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Some call for unity, others question it

Hurts a little less. We’ve seen a lot of heartbreak watching Yale sports this year — football, basketball and now hockey all fell just short in the very end, despite showing plenty of heart each time. For what it’s worth, though, Harvard and Quinnipiac also lost their first-round hockey matchups.

So we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.

Consolation abounds. It was still a fruitful weekend for New Haven hockey. Locally, the men’s club team swept Harvard and UConn in games at Ingalls that sandwiched the annual showdown between the New Haven Police and Fire Departments. And on the big stage, national championship team stars Andrew Miller ’13 and Kenny Agostino ’14 made highlight reels with slick penalty shots — Miller’s marked his first NHL goal.

BuzzFERPA. News alumna Molly Hensley-Clancy ’13 also took the plunge and requested her admissions file, as per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Before Yale announced plans to destroy such records, Hensley-Clancy read through and found a “tepid” alumni interview score, among other nuggets that she published in an article for BuzzFeed this weekend.

Game of Thrones? Such is how Maryland Gov. Martin O’ Malley might describe the United States presidency after noting that the office should not be “some crown to be passed between two families,” on ABC’s “This Week” program on Sunday. On behalf of the University that helped groom those two families for success, we do (not) apologize.

Get paid. Among O’Malley’s

selling points as a likely candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination is his willingness to take on Wall Street in the name of equality.

We’re curious, then, to see what he’d think about the Yale Economic Review’s stock pitch competition, hosted in conjuction with Seeking Alpha. A cash prize is on the line, of course.

Simpler times. Tapping into a universal longing for the days when we were all less concerned about stock markets and presidential campaigns, people around campus have been selling Girl Scout cookies — one stand set up shop outside the Branford and Davenport dining halls on Friday. Either we’re all sentimental or the cookies just taste good.

Holey year. New Haven has

had a particularly tough year with pot holes. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get much more information from the thinly sourced WTNH.com article that broke ground on the news.

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Eidelson will seek third term

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During the two-hour-long event, students argued for administrative transparency and highlighted several issues before the University.

“The rally represents the views of various students on Yale campus that have been historically disen-

Sarah Eidelson ’12 will seek a third term representing Ward 1 on the New Haven Board of Alders.

She confirmed her plans in an interview with the News Saturday morning, more than seven months before the November election.

“It has really been a privilege to get to represent Yale students on the Board of Alders so far, and we’ve made major progress on a lot of the issues that matter most,” Eidelson, a Democrat, said. Youth spaces and programs, in addition to student representation on the Board of Education, will remain her central areas of focus in the future, she said.

Eidelson will face at least one opponent, Democrat Fish Stark ’17, who announced his candidacy at the beginning of March. Stark, a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College, officially kicked off his campaign with an event last week.

Stark said he welcomes Eidelson’s entry into the race.

“I’m really glad there will be a contested election,” he said. “I think it’s important that Yalies can choose who represents them.

I hoped that we would have an opponent no matter who it was.”

During a conversation with Eidelson following the announcement of his candidacy, Stark said, Eidelson informed him that she

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Yale students gathered last Friday on Cross Campus to demand greater student activism on campus.

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER One hundred and fifty Yale students gathered last Friday on Cross Campus to demand greater student activism on campus. However, in a telling statement about the solidarity of the student body, or lack

thereof, some students protested the event itself.

At “Unite Yale: Rally for Student Power,” student speakers represented a host of organizations, including members of Yale’s four cultural houses, Fossil Free Yale, Students Unite Now and mental health policy reform advocates.

ACIR to support pro-environment shareholder resolutions

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Though voting is most often associated with the actions of individual citizens, Yale is casting a vote of its own on issues of climate change.

This spring, Yale’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility has begun to use proxy voting — the process by which the University casts its vote on a variety of shareholder resolutions — to formally support corpo-

rate practices of sustainability. In August, University President Peter Salovey announced new guidance for the ACIR that instructed the University to “generally support” shareholder resolutions, proposals that are submitted by investors in a company, that include such issues as the disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions.

Salovey also said the University would endorse resolutions that encourage strategies designed to reduce the company’s longterm impact on the global cli-

Yale ends season with OT loss to BU

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The No. 17 Yale men’s hockey team fended off No. 3 Boston University’s nation-leading offense for a full 48 minutes on Friday in the NCAA Tournament Regional Semifinal game. But it was what happened in the next 20 minutes of play that ended up determining the game — and the Elis’s season.

The Bulldogs (18–10–5, 12–6–4 ECAC) fell to the Terriers, 3–2, in overtime to end their season at the very beginning of the NCAA Tournament. Yale held a 1–0 lead after two periods — largely thanks to a dominant second period and strong play from its star goaltender, Alex Lyon ’17 — but BU’s offense came alive in the final minutes, tallying a pair of goals in the third and then clinching the win with a goal by forward Danny O’Regan, 7:27 into the overtime period.

BU (27–7–5, 14–5–3 Hockey East) then defeated No. 7 Minnesota-Duluth by the same score on Saturday and will head to the

Frozen Four in Boston on April 9. Yale, meanwhile, was the last team to secure a spot in the tournament and the first to exit the 16-team field.

“It’s no mystery why [Yale] is in this tournament,” BU head coach David Quinn said after the game. “They play as hard as anyone we’ve played against.

They’ve got a great goalie. It really was everything we thought it’d be.”

Goals for the Bulldogs came from defenseman Nate Repensky ’18 and left wing Frankie DiChiara ’17, who also helped out with a screen and was credited with an assist on Repensky’s goal.

Mainly due to dominance near the end of the game, BU outshot Yale 42–23, with 20 of those 42 shots coming in the third and overtime periods. Lyon stopped 39, tying his season high for saves — a stat that came in Yale’s eerily similar 3–2 overtime loss to Harvard just two weeks before.

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Chair of the ACIR and law professor Jonathan Macey LAW ’82 said that from early spring until June, his committee will review the shareholder proposals of firms in which the University possesses individual stock, and in following the outlined aims set forth by the Yale Corporation’s Committee on Investor Responsibility, will now formally support the resolutions pertaining to environmental sustainability. Though Macey and Provost

Benjamin Polak expressed support for the type of shareholder engagement achieved by proxy voting, others argued that this form of pressure is insufficient in changing corporate behavior.

Moreover, Macey conceded that shareholder resolutions ultimately are not the sole solution.

“I don’t think in-and-ofitself it will end climate change problems, but it is part of a large mass movement,” Macey said. “I think it is an important

step.”

Under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s 14a-8 rule, provided that certain conditions are met, a publicly traded company must allow the opportunity for shareholders to vote via ballot — called “proxies” — on a range of issues including the election of a company’s board of directors, approval of company auditors and in this case, proposals regarding issues of climate SEE PROXY VOTING PAGE 4

Officer exonerated in St. Patrick’s Day incident

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The results of an internal New Haven Police Department investigation left police officers and community activists standing in opposition for over an hour at City Hall on Friday.

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTERS Tensions ran high at City Hall on Friday afternoon, where the results of an internal New Haven Police Department investigation left police officers and community activists standing in opposition for over an hour.

On March 15, 15-year old Teandrea Cornelius was aggressively pushed to the ground

by New Haven Police officer Josh Smereczynsky in an arrest outside the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in downtown New Haven.

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ithin a few days, this year’s college admissions cycle will draw to an end. For Chinese students, who are 12 hours ahead of their dream schools, “Ivy Day” — the day when all eight Ivy League schools release their admissions decisions simultaneously — is always a sleepless night.

But for those who receive offers from elite American colleges, it’s worth the wait. Some of these students become instant celebrities. It’s not rare to see the profile of an accepted student take up half a page in a newspaper, stir up online discussions or even have a little fan page on the Internet. But before the dozens of students get featured on Chinese media this year, I would encourage them to exercise their rights to say no to such potentially misleading publicity. They should use their moment of fame to voice their own opinions and reflections on the broader Chinese education system. These students could spark a constructive conversation on the issues facing higher education in China today.

Chinese people’s obsession with the Ivy League probably originated with the publication of Harvard Girl Liu Yiting, a 2000 book on the life and education of a Chengdu girl who was accepted to Harvard College in 1999. Liu was a typical Chinese “good student" - studied economics at Harvard and later became an investment banker but the book by her parents and the barrage of media coverage rendered Liu a myth. Harvard, and other elite schools, became a buzzword with a halo. Students in elite American colleges are often perceived by Chinese people as top scorers on tests, just like the students who come up on top in the all-important College Entrance Examination that determines which domestic universities Chinese students can attend.

Unsurprisingly, the most frequent question I get asked as a Chinese tour guide here is what Yale’s requirements are for the SATs and the TOEFL test. For similar reasons, most media profiles on elite Chinese students mention their SAT and TOEFL scores either in the title or the first paragraph. Even worse, some test prep companies feature such students in their ads in an attempt to bolster their reputation, when high scores clearly have more to do with personal efforts than test prep techniques.

Over the years, the Chinese media has gradually accepted the Ivy League’s emphasis on a holistic evaluation of each applicant. As such, these profiles have similarly expanded in coverage to focus on the admitted students’ lives outside academics. As it turns out, elite students

engage in all sorts of fancy extracurricular activities from sports to volunteering, from filmmaking to publishing. Nonetheless, descriptions about these extracurricular activities are also potentially misleading.

First, they give readers the impression that academic and extracurricular successes are the direct causes for these students’ admission to selective universities, such as Yale and Harvard.

While these are important factors, they often fail to sufficiently emphasize the important roles a student’s family background and high school play in the college admissions process. It’s not a surprise that many of these students come from the best high schools and have prominent parents. Similarly, though these hagiographies portray the successful applicant as destined to succeed, they often overlook the factor of luck in the process: For every qualified student who is accepted, several equally talented students must be turned away.

Second, some readers may believe that an Ivy League acceptance letter is attainable for everyone. Unsurprisingly, many try to emulate the paths taken by the lucky few. This gives rise to the extremely profitable but somewhat unethical industry of résumé-padding study-abroad agencies in China.

Such profiteering businesses only flourish when the narrow, seemingly perfect lives of a privileged few hang over the minds of millions of students. While an elite education should be open to everyone, it may not be the best fit for everyone. As Zheng Yefu, a sociologist at Peking University, forcefully argued in his 2013 book, The Pathology of Chinese Education, society should offer other ways than elite universities to lead a successful life. The public admiration of Ivy League students only narrows the meaning of success in China, further increases the cost of the educational arms race and victimizes the majority who will not be accepted by the Ancient Eight.

In order to avoid misleading publicity, the students accepted this year by America’s leading schools should use their newfound podium to demand that the media broaden its conception of success to include paths beyond just an acceptance letter to a U.S. college. Such a narrow definition of success is the outcome of a perverse education culture. Instead, success should be measured by how much the students are eventually able to contribute to society, and no one is in a better position to point out such simple truth than the elite students themselves.

YIFU DONG is a sophomore in Branford College. Contact him at yifu.dong@yale.edu .

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In praise of Michael Herbert

ast year about this time, I joined the campaign of Sara Miller ’16. Sara was running for YCC president, and I thought she’d be an excellent choice to run our student government. I still think she would have, but, sadly, it wasn’t in the cards. Instead, the job fell to Michael Herbert ’16.

I didn’t know Michael before he became president. I, like many others, knew him only through rumors — principally, that he was a conservative, and that, somehow, this would affect his presidency. I was skeptical of his approach to financial aid and his apparent attempt to run with a slate of like-minded candidates.

