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Keitazulu to challenge Harp

All in good faith. Things just happened to work out such that both Passover and Easter fall on the same weekend this year. As a result, many students will be on their best behavior, attending services and wearing nice clothes — imagine if people at Yale were always this pleasant.

Admins meet YCC halfway on mental health proposals

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there will be more than a few chances to let loose this weekend. Take the WYBC Ante-Fling party, for example, which will take place tonight at Toad’s. Complete with an open bar and performances from Giraffage, Mitski, Silk Rhodes and Allies, the event is sure to be a change of pace, if nothing else: After all, how often do people do Friday Toad’s?

Mission accomplished. John Kerry ’66 can finally exhale, if for just a moment. Talks between the secretary of state and Iran’s Mohammad Javad Zarif yielded progress toward the United States’ ultimate goal of dismantling the nuclear program in Tehran. Remember, Yalies always get the job done. *Sometimes get the job done.

Yale politics, meanwhile, are about to kick into overdrive, as campaign season for the Yale College Council has officially kicked off with websites and social media campaigns going live to get things started.

You had a good run, Herbert.

We’re eager to see how your successor holds up.

“Neighborhood Party.” Poles,

coconuts, benches, fire and food. Somehow, Kasama: The Filipino Club at Yale will combine all of the above into a cultural show, according to promotional materials for its “Barrio Fiesta” event tonight.

Not quite “Midsummer.”

Even so, the Korean American Students at Yale and the Korean Graduate Students Association will be collaborating to put on a cultural show of their own: “A Midsummer Night’s Madness.”

Feeling lucky? Not many

items merit this much advance warning, but we figure this one’s important enough: The last day to convert a course from Credit/D/Fail to a latter grade is Monday. Brace yourself for a wave of returned grades this weekend, as many grapple with the decision.

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1990 New Haven Mayor John Daniels and University President Benno Schmidt Jr. institute an annual $1.5 million payment from Yale to the city.

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New biology building would cut down trees, drawing faculty ire.

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Not church music. Still,

Making more music. After announcing her plans to visit campus roughly a month ago, Sara Bareilles has arrived.

Bareilles’ composition master class — held by The Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater and the Yale Drama Coalition — is this evening at 5 p.m. Just don’t ask her to write you a love song.

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consider themselves unemployable need to have access to education.

Barbara Fair, a racial justice activist and secretary of the American Civil Liberties Union’s New Haven chapter, said she hopes even more candidates enter the mayoral race to challenge Harp.

“I wish there were more options

Five weeks after an open forum in which Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway refused to commit to addressing the Yale College Council’s 2013 and 2014 recommendations on mental health point by point, he, along with Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin, has done just that.

At the Feb. 25 forum — where students were invited to voice their concerns over Yale’s mental health resources and policies — YCC president Michael Herbert ’16 asked a panel of administrators if they would promise to address, by the end of the year, every recommendation in the YCC’s 2013 report on mental health and 2014 report on withdrawal and readmission. Holloway said he would not.

But in a college-wide email sent Thursday afternoon, the YCC announced that four of its members had met with Holloway and Genecin and addressed seven recommendations from the 2013 report. The email included a document outlining the recommendations that had been addressed and the administration’s response. But while the YCC members involved expressed sat-

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Mayor Toni Harp faces an opponent, plumber Sundiata Keitazulu, in her bid for a second term. Keitazulu also ran in 2013.

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Mayor Toni Harp will have at least one opponent in the mayoral race this November.

Newhallville plumber Sundiata Keitazulu filed papers to run for election with the city clerk’s office Tuesday. Keitazulu, who also ran in the 2013 election, said his campaign

will focus on job creation and education reform in the city.

“That’s the one part of our city that has never been addressed,” Keitazulu said. “The unemployed and the unemployable. I want to take advantage of that human resource.”

Keitazulu said he hopes to lower crime rates in the city by lowering unemployment. The city needs new jobs, he said, and those who

Students, faculty consider PSE alternatives

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTER Following the announcement of the cancellation of the “Perspectives on Science and Engineering” program for all future terms, students and faculty are exploring the best way to fill the remaining gap in science curricula.

“There’s a desire to have something that would be for people who are really interested in science and want to major in

it, but obviously it can’t be a repetition of ‘Perspectives,’” said Charles Schmuttenmaer, professor of chemistry and PSE codirector. “I think there’s a place for science departments to offer more science seminar courses for freshmen.”

For most of its run, the 22-year-old program was connected to a summer research fellowship for freshmen. Several years ago, the ties between “Perspectives” and the fellowship were cut, and non-PSE fresh-

City job rates rise amid state declines

BY QI XU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Reversing a trend of growing job rates, the state lost a total of 3,700 jobs in February, according to a survey conducted by the Connecticut Department of Labor. Amid that decline, New Haven’s job rates grew.

For the past few months, Connecticut has experienced strong job growth statewide, including an increase of 7,500 new jobs in the month of January. Although the report finds declines for last month, economist at the Connecticut DOL Patrick Flaherty said the drop is not surprising.

“It’s just one month. Don’t get too carried away,” he said.

“The fall in February was probably offsetting excessive growth in January.”

Flaherty said it is common to see strong growth in employment rates followed by a pullback.

Yale economics professor Giuseppe Moscarini agreed that a month with strong job growth

men were able to apply for that fellowship. This administrative change reduced some demand for the program, said Schmuttenmaer, but it ultimately served the research community by allowing more students to apply, leading to more compelling proposals.

But the change also resulted in a loss of interest in PSE — with no research funding incentive, students said, the program was less appealing to them. And with more students coming to Yale

with a concentrated research interest than ever before, there was less demand for a broad survey course, said Sandy Chang ’88, professor of laboratory medicine and PSE co-director.

“A lot of the freshmen we take in are already very specialized — they’ve done their chemistry research or their biology research — so they’re already pointy kids,” said Chang.

The best way to serve these “pointy” students — those who have specific, as opposed to gen-

BY STAPHANY HOU STAFF REPORTER

Besides the natural cycle of job growth and decline, cold weather also contributed to the fall, according to Flaherty.

“We had a very cold month in February. There are certain days when some people weren’t able to work,” Flaherty said.

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The fall in February was probably offsetting excessive growth in January.

PATRICK FLAHERTY Economist, State Department of Labor

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NACC dean search underway Three of Yale’s four cultural centers are looking for new directors.

The Afro-American Cultural Center, La Casa Cultural and the Native American Cultural Center have all formed dean search committees and are actively soliciting qualified candidates. Last Friday, the NACC’s dean search committee — which includes students, faculty and administrators — met with students at the center to discuss the characteristics they hope to see in a new dean. Across the board, students expressed satisfaction with how the house has been run thus far and hoped that the new dean would bring a similar level of support and involvement to the NACC. “We need someone who is committed to us,” NACC Peer Liaison Helder Toste ’16 said.

“Because [Native Americans are] such an ethnically diverse group, it’s very difficult to have a dean who isn’t around.”

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is often followed by a month of job loss. In small states, he said, the reversal is particularly common because the smaller sample size is more conducive to sampling errors.

eral, interests — while keeping with what worked well in the PSE model would be to offer a similar program as two full-credit, semester-long standalone courses, Chang said. One semester would focus on the biological sciences while the other would focus more on the physical sciences. That way, students who have more specialized interests could choose to take one semester and not the other.

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Members of the Native American Cultural Center have begun the search for a new dean.

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n the pilot episode of Mad Men, the protagonist Don Draper has a problem. He’s tasked with writing a new ad campaign for Lucky Strike, a cigarette brand that’s just been busted by the Federal Trade Commission for obscuring health concerns about smoking. Draper comes up with the slogan “It’s Toasted,” sidestepping the health claims with feel good farm imagery.

In 2015, the dangers of smoking are no longer ambiguous. According to the Center for Disease Control, cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the U.S. That translates to roughly 1,300 deaths per day. While a 2011 survey in the News suggests Yalies smoke at far lower rates than the national average, the University ought to implement a smoking ban on campus.

Smoking’s economic damage is clear. In 2012, despite the tobacco industry’s $35.1 billion in profits — roughly the combined profits of McDonalds, Microsoft and Coca-Cola — the costs of tobacco-related death and disease exceed an estimated $289 billion dollars.

Clarity has come with some substantial progress. Smoking rates for American adults have dropped from 42 percent in 1965 to 19 percent in 2011.

But ultimately, public knowledge of smoking’s danger is not enough to keep millions of young Americans from buying their first pack. The 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health among college-age Americans found that in the past month, 31.8 percent of Americans 18-25 had used cigarettes. According to the CDC, more than 3,000 American teenagers try their first cigarette every day, and more than 2,000 young adults make the hop from habit to addiction.

Those numbers will come as no surprise to my fellow Yalies, but millions of Americans our age smoke anyway.

Even on our campus, cigarettes have enormous social cache. They’re cool. They suggest confident vagaries at a time when our lives are in flux. A universal accessory, cigarettes look natural in the hands of hipsters, hackers, frat stars and any other identity we might try in the seven years between prom night and our third year out of college.

Smoke suppresses your appetite and calms you down. It’s a social lubricant: an excuse to chat, flirt and "step outside."

Cigarettes are still cool because they’re visible. Lucky Strike’s worldwide sales have increased by more than 10 billion packs a year since Mad Men first aired in 2007. Yale cannot stop us from watching Mad Men, but it can deprive smoking of its vogue status by making it inconvenient. A campus ban would reinforce

the uncontroversial notion that cigarettes are bad for our community, creating social space for NATHAN peers to KOHRMAN mock smoking as an At the seam u n h e a l t h y affectation.

The benefits of a smoking ban would extend far beyond our campus. American higher education looks to the Ivy League to set the example, and as of now, no Ivy League college has a campus-wide smoking ban.

(Harvard has a ban on its Medical, Dental and Public Health schools.) If Yale were to mandate a campus-wide smoking ban, it would create a precedent and political space for other universities to do the same. Our school is one of a handful of universities that has the necessary profile and social capital to launch the fight against tobacco.

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my ability to embrace spontaneity. This haircut tested this perception of myself. This grappling with change manifested itself in small and silly ways. I stopped sending snapchats because I couldn’t look at pictures of myself that didn’t look anything like me.

It took a few showers to figure out the right amount of shampoo to use, a few nights to realize that I really couldn’t go to bed with wet hair and expect my hair to take on a normal looking shape when I woke up. I’ve found that I’m much colder without the extra insulation.

I tried to think of other drastic changes I’ve had to adapt to in recent memory, but aside from leaving for college, I really couldn’t think of any sudden shifts I’d had to manage. What I’d thought of as change — new friends, new interests, new sleep schedules — had really occurred through a process closer to revolution. Maybe this was why I could both maintain a self-image as tolerant of change while in practice actually easing myself into most everything.

Was this pattern something I’d intentionally orchestrated to cushion my experiences or is evolution simply the way most things naturally come to pass?

