Today's Paper

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · VOL. CXXXVII, NO. 100 · yaledailynews.com

INSIDE THE NEWS MORNING EVENING

CLOUDY SNOWY

28 28

CROSS CAMPUS

BAD HABITS STUDIES ON BINGE DRINKING, EATING

WIDER SAMPLES

YCC RECOMMENDS...

New initiatives seek to increase minority patients in clinical trials.

REFORMING CR/D/ FAIL AND SHOPPING PERIOD.

PAGES 12-13 SCI-TECH

PAGE 3 SCI-TECH

PAGE 5 UNIVERSITY

New colleges to house annexed juniors

Fake moustache. On Monday

morning, many students woke to a prank email supposedly sent by University President Peter Salovey, announcing that one of the two new residential colleges would be named “G.W. Bush College” after George W. Bush ’68. The News regrets omitting this option from its Up for Discussion series on the subject last fall.

Open to parents in the University community, this afternoon’s Summer Day Camp & Programs Fair at Yale will lay out several options to keep the children of faculty and staff occupied, postCommencement.

Pound-for-pound champ.

Forbes Magazine’s annual article on the world’s richest people profiled 16 billionaires from Connecticut, including (everyone’s favorite) Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio. With Dalio’s other, very powerful friends, the Nutmeg State boasts the nation’s highest number of billionaires per capita, though most of them are Greenwich financiers. Is anyone surprised?

Not quite billionaires.

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal took on the everyman’s issue that is student contribution to financial aid packages in a recent pointcounterpoint style article. We found the piece’s breakdown of a typical college student’s day — notably his or her ability to sleep for more than 8 hours — fairly interesting.

Going the extra mile. A post on

the University’s Facebook page yesterday linked to a gallery of the School of Architecture’s famous trips around the globe. The photos feature students directly in front of the buildings and cities they study in textbooks, spanning Boston, Beijing and everywhere between and beyond.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2013 A brawl just outside Toad’s Place on York Street forces police to use Tasers at the scene. One man with mace spray on his face proceeds to punch and shatter a window at Yorkside Pizza next door.

Follow along for the News’ latest.

Twitter | @yaledailynews

ONLINE y MORE goydn.com/xcampus

PAGE 7 CITY

Committee reviews NHPS funding equity

Holloway said. “In the first year it will be annex … and things will sort themselves out over the next two years, as they fill.”

Holloway said he expects many students will choose to transfer into the new colleges, leaving open beds in their former colleges. This will reduce the need for annex housing, allowing more students to remain

Amid statewide talk of tightening funds following Gov. Dannel Malloy’s budget proposal last month, the Operations and Finance Committee of the New Haven Public Schools’ Board of Education convened Monday evening to talk money — specifically, equity in school funding.

After the committee completed the main budgetary agenda, attendees yielded the floor to Victor De La Paz, Chief Financial Officer of NHPS. De La Paz presented some of the findings of Education Resource Strategies, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that has been working with NHPS since last July to develop a five-year resource and financial plan for the district. The research presented, which comes from the second phase of ERS’s work with NHPS, focused on the district’s funding equity, or the fairness and efficiency of funding across the city’s different schools and student demographics.

Chief among the report’s findings were the wide funding gaps across NHPS, and the difference in per-pupil funding for K-8 schools versus the district’s high schools.

“What this means is that the gap between our lowest-funded schools and our highest-funded schools is wider,” said De La Paz. “You’re never going to see all schools funded equally, but to have a really wide distribution of funding is problematic.”

In New Haven, 41 percent of public schools receive per-student funding that is more than 10 percent above or below the district’s median amount. In comparison with what ERS calls “peer districts” —

SEE ANNEX HOUSING PAGE 4

SEE NHPS BUDGET PAGE 6

O Captain. The Freshman

Baby Bain? Mini McKinsey?

New Haven raised $114,000 to help sister city Freetown fight Ebola.

BY SKYLER INMAN STAFF REPORTER

Wham. Basking in the immediate aftermath of their tap season, the Whiffenpoofs will host Whiff Jam 2015 tonight at BAR Pizza, open to the entire Yale community.

With free admission, the event will include an open bar and samplings from the group’s upcoming full-length CD.

Class Council closed applications for Freshman Olympics residential college captains last night. We would’ve swapped out the application’s questions (i.e., “How would you contribute?” and “What ideas do you have?”) for something more along the lines of “How hard can you throw a dodgeball?”

SISTERS, REUNITED

IRENE JIANG/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

When the new residential colleges open in 2017, Swing Space will be renovated for use by law students.

BY EMMA PLATOFF AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS When the new colleges open in August 2017, they will welcome about 200 new freshmen. Less frequently discussed are those who will be joining them: juniors annexed from their residential colleges.

While discussions on how to populate the new colleges are far from over, Yale College Dean Jona-

than Holloway said in their first year they will house annexed juniors — a necessary provision, given that in the same year, Swing Space will be renovated for use by law students. Juniors who would otherwise have lived in Swing Space will likely occupy roughly two-thirds of the beds allocated for juniors, he said.

“We’re growing Yale College by 800 students, but the [new colleges’] bed capacity is beyond that,”

Applications to Yale Summer Session abroad fall

BY QI XU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Applications to Yale Summer Session Programs Abroad fell this year, and 15 out of 33 are underenrolled as of the initial Feb. 15 deadline.

While Tina Kirk, director of study abroad at the Center for International and Professional Experience, acknowledged that

total applications have fallen, she said the increase in number of under-subscribed classes was a result of a changed application process. Many students who had taken Summer Session Programs Abroad — classes that allow students to take Yale-taught courses in global settings — were surprised by the decreased popularity of their programs, and professors interviewed expressed hope

Senators reintroduce sexual assault bill

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER On Thursday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and 11 other senators introduced a “strengthened version” of an act that aims to hold university administrators accountable for acts of sexual violence on their campuses.

The Campus Accountability and Safety Act, which was first introduced last year but never made it to the Senate floor, would set uniform regulations for the disciplinary procedure concerning cases of sexual assault.

Under the law, colleges would be required to adhere to several new initiatives including providing confidential advisors for victims of sexual harassment, violence and stalking, extending the time bracket in which students are able to report an incident after it takes place, and requiring investigators to notify the accuser and the accused within 24 hours if disciplinary action is pursued.

Furthermore, students at every

U.S. university will be surveyed about their experiences with sexual violence for the government to gain a more accurate picture of college cases of sexual assault.

This information would then be published biannually.

In a Thursday press release, Blumenthal said the goal of the legislation is to set a new and uniform standard of conduct and a culture of safety that will make students feel more comfortable on their respective college campuses.

“College administrators can no longer dismiss, demean or deny the problem,” he said in the release. “Even after some progress by some schools, sexual assaults are all too often undeterred and underreported.”

While CASA never made it to the Senate floor last year, supporters of the bill said they are convinced that it will prove more successful the second time around. Since the initial bill was SEE SEXUAL ASSAULT PAGE 4

that their classes would not be canceled.

English professor Grant Wiedenfeld, who teaches “Paris and the Cinema” in Paris, and French professor Françoise Schneider, who teaches the “Advanced Culture and Conversation” course, also in Paris, said they are puzzled by the drop in applications this year, given good reviews of the courses in the past.

Wiedenfeld added that he would be disappointed if his course is canceled because of under-enrollment.

“I really want to teach that class,” he said.

Kirk explained that previously, applicants to the Yale Summer Session Programs Abroad could indicate three class choices. If a student was not admitted to his or her first choice, their applica-

tion was automatically reviewed for the second and third options.

This year, applicants could only list one choice. As a result, students who were not accepted to their first choice were not automatically reviewed for any other programs, Kirk said.

However, Czech and Slavic Languages and Literatures proSEE YSS PAGE 4

Only 12 opt out of society tap

ERICA BOOTHBY/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Given the option to opt out of the society tap process this year, only 12 juniors elected to do so.

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Despite widespread support for the implementation of a choice to opt out of society tap, only 12 of over 1,300 juniors

decided against participating in the process.

These 12 juniors were the only ones to respond to an email sent to the entire class of 2016 on Feb. 16 announcing the alternaSEE SOCIETY TAP PAGE 6

PAGE 2

YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

OPINION

.COMMENT “Maybe it's time to rethink the faculty freeze” yaledailynews.com/opinion

JEREMIE KOENIG ON 'STUDENT

PETITION CALLS FOR CS FACULTY INCREASE'

Cultural liberalism at Yale Subvert the system F L

ast year, I spent a chilly November morning canvassing with Fossil Free Yale. The 30-odd students who had signed up to canvas gathered first in the Silliman courtyard. An FFY board member handed out flyers that read: “With a great endowment comes great responsibility.”

Before we split off to canvas various colleges, Fossil Free leaders started up a chant: “We are warriors. We are ready.”

I trailed a handful of volunteers toward TD. As we traipsed up steps and knocked on doors, we got a wide range of reactions. Some students responded by enthusiastically agreeing to vote in the upcoming Yale College Council referendum. Others seemed more confused: “This is an interesting thing to be doing with your Saturday morning,” one chuckled.

Most weren’t accustomed to the demand that FFY presented: Help us sway the Yale administration and Corporation.

From the time the FFY movement launched, this organization has generated a particular energy on campus. It’s an energy that carries import far beyond the particulars of the fossil free campaign. It’s an energy that offers critical lessons to activists on every battlefront, from gender equity to racial justice.

BUT UNTIL RECENTLY, WE’VE HAD VERY LITTLE OF THE SUBVERSIVEMIDDLE-FINGER KIND OF ADVOCACY. Yale is not a particularly radical community. I don’t think that argument is too controversial; it’s been made in classrooms, at dinner tables, in Master’s Teas and in these pages.

Last year I wrote a final paper on Yale’s activist history, and that was the sentiment I heard echoed by all the alumni I spoke with: We’re risk-averse. Some Yalies have pet causes and some have issues that genuinely move us, but very rarely are we willing to subvert the system. “Everyone here is very ambitious, and taking a strong political stance is seen as a professional and social liability,” Alexandra Brodsky ’12 LAW’16 explained to me.

Social movements that operate within the system can have great value. It’s important to communicate with Yale administrators to identify opportunities for campus reform. YCC’s mental health report is a great example of that — its writers presented administrators with concrete ways of address-

ing student concerns.

Yale’s Community and Consent Educators are hired by the University to fight EMMA a more GOLDBERG for positive sexual climate.

Dilemmas Our campus has its fair share of partnership people, activists who work with authorities to pave the way for change. But until recently, we’ve had very little of the subversive-middle-finger kind of advocacy. Some would argue that’s a positive. But I think there’s a unique, particular kind of energy that comes from subversive activism, the kind accompanied by just a bit of antagonism.

If you reach back years into Yale’s history, you’ll find plenty of moments in which student activists took an aggressive stance against authority.

In 1986, students camped out on Beinecke Plaza calling on the University to divest from South Africa under apartheid — 78 students were arrested for trespassing. As recently as 2011, 16 students filed a Title IX complaint against Yale. They charged the University with “failing to eliminate a hostile sexual environment.” These aggressive moves can spur productive action; four years later, Yale’s system of addressing sexual misconduct complaints has been completely restructured.

Few of Yale’s social justice movements today have taken on the administration, risking reputation or security or even arrest to force a response. Few have taken to heart a simple challenge: Institutions, at their core, are prone to inertia. It’s up to us to fuel progress.

But FFY has embraced a more radical approach. They’ve recognized that while administrators and Corporation members are not the enemy, they warrant criticism from the community at large.

This Thursday, FFY will be rallying outside Woodbridge Hall. They’ll be calling for a response from the Yale Corporation and demonstrating that they won’t back down on their demands. The values at the heart of their mission — environmental justice, clean energy — are critically important. But equally as important is the energy they’re creating on campus. They’re reminding the Yale Corporation that administrators may have authority, but students have their own unique form of power.

or much of my time at Yale, I’ve been confused about the political motivations of most undergraduates.

It is clear that, on the whole, Yalies are apathetic about national, local and campus politics. In the past year, columnists on this page have described students’ ignorance of issues regarding University governance, decried Yalies’ lack of involvement with the city of New Haven and written wistfully of the longgone protest atmosphere of the 1970s. This past Friday, only 100 students gathered to protest the student income contribution — probably the second-most prominent issue on campus, after mental health. Most Yalies I know don’t follow national politics, nor do they hold opinions about foreign policy, tax reform and most other prominent policy issues.

I have no particular problem with political apathy; when individuals don’t feel an urgent need to participate in a system, it is often a sign that the system is working well. There are also many ways to improve the world that don’t involve politics, and I would be much more worried if Yalies displayed, not only antipolitical, but anti-social tendencies.

Yet, Yalies’ high levels of political apathy present a sort of paradox. One might expect that a group of apathetic students would not have particu-

Editorial: (203) 432-2418 editor@yaledailynews.com Business: (203) 432-2424 business@yaledailynews.com

SPORTS Grant Bronsdon Ashton Wackym

MANAGING EDITORS Matthew Lloyd-Thomas Wesley Yiin

WEEKEND Jane Balkoski Andrew Koenig David Whipple

ONLINE EDITOR Marek Ramilo

YTV Michael Leopold Isabel McCullough Steffi Yuli

OPINION Rishabh Bhandari Diana Rosen NEWS Lavinia Borzi Adrian Rodrigues CITY J. R. Reed Pooja Salhotra

MAGAZINE Jennifer Gersten Oliver Preston COPY Eva Landsberg Adam Mahler Isabel Sperry Sarah Sutphin

CULTURE Eric Xiao

PRODUCTION & DESIGN Sammy Bensinger Alex Cruz Olivia Hamel Jilly Horowitz Carter Levin Marisa Lowe Aparna Nathan Amra Saric PHOTOGRAPHY Wa Liu Elena Malloy Alexandra Schmeling Ken Yanagisawa

PUBLISHER Abdullah Hanif DIR. FINANCE Yuanling Yuan DIR. ADVERTISING Gonzalo Gallardo ONL. BUSINESS MANAGER Steven Hee MARKETING & SALES MANAGER Eva Landsberg

PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER Misael Cabrera ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE MANAGER Joanna Jin ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE MANAGER Christopher Chute

ILLUSTRATIONS Thao Do WEB DEVELOPMENT Annie Cook Aaron Lewis Christopher Wan

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Hannah Schwarz

THIS ISSUE COPY STAFF: Martin Lim PRODUCTION STAFF: Emily Hsee, Amanda Mei, Steven Pan, Jon Rolfe, Samuel Wang, Holly Zhou PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS: Joey Ye EDITORIALS & ADS

The News’ View represents the opinion of the majority of the members of the Yale Daily News Managing Board of 2016. Other content on this page with bylines represents the opinions of those authors and not necessarily those of the Managing Board. Opinions set forth in ads do not necessarily reflect the views of the Managing Board. We reserve the right to refuse any ad for any reason and to delete or change any copy we consider objectionable, false or in poor taste. We do not verify the contents of any ad. The Yale Daily News Publishing Co., Inc. and its officers, employees and agents disclaim any responsibility for all liabilities, injuries or damages arising from any ad. The Yale Daily News Publishing Co. ISSN 0890-2240

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

institutions to identify as liberal; their political identity instead signifies a set of cultural markers and a certain social upbringing.

