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CHOCOLATE CITY ELM CITY MARKET HOSTS TASTING

ART IN YOUR HANDS

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Yale alum develops Wolff, an app to improve the way art history is taught.

NEW BILLS AIM TO EASE REGULATIONS ON BIKE LANES.

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Sciences push for sixth-year funding

No regrets. With basketball

season in full swing and Whiffs auditions around the corner, now’s a good time to check in on forward-turned-tenor Brandon Sherrod ’15. And that’s what The New York Times did in a Wednesday piece entitled “At Yale, Trading a Playbook for a Songbook.”

Long story short, Sherrod says he’s happy with his choice to pick the songbook.

Relevant. A Wednesday night

email from Morse Master Amy Hungerford solicited help from students in the college to host a group from Yale-NUS, which has itself grappled with the question of free speech, that will visit campus from Feb. 24–26.

Check it. Yesterday, the United

States Navy announced that the USS George H.W. Bush has set out to sea to conduct carrier qualification operations — CQs for short. “CQs are an important mission that is often underappreciated,” Chief Operations Specialist Jermaine Moore said in a Navy release.

Trust us. We know. CQ Not quite walruses. But seals, which look enough like Morse’s walrus, have overtaken the Connecticut shoreline, a WTNH article reported. The reason? Because they’re from somewhere even colder than the Nutmeg State: Canada.

Looking off-campus? Then

think about the $425,000 West Haven lighthouse advertised in the New York Post yesterday.

Imagine all the not-quitewalruses you can see from it.

Millennials, man. Times change. An article in Time Magazine’s technology section yesterday referenced a Student Monitor survey that found college students to strongly prefer iPhones, Facebook, Instagram and texting to beer and hooking up.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1986 Hundreds pack SSS 114 to hear sportswriter Peter Gammons and University President A. Bartlett Giamatti answer “Does Baseball Have a Future?” Absolutely yes, they say, while still acknowledging some room for improvement in the game’s culture.

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Mental health dialogue revives old questions In the on-again-off-again cycle of mental health advocacy at Yale, the death of a student has once again thrust the University into a period of intense conversation about how students with mental illnesses fare here, and led some to wonder what will transform conversation into action.

classroom will play host to tonight’s AACC Jeopardy event. Those signed up should expect plenty of clues about “topics relating to the Asian American experience, both past and present,” while those looking to just drop by and watch can participate in the night’s free raffle drawings.

Yale Political Union will host a panel to discuss issues of religion, security and toleration as they relate to last month’s tragic Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris.

Among those on the panel are professors Charles Hill and David Cameron.

Teams benefit from mental training with a sports psychologist.

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER

Where is LC 101? This Yale

Speaking on speech. The

BREAKING “BLOCKS”

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The Graduate Student Assembly is planning to advocate for sixth-year guaranteed funding for science students.

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER Two months after the Graduate School guaranteed a sixth year of funding for students in the humanities and social sciences, natural science students are still waiting for their turn.

The Graduate School did not extend the same policy to sci-

ence students when it announced the new policy, reasoning that the structures used to fund the sciences are differently organized.

However, with many science students pushing for their own guarantee of sixth-year funding, the Graduate Student Assembly is planning to pursue equality across the disciplines.

“I’m really jealous [of humani-

For those of us who’ve been here for [a few] years, we feel like we’ve talked about this enough.

We want to try to do something.

ties and social science students],” said Danti Chen GRD ’15, a student in Applied Physics. “The assumption is that it’s much easier to get funding in the sciences, but right now that’s not the case.”

According Joori Park GRD ’17, the current GSA chair, sixth-year funding for science students was

The current conversation coincides with national attention to college students’ mental health — with a University of California Los Angeles survey reporting that 9.5 percent of American college freshmen reported

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CHARLOTTE STORCH ’15

Law students, faculty defend rape law instruction

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER As rape law is phased out of law school curricula across the country, professors and students at Harvard and Yale’s law schools are advocating to keep the uncomfortable but important topic in classrooms.

At a Harvard discussion forum on Feb. 4, two Harvard Law School professors stressed the importance of including rape law in law school curricula. In a December article in The New Yorker, Jeannie Suk, one of the pro-

fessors, said rape law was not taught at law schools until the mid-1980s because victims were thought of as “emotionally involved witnesses,” which made it very difficult for a jury to reach accurate decisions. Today, many law schools acknowledge the importance of rape law, she told the News, but they shy away from teaching it because they fear making students feel uncomfortable, which, she argued, should not be the case.

At the Yale Law School, rape law is included in the curricula of many criminal law

Breach prompts action on cybersecurity

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER In the wake of a significant health insurance data breach, Democratic state senators have unveiled a proposal requiring state insurance companies to encrypt all personal information records, including social security numbers.

The legislation comes in light of several major data breaches over the past year targeting large corporations such as Sony, eBay and Home Depot. Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff of Norwalk said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon that he believes the Connecticut State Legislature is the first to present a bill in response to the most recent breach in the country in which hackers targeted sensitive health insurance information from Anthem, the country’s second-largest health insurer.

As the parent company of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut, Anthem has 1.14 million customers in

the state and is its largest health insurance company. The breach became public in early February and could affect as many as 80 million individuals nationwide.

If we cannot prevent hackers from getting in, we can at least … [limit] what information they get.

BOB DUFF Senate majority leader “It is imperative that we step up our game, and that includes the private sector as well as government,” Duff said. “That is why we are introducing this necessary, common-sense legislation to encrypt personal information. If we cannot preSEE PRIVACY PAGE 6

and evidence classes. Echoing Suk, law school professor James Whitman, who teaches rape law in his criminal law class, said he has also noticed that there is a new discomfort around incorporating rape law into curricula, which he attributed to changing sexual mores and concern about campus rape. He said that though campus rape is explored in Yale Law School classes, there is no overarching policy about teaching rape law, since individual class curricula are designed by professors independently.

Suk told the News that while doing research for her article, she talked to many criminal law teachers across the country who were discontinuing their rape law classes, in addition to new law professors who decided not to teach rape law at all.

“We have a lot of debate in our country right now about how to address and prevent rape and sexual assault, and for rape law not to be taught at a time when these kinds of public debates are going at full force to me seems inappropriate,” Suk said.

Claire Simonich LAW ’16 said her criminal law class last semester taught two types of substantive crimes, one of which was rape. Still, she said, the law school can improve the way it teaches gender-based violence. She said the school has three or four professors specializing in criminal law, but none of them are deeply steeped in feminist legal theory or gender-based violence.

To remedy this, she said she and other students have formed a student reading SEE RAPE LAW PAGE 4

Corporation set to approve $57.1m music complex

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER After nearly 20 years of planning and false starts, a $57.1 million complex for the Yale School of Music is poised to become reality.

In late February, plans for the Adams Center for Musical Arts — which includes the renovation of Hendrie Hall and the construction of an adjoining 34,000 square-foot structure — will be presented before the Yale Corporation for final approval before beginning construction later this month. The project, which was postponed in 2008 with the onset of the global financial crisis, resumed in August when faculty, students and staff were relocated in anticipation of the Hendrie Hall renovation, slated for completion in August 2016. Though students and faculty interviewed said they are eager to see work begin on the long-delayed facility, some expressed criticism of the transition process and conditions of the temporary relocation.

“I am thrilled and overjoyed that the Hendrie Hall renovation, which will become the new Adams Center for Musical Arts, is quickly becoming a reality,” School of Music Dean Robert Blocker said. “This

facility, which stands at the center of Yale’s campus, will reflect — as only music can — Yale’s commitment to creativity, to scholarship, to teaching and to research.”

Though the cost of the renovation and construction was previously reported to be $45 million, Associate Dean of the Yale School of Music Michael Yaffe said the Corporation will be asked to approve a total budget of $57.1 million.

Blocker said the Hendrie Hall project was first conceived as part of a “long range” music facility plan, which was authored and assembled in 1996. He added the components of the new center include the comprehensive renovation of Hendrie Hall and the construction of a new atrium space, which will connect the buildings to Leigh Hall on College Street.

The new complex will be named after Stephen Adams ’59, who donated $100 million to the Yale School of Music in 2005.

In 2013, Adams pledged an additional $10 million towards the project.

John Bollier, Yale’s associate vice president of the Office of Facilities, said his department received authorization to resume and complete bid documents for the renovation in the summer. He SEE HENDRIE HALL PAGE 4

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he heart of a women’s conference — more than the collective number of women who attend — is the direct communication between one woman and another.