There must be benefits to toler-

ating sudden change, the ability to acclimatize quickly to new environments, but perhaps it’s a muscle I just hadn’t exercised frequently enough for it to support this sudden shock. It’s so easy for me to avoid surprises in my dayto-day, to fall back on routines, to lean on established friendships.

At the same time, I would still like to be able to switch things up a bit without bringing myself to tears.

So if shock is a healthy emotion to experience from time to time, how can I induce shock in my generally stable life without it feeling artificial or unbearably painful? My ability to achieve this in part comes down to how I define shock. It must be sudden, it must be slightly painful, it must be new, it must be un-replicable. Because of all these qualities, as difficult as it is to endure shock, it’s equally difficult to engineer it. As I adjust to the me you don’t see in the picture by my name, I’m realizing that perhaps the strategies that enabled me to get the haircut in the first place are the best strategies for embracing shock in general. You can’t plan for shock, rather it’s an aftereffect of risk.

CAROLINE SYDNEY is a junior in Silliman College. Her column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu .

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brought me to tears while sitting in the salon chair, bits of hair still drifting to the floor. To be fair, it was CAROLINE really more like full on SYDNEY sobbing. My mother had to Selfbring a bottle of wine to the absorbed salon the next day in apology for the scene I’d made. After the whole tearful affair, my aunt reminded me: “You’re not a Barbie doll. Hair grows back.”

It was a wonderful observation, one that I’d really believed had been my attitude going into the whole thing — it’s just hair, right? But it turned out I felt differently. Multiple people have told me that this haircut was a “brave” thing to do. Let me assure you that I did not wake up on the last Saturday of spring break feeling brave. It was more like a mild sense of being ready to try something different.

Really, though, this isn’t about hair but about the desire for and tolerance of shocking changes.

While a compulsive planner and organizer, I also pride myself on

I am not the first person to recommend this policy change. Last year, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy called on schools in Connecticut to ban smoking. In 2011, Yale administrators entertained the idea of a campus-wide ban on smoking by creating a Tobacco-Free Yale Workgroup to consider policies that could reduce smoking on campus.

Little has happened.

It’s too bad. Yale could lead the charge in preventive public health, the way it has with sexual violence and, though reluctantly, with mental health. It’s needless torpor.

A galvanized multi-college smoking ban would save the American taxpayer millions of dollars and prevent thousands of premature deaths.

Yes, it seems borderline puritanical to begrudge a stressed out student the occasional midnight smoke. But when you’re 19 years old, it isn’t just a smoke. The stakes are higher than that. Our generation’s college smokers stand at the brink of a public health precipice. Yale is in a position to make sure they don’t fall off.

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omebody once recognized me based on the illustrated portrait that runs next to this column. “Are you that Caroline?” they asked, “the YDN columnist?” I was both flattered and genuinely surprised that someone cared enough about these columns to retain a mental picture of me. For this person, this little sketch — head tilt, bangs, wavy hair — was a very real dimension of who I was on the page, in addition to my thoughts and musings printed every other week. Yet, over spring break I pretty much wrote off the possibility of future celebrity spottings of myself by chopping off (technically, having someone professionally chop off) an unknown but significant number of inches of my hair.

When people ask me why I went from past my shoulders to just below my ears, I respond that it was an impetuous decision that should have been less impetuous. I woke up excited to have my dead ends trimmed, possibly a bit more, though I wasn’t quite sure how much. Short hair, don’t care was not my manifesto; it was just time for a trim. Well, I now own pairs of earrings that are longer than my hair. Watching myself become unrecognizable in the mirror in front of me as the minutes and inches quickly passed

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he semi-annual Yale Hunger and Homelessness Project fast is something of a tradition at Yale. Once a semester, students log onto SIS and donate their meal swipes for the day to rapid re-housing projects for New Haven residents going through periods of homelessness.

Last semester, about a quarter of all undergraduates participated and over $12,000 was raised for local nonprofit organizations.

As one of YHHAP’s most visible (and popular) efforts, the fast comes under a lot of scrutiny.

When I applied to be one of the co-coordinators for the fast this year, I knew in a kind of abstract way that there would be some people who took issue with the fast for philosophical or practical reasons. But it was Monday, my first day of soliciting signups for YHHAP, that I realized the extent of the philosophical rift between certain students and the fast.

One student I spoke to seemed shocked to learn that the fast benefitted residents of New Haven. He had apparently been involved in some kind of international aid organization and believed that his donation would

be better served in another part of the world where need is even greater. While I absolutely believe that there are people in even more dire straits in far-off countries, I don’t understand how a Yale student can possibly ignore the needs of our own community.

We are all currently residents of New Haven. The people who will benefit from the fast are literally our neighbors. Rapid rehousing projects are specifically designed to make recovery possible for those going through periods of homelessness. These programs help our city become stronger and more stable. While it is easy to forget the needs in our own backyard, we should not be fooled into thinking that Kiko Milano and eight-dollar sandwiches are representative of the New Haven experience. As residents of this city, shouldn’t we have some stake in its wellbeing? While Yale’s globalmindedness brings an important perspective to campus, it shouldn’t blind us to our immediate surroundings.

Another major criticism of the fast threw me for a bit more of a loop. A couple different groups

seemed weary of the “one-timeonly” and “event” nature of the fast. They seemed to think that YHHAP is whipping students up into a self-congratulatory frenzy, when the reality is that two days a year will not make nearly as much of a difference as would a constant flow of volunteerism and activism. After having had some time to process this commentary, I would say these critics have some valid points, but ultimately, not supporting the fast is the wrong way to go.

The fast is not a panacea for all of New Haven’s problems, nor is it meant to be. Instead, the fast is a way to rally all of Yale in one giant charity effort. For those who do go out every week and do volunteer work, that is amazing. But people at this school are incredibly busy. (Seriously, some people were in such a panicked rush that they didn’t even stop to hear my pitch. Either that, or they were really good actors.) Not everyone can devote that much time to volunteerism. The fast is an event that is tailor made for exactly those people.

I would also argue that the fast can serve as an educational tool.

I certainly wasn’t aware of the extent of homelessness and hunger in New Haven until I started getting involved with YHHAP. Very few people want to do serious research into homelessness and hunger; it’s kind of a downer, and those who do take the time to do research are probably already converted. The fast works well as a singular event because it doesn’t just preach to the choir. Our job as coordinators is not just to get people who already work with YHHAP to do the fast — our job is to convince people who aren’t that interested in social justice to give up their meal swipes for one day.

In the trenches, outside of an unnamed dining hall, my one trump card against the naysayers was, “It’s one day. It’s only one day.” How can a person say no to that? This week people have been asking me if I think it’s okay that the fast is a one-time event.

Tomorrow I’ll answer that I think it’s essential.

IAN GARCIA-KENNEDY is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at ian.garcia-kennedy@yale.edu .

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WINSTON CHURCHILL “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

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our frustrations have been the same as mine: infinite promises every year without meaningful change. Meanwhile, mental health policy is left unclear with students falling through the cracks, the financial burden on students has increased over the last decade through the student contribution. Student concerns fall on deaf ears as cultural houses — quite literally — fall apart, and student athletes are shown anything but support with Spring Fling in direct conflict with their schedules. We are not hearing student concerns or responding to these groups' issues.

As Yale College Council president, I would focus on garnering support from community leaders: heads of extracurricular organizations, presidents of fraternities and sororities and sports captains. Without the support of the student body, our proposals have no power. That is the essence of the problem: The YCC should not focus on ourselves or even the administration. The focus needs to be on the students; we are a body that serves you.

A unified voice You will see that I have left my platform deliberately and permanently incomplete. Perhaps as president I am supposed to pretend to have every answer, every solution — the perfect vision. I don’t. I am a computer science and mathematics major who stays up too late doing an endless cycle of work and tries to find the time for food, friends and sleep.

I am just one student with one set of experiences. I invite you now to share your thoughts and your experiences with me. I hope to hear your opinions and concerns and to translate them into a unified voice, one that makes campus a better place by the end of my term than it was at the beginning.

I hope you will give me that opportunity to represent you and your concerns.

I want to be more than just another slogan, another face, another flyer.

What makes me different is that I see the imperfections of the YCC. Great improvements have been made to the internal structure of the council and relationships with administration, but this still has not translated into

a substantive impact on campus for one simple reason: We are not community leaders, you are.

The fact of the matter is that no one looks to their YCC representative for leadership in their communities at Yale. It is the cultural houses, the publications and the volunteers on campus that lead the student body; in trying to build up the legitimacy and prestige of our own organization, we have lost touch with our mission, to best represent you. We need to ensure that we are hearing campus leaders and building relationships, so that we can advance their interests and push for greater concessions.

I cannot promise you that a student-driven approach to the YCC will get you an infallible Yale Health next year or a complete elimination of the student contribution, but I can promise to make your concerns my top priority. I can promise that when things do fall into disrepair or when students are adversely impacted by a simple scheduling error, I will take action. I will meet with the campus leaders who know the pulse of cam-

pus, and I will empower students to create the campus that they envision.

I invite you to look at my platform and see how I would fight to integrate technology into the YCC with a survey app and how I will align Yale Health’s policies with the needs of students. I encourage you to investigate how I would take immediate steps to alleviate the difficulties of students trying to meet the self-help and SIC while working toward the larger goal of eliminating that financial burden altogether.

Although the position of YCC president changes from year to year, it is important not to lose sight of the larger goals: improving mental health resources, removing student financial hardships and creating a culture where all students are heard.

While we strive toward these ideals, we must take small, concrete steps to improve students’ everyday lives.

That is my vision for Yale.

BEN MARTIN is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at benjamin.martin@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST JOE ENGLISH

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his election is not about lofty promises or trendy platforms.

This election is not about speculative commitment to the Yale College Council or conveniently newfound interests in student activism.

This election is about a progressive and pragmatic movement toward concrete reforms. It’s about providing a microphone for students on this campus who demand to be heard.

My experience uniquely qualifies me to lead the YCC. If elected, I will not face the typical learning curve of an incoming president. I have served on all three branches of YCC: the Council, Events Committee and Undergraduate Organizations Committee. As a freshman, I spearheaded a project to fundamentally restructure the organization and rewrote our constitution from scratch. I worked with members of the Council to rethink the YCC’s central mission, the efficiency of each branch, and the costs and benefits of specific reforms.

As a sophomore, I currently serve as chief of staff for the Executive Board.

In this position, I work with President

Take the mic Michael Herbert ’16 to create a policy vision, design projects with Vice President Maia Eliscovich ’16, ensure that projects are executed efficiently and manage all logistics and communications within the organization. For many key initiatives, I engage in preliminary discussions, analyze survey data, edit the final reports and help position YCC for conversations with administrators.

The day I am elected, I will hit the ground running. I know how to preserve last year’s gains and push for reform the right way, and in the right places.

