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students plan to take activism a step further with Unite Yale: Rally for Student Power, an organized protest calling on the University to resolve campus unrest over every one of the year’s most talked-about issues — mainly divestment and mental health policy — in one fell swoop.
All grown up. But student
protests are so college. If you’re looking to balance things out by channeling your inner middle schooler later, you’re in luck: Crushes and Chaperones is tonight. We still don’t think “Sweet Caroline” was ever a dance floor song, despite the Branford College Council’s insistence otherwise. Job freeze. As it turns out, the brutal winter that we endured was more than just inconvenient. Amidst persistent snowfall and frigid temperatures, Connecticut lost 3,700 jobs in February, bringing state officials, labor economists and Yalies all to the same conclusion: We want warmer weather. Romanticism is dead.
Actually, we’re not quite sure what Romanticism is (and neither are the real experts, apparently). Fortunately, the YUAG is hosting a talk on the subject this afternoon. You’re welcome, HSAR 115 students.
The Utopia. In an attempt to
create a “happier, healthier Yale,” the YCC is inviting students to participate in “Recharge Yale” this Sunday by shelving their cell phones and computer screens for some sun and sky. If only it were that easy to just unplug.
Ring by spring. Class ring,
that is. For the first time, the class of 2017 received an email from ASA YaleClassRings on Thursday inviting them to order now. Isn’t it a little early to be thinking about that? THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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here before, Yale. The NCAA men’s hockey tournament kicks off today as your Elis take on Boston University at 2 p.m. If you’re not already halfway to Manchester, N.H., catch the game on a TV screen near you — we recommend the one in Payne Whitney for the University’s official watch party this afternoon. Let’s party like it’s 2013.
It’s a revolution. Today,
Men’s hockey’s bid for the NCAA Championship gets under way tonight.
CS to expand faculty, move under SEAS
You know the drill. We’ve been
Finest against Bravest. With the Bulldogs on the road, Ingalls Rink will host a game between the New Haven Police Department and their counterparts from the Fire Department. They might not be playing for a national title, but the pride that’s at stake just might be worth more.
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cited the large size of rival departments at peer institutions. The recent donations, along with one other faculty addition for a specialist in online privacy, will only ensure that the Yale Computer Science Department grows from 20 faculty to 26. But Harvard already has 24, and following an estimated $60 million donation earlier this year, plans to hire 12 additional professors. Still, students said the news represents an exciting first step. “It might not be enough, but you need to start somewhere,” Gupta said.
Thursday afternoon found hundreds of students and faculty celebrating in the Center for Engineering, Innovation and Design with “byte size” cupcakes frosted with binary code. These cupcakes were, in fact, pieces of “wedding cake,” symbolizing the new union between the Yale Computer Science Department and the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The move comes along with two anonymous donations, totaling $20 million, that will provide the Computer Science Department with five new faculty positions, increasing the department’s size by roughly 25 percent. These donations — officially given to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, which absorbed the CS Department as of noon on Thursday — may solve problems that have plagued the department for years, said administrators, students and faculty at the event. “It’s thrilling for me to feel like Yale is taking these important steps to having the caliber of Computer Science Department that all of us feel Yale deserves,” Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler said. Although most major universities, including peer institutions like Harvard and Princeton, house their computer sci-
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The Computer Science Department announced an expansion of the faculty after a $20 million donation to the SEAS.
Students, faculty cautiously optimistic BY EMMA PLATOFF AND STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTERS On Thursday, dozens of students across campus could be seen wearing navy blue shirts that read “SEAS++” on the front, a play on the computer programming language C++; on the back of the shirts, “BYTE ME” — spelled out in binary. The shirts came from a noon ceremony in the CEID, at which administrators announced two donations — totaling $20 million — to the SEAS, the move of the Computer Science Department to the engineering school and the addition of five new faculty
spots to the department. All students interviewed were ecstatic about the announcement, but many were careful to temper their enthusiasm — even with the donation, CS at Yale is far from where it needs to be, they said. “It’s even more than just hiring professors — [University President Peter] Salovey and other administrators made it clear that they’ve admitted this is a problem and they’re working to solve it,” said Debayan Gupta GRD ’17. “I definitely see this as a very positive first step, as long as the administration keeps going in this direction.” Among other concerns, students
Higgins emails present limited snapshot of campus crime BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER On Feb. 13, two Yale students were walking home from a party. They were assaulted and robbed of their phones on Cross Campus, and one of the students suffered a broken jaw. The cases were not reported to the Yale Community — a result not uncommon for crime occurring on campus. Since the beginning of the spring semester, students have received 11 campus-wide emails
from Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins alerting them of various crimes on and close to campus. The emails have ranged from reporting cases of sexual assault and voyeurism to robberies. Although most students interviewed assumed that these emails covered all reported crime on and around campus, the reality is that administrators decide which crimes to report to the community. University spokesman Tom Conroy said in an email to the News that messages to the cam-
pus community are sent out on a case-by-case basis, when a crime is judged to represent an “ongoing threat to the community.” Higgins, a key member in making these decisions, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. While 15 students interviewed said they were more frightened by a lack of information, a full list of the crimes that have occurred on campus is available online through the Public Safety department’s daily crime log. This is a requirement
In MH&C, session limit does not exist BY AMAKA UCHEGBU AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS As students and administrators focus on the state of Yale’s mental health resources, questions of availability have become particularly contentious — namely, whether students are allowed more than 12 visits to Mental Health & Counseling per year. The short answer is yes, they are. No such cap exists. During an open forum on Feb. 25, at which administrators opened the floor for discussion about Yale’s mental health resources, Caroline Posner ’17 questioned why Yale Health limits students to 12 therapy sessions per year. When MH&C Director Lorraine Siggins responded by claiming that no such limit exists, her voice was quickly drowned out by noises from students in the audience who, like Posner, had heard the very opposite. While Siggins acknowledged that MH&C needs to improve the way it communicates with students, lit-
of the Federal Clery Act, which places certain requirements on universities regarding how they report different campus crimes. Under the act, universities are also required to send a campuswide when the police department deems the crime poses an “ongoing threat.” In an email to the News, Janet Lindner, deputy vice president for human resources and administration, said that in addition to sending campus-wide notifications, the department also sends regular safety updates to advise
students on how to best protect themselves. “Information on crimes is not meant to frighten anyone, but to increase awareness,” she said. The crime log reveals that the incident on Feb. 13 may not be the only crime on campus students would have expected to hear about.
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tle else since the forum has been said publicly about the supposed cap on therapy sessions, leaving students as confused as they had been before the forum. Students interviewed maintained that they had been told that a 12-session cap exists, with some adding that the limit is indicative of a larger resource shortage at MH&C. “When my therapist [gave me more than a certain number of sessions], she specifically said she was bending the rules,” Posner, a staff columnist for the News, said in an interview.
DOES THE LIMIT EXIST?
During the forum, Siggins asked the audience where on the MH&C website they had read that such a limit exists. Students said they had learned about the cap not from the Yale Health website but rather from their individual therapists. The MH&C website does state that some students attend only a few sesSEE MH&C PAGE 4
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GUEST COLUMNIST ERIC TRUOG
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hen I was a senior in high school, my older brother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I remember the early warning signs: the bizarre emails home, the euphoric self-confidence, the missed classes. Most of all, I remember visiting him in the hospital for the first time. He was wearing a white hospital gown, his pupils were dilated with mania and his whole body shook with crazed energy as he talked, caking his torso in a layer of sweat. I struggled then, as I still do now, to reconcile the physical similarity of his body with the raging psychosis evident in his thoughts and expressions. He still looked like the same kid, but his goofy smile was gone and his thoughts had turned, quite literally, insane. In the last three years, his illness has worsened into something between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. In the most recent episode, he became suicidal, telling my mom one night that voices in his head were telling him to “get a knife from the kitchen and kill himself.” Until now, I’ve told only a handful of friends about my brother’s illness, partly because of the private nature of such a personal, familial issue. However, that reluctance to share is also borne out of fear: a fear that my friends would only see him as the kid in the mental hospital or that they would misconstrue his sickness for weakness. Often, those that do know are afraid to ask me about him, as if they’re bringing up a shameful part of my family. This fear even seeps into the way he views his own illness. He’s ashamed that his sickness has prevented him from graduating college on time, as if he’s responsible for the destructive heredities of his brain. There is no shame in my brother’s experience. As I visited him in the hospital every day over spring break, I came to appreciate how incredibly strong he is. It may seem odd or unfamiliar to use the word “strong” to describe the mentally infirm. While we glorify those with cancer as “battling the disease,” we describe people like my brother as having a “condition.” We remove them from society, place them in mental hospitals and render their struggle private and unrewarded. So, in the absence of familiar words and phrases to describe his struggle and illustrate his resolve, I offer you details. My brother’s wounds are not visible. He’s not losing hair from chemotherapy, nor will he have any cool scars to show
for the weeks and months he’s spent in the hospital. The only vestige of the long days he spends in treatment is the acne that dots his face, an unfortunate side effect of his high Lithium dosages. Instead, his struggle is internal. He battles voices every day that tell him he is worthless, that he should kill himself, that he is going to hell for an eternity of torture. He is paralyzed by fear that these voices are true, and he spends hours pacing through his unit in restless anxiety. There are times when he is unable to answer the most basic questions because he can’t silence the voices in his head long enough to hear the words coming out of my mouth. He lives that tortuous reality every hour of his waking day, battling to suppress those harmful elements of his brain and regain his tenuous grip on sanity. He hugs me with silent tears in his eyes, seeking physical support for psychological pain and terrified he’ll always live in this mental agony. I sit there, holding his hand, imploring him to be positive, assuring him that what the voices say is not true. But how can you ask him to distrust his own thoughts? How could he not internalize what his brain is telling him? How is he supposed to fight an invisible assault? As his struggle becomes a bigger part of my own life, I’ve come to hate that I can’t talk more openly about it. But I’ve also realized that, in hiding his struggle from so many of my close friends, I exacerbate this stigmatization and contribute to the lack of understanding around mental illness. I can’t help but wonder how many other people suppress similar stories out of fear that their own loved ones will be miscast as the crazy relative in the hospital. My brother’s not that crazy kid, and neither is anyone else suffering from a mental illness. He’s a kid that’s putting everything he has into fighting an incomprehensible disease. He wakes up every day wishing he could get out of the hospital and go back to school. There’s nothing shameful about seeking help for a condition borne of genetics. Perhaps if we stop talking about mental illness in hushed and shameful tones, and treat the mentally ill with the same respect and admiration we afford others fighting disease, then we can offer them the support and encouragement they need.
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be blind of me to ignore the ways that injustice manifests itself on our campus as well. Our cultural centers remain in dire need of renovation, reflecting a pattern of neglecting the needs of students of color. The student contribution continues to burden students on financial aid and their families. The questionable accessibility of mental health services and current withdrawal and readmission policies persist as sources of struggle for many. That Yale should benefit from celebrating its diversity and accessibility while my friends and fellow students are made to feel unwelcome is simply wrong. These grievances are serious and indicate a consistent lack of value for student concerns. Others have pointed out the ways that the decision-makers of this University lack transparency and accountability to our community on these issues; it is starkly evident in each of these cases that official channels of input are not working. When Yalies have the moral clarity to see that the actions of our administration perpetuate injustices that are not in line with the world we expect to inherit, our University should take notice. And yet, the voices of students, especially those in the marginalized com-
munities of our campus, continue to be undervalued. What would it take for our administration to demonstrate real accountability to the needs of our community? In a word: unity. For me, working on fossil fuel divestment is working for a better world, where our futures are not threatened by climate disruption and people’s lives come before corporate bottom lines. Meanwhile, others are fighting for the world we need in different ways, by working for real racial and economic justice on our campus. But I worry that a tendency to isolate ourselves to our individual causes weakens all of our struggles. We need broad support to create the pressure on the administration necessary to actualize the changes we demand — real bodies, present and engaged. While many of our lives here are overloaded and taking the time and energy to be involved with other issues can be hard, the more that Yalies demonstrate solidarity and unity across causes, the more likely it is that we can actually realize the kind of wins we want. We learn a lot from each other’s wisdom, and the truth is that, rather than simultaneous demands detracting from each other, each campaign is bolstered by the precedent and success of others.
Successful student organizing has a strong precedent at Yale — Tyler Blackmon wrote a column earlier this week on how progress on Yale’s financial aid in years past was the direct result of student organizing. More recently, when members of the black community decided to make concerns about Dean Rodney Cohen public after years of institutional neglect, he ended up resigning. The reality is that, when folks come together, student organizing works. We should never forget that the stakes are high. As Yale likes to remind us, it is a leader, and actions taken on this campus will be emulated. What happens here recreates itself outside this University. If we can create a campus where students of color are given the resources they need, where the health and wellness of students are taken seriously, where the college experience isn’t divided along class lines and where our University invests in our futures instead of in injustice, these actions will also ripple outwards. Our bold visions can become reality outside of just our campus, and to achieve that, we need everyone — united. TRISTAN GLOWA is a freshman in Morse College. Contact him at tristan.glowa@yale.edu .
