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CROSS CAMPUS Presidential paintings.

Former President George W. Bush ’68 has recently gained fame for his paintings, particularly of fellow world leaders. According to The New York Times, the 43rd president picked up painting after reading an essay recommended to him by Yale history professor John Gaddis.

The essay was “Painting as a Pastime” by Winston Churchill.

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Inspiring under the radar

Women’s Center is celebrating Equal Pay Day today. Women currently earn 23 percent less in the workplace than their male counterparts, so participating businesses are offering women a 23 percent discount. Participating businesses include FroyoWorld, Katalina’s Cupcakes and Ashley’s Ice Cream. Insomnia Cookies will also be selling six cookies for $7.50 for female students.

A Cappella April. April

seems to the month for a cappella. This past weekend saw celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the Spizzwinks(?) as well as the 25th anniversary of Shades.

This upcoming weekend is the 75th anniversary reunion for the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus. But then again, there are so many a cappella groups on campus it’s surprising there’s not an anniversary every weekend of the year.

Sex map. The Brown Daily

Herald recently published a guide on where to live on campus according to sexual preferences. For example, students who are fans of “exhibitionism” were encouraged to live in Wriston Quad, which sees a lot of foot traffic. Those interested in elevator sex were pointed towards “Minden, with eight floors-worth of sexy elevator time.” Several buildings were even recommended for shower sex.

Harvard all-stars. The Harvard Crimson recently published an online post featuring its “Class of 2017 Facebook group stars.” The piece included a Q&A with four students who had become notorious for their Facebook group posts. Two students said if they could do it again, they would still choose to be Facebook group celebrities.

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Student wages see change WAGE SUBSIDY LIMITED TO STUDENTS ON FINANCIAL AID

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER

Friendly wager. Gov. Dannel Malloy took on a “friendly” wager with Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear on the outcome of Monday night’s NCAA championship game according to a press release from the governor’s office. The game pitted the UConn Huskies and Kentucky Wildcats. Malloy wagered Connecticut wine, beer, and chocolate for a Huskies victory while Beshear bet a “fully-stocked Kentucky bourbon bar” on the Wildcats.

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The program received nearly 4,000 applications this year, a significant increase from about 2,500 applications the year before, he added.

This year’s cohort, which was officially announced yesterday, will include the program’s first Fellows from Spain, Equatorial Guinea and

Beginning in September, Yale will reduce its wage subsidy for student jobs.

Under the University’s current wage subsidy program, the Provost’s Office funds 50 percent of the wages for most student jobs on campus, while units and departments fund the other 50 percent.

But this policy will change at the beginning of the 2014-’15 academic year, when the subsidy program will only apply to full-time Yale College students who qualify for need-based financial aid and are earning $15 per hour or less, according to an email from an assistant in the Provost’s Office obtained by the News. While Provost Benjamin Polak said the University is changing the policy to focus its resources toward students on financial aid, department chairs interviewed said they believe the funding reductions are motivated by the University’s efforts to close its budget deficit.

“From 2014-’15 onward, therefore, we will restrict the wage subsidy to Yale College students with demonstrated financial need working in student jobs that pay $15 per hour or less,” Provost Benjamin Polak said in an email. “In short, we are focusing all the resources available for the studentwage subsidy to be for Yale College students with demonstrated financial need in standard student jobs.”

Polak said the University’s wage subsidy program was originally conceived to encourage departments to create jobs

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he World Fellows program is receiving more and more applications every year. But despite publicity efforts, it continues to be little known by the very students fellows seek to engage with. VIVIAN WANG reports.

What do an award-winning Indian actress, an Italian robotics engineer and a former Colombian cabinet minister have in common?

Not much, except that all have been selected as 2014 Yale World Fellows, a group of 16 mid-career professionals who will spend four months on campus next fall as part of a program that will allow them

to return to an academic setting and think about the next phase of their lives.

The World Fellows program, which welcomes a new cohort to campus every year, is entering its 13th year, and interest in the program is only growing, said program director and School of Medicine professor Michael Cappello.

Former staff member sues Yale

Mental health coalition develops

CLAIMS WRONGFUL TERMINATION, DISCRIMINATION

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER A former Yale staff member has filed suit against the University, alleging that Yale turned a blind eye to workplace discrimination against an employee with disabilities.

Karen Curcio, who worked as an associate administrator in the Yale School of Nursing, claims she was fired because she refused to terminate the employment of another staff member on the basis of that staff member’s physical disability. Curcio’s complaint — which was filed in February but is still in the process of moving through Connecticut court — alleges that the University failed to adequately respond to complaints she raised on the matter. But the University firmly denied Curcio’s allegations and has mounted a defense in Connecticut court.

According to Curcio’s complaint, Nona D’Onofrio, the assistant dean for finance and administration at the School of Nursing, attempted to pressure Curcio into firing the employee with disabilities. After Curcio did not fire the employee, D’Onofrio in turn fired Curcio in July 2011, the complaint states.

D’Onofrio declined to comment on the suit Monday. “[Curcio’s] employment was swiftly terminated after she refused to participate in an illegal and unlawful employment practice,” the complaint read.

As part of the suit, Curcio is asking for the University to pay her for lost wages and employment benefits, damages for emoSEE LAWSUIT PAGE 6

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The Coalition for Mental Health and Wellbeing at Yale will host its first series of workshops and activities this weekend.

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER This week the Coalition for Mental Health and Wellbeing at Yale will debut its first campus-wide event designed to raise

awareness of mental health issues.

Inspired by the desire to implement changes proposed in the Yale College Council report on mental health released in fall 2013, 16 Dwight Hall member groups and other student organizations

formed a coalition. This group grew out of the YCC as a means to expand beyond a focus on policy changes, said Reuben Hendler ’14, co-founder of the coalition and a SEE MENTAL HEALTH PAGE 8

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A reason to believe N

early three years ago, I was introduced to the street artist known as Believe in People.

I had seen a few of Believe in People’s pieces around campus — the lost dog on Hillhouse, Geronimo on Skull and Bones — and was intrigued by the playful air of his works. Finally, in an April 2011 WEEKEND cover (“Meet Believe in People”), the graffiti artist granted a sit-down session with the News and talked a bit about what motivated him to make art.

When reading journal entries written by a deceased childhood friend, Believe in People discovered the recurring theme that humanity’s professed ideals were “all fake.” One line from his friend’s journal particularly resonated with him; it read: “I don’t believe in people.” The artist’s name and works serve as a response to that sentiment.

I generally support the notion of street art, so I was already inclined to support his work.

But after reading about the artist’s motives and vision, I started to view Believe in People (who tends to go by BiP these days) through an even more positive lens. Instead of tagging walls across Yale and New Haven merely to provoke authority, BiP seems to be challenging viewers to strive towards something better. From the inside of a Linsly-Chittenden classroom, where his graffiti depicted a student struggling with a career in finance, to the streets of New Haven itself, where he stenciled 23 uplifting phrases on curbsides, BiP’s work seems to match the mantra his name implies.

His most recent work continues this trend. On April Fools’ Day, the artist attached a fake wooden plaque to the Yale University Art Gallery that jokingly commemorated “the spot on which Sam Dilvan used a felt marker to scrawl the minimalist yet emotionally complex tag, ‘Boobz.’”

By all accounts, I expected the University to react negatively to such an act. There’s precedent: Understandably, virtually every one of BiP’s pieces produced on campus has been swiftly removed and condemned by Yale’s administration. I didn’t have much of a reason to think this time around would be any different, and at first, when YUAG officials quickly removed the artwork, I thought I was correct.

But instead of throwing the piece straight into the trash, the YUAG did something unexpected with the wooden plaque: two days later, they displayed BiP’s art in an exhibit of its own, installing it along with explanatory text in a case outside the gallery for the day. They also announced that they would hold onto the piece for two weeks for the artist to claim; if it went unclaimed, they would

donate it to a city community arts organization A R Ts p a c e for auction.

This move might not sound revNICK lutionDEFIESTA oary, but the Y U A G ’s City Limits actions represent a sharp pivot from Yale’s previous reactions to BiP’s work. In a statement about BiP two years ago to the New Haven Independent, University Properties director Abigail Rider said that aside from any possible artistic value, the University sees all graffiti as an act of vandalism that should be “remove[d] quickly and completely.”

Now, though, the YUAG has demonstrated support for street art by preserving and exhibiting BiP’s April Fools’ Day piece.

BiP thinks so too: In a statement released on Twitter, BiP acknowledged that last week was “the first time an Ivy League institution (never mind a museum) has shown support for illegal graffiti.” In other words, the YUAG more than rose to the challenge issued by BiP.

Your campus job is in danger T

he provost’s office is about to end student employment as we know it, and they really did not want you to find out about it.

As one of several budget cuts to university services for the 2014’15 academic year, the University has proposed cutbacks to the 50/50 split program that has come to define the student employment experience on campus.

As the system currently stands, the provost’s office covers half of a student worker’s wage, so that if an employer wishes to pay a student $14 per hour, that employer pays only $7 while the provost’s office covers the other $7. This setup helps employers deal with a bottom line, but it is particularly crucial for students — it allows employers to hire more student workers and pay them a significantly higher wage than would otherwise be possible.

With so many students dependent on campus employment to cover school expenses during the year, this funding mechanism has become a powerful force for college affordability at Yale.

Fortunately for the provost’s office, most students do not even realize they are participating in the program. But if you currently hold a job on campus, you are more than likely the beneficiary of the generous 50/50 split.

In order to help address Yale’s $39 million budget shortfall, all of that progress may soon come to an end. If the proposed cuts

THE YUAG'S RESPONSE TO STREET ART HELPS ME TO BELIEVE This is an admirable response by the YUAG, and one that deserves our praise. By refusing to take the easy, traditional path and merely destroy BiP’s work, the YUAG has found a way to lend support to street art while still making an effort to hew to the University’s policies regarding graffiti. This is an acceptable compromise that, as BiP put it, “prove[s] they truly believe in the ideas that nourish art.”

True, the YUAG still has a few final questions to answer, including whether it will honor BiP’s public request that the plaque not be auctioned, which the artist says would corrupt his work. We must also question how the gallery might have acted were the art less easily removable, such as one of BiP’s traditional graffiti pieces.

Even so, we cannot deny that the YUAG’s decision represents a step towards broader acceptance of street art — a small gesture that, just maybe, makes me believe in people a little bit more.

NICK DEFIESTA is a senior in Berkeley College and a former city editor for the News. His columns run on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him at nick.defiesta@yale.edu .

fossil fuel industries.” 'EMMASPENCE' ON 'DIVESTMENT PROTEST GAINS MOMENTUM'

go into effect next year, students will only qualify for the 50/50 split if they fulfill four qualifications: They must be full-time Yale TYLER underBLACKMON College graduates who are on finanBack to cial aid, earn no more than Blackmon $15 per hour and receive no wages from a sponsored award.

Though the last qualification has been standard in the current program, the rigid financial aid requirement and the artificial $15 per hour cap will scale back the number of students able to find employment next academic year and unnecessarily anchor most students to a lower wage.

Admittedly, at first the financial aid requirement might seem appropriate. After all, if indeed the University must make cuts to student wages, surely those who must contribute income to their financial aid packages should be prioritized. In fact, I have often argued we should require on-campus employers to give preference to financial aid recipients early in the semester so they may earn the required $2,300 expected from a term-time job.

Nevertheless, my advocacy for financial aid preference always

relied upon the assumption that students without a financial aid package could also compete for jobs after a month of preferential hiring. But under the proposed system, if you are not receiving financial aid, finding employment will prove nearly impossible. No employer would pay twice as much to hire or retain non-financial aid student workers.

