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Four Wesleyan students are arrested after 12 overdosed this weekend.

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Visions for Engineers Week diverge

Open Forum. This evening,

Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and other University administrators will make themselves available to the student body in a town hall discussion on mental health, withdrawal and readmission policies. The open forum will take place in LC 102 from 6 to 7 p.m.

Nobody’s perfect. Let’s be

real, though: Yale’s economics majors tend to gear themselves more toward Goldman Sachs than toward the Fed. Unfortunately for them, the investment bank is starting to figure out that machines are sometimes better at finance than people (soul-less or otherwise). A story in Quartz noted that Goldman’s latest 10-k counts human error as a business risk factor. Oops.

Already nostalgic. The Freshman College Council uploaded a massive album of photos from Saturday’s Freshman Screw last night. As expected, the album was filled with hover hands and awkward smiles (though some did look genuinely happy). It’s all downhill from here, 2018.

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1965 A group of Yale professors gathers to discusss the University’s standards for tenure after three history of art professors are dismissed shortly before qualifying.

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Senior Class Gift crosses finish line

acts as an umbrella organization for many undergraduate engineering organizations. According to Isabella Quagliato, the program manager at the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, past Engineers SEE ENGINEERS WEEK PAGE 6

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National champions.

The dance continues. Janet Yellen GRD ’71 testified before Congress on Wednesday evening to provide an update on the Federal Bank’s plans to raise interest rates. But the conversation ended up being more of the same from the patient Fed Chair, who hinted at a potentially significant announcement in March.

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After a three-week-long fundraising campaign, donations to the Yale College class of 2015 gift closed at midnight on Tuesday.

As of 1 a.m. Tuesday, the Senior Class Gift website reported that 69.1 percent of seniors had raised $21,277 during the campaign.

However, the campaign’s website, as of press time, had not been updated for 25 hours, and this year’s SCG co-chairs noted that they were still processing final donations. The co-chairs also declined to release an updated estimate of the percentage of seniors who had participated.

The Senior Class Gift, which is a part of the Yale Alumni Fund, provides unrestricted and immediate funds that are independent of the endowment. Last year’s Senior Class Gift had a 96.6 percent participation rate, but this year, a boycott of the Class Gift was organized in an effort to pressure Yale to improve its mental health and readmission policies.

A pledge, co-authored by seven seniors, had 100 signatures on Tuesday night, constituting 6.2 percent of the class of 2015.

Students interviewed agreed that because the fundraising campaign tends to have such high participation, the gift is an opportunity to send a message to the University.

“I think this is the only time we actively

Yale for North Korean Human Rights will host three North Korean defectors at an event tonight in LC 101, where they will tell their own stories of life in and escaping from the North Korean regime. Getting information straight from the source is the only way.

“You called?” We’re not living in the past, but any time college hockey sites weigh in on Yale and Quinnipiac, it’s hard not to think back to April 2013. On Tuesday, Yahoo Sports’ Ryan Lambert (apparently known as the “Puck Daddy”) discussed the two Hockey Haven teams and how they figure into the NCAA tournament and Hobey Baker Award discussions.

Former Penn football coach Al Bagnoli seeks to revitalize Columbia team.

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Telling it like it is. Tonight,

Connecticut has the dubious honor of having the most downloads-per-capita of online dating apps like Tinder, Match, OKCupid and Grindr, according to a study released by AVG Technologies yesterday. Now we’re just waiting for AVG to rank the nation’s college campuses by the same metric.

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Monday marked the start of Yale’s third annual Engineers Week, hosted by undergraduate organization Catalyst at Yale.

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER On Monday, students in the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design displayed rockets, telescopes and rovers to kick off Yale’s third annual Engineers Week.

The week includes discussions about Women in STEM, an undergraduate organization exposition, a career panel and a Google information session, among others. This year, the week is hosted for the first time by the new undergraduate organization Catalyst at Yale, which

DOJ funds studies on misconduct policies

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER The Department of Justice is soliciting new research to identify constructive practices in both the investigation and adjudication of sexual assault complaints on university campuses.

An April 2014 report by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault identified a need

to improve the understanding of current practices in college campus sexual assault investigations. In response, the DOJ’s National Institute of Justice and the Office of Justice Programs are seeking grant applications for research on how colleges and universities experiment with new methods of responding to campus sexual assault complaints.

While sexual assault experts interviewed applauded the

Bill seeks to extend protections to interns

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER Unpaid interns in Connecticut may soon have the same protection from workplace harassment as paid employees.

Within the past two years, four states — California, Illinois, Oregon and New York — have passed legislation that gives all unpaid interns the same rights as employees when it comes to protection from sexual harassment in the workplace. With a new bill proposed by state Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, Connecticut may follow suit by amending its general sexual harassment and workplace discrimination statutes to include unpaid interns.

Looney said interns are particularly susceptible to abuse in the workplace.

“They seek to make good impressions in the hopes of being hired permanently, network with colleagues and receive good references for other job applications,” he explained in a statement released last Tuesday. “This creates an environment where

forthcoming research as a step towards progress, some conceded that change would not come quickly.

“We’re investigating models to understand how they work, and are there promising methods that exist within these models,” Social Science Analyst for the NIJ Bethany Backes said. “A lot of schools are implementing new things, so are they helpful and are they useful both in representing the

victim’s interests and holding offenders accountable? What does that look like?”

Backes said universities currently use several models to address complaints of campus sexual assault, from designated judicial review boards to those in which complaints are addressed only by the dean of students. She added that while it may be difficult to assess which practices are the most effective given specific circum-

stances, this type of research will yield new information on the utility of different methods currently in use.

According to Yale’s University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct procedures, a formal complaint filed with the committee must be followed by a report from an independent fact-finder and at least one hearing. After the hearings, SEE DEPT. OF JUSTICE PAGE 6

Windham-Campbell winners announced

interns can be subject to exploitation.”

Currently, the Labor and Public Employees Committee, chaired by state Sen. Gary Holder-Winfield and state Rep. Peter Tercyak, is hearing testimony for the bill. The committee heard testimony in favor of the bill last Thursday and will eventually vote to either advance the bill to the Senate floor, send it to another committee or reject it.

[Interns] seek to make good impressions in the hopes of being hired permanently.

COURTESY OF GEOFF DYER

MARTIN LOONEY Connecticut Senate Majority Leader Adam Joseph, director of communications for the state Senate Democrats, said he is not aware of any opposition to the bill as of yet, referring to SEE UNPAID INTERNS PAGE 4

On Tuesday morning, nine writers were honored with the 2015 Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize. Pictured above is winner Geoff Dyer.

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER On Tuesday morning, University President Peter Salovey honored nine writers from four different countries with the announcement of the 2015 Donald Wind-

ham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize.

The prize — established by the late American writer Donald Windham and funded by his estate — was announced at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript SEE WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PAGE 4

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he other day, I played a little thought experiment. Over lunch, I asked a group of friends what they were like at age 15. One described herself as “rebellious.” Another said, “Really shy and awkward." A third chuckled: “Incredibly immature. I’ve really grown up a lot since high school.”

Few of us can claim to be the same people we were at age 15 — a significant amount of brain development goes on during, and even after, adolescence.

That’s a reality that Connecticut lawmakers have refused to acknowledge.

Under current Connecticut law, juveniles can be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Fortunately, this might soon change.

This legislative season, lawmakers are considering a bill that would give juveniles the chance for a second look — an opportunity for the Board of Pardons and Paroles to assess the possibility of release after they have served a portion of their sentence.

Hearing even the story of one juvenile serving a life sentence highlights the importance of offering the chance for parole. Take Rachel, a woman profiled in “Youth Matters: A Second Look for Connecticut’s Children Serving Long Prison Sentences,” a report released by the Quinnipiac University School of Law and a clinic at the Yale Law School. Rachel was imprisoned at age 14 and is serving a 50-year sentence.

In prison, she has been rehabilitated and trained to teach workshops on non-violence.

“I am no longer defined by the thoughts and actions of my former self,” she says in the report. “People change.”

Connecticut’s current juvenile sentencing standards might seem troubling, certainly outdated. But they are also incompatible with constitutional standards. In the 2012 case Miller v. Alabama, the United States Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to give juveniles mandatory life sentences without the chance of parole.

In maintaining laws that are incompatible with Miller v. Alabama, it seems Connecticut has fallen behind the nation at large. And worse still, the United States remains behind much of the international community in upholding the rights of juveniles, as one of few countries that have not signed on to the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child. This convention prohibits life sentences without parole for those under 18.

For the past two years, Connecticut policymakers have tried to bring the state’s juvenile sentencing standards in line with the Constitution to no avail. Both years, similar juve-

nile justice reform bills died in the state senate.

This year, as engaged constituents, we can help ensure EMMA that the GOLDBERG C o n n e c t i cut General Dilemmas Assembly passes what is known as the “second-look bill”: legislation ending the wrongful practice of sentencing juveniles to mandatory life sentences without chance of parole.

Constituents — and even policymakers — have formed misguided assumptions about the second-look bill. Many believe that such legislation would make it easy for juveniles to be released early from prison. In reality, this bill would only ensure that juveniles have the opportunity to receive a second look from parole boards after they have served part of their sentences. Parole boards would then apply stringent criteria to ensure those released would not pose a threat to their communities.

Second-look legislation isn’t any sort of “get out of jail free” card. According to previous iterations of the bill, individuals would have to serve either 12 years or 60 percent of their sentences before qualifying for a parole board hearing.

They would also be subject to ongoing accountability after their release — parole supervision can involve electronic monitoring, drug testing and mandatory treatment.

If passed, the second look legislation could have a significant impact. There are currently hundreds of people in Connecticut who were convicted before the age of 18 and are serving lengthy sentences, many without the possibility of parole. As Justice Elena Kagan reasoned in the Miller v. Alabama majority opinion, the harsh sentences levied on juveniles often don’t account for the myriad stresses they experience growing up: gang pressure, poverty, violence and more. Minorities are also vastly overrepresented in Connecticut’s prisons: Ninety-two percent of juvenile offenders serving sentences of 50 years or more are African American or Hispanic.

Most of us are given the opportunity to redeem ourselves for the mistakes we make in adolescence. It’s important that Connecticut law give all juveniles that same chance — the chance for a second look.

