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Willa Wonka comes to town.

Chocolat Maya hosted a pop-up event Thursday evening with the owner and master chocolatier of Chocopologie, Fritz Knipschildt. Knipschildt created a massive Easterthemed sculpture, a pastelcolored tower of chocolate covered with chocolate eggs.

Around 25 people attended, all of whom received free champagne and chocolate truffles upon walking through the door.

Mystery party. The Group

With No Name, a local collective started in 2001 that encourages residents to engage in a variety of social and civic activities, appears to be throwing a classy masquerade soiree at ROIA this weekend.

The affair is titled “Dark Spring.” The dress code reads: “Masks, of course … and your big, bold take on dark spring.”

Proceeds will benefit the Loaves & Fishes program at St. Paul & St. James Episcopal Church.

Tips from Harvard. College

decisions were released for Ivy League schools yesterday and the Harvard Crimson published a guide for fanatics titled “Decision Day Tips!”

In classic Harvard style, the article opened with the obnoxious line “high school seniors around the world will be obsessively checking their laptops and phones to see if they have received admission to an Ivy League school (or Cornell).” The piece included tips such as “stay distracted,” “get comfortable,” and “have a support system.”

First birthday. ROIA

Restaurant celebrated its oneyear anniversary on Thursday.

Their first anniversary celebration included a special prix fixe menu that came with a complimentary prosecco toast. Also on the menu were items including artichoke soup, sauteed fluke, braised lamb and crème brûlée.

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1950 It is announced that commencement will take place outside for the first time due to the increasing size of the graduating class.

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Group receives grant for bilingual environmental education

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night, the Great Hall of Dinosaurs at the Peabody Museum played host to the annual Solar Jam fundraising party from Solar Youth, a local organization that empowers youth through environmental education. The event included a “brontosaurus brunch” station with “dino deviled eggs,” “lava shooters,” and spicy “pterodactyl” wings.

Auction items spanned a wide range and included a chance to create and name a Shake Shack Concrete, a month of date night dinners and other awards.

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CROSS CAMPUS for next year’s Yale College Council are now allowed to begin recruiting for their campaign teams. Into the fray!

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ingly wide variety of talents, backgrounds, experiences and aspirations to campus this coming fall,” Quinlan said.

All Ivy League schools are obligated by the Common Ivy League Agreement to release their decisions on the same day. After seven consecutive years of record-low acceptance rates, Harvard’s acceptance rate rose slightly to 5.9 percent — a marginal change from the 5.8 percent it recorded a year earlier. Princeton’s class of 2018 was the most selective in the institution’s history at 7.28 percent, a slight drop from the 7.29 percent figure it recorded last year. Columbia University also saw a slight rise in the admit rate from a record-low 6.89 percent last year to 6.94 percent this year.

But the University of Pennsylvania

In an effort to reduce its $39 million deficit, the University is implementing increased administrative staff layoffs.

Though administrators had thus far described personnel reductions as only a possibility, several Yale staff members confirmed Thursday that the University has already begun a series of layoffs. While one to two percent of staff members are normally laid off every year due to changes in grants and workloads, this year’s layoff rate is expected to be slightly elevated, said Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael Peel.

One professor, who asked not to be named due to the sensitive nature of Yale’s budget plans, said the University is implementing a three percent cut in administrative staff for the fiscal 2015 year. But it is unclear what portion of that will come from layoffs and what portion will come from other reorganization moves, however.

The cuts appear likely to impact members of Yale’s Local 34 union, which includes many of the University’s administrative staff members — specifically, 3,400 clerical and technical employees.

Louise Camera Benson, a vice president of Local 34 and research assistant in immunobiology at the School of Medicine, confirmed the layoffs and restructuring, adding that the union is currently communicating and meeting with members. Local 34 President Laurie

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BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER For over 30,000 high school students, the wait is finally over.

Yale released admissions decisions for the class of 2018 Thursday afternoon, accepting 1,935 students from an applicant pool of 30,932 — an acceptance rate of 6.26 percent.

Last year, the University offered seats to more students, accepting 1,991 from a smaller pool of 29,610 applicants, making for an acceptance rate of 6.72 percent. After hovering around 7.5 percent from 2009 to 2011, Yale’s acceptance rate has now remained in the 6 percent range for three consecutive years.

This was the first year Dean Jeremiah Quinlan’s signature has appeared on Yale’s admissions letters. Quinlan succeeded Dean Jeffrey Brenzel in July 2013.

“In my first year as the admissions dean, I am inspired by Yale’s extraordinary applicant pool but also humbled by the challenging selection process we have just completed,” Quinlan said in an email.

Quinlan said Yale and its peer schools have seen application numbers rise and the applicant pool grow stronger over the past five years. This year’s group of admitted students includes more students from “virtually every underrepresented group in higher education,” he said.

Although the University could not offer seats to a large number of talented applicants, Quinlan said virtually all of these students will thrive at other selective institutions.

“Of the students offered admission, we know that those who select Yale will bring an astonish-

President’s House renovations spark controversy

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER When walking past the President’s House at 43 Hillhouse Ave. with their colleagues, faculty members almost always bring up the house’s ongoing $17 million renovation.

Many faculty said they feel the cost of the renovations could be put to better use elsewhere — an additional $17 million in research funding or financial aid, or even

the installation of five new professorships.

With the University facing a $39 million budget deficit, instituting budget cuts and carrying out layoffs, the renovation of the house has drawn criticism from faculty and staff alike. The renovation project, the first major alteration to the house since 1937, intends to bring the 19th-century Victorian mansion up to code with handicapped access, new wiring and a modern security

system, among other improvements.

While University President Peter Salovey will live in a topfloor apartment of the house starting in the fall, the primary use of the space is for official University functions. According to administrators, the bulk of the project’s costs will be in renovating those formal spaces.

“I think that spending over $15 million on a house renovation sends the wrong signals to

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Longtime Yale biochemist dies

BY BEN FAIT CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Donald Crothers ’58, a biophysical chemist who served on the Yale faculty for half a century, died on Sunday, March 16 at the Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven. He was 77.

Crothers first stepped onto Yale’s campus as an undergraduate in 1954; by the end of his career, he had risen to prominence in his field and at Yale, serving 12 cumulative years as the chair of the chemistry department. Colleagues, friends, and family remembered him as a pioneering scientist, a selfless father and husband and an integral part of the University’s leadership.

“He was absolutely unique and amazing,” said Leena Kareoja-Crothers, his wife of 54 years. “I just can’t think that a human being could be any better.”

Crothers’ studied the structure and mechanisms of nucleic acids,

the building blocks of molecules that encode genetic information. He also developed experimental methods to discover how physical chemistry could help explain these complex structures.

In 1979, Crothers co-authored “Physical Chemistry: With Applications to the Life Sciences,” which was the foundational text on the subject according to Yale chemistry professor Gary Brudvig. Two years later, he won the Emily M Gray Award from the Biophysical Society for “significant contributions to education through creating rigorous, groundbreaking texts and enriching generations of biophysicists.”

For his contributions to the field, he was inducted into both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1987.

“He was a perfectly marvelous colleague,” said Peter Moore, a Yale chemSEE OBITUARY PAGE 4

our community when we are trying to deal with some difficult budget issues,” said professor Jim Levinsohn, who has served as the co-chair of the University Budget Committee. “I think that’s true independent of just where the funds came from and independent of whether the funds are or are not fungible.”

When the University began the renovation last year, University Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill said the cost

of the project was fully covered by an anonymous donor. Multiple faculty members who asked to remain unnamed, however, cited knowledge that the funds for the project were donated by Edward Bass, the former senior fellow of the Yale Corporation.

Last fall, O’Neill said the Development Office works to ensure that restricted donations from major donors fund projects SEE PRES. HOUSE PAGE 4

Stratton decries “illegal” funding

BY POOJA SALHOTRA AND ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTERS The city is spending in excess of $40 million on health care and other benefits for teachers and school administrators, according to a New Haven alder who called the practice, undisclosed in the city budget, unlawful.

Michael Stratton, alder for Prospect Hill and Newhallville, leveled that charge in a letter sent Wednesday to the city controller, on which he copied Mayor Toni Harp, the city’s top attorney and the superintendent of schools. In addition to the $18.3 million budgeted for the school district in the current fiscal year — slated to rise by $1.5 million under Harp’s proposed 2014-’15 budget — the city is also doling out millions of dollars for health care and workers’ compensation, as well as debt service and other functions (such as legal representation) for which the Board of Education should be paying, Stratton said.

If those contributions are being

made, they are not enumerated in the city budget, which lists the line item for $65.9 million in city-funded health benefits under a “Non-Education” category.

“Someone should go to jail over this,” Stratton said Thursday. “There’s no legal permission to give anything more than the $18.3 million that’s been budgeted. It’s illegal for a mayor or her department heads to be handing over money or paying bills that haven’t been approved by law or allocated by the democratic process.”

Stratton claims the city has forked over between $40 and $100 million to the Board of Education unbeknownst to city residents and lawmakers for the past decade or more. Included in the city’s general expenditures for health benefits — and potentially workers’ compensation and debt service, as well — are specific sums of money instead going to the Board of Education, he said.

Stratton did not blame Harp, SEE BUDGET SCANDAL PAGE 6

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OPINION

.COMMENT “Seems a great idea to me. Surely adds to flavor, a detail not menyaledailynews.com/opinion

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SECRET TALKS ARE SOMETIMES NECESSARY The Jackson Institute balances the need for secrecy with its commitment to advertise its high profile speakers.