And yet, the $15 cap seems even more ill-advised than the financial aid restrictions. Surely with so many economists on Yale’s payroll, administrators should see the cap’s obvious flaw: It artificially traps students with upward mobility at a low wage. Right now, an employer can pay a student a $15 wage with only $7.50, a $16 wage with only $8 and so on. But under the proposed system, a student with a wage of $15 costs an employer $7.50 while a student with a wage of $16 costs a full $16. Put simply, increasing the wage only $1 would cost an employer an additional $8.50.

Even if we accept the idea that we should balance the University budget on the backs of working students (a scary thought indeed), the mathematics behind this policy does not add up.

At the very least, the provost’s office should freeze their rebate at $7.50 for higher-wage workers instead of suddenly pulling support from students upon reaching $15.

Without that change, employers will not only stop giving students raises beyond $15 per hour, but they

may even bow to the temptation to reduce current student wages from higher wages down to $15 — a decision that would have a particularly profound impact on students from low-income families who have already budgeted meticulously for next year.

Of course, we need not settle for such a compromise in the first place, for doing so would be buying into the assumption that Yale’s troubling new trend of undermining college affordability is acceptable behavior for a University that still laughably claims to meet 100 percent of demonstrated financial need for incoming students.

These cuts to student wages are particularly humiliating in light of the Yale Corporation’s ongoing solicitations for big-ticket donations for the new residential colleges and for a whopping $17 million renovation to the President’s House on Hillhouse.

Maybe Yale administrators did not realize the impact they would have on students in undermining the 50/50 split. Maybe they did and simply thought we would willingly take yet another blow to our finances.

But when the first of the layoffs come down in August, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

TYLER BLACKMON is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College.

His columns run on alternate Tuesdays. Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu .

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Save Yale sciences L

ast spring I took a course where I looked at mouse testicular tissue at 20,000x magnification. It’s a little absurd now to think about how something that started as a gag joke ended up being one of the most influential experiences I’ve had as a science major.

Like many cookie-cutter MCDB majors, I initially didn’t have much interest in taking a class about microscopes; I was a devotee of the “Central Dogma,” blindly faithful to the images of cells in my textbook. Yet after spending hours alone with a transmission electron microscope, I learned more in “Lab in Electron Microscopy” than I did studying for my mandatory lecture courses. With giddy, nerdy triumph, I was figuring out, as if for the first time, what a cell actually looked like.

It was a tragedy to learn in the News last Monday that “Lab in EM” had been discontinued, voted off “Survivor”-style by the faculty of MCDB. Former students, the few of us that were lucky enough to get into the course, are writing letters to the provost and the director of undergraduate studies to attempt to reverse this decision.

We reject the necessity of cutting a worthy, underappreciated course from our curriculum.

“Lab in EM” is more than just a fancy way of looking at cells. It is one of the few courses where students carry out their own projects, produce original work and develop the potential to become true research scientists. From precision at the bench, to troubleshooting when something goes wrong, to the final presentation of one’s labor, “Lab in EM” is a comprehensive glimpse into the research world. It is a basic appreciation for something we all take for granted — to confirm what we have learned and what we deem to be true.

The MCDB department is cutting the course for the reason that often makes or breaks scientists: funding. “Lab in EM” admittedly costs more per student than a large lecture like “Intro to Psychology.”

I may be blissfully ignorant of the realities of budget deficits, yet there are other ways to cut funds.

We can start with the elusive West Campus. On the undergraduate level, there is little transparency as to what exactly goes on at West Campus, except circulating rumors of very sophisticated,

very expensive high-throughput machinery that is routinely bought and maintained. Sure, the forefront of new science technology is there, but these resources are essentially inaccessible for undergraduates. For some illogical reason, the maintenance costs of just two transmission electron microscopes will cut a class that is one of the highest rated classes in MCDB. It makes me fear that there may be something else motivating this decision, a political one that does not speak well to the mission of diversifying the sciences at Yale.

Electron microscopy is, technique-wise, very different than the other lab courses in the MCDB department. Yes, you can outsource microscope work and save money, but how good is it to deny students of a chance at learning it?

There are incredible courses at Yale that should continue to be offered, regardless of budget deficits. As a junior, I am three years too old to write about “Why I Chose Yale.” As a science tour guide, however, I try to sell Yale to the future freshman class, and our message is that Yale is investing in STEM programs to the tune of $1 billion. This is obvious, with the

renovations on Science Hill, the hiring of new faculty, the exciting interdisciplinary initiatives.

But it is counter-intuitive to cut a class that makes studying science at Yale stand out from any other school. A course parallel to “Lab in EM” is not offered to undergraduates at Harvard, Princeton or even MIT. Rarely in an undergraduate career is it possible to use a transmission electron microscope, a practical and unique skill that allows students to stand out on graduate and medical school applications.

Every major has courses with near 100 percent “Excellent” reviews. The MCDB equivalent to that great political science seminnar like "Public Schools and Public Policy" is the upper-level laboratory courses. Along with “Nucleic Acids” and “Experimental Techniques,” “Lab in Electron Microscopy” is the highlight of the department. Cutting classes that actively engage and develop one’s own potential, as a research scientist or otherwise, is not the Yale mission I bought into.

JENNY WU is a junior in Davenport College. Contact her at jenny.wu@yale.edu .

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Tell me yours, I’ll tell you mine T

his Sunday, I spent my entire afternoon in the Saybrook courtyard enjoying the sunshine with friends. A friend of a friend joined my roommates and me, and our conversation naturally turned to the topical subject of senior theses. She, a humanities major, told me about her paper on women nature writers in modern America. She reciprocated my interest and let me drag her through the valley of my biomedical engineering research project. As always, I became animated, so happy to have a listening, nonscience major interested in my studies.

There are not enough conversations like this.

During senior year, most of us do some sort of capstone project — a written thesis, a project in a lab, a culminating artistic performance or gallery show. After submitting our papers and presenting to our advisors, the hours of work, of reflection, of effort, all comes screeching to a halt. But knowledge is not meant to be processed like this. While I won’t try to tackle the Shelly Kagan-esque question of the purpose and value of learn-

ing, I can say with certainty that we do not learn simply for the sake of generating a finite output. The value of learning becomes apparent when we share our knowledge.

Last week, I attended my first Mellon Forum. I went to support one of my best friends, a fellow biomedical engineering major in Calhoun. I was expecting a serious evening of academic presentations; I left completely overwhelmed by the experience.

The vast majority of us here love to learn. We spend so much of our time here learning and reflecting on our materials, yet there are so few opportunities for us to share our knowledge in an organic setting. We don’t get excited about writing a paper for the sake of turning it in and getting a grade; we don’t get amped up firing off a reading response before heading to Toad’s on a Wednesday night; we don’t get satisfaction from feigning interest in forced pseudo-intellectual discourse in section.

As I saw that night at the Mellon Forum, we are desperate to share our knowledge with each other. I was almost moved to tears as the

third speaker finished his presentation. His friends, smiling and eager, asked engaging questions and clapped enthusiastically. My own friend was still glowing more than thirty minutes after her talk (perhaps partially due to the red wine served during the evening).

I learned more from the three seniors presenting tonight than I did in my four classes today.

The Mellon Forum program is somewhat of a hidden gem, tucked away in boring language in emails from our administrators. While different in each residential college, its main structure and purpose is consistent: As explained by the Pierson Master, “Designed to foster stimulating intellectual exchange and participation in a community of scholars, the Mellon Forums take the form of meetings over dinner and dessert where participating seniors have the opportunity to present the results of their research projects.” My experience in Calhoun was just this: several friends sharing their biggest projects and ideas in a collegial, fun and social setting.

Unfortunately, Mellon Forums

are not part of the typical senior’s experience. In certain colleges, you must apply at the beginning of your senior year to even attend the forums. Going into senior year, I thought you had to be a Mellon Grant recipient to present; once I realized my mistake, all the spots in Pierson were filled.

For the underclassmen reading this, I strongly encourage you to pursue the opportunity to present at a Mellon Forum your senior year. For the rest of the seniors, next Sunday, do as I did today: Grab a six-pack, your sunglasses and a few friends, head to the nearest courtyard, backyard, sculpture garden or park, and just talk about your theses. Ask each other questions, pay attention, and soak up the incredible wisdom of your peers. After four years of classes and papers and research and exams, we are practically exploding with knowledge that is much better shared.

Let yours out and absorb all that comes back.

KIMBERLY GOLDSTEIN is a senior in Pierson College. Contact her at kimberly.goldstein@yale.edu.

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YUAG targets STEM students

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The initiative intends to focus on the overlap between science and the arts to provide benefits for students on both sides of the divide.

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER In an effort to get Yale’s science, math and engineering students out of the lab and into the galleries, the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) has founded a student-led STEM + Arts initiative.

Now in its second semester, the STEM + Arts initiative aims to encourage science, technology, engineering and mathematics students to take advantage of the University’s art collections and develop new ways of viewing their academic fields. Each week, Chanthia Ma ’16, an intern at the YUAG who co-founded the initiative, organizes sketching sessions and tours of the gallery catering specifically to math and science students. Though the program is still small, Ma said she hopes it will continue to gain momentum in the future.

“We think that an artistic background could help scientists pursue their future goals and be able to develop new skills that they otherwise wouldn’t have the chance to develop,” said Ma, who is a molecular, cellular and developmental biology major.

“Organic chemistry isn’t going to take you to the art gallery.”

The idea for the program took root last spring, when David Odo, former Bradley Assistant Curator of Academic Affairs at the YUAG and director of the initiative, spoke with a former student who was interested in researching STEM collaborations in museums around the country, Odo said in an email.

Odo and the student discovered that while other galleries had instituted programs that combined science and arts, these programs had focused on asking scientists to notice the artistic elements of science — for example, finding the beauty in microscopic images.

The STEM + Arts initiative is different, Odo said, adding that it is the first of its kind. Rather than asking STEM majors to find illustrations of scientific principles in art, it encourages them to appreciate the collections of the gallery simply as artwork, he said. This way, he hopes the scientists will be able to shed new light on the University’s collections, he added.

For Lucy Partman ’14, a student curator at the Yale Center

for British Art who brainstormed ideas with Odo at the inception of the initiative, this mutual exchange of insight is exactly why the arts and sciences should not be viewed as completely disparate fields.

“If science and art could somehow be more integrated and thought of as pieces that work together, we’d learn more,” Partman said. “What are scientists going to see in a painting that an art historian won’t see? And what will an art historian see in a microscopic image that the scientist won’t see? At the heart of it, both artists and scientists are trained to observe.”

Ma said exposure to art may help science students in the sciences as well, honing their critical thinking, observation and presentation skills. Though Ma is a biology major, she said her artistic background and training have helped her in many ways, from visualizing three-dimensional objects in multivariable calculus to drawing effective scientific diagrams.

Another goal of the initiative is to make STEM students feel like they belong in an art gallery, Partman said. While many science majors may have an interest in the arts, they might be afraid to venture to a museum because they think they have no right to be there, she said. With sketching sessions and tours directed specifically at math and science students, these fears can be alleviated, she added.

Ma said she has about 20 students on her weekly email list about events, adding that the initiative is gradually attracting more attention. Both students and professors have contacted her, expressing interest and even a desire to collaborate, she said.

Although Odo left Yale last week to take a new position at the Harvard Art Museums and Ma’s internship will officially end in May, Ma said she will continue to organize events in the future.