I watched his campaign with amusement and some degree of admiration: amusement because of his self-deprecating, sort of bizarre antics and admiration because of his willingness to tell the truth, even if he did it in a goofy way. Michael criticized the YCC for insularity, for superficiality, for unwillingness to confront the administration. And then he won.

And I can say with confidence that Michael has been the best YCC president in my four years here.

After a year of listening closely — and meeting with him a number of times — I still have no idea what Michael’s politics are. And that’s fine; for a student body president, views about most national political issues are irrelevant. But let’s say for the sake of argument that Michael leans right. That’s fine.

Because it looks to me that, even

SCOTT STERN A Stern Perspective

if he has philosophically disagreed with the majority of the student body on issues such as divestment, he’s been willing to check his own politics to promote the opinions of the vast majority of his

constituents.

That is the mark of a good and humble student body president.

Far more than any of his predecessors, Michael has been a leader, unafraid to confront the administration.

Early this year, when he heard a meeting had been scheduled at which the administration was going to quietly refuse to divest from fossil fuels, Michael — who had not been invited — insisted on showing up and then argued, along with members of Fossil Free Yale, for the administration to heed the students it claims to serve. Sadly, such arguments were in vain.

He has since shown up to a number of FFY actions and other protests regarding financial aid and student voice. While previous presidents may have declined to do something that might make them appear too adversarial, Michael has recognized that he should stand with his constituents.

One recent incidence of exemplary YCC leadership occurred a few weeks ago at the forum on mental health. Michael sat in the front row, but remained silent for the first chunk of the meeting, allowing activists and those willing to relate personal stories to speak first. Then he stood up, and politely but insistently asked the panelists simply to respond to each of the YCC’s mental health proposals, point by point. He didn’t ask that they grant each of them; he just wanted the administration to say with regard to each proposal either, yes, we’re going to do that, or, no, we’re not doing that because of such-andsuch.

The administrators on stage hemmed and hawed and would not give him a straight answer.

Michael remained standing, just asking whether or not they would accede to his request. Eventually, they said no. “This is why people in general have tremendous distrust for our administration,” Michael said. “There’s a very real question about how seriously [these issues are] being taken.”

And then he sat down.

This was dignified insistence, a respectful confrontation. He wasn’t dominating the conversation or making a scene; he was simply doing his job. He was standing up for his constituents.

The message we’ve gotten from several generations of YCC presidents is: We know better.

The message we’ve gotten from Michael is: What can I do to help?

Unlike past YCC presidents,

Michael hasn’t taken himself too seriously. More importantly, he has worked hard to make himself approachable. Michael published his cellphone number in these very pages and encouraged students to reach out to him directly.

This was a small act of chutzpah, but it was chutzpah nonetheless.

I wrote in a column last year that the YCC is not the place for the protests, that its newly created referendum process could not be a means to “empower student voice and activism on campus,” as the YCC claimed in its newsletter. I stand by this. But Michael has exemplified everything the YCC can do. He has listened to his fellow students and then acted according to how they feel. He has not pretended to be an activist; he has been an advocate working within the system.

That is his role.

Obviously, being an advocate — working within the system — doesn’t always work. Especially with an administration this openly disdainful of our intelligence, there are things that won’t be accomplished by working within the system. But, in order to effect change, one must attack a problem from all fronts. One of those is respectfully, through the proper channels, from within.

There is still work to be done. But I’m glad Michael has been doing his part this year.

SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His column runs on Monday. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST MARTIN LIM

Remembering Lee Kuan Yew

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ee Kuan Yew died last Monday, March 23. He served as Prime Minister of Singapore, my home country, from 1959 to 1990, and then remained in the cabinet until 2011. His death was met by an outpouring of grief in Singapore — a week of national mourning was declared, and more than half a million people stood in line for up to 10 hours to pay their last respects.

His state funeral on Sunday was attended by dozen of world leaders. In President Obama’s statement on his death, he called Lee “a true giant of history … one of the great strategists of Asian affairs.”

Yet given all this, and in spite of Yale’s engagement with Singapore through Yale-NUS, most Yalies know little about the country or its former leader. To quote one of my friends, “This is embarrassing, but I never heard of Lee Kuan Yew until he died.”

However, I believe that Lee’s successes and failures offer many important policy lessons for us all.

Lee Kuan Yew was arguably the founding father of modern Singapore — our equivalent of George Washington, as I very roughly explained to one of my friends on Monday. Lee played an outsized role in the development of this former British colony: a 250-square-mile island with no natural resources populated by immigrants from all over

Asia with little shared history.

Under his watch, the country defied odds and became one of the world’s great success stories.

Singapore’s real GDP per capita increased tenfold from 1960 to present day; it now has a higher Human Development Index than Japan and the U.K. Lee was, first and foremost, a pragmatist. He believed in doing whatever was necessary to ensure the country’s continued development and growth. This meant cutting taxes, reducing or eliminating trade barriers, providing subsidies and tax rebates for foreign investment and investing in a highly-educated and skilled workforce. He instituted the teaching of English as a first language not only to provide a common language for various immigrant groups, but also to equip the workforce for manufacturing and industry. For the same reason, science, technology, engineering and mathematics were emphasized in schools long before the acronym became popular.

This pragmatism extended into social policy as well. To increase the birth rate the government created what was effectively a state-run matchmaking agency for young adults. To promote social graciousness, the government launched an inordinate number of advocacy campaigns, as well as fines for graffiti, littering and spitting. And in perhaps the country’s most infa-

mous example: Because gum was blocking subway doors and leading to train delays, the government banned it outright. These measures of social engineering are arguably rather authoritarian, but in Lee’s words, “We would have been a grosser, ruder, cruder society had we not made these efforts.”

Lee believed firmly in meritocracy, in allowing the best and the brightest to succeed and in having the most capable people in government. To this end the government invested heavily in education, recruiting teachers from the top third of high school graduates. The government provided scholarships for its best students — often from humble backgrounds — to study in universities. These students were then placed in top positions in the civil service and paid high-enough salaries to avoid corruption and retain talent. These practices, which continue today, led to the development of strong government institutions. In the words of Tommy Koh, Singapore’s former ambassador to the U.N., Lee’s foresight ensured that “his passing will have no negative impact on the future of Singapore.”

Of course, this pragmatism could go too far. Lee believed that given Singapore’s small population, it did not have enough talent to support more than one political party. He also argued that the government knew what was best

for the country and could not afford to give into populist measures and politics. This led to the muzzling of opposition politicians and critics, often through the use of libel suits based on strict defamation laws, as well as 50 years of one-party rule. In recent years, Singaporeans have begun to push back against the government, resenting its perceived arrogance and highhanded approach to governance.

In 2011, this resulted in the government’s worst-ever election result, winning only 60 percent of the popular vote. Lee resigned from the cabinet shortly thereafter.

For America and the rest of the world, Lee Kuan Yew’s approach to governance can provide us with many instructive lessons.

In his choice of pragmatism over ideology, Lee showed how a relentless belief in doing what was best for the country instead of what was popular brought Singapore to where it is today. Similarly, his meritocratic approach in education and governance gives other countries much to learn from and emulate. Lee Kuan Yew was truly one of the great leaders of the 20th century, and as a Singaporean, I say: Thank you, and rest in peace, Mr. Lee. MARTIN LIM is a freshman in Berkeley College and a copy staffer for the News. Contact him at martin.lim@yale.edu .

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“A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of the people.” RICHARD NIXON AMERICAN PRESIDENT

CORRECTION FRIDAY, MARCH 27

Ta-Nehisi Coates makes case for reparations

A previous version of the article “Yale hosts inaugural Student Film Festival” incorrectly stated that the festival judges are student filmmakers. They are, in fact, film professionals.

Elections mandatory for search committee spots

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER The Yale College Council passed a resolution by unanimous vote Sunday afternoon stipulating that student representatives on future search committees for the dean of Yale College and president of the University must be elected by the undergraduate student body.

Proposed by YCC representative Tyler Blackmon ’16, a staff columnist for the News, the amendment to the YCC constitution states that all students enrolled in Yale College will be eligible to run for student positions on the search committees. The election process will be overseen by the YCC, and the entire student body will be able to vote to determine who will be appointed to the positions.

Blackmon said the idea for this proposal stemmed from the formation of the search committee tasked with replacing then-Yale College Dean Mary Miller in February 2014. At the time, Blackmon said, many students were unhappy with the way that thenYCC President Danny Avraham ’15 was appointed as the student representative on the committee.

“When we had the dean search committee last year, I was very forceful to have a process that involved the student body because a lot is at stake, and the entire student body deserves to be heard,” Blackmon said. “[Having a student on the committee has] never happened before, so it was unclear what the process should be.”

Avraham declined to comment Sunday night, but he said in February 2014 that the decision about the process for selecting a representative on the advisory committee should be made

by YCC members rather than the larger student body in that specific instance.

YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 said the amendment provides a structured opportunity for the undergraduate community to discuss the qualities that they want in student representatives on these committees. Although Blackmon proposed the amendment after the announcement of Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry’s departure, Herbert said the selection process for student representatives would only extend to search committees for the dean of Yale College and the University president — at least for now.

“We have a lot of elections during the year, and if we had elections for every position, we

would have had seven elections this year,” Herbert said. “Blackmon and I both agreed that the two most important positions to have elections were the president of the University and dean of Yale College.”

Many YCC representatives agreed that the amendment was necessary, as it now allows the entire student body to be involved in the selection process.

YCC Academics Director David Lawrence ’15 said this does not mean students can only choose people outside of the YCC. He noted that in some situations, the most qualified candidate may be a YCC member, while in others, there may be more appropriate candidates elsewhere.

Herbert also added that if students have faith in the YCC, then the president may gain their vote of confidence to be on the committee. He noted this would challenge the YCC to be better representatives of the student voice. “[The amendment] is important, and I agree with it because it will set a precedent for the administration to expect an election for a student representative when they’re choosing a new dean or president,” YCC representative Benjamin Martin ’17 said. “Last year was the impetus for this because of the controversy that Salovey didn’t give enough time to do a student body-wide election, and we were forced to appoint someone.”

The entire student body deserves to be heard.

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Acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke on Friday night on issues of race relations in America.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Over 300 people filled Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall Friday night to hear acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose controversial analyses of race in America have appeared on the cover of The Atlantic and in the pages of the The New York Times.

The talk addressed many of the same issues of race relations in America as his June 2014 Atlantic feature article “The Case for Reparations.” In the talk, Coates traced what he called the “plunder” of black people by whites throughout American history, ending his talk with a call to rethink the meaning of white and American identities. Coates questioned how Ivy League schools like Yale were complicit in this plunder, citing the slave-based economy that funded the University for many years. Yale students said they thought Coates’s visit was important in light of recent events surrounding race that have occurred on campus.

Coates argued that the presence of racist property laws

throughout history — what he described as “the plunder” — is the root cause of racial differences seen today.

“This is plunder and this is plunder that is made possible

by U.S. policy,” he said, referring to what he described as discriminatory federal government housing laws. “It’s a way of doing business.”

Coates added that experiences during his childhood in Baltimore in the 1970s made him realize the material differences between many blacks and whites in America. The vast majority of white Americans had a childhood that was free of violence, he said. Coates said that while growing up, he made every decision based on his concerns for his own physical safety.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, who introduced Coates, said Coates’s message of white identity relying on the plunder of blacks is difficult for many people to hear. However, Holloway added that he thinks it should be understood not as an accusation of white people, but as an assertion that race is a human construct.