Despite its silence about Kissinger’s upcoming visit, it does have information on his previous visits to Yale, which were put up post festum. This tactic of releasing information after the fact, when it is too late to act on it, is right out of Kissinger’s book, which has overseen many coup d’etats around the world.

Kissinger cemented his relationship with the Jackson Institute in 2011 when he donated his papers, covering an extraordinary slice of history from the invasion of Vietnam to the invasion of Iraq. His professional life and papers are valuable assets to academics. Given that researchers have access to privileged

and confidential information from men who shaped history like Kissinger, the objectivity of their research is beyond doubt.

Kissinger’s relationship with the Jackson Institute and the University is not unusual. He is the embodiment of an increasingly common standard model in high-profile careers, where one transitions from political power to economic power, and then ultimately to academic power. We at Yale have been lucky to participate in this process, benefiting from insightful lectures by world leaders like Tony Blair and Stanley McChrystal.

Universities like Yale play an important role beyond that of mere research institutions. They are also de facto guardians of our historical record, maintaining libraries and supporting scholars who write books and publish papers. Orwell’s oft-quoted aphorism “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past,” imposes on universities and academics a moral duty to treat the stewardship of our history with neutrality and punctiliousness.

In this light, it is reassuring to know that Kissinger’s papers at the Jackson Institute have been kept away from the prying eyes of the general public. This secure guardianship of history and Kissinger’s role in it is in contrast to rogue, publicly available datasets like the Public Library of US Diplomacy that include over 1.7 million documents from the Kissinger era.

We can be secure in the knowledge that only impartial and informed scholars at the Jackson Institute have access to Kissinger’s papers. It is certain that these scholars, whom we have charged with maintaining and analyzing our shared historical record, are aided in their task by the secrecy around today’s talk.

Secrecy has been shown time and again to be a robust strategy.

Secrecy is especially important in diplomatic matters, and in agencies of national security. In particular, the secrecy of ideas and facts guarantees those with access to confidential information — graduate students at the Jackson Institute and in the history department — a competitive advantage. After all, there exist ideas so important that they can only be said to a few, and so disturbing that they must be kept from the public. I’m sure Kissinger’s talk will be full of them.

SRINIVAS GORUR-SHANDILYA is a fourth-year student in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

Contact him at srinivas.gs@yale.edu .

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The real Yale-NUS

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n Monday, a confidential email sent to a select set of Yale graduate students was irresponsibly leaked to Salon. According to the leaked email, Dr. Henry Kissinger, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will give a talk titled “Europe at a Crossroads” at 3:30 p.m. on Friday at Evans Hall.

The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs doesn’t list this event publicly, even though they are hosting it. The School of Management, housed in Evans Hall, similarly has no information about the event on its website. In fact, no publicly accessible Yale website mentions a talk by Kissinger. If the Jackson Institute, the School of Management and the University at large all agree that this talk must be kept secret, it is hard to understand the motivations of the leaker who deliberately subverted the orders of her superiors.

I am confident that the extreme secrecy surrounding this talk (invitees are urged to respect the confidentiality of Kissinger’s words) exists for a reason. Openness, a spirit of inquiry and the free exchange of ideas — qualities that I believe are essential for the functioning of any University — cannot and should not always be exercised.

These values must be put aside for some events, and Kissinger’s talk is one of them. Sometimes, it is necessary to create a space where young minds can be lectured to in private, on confidential matters in an event that must inevitably be secret.

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his spring break, my a cappella group and I took the whole two weeks to go on an international tour; we spent the first week singing in Hong Kong and the second in Singapore. We had picked the locations strategically, hoping to take advantage of Yale connections in both cities. Especially promising, or so we thought back in May, when we chose the location, would be the Yale-NUS connection.

If we’re being totally honest, my secret hope was for the fledgling Yale campus to put us up in their dorms in Singapore, thus saving me some effort and anxiety in securing accommodations. Sadly, they didn’t, and that’s about where my interest in Yale-NUS ended in the leadup to our trip. It wasn’t until I really looked more closely at our itinerary in the days before the trip that I noticed, tucked among other performances and sightseeing activities, that we were slated to spend an entire afternoon at their campus on our second-to-last day.

Again, I didn’t think much of it. To me, like to most Yale students, Yale-NUS is rather more of an abstraction than it is a real thing we spend time thinking about. The name evoked little more than dimly-recalled controversy, a number of headlines and prominent names butting heads about whether the venture was appropriate or not.

I’m not at all trying to belittle

VICTORIA HALLPALERM The Notorious V.H.P.

the concerns about the p a r t n e rs h i p between Yale and the Singaporean government. But rather, thinking of YaleNUS as simply a concept and debating its merits in the abstract causes us to us to forget the existence of a real school with real stu-

dents.

As a result, when the day came for us to head over to YaleNUS, I didn’t quite know what to expect. Despite the writings around it, very little of the discussion of the campus had actually addressed what the day-today student life would be like.

But I guess it shouldn’t have come as a surprise to me that it felt, quite simply, like a college campus. We walked in through a random building entrance and were immediately surrounded by walls papered with announcements, flyers, and photos of students. The dining hall, where we met our student hosts, was loud and crowded (and even, like our own Commons, had a few stray birds fluttering through). The students were bright-eyed and eager to talk about their classes and extracurriculars.

It was altogether eye-opening, not for how different it was to college life at Yale, but for how shockingly similar it was.

New Blue, my a cappella group, spent the afternoon with members of their fledgling a cappella groups, so newly formed as to not have even named themselves yet. Despite differences in our cultural backgrounds, we were all easily able to find common ground talking about everything from the musical (comparing vocal warm-ups) to the academic (professors are thinking of starting a program resembling Directed Studies) to the staples of teenage life (Instagram, Scandal and the like).

The first moment in which I was reminded of just what a new and bold project these kids, and Yale, had taken on was when we went around introducing ourselves. While members of New Blue sprinkled in information about our other extracurricular activities and majors, every Yale-NUS student slightly sheepishly introduced him- or herself as a freshman. They had limited other extracurriculars to offer to the conversation simply because few of them have even been formed yet.

It was unmistakable, both to us and to them, that these students were incredibly fortunate to be present at the creation of this new and exciting educational experience. YaleNUS is the first (and only) liberal arts college in Singapore.

Unlike at other technical institutions we visited while on tour, which offered students concrete degrees in website design or in aviation mechanics, students at the Yale campus talked with us about their core classes in philosophy and literature.

One boy we met turned down his admission to Yale in New Haven, choosing instead to be part of the pioneering class that will shape the future of YaleNUS. He chose Yale-NUS not at all because of the statement the University was making by opening a campus in Singapore, but rather because he knew that in going to Yale-NUS, he would have a hand in creating something new.

It’s almost impossible to describe the exhilarating feeling we all got from our hours there. It was an inspiration to watch young men and women, awfully similar to us, setting out to create what will some day be a haven to bright young students from around the world.

Yale-NUS is not at all an abstraction. It is a vibrant reality for 150 students and counting. Seeing it in action, it leaves one with the feeling of hundreds of lives being touched — and not of any lingering controversy or hint of oppression.

VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a junior in Berkeley College. Her columns run on alternate Thursdays.

Contact her at victoria.hall-palerm@yale.edu .

Picking brains, or picking noses W

hen I venture outside the comfort of Yale, I receive reminders that I’m a woman. They’re the types of reminders I’ve never had the acute pleasure of encountering while at Yale, the types of reminders that require increasingly creative and sometimes coarse reactions. Sitting in an airport, a train station, a waiting room, I’m reminded that some strangers are more inclined to examine my body than my brain.

You don’t have to look a certain way to be subjected to this treatment; often, you really just have to exist. Over the years, I’ve developed tactics to deal with unwelcome gazes from unwelcome gazers: One option is to stare blankly back until the person gazing has the decency to look away. It’s really awkward when this doesn’t work, and sometimes I resort to truly vulgar tactics. I’ve discovered that if I actively pick my nose while under an unwanted gaze, even the creepiest of creeps will avert his unabashed eyes. But should I really have to pick my nose in order to regain a little sense of respect?

At Yale, I’ve never had to.

After attending a pretty patriarchal prep school and passing through a hodgepodge of different cultures, I’ve come to believe that there are few better places to be a woman than at Yale. Yale’s young women, just like its young

men, captain hockey and crew teams, run campus organizations, write plays, give speeches and even take TAO TAO classes.

I’m always HOLMES impressed by how few girls Taoisms here feel the need to do themselves up, a drastic contrast from the way it is at most other colleges. In my eyes, Yale women rarely aim to please others, driven rather by the motivation to reach standards that they have set for themselves. We don’t wait for men to do things for us. I’ve asked guys (gay and straight) out on dates just as many times as they’ve asked me, and I’ve felt comfortable doing that. My male friends are attracted to confident, driven women, and despite its problems, I find that the Yale hookup culture is not one defined by objectification, degradation or disrespect, but rather by intense levels of mutual apathy.

These past four years, however, have been marked by a series of unsettling events. In October of my freshman fall the DKE chanting incident turned to chaos and began raising questions about campus climate.

At the time, I didn’t think the mindless idiocy deserved any of the attention it was receiving, but other women here felt differently. Not long after, a group of girls filed a Title IX complaint against the University, and that spring, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation of the University “for its failure to eliminate a hostile sexual environment on campus, in violation of Title IX.” My sophomore fall, Yale published its first semi-annual Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct, and there was also a big blowup around football captain and Rhodes finalist Patrick Witt, who became the center of a sexual assault scandal.