“It definitely takes time for people to notice that an activity is prevalent on campus,” Ma said. “There is so much potential for this program to fuel the interest of people who are purely science-oriented.”

Founded in 1832, the YUAG is free and open to the public.

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

Union Station gets facelift

BY DAVID BLUMENTHAL STAFF REPORTER New Haven’s Union Station is getting a makeover.

Beginning last week, New Haven’s parking authority Park Haven began scaffolding for a renovation of Union Station that will cost approximately $2.3 million and be completed in December 2014. According to a Park Haven press release, the repairs will improve the station’s garage, facade, roof, windows and sidewalks. However, the renovation will not include fundamental changes to the railroad’s physical plant, which is dependent on a bill that is currently bottled up in Connecticut’s General Assembly.

Mayor Toni Harp said in a statement that she approves of the project’s timing, as well-maintained train station was essential to New Haven’s future prosperity.

“It is a goal of my administration to make Union Station the hub of a revitalized transportation and retail district — this exterior renovation project is consistent with and part of that plan,” she said. “A year or so from now, when this project is complete, one of New Haven’s architectural jewels will have been polished beautifully to attract, welcome and please all those who spend time in and around Union Station.”

Park Haven Executive Director David Panagore said the project is part of a “cycle of repairs” Park Haven is working on and that such repairs are not unprecedented. The renovations will make the station more technologically friendly — with chargers for cell phones and laptops, as well as new bike racks. Panagore called these updates badly needed.

“We’ve been working out with [the Connecticut Department of Transportation] for a couple of years and the building needs it,” he said. “It’s similar to the way we’re taking on elevators at the Crown Garage.”

Panagore added that the renovation would not affect existing rides in and out of the terminal, and that it will be funded entirely by revenues generated by the station’s adjacent parking garage.

Ten commuters at Union Station on Sunday endorsed the renovation, though none of them were familiar with the project.

Alfonso Perez, a security guard at Union Station, agreed that the project was minor and said it will not affect his job supervising the station’s day-to-day security.

Some urged the mayor and Park Haven to consider a blueprint that would fundamentally alter the station’s physical plant. Panagore said a bill currently stuck in the General Assembly’s Transportation Committee would create a “citystate partnership” designed to manage the extensive renovation. The resulting project would include expanded retail options and a second garage, accord-

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A $2.3 million renovation of New Haven’s Union Station will improve various facilities and make the station more technologically friendly. ing to Panagore. However, until this new governing structure is established, Panagore said the project would not proceed.

“There are plans … There’s a still a lot of negotiations and discussions going on with how we should proceed, but the general sense is that it should,” he said.

City Hall Communications Director Laurence Grotheer said Harp met with the New Haven delegation last week, but that the General Assembly is considering many bills only and there are only four and a half weeks remaining in the legislative session. Rep. Roland Lemar, D-New Haven, the city’s sole representative on the General Assembly’s Transportation Committee, did not return multiple requests for comment.

On Yale’s campus, the news of the renovation was positively received, though many students expressed concerns about the station’s disconnect from both Yale’s campus and New Haven’s downtown.

Yusuf Saei LAW ’17, who has to go to

Union Station about once a month, said he thinks the city suffered from Union Station’s distance from the center of downtown. He said expanding New Haven’s State Street Station, which is closer to the center of the city, would be a better use of resources.

“I used [State Street Station] once, but it seems like the [departure] times weren’t as convenient,” he said. “[State Street Station] would seem like a better place to stop off from — closer to campus, closer to downtown.”

Lauren Sanchez FES ’15, said Union Station’s infrastructure could be improved through making it easier for cars to turn into the pick-up and dropoff lane. Trying to turn left into it right now is currently a “debacle,” she said.

New Haven’s Union Station was constructed in 1920 and was previously rebuilt in 1985.

Contact DAVID BLUMENTHAL at david.blumenthal@yale.edu .

Yale to host Houston students

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER In partnership with a highly successful college readiness program, Yale will host over 100 first generation, low-income students from Houston public schools for a week-long program this July to entice them to apply to Ivy League and other top-tier universities.

The EMERGE Fellowship, was founded in 2010 and provides college counseling to high-achieving first generation students to encourage them to apply to highly ranked colleges. One hundred percent of EMERGE students have been admitted to top-tier universities, according to Leah Barton ’97, EMERGE’s board chair.

Three EMERGE seniors have matriculated at Yale, joining the class of 2018.

One future Yalie, Edgar Avina ’18, has been featured on NPR for his participation in the program, which has garnered national attention for its track record of sending every participant to a selective university.

“We’ve gotten kids to apply to colleges they would have never considered,” said co-founder Rick Cruz ’07. “They apply mostly to state schools and they get in, which is great, but they don’t look out of state at all.”

The program provides select students with one-on-one college consulting, SAT tutoring, application support and college tours throughout their high school careers. Barton said this is important because in Texas public schools there are 500 students to every college counselor, leaving many without the advice and support they need.

“We’re exposing kids to tremendous need-blind schools they’ve never heard of, and that offer great financial aid, something many students don’t expect from top universities,” said Susana Rosas, EMERGE’s Executive Director.

At Yale, the students will receive intensive application coaching, learn about dealing with “culture shock” and get a taste of campus life.

In addition to showcasing Yale’s

resources for low-income and minority students and offering intensive college application counseling, the program aims to expose students to opportunities that await them out of state. Giving them the experience of being on a college campus away from home will help students and their families feel more comfortable with schools out of state, Barton said.

“Many kids in Hispanic families aren’t allowed to go out of state because families want to keep them close,” Avina said in an interview with KUHF, a Houston radio station, “Personally for me, I’m applying to one Texas school. I told my mom, ‘I’m drawing a 500 mile circle and I want to get out of it.’”

Though EMERGE is paying for the costs of the program at Yale, Ezra Stiles College Master Steven Pitti ’91, who helped bring the program to Yale, said the University made sure the costs were within their budget, and individual Yale professors, administrators and students have donated their time to help run the program.

Last summer, EMERGE brought students to several top-tier universities on the East Coast. At their stop in New Haven, a panel of first-generation Yale students greeted them. Pitti and Assistant Yale College Dean Rosalinda Garcia later visited HSID, where they worked with students and educators to develop a connection with Yale.

“When I visited [Houston Independent School District] and saw what EMERGE was doing with first generation and low income students, I was inspired by meeting the students who were excited about learning, eager to learn about colleges like Yale and truly supported by EMERGE educators,” Pitti said Cruz, an assistant superintendent in the Houston Independent School District, founded the program as a nonprofit while he was teaching underserved fifth graders in Houston through Teach For America. While teaching, he observed that a preponderance of high-potential students were either not pursuing higher education or funneling into less selective state schools due to a lack of knowledge

about the college application process and financial aid.

Not only were these students aiming too low, they were less likely to be successful at these schools, which have less support for minority and low-income students, Barton said. According to Teach for America Houston, an average of 42 percent of low income or minority students will graduate from a typical fouryear university. In the Ivy League, 93 percent graduate.

In 2010, Cruz collaborated with fellow educators to found EMERGE at Cesar Chavez High School to encourage first generation and low income students to reach for top-tier universities. Despite administrators’ initial concern that students would not be interested, Cruz received 125 applications for the program that first year. Of those, he picked a handful that he believed to have the highest potential.

All the students from that first group went on to prestigious schools like Harvard, Dartmouth and MIT with comprehensive financial aid packages. The program’s success inspired teachers at other schools to start chapters.

Since then, HISD has partnered with the program, with 14 high schools now hosting EMERGE chapters that serve over 300 students.

Cruz left EMERGE in 2013 when he was promoted to assistant superintendent for HISD, overseeing all college readiness programs in the school district. That year, HISD superintendent Terry Grier expanded the program and hired five fulltime program managers to aid students.

Barton said she envisions the program spreading to the remaining 16 schools in the district, then to surrounding school districts and then eventually to other cities across the country.

According to EMERGE’s website, 3 percent of students at top-tier universities are from the bottom quartile income level, while 74 percent are from the top quartile.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

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“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IRISH AUTHOR

Alders trade accusations

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER For the first time in recent memory, legislative codes of conduct were invoked on Monday to censure the conduct of an alder whose spirited disagreement some say has crossed a line.

One week after a Board of Alders finance committee meeting ended in verbal confrontation, Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison is calling on Ward 19 Alder Mike Stratton to make a formal apology for “personal attacks, demeaning remarks and threats to colleagues.” Stratton vehemently objected to last Monday’s vote approving three new City Hall staff positions at the request of Mayor Toni Harp.

“You have been living in the middle of core government your entire life,” Stratton told committee chair Andrea Jackson-Brooks,

with whom he had been quietly sparring the entire evening over his manner of questioning.

Jackson-Brooks fired back, “You don’t know what I’ve been doing my entire life … and buddy you better be careful; I will have my lawyer on your case, and you can deal with him.”

Stratton stormed out of the chambers with the promise to “see you in 2015,” vowing an electoral showdown between the increasingly divided factions on the Board — with Jackson-Brooks and the majority of union-backed alders who supported Harp last fall on one side and Stratton and the dissenting People’s Caucus critical of the Democratic majority on the other.

In a letter addressed to Board President Jorge Perez, Morrison called on Stratton to issue a written apology to Jackson-Brooks and the entire finance committee.

She also asked that Stratton sign an agreement saying he will abide by codes of conduct enshrined in the city charter. If he breaks those, he should be removed from the committee, Morrison suggested.

Morrison called Stratton’s accusation about “core government” an “abhorrent personal slur with racial overtones.” Her concern was echoed by a letter sent by Reverend James Newman, president of the Greater New Haven Clergy Association, to Perez.

“He was attempting to insinuate that Ms. Jackson-Brooks was some sort of ‘welfare queen,’” Newman wrote.

Stratton responded to Morrison’s concerns in a Monday letter. He apologized for his outburst while denying accusations of racism and leveling a complaint of his own against Jackson-Brooks and other members of the com-

LabCandy attracts girls to sciences

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LabCandy, started by Olivia Pavco-Giaccia ’16 with help from a YEI fellowship, seeks to encourage young girls to study science by creating fashionable lab gear and challenging stereotypes.

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER Olivia Pavco-Giaccia ’16 knows how to make her pitch.

“Close your eyes,” she says to her audience of potential business partners and investors. “Picture a scientist.”

The group responds with descriptions of old men in white lab coats — the exact reaction Pavco-Giaccia is trying to change.

Pavco-Giaccia is the founder of LabCandy, a startup company that produces fashionable lab gear for young girls to encourage them to pursue the sciences. By challenging stereotypes, Pavco-Giaccia said she hopes to convince young girls that STEM-related fields are not for men alone.

LabCandy products include a bedazzled lab coat, a do-it-yourself goggle kit and a story book that Pavco-Giaccia hopes will become a series. Written by Pavco-Giaccia herself, the fictional tale revolves around a young girl who uses science to solve a challenge or mystery. A “recipe card” with instructions on how to replicate the experiment used in the story is printed at the back of the book.

Pavco-Giaccia, a cognitive science major concentrating on gender and decision-making, said the idea for LabCandy had always been in the back of her mind but did not come to fruition until she heard about the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute during her freshman year. When she scheduled a meeting with the program director of the Institute’s Summer Fellowship, Pavco-Giaccia said the director “listened to my crazy idea and didn’t laugh at me.”

Last summer, Pavco-Giaccia worked to launch LabCandy with the help of the summer fellowship. Going out and talking to girls at science fairs, high schools and elsewhere to figure out what customers would actually want in a product was a key factor, she said.

