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RECRUITING FOR FOOTBALL

BALANCING BUDGETS FACULTY POWER And bikes. The Devil’s Gear encounters financial shoals.

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Two years in, Yale-NUS sets itself apart

Overlooked at Yale. A Wednesday article in The Washington Post revisited conversations between Alexandra Brodsky LAW ’16 and Sabrina Rubin Erdely — who wrote “A Rape on Campus,” the since-retracted Rolling Stone story — about sexual assault cases at Yale that Erdely ultimately decided not to include in the piece, according to Brodsky.

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n March, staff reporter Rachel Siegel traveled to Singapore to examine LGBTQ activism at Yale-NUS and in Singapore at large. This is the second of a twopart series on the young liberal arts college’s evolving role in Singaporean society.

Let freedom ring. Today

marks the 150th anniversary of General Ulysses S. Grant’s Union victory over Confederate forces at Appomattox. To honor the occasion, bell towers (like our very own Harkness Tower) across the country will ring for four minutes, beginning at 3:15 p.m. Mayor Toni Harp and history professor David Blight will be on hand to make remarks on the significance of the anniversary.

Tanks for the memories.

Now that both the Spring Fling headliner and Class Day speaker have been announced, we can finally begin looking forward to the events themselves. Accordingly, the Yale College Council’s Spring Fling Committee released the festival’s official merchandise — tank tops and T-shirts — online yesterday.

SINGAPORE — Nearly 10,000 miles from New Haven, a single building embedded within the National University of Singapore is home to Yale-NUS College. Now in its second year, Yale-NUS is the only independent college bearing Yale’s imprint. It was founded with the guiding principle of bringing the liberal arts to Asia.

On the most basic level, the sheer distance between the two campuses could act as a metaphor for how dissimilar Yale-NUS and Yale appear.

The former sits within a tiny and relatively young island nation in Southeast Asia — its campus spotted with palm trees and open patios — and is home to only 330 students across two classes. The latter has staked its claim in New Haven since before

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Stark campaign heats up

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER

In the academic sense, Yale-NUS is unique both within Singapore and in Southeast Asia. Yale-NUS is the only liberal arts institution in Singapore, and its Common Curriculum — the foundation of every student’s academic experience — is a signature of the college.

“Yale-NUS gives Singaporeans SEE YALE-NUS PAGE 4

SEE STARK CANDIDACY PAGE 4

As a liberal arts college in Singapore, Yale-NUS has inspired a lot of controversy in its two years of existence. .

American independence and currently enrolls nearly 12,000 students across Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and 10 professional schools.

But ever since plans for Yale-NUS were first announced in 2009, concerns about how a country like Singapore could support and uphold the tenets of a liberal arts education have not abated.

Though University administrators have repeatedly assured critics that students at Yale-NUS would have the same academic and social freedoms as students in New Haven, Singapore’s longstanding reputation as an authoritarian democracy provided little comfort: The government bans certain books and films deemed upsetting to the delicate balance of the country’s multi-racial society.

Public protests are almost exclusively prohibited, as is any form of hate

Two sororities vie fto become Yale’s fourth sorority.

In the two weeks since Fish Stark ’17 launched his bid for Ward 1 alder, his campaign has heated up around campus.

Stark formed a campaign committee in early March, making him one of the earliest candidates in recent history to announce their candidacy. Since then, he and his campaign have begun accepting donations and become increasingly active in promoting his cause around campus. Stark will face current Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 in the race, who declared her candidacy for a third term last week.

“The main thing right now is just getting Fish in front of as many people as possible,” said Sergio Lopez ’18, Stark’s campaign manager. Lopez said the campaign’s early announcement allows Stark to meet with more people and to do so while being an official candidate.

Though some donors have come forward, Stark said he has not begun actively fundraising. With the first financial filing deadline coming on Friday, he said, he has received nine donations — eight of which have come from Yale students — since the campaign launched.

Campaign treasurer Hedy Gutfreund ’18 said these donations have mostly come from five-dollar pledges made at the launch event two weeks ago.

Stark has also begun a series of weekly Friday night dinners in residential college dining halls to discuss policy ideas and strat-

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BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER

GOING GREEK

speech against the government or racial or religious groups, and a 2014 report by Reporters Without Borders ranked Singapore 150th of 180 countries evaluated for press freedoms.

But Yale-NUS shows no signs of going anywhere. The college’s permanent campus will open in October, and the student body population is slowly growing towards the targeted 1,000 students.

ACADEMICALLY SPEAKING

Do it for the bag. The Office

of Undergraduate Admissions has begun soliciting help hosting prefrosh for Bulldog Days, which will take place from April 20 through April 22.

And in return for shepherding a wide-eyed high schooler (or five) through Yale during those days, you receive… a drawstring bag. Shame — we actually kind of liked the T-shirts they used to give out.

Bridging the gap. Alongside a story on the solidarity among first-generation students at Ivy League schools, The New York Times ran “To Become a Bridge,” a poem written by Travis Reginal ’16 on Wednesday. “I rest in two places,” Reginal says, exploring sentiments seemingly shared by students in the main article.

Cawlidge Hawkey. Another piece in yesterday’s New York Times, while not explicitly referencing Yale, waxed nostalgic over a topic we’re all very familiar with: the Frozen Four. This year’s rendition in Boston features Omaha, Providence, North Dakota and… BU (sigh).

Best on Earth. A screening

of the movie “Speciesism” will take place this evening in WLH 117. The film takes its inspiration from the question of whether or not mankind, in its place atop the world, is entitled to a “larger variety of moral rights.” Is this what it’s like to be a philosophy major?

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1987 The YCC approves open officer elections, passing the relevant amendment with a 20-to-four vote tally.

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Nursing student remembered as champion for health

BY LARRY MILSTEIN AND STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTERS Meghan Sullivan NUR ’16, who was dedicated to caring for mental health and substance abuse patients, died suddenly on Tuesday.

According to Dean of the Yale School of Nursing Margaret Grey, Sullivan passed away in class due to a “very sudden event,” the cause of which is still unknown. She added that there will be a follow-up exam

in the days to come.

The University declined to provide biographical details about Sullivan, including her date of birth.

Grey said that Sullivan was in class at the School of Nursing’s West Campus facility at the time, adding that the faculty present “handled the situation well” and escorted students out of the room while nearby faculty attended to Sullivan until paramedics could arrive. “[Sullivan] was an amaz-

Online PA program proposal rejected

BY EMMA PLATOFF AND AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTERS The Yale School of Medicine’s recently announced online Physician Associate program was not approved as a mere “class expansion” to the existing program by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, which published its decision online last Thursday.

On March 10, Yale announced its plan to increase its yearly intake of roughly 36 PA students to up to 350 by allowing students to receive their Masters of Medical Sciences degree online. The new degree was set to offer students the complete didactic portion of the roughly

two-year degree via video lectures and discussion sections, with the practical component to be fulfilled during a twoweek course on campus and off-campus clinical rotations completed at pre-approved sites in the students’ hometowns. However, following a wave of criticism from current Yale PA students and program alumni, the ARC-PA turned down Yale’s application for the online PA program to be considered as a class expansion. Now, the online PA program must be evaluated through the submission of a full accreditation application.

“The decision was made that this program was too different and that one cannot approach it SEE PA PROGRAM PAGE 6

ingly talented young woman and committed to social justice,” Grey said, adding that Sullivan was well-regarded and loved by her classmates.

According to an online biography on the website for the Global Health Justice Partnership — an initiative of the Yale Law School and the Yale School of Public Health for which she served as a student fellow — Sullivan was a master’s degree candidate in nursing in the psychiatric and mental health specialty, and pursued an

interest in social justice issues concerning mental health and substance abuse, particularly in how they affected underserved areas. “[Sullivan] is interested in finding better access to and better quality care for the mentally ill and substance abusers,” the biography reads. “[Sullivan] is also committed to providing better education for the public about what it means to be mentally ill in order to lessen the stigma associated with mental illness.”

Prior to coming to Yale, Sullivan volunteered at a day treatment center in Seattle, where she worked with men and women who were suffering from severe mental illnesses.

In a Wednesday email sent to all GHJP fellows and provided to the News, program directors described Sullivan as a “champion of people living with mental illness and struggling with substance use.” The email proceeded to inform the fellows SEE SULLIVAN PAGE 6

At med school, grants determine pay

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTER While the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine are considered by many to be leaders in the medical community, even tenured professors face uncertainty regarding one of the basic logistics of any job: a reliable paycheck.

Though their peers on Science Hill receive a largely Yale-funded paycheck, medical school faculty must rely on grant funding from the federal government to pay for the bulk of their salaries.

This payment model causes significant financial insecurity to faculty, who even with tenure cannot necessarily rely on steady pay, said professor of cell biology Yongli Zhang MED ’03.

“Faculty are being laid off because they are not able to fully fund their salary, and

funding may not be renewed on a project, so the researchers cannot finish it,” said Douglas Brash, professor of therapeutic radiology at the School of Medicine.

Brash added that to be more sure that they will get funding, faculty often shape their grant proposals around more conservative scientific questions — “just confirming things we already know.”

“That’s not why I got into science,” Brash said.

Seventy percent of Zhang’s salary comes from federal grants, he estimated.

With so much grant money focused on professors, significantly fewer funds are available for hiring graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as purchasing research materials.

That 70:30 ratio is consistent with the payment model of most professors in the School of Medicine, Brash

said, noting that it may in fact be an overestimate for some departments that provide as little as 10 percent or less of a professor’s salary.

Getting the remaining 90 percent is often uncertain.

“Many great labs that have done a lot of notable work cannot even get their grants renewed — this is very typical now,” said Zhang. “The grant environment is just getting tougher and tougher.”

According to Sandy Chang ’88, professor of laboratory medicine and of pathology, while medical school faculty pay for nine months of their yearly salary through grant funding, Science Hill faculty only pay for three months of the year through grants.

Since the 1990s, the research environment has grown increasingly difficult for grant funding, Brash SEE STEM FUNDING PAGE 6

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OPINION

.COMMENT “Biden the Lion” yaledailynews.com/opinion

Transforming tap S I

t is difficult to know exactly how to respond to the email sent by Danny Avraham ’15 to the undergraduate student body yesterday. The particulars of the plan are still vague and it is very much an open question how the student body will respond, whether people will participate and whether these groups will have staying power beyond the first few months.

What is particularly fascinating is how it is simultaneously revolutionary and conservative. Never before, to my knowledge, has such a public program taken place with regard to senior societies at Yale. In many ways it represents a potential transformation of the institution. Some form of the society experience may soon be perceived as the right of every undergraduate. It also represents an institutionalization of these groups to a previously unheard-of extent.

Apparently new societies will be created and sustained as long as there is significant enough demand in the junior class, with a whole network of seniors, alums, donors and, inevitably, the administration in some way having a hand.

At the same time, this is also a very conservative approach.

Avraham has simply put the normal process of society creation into overdrive. Considering the explosion of societies that has taken place over the past decade, so that now almost half of the junior class is tapped every year, this seems like the natural continuation of the trend. Clearly, there is a substantial demand within the student body for the experiences a society can offer, and these new organizations may be able to help satisfy that demand. It also does not, at first glance, represent a meaningful threat to the current system. As has been noted, new societies are created and disappear all the time. Certain groups will always carry a particular cachet due to their history, resources or presence on campus. This is not so much an attempt to rework societies in their totality as an attempt to extend the existing structure to include the entirety of the class.