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ver the course of this past year, I have spoken often of the need for us students to concentrate our efforts while working toward shared goals. We must all be active participants in the effort to make Yale a better place. The announcement this past Thursday that Yale Mental Health and Counseling would be adding psychiatrists, psychologists and clinical social workers serves as a great example of why this concentration is so important.

The push for added resources at MH&C is not a new one. In an Oct. 2013 report, the Yale College Council formally recommended that this step be taken. Anecdotally, this proposal has been floated even further back.

What is new, however, is the decisive fashion in which students have rallied around the need for change surrounding mental health. In the last few weeks, undergraduate and graduate students from all facets of campus life have united in expressing concerns about mental health policies. From the emails sent to administrators to the conversations that have filled our dining halls to the comprehensive and cogent analysis of mental health policies produced by the News, a simple message has been conveyed with clarity and resolution:

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The time for change has come on mental health.

Lest we be like George Dubya on the aircraft carrier, no one should pretend that last Thursday’s email was a “Mission Accomplished” moment. In the coming weeks, we will receive more specific information about the personnel additions at MH&C, and the results of the leave of absence and withdrawal policy review are still to come. Further, the important task of looking out for each other and promoting a culture free of stigma for seeking help will be ongoing. On mental health, there is more work before us than behind us.

The developments we have seen over the past month, specifically with regards to mental health, nonetheless provide a telling lesson about how to create the change we can believe in on our campus. As far as policy advocacy is concerned, the YCC will always be our best mechanism for engaging the administration. The student-wide election of YCC’s leadership and the organization’s unique mission and access equips us to champion important causes in the most direct and effective way.

That being said, without the active support and engagement of students on policy issues, the YCC is feeble and vain. Student

voice at Yale is not institutionalized, and unlike our peers at 70 percent of public institutions in this country, we do not have a seat on our governing board.

In fact, the YCC has hardly any access to the Yale Corporation at all. With these institutional barriers, the student voice is muted; we need all the help we can get to amplify it.

I am grateful for the many undergraduates this year who have taken the initiative to write op-eds, send me emails and otherwise actively seek to improve the student experience at Yale. It has been an integral component of the student-driven efforts to expand mixed-gender housing, reverse the tide of the rising student contribution, save Christmas and reform mental health and withdrawal policies. I am writing this column today because tonight we have a unique opportunity to continue this trend.

At 6 p.m. in LC 102, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway will be joined by officials from Yale Health and the University administration to engage directly with students on issues of mental health. This event will be the best opportunity to date for the entire community to discuss why the current policies exist, and how they can be improved. There can be no doubt that we care deeply

about this issue; finally, we have a structured fashion in which that passion may be expressed.

Most importantly, we have reason to believe our concerns will be considered and that today will not be a patronizing effort to mitigate student frustrations. My justification for this optimism is the man who will be moderating it, Dean Holloway himself. Yesterday in this paper we saw, from perhaps the unlikeliest of sources (apologies to Scott Stern), a thorough look at a leadership style that integrates student input ("A dean who listens," Feb. 24). YCC Vice President Maia Eliscovich '16 and I have broached a wide range of topics with Dean Holloway this year; without exception, he has been direct and honest through every step of the decision-making process. This upcoming Sunday, he will be the first Dean of Yale College in the YCC’s recorded history to attend a meeting.

On issues that place Dean Holloway at the helm, such as reforms to withdrawal policy, the administration is listening.

Tonight, let’s make the most of that opportunity.

MICHAEL HERBERT is a junior in Saybrook College and president of the Yale College Council. Contact him at michael.herbert@yale.edu .

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heart not his bosses.”

think it’s safe to assume that everyone at Yale did pretty well in high school (if not sickeningly well). It’s not without reason that Rumpus has, as the center of its hookup bingo, “High School Valedictorian” every year — the main factor that led most of us to stumble onto Old Campus as 18-year-olds was academic achievement. And moreover, I think it’s also safe to assume that most of us had, in high school, something academic that really moved us, something that we thought we wanted to find or continue with at Yale.

But in my time at Yale, I’ve found that people’s intellectual pursuits in class are the thing that they constantly downplay in dayto-day life. In many ways, that’s a blessing — no one wants to hear about the A so-and-so got on the most recent midterm. It’s a sign of intellectual confidence that we’re all at a certain level of intellectual engagement, and people can stop rubbing it in one another’s faces.

We’re smart; it’s a given. No need to talk about it more.

This semester, though, I’ve been wondering if we haven’t veered too far in that direction. I still don’t want to hear about anyone’s performance on a paper, but I think in an effort to craft identities that transcend academics alone, many people here allow themselves to stifle conversation

about their academic interests.

I, for example, spent the vast majority of my three-anda-half years talking about VICTORIA my a cappella group; HALLrarely, if ever, PALERM did I sit down to dinner with my friends Notorious to discuss VHP the amazing things I learned in my EP&E seminar or to share my newfound passion for election law. That’s boring, I told myself; no one wants to hear that.

I don’t think that’s true anymore. As a senior, there are a few different opportunities for us to hear or read one another’s works.

My first glimpse into this was through the EP&E department’s mandatory peer-review program. At this point, I’ve only read proposals, but the two I read were just fascinating.

What blew my mind, more than the caliber of the writing or the amount of work they’d put in, was that these two people, both of whom I knew in other contexts and had fully characterized through their out-of-class personas, had so much more aca-

demic depth to them than I had previously imagined. Rationally, I know everyone spends their days in class, but since so few people talk about it, I rarely associate people I know with their academic pursuits. But to learn that someone whom I had seen at a cappella concerts for three years had also, all that time, been working in a psychology lab and was planning to write a fifty-page paper on the way his findings fit into our ethical frameworks of punishment, completely changed the way I looked at him.

Another prime example is the Mellon Forums, where seniors present their research or thesis topic to their peers over a nice dinner. My rehearsals had always conflicted with these, so I didn’t attend one until last week, when my roommate was presenting.

But even for just that one night, it was awe-inspiring to hear kids who I saw in the dining hall every day wax poetic about mitochondria, or play us a five-minute composition of their own creation.

Again, I can’t stress enough that this isn’t about me learning my classmates are smart; that’d be stupid. But I think the reason so few people allow themselves to gush about their classes is because we all take for granted that we are smart, and often resent what’s seen as an attempt

to rub it in others’ faces. But there’s a huge difference between that and giving someone the space to talk about their academic interests. The fact of the matter is that everyone here has a subject that excites them, and I think that it would give me a more complete picture of what makes them tick if I could have an opportunity to ask them what they’re studying and why it interests them.

We leave plenty of room for extracurricular passions at Yale, which is great, because for many people those trump their passion for schoolwork. But I think we should make a greater effort to carve out a space to talk about what motivates people in the classroom. It doesn’t need to be formal; it could be as simple as trying to insert it into dinner table conversation. Every single night at dinner when I was growing up, my dad would ask me to tell him something new I learned that day.

And sure, that might work better for a 10-year-old than for a 22-year-old, but I think that if we seriously asked one another something along those lines, we might be astonished by the spark we light up in our friends.

VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a senior in Berkeley College. Her column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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“I didn’t finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.”

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Workers file suit against cleaning company

CORRECTIONS TUESDAY, FEB. 24

A previous version of the article “800 more Yalies, but not more jobs” incorrectly quoted Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan as saying that Yale does not expect an increase in student job applications to accompany the increase in size of Yale College. Quinlan was in fact referring to applications for admission to the University.

Quinlan’s quote has been removed and the headline of the article has been altered to reflect the change. The News regrets this error.

The headline for the article “Yale takes most first finishes, third at HYP” incorrectly stated the swimming and diving meet that occurred last weekend. The team took third at the Ivy League Championships, and the headline for the online article has been altered to reflect the change.

Wesleyan drug scare leads to arrests

BY SKYLER INMAN AND SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTERS Five domestic workers from Connecticut are suing their employer in a federal wage theft lawsuit, claiming that they were denied the few legal rights that protect domestic workers.

The plaintiffs, who live in New Haven, West Haven, Derby and Ansonia, filed the lawsuit Tuesday with the aid of the New Haven Legal Assistance Association. They claim that their employer, Connecticutbased house-cleaning company Auntie Bella, did not render payment for all hours worked, refused to pay overtime premiums and failed to pay them minimum wage. The lawsuit comes at a time of increased attention to workers’ rights across the state, as the Domestic Workers Taskforce is currently drafting a bill of rights for domestic laborers in Connecticut.

“These workers worked very hard cleaning peoples houses,” James Bhandary-Alexander, the plaintiffs’ attorney from New Haven Legal Assistance said.

“They need to be paid what they’re owed.”

According to the lawsuit

filed, the plaintiffs are pursuing recovery of unpaid wages, liquidated damages, compensatory damages, punitive damages, costs and attorney’s fees under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Auntie Bella management could not be reached for comment.

The trial will rely on documentary evidence and testimony from both the plaintiffs and the owners of Auntie Bella. Plaintiffs Rosa Morales, Lujanny Jimenez, Elvira Gutierrez Vargas, Eloisa Guttierrez Vargas, Eloisa Nufio Guttierez and Maribel Mejia all worked for Auntie Bella at some point during the past nine years and were employed for anywhere between a few months and many years.

“Wage theft is a systemic problem in Connecticut,” said Megan Fountain ’07, an organizer for immigrant and labor rights group Unidad Latina en Acción. “Connecticut needs to have real enforcement of the wage laws and stronger tools to get the workers the wage that they’re owed.”

A study conducted by the National Employment Law Council in 2009 found that 26

percent of workers were paid less than minimum wage in the week before the study, and 76 percent of workers were not paid the legally required amount of money for overtime work.

In June 2014, the Connecticut Legislature established the Domestic Workers Taskforce to tackle this issue. The Bill of Rights currently being scripted is supported by many organizations and companies, including the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Junta for Progressive Action and New Haven Legal Assistance.

Natalicia Tracey — the executive director of the Brazilian Immigrant Center in Bridgeport — said she hopes the Connecticut Bill of Rights would mirror the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in Massachusetts. Tracey hopes the bill, in particular, will focus on protection against discrimination and sexual harassment, and also allow workers days off and breaks for lunch.

Tracey stressed that part of why it is so difficult for workers to exercise their rights is that the Connecticut Department of Labor has not yet effectively defined their industry.