“We learned that we wanted to catch them early — kindergarten through third grade,” Pavco-Giaccia said. “By high school, a lot of them have figured out what track they’re interested in.”

Richard Foster, a lecturer at the School of Management who serves as LabCandy’s mentor and advisor, said that though the business is still in its early phases, he thinks

LabCandy will help pique girls’ interest in science at the appropriate age. Foster added that advancing the objectives of LabCandy is ultimately in the nation’s best interest.

Pavco-Giaccia, who became interested in the sciences when she was a young girl, recalled walking through science fairs looking for other girls like her, only to find few, if any, around. She added that she hopes LabCandy will help make girls in the sciences more visible.

Though the business has grown since she received the YEI fellowship, Pavco-Giaccia is looking ahead to this summer when she will launch her newest campaign through Kickstarter, an online crowd-funding platform. Through the site, LabCandy will set an ultimate fundraising goal and encourage visitors to pledge funding in return for a prize.

But even Kickstarter comes with a catch, Pavco-Giaccia said.

“If you don’t meet your fundraising goal, then you get zilch,” she said. “But you can go as high above your goal as possible. It’s a really cool system and a great way to introduce a product into the world.”

Pavco-Giaccia said she plans on continuing her work with LabCandy after graduation, possibly in New Haven, where she said she has found a supportive entrepreneurial community.

The most rewarding part of LabCandy has been the reactions from the girls themselves, she said. Pavco-Giaccia recalled showing a jeweled lab coat to her young cousin who proceeded to check herself out in the mirror and ask if she was what a scientist looked like.

Juju Yonemoto, a seventh grader who owns the full line of LabCandy gear, said she wants to study the sciences because of the boundlessness of the field.

“LabCandy has made me more interested in finding out more about new diseases,” Yonemoto said. “I am interested in science because there are so many things that are yet to be discovered.”

Third grader Alexis Watkinson said LabCandy taught her that girls can work together to be successful.

Today, 24 percent of STEM-related jobs are occupied by women.

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

mittee.

Transcripts of Monday’s meeting will reveal Jackson-Brooks’ repeated abuse, he said: violating his right to ask questions, cutting him off during debate and allowing “mob style rulings where she is joined by other alders in attacking me.”

He responded to allegations of racism by calling them baseless and harmful to the city’s multicultural fabric.

“Charges of racism should not be tolerated without real evidence. In a city as diverse as ours, alders should never feed the fire with this sort of talk,” Stratton wrote. Rather than labeling her a “welfare mom,” Stratton said, he was saying she “lacked the objectivity” to make cuts to the city’s bureaucracy.

He said any investigation into the behavior of alders should be performed by an outside citizen

commission. He concluded by saying he will not “back down” or be “bullied.”

Ward 10 Alder Anna Festa, who joined Stratton last Monday in dissenting from the committee’s approval of the staff additions, said her colleague’s outburst was inappropriate. Still, she added, he had been treated unfairly by Jackson-Brooks throughout the committee meeting.

In response to the series of letters, Jackson-Brooks said she was taken aback by Stratton’s conduct last week.

“I gave him a lot more credit as a man of intelligence,” she said.

“What he did was outrageous.”

Perez, another one of the voices in last week’s tussle, declined to pass judgment on the various accusations. He said the charter sets out means of holding individual alders in contempt — and expelling members by a three-

fourths vote.

Disputes are first handled by the president and then go to the aldermanic affairs committee if need be, he added.

“We’re not near that point,” Perez said of expulsion. “We’ll see if this can be settled amicably.”

Perez said the last time such objections were made against an alder was more than 15 years ago, concerning then-Fair Haven Alder Raul Avila.

The charter’s guidelines for aldermanic conduct require that legislators “refrain from speaking or acting, by oneself or in concert with others, in a manner which disturbs, obstructs or interferes in any way with the performance of another member’s sworn legislative duties.

Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

Malloy delivers data portal

BY MAREK RAMILO AND J.R. REED STAFF REPORTERS A government website that delivers aggregated data to the masses could have far-reaching implications for life in Connecticut by increasing transparency and community involvement.

Last week, the Connecticut Open Data Portal went live, less than two months after Gov. Dannel Malloy called for its creation on Feb. 20 with Executive Order 39. The new site compiles raw government data into one location on topics ranging from state commerce to town crime levels. General users can now use an interactive map to find farmer’s markets, while entrepreneurs can search for information about business grants to help build their start-ups.

“We launched this website as part of our goal to make the data collected by state government more open and easily accessible to its owners — the taxpayers of Connecticut,” Malloy said in a statement. “Data.ct.gov will make vast amounts of data — data that was previously hard to find — easily accessible.”

The portal’s home page lists eight categories — including education, housing, health and public safety — for which data are available on the state level.

Users can access raw data, maps and charts for their own analysis. The portal’s Chief Data Officer and Connecticut Office of Policy and Management Representative Tyler Kleykamp first became involved in the project last fall, during preliminary research to find potential platforms for the website. The state of Connecticut chose Socrata, Inc., a software company, to design the platform.

“We decided on Socrata, because they offered a product that had been tested and deployed successfully in other states,” Kleykamp said. He added that Socrata also built the foundation for the federal government’s data platform, which

means that those using ct.data. gov will also be able to access federal data.

Now that the site has been created, Kleykamp said the state government is working with various agencies to identify usable data. So far, approximately 25 agencies have contributed.

Kleykamp added that the site could help spur entrepreneurial opportunities for companies that rely on local government and property information — companies like SeeClickFix, a platform that allows residents to report problems like potholes or graffiti.

State Representative Toni Walker added that opening this pool of public data could trigger more startups, to thrive across the state.

“This is a small, businessfriendly action that will pay huge dividends for companies looking to grow,” Walker said in a statement.

State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney also stressed that this could help state legislators making policy decisions.

DataHaven Executive Director Mark Abraham ’04 believes that a new website on its own will not demonstrate a commitment to greater transparency since Connecticut already posts a “mind-boggling amount” of state data on the ct.gov website.

However, he said that if the platform encourages more people to research data and causes agencies to release highest-value data sets, then it would also help build a more effective government.

He added that this portal could help legislators make data-driven decisions if the data is broken down by state legislative district.

“This gets to the need for n e i g h b o rh o o d - l eve l d a ta , aggregated over longer time periods if necessary to ensure accuracy and privacy,” Abraham said. “Because government tends to publish its data based

on citizen need, you often don’t see this level of data quality unless you attract a high level of use, which is something an open data portal can help with.”

Abraham added that one challenge the site faces is that administrative data sets are attempts to measure complex social conditions, which tend to change over time.

City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said that there has been demand for this information from both activists and other citizens. He predicts that people will use the public budget information since New Haven recently launched a website with city budget information that has garnered positive discussion.

“Managing public money is among the most sacred responsibilities a government has, so to make information about that spending available helps people understand where their money goes and why [governments] need revenue,” Grotheer said.

Homicide Watch, another site that aggregates city data for public use, profiles every homicide that takes place in the Washington, D.C. area. Founder and editor Laura Amico cited similar reasons as Connecticut for deciding to launch the site: community information and engagement.

“The data provide[s] a foundation for asking good questions,” Amico said. “Those questions help people understand and tell narratives. A lot of times, I find that the community asks better questions of the data than I do because they have different insight.”

Kleykamp said the site will publish some information about crime rates, but that crime tends to be more relevant at the local level. Executive Order 39 only applies to agencies that report directly to the governor.

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

J.R. REED at

jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu .

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“The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.”

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World Fellow program remains little known

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Since its establishment in 2001 by former President Richard Levin, the World Fellows Program has built a network of 257 members from 83 countries.

WORLD FELLOWS FROM PAGE 1 Syria.

“My hope is to finish this four-month fellowship, having taken a giant leap in my personal journey, integrated into a network of brilliant Yale Fellows,” said Rami Nakhla, a newly selected Fellow and peace activist from Syria. “This will empower me to face one of the most challenging conflicts of our time and to lead the transition in my country.”

Over the past decade, the program has built a network of 257 members from 83 countries.

Yet despite constant efforts by coordinators and affiliates to publicize World Fellows events, the program remains relatively untapped by the student body.

A “360 DEGREE” TRAINING PROGRAM

The World Fellows program was launched in 2001 by former president Richard Levin as part of the celebrations for Yale’s 300th anniversary. With the program, Levin aimed to increase international dialogue on campus — a goal that current President Peter Salovey has expressed interest in continuing.

“This innovative program continues to represent the very best of Yale’s efforts to educate and inspire future leaders,” Salovey said.

While on campus, the Fellows participate in various University events and interact with the entire Yale community, from faculty members to gradu-

ate students to undergraduates.

They live in New Haven for one semester and during that time they collaborate with professors on research, give Master’s Teas and engage informally with students over falafel or coffee, said Uma Ramiah, Director of Communications for the program.

“You literally could spend your entire semester only going to World Fellow events,” Ramiah said.

But while these events are the more visible aspect of the Fellows’ activities on campus, the core of the World Fellows program is a “360 degree” training curriculum, designed to aid Fellows in skills such as media presence, leadership and personal and professional development, said Valerie Belanger, managing director of the program. This training program allows the Fellows to audit classes and participate in specialized seminars to broaden their perspectives.

“We don’t bring them to Yale to become more of an expert in what they’re already doing,” Belanger said. “We want them to open their minds in all the other fields that are out there and step outside of their narrow realm of expertise.”

The goal, Belanger said, is to encourage the Fellows to address global issues in new and multidisciplinary ways, while also gaining a fresh understanding of their old areas of expertise.

For Sawsan Zaher, a 2013 Fellow who worked as a Palestinian human rights lawyer in Israel, her experience at Yale opened her eyes to career possibilities

she had stopped considering.

“Before I came here, I was thinking that I would spend all my life as a human rights lawyer,” she said. “But when I came here, I felt I needed to keep myself open to other options that can be even more interesting and exciting.”

CREATING A COMMUNITY

When the 2014 World Fellows arrive on campus next fall, their schedules will be packed every day with interactions with various members of the University community. Perhaps most importantly, though, they will interact with each other. All past Fellows interviewed cited the relationships that they had built with each other as the most important result of their time at Yale. “[Coming in], I expected the program to give me academic enrichment and new insights into my own leadership,” said Janet Dalziell, 2013 fellow and director of global development for Greenpeace. “In the end, the part that surprised me in a really great way was how much I got out of interpersonal relationships with my fellow Fellows.”

The Fellows hail from diverse countries, have diverse interests and come from diverse professional backgrounds. What they share, for four months, is an intense desire to learn — about Yale, about the world, and about each other. And this shared desire forms intense bonds of friendship, Zaher said.

Interviewed in December, just days after the official end of the

program, Zaher joked that talking too much about her experience would make her cry.

“Many emotions have really gotten out in the past week,” she said. “We’ve really started to digest that we’re leaving Yale and each other. Powerful personal relations were established, and it’s hard to let go.”

According to many people involved with the program, though, these relations don’t end when the Fellows leave campus. There is no such thing as a “former Fellow,” said Enrique Betancourt, a 2013 Fellow who works in urban planning and crime prevention in Mexico. Once you are a World Fellow, you are forever a part of a larger network of passionate, committed individuals, Betancourt said.

Beyond lasting emotional connections, these relationships are manifested in more visible ways as well. For instance, Barry Nalebuff, a School of Management professor who conducted several seminars with the Fellows, said past Fellows have stayed at his home while visiting campus, and he has been to several of their weddings.

“I have no doubt that when I go to any city, I can look up past World Fellows, whether or not I’ve actually met them, and expect to have a friend and somewhere to stay,” Dalziell said.