That said, it is important to consider some of the possible unintended consequences of this change. Not as insurmountable roadblocks, but things to keep in mind if we, as a community, go forward with this plan. The first point is of harassment and hazing in the tap process and safety in the subsequent year. Hopefully, these guaranteed societies will make people feel safe in refusing to participate in activities they find degrading. At the same time, the more people involved in tap night, the more potential there is for someone or some group to go too far and for something tragic to happen. Furthermore, as more people become involved in societ-

ies, the significance they hold in social lives will increase proportionally. It is critical that we mainISA tain and QASIM develop safe, respectThe ful environments. We, Passerby as a community, must regulate ourselves. The tap process and societies should be a fun, exciting experience, not a source of distress or danger.

This leads to a second concern. As it stands now, the societies are allowed an incredible amount of freedom. They are largely unregulated and free to pursue their business as they deem appropriate. It is this freedom that makes the society experience such a special one.

The ability to develop and craft a group’s identity, to be beholden to no one but the other members of your group, to encourage freedom of expression and openness through privacy are all unique privileges that should be protected. The more we formalize this process, the more it is centralized and put in the control of a governing body, the more potential there is for it to be controlled and regulated from above. In seeking to make the society experience available to all seniors, we must be careful not to sow the seeds of its destruction.

Ultimately, I have no idea if this effort will be successful. In order to craft a successful society experience, people must be willing to dedicate a significant amount of time to bonding and developing with a group of relative strangers. Groups lacking institutional memory and support may have difficulty creating the buy-in necessary for that experience. At the same time, there is clearly widespread demand and, when successful, the experience can be a deeply transformative and meaningful one. There are perhaps other ways to deal with the feelings of exclusion and frustration inherent to the current society process. However, no other changes have been forthcoming and, if we take Avraham at his word, this approach seems to have attracted the support and money of alumni.

It is certainly worth a try. So if you are a junior, are interested in the society experience and have not already been tapped, I would encourage you to sign up and give it an honest effort.

It will take work and effort and eat up your free time, but if you succeed you might make Yale a better place.

ISA QASIM is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at isa.qasim@yale.edu .

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'JOY DARBY' ON 'BIDEN TO SPEAK AT CLASS DAY'

The mundane things

ometimes I feel like my columns are about the most mundane things — getting off campus, talking about what classes you like, getting a meal.

But actually, as my time as a columnist slowly draws to a close, I’ve come to be pretty glad about that. The reason I use my biweekly opportunity to mouth off to a captive audience about these impossibly small-scale topics is because if I’ve learned anything over the past three years, it’s that those are the first things to go while we’re at school.

Everything at Yale seems so lofty, so long-term and so impossibly important that sometimes it becomes hard to get a reality check, or to deal with the dayto-day tasks that face us every moment. Agonizing about our homework for 10 days is an easier, more commonplace thing to deal with than getting a good night of sleep. I can wrap my mind around writing a 50-page thesis, applying to law school and going to job interviews; yet I will go three weeks without doing my laundry or taking out my common room’s recycling. (Sorry, mom.)

I’m saying that from personal experience: My thesis is due next Monday, and it sometimes feels like my normal existence has been put utterly on hold. But recently, I

was reminded of something that I think more Yalies would do well to recall: the power of taking the logisVICTORIA tics of your life back into your HALLhands.

I returned PALERM to school from Spring Notorious Break with a VHP list of things I needed to get done, according to my mother, in the upcoming weeks. I had gotten a number of things in the mail that needed attending to, had a few doctor’s appointments to schedule — all mundane and relatively simple. But when I got back to campus that first Sunday, did I do them? Absolutely not. I got to my room, threw down my suitcase and headed straight to Bass, where I churned out 11 pages of my thesis in about five hours. Something about getting on the phone to call my pediatrician to get an immunization record seemed simultaneously trivial and yet insurmountably challenging in a way that reading Dostoevsky did not. The stack of envelopes that I needed to deal

with remained on my desk.

Last week, however, I found myself at an odd juncture: I turned in a draft of my thesis, leaving me with no other pressing work I could use to justify putting the more ordinary workings of my life on hold. And so … I didn’t. When I woke up, I went to the gym. I came back and actually had breakfast. I took the pieces of mail that I had brought from home and, one by one, actually attended to them.

I renewed my driver’s license.

(Look out world!) I picked up packages from my P.O. Box and mailed out a form that had been languishing on my bookshelf. I refilled a prescription.

In times of high levels of school stress, I get into something of a pattern. For a few days leading up to the big push, I essentially put my life on hold. My room becomes a monstrosity (sorry again, mom), my meals irregular and the emails in my inbox unanswered. But then, once the work is finally behind me, the way I celebrate my freedom from stress isn’t by sleeping or watching an episode of TV. It’s by methodically attending to those things that I knew I should have been doing the whole time. Nothing is more therapeutic after a horrible week of midterms than to sit down and do four loads of

laundry; it’s like the clean, warm sheets are rewarding you for finally taking your life back into your own hands.

I did that last week, not because I had a particularly challenging week, but rather because I didn’t have anything real to do that took priority over it. I couldn’t keep my tangible (and therefore less important) tasks at bay with seemingly eternal “work” justifications, and so I just sat down and did them. And you know what? I felt pretty amazing afterwards.

And it makes me wonder — what if we all lived our lives here like normal humans? A healthy combination of dedication to our long-term intellectual or extracurricular projects and to the equally important day-to-day things might actually help us feel more in control of our week. Just because we’re at Yale and chronically overworked doesn’t mean we don’t sometimes have to vacuum the common room, and accomplishing one minor feat each day is a good reminder that life goes on, even outside the confines of Bass.

VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a senior in Berkeley College. Her column usually runs on alternate Wednesdays. Contact her at victoria.hall-palerm@yale.edu .

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GUEST COLUMNIST CHARLOT TE FINEGOLD

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The value of 23 hours

or the average Yalie, 23 hours flies by. It’s hard to fit in sleep around four classes, three meals, lab, talking and laughing with 10 different friends, 8,000 steps, 150 pages of reading, two review sessions, 10 Facebook checks, a jog up Science Hill, a shower, 20 text messages to friends, a phone call with a parent, a play, lecture, performance, Master’s Tea and the obligatory Netflix binge.

For a juvenile in solitary confinement, 23 hours is an eternity.

Alone in an 7-by-12 cell without books or contact with the outside world, one Florida youth in isolation told the American Civil Liberties Union in 2011, “The only thing left to do is go crazy — just sit and talk to the walls.”

Even as far back as 1890, we’ve known the troubling consequences of solitary confinement. In an 1890 Supreme Court case which prohibited death row inmates from being held in solitary confinement, the Court said, “a considerable number of the prisoners fell, after even a short confinement, into a semifatuous condition, from which it was next to impossible to arouse them, and others became violently insane; others still, committed suicide, while those who stood the ordeal better were not generally reformed.”

Today, solitary confinement is common for adults, and the practice has been extended to

juveniles. It is difficult to determine the exact number of juveniles who are currently held in solitary confinement, but across the country, there are jails that isolate their entire juvenile populations in solitary confinement for the duration of their pretrial sentence. When juveniles are transferred to adult prisons, they are often isolated “for their own protection.” In an incredibly bone-headed move, institutions sometimes use solitary confinement as a treatment method for juveniles who are recuperating after a suicide attempt. But it is also used punitively: Minor infractions, such as insubordination, can land a juvenile in isolation for up to 90 days.

Whatever the reason, juveniles’ experiences in solitary confinement are strikingly similar — and horrific. Kids in solitary confinement may be barred from regular programming including education, mental health services, recreation and social interaction with their peers.

Many are cut off from their family and denied visits, phone calls, letters and other such privileges.

Such deprivation is devastating for their development and mental health. Its effects are longlasting: George Chochos DIV’16, a second-year Yale Divinity School student who spent 11 years in prisons in New York, still experiences the adverse effects of the 20 days he spent

in solitary confinement. Even today, he finds it difficult to be in extremely crowded places or to be left alone with his thoughts for an extended period of time.

For a 2011 report, Growing Up Locked Down, Human Rights Watch and the ACLU spoke to youth who reported experiencing thoughts of suicide and selfharm, auditory and visual hallucinations, nightmares, loss of sleep and uncontrollable anger.

Many adolescents carry a history of abuse, trauma, neglect and mental health problems.

Kids may emerge from solitary confinement 30 pounds lighter, jittery and scarred physically and mentally. To even the most peaceful mind, 23 hours of isolation, sometimes for six months on end, is traumatic. When juveniles as young as 13 are subjected to solitary confinement, it’s torture.

Putting juveniles in solitary confinement violates domestic and international principles: Solitary confinement, though unfortunately far from “unusual,” is nevertheless cruel and violates both the Constitution and a whole host of international agreements.

There are glimmers of progress: States such as Mississippi and Colorado are rethinking solitary confinement and seeing the number of violent incidents and associated costs go down. New York City announced a ban on

solitary confinement for 16- and 17-year-olds at Rikers Island.

These statewide efforts are commendable, but it is high time for national change.

More than 900 Yale students signed letters in support of “second look” legislation — sentencing policy reform that takes into account juveniles’ incomplete neurological development and complicated backgrounds.

I urge you to stand, once more, with youth who have been caught up in the criminal justice system.

This time, fight for youth whose only companions are a metal toilet, desk and bed, who yearn to see a sliver of sunlight or talk to another inmate, whose mental health deteriorates with every hour they must stare at excrement-covered walls and attempt to stay sane. Stand with the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project and the Student Prison Alliance, and sign the ACLU’s petition, lobbying the Attorney General to ban the use of solitary confinement on anyone under the age of 21.

Yale students are some of the busiest juveniles I know. If anyone knows the value of 23 hours, it’s us.

CHARLOTTE FINEGOLD is a sophomore in Berkeley College and codirector of advocacy and awareness for the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project. Contact her at charlotte.finegold@yale.edu

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“A universal truth of bicycling is this — pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.”

ROBERT PENN BRITISH AUTHOR

CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8

A previous version of the article “Former YCBA head discusses center’s design, construction” misidentified Robert Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, as Robert Storr, dean of the Yale School of Art. A previous version of the article “Yale’s long-time leader” misspelled the name of the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center.

Devil’s Gear Bike Shop in financial trouble

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER After serving New Haven cyclists for nearly 15 years, the Devil’s Gear Bike Shop, located at 151 Orange St., is under financial strain.

Matthew Feiner, founder and owner of the shop, sent an email yesterday to members of the New Haven cycling community announcing that the shop is in financial trouble and that he has started a fundraiser to keep it from closing. Feiner told the News that the store’s move five years ago from a smaller space on 433 Chapel St. to the current location on Orange Street has contributed to the financial difficulties. Feiner plans to relocate to a smaller space once the lease for the current space expires in August, but he needs to pay back debts to vendors as well as back taxes accumulated during the move.

“Things will be tight. We are really in the hole financially,” Feiner said, adding that the move to the bigger location was a poor business decision.

In addition to selling bikes, the shop hosts bike tours, maintenance clinics and weekly training rides. Feiner aimed to make the Devil’s Gear Bike Shop heavily involved in community activities. The shop is one of the two sponsors of the Yale cycling team, along with College Street Cycles.

