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“Safer Sex Fiesta.” The Safer Sex Fiesta is taking place today — an event hosted by Yale Health Student Wellness, Peer Health Educators and the LGBTQ Co-op. “Want to try and break open our piñatas?!?!?!” the event description reads. Students dropping by Cross Campus will be treated to free STI consultations, a trivia wheel with prizes, safer sex supplies as well as actual piñatas.

faculty members — Jun Korenaga, professor of geology and geophysics and Steven Pincus, professor of history — and ten Yale alumni were chosen from nearly 3,000 candidates as Guggenheim fellows for achievements in scholarship or the creative arts. The prize is given out to candidates from the U.S. and Canada by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Day at the Museum. Yesterday was the fourth annual Family Day at the Peabody Museum, even though everyday is basically family day at the kid-friendly natural history museum. Families who attended enjoyed games in the Great Hall of Dinosaurs including a Dino Egg Golf Game and a Life Cycle Game, as well crafts to make masks. A puppet show was also held in the museum’s auditorium.

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CLAY denied Dwight Hall membership

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Coffee break. Morning Joe stopped by campus yesterday for a talk in LC. Joe Scarborough is the host of weekday news talk show Morning Joe on MSNBC and a former Republican Congressman from Florida. The discussion was hosted by the William F. Buckley, Jr. program.

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also said the tone of the overall campaign season has been hostile. Of 10 students interviewed, six said they have heard negative remarks against individual presidential candidates in the form of personal attacks and allegations. Four students said they were indifferent to the elections.

“People are going after each other and talking about how they’re better than others, which defeats the purpose of elections,” said Ryan Simpson ’17.

On April 11, the four presidential

After spending the year as a provisional member of Dwight Hall, Choose Life at Yale (CLAY) — Yale’s pro-life student organization — was denied full membership status in Dwight Hall’s Social Justice Network for the upcoming school year.

The approximately 90-member Dwight Hall Cabinet, which comprises member group leaders and executive committee members, gathered Wednesday night to vote on CLAY’s status within Dwight Hall.

After deliberation, they denied the organization membership, blocking further access to Dwight Hall’s resources, including funds, cars and printing services.

“We are all obviously disappointed and frustrated with this decision, especially after having gone through this year-long provisional process,” said Christian Hernandez ’15, the president of CLAY’s Spring 2014 board.

Each full member organization of Dwight Hall is allowed one vote during cabinet meetings, according to Shea Jennings ’16, Dwight Hall’s public relations coordinator. Representatives from each organization up for a vote, including CLAY, gave a brief presentation before the cabinet voted, she added.

Jennings said that the body does not debate immediately before a vote, as Dwight Hall assumes each representative comes bearing the carefully considered views of his or her member group. Still, in the weeks leading up to the vote, she added that discussion among

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Each of the four Yale College Council presidential candidates has commented on the negativity surrounding the election.

BY NICOLE NG AND POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTERS In the days leading up to the campus-wide Yale College Council election, candidates and students have expressed disappointment about the prevalence of negative attacks and allegations circulating around the presidential candidates in the race.

All four current presidential candidates — Ben Ackerman ’16, Michael Herbert ’16, Sara Miller ’16 and Leah Motzkin ’16 — agreed that since the opening of the campaign period on

April 10, the atmosphere around the election has become increasingly negative. All four said campus discourse appears to have shifted dramatically away from candidates’ platforms and proposed policies for the improvement of student life.

“This year seems to be more focused on personal character attacks,” said Eric Eliasson ’14, who ran for YCC president in 2012. “I don’t think it was like this [in 2012] …

It was more focused on who had the right ideas, who had the right experience.”

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School of Art hosted an opening reception for undergraduate senior projects in art yesterday evening in its Green Hall Gallery on Chapel Street. The exhibition has been open since Saturday and will remain open until April 23. Seventeen senior students are showing their work.

Varsity status. Following six

Ivy League championships, the women’s rugby club team at Brown is being elevated to full varsity status, to begin in the fall. The team will become Brown’s 21st women’s varsity team and 38th varsity team.

Brown is the second Ivy to elevate women’s rugby to intercollegiate varsity level following Harvard last fall.

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nline education platforms have been touted as the schools of the future — but they have also roused anxieties for their potential to send brick-and-mortar institutions like Yale into the past.

As universities flirt with the educational uses of technology, they must think big while keeping true to their longstanding values. YUVAL BEN-DAVID reports.

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Kappa Theta sorority at Dartmouth announced they will not participate in formal recruitment process next year, instead adopting a more casual recruitment process to reduce exclusivity and superficiality.

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Former University President Richard Levin, who led the country’s second-oldest university for two decades, will step into utterly new territory next week.

UPCLOSE Levin will become the CEO of Coursera, a for-profit online education venture that took roots in 2012 — and his new title is a move towards the marriage of 21st century technologies with liberal arts education.

Coursera — a site that broadcasts free university lectures to the public — is the leading platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs), a venture that is steadily gaining steam in the educational community. The site currently has 7.1

million users and 108 partner institutions.

News outlets heralded Levin’s appointment last month as the beginning of a new era that will weld emerging technologies with traditional institutions. Picking up his office phone with nearly breathless enthusiasm, Yale Law School professor Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84 declared that Levin’s role will bolster the potential of online education to change the world.

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Despite modifications to the grading policy changes at the Yale School of Management, many students are still not happy with the new system.

BY LAVINIA BORZI AND LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTERS Following controversy around recent grading policy changes at the School of Management, senior faculty and administrators have reached out to dissatisfied community members and made slight alterations to its new policy.

But though SOM faculty and administrators call the new result “close to optimal,” some students and alumni remain less than pleased.

SOM Associate Dean Anjani Jain first notified the SOM student body on Feb. 24 of grading policy changes that included adding a fifth grading category on the scale of “Fail” to “Distinction.” The new policy also mandated the full disclosure of grades on students’ transcripts, as well as the implementation of a fixed grading curve in courses.

Previously, SOM students’ transcripts only displayed a course grade if it was a “Distinction” mark — a notable feature that

many students and faculty members said set SOM apart from other business schools.

Under the original policy, SOM placed less importance on grades than on students’ other accomplishments, making the school unique, they said.

After many students protested the new policy, SOM administrators called for two town hall meetings in April, and SOM Dean Edward Snyder also traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with a group of alumni unhappy with the new policy. On April 7, Snyder notified the SOM community of two amendments — one that changes the full transcript grade disclosure to a partial transcript grade disclosure, and another that solicits feedback from students and alumni for the new nomenclature of the grading categories.

Snyder said he is glad to have engaged in constructive dialogue with students over the policy.

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or all of the debate that Yale University’s policy on sexual misconduct has generated over the past year, you might think we could begin to see some tangible improvements in campus culture. Yet Yale is still rife with instances of sexual misconduct — specifically, sexual harassment. At this point, sexual harassment is so normalized within Yale’s culture that we no longer even consider it noteworthy.

Perhaps because sexual harassment can be less obvious than purely physical forms of sexual misconduct, students are more likely to brush it off. It can be easy to convince yourself that authorities would not feel the need to respond to complaints of nonphysical unwanted sexual advances. But perhaps it is also that many students are so uninformed as to what constitutes sexual harassment that they are not even aware that they are the victims — or perpetrators.

WE OFTEN FORGET THAT HARASSMENT COMES IN MANY FORMS Many people associate sexual harassment with the classroom or workplace — a quid pro quo scenario in which an individual in a position of authority forces unwanted sexual advances upon a student or employee in exchange for promise of professional success. That is the definition of sexual harassment we are most used to, but it is by no means exhaustive.

We forget that harassment can come in many forms, and we are witnesses of it more often than we’d like to admit.

It happens in our extracurricular organizations, in our classes and in our friend groups. Sexual harassment can take place anywhere, in any social scenario. It includes unwelcome sexual comments, stalking, remarks about a person’s physical appearance and a variety of other actions that are outlined in the Yale University Statement of Sexual Conduct.

Sharing someone’s intimate photos, no matter how eager your friends are to see them, is sexual harassment. Groping your friend when you see him or her at Toad’s, even if intended

in a playful manner, is sexual harassment. Making repeated sexually explicit jokes about an individual’s personal life during your fraternity’s initiation, no matter how funny and supposedly private the event is, is sexual harassment. Pressuring a victim to not report his or her experience to authorities is sexual harassment.

Actions like these create a hostile environment for the victim, making scholastic and professional success nearly impossible. In more serious situations, sexual harassment can lead to emotional and physical distress — and given the current state of Yale’s mental health services, we should be doing all we can to prevent this sort of emotional harm.

Beyond the impact they have on the victim, these actions are illegal and prohibited by Yale University. Repercussions vary from a reprimand to expulsion.

At the end of the day, I do have confidence in the student body of Yale. I would be hardpressed to find many individuals who think that the scenarios I outlined above are acceptable. But it is not just individuals who are responsible for sexual harassment. It is a campus culture promoted by group mentalities and a reluctance to reanalyze long-established traditions. The nature of Yale’s historically hierarchal groups prevents individuals from speaking out against what they know is wrong out of fear of social repercussion or “respect” for the institution.

But we can no longer exempt certain actions from being considered sexual harassment solely because they are deemed “tradition.”

I do not write this article solely to prevent sexual harassment. I also write this to assure victims that the University — the SHARE Center or any other campus authorities — will consider your complaints legitimate. This is not your inability to “take a joke.”

This is not “guys being guys” (or “girls being girls” — by no means is sexual harassment gender exclusive). This is a serious problem that Yale — and colleges throughout the United States — face. Silence on the issue leads other students to believe their concerns are unwarranted. For every instance of sexual harassment that goes unreported, we are creating a culture in which sexual misconduct is considered permissible.

n less than two months, I will be a Yale College alumna.

My biggest regret? Not having the time left to make the changes I most want to see on this campus: broader education as to what constitutes intimate partner violence (IPV), more effective prosecution of its perpetrators and the creation of safer spaces on campus for victims and survivors.

Violence is not always physical. In cases of IPV, there are often no scars, no questionable bruises. A relationship need not involve physical or sexual assault for it to be abusive. Coercion and manipulation have many more insidious forms. A partner may refuse to let you leave following a fight. They may make you believe that any unhappiness they feel is entirely your fault, or refuse to let you leave the relationship because you “owe” them, or because they do not want to break up. None of this requires any physical force; all of it can be achieved with words, and all of it is abusive behavior. Many emotionally abusive relationships

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or past attendees of the Bulldog Days extracurricular bazaar, last week’s News feature (Apr. 9, “How many is too many?”) is both familiar and unsurprising, the picture of last spring’s event both nostalgic and stressful. It might be hard to process the article’s declaration that Yale has nearly 500 student organizations if it weren’t for the clear photographic evidence: Masses of overwhelmed freshmen struggling through a maze of student activity spokespeople and their DayGlo hued poster boards. To spend a fair amount of time at even half of these booths would require a whole day. Yale’s prefrosh event is the Metropolitan Museum of extracurricular fairs.

The article and its pictorial testimony describe the unparalleled abundance of student organizations that Yale offers. It also suggests that a clear majority of freshmen feel overwhelmed by the lengthy list of academic, cultural, athletic and artistic outlets officially recognized by the University.