Stacey Zimmerman, the associate director of the Service Employees International Service Connecticut State Council, said establishing a bill of rights for domestic workers would move them into modern labor law. Zimmerman compared the current state of affairs for domestic workers to indentured servitude.

Bhandary-Alexander said domestic workers are excluded from both federal and state level protections. On the federal level, the plaintiffs are not protected by the National Relations Act or Title VII; on the state level, anti-discrimination statutes, workers compensation coverage and paid sick day laws do not apply to them.

“As labor laws that protected labor workers passed … there was an exclusion from these workplace laws for domestic workers,” Bhandary-Alexander said.

There are approximately 40,000 domestic workers in Connecticut.

Contact SKYLER INMAN at skyler.inman@yale.edu and.

SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .

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Wesleyan University President Michael Roth urged students to avoid illicit drugs after 10 students and two visitors required medical attention.

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Four Wesleyan University students have been arrested after 12 people overdosed on campus, allegedly on a “party drug,” and were transported to local hospitals this past weekend.

At 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night, the Middletown Police Department hosted a press conference to inform the community of the arrests. Chief William McKenna said at the press conference that members of the Middletown Police Department’s Major Investigations Unit, Narcotics Unit and members of the patrol division have been working around the clock since reports surfaced that 10 Wesleyan students and two visitors to campus were being treated for a drug overdose.

On Tuesday morning, three students remained in care at Hartford Hospital, while one remained in care at Middlesex Hospital, according to Wesleyan’s Associate Manager for Media Relations and Public Relations Lauren Rubenstein.

Students being treated had reported taking Molly, the nickname for a refined form of ecstasy. However, McKenna added that the Middlesex County State Attorney Peter McShane and his office, along with the State of Connecticut Forensics Science Laboratory, had been attempting to identify the different types of chemicals that were present in this specific batch of drugs.

“This particular batch may have had a mixture of several kinds of designer drug chemicals, making the health risks unpredictable and treatment to combat the effects, complex and problematic,” McKenna said.

The four students arrested — Eric Lonergan, Andrew Olsen, Zachary Kramer and Rama Agha Al Kakib — were in police custody as of 8 p.m. Tuesday and each have a Superior Court date set for March 3. Between them, they face $450,000 in total charges for various offenses. Lonergan is being charged with 16 counts of illegal obtaining or supplying of drugs.

All four have been suspended by Wesleyan, effective immediately, pending a formal hearing.

Furthermore, McKenna said four search and seizure warrants have been obtained from the court and were executed at certain locations in and around the college’s campus in an effort to locate additional evidence pertaining to the case.

“As always, the safety and welfare of our citizens, including those on the Wesleyan campus, remains our top priority,” McKenna said. “Incidents jeopardizing the safety will not be tolerated and those offenders will be held accountable.”

According to The Wesleyan Argus, the school’s student newspaper, Wesleyan University President Michael Roth sent a campus-wide email Tuesday night praising the recent demonstrations of resilience and support within the Wesleyan community.

“We are a community that values freedom,” the email read.

“None of us want to see arrests on our campus, but even less do we want to see ambulances rushing from our residences with students whose lives are in danger.”

This weekend’s incident is not the first time that Molly has caused complications on Wesleyan’s campus. Rubenstein told the News that other students had been hospitalized earlier this academic year after taking the drug.

Wesleyan’s crime statistics for 2013, as made public through the Clery Act, reported that the school had seen 240 drug abuse violations reported to the judicial committee in the past year, for a student body of 2,900.

Community Education Specialist at the Connecticut Poison Control Center Amy HanoianFontana said that while Molly is understood to be a colloquial term for ecstasy, the drug’s exact contents are variable. Some patients at her center, she added, have claimed they took Molly, but showed signs of having taken cocaine or other hard drugs.

“You are taking your life into your own hands every time you take [Molly],” Hanoian Fontana said.

“There is no way to regulate it — people think they’re getting one thing and they get another.”

Assistant professor of psychiatry and of psychology Hedy Kober said people who take a pure form of ecstasy — or MDMA — often search for the emotional “high” attached to it. Studies show that the people taking MDMA also report feeling more loving, friendly and playful, as well as increased sociability and a sense of closeness, she added. However, these effects come along with physical side effects such as elevated heart rate and increased body temperature, both of which can be dangerous and lead to serious medical problems. Importantly, these effects are dose-dependent, so the more one takes, the more of the side effects one would expect.

In a campus-wide email Monday morning, Roth warned students of the dangerous effects of illegal substances, asking students to look out for one another and be mindful of the actions of their peers.

“One mistake can change your life forever,” the email said. “Take a stand to protect your fellow students.”

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

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The University will be able to extend interviews to more students this year with the help of additional alumni volunteers.

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER A redesigned alumni portal, an increased number of alumni volunteers and virtual interviewing capabilities have allowed the University to extend interviews to a greater number of prospective students this year.

Last September, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions launched a new interview portal for its Alumni Schools Committees — the groups of alumni volunteers that interview Yale applicants in different areas of the world. Associate Director of Admissions and ASC Program Director Bowen Posner said this was the first technological update the portal had undergone in a decade, allowing alumni to submit their interview reports with increased ease during this admissions cycle.

“The alumni portal is the single biggest change to the ASC program in years,” Posner said. “This was a massive technological overhaul of the online system that supports alumni interviewing, and considering the scale of the enhancements, I am quite pleased with how the new system has functioned and been received.”

Posner added that when redesigning the portal, the office aimed to address the most common deficiencies that alumni volunteers had identified with the old system.

The new portal has streamlined interviewing and the processes surrounding it, he said, with a more intuitive log-in process, an easier way to access interview assignments and file reports and a “proximity tool” that allows ASC directors to locate the alumni volunteers who are closest to each appli-

cant.

Additionally, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said the office has designed an improved interview report form to provide better guidance to alumni when crafting their reports.

“After having done this for more than 10 years, I would say that this is the best set of interview reports that I have ever seen in the committee room,” Quinlan said. “This is very important to us because we have very difficult decisions to make between very highly qualified candidates, and to get that additional perspective from an alum, and to get it in a more robust write-up than in previous years, is certainly more helpful.”

This year 24 percent of our interviews were virtual, but all were firmly grounded in reality.

DOMINIQUE FENTON Dakotas ASC, Director Moreover, the new portal indicates which volunteers have opted in to “Virtual ASC,” a virtual interviewing program that was launched last fall in conjunction with the new portal, Posner said. Virtual ASC allows alumni to conduct interviews with applicants via Skype, facilitating connections with students who were previously unreachable due to geographic constraints. Posner said he expects 8 to 10 percent of all interviews to be conducted virtually this year.

Young alumni tend to gravitate towards the same seven

cities after they graduate, Quinlan said, resulting in a disproportionately large number of interviewers in places like Manhattan, and a dearth in more rural areas. The goal of Virtual ASC is to encourage alumni who grew up in places like Kentucky and have since moved to New York after graduation to get on Skype and talk to applicants from their home state, Quinlan said.

“That regional and personal connection can be powerful for the applicant and interviewer alike,” Posner said.

Feedback for Virtual ASC has been mostly positive, Posner said, as many volunteers appreciate the convenience of being able to conduct an interview from the comfort of their home or office.

Director of the Dakotas ASC Dominique Fenton, who interviewed students in the Bronx before moving to South Dakota, said interviews with Bronx applicants were typically conducted in person. However, Fenton said he is now the director of a region that is comprised of two states, two time zones and 147,816 square miles, which makes conducting virtual interviews a necessity.

“This year 24 percent of our interviews were virtual, but all were firmly grounded in reality,” Fenton said.

He added that this year, the 15 volunteers of the Dakotas ASC interviewed every single applicant from both North and South Dakota.

Roughly 3,700 Early Action applicants were interviewed this year — an increase from previous cycles, Posner said.

Quinlan said 6 percent of these interviews were conducted virtually. As the office approaches the end of the interview season, Posner estimated that nearly

two-thirds of the Yale applicant pool will be interviewed by the time admissions decisions are released.

Both Quinlan and Posner said ASC interview reports are one of the most frequently viewed documents in the committee room, as they reflect insights about a spontaneous interaction with an applicant.

This is especially crucial in an age when college applications are often crafted and groomed by students, parents and hired consultants, Quinlan said.

Five of seven students interviewed said they considered their alumni interview to be a major contributor in their admission to Yale.

Students who did not receive interviews said they were unclear about the amount of weight the University places on this aspect of a student’s application and the method by which students are selected for interviews.

“It’s really easy as a high school student applying to a highly selective school to read into little things like not being asked for an interview,” Lucas Riccardi ’17 said. “If not everyone is being contacted for an interview, the Admissions Office is either admitting that the interview doesn’t matter, or they’re not providing equal opportunity for all their applicants.”

However, Posner said limited regional coverage was the primary reason for applicants not receiving interviews in the past, as opposed to disinterest in the applicant by the University.

Quinlan said 18,000 of the 31,000 applicants to Yale College last year received alumni interviews.

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

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“The distinction between ‘assistant’ and ‘intern’ is a simple one: Assistants are paid, interns are not. But of course, interns are paid in experience.” JOYCE CAROL OATES AMERICAN AUTHOR

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have a chance to make a point to the University,” said Shalmoli Halder ’15, who boycotted the Class Gift.

Halder said the boycott is a response to long-standing problems with the way Yale Health handles cases of student depression and readmission, adding that “a lot of seniors share this sentiment.”

A low participation rate from seniors would not be unprecedented. A quarter of the class of 2003 did not give to the SCG. Still, on average, Yale tends to have a higher participation rate in class gifts than other Ivy League schools.

By comparison, the Harvard class of 2014 achieved only 78 percent class participation.

Two seniors who contributed to the SCG, Maneesh Vij ’15 and Eric Stern ’15 — who is a residential college representative for the gift — said they sympathize with the cause of boycotters but not with their method.

“I think there are better ways to protest, better ways to get the message out their,” Vij said. “It’s unfair to boycott the Senior Gift.”

The SCG has reached over 91 percent participation rate every one of the last five years. The average gift amount raised over those years is $34,895.

Adrian Lo ’15 said he took issue

with the way the fundraising campaigns are run. Monetary incentives from alumni for the largest individual contributions have socioeconomic class implications, said Lo. “It gives preference to people who are able to give,” he added.