TAKING ADVANTAGE

Besides being a tool for the Fellows, the extensive network of current and past Fellows

is perhaps one of Yale’s most underutilized resources, Cappello said. Because of the Fellows’ attachment to the University, they are always willing to give back to the Yale community, if only its members know how to take advantage of their commitment, he added. For example, he cited the over 100 internship and job opportunities for Yale students the 2013 Fellows arranged within their respective organizations.

“In making Yale accessible to the World Fellows, we have made the world accessible to Yale,” he said.

The problem, then, is whether or not students actually do take advantage of this access.

Increasing publicity has always been an ongoing effort for the program, Ramiah said. With complete turnover of the student body every four years, the organization must work every year to make students aware of its existence, Cappello said.

One way the program strives to increase student involvement is through its undergraduate liaison and graduate student affiliate programs. Each Fellow has two undergraduate liaisons and two graduate affiliates who are selected every spring from about 50 to 75 applicants in each group, and they are responsible for helping the Fellows acclimate to Yale, promoting the Fellow’s events on campus and helping the Fellow find new opportunities to engage with the student body.

Hadia Shah ’15, who served as head undergraduate liaison

in 2013, said the liaisons were effective in spreading the word, both formally and informally.

Their excitement about the program encouraged them to go “above and beyond” their normal responsibilities, she added.

Still, out of seven randomly polled students, only one, Josh Feng ’17, had heard of the World Fellows program — from a friend who served as an undergraduate liaison.

Despite all the liaisons’ efforts, the World Fellows events are just one of many that vie for students’ attention.

“The program competes with an incredible amount of events, programs and initiatives in an incredible university,” Betancourt said. “But it’s very important to talk about the value that the program represents for Yale.”

To illustrate this, he cited the World Fellows forum that is held on campus every two years, bringing current and past Fellows together to reunite and discuss their work. Hundreds of Fellows — who have all gone back to their own lives — drop everything to come for a few days, paying their own expenses to interact with each other and the University, he said.

“For me, this is the most important indicator of the loyalty of the Fellows to this institution,” he said.

2013 Fellow Saul Kornik put it more simply: “I don’t think Yale realizes what it’s got.”

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

Employee claims workplace discrimination LAWSUIT FROM PAGE 1 tional distress, legal fees and other relief payments.

In response to Curcio’s complaint, Yale has taken a strong stance.

“Yale believes the claim to be completely without merit,” University spokesman Tom Conroy said.

The University has hired a Guilford-based law firm — Donahue, Durham and Noonan — to defend it against Curcio’s allegations.

The firm, which has represented Yale in a number of past lawsuits, is also representing D’Onofrio.

Patrick Noonan ’74, the attor-

ney listed on all of the documents related to the suit that have been publicly filed by the University, could not be reached for comment.

Conroy said Yale does not discriminate on the basis of disability and has a “comprehensive program to accommodate staff with disabilities.”

Curcio could not be reached for comment at her Meriden, Conn. home on Monday. Her attorney, Emanuele Cicchiello, also did not respond to requests for comment.

Curcio first arrived at Yale in 1997 as a tax manager. Twelve years later, in Nov. 2009, she transferred to an associate admin-

istrator position within the Nursing School, where D’Onofrio was her manager.

Shortly after arriving at the School of Nursing, Curcio was called into meetings where D’Onofrio repeatedly reviewed a binder of “issues” relating to another employee, Kim James, according to the complaint.

James, who reported to Curcio, suffered from several severe physical disabilities, which D’Onofrio claimed negatively impacted the department in which they worked.

According to the Yale Directory, the University no longer employs anyone named Kim James or Kimberly James. Conroy, citing

the confidential nature of personnel records, declined to comment on the circumstances of James’ departure.

Conroy said James “never asserted any claim that she had been treated improperly by the University.”

Curcio claimed that over time, D’Onofrio pressured her to fire James. In Oct. 2010, Curcio contacted Geraldine Sullivan, the director of employee relations at the Yale School of Medicine to complain about D’Onofrio’s conduct.

Curcio told Sullivan that “she was asked to participate in firing a disabled person specifi-

cally because of her disability, to make up false reasons to cover it up, and stated her belief that Ms. D’Onofrio’s actions were in violation of the law,” the complaint read.

According to the complaint, neither Sullivan nor Yale’s human relations department took any action. Sullivan reportedly told Curcio that any investigation would have to be initiated by D’Onofrio herself.

Sullivan declined to comment on the case, directing all questions to Conroy. University Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Mike Peel could not be reached for com-

ment.

Curcio first filed a complaint to the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities in Jan. 2012. In early January of this year, she received a release of jurisdiction from the CHRO, which allows Curcio to file the suit.

University Vice President and General Counsel Dorothy Robinson directed all questions regarding the suit to Conroy.

The case was filed in superior court in Hartford, Conn.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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BY ALBERT AJI ASSOCIATED PRESS DAMASCUS, Syria — A beloved, elderly Dutch priest who made headlines this year with a desperate plea for aid for civilians trapped in the besieged Syrian city of Homs was assassinated Monday by a masked gunman who shot him at his monastery, the latest attack targeting Christian clergymen in the country’s civil war.

The killing of Father Francis Van Der Lugt — a Jesuit, the same order as Pope Francis — underscored fears among many of Syria’s Christian and Muslim minorities for the fate of their communities as Islamic extremists gain influence among rebels seeking to topple President Bashar Assad.

The 75-year-old Van Der Lugt, an Arabic speaker, had lived in Syria for 50 years and refused to leave Homs even as hundreds of civilians were evacuated from rebel-held districts of Homs that have been besieged for more than a year by Assad’s forces.

Van Der Lugt lived in the monastery in one of those neighborhoods, Bustan al-Diwan.

He appeared to have been directly targeted in the early morning attack, according to several people who were in the monastery when the attack occurred. A single gunman walked into the monastery, entered the garden and shot him in the head, said Rev. Ziad Hillal.

“I am truly shocked. A man of peace has been murdered,” Hillal said in a phone interview from Homs with the Vatican Radio.

A person, who has lived in the monastery with the slain priest said he was buried in the convent’s garden late Monday. The person who passed the information of the priest’s burial on the phone did not want to be identified for fear of being targeted.

The motives for the attack were not known, and no one immediately claimed responsibility for the killing.

Over the past year, hard-line rebel groups, including the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, have become more influential and dominant among the oppo-

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A gunman opened fire on Father Francis Van Der Lugt in Homs, Syria on Monday. sition fighters in the central city, as in many other areas of Syria.

Another Jesuit priest, Father Paolo Dall’Oglio of Italy has been missing since July after traveling to meet Islamic militants who now rule the eastern city of Raqqa. A year ago, two Greek Orthodox bishops were seized from their car by gunmen outside the northern city of Aleppo and have been missing since.

An activist based in the blockaded rebel-held area of Homs said rebel fighters were shocked by the priest’s death.

“The man was living with us, eating with us, sleeping with us. He didn’t leave, even when the blockade was eased,” Beibars Tilawi said via Skype.

Regardless of the rebels’ views toward Christians, the priest was well-liked for his efforts to get the blockade lifted and alleviate widespread suffering and hunger among civilians, Tilawi said.

The state news agency SANA blamed “terrorists” for the priest’s death but offered no details. The government uses the term for rebels.

Syrian’s main opposition bloc called the killing a “criminal act” and

blamed Assad’s forces.

“We hold the regime ultimately responsible for this crime, as the only beneficiary of Father Francis’ death,” the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition said in a statement.

The government launched a punishing crackdown on Homs, pounding the gunmen holed up in the city’s central districts and encircling them with checkpoints, preventing food and medicine from reaching their areas. Hundreds have left the blockaded areas during a series of U.N. evacuation, but Van Der Lugt repeatedly refused to leave until all Christians were evacuated, his friends said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon condemned the killing of the elderly priest as “an inhumane act of violence against a man who heroically stood by the people of Syria amid sieges and growing difficulties,” according to a statement released by the spokesperson for the secretarygeneral. Ban demanded that “the warring parties and their supporters ensure that civilians are protected, regardless of their religion, community or ethnic affiliation.”

DONETSK, Ukraine — Pro-Moscow activists barricaded inside government buildings in eastern Ukraine proclaimed their regions independent Monday and called for a referendum on seceding from Ukraine — an ominous echo of the events that led to Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

The Ukrainian government accused Russia of stirring up the unrest and tried to flush the assailants from some of the seized buildings, setting off fiery clashes in one city. Russia, which has tens of thousands of troops massed along the border, sternly warned Ukraine against using force.

In Washington, the U.S. said any move by Russia into eastern Ukraine would be a “very serious escalation” that could bring further sanctions.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said there was strong evidence that some of the pro-Russian protesters were hired and were not local residents.

At the same time, the U.S. announced that Secretary of State John Kerry will

meet with top diplomats from Russia, Ukraine and the European Union in a new push to ease tensions. The meeting, the first such four-way talks since the crisis erupted, will take place in the next 10 days, the State Department said.

Pro-Russian activists who seized the provincial administrative building in the city of Donetsk over the weekend announced the formation Monday of the independent Donetsk People’s Republic.

They also called for a referendum on the secession of the Donetsk region, to be held no later than May 11, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.

A similar action was taken in another Russian-speaking city in the east, Kharkiv, where pro-Moscow activists proclaimed a “sovereign Kharkiv People’s Republic,” Interfax said.

It quoted the regional police as saying they later cleared the regional administration building, and the activists responded by throwing firebombs and rocks at the windows and setting tires ablaze. Local news reports said that the pro-Russian crowds then recaptured the building.

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Pro-Russian separatists who have seized the regional administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk proclaimed the region an independent republic.

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FROM THE FRONT New group to continue mental health work MENTAL HEALTH FROM PAGE 1 member of the coalition’s steering committee.

“Mental health at Yale is one part what happens in the Yale Health building, but it’s also what happens in students’ interactions with other students,” said Mira Vale ’13, coalition co-founder and member of the steering committee. “The point of [the coalition] is to facilitate cross-group collaboration.”

Mental health isn’t a onetime issue, especially in the college environment.

OLIVIA POLLAK ’16 President, Mind Matters The coalition formed as a method to connect the various groups concerned with mental health at Yale, said John Gerlach ’14, coalition co-founder and member of the standing committee. While many groups on campus were working towards similar goals, they suffered from a lack of communication and collaboration, he said.

As their first joint action, the coalition will host a weekend of activities and workshops to educate students about strategies to deal with stress and mental health issues. The weekend will also mark the first occasion on which all of Yale’s disparate mental health organizations will work in tandem toward the same goal.

“Something that we were working on was that these groups weren’t communicating with one another in any sort of productive way,” Gerlach said.

“We thought it would be beneficial to get them all in the same room.”

Steering committee members hope that events like Mind Matters’ student panel will destigmatize the use of mental health

services at Yale and offer students an opportunity to talk about a broader range of mental health issues, said Olivia Pollak ’16, the president of Mind Matters and a steering committee member on the coalition.

The weekend’s 10 panels and activities will include a workshop designed to teach students how to help their peers who may be suffering from a mental illness, while others hope to empower students to take care of themselves and others, Hendler said.

In addition to generating dialogue on campus, the mental health weekend will allow steering committee members to gauge the direction of the nascent group, Pollak said.

She added that the success of the weekend will determine the coalition’s goals for the following year.

“Mental health isn’t a onetime issue, especially in the college environment,” Pollak said.