In addition, it has provided all of the technical support for the Smilow Cancer Hospital’s Closer to Free Ride for the last four years and partners with the city of New Haven to offer free cycling services to underprivileged high school students.

A fundraiser to keep the shop open was put up yesterday afternoon on indiegogo.com, a global crowdfunding website. After eight hours, $3,405 had been donated.

The Devil’s Gear hopes to raise $175,000 by May 8, according to the online fundraiser.

Feiner said selling the shop is not an option for him, as he feels too connected to the New Haven cycling community.

“Somebody posted in the comments section [of the online fundraiser] about a time when they came to buy a new bike and I persuaded them instead to get their old one fixed,” Feiner said. They posted that I was ‘not a great business man but a great community man,’ which is nice, because that’s kind of how I wanted to be seen.”

Feiner was officially recognized as a leader in the New Haven community in 2013, when then-Mayor John DeStefano Jr. proclaimed Sept. 20, 2013 “Matthew J. Feiner Day” to commemorate Feiner’s advocacy for bike safety and community-wide events. The official declaration called Feiner a “quintessential New Havener” and attributed New Haven’s robust cycling community to Feiner’s efforts.

Travis Rabbit MED ’15, the Yale cycling team’s development coordinator, said that as one of the team’s sponsors, the Devil’s Gear provides the team with deals on bicycle purchases and also hosts free bicycle maintenance clinics.

Elif Erez ’15, the women’s captain of the cycling team, said that the shop has been an integral part of her cycling experience.

“At my first bike race, I remember members of the shop came all the way out to Rutgers to be our mechanical support, and I remember Matt cheering me on the whole way,” she said.

We turn over every four years, but people like Matt have been around for ages.

TRAVIS RABBIT MED ’15 Development Coordinator, Yale Cycling Team Rabbit said the loss of the Devil’s Gear would be devastating, not just for the Yale cycling team, but also for cyclists in the Greater New Haven area. The Devil’s Gear has let the team achieve a sense of continuity despite the yearly turnover of members, Rabbit added.

“We turn over every four years, but people like Matt have been around for ages,” he said. “Beyond a sponsorship, they’re able to provide a sounding board for incoming team leaders as well as individual bicyclists.”

Rabbit has been in contact with Feiner about organizing fundraising events to ensure the shop does not go out of business.

Feiner is also the co-founder of Elm City Cycling, a nonprofit group that advocates for improvements to the city’s biking infrastructure.

Contact NOAH KIM at noah.kim@yale.edu .

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Faculty add their voice to divestment movement

BY JED FINLEY AND LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTERS Some faculty have now joined the push for fossil fuel divestment at Yale — an effort that was previously helmed almost entirely by students.

On Tuesday evening, Fossil Free Yale released a letter written in conjunction with Yale School of Public Health professor Robert Dubrow that called upon the University to reconsider the question of divestment. In August 2014, University President Peter Salovey announced that the Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility voted not to support divestiture of Yale’s assets in fossil fuel companies. As of press time Wednesday evening, the letter had 51 signatures spanning over a dozen departments and three schools. Still, with similar faculty petitions from peer institutions numbering in the hundreds, some faculty interviewed said it would take more time and support before this letter would place new pressure on the administration.

“On this particular issue [of divestment], I think [the administration] made a mistake, and I hope we can persuade them,” Dubrow said. “I think the ‘we’ has to be more than just students, but faculty are naturally a critical part of the University and have an important role to play.”

Dubrow said he was initially hesitant to “stick his neck out” for the issue, but after being approached by members of FFY three weeks ago, he decided to help author the letter. He said he felt it was important for the University to take the lead on this issue of divestment and set an example for other peer institutions.

In March, the University updated the campus on the six new sustainability initiatives it unveiled eight months earlier, which range from a $21 million capital investment in energy conservation to the possibility of an internal carbon pricing mechanism.

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler said she was glad to see faculty and others on campus engaged in “constructive and respectful dialogue” about how best to respond to climate change.

Faculty interviewed cited a variety of reasons for signing the document, ranging from the social justice harms of the fossil fuel industry to the leadership role associated with institutions of higher education.

“Universities have a special burden to stand for humanity,” History, American Studies and African American Studies professor Glenda Gilmore wrote in an email. “We teach by example, and Yale is setting the wrong example by profiting from fossil fuel investments.”

She added she is optimistic that the letter and student advocacy will convince the University to change its stance since divestment is “inevitable” as environmental crises raise awareness about the harms of fossil fuel causes.

African American Studies Department Chair Matthew Jacobson said he signed the letter because he believes that the environmental devastation caused by fossil fuels is among the most important issues currently facing the global community.

“If our political institutions are incapable of addressing it, then other kinds of institutions will have to be made to,” he said.

He added, however, that he has no expectation that it will be a quick process for the University to divest.

Though the petition remains in its early stages, it trails behind other peer institutions that have organized similar faculty letter campaigns. Petitions at Columbia, Harvard and Stanford have gained 150, 246 and 369 signatures, respectively.

Howeve r, F FY m e m ber Nathan Lobel ’17 said the momentum behind the letter is “growing rapidly.”

“These faculty are the leaders in their fields,” Lobel wrote in an email. “When experts in environmental health, public health, social justice, political science and countless others

stand up and say that the University should divest, it lends this issue the legitimacy of the academic rigor that this institution was built on.”

This is not the first time FFY has organized a petitioning process that included some faculty support. In 2013, over 1,000 members of the Yale community, including undergraduates, graduates, alumni, staff and faculty, signed a document expressing a call for the University to divest.

Still, FFY Project Manager Mitch Barrows ’16 said this effort was distinct from previous petitions since the vast majority of signatures on the 2013 petition were from students.

He added that FFY is currently seeking to engage all members of the Yale community to place pressure on the administration.

Any decision on divestment cannot not be made without faculty input, FFY member Tristan Glowa ’18 said.

Lobel added that FFY will continue to reach out to professors and will host an event for faculty members to come together and discuss the merits of divestment on April 17.

“We will not stop recruiting support from … professors until Yale divests,” Lobel said.

Contact JED FINLEY at james.finley@yale.edu and LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

Diversity in academic programs nebulous

BY TYLER FOGGATT AND EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTERS Last week, Yale accepted its most diverse freshman class yet. Still, questions remain as to whether the Admissions Office’s efforts at diversification reach all of Yale’s most competitive academic programs.

Although these programs take different approaches to diversity in choosing their populations, students have expressed concern that the constituencies of certain academic majors or programs are not as diverse as Yale’s larger population. For example, students in Directed Studies — a yearlong intensive program for freshmen that provides a comprehensive overview of the Western Canon — described the program’s students as “overwhelmingly Caucasian,” though many mentioned that there are a significant number of international students in the program.

“From what I remember, DS was predominantly white,” said Angelo Pis-Dudot ’17, who enrolled in the program during his freshman year. “There was one black guy, and I can’t remember any black girls in the program. Some international and Asian-American students diversified the group too, but beyond that, I can’t recall more than a handful of students of color.”

However, current DS Director of Undergraduate Studies Kathryn Slanski said outreach efforts aimed at diversifying DS, particularly by including more first-generation college students — a cohort that is increasing at the University as a whole — are ongoing. In addition to adding to the program’s website, DS faculty are making efforts to correct misperceptions about the program and increase awareness of it through events like Bulldog Days forums.

Ana Barros ’18, along with four other DS students, said more should be done to expand the racial diversity of the program. Given the unique nature of DS’s curriculum, Barros said, diversity is especially important to class discussions.

“DS asks you to question your thoughts and challenge other people’s, and your racial identity — or your cultural identity — is extremely important in [that],” she said. “[Diversity] is something that should be prioritized as a way of progressing the program itself.”

Professor Norma Thompson, who teaches in DS, noted that there are some challenges to broadening the diversity of DS, but she added that Slanski is spearheading several outreach efforts. Thompson told the News in February that she wished the DS population were

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Some students have questioned the diversity of certain competitive academic programs, like Directed Studies. more diverse — but the program’s constituency relies largely on the people who apply.

Still, roughly half of each DS class is pre-admitted to the program by the Admissions Office. Director of Outreach and Recruitment Mark Dunn ’07 said the preselection of students for DS is conducted in two rounds. A few Early Action students have already been notified of their pre-admission to the program, Dunn said, and the Admissions Office is currently working with DS faculty to determine which students from the Regular Decision process will be invited to participate in the program. Slanski said while she does not see information about students’ racial or ethnic profiles, as she is not a member of the admissions staff, the Admissions Office is always working to diversify Yale’s incoming classes. She added that she and her colleagues have made it clear to the Admissions Office that increasing the number of first-generation college students is one of their goals, and she believes that admissions officers keep this in mind as they consider candidates for DS. Efforts at diversifying vary from program to program, including in the competitive “Studies in Grand Strategy” course — a yearlong course composed of seminars and events with guest speakers that accepts roughly one third of its applicants.

“Diversity is indeed one of the things we consider, but because we think there are many kinds of diversity, we define the term broadly,” history professor John Gaddis, director of the BradyJohnson Program in Grand

Strategy, wrote in an email.

Christina de Fontnouvelle ’16, a current student in GS, said she believes this year’s GS class is very diverse in both the cultural backgrounds of students and their academic interests. GS students vary by major, interest and past experience, she said, which enlivens class discussions.

“I think the class is also quite rich in terms of cultural diversity, especially by including many international students,” de Fontnouvelle said. “This brings in political views to the class that Americans might not have thought to bring up.”

She added that racial and ethnic diversity is definitely present as well, which adds weight and perspective to class discussions on topics such as Sun Tzu, civil rights, communism and fascism.

Additionally, de Fontnouvelle said that GS professors should continue to reach out beyond what are thought to be the “traditional GS circles,” such as history majors, in order to ensure the diversity of future classes.

Sophia Berhie GRD ’16, another GS student, said that in a course like GS, there must be a “conscionable effort” to ensure broad and diverse student perspectives in the class. However, she said, racial and ethnic diversity are just one component to consider.

“This doesn’t begin or end with a diversity selection process,” Berhie said. “Pointing to racial diversity as a sufficient condition for a diverse class trivializes the merit of those students and ignores the need for a broader sense of diversity, including student experiences.”

For example, Berhie said

many graduate students in the course have worked in the public sector in the United States or abroad.

In contrast to GS, which considers the diversity of its students during its application process, the Ethics, Politics & Economics major does not ask for a student’s race on its application, according to DUS Andrew March. Still, EP&E Director Nicholas Sambanis said the program is diverse by other metrics, such as gender balance. Many EP&E majors said that even though racial and ethnic diversity were not taken into account during the admissions process, they have not noticed an imbalanced racial makeup of the major.

EP&E major Josh Feinzig ’16 said he has enjoyed hearing from a diverse range of perspectives, and from those with a diverse range of backgrounds in his EP&E seminars. This has been one of the highlights of the major, he added.

However, EP&E major Andre Manuel ’16 said that in his experience, while EP&E seems to bring together students with diverse interests, the major seems “more homogenous” in terms of race, gender and class than Yale as a whole.

“I guess if it’s true that EP&E wasn’t very diverse, it’d be interesting to see if this reflects a homogenous applicant pool, or an admissions procedure that favors some types of people at others’ expense,” Manuel said.

