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CROSS CAMPUS Here’s to you, 2019. Yale is

great, especially during these three days. Some quick tips: (1) Don’t even bother with sleep or homework while you’re here, (2) Make your own schedule based on what you want to see and (3) Just be glad that it’s not snowing right now.

Most importantly. (4) Join

the News. From 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. tonight, we will host an Open House in our building at 202 York St., for anyone looking to contribute to the Oldest College Daily. There’s a reason why one of the first things you did was pick up a copy of today’s paper.

As for everyone else: Play

nice. We know that everything is starting to pile up, what with just five days remaining till the end. But no matter how many Grand Strategy papers and Bridgewater applications and Skull and Bones initiation rites are hanging over your head, you were once a prefrosh, too.

We have that, too. The Center for Engineering Innovation and Design is holding an information session about CS50 today at noon. There, you’ll learn that we actually offer everything that Harvard does and infinitely more.

Exhibit A. For even more proof

of Yale’s relevance on the tech scene, read Friday’s New York Times feature about Genius co-founders Ilan Zechory ’06 and Tom Lehman ’06.

According to the story, their company’s wild success has driven the close-friendsturned-business-partners to the emotional edge and back.

Still, they’ve managed to keep things running more smoothly than the Facebook guys did.

Our bread and butter. Political

science, however, has always been and will continue to be a hallmark of Yale academics.

The Yale Political Union, for example, engages Howard Dean ’71 — who has traded his spot atop the Democratic National Committee for a position on the Yale faculty — in a debate today. While we’re not all as argumentative as the YPU might be, Yalies are always enthusiastic about intellectual discourse.

So hip. Demonstrating the

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Do Yale and New Haven need Ward 1?

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s candidates running for Ward 1 alder start to roll out their agendas in anticipation of the municipal election in seven months, campaigns will spur discussions on campus and around New Haven about how Yale students should engage with city government. But students and city residents alike remain conflicted on whether or not a student voice should exist in city government and, if so, what the role of that representative should be. ERICA PANDEY reports.

On a late afternoon at the end of March, as sunlight filtered across Old Campus, Fish Stark ’17 stood behind a podium in the Dwight Hall common room.

UPCLOSE The room, framed by Gothic columns, was mostly empty, occupied only by about a dozen members of Stark’s campaign team. Stark

had declared his candidacy for Ward 1 alder earlier that month. His opponent will be incumbent alder Sarah Eidelson ’12, who is vying for a third term. To give freshmen, who will arrive on campus in August, a chance to learn about both candidates, they have agreed to run as Independents in the November election.

The composition of Stark’s team was mostly freshmen, nearly all of them members

of the Yale College Democrats. The Annapolis, Maryland native had met most of them at the beginning of the fall semester, when he served as the organization’s membership coordinator.

As the campaign launch began, students trickled into Dwight Hall. Many, though by no means all of them, were freshmen. Stark circled the room, introducing himself to unknown faces and greeting old ones. Former mayoral candidate Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 — for whom Stark canvassed in 2013 — made an appearance.

When Stark took the podium, his speech was general; he spoke not so much of specific policy proposals, which he promised would come later in the campaign, but of his vision for the position.

“We need an alder who is committed to working every day to bring Yale students off the sidelines and into our New Haven community,” Stark said.

But Stark’s campaign

speech bore resemblance to those of his predecessors — former Ward 1 alders who have garnered criticism from students for failing to deliver on campaign promises to foster meaningful town-gown collaboration.

Stark is the most recent student to file papers in hopes of becoming Yale’s undergraduate representative at City Hall. The current Board of Alders does include one graduate student representative, Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18, who serves the Wooster Square neighborhood and was elected in 2013.

But only the Ward 1 constituency is overwhelmingly student-based.

Ward 1 — often dubbed “the Yale ward,” one of 30 represented on the city’s legislative body, the Board of Alders — encompasses Old Campus and eight of the 12 residential colleges.

While Ward 22, represented

by Alder Jeanette Morrison, houses the remaining four SEE UPCLOSE PAGE 4

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Last week’s ground-breaking on the two new residential colleges marks the beginning of a host of changes for Yale, in areas ranging from student body size to residential life. But it also represents the culmination of another, quieter change: the role of the Provost’s Office’s Facilities Access Group.

The Facilities Access Group, a subcommittee of the larger Provost Advisory Committee on Resources for Students and Employees with Disabilities, is tasked with assessing the accessibility of Yale’s current buildings and planning the accessibility of new ones. But in the past, its influence has been limited by late involvement in the design process. For example, although the group made several recommendations during the construction of Evans Hall that would have increased accessibility before the building’s 2014 opening, the suggestions came too late to be imple-

mented, said Judy York, director of the Resource Office on Disabilities.

Now, as Yale plans for the new residential colleges — in which every suite and entrance will be fully accessible to mobility-impaired students — the subcommittee says they feel they have more influence over the design process.

“It was because we were not involved early on that we are now involved early on,” York said. “[The construction of Evans Hall] was the catalyst for when we started saying, ‘We have to be involved before the plans seem to be finalized.’”

The initial design for Evans Hall left even the main entrance of the building inaccessible, calling for stairs to lead to the front door, said Glenn Weston-Murphy, an engineering design advisor within the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences who served on the Facilities Access Group for 10 years. He quit several years ago due to frustration with the limited influence of the committee, he said, and the plans for Evans Hall were some of

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Sarah Eidelson ’12 and Fish Stark ’17 have agreed to run as Independents in the November election.

Brenzel to join Woodbridge in advisory role

Accessibility considered in new colleges the last that he reviewed.

Although the main entrance to Evans Hall is now accessible, Weston-Murphy said, other problems remain with the building’s accessibility. The inner courtyard, for example, can only be accessed by a step, except for a ramp at the far end of the courtyard.

Part of the conflict stemmed from a lack of communication between outside architects and designers, and internal project managers and review committees, Weston-Murphy said.

“If it’s done right, accessibility should be looked at seriously in the very early stages of schematic design,” he said. “What was happening was that we weren’t even seeing the drawings until much later in the design [process] … It became a nonproductive relationship, because you were almost in an adversarial mode when the designers would come.”

As a result, he said, he felt that

Even after he steps down from his role as master of Timothy Dwight College, Jeffrey Brenzel will remain a member of the Yale community next year, working part-time for University President Peter Salovey.

During a farewell ceremony in the TD dining hall on Sunday night, Brenzel told attendees that he will work “half-time” in the President’s Office as a research associate. Brenzel will be working closely with Salovey to develop policy and research communication in higher education, he said.

“I will be working at the President’s direction on higher educational commu-

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Entrepreneurial contests award thousands in prizes

variety available in campus life at Yale, WYBCX Yale Radio will host a Battle of the Bands later tonight for those of you who’ll be returning to high school before Spring Fling.

BY LIONEL JIN STAFF REPORTER

Worthy of watermelon. As

she prepares to step down, University VP for Global and Strategic Initiatives Linda Lorimer received a curious gift over the weekend: a decadent sculpture made of watermelons, at one point stationed in the Sterling nave.

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At the Entrepreneurship Across Yale contest weekend, team Premie Breathe pitches their project.

For the first time, three leading entrepreneurial contests at Yale joined forces to put together one blockbuster weekend of business pitch competitions.

At the Entrepreneurship Across Yale contest weekend, held at the School of Management on Friday and Saturday, finalists for the $25,000 Sabin Prize, the $25,000 Thorne Prize and the $16,000 Yale Venture Challenge pitched their ideas to judges from business and academia. In packed lecture classrooms, the teams — which were a mix of students from Yale College and various graduate schools — presented ventures ranging from a cheaper respiratory device for premature infants to a more eco-friendly clothing line. The weekend also featured “Tuna Tank,” Yale’s take on the popular television competition “Shark Tank.” The competition drew 11 teams vying for a $1,000 prize.

“We really wanted to showcase the whole range of innovative ideas happening at Yale,” said Brita Belli, Yale Entrepreneurial Institute communications officer. “We have more and more people interested in entrepreneurship from across the University. We want to strengthen the bonds between those groups, and we see this as the beginning of something bigger.”

Bringing participants and audiences from the different contests together promotes a cross-fertilization of ideas from across the University, said Kyle Jensen, director of entrepreneurial programs at the SOM. The exchange of ideas across fields was also reflected in the composition of the teams.

Computer science and cognitive science major Phil Esterman ’17, electrical engineering and computer science major Henok Addis ’17 and English major Jillian Kravatz ’17 were the brains behind StoryTime, SEE ENTREPRENEUR PAGE 6

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VIEW A glimpse of Yale Yalies devote themselves.

There is a pulse on campus that doesn’t slow when Bulldog Days concludes.

Life at Yale defies simple explanation. It’s much too big and intricate. It will be up to you, the class of 2019, to define your own experience, alongside peers, professors and administrators.

The great privilege, and responsibility, of coming to Yale is getting to decide, for four years, one small part of what this University means, to carry on this project that has been entrusted to us.

Maybe you’ll do service work in New Haven, opening new chapters in Yale’s complicated relationship with its home city. Maybe you’ll contribute to groundbreaking scientific research.

Or maybe you’ll tell stories about Yale and New Haven in these pages, a pursuit that has defined our time as undergraduates. Yale is changing all the time — if you come here, you will witness an enormous growth in the undergraduate student body with the opening of two new residential colleges. You will change along with Yale.

At its best, Yale challenges us not to settle for what is conventional, not to be satisfied simply going through the motions of getting a degree. Let the same be true for the next three days. Choosing Yale is a big commitment; don’t let the curated experience of Bulldog Days be the sole basis of your decision. You may be inclined to find more concrete grounds — the existence of a particular singing group, or even the strength of your preferred academic department. These things matter, but they’re also transitory, as are your own interests.

Maybe the decision is much more simple. Something about the stained glass of Linsly-Chittenden Hall or the steps up to Sterling should feel right, should make you trust that this place could be your home. Can you picture it?

If you can, you’ll figure out the rest, and we’ll see you in August.

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ON 'A YEAR AWAY FROM YALE'

If you love Yale, critique it

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Welcome, prefrosh. This is Yale. It can be your home for the next four years.

Beginning today, hundreds of you will flood campus for Bulldog Days, Yale’s three-day trial run for admitted students. Bulldog Days is about potential — what Yale could mean for you, and how you might contribute to this University in turn. Most importantly, how will you make Yale your own? Turn that question over in your head as you fall asleep on a common room floor or scribble down notes in a master class.

Spend these days imagining your place here: in a freshman dorm, around a seminar table, on Elm Street with the cars zipping past.

Many of you have already chosen Yale; if so, you’ve decided wisely. Some of you may still be weighing your options. Bulldog Days exists to convince you that Yale comes out on top, which, in many ways, it does.

Needless to say, you’re not in for a typical three days.

There aren’t jam sessions and a cappella concerts every hour on the hour. Midnight frisbee is more rare than you might think. Free food doesn’t flow from every corner of campus. Ordinarily, you’ll have to venture farther than Old Campus to find Pepe’s Pizza, New Haven’s finest.

Many of us keep busy schedules, but it’s not typical to find yourself at three improv shows, a YPU debate with a former presidential candidate and a cultural house dance party all in one night. People are friendly, but we don’t normally get bombarded with invitations to dance shows and study breaks as we pass through campus. We spend a lot of time in libraries, especially come finals season. We get stressed. We lose sleep.

What Bulldog Days gets right, though, is the energy of life at Yale, even without the frenetic schedule of events. Students care deeply about their pursuits, whether these fall in the classroom or in one of the countless extracurriculars to which

'SHADRACHSMITH'

his is my last column as an undergrad. It is also my 84th column for the News; I’ve been writing them since the first week of my freshman year. I’ve loved having this soapbox. I’ve loved the ability to pontificate and to comment and to perhaps shape the conversation just a little. And so I’ve thought quite a bit about what I wanted my last column to be.

I could simply luxuriate in the last-ness of it. I could write an ode to some of the more hurtful Internet commenters (whatever happened to RiverTam?). For a while, I even toyed with taking the News itself to task because of some of its more intrusive editors and its instinctive conservatism.