Even exploring the school’s extracurricular website, which doesn’t involve the nauseating deluge of sound and motion involved in the real-life bazaar, is exhausting. It also reveals the immense overlap that accompanies the proliferation of special interest organizations. We have two distinct philanthropic groups concerned with treating preventable blindness and eye disease. Do the few differences

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assault. We must broaden our horizons to include violence in all of its forms. When we teach freshmen about consent, we need to educate them on the symptoms and warning signs of IPV as well. When we teach sophomores and student body leaders the principles of bystander intervention, we must show them what to look for and how to intervene when they suspect someone they know may be involved in an abusive relationship.

IPV is difficult to recognize and combat effectively, but that does not mean it should be left by the wayside. If anything, this adds to the urgency of addressing it as deeply as possible, as soon as possible. No bad behavior will ever be stamped out completely — but we can do much, much more than we are doing to make sure that violence is minimized on campus, and that the victims and survivors of IPV are able to feel safe and secure here at Yale.

MONICA AGUE is a senior in Silliman College. Contact her at monica.ague@yale.edu .

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between HappyHap blog and Inspire Yale merit having two distinct organizations?

Doesn’t “Save the World Club” espouse the same aims as every other humanitarian project on

campus?

Our ability to specialize these extracurricular interests is ostensibly positive, but the extreme multiplicity of Yale student organizations is self-defeating. Freshmen experience a choice fatigue of surreal proportions. We often cling to the first activities we decided we liked because the prospect of further exploration is physically and mentally overwhelming; the majority of my current commitments are those I found first at Bulldog Days. Plus the relative exclusivity of many activities — those requiring audition or application — makes it tougher to transition out of our comfort zone after freshmen fall, even if those doors are still open. Making dramatic switches seems infinitely more challenging when the adrenaline rush of those first months has ended and when time is scarce.

The extracurricular experience is frustrating on many fronts.

The excess of student organiza-

tions, as the article points out, is financially unsustainable according to the current budget for such activities; this budget limitation is complicated by the uncertainty of metrics for awarding funding to student groups. I overheard a friend discussing the phenomenon of state pride clubs: “I can literally just get a group of people from Pennsylvania to sign and they’ll give us money to buy food and shirts.”

Though that may not be the exact process, the procedure for gaining club recognition is anything but stringent, and the minimal regulation of how this funding is applied is clear in the number of snack breaks and happy hours across campus. Such events can certainly be important opportunities for organizational bonding and the general enjoyment of students, but these are extravagances that limit funding for other campus projects. There are undoubtedly other organizations that currently struggle to exist on limited funds.

A cappella groups and publications already self-finance — the former by performing for pay, the latter by selling advertising space.

It’s clear that the school will inevitably need to limit the financing of student organizations further, but that need not occur in broad and indiscriminate cuts to the maximum allocation they can receive.

Instead, we ought to make these organizations apply thoughtfully

and in detail for funding for specific projects; if those projects are determined to require the maximum allocation, and offer impact and meaning in line with the goals of the organization, that seems fair.

But let’s leave organizations to fundraise for their own extravagances. This doesn’t mean denying cultural houses funding for meaningful food-oriented events, which can certainly fall under the category of impactful to the goals of such an organization. It means letting these state-enthusiasm societies sell t-shirts for a profit to support unnecessary dinners and outings, rather than expecting the school to do so. If organizations are expected to work to selffinance for luxuries, those “front” and illegitimate groups that the News article calls out are less likely to sustain themselves — perhaps even serving to limit the overwhelming proliferation of extracurricular groups, if only by a little.

It also encourages overlappinginterest groups to merge and cooperate for smart budgeting and selffinancing.

Fundraising is not a cure-all, but asking organizations to be partly self-sufficient is a powerful budget tool. Yale student organizations, it’s time to bring back the bake sale.

CAROLINE POSNER is a freshman in Berkeley College. Her columns run on Thursdays. Contact her at caroline.posner@yale.edu.

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dents so that they understand its full scope.

The University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct has made important strides in inclusivity and fair punishment over the last several years. Nonetheless, it is important for both the Committee and fellow students to remember that victims of IPV often have nothing but stories on their side. No matter how terrifying or true, these stories do not necessarily make for a straightforward trial, nor do they weave tales easy for bystanders to understand. Regardless, they are still extremely important in cases of IPV — and, often enough, they serve as the only form of evidence against perpetrators. Victims and survivors of IPV should not be incidentally discouraged, whether by peers or systems bigger than themselves, from reporting their abuse on account of the difficulty of establishing hard evidence.

If we are to truly change our campus’ sexual culture, we cannot limit our focus to cases of physical violence and sexual

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

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also carry elements of sexual or physical abuse. But those elements that are most straightforward to pinpoint as abusive are not always the most damaging ones, and do not need to be present for a relationship to be violent.

As a campus, we’ve spent the last several years reevaluating and attempting to change our collective sexual climate. There have been successes and failures, changes and stagnancies. While dialogue has expanded over the course of my four years here, one of the most consistently underexamined issues has been IPV. There is a detailed list of warning signs available on the SHARE website, but it’s the type of information that you will only come across if you’re looking for it.

There is not, to my knowledge, comprehensive education at any point in a student’s Yale College career as to what may constitute IPV. This is a grave oversight, as IPV is poorly discussed and understood in broader society, and its signs and symptoms must be explicitly taught to stu-

wo winters ago, I stood on the beach in a remote part of western Costa Rica, after having somehow managed to convince my poor parents — all they wanted was one relaxing week to shake off the exhaustion of their 8-to-8 hospital work schedules — to forsake a less adventurous vacation and rent a little bungalow on the edge of a tiny coastal village.

If you were a local resident (or even a tourist, for that matter), the sight of this guy standing on the beach would have seemed bizarrely out of place. Clad in seersucker shorts and a polo from a Vineyard Vines sale, I looked out at the shimmering bay as the obvious question hit: “Who are you?”

The answer, in that moment of handicapping self-consciousness only possible in a setting vastly different from what you’re used to, wasn’t obvious then and it isn’t now. I wasn’t the extremely awkward, slightly foreign, vested elementary school kid who would sprint home after school. Nor was I the middleschooler in Kentucky who came from New York and started to pick up all the social cues. But, now a sophomore at Yale, I also knew that wearing a salmon (not pink) polo and seersucker shorts didn’t make me an East Coast yuppie on the inside any more than

it made that girl I’d pass on Old Campus every day (wearing some variant of blue scales and red feathers) Lady Gaga.

JOHN Go ahead, AROUTIp s yc h o a n a lyze. It’s not OUNIAN a hard case.

After growJohnny up in Come Lately ing an Armenian immigrant household where every day felt like a climb for everyone involved, you say, you probably wanted validation, and turned to the clothing of the WASP elect (even though this has become so cliché that the WASP elect are now scrambling to diversify their wardrobes). Or, perhaps, you wanted to stand out when you went home, wearing “I go to Yale” because it was too obnoxious to say it aloud. Or, you just liked pink.

All these explanations are probably somewhat true. Yale is full of middle and upper middle class kids who resemble young, fit, hungry dogs: They’ve tasted meat for the first time, and their eyes have a crazed intensity about them. Go to the next J.P. Morgan information session, or stop

by the News, if you really don’t know what I’m talking about (or, for that matter, read through Yale College Council election histories since time immemorial).

But as these questions of success and identity clash, weird things start to happen – and the effects certainly aren’t limited to any class. People start to become their “hyper-selves,” and soon it feels like campus is drowning under the influence of its own individuality. People become all kinds of archetypes: the bubbly (often wealthy) guy with the great hair in all the photos, the Yale Political Union hack, the YCC bureaucrat, the radical activist, the conservative crusader, the Gaga, the jock. You could go on.

As colleges like Yale become ever more diverse and international, these archetypes take on all sorts of new variations, but the fundamentals stay relatively constant. None of these categories are bad in themselves (debatable, I know), but they all present the possibility of their own pink polo moments.

When these moments happen, if personal experience is any guide, another hard question can sometimes present itself: Which is the bigger joke: that my self has been narrowed into this specific identity that only represents a small part of who I actually am, or that I’ll have to pretend to be the

same person I was before I left?

Look, some people don’t end up asking themselves these questions. Some feel like their developed identities represent them very well, and that’s fine.

I remember my personal surprise at seeing how comfortable a group of students was on a summer trip with felt in their suede shoes, pants and jewelry. It wasn’t showy masquerading as understated, it was just understated. Ostentatiousness in America really is, more often than not, insecurity or classconsciousness in disguise.

Everyone has heard the cliché that you should be yourself, because everyone else is taken.

But what do you do when you’re already taken? Everywhere you look, personal lives are individualized and planned: parenthood, relationships, even relaxation.

This makes the urge to distinguish yourself on established, tangible terms very strong, and it suggests something deeply wrong with American university life. It leads to inadvertent close-mindedness, and it phases out a deeper connection to intangibles.

JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact him at john.aroutiounian@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS TUESDAY, APRIL 15.

The article “Yale unfazed by tax increases” mistakenly referred to the Beaver Hill neighborhood as Beaver Creek.

The article “Architecture students design New Haven home” mistakenly stated that the address of the house being built by the Vlock Building Project is 179 State St.; in fact it is 179 Scranton St. Additionally, the article incorrectly spelled the name Jessica Flore Angel, and mistakenly attributed the title of “Professor” to Critic and Director of the Building Project Adam Hopfner. The students also began their designs in January, and not after Spring Break as stated in the article.

The photograph accompanying the article “Phillips recounts hijacking” showed economist Kenneth Rogoff ’75, not Captain Richard Phillips.

Harvard, Pitzer take action on fossil fuels

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER While the Yale Corporation has yet to announce a decision on whether Yale will take steps toward divesting its endowment from the fossil fuel industry, universities across the nation are moving forward with combatting climate change.

In the week since the Yale Corporation’s latest meeting, Pitzer College and Harvard University have taken steps to counter climate change through investor action. On April 7, Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust announced that the school’s endowment will become a signatory of the Carbon Disclosure Project’s climate change program, a nonprofit organization that publishes data on companies’ carbon emissions. Five days later, Pitzer’s board of trustees voted to approve divestment from fossil-fuel related investments.

While members of Fossil Free Yale — a student group pushing for Yale to divest — said the recent developments at Pitzer and Harvard mark important progress for the fossil fuel divestment movement, they added that the Yale community still has work to do to effect a similar outcome here.

“We’re issuing an invitation to our sister institutions in higher education: Come join the party,” Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley said during Saturday’s announcement. “It’s so much fun to do the right thing.”

With the announcement, Pitzer College became the first higher-education institution in Southern California to commit to divesting its endowment of fossil fuel stocks. By the end of this year, Pitzer will sell about $4.4 million in fossil fuel related investments, mainly in oil and gas companies, from the school’s $125 million endowment. Trombley could not be reached for comment for this story.

Though Harvard University decided against divesting its $32 billion endowment from the fossil fuel industry in October, it became a signatory last week to both to the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) climate change program and to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) — a network of international investors with a set of voluntary principles that provide a framework for integrating environmental, social and governance factors into investment analysis. According to Faust, the Harvard Management Company will manage Harvard’s endowment in a manner consistent with these principles.

“Both these significant steps underscore our growing efforts to consider environmental, social and governance issues among the many factors that inform our investment decision-making, with a paramount concern for how the endowment can best support the academic aspirations and educational opportunities that define our distinctive purposes as a university,” Faust wrote in her announcement.