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oday, something incredibly unique is happening. Students from different spheres of the Yale community are coming together to build student power in the face of an administration and corporation that have proved themselves deaf to student voices and stubborn to change. Organizers of Fossil Free Yale, students organizing in the cultural centers, students working on eliminating the unfair student contribution and individuals advocating for mental health reform are uniting to recognize the commonalities between our causes and the strength that we can have working together. I am a student organizer with Fossil Free Yale, and a white male in an environmental movement still struggling with a legacy of exclusivity and privilege. From the outside, it might not seem intuitive that I am connecting my organizing with these seemingly disparate issues, but there is a recurring theme. Yale's refusal to divest from the fossil fuel industry endorses a business model that relies on exploitation of communities worldwide, primarily those which are poor and of color, as well as the destruction of our very future as young people. For me, this work is a matter of global justice; but it would
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t’s springtime at Yale and in New Haven. One would think that means brighter times: daylight, fewer scarves and maybe — knock on wood, cross your fingers — no more snow. But if you’ve been following the news lately, you know that “brightness” doesn’t seem to be in the cards. The University is under fire for its mental health policies and resources. Asbestos is the latest plague to strike Saybrook. The student contribution is overburdening families and exacerbating inequity at Yale; cultural houses are underfunded and falling apart; the Yale Corporation has effectively written off divestment as a pipe dream. Outside the ivory tower, a feud has erupted between the mayor and the police union after a video surfaced online showing a scuffle between an officer and a high school student. Tragedy has struck with violence in the Middle East, fire in Manhattan, a plane crash in Germany. And that’s just the past few days. It’s easy to focus on these sorts of issues and incidents. It’s no hard task to read column after column, status after status, slowly working ourselves into a frenzy. Let’s demonstrate! Yell!
Fight! Everything is the worst! That’s great. Some of the most inspirational moments from my time as a student were with the many students who were engaged with the challenges confronting campus and committed to the betterment of our community. But to stay centered on what’s wrong at Yale and in the world, to keep doggedly in pursuit of progress both on and off campus, is demanding, exhausting and cynicism-inducing. Worst of all, it’s incredibly unhealthy, particularly on a campus that already suffers from a challenging mental health climate. This spring, amid the stresses of finals, society tap and summer jobs, I beg you to think about how you’re going to take care of yourself. At Yale, we underprioritize self-care, given a student culture that instead values success and prestige. That Rhodes Scholarship isn’t going to be won by getting seven hours of sleep a night, am I right? Or worse, we have a misplaced sense of what truly caring for ourselves actually entails. No, taking a study break to jam a Wenzel into your mouth before returning to your work doesn’t count. Neither does exchanging a few words with a friend for five
minutes over a rushed lunch, or drunkenly making every single Woads this semester (although, props if you do). Good self-care doesn’t look the same for everybody, but, universally, it takes time. Time that we allow ourselves to meditate, to go to the gym, to write in a journal, to get enough sleep, to call our parents; whatever it is we need to do to give ourselves some space from the often-brutal day-in, day-out life at Yale. Think about how much healthier our campus would be if each of us allotted an hour for selfcare a day. Naturally, one of the biggest arguments I’ve received against this proposal is this lack of time. Given five classes, an a cappella group, two executive committees and research with a professor, there’s just no time to care for ourselves, people tell me. But that’s not really true — what these students are actually saying is they just don’t prioritize self-care as highly as they do these other activities. It’s not an issue of time management, but of prioritization; caring for yourself properly starts with learning how to say no. That’s hard on a campus like Yale, where the longer one’s list of obligations, the more respect
one tends to garner. Still, I encourage you to give proper self-care a try, even if only twice a week. At the very least, try to approach the rest of the year with some degree of positivity. To always focus on the negative, as some of us have the tendency to do, is draining. Instead, take a minute to remind yourself of some of the greater things in life. For me, that’s remembering that warmer temperatures are just around the corner, that “Avengers: Age of Ultron” is coming out in a month, that sushi still exists. Yes, there are important fights to be had and progress to pursue, and each and every person who works toward these goals is worth celebrating. But I implore you to take self-care just as seriously as you take the fight for a more equitable Yale. It’s spring: Go outside and enjoy the sun (or, you know, the drizzle). NICK DEFIESTA is a 2014 graduate of Berkeley College. He was a columnist for the News and a city editor on the Managing Board of 2014. The views expressed in this column are his own and do not represent those of his employer .
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Understanding the Corporation
s is the case with any governing body, the Yale Corporation has faced its fair share of criticism over the years. While criticism of the group takes many forms, by far the most common critique is that the Corporation is little more than a cadre of bankers and lawyers who are ignorant about education and insensitive to the needs of students and faculty. These complaints — which touch on important questions of transparency, accountability and legitimacy — are certainly understandable, but they often fail to recognize the purpose of the Yale Corporation and its place in our University. Despite the misapprehension of many students, the Corporation is not merely a collection of undeserving plutocrats. Its members comprise a diverse body of public and private sector leaders, including surgeons, chemistry professors, entrepreneurs, university presidents and nonprofit directors. Fifteen of the 17 have obtained advanced degrees, and all are distinguished in their fields. Perhaps the only organizing characteristic of the body is its deep commitment to Yale, whether expressed through financial contributions, experience, service or all three. It is true that many Corporation members are involved in finan-
cial services and many more have amassed sizable personal fortunes. However, this does not detract from their ability to guide Yale. If anything, we should be proud that its members are leaders in their fields who have experience managing and growing an organization, whose time at Yale has given them a unique long-term perspective and whose contributions — in wealth, wisdom or work — testify to their expertise. Beyond questions of composition, much of the controversy concerning the Corporation stems from its lack of transparency. As I see it, there are two central factors that play into this concern: First, student ignorance of the Corporation, and second, the Corporation’s purported wish to avoid contact with the student body. According to a 2014 survey by the Yale Politic, more than a quarter of students were unaware of the Yale Corporation’s existence. This statistic is unfortunate, but hardly a fault of the Corporation. There are several opportunities each year for students to sit and chat with members in addition to the thorough biographies on Yale’s website detailing the contributions and achievements of the members. As to the second concern, the decision to hold private meetings is regrettable, albeit understandable. Just last
week at the University of Pennsylvania, a group of students protested a meeting of the University’s Board of Trustees to the point that they were unable to continue the meeting and reach conclusions on many important issues. Indeed, the Yale Corporation is not meant to be a democratically elected arm that is directly accountable to the student body. Yale has a wide variety of councils and bodies that exist to represent the varied populations in our school. For students, that representative body is the Yale College Council, which does an effective job of drafting reports, delivering petitions and making known to the administration the current concerns of students. The idea that every policymaking arm of the University ought to be directly accountable to undergraduates alone is narrowminded. The concerns of students — while certainly important — do not always reflect the interests of the University, and it is important that a body exists that can balance the varied interests of the members of Yale (students, faculty, alumni, staff) with the institutional factors (the endowment and scholarship) and can make decisions that are at times unpopular. Perhaps the strongest criticism levied against the Yale Corporation
is that its members are all too often involved in conflicts of interest. This concern has come to the forefront of the discussion recently, particularly as it pertains to such issues as divestment and the development of the Yale-NUS campus. By all means, this is a valid critique, and any member of the Corporation who comes upon a conflict of interest should recuse him or herself from the decision-making process. But at the same time, we should be careful to categorically write off an entire board — particularly one that has been so generous in its contribution to Yale — merely because these conflicts will inevitably arise. Ultimately, it is important to recognize the Corporation for what it is and what it is not. The members of the Yale Corporation are not elected representatives of the students. They are not our teachers or our deans. And despite what many may think, they are not lobbyists for the endowment. Whether or not it succeeds in its mission, the Corporation is a body that draws on diverse sources of expertise and interests to best position the University for long-term success. BENJAMIN MARROW is a sophomore in Berkeley College. Contact him at benjamin.marrow@yale.edu .
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Progress requires empathy I
t’s St. Patrick's Day and a college student tries to enter a bar. The bouncer at the door requests the student’s identification. He (and it could just as easily be a "she") pulls out his legitimate Illinois State ID. When asked to recite his zip code, he accidentally answers with his mother’s current zip code rather than the one that is on his ID (from a former residence). The cautious bouncer denies the student entry, and he leaves calmly. Now to me, all this sounds like someone who tried to get into Box or Ordinary or Harvest or Toad's a little late and was denied. It happens all the time, right? In this case, the story doesn’t end with a trip to the store formerly known as GHeav. One student at the University of Virginia, Martese Johnson, was denied entry into a college bar for the exact reasons mentioned above. But the stories diverge shortly thereafter, when Johnson was stopped by three police officers and subsequently slammed to the ground. His face was bloodied and two officers’ knees were digging into his back as he attempted to question why he was being accosted. He screamed that he was a UVA student, to which they replied, “Stop fighting.”
He has no criminal record, is on the Honor Committee and seems like an all-around upstanding student, citizen and man. None of that helped his case. He was dressed in a nondescript fashion, and he and his upstanding reputation could not save him from being forced to suffer the realities of police brutality. He was arrested for obstruction of justice and public inebriation, both of which he intends to plead not guilty to. Events such as these, which easily can escalate due to irrational behavior on both sides, are not isolated. We’ve seen people of color shot for holding toy guns in stores, playing their music just a bit too loud, walking in the middle of the street and walking back home with Skittles and iced tea. We have seen them shot unarmed, walking around nude partly as a result of mental illness, put in handcuffs and killed while being arrested due to a police chokehold. To men and women of color, these events continue to affect us disproportionately, whether we are the victims, bystanders, observers, community members or citizens who have to reckon with these events. They drain us. They are emotionally distressing, maddening, disheartening and seemingly malicious in nature.
An incident such as Johnson’s hits our campus particularly hard. While many on Yale’s campus might just see another headline warranting indifference or some small bout of sympathy at best, it’s yet another reminder to African-American students here that a Yale degree won’t protect you from the injustices of institutional and systematic racism. They cause us to grieve together for lost brothers and sisters, to ask ourselves whom we might lose next and to cry out in protest and in solidarity by foot and by vote for justice and change. Yet, it’s seemingly to no avail. People of color and those who can and do empathize with us understand that more must be done. For as far as this country has come, we still have an amazingly long way to go. In order to start enacting real change, with support from the entire campus instead of just the groups who too often bear the brunt of the problem, one of the first steps we must take is to establish empathy — the ability to truly, humanly feel another person’s situation as though their experiences were your own. It’s the ability to try to walk in another person’s proverbial shoes, and see what their side of life is like. It is a sobering and necessary exercise of
emotional intelligence. There’s a difference between sympathy and empathy, however. Sympathy means sending your friend flowers when they break a bone. Empathy is psychological identification with the feelings, thoughts or attitudes of others. From empathy, we can start a campuswide dialogue about these issues. And not just within an echo chamber, but with those who we are so desperately trying to get through to, so that we can come to a consensus on how to solve these problems in this country. We’re not asking you to solve the problems for us; we’re asking you to acknowledge that these problems are very real. A friend commented that it’s a rarity that Johnson was alive at his press conference — the victims of most high-profile incidents of police brutality don’t get to tell their side of the story. I think it should be a rarity for any American to have a negative experience such as this that warranted a press conference in the first place. If you can’t understand that, I’m going to need you to empathize. Start trying.
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of exceptionally talented men and women from across the nation and around the world,” but regrettably, the M.D./Ph.D. policies defy this sentiment and are simply not in Yale’s selfinterest. Further, this policy seems to be part of a bigger theme of segregating communities at Yale. Over the last few years, the University has been grappling with issues of race and gender equality. Many of our female and ethnically diverse leaders are now enriching other institutions with their cultural and intellectual experience. For example, former Provost Judith Rodin went on to be the first female president of the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. Similarly, former Provost Susan Hockfield was named president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. Instances like these, of which there are several more, raise several crucial questions. Why have no permanent presidents in the institution’s history ever been women, or of diverse ethnic background? Why do the experiences of my female, ethnically diverse and international colleagues differ significantly from those of my other male friends? Why does Yale, which strives to make its students culturally receptive, have administrative policies that oppose all-encompassing inclusion of diverse individuals? I do not have the answers to these
WOULD WE RATHER HAVE MUSICAL OR RACIAL DIVERSITY?
questions. Perhaps in some avenues, Yale might not have the resources just yet, but at least shows the intent to improve; in others, the situation is worse. We have umpteen resources but completely lack intent. Yale’s M.D./Ph.D. policy is one such example. Our program is one of the 43 that gets funded by the National Institutes of Health. Yale also has various other funding mechanisms, including private donor money and institutional grants that support training physician-scientists by providing a modest stipend during the seven-to-nineyear training period. Thus, if the University wanted to, it could easily allow a foreign national to pursue an M.D./ Ph.D. training and experience the adventure of scientific investigation. In all areas of running a University, just as in all areas of life, there is lots of work to be done. With the evolving landscape of biomedical sciences, I remain hopeful that an institution as wise as Yale will realize that future is an opportunity. Let’s hope that Yale changes its policies and open its doors to qualified students, regardless of nationality, for M.D./Ph.D. training. To become a world leader in the truest sense, Yale needs to set the trends that other institutions follow. DIVYANSH AGARWAL is a senior in Branford College. Contact him at divyansh.agarwal@yale.edu .
LEO KIM is a sophomore in Trumbull College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu .
DAVID AMANFU is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at david.amanfu@yale.edu .
Doors of opportunity I’m an example of this. This application cycle has been incredibly humbling. Yale gave an average kid from a small North Indian town the opportunity to form meaningful connections and be a successful M.D./Ph.D. applicant. It would have been a dream to get the chance to continue my undergraduate experience by pursuing my training here. Unfortunately, among the six Ivy League universities that offer M.D./Ph.D. training, the Yale School of Medicine is the only one that does not consider international applicants for its program. This was the second most important thing I learned during the process. While I have loved my time at Yale and can’t thank my soon-to-be alma mater enough for all it has given me, I’m sorry that the University has missed out on an important opportunity. International students are part of both the regular M.D. and Ph.D. classes at the medical school. Not admitting them to the combined program seems baffling, if not completely unacceptable. Some might think that international students simply have not expressed interest in these programs, but looking at other top institutions tells us that this is not true. Our university mission statement is to be “on par with the best institutions in the world” and “attract a diverse group
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belong to a racial minority. A minority, I would argue, that is far more underrepresented in the entertainment industry than most others (seriously, name five Asian music artists that you know decently— even LEO KIM I have a hard time with this). Here’s what I have On Us to say about the "so white, you might as well call it Christmas" Spring Fling lineup we have: In all honesty, I don’t care. When Yale announced its Spring Fling lineup, there was an outcry of people saying that the lineup was too white. It’s still ambiguous to me what exactly that means. I’m guessing it means either one of two things — either the lineup is too ethnically homogenous, or that the music is homogenous and largely caters to a white demographic. Now, while I would love to see an AsianAmerican artist take the stage, I’m wary of criticizing Spring Fling on racial grounds. Because, frankly, I just care that the music is good. Could Spring Fling have chosen comparable artists who happened to be more ethnically diverse? Sure. Would that have been a good thing? Probably. It wouldn’t hurt, that’s for sure. But should we criticize the Spring Fling Committee for not doing so? That’s where I begin to feel a little uncertain. The committee’s primary function is to give us a good concert. That’s the very reason we have this event. In that respect, I don’t think racial considerations should come into play. While an artist’s race and personal experiences can inform his music, it doesn’t determine quality — which is what matters in the end. I don’t believe it’s the Spring Fling Committee’s responsibility to promote minorities in entertainment. While it couldn’t hurt, we need to realize there are much larger forces at play in the industry.
