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CROSS CAMPUS

WHODUNIT? FROSHOW BLENDS COMEDY, MYSTERY

BETTER ADVICE

A YCC FOR EVERYONE

Before the new colleges open, Yale may revamp its advising system.

AMENDMENT OPENS SOME POSITIONS TO NON-YCC MEMBERS.

PAGES 10–11 CULTURE

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Police, profs discuss race

Noad’s. In an email to the

University community late last night, Toad’s Place announced that the weekly Yale-only Wednesday dance party is canceled today due to reports of asbestos caked into the club’s dance floor.

Cleared-history Clinton.

Speaking at an Ohio Democratic Party state dinner Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton LAW ’73 addressed questions about the State Department email controversy surrounding his wife, Hillary Clinton LAW ’73, maintaining that off-grid behavior is not necessarily illicit behavior.

“I use [Google Chrome’s] ‘Incognito’ mode to buy gifts all the time,” he said pointedly.

Like pulling teeth. Still, Grand

Strategy professor Jeremy Friedman doesn’t appear to trust the current slate of (likely) 2016 presidential candidates, so he’s taking matters into his own hands.

Yesterday, Friedman emailed the class to announce that he would lend his “stern” support to students expressing interest in launching their own campaign by year’s end.

We can’t imagine too many of them will be very interested.

The truth. In yet another

profile (seriously, how many is that now?), Tyler Varga ’15 told ESPN that the secret to his extreme fitness isn’t quite what you’d expect. “It’s all Popeye’s,” he said. Preach.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

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Yale accepts 6.49 percent of applicants

sion to not indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of black teenager Michael Brown, panelists expanded the discussion to cover a wide range of social justice issues.

“Although Ferguson is beginning to become more of a distant past, it’s still incredibly relevant,” Searcy said to the audience.

He added that despite the disSEE TEACH-IN PAGE 4

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Stop frontin’. Ivy Noodle’s doors are still closed, but a new note adorns its front door.

“It’s not personal, Yale. It’s strictly business,” it reads, in what appears to be a reference to a famous line from “The Godfather.” We’re scared.

Attempting to prove its ability to do more than compile salad reports, the Yale College Council is now soliciting input on how to make Saybrook more livable. Thus far, a popular suggestion has been calling on the University to move the Morse/Stiles pizza oven to the Saybrugian dining hall. Thanks a lot, Poopetrator.

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After completing its review of the second largest group of students to ever apply to the college, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions accepted roughly 6.49 percent of the 30,237 students who applied to Yale.

This is a slight uptick from last year’s rate of 6.26 percent. Although this year’s pool had 695 fewer applicants than last year, the University accepted 27 more students, offering admission to 1,962 students in total.

This marks the fourth consecutive year that Yale’s acceptance rate has remained in the 6 percent range, after hovering around 7.5 percent from 2009 to 2011.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said the University and its peer institutions have seen larger, stronger and more diverse applicant pools over the past five years.

“As we emerge from this incredibly challenging selection process, my colleagues and I are inspired by Yale’s extraordinary applicant pool,” Quinlan said in a statement.

“The accomplishments and stories shared by many of the top secondary school students in the world were truly remarkable.”

Quinlan added that this year’s group of admitted students includes increased representation of virtually every underrepresented group in higher education, with students from 65 different countries and all 50 states.

Furthermore, 16.8 percent of this year’s admitted class are first-generation college students, up from 12.5 percent only two

still broken. Seriously. As one of your very own 50 Mosters so aptly said, “Being aware of it is good” and “Like, I never knew that what I buy can affect workers in Venezuela.”

SOS (Save Our Saybrook).

The injury rate for gymnastics is 100 percent, gymnasts say.

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER

Hey, Rumpus. Your website is

Can we interview him? For the second time in two weeks, the tour guides will be tasked with showing Yale off to a highprofile guest. According to a post on a North Korean state media site Tuesday evening, Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has made plans to stop by New Haven, seeking “talent” for a “special project.” Is James Franco still around?

ALWAYS HEALING

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The Ferguson and Beyond Teach-In featured seven community members on a panel that discussed social justice issues.

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER After being delayed for over two months due to inclement weather, the Ferguson and Beyond Teach-In drew over 100 community members to Sudler Auditorium yesterday evening, where panelists discussed race relations and police brutality in America.

The event, which was open to the

public, was hosted by the Department of African American Studies and the Yale College Dean’s Office.

It featured seven panelists, including New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman, Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins, professor of political science and African American Studies Vesla Weaver, and Yale Black Men’s Union President Will Searcy ’16. Although the event was initially planned as a response to a jury’s deci-

Independent panels garner mixed reviews

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER Following an independent panel report on Yale Police Department policies — sparked by a Jan. 24 incident in which Tahj Blow ’16 was detained by a YPD officer holding a gun — uncertainty remains about how such panels are established and

the role they play in University policy.

The panel charged with making recommendations to the University was chaired by psychology professor and Berkeley College Master Marvin Chun, who was joined by Charles Reynolds and Stephen Robinson. Reynolds and Robinson — neither of whom was previously affiliated with the Univer-

Gov. bans state-funded travel to Indiana

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER Traveling to Indiana using Connecticut state funds is now a no-go, thanks to an executive order issued by Gov. Dannel Malloy on Monday.

Joining similar bans already in place by cities including Seattle and San Francisco, Connecticut has become the first state to institute such a ban, which Malloy issued in protest of the passing of Indiana’s recent Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Malloy denounced the act, which Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law last week, as “disturbing, disgraceful and outright discriminatory” to the LGBTQ community.

“It’s our shared past where discrimination was codified into our laws,” Malloy said at a Monday press conference.

“That system should remain in the history books and not be reborn in this country state by state.”

The new Indiana law per-

mits individuals and businesses to employ religious claims as a part of their legal defense in cases beyond only those between individuals and government. The law, according to its proponents, is structured similarly to both a federal RFRA passed in 1993 as well as numerous religious freedom laws in other states.

Indiana’s RFRA has drawn nationwide controversy, facing criticism from government officials, local newspapers and even Saturday Night Live, while corporations such as Apple and Walmart have also spoken out against the law.

Pence defended the act on national television last Sunday, claiming that the act served to protect the constitutional rights of religious liberty.

“This avalanche of intolerance that’s been poured on our state is just outrageous,” Pence said on Sunday.

Malloy followed up on the executive order with an opinSEE TRAVEL BAN PAGE 6

sity — are the former president of the New England Association of Chiefs of Police and a former U.S. district judge.

While students interviewed were supportive of the panel’s existence and mission, many were also critical that it did not incorporate a student perspective.

“The report that just came out from this panel offered pretty

much the same conclusions that the police department’s did, but it offered them with more nuance, and it was sympathetic to conflicting perspectives, so it made recommendations outside of just ‘we acted within our protocol,’” Lucas Riccardi ’17 said.

Still, Riccardi said he doubts whether the opinions of one professor, a retired judge and a former police chief can speak for the

entire Yale community. Rachel Paris ’17 echoed Riccardi, saying that it makes sense for students to be involved in the panels because students are affected by the decisions.

Moreover, Paris questioned how useful the panels are, given that the University is under no obligation to implement their SEE PANEL PAGE 6

Varga performs for 28 NFL teams at Pro Day

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Running back Tyler Varga ’15 set the school record for total touchdowns in a season with 26.

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER In his final major event before the NFL Draft begins at the end of this month, Yale football running back Tyler Varga ’15 showed off his speed, power and skills in front of scouts from 28 NFL teams and two CFL teams during his Pro Day yesterday

at the Star Hill Athletic Center in Tolland, Connecticut.

Though all times were unofficial, the consensus for Varga’s 40-yard dash was approximately 4.64 seconds, just outside of the 4.55 to 4.62 second range that Joe Linta ’83, his agent, said he was expecting SEE VARGA PAGE 6

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OPINION

.COMMENT “When I went to Yale, we did not lick the walls or chew the window yaledailynews.com/opinion

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s I watched the UCLA Bruins play this past Friday in March Madness, I was reminded of the great success of the program’s former coach, John Wooden. Named “Coach of the Century” by ESPN, Wooden led the UCLA basketball program to astonishing heights, including a record seven consecutive NCAA championships and an extraordinary 88-game winning streak. Yet, when Coach Wooden went to pick up his well-deserved paycheck, he found it adorned not with the signature of the UCLA athletic director, nor of the UCLA chancellor, but rather with that of the UCLA student body president.

Across the country, universities empower students to take part in decision-making. At UCLA, this came in the form of signing the basketball coach’s paycheck; at 70 percent of public institutions of higher learning and over a fifth of private ones, this comes in the form of student seats on governing boards.

The institutional framework at Yale, like those at Harvard and Princeton, does not create a similarly integrated role for students. Our access to administrators is based entirely on their discretion, and proposals from student representatives can be rejected or ignored without any explanation or justification.

Unsurprisingly, the reputation of student government at our schools has suffered. In 2013, a joke ticket won the race for president and vice president at Harvard. At Princeton, a joke candidate won the general election for president this year.

When administrators don’t take their student governments seriously, students respond in kind, and student power is weakened.

Here at Yale, the debate concerning the role of student voice has taken a different form, most recently culminating in the large “Unite Yale” rally on Friday.

Mounting frustrations regarding seeming inaction on the most important issues on campus have led to a spike in student activism and calls for greater empowerment of the student body.

Indeed, although institutionally the role of student voice is not strong, today we are fortunate to be led by administrators who are profoundly concerned about student interests and wellbeing. They are eager to engage with the YCC and carefully consider our proposals. Indeed, on Thursday, Dean Jonathan Holloway, Director of Yale Health Dr. Paul Genecin and YCC leadership will sit down and go through the mental health report in its entirety; at the meeting’s conclusion, we will provide a comprehensive overview of the status of our proposals.

My number one focus during my time as YCC president has been actualizing that empowerment. I have spoken of our need to concentrate our voices to overcome institutional obstacles and maximize our impact, using the STEM metaphor of a laser to communicate the message.

With the year coming to a close, I think we can see the fruits of this effort: a more inclusive housing policy, a frozen student contribution and more mental health resources on the way (albeit lacking in specifics, for now).

These outcomes would not have been achieved if not for the sincere passion students felt for them, manifested in personal testimony, a student petition with 1,100 signatures and fantastic editorial journalism from the News. However, the YCC remains the best mechanism through which to achieve our desired impacts. All of these ends were first proposed by the YCC; although buttressed by student shows of support, all went through the proper administrative channels with YCC engagement along the way.

Work remains in formalizing the role of the student body in the broader governance of the University. Our institution is experiencing profound change, including the opening of two new colleges and the filling of vacancies in numerous deanships. With administrators ready to listen, we in turn have an obligation to demand more of ourselves and from our student leadership to help shape that future.

Due to the combination of a dedicated membership, guided

by YCC Vice President Maia Eliscovich Sigal '16, the solid footing provided by our predecessors and the passion of the student body, I believe this year’s YCC has succeeded in advancing many priorities as students. We failed, however, to better engage the cultural centers, particularly in the wake of the events in Ferguson, and to make our athletes feel included, especially because of the continuing Spring Fling date controversy.

We can make the YCC stronger, both in its institutionalization in the governing structure of the University and its integration within the student body.

I believe we took great strides forward this year, despite some errors; what we do next year will be up to you.

So run for YCC, vote in the YCC elections next week and make sure you do your part to empower the student voice and improve our Yale.

MICHAEL HERBERT is a junior in Saybrook College.

He is the president of the Yale College Council. Contact him at michael.herbert@yale.edu .