Near the end of the talk, Coates said that if he were an activist student at Yale he would question why the University has been complicit in the “plundering” of black people throughout history, a comment that sparked both students and faculty to question Yale’s role in the larger national dialogue on race.

“At its founding and for its first 150 plus years, yes, Yale, like so many other institutions of the era were complicit in plunder because their finances were interwoven with the global slave economy,” Holloway wrote in an email to the News.

Students who attended the talk said they thought Coates had furthered the conversation of race on campus, and were glad that Coates had been invited. The talk was part of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and co-sponsored by the Yale College Dean’s Office, the Office of the President and the Department of African American Studies.

Vice President of the Black Student Alliance at Yale Eshe Sherley ’16 said she thought it was important for black students to shape the direction of

race conversations at Yale. Sherley added that these conversations were especially important given recent news stories relating to racism, including the racist chanting of a University of Oklahoma fraternity, the shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin and the Department of Justice’s report on Ferguson’s policing. “[Coates is] calling on a nation that justifies itself to itself with lies, to actually have the bravery to face the truth. It’s not just Yale, it’s white people,” said Edward Columbia ’18, who attended the talk.

Still, Coates criticized many of the ways race is discussed across the country, calling the recent anniversary ceremonies in Selma “pageantry.”

“All these conversations about race are a waste,” Coates said. “It’s become a self-congratulatory kind of thing.”

Coates’s article “The Case for Reparations,” brought more unique visitors in a single day to The Atlantic’s site than any previous story for the magazine.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

TYLER BLACKMON ’16 Still, YCC members during the meeting agreed that the proposal may pose other potential problems in the future.

Martin noted that while it would be a challenging process to solicit candidates and votes, it is nonetheless an important process that would not happen too frequently.

“One of the things that came up was the timing — what happens if the administration only gives you a week and you have to organize this election?” Blackmon said. “What people realize is that, by us putting this in the constitution, we expect to have ample time, and that the administration can’t just spring on us like in the past.”

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

Financial aid forms come under scrutiny

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER As the federal deadline for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid approaches — a form that students must complete in order to determine their eligibility for financial assistance — efforts have increased to guide students through the often arduous process of applying for financial aid.

While the FAFSA indicates which students are entitled to federal aid, such as Pell Grants, student loans and work-study, universities also use information from the FAFSA to determine how much tuition a given student has to cover. Though states and colleges generally have different deadlines for completion of the FAFSA, the application opens on Jan. 1 and should be filled out as soon as possible, Executive Director of New Haven Promise Patricia Melton ’82 said.

“Free money goes first and fast,” Melton said. “Thus, it is very important to complete the forms as soon as possible. Families should not delay. There is help in person and online. Families that wait until tax day to file their FAFSA are at a disadvantage for getting all the free aid that is available.”

Although the federal deadline for the FAFSA is June 30, both Melton and Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi recommended that families submit the form much earlier. According to Yale’s financial aid website, the University suggests that families complete the FAFSA after they finish their 2014 tax returns, but no later than May 10. Filling out the application early enough is one of the main challenges families have with the FAFSA, Melton said, since many people are tempted to wait long after filing their taxes to complete the form.

She added that families who are filling out the form for the first time may also be intimi-

dated, particularly those whose first language is not English.

Emma Goldrick ’17 said she finds the FAFSA very challenging to fill out each year, and that the form often calculates that her parents can put more money toward her tuition than they actually can.

“My main issues with it are that it assumes your family is willing to bankrupt itself just to pay your tuition, and also that it’s an extremely difficult, bureaucratic hoop that you have to jump through,” Goldrick said.

“I can’t imagine trying to fill it out if my parents didn’t speak English or if they didn’t have steady jobs.”

Three students interviewed who receive financial aid from the University said they depend completely on their parents to fill out their FAFSA, because they are unable to manage the form themselves.

Storlazzi said it is inarguable that the application process for financial aid is very time consuming, requiring families to become quickly conversant with complex terminology in order to complete the form. He added that it is difficult to pinpoint which component of the FAFSA families find the most challenging, since questions vary on a case-by-case basis.

“Each family is different and has different questions or concerns with completing the FAFSA,” Storlazzi said. “Sometimes the terminology can be confusing, especially for families who don’t complete their own tax returns — using outside help, for example — as they might not have the terminology right at their fingertips. Ample instructions are provided with the FAFSA, but there’s nothing like in-person help right when it is needed.”

Although Melton and Storlazzi both said that completing the FAFSA can be difficult for some families, they also noted that

there are many opportunities for families to receive in-person help while filling out the application.

Yale is a member of the CT Association of Professional Financial Aid Administrators, which hosts a statewide outreach program called “College Goal Sunday” every January — a program that allows students and families to interact directly with financial aid personnel while completing the FAFSA. According to Storlazzi, staff from Yale Student Financial Services have volunteered and participated in CGS.

[The FAFSA] assumes your family is willing to bankrupt itself just to pay your tuition.

EMMA GOLDRICK ‘17 “As a new option this year, Yale has partnered with New Haven Promise in order to provide a second regional FAFSA program locally in New Haven,” Storlazzi said. “We held this session on the Yale campus on Feb. 25, and the offering was a great success. About 20 families attended and with four financial aid officers, each family could get all of their questions answered without waiting.”

On Feb. 2, the Obama Administration released a budget proposal calling for many higher education reforms, including the simplification and streamlining of the FAFSA. The proposal outlined the deletion of 30 questions — the most “burdensome” and “difficult-to-verify” — reducing the total number of questions on the application to 78. The reformed FAFSA would primarily rely on information that is readily available from fed-

eral tax returns.

All five students interviewed said they support a simplification of the FAFSA, so long as the reduced number of questions does not result in miscalculations of financial need.

Madeline Tomlinson ’17 said that while the FAFSA in its current state is very lengthy, the obvious reason for the large number of questions is that a lot of information is required in order for schools to properly calculate a student’s financial need.

“It would be great if the government could simplify the application and make it easier for students to fill out on their own,” Tomlinson said. “But I’m not sure exactly how this can be done without putting some students in jeopardy of receiving less aid.”

This statement was echoed by Justin Draeger, president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, who told Inside Higher Ed that colleges worry that eliminating too many questions from the FAFSA will make it more difficult for them to understand how much tuition a family is capable of paying. Schools only have a limited pool of funds, and when less information is gathered about a student’s financial situation, everyone looks needier on paper, Draeger said.

But Melton expressed support for efforts to reduce the burden that the FAFSA places on many families.

“Any attempt to simplify and assist families to complete the form is a welcome change,” Melton said. “One can never do enough to help families through this intimidating process.”

The Department of Education estimates that roughly 2 million students who would have qualified for federal aid were unable to complete the FAFSA. Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than it used to be.” STEVEN SEAGAL AMERICAN ACTOR

Four years after first win, Eidelson to try for third term EIDELSON FROM PAGE 1 would run for a third term and asked him to drop out of the race. He said several others, including some who hold influence in the city’s Democratic Party, expressed their desire that he not challenge a fellow Democrat.

In an interview with the News, Vincent Mauro Jr., the chairman of the New Haven Democratic Party, said he met with Stark last week to discuss his campaign. He said the New Haven Democratic Party does not welcome the prospect of a race between Democrats in Ward 1, and he praised Eidelson for taking a “citywide view of governance.”

“We would obviously rather not have a race in the first ward between two Democrats, and I think Sarah has done really a fantastic job,” he said. “I think Sarah is the right candidate — she’s really taken up a nice view of not only representing the first ward, but really looking at the city.”

Eidelson said she has not filed any paperwork for her re-election bid and will formally announce her

campaign later this semester. Eidelson went uncontested in the Democratic primary two years ago, squaring off in a two-way contest against Republican Paul Chandler ’14.

As chair of the Board’s Youth Services Committee, Eidelson has worked to create the New Haven Youth Map, an online database of youth services across the city. She also worked to secure a state youth violence prevention grant for the city. Thus far, New Haven has garnered $1.25 million for youth services from the grant.

Student representation on the Board of Education, one of Eidelson’s legislative priorities, was approved in the City Charter revision of 2013 in the form of two nonvoting members and finalized by the alders earlier this year. Eidelson had a hand in determining the details of how high school students would get elected.

“I’m running for re-election because of the vision that I have for the way that our communities relate to the city, and the vision I have of a New Haven where all young people

Univ. to nudge corps with shareholder resolutions PROXY VOTING FROM PAGE 1 change. Macey said that when Yale received proxies drafted by environmental groups and in pursuant to Rule 14a-8, the University generally votes the proenvironmental line.

Macey added that the ACIR is at the beginning of the process.

Though he could not disclose the exact number of resolutions that the committee was actively reviewing, he estimated that it was in the range of 20 to 50.

Macey added that the University’s policy and practices regarding proxy voting are guided by the principles of “The Ethical Investor” — a 1972 book that the Yale Corporation adopted in the same year to outline the University’s responsibilities to address the social impact of its investments.

“The University will vote for a proposition which seeks to eliminate or reduce the social injury caused by a company’s activities,” the University guidelines state. “[Yale] will vote against a proposition which seeks to prevent such elimination or reduction, where a finding has been made that the activities which are the subject of the proposition cause social injury.”

Macey said that in the past, the ACIR has voted aggressively on resolutions that limit tobacco advertisements aimed at children and other related issues.

According to its 2013–14 report, the ACIR also considered and voted on proxy resolutions in areas including consumer protection, corporate political contributions and equal employment opportunity.

Macey added that proxy voting carries unique benefits over divestment since it allows shareholders to maintain influence over corporate behavior, rather than forfeit that power.

“If you sell your stock, you have no further interactions with the company, and you are selling your share to someone who — by definition — is [not only] declining to divest but is actively interested in accumulating shares and — by definition — cares less about the social issues than you do, [since] otherwise they wouldn’t be buying the share you are selling in protest,” he said. “Whereas if you are engaging with a company, you remain connected to the company and are introducing [a] democratic pulse to try to influence the company behavior.”

Macey said that at this stage, the ACIR would only be voting on resolutions conceived and drafted by other individuals or groups. He noted, however, that writing and proposing original resolutions is “certainly within the realm of possibility” going forward.

Polak said a benefit of proxy voting is that it allows Yale to

take action that is more than symbolic in nature.

“I am not saying symbols are worth less or aren’t effective — symbols are effective,” Polak said. “But with voting proxies, you can actually make things happen, you can actually participate in votes, and actually change behavior of companies, and that is something that Yale does and will continue to do.”

But with voting proxies, you can actually make things happen.

BENJAMIN POLAK Yale University Provost Macey said resolutions that pass — typically by majority vote with each share correlating to a vote — force the board of directors to consider the issue presented, although he noted, resolutions may be phrased in a non-binding manner. However, because Yale typically holds a large number of shares in the companies in which it has invested, their vote could be especially influential.

Still, members of Fossil Free Yale — the student group advocating for divestment from the fossil fuel industry — remain largely unconvinced that these measures will yield tangible change.