Building on the experience I bring to the table, the YCC will ramp up four ongoing initiatives. We will expand resources for cultural houses, cultural groups and institutions like the LGBT Co-op and the Women’s Center. We will push forward key reforms to withdrawal and readmission policy and improve general accessibility, feedback channels and quality control measures for mental health and counseling. We will aggressively advocate for financial aid reform, with a focus on the reduction and eventual elimination

of the student contribution. We will demand a comprehensive shift in sexual assault policy and the operations of the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct. These fights have not received enough attention from the YCC, the Yale administration and the student body in recent years; Yalies deserve to see progress.

In addition to these ongoing initiatives, I hope to tackle a broad spectrum of new projects, ranging from the inclusion of student athletes on the Spring Fling Committee to dining services reform to a reevaluation of the distributional requirements. I recognize that this platform is ambitious, but I am confident that my team will have the drive and experience to deliver.

But the role of student government extends beyond policy initiatives. My administration will empower students to champion their causes through student government. YCC has the ability to assertively advocate for change before administrators and the Yale Corporation. While previous YCCs have

produced well-researched and wellreasoned reports, the top leadership has not adequately mobilized the students who are actually affected by unfair policies. It is time to change policy starting at the grassroots level. Task forces, town hall meetings and communitysourced projects empower students to work on specific issues through YCC. They will be central methods of community collaboration for my administration. By drawing on the energy, perspectives and relevant experience of engaged students, I am confident that we can finally achieve meaningful change.

This election is about the ability to deliver on platforms. Let this be the year that we step up as a community of peers, students and friends. Channel your voices through this student government; let YCC be your microphone.

Our voices — amplified and in unison — cannot be ignored.

JOE ENGLISH is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact him at joseph.english@yale.edu .

hen I joined the Yale College Council last fall, I heard some things that shocked me. Council members had been defeated, again and again, by the same university officials they’d been elected to advise.

“Well, hopefully, the administration considers our proposals,” my fellow students would say, glumly leafing through reports they’d spent weeks, months, even years creating. I couldn’t believe it. After all the time they’d put in, the best we could hope for was that the administration might look at their work?

Simply put, that’s bogus. The YCC was created to ensure a legitimate voice for students in Yale’s governance and 43 years after its formation, it has yet to provide one.

But there’s still time to make that happen. The “Unite Yale” protest last weekend exemplified the way students can collaborate to achieve their goals. Whether or not you agree with everything the protesters stood for, every student ought to get behind the one reason that brought hundreds of cultural house representatives, environmental activists and even Law School students together — having their voice heard. That’s what the YCC’s goal should be: facilitating connections between student groups like those, and linking them personally to administrators.

Next year, let’s make it happen together.

Next year, let’s believe in we.

Together, we can create new initiatives that will make Yale sit up and take notice. Initiatives like a political action council, made up of representatives from SUN, Fossil Free Yale and other activist groups. A PAC like that could work to encourage collaborative projects targeted at revisiting divestment and financial aid reform. We will make it happen.

We can design an Intercultural Affairs Council that allows cultural house members to voice their problems directly to house administrators, and prevent more from occurring. We’ll make that happen, too. We can help facilitate a student-led Interfraternity Council as well, one that would encourage collaborative fun, safe and philanthropic events, or an Athletics Council that nips problems like the Spring Fling date fiasco in the bud. We can do every one of these things, and we will.

However, this connection of students is only the beginning. If we’re going to truly unify and organize the student body, we must ensure accountability. One of the best windows into Yale’s administration we’ve got is the university standing committees, so let’s use them better than we are now. YCC representatives should work with every standing committee on campus to get student members in the room with actual administrators.

That way, we’ll keep administrators accountable by making them respond directly to us in the moment. To keep student committee members accountable, we’ll replace those who stop showing up after the first meeting so that the admins can trust us too. By connecting these organizations to Yale, we can make real progress on the most important issues we face — from sexual assault prevention to mental health reforms — without waiting 10 years for anything to happen.

But, most importantly, we need to connect Yalies directly to the highest level. Most importantly, we need to get a student voice onto the Yale Corporation.

When the 19 members of that board meet to make decisions — decisions that affect all of us — they don’t usually ask about it first.

Instead, they go into a room at some unpublished time and in some unknown location and make the call. Once those doors close, how can we ever know that any of our proposals are seriously considered? The answer’s easy: we can’t possibly be sure.

If we get a student member on the Corporation’s board, we won’t have to just hope that our voice is heard any more. As brighteyed, rosy-cheeked prefrosh, we were all promised that at Yale, undergrads matter.

Now, we ask the administration to deliver on that promise. Let’s make it happen, together.

I’ve already set the wheels in motion: three weeks ago, I spoke with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway about getting a student seat on the Yale Corporation, and he gave me his support. We finally have an opening, so let’s take it and run with it.

Our Yale community is made up of hundreds of smaller communities. The only way to have our voice truly heard is to unite as one student body and fight for it. That’s why my campaign is centered on one word: “we.” The only way WE can affect real change is to unite.

The YCC doesn’t just need another president. It needs a community organizer. Let’s give administration a chance to take our collective voice seriously — and if they do not, let’s demand it. Our voice will not fall on deaf ears because the voice of 5,400 students is deafening. This time, WE will be heard.

This election, believe in we.

ANDY HILL is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College.

Contact him at andrew.g.hill@yale.edu .

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“Fear is the foundation of most goverments.” JOHN ADAMS SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Admins respond to YCC mental health, withdrawal reports MENTAL HEALTH FROM PAGE 1 isfaction with the outcome of the meeting, they emphasized the need for the administration to follow through on what they have promised.

“They gave us specific things to expect, and [on issues they did not agree to,] understanding as to why we can’t expect them,” Herbert said. “They helped provide transparency on administrative decisions and legitimated the hard work of the report’s authors.”

During the meeting, the YCC members — Herbert, YCC Vice President Maia Eliscovich Sigal ’16, University Services Director Madeline Bauer ’17 and Chief of Staff Joe English ’17 — highlighted seven recommendations from the September 2013 report that pertained specifically to Yale Health. The recommendations included calls for a mental health student advocacy group, more centralized information, allowing appointments to be scheduled via email, improved communication with patients, improved communication with the student body, expanding staff at Mental Health & Counseling and increasing coordination with therapists outside of MH&C.

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Of these recommendations, five were accepted by Holloway and Genecin, with differing levels of implementation already complete. The YCC and the administration did not arrive at any concrete plan for action regarding improving communication with the student body. Coordination with outside therapists, while “not outright rejected,” raised questions about feasibility and efficacy, according to the YCC document.

Perhaps the most significant change came in the administration agreeing to allow patients to schedule appointments via email, something against which they had previously pushed

back. Multiple students at theforum raised concerns about the “phone tag” they had to play in order to secure an appointment, but Chief Psychiatrist of MH&C Lorraine Siggins said at the forum that there were legal considerations surrounding confidentiality. On Thursday, though, administrators confirmed that Yale Health will allow appointments to be scheduled through email starting in the fall.

I think that the evidence is all out there. It’s a matter of how much they want to commit to the idea.

MAIA ELISCOVICH SIGAL ’16 Vice President, YCC The recommendation for an advocacy group has already been fulfilled, the document said, with the 2014 creation of the Coalition for Mental Health and Wellbeing.

The coalition is an undergraduate umbrella organization for all the student groups on campus that work on related issues. It grew out of the findings of the 2013 YCC report. Though it works closely with administrators, it is entirely student-run and has no formal ties with the administration, said Corinne Ruth ’15, who sits on the coalition’s steering committee.

To address student calls for more centralized information surrounding mental health and wellness, the office of University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews is working on a website that will house relevant information, the document noted. The idea for such a website came in direct response to the YCC report, as well as several other documents that have emerged from various groups across campus, including bodies

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Students voiced concerns over the quality and access of mental health counseling at a panel on Feb. 25. in the graduate and professional schools, Goff-Crews said. She added that the first installment of the website should be available by the start of next semester.

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But the administration dealt with other proposals more hesitantly.

According to the document, no concrete steps were established to improve communication with the student body or streamline feedback mechanisms for patients. While Genecin told the YCC members that the call for improved intake appointments had been successfully implemented, he did not elaborate on what exactly those improvements

New Haven job rates rise JOB RATES FROM PAGE 1 Statistics, a program that surveys employers monthly, asking them how many people are on their payroll in a random week that month. Employees who do not show up to work for that chosen week are not on the payroll. Because there were certain weeks with severe weather in February, fewer people were on the payroll. Therefore, Flaherty said, the figure of 3,700 job losses does not account for those employees who are still employed but not on the payroll for a particular week.

Moscarini speculated that the strengthening of the dollar is another reason for February’s job loss. When the value of the dollar increases, American goods and services become more expensive, and therefore, they lose competitiveness in the international market. Manufacturing makes up a large part of international trade and also accounts for roughly 10 percent of Connecticut’s employment, Moscarini said. With manufacturing goods becoming less valuable internationally, manufacturing companies see declining business.

According to the survey data, education, construction and the food service industries have seen most declines. Flaherty said this is because these industries are

vulnerable to severe weather.

“Construction is notoriously volatile, not just to the weather but swings in demand,” Moscarini said.

Although the CES did not break down the survey data by city, Flaherty said the data does show job growth in New Haven.

He said the general trend over the past few years has been that large cities, such as New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport, experience significant job increases while small cities, such as Norwich and New London, experience slightly lower job growth.

Construction is notoriously volatile, not just to the weather but swings in demand.

GUISEPPE MOSCARINI Professor, Yale Department of Economics New Haven expects continual job growth because of shortterm and long-term construction projects, said City Hall Spokesman Laurence Grotheer.

In the short run, construction projects provide job opportunities to people like steel workers who are in the construction industry. In the long run, when

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the projects are complete and companies move into new buildings, people in other industries benefit from new job opportunities, Grotheer said.

“Together, [the construction projects] give the city a bright employment prospect,” Grotheer said.

Grotheer added that one example is the construction underway for Alexion, a global pharmaceutical company that expects to move into New Haven this year. Redevelopment of the New Haven Coliseum site, a $400 million construction project, will also bring more jobs.

Statistics from New Haven Job Corps exemplify the local upward trend of employment.

Job Corps is a training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor to help young people find jobs. The sixmonth placement rate — which measures the percentage of students who retain their jobs six months after graduation — was 98.5 percent in February. This number is significantly higher than that from last February, according to Renee Venturino, business and community liaison at New Haven Job Corps Center.

The Job Corps program opens to young people from 16 years old to 24.

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

look like, Herbert said.

“That’s something that’s honestly a little more nebulous to us,” Bauer said.

The response to the YCC’s recommendation for a staffing expansion was also somewhat unclear. On Feb. 19, Genecin sent a campus-wide email announcing that MH&C would be increasing the size of its staff but did not specify the details of the expansion. At the meeting, Genecin clarified that two new clinicians had already been hired, and that more significant growth was on its way, Herbert said. MH&C currently employs 28 clinicians.