'BLAKE' ON 'SILLIMAN AND ROSENFELD ALSO AFFECTED BY LEAD PAINT'

PrEP is not a cure

GUEST COLUMNIST MICHAEL HERBERT

Empower student voice

sills.”

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ake a pill daily and prevent the contraction of HIV 99 percent of the time.

That is the narrative presented to many young men who have sex with men (MSM) by their peers regarding pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). And, as is normally the case with anything framed in such a simple manner, the nuances of treatment fall through the cracks.

It is unwise to herald PrEP as the key to freeing a generation from HIV. It is merely one piece of a larger effort. Not only is PrEP not for everyone, but public health activists face political obstacles similar to those hurled at advocates of birth control. Universal access to PrEP will implicate two overlapping and traditionally disparaged groups: sexually active youth and individuals in non-heterosexual relationships.

A little background: Candidates for PrEP must first fall into a risk group (MSM being the largest of these). Then they generally must check one of a few more boxes, like having contracted an STD or having had unprotected sex in the last six months.

Dr. Andrew Gotlin, chief of Student Health at Yale, summed up precautions surrounding PrEP this way: “It’s certainly not taking vitamin C.” To ensure maximum efficacy, patients must take the pill daily.

(This seems easy enough, but if you are a man, grab a female friend on birth control and ask if she’s ever

missed a pill.)

Once someone starts treatment, they must meet with their prescribing physician to monitor progress every KYLE months.

TRAMONTE three Patients certainly don’t Green on want to miss these appointthe vine ments: They are scheduled to ensure that some of the known side effects of antiretroviral treatment (like kidney disease and early-onset osteoporosis) do not set in, or that, in the event that the patient contracts HIV, the virus does not become resistant to the drugs. Toxicity of antiretroviral drugs has fallen dramatically as treatment has advanced, but the risks must be noted.

What's more, starting treatment presumes a healthcare market that offers patients reasonably priced drugs and access to healthcare providers. Beyond these baseline challenges, achieving effective, widespread usage will require surpassing political hurdles.

The demographic of young MSM, one of the groups with the most alarming increases in HIV incidence, extends from age 13 to 24. This means that many young MSM must request PrEP under their parent’s insurance — with

no right to privacy in their medical records. To get treatment that might prevent the contraction of HIV, young men will have to disclose their sexual orientation not only to their physicians but also to their parents, a prospect that is daunting for many well into adulthood, never mind adolescence.

Privacy carve-outs for young women seeking birth control are enshrined in many of our laws. As long as the person seeking contraception does not pose a risk to herself or a risk to others, privacy is respected, even when the patient is a minor. Given the novelty of PrEP, similar carve-outs do not yet exist for young men’s health, and patient assistance programs that might help young gay men acquire the drugs are few and far between.

Young gay men bearing the brunt of the current HIV epidemic are left to fend for themselves if they remain in the closet.

Further, talking about the doctor’s office presumes that someone can even afford treatment.

Yale Health generously covers Truvada as PrEP for students enrolled in the health plan, but not all commercial insurers cover PrEP as readily. Some insurance companies require pre-authorization for case-specific requests, and many plans include high co-pays. And in the event that you do not have insurance due to unemployment or your state withholding Medicaid expansion funds, you can pretty much forget about getting

the drug: The cost of treatment can be as high as $13,000 a year.

Even further, the Supreme Court’s decision in Burwell v.

Hobby Lobby, which allows closely held for-profit corporations to deny contraception coverage, may end up getting applied to the drug.

Religious-based opposition to sex between men remains strong, and efforts to deny coverage for PrEP might find refuge in our courts.

As we search for the most effective ways to tackle the HIV epidemic, PrEP will play an important role. But as my conversations with activists and medical professionals have revealed over the past weeks, every time someone says, “PrEP,” they should say “TASP” (treatment as prevention) twice.

Effective testing and treatment remain the primary mechanisms for eradicating the virus. Getting the HIV-positive population on a treatment plan toward viral suppression is drastically easier than persuading the much larger MSM community to take a drug every day. We shouldn’t rely on PrEP as a saving grace, but rather embrace it as an option for those most at risk.

The bulk of our resources should go towards continuing to use treatment as prevention. If we succeed with TASP, there will be no need for PrEP. KYLE TRAMONTE is a senior in Saybrook College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at kyle.tramonte@yale.edu .

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T WA B A N T U H L O P H E

Rhodes must fall everywhere S

ince the 12th of March this year, a movement defined by the slogan #RhodesMustFall has dominated discussion at Africa’s highest ranked school, the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. At the surface, students are protesting to remove a statue of Cecil John Rhodes at UCT from its symbolically dominant position on upper campus. Even the ViceChancellor of UCT advocates for the statue’s relocation — a suggestion that the school's senate has endorsed. However, this movement is about much more than an old statue. It’s a demand for UCT’s authorities to close the gap between post-apartheid South Africa’s principles and its reality.

To some, Rhodes’ legacy mainly includes his financial contributions to a prestigious scholarship and his “generous donation” of UCT's campus.

However, to most Southern Africans, he is the face of imperialism. Responsible for the deaths of millions of mostly black Southern Africans and one of imperialism’s strongest advocates, Rhodes casts a dark shadow on human history. He remorselessly enriched himself

through diamond mining at the expense of the country’s indigenous population. However, it would be a mistake to assume that this debate is purely about the place Rhodes occupies in history.

Some opponents characterize the movement as a childish attempt to hide the horrors of the past. They see the debate as no more than another example of mostly black South Africans being unwilling to see past the horrors of apartheid. However, the #RhodesMustFall movement not only seeks to unmask Southern Africa’s history of racial discrimination and white supremacy head on, but it also focuses on the present failings and future ambitions of South Africa’s education system. Specifically, it is a movement that seeks to change the curricula, lecturers, policies and practices that disenfranchise South Africa’s people.

When students from Oxford University, in solidarity with the movement, sent photos of themselves holding a banner that read, “Decolonize education. Rhodes must fall,” it may not have been immediately clear to some people what they were talking about.

However, for many African stu-

dents, that banner expressed personal experiences many have faced in the school system since childhood.

For example, when I was in 5th grade in Mbabane, Swaziland, a new rule was instituted in my school, a rule that I did not fully grasp until I was 16. The rule was simple — at school we were expected to speak English and not our own language, siSwati.

At the time, I didn’t understand the ignorance and hubris this rule represented, nor was I aware of the systematic violence used to enforce this linguistic code. The rule rested heavily on the notion that African cultures were inherently “savage” and “backwards” — a notion that still lives today in South Africa’s education system.

My experience shares a number of similarities with the status quo for indigenous students, teachers and employees in postapartheid South Africa.

On a symbolic level, the #RhodesMustFall movement is about breaking down white supremacy and embracing multiculturalism at institutions of higher education. On a practical level, it’s about creating “avenues for real transformation” to avoid the alienation of students who come

from underrepresented communities. In the long term, it’s about mirroring the diversity of South Africa in the education system.

Schools lack enough lectures in indigenous languages like isiXhosa or isiZulu. Maintenance staff are treated poorly. And unfair financial expectations are often placed on students from impoverished backgrounds.

Above all else, #RhodesMustFall is dedicated to making education the inclusive system it must be to shape South Africa's future.

In a similar campaign at the London School of Economics, students asked “Is My Curriculum White?” We should be having these discussions at Yale. We should stand in solidarity with other colleges where the problems may be starker but the underlying principles of equal opportunity and tolerance are identical. In an age when the hallways of colleges such as UCT and Yale are increasingly filled with diverse students, it is necessary for the system to similarly evolve.

WABANTU HLOPHE is a freshman in Branford College.

Contact him at wabantu.hlophe@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST HUNG PHAM

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lenching my teeth, squinting my sweat-soaked eyes and desperately sprinting with the oxygen bag hoisted over my shoulder, I thundered into the house from which we received a cardiac arrest call for a Mr. Donovan. As I assembled the bag-valvemask, the two emergency medical technicians whom I was shadowing immediately performed CPR. But, at the same time, they casually chatted about what they were going to have for lunch that day while a grieving wife and crying children looked at their daddy who wouldn’t wake up.

While working in emergency medical service for the past two years, I’ve noticed that some healthcare providers use reductive language to talk about their patients, looking at them merely as the sum of their ailments rather than as people. Studying visual art and art history trains me to see a patient's narrative, not just his symptoms. I want to encourage the medical community to “see people” first before their illness.

Although I’m a premed at Yale, I also major in art history. There is considerable medical merit to a liberal arts education. By taking art history courses across differ-

ent regional and chronological categories, I learn more about what is important to particular cultures and civilizations than what I could learn in any anatomy class.

There isn’t just a personal dividend that comes with this knowledge — art history empowers me to connect with a broad demographic of patients. A good art historian must constantly ask questions when confronted with a work of art. Why did the artist do this and not that? Why does this make me feel the way I do? It’s unlikely that knowing how W. Eugene Smith uses “punctum” in his photography will ever directly help me diagnose a patient. But this process challenges me to feel deeply, listen powerfully and see sharply. It cultivates empathy for my patients.

I believe medicine is already heading in this direction. At the Yale School of Medicine, all firstyear students take a class at the Yale Center for British Art in which they deduce diagnostic information about people in Victorian paintings without museum labels.

After spending afternoons sitting in on this class and “diagnosing” individuals in the artworks, I’ve learned there is an art to observation in medicine that enables me to

compile more fully developed stories from patients.

According to “cookbook” medicine, the it’s-in-the-protocol recipe of medical interventions that is often practiced, I was taught to walk into that house and “see” an unresponsive, supine 41-year-old Caucasian male on Lanoxin for congestive heart failure. But I saw more than that: He was a married man with three beautiful children, a child of God. He was a work of art worthy of the most compassionate care.

There’s something precious about health, especially in its absence, that deserves a holy, reverential silence. This family could’ve been left shattered, the mother widowed, the children fatherless. EMTs must react with the gravity of this hypothetical in mind. People call for an ambulance when they are most desperate for help. It is important that healers keep hope aglow and show patients that they deserve medical treatment that upholds respect and dignity.

Privileged with monumental power to don gloves and lay hands on strangers who immediately grant me their trust — often in their darkest hour, at their most

frightened, before I even know their name — I have a responsibility to deliver patients from harm.

Art history has coached me to respect the vulnerability of others with my eyes, to speak softly with my hands and to be present with my patients. As I enter medicine, I will always remember Mr. Donovan and how tightly his hand gripped mine. After the ambulance ride with countless chest compressions and ventilations, my hand had been in his long enough for me to forget there was ever a space between our spirits. Wheeling Mr. Donovan into the piercingly bright emergency room, where the noisy chaos widened his eyes with fear, I quietly used my training — learned from Science Hill and the YCBA — to comfort him. Still sweaty under my uniform from sprinting into his house just twenty minutes earlier, I noticed him smiling back up at me through his non-rebreather mask. Right before I turned around to walk back to the ambulance and answer the next call, my eyes returned the twinkle in his and said to him, “I see you.”

HUNG PHAM is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at hung.pham@yale.edu .

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“Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.”

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A previous version of the article “Other Ivies share in mental health concerns” included misleading language about statements made by Paul Barreira, director of Harvard Health Services. His comment was drawn from remarks made to other media outlets, not from an interview with the News.

Undergrad advising may change

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER In addition to new college facilities, the expanded freshman class of 2021 — the first class to occupy the new residential colleges — may be welcomed by a revamped advising system.