FFY project organizer Mitch Barrows ’16 said that though FFY continues to work with the ACIR to advocate for fossil fuel divestment, it will not work directly on any shareholder resolutions. He said shareholder engagement has largely proven ineffective in addressing the social injustice committed by the fossil fuel industry. “‘The Ethical Investor,’ Yale’s investing guidelines, gives convincing theoretical arguments against shareholder resolutions; in most cases, shareholder power is obstructed, fractional and slow to take effect,” Barrows wrote in an email. “These firms strategically place obstacles in their bylaws to inhibit the effectiveness of shareholder resolutions, limiting their prevalence and diminishing their importance.”

He added that even in the few cases in which companies have signed on to shareholder resolutions, comprehensive efforts have not been effective at requiring emission disclosure or spurring institutional change to limit the expansion of greenhouse gas emission.

Still, Macey said the ACIR would work with and welcome the input of FFY. Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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

have access to the things that they need to thrive,” Eidelson said.

Eidelson lives on Orange Street, on the southeast edge of the ward, which is composed primarily of undergraduates, including those living in eight of the 12 residential colleges. Should she win re-election, Eidelson, an alumna of Jonathan Edwards College, will be four years out of college by the time she begins her third term.

Eidelson works in graphic design and communications for Local 34, the union of clerical and technical workers at Yale.

Tyler Blackmon ’16, president of the Yale College Democrats and a staff columnist for the News, said both candidates have agreed to pass over the Democratic primary and instead run as independents in the general election, giving the class of 2019 more time to learn about the race. The Dems will not make an endorsement, Blackmon added.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

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Sarah Eidelson ’12 will seek a third term representing Ward 1 on the New Haven Board of Alders.

Exoneration causes tension at City Hall POLICE PROTEST FROM PAGE 1 can be seen finding a knife in her purse after slamming her to the ground. Contrary to the claims of anti-police protesters, police officers at the protest said the officer was already aware that Cornelius was in possession of a weapon when he handcuffed her.

The incident, which was recorded in a video that was then posted online, triggered an internal NHPD investigation and caused Mayor Toni Harp, last Tuesday, to request that Smereczynsky be taken off patrol while the investigation continued.

But in a Friday afternoon press conference at City Hall, NHPD Chief Dean Esserman said the internal investigation resulted in Smereczynsky’s exoneration.

Esserman said Smereczynsky “followed the training he received” at the Connecticut State Academy in Meriden, where many Connecticut police officers are trained.

He said Cornelius was found to have an unspecified weapon on her person, and Smereczynsky’s training mandated that he respond with the much-criticized “slamming.” Esserman added, however, that officers trained by the NHPD itself often do not follow the same protocol.

In the middle of Esserman’s remarks, just after he announced that Smereczynsky had been exonerated, roughly 80 propolice protesters entered City Hall and climbed the stairs to the press conference on the second floor. Esserman, visibly distressed, retreated from the podium. Holding signs and wearing T-shirts in support of Smereczynsky, the protesters chanted “You let us down” and “Due process.” Esserman and Harp were silent as the protesters — current and retired police officers, family of Smereczynsky, friends and supporters — dominated the room. Smereczynsky’s mother held up a sign proudly declaring support for her son and demanding that he receive justice.

Addressing Esserman and Harp at the scene, police union leader Louis Cavaliere Jr. said the police officer had been treated unfairly over the course of the investigation. He criticized Harp for calling Esserman and asking for Smerecyzynsky to be put on desk duty when protesters stormed her office on Tuesday. Then, he accused his own police chief of succumbing to the pressure of “angry mobs” by visiting Cornelius’s family to make an apology without providing an apology to Smereczynsky for

his demotion to desk duty.

“We feel badly disrespected, and our backs were turned against — we really felt we were abandoned on this,” he said.

After Cavaliere made his statement, the pro-police protesters began to chant overtly against Esserman and Harp. “New mayor, new chief,” went one slogan; “We want a mayor, not a puppet” was another.

Harp and Esserman declined to comment on the rally.

In a prepared statement, Cavaliere said that the anti-police climate across America is reaching an all-time high.

“Police officers everywhere need to know that someone has ‘got their back,’” the statement read, “and that citizens of this city, this state and this country can proudly stand up and say ‘I SUPPORT THE POLICE.’” The slogan was blazed across the signs and T-shirts of the police officers at the scene, with others reading “We are Josh, We are NHPD” and “Cops Lives Matter.”

However, Newhallville resident Nazim Muhammad spoke up after he said he was offended by some of the comments he heard officers shouting in the crowd. He told the News that he had heard one of the police officers call anti-police protesters at the scene “ghetto trash.”

“If you’re going to protest the situation, do that,” he said. “But that was uncalled for.”

Once the press conference concluded, the event quickly moved outside, where pro-police protesters confronted an opposing group of activists, some of whom held a 15-foot-long sign showing the names of people who have died at the hands of police in recent years. These protesters shouted slogans through megaphones — “Cops and Klan go hand in hand”; “Stand up, fight back.”

For roughly 45 minutes, the two groups of protesters stood in groups on the sidewalk outside of City Hall chanting at the other. After 15 minutes of the chanting, one retired officer, Marco Francia, said there was no reason shouting at each other much longer. His comment provoked intense discussions between protesters and police amidst cries of “justice.” In arguments with anti-police protesters, Francia defended Smereczynsky’s actions, saying that the officer made the right decision in the context of the situation and that Esserman’s decision to place him on desk duty was

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In response to accusation from community activist Barbara Fair that the police department has a lack of black police officers on patrol, Francia said his work at NHPD, which spanned a quarter of a century, demonstrated that the department does have an incredibly diverse group of employees from every background, every race and every faith.

“I think sometimes in society, people put too much on color, [and] put too much credence on that,” he said. He encouraged protesters to relinquish their megaphones and instead to sit down and start a “dialogue” with police officers, adding that the two sides can learn from each other.

Chris Garaffa, a New Haven activist who took a leading role in the organization of Friday’s protest, said Smereczynsky should have been removed from duty and charged with assault on a minor. He added that he expects his movement to grow as time passes. The protesters will hold a “March Against Police Brutality” on Grand Avenue April 14. Mike Merli, one of the community activists present on Friday, told the News the walk will remember Malik Jones, who was killed by an East Haven police officer after a car chase into New Haven 18 years ago.

Another protest regarding this specific issue will occur today at 5 p.m. This time, the protest will be at NHPD headquarters on Union Avenue.

Despite moments of dialogue, tensions grew increasingly heated until one antipolice protester, shouting through a megaphone, walked closer to the pro-police group. One member of the pro-police group then swatted away the megaphone with his sign, and a small scuffle ensued.

Pushing and shoving continued until a group of on-duty officers, including NHPD Assistant Chief Luiz Casanova, separated the two groups. Twenty minutes later, the pro-police group headed north on Church Street, bringing an end to the confrontation.

While community activists remained for a short while longer, the street outside City Hall had returned to normal shortly after 5 p.m.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.”

WILL ROGERS AMERICAN ACTOR

Yale-NUS questions campus safety

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTERS Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said he cannot recall any major security issues on the Singapore campus.

While Yale Police Department has received 187 reports of crime on and around campus since the semester began, Lewis, along with students interviewed from YaleNUS, cited the surrounding area of Singapore as a primary reason why the campus has experienced so little crime. But according to students interviewed, security threats are not completely absent, and there could be better ways for the campus to keep itself safe.

Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said he cannot recall any major security issues on the Singapore campus. Lewis, along with students interviewed from YaleNUS, cited the surrounding area of Singapore as a primary reason why the campus has experienced so little crime.

“Crime is much less of a problem in Singapore than it is in New Haven or New York,” Lewis said.

“With the setting, we don’t worry too much about it.”

But according to students interviewed, security threats are not completely absent, and there could be better ways for the campus to keep itself safe.

The Singapore Police Force, in its annual briefing, reported 32,196 cases of crime in 2014 for the island’s population of 5.4 million — one crime for every 168 people in Singapore. In New Haven, data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System reveals that, in the same year, 5,716 cases were reported for a population of 130,000. Thus, the Elm City reports one crime for every 22 people.

Yale-NUS Senior Manager of Facilities Eugene Tam said the crimes that Singaporean universities face most frequently are theft, vandalism and the import of contraband items. Yale’s Deputy Press Secretary Karen Peart said the

most frequently reported campus crimes in New Haven are thefts of electronics and bicycles, and instances of vandalism and import of contraband items are rarely a problem in New Haven.

Kevin Low YNUS ’17 said security emails are almost always sent out in the aftermath of an incident as a reminder to students to remain aware of security threats.

It is this sense of awareness [about security] that we need to inculcate in our community.

EUGENE TAN Senior Manager of Facilities, Yale-NUS However, Walter Yeo YNUS ’17 said that despite the campus being a safe environment overall, administrators have not been particularly effective in responding when crime does occur, particularly on-campus thefts.

“They immediately assumed that the perpetrators [of on-campus theft] were not from within the college,” he said, even though, he added, the circumstances surrounding the cases of on-campus theft gave the contrary impression.

Jason Carlo Carranceja YNUS ’18 said public access to the primary school building is another concern. This building is currently on lease from the National University of Singapore, and a public bus station is located on the first floor of the building. Carranceja said that after a series of thefts of students’ belongings on campus, students asked the administration to take action. Even though he said the response took “quite some time,” elevator access is now restricted to the floors where students live.

Tan said that in order to make the Yale-NUS campus safer, students and staff need to take a more active role in watching out for their

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According to students interviewed, the Yale-NUS campus is not entirely devoid of security threats. own security.

“Singapore is often regarded as a very safe environment, and sometimes students and staff can be lax regarding simple security measures such as keeping doors locked and valuable items safely stowed away. This can create an opportunity for petty crimes,” he said. “It is this sense of awareness that we need to inculcate in our community.”

Jacob Schneidewind YNUS ’18 said the administration sent out a survey asking students if they

had been victims of theft in light of incidents that took place during previous semesters. After the survey, Schneidewind said security guidelines were changed. In particular, he said that doors are now locked and require an access card both on weekday nights and all day on weekends. Students also need to use access cards to get to residential floors via elevator. Hrishi Olickel YNUS ’18 said she is not aware of any security-related emails that have been sent out since this new system was put in

place, which was at the beginning of this semester.

Low added that these new security precautions were made in an effort to minimize the presence of people from outside the Yale-NUS community after hours, which he thought was an appropriate step for the administration to take.

Carranceja said students sometimes take for granted Singapore’s low crime rate — and think that this means they can leave out laptops and phones in common spaces on campus. Despite

this, he said on-campus theft is usually limited to petty theft, and does not include theft of gadgets like phones or laptops.

Yale-NUS security efforts are led by Tan, in conjunction with the offices of the Dean of Students and the Rector.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and PHOEBE KIMMELMAN phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .

La Casa dean search seeks input from students

BY STAPHANY HOU STAFF REPORTER

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OPINION.

Following the release of an external report, La Casa Cultural — along with two other cultural centers — has begun its search for a new dean to replace its current interim director.

On Sunday afternoon, roughly 30 students gathered at La Casa Cultural to provide the newly established dean search committee, which met for the first time on Friday, with their thoughts on the new dean. The committee is slated to recommend a candidate, who will replace the current interim director Amanda Lynn Hernandez MED’16 who has been in place since the fall, to Holloway by the end of the school year. American studies professor and chair of the search committee Alicia Schmidt Camacho headed the discussion, while students articulated their

visions for La Casa and proposed potential questions that candidates could be asked.

“We want to hear about your vision,” Camacho said. “What are the important qualities in a director?”

The search for a new La Casa dean follows an external review of all four cultural centers, which was released in February by Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway.

