacing in the past year across the country, opening in Washington, D.C., New Jersey and New York City over the past few months. They derive from a subgenre of video games, exemplified by the online escape game, “Crimson Room”, in which players find items in a room that provide clues on how to escape.

Non-virtual escape gaming began in Japan in 2007, and the trend began spreading to the east coast of the U.S. in early 2014. Rodriguez-Torrent first had the idea to bring the concept to New Haven after playing at a room escape venue in New York City.

“I liked the concept,” said Rodriguez-Torrent. “I started brainstorming about how to do it better.”

Sutter and Rodriguez-Torrent started a prototype of the game last summer and found that their friends enjoyed the challenge. They subsequently decided to expand it into a

COURTESY OF TREVOR JOHNSON

Two Yale graduates opened Escape New Haven, a room escape challenge in which participants must decipher clues to break out of a locked room. business. Since opening the escape room, the duo has had to add new weekend time slots to accommodate growing demand. Slots often fill up weeks in advance, said Rodriguez-Torrent.

According to one team of Yale graduates, Escape New Haven’s scenarios are mental challenges.

“It makes you paranoid,” said Alexandra Nasser ’12 after “semi-successfully” completing the puzzle with her friends. “And you learn to let go of your ideas.”

Nasser said her team escaped the room but broke an object in the room in the process.

Both Nasser and Beza Getachew ’12, who played on Nasser’s team, said they would definitely return to Escape New Haven.

Rodriguez-Torrent predicted that future players will likely include Yale students seeking to bring glory to their residential colleges. He added that he hopes to make Escape New Haven the

University’s next intramural sport. The college to beat would be Davenport, as a group of Davenport students recently became the first team to escape the library scenario — one of three possible rooms — without using hints. They clocked in at only 52 minutes and 28 seconds.

Roughly 10 percent of participants so far have successfully escaped without clues, and 30 percent have succeeded with clues.

In addition to the library scenario, the venue currently offers a workshop room and a studio room. RodriguezTorrent and Sutter intend to replace scenarios on a rotating basis every three months to keep the experience fresh. The two accept ideas for new scenarios both on their website and directly from teams that attempt the puzzle at the venue.

Student tickets cost $22.

Contact CASSANDRA DARROW at cassandra.darrow@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Students, alums push for Cohen’s ouster AF-AM FROM PAGE 1 News. In February 2014, the Af-Am House submitted a first petition calling for Cohen to undergo further training for his position. Jones added that, despite this, Cohen’s contract has been since renewed.

Many issues presented in the petition had to do with Cohen’s handling of house finances. Dara Huggins ’17, treasurer of the Yale Black Women’s Coalition and member of the new Af-Am House Funding Committee, told the News that Cohen has rendered less funding available than his predecessors. While Jones acknowledged funding for cultural houses has been cut across the board, she noted that Cohen never discusses with students the state of the house’s total budget, even though this was standard practice under the previous dean.

Abdul-Razak Zachariah ’17, a member of the Black Men’s Union and Shades, told the News that the Af-Am House has an endowment that traditionally functioned as a funding source to students, but it is no longer openly advertised. A student would have to already know this funding is available,

check in the house’s paper records, or directly ask Cohen to take advantage of these resources, Zachariah said.

Further, students who spoke at the forum highlighted a fear of retaliation for their actions. Staff members have been fired in the past because of resistance against Cohen, said Ceballo-Countryman during the meeting. Currently, all other cultural houses have 12 or more student staff members, while the Af-Am House only has five.

“Those of us employed by the house have our jobs on the line,” she added, referring to the large risk that signees took in compiling the petition.

According to Huggins, it is also very difficult for students to communicate with Cohen since he is rarely in his office in the house, opting to spend his time in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall instead.

While Zachariah acknowledged that students normally use the house in the evenings, after normal working hours, he agreed that Cohen lacks a physical presence in the house.

“Not only can we never find him, we can also never contact him,” a signatory said in the petition. “The ‘Rodney Cohen is currently out of the office’

automated response has hit my inbox too many times (aka every time I or anyone else in my group have ever sent him an email).”

According to Zachariah, this lack of visibility comes in stark contrast to the relationship between the former house director Pamela George, now assistant dean of academic affairs, and students who used the Af-Am House between 1999 and 2010. Students felt that George was an active presence in the house, Zachariah said.

Huggins said cultural houses are important for minority students since they facilitate discussions that would be difficult to have elsewhere on campus. But the climate at the Af-Am House is not as welcoming as it used to be, she added.

Zachariah, who spends six hours per week at the House due to his involvement in the Black Men’s Union and Shades A Cappella group, agreed with Huggins. He said the house is not a “home-y” communal space, adding that he feels he must have a reason to spend time in the house.

Although students present at Tuesday’s meeting pushed the administration for con-

crete responses to their grievances, specifically regarding Cohen’s removal, Holloway maintained that he is unable to comment on any issues having to do with personnel.

Julianna Simms ’18, a member of the Af-Am House, said that given the emotional response of the student body, she wishes the conversation were more transparent and honest.

Jacob Neis ’17, who was invited to the meeting by BSAY and was one of 10 Liberal Party members present, said after the meeting that it is troubling that the wider student body is not aware of the issues the house is having, given that they have been going on for so long.

Moving forward, the African-American student community is looking for written confirmation that the administration will remove Cohen by the end of the year, Eshe Sherley ’16 said after the meeting.

“That is the only thing that will show us as they’ve heard us,” Sherley added.