In planning for the new colleges, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway has begun to examine undergraduate advising with the hope of implementing improvements prior to the colleges’ opening. While the timeline is not set, Holloway said he hopes to have a plan for any changes to advising by the spring of 2016, so they may be implemented in phases before the new colleges open in the fall of 2017. The examination will involve collaboration between members of Holloway’s Working Group and Steering Committee — two committees planning for the new colleges — and the Committee on Teaching, Learning and Advising. These groups will meet with residential college deans, directors of undergraduate studies, staff of the Center for International and Professional Experience and students themselves to solicit recommendations to improve advising at Yale.

We … hope to define and communicate better the goals of advising.

GEORGE LEVESQUE Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Yale College Holloway said while Yale’s current advising system is already good, there is always room for improvement. And with the student body set to increase by 15 percent over four years, advising resources could become strained.

“We [...] hope to define and communicate better the goals of advising,” Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs for Yale College George Levesque said. “There is often a significant gap between what students expect from their adviser and what the adviser is able to provide, especially in freshman year.”

Of nine students interviewed, most said they had overall positive experiences with advising.

But among those students, only one expressed substantial enthusiasm about her experience with her adviser. Most others said they did not form relationships with their advisers, and they did not see them outside of getting their schedules signed.

Alyssa Chen ’18 said she has greatly enjoyed working with her adviser, adding that although the adviser is in chemistry, which will not be her major, his connections to professors in other STEM fields have been very helpful.

“It’s not good or bad,” Thomas Cusano ’18 said of his relationship with his adviser. “She’s nice and everything, [but] we just don’t share any interests.”

The review will cover advising students on both academic and

habits of life issues, with a particular focus on pre-major advising.

Currently, freshmen advisers are drawn from the fellowship of each residential college, but individual residential college deans use different systems to assign advisers to freshmen, according to Risa Sodi, director of academic advising for Yale College.

Holloway said that while this current system makes sense, it has sometimes proven uneven, as some advisers pay more attention to their freshmen than others, and some colleges have more advisers than others. Additionally, the fellows of different colleges may be concentrated in different fields of study. If, for instance, most of a college’s advisers are in STEM fields, it could present issues for students interested in the humanities.

“We’re trying to match need with skill, and that’s a really tricky thing to do,” Holloway said.

But regardless, nearly three quarters of Yale students ultimately major in a field other than the one they indicated before matriculating.

Computer science professor Brian Scassellati, whose field is the seventh most popular major at Yale, said he has always been matched up with freshmen who share some aspect of his many interests. These relationships have always been positive, with many of his advisees going on to enroll in his classes or even work in his lab, he said.

Several advisers said overlapping academic interests are not crucial for a freshman advising relationship. English lecturer Rona Johnston Gordon, an adviser in Pierson, said she is not aware of any policy that ties freshmen to advisers with similar academic interests, but that her role is more focused on encouraging students to be adventurous in their class choices. Similarly, pharmacology professor Leonard Kaczmarek, a freshman adviser for Morse College, said he largely works with students interested in medical school, but that even when students do not share his interests, the advising relationship works well.

All five freshman advisers interviewed said they largely support Yale’s current advising system. Architecture lecturer Phil Bernstein, a Timothy Dwight adviser, said it is superior to the system at many schools, where advisers sometimes work with hundreds of students. On average, Yale advisers work with fewer than three students, Sodi said.

Still, Bernstein said the advising system could likely benefit from improved infrastructure and additional online resources.

Other advisers noted that students sometimes do not take advantage of the potential to form close bonds with their advisers.

All Yale College students are required to have an academic adviser during their four years as undergraduates.

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CSCU, unions diverge on deficit

BY SKYLER INMAN STAFF REPORTER As leaders in Connecticut State Colleges and Universities continue to address the system’s projected $48 million budget deficit for the next fiscal year, the system and its faculty unions have taken different approaches to the potential financial crisis.

Citing the budget challenges, Gregory Gray, the president of the Board of Regents — the decision-making body for the CSCU — has asked faculty unions to come to the bargaining table. The request follows approval last week by the BOR of a system-wide hiring freeze and 4.8 percent tuition hike. These measures, respectively, are expected to make up for roughly $10 million and $26 million of the project deficit.

Michael Kozlowski, director of marketing and public affairs for the Connecticut BOR for Higher Education, said that each of CSCU’s 17 member institutions will be responsible for working individually to cut the remaining costs.

Union leaders, including President of the Connecti-

cut State University American Association of University Professors Vijay Nair, declined Gray’s invitation, and spoke out against what they perceive is poor management across the system.

Those kinds of actions are designed to highlight to legislature that the system is really in need of money.

STEVE COHEN President, Congress of Connecticut Community Colleges “The system office has to do its part, but it can’t do everything that needs to be done in terms of the numbers we’re talking about,” Kozlowski said.

“There’s about 6,000 people [employed] system-wide, whereas in the Board of Regents, it’s probably around 60 people.”

Congress of Connecticut Community Colleges President Steve Cohen said he and other

union leaders discussed the matter and ultimately decided that, because the deficit projections are based on the as-ofyet unsigned budget proposal

by Gov. Dannel Malloy, there was nothing concrete enough to merit the discussion.

“Speaking just on the community college side, the governor proposed an increase in funding. That increase, combined with retirements and resignations and such, might well be enough to offset any rate increases,” Cohen said. “We were as pleased as could be, given the state’s economic status.”

According to Cohen, Malloy’s plan includes a modest 1.9 percent increase in allocations for the state’s community colleges.

But not all within the community college system are pleased with Malloy’s proposed allocations.

Carlos Torre, a member of the President’s Executive Council at Gateway Community College, said the college continues to grapple with funding difficulties.

“I think there are more creative things that can be done.

You can’t just say, well we’re

poor and we have to cut budgets,” Torre said. “We’ve got two things — vision and creativity — that have been really underutilized.”

In the face of financial troubles, Torre said he hopes faculty salaries, which he thinks are already not on par with other universities in the area, will not be cut.

Cohen said he is worried college presidents might use tactics like layoffs or branch closures to put pressure on local legislators.

He said he has already heard reports of tenure-track employees receiving notices of non-reappointment, and said there was an unconfirmed report that the Meriden branch of Middlesex Community College had been threatened with closure.

“Those kinds of actions are designed to highlight to the legislature that the system is really in need of money,” Cohen said.

The CSCU system is composed of four state universities, 12 community colleges and Charter Oak State College.

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

Yalies launch new social media app

BY DAVID SHIMER AND QI XU STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For Yalies wondering where their friends are when posting on social media, a new application may provide an answer.

Two Yale entrepreneurs are officially launching Hive, a new social media application, on April 10. James Park ’17 and Rijul Gupta ’15 have spent the past three and a half months developing Hive, which automatically tags and sorts posts on the app in real time by geographic location.

Though its interface is similar to that of Instagram and Yik Yak, Hive’s founders said the app’s geographic “tagging” uniquely draws users into their surroundings. Director of Entrepreneurial Programs at the Yale School of Management Kyle Jensen said Hive has the potential to be a resounding success.

“It sounds like a wonderful, plausible idea — linking communication with current location,” he said. “The app is based on a very interesting concept, and it ultimately could change the way students interact with the world around them.”

Hive is the third iteration of Park and Gupta’s original idea, though Gupta said it is the first version to be made public. He added that Park and he hope Hive will be used for “intelligent communication” and to spread the word about happenings at Yale.

Park said Hive, unlike most applications, places a heavy emphasis on information generated right around individual users.

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Jimmy Park ’17 (left), Mohan Yin (center) and Rijul Gupta ’15 (right) are launching a social media app, Hive.

Hive and view the feed centered on just that talk,” he said.

“Then you could go to neighborhood mode and see all the posts within your neighborhood, or Yale View and see all posts within Yale.”

Todd Hagen, a research assistant in the Department of Psychology, said an individual’s preferences on social media will determine whether they use Hive. Hagen added that Hive could act as a useful platform for crowd-sourced intelligence.

Student opinion appears divided on Hive’s utility. While nine of 20 students interviewed

said they would be interested in using the app, eight said they would not. Three students had no opinion.

Soraya Conille ’18 said she likes that Hive would enable people in the same area to communicate in a new way and that she would try it out because “it is a new thing.” However, she said she is worried that Hive could lead to a decline in faceto-face communication.

Huri Fujimoto, a visiting graduate student, said he would use Hive because it would provide him with information he would otherwise not be able to

gather himself. For example, he said he could simply check Hive to find out how crowded Bass Cafe is.

Park said he and Gupta hope to approach the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute once their app has 100 users to further develop their idea.

The Hive founders will be holding an open launch party for Hive on April 17 at the Sigma Nu fraternity.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu and QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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Quinlan said he hopes to matriculate roughly 1,350 students for the class of 2019.

Although Quinlan expressed excitement in regards to this year’s group of admitted students, he acknowledged that the University was unable to accept a large number of talented applicants. However, Quinlan said, the University will be able to admit far more students with the opening of the two new residential colleges in 2017 — a very exciting prospect.

“This makes me more excited for the two new residential colleges, because there are so many students we’d love to admit, and will be able to in few years time,” Quinlan told the News.

He added that this year’s group of admits will be juniors when the two new colleges open, meaning some of these students will be able to move into the colleges.

Director of Admissions Margit Dahl ’75 said that although the number of applications to the University has dramatically increased since she began working for the Admissions Office several decades ago, she is struck by how little the review process in the committee room has changed during this time.

“It is still labor-intensive and incredibly thorough,” Dahl said.

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Harvard, Princeton and Brown recorded all-time low acceptance rates this year, with Harvard admitting 5.3 percent of its applicants, and Princeton and Brown offering admission to 6.99 and 8.5 percent of their applicants, respectively. Columbia and Dartmouth also saw lower acceptance rates this year, accepting 6.1 and 10.3 percent of their applicants, respectively.

The University of Pennsylvania’s acceptance rate held steady at 9.9 percent, the same acceptance rate UPenn recorded last year, while Cornell’s admissions rate increased to 14.9 percent.

It is still labor-intensive … [w]e are the only school I know of where faculty and deans are so involved.

MARGIT DAHL ’75 Director, Undergraduate Admissions Quinlan said the office now has the “fun, but challenging” task of convincing these highly qualified admits to choose Yale.

Director of Outreach and Recruitment Mark Dunn ’07 added that current Yale students are the most important recruitment tool available to the University, and that the entire office looks forward to working with various groups on campus to host Bulldog Days in April.

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Three of four students interviewed said they plan on attending Bulldog Days.

“I sort of knew about the decision beforehand because I received a likely letter, but I’m still so excited to have been accepted and it’s just so incredible because Yale is such a cool place,” said Divya Gopinath, a high school senior from New York. “I know other people from my school who have gone there, and it’s an honor to have been accepted with them.”

Gopinath added that she is seriously considering both Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Carter Guensler, a high school senior from Atlanta who was admitted regular decision, said he is happy about being accepted to Yale — his dream school. However, he said, he does not think he can seriously consider Yale because he was not offered any financial aid. Guensler added that he was offered generous merit scholarships by schools such as Duke and Vanderbilt.

“As excited as I am about getting into my favorite college, I’m also very excited about not having to pay for college,” Guensler said.

Additionally, 1,097 students from this year’s pool were offered spots on the waitlist. Last year, 14 waitlisted students were eventually offered admission to the University. Quinlan said he hopes to “resolve the wait list as much as possible in the month of May.” Admitted students must inform the University of their decisions by May 1.

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

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The Admissions Office hopes to matriculate roughly 1,350 students for the class of 2019.