Junior year brought with it both a new Campus Sexual Climate Assessment and the inception of “SWUG.” This year, periodic reports of sexual assault have appeared both in my inbox and in The New York Times, and Yale has been castigated for meting out insufficient punishments.

All the while, a constant avalanche of condemnatory articles have tumbled from the mouths of Slate, Time, Huffington Post, Forbes, Business Insider, Christian Science Monitor and NBC News, spreading sweeping statements of a “hostile sexual climate.”

Yale has problems — no one can refute that. But these prob-

lems of sexual assault are not unique to Yale, and while we use our power and privilege to set things right, I don't want us to lose appreciation for a place where I’ve never once seen my gender as an impediment or a liability, whether I’m scooting around in an inner tube, elbowing my way into a seminar, or going out with friends on a Saturday night. There are both men and women here who have been mistreated, but to me, these chilling incidents don’t fall into a larger hostile climate or culture.

Four years at this school have showed me that Yalies, at least in the communities I have been a part of, treat each other not as exchangeable or easily reducible items, but as complete and complex individuals deserving of full respect. Four years of headlines I've found both derogatory and misleading have left me feeling partly indignant, but mostly hurt, because Yale has been to me the ideal place to be a woman — because here I’m not a woman, I’m just another student. Here at Yale, I’ve never had to pick my nose to get some basic respect, and I sincerely hope (and believe) that no girl will ever have to.

TAO TAO HOLMES is a senior in Branford College. Her columns run on alternate Fridays. Contact her at taotao.holmes@yale.edu .

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HENRY KISSINGER “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”

YALE TALKS MENTAL HEALTH REFORM RESPONSES TO THE SERIES ON MENTAL HEALTH GUEST COLUMNIST DANIEL ARIAS

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y freshman year of high school, I struggled from depression and an eating disorder. I had to leave school to enter an inpatient program for the summer where, against the statistical odds, I recovered. My recovery was only made possible by the support I received from my family, friends and importantly, my school. I was welcomed back in August to a community willing to invest in my best interests. Without their support, I would likely have never fully recovered, reached my full potential as a student, or been admitted to Yale.

Because of my experience, I feel very strongly about the problems with some of Yale’s policies regarding mental health, particularly the policies regarding students who are asked to leave campus. A friend of mine was required to leave Yale last semester due to a mental illness, and I was shocked to hear of the appalling manner of treatment and care he felt he was given. Even still, I am ultimately an optimist and trust that the administration has our best interests in mind. I am confident that the leave policy can be amended in ways that are positive for both the students and the administration. There are three components of the policy to which I would like to propose changes.

First and foremost is communication. A consistent complaint among students who have been required to leave Yale under this policy is that they have been asked to leave in error or without their opinions being heard and accounted for. Yale should publish the criteria under which a student is asked to take leave for a mental illness, as is done on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s mental health website. Yale should also inform students about the factors that go into the decision-making process for various cases, which would merit the forced-leave policy public credibility and consistency.

Second is availability of resources.

Yale should support students on medical leave by allowing them access to the same resources as enrolled students. Another persistent criticism is that the leave policy does not allow students to have access to many of Yale’s resources; denying students this privilege may not be in their best interests for recovery.

Yale should amend the leave policy to address cases individually.

Students should not be forced to go home to a potentially harmful environment, nor should they be kept from environments that may help them recover, including Yale’s cam-

pus. Students receiving financial aid should also have this package carry over to their health coverage if they are asked to take leave. This would incur a low expense for the school since very few students go on leave, and the benefit to the students would be enormous.

And third is the readmittance policy. An umbrella policy requiring all students on forced leave to wait one full term after the term in which they took leave to reapply for admittance is not sensible. Additionally, students on leave should not be required to remain “constructively occupied” during their leave of absence, as those seeking help for a mental illness should not be worried that the policies in place are punitive instead of therapeutic. I again propose that the terms for a student’s forced leave are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

I understand that the points I addressed only scratch the surface of the very complex issues surrounding mental health on a college campus, and that the course of action a team of doctors and administrators deems best for a student in the case of a mental illness may not align with the student’s wishes. Also, that there are many resources already around Yale working to address these issues.

But this mistreatment and infringement of students’ rights cannot be ignored.

Improving the mental health environment on campus is not solely the responsibility of the administration, however. Students can take action to help address some of these issues. For one, we should reach out to our friends who are struggling with mental illnesses or have been asked to leave Yale. A simple text, Facebook message or email can make an immense difference. We should also take advantage of the many peer resources that promote mental health and well being on campus and encourage friends who may be struggling to seek help when they need it. And, most importantly, we should not just complain about policies we are unhappy with, but look for ways to initiate change.

I truly believe that the administration seeks to promote the wellbeing of its students, but things need to change. I am imploring that students voice their opinions regarding this issue and help me to urge the administration to make this discussion an utmost priority.

ALYSSA MILLER is a sophomore in Pierson College. Contact her at alyssa.miller@yale.edu .

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hile the Yale community continues to struggle with campus attitudes toward mental illness, the administration has decided that mental health information doesn’t deserve much protection in Yale Health’s new electronic information system, Epic. As part of the Epic transition, MyChart has replaced Yale Health Online as the online portal to a patient’s record. As a result, mental health records have lost a significant amount of protection.

Your progress notes are still confidential, on paper and locked away at Mental Health and Counseling. But your upcoming appointments, when and what your psychiatrist prescribed and your history of psychiatric hospitalization — complete with the daily schedule, diagnoses and discharge summary — are now viewable on MyChart. And somehow, broken bones are still too sensitive to display online. The sensitivity and protection afforded to psychiatric documents is one of the core tenants of the HIPPA act passed in 1996 to protect patient’s privacy. Yale Health‘s previous electronic information system followed this logic and did not store any mental health records online. But with the switch to Epic, the Yale administration has decided that psychiatric records deserve less protection that physiological ones in the MyChart online portal.

THE CURRENT ONLINE SYSTEM IS NOT TRULY CONFIDENTIAL Of course, one line of logic might say that more information is better. Students no longer have to try and remember when they have an appointment and with whom. But my real concern is that this information is now accessible to others as well. The most serious problem is not one of a data breach, but of authorized proxies, such as parents or part-

ners, who have access to your MyChart. Not only will they be able to see whether or not you are going to Mental Health & Counseling, but they will also be able to deduce if you’re going to the SHARE center or substance abuse counseling. If your therapist is Dr. Carole Goldberg or Dr. Jennifer Czinz then you’re visiting the SHARE center, and if you’re seeing Dr. Marie Baker then you have a substance abuse issue. Would any student want their parents to give them a call and ask them if they’ve been raped? If you have a MyChart account and give your parents proxy access then this can happen. You’ve had a psychiatric hospitalization? Yep, your parents will also find out through MyChart.

Even more troubling is that abusive partners might be able to see if their other partner is seeking help. Yale Health does not disclose this sort of information, but abusers are highly controlling and might force their partners to make them authorized proxies on Yale Health’s electronic system — this would enable them to view their partners’ appointment history. These disclosures are problematic because they might prevent individuals from seeking help, or make them liable to serious injury.

I write these criticisms not to dissuade students from seeking help at Mental Health & Counseling, the SHARE center or substance abuse specialists. If you need help, these resources are available and staff members there remain dedicated to patient confidentiality. But administrators must be aware of ways in which the new online system, particularly MyChart, compromises patient confidentiality. And students must be aware of the shortcomings that exist regarding their MyChart accounts, especially if they choose to add proxies. While we evaluate student attitudes and University policies on mental health, we must also make the Epic system a part of the discourse.

RODION KOSOVSKY is a student in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Contact him at rodion.kosovsky@yale.edu .

he state of mental health care at Yale is unacceptable, and we should be outraged.”

“The Yale program is probably the oldest and most fully developed of that in any college or university in the world.”

It is difficult to believe that these two statements, published in the News over 50 years apart, describe the same department. Given the recent outcry regarding the current state of mental health services at Yale, it may surprise many to learn that Yale’s mental health department was once considered exemplary, its founder heralded as “the acknowledged leader in the field” and its reputation beyond reproach. Today, Mental Health and Counseling has been the focus of much criticism and concern, prompting a YCC report, several published articles and a university-wide response from the administration. Much, it seems, has changed since the time of elm trees in New Haven.

In spite of these developments, a history of mental health care at Yale has been conspicuously absent from recent conversations. The origin of Mental Health and Counseling is a fascinating story, and a number of points from the department’s history can shed light on the present.

In 1925, Yale established the Division of Student Mental Hygiene, the predecessor of the current Mental Health and Counseling program. In its early years, the Division was focused on increasing its presence on campus and connecting more intimately with the student body. This mission was undoubtedly hampered by its location, situated as it was at the Medical School and thus at a considerable distance from the central campus. It was not until 1930 that the Division acquired new office space, moving into present day Leigh Hall. The new location on Cross Campus led to an increase in student visits and, as the Department would later note, “gradually built up an acceptance of psychiatry as part of normal medical service.”

The Division’s mission and understanding of mental illness were broad in scope. Seeking to promote the “happiness and effectiveness of every student,” the Division took a comprehensive approach to counseling. The staff held open office hours, conducted private counseling appointments, showed students how to study and use the library system and even “taught something of the organization of Yale social life and mores.” The primary focus in Yale’s counseling was to “review [the students’] social and cultural equipment as it related to fitting into Yale and what could be done to fill in the gaps in their lives and training.”