While Fossil Free Yale members interviewed expressed excitement at the success of Pitzer’s divestment campaign and noted how Pitzer’s response has set an important precedent, they emphasized that Yale is a different institution from Pitzer.

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Harvard’s endowment recently became a signatory of two programs designed to combat climate change through investor action.

Yale’s endowment is 168 times the size of Pitzer’s.

Among Pitzer’s five core values listed on the school’s website, two are social responsibility and environmental sustainability.

Fossil Free Yale member Gabe Rissman ’16 said Pitzer actively encourages student input on how the school is run and embraces student activism.

“I hope that the same can happen with the Yale administration,” Rissman said. “It’s encouraging. Pitzer did something that worked, and hopefully we can follow.”

Fossil Free Yale project coordinator Elias Estabrook ’16 praised the recent developments at Harvard, citing an April 10 letter signed by more than 100 Harvard faculty members urging the university to reverse its decision against divestment.

Harvard’s new commitment to the Carbon Disclosure Project also sets important precedents in the divestment movement, he said.

“From the policy side, I’m sure we’re going to be working a lot harder with connecting our unique proposal for [carbon emission disclosure] to this precedent that was just set,” Estabrook said.

Several months ago, Fossil Free Yale recommended that Yale ask any fossil fuel companies it invests in to disclose the emissions they generate relative to their energy production, a metric designed by the Carbon Disclosure Project, to give Yale an empirical estimate of each company’s impact on the climate.

Rissman said it was frustrating that Harvard officially endorsed the Carbon Disclosure Project’s climate change program before Yale did but added that he is glad Harvard is working toward similar goals as Yale.

Fossil Free Yale Outreach Coordinator Mitch Barrows ’16 echoed Rissman’s statement, adding that he is looking to now follow Harvard’s lead.

“I think what happened at Harvard is a good indicator of what divestment does,” Barrows said. “It pushes for change [and] pushes for a paradigm shift. That’s one of the great things about the divestment campaign.”

The Yale Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility has the final authority to decide the issue of divestment at the University.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER Though the University’s system of managing faculty positions — known as “slots” — will change slightly, the size of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will remain constant, according to a report emailed to professors Monday. The report compiled the findings and recommendations of the Academic Review Committee (ARC), a committee charged in August 2012 with reviewing the allocation of faculty positions across University divisions and departments.

In the release, the ARC recommended the creation of a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Faculty Resource Committee (FRC) to oversee both a new common pool of faculty slots and the permission process for conducting searches for new faculty. Under the guidance of the FRC, departments will once again manage their own slots, as they did before the recession, and fewer slots will be left vacant.

“We really decided to design a new process, a new system that would guide the University moving forward,” said Steven Berry, an economics professor and chair of the ARC. “We’re trying to put governance of faculty resources in the hands of the faculty.”

Compared to the current central committee responsible for faculty slots, the FRC will include more professors who do not serve in administrative roles, Berry said.

The FRC will manage the new pool, known as the Faculty Resource Pool, which will con-

sist of half-slots drawn from some of the faculty slots that will become vacant, the report said.

These half-slots will be available each year to departments to match with their own half-slots.

These resources can be used to support diversity or spousal hires, to help meet teaching needs and to support general academic excellence. Individual departments can draft proposals to use some of the pool resources.

Deputy Provost Tamar Gendler said the Faculty Resource Pool will help support University-wide priorities such as faculty diversity. Still, only a very small number of slots — roughly six out of the nearly 700 slots in FAS — will be part of the pool at any given time, she said.

“Our recommendations are intended to enhance the faculty’s collective capacity to shape the future of the University in a manner that is rational, fair, effective and transparent,” the report said. “A primary goal of the Academic Review Committee is to create a system to distribute faculty resources across departments and programs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in a fair and responsive way.”

Currently, there are three kinds of faculty slots, according to the report: department, incremental and University slots.

Department slots, which account for roughly 90 percent of total slots, are allocated to different departments and managed by the departments themselves. Incremental slots create new positions. University slots, on the other hand, represent only 10 percent of total slots and are currently managed

by a central committee and allocated to departments on an asneeded basis. One type of University slot are mortgaged slots, which are distributed on a shortterm basis under specific repayment conditions and are usually relinquished as soon as a faculty member in the department leaves the University.

We’re trying to put governance of faculty resources in the hands of the faculty.

STEVEN BERRY Chair, Academic Review Committee In the prosperous years before the recession, many departments were authorized to gain incremental slots, but many of these slots were not filled immediately, Berry said. When the financial crisis hit in 2008, there was about a 15 percent vacancy rate, he said. Historically, the proportion of vacant slots was only 10 percent.

Because many slots had been authorized but not filled, Yale faced a problem known as “overhang” — a term coined by a previous committee to describe the difference between the number of authorized faculty slots on the books and the number of slots that the department’s budget can afford to support.

Consequently, the central committee overseeing faculty hiring had to deny a lot of positions because there was no budget to fill them, Berry said.

“It led to a lot of frustration,” he added.

While the committee initially thought a five percent acrossthe-board cut in authorized slots would be necessary to address the “overhang,” the report recommends that the high vacancy rate be reduced by eliminating all vacant University slots from departmental books, repaying mortgaged slots and redistributing any unfair allocation of incremental slots made prior to the recession.

According to the report, these three actions will reduce the “overhang,” bringing the vacancy rate to within about 1 percent of its target, 10 percent.

Reducing the “overhang” will allow the FRC to more easily approve high-quality search requests, the report said.

“It has been a while since people remembered having a slot was a pretty good indicator of their ability to hire someone,” Berry said. “And under the new system it should be.”

The ARC recommended that the target rate of flow into the Faculy Resource Pool be equal to one half of the expected rate of senior faculty departures.

Berry said about 2 percent of senior faculty leave every year, so the target flow rate will average about one percent of total FAS senior department slots per year. The report also notes that the flow of resources into and out of the slot pool should be kept in balance.

The ARC will informally present its report to professors on Thursday for discussion.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at adrian.rodrigues@yale.edu .

Teaching Center pushes for online training

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The Yale Teaching Center’s proposal would allow it to expand online teaching experience.

BY HAILEY WINSTON STAFF REPORTER As online education gains momentum across the nation, the Yale Teaching Center is looking to help more graduate students learn online teaching skills.

Around 50 percent of academic job positions now require or recommend online teaching experience, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed. But Yale currently provides opportunities for fewer than 30 graduate students to gain online teaching experience each year, said Sara Ronis GRD ’15, a fellow at the Teaching Center and a member of the University Committee on Online Education.

To address the issue, the Yale Teaching Center has applied for funding from the newly established Rosenkranz Fund for Pedagogical Innovation to organize workshops for graduate students about how to teach online courses. The center’s proposal will be evaluated by the University-wide Committee on Online Education, which will then make recommendations to Provost Benjamin Polak about whether

the project should get financial backing from the fund.

Before graduate students can teach or work as teaching assistants for online courses, they must learn specific online pedagogical techniques, Ronis said.

These techniques include communicating effectively in a virtual setting, designing online assessments and facilitating conversations online, she added.

When employers ask about job experience, students can say, “Here I am teaching.”

SARA RONIS ’15 Fellow, Yale Teaching Center Ronis said the Teaching Center also plans to ask for funding that would allow graduate students to design their own online courses and film five-minute demonstrations to share with future employers.

“When employers ask about

job experience, students can say ‘Here I am teaching,’” she said.

In addition to providing training, the Teaching Center also hopes to facilitate more online teaching opportunities for graduate students, Ronis added.

This could entail increasing the number of teaching assistants for each Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) as well as awarding teaching stipends for graduate students to teach online courses during the Yale Summer Session.

“The goal is that grad students who want experience with online teaching get experience with online teaching, whether actually in the classroom or by going to workshops,” Ronis said.

Academic Director of Online Education and music professor Craig Wright, who chairs the Committee on Online Education, said the committee has reviewed the center’s request and thinks it is a good idea.

Lucas Swineford, executive director of the Office of Digital Dissemination & Online Education, said dual-country classes, which bring together Yalies and students from around the world

in an online classroom, have the potential to provide additional online teaching opportunities.

“Global access at a low cost is astounding when you think about it,” Swineford said. “You can bring together students with different cultural perspectives.”

Last semester, Saad Ansari GRD ’14 piloted an experimental dual-country classroom course called “Reconstructing Law after Political Shock.” The class brought together Yale students with students in Iraq and Egypt to discuss how institutions of law are rebuilt in the aftermath of a war or a political shock.

Rather than using online technology to replace or enhance the traditional classroom, Ansari said he used the Internet to create an entirely new opportunity for “knowledge trade” between students of different backgrounds.

Yale Summer Online offers approximately 20 different online courses taught by Yale faculty for academic credit each summer.

Contact HAILEY WINSTON at hailey.winston@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS POET

Online education efforts move forward

ogy was first introduced decades ago, it became an entertainment medium rather than an educational platform.

“Think about how the world would be different if radios were administered by universities,” he suggested.

Amar’s attitude is not an uncommon one. The idea of moving education towards an accessible user-friendly online format has a habit of making educators speak in reverent whispers or lofty tones. Last summer, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that the “digital revolution” could be the answer to America’s educational woes.

At Yale, administrators also speak about online education in the abstract. Yale College Dean Mary Miller points to Yale’s mission of “disseminating knowledge” as a rationale for the University’s participation in online education, and music professor Craig Wright — who chairs Yale’s online education committee — said online courses can expand first-class educational opportunities to the developing world.

But the MOOC movement is not short of skeptics. Faculty members at Yale and elsewhere expressed major reservations about the ultimate potential of online courses to replace brickand-mortar education — at least in the short run. The nuts and bolts of classroom courses, including grading, have yet to be effectively adapted to the online platform. Papers written for Coursera courses are peer-graded, causing frustration amongst students and professors alike.

The jury is still out on how online education will eventually change the face of higher education at large.

“Nobody thinks now that the introduction of textbooks replaced the need for excellent teaching and classroom interaction,” said University President Peter Salovey, who pointed to historical precedent just as Amar did. “I don’t think online ed will, either.”

UNEXPLORED TERRITORY

“I knew from the beginning that it had great potential,” Levin said.

In fact, Yale’s experiment with online education began under Levin’s presidency. In 2000, Yale launched AllLearn, a joint venture with Stanford and Oxford that faltered after four years due to insufficient technology at the time. The Internet bandwidth in most homes was inadequate for properly sharing course material, Levin admitted.

But seven years later, the University launched Open Yale Courses, a project led by art history professor Diana Kleiner that puts up certain semester-long lectures for free public viewing.

The seven courses on the site in 2007 grew into the 42 today, and they have increasingly gained popularity. Philosophy professor Shelly Kagan’s “Death” lectures took Chinese media by storm, and Kagan’s Socratic bearing — marked by his habit of lecturing cross-legged on a table — made him an international celebrity.

Kleiner said the motivation for Open Yale Courses came from the urge to immortalize great teaching.

“When faculty retire, there was never a record of their teaching,” she explained. “Think of great teachers … You read these wonderful stories by students of how professors have changed their life.”

The launch of Open Yale Courses coincided with Levin’s longstanding attempts to internationalize Yale and grow the University’s brand in Asia.