Teach-in examines race, police TEACH-IN FROM PAGE 1 tance between Connecticut and Missouri, the “seismic waves of injustice could still be felt in New Haven.”

The event began with each panelist expressing their own perspective on the issues of racial discrimination or policing based on their professional or academic background. Many also gave brief synopses of what they hoped to discuss in break-out sessions, where small groups of students discussed assigned issues such as policing in New Haven and at Yale, and the politics of protest art.

Professor of African American Studies, American Studies and history Crystal Feimster opened the event by discussing the U.S. Justice Department’s findings that there has been overt racial discrimination in Ferguson, and that there is an appreciable amount of bias.

Alexandra Barlowe ’17, one of the panelists who also spoke, said the discussion should be about more than just Ferguson.

“One of the things that black students are recognizing is that this is about so much more than Ferguson,” said Barlowe. “It’s

about black people claiming their power … It’s about this really big picture of what black liberation really means.”

Weaver said instances like those in Ferguson stem from systemic poverty and inequity in the United States, not individual racism.

Students at the event echoed panelists’ hopes that action would follow from the discussions.

Alina Aksiyote ’16, who attended the event, said she hopes that these discussions mobilize people. She said that too often, after an event has taken place, no further action is taken, and that she hopes to see more activism on campus.

One of the panelists, professor of African American Studies and theater studies Daphne Brooks, spoke of the way in which issues of race relations manifest through protest art and activism. She touched on a range of works, including the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Beyonce’s Grammy performance to illustrate ways in which activism manifests itself through art.

In addition, one of the major themes of the discussion was the role that police departments play in mitigating or exacerbating racial tensions.

Higgins noted that in order to make changes in urban communities, it is critical to both examine the way community members treat one another and to decide what the community expects of police officers. In spite of the widespread instances of police brutality against African Americans, both Higgins and Esserman said it is important to recognize that much of the crime in urban communities is committed by black men against other black men.

During the “Policing Yale Campus” break-out session Higgins also spoke about the issue of police militarization, saying that it is critical that police remember that they are guardians.

Esserman also stressed that police are not there to serve as an army, but rather to protect the community.

“As a police officer it’s not what you thought you signed up for,” said Esserman. “You didn’t think you sign up to be demonized, you didn’t think you signed up to be treated like an army occupation.

You thought you signed up to make a difference.”

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Projected costs for city departments questioned

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER During a budget workshop Tuesday evening, alders questioned city departments’ projected rising costs for the coming fiscal year.

The Board of Alders’ finance committee invited representatives from five city departments and four organizations to City Hall Tuesday for the second of five scheduled budget workshops. Departments appealed to the alders to maintain or increase funding allocated to their respective departments in Mayor Toni Harp’s budget proposal for the 2015–16 fiscal year. The workshop lasted three hours as city officials, including representatives from the invited departments, fielded questions from alders about specific line items in their budgets.

We don’t need such a big government for 130,000 people … We have to make tough decisions.

ANNA FESTA East Rock Alder This year, the city’s capital budget — funds allocated for the improvement of the city and its departments — is $55.5 million, which is roughly $10 million more than last fiscal year’s capital budget. A significant portion of the increased cost in the 2015–16 budget is funding to pay the salaries for 23 new city employees across several departments.

Controller Daryl Jones, who spoke on behalf of the Finance Department, said that a city information technology director — one of the 23 proposed new positions — is essential for New Haven to take full advantage of new media. Jones added that he is currently overseeing the responsibilities of such a director.

“We have neglected IT for years,” Jones said.

“I just cannot continue to do both jobs.”

Jones cited the Fire Department as a potential beneficiary of an IT director, adding that the department’s operations could be streamlined using new software to keep track of jobs and equipment.

East Rock Alder Anna Festa, who represents Ward 10, asked Jones whether the city could hire outside consultants to assume IT responsibilities. Jones said he thought consulting companies would not adequately address the city’s needs.

“I know there have been a lot of issues in the city because of hiccups in IT,” said Ward 9

Alder Jessica Holmes, who also represents the East Rock neighborhood. “I’m totally for an IT overhaul.”

Executive Director of the Fair Rent Commission Otis Johnson Jr. also expressed concern about understaffing in his department, which aims to control and eliminate excessive rents in the city. Harp’s proposal allocates funds for a new field representative on the commission.

Festa said the job description for such a representative was vague. She also proposed to Johnson that the city could hire a new Fair Rent Commission staffer on a part-time basis to cut costs.

“We don’t need such a big government for 130,000 people,” Festa said. “We have to make tough decisions.”

But Johnson continued to push for a new full time employee, citing that the position once existed in the commission but was eliminated 10 years ago. He added that he requested funding for a new employee in the majority of the last 10 budget proposals because his department has faced operational difficulties as a result of understaffing.

Representatives from the Registrar of Voters also requested the alders maintain the level of funding allocated to them in the budget proposal. They projected that, due to same-day registration, the number of registered New Haven voters would increase from 78,000 to 87,000 in the upcoming November election cycle. Moreover, they said they expect department costs to increase.

Board of Alders President and Hill neighborhood Alder Jorge Perez asked representatives from the registrar to explain why their overall cost was projected to increase $216,000 over one year. He specifically questioned the dramatic increase from last fiscal year in the department’s printing and binding costs from $25,000 to $110,000. The department representatives asked for more time to research and then answer Perez’s questions at a later date.

“To be honest with you,” Perez said. “I don’t think you guys are prepared.”

Representatives from the Finance Department also fielded questions about the city’s debt service — interest payments on longterm borrowing — and pension plan, both of which are significant costs in the city budget.

East Shore Alder Alphonse Paolillo requested more information about the department’s plan to rebuild the pension fund.

The Corporation Counsel Office and the Disability Services department also spoke in front of the alders.

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

Craigslist encourages safe transactions

BY REBECCA KARABUS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Amid nationwide concern about the safety of Craigslist transactions, Craigslist updated its safety page last week with a statement encouraging users to make exchanges at local police stations.

The change follows some efforts already underway in Connecticut. The Hartford Police Department launched Operation Safe Lot in late February, which involved opening up a parking lot at Hartford Police headquarters to members of the community who want to publicly and safely carry out Craigslist exchanges.

“It was worth the headache and strain for us to lose the extra parking spots temporarily if it prevents another homicide or robbery,” said Hartford Chief of Detectives Brian Foley.

Foley said the Hartford Police Department decided to launch the program after seeing an increase in the number of robberies happening during Craigslist transactions.

He cited one robbery in Hartford, where a man selling two T-Mobile tablets was shot and killed.

Hartford is not the first city to

open up its headquarters to Craigslist users. Last June, Boca Raton, Fla., started a similar program.

Since then, the police department has partnered with police departments in other cities in south Florida to expand the program and provide more safe locations for residents to make Craigslist exchanges, said Officer Sandra Boonenberg of the Boca Raton Police Department’s Public Information Office.

Since Boca Raton started the program, there have been no reports of the Craigslist-related crimes that originally prompted the campaign for safe zones in Boca Raton. Boonenberg also said that community members have approached Chief of Police of Boca Raton Daniel Alexander on numerous occasions to tell him that they are “very pleased” with the program.

Alexander added in an email to the News that bringing residents to the police department also helps build stronger bonds between the community and the police force.

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Following efforts by Connecticut police forces to encourage safe Craigslist exchanges, the website has recently updated its safety guidelines.

tions from community members in Hartford and its surrounding regions.

Yet Foley said he has also been surprised that other police departments in Connecticut have not yet adopted a similar initiative.

“We would love for all police departments to open their doors like that, but that’s on each department,” he said.

Foley noted that every police department in the state already has their parking lots open for child custody exchanges to ensure that separated parents who may have strained relationships can safely uphold their custody agreements.

Operation Safe Lot would function in a similar manner, so Foley said he does not understand why some police departments would choose to not adopt the program.

According to New Haven Police Department’s media liaison Officer David Hartman, Operation Safe Lot would not be feasible in New Haven. Hartman said the NHPD does not have its own parking lot and that officers often are forced to park several blocks away.

Hartman did not comment on whether the NHPD would offer an alternative safety measure.

Laurence Grotheer, the spokesman for City Hall, said the city is aware of security concerns with some of the arrangements made on web sites such as Craigslist. He said the decision of whether or not to adopt a program like Operation Safe Lot would be up to the NHPD. Hannah Kanech GRD ’16 said she has had good experiences exchanging furniture on Craigslist in the past, but she added that implementing a program like Operation Safe Lot in New Haven would make her feel safer about carrying out transactions on the site.

According to an analysis by news organization Law Street Media, there have been at least 45 murder victims connected to Craigslist postings since 2009.

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

YCC to allow non-reps to fill positions

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER With elections just around the corner, the Yale College Council has decided that some executive board positions will no longer require a background in the YCC. Passed Sunday afternoon alongside two other amendments, the resolution had to be revised after the original proposal did not receive the necessary support from the YCC. While the original amendment, written by YCC President Michael Herbert ’16, called for all executive board positions to no longer require any past YCC experience, the revised edition stipulates that only the positions of chief of staff, student organizations director and communications director will no longer require previous YCC experience. Herbert said he believes the most qualified students should fill these positions and that past YCC involvement should not be a hindrance to that.

“To create this artificial separation between the YCC and student body is not good,” Herbert said. “It’s a good motion overall, but we took only one step forward instead of two.”

The background experience requirements for the positions of academics director, University services director and student life director will remain the same: Applicants must have served as a member of YCC or its affiliated groups, such as the Freshman Class Council or the Undergraduate Organizations Committee.

While Herbert said this is not ideal, and he would have preferred eliminating the requirement across the board, he said the change would still promote increased student involvement in the YCC. He added that he believes that future YCC presidents and vice presidents, who make the ultimate decisions on these three appointments, will be capable of determining the most qualified candidate even if they are outside of the YCC. YCC members interviewed gave mixed reviews on the amendment. YCC Vice President Maia Eliscovich Sigal ’16 said all of the positions still requiring previous YCC experi-

ence are those that oversee YCC projects. Eliscovich Sigal, who supported the final resolution, said previous YCC involvement is necessary for those positions for which the requirements have remained unchanged. Background in the YCC, she said, would benefit the students chosen because they would already know how to actively run and manage a project.

But YCC representative Benjamin Martin ’17 said he thinks the original amendment should have passed.

“I still disagree though because if the president agrees that YCC experience is something that important, he can still decide that,” Martin said. “I think [the YCC] was hesitant to give the president that much discretion and wanted to encourage preparation for the roles.”

To create this artificial separation between the YCC and student body is not good.

MICHAEL HERBERT ’16 YCC president Herbert himself also did not have any prior engagement with the YCC before beginning his term, YCC Academics Director David Lawrence ’15 said. His lack of experience before beginning the term did not have any detrimental effects on his candidacy, Lawrence said, or on his ability to carry out his duties.

Lawrence also said the new policy, regardless of how many positions it affects, will make the YCC more accessible to students, adding that newly elected officials would have the summer to prepare for their new positions.

Still, all YCC representatives interviewed agreed that the amendment would have little effect on the candidates chosen in future years. YCC University Services Director Madeline Bauer ’17 said interested students would most likely already have been involved with the YCC, adding that this only

ensured qualified candidates outside of YCC would not be excluded.

“The [changed positions] speak to the many ways that student life is affected by the decisions of the YCC,” Eliscovich Sigal said. “As the person who chose [executive board positions] last year, I can tell you that this new amendment gives elected positions a lot more freedom and gives students a lot more possibilities of being involved.”