Lo cited the Nathan Hale Associates program, which incentivizes contributions by referring to those seniors who donate $100 as people whose “leadership serves to inspire the efforts of all at Yale to provide the very best opportunities in higher education.”

The minimum donation threshold for the SCG this year was $5.

Halder said that while students have been discussing the University’s mental health problems for a long time, she thought the death of Luchang Wang ’17 sparked many conversations and caused the boycott in the short term. Lo suggested that the boycott was the culmination of years of debate over Yale’s readmission policies.

“People don’t come up with ideas of boycotting the gift overnight,” Lo said. “These things have been in the mix over a long time.”

The current SCG campaign structure, which is led annually by four co-chairs, was created in 1997.

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

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The winners of this year’s Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes hail from the United States, Britain, Nigeria and South Africa.

Library. Now in its third year, the prize seeks to recognize both English-language writers who are well established and new, promising talents. The prize selects three winners in each of three categories: fiction, non fiction and drama. Each prizewinner will receive $150,000. The only stipulation is that the prizewinners must be present on campus Sept. 28 to receive the award and attend a literary festival spanning that week.

“What we continually set out to do is find writers from all over the world who are first and foremost excellent writers that we want to recognize, but also people whose careers who we think the prize will have an impact on,” said Michael Kelleher, program director for the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes. “For some people it’s a year’s worth of free time, for some it’s five.”

This year’s fiction winners are Teju Cole, Helon Habila and Ivan Vladislavi, the nonfiction winners are Edmund de Waal, Geoff Dyer and John Jeremiah Sullivan, and the drama recipients are Jackie Sibblies Drury ’03, Helen Edmundson and Debbie Tucker Green. Selected from 61 nominations across 12 countries, the winners hail from the United States, the United Kingdom, Nigeria and South Africa.

Salovey said the award announcement was one of his favorite days of the year and thanked the prizewinners for their contributions.

Kelleher said the yearlong selection process begins in the spring, when he solicits nominations from a wide range of literary experts, from librarians to book critics. He added that in an effort to represent a geographically diverse set of writers, he encourages nominators to focus on specific regions each year, so that prizewinners can stand out both in their own local context and on a global scale.

Over the summer, several juries evaluate the work of all the nominees before writing statements of

Bill hopes to shield interns from harassment UNPAID INTERNS FROM PAGE 1 it as a “common sense step forward” in sexual harassment legislation.

Caroline Treiss, executive director of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women — an arm of the Connecticut General Assembly— will testify on behalf of the bill. She mirrored Looney’s belief that interns are particularly vulnerable to harassment, sexual and otherwise, in the workplace.

“The power differential between an intern and supervisor is significant — interns are trying to build a reputation, make a positive impression and leave the internship with a good

reference for future employment opportunities — all of which can be exploited by unscrupulous supervisors wishing to take advantage of the situation,” she said in an email to the News.

Bridgeport, Conn. Mayor Bill Finch testified before the committee at a public hearing last Tuesday. According to the mayor’s communications director, Brett Broesder, Finch is passionate about ending intern harassment.

In his testimony, Finch spoke about a case where an unpaid female intern at a New York television network alleged that a supervisor had made unwanted, physical sexual advances.

Instead of investigating the

claims, a federal court in New York ruled in 2013 that she had no grounds to sue because she was not an employee under the law.

The story was widely publicized and served as the inspiration for the passage of a bill to extend sexual harassment protections to unpaid interns in the state of New York, Finch said.

In his testimony, Finch said he believed it was critical to immediately improve the rights of interns in the workplace.

“It’s terrible to think about, but tomorrow it could be our sons, daughters, granddaughters, grandsons, cousins, nieces or nephews,” he said.

Despite the lack of dissension

on the bill, there has been some minor disagreement as to its exact wording. During the committee meeting on Thursday, representatives from the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities proposed adding to the bill a clause that classifies unpaid interns as employees.

However, Looney said in his own testimony that the bill is intended exclusively to give interns additional legal protection. Amending the definition of the word “employee” would have additional, potentially far-reaching legislative consequences, he said.

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

support for five finalists in each category. A third selection committee then decides the prizewinners, Kelleher said.

At no point in the selection process are potential recipients notified of their status. Kelleher noted that instead of notifying prizewinners himself, as he had done in the past two years, this year he and the selection committee made phone calls to recipients together. He said that this year, at least half the prizewinners were aware of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize’s existence.

Vladislavi, a South African short story writer and novelist, said that the prize was a great honor for him.

What we continually set out to do is find … excellent writers that we want to recognize.

MICHAEL KELLEHER Program Director for Windham-Campbell Prizes “I am grateful for the faith that the selection committee has shown in my work, and I’ll put this remarkably generous prize to good use,” he said in an email. “I know the writing of some of the other prizewinners and I’m delighted to be in such good company.”

Kia Corthron, a 2014 drama prizewinner, who knew about the prize when she received a call from Kelleher last year, said the award allowed her to stay in New York and focus on her writing.

Corthron added that one notable aspect of the prize is that it awards writers on a global scale. “[The prize is] also wonderful in that it’s an international prize,” Corthron said. “You meet people around world, and [it’s also] confirmation that you’re doing pretty well.”

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

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Post-bac program aims to increase diversity in sciences

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER After spending almost a year working with Yale faculty in the Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, the first class of the Yale Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) has begun to hear back from the graduate schools to which they applied.

Launched this academic year, the PREP initiative aims to prepare college graduates from underrepresented minority groups for Ph.D. programs in the biomedical sciences. It is part of a nationwide effort to increase diversity in the sciences — 31 U.S. universities and institutions have National Institutes of Health-funded PREP initiatives. According to Assistant Dean of the Graduate

School Carl Hashimoto, a similar post-baccalaureate program existed in the early 2000s at Yale, but the program ended after the former director left.

In recent years, the program has received renewed interest. The $1.3 million NIH grant — which the administration received only after applying twice — will fund the program for four years, starting in the 2014–15 academic year. Coming from a variety of backgrounds with a diverse range of research interests, all of the current PREP students interviewed said the program has helped them feel more adequately prepared for graduate school. Programs like PREP, they said, are crucial to increasing diversity in the sciences.

“As a woman of color, people that look like me don’t always

have these opportunities,” PREP student Shannon Hughley GRD ’15 said. “I have been so fortunate to have mentors that look like me, but other people don’t get to see that. Sometimes you walk into a room and you’re the only person there who is a woman or a person of color.”

Hughley graduated from Spelman College last year and decided to apply to PREP after she was rejected from several schools. Having worked in the same lab as many first-year graduate students, Hughley said she now has a better idea of what graduate school will be like.

While Hughley said the students and directors of PREP meet together roughly once a month, she suggested directors could improve the program by holding meetings more fre-

DS solicits student feedback

quently.

From a small town in Texas with a population of 1,000, Ryan Reyes GRD ’15 said doctors were the only science role models he saw growing up — he had no opportunities to be exposed to people working in other science disciplines. He attended college at a small school in Arkansas, primarily to play baseball and run cross-country. He said that three years ago, he would not have been able to imagine where he is today — researching lung cancer and recently accepted to the M.D./Ph.D program at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

Korie Bush GRD ’15, who graduated from Cornell, said he applied to the program to figure out if he wanted to attend graduate school and make himself a better applicant. Bush said he

would like to see more structure in the program. Whenever Bush sought help from the directors, they were very receptive to his problems, he said. But he fears other students who do not have experience asking for help will end up going without it.

According to Bush, though the world of academia is making a push toward diversity, he expects his post-academic life in industry to be more homogeneous.

“I highly doubt they have programs like this in industry,” he said.

While the first-year participants receive their acceptances, Hashimoto and the other program directors have begun reviewing the newest set of PREP applicants.

Hashimoto said they have received close to 50 applicants

Former DS students are invited to discuss their experiences in an effort to assess the impact of the program.

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER This week, dozens of former Directed Studies students will find themselves back around the seminar table.

Funded by a $280,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation — a grant-making organization focused on improving higher education — DS faculty will assess the impact of their “core text” program on students. Now, in the second year of the three-year grant, former and current DS students have been invited to participate in group discussions of six to eight students, led by researchers from the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College. In addition to allowing students to reflect, faculty said these discussions, which aim to reflect on the successes and failures of the program, could lead to longterm changes in the way DS is run at Yale.

“The point of these conversations is not so much about what we want to do about DS and the day-to-day functioning of the program here,” DS Director of Undergraduate Studies Kathryn Slanski said. “It’s so that we can better understand the impact of a program like DS.” DS is a year-long, competitive freshman program focused on the western canon.

Slanski wrote to former and current DS students earlier this month requesting their participation in the discussion groups, held Monday through Thursday this week at the Whitney Humanities Center. Over 100 DS students signed up to take part in the discussions. To gather further student input, faculty will use themes that arise from these discussions to create an online survey sent to all DS alumni, Slanski said.

So that students feel free to be completely honest, no DS faculty or staff will be present at the meetings, Slanski said. Eight of 10 students interviewed said they planned to attend a discussion group.

“I think, broadly speaking, there are two questions to address: What is the place of a core curriculum in a liberal arts education — should we have programs like this?” said Ben Marrow ’17, who plans to attend a session. “And assuming we have a core curriculum, how should it be structured?”

While most students interviewed said their DS experiences were largely positive, others expressed concerns.

Hayun Cho ’17, who left DS after the first semester, cited many problems with the program, including its lack of diversity in students and faculty, excessive focus on only “traditional” descriptions of the Western canon and too-brief discussion of some texts. Curriculum issues would not have been such a problem if the program had been marketed differently, she added.

Marrow said much of DS is very valuable, but that the program also has its drawbacks, including the large portion of a student’s schedule it requires and the “almost too rigorous” pace — qualities that deter students who may otherwise have been interested in the program.

“My biggest issue is what the cost is,” Marrow said. “I came out of DS knowledgeable on everything they intended to teach me, but I’m almost a year behind everyone else — taking intro classes when they’re taking second-year classes.”

Claire Williamson ’17 said overall she would recommend DS despite its rigorous nature, but there are certainly some improvements that could be made — namely, reevaluating certain texts in the curriculum.