Contact STAPHANY HOU at staphany.hou@yale.edu and AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

HENRY EHRENBERG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Many students involved with the Afro-American Cultural Center have expressed dissatisfaction with the leadership of Dean Rodney Cohen.

Metro-North may be difficult to replace METRO-NORTH FROM PAGE 1 and upgrades to roads, rails, bridges and ports.”

But James Redeker, the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Transportation, expressed doubt over the proposed legislation in an email to the News.

He noted that contract renegotiations can sometimes harm more than help. After the last negotiation, he said, Connecticut had to pay 65 percent of the line’s costs, whereas previously the state only paid for 50 percent.

Redeker also said finding a rail operator to replace Metro-North might be difficult, if not impossible. The New Haven Line is the busiest and most complex commuter rail operation in the country, he said, and no other existing rail service has the resources to replace MetroNorth. He added that, because MetroNorth is an interstate organization, New York would also need to agree to renegotiate for discussions to begin.

Boucher and Hwang both represent suburban districts in Fairfield County, where commuters are heavily dependent on Metro-North to access jobs in Stamford, Greenwich and New York City. State

politicians from those districts have often complained about Metro-North’s services.

“The update and upgrade of MetroNorth’s lines are seriously overdue,” State Rep. Tom O’Dea, R-New Canaan, said in a statement. “Commuters have suffered under unacceptable conditions as unnecessary obstacles are thrown before the workforce we depend on as the engine of our state economy.”

Metro-North has endured significant criticism in recent years, and a series of fatal accidents has plagued the rail line.

Earlier this month, a train-car collision in Valhalla, N.Y. killed six; a derailment in December 2013 killed four. In September 2013, a power failure severely disrupted service on the New Haven Line for two weeks, throwing Connecticut’s commuter transportation system into convulsions. Last night, a half-hour power outage caused 40-minute delays on the Harlem, Hudson and New Haven lines.

In spite of the accidents and outages, not all look unfavorably on the New Haven Line.

Margaret Gleberman ’17, who takes Metro-North to New York roughly once per month, said she has found the rail line

well-managed and competently run.

“I’m overall quite satisfied,” she said.

“I’ve never felt in danger or badly serviced.”

Boucher’s proposal is just one part of a comprehensive transportation bill that she has submitted for consideration by the General Assembly. Along with other representatives from northern Fairfield County, Boucher has called for a largescale revamping of Metro-North’s Danbury Line, which breaks off from the New Haven Line at Norwalk. State Rep. Gail Lavielle, R-Wilton, said in a statement that riders of the Danbury Line have too often felt like the “poor stepchildren of Metro-North.”

Boucher has also proposed legislation that would extend current commuter rail lines to both New Milford and Kent, and possibly to the Massachusetts border.

Redeker said the Department of Transportation is currently searching for an operator for the planned Hartford Line, intended to begin service in late 2016.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

“The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.”

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER FORMER GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA

Pro-energy funded study questions divestment

HENRY EHRENBERG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Recent findings from an economic consulting firm study suggested that the costs of divestment might be too high for many institutions.

DIVESTMENT FROM PAGE 1 divestment may have negligible impact on the market, it can come at a cost for the institution selling the energy stocks. Since these stocks would likely be sold at a price below the value of their future cashflow, investors in fossil fuels would benefit while sellers would miss out on these returns, he added.

The study also argued the compliance and trading costs associated with divestment may be another drain on endowment returns.

Moreover, the trading of divested stocks would result in transaction costs for universities through additional brokerage fees and other price impacts, Rinaudo said.

Ibbotson said, however, these compliance costs would likely not be too great. He added that compared to the past, the availability of computer technology has made it relatively easy to mechanize one’s portfolio to meet different standards.

Following the publication of the Fischel report, pro-divestment activists have come forward to argue that the study is fundamentally flawed in its conclusions and methodology.

Fossil Free Yale Policy Coordinator Nathan Lobel ’17 said the financing for the report may have influenced its pessimistic findings for divestment.

“These portfolios were put together retrospectively by people with a strong interest in finding a certain outcome — it seems far fetched that they would be completely bias free,” Lobel said.

“Considering that [Fischel’s] entire claim rests on the performance of hypothetical portfolios that [was] funded by the Petroleum Association, there would seem to be huge possibilities to stack the deck against fossil free portfolios.”

Rinaudo denied any conflict of interest between his team and the funding for the study. He said the financing party had no involvement in the design, implementation or construction of the report and the data was used to consider the issue “agnostically.”

Still, Lobel said there remain compelling financial reasons for Yale to divest, ranging from the volatility of fossil fuel investments to increasing regulations on carbon emissions.

Brett Fleishman, senior analyst from the pro-divestment group 350.org, argued that the methodology failed to consider the significant differences between today’s marketplace and the economy decades earlier. Specifically, he said the model failed to reflect how oil has become a less dependable investment in recent years.

“One might argue that the last five years are a better representation of the future than the last 50 years of which the Fischel report looked at,” Fleishman said. “The trend for fossil fuel investments is shifting to a high-risk, lowreturn profile.”

Though the Yale administration formally announced it would not divest in August, weeks later, Yale’s Chief Investment Officer David Swensen wrote a letter to the University’s money managers requesting they consider the long-term financial implications of fossil fuel investments.

“Yale asks [its investment managers] to avoid companies that refuse to acknowledge the social and financial costs of climate change and that fail to take economically sensible steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” the letter stated.