YCC Student Organizations Director Tina Yuan ’16 said she does not think the requirement of YCC experience played an influential role because it is up to both the president and vice president how necessary prior familiarity with a role will be. While she said it is possible for someone who does not have any past experience to quickly acclimate to the council environment, her own background in the YCC made it much easier.

Although Ginger Li ’18 said she thinks the requirement for experience varies depending on the role, she agreed that the changed positions should not require a background with the YCC. However, Chad Small ’16 said it would be ideal for board members to have past YCC experience, though he noted in some cases new perspectives would be beneficial.

But Herbert said the amended resolution, as opposed to the original one he proposed, still poses significant challenges. In the past, executive board applications were only sent to students already involved in the council — so verifying past experience was not necessary.

Now that past experience will be required only for some members, creating and reviewing applications from the student body will become more complicated.

“Soliciting these applications now will be a logistical nightmare,” Herbert said. “Are we going to send out two emails to the entire student body, telling them they can only apply to these positions and not the other positions?”

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

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Varga shows off for 28 NFL teams at Pro Day VARGA FROM PAGE 1 a month ago. His most impressive figure, however, was the vertical jump, in which Varga leapt 38.5 inches — a height that would have placed him sixth out of the 32 running backs who performed that exercise in the NFL Combine this year.

“I think it went well,” Varga said. “I just went out there and did my best. I did well in the drills, and I did all right in the testing, as well.”

All NFL teams except for Washington and the Rams, Bengals and Texans sent scouts to the Pro Day, according to Linta.

One of those NFL scouts at Varga’s Pro Day, who requested anonymity due to the nature of his job, said Varga’s performance confirmed what many scouts had been thinking regarding the Kitchener, Ontario native — that he has the potential to contribute as a lead blocker and in shortyardage situations.

Varga’s exercises and drills yesterday were especially important because he sat out the Combine with a minor bone spur in his ankle, meaning that Tuesday’s performance was Varga’s first in front of scouts in a Pro Day setting. He participated in the Senior Bowl, an all-star game for college seniors, in January.

“He pretty much did everything that I as a scout saw on tape or was expecting him to do at the Pro Day,” the scout said. “He’s got a chance, if he finds himself

in the right situation, to be a role player for an offense at the next level, maybe a special teams contributor.”

Linta, who has been projecting Varga as a fourth- to sixth-round draft pick all year, said Varga confirmed that evaluation in his performance in front of scouts.

The scout agreed, saying that Varga is a likely “third day guy” — referring to rounds four through seven of the NFL Draft from April 30 to May 2.

In addition to the 40-yard dash and vertical jump, Varga broad-jumped 9’9”, performed the 20-yard shuttle in approximately 4.22 seconds and posted a time of roughly 7.10 seconds in the cone drill, according to Linta.

Yale running backs coach Larry Ciotti noted that while Varga likely was hoping for a faster 40 time, one scout clocked him at 1.59 seconds in the first 10 yards of his run, which Ciotti said was an outstanding time.

He added that in his opinion, a 10-yard split is a more accurate representation of the speed that a running back needs in the NFL. “How many times in the NFL does a running back run for 40 yards?” Ciotti said. “The 40-yard dash time, to me, is not a valid way of measuring a running back. A running back does all his damage in the first 10 yards.”

Linta, Ciotti and the scout all agreed that Varga also performed well in the positional drills, in which he showcased his footwork and agility, and also caught

Some look for student view on review panels PANEL FROM PAGE 1 suggestions.

Claire Williamson ’17 said she would encourage the University to provide options to discuss the report with the review panel, so that students can see changes begin shortly after recommendations have been made.

In February, University spokesman Tom Conroy compared this most recent panel to a campus climate committee that was created under former University President Richard Levin in 2011. The committee was formed in response to an investigation that claimed Yale had violated Title IX, and was tasked with offering recommendations to the University regarding its policies on sexual misconduct.

The panel included prominent alumni such as senior fellow of the Yale Corporation Margaret Marshall LAW ’76 and University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews, who was vice president for campus life and dean of students at the University of Chicago at the time.

Several of the campus climate committee’s recommendations were supported by Levin as soon as their report was released to the Yale Community. The recommendations included expansion of the Sexual Harassment and Assault

Response and Education Center, as well as improved and expanded prevention and intervention training programs for students and administrators regarding sexual assault.

Conroy told the News that the University is taking this most recent independent review panel’s recommendations very seriously and has already begun a review of YPD policies and training programs.

Duane Bean ’17 said he supports the formation of these independent panels, and expects that the University typically takes its suggestions very seriously.

“I don’t see why forming these committees of third party experts could possibly be a bad thing,” Bean said. “Because in the end, the recommendations they give the University are just that: recommendations. Yale doesn’t have to take them. But given that these panels are made up of experts, I imagine that their recommendations are usually very useful, and that Yale will probably take them into account.”

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

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Varga was the first Yale player selected for the Senior Bowl since Walter Clemens ’51. passes from a Wesleyan quarterback.

Varga said he was especially pleased by his vertical leap performance and that the scouts he spoke with also gave him positive feedback about the workout.

He added that there was added pressure to perform because of his injury during the Combine, but he felt comfortable as the center of attention.

“This has been a pretty intense

period of training,” Varga said.

“Everything’s sort of built up to this point.”

With a month remaining until the draft, Varga said the final weeks are mostly a waiting game as teams consider their options throughout April.

Teams can call players in for private workouts and meetings with coaches and staff, but because Varga interviewed with so many teams during the NFL

Combine, it is not likely that many teams will pursue this option, according to the scout. “[Varga is] a great kid; he’s smart, all the intangibles you want from the off-the-field standpoint,” the scout said.

“Those things translate over onto the field. But he needs to find himself in the right situation.”

Four players performed alongside Varga. Two were players from Wesleyan, while the

other two, Gordon Hill of Sacred Heart and Mike Flacco — brother of Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco — are players that Linta also represents. Ciotti noted that the majority of scouts were there specifically to see Varga.

The 2015 NFL Draft will take place in Chicago.

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

Travel ban affects Board of Regents, UConn TRAVEL BAN FROM PAGE 1 ion piece published in TIME Magazine yesterday, in which he claimed that Pence signed the law despite being aware of its discriminatory nature.

Yesterday, Pence proceeded to call for clarification of the language within Indiana’s RFRA. However, he stated in a press conference that the need for a “fix” was more in light of the bill’s negative perception as opposed to the contents of the bill itself.

“I don’t believe for a minute that it was the intention of the General Assembly to create a license to discriminate or a right to deny services to gays, lesbians, or anyone else in this state,” Pence said.

“And it certainly wasn’t my intent. But I can appreciate that that’s become the perception not just here in Indiana but all across this country, and we need to confront that, and confront it boldly in a way that respects the interests of all involved.”

Malloy’s ban also extends to the Board of Regents and the University of Connecticut. The governor addressed concerns regarding sports games between UConn and the University of Indiana during a press conference on Monday, saying that he hopes football and basketball games would not be played in Indiana. A spokesman for the UConn athletics department declined to comment on the law.

UConn President Susan Herbst announced yesterday evening that the men’s basketball coaching staff would not attend the Final Four conference or other related activities in Indiana this week.

But some political experts suggest that Malloy’s actions are hypocritical in light of Connecticut’s own RFRA. Sean Davis, co-founder of the conservative web magazine The Federalist, said that Connecticut has had an RFRA since 1993, one which is more expansive than Indiana’s. According to Davis, Connecticut requires individuals who claim that their religious rights have been abridged to prove only a “mere burden” while Indiana’s law requires proof of a “substantial burden” on those rights. Davis highlighted that Indiana’s law is not a “get out of jail free card.”

However, the Connecticut and Indiana laws are not comparable, according to Dan Klau, supervising attorney for the Yale Law School Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic. He cited distinctive language within the Indiana law that would make it easier for both business owners and individuals to discriminate against LGBT individuals.

Furthermore, Klau highlighted the two different legislative histories behind the laws. Connecticut’s RFRA was passed over two decades ago in response to a Supreme Court decision regarding the use of peyote.

“By contrast, the legislative history of Indiana’s law seems to be strongly supported by people who do want small business owners to discriminate,” Klau said.

Chairman of the Government and Politics Department at Sacred Heart University Gary Rose said the governor’s executive order is both “very partisan and very political.”

Malloy, who is the incoming chairman of the National Governor’s Association,

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Governor Dannel Malloy passed an executive order Monday that bans state-funded travel to Indiana. has rallied a Democratic base in his past two elections, while Pence has contemplated both the GOP nomination for president and a re-election campaign for governor.

Currently, 20 states have Religious Freedom Restoration Acts.

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

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Grad school growth puts U. identity into question

BY BAYLOR KNOBLOCH As Christina Paxson’s presidency passes its thousandth day, a debate that has been brewing since before her tenure continues to mount.

Bolstering the size and the strength of graduate programs, a major goal in her strategic plan, has incited tensions between the “university” and “college” components of Brown’s universitycollege identity.

Fortifying doctoral programs attracts strong faculty members across disciplines, while expanding master’s programs generates huge revenue through tuition fees.

Benefits like a stronger faculty and financial gains also allow the University to stay competitive with its Ivy peers.

The specifics for just how much and exactly what kinds of growth the University anticipates remain abstract.

Provost Vicki Colvin said plans for growth in the Graduate School do not necessarily indicate that the University cares most about graduate programs. “It’s more a correction in that we haven’t focused on the Graduate School very much. For example, in the last 10 to 15 years, we grew our faculty quite substantially, but we held the number of graduate students flat. That’s devastating for our academic programs.”

The rate of graduate student growth did not match the University’s overall expansion in a number of previous administrations.

“Somewhere along the way in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, we did fall a little bit behind,” Paxson said. “The University grew, but the graduate program pace

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didn’t keep up to where it should be. So we have been catching up over the last decade.”

FROM ‘UNIVERSITY-COLLEGE’ TO RESEARCH UNIVERSITY

Subtle adjustments in dialogue about the University’s mission suggest a change in emphasis from a model that prioritizes undergraduate education to a fullblown research university.

The first version of Paxson’s strategic plan, released in September 2013, made no mention of Brown as a “university-college,” a phrase that has been used to describe the school since 1946, when former President Henry Wriston coined the term.

After forceful pushback from the Undergraduate Council of Students on the omission of the term, Paxson added it back into her plan.

“When the strategic plan came out, one of the first things that we were so acutely aware of is that that term originally was left out of the plan altogether,” said UCS President Maahika Srinivasan ’15.

It was a “very intentional choice to leave it out,” she said.

“It’s very clear that, for the last two administrations, the emphasis has been more on university and less on college,” said Senior Lecturer in Education Luther Spoehr.

“We use a concept at Brown known as a university-college, a college with a small graduate school,” said Luiz Valente, professor of Portuguese and Brazilian studies and comparative liter-

ature. “In the early 2000s, (former President Ruth Simmons) decided that we needed to reaffirm our position as a research university by hiring faculty and by growing some of the graduate programs.”

The shift in emphasis has occurred gradually, but faculty members who have been on campus for decades have taken note of the change, and some regret the University’s departure from focusing on undergraduate, liberal arts education.

“It’s a growing emphasis, inch by inch, row by row,” said Spoehr, who has been at the University for 19 years. “The next thing you know, liberal arts seems like a luxury, and persuading people otherwise is hard.”

“Brown was one of the last holdouts for a liberal arts orientation, but it looks like that is eroding,” said Professor of Sociology Gregory Elliott, who has been here for almost 32 years.

As a university-college, Brown has long tried to balance excellence in undergraduate liberal arts with robust research.