Although some Dwight Hall member organizations take part in the coalition, steering committee members remain unsure of the degree to which they will be involved with Dwight Hall, said Corinne Ruth ’15, the vice president of Mind Matters and coalition steering committee member.

While this month’s focus has been on the mental health weekend, the co-founders of the coalition intend to maintain a broad scope of activities beyond event planning, Gerlach said.

Members of the coalition have also been working with YCC to reach out to students and work with Yale Health to bring about policy changes, Hendler said.

“The goal is to display how nuanced of an issue mental health and wellness is and how there are so many perspectives on it,” Ruth said.

The Coalition for Mental Health and Wellbeing at Yale formed in February 2014.

Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .

“One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.”

HAROLD WILSON BRITISH LABOUR PARTY POLITICIAN

Student wage match limited

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The subsidy program will soon only apply to students who qualify for need-based financial aid and earn $15 per hour or less.

WAGES FROM PAGE 1 for Yale College students with demonstrated financial need, but has since evolved to become available to a much wider range of students within the University, regardless of their school or financial status. As a result, Yale College students on financial aid lost their advantage in getting jobs, he said.

“This undermined the very purpose of the program,” Polak said.

Dean Mary Miller said she believes the subsidy reductions will return the program to its original form.

Polak said on-campus jobs are particularly important for Yale College students with demonstrated financial need because their financial aid package has a self-help expectation that requires them to earn income during term time.

“Extra efforts will be made to hire students eligible for the 50-50 split that is, students on financial aid,” Miller said.

Polak said capping the salary eligible for the subsidy program at $15 per hour will not put a cap on student wages. Though the Provost’s Office will no longer subsidize those highly paid jobs, employers can and will continue to post jobs available to all students at higher wages, he said.

The $15 subsidy cap will also not affect the majority of student jobs, Polak added. Of the 63 on-campus jobs currently listed at the student employment website, all but three pay $15 per hour or less, and of those three only one would have been eligible for the wage subsidy under current rules, he said.

Miller echoed Polak’s statement, adding that many current jobs were never covered by the wage subsidy program, including research assistant and master’s aide positions.

Department chairs interviewed said they are unsure how the new policy will affect their ability to employ students.

University Librarian Susan Gibbons said it was her understanding that the student wage program was being changed due to financial constraints. Though Gibbons said the reductions of the student wage subsidy would not have a significant impact on Sterling and Bass libraries because most of their students workers would qualify for the new wage match program, she added that the Divinity School and Medical School libraries employ a high percentage of graduate students who will not qualify under the new policy, which will subsidize only undergraduates.

To compensate for reduced

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funding from the Provost’s Office, the fiscal 2015 budgets for the libraries include increased student employment funding, Gibbons said.

Gibbons said the Yale University Library, which hired 389 students this academic year, is still adjusting to the existing student wage program.

“It was only within the last two years that the Library started receiving any reimbursement for student wages, and therefore the various library budgets had not yet fully adjusted to the 50-50 reimbursements,” Gibbons said. “So essentially some of our libraries’ student budgets are just going back to what had been the status quo for many years.”

Jock Reynolds, the director of the Yale University Art Gallery, said the Art Gallery and the School of Drama will be hit especially hard by the new policy. According to Reynolds, the Art Gallery currently employs 135 paid undergraduate and graduate student employees with compensation ranges from $13 to $26 per hour.

Still, Reynolds said he is confident the Gallery will be able to convince some of its loyal donors to support employment opportunities for all Yale students seeking paid work in the museum, regardless of their economic circumstances.

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“The inherent value of acknowledging and supporting the full array of economic diversity [in existence] among our student body is something President Salovey spoke about eloquently during his address to this year’s freshman class when it assembled in Woolsey Hall last fall,” Reynolds said in an email. “I well remember his remarks, as do many others who have kept them in mind.”

Ronald Breaker, the chair of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department, said changes in federal grant funding are expected to have a greater impact to undergraduate employment in the department than changes in the wage match program.

Other department chairs interviewed were unaware of the changes in student employment subsidies.

John Krystal, chair of the department of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, said this was the first he had heard of any changes.

Three students employed by the University interviewed said they were unaware of the wage match program.

The current minimum wage for student jobs is $12 per hour.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

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Maximum wage covered by subsidy

Of the 63 on-campus jobs currently listed at the student employment website, all but three paid $15 per hour or less, and of those three only one would have been eligible for the wage subsidy under current rules, said Provost Benjamin Polak.

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ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, APRIL 8 12:30 p.m. Art in Context: “Richard Wilson and the Grand Tour.” Lola Sanchez-Jauregui Alpanes, associate research fellow in the Department of Prints and Drawings, will lead a talk on pioneer in British landscape art Richard Wilson. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.).

4:30 p.m. “Incarceration in America, Past and Present.”

A panel with three leading scholars will discuss the history and impact of incarceration in the U.S. — from imprisonment and ideas about prisons in the 19th century; to the increasing connections between race, social science and criminality in the early 20th century; to the late 20th and 21st century mass incarceration.

Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 102.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9 4:00 p.m. “Animating Light.” LED pioneer Leo Villareal ’90, whose works include The Bay Lights Project that lights the Bay Bridge in San Francisco today, comes to campus to celebrate the creation of the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science LED Digital Canvas. Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall (1 Prospect St.), Rm. 114.

4:30 p.m. “From Concept to Printed Book: The Genesis and Manufacture of Thomas Morley’s 1597 Music Treatise.”

The Yale Program in the History of the Book brings together scholars across disciplines to explore the materiality of the written word over time and across cultures. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.).

DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU

THURSDAY, APRIL 10 4:00 PM “NSA Surveillance and What to Do About It.” Internationally renowned security technologist, author and blogger Bruce Schneier discusses the surveillance the NSA conducts, the technical capabilities of the NSA and the consequences of both Snowden and targeted surveillance. Davies Auditorium, Becton Center (15 Prospect St.).

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“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”

MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR AND HUMORIST

Agostino ’14 on fire in Calgary

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Forward Kenny Agostino ’14 finished second on the Bulldogs with 32 points this season.

AGOSTINO FROM PAGE 14 many. Before his four years at Yale, Agostino lit up his high school league with a school record 261 points over three seasons en route to twice being named the New Jersey player of the year.

Once at Yale, the scoring did not stop.

Agostino had a career high three goals and five points his freshman year against Holy Cross and went on to rank ninth at Yale in points (132), 10th in assists (76) and 12th in goals (56).

He finished this year with 14 goals, 32 points and a +13 rating in 33 games.

“We are proud of Kenny, we are proud for Kenny and we couldn’t be happier for him,” Allain said. “We have seen tremendous growth from him over his four years and I think its just natural that he gets to continue his career in the NHL. Our hopes and expectations are that he will have a long and healthy career. I think him playing late in this season is a great way to get his feet wet before training camp next year.”

The third team all-ECAC selection has had to pick up from New Haven and move roughly 2,500 miles away to Alberta, Canada, to begin his career with the Flames. Agostino had little time to settle into his new home, however, as the Flames went on a two-week road trip that featured five games across two Canadian provinces and two American states.

“It’s been a great three and a half weeks,” Agostino said. “It’s been a lot of fun and I’m learning a lot. The transition has been getting better every game. I am learning more every game and getting more comfortable on the ice.”

On Monday night, Agostino got the chance to play in his home state of New Jersey, picking up a 1–0 win against the Devils. The Yale senior started the game and had 11:54 minutes of ice time along with a season-high 22 shifts.

The Flanders, N.J. native had two sparkling chances to score. The best came on a breakaway with under two minutes left in the second period. Agostino raced out of the zone to pick up the puck behind the last defenseman,

Golf battles with wind GOLF FROM PAGE 14 son last weekend at the Hoya Invitational in Maryland to clinch second place at the Pirate Invitational in Springfield, N.J. On top of the improvement over the past weekend, the Elis came back from a fourth-place position at the end of day one to take second by the end of day two.

“I think the team was definitely looking at winning the tournament going into the weekend,” Shreya Ghei ’15 said. “Though we did not win the event, we are happy that we recovered from a bad first round and were able to come in second place.”

Seo Hee Moon ’14 and Sandy Wongwaiwate ’17 performed best for Yale, tying for third place overall and solidifying two top-five finishes for the Elis. Moon improved from her first round of 79 to a score of 74 and finished with a total score of 153. Wongwaiwate remained fairly consistent, putting up scores of 77 and 76 in the first and second rounds, respectively, for the same total score.

The contest was tight, with a narrow point spread between the top five team finishes. Columbia was first with a score of 631, Yale was just one point below at 632, Princeton came in with a score of 635, St. John’s followed at 636 and host Seton Hall finished with 639.

The women’s program will take a break from competition until the Ivy League Championships April 25-27, while the men’s golf team will compete in both the Princeton Invitational and the Yale Spring Opener before competing in Ivies.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

but goaltender Corey Schneider denied the skater as he tried to go through the net minder’s legs.

“It was cool to play in front of a lot of friends and family and obviously great to pick up a win in my home state,” Agostino said.

“I tried to go five-hole on the breakaway but got slashed at the last minute and didn’t get enough wood on it. It would have been nice to score but the goalie made a nice save.”

The Flames and Agostino, who are in second to last place in the Western Conference, only have three more games left before they finish the regular season in Vancouver April 13. After that, Agostino will clear out his locker and head back to New Haven to hit the books for his final exams and prepare for graduation on May 19.

“I am trying to do what I can school-wise but it’s tough with everything going on,” Agostino said. “I’m going to come back to Yale and get my degree and enjoy my last few weeks as a college student.”

The transition to NHL hockey might have come earlier for Agostino had he not decided to return to Yale after winning a national championship in 2013. Only a few days before Yale’s Frozen Four matchup with Minnessota St. Cloud State, he learned that the team that drafted him — the Pittsburgh Penguins — had traded his rights to the Calgary Flames in a deal to acquire long time Flame’s captain Jarome Iginla.

The Flames, going through a rebuilding phase, were eager to get their newly acquired commodity on the ice, but Agostino decided to return to Yale for his final year and complete his degree.

Now, almost exactly one year later, Agostino’s dream to play in the NHL is finally coming true. He is the third Bulldog to skate in the NHL this season along with Chris Higgins ’05 and Mark Arcobello ’10. Agostino skated with Arcobello at Yale during Agostino’s freshman year.

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

Eli squads split TENNIS FROM PAGE 14 “We did well to take the doubles point against them, we played really smart and strong tennis,” Caroline Lynch ’17 said.

Unfortunately for the Elis, this quick 1–0 lead did not last, and Princeton got the better of Yale in singles play. The Tigers ultimately felled the Bulldogs 4-2 in singles, with the only Yale victories coming at the No. 3 and No. 4 spots. Ree Ree Li and Sullivan provided these two highlights, winning their matches in decisive straight sets triumphs.

“Our loss to Princeton was a big disappointment as it wasn’t how we wanted to start the Ivy League season,” Lynch said.

But Ree Ree Li said the loss will not dash the team’s hopes of winning the Ivy League title, and the Elis are determined to keep working hard and improving.

Improvement came quickly.

The Elis pulled out a tough 4–3 win over the Penn Quakers the very next day, managing to come through in the same sort of closely contested situation that had been their downfall the

day before. Once again, the Elis took the doubles point, but this time they made the most of their lead, holding on to win three of six singles matches. All of Yale’s singles wins came in straight sets. Yu won a tough matchup at the No. 2 spot 7–5, 7–5, while Sullivan produced an impressively dominant 6–1, 6–0 win at No. 3, helping cement the Bulldog victory.