Charles Blaich, the director of the Center of Inquiry at Wabash College and the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, who is one of the researchers leading the discussion, said he and his colleague will also gather faculty input while on campus. Like the student discussions, these faculty discussions will take place

in small focus groups, Associate Director of Inquiries at the Center of Inquiry Kathleen Wise added.

Blaich declined to comment on any specific discussions that have taken place in the focus groups, but said that this kind of review is a normal process for colleges and universities. The Teagle grant is also being used to review similar programs at Columbia University and the University of Chicago.

The initiative will likely result in a joint publication from the three universities evaluating the text-based programs in terms of what works well and what does not, said Norma Thompson, a DS professor involved with the initiative. In addition to helping the three universities involved assess their own strengths and weaknesses, this document may serve as a model for the many colleges hoping to create similar programs, Thompson added.

DS professor Joshua Billings said the curriculum is “always a work in progress,” noting that the faculty meets every year to revisit it.

But even beyond routine curricular revisions, there may be room for greater change to DS. These changes will depend on the student feedback received, said Humanities Program chair and head of DS Bryan Garsten.

“DS began as an experimental program, and it’s been a tremendously successful experiment, so the change that comes to DS comes relatively slowly,” Garsten said. “But there is room for much quicker innovation to happen.”

However, Slanski said given the extensive contact she already has with DS alums — through groups like the DS ambassadors and the recently formed DS student advisory committee — she does not expect to be surprised by the feedback from these meetings. Still, she said she will pay close attention to any issues that do arise.

Former Yale College Dean William DeVane founded DS in 1946.

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

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

Silliman makes the Final Cut

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for only seven spots. Last year, the directors had little time to advertise the program because the NIH only told them at the last minute that they would be receiving funding. Instead, they had to recruit students by word of mouth and thus only found five qualified participants.

While Wilhemina Koomson GRD ’15 said she wishes the program could be expanded to more students, Minority Affairs Director for the Combined Program Anton Bennett said the directors may want to keep the program small in order to foster intimacy within the program and be able to serve all of the students’ needs.

The BBS program has approximately 350 faculty members.

Over 1,000 students gathered in Commons Dining Hall Tuesday evening for the annual Final Cut competition.

In this culinary event, jointly organized

by Yale Dining and the Yale College Council, one team from every residential college was required to prepare an appetizer and an entrée with given ingredients in 60 minutes.

They then presented the finished dishes to a board of five judges, which included University President Peter Salovey, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and Executive Director of Yale Dining Rafi Taherian. At the end of the night, Silliman College came out on top, winning $1,000.

“If you just look at the competitors’ performances, you would think that they are professional culinary students,” Taherian said.

Dishes were judged on factors such as appearance and temperature of the food, according to judge Ron DeSantis, director of culinary excellence at Yale. But at the end of the day, he said, it is always taste that matters the most.

Final Cut judge Ming Tsai ’86, a celebrity chef and television personality, agreed with DeSantis, adding that optimal flavor comes down to good execution and proper seasoning. Having competed in the TV show “The Next Iron Chef” — in which professional chefs compete with each other under time pressure — Ming said finishing two dishes within one hour can be very stressful for cooks.

Salovey said he was proud to see Yalies exemplify such diverse talents. Judging can be a tricky job, he said, as judges have to remember the tastes of 24 dishes, and pick their favorite from them.

“The winning dish always has some little surprise that makes it stand out on the palate,” Salovey said before the competition.

Teams competed not only for the best culinary skills, but also for the best manifestation of college spirit. A Trumbull bull was seen cheering for their team at Commons.

“Final Cut is a great opportunity for an epic battle of not only tastes and flavors, but also of college spirit,” said Greg Meyer ’16, who had a Morse flagpole on his shoulder and a walrus hat on his head.

Jaime Halberstam ’16, YCC events director and co-organizer of the event, said the event is meant to showcase the diverse talents of Yale students, as well as showing that Yale Dining can offer more than the everyday dining hall food.

Roughly one dozen vendors, partnering with Yale Dining, provided food samples to students attending the event. While students cheered for their college’s teams, they also enjoyed sushi, pastries, Alaskan cod, protein shakes and several more items.

Kevin Ennis ’17 said the food was great and very different from everyday dining hall food.

Jann Dickerson, representative of Alaska Seafood, said she is glad Yale chose her company, because it provides sustainable food and shows Yale’s commitment to the environment. Armand Boutin, from Yale’s cereal provider, Mom Brands, said he hopes that when students go work in different fields, they will know that local products are just as good as national brands — but without the higher fees.

Each team started and finished five minutes after the previous team, giving the judges enough time to taste each dish. Juli Cho ’15 on the Pierson team said that although the team had practiced before, it was more hectic when executing in front of judges and the audience.

“This year was the strongest competition since this [Final Cut] began,” Salovey said, before the judges announced the winner.

“The scores came unbelievably close. The difference between the first and the second was smaller than one tenth.”

Taherian said it was hard to choose a winner. All participants showed amazing skills and understanding of the culinary art, he said, and their food quality was first-rate.

Davenport and Saybrook came in second and third place, respectively.

Contact ANDI WANG at andi.wang@yale.edu .

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Vendors partnered with Yale Dining to provide food samples to students attending Final Cut, which was won by a team from Silliman College.

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“I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or ‘big thinker.’ I don’t have any lofty goals.� LINUS TORVALDS FINNISH SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Admins, students push different visions for Engineers Week ENGINEERS WEEK FROM PAGE 1 Weeks were led by graduate students or administration officials like herself.

Student organizer Catherine Brock ’16, who had not heard of Engineers Week until she began organizing the programming, said that in past years, those running the week had difficulty reaching out to students. This year, though, they are hoping to reach a wider audience, including non-engineering students, she said. While the organizers’ goals were to expand the presence of the engineering community on campus and provide a better platform for engineering undergraduate organizations to receive recognition, students who attended the opening ceremonies said they had failed to attract students who were not already involved in the engineering community. According to Brock, students and administrators also had a “different vision� about what the week was intended to do. “They wanted to market mainly to engineering students, and they were a little out of touch with what students would enjoy going to,� Brock said. “They wanted to have a panel of graduate students talking about their research while we preferred having people from industry come in.�

But Quagliato said there was no hesitation on the part of the administration to open up Engineers Week to the broader Yale community and that in past years, they invited industry leaders for career panels. This year, students and the administration compromised and brought in professors, who Quagliato said have experience in industry and academia, for their career panel.

On Monday, over 20 students attended the opening ceremony and student exposition in the CEID. But Yale University Aerospace Association member Ethan Weinberger ’18 noted that most of the students in attendance were required to be there to display their work.

Of the students attending the event, some were initially there to do homework in the CEID. Still, Vincent Wilc-

zynski, director of the CEID and deputy dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the opening event is no indicator of the week’s success. In past years, signature talks drew in more than 150 attendees.

I noticed how much work is being put into this [week], so there was no way I wasn’t going to attend.

JESUS CARO ’16 Some students, who had never heard about Engineers Week before this year, noticed an encouraging amount of hype leading up to the week. “I noticed how much work is being put into this [week], so there was no way I wasn’t going to attend,� attendee Jesus Caro ’16 said. “I sometimes feel like there aren’t a lot of engineering events here, so I thought if there is finally an engineering specific event, I should attend.�

Student organizer Evan Doyle ’17 said one of the greatest challenges in organizing the events was collaborating with all the student groups, which they aimed to do in order to have the highest amount of student participation possible. “This week is important for Yale engineering, but all of the people here are already engineers. We don’t need that,�

Dante Archangeli ’17. “We need everyone in the Yale community and the academic community to realize that Yale engineering exists and is strong.�

The next event, a talk by MIT professor Rodney Cole, on “Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems Safely into the National Airspace System,� takes place at 1 p.m. today in the Mann Student Center on the first floor of Dunham Laboratory.

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

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Over 20 students attended Engineers Week’s opening ceremony and student exposition, which were held in the CEID.

DOJ to fund studies on sexual assault DEPT. OF JUSTICE FROM PAGE 1 a five-person panel selected from within the UWC decides whether or not the respondent has violated University policy, and if so, will recommend a punishment. The UWC’s suggestion is then presented to a “final decision-maker� for approval or modification.

The most recent Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct, published earlier this month, listed 62 new complaints brought to the University’s attention from July 1 to Dec. 31, 2014.

Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd said it is crucial that universities have a strong and diverse body of research to supplement their own internal institutional assessments. Deputy Provost and University Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Spangler spoke along similar lines, adding that universities are eager to use the results of such research to help address and prevent sexual misconduct on their campus.

Alexa Derman ’18, public relations coordinator for the Yale Women’s Center, said the DOJ grant’s push for new information about investigation and adjudication practices will not only prompt colleges to reeval-

uate their own policies, but also add transparency and clear statistical information to a debate often fraught with misinformation. “Of course, alterations to adjudication processes alone cannot transform any university’s sexual climate, but fair policies and students’ confidence in them are crucial factors in making change,� Derman wrote in an email.

Fair policies and students’ confidence in them are crucial factors in making change.

ALEXA DERMAN ’18 Backes said one challenge to the research — typically funded by three-year grants — could be inadequate sample sizes, as a review of a university’s policies is largely dependent on how many students come forward with complaints.

However, Director of Public Policy and Communication for Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services Jillian Gilchrest said this type of research could be

most beneficial in encouraging victims to come forward if they have a better understanding of how their college or university would handle their complaint.

Colby Bruno, Senior Legal Counsel at the Victim Rights Law Center, said it is staggering how little is currently known about rape and sexual assault on college campuses. “What I’m looking for is a research study that is totally unbiased so that people can stop crippling about the minutiae of statistics and start getting down to solving the problem right now,� Bruno said.

Backes echoed the sentiment, saying that what sets this type of research apart from the NIJ’s previous work on sexual assault is that it avoids heavy focus on the numbers — namely that one in five women is sexually assaulted while in college — to look at and give context to university practices themselves. “We want to get away from the number and look at the practices,� she said. “We know [sexual assaults] are happening, whether one in five or one in 10, there are still too many women and men that are being victimized.�

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“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” GEORGE WASHINGTON FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

CERN head outlines growth

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTER Fabiola Gianotti, director-general-elect of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, spoke this week about the future of particle colliders and the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Gianotti will be the first female to head CERN, the top particle physics lab in the world, beginning her tenure at the start of 2016. Since its founding in 1954, CERN has conducted research instrumental to the development for the Standard Model, a theory that relates the fundamental forces of the universe to subatomic particles.