DS accepts approximately 125 students each year.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu and EMMA PLATOFF emma.platoff@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”

DOUGLAS ADAMS ENGLISH AUTHOR

Yale-NUS: A vanguard for free expression?

YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 an opportunity to try a new kind of education,” Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said. “We stand very strongly for academic freedom and we practice non-discrimination in our activities.”

Of the 25 Singaporean and international students interviewed, many characterized the traditional Singaporean educational system as one primarily focused on strict academic success. A high school student’s performance on his college entrance exams, for example, almost exclusively determines where that student will attend university. But at Yale-NUS, students said, they are encouraged to dedicate a substantial amount of their time to activities outside the classroom — be it in sports, the arts, student groups or other extracurriculars.

The young college, though, has not been immune to controversies surrounding academic freedom.

Though banned books and films are supposed to remain accessible when used for educational purposes, Yale-NUS was barely one year old before controversy arose.

In September, the Singaporean Media Development Authority deemed the film “To Singapore, with Love” a threat to national security and prohibited any screening or distribution of it in Singapore. Even so, YaleNUS administrators said the college would go forth with plans to show the film in a classroom setting after seeking approval from the MDA. But when the filmmaker, Tan Pin Pin, learned Yale-NUS was planning on screening her film with special permission, she announced on her Facebook page that she did not authorize the screening. The next day, YaleNUS spokeswoman Fiona Soh said “To Singapore, with Love” would not be screened out of respect for the filmmaker’s decision.

Months later, however, multiple Yale-NUS administrators insist the bans have had no effect on college curricula.

“Any book can be taught here,” said Dean of Students Kyle Farley. “There’s no book any faculty members has asked for that we weren’t able to get.”

In interviews with Farley, YaleNUS Dean of Faculty Charles Bailyn ’81 and Yale-NUS’s Director of Educational Resources and Technology Ken Panko, two banned texts were repeatedly referenced for their use in the classroom: “Shame” and “The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie.

“Shame” was a required book in the course Literature and Humanities last spring, and both can be accessed through the Yale-NUS library system.

According to Panko, these

works are readily available through the Yale-NUS library catalog.

“You won’t find ‘The Satanic Verses’ for sale in bookstores because in Singapore it is illegal to import any book that is considered ‘objectionable or obscene’ for the purposes of sale or distribution,” Panko said. “But it hasn’t been a problem at all to use these things in an educational context.”

Aside from banned books and films, discussions surrounding culturally taboo topics do not appear to make Yale-NUS faculty wary. While homosexuality in Singapore remains criminalized and gay people cannot marry or adopt children, discussions surrounding LGBTQ issues and unconventional families are present in several syllabi.

Any book can be taught here. There’s no book any faculty members has asked for that we weren’t able to get.

KYLE FARLEY Dean of Students, Yale-NUS College Yale-NUS professor of anthropology Bernard Bate, for example, gives a regular lecture entitled “What is Family” for his Comparative Social Institutions course. As part of the lesson, Bate examines what he calls “the queer emergent family,” and later course readings include debates over gay marriage in the U.S. and Singapore.

But despite Yale’s promise that academic freedom would not be restricted at Yale-NUS, both Yale-NUS and NUS administrators claim there is ultimately no legal distinction that enables Yale-NUS to operate any differently than its peer institutions in Singapore. For example, any book that can be taught at Yale-NUS can also technically be taught next door at NUS, they said.

According to professor Tan Tai Yong, executive vice president for academic affairs at Yale-NUS and the former vice provost for student life at NUS, the only fundamental difference between the two schools is the structure in which the material is taught — by virtue of the interdisciplinary liberal arts model — and not what can and cannot be taught.

“In terms of whether there are ‘no go’ areas in NUS where YaleNUS will have the privilege to go, it has never been an issue,” Tan said.

But even if access to academic materials are equal between YaleNUS and its neighbors, students

at Yale-NUS said they feel that controversial decisions had more support at Yale-NUS than NUS students thought they had at NUS. On March 3, for example, the Yale-NUS Writers’ Center hosted a panel discussing the censorship of children’s books at which the co-author of “The White Swan Express,” a children’s story about the adoption of four Chinese girls, was present. Conversations in Singapore surrounding the banning of children’s books were reignited in July 2014 when “The White Swan Express” and “And Tango Makes Three” were taken out of circulation by the National Library Board. Both books, which feature children adopted by gay and mixed-race families, were eventually moved to the adult section of public libraries.

“This is an important issue, not just here, but worldwide,” Bailyn said of banned books generally.

“The issue of under what circumstances do you start to regulate books is an issue of great sensitivity. [The event] epitomized what we are trying to do here.”

But perhaps the most dramatic example has yet to play out. In the fall, Chee Soon Juan — secretary-general of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party — is scheduled to speak at Yale-NUS at a Rector’s Tea. A former lecturer in psychology at NUS, Chee was dismissed from his position in 1993 after being accused of misappropriating research funds. Chee maintains he was fired for joining the opposition party and was later sued for defamation, convicted and imprisoned when he tried to contest his dismissal.

Even so, political science lecturer Jim Sleeper — among Yale’s most outspoken critics of YaleNUS — does not buy Chee’s visit as a move towards broader social progress. For Sleeper, Chee’s visit, or exemptions made for Yale-NUS on banned books and films, are simply examples of the government making special accommodations.

“These things like a Rector’s Tea for Chee, that’s just the government bending over backwards, and no one should be fooled,” Sleeper said. “It’s not evidence that things are liberalizing or changing.”

But while Yale-NUS does have a liberal mission, administrators never claimed that they wanted to radically change Singaporean society or clash with its government.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK

While students from three other Singaporean universities interviewed said their administrations are largely resistant to student organizing, those at YaleNUS characterized the school’s leadership as fully supportive of

student advocacy and activism.

“We have more space to talk and discuss things in this college, whereas at NUS, it being a fully Singaporean school, it’s a bit harder given the political and religious climate,” said a student who wished to remain anonymous for privacy reasons.

The student said he thinks Yale-NUS is “pretty open” about free speech issues — provided, however, that people say things that are substantive and constructive.

However, both students and administrators interviewed defined freedom of expression within the bounds of Singaporean laws and customs — none implied that the college aims to, or should aim to, break any rules.

Alongside concerns regarding academic integrity at Yale-NUS came questions about just how socially free any college in Singapore could be. While students at Yale would not hesitate to demonstrate on the New Haven Green, for example, public protests are almost exclusively banned in Singapore. The only designated space for public demonstrations in the country can be found at a corner of Hong Lim Park, known as the Speakers’ Corner, where Singaporean citizens and permanent residents may demonstrate after registering with the park service.

Yale-NUS administrators insist that despite the need for students to adhere to Singaporean laws regarding public protests, such restrictions do not infringe on freedom of speech on campus.

Chris O’Connell, Yale-NUS’s manager of student life, said he sees substantial engagement from the student body on complex political issues. There might be limitations on protests, but according to O’Connell, protesting is “just one piece” of campus dialogue.

Sara Amjad, a Yale-NUS dean’s fellow, said that since Singaporean law has specific guidelines about how public protests are conducted, students may ultimately find others means of getting their points across.

“The truth is that public protests are allowed in Singapore, but they are conducted within certain guidelines and those guidelines are defined by Singapore law, not by the college,” Amjad said. “Our students can stage protests within those guidelines, and if those guidelines don’t work for them, they find other ways of getting their message across.”

For Jordan Bovankovich YNUS ’18, one campus incident from October reassured her that the administration was intent on defending students’ freedom of speech. Bovankovich was not the only one to evoke the episode in which a student witnessed the

removal of an elevator poster that read “In solidarity with Hong Kong students.” The poster — which promoted Hong Kong’s pro-democracy rallies — had been taken down by a worker from NUS’s Office of Housing Services, which also manages Yale-NUS housing.

A series of posts on a Yale-NUS student Facebook group followed, eventually catching the attention of multiple professors and Farley. The same day, the YaleNUS administration approached OHS directly and learned that the removal of the poster was actually the result of a miscommunication between OHS and the specific worker.

Bovankovich and others said they perceived the administration’s quick response as one of solid support for freedom of speech.

“For those of us who had forgotten, the Hong Kong poster incident served as a poignant reminder of the limits on freedom of speech in Singapore,” Bovankovich said. “For those who were concerned about the infringement of their own freedoms, this incident provided reassurance of our own academic freedom in the context of Yale-NUS.”

“WHO ARE WE?”

In August, Singapore will celebrate the 50th anniversary since Lee Kuan Yew, the country’s founding father, led Singapore to independence. Largely to Lee’s credit, the last 50 years have transformed Singapore from a British colonial outpost with no natural resources to one of the wealthiest countries in Asia.

But with Lee’s death on March 23, questions about whether Singapore has outgrown its paternalistic style of government proliferate. With a younger generation moving away from the country’s religious and conservative roots in pursuit of expanded personal freedoms, the fate of Yale-NUS may largely depend on how Singapore chooses to define itself over the next 50 years.

Moving forward, students at Yale-NUS said the college needs to define its own identity independent from its parent institutions. To what extent this means doing away with the popular college-block letter Yale sweatshirts or orange-and-blue NUS water bottles has few clear answers.

For reasons they struggled to fully define, almost all Yale-NUS students described complicated relationships toward both Yale and NUS. Despite the fact that Yale-NUS is physically planted inside the NUS campus, some students said the liberal arts model makes them feel inextricably linked to Yale. Others said it was impossible not to associate them-

selves with NUS because of how dependent they are on university facilities such as lab space, library systems and even the campus’s flagship Starbucks. In addition, all funding for Yale-NUS comes from the Singaporean government.

Students, faculty and administrators interviewed repeatedly expressed the idea that Yale-NUS, much like its American counterpart, finds itself in a bubble. This has raised the question of how, exactly, Yale-NUS can make a contribution to Singapore, if it is isolated.

Sleeper said the Yale-NUS bubble serves Yale and Singapore in different ways. For Yale, Sleeper said, the bubble incubates noble reforms of liberal education that the University administration thinks would not come from the New Haven faculty. For Singapore, the college has the potential to reduce the country’s brain drain to the west by tacking Yale’s prestige onto training for effective state and global-market managers.

However, Sleeper said this is not the purpose of a liberal arts education.

“Liberal education can’t flourish in a bubble or serve mainly states and markets,” he said. “It should nourish human dignity and citizenship.”

Students differed on how YaleNUS could claim its own identity independent from its two parent institutions. For Feroz Khan YNUS ’18, Yale-NUS is also grappling with the question of “how our quintessential Singaporean-ness is woven into our identity.” Yonatan Gazit YNUS ’18 said he feels that Yale-NUS is often viewed as the pampered child of NUS, because Yale-NUS gets to take advantage of NUS resources without much reward going in the opposite direction. Others have suggested Yale-NUS change its name.

“We use all their facilities, and they don’t get much in return from us,” Gazit said.

Gazit added that he feels a degree of pressure to go out and create a name for his alma mater.

Even Bailyn said Yale-NUS is sometimes caught between being autonomous and being autonomous within NUS, using YaleNUS sports teams as an example.

“Who are we?” Bailyn said. “Do we compete as a piece of the intramural program at NUS or as an independent institution against other institutions? In fact, we’re doing both, and I think that’s the right answer, but some people think it’s as ambiguous as if Calhoun decided it was an independent college and went off to play against Quinnipiac.”