Last Saturday, I attended the seventh annual Yale Women in Leadership conference hosted by the Women’s Leadership Institute. The theme of the conference was “Women Empower Women,” which could have become a huge cliché given the acronym “W.E. Women.” But I came away from the conference feeling a little more hopeful and a little less like a face in the crowd.

In particular, the words of the panelists in a talk entitled “Switching Your Career: When Life Calls for a U-Turn” resonated with me. The speakers were University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax ’75, writer and Boston University professor Theodora Goss and former marketing officer of The Economist Susan Clark ’76 GRD ’77. The women were united in their broad intellectual and professional experience, but otherwise they had completely different personalities. The moderator of the panel, Catherine Chiles of the Yale School of Medicine, stayed mainly out of the way as the three women told their stories and answered questions.

Wax kicked off the panel in a fiery way. Her message was pragmatic and delivered with force: She urged the approximately 50 women in the audience to eschew trendy majors and easy options in favor of honest, demanding work. Wax described how, after preparing for a profession in the medical sciences, she decided to pursue a legal career, a better fit for her temperament.

There’s no way to find career success and fulfillment, Wax suggested, except by examining one’s own inclinations and following them unabashedly.

Her voice reached me not only because it had been cultivated through public speaking, but also because I have been grappling with some of the same themes in my own life. She identified a difference between what is worth studying in college versus what is worth doing for a lifetime.

The two need not be the same.

For her, the purely academic diversion was medical school; the real deal was engagement with law. I’ve also been trying to sift through my intellectual interests to find the thing I want to pursue.

As I reflected on how I have been searching for my own professional path, the second panelist, Goss, said something

that echoed with me. Goss said that the passions of an entire life often begin in childhood.

Those things that inspired us to see or listen in our youth can turn into the objects of meaningful pursuit in later years, untainted by societal or familial pressures. Goss, the lawyer-turned-writer, mentioned being the quiet girl who loved books; I was the same when I was young. But I also loved other things, like looking in the backyard for animals or doodling whimsical figures in my notebooks. How do I choose just one as my passion?

Doing so would require some sort of sacrifice. A few days ago, my roommate asked me what the biggest sacrifice in my life has been so far, and I honestly could not think of an answer. But I do see a big sacrifice coming up in the future — the decision to pursue one of my interests instead of the others, the bitter letting-go of certain possibilities for the sweetness of a single one.

Goss said, “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” Deciding on a career takes an unflinching commitment.

Now, as I vacillate between the departments of ecology, environmental studies and philosophy, I realize that I cannot stay in limbo forever. I recognize I’m a freshman and it seems like I have all the time in the world. But time flies, and this dilemma will catch up with me and everyone else at Yale. We will do all the thinking we need about the relative benefits and drawbacks of our options — no one should ever sacrifice good prospects based on uninformed beliefs — but in the end we must commit.

But we shouldn’t be putting ourselves in a position where we could never switch careers.

After all, the three women on the panel changed their paths.

It's okay to slog through premed and even med school before taking the LSATs. But hopefully, if we examine our options right the first time, we’ll find what the three panelists called a “true home.”

My career would offer me the simultaneous feelings of satisfaction, comfort and pride, and I wouldn’t mind doing the dirty work once in a while.

To understand what I want to get out of my career, I'll always return to a lasting piece of advice from Clark. “Don’t think that you work from nine to five so that you can live from five to nine,” she said. As a woman, a thinker and an individual, I will build my career — and live in it too.

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VIEW Ease the burden of withdrawal and readmission The second in a three-part editorial series on how Yale treats students who need mental health care

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tudents are angry about the University’s policies governing when and how they can take time off from Yale — and the process that decides whether they are readmitted.

People have a right to be angry.

For every story we hear about the process working seamlessly, about a student happily back at Yale, there’s another story of undue stress. A story of confusion and ambiguity, of being left to wonder.

Of a feeling that the University is tacking on an extra punishment to the pain of mental illness.

We don’t expect the University to wave a magic wand and make it easy for students suffering from mental illness to leave and come back; it’s an arduous undertaking, personally and socially. But we think there are policy changes the University can institute that will make coping with a mental illness just a little bit easier.

The guiding ethic of our recommendations is that Yale students remain Yale students, with all the privileges this status confers, even when they are facing a debilitating illness.

Under current policy, students have until the 10th day of the semester to request a leave of absence of one or two semesters, after which they can easily return to campus. But beginning on day 11, students wishing to take time off are forced to withdraw and apply for readmission. The difference in these processes is like night and day.

Students who withdraw for medical reasons, as determined

by Yale Health or Mental Health & Counseling, are required to leave campus for at least a full semester, not including the semester of the withdrawal. Students who withdraw for personal reasons — which could include undiagnosed mental illness — are required to leave for two full semesters, not including the semester of the withdrawal.

If a student were to withdraw for personal reasons today, she would not be permitted to return to campus until the fall of 2016.

Students have protested that the current 10-day deadline for leaves of absence is too severe.

The decision to leave campus for one semester is difficult. Withdrawal requires leaving for two, or even three, semesters. Students may attempt to remain enrolled, against their best interests, to avoid being forced to leave for such a long period of time, and with such onerous requirements for coming back.

One need not look far to find a more sympathetic policy. At Harvard, students can request a leave of absence until the seventh Monday of the semester. The Yale College Council recommended last year that Yale adopt a similar policy, moving the deadline for leaves of absence to midterm, which falls on the eighth Friday of the semester.

At midterm, students reserve the right to drop a course without receiving a W on their transcripts.

It stands to reason that the University should allow students to take a leave of absence until this date as well.

Yale’s procedures for readmitting students similarly have room for improvement.

Readmission is usually contingent on the completion of two college courses, and students who withdraw due to mental illness may be required to complete counseling. We think these requirements make sense, as they are necessary to prepare students for re-entry. At the same time, the requirements can be expensive, stacking a stressful financial burden on top of the burden of getting better.

A student who opted to take classes at the University of Pittsburgh during her time away from Yale received conflicting messages from the financial aid offices at the two schools: Yale said Pitt would pick up the tab, but Pitt said Yale would cover her costs. Yale College administrators should assess students’ financial positions on a case-by-case basis, and then do everything possible to ensure money is not a barrier to recovery.

What's more, the semester a student withdraws should not count toward the eight semesters of financial aid to which they are entitled. As policies stand, students who apply for a ninth term are normally not eligible for additional aid.

And further, during the first term back from a withdrawal, students receive less gift assistance than usual. This should not be the case.

A timing problem exists as well.

Students sometimes learn of their readmission mere days or weeks

before the start of the semester.

Making last-minute travel plans back to campus can be expensive; arranging off-campus housing can be impossible. In the days before their first semester back, students should be focused on completing their course schedules and reconnecting with friends.

They shouldn't be wondering if they'll get to come back in the first place.

Late news of rejection can be an even greater burden. In 2009, a student on leave for clinical depression received notification of his rejection after signing a lease on a New Haven apartment. Bound to his lease, he was forced to live in New Haven for the semester, waiting to apply again for readmission.

While we understand the rationale behind evaluating students for readmission near the end of their withdrawal, the University should seek to notify students of their acceptance or rejection as early as possible.

For more than 15 years, students have criticized the strict withdrawal timeline and burdensome readmission process. Last spring, the YCC published an exhaustive list of recommendations on how to change these policies.

Yet the administration has failed to act. Until now — maybe.

Last month, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway charged a committee with re-evaluating withdrawal and readmission policy. We urge the committee to make the changes we have outlined.

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AMANDA MEI is a freshman in Berkeley College. Contact her at amanda.mei@yale.edu .

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ne winter day my sophomore year, a senior on the track team drove me back to campus from practice. As I got out of the car and my friend was about to drive off, he called out the window, “See you later, man. I love you.” Without really thinking I replied, “Yeah, I love you too.”

We never talked about it, but every once in a while after that we would, in passing, mention our love for one another. It was an odd experience. Recently, I’ve been thinking about what might have motivated my friend to say that to me, and why it felt so odd. In large part I think he was messing with me. It can be fun to throw underclassmen for a loop, and having a big, intimidating senior say he loved me certainly did the trick.

At the same time, however, we did love each other. Hours spent practicing together, laughing over meals and sharing our life stories led to deep caring. Neither of us were physically attracted to each other, but we were still meaningfully invested in each other’s lives.