Miller said that while Open Yale Courses has ultimately helped Yale’s global reputation, especially in places like China, branding was never the motivation.

“I would think [people] would actually be more worried about the dilution of the brand,” she said, noting that half a century ago people worried that the publication of textbooks by Yale faculty members would expose the University’s exclusive practices.

When Yale put up its first Coursera courses this winter, it specifically chose four highprofile courses taught by faculty enthusiastic about online education. Economics professor and Nobel Prize-winner Robert Shiller’s “Financial Markets” class logged an initial enrollment of over 165,000.

But Coursera is far from a cash cow for the University.

online education effort.

The motivation at the moment, then, is just to experiment.

“On the one hand you can say, ‘hey, you’re just throwing things against the wall to see what sticks,’” Kleiner said. “On the other hand, you can’t know until you try it out.”

The Coursera partnership is just one of Yale’s online education projects.

Shiller, who participated in AllLearn and Open Yale Courses, said the University just needs “to experiment with different forms to find the right formula.”

On his part, Shiller said he wants to harness the information revolution to make teaching more effective.

The University is trying to learn from its current ventures for now, said Lucas Swineford, Yale’s director of digital dissemination.

“The word I use to describe our Coursera partnership: ‘fascinating,’” Swineford said. “It’s a fascinating partnership.”

The word I use to describe our Coursera partnership: ‘fascinating.’ It’s a fascinating partnership.

A HYBRID BREED

LUCAS SWINEFORD Director of digital dissemination, Yale University As the brainchild of Stanford computer science professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, Coursera is revolutionary in its mass offering of free courses.

The website functions as a middleman between universities and the general public, offering video-recorded lectures, quizzes and discussion forums. For some courses, users can pay between $30 and $100 for a verified completion certificate, but it is not required.

Though Yale’s Coursera contract remains secret, the University of Michigan’s is public. In it, Coursera specifies that Michigan receives anywhere from 6 to 15 percent of gross revenues, depending on the course, and the school decides how to divide this share with the professor teaching the lecture. According to a professor who requested to remain anonymous due to the confidentiality of faculty meetings, Yale’s Counsel’s Office told faculty members that Yale’s contract is similar to Michigan’s, only slightly more advantageous.

Still, the revenues come exclusively from the relatively small percentage of Coursera users who choose to obtain the completion certificate.

Many online education experts question Coursera’s business model. Among them is Anant Agarwal, the CEO of edX, a joint Harvard-MIT venture that is Coursera’s main competitor in the MOOC market.

Agarwal pointed to the fact that, unlike Coursera, edX is a non-profit company.

“The challenges are greater if you have to worry about return on investment for investors.

The mode of revenue you have to produce is substantially greater,” Agarwal said.

Levin told The New York Times this weekend that he expects Coursera to become financially viable within the next five years. But in the meantime, no administrators or faculty members listed monetary reward as Yale’s motivation for joining Coursera — or any other

Swineford pointed to a specific person as an example of what has worked in Yale’s various other online education experiments: Jim Rolf, a young, enthusiastic mathematics lecturer with a heavy Southern drawl.

Rolf turned Yale’s introductory calculus course, Math 115, into a textbook example of what online education enthusiasts call “flipping the classroom.” He recorded his lectures in 10-minute snippets for his Yale students to watch as homework, after which they take quizzes to test their grasp of the material at hand. The feedback from these quizzes allows Rolf to target class time to reviewing the material with which students have difficulty.

“You have to think about what is only possible in the classroom and what’s meaningfully reproducible online. Just the fact that these [tools] exist force us to think about this,” Rolf said. “If we can figure out what is very difficult to reproduce online, what we’ll do in the classroom lets us narrow our focus.”

With online technologies, educators can tailor education to what best works for students, Rolf said. For example, lectures no longer have to be 50 or 70 minutes long, and professors don’t have to depend on chalkboards to convey information.

When recording the Math 115 lectures for his students, Rolf said, his graphics specialist would ask, “What is the mathematical story we’re telling today?”

“We don’t think about what stories we’re telling, in mathematics,” Rolf chuckled. “I thought it was really helpful for me. It forced me to think about how people learn.”

But Rolf maintained that he is in the “hybrid business.” He uses online tools to supplement, not replace, face-to-face education.

Similar experiments have cropped up at other schools. At Princeton, history professor Jeremy Adelman requires the students in his lecture to enroll in his Coursera lecture and watch the course lectures there so that class time can be more interactive.

“The students really got off on the lectures,” Adelman said.

“They could pause, replay, watch them anytime they wanted.”

Much like Rolf, Adelman said assigning the lectures as homework has proved to be more conducive to learning, as students can talk about specific case stud-

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For Kleiner, the experience of teaching her “Roman Architecture” lecture on Coursera has made her reevaluate the value of a classroom lecture experience.

“At Yale, if you’ve got 80 students in your class, you’re not going to get to know every student. In that sense, it’s not that different from the online environment,” she said. “The people excited about the subject matter — those people you get to know really well.”

Online chat forums can create “effective facsimiles” for large lecture courses, if not small seminars, Kleiner concluded.

But for Ricardo Tello, a Peruvian engineer enrolled in Shiller’s “Financial Markets” class on Coursera, the online experience feels distant. Tello conceded, however, that his experience probably would not be different in person, since economics lectures are often large and anonymous.

Still, professors like Kleiner, Rolf and Adelman speak about online education as a way to trim the fat of education, using online tools to then identify and concentrate on heart of the campus experience. For them, online education can never replace the community of a physical university.

Students’ “2 a.m., oh-mygosh moments” of educational discovery, Rolf said, are still at the core of learning. Even Agarwal — the edX CEO — said the magic of universities lies in the meandering late-night conversations that students have with one another in their pajamas.

“At the end of the day, if the only value brick-and-mortar provides is content stuff, then we are really selling our universities short,” Agarwal said.

Salovey agreed that the future of education still remains with traditional institutions at large, though much is going to be a hybrid between online technologies and in-person teaching.

The entire curriculum at Yale’s School of Medicine, for example, is undergoing an overhaul in the direction of being “flipped.”

A recording station has been set up in the school’s library for professors to record their lectures in their spare time, for students to watch online.

Wright, the chair of Yale’s online committee, said undergraduates can expect to see similar stations in their own neck of the woods.

“In a period of time, we will have lecture capture stations positioned around the University,” Wright said. “[They will] allow any faculty almost at any time to go in and record portions or all of a lecture for incorporation of a class, for lecture the next day or for outside dissemination.”

KEEPING IT FRESH

Though he labeled himself a poor “future-ologist,” Salovey made a prediction: Online education will move away from the “massive and open” and towards the “small and networked.”

Salovey referred to initiatives like the Yale School of Management (SOM)’s Global Network for Advanced Management, which streams SOM lectures across the world in real-time and has students from 25 partner universities worldwide collaborate on problems. The goal here, Salovey said, is to bring select students together online and form a tight community that can enhance on-campus education.

The style of “small and networked” online education may circumvent the anxieties of

MOOC skeptics.

For Yale English professor Wai Chee Dimock GRD ’82, one of the potential drawbacks of online education is the universality of the content. University learning should make reference to its local context, she said — a lecturer in New Haven should be able to relate his lecture back to New Haven.

Initiatives like SOM’s Global Network try to combine local learning with the lessons of other localities. The program combines the mentalities and experiences of students in New Haven with students in Singapore and Barcelona.

Yale has also partnered with Cornell and Columbia for two years to teach under-enrolled languages through a sophisticated videoconferencing technology. Through the Shared Language Initiative, certain languages — such as Classical Tibetan and isiZulu — taught at one of the three universities are broadcast to students at others. The program will most likely double in the next year, swelling from nine shared courses to nearly 20.

Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, who runs Yale’s Center for Language Study, called the program an “anti-MOOC.” “Whereas a MOOC is large and open, we wanted to do something synchronous, live, where students would interact in real time, live with each other,” she said. After all, “language classrooms are highly interactive.”

If the only value brick-andmortar provides is content stuff, then we are really selling our universities short.

ANANT AGARWAL CEO, edX Professors and administrators agreed that online education should engage students on their own terms. It is ineffective, and perhaps harmful, when this fails, they said.

Online education takes a dangerous form when it is delivered unilaterally in an unengaging format, argued Peter Hadreas, the chair of the philosophy department at San Jose State University. Hadreas’ department staged a rebellion last year against a plan to broadcast Harvard professor Michael Sandel’s popular “Justice” lecture into the school’s classrooms through EdX. “The way we were pressured to teach it would be to have our students watch Michael Sandel teaching Harvard students,” Hadreas emphasized. “He’d periodically say they’re the best, the crème de la crème — our students would be second class.”

San Jose students would be unable to address questions directly to Sandel, Hadreas said.

Nor would they be able to relate to the socioeconomic biases in Sandel’s lectures, such as when the Harvard professor raises a hypothetical about students’ vacation homes in Florida.

Additionally, Hadreas said the very idea of delivering a uniform lecture on justice or ethos goes against the spirit of philosophical discovery.

Rolf and Dimock agreed that one of the risks of online education is that content, especially in video form, cannot easily be

altered or edited.

Dimock said professors always need to refresh the content and delivery of their courses, both for their own enjoyment and the educational benefit of their students. Though her “Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulker” lecture is on Open Yale Courses, Dimock said, she would not want the actual course to be stuck in its online video form.

“The very nature of teaching should require a different syllabus from one year to another,” she said. “New questions are always arising from scholarly debates, even in literature.”

BUT QUESTIONS REMAIN …

Many, including Dimock, Campbell and Hadreas, worry that online education will be abused as a budget-cutting mechanism by universities.

Budget cuts were the original impetus for the University of California system’s contract to beam Sandel’s “Justice” lectures San Jose classrooms. But three weeks ago, University of California President Janet Napolitano declared that online education is not a “silver bullet” for budget-conscious schools. In fact, she said, it actually requires large capital investments when done right.

Though Miller said Yale is not looking to online education as a cost-saving measure, the University currently faces a $39 million budget shortfall that may potentially threaten the University’s classroom offerings.

Though Van Deusen-Scholl said the intent of the Shared Course Initiative is not to replace existing programs with borrowed material, Yale recently decided to scrap its own Dutch language program as a cost-cutting measure. Administrators rationalized the move by explaining that Yale students who wish to pursue Dutch can tune into Columbia’s courses through the Shared Course Initiative.

Cathy Davidson, a Duke online education expert and member of the National Council for the Humanities, said online education should not be scapegoated for the federal defunding of higher education. If traditional universities move some of their teaching online, Davidson could envision cost-cutting to a degree that may reverse the spike in college tuition.

But a more dramatic shift could happen for students who cannot enroll at brick-and-mortar universities in the first place.

At the end of the day, Davidson said, people should remember that MOOCs and other online education tools can bring education to “people for whom all other forms of learning are impossible,” due to physical disability, rural location or socioeconomic disadvantage.

Whether in the form of MOOCs, classroom integration or something else, online education still draws its share of both passionate enthusiasts and skeptical critics.

But all administrators, experts and professors interviewed agreed: Whatever the ultimate form that it will take, online education is — at the end of the day — an unstoppable force.

“What we should all try to do is have a collective conversation about all the safeguards we should have in place, and make sure all the beneficial impacts would stay in place,” Dimock said.