But, the document noted, such an expansion would have to be approved by the Yale Corporation at its meeting in June.

When asked if the Corporation is required to approve all staffing increases, Goff-Crews said that budget requests and hiring decisions for MH&C are made

by Yale Health. Still, YCC members will meet with a few Corporation members in April and will push for approval, Eliscovich Sigal said.

“I think that the evidence is all out there,” she said. “It’s a matter of how much they want to commit to the idea.”

The least amount of progress was made on the recommendation that MH&C turn to outside clinicians to alleviate understaffing problems or allow students to use Yale Health insurance at private providers. Administrators called that proposal expensive,

and noted the limited number of mental health providers in New Haven, the document said.

Still, despite the limited scope of the morning’s meeting, YCC members interviewed agreed that it was a positive demonstration of the administration’s willingness to listen. The meeting exemplified that students and administrators see eye-to-eye on many of these issues in a way that was not on display at the town hall, Bauer said.

What matters now, Herbert said, is ensuring the promises come to fruition.

MH&C sees about 20 percent of undergraduates every year.

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

Keitazulu, Dixwell plumber, throws hat in the ring HARP FROM PAGE 1 for voters,” she said. “But it is what it is.”

Fair said she has been dissatisfied with Harp’s failure to establish a transparent mayoral administration. Echoing Keitazulu’s focus on unemployment, Fair also argued that city residents should be prioritized for construction hiring.

To support his campaign, Keitazulu added that he will rely on public financing, available through the city’s Democracy Fund.

The fund, which also supported Keitazulu in 2013, is a city program chaired by Jared Milfred ’16 that pursues fair elections by offering candidates matching funds and grants if they agree to not accept private donations exceeding $370.

“Sundiata and I sat down and had a lovely conversation to discuss his use of the fund,” Democracy Fund administrator Alyson Heimer said. She added that she plans to meet with Keitazulu again after he has assembled his campaign team.

Heimer added that she has not yet been approached by any other mayoral candidates who have expressed interest in utilizing the fund.

Like Harp, Keitazulu has not made a public announcement regarding his candidacy. Although Harp has not yet formally announced her plans to seek re-election, she has selected a yet-to-be-announced campaign manager, according to campaign treasurer Bitsie Clark.

Harp, who filed papers with the city clerk’s office and formed a campaign com-

mittee two weeks ago, has thus far only publicly announced two campaign team members — Clark as her treasurer and Larcina Wynn, president of accounting firm Carrington Financial Services, as deputy treasurer. City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said Harp would likely formally announce her intent to run after announcing her campaign manager.

“I’m planning on having breakfast with the mayor tomorrow to meet the new campaign manager,” Clark said.

Though Harp hosted a kickoff event at Barracuda Bar and Bistro two weeks ago and a meet-and-greet event entitled “Painting with the Mayor” last week at Art Plus Studio — the only two campaign events publicized on her campaign website — Clark said Harp has attended several informal or private events over the past two weeks.

Clark said that an especially successful event was a fundraiser at the Knickerbockers Golf Club in Dixwell — one of the oldest African-American golf clubs in the country.

She added that the campaign team is currently searching for a venue in East Rock to hold a fundraising event at some point in the next two weeks.

“People are really giving money,” she said.

“That’s been great.”

Harp did not utilize the Democracy Fund in the 2013 election. Her opponents Keitazulu, Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 and Kermit Carolina all made use of the fund.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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Female nurses paid less

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER Despite making up over 90 percent of the population, female staff nurses are paid over $5,000 less than their male counterparts, a recent study from the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California at San Francisco shows.

Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the comparative study — initiated while lead author Ulrike Muench NUR ’05 GRD ’11, now a professor of nursing at UCSF, was a PhD. student at the Yale School of Nursing — shows that female nurses earn a mean unadjusted total of roughly $10,000 less each year and approximately $155,000 less over a 30-year career than male nurses do.

The study, which controlled for factors such as geographical location, race, seniority and specialty area, could only account for half of the $10,000 raw salary difference between the genders. The cause of the remaining $5,000 pay difference is still unknown. Nurses and academics interviewed expressed concern over what could potentially be systemic gender discrimination.

“I’m a feminist to the core from the ’70s, and I find [these findings] distressing,” said Dean of the School of Nursing Margaret Grey. “You begin to wonder if there is something within the healthcare system where men are more valued than women,” she said, adding that there has been a long history of gender discrimination in healthcare.

Lecturer in nursing Judith Kunisch suggested that the differences in wages may result from women choosing to work in schools and inner city clinics that pay less than do other sites.

She added that more women than men work part time and fewer women than men choose to take on executive roles,

which may explain the pay differential.

However, all of these factors were controlled for in the study.

According to Yale professor of nursing Marjorie Funk NUR ’84 SPH ’92 GRD ’92, salary ranges exist for different clinical levels. As nurses advance through clinical levels, which are numbered one to five, their pay gradually increases.

To examine wage disparities, the study collected nationally representative data spanning the years 1988 to 2008 from the quadrennial National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses.

This survey, disseminated both on and offline, provided 87,903 of the registered nurses who were studied. A second data set, the American Community Survey, mapped salaries between 2001 and 2013, providing 205,825 more nurses for the study. Disparities were found in both data sets, with men making up 7 and 10 percent of the two survey populations, respectively.

You begin to wonder if there is something within the healthcare system where men are more valued than women.

MARGARET GREY Dean of the School of Nursing Muench emphasized that her findings alone cannot confirm gender discrimination in nursing. Rather, she said the study provides nurse employers with the opportunity to examine their pay structures and determine if any pay differences between men and women can be justified.

According to Yale professor of public health and economics Jody Sindelar, a co-author of the study, wage

disparities in nursing are particularly interesting because of the abundance of women in the field — only 10 percent of registered nurses in the U.S. are men. Most people would assume that women would be paid just as much as, if not more than, men in nursing, she said.

Erica Zyjewski, a staff nurse at YaleNew Haven Hospital who has been practicing for roughly 10 years, was also surprised by the findings. She noted that though everyone starts at the same base salary, it is uncommon for people to openly discuss how much they make, which she said could explain why these disparities are not widely known.

But Nicole Primoff NUR ’17 said the findings do not surprise her. The pay difference seems to mirror the current trend in all professions to pay men more than women, she said.

Funk agreed.

“Just because nursing is a femaledominated profession does not make it exempt from this sort of thing,” she said.

Funk, who began her career as a staff nurse and returned to this role after completing her PhD., added that a lack of transparency in how much people are paid is a “big problem.”

She supported Zyjewski’s sentiments that wage disparities are hard to identify in real time because of the lack of discussion around salaries.

“I think that’s true of nursing and of many professions. We just don’t know, and we don’t ask,” said Funk. “I think that’s a big problem.”

The study was dedicated to the late Donna Diers NUR ’64, a feminist, mentor to Muench and sixth dean of the School of Nursing. Diers passed away during the early stages of the study.

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

Nonprescription drugs now tax-free in CT

BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER Nonprescription drugs and medications are now exempt from taxation, Gov. Dannel Malloy announced Wednesday.

The new law reverses a piece of legislation passed in 2011 that placed a sales tax on nonprescription drugs and medications. The new policy went into effect Wednesday, relieving designated products from the previous 6.35 percent sales and use tax.

“Making nonprescription medications exempt from the sales tax will mean lower costs for consumers while ultimately leading to a better public health outcome for all,” Malloy said in a press release. “Preventative care is a necessity, and by eliminating these sales taxes, we are helping our residents save some money, stay healthy and improve quality of life.”

The new policy is a result of a state law that Malloy signed in 2014. Items that are now sales tax-free include vitamins, antihistamines, cough, cold, asthma and allergy medicines, pain relievers, antacids and other similar medications. Prescription medications were already exempt from sales taxes.

The Connecticut Department of Revenue Services published an online document detailing which types of products are included in the recently enacted exemption. The document splits these nonprescription drugs into several categories, such as antiseptics, steroidal medicines and dietary supplements. The tax exemption does not cover contraceptive products, diuretics or san-

itary napkins and tampons. However, diet and weight loss products, as well as nutritional food drinks, powders and bars, will be exempt.

“This tax exemption provides consumers relief against rising costs, and we applaud Governor Malloy’s leadership in introducing and signing this bill,” Consumer Protection Commissioner Jonathan Harris said in an email. “This measure will help consumers buy the medicines they need to stay healthy and active.”

Making nonprescription medications exempt from sales tax will mean lower costs for consumers.

DANNEL MALLOY Governor of Connecticut Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman said in the press release that Connecticut’s leadership in healthcare “means stronger families and a more competitive economy.”

Vincent Candelora, a state representative on the public health and regulations review committees, said he supports the tax exemption.

“It is important for necessities, such as clothing, food, and medication to be exempt from taxation,” Candelora said. “Otherwise, it hurts low-income people.”

Ten other states exempt nonprescription drugs from taxation.

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

More students take courses at SOM, University wide

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER The School of Management is getting more popular, specifically with other Yalies.

In the coming year, the ascendant business school plans to continue its efforts to open and advertise its courses to students from the University at large — continuing a trend established over the past five years.

Since the 2010–11 academic year, the number of joint degree applicants to the SOM already enrolled in another Yale program has increased from 34 to 51. Meanwhile, the number of applicants from students and graduates of other Yale schools has increased from 40 to 54.

But the biggest increase has come in the number of non-SOM students enrolled in SOM courses — while there were 503 in the 2010–11 year, there are now 1029. SOM Dean Edward Snyder described the figures as encouraging because they reveal that the SOM is becoming a more central resource for all kinds of Yale students.

“What a school of management does is of interest to a lot of people and having a high quality naturally can lead to this outcome. People want to understand how organizations work, how markets function, and the business school is the place to go,” Snyder said.

SOM Associate Dean Anjani Jain said he thinks this crossover is due to the school’s rising status among business schools in addition to new steps to further integrate the SOM into Yale curricula more broadly. For example, he cited the SOM’s collaboration with the School of Public Health to create a health care management track, adding that similar efforts have taken place in other areas of the University. Jain said he has talked to his counterparts at all of the other graduate and professional schools to encourage students to take courses at the SOM, especially those that do not require many prerequisites.

However, although Yale College students have taken more advantage of SOM courses, this does not mean that these students have also been more inclined to apply to a SOM degree program after completing their own.

Although Yale College has been the top feeder for the SOM’s MBA program since 2012, applications from Yale College graduates to the SOM have decreased from 52 in 2010–11 to 42 for 2014–15 Snyder said he is not concerned about the drop. However, he acknowledged that this is it an area in which the SOM should improve, as it hopes to maintain Yale College students as its number one source of talent.