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

Stark connects with donors, students, YCC candidates STARK FROM PAGE 1 egize ways to bring the Yale and New Haven communities closer together. Last week’s dinner took place in the Pierson dining hall — 10 people attended, six of whom Stark said he had never met before.

The group discussed topics ranging from biking in New Haven to youth services in the city.

The dinners are organized via a “grassroots” structure, as Stark described it. Each residential college has a small group of organizers affiliated with the Stark campaign, each of whom are tasked with spreading the word about his campaign and inviting their friends to meet with Stark.

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all three candidates for Yale College Council president. Ben Martin ’17, one of the candidates, said Stark approached him to propose adding a clause to his platform encouraging interaction between the Yale and New Haven communities. Martin said Stark was interested in the way in which the YCC president can help to facilitate that interaction. Still, Martin chose not to add the proposed clause.

Candidate Andy Hill ’17 also met with Stark, and the two also discussed how best to connect Yale and New Haven, Hill said.

Hill said Stark “seems to be well-suited for the post of Ward 1 alder,” but he has decided not to make any official endorsement in the race.

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another presidential candidate, did include a proposal to encourage interaction between Yale and New Haven after speaking with Stark. English’s platform calls for the establishment of a pre-orientation program that would allow Yale students to volunteer in local schools; he also encourages the YCC to host festivals that bring local artists to campus.

Stark had no official opponent in the race until incumbent Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 announced her bid for a third term. Lopez said Stark will not run a negative campaign against Eidelson.

“The campaign is not about whether we do or do not like Sarah,” he said. “It’s about who has the better vision for New

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Haven.”

Eidelson said that she has not made significant headway on her campaign yet, noting she has instead been focused on the student elections for the Board of Education.

“I have not filed papers yet — I plan on doing that and having my official campaign announcement toward the end of the semester,” she said. “I have been letting folks know in the course of my regular communication with them about what’s going on in the city that I’m running, and I’ve been having initial conversations with people about what they want to see.”

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

mary karr yale institute of sacred music presents

poet and memoirist author of Sinners Welcome and The Liar’s Club

Facing Altars: Poetry and/as Prayer yale literature and spirituality series

Thursday, April 9 · 5:30 pm Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Rm 101 63 High St., New Haven

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As election season gets underway, Fish Stark and his team have begun coordinating campaign events.

yale institute of sacred music presents

Shwe Man Tahbin Zat Pwe Troupe music and dance from myanmar

Tuesday, April 14 · 7:30 pm Mainstage Theater Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School Mainstage Theater 177 College St., New Haven

Free; no tickets required. Book-signing follows.

Presented in collaboration with Yale Divinity Student Book Supply. ism.yale.edu

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“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.” HORACE MANN AMERICAN EDUCATION REFORMER

Dwight Hall to link with more communities

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER

YALE DAILY NEWS

Twelve students, divided between colleges, were recently chosen to act as liaisons between Dwight Hall and the residential college communities.

As part of a larger attempt to redirect the organization’s focus, Dwight Hall is expanding its outreach to different communities on campus.

The 129-year-old group has developed two new outreach initiatives to better connect with residential colleges and Greek organizations. The new Community Service Outreach Fellows Program has selected 12 students to act as liaisons in residential college communities, said Briana Burroughs ’17, the Dwight Hall institutional service coordinator. Additionally, Dwight Hall has announced a Greek Life Competition that aims to link fraternities and sororities with local nonprofits.

According to Burroughs, these programs are part of a larger redirection of the organization to expand its brand and institutional memory.

“We have just gone through our strategic planning process that has given us a cohesive view of what Dwight Hall should be doing,” Dwight Hall Executive Director Peter Crumlish said.

“Every student at Yale knows they should do service, and Dwight Hall’s role is to facilitate that by reaching out to different communities on campus.”

Dwight Hall first initiated

conversations about the CSOF program earlier this year as a way to expand the role of service on campus, Program Manager Mark Fopeano said. He added that reaching into the residential college community was a natural way to make service a more integral part of the Yale experience.

The 12 CSOF fellows were chosen in March and include representatives from various residential colleges, as well as an additional member for admitted students and freshmen, according to head fellow Sarah Pajka ’17. She added that the fellows will provide students with more accessible, less formal service opportunities within their own communities. Beyond acting as liaisons for Dwight Hall, representatives are required to plan one community service activity per semester for their individual colleges, starting this term.

Dwight Hall has similarly reached out to Greek organizations to help facilitate their philanthropic activities. Burroughs said that while many of the Greek organizations have already been engaging in philanthropy, some have not found a suitable outlet. After initial communications in February with fraternities and sororities, Dwight Hall announced the Greek Life Competition that will begin on April 11, the Dwight Hall Day of Service. Crumlish

said the competition is a creative way to encourage the spirit of service in a competitive environment. Dwight Hall representatives said the types of events to be held for the competition have not yet been finalized.

Members of several Greek organizations said they are excited for the opportunity.

“Greek life at Yale, and as a whole, provides a unique opportunity to promote community outreach and service, and efforts made by Dwight Hall to tap into that is very important,” Chi Psi President Taylor Rogers ’17 said.

Delta Kappa Epsilon Philanthropy Chair Khalid Cannon ’17 said Dwight Hall’s involvement can unite the efforts of all the fraternities and sororities to give back to the community.

An important component of the competition will be the recording and verification of all activities on an online submission system.

“Our initiative is to get our message of service out to all different areas, communities and councils,” she said. “We want to create institutional memory about philanthropy both in Dwight Hall and in these organizations.”

Dwight Hall was founded in 1886.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

Harp announces canvas New sorority selection nears final stages to increase literacy

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER

This is very much about bringing our community together.

JASON BARTLETT Director of Youth Services for New Haven “We know from experience that neighborhood canvassing works because neighbors feel [closer] after being reached person to person,” Harp said at the press conference.

Scholastic Corporation, a children’s publishing company, and New Haven Reads, a nonprofit that aims to increase community literacy by offering free books and tutoring, have donated roughly 700 books for the upcoming event this weekend, said Jason Bartlett, the director of youth services for New Haven. Working with New Haven Public Schools, City Hall identified some 300 families to whom they would like to distribute the books, hoping to increase this canvas’s impact. During past canvasses, City Hall has only been able to reach out to around 150 families, Bartlett added.

Volunteers will meet at Lincoln-Bassett Elementary School at 9 a.m. on Saturday and will begin canvassing shortly after Harp addresses the crowd at 10 a.m.

The event on Saturday is the sixth time in the past year the city has formally organized a neighborhood canvas. Following a slew of shootings in spring 2014, Harp called a neighbor-

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As if a childhood storybook character had sprung alive and traveled to the Elm City, Clifford the Big Red Dog made an appearance at City Hall Wednesday afternoon.

The costumed dog, a wellknown figure in children’s books, stood next to Mayor Toni Harp during her press conference announcing a neighborhood canvass this coming Saturday to improve children’s literacy across the city. New Haven volunteers will walk from door to door in the city’s Newhallville neighborhood, distributing books and informational pamphlets about literacy resources. The program is the Elm City’s version of President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, which aims to break down community barriers through personal interactions, according to Harp.

hood meeting at which participants resolved to knock on doors and engage in anti-violence messages, Bartlett told the News.

These neighborhood canvasses have focused on more than just violence prevention.

Volunteers have also devoted time to informing residents of educational resources, Bartlett added. These initiatives caught the attention of Obama, who commended Harp’s neighborhood outreach in a January 2015 speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

“We’re working with Newhallville and Byrne grants to make Newhallville a vibrant and safe community. This is very much about bringing our community together,” Bartlett said at the press conference.

“This is the first time we are addressing literacy.”

The canvas on Saturday seeks to help narrow Connecticut’s literacy gap by focusing on a neighborhood in New Haven with historically low student literacy rates. In 2013, 57 percent of Connecticut fourth graders tested below proficient, according to a report released by the Kids Count Data Center — a nonprofit that collects and publishes data on students across the U.S. The report also found that, of those who were found to be below proficient in their reading ability, around half of those students showed reading skills lower than the most basic standards.

Tony Nelson, the northeast coordinator of Fathers In Education, a national nonprofit aiming to get fathers involved in improving childhood literacy, said the percentage of students testing below proficiency in Connecticut is much higher for African-American students. He added that a strong correlation exists between fourth grade reading levels and future high school graduation and incarceration rates.

“In previous years only around 40 percent of students are on track to their personal goals,” NHPS superintendent Garth Harries ’95 said. “Now it is around 60 percent after the last few years, but it is only 60 percent.”

In addition to books and information about literacy resources, the volunteers will also distribute pamphlets discouraging bullying and poor school attendance. City Librarian Martha Brogan added that she would love to slip a few library card applications into each packet.

OPINION.

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER

The search for Yale’s fourth sorority has been narrowed down to just two potential organizations after a seven-month process.

National representatives from Chi Omega and Alpha Phi will come to campus this weekend to present their bids to come to campus next fall. The sororities’ visits come several months after this year’s rush process exceeded capacity for the second year in a row. Students currently involved in sororities at Yale have been invited to attend the presentations, which will be held in Linsly-Chittenden 101 on Friday and Saturday afternoons.

“We fully intend to bring one of the two to campus next fall,” Yale Panhellenic President Emily Luepker ’16 said in an email. Luepker declined to specify when a final decision would be made.

In January, Yale Panhellenic made an announcement to the 26 member sororities of the National Panhellenic Council, saying that Yale was open to having another sorority on campus. The announcement formally invited the 26 member sororities to submit materials for review. According to Luepker, Chi Omega and Alpha Phi have been selected from a group of nine interested sororities.

Luepker said the Yale Panhellenic Council is evaluating the local alumnae base, new member programming and support from the national organization of each sorority.

Kappa Alpha Theta President Jessica Leão ’16 said she does not think that the decision will be difficult since all three current sororities are looking for the same qualities.

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Representatives from Yale’s selection committee will make the decision of which new sorority to bring to campus.

“I don’t anticipate any controversy or fight over which sorority we choose,” she said.

The decision to bring either Chi Omega or Alpha Phi to campus will be decided by representatives from Yale’s selection committee, which will include students from each of the three sororities and several members of Yale Panhellenic’s executive board. Luepker said University administrators would also be involved in the selection, but declined to specify who exactly would serve on the committee.

Representatives from Alpha Phi and Chi Omega both emphasized their strong alumni networks in Connecticut and the sense of partnership they wish to cultivate with the other sororities on Yale’s campus.

Megan Bouche, director of collegiate extension for Alpha Phi, said the organization wanted to be a part of the Yale community largely because of the University’s reputation and prestige, but also because

of the quality of the women who are attracted to the Yale undergraduate experience.

“For us, the most important part [of the extension process] is the discussion that we’ll have with the Panhellenic women this weekend,” Bouche said.

In a statement to the News, Payton Gartman, director of extension for Chi Omega, said Yale’s campus environment and student-centric approach mirrors the sorority’s values. Gartman added that Chi Omega has strong ties with Yale’s three other sororities at the national level, as well as a strong alumni network active near Yale.

She said Chi Omega shares 49 campuses where Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta and Pi Beta Phi — the three sororities with chapters at Yale — are all present.

Bouche said that, if chosen, Alpha Phi would not have an issue attracting women to join the sorority during next year’s rush because the demand for sorority spots at

Yale already exceeds the number of those available.