She paused and added, “Online ed. is here to stay.”

Contact YUVAL BEN-DAVID at yuval.ben-david@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

HENRY FORD FOUNDER OF FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Tweed plan not taking off

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Resident concerns about airport safety have stalled state and lawmakers plans to make New Haven’s Tweed Airport runway longer and bring more airlines to the airport.

BY DAVID BLUMENTHAL STAFF REPORTER Current plans to expand New Haven’s Tweed Airport will not be coming to fruition anytime soon.

State and local lawmakers are currently pushing a bill to lengthen the runway of the airport from 5,600 to 6,000 feet long. The expansion is considered a key platform of Mayor Toni Harp’s Economic Development Plan, essential for attracting additional airlines — US Airways Express is currently the only one at the airport. However, the bill is stuck in committee because residents are concerned about safety, especially after a plane crash near the airport in August 2013.

City Hall Communications Director Laurence Grotheer said that an expansion of airline companies at Tweed Airport has been a priority of Mayor Harp’s since her Feb. 3 State of

the City Address. But he added that the issue has not progressed as quickly as she would like.

Grotheer said Harp’s administration has communicated by mail with residents in the areas of New Haven and East Haven adjoining Tweed New Haven Airport, in order to learn how to improve soundproofing and find out how to mitigate the impact of a future expansion. Grotheer declined to comment on how successful reaching out to area residents has been, and said that other levels of government will need to get involved in order for the project to be successful.

“This is a project that’s being addressed on the municipal, state, and federal levels,” he said.

“Certainly the FAA gets involved in approving flights and airports, the state has to apporve these runway-improving components and the city is doing its part to soften the impact for area residents and to leverage funding from federal support.”

Southern Connecticut’s federal elected officials have also been front-and-center in the fight to expand Tweed. Rep. DeLauro said in an email that she is proud of her office’s previous success at winning federal grants for Tweed and that her work on Tweed’s expansion will continue.

“I have been engaged on this issue for many years and am proud of my office’s efforts to successfully win federal money to upgrade safety measures at Tweed,” she said. “I will continue to work with area residents and the cities of New Haven and East Haven to come to a solution that is agreeable to all parties.”

However, the airport’s potential expansion provokes unease in the City of East Haven, where Tweed’s proximity has been both an economic boon and a safety hazard. Most recently, on Aug. 9, 2013, a plane crashed near the airport—killing four and raising concerns about

Transgender inmate sparks debate

BY APARNA NATHAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The status of one transgendered teen in the custody of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) has triggered questions of both juvenile justice and transgender rights.

The teen, whose name is not being released because she is a minor, spent the past six months in a residential placement facility, a rehabilitative center for juvenile delinquents. Due to her recent violent behavior within the facility, the teen has been transferred to an adult women’s correctional facility while the state weighs whether to transfer her case to the state Department of Corrections (DOC), which handles adult offenders, and what type of facility should house the teen.

Adult correctional facilities historically separate inmates by gender based on their biological sex, rather than by the gender with which they identify.

Accordingly, the DOC originally petitioned to place the teen in a male facility, but the court ordered that she be housed at the all-female York Correctional Institution for the time being.

“Allowing anyone to be incarcerated without even being charged with a crime is a frightening precedent in itself,” said Sandra Staub, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut. “When the result is that a transgender teen is housed with adults, the implications are also terrible for children’s rights and transgender rights.”

On Feb. 4, the DCF filed the motion to move the teen from the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, a rehabilitation center for troubled minors. She has been in DCF custody since she was five years old and was first admitted to a juvenile facility as a juvenile delinquent in Nov. 2013.

The motion was subsequently granted on April 8, ordering her

transfer to York Correctional Institution, a prison for adult women.

The motion is under a statute that allows for the transfer of juveniles who are “dangerous to [themselves] or others or cannot be safely held at the Connecticut Juvenile Training School,” according to court documents.

This case marks the second time the statute has been invoked in Connecticut, said James Connolly, the public defender for the case.

The transfer was initiated following an incident at the teen’s previous facility in Massachusetts, where she was involved in an altercation with a staff member that temporarily left that staff member blind. Her record bears multiple other assaults on peers and staff at several programs, according to a written statement from the DCF. While the teen’s legal team acknowledges the teen’s aggressive nature, they attribute this to past trauma. In an affidavit to the court, the teen details the sexual, physical and emotional abuse that she has experienced. The incident at the Massachusetts facility, for example, was the teen’s response to a male staff member suddenly restraining her from behind, which she misinterpreted due to her past trauma, said Aaron Romano, the teen’s court-appointed attorney.

“She responded to protect herself,” Romano said. “Residential facilities should know more than anyone else that children who have suffered trauma are sensitive.”

The teen is currently being held at York in the mental health unit. Although she is not in solitary confinement, she is not permitted to leave her cell due to laws that keep juveniles in adult prisons out of sight of adult prisoners. In her affidavit, she stated that she can hear the screams of other inmates and cannot sleep at night.

The move to an adult prison has incited outrage among

activists, who point out that the teen was not charged with an adult crime and, rather, is being moved to the adult prison due to a lack of the right facilities to treat her. Additionally, when making her initial plea as a juvenile delinquent, she was told that her maximum sentence would only be at a juvenile residential facility, not an adult prison, Connolly said.

“We’re punishing a victim,” said Abby Anderson, executive director of the Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance.

The original motion for transfer called for a move from the teen’s juvenile residential facility to the Manson Youth Institution, a high-security male facility for juvenile offenders. The counsel for the DOC has stated that there are currently no plans to move the youth to Manson, but there is still some chance that she will be placed in a male prison, Connolly said.

The teen is receiving hormone treatment to develop female features and fears that she would be physically harmed in a male institution, according to her affidavit. Her gender identity has contributed to her alienation in the prison system, Romano said. “[The original motion to transfer to an adult facility] was filed because of her transgender status,” Connolly said. “There’s no doubt in my mind that, if she were identifying as male, she would be at the Connecticut Juvenile Training School now.”

The teen’s legal team now aims to facilitate her removal from York and move her into a different, more appropriate facility. One appealing possibility is the recently constructed institution at Solnit South, Connolly said. This residential center was built to house aggressive or assaultive girls.

As of April 1, Connecticut prisons house 16,568 prisoners.

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

whether the airport’s safety regulations are adequate.

East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo, Jr. announced in an April 10 press release that he will begin reviewing the bill to expand the runway and proceed with extreme caution.

I think that a Tweed expansion is good for the region and good for the city.

ROLAND LEMAR State representative, Connecticut “East Haven understands and embraces the economic importance of Tweed Airport and the Town does not intend to obstruct reasonable, mutually beneficial operation of the facility,” he said in a statement.

“However, in light of the impact on area residents of paving the

runway safety areas, I have asked the Town’s legal counsel to undertake an immediate review of the proposed legislation,” State Rep. Roland Lemar conceded that the bill to reopen negotiations between New Haven and East Haven faces too many obstacles to advance during the General Assembly’s current session, which will end in under three weeks.

Lemar said he was disappointed given the economic boon Tweed could be for the region.

“I think that a Tweed expansion is good for the region and good for the city, small companies in New Haven and for the region,” he said. “Trying to be smart and grow Tweed’s air service without growing the footprint is the goal.”

Back on campus, Yalies interviewed agreed with Lemar’s assessment.

Allan Hon MUS ’15 said that,

as a music student who frequently travels with equipment, it would be helpful to have more airlines because it would give him more options when flying out of Tweed and fewer transfers. Hon added that he would also use a revamped Tweed to travel to his native California.

“It’s going to require a much longer, more public conversation before we can get to that point,” Lemar said. “Right now, I’m sensing very little support for the Tweed bill in the legislature until we all come together — City of New Haven, City of East Haven, residents of East Haven residents of Morris Cove — and agree that this is in our best interest.”

Tweed Airport was constructed in 1931 and was named for its first-ever manager, the late John “Jack” Tweed.

Contact DAVID BLUMENTHAL at david.blumenthal@yale.edu .

Rowland indicted for corruption

BY ABIGAIL BESSLER STAFF REPORTER A former Connecticut governor is currently under indictment by a federal jury, bringing the state’s anticorruption system into question.

John Rowland, who was elected as governor for a record three four-year terms from 1995 to 2004, allegedly solicited congressional campaigns to secretly hire him as a consultant. Rowland, a former Republican congressman, asked Republican candidates Mark Greenberg in 2010 and Lisa Wilson-Foley in 2012 to hire him. Both candidates ran and lost in Rowland’s old fifth district seat. He has been indicted under seven charges, including conspiracy and two counts of falsifying records to thwart a federal investigation. The charges come just 10 years after he was convicted of corruption in another investigation, a case that forced him to resign as governor.

Last March, Wilson-Foley and her husband Brian Foley admitted that her campaign paid Rowland $35,000 for political consulting by labeling the money an expense for Foley’s health care company, according to indictment documents.

“This is another sad chapter in a story that Connecticut knows all too well,” said Andrew Doba, a spokesman for Governor Dannel Malloy, in a statement last week. “Law enforcement should be commended for their diligence on this matter. Governor Malloy hopes for a quick resolution.”

Rowland had previously served 10 months in prison after the investigation in 2004 that forced him to resign, which showed he had received gifts from state contractors.

For this reason, Rowland acknowledged that he had to “stay under the radar as much as possible” in helping Wilson-Foley two years ago, since her campaign rivals at the time included an FBI agent who had pursued Rowland’s 2004 case, according to an email from Rowland published in plea documents.

“We’ve been down this road with John Rowland before, and I think it’s an embarrassment,” said Cheri Quickmire, Executive Director of Common Cause Connecticut, an organization that advocates governmental transparency.

Quickmire said the state reevaluated its anticorruption measures and passed stricter campaign finance and disclosure laws after Rowland’s resignation and eventual impris-

onment in 2004.

She said the Republican governor who followed Rowland, Jodi Rell, worked with the legislature to address corruption.

“I am glad to see that we take prosecuting these crimes seriously in this state,” Quickmire said. “We did learn a lot from 2005, but apparently [Rowland] didn’t learn quite as much as he needed to.”

Common Cause has been advocating recently for tighter campaign finance rules, which Quickmire said have been loosened in the last session.

“The public deserves to know who’s spending money on candidates,” she said.

Greenberg, who came forward two years ago to publicly reveal Rowland’s proposal to help with his campaign, is now running for Congress again and will likely receive GOP nomination.

His campaign manager, Bill Evans, wrote in a statement that the candidate has offered up all the information he knows about Rowland and is confident in the U.S. Attorney’s office to handle the case.

Evans added that Greenberg’s campaign message has not and will not change in the aftermath of the indictment.

“Mark believes that the system is broken and that too many people have lost faith in Washington D.C.,” Evans wrote. “Corruption on either side of the aisle is unacceptable.”

Robert Wechsler, the director of research for the City Ethics blog and former administrator of the New Haven Democracy Fund, a public campaign-financing program, agreed that institutional corruption can lead voters to lose trust in government.

He cited the fact that around 30 to 40 percent of registered voters in Connecticut are unaffiliated with a party and therefore cannot vote in a primary as evidence that people no longer feel loyal to either party.

However, Wechsler said Connecticut had one of the better transparency programs in the country.