My teammate was just verbalizing a feeling too often left unsaid

a m o n g s t friends.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, a holiday seemingly designed to disappoint ISA everyone.

QASIM Those of us who are single The are reminded of it in no Passerby uncertain terms, while those of us in relationships feel a strong pressure to make a day special which holds no inherent meaning. It is a frustrating holiday.

But Valentine’s Day can afford us a special opportunity. It can give us a chance to reflect on what love means in our lives and whom we really love, beyond the most obvious candidates.

In my anecdotal experience, the women I am friends with do a much better job of this than the men. I have heard several of my single female friends men-

tion their plans for Valentine’s Day, almost all of which revolve around a bottle of wine, a campy movie and their best friends. The single men I am friends with, by and large, have no particular plans.

Of course, my point is not that everyone needs to be doing something on Valentine’s Day. Far from it. Hallmark is doing just fine without our support. However, I do think this particular example is illustrative of our difficulty in expressing love for each other. It can be hard for friends, especially men, to break through the façade of general banter into something more meaningful. After all, most of us believe, in the abstract, that we love our friends. But actually taking the step of saying it can be more intimidating.

That is a shame because there are substantive benefits to verbalizing our affection. In my experience, the transition from home, a place where love is central to daily life, to college, a place where it is largely absent, can be jarring. Of course, it’s part of growing up, but the transition can

also be unnecessarily tough. The world can suddenly appear an unwelcoming place. As a sophomore, hearing that I was loved by a senior I respected meant much more to me than he could have known. Even if feelings are mutually understood, having the courage to vocalize them can do wonders.

I think Valentine’s Day is a pretty silly holiday. But then most holidays, when viewed in a certain light, are pretty silly. It is up to us to imbue them with meaning, and that gives us incredible power. Let’s have Valentine’s Day be a chance for us to turn to our friends and let them know how important they are. It will probably be awkward, and a bit forced, and you may both laugh uncomfortably. But it will also help break down the barriers we have unconsciously constructed between each other. In doing so, we can only become better people.

ISA QASIM is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at isa.qasim@yale.edu .

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New art history app launched

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Yale art history professors and graduate students contributed to the design process of Wolff, an iPad application that brings high-resolution artwork to users’ fingertips.

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER Lovers of art history will soon be able to see the intricate details of the Mona Lisa, the Sistine Chapel ceiling and countless other masterpieces right at their fingertips.

Wolff, an art history iPad application, uses a streamlined interface to bring crowdsourced, high-resolution artwork to users in classroom and academic settings. Created by Greg Bryda GRD ’16, the app will officially launch on Thursday at the College Art Association’s Annual Conference in New York City. Yale art history professors and graduate students who have been involved with the design and testing of the application gave glowing reviews to Wolff, and believe that the application will change the way art history is taught and learned.

“We want to place high-resolution artwork images in the

hands of people in a way that is functional and beautiful,” Bryda said, noting that the application will help the art history discipline keep up with the changing technological landscape.

Users will be able to access and upload high-resolution digitized artworks onto the Wolff Catalog, a crowd-sourced library on the application, and create a personal library for private artwork. The crowd-sourcing function will create an enormous selection of images in the application’s database as scholars within each subfield of art history will be able to upload the most important and high-quality artwork photos from their collections, according to Lindsay Riordan GRD ’16, who has been beta-testing Wolff.

Wolff, which is currently featured on the Yale Kickstarter page, successfully raised $20,000 last May, and since then, Bryda has been busy designing and perfecting the

application. He designed Wolff specifically for art historians, and the application contains several components that will aid in their teaching and research.

Michelle Oing GRD ’18, who has also been trying out the application, said she will use Wolff as a private database for her own research.

“In terms of my own studies, I can think of Wolff as a permanent repository for my own images,” she said. “Being able to have all those in one place will also, I think, help stimulate new ideas: maybe seeing two images juxtaposed in a light box will kick off a whole new idea.”

The guarantee of high-resolution quality will also be crucial for art history research, Oing said, as details can make or break an argument.

Aside from its database of digitized artwork, Wolff’s major selling point will be its streamlined and interactive platform for art history teaching. Bryda

Task force investigates “Corrupticut”

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER A new task force has been put in place to combat persistent problems of embezzlement and fraud by public officials in “Corrupticut.”

On Feb. 4, U.S. Attorney Deirdre Daly and representatives from five law enforcement agencies announced the formation of the Connecticut Public Corruption Task Force, which aims to investigate corrupt public officials, misuse of public funds and related criminal activity. Daly said that, for the first time in Connecticut, agents and inspectors have been brought together to work for a single investigative unit that will have primary responsibility for investigating public corruption.

[Fighting] corruption has been a priority for our office for decades.

DEIRDRE DALY United States Attorney, District of Connecticut

“[Fighting] corruption has been a priority for our office for decades, but this is a persistent and troubling problem. It is time to have a top-notch team and a hotline in place,” Daly said during a press conference last week.

Connecticut has faced a reputation of corruption for over a decade. A 2003 New York Times article reported that in a twoweek period in March 2003, three separate scandals among political officials had been discovered.

Currently, former Gov. John Row-

land, who resigned after a corruption case in 2004, is seeking a retrial for a case of election fraud that happened during the 2012 congressional campaign.

Seeking to address these types of incidents, the task force is being coordinated by Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher M. Mattei, chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Financial Fraud and Public Corruption Unit. The FBI will be the task force’s lead agency, and, according to the press release, has committed resources to support all investigations the task force chooses to take.

The task force FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick Ferrick said the New Haven division of the FBI is joining forces with federal agency partners to combat public corruption throughout Connecticut. He added that public corruption at any level — federal, state or local — will not be tolerated.

“Public servants are entrusted by all of us to act in the best interests of the public they serve,” he said in the press release. “It is important for the United States to bring to justice those who betray that trust.”

The task force — which despite the recent announcement began operations a few months ago — has already made significant progress. On Jan. 21, federal authorities investigated and consequently arrested the former finance director of Plymouth, Conn., David Bertnagel, who had embezzled over $800,000 of federal aid intended for the town.

According to prosecutors in the case, Bertnagel had written more than 200 unauthorized checks to himself between 2011 and 2014.

At a Feb. 4 press conference, Daly said Bertnagel’s case is only

one of many recent high-profile cases of corruption in the state. Despite a number of prosecutions, corruption within the state is a persistent problem, Daly added.

William Offord, special agent in charge of the Internal Revenue Service, said public trust is broken when officials who have been elected or appointed commit crimes motivated by greed and personal financial gain.

Money abused by police officials takes social services away from society’s most vulnerable members, said Phillip Coyne, special agent in charge of the Boston Regional Office of the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General. He said his department, by investigating financial fraud with the task force, will ensure appropriate funding for social services for children.

Since the announcement of the task force last week, billboards promoting the initiative have appeared in some Connecticut cities with the most cases of government corruption: Bridgeport, Waterbury and Hartford.

According to the Connecticut Post, motorists driving south on I-95 can now view a sign encouraging them to “report corruption now,” providing details of how to contact the task force.

Along with the new task force, Daly announced that there is a new hotline where citizens can report and provide tips. She added that there was no resource more valuable to this cause than local citizens urging people with knowledge of corrupt officials to reach out to the FBI by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI. Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

said he created the application because the current system of creating slide shows is not suitable for art history classes. Professors currently use PowerPoint presentations, which makes it difficult to access and analyze artwork photos.

Professors using the application will be able to create and share slideshows with their students by simply dragging images from the database onto the presentation slide and sharing it with students through the application. During classes, Wolff will allow professors and students to zoom into details — without sacrificing the quality of resolution — and compare artworks side-by-side.

“Wolff promises to let educators and students exploit the full possibilities of the incredibly rich variety of high-res digital images now available online,” art history professor Jacqueline Jung said. “[It] could deepen, expand and more generally

transform people’s understanding of art.”

Jung, who is Bryda’s dissertation advisor, cites the application’s intuitive design and its capacity to zoom and pan within a single image as essential features that will add to the classroom experience.

Furthermore, Wolff will allow students to follow lectures by looking at images on their own devices. Professors may also allow students to lead presentations by giving them control of lecture slides through the application.