After WWII, clinical demands on the Division significantly increased, with both a greater number of students enrolling at Yale and a greater number of them seeking mental health counseling. The Division was able to meet the rising demands in part due to the contributions of Paul Mellon ’29. A Mellon grant kept the Division funded through 1949, whereupon Mellon — through the Old Dominion Foundation of Washington, D.C.— made a $2 million dollar gift to Yale to continue the mental health care program for several decades more. At the time of the donation, Yale’s mental health program was at its zenith.

The money, however, ran out. In 1968, Yale’s chief psychiatrist, Robert Arnstein, warned that rising student demand in the past decade and narrowing fiscal resources might lead the clinic to a crisis point within a year or two. The $2 million dollar endowment from the Old Dominion Fund was evaporating, and the University was struggling to make up for the deficit. In response, Arnstein instituted a waiting list policy. As a News column related, “Although a troubled student may have an initial interview within 48 hours, he may encounter a wait of between three weeks and two months to begin regular therapy, depending on the acuteness of his problems and on his class seniority.”

As demand stayed high, students began objecting to perceived deficiencies in the system, noting growing wait times and the difficulties in getting seen by a counselor. Such outcry has persisted — perhaps growing even louder — into the present day.

The lessons from the history of Yale’s mental health department are of paramount importance, especially as Yale turns to address the future of Mental Health and Counseling. Two new residential colleges are under construction, both within a block of the Yale Health offices. As it did in 1930, the convenience of attending counseling sessions will rise for nearby students, likely resulting in the increased use of these resources. Undergraduate enrollment is expected to increase by 15 percent with the new colleges. Consequently, demand for counseling can be expected to rise in tandem. Meanwhile, a budget deficit and an operating budget still in recovery pose challenges to the expansion of extant services. None of this bodes well for a department already under criticism by the student body.

In 1968, rising student demand and tighter budgets combined to critically hinder Yale’s mental health service. Without appropriate action, they may do so again.

DANIEL ARIAS is a junior in Calhoun College.

Contact him at daniel.arias@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT $17 mill. renovations questioned

“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.” HENRY DAVID THOREAU AMERICAN AUTHOR

Chemist remembered OBITUARY FROM PAGE 1

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The President’s House is undergoing a $17 million renovation — the house’s first major construction project since 1937.

PRES. HOUSE FROM PAGE 1 that fit within the University’s mission.

“What we try to do is match up donors’ interests with the highest priorities that the University has,” O’Neill said.

O’Neill did not respond to request for comment about how the Development Office handles donations from members of the Corporation.

Regardless of how the funds came into University coffers, multiple faculty members said the symbolism of the renovation is problematic. Economics professor Judith Chevalier, who served with Levinsohn as co-chair of the University Budget Committee, said in an email that the way in which the University spends money betrays its values. That idea, she said, also applies to donated money.

English professor Leslie Brisman described the project as “beyond [his] comprehension.”

Several students also questioned the project’s spending. Jonathan Esty ’17 said he found the project hard to justify compared to other priorities such as expanding financial aid.

Despite their concerns regarding the project, faculty members interviewed did not direct criticism at Salovey himself.

Salovey was not involved in the decisionmaking process around the renovation because of the inherent conflict of interest, administrators said in the fall. Instead, the Yale Corporation authorized the project.

“It’s not [Salovey’s] goal to have a fancy house,” said a faculty member who asked to remain anonymous.

Staff members interviewed also said they found the expenditure on the project inappropriate in the current budget climate.

Don Frigo, a printing assistant in the Yale Printing and Publishing Service, said he feels the renovation could be put off until after the budget is straightened out.

“It would be nice if they were that generous with their resources that affect me, my co-workers and my neighbors,” said Jess Corbett, a clinical technologist in dermatology at the School of Medicine.

University Provost Benjamin Polak said he understands the frustration surrounding the project.

The University’s original approximation of the project was $22 million. Yale Facilities

went through the scope of the project lineby-line to try to bring costs down, he said.

“One needs to think always about the other things you could do with $17 million,” Polak said. “You could add five and a bit new professorships. You could fund a lot of financial aid. We should always worry about that kind of expenditure.”

Thomas Jayne, the architect hired by the University for the project, did not respond to requests for comment.

Polak also said there is a misconception within the University of the building’s purpose. While the top floor is a private residence, the rest of the house is a space in which Yale hosts some 150 events a year and sometimes invites visiting dignitaries — such as former President George W. Bush ’68 — to stay. The house also holds a substantial collection of artwork from the Yale University Art Gallery.

The President’s House was donated to Yale by Henry Farnam over a century ago.

The last president to live it was A. Bartlett Giamatti.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

Layoffs in “middle management” LAYOFFS FROM PAGE 1 Kennington did not respond to requests for comment Thursday.

Lee Ann Scott, an account assistant in patient financial services and executive board member of Local 34, said the layoffs thus far have been primarily people in middle management. But, she said, the University keeps “threatening” to lay off managerial and professional staff, meaning individuals in lower-level management roles.

Several other executive board members of Local 34 confirmed Scott’s claims.

Scott said three managerial and professional staff in her work area are currently being laid off. But staff are generally unaware of the layoffs’ broader scope, she added. “[Administrators] don’t feel we’re privy to that,” Scott said. “I don’t know if they’ve mentioned it to the head of the union.”

Members of the Local 35 union, which includes Yale’s blue-collar workers, are exempt from layoffs as a result of their

labor contract, which does not expire until 2016.

Still, Frank Douglass, community vice president of Local 35, said the University has still found ways to reduce staff members who are members of the union.

“We have a no-layoff clause in our contract,” Douglass said. “But that doesn’t mean they can’t go around and get us out the back door.”

Douglass said that University has not filled a number of vacant staff positions and certain parts of the University are now understaffed. He cited a custodial shortage at Evans Hall, the new building for the School of Management, as one example.

Administrators said the layoffs are driven by necessity. Nearly two-thirds of the University’s cost structure is compensation and benefits expense, Peel said, and careful prioritization and control of staff costs will be needed to meet budget targets in most areas as a result.

“We believe that in most cases where it is necessary to reduce staffing levels, we will be able to do this through attrition

by not filling open positions,” Peel said.

“However, there will no doubt be some voluntary and involuntary layoffs as part of this effort, as there is in every budget cycle when new funding decisions are made.”

Peel said the University has to reduce costs and close its operating deficits to fund strategically important initiatives essential to the Yale mission.

Local 34 is trying to push back against the layoffs, Scott said, but added that the union and the University are trying to work together to maintain a working relationship.

“They’re adding two more colleges … but they’re cutting back staff. Looking at it doesn’t make sense,” Scott said. “Who’s going to do the work?”

The University aims to reduce administrative costs by five percent over the next three years.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu and ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

istry professor since 1969. “He had extraordinarily good judgment, not just from a scientific point of view, but from a human and institutional point of view. Whenever controversies or difficulties arose, Don could absolutely be relied on to have an extremely good idea of what should be done next.”

Crothers served as chair of the Yale Chemistry Department for four three-year terms, first from 1975-1981 and later between 1994-2000. Moore said Crothers’ leadership helped shape the department into what it is today, citing critical administrative decisions and recruitments across an important period in the department’s development.

Brudvig said Crothers was a central figure in integrating biology and physical chemistry at Yale. Over his tenure, Crothers recruited faculty exploring biochemistry, including Brudvig himself.

“No one worked harder,” said Michael McBride, Yale professor of chemistry. “Everyone liked and respected him,” According to Kareoja-Crothers, his family remembers him as a selfless father and husband who always made time for his children despite a busy schedule, and who was always modest about his achievements. Crothers enthusiastically adopted opera and classical music to share in the passions of his wife, a professional musician, and even taught himself Finnish to be able to talk to her parents.

“I love to talk about him, because everything I remember about him was so good,” KareojaCrothers said. “He was the kind of

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man who was not hard to please, because he always pleased others.

I want the world to know what we are missing, and what we had in this man.”

Crothers was born in Fatehgarh, India on Jan. 28, 1937. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1958 with a degree in chemistry, and continued on to Cambridge to earn a B.A. in 1960. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego in 1963, and afterward became a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. He was hired as an associate professor at Yale in 1968, and rose to full professorship in 1971. At the time of his death, Crothers was a Sterling Professor of Chemistry.

Crothers is survived by his wife and two children, Nina and Kristina, his grandchildren Sofia, Freya, Evan and Alena, and his sisters Shirley and Susan.

Contact BEN FAIT at benjamin.fait@yale.edu .

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NEWS CORRECTIONS THURSDAY, MARCH 27

“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”

PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA SPANISH POET

Grant promotes urban forestry awareness

The opinion article “Schell’s Legacy” gave the incorrect contact email for its author. It should have said james. sleeper@yale.edu, not jim.sleeper@yale.edu.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26

The article “NELC department in dire straits” misspelled Beatrice Gruendler’s name, and also omitted the college year of Dimitri Gutas ’69 GRD ’74. Finally it misattributed the gender of Gruendler’s doctoral students.

New hospitals acquired in partnership

BY J.R REED AND HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTERS A network of Connecticut hospitals and a for-profit health care services company are coming together to expand their reach across the state.

On March 6, Yale New Haven Health System and Tenet Healthcare Corporation announced their partnership.

The agreement, which has been in the works for two years, will bring the companies together to acquire Waterbury Hospital, Bristol Hospital and the Eastern Connecticut Health Network, which includes Manchester Memorial Hospital and Rockville General Hospital. Although YNHHS and Tenet will work together in an effort to enhance efficiency, they will remain independent organizations.