Still, according to Yale’s most recent endowment report, Yale has kept 8 percent of its investments in natural resources — which include oil and gas, timberland, metals and mining.

Other studies released on the topic, which include research from Northstar Asset Management and Aperio Group — both of which analyzed returns over a shorter period of time — found that the impact of divesting from fifteen fossil fuel securities would be “virtually nonexistent.” Specifically, Northstar found that the actual cost of divesting from these stocks would be 0.15 percent annually— roughly a fifth of the Fischel’s findings.

Fleishman said that if Yale had divested two years ago, when the divestment campaign first kicked off, it is likely the University would have an even stronger performance. Over the last year, the S&P 500 stock market index without the top 200 fossil fuel companies outperformed the current index by 1.5 percent, he added.

Finally, Lobel said that even if the financial impacts of divestment remain contested, the moral justifications for removing University assets from fossil fuels remain clear.

“There is no certainty that divesting will be the more profitable option — just as there is no certainty that it will be less profitable — but we are certain that investing in fossil fuels is wrong,” Lobel said. “If it is wrong to wreck the planet, abuse vulnerable communities, and distort our political process, then it is wrong for Yale to profit from that wreckage, abuse and distortion.”

Contact JED FINLEY at james.finley@yale.edu and LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19 10:00 AM Strategies for Ending Racism. Despite years of efforts to overcome systemic discrimination in the United States, the scourge of racism is still present in our towns, cities and institutions. In this Community Ministries Forum, Overseas Ministries Study Center Executive Director J. Nelson Jennings aims to bring together people who have encountered racism — either by being the focus of rebuke or by trying to fight it systematically. Overseas Ministries Study Center, Great Commission Hall (490 Prospect St.).

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5:00 PM Southeast Asia Spring Cultural Festival. Come watch the Suang Budaya Dance Troupe from New York perform, and sample delicious snacks from Southeast Asia. Open to the general public. Luce Hall, 2nd Floor common Room (34 Hillhouse Ave.).

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10:00 AM Lunarfest 2015. Lunarfest is a day-long event offering arts and cultural programs for adults and children of all ages in celebration of the Lunar New Year. The day kicks off with the Lion Dance down Whitney Ave. Free admission; register in advance with the Yale-China Association. Venue locations are the New Haven Museum (114 Whitney Ave.) and Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.).

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SPORTS Elis earning their stripes

“One thing happens every day: You either get better or you get worse.”

JESSE BERNHARDT MLL LACROSSE PLAYER AND MEMBER OF TEAM USA

Elis aim to return to glory

COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 opening tip this game seemed different. Active defense by the Bulldogs forced turnovers on Princeton’s first two possessions, and guard Tamara Simpson ’18 found fellow guard Mary Ann Santucci ’18 on the wing for a triple to give Yale an early 3–0 edge.

The Bulldogs kept pace with Princeton throughout the first half. The lead switched back and forth until Princeton was able to take a 25–22 advantage into the break.

What had become clear to me, as well as everyone else in JLA, was that the Bulldogs weren’t going to go anywhere after halftime.

They weren’t going to play dead or roll over just because Princeton came in with all of the accolades and media attention.

Princeton came out of the locker room and built a nine-point lead early in the second half.

The Tigers finally looked like the No. 16 team in the country, but Yale wasn’t done. A flurry of threes — including two back-to-back makes by forward Jen Berkowitz ’18, who had made just five shots from beyond the arc coming into the game — pulled Yale back within one.

The two teams battled the rest of the way, and though Santucci’s driving lay-up brought Yale back within three with just 32 seconds left, Yale would not score again and Princeton would survive 56–50.

The fact that Yale lost surprised no one.

This was a game Yale was not even supposed to come close in, let alone win. But it was the best game of Yale’s season. Those 13 women on the Yale Women’s Basketball team did something that perhaps no one else did — they believed in themselves.

They believed in themselves when they lost Halejian, spinning off a streak of seven straight wins following her injury. They believed in themselves when they got off to Yale’s best start to Ivy play since 1980 with five straight victories. And they believed in themselves when they went into Saturday night’s David vs.

Goliath matchup with the Princeton Tigers.

I’m not one to believe in moral victories.

The Ivy League’s automatic bid won’t go to the team with the most “almost wins.” In all likelihood, that bid will go to Princeton. But the members of the Yale Women’s Basketball team should be proud of how they played on Saturday, and so should the University they represent. They stood toe-to-toe with a heavyweight for 16 rounds, and they gave just as good as they got.

Ladies, I’m sorry that I ever doubted you, or wrote you off, or came into work wondering what time I’d get out to go grab a late dinner. I promise you that I’ll never do that again.

CHARLES CONDRO is a senior in Trumbull College and a former opinion editor for the News.

Contact him at charles.condro@yale.edu .

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In their first game of the 2015 season, the Elis tallied 19 total goals and put away 12 consecutive chances during the contest.

LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 opening 19–4 win over UMassLowell.

Additionally, attackman Jeff Cimbalista ’17, who scored an impressive nine goals in the season’s final four games after returning from injury, looks to return at full strength and bolster the Bulldog attack. The dangerous offensive force will be rounded out by Ben Reeves ’18, who won Ivy League Rookie of the Week for his six-point performance against UMass-Lowell.

On the defensive end, preseason second team All-American Mike Quinn ’16 will anchor a unit that

has finished among the top 11 teams nationally in goals allowed in four of the past five seasons. Nonetheless, despite Quinn’s continued stellar play, the Bulldogs may have a hard time replacing last year’s captain, Jimmy Craft ’14, whom Quinn described as “the quarterback of the defense.”