“With Wolff, [students] could sync into the lecture as I’m giving it and explore the images themselves as I’m discussing them,” Jung said. “There’s nothing so exciting as the moment when a student recognizes a mysterious detail they’d never seen before — and that the teacher may not have been prone to point out — and helps everyone to see the image afresh.”

In Jung’s current classes, it can sometimes be difficult for students to see the details that she discusses, she said.

Following the launch, Wolff will be offered to the public in three different packages: basic, individual and institutional.

While the basic package is free, the individual version — which provides access to higher-resolution images and unlimited cloud storage, among other features — will cost $15 per year.

The third package will be available to users whose institutions have signed up to be partners with Wolff. Despite interest from many other institutions, Bryda said he hopes that Yale will become the application’s first partner, and is currently in talks to make that happen.

“Our goal is for all art history courses to migrate to Wolff,” he said.

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

Malloy pushes bill to protect Sound’s future

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER In anticipation of the 2015 legislative session, Gov. Dannel Malloy has begun a push for a comprehensive study of the Long Island Sound.

If passed by the General Assembly, the Long Island Sound Blue Plan would authorize the aggregation of all existing and new data on the sound, including a new mapping of the sound’s floor. Once new proposals for the sound’s use are presented, the state will be able to base its decisions on the data aggregated by the Blue Plan. The bill originally appeared before the General Assembly last year, but failed to pass before the session expired.

“What the plan would do is establish an inventory of data,” said State Rep. James Albis FES ’16, D-East Haven, a co-chairman of the General Assembly’s environmental committee. “It would come up with a blueprint of how we should be using and protecting [Long Island Sound]’s resources.”

Albis said the state plans to use the data to pre-empt any plans that companies or other organizations might propose for the sound.

In past years, those proposals have included implementing underwater cables and natural-gas storage facilities, a motion that the U.S. Commerce Department blocked in 2009. In the future, energy pipelines, wind turbines and changes in fishing regulations might be considered by the General Assembly.

Without a single comprehensive database on the Long Island Sound, considering and approving plans can prove difficult, according to Dennis Schain, a spokesperson for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Pollution should be among the primary concerns for the state’s management of the Long Island Sound, said Leah Lopez Schmalz, the director of legislative and legal affairs for the advocacy group Save The Sound. She said hypoxia — low levels of oxygen in the

water, caused by excess nitrogen — is a serious problem.

Schmalz said improving wastewater and sewage treatment facilities in towns within watersheds that drain into the sound is crucial to dealing with pollution problems. Albis agreed, emphasizing the importance of monitoring the nutrients flowing into the sound.

“Repairing and updating our sewage infrastructure will also help stop bacterial pollution that forces the closure of beaches around the sound each summer,” she said.

Schain said the state has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into the improvement of wastewater and sewage treatment facilities around Connecticut in recent years and will continue working to combat pollution and hypoxia in the sound.

For some, the sound’s commercial promise has gone unfulfilled. Last year, Malloy signed legislation creating the Connecticut Port Authority to regulate the state’s three deep-water ports in New Haven, New London and Bridgeport. Part of the Port Authority’s mandate is to make Connecticut’s ports more attractive to domestic and international shipping companies, which its leaders hope will increase commercial cargo shipping.

Albis said the data aggregated by the Blue Plan would likely be of use when considering changes to policies regarding the deep-water ports. He added that Malloy has made environmental policy a priority during his term, and his support of the Blue Plan moves in the same direction.

But the short-term effect of the Blue Plan may be limited, Schain said.

“The Blue Plan is more about information and planning, not so much pollution prevention and improvement,” he said. The Blue Plan will not allow the state to take immediate action on proposals for the sound, but will instead create a more organized pathway for the consideration of future proposals, according to Schain.

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

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“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

JOHN DEWEY AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER

On mental health, students hope this time brings change MENTAL HEALTH FROM PAGE 1 feeling frequently depressed during the past year, up 3.4 percent from five years ago.

But in the wake of recent events on campus, students interviewed said the conversation here at Yale is playing out differently than it has in the past.

“For those of us who’ve been here for [a few] years, we feel like we’ve talked about this enough,” Charlotte Storch ’15 said. “We want to try to do something.”

Much of students’ efforts are based on the research done by the Yale College Council for its Report on Mental Health in the fall of 2013. The report addressed the twin issues of campus culture — Yale students’ fixation on excellence — and resources, namely why students are not using the range of resources available to them.

Storch, along with Caroline Posner ’17, Korbin Richards ’15 and Nathan Sitaraman ’15, created a blog, titled Nox et Veritas, for members of the Yale community to anonymously share their experiences with Yale Mental Health & Counseling, withdrawal and readmission policies or simply living with a mental illness at Yale. YCC representative Joseph Cornett ’17 is working to develop a student Mental Health Fellows program, which would help connect students to the network of existing campus resources.

Meanwhile, Genevieve Simmons ’17 is collaborating with her residential college master and dean to create mandatory bystander workshops that would teach students how to help those in need.

This work is breathing new life into efforts begun by the Coalition for Mental Health and Wellbeing, which was formed last spring to consolidate the activities of undergraduate groups working on issues of mental health.

This spike in activity, while

notable, does not necessarily indicate a reopening of the mental health dialogue on campus, said YCC University Services Director Madeline Bauer ’17, who sits on the steering committee for the Mental Health Coalition as well as Yale Health’s Mental Health and Counseling Advisory Committee. Rather, she said, there is always work going on in the background, both on the administrative and student activism levels. She cited the committee that Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway appointed last semester to look into Yale’s withdrawal policies.

When asked about the progress of the committee, Holloway said its report should be released after spring break.

I am optimistic that Yale’s administration can change itself. But it has historically been reluctant to do so.

GEOFFREY SMITH ’15 University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews said she has collaborated with various other administrators across the University on improving the mental health climate on campus. While she acknowledged that the conversation surrounding mental health may appear to be quieter at some times than others, she said it has remained a high priority.

“Certainly, recent events, including the tragic loss of a student, have brought new energy to the conversation,” Goff-Crews said in an email. “I welcome this dialogue and am committed to collaborating with students and responding to their feedback and suggestions.”

But Bauer acknowledged that there is often disunity between the administration’s and the students’ agenda, and that the administration can often be perceived by the student body as acting too slowly.

Geoffrey Smith ’15, who with several of his friends authored a pledge asking seniors to boycott the Senior Class Gift until Yale reforms its mental health policies, said the University’s participation in mental health conversations has stopped at promoting existing resources, rather than focusing on policies that can be improved.

Indeed, when asked about mental health, University President Peter Salovey — a psychologist himself — emphasized the importance of clinical care in addressing students’ mental health needs. In addition to helping students deal with everyday factors that induce stress, such as academic pressure and relationship turmoil, he said, Yale should strive to be a leader in the “delivery of outstanding and timely evidence-based care, which would include attention to preventive interventions and shorter-term directive therapies.”

Goff-Crews pointed to a new mental health and wellness website that will be launched at the end of this term, which she said will provide students with a standalone guide to the mental health resources available at Yale. This website, which was designed at the recommendation of the Mental Health Coalition, is one of several student-suggested projects the administration is working on, she added.

Cornett, who has experienced depression himself, said many promises were made last spring, the last time the conversation was prominent, both by the administration and by student activists. And while not all of those promises have material-

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University President Peter Salovey emphasized the importance of clinical care in students’ mental health needs. ized yet, Cornett said he believes they are being diligently pursued.

“I believe people made those [promises] genuinely and intend to follow through on them,” he said. “It’s not happening as quickly as anybody would like.

But then the good thing about mental health activism is that nobody thinks it’s not a worthy cause. It’s just such a complex issue that it’s not immediately clear how to go about it.”

Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd also highlighted steps the administration has taken in the way of prevention. Last summer, she said, administrators added a component to freshman orientation called “Looking Out for One Another” that emphasizes how students can address common mental health challenges. Next year’s orientation will include an element on transitions to college that should also bolster resilience, she added.

Some students agreed that preventative work, along-

side institutional change, is important. Citing her idea for bystander training as an example, Simmons said the emphasis on community awareness and sensitivity is what distinguishes this semester’s dialogue from past conversations about mental illness.

“A lot of people [last spring] were writing about [their experiences] in the context of Yale Health and readmission policy and how you are treated when you’re there,” Simmons said.

“But [now] there has also been a lot about the step before that — how to address mental health just as students or people, even before a point where you’re going to mental health and being treated either well or poorly by the administration there.”

