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CROSS CAMPUS Music Festival Season. Yale’s

Spring Fling was named one of the top five college music festivals of 2014 for this year’s lineup of Diplo, Chance the Rapper and Betty Who. “This Ivy League seems to take the opinion of their student body pretty seriously, as they took suggestions into consideration for the construction of this year’s lineup,” the piece said.

Also on the list were the University of Pennsylvania, Tufts, Vanderbilt and Brown.

Let’s talk about that plastic bag. Producer Bruce Cohen

’83 was on campus yesterday evening for a screening and Q&A of his film “American Beauty” (1999), which won the Oscar for Best Picture.

Director Sam Mendes, who won Best Director for the film, was also present.

Fresh out of the oven.

Students have a rare chance to stock up on Thin Mints, Samoas and Trefoils today.

Girl Scout cookies are being sold in Branford and Pierson during dinner Thursday from 6–7 p.m. at $4 a box. The Girl Scout troop attends Hooker Elementary School and has four troop leaders who attend Yale.

Free friends. A new site

CULTURE A VISUAL PEEK INSIDE THE AACC

NEWSPAPER

THEATER

New Haven Register struggles to find location for new headquarters

NOBEL LAUREATE SOYINKA TALKS MODERN SLAVERY

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Raising taxes, rising tempers NEW HAVEN BUDGET BREAKDOWN FISCAL YEAR 2014-’15

Other State Aid 12%

Property Taxes 50%

City employees retirement 3% Police and fire pension 5% General government 5%

Other Revenue 8%

Health benefits 13%

Where the money goes

Debt service 14%

Education 35%

An auditorium’s worth of angry residents faced the committee.

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has popped up to help Yale students socialize with their classmates. “Grabbing Lunch with Strangers” will set up participants for half hour meals with random peers for the week of April 14–18.

It was March 6, and city lawmakers were on stage for the first public hearing on the mayor’s proposed budget for the 2014-’15 fiscal year.

Over the course of two hours of testimony, an ultimatum emerged:

Shutterbug. Glamour Magazine recently named Susannah Benjamin ’15 one of its top ten college women for its 57th annual collegeachievement competition.

Benjamin was labeled the “photo genius” for her achievements, which include shooting Beyoncé in 2011 and having over three million views on her Flickr account.

Documents detail animal abuses

Cho delays plea hearing

Another man said he had already picked up and left the city. He had moved to Milford, where he pays 30 percent less in property taxes than he would pay in New Haven.

The contrast will be even starker if taxes go up by 3.8 percent this year, as Mayor Toni Harp has requested in the budget she submitted to the SEE BUDGET PAGE 4

SEE CHUNG CHO PAGE 6

State Aid for Education 30%

days into her tenure as mayor, Toni Harp has been left to defend a budget not entirely her own. Now New Haven is struggling to generate the revenue it needs to keep going without taxing all of its residents away.

ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER reports.

if you raise our taxes, we will leave New Haven.

“I love this city. But I don’t think I’m going to be here next year to stand in front of you and have this conversation because I can’t live here anymore,” Gerald Kahn of St. Ronan Street told 10 alders from the finance committee who had gathered at East Rock’s Hooker School for the hearing.

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Gourmet Heaven owner Chung Cho, who is facing charges of wage theft that occurred at Broadway location, appeared in court Tuesday morning for his scheduled plea hearing, only to have his attorney negotiate yet another delay.

Cho was arrested on Feb. 20 on 42 wage theft and fraud charges and then again four days later for 10 additional discrimination and payroll violations. Twenty-one of the charges are felonies. He was originally scheduled to appear at New Haven Superior Court on March 4, but his attorney, David Leff, pushed the hearing to Tuesday. After a brief conversation with prosecutor Joseph LaMotta at this second hearing, Leff negotiated another delay.

As Cho ascended the stairs of the court building Tuesday morning, he walked through the small crowd of former workers with his eyes averted and head bowed.

About 20 demonstrators — among them Yale students, activists and four former Gourmet Heaven employees — greeted him with the chant: “What do we want? Justice!

When do we want it? Now!” But they are not expecting Cho to go to trial in the near future. Lugo said it is customary for defendants to prolong cases as long as they can to wear down prosecutors and ride out community pressure.

“We want to show the court that this matters to us and we’re not going to simply accept any decision,” said Julio Olivar, a former Gourmet Heaven employer, who Cho fired in January after he testified separately

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Public safety 14%

Report finds too many parking spots in New Haven

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER

Where the money comes from

Other 11%

PARKING

Keegan book launched

Real music. The Grammy-

nominated Yale Cellos performed their popular annual concert yesterday evening in the Morse Recital Hall. The second half of the concert featured the premiere of Ezra Laderman’s “Second Partita” for unaccompanied cello, for those of you who know what that means.

Gender disparity. Dartmouth

recently published a piece about the gender disparity in its commencement speakers. Since the start of the 20th century, only 10 speakers have been female, accounting for 17.5 percent of the total number of speakers.

Dartmouth College became coeducational in 1972.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1962 Senior societies finalize plans for a “pre-tap period” prior to the final round of taps. A procedure set by Scroll and Key is circulated. Only one society, Skull and Bones, indicates it will not follow this new procedure.

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Yale may face financial penalties for animal rights violations in labs.

BY HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTER The over 40 animal rights violations that occurred in Yale’s laboratories over the past three years are comparable to the number of violations reported by most other research universities across the nation, according to the animal rights organization that filed a complaint against the University on March 31.

Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) is urging the USDA to impose the maximum financial penalty on Yale for three animal welfare violations in university laboratories. SAEN obtained records that detail over 40 self-reported violations between January 2011 and May 2013 through a Freedom of Information Act filing. All but four of these violations concerned the treatment of mice and rats, animals that are not legally protected by the Animal

Welfare Act (AWA), the USDA framework used to decide which violations to pursue.

In contrast, the NIH’s Public Health Service policy (PHS) does extend to treatment of mice and rats, and requires all NIH-funded labs to self-report animal welfare violations, even though the NIH cannot take disciplinary action. The complaint filed by SAEN on March 31 pertained to animals covered by the AWA — a dog, seventeen hamsters and fifteen mastomys.

The FOIA documents, which had not been released to the public before the SAEN filing, reveal recurring themes in the over 40 violations reported.

Failing to administer postoperation painkillers, or infrequently administering them, as well as forgetting to place a milk source with baby mice, appeared on multiple occasions.

SEE ANIMAL RIGHTS PAGE 6

BRIANNA LOO/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The launch for “The Opposite of Loneliness” took place at the Yale Bookstore on Wednesday.

BY NICOLE NG STAFF REPORTER Family, friends and members of the Yale community celebrated the launch of Marina Keegan’s ’12 posthumous short story

and essay collection “The Opposite of Loneliness” at an event at the Yale Bookstore on Wednesday.

Keegan, a writer, actress and activist, died in a car accident five days after graduating from Yale in

2012. The essay from which the book takes its title — was written for the 2012 commencement issue of the News and garnered over 1.4 million views after her SEE KEEGAN PAGE 6

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OPINION

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An inconvenient truth L

end it now (another reason to take advantage of Yale Mental Health).

You realize you'd get no sponsors in the Hunger Games.

You realize that you're the Hufflepuffs of Yale.

You read "Divergent" with all your newfound free time and realize that you would be factionless. (If you didn’t get the reference, you’re too busy with society.)

You have a lot of time to read young adult fiction.

You are deemed worthless by your peers.

You schedule fake conflicts on your G-Cal on Thursdays and Sundays.

You can go to mass on Sunday evenings at St. Thomas More.

TWO SENIORS TELL THE TALE OF A YEAR WITHOUT SOCIETY. MORAL OF THE STORY: THEY SURVIVED. GO HUFFLEPUFF! You eat alone on Sundays. All your friends will have fancy dinner with the worthy.

Your answer to the question "Do you have what it takes?" will forever be "no."

You have more time to resent your joblessness and blame it on your lack of a tight-knit alumni network, but it’s probably for the same reason you didn’t get into society in the first place.

You won't have that special graduation photo with your new friends, just a picture of your silly old friends … if they'll still have you (we’re crossing our fingers).

You try to figure out where you went wrong. Hint: Birth.

The only tomb you'll ever enter is that of your own grave.

Some of your friends will reassure you that life will go on if you don’t get into society. Let’s be honest — that’s just pity. Or so our therapists say…

Things that happen if you do get into society: blood drinking.

Lots of blood drinking.

SARA HENDEL is a senior in Davenport College. Contact her at sara.hendel@yale.edu . CONNOR LOUNSBURY is a senior in Calhoun College. Contact him at connor.lounsbury@yale.edu .

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Losing my religion

GUEST COLUMNISTS SARA H E N D E L & C O N N O R L O U N S B U RY

ast Thursday night, as the only two seniors not finalizing pre-tap lists, the two of us sat down and reminisced about our society-less senior year. For those of you unlucky enough not to be tapped tonight, here’s an idea of what next year holds in store.

Some things that happen when you don’t get into society: You're the only senior at meetings on Thursdays and Sundays.

You become friends with underclassmen because they’re the only people around two out of seven nights of the week, but you think they judge you (they do).

You spend those nights eating pizza and convincing yourself you’re better off anyway (you’re not).

You wonder if Dean Mary Miller thinks less of you (she does).

You call home more than ever — who else but your parents will talk to you?

You start watching Hulu original series. You aren't worth primetime dramas.

You realize that at the "Mean Girls" cafeteria tables, you'd be sitting with the Desperate Wannabes: “One time a member of Skull and Bones punched me in the face … it was awesome.”

You have no one to watch the Superbowl with … or the Oscars … or “The Good Wife” (but that was an issue even before society … seriously why don't people watch?!).

You can live-tweet "Scandal" as it airs.

You finally take advantage of Yale Mental Health; you need to figure out what's wrong.

You wonder if you were a different race or into a different hobby if you would have made it … but realize probably not.

You come to terms that it's not your ability or lack of talent, but that it's your personality that is the problem. People have always told you true love is based on personality… so you're screwed.

You try to create a one-person society … which watches porn for three hours every “meeting” — might as well practice ‘cause you'll be alone for the rest of your life!

You're the only senior on Grindr and Tinder on society nights.