“Growing the graduate program is the University speaking to its research profile, and in talking about undergraduate education, it has to speak to its liberal arts profile,” said Sara Matthiesen GS, a member of Stand Up for Grad Students, an organization that promotes graduate student rights.

“Brown tries to straddle those two missions.”

But some feel the University is veering too far from its mission as a university-college.

“The University has gone through a sea change in its emphases,” Elliott said. “We used to call ourselves a university-college. …

That term is gone. That’s sym-

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Harvard to open offices abroad

BY MEG BERNHARD Harvard has authorized the formation of three new international offices in Cape Town, Beijing and Mumbai, with each office in a different stage of development, according to Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Domínguez.

The Center for African Studies is expected to open an office in Cape Town, South Africa, by the end of 2015 or early 2016, according to Domínguez. An expected office in Beijing would be connected to the existing Harvard Center Shanghai, and if approved by the government of India, the Harvard School of Public Health will open an office in Mumbai.

These offices would be used for research and academic work for Harvard affiliates in those regions.

These offices join 16 other offices Harvard operates internationally, including multiple Latin America-based offices of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Business School locations across Asia and the recently-opened Medical School research center in Dubai,

among others. While the University has research centers and offices abroad, it HARVARD does not, unlike some of its peers, have any international campuses.

Caroline Elkins, History professor and director of the existing Center for African Studies, will direct the center in Cape Town, although she will remain based in Cambridge. “[The office in Cape Town] is most definitely imagined as being an engaging space for our students and faculty but also the broader community in Africa,” Elkins said, adding that she hopes the office will facilitate research in the region and offer students more study abroad opportunities.

The office in Beijing would be connected to the existing University-wide office in Shanghai and possibly serve a similar function; the Shanghai office includes a conference venue and facilitates internships for undergraduates.

“A lot of the work in China unavoidably requires interacting with the Chinese government, and that’s in Beijing,” Domínguez said, explaining the reason for the location of the planned center.

Domínguez said the proposed Indian office is in the earliest stages of development compared to the offices in China and South Africa. He said he hopes the Indian government will approve of the Harvard office in Mumbai this summer.

Proposals for new international offices must be brought to the University Committee on International Projects and Sites, which Domínguez chairs. Then, if that committee approves a potential office, University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 must approve the plan.

Important to any given proposal is the academic rationale of the project, according to Domínguez.

“What is it about the office that we cannot just do it based in Cambridge, or in Boston?” Domínguez said. “What will it do for our students, what will it do for our faculty, in what way will it facilitate research that we can’t just do from here?”

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Brown President Christina Paxson has made bolstering graduate programs a major tenet of her presidency. bolic, but it does reflect a change in the understanding of the mission of Brown University.”

Nevertheless, administrators maintain that the strategic plan’s initial omission of the term does not signal a shift away from the “college” component.

“What you label Brown matters less than what we offer at Brown, which is a superb undergraduate liberal education and a top-notch research university,” said Dean of the College Maud Mandel.

“I really am uncomfortable with a formulation that pits one against the other in a zero-sum game,” she said.

The idea of a zero-sum game is

at the heart of concerns that the growth in graduate programs will in some ways detract from the undergraduate college.

“The view that there’s some zero-sum game and that gains in one come at the expense of the other — that’s something I really resist,” Paxson said. “There could be truth in that if we let there be truth in that, but I am determined not to.”

DOCTORAL EXPANSION ENTICES RESEARCHERS

Growth in graduate programs refers to growth in both doctoral programs and master’s programs, two distinct academic endeavors.

“The doctoral students is really where the growth focus is right now,” Colvin said.

As of now, there are “no specific targets for the number of doctoral students,” wrote Dean of the Graduate School Peter Weber in an email to The Herald.

Faculty members said they believe PhD candidates’ presence on campus enriches the University’s educational offerings.

Doctoral programs are “intimately connected with the mission of a research university,” Valente said. “They have a positive impact on the undergraduate college as well as on the research university.”

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SPORTS

““The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.” MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Rehab through the team

March Madness postponed COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 According to Plimpton, he was in training with the New York Mets for spring training in the 1985 season and poised to rock the baseball world.

While the fictional Sidd never rocked the baseball world, the alleged news of his arrival certainly did. Mets fans reportedly flooded the Sports Illustrated mailbox with requests for further information about the new pitcher. Two separate Major League managers put in calls to then-commissioner Peter Ueberroth wondering how their batters could possibly face Finch safely given his 168-mile per hour heater. The Mets even played along with Plimpton’s hoax, going so far as to give Finch a locker in their clubhouse.

The prank dragged on until the magazine admitted that the article had been an April Fool’s Day joke two weeks later on April 15, 1985. In those two weeks, the baseball world was abuzz with news of the Mets’ star rookie. It can only be speculated how many other prospective pitchers checked out “Buddhism for Dummies” in those two weeks and how many scouts retested their own radar guns to make sure they were calibrated correctly.

What is known for certain is the George Plimpton pulled off one of the greatest stunts in sports history. And he did it without elaborate props or particular dramatics. Instead, he relied on the simple fact that baseball fans will drool over the newest, shiniest thing out there. They will dream big, willing to accept that the impossibility of a 168-mile per hour fast ball might actually be possible. They are ready to buy into any story, no matter how absurd.

And perhaps this is for good reason.

Sports give us the improbable and unbelievable almost every day — ask anyone who has bet on March Madness. Sports fans are primed by their relentless optimism and willingness to believe the impossible is probable.

The moral? If you want to pull off one April Fool’s joke today, go find yourself another sports fan.

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

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Two gymnasts, Camilla Opperman ’16 and Brittany Sooksengdao ’16, were named ECAC Specialists of the Week this season.

GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE 12 Sloane Smith ’18 was one of three freshmen who came into Yale injured this year. After breaking an ankle earlier in the summer, her recovery slowed when she overcompensated and injured the knee on her opposite leg, she explained.

In the past few weeks, Smith began to work her way into the floor and vault lineups. She made her official debut on March 15 against Brown, contributing a 9.425 on vault and 9.625 on floor.

“In the beginning it was really frustrating. Watching the rest of the team do so well just made me want to be part of it,” Smith said. “In the last few weeks, I’ve been working harder and doing extra numbers in order to make [the] lineup. It’s mostly of my own volition, because it’s just a way to get up to speed.”

This, according to the gymnasts, is common, since even athletes who are

News sits down with Li ’16 Q&A FROM PAGE 12 angry, you can be angry with yourself. With doubles, a negative attitude will affect your partner. You have to be aware of your partner.

But I love doubles. With doubles, you have someone there to rely on. It’s nice to be able to bond so closely with a teammate.

unable to compete attend practice.

The coaches, Barbara Tonry and Jason Vonk, are very responsive to the gymnasts’ needs and are prepared to adjust training regimens according to those needs, Traina said.

Injured gymnasts go to the gym and run through predetermined conditioning exercises and practice on apparatuses if they can. Gymnasts with impact-related injuries will avoid “punching” events, or events that require heavy landings, like floor or vault. Those recuperating from arm, elbow or shoulder injuries will stick mostly to beam.

Opperman, while recovering, said she trained floor but used either one or no arms. But as creative as these protective techniques are, there is no way to accurately simulate full participation in practice.

“It’s really hard to stay motivated, especially when you’re injured for a long time,” Traina said. “You get bored, you get anxious, you want to

do something. So that was rough. This fall was kind of hard.”

Although the team is close-knit, Traina has the advantage of competing alongside her sister, Morgan Traina ’15, this year’s captain.

In high school, the sisters were not on the same team, Kacie Traina explained, because they were at different levels. Additionally, club gymnastics is less team-oriented than college gymnastics.

“Morgan’s always there for me,” Traina said. “All of last year, I was hurt and I got to be her cheerleader.

Now this year, she’s definitely been my cheerleader. She comes up before every routine I’ve done and makes sure I’m calm. It’s been incredible having her in the gym.”

While recovering from last year’s elbow injury and this year’s stress fractures in her shin and torn ligaments in her thumb, Traina began working on her beam and bar routines.

She made her career debut in Yale’s

senior day meet on Feb. 7, exhibitioning beam in front of both her sister and their parents.

Although she usually gets nervous before competing, Traina said, she was not as affected by nerves because she was so excited to finally compete for her team.

Traina built on her exhibition and gradually worked her way into the official lineup. In her third official performance, which took place in the ECAC Championships, she scored a 9.750 on beam, the Bulldogs’ thirdhighest score on the apparatus.

“I’m slowly getting to be the gymnast I was before the injury,” Traina said. “The team has supported me so much through all of it. It’s the little things, like telling me ‘good job’ after a routine in practice, and it’s constant.

It really helped keep me motivated. We build off of each other in that way.”

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

Elis finish No. 1 and No. 2

we face higher ranked teams, they aren’t as loud in cheering and supporting each other. We’re hoping to use that toward our upcoming matches, using our bond to pull through tough moments because we’re playing for each other. freshmen have QWhich impressed you this season?

about to start Ivy League Honestly, all four of them QYou’re play for the spring. What is the Ahave. Every single one of them team’s goal for this year?

A

The team goal is definitely that we want to win the Ivy [League], but the main thing we’re working on is to approach each match and really focus on what we can control in matches. [We want to] really support each other and compete to the best that we can.

We don’t want to think too much about the game. That just distracts from working towards our goal.

Bertrand was named head QTaka coach in July 2014, so this is the team’s first season with her at the helm. What can you say about her?

A

It has definitely been a transition. Every year is very different. Each year we adjust to a new team. This year has been a tough year in the beginning in terms of results, but right now we are on our way forward and playing better and competing better than before.

Q

How has team chemistry evolved over the year, especially with all the travel you’ve done for tournaments?

A

Team chemistry is incredible.

I love my teammates. We have four freshmen — that’s almost half our team. It was definitely [a lot of] getting to know each other in the beginning. I speak for everyone on the team [when I say] we’re all there for each other. If I needed any form of support, any of my teammates would be there. Team chemistry is one of the strongest aspects of our team. Even when

has brought something new to the team. It’s definitely been a tough year, but they’ve come in here and didn’t complain at all and went to work. It’s definitely a tough transition from junior tennis to college tennis. They’ve been cheering the loudest [and] working the harder than everyone else on the team.

beating BU and Fairfield QAfter this weekend, you’re on a three-

game winning streak. How does that momentum help the team? Do you think momentum exists in tennis?

A

We have a lot of confidence, and we want to carry this momentum through to Ivy season. But we are aware that we have to focus on each individual match.

We’re hoping to use this to have a great start at Princeton, and then to fight and compete and do everything we can to end up with a win.

upcoming match are you QWhich looking forward to and why?

A

I’m actually really looking forward to this weekend. I have never played at Penn or Princeton.

I had hip surgery in the spring of my freshman year the day before the trip. I have never been able to play there. I’m really excited to see what the facilities are like, what the teams are like. It’s the start of our season. It’s definitely exciting to be out there competing with my best friends.

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

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The No. 3 women’s sailing squad took home second place at the Duplin Team Race.

SAILING FROM PAGE 12 co-ed team were skippers Eric Anderson ’16 and Henry Lewis ’16 and crews Amelia Dobronyi ’17, Caroline Colwell ’18 and Chase Skoda ’17 at Southern Series No. 1 at Sacred Heart. In a day of sailing where races were cut short due to the weather, the delegation took fourth overall and Anderson, Dobronyi and Colwell finished first in the A division.