“Cultural liberals” haven’t thought much about gun control or the separation of church and state, but they know that there’s a particular political tribe that loves guns, goes to church and listens to country music — and that they don’t belong to that tribe. They like diversity because they grew up in communities where a respect for diversity was a prerequisite for social acceptability and a way to differentiate insiders from outsiders. They express outrage about the “war on women,” “scientific ignorance” and “privilege” to unambiguously signal their political affiliations and thereby increase their status. They rarely take any concrete political action in support of these proclaimed values; one doesn’t usually need to take action in order to belong to a cultural group.

If the previous paragraph sounds polemical, it is to vividly illustrate a pervasive phenomenon I’ve observed at Yale (and none of the above is meant to attack cultural Jews, who are wonderful). In fact, in all likelihood, conservatives are equally guilty of adopting political identities to signal cultural affiliations. Humans are tribal animals; we love separating into different groups and treating politics as a proxy for inter-tribal warfare.

EMMA GOLDBERG is a junior in Saybrook College and a former opinion editor for the News. Her column usually runs on alternate Mondays.

Contact her at emma.goldberg@yale.edu .

SUBMISSIONS

All letters submitted for publication must include the author’s name, phone number and description of Yale University affiliation. Please limit letters to 250 words and guest columns to 750. The Yale Daily News reserves the right to edit letters and columns before publication. E-mail is the preferred method of submission.

Direct all letters, columns, artwork and inquiries to: Rishabh Bhandari and Diana Rosen Opinion Editors Yale Daily News opinion@yaledailynews.com

COPYRIGHT 2015 — VOL. CXXXVII, NO. 100

So why make a big deal about a near-universal phenomenon?

Because when we treat politics as a conflict between tribes, we inevitably focus on the most polarizing issues, those that most clearly delineate our political identities. It is no accident that most Yalies consider themselves more socially liberal than fiscally liberal. Both of our contemporary political tribes can claim to care about economic justice and the working class, so decrying the state of the poor is an inefficient way of marking one’s self as a liberal. On the other hand, feminism and identity politics signal membership in only one political tribe, so it is unsurprising that Yalies spend much of their time talking about these issues. When we focus on the issues that most divide us, we get a political discourse that is as polarized and unproductive as possible.

But we are in a university setting where we have an opportunity to critically examine our ideas, so I urge Yalies to hold themselves to a higher standard.

Reject insignificant social issues that serve only to polarize. Don’t vote for candidates because they seem culturally similar to you.

And figure out which political identity actually matches your principles and values.

SCOTT GREENBERG is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. His column runs on Tuesdays. Contact him at scott.greenberg@yale.edu .

ASHLYN OAKES/STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

Cross the street

YALE DAILY NEWS PUBLISHING CO., INC. 202 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 432-2400

EDITOR IN CHIEF Isaac Stanley-Becker

larly developed political identities.

If you don’t especially care about politics and aren’t very informed, SCOTT commit GREENBERG why yourself to a specific politThe Segue ical label?

Yet, it is also clear that Yalies overwhelmingly identify as liberal: 62 percent of the class of 2018 self-identified as somewhat or very liberal in a survey from the News, with only 14 percent identifying as somewhat or very conservative. What explains Yalies’ commitment to liberalism as a political identity, given their overall political apathy?

In Judaism, we often speak of “cultural Jews”: people who might not attend synagogue very often or follow the tenets of the religion, but still identify strongly with the Jewish community and see themselves as part of the tribe, due to cultural similarities and common heritage. I suspect that a similar phenomenon is at play among Yale students — a sort of “cultural liberalism.”

While Yalies might not know or care much about politics, they know that they belong to a particular political tribe. “Cultural liberals” on campus don’t need to buy into liberal principles or

I

felt the disjuncture between the Yale and New Haven communities three times the other day. The first was at 9 a.m., when I walked down the block of College Street between Elm and Chapel on my way to a class in SSS. I had to decide whether to walk alongside the familiar Old Campus architecture and scurrying students, or to take a shortcut that involved crossing the street to the New Haven Green.

The second time, I was walking on York Street with some friends when a woman approached us asking for money. I could sense a general sentiment of discomfort as we fished in our pockets for change and came up empty. We all averted our gazes, saddened by our inability to help.

The third time, I was on my way home from Sterling around midnight. The streets were empty and I remembered the many times my parents begged me not to walk around New Haven alone, especially late at night. I’m from Baltimore, a city not unlike New Haven, but still my parents often feel the need to remind me to take safety precautions, to avoid the precarious areas.

Days like these are frustrating because I didn’t come to college to feel snug within the confines of the Yale BubALLY ble. Part of DANIELS what drew me to this school Taking the was the chance to be a part of a Back Ally city in the process of development and transformation. I lived in New Haven 10 years ago, and the city is already so much more vibrant than I remember it.

As a freshman, I immediately got involved in community service initiatives around the Elm City. I reveled in the fact that the schools where I taught health classes and the soup kitchen where I volunteered were within walking distance of my dorm in L-Dub. I felt that I wasn’t just serving any community, but my own community.

It soon became clear to me that solely living and volunteering in this city does not make it mine.

I will be the first to admit that I

have only been to certain parts of New Haven because those are the places where I’ve made commitments to volunteer. Service initiatives are invaluable, but if we only cross certain boundaries in order to volunteer, we are not really treating this as our community.

Rather, we are suggesting that it is somebody else’s home that we are willing to enter temporarily, only to leave when we consider our work complete.

I am reminded of something I learned in high school about the construction of highways, how they are commonly constructed in order to allow people to drive from their jobs in the city to their homes in the suburbs without having to confront areas that cause them discomfort. In some sense, we create these highways for ourselves when we walk on the Yale side of College Street and avert our gazes when asked for money.

Of course, many of the decisions we make to avoid certain areas are in our best interest, but I do think there are steps we can take, beyond community service, to make New Haven our own.

When the weather was slightly more manageable, I made a habit

of walking to the Wooster Square farmers’ market on the weekends.

In order to get there, I had to walk two blocks further down Chapel Street than I ordinarily would.

The first time I went, I hesitated when I encountered the imaginary fence that lined the perimeter of the New Haven I’d deemed safe.

Once I defied it, however, I found one of my favorite spots in the city, shared by people hailing from a wide assortment of New Haven’s neighborhoods.

There are so many other ways to experience what New Haven has to offer and feel more involved in the community: exploring new restaurants during Restaurant Week, celebrating the holidays at the Christmas tree lighting in the Green, attending shows at the Shubert Theater.

We can all be members of this community. Volunteering is a great place to start, but I think the impact is more meaningful when we feel personally enmeshed in the work we do. Let’s make this city ours and cross the street.

ALLY DANIELS is a junior in Berkeley College. Contact her at alexandra.daniels@yale.edu .

YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

PAGE 3

NEWS

“The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.” JEAN RACINE FRENCH DRAMATIST

CORRECTION

NSF renews research program funding

MONDAY, MARCH 2

A previous version of the article “Term bill to increase by roughly 4 percent” mistakenly quoted Mark Kantrowitz as saying that universities could make tuition rise slower than inflation by decreasing enrollments. In fact, he said that universities would need to increase enrollments.

SOM sees success on Wall Street

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER A record number of students at the School of Management were successful in obtaining job offers on Wall Street this year, despite the competitive nature of the finance industry’s recruiting process.

At the end of February, the SOM released data on the results of SuperWeek, the interview week for first-year SOM students applying for summer investment banking jobs, which often lead to full-time job offers after graduation. This year, 14 banks visited the SOM for recruiting purposes, an all-time high. Of about 50 students who interviewed with the banks, 38 have obtained at least one banking offer, about 10 percent higher than last year’s total, SOM Senior Associate Director of Relationship Management Lloyd Baskin said. According to SOM Senior Associate Dean Anjani Jain, recruiting interest at the SOM for banking jobs has risen because of the depth of financial education that SOM students receive.

“Banks are interested in recruitment at SOM because the quality of students and the quality of educational experience they have in finance is extremely high,” he said.

Jain said that although the absolute number of students interested in Wall Street has risen, this does not necessarily mean the student body’s overall interests have shifted. He said the increase in the number of students seeking and receiving Wall Street offers is instead reflective of the growth in the SOM class sizes over the last several years. Baskin said the actual percentage of the SOM class interested in investment banking and financial services has not changed significantly.

Mitch Rose SOM ’16, who participated in SuperWeek this year, said many people he knows who attended SuperWeek received job offers. He also said he was impressed by the SOM’s resources for students interested in finance.

He added that he found support and guidance for preparation through the Career Development Office as well as the SOM’s

Finance Club, a student-led group that works to inform and prepare students interested in finance for recruiting.

Finance Club President Nicholas Veltri SOM ’15 said the club has grown substantially over the last several years, which he said may be a result of Wall Street jobs becoming more attractive as the United States’ economic recovery strengthens.

Similarly, Jain claimed that banks are paying more attention to potential SOM recruits because, though the SOM is not known to send large numbers of its students into the financial services industry, the school’s offerings for finance education are on par with more finance-focused business schools.

“If you look at the finance curriculum, even though [the SOM] is not known for finance, the number of faculty offering courses in finance, the caliber of the faculty and the quality of the courses that are being offered in finance are comparable to our peer institutions such as Chicago or Wharton or Columbia,” he said.

The SOM has 24 total faculty members in finance, and Chicago Booth has 45.

In addition, Jain said students at the SOM get more attention from potential employers in finance than those at other business schools because they are coming from a smaller class size.

Still, Juliana Granados Quiroga SOM ’16, who will assume one of the leadership positions in the Finance Club next year, said the SOM’s resources do not adequately inform international students — who may have different amounts of background knowledge or eligibility statuses for working in the United States — about the recruiting process.

However, she said the Finance Club is taking a step in the right direction by choosing three of its eight leadership positions to be filled by international students next year.

The SOM Finance Club has nearly 300 group members, according to its website.

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

COURTESY OF DORO NOBLE

The REU summer program provides research positions for undergraduates from other colleges who lack such opportunities.

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, Yale will once again host eight to 10 undergraduates from across this country this summer to conduct independent science research.

Started in 2009, the fellowship program — titled “Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site: Convergence of Research at the Interface of the Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences” — promotes research across multiple scientific disciplines for undergraduates who attend colleges that do not have many research opportunities but are interested in careers in the sciences.

Spanning 10 weeks, the program provides a $5,000 stipend, as well as free room and board and money for travel expenses. In the past, two to three Yale students have also received the fellowship every year.

The program first received a three-year award from the NSF for $238,004 in 2012.

“All of the students rated the program as excellent and I’ve kept in touch with a lot of them. It’s wonderful to hear about how much of an impact this program has had in their careers,” said Dorottya Noble, assistant director of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences, a Yale institute which helps to fund the program.

The undergraduate fellows are paired up with Sackler-affiliated faculty advisors based on mutual research interests, and the students partake in a series of workshops covering laboratory procedures, discussing scientific ethics and applying to graduate school. At the end of the program, students showcase their research at the undergraduate research symposium held in conjunction with other summer Yale research programs.

Although the NSF has yet to announce the grant publicly, Director of Undergrad-

uate Programs at the Sackler Institute and Mechanical Engineering professor Corey O’Hern said he found out three weeks ago that the program will receive funding for the next three years. Only around 30 percent of programs reapplying for funding receive awards from the NSF, which O’Hern said shows how successful the program has been. The merits of success for a program are measured by how many students each year publish their work and how many go on to attend graduate schools, he added. The average publication rate in the program was roughly one paper per student, O’Hern said, and 72 percent of the fellows are currently pursuing or plan to pursue an M.D., Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. joint program, Noble said.

Even for the students who realize they do not want to pursue a career in research, the program is still helpful.

“There are always a couple who decide ‘Well, maybe research isn’t for me,’ and we are happy about that, too,” Noble said.

“I think the earlier you realize research isn’t for you, the better it is in terms of figuring out what is for you.”

The program is currently working to increase representation of minorities underrepresented in the sciences. Thirtyseven percent of the 59 students who have participated in the program since its inception are from groups largely underrepresented in the sciences. In addition, 31 percent of the students who went on to Ph.D. or M.D. programs came from underrepresented groups, Noble said.

Daniel Chawla, a senior at The College of New Jersey who participated in the program this past summer working on simulating chemotaxis in E. coli, said this was his first experience conducting research, and the experience was crucial to envisioning a career for himself in the sciences. He added that he has already applied to graduate schools and hopes to continue his focus in computational biol-

ogy.

Christine Parsons, a senior at Bowdoin College, participated in REU two summers ago, but came back the following year to continue research in the lab in which she had been working. With plans to head to medical school in the future, she is taking some time off after college and has been applying for research positions.

Parsons said she found that the opportunity to publicly present her research at the end of the program taught her how to better communicate complex scientific concepts.

Students interviewed who had participated in the program said it gave them an experience significantly different than what they would have gotten at their smaller schools.

Larisa Gearheart, a junior at Mills College who participated in the program last summer said she still communicates with her mentor from the summer and was happy to hear that the NSF grant is to be renewed.

“It’s so amazing, especially in the political climate where so many things are being cut, to see that we are focusing on areas like this where we can develop scientists — we can develop the next generation,” Gearheart said. “Even with everything that has been happening with politics lately, it is nice to see we have something great like this that will persist.”

Now that they have successfully received the NSF grant, O’Hern said the Sackler Institute’s next goal is to receive from the NIH funding for graduate training that has proved more difficult to obtain in the application process.

The program for 2015 will run from May 31 to Aug. 7.

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

Yale aims to increase clinical trial participation

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER Leaders of the University and wider New Haven community rolled out a series of new initiatives last week aimed at increasing clinical trial participation.

The new initiatives come after two previous attempts at boosting enrollment, starting in January 2006 with the creation of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, launched to offer infrastructural and logistical support to clinical trial researchers. Five years later, YCCI began a cultural outreach program to tap into minority communities who have traditionally been less willing to participate in clinical trials.

This year’s push — which was launched last week — also emphasizes working more closely with community leaders to increase minority representation in clinical trials, using gift cards to reimburse patients and advertising clinical trials on MyChart. The proposals were informed through extensive surveys, interviews and focus groups, said YCCI Chief Operating Officer Tesheia Johnson.

“Support [for clinical trial participation] at my parish is growing because we are doing more than just asking people to sign up — we are engaging the community in a conversation,” said the Rev. Eldren Morrison, pastor of the Varick Memorial African Methodist Epis-

copal Zion Church.