Cornett agreed, adding that while last year’s debate seemed to function at a structural and policy level, this year’s debate — while still including those elements — is being driven at a deeply personal level.

While the University administration has participated in the conversations surrounding mental health and has acknowledged student demands, such as the YCC report, the policies in question are still a concern, Storch said.

“I think the onus is more on the students to show that this is an issue that we’re really passionate about, and to show that we are really interested in seeing change in these areas,” Sitaraman said. “We hope that is what will provoke a much more far-reaching response from the administration.

But Smith said it is the administration that needs to listen.

“I am optimistic that Yale’s administration can change itself,” he said. “But it has historically been reluctant to do so, and it is our responsibility as students to call it out for that failure.”

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

Hendrie Hall renovation pushes groups to other spaces HENDRIE HALL FROM PAGE 1 added the design of the project is largely the same as when the project was put on hold in 2008.

“Only a few programmatic changes were made — a few small practice rooms in the basement of the addition and a second elevator were eliminated,” Bollier said in an email to the News. “However, various construction details have been revised to allow a more cost-effective construction process.”

Deputy Dean of the School of Music Melvin Chen ’91 said some of the highlights of the new project include major updates to the current facilities, including the creation of more practice rooms, updated climate control and air-conditioning, and the addition technological features such as recording and streaming capabilities in rehearsal rooms.

“The longer we wait the more expensive it becomes,” Chen said. “I think both the school and the University feel comfortable with the level of funding we have for it, so it is a good time to start.”

Yaffe said that during the past six months — in which Hendrie Hall has stood unoccupied — the construction drawings and pricing were completed. He added that Parking Lot 51, which sits adjacent to the hall, is being reconfigured as the staging area for construction, and fencing for it will be installed this week.

Since the building was closed for renovation, former occupants of Hendrie Hall — including the Yale Opera, the Yale Philharmonia library, the Yale Glee Club and the Yale Symphony Orchestra — have

been relocated across the University in spaces ranging from the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle to 320 Temple St. This transition has created difficulty for some of the large undergraduate performance groups due to space constraints.

“There aren’t a lot of large rehearsal spaces on campus and since all of the big musical groups have had to relocate this year, it was a challenge to find a place to rehearse,” said Margaret Ott ’16, manager of the Yale Precision Marching Band.

“So the sacrifices we are making now will hopefully be worth it when we have a nice new renovated rehearsal space.”

She said that since YPMB stores its equipment in Swing Space, students had to carry their instruments from Tower Parkway to an off-campus church for rehearsals. She said one of the largest benefits of the new renovation will be the installation of an elevator bank, which will make carrying equipment to the thirdfloor band room in Hendrie Hall more convenient.

Still, Yaffe and other administrators defended the transition plan and stressed the difficulty of the task.

“By all accounts, the swing spaces have worked out even better than expected,” Yaffe said. “We had planned for the changes for several years, and the facilities we have been able to occupy have met the needs of the various programs that needed to move out of the old Hendrie Hall.”

Hendrie Hall, located at 165 Elm St., was constructed in 1900.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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Construction of the Adams Center for Musical Arts, which includes the renovation of Hendrie Hall, will begin at the end of this month.

Rape law must be taught, YLS students say RAPE LAW FROM PAGE 1 group about gender-based violence, which currently has over 30 students enrolled. In particular, she said the group is working to bring a faculty member to the law school to teach a class solely on gender-based violence and to encourage the school to hire a general criminal law professor with expertise in gender-based violence.

Simonich said she is hopeful that these efforts will come to fruition.

“Yale Law School could use more classes in gender-based violence and that deal with rape, and there is a big group of students pushing this,” she said. “Some members of the administration have been responsive to us, and it sounds like they’re trying to bring in

someone to teach gender-based violence next year.”

Christina Krushen LAW ’16 said that although she has not explored rape law in any of her courses, she has been following the school-wide discussion on sexual assault that has taken place following law school professor Jed Rubenfeld’s controversial New York Times op-ed this fall. She said that from her experience with this discussion, she has found dialogue at the law school about rape to be comfortable, despite the tension that is inherent in the issue for some students.

Karlanna Lewis LAW ’15, who learned about rape law in an evidence class, said channeling student initiative to bring on a faculty member with

this expertise may actually be better for the law school than an administration-led effort. She said this is because students have a younger and more current perspective on the importance of rape law.

However, Lewis also said she noticed her peers can tread too lightly when it comes to talking about rape law.

“People are sometimes more delicate than they need to be because they’re trying to avoid making anyone offended,” she said. “I think people are just hesitant because you don’t want to talk about it too much so that people feel this isn’t a safe space to learn.”

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

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“Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.” DAVE BARRY AMERICAN HUMOR COLUMNIST

“Tremendous” healthcare deal falls through

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER Tenet Healthcare Corporation, a privately owned health care services company based in Dallas, Texas, has officially ended all efforts to buy five hospitals in Connecticut, concluding over two years of negotiations.

Tenet notified state regulators it was withdrawing its applications to buy the hospitals in December. This decision arrived 10 days after the state Office of Health Care Access set multiple controls over staffing, services and pricing as conditions for approving the sale of Waterbury Hospital, the first of the five hospitals under negotiation, which also include St. Mary’s in Waterbury, Bristol Hospital, Manchester Memorial and Rockville General Hospital. As the purchase of Waterbury Hospital

was expected to be the model for the remaining four institutions, Tenet decided to opt out of the entire purchase.

Despite efforts to salvage the deal over the course of two months, Tenet and Gov. Dannel Malloy announced last week that parties on all sides of the deal were ultimately unable to reach a compromise.

“We believe it is best for the hospitals, their employees and the communities they serve to move forward exploring other options,” Tenet said in a press release distributed last Wednesday.

In a statement in December, Tenet said that OHCA’s 47 proposed conditions led the company to believe Connecticut’s approach to regulatory oversight would not enable them to operate the hospitals successfully.

In particular, Tenet said a pro-

posed five-year ban on reductions in staffing or reductions of services would have prevented Tenet from efficiently running the hospital.

Patty Charvat, the Waterbury Hospital director of public affairs, said the OHCA conditions essentially mirrored regulations that had been rejected by all parties earlier in the discussion.

“It was a clear message that the obstacles we thought we’d already surmounted were going to continue,” she said in an interview with the News.

After Tenet withdrew its application, on Jan 29., State Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano ’81 and State Senate Martin Looney, D-New Haven, met with Trip Pilgrim, senior vice president of development at Tenet, in hopes of salvaging the deal. In addition, a group of 40

Connecticut legislators signed a letter to Malloy requesting that he intervene in favor of the sale.

In response, Malloy held a series of discussions with Trevor Fetter, CEO of Tenet.

It’s a tremendous lost opportunity for the entire state to be a leader in health care innovation.

PATTY CHARVAT Director of public affairs, Waterbury Hospital However, the areas of disagreement proved too difficult to bridge, and the deal was eventually abandoned.

Fasano has publicly blamed

Malloy for Tenet’s withdrawal, accusing him and his office of being behind the OHCA regulations that led to Tenet opting out of the purchase. But Malloy’s office disagreed.

“Senator Fasano seems more interested in finger pointing than putting forward serious ideas,” Malloy spokesman Mark Bergman told the News.

The deal’s failure delivers a severe financial blow to Waterbury Hospital, which projects annual losses of $10 million beginning next year and needs at least $50 million in capital improvements, yet has no ready access to capital markets, according to the office of Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen.

Last month, the hospital announced it will reduce its workforce by 80 full-time employees as part of a four-part

strategy to rework its financial plan.

In an official statement, Waterbury Hospital CEO and President Darlene Stromstad cited challenges from state and federal reimbursement cutbacks, the impact of healthcare reform, a changing marketplace and healthcare services shifting to outpatient settings as reasons for the hospital’s financial decline.

Charvat believes that the failed deal will likely scare off other healthcare service providers from Connecticut.

“It’s a tremendous lost opportunity for the entire state to be a leader in health care innovation,” she said.

Tenet Healthcare Corporation currently owns and operates 80 acute-care hospitals in 14 states.

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

To engage community, Elm City Market offers free chocolate

BY ERIC LIN STAFF REPORTER A lively mix of Yale students and New Haven residents wandered through Elm City Market Wednesday evening to taste a variety of chocolate products.