But then I kept having versions of the same conversation. “Why did you come here?” a good friend asked me in exasperation, after I had been ranting about kids at Yale for the better part of an hour. “See, this is interesting, because I always thought you hated Yale,” said another, after I expressed a desire to remain in New Haven for a few years. This conversation troubled me profoundly. As a result of my occasional, let’s be honest, vituperation and vitriol, had I given off an I-hate-Yale vibe?

Let me set the record straight: I love Yale. My heart aches every time I think about leaving

(which, when you have mere days left, happens quite a bit). I have adored my time here — not all of it, but much SCOTT of it. I came STERN here because I thought Yale A Stern was the best, Perspective most undergrad-centric college in the world, and, for the most part, I still believe that. I’ve made lifelong friendships and learned from life-changing teachers. I’ve grown as a scholar. I’ve grown as a writer. I’ve grown as a person. Four years later, I still know every single word of the 17-minute-long YouTube video, “That’s Why I Chose Yale.” Yale is an amazing opportunity, and it is an even more amazing idea.

Yet I stand by my critiques.

There is so much wrong with Yale — just as there is so much wrong with virtually every large institution. This University is governed by greedy plutocrats; it is administrated by condescending bureaucrats; it is richer than Croesus — and has some of his more authoritarian impulses, as well. Yale no longer respects the voice of its students. And these students are, in so many cases,

conscienceless or apathetic or climby or blind to their own immense privilege.

I don’t see a tension between those last two paragraphs. I love Yale, and I’m troubled by much of it, too. At what point did we decide that those two sentiments were mutually exclusive? “Why do you always have to point out what’s wrong?” a former classmate asked me. What would be the point of writing a column if I didn’t? Yale has enough means through which to propagandize.

I prefer to keep Yale honest.

In case you haven’t noticed, my politics veer just a little to the left. So that’s why I’m annoyed by those in the center or right who claim that they love America more than those on my side of the aisle do. That is such crap.

How can you love something without actually seeing it for what it is? To truly contend with the profound enigma that is the United States, you have to learn about the centuries of genocide and oppression and violence. You have to see how these systemic problems continue to plague us today. We, as a nation, haven’t solved bigotry any more than we’ve solved greed. In order to love something — a person, a country, a university — you need to see it, warts and all, and retain the ability to be critical of it. Only by struggling to grapple with something’s problems can

you appreciate its blessings and understand its realities. Only then can you love it.

If you love Yale, critique it.

There is nothing to be gained from wallowing in its awesomeness. There is much to be gained from criticism. Criticism gets conversations started. Criticism keeps us asking questions.

Without critical thought, there can be no progress.

Eighty-four columns later, I still have a lot left to say. I’ve never written at length on graduate student unionization; the way Yale treats its graduate students is shameful. I’ve never written about the craven behavior of Yale University Properties.

I’ve never written about mental health services at Yale. I’ve written far too little about the problems with Greek life here. Even on the topics I have written a lot about — the Corporation, student voice, administrative bloat, finance and consulting, financial aid — I haven’t written nearly enough. I couldn’t have.

If you love Yale, critique it.

Please.

And that’s it. So long, Yale.

It’s been amazing. I will be back.

Keep on keeping on. And keep on fighting.

SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. This is his last column for the News. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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Look to Brewster

n April 9, 19 students were threatened with arrest for protesting Yale’s refusal to divest from the fossil fuel industry. Although I cannot be sure, I believe this situation would have unfolded differently if Kingman Brewster Jr., Yale’s 17th president, had been in charge.

No president had a better vision for Yale and its purpose than Brewster, whose 14-year tenure ran from 1963 to 1977.

Trained in the law, he presided over the University’s transformation from a bastion of wealth to a melting pot of diversity predicated on merit and equal opportunity. He was a man with a creed and a firm understanding of the values of a liberal arts institution. On three fronts, Brewster redefined the purpose of the university in the postwar world to become a sanctuary for free thought, a place where ideas, in addition to people, were universally respected.

These accomplishments are even more impressive if we consider the context of higher education in America when he presided. Swept up in cultural upheaval and anti-Vietnam War sentiment, the student body’s militancy would have made the Occupy New Haven movement seem a mild inconvenience.

Brewster’s greatest challenge came in handling the intense scrutiny and student radicalism that surrounded the New Haven Black Panther trials of 1970. An ardent guardian of free speech,

Brewster encouraged the University to debate the issue freely; classes were made optional and grades converted to Pass/Fail.

Students such as Kurt Schmoke ’71, the future Baltimore mayor, were empowered to speak with faculty and administrators.

When thousands of supporters of the Black Panthers congregated on the New Haven Green to protest the trial, Brewster knew that the size and vehemence of these protests posed a threat to campus safety. But unlike Harvard and Columbia administrators, Brewster welcomed demonstrators to Yale. He encouraged college masters to open their courtyards to house and feed earnest protestors. This hospitality defused the radicalism of the event and the protests proceeded more peacefully than the nation had anticipated.

Brewster deftly steered Yale through a thorny situation that also reflected his tact regarding town-gown relations.

Administrative talent aside, Brewster understood academia too. “Tenure is for all normal purposes a guarantee of appointment until retirement age,” Brewster wrote in his treatise “On Tenure.” His policy on tenure spoke to his deep understanding of the life of a university professor. Among other reasons, he supported tenured faculty for the liberty that it offers the professor and for holding them to high educational standards. The modern university

climate, with its preference for adjunct appointments, would have surely left Brewster displeased.

Lastly, he redefined Yale’s admission standards. Brewster put a swift end to the Yale of Dink Stover, when wealth and status meant more than merit and talent. Instead, Brewster asked for equal opportunity at Yale.

He envisioned a place where, regardless of background, a diverse group of thoughtful students could share ideas and experiences. Then he made it happen. Despite strong backlash from old-money alumni, the admissions office took up a new rubric for evaluating applicants.

Subsequently, the proportion of low-income and minority students increased. The backbone of Yale’s undergraduate admissions policy has been mostly left intact since his presidency.

The students who sat in Woodbridge Hall in support of the divestment campaign earlier this month did so because they believed only the specter of negative publicity would compel the University to engage with them.

Although President Salovey spoke with the students, his remarks were deeply unsatisfying. According to a News article (“Fossil Free Yale stages Woodbridge Hall sit-in,” April 9), Salovey only told the FFY activists that he would pass along their message when they asked him for an opportunity to meet with select members of the Yale

Corporation.

But what would Brewster have done? In April 1970, the Black Student Alliance and the Third World Liberation Front cooperated on a massive strike. It could have turned violent, yet Brewster welcomed the protestors with arms wide open. He let the students speak; he let them say what they wanted to say. His aptitude in handling these protests indicates that Brewster understood both the students and the times.

While I cannot assure FFY members that President Brewster would have divested from the fossil fuel industry, I guarantee that he would have handled the situation differently. So long as the unrest did not grow violent, he was happy to let students speak their minds. Even if Salovey cannot instruct the University to divest, he had the authority to ensure no one was threatened with arrest or fined just for acting peacefully on their conscience.

Every modern university president should strive to be like Kingman Brewster. Not only did Brewster have a firm grasp on university administration, but he also understood the larger objectives of higher education.

Brewster revolutionized liberal arts at Yale. He understood that leadership began with listening.

NATHAN STEINBERG is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College.

Contact him at nathan.steinberg@yale.edu .

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CORRECTION TUESDAY, APRIL 14

A previous version of the article “Nurture, not nature behind somatic symptoms in teens” misspelled the name of Briana Horwitz, professor of psychology at California State University, Fullerton.

Yale retirement plan shifts to single record keeping

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Yale has consolidated its entire retirement plan — which holds approximately $4.4 billion in assets across 22,000 plan members — into one unified program.

On Wednesday, TIAA-CREF — a financial firm that provides financial advice and money management services — announced that it would become the University’s sole “recordkeeping provider,” a move that will enable faculty and staff to access online account information and manage investments from one location. Though faculty and staff members will still have access to alternative investment offerings such as the Vanguard family of funds, all investment results will now be fed through the new Yale Retirement Plan website rather than continue to be displayed across different platforms. According to Michael Peel, vice president for human resources and administration, this consolidation will both increase efficiency and curb management costs.

“The main advantages of having a single record-keeper is that it reduces the fund management costs which are deducted from participant accounts,” Peel wrote in an email. “It [also] allows faculty and staff to monitor all of their retirement assets on a single website, and will greatly upgrade our current web capabilities.”

Though Yale will continue to oversee both TIAA-CREF and Vanguard investment partnerships, TIAA-CREF will now increase their financial counseling resources for faculty and staff. In addition, it will help the University improve its administration and reporting of funds, Peel added.

Under the old system, both Vanguard and TIAA-CREF provided record-keeping services to the University. Now, this integrated model will permit a variety of actions — ranging from managing salary deferral agreements, adjusting contribution limits and performing hardship withdrawals — to occur in a single location.

“By selecting TIAA-CREF as its only record-keeper, Yale has elected to implement a comprehensive approach to retirement planning that will optimize Yale’s employees’ retirement planning experiences,” Teresa Hassara, executive vice president of the Institutional Business at TIAA-CREF, said in a statement. “We’re pleased to be working closely with Yale to offer a refreshed approach that

engages employees and gets to the core of effectively preparing for participants’ retirement goals.”

Another change introduced in the updated system is the newly offered “Roth option,” which employees can now elect when selecting their 403(b) plans — a type of retirement option for employees of tax-exempt educational organizations.

Peel explained that unlike traditional 403(b) plans — which require income contributions before paying taxes — the Roth 403(b) plan’s contributions are made after taxes have been paid.

This means that retirement payouts from this option for employees over a certain age are likely to be [cut: made] tax-free.

According to Yale’s 2014 Financial Report, retirement expenses for Yale’s defined contribution plans during the 2014 fiscal year totaled $94.3 million, up from $88.8 million in the previous year.

“Particularly for higherpaid faculty and staff, the Roth 403(b) can have some attractive tax planning benefits,” Peel said.

“The addition of Roth capabilities is the only material plan change being implemented as part of the conversion to single record-keeper capabilities.”

Yale School of Drama professor Gordon Rogoff ’52 said his retirement funds are already entirely invested with TIAACREF, which provides faculty with individualized care and the opportunity to communicate directly with a representative informed about their portfolios.

Rogoff added that though he was unaware of the shift to a sole record-keeper, he is largely in support of having one streamlined system. “I think if [the retirement plans] are consolidated, that is probably better since it is all under one system,” Rogoff said.

As well, this update more closely aligns the University’s system with the standard practice found in the private sector.

According to Peel, the reporting for most companies’ 401(k) plans — even across various investment options — are placed on a common website with routinely issued account statements.

He added that single recordkeeping in academia is just becoming increasingly common, with such schools as the University of Colorado and University of Maine systems adopting similar practices.

As of December 2014, TIAACREF had $851 billion in assets under management.

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

Law school selects public interest fellows

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER Thirty-eight graduating students and recent alumni will jump-start their careers in public service with fellowships awarded

by Yale Law School, according to an announcement last week.

The fellowships are intended to provide financial assistance to students who wish to use their law degrees for public interest fields. These include the Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights and the Heyman Federal Public Service Fellowship.

Philipp Kotlaba LAW ’15, an awardee this year, said these fellowships financially assist students going into public interest fields or their potential employers, who may not be in a position to make a new hire without financial assistance.

Recipients of the fellowships this year included members of every graduating class going back to

the class of 2011. Kotlaba said he believes the fellowships open important opportunities for YLS students.

“These fellowships are designed to empower students to pursue various lines of legal work,” he said. “[They are] YLS saying we’re serious about students pursuing their vision of justice.”

Kotlaba said most of the fellowships sponsor student work in one of three areas: impact litigation, high-level policy drafting and legal services for disadvantaged people. Kotlaba said that through his fellowship he will be able to work at the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

From there, he plans to begin a career in international arbitration, which is a field he has pursued mainly in his summer work while enrolled at Yale.

Ruth Swift LAW ’15, who was awarded the one-year Arthur Liman Fellowship, said she will be working for a public defender

in Birmingham, Alabama, helping to reach resolutions for criminal cases that are impacting immigrants’ legal statuses. Swift said she first contacted the Birmingham public defender, and they then applied jointly for funding from the law school.

Though Swift was confident that she would receive the funding, she said the process was stressful, mainly because the application was rather extensive and due the day before the start of her final exams in December. Though Swift said there is approximately the same supply of these fellowships as there is demand for them, there is still no guarantee that a given student’s application will be successful.