“As we looked at Connecticut, we saw an opportunity to come in and put together a system that would include these hospitals and provide regional scale,” said Tenet Senior Vice President of Corporate Development Trip Pilgrim. “We thought that if we were able to do that, in partnering with an organization such as Yale-New Haven, then it would be a great win for us.”

Pilgrim said Tenet has helped create a new joint venture identity, in which Tenet owns 80 percent of the venture and YNHH owns 20 percent. With that 20 percent, Tenet gets access to their clinical enterprise, clinical intellectual property and highly specialized subspecialists. Tenet sees these acquisitions as a great opportunity.

Pilgrim said it is critical to understand this partnership within the context of significant changes in the health care industry across the country, which have been accelerated by the Affordable Care Act.

We are excited to bring a truly innovative solution to some of the challenges in the Connecticut health care landscape through our partnership with Tenet.

MARGNA BORGSTROM CEO, YNHHS Historically, those in the health industry were paid in a fee-per-service approach, but now individuals are starting to be compensated based on outcomes. He also said there are significant reimbursement cuts on top of this shift in payment models, including $550 million taken out of Connecticut state Medicaid, resulting in challenges for hospitals.

“The one thing that all of this change is pointing to as a viable solution is scale,” Pilgrim said. “Hospitals and health care have been a cottage industry for years, and we’re getting to the point where you can’t do that.

You need to be able to look for … ways to be more efficient in delivering the care.”

Pilgrim said the company could enable health care providers to be more efficient by focusing on quality rather than volume. If the hospitals were on their own, they would have the purchasing power of one, but, under this new partnership, they will have the pur-

chasing power of 77 hospitals in 14 states. He said that one of the greatest challenges facing free-standing hospitals under the ACA is making significant investments in clinical infrastructure “As part of a scaled enterprise, we can make the same investments, but leverage those investments over 77 hospitals as opposed to just one. There are tremendous efficiency opportunities [in] combining the overhead functions of these organizations,” Pilgrim said.

As a company that is trying to grow, Tenet sees great opportunity in Connecticut because several community hospitals in the area are struggling, according to Pilgrim. He said certain hospitals need the capital in order to maintain the level and kind of care they have historically provided their communities.

YNHHS CEO Marna Borgstrom said in a March 6 press release that the hospitals involved in the system see the partnership as an opportunity to access critical capital that is otherwise unavailable.

“We are excited to bring a truly innovative solution to some of the challenges in the Connecticut health care landscape through our partnership with Tenet,” Borgstrom said.

According to Dean of the Yale School of Medicine Robert Alpern, hospitals across Connecticut have been experiencing financial difficulties and many are looking to sell their businesses. During this time, YNHHS began discussions with Vanguard, which Tenet has since acquired, about Vanguard providing the capital and YNHHS providing its medical services and doctors, Alpern said.

But the partnership is not without its critics. According to Alpern, state legislators wary of for-profit health-care systems in the state and health care union members have voiced opposition to the deal.

The issue is further complicated by Connecticut’s ban on for-profit hospitals employing physicians. According to Alpern, if Tenet is unable to hire its own doctors, it is unlikely that they will pursue the partnership and acquire the hospitals.

The issue also extends beyond the legal realm. If Tenet does not feel that Connecticut is a welcoming economic and political environment, Tenet may choose not to acquire the hospitals, Alpern added.

Pilgrim said that, if the Connecticut Legislature proposes legislation that is particularly onerous, then they would have to forego this operation entirely.

The legislature adjourns May 7, and Tenet might know what type of legislation is proposed.

“The ability of these hospitals to survive, short of these solutions, is in serious question,” Pilgrim said. “We’re talking about sustainability and survivability of hospitals in these communities. These communities’ ability to continue to access high quality and comprehensive care could be in serious jeopardy outside a transaction like this.”

Tenet has helped provide regional scale to networks of hospitals in areas including Massachusetts, Detroit, San Antonio and South Florida.

Contact J.R REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .

r e c y c l e y o u r y d n d a i l y

MICHAEL MARSLAND

The Urban Resources Initiative received a $30,000 grant from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

BY TASNIM ELBOUTE STAFF REPORTER A recent grant from Connecticut should make New Haven a little greener.

The Urban Resources Initiative (URI), a non-profit partner of the Yale School for Forestry and Environmental Studies, received a $30,000 award earlier this month from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) to create bilingual environmental education tools and to improve community outreach for its urban forestry programs. The grant will help URI engage more people with in the natural landscapes around them, said URI Director Colleen Murphy-Dunning.

“We have 1,000 volunteers, but there are almost 130,000 people in New Haven, [so] there 129,000 people who we are not reaching,” MurphyDunning said. “How do we get people to care about nature?

How do we get them to see that

it’s relevant to their everyday life? That’s why need to develop these tools.”

The DEEP selected URI for the grant because URI’s initiatives align with Connecticut’s forestry goals, which include maintaining healthy green spaces and practicing sustainable forestry, said Chris Martin, the Director of Forestry at DEEP. Martin said the state makes a particular effort to connect with programs in New Haven.

Murphy-Dunning said the grant will bolster participation in Green Spaces, one of URI’s flagship programs. In Green Spaces, community volunteer groups approach URI with a project proposal, ranging from street tree planting and park improvement projects to recovering vacant lots. URI provides the technical and material resources for these projects and an intern to supervise the project. The grant will attempt to increase the visibility of the Green

Spaces program, and MurphyDunning said URI is exploring using a range of platforms including social media or more tradition methods.

In addition to increasing the visibility of Green Spaces, the grant will allow URI to create additional Spanish language resources. Since New Haven has a significant Spanish-speaking population, creating such resources is integral to URI’s outreach efforts, Murphy-Dunning said. Previously, URI created a printed guide of the street tree species in New Haven, which is essential to tree planting projects. To reach more residents, URI translated the book into Spanish, which allowed more people to participate in community projects, MurphyDunning said.

“If you put 20 logos in front of kids, they would recognize the golden arches and the Nike swoop,” Murphy-Dunning said. “But would they recognize a red maple leaf?

Would they recognize oak?

Do we have a vocabulary for the nature that surrounds us?

Finding engaging ways for people to care about the landscapes that they’re part of, to realize they’re part of the ecosystem — that’s the big goal.”

URI’s programs help New Haven residents develop a sense of ownership of their natural landscapes, said URI intern Bailey Johansen FES ’14. For example, the URI Green Jobs program employs high school students to plant trees around the city. In greening their community spaces, students gain an appreciation for a range of environmental issues, Johansen said.

The new commissioner of DEEP Robert Klee FES ’99 LAW ’04 GRD ’05, visited F&ES with New Haven Mayor Toni Harp to present the award to Murphy-Dunning and Dean Peter Crane.

Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu .

Antiviolence discussion continues

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER In the midst of ongoing street and gun violence in New Haven, Conn. Senator Chris Murphy held a second roundtable meeting last week that convened leaders from all corners of the city.

In attendance were public officials like New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman and Public Schools Chief of Wraparound Services Susan Weisselberg. City activists, who made up most of the group that met with Murphy in February over a similar topic, were also present, along with Yale professors and family members of the victims of gang violence. This wide range of perspectives contributed to the roundtable discussion’s success in attracting federal support for programs they believe will help make the Elm City’s streets safer, according to New Haven Family Alliance Executive Director Barbara Tinney.

“There are some things that just can’t be done without proper allocation of fiscal resources,” Tinney said. “We absolutely need those diverse voices, like the families that have been impacted by this horrific problem in our cities, if we’re going to have a viable, comprehensive response.”

Tinney, who is a lifelong resident of New Haven, said she is encouraged by the fact that such meetings with highranking political leaders have begun to take place more reg-

ularly than they did in the past and that so many individuals and organizations have become engaged in the discussion.

Still, she said she sees room for improvement in how the issue of violence in urban areas is being approached.

“Violence is a consequence of certain factors,” Tinney said. “It just doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s also not an African-American problem — it’s a problem that is manifested in the African-American community due to certain conditions.”

There is a vicious cycle… if [children] don’t get appropriate help, they don’t recover.

STEVEN MARANS Professor, Child Study Center Tinney added that public funds can be redirected to programs to engage at-risk youth, but also focused on the value of identifying risk factors in children who grow up in dangerous environments, citing evidence provided by clinicians and researchers like Steven Marans, a professor at the Child Study Center.

Marans, who leads the Child Study Center’s Childhood Violent Trauma Clinic — which seeks to provide early intervention and long-term treatments

to youth who have experienced potentially damaging episodes of trauma — said trauma experienced during childhood can have long-term effects that may lead to violence.

“There is a vicious cycle of children who grow up in situations in which exposure to violence leads to trauma from which many kids, if they don’t get the appropriate help, don’t recover,” Marans said.

Still, Marans said he thinks that programs like this can help mitigate violence if given proper attention.

Marans emphasized that the attempts to peg violence to one root cause are misguided.

He added that trauma often arises from problems like inhome abuse and neglect or the difficulties of growing up in a dangerous neighborhood, where some youth join gangs for a sense of power and pride that is otherwise hard to achieve.

“We’ve learned an enormous amount about programs that can be made available to kids who are at-risk,” Marans said. “There are tremendous achievements made in terms of trauma interventions and trauma-informed diversion programs for youthful offenders.”

Tinney said the leaders involved in this movement plan to take their suggestions to City Hall and seek Mayor Toni Harp’s support.