“That’s a new member class for another chapter,” she said of the group of students turned away by Yale’s sororities. “It’s a really great time to be joining the community because that interest is so high.”

Gartman said making the sorority’s presence known on campus and advertising their mission might be a challenge, but she is confident Chi Omega could be successful in recruiting a new member class during the sorority’s first year.

Leão said she is happy that in the future, fewer women will be excluded from Greek life. She said that though sorority members were encouraged to attend this weekend’s presentations, anyone who wants to learn more about Greek life at Yale is welcome.

The last sorority to come to Yale was Pi Beta Phi in 1989.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” WERNHER VON BRAUN GERMAN SCIENTIST

At med school, salaries are no guarantee

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Faculty at the Yale School of Medicine must rely on grant funding from the federal government to pay for the bulk of their salaries.

STEM FUNDING FROM PAGE 1 explained. He estimates that the acceptance rate for grants has decreased more than threefold in that time, from a 35-percent acceptance rate to a 10-percent acceptance rate for National Institutes of Health funding.

As a result, significantly more time must be spent writing grant proposals. Brash said he thinks medical school faculty must spend about 80 percent of their time writing grant proposals and only 20 percent of their time researching and teaching.

Meanwhile, research-related costs have risen. Zhang said the need for research funding and the number of applicants have risen

dramatically, but the available funding has not kept pace. Brash added that postdoctoral fellow salaries have risen, as have instrumentation costs alongside an increasing necessity for proposals for more costly research that addresses more nuanced scientific questions.

“The bulk of my time is spent writing grants,” said Zhang. “It might take two months to write a grant, and I won’t receive most of them. You can imagine how hard that is.”

This time spent writing grants is higher in the medical school than among faculty on Science Hill because the latter have a much greater proportion of their salary paid by the University as opposed

to by grant funding, Zhang said.

According to Zhang, that funding model means that, when medical school faculty write grant proposals, they find themselves allocating more funds for their own salaries and fewer for the research itself or the postdoctoral and graduate students working in their labs. As a result, they have to hire fewer researchers, which slows down and limits their research potential, he added.

Shaoyan Liang, a postdoctoral associate in the Physics Department, said this uncertainty and occasional lack of funding caused him to seriously consider switching to a private sector job when he was earning his PhD. The precariousness of the job, he said, also

Online PA program must reapply for accreditation PA PROGRAM FROM PAGE 1 as an increase in class size,” said Dean of the Yale School of Medicine Robert Alpern. “To be honest, it’s a reasonable response.”

During the ARC-PA’s meetings from March 5 to March 7, the commission reviewed 30 PA programs that were applying for program changes and were submitting required reports. Twenty-five of these reports were either accepted or approved by the commision. While three were not accepted in full, Yale’s request for a class expansion was the only program change that was outright denied.

Yale PA program director James Van Rhee, who himself is a commissioner for the ARCPA, said the application was denied because of a new policy that requires programs to wait four years after submitting previous proposals before they can ask for an increase in class size. Van Rhee did not comment on when Yale made its previous proposal.

However, Alpern said that the proposal was denied because the commission believed that the proposed program would not be similar enough to Yale’s current PA program to be considered a class size expansion. He added that the University had been informed about the decision verbally “a week or two ago,” and that he was forwarded a letter addressed to Van Rhee on Tuesday that explained the reason for the denial.

“If we want to have the program, we will have to do it as a separate program and not as an expansion,” Alpern said.

At a March 12 town hall, students were told that the online program would be accredited as a class size expansion because that would be the quickest way to get accreditation, said Chandra Goff MED ’14, an alumna of the PA program. She added that they were told that applying as a separate program would take five years.

But at a Monday meeting with first-year students, Van Rhee said it will actually be quicker for the University to apply for accreditation as a separate program. He said this route to accreditation would take roughly a

year and a half, contradicting his comments during the March town hall, Goff said.

Goff expressed confusion about this difference in information. But even before the application was rejected, several students and alumni of the program expressed concern that applying for approval of a simple class expansion was “dishonest” and “misleading,” with students like Lindsay Novak MED ’14 arguing that the new degree should, at the very least, have a different name than the one currently offered on campus.

“I’m surprised because the program director pitched it to us as though it was going to happen and that there was no reason [the ARC-PA] would deny it,” Novak said. She is relieved the program was not approved, she said.

Van Rhee said the medical school and PA program jointly decided to apply as a class size expansion because the online and on-campus programs would have the same admissions criteria, student curricula and examinations, clinical placements and summative student assessments. In an email to the current PA community and select alumni, Alpern said the prospect of an online program had been thoroughly studied by the medical school for six months and that the program would offer students who enroll online an education with the same high standards as those of the conventional program.

Yale’s PA community was first informed about the denial by a Facebook post that Goff made on the PA community’s group page.

Students interviewed said they were disappointed in the lack of communication from the administration, which mirrors the administrations handling of the announcement of the program.

“The way this whole thing was run, it was never formally introduced, we never had any formal notification of it, so I’m not too surprised,” Novak said.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

put pressure on the research team to show results by the time the grant was set to expire and they would need to reapply to study further.

It might take two months to write a grant, and I won’t receive most of them.

YONGLI ZHANG MED ’03 Associate Professor of Cell Biology As such, Liang added, job security for longer than a grant’s time frame is a regular concern for himself and other postdoctoral

researchers.

Brash, similarly, stated that postdoctoral associates and beginning professors often consider other, more stable professions instead of one so dependent on increasingly irregular grants.

To address this tension, some medical school professors recommend that Yale pay more than 30 percent of medical school professors’ salaries.

“Paying more in a private investigator’s salary would be great,” said Zhang. “This is something many professors at the medical school have been trying to push.”

Brash said this policy would result in significantly less time spent writing grants and open

up more time for research and, potentially, teaching. Additionally, if more of a professor’s salary were guaranteed by Yale, the professor could likely expand his or her team, accelerating the research and freeing up time for creative thought.

Currently though, said Brash, the situation for professors in the medical school is exceptionally difficult.

“It’s a whole different world over here,” added Brash. “You don’t sleep at night.”

This year, the NIH estimates that it will spend $30.3 billion on scientific research grants.

Contact BRENDAN HELLWEG at brendan.hellweg@yale.edu .

Nursing school mourns Sullivan SULLIVAN FROM PAGE 1 that a moment of silence would be observed by members of the program on Thursday afternoon.

On Wednesday, the School of Nursing held a gathering for faculty, students and Sullivan’s family members in her memory.

“It is a very tragic loss,” Vice President for West Campus Planning and Program Development Scott Strobel said. “My thoughts and prayers go out to her family and the students and

faculty of the nursing school.”

Grey said that when she met with students who were in the classroom with Sullivan at the time of her sudden event, they shared with her stories of Sullivan’s compassion and uniqueness as a student.

Still, Grey noted that “everyone is still in shock and grieving in what is sadly a very public forum.”

Grey said it will take the school a long time to heal. Several chaplains and a staff mem-

ber from Yale Mental Health and Counseling have been present on the nursing school’s campus to guide students to available resources, she added. “[Sullivan] was so committed to working with people with serious mental health problems,” Grey said. “She died doing what she loved.”

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“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.” ISAAC ASIMOV AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR

Malloy seeks funding to reduce school arrests

BY EDDY WANG STAFF REPORTER Amidst proposed cuts in certain adult education and summer school programs, Gov. Dannel Malloy is looking to expand funding for the School-Based Diversion Initiative, a program that has reduced in-school arrests by linking students to community-based services.

Malloy is seeking $1 million each year for the next two fiscal years so that Connecticut’s SBDI can expand to an additional 18 to 24 schools per year. The expansion, included in the governor’s budget proposal, is currently pending legislative approval.

Adam Joseph, the director of communications for the Senate Democrats, said the Connecticut General Assembly’s finance and appropriations committees

are currently holding hearings on the budget, and he expects the legislature to vote on the budget in May. “We’re very excited about the proposed expansion to our initiative … and are happy to see it expand throughout the state of Connecticut,” said Jeana Bracey, senior associate at the Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, which has coordinated SBDI since its creation in 2009. “We think [SBDI] is very important and timely and can help a lot of additional schools in our state.”

In the 21 schools across the state that have implemented SBDI, school staff and schoolbased law enforcement officers are trained to recognize when disruptive behaviors in the classroom are a result of mental health difficulties, according to Bracey.

They are taught to then link those students to specific services and support systems rather than referring them to the juvenile court system. Participating schools have reduced court referrals by 45 percent on average in their first year of implementation, according to Bracey.

Connecticut’s Court Support Services Division reported that, between 2011 and 2012, students were most commonly referred to court for offenses such as breach of peace, third-degree assault, disorderly conduct and threatening. Bracey said these offenses make up two-thirds of student court referrals and stem from minor behavior and school policy violations such as fighting.

William Carbone, professor of criminal justice at the University of New Haven and director of its Tow Youth Justice Institute, said

that, at times, students’ refusals to take off their hats or pull up their pants have lead to arguments and swearing that resulted in an arrest. Carbone previously served as the executive director of Connecticut’s Court Support Services Division, which provided funding to pilot SBDI during his tenure.

If you really look at things kids get arrested for, the offenses are fairly minor.

WILLIAM CARBONE Professor of criminal justice at UNH “No one would suggest that someone who is committing a serious assault or someone who

is damaging public property shouldn’t be arrested,” Carbone said. “But if you really look at things kids get arrested for, the offenses are fairly minor.”

Carbone also highlighted that court referrals are unproductive.

He said that when more students are sent to court for minor offenses, their behavior tends to escalate when they return to the classroom, making it more likely that they will find themselves in court again.

Bracey added that research shows that students with mental health difficulties — including anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation — face subsequent difficulties with academics after arrest, suspension or expulsion.

SBDI encourages referral to Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services, which is a toll-free service that responds to child

behavior crises over the phone or in person. Additionally, it recommends employment of a graduated response model, which uses more restorative measures such as parent-teacher conferences before resorting to punishments.

Bracey added that EMPS providers come to SBDI schools to do outreach presentations and inform the school of local mental health service providers. Participating schools have increased EMPS referrals by 94 percent, she added.

Bracey said additional schools have not been chosen yet and that the proposed funds will mostly go to training school staff and paying for materials and supplies.

Contact EDDY WANG at chen-eddy.wang@yale.edu .

Medical EMBA program looks to grow

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER With the first student enrolled in the joint administrative fellowship — launched by the School of Management and Yale-New Haven Hospital in 2013 — preparing to graduate, administrators are now looking to admit a new, expanded group of students to the program.

The administrative fellowships are open to doctors two years after finishing their medical residencies, as is the case with most medical fellowships at hospitals around the country. However, during the administrative fellowships, students not only complete medical clinical work

but also earn an EMBA from the SOM. Though the program first started for the Radiology Department, it has now expanded to the OB/GYN and Emergency Medicine Departments. SOM and School of Medicine professor Howard Forman, who runs the SOM’s healthcare curriculum and is active in the administrative fellowship curriculum, said that over the last three years, three students have been admitted to the program who specialize in radiology. There will also be an additional student matriculating in the fall.

“The combination of these experiences will position them to go right in rather than wait 10 to 15 years to mature into a leader-

ship role,” he said. “We have people who are cognizant of this and this is what they want to do earlier on in their career and are able to get this type of program and experience.”