You'll never get to tell your life story … but you realize that because you didn't get into society, your story probably isn't worth telling anyway.

Since you bring nothing worthy to the table as a person, you wonder if you should just

impacting campus life.”

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man stopped me in the candy aisle of Walgreens last week and asked me if I knew when Easter was this year. I shook my head and apologized, and he joked in response that as kids we probably counted down the days until Easter. Afterwards I laughed, realizing he had presumed my Christianity; I then remembered I don’t know the date of Passover, either.

Before I actually stepped foot on campus as a freshman, I penned a piece for the News questioning the role of religion in my collegiate future. I wondered how my Jewish upbringing would translate into my involvement in Slifka or Chabad here at Yale. Several months later, I’ve visited Slifka plenty of times — for swing dance practice on the third floor. My religious involvement, on the other hand, has been minimal.

I’m outspokenly atheistic, and my thoughts and actions have turned to Judaism only on a few occasions. Nostalgia once motivated me to light the Shabbat candles that some young Orthodox boys were handing out on Elm Street.

I’ve found myself drawn to a primarily secular, agnostic or atheist crowd, a phenomenon about which I’m a little ambivalent. Though the nonreligious inclinations of many of my Yale peers mirror my social circle at home, the relationship

between the nonreligious crowd here and my faithminded peers is loaded with greater tension and CAROLINE i n te l l e c t u a l conflict than POSNER I witnessed in high school.

Out of Line Secular Yalies seem visibly u n c o m fo r t able with other students’ religious observance.

THE NONRELIGIOUS SHOULD REACH OUT TO COMMUNITIES OF FAITH That’s not to say there is any conspicuous or dramatic conflict among these different groups. But on a broad scale the secular community actively ignores the religious lives of our fellow Yalies rather than seeking to understand them. The respect that the religious community gives to the atheist and agnostic population is returned more frequently with dismissal, and religious devotion is even written off as an intel-

lectual shortcoming or character flaw. “When people ask me about religion, I adopt a tone of cynicism before I even say I’m Catholic because I anticipate their own cynicism,” a friend explained to me. “But then I feel guilty about it — I shouldn’t have to do that.”

One nonreligious student explained to me that we agnostics are not obligated to support other students’ beliefs if we firmly disagree, but I don’t think true disagreement is the issue at hand. This problem is not one of academic or intellectual merit, nor is it about the validity of our ideas about God and religion. The issue is our failure to respect and understand the ways in which our peers engage in their own spirituality. This isn’t always manifested in disrespect — it’s often simply about a failure to regard our friends’ faith as a topic worthy of meaningful conversation and exploration. In finding that my friends are mostly irreligious, I’m guilty of this failure.

I once saw my coworker wearing a ring that spelled “faith” and she later mentioned traveling to Guatemala on a church mission trip in high school. She is also a member of Yale Students for Christ. Recently, I asked her of her perception of the relationship between nonreligious and religious Yalies.

“I don’t think there’s any animosity,” she said hesitantly,

“but I’m surprised people never really ask me about religion.”

Trying to justify this lack of communication by labeling religion an uncomfortable subject is cowardice — the campus community is an incubator for meaningful discourse about personal experiences and beliefs; it serves as an ideal setting for sensitive conversations.

I think we avoid these conversations because we’re afraid discussing religion necessarily verges on proselytizing. The nonreligious community seems to fear that those who believe in God are inherently evangelical and stubbornly intolerant of atheists; we’re afraid that faith is a topic beyond the reaches of rational or reasonable dialogue.

I’m ashamed to reflect on my relationship with my religious peers and recognize that I’m complicit in dismissing and marginalizing the concept of faith or spirituality as unintellectual. The nonreligious population is received with a great deal of respect by the spiritual communities on campus. We ought to treat them the same, reaching out and seeking to understand their religious practices — chances are we’ll learn a lot in the process.

CAROLINE POSNER is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Her columns run on Thursdays.

Contact her at caroline.posner@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST HALEY ADAMS

Democracy can't be retweeted D

on’t get me wrong; I love Twitter as much as the next person. I also think democracy is pretty great, for all of the complaining we do about it. I, like most everyone else, hope that someday soon Cubans will have a functioning democracy and access to Twitter. But the United States Agency for International Development’s attempt to promote subversion in Cuba by pushing a Twitterlike social media platform into the country does nothing to advance democratic values. This program only serves to provide old school Cuban government officials and other critics of the United States with the ammunition they need to strengthen their anti-American rhetoric and delegitimize Cuban-born opposition movements.

Last Thursday, the Associated Press announced that USAID — a federal agency mostly recognized for its humanitarian work — had been funding a texting service modeled after Twitter in Cuba. Created in 2010 with the intention of subverting the Cuban government, the Twitter-esque platform had drawn over 40,000 users. The program, named ZunZuneo, is now defunct.

Prior to this discovery, there was reason to believe that rela-

tions between the United States and Cuba were improving. The Cuban government had taken steps, albeit slowly, towards economic liberalization, while the Obama administration eased certain travel restrictions and parts of the embargo. Raul Castro and Barack Obama even shook hands in December 2013, a far cry from the tense relationships that defined Bush’s tenure.

But the historic adversaries still have much to disagree about, including Cuba’s detainment of USAID officer Alan Gross. In 2009, a Cuban court found Gross guilty of participating in a “subversive project … aimed to destroy the (Cuban) revolution.” While the evidence substantiating these claims against Gross is contested, recent revelations about USAID’s “Cuban Twitter” will surely undermine US attempts to have him released.

The creation of ZunZuneo substantiates claims about the United States’ meddling in Cuba’s internal affairs, of which Gross is just one example, and paints opposition actors as U.S. puppets. It gives credence to old school Cuban officials, who oppose any attempts at liberalization. The USAID effectively undermined not the Cuban government but rather the very

opposition movements within Cuba they are trying to help.

ZUNZUNEO PROVIDES AMERICA'S CRITICS WITH AMMUNITION But this news will not just harm U.S.-Cuban relations and Cuban attempts at liberalization — it delegitimizes USAID as a whole. The agency, established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, promotes development, combats diseases, protects human rights and assists in disaster response. For all of the good it has done, though, foreign countries often regard USAID projects with suspicion. Local governments worry that USAID has ulterior motives — that perhaps it is really just a form of imperialism veiled by claims of humanitarianism. These suspicions breed distrust, making target countries unreceptive to USAID. In Afghanistan, where USAID’s biggest program is located, women’s empowerment programs have proven unsuc-

cessful. These programs, geared towards improving female access to education, health care and economic opportunities, have been met with resistance. They are often regarded as attempts to impose Western morality on the Middle East and have failed as a result. Suspicions of USAID’s intentions are even taken to extremes. In countries afflicted by the AIDS epidemic, USAID’s attempts at treatment and prevention have fueled conspiracy theories that AIDS is a U.S.manufactured disease. While I am by no means insinuating that USAID is actually guilty of any of the extreme allegations made against it, the recent revelations about USAID’s “Cuban Twitter” fuels the distrust. It demonstrates that USAID is not, as is purports to be, an agency geared solely towards humanitarian assistance.

USAID has a mandate, in layman’s terms, to help people. But their recent attempt to “help” the Cuban people through controversial political programs does not better anyone’s life; it only detracts from the agency’s ability to partake in valuable humanitarian assistance.

HALEY ADAMS is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at haley.adams@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.”

JOHN RUSKIN ENGLISH THINKER

CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9

Register move stalled

The opinion article “What’s fueling their decision?” incorrectly stated that BHP Billiton had recently settled a lawsuit over health problems settled by its pollution. In fact, Anadarko was the company that recently settled this lawsuit.

Due to an editing error, the article “ Yale Corporation delays divestment decision” incorrectly stated that University President Peter Salovey serves on the CCIR.

Yale-NUS, a liberal arts model?

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER Association of American Universities President Hunter Rawlings gave a speech last month in which he decried the criticism of liberal education in the United States.

In a speech titled “The Lion in the Path,” Rawlings argued that even though the liberal arts model is losing popularity in the U.S., it continues to be the ideal and most effective contributor to critical knowledge, national security and national economic growth. But while Americans grow increasingly skeptical of the liberal arts, people all over the world admire and attempt to emulate them, Rawlings said — pointing to Yale-NUS in Singapore as a primary example.

“Other countries are now doing whatever they possibly can to emulate American universities and even our liberal arts colleges. Look at Singapore, where Yale is collaborating with NUS to start a high-end, traditional American liberal arts college with a new East-West curriculum,” he said.

Rawlings told the News that though Asian universities generally operate on a different set of values and traditions and will have more difficulty emulating the American liberal arts model in full, the Yale-NUS partnership between Yale and the National University of Singapore shows that this model can be successfully implemented overseas.

Rawlings said Yale-NUS has the base of a liberal arts college, an American phenomenon, as well as the creative freedom to build new components driven by both NUS and Singapore.

Judith Shapiro, president of the Teagle Foundation — an association for higher education — also said she likes the idea that Yale-NUS is a partnership and not a branch campus, which one could see as “somewhat colonialist.”

Rawlings said the key feature that makes Yale-NUS a promising model is its curriculum. It is both innovative and traditional, he said, and has the advantage of having all students take courses together and build upon the same knowledge base.

“Elements of this model are clearly very effective, and I would hope that liberal arts colleges would absorb some of those ideas,” Rawlings said.

“Perhaps we have become too loose with the curriculum.”

Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said there is a general disenchantment with the model of academic distributional requirements and this is why the common curriculum at Yale-NUS is so attractive.

Shapiro said the curriculum at Yale-NUS is a strong model of liberal arts education because of its content and because it was made by a com-

munity of faculty members who care not about their areas of expertise but also about the curriculum as a whole which will serve all the students.

Like Rawlings, Shapiro said the curriculum, both in its rigid structure and its inclusion of different civilizations, could serve as an example for liberal arts colleges in the U.S. She added that the Yale-NUS faculty interacts as a community — and that this collaborative model would also be beneficial if brought back to the U.S. “It would be good to move in a direction where faculty members think of themselves both as a community of scholars and a community of teachers, and that’s how I see the faculty who collaborated on the Yale-NUS curriculum,” she said.

Lawrence University President Mark Burstein, who gave a presentation last month that touched on how the Yale-NUS model could benefit his university, told the News that two themes he sees at YaleNUS are of particular interest to him: the focus on presentation and the emphasis on interdisciplinary learning.