The report concluded that Yale’s cultural centers have an important role in campus life, but it also found significant deficiencies in the amount of administrative support provided to them.

On Sunday, Camacho gave a broad overview of the process for hiring a new dean. Thus far, the committee has begun reviewing applications to select candidates who will be invited to Yale in April, Camacho said. Once on campus, candidates will have an opportunity to meet with stu-

dents and get a sense of the job.

Several other members of the committee were also in attendance, including the committee’s student representatives Cathleen Calderón ’17 and Miguel Paredes ’18, Associate Provost James Antony and Director of Student Affairs Hannah Peck.

“I want candidates to express why these cultural spaces are important. The new dean should have the language to express this and to advocate for the cultural center,” Catalina Brennan-Gatica ’15 said. He or she should also be good at accumulating stories and building networks that they can share with other students, she added.

Several students echoed this sentiment, adding that the dean should act as an advisor to students at La Casa. Many also voiced the need for discussions surrounding mental health

issues, sexuality and sexual misconduct within the cultural center. Cristina Moreno ’16 said the new dean should address the unique situations of undocumented and first-generation students.

The role of student advisor, however, seems to be in tension with the role the dean would have to serve as an administrator, Antony said — because they would have to both represent students and work with the higher echelons of administration.

“A lot of our issues have been about connecting the students with the administration, and I want to see someone who can stand up and speak up in a room and advocate for us,” George Ramirez ’15 said after the meeting.

Throughout the discussions, students also provided specific characteristics that they would

like to see in the new dean, such as the ability to speak Spanish — a suggestion that was met with laughter and general agreement.

Additionally, students focused on how the dean should think about the Latino identity. The new dean will hopefully be someone who has a very elastic idea of what being Latino is and is cognizant of the fact that Yale has a very multifaceted, diverse community of Latinos, Christopher Melendez ’15 said.

Ramirez said he thinks that it is also important for the new dean to have a grasp on practical issues like the house’s finances.

“In the past we have had issues budgeting correctly, and it is crucial to have someone who has an understanding of how to use money in an efficient and smart way that still accommodates all the students, groups, while remaining respectful of what the administration is giv-

ing,” Ramirez said.

As the meeting came to a close, Camacho encouraged students to continue providing feedback throughout the search process by email.

Ezra Stiles College Master Stephen Pitti, who is part of the Native American Cultural Center dean search committee, also encouraged students to think of themselves as in “recruitment” mode.

“You should be doing everything you can to help the committee and to make the best recommendation about the dean,” he told the audience. “Be your best selves, and represent the excitement of La Casa when the candidates visit.”

La Casa Cultural was founded in 1974 and moved to its current location at 301 Crown St. in 1977.

Contact STAPHANY HOU at staphany.hou@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.” BILLY GRAHAM AMERICAN EVANGELIST

Disparate causes unite in rally for student power UNITE YALE FROM PAGE 1

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Students gathered on Cross Campus for four disparate causes in last Friday’s Unite Yale rally.

franchised by the administration and certain elements of the institution as a whole,” said Sebastian Medina-Tayac ’16, an organizer of the event and a representative of the Native American Cultural Center. “It showed that there is unity among students and that students deserve to be heard.”

But midway through the rally, a group of 10 students began their protest against Unite Yale mere steps away, in front of Sterling Memorial Library. Holding signs and chanting, these students momentarily disrupted the rally, questioning its organizers’ motives.

Cole Aronson ’18, who was part of the protest against Unite Yale, said he supports students who say they have been wronged by the Yale Corporation but criticized the rally’s “random assertion of student power.” Aronson added that the rally was not a productive way of addressing student concerns.

Still, Gabrielle Diaz ’18, an attendee of the rally, said she was discouraged by the protest against Unite Yale. Diaz said she was concerned that those students did not understand the need for students to use their own voices to improve the University.

Throughout the rally, student activists called for the renovation of the cultural houses, the reform of mental health policies, divestment from fossil fuel companies and the elimination of the student contribution. However, the speakers said each issue affected not just an individual group of students but the entire student population. Fabian Fernandez ’15 said at the rally that members of La Casa not only face racial injustices, but also encounter problems with the student contribution and Yale’s mental health policies.

Joel DeLeon ’18, an organizer of the rally, said he was surprised by the enthusiasm of the attendees, and he called upon students to continue the message of unity following the rally.

“I firmly believe that we did our best in starting on the road … in reinvigorating the agency of other students,” he said. “In order for our goal to completely come to fruition, the students who were at the rally must now take it upon themselves to be a part of the change.”

Organizers of Unite Yale first conceived of the rally several weeks ago after they became frustrated with the administration’s responses to previous demonstrations on Beinecke Plaza. In particular, students at

the rally complained that their voices were not heard by the Yale Corporation in the push for divestment.

In response to the rally, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said in an email to the News that he would be “happy to meet with anyone” who schedules a meeting with him.

Given the scope of the event, attendees said they were attracted to the rally for a variety of causes.

Max Weinreich ’16 said a rally like this helped him understand the scope of student activism at Yale and claimed that all the issues presented at the rally stemmed from the “sluggish bureaucracy” of the administration.

Although Unite Yale mainly addressed undergraduate concerns, the rally also attracted other members of the Yale community.

Alex Taubes LAW ’15 said he came to stand in solidarity because he was inspired by the “courage of the rally.” He noted that many graduate students also encountered the issues discussed during the event, listing mental health concerns as an issue that has been raised at the law school.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

BU brings hockey’s NCAA run to swift end MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 1 six shots and posed few challenges for BU goaltender Matt O’Connor, the Bulldogs’ strongest play came during the second period of the game, when they generated numerous chances on the power play and outshot the Terriers 13–11.

Yale had a strong showing on its first power play of the period and continued outshooting BU in the middle of the frame, but it was not until a second power play opportunity that the Elis took the initial lead.

Just 18 seconds after Terrier forward Ahti Oksanen was called for elbowing, Repensky received a pass from forward Mike Doherty ’17 and fired it towards the net from the point. DiChiara was cutting across the ice in front of O’Connor’s eyes, allowing the laser shot to get past the goaltender and into the net.

Te r r i e r fo r wa rd Eva n Rodrigues said his team played noticeably looser after the initial Yale lead, as BU had no reason to hold back. Yale head coach Keith Allain ’80 added that he was hoping for more goals early on for this reason. “[The game was] not exactly where I wanted to be. I would have been 4–0 after two,” Allain said. “I think it was the kind of game we thought it would be.

We felt that it would be to our advantage if they were chasing us rather than us chasing them, but it was not exactly where we wanted to be.”

In the third period, it was the Terriers’ turn to warm up offensively, as they held multiple long

possessions with quick passing to start the period. Lyon saved BU’s first seven shots, including one acrobatic kick save, but with 12 minutes remaining in regulation, BU finally produced a series of passes that Lyon was not able to keep up with.

Oksanen, who had committed the penalty leading to Yale’s goal, ultimately got possession of a failed clear by the Elis and finished with an open net in front of him to level the score at one.

Just three minutes later, BU took a lead for the first time as Rodrigues slid a shot from the side through Lyon’s five-hole.

Yale continued playing scrappy offense throughout the rest of the period, failing to keep the puck consistently in BU’s zone and gaining chances primarily through odd-man rushes.

With seven minutes remaining in the game, however, Yale was able to string together enough passes to score as forward Carson Cooper ’16 passed to forward Cody Learned ’16, who found DiChiara in the middle of the zone for a snipe just over O’Connor’s left shoulder.

Neither team threatened significantly afterwards until near the end of the period, when Yale successfully killed off a penalty with three minutes remaining in regulation. BU remained on the offensive in the final minute after the penalty and hit the post with less than five seconds on the clock, but Yale narrowly escaped to send the game into overtime.

A hooking penalty on defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 in those final seconds, however, forced the Elis to kill a penalty for the

first two minutes of the overtime period. Yale succeeded in that task — its fifth successful penalty kill in as many chances — which forward Trent Ruffolo ’15 said should have helped create a scoring opportunity later in the period.

“We looked to gain momentum off of that kill,” Ruffolo said.

“Our goal going into overtime was to take care of that kill first, and then we could get back to our game.”

But the Elis were able to put only two shots on O’Connor before a BU goal decided the game. Forward Jack Eichel, a favorite for the 2015 Hobey Baker award, fired a shot off Lyon’s leg pad, and O’Regan was able to recover the rebound and put it into the net.

The overtime loss, Yale’s first ever in an NCAA Tournament, came as a disappointment to Eli fans who felt that the stage was set for an upset title run similar to that of 2013. But Allain said he left the ice happy with the efforts of his team.

“I’ve been proud of this group all year long,” Allain said. “I’m not thinking about pride right now, because this is what I expect from this group … this is what they are and this is what they do, so they’re just being themselves.”

Elsewhere in ECAC Hockey, Harvard fell 4–1 to Omaha on Saturday, while North Dakota bested Quinnipiac, also by a score of 4–1. BU, North Dakota, Providence and Omaha will play in the Frozen Four in two weeks.

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

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The Bulldogs lost in overtime in the NCAA tournament for the first time when they fell to BU 3–2.

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“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.� MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Smokeout campaign gains traction

BY MRINAL KUMAR STAFF REPORTER With high schoolers participating in a national social media anti-smoking campaign and an ordinance moving through hearing and testimony, New Haven’s smoke-free campaign regained steam in March.

Last November, Mayor Toni Harp met with University and city representatives to launch the New Haven Smokeout, an initiative to decrease tobacco usage and increase education about the impacts of smoking. The first event of the Smokeout was New Haven’s “Kick Butt Campaign� on March 18, part of a national campaign where public high school students were encouraged to post as much anti-smoking social media as possible, ending the standstill the campaign had been at through majority of its first three months. “Social media is a much more likely way of reaching young people than many other more conventional means of doing so,� said City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer. “In this day and age a newspaper or magazine advertisement or some commercial on radio or television isn’t going to draw the attention that wholesale social media posts would.�

Because tobacco companies’ documents show that they target kids as “replacement smokers� for the hundreds of thousands who die each year from smokingrelated causes, the social media campaign centered around the slogan #NotAReplacement. Three student ambassadors moderated New Haven’s social media campaign.

New Haven’s Smokeout consists of three parts: education in New Haven public schools, providing resources to smokers trying to quit and passing an ordinance that would ban smoking in certain public places, according to

Ward 7 Alder Abby Roth ’90 LAW ’94.

The ordinance was introduced to the Board of Alders on March 2, and, if passed, will ban tobacco use in parks, city facilities, school grounds and city playgrounds.

Roth expects the Community Services Administration of the board to vote on whether to move the ordinance forward or not in April, and she hopes to have it passed by the full board by the end of June.

Grotheer was less optimistic about this timeline. In a February interview with the News he said the June deadline will likely be missed, and his stance has not changed despite the recent progress. “Right now the Board of Alders is up to its elbows in budget stuff,â€? he said. “It’s up to the alders to finalize a budget between now and June ‌ it’s hard to know how long [the ordinance] might take.â€?

Both Grotheer and Roth agreed, however, that the city has complete legal authority to pass the ordinance. Roth said many alders have already agreed to cosign it, and that with the mayor’s sponsorship, the ordinance should get through the legislative process smoothly.

Grotheer pointed out that municipal governments have had autonomy in smoking legislation in the past — for example, New York City was one of the first cities to ban indoor smoking.