One area in which the SOM has seen a lot of cross-over from other areas of

the University is in its Executive MBA program — designed for students who have already been in the workforce for several years. Out of 52 students in total, the EMBA Class of 2016 has seven students with another kind of Yale affiliation, which SOM Associate Dean David Bach said is noticeably high.

One of these students, Sorin Fedeles GRD ’10 SOM ’16 said he decided to make the transition from academic research in the biomedical sciences to the SOM in order to go into an industry setting. He said that because teamwork is highly emphasized at the SOM, he has not had a difficult time transitioning back into the school setting from doing research.

People want to understand how organizations work … and the business school is the place to go.

EDWARD SNYDER Dean, School of Management However, when it comes to interacting with students who are enrolled at other schools throughout the University, collaboration can be more challenging, Rob Wu SOM ’15 said.

Wu said that while some professors do a good job of randomizing groups within classes to encourage interdisciplinary banter, other professors do not.

“I’ve been in classes where I’ve benefited from the different perspectives that, for example, the [School of Forestry and Environmental Studies] students bring as opposed to the SOM students, but I’ve also been in classes where we don’t interact as much because we didn’t have to and if you don’t have to then people do what’s comfortable,” he said.

Tyler Godoff SOM ’16, who has had a positive experience interacting with students from other schools, said he finds students from outside of the SOM have a notable presence in the SOM. He said he is taking a class on global catastrophes in which only roughly half the students are from the SOM. The other students come from FES, Yale Law School, the School of Public Health and the School of Medicine.

Since 2010, the number of SOM students taking classes at other schools within Yale has also increased.

For the 2010–11 school year, this number was 380 students, and it has now grown to 509 students.

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“There was a time when our people covered the land ... but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.” CHIEF SEATTLE

NACC searches for new director

Faculty consider ways to fill gap left by PSE PSE FROM PAGE 1

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Dean Cutter will continue to serve as head of the NACC until a suitable replacement is found.

NACC FROM PAGE 1 the tribe of the new dean does not matter, Toste said, what is important is that he or she is accepting of Native Americans from all backgrounds.

Students also reflected positively on the current work that Cutter has done for the NACC. Although currently on paternity leave, Cutter has been both supportive and organized, going out of his way to ensure that student clubs receive adequate funding, NACC member Karleh Wilson ’16 said.

Like members of La Casa, NACC students are looking for someone who is able to navigate Yale’s administrative structure and advocate for Native students, Wilson added.

Additionally, the NACC is looking for someone whom students can

seek as a friend or confidant within the center’s close-knit community, NACC member Vanessa Noelte ’16 said.

Two key characteristics brought up at the meeting were energy and authenticity, Noelte added.

“I want [the new dean] to have a lot of energy and to be authentic in the sense that he acts as a dean but is still able to relate to kids and to hang out,” she said.

Students also mentioned the possibility of having a female dean, as female Native Americans are the “minority within the minority” at Yale, Noelte said.

Wilson said it is important to have a dean who is open to talking about issues relating to mental health. Citing Cutter’s current dedication to the topic, Wilson said students need a place to discuss Yale’s problems in

the context of their cultural community.

While the job posting has been made, the committee is hoping to interview applicants this month, Noelte said. The goal is to have someone hired by the end of the school year, but if no appropriate candidate is found, the NACC will continue with Cutter at its helm, she added.

“The committee is doing a fantastic job of getting students involved in the search process,” Noelte said.

“We have a lot to say, and the dean really does set the tone for the entire house.”

The NACC was founded in 1993 and moved to its current location at 26 High St. in fall 2013.

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Schmuttenmaer said that using this model could lower the dropout rate, since students could be more selective in their interest and still engage in the interdisciplinary mission.

“Some of these pointy kids might be interested in other things too, so taking both semesters might appeal to them,” said Chang. “But some will want to focus on biology or physics, so they might just take one of the classes.”

Chang added that there is significant faculty interest in bringing back a modified “Perspectives” course, particularly from C. Megan Urry, professor of physics and astronomy and a longtime member of the PSE community. She told the News in March that she and other faculty members were “plotting” to advocate for the program in coming years.

Some current PSE students expressed strong interest in the idea.

“This would be so much better — [right now] it’s a half credit, and you only get credit for the first semester if you do both semesters, so it basically forces people to stay in the program,” said Alois Cerbu ’18, currently enrolled in PSE. “They’d have better retention [in the new model] because there are plenty of people who are interested in physics and not biology and vice versa. Yet at the same time, students have the opportunity to explore fields that are perhaps outside their area of expertise.”

Another option would be to expand the range of intensive science freshman seminars available to prospective science majors.

Chang, who teaches the “Topics in Cancer Biology” freshman seminar, said the future of education for freshmen may be in offering accelerated yet accessible seminars that allow students to explore their interests in depth.

“Science is all about interaction. The best way for undergraduates to learn science is in a small seminar format with an experimental basis,” said Chang. “I don’t think you can beat that.”

Chang and Schmuttenmaer both emphasized the degree that small seminars can enhance a learning environment and encourage passionate participation in a way that lectures cannot.

Additionally, said Schmuttenmaer, students enrolled in “Perspectives” or in certain freshman seminars are able to explore some of the most exciting topics in science before they might otherwise be able to do so in the traditional science track.

The best way for undergraduates to learn science is in a small seminar.

SANDY CHANG ’88 Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine “That was the awesome thing about ‘Perspectives,’” said Schmuttenmaer.

“Students got the opportunity to learn about stem cells, quantum computing, black holes — it was the heart of science. It was the opposite of an intro freshman course.”

Currently, though, only two freshman seminars require advanced science placement to take part in the class — Chang’s cancer course and molecular, cellular and developmental biology professor Robert Bazell’s “Current Issues in Medicine and Public Health.”

Neither of these ideas are likely to come into fruition in the coming academic year, Schmuttenmaer said, adding that he hopes either expanded seminars or a new PSE-style program will be rolled out by fall 2016.

As of 2010, 46.5 percent of freshmen who originally intended to major in the sciences switched to non-science majors by their senior years.

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Kiko Milano finds niche on Broadway

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Despite initial student concerns about Kiko Milano’s price points, the cosmetics store is attracting customers with affordable products.

After the opening of Kiko Milano drew student criticism, the store’s success at 1 Broadway has encouraged the Italian company to continue moving forward with expansions across the United States, according to an employee who wished to remain anonymous because of company policies about speaking to the press. Kiko Milano opened last November, occupying a site — owned by University Properties — that had remained vacant for over a year.

When Kiko Milano opened in November, students criticized the store for its overpriced, unaffordable and unnecessary options unsuited to the New Haven retail environment. But since January, the store has drawn a variety of customers from New Haven and beyond with affordable prices, the same employee said.

Associate Vice President of University Properties and Director of New Haven Affairs Lauren Zucker said in an email that she was disappointed by Yale students’ criticism of Kiko Milano, especially after various surveys had consistently revealed a student desire for a cosmetics store on Broadway.

Zucker added that contrary to what many students initially thought, Kiko Milano boasts affordable price points.

Students interviewed agreed with Zucker, expressing that they had previously held misconceptions on Kiko Milano’s affordability.

“I really thought it was going to be super expensive, but I went in and they were super helpful,” said Darby Herkert

’18. She said she was surprised to find mascara for only $12.

Zucker said that when University Properties was looking to fill the vacant 1 Broadway spot, they approached many popular cosmetics retailers to satisfy students’ requests. She added, however, that the stores UP brings to the downtown area must attract shoppers from throughout Connecticut, instead of just Yale, because the University is not in session for the entire year.

“It is critical to find tenants who serve our immediate local population but also draw shoppers from a wide radius around New Haven,” Zucker said. “The mix of tenants cannot be just student friendly or the merchants do not survive, past history would show.”

Three Kiko Milano employees said the store draws customers mainly from outside of Yale’s campus, either from the surrounding New Haven area or throughout Southern Connecticut.

Although K iko M ilano does not keep any data on the demographics of their customers, Mark Abraham ’04, director of nonprofit DataHaven — which collects and analyzes data about economic trends — said Broadway draws customers from outside New Haven through chain stores such as the Apple Store.

Still, while Kiko Milano seems to rely on customers from outside New Haven, Rebecca Brooks, a manager of Denali — an outdoor clothing store on Broadway — said their business relies heavily on the Yale community.

“At times when schools is out, we don’t do as much business,” Brooks said. “There’s a direct relation between Yale and our business.”

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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Kiko Milano, which opened in November, aims to draw from a consumer base composed of both Yale students and area residents.

Torre joins Achievement First board

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER Less than two months after opposing a partnership between charter school network Achievement First and the New Haven Board of Education, Carlos Torre, the board’s president, has been announced as Mayor Toni Harp’s replacement as a member of AF’s board.

At a meeting on Feb. 17, Torre and fellow board member Alicia Caraballo expressed disapproval of a proposed financial partnership that would have seen the creation of a new charter school, Elm City Imagine. But in a Thursday interview with the News, Torre said creating a connection between the two boards would be a reasonable endeavor.

“I can’t speak to how people are going to react to [my joining], but if I’m going to be on the [AF] board, I need to advocate for what I feel is best for our students,” Torre said.

A government statute requires the president of the city’s Board of Education, or his designated replacement, to serve on the charter schools’ governing councils. According to Torre, the previous president of the Board of Education had designated Harp as his representative. He added that when he became president, he did not see any reason to question her position. But, in late March, Harp requested that Torre serve in her place.

Torre said that among his goals for his new position on the AF board is to evaluate whether charter schools are fulfilling their original purpose: to find new ways to better teach more challenging students. He added that there is a need to advocate for students who are not doing as well in education, as opposed to having charter schools that teach only students with high test scores.

Elm City College Prep Board Chair Dick Ferguson and Amistad Academy Board Chair Carolyn Greenspan welcomed Torre’s participation on their leadership board in a joint statement to the News.

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even greater collaboration and partnership between AF and NHPS, as both organizations work toward the common goal of improving educational outcomes for New Haven’s public school students.”

New Haven Board of Education Communications Director Abbe Smith said that historically, the two organizations have had a strong relationship and have even partnered on a program devoted to educating administrators.

Torre, however, said he is hesitant for the Board of Education to jump into a formal partnership with AF. He said any organization seeking partnership with the New Haven Public Schools would have to include the board in their plans from the beginning. Otherwise, he said, the agreement would be less of a partnership and more of a compromise, which would not be good for the students.

Still, Torre stressed that the lack of an agreement did not signify a conflict between charter schools and public schools.

Rather, he said, the board wants to ensure that all of its students are receiving education that is “academically sound.”

Jeremiah Grace, Connecticut state director for the Northeast Charter Schools Network, said he was disappointed that politics came into play when making a decision that could impact the lives of students in New Haven.

“We have vocal naysayers that don’t always speak truth to the work that our schools are doing,” Grace said, adding that he thought politics played a significant role in the initial negotiations between the board and AF. Grace said he hopes once Torre is on the board and more familiar with the work of the organization, he will be more supportive of its efforts.