In net, however, Shay has no such concerns. Eric Natale ’15, an honorable mention All-Ivy selection last year, started every game and provided consistent excellence between the pipes. After a solid performance in the first half of the season opener, Natale seems prepared to be a strong last line of defense for Shay’s team.

One potential cause for con-

Rain postpones softball opener SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 said.

The team lost four seniors to the graduating class last year, including starting center fielder Tori Balta ’14 and two pitchers, Chelsea Dunham ’14 and Kristen Leung ’14, who combined for 123 innings pitched out of the team’s 265.1 total innings. However, the Bulldogs are also welcoming some strong freshman pitchers as well as a dynamic group of versatile rookies who will contribute to the team right away, according to captain Sarah Onorato ’15, who is also a sports columnist for the News.

“We have a very talented class of incoming freshmen, combined with a solid group of returners,” Onorato said. “This year’s team is probably the most competitive group of players we’ve had in recent years, and I think that will reflect well on the field.”

Onorato is one of the best Yale players in recent memory. She begins this season tied for second all-time at Yale with 17 career home runs, just three shy of the school record, as well as fifth in Yale history with 31 career doubles. Last season, Onorato caught all innings in Yale’s 41 games and batted 0.314 throughout the season, enough to earn her the team’s Barbara Chou Leadership Award.

Additionally, Onorato enjoyed one of the most spectacular seasons in school history in 2012–13.

The first Bulldog player to be named Ivy League Player of the Year since 1991, Onorato ranked fourth nationally with 0.4 doubles per game and 21st with a 0.430 batting average.

Onorato was also named to the AllIvy first team at catcher and led the conference in batting average, slugging percentage and on-base percentage.

Joining her in the veteran lineup is first baseman Lauren Delgadillo ’16, who was named to the CollegeSportsMadness.com preseason All-Ivy League second team. A firstteam All-Ivy first baseman last year,

cern for the Bulldogs is their performance in the face-off circle.

The team graduated Dylan Levings ’14, who appeared in every game and won a solid 58 percent of his face-offs in his final season, earning honorable mention All-Ivy status. This season, the Bulldogs will rely on Reese, son of All-American Jon Reese ’90, to pick up where Levings left off.

“Getting to practice and play against Dylan Levings for the last two years definitely helped me to grow as a player … I’ve definitely tried to work harder this year than ever before, but my preparation has remained relatively the same,” Reese said.

Yale has just four seniors on the roster this year: Sarah Onorato, Kylie Williamson, Riley Hughes and Hannah Brennan.

Delgadillo finished last year hitting 0.276 — second on the team — but a stellar 0.412 average in conference games, good enough for fifth in the league.

Labbadia will also likely start at shortstop, as the junior hit 0.274 with a 0.337 on-base percentage a year ago before missing the final 15 games with an illness.

On the mound, the Elis return their best pitcher from a year ago in Lindsay Efflandt ’17. Efflandt topped the Bulldogs in innings pitched, earned run average and strikeouts.

Beyond Efflandt, Rhydian Glass ’16 and Kylie Williamson ’15 figure to be two returning players who will see action at pitcher.

Five freshmen join the Bulldogs this year. Among the new faces are utility player Sydney Ginsberg ’18 and shortstop and pitcher Maddie Wuelfing ’18. Named to the Western New England Prep School Softball Association All Star team in her senior year of high school, Ginsberg batted 0.543 and had 22 RBI in 15 games in her final season. Wuelf-

ing could also make a major impact, as the Rocklin, Calif. native won the league MVP award as a senior last year and excelled both as a hitter, with a 0.333 average, and as a pitcher, with a 1.15 ERA. In preparation for the season opener in Tampa, the Bulldogs have been simulating a competitive, game-like atmosphere during practices, according to Onorato.

“I think with our new mental conditioning coach, we are doing a lot more focused on the mental game and preparing for the game that way,” outfielder Carolyn McGuire ’17 said. “Also, I think we are focusing more on game like situations which help us prepare when other teams play more games than [we do].”

Labbadia agreed, saying that the team has worked a lot on mental conditioning as of late.

The Elis will play eight games in total in Florida from March 10 to March 15.

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

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

Eli women head to Ivies SWIMMING & DIVING FROM PAGE 12

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Altogether, the Bulldogs appear primed for a return to the success they have had in previous seasons, but they will not make the mistake of looking too far ahead on their schedule.

“We’re not thinking about past or future Ivy League titles and tournament appearances because we can’t control any of that. We’re focused on … taking care of the details that will help us get a little better each day,” Cimbalista said.

The Elis face No. 7 Maryland at Reese Stadium this Saturday at 12 p.m.

freestyle and the seventh and eighthbest times in the 1,000-yard freestyle.

Teammate Isla Hutchinson-Maddox ’17 holds the 10th spot in the same event.

One event that Yale has dominated for the past five years is the 200yard butterfly. The Bulldogs hold the all-time top eight spots in the event, though Sydney Hirschi ’17 — the defending Ivy champion in the event — is the only current swimmer to possess one of those spots, with the fourth and fifth-best times. MacRae currently ranks second in Ivy League scores for the one-meter dive, only 1.70 points behind the first-place record holder.

Several athletes have stated their excitement for the meet and how ready they are to show what their hard work has done throughout the year.