The City Hall spokesman also stressed the importance of the education and awareness components of the Smokeout program, noting that encouraging people to stop smoking will also cut tobacco-related healthcare costs.

This year was the first that New Haven participated in the “Kick Butt Campaign,� and Grotheer said it was an effective way to reach young people.

Still, Nicholas Christakis ’84, Yale professor of social and nat-

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nections, although information can flow through rigged connections.â&#x20AC;?

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percent rate, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

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“Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.” CHARLOTTE BUNCH AMERICAN ACTIVIST

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Winthrop residents will remain in house next year

BY CASSIDY TUCKER Ellen Pao lost her three-year discrimination lawsuit against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers on Friday.

A jury found that Kleiner Perkins did not discriminate against Pao on the basis of gender and did not retaliate against her for reports of gender discrimination that she had filed with senior staff at the firm. Attorneys for Kleiner Perkins had argued that Pao, now the interim CEO of Reddit, was fired for poor performance and being difficult to work with.

Neither Pao nor Kleiner Perkins responded to requests for comment.

In 2005, Pao joined Kleiner Perkins as the chief of staff to a general partner at the firm and took on the role of a junior investing partner in 2010. Pao was fired on Oct. 1, 2012.

Throughout the trial, Pao’s attorneys portrayed Kleiner Perkins as a boys’ club that promoted all-male outings and routine harassment. Her attorneys alleged the prestigious firm was a business in which associates talked of things like pornography and Playboy bunnies on business trips. Kleiner Perkins said the testimony was hearsay.

Another former female partner of Kleiner Perkins testified that a male colleague touched her with his leg under a table and also appeared at her hotel room one night in nothing but a bathrobe.

Kleiner Perkins said that relationship was started mutually.

This past Friday, the 12-member jury, consisting of six men and six women, found that Kleiner Perkins did not discriminate against Pao on any of her claims.

The verdict in the case, which some media outlets treated as a referendum on how welcome women are in Silicon Valley, was

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n o t s u rprising, said Tracy Thomas, a law professor at the University of Akron and a co-editor of a blog about gen-

der and the law.

“Gender discrimination cases are very difficult to win,” Thomas said. “Discrimination is often subtle and indirect — a compilation of comments and circumstances rather than an overt statement or hateful misogyny that our legal standards of evidence prefer.”

Fran Maier, the founder of TRUSTe, an online privacy management services provider, and a co-founder of Match.com, has experience working in the maledominated technology industry. Women make up only 23 percent of the technology workforce

in San Jose and 21 percent in San Francisco, the two largest cities in the Silicon Valley region.

Maier said the loss was a big disappointment, because a win for Pao would have sent an important message about the importance of women in technology.

She added that there is reason for optimism, though.

“The train has left the station,” Maier said. “These firms have been given a wake-up call, and there will be more lawsuits.”

There is no question that women have too small of a presence in venture capital and in the larger technology sector, said John Kang, a professor at the St. Thomas University School of Law who has written about masculinity and the law.

“The gender disparity in such firms does make you wonder why [the disparity] exists and whether it’s justified,” he said, “and to that extent, Pao’s case has provided a useful catalyst for public discussion.”

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BY QUYNH-NHU LE Contrary to administrators’ previous statements, Winthrop House residents will not live in swing housing next year to accommodate House renewal plans.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith previously said administrators were considering placing some Winthrop students in swing space next year as the College begins construction on Winthrop East, a planned fivestory addition to Winthrop House’s Gore Hall.

The House will undergo full renovation as part of Harvard’s more than $1 billion House renewal project in 2016–2017.

Renewal plans for Winthrop House, which is slated for renovation in 2016–2017, include a five-story addition to Gore Hall on Mill Street.

However, administrators have revised renewal plans in response to feedback. While minor House pre-construction renovations will still begin in June, construction will now halt in August to allow Winthrop residents to live in the House next year, according to Winthrop House Masters Ronald S. Sullivan and Stephanie Robinson, who informed Winthrop residents of the change in plans in an email Friday.

This timeline means that, as previously planned, next academic year will represent a one-year break in House renewal construc-

tion. All Winthrop residents will move into swing housing for 2016–2017 after construction on the House resumes in June 2016.

Administrators adopted the revised timeline, which now requires HARVARD Winthrop residents to live in swing housing for only one year, rather than two, in “an effort to minimize disruption to the Winthrop community,” Sullivan and Robinson wrote in a separate email to The Crimson.

They also noted that one year of swing follows the model of previous House renewal projects.

Students from Quincy, Leverett, and Dunster — Houses that were previously renovated or are currently being renovated — each lived in swing housing for only one year during construction.

According to Dean of Student Life Stephen Lassonde, Winthrop students participated in three meetings about Winthrop’s renewal in February, and he and other administrators continue to discuss renewal plans in weekly meetings. Winthrop residents will have additional opportunities to work with architects and voice concerns in the coming months, Sullivan and Robinson wrote.

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, MARCH 30 11:35 AM David Epstein, Poynter Talk: “Genius in Sports: Is It Nature or Nurture”. David Epstein is a science writer and author of the top 10 New York Times bestseller “The Sports Gene,” which has been translated into 13 languages. He is an investigative reporter at ProPublica, and was previously a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. Woolsey Hall (500 College St.), President’s Rm. 3:30 PM Vinyl Cutting Demo. An introduction to using the DMCA vinyl cutter and how to transfer cut images to a variety of surfaces. Open to Yale community only. Digital Media Center for the Arts (149 York St.), Rm. 104.

4:30 PM Stephen A. Schwarzman Discusses the Schwarzman Scholars Program. Stephen A. Schwarzman and other guests will share the latest information about the exciting new Schwarzman Scholars Program, designed to foster the next generation of global leaders through a one-year Master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Yale Center for International and Professional Experience (55 Whitney Ave.), Rm. 369.

TUESDAY, MARCH 31 4:00 PM Lethal Injection and its Discontents. The United States is the only Western democratic nation to practice capital punishment in the 21st century. Following Foucault, this lecture analyses the current practice of lethal injection in the US as a form of ‘grotesque sovereignty’ or Ubu-esque power. Institute for Social and Policy Studies (77 Prospect St.), Rm. A002.

5:00 PM The Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series: Paul Auster.

Novelist and director Paul Auster is the author of “The New York Trilogy” (1985–6), “Moon Palace” (1989), “The Music of Chance” (1990), “The Book of Illusions” (2002), and “The Brooklyn Follies” (2005). A former vice-president of PEN American Center and current member, he is recipient of several awards for both writing and film directing. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 Wall St.).

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NCAAM Wisconsin 85 Arizona 78

NCAAM Kentucky 68 Notre Dame 66

SPORTS QUICK HITS

YALE FOOTBALL 2015 JUNIOR DAY Friday was a big day for the future of the Yale football team, as 27 high school juniors visited New Haven as part of Yale’s Junior Day. The Yale football Twitter account posted a picture of several current players talking to members of the Class of 2020.

NCAAM Duke 66 Gonzaga 52

NCAAM Michigan St. 76 Louisville 70

NHL Capitals 5 Rangers 2

MONDAY

ANDREW MILLER ’13 YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER YOUR FIRST The captain on Yale’s national title-winning 2012–13 squad scored his first NHL goal for the Edmonton Oilers over the weekend. Miller was the first player in Oilers history to score his first career goal on a penalty shot.

“These guys will finish up school … then hope to make a camp. There, they’ll fight for their lives.”

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Seniors on display at Pro Day

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last Thursday, four Yale football players took to the turf in the Connecticut Sportsplex in North Branford, performing in front of three NFL scouts at Yale’s annual Pro Day, featuring prospects from across the state.

Wide receivers Chris Smith ’15 and Grant Wallace ’15, linebacker Will Vaughan ’15 and defensive back Charles Cook ’15 participated alongside nine other players from Central Connecticut State, Southern Connecticut State, Sacred Heart and Wesleyan. Players did activities, such as the 40-yard dash, the vertical leap and the long jump, in addition to position-specific drills.

The scouts present were from the Denver Broncos, New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts.

According to Yale assistant coach Steven Vashel, the players aim to attract enough attention to get an invitation to a team’s training camp.

“Unless you’re drafted in the midrounds, you’re almost better off being a[n undrafted] free agent,” Vashel said.

“These guys will finish up school, keep training, try to get a workout after the draft, then hope to make a camp. There, they’ll fight for their lives.”

In contrast to drafted players, who can only negotiate with the team that picked them, undrafted free agents are at liberty to sign with any team that

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offers them a contract. Though such a contract often carries a lower amount of guaranteed money and offers less job security, it ideally lets the player choose a team that offers him the best chance to make the 53-man roster.

Perhaps the day’s biggest standout was Cook. The second-team AllIvy defensive back from Dallas ran the 40-yard dash in an unofficial time of 4.59 seconds, leapt 38 inches in the vertical leap and hit 10’9” in the long jump, according to Vashel.

For context, his vertical leap would have tied for eighth-best, and his long jump would have tied for seventh-best of all defensive backs at the NFL Combine this year, which was held in February in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Several spectators and players interviewed, including Wallace, highlighted Cook’s performance as outstanding.

“For Chris and Charles, it went really well,” Wallace said. “They got on the radar for some teams, so hopefully they’ll go to a rookie mini camp. Charles had one of the highest verts [vertical jumps] and Chris had one of the fastest 40 times.”

According to his mother, Ellen Cook, Charles Cook has been preparing throughout the entire semester for the Pro Day. She explained that her son, who played in the outfield for the Elis baseball team for two seasons, took the SEE PRO DAY PAGE B3

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Defensive back Charles Cook ’15, a second-team All-Ivy selection in 2014, recorded a vertical leap of 38 inches.

A glimpse into next season

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER The No. 17 Yale men’s hockey team fell 3–2 in overtime to No. 3 Boston University Friday, ending its season with a finish that was hardfought and disappointing for the Bulldogs.

Yale competed with the Terriers for the full 68 minutes of play but ultimately was not able to produce the goals necessary to overcome BU’s offense, which leads the country in goals per game behind freshman forward Jack Eichel.

MEN’S HOCKEY The loss highlighted multiple themes that pervaded the 2014–15 season and will have a major impact on the Bulldogs next year. By

Women’s lacrosse beats Aztecs 12–6

losing very few seniors to graduation, Yale can hope to maintain its stellar defensive performance while improving upon a young offense that proved to be a liability this season.

Despite the loss in the stat book, goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 was impressive in net Friday, positioning himself well for nearly every BU opportunity in front of the net and also making multiple acrobatic saves with his glove and legs.

Lyon saved 92.9 percent of the 42 shots fired at him, nearly matching his season save percentage of 0.939 and helping the Elis kill all five Terrier power plays.

The consistently hot goaltender was critiSEE M. HOCKEY PAGE B3

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The women’s lacrosse team held the San Diego State Aztecs to their lowest scoring total all season at six goals.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER Playing in snowy conditions on Saturday night, the Yale women’s lacrosse team earned its second victory by six or more points this week in a decisive win over San Diego State.

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Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 set a Yale record in shutouts, with seven this season.

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The Elis (6–5, 1–2 Ivy) took down the Aztecs 12–6 after a pair of three-point runs pushed them ahead in the first half. The win

allowed the Elis to regain a winning record this season.

“We played well yesterday despite the weather,” attacker Kiwi Comizio ’18 said. “I think we are somewhat used to it after all the bad weather we have so far this season. Offensively, we moved the ball around really well on attack and had many good, effective transitions. Defensively, we did a really good job of holding a high-scoring offense to very few goals and caused many turnovers in the midfield.”