The event, “Chocolate is Always the Answer,” featured small stations spread throughout the market, which is located at 777 Chapel St., offering free samples of chocolate products, including trail mix, brownies and chocolate cereal, all of which the stores also sells.

The storewide event was part of a series of increasingly successful community engagement programs that the market is holding, according to Alexa Apotria, marketing director for the store.

Apotria said she thinks the community engagement initiative is not related to the market’s recent change in status from a co-op to an employee owned grocery store but is instead a result of a new partnership with a public relations firm that is helping the market promote events and attract more customers.

Elm City Market now sends out monthly press releases and posts flyers around town to advertise events like last night’s chocolate tasting.

Noting that the store’s Jan. 28 cheese class attracted 55 customers, Apotria said the new marketing initiatives have been successful.

“We’ve seen more people than we’ve had,” she said, adding that previous cheese classes used to draw only a handful of people.

Although Elm City Market’s Website and Marketing Coordinator Adriana Gheorghiciuc said the chocolate event would educate the public about the nutritional benefits of chocolate, no

health information about chocolate was presented during the event.

Apotria declined to comment about why health information was not provided, but she said the event was meant to be more “low-key” than some of the other Elm City Market events, such as their monthly cheese course.

All five customers interviewed also did not report learning about chocolate, but, they said, the event was enjoyable.

“I’m just learning about different brands more than anything else,” said Roseann Scala, who lives in New Haven.

Becky Marvin ’16 said that what she learned at the event was that the store offers “delicious chocolate.”

First-time customer at Elm City Market Sophie Ruehr ’18 said she enjoyed the event and plans to get a bike in order to go to the store more frequently.

Although Elm City Market has held similar community events in the past — the store held a Valentine’s Day chocolate event last year — Gheorghiciuc said she hopes to increase the number of such events in order to build a relationship with New Haven and Yale. One event she is currently planning will offer college students tips on finding healthy meals despite their busy schedules, she said.

Other efforts to engage the community include using social media to educate the public about nutrition and revamping the website to make it more informational.

The market will celebrate National Tortilla Day on Feb. 24 by offering free samples of different types of tortilla chips and dips.

Contact ERIC LIN at eric.v.lin@yale.edu .

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Elm City Market’s chocolate-themed event was part of the store’s new community engagement initiative.

Bicycle safety a priority for state officials

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER At a public hearing before the state Transportation Committee yesterday, state officials proposed a bill that would increase biking safety in Connecticut.

Co-sponsored by State Representatives Roland Lemar and Cristin McCarthy Vahey and State Sen. Beth Bye, the bill would amend current statutes that complicate the construction of new bike lanes on state roads.

Of the 10 largest cities in New England, New Haven — the sixth largest — has the highest percentage of residents who walk or bike to work, according to Director of Transportation for the City of New Haven Doug Hausladen ’04. Supporters of the bill seek to make biking an even more viable option for residents, while also ensuring the safety of those who already bike.

“Right now, state law presents a barrier to a lot of what New Haven is trying to do, and that really hurts our efforts to build a comprehensive transportation system in the city,” said Lemar, who represents the dis-

trict that covers New Haven and East Haven.

Connecticut currently has several measures that impede safer bike lanes from being built. One requirement stipulates that bikers travel as far right on the road as possible, which means constructing left-handed bike lanes is illegal. In addition, two-way bike lanes are prohibited.

These statutes have hampered the city of New Haven from developing two projects that would create “21st century facilities for bikers,” Hausladen said.

The first project is a 2.1 mile on-street protected cycle track on Edgewood Avenue. The current design proposes the construction of a six-foot bike lane next to the curb, a four-foot striped buffer adjacent to it, followed by a parking lane — all to protect riders from roadway traffic.

Hausladen added that this is a typical design for bike lanes in cities like New York and Seattle, but that in New Haven, state laws impede lanes that are protected by a wide buffer. Specifically, state law requires that a parking lane be within 12 inches of the edge of the roadway, which

means the parking lane would not be able to be used as protection for riders.

The city is also running into problems in the construction of a two-way protected cycle track on Route 1 because state law prohibits two-way cycle tracks, even though they are common across the country.

Too many people are afraid to ride their bikes out on the road because they just don’t feel safe.

CRISTIN MCCARTHY VAHEY State Representative, Connecticut “Allowance for two-way bikeways is a change that should be implemented to our statutes to bring the state in line with best practices around the U.S.,” Department of Transportation Commissioner Jim Redeker said in his testimony at the hearing.

In addition to improving conditions for current bike riders,

enhancing streets safety would also make biking to work a more viable option, Lemar said.

A recently published report by non-profit DataHaven shows that the main reason for unemployment in Connecticut is not that people cannot find jobs, but rather that they do not have transportation access to said jobs — which makes improving bike paths crucial, Vahey said in an email to the News.

“Too many people are afraid to ride their bikes out on the road because they just don’t feel safe,” Vahey said in an interview with the News after the hearing.

At the hearing, the bill had over a dozen letters of support and multiple people who testified in favor of it. The bill will be voted on by the full Transportation Committee by mid-March, Lemar said.

In the meantime, Lemar will be working with the governor’s office to incorporate the bill’s proposals into the governor’s broader transportation plans, he said.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

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“No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.”

THOMAS BROWNE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN

Science grad students seek equality in funding SIXTH-YEAR FROM PAGE 1 initially part of the proposed reform, but the efforts ultimately focused on the other two disciplines because their funding structures are very different.

Entering doctoral students in the sciences are typically guaranteed five years of funding, though this varies by department, according to Richard Sleight, associate dean of the Graduate School.

However, after the first few years of study, science students are often fully supported by the principal investigators in their labs, which is not the case for students in other disciplines, students interviewed said. Additionally, many science students do not rely on teaching for their income, unlike students in the humanities and social sciences.

For these students, sixth-year funding will be provided as of next fall, through teaching positions or equivalent stipends.

Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley said science students also receive fellowships from outside sources such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, whereas humanities and social sciences students are mostly supported by the Graduate School because grant support is rarer in their areas of study.

Twenty of 22 science students interviewed said they are not concerned about their own funding situations, with 11 adding that they believe it is easier to find funding in the sciences than in other disciplines.

Still, nine of 13 students who commented on the Graduate School policy said they believe sixth-year guaranteed funding should be extended to cover science students as well, with some going even further.

“I would like to see the funding term extended beyond [six years] to whenever they finish their study here,” Xinming Zhang GRD ’17 said. “Without funding concerns, we students would be much more willing to undertake riskier and longerterm projects, which are usually more important and innovative.”

Others suggested the policy should be extended to science students in the interest of fairness.

Still, Cooley said that given the differences in funding structures, a uniform sixth-year funding policy would not appropriately address the needs of science graduate students.

But Park said the GSA will continue to pursue the initiative, adding that Graduate School administrators have agreed to attend to these issues in the near future.

Without funding concerns, we … would be much more willing to undertake riskier and longer-term projects.

XINMING ZHANG GRD ’17 “Sixth-year funding for science students is just as important to providing sixth-year funding for humanities and social science students,” Park said.

Students said guaranteeing a sixth year of funding is also important because many students rely on their principle investigator’s funding — a source which can be unreliable.

Sleight said it is relatively rare for faculty members to lose funding to the extent that makes supporting their graduate students impossible, and that under circumstances like these, the students’ funding situations are addressed on a case by case basis.

Cooley said some departments have reserve funding they can use to support students whose principle investigators lose funding. For departments that do not, either the Graduate or medical school steps in, she explained.

“We always find a way for students to remain in their lab and finish their degrees,” she added.

However, several students said this has not been their experience.

Daniel Gadala-Maria GRD ’15 said he has friends who have almost had to leave Yale or needed to essentially restart their doctoral research over when their principle investigators lost funding or left to work in other industries. Chen also said that while her department is currently funding her, the funding only lasts for one year, and she is not sure what will happen when the year is up. Chen, who expects to graduate in the fall of 2015, said she is unsure of how she will be funded, as departmental funding only extends through the fifth year.

In some cases, if a principle investigator does not get tenure, students might have to change to a different lab that could guarantee their funding, according to Brittany Angarola GRD ’17, the Cell Biology Department’s GSA representative.

Additionally, several students cited confusion surrounding this policy.

Rui Dong GRD ’17 said as an international student, NIH funding is not available to her, and other sources are scarce.

“Honestly, we have trouble finding funding no matter what year we are in,” Dong said.