The women’s team also battled the elements this weekend at the Duplin Team Race, the only all-women’s team race regatta this season for the Bulldogs. The regatta was co-hosted by Brown and Tufts, and included highly ranked competition such as the No. 2 Boston College.

The team consisted of skippers Marly Isler ’17, Casey Klingler ’18 and KB Knapp ’18 and crews Sarah Smith ’15, Natalya Doris ’17, Isabelle Rossi de Leon ’17 and

Claire Huebner ’18.

“I think the tough conditions even made for more camaraderie among the sailors,” Smith said. “This is the only all women’s team race regatta of the season and is largely just for fun. The team had good communication on the water and was able to finish with a strong record, with only one loss in the second round robin.”

The Elis finished with a 14–4 record, losing against three teams in the first round and only dropping one in the second against the eventual champion and undefeated squad from Stanford. Yale also had the chance to try out new boats that will eventually be used at nationals in May. The team had been practicing primarily with Flying Junior boats this season, although they will later be using the new Z420s at nationals.

“We have just one more regatta before

our New England team racing championship in two weeks, so it’s crucial that we keep building momentum by using each competition to capitalize on our strengths and identify our weaknesses,” Belling said. “This weekend, I was really impressed by our team’s ability to adjust to different roles and remain focused and enthusiastic despite the trying conditions … We have been training to be resilient competitors that can lose races and go on to win the regatta, and that’s what we did this weekend.”

Delegations from the co-ed team will travel to the Lynne Marchiando Team Race and the BU Trophy this weekend while members of the women’s team will head to the Dellenbaugh Women’s Trophy.

Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 12:30 PM Gallery Talk, Pastures Green and “Dark Satanic Mills.” William Blake presciently contrasted “England’s green and pleasant land” with the “dark satanic mills” of the Industrial Revolution. Tim Barringer, professor of history of art, explores the genre of landscape and reveals the richness and complexity with which Romantic artists responded to the new circumstances of modernity. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.) 4:00 PM “An American Family” Comes to Yale: A Conversation with Pat and Delilah Loud. “An American Family,” a 12-hour documentary series chronicling the lives of the members of the Loud family of Santa Barbara, premiered in January 1973 on PBS. Pat and Delilah Loud will visit the Beinecke on Wednesday, April 1, to discuss the experience of making the series and how the exposure from it affected their lives. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.).

5:30 PM Africa: The Last Frontier for Development. The 2015 Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics and Economics presents “Africa: The Last Frontier for Development,” a three-part lecture series by David Laitin, professor of political science at Stanford University.

Institute for Social and Policy Studies (77 Prospect St.), Rm. A002.

THURSDAY, APRIL 2 4:00 PM The World of Translation and Interpreting: A 33-Year Jouney. Jacqueline Tornell, a freelance interpreter and translator reflects on her journey and the lessons learned as a language professional. Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Rm. 101 (63 High St.).

FRIDAY, APRIL 3 4:00 PM 20/21 C. Colloquium: Matthew Hart “Geographies of Secrecy.” Matthew Hart teaches English at Columbia University and specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Rm. 101 (63 High St.).

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ARTS & CULTURE Dramat show solves murder with comedy

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This year’s Dramat Freshman Show will be “The Trouble with Summer People,” written by Tim Kelly.

BY NICOLE WELLS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This year, the Yale Dramatic Association will weave comedy into a murder mystery for its Freshman Show.

“The Trouble with Summer People,” written in 1998 by Tim Kelly, opens this Thursday at the Yale Repertory Theatre.

The play follows newlyweds Rupert and Janis Baxter, who plan to travel to a guesthouse in Cape Cod for their honeymoon but discover a few weeks before their arrival that a murder has been committed in the house. Dillon Miller ’18, who plays Rupert, emphasized that the play primarily aims to entertain rather than communicate a particular message.

“This play is not trying to prove anything, it is not trying to make a point. It’s just a fun show,” Miller said. “The characters are so vibrant: almost like a big smorgasbord of ridiculous personalities.”

The guesthouse in the play, “Wind Chimes,” is owned by

Rupert’s aunt, Margaret Ames.

With the knowledge that Rupert is a military police officer, she strongly urges him to solve the murder. But Margaret is unaware that a few weeks before his honeymoon, Rupert had accidentally arrested the Norwegian Ambassador, which cost him his position. Caroline Francisco ’18, who plays Margaret, described her character as a “no nonsense matriarch” who repeatedly tells the other characters to remain calm, but is herself unnerved by the murder.

Miller added that despite Margaret’s belief that her nephew will be able to bring light to the crime, Rupert is actually weighed down by a heavy cloud of insecurity from his past faults with the military, which leads him to want to prove his worth by solving the mystery.

For Emma Healy ’18, the Freshman Show is her first stint as a director at Yale. Her previous experience had been working as an assistant director in “All My Sons,” which premiered

last semester.

Unlike all other Yale productions, the Freshman Show features a cast and crew that entirely consists of freshmen.

“We can all relate to each other,” Healy said. “When you’re working with all freshmen you know that you are all on the same playing field.”

Healy described that the combination of comedy and murder mystery in the show as an interesting pair of genres, but she believes it is possible to adapt such a plotline into a comic drama. She explained that the ensemble can take the classic elements of murder mysteries and twist them to create a more humorous story.

Erica Wachs ’18, who plays a clumsy character named Fluff, said she is especially able to contribute to the show’s comic aspects.

“Fluff is interesting because she is the one who discovers the body” Wachs said. “But she is slow on the uptaking. She always makes the realizations two scenes after the rest of the

cast.”

Gabriella Borter ’18, the show’s dramaturg, said she had to research various accents and costume designs as well as the Cape Cod atmosphere in preparation for the show.

Erin Hebert ’18, who plays gift shop owner Nina Puckle, said she thinks the show will be a change of pace for the Yale

theater community because most on-campus productions are not nearly as whimsical and lighthearted. Wachs also highlighted the allusions the play makes to names and experiences from Kelly’s own life.

“The man in the play who was murdered is Morton Pitkin,” Wachs said. “Someone within my suite was walking

through the Grove Street Cemetery, and they found a tombstone that said, ‘Pitkin.” Then I just thought, well, that’s Tim Kelly for you, getting all of his inspiration at Yale.”

Last year’s freshman show was “Arcadia” by Tom Stoppard.

Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

Seminar honors Polish artist YCBA guides to learn art of acquiring

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER This semester, a group of undergraduate students were given less than three months to learn a previously unfamiliar type of theater before being called to perform it.

Opening Thursday, “Zero or More Disposable Lessons” is a performance by students in the undergraduate production seminar “Objects in Performance,” which is co-taught by Theater Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies Dominika Laster and production coordinator Nathan Roberts. Inspired by the work of Polish artist Tadeusz Kantor, the show seeks to utilize puppets and mannequins during the performance to explore ideas such as the disposability of bodies and the anatomy of oppression.

The play will open at the Whitney Theater this week before being performed at the La Mama Experimental Theatre Club in New York next week and then in Krakow, Poland in May. “When we found out Yale was finding out ways of celebrating this influential theater maker, we decided it would be very special to have him as part of our season,” said Mia Yoo, the artistic director of La MaMa. “Kantor is a very significant part of our 53-year history because Ellen Stewart, our founder, was integral in finding a way to bring his work to the U.S. so Americans could see the work of an artist who changed theater at the time.”

The seminar was offered for the first time this semester to

honor the centennial of Kantor’s birth. Laster said that in addition to the seminar, the Yale community has commemorated the centennial in a variety of ways, including hosting a screening of Kantor’s play titled “Wielopole, Wielopole.”

To celebrate the centennial, Andrzej Wełminski — one of Kantor’s closest collaborators and an artist of the Cricot 2 Theatre, which Kantor established — came to Yale with Cricot 2 actor Bogdan Renczyski to discuss Kantor’s work in February.

Outside of campus, the Theatre Studies program also sponsored a workshop introducing the work of Kantor at the Watermill Center in New York.

“Wax museums — Madame Tussauds and wax works — have always aroused a lot of emotion and were such places that Kantor often returned to whenever possible,” Wełminski said. “His understanding of the theater, theoretical and above all theatrical practice, are closely linked with the animation of inanimate matter.”

Laster said preliminary designs for the program began in conversations with the Yale School of Drama and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw last year. She said she met both Wełminski and Renczyski in December while conducting research in the Centre for Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor in Krakow.

Students in the seminar studied various aspects of the “theatre of death,” a performance style that Kantor pioneered,

along with videos of Kantor’s productions to inform their work.

The curriculum also focused on the work of early 20th-century Yiddish puppet troupe Modicut and modernist theater practitioner Edward Gorgon Craig, who developed the concept of “uber marionette,” which employs mechanically operated life-sized dolls in theater performances.

Students in the course also had the opportunity to work with New Haven sculptor Susan Clinard to create objects and mannequins for the upcoming performance. Clinard said she was contacted by Laster because her work reminded Laster of Kantor’s, adding that much of Kantor’s work resonated with her own. While she drew exclusively from her own expertise when working with the class, she noted that the students followed Kantor’s aesthetic style, which included his monochromatic style of coloring, themes of the human body as a machine and the use of stage props as metaphors for emotions and body parts.

“There was something extremely haunting without a doubt about his body of work in that much of the themes were very dark and heavy and about World War II,” Clinard said. “It puts us in another state of mind when we see his work and it is hard to walk away and not think about it for weeks.”

Tadeusz Kantor passed away in 1990.

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

BY ROHAN NAIK STAFF REPORTER Due to a new program at the Yale Center for British Art, undergraduates can now influence the museum’s art acquisition process.

The John F. O’Brien Acquisition Program, established this school year, allows YCBA student tour guides to learn firsthand how museums acquire works of art. As the program draws to a close at the end of the semester, the YCBA will add one new work to its collections based on the group’s suggestions, which the students are planning to deliver later this month. The program seeks to expose students to a discipline within the visual arts that is not commonly studied.

“We want to encourage a critical approach to art but also give students sense of how a curator needs to think strategically about how to acquire for a collection,” said Scott Wilcox, the YCBA’s deputy director for collections.

In January, the student guides in the program traveled to New York City, where they attended the 2015 “Master Drawings in New York” event, which featured over two dozen exhibitions that were hosted by a number of Upper East Side galleries. During the trip, the students met with four art dealers and viewed 16 drawings in total.

The students also had the chance to speak with the dealers about the art industry at large and the changing market for British art.

Both Wilcox and Gillian Forrester, the senior curator of prints and drawings, said they were surprised by the volume and diver-

sity of drawings that dealers presented at the New York event.

Forrester noted that as the acquisition program is currently limited in its funding, she was originally unsure of the quality of artwork that dealers would display.

We want to … give students a sense of how a curator needs to think strategically.

SCOTT WILCOX Deputy Director for Collections, YCBA After further deliberations in January and February, the students narrowed down the drawings from 16 to three. On April 24, students will present research on and assessments of the three drawings. The YCBA will then choose one of the drawings to add to its collection.

Wilcox noted that the presentations will focus on how the artists and works fit into the broader context of the museum’s collections. He added the YCBA would make a decision based on the strength of the students’ analyses of the pieces.

The program is sponsored by John F. O’Brien, whose experiences as an undergraduate at Georgetown University led him to donate to the YCBA. The YCBA usually gives student guides the chance to curate exhibits with its “Art in Focus” program, but it is not hosting the program this year

due to its closing for renovations.

As a result, the new program can continue the long-standing tradition of student teaching.

Danny Roza ’15, a participant in the program and former production and design editor for the News, said that while his experience as a tour guide has taught him about how departments within museums interact with one another, the program has demonstrated to him the importance of the YCBA’s relationships with art dealers and other groups outside of the museum itself.