But let’s say you don’t agree with that. Let’s assume we all have a duty to promote fair and diverse representation. It’s certainly a legitimate assumption that many people share. But what kind of diversity should Spring Fling strive to promote? Do we want to promote musical diversity — a variance in the genres that are represented each year — or do we want to focus on the racial diversity of the artists themselves? Often the two are so intertwined that it’s hard to separate. But for a moment, let’s try to untangle them. Would we rather have an artist who is racially different but stylistically similar to the others, or would we rather have one that is stylistically different but more racially similar? If we could only choose between these two options, which one should we urge the Spring Fling committee to select? This is the point at which opinions may diverge. I personally am of the opinion that Spring Fling, as an event that revolves around music, should prioritize the promotion of musical diversity. Let’s consider a genre that is often associated with diversity and means a lot to me: hip-hop. When people criticized Spring Fling for being “too white,” many indicated a desire for a hip-hop artist. Hip-hop is entwined, for good and bad reasons, with a particular socioeconomic environment — low-income, minority communities. It’s easy to conflate a desire for a good hip-hop artist with the desire for an artist from an underrepresented demographic. I believe that most good hip-hop artists are minorities, and that this is the case because they are able to identify and assail structural oppression. It’s unlikely someone from Greenwich could have produced Kendrick Lamar’s new album, "To Pimp a Butterfly." But artists from any background can thrive in the genre. Someone’s race doesn’t preclude their ability to excel at hip-hop. While it may make it harder to understand the origins of the genre, it doesn’t mean that a white artist can’t have excellent technique or lyricism. Just look at Brother Ali or Aesop Rock. I would be upset if either of them had been rejected on diversity grounds for even an Asian-American artist who was musically inferior. I think that stylistically diverse and insightful artists will generally bring more perspectives on issues that will be more valuable than an Asian-American or African-American artist will by virtue of their race. So when considering artists for Spring Fling, the diversity we look for should be musical, not racial.
G U E S T C O L U M N I S T D I V YA N S H A G A R WA L
ive years ago, if someone told me that I would be pursuing my undergraduate education at an Ivy League university in the United States, I would have regarded the statement as a joke. Medical education in India commences right after high school, and I was well on track to be among the millions that enter the profession at the age of 17. Fast forward a few years. At Yale, my love for medicine grew stronger, and my passion for science, deeper. Early sophomore year, my faculty advisors introduced me to the concept of a physician-scientist — a clinician who is trained to utilize his medical acumen and advance medical science. This training — widely referred to as M.D./Ph.D. — seemed like God’s creation for split souls like myself. If you’re an international student on an F-1 visa applying for M.D./ Ph.D. programs in the U.S., statistics are generally piled up against you. In the recent past, international students have filled only 1 percent of the approximately 600 spots each year. But as they say, where there is a will, there generally is a way. As an applicant this cycle, I learned two important things: first, about the process, that most institutions evaluate a candidate holistically, certainly beyond mere numbers. The fact that I was accepted to several M.D./Ph.D. programs has led me to believe that
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FROM THE FRONT
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” EDSGER DIJKSTRA DUTCH COMPUTER SCIENTIST
With $20m to SEAS, CS to add more faculty CS FROM PAGE 1 ence departments within their respective schools of engineering, computer science at Yale was previously separate from the SEAS within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. According to Computer Science chair Joan Feigenbaum, of the five new faculty, two will be senior and three will be junior. The two senior faculty will be jointly appointed in other engineering departments in the SEAS. Besides the move into the SEAS and growth in faculty size, there will be no major, shortterm changes in the department’s day-to-day operations, said Feigenbaum. Gendler said that since she became dean of the FAS in July 2014, she has been working to acquire donations from alumni and other interested parties to help increase the size of the Computer Science Department. By early fall, the administration had a basic outline and strategy for acquiring potential donors. By December, the administration had fully consulted with all relevant parties concerned, including donors and computer science and SEAS faculty. According to Dean of the SEAS T. Kyle Vanderlick, the donation and subsequent agreements were not in response to student outcry — including two petitions circulated by graduate and undergraduate students demanding a radical increase in the size of the Computer Science Department. She said she had been working with Gendler and University President Peter Salovey since July 2014. At the time the petitions were filed, the University was unable to publicly announce that it was in the process of securing the donation, Gendler said. “It [was] frustrating for me to see the kinds of concerns that have been expressed by people about the department and its future when I knew, though I was held to confidence on it, that we were and had been for months
and months and months taking concrete steps in exactly that direction,” Gendler said. Salovey, who spoke at the ceremony, also announced that Yale will immediately begin work on an underground teaching concourse that physically links the CS Department, housed in Arthur K. Watson Hall, with other main engineering buildings on campus. According to the Yale News press release, the 10,000-square-foot space will be designed specifically for undergraduate engineering laboratories.
A NATURAL TRANSITION?
According to Feigenbaum, the question of whether the Computer Science Department should be incorporated into the SEAS has always been up in the air, and the donations were “the impetus.” Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science and MacArthur Fellow Daniel Spielman said it was a sort of “historical accident” that the Computer Science Department was not already a part of SEAS. Moving the department into the SEAS will give it access to resources that are specific to the school, Gendler said. Some of those resources come from prior donations, from which the department will now be able to benefit. From 2011 to 2013, SEAS made nine new hires in junior faculty across various departments. This recent slew of hires, who have all started at Yale within the past two years, comprise a nearly 20 percent increase in faculty at the school, which grew from 50 to 59 full, associate and assistant faculty members. Part of that increase in faculty size was made possible by a March 2011 $50 million donation from John Malone ’63, which endowed 10 professorships across SEAS. In a Tuesday email to the News, Vanderlick said she was “thrilled” about the donation
and welcoming the Computer Science Department into the engineering school. “I believe this alliance will make both CS and the Engineering departments stronger, and better able to compete for the best students and faculty,” she said, adding that there is an “especially close synergy between computer science and engineering.” But even before the recent donation, the Computer Science and Engineering Departments have collaborated for years. Faculty and administrators agreed this prior collaboration makes the move a natural transition. There are currently six computer science professors cross-listed as professors in other engineering departments. Computer science professors, including Feigenbaum herself, have on occasion advised PhD candidates in one of the engineering departments, while computer science students have also been advised by electrical engineering professors. Spielman, who is also the codirector of the Yale Institute for Network Science, where he works alongside four electrical engineers, called himself a big proponent of the move. “My perspective of CS is that we are somewhat of a cross between engineering and mathematics,” Spielman said. “Much of what we are trying to do is design new things or find better ways of designing and building which are properly engineering activities.” Even though there will be no changes in the department’s day-to-day operations, the computer science faculty, alongside their new engineering colleagues, may consider making adjustments to graduate student admissions and the physical locations of faculty on campus. In addition, they might discuss offering more joint courses with the engineering departments as a result of the move, she added. Feigenbaum said that these changes, if they were to take
place, would occur after multiple discussions and a period of settling in. It will take a “long time to hammer out details,” she added.
THE HIRING PROCESS
Discussions regarding the searches for the two senior joint faculty positions will start immediately. But the full extent of promised growth may take several years to achieve, Feigenbaum said. Even before the anonymous donation was announced, the department had been looking for a junior faculty member to replace computer science professor Bryan Ford, who announced in the fall that he will be leaving Yale to join the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne at the end of June. Now, thanks to the donation, it is possible that the Computer Science Department will hire two new junior faculty members by the end of the year, she said. Moreover, the department is currently engaged in a targeted recruiting effort, aimed at a acquiring distinguished senior researcher in the field of online privacy. With that, the five new positions and the Ford replacement, the department may see seven new hires over the next few years, Feigenbaum added. Gendler confirmed that the faculty is currently performing a junior faculty search and a targeted search. She added that the department has already been preapproved for three searches next year. The final two searches will take place in the following years, she said. But conducting an authorized faculty search does not necessarily mean those new faculty members will be hired immediately, said Gendler and other computer science faculty members interviewed. And faculty searches themselves take time, computer science professor Brian Scassellati said. Even at Harvard, which just received an estimated $60 million donation from former
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to increase the size of their computer science department by 50 percent, growth will take time. Despite a failed faculty search — when a weaker applicant pool meant no hires — several years ago, Fischer said he felt optimistic about this year’s round of searches. “This time I think the candidate pool is considerably stronger than the last time,” he said.
STEPPING STONE OR COMPLAINT PLACATING?
Feigenbaum said the shortterm growth in department size will alleviate many of the issues CS has been facing over the past five years. The new hires will give the department the opportunity to offer more courses for both graduate and undergraduate students. The department will also now “have more robust coverage in terms of specialization.” Currently, many of the specific CS fields, such as networking and robotics, only have one professor specializing in the field. If the sole professor were to go on sabbatical or leave the University, those courses would be left with no one to teach them. What may be even more exciting for students is that the department now has the opportunity to expand into newer CS areas like applied machine learning, Feigenbaum said. Although the department has traditionally been strong in the theory of machine learning, it has not been active in machine-learning applications, which are some of the most important technological developments of recent years. “I am absolutely delighted this is happening,” Feigenbaum said. “We definitely need to do this, but I want to sound a bit of a cautionary note that this is not all we need to do. This is a first step, but after we take this step Yale will still have a fairly small CS department.” Even with the five new professorships, the CS Department will not be active in all areas of computer science, especially newer
areas, Feigenbaum noted. Other professors echoed this concern, explaining that even these new hires will not provide enough positions to cover all of CS’s many fields and specialties. “We are thrilled to get more faculty members, but the number of new slots is much smaller than what we need to catch up with a lot of other departments,” computer science professor Holly Rushmeier said. Rushmeier added the department is particularly in need of additional faculty in human computer interaction and natural language processing. Computer science professor Daniel Abadi said he would like to see the department hire someone well versed in computing systems and architecture. Abadi also said the two joint senior positions in SEAS have as much potential to fill holes in the department as the three hires solely devoted to CS, given the substantial interdisciplinarity of the fields. Administrators echoed faculty optimism. “I’m very excited — the potential for this is really quite great,” Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said. “Is it enough? I just don’t know. I don’t think any of us thinks this is the end of the story when it comes to size and scope of CS at Yale.” Gendler said she “absolutely” sees this recent change as a stepping stone for the CS Department and a sign that there could be even further growth for the department in the future. “This is a great first step in the right direction,” said Feigenbaum. “Now Yale’s administration and its famously generous alumni must ensure that it’s not a last step. To be a world-leading university in the 21st century, Yale needs a world-leading CS Department, and that means a lot more growth.” Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .
Even without session limit, MH&C follows short-term model MH&C FROM PAGE 1 sions of therapy while others take part in “ongoing therapy,” with those decisions made on an individual basis. It also states that students who have private health insurance and are interested in having sessions “more than once per week over a long period of time” can seek care outside of Yale Health. Though Posner’s therapist never told her explicitly that she was limited to 12 visits, Posner said she had read about the cap elsewhere and been told by numerous friends that their own therapists had told them about a similar limit. Another student stood up at the forum and described her experience with a perceived limit, adding that her therapist told her at each of her sessions exactly where they stood in the 12-visit limit. She said her therapist had to adjust their meeting schedule so that they did not exceed the limit that year. While Posner conceded that, as in her own case, she had heard that therapists do sometimes work with students for more than 12 sessions if they feel it is appropriate, she felt that her therapist was under pressure to be frugal about the number of therapy sessions the she offered. After the remarks at the forum garnered significant attention, some students decided to look into the confusion on their own. Eli Feldman ’16, president of the campus organization Mind Matters and a member of the Coalition for Mental Health and Wellbeing, said he spoke with a therapist at MH&C in an attempt to gain more clarity. The therapist affirmed that there is no absolute limit on the number of sessions available to students, Feldman said. Still, Feldman acknowledged that there seem to be pervasive misconceptions regarding the policy. He said he thinks poor communication is to blame. “I get the sense that [staff at MH&C] don’t have one standard way of explaining how therapy works [to students],” he said.
“Perhaps some individual variation is the cause of that.” Neither Siggins nor any of the 28 MH&C clinicians listed online returned request for comment.