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Despite Grace’s insistence that the move was political, Torre said one of the main reasons for rejecting Elm City Imagine was that AF did not communicate with the board early enough in the process. According to Torre, Achievement First had been working on the project for two years, but he was only made aware of it in December.

“The single most important element in determining the quality of the education is the interaction that takes place among everyone involved, and that wasn’t happening,” he said.

“This is very important work that needs to be taken into consideration.”

Since its inception, AF has grown into a network of 29 schools in five cities, serving 9,500 students in grades K through 12.

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

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“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”

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Yale lab studies impact of educational games

BY LIONEL JIN STAFF REPORTER Amid the boom in educational video games, a game developer based in both San Francisco and Mexico is trying to set itself apart.

Over the next two years, the company Yogome will be partnering with the Yale lab play2PREVENT in an effort to improve the educational value of its “Heroes of Knowledge” games. These games aim to teach elementary school students about subjects ranging from math and science to health and sustainability, and game developers will use data collected by the Yale lab to increase the

games’ effectiveness.

“There are a lot of games that claim to be educational, but here we are committed to doing some trials to measure the impact on the kids,” said Manolo Diaz, CEO of Yogome.

Diaz said the play2PREVENT lab was a natural choice for a partner, as the lab already has experience applying rigorous methods to evaluate video games. In an ongoing study, play2PREVENT is conducting a randomized controlled trial to evaluate outcomes of PlayForward, a game that the lab developed to decrease rates of risky drug, alcohol and sexual behavior in adolescents.

Diaz added that play2PREVENT shared Yogome’s vision of creating games that children will enjoy not just in class but also outside of the academic context.

Studies show that kids learn more outside of school, Diaz explained, and limiting the use of these games to schools greatly reduces their impact.

According to Lynn Fiellin, director of play2PREVENT, the researchers will engage key stakeholders such as parents and teachers, in addition to the children, to better tailor the games to each of their needs.

In the “Heroes of Knowledge” games, the Evil Queen Ignorantia

tries to destroy the planet, and it is up to the children to save the day.

They embark on missions that require them to draw on the skills and knowledge they learn through the games.

“Parents really like the hero concept,” Diaz said. “It gets kids excited about the subjects, and if they get excited about practicing math, learning becomes that much easier.”

The games developed by Yogome are not meant to replace classroom teaching and traditional forms of homework, Diaz explained. Rather, they are meant to be complementary. The technology is still in the early stages,

he added. The team hopes that children will spend the time they would have spent playing consumer games on the “Heroes of Knowledge” games instead.

Michael Young, professor of educational psychology at the University of Connecticut, cautioned that much of the research in educational technology overlooks how the same game can have differing effects on individual children depending on their mindsets during gameplay.

“You give a video game to two children, and they may play it very very differently,” he said. “One could play Angry Birds to try to destroy the pig houses, but you

could also be trying to figure out how a catapult works. You would expect very different outcomes, but most research misses this factor.”

Nevertheless, Yogome is confident that the collaboration will improve the quality of their games. The company has created a team dedicated to reworking the games based on feedback from the Yale lab.

Since it was founded three years ago, Yogome has received $2 million in funding from angel investors.

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

OCS same-day appointments serve job seekers

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER For the second year in a row, the Office of Career Strategy is offering same-day appointments for seniors who have yet to secure postgraduation plans.

After a successful launch last spring, OCS Director Jeanine Dames said these Senior Strategy Sessions are meant to make the office’s service as accessible as possible to students still exploring options for the coming year. Dames said that as 50 percent the Class of 2015 has yet to commit to employment or schooling after Yale, same-day appointments are meant to remind students that even if their plans are still up in the air, they should not feel that there are no dedicated resources for them.

“It’s important for students to know there are so many wonderful opportunities for the weeks and months ahead,” Dames said.

“There’s more of an immediacy if you just wake up that morning, hop onto the online system, hit a button and secure a 30-minute appointment.”

Seniors can book the same-day sessions by logging onto the OCS Symplicity system.

Though seniors could also schedule appointments in advance or meet with an adviser on a walk-in basis, Dames added that the sessions allow students to seek help completely based on their own schedules.

Same-day appointments were made available starting March 1, three weeks earlier than they were last year. Dames said the switch was meant to target seniors before spring break and has already proven effective. Last year, about 75 seniors took advantage of the same-day appointments in total. In the four and a half weeks since the sessions were made available this spring, 21 students have come in, more than at this point in 2014.

Director of Career Services and Alumni Advising Elayne Mazzarella said the same-day sessions are intended to help students at every stage of the search process — from students who are just beginning to think about options to those who are deciding between job opportunities.

Mazzarella, who meets with each senior who schedules a same-day appointment, said her calendar reliably fills each morning when students can sign up for appointments in the afternoon. On Wednesday, her schedule was

completely full, and the day before it was at 75 percent capacity, she said.

Two students interviewed who used the service said they found the counselors to be open and flexible to tailor it to their specific needs. Vicky Luh ’15 said she scheduled a same-day appointment before spring break and found the resource particularly helpful at a time when her peers seemed to have their plans secured.

“They keep telling you that most Yalies don’t find jobs until May, but you never believe it,” Luh said. “You go to dinner and you hear people who have jobs, who know what they’re doing, and as one of those people who doesn’t yet know it gets really stressful. Going into spring break I saw there were things I needed to work on and do before I came back.”

Luh said what she appreciates most about the service was that Mazzarella continued to check in with her for weeks after their meeting.

Of the five other seniors interviewed, only one said she knew about the same-day appointments. All said they did not rely on OCS when finalizing their plans for the coming year.

Sara Torres ’15 said she thinks OCS counseling sessions can be most helpful when students need help polishing cover letters or resumes but added that she never applied to a job through OCS. Caroline Andersson ’15 said her experience with an OCS counselor was underwhelming and that she received little constructive advice.

“I went [to OCS] and I said, ‘I don’t know where to start with this job search … I really have no idea what sort of job I’d like or what industry,’” she said. “The advice is less based on what interests the person who’s sitting there and more about whatever the career specialist works on. They just give recommendations of websites to look at.”

Summer Baxter ’15 echoed the sentiment, adding that she felt OCS job opportunities were almost always targeted towards students interested in going into business.

For the class of 2014, 51 percent of seniors secured their post-graduation positions in March or later.

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu .

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FLYING // BY MADELINE KAPLAN

Jamie wrote me a song once. He only came up with the chorus, though, so I don’t know if that counts. The song was a guitar and a voice. It went like: Girl, you’re like a rainbow And I just wanna see all the colors of that rainbow It was a good song, even if he rhymed rainbow with rainbow. The tune was catchy. You have to hear it, I think, to really get that it was good.

Jamie is in a band called Fuckleberry Hinn. Like the Mark Twain book. Fuckleberry Hinn used to be Jamie and Max and Stella, but Max moved to Vermont and Stella just sort of stopped showing up, so now it’s a one-man band.

Some people wouldn’t want to be in a band by themselves, but not Jamie. He is kind of a lone wolf type. He came in third at this year’s Battle of the Bands, just him and his guitar. Some people say he’s like a young Steven Daiber. Steven Daiber is a guy who went to our high school a few years ago and came in first at the Battle of the Bands, and now he works at the Arby’s in the mall food court.

Jamie first played the song for me in August. We were in our usual spots: me on the small couch with the big rip on the side and him on the ugly yellow armchair.

“This one’s called ‘Renée,’” he said.

“Like my name?”

“Uh huh.”

He started playing. Even though one of the strings on his guitar was missing, it sounded awesome. I felt very lucky to be sitting there with him, listening to the song he made for me.

Then my left foot lifted off the carpet.

At first I thought that I was just getting into the song or something. But then it was like I couldn’t control it, the foot just kept rising, higher and higher, and then the right one followed and then I was floating. I was about eye level with this poster of Michael Jordan that Jamie has in his basement. It’s a life-size poster, for reference.

“Whoa,” said Jamie. He put down the guitar.

“No! Don’t stop playing!” But I kept on floating. I was trying my best to think of heavy things like elephants and paperweights, like maybe I could will myself back onto the ground. After a few seconds it worked, and I drifted back to the orange shag carpeting.

“Are you okay?” Jamie asked. I nodded. “That hasn’t happened before, has it?” I shook my head. “So, does that mean you liked the song?”

“It’s the greatest thing I’ve ever heard.” I asked him if he was planning to finish “Renée,” since it was so beautiful and could probably be a hit if he recorded it. He said he would work on it, but why was I always trying to pressure him to work on stuff, and I said I just believed in him was all, and he said something about how hard it was to think of words that rhyme with Renée and it turned into this whole big thing.

But anyways, that’s when I realized I could fly. *** Mom made me go to the doctor, just to make sure.

“Flying?”

“Yup.” Dr. Vraiman looked confused. He

asked if I could show him what I meant by that.

I hovered a bit, like I had at Jamie’s house. I was able to move around the doctor’s office on my own. I’d been practicing in front of the mirror for a few days by that point.

“It definitely seems like flying,” said Dr. Vraiman. He frowned. “There’s not really a space for that on the form, though.”

“Do you have any advice for how I should fly?” I asked. “I don’t want it to be dangerous.”

“Don’t go too fast, I guess. There aren’t too many specifics on that.” He paused and looked down at the form.

“Are you sexually active? Because, if so, there’s a whole checklist.”

I told my lunch table about the flying thing a few days later. Monday seemed too soon and Tuesday was Danielle’s birthday. I didn’t want her to think I was trying to steal the spotlight or anything.

So I waited for a lull in the conversation on Wednesday.

“Seriously? That’s frickin’ awesome.” said Annie.

“So close to my birthday,” said Danielle.

“Damn,” said Nora. “That’s gonna make a killer college essay.” *** Jamie wrote me a poem once. The poem was an acrostic, but still. It went like: Really beautiful smile English is her favorite subject Never forgets anyone’s birthday Éggplant pants (that one’s an inside joke) Everything about her makes me happy I taped the poem to the inside of my locker, next to my class schedule, so that I could see it at least seven times a day.

Jamie would walk up behind me and say “Eggplant pants!” and we would laugh, every time. *** My dad is always talking about longterm and short-term goals. My longterm goal is to be a writer who writes about music. My short-term goal is to go to college. My shortest-term goal is to write the essay that gets me into college.

I met with the college counselor a few weeks into the school year. Her name is Ms. Dreyfus. She swears in front of students, which is cool. Other than that she’s just okay.

“Here’s my essay,” I said, sliding the paper across her desk. “I wrote it a few days ago. It’s called ‘How Flying Helped Me Come to Terms with the Death of My Grandfather.’”

“Renée,” she said. She didn’t look happy. “My God, Renée. You turned this into a dead grandpa cliché?”