Katharine Spooner ’16, another program participant, added that she was impressed to discover that museums and dealers work closely with one another to ensure that the interests of both sides are met.

Wilcox said that while the program will continue for the foreseeable future, it may change its curriculum. He explained that the program hopes to give different experiences each year by focusing on different mediums of art.

As this year focused on 18th and 19th century drawings, Wilcox noted, subsequent years may look at photography or contemporary prints.

Forrester added that the program may function more as a “seminar” in the future, where students do more background reading and research a topic in greater depth and over a longer span of time than they did this year.

The YCBA Student Guide Program began in 2002.

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

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“I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble anybody .”

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Performance explores Native American tribal justice

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The Native American Law Students Association presented “Silver of a Full Moon” on Wednesday, a performance that focuses on the passing of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013.

BY VICTORIO CABRERA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last night, the Native American Law Students Association brought to campus a genre-defying work that tackled a variety of urgent but under-addressed national issues.

Written by Native-American playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle and directed by Madeline Sayet, “Sliver of a Full Moon” centers on the passing of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, which restored legal authority to tribes for the prosecution of crimes committed by non-natives on tribal lands for the first time since this authority

was taken away in 1978. Billie Jo Rich and Lisa Brunner, two activists who portray themselves in the play, gave testimonies to Congress in 2013 that were ultimately integral to the act’s passage.

“There’s a saying: ‘Congress sneezes, and Indians end up in the hospital,’” History and American Studies professor Ned Blackhawk said.

A large part of the play’s aim is to educate about the complexities and failings of the laws that govern Native Americans today.

Nagle said that while the VAWA was a “huge victory” for Native Americans, it does not extend to tribes in Alaska, and even the tribes that are covered will only

be able to prosecute certain types of crimes. The testimonies presented in the play, which are direct transcripts of real-life testimonies, are by women who have suffered because of the absence of such protections.

The unedited testimonies presented in the play are unique in modern theater and give it much of its emotive force, according to Nagle and Sayet. Nagle, who played Millich in Tuesday night’s performance, said she experienced firsthand the personal nature of the activists’ speeches when she felt unable to fully replicate the emotions behind the testimonies.

“Me struggling to speak Diane’s

words really underscored the need to create a space where people can tell their own stories,” Nagle said.

Sayet said the play also highlights a culture and a people that have been largely omitted from modern theater. In modern drama, she explained, the norm is red face — non-Native actors playing Native characters in a way that often relies on exoticizing stereotypes.

The format of “Sliver of a Full Moon” is a departure from traditional Western theater, Nagle said, noting that rather than being a master over the characters, the playwright assumes a cooperative role.

“What we’re doing is very

indigenous to the land in that everyone is a storyteller,” Nagle said.

“Sliver of a Full Moon” featured several Native-American undergraduates in Tuesday night’s cast and was co-sponsored by several Native-American organizations on campus. The Blue Feather Drum Group, for example, wrote a song to commemorate the event.

Dineé Dorame ’15, an actor in the play and founder of Native-American women’s organization Yale Sisters of All Nations, attended a “Teach In” at the Native American Cultural Center in February as a preface to the event. For many of the people involved, “Sliver of a Full Moon” coming to campus was

part of a wider increase in NativeAmerican activism on campus.

Discussing Yale Law School, Reed Bobroff, one of the play’s undergraduate actors, said “Having a Native American cohort has changed that place,” adding that the NALSA had brought many “high-level” speakers to campus.

Blackhawk said he thought it was “one of the best things we’ve ever done.”

“The amount of support we’ve gotten from various entities on campus is incredible,” said Reed Bobroff ’16, one of the play’s actors.

Contact VICTORIO CABRERA at victorio.cabrera@yale.edu .

Concert highlights contemporary Argentine music

BY GAYATRI SABHARWAL STAFF REPORTER Last night, a group of musicians brought a slice of South America to New Haven with a set of works by Argentina’s most celebrated composers from the last century.

The Yale School of Music presented “Letters from Argentina” as part of the Oneppo Chamber Music Series at the Morse Recital Hall. The concert highlighted 20th-century tango music, centered around Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin’s original musical suite, titled “Letters from Argentina.” The program also included five pieces by Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla. Dana Astmann, manager of communications at the Yale School of Music, noted the integral role that the concert musicians played in the creation of “Letters of Argentina.”

“Many of the musicians performing here were involved in the commissioning and the premiere of that piece,” Astmann said.

The concert ensemble consisted of Yale School of Music professor David Shifrin, violinist Cho-Liang Lin, bandoneonist Hector del Curto, pianist Alex Brown, bassist Pablo Aslan and percussionist Satoshi Takeishi.

Evanna Chiew MUS ’15 said that she found David Schifrin’s performance and its juxtaposition with Piazzolla’s pieces noteworthy.

“The program had a unique

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The Yale School of Music presented “Letters from Argentina,” which highlighted 20th-century tango music centered around Lalo Schifrin’s original suite. brand of tango composition versus pieces as well known as Piazzolla’s tango music,” said Chiew.

“Schifrin is a great supporter of chamber music and his brilliant collaboration showed in tonight’s performance.”

“Letters from Argentina” encompasses elements of Argentinean Malambo, Incan folk

dances and music from the Pampas region of Argentina, Shifrin explained. Shifrin, who played clarinet in the concert, described the inception of Schifrin’s piece, the idea for which formed more than a decade ago when he visited Schifrin in California.

“We were discussing new ways to collaborate and he mentioned

that growing up in Argentina, he had frequently heard clarinet, the instrument I play, in Tango groups in small clubs in the suburbs of Buenos Aires,” Shifrin said.

At the time of the meeting, Schifrin added, Lin had just returned from a concert tour to South America and noted the

musical talents of Tango musicians in Buenos Aires. Shifrin and Lin then formed a consortium to obtain a commission for Schifrin to compose a suite of pieces influenced by Argentine tango music, which ultimately became “Letters from Argentina.”

Astmann referred to Piazzolla as “perhaps the foremost tango

composer of recent memory.”

Shifrin added that Schifrin was a frequent and close collaborator of Piazzolla, noting that the two met with one another in places that ranged from Paris to New York City.

Contact GAYATRI SABHARWAL at gayatri.sabharwal@yale.edu .

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BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER It takes one tiny misstep, as small as a misplaced hand or an improper landing, to end a gymnast’s career.

Forget the wear and tear that years of an intense, heavy-impact sport leave on a body. Even with all the skill in the world, a gymnast can make a single slip-up, and a season — or even a career — is all over. For this reason, the injury rate for gymnasts resembles that of contact sports, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Ask a Yale gymnast, and she can say the same thing. Every season without fail, the team battles both chronic and new injuries.

“In gymnastics, the injury rate is 100 percent,” Camilla Opperman ’16 said.

The last few years, however, have seen Bulldogs bounce back from moderate to severe injuries.

On a team with 14 athletes, health is a vital component in the gymnastics season. Six athletes compete on every event, and although only five scores count in the final total, injuries quickly take their toll on the team scores.

“There’s such incredible talent on this team, and I wish I could see what we could accomplish if everyone is healthy and injury-free,” Opperman said. “If we were an injury-free team, we’d all be champions on our respective events.”

Opperman, for example, sat out her entire freshman year after a torn ulnar collateral ligament necessitated season-ending Tommy John surgery on her elbow. The injury occurred on the second day of practice, wiping out her season before it began.

A year after Opperman’s injury,

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Yale sails through snow for top finishes

As Elis enter Ivy play, Li talks season

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER A year after failing to earn the Ivy League’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in four seasons, the Yale women’s tennis team enters Ivy League play hungry for a championship. Ree Ree Li ’16 excelled in 2014’s conference season, going 6–1. She spoke with the News about her role with the team’s No. 1 doubles pair, the future of the team and how the Bulldogs are preparing for an Ancient Eight title.

“Coming in and on the second day, tearing my elbow, then getting a call a week later from the doctor saying I was out for a year, was really hard,” Opperman said. “I felt like I had let the team down, especially because I was close with this group of girls. So that sucked.”

In the ECAC Championships, the Yale gymnastics team scored 193.575 points, the fifth-most in school history. plants her toes on the low bar, swinging under the bar in a piked position, and then lets go to soar between the bars, catching the higher one. Both Opperman and Traina missed the high bar.

Traina said it was difficult to watch the team do well and know that she was unable to contribute. For Opperman, the same feelings applied.

Jeter to return with Red Sox What a week it has been for sports. The upcoming March Madness tournament was postponed indefinitely due to inclement weather, Derek Jeter announced that he will return to baseball with the Red Sox, Marshawn Lynch spoke in full sentences to the press for the first time in months and the National Hockey League confirmed reports that it plans to migrate to Canada.

Also, April Fools.

As anyone who just choked on their coffee can tell you, sports are no joking matter.

There has been much debate about the greatest pranks in sports over the years.

Some say that the 2008 Phillies deserve the pranking crown for conspiring to make pitcher Kyle Kendrick believe that he had been traded to Japan. Others argue that the best prank in sports might have been Yale’s prank on Harvard at the Game in 2004, when Harvard fans were tricked into holding signs that spelled “We Suck.”

There have been plenty of creative tricks played and fools made in professional and college sports over the years. But perhaps none is as genius and as far-reaching as the Curious Case of Sidd Finch.

Sports Illustrated first announced Sidd Finch to the baseball world on April 1, 1985.

SI writer George Plimpton reported that Finch was part pitcher, part orphan and part yogi who had taken to practicing yoga and Buddhism in Tibet. He could reportedly throw a baseball over 160 miles per hour wearing a heavy hiking boot on one foot.

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teammate Kacie Traina ’17 also tore her UCL, eventually undergoing Tommy John surgery as well, after falling on the same skill. The accident marked Traina’s first major injury and first surgery.

The skill, called a Toe Hecht, is a release element on the uneven bars that requires a gymnast to swing from the low to high bar. The gymnast

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The top-ranked co-ed team finished first for its fourth consecutive regatta at the Jan T. Friis Team Race.

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Just when it seemed like spring had finally arrived, the Yale co-ed and women’s sailing teams found themselves coasting through snow this weekend on their way to top finishes at their respective regattas. The top-ranked co-ed team finished first for its fourth consecutive regatta at the Jan T. Friis Team Race while the No. 3 women’s team took home second at the Duplin Team Race.

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On Saturday, the co-ed team traveled to Roger Williams University where the Bulldogs sailed against teams including No. 3 Boston College and No. 4 Navy. The Elis saw rain and snow throughout the first day of competition and managed to finish the regatta with an 11–3 record after going undefeated on Sunday in the top-six round.

The delegation from Yale included skippers Graham Landy ’15, Ian Barrows ’17, Mitchell Kiss ’17 and Malcolm Lamphere ’18 and crews Katherine Gaumond ’15, Charlotte Belling ’16, Chandler Gregoire ’17, Meredith Megarry ’17, Clara Robertson ’17 and Christopher Champa ’18.

Landy noted that the Bulldogs focused on providing some of the newer members of the team with experience for the championship season later this year.

“I do think we carry a good bit of momentum forward,” Landy said. “More important than the momentum is increased confidence and repetition for some of our younger sailors … The four consecutive wins certainly validate our efforts in practice and [contribute] to a great team atmosphere at the moment.”

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THE SPEED IN MILES PER HOUR OF SIDD FINCH’S FASTBALL. MLB incoming rookie Sidd Finch will suit up for the Mets this season and boasts a scorching 168 mph fastball.