SHORT-TERM CARE MODEL
Although she denied that there is an absolute limit on sessions allowed per year, Siggins acknowledged at the open forum that MH&C does “roughly” follow a short-term model of treatment. The goal of this model, she added, is to allow therapists to reevaluate the student’s condition after a few visits and decide how to proceed from there. Some students supported this method. Matthew Kemp LAW ’15, who contributed to a December 2014 report on the state of mental health at the law school, said 12 visits is actually “kind of a lot” and should afford plenty of opportunity for patients and therapists alike to reevaluate the situation. But Posner said that rather than giving patients the opportunity to assess their progress, the short-term model — and the notion of a 12-visit cap in general — forces therapists to prioritize some patients over others and might make some students feel as if their issues are not as important. In fact, she added, any suggestion of a limit on therapy sessions may worry students in treatment who are managing well. Furthermore, when students are given the impression that the issues with which they are struggling are not important, she said, they are less likely to seek help in the first place. She emphasized that when students reach a point at which they decide it is necessary to seek treatment, hearing that their illness is not important enough to be treated more than 12 times can make their situation even more difficult. “I think it’s a problem that people only start talking about depression when someone commits suicide,” she said. While Siggins defended the short-term model as one that has flexibility “built into the system,” she explained that MH&C tries to
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Students at the mental health forum on Feb. 25th questioned the care model that Yale Mental Health & Counseling uses. make it clear from the outset that it does not aim for a longer timeline. “Some people we do explicitly see for the whole year because their condition is such that it needs to happen,” Siggins said. “[But] we do it individually per person, and we decide that some people don’t need it for as long. That’s why we don’t want to say, ‘Sure, you can come weekly for all the four years you’re at Yale.’ ”
UNDERSTAFFED AND OVERBOOKED
One possible explanation for the limited availability of therapy sessions is understaffing at MH&C, Feldman said. MH&C serves around 2,500 students every year, rendering constant, long-term care logistically impractical, he added “They do not have the capacity to do the same types of very long-term therapy as a private practice might,” he said. “That
would mean [it would take] even longer to get in the first time. Whatever the wait times are, if they’re two to three weeks, they could become six to seven. They don’t have enough slots where they could both give the average Yale student more than 12 [sessions] and also be taking in new cases.” Feldman’s comments were echoed by Corinne Ruth ’15, a member of the Mental Health and Counseling Advisory Committee, a student group that consults with Yale Health staff. If a therapist and patient come to the conclusion that the student requires more long-term, continuous care, then MH&C will work to meet that need, and in some cases the therapist may look into outside care as well, Ruth said. But because of resource and staffing constraints, guaranteeing continuous therapy to every student who comes to MH&C is impossible, she added.
As Kemp put it, “the money has to come from somewhere.” These staffing constraints come despite the fact that Yale’s mental health services are relatively well-staffed compared to those at other comparable institutions. A September 2013 Yale College Council report on mental health noted that Yale MH&C actually has more staff than many of its peer institutions. Feldman said MH&C has twice as many clinicians per student than other peer institutions. But for Jessie Agatstein LAW ’16, a member of Yale Law School’s Mental Health Alliance, the fact that there still are not enough mental health staff members simply points to another flaw in Yale’s mental health policies: insurance. While acknowledging that there are practical constraints on Yale Health’s ability to deliver care, Agatstein said its insurance policy of limiting coverage to Yale
Health itself is “harmful.” Many of Yale’s peer institutions refer students to outside providers — and allow them to use their health insurance there — but Yale does not do the same, she said. Agatstein added that many students that she has spoken to have expressed that they would have chosen different insurance plans had they known about MH&C’s short-term approach and constrained resources, she added. “While I understand Yale Health as an institution [has limits], Yale as a university should be thinking about how to provide students with consistent access to mental health care, whether that is at Yale Health or not,” she said. Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.wang@yale.edu .
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“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.” MAHATMA GANDHI INDIAN POLITICAL ACTIVIST
CORRECTIONS THURSDAY, MARCH 26
A previous version of the article “Jones denies Fordham rumors” incorrectly stated the head coaching record of James Jones. He is actually 231-232, with a 128-96 record in Ivy play. A previous version of the article “Alcohol delivery service comes to New Haven” incorrectly stated that the service would involve no sales tax for consumers. In fact, the service does not involve extra delivery tax, but it does include sales tax.
Years later, prize funds still not renewed BY LARRY MILSTEIN AND EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTERS In 2006, the English Department awarded a total of $15,125 to students via the Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction. In 2009, that number climbed to $20,750. But by 2013, the Willets Prize awarded a mere $3,000. Following the financial turmoil of the 2008 recession, the University began to review all of its indentures — legal documents in which donors specify how their money must be used — to see whether existing funds and prizes could be used for broader purposes than they previously had been specified. As part of this financial overhaul, academic prize funds were capped at $1,000 and all 12 residential college budgets were set at the same level. But years later, with the endowment at a nominal high of $23.9 billion as of June 30, 2014, some professors are wondering when, if ever, these funds will be returned.
In 2008, they sequestered the Batchelor Fund and also funds from [JE], and it is unclear when all these funds will be restored. DAVID JACKSON Director of undergraduate studies, Portuguese Department Portuguese Director of Undergraduate Studies David Jackson explained that formerly, the department used the interest collected from the Malcolm C. Batchelor Fund for Portuguese to fund undergraduate and graduate student travel to Brazil and Portugal, the Lennie Morales Prize given each year to a graduate student, and other activities in the Portuguese program. This fund disappeared following the financial crisis, and Jackson said he is not sure exactly when it might become available again. “In 2008, they sequestered the Batchelor Fund and also funds from [Jonathan Edwards], and it is unclear when all these funds will be restored,” said Jackson, who is a Jonathan Edwards College fellow. But Jackson noted that his department was no special case — the Batchelor Fund was just one of many across campus that disappeared. Still, the lack of programmatic funds in the department makes it difficult to compete with peer institutions, he said. Though Provost Benjamin Polak and Deputy Provost for Academic Resources Lloyd Suttle did not return requests for comment, Suttle said in 2011 that the University needed to find places to cut resources, and that using prizes to support
financial aid was a “reasonable strategy.” Classics Department chair Kirk Freudenburg said that after 2008, departmental prize funds were greatly reduced, adding that he is not aware of any efforts to return these sums to their formerly robust state. This year, he expects that the amounts available for prizes will be the same as those made available last year. The English Department was impacted as well, with some prize values decreasing by thousands of dollars. But current English Department Prize Committee Chair Stefanie Markovits said English was able to retain more funds than many other departments, likely because the cap restricted the amount awarded per prize, but English awards more prizes than many other departments. English had well over $30,000 of prize money available last year, she said. Still, she added that she is not aware of any current efforts to recover additional funds, though she plans to broach the subject with her department in the future. History Department chair Naomi Lamoreaux said that while her department did not lose any prize money to the Provost’s Office, it did lose other funds. Fo l l ow i n g Ya l e ’s 2 0 1 0 announcement that it would redistribute some funds, thenAttorney General Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 opened a review later that year of the process to ensure Yale did not violate the terms of any indentures. According to Jaclyn Falkowski, spokesperson for the Office of the Attorney General, there is no longer an active investigation, and the office found no violation of donor intent or charitable trust law. Some professors said that their departments’ prize funds were not cut simply because they already fell under the $1,000 limit prior to the cap. Applied Physics Department chair Douglas Stone said that since his department prizes do not exceed $1,000 and do not come from a specific endowment, there was no “pot of money” to be tapped for the University. According to Katherine Dailinger, director for national fellowships at the Center for International and Professional Experience, the $1,000 caps apply only to prizes and not to competitive fellowships. Others expressed less concern over the financial changes made years ago. According to the 2014 report released by the Yale Investments Office, scholarships, fellowships, and prizes make up 17 percent of Yale’s endowment. Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu and EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .
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Planned student rally raises questions BY TYLER FOGGATT AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Student activists championing an array of causes on campus will join together in a rally called Unite Yale today. Unite Yale: Rally for Student Power, taking place on Cross Campus this afternoon, will include members of Fossil Free Yale, the cultural houses and mental health policy reform advocates. The rally follows a series of similar public demonstrations for each individual cause, which organizers say have yet to be addressed adequately by the administration, according to the Facebook event for the rally. The event description lists four primary causes: the neglected state of the cultural centers, the student contribution and the burden it places on working class students, the questionable accessibility of mental health services and Yale’s decision to not divest from fossil fuels. Ariana Shapiro ’16, an event organizer involved in Students Unite Now and FFY, said these specific four campaigns were aggregated for strategic reasons. “First, the four campaigns represent the most salient issues with direct asks that students have been making of the administration in the past few years,” Shapiro said. “Of course, the problem of student voice being persistently neglected by Yale spans many more issues that affect the student experience. Second, and more importantly, these issues are actually highly related. For some, the links are obvious [...] but essentially, they are all about Yale prioritizing a set of financial concerns that don’t help students, plus Yale refus-
ing to listen to student feedback on those priorities.” Tristan Glowa ’18, an organizer for FFY, stressed that the rally is not aimed at garnering the attention of the administration but rather building collective student power. The rally will help students recognize the importance of students supporting one another, he said. Glowa added that each community represented at today’s rally has its own needs and a different relationship with the administration. “Our main goal, and what we’re really hoping for, is to see a climate of collaboration between students going forward,” Glowa said. “There is power in unity though, and we believe that coming together will help to create the accountability from the administration that we all really need.” Nevertheless, the purpose of the rally is not only symbolic — it also serves as a tangible strategy for student activism. Sebastian Medina-Tayac ’16, a representative of the Native American Cultural Center, said the rally is a concrete, specific and calculated strategy to make gains for students from different communities as well as for the campus as a whole. Plans for the rally began roughly one month ago after several frustrated student organizers began to discuss the idea of a joint action. Since then, a dozen students have become involved with planning the rally’s logistics, while dance performers, speakers and poets have all contributed to the event lineup. Unite Yale differs from past public demonstrations in bringing together a wide array of student groups to address fundamental issues surround-
ing all student activism on campus. Because of wide applicability to a range of groups and student concerns, the rally has attracted a greater number of students than any recent rallies — with 304 students responding that they were attending the event on Facebook. Students interviewed said they were drawn to the rally because of its inclusiveness, and its attempts to do more than simply fight for one single cause. Alex Schultz ’17, who is not a member of any of the participating student groups but plans on attending nonetheless, said he is attracted to the event because it seems like a declaration of student unity. “There are a lot of different issues that upset a lot of people and that people have been trying to get at separately, like the student income contribution and mental health,” Schultz said. “And then the cultural houses are trying to advocate for their own personal, individualized needs, but the rally seems like an effort to address all those problems with student life in one unanimous effort, which I think will be decently powerful.” United Yale comes on the heels of an unusual frequency of student activism in recent months, which have ranged from public rallies to petitions and boycotts. In February, 147 students signed a petition asking for the removal of Afro-American Cultural Center director Rodney Cohen, while advocates of mental health policy reform instigated a boycott of the Senior Class Gift in light of the suicide of Luchang Wang ’17. In the same month, an undergraduate-led petition for additional
Computer Science Department faculty attracted national media attention and garnered over 1,000 signatures. Last month, Students Unite Now organized a 100-strong rally in protest of the student contribution to financial aid packages, and this month, 60 students attended a FFY rally in front of Woodbridge Hall. These activist groups have achieved their goals with varying degrees of success through demonstrations this year, depending on the scope and specificity of their aims and the methods they used to pursue them. . A month after the Af-Am House petition was published, the University announced the resignation of Cohen following an internal review process of the cultural houses. Although the Unite Yale rally is more focused on student body unification than it is about meeting specific goals, event organizers said the process of laying out action plans will come in due time. “If we’re big enough, loud enough and clear enough, we may be able to see significant changes during our time at Yale in terms of the specific campaign goals and broadly the way Yale responds to students with concerns about this place,” Shapiro said. “We saw this when the black community organized Dean Cohen out of office. Because Yale is a huge global player, we can expect the changes to ripple out from this one institution into society, influencing grassroots democracy wide and far.” Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG v.wang@yale.edu .
Human rights activists gather to discuss horrors
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The College Freedom Forum on human rights featured speakers like Iranian activist and writer Marina Nemat sitting in the center. BY MATTHEW STONE CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Speaking before dozens of students Thursday evening, human rights activists argued for continued study and protest against oppressive regimes. The College Freedom Forum, held in Sheffield Sterling Strathcona Hall and sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation and Yale for North Korean Human Rights, was modeled after the Oslo Freedom Forum, an annual summit of activists, philanthropists and policymakers brought together to “better promote and protect human rights globally.” The speakers included Marina Nemat, an Iranian writer and activist, and Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector, and both related personal experiences growing up under dictatorships to illustrate their consequences. “Turn to the person next to you, and imagine that this person is gone,” Nemat said. “Imagine they have been imprisoned, beaten, raped, killed and their body buried away in a mass grave, away in some god-for-
saken place.” On the 31st anniversary of her release from Evin Prison in Iran, Nemat spoke about the horrors she endured during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Nemat said she was arrested at age 16, with thousands of schoolchildren, after protesting when her schoolteachers were replaced. For two years, she said she was beaten, raped and tortured. Sometimes, Nemat said, she was tied to her bed, had her shoes removed, and a guard used a metal cable to lacerate the soles of her feet. While Nemat and her friends endured these horrific indignities decades ago, she said the Iranian government has not properly protected human rights. “Nothing has changed,” Nemat said. “It does not matter if Iran has a moderate government or an extremist government. The sect of laws that govern that country remain the same.” Park spoke of similarly traumatic experiences under an oppressive regime.
At a young age, Park said her father was arrested and deported to a work camp for conducting business on the black market, a practice he had taken to keep his family afloat among starvation and famine. Park explained that the money had kept her and her family fed while the streets were filled with starving children. She and her schoolmates had been taught that Kim Il-Sung and his successor, Kim-Jong Il, were their omnipotent fathers and deserved their unrequited loyalty, she said. “I was taught that [Kim-Jong Il] could read my mind,” she said. “I could not have private thoughts, since he could hear me.” Eventually, Park and her family escaped to China and then Mongolia. Along the way, she said her mother was raped. Once reaching Mongolia, she became exposed to western culture. She said she was in awe to see people dying for causes they believed in that was not the dictatorship. “I never knew I had the rights to be free — or even that human
beings deserved those rights,” Park said. At the end of the talk, the speakers emphasized the importance of education about human rights and non-violent protest. Srdja Popovic, a founding member of the Serbian civic protest group, Otpor!, and a former member of the Serbian National Assembly, said the American education system should emphasize the methods and history of non-violent resistance over the study of war. Paul Lee ’17, the president of Yale THiNK, said he hopes that the forum will encourage Yale students to focus more of their time on campus to issues of human rights abuses. “We need to maintain that momentum in order to progress into making concrete changes in educational policy and the world,” Lee said. The 2015 Oslo Freedom Forum will be held from May 25 to May 27 and streamed online. Contact MATTHEW STONE at matthew.stone@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT Students hopeful for future CS expansion STUDENTS FROM PAGE 1 “You can’t do everything in one step.” Rasmus Kyng GRD ’17, the co-author of an open letter from graduate students to the administration, which petitioned for a radical increase in the size of the department, said that he is willing to believe the administration will genuinely try to pursue future growth. “It is a very good step, but only the beginning,” he said. Alex Reinking ’16, who circulated an online petition that was signed by more than 1,100 Yale affiliates and argued for increasing the size of the department, said the commitment to growth made by administration was “either a very good lie,” or the CS Department will actually see more future growth than already promised.