“With the discovery of Higgs boson, we have completed the Standard Model,” said Gianotti during her second of the two lectures — part of the Leigh Page Prize Lectures held in Sloana Physics Laboratory. “Not only is the equation beautiful — it is very condensed and can even fit on the side of a mug — it also works beautifully.”

But the work, she argued, is far from over. Physicists have yet to explain phenomena like dark matter and dark energy, and hypotheses like supersymmetry need extensive research beyond even the capacities of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, which, with a 27-mile circumference, is

the largest single machine in the world, she said.

While she said that the LHC is critical to the advancement of particle physics, CERN is considering some even more ambitious developments, such as a 31-kilometer accelerator in Japan and another accelerator that would require 600 megawatts — or enough energy to power 200,000 standard American homes — to operate.

With the discovery of Higgs boson we have completed the Standard Model.

FABIOLA GIANOTTI Director-General-elect, CERN One mission of these new accelerator proposals would be to find “new physics,” said John Harris, professor and director of undergraduate studies of the Yale Physics major.

“This is physics that cannot be explained with the Standard Model,” Harris said, noting that the Standard Model cannot explain dark energy and dark matter.

To pursue research in new physics, Harris said, it is necessary to invest in building more powerful magnets and more precise beams, so that the par-

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ticle accelerator will be able to collide particles at higher energy in order to cause reactions that have not yet been observed.

Through this investment, Harris believes that discoveries in phenomena such as supersymmetry will be possible.

Supersymmetry is a hypothesis that attempts to solve what is called the “hierarchy problem,” a concept involving the origins of the fundamental forces — like gravity and electromagnetism — in the universe and the massive discrepancy between the strength of gravity and other forces. The most symmetrical solution is the possibility that all of these forces were once one singular force at the beginning of the universe, Harris said.

Gianotti said the accelerator would help answer many questions besides supersymmetry, such as why gravity is so many orders of magnitude weaker than the other fundamental forces, why there is more matter than antimatter, the cause of the universe’s expansion and the composition of dark matter.

In one question at the end of the lecture, Gianotti was asked whether the U.S. should try to join CERN. She said the United States might not benefit most from full membership, but suggested that the U.S. should move to become an associate member, meaning that they would be able

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Fabiola Gianotti spoke at Yale this week as a part of the Leigh Page Prize Lectures. to contribute to the lab’s research while only having to contribute one-tenth the amount of money.

As part of Gianotti’s visit, the Physics Department also offered a Whitney Humanities Center screening of “Particle Fever,” a documentary about CERN’s search for the Higgs boson. One

attendee, William Eckner ’18, said that the event fit in well with his studies in physics.

“This lecture reinforced an idea that my physics professor emphasizes all the time in class — any theory has to have experimental evidence,” he said. “The scale of the proposed projects

and experiments demonstrates how firmly rooted physics is in this principle.”

In 2013, CERN’s budget — funded by 20 member countries — was $1.3 billion dollars.

Contact BRENDAN HELLWEG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu .

New program targets recidivism

BY REBECCA KARABUS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Housing Authority of New Haven has pitched a new program that will provide former prison inmates with housing, tuition to complete a college degree and other support services with the goal of deterring second-time offenses.

The program, dubbed Connecticut Fresh Start, would begin in a trial period with four families, each of which has one previously incarcerated member.

Housing Authority Executive Director Karen Dubois-Walton proposed Connecticut Fresh Start to the authority’s board at its monthly meeting last Tuesday. The program, which would partially be funded using state resources, is consistent with Gov. Dannel Malloy’s recent call for a Second Chance Society, City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said.

“Very often when offenders are released, if they have no structure, there’s a greater risk of them falling back into anti-social and criminal behavior,” Grotheer said, adding that Connecticut Fresh Start would ideally lessen the risk of recidivism.

According to Grotheer, the desired outcome of the program is to keep offenders out of prison

by helping them become contributing members of the community.

To identify those with the greatest potential to benefit from the program, he thinks the best candidates will distinguish themselves while they are still incarcerated by taking classes and working to improve themselves even before they are released.

This is a society of second chances and I believe in that. The bottom line is: You have to earn [it].

THEMIS KLARIDES Connecticut House Minority Leader Once candidates are selected, Connecticut Fresh Start will provide former inmates and their families with housing and a cost-of-living stipend of up to $30,000, depending on the size of the family. In addition, the housing authority will offer academic help for any children in the family and other support services.

The program will then provide the former inmates with tuition

to complete degrees at any Connecticut college or university approved by the housing authority. The previous offenders will be given three years to complete a four-year degree on the condition that they refrain from criminal activity and maintain a 3.0 GPA. Dubois-Walton also noted that recipients who fail to comply with the program’s rules and design would lose their tuitions and stipends. In extreme cases, they could also face eviction.

Connecticut Fresh Start emphasizes this academic component to provide former inmates with resources to find well-paying jobs and ultimately become self-sufficient.

“All the data says that people have a higher earning potential with a college degree or even higher degree,” Dubois-Walton said.

She said the housing authority had seen a number of men and women start college courses in prison, but then face of barriers to continuing their degrees, including restrictions on receiving financial aid because of their criminal records.

Darby Herkert ’18, who volunteers for the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, said she has noticed that many of the prisoners she has tutored have been failed by the school system but

still want to learn.

“Providing tuition is a great way to promote education as an alternate path and prevent people from getting back in jail,” Herkert said.

Despite the program’s potential, Dubois-Walton identified the state’s current budgetary constraints as a possible obstacle to Connecticut Fresh Start’s success. Even though it would be a “modest investment,” DuboisWalton said she recognized that other cuts are already being made, and that the program would be a new expense.

Connecticut House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, a Republican representing the 114th District, which borders New Haven, said she thinks Connecticut Fresh Start is a good program to put money into as long as the parameters are narrow. However, she noted that legislators have already seen “a lot of problems” with Connecticut’s re-entry program because former inmates have failed to comply with rules and guidelines.

“This is a society of second chances and I believe that,” Klarides said. “The bottom line is: You have to earn [a second chance].”

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

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n the right was a runway of culture. There were dozens of booths with samples of everything from sushi to PB&Js. On the left was a culinary battlefield.

Each college, equipped with its pots, pans and pride, crafted unique dishes with ingredients that were even more unique.

The only question is: who made the final cut?

APRIL ALESSANDRO reports.

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TOMORROW High of 23, low of 10.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 5:00 PM Ancestors Tale: A Journey to the Origins of Complex Animal Eyes. Todd Oakley, a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at University of California, Santa Barbara will speak as a part of the E&EB Seminar Series.

Class of 1954 Environmental Sciences Center (21 Sachem St.), Rm. 110.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 4:00 PM Mike Curtin, CEO of the DC Central Kitchen. Yale Undergraduate Prison Project is hosting Mike Curtin, CEO of DC Central Kitchen, an organization that provides healthy, sustainable meals to shelters, public schools and food deserts as well as giving culinary job training and job placement to people struggling with homelessness, addiction and transition to life after prison.

Davenport College (248 York St.).

4:00 PM Where is Ukraine Headed? Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev, the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, will give a talk on the future of Ukraine. Horchow Hall (55 Hillhouse Ave.), GM Room.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 3:00 PM Chinese Language and Culture: Remembering Henry C. Fenn. Director of the Center for the Study of Ancient Pyro-Technology Thomas Fenn will speak in the opening talk for a new exhibit in the East Asia Library entitled “Henry C. Fenn: American Chinese Language Authority and Early Western Traveler to China.” Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Rm. 218.

4:00 PM The 20/21st Century Colloquium: Alex Woloch. Alex Woloch is an associate professor of English at Stanford University, where he works on literary theory and criticism, narrative theory and the history and theory of the novel. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 319.

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SPORTS

“I’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.” A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI FORMER YALE PRESIDENT

Freshmen form triple threat

The nostalgia of endings COLUMN FROM PAGE 14 not that every morning practice has seemed easier or necessarily more fun, but there is something different.

I have had the opportunity to appreciate the time spent with 19 of my closest friends playing a game, regardless of the hour. I have realized that there will be very few times in my life where my only goal is to hit a ball with a bat as hard as I can. And even if, in the moment, I am looking forward to the end of these morning practices, the last first has helped me realize that I will in some small way miss them when they are gone.

This brings me to the second reason it is important to recognize the last firsts. The last firsts bring us back to the beginning, to those first firsts.

They show us how far we have come, how much we might have changed and how some things will always be the same.

That last first time your cleats sink into the dirt at the beginning of the spring will feel just as good as every other first time. When you look around the field as you take the home field for the first last time, you will look around and realize that many of the teammates that were there for your first first time have come and gone, but there are still a few who have been with you through it all.

The last firsts remind us of all the firsts we have had and all of the moments in between. They help us to appreciate all the moments that follow. And, most importantly, they prepare us for our lasts, allowing us to reflect on them, knowing that we made the most of it all.

SARAH ONORATO is a senior in Silliman College. Contact her at sarah.onorato@yale.edu .

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Fedor Andrienko ‘18, Stefan Doehler ‘18 and Ziqi Wang ’18 all start for the Elis this season.

TENNIS FROM PAGE 14 three hours of practice every day, on top of lifts and conditioning, we go to dinner together, we go to class together, and we do a lot of [other] things together,” said Wang.

It was no surprise to Dorato that his freshmen would experience this success.

He credited their smooth transition to

college competition to each of the player’s blend of size and athleticism. The trio has also been helped along by the leadership of seniors like Daniel Faierman ’15 and Captain Zachary Krumholz ’15.

“All of the seniors have really highlighted the importance of competing to our best abilities,” Doehler said. “Of course, winning is always a main goal,

but they’ve taught me that the best tennis comes from focusing on having grit and staying positive.”

With each lesson and swing of the racket, Andrienko, Doehler and Wang are preparing for both the present and the future. In three and a half years, when the three become seniors, these fantastic freshmen will be the veterans that are counted upon to lead the Elis,

and they are already well on their way.

“I think that our class can do really great things,” said Wang. “This is just the beginning.”

The Bulldogs’ next competition will be against Fairleigh Dickinson, Marist and Stony Brook on March 7.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .

Recently retired Bagnoli named CU coach FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 14 from a few years back. “One thing I know is that when I came to Yale, it was a time when we felt we really needed to upgrade in a lot of areas, one of them being in talent. I think Columbia will go through the same analysis of their program and determine their needs.”

Columbia began looking for a new football coach after the resignation of Pete Mangurian, a former NFL assistant who left the Lions in December amid allegations of abuse from his players.

The Columbia Spectator reported in December that 25 football players sent a letter, which was later withdrawn, to Columbia President Lee Bollinger criticizing Mangurian’s handling of concussions, mistreatment of athletes and unrealistic weight regimens.

Mangurian’s tenure also included an incident involving Stanford transfer quarterback Brett Nottingham. Nottingham, who backed up NFL No. 1 pick Andrew Luck at Stanford, relocated to New York City after losing the Cardinal’s starting job to Josh Nunes. But just five games into the 2014 season, Nottingham was benched and left the team.

No matter who took snaps under center, the Lions still found little success on the field.

Mangurian amassed an abysmal 3–27 record in his three seasons with the Lions, with all three wins coming in his first year.

Mangurian’s second career win was a 26–22 victory over Yale, which was led by then-first year coach Reno.

However, the two programs have gone in opposite directions since 2012, when Columbia and Yale finished seventh and eighth in the Ivy League, respectively.

Reno has inched the Bulldogs up the Ivy League standings each year, finishing fourth in 2013 and third in 2014. The Elis defeated the Lions by scores of 53–12 and 25–7 in those two years.

Columbia has had no such luck. Two consecutive seasons at the bottom of the Ivy League forced the school to pursue other avenues. Following the resignation of Athletic Director M. Dianne Murphy, the university’s

new athletic director, Peter Pilling, told The Spectator on Feb. 3 that a new football coach was “priority number one.”

Bagnoli’s hiring indicates Columbia’s renewed dedication to its football program. In his 23 seasons at Penn’s helm, Bagnoli won nine outright Ivy League titles, including three undefeated seasons, and amassed a total record of 148–80.

In his final two seasons, however, his teams won only six total games.

Last year, Bagnoli led the Quakers to a 2–8 record, with both wins coming over the only

two Ivy League teams that finished lower than Penn in the standings, Cornell and Columbia. Bagnoli’s position will be filled by his defensive coordinator, Ray Priore, who was appointed as Bagnoli’s successor when the veteran announced his retirement last April.

In the two months between the conclusion of the 2014 season and his announcement as Columbia’s head coach, Bagnoli served as the director of special projects within Penn’s athletic administrations.

Following his final home game, a loss to Harvard, Bagnoli called

the 2014 campaign “weird” but denied having regrets.

“To be in one place for 23 years, it’s somewhat unusual, but I’ve loved it, and I’d like to think we’ve had more good moments than bad,” he said to The Daily Pennsylvanian. “We’re all caretakers to a program that is over 130 years old, and the seniors and I are happy to pass it on to the next guys who will get it all back on track.”

Though the Quakers fell to the Crimson by a score of 34–24, Penn put up a strong performance against the eventual Ivy League champions.

Harvard head coach Tim Murphy, the only active Ivy League coach with a higher winning percentage than Bagnoli, was complimentary of his Pennsylvanian counterpart after the game.

“He is the standard by which we measure all other coaches in this league,” Murphy said in the post-game press conference. “What [Penn has] done in two plus decades is absolutely remarkable. His body of work is just amazing.”

Of course, Murphy did not know at the time that he would be facing Bagnoli the following season.

When asked about Bagnoli, Reno was also effusive.

“He’s a great football coach, and he’s been a great friend of mine since I’ve been the head coach at Yale,” Reno said. “I think Columbia is very fortunate to have him.”

The Bulldogs will not get a chance to see the new Lions until Halloween, when Yale hosts Columbia in their annual matchup.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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Columbia’s football program has an all-time record of 19–68–2 against Yale.

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ARTS & CULTURE YUAG ‘portal’ connects New Haven, Iran

BY ROHAN NAIK STAFF REPORTER In a shipping container on Chapel Street, New Haven residents can now virtually transport themselves to the capital of Iran.

Constructed in front of the Yale University Art Gallery by the multidisciplinary arts collective Shared Studios, “A Portal Between New Haven and Tehran” connects local residents with users in Tehran through a digital screen. When one enters the container, he or she comes face-to-face with users in Tehran and are able to converse as if in the same room. Users can reserve the portal, which comes in the form of a large, gold shipping container, for twenty-minute interactive sessions.

“The idea is to connect people across all forms of distance, if that’s political, theological, based on gender norms, or another,” said Amar Bakshi LAW ’15, the founder of Shared Studios.

Shared Studios launched its first portal, which connected Tehran and New York City, this past December. More than 650 people between the two cities used the portal during the twoweek period.

Bakshi said he had been contemplating the idea for these interactive portals for the last eight years. He spent years as a journalist for the Washington Post, reporting through text and video from a dozen countries on their perceptions of the United States. Bakshi noted that when he left the Post to work at the State Department, he realized that he missed the conversations he had with people from other countries, which inspired him to begin the portal project.

Bakshi added that though the idea has been in circulation for a while, it was only last year that he decided to make it a reality.

“I decided to do it because I knew my interests lay more in the creative realm, even though I’m in law school and have been doing [work] in policy,” Bakshi said. “My heart was always more in the arts, and I decided to

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Multidisciplinary arts collective Shared Studios has created “A Portal Between New Haven and Tehran” that connects local residents with users in Tehran, Iran. embrace that.”

Bakshi noted that the process for funding the portals varies between projects. The YUAG is paying for the current portal.

The conversation for the YUAG to sponsor a portal began just last month, according to Molleen Theodore, the gallery’s assistant curator of programs. Theodore said that after meeting Bakshi at a conference, she was immedi-

ately interested in hosting a portal in New Haven, noting that the YUAG had been interested in better engaging the public through a visible street presence.

Theodore pointed to the installation as being particularly different from other exhibits in the gallery, noting that its location outside of the building itself as well as its large size make the portal stand out from the rest of

the works in the YUAG. Visitors who used the portal said their conversations with users in Tehran were much more natural than they had anticipated.

Sarah Strohkorb GRD ’20 said that she and her conversation partner sang the song “Edelweiss” from the musical “The Sound of Music” together.

Jennifer McTiernan ’99 LAW

’15 engaged in dialogue with a female university student in Tehran when she used the portal with her two daughters. McTiernan observed that the portal was particularly influential for her daughters, since much of the conversation involved the importance of education for women.

Bakshi said Shared Studios is seeking to accomplish its goal of

adding one portal in a new location every month for the next six months. Bakshi added that a portal in Herat, Afghanistan will soon be established, along with ones in Havana, Cuba and Washington, D.C. this summer.

The portal in New Haven will close March 1.

Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .

Opera Theatre tells classic tale of children, witch

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The Opera Theatre of Yale College’s biggest production of the season — “Hansel and Gretel” by Engelbert Humperdinck — opens tomorrow at the Harkness Auditorium. The production scope includes over 60 undergraduates.

BY IVONA IACOB CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In its biggest production of the season, the Opera Theatre of Yale College will bring to life a rendition of a beloved fairy tale.

“Hansel und Gretel” by Engelbert Humperdinck opens tomorrow at the Harkness Auditorium on Cedar Street. The production involves over 60 undergraduates, including a live orchestral ensemble. Sylvia Leith ’16, the show’s director, said the production will be staged in its original style, but added that performing the piece in a historically accurate way is challenging because the storyline is not set in a definitive location or era.

“It is a little bit of a difficult opera to have a take on, because it’s sort of timeless,” Leith said.

“We didn’t want to update it to modern time.”

The story of “Hansel und Gretel” follows the namesake pair of siblings as they are sent by their mother to find food. The siblings wander into the forest and are found by a witch, who lures them to her house and schemes to eat the siblings after feeding them copious amounts of food.

Brooke Lamell ’16, producer of the show and managing director of OTYC, said the shows that the group has put on in recent years have covered all of the main operatic languages and time periods.

She noted that “Hansel und Gre-

tel” differs from previous productions in that other operas from recent years were all French or Italian while “Hansel und Gretel” is German by origin. Lamell added that unlike “Hansel und Gretel,” all of OTYC’s recent shows were written before the year 1800.

“Throughout our time here we’ve been able to explore the vast array of opera that is out there, and I think that’s a good move for the company overall — to give students experience on all types that are out there,” Lamell said.

The production will be sung entirely in German, accompanied by English translations that will be projected on to a screen.

Lamell said she thinks the show

will appeal to a wide range of audiences because its songs are catchy, its storyline is well known and the projected translations will make the plot understandable to everyone.

The entire process to prepare and stage the production took approximately 10 months, throughout which singers, dancers and the orchestra rehearsed separately until this week. Musical Director Jacob Joyce MUS ’15 noted that the process of ensuring that the entire ensemble acts, sings and plays in unison has been a challenge.

With the exception of Yale School of Music professor Janna Baty, who serves as a director and adviser to the show, the entire

production process is entirely student-run, according to Lisa Zhang ’15, who plays the evil witch and is also part of the sets crew.

Lillian Crabb ’16, the show’s costume designer, said the show’s set designs were mostly inspired by its costumes. She added that several of the costumes in the show are rented from the Yale School of Drama or from local stores.

Baty explained that every aspect of “Hansel und Gretel,” including the sets and costumes, aims to emphasize the magic and childlike beauty of the original story. Although not all productions of the show include the original version’s ballet pieces,

she said, the OTYC version adheres to Humperdinck’s original intention to include dancing.

Baty added that for the first time ever, there will be a matinee performance on Saturday that will offer a variety of events for children, in hopes of making the show more appealing to younger audiences. Among other activities, children will be able to decorate their own gingerbread men and learn about the history of opera theatre from OTYC members before the show.

Performances of “Hansel and Gretel” run through Saturday night.

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

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“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

JOHN F. KENNEDY 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Art and law come together at weekend conference

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER An upcoming conference will show that artists do more with the law than get in trouble with it.

This weekend, over 350 people from all over the world will attend “The Legal Medium,” a multidisciplinary conference taking place this Thursday through Saturday at the Yale Law School. Organized by a group of 14 graduate and undergraduate students, the event aims to explore the relationship between art and the law, focusing on topics such as how

artists manipulate legal boundaries in their work. Amar Bakshi LAW ’15, the main organizer of the conference, said the upcoming event is unique in that it approaches the art-law connection from an artistic rather than a legal perspective.