Some of the motive behind not funding a sixth year for science students may come from the Graduate School’s stance that Ph.D.s should not take longer than six years to complete.

Cell Biology professor Karin Reinisch said her department offers cash incentives to students who graduate in less than six years, adding that faculty members believe that Ph.D. research should not take longer.

The department also offers the Ferris Chair’s Prize of $10,000 to a cell biology student for exceptional doctoral work completed within four years of matriculation.

Julie Park GRD ’18 said incentives like these encourage students to graduate as early as possible — even though their research, by nature, cannot be rushed.

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

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Sixth-year funding was not extended to science graduate students, as a result of differing funding structures.

After Anthem breach, state senators propose tighter cybersecuirty PRIVACY FROM PAGE 1

tion — have not served the public adequately, according to Duff. He said the state would also examine recent laws passed in Massachusetts, Nevada and New Jersey to see how these states have enforced cybersecurity legislation. If passed, the legislation outlined on Wednesday would make Connecticut the second state after New Jersey to require encryption from health insurers.

Ross Koppel, an adjunct professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, suggested that encrypting data may not be enough. He added that using unique patient identification

numbers — a system currently banned by the U.S. Congress — would be dramatically more effective than merely encrypting the social security numbers of customers.

Ted Wittenstein ’04 LAW ’12, a lecturer in Global Affairs at the Jackson Institute, said encryption is merely one of many elements an organization needs to protect sensitive data. Wittenstein added that a legislative approach alone will not solve the issue of cyberattacks, and that ultimately, the solution would require input on federal and local levels as well as from the private

sector.

Another state Senate bill, introduced at the beginning of this year’s legislative session, also acts as a potential vehicle to address cybersecurity, said Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney of New Haven. The bill requires companies to notify their customers whenever unauthorized access to data in the company’s computer system occurs.

Duff commended Anthem for reporting the incident in a timely manner, noting that the company was a victim in the breach as well.

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George Jepsen, who launched an investigation into the breach last week, joined nine other attorney generals from across the country on Feb. 10 to call for transparency and better communication from Anthem to its customers.

Anthem has pledged to provide two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection to all Connecticut residents affected by the data breach. Anthem representatives from Connecticut could not be reached for comment.

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vent hackers from getting in, we can at least thwart their efforts by limiting what information they get and rendering it useless.”

Duff said legislators plan to enable commissioners to certify new technologies regarding cybersecurity as they develop.

With the state interested in becoming a national leader in the $210 billion cybersecurity industry, lawmakers are also working on related legislation that would develop cybersecurity-appropriate standards of securing

the data of both individuals and business, according to State Sen. and Senate Chair of the Commerce Committee Joan Hartley of Waterbury. Hartley added that this legislation is particularly important for state commercial interests because the state does not know the precise number of hacks that businesses, especially smaller enterprises, face on a regular basis.

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SPORTS

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”

MICHAEL JORDAN FIVE-TIME NBA MVP

The quintessential floor general DUREN FROM PAGE 10

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Duren’s 13.6 points per game rank second on the team, only behind forward Justin Sears ’16, who averages 14.5.

realize how much my teammates look to me on the court.”

As a senior floor general who has spent four years under head coach James Jones, Duren knows his way around the college game and the team playbook. He has been a key facilitator for the Elis this season, averaging a team-high 4.2 assists per game.

Duren has even begun to mentor and transfer some of his hard-earned knowledge to younger point guard Makai Mason ’18, who will be expected to replace Duren next year at the position.

“I think he’s definitely helped the transition from high school to college for me,” Mason said. “I think when you first get to the college level, it’s just a lot faster. And you panic when you have to see all the looks at one time. He calmed me down a little bit. [He helped me] see [each play] as a progression and see all the looks for each play as it progresses.”

Mason noted that he has had the opportunity to guard Duren at practice, which has helped him learn what he can and cannot get away with on the defensive end.

Although Duren is easily recognized on the court by his 6–4 stature and smooth ball-handling skills, the first thing most people notice about him when he does not have a basketball in his hand, according to for-

mer teammate Brandon Sherrod ’16, is his exuberant personality. Sherrod, Duren’s close friend, described the St. Louis native as a goofball who is always cracking jokes.

“People are attracted to him because of how strong of a personality he has, and also because of the fact that he’s him,” Sherrod said. “There is never a dull moment when you are with Javier.”

Sherrod also noted that Duren has a strong community and a strong group of friends around him. Duren is heavily involved with the Beta Upsilon Chi fraternity and TeamSober, a organization founded by Duren, along with Sherrod, as an attempt to change the college drinking culture.

Duren himself credits much of his leadership experience and comfort with the role to his involvement in those groups.

“Being a leader in YFA [Yale Faith and Action] and TeamSober has developed my leadership skills in other areas in my life outside of basketball,” Duren said. “Because of that, my relationships with my teammates have grown deeper and that has definitely been translated on the court.”

Although Duren suffered an ankle injury that hindered him during the back end of Yale’s Ivy League schedule last year, he has bounced back with tenacity and is looking forward to the final games in this year’s rendition of

the 14-game tournament.

Even Sherrod was quick to acknowledge the increased level of performance in his close friend.

“As a senior, you are seeing him making the right plays on the court, making sure guys are in the right position, and also just being a huge vocal leader,” Sherrod said. “He leads by example on the court, whether in practice or in games.”

Duren’s leadership may well propel the Bulldogs into March Madness this season. Yale is currently tied with Harvard for first in the Ivy League at 5–1 in conference play; this season is the first time that Yale has started Ivy play with five consecutive wins since the start of conference play in 1957.

Duren has been a key factor in the team’s success all year, and his decision-making and production will continue to be crucial for the Elis down the stretch.

“He’s definitely a competitor, but he’s also a leader,” Mason said. “In the key moments, I think you’ve seen it this year, he definitely steps up and takes ownership of the team.”

The first-place Bulldogs travel to Penn and Princeton this weekend as they look for an Ivy League title.

Ashley Wu contributed reporting.

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

Brian Cain aids Elis SPORTS PSYCH FROM PAGE 10 Cain has expanded his work to several teams such as women’s swimming and diving, baseball and softball. He visits Yale’s campus three to four days each month and plans to work with as many athletes as he can in the future, according to Rogers.

Wide receiver Robert Clemons ’17 said the team has met with Cain “at least 15 times” since the spring of 2013, and that they also watch Cain’s training videos and go over his reading material when

he is not on campus.

“Our first meeting was weird.

The guy came in a little hot, playing loud music, getting us on our feet,” Clemons said. “A lot of us didn’t understand how mentally strong you can be, and that you could practice your mentality.”

Clemons added that while players’ opinions are mixed on Cain’s influence, the overall consensus is that he has helped the team’s mentality more than many had previously anticipated.

Following an 8–2 season in which the Bulldogs came from

behind in several games and Reno preached every week about “following the process,” it is certainly easy to argue that mentality played some role.

“The whole team has developed confidence and trust in Brian Cain,” Clemons said.

Men’s lacrosse team captain Harry Kucharczyk ’15 also attested to the level of comfort Yale athletes have with Cain. According to Kucharczyk, Cain does not feel like a coach. Rather, he is a helpful resource that Kucharczyk can reach out to at any time — Cain

Elis hope to ace ECAC test TENNIS FROM PAGE 10 Faierman said. “It is a big test to find out where we are.”

So far in the spring season, the Bulldogs (4–1, 0–0 Ivy) have only competed at home. A loss on Feb. 1 to the Iowa Hawkeyes spoiled what had been a perfect 4–0 start, but two players — Tyler Lu ’17 and Martin Svenning ’16 — remain undefeated this year.

George Washington will be serious competition for the Elis, as the Colonials were picked to finish first in the preseason Atlantic 10 coaches’ poll. George Washington has won three conference championships in the past four years, including a triumph last season over VCU. “I think there’s definitely a pressure to perform, but at the same time, it’s not a bad pressure,” Lu said. “It’s just knowing that we need to be focused.”

For the past few weeks, the team has been practicing its backhand and doubles play. Yale has earned the doubles point in three of its five matches this season, a statistic that leaves room for improvement.

Coach Alex Dorato noted that the team’s practice for the past

few weeks has been efficient in improving the team and its players’ skills, as well helping the freshmen members to evolve their games.

“The team is coming together, doubles have improved,” Dorato said. “The three freshmen are doing great; they will all be in the lineup somewhere.”