According to YCCI Director and section chief of endocrinology at the Yale School of Medicine Robert Sherwin, although the University has a strong history of basic science research, it has placed less emphasis on clinical trials. Due to a lack of infrastructure and support staff, individual investigators have had to bear the logistical burdens of organizing participant recruitment and conforming to federal regulations. Over the past three to five years, YCCI has developed the necessary infrastructure to address those issues, Sherwin said.

Director of the Yale Cancer Center and Physician-in-Chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital Thomas Lynch ’82 MED ’86 said that the Cancer Center has not had to deal with the same issues as other research departments in the past because patients normally get involved in trials as part of the course of their treatment. In fact, he noted, YCCI struggles with the opposite problem — the demand exceeds supply. The therapeutic trials do not currently have room for everyone who wants to participate, but YCCI has still been able to increase participation in trials four-fold in the past six years.

YCCI is trying to replicate those increases across the University.

Still, some groups have been harder than others to reach, said Dean of the School of Medicine

Robert Alpern.

“The groups that have been the most difficult to reach are minorities,” Alpern said. “They have less trust in the medical establishment.”

He noted that not having many minority clinical trial participants makes it harder for investigators to be sure that particular drugs are safe for those minority groups, as drugs that are effective for Caucasians are not always as effective for Latinos, African Americans or patients of other races.

Johnson added that the delay between the discovery of promising medical treatments and those drugs going on the market is a direct result of difficulties in recruiting sufficient and varied participants for trials.

Sherwin acknowledged that the difficulty that the University and the country as a whole has experienced in recruiting minorities for clinical trials stems from a legacy of maltreatment in the medical establishment.

“Historically, minority populations have had concerns about how they will be treated in medical trials, and if people will be experimenting on them,” Sherwin said.

Morrison agreed that the distrust that the African-American community has of medical testing stems from past injustices, adding that would-be participants think they are going to be “guinea pigs” and are concerned that the drugs

they are being given have not yet been proven to be safe. But Morrison and Sherwin said this view is no longer accurate.

“This was a problem historically, but is not a problem today,” Sherwin said.

Morrison added that minorities can be skeptical of offers of help from the medical community because they have not been granted the same access to healthcare as many of their white peers.

He added that information serves as another obstacle to participation.

The biggest issue we have is access to information, even before access to healthcare.

REV. ELDREN MORRISON Pastor, Varick Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church “A lot of people are skeptical because they don’t understand the language surrounding clinical trials,” Morrison said, explaining that many members of his parish did not know that they would be welltaken care of if they participated in a clinical trial.

He added that support for trial participation has been growing in

the African-American community because YCCI has bridged the information gap. In addition to working closely with Junta for Progressive Action — a nonprofit working with the New Haven Latino community — YCCI has been working with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church to promote trial participation in minority communities.

Presently, information about upcoming clinical trials is advertised at Morrison’s church, with studies about stress and high blood pressure featured prominently on the parish noticeboard.

Morrison explained that before any trial advertisement is posted, the church collectively decides with YCCI which trials the congregation would want more information about.

“The biggest issue we have is access to information, even before access to healthcare,” he said.

Johnson said that numerous events, including educational health fairs and talks about health issues not connected to medical research have been conducted in African-American and Latino communities to bridge the information gap. He added that the group has also developed informational materials that speak directly to minority populations’ concerns about clinical trial participation.

Morrison said individualized solutions to drawing in minority participation are the most impor-

tant avenue for getting them to be involved. He noted that faith can also pose a barrier to trial participation among religious communities.

“There has always been the feeling in the religious community that people have so much faith, they think God is going to heal them, and they don’t take their medication,” Morrison said, adding that a more holistic approach would be thinking that God operates through doctors.

In addition to reaching out to the minority community, YCCI is now changing its method of reimbursement. Clinical trial participants will now be given refillable debit cards, as opposed to checks that take weeks to deposit into participants’ accounts. Johnson said that because trials reimburse people for expenses incurred to take part in the trials, such as parking meter fees, it is inconvenient for participants to wait for long periods of time to receive reimbursements.

Morrison noted that check reimbursement is particularly inconvenient for some members of his congregation, as not everyone has bank accounts.

Since YCCI’s launch in 2006, the center has received over $100 million in grant money from the National Institutes of Health.

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

PAGE 4

YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

FROM THE FRONT

“The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.” MAX BILL SWISS ARCHITECT

Joining freshmen in the new colleges: annexed juniors

IRENE JIANG/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The new residential colleges will not only house their own students but also serve as annex housing for students from other residential colleges.

ANNEX HOUSING FROM PAGE 1 within their actual colleges, he said.

The new colleges should provide enough space to absorb students who would have been annexed, he added.

But according to Alice Raucher, major projects planner for the University, the new colleges will have a total of 904 beds. This would mean that after around 800 new students populate the colleges, just over 100 beds will be available for the slightly more than 150 students who live in Swing Space each year.

Still, Holloway acknowledged that administrators are not entirely sure what the effect of students transferring to the new colleges will have on the populations of the current 12 colleges.

The University has no plans to replace Swing Space, he said, adding that in recent years, Yale has actually been reducing its use of annex housing.

Holloway noted that much of the current planning is still based

on guesswork. For example, a problem yet to be resolved is that when the first students to enter the new colleges as freshmen reach their junior year, they will have priority over annexed students, Holloway said. But these issues will work themselves out when the time comes, especially because residential college deans will be managing housing situations very carefully, he said.

Three of the residential college deans declined to comment, and nine more did not return request for comment.

“The hope is that the new colleges — keeping in mind historic patterns of people living off campus at a certain percentage — will absorb people who have normally been annexed,” Holloway said.

According to the Office of Institutional Research, each year about 13 percent of undergraduates live off campus.

Simone Seiver ’17, a member of Pierson College’s housing committee, said Pierson’s annex housing facility, Arnold Hall, always has more than enough

Apps for summer abroad drop YSS FROM PAGE 1 fessor Karen von Kunes, who teaches the course in “In Kafka’s Spirit: Prague Film and Fiction,” said there was less communication from CIPE this year.

She said she was very concerned about the underenrollment of her class.

[The application process] has become more impersonal and more mechanical.

KAREN VON KUNES Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures “I almost stopped sleeping after hearing about it,” von Kunes said.

If her class were to be canceled, von Kunes said “it would be disastrous for the people in Prague who depend heavily on it as a source of income, and [I] haven’t told them about the under-enrollment.”

Von Kunes said the lack of communication between officers in charge of Yale Summer Session and course instructors, and between instructors and potential students, was the main reason for the decline in applications to her class.

In the past, representatives from CIPE would show up to classes that the

Yale Summer Session professors teach during the spring and fall semesters in order to promote the programs, but von Kunes said no one came this year. “[The application process] has become more impersonal and more mechanical,” von Kunes said. “That makes it hard to attract students.”

But Wiedenfeld said he has been in constant communication with Kirk.

He also said he prefers to advertise the course in classes on his own because he knows the course material better than the officers at CIPE. Frederick Frank ’16, who listed von Kunes’ class as his first choice and attended the program last summer, said he was surprised by the drop in application numbers because of its popularity in the past.

“It’s an amazing experience; we visited many places that I wouldn’t otherwise have had the chance to go to,” he said.

However, Kirk said that based on past experience, the majority of the programs with available seats will fill up and remain scheduled for the summer.

CIPE has extended the application deadline for all under-enrolled Yale Summer Session abroad programs to Wednesday, March 4.

Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

space for overflow from the college proper. She said she cannot imagine a scenario in which there would not be enough beds for the number of students annexed.

But Kelly Wu ’16, co-chair of Timothy Dwight College’s housing committee, said that annex housing is often important to housing calculations in her college. It is the norm for the number of students to exceed the number of beds available, she said, adding that students who do not fit into Rosenfeld Hall — Timothy Dwight’s annex — are assigned to whatever rooms are left around campus, including Arnold Hall or Swing Space.

Swing Space is not critical to fitting all of Morse College’s students, but it is a popular option, said David Pitera ’15, chair of Morse’s housing committee.

Morse College housing representative Mimi Pham ’17 added that if the number of students placed into Morse stays constant, it would be “terribly inconvenient” to annex Morse students — roughly 35 of whom currently live in Swing Space — to a com-

pletely different residential college.

Dean of Studen Affairs Marichal Gentry also noted that Swing Space has grown in popularity in recent years, adding that the availability of kitchens within the Swing Space suites might make it an appealing option to students who would otherwise consider moving off campus.

The suites in the new residential colleges, which are modeled after suites in the existing 12 colleges, will not have kitchens, Raucher said. Swing Space Fellow Bowen Posner said while he can not speculate as to how students will react to living in the new colleges, students in Swing Space have told him they appreciate the amenities there.

Gentry said it is hard to tell whether the absence of kitchens in the new colleges will inspire students who might be annexed to move off campus instead.

However, he said, he does not envision that the shift from Swing Space will cause a significant uptick in off-campus living.

“I think the new colleges are going to be an attractive feature anyway, and I think it’s going to be attractive for anyone to live in that new space,” he said. “What amenities [the new colleges] may not have, there will be another amenity they add on that no one else has. It’s too early to tell how that’s going to play out.”

Holloway echoed Gentry’s comments, adding that he does not expect that students annexed to the new colleges will move off campus instead.

Five out of eight students interviewed said that if they were to be annexed to the new colleges, they would accept the offer and stay on campus despite the remote location.

Hiro Suzuki, another Swing Space Fellow, acknowledged that current Swing Space residents already have to make a concerted effort to return to their colleges to see friends. But he added that he does not believe students resent the distance.

But even the students who would be amenable to living in the new residential colleges as

annexed juniors expressed concerns about what the environment would be like for students living in a residential college that was not their own, rather than within a building explicitly designated for annex housing.

“I worry that [annexing juniors] to the new colleges undermines an idea of building a community,” said Emily Harris ’15, who lived in Swing Space last year. “Right now people enjoy living in Swing Space — big rooms, kitchenettes, private bathrooms. If the alternative is being annexed into a regular college, people would not be happy about that.”

Dana Chaykovsky ’17 said that living in a small, annexed group within a larger college community would make her feel ostracized.

The ground-breaking ceremony for the two new colleges is slated to take place in April.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

Senators introduce “strengthened version” of bill SEXUAL ASSAULT FROM PAGE 1 published, the bipartisan group of 12 senators, which includes Blumenthal, sought input from a range of additional sources — including survivors of sexual assault, college students, law enforcement officials and university administrators — to put forward a second version of the act backed by further research.

The new legislation would also increase the monetary fine that universities face for violations of the Federal Clery Act, the regulation requiring colleges and universities to maintain and disclose information about crime on or near their campuses, and the Title IX legislation. The maximum penalty of $35,000 per violation would increase, allowing charges of up to $150,000 per violation.

Financial penalties would be collected and distributed to campuses through a grant program supporting victims and survivors of sexual assault, and for conducting research on the issue.

When Yale was investigated for violations of Title IX in 2011, the University faced a $165,000 charge for inadequate reporting of campus crime statistics, including the omission of cases of forcible sexual assault in the University’s annual report. After the 2011 charges, Yale began to implement many of the programs that the proposed bill would require.

Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd said in an email that Yale has already taken most of the steps called for in the bill, including implementing a unified disciplinary process and employing confidential advisors through the SHARE center. The University administration will also be conducting a student survey in April on the topic of sexual assault, she added.

Yale is not alone in already abiding by the requirements of the act. The U.S. Department of Education already abides by the proposed legislation’s requirement to publish the list of postsecondary institutions subject

to investigation for possible violations of Title IX. While David Thomas, department spokesman, declined to comment on the pending legislation, he said the list includes investigations opened because of complaints received by the Office for Civil Rights and those initiated by OCR as compliance reviews. If a case results in a resolution, the agreement will typically be posted, he added. While these postings are currently at the discretion of the OCR, the new legislation would enforce stricter regulations, mandating the publications of these reports.

Thus far in 2015, there have been two campus-wide emails informing students of incidents of sexual assault on Yale’s campus. However, while Department of Education data shows that 5,000 forcible rapes were reported on college campuses across the country in 2013, researchers from the Department of Justice estimate that the actual number could be closer to

six times that number. A report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in December 2014 revealed that 80 percent of sexual assaults that occur on campus go unreported.

While the reasons for not reporting vary, senators supporting the bill hope that strict uniform disciplinary action across the nation will make reporting easier for victims of sexual assault. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said in a Thursday statement that she hopes the new bill will hold colleges accountable for keeping their colleges safe.

“We know this problem is pervasive and too often swept under the rug by institutions that fail students,” Gillibrand said in the statement. “Right now, some colleges and universities are more inclined to expel a student for cheating on an exam than for committing sexual assault.”

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

YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

PAGE 5

NEWS

“I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.”

ELI BROAD AMERICAN ENTREPENEUR

Job growth shifts to city centers

BY MARTHA LONGLEY STAFF REPORTER The trend of rapid urban sprawl has been in decline over the past few years, while job growth in city centers like New Haven has been on the rise, according to a new study by Urban Observatory, a think tank that presents statistics on international cities’ economies.

The Urban Observatory report, released last week, finds that job growth rates have historically been higher in suburban than in urban areas. However, the trend has reversed in recent years. Although Urban Observatory did not include New Haven in its analysis of 41 metropolitan areas, additional analysis by DataHaven — a local nonprofit that collects, analyzes and disseminates public data — showed that New Haven is experiencing a similar change. From 2007 to 2011, job growth within New Haven’s “city center,” defined as a three-mile radius around City Hall, has increased by 6.5 percent, while job growth in areas between three and 15 miles outside of City Hall has decreased by 4.7 percent, DataHaven found.

Ben Berkowitz, CEO and founder of SeeClickFix, a platform allowing citizens to communicate with their governments about non-emergency issues, said that although urban job growth is a net positive, it presents challenges.

“It’s great that the jobs are returning to the city, [but] it’s not great that jobs are going down overall in the region,” he said, in reference to the 9,000 job net increase in New Haven’s center matched by the 10,000 job net decrease in its suburban areas between 2000 and 2011.

Berkowitz pointed to lack of available housing and a qualified workforce as challenges to businesses interested in moving to downtown New Haven. He added that the city should build new infrastructure, such as modern office spaces and housing, to accommodate growing companies.

Still, Berkowitz noted that there has recently been development of office spaces. For example, Higher One, a financial advising company, is revitalizing the old Winchester Repeating Arms factory.

Like Berkowitz, Dwight Hall Executive Director Peter Crumlish DIV ’09 said new job growth is a positive development, but he warned that New Haven residents may not be

the ones benefitting from the growth. Instead, he said, the new jobs may attract people who would have otherwise worked in other metropolitan areas.

Crumlish added that the jobs created by the overall economic growth may reinforce existing disparities between low-income and highincome workers rather than creating a middle class.