He also said there was one student who just completed their first year in emergency medicine, and there is one student planning to matriculate this summer into the program who completed a residency in OB/GYN. Forman said the thinking behind instating the program is to allow students interested in healthcare leadership to expedite their careers.

SOM Associate Dean David Bach said the opportunity to work towards a business degree while on their fellowship — which com-

City staffing concerns persist

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER City officials argued yesterday that a steady increase in New Haven’s population has led to understaffing in city departments. They called on alders to approve the staffing increases that Mayor Toni Harp proposed in her budget.

The finance committee of the Board of Alders hosted the third of five budget workshops in City Hall Wednesday, inviting representatives from the Community Services Administration and the health and finance departments.

Consistent with concerns voiced at the previous two budget workshops and public hearings, the issues raised yesterday evening revolved around understaffing in city departments. The bulk of the workshop consisted of a two-hour conversation between the alders and the leaders of the Community Service Administration and Department of Health, which are requesting 11 of the 23 new positions outlined in Harp’s 2015–16 budget proposal.

“Our main concern is to serve the population of the city — both visitors and residents,” Community Services Administrator Martha Okafor said. “But we are operating with much less staff than we need based on the population.”

The city’s population — 130,741 according to a 2012 Census Bureau report — has seen a nearly 6 percent increase since 2000. The staffing in the CSA, which oversees both the city’s youth and elderly services departments, as well as Project Fresh Start, a prison re-entry program, ought to reflect the population, Okafor said.

The six new city employees requested by the CSA include a

project coordinator and a receptionist for Fresh Start, a bilingual specialist in elderly services and a food policy manager — a position endorsed by several residents at the second budget hearing last week. The CSA is also requesting a data control clerk and a special projects coordinator to serve the department at large.

The clerk and special projects coordinator positions will be critical to the CSA, Okafor said. She added that the clerk would staff the CSA’s office, ensuring that all phone calls to the department are answered, and the special projects coordinator would work to expand the city’s youth map into a community map.

We have a lot of resources in this city. But people do not know what we have or how to access it.

MARTHA OKAFOR New Haven Community Services Administrator The New Haven Youth Map — championed by the alders’ Youth Services Committee Chair Sarah Eidelson ’12 — is an online tool that connects city youth with after-school and summer programs, such as a violence prevention initiative. Okafor suggested that with a new special projects coordinator, the CSA could work to create a similar platform for all city residents.

“We have a lot of resources in this city,” Okafor said. “But people do not know what we have or how to access it.”

Okafor specifically cited the

city’s 367 nonprofit organizations as services that could be incorporated into the Community Map. Ward 9 Alder Jessica Holmes, who represents East Rock, questioned the staff addition to elderly services, asking the division’s director Migdalia Castro what void the new employee would fill. Castro responded that, as a bilingual specialist, the new staff member would allow elderly services to reach the city’s Spanish-speaking community.

Paul Kowalski, acting director of the health department, which is requesting an 8.5 percent increase in its budget, said most of the new money would fund the department’s proposed addition of four new nurses to New Haven Public Schools and charter schools, as well as a new sanitarian for the city. Understaffing of medical professionals in New Haven’s schools was also an issue emphasized by residents at last week’s hearing.

“We heard the public loud and clear,” said Ward 10 Alder Anna Festa, who also represents the East Rock neighborhood. “People want full-time nurses at schools.”

Kowalski said the city had 40 nurses for its schools 10 years ago. Now, he said, the city has only 31 nurses, shared across all 53 schools. Even four more nurses would make a tremendous difference, Kowalski added.

Currently, eight of the 53 sites have full-time nurses. If approved, Harp’s budget proposal would allow the health department to add full-time nurses to as many as four more schools.

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

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monly comes after residency in a doctor’s career — allows degree candidates to focus their medical educations on healthcare leadership and hospital management.

Forman said he hopes the program will be successful in ultimately using Yale talent to enhance Yale facilities, and he hopes graduates of the program will join current professionals and clinicians at Yale-New Haven Hospital who received Yale educations.

Michael Rolen SOM ’16 said he chose to enroll in the fellowship program in radiology because, after his residency, he decided he wanted to get more involved in the administrative aspect of his department. He said that if

he were ever able to become chair of a department, he would want to have a solid financial background.

Kito Lord SOM ’16, who is the fellowship’s inaugural candidate in emergency medicine, said he was drawn to the fellowship because he feels that oftentimes cost-benefit analysis of patient care is not adequately considered. He said he felt that approaching patient care from a business perspective would illuminate how hospitals could run more efficiently and care for patients better.

“Money is taboo to talk about in medicine,” he said. “I really want to improve the doctorpatient relationship, and a large

part of it is business and how cost-effective things are.”

He said the classes he has been taking at the SOM, which cover topics such as problem framing, marketing and spread sheet modeling, have been largely effective in helping him gain the knowledge base he hoped for in enrolling in the program. However, he said it has been very challenging to simultaneously do clinical work at Yale-New Haven Hospital while also taking classes.

The SOM offers three tracks for the EMBA degree: healthcare, sustainability and asset management.

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

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SPORTS

“I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.”

ROGER CLEMENS 11-TIME MLB ALL-STAR PITCHER

Recruiting the class of 2020

Damarea Crockett Little Rock Christian Academy Little Rock, Ark.

RB

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RECRUIT FROM PAGE 10 there are no frontrunners.

“I’d say I’m giving everyone the same opportunity they’re giving me,” he said. “A lot more schools should be coming up in the spring, so I haven’t set up any official visits. We only get five visits, so I’m going to have to choose.”

He will undoubtedly have many options from which to choose: According to 247sports.com, Quansah is the best outside linebacker in Connecticut and the 28th-best in the nation.

This past season, Quansah led his conference in tackles, racking up 122 in just eight games. He also ran for 1,245 yards on 120 carries, adding 18 touchdowns to his list of accomplishments. His dominance on both sides of the ball did not go unnoticed, as he was named firstteam All-New England.

Coming from an athletic family, where the sport of choice was soccer, Quansah began playing football in sixth grade. It was not until four years later that he considered playing at the next level.

“I remember watching my first college football game,” Quansah said. “It was Ohio State versus Michigan, and at that point I fell in love with the game a little bit. I wasn’t even into the whole recruiting world until going into sophomore year.”

Now, Quansah has been thrown into this world. Though he has already attended several camps, he said he plans to participate in the Rivals100 football camp and might attend summer camps at Yale, Duke and Boston College.

The potential sociology or social sciences major has not yet

decided if he wants to play in the NFL. “I’m not looking to get there right away, but if the opportunity comes, I’m going to take it,” Quansah said. “But the goal isn’t just to get there. Mainly it’s using college football to go to school and get a good education.”

JACOB MORGENSTERN

On Oct. 11, 2014, Quansah and the Kingswood-Oxford Wyverns traveled to New Canaan, Connecticut to play St. Luke’s High School.

Also playing in that game was fellow Yale recruit Jacob Morgenstern, a multipurpose player who had recently arrived at St. Luke’s.

The players had talked on Twitter prior to the game, and were able to meet up both before and after the game, a 48–26 Wyvern win.

Yet prior to this season, Quansah would have had no way of meeting Morgenstern. The 6’4”, 210-pound Morgenstern transferred this season from Roy C. Ketcham High School in Wappingers Falls, New York, to St. Luke’s after his sophomore year.

Morgenstern broke his hand during his final season at Ketcham, and as a result, he only played three games healthy.

“At that time I was like, ‘I’m never going to play in college, nobody’s going to see my tape, it wasn’t good enough, it wasn’t long enough,’ I only played three games healthy and I figured that was it,” Morgenstern said.

Then a recruiting coordinator from St. Luke’s reached out.

Ultimately, Morgenstern chose to leave his friends and family behind and move in with a host family so he could attend the prep school.

Though it was a difficult decision, Morgenstern said his visit convinced him that the opportunities St. Luke’s would afford him were too good to pass up. Since he arrived at St. Luke’s, his recruiting has “blown up.”

St. Luke’s has benefitted immensely from Morgenstern’s contributions on the field. In nine games, Morgenstern scored 18 total touchdowns, gained 1,064 net yards, forced three fumbles, made five interceptions and returned two punts for touchdowns.

These numbers have turned heads in both the SEC and the Big Ten. Morgenstern, who also is drawing interest for baseball, has football offers from 13 schools, including Clemson, Wisconsin and Vanderbilt. Though Yale has not offered him a spot on the baseball team, Morgenstern said Reno would allow him to play both sports at Yale.

Like Hartmann, Morgenstern cited academics as a key factor in his ultimate decision.

“First and foremost, of course, is the education I can get at these programs,” he said. “That’s very important to me. What they offer in football is also an important piece. Location also comes into it … Cost can also be a factor in the end, so you know, all those things come together and drive my decision.”

He also acknowledged the important role that family will play in his choice. Morgenstern’s older brother Aaron played football at Colgate for two seasons, so his family is familiar with the insand-outs of the recruiting process.

Living so close to New Haven, Morgenstern has greater access to

Yale than many other recruits. He was able to attend this year’s YalePrinceton game and dropped by campus in March.

Morgenstern hopes to follow in the path of running back Tyler Varga ’15, whom Morgenstern called a “tank” after watching him play against Princeton.

“If I’m good enough, a further career in football, maybe in the NFL, would definitely be something to think about,” Morgenstern said. “I’m really trying to see where that goes. If that doesn’t work out, I was thinking about a career in sports medicine, that’s something I’ve looked into.”

DAMAREA CROCKETT

Varga’s potential professional career will also be of interest to the top running back in Arkansas, Damarea Crockett, a recruit with pro aspirations.

Crockett, listed as 6’1” and 215 pounds, is also one of the top 25 running backs in the entire country, according to Rivals.com.

Crockett’s school, Little Rock Christian Academy, is a mid-sized private parochial school technically classified as a 4A school.

However, its football program is so strong that for the past three seasons, the Warriors have played up a division. Although the school fronts a small 60-player team, Little Rock Christian was able to make the 5A playoffs last season for the first time since 2005.

But despite making it over the hump, Crockett has his sights set higher.

“I’m looking forward to having a great season,” Crockett said of his upcoming senior year. “We have a lot of returning players and I feel

Elis end losing streak BASEBALL FROM PAGE 10 The rest of the lineup, however, managed to only hit a measly 4–29, resulting in six runners being left on base.

The top of the lineup saw success again Wednesday afternoon, and timely hitting helped the Bulldogs break through against Fairfield. Hsieh went 2–4 in his second start at the top of the order, and he raised his season batting average to a conference-best 0.447.

Lubanski, who led the offense with three hits and two runs batted in, opened the scoring for the Elis in the fourth inning, plating designated hitter Robert Baldwin ’15, who reached base on a hitby-pitch, on a single to left field.

Yale added to its lead in the fifth inning, using five singles en route to three runs in the frame. In total, the Bulldogs notched 13 hits, and five players recorded multi-hit games.

Not only did the offense perform well, but the pitching staff, using a pitchingby-committee strategy, shut down the Fairfield lineup. Six pitchers combined to scatter seven hits over nine shutout innings, with righty Chris Lanham ’16 picking up the win for the Bulldogs.

“As a staff, we put a lot of emphasis on staying focused on every pitch, which helped cut down on mistakes early in atbats,” Lanham said. “As the game went on, we each built off the other guy’s performance and it worked out well [yesterday].”