Yale-NUS recognizes that giving both written and oral presentation are essential critical skills for undergraduates and tries to implement this in every course, he said.

The focus on interdisciplinary learning, Burstein said, captures the potential direction in which liberal arts education is going.

“There is so much more potential for discovery [today] on the edges of disciplines and on how they connect,” he said.

Lewis said the Integrated Science course at Yale-NUS is an example of this interdisciplinary approach because it tries to get both science and non-science majors interested in the process of scientific inquiry.

Raeden Richardson, a YaleNUS student, said one of the primary advantages of the Yale-NUS curriculum is the study of both Eastern and Western civilizations.

“Our merging of East-West is unparalleled by any institution in the U.S., and the lack of Eastern studies is a major flaw in many liberal arts programs there,” he said. “The world is bigger than the philosophies of Plato and Mill or the literature of Homer and Blake.”

Adrian Stymne, another Yale-NUS student, said that while there are many strengths to the curriculum — such as the broad cultural approach and the emphasis on research — he is aware of outside criticism as well. He said some students think the common curriculum is too consuming or unnecessary.

Yale-NUS opened its doors to its inaugural class last fall.

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .

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Parking concerns and financial limitations have interrupted plans for the New Haven Register’s downtown move.

BY APARNA NATHAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Plans for the New Haven Register to move to a more central downtown location have lost momentum in recent weeks.

Though the Register was looking to move to a downtown location at 900 Chapel St., which was formerly a mall located near the New Haven Green, negotiations for this move have fallen through due to parking and cost concerns, said Dave Hansen, an associate in CB Richard Ellis Brokerage Group, which has been working with the Register during its move.

“The location has been vetted and precluded,” Hansen said.

He explained that the Register requires twice as much parking as a regular office space needs, something this location was not able to deliver.

Financial limitations posed another hindering factor. The Register is looking to minimize the cost of the move, since the

current advertising climate has resulted in cutbacks in advertising revenue, said Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81, New Haven’s economic development administrator.

Nemerson has been involved in the discussions regarding the downtown move since January.

“Their desire is to keep overhead low and put as much money as possible into producing a great paper,” Nemerson said.

Internal decisions may also be impeding the move. New managing strategies are aimed at keeping the whole staff together, instead of moving the editorial staff downtown as had previously been planned, said Paul Bass ’82, editor of the New Haven Independent, an online news source.

Downtown moves are fairly popular decisions for newspapers, said Dan Kennedy, professor of journalism at Northeastern University and author of “The Wired City,” a book that prominently features the New Haven Register. A location in the center of the city provides the paper with

a visible presence in citizens’ lives and access to the busiest part of the city.

“Being in the suburbs, you’re certainly not going to have your finger on the pulse of city life,” said John Stoehr, managing editor of the Washington Spectator and fellow at the Yale Journalism Initiative. “Especially in New Haven, where you have City Hall and the federal courts — the municipal lifeblood is downtown.”

Plans for the move downtown are close to being permanently cancelled, Hansen said, but the Register’s current headquarters in Long Wharf have already been leased to Jordan’s Furniture, so it must find a new location before it is forced to leave its current building. The Register’s administration is looking at other properties in downtown and greater New Haven in the hopes that that it can keep its offices within the city, Hansen said.

Despite Nemerson’s efforts on behalf of the municipal government to keep the paper down-

town, government representatives are limited in negotiations since it would be controversial if they provided any extra assistance to the Register, Bass said.

Nemerson echoed this concern, and said that the city would not provide an unfair advantage to any newspaper.

However, meetings are still continuing, Nemerson said, citing the influx of journalists and support staff as an added economic benefit for the downtown area.

Additionally, he said, journalism benefits the community.

“There’s no better thing for a community than to know that a group of smart people are writing about what’s going on and editorializing,” Nemerson said. “No matter how slim that newspaper is, it is better to have.”

Editors at the New Haven Register declined to comment.

The New Haven Register was founded in 1812.

Contact APARNA NATHAN at aparna.nathan@yale.edu .

Nobel laureate talks modern slavery

BY TYLER FOGGATT CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Slavery has not yet reached an end — and to pretend otherwise would be a disservice to humanity, according to Wole Soyinka.

Soyinka — a Nigerian playwright, poet, activist and the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize — gave the second annual Henry Louis Gates Jr. lecture in the Whitney Humanities Center on Wednesday.

The author of dozens of works, including 25 plays, Soyinka is known for speaking out against apartheid, corruption and military dictatorships in Africa.

Inspired by the recent releases of films like “Django Unchained” and “12 Years a Slave,” Soyinka spoke to an audience of roughly 200 members of the Yale community about the dangers of certain artistic responses to intolerable conditions like slavery.

Soyinka said artistic representations must recognize that slavery is still at large today and not simply a metaphor.

The possibility of the slave condition is unfinished business.

WOLE SOYINKA Nigerian playwright, poet and activist “To worry over this menace [slavery] is common sense, to respond to it with fear is natural, but to deny it is intellectual treachery,” Soyinka said.

Born in Nigeria in 1934, Soyinka studied in both Nigeria and the United Kingdom, where he worked at the Royal Court Theatre and began writing plays.

Soyinka’s works include “A Dance of the Forests,” “The Lion and the Jewel,” “Death and the King’s Horseman” and “From Zia, with Love.”

In his writing, Soyinka spoke out against many corrupt political regimes, both in Nigeria

and in other African nations.

In 1967, he spent 22 months in prison for criticizing the Nigerian government during the country’s civil war. After fleeing the country in the 1990s, he was sentenced to death in absentia by General Sani Abacha’s government. Since the 1970s, Soyinka has taught at several American universities, including Cornell and Emory.

During his talk on Wednesday, Soyinka asked his audience not only to ponder the question of what exactly can be defined as slavery but also to reflect upon its manifestations in today’s world. He said that his goal was to stress shared conditions between the past — in which slavery was more obviously prevalent — and the present, in which it is more subtle but still a global issue.

To make this connection, he focused on the sexual conditions of slavery, which he said he considers to be the most reprehensible form of degradation.

In the past, male slaves were expected to provide successive generations of slaves for their masters, while the females were subjected to the sexual whims of their owners, Soyinka said.

Although most countries have moved away from plantation-style slavery, Soyinka said sexual slavery is one of the forms in which the practice persists.

In Ghana, for example, some young women are known as “brides of God,” he said.

“They’re known as ‘brides of God,’ but they’re really ‘slaves of God,’” Soyinka said. “These women are sex and domestic slaves of the priest — right from childhood — precluding all possibility of dignity, even in their private relations.”

Soyinka expressed disappointment with the Ghanaian government and nongovernmental organizations’ failure to eradicate this practice, adding that these groups have gone out of their way to avoid releasing the “brides” from bondage.

Many people are afraid to take

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Nigerian playwright, poet, activist and Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka discussed the realities of modern slavery. action for fear of provoking violence or being seen as culturally insensitive, he said.

“The possibility of the slave condition is unfinished business,” Soyinka said. “It’s important to understand what conditions sustain this dehumanizing relationship.”

The serious challenges facing the African continent are not new, but a continuation of adversarial history, he said.

Students interviewed who attended Soyinka’s talk said they were impressed by the eloquence and conviction with which he spoke. They added that they appreciated hearing the ideas of such an important

and celebrated figure.

Ben Lerude ’17 said Soyinka’s take on modern slavery was unlike anything he had ever heard before, and caused him to think about the issue in an entirely new light.

“I thought he had an academically oriented perception of how slavery can be defined in the modern setting,” Adam Willems ’17 said.

An estimated 29.8 million people today are living in slavery, according to the Walk Free Foundation’s Global Slavery Index.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN U.S. FOUNDING FATHER

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Tax hikes are not new. Indeed, the current fiscal year’s budget included a bump in property taxes.

New, however, is New Haven’s mayor — the city’s chief executive whose job it is annually to weigh projected revenue with expected costs and then submit a financial plan to the Board for approval. Harp’s tax hike would increase the contribution from $40.80 to $42.36 for every $1,000 of property value.

Today is Toni Harp’s 100th day in office. She was sworn in January 1, two months after scoring a decisive general election victory to become the city’s 50th mayor.

Harp’s first 100 days have not been marked by grand pronouncements or evidence of a major reorientation in the wake of the 20-year tenure of John DeStefano Jr. The city wants stability more than it wants change, Harp said in an interview following her election last November.

During a conversation at the end of March in her second-floor City Hall office, Harp listed off a handful of actions that have defined her fledgling tenure as mayor, including spearheading a commercial activation program to help revive city neighborhoods, a central plank of her campaign platform last fall. Harp said she has made strides with the Board of Education in continuing to “retrofit our schools.”

In recent days she has pledged to quell gun violence following the shooting death of 16-year-old Torrence Gamble Jr. last week.

But on the issue of the budget — now at the forefront of City Hall’s priorities — Harp said she is beholden to fiscal choices she did not make.

Her job is to “right the ship,” she said of the budget she had to submit after just two months in office. She said she feels constrained by difficulties from the current year’s budget, among them a $600,000 shortfall in the fund balance, which is the city’s savings account or “rainy day” fund.

DeStefano declined to be interviewed. Board of Alders President Jorge Perez, the second-most powerful elected official in the city, offered this faint promise following the second public hearing, held last week at Hill Regional Career High School: “This committee will do everything it can to either eliminate or substantially reduce the tax increase.” When pressed, he said it was too early to suggest potential offsets.

Residents asked the committee to scour the budget for waste before sending it along to the full Board of Alders for a vote. The new budget takes effect July 1.

Jim Duarte, the last to give public testimony, concluded by leading the audience in a chorus of “No!”

No to the tax increase, no to the mayor, no to her staff.

“Like the turning of the seasons, every spring we come back and the budget is passed no matter what we say,” Duarte said.

“And over and over and over it goes.”

BUILDING TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY

Harp’s proposed budget for the 2014-’15 fiscal year is “structurally sound,” said Joe Clerkin, budget director since 2011 and a city staffer since 1988.

Structural soundness means no “gimmicks,” according to City Controller Daryl Jones, who oversees day-to-day expenditures. The city has not budgeted revenue from street sales or other one-shot deals; it has not borrowed money from future debt repayments down the road. Jones said the budget’s twin virtues are transparency and prudence.