“This new growth is great, but I don’t know if it’s addressing the core needs of the city,” he said. “A job is better than no job, but I think underemployment is just as bad as unemployment in the city.”

Still, Berkowitz pointed out that even if the primary job growth is not among New Haven residents, eventually there will be more jobs for residents as communities develop around the new office and residential spaces.

This new growth is great, but I don’t know if it’s addressing the core needs of the city.

PETER CRUMLISH Executive director, Dwight Hall Mark Abraham ’04, executive director of DataHaven, said he is also concerned about the accessibility of the jobs, noting that some of the jobs might not be accessible to those without college degrees.

“The jobs come in but they may not be accessible, so [inner city residents] might still be commuting out to suburban retailers and warehouses for low-income jobs,” Abraham said. He added, however, that there are some organizations, such as New Haven Works, that aim to connect New Haven residents to jobs that do not involve long commutes.

According to Urban Observatory, the city center growth is tied to the growing appeal of urban living and the development of technological industries that do not require as much land as the manufacturing and construction sectors.

Contact MARTHA LONGLEY at martha.longley@yale.edu .

YCC proposes Cr/D reform

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Drawing on feedback from 1,452 undergraduates, the Yale College Council has submitted two reports proposing reform to shopping period and the Credit/D/Fail conversion deadline.

Results of two surveys indicated that more than 70 percent of the students who participated were in support of both the proposed reforms. The reports, which were submitted to the administration last week, include recommendations to not allow graded assignments to be due during shopping period and to extend the deadline for conversion of a course from Credit/D/ Fail to a letter grade until the last day before reading period. YCC Academics Director David Lawrence ’15 said he is confident the administration has the students’ best interests in mind, noting that the YCC had been very careful in crafting and extending their proposals to the administration.

“We’re recommending things that generally will increase fairness and students’ desires to explore courses,” Lawrence said.

“I do feel optimistic that if the administration carefully reads the recommendations, they will agree with our recommendations.”

This semester, the last day to convert a course from Credit/D/ Fail to a letter grade is April 6.

According to the report, the majority of students surveyed rated shopping period as either “very stressful” or “more stressful than the rest of the semester.” Regarding the Credit/D/ Fail option, 71 percent of students also said they take courses Credit/D/Fail with the intention of eventually converting them to letter grades. Both shopping period and the Credit/D/Fail program are not fulfilling their goal of encouraging course explo-

State reps, drivers clash over Uber regulation

important,” Bolun Liu ’16 said. “I think people should think more about what’s causing the stress, and I’m not sure this is the best solution.”

Professors interviewed have also disagreed with the proposal regarding shopping period. David Kimel GRD ’16, who is teaching the seminar “Sex and Violence in the Ancient World” this semester, said that because professors have different amounts of material to cover, an absolute rule against collecting assignments during shopping period would be too restrictive.

Biomedical engineering professor Stuart Campbell echoed this notion, explaining that while he personally does not assign assignments during shopping period, the change would disrupt the weekly schedule of many other courses. The solution did not take into account the discrepancies between and within academic departments, Campbell said.

“A policy that restricts instructors in that way doesn’t seem to be that productive,” Campbell said. “My overall feeling is that the requirements of courses are too varied to implement this proposal; some professors would find it not as big of a deal and others would find it restrictive.”

However, both Kimel and Campbell agreed adding an additional two weeks to the Credit/D/ Fail conversion date would not cause much difference from their perspective.

While Lawrence said the changes could be readily implemented if they were passed, he noted the faculty standing committees — groups comprised of administrators, students and faculty — would most likely not vote on the measures until the end of the academic year.

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

Vespers Joseph Britton, presiding

BY ALEC HERNANDEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With Uber’s business model facing increased scrutiny in Connecticut and elsewhere, the state held a legislative hearing in Hartford on Monday to debate the optimal level of regulation imposed on ride-sharing companies.

Testimony from the hearing revealed that taxi industry lobbyists helped bring about the need for a public hearing. State Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, a member of the Transportation Committee, finally brought the issue to a public forum after proposing a bill that would place ride-sharing companies under the jurisdiction of Department of Motor Vehicles in January. Should the bill become law, Uber and other similar companies would face stricter industry standards for safety and insurance. But the increased regulations, some say, would do more harm than good by interfering with the market excessively.

“It is important that this new marketplace remain open for competition and innovation,” Policy Director for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy Suzanne Bates said in her testimony to the Transportation Committee. “The fewer regulations you place on the industry now, while it is still in its infancy, the more likely new businesses and business models will be able to develop and grow right here in Connecticut.”

Numerous people — ranging from other state representatives to taxi and Uber drivers — also gave their testimony to the committee, clashing over points about market conditions, licensing and hiring practices. In the hearing’s audience, several Uber drivers could be seen sporting Uber T-shirts to show their support for the company.

Still, Scanlon showed particular attention to the issue of user safety because in the status quo the company operates with so much autonomy. “[A local taxi] agency sets an expectation for the public that they can trust — they know that the car they get in or the train they get on is safe,” Scanlon said at the hearing.

ration as well as they could, Lawrence said.

Six students interviewed said they would put more effort into a course if the deadline for conversion to a letter grade was extended, in order to keep open the option of converting it.

All students interviewed also expressed frustration with the fact that they are often uncertain about where they stand in the course by the time the deadline arrives. Further, 66 percent of survey participants claimed they would be more likely to explore classes outside of their major using Credit/D/Fail if the deadline was moved.

“Students sometimes don’t get their work back until late in the semester,” Travis Reginal ’16 said. “Last semester I had a course where the majority of my grade came in during the last week so even though things seemed fine before, the situation changed.”

Kia Quinlan ’16 said she faced a similar experience when she did well on the first midterm for a class, but did not end up with the grade had hoped for due to an increased workload towards the end of the semester. Further, Folake Ogunmola ’15 said the YCC’s proposed deadline change would only positively affect those who happened to do poorly later on.

However, two students said they disagree with the YCC’s proposed change to shopping period.

Steven MacLean ’18 said the main cause of stress during shopping period is the overlapping of classes, which causes undergraduates to sometimes miss potentially important lectures — and not the risk of having graded assignments due in the first week.

“From personal experience, the reason shopping period is stressful is more because I’m missing crucial information and getting behind in hard classes where going to class is most

Yale Schola Cantorum Masaaki Suzuki, conductor J.S. Bach: Cantatas #22 and 23 J.R. Ahle: Magnificat

friday, march 6 • 5:30 pm christ church episcopal

•

84 broadway at elm

Evensong service is open to the public.

Presented by Yale Institute of Sacred Music. ism.yale.edu

BRIANNA LOO/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The State Assembly held a hearing on Monday to debate regulation for ride-sharing companies as Uber.

He also cited Uber’s use of private investigation companies for background checks as a point of concern. Taxi companies use the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist in the driver vetting process, Scanlon noted.

Another potential risk brought up during the hearing was the ability of Uber drivers to improperly use personal insurance policies when driving for the company, rather than the expected commercial policies for licensed taxi drivers.

Many local taxi drivers also called for increased regulation on the grounds that Uber has

claimed an unfair competitive edge due to these advantages.

“I have to work 14 hours a day to maintain a living because of Uber,” said Ernest Pagliery, a driver for Greenwich Taxis.

However, state Rep. Tony Guerrera, a Democrat representing Newington, Rocky Hill and Weathersfield and chair of the committee, disagreed, saying that taxi companies were attracting less business based on the quality of services rather than an unfair environment based on regulations.

“It’s competition, and our job is to make sure that it’s a level

playing field. The consumer should have the choice of how they are going to get where they want to go,” Guerrera said.

State Rep. Fred Wilms, R-Norwalk, supported Guerrera’s point that customers tend to choose according to their personal preferences. Still, others maintained that regulation could still be important in improving safety conditions.

Uber currently operates in 55 countries and dozens of American cities.

Contact ALEC HERNANDEZ at alec.hernandez@yale.edu .

OPINION. Send submissions to opinion@yaledailynews.com

YOUR THOUGHTS. YOUR VOICE. YOUR PAGE.

PAGE 6

YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

FROM THE FRONT

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL AMERICAN ROMANTIC POET

Committee focuses on equity in NHPS schools GRAPH SHARE OF SCHOOLS OUTSIDE 10 PERCENT MARGIN FROM MEDIAN SPENDING

Currently, NHPS funds high schools by $1,500 more per pupil than it funds K-8 schools. With an additional $1,500 per pupil, or $1.13 million total, Fair Haven School could afford one of the following:

60

12

50 9

40

Provide 45 minutes of extra teaching time per week to all students

6

30

ESL

Newark

Cleveland

DC

Baltimore

Lake

Hall

Denver

0

New Haven

20 10

3 Add 18.5 teachers, reducing the studentteacher ratio from 14.9 to 10.9

Provide 1.5 hours per week of one-on-one tutoring for students who are English Language Learners

JILLY HOROWITZ/PRODUCTION AND DESIGN EDITOR, SAMUEL WANG/PRODUCTION STAFF AND JOEY YE/PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

NHPS BUDGET FROM PAGE 1 other urban school districts of similar composition, like Denver, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, and Newark — the variation of funding across New Haven Schools is significantly wider.

Carlos Torre, the president of the Board of Education, raised issue with comparing NHPS to districts in other states.

“I’m concerned comparing across state lines like we are here, because they aren’t working with the same legislators. State regulations are different,” Torre said.

According to ERS, some variations in per-pupil funding across

schools can have positive effects, but only if these variations are deliberate and redistribute funds to “needier” schools. “Bad variation,” according to the report, is any unintentional inequity that moves funds away from schools with greater need.

Although De La Paz said it is at times hard to distinguish between intentional and unintentional differences in funding, the research did reveal one unintentional inequity in New Haven — that the concentration of lowfunded schools is higher on the east side of the city.

In addition, ERS found that New Haven’s K-8 schools receive $1,500 less per student than the

city’s high schools.

Using Fair Haven School as an example, the report said that with an extra $1,500 per pupil, the K-8 school would be able to add roughly 19 teachers, reducing the student-to-teacher ratio from 14.9 to 10.9, or could provide 1.5 hours per week of one-on-one tutoring for students who are English Language Learners.

In order to address any issue of inequity, ERS relies on a system of “weighing” students by need, giving a higher dollar amount to students who fall into needier categories, including those who are English Language Learners, students who qualify for special

education and those who live in poverty.

Some attendees, however, voiced concerns with this methodology.

“There are some very troubling assumptions that ERS has made,” said Chris Willems, a science teacher at Metropolitan Business Academy, located on 115 Water St. “In particular, the per-weighted-student amounts are troubling.”

According to Willems, the official numbers do not represent how many students require special attention. He said that sometimes students who might qualify for special education programs go unidentified.

While De La Paz acknowledged the difficulty in evaluating student need, he underlined the importance of adopting a district-wide standard for weighing students.

“As someone who grew up both ELL and poor, it’s hard for me to tell which is heavier,” said De La Paz. “Maybe we need to put a weight on single-parent households, or maybe we put a weight on a kid growing up in a high-crime neighborhood.

There are many different ways to factor it, but the bottom line is we don’t have one single way of coming up with an amount.”

Of the common drivers of funding variation across urban

school districts — including school size, prior year student performance, teacher compensation and recent changes to school tier rankings — ERS found that “unexplained variation” contributes to 50 percent or more of NHPS’s funding differences across K-8 schools.

“We do need to look at this on a deeper level,” said Board of Education member Alicia Caraballo.

De La Paz said NHPS should receive final recommendations for a five-year strategic vision from ERS by June.

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

Students support society tap opt out, even with low numbers SOCIETY TAP FROM PAGE 1 tive to de facto participation in society tap. These students indicated that they wanted to opt out of consideration by senior societies, said Rachel Tobin ’15, co-secretary of the Senior Class Council.

“I think that the number accurately reflects my expectations,” said Junior Class Council President Emily Van Alst ’16, who sent the email presenting the option to juniors. Still, of six upperclassmen interviewed, five said they expected more people to opt out.

Of the six juniors and seniors interviewed immediately after the email was sent out, four said they were in support of the new measure.

Though some upperclassmen expressed doubt that the option would impact a large number of students, most saw the initiative as beneficial for students who did not want to have any part in the tap process.

Though the opt-out email was only three sentences long and did not include any specific information such as a deadline by which students had to respond, Aaron Gertler ’16 said the option was presented clearly enough that those who were interested in opting out could easily do so. Van Alst added that she received all 12 responses within 24 hours of sending the email, which she said

reflects how those who were eager to opt out did so right away.

“If [opting out] is something that you feel strongly about, [an email] is more than enough,” Gertler said.

However, Ethan Campbell-Taylor ’16, who opted out, said a follow-up email would have been a good idea and he thought it was odd that Van Alst’s email did not include a deadline.

Campbell-Taylor said he opted out because he did not want the time commitment of a society and he liked having more control over who he spends time with than being part of a society allows.

Though he was surprised that so few people opted out, he said juniors may not want to do so because they could feel like they are missing out on an important Yale tradition.

Campbell-Taylor also said he did not realize that before this year, juniors did not have the option of opting out of society tap.

Van Alst said that because some societies had already sent letters to potential taps before the email was sent out, it was important that uninterested juniors responded as soon as possible. She said she immediately forwarded the names of people opting out to Tobin so that she could communicate them to the societies.

Ben Goldsmith ’15 said

that though students tend not to respond to emails sent to large groups of people, he does not think that sending an additional reminder email would have encouraged many more people to opt out.

Gertler said that though he would not have guessed that the number would be so low, he understands that juniors might want to be able to weigh their options for senior societies. He also said it was possible that not all critics of secret societies would have actually ended up opting out.

“A lot of people criticize the dining halls, but we still eat there,” he said. “A lot of people criticize Yale’s extracurricular culture, but we still join clubs.”

Brad Ward ’15 said he expected the low number of responses, given that juniors are able to decline invitations or refuse to follow their instructions, effectively opting out of the process.

Gertler said that while he did not think that the tap process needed major reform, he thought the Junior Class Council handled the situation properly.

“It’s good that the option was there for those 12 people,” he said. “It seems like an email to the junior class is about as good as it’s going to get, especially for such a minor issue.”

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

ERICA BOOTHBY/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The relatively small number of juniors who opted out of society tap did so within 24 hours of receiving the email.

YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

PAGE 7

NEWS

“Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.” JEAN PIAGET DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Library acquires 2,700 VHS tapes

City contributes $114,000 to Ebola fight

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER After a four-month fundraising effort, Mayor Toni Harp announced that the Elm City raised $114,000 to fund the fight against Ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone — New Haven’s sister city.

That figure exceeds the $100,000 target Harp set in November. Additionally, New Haven will send four ambulances and $16,000 in medical supplies to Freetown.