Just like in its game Wednes-

day against Boston University, Yale took an early lead in the contest when midfielder Christina Doherty ’15 scored a goal less than a minute into the match. The Elis kept San Diego State scoreless for the first 15 minutes of the game, while finding the back of the net twice in that time with a pair of goals from attacker Hope Hanley ’17.

The Aztecs would not stay shut out for much longer, though. San Diego put itself on the board with SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE B3

THE NUMBER OF GOALS THE MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM PUT UP AGAINST PENN IN ITS FIRST IVY WIN. The Bulldogs scored the second most goals all season and their highest total since their 16–9 victory over Bryant on Feb. 28.

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“Even the officials looked at me before the game and said this is special. It was a big win.” TOM IZZO MICHIGAN STATE HEAD BASKETBALL COACH

Elis earn first Ivy win

Going pro, but in the front office EPSTEIN FROM PAGE 4

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At the time, there was a bit of a glass ceiling in baseball if you hadn’t played the game at the big league level.

It was hard to break in. One path that was available was to go be an area scout for five or 10 years. My boss at the time, Kevin Towers, he was getting pressured — we had a real small inner circle there, in the Padres’ small front office, he was getting pressured to hire a lawyer on the baseball side, and he didn’t really want a lawyer around. He and I had a great relationship, and he had the idea, why don’t you go to law school and we’ll see if that’s good enough? People ask what you take out of law school, and it did help cement a way of thinking. But all of the technical legal stuff, you jettison from your mind the day after you take the bar exam.

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Eight Elis scored in Yale’s matchup against Penn. Two players recorded at least a hat trick.

M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 Yale also got goals from five different midfielders — Michael Keasey ’16, Colin Flaherty ’15, Eric Scott ’17, Shane Thornton ’15 and Reese — all during their seven-goal third-quarter explosion. The contributions of the midfield to the team’s goalscoring helped the Elis avoid the mid-game collapses that have plagued them all season.

“The whole season, we’ve been coming out high energy and the last couple games we’ve blown some leads,” Thornton said. “After that first quarter … we wanted to come out [strong] in the second quarter.”

They did just that, turning a 4–1 first-quarter advantage into a 6–2 halftime score before their thirdquarter brilliance turned the intense conference matchup into an easy

game for the Elis. When all was said and done, the Bulldogs won the second and third quarters by a combined 9–3 score and had opened up a ninegoal advantage, 13–4.

From there, Yale cruised through the fourth quarter, with goals from Oberbeck and Cimbalista to complete the 15 total tallies on the Yale side. On the defensive end, the Bulldogs shut down Penn stars Nick Doktor and Joe McCallion, with Doktor registering only one goal and one assist while McCallion was held scoreless entirely.

Goalie Eric Natale ’15 made eight saves on his 15 shots faced, a far cry from the struggling Penn goalies, both of whom played two quarters and surrendered more goals than successful saves.

The only facet of the game where the Bulldogs struggled was the

The biggest benefit was that it gave me some really cool experience.

To be in a position like that and to have a chance to work with great people and be around world-class athletes and be a small part of some special things happening was just a dream come true. I had great timing, great luck and great mentorship, to be able to be in that position.

The challenge is that I think I didn’t have much rope with expected credibility. If things didn’t go well quickly, it probably would’ve been a really quick fall from grace. I was fortunate that I caught some breaks early, and some of the initial decisions that we made worked out.

When we won the World Series my second year, that bought me more rope so I could do the job the way I wanted to, gave me time to build up the farm system and everything. But it was funny, being so young, watching other GMs smelling blood and try to take advantage of me. And the media would always add my age into things. It was really a novel concept initially, so it gave them something to talk about. It raised a lot of antennas, people watching closely, waiting for me to do something really young and immature. So I had to make sure all of the immature things I was doing were behind closed doors.

faceoff X, where Reese and Conor Mackie ’18 won only 10 of 26 faceoffs.

Nonetheless, Yale dominated possession and was able to put up a lopsided final score.

From here, however, Yale faces a difficult road to the postseason. The Bulldogs face a short week, with a Tuesday non-conference battle against Sacred Heart before hosting Ivy rival Dartmouth on Saturday.

However, after Saturday’s complete performance, the Yale players once again feel confident and ready.

“It’ll be a tough, quick turnaround, but it’s one we’re certainly capable of,” Oberbeck said.

Yale hosts Sacred Heart on Tuesday at Reese Stadium. The Bulldogs and the Pioneers will face off at 7 p.m.

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

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It’s really natural for us to do in this organization because that’s been our approach all along. My personal philosophy is the way to assess baseball players is to use both lenses. When I was growing up in the Padre organization, I had the office between the scouting director and the statistical analyst.

There were both really single-minded about their approaches. The scouting director didn’t want to hear anything about performance or stats, but he was a great scout. The analyst didn’t want to hear anything about [how a player looked], he just wanted to work with the numbers and he was great with that.

They hated each other but they both liked me. So since I was the young guy, and they were living vicariously through the young guys in the office, I realized there was merit to both approaches.

Because they were so single-minded, maybe they ran up against some limi-

tations, so I just started to see through trial and error that maybe the best way to do it was to look through both lenses.

The decisions that we made that satisfied both criteria ended up being the best decisions. All the way back to my first day at the Red Sox and straight through, we’ve tried to build organizations that embrace both doctrines and combine them. advice would you give to Yale QWhat students looking to get into baseball or professional sports?

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I think the key thing is to get your experience really early. Right now, there’s so much more supply than demand in the entry level sports marketplace. Probably 500 people apply for one full-time job. Because of that, teams don’t pay well early on. You have to work really hard for not a lot of money for several years until you can make a career of it. There becomes a point where you start thinking about getting married and having kids, and it’s almost too difficult to work in sports on an entry-level basis. So I think you have to try to get a lot of experience while you’re in college.

Write for your school paper, work for your school’s sports information office, become the manager of the team, play the game as long as you can — because that gives you a really unique experience — and work on gaining enough experiences so that when you do get that opportunity to apply for an internship, you do get that opportunity to interview for an internship, you can distinguish yourself from the 499 others applying.

There are informal ways of doing that too. Go to as many games as you can. If you want to work in baseball, go to 100 minor league or college or big league games a year. Get there early, watch batting practice, talk to the scouts, take your own notes on players, see what you’re good at evaluating and what you need work on, and when you go into an interview, you’ll be able to bring your own scouting reports. That can help you distinguish yourself from the other candidates who say, ‘Oh, I like watching baseball on TV.’ It’ll get someone’s attention when you say you’ve gone to 100 games and you’ve taken your own scouting reports. At the same time, you can also familiarize yourself with modern analytics. Go to Fangraphs, Baseball Prospectus, all [of] those sites. You can go to an interview and say, ‘I can work with metrics, I’ve developed a few of my own, here’s what I think is valuable and here’s what’s not. And I also have written 100 of my own scouting reports and I can hand these to you and see what you think.’ That presents a really balanced view of the game, demonstrates your genuine interest in the game and you’re willing to work hard.

the baseball season is long, QIandknowI know it keeps you busy, but when can we expect to see you back on campus?

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That’s a great question. I don’t know the next time I’ll get there.

Maybe the next time I make a trip to play the Mets. But I’m a Midwesterner now!

I don’t spend as much time on the East Coast as I’d like. I miss it, I haven’t been back on campus in a long time. I’m overdue.

Elis play two, win one SOFTBALL FROM PAGE B4 The Big Red also scored a pair of runs of its own in the bottom of the sixth, but could not come close to catching the Elis in the final two innings. The game ended 11–4 with a clear Bulldog victory.

Despite the big Yale win in the first matchup, the second game took a much different direction.

Cornell opened the game with a series of hits that led to four runs in the first two innings and a lead that Yale would never overcome. “[In] game two, we dug ourselves in a bit of a hole and seemed a bit more tentative in the box,” said captain Sarah Onorato ’15, a sports columnist for the News.

“Cornell hit the ball well and made their adjustments and we were never able to get the momentum we did in game one.”

Cornell continued to score consistently throughout the game, earning runs in every inning except for the third, and limited Yale to a single run in the first five innings.

Although the Bulldogs scored two more runs in the sixth after loading the bases with no outs, the Big Red answered with three runs of its own, ending the game in the bottom of the inning on a walk-off

single to invoke the eight-run rule and win 11–3.

“We had a lot of fire in the first game,” pitcher Rhydian Glass ’16 said. “We realized today how important it is to carry that energy into the second game. The big thing for us is making an immediate impact the second we step onto the field.”

On Wednesday, Yale will travel to face UMass Amherst. The Minutewomen suffered two tough five-inning losses yesterday in a doubleheader against Saint Joseph’s.

In preparation for the game, the Elis will take a look at the mistakes that led to the split against Cornell.

“This week, our team is going to work on some of the things that we learned this weekend,” pitcher Maddie Wuelfing ’18 said. “Since we have had a lot of games canceled, we haven’t really had the chance to play outside a lot, so we will be adjusting to that and working on our cohesion on the field.”

The contest against Massachusetts starts at 4 p.m. on Wednesday.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

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The Elis are allowing a batting average against of 0.294, a season after yielding an average of 0.321.

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“You can only milk a cow so long, then you’re left holding the pail.” HANK AARON 25-TIME ALL-STAR

Seniors show off for NFL PRO DAY FROM PAGE B1 year off of baseball to prepare for potential opportunities in professional football.

His impressive performance did not go unnoticed.

“You’d think Charles would be invited to a free agent camp,” Vashel said.

Smith, on the other hand, took a less direct route to the Pro Day. He tore his posterior cruciate ligament in 2013 against Dartmouth and spent five weeks on the sidelines. He returned briefly for the Harvard game on Nov. 23, but reinjured his knee on the opening kickoff and took a year off from football to recover. But since this past fall, he said, he has been performing at 100 percent.

His full capacity was good enough for a 4.46-second 40-yard dash. Though unofficial, the time turned heads. For comparison, Jadeveon Clowney, last year’s number one pick in the NFL Draft out of the University of South Carolina, also ran an unofficial 4.47 at the 2014 NFL Combine.

The receiver explained that he mostly prepared by working on footwork and improving his speed.

“The teams that I have talked to see me fitting in as a slot receiver and a deep threat,” Smith said.

“I’ll definitely try to contribute on special teams and hopefully being a kick returner will set me apart from other receivers the teams might be looking at.”

Fellow wideout Wallace also clocked a solid 40 time, finishing with an unofficial 4.61, according to Vashel.

The Ivy League’s leading receiver in yards per game decided to participate in the Pro Day in late February. According to Wallace, he spent the majority of

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Wide receiver Chris Smith ’15 set an Ivy League record in 2010 by returning consecutive kickoffs for touchdowns. his spring break at home in Missouri working out and preparing for the day.

“I think it went alright,” Wallace said. “I didn’t have too many expectations going in, I just wanted to have a good time and show the scouts what I could do.

I thought I did that. I didn’t have any bad mess ups, I just showed who I was as an athlete.”

Wallace also performed well in

position drills. Toward the end of the day, he had a neat one-handed catch on a back shoulder fade, eliciting murmurs from the crowd of agents, players and parents who were watching the exercise.

The final Yale participant, Vaughan, might have to do some extra work to attract attention, as his day ended early on Thursday.