Harp has long voiced her support for Esserman’s approach to public safety,

and the police chief said that efforts to revitalize youth programs in the community should be complemented by a local focus on family engagement and mental health.

“The one piece you should think of when you are on the large level thinking about support [is to] try to bring it back to the neighborhood level,” Esserman said during the roundtable discussion.

Another such conversation took place on Feb. 7, featuring Sen. Richard Blumenthal, along with Murphy. That discussion led to the creation of an Anti-Violence Coalition, led by activists including Rev. William Mathis, the director of Project Longevity, a coalition of community leaders working to prevent violence before it breaks out.

Mathis said that, though discussion with politicians was a positive first step, the success of the movement depends on local leaders’ continuing initiative.

“Just as we challenged our politicians, the challenge was also internal for us,” Mathis said. “We believe this is as important, if not more important, that not only [should] those who serve be doing something, but that we ourselves should also be acting.”

The New Haven Family Alliance has maintained a partnership with the Child Study Center for 10 years.

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

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FROM THE FRONT Admit rate at new low ADMISSIONS FROM PAGE 1 announced yesterday that it accepted 9.9 percent of its 35,868 applicants, a sharp decline from last year’s figure of 12.1 percent. Brown, Cornell and Dartmouth have yet to release their numbers.

“Although these fluctuations make for interesting score-keeping, they are mathematically negligible,” said Robert Morse, director of data and research at U.S. News and World Report College Rankings.

He added that although acceptance rates are factored in his organization’s well-known college rankings, Yale’s accepting 1 percent more students one year compared to another would not impact the University’s ranking.

Mark Dunn ’07, the admission office’s director of outreach and recruitment, said the office uses a number of outreach tools to recruit students from all backgrounds.

Beyond social media, which has become an increasingly popular medium of communication, Dunn said the University mailed pamphlets and other information to target highachieving students from low-income backgrounds. He added that the latest research in education policy indicates that direct mail is the most effective way of reaching such students.

For the first time, in June 2013, Yale used tailored mailing to a select group of 16,000 rising high school seniors who are members of lowincome families. The mailing emphasized that households with less than $65,000 in annual income are not asked to make any parental contributions to their child’s Yale education. According to Dunn, the mailing campaign was supplemented by an email campaign and a new page on the admissions office’s website highlighting the affordability of a Yale education.

Dunn said it is too early for the office to measure the success of the new mailing initiative, adding that the office will conduct a thorough analysis of the feedback submitted by applicants, admits and eventual matriculates in the summer.

Amin Abdul-Malik Gonzalez, an associate director of the admissions office and co-director of multicultural recruitment, said the University’s success in reaching students from underrepresented backgrounds is attributable to the combined efforts of admissions staff, dedicated alumni and current Yale undergraduates.

He also cited the University’s ongoing partnerships with College Horizons and QuestBridge — two organizations that support the educational ambitions of high-achieving students from low-income backgrounds — as examples of ways in which Yale

“A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.” HERMAN MELVILLE AMERICAN AUTHOR

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Yale accepted 1,935 of 30,932 student applicants for the class of 2018, putting the college’s acceptance rate around 6 percent for the past three years. is encouraging a more diverse applicant pool.

Although these fluctuations make for interesting score-keeping, they are mathematically negligible.

ROBERT MORSE Director of data and research, U.S. News and World Report College Rankings Richard Avitabile, a former admissions officer at New York University and a private college counselor, said universities’ acceptance rates are only useful in evaluating the merits of institutions when used selectively and with a long-term approach. Still, he added that he would be interested in seeing Dartmouth’s numbers because the college has seen two consecutive years of fewer applicants — an exception to the broader trend of rising application numbers across selective institutions.

Jim Patterson, associate dean of Harvard-Westlake, a private school in Los Angeles, said his students are increasingly realizing the flaws of choosing a school based on its acceptance rate or place on a college rankings list.

“Students are becoming savvier and they’re realizing that what is a good fit for one student may not be a great fit for another,” Patterson said.

Jon Reider, director of college counseling at San Francisco University High School, said these acceptance rates will continue to decline as more students realize the financial accessibility of these colleges and apply.

Patterson echoed Reider’s sentiment, adding that more international students will look to American colleges as budget cuts hurt public universities abroad, especially in Europe.

Accepted students took to social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to share the news, posting updates rejoicing or lamenting their admissions outcomes. The popular college forum College Confidential experienced technical failures as enthusiastic students from across the globe logged on to share results and discuss the news.

“I was at home on the computer with my dad and we both jumped up when we saw the Bulldog with the congratulations,” said Thomas Pan, a high school senior from Livingston, New Jersey. Pan added that he never considered being accepted to Yale as a possibility.

Sam Cheng, a high school senior from Connecticut, said he was so excited when he read his acceptance letter that he threw the pen he was holding against the wall. Still, Cheng said he is currently deciding between Princeton and Yale.

Students have until May 1 to respond to their admissions offers.

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .

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who assumed office Jan. 1, but instead accused former Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and former NHPS Superintendent Reginald Mayo of concealing the extra contribution during their simultaneous 20-year tenures at the helm of the city and the school district.

“When I discovered this, I called [Board of Alders President] Jorge Perez, and he said ‘Ah well many, many years ago, Reggie Mayo and DeStefano decided to put that health care money into the non-education side of the budget,” Stratton said. By “hiding” that money, Stratton added, the school district could “pretend it’s being underfunded” and demand additional money from the city under the minimum budget requirement that compels a certain amount of municipal education funding.

DeStefano declined to comment Thursday evening. Perez could not be reached for comment.

If the city were to withdraw those funds, Stratton said, the school district could trim its budget by consolidating schools and laying off administrators.

When asked about the allegation in a Thursday morning interview, Harp said the city is obligated to contribute money to education under the Education Cost Sharing formula that conditions state funding on the city’s contribution. She said she was “sure we do more than just medical care.”

“If it’s hidden, it’s well hidden,” Harp said. “I’m not aware that we’re hiding money in the Board of Education.”

City Controller Daryl Jones denied that the city has done anything unlawful. He said New Haven Corporation Counsel Victor Bolden will be responding to the letter.

Jones said the practice of the city paying for NHPS benefits is long-standing and not improper.

“Teachers are considered city employees, and by their contract we’re obligated to pay their health coverage,” Jones said. “It’s a contract the city entered with the teachers’ union, that we’re going to pay X, Y and Z of the health coverage. We intend to follow that.”

In fact, Jones said, Stratton was present when the Board of Alders approved that contract in January. The new contract, negotiated last fall by the Board of Education and the teachers’ union, is set to take effect in July.

Stratton said he abstained from that vote because he did not understand what authority the Board of Alders had to approve the contract.

David Cicarella, president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, could not

be reached for comment.

Jones said the Board of Education is a “department of the city.” He said the fact that the school district cannot borrow money on its own proves it’s “not separate from the city.” Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison, a member of the Board’s finance committee, agreed. She called the city and the school district “one and the same.”

Stratton said otherwise — and cited state law as evidence.

“Local boards of education are not agents of the towns but creatures of the state,” according to Connecticut statute. Stratton said the city has no right to negotiate with employees of the school district, citing the 1976 Teacher Negotiation Act, which provides teachers the right to negotiate with “any employing board of education or administrative agents or representative thereof.”

If it’s hidden, it’s well hidden.

I’m not aware that we’re hiding money in the Board of Education.

TONI HARP Mayor, New Haven According to the teachers’ contract that expires June 30, “The Board [of Education] shall cover all employees hired before the signing of this agreement … under one of three medical programs.”

Carlos Torre, president of the Board of Education, said that he does not know whether the city funds medical benefits for Board of Education employees.

Will Clark, chief operating officer for the Board of Education, did not respond to multiple requests for comment on Thursday. Bolden, the city’s top lawyer, did not return an emailed request for comment Thursday. A call to the corporation counsel’s office was not answered.

NHPS Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 released a statement that did not address the city’s monetary contribution to the school district — or Stratton’s letter — but instead touted the district’s “long, positive, collaborative relationship with the city and Board of Alders.”

The Board of Education voted last month to approve a $397 million budget proposal for the 2014-’15 fiscal year.

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu and ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

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“Autumn is second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ALBERT CAMUS FRENCH WRITER

State grapples with Common Core

Downtown Development Sparks Debate

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER

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A 25-person governor-appointed group will address concerns about the transition to Common Core education standards.

BY POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER A governor-appointed group of Connecticut teachers, administrators and parents met for the first time on Tuesday to discuss challenges in rolling out Common Core education standards.

Governor Dannel Malloy created the 25-member task force earlier this month, in response to teachers’ and parents’ concerns that districts are unprepared to transition to Common Core — a set of academic standards in math, language arts and English the state adopted in 2010. Malloy requested that the task force consider ways to translate the Common Core standards into curriculum and to identify the best teaching practices from districts across the state.

Through six biweekly meetings from now until June, the task force will develop a series of recommendations to submit to Malloy by June 30.

At Tuesday’s meeting held in the State Department of Education offices, the panel discussed how they would go about developing the recommendations.

“I was very excited by the attitude of the members at our first meeting,” said co-chair Nathan Quesnel, who is the superintendent of East Hartford Schools. “They all come with a range of different experiences, but everyone seems very solutionfocused, and they were all there to

get the job done.”

The task force meeting comes at the height of statewide and nationwide debate about whether adopting Common Core is a good idea.