Contributions to the effort came from a wide array of city institutions — New Haven Public Schools, the Amistad Committee, Yale-New Haven Hospital and the city’s religious community. Along with representatives from those organizations, Sierra Leone’s ambassador to the United States, Bockari Stevens, attended the press conference.

“We are lost for words — we cannot say how much we appreciate it,” Stevens said.

“All we will say is ‘thank you.’”

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, who represents New Haven, also attended the event. She praised Harp’s leadership throughout the fundraising drive, adding that she has never been more proud of her home city.

Ebola has ravaged Sierra Leone over the last few months, Stevens said, and New Haven’s contribution will go a long way towards fighting its spread. Before Ebola

arrived in the country, Sierra Leone had only five ambulances, he said, and with many of its best doctors and nurses killed while treating the virus, Sierra Leone needs assistance.

The fundraising drive was a citywide, communal effort, speakers at the conference said. NHPS Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 said the public schools raised money in a multitude of ways — from “Pennies for Ebola” campaigns to contributions from individual teachers.

Just over one-fifth of the $114,000 raised — $25,000 — came from Yale-New Haven Hospital, according to Alan Friedman, the president of the YNHH medical staff. Althea Norcott, chair of the Freetown Sister City Committee, said Yale’s contribution came at an opportune moment: just before Christmas, when the committee had only raised a few thousand dollars.

Alfred Marder, president of the Amistad Committee, a social advocacy group that helped initiate the sister-city relationship, said New Haven’s aid to Sierra Leone can serve as a means of atoning for the United States’ history of slavery.

“It is my feeling that until my country and my people recognize what we owe to Sierra Leone, we still have a great deal left to go,” he said.

After his remarks, during which he delivered a short history of the Amistad — the slave ship whose Sierra Leonean cap-

tives mutinied, sailed to New Haven and were eventually granted freedom in 1839 — Marder presented to Stevens a miniature version of the Amistad statue, which stands outside City Hall.

Stevens said the Ebola outbreak has transformed Sierra Leone, bringing one of the world’s fastest-growing economies in the mid-2000s almost to a standstill. The outbreak has greatly diminished since its apogee late last year, Stevens added, but the possibility of its resurgence remains.

But, now that Sierra Leone has attracted substantial foreign assistance — and now that doctors have a better ability to treat Ebola — he is hopeful that any future outbreak will be more easily contained than the last one.

New Haven’s contribution will be greatly appreciated in Freetown, but Stevens said that the two countries should not come together only in times of need.

“We should not wait for things like this to happen to bring us together,” he said.

“We should come together in times of happiness.”

In that spirit, Stevens promised that Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma will pay a visit to the Elm City whenever he next lands in the United States.

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

“Late Show” writer talks humor writing ALEXANDRA SCHMELING/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Roughly 2,700 VHS tapes have been acquired by the Yale Library, from a single collector in Dayton, Ohio.

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER Roughly 2,700 VHS tapes featuring titles like “Silent Night, Deadly Night,” “Toxic Zombies” and “Buried Alive” arrived at Sterling Memorial Library last week.

Yale has become the first institution in the country to actively collect VHS tapes, thanks to the initiative of Kaplanoff Librarian for American History David Gary and Aaron Pratt GRD ’16.

Although the collection, which arrived late last week, is wideranging, a large portion consists of horror-genre movies, and most of the movies are from the 1970s and 80s.

According to Gary, VHS is a complicated technology — there are issues of preservation, cataloging, copyright and access. To acquire the tapes, Gary had to convince other University librarians to be willing to put in the effort to maintain and catalogue the thousands of tapes. Because VHS degrades easily, many of the tapes will likely be digitized, though copyright laws may prove to be an obstacle.

“VHS has been a major film format in the last quarter of the 20th century, and no one is taking it seriously as a medium [in academia],” Pratt said. “We got to talking about why this gap in film exists and how we could remedy it.”

Although some may think of the VHS as obsolete, it was revolutionary when it was introduced, Pratt said. He explained that the social dynamics surrounding movies changed as film entered the home in a more private setting. Films became more available to adolescents — including films their parents were not keen on them watching — which led to a new era in targeted marketing from the movie industry.

The creation of the VHS also led to an explosion of the lowbudget film, which could make large profits off rentals but not in theaters, Pratt said. Horror movies, in particular, thrived in this format. Not feeling compelled to meet the expectations of blockbusters, directors were able to showcase their artistic and often “weird,” creativity, he added.

Pratt and Gary found the VHSs by searching online collector Facebook groups. After receiving a response on one of their posts, the 2,700 tapes were purchased from a single collector in Dayton, Ohio.

VHS, unlike older 35 mm film, is not yet seen as a historical relic or used in mass circulation like the DVD, Pratt said. But in recent years, nostalgia for the medium has created a huge fan market, Gary said. With Yale now at the forefront of VHS collecting, the University is poised to capitalize on the market before the

tapes become too expensive and impossible to find, he added.

Pratt, who taught a section of English 115 — “Literature Seminars” — in spring 2014 called “Terror and Horror in the Literary Imagination” said he found many of his students incorporating online VHS graphics and cover text into their papers to talk about marketing of the horror genre. He added that all Yale students will be able to take advantage of the primary sources in the new collection, though they will not be able to check them out of the library because they are considered rare materials and will need to be viewed in Manuscripts and Archives. Gary added that history and American Studies majors may be especially keen on looking at movies from the Reagan era, a period that is currently a hot topic of study for many historians.

This commitment to finding media services that you can’t get in other forms is important.

EMILY MURPHY ’17 Film and Media Studies major Emily Murphy ’17, who first became interested in film after watching VHS tapes of the Lion King, said she was not surprised to hear about Yale’s acquisition of the VHS collection.

“Yale has been committed to purchasing really obscure-ish films on 35 mm and DVDs,” she said. “We should apply the same standard to VHS tapes. This commitment to finding media services that you can’t get in other forms is important.”

Gary declined to comment on how expensive the collection is, although he said the offer was “altruistic” and much less expensive than buying each tape off Craigslist.

VHS research assistant Travis Brady ’18 said he has found a new appreciation for the VHS while working with Pratt and Gary. Although he said he barely remembers growing up with VHS tapes, he has found it rewarding to look through the piles of VHS boxes, many of which have “really cheesy” graphics and titles.

Gary added that it will take time to process all of the VHS material, and it may take a year until they are available for academic use by Yale affiliates. He added that, in the future, he hopes to find a donor or make a fellowship to continue the VHS collection.

The first VCR to use VHS was produced in 1976.

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

ANNELISA LEINBACH/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Steve Young, a long-time writer with the “Late Show with David Letterman,” spoke at a Trumbull College Master’s Tea yesterday.

BY RHEA KUMAR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The realities and pressures of writing for a daily comedy show is like running on a “high-speed treadmill,” Steve Young said at a Master’s Tea in Trumbull College yesterday.

Before a crowd of roughly 30 students, Young, a long-time writer with the “Late Show with David Letterman,” spoke about his daily routine in the 25-year period during which he has worked with the show. During the tea, he showed clips from the “Late Show” while mentioning the waning popularity of the “Late Show.” Young also discussed the challenges of adapting to a changing audience.

But, “you get a new start tomorrow,” Young added.

Young said he typically gets to the office around 9:15 a.m. and brainstorms and finalizes show pitches with writers soon after. The rest of the day is spent finding appropriate voice-over artists, videos and graphics to match the script, he said. Young told the audience that he is used to the process and only needs to start thinking of ideas while he is on the subway to work.

Young was first exposed to humor writing when he joined the Harvard Lampoon, a humor magazine at Har-

vard, during his sophomore year. He joined the “Late Show” staff around 1990 and has been working there since, which he described as a long stint for a career in television writing. He also wrote an episode for “The Simpsons” and an animated television special called “Olive, the Other Reindeer” in which he acted as “Latin coach” to Drew Barrymore, who sang one of the songs.

It was a great combination of jokes and perspectives on humor writing. I felt there was something in it for everyone.

NICK GOEL ’16 Chairman, Yale Record Audience members interviewed said they enjoyed listening to Young’s anecdotes.

Brian Beitler ’18 said his favorite part of the presentation was Young’s story about celebrigum.com, a blog where Young posts photographs of celebrities entering the “Late Show” set that feature an “fossilized” piece of gum in the foreground.

“I really liked all the personal projects [Young] touched upon,” Beitler said.

Aside from celebrigum.com, Young had also worked on cutting out and recombining lines from TV guide magazines to come up with innovative and comical movie reviews as well as a parody of the use of pop culture in industrial advertisements. During the talk, he showed samples of his work to the audience.

Young described his comedic style as a “nonsensical juxtaposition,” which Alison Mansfield ’17 said added an apolitical and simplistic nature to the “Late Show.”

Madeline Kaplan ’17, a member of the Yale Record who is considering a career in humor writing, felt it was “cool and inspiring” to see people who have been in the field and are so passionate about their work.

Julia Dixon ’16 had never seen the “Late Show” before but found it pleasant to watch Young share his craft with others.

“It was a great combination of jokes and perspectives on humor writing,” chairman of the Yale Record Nick Goel ’16 said. “I felt there was something in it for everyone.”

Contact RHEA KUMAR at rhea.kumar@yale.edu .

PAGE 8

YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

AROUND THE IVIES

“For my part, it was Greek to me.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT

T H E B R O W N D A I LY H E R A L D

Along with letter, Phi Psi distributes false information

BY CAROLINE KELLY Over the last week, Phi Kappa Psi has blanketed Brown’s campus with flyers bearing a scannable barcode that links to a letter detailing evidence from its recent misconduct case.

In that letter, the fraternity falsely asserts that laboratory results were “conclusively negative” for a hair test on one of the two female students who reported being given the daterape drug GHB at an October party hosted by the fraternity.

Multiple documents reviewed

by The Herald show that neither Brown University nor an independent medical expert ever reached such a determination.

The toxicology report from the laboratory that conducted the test originally found natural, not elevated, levels of GHB in the hair sample. But several other documents have raised concerns about the test’s methodology, casting doubts on what conclusions, if any, can be drawn from the test.

Phi Psi declined to comment for this story.

After a Brown hearing in response to the GHB allegations, Phi Psi was disciplined in midJanuary for fostering an unsafe environment and subsequently received a four-year suspension.

On Feb. 21, Brown modified the sanctions, granting the fraternity the right to petition for reinstatement after two-and-ahalf years in light of a urine test originally deemed positive but later found to be inconclusive.

In response, Phi Psi wrote

a l e t te r expressing frustration with B row n ’s lack of t ra n s p a rency and BROWN calling for the release of all evidence and documents related to its hearing.

The letter specifically addresses the certainty of a GHB hair test, the results of which were never made public by Brown.

The fraternity originally sent the letter to The Herald, which declined to publish it Feb. 23 without additional information to back up its assertions. The Providence Journal published the letter on its website later that day.

Members of the fraternity have distributed the letter widely in high-traffic areas around campus in recent days.

The Carlson Company, which produced the lab report, sent the sample to ExperTox, a Texasbased laboratory, to perform the test.

Brown hired Guy Vallaro, director of the division of scientific services at Connecticut’s Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, to independently review test results related to Phi Psi’s case.

A major concern raised by multiple parties about the Carlson Company’s report was the process by which the hair was tested.

Since recently ingested substances appear in higher concentrations in hair closest to

ELI WHITE/BROWN DAILY HERALD

Members of Phi Kappa Psi posted flyers across campus over the past week. the scalp, measuring the strand of hair by section — a process called segmenting — is “essential” to reveal any spikes in GHB levels, Vallaro wrote Feb. 5 in his report to Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services.

“There is no indication that the hair was segmented prior to analysis,” Vallaro wrote.

A letter reviewed by The Herald describes interactions between Unab Khan, medical director at Health Services, and

Ernest Lykissa, laboratory director at ExperTox, in early January. Lykissa was “adamant” in defending the accuracy of the test results and his procedures, according to the letter.

But in a separate Jan. 12 letter to Lykissa, Khan expressed doubts about the validity of those methods. “You are very confident that the results are negative even though the whole hair shaft was tested for GHB … instead of a particular area that would have corresponded to

T H E C O L U M B I A D A I LY S P E C TAT O R

CCSC votes to extend drop deadline

the time of the alleged event,” she wrote. “You mentioned that averaging the result of the whole hair shaft could give false negative results.”

Khan also raised questions about whether Lykissa recorded GHB levels for each segment, as opposed to the full strand, and whether the Carlson Company has the requisite certifications to “report segmented levels of GHB in hair tests.”

Khan could not be reached for comment by press time.

T H E D A I LY P R I N C E T O N I A N

U. may approve anonymous reporting

BY ZAYNAB ZAMAN The University may soon have a system for students to anonymously report discriminatory or offensive comments made by professors and preceptors, Asanni York, co-chair of the Council of the Princeton University Community’s Working Group on Structure and Support, said.

Though there are already processes in place to report discrimination, many students don’t know about them, York said. The format of such reporting requires the student to convince administrators that the professor made offensive or prejudiced statements, he added, saying that when students are reporting to people of power, failing to say the right thing at the right time may result in their complaint being overlooked.

JENNA BEERS/COLUMBIA DAILY SPECTATOR

BY DANIELLE SMITH Columbia College Student Council voted unanimously at its general body meeting on Sunday to submit a proposal to extend the drop deadline.

The resolution — which will be sent to Dean James Valentini and the Committee on Instruction for approval — calls for the last day students are able to drop a class without it being recorded on their transcript to be extended to two weeks later.

The deadline is currently five weeks into the semester, and the proposal would move it to seven weeks into the semester, on the official midterm date.

In order to implement the proposal, the Committee on Instruction and Dean of Columbia College James Valentini would have to approve the measure.

Academic Affairs Representative Grayson Warrick said that he plans to meet with the deans of Academic Affairs, Kathryn Yatrakis and Hazel May, in the near future.

Under the resolution, students who want to drop a class after the add deadline, which

i s two weeks into the semester, would be required to meet COLUMBIA w i t h t h e i r advising dean, but would be able to drop the class without having a W signifying a withdrawal appear on their transcripts.

Vice President of Communications Abby Porter, who helped draft the proposal and conduct a comprehensive survey on students’ relationship with the current drop deadline last semester, said that this proposal is phrased differently from efforts to push the deadline back in previous years.

“That’s the product of a lot of the results we got from our survey,” Porter said. “We have a lot of evidence for why it would be really beneficial to the student body to push it back.”

Vice President of Policy Sejal Singh said that this year’s proposal has sound reasoning for why the drop deadline should be extended.

“We feel very strongly that it’s time to move forward,” Singh said. “There are a lot of really fantastic arguments for having a later drop deadline.”

The argument for having a later drop deadline is mainly that it will help to alleviate stress students experience around finalizing their schedule, and allow for them to make more informed decisions.

“The rationale really is to make it so that students are comfortable enough with their time commitment outside of the class and the level of rigor in the class to make a decision on whether or not they need to drop it,” Porter said.