While the men’s squad experienced similar results, the team’s contests unfolded in a different fashion. The weekend began with a disappointing 1-6 loss to the Tigers, during which Yale claimed only one singles win, a straight sets triumph by Zachary Krumholz ’15 at the No. 6 spot. The Elis also lost the doubles point, albeit narrowly, as they won one of the three matchups decisively and were defeated in another by the slimmest of margins, 7–8. Ultimately, the Tigers simply proved too much for the Elis to handle.

The men’s team responded admirably to the loss, defeating Penn 4–2 on the second day of the road swing. This time, the men claimed the doubles point, pulling out two clutch 8–7 wins

to secure a crucial point. In singles, Tyler Lu ’17 regained his dominant form at the No. 1 spot, pulling off an impressive 6–3, 6–2 win in a much-needed victory for the Bulldogs. The Elis went on to win at the No. 2 and No. 3 spots as well. Martin Svenning ’16 managed a straight sets win at No. 2 to help push the Bulldogs forward, while Daniel Faierman ’15 came back from an early 4–6 set loss to win 4–6, 6–0, 6–4, sealing the win.

“The team had a tough match in a tough environment at Princeton on Saturday, but I am extremely proud of how we responded on Sunday to beat an undefeated Penn team,” Kyle Dawson ’14 said. “We competed well, and the win gives us great momentum heading into a tough weekend home against Cornell and Columbia.”

Both Yale tennis squads take on Cornell and Columbia next weekend. The men will host their opponents at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center, while the women will embark on a two game road trip.

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

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The No. 52 women’s tennis team lost to Princeton, but bested the Quakers to open Ivy play.

Lanham ’14 a sophomore sensation LANHAM FROM PAGE 14 bia last week with a complete game shutout, and then followed up against Princeton five days later with six more shutout innings, allowing his first run in 13 innings in the seventh frame as the Bulldogs went on to win the contest 2–1.

“It’s been huge, especially in league play, to have a guy go out there and throw two complete games like

he has,” Cerfolio said. “You need to have a shut-down guy like that in Ivy League play. It really gives your team momentum, and he’s been that guy for us.”

Lanham’s starts last week were good enough to give him a 0.68 conference ERA, the best figure in the league two weeks into the Ivy season.

But his recent performance has not been the only highlight of his eight appearances and 4–1 record so far.

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Right-handed pitcher Chris Lanham ’16 leads the Yale pitching staff with four wins this season.

Last month, Lanham allowed one earned run through eight innings at Stetson and shut out UMass Lowell in five frames later that week. In perhaps the most notable of his appearances early in the season, Lanham pitched 2.2 shutout innings at thenNo. 1 LSU and was credited with the win in a historic 8–7 victory over the Tigers.

Lanham said his success this season has hinged on his ability to throw all three of his pitches — a simple arsenal of a fastball, a changeup and a 12–6 curveball — for strikes. He added that pounding the strike zone consistently is the basis of his mentality on the mound.

“I try to throw strikes from the first pitch, going right after them,” Lanham said. “Don’t try to nibble around the strike zone. Let them put it in play and let our defense do the work behind me.”

The numbers show Lanham’s approach to be true. In his near-shutout on Sunday against Princeton, Lanham struck out just three batters of the 19 outs he recorded.

He ended the second inning in three pitches, allowing all three batters to hit into first pitchouts.

Last week at Columbia, Lanham did not give up a single walk en route to his three-hit shutout of the defending Ivy League champions.

“When he keeps his fastball down in the zone, with the other weapons he has, he will be successful,” head coach John Stuper said in an email.

Lanham said this approach has come from his second-year experience, which has helped him rise up as an ace this year after going 1–7 last season with a 5.74 ERA. Stuper noted Lanham’s increased strength and velocity as improvements over the offseason, while Cer-

folio added that his teammate’s 12–6 curveball is sharper than it was in 2013.

But Cerfolio, a senior, has been a significant source of assistance throughout this season himself, Lanham said.

Cerfolio, an expert at pitching in the Ivy League who was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers last year, has served as an assistant pitching coach during his recovery, tracking pitches and talking with pitchers on the bench during each game.

“I just try to give some of the experience that I’ve gotten over the last three years to some of the younger guys like Chris and Chasen [Ford ’17],” Cerfolio said. “In between innings, helping them with what they should be thinking about on the mound — slowing the game down, taking a deep breath, trusting your stuff.”

While Lanham’s outings this season have been exceptional, they have also been necessary for keeping Yale above .500 in the Ivy League. In Lanham’s three most recent wins, the Bulldogs have offered him an average of just two runs of support.

But Lanham said that he trusts his team to secure the win if he can do his job on the mound.

“The way I’ve had success so far is allowing my defense to play behind me, and they’ve done an awesome job,” Lanham said. “The offense comes up big in clutch situations and gets a couple of runs, and that’s worked so far.”

That strategy will be tested for a third time this weekend, when Lanham and the rest of the Bulldogs play at Dartmouth for a four-game series.

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

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Study explores beliefs about free will

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER Yale research on belief in free will may have implications for criminal sentencing.

A new paper, written by a team of social psychologists and philosophers, examines why people believe in free will — the concept that individuals can make their own decisions. The study establishes that people have a greater belief in free will after thinking about others committing immoral actions compared to committing morally neutral actions. This finding suggest that belief in free will is a fluid concept, said Jamie Luguri, study co-author and a Yale graduate student.

“One of the reasons that people believe in free will is that they have this desire to hold other people morally responsible when they do bad things,” said Cory Clark, a graduate student at University of California Irvine and the study’s senior author.

In the study, participants either read about a corrupt judge or a neutral article about a job search, subsequently reporting how they felt about the existence of human free will overall. Belief in free will was higher after reading the article about corruption than the story about the job search. Researchers also found that subjects from countries with high crimes rates held stronger believed in free will more strongly.

The researchers also conducted a series of field experiments by sending psychology students one of three messages, a control email or one of two emails reporting cheating in the student body. Students who learned of the cheating reported more belief in free will than those in the control group, confirming earlier findings.

The paper’s conclusions are a significant deviation from previous theories of belief in free will, which reported that people believed others had free will because they believed in their own free will, said Azim Shariff, a professor of social psychology at University of Oregon and study co-author.

In contrast, the current study

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focuses on motivating factors for believing in the existence of free will, Shariff said. Peter Ditto, a study author and professor of psychology and social behavior at the University of California Irvine, said assigning free will to social deviation justifies punishment.

“[There is] pressure of human cognition to invest things with moral responsibility because blaming people allows you to punish people, which is really important for societal cooperation,” Ditto said.

Ditto said the study conclusions can be demonstrated by

conventional judicial proceedings. When deciding whether to try an adolescent as an adult, more severe crimes are often thought of as deserving more severe punishments, since they are thought to result from free will.

Joshua Knobe, a professor of

cognitive science and philosophy at Yale and study co-author, said the study demonstrates the power of psychology to answer ancient philosophical questions about the nature of free will.

Clark said she is currently working on a study that may demonstrate that people who

believe in free will feel less anxious punishing others.

The study appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in April.

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

Autism course celebrates 30 years

BY JOYCE GUO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER An innovative Yale course on the study and treatment of autism is now entering its fourth decade.

“Autism and Related Disorders,” founded in 1984 by Chair of the Yale Child Study Center Fred Volkmar, features lectures by experts in the field and weekly clinical experience with autistic children in the community. The course is part of the Yale Child Study Center’s Autism Program, which encompasses lab-based research, clinical services for autistic children, and the popular undergraduate course. Volkmar said the program is likely the oldest of its type in the country and has been as leader in raising awareness about the disorder over the last three decades.

“There [are] a lot of people in the Yale community who are affected in some way by autism, and [Autism and Related Disorders] is very empowering for them to be able to learn and work in depth with the subject,” said James McPartland, a professor in the Child Studies Center and coleader of Autism and Related Disorders.

According to Volkmar, the program first started by accident. Thirty years ago, a group of Yale students wanted to volunteer at Benhaven, an organization that provides various services for families with autistic children.

The students asked Volkmar to provide an academic structure that could incorporate the handson approach of understanding autism with classroom learning.

Soon after, the initiative became the Autism and Related Disorders seminar, which Volkmar teaches in the fall. Once a week, Volkmar welcomes autism experts to class, ranging from scientists studying how MRI scans can lead to better diagnoses to New York Times reporters who discuss the process of writing about autism.

But for many undergraduates, including current student Man-

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“Autism and Related Disorders” was founded in 1984 by Fred Volkmar, chair of the Yale Child Study Center, as part of the center’s Autism Program. uel Valle ’15, the most meaningful part of the course is interacting with local autistic children.

Each week, students complete clinical observations, some working at local autism organizations like Benhaven and Chapel Haven. Others take on different initiatives, Christopher Rim ’17, for example, created an education program for parents and teachers to help autistic victims of bullying.

Earlier this year, a local Boy Scout troop reached out to Volkmar to help the group identify ways of better incorporating autistic kids into their ranks. Next month, Volkmar and a student in his class will introduce the antibullying educational program to the scoutmasters and parents.

Volkmar also consults to the Yale Admissions Office, which often asks him for his help in reviewing applicants who self-identify as

autistic in an attempt to be more inclusive to applicants with the disorder.

Volkmar said his students are often deeply affected by the class.

Many of them have family members who fall on the autism spectrum, and Volkmar guarantees a spot in the class for anyone with an autistic sibling. He takes about 15 students per semester.

Valle said he was initially drawn to the class because it was

one of the few in the psychology department that offers handson clinical experience, which has made a huge difference in his understanding of autism.

“It’s been amazing just being there for the kids and seeing their different abilities and their specific disabilities,” Valle said. “It’s been totally eye opening.”

The course constantly changes in response to developments in the field, Volkmar said. In

response to growing demand for online courses, Volkmar began offering the course on iTunes in 2010, and is planning to update the online version this year.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in 68 children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

Contact JOYCE GUO at joyce.guo@yale.edu .

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“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”

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Perceptions of beauty vary widely

BY CAROLINE HART CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new Yale-led study confirms that beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.

The study asked both plastic surgeons and the general public about the ideal shape of lips and chin. Researchers found opinions on the matter are not universal, uncovering that preferences are influenced by demographic, geographic and ethnic factors. The study, which appeared in the Journal of Craniofacial Study in March, impresses the importance of doctors listening to patient preferences during facial reconstructive surgery, said John Persing, a professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine.

“It is important to recognize that plans for surgical procedures on the face should be individualized,” Persing said. “Because [of] these biases, the patient should be clear as to what they, personally, want to see changed, and not to rely on just what the doctor says he [or] she should have done.”

In the study, participants modified a digital image of a face by augmenting or reducing the projection of the lips and chin, the same adjustments performed by plastic surgeons during aesthetic reconstructive surgery. The survey yielded 1,226 responses from over 50 countries.

Researchers uncovered that preferences among plastic surgeons across the world differed from the general population. Surgeon preference usually aligned with a singular idea of beauty consisting of symmetrical nose and lips — the so-called “golden ratio” portrayed by Leonardo da Vinci, among others.

Among the general population, sex, occupation and ethnicity were found to be significant in establishing ideal chin projection. Among white and Hispanic

participants, females preferred a greater degree of chin projection than males. Caucasian and Hispanic respondents also preferred a less prominent chin than surgeons. “‘Ideal’ aesthetics are highly dependent on the individual’s cultural and ethnic background

and cannot simply and solely be defined by numeric values and divine proportions,” said YuenJong Liu, a study co-author and chief surgical resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

The study focused solely on facial aspects of beauty, and

Liu said other studies of beauty have found less varied ideals. For instance, Liu said, a recent study on ideal breast size found more universal preferences.