Earlier this month, a CT legislative hearing about placing a moratorium on Common Core attracted over 300 parents and teachers, many of whom testified against adopting the standards. Earlier this week, Indiana became the first state to drop the standards altogether, with the governor saying that the state would be better served through standards developed at a local level.

Despite this controversy, Quesnel said the job of Malloy’s task force is not to debate the efficacy of Common Core. The group is instead charged with identifying the challenges and successes of the rollout and creating recommendations for ways the state department can make the transition easier for school districts.

During the first meeting, the panel broke into small groups and created timelines charting the steps their individual schools have taken since 2010 to implement Common Core.

Committee member Barbara Johnson, who serves as a librarian and elementary school teacher in Colchester, said she has found that each district’s timeline looked very different. Whereas Johnson began receiving training for Common Core back in 2010, other teachers said that

their training only started recently.

“I’ve been lucky in my district in that we have been preparing for quite a long time,” Johnson said. “But I know that some other districts have not been able to provide their districts with as many resources.”

Johnson added that during the 2011-2012 school year, her district focused on analyzing the curriculum already in place to determine how it could be tweaked to align with Common Core.

Elizabeth Brown, a member of the Waterbury Board of Education, similarly said that her district is prepared for the rollout because it has invested in resources to help teachers with professional development.

“We are in pretty good shape here,” Brown said. “I’ve talked to teachers, and I haven’t heard anything negative about Common Core.

They just want to make sure that they have the resources they need and enough time to develop the curriculum.”

In creating the task force, Malloy considered self-nominations as well as recommendations from educational organizations, including the American Federation of Teachers and the CT Association of Public School Superintendents.

The task force’s next meeting is on April 9.

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

After three hours of heated public debate over the development of the Route 34 West Project, the Community Development Committee of the Board of Alders delayed a vote on the decision until a future date.

Over 50 residents of the greater New Haven area attended a Wednesday evening CDC hearing about a new mixed-use development project in the New Haven Route 34 corridor, which is intended to reconnect the city’s downtown and Hill neighborhoods. The 30,000 square foot proposed development is a partnership between Continuum of Care — a nonprofit organization that provides support for those with psychiatric and developmental disabilities — and Centerplan Development, a Connecticut real estate and contracting company.

The project has recently sparked controversy, as some residents believe it will help revitalize the city, while others have argued that the construction will further divide the city, contrary to its aims.

“This is the signature effort to revitalize Route 34, which has become a priority in the city for many years,” Deputy Director of Economic Development Administrator Michael Piscitelli told the assembled crowd.

Vice President of Centerplan Companies Yves-George Joseph said that his team has been working on the 5.39 acre project with Continuum for nearly two years. The land, which currently serves as a parking lot, sits across the street from Career High School.

Joseph said the project will first construct a 30,000 square foot headquarters for Continuum before beginning on the two later phases of construction, which will include retail space, an office medical building, and potentially an 850-spot parking garage.

Patti Walker, the CEO for Continuum, said that the new office is necessary to consolidate its four existing offices — which serve over 1,500 clients — and expand its care according to rising need.

“We are in crunch time,” Walker said. “We need this new office desperately.”

Given approval by the CDC, the anticipated date of breaking ground will be late summer or early fall of 2014, and the grand opening would take place in 2015 or 2016, Joseph said.

However, the likelihood of an affirmative endorsement by the Board of Alders remains uncertain given the deep division surrounding the project.

Ward 6 Alder Dolores Colon said she was concerned that, due to Con-

tinuum’s status as a nonprofit organization, the project would not provide sufficient tax revenue to the Elm City.

Attorney for Centerplan Rolan Smith said the contract includes a provision that would prohibit Centerplan from leasing to an additional nonprofit. Since Continuum only occupies 10 percent of the project, the remaining 90 percent would remain taxable, she added.

Colon also expressed concern that the construction workforce was not sufficiently representative of New Haven’s population.

“The construction comes in, [my constituents] see people who don’t look like them … then they get their check and go back to the suburbs,” Colon said.

Centerplan Companies Robert Landino said that the construction jobs will match the workforce hiring goals of 25 percent New Haven residents, 25 percent minority and 6.9 percent women.

Ohan Karagozian, the vice chair of Hill North Community Management, voiced opposition to the project saying that the space would be better used as a residential space and expressed concern over the pollution from the car garage.

“We cannot allow our city to be prostituted at the altar of development,” Karagozian said.

However, Centerplan contracted an environmental assessment firm, which concluded that even during peak hours, the impact of the garage would have negligible environmental impact.

President of the West River Neighborhood Services Corporation Stacy Spell cautioned the Board of Alders against delaying the project beyond the 20 years the site has already remained unused.

“This is a springboard for development,” Spell said. “If we put a stick in the stokes of this wheel, how many more administrations will it be before we get a project?”

Angel Hill, a New Haven Continuum patient, said he believes the project would help keep people off the streets and help the organization reach more people.

Michael Harris ’15, Mayor Harp’s liaison to the Board of Alders, defended the project’s continued integration of community interests and said there has been an improvement in support from the crowd.

“There have been a lot of good questions tonight,” Ward 2 Alderman Frank Douglass said. “The committee needs some time to digest it all.”

The CDC voted to adjourn and planned to call another meeting in “short order.”

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

Alumni host spring break externships

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER While many students spent their spring vacations traveling with student groups or relaxing at home, 31 Yalies took part in the Asian American Cultural Center’s Externship Program.

These week-long unpaid internships, now in their eighth year, aim to introduce students to career fields they might be interested in pursuing but may not be exposed to otherwise. This year, over 100 students applied to shadow 21 alumni in various professional fields — from food sustainability to biotech to contemporary writing — and develop a taste for life inside the workplace.

When the externship program

began in 2006, it was limited to the New York City area. This year, externships were offered during the first week of break in 14 cities across the country, and organizers interviewed said they hope the program continues to grow depending on alumni interest and availability.

“We wanted a program that would expose Asian American students to various career fields and create opportunities for mentorship,” said Dean Saveena Dhall, director of the Asian American Cultural Center. “It has grown at a good pace and our annual feedback supports that both externs and alumni sponsors enjoy the experience.”

Susie Lee ’94, one of the alumni sponsors, said the pro-

gram gives Yale graduates the opportunity to expose current Yale students to their own interests and passions.

Lee, who studied the sciences as an undergraduate, said she “veered sharply” from the traditional path and entered a graduate program in clay work. She later founded Siren, a social media mobile app set to launch this May that aims to empower women in the dating world. Siren users establish profiles that go beyond surface appearances and address their true personality types, she said.

Lee said she decided to become an alumni sponsor this year out of curiosity: she wanted to see what kind of students are coming out of Yale today.

“Yale is doing just fine,” she said, adding that she had a very positive experience hosting her extern, Dana Chaykovsky ’17.

Chaykovsky she said she spent her time as an extern at Siren in daily meetings with the app’s developers to mend glitches, or “bugs,” in the software. She also attended sessions with the product’s designers, assisted with accounting and met with local figures to advance the app’s renown.

Chaykovsky, who is interested in the “human side of engineering,” said she was attracted to doing an externship at Lee’s company because the job had both technical and psychological aspects: coding and structuring an app while learning about what

people find attractive in a potential partner.

“Ever since I got to Yale, I’ve heard of this idea called ‘startup,’” Chaykovsky said. “We get very involved in our extracurriculars and clubs and we forget that we need that real-world experience.

We only have four summers and a couple breaks, so you need to make the most of it.”

Tom Bu ’17 spent his externship at a public hospital in Queens, shadowing alumna Liana Leung ’97. Leung, a doctor in internal medicine, brought Bu along to visit patients and manage doctors completing their residency.

Bu, who had some hesitations about pursuing a pre-med track before the externship, said he valued the opportunity to see how

physicians can save lives.

“Without the doctors, they’d be lost,” Bu said of the patients he met. “I realized the hospital is the center of the community. [The patients] want to have a happy life and be with their families, and the doctors are supporting that.”

Bu recalled one day during his externship when a Sri Lankan immigrant came into the hospital with an eye disease caused by diabetes. Bu said that though the disease is typically only found in developing countries, he recognized it from a research project he had done.

The Asian American Cultural Center was founded in 1981.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

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Survive and advance The men’s basketball team lived to play another day after defeating Columbia 72–69 on the road Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the Collegeinsider.com Invitational Tournament. Yale will now travel to play the Virginia Military Institute in the semifinals on Tuesday, April 1. Yale has won all three of its tournament games so far this season by five points or less.

Bulldogs to host Penn M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 10 Ancient Eight opponents.

The Elis opened their Ivy season against the same two squads and managed to best Princeton when midfielder Mark Glicini ’16 scored with 38 seconds left to play, giving Yale the 16–15 victory.

While Penn fell to Cornell by eight last weekend, Yale was able to keep its deficit to two as the Big Red took the game 11–9 in the Elis’ Ivy opener. But regardless of what the teams’ records show, the matchup against Penn figures to be a tough one for the Bulldogs.

“It is pretty unusual for Penn to give up double digits,” attackman Brandon Mangan ‘14 said. “Penn always has a great defense and we’re looking forward to the challenge.”

The Bulldogs faced the Quakers twice last season, once in the regular season and again in the playoffs en route to their 2013 Ivy Championship victory. Yale scored fewer than double

digits in both contests.

The low-scoring nature of those games can be largely attributed to Quaker goalie Brian Feeney, who led the Ivy League with a 58.9 save percentage last season and is back again this year. Penn also led the league in defense overall, as its 7.33 goals against average was just ahead of Yale’s 7.88.