It has not always been this way, Jones and Clerkin emphasized.

In 2011, the same year that Clerkin came on as budget director, his then-boss DeStefano laid off 82 city workers, including 16 police officers, in an attempt to close a $5.5 million budget deficit ending that fiscal year. The city’s fiscal outlook was grim; the 200 police officers marching through downtown streets to protest the layoffs served as concrete proof.

Clerkin said the city was “caught in the buzz saw of the national economy tanking.”

Revenue narrowed, forcing the city to rely on one-time earnings, such as the sale of an asset, building permit fees or savings on labor concessions. Multiple years in a row, the city mistakenly budgeted millions of dollars in fees for building permits they expected Yale University to pull for its two new residential colleges.

When those funds vanished, the city’s finances took a hit, and city employees cleaned out their offices, said former controller Mike O’Neil.

The multimillion-dollar deficit that closed the fiscal year in 2013 drilled a hole in the rainy day fund, a $4.7-million negative fund balance that threatened to further weaken credit ratings. By the fall of 2013, three major agencies had downgraded the city’s bond rating, making it more expensive to borrow money.

DeStefano’s budget office acted quickly to prevent ratings from plummeting. The strategy to save now and pay later seemed the lesser of two evils, Clerkin said. The $4.7-million deficit was reduced to roughly $600,000 by a borrowing scheme that took more than $4 million out of future debt repayments and put it instead toward replenishing the depleted fund balance. The rainy day fund is still in the red, but less so.

A small portion of the spending increase in Harp’s proposed $510.8 budget would go toward

putting more money away for rainy days, “in case another Hurricane Sandy strikes,” Clerkin said, completing the metaphor.

The budget includes $2 million for a “Five-Year Financial Plan,” divvied up among the fund balance, medical payments and a new “pay as you go” capital projects fund that would allow the city to pay for infrastructure improvements with cash on hand rather than borrowed money.

O’Neil said he sketched out the details of the financial plan “on the back of an envelope” over the course of a few hours in early January before Jones took over as controller. Had DeStefano pitched the idea before the transition, O’Neil said, he would have been slammed for increasing spending with one foot already out the door.

PAST COSTS, FUTURE OBLIGATIONS

Harp is asking to spend $13 million more next fiscal year than the city doled out this year. Most of that increase comes in the form of “legacy costs,” expenses incurred before she took office.

Pension payments and medical benefits each went up nearly $2 million over the current year’s budget, while debt service — annual loan repayments — went up twice as fast. Altogether, these fixed costs account for over 35 percent of city spending.

Pensions loom large among the city’s financial challenges.

If every city employee retired tomorrow, the city would be $500 million short in savings for their retirement, Jones said.

The city has made small modifications to ease its financial obligations. New hires in executive management now enter with defined contribution plans rather than defined benefit, which means their retirement stipend is not based on a set formula but rather dependent on investment returns.

Under a new contract pending approval by the Board of Alders, firefighters will have to kick more money into their own defined benefit plan. The contract took a whopping three years to negotiate.

Of the city’s 14 other municipal bargaining units, a handful have contracts that expire in 2015. Whereas DeStefano had accumulated history with each of the unions, Clerkin said, Harp has a fresh start. With that comes an opportunity to engage the unions away from the negotiating table.

Mendi Blue, Harp’s acting labor relations director, said the city will seek incremental change rather than a sweeping alteration to the structure of benefits.

She said each union lays enormous claim to what is ultimately a “finite” pot of money.

But union stewards said they were unconvinced by the city’s claims of financial distress.

“I’ve been with the city 25 years. They always claim they’re

broke,” said Dominic Magliochetti, former president of Local 71, which represents blue-collar city workers.

Standing up to public sector unions is a political death wish, said Yale School of Management Professor Doug Rae, who took a break from teaching for a stint as chief administrative officer in the early 1990s under former Mayor John Daniels.

When industry fled the city in the 70s and 80s, Rae said, the union movement transferred its base of operation to government and to the city’s largest nonprofit, Yale.

“DeStefano fought them a little harder than anyone had before him, but the benefits and pension requirements of those unions are the central issue going forward,” Rae said. “And no mayor who wishes to be reelected is likely to lay a hand on them.”

When asked about her strategy, Harp sidestepped the issue of the obligations themselves, saying she intends to make sure the funds are managed well on the stock market.

Paying down pension obligations must form part of the city’s financial plan, the initial steps of which Harp’s budget lays out, Jones said.

“What the city needs now is to create policies that will govern its finances — so every year, you set a number that your fund balance has to reach or a number that pension contributions have to reach,” Jones said. “I couldn’t do that in two months. But it’s one of my eventual goals.”

Another one of his goals? No tax hike next year.

BRINGING HOME THE BACON

Today, property taxes account for 50 percent of the city’s revenue, roughly $250 million. The preponderance of nontaxable land, owned by the state or taxexempt colleges and hospitals, means homeowners and businesses must pick up the tab.

Connecticut’s Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) program, designed to compensate municipalities for nontaxable property, has fallen drastically short of meeting expected reimbursement levels. In 2014, New Haven — where roughly 47 percent of property is tax-exempt — is slated to receive $43.6 million in PILOT, well under half the amount that the formula, 77 percent for colleges and hospitals and 45 percent for state property, is designed to provide.

State aid and property taxes are just about the only two revenue streams these cities have at their disposal. Permitting fees, fines and other revenue streams are virtually negligible for New Haven, Clerkin said.

Cincinatti, by contrast, has a payroll tax, said John Glascock, director of the Center of Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies at the University of Connecticut School of Business. Cities elsewhere levy income taxes

and sales taxes, whereas Connecticut municipalities have only the property tax.

When asked to defend the tax hike, Harp, Clerkin and Jones — the city’s three most important financial officers — all began with personal appeals, saying they empathized because they themselves are taxpayers. Harp and Jones pay property taxes in New Haven, Clerkin in Cheshire.

“I don’t know what you say, honestly,” Clerkin said. “This is what we need to do to provide these core services that the mayor and the Board of Alders feel are important for the residents of the city.”

If New Haven were allowed to tax all of its land, it could maintain one of the lowest mill rates in the state, Harp said wistfully.

Still, she said, New Haven’s rate is lower than the rate in comparable municipalities, including Hartford, Bridgeport, Waterbury and New Britain.

“If we were an outlier — if our taxes were higher than every other urban place in our state — then I would say that we’re out of line for what it takes to run a city,” Harp said.

Waterbury Mayor Neil O’Leary proposed a 3.5 percent tax increase for the 2014’15 fiscal year, largely as a means of coping with soaring healthcare costs, according to Kevin DelGobbo, senior advisor to the mayor. Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch proposed a 1.87 percent increase. Both increases are slimmer than Harp’s proposed 3.8 percent hike, but they operate on steeper existing tax rates.

Taxpayers in New Haven will still pay comparably less, Harp noted.

Mike Stratton, alder for Prospect Hill and Newhallville and among Harp’s most strident critics, blasted her economic rationale. Comparing New Haven’s mill rate to the rate in Hartford and Bridgeport is to suggest the city should measure itself against places that, financially, resemble “devastated third-world countries,” he said.

In the wake of Harp’s budget announcement, Stratton lambasted the proposal — and the early days of the new administration, calling Harp a “catastrophe.”

Stratton said his disagreement with Harp’s budget arises from different philosophies about the potential of cities like New Haven. In his view, taxes should be cut, creating incentives for businesses and families to move into New Haven, and city bureaucracy should absorb the cost.

“She’s been raised in a political culture where the city is considered a welfare organization, not an autonomous municipality,” Stratton said.

In order to make further spending reductions, Harp responded, residents would have to expect vastly less of their government. She pointed to the anticipation of swift snow

removal following the winter’s bout of storms as evidence that people want high-performing services, which requires spending.

All the fat has been trimmed from the city, Harp said bluntly: “We’re almost at a place — we’re almost at the basic cost of having government as we know it.”

City departments cannot be downsized, she said. The Parks Department has already lost 50 percent of its staff over the last 15 years. The Public Works Department is down by 30 percent. To suggest further cuts is to ask whether these departments should continue to exist at all, Harp said.

Even so, Harp did demand cuts of her department heads: an across-the-board two percent reduction in spending. That request was communicated in a City Hall memo that reached the desks of department heads just a few weeks into the new administration. It was followed by one major meeting with all department heads where the mayor explained the rationale for the cuts and laid out her goals, recalled Economic Development Administrator Matt Nemerson SOM ’81.

“She was like a commanderin-chief — with every line item committed to memory,” Nemerson said.

Cuts to his department meant he was unable to hire a junior electrical inspector, as his building staff had requested, Nemerson said. He felt himself unable to “bring back the bacon.”

Doug Hausladen ’04, head of the Transportation, Traffic and Parking Department, said spending cuts defined “how many linear feet of paint” he had at his disposal for crosswalks.

SEARCHING FOR THE SWEET SPOT

Richard Pomp, professor of tax law and policy at the University of Connecticut School of Law, said debates over the appropriate level of taxation bring to mind the Laffer curve, a plot of the tax rate versus expected revenue that Arthur Laffer, an economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, supposedly drew on a napkin during a dinner meeting with officials in President Gerald Ford’s administration.

“In theory there is a sweet spot, and after a certain point raising taxes produces less revenue because of the negative effects,” Pomp said. “The only problem is that nobody ever knows where the sweet spot is.”

Rae said taxes are reaching a “breaking point” — a level at which people start selling their homes, the values depreciate and there comes a “death spiral.”

Of course, he added, “Yale can’t permit that.”

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NEWS

“Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.” BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1ST EARL OF BEACONSFIELD

City leaders launch youth mentoring campaign

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER A group of New Haven’s highest ranking public officials gathered on Wednesday to implore members of the Elm City to take action against the youth violence that continues to plague its streets.

Mayor Toni Harp was joined

by New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman, newly-minted Fire Department Chief Allyn Wright and Public Schools Superintendent Garth Harries ’95 at the Elk’s Lodge on Webster St. in the late afternoon, where they engaged hundreds of New Haven residents in the wake of two recent homicides involving local youths.