This [is] a very positive first step, as long as the administration keeps going in this direction. DEBAYAN GUPTA GRD ’17 Computer Science and Electrical Engineering major Kimo Hon ’15 said that although, as a senior, he will not reap the benefits of the donation, he is happy the department will finally see growth. “It is slightly disappointing to me that we have to wait for a $20 million donation to expand the CS faculty,” he said. “There should have been some way to do this by drawing from some other source [within Yale].” Aaron Segal GRD ’17, who coauthored the graduate student open letter, said he had expected to hear only five new slots being announced at the ceremony, but was pleased to hear that there will be seven hires over the next several years. Those two additional hires will include a replacement for current CS professor Bryan Ford and the position for an online privacy expert. Two faculty searches are being performed this year, three have been approved for next year
and the final two searches will follow in the next several years, Gendler announced at the ceremony. Segal said he is optimistic about the hiring, and that he has heard the applicant pool for this year is especially strong. Even if the searches take longer than expected, Segal said the administration will continue to be committed to growth. “We had some concerns before the announcement that [the administration] would think all of our problems are now fixed, but to hear the president and deans say they were committed to this being just the first step was very reassuring,” he said. Students also expressed optimism regarding the shift into the engineering school. Ferro said she believes the move will set up a more “sustainable future and bolster the infrastructure which is currently lacking” because SEAS is more likely to care about the concerns of CS faculty, graduate students and undergraduates than the Faculty of Arts and Sciences — where the Computer Science Department was previously housed — does. Still, students were divided on whether they believed the move into SEAS would signify an increase in the number of CS courses that focus on application as opposed to theory. With more faculty, the department might be able to offer more courses focused on applications. Hon said he thinks the move into the SEAS, where applied reasoning is a central focus, will welcome more applicationbased classes. Still, Reinking, who spoke with department chair Joan Feigenbaum about the issue, said the new hires would most likely not mean a shift toward application-based classes. He pointed out that even some professors in SEAS place a strong emphasis on theory, so the move may have little impact in shifting focus from theory to application. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences was founded in 1852. Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .
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Emails do not report all crimes YPD FROM PAGE 1 University, was raped and murdered in her college dorm room. Her parents discovered that the school had not informed students of 38 violent crimes on Lehigh’s campus in the three years leading up to their daughter’s murder. Together with other campus crime victims, they pushed Congress to enact new reporting requirements through a law, which was passed in 1990 and most recently amended in October 2014. The act requires school police departments to report crimes that fall within seven categories: criminal homicide, sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft and arson. Failure to report such cases would suggest that schools are not abiding by the law. But this is merely an assumption. Universities are not required to send a campus-wide email after every crime. Alison Kiss, executive director of the Clery Center for Security on Campus — a nonprofit dedicated to educating students and schools about the Clery Act and reducing on-campus crime – said schools are only legally bound to notify all students, such as through a campus-wide email, if the crime is “considered to be a threat to other students and employees.” In addition, before the school police department can consider sending a campus-wide email, the crime must have first been reported to campus security or a local law police agency. Crimes reported to YPD are also required to be recorded in a crime log that is made public on a campus website, and compiled into a Public Safety Report produced annually. However, even though the statistics are made public, Patrick Cournoyer GRD ’13 said the lack of legal obligation to send a campus-wide email in every instance creates a critical information gap for students. “When the emails are sent inconsistently, it becomes misleading and that’s the problem,” he said. One student, who had her phone stolen from her hand while walking near the downtown area and asked to remain anonymous, said her experience was not reported to the community in an email from Higgins. Even though the student said she was surprised, she recognized it would be impossible for YPD to report each event. She said the key issue is students’ lack of understanding about what leads the YPD to send an email. She pointed to the recent thefts in Trumbull College and the incident on Feb. 13 as examples where she was confused by the lack of notification. In January, students in Trumbull College received an email from their Master informing them that a number of students had reported theft in the college. But, students across Yale College did not receive any further notification of the thefts. “It’s scarier to hear gossip of more violent crimes, or stuff happening directly on campus than it is to hear it from an email,” she said.
THE SEXUAL ASSAULT QUESTION
In addition to robberies and other crimes, sexual assaults are also reported in accordance with the Clery Act. Yet, while many students interviewed believe all sexual assaults reported to YPD by students should be reported to the community, Kiss said it is important to understand what it means for a threat to be “current and ongoing.” Six forcible sexual assaults have been reported to YPD this semester. The first two reported, on Jan. 20 and Jan. 23, led to emails from Higgins; the remaining four — two of which were on campus — were not reported via email, but details were made available on the crime long. Higgins did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the matter. One of the on-campus cases, reported on Feb. 24, ended in an arrest, something which Kiss said can be a signal to the Uni-
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On Feb. 13, two Yale students were assaulted and robbed on Cross Campus. The incident did not elicit a campus-wide email from Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins. versity that the incident, while serious, was not an ongoing threat. Kiss added that, in cases like this that end in an arrest, the University does not need to send an alert asking for further information, which most of Higgins’ emails do. Of the four cases that were not reported via email, three were reported on the crime log as closed. Kiss said that another reason a sexual assault may not be reported to the wider community could be that the university acquired enough knowledge of those involved through the police report. Consequently, administrators could deem the situation to be under control and therefore not an ongoing threat. Hannah McCormick ’17 said it is crucial for students to know that instances of sexual assault are being reported to YPD so that they can better understand campus climate. McCormick said the four sexual assaults not reported to the campus community were evidence of a “rape culture running rampant,” as she said it demonstrates an administrative desire to conceal information of incidents of sexual assault on campus. She added that, despite Kiss’s reasoning, she struggled to identify a convincing argument for why one campus sexual assault would merit a campus-wide email and another would not. One student, who was a victim of a crime that was not reported and asked to remain anonymous, agreed with McCormick, adding that they feared the administration was trying to protect themselves from bad press after two incidents of sexual assaults in January were made public through reports sent to the campus community. But, Kiss said not sending a campuswide email should not always be considered a deliberate cover-up of information. By not sending an email, Kiss said the University can actually take steps to further protect the identity of a victim. Sometimes, she added, providing the details of a crime in a campus-wide email can too quickly identify people involved. Allowing connections to be made could prevent future victims from coming forward. “It’s one of the most underreported crimes, and community response is important to consider,” she said. McCormick said that while the reasoning can be legitimate, the campus-wide notification would not necessarily have to provide that many details. She added that the information posted on the public crime log that relates to the incident could just be sent to the community.
HOW MANY IS TOO MANY?
One Yale Security officer, who asked
to remain anonymous for fear of repercussions, said he was surprised when the events of Feb. 13, on campus, did not join the list of events included in campus-wide emails, especially considering that it took place in a prominent campus location. Five of seven students interviewed on Cross Campus said they would expect to be notified if a student were to experience a crime there. While each student interviewed said they did not think an email for every reported crime is necessary, more clarification on why certain crimes are unreported would be helpful. Kiss, on the other hand, said it is important for administrators to be careful when making these decisions, as there can be repercussions if students are informed every time a crime occurs. If YPD had reported everything that had been reported to them this semester, as some students interviewed called for, the Yale community would have received 181 emails from Higgins since the beginning of the semester. On Feb. 2, the date on which the crime log shows the highest number of reports in one day, 16 would have been sent. Lindner said instances when the community is informed should act as a means to encourage students to be aware of their surroundings, not frighten them. “Crime can happen anywhere, at anytime of the day, so there is no perfect way to take precautions, but we believe sharing information with students heightens their awareness,” she said. Kiss said there is a significant difference between being informed that a crime has happened and being informed of the risk that it can pose. If students wish to be better informed, she said, they should read the University’s daily crime log, which provides the most accurate and up-to-date list of the crimes that have occurred on and around campus. Recently, several students, have reported experiencing credit card fraud — a crime about which the YPD did not notify students. After reading on Facebook that other students experienced the same issue, Keren Abreu ’15 began to work with other victims to identify the common denominators in their spending. But Abreu said the entire issue could have been resolved much quicker. “If the University community had been notified earlier on, we could have probably avoided the [many] cases of fraud that have occurred in the last few weeks,” Abreu said. Credit card fraud had been already been reported to the YPD seven times during the semester. Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .
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High schools look to college, vocational training BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER Inside the classrooms at New Haven Academy, students take the usual slate of high school classes, as well as a more unusual offering: a four-year progression of courses designed to teach students to plan for the future and successfully apply to college. According to NHA Principal Greg Baldwin, 100 percent of graduating seniors are accepted to at least one college or university. Last week, Gov. Dannel Malloy chose New Haven Academy as the site to announce that high school graduation rates are on the rise in Connecticut, particularly in the Elm City. In New Haven, the graduation rate has soared 13 percent since 2010 to hit 75.4 percent in 2014. The statistic is a sign of the success of the School Change Initiative, a major reform project launched in 2009. According to Abbe Smith, a spokesperson for New Haven Public Schools, the statistic is also in part the result of the district’s relentless focus on getting students into college, a drive embodied by NHA’s commitment to guiding students through every step of the application process. “A large focus of the [School Change] Initiative was on creating a college-going culture in our schools,” Smith said. “We think that that preparation has helped drive the graduation rate up.” Despite progress, New Haven’s graduation rate still lags behind the statewide rate, which rose 1.5 percent to hit 87 percent this year. Even NHA, though its graduation rate rose from 66 percent in 2013 to 85 percent last year, is fighting to catch up to the rest of Connecticut. But not everyone agrees that what the most at-risk students need is more focus on college. Four miles northwest of NHA’s brick building on State Street — a temporary campus while its Orange Street home is renovated — some of those who do not graduate from NHPS find their way to the New
Haven Job Corps Center, one of 125 locations nationwide where young adults can earn credentials to enter a skilled trade or service profession while living in dorms on the federal government’s dime. Renee Venturino, business and community liaison, sees room in schools for greater career preparation. “I think youth need to be aware that they do have choices,” she said.
A COMMITMENT TO COLLEGE ADMISSIONS
Sitting at a conference table in his office, Baldwin explained the mission and vision of the school he founded in 2003 with his wife, program director Meredith Gavrin. NHA, an interdistrict magnet school that enrolls students from New Haven and nearby towns, focuses on cultivating critical thinking skills and engaging students in studies of social justice and democracy participation. It offers students courses at Quinnipiac University and Gateway Community College, job shadow days and three-week internships. Starting from day one, students are asked to consider and plan for their futures. “They take a class called freshman seminar that starts to explore the essential questions,” Baldwin said. “How do I do well in high school? Where am I going? How do I get there?” College preparation deepens in junior and senior years, when students begin participating in the College Bound Seminar. They research schools, work on admissions essays, obtain references, prepare for standardized tests, learn about financial aid and consider issues they might face as they transition from high school to college. Next week, Baldwin said, NHA juniors will sit for mock college interviews with actual campus interviewers, who will offer feedback and suggestions for improvement. Before graduation, every senior will present a “Life Plan” detailing their goals for the future. NHA’s overall vision is shared
by district administrators. Along with increasing graduation rates and eliminating the achievement gap, preparing students to attend and succeed at college is one of the three pillars of the School Change Initiative. Dolores Garcia-Blocker, director of college and career pathways, said she was not surprised at the increasing graduation rates. She views the annual increases as the result of a slow, steady effort to change the way New Haven students think about college. The district initiatives GarciaBlocker believes are contributing to rising graduation rates include partnering with the nonprofit College Summit, which has led “college-going culture” trainings for New Haven teachers and students who serve as peer leaders. Since 2010, New Haven Promise has offered up to full-tuition scholarships to Connecticut universities to NHPS students who meet academic and attendance criteria. This week, Mayor Toni Harp, New Haven Promise Executive Director Patricia Melton and researchers from the RAND Corporation met at Co-op High School to discuss the results of RAND’s 2010-2013 study of Promise and the School Change Initiative. The researchers found that the number of students who met Promise criteria increased over time, and college enrollment increased slightly for all students. In an interview, Melton said she believes Promise nudges students to stay academically focused because it makes college financially viable. “Parents and students are absolutely motivated to declare that they’re going to try to get the scholarship,” Melton said. Garcia-Blocker is also working with schools to develop industry partnerships and career pathways, some of which include not only thematic coursework, but also certification opportunities. The expectation, however, is that students will need some kind of posthigh school training to succeed. “No one’s going to be able to
Two more buildings repainted due to lead BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER Silliman College and Rosenfeld Hall are the latest undergraduate residences that have been confirmed as having had rooms repainted over spring break to cover decaying lead paint. On Feb. 27, Environmental Health Services found that the paint on the windowsill of a Timothy Dwight College room contained 15 times the amount of lead that is legally considered to be safe. Over spring break, a total of 69 of Yale’s 4,500 residential rooms, including spaces in Silliman and Rosenfeld, were repainted due to similar findings. Whether or not rooms in other colleges and residential spaces have been repainted remains unclear.