Recently, however, Penn’s defense has allowed double-digit goals to its last four opponents, including 17 goals allowed in its loss to Cornell.

Yale and Penn are both six games into their seasons, and Penn has allowed five more goals than Yale thus far.

O f f e n s i v e l y, Penn returned its first, second and fourth leading scorers from last season. Freshman attackman Kevin Brown has also added to the offense with nine goals in the team’s first six games.

The Quakers have averaged 10.8 goals so far this season, exactly the same tally

that Yale boasts at this point.

Attackmen Conrad Oberbeck ’15 and Brandon Mangan ’14 have contributed 40 percent of that scoring, with 15 and 11 goals, respectively.

Their 21 points apiece also lead the team through Yale’s first six games.

“They are clearly our top scorers and producers,” attacker/midfielder Michael Bonacci ’16 said. “When they have a good game our offense plays great.”

This game may be one of Yale’s last chances to play in front a large crowd at Reese Stadium this season. The Bulldogs do not play at home again until a Tuesday game against Quinnipiac in four weeks, and their final home game against Harvard coincides with the date of Spring Fling.

Tomorrow’s game begins at 1 p.m.

Frederick Frank contributed reporting.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

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The men’s lacrosse team will put its 4–2 record on the line against the Quakers tomorrow.

Duren ’15 and the Elis head to CIT semis Q & A FROM PAGE 10 you during the game, especially in the second half when you scored 26 of your 33 points?

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I got a little bit confident right at the beginning of the second half after the first couple of shots that went in. After that, I just kept going with it and made some good decisions. We all made some good decisions.

also led the team in QYou rebounds, with a total of 9.

Would you say sharp defensive play or offensive play was more crucial during the game?

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I definitely made more of an offensive contribution for this game. For this game, it was about scoring. For others, it’s been about my assists or rebounds. I enjoy helping the team in any way I can and playing together as a team to

do what needs to be done. are the Eli men refocusQHow ing to face VMI, a team they

have not faced yet this season, in the CIT semifinal next week?

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I think it’s about going back to the basics and playing with each other. Sharing the ball and really being a community are the key things that will set us above the other team. Those

things have set us apart in our wins this year. We’ve seen how good we can be, and we really can be tough to beat.

for Yale University, and we have to cherish that and work hard while we can. I would tell them to expect not to have a spring break, and make it a priority to play hard during the postseasons. We have a great team.

a rising senior, what do QAs expect for the younger players

on the team in the coming seasons?

are your goals for the QWhat remainder of the postseason?

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My advice to them would be to take pride in winning as a team. The biggest thing is that we all only get four years to play

nitely goal number one. It’s been a long season, especially with the Ivy League games. We didn’t get to finish the Ivy games the way we wanted to with the two losses against Harvard and Dartmouth. So, we’d like to finish these last two games right and win. That would be awesome.

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Definitely to win the CIT championship. That’s defi-

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

W. tennis heads to W&M TENNIS FROM PAGE 10 having put together a twogame winning streak. The team will be looking to upset a favored No. 30 Rice squad this weekend in Williamsburg as Yale, currently ranked at No. 52 nationally, will look to prove itself capable of taking down a Top-30 squad. By contrast, the Bulldogs are favored against a William & Mary team that sits outside of the Top 75 and owns a 3–11 record. Yale has a history with the tribe, as the Elis recorded their first NCAA tournament win against William & Mary in 2011, and will be looking to repeat its past success.

“I’m just really excited for the opportunity for the team to play two more strong teams before the Ivy season starts up,” said Amber Li ’15. “It’ll be a good warm up for us there, and I feel like a good way to wrap up our pre-conference season.”

Yale women’s tennis is coming off of a 7–0 victory against St. John’s, while the men’s squad defeated No. 51 Central Florida 4–3 in its last match.

Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

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The women’s tennis team has won its past two contests heading into this weekend.

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, MARCH 28 1:00 p.m. Bernstein International Human Rights Symposium: Violence Panel.” The great nonviolent movements have been led by charismatic leaders, such as Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. In the absence of such leadership, is a politics in the street likely to be a first step toward violent confrontation with the existing regime? When violence does occur, is the consequence likely to be a splintering of the movement into fragments? Sterling Law Building (127 Wall St.), Rm. 129.

4:30 p.m. Physics Club: “The Birth, Care, and Feeding of Cat States in Circuit QED: Quantum Jumps of Photon Parity.” Dr. Robert Schoelkopf, the Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, will discuss the progress made in the last decade and a half on quantum information systems. Tea will be served at 4 p.m. in the Sloane Physics Laboratory Third Floor Lounge. Sloane Physics Laboratory (217 Prospect St.), Rm. 57.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 29 11:00 a.m. “Birds of Prey.” Birds of prey, or raptors (from the Latin “to seize”), are hunting birds with hooked beaks and powerful grabbing feet armed with sharp talons. This presentation, with five live birds, will explain raptor predation, their place at the top of the food web, their different hunting adaptations and their status in a rapidly changing world. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.).

2:00 p.m. Film Screening: “August.” At the turn of the century in North Wales, a peaceful country household is turned upside down by the arrival of a London couple. This 1996 film is based on the play “Uncle Vanya” by Anton Chekhov. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.).

SUNDAY, MARCH 30 3:30 p.m. Yale Figure Skating Club End of Year Celebration.

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“Coming off a very successful spring break trip … the team is definitely on a roll.”

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Duren ’15 talks season, CIT

BY ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Men’s basketball team guard Javier Duren ’15 led the Bulldogs to a victory against the Columbia Lions on Tuesday night with a career-high in scoring, notching 33 of Yale’s 72 points. With the win, the Eli men (9–5, 5–2 Ivy) now look to win two more critical games and close their season with the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) championship title. The News sat down with Duren to discuss the Bulldogs’ postseason, the guard’s game against the Lions and the team’s upcoming game against VMI. has been the Bulldogs’ best postseason QThis run in years. When did the team know that this year was going to be a special one?

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It started right in the beginning of the season, and we have had high hopes and high expectations for the team ever since.

We didn’t really play as well as we wanted to within the Ivy League, but the CIT has given us a chance at redemption.

did the team do differently against QWhat Columbia on Tuesday night following the loss to the Lions earlier this season?

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The No. 11 Yale men’s lacrosse team will host No. 18 Penn at Reese Stadium at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Following a last-minute win over No. 14 Princeton last weekend, the No. 11 Yale men’s lacrosse team will look to build on its momentum when it hosts No. 16 Penn tomorrow after-

noon.

A win for the Bulldogs (4–2, 1–1 Ivy) would be key not only because of the short length of the Ivy season, but also because the team’s 7–6 overtime win over Penn (3–3, 0–2) last season was the reason that Yale finished second, and not fourth, in

the Ivy League standings.

“This weekend is an extremely important game for us,” defenseman Michael Quinn ‘16 said. “We haven’t been in a position to have two wins in the Ivy League in the beginning half of the season in a long time. Penn is 0-2 in the league, in the same posi-

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Well, we got back to sharing the ball and getting some more movement on the court. There were not many defensive breakdowns, and we were playing together as a team, with the entire offense moving instead of specific guys shooting. After halftime, we got back to playing together as a team–how we regularly play.

tion we were in last year, and will be coming in desperate and hungry.”

Though the Quakers have dropped both of their conference games so far this season, the losses were to Princeton and No. 2 Cornell, both top-tier

scored a career-high of 33 points QYou against the Lions. What was working for

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Tennis gears up for weekend clash

BY MARC CUGNON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams are riding winning streaks into what promises to be an exciting weekend of competition for the two squads. The men will host home contests against St. John’s, Bryant and Fordham, while the women head down to Williamsburg, Va. to take on Rice and the College of William & Mary.

TENNIS Yale’s men’s tennis team currently boasts a three-game winning streak and has won eight of its last nine contests to compile a 9–3 record. Against the men’s first opponent this weekend, St. John’s, the Elis will be hoping for a repeat performance of last year’s showdown with the Red Storm, which ended in a 5–2 Bulldog victory.

“Coming off a very successful spring break trip … the team is definitely on a roll,” Kyle Dawson ’14 said. “Saturday against St. Johns will no doubt be a tough task, but if we play and compete well, there is no reason why we should not add to the win column.”

As the Elis have not competed against either Fordham or Bryant in recent years, these matchups will present the team with some unfamiliar competition. Given Fordham’s 1–3

record on the road this season, the Bulldogs, as owners of a 6–1 home record, are the prohibitive favorite on paper against the Rams this weekend. Bryant currently holds a 10–9 overall record, but those Bulldogs are just 2–5 away from home, giving Yale at least a territorial advantage in light of its near-perfect home record. Either way, this weekend’s matches will be the team’s final competition before the Ivy season gets under way, and members of the squad said that they will be looking to make an impact.

If we play and compete well, there is no reason why we should not add to the win column.

KYLE DAWSON ’14 Men’s tennis team “Having a successful weekend would definitely help boost our confidence going into the most important part of our season,” Daniel Faierman ’15 said.

The women also have an impressive record against tough competition, as they sit above 0.500 with a 7–6 record. The Elis are in good form as of late, SEE TENNIS PAGE 8

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The men’s tennis team has won eight of its last nine matches as a team.

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POINTS SCORED BY GUARD JAVIER DUREN ’15 IN THE SECOND HALF AGAINST COLUMBIA YESTERDAY. Duren finished the game with a career-high 33 points as he led Yale to the C.I.T. semifinals. Duren’s previous career high was 26 points against Albany Dec. 20, 2013.