The event was designed to garner support for youth programs, spark community engagement through mentoring programs and begin a canvassing campaign to demonstrate city leader’s commitment to addressing the ongoing problem, according to city Youth Services Director and event moderator Jason Bartlett.

“We are assembled this afternoon with a very serious purpose,” Harp said. “We want to stop the senseless, violent crimes that have been stealing our children from New Haven families.”

In a Monday press release, Harp said the meeting was inspired partially by the My Brother’s Keeper, a program for disengaged youth launched

by President Barack Obama.

Attendees were encouraged to support both My Brother’s Keeper and Gang of Dads, a similar group that works on a local level. Harp highlighted the importance of keeping inner city children safe so that they can go on to live complete, productive lives. “We cannot become so callous to the steady sound of gunfire that we forget each one of those shots fired can take the life of another child from its family forever,” Harp said.

Esserman was joined by many of his officers on Wednesday, including department spokesman David Hartman and Assistant Chief Luiz Casanova. Yale Police Department Chief Ron-

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In order to address youth violence in New Haven, New Haven public officials held a meeting on Wednesday. nell Higgins was also on hand to be Higgins was named the treasurer for an executive group by city Chief Probation Officer Leonard Jahad, who is involved with the local division of My Brother’s Keeper. Esserman, who said that he makes sure to attend every funeral held for the city’s homicide victims, said he appreciated Wednesday’s turnout.

“There is nothing normal,

nothing acceptable about losing a child,” Esserman said. “I don’t know where this ends, but it feels like it begins here, today.

I’m proud to be a New Havener today.”

Many of those who spoke cited the city’s most recent homicide victims, 16-year-old TJ Gamble, who died from gunshot wounds on April 4, and 17-year-old Taijhon Washington, who was shot and killed

March 24.

Harries was the last major public official to take the podium. He spoke on the importance of having adults around to guide local youth who are in the process of becoming contributing members to society. Harries concluded with an anecdotefrom one of Gamble’s teachers who had said she wanted to see Gamble graduate in four years, rather than visit him in jail.

Excess parking costing New Haven

Wright said that his New Haven roots have served as an inspiration for him to come back and find ways to improve life in the city.

“I never forgot where I came from, no matter how high or low I got. I always preached that I’m proud of New Haven,” he said. “I pledge to each and every one of you that I’m going to have every firefighter out there trying to be a mentor and role model.”

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BY CAROLINE HART CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Increased parking space is hindering city development by forcing New Haven to forego significant tax dollars, according to a study recently conducted by the University of Connecticut.

The study profiled six cities across the United States in order to determine the effects of expanded parking space on communities and residents. Researchers investigated several New England cities, including New Haven and Cambridge, Mass. According to the study, the dramatic growth of parking spaces in the past decade did not correspond to a significant increase in population or jobs in the city.

Despite the study’s findings, New Haven’s Director

of Transportation, Traffic and Parking, Doug Hausladen ’04 said he is not concerned about increased parking since he thinks it makes New Haven more attractive to people visiting the city.

Land devoted to parking is taxed significantly less than other property.

Though a minimum amount of parking is required for new buildings and developments, parking generates a relatively small amount of revenue compared to other property.

Alan Plattus, a Yale professor of architecture and founder of the Yale Urban Design Workshop, said conflicts over the number and cost of parking spaces are widespread throughout cities across the world and cannot be easily resolved.

He explained that mandates requiring parking are often issued for singular developments in the city, and that multiple developments seldom collaborate to share parking space. This can result in excess space devoted to parking.

Hausladen said that though he thinks making parking more accessible is an important part of city development, he is also working to promote alternative methods of transportation in the city.

Mark Abraham, executive director of DataHaven, said a lot of city space was cleared to make way for parking structures in the 1960s and 70s, but that this decision lacked foresight, and was unable to accommodate the ensuing city growth. As a result, he said

that today there is “tremendous demand” for residential space in the downtown area.

Abraham said taking excess parking space and turning it into useful space would resolve the chief concern outlined in the study — that New Haven is passing up on large amounts of tax dollars due to the current system.

Parking in New Haven is controlled by three separate entities, according to Hausladen. On-street parking is controlled by the City’s Traffic and Parking Committee, off-street lots and garages are controlled by the New Haven Parking Authority and privately owned lots exist as well.

Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu .

Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .

Connecticut fights GMOs

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER

Because land designated for parking is subject to lower taxes, New Haven may lose significant tax dollars from increase parking.

Anthony Jefferson, a lifelong New Haven resident who attended the session, said he will be looking for the community to rally together as a result of the words and actions of the city’s leaders.

Obama launched the “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative in February 2014.

Yesterday, Connecticut continued its crusade against genetically modified organisms with the passage of a bill banning the sale or planting of grass seed that has been genetically modified.

Genetically modified grass has been found to contaminate farms even miles away. And if genetically modified grasses blow onto the crops of organic farms, farmers can no longer label their product as organic, said Philip Miller, a state representative for District 36 who was involved in the passage of the bill.

Genetically modified organisms (GMOS) are living organisms — such as corn — that have scientifically modified DNA for the purpose of producing a greater yield, developing insect resistance, or promoting more favorable traits in the organism. This is not the Connecticut legislature’s first attempt to moderate GMOs. A year ago, the Connecticut legislature passed a bill mandating that food containing genetically modified organisms be labeled, though supermarket aisles across the state continue to go unlabeled.

According to the bill passed last June, Connecticut cannot label GMOs in food products until at least four other states follow suit, one of which must share a border with Connecticut. This clause was embedded in the bill because Connecticut is not large enough to control food distribution in the Northeast. Since Connecticut’s bill — the first bill regulating GMO labeling in the nation — only Maine has passed legislation. Vermont, Massachusetts and Maryland currently have bills in the works.

“It’s a good start,” Miller said. “If not this year, it will happen pretty soon.”

GMOs have come under attack since they were linked to harmful effects both in the environment and for human health, according to Jerry

Silbert, director of anti-pesticide lobbying organization ConnFACT. He explained that genetically modified crops have been shown to collect phosphates, a chemical that degrades soil, and to adversely affect human health.

DEEP spokesman Dennis Schain said the state will have to wait for a “critical mass” of states to pass similar legislation before food producers will change the labeling on their products.

If Connecticut alone were to implement the law, “that would probably result in us starving,” Schain said in jest.

However, Nancy Alderman ’94 FES ’97, president of Environmental and Human Health Inc., said that that if a few more states in New England pass similar bills, she expects GMO labeling to become a common practice throughout the Northeast.

Alderman said that when California tried to pass such a law, the pesticides and GM industries were quick to lobby heavily against it.

“If California did it, it would happen across the country,” Alderman said.

However, many states have been following Connecticut’s lead. Miller, who was one of the key players in getting last year’s bill passed, said he has testified in front of both the New York and Rhode Island legislatures about the merits of labeling GMOs. According to Martin Dagoberto, campaign coordinator for Massachusetts Right to Know GMOs, five bills were introduced at the beginning of the legislative session, most of which are similar to the bill that passed in Connecticut. Already, 73 members of the legislature have signed an endorsement letter for labeling GMOs. “We’re cautiously optimistic, but optimistic nonetheless,” Dagoberto said.

Genetically modified foods are either banned or regulated in over 60 other countries.

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“For some in our field — producers and editors, reporters and writers, the loss of Marina is a different kind of tragedy. We lost a talent before we got to know her.”

JACK HITT, “REMEMBERING MARINA KEEGAN”

Family, friends celebrate Marina Keegan ’12 KEEGAN FROM PAGE 1

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Jack Hitt, an author who met Keegan a few weeks prior to her death, read an excerpt from one of her short stories.

death. Keegan wrote all but three of the collection’s 17 essays and stories for her classes at Yale, campus publications and the English Major Writing Concentration.

“The launch couldn’t be anywhere but Yale,” said English professor Anne Fadiman, who wrote the introduction to Keegan’s book.

“Marina tore through Yale like a comet, she loved this place, so we had to have the book launch here — we imagined bringing Marina back to Yale.”

Fadiman, writer Jack Hitt, Keegan’s junior year roommate Chloe Sarbib ’12, and Keegan’s close friend Mark Sonnenblick ’12 — who worked with Keegan on the musical “Independents” — read excerpts from Keegan’s essays and stories to a crowded audience of roughly 80 people. Beth McNamara, Marina’s high school English teacher, and Keegan’s parents Kevin and Tracy Keegan were also present. The Keegan family hosted a reception at Mory’s following the talk.

Sarbib read from Keegan’s short

story “The Ingenue,” while Hitt read an excerpt from “Sclerotherapy,” a story about regret over a lifetime.

Fadiman read “Song for the Special,” an essay about being an individual and making a difference in the world. “‘Someday before I die, I think I’ll find a microphone and climb to the top of a radio tower … Hello, I’ll say to outer space, this is my card,’” Fadiman read.

Sonnenblick read the book’s eponymous essay for the closing reading, sharing Keegan’s powerful message of hope, community and inspiration with the audience.

Following the readings, Keegan’s family and friends welcomed questions from the audience and shared personal anecdotes. Keegan’s mother Tracy Keegan described her daughter’s childhood, her love for books, and her mindfulness and curiosity, recalling that her daughter had said, “My imagination scares me.”

In response to a question from the audience about Keegan’s friends and family reading her writing after her death, Tracy Keegan described

the experience reading through her journals and files on her hard-drive as “bittersweet and beautiful.” Tracy Keegan said her daughter set goals for herself in her journals, such as striving for empathy, humility and making a difference in the world.

“I could hear her talking to me in words I’ve never heard her say,” she said.

Marina tore through Yale like a comet, so we had to have the book launch here.

ANNE FADIMAN English professor, Yale University At the request of an audience member, Sarbib recounted the story of Keegan’s hilarious but failed plans for a talent show performance during a summer program at the Royal Academy of Drama in London. According to Sarbib, Keegan planned to solve a Rubik’s cube to a soundtrack, not realizing she had to

audition in front of a panel of distinguished judges.

McNamara, Fadiman and other readers repeated that Keegan’s writing reflects her unique voice. For both readers and audience members, Keegan’s book represents a means of bringing Keegan back to life.

“Getting to read more of Marina’s writing and hear it be read is just like getting to hear her voice again,” said Riley Scripps Ford ’11, a close friend of Keegan’s who participated in the Writing Concentration with her.