Those freshmen — Fedor Andrienko ’18, Stefan Doehler ’18 and Ziqi Wang ’18 — have been major players this season.

Wang began the spring season ranked as the No. 95 player in the country, and in the team’s most recent game against Iowa, Wang played in the No. 2 spot, though he lost a hotly contested game against the Hawkeyes’ Dominic Patrick, 3–6, 6–4, 6–4.

Doehler and Andrienko, meanwhile, have formed a doubles team and have played extremely well in their nascent Yale careers. The pair has won all four doubles matches it has competed in this season.

Yale’s game against George Washington is a play-in game.

As the No. 9 seed in the tournament, the Bulldogs must defeat George Washington to earn a spot in the final eight, where they would play No. 30 Harvard,

which is hosting the competition. The Crimson is both the top-seeded squad in the championships and the second-highest ranked Ivy team in the country, behind No. 13 Columbia. The Lions are not taking part in this tournament because they will be in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association national team championship this weekend, playing No. 4 Georgia on Friday.

But despite the impressive foes slated to appear in the tournament, Faierman remains confident in the team’s ability.

“We’ve had a really good week of preparation,” Faierman said. “We’re pretty optimistic …

We have a pretty evenly strong lineup.”

Lu said the team is better than it was last year and that this weekend should be a good barometer of the team’s true talent level.

The 2015 ECAC Men’s Tennis Championship will take place in Cambridge, Mass., between Feb. 13 to 16. Yale’s game is at 10 a.m. on Friday and will be streamed live on the Ivy League Digital Network.

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If the Bulldogs beat George Washington on Friday, they will face No. 1 seed Harvard.

gave him his cell phone number.

This level of comfort transcends sport and has led to success for various athletic teams at Yale. The men’s lacrosse team won its first regular season Ivy League title since 1990 within months of Shay bringing Cain on board in 2010, and the field hockey team won an Ivy championship with Cain’s help in 2011.

Two years later, Reno got in contact with Cain because he felt that mental conditioning was a void the football team had not yet filled.

Baseball captain David Toups ’15 said Cain’s words have been useful to him personally, and that the baseball team has made active changes to its mental preparation since meeting with him in December.

The baseball team has started a poster about perspective, with pictures reminding players that situations they are in are rarely as bad or good as they may seem.

Toups said the visual reminder will help keep the idea of mental toughness fresh in their minds.

“Obviously baseball is such a

mental game, and that’s a part of the game that not many people think about or train,” Toups said.

“If you can control that or make an effort to improve the mental side over the course of a season, it will help tremendously.”

Toups added that Cain, who has worked with many top baseball programs, has shed light on many of the mental strategies those teams use in their preparation.

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

Merit drives Elis

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In 2006, his first year with the Bulldogs, Keith Allain ’80 helped the Elis earn the Ivy title.

ALLAIN FROM PAGE 10 players responded to.

According to leading scorer John Hayden ’17, the team embraces the passion and demanding nature of Allain’s coaching.

Hayden said that though Allain can be intense, the players would not want it any other way.

Though Allain credits former coach Taylor for his knowledge of the game and his care for the players, he also said the sense of entitlement that he encountered when taking over as head coach was a part of the Taylor era that did not sit right with him.

“I felt that I brought a different type of energy and enthusiasm, which I think is important,” Allain said. “I wanted to make sure my guys had fun and that they could understand that working hard and having fun were not mutually exclusive when playing hockey.”

By 2010, Allain had managed to take his nononsense style of coaching and apply it to the construction of a national powerhouse: a Yale team that posted a 28–7–1 record and the Elis’ first-ever No. 1 overall national ranking. Yale had gone from an ECAC afterthought to one of the nation’s most feared programs in less than five years.

“I make my players understand that you’ll

have better days and lesser days,” Allain said.

“You need to understand why you have success when you’re winning and why you fail when you lose. You try to enhance the reasons you succeed, and that’s something we get through practice. You have to stick to the process.”

With Yale poised to succeed and a fan base clamoring for titles, Allain’s 2013 championship arrived more as a culmination of a teambuilding process than a sudden triumph.

According to Allain, he never doubted Yale would win a championship.

“We had a really good year in 2013, and I think a lot of people underestimated that team because of where we were pair-wise,” Allain said. “We had some really good moments that made our guys believe that we could win no matter what and that we could beat anyone.

We never lost our belief.”

Director of Athletics Tom Beckett called the Bulldogs’ 2013 win one of the proudest moments of his career and a source of pride for the entire Yale community.

Allain’s quest for a second championship continues this weekend when the Elis take on Union and RPI over a two-game road trip.

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

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BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER

Duren has embraced his leadership role on the team.

“My confidence has really grown on the court and that has enabled me to be a better leader,” Duren said.

“When I first began walking into my leadership role last year, I didn’t

Walking by the Smilow Field Center this past year, the Yale bystander may have seen football players smashing boards with their heads and eating fire.

These players were not training their muscles — they were training their minds.

With the leadership of sports psychologist Brian Cain, many teams at Yale are working on their mental toughness — the ability to work through challenges mentally and emotionally. Breaking “mental blocks” and eating fire, which are intended to encourage players to move out of their comfort zones, are two examples of the exercises that the Cain has used. “[Cain] has been teaching us different ways as a team to come together, and ways that we can overcome any mental problems that we have,” swimmer Kate Rogers ’18 said.

“He’s very positive and energetic, and I feel as though he really wants everyone to succeed.”

Rogers took part in another exercise Cain conducted last week with the women’s swimming and diving team, in which Cain lit a stick on fire and instructed her to hold it in her mouth. This was supposed to be a lesson in dealing with unexpected challenges.

Cain, a former assistant baseball coach at Cal State Fullerton, has worked with many programs such as Texas Christian University, Alabama and even the Washington Nationals.

The Yale men’s lacrosse team and field hockey team were the first to summon Cain’s help in 2010 and 2011, and football head coach Tony Reno followed suit last spring. This year,

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Point guard Javier Duren leads the team with 4.2 assists per game.

BY JACOB MITCHELL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Within the past five games, Yale point guard Javier Duren ’15 knocked down a game-clinching fadeaway jump shot against Brown, posted a double-double against Cornell and eclipsed the 1,000-point career

scoring mark against Harvard. In the team’s upset against the University of Connecticut earlier this season, Duren led all scorers with 15 points and found sharp-shooting guard Jack Montague ’16 in the corner for the winning basket. Memorable moments such as these have made Duren’s senior season one for the

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record books.

He provides the Bulldogs with senior leadership, creating plays for both himself and his teammates, while also guiding an Ivy-best offense that is currently averaging 69.1 points per game. After starting every game he played last season, and especially this year in his senior campaign,

Keith Allain emphasizes meritocracy

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER On April 13, 2013, the Yale Bulldogs men’s hockey team captured its first ever NCAA National Championship with one of the program’s most successful coaches, Keith Allain ’80, leading the way.

MEN’S HOCKEY However, when Allain took over at Yale

in 2006, he inherited a squad that was a far cry from the championship-winning group of 2013. Having gone just 3–5–2 in the Ivy League in coach Tim Taylor’s final season, Allain was faced with turning a losing squad into title contenders.

Allain and the Yale Bulldogs responded that year by winning the 2006 Ivy League Championship, as the newly empowered head coach built the foundation of a Yale squad that proved capable of competing among the nation’s top talent into the

next decade. Allain did, however, change the way Yale hockey operated.

“There were a couple of things we did right away when I came in,” Allain said.

“There seemed to be a sense of entitlement with the players that if you were a senior you got to play or if you were recruited in a certain way, you got to play.”

Instead, Allain established meritocratic standards of play, which he says the SEE ALLAIN PAGE 8

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Two Yale men’s tennis players are undefeated: Tyler Lu ’17 and Martin Svenning ’16.

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George Washington University.

The Colonials, ranked No. 61 in the country, mark the beginning of what Daniel Faierman ’15 described as the most challenging sporting event so far this season.

“It is the most important competition so far this season,” SEE MEN’S TENNIS PAGE 8

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In 2010, Keith Allain ’80 led the Bulldogs to their first ever No. 1 national ranking and a record of 28–7–1.

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THE NUMBER OF CAREER POINTS JAVIER DUREN ’15 HAS ACCUMULATED THROUGH HIS FOUR SEASONS AT YALE. Duren is just the 27th player in school history to reach the 1,000 point mileston.