Warrick said that though he has been involved in discussions with Yatrakis and May, he expects administrators might not be receptive to the new policy.

“It will be a tricky process because we’ll suffer from pushback at every level,” he said. “They will naturally be concerned that we’re just doing this to benefit ourselves, with full disregard of how this will actually affect maximum class capacities or

even grade inflation.”

Warrick also said that the proposal includes the requirement that students meet with their adviser in order to drop a class after the second week of the semester, which the council hopes would encourage earlier schedule finalization.

Class of 2018 Vice President Lani Allen voted to support the proposal, but expressed doubts about the requirement to meet with an academic adviser.

“There’s difference enough to justify having two extra weeks, but not difference enough to justify having to meet with the adviser,” Allen said. “I don’t think it would necessarily increase registration by that much, and inhibit people who want to get off the waitlist a significant amount.”

Class of 2015 President Kareem Carryl said that meeting with an adviser would be helpful for students attempting to drop a class.

“Meeting with the adviser is always a good checkpoint,” Carryl said. “It shouldn’t be something that’s burdensome, it should be something that’s hopefully additive to the experience.”

The Herald sought comment from Klawunn for this story early Sunday morning. She did not comment. On Sunday evening, Brown sent a communitywide email addressing the hair test and other aspects of the case.

Brown “received inconsistent accounts from the laboratory about how the test was conducted, leading to concerns about the reliability of the information from the laboratory,” the email stated.

[The professor] said, ‘Oh, the black students are doing another protest. I ASANNI YORK Co-chair of the Council of the Princeton University Community’s Working Group on Structure and Support There is currently no new system for reporting complaints, but a new website was recently created for members of the University community to submit diversity-related comments, University spokesman Martin Mbugua said.

York said that in the very early stages of the task force, the members sent out a large survey asking questions about changes wanted by the student body. One of the questions asked if the students saw a need for reporting people for discrimination and asked students to provide examples that would help the task force.

“There were hundreds of examples,” York said.

In one instance, a preceptor had asked his classmates to share their names, class years, majors and their relationships to slavery. There was only one AfricanAmerican student in the class, and the student’s ancestors were slaves. Making a student publicly discuss that relationship was insensitive, York said.

Although graduate and undergraduate students alike have experienced or observed om PRINCETON cdliasscsrroi m ination, the process for complaining is so unclear, arduous and time-consuming as to repel most students, Ricardo Hurtado, co-chair of the CPUC’s task force on academics and awareness, said.

He added that the weak accountability system in place for faculty suggests that even if an anonymous reporting system is created, it is questionable whether tangible results will come out of it.

While professors have been removed from courses after enough student complaint, it is difficult to effect change since faculty members have so much autonomy in and out of the classroom, Hurtado said.

An offensive statement made by a tenured professor regarding the die-in protests following the death of Eric Garner is another example of the need for a more streamlined reporting system, York said. “[The professor] said, ‘Oh, the black students are doing another protest. I hope they don’t go loop Frist [Campus Center] after this,’” York said.

If the anonymous reporting system is successfully implemented, a key aspect of the system should be giving students access to the data, Hurtado said, adding that students would gain power because problems would be known to everyone rather than just the administration. Making the data public would also be useful to all parties, he said.

The goal of the protests recently, York said, was to demand conversation among the student body regarding the recent events.

“We did everything on Princeton’s campus because Princeton is a campus of silence. As Cornel West said, ‘Princeton is notorious for graduating cowards,’” York said. “Princeton has a whole bunch of people who would rather sit around and act like they care or who don’t care at all. We wanted to block Frist off because people don’t want to talk about these issues. We’re going to make you talk.”

PAGE 9

Send submissions to opinion@yaledailynews.com

OPINION.

YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

@HSL :\TTLY 6USPUL The Profile :HTL =LYP[HZ =PY[\HSS` new h av en free pu b lic lib ra ry

9th annual reading by Anne Fadiman and her students

6\Y VUSPUL JV\YZLZ MVY JYLKP[ HYL HZ JSVZL [V [OL SP]L ZLTPUHY L_WLYPLUJL HZ `V\ JHU NL[ ^P[OV\[ ILPUN VU JHTW\Z 9LN\SHY JSHZZ [PTLZ YLN\SHY HZZPNUTLU[Z SP]L KPZJ\ZZPVUZ ^P[O JSHZZTH[LZ HUK MHJ\S[` :V `V\ JHU IL [OLYL ,]LU PM `V\ HYLU»[ OLYL

WEDNESDAY MARCH 4 6 – 7 PM New Haven Free Public Library (on the Green at 133 Elm St.)

Three undergraduate writers will join Anne Fadiman, the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale, to read from profiles of a glassblower,

:,::065 ( 1<5, 1<3@

a driving instructor, and an

4PS[VU 1VOU 9VNLYZ 4VKLYU (TLYPJHU +YHTH 4HYJ 9VIPUZVU 0U[YVK\J[PVU [V 4PJYVLJVUVTPJZ ;VSNH 2VRLY ,JVUVTL[YPJZ HUK +H[H (UHS`ZPZ 0 +V\N 4J2LL .HTL ;OLVY` A]PRH 5LLTHU *H\ZLZ HUK *VUZLX\LUJLZ VM *VYY\W[PVU )VUUPL 7HSPMPRH ,SLJ[YVUPJ +HUJL 4\ZPJ! /PZ[VY` HUK ,]VS\[PVU 2H[OY`U (SL_HUKLY 4V]PL 7O`ZPJZ -YHUR 9VIPUZVU 0U[YVK\J[PVU [V 7Z`JOVSVN` 4HY]PU *O\U 4VYHSP[PLZ VM ,]LY`KH` 3PML 7H\S )SVVT :L_ ,]VS\[PVU HUK /\THU 5H[\YL 3H\YPL :HU[VZ 4LU[HS 3P]LZ VM 0UMHU[Z HUK (UPTHSZ 2HYLU >`UU (\[PZT HUK 9LSH[LK +PZVYKLYZ -YLK =VSRTHY HUK 1HTLZ 4J7HY[SHUK

83-year-old dollhouse dealer.

Fadiman will read from a work-inprogress about her father.

THE STUDENT READERS:

:,::065 ) 1<3@ (<.<:;

Sophie Dillon â&#x20AC;&#x2122;17 Nimal Eames-Scott â&#x20AC;&#x2122;15

0U[YVK\J[PVU [V 4PJYVLJVUVTPJZ ;VSNH 2VRLY 0U[YVK\J[PVU [V ,JVUVTL[YPJZ HUK +H[H (UHS`ZPZ 0 +V\N 4J2LL )YHPUZ VM .LUP\Z! 4VaHY[ HUK -YPLUKZ *YHPN >YPNO[ 1Haa HUK 9HJL PU (TLYPJH ;OVTHZ +\MM` 9LHKPUN [OL *VUZ[P[\[PVU (ROPS 9LLK (THY 4VYHSP[PLZ VM ,]LY`KH` 3PML 7H\S )SVVT +Y\NZ )YHPU HUK )LOH]PVY /LK` 2VILY 4LU[HS 3P]LZ VM 0UMHU[Z HUK (UPTHSZ 2HYLU >`UU

Jacob Osborne â&#x20AC;&#x2122;16

Yale Summer Online :LL ^LIZP[L MVY KL[HPSZ HUK HWWSPJH[PVU YLX\PYLTLU[Z

2015

summer.yale.edu/online email: summer.session@yale.edu 203-432-2430

Co-sponsored by the New Haven Free Public Library and the Yale College Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office

PAGE 10

YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

SPORTS

“I don’t understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don’t bother no one.” MIKE TYSON FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING WORLD CHAMPION

Yale shuts down Golden Griffins WOMEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 14 minutes — two of which were scored by Hanley — to bring the score to 10–3 in favor of the Bulldogs.

Yale, however, could not hold that large of a lead for very long, as Canisius’s offense tried to get the team back into the game. The Golden Griffins went on an offensive run where they found the back of the net four times in three minutes, including three goals by Canisius attacker Taylor Giglio, who scored five of the team’s eight goals on the afternoon.

Although the Golden Griffins closed the Elis’ lead to just three points, they were never able to draw even in the second half, as the Bulldogs secured an even safer margin with a pair of goals midway through the second half. Canisius scored one last goal a few minutes later to bring the final score to 12–8, but the Elis kept the Golden Griffins off the scoreboard for the final 9:29 of action.

According to midfielder Lauren Wackerle ’16, the visibility during the game was poor, but Yale compensated by making shorter passes to limit turnovers, which have been a problem for the

team, as the Elis have averaged 14 per game.

“We did a good job today, but we haven’t in the past,” Wackerle said. “[We are working on] lowering the turnovers and taking our time on offense to work the ball and work the defense, not just take the first shot available.”

Wackerle also noted that improving the number of draw controls will be important, seeing as the Bulldogs had 10 compared to Canisius’s 12.

Despite a rough start to the season against the George Washington Colonials, the team is headed in a positive direction and wants to achieve similar success against Bryant, its next opponent, players said. “[Bryant is] very scrappy,” Wackerle said. “They go for every 50–50 ball. In years past, that has really been a strength of theirs. It will be our preparation for our first Ivy League game against Cornell.”

The game against Bryant starts at 3 p.m. on Wednesday at Reese Stadium.

JOSH RENAUD/THE DARTMOUTH

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

The Elis found success in large part thanks to their offensive prowess, outshooting Canisius 28–17.

Final 14–15 tourney for squash

Track struggles at Heps TRACK & FIELD FROM PAGE 14 school record for their respective events — 60-meter hurdles and the shot put.

On Sunday, Wilson, who broke the shot put school record her freshman year with a throw of 13.80 meters, re-broke her own record with a throw of 14.64 meters, which also allowed her to take second. She also took fifth in the weight throw.

Mathews broke Yale’s current record in the 60-meter hurdles on Saturday in the preliminary heat with a time of 8.85 and then rebroke her own record the next day with a time of 8.77, taking fourth place.

“I focused on racing for my teammates and coaches rather than times, and I was ecstatic when I looked up after my race and saw Yale right next to my time and place on the scoreboard,” Mathews said. “I am certainly happy about breaking the record, but I am extremely proud and elated with the women’s team effort and performance this weekend.”

The women also saw a firstplace finish from the distance medley relay team, which featured Emily Waligurski ’17, Emily Cable ’15, Shannon McDonnell ’16 and Garry. The pack of four edged out the rest of the field, with a time of 11:35.47, nearly two seconds faster than second-place Dartmouth.

Waligurski also performed at a high level individually, placing second in the 1,000-meter run. Her time of 2:49.95 was just behind the leader from Columbia and was also a personal best.

The men’s team, meanwhile,

SQUASH FROM PAGE 14

BRIANNA LOO/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The men’s track and field program took home 21.5 points at Heps while the women accumulated 50. came in eighth with a score of 21.5 points. Princeton took first with 161 points.

Marc-Andre Alexander ’17 took first place in the 400-meter dash with a time of 48.05. The 10 points he earned for his victory was the highest single contribution for the men.

James Randon ’17, who went into the weekend vying for first in the mile, ended up in fifth with a time of 4:09.63.

“I think I was certainly ready on that day,” Randon said. “But the cards didn’t quite play out in my favor.”

Randon also anchored the men’s distance medley relay team, which came in second place with a time of 9:57.03. He was accompanied by teammates John McGowan ’15, Torren Peebles ’17 and Matt Chisholm ’18. The Penn squad

edged out the Eli relay team by just over a second.

Reflecting on the entire indoor season, both teams felt satisfied, but are also excited to keep working and improve.

“It’s an amazing feeling to wear the ‘Y’ and have your entire team standing and cheering you on from the stands,” Mathews said.

Both teams now look toward next weekend and the IC4A Championships, with many individuals and relay teams having qualified to compete.

Next weekend’s competition will be held in Boston and spans Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with the pentathlon being the only event Friday and the next event beginning at 9:45 a.m. Saturday.

Contact ADAM JENKINSON at adam.jenkinson@yale.edu .

records from the regular season.

“The team has done a great job training the past few weeks, so it was nice to see some good results,” Georgia Blatchford ’16 said. “It’s good to get some more matches in at the end of the season in order to see what we can build on going into the spring.”

The men’s team sent Sam Fenwick ’16 and T.J. Dembinski ’17 to compete for the Pool Trophy, awarded to the champion of the tournament’s top division. Fenwick and Dembinski were seeded 15th and 20th, respectively. Captain Joseph Roberts ’15, ranked No. 48, as well as Thomas Kingshott ’18 and Pierson Broadwater ’18, ranked Nos. 38 and 55, respectively, played for the Molloy Cup, the second division.

“Individual tournament was a totally different experience,” Broadwater said. “I got the sense that everybody there was exhausted, and that nobody was really playing their best squash. It’s a really long season, and it’s tough to keep a high level of intensity for such an extended period. Additionally, it’s totally different playing in a team atmosphere where you’re fighting for your team. In the individual tournament you’re just playing for yourself, and I found it harder to play my best.”

Just one week prior, the teams competed in the CSA Team Tournament, the most demanding weekend of the season due to the high stakes and the nature of playing three matches in three days.

Fenwick and Dembinski both lost in the first round of the tournament. However, Dembinski suffered an injury in his opening match and was unable to compete in the consolation bracket.

In the second division, Roberts was able to make it to the final eight, competing in the tournament’s quarterfinals. Broadwater and Kingshott both earned first-round victories as well.

“Next season started with this tournament,” Broadwater said. “For everybody who played, it was a good way to get a final opinion on what needs to be improved on in the spring, summer and fall going into the 2015–16 season. For those who didn’t play, it was still an important time to reflect on these things.”

The women’s team fielded five players in the top division, the Ramsay Cup. Jenny Scherl ’17, Shihui Mao ’15, Issey Norman-Ross ’15, Shiyuan Mao ’17 and Jennifer Davis ’18 entered the tournament ranked Nos. 14, 17, 20, 23 and 32, respectively.

Only Shihui Mao and Scherl were able to claim first-round victories, though both fell to tough opposition in the second round.

Madeline Tomlinson ’18, Annie Ballaine ’16, Selena Maity ’18, Jocelyn Lehman ’18 and Blatchford competed for the Holleran Cup, the second division.

Both Ballaine and Blatchford were able to make a statement by advancing to the quarterfinals of their division. Lehman and Maity both notched first-round victories, while Tomlinson was able to make it to the consolation bracket finals.

Despite the up-and-down results, players expressed optimism about next winter. On the men’s team, only two players will graduate — Roberts and Huw Robinson ’15 — and the current team has seven freshmen, two of whom competed this weekend. The women’s team will lose just four players, with eight of its 10 participants from the CSA Individual Championships returning.

“This group is excited to start work for next season after spring break,” men’s head coach Dave Talbott said. “This group has proven that they have the work ethic to take it to the next level.”