Keegan — commended as a writer who exhibited promise and talent — was praised for her style and prose by many of the event’s attendees.

Matthew Mattia ’17 said he admires her and highly anticipated the book, having previously searched through the News’ archives and other sources for her writing.

“She has an ease with very emotional but not trite language,” he said.

Keegan died in Massachusetts on May 26, 2012, at the age of 22.

Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .

City hall clashes with citizens over budget BUDGET FROM PAGE 4

Tax Rate Increases By Municipality New London

7.24%

Stratford

5.7%

Municipality

Stamford

5%

West Hartford

3.9%

New Haven

3.8%

New Britain Monroe

2.73%

Fairfield

2.67%

Norwalk

2.56%

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Animal abuses reported ANIMAL RIGHTS FROM PAGE 1 On Dec. 11, 2012, researchers found that around 200 adult mice had not received the narcotic painkiller buprenorphine after undergoing eye surgeries. Researchers discovered on April 1, 2013 that seven mice who had undergone optic nerve crush procedures — a surgery in which the optic nerve is severed, detaching it from the eye — had been given buprenorphine once daily instead of the twice daily administration required by protocol.

In a number of instances, cages housing mouse pups were found missing their nursing dams. In some of these cases, the mouse pups were immediately rehydrated, but in others, those that had not already died were euthanized.

The violations in the FOIA documents ranged in severity.

Some simply included placing animal cages in the wrong labs, while one involved a researcher accidentally putting live mouse pups in a freezer, working under the impression that they had all been euthanized. Still others involved unapproved overnight fasting, forgetting to put food in cages, euthanizing mice with improper chemicals, acci-

dental flooding of cages and housing mice on wire bottom inserts without Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee approval. According to a March 6 press release from the NIH’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW), all the violations detailed in the FOIA documents were appropriately handled by Yale, and the NIH is not pursuing the matter. The NIH does not have regulatory enforcement, and only in response to extreme violations will the NIH withdraw funding, said Michael Budkie, executive director of SAEN. In a Wednesday evening email, Yale medicine and health science spokesperson Karen Peart wrote that the incidents had been identified in a timely manner and promptly reported to OLAW. “Yale takes seriously its responsibility for the humane care of animals,” Peart wrote, adding that Yale’s daily selfmonitoring and prompt corrective actions meet or exceed federal regulations.

The Animal Welfare Act was originally passed in 1966. It is the only federal law that regulates the treatment of laboratory animals.

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New Haven. He professed faith in the city and the state, adding that the city has improved dramatically with the University’s help.

Stratton and Henry Fernandez LAW ’94, a former city economic development administrator and one of Harp’s opponents in the Democratic primary last fall, said the mayor is partially responsible for the Elm City’s budget woes as a former state senator representing New Haven. For 11 years, Harp chaired the appropriations committee that decides how much aid the state budget includes for cities.

M u n i c i pa l a i d a l rea dy accounts for close to 25 percent of the state’s budget, according to State Budget Director Ben Barnes. Contrary to popular belief, Barnes said, the allotments have not diminished but rather increased since 2000.

Still, they have not kept pace with the expansion of nontaxable property.

Harp bristled at the suggestion that she had let her district down. She said she fought for municipal aid despite widespread cuts following the recession.

“I wish at the time our economy had been better and we could have done more, “Harp said. “It’s better today. Maybe I should have stayed and we could have done more.”

If the state finds a surplus in its budget, Harp said, it should return that money to cities — an

argument that might resonate especially well with Gov. Dannel Malloy in during an election year, she added.

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Visions are set in the first 100 days. It is typically a time for major policy requests when a leader’s power and influence are at their zenith. The highest-profile request Harp has made of her legislative counterpart has been for seven new City Hall positions — six in the mayor’s office, including a bilingual receptionist and a grant-writing office.

Before a March vote approving three of the requested positions, President Perez — who, along with a majority of his colleagues on the Board, endorsed Harp last fall — said the new mayor has to be given room to lead the city, which means making changes to the budget.

“You have a new mayor asking to put her fingerprints on the budget,” Perez said. “At some point she’s going to be up for reelection and going to have to face the voters and they will say, ‘you promised this and you promised that, and you didn’t do it.’”

One promise Harp has already abandoned is delivering a results-based budget, said fiscal watchdog Gary Doyens. Her fiscal plan is no different from the ones DeStefano pitched, Doyens said at last week’s budget hearing — the ones that have brought property taxes to a breaking point.

This is not change, Doyens

said, “this is moving the chairs around on the Titanic.”

Department heads submitted preliminary budgets last December. This year, they are largely executing their predecessors’ financial plans. By next year, they said, they will have had more time to reorient finances to reflect different policy commitments.

The same goes for Harp, except she has her predecessor’s record 20 years in office to unwind, tweak or advance — and first she has to choose which of those three paths to pursue.

Rather than dwelling on the first 100 days, Harp took a long view; the city’s problems have solutions, she said, and they require sustained intellectual commitment by city officials, “some of the greatest thinkers in the world.”

Rae, who returned to Yale after 18 months in Daniels’ troubled administration, said the new mayor should be given time to lead.

“You have to be mayor for a while to actually be mayor, to be held accountable,” Rae said.

“Most of the conditions affecting the city most dramatically are knock-ons from a 20-year administration that came before.”

One of those conditions is the burden of raising property taxes, Rae concluded — a decision both “necessary and untenable.”

Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

G-Heav boycott continues CHUNG CHO FROM PAGE 1 to the DOL. “We want to be sure that Cho understands and learns a lesson.”

Israel Tovar ’17, a member of student activist group MEChA, which has demonstrated in support of Gourmet Heaven workers since the initial complaints in August, believes Cho is avoiding going to trial until students are gone on summer break. Though he said the wait frustrates him, he said he will keep demonstrating until Cho pays the workers and creates a better environment in the store.

Román Castellanos ’15, another MEChA member present at the protest, said many student activists will be on campus through the summer and continue to demonstrate on behalf of the workers.

“Just because he’s going to trial doesn’t mean we are going to give this up,” he said. “It’s important to show that the students still care.”

The demonstrators plan to confront Cho at the courthouse again on April 29 at 10 a.m., and at any future court appearance.

They will also continue to boycott Gourmet Heaven.

After finding that Cho had underpaid over two dozen

GHeav workers, the DOL and Cho’s lawyers negotiated a settlement that he would pay workers $150,000 in back wages, in addition to a $10,000 penalty. The payment was to be made in three installments earlier this year, but Cho made two of his three payments weeks late, Gary Pechie, the head of the Wage and Workplace Standards Division, told the News in February.

The DOL considered this behavior non-compliance, leading the agency to press the criminal charges that resulted in his two arrests.

Because Cho failed to honor his settlement with the DOL, he now owes workers a total of $233,000 with interest, said Blair Bertaccini, one of the agents that led the GHeav investigation. Interest is calculated based on how many months ago the minimum wage was not paid, up to two years.

For back wages he has owed for a month, the interest rate is 1 percent; for back wages he has owed for a year, the interest rate is 12 percent.

This new total, which could amount to almost double the original settlement, will be dispersed among current and former employees who were vic-

tims of wage theft, said Lisa Staziani, head of the Wage and Workplace Standards Division’s fraud unit.

“What he’s paying now is only a fraction of what he owes me,” Olivar said. “I can only request two years’ worth of back pay, but I worked for seven.”

Since Gourmet Heaven came under investigation, at least a dozen other restaurants and stores downtown have been issued stop work orders by the DOL, responding to a wave of complaints from workers and competing business owners, according to Staziani. One of

them, J & B Deli, which she confirmed was paying workers in cash under the minimum wage, rents space from Yale University Properties.

All of the businesses served stop work orders came into compliance with DOL regulations and are once more operational, Staziani said.

The DOL has issued stop work orders to over 1,300 businesses in the state of Connecticut for labor violations in the past five years.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

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GHeav owner Chung Cho has been charged with 47 counts of wage theft.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, APRIL 10 4:00 p.m. “NSA Surveillance and What to Do About It.” Internationally renowned security technologist, author and blogger Bruce Schneier discusses the surveillance the NSA conducts, the technical capabilities of the NSA and the consequences of both Snowden and targeted surveillance. Davies Auditorium (15 Prospect St.) Becton Center.

5:30 p.m. “Gorillas, Elephants, People and Parks: Conservation and Conflict in Central Africa.” Mountain gorilla numbers are rising. Elephant numbers are crashing. Bill Weber will draw on more than 30 years of personal experience in African conservation to assess these dramatically divergent trends across the rainforests of central Africa. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (170 Whitney Ave.).

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FRIDAY, APRIL 11 12:30 p.m. Artist Talk: Kohei Okamoto. Kohei Okamoto will discuss calligraphy’s relationship with Japanese architecture, its interaction with space, and the beauty of its movement. Talk will include a demonstration, followed by a workshop. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition: “Byobu: The Grandeur of Japanese Screens.” Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

4:00 p.m. Yale AIDS Memorial Project Panel Discussion.

Join Yale AIDS Memorial Project for “Gran Fury — Fierce Pussy” — presentations and a panel discussion about queer activism, public spaces, and responses against AIDS. The panel includes Gran Fury, Fierce Pussy, and Vincent Gagliostro. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.).

SATURDAY, APRIL 12 2:00 p.m. Film: “The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain.” Two English cartographers visit a small Welsh village to measure the “first mountain inside Wales.”

When the proud villagers learn that their “mountain” is actually a hill, they set out at once to transform it into a mountain. This film is part of the series “Welsh Landscape as Muse.” Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.).

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“I know it’s the fans that are responsible for me being here. I’ve always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.” HARRY CARAY AMERICAN BASEBALL BROADCASTER

Baseball falls to Fairfield Yale and Hartford split BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 on the ball. I had a 2–0 count, he left a fastball over the middle-outside half of the plate, I put a good short swing on it, and it went out.”

Unfortunately for the Elis, those two runs were all they would muster, and the Stags plated a pair in the sixth inning to make the final score 6–2.

Game two saw another first career start for the Bulldogs, as Campbell made his starting debut on the mound. Campbell, who said that he had never started a game in high school either, threw four innings — allowing two runs on four hits while striking out five.

“He looked composed. He looked like he’d been doing it his whole life,” captain Cale Hanson ’14 said. “I was very impressed with him on the mound. It was a good day to be Green Campbell.”