Joshua Andresen LAW ’15, who is a recipient of the Robina Fellowship for students interested in human rights, said that once he found a position, filing the application through YLS was relatively painless. However, because there is no guaran-

tee made to students about funding and applications are reviewed blindly by faculty members, he said, he was still aware of the competitive nature of the process.

Law school professor Daniel Esty LAW ’86, who sits on the faculty review committee for the fellowship applications, said that after students submitted their applications in December, his committee reviewed them in January or February and looked for who had made the best argument in support of their funding.

Though he does not know the total number of students who applied for fellowships, he said the process this year was very competitive.

“The people selected were truly fabulous, and we could have given [the fellowships] out to many great candidates,” he said.

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

JENNIFER LU/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Yale Law School has awarded fellowships to 38 graduating seniors and recent alumni to jump start their careers in public service.

Marrow donor drive beats 2014 mark

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Megaphones and large signs helped amplify the enthusiasm that members of the Yale Athletics community displayed in promoting the Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive, which, in its seventh year, added hundreds more to a growing list of potential donors.

On Thursday, numerous Yale student-athletes and members of the Athletics Department hosted the drive outside Commons, encouraging participants to join the “Be The Match” bone marrow donor registry, a listing of marrow donors operated by the National Marrow Donor Program. By completing a simple cheek swab, participants added themselves to the registry — subsequent tests could then match them to patients in need depending on compatibility. Assistant head coach of the football team Larry Ciotti said the event was a successful one, drawing 761 new registrants to bring Yale’s seven-year total to 5,299.

“We’ve been fortunate this year because all of the volunteers from the different athletic teams came together and did a good job,” Ciotti said. “The bottom line is you’re saving lives and it’s

an easy thing to do.”

This year, members of Yale’s football, field hockey, softball and women’s ice hockey teams hosted the drive, though other members of the community also participated independently by helping generate interest on campus and direct students and faculty to the Thursday event.

Ciotti added that Yale has drawn the most registrants for any school participating in the Be The Match drive for six of the past seven years.

The drives at Yale are affiliated with the “Get in the Game, Save a Life” program started in 1992 by Villanova University head football coach Andy Talley, a close friend of Ciotti’s.

Under the program, more than 50 colleges — including Harvard, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania — across the nation participate in similar drives held every year during the spring.

This was the first year that Talley attended Yale’s drive, and he pointed to several strengths of the Yale campaign, such as promotional yard signs and flyers posted around campus, along with the direct involvement of several athletic teams.

“I’m extremely proud to be working with Yale, and I’m thankful that my best friend is

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the leader of that group,” Talley said. “Yale is the leading team in our program, and they have routinely registered more people for the drive than any other team.”

Other promotions for the event took place online. Sebastian Little ’17, a member of the football team, said some participating student-athletes posted videos to their social media accounts to boost awareness of the drive, following a model similar to that of the “Ice Bucket Challenge” videos that circulated online earlier this year to help raise funds for ALS research.

Though this year’s event saw an increase from last year’s 686 participants, Ciotti said organizers of the drive must continue to find new registrants each year. He said members of the drive’s committee choose to focus mainly on drawing newly matriculated students to register for the event.

“The target group are the 1,400 freshmen and the graduate students because there’s an influx of them every year,” Ciotti said. “Because we’ve done the drive now for seven years many people on the campus have been tested so it’s hard, although our goal is always to get 1,000.”

To date, Yale has had 29 donors successfully match with

a patient in need. Most recently, Peter Ambiel ’16, a member of the soccer team, successfully donated in February through a procedure that was similar to drawing blood. Ambiel said he originally expected the process to require invasive surgery through a spinal tap.

Nearly 20,000 people a year suffering from leukemia or sickle cell disease, for example, are in need of a life-saving bone marrow transplant, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Roughly 70 percent of patients in need of a transplant are unable to find a matching donor in their family and depend specifically on Be the Match, according to the foundation’s website. “[Choosing to donate bone marrow] wasn’t much of a decision for me because the fact that I’ll save someone’s life made the decision for me,” Ambiel said.

“It’s an experience that I can’t speak well enough about and anyone who has the opportunity to donate should do it without a doubt.”

In 2010 Yale set the donation record for the “Get in the Game, Save a Life” program, adding 921 new people to the registry.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Four score and twenty years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation.”

ABRAHAM LINCOLN FORMER PRESIDENT

Two candidates vie for Yale seat on the Board of Alders UPCLOSE FROM PAGE 1 residential colleges, its constituency splits half and half between Yale students and Dixwell residents. This seat has historically not been filled by a student.

Yale students living in Ward 1 have elected a fellow student or recent alum to represent them on the city’s Board of Alders for at least the last 16 years. During these next seven months leading up to the municipal election, Stark, Eidelson and perhaps others will engage Yale’s campus in discussion on policy initiatives and, most notably, how students should involve themselves in the New Haven community.

“There are some perceptions in the city that Yale students tend to be transient, dropping in and out,” Eidelson said. “But once students build a trust, there’s a lot of openness to collaboration in the city.”

This trust, according to Eidelson, is a commitment from students to stay in the city and follow up on community service projects begun as undergraduates.

But are the needs of New Haven — a city reliant on its legislators to attack high crime rates, unemployment and high dropout rates — beyond the capacity of a University student?

AN AGE-BASED CONSTITUENCY

The 30 local lawmakers on the Board serve a population of 130,660 residents — according to a 2013 Census Bureau estimate. The city with the next highest number of alders, Bridgeport, only has 20 members who serve 10 districts, despite being the most populous city in the state with 147,216 residents.

Because of the size of the New Haven’s legislative body, Vice President of the Yale College Democrats Jacob Wasserman ’16 said, the Board of Alders is actually more accessible to city residents: Each alder represents a small constituency of only about 4,000 voters.

“It’s really hyper-local government,” Wasserman said.

Wasserman serves as a cochair for the 47-member Ward 1 committee within New Haven’s Democratic Town Committee, the municipal equivalent of the Democratic National Committee. Together with Sarah Giovanniello ’16, the other co-chair, Wasserman is responsible for engaging Ward 1 residents in the political process, from the local to the national level.

The size and structure of Ward 1 make its representative unique, Stark said. Close to 80 percent of Ward 1 residents are students living on Old Campus or in a residential college, and many of the remaining 20 percent of ward residents are Yale students living off campus.

“It’s kind of cool that Ward 1 is always an age-based constituency,” Wasserman said. “The alder represents the interests of young people.”

But the Yale alder does not often represent these interests for extended periods of time.

Since 2001, the Yale seat has been filled by five different alders — a turnover rate that is among the highest on the Board of Alders. And, of the five alders that have served, three did not seek reelection.

Eidelson announced in late March that she will seek a third term — a step that no former Ward 1 alders has taken in at least 16 years. With this move, the incumbent would challenge perceptions — on campus and in the city — that the Ward 1 alder is a city official in transition, leaving the ward and the Board after their commencement.

With two terms under her belt, Eidelson is as seasoned an alder as West River representative Tyisha Walker — the Board of Alders’ president-to-be. “[That experience] is not something to be tossed aside or taken lightly,” Giovanniello said.

“It’s made her a more connected alder and leader of the city.”

But whether her experience alone is a reason to vote for Eidelson, or whether students should weigh other qualifications in determining the best fit for the ward, remains hotly contested.

Stark noted that, while the other 29 alders must address the daily concerns of their constituents, including potholes or illegal dumping, the Ward 1 alder serves a Yale campus well maintained by the University. As a result, the Ward 1 alder fields fewer day-today requests from constituents, former Ward 1 alder Mike Jones ’11 said. The absence of these

requests, he added, allows the concerns to the city Democratic to deepen debates around signifi- vard junior, ran to be the first-ever in Ward 1, only four could identify Yale alder to spend time on long- party and the Board of Alders. He cant urban issues. university student to serve on the Eidelson as their alder. term projects that they believe cited a resolution to endorse the Still, Morrison said she believes “Sure, some of what we do Cambridge City Council, coming will best impact the city.

National'04 Popular Vote — a bill that day-to-day is potholes and in fourth place at the polls. that Yale students should have a ben healey 2001-2005 But each alder has a distinct would guarantee the presidency snow,” Harp said. “But we also Even at institutions where dis- voice on the Board of Alders. nick shalek 2005-2007 vision for what this impact should to the candidate who receives the have to think critically about pol- tricts akin to Ward 1 exist, the “Yale is such a big part of New rachelmost plattus look like. votes 2007-2009 — drafted by members icy. Oftentimes students bring elected council rarely features a Haven,” she said. “It’s very, very important that students have a of the Dems and passed unan- refreshing perspectives to those student voice. mike jones '11 2009-2011 imously by the alders in 2013. debates based on what they’re A UNIQUE PLATFORM? Berkeley, California is one such vote.” sarah After eidelson '12 2011-Without day-to-day mainit was passed, the resolution learning or how things are done in example. Home to the UniverThe opportunity to elect a peer tenance tasks draining time and was sent to state legislators. their hometowns.” sity of California at Berkeley, this to the Board of Alders is a privienergy, Jones said, one of the But Hedy Gutfreund ’18, comcity across the bay from San Fran- lege students should value, added privileges unique to the Yale munications director for the POTENTIAL PARTNERS cisco has one council seat that Vincent Mauro, chair of the town alder is the opportunity to look Dems, said this sort of collabo- OUTSIDE WARD 1 serves mostly student constitu- Democratic committee. back at the work of predeces- ration between the Dems and the In the absence of collaboration ents. With a total population of “It’s someone you can hold sors and push for further prog- Ward 1 alder is atypical. with the Ward 1 alder, some Yale 116,768, according to a 2013 Cen- accountable,” he said. “You can ress on unfinished initiatives. But the majority of Ward 1 alders have started anew at the beginning of their terms, repeatedly refocusing on issues of personal interest.

Eidelson, for example, chairs the aldermanic youth services committee. During her tenure, she has spearheaded two key initiatives: the city’s acquisition of state youth violence prevention grants and the launch of the New Ben Healey ’04 Nick Shalek ’05 Rachel Plattus ’09 Mike Jones ’11 Sarah Eidelson ’12 Haven Youth Map, an online tool designed to connect city youth to 2001–2005 2005–2007 2007–2009 2009–2011 2011–present affordable after-school and sumHealey cited promoting both a Shalek, who was captain of the Plattus ran uncontested for Jones, who cited his approved Eidelson, who chairs the mer programs. landlord-licensing ordinance men’s hockey team as a senior, Ward 1 alder.

In 2007, the polls proposal to increase the city's aldermanic youth services Eidelson said her extracurdesigned to improve rental is the only candidate to have drew only 128 voters — the living wage, said he ran for the committee, is the first Ward 1 ricular involvements at Yale housing — which passed — and held the Ward 1 seat as an lowest voter turnout in recent Ward 1 seat because New Haven alder to run for a third term in spurred her investment in youth a proposal to recognize the independent this century. history. reminded him of his hometown the century. issues in New Haven. As a freshrelationship status of domestic of Winston-Salem, North man, she participated in the Early partnerships as his two most Carolina.

Childhood Education Fellownotable achievements as alder. ship through Dwight Hall, a program that places Yale students as assistants in local day care centers. Stark plans to make use of the same fellowship this coming “The bill was stalled, and students have found alternative sus Bureau estimate, Berkeley has grab a coffee with them and say, reaching out to the Board of means of engaging with city gov- about 14,000 fewer residents than ‘Hey, here’s what I’d like to see.’” summer.

Her experience as a fellow, Alders was an attempt to move it ernment. in New Haven, but UC Berkeley’s Eidelson’s office hour, which Eidelson said, made New Haven forward,” she said. “There wasn’t For Jared Milfred ’16, an oppor- population is close to three times she holds from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. her home and inspired her to run any special desire to work specif- tunity came in the form of the that of Yale. In Berkeley, students on Friday mornings at Blue State Democracy Fund, the city’s pub- represent over 30 percent of the on Wall Street, is a chance for for alder. ically with the Board of Alders. ” Ava Tomasula y Garcia ’17, for- lic campaign financing program. city population, while Yale stu- constituents to grab the coffee Although both Eidelson and Stark have shown interest in pur- mer publicity chair for MEChA The fund finances campaigns by dents, who occupy a ward and a Mauro suggests. But when Eidelsuing policies related to city youth de Yale, a coalition of Latino stu- matching low-dollar donations half, represent less than 10 per- son changed the time of her office services, past Ward 1 alders have dents invested in social justice, and offering grants to candidates. cent of New Haven. hour from Thursday evenings to chosen to focus on a host of other took part in student protests But Milfred said he had “nextCouncilman Kriss Worthing- Friday mornings, she notified Yale issues. Jones, Eidelson’s prede- against wage theft at Gourmet to-no contact” with Eidelson ton has served the student district students solely through her Facecessor, said his interest in pol- Heaven. She said that while stu- during his confirmation process in Berkeley, District 7, since 1996. book page — which has only 307 icy reform drew him to the alder- dent activists in MEChA worked as chair of the fund.

The District 7 spot has only once followers. with several local nonprofit manic legislative committee.

“I’ve been really fortunate been filled by a student. Nancy But beyond accountability, an “I found [the legislative com- groups, including Unidad Latina to be involved with New Haven Skinner held the seat from 1984 effective alder, Giovanniello said, mittee] to be a pretty advanta- en Accion, they did not contact government,” Milfred said. “It’s to 1992 while she was a student must have a strong knowledge geous place to be,” Jones said.

Eidelson or Morrison for guidance been enormously rewarding, but at UC Berkeley. But Assistant to both of activism on campus and of I do wish more students were Berkeley City Manager Matthai resources for activists at City Hall.

Jones, who served one term as during the protests. alder from 2009 to 2011, said his “Establishing links between involved. The position of the Chakko added that recent redisThe best way for the Ward 1 principal project on the Board was campus and city activists and Ward 1 alder is an important one tricting has included even more alder to be visible on campus is to proposing legislation to raise the those holding office in New Haven in making sure Yale students have student constituents in District be a student and live there, said 7, which may impact future city Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93, forcity’s living wage. [can always] help,” Tomasula y a role in the city.”

And he graduated in the mid- Garcia said.

Student demonstrations council elections. mer Ward 1 alder. He added that dle of his term, said he chose not Tomasula y Garcia added that a around the same issues that are Justin Murphy, a sophomore at common sense, a willingness to to run for a second term because central goal of MEChA’s activism debated at City Hall prove that UC Berkeley, said that, while he listen to and analyze constituents’ he wanted to focus his energy on against wage theft is advocating collaboration opportunities participated in the election this concerns and a passion for the searching for a job. This decision for state Senate Bill 914 — an act between students and city offi- past November, the majority of public good are also all essential is not uncommon. Of the past five that, if passed, would allow vic- cials exist, and many who were his peers did not cast votes. Only qualities for the position. alders, Eidelson is only the sec- tims of wage theft to recover twice interviewed expressed eagerness close to 10 percent of constituents “The further you are from being ond to stay on the board for more the initially denied pay — and Bill to partake. But many question in the seventh district voted in the an enrolled and resident student, than a year after graduation. Nick 106, which protects immigrant whether the Ward 1 alder should election. Voter turnout in Ward the less ability you have to engage Shalek ’05, a former Ward 1 alder, workers from employer retalia- be responsible for fostering this 1 was more than double that in meaningfully with this ward’s Berkeley. Together, Eidelson and constituents,” he said. was elected in the fall after his tion. MEChA, however, has not collaboration. commencement and served one pursued any policy reform at the The Ward 1 alder’s primary Chandler — the 2013 candidates Ben Healey ’04, another former responsibility is to the city, for alder — drew 798 votes, which Ward 1 alder, added that the Ward term. municipal level.

In February 2014, while Giovanniello said. She added that represents close to 20 percent of 1 representative has the power to MEChA activists rallied for jus- the bulk of the alder’s work is at registered Ward 1 voters. mobilize Yale students who might If students show that tice on Broadway, the alders City Hall — out of constituents’ Students may not seize the not have otherwise been engaged were cloistered within City Hall, view. Giovanniello specifically chance to elect a peer represen- in New Haven. openness, the city is open engaging in a collaborative effort cited Eidelson’s youth projects, tative in Berkeley, but in College “The main thing is to commubetween the New Haven Police such as the New Haven Youth Park, Maryland, home to the Uni- nicate to the students that the to them in return.

Department and the Connecticut Map, as initiatives that indirectly versity of Maryland, students do good of New Haven is also good Department of Labor to arraign benefit Ward 1 residents. not have much of a vote at all. for Yalies,” Healey said.

Gourmet Heaven owner Chung BEN HEALEY ’04 If the Ward 1 alder’s work The student presence in ColThe role of communicaCho. Alders and students shared touches constituents indirectly, lege Park is even more pronounced tor, however, is a balancing act, Former Ward 1 alder a vision of fair labor standards, then Yale students seeking more than in Berkeley, with the student according to Wasserman. but activism at City Hall was dis- direct avenues to engage with body comprising more than half “You’re not going to be the YCC connected from activism on city New Haven may find a home at of the town’s population. Still, president, and you’re not going to “People assumed initially that I streets.

Dwight Hall.

Cole Holocker, a sophomore at the be the mayor of New Haven,” he would be like other Ward 1 alders,” Alexandra Barlowe ’17, social Johnny Scafidi ’01, director of University of Maryland, is the only said.

Eidelson said. “It took some time justice chair of the Black Students development and alumni rela- student voice on the town’s counThe Ward 1 alder does reprefor people to understand that I Alliance at Yale, took part in sev- tions at Dwight Hall, said Dwight cil. sent the student voice, he added, was really very seriously invested eral student-organized demon- Hall has long served as a link As student liaison, Holocker but the job does not include pushstrations against police brutality between Yale students and the serves the city council in an advi- ing on-campus initiatives, such as in New Haven.” sory role and is not given a vote reforms to sexual misconduct or Several alders pointed to Eidel- following a jury’s decision to not city. son’s service in the youth ser- indict police officer Darren WilProgram Director Mark Fope- in issues. While the Yale alder is withdrawal policy. vices committee as evidence of son in the shooting of black teen- ano added that, in his experi- chosen by popular vote, in ColYale’s campus is self-conher personal investment in New ager Michael Brown in Ferguson, ence leading fellowship pro- lege Park, student liaisons are tained, said Mark Abraham ’04, Haven. But she has spent less time Missouri. Barlowe said that, while grams through Dwight Hall, he appointed to the city council by director of Data Haven, a nonon a second part of her campaign she and fellow students pursued has found Yale students to be tre- council members themselves. The profit organization committed to agenda, a commitment to encour- municipal policy reform , they mendously engaged as thought- only student input in the appoint- improving quality in life in New aging student engagement in the never contacted Eidelson or any ful citizens. Students are often ment process is a final approval of Haven by using public data to inspired to care about the city by the chosen candidate by the uni- inform decision making. city. In fact, in 2013, after two other alders for support. years with Eidelson in office, stuStark said this is a missed community activists they work versity’s Student Government The problem, Giovanniello added, is that many students do dent participation in the munici- opportunity. Eidelson said that with through Dwight Hall’s ser- Association. pal election plummeted almost 20 the majority of her ideas as alder vice programs, Fopeano said.

Though many colleges push not exercise their right to vote. She have been conceived during dispercent from 2011.

But even though both Dwight for a student voice in legislative added that students are to blame cussions with students. But these Hall representatives and Ward action in the area surrounding for their own apathy.

THE ACTIVISM DISCONNECT conversations tend to take place 1 alders tout similar visions of campus, students in some towns “It’s really our business and This year, Yale students orga- only when students reach out to encouraging student engagement, have found other avenues to par- kind of our prerogative to make nized against wage theft, racial Eidelson. currently Dwight Hall does not take in municipal affairs. Amherst use of Ward 1,” Giovanniello said. profiling and police brutality in The recently passed city bill to collaborate with the Ward 1 alder College, for example, recently “Student engagement in the city New Haven. But none of these place student representatives on to organize its service work in New pushed to put a student repre- is an incredible opportunity that activists identified the Ward 1 the Board of Education, according Haven, according to Fopeano. sentative on the local Chamber of should not be wasted.” alder as a resource to bring about to Eidelson, represents another Harp said this activism in the Commerce.

Just as student voters have this specific policy changes in the example of collaboration with city could be strengthened if However, Claire Carpenter, a chance to elect an accountable city. Only members of the Dems, constituents. Eidelson said she students and city officials join sophomore at Amherst, said the representative, candidates runwho worked closely with Eidel- began speaking to members of the together. ning for alder have the opportuinitiative was not publicized. son during her 2013 aldermanic Dems who had served as Board of “One would hope that student “If there is a representative nity to take a student lens to policy campaign but are not endorsing Education representatives in their alders would bring some of the on the Chamber of Commerce, issues within the city’s governa candidate this year, reached out hometowns and were eager to see debate that’s happening on cam- Amherst students do not know ment. to her as a partner in pushing leg- a similar initiative in New Haven. pus to City Hall,” Harp said. about it,” Carpenter said.

“What’s wonderful about New Haven city government — and islative reform in municipal and The Alders passed legislation state government. allowing two elected student rep- LOOKING OUTSIDE OF YALE NECESSARY, DESERVING OR the city broadly — is that folks are “I see [Ward 1] as a vehicle for resentatives in March and the first Few other universities in the NEITHER? willing to embrace Yale students taking all the energy on cam- elections will occur in June. country have districts almost Yale’s campus presents a sim- who prove that they’re not just in pus and focusing it towards New That is what makes Ward 1 entirely composed of students, ilar picture when it comes to it for the resume,” Healey said. “If unique, according to Mayor Toni like New Haven’s Ward 1. New knowledge of student represen- students show that openness, the Haven,” Wasserman added.

Wasserman highlighted his Harp. She said that, because Yale Haven is the only city home to an tation in the city. Of 50 students city is open to them in return.” work with Eidelson to build rela- students hail from a range of cit- Ivy League university that has a interviewed, 37 were Ward 1 restionships with New Haven offi- ies, states and, indeed, countries, student serving on its legislative idents, while 11 lived in Ward 22 Contact ERICA PANDEY at cials in order to bring student they can offer fresh points of view body. In 2013, Logan Leslie, a Har- and two in Ward 2. But, of those 37 erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Violence is like a weed — it does not die even in the greatest drought.”

SIMON WIESENTHAL NAZI HUNTER

City may increase health director salary

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Since Mayor Toni Harp began her tenure, the post of city health director has been unfilled. But the city’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2016, currently before the Board of Alders, might change that.

During a budget workshop last Thursday, the Board of Alders’ Finance Committee heard testimony from Martha Okafor, the city’s community services administrator. Okafor was there to argue in favor of an increase in the budgeted salary for health director — she wants the figure to increase from $125,000 to $145,000. Without that money, she said, New Haven cannot attract a highcaliber individual to direct public health in city.

At the meeting, Okafor said she is requesting the $20,000

increase with a candidate in mind. That candidate is Byron Kennedy SPH ’01 MED ’04 GRD ’04, who currently serves as the health director for Monroe County, New York, which includes the city of Rochester.

Kennedy holds an M.D., a PhD and a master’s of public health, all from Yale.

Kennedy announced his resignation, effective May 1, from the Monroe County post, according to a Friday article in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. That report also said Kennedy intends to accept a similar job in Connecticut. Kennedy could not be reached to confirm that he would take the position in New Haven.

Okafor, who interviewed Kennedy for the job, described Kennedy as a strong candidate.

She said he is looking for a salary of $145,000, which, she said, would be relatively commen-

surate with salaries for other health director positions in cities throughout Connecticut.

Okafor added that Kennedy would like to work in New Haven because it is an urban environment.

I’m glad that we have someone overqualified.

We have a lot of sickly children.

JEANETTE MORRISON Ward 22 Alder Not all of the alders readily accepted Okafor’s arguments.

Ward 10 Alder Anna Festa questioned whether Kennedy might be overqualified for the position, noting his substantial number

of degrees. Okafor responded by saying that his qualifications and desired salary level make Kennedy a good fit for the city.

“For what we are paying this candidate, it is really a huge benefit for us first,” she said.

Festa also questioned how the city could fund the proposed increase in salary for the health director. She said any increase in the health director’s salary must be countered by a reduction in other parts of the budget.

Joe Clerkin, the city’s budget director, said the Community Services Administration has not yet determined where it will cut.

The budget will not be finalized for a number of weeks, he said.

But Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison was optimistic about the salary increase and appointment.

“I’m glad that we have someone overqualified,” she said.

“We have a lot of sickly chil-

dren. I work in [the Department of Children and Families], and there’s a lot of asthma and other things we take for granted, and we have no one to really try to fix all of this. So to know that we’ll have someone of such high quality — I’m excited.”

Ward 17 Alder Alphonse Paolillo Jr. echoed those sentiments.

He noted that the city often fails to make appointments to key management positions, meaning that departments often end up with acting directors who are often not fully fit for the position. That model is not sustainable, he said, and including the salary increase in the budget might provide a solution.

Tamiko Jackson McArthur, a New Haven pediatrician and Board of Health commissioner, also spoke in favor of Kennedy and the salary increase. McArthur was involved in the interview process for health direc-

tor candidates in previous years.

The city had previously identified another well-qualified candidate for the job, she said, but that candidate decided to take a higher-paying position in a different city.

McArthur said having a figure like Kennedy to head the city’s public health infrastructure might prove transformative, especially in the area of youth health.

The health director would oversee six areas of public health: environmental health, public health nursing, maternal and child health, preventive medicine, health information services and health programs — which include programs for obesity and injury prevention as well as HIV/AIDS prevention.

Contact NOAH DAPONTESMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

New Haven mourns youth homicide

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER A 16-year-old male was killed in the Elm City Saturday night — the first youth homicide of 2015.

According to a Sunday morning press release from the New Haven Police Department, officers were dispatched to Exchange Street, roughly two miles from Yale’s campus, shortly after midnight responding to reports of a double shooting. At the scene, emergency responders attended to two victims of gunshot wounds: 20-year-old Justin Compress and the 16-yearold. Compress was shot in his shoulder, hand and wrist, but he is in stable condition, according to the release.

The two victims were shot while sitting in a car parked on Exchange Street. The 16-year-old, who was not named in the release, was pronounced deceased at Yale-New Haven Hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning. The New Haven Register reported Sunday that the deceased was Jericho Scott.

Suspect descriptions are currently not available, NHPD spokesman David Hartman said in the release.

“The only report regarding a suspect vehicle is a black or darkcolored four-door car that fled toward James Street,” Hartman wrote.

In 2008, Scott made national headlines after he was barred from playing in local baseball leagues because his pitch, which was recorded at 40 mph, was deemed too strong.

New Haven Superintendent of Schools Garth Harries ’95 said in a statement that the death marked a “sad day” for the New Haven Public Schools community.

“Each child lost to gun violence leaves an indelible mark on our community and is a heartwrenching reminder of our urgent need to stop the killings,” Harries said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with this child’s family, his friends and with the entire school district

community.”

The NHPS community will provide grief counseling and other forms of support to assist students and staff when they return to school today.

The death is the fourth homicide in New Haven this year. After two back-to-back youth homicides last year, the city created a series of programs to help reduce the amount of youth violence in the city.

Earlier in the week, Mayor Toni Harp told the News that she was proud of the reduction of youth crimes in the city. Harp said the work of organizations like YouthStat — which meets every week to discuss and analyze data concerning school truancy and the juvenile justice system and is used to identify at-risk youth — has helped significantly reduced the number of youth involved in violent crime throughout the city.

The group was created in response to a death that occurred this time last year, when 16-yearold Torrence Gamble Jr. was shot after he attended the funeral of a 17-year-old New Haven resident, who was also fatally shot. The sudden spike in youth homicides sparked action from the city and community in an attempt to prevent further youth homicides from happening.

An emergency YouthStat session will be held today to address the weekend’s shooting, Harries said in his release. He added that the NHPS community will continue to work closely with police to ensure safety in schools and the community.

“While the complex circumstances surrounding the loss of this child leave us deeply saddened and perplexed, we stand resolved to find ways to bring an end to these acts of violence among our city youth, and engage all students on positive paths for their future,” he said.

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

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FROM THE FRONT Accessibility central in new college plans

“Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.”

FELIX BAUMGARTNER AUSTRIAN SKYDIVER

Brenzel heads to Woodbridge BRENZEL FROM PAGE 1

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The Facilities Access Group is tasked with studying the accessibility of Yale’s current buildings and planning for the accessibility of new ones.

ACESSIBILITY FROM PAGE 1 the committee’s power to review was more “lip service” than a chance at real involvement.

York acknowledged WestonMurphy’s concerns, adding that any construction process involves many stakeholders, and that architects often have to negotiate to create an environment that is acceptable to everyone.

But she emphasized that the committee’s role has changed since the construction of Evans Hall — in fact, the change is a direct result of the group’s involvement in the design process.

“Some changes have been made,” York said. “We are hap-

pier, and we do feel that we have a stronger voice.”

George Zdru, planning director for Yale Facilities, said that plans for new buildings are typically presented to the accessibility committee for review at the end of the preliminary design stage, “when the overall organization of the building’s design is understood.” Refinements can be made during the next stage, which is called design development.

Douglas Denes, senior architect planner and chair of the Facilities Access Group, invites architects involved in a given project to present to the subcommittee, which can then provide feedback at various stages in the process, according

to School of Medicine associate professor Carl Baum, who also serves as chair of the Provost Advisory Committee.

Denes was not available for comment.

Overall, York expressed satisfaction with the growing influence of the subcommittee.

It was involved early enough in the design process for the new residential colleges for several concerns they raised to be remedied, she said. Every suite within the new colleges will be fully accessible to mobility-impaired individuals, she added, whereas in the existing colleges, only certain suites are accessible, in part due to challenges associated with the entryway system. Though the new colleges will also include

separate entryways, designers have incorporated the facilities — including elevators — necessary for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act’s 2010 Standards for Accessible Design.

“Our buildings were built so long ago, before this kind of [accessibility] code came out,” York said. “We now have the opportunity to do it right with the new buildings.”

The Provost Advisory Committee on Resources for Students and Employees with Disabilities also comprises subcommittees on Service, Technology Access and Education, Awareness and Action.

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

nications and strategies,” Brenzel, who served as the dean of undergraduate admissions from 2005 to 2013, told the News.

He added that he and Salovey are still working out the details of his work next year, declining to specify the kinds of policies he will work on or the scope his work will take as a research associate.

Salovey could not be reached for comment on Sunday evening.

Besides his new role as a research associate, Brenzel said, he will continue to be an advisor for TD students. He will continue advising his current freshmen and will make himself available as a freshman advisor for next year’s incoming class. “[Brenzel] will still be at Yale but with a much lower time commitment,” said Benjamin Ackerman ’16, who acted as presenter at the farewell ceremony.

TD students interviewed said they are happy that Brenzel will still be a member of the wider college community, but also that he will continue to be a presence in TD. Several said they do not think that Brenzel’s continuing role will overlap significantly with that of the new master, American Studies and history professor Mary Lui. “He’s all about balance,” said Corey Malone-Smolla’16, a student in TD. “He will be around the college in the way he knows the TD community needs him.”

Lauren McNeel ’18, who attended the ceremony, said she was pleasantly surprised that Brenzel will still be found

around the college courtyard, as she had previously thought he would go abroad.

[Brenzel] will be around the college in the way he knows the TD community needs him.

COREY MALONE-SMOLLA ’16 Brenzel’s experience both as a student and a Yale administrator will contribute positively to his new position, said Daniel Weiner ’15, a former science and technology editor for the News.

Aside from his commitments to Yale, Brenzel will be working on two books: one about college admissions and another on philosophy. He said he will bring what he has seen in Yale’s admissions office to help families through the college admissions process in his book. For his second book, Brenzel, also a professor of philosophy, will look into the history of ideas about human nature, he said.

“Once a master steps down from the mastership, they’re still a member of the college fellowship for life,” Brenzel said. “I will be happily a member of the TD fellowship.”

Brenzel graduated from Yale in 1975 and lived in TD as an undergraduate.

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Entrepreneurship contests join forces

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Sabin Prize winners Kenny Cloft FES ’15 and Yesenia Gallardo FES ’15 stand with Andrew Sabin and Stuart DeCew. ENTREPRENEUR FROM PAGE 1 winner of the Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health. To encourage low-income parents to read to their children — who, compared to their higher income peers, will have heard 30 million fewer words by the time they are three — StoryTime will send nightly excerpts of children’s stories to parents via text message.

According to Martin Klein MPH ’86, director and founder of InnovateHealth Yale — which organizes the Thorne Prize — and a judge in the competition, StoryTime came in first place because of the huge impact it could make in addressing edu-

cational inequalities, starting with the community in New Haven.

“Many of the leading figures of social entrepreneurship have been affiliated with Yale,” Klein said. “It’s a more recent tradition … but it’s a tradition we are proud of.”

Many students hope not only to develop a business but also to do something for the greater good, said Stuart DeCew FES ’11 SOM ’11, program director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, which runs the Sabin Sustainable Venture.

For Yesenia Gallardo FES ’15 and Kenny Cloft FES ’15, this difference can be made by changing people’s minds about

eating insects. They won the Sabin Prize with their idea of making protein powder from crickets. Cricket protein provides a more complete source of nutrients than plants and requires significantly less energy to produce than other sources of meat, Gallardo said.

“Two billion people in the world are already eating [insects]. It’s good for us, it’s good for the environment. The sky’s the limit,” said Cloft.

Andrew Sabin, whose family foundation sponsors the prize and who was a judge at the event, said that the idea’s appeal was in entering a market where demand greatly exceeds supply.

Going forward, the world needs

alternative sources of proteins made in a nonpolluting way, and Poda Foods could fill that niche, he said.

Many of the leading figures of social entrepreneurship have been affiliated with Yale.

MARTIN KLEIN MPH ’86 InnovateHealth Yale, director and founder Meanwhile, Will Xu ’17 and Devansh Tandon ’17 won the “Tuna Tank pitch” contest with

their idea of a crowdsourced matchmaking app. The team hopes to launch its app at Yale and to subsequently expand to other colleges, Xu said.

Having all the contests over one weekend not only increased the buzz surrounding the event, but also allowed the groups to consolidate their publicity campaigns, said Christina Wang ’15, co-director of the Yale Entrepreneurial Society-hosted Venture Challenge. General Semantics, a team that has developed a software package to visualize data from Internet-connected devices and which previously won the YEI Internet of Things Prize, walked away with the top prize of $13,000 at the Venture

Challenge.

“I love the fact that Yale has gone so far in the scene of entrepreneurship,” said Donna Dubinsky ’77, CEO of Numenta, a company that focuses on machine intelligence, in her closing remarks. Dubinsky also sits on the Yale Corporation.

The weekend was hosted by InnovateHealth Yale, the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, the School of Management, the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the Yale Entrepreneurial Society and the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute.

Contact LIONEL JIN at chentian.jin@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.”

KERRY HEALEY FORMER LT. GOV. OF MASSACHUSETTS

Malloy names state education commissioner

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER Last Friday, Gov. Dannel Malloy confirmed the appointment of interim education commissioner Dianna Wentzell to a permanent position heading the Department of Education.

Wentzell has headed the department since January, when former commissioner Stefan Pryor ’93 LAW ’98 resigned.

Although Wentzell did not originally apply for the position, Malloy said at a Friday press conference that he asked Wentzell to consider the job due to her dedication, demeanor and experience as an educator.

“I became convinced that she was the right person at the right time to do this job,” Malloy said.

“With her at the helm, we’ll ensure that continuity and stability will be had in the department.”

The state Board of Education originally selected three finalists for the position from a pool of over two dozen applicants. After interviewing the other candidates, Malloy recruited Wentzell to apply for the position.

Wentzell, who has over 25 years of experience working in Connecticut’s public schools, began her career teaching social studies, political science and history and leading gifted education programs in Farmington Public Schools in 1988. She later directed the literacy program at South Windsor Public Schools, and then worked as an administrator for two years in Hartford Public Schools. In 2013, Wentzell joined the state Department of Education as chief academic officer.

“Over the years, I’ve planned and taught more lessons than I can count, and I know that I’ve

learned just as many,” Wentzell said at the press conference.

“The experience and perspective that I gained in the classroom still helps inform the decisions that I make today.”

I became convinced that [Dianna Wentzell] was the right person at the right time to do this job.

DANNEL MALLOY Governor, Connecticut Wentzell said during the press conference that, as commissioner, she plans on working closely with the Office of Early Childhood on initiatives Malloy has highlighted in his time

in office, such as increasing access to pre-kindergarten for low-income families. Wentzell added that she intends to engage directly with teachers, students, parents and local boards of education.

Previously, teachers unions had criticized Pryor — a lawyer and co-founder of the charter school Amistad Academy — who was appointed by Malloy during his first term as governor, for his stances on controversial subjects such as teacher tenure and using standardized testing results to inform teacher evaluations.

Pryor announced in August that he intended to resign after Malloy’s first term ended in January.

Last month, legislators on the Education Committee approved a bill that requires the education commissioner to have had five years of teaching experience and three years of administra-

tive experience — which Pryor lacked.

Sheila Cohen, president of the Connecticut Education Association, the largest teachers union in the state, said in a Friday press release that Wentzell’s “wealth of practical knowledge about what works in public education” would be a boon for public schools.

“Dr. Wentzell recognizes that genuine collaboration among public education stakeholders will make Connecticut’s already strong public education system even stronger,” Cohen said. “Her willingness to listen — as well as her extensive direct teaching experience in our public schools — makes her a wise choice.”

Elizabeth Carroll, the director of education studies at Yale College, said that as interim commissioner, Wentzell is already familiar with the challenges and

opportunities facing Connecticut’s public schools, and that Wentzell’s appointment does not interrupt or slow the momentum of the position in the way that the appointment of another candidate might have.

Carroll added that she is heartened by Wentzell’s intention to focus on Connecticut’s wide achievement gaps.

A report from 2014 stated that although Connecticut’s graduation rate increased from 80.9 percent to 85 percent between 2003 and 2012, the graduation rate for economically disadvantaged students remains at 70 percent.

Wentzell must be confirmed by state legislators before officially assuming the role. She will earn a yearly salary of $192,500.

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

Chiquet calls for strong leadership

BY MONICA WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Dressed in a sleek black blazer and a fitting pair of blue jeans, Maureen Chiquet ’85 addressed the crowd at ease, her voice soft as she answered each question with a nod of her head.

On Saturday afternoon, Linsly Chittenden Hall 211 was packed with students eager to hear Chiquet’s story in an event hosted by the Women’s Leadership Institute. Chiquet traced her journey from being an intern at L’Oréal Paris immediately after college to the CEO of renowned fashion company Chanel many years later. In a question-and-answer format first with WLI organizer Charlotte Clinger ’17 and later with the entire audience, Chiquet discussed a wide range of topics including leadership, women in large corporations, the work-life balance and the fashion industry.

According to Chiquet, her love of beauty has been a guiding force in her career path, ultimately leading her to where she is today. She said her undergraduate years at Yale, where she studied film and literature, trained her to become a keen observer and an insightful interpreter — two skills that proved to be indispensable in her pursuit of beauty.

“I was obsessed with the notion of beauty and wanted to live around it,” Chiquet said. “For me it was all about beauty, and that’s what helped me with my career and shaped my leadership.”

Chiquet encouraged Yale stu-

dents to think deeply about who they are and introspect before stepping into the real world. For her, being honest about what she truly cared about was more important than other aspects of a successful career.

Chiquet also spoke at length in response to concerns regarding the work-life balance as well as the necessary skills for women aspiring to leadership positions.

“No one can have it all, but you can have what you want and be fierce about it,” she said, adding that it is important to create healthy boundaries and a schedule that includes time for introspection. “Don’t forget yourself in all this.”

No one can have it all, but you can have what you want and be fierce about it.

MAUREEN CHIQUET ’85 CEO, Chanel Instead of advocating for a tough and masculine front in leadership, Chiquet emphasized traditional feminine qualities such as listening, empathy and vulnerability in her advice for aspiring female leaders in the professional world.

In particular, Chiquet said her willingness to show weakness in front of her team as a leader has allowed her to initiate honest and valuable conversations with them.

Four students interviewed all said it was refreshing to hear Chiquet’s perspective on leadership.

“It was really inspiring to hear that she valued the creative side of the fashion industry as well as genuine enthusiasm and passion,” Pamela Weidman ’17 said.

“It seemed like she was really good at incorporating what she believed in into all the companies she has been in.”

Lorenzo Ligato ’15, a former features editor for the News, also added that it is not common for a leader to embrace her vulnerability as a way to connect to everyone around her, especially since the traditional idea in leadership is to exude uncompromising confidence at all times.

Stephany Rhee ’16, president of the WLI, said she hopes attendees will think of being a woman as an advantage instead of a weakness in leadership after the event. Seeing a role model like Chiquet definitely helps in furthering this idea, Rhee said.

“There is a value in being quiet and listening,” Chiquet told the News, adding that she is an introvert who sees traits traditionally perceived as weak to be empowering qualities, particularly for female leaders. “Listening has brought me much more in my life than speaking.”

Chiquet is a fellow of the Yale Corporation and the mother of two current Yale undergraduates.

Contact MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, APRIL 20 12:15 PM A conversation with Congresswoman Chellie Pingree. Chellie Pingree is the representative for Maine’s 1st congressional district. She is an advocate for local agriculture, in part due to her own experience running an organic farm. Sage Hall (205 Prospect St.), Bowers Aud. 4:00 PM Special Lecture, Screening of “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” and Q&A with Helen Zia. Even as Americans are more colored, the queers are getting married and the feminists are still marching, where do Asian Americans fit in today’s American tapestry? Do Asian American lives matter? In a short talk that accompanies the showing of the landmark documentary “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” activist and author Helen Zia explores these questions. Loria Center (190 York St.), Rm. 250.

4:30 PM Modern Greece and the West: A Record of Ambivalence. Since its establishment as a nation-state, Greece has generally been regarded as part of the West. However, strict geographical grounds are not alone in casting doubt on this proposition. This lecture by Yannis Stefanidis, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, will attempt to highlight the main sources of friction between Greece and the “West” with the emphasis on culture and politics. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Rm. 202.

TUESDAY, APRIL 21 11:30 AM A Conversation with Fareed Zakaria ’86. Under the auspices of the R. Peter Straus Lecture Series, Fareed Zakaria ’86, one of the world’s leading foreign policy thinkers and public intellectuals, will speak at the Yale School of Management, in an event marking the third anniversary of the founding of the Global Network for Advanced Management. Advance registration required. Evans Hall (165 Whitney Ave.).

4:00 PM Yale Student Poets Reading. Each year, about 10 undergraduate and graduate students are chosen to read selections of their work. The readers are selected from a list of nominees provided by Yale’s creative writing faculty. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.).

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BRIAN DOWLING ’69 BLUE-WHITE SCRIMMAGE Dowling made an appearance at Saturday’s Blue-White spring scrimmage for the Yale football team. The former quarterback, the inspiration for the character “B.D.” in Doonesbury, finished ninth in the vote for the 1968 Heisman Trophy.

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Spring season concludes

BY GREG CAMERON AND MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Following Saturday’s Blue-White spring scrimmage at the Yale Bowl, tight end Stephen Buric ’16 was given an Ivy League championship ring before the 2015 football season has even started. Yet the ring is not his to keep, as it is on loan from Greg Hall ’77, a tight end on Yale’s 1976 Ivy League champion team.

“I have so much confidence that you guys are going to win the Ivy League championship that I brought my ring today,” Hall told Buric in front of the entire team on Saturday before tossing him the ring. “I’m going to give my Ivy League championship ring to you for safekeeping. I don’t want it back until we’re here to present you with your own in a year.”

Hall’s 1976 team, like the 2015 Elis, entered the offseason having suffered a season-ending loss to Harvard that cost it an Ivy League title. In 1976, Yale rebounded not only to defeat Harvard but also to take the Ancient Eight title.

Yale head coach Tony Reno and the new squad have already begun preparing in the hope that they can follow that same trajectory this fall.

The Blue-White scrimmage capped off the spring season with a battle between offense and defense at the Yale Bowl. Though many starters remained off the field for precautionary reasons, several Elis were able to show the progress they have made over months of winter training and 11 spring practices.

In a hotly contested game, the Yale offense defeated its defensive counterpart, 48–46, under a nontraditional scoring system developed for the scrimmage. The offense scored on two touchdowns through the air to receivers Blake Rowlinson ’17 and Ross Drwal ’18, while defensive backs Spencer McManes ’17, who initially came to Yale

as a quarterback, and Roger Kilgore III ’16 tallied interceptions for the defense.

Reno said that the Bulldogs’ spring season has been successful in improving aspects of Yale’s game on both sides of the ball.

“We’ve had three other scrimmages like that [this spring], so we’ve had a lot of tape and a lot of games, probably about two games’ worth of plays that we’ve been able to run,” Reno said.

“When it comes down to it, there are two things for us: Defensively, we want to be aggressive but not give up big plays, and offensively, we want to be able to run the ball effectively.”

Specific work on Yale’s running game has been difficult following the loss of running back Tyler Varga ’15. The Elis’ current top two running backs, Candler Rich ’17 and Deshawn Salter ’18, were both limited with injuries in practice this spring. Though Reno said they both were healthy enough to play on Saturday, he kept them out of the game to minimize risk.

In their place stepped running back Austin Reuland ’16, who was a wide receiver for the first three years of his Yale career but made the transition to tailback this offseason. While most positions on the field had players constantly rotating during the scrimmage, Reuland took the vast majority of snaps at running back, including one long run that set up Drwal’s seven-yard touchdown reception over the middle.

Reuland saw consistent action throughout the spring and earned the team’s “Every Play, Every Day” award after the game for his efforts. The junior, who played some running back at Mission Viejo High School, said he enjoyed getting more touches than a wide receiver traditionally gets.

“It was nice having the team rely on me,” Reuland said. “Towards the end [of SEE FOOTBALL PAGE B3

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The offense beat the defense 48–46 under a modified scoring system in the blue-white scrimmage.

After elimination, Bulldogs bite back

Yale wins final game, salvages series

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER In a pair of doubleheaders against league rival Harvard this weekend, the Yale softball team struggled once again in conference play, dropping three of four games in the series.

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(9–20, 3–11 Ivy) from the very first inning against the Crimson (20–19, 11–5), who claimed an early lead that the Bulldogs could not shake. Although the next two games also ended in losses, Yale finished on a high note with a 3–1 win to end the series on a winning note.

“As for this weekend, we came out a little slower from the onset and then built our momentum as each game pro-

It was an uphill battle for the Elis

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Right-hander Drew Scott ’18 has the baseball team’s second-best earned run average, behind only Mason Kukowski ’18.

BY JAMES BADAS AND ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTERS After being eliminated from playoff contention Saturday afternoon, the Yale baseball team gutted out two impressive victories on Sunday at Harvard to extend what is now a sixyear streak of winning with at least two of its four annual games against its Cambridge rivals.

BASEBALL The Elis’ playoff chances were extinguished after dropping both games in the first doubleheader, falling two more games behind Dart-

mouth in the standings. But the Bulldogs bounced back, and were able to play spoiler and knock the Cantabs out of the playoff race on Sunday behind two dominant pitching performances as well as strong hitting from catcher Robert Baldwin ’15.

“Our team played really loose,” Baldwin said. “We went into the games with clear minds. Our pitchers … threw awesome, keeping the game close and giving the offense a chance to win.”

Yale’s weekend started off in far too familiar fashion, as the Elis dropped a pair of fairly lopsided contests, 10–5 and 7–0, to see its Ivy losing streak swell to 10 games. On Sunday, the

tables turned as the Bulldogs churned out a pair of tight victories, winning 4–2 and 2–1.

The ball was in the hand of ace Chris Lanham ’16 for the opening game. Despite going the distance in the seven-inning contest, early offense from the Cantabs’ bats paired with a couple defensive miscues put the Bulldogs in an early hole.

Harvard put up eight runs over the first two innings, with Yale cutting the deficit to 8–5 in the third. But the Crimson bullpen managed to stifle the Bulldog offense and prevent a comeback attempt.

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The Elis lost three of four games over the weekend to Harvard.

THE NUMBER OF SECONDS IT TOOK FOR THE MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM TO PUT AWAY THREE STRAIGHT GOALS AGAINST ALBANY. In the span of less than a minute, the Elis took the lead 10–9.

However, they eventually fell 12–11 to the Great Danes.

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“No matter what happens, you’re always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.” TIM TEBOW HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER

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The focus on high-skill individuals on the Albany squad challenged Yale’s traditional holistic defensive approach.

Elis lose narrowly to Penn W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 from New York brought Yale into the lead with another goal of her own two minutes later.

However, the last 15 minutes before the break belonged to Penn.

They scored four goals to the Bulldogs’ one, pushing ahead of the Elis to establish a two-goal lead heading into halftime.

Despite having the lowest draw controls per game average in the conference, Yale had the upper hand in saves and draw controls in the first frame, leading the Quakers 5–1 and 7–2, respectively.

The return to play brought another goal each to the Bulldogs and the Quakers, keeping the game close through the first 10 minutes of the second half. Just before that point, Penn started to break away, entering into a six-minute, four-point rally that brought the Quaker lead up to 10–4.

The remainder of the game was characterized by back-and-forth scoring in which the Elis failed to

notch more than one consecutive goal, making it impossible to significantly decrease the six-goal deficit established earlier in the half.

“Unfortunately, Penn was able to get goal after goal without giving us a chance to return,” attacker Emily Granger ’18 said. “I do not think we were expecting Penn to take so many risky but successful shots on goal considering they usually value long possession and quality shots.”

Despite the 13–7 loss, Yale saw a strong showing from its roster. It was a great game for Avallone, who ended that day with three goals and an assist, bringing her total goals this season up to 15, the fourth-best on the team.

Goalie Erin Mullins ’15 also played well, making several saves that kept the Bulldogs within reach of the Quakers for the majority of the game.

“I thought our goalie, Erin Mullins, made some unbelievable saves,” Hanley said. “However, we still have a lot to work on both offensively and defensively.”

According to Hanley, offen-

sively the team needs to focus on its patience with the ball and how it values each possession. On the other side of the ball, she thought that constant communication is key.

The Elis will be working on these areas as they prepare for their last game of the season against Ivy rival Harvard, who are coming off of a narrow loss to Cornell this weekend.

Both teams are fighting for a chance at a spot in the Ivy League Tournament, with Harvard currently in fourth and Yale one game behind in fifth.

“We have this opportunity to make the Ivy League Tournament, and the team will be working every day this week so that we are able to accomplish our goal of finally making it,” defender Flannery Carney ’16 said.

“Honestly, I’m just excited. This is why we play the game — for these moments.”

The contest will start Saturday at 1 p.m. in Cambridge.

times, that left me with a oneon-one matchup with room to operate.”

In addition, all three of Yale’s starting attackmen — Reeves, Conrad Oberbeck ’15 and Jeff Cimbalista ’17 — scored two goals, with Reeves adding an assist to boot.

On the faceoff X, specialist Conor Mackie ’18, who had not appeared in a game since March 28, won 13 of his 18 faceoffs, led the team with 10 ground balls and added an assist. Jon Reese ’16 was also strong in his faceoff opportunities, converting five of eight chances. Mackie cited the pair’s preparation for their success against Albany’s faceoff team.

“We had a great week of practice, game-planning for the different long-pole look that they gave us at the X,” Mackie said.

“We really just executed there.”

Despite the excellent play from Yale’s offensive stars and their dominant faceoff performance, Albany’s trio of offensive powerhouses overwhelmed the Bulldogs on the other end of the field.

Thompson, the nation’s undisputed top performer, continued to have his way with opposing defenses, contributing three goals and four assists to add to his nation-leading 85 points this season. Oakes and Connor

Fields, both of whom rank among the top 10 nationally in goals per game, benefited from Thompson’s brilliance. Two of Oakes’ four goals and two of Fields’ three were assisted by Thompson.

While these three players were deservedly the focus of the Bulldogs’ defensive game plan, keying in on individuals may have detracted from Yale’s overall team-based mindset.

“Albany had some great individuals that get a lot of hype,” Mackie said, “and we may have gotten caught up in that. Going forward it’s going to be important to focus on us and what we do as a team, dictating tempo, dominating the ground-ball war and maintaining the Yale lacrosse process.”

Yale moves on from the Albany loss to their final regular season game, a showdown with Ivy League archrival Harvard. While the postseason remains the team’s ultimate goal, both Scott and Mackie cited Saturday’s matchup against the Crimson as a game that they look forward to and a chance for the Bulldogs to build momentum headed into the Ivy tournament.

Yale faces Harvard in Cambridge on Saturday. Faceoff is at 4 p.m.

Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

Two wins and a tight loss for crew

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For the heavyweight crew team, Penn won the third varsity boat race while the Elis won the first and second boat contests.

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LIGHTWEIGHTS DOMINATE; HEAVYWEIGHTS REMAIN UNDEFEATED

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Up until the six-minute mark of the second half, Penn and Yale were within two points, but a four-point rally brought the Elis to a 10–4 deficit.

Following the women’s races, the lightweights went five-for-five to win the Durand Cup for the third consecutive year.

The second varsity eight was ahead by a boat length at the 500-meter marker. With Big Green clearly in sight, the Bulldogs had the advantage of watching any maneuvers Dartmouth attempted to make.

Rowing at 38 strokes per minute, as opposed to Dartmouth’s 34, Yale won by six seconds. Noting that the Bulldogs were in “midseason form,” the announcer added that the team was “machine-like and really pump[ed] that rhythm.”

The first varsity eight race was initially a little tighter, as Yale did not initiate an open-water lead until the last 250 meters.

“In terms of skills and technique, these teams are both equal,” the announcer said.

Still the first varsity managed to finish 7.3 seconds ahead of Dartmouth.

The lightweights look to continue their success next week, when they welcome Ivy foes Harvard and Princeton to race for the Goldthwait and Vogel Cups on the Housatonic once more.

With their victories in the first and second varsity eights, the heavyweights won the Blackwell Cup for the sixth consecutive year. The Bulldogs’ third win preserves their undefeated spring season, leaving the team in good shape as they shift from the final part

of the regular season and into the postseason championships.

“The weekend’s win puts the squad in a very strong position for the Eastern Sprints, IRAs and the Yale/Harvard race,” Simon Keenan ’15 said. “Despite the varsity and the second varsity being the only crews to come away with a victory, the close margins of the other races displays the immense depth that exists within our squad at the moment.”

Although they were farther south, the heavyweights enjoyed just as perfect conditions as the lightweights and women.

Penn won the first race, as the Quaker’s third varsity finished three seconds ahead of Yale. Columbia was 30 seconds behind Yale.

But the next race, second varsity shell, went to the Elis. They crossed the finish line seven seconds before Penn and 17 before Columbia. Similarly, Yale won the first varsity with Penn in second and Columbia in third. Penn’s first varsity came out to a hot start, according to Keenan, and pushed the Yale shell for the first 1,000 meters.

The first varsity boat finished the race in 5:41 flat.

The fourth varsity race was similar to that of the third varsity, as the Quakers took first, the Bulldogs second and the Lions third.

“We realize the job ahead of us and what needs to be done to continue our success this season,” Keenan said.

The heavyweights have one final regatta, taking on Princeton and Cornell in Ithaca, before heading to Eastern Sprints in Worcester, Mass., on May 25.

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

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“I don’t know what hit me, if it was shoulder, stick, his head. It could have been anything.” SIDNEY CROSBY PITTSBURGH PENGUINS CAPTAIN

Elis split behind Baldwin’s heroics BASEBALL FROM PAGE B1 Righty Chris Moates ’16 took the hill in the second afternoon affair between the two teams on Saturday and lasted just 3.2 innings, as the Crimson bats jumped on Yale early once again, posting a pair of three-run innings to open the game. Yale’s offense stagnated in the second contest. The Bulldogs struggled to muster any rally attempts as they failed to send more than four batters to the plate in any of the nine innings.

Before Sunday’s games, however, the Bulldogs flipped the switch. The Elis outhit Harvard 9–5 in a 10-inning marathon marked by stellar pitching.

Behind a commanding start from righthander Chasen Ford ’17, who allowed just one earned run on three hits over 7.2 innings, the Yale offense managed to will the contest into extra innings.

Trailing by a run as both teams entered the seventh inning, typically the final inning in the first half of an Ivy League doubleheader, the Bulldogs orchestrated the tying run thanks to some Harvard mishaps. Second baseman Nate Adams ’16 singled to right but was able to advance to third base due to a Harvard error. A passed ball three batters later allowed Adams to cross home plate and extend the ball game.

Late-inning specialist Mason Kukowski ’18 entered the game in relief of Ford and shut down the Crimson the rest of the way. He did so despite escaping a jam in the home half of the ninth inning when the Cantabs had the potential game-winning run on third with just one out.

In the top of the 10th, center fielder Green Campbell ’15 singled with one out, but he was caught stealing at second. Designated hitter Harrison White ’17, however, gave the Bulldogs another opportunity, singling then stealing second to put himself in scoring position. Following a walk by first baseman Eric Hsieh ’15, who entered the weekend with the second-best on-base percentage in the nation at 0.527, Baldwin drove a double to center, scoring both White and Hsieh.

The late-game heroics improved Yale’s record to 3–3 in games in which Ford starts. The Lake Forest, California native allowed the second-fewest hits in a start in his career, as he baffled the Crimson lineup long enough for his offense to come through.

“There was a relief when I saw my team come in and pick me up,” Ford said. “Regardless of how well I do, I was happy the team could come together for a win.”

In the final game of the weekend,

righthander Eric Brodkowitz ’18 picked up right where Ford and Kukowski left off, as he went nine strong to pick up his second complete game of the season, allowing just a sole run in the first inning.

While he is tied for the team lead in complete games with Lanham, both of Brodkowitz’s complete games have come in nine-inning games, a feat no other Eli has yet accomplished this season.

The freshman surrendered 12 hits but did a masterful job in stranding Crimson base runners.

“I think I simplified [my approach] a little out of the stretch,” Brodkowitz said. “It wasn’t about making big power pitches, but instead about throwing quality pitches that our defense, who played incredibly well, could work with.”

In a pitcher’s duel, it was once again Baldwin who provided the big hit.

Through 6.2 innings, the Elis had been held virtually silent, managing only two hits. At that point, Hsieh singled to bring up the hot-hitting catcher.

Baldwin stepped up and smashed a pitch beyond the left-center field fence to flip the momentum and provide Brodkowitz with the run support he needed.

“In both games we didn’t have a ton of offense going, and I had some pretty poor previous at bats,” Baldwin said.

“So I went up those two at bats and really tried to play volleyball with the left center fence.”

Meanwhile, the first-year pitcher lowered his earned run average to 5.40, third-best on the team behind Kukowski and Drew Scott ’18.

With three newcomers leading all qualified pitchers on the team in ERA, the Bulldogs still believe that there is something left to play for now that postseason play is not in the cards.

“Our team has a ton of heart, as cliché as it sounds. We are insanely competitive and hate to lose, especially to Harvard,” Brodkowitz said. “We play to win because we love winning, and I can’t see our team ever throwing in the towel. We’re playing hard for our seniors, and winning is way more fun to be honest.”

The Bulldogs have five games remaining this season, including a four-game series against Brown this weekend. To commemorate Yale’s 150th season, the Elis will face Wesleyan, the first opponent the Bulldogs ever faced, at home on Tuesday afternoon.

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu and ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

Bulldogs conclude spring

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Captain Cole Champion ’16 did not play in the blue-white scrimmage.

FOOTBALL FROM PAGE B1 the spring practice season] I got pretty much every carry because all the running backs got hurt. I was forced to pick it up quickly, and I think I did a pretty good job.”

Injuries similarly limited Yale’s starting offensive line, of which three different players — Khalid Cannon ’17, Mason Friedline ’17 and Jon Bezney ’18 — had minor offseason surgeries that kept them out for the spring.

The open spots allowed players like Beau Iverson ’17, Derrek Ross ’16, Dustin Ross ’16, Cody Arledge ’18 and Anders Huizenga ’18 to get additional opportunities to improve. Reno said their performances made him confident in the future of Yale’s line, which was the best in the Ivy League by numerous measures last season but lost left guard Will Chism ’15 and right tackle Ben Carbery ’15 to graduation.

“I was really impressed with the depth we’re going to have,” Reno said.

“When we get those other guys back, and the guys who have had a lot of work in the spring, we’re going to be okay.”

Also graduating this year are two key components of the offense: wide receivers Grant Wallace ’15 and Deon Randall ’15, who formerly captained

the team. Their shoes will be filled by a receiving corps featuring Drwal, Robert Clemons III ’17, former starting quarterback Eric Williams ’16, Christopher Williams-Lopez ’18 and NC State transfer Bo Hines.

Hines flew from Raleigh, North Carolina to observe the scrimmage, though he is unable to play with the Elis until he arrives on campus in July.

“It’s an awesome offense, definitely fun for a receiver,” Hines said. “They play wide open, they get to stretch the field, use their moves, work inside, run the ball a little bit. Receivers get to do a little bit of everything.”

Starting quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16, another transfer from the Atlantic Coast Conference and a high-school opponent of Hines, took many snaps behind center in the middle of the scrimmage, but Logan Scott ’16 and Stephen Barmore ’18 took credit for the touchdown passes.

Defensively, the Elis saw strong performance from their secondary, with two Yale interceptions and an additional near-pick by Kilgore in the first half. Foyesade Oluokun ’17 led the secondary for most of the game, but defensive backs Jason Alessi ’18, an attackman for the men’s lacrosse team, Spencer Rymiszewski ’17, who suffered a spinal cord concussion

against Penn this fall, and captain Cole Champion ’16 did not play in the contest.

Reno said the secondary’s play on Saturday, despite not having those three players on the field, looked much improved from a unit that allowed the sixth-most passing yards per game in the Ivy League last season.

“You’re going to see a more aggressive defense, definitely,” Reno said.

Following the game, Reno helped lead an awards presentation in which 14 Elis received individual awards for their performance and efforts during the offseason.

Clemons and Kilgore took home the two “One Team” honors, given to players who demonstrate commitment to the team in practice, while Oluokun was awarded the “Big Dog on Campus” belt after winning the annual special teams competition.

Reno also presented six positional awards, and head strength and conditioning coach Emil Johnson gave out four awards recognizing effort in the gym.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu and MAYA SWEEDLER at maya.sweedler@yale.edu .

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Yale defeated Harvard 3–1 in the final game of the series thanks to two unearned runs in the seventh inning.

gressed,” infielder Maddie Wuelfing ’18 said. “Our pitchers worked really hard and our offense came [through] in some clutch situations. Our win [in] the last game was definitely a team win.”

Harvard set the tone for the doubleheaders from the bottom of the very first inning. After the bases were loaded with three of the first four Crimson batters, Harvard pitcher Laura Ricciardone hit a home run down the left field line, earning four runs batted in for her grand slam. Although the Elis swapped pitcher Lindsay Efflandt ’17 for Rhydian Glass ’16, the Bulldogs still could not keep the Crimson from crossing the plate, allowing another five runs between the two pitchers in the inning to give Harvard a 9–0 lead.

Though Yale limited Harvard to just one more run the rest of the game, a lack of offensive power prevented the Elis from mounting any sort of comeback. With four hits to the Crimson’s 14, the Bulldogs only scored one run, and the game was called after the top of the fifth.

“Take out that first inning, and we were in every game and every inning,” pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18 said. “Everyone stepped up this weekend and played an important role in allowing us to keep the games within winning reach. Rhydian Glass … did a phenomenal job this weekend being ready to go in for relief at all times and was able to shut a great Harvard offense down.”

Things were looking up for Yale in the second game on Saturday. Despite allowing two Harvard runs in the third inning, the Elis were more on their game, with players on base in five of the seven

innings. The Bulldogs rallied in the top of the fourth, scoring four runs of their own. A double from right fielder Camille Weisenbach ’17, followed by another hit from left fielder Rachel Paris ’17, brought three Yale runners across the plate. Paris then scored on a fielding error to give the Elis a 4–2 lead.

But over the course of the next two innings, Harvard steadily added to its total, scoring a pair in both the fifth and sixth to give them a two-run advantage.

In the top of the seventh, third baseman Allison Skinner ’18 hit her first career home run with the Bulldogs to bring Yale within one, but ultimately the Elis could not drive the last run home and the contest ended in a 6–5 defeat.

In the second game, the Bulldogs outhit Harvard 12–10, but left eight runners on base. This failure to capitalize spelled another loss for Yale against the Crimson, who lead the league in the number of home runs and are second highest in hits this season coming in to the weekend.

“After Saturday, we were hungry for those W’s because we were all over their pitchers both games,” Casalino said. “Especially [in] that second game we came so close and just couldn’t pull it out.”

Sunday’s first game was also characterized by an early Harvard lead, which the Elis failed to surmount despite another RBI for Skinner in the top of the seventh.

The final score was 6–4 in favor of the Cantabs.

The weekend did not turn around for the Bulldogs until game four, which started off with a pitcher’s duel between Efflandt and Ricciardone.

Harvard broke the stalemate with a home run in the bottom of the fourth inning, but Yale

answered quickly, tying the game up in the top of the fifth when pinch runner Allie Souza ’16 crossed the plate to bring the score up to 1–1.

In the top of the seventh with the game still tied, shortstop Brittany Labbadia ’16 reached third on a throwing error from Ricciardone that also scored second baseman Laina Do ’17. Labbadia also crossed the plate after a fielding error by the Crimson third basemen on the next play, securing the Elis’ 3–1 win to finish off the series. “[The win was] absolutely empowering,” Glass said. “It was a total team win. We truly fought hard with all we had. It’s also fantastic for our seniors to wrap up their careers with a win in their last game against Harvard.”

Harvard retained its position in second place in the North Division, while Yale still remains in the bottom spot.

Although the Bulldogs have now dropped 10 of their last 11 conference contests, players remained positive about the season ahead and confident in their ability to finish each series strong.

“We feel ready,” Glass said. “It’s a big Ivy week for us. We have the talent, depth and the passion [to beat the rest of our Ivy competition]. We need to carry the confidence and energy from today’s win into this week and keep up the fighting, relentless spirit we showed today.”

Yale will continue Ivy League play away from home with a doubleheader against Princeton this Wednesday and then return to New Haven to start a pair of doubleheaders against Brown.

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

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“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” JACKIE ROBINSON SIX-TIME MLB ALL-STAR

Bulldogs come back, fall to Albany 12–11 MEN’S LACROSSE

BY JONATHAN MARX CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The men’s lacrosse team entered their contest at Albany this weekend wielding a top-10 national ranking and riding a winning streak in which the Bulldogs played some of their best lacrosse of the season.

But the Great Danes had an equally impressive resume.

While Yale was able to overcome a four-goal deficit to take a fourth-quarter lead, the Bulldogs (9–3, 3–2 Ivy) ultimately fell to Albany (11–2, 5–0 America East) by a single goal, losing 12–11 and dropping their first game in nearly a month.

While the Albany-Yale matchup was hyped as an even contest between two top-10 teams, the Bulldogs appeared overmatched at the game’s outset. Albany opened up a 3–0 lead by the middle of the first quarter, and when attackman Seth Oakes scored off of a feed from Tewaaraton Award winner and attackman Lyle Thompson to extend the firsthalf lead to 6–2, there were no signs that Yale would remain competitive.

But the Bulldogs came roaring back in the second half.

After falling behind 8–4, the Elis rattled off three consecutive goals, including two in a 10-second span late in the third quarter. Thompson scored to extend the Great Danes’ lead to two as the quarter closed, but Yale had shown signs of life.

The Elis took their first lead of the game in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter. Attackman Ben Reeves ’18 scored the last of three Yale goals recorded in a 54-second span to break the tie, giving the Bulldogs a 10–9 lead.

Albany answered with its own trifecta of goals and then shut down Yale’s offense until a goal from midfielder Eric Scott ’17 with only 36 seconds left, leaving the Bulldogs without enough time to find the net once more and tie the score.

Describing Yale’s streaky scoring, Scott pointed to aggressiveness as a key to the Elis’ struggles.

“In the first half, we weren’t being aggressive enough,” Scott said. “But then in the second half when we got aggressive, we got sloppy with

Yale drops penultimate match 13–7 to Penn

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER After narrowly beating Dartmouth in its final home game of the season, the Yale women’s lacrosse team could not pull off a consecutive Ivy League win, falling 13–7 to conference powerhouse Penn on Saturday afternoon.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE After keeping the contest close in the first half, the Bulldogs (7–7, 2–4 Ivy) started to slip behind the Quakers. The Elis could not overcome the seven-goal deficit and the team’s penultimate game ended in a Yale defeat.

“For years, Penn has consistently been at the top of the Ivy

League,” attacker Hope Hanley ’17 said. “Their roster is filled with loads of talent, and they have many different players who are threats both offensively and defensively.”

The matchup reflected the defensive skill of both Penn and the Bulldogs, whose defenses are the top-ranked in the Ivy League.

The first goal was not scored until more than eight minutes into the first half, when Quaker midfielder Lindsey Smith found the back of the net after a free-position attempt.

The Elis responded a mere 19 seconds later when midfielder Maggie Pizzo ’18 scored after being set up by fellow midfielder Cathryn Avallone ’15. The senior SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE B2

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Albany’s Lyle Thompson, the nation’s top player, tallied three goals and four assists in Albany’s 12–11 victory. the ball on a few possessions and gave up turnovers that we couldn’t afford.”

Despite the loss, a number of players excelled in Saturday’s contest. In particular, Scott tallied a career-high

four goals, three of which were unassisted.

While Scott did much of the offensive heavy lifting by himself, he credited Yale’s other threats for creating the openings he was able to find.

“Personally, I had some success because the other guys on our offense did a great job of occupying their man off-ball,” Scott said. “A lot of SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE B2

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Both the Bulldogs and the Quakers accumulated three yellow cards in the first half alone.

Heavyweight, lightweight take first, women’s falls

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In the first of the top varsity eight women’s crew race, the Bulldogs fell to the Tigers by just 1.4 seconds.

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Saturday, the women and lightweight crew teams found themselves in a familiar place: the Gilder boathouse. Both teams raced on the Housatonic, while the heavyweights took on Columbia and Penn on Columbia’s Overpeck Lake, New Jersey course.

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After a 20-minute delay, the fog on the Housatonic River lifted and spectators were able to enjoy a clear view.

As the first home regatta of the spring season, the women’s team welcomed many program alumni to watch the team race for the Eisenberg Cup. No. 7 Princeton retained the Cup, beating No. 9 Yale’s first and second varsity eights.

“It is always special to have alumni, like Ginny Gilder [’79],,

around,” captain Nina Demmerle ’15 said. “Our program has tremendous history and really paved the way for female athletics. It is incredible to be a part of a team with that history and we are very lucky, as athletes, to have the opportunity to interact with the women who made it happen.”

Lining up against the Tigers, last season’s surprise Ivy League champion, marked the biggest test of the Bulldogs’ season thus far.

Though Yale’s varsity four boats, including the still-undefeated

first varsity four, and third varsity eight beat Princeton — a sign of the team’s depth — the first and second varsity eights were unable to pull the win out.

The first varsity eight was a particularly exciting race. Princeton powered off the line and was ahead by six seats within the first 200 meters. Yale began to creep back around the 500-meter mark, and as the teams came around the first curve, Yale pulled to within one seat and the crowd erupted into cheers.

But Princeton’s strategy, pouring on the speed at the third 500, paid off and the Tigers regained a five-seat lead. The Bulldogs remained rowing at 38 strokes per minute and succeeded in narrowing the gap to 3.5 seats with 75 meters to go. The team was unable to overcome this last lead, and finished the race 1.4 seconds behind its Ivy opponent.

The second varsity eight had a similar race, falling behind Princeton at the start, nearly catching up at the first curve, and ultimately

losing ground as the Tigers made a huge push in their third 500. The Bulldogs finished 3.1 seconds behind the Tigers.

“It is very helpful to see other teams’ speed before racing at Ivies,” Demmerle said. “It lets us know what we need to work on before racing in May at the Ivy Champs.”

Next week, the women travel to Boston to take on Radcliffe on the Charles River for the Case Cup. SEE CREW PAGE B2