“It could be improved, like everything,” he said. “But we have good campaign finance rules and good ethics at the state level. And it was because of the whole Rowland thing that public financing was finally embraced.”

Jury selection for the trial will begin June 10.

Contact ABIGAIL BESSLER at abigail.bessler@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“I’m tired now of the elections.”

BARBARA BUSH FORMER FIRST LADY

Controversy over SOM grading continues SOM GRADING FROM PAGE 1 “While the initial process was not sequenced correctly and did not have the right broad-based engagement of alumni and students from the outset, I’m very pleased with this [new] outcome,” he said.

But Gitendra Chitty SOM ’02 said the new amendments still do not take many alumni’s issues with the policy change into account.

The new grading system strips SOM of what distinguishes it from other top-tier business schools like Harvard and Wharton, Chitty said, adding that the system brings unnecessary attention to grades. Under the new grading system, SOM students will become more like traditional business students, Chitty said, making them less unique for employers. “[The amendments and attempts for dialogue] are viewed by us as purely an attempt to pay lip service to our dissatisfaction with no substantial change,” he said. “It was basically to say, ‘This is the best we will do and if you’re not happy, then tough luck.’”

Robert Quartel SOM ’78 said group of alumni against the policy are being vocally “demonized” by the administration and painted as a minority. Quartel said the alumni upset about the changes are not only numerous, but also tend to be those who are very involved in the school’s affairs.

Both Quartel and Chitty said even disclosing partial grades on transcripts is needlessly detrimental to students: When students graduate from an Ivy League school, it doesn’t matter what scores they obtained, they said. In the new situation, Quartel said, employers will automatically assume students are in the bottom percentage of their class if their transcripts show no grade.

SOM Professor Jim Baron said the purpose of the grading system is to give students feedback

on how they are doing. He said it is the duty of the faculty to both challenge students and keep them informed about their progress — and the new grading system was designed with this aim in mind. But Quartel disagreed with Baron’s position.

“Baron said the forced curve allows you to see where you fit relative to your peers, but I say ‘Who cares?’” Quartel said.

“What you want is a situation where you can work with and learn from your peers — and they have done as much as they could do to destroy this collegiality at SOM.” In response to the outpouring of alumni complaints, Snyder said perhaps alumni have not been attentive enough to the reality of SOM’s daily life. “[Their] concerns are clearly overblown and they probably reflect distance,” he said. “The remedy is for us to bring them closer to the school. Then they will see that the culture and the mission are very much alive and well.”

Though some dissenting voices persist, the storm of student criticism that started nearly two months ago in Evans Hall seems to be dying down.

Jain said the town hall meetings held two weeks ago were productive and well-attended.

He said he was impressed with the willingness of faculty to see eye-to-eye with students and engage with their criticism. He also said he would not describe the new amendments to the policy as a “compromise” or a “concession” — instead, he labeled it a superior outcome that a vast majority of faculty and students agreed upon.

Frances Symes SOM ’14, a member of SOM’s student government, said that while the amendments may not address everyone’s concerns, they are still a big step forward.

Most SOM students remain divided on whether the recent discourse around the new policy sufficiently responded to student concerns — though none

expressed strong opposition.

Seven out of 12 students interviewed expressed support for the amendments, while others said the amendments are not satisfactory.

The administration has students’ best interests at heart and the amendments appeared to be a fair compromise, said Lokesh Todi SOM ’14.

Jancy Langley SOM ’15 FES ’15 said the amendments are a positive step in preserving the collegiality of SOM that the initial policy change undermined. But she added that the new transcript disclosure policy can still harm students with non-traditional or non-financial backgrounds, by not accounting for their differences in learning curves.

But others, unconvinced by the amendments, said they believe SOM administrators are not as receptive to student input as they should be.

“I am not sure how much [of it] is political maneuvering,” Stefano Costanzo SOM ’15 said.

“At the end of the day we get the same [result].”

Nick Elisseou SOM ’14 said students have little control over changes to the grading policy, since many will soon graduate and the incoming students will know no other system.

Alison Joseph SOM ’15, who also serves as a tour guide for the school, said she has heard concerns from visiting students about the grading changes.

What has seemed to frustrate current students the most, she said, was that students did not have the chance to provide any input into the original policy changes before they were announced in February. But, Joseph added, she appreciated the willingness of administrators to at least discuss their decision with students afterwards.

SOM’s inaugural class arrived on campus in 1976.

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Detractors of the new SOM grading policy argue that it will be detrimental to the collegiality of the school.

Negativity surrounds election

Dwight Hall rejects pro-life group CLAY FROM PAGE 1

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The atmosphere surrounding the YCC elections this year has focused increasingly on direct personal attacks against the candidates.

YCC FROM PAGE 1 candidates each published a column in the News detailing their reasons for running and their vision for next year’s Council. Eliasson said the News comment boards tended towards focusing on personal character attacks, which he attributed in part to the board’s anonymous nature.

By Wednesday evening, the column from Miller, who is also a photography editor for the News, had garnered 130 comments. In a comment posted on the day of the column’s publication, current YCC President Danny Avraham ’15 alleged that Miller had been spreading “malicious rumors” and that students had since filed complaints to the Council Elections Commission (CEC). When reached, Avraham deferred commenting and did not respond to further requests.

The CEC — which consists of the YCC Vice President and four undergraduates appointed by the YCC Executive Board — is appointed before each election to enforce regulations and ensure appropriate campaigning.

Miller confirmed that a CEC investigation took place, but said that the group ultimately determined she had

not violated any regulations. She did not receive any penalties or sanctions in the end, she said.

YCC Vice President and CEC Chair Kyle Tramonte ’15 said the group has decided to handle all complaints internally between the CEC and the individual candidate.

Herbert said that many of the comments on his column criticized his political views and alleged that he is personally opposed to gay marriage.

He said these comments compelled him to bring up his personal political views during his opening statement at the YCC debate over the weekend, he said. Herbert said the negativity of the comments forced him to waste time addressing “preposterous” accusations at the debate instead of detailing his specific policy proposals.

“This looks like a calculated political attack,” Herbert said.

During the debate, he said he had been told the origins of the idea he opposed gay marriage came from a Yale Political Union debate. In response, he said that he had spoken to the Yale Political Union executive board and requested that they release the minutes of every debate he had attended since coming to Yale.

“If there is a statement from me, saying that I do not endorse gay mar-

riage, I will drop out,” he told the room.

Even candidates who said they have not been subject to personal attacks said the campaign season seems to have taken a turn for the worse. Both Motzkin and Ackerman said they have not been as directly affected by allegations online.

Still, they added that they are surprised by the amount of negativity circulating around the election.

“It’s upsetting to me that people would feel the need to drop down to a lower level and undermine somebody else’s character,” Ackerman said.

Motzkin said that she believes campaigns in general should focus not on the candidates’ personal lives, but on their visions.

Hector Pina ’16, a student unaffiliated with the YCC, said he has heard personal rumors about almost all the candidates.

“I don’t think it’s surprising that there is negativity,” he said. “But I’m surprised at the ridiculousness of the rumors.”

Voting opened at 9 a.m. on Thursday and closes at 9 p.m. on Friday.

Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu and POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

member groups about CLAY far exceeded that of any other organization seeking full member status this year.

“Generally what happens is in most member groups the decision is made without as much discussion,” Jennings said.

“Because this was a more political decision, there was more discussion.”

The vote was not unanimous and had an unusually high proportion of abstentions, said Dwight Hall co-coordinator Sterling Johnson ’15. Multiple members of Dwight Hall’s executive committee declined to specify the exact number or breakdown of votes cast.

Still, members of CLAY present at the meeting said members of the executive committee seemed “biased” against their organization’s pro-life stance. Courtney McEachon ’15, CLAY’s president last spring, pointed to co-coordinator Teresa Logue’s ’15 decision to wear a “Yale feminists” t-shirt to the cabinet meeting.

“It was an affront because the person wearing the t-shirt was leading the meeting,” she said. “It seemed like a shameless plug against CLAY.” Though Logue said that she personally identifies as pro-choice, she was careful not to advocate against the group in any way.

“We treated CLAY as we did every other group,” Logue said. “It was a democratic decision.”

Members of the Social Justice Network, including Johnson, encouraged CLAY to apply for Dwight Hall provisional membership in fall 2013, citing the group’s volunteer work at Saint Gianna Center — a local crisis pregnancy center on Whitney Avenue — as community service.

Michaels said CLAY regularly sends its members to volunteer at Saint Gianna Center, a nonprofit organization that provides resources and education for pregnant women. In addition to offering free pregnancy tests and assistance in obtaining baby supplies, the center helps expecting mothers find housing and employment as needed, she added. The center ensures that women who wish to keep their pregnancies have the ability to do so, McEachon said.

In addition to approaching CLAY, Social Justice Network members also contacted other religious groups that engaged in community service, such as Students for Justice in Palestine and Visions of Virtue, a Christian mentoring program for adolescent

girls, Johnson said.

Before joining Dwight Hall as a provisional member group, CLAY had applied to become a member of the Women’s Center twice, McEachon said. Because its mission did not align with the Women’s Center’s constitution, which specifies that new groups must offer women “reproductive freedom,” CLAY was rejected both times, she said.

“I personally do not think promoting crisis pregnancy centers on their website that may seek to shame and guilt women into carrying pregnancies they may not want, and which may neglect to inform them of all their options, is serving the community,” Laura Kellman ’15, the Women Center’s political action coordinator, said in an email. “I do not see working to strip people of their rights to control their own bodies as service.”

CLAY currently receives funding from the Undergraduate Organizations Committee to host speakers, participate in the March for Life and hold candlelight vigils.

Had CLAY become a Dwight Hall member group, the money it received would have gone towards similar activities, said Molly Michaels ’15, CLAY’s spring 2014 secretary.

“We would like to be more involved in the Yale campus by doing more outreach and having more resources to promote life and to oppose abortion on campus and in New Haven at large,” Michaels said.

Money received from Dwight Hall would have also gone towards holding an annual pro-life conference at Yale, Hernandez said. CLAY held its first conference in October, bringing in speakers of different faiths to engage students in discussions about the issues surrounding abortion.

CLAY members have not yet decided if they are going to continue pursuing membership in Dwight Hall, Hernandez added.

Assuming it will need to undergo another yearlong provisional process, CLAY will consider spending the following year restructuring its program before re-applying for Dwight Hall membership, Hernandez said.

In addition to voting on the membership of CLAY, the cabinet also voted on the admission of two other provisional groups, New Haven REACH and Circle of Women, Johnson said. Both groups gained full membership into Dwight Hall.

Contact SARAH BRULEY at sarah.bruley@yale.edu .

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Bloomberg plans $50M gun control network

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Michael Bloomberg, former New York Mayor, speaks a news conference in New York where he and dozens of shooting survivors and victims’ relatives called on Congress and President Obama to tighten gun laws and enforcement.

BY JENNIFER PELTZ ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to spend $50 million this year on a new group that will mix campaign contributions with field operations aimed at pulling 1 million gun control supporters to the polls, he announced Wednesday, adding a new dimension to his long-running fight for tighter firearms regulation.

The new organization, Everytown for Gun Safety, plans to mobilize voters to back candidates and ballot measures supporting such causes as enhancing background checks for gun buyers,

according to a news release. The group also plans to issue candidate questionnaires and scorecards and form a political action committee.