“It’s just that we were really close so —” “Jesus, Renee, it’s not about that. I’m sorry for your loss. But do you know how many essays about dead grandpas those admissions officers have read? It’s old news, Renée. It’s old hat.”

“Maybe if I wrote about something else then? Maybe something other than my grandpa or flying?”

“No, Renée, of course not. The fly-

ing is gold. Fucking gold. Maybe if you turned the flying into some sort of metaphor?”

“I don’t think —” “Turn it into a metaphor and get back to me.” *** Lots of days I did homework in Jamie’s basement while he messed around with his guitar. Sometimes that involved more tuning than playing. Jamie is pretty meticulous.

“Why did you get to leave Mr. Konetsky’s class early?” he asked, turning one of the knobs a little too far to the right, then too far to the left.

“They had me go to some physics class for a demonstration. About resistance or something, I don’t know.”

“Cool.”

“Yeah.”

We didn’t say anything for a few minutes while he tweaked an uncooperative string.

“It’s like you’re a celebrity or something,” Jamie said.

He strummed the guitar. It sounded terrible. *** “Do you think the flying is psychological?” Annie asked me one day in homeroom. The thing about Annie is that she is always trying to diagnose everybody.

So I usually take what she says with a grain of salt or whatever.

“It’s definitely physical flying. I go up in the air. I move really fast. I don’t think it’s a dream or anything.”

“No, I mean like maybe it has a psychological cause. Have you been unusually sad lately?”

“Nope.”

“Unusually happy?”

“Not really.”

“How are things with Jamie?”

“They’re good.” I was staring at my desk and chewing on my thumb. “Did I tell you he wrote me a song?”

“Yeah.” she said. “Multiple times.”

I looked up. It seemed like a good moment to make meaningful eye contact with her, to have my eyes say “figure me out” or “what’s the next move” or something, but it didn’t matter because Annie was looking away. I followed her gaze to a boy by the door. The boy wasn’t staring back at her. He just kept turning the pencil sharpener, even though there wasn’t a pencil in it. Annie shook her head.

“O.C.D.” *** Sometimes when Jamie and I were sitting in his basement, I would just look at him. There are some people you can look at forever and their faces stay interesting. That’s how my mom feels about Dennis Quaid. It’s also how I feel about Jamie.

He has good hair — brown and longish, so that it curls up from the sides of his neck. He opens the left side of his mouth wider than the right. He has movie-star teeth.

I wonder if Jamie ever thought about me like that. Not that I have an especially interesting face. But maybe he thinks my eyes are shaped like big grocery-store almonds, or that my ears are a good size for my head. I don’t know. It’s probably self-centered for me to think about that.

It didn’t seem like Jamie liked the fact that I could fly. Maybe he didn’t like that I was getting attention instead of him.

He never said that, outright. He isn’t really an outright person. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, obviously it’s just something I’ve noticed. When you spend a lot of time with someone, you realize things about them that even they don’t know. *** One of the neat things about being able to fly is that you get to be interviewed on the 6 o’clock news. My segment was third, after an exposé on some brand of 2% milk actually having an extra percent and the announcement of the Wisconsin State Lottery numbers.

The interview questions were easy to answer, especially since the redheaded anchor lady spoke very slowly.

“When did you first learn you could fly?”

“A few months ago.”

“What a surprise that must have been!”

“Yeah. Well, at first I didn’t know what was going on, so I was sort of calm I think.”

“And how does it feel when you’re up there, Renée?” the redheaded anchor lady asked. She didn’t seem to be blinking enough. I wondered if maybe her eyes would dry up and fall out of their sockets, and then the eye-raisins would roll off the desk and over to the weatherman, and he would pick them up and say something like “Looks like a dry one today!”

“Renée?” the redheaded anchor lady repeated. Her eyes were still socketed.

“How does it feel?”

“It feels…” I couldn’t think of anything good to say. “Like I’m flying.”

“What a sense of humor, Renée!” But she didn’t laugh.

There were a few more questions and then it was over, since they had to reveal more lottery numbers. We could hear the announcement from across the studio.

“3-45-23-6-7!”

“Shit,” said the redheaded anchor lady, ripping a Million-Dollar Winsconsin Lotto card in two. *** “I figured it out!” Annie told me a few days later.

“Figured what out?”

“The flying! It’s a metaphor!”

“A metaphor for what?”

She wrinkled her nose. “I dunno.

Life?” *** Jamie and I broke up last week. Well, he broke up with me. But I don’t have to tell people that.

We were in his basement, as usual.

“Is this because of the flying?” I asked.

“It’s not unrelated.”

“Is this about how I got to be on the news? I know you were jealous of that.”

“Of course not,” he said, but I could tell he was lying. I can always tell when Jamie is lying. “Mostly I think I just need time to myself, to focus on my music.”

“But you’re already focusing on your music. You spend all your time down here, working on the band.”

“That’s the thing,” Jamie said. “I don’t know if Fuckleberry Hinn is working out.

It’s kind of weird being the only one in the band. And it’s not even that funny a name.”

“It is if you’ve heard of the book,” I said. By this point I was definitely crying, mostly because I couldn’t help it but also because I knew it would make him feel bad.

I thought about the poem, which was still taped to my locker, and how I would have to take it down, and how the paper would rip. I thought about snapping one of his guitar strings, or at least twisting one of the knobs really far in one direction so that it would take hours for him to re-tune. But what I really wanted was to get out of that stupid basement.

“Oh, and by the way,” I said as I stood up, “it’s not that hard to think of words that rhyme with Renée.”

“Oh yeah?”

“Yeah.”

“Like what?’

If I had happened to have a rhyming dictionary with me, I could have told him parfait or display or soufflé. I could have said valet or survey or fillet. I could have made him feel really dumb.

But I guess it’s impossible to plan for these sorts of things, so I just gathered up my stuff and flew home. *** The second draft of my essay took a lot longer than the first. For one thing, I had a lot of stuff on my mind. For another, I couldn’t think of any good metaphors.

But eventually I thought of something to say.

I had a follow-up meeting with Ms. Dreyfus to show her the draft of my new essay. She had me read it out loud.

Flying

By Renée DuFrain Lots of kids dream about flying. They jump off of couches and diving boards into pillows and pools. They want to be pilots and astronauts and butterflies.

When I was little I wanted to be a pirate, or possibly a mermaid. I had no interest in soaring through the air or touching the clouds. And the funny thing is: I’m the only person I know who can actually fly.

Most people think that being able to fly would be great. They think it would be really peaceful to be all alone, up in the sky. The population density of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I live, is 6,214.3 people per square mile. In the sky it’s just me. And birds. But birds won’t throw you a surprise party or come to your little sister’s baptism or write you a song.

People don’t realize that it can be lonely up there.

Everyone says flying is some kind of metaphor, but for what? I don’t think it has to mean anything. Maybe one day I’ll want to be alone, speeding through the air like some kind of superhero. Right now I would rather be on the ground.

Flying didn’t make me more adventurous. It just made me confused. I’m still the same person, I think. So here’s a metaphor for you: Flying is like not flying. It’s just higher.

Ms. Dreyfus looked at me.

“Renée,” she said. “That’s a fucking simile.”

Contact MADELINE KAPLAN at madeline.kaplan@yale.edu .

//Laurie Wang

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“I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.” LEBRON JAMES TWO-TIME NBA CHAMPION

Elis take on Tigers W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 San Diego State.

“We played well as a team and were able to come up with a big win despite terrible weather conditions,” midfielder Kelly Anne Sherlock ’16 said last Sunday. “We are excited to use that drive and positive energy to come out strong against Princeton next week.”

Leading the Tigers in points are midfielder Olivia Hompe with 25 goals and nine assists and midfielder Erin Slifer with 20 goals and 12 assists. The Princeton team as a whole has averaged 26.4 shots per game, creating a 44.5 percent shot average within the past 11 games.

On the defensive end, Princeton’s starting goalie Ellie DeGarmo has saved 65 out 74 shots, giving her a save percentage of 46.8 percent, which places her three rankings below Yale goalie Erin Mullins ’15 at fifth in the league for save percentage.

Though Princeton looks impressive on paper, the Elis are still going into the game focused on themselves.

“What we’ve learned this season is that our team excels when we focus on ourselves, not on our opponents,” said Walker.

Attacker Tess McEvoy ’17 explains that throughout the season the Yale team has been working on improving its communication and playing as one unit in both the offensive and defensive ends of its game.

Meanwhile, Walker said the team can prepare for the game against Princeton by reflecting on the hard loss against Columbia a couple of weeks ago. Walker believes that the loss helped reveal the small changes that needed to be made in practices in order for the team to evolve into more scrappier and tenacious players.

“To counter against Princeton, in practice we have been developing the fluidity of our transition game, solidifying our fundamentals and simply focusing on smart and intuitive play throughout the field,” defender Maggie Moriarty ’16 said.

The Bulldogs’ progressing game performance is evidently shown

in the overall league statistics.

Defender Victoria Moore ’17 is ranked at second place while midfielder Christina Doherty ’15 and defender Walker are both tied for third for number of caused turnovers per game.

Offensively, attacker Nicole Daniggelis ’16 is currently ranked at fourth for draw controls and attacker Erin Magnuson ’15 is ranked at seventh in the league for number of assists per game.

According to Moriarty, she thinks the Bulldogs have a strong foundation and the right tools in order to overcome Princeton this weekend — that it comes down to which team has more desire to win.

“We have a game plan for our play that we intend to execute, and that’s what we’re working on perfecting this week,” Walker said.

“Saturday will be a battle, but it’s a battle we intend to win.”

The Bulldogs will face off against Princeton at noon on Saturday.

Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

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The women’s lacrosse team is just over 0.500 this season with a record of 6–5.

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Only one Yale pitcher, righty Mason Kukowski ’18, has an ERA under 4.00.

again in extras, using two doubles and a single to plate three runs that ultimately proved to be the difference in the game.

Even in the loss, there were bright spots for the Bulldogs, as righty Drew Scott ’18 limited the Hawks to just two runs over seven innings in his strongest start of the year. Slenker continued his hot hitting, finishing the night 2–3 to bump his batting average to 0.409 this season.

“I have just been seeing the ball well and not trying to do too much at the plate,” Slenker said. “I’m staying aggressive and swinging at good pitches to hit.”

This weekend, the Elis will look to find the same success they have had all season in the batter’s box, as the team hits 0.271 as a whole with a conference-leading 0.375 on-base percentage.

The offense will need to solve Penn’s pitching staff, which boasts four of the top six pitchers in the conference. Reigning Ivy League pitcher of the week, southpaw Ronnie Glenn, allowed just three runs over 14 innings last week for the Quakers, including a complete game effort against Harvard.

“We’re going to try to put the ball in play hard,” White said.

“There isn’t much we can control beyond that. As long as we stay within ourselves and execute when we need to, we should be fine.”

Righty pitcher Chasen Ford ’17 added that the pitchers have confidence knowing that the team has a reliable offense that will fight to put up runs.