Study authors write that the findings call for surgeons to be more sensitive to differences in patient preferences of beauty

during aesthetic facial plastic surgery.

Reuben Ng, a study co-author and doctoral candidate at Yale, said the finding that perception of beauty depends on culture calls for further study of how cultural differences manifest in everyday lives.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, somewhere between 60,000 and 750,000 people travel to a different country for medical treatment each year.

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

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Days before conference, Anderson talks ethnography

BY CORYNA OGUNSEITAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Elijah Anderson is a Yale professor of sociology and director of the Urban Ethnography Project. Anderson studies ethnography, a field that examines human culture and ethnicity, and is particularly interested in the black urban experience in America. The News sat down to talk about his work, his views on ethnography and Urban Ethnography Project’s conference that runs from April 10 to April 12.

Q

Can you describe your background in ethnography?

A

I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, and ethnography is the kind of thing the University is known for.

The first real graduate department of sociology was at Chicago, with scholars like Charles Henderson and Robert E. Park.

Robert Park introduced urban themes and told the students to go and get their hands dirty and do research, get out of the library.

He taught them to apprehend and document people’s lives and the practice of life in the city. His students wrote some of the classic tomes of sociology.

I came along and started to read Dubois, who wrote “The Philadelphia Negro” in 1859.

His work is the first real urban empirical study in America, and it’s about black people. I said Dubois was the founding father of American sociology. The book is a major document in American sociology, and yet, you can go to many, many departments in sociology in this country, and never read it or hear about Dubois. It’s not been given its due. He did this work in Philadelphia by using the methodology of ethnography.

to individual people QInontalking the street, do you see stu-

dents overgeneralizing when they go out and do field research?

A

No — this is the theory of it all. People as they live in the city, in every day life, go about meeting the demands and exigencies of life. As they do this, they gain what we sociologist call “local knowledge.” They develop an ideology, a working concep-

tion of the world. These human groups all over the city have these notions of how things are — norms, values, rules, all this is in their heads. They share them with their families [and] their loved ones. An ethnographer wants to tap into that. He or she wants to apprehend, comprehend, understand, and then represent that. There’s a whole systematic way of doing that, and I’ve been teaching that methodology. I went and hung out with street corner men to write my dissertation. you describe your current QCan research on ethnography?

A

My most recent book is called “The Iconic Ghetto.”

It’s about how people live race everyday. For example, you look at Trayvon Martin, and you look at Emmett Till, both of whom were killed in the South. Till was murdered by racist men for whistling at white women in the South. Some people look at Trayvon Martin and say it was the same thing, racism. But I beg to differ.

people are walking through the world as black people, and a lot of people associate them with the ghetto. Once that association is made, the black person has a deficit of credibility. The deficit has to be made up by performance of some sort. Speaking well, acting well, wearing a suit and tie, even that doesn’t get you over, because you graduate from the deficit to provisional status, which means having something to prove. It’s racism, it’s a new kind of racism, but its racism is in many ways a function of that icon. Today, I believe that the iconic ghetto and the symbolic racism that comes from that becomes conflated with the old to make life very difficult for black people. do you contend with a QHow history of racism in the field of sociology?

A

I think that the times have changed in ethnography. If you go back to the old school at Chicago, you’ll see these peo-

ple who are dealing with white supremacy that was really rampant at the turn of the century.

Their work reflected that — even Dubois’ work. The symbols he used were often times those kinds of symbols. You can detect social Darwinism in [his] book the Philadelphia Negro. What it meant to be an educated person was to use the language of the day. To us, looking back, that seems like eugenics.

Do you find that in ethnography today, scholars enter with preconceived notions of the group of study?

Absolutely. One of the problems with social science is that it’s done by human beings.

They’ve got presuppositional frames that are in some ways a function of their culture. So the really good ones, the ones who are really critical, try to come to terms with that baggage. It’s important for people to be critical, to try very hard to deal with one’s baggage and see the world clearly.

do you teach your stuTypically, this is a conferQHow dents to take their own biases Aence where the senior peointo consideration when studying other groups?

A

I use the idea of baggage.

What you have to do is to come to terms with who you are and what you mean, and how you’re seeing the people given your own presuppositional frame. There’s a way in which ethnography tries to be scientific.

This is through analytic induction, which is looking at particular things in the field that allow you to come up with this generalization or hypothesis. To go one step further, you look for negative cases. These are cases that might require the revision of your hypothesis, given the observation that you have. So you’re trying to be systematic, you’re not just trying to come up with stuff.

are the goals of the Yale QWhat conference on urban ethnography taking place later this week?

ple teach the younger people the methods. The people doing the presentations will be assistant professors, and the moderators will be senior people. The first day, I’ll be on a panel where we discuss the method, how to do ethnography. This is a place for people to network, come together, connect, and learn more about ethnography. We want to establish a network of people who are doing ethnographic work at a high level, and to further this goal of producing high quality ethnographic work. The presumption is if we can do that, the field itself will be enhanced because we’ll have a solid description of what people do in life, and everybody will have to take this work seriously, or ignore it at their peril.

Contact CORYNA OGUNSEITAN at coryna.ogunseitan@yale.edu .

clarify, you think it was not QToracism that drove the murder of Trayvon Martin?

A

No, I think it’s racism, but I think it’s a new kind of racism. What killed Emmett Till is this deep, kind of white supremacist racism that’s rooted in slavery. What killed Trayvon Martin was this iconic ghetto. I’m not sure that Zimmerman was racist. The men that killed Till were more overtly racist — they thought black people were inferior. I don’t think Zimmerman had the same feeling. What I’m suggesting is that Trayvon, by presenting himself with the emblems of the hood, even the means of engaging this man, all that together basically set the stage for his demise.

you expand on the idea of QCan presentation of emblems of the hood?

A

The argument that I’ve put forth is that the ghetto has become a very important icon in American society. But it’s also a very deep source of prejudice, discrimination, and racism. Black

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In his most recent book titled “The Iconic Ghetto,” Elijah Anderson explores how people live race everyday.

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ERIN MAGNUSON ’15 WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM The midfielder and Northport N.Y., native made the Ivy League Honor Roll this week for her play in Yale’s 15–8 loss at Princeton on Saturday. Magnuson scored a hat trick and scooped up three ground balls in the losing effort.

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“The conditions were nearly unplayable, with wind gusts in excess of 30 miles per hour.”

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Agostino ’14 excelling in NHL MEN’S HOCKEY

Tennis starts Ivy season

BY MARC CUGNON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale tennis kicked off Ivy League play this weekend, as both Bulldog teams took on Princeton and Penn to begin their respective quests for the Ivy League crown.

TENNIS Yale’s women’s squad hosted its Ivy League rivals at home, while the men began their season with a two game road trip. Both

teams split, falling to the Tigers but topping the Quakers.

The women’s team opened its weekend with a disappointing home loss to Princeton in a hotly contested 3–4 finish. The Elis began by playing doubles against the Tigers. Yale swept Princeton, riding an 8–6 victory by the duo of Annie Sullivan ’14 and Sherry Li ’17 and a dominant 8–1 win by Ree Ree Li ’16 and Hanna Yu ’15 to claim the doubles point.

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Forward Kenny Agostino ’14 scored his first career NHL goal in a 2–1 win over the Florida Panthers April 4.

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER While his Yale hockey career finished three weeks ago, left wing Kenny Agostino’s ’14 NHL career is just beginning to flourish. The New Jersey native has played six games for the Calgary Flames, averaging over 11 minutes of ice time and 17 shifts a game.

“I really just feel joy for him,” Yale hockey head coach Keith Allain ’80 said.

“I know how much work he and his family put into him becoming an elite hockey

player. We were just thrilled for him that he has this chance.”

Agostino signed with Calgary just two days after the Bulldog’s season ended, inking a two-year entry-level deal worth $900,000 back on March 17. He made his NHL debut just four days later against the Nashville Predators and scored his first goal against the Florida Panthers on April 4.

“It’s awesome to see Ken get this opportunity; he deserves it,” said former linemate and current Yale forward John Hayden ’17. “He is a role model of mine

Lanham lights out in sophomore season

and seeing his hard work pay off is pretty special. I got the chills watching his first of many NHL goals last Friday.”

The goal came after Agostino hopped off the boards and jumped into the Panther’s zone, pouncing on a loose puck and rifling a shot into the top left corner above two-time All-Star Roberto Luongo’s shoulder in Calgary’s 2–1 victory.

While the goal was the senior’s first in the NHL, it was by no means an unlikely occurrence and reckons to be the first of SEE AGOSTINO PAGE 10

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The men’s tennis team fell to Princeton 6–1, then beat Penn 4–2 this weekend.

Two second-place finishes for golf

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER In two contests for the Yale golf program, the men and women’s teams both secured second-place finishes this past weekend.

GOLF After taking 10th place at the Lin-

ger Longer Invitational in Greensboro, Ga., the men’s golf squad bounced back for a runner-up finish at the Met Invitational, which the Elis hosted in Purchase, N.Y. The Bulldogs finished second to No. 5 Georgia and beat out the archrival Crimson by five strokes after the single day, 36-hole showdown. Two members of the men’s golf program cited challenging wind as an obsta-

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Starting pitcher Chris Lanham ’16 tossed 6.1 shutout innings as Yale beat Princeton 2–1 on Sunday.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER When the Yale baseball team found out last month that ace pitcher Rob Cerfolio ’14 would be out indefinitely with an elbow injury, members of the Eli pitching staff knew that they would need to step up in the face of adversity.

BASEBALL In the first half of the Ivy League sea-

son, Yale’s pitchers have done that and more, combining for a 3.35 conference ERA and carrying the Bulldogs to a 5–3 Ivy record. Among the hurlers paving the way for the Elis, one leader in particular has emerged: right-hander Chris Lanham ’16.

The sophomore from Houston, Texas has been stellar in his first two conference starts of the year. Lanham earned Yale’s first Ivy win of 2014 at ColumSEE LANHAM PAGE 10

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Both the men’s and women’s golf teams finished in second place in their respective tournaments this weekend.

cle they had to overcome to earn the second-place finish.

“The conditions were nearly unplayable, with wind gusts in excess of 30 miles per hour,” Will Davenport ’15 said. “It was a real mental grind. The morning course was not in great condition, and it was certainly difficult to play through that while battling the conditions.”

Despite the trials posed by uncooperative weather, captain Sam Bernstein ’14 repeated an exceptional individual performance and ended the tournament in a tie for second.

At last years’ tournament, he tied for fourth.

Bernstein shot a 72 and 74 in the first and second rounds, respectively, for an overall score of 146.

“Overall, my game was very solid on Saturday,” Bernstein said. “I did not do anything particularly great, but I continued to leave myself in good position around the golf course and as a result, I did not make any big numbers.”

Sean Gaudette ’14 was the second-best finisher for the Elis, tying for seventh place with two Princetonians with a score of 153 for two rounds. Jonathan Lai ’17 came next, putting together a round of 74 and a round of 81 for a total score of 155 and tying for 12th place in the tournament.

Yale beat out all five Ivy competitors present, including Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell and Brown, which finished third, fourth, sixth, seventh and last, respectively.

In a similar fashion, the women’s program bounced back from its lowest finish of the 2013-2014 seaSEE GOLF PAGE 10

DIFFERENT PLAYERS WHO SCORED FOR THE MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM AGAINST DARTMOUTH ON SATURDAY. Midfielder Shane Thornton ’15 led the way with three scores for Yale, which won 16–10.