Contact GRIFFIN SMILOW at griffin.smilow@yale.edu .

Bulldogs finish third at Ivies SWIM & DIVE FROM PAGE 14

YALE DAILY NEWS

In one of their best performances of the season, the Bulldogs tallied 1,162.5 points at the Ivy League Championships.

finished only 0.08 seconds behind Hogan to take fourth and also qualify for the “B” cuts, while Rob Harder ’15 took fifth and qualified as well. Their back-to-backto-back finishes brought in 78 points for Yale.

Additionally, Heymann brought in valuable points for the Bulldogs by placing seventh in the 200-yard IM and qualifying for the event’s “B” cuts. In the incredibly close 50-yard freestyle, Greenberg placed third, less than half a second behind the first- and secondplace finishers.

On the diving side, James McNelis ’16 was the top scorer for Yale, taking 13th in the one-meter dive and tallying 14 points.

The final event of the day — the 400-yard medley relay — finished with the Elis in fourth again. At the end of the day, the team was in third place with 326 points.

Day two began with the 200-yard medley relay, in which the Elis fell to all the other squads save Dartmouth, who was disqualified. Hogan and Ben Lerude ’17 changed the tempo quickly, placing second and fifth in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Hogan broke the meet record for the event last season, but Chris Swanson of Penn managed to break Hogan’s record, as well as the Ivy record with a time of 8:49.55. Hogan’s time of 8:54.32 last year broke the previous pool record set in 2012.

Swanson was the only individual swimmer to qualify for NCAA “A” cuts at the meet. The Princeton 200-yard med-

ley relay and 400-yard freestyle relay also qualified for “A” cuts, as did divers from Columbia, Princeton and Harvard.

Hyogo continued to bring in points by taking fourth in the 400-yard IM and qualifying for “B” cuts. Mike Lazris ’15 followed up with a seventh-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly, bringing in 23 points for Yale’s total. Harder led the way for Yale with a close finish in the 200yard freestyle, placing third, while Ronald Tsui ’15 placed sixth in the 100-yard breaststroke. Both swimmers qualified for “B” cuts. Meanwhile, Alex Schultz ’17 brought in 23 points with a seventh-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke.

The 800-yard freestyle relay marked the end of the day, and the Elis finished with a stellar performance. The team of Hogan, Harder, Jonathan Rutter ’18 and Hyogo finished second, just one second behind Princeton.

On day three, the Bulldogs were, at the minimum, looking to maintain their third-place standing, as Penn was fewer than 100 points behind them. Yale enjoyed favorable odds from the start, when Hyogo, Hogan and Lerude combined for a two-three-five finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle. Hyogo and Hogan’s times both beat the previous meet record of 14:53.75. Harder brought in Yale’s first victory of the meet, winning the 200-yard backstroke and bringing in 32 points. Greenberg showed a solid performance in the 100-yard freestyle, placing seventh with Zhang behind him in ninth.

Rutter took sixth in the 200-yard breaststroke, the highest placement for Yale in

the event.

The three-meter dive saw Zhang placing 15th overall with a diving score of 268.25 points. The final event of the day was the 400-yard freestyle relay and Greenberg, Zhang, Alwin Firmansyah ’15 and Harder combined for a third-place finish, sealing Yale’s overall placement in the standings. In addition to the thirdplace finish overall, multiple swimmers broke personal, pool and meet records.

“A couple of people had some incredible swims, and we even had multiple swimmers in the same event breaking records,” Lerude said. “There were records broken in a lot of strokes and from people in every class, so it shows how deep the team is getting in a lot of areas.”

Many of the record breakers were younger swimmers, giving the team a bright outlook for the future.

Several swimmers also noted their anticipation for next year, when they will look to improve on this season’s performance.

“We as a team took things differently this season,” Greenberg said. “From the start of unofficial captain’s practices, we have been working at a much more intense level than last year.”

NCAA Zone Diving begins this weekend in Piscataway, New Jersey for any divers who qualify. The NCAA Championships will begin in Iowa City, Iowa on March 26.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

PAGE 11

BULLETIN BOARD

TODAY’S FORECAST

TOMORROW

A chance of snow, mainly after 4pm.

Increasing clouds, with a high near 28.

THURSDAY

High of 38, low of 26.

High of 28, low of 8.

XKCD BY RANDALL MUNROE

ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, MARCH 3 4:30 PM CEAS China Colloquium Presents: Confucianism in Everyday Life in Contemporary China. Anna Sun, associate professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Kenyon College, will discuss the ethical and ritual revival of Confucianism in modernday China. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Rm. 203.

7:00 PM Yale Institute of Sacred Music: ARCHIVE by Arkadi Zaides. Through footage filmed by volunteers of the B’Tselem Camera Project, Arkadi Zaides will guide the audience through an artistic exploration of the Israel/Palestine conflict. A panel discussion will follow the performance. Free and open to the public. Off Broadway Theater (41 Broadway).

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 12:30 PM Performance, Lunchtime Chamber Music. Enjoy a free midday concert of music from a colorful variety of chamber ensembles. The performers are graduate students in the Yale School of Music. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

XKCD BY RANDALL MUNROE

4:00 PM The War in Ukraine: An Update. The European Studies Council and the program in European Union Studies present a panel discussion with professors David Cameron, Thomas Graham and Timothy Snyder to discuss the war in Ukraine. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Aud. 5:00 PM A Reading and Public Conversation with Claudia Rankine. Acclaimed poet Claudia Rankine has published three collections of her work, the latest of which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 101.

6:00 PM 9th Annual Reading by Anne Fadiman and her students. Three undergraduate writers will join Anne Fadiman, the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale, for an evening of profiles.

New Haven Free Public Library (133 Elm St.).

XKCD BY RANDALL MUNROE

y SUBMIT YOUR EVENTS ONLINE yaledailynews.com/events/submit To reach us: E-mail editor@yaledailynews.com Advertisements 2-2424 (before 5 p.m.)

2-2400 (after 5 p.m.)

Mailing address Yale Daily News P.O. Box 209007 New Haven, CT 06520

Questions or comments about the fairness or accuracy of stories should be directed to Editor in Chief Isaac Stanley-Becker at (203) 432-2418.

Bulletin Board is a free service provided to groups of the Yale community for events. Listings should be submitted online at yaledailynews.com/events/ submit. The Yale Daily News reserves the right to edit listings.

To visit us in person 202 York St. New Haven, Conn. (Opposite JE) FOR RELEASE MARCH 3, 2015

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

CLASSIFIEDS

CROSSWORD Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis ACROSS 1 With 69-Across, subject of this puzzle 7 Portrayer of 1-/69-Across in “Sherlock Holmes” (2009) 14 Not straying from the subject 16 Satan 17 “The Diary of Anne Frank” police 18 Muscle-to-bone connectors 19 Audio jack label 20 Took charge of 21 Wise folk 22 Rewrite for the screen 24 Set a price of 26 Northern California town that once had a palindromic bakery 29 Mentally sound 30 Live, in the studio 32 Kool-Aid instruction 33 Ostrich kin 35 “I __ Fine”: Beatles hit 37 Antlered beast 38 Portrayer of 1-/69-Across in the BBC’s “Sherlock” 42 World games org.

43 A bit open 44 “C’est la __” 45 Cry for seconds 47 Battery end 49 Rise dramatically 53 Sticking point 55 Game won by discarding all your cards 56 Iditarod jacket 57 Wood finish 59 DKNY rival 61 Press __ 62 Dannon yogurt brand 64 Natives of Tibet’s capital 66 Unlisted candidate 67 Erode, as savings 68 Portrayer of 1-/69-Across in CBS’ “Elementary” 69 See 1-Across

By Mike Buckley

DOWN 1 Rigid beliefs 2 Tableware company named for a New York town 3 ER diagnostic tool 4 Day care attendee 5 Eyeball-bending gallery display 6 TV host Kelly 7 Watercraft rider 8 Eye layer containing the iris 9 Dull-colored 10 Senior officials 11 It’s brewed in infusers 12 Political writer Coulter 13 Director Anderson 15 With 48-Down, 1-/69-Across creator Arthur 23 Jury member 25 Paella spice 27 Ceramics oven 28 Noah’s flood insurance 30 Message-spelling board 31 Superman player Christopher 34 Former Boston commuter org.

Monday’s Puzzle Solved

3/3/15

SUDOKU EASY

9 3 1 5

6 8 1 3

©2015 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

36 “Welcome to Hawaii” gift 38 Secure in a harbor 39 Quotation puzzle 40 Mork’s sign-off 41 Southwestern tableland 42 Tough kid to handle 46 Thing 48 See 15-Down 50 Mork’s people

3/3/15

51 Quite like 52 Gives away to the cops 54 “Sold!” punctuator 56 Spanish silver 58 Four, on some sundials 60 “Major Barbara” playwright 62 Hole-making tool 63 French wine word 65 “Grab a chair”

1 4

4 1 3 6 2 9 2 3 5 9 6 3

7 3 2 1 6 3 7 5 4 3 2

PAGE 12

YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Drug reduces college-age binge drinking

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTER A new Yale study has identified a drug that may significantly reduce the intensity of heavy drinking among young adults.

The study found that participants reduced their drinking habits by roughly one drink per instance of consumption while on the drug — Naltrexone, an opiate inhibitor — potentially caused by the decreased “buzz” felt when drinking. The drug did not affect frequency of consumption.

“Young adults are generally more willing to consider reduceddrinking goals than quitting drinking,” said Stephanie O’Malley, professor of psychiatry at Yale and lead author of the study. “We tried to meet people where they are, and where they might want to make changes in their drinking.”

Researchers looked at 140 university-age men and women who frequently drank more than four drinks in a given night in order to identify the best way to help young adults “mature out” of heavy drinking. Though they acknowledged that binge drinking during college may be inevitable for some, the researchers looked for ways to make sure that students did not continue their unhealthy habits into their late twenties and beyond.

The study focused particularly on harm reduction rather than drinking cessation. O’Malley said she thought this model would best work with college students who may not want to completely quit drinking, but do want to make some changes.

In this focus on harm reduction, the study is particularly innovative, said Reid Hester, director of the research division of Behavior Therapy Associates, LLC — a Nebraska-based healthcare firm — who wrote a commentary on the study.

“This is one of the few studies in the United States to demonstrate the drug’s effectiveness with people who are heavy drinkers but not alcohol-dependent. And that is huge,” said Hester. “There are four times as many heavy drinkers as there are alcohol-dependent people, and the rate of alcohol depen-

dence is decreasing while heavy drinking is rising.”

He added that, in contrast to alcoholics, who may need to make lifelong commitments to change their drinking habits, heavy drinkers can benefit from time-limited, focused help.

Naltrexone works as an opiate inhibitor, meaning that it blocks certain receptors in the brain that are stimulated by opioids wand alcohol, so that not all of the effects of alcohol are felt while on the drug. O’Malley attributed part of the reduction in alcohol use among participants to a decrease in the pleasure gained from the alcohol, leading to a decrease in interest in continuing drinking.

Clinical studies have recognized the effectiveness of the drug on alcohol use in a wide variety of manners, said Raymond Anton, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. Naltrexone causes less intense craving, less pleasure activation and it decreases the “buzz” of alcohol, causing instead a more direct depressant quality.

“We see that lack of stimulation in a laboratory setting where they are getting a dose of alcohol with Naltrexone versus a placebo,” said Anton. “When they’re offered up to eight drinks afterwards, they actually drink less and have less stimulation.”

The drug is coming back into the mainstream after decades of relative obscurity due to bad timing with a patent from the pharmaceutical company DuPont, said Anton. Right as DuPont was beginning to advertise the drug as an alcohol inhibitor rather than an opiate addiction reliever, the patent expired and the drug lost favor.

While participants on Naltrexone, on average, consumed approximately one fewer drink for every instance of consumption, the study also found that Naltrexone produced additional benefits. Participants taking the drug instead of the placebo were 12 percent less likely to report that their schoolwork suffered in the time period, 16 percent less likely to pass out, 8 percent less likely to miss work or class and 19 percent less likely to have blacked out

THAO DO/ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR

in the study’s eight-week time period.

The next step in this line of research, O’Malley said, is to explore similar relationships between drugs used to treat addic-

tions and other related drugs.

O’Malley is currently completing a study on whether Varenicline, an anti-smoking drug, may have an effect on alcohol use. If this is the case, then the study would suggest

a stronger degree of inter-relationships between various dependencies and addictions.

Over 1,800 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die each year from alcohol-related

causes, according to the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

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

Hospitals should adopt uniform brain death standards, article argues

BY QI XU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Dec. 12, 2013, Jahi McMath was declared dead by her doctors at Children’s Hospital Oakland. She had lost blood circulation, causing brain death.

But her family rejected the doctor’s criteria for death and solicited for continued life support, and the case engendered heated debate on the definition of death and the complications involved in brain death.

However, Vice Chair of Yale’s Department of Neurology David Greer said that diagnosing brain death is not confusing at all.

In a recent article in “Current Opinion in Critical Care,” which Greer co-authored with Shivani Ghoshal, a resident at the Yale

School of Medicine, the authors reviewed four studies investigating differences in brain death declaration. Their article shows that despite the straightforward guidelines for brain death diagnosis published by the American Academy of Neurology in 2010, there are still variations across hospitals. This study, titled “Why is diagnosing brain death so confusing?,” was published on Feb. 13, 2015.

“Our motivation is to ensure that doctors making declarations on brain death are doing it consistently and conservatively, meaning testing things as meticulously as possible,” Greer said.

By pointing out the common variables concerning brain death, this paper aims to serve as a call for action for accredit-

ing bodies to demand that the guidelines at hospitals be consistent with the AAN criteria, Greer added. He said this will motivate hospitals to change their current protocols so as to avoid losing accreditation.

Greer noted that national standardization for diagnosis of brain death is important for maintaining the public’s trust in physicians.

“This is not one of those you can do it right 99 times out of 100 and that’s okay. It has to be 100 percent,” he said. “You cannot have a patient who you say is brain dead, and it turns out at organ donation that he isn’t dead.”

Yale neurology professor Jennifer Dearborn agreed that there is a need for standardization.

When talking about something as clear-cut as brain death, there needs to be a single standard, she said.

A national standard is important not just for neurologists to make calls about organ donation, but also for other medical and legal reasons, said Norman Werdiger, clinical professor of neurology at the School of Medicine and assistant chief of neurology at the Yale-New Haven Hospital.

From the medical standpoint, a standard helps physicians and health care providers know when to stop providing continuing medical care. When physicians continue caring for brain dead patients because they are not certain of the standard, it can deprive other criti-

cally ill patients of life-saving treatment. Ending treatment when it should be ended can also minimize family members’ false hopes, he added.

According to Shelly Kagan, a Yale professor of philosophy who teaches the course “Death,” ethical dilemmas also make it important to work out the standards, which raise the question of when it is morally permissible to turn off respirators, or harvest another’s organs for donation.