The linebacker pulled his hamstring while running the 40-yard

Elis pull out win in the snow

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The lead the Elis held over San Diego State never fell below five goals for the entirety of the snowy match.

W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B1 two goals scored with 14 and 12 minutes left in the half. However, the Bulldogs took over the offensive effort from that point forward. Yale scored another series of three goals, two of which came less than a minute apart with 10 minutes left before the break. Midfielder Maggie Pizzo ’18 closed the half with a goal scored with just 13 seconds remaining, bringing the score to 6–2 in favor of the Elis.

“I think we were able to use the snow to our advantage,” attacker Tess McEvoy ’17 said. “San Diego was a bit shocked by the cold. We practice and play in this weather all the time, so I think that had people feeling confident.”

The Bulldogs scoring streak continued into after the break. Yale found the back of the net four times without allowing the Aztecs a single goal, bringing the Eli lead up to eight points with only 13 minutes remaining.

The rest of the game was characterized by back-and-forth scoring, although the Bulldogs’ lead never dropped below five goals. Yale ended the contest as strongly as it started, with a last-minute goal from attacker Erin Magnuson ’15 with just 11 seconds

to go, bringing the final score in the teams’ first matchup to 12–6.

The Bulldog victory, moreover, snapped a seven-game win streak for the Aztecs.

“It was definitely exciting to play San Diego,” McEvoy said. “It’s always nice to have new competition. They also are a team that typically scores a ton of goals and we held them to under 10 which was great.”

Yale’s defense held San Diego State to just six goals, its lowest in any contest this season. With 24 shots and 22 ground balls, the Eli offense had a good game as well, putting them in a good position for the games to come.

The Bulldogs’ four remaining games are all against Ivy League opponents.

According to Comizio, the team is working hard in the hopes of winning all four of those games and advancing to the Ivy League tournament.

“The win against San Diego this weekend gives us a lot of momentum and enthusiasm as we head into the final games of the season,” midfielder Kelly Anne Sherlock ’16 said.

Yale will face Princeton this Saturday at 12 p.m.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

dash and was forced to sit out the rest of the day.

Overall, many of the spectators affiliated with Yale expressed satisfaction with the four players’ performances.

“I think we represented Yale very well,” Wallace said.

According to Vashel, the three scouts present all have ties to Connecticut. The Patriots, who are based out of Foxboro, Mas-

sachusetts, frequently attend local Pro Days. The Colts scout worked with one of the coaches from a participating school, and the Broncos scout used to work in the area.

One notable face was absent: that of running back Tyler Varga ’15, the Ivy League’s leading rusher last season. He was also one of two league players invited to the NFL Combine, but due to a

bone spur in his ankle, was unable to fully participate.

Yale had been unable to secure an indoor facility by the time Varga decided to work out at a Pro Day, Vashel explained. Therefore, Varga will participate in a private Pro Day with his agent on March 31.

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

Yale looks to 2015–16 M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 cal in keeping the game close for all 68 minutes of play, and he was also a central reason that Yale was playing Friday in the first place.

The Baudette, Minnesota native currently leads the nation in three key statistics this season: save percentage (0.939), goals against average (1.62) and shutouts (7).

Against Harvard on Nov. 15, Lyon faced 35 shots and saved 34 of them, leading his team to a narrow 2–1 victory that proved to be key for the Bulldogs’ national ranking. Shutouts of 28 and 31 saves against Brown and Princeton, respectively, were two other examples of Lyon shutting down offenses throughout the season.

Regardless of whether the Bulldogs’ stellar defensive performance this year was more to the credit of Lyon or Yale’s defensemen, the Elis can likely look forward to continued strong defensive performance in the future.

Yale will get two more seasons behind Lyon and will also return five of the six defensemen who suited up on Friday. The Elis lose defenseman Tommy Fallen ’15, who graduates having played in the second-most games in Yale men’s hockey history, but will be led by rising senior defensemen Rob O’Gara ’16, Ryan Obuchowski ’16 and Mitch Witek ’16.

Adam Larkin ’18 and Nate Repensky ’18, who scored Yale’s first goal Friday, will also return to play for a defense that boasted the strongest performance in the nation this season.

The importance of the Elis’s defense, and of Lyon’s play on Friday, was highlighted by a lukewarm performance at the other end of the ice.

Though Yale dominated offensively in the second period, particularly on the power play, its attack was largely stagnant in the other two frames.

Forward Frankie DiChiara’s ’17 goal that tied the score was one of just a few significant threats for Yale in the third and overtime periods. In fact, the Elis managed only four shots on net in those two periods of play, a sharp decline from the 13 that they fired on BU’s Matt O’Connor in the second period.

In all, Yale finished the season averaging 2.61 goals per game, good for just 38th out of the 59 teams in NCAA Division I. Forward Mike Doherty ’17 was the only Bulldog player to finish with goals in the double-digits (12), while Yale’s 2013 championship squad held four such players.

If Yale hopes to return to the glory days of that 2013 national championship, it will need a stronger team offensive performance in 2015–16.

Similar to its defensive situation, Yale’s attacking unit can look forward to maintaining continuity on its lines next season. Forward Trent Ruffolo ’15 is the only departing forward with more than 10 games played this year, while top scorers Doherty, DiChiara, Cody Learned ’16 and John Hayden ’17 will all return.

With improved play by these expe-

rienced leaders, as well as a similar performance by its dominant defense, Yale may be able to best its one-anddone performance from this season and boast a stronger showing in the 10th season of head coach Keith Allain ’80.

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

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The Bulldogs will graduate just one senior forward who played more than 10 games this season.

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“I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.”

SHAQUILLE O’NEAL FOUR-TIME NBA CHAMPION

Bulldogs shellack Penn for first Ivy win MEN’S LACROSSE

BY JONATHAN MARX CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After suffering consecutive losses to conference rivals Cornell and Princeton, the No. 11 men’s lacrosse team got back on track with a crushing 15–7 win over the struggling Penn Quakers.

With the victory, the Bulldogs (6–2, 1–2 Ivy) got their first Ivy League win of the season and escaped the cellar of the conference standings, leaving Penn (3–6, 0–3 Ivy) tied with Harvard for last place. Yale led the Quakers from start to finish, scoring the game’s first two goals en route to a 4–1 lead after the first quarter.

All-Ivy attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15 was especially dominant in the early going, scoring the game’s first two goals, both unassisted. Oberbeck added one goal in each of the game’s last three quarters and assisted on a Jon Reese ’16 goal for good measure, giving him a game-high five goals and six total points on the day.

While in their loss to Princeton, the Bulldogs floundered despite Oberbeck’s stellar play, the rest of Yale’s offense woke up to the tune of 15 total goals. The 15-goal tally was the most points accumulated by the Bulldogs since a 16–9 win over Bryant on Feb. 28.

When asked about the offensive changes resulting in this weekend’s scoring outburst, Oberbeck cited the increased communication and cohesive organization between midfield and attack as the key to the team’s success.

In addition to Oberbeck’s success, attackman Jeff Cimbalista ’17 scored three goals and attackman Ben Reeves ’18 chipped in two goals and an assist. As has been the case all season, these three starting attackmen were essential to the Bulldog offensive output.

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The men’s lacrosse team jumped out to a 4–1 first quarter lead and a 6–2 halftime lead on their way to their first Ivy win.

Bulldogs split Ivy openers

Epstein ’95 talks Yale, News, pro athletics

BY THE YALE DAILY NEWS Theo Epstein ’95 made baseball history when he was hired as the general manager of the Boston Red Sox in 2002 at the age of 28. After winning two World Series trophies with the Red Sox and breaking the 86-year Curse of the Bambino, Epstein has set his sights on ending another curse: that of the Chicago Cubs, for whom he now serves as team president. During spring training, Epstein spoke with the News about his time at Yale, his own career and what he would tell future generations of Yalies looking to break into professional sports.

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How do you feel like being at Yale and your Yale education prepared you for working in baseball?

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The Elis lost to Cornell 11–3 in six innings after beating the Big Red 11–4 in game one of the doubleheader.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER In its Ivy League opener, the Yale softball team split a pair of games against Cornell, recording a blowout victory in game one of the doubleheader before losing big in the second game of the twin bill.

SOFTBALL The Bulldogs (4–8, 1–1 Ivy) took the first half of the doubleheader with ease, finishing the contest with an 11–4 victory after scoring eight runs in the sixth inning to break open a 2–0 game. However, Cornell (5–10, 2–2) came back in the second contest, evening the series

with an 11–3 defeat of the Elis.

“Overall we had a good showing,” right fielder Camille Weisenbach ’17 said. “We won the first game as a team and lost the second one the same way — as a team. We had high energy, and we can learn from the places we slipped to come out stronger the next game.”

The opener got off to something of a slow start. Outfielder Sydney Glover ’17 started off the game by drawing an eightpitch walk, and she eventually scored on a single from Weisenbach in the first inning.

After that, however, the game did not start to pick up until the sixth inning, which began with a score of 2–0 in favor of Yale and finished 10–3 with the Bull-

dogs leading the way. The Elis made it through their batting order, with seven different players crossing home plate, including Weisenbach twice.

The sophomore right fielder from Bothell, Washington had a standout performance, earning three runs and four runs batted in. Pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18 struck out seven batters in a complete game performance to seal the Yale victory.

“It was a great way for us to start Ivy League play,” Casalino said. “We were able to score early and hold Cornell to base runners. We then did a great job adding on to our lead to really take the game away.”

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Well, the most direct answer to that is that without Yale, I probably wouldn’t ever have gotten an opportunity in baseball, because Calvin Hill, who went to Yale, was the one who hired me initially with the Orioles. He’d been working as their VP of administrative personnel, and in my freshman year, I wrote letters to every team, and he was one of the only ones to respond; he called me. I remember when he called me, on a Friday afternoon … the weekend had already started in our suite, but he invited me down to interview over spring break. I did, and we connected over Yale and had a lot in common to talk about. So that was great to get that opportunity. I grew up a lot there and saw a different side of sports, working for Steve Conn and the Sports Information Office and through writing at the Daily News.

It was a great experience.

your most famous colQPerhaps umn for the YDN was the one in

1993 asking if Carm Cozza should go. How did you feel when he gave you the game ball afterward?

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He didn’t give it to me, technically. I thought it was funny. It

was good insight into the way that the media world can work sometimes. I think I learned a lot from that. We sat around discussing what the different angles would be about our game coverage, and we decided let’s have one person write that it’s time to move on, and one person write in support of him. I guess that was a pretty immature approach, and I hope that I would know better now, and it made me realize that I didn’t want to work on the media side. what made you realQSoize isyouthatdidn’t want to work in journalism?

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No, no. Through my internships with the Orioles I realized that journalism can be a little bit of a lonely pursuit, observing the sportswriters, and I really like working with a group of people, and I’m really competitive, so working in a front office is perfect because you get to work really closely with others, and you get a daily referendum on how you’re doing in the standings that can impact how things go with your franchise. I think I look back on that and [I’m] pretty embarrassed that I was part of it, and at the same time it was part of the experience of growing up. I haven’t read that column since I wrote it, but I guess I learned how not to go about it.

QDo you still follow Yale sports?

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Yeah. Not probably as closely as I’d like to because baseball keeps me busy, but through Steve Conn and through some friends of mine, I’ll stay up to date. I watched a bunch of the playoff games that the hockey team had in that run to the championship a few years ago.

after school, you purQRight sued a law degree while working with the Padres. Are you glad you did that? What did that give you in baseball front office experience?

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