Yale, on the other hand, has the worst earned run average, 8.45, as a pitching staff. That does not bode well for its games against Columbia, the top offense in the Ancient Eight.

Columbia currently hits 0.278 as a team with a 0.384 slugging percentage, good for 5.33 runs per game. Two Lions in particular, outfielder Joe Falcone and utility player Jordan Serena, are dangerous at the plate, hitting 0.363 and 0.344, respectively.

Both Penn and Columbia split their doubleheaders against Dartmouth before sweeping Harvard last weekend. The two teams will continue to jostle for the top spot of the Lou Gehrig Division after tying for first at the end of last season, with Columbia winning the playoff before sweeping the championship series.

“We need to play clean and get leadoff hitters out,” Slenker said.

“Offensively, we need to just stick to our approach. We want to have tough at bats, hit the ball hard and challenge the defense.”

Ford and White agreed, with the infielder adding that as long as the team focuses and plays “Bulldog baseball,” the Elis will be competitive in all four games this weekend.

The Bulldogs remain in a threeway tie atop the Red Rolfe Division, as both Brown and Dartmouth split their past weekends as well.

The first pitch is scheduled for noon on both Saturday and Sunday.

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But Weisenbach is not the only driver of the Elis’ success — there is also an array of younger players who have contributed to the team.

At the top of the lineup, Glover has accumulated a 0.325 batting average and has scored 10 runs in her sophomore campaign, while third baseman Allison Skinner ’18 is hitting a solid 0.321 with five RBI. Righty pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18 has three of Yale’s four wins this season, posting victories on the mound against Florida A&M, Central Connecticut State and Cornell. She has a 3–2 record and has racked up 41 strikeouts in 38 innings pitched with a 1.29 earned run average.

“I always try to keep hitters off balance by going inside and outside and changing up my pitches,” Casalino said. “I definitely want to avoid as much solid contact as possible by using my changeup. I am just staying loose and trying not to think too much.”

Casalino and the other Yale pitchers will have their hands full on Saturday against Penn. Casa-

lino described Penn as one of the best teams in the Ivy League, as the Quakers are already 3–1 in the conference. They boast two starters with batting averages above 0.400: Junior Lauren Li leads the offense with a 0.436 batting average and 26 hits, while infielder Jurie Joyner is hitting 0.462 with a 0.673 slugging percentage.

In the matchup on Sunday with Columbia, the Bulldogs are concentrating on playing hard and maintaining a high energy level, according to captain Sarah Onorato ’15, who is also a sports columnist for the News. Yale matches up well with the Lions, who are 1–3 in the Ivy League and have a 4–16 overall record. The Lions are led by sophomore slugger Kerry Cook and pitcher Tonia Wu. “I think we have the ability to compete against any team in this league if we come out with good energy, score early and minimize defensive mistakes,” Onorato said.

The doubleheaders with Penn and Columbia on Saturday and Sunday are both scheduled to kick off at 12:30 p.m.

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The Bulldogs have already had 15 games canceled or postponed due to weather this season.

Lacrosse faces Big Green

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The Bulldogs are on a two-game winning streak after defeating Penn 15–7 and Sacred Heart 13–3.

M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 However, the Big Green of February and early March shares little resemblance with today’s more fearsome Dartmouth squad.

“They’re pretty legit this year and they beat Harvard; they’re a very good team,” said midfielder Jason Alessi ’18. “It’s an Ivy League game, so you know it’ll be a one, maybe two-goal game.

We’re ready for a fight.”

Since losing to Sacred Heart, the Big Green has reeled off wins in three of four games, including a defeat of No. 15 Harvard.

Dartmouth has shown a knack for late-game heroics in the past few weeks, with all three victories coming by just a single goal.

On the other hand, the Bulldogs struggled in the beginning of Ivy play before righting the ship last weekend. Yale was doubled up at home by Cornell, 14–7, and followed that defeat with an 11–10 loss to the rival Princeton Tigers.

Facing a potential 0–3 Ivy League start, though, Yale regained control with Saturday’s easy win over Penn and Tuesday’s blowout of Sacred Heart.

With their confidence back and two consecutive home Ivy games on the slate, the Elis have a golden opportunity to put together another lengthy winning streak.

Before last week’s 8–2 defeat at the hands of Cornell, Dartmouth had shown impressive offensive output, with an average of 13 goals in their three previous games. The Big Green’s balanced offensive attack is led by sophomore attackman Wiley Osborne,

whose 17 points lead the team, and freshman midfielder Jack Korzelius, who has put together an impressive 13-goal freshman campaign.

On the other hand, Dartmouth has struggled to put together a solid defensive effort this season. The Big Green and its goalie, junior Blair Friedensohn, rank last in the Ivy League with over 13 goals allowed per game. Friedensohn’s 45.2 percent save percentage also ranks last in the Ancient Eight, making pinpoint Bulldog shooting and offensive teamwork the keys to overwhelming Dartmouth.

“We’re going to have the ball a lot … we can score pretty much at will when we’re patient and we get the little details right, so if we focus on that it’ll take us far in the postseason,” said midfielder Shane Thornton ’15.

In the past two games, the Bulldogs have shown both the offensive and defensive potential that can carry them far in the Ivy League and NCAA tournaments.

When asked about their postseason dreams, however, the Bulldogs proved noncommittal.

“We haven’t put much thought into our postseason opportunities,” midfielder Colin Flaherty ’15 said. “There’s still plenty of lacrosse left to play and our main focus is simply to win the rest of our games and see where we’re at when the regular season ends.”

Yale hosts Dartmouth on Saturday at Reese Stadium. Face-off is at 3 p.m.

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The Elis have two hitters — first baseman Eric Hsieh ’15 and third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 — hitting above 0.400.

Yale gears up for Princeton at home

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Lacrosse looks to defeat Dartmouth

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On a two-game winning streak, the Yale women’s lacrosse team returns to Ivy play this Saturday with a chance to declaw the Princeton Tigers.

After consecutive victories against Penn and Sacred Heart, the No. 11 men’s lacrosse team faces Dartmouth on Saturday with a chance to pull their Ivy record up to an even .500 and climb up the conference standings.

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The Princeton women’s lacrosse team most recently fell to Delaware in a 10–12 upset.

The Yale baseball team has a challenging weekend ahead, as the top teams from the Lou Gehrig Division travel to New Haven for a pair of doubleheaders.

The Bulldogs’ (8–9, 2–2 Ivy) offense will have a tough task against the Ivy League’s top pitching staff in Penn (8–9, 3–1), which enters Saturday’s contests with an earned run average of 3.61. The Elis then face on Sunday the defending Ivy League champions, Columbia (11–10, 3–1), the only team with an overall record better than 0.500.

Yale will need to bounce back from a 5–2 extra-inning loss on Wednesday night against Hartford (8–14, 3–1 America East), in which the Bulldogs managed just two runs on six hits despite averaging 6.5 runs per game entering the day.

“We had the chance, and unfortunately [we] weren’t able to pull

it out,” third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 said. “We just need to bring more energy and focus to the games this weekend.”

The Elis were trailing 2–0 heading into the bottom of the seventh, but they got on the board after third baseman Mikey Sliepka ’18 walked and first baseman Alec Hoeschel ’17 doubled to the rightcenter gap to bring the freshman home. With the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth, however, the Bulldogs were only able to push across one run on a walk by Sliepka and could only tie the game.

Yale had another quality opportunity in the ninth to put away Hartford, with a runner on third base with just one out, but strikeouts by center fielder Green Campbell ’15 and infielder Harrison White ’17 ended the inning and sent the game to the 10th.

The Hawks found their bats

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For the remainder of the season, the Elis (6–5, 1–2 Ivy) will only face Ancient Eight opponents. The remaining four competitions will determine which team gets to inch forward to the final Ivy League tournament in May. The Elis will face-off against Princeton (7–2, 2–0 Ivy), currently ranked at number 15 in the nation.

“Princeton is always a tough team to go up against, and they’ve been especially strong this year,” said defender Kate Walker ’16.

The Tigers were on a three game winning streak until falling to Delaware in a 10–12 upset last Saturday.

But in conference play, Princeton has cruised through games against Harvard and Dartmouth to pull out two wins from their Ivy foes. Meanwhile, Yale recently won two nonconference games, one last Saturday against

The Bulldogs are coming off of a dominant pair of wins — defeating the Quakers and Pioneers by a combined margin of 18 goals. But defeating Dartmouth and extending their winning streak to three should prove more difficult.

Looking at the season as a whole, the Elis and Big Green have followed opposite trajectories. Yale’s season started out with a promising 5–0 record that included an upset victory over top-five team and perennial power Maryland.

On the other hand, Dartmouth opened the season with three consecutive losses, two by double digits. Their third contest was a 10–9 defeat at the hands of Sacred Heart, whom the Bulldogs beat by a lopsided 13–3 margin on Tuesday.

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Saturday’s matchup against Dartmouth will have a significant impact on Ivy standings.

After delays, softball plays four

BY JACOB MITCHELL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale softball team will take on Quakers and Lions this weekend in two home doubleheaders against Penn and Columbia.

SOFTBALL The contest for Columbia was originally scheduled for today but was pushed back to Sunday due to weather concerns. The games against Penn are slated for Saturday.

The postponement of the Columbia game adds to an already extensive list of weather-related scheduling issues for the Bulldogs this spring. Yale has only played 13 games this season, and they have had exactly the same number of

games either canceled or postponed.

“The games [against Columbia and Penn] are very important, especially since we have had quite a few cancellations due to weather this season,” right fielder Camille Weisenbach ’17 said. “We are still trying to forge our identity and grow as a unit.”

Although the Elis (4–9, 1–1 Ivy) are coming off of a Wednesday 16–6 loss in five innings to UMass Amherst, they split a pair of games earlier this week against Cornell on Monday in their first Ivy League action of the season.

Perhaps the most troubling statistic thus far for the Bulldogs is their slugging percentage, which is just 0.275, sharply down from last year’s 0.316 figure. But players are confident that the pair of

doubleheaders will be good for the team.

“Hosting four Ivy games this weekend is exciting, and we’ve been waiting for this opportunity all season,” outfielder Syndey Glover ’17 said. “It will be nice to finally play a full set of weekend games, especially on our home turf.”

Weisenbach enters Saturday’s showdown on a four-game hitting streak as the primary slugger for the Elis. With a 3–3 performance at the plate, along with two runs batted in, against UMass on Wednesday, she improved her batting average to a team-high 0.444. Additionally, she leads the Bulldogs in hits, RBI and the slash-line statistics: slugging per-

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Due to the weather forecast, Yale’s games on Friday were moved to Sunday instead.

THE NUMBER OF GAMES THE SOFTBALL TEAM HAS POSTPONED OR CANCELLED THIS SEASON. This year’s difficult weather conditions have resulted in this unusual start to the season.