“This new organization will bring more people into the fight against gun violence, which affects every town in America,” Bloomberg said in a statement.

The group will look closely at 15 states, including pro-gun states such as Texas, and other states where gun control initiatives have advanced.

The National Rifle Association had no immediate comment Wednesday but said it would respond at its annual meeting next week in Indianapolis.

The billionaire Bloomberg has

used a combination of his wealth and his stature as the 12-year mayor of the nation’s biggest city to become perhaps the country’s most formidable gun control activist.

This new organization will bring more people into the fight against gun violence.

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Former mayor, New York It’s a cause he cast in dramatic terms in an interview published

Tuesday night on The New York Times’ website. Citing his work on gun safety, obesity and curbing smoking, he told the paper — with a smile: “If there is a God, when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.”

During his mayoral tenure, which ended last year, Bloomberg’s administration set up gunbuying stings in other states to highlight what it said were illegal sales. He and former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which spread its message through such means as a $12 million ad campaign last year; the group is now part of

Everytown for Gun Safety.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg made nearly $14 million in federal campaign contributions for gun control candidates in the 2012 elections alone. His super PAC spent more than $2 million in a 2013 Democratic primary in a special congressional election in Chicago, where his favored candidate got the seat.

Bloomberg’s efforts sometimes spurred criticism that the New Yorker was butting into other people’s politics, and gun rights groups have portrayed him as overreaching and out of touch with the views of millions of gun owners.

On hearing of Bloomberg’s new

initiative, Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, told the Times: “He’s got the money to waste. So I guess he’s free to do so.”

Pratt didn’t immediately return a call Wednesday.

In a major setback for gun control advocates, President Barack Obama’s plan for broader background checks and proposals for a ban on military-style assault rifles and limits on ammunition capacity failed last year in Congress.

An Associated Press-GfK poll in December found 52 percent of Americans favored stricter gun laws, 31 percent wanted them left as they are and 15 percent said they should be loosened.

Boston marathon organizers confident of safe race he said.

According to a police report read aloud in court Wednesday, Edson told an officer: “I knew what I was doing, it was conceived in my head. It’s symbolism, come on. The performance got the best of me.”

Joie Edson said her son had battled bipolar disorder for many years and that his mental state had recently deteriorated.

His lawyer, public defender Shannon Lopez, said he was diagnosed with mental illness at 19 and that a doctor said Edson showed signs of being off his medication recently.

The finish line will not be closed to the public until the morning of the race, Evans said, but police planned to increase visibility in the area over the next several days.

In seeking to discourage spectators from bringing backpacks, police said those carrying them are likely to have them searched.

“This year, we can all understand that someone is going to feel anxious, nervous, to stand next to someone with a backpack,” said Kurt Schwartz, the state’s undersecretary of public safety. “Why do that this year?”

Spectators were advised to tell a police officer or call 911 if they

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A patron enters the Forum restaurant, the site of one of two bomb blasts during the 2013 Boston Marathon. see anything they consider suspicious along the route.

Evans said undercover officers with special training will be working the crowds looking for suspicious packages or anyone “who might be up to no good.” He also said police plan to limit the size of the crowds on Boylston Street, and if they

appear to be getting too large, people will be asked to move to other locations to view the race.

But he added that police do not want to create undue anxiety, either.

“We are not going to scare people and make it look like it’s an armed camp,” he said.

The bombs at last year’s mar-

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athon were made from pressure cookers hidden in backpacks, authorities said. Lawyers for the surviving bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were in federal court on Wednesday arguing that the government should not be allowed to monitor prison visits from the defendant’s two sisters.

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BOSTON — The arrest of a man with a rice cooker in his backpack near the Boston Marathon finish line led police to step up patrols Wednesday, while organizers sought to assure the city and runners of a safe race next week.

The actions of the man, whose mother said he had a mental disorder, rattled nerves as Boston prepared for the annual race, but authorities said they did not consider it a security breach. Officials also expressed confidence in heightened security measures for Monday’s event while acknowledging the challenge of protecting an estimated 1 million spectators and 36,000 runners across 26.2 miles and eight Massachusetts communities.

Security plans include thousands of uniformed police, hundreds of plainclothes officers and about 100 strategically positioned video cameras that will monitor the crowds. Police also strongly discouraged spectators from bringing backpacks.

“I believe this will be the safest place on the planet on April 21,” said Dave McGillivray, the longtime race director for the Boston

Athletic Association.

Boston police detonated the suspicious backpack Tuesday night, along with a second backpack that was later found to have been left behind by a journalist covering the day’s remembrances, Police Commissioner William Evans said.

Neither bag was determined to have explosives.

The 25-year-old suspect, Kevin “Kayvon” Edson, was arraigned Wednesday on several charges including threatening battery and possession of a hoax device. Bail was set at $100,000 and a judge ordered that Edson be evaluated at a state psychiatric hospital.

Evans said that Boylston Street, where the finish line is located and where twin bombs killed three people and injured more than 260 others last year, was not in lockdown when Edson walked down the street barefoot in the pouring rain, wearing a black veil and paint on his face.

Along with the rice cooker, a robot mask was also found in the backpack, officials said.

“That individual, like anyone, had the right to basically walk up the street,” Evans said. Because he was acting suspiciously, however, police quickly intervened,

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, APRIL 17 4:10 p.m. Admiral Gary Roughead on “Sea Power and National Security in the 21st Century: Why Navies Matter.”

The Yale Law School is sponsoring a talk with the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Roughead. The admiral will be speaking on the challenges of the U.S. Navy. Sterling Law Buildings (127 Wall St.), Rm. 128.

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“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”

YOGI BERRA FORMER YANKEES CATCHER

Jumbled lineup pays off for Yale BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 struck out for the second out of the frame, Baldwin again played the hero, singling to plate Brown and extend the Yale lead to 3–0.

With the top of the order finding so much success getting on base, it was up to the big boppers in the heart of the lineup to deliver, and they did.

All five runs scored on plate appearances from Baldwin or third baseman Richard Slenker ’17.

“Real clutch hitting in RBI situations … is something we’ve been lacking in years past,” Hanson said. “This year, I’d say it’s the opposite. We have a lot of guys that we can turn to [in order] to get that big hit.”

Even with the timely hitting, however, it was pitching that carried the day. Campbell excelled in his second start of the season. The Shreveport, La. native allowed just three baserunners across five innings while striking out six. He now leads the team in strikeouts per nine at 11.48, a figure that would put him in the top 10 in the nation if he had thrown enough innings to qualify.

Beyond Campbell, who earned his first career victory, four other pitchers threw an inning apiece. Michael Coleman ’14 worked the sixth,

Elis drop sixth straight

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Yesterday’s baseball game against Sacred Heart was originally scheduled for April 15.

Chasen Ford ’17 came out for the seventh and Chris Moates ’16 extended his scoreless innings streak to 7.2 consecutive frames. Finally, Hanson earned his fourth save of the season, striking out a pair of Pioneers in the ninth.

Sacred Heart (17–12, 4–0 Northeast) mustered only four hits all day, going hitless from the second through the sixth innings.

“The entire staff did a great job,” Brown said. “They

pounded the zone, threw strikes and kept the defense alive. They weren’t afraid to attack the strike zone. Pitching is definitely our foundation.”

With Campbell sporting a 2.02 ERA and a WHIP of 0.91, Hanson said that he could very well keep seeing more action on the mound in future Ivy League games.

Campbell, however, said that he sees himself as primarily a center fielder and he expects to stay in center for the remainder

of the season.

“I love pitching, and I felt great today,” Campbell said.

“But maybe next year I can work towards pitching a lot more should the team need me to step up into the starter role.”

The Bulldogs only have conference games remaining: four at home against Harvard and four games against Brown April 25-26.

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

The softball team fell 5–3 to Sacred Heart yesterday in non-conference action.

SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 squad’s final at-bat, the Elis had the tying runs on base following an error and walk. The Bulldogs were unable to capitalize, however, and the third out was recorded when Ceri Godinez ’17, who pinch ran for Delgadillo, was thrown out at third base on an attempted stolen base.

“I think overall, we left too many runners in scoring position,” Onorato said. “We had a good

number of hits, but are still missing that timely, key hit, and unfortunately we weren’t able to push enough runs across.”

The Elis are at home this weekend for a four-game set against Harvard. The two teams play doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday beginning at 12:30 p.m. each day.

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Spot in Ivy tournament up for grabs Marrow drive today

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The women’s lacrosse team will face Cornell in an Ancient Eight matchup this season.

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would mean a jump to third place for Yale. Last year, Yale fell to Cornell 13–7, but defender Maggie Moriarty ’16 said that the team believes the work it has done in practice could translate to a better result on Saturday.

“If we win, we are in the postseason, something everyone on the team wants to accomplish,” said attack Nicole Daniggelis ’16.

Daniggelis recently set the Ivy League record for the highest number of draw controls in a season, at 90. She was also named Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Week this past Monday.

Yale currently leads the Ivy League for caused turnovers with 121, 26 more than secondplace Cornell. Additionally, defender Adrienne Tarver ’14 ranks third for individual turnovers caused in the League with 19, and midfielder Christina Doherty ’15 follows her in fourth place with 18.

With plenty of individual talent and a strong team dynamic, the Bulldogs look to challenge Cornell’s winning streak within the Ivy League. With a record of 2–2 in the Ancient Eight this season, Cornell most recently fell to nonconference foe No. 1 Syracuse 7–5.

“The whole team has been working extremely hard both on and off the field to be as prepared for the game as we can be,” Moriarty said.

The winner of the Ivy League Championship receives an automatic berth in the 2014 NCAA Tournament.

looking for donors find genetic matches in their own family, and therefore many rely on the thousands that register at marrow donor drives like the one held every spring at Yale.

Oppenheimer is one of many football players who have played a role in the success of the drive each year. The football team, in conjunction with the women’s ice hockey team and field hockey team, leads the efforts for the bone marrow registry drive by organizing and publicizing the event.

“In preparation for the drive, all three of the teams came together to package over 1,000 ‘swab kits,’ and in the days leading up to the drive [each player recruits] at least five students who have not been registered to come on the day of the drive,” said tight end Keith Coty ’14.

Coty added that the teams also scatter around campus to hand out flyers and direct people towards Commons. The teams not only publicize the drive, but they also process the incoming registrations and facilitate the operations of the event.

Quarterback Henry Furman ’15 said the teams use their large numbers to help spread awareness through social media and word of mouth.

“I think any time we can see our commitment and camaraderie manifested in something other than football, it’s inspiring for all of us,” Furman said.

As a result of the efforts of Yale athletics, thousands have joined the registry. Few, however, are perfect matches for those in need of bone marrow.

In the fall of his junior year, Oppenheimer received an unexpected call from Be the Match, the national bone marrow registry.

“I was absolutely shocked when I was notified that I was a perfect match for a man in need of a donation,” Oppenheimer said. “The odds of being a perfect match are 1 in 500, so I never expected to be a match.

After finding out that he was a match,

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Oppenheimer said it was a no-brainer to decide to donate bone marrow.

The spring of his junior year, Oppenheimer went through with the process, donating the stem cells in his blood.