Fairfield (14–13, 6–2 MAAC) got on the board first in the second game, too, stringing together a walk and a couple of singles to score its leadoff man. But the Bulldogs struck back when Hanson doubled in the gap and eventually came around to score when the Stags’ third baseman misplayed a deep grounder off the bat of Campbell.

In the bottom of the second inning, Yale loaded the bases without any outs following a single, a walk and a hit batter. The Bulldogs capitalized immediately, when right fielder Derek Brown ’17 launched the payoff pitch into left-center for a two-run double. Following a sacrifice fly from catcher Andrew Herrera ’17, the Elis found themselves with a threerun lead.

Things unraveled in the fifth inning, however, after Campbell was removed from the game. Relief pitcher Eric Hsieh

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In the second game of yesterday’s twin bill with the Stags, Yale fell 10–5. ’15 walked a pair of batters — with a single sandwiched between the two — before being pulled after having pitched just one-third of an inning. Robert Baldwin ’15, making just his second appearance all season, allowed a sac fly and then let five straight Stags reach base.

By the time he left the mound, Fairfield led 7–4, and a soft two-run single extended the Stags’ lead to five runs.

Though Yale added one run in the bottom half of the inning, the Bulldogs never got much going after that, and Fairfield added another tally in the top

of the seventh to extend its lead to 10–5.

In each game, the Stags outscored the Elis thanks to one big inning — the second inning in game one and the fifth frame of the nightcap.

“It definitely hurts [team morale], especially in a seveninning game,” Hanson said of allowing big innings.

Yale travels to Hanover, N.H., this weekend to play Dartmouth in a four-game series.

Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

In the second game of yesterday’s doubleheader, Yale lost to Hartford 6–3.

SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 Yale tacked on another run an inning later to tie the score at three as Onorato scored on a single by Balta. Hartford, however, returned the favor, scoring in the top of the fifth inning to go up again. The Hawks extended their lead in the sixth by playing small ball, moving runners over with a sacrifice bunt before scoring on a sacrifice fly.

The Bulldogs remained relentless and pushed ahead in the bottom half of the sixth inning, scoring three runs on four hits. Do doubled then scored on a throwing error by the Hawks catcher, who attempted to catch Balta stealing, on base after a single.

McGuire then doubled, scoring Balta, for her second RBI on the day. Third baseman Hannah Brennan ’15 singled to score McGuire for the team’s third tally of the inning.

The Elis contained Hartford in the final inning to seal the 6–5 win. Pitcher Kristen Leung ’14, who came on in relief of pitcher Chelsey Dunham ’14 in the fifth inning, picked up the win for the Bulldogs. Yale pounded out ten hits, with Balta going three for three with one walk.

“We never let up in this game,” Onorato said. “We stayed confident and relaxed at

the plate, and were able to fight back and hold tight with our defense when necessary.”

In the second game of the afternoon, Hartford again started off strong, opening the game with three runs in the first inning. Hawks center fielder Sawyer Fried singled to pick up an RBI, then scored on a home run by first baseman Chelsey Mooney. The Elis responded with two runs in the bottom of the first, with Onorato scoring on a sacrifice fly by Delgadillo and Balta crossing the plate on a single from Weisenbach. Brennan then reached on an error and McGuire walked to load the bases, but the Bulldogs were unable to push another run across the plate.

Our defense and offense is finally starting to come together, and it showed.

LAINA DO ’17 Softball team Hartford took a commanding lead in the second inning, pounding out three more hits en route to three runs. Yale made another rally in the bottom of the fourth inning when McGuire started the inning with a leadoff

walk. Two outs later, left fielder Allie Souza ’16 stood on first and scored on a double by Onorato, bringing the score to 6–3.

The Elis put the pressure on in the sixth inning as well, with a walk and consecutive singles producing an opportunity to score. Souza, however, was called out at the plate on her attempt to score from second base on a single by Do. In the team’s final at-bat, three walks would load the bases. The Bulldogs were unable to capitalize, however, and failed to score.

Yale had eight hits in the second game of the doubleheader, with seven of them coming from the team’s top third of the batting order. Onorato finished with three hits, Do added two more and Balta capped off her day with two hits.

“Everybody contributed to the team’s success today,” Do said. “Everyone kept fighting until the game was over. Our defense and offense is finally starting to come together, and it showed.”

The Bulldogs will look to maintain their offensive momentum going this weekend, when they travel to Hanover to face Dartmouth in a four-game series starting Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

Contact ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

Championship shame COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 superhuman millionaires you see in the professional game.

Monday night’s championship game only proved to me how deluded I am. In one corner you had Kentucky head coach John Calipari and his freshmen mercenaries. To a lot of people, Calipari represents everything that is wrong with the college game. Year after year, he stocks his recruiting classes with McDonald’s AllAmericans serving their required year in college before making the jump to the pros. Calipari’s contract with his players is simple: “You play here, and I’ll get you to the NBA.” He’s turned the Wildcats into an NBA farm team and openly mocked the NCAA’s holy veneration of the student-athlete.

But as the old saying goes, “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” Calipari didn’t make the rules. It’s not his fault the NCAA can’t figure out a way to keep athletes in school, even when the problem is staring it in the face: UConn’s Shabazz Napier, the tournament’s most outstanding player, revealed on Monday that he went to bed hungry some nights this season. And nobody would be upset about Calipari’s sleazy tactics if Kentucky were terrible every season, but the Wildcats were just a few made

free throws against UConn from their second title in three years.

So should we all rejoice that UConn won and justice prevailed? Not so fast — the Huskies are probably worse. Last year UConn was banned from the NCAA tournament for failing to meet the NCAA’s absurdly low standards for student-athlete academic progress. For the cohort of UConn men’s basketball players entering school between 2003 and 2006, only eight percent graduated within six years. Less than one in 12 student-athletes received scholarships to attend UConn and left with a degree in six years. The university made tens of millions of dollars in revenue from these young men’s labor, and apparently provided most of them with almost nothing in return. With those numbers, UConn could be held liable for fraud.

In an age when not even Harvard can escape the snares of academic scandal, we shouldn’t be surprised that these are the teams meeting to determine who is the best in the land. At least this way we can’t pretend that everything is okay because two schools like Duke or Stanford that actually graduate their players happened to be the last ones standing.

The death knell of the NCAA and its student-athletes may have been sounded last month

when the Northwestern football team took the first steps towards unionization. Reform will take years, and will come more slowly to basketball than to football. But it does appear that the country has finally had enough of this blatant system of exploitation.

BUT AS THE OLD SAYING GOES, “DON’T HATE THE PLAYER, HATE THE GAME” As easy as it seems, the moral of this tale can’t be boiled down to platitudes about greed, or capitalism or corruption. The NCAA has serious demons it must exorcise, but as always, the story is more complicated than that. However, there is one lesson that you certainly can take away from this mess: Go watch more Yale basketball games, because you may be witnessing the last of the amateurs.

JOHN SULLIVAN is a senior in Branford College. Contact him at john.j.sullivan@yale.edu .

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BY SCOTT SMITH AND KIM CHANDLER ASSOCIATED PRESS FRESNO, Calif. — A suspected contract killer charged in Central California with murdering nine people confessed to investigators that he carried out up to 40 slayings in a career spanning decades, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Errek Jett, the district attorney in Lawrence County, Ala., said that Jose Manuel Martinez, 51, told investigators he carried out the crimes working as an enforcer for a drug cartel. Jett said they believe Martinez because of the details he gave investigators.

Martinez was arrested last year shortly after crossing the border from Mexico into Arizona and sent to Alabama, where he awaits trial on one murder charge. Once word got out, a steady stream of investigators from across the country came to question Martinez, Jett said.

Defense attorney Thomas Turner, who represents Martinez in that lone case, said his client is eager to start a June trial in Alabama, so he can return to California. Turner said Martinez maintains his innocence to the charge there and doesn’t seem to be a hardened killer.

“I’ve found him to be polite and a likable individual,” Turner said. “He has a good personality

as far as talking with him.”

Prosecutors in California say otherwise.

Martinez targeted victims in Tulare, Kern and Santa Barbara counties between 1980 and 2011, said Tulare County Assistant District Attorney Anthony Fultz, who filed charges Tuesday.

Investigators have released some details of their case, saying six of the victims were killed in Tulare County, two in Kern and one in Santa Barbara. They ranged in age from 22 to 56, investigators said.

One man was shot dead in 1980 driving to work in the morning, while two men were shot in 1982 working on a ranch, one surviving. The same year, another man went missing before being found two days later by ranchers shot and stabbed to death. Yet another was found in 2000 shot to death in bed with his four children at home.

In addition to the nine murder counts, Martinez was charged in California with one count of attempted murder and the special circumstances of committing multiple murders, lying in wait and kidnapping. Four murder charges include the allegation he committed the crime for financial gain, the criminal complaint says.

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Martinez has lived on and off in Richgrove, a small farming community in central California about 40 miles north of Bakersfield. He’s being held in Alabama, awaiting trial in a 2013 slaying, and Fultz said he’s also wanted in Florida on suspicion of two killings there in 2006.

Fultz declined to comment on any connection Martinez may have with drug cartels, saying he did not want to damage the case at this early stage. Fultz said that too will remain under investigation.

Fultz said he is confident Martinez committed at least the nine killings he’s charged with, but he has heard higher figures from across the nation.

“We’re actually not sure what the full scope is,” Fultz said. “It will depend upon what the investigation shows.”

Martinez has spent brief stints in state prison following a 2007 conviction on theft and drug charges, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Acting Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said his deputies came in contact with Martinez while investigating a rash of home invasion robberies in late 2012 and early 2013.

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BY KEVIN BEGOS AND JOE MANDAK ASSOCIATED PRESS MURRYSVILLE, Pa. — Flailing away with two kitchen knives, a 16-year-old boy with a “blank expression” stabbed and slashed 21 students and a security guard in the crowded halls of his suburban Pittsburgh high school Wednesday before an assistant principal tackled him.

At least five students were critically wounded, including a boy whose liver was pierced by a knife thrust that narrowly missed his heart and aorta, doctors said. Others also suffered deep abdominal puncture wounds.