“The energy at Ivies is unlike any other meet,” Kina Zhou ’17 said. “You feed off of other people’s fast swims and cheerful energy.”

The championship meet, which will be held in Cambridge this weekend, will have a far different lineup than last year’s meet. During the 2013–14 regular season, Columbia went undefeated

while Princeton and Cornell were tied with the Elis for third. The only teams heading into the meet in the same standing as last year are the Bulldogs in third and the Dartmouth Big Green in eighth.

Only four Ivy League schools have ever won an Ivy League championship; Princeton has racked up the most wins at 21, followed by Harvard at 11, Yale at six and Brown at five. In recent years, Princeton has dominated the Ivy League, winning 11 of the last 14 meets.

The Elis have not won a championship since 1997.

In addition, the meet will be the final team competition for three seniors: Rebecca DeLaFuente ’15, Elizabeth Larsen ’15 and Jacqui Levere ’15.

“The seniors are a bit older and have more perspective on Yale regarding classes, practices and meets, and they’re always able to stay so calm,” Sherman said. “The seniors are fantastic.”

Competition kicks off on Feb. 19 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Preliminary races will begin at 11 a.m.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

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This season marks the 40th anniversary of the Yale swimming and diving program, which began in 1975.

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ARTS & CULTURE In Dramat mainstage, dreams lead to danger

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The Yale Dramatic Association’s Spring Mainstage production “Icarus,” written by Edwin Sanchez ’94, will open tonight in the University Theater. “The realities of the play feel magical,” said director Brad Raimondo.

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER In its Spring Mainstage production, the Yale Dramatic Association will explore the tension between striving for unattainable dreams and the difficult reality of facing disability.

Written in 1999 by Edwin Sanchez DRA ’94, “Icarus” opens tonight in the University Theater.

The play features a brother and a sister who have each dealt with the limits set by their respective disabilities. After tonight’s performance, Sanchez will participate in a talkback with the show’s participants.

“Given the choice between living in a world full of harsh realities or living inside dream and

fantasy, which is actually preferable?” director Brad Raimondo said.

The play’s storyline follows Primitivo, who cannot move his legs due to a chronic illness and is confined to a wheelchair, and Altagracia, whose facial deformity makes her feel self-conscious about her beauty.

Throughout the play, Altagracia motivates Primitivo to practice his swimming so that he may one day swim far enough into the ocean to touch the setting sun — an echo of the classical myth of Icarus on which the play is loosely based.

Marina Horiates ’15, who plays the role of Altagracia, said the play blends together the genres of magical realism, drama and

Show explores pride, shame of womanhood

BY IVONA IACOB CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In its next show, Yale Cabaret will piece together a history of womanhood using a web of personal tales.

“Shiny Objects” opens tomorrow night at the Cab. Directed by Christopher Geary DRA ’15, the show features eight female characters played by two actresses and consists of a series of stories told to the actresses by women they interviewed over the past several months. One of the actresses, Zenzi Williams DRA ’15, highlighted the parallels between her own experiences and those of the women she spoke to for the show.

“Having explored these interviews, I feel like I am celebrating; each of these women has something that I feel I can relate to,” Williams said. “And I feel like all these parts should be celebrated.”

Maura Hooper DRA ’15, the other actress in the performance, explained that the show was inspired by two Yale School of Drama courses, “Third-Year Speech and Dialects: Interview Project/Voice-Over Workshop” and “Creating Actor-Generated Work.” The class first had students interview strangers and create 10-minute-long monologues in which the students played the role of their interviewees, Hooper said. She noted that two of her particularly memorable subjects were a nun and an elderly British woman who lived under English colonial rule in Africa.

Hooper said she and Williams went on to film over 15 hours of interviews that would eventually constitute the base of the show.

They said that because there was not enough time to stage all of their interviews in their entirety, they aimed to catch the essence of each interviewee and create their

characters based on that essence.

Williams noted that several of the interviewees were not developed into characters because a number of subjects shared similar experiences.

“We have about 15 hours of interviews and we had to cut them.” Hooper said. “Without manufacturing anything, we tried to find what the main thesis about that person is.”

The show is both a celebration of pride and an acknowledgement of shame, Williams said. She and Hooper explained that in their interviews, subjects were asked to name the qualities that made them proud of being a woman as well as those that made them ashamed of their gender. Geary highlighted that the interviewees were all similar in the sense that they all came to terms with their imperfections to some extent.

Williams added that the performance attempts to illustrate the ways in which problems women have faced in the past, such as being held to unreasonable standards of etiquette, occur today as well. But Hooper noted that she thinks many audience members, male and female, will be able to empathize with the show’s message. Geary echoed this sentiment, noting that as a male director, he was able to introduce an additional perspective to the creative process.

“I think women certainly will relate it because they’re related to the idea of seeking perfection and being the ‘good girl,’” Hooper said. “The whole point of it is none of us are perfect and that is why we should talk about it … it’s not a woman thing, it’s an everyone’s thing.”

Performances of “Shiny Objects” run through Saturday.

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .

comedy. Members of the cast and crew agreed that the play is often categorized as magical realism, citing the its mythical undertones and sense of unattainable dreaming as examples.

Raimondo agreed that the category of magical realism works in explaining the fact that the characters of the play accept as real what the audience believes to be magical.

“The realities of the play feel magical,” said Raimondo. “And the magic in the play feels real and tangible.”