“It was such a small sacrifice on my end to literally save a man’s life,” Oppenheimer said. “It would only take me five hours to save a 41 year old man’s life. Plus, I only had to donate bone marrow through blood, so it was very painless.”

Oppenheimer’s donation hit home for the team, which has been involved in the drive for the past seven years.

Since Oppenheimer’s donation, two coaches have also been donors.

“The team takes pride in getting huge numbers of people to donate, while knowing that only a small percentage of them would have the opportunity to do so,” defensive tackle Kyle White ’14 said. “So naturally, when we found out that Oppy was a match, we were all very excited for him.”

Furman added that Oppenheimer was excited about the opportunity to donate and that enthusiasm from a senior leader bolstered the team’s belief in their efforts.

According to Coty, having donors from the squad and coaching staff has given the team more motivation to continue to increase the numbers that go into the registry each year.

“John’s story gave everyone the realization that a simple cheek swab could have a substantive impact on someone’s life,” Coty said.

Oppenheimer said that this year, the teams hope to add another thousand people to the registry. Although the goal becomes harder each year as a majority of students on campus have registered, the teams have attempted to increase graduate school and faculty participation.

The Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive, part of the nationwide “Get in the Game. Save a Life.” campaign for Be the Match, will be held in Commons today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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

The true cost of sports infrastructure COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 thing useful for their people. But as developing countries start to host major athletic events, we should start to seriously discuss whether the associated infrastructure is truly worth the immense financial costs.

Take a look at Sochi, the most recent site of the Winter Olympics. Media reports indicate the event cost somewhere from $23 to $51 billion, with a significant share possibly taken by corrupt contractors and politicians. Selling over a million tickets to visitors and tourists, Sochi, a city of less than 500,000 people, almost became a ghost town overnight after the closing ceremony. Large numbers of hotels and other

accommodations are unoccupied, while the fate of the athletic facilities remains in question. It is unclear if Sochi could turn into the kind of major tourist attraction that the Russian government envisioned it to be.

In the aftermath of international competitions, there is always the possibility that the infrastructure built for the events wculd turn out to be a white elephant: a costly project whose cost of maintenance outweighs its tangible benefits. While the grand architecture and modern facilities provide a boost to the psyche of the host nation, we should always ask whether they provide the long-term benefits that could justify their exorbitant costs.

Worst of all, the opportunity

cost of infrastructure investments is massive. Every dollar spent on a new stadium is money that could have been spent on arguably more worthwhile causes such as education, social security and poverty reduction. As the host of the upcoming World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics, Brazil has had to confront these problems in the face of a slowing economy.

The New York Times recently reported that billions of dollars of infrastructure investments across Brazil, ranging from transportation systems to luxury hotels, aimed to prepare for the World Cup and the Olympics, have been abandoned as the Brazilian economy tanked. These lavish projects, in hindsight,

simply do not provide any tangible benefits to the ordinary Brazilians who have to pay for them.

After the last tourist leaves in 2016, Brazilians may have to confront the possibility that the massive investments would have been more productive elsewhere.

Asking people living in poverty or near poverty to pay for our entertainment seems unfair and cruel.

The sad thing is, the massive price tag of international competitions likely wouldn’t fall anytime soon. Countries, especially developing ones, are willing to blow piles of money to impress organizers and show off their national pride. Moreover, groups like FIFA and the IOC are rife with corruption, which fur-

ther reduces the likelihood of cost control. Recently, FIFA was accused of trying to sabotage an internal investigation into corruption charges over the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts. FIFA President Sepp Blatter, who once championed transparency, was among those who tried to halt the investigation.

Many have simply accepted that bribes and corrupt dealings are an inevitable part of the bid process. Forget about the highminded goals that international competitions are supposed to embody — brotherhood, peace, individual fortitude and so on — these events have more or less become money-grabbing opportunities for those involved. Bil-

lions of dollars flow into the pockets of corrupt organizers, while the citizens of the host countries rarely see the benefits that these events are supposed to bring.

As time goes on, we should be aware of the legacy that the seemingly impressive stadiums and arenas will leave. I fear that someday, our descendants will look at the athletic infrastructure we have left behind and see it the same way we see the Roman Coliseum: an impressive monument dedicated to commemorating a lavish and ultimately unsustainable lifestyle.

JIMIN HE is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at jimin.he@yale.edu .

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TORI BALTA ’14 SOFTBALL The senior outfielder was named to the Ivy League honor roll for her performance in the Bulldogs’ six games last week. The Valencia, CA native batted .429 in six games, going for nine hits, three runs and two RBI.

“We just gave him a big happy birthday wish in the locker room. I think we have some plans for tonight.”

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BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER With a crucial four-game series coming up this weekend against Ivy rival Harvard, the Yale baseball team toyed with its lineup for its game yesterday against Sacred Heart, inserting reserve left fielder Derek Brown ’17 in the leadoff spot and putting normal center fielder Green Campbell ’15 on the bump.

But the changes worked to perfection, as Campbell threw five innings of one-hit baseball on his 21st birthday and Brown went 3-for-3 with three runs scored.

Those two moves, along with the contributions from captain Cale Hanson ’14, delivered the Bulldogs a 5–2 win over the Pioneers.

“I was very impressed with Green Campbell,” Hanson said.

“He’s keeping hitters off-balance, he’s getting a lot of weak contact, and I’m very excited to be playing behind him. He made a very good hitting team look pretty uncomfortable at the plate.”

Yale (14–18, 6–6 Ivy) put many of its usual backups into the starting lineup. Catcher Andrew Herrera ’17 and outfielder Charles Cook ’15 also made the starting nine, and five different hurlers combined to allow just four hits all game.

But none of head coach John Stuper’s moves worked as well

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scoring on a throwing error by the outfielder. A sacrifice fly from first baseman Robert Baldwin ’15 brought Hanson home.

In the third, Brown and Hanson each singled, and after designated hitter Kevin Fortunato ’14

John Oppenheimer ’14, an offensive lineman on the football team, never expected to be a perfect match when he joined the bone marrow registry. But when he discovered that he had the opportunity to save a life, Oppenheimer did not hesitate to donate.

The senior said he joined the registry in the spring of 2011, his freshman year, after drawing inspiration from the story of former women’s hockey player Mandi Schwartz ’10. A year and a half later, Oppenheimer got a call that he was a match.

Schwartz competed as a center for the Bulldog squad, and she played in 73 straight games for Yale before she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in December 2008. She passed away in April 2011, but not before the first Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive was held at Yale in her honor in April 2009. The sixth iteration of the drive is occurring in Commons today.

“Although [Schwartz] lost her fight with cancer, her legacy has left such an impact as the drive in her honor has added over 3,800 to the registry and saved 23 lives,” Oppenheimer said. “And I had no idea how easy it was to join the registry, and painless it is to save a life if a perfect match.”

The demand for donors is high in the United States, where approximately 20,000 people need a bone marrow transplant each year. But only 30 percent of those

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The baseball team defeated Sacred Heart 5–2 yesterday to move to 14–18 on the year. as putting Brown in the starting lineup. It was Brown’s first time hitting leadoff in his nascent Yale career, and he responded by getting on base all four times he came to the plate.

“We were facing a soft lefty, so we were just trying to put the ball in play,” Brown said. “You have to

trust your guys and get on base for them. That’s what you try to do as the leadoff hitter.”

The Brown-Hanson combination, which scored all five Yale runs, started out hot in the first inning. Brown lead off the game with a walk, and Hanson pulled a double to left field, with Brown

Softball stumbles out of conference

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The softball team attempted to rebound from a three-run deficit yesterday but ultimately fell short, dropping a non-league game to Sacred Heart, 5–3.

“I thought we played a solid game all around, but made little mental mistakes here and there that didn’t allow us to pull through for the win,” third baseman Han-

nah Brennan ’15 said.

Yale (5–28, 1–11 Ivy) has struggled in the first inning of games so far this year. Opponents have outscored the Bulldogs 33–8 in the opening frame, and on Wednesday, Sacred Heart (12–17, 1–7 Northeast) scored three runs, all with two outs, in the first inning.

The Pioneers sent seven batters to the plate in the home half of the first inning, plating three runs.

Sacred Heart center fielder Jade

Bowins hit a one-out triple before scoring on a single by designated hitter Kacie Wentworth. Following a double by shortstop Justine Sibthorp, first baseman Kelyn Fillmore singled home two runs.

The Elis, however, responded with a run in the second inning.

Catcher Sarah Onorato ’15 led off the frame with a single, and Brennan followed with a double.

After a walk that loaded the bases, Onorato scored an unearned run

as a result of an error made by the Sacred Heart shortstop.

Yale was unable to stay within two runs as the Pioneers pushed the lead to three runs in the third inning, tacking on a run by playing small ball. Wentworth began the inning with a single, and her pinch runner Jessica Schild moved to second base on a sacrifice bunt.

Schild advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on a single by right fielder McKenna Wiegand.

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a double.

The Bulldogs rallied again in the sixth inning. Allie Souza ’16 led off the inning with a walk, but she was eliminated on a double play. A single by second baseman Rachel Paris ’17 and a double by captain and center fielder Tori Balta ’14 helped Yale pick up one more run.

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JIMIN HE

Feeding the white elephants

BY CAROLINE HART CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s lacrosse team (8–5, 2–3 Ivy League) will head to Ithaca, N.Y. this Saturday to face Cornell and continue its crusade to the Ivy League Championships.

As the Bulldogs come off of a solid win against Columbia this past weekend, the team is tied with Brown for a fifth place within the Ivy League. With four spots at the Ivy League Championship, and two games left in the regular season, Yale is poised to claim its place in the tournament. “ We h ave always approached the season with a game-to-game mentality, so right now we are looking forward to a hard week of practice in preparation for a huge upset against the Big Red,” Ashley McCormick ’14 said.

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The Bulldogs threatened in the fourth inning with runners at second and third base, but with two outs, the team was unable to push them across the plate.

Lauren Delgadillo ’15, who has swung a hot bat in the month of April, homered with the bases empty in the fifth to cut the deficit to two runs. Sacred Heart returned the favor, adding another run in the bottom half of the inning as a result of a walk and

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The women’s lacrosse team could move into third place in the Ivy League with a win Saturday.

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For every iconic sports team, there is an iconic stadium or arena associated with it. The Lakers have the Staples Center, the old Yankees Stadium was sometimes called the “The Cathedral of Baseball” and Yale Hockey, of course, has the Whale.

These places become part of the lore and narrative that we associate with their respective teams.

And the construction of major venues is even more important for major international competition as well. The 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics saw the construction of the Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube, two impressive feats of engineering. For the 2012 Summer Olympics, London spent nearly £500 million building the Olympic Stadium, which will eventually serve as the home

of the soccer club West Ham United. When we watch these events, the grandeur of the venues is almost as impressive as the competitions taking place inside.

However, after the initial hype has passed, the utility of these stadiums seems to fall off dramatically. China had to spend tens of millions of additional construction money to convert the Water Cube into a water park.

The London Olympic Stadium, just completed in 2011, shut down recently for at least another three years so it could be converted into a multipurpose venue.

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AGE THAT YALE CENTER FIELDER AND STARTING PITCHER GREEN CAMPBELL ’15 TURNED YESTERDAY. Campbell pitched five scoreless innings on his birthday, recording six strikeouts en route to helping Yale to a 5–2 win over Sacred Heart.