The rampage — which came after decades in which U.S. schools geared much of their emergency planning toward mass shootings, not stabbings — set off a screaming stampede, left blood on the floor and walls, and brought teachers rushing to help the victims.

Police shed little light on the motive.

The suspect, Alex Hribal, was taken into custody and treated for a minor hand wound, then was brought into court in shackles and a hospital gown and charged with four counts of attempted homicide and 21 counts of aggravated assault. He was jailed without bail, and authorities said he would be prosecuted as an adult.

His attorney did not immediately respond to a message for comment.

The attack unfolded in the morning just minutes before the start of classes at 1,200-student Franklin Regional High School, in an upper-middle-class area 15 miles east of Pittsburgh. It was over in about five minutes, during which the boy ran wildly down about 200 feet of hallway, slashing away with knives about 8 to 10 inches long, police said.

Nate Moore, 15, said he saw the boy tackle and stab a freshman. He said he going to try to break it up when the boy got up and slashed his face, opening a wound that required 11 stitches.

“It was really fast. It felt like he hit me with a wet rag because I felt the blood splash on my face. It spurted up on my forehead,” he said.

The attacker “had the same expression on his face that he has every day, which was the freakiest part,” Moore said. “He wasn’t saying anything. He didn’t have any anger on his face. It was just a blank expression.”

Assistant Principal Sam King finally tackled the boy and disarmed him, and a Murrysville police officer who is regularly assigned to the school handcuffed him, police said.

King’s son told The Associated Press that his father was treated at a hospital, though authorities have said he did not suffer any knife wounds.

“He says he’s OK. He’s a tough cookie and sometimes hides things, but I believe he’s OK,” Zack King said. He added: “I’m proud of him.”

In addition to the 22 who were stabbed or slashed, two people suffered other injuries during the melee, authorities said. The security guard, who was wounded after intervening early in the melee, was treated and released.

“There are a number of heroes in this day.

Many of them are students,” Gov. Tom Corbett said in a visit to the stricken town. “Students who stayed with their friends and didn’t leave their friends.”

As for what set off the attack, Murrysville Police Chief Thomas Seefeld said investigators were looking into reports of a threatening phone call between the suspect and another student the night before. Seefeld didn’t specify whether the suspect received or made the call.

The FBI joined the investigation and went to the boy’s house, where authorities said they planned to confiscate and search his computer.

“They are a very, very nice family. A great family. We never saw anything out of the ordinary,” said John Kukalis, a next-door neighbor for about 13 years.

His wife, Sonya Kukalis, said: “It should be an eye-opener for everybody. Everyone always thinks it’s the other neighborhood, the other town. We need to be kinder and show compassion to more people. Something must have been going on for him to do this.”

While several bloody stabbing rampages at schools in China have made headlines in the past few years, schools in the U.S. have concentrated their emergency preparations on shooting rampages.

Nevertheless, there have been at least two major stabbing attacks at U.S. schools over the past year, one at a community college in Texas last April that wounded at least 14 people, and another, also in Texas, that killed a 17-year-old student and injured three others at a high school in September.

On Wednesday, Mia Meixner, 16, said the rampage touched off a “stampede of kids” yelling, “Run! Get out of here! Someone has a knife!”

The boy had a “blank look,” she said. “He was just kind of looking like he always does, not smiling, not scowling or frowning.”

Meixner and Moore called the attacker a shy boy who largely kept to himself, but they said he was not an outcast and they had no reason to think he might be violent.

“He was never mean to anyone, and I never saw people be mean to him,” Meixner said.

“I never saw him with a particular group of friends.”

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n this second of four installments looking into each of Yale’s cultural houses, contributing photographer Alana Thyng and photography editor Kathryn Crandall explore the AACC, the Asian-American cultural house on campus. The house is located at 295 Crown St. and was established in 1981.

The AACC is the umbrella organization for a myriad of AsianAmerican groups, including Jook Songs, the Asian-American spoken word group, and JASU, the Japanese-American Students’ Union. These groups facilitate the presence of AsianAmerican culture on Yale’s campus. ALANA THYNG reports.

The Asian American Cultural Center brings together people of all backgrounds, interests and personalities. It welcomes those who are actively involved in their cultural heritage, those who may feel homesick and those who are interested in anything Asian-American. But more importantly, it is a space to let people share their own talents, interests or ideas with such a diverse group on campus.

James Ting Head Co-coordinator of AACC

I’m thrilled we were able to host the ITASA conference at Yale this year because it was an opportunity to engage Taiwanese-Americans and Asian-Americans at Yale with almost 300 students in the greater intercollegiate network. Yale was among the first schools in the nation to host so many Asian-American cultural groups and conferences, including ITASA, so it’s important that we remember the role we as a school can play in continuing to strengthen the Taiwanese-American and Asian-American communities.

Kevin Chen Co-director of the ITSA conference

Lunar New Year celebration

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“Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.”

SIMON S. TAM MUSICIAN

Here at Yale, I love being a part of JASU because I have been able to meet many students who also share the same interest in Japanese culture. We’ve become a close group of friends through our weekly dinner meetings and the various events that we host throughout the year.

Recently, we collaborated with a group of university students from Japan who visited Yale for several days, hosting joint forums and lectures regarding glocalization. Experiences like these, being able to meet and interact with Japanese college students from Japan, are some of the many highlights of being a part of the JASU community.

Mizuho Yoshimune JASU member

The Asian American Cultural Center is a home to Asian-American students, over 50 cultural affiliate groups and anyone who is interested in learning more about Asian-American culture. It represents a physical space where Yale can come together to share ideas, have discussions, and most of all, get to know each other's unique stories and backgrounds!

Mendy Yang

Alumni Outreach Co-coordinator of AACC

Jook Songs 15th anniversary show

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YALE FALLS 11–9 WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM The Bulldogs fell to No. 15 Stony Brook last night in a back-and-forth battle that the Seawolves won by scoring five consecutive goals to close to game.

Attacker Nicole Daniggelis ’16 led the way for the Elis with six goals.

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BACK IN ACTION MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM The No. 13 Bulldog squad will take on Ivy League opponent Brown tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. The Bears currently sit a halfgame behind Yale at 1–2 in the Ancient Eight, having played one less game than the Elis.

“I was very impressed with him on the mound.

It was a good day to be Green Campbell ’15.”

CALE HANSON ’14 CAPTAIN, BASEBALL TEAM YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2013 · yaledailynews.com

Softball splits doubleheader

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER

SOFTBALL

The softball team had a good start to its afternoon yesterday, coming back in the late innings against Hartford to take game one of a doubleheader.

Yale (5–23, 1–7 Ivy) improved to 2–4 at home on the season against Hartford (7–18, 1–5 America East), with the Bulldogs taking the first game 6–5 before falling 6–3 in the second.

Game one started out on a low note for the Elis when the Hawks scored three runs in the opening inning. Following a flyout, two consecutive Hartford batters walked before first baseman Chelsey Mooney and designated hitter Jackie Kelly drove in three total runs on a single and a double, respectively. Yale recorded no hits in the home half of the first inning before Hartford threatened again in the top of the second inning. The Bulldogs, however, escaped the inning without allowing a run.

Catcher Sarah Onorato ’15 got things started for Yale in the third inning by drawing a leadoff walk. Second baseman Laina Do ’17 replaced her at first on a fielder’s choice before captain and center fielder Tori Balta ’14 singled to put runners at first and second. A walk to first baseman Lauren Delgadillo ’16 loaded the bases with just one out. Shortstop Carolyn McGuire ’17 then walked to score Do from third base. Two batters later, right fielder Camille Weisenbach ’17 singled in the second run of the inning.

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The softball team defeated Hartford 6–5 in the first of two games yesterday.

Stags trample Bulldogs

JOHN SULLIVAN

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER Two big innings proved to be the Yale baseball team’s downfall yesterday, as the Bulldogs lost both ends of a doubleheader against Fairfield, 6–2 and 10–5.

BASEBALL

GRAHAM HARBOE/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The baseball team dropped the first game of yesterday’s doubleheader to Fairfield 6–2.

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The last of the amateurs

The Elis (12–15, 5–3 Ivy) were resting their top five pitchers to keep them fresh for this weekend’s upcoming four-game series against Ivy League foe and chief Red Rolfe division rival Dartmouth.

“Our four starters, along with Chris Moates ’16, were not going to pitch no matter what,” centerfielder Green Campbell ’15 said. “We’re saving them up because this is probably our biggest weekend of the entire year.”

Game one of the doubleheader soured early on when starting pitcher Nate O’Leary ’15, making his first start of both the season and of his Yale career, yielded a three-run shot to left field in the second inning after allowing a single and hitting a batter with a pitch.

A two-out RBI single in the fourth from Brian Murphy scored Rob LoPinto, who hurt the Bulldogs last year with what proved to be a game-winning homer on his birthday, to extend the Fairfield lead to 4–0. It was not until the bottom half of the inning that Yale could answer back. After third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 singled to start the frame and designated hitter Kevin Fortunato ’14 reached on a fielder’s choice, Campbell poked one over the fence in right field for a two-run dinger.

“We were down a little bit, but we knew we had a good shot,” Campbell said. “I just wanted to put a good swing

Monday night capped off one of the most exciting months college basketball has seen in years. UConn’s improbable run to the title made it the second-lowest seed ever to lift the national championship trophy. Aaron Harrison’s string of three straight game-winning three-pointers for Kentucky could only be described as madness. Throw in Dayton’s scrappy fight to the Elite Eight and lowly Mercer’s first-round toppling of Duke and you truly have a March to remember.

But at the end of it all, I was left with a bitter taste in my mouth. We watch college basketball not only because it’s exciting, but because we can see ourselves in the players. These are young men in their late teens and early twenties who face the same problems and experience the same joys as every other college student their age. Yes, they also compete in front of tens of thousands of people every week and some of them don’t spend much time in classrooms, but at the end of the day 95 percent of college players won’t be playing in the NBA next year. It’s a lot easier to understand the thrill of their victories and know the agony of their defeats than it is to empathize with the

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RUNS SCORED BY THE YALE SOFTBALL TEAM IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SIXTH INNING TO DEFEAT HARTFORD IN THE FIRST GAME OF YESTERDAY’S DOUBLEHEADER. The Bulldogs trailed 5–3 entering the second to last frame before four hits yielded three runs to secure victory.