Kukowski continued his trend of stel-

Right fielder David Toups ’15 is one of four Yale players with an average above 0.300. lar outings, lowering his earned-run average to a team-best 3.18 and increasing his strikeouts per game to 10.06.

The balanced performance from the team carried Yale to the win against the Stags.

“I thought our team played very focused and had the right mentality,” captain David Toups ’15 said. “We pitched very well and got some big hits.”

The Elis will look for solid perfor-

mances from the pitching staff and lineup against Dartmouth to close the gap in the Red Rolfe Division standings.

The Bulldogs host Dartmouth this weekend for a four-game series beginning with a doubleheader on Sunday at noon.

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

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like we can win the state championship this year.”

As a junior at Little Rock Christian, Crockett earned 1,250 rushing yards, averaging 9.4 yards per carry. In addition, he runs an eyepopping 4.42 second 40-yard dash.

His achievements on the field have not gone unnoticed. Crockett has offers from eight schools, including Vanderbilt, Boise State and Arkansas State.

“I’m not really leaning towards anybody right now,” he said. “I’ll start narrowing down and showing my favorites as we get deeper into the summer, just to see who comes along as we go through the summer.”

While he acknowledged things could change, Crockett said he

intends to attend football camps at Ole Miss, the University of Missouri and the University of Memphis.

But his top priority right now is to stay above the process. Mentioning advice provided by his current football coach, Crockett said he knows he must keep his grades up, stay out of trouble and be a good sport on and off the field.

Luckily, he has a strong support system at home.

“They encourage me a lot,” Crockett said of his parents. “They don’t put too much pressure on me about going to any school. They just leave it up to me and where I want to go.”

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

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documented in a story for a February issue of ESPN The Magazine, Rodriguez spent the last year looking back not just on how he acted in his first 20 MLB seasons, but on everything that he had done to get to where he was in 2014.

Maybe this introspection will change A-Rod for the better.

Maybe it will feed his megalomania. Only time will tell. But one thing that his gap year did was shield A-Rod from the spotlight.

A-Rod still made the tabloids, but he downgraded from the main attraction to a sideshow.

Nothing showed just how well time heals all wounds than the fans’ reactions to Rodriguez on Monday. A-Rod stepped up to the batter’s box to cheers from the home crowd — something that would have been unimaginable given Rodriguez’s reputation just a year ago.

The time off could have also given A-Rod’s surgically repaired hip the rest it needed to recapture the explosive yet graceful swing that Rodriguez unleashed on thousands of unsuspect-

ing baseballs during his career.

Rodriguez’s days of producing All-Star caliber numbers are long gone, but he showed flickers of the star he once was in spring training.

A-ROD HAS THE CHANCE TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT THIS SUMMER. Having gotten separation from the life that was spinning out of his control a year ago, A-Rod has the chance to make things right this summer with his family, the fans and the New York Yankees.

Teddy Roosevelt advised people to “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Hopefully his year away from the game will have taught A-Rod a similar lesson.

CHARLES CONDRO is a senior in Trumbull College and a former sports editor for the News. Contact him at charles.condro@yale.edu .

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2020: Chronicling Ivy League football recruitment

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Recruiting is the lifeblood of any college football team, and in his first three years as Yale’s head coach, Tony Reno has embraced this philosophy. He has lured highprofile transfers away from larger football programs, such as incoming wide receiver Bo Hines from North Carolina State and quarterback Morgan Roberts ’16 from Clemson. He has also drawn players from lesser-known schools, like Tyler Varga ’15 — the Ivy League’s top rusher in the 2014 season — from Western Ontario.

Equally effective is recruiting players directly from high school.

Recently, Reno has succeeded in attracting highly-ranked recruits away from the Big Ten, Pac-12, Southeastern Conference and other top-tier NCAA Division I leagues. Players such as current commit Daniel James, Jon Bezney ’18, Mason Friedline ’17 and Victor Egu ’17 turned down schools ranging from Vanderbilt, Notre Dame and Wisconsin to UC Berkeley, Oregon and Michigan State in favor of Yale.

But with the class of 2019 arriving for preseason camp in four months, Reno and his staff have already started looking beyond the incoming class. For months now, the team has been receiving tapes from potential members of the class of 2020. Coaches have put together a database for each incoming class, compiling tapes and statistics in an attempt to whittle down the number of prospective athletes before hitting the

road in December to evaluate players in person.

Given Yale’s high academic standards, however, this process is difficult due to the uncertainty of the high schoolers’ incomplete transcripts. Many of the athletes Yale offers are rising juniors and have not yet taken standardized tests such as the SAT or ACT. “We have to project kids academically,” coach Steven Vashel said at the Yale Pro Day in March.

“We offer guys, get to know them and try to get them here on campus. Then the campus sells itself.”

Thus far, Reno and his staff have extended offers to athletes from all around the country. These players — including the following four students — are current juniors in high school, and though they will not matriculate until the fall of 2016, the college process is already well underway for them.

CARTER HARTMANN

Hailing from Mission Viejo High School, a football powerhouse in Southern California, defensive end Carter Hartmann has the football skills to match his school’s pedigree.

The youngest of four boys, he began playing tackle football when he was eight years old. One of his brothers played football for Division III school Tufts, and another received offers for basketball, though he ultimately turned them down to attend Brigham Young University.

Hartmann received offers from BYU, Harvard, Princeton and Yale.

Though the cost of flying to the east coast and attending sum-

mer camps is high, Hartmann said he intends to visit the universities. Beginning Sept. 1 of his senior year, he is allowed to make official visits — trips that the schools will cover. He is currently on an unofficial trip to BYU, a school with a special connection to Hartmann.

Several members of his family have attended, so Hartmann grew up watching the football team and cheering on the Cougars.

Although he does not yet know what he wants to study, Hartmann knows he wants a school that prioritizes academics. He is currently ranked in the 99th percentile of his high school class, according to his recruiting tape.

“Academics is definitely going to be the biggest [part of the] decision, so I just contacted the Ivy League [schools] on my own,” he said. “I found their email and emailed them my film.”

Deceptively quick, the 6’3”, 255pound Hartmann has a highlight tape that features his abilities to get off the line swiftly and to plug gaps at a moment’s notice.

At Mission Viejo, which currently boasts six active NFL players among its alumni, football is “intense.” Three of the 14 coaches listed on the roster played in the NFL, including Hartmann’s defensive line coach Mike Piel, who played defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams for four seasons.

The sport is essentially a yearround commitment, as the postseason ends in December and offseason training begins in January.

Even in March, Hartmann said he attends two-and-a-half hours of practice every day.

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But despite the demands, Hartmann is committed to playing football in college.

“There’s really nothing like it,” Hartmann said. “It’s the ultimate test of how bad you want something and skill and hard work. You represent your city, you represent your family and it’s a way to prove yourself. And it’s a good way to spend a Friday night, with everyone watching you.”

KOBY QUANSAH

Manchester, Connecticut native Koby Quansah, a running back/linebacker at KingswoodOxford School in West Hartford, participates in an equally intense offseason training regimen.

In addition to seven-on-seven drills twice a week, his football program offers lifting and yoga classes. Football’s time commitment was so great that Quansah was unable to play basketball in the winter.

“At first, [training] was a onedimensional thing, with just bench presses or squats or something,” Quansah said. “But the last couple years, we’ve switched it up to where we’re doing full-body workouts. Our younger coaches got their workouts from college, and they taught us.”

But thanks to such hard-core training, the 6’1”, 212-pound junior is a three-star recruit currently sitting on offers from 19 schools, including Harvard, Duke, Wisconsin, Vanderbilt and the University of Michigan.

As of right now, Quansah said, SEE RECRUIT PAGE 8

In his fourth season at the helm of the Yale football program, head coach Tony Reno has his eyes set on the long-term future. This is the first of a multi-part series about four high school juniors — prospective members of the class of 2020 — who are considering Yale.

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The Bulldogs finished 8–2 in the 2014 season, a reversal from their 2–8 record in 2012, which was head coach Tony Reno’s first season.

Shutout ends Yale’s losing streak

BY JAMES BADAS AND ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTERS

Out of sight, out of mind

The Yale baseball team’s midseason woes persisted through Tuesday night before being momentarily halted on Wednesday in an impressive midweek performance. After falling to Holy Cross on Tuesday by a final score of 10–1, the Bulldogs bounced back nicely with a 4–0 victory over Fairfield Wednesday afternoon.

BASEBALL With the Fairfield (7–17, 3–6 Metro Atlantic) win, the Elis (9–14, 2–4 Ivy) snapped a six-game losing streak as they head into a pivotal four-game weekend series against Dartmouth that has major implications in the Red Rolfe Division.

With Yale trailing the Big Green by two games, the Elis can now roll into Saturday with some positive momentum.

“We got great pitching from everyone on our staff [yesterday], which helped our team regain confidence throughout the game,” left fielder Joe Lubanski ’15 said. “We focused on getting back to our game HENRY EHRENBERG/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER plan and playing with energy.”

At Holy Cross (14–16, 7–1 Pitcher and first basemen Eric Hsieh ’15 improved his average to a league-best 0.447.

Patriot), however, the Bulldogs dug themselves a hole almost immediately, falling behind 4–0 in the The righty then settled down nicely familiar faces shone through as the ’15, who had settled into the cleanbottom of the first. Just as in Yale’s over the next few frames, including bright spots of the day. up role, move up to the leadoff spot second loss to Columbia last Sun- a stretch that included four strikeOut of the pen, right-hander for the first time all season, bumpday, in which the Elis fell behind outs in a row over the third and Mason Kukowski ’18 made his ing center fielder Green Camp5–0 after a critical missed infield fourth innings. team-high 13th appearance and bell ’15 down a slot in the process. pop out, an error by third baseman However, the senior ran into dominated with a near-perfect The fearsome duo built upon their Richard Slenker ’17 provided the trouble with the middle of the Cru- inning. The power pitcher needed scorching starts to the season, Crusaders with their first baserun- sader lineup in the fifth inning, just 10 pitches to strike out the side, accounting for more than half of as the heart of the order chased coming just one ball short of an Yale’s nine hits by combining to go ner of the game.

As such, all four first-inning runs O’Leary from the ballgame with a “immaculate inning.”

5–9 on the day. were not charged as earned runs to home run and a pair of singles.

Offensively, a slightly revamped starting pitcher Nate O’Leary ’15.

Despite the nine-run loss, a few lineup saw first baseman Eric Hsieh SEE BASEBALL PAGE 8

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CHARLES CONDRO

If you want to get a New York sports fan fired up, ask about Alex Rodriguez. He’s been many things in New York: the hero, the villain, the tabloid headline and the butt of more jokes than “your mother.” Barely a day has gone by since he was traded to the Yankees following the 2003 season without someone, somewhere, talking about A-Rod. He is so ubiquitous in the minds and nightmares of Yankees fans everywhere, and now he is back, a specter of his former glory returned to haunt Yankee Stadium once again.

Rodriguez returned to the Majors on Monday afternoon for the first time since being suspended for the entire 2014 season after violating the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program and Basic Agreement. That’s just a fancy way of saying that A-Rod was caught using steroids again, then became the poster child for the MLB’s “After More Than Two Decades, We’ve Decided to Get Serious About Steroids” