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2015 Rivalry On Ice confirmed
Back to her roots. Every so
often — actually, fairly often — in the history of the Yale School of Drama, a star is born. Did you notice that Meryl Streep ’75 MFA ’83 DFA (Hon.) was back on campus yesterday? The actress with 18 Oscar nominations to her name revisited the Yale School of Drama to share her priceless wisdom.
Stood up on Valentine’s Day.
The CCEs and the YCC joined together to organize a semiformal Valentine’s Day dinner this past Friday in Silliman. The event was closed to 250 students who RSVP’ed beforehand and each no show cost the groups $13 worth in a meal swipe. According to an email from one of the organizers, they are “currently in debt to three separate organizations.” Pop-up art. A snow sculpture on the New Haven Green has been named the winner of an outdoor sculpture contest by the New Haven City Department of Parks, Recreation and Trees. The surprisingly modernist sculpture features a massive snowball and a straight line track in the snow. The winner was announced by the city’s Outdoor Adventure Coordinator Martin Torresquintero. A heartshaped sculpture was also recognized for best “Holiday Spirit.” Occupy Master’s Tea. “Wall
Street is filled with sociopaths who almost broke the world economy,” Jeffrey Sachs said at his Master’s Tea on economics and happiness, held in Berkeley College yesterday. Way to alienate the largest chunk of the Yale audience!
Fine dining. Ibiza has released their new tasting menu, just in time for investment banking interns to celebrate their summer job offers. The swanky menu is inspired by Galicia. Highlights include traditional Galician soup, red wine braised short ribs and caramelized rice pudding, all for the reasonable price of $35. Another year in natural history. Tuesday was the
birthday of George Peabody, who helped establish the Peabody Museum with a $150,000 donation in 1866. “To you, Mr. Peabody, we tip our hats in appreciation,” the museum announced on their Facebook page. B-School B-Ball. The Yale School of Management recently held its traditional Swersey Cup basketball game that pits the School of Management’s class of 2014 against the class of 2015. The event was named after Professor Art Swersey, who teaches operations research. The class of 2015 took the win this year. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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ulldog fans have a lot to look forward to in 2015. Next January, ‘Rivalry on Ice’ will again be held in Madison Square Garden. ASHTON WACKYM reports. SEE PAGE 12
Biotech emerges from town-gown collaboration
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A STEM for lifelong growth
BY J.R. REED AND HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTERS Yale Professor of Chemistry and Researcher Craig Crews, the founder of two companies that produce cancer fighting drugs, is the new poster boy of the burgeoning biotech industry emerging in New Haven. Over the past decade, Crews, the executive director of the Yale Molecular Discovery Center core at West Campus, has used his research to become instrumental in spearheading two startups in the New Haven area. Most recently, Crews founded Arvinas, a company that aims to develop new drugs to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases. This past December, he was recognized as Entrepreneur of the Year by Connecticut United for Research Excellence, a state bioscience organization, which includes a range of science companies, universities, entrepreneurs and investors. This is the latest development in a series of town-gown collaborations that has been strengthening New Haven’s startup community. SEE BIOTECH PAGE 8
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fter tossing their caps, Yale seniors head for the postgraduate frontier. In the last of a three-part series, RISHABH BHANDARI and JENNIFER GERSTEN ask what that frontier holds for the university’s prospective scientists.
When job-hunting this past fall, engineering major Spencer Alexander ’14 skipped the walk to Undergraduate Career Services. Instead, he took a train to Columbia University, where he found the big-company engineering recruiters who weren’t coming to Yale. In search of postgraduate jobs, Alexander said he and many of his friends in the engineering major travel to New
Printing to go green BY CAROLINE HART CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale Printing and Publishing Services (YPPS) is rolling out a new, unified printing system called BluePrint, featuring more robust equipment and a green initiative. The updated system, which will be completed this summer, will replace much of the older printing equipment on campus, bringing multi-function equipment with updated software to each printing cluster. The new software, called Papercut, will reduce paper waste and is part of YPPS’s sustainability effort, which also involves using 30 percent recycled paper. With BluePrint, each cluster will also feature color printing and reduced print-
ing costs. Jeffrey Gworek, director of YPPS services, said YPPS is introducing BluePrint in an effort to be more attentive to student needs. Printing services will be more reliable, he said, adding that contact information for technological assistance will be displayed on posters near all kiosks. Members of the Student Technology Collaborative will continue to provide support, he added. Gworek said sustainability continues to be a priority for YPPS and that all equipment has been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, a nonprofit organization that aims to protect forests around the world. In honor of the 25th anniversary of YPPS, the service is currently running a promo-
tion where users can print color pages at a reduced cost of 25 cents per page. Though the cost of printing may seem high to students, Gworek said it is important to understand where the printing costs come from. He added that other institutions also charge comparable rates. Currently, the cost to print in black and white using YPPS printers is 5.7 cents per page. According to Gworek, this falls around the national average for universities. At other institutions, costs range from 2 to 14 cents per page. Printing in color costs 30 cents. The changes to YPPS come several months after a for-profit printing company — “Wireless EverySEE PRINTING PAGE 8
York to attend these fairs — often at the encouragement of their UCS advisors. Many STEM majors interviewed said that although the University is headed in the right direction, there is still room for improvement. They cited both the growing number of students who are taking STEM classes at Yale and the expansion of Yale’s STEM resources as reasons
to be optimistic about the future of these disciplines at Yale, but feel the University should do more to help students, especially engineers, find postgraduate opportunities. Students interested in going straight to medical school or graduate school depart from Yale on a welltrodden path. Engineering majors in SEE STEM PAGE 6
Dinners discuss sexual misconduct BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER This month, dinner table discussions are not shying away from one of the most controversial topics at Yale this year: sexual misconduct. Following the release of the fifth semiannual Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct, the Title IX Steering Committee has planned a series of meetings over meals for students who are interested in learning more about the report. According to University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler, the meals are intended to serve as a convenient and informal way for students to meet, question and provide feedback to the authors of the
report. Two meetings have taken place so far, and Garrett Fiddler ’11, a Yale College Dean’s Office fellow, said the committee is considering scheduling an additional meeting if more students express a desire to discuss the report. “We are eager to hear what is on students’ minds, so there is no fixed agenda, nor are there pre-established questions,” Spangler said in an email. “We will never discuss individual cases, but are otherwise open to discussing a broad range of topics relating to sexual misconduct and Yale’s programs to address and prevent it.” Though 15 students registered to attend the most recent SEE MISCONDUCT PAGE 6
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or almost forty years, I have enjoyed a pleasant, personal relationship with Yale and many of its representatives. We have been good neighbors and I always believed we could resolve any differences in a manner that would allow me to operate and run Toad's. But approximately four years ago, Yale University sued Toad's. The building located at 300 York St., presently owned and occupied by Toad's, was built in the early 1900s. From carriage house to ice house to a Yale bookstore to a restaurant and club, it has found its place in the heart of Yale. For approximately forty years, Toad's has provided entertainment from national acts such as the Rolling Stones, U2, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Cash to local startup bands, as well as dance parties. Generations of Yale students have had a place, within walking distance, to relax, meet others and simply enjoy themselves.
LAWSUIT AGAINST TOAD'S WILL HAVE IRREVERSIBLE CONSEQUENCES Yale acquired the walkway immediately adjacent to Toad's and Mory’s in the 1950s from the city of New Haven. The building has used this doorway consistently for over one hundred years. Yale now takes the position that Toad's patrons are trespassing onto Yale property and that the right to use this exit area should be terminated. It is the position of Toad's that the continued use of the exit has given Toad's the legal right to continue to enter onto the Yale walkway. In an effort to resolve the litigation, Toad's has proposed that Yale agree to allowing Toad's to enter onto a very limited portion of the walkway solely in the case of an emergency. But Yale has said that any rights it may grant to Toad's shall be for a very limited amount of time. The ability, at some future date, to sell the business or the building — or to obtain financing — would be lost, if there is a limiting time as proposed by Yale. The results of the litigation, as in any litigation, are unpredictable. If Yale were to prevail, the implications for Toad's could be severe. Fire
codes require that every building have prescribed entrances and exits. If the exit from the doorway is terminated, the ability of Toad's to carry on its business could be in jeopardy. In all these past years, there has never been a lawsuit by either of us against the other. It did not strike me that a disagreement over the walkway would be difficult to resolve — and certainly would not require Yale to sue me. We’ve opened our doors to celebrate Yale victories, such as the NCAA championship win, and to charity fundraisers and homelessness charity projects. We’ve consistently made our space available to Yale students and organizations who want to assist those in need. We see ourselves as more than a club, but an entity in the heartland of the University, available to serve the student body and the programs they want to promote. We want to stay. Toad's has had a wonderful relationship with many Yale students for the past 40 years. There are individual students who are regular patrons of Toad's throughout their entire four years. There are a number of second-generation students. I have befriended them and been fortunate to create and develop a special relationship with some of them — and in a number of cases, with their parents whom I knew 25 years or more ago. Litigation is very expensive; Yale has virtually an infinite amount of money to spend going after me and it knows that I am going to incur very substantial legal fees defending my rights. I would have thought that in light of all the history between the parties and the nature of the claim, Yale would have suggested that all parties meet and work out a fair resolution. Yale knows, and so do I, that the implications to me would be severe, if the University were to prevail. It has been an emotional turmoil for me to have to deal with this lawsuit. I have operated Toad's for four decades; my personal, familial and financial situation is all on this block. I have thoroughly enjoyed bringing in great music and entertainment and providing it to all in the community, including Yale students. I would think and hope that Yale would not try to destroy all I have built, and would choose reconciliation rather than litigation. BRIAN PHELPS is the president of S.K.M. Restaurants, Inc. and the owner of Toad's Place .
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'BLINDLYAGREESWITHABOVE' ON 'CULTIVATING GRATITUDE'
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ust days from now, corporate bigwigs will descend on campus. The CEO of Pepsi, the CEO of Chanel, the CEO of Time Warner, the former CEO of Goodyear, the former CEO of Palm Computing (makers of the Palm Pilot) and the former CEO of J.P. Morgan, among others, are arriving imminently. I am writing, of course, of the Yale Corporation. This weekend, the Corporation will hold one of its rare meetings — it meets just a handful of times a year — to discuss Yale’s future. Fewer than half of the Corporation members were faculty or administrators in any university, much less the university they now govern. Instead, they are predominantly corporate leaders — chairpersons, board members, CEOs. They are unqualified to run a non-profit university. Yale is not, nor should it be, run like a corporation. Yet with corporate leaders running the place, Yale is at risk of growing its endowment while losing its soul. At the most fundamental level, a university is different from a corporation because it is not driven by a desire for profits. Yale is not in the business of making money; it’s in the business of making educated people. Profits are easy to measure; academic progress is not. A desire for profits can make you do some ugly things — just ask leaders within the financial sector, an industry also represented on the Corporation. A desire for intellectual stimulation should not. The corporatization of universities is already paying some terrifying dividends, visible in every facet of university life.
From 2003 to 2009, even as endowments swelled, the number of colleges charging more than $40,000 SCOTT a year STERN increased from just 2 A Stern to more than Perspective 200 — considerably outpacing the market. Across the country, big business is sponsoring courses, endowing professorships and advertising on campus, thus endangering academic independence. Colleges have always been rightly criticized for underpaying their janitorial and food service staff, but, more and more, corporatized universities are hiring their workers through outside consultants, which lets colleges shirk their responsibilities when workers demand fair treatment. This corporatization has taken root nowhere more disturbingly than in the sciences. Private corporations are increasingly footing the bill for academic research — a terrifying prospect for academic freedom. Industry-funded research is far more likely to result in the withholding of information and delays in publication, according to Harvard analysts Eric Campbell and David Blumenthal. Campbell and Blumenthal further found that university scientists who receive private funds are more likely to focus on research subjects with greater commercial appeal.
Increasingly, professors have financial ties to private companies and a financial stake in their own research. Indeed, as the British Medical Journal found, research funded by Big Pharma was four times more likely to reflect positively on the drug companies than independent research. Yale is certainly not immune from the pressures of corporatization. Have you noticed Yale’s growing focus on the sciences? Thank the grant money that Yale rakes in. Wonder why Yale retains the outdated and offensive policy of legacy? Thank the healthy alumni donations Yale expects in return. Yale has truly become a moneymaking institution, and we can thank the executives at the top. The decisions of Corporation members clearly reflect their corporate ideology. This goes beyond the almost fetishistic reverence for the endowment and focus on the sciences at the cost of the humanities. It goes to the issue of Yale-NUS. Yale’s move to a country that represses free speech and made homosexuality illegal is part of a broader trend by corporatized American colleges to prove their international bonafides. In an unusually candid interview, former Brown president Ruth Simmons claimed that colleges are going international to “mak[e] themselves more attractive on the global stage.” But it may be more insidious than that. Many have noted that several members of the Corporation had personal relationships with and even financial ties to the government of Singapore. This ideology may even extend
to the contentious issue of divestment — there would be precedent for that claim. In the 1980s, the Yale Corporation repeatedly delayed divestment from apartheid-era South Africa because at least four Corporation members had financial ties to the country. Business leaders respond to moral questions by attempting to maximize profits. They steer educational institutions toward moneymaking ventures. This is profoundly wrong.
WITH CEOS AT THE HELM, THE UNIVERSITY IS BEING CORPORATIZED When I bring up the corporatization of college to friends and acquaintances, they often respond with the corporate dialect of “getting ahead” and “competing in a changing world.” Yet education is not a zero sum game. It is not a contest with our global competitors. I am not a customer. I am a student. My university should not be governed by CEOs. It should not be governed by managing partners or entrepreneurs. It should be run by professors, staff and perhaps even students. SCOTT STERN is a junior in Branford College. His columns run on Wednesdays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .
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t was the last meeting of my philosophy class’s discussion section, and the TA was waxing nostalgic. As she said her goodbyes, she dispensed the customary closing platitude: “I hope that, if this class has taught you anything, it’s to question everything.” Five years ago, when I stuck a “Question Everything” pin on my backpack and drove to high school, it would have sounded like good advice. But this time around, I couldn’t wait to walk out the door. Most in college today are old enough to be able to look at photos of their young selves existing in a previous age of fashion and respond with some combination of chuckling and cringing. It’s also possible to do that with thoughts — previously held opinions or worries that seem careless or trivial today. It’s usually a good thing, a sign of growing up. This was the case, for a while, with “question everything.” Teenagers are prone to love this motto. They use it with their parents, with their teachers (sometimes to their face), and they use it internally when considering the ideas they read or hear about. Every easy target — everything that sounds “stupid,” by whatever criteria used, gets an eye roll and a list of obnoxious, incredulous questions. Sometimes it’s merited, but usually it’s not. I was, for the most part, no different. Most of what people said that I didn’t immediately agree with was clearly because of fatal flaws in their reasoning. There was no time for that which
wasn’t useful or didn’t feel right. But something goes unrealized when you go around “questioning everyJOHN thing.” You’re AROUTIrarely turning the critical eye OUNIAN inward. What ends up hapJohnny is that Come Lately pening you do whatever you want, living in the present moment, and regarding everything else with doubt. The present is the most selfish of times, more so than the past — which is gone and therefore useless — and more so than the future, which invites all sorts of considerations and can’t be used now. But the present is here: We consume it like a car consumes gas, only we’re continually running for about eighty years or so. We’re burning through every minute, every step, everything we eat, read, every person we talk to. And to question everything is the ultimate way to live in the present and the present alone — because, sold as noble skepticism, it’s a license to live free of being tied to something that directs us away from mere consumption. A country, much like a person, is only as great as the stories it tells itself about itself. The stories aren’t always completely true and they’re usually more than
a little self-serving. But often, the story provides a background to check against when things go awry — take the American commitment to equality in political rhetoric compared with the history of slavery. It was because the ideal existed in the first place that gave us something to compare the reality to. It allowed for the point at which people started saying, “Wait. We’re not who we say we are.”
WHEN WE 'QUESTION EVERYTHING,' WE DON'T END UP QUESTIONING OURSELVES It works with people, too. We all know we believe things about ourselves that aren’t wholly accurate, even if we wish they were. But they’re probably at least somewhat true, and we seek to make our realities conform better to the ideal. Sure, without the reflective aspect, both countries and people can lapse into ignorant chest thumping: patriotism becomes nationalism and self-respect becomes narcissism. But without the ultimate belief in the story, all we have are our whims and desires of the moment.
It has become so hard to identify with any situation not your own. Maybe it was always like this, but it seems like so much of our existence nowadays is spent doing things that allow us to see reflections of ourselves — the clubs we join, the people we associate with, the technology we use. “But we all volunteer!” you say. “Every summer! And we all have friends with different beliefs than us!” Yet I wonder if this is usually a case of feeling or just observing and using for our own sake. Most will never feel living on a dollar a day, even if they know what it means. Religion’s another case. I remember hearing an exchange between two friends, where one said he was religious, and explained what that meant for his beliefs about the world and his place in it. The other said, with astonishment, “You actually believe that?” People in the West, in the fifty years since what you believed could determine life or death, have become experts at living life with a constant mirror held up to themselves while everything else is “problematic.” Now, whether or not we smash it might be the difference between significant human connection and lonely, self-absorbed obscurity. JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. His columns run on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at john.aroutiounian@yale.edu .
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“I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.” KEITH RICHARDS ENGLISH ROCK MUSICIAN
YPD hosts Citizens Police Academy BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER In an effort to strengthen the ties between police officers and the communities they serve, the Yale Police Department opened registration for its semi-annual Citizen’s Police Academy. Last week, the department issued a release inviting students, faculty and staff, in addition to New Haven residents, to register. The program, now is in its eighth year of existence, centers on classes and demonstrations led by department officials, who give those enrolled a deeper look at the YPD’s day-to-day operations. Subjects explored include investigative services, patrol procedures, personal safety and emergency preparedness. YPD Lieutenant Von Narcisse, who runs the academy, said he hopes it fosters a positive citizen-police relationship that can be critical to the department’s ability to fight crime. “The program is designed to give a general history of the Yale Police Department and an overview of the services we provide to Yale and the greater New Haven community,” Narcisse said. The department offers a similar program in the fall, but the spring term has been more popular in past years. Narcisse said the academy typically accepts between 20 and 30 people, and each year several applicants are placed on a waitlist. Classes will begin on March 25, and will continue for six Tuesdays through the end of the term. Each individual class will run from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. One such class will involve a presentation from the FBI and showcase the YPD’s bomb detection dog, according to Narcisse. He added that academy officials review surveys at the end of each term in order to determine what
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The Yale Police Department invited students, faculty, staff and New Haven residents to register for their semi-annual Citizen’s Police Academy. changes, if any, need to be made to the curriculum. Narcisse said that one of his major goals is to raise awareness about what the YPD does and how local residents can contribute to its mission. “All of the sessions contained a great mix of both interesting and educational information,” said one academy graduate, who was not named, according to the release. “I perceive the [YPD] as a much friendlier place than I
thought.” He also cited “rave reviews” from previous students in the academy for its ability to positively impact those interested in becoming more engaged with one of the city’s main police departments. New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman said such programs can be important in police efforts to be transparent with its practices — though he added that some should stay dis-
crete for the sake of safety. “There are certain things that are not to be transparent and for very good reason,” he said. Recently, under the guidance of Chief Dean Esserman, the NHPD has focused much of its attention on developing its community policing model through walking beats, in which officers patrol the same neighborhoods in order to develop relationships with residents. Hartman added that the
NHPS swallows food budget BY POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER After starting the year with a $3.5 million budget deficit in food services, the New Haven Board of Education is on track to end the year with a balanced Food Service account, Chief Operating Officer Will Clark announced at the School Board meeting last week. With 46 cafeterias across the district, NHPS is responsible for serving a healthy breakfast and lunch to over 21,000 students each day. Over seventy percent of these students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the federal government reimburses the district for meals provided to such students. Though the district gets some money from the government, balancing the food service account is challenging. Last year, the combination of high costs and reduced revenues in food service accounted for roughly 50 percent of the city’s entire education budget deficit. Clark and Food Services Director Gail Sharry have aimed to close the deficit this
year by cutting expenses by five percent and by increasing revenue by 3 percent. Clark said he is confident that through these efforts the district will end the year with a balanced food service budget. “We are trending ahead of both of those goals,” Clark said. “But we still have six months left, so we need to make sure we are continuing our efforts with fidelity.” Clark said there were problems with balancing the food service budget even before last year and that the district invested in a point of sale system in 2009 to make the program more efficient. This technology system tracks inventory, reimbursements and the number of meals students eat each day to make sure the program is cost effective. He added that the Board recently negotiated a new union contract settlement that will help ensure the amount of labor in food services matches the production needs. Both Clark and Sharry said another challenge in food services is providing healthy
meals at a low-cost. In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act which included new nutrition standards for meals served to students. These standards went into effect in 2012 and required that schools receiving federal aid serve students healthier meals that include whole grains, fruits and raw or cooked vegetables. The regulations also specify a minimum and maximum number of calories according to grade level, and they involve a gradual decrease in the salt content of foods by the 2022-’23 school year. Meeting these stringent regulations raises expenses because healthy foods, such as fresh produce and whole grains, are typically more costly than other options, Sharry said. She added that the biggest challenge of her job is trying to find healthy and affordable foods that kids will like. “I’m trying to put things out that the kids will at least try,” she said. “What I’ve learned is
you have to try to get the kids to eat it three times before you decide if they like it or don’t like it.” Sharry was appointed the new food service director last year and makes the breakfast and lunch menus for the entire district. She said that she creates the menus after getting the food from multiple vendors–including three bread companies and two produce companies. Margaret Mead, research associate at the Yale Rudd Center, said districts across the country struggle to feed children healthy meals within a low budget and that NHPS has been relatively successful at providing healthy meals. “For many kids, this is the only healthy meal that they have the opportunity to eat,” she said. “Figuring out a menu to serve as many kids as they do everyday all school year long is a tough job.” NHPS produces and serves over 17,000 meals per day. Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .
NHPD has hosted similar programs for years, mainly because of their ability to engage the public and open a constructive dialogue. Still, he said there are some concerns that must first be addressed. “The problem is these are academies taught by police officers and people in the policing field,” Hartman said. “I think that the debate would be: If you try to include more and more people, would you be distracting from
The New Haven Board of Education, which produces over 17,000 meals per day, will look to end the year with a balanced Food Service account.
Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .
Grand Strategy leadership in flux BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER In the wake of the departure of one of its founding members, Yale’s Grand Strategy program is looking into inviting female professors to its instructing team. History professor Paul Kennedy, co-director of International Security Studies at Yale and a founder of the University’s Studies in Grand Strategy program — a selective academic course comprising a combination of seminars and events with guest speakers — left the program last year though he still remains loosely involved. History professor Adam Tooze has taken over Kennedy’s teaching position, and other instructors include John Gaddis, Charles Hill, David Brooks, John Negroponte and Paul Solman.
Even though Professor Kennedy may not be around as frequently […] his presence is still certainly felt. JUSTIN SCHUSTER ’15
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the duties of policing?” He concluded that, on the one hand, the limited scale prevents these academies from making a significant impact on a large scale, but that such personnel issues are important. The YPD headquarters, which academy enrollees tour during the program, is located at 101 Ashmun St.
The Grand Strategy course first emerged from a seminar taught in 2000. The course, open to graduates and undergraduates alike, is cross-listed between history and the Yale School of Management. It aims to educate students on issues of grand strategy not only as they apply to the politico-military realm, but also in the context of international organizations and private businesses, covering thinkers ranging from Thucydides to Berlin. In reflecting on new faculty members for Grand Strategy moving forward, Gaddis said he has “had long-standing invitations” out to Branford College Master and director of the Yale Global Health Initiative Elizabeth Bradley as well as History
Department Director of Undergraduate Studies Beverly Gage to join the Grand Strategy faculty when their schedules permit. He added that he is hopeful that Bradley and Gage will both be involved “in some capacity” during the 2014-’15 academic year. Gage said in an email that although she is currently unsure of her plans for the next academic year, she is looking forward to becoming more involved with Grand Strategy in the future. “Along with several other professors, I will likely be rotating into GS as an instructor over the next few years, and we’ll all be having a conversation about what will make GS a strong and compelling program in years to come,” she said. According to Gaddis, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan has been Grand Strategy’s only female professor. Rahul Singh ’15 said that though Kennedy has taken a backseat with teaching this year, leading only one seminar and attending only a handful of the program’s events, his performance as an instructor has nevertheless been impressive. “Even though Professor Kennedy may not be around as frequently as he was when founding the program, his presence is still certainly felt. This past week he led the class discussion on Phillip II and Elizabeth I, which was arguably my favorite section of the semester thus far,” said Justin Schuster ’15, a current Grand Strategy student. According to Dana Schneider ’15, another current Grand Strategy student and a staff reporter for the News, Kennedy has still been able to enhance the program by encouraging students to engage with the course’s texts. The Grand Strategy program takes place over the course of two semesters, with a research requirement over the summer. Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .
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Malloy seeks support for vets BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER Even the Republicans vying for Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy’s job this November support his plan to get over 400 homeless veterans in Connecticut off the streets by 2015. The $3 million plan, announced Feb. 11, will conduct a review of existing housing run by the state Department of Veterans’ Affairs in Rocky Hill, Conn., in order to assess whether the housing meets the needs of the state’s homeless veteran population. The proposal would also provide grants for employment specialists to help veterans find jobs and assist in paying for more permanent homes. The governor’s plan was developed with the CT Heroes Project, a non-profit organization that shares the goal of ending veteran homelessness. Associate Director Gabriel Zucker ’12 said Connecticut is among the first states in the country to launch a program complementing a federal initiative to combat veteran homelessness that has been in place since 2009. Though the number of homeless veterans nationwide has declined by 17.2 percent since then, the economy’s continuing weakness has impeded progress in finding jobs for veterans to help them get on their feet. “We’re all very optimistic that this initiative will be successful, but we’ll see,” Zucker said. “We’re still going to have a high unemployment rate and the people who have had tough pasts are going to have trouble getting jobs.” A spokesman for the governor’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Joe Davis, national spokesman for the non-profit Veterans of Foreign Wars organization, said veterans face unique challenges in the job market. Employers are sometimes reluctant to hire people with mental or physical handicaps sustained during war. He said many employers erroneously assume veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and will be poor employees. Others don’t want to hire reservists who might be called away at any time. Terry Brennan, director of the Office for Veterans’ Workforce Development at the Connecticut Department of Labor, said his office intends to use $600 thousand in funding from Malloy’s plan to hire
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five new specialists in veteran employment. The specialists will work with shelters and veterans’ service centers across the state. “They’ll make sure that the veterans aren’t falling through the cracks basically,” Brennan said. State Senator Len Fasano, who serves on the legislature’s Veterans’ Affairs committee, said that while he is pleased the governor is taking steps to address homelessness, he is concerned the plan does not provide for sufficient supportive housing. Supportive housing includes programming and resources to help veterans address challenges such as drug abuse or mental illness. Zucker said that because the federal program provides funding for supportive housing, the governor’s plan is focused on other initiatives. “Our plan does rely pretty heavily on being able to help people get jobs and help them become independent,” Zucker said. Some of the funds will be allocated for a review of the facilities at Rocky Hill, which has 336 beds for veterans, said Connecticut Department of Veterans’ Affairs Commissioner Linda Schwartz. She added that 230 of those beds are currently occupied. The facility has additional housing that has been under-utilized because it was reserved for single veterans who disliked the restrictions imposed on occupants. “You could not have alcohol because it’s state property,” Schwartz said. “And also you can’t have overnight guests that aren’t family.” Schwartz said the department is now making the housing available to veteran families. Republican gubernatorial candidates Tom Foley and Senate Minority Leader John McKinney ’86 expressed support for the governor’s plan. But McKinney said he hoped the state would also take action to address homelessness among a range of groups, not just veterans. “We should all be ashamed if people who put on the uniform and fought for our country don’t have a place to call home,” McKinney said. “I think we should be equally ashamed if a mother and her children are living on a park bench.” There are 4,500 homeless people living in Connecticut, approximately 11 percent of whom are veterans. Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .
World-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs thinks that happiness, rather than GDP growth, should be a top priority for the United States. During a Tuesday Master’s Tea in Berkeley College, Sachs argued that the sole aim of public policy should not be GDP growth, though this is a topic on everyone’s minds — instead, he said, public policy should focus on increasing happiness, a topic particularly relevant to modern America. While the U.S. has the largest economy in the world, the World Happiness Report, a study coedited by Sachs, found that America placed only 17th in overall happiness. As an expert on economic development, Sachs said, it seems to him like Americans do not take care of themselves very well. “I’m worried about a political system that’s broken deeply, but I’m also worried about the human system. Americans don’t feel so great, and it’s not just because we don’t feel so great about the government. Even if your personal circumstances are okay, you don’t feel good or secure,” Sachs said. As a modern economist, Sachs said he is not after economic growth and trade. Instead, he is seeking “the good life” as described by philosophers like Aristotle and Buddha. For Sachs, living a good life does not mean living in a society where freedom is given to maximize personal utility, as a libertarian might argue — rather, he said, it means finding a golden mean, living by virtue and being able to flourish. “We are chasing wrong things and living in a framework that says the ultimate good is the liberty to pursue one’s tastes. Aristotle would have been shocked by that,” he said. Aristotle’s argument of “the good life” used to be commonly accepted by most scholars, Sachs said, but at a certain point individuals became focused on greed and self-interest, and thinkers like Ayn Rand have put so much emphasis on personal freedom that they have ended up sacrificing personal happiness. Sachs warned against focusing excessively on personal happiness, as he believes that it has led to the rise of “sociopaths on Wall Street” who “nearly broke the world economy.”
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Economist Jeffrey Sachs argued that the goals of public policy in the United States should be geared towards increasing happiness and not GDP growth. Furthermore, Sachs said, America has an entire industry — the advertising industry — designed to make consumers out of citizens, and though it might promote economic growth, it does nothing to promote personal happiness. Sachs urged audience members to focus on bigger issues, beyond the simple freedom of making and spending money. Citing issues such as climate change, Sachs said he believes there are more important problems in the world that need to be addressed. According to Sachs, America needs to get back to some kind of ethics in which wrecking the environment for consumer goods is not
acceptable. But he also underscored the importance of not entirely neglecting personal freedoms. “I’m a moderate, like Aristotle — some state, some individual,” Sachs explained. “Keep to the middle.” Ap p rox i m a te ly 2 0 p e o p l e attended the event. Several undergraduates described the talk as “fantastic,” fresh and engaging, especially since it fell slightly outside of a traditional view on economics. Sachs is the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Contact JOYCE GUO at joyce.guo@yale.edu .
Wilkinson talks eco-capitalism BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Big businesses can help the environment and turn a profit at the same time, according to journalist Todd Wilkinson. Wilkinson, who recently completed a book about CNN mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner, spoke to a crowd of graduate students from the Law School and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies on Tuesday at Kroon Hall. During his talk, Wilkinson said he became interested in writing about Turner because of Turner’s ideas about “green capitalism,” which is the notion that businesses with environmental responsibility can use capitalism to help the planet. “[Turner] has hope,” Wilkinson said. “And he really is looking at you [students] to make the difference.” Wilkinson emphasized Turner’s “triple bottom line” message: economic stability, environmental stability and humanitarian service. These are the three responsibilities of wealthy corporations and wealthy Americans, he said. While many people may believe that businesses promoting environmental responsibility are hypocritical because of the negative impact they have on the environment, Wilkinson said these businesses can still have a positive “net
impact” if they do more good than they do harm. Investing in the alternative energy industry is one way to pursue this approach, he said. Wilkinson emphasized the need to act now to preserve natural resources. “If we consume resources according to our standard of living, we’re going to need another planet,” he said. Wilkinson also addressed criticisms that have been levied against Ted Turner throughout his career. According to Wilkinson, conservatives have disagreed with Turner’s more drastic green initiatives while liberals have denounced his association with big business. “Saints are less colorful people to write about than Ted Turner,” Wilkinson said. “He’s this character who is a pathfinder as an eco-capitalist.” Wilkinson said Turner’s quirks can rub off on people and have profound effects. Wilson referenced how Turner picked up trash on a visit to his New Mexico properties with close friend Mikhail Gorbachev. When Gorbachev asked Turner what he was doing, Turner said, “Nobody is too big to pick up trash.” Josh Galperin — associate director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Law, which sponsored the talk — said though Wilkinson’s book is relevant to climate and energy, it is not specifically a climate and energy book.
Logan Yanovjak FES ’15 agreed with Galperin, adding that Wilkinson’s book has given publicity to the idea of “green capitalism.” “I’m really interested in Ted Turner’s idea that environmentalism and economics should not be pitted against each other,” Yanovjak said. “The realistic and smart thing to do is to work for conservation in our existing framework of capitalism.” Center for Environmental Policy and Law Research Assistants Verner Wilson FES ’15 and Amy Weinfurter FES ’15, who helped to organize the talk, said they were also drawn to “green capitalism” as an alternative way to do business. Wilkinson said that he has met a surprising number of Yale alums who are influencing environmental policy. “Even to undergraduates, I think Turner would say, ‘Do more good than harm.’” Wilkinson said. “If we all did something a little better, think about the difference to the world.” The talk was the second in the Climate and Energy Bookshelf speaker series introduced by Yale Law School’s Center for Environmental Law and Policy. The center will hold two more book talks in April as part of their series. Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .
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“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.” ISAAC ASIMOV AMERICAN AUTHOR
STEM recruiters slowly turning to Yale search of jobs, however, must frequently forge their own paths to postgraduate opportunities. “I want to understand not only how to build things but what are the consequences of me building these things — not only in terms of the science but politically and economically too,” said Jon Dorsch ’16, a mechanical engineering major.
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Both Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan and Ayaska Fernando ’08 GRD ’14, senior assistant director at the admissions office and the director of STEM recruitment, said the type of high school students who apply to Yale want to use their education to tackle pressing issues on a national and even global scale. Quinlan said the rise in STEM applicants has outpaced the growth of Yale’s broader applicant pool over the past five years. Although the admissions office’s outreach efforts explain this trend in part, Quinlan said a more important factor was the changing attitude of the nation’s high school seniors towards the STEM fields. Quinlan said students are increasingly seeing science and engineering as direct paths to addressing challenges such as climate change or international food supply. Fernando said he wants incoming scientists and engineers at Yale to have a desire to make their fields and knowledge accessible to the broader community — first at Yale and then globally. “We are very comfortable with where we are now [in terms of number of STEM students in recent incoming classes], but we will continue to respond to our applicant pool,” Quinlan said, adding that demographic changes will continue to determine how Yale’s incoming classes will look. The classes of 2016 and 2017 were
the first at Yale to have more than 40 percent of students intending to major in STEM. Isabella Quagliato, a program manager in the dean’s office of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, said both the undergraduate college and the graduate schools are getting a higher caliber of students now because of outreach efforts and investments in STEM the University has made in recent years. “It’s a chicken and egg situation — you need the resources and facilities to promote the schools, but you also need an outreach effort to let people know about these programs and why your school is one they should attend,” she said.
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One advantage Yale’s graduate programs have over their counterparts at more technical schools is an emphasis on interdisciplinary studies, Quagliato said. SEAS news director Rase McCray said Kyle Vanderlick, who became dean of SEAS in 2007, has made it a priority to develop interdisciplinary programs on both the graduate and undergraduate level. Launched in 2009, the Advanced Graduate Leadership Program gives six to eight students in the SEAS doctoral program the opportunity to cross-register in the School of Management, intern in academic offices and participate in a number of policy and educational initiatives. Also, graduates and undergraduates now have the opportunity to take CEID-based courses that offer training in practical design for engineering and non-engineering majors, like last fall’s Medical Device Design and Innovation. McCray said these courses are helping to broaden the scope of Yale engineers’ skill sets, and are likely to make Yale’s engineer-
ing department more attractive to potential applicants. “These programs are going to appeal to students who aren’t just interested in becoming rote engineers; they’re interested in going out and making ways,” McCray said. “They want to be the people who are boosting the boundaries of what engineering can do. Everything is in place for us to really start attracting those kinds of students.” In the past year, the School of Engineering has hired nine new faculty members. Although at about 90 members the faculty is still relatively small compared to schools with a more technical focus, McCray said the department is working to make the most of what it has. According to McCray, Vanderlick has placed an emphasis on hiring faculty whose research straddles multiple disciplines. The results are an increase in interdisciplinary course offerings like those offered at the CEID, and cross-department collaborations, and they are helping to build employers’ perceptions of Yale engineers as well-versed in numerous fields, not only their areas of specialty.
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And, Rase said, employers are beginning to take notice. While in the past engineering recruiters from large companies have skipped Yale for schools with larger engineering departments, this year representatives from Microsoft and other prominent members of the technology industry gave talks at the CEID, with job recruiters on hand to speak with students about applying. This year is also the first that SEAS, in collaboration with UCS, ran five small career fairs for junior and senior STEM majors to meet with representatives from companies like Bloomberg and Epic. October also saw a number of recruiting events geared towards
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he said. He added that this became true in his own case when the firm he founded, Actuality Systems, hired “dozens” of MIT-educated engineers. Jonathan Yu ’16, a prospective biomedical engineering major who transferred to Yale from Williams College, said he was surprised by how many engineering majors at Yale wanted to go into finance or consulting. Although Alexander will work at IBM upon graduation, most of his engineering friends are headed to prestigious finance and consulting firms such as Goldman Sachs or McKinsey. Alexander said those firms made a special effort to recruit Yale engineers not only because they were analytical and quantitative thinkers, but also because of their strong communication skills, a consequence of Yale’s liberal arts education. “There are a plethora of research opportunities for undergraduates while they’re at Yale, but just looking at UCS you get the sense that they expect you to
2010 move into finance the day you get your degree,” said chemistry major Jacob Marcus ’14. Although UCS does a good job of advising STEM students looking to enter medical school, he said, the center has few job listings that appeal to other science students. Mechanical engineering major Russ Egly ’16 said many engineering firms assume Yale engineers are better prepared to be managers than their peers at other institutions. But, he added, the same firms also assume that engineers graduating from MIT will have a stronger foundation in math and science than those graduating from Yale. Asked if she felt she had been served well by her Yale experience in STEM, Claire Xue ’14 was of two minds. “In some ways, absolutely. In some ways, less so.” Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu and JENNIFER GERSTEN at jennifer.gersten@yale.edu .
Low student interest in UWC dinners MISCONDUCT FROM PAGE 1 meeting, held on Tuesday, only four students joined Spangler, University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC) Chair Michael Della Rocca and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd ’90 for dinner in the Morse Fellows Lounge, according to Ahron Singer ’14. Singer, who was the only undergraduate present, said he was disappointed with the outcome of the conversation, which focused narrowly on the language of the report. The three other students who attended the dinner did not respond to requests for comment, and the dinner was not open to the press. Dinner discussions regarding sexual misconduct were first introduced during the fall 2013 semester following the release of the fourth report. At the time, administrators faced criticism both from within the University and from national
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media regarding the content of the report. Critics pointed to an alleged lack of detail in the report and objected to what they viewed to be insufficient punishments for perpetrators of sexual assault. Spangler said the meals are just one of many student outreach efforts related to sexual misconduct. She cited the expanded Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center website and the Communication and Consent Educators’ recently released videos about the process of filing a complaint with the UWC as examples of other initiatives. The structure of the most recent report was also redesigned to be more accessible to students, Chief Communications Officer Elizabeth Stauderman said. For example, she said the online version of the report uses hyperlinks to provide definitions for frequently used words such as “consent” and “sexual assault” so that students have a better understand-
ing of how the University defines these terms. Stauderman said the writers of the report wanted to encourage students, as well as the general public, to read and fully comprehend the report before making comments. “It’s important to have many opportunities to consider how we can best respond to sexual misconduct on campus — and, better yet, prevent it altogether,” Spangler said in an email. Out of eight students interviewed — all of whom were either Community and Consent Educators, members of Students Against Sexual Violence at Yale or participants in the Sexual Literacy Forum — none said they had attended or were planning to attend a dinner discussion on sexual misconduct. According to the report, there were 70 complaints of sexual misconduct between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2013. Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .
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“You know what? You’ve just got to go out there and try and control the things you can control, deal with things and stay mentally strong.” JONATHAN TOEWS CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS CAPTAIN
Empty chairs at empty stadiums COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 end, as it has for most of the last decade. It doesn’t seem to be the case that Yale students simply aren’t interested in supporting their school’s teams, particularly ones that have enjoyed success such as men’s hockey. But the recent success of the men’s basketball team appears to not yet be enough to draw new fans to Payne Whitney Gym. In talking to others about this issue, the idea that basketball games simply aren’t well-advertised was brought up. However, I don’t think that this is necessarily the major deterrent for fans either, since once again Yale fans have proven that they are willing to seek out other events. In fact, basketball games are considerably more convenient than hockey games: Payne Whitney is much more centrally located than the Whale, tickets don’t need to be picked up in advance and, on average, the games last less time than hockey. And the amount of advertisement for both hockey and basketball, though perhaps sparse, is roughly equivalent. Another argument could be made that other events, such as hockey, are simply more exciting to watch, and thus draw more fans that way. This might be true, but there
is something just as exhilarating about the roar of a loud gym, and I think anyone who was at the men’s game on Saturday would say the same. The irony, perhaps, is that the excitement of the games increases exponentially with the number of fans in the stands. There is an obvious and plausible argument that the historical success of the hockey program has guaranteed a solid fan base, while basketball’s historically mediocre performance has drawn less attention. This very well might be true, but is problematic nonetheless. Are Yale students, then, nothing more than bandwagon fans, waiting for their team to start performing before willingly lending their support? I want to believe that this is not the case. But to prove that they really aren’t just bandwagon fans, students need to show greater, unconditional support for Yale’s teams. Perhaps this means that events do need more advertisement, or that people are just lacking the information they need to get interested. These are both things that can be fixed, but ultimately, the solution is to create a culture in which going to these games and caring about the success of these teams is the norm. There is value in this for the fans themselves, as
they get to experience the thrill and pride of following a Yale team on its way to the top. It shouldn’t be work or a burden to support our teams. Actually, as far too few of us saw Saturday, it can be a lot of fun. Beyond the fan experience, students simply should care about the success of men’s basketball. The team handed Harvard its first loss on its home court since 2012 in front of a sold out Crimson crowd. The Bulldogs have won six straight, and are off to their best start in over a decade. And, like all students here — athletes, artists, musicians, actors and actresses — these players have worked hard to get to where they are and represent our university. They deserve support in their endeavors, just like everyone else. The fact that the crowd at Saturday’s game was the biggest at a home game this season is encouraging, but it should not be the exception. The Bulldogs hit the road for two weekends, and return to their home court Friday, March 7, to take on Harvard. And when they return, let’s be sure to give the top team in the Ivy League the home court advantage it deserves. SARAH ONORATO is a junior in Silliman College. Contact her at sarah.onorato@yale.edu .
First pitch imminent for softball SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 The Elis have already gotten a chance to play competitively in the City Series against three other local colleges last fall. Yale beat the University of New Haven 4–3 in the semifinal game and then handled Southern Connecticut 12–6 to take the title. Balta said the team has set the bar high heading into this season. “Our primary goal is to win [the Ivy League], that’s definitely our primary goal,” Balta said. “And to beat Harvard, of course, and to have a winning record.” Yale will head to Virginia Beach this weekend to play in the Norfolk State Tournament, its first games of 2014. During the first week of spring break, the team will play spring training games at the USF Under Armour Tournament in Clearwater, Fla. “We’re just putting all the pieces together at this point, because we’ve been working so hard throughout the offseason on fundamentals and the basics,” Glass said. “Now it’s getting into the game mode.” The Bulldogs’ Ivy League season will get underway March 28, against Penn. Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .
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Yale demolished Harvard 5–1 in the first annual Rivalry on Ice game, held at Madison Square Garden. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 ’15 said. “MSG is clearly an iconic venue and a really fantastic experience I’m sure for the players and definitely for the fans. I think I speak for a lot of people in saying that this is the kind of event that I hope to see become part of the annual lineup for Yale Athletics.” After this year’s Rivalry on Ice, The Thirsty Fan and Fitzgerald Ballroom at the Affinia Manhattan Hotel held postgame parties. For next year’s contest, Leverage Agency said it hopes to lengthen the experience. Some aspects of the inaugural Rivalry on Ice went smoothly, but Sturner said he believes some
activities can be added to improve the overall Rivalry on Ice weekend experience. “We plan to add even more engagement for alumni and students, and make it a weekend of fun activities [and] networking all leading up to the at MSG.” Yale athletics staff as well as members of the hockey team said they are excited for the game to take place at MSG again for the second year and hope it becomes an annual tradition. Defenseman for the men’s ice hockey team Mitch Witek ’16 said the atmosphere in Madison Square Garden contributed to the pace of the game. Associate Athletics Direc-
tor Sports Publicity Steve Conn echoed Witek’s sentiments. “Everyone I’ve asked feels New York City is the best place for a contest like this,” Conn said. “It was a near-capacity crowd, replete with celebrities of all kinds, and many of the fans took part in pre- and postgame parties in and around the Garden. The crowd appeared to be more Blue than Crimson, and [the fans] were rewarded with an excellent Yale effort on the ice.” The Bulldogs and Crimson will next face each other on Friday in Cambridge, Mass. Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .
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Power. I’m a big guy; I throw hard. That’s what I use to my advantage. I mean, I’m not wild. I can throw strikes pretty well, but if you’re a batter, I’m going to definitely beat you with my hard stuff.
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freshman are at the bottom of the totem pole. How have the seniors received you personally, as well as the other freshmen on the squad?
out set of goals. I just want to be able to play as much as possible and help the guys out in any way I can. If we win, no matter what role I take, it’s a successful year for me.
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the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award. What does that mean to you and does that raise your own personal expectations, or add pressure at all?
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Captain Tori Balta ’14 (No. 22) was named to the preseason all-Ivy second team by CollegeSportsMadness.com.
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FROM THE FRONT NH biotech growing BIOTECH FROM PAGE 1 Crews, a resident of the greater New Haven area for 19 years, is a strong supporter of the local bioscience community and rejected an offer from a Cambridge, Mass. top-line venture capitalist firm to purchase Arvinas.
The goal is to take that $18 million and get a drug candidate into clinical trials within 3 or 3.5 years. CRAIG CREWS Professor, Chemistry “I wanted to keep the company here in New Haven, and the State made it very easy to say yes,” Crews said. “This is a home-grown biotech, and this is just one of the many advances in helping grow the local biotech community.” Crews’s first company, Proteolix, developed Kyprolis which treats multiple myeloma, a form of cancer that causes tumors in the bone marrow. Crews worked with Yale to raise $18 million in 2003 to start the company and to develop Kyprolis. The startup was sold in 2009 to San Francisco-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals for $851 million due to the drug’s success. Its projected sales are $2 billion by 2018. His next startup, Arvinas, founded this past July, utilizes the same technology. But instead of inhibiting proteins, the company aims to tag rogue, cancer-causing proteins and remove them from patients’ systems. The drug would move into clinical trials within three
to three and a half years. Over the past six months, Arvinas has raised $15 million dollars in private venture funds and an additional $3 million from the State in a combination of loans and grants from the Department of Economic and Community Development. The company has recruited 20 employees since operations officially began in September. “The goal is to take that $18 million and get a drug candidate into clinical trials within 3 or 3.5 years,” Crews said. “Without the State, Yale and the private venture capital, Arvinas would not be the company that it is today.” Indeed, New Haven and Yale have been instrumental in the development of Arvinas. Three of the company’s four major investors are New-Haven based, and the Yale University Office of Cooperative Research has helped secure intellectual property protection. According to Thomas Lynch ’82 MED ’86, the director of the Yale Cancer Center and a member of the Bristol-Myers Squibb and Arvinas’ boards, biotech companies need space, money and a community of smart and innovative people to thrive. He added that universities such as MIT and Stanford, which are already equipped with these resources, are well-placed to serve as “anchors” for the companies. Science Park, which houses Arvinas, is a collaboration between the University and New Haven developer Carter Winstanley and has been a budding hub of biotech companies. The area shows the University’s commitment to growing the biotech industry in New Haven, Lynch said. In addition to providing space for companies, Yale has invested in places like Center for Genome Analysis. The
center gives scientists the resources to provide proof of concept, or evidence of a product’s viability, to investors, Lynch said. While 10 years ago, a smart scientist with a Powerpoint could raise sufficient funds to begin a biotech start up, investors are now asking for data showing that the company’s products will work, he added. But the University’s investment in biotech was not always so strong. Science Park in the mid ’90s was far from what it is today, according to Irving Adler, Executive Director of Corporate Communications at Alexion, which move into the space at 100 College St. when it is completed in a year a half. “The facilities were extremely basic, the infrastructure was not in great shape. I don’t think anyone would dispute that this was not what you would expect in high tech facilities. A lot was left to the tenants,” he said. But since then, the atmosphere has changed, he said, citing Downtown Crossing as an example. With better facilities and infrastructure — both of which lure more willing investors — he thinks New Haven will increasingly see biotech companies “clustering,” like they have in Cambridge and on the West Coast. Lynch added that while New Haven currently has 20-30 biotech companies, once the city passes a threshold of 50 to 60, it will likely be self-sustaining. For every one biotech job, two indirect jobs are added to the economy, according to the Council of State of Governments. Contact J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu and HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .
“Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.” HENRY DAVID THOREAU AMERICAN AUTHOR AND POET
Yale to upgrade printing PRINTING FROM PAGE 1 where. Print Anywhere,” (WEPA) — installed kiosks around campus in many of the printing clusters. WEPA offers cloud-based printing from multiple devices. Gworek said that though YPPS does consider WEPA competition, a main difference between the services is that WEPA operates forprofit, while YPPS does not. Both machines are high quality, he said.
While WEPA aims to cater to a demand for convenience printing, Gworek said BluePrint has placed more emphasis on being “green.” Though WEPA allows students to print from their personal devices, most students interviewed said they had never tried printing from a WEPA kiosk. “[I’ve] heard of WEPA, but never used it,” David Roeca ’15 said. Eve Houghton ’17 said she had never heard of WEPA and always
uses the Yale printers. Shane Kim ’17 said printing is starting to become a “thing of the past,” so it seems worthwhile to make existing printing systems more efficient and environmentally friendly. Twenty-four hour printing access is available in all residential colleges. Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu .
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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 5:30 p.m. Exhibition Opening Lecture: “Gazing on Parian Charms with Learned Eyes: Pope, the Portrait Bust and Eighteenth-Century Studies.” The Yale Center for British Art is opening its exhibition with a lecture given by the curator, Malcolm Baker. Baker is a distinguished professor of art history from the University of California, Riverside, and the Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.). 9:00 p.m. Evening Prayer Service. A beautiful, quiet Christian worship service of song and prayer, with a student reflection and an “active reflection,” putting the theme into practice. Dwight Hall (67 High St.), Dwight Memorial Chapel.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 5:00 p.m. “The Future of Holocaust Literature.” The Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and Whitney Humanities Center presents Ruth Kluger from the University of California, Irvine, as part of the Benjamin ’62 and Barbara Zucker Lecture Series. Free to the General Public. Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale (80 Wall St.), Chapel Rm.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 5:00 p.m. Commingling [communities + mingling] Art Reception. This commingling exhibit draws inspiration from similar installations by ArtSpace and Project Storefront to change the window space of Luck and Levity, a local brewshop, in order to erase community boundaries. The week-long exhibit starring both Yale artists and New Haven artists will be kicked off with a reception with food and drinks. Artists include Anna Renken ’14, Liz Godar ’14, Jennifer Davies and Gordon Skinner. Luck and Levity (118 Court St.).
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ARTS & CULTURE Dramat to stage Shakespeare’s “Dream” BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER Tonight, one of Shakespeare’s best-known comedies will come to life before a Yale audience. The Yale Dramatic Association’s Spring Mainstage, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” opens tonight at the University Theatre. Directed by Stephen Kaliski, the show follows the story of four young Athenians in a dream-like setting full of fairies and love potions. Kaliski explained that the creative team aimed to retain the traditional meaning of the play while interpreting it in an original manner. “It is intimidating at first to put on Shakespeare productions like these because they have been done so many times and have been done so well,” Kaliski said. “The question for us was ‘How do we reclaim this play for ourselves?’”
It is intimidating at first to put on Shakespeare productions […] because they have been done so many times. STEPHEN KALISKI Director, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Dramat President Jonathan Lian ’15 said that the play was chosen as this season’s Spring Mainstage partly because the Dramat had not staged any Shakespeare productions as mainstages in a long time, adding that the show’s comedic nature provides a contrast to the recent slew of emotionally heavy Mainstage productions. The storyline of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” centers on the relationships between the characters Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius. While the two men are initially in love with Hermia, their feelings change once the four enter the dream world, where the jester Puck’s love spell accidentally leads both men to fall in love with Helena instead. Kaliski noted that the comedic aspect of the play lies in the fickle nature of love in young people, adding that while the main characters all believe that they know how love works, the reality is that romantic interests can change more quickly
than people think. “Love can dart from person to person in a heartbeat,” Kaliski said. Lian said “Midsummer” features a broad range of interesting roles for actors of both genders and that the production has high technical potential, explaining that the show will be able to take advantage of the University Theatre’s advanced technological capabilities. Assistant director Irina Gavrilova ’17 and lights crew member Eliza Robertson ’17 said the production’s set design features elaborate visual elements. Gavrilova said many pieces of the set will frequently be in motion, flying on and off the stage depending on the scene. Robertson described a curtain of hanging light bulbs that will also be prominently featured in the show, noting that many different types of equipment are required to make this one visual element work properly. Kaliski explained that the play’s setting in the first and final acts will resemble a modern-day park instead of a place in ancient Greece. These acts, traditionally set in Athens, have been replaced with a newly-written prologue and epilogue that allow the plot to unfold in a ‘dream world.’ Fleming and Kaliski both noted that the production highlights the idea that the seemingly insignificant objects of everyday life can become extremely important in dreams. Kaliski offered the example of a park worker picking up toilet paper in the early stages of the show. He explained that once the characters enter the dream world, the toilet paper becomes the scroll upon which the acting troupe writes the play they plan to perform. Lucy Fleming ’16, who plays Helena, added that her character, who is seen reading a book at first, eventually wears a costume made entirely out of book pages in the dream world. Fleming noted that while the production’s set design is fairly modern in appearance, the characters and plot are completely faithful to Shakespeare’s original script. “You just have to focus on the text and let the words carry the show,” Fleming said. The last performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will take place Feb. 22. Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .
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The Yale Dramat’s Spring Mainstage, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” opens tonight, Feb. 19, and will run until Feb. 22.
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“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” THEODORE DREISER AMERICAN NOVELIST
YCBA exhibit fuses the visual and the literary BY HELEN ROUNER STAFF REPORTER A new exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art aims to demonstrate the interconnectedness of the literary and visual arts. The exhibit, “Fame and Friendship: Pope, Roubiliac, and the Portrait Bust in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” displays a series of busts of the British poet Alexander Pope created by his friend, the French sculptor Louis François Roubiliac. The show, which opens at the Center on Thursday, also includes paintings, documents and other objects illuminating the two significant 18th century cultural figures. This summer, the exhibit will travel to Waddesdon Manor in Britain, home to one of the two busts of Pope central to the exhibit, while the other belongs to the YCBA’s collections. “[Literature and visual art] are intermeshed in the culture of the 18th century and beyond — you can’t isolate them,” said Martina Droth, the exhibit’s organizing curator at the Center, YCBA curator of sculpture. The growing popularity of the portrait bust in Britain coincided with the emergence of a new conception of authorship, explained Distinguished Professor of Art History at University of California, Riverside Malcolm Baker, who curated the exhibit. The bust became a frequent means of building authors’ fame, Baker said. Theater Studies and English Professor Joseph Roach explained that Pope was perhaps the first figure in English literature to make a living based on his work alone — without patronage. The poet was “a rockstar” in 18th-century Britain, and so his image became ubiquitous, Roach said. “[Roubiliac and Pope] built their success upon one another’s reputations,” said YCBA Director Amy Meyers. The artwork in the exhibit also illuminates Pope’s position in
the literary canon, Baker said. Pope’s books on display illustrate the poet’s “engagement with the materiality of the book,” Baker said, explaining that Pope featured images of himself in his books, sometimes alongside depictions of earlier literary icons such as Homer. “Pope is always referential to classical sources – both in his writing and in his image,” Baker said. In conjunction with the exhibit, the Center will host a conference this weekend titled “Objects, Images, and Texts: Pope, Roubiliac and Representation of Authorship,” Droth said the exhibit as well as the particular format of the conference, which pairs papers by scholars of English literature with those of scholars of Art History, are meant to highlight the two fields’ interconnectedness. The exhibit is a particularly significant one to present at Yale, Roach said, explaining that Yale has produced the most significant body of Pope scholarship, largely owing to the efforts of Sterling English professors W.K. Wimsatt and Maynard Mack, who wrote the definitive biography of Pope. Wimsatt, a key figure in literary theory’s “New Criticism” movement, cowrote “The Intentional Fallacy,” an essay arguing that an author’s intention or biography is irrelevant to his work: what matters is the text. Ironically, Wimsatt dedicated much of his life to collecting meticulous historical scholarship about Pope, Roach said. “In any humanistic inquiry — which includes art history — there is a productive tension between foreground and background,” said Roach, who will speak about Pope’s influence at Yale during the conference. The Center’s exhibit places Pope in the context of New Criticism, Meyers said, adding that the exhibit has an antecedent in the 1961 show featuring portrait busts of Pope that Wimsatt organized at the National Portrait
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The Yale Center for British Art combines literary and visual tradition with their new exhibit, “Fame and Friendship,” on view through May 19. Gallery in London. When the current exhibit travels to Waddeston Manor, the artistic works will be placed in a national context; the show will explore the problem of translation as well as the questions regarding England’s relationship to France that emerge from Roubiliac’s being a French sculptor, Meyers added. Baker said he has been researching the portrait bust for over 20 years. Droth explained that it was largely due to Baker’s extensive knowledge of all of the busts’ locations and the appeal of his vision for the exhibit that allowed the show to come together in two years, while preparations for most exhibitions take at least five or
six years. While the busts are all housed at the Center, they are undergoing a technical scanning study in the Center’s restoration facilities to ascertain the ways in which the sculptures differ, Droth explained. She said the data collected from this study as well as the content of the conferences held both at the YCBA and at Waddesdon Manor will become the basis of a book. “Fame and Friendship: Pope, Roubiliac, and the Portrait Bust in Eighteenth-Century Britain” will remain on view through May 19. Contact HELEN ROUNER at helen.rouner@yale.edu .
Artist discusses boat-building BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER Maria Lorenz ART ’02 is not just a painter, printmaker and performance artist — she also builds boats. Lorenz’s presentation was part of the School of Art’s ongoing series of “lunchtime talks” — discussion-based events that allow students to learn more about the work of a particular artist in an intimate setting. During the talk, Lorenz, an associate professor of Painting and Printmaking at the School of Art, discussed pieces spanning a variety of media, including printmaking and video as well as her work with boat building. “It’s a familiar crowd, but it’s nice to look at things in a new context,” Lorenz said. Lorenz explained the inspiration behind her “boat projects,” a collection of boats the artist has designed and built herself. She said she began the projects during her days as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1990s. At the time, Lorenz
said, Providence was in the midst of an enormous construction project that transformed its downtown area into a “huge pit of mud,” with miles of sewage tunnels that led under the city. It was then that Lorenz’s boat-making career began; she created tiny vessels from found materials to navigate the waterways that appeared as a result of the construction process. Her fascination with boatmaking and waterways continued after she moved away from Providence, Lorenz said. She described her interest in places such as tidal zones, where “the city and the water come together.” During 1996 and 1997, Lorenz said, she orchestrated fantastical performance pieces that were staged on her boats. She explained that she wanted the audience to view the pieces’ aquatic settings — often in areas that were polluted or industrial — in a different light. After her move to New York in 2005, Lorenz said she began viewing water as more
than just a backdrop for her work. She explained that she allowed water to become a portal through which her viewers, presumably sitting at their desks in Manhattan and viewing photos of her and her boats online, could reexamine their own environment. “I always say when I moved to New York, I discovered two things: fiberglass and the Internet,” she said, explaining that she used fiberglass to build boats and the Internet to disseminate her artistic work. In 2005, Lorenz also began what is still an ongoing project — a performance piece titled “The Tide and Current Taxi.” The project involves Lorenz operating a “water taxi” in the New York Harbor for a few weeks every summer. Participants email the artist with their desired destination, and Lorenz then takes them there by boat. After every trip, the artists posts photos of the experience to a blog. Lorenz explained that though “Tide and Current Taxi” was initially about the notion of “existing in public
space,” the work has gradually moved towards issues of permeability and boundaries, as a lot of shorefront areas are being purchased and transformed into luxury waterfront developments. Though she said she is reluctant to take an explicit political stance, Lorenz noted that her work is slowly assuming an ecological dimension.
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Maria Lorenz ART ’02 spoke about her artistic forays across different media during a “lunchtime talk.”
I always say when I moved to New York, I discovered two things: fiberglass and the Internet. MARIA LORENZ ART ’02 Artist Many of the objects Lorenz has encountered on her boat trips have been incorporated into her most recent printmaking series. She said she began by carving a set of wooden plates, including motifs such as birds, boats, bridges, signage, garbage and water patterns. After completing several rubbings and prints from the carvings, Lorenz assembled the wooden plates into a boat, which now sits in a museum in upstate New York. Several attendees said they admired Lorenz’s work, adding that they enjoyed hearing about the artist’s particular inspirations. “It’s really interesting to see what School of Art faculty are doing outside of teaching,” Rachel Paris ’17 said. Mollie Ritterband ’17 noted that she may consider trying to schedule a ride in the “Tide and Current Taxi” this summer. Maria Lorenz has won grants from organizations including Artists Space, Socrates Sculpture Park and the Harpo Foundation.
Renowned dancer to innovate with Yalies BY SARA JONES STAFF REPORTER Dance icon, choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer will bring together Yale’s art community for a series of events in February. Rainer will give two public lectures and two invite-only workshops as well as present a screening of two of her movies — her 1972 film “Lives of Performers” and her 2012 “Assisted Living: Do You Have Any Money?.” All events have been organized by the Dance Studies curriculum in conjunction with the Yale School of Art. “Rainer has essentially rerouted the history of performance,” said Emily Coates, a Theatre Studies lecturer and Yale Dance Theatre’s faculty director. “She is now credited with pioneering what we would call ‘post-modern’ dance aesthetics.” Coates explained that Rainer emerged as a dancer and performance artist as part of the Judson Dance Theatre — a dance group that performed at the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village in the 1960s. After creating several dance and performance pieces, she transitioned into filmmaking in the early 1970s, where her work influenced the development of avant-garde cinema. In 1999, at the invitation of ballet dancer and choreographer Mikhail Barychnikov, Rainer reentered the dance world. She created work for Baryshnikov’s ensemble, the White Oak Company, which Coates joined in 1998. It was in this context that Coates first met Rainer, Coates noted, adding that she has worked with the renowned dancer for the past fourteen years. Coates said she thinks the two workshops, which will be held on Feb. 22 and March 1, will provide Yale students with the exciting opportunity to innovate with the dancer. A “handpicked,” cross-disciplinary group of 12 undergraduate and graduate students from the Dance Studies curriculum and the School of Art — some trained dancers, others practicing artists — will be working directly with Rainer to develop ideas for her latest work during each work shop, she said. “I think the most significant thing about Rainer’s visits is the workshop series,” said Aren Vastola ’14, a stu-
dent coordinator for the Dance Studies curriculum. “Rainer will actually be developing ideas for her upcoming new work with a group of Yale students … this is an instance of a practicing artist actually coming in and creating something brand new. If these generative events continue, I can see Yale becoming a creative hub for resident artists, which will significantly enrich the campus climate.” Samuel Messer, the Associate Dean of the School of Art, said he thinks that the opportunity to create with an artist whose work students would otherwise only encounter in an academic setting is invaluable, adding that because Reiner’s work is steeped in both art and dance history, her visit will raise students’ awareness of their own work’s ability to span different fields. Karlanna Lewis SOM ’15, a student coordinator for the Dance Studies curriculum, noted that Rainer’s work borrows from multiple disciplines, and said her visit will contribute to the interdisciplinary nature of the University’s dance studies program. “The dance studies program situates itself at an interesting crux between theater studies, art history and the broader scholarship of Yale,” Lewis explained. “Rainer’s visit brings living testament to the Yale dance studies program that interdisciplinary work can exist and grow stronger for its crossover, that students can pursue twin passions and create their own bridges that unite.” Coates stressed the importance of the upcoming events for the emerging partnership between the Dance Studies curriculum and the School of Art. “The dance world and visual art world are in a moment of reignited interest with each other — dance is being featured in museums and galleries [and] visual artists are drawing on the history of dance in their practice,” Coates noted. “With this partnership….we aim to be on the forefront of this current movement.” Yvonne Rainer will be at Yale on the weekends of Feb. 21-22 and Feb. 28 to March 1. Contact SARA JONES at sara.l.jones@yale.edu .
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This past Saturday night, the John J. Lee Amphitheater was the place to be. A roaring crowd — the largest at a home men’s basketball game this year — cheered on the Bulldogs as they fought their way to a one-point, overtime win against Princeton. The win was the sixth straight for the Elis, who are tied with Harvard for first in the Ivy League with six conference games left to play. The Bulldogs’ two wins this weekend came on the heels of an upset win against Harvard, which was a unanimous pick to win the Ivy League Championship in a preseason poll and had an active 20-game win streak at home. The Bulldogs, who haven’t won a conference title since 2002, were picked to finish third. But the way things have been going, the Yale men’s basketball team is giving us all reason to think that this year could be different. And yet, despite their inspired play and winning record, the Elis struggle to fill seats at home games. In fact, according to statistics posted as of this week, Yale has the lowest average conference home attendance per game in the Ancient Eight, with just 760 fans per game. The highest is fifth-place Penn, averaging nearly 4000 fans per home game. The discrepancies in attendance are staggering, especially considering the top team in the Ivy League currently has the least fans attending its home conference games. It’s hard to understand why this might be so, but also important to understand this discrepancy in order to ensure that the top team in the Ivy League starts getting the recognition and support it deserves. Despite accusations in the past few years that Yalies largely don’t care about athletics, Ingalls Rink continues to fill up every week-
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The second annual Rivalry on Ice game will be played at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 10, 2015. BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER On the gridiron, the Game has been played 130 times between two of college sports’ biggest rivals: Yale and Harvard. Ben Sturner, CEO of Leverage Agency — the marketing company that put together the first-ever Rivalry on Ice — said the archrivals will face off once again with
the eyes of the nation upon them. Sturner confirmed that the 2015 Rivalry on Ice will again take place at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Jan. 10. On Jan. 11, Yale defeated Harvard 5–1 in the inaugural Rivalry on Ice in front of a 15,524 Bulldog and Crimson fans. Special guests, including official Rivalry on Ice ambassador Mark Messier and Sec-
retary of State John Kerry ’66 attended the game. Leverage Agency helped arrange the game and coordinated details between Yale, Harvard and Madison Square Garden for the event. “The feedback has all been incredibly positive, and we could not have been happier with the attendance and the excitement from this year’s Rivalry on Ice,” Sturner said.
Ford ’17 winding up for first season BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER With the Yale baseball season set to begin in just 10 days at LSU, the News sat down with right-handed pitcher Chasen Ford ’17 to talk about how he ended up at Yale and what his expectations are for the upcoming season. The 6’3”, 215-pound righty from El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif., has a fastball that breaks 90 mph, and he received interest from some of the top programs in college baseball during the recruiting process. Ford was recently selected as Baseball America’s preseason Ivy League Rookie of the Year. things first, what has QFirst the transition been like so far in the offseason from high school baseball to playing for Yale?
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For me, it’s the weather, the cold. I hate it. It’s just a different dynamic for how you practice, how you play. It changes how you warm up, which I’m not used to. Also, college is very fast-paced. High school, there’s a lot of down time, you’re transitioning and people are doing their own thing. College, it’s just a lot more machine-like.
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A big thing for me was I wanted a place where I could play a lot — as much as possible, if I did well enough. A place like UCLA, I didn’t feel like I would even remotely be one of their guys and I kind of wanted to be. And I’ve come across some so-so coaches. These guys at Yale, they’re perfectly complementary. You’ve got Coach Stuper, who’s kind of old-school, go-with-theflow, and then you’ve got Coach Frawley, who’s strict, new-school, bang-bang-bang, young, energetic. I felt like this was a program where I could do well, that would help make me better. And of couse, the school; it’s Yale.
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Toro High School that are either playing Division I baseball or are in a Major League farm system. What’s it like going to a school now that doesn’t necessarily have a big-time focus on SEE Q&A PAGE 7
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“We hope this was the first year of an annual tradition and look forward to going back to ‘the World’s Most Famous Arena’ for many years to come.” Student feedback regarding the first Rivalry on Ice was positive. Three students interviewed said they were pleased with the atmosphere, location and outcome of the game. While it is unclear what
Softball ready to step up to the plate BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER After finishing second to last in the Ivy League last year with a 10–37 overall record, the Yale softball team will be looking for redemption in the 2014 season, which begins this weekend.
SOFTBALL While the Bulldogs graduated three players from last season’s starting lineup, the team will look to improve with the addition of seven freshmen to the roster. Yale also returns power-hitting catcher Sarah Onorato ’15, and its entire pitching staff. “There’s a huge difference [between this year and last year],” said pitcher Rhydian Glass ’16. “There’s been so much more motivation, and I’ve felt a lot more enthusiasm.” Onorato was Yale’s primary contributor on offense last season and will again be a key batter for the Bulldogs in her junior year. She was named Ivy League Player of the Year in 2013 after breaking three school records and leading the Ancient Eight in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, hits, doubles, home runs and runs scored. Her .430 batting average was 21st in the nation. First basemen Lauren Delgadillo ’16 and infielder Brittany Labbadia ’16 also established themselves as leaders at the plate in their first seasons. Delgadillo batted .373 in 18 games before missing much of the season due to injury, and Labbadia was fourth on the team with a .257 average. Yale returns all five pitchers from last season, including aces Chelsey Dunham
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Catcher Sarah Onorato ’15 (No. 11) was named Ivy League Player of the Year in 2013. ’14 and Glass, who combined to start 41 of the team’s 47 games last year. Glass led the team with a 4.92 ERA in 2013. “We have a solid number of pitchers, so injuries will hopefully not be too much of an issue,” Glass said. “The more pitchers we have, the better. It just creates a more diverse pitching body that we can use to our advantage in doubleheaders.” Pitcher Lindsay Efflandt ’17 will give the Bulldogs another arm to use
throughout the season. Captain and outfielder Tori Balta ’14 said Efflandt, along with the other six freshmen on the team, will be able to make immediate contributions to the Bulldogs. “This group of freshmen is really diverse in the skills they bring, so I think all of them really have a chance to impact the team greatly,” Balta said. SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 7
HOME RUNS HIT BY CATCHER SARAH ONORATO ’15 FOR THE YALE SOFTBALL TEAM LAST SEASON. She was named the 2013 Ivy League Player of the Year, leading the Ancient Eight in home runs, doubles, hits, runs scored and on-base percentage, among other categories.