Turning off respirators concerns not only the life of the patient but also the possibility of saving the lives of others who await organ transplantation — any delaying will result in the deterioration of those organs.

Though the ethical questions may be complex, Greer said

ASHLYN OAKES/STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

diagnosis is not.

“The title of the study asks, ‘Why is diagnosing brain death so confusing?’ But the answer is it is not. It’s straightforward. It’s cookbook. It’s like Neurology 101 in college,” he said.

Greer noted that it is simple for hospitals to change their protocols to comply with the AAN guidelines. He and his coauthors created a toolkit on the neurocritical care website that includes a checklist for diagnosing brain death. It mandates a minimum number of criteria that must be met before declaration of brain death. All hospitals have to do is to insert their names on the website, he said. He added that the change does not require hospitals to retrain their physicians because the examinations on the checklist are standard.

But Werdiger said some hospitals will find it harder than others to adapt to the new standards. Whether or not they are able to do so will hinge on the commitment of their administration and staff.

“The only reason that they are not doing it right now is that nobody is holding their feet to the fire,” Greer said of hospitals not adopting the AAN brain death standards. “Doctors haven’t changed yet because they are lazy.”

Though the main aim of the article is to push hospitals to comply with the guidelines, educating the public about brain death is also extremely important, Werdiger said.

“Society as a whole needs to be educated with regards to a change in attitude about the traditional concept of death as being cessation of heart beat,” he said, noting that hearts can be kept beating even if the patients are not alive.

In a 2004 survey, only onethird of respondents felt that a brain dead patient was legally dead.

Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

PAGE 13

“The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you’re responsible for snacks after the game.” GARTH BROOKS AMERICAN SONGWRITER

Study uncovers science behind “the munchies”

BY STEVEN LEWIS STAFF REPORTER A study led by Yale researchers has uncovered a novel contribution of a subset of neurons in driving marijuana induced feeding, otherwise known as “the munchies.”

Using mouse models, a group led by Yale researchers found that a subset of neurons which had been thought to promote fullness were actually integral in inducing hunger in the presence of cannabinoids, the active ingredient in marijuana. These neurons, located in the hypothalamus — the part of the brain that links the nervous system to the endocrine system — normally produce a satiety hormone but switch their function and produce a hunger-driving hormone when their cannabinoid receptor is activated. The findings were published in the journal Nature on Feb. 18.

“We ran these experiments as a control study to see whether these neurons would be turned off at a time when you are hungry or exposed to cannabinoids,” said professor of comparative medicine and neurobiology Tamas Horvath, who was the study’s senior author. “And we found that they are not only not turned off, but they are actually more turned on than before, which is the exact opposite of what has been shown by the previous 20 years of work.”

Marco Koch, the study’s lead author, who is currently in the department of anatomy at the University of Leipzig and a previous research associate in Yale’s Horvath Lab, said the research spanned three years. When they first saw the findings, they thought there might be something wrong with their protocol.

“We followed up our finding

by many control experiments, and they all confirmed this contrary, surprising initial finding,” Koch said.

After understanding that cannabinoids flip a hormonal switch in those neurons, the group sought to identify the cellular mechanism by which the switch is flipped. They found the process was linked to mitochondrial protein modification in those neurons. When they blocked that mitochondrial adaptation, cannabinoid induced feeding was blocked and the mice ate less, Horvath explained.

Professor of psychiatry, neuroscience and pharmacology at Mount Sinai Hospital Yasmin Hurd, who was not involved in the study, praised its simplicity and apt use of model organisms.

“I thought it was a beautiful, mechanistic study. You cannot achieve this kind of mechanistic understanding in humans, so I do think these animal models were quite appropriate for the questions they were asking,” she said, adding that studies of this quality are rare in the field of marijuana research.

Horvath, reflecting on the study, said that although he was initially surprised by the results, it is logical that these neurons would have the ability to switch their function and promote hunger even when the body should feel full. It is evolutionarily grounded in humans’ past as hunter-gatherers, when it would have been advantageous to eat as much as possible when food was available.

“We used to spend our time in the scarcity of food,” he said.

Hurd said this research may help researchers understand the underlying mechanisms behind appetite, which could in turn help them create drugs that could target this appetite-regu-

lating pathway. Horvath agreed, saying that these medicines could potentially selectively flip on hunger in people who often do not feel it, such as cancer or AIDS patients.

Koch said the group in Leipzig plans to follow up on this research by developing therapeutics that will selectively

modify appetite as a way to treat obesity and eating disorders in which appetite has been distorted. Horvath’s group is pursuing the possible mechanistic links between the “munchies” and the high associated with marijuana use, after finding that these hypothalamic neurons produce endorphins — hor-

mones associated with pleasure — when exposed to canniboids.

He hopes to further uncover cellular mechanisms that bring about the switch in these neurons in the hopes of developing pharmacological compounds that could make that switch for patients.

Funding for this research

was provided by the National Institue of Health, the American Diabetes Association, the Klarmann Family Foundation, the Helmholtz Society and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SFB. Contact STEVEN LEWIS at steven.lewis@yale.edu .

ASHLYN OAKES/STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

Binge eating often comes with other burdens

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER People who have both bingeeating disorder and a mood disorder are more likely to have a

more severe form of the former, according to a new Yale study.

Researchers studied 347 patients, all of whom had bingeeating disorder, characterized by the DSM-IV as repeated epi-

sodes of both eating more than what other people would consume during a similar time interval in similar circumstances, as well as a sense of lack of control during that interval, with

feelings of distress throughout.

These patients were evaluated and then divided into four categories — those who also had a mood disorder, those with a substance abuse disorder, those with

THAO DO/STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

both and those with neither. The study found that BED co-occurs frequently with both mood disorders and substance abuse disorders.

The research showed that patients with both BED and a mood disorder, such as depression, were more concerned when thinking about their eating habits, their weight and their body shape than those without a mood disorder.

Researchers noted that BED is often not considered when people consider eating disorders.

“There’s a fair amount of interest, certainly in my lifetime, about eating disorders generally,” said Daniel Becker, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and lead author of the study. “The two kinds people most commonly think and talk about are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa — bingeeating disorder is actually more common than the other two put together.”

Becker cited a 2007 study that estimated the lifetime prevalence rates of anorexia nervosa to be 0.9 percent among women, with bulimia nervosa and BED at 1.5 percent and 3.5 percent, respectively.

Binge-eating disorder has only recently been established as a recognized mental disorder, Becker said. The American Psychiatric Association officially included binge-eating disorder in the DSM in 2013.

Fifty-four percent of patients in the study were found to have a mood disorder in addition to having BED. Those patients were found to be more likely to have a personality disorder as well as a heightened sensitivity to eating, weight and shape concerns.

Becker said that, in addition to helping researchers better comprehend problems related to BED, such as obesity and overeating in general, studies like this can help to discern whether comorbidity — when two chronic conditions occur together — of these disorders is random, or if there is a relationship between the disorders. He added that answering that question can help them understand whether there is a shared mechanism that causes both disorders or whether one disorder causes the other.

According to Peter Morgan, professor of psychiatry at the

Yale School of Medicine, recognizing the subtypes within BED is important for finding more specific treatment approaches that can be personalized per patient.

Kimberly Dennis, CEO and medical director at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center — a mental health and substance abuse treatment center — agreed. She added that by relegating one disorder of a co-occurring set of disorders to a “secondary” diagnosis, and neglecting to treat that secondary disorder properly, is “not a recipe for sustained recovery in the long term.”

Both Becker and Dennis stressed the chronic nature of disorders such as BED and mood disorders. Becker said further studies might look at how comorbid disorders affect each other over time, or what the differences might be depending on which disorder begins first.

“Those interactions over time are things that we don’t have much of an understanding of,” Becker said. “Another way we could go [is to look at] temporal or causal sequences, and try to understand how that works from a psychopathology point of view.

Eventually all of this is aimed at helping people.”

Dennis said studying the co-occurrence of BED with other disorders is also important because clinicians need to be cross-trained to address this comorbidity, as opposed to treating the disorders separately.

Likewise, the billing process of insurance companies is not set up to recognize comorbidity, Dennis said. It instead bills patients by naming one of their disorders as primary and the others as secondary or tertiary.

“It’s a complex package,” Dennis said of comorbidity.

Morgan noted the study’s inconclusive results on any relationships between BED and substance abuse disorder. He added that the researchers also did not look at whether eating disorders share more similarities with mood disorders or with substance abuse disorders.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 9.5 percent of U.S. adults have some sort of mood disorder.

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

IF YOU MISSED IT SCORES

NBA Nets 104 Mavericks 94

NHL Capitals 4 Maple Leafs 0

SPORTS QUICK HITS

JUSTIN SEARS ’16 DOMINANCE ON THE HARDWOOD Sears dominated in Friday’s game against Dartmouth, scoring a gamehigh 28 points and gobbling up 12 rebounds to key the Bulldogs’ secondhalf comeback. Largely on the strength of this game, he was named the Ivy Player of the Week for the 10th time in his career.

NHL Penguins 5 Blue Jackets 3

y

NCAAM Wisconsin 68 Michigan St 61

NCAAM Colorado 87 Arizona St 81

FOR MORE SPORTS CONTENT, VISIT OUR WEB SITE yaledailynews.com/sports

“Our defensive unit was very strong and came up with some huge stops, and our attack played confidently under pressure.”

HOPE HANLEY ’17 WOMEN’S LACROSSE

ERIN MULLINS ’15 STOPPING SHOTS AND TAKING NAMES The Garden City, New York native earned Ivy League Co-Defensive Player of the Week honors after making 12 total saves in wins over Quinnipiac and Canisius. She is currently third in the Ivy League with 17 saves on the season.

YALE DAILY NEWS · TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

Elis keep Canisius winless

Squash team sees mixed results

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

BY GRIFFIN SMILOW CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

SQUASH

This weekend, representatives from the Yale men’s and women’s squash teams competed in the College Squash Association Individual Championships, which was hosted by Princeton. Though no Bulldog was able to make it past the quarterfinals, members of the team said they viewed the tournament as a learning experience.

The CSA Individual Championships occur annually and mark the conclusion of the season. As its name suggests, players compete as individuals representing Yale rather than as a team. Players are selected to participate based on team standings and on their individual SEE SQUASH PAGE 10

JOSH RENAUD/THE DARTMOUTH

The Bulldogs took the lead thanks to a 6–0 run to end the first half.

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER The Yale women’s lacrosse team earned its second win of this season this Sunday despite an early deficit and snowy conditions.

The Bulldogs (2–1, 0–0 Ivy) defeated Canisius (0–4, 0–0 Metro Atlantic) after a strong first half that established an Eli lead throughout the game. Yale retained its perfect home record this week after earning a decisive win against Quinnipiac in its home opener last Wednesday.

“Today’s game was a great one on both ends of the field,” attacker Hope Hanley ’17 said. “Our defensive unit was very strong and came up with some huge stops, and our

attack played confidently under pressure. [We] played very unselfishly and adapted well to playing in poor conditions.”

The game got off to a quick start, with a goal by attacker Tess McEvoy ’17 less than three minutes into the contest. McEvoy leads the teams in goals this season with seven, three of which were against Canisius.

However, the Golden Griffins also came out fighting. Canisius went on a three-goal run during the first 10 minutes of the contest to push ahead of Yale, 3–1. The Bulldogs countered with a streak of their own, as they dominated the rest of the half by scoring six goals and pitching a shutout, preventing the Canisius offense from mounting a comeback.

According to midfielder Madeleine Gramigna ’18, the team’s quick recovery to retake the lead was crucial in maintaining momentum for the rest of the game.

“We started off a bit slow, but after … get[ting] into a rhythm and understand[ing] the type of defense they were playing, we were able to break it,” captain and attacker Kerri Fleishhacker ’15 said. “Canisius played a zone defense, which we needed to adapt to. We were able to pick them apart and capitalize off of their mistakes.”

The Elis’ stretch of scoring continued after the break as well, with three goals for Yale within the first 10 SEE WOMEN’S LACROSSE PAGE 10

School records fall at Heps

IRENE JIANG/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The highlight for the men’s squash players was the quarterfinals appearance of Joseph Roberts ’15 in the Molloy Cup.

Yale garners NCAA bids, PRs

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For the first time since 2008, the Yale men’s swimming and diving team finished in the top three in the Ivy League Championships last weekend. The Bulldogs finished in third place, behind Princeton and Harvard, who took first and second, respectively.

SWIM & DIVE

Athletes of America, otherwise known as the IC4A, Division I Indoor Championships.

The women’s team placed sixth with 50 points, marking their highest finish and point total since 2006. Harvard won the meet with 125 points. The Elis also scored multiple top-five finishes and personal bests.

“Our team did have a great weekend,” women’s captain Kira Garry ’15 said. “We competed hard and believed that we belonged with the best in the Ivy League.”

Two Bulldogs, Mackenzie Mathews ’16 and Karleh Wilson ’16, each broke the

Many of the Elis broke records during the meet, posting some of their best performances of the season and racking up 1,162.5 points by the end of the final day, their highest point total in the event since 2009, when Yale neared its 2015 mark with a total of 1033.5 points.

“One thing that [head coach] Tim [Wise] said after Ivies that really struck me is that while getting third was our goal, it is not our end goal,” said Wayne Zhang ’18, a staff reporter for YTV. “Our hard work paid off this weekend, and we’re going to continue to work hard so that we can eventually do even better.”

The meet began on Thursday with the 200-yard freestyle relay. The Eli team of Aaron Greenberg ’17, Victor Zhang ’16, Andrew Heymann ’15 and Oscar Miao ’16 took fourth. Brian Hogan ’16 brought home the first top-three finish for the Bulldogs on Thursday, placing third in the 500yard freestyle and qualifying for the NCAA “B” time cuts. Kei Hyogo ’18

SEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE 10

SEE SWIM & DIVE PAGE 10

BRIANNA LOO/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The women’s track and field team took sixth at Heps while the men’s program finished in eighth.

BY ADAM JENKINSON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Members of the Bulldog track and field team set records this weekend when they took on the rest of the Ivy League at the Indoor Heptagonal Track and Field Championships this Saturday and Sunday.

TRACK & FIELD The two-day event, held in Cambridge at the Albert H. Gordon Indoor Track, featured men’s and women’s teams from all eight Ivy schools. The teams were competing to advance and qualify for the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur

STAT OF THE DAY 7

YALE DAILY NEWS

The men’s swimming and diving program took third place at Ivies for the first time since 2008.

THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUAL YALE SWIMMING RECORDS BROKEN AT THE 2015 IVY LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS BY FIVE SWIMMERS. Swimmers Andrew Heymann ’15, Robby Harder ’15, Ronald Tsui ’15, Kei Hyogo ’18 and Jonathan Rutter ’18 broke the records while many other Elis qualified for NCAAs.