It took a couple of days, taking us up to the break, for us to get some sense of what was involved. JEFFREY BRENZEL Master, Timothy Dwight College “I can only confirm that Silliman, TD and Rosenfeld have been repainted due to exposed lead,” said a member of Yale Facilities, who was told not to tell anyone about the repainting and therefore asked to remain anonymous. When asked for the number of rooms per college that had been repainted, University Spokesperson Tom Conroy said he did not have the appropriate documents. He also refused to comment on
the presence of lead in colleges besides TD because he did not know the details of those cases, he said. But Trumbull College Master Margaret Clark said no lead had been identified in her college over spring break. Pierson College Operations Manager Tanya Wiedeking acknowledged in an email that minor paint work had occurred in Pierson, but would not elaborate on the reason for the paint work. The inspections started when Hillary Ryan ’15 asked TD’s operations manager to assess the lead content of the decaying paint on his windowsill. He said he was impressed with the speed with which his college responded to his concerns, noting that they offered to repaint it the very same day. Ryan proceeded to contact TD Master Jeffrey Brenzel and the college’s residential fellows after he received the lead testing results. He said that while it would have been better if Brenzel had told the TD community about the lead paint discovery sooner, he is more concerned by the fact that he was the first person to inform TD College that a lead problem existed at all. He added that every TD administrator he contacted about the lead problem was surprised by the information. Brenzel told the TD community that he first learned about the existence of decaying lead paint on March 2. He said he intended to communicate this to the college on the evening of March 24 in order to give himself time to collect more details on the case but decided to inform the TD community in the morning after seeing an article in the News about the issue.
“It took a couple of days, taking us up to [spring break], for us to get some sense of what was involved,” said Brenzel in an interview. He explained that upon hearing that lead paint might be in the college, he felt it necessary to secure copies of the testing report and understand the scale of the issue before reaching out to the TD community. Brenzel said he was happy when he heard that all the residences at Yale College would also be inspected for decaying lead paint. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that lead paint has the potential to cause serious neurological damage when dust particles are inhaled. Though the exact level of lead paint exposure across campus is still undetermined, the CDC notes that even limited exposure can lead to serious public health problems. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, leasing agents to inform renters about any lead under the paintwork in buildings built before 1978, even if the non-lead paint covering is in good condition. Though Yale is not required to tell individuals living in their dormitories about the existence of lead paint — college dormitories are not covered by this same regulation — Ryan said that members of affected colleges should be told as a courtesy. The lead status of the nine remaining residential colleges remain unknown. All but three residential college administrators that responded to the News’ inquiries declined to comment, referring all questions to Conroy. Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .
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AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, NOT HEADING FOR THE IVORY TOWER
On Tuesday morning, roughly 20 young adults, their parents and a few infants arrived at the New Haven Job Corps campus in Hamden to tour the carpentry workshop, nursing training stations, demonstration kitchen, dorms and classrooms. Outreach and Admissions Counselor Tyra Stanley led the group through several buildings, pointing out the small visitor registration hut built by carpentry students and the tables where culinary students were preparing to serve lunch. At least five of the young adults on the tour, ranging in age from 18 to 24, said they had not graduated from high school. They were looking for an opportunity to learn a trade — an opportunity they had not had in high school — and gain a job that would confer not only better wages but also dignity. Twenty-one-year-old Alina Stein said she dropped out of Hamden High School at 16 because she was bullied by classmates. Now, she works as a bartender, cares for her four-month-old daughter, Zoe, and hopes to attend night school to gain her GED. Moreover, she found the academic classes at Hamden pointless. “I thought it was all stupid,” Stein said. “That’s why I was interested in Job Corps. It goes straight to the point.” In addition to Job Corps, Connecticut Center for the Arts and Technology, located in Science Park, provides job-training by offering non-residential courses in phlebotomy and medical billing and coding, and will soon add a third track in culinary skills. Since 2012, it has graduated about 32 students per year. The courses are open to all adults with a high school diploma or GED, but many applicants fail to pass the required basic math courses, according to Genev-
ive Walker, director of programs. Walker said many students struggle to come to class on time and communicate with instructors — even securing a high school diploma does not necessarily guarantee students the interpersonal skills employers need, much less the credentials to obtain a stable career. Like Venturino, Walker does not see why schools focus so little time and resources on career certification. “We’re not fully taking advantage of training and encouraging young people toward trainings that can provide an income while they figure out what they want to do in college or if they’re going to college,” Walker said. “I think there’s some missed opportunities, to be honest. We need to be providing many more alternatives.” At NHA, Baldwin believes setting college as the goal ensures students are equipped to pursue any plan after high school, be it a traditional four-year university degree, trade certification or a military career. When they present their Life Plans at the end of senior year, NHA students occasionally explain why they chose to turn down a college acceptance in favor
of a career, military service or another path. Baldwin is fine with that, because he knows they considered multiple viable options. “Often, kids aren’t going to college and it’s a choice that was made for them by courses they took or didn’t take, pass or didn’t pass, things they did or didn’t know until they were a senior,” Baldwin said. “What we want is informed choices.” Mariana Sanchez, a freshman at Riverside Academy who attended the Job Corps tour, makes a simple but significant choice every day when she decides whether or not to go to school. Already this year, she has missed 45 days when it was too cold to wait for the city bus or she felt sick. She was disappointed to find out she is too young for Job Corps, which requires students to be at least 16. Unlike Riverside, she is drawn to Job Corps because it offers the chance to prepare for the career she would like to have as a chef. Sanchez plans to wait until she is old enough for Job Corps, and then she will decide whether to stay at Riverside or leave — with or without her diploma. Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .
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“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” G. K. CHESTERSON ENGLISH WRITER
Tuition hikes follow state ed. cuts BY SKYLER INMAN STAFF REPORTER As public universities in Connecticut continue to grapple with a projected $48 million deficit, the Board of Regents for Higher Education voted Thursday afternoon to approve a 4.8 percent tuition increase for students across the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system. Comprised of 17 colleges and universities across the state, the CSCU system is facing a budget deficit that comes in part from Gov. Dannel Malloy’s “tough choices” budget proposal, announced in February, which cut funds across many agencies. Education finance experts cite rising operations costs as an additional budgetary difficulty, particularly in light of a projected decrease in state appropriations for higher education. Michael Kozlowski, director of marketing and public affairs for the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education, said the board is trying to look at the budget deficit pragmatically and is using figures from its current operations and services in order to predict next year’s operating costs. “We’ve found that it would cost us an additional $48 million to do, next year, everything we’re doing this year,” Kozlowski said. While he attributed some of the budgetary difficulties to Malloy’s funding proposal — which is pending approval of the Connecticut legislature later this year — Kozlowski also underlined this year’s agreement with unionized employees for a 5.5 percent payment increase. He said roughly 90 percent of the system’s employees are organized into collective bargaining units. The 4.8 percent tuition increase across schools in the CSCU system would raise $21.6 million towards the projected $48 million deficit. The rest, he said, would likely be made up by a combination of sources, including a prohibition on discretionary spending — which includes consultant fees and new advertising campaigns — and, perhaps, a controversial hiring freeze.
“A hiring freeze is not hard and fast. The president of the Board of Regents must approve all of that,” Kozlowski said. “That’s going to be a long process, and will probably make some people upset.” According to Kozlowski, these measures would have to add up to about $22 million. The CSCU system includes four state universities, 12 community colleges and Charter Oak State College. The University of Connecticut is not a member of the CSCU system.
A hiring freeze is not hard and fast. The president of the Board of Regents must approve all of that. MICHAEL KOZLOWSKI Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education Casey Coassin, an education major at Southern Connecticut State University, said that she transferred to SCSU for its affordability; the transfer reduced her tuition from roughly $40,000 at her previous university to approximately $8,000 as an in-state commuter student at SCSU. “I think that a small increase to Southern’s tuition wouldn’t be a huge deal because it is one of the least expensive universities in the area,” Coassin said. “However, there are quite a few fees that I avoid in being [an in-state commuter].” Topher DeFeo, also a student at SCSU, said that as a part-time student, he spends most of his day working and that a tuition hike would therefore be detrimental to him. He also questioned why the university was doing construction on campus in the face of a budget deficit. Coassin also noted the campus’ growth and expressed concern about whether enough money is being put back into the quality of education and the academic structure of the university. “One of the few reasons that
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I am attending Southern is due to it’s affordability, and very little outside of that,” Coassin said. Kozlowski said that because funding for construction is a part of the capital equipment budget, it is handled through a government bonding process that is separate from the rest of CSCU’s operating budget. As such, he said, the $48 million deficit is unrelated to the costs of constructing or maintaining any of the buildings across the system’s 17 campuses. Additionally, Kozlowski said, the money for these construction projects — including SCSU’s $49 million Academic and Laboratory Science Building, which will be completed this spring — was likely bonded before these recent financial woes. Carlos Torre, a member of the President’s Executive Council at Gateway Community College and the president of New Haven’s Board of Education, said the funding deficit is taking a particularly harsh toll on the state’s community colleges. “I know that oftentimes because of the lack of funding, the college is depending on other sources,” Torre said. “It finds itself between a rock and a hard place.” The Board of Regents must develop and agree on the following academic year’s tuition in March, despite the fact that Malloy’s budget will not be approved by the state legislature until June. Although Kozlowski said this adds uncertainty into the matter, the board will not further increase tuition in the case of a deficit that surpasses the projected $48 million. “We’re aiming at a moving target,” Kozlowski said. “If we have a bigger deficit come June, we’ll take that additional cost out of our operating budget. We don’t want to be a burden on the students.” At Thursday’s meeting, 10 board members voted in favor of the proposed tuition increase, while four voted against it and one abstained.
BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER The majority of current and recently graduated physician associates at the Yale School of Medicine are opposed to the creation of an online version of their degree, according to a poll conducted by a recent graduate of the program. On March 10, current PA students and select alumni were informed by an email from Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern that the University would be offering its first full-time online degree program for aspiring physician associates. In partnership with 2U — an educational technology company that has already collaborated with universities such as the University of North Carolina and Washington University in St. Louis — the University will award the same degrees to PA candidates who took the medical sciences course online as those who took the relevant coursework on campus in New Haven. Yale’s PA community is now launching a letter-writing campaign to prevent the new move. “We think that such an expansion to include online education has the potential to negatively impact our school, PA education, the PA profession and patient care in general,” reads the collective statement about the new online degree. The statement was read aloud at a March 12 town hall attended by current PA students and alumni. The message on the online PA program’s website tells viewers that the University is still in the process of planning the program’s contents, said newly admitted PA student Cameron Wilson ’17. But during the March town hall — chaired by Program Director James Van Rhee and Deputy Dean for Education Richard Belitsky — attendees were informed that the program would feature video recordings of the lectures, discussion sessions conducted electronically and clinical rotations that occur in a local hospital close to the student. According to Alpern, expanding the PA program’s online presence will answer calls from the national medical community for more primary care clinicians. Currently, the Association of American Medical Colleges predicts that by 2020, there will be a 45,000-person shortage of primary care physicians. Chandra Goff MED ’14, who conducted the poll and communicated with more than 100 respondents, expressed support for Yale’s mission to fulfill the growing demand for PAs in the United States. But she noted that an online expansion of Yale’s current program is an inappropriate way to fulfill that goal. The leading concern students voiced was that the online degree option would not give PAs adequate training. “We are concerned that an online program, even when implemented in the best way possible, may not be able to meet the same quality as on-site education,” read the town hall statement. Of the 107 students contacted by the News,
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every single one of the 28 respondents highlighted their opposition to the degree expansion. Within 24 hours, 26 had responded with lengthy emails explaining their opposition. “If I were a new student coming into the Yale PA program this next year (and I knew about the online program), I would probably have chosen to go somewhere else,” said one student who, like many others, requested to remain anonymous in fear of repercussions from the administration. Both Belitsky and Van Rhee were unavailable for comment. Eight PAs said they were worried the online program would “devalue” their degree, with Goff noting that even though she already has her degree, she is worried that negative perceptions of the new online degree will make the degree she already has look less respectable. Lindsay Novak MED ’14 said the online degree should at least be given a different name to reflect the fact that its students have received very different training. Goff agreed, stating that even though she has only just graduated, she is concerned that she already is having to defend the quality of her degree. “This isn’t something current Yale students signed up for,” Novak said. She added that while she recognizes the power of online education, it is unlikely that crucial elements of Yale’s current teaching structure, such as group discussions, will be successfully delivered to students enrolled in the online program. All PA students can benefit from viewing lectures taught by faculty members who are particularly passionate about teaching, she said, but other elements, including the requirement to participate in practical training at an offsite location, will be difficult to monitor for quality. But Alpern said the University will not sign off on training that is not of a high caliber. A student who asked to remain anonymous to avoid reprisals noted that an increase in Yale PA graduates would not necessarily increase the number of graduates entering primary care, as the majority of Yale PA graduates enter specialty care. But Alpern said that allowing candidates in rural locations to stay at home and do their clinical training in a small rural hospital could increase the likelihood of them entering primary care. Kristine Gauthier MED ’14 agreed with Goff’s views, but is not wholly opposed to the program. She said that it poses unique challenges that have not been tackled before and attributes the backlash to the University proposing the program without sufficiently fielding student views. “If you are not doing your homework, what can you expect?” asked Gauthier. The first Masters in Medical Science Degree at Yale was offered to the Class of 1999. Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .
Yale to offer summer journalism program BY AMANDA BUCKINGHAM STAFF REPORTER A program on narrative journalism has been added to the fabric of summer activities at Yale. Thread at Yale will allow storytellers of essentially any media — from magazines to podcasts to photography — to converge at Yale from June 7 to June 10 to discuss careers in the field and their own pieces with high-profile mentors hailing from a variety of platforms. Announced in March, the program is a fusion of lectures, workshops and small discussions. It is open to anyone 21 or older. “There are a lot of conferences about narrative journalism, but we felt that none of them go the
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extra step of including all the different kinds of storytelling that are so innovative and popular today,” said director of Thread and the Yale Journalism Initiative Mark Oppenheimer ’96 GRD ’93. “We wanted to bring together magazine writers, podcasters and other storytellers and multimedia artists.” The program’s schedule, spread across four days, is divided into three components. On the second and third day, participants will gather in the morning for lectures from figures in the world of journalism — such as Glynn Washington, the creator of “Snap Judgment,” a popular NPR show. In the afternoon, small groups of roughly 10 students will workshop each other’s pieces with mentors such
as writer, commentator and producer Jake Halpern ’97. Informal discussions, which Oppenheimer said will be similar to Master’s Teas, will be held in the evening with working journalists about their lives and careers. Oppenheimer said Thread’s inaugural year has already been very successful, with over 25 applications or inquiries about the program within the first five days of the launch of its application. The program is anticipating approximately 50 to 60 students in order to create a small, informal setting. Oppenheimer said a unique facet about the program is that it welcomes participants at any stage in their career, as Thread has already accepted applicants from
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their early twenties to into their sixties. He added that journalism conferences often target midcareer applicants, at the expense of younger candidates — a reason why the program offers more opportunities to this age bracket. Plans for the program first began to take shape in January, Oppenheimer said. Ted Wittenstein, director of international relations and leadership programs in the Office of International Affairs said the program surfaced after informally talking with Oppenheimer about the Yale Journalism Initiative, which caters to current students. Together, Wittenstein said, he and Oppenheimer brainstormed how Yale could offer a storytell-
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ing program open to anyone. “We saw the potential to bring writers from around the world and the U.S. to learn from talented Yale alumni and people in the industry about the ways in which storytelling is both changing and staying the same,” Wittenstein said. The program also emphasizes the diverse mediums available to storytellers today by including speakers from different journalistic platforms — from radio, to print and online. Oppenheimer added that he thinks it is important to dabble in all mediums, because from his experience the best journalists are those who refuse to limit themselves to one platform. Jack O’Malley ’17, who ran Parables, an Undergraduate Storytell-
ing Society, said he thinks it is positive that the program has a focus on storytelling, because storytelling is the “glue” that binds diverse media platforms together. Compelling characters or narrative translate well into any medium, from a photograph to an essay, he added. Though O’Malley said he is excited about the introduction of the program, he is disappointed that he cannot participate in it because of its minimum age requirement. The Yale Journalism Initiative was established in 2006. Contact AMANDA BUCKINGHAM at amanda.buckingham@yale.edu .
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“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” ORSON WELLES AMERICAN ACTOR
Smith talks activism, civil rights BY JUN YAN CHUA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For many Yale students, “intersectionality” is a catchphrase. For activist, writer and elected official Barbara Smith, it is her life’s work. Speaking at a Pierson College Master’s Tea on Thursday, Smith addressed an audience of roughly 30 students and faculty members. Throughout the talk, Smith delved into her longstanding involvement with the civil rights, feminist and gay and lesbian liberation movements. “[Intersectionality] is a familiar term, but many people don’t know where it came from,” Smith said. “The original analysis and practice grew out of the grassroots black feminist movement, which I helped to build.” Smith took the audience through her childhood and journey to activism, and then went on to talk generally about contemporary social civil rights issues, such as Ferguson and marriage equality. Smith said growing up under the Jim Crow regime triggered the growth of her social conscience, recalling how her status as a black woman meant she was considered socially inferior. But Smith said her parents did not let this get in the way of her education, and pushed her to do her best in school. Hard work granted her admission to the all-women’s Mount Holyoke College in 1965. During her time in college, Smith became involved in a range of social justice movements, including the anti-Vietnam War protests. These experiences proved instrumental in her later work, she said. Smith said that although there is still much to be done, she is amazed at how much progress has been made since the 1960s, citing the example of gay rights. It is remarkable that today the
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Barbara Smith discussed her civil rights activism. majority of states have marriage equality, she said. However, Smith — who identifies as a lesbian — also cautioned that marriage equality will not solve problems like homophobic hate crimes, which are still widespread. Additionally, she noted that marriage has historically oppressed women. “When I first came out [as a lesbian], I was so happy I wouldn’t have to get married,” she said. Turning to race relations, Smith said the road ahead is still long, but added that she is impressed by the activism that has sprung up in response to events in Ferguson. She added that she finds recent protests against police brutality and the criminal justice system “inspiring.” Smith urged the audience to continue the fight for justice and equality in broader issues of civil rights. “Colleges and universities are always good places to speak up
and mobilize people,” she said. “It’s always great when younger people stand up, because you are going to be here much longer.” Audience members interviewed said Smith’s message resonated with them. “She spoke really interestingly about her past and where she came from,” said Cassandra Dacosta ’15. Alexander Borsa ’16 agreed, adding that hearing about the way Smith’s personal experiences affected and animated her political activism was very valuable. Rianna Johnson-Levy ’17, coordinator of Yale’s LGBT Co-op, said that as someone who is trying to also bring her own black feminist heritage and ideals into campus activism, she found Smith’s talk very insightful. Smith’s latest book, “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around,” was published last year. Contact JUN YAN CHUA at junyan.chua@yale.edu .
This weekend, Yale will screen 20 original films at its inaugural annual Student Film Festival. Organized by members of the Yale Film Alliance, the Film & Media Studies program and the Yale College Dean’s Office, the events will begin this evening and end on Sunday. Aside from “Acceptance,” a film directed by David Chan ’15 that will be screened tonight, all of the 19 films in the festival will be screened on Saturday. Travis Gonzalez ’16, a YFA member and president of undergraduate film group Bulldog Productions, said that while student filmmaking has existed at Yale for decades, this weekend will mark the first time that these filmmakers will be given such a large spotlight. For some of the filmmakers, such as Ezriel Gelbfish ’16, this weekend will be the first time that their work will be shown to the public. Although Gelbfish made the 15-minute film “The D’Port Dive” a year ago, he said that the Yale Student Film Festival is the first opportunity he has had to screen the film for an audience. “I’m a great example of why this festival is so exciting,” Gelbfish said. “My film probably isn’t good enough to be screened at larger student film festivals, but I still think it deserves to be seen. Now it will be.” YFA members interviewed said that while the festival received roughly 700 submissions from filmmakers from places within and outside of Yale, they chose to restrict this year’s showcase to films made by Yalies. Gonzalez said this festival was dedicated to “showing what the [Yale] community had in its pocket,” but noted that coordinators hope to accept outside entries in future years. Roughly half of the films are being considered for awards in the festival, while the other half will only be screened. Gonzalez said all filmmakers were given the choice of whether or not they wanted their films to be considered for these awards. Filmmakers whose films are not competing will act as judges for competitors’ films. The festival’s “Grand Prize” category will give three awards for first, second and third place. Awards will also be granted for “Best Direction,” “Best Cinematography,” “Best Editing” and “Best Screenplay/Story.”
Gonzalez said the judges will base their decisions from a rubric tailored to make fair judgments across genres, as narrative, experimental and documentary films will all be competing against one another. Organizers agreed that the lineup of films spans a wide range of genres and themes. For instance, a documentary on gender violence in the Congo will be screened during the same time slot as an experimental fictional film about losing and finding objects. Gelbfish, whose film will be competing, said he hopes that the feedback from the festival judges will offer new perspectives on his work. Ben Boult ’14, who will be presenting three films at the festival, participated in his first film festival last weekend when “Cal, the Writer,” a documentary about a talented young writer diagnosed with cerebral palsy, screened at the Bethesda Film Festival. He discussed the benefits of viewing the film in such a context. “By the time I’m watching my own films, it’s painful,” Boult said. “All I see are the littlest decisions that I made, so it’s cool to see it in a room full of people with fresh eyes.” Boult added that the festival is a testament to the growing sense of unity within the Yale film community. “I think that before, everyone was acting as lone wolves and collaborating when they needed to,” Boult said. “I’m thrilled that the community seems to be coming together more.” Gelbfish said that while larger film programs like that of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts provide much larger and more varied film-related opportunities, he believes it is possible for Yale students to obtain a similar level of practical experience in film. Gonzalez noted that the number of Yale students interested in film has grown immensely over the past several years. “Considering the fact that, this weekend, we’ll have 20 films to show that are specifically connected to Yale, and there are currently around 14 filmmakers on campus, I think it’s safe to say that the community is growing,” he said. The festival will also include a workshop led by Bruce Cohen ’83, the producer of the films “American Beauty” and “Silver Linings Playbook.” Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .
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“Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.” MAGIC JOHNSON FIVE-TIME NBA CHAMPION
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However, there was a high turnover rate, with 18 per team. The Elis are last in the Ivy League in turnovers per game, averaging 15.5 compared to best-in-conference Harvard’s 10.2 per game. “One team goal we have is to play fast, but smart,” Moore said. “We need to push fast breaks and use our speed, but at the same time we need to make sure that we are making good choices with the ball and not forcing plays.” Yale will face San Diego State at home on Saturday night in a game televised on ESPN3. The Aztecs, currently leading their conference, have been consistently strong, scoring an average of 14 goals and taking an average of 29 shots per game. San Diego State is also coming off of a seven-game win streak in which they scored 15 goals or more in all but one of the contests. The team is ready for the new challenge, according to attacker Kiwi Comizio ’18. “We’ve never played them before [in program history], so we don’t know that much about them,” Comizio said. “I think it’ll be a great game.” The contest against San Diego State begins at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .
in it. I think that is only going to make us a harder team to play against going into the tournament.” Taking the ice on Friday will be the most dominant forces in college hockey at both ends of the rink. Boston University (25–7–5, 14–5–3 Hockey East) currently has the No. 1 offense in the NCAA, averaging 3.89 goals per game compared to Yale’s 2.62. Meanwhile, Yale has let up an average of just 1.59 goals per game this season, while Boston averages 2.27. Leading Boston’s offensive production is powerhouse forward Jack Eichel, who leads Division I with 66 points this year, nine points ahead of secondplace Jimmy Vesey of Harvard. Goaltending leader Alex Lyon ’17, who holds the record for shutouts this season with seven and a save percentage of 0.939, will be in net to fight off Eichel’s attempts. Lyon was also recently awarded the Ken Dryden Award, an honor given to the best goaltender in the ECAC as voted on by the conference’s coaches. Forward Trent Ruffalo ’15 said the Bulldogs will have
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to shut down Eichel if they want to move on to Saturday’s matchup. “The biggest challenge for us will probably be to shut him down offensively,” Ruffalo said. “He’s a great player who can make plays, so were going to play our team game and try to take away his time and space when he has the puck.” The matchup between the two teams will be the first in over eight years. The last faceoff came in 2006 when the Bulldogs, who were ranked No. 18 at the time, narrowly fell to the Terriers in overtime in the ninth game of head coach Keith Allain’s ’80 career. The Bulldogs are coming into this matchup after nearly two weeks off following the ECAC Tournament. After getting a bye in the first round, the Elis faced the Crimson in three games at Ingalls Rink, where it came down to the second overtime in the third game before Harvard managed to pull out a victory. Harvard, who plays Omaha in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, took home the ECAC cup after defeating Yale. This will be the fifth time Yale has had a run at the national championship in the NCAA
tournament in the past seven years. Boston University claimed its eighth Hockey East title this past weekend defeating UMass-Lowell at TD Garden in Boston. Before the tournament, the Terriers were on a five-game win streak, and this appearance marks BU’s first since 2012 and their 33rd overall. Defender Rob O’Gara ’16 noted that the team will stick to the same game plan it has maintained throughout the season. “The main focus against BU is playing the game that has allowed us to amass 18 wins this year,” O’Gara said. “Being sound defensively, forechecking hard, playing well on special teams and winning the transition game are what will allow us to go far in this tournament, and that is exactly what we have been focusing on this week in preparation for tomorrow.” The puck drops at the Verizon Wireless Arena in New Hampshire at 2 p.m. today. The game will be aired on AM station 1340. Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .
Bulldogs set to row in ’15 CREW FROM PAGE 12 conference, the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges. In addition to the Cavaliers, Yale rowed against two other top-20 teams: No. 12 Notre Dame and No. 18 Louisville. But the women’s greatest competition could very well come from within the EAWRC, which contains all eight Ivy League teams. The league winner automatically qualifies to the NCAA Tournament, with at-large bids possible for ranked teams in the division. Last season, which saw Princeton pull off an upset to win the championship, Brown and Harvard also joined the Tigers in the NCAA Tournament. Yale’s absence marked the first time in 12 years that the team had not qualified to the national competition. “We didn’t make it to NCAAs last year for the first time in a long time,” Demmerle said. “Every race this season is an opportunity to get this team back on track, and that is what we are looking to do.” The men’s lightweight team is also looking to return to form. After entering last year’s Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship
ranked second in the country, the Bulldogs came in fourth overall. The IRA Championship serves as a stand-in for the NCAA Tournament, as men’s crew has not elected to be recognized by the NCAA as an official sport. “We take things one race at a time,” lightweight captain Matt Cecil ’15 said. “We are always looking forward to the next race the most. Races are so few that it would be a negligent to overlook any of them.” Last fall, the Elis finished seventh at the famed Head of the Charles regatta before concluding the season with a varsity runner-up performance at the Princeton Chase behind Cornell. Since then, the team has turned to the gym and the erg machine in an attempt to trim time off of its races. “All teams spend the winter trying to get in better physical shape to more effectively execute their race plans,” Cecil said. “That is the biggest difference between the fall and spring.” With three races on the Housatonic this season, the lightweights can look forward to more races at home than either of the other teams. The heavyweights, on the other hand, race in Derby, Connecticut only
once. “The most important races every year are the Eastern Sprints regatta, the IRA [national] championship and the Yale-Harvard regatta, and our training all season is focused on peaking for those races,” heavyweight captain Lyon Van Voorhis ’15 said. The three races, which occur within four weeks of each other, are the final races of the heavyweights’ season. Van Voorhis also acknowledged the difficulty of having less time on the river, but said the team was productive while indoors and transferred to the water well. “Our goal as a team is to be the fastest boathouse in the country. That means success not just for the varsity boat but in all boat classes,” Van Voorhis said. All three crew teams will race on Saturday. The women take on Ivy foes Penn and Columbia in pursuit of the Connell Cup in New Jersey. The lightweights will also be in the Garden State, racing Navy for the Johnson Cup. The heavyweights face Brown in Providence, Rhode Island. Contact MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .
Bulldogs prep for Ivy play BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 ity pitches low in the strike zone and let the defense work behind me,” said Lanham, a second-team All-Ivy selection in 2014. ”We have done a great job in the field this year, and [that] was the case against UConn as well.” Yale suffered defeat again the next night against the Bobcats, in large part due to a seven-run outburst, capped by a grand slam, by Quinnipiac to start the game. Every Bobcat starter recorded a base hit in Quinnipiac’s best offensive game this season. Although the Elis trailed early, the Bulldogs had plenty of opportunities to cut the deficit. Yale loaded the bases with just one out while trailing 8–1 in the bottom of the fourth inning but was unable to push across a run after catcher Andrew Herrera ’17 popped up and center fielder Green Campbell ’15 grounded out to third. Another chance arrived in the eighth, as a trio of walks put pressure on the Bobcats’ pitching. The Elis, however, failed to capitalize and could not score on a timely hit. “We just have to keep swinging. Hitting isn’t easy; it is not always consistent,” right fielder David Toups ’15 said. “If we keep it simple and don’t try and do too much, I’m confident we will be able to capitalize on our opportu-
nities at the plate.” Third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 agreed, adding that the Elis need to remain true to their coaches’ advice and stay aggressive early in the count. Three Bulldogs recorded multi-hit games against Quinnipiac — Toups, Adams and Slenker. Pitcher Chasen Ford ’17 also had a solid day on the mound, allowing three earned runs in 4.1 innings of relief. As Ivy League play rapidly approaches, Slenker noted that the team has many things it can improve on. “We have given up too many free bases to the other team defensively,” Slenker said. “It is imperative that we get the leadoff runner out because it really limits what an offense can do in that inning.” With those non-conference games in the rearview mirror, Yale now turns its attention to Cornell and Princeton to start the conference season. The Big Red (3–11, 0–0 Ivy) finished 9–11 in Ivy League play last season, for third place in the Lou Gehrig division. Cornell currently boasts three of the top-five pitchers in the conference, all with earned run averages of under 2.00, who the Elis will likely have to face during the doubleheader this weekend. Cornell, however,
struggles offensively, as evidenced by the team’s 0.220 batting average and 0.293 on base percentage. Regardless, the Bulldogs will need to look out for infielder Kevin Tatum, who currently leads the team with a 0.333 batting average. Princeton (3–14, 0–0) enters Monday’s doubleheader having finished last in the Lou Gehrig division, one game behind Cornell, a year ago. This season, the Tigers possess the third-worst ERA in the conference (7.37), but their biggest bugaboo has been their penchant to allow extra-base hits, as they rank last in the Ivy League in home runs allowed (13) and triples allowed (10). Princeton also leads the conference in strikeouts, a dubious distinction that bodes well for the Eli pitching staff. Despite the losses, however, Yale hopes to rebound for the conference season. “Remember, everyone’s record heading into this weekend is 0–0,” Toups said. “It’s an exciting time, and we are ready to start Ivy League play.” Due to inclement weather, both doubleheaders were pushed back, with the games against Cornell starting at noon on Sunday and first pitch against Princeton coming at noon on Monday. Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .
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Both the men’s lightweight and heavyweight crew teams will start their seasons this weekend.
Elis face Penn, look to improve M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 note coming out of our first five games, playing very strongly, but as we know, conference play is most important,” midfielder Jon Reese ’16 said. “I feel as though, as a team, we’re pretty confident with where we’re at right now.” While Yale’s last two conference opponents sit high in the national rankings — No. 7 and 10, respectively — Penn looks to be a less daunting foe, having scuffled their way to a 3–5 record and a shared spot with Yale in the Ivy cellar at 0–2. Nonetheless, the Quakers remain dangerous, with a collection of talent that earned them a No. 13 preseason ranking. “It’s a really competitive league with a lot of perennial powerhouses … that have been really good for a long time,” midfielder Michael Keasey ’16 said. “The league is definitely tough and everybody gives each other their best shot.” The Quakers are led by junior attackman Nick Doktor, who has amassed 11 goals, 24 assists and 20 ground balls, the latter two of which lead the team. Stopping his offensive dominance will be key to a successful evening for the Bulldogs, but Penn wields numerous additional dangerous scoring weapons. “Penn has a really well-balanced offense, and they have a couple guys at attack and midfield that can beat their guy and score,” defenseman Mike Quinn ’16 said. “This week has been
really focusing about fundamentals and that way, once we play an offense like that, we can really lock it down.” The Quakers particularly rely on senior midfielder Joe McCallion, who leads the team with 18 goals and is second to Doktor with seven assists and 18 ground balls. McCallion ranks 10th in the Ivy League in points per game and has been especially successful on the man advantage, ranking fifth in the conference with four man-up goals. Doktor and teammates have been forced to step up this year and fill the shoes of a strong 2014 senior class. Last year’s Quaker seniors included among their ranks a first-team All-Ivy goalie, two All-Ivy defensemen and a first-team All-Ivy midfielder. As is to be expected with such significant back-end losses, the Quakers have especially struggled to prevent goals. Penn has surrendered 44 goals in its last three games, all against ranked teams and all resulting in defeat. The Quakers’ seeming futility on the defensive side bodes well for the struggling Yale offense. After averaging 14 goals per game in their first four games, the Bulldogs have scored a combined 26 in their past three contests, two of which resulted in losses and the other a tight overtime win over Fairfield. “Against both Cornell and Princeton, we tried to do a little too much,” Keasey said. “We really watched film critically and refocused on trying to be as good and as efficient as we were
in those first couple games this season.” While attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15 has continued his stellar season, the rest of the Bulldog attack has failed to produce with consistency. In the past few games, Yale has struggled both to work the ball into position for an open shot and to capitalize on those opportunities with pinpoint accuracy. On the defensive end, goalie Eric Natale ’15 has turned in a rough senior campaign thus far, ranking last among Ivy starters in both save percentage and saves per game. Thanks to the stellar Elis defensive personnel, though, Natale and the Bulldogs lead the conference in goals allowed per game. This weekend, the Bulldogs and their supporters hope — and expect — to see a return to the winning ways of the team’s early-season streak. Saturday’s contest seems easy to point out as a major potential turning point on the schedule. With two more unranked opponents in Sacred Heart and Brown on deck before finishing with top15 Brown and Albany and fierce rival Harvard, Saturday is the Bulldogs’ best chance to start a winning streak before entering the postseason stretch run. Yale faces Penn on Saturday at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. The game begins at 5:30 p.m. and will be televised on Fox Sports 1. Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .
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Yale loses big to in-state rivals BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER In the final tune-ups before the start of Ivy League play, the Yale baseball team dropped consecutive games to instate rivals Connecticut and Quinnipiac.
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The last time the Bulldogs won the NCAA championship was in 2013. They defeated Quinnipiac 4–0. BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The road to reclaim the title of national champions leads through Manchester, New Hampshire, as the Yale men’s ice hockey team takes on No. 3 Boston University in the first round of the NCAA Tournament this Friday. After a heartbreaking loss to Harvard in the second round of the ECAC
Tournament, the Bulldogs (18–9–5, 12–6–4 ECAC) managed to secure a spot in the NCAA Tournament with a No. 13 PairWise ranking and an impressive record in the final few weeks of the season. Before the losses to Harvard, the Elis went undefeated in their final six games of the season and the team has also maintained a stellar 5–1 record against non-conference opponents this year. Forward John Baiocco ’18 noted that
nearly being shut out of tournament play has only inspired the Bulldogs to skate harder against the Terriers. “It was kind of an emotional roller coaster getting into the tournament this year,” Baiocco said. “After our loss to Harvard we knew it would be tough to make the tournament … [We] thought our season was over even though we believed we deserved to be SEE M. HOCKEY PAGE 10
The Bulldogs (6–6, 0–0 Ivy) were unable to continue their hot hitting — Yale boasts the Ivy League’s best batting average — against Connecticut (15– 8, 0–0 American Athletic) on Tuesday night, managing just three hits in an 18–1 loss. Against Quinnipiac (5–14, 2–1 Metro Atlantic Athletic), the Elis had their opportunities to score, but they plated just three runs, leaving 12 runners on base throughout the 11–3 defeat. “There were some real positives to take away from the last two games, and that’s what we are focused on as we head into Ivy play this weekend,” second baseman Nate Adams ’16 said. “Even after the rocky start against Quinnipiac, we brought high energy and intensity to the field, which is definitely something that we wish to continue.” A slow start doomed Yale on both nights, as the Bulldogs allowed 12 runs in the first inning of both games combined. The Huskies had little trouble against the Elis’ pitching, as their lineup
batted around in the opening frame to score five runs. Eight of the nine starters for Connecticut notched at least one hit in the game. Still, two Yale pitchers had impressive showings against the Huskies: righties Chris Lanham ’16 and Tyler Duncan ’18. Both entered the game in relief and quieted the Connecticut offense, scattering a combined five hits and one earned run over 4.2 innings. “As [with] all of my outings, I’ve found that the key is to make qualSEE BASEBALL PAGE 10
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The Bulldogs lost a pair of games this week to in-state rivals Quinnipiac and UConn.
Bulldogs bounce back against Boston BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER After a difficult streak of losses on the road, the Yale women’s lacrosse team returned home to Reese Stadium to take down Boston University.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE The Bulldogs (5–5, 1–2 Ivy) snapped a two-game losing streak Wednesday afternoon with a 14–6
win against the Terriers (4–5, 2–1 Patriot League), shutting down Boston in the second half. The Elis will remain in Connecticut to take on offensive force San Diego State University this upcoming weekend in an effort to regain a winning record. “Against BU, we came out from the first draw with an attitude that we have nothing to lose,” defenseman Victoria Moore ’17 said. “We played cohesively, and both ends of the field communicated well,
and we went back to the basics and trusted each person to do her job. We also constantly backed each other up on the field, and we maintained positivity throughout the game.” The matchup against Boston got off to a quick start for Yale with a goal from midfielder Maggie Pizzo ’18 just 42 seconds into the game with an assist from captain and attacker Kerri Fleishhacker ’15, who scored a goal of her own exactly two minutes later. The
Crew teams embark on spring season BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER While many students fled to tropical waters over spring break, the men’s and women’s crew teams could also be found near water — albeit much colder water. Capitalizing on the respite from classes, the teams spent the majority of break preparing for the upcoming months.
CREW All three squads officially begin their spring racing season this weekend, as the women’s lightweight and heavyweight crew teams take on conference teams throughout New England. The women already have one regatta under their belt. With only four days of water practice, the team traveled to Tennessee for their first test of the season: the Cardinal Invitational in Oakridge, Tennessee. According to captain Nina Demmerle ’15, the team’s inability to
practice on the frozen Housatonic River led to an increased fitness level. “The weather was frustrating at times, but it did allow us to extend our winter training and increase our fitness,” Demmerle said. “We got on the water a bit later than usual this year but it has helped us hit the ground running. As we transition to the water, we need to make sure we transfer our winter training mentality to the water.” At least for the first regatta, the transfer was successful. The No. 9 women’s team took on eight other schools in the regatta, and the Bulldogs finished second behind No. 2 Virginia. The finish was due in large part to a strong start that saw all five of Yale’s boats — first and second varsity fours and eights, and a novice eight — win their first races on both Saturday and Sunday. The Cardinal Invitational allowed the women to face teams from outside their SEE CREW PAGE 10
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Bulldogs took control of the game early, putting up five goals in the first 10 minutes while limiting the Terriers to just one. The first half ended with a 6–3 score favoring the Elis, who kept Boston from scoring consecutive goals before the break. “Beating a team like BU, who is historically a top 20 team in DI, was exactly what we needed in order to turn around our season,” defenseman Flannery Carney ’16 said. “We came out strong, excited and
ready to win, [which was] exemplified by the short amount of seconds it took to score the first goal of the game.” Yale kept its foot to the floor during the second half. The Bulldogs dominated most of the half, scoring an unanswered five goals between the 24 and 13-minute mark. The Bulldogs shut out the Terriers until just 6:05, when Boston found the back of the net for the first time in the half. The Terriers scored two more goals in the
next three minutes but could not bring themselves back into contention. The Elis responded with three goals of their own in the last three minutes to bring the final score up to 14–6, earning their first win in the last three games. With 26 shots on goal, the Bulldogs fielded a strong offense. Three Yale players — Fleishhacker, Pizzo and attacker Tess McEvoy ’17 — scored three goals in the matchup. SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 10
Men’s lacrosse looks to rebound in Ivy play BY JONATHAN MARX CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As students across campus left New Haven two weeks ago for spring break, the men’s lacrosse team was riding a high. With a top-10 national ranking and a perfect 5–0 record, things were looking up for the Bulldogs.
MEN’S LACROSSE When students returned, No. 11 Yale sat at a disappointing 5–2, having suffered consecutive losses to Ivy foes Cornell and Princeton. This Saturday, the Bulldogs travel to Philadelphia to take on the Penn Quakers. They look to return to the win column and begin the slow march up the Ivy League standings in hopes of a postseason tournament berth. “We were on a pretty high SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 10
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After starting out the season 5–0, the men’s lacrosse team dropped their first two Ivy games to Cornell and Princeton.
THE NUMBER OF GOALS PER MINUTE THE WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM AVERAGED BETWEEN THE 24TH AND 13TH MINUTE MARKS DURING THE SECOND HALF AGAINST BOSTON UNIVERSITY. Three players recorded hat tricks in the 14–6 win.