Christian Probst ’16, who plays Primitivo, said the set of the production is consistent with the magical realism of the play. Probst explained that while Primitivo and Altagracia’s house

appears as a normal building, the house next door is missing part of its exterior such that audience members can see everything inside. Instead, the audience only sees the house’s Hollywoodesque interior, which contains rows of fashionable dresses and a dressing table.

Raimondo explained that the choice to depict the second house without an exterior was aimed at portraying its inhabitant — a former starlet referred to as “the Gloria” — as literally living in her own fantasy world.

“Giving the set aspects of a Hollywood set was the right way to locate the audience not just in any dream world, but in the specific dream world of these people,” Raimondo said.

Though the original script never explicitly reveals that the play is set in Los Angeles, the city is consistently alluded to in the play through its numerous Hollywood references, according to Susannah Hyde ’17, the show’s producer. Hyde said “Icarus” was one of several plays in the running to be chosen for last year’s Dramat Spring Mainstage, but was ultimately not selected. She explained that the Dramat board this year was blown away by the beauty they saw in the text of the play.

Hyde said that the play also deals with the subjectivity of beauty, noting that the concept of discovering one’s own self-confidence inspired the Dramat board to choose the play for the Spring

Mainstage.

“We thought those were issues that really speak to college students and should appear on campus,” Hyde said.

Other members of the cast and crew agreed that “Icarus” will resonate strongly with a college student audience, explaining that the themes of difference, beauty and striving for unattainable goals are all similar to what students contend with on a daily basis. According to Probst, the play teaches that chasing a farfetched, unattainable dream can be dangerous.

Performances of “Icarus” will run through Saturday.

Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .

Jazz festival unites Yale, city music communities

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER From the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New England, several distinguished musicians are coming this weekend to fill Yale’s campus with music.

Hosted and organized by the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective, the third annual “Jazz Festival at Yale,” will feature five professional jazz acts and several talks that focus on the role of jazz in contemporary culture. Student musicians interviewed said the festival also aims to demonstrate that there is a vibrant and growing jazz scene on campus.

“I wanted to start a process that would start a jazz program that would ultimately mirror the classical program,” said Julian Reid ’13, a co-founder of the festival and a YUJC board member from 2011 to 2013.

On Saturday in Sudler Hall, Japanese-born and Brooklyn-based trumpeter Takuya Kuroda will be followed by soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom MUS ’77 and her namesake quartet.

Bloom is known as a pioneer in the use of live electronics in jazz music, and Kuroda has a reputation for integrating hip-hop and rock elements into his performances. In addition to concerts, the festival will host talks by prominent jazz musicians, as well as by Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, who will speak about the role of jazz in African-American cultural history on Saturday.

YUJC president Alexander Dubovoy ’16 said that while he does not think there is a common musical thread linking all the musicians in the festival, the event tries to promote innovation and tradition as well as education.

“They’re all people who feel really strongly about education and feel strongly about helping audiences understand the music that’s being played,” said Dubovoy.

Reid said he believes the mixing of jazz with other art forms is important, adding that he is looking forward to the festival’s innovative performers because other jazz events on campus, such as the Ellington Concert Series, tend to host more traditional jazz musicians. The YUJC is aiming to offer the audience a glimpse into the current jazz scene, Dubovoy noted.

Another major goal of the festival is to introduce the Yale community to local and regional jazz musicians, Dubovoy said. The 9th Note, a jazz club located on Orange Street, is co-sponsoring the festival.

“A lot of Yalies don’t realize, but there is a great jazz scene in New Haven,” said Dubovoy, adding that The 9th Note hosts a weekly “jam session” that attracts many Yale students.

Christian O’Dowd, owner of The 9th Note, noted that everyone from Yale undergraduates to internationally renowned jazz musicians frequent the club. He added that he thinks the Yale and New Haven jazz communities

are beginning to merge. The size of New Haven makes it much easier for students to enter the jazz scene than in New York or Chicago, Reid said.

Max Vinetz ’18 said that while he appreciated the New Haven jazz scene in, he feels it is difficult for Yale students to explore jazz music off-campus.

“Get out of the Yale bubble,” said Reid. “There is money and music to make.”

The YUJC organizes a bi-weekly concert series in the Saybrook Underbrook Theater.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu

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The Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective will host the third annual “Jazz Festival at Yale.”

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“Once you get into the world of dystopia, it’s to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.”

ANTHONY HOROWITZ ENGLISH NOVELIST

Upcoming film explores life after superhero’s death

BULLDOG PRODUCTIONS

Yale undergraduate film group Bulldog Productions, has embarked on a major spring project titled “Captain Invincible is Dead.” The work explores the aftermath of the death of the namesake superhero.

BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER When a beloved hero dies, how should one carry the torch? A new student film dares to ask this question using superheroes and latex makeup.

Yale undergraduate film group Bulldog Productions’ major project for the spring semester, “Captain Invincible is Dead,” explores the aftermath of the death of the namesake superhero — portrayed by Seth Lifland ’15 — and the comical attempts of his five sidekicks to carry on their mentor’s legacy. After Alexi Sargeant ’15 pitched the idea to the BP board last spring, he drafted the 45-minute screenplay over the

course of last semester. The team began shooting the film at the beginning of this semester and will finish the production process in May. Travis Gonzalez ’16, the film’s executive producer and president of BP, said the script defies the conventions of a typical superhero movie, adding that the film uses humor to address serious emotional themes.

“In my opinion, dark things are best approached through comedy,” Gonzalez said. “That nervous laughter is honest laughter.”