“Most conferences on law and art tend to be about how lawyers deal with issues such as repatriation of works, cultural property in different domains or even the economics [of art] and its linkages to different legal systems,” Bakshi said.

Alexandra Perloff-Giles LAW ’17, a co-organizer of the con-

ference, also highlighted the uncommonly interdisciplinary nature of the conference, noting that it draws together a large variety of professionals from different disciplines, such as architects, curators, lawyers and poets.

She added that such collaborative ventures between multiple graduate schools at Yale — including thelaw school and the Yale School of Art — are also rare.

The conference will feature a presentation by performance artist Tehching Hsieh, who is renowned for acts such as relegating himself to solitary confinement for a year. His piece will

both comment on legal regimes and interact with them, according to Bakshi.

Four discussion panels will also be held during the conference, exploring how artists interact with laws of the human body, artificial and natural environments, the digital world and the government.

Perloff-Giles emphasized that encounters between art and law in the modern world occur in many different ways. She cited the detainment of artist Tania Bruguera, originally a speaker for the conference, in December 2014 by the Cuban govern-

ment after Bruguera attempted to stage an open mic event in Havana, Cuba.

In conjunction with the conference itself, Lucy Hunter GRD ’19 is curating an exhibition entitled “Irregular Rendition” at the Fred Giampietro Gallery on Chapel Street. Hunter said the exhibition seeks to expand the ways in which laws — ranging from laws of jurisprudence to laws of physics — are viewed from an artistic perspective.

Hunter also said that, in light of the conception that law might be a “heavy” subject to visualize, she decided to show pieces that

are visually pleasing and enjoyable.

The exhibition also features 24 film still-shots from conceptual artist Mary Ellen Carroll’s “Federal,” a movie in which cameras are positioned to capture the exterior of the Federal Building in Los Angeles, Calif. for an entire day.

“Federal” will be screened on the day of the conference, while Carroll herself will be a panelist.

“Irregular Rendition” will close on March 14.

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

THAO DO/ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR

Yalies emphasize importance of money in architecture

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Although money is often seen as a taboo topic in art schools, a group of Yale alumni is urging professional architects to place more value on the relationship between money and architecture.

The Yale Architectural Journal’s latest edition, titled “Money,” discusses the controversial role of money in the field of architecture. With articles written by a diverse group of professional architects ranging from Frank Gehry to Yale School of Architecture Professor Keller Easterling, the issue urges architects to reconsider the financial side of their work. Yale Architectural Journal Editor Marcus Addison Hooks ARC ’12 noted that many architects choose to avoid thinking about money in their work and do not view the topic as a serious area of inquiry.

“It’s a big question that the other editors and I discussed about three years ago,” Hooks said. “Architects don’t talk about money a lot, but in every work of architecture you need to find what the economic system can allow.”

When compared to other forms of art, Hooks explained, the large scale of architectural projects makes them significantly more expensive than other artistic works. Hooks added that while contractors and developers typically contribute substantial amounts of money to these projects, architects must still work within budgetary restrictions. Architects have to consider both the aesthetic appeal and monetary viability of their projects, he noted.

Addison said that while artists in other fields can maintain control over the materials that they work with throughout the creative process, architects must design their work around their budgets.

“No matter what financial model that you’re practicing on, it doesn’t change your passion for the design aspect,” Addison said. “Taking on a more active financial role can only

help the design aspect and is not at all against the tradition of wanting to create something beautiful.”

Yale Architectural Journal Editor Avi Forman ARC ’12 said that while contractors and carpenters may prioritize monetary concerns above other factors, architects focus more on the artistic aspects of their projects.

Forman said he thinks it is impossible for architects to ignore the financial side of their work, adding that professional architects are consultants to some of the most expensive industries in the world, including real estate and construction.

“Even if you say it’s an art, architecture is connected more closely to money than any other art field,” Yale Architectural Journal author James Andrachuk ARC ’12 said. “It’s important that architects understand how their financial imperatives, needs and designs tie into a much larger picture.”

Andrachuk said the same financial principle is not limited to commercial real estate development but also applies to other areas, such as designing houses and school districts. By having both an economic and design justification, clients are more likely to give architects increased control over their proposals, he said.

Yale Architectural Journal Editor Christos Bolos ARC ’12 said few prioritize monetary concerns in planning out their work. Andrachuk added that the financial aspect of architecture is commonly not taught in professional schools. He explained that in school, architects mostly face topographical or environmental, rather than monetary, restraints in their designs.

“When we were in school we were taught different principles regarding this subject, some more successfully than others,” Bolos said. “Now that we’re out of school it’s been a great learning experience.”

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual wage for an architect was $73,090 in 2012.

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

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Young, talented tennis trio leads Yale MEN’S TENNIS

the doubles point and cruise to a 4–1 victory.

“Fedor Andrienko has some great volleys as a lefty,“ Dorato said. “He is a phenomenal doubles player, and he is the best doubles player of the three of them. He has a very nasty lefty serve.”

Unlike many freshmen athletes attempting to adapt to college competition, Andrienko, Doehler and Wang have experienced no such adjustment period. They have relied upon their close relationship with one another throughout the process.

“We are really close. In addition to SEE TENNIS PAGE 10

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In Division I tennis, it is rare for three freshmen to play starting roles on a team. But this year’s Bulldog men’s tennis squad is an exception.

The freshmen trio of Fedor Andrienko ’18, Stefan Doehler ’18 and Ziqi Wang ’18 have all assumed starting roles for the men’s tennis team this spring, and they certainly are making the most of the opportunity. “[All three players] are already in the starting lineup,” head coach Alex Dorato said, “and over the next four years, they will just continue getting

better.”

The trio occupy half of the starting lineup for the Elis. Doehler and Andrieko play together as the No. 2 doubles pair, while Wang frequently teams up with Martin Svenning ’17 at the No. 1 seed. Additionally, each of the freshmen compete in singles matches.

Wang entered the season as the No. 95 ranked player in the nation.

According to Dorato, he had an outstanding fall and even defeated the No. 1 competitor for Harvard. Wang was also instrumental in helping the Bulldogs begin the spring season on a four-game winning streak. Against Colgate University and Monmouth

University, he posted wins at the No. 1 seed and No. 2 seed in singles, respectively.

“My freshman season has definitely lived up to my expectations,“ Wang said.

Meanwhile, Andrienko and Doehler have excelled in doubles play. Early in the spring season, the pair proved that they could win big games by defeating Jake Jacoby and Josh Silverstein of Iowa University 7–5. During Yale’s victory over nationally ranked George Washington earlier this month in the opening round of the ECAC Championship, a 6–4 doubles win by Andrienko and Doehler helped the Bulldogs secure

The last firsts This time of year — the second semester of senior year — can be tough. There are theses and snow and midterms and nostalgia and more snow. It’s cold, it’s bleak and we can at times find ourselves wishing for graduation to come a little more quickly.

We are not yet at the point of lasts: the last day of classes, the last finals and, for senior athletes, the last games. These moments still remain far away and out of sight, buried beneath piles of snow and sheets of ice.

It is easy to wait until Senior Day to start to get sentimental. The nostalgia kicks in, all of the hours of sweat and hard work are momentarily forgotten, any last bits of pain melt away and we all at once begin to miss the things we never thought we would (at least this is how I imagine it; I will let you know for sure when I get there).

I am a senior on the softball team and, though I like to think that I do not fall prey to this trap, I can see that at times I do — everyone does.

It can be hard to always keep the end in sight and appreciate every moment along the way.

In fact, it might not even be possible. But along the way, before all the lasts, are the last firsts: the last first morning practice, the last first bus trip, the last first time you put on your uniform.

It’s important to recognize these last first moments for a few reasons. By recognizing the last first, it’s easier to appreciate all of the moments that have led to that last first and all of the moments between that moment and the last moment that is yet to come.

A few weeks ago, my fellow seniors and I had our last first 6 a.m. practice. Since then, it is

Freshman Ziqi Wang ’18 entered the season as the No. 95 ranked tennis player in the nation.

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Columbia names familiar face as head coach

BY GREG CAMERON AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After competing against Al Bagnoli on the opposite sideline as the Penn football team’s head coach for the last 23 years, Yale would not have been surprised to see him again come fall. Yet in 2015, Bagnoli will trade in his Quaker blue for Columbia blue.

FOOTBALL Though Bagnoli announced in April 2014 his intention to retire and transition to an administrative role following the season, he was introduced yesterday as the new head coach of the Columbia football team. His appointment comes at the heels of a tumultuous era for the Lions, who have had two consecutive winless seasons.

“Well, if you like challenges, this is the job to take,” Bagnoli said at his introductory press conference. “I look forward to bringing Columbia back to relevancy.”

Bagnoli will most likely need several seasons to rebuild a program that still holds the record for most consecutive losses by a Football Championship Subdivision team — the Lions lost 44 straight games between 1983 and 1988 — and has not won an Ivy League title since 1961.

Of course, Yale football head coach Tony Reno was able to pull off an impressive turnaround, improving the team’s record by six games between his first and third seasons.

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New Columbia football coach Al Bagnoli recently retired after spending 23 years at the helm of the Penn Quakers.

It is worth noting that Bagnoli brings much more experience and success to the table than Reno did when he was first hired. Bagnoli has been a head coach for the last 33 years, splitting time between

Penn and Union College, a Division III program in Schenectady, New York, and he has a total of 234 career wins.

While at Penn, Bagnoli had great success against Yale,

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amassing 17 wins against just six losses to the Bulldogs. Columbia’s program, on the other hand, has only 19 wins against Yale since 1872, with 68 losses and two ties in that time frame as well.

Yet Reno contended that the timeline of any turnaround would depend on the current state of Columbia football.

“I think you’d have to do a full analysis of the program at this

point in time,” Reno said when asked to respond to his earlier comparison between Columbia’s football team today and Yale’s SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 10

THE NUMBER OF TOTAL VICTORIES THE COLUMBIA FOOTBALL PROGRAM HAS HAD IN THE PAST TWO SEASONS. Al Bagnoli, the former coach of the Penn Quakers, however, is taking over the Ivy League’s worst football program and boasts a 112–49 Ancient Eight record.