Gonzalez said BP has, in the last couple of years, followed a module of creating several short narrative films and then undertaking a larger, organizationwide project in the spring. The

last two spring projects were dedicated to “B-Roll,” a web series composed of several short webisodes parodying student filmmaking.

Russell Cohen ’17, the film’s director, said the crew and cast each consists of about 17 people, which is a large ensemble for a student film. Cohen added that he thinks the large cast and crew bring a myriad of perspectives into their individual roles in the production process, making it more rich and collaborative.

“Everyone comes in with some specific vision, and each person in their specific field is able to enhance that vision,” Cohen said, noting that the actors created the backstories for their respec-

tive characters and interpreted their roles in ways that he had not anticipated.

Lifland, who acted primarily in theater roles before joining the cast of “Captain Invincible is Dead,” said he thinks acting for films is more challenging than for the stage. When preparing for a theater performance, he explained, there are extensive rehearsals and time to delve into a scene before opening night, while filming runs on a much tighter timeline.

“You have to find the complexity of a character and try to convey it at a moment’s notice, without as much time to work through different choices or development,” he said.

In order to capture the superhero world in the script, team members said they are utilizing a number of spaces around campus, including the Hall of Graduate Studies, the Davenport basketball court and Dwight Hall.

Gonzalez noted that the wide variety of architecture at Yale makes the campus as versatile as a movie set.

Cohen and Gonzalez each said that setting up shoots for this film has been a more complicated and time-consuming process than in past BP projects. Gonzalez pointed out that makeup application for one of the characters, the ghostly Corporal Brown, requires up to 30 or 40 minutes. Kendall Teare ’17, a co-

director of photography for the film alongside Evelina Zaragoza Medina ’17, added that a number of scenes involve advanced technical equipment, such as a small crane from the DMCA. “That’s how filmmaking really works: It takes a lot of effort and setting up,” Cohen said. “In some ways, I’ve got classes, and classwork, but when the week ends and I head off to set, my ‘work’ really begins.”

Editing and post-production work for “Captain Invincible is Dead” will take place over the summer, and the film will premiere this fall.

Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .

Musical paints dystopian view of consumer culture

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER This weekend, romance and commercial advertising will come together at the Calhoun Cabaret.

As part of his senior project, Tommy Bazarian ’15 will play the title character in his musical adaptation of “Jon,” a short story

by George Saunders. The play, which Bazarian scripted, takes place in a facility where people are raised as test subjects for advertisements, acting as ideal consumer focus groups. The storyline follows Jon and his love interest Carolyn as they decide whether or not to stay in the facility after Carolyn discovers she is pregnant.

Alyssa Miller ’16, who plays Carolyn, described the show as a “dystopian love story.”

“It’s sort of a bizarre story, but it’s a really beautiful story,” Miller said. “The feelings and situations are very universal even though the story itself is esoteric in a lot of ways.”

The human subjects living in the facility struggle to communicate, as their vocabulary is limited to language they have learned through their lives as commercial testers, Miller said. Jacob Osborne ’16, the show’s director, noted that the portrayal of advertisements in both the short story and the production is exaggerated in order to highlight the fact that the characters’ lives are entirely enveloped by the commercial culture around them.

Bazarian said he chose to adapt the short story after rediscovering it last summer. He added that he began to write “spacey, weird, folksy love songs” in the voices of Jon and Carolyn — the only two characters who sing during the performance — and then wove the songs into his adaptation, which he believes adheres faithfully to the original story.

The songs, which Bazarian described as indie folk ballads, consistently remind audiences of the love story that runs as an undercurrent through the play’s

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Tommy Bazarian ’15 will play the title character in his musical adaption of a short story, “Jon.” The work is a science-fiction romance that will serve as his senior project. dystopian setting.

Saunders, who has listened to some of the music sent to him by Bazarian, echoed this sentiment, adding that he expected Bazarian to find the emotional core of the story through the music. “[The music is] very catchy in a strange way,” Osborne said. “It would be a great success if peo-

ple left the theater with these songs stuck in their heads like the kids have the advertisements in theirs.”

Bazarian said he hopes the production will be able to reconcile the inarticulate speech that characters use to express emotion and meaning with the traditional belief that each line in a musical

needs to be straightforward and obviously understandable.

The production will also feature video art which will be projected across both the stage and shown on monitors, according to Osborne. Bazarian added that these video projections attempt to harness the ongoing assault of advertising present within the

minds of the characters and recreate those visuals for the audience.

“It’s just a different take on a musical,” Bazarian said. “I’ve always wondered if the form could be twisted and if the songs could serve a different purpose, if music could fit in theater in a nontraditional way.”

Miller said she expected audi-

ences to enjoy the production’s creative use of language, explaining that a large portion of the characters’ lines consists of references to advertisements.

Performances of “Jon” will run through Saturday.

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

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EDEN MURRAY ’18 ROOKIE OF THE WEEK Following a three-point outburst in the women’s hockey team’s 5–0 win over RPI, Murray was named the ECAC Rookie of the Week. She is the second Yale skater to earn the honor this season, as forward Courtney Pensavalle ’18 has won the award three times already.

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“We’re focused on … taking care of the details that will help us get a little better each day.”

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Bulldogs look to rebound, return to NCAAs MEN’S LACROSSE

“Looking at our schedule, both in the Ivy League and out of conference play, we have no easy game, and every week we have to treat each game as important as the last,” midfielder and face-off specialist Jonathan Reese ’16 said.

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The Bulldogs lost their final two games of the 2014 season to Harvard by just a single goal.

After a 2013 season that resulted in the Bulldogs’ best showing in decades, last year’s men’s lacrosse team scuffled to a 9–5 finish, ending the season with consecutive onegoal losses to Harvard and missing the NCAA tournament for the first time in three years.

Now, the Bulldogs will look to return to the sport’s elite ranks and improve upon their quarterfinal finish in 2013 while avoiding last year’s

pitfalls. Having added an excellent freshman class to a strong core of starters, coach Andy Shay’s team looks to return to form and capture another Ivy tournament title.

Last year’s Bulldogs (9–5, 3–3 Ivy) struggled early in the season, with close losses away at Fairfield and Cornell and at home against Penn. Yale then rattled off five straight wins, four on the road, before ending the season with a pair of disappointing defeats at the hands of their biggest rival, Harvard.

Elis ready to start 2015 season

This year’s slate sees a number of rematches of last year’s non-conference games. Notably, the Bulldogs have a chance to avenge last year’s 12–11 overtime loss to Fairfield. The team also faces 2014 national semifinalist Maryland and quarterfinalist Bryant in the early stages of the season, giving more inexperienced players a chance to face high-level competition before the intense Ivy Round Robin begins.

For the team’s experienced stars, though, this sort of challenge is nothing new.

I’m sorry about Valentine’s Day I owe the Yale Women’s Basketball team an apology. As I was preparing to do the play-byplay for Saturday’s game against Princeton, I thought that the outlook for the Bulldogs was bleak at best.

I sat in the media room below the bleachers in the John J. Lee Amphitheater and quipped with several other members of the production team: “Would we lose by 40?” “Maybe, maybe not,” the answer came, “But definitely by 30.”

In a purely statistical sense, you couldn’t blame us. Princeton rumbled into the game as an unstoppable force, and Yale has not exactly been an immovable object this season. Princeton waltzed into the contest ranked 16th in the nation and as the only remaining undefeated team in NCAA Division-I Women’s Basketball at 22–0.

Princeton guard Blake Dietrick was recently named to the Naismith Trophy Midseason 30 watch list, and the Tigers have the second-most accurate three-point shooter in the country in guard Michelle Miller.

Yale, on the other hand, has been playing without captain and two-time all-Ivy firstteam guard Sarah Halejian ’15, whose Yale career was cut tragically short by an ACL injury in the waning minutes of the team’s Dec. 30 game at Oklahoma.

As the Bulldog’s lone senior, Halejian had the experience — 78 starts heading into this season — and star power that many believed the Bulldogs would have to rely on to survive the gruesome Ivy League schedule. The starting five that the Bulldogs trotted out against the Tigers, by contrast, had started a total of nine games heading into the 2014–15 campaign.

Princeton came in trouncing its opponents by roughly 26 points per game, but from the

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Ivies await swim and dive team

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After three months of intense competition, the Yale women’s swimming and diving team will wrap up its season with the Ivy League Championships this weekend. The Bulldogs head into the meet seated third overall, with Harvard and Princeton tied for first.

SWIMMING & DIVING The Elis have only lost one meet all season: the HYP meet in which Harvard and Princeton tied for the victory. Though the Tigers and Crimson are ranked ahead of Yale, the Bulldogs have several athletes

who have excelled for the team during the regular season.

For the divers, Lilybet MacRae ’17 and Kelly Sherman ’16 have both contributed greatly to the Elis’ success. MacRae has placed in the top three 13 times in the one-meter and three-meter dives, while Sherman has continued to place solidly in the top eight, bringing in points for the team.

As for the swimmers, several have set personal records and more than a few had strong reputations heading into the 2014– 15 season. Eva Fabian ’16 was selected for the 2014–15 USA National Swim Team, one of only two Ivy League swimmers to be chosen. Fabian has won the 1,650yard freestyle in both of her previous Ivy

League Championships as well as the 500-yard freestyle in last year’s Championships.

“As a team, we are looking to put forward our best results this year,” Fabian said. “We are looking to improve upon our placing from last year, and to qualify as many athletes for NCAA’s as we can.”

While the Bulldogs are not going into the meet focused on personal records, several swimmers have posted some of the top championship performances in recent years. Fabian has the 14th and 15th best conference times in the 500-yard freestyle in history, as well as holding the fourth-place spot in the 1,650-yard SEE SWIMMING & DIVING PAGE 8

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The Bulldogs finished just 8–33 a season ago, including two losing streaks of at least 10 games.

BY JULIA YAO STAFF REPORTER After finishing the 2013–14 season with a disappointing 8–33 record, including a 4–16 conference record, the Yale women’s softball team is optimistic for a comeback this season.

SOFTBALL Though the year was scheduled to open at the Norfolk State

Tournament this Friday, inclement weather conditions in Virginia forced the cancellation of the tournament. The Bulldogs will now play their season opener against Maine in Tampa, Florida on March 10.

“The team and I have the expectation of being very competitive this season as we all possess a drive to win by taking the game one pitch at a time,” shortstop Brittany Labbadia ’16 SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 8

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Yale currently sits in third place in the Ivy League, behind Harvard and Princeton, which are tied for first.

THE NUMBER OF ALL-TIME TOP SPOTS THE BULLDOGS HAVE IN THE 200-YARD BUTTERFLY IN THE IVY LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS MEET. Sydney Hirschi ’17 is the only currently competing swimmer to hold any of those spots. She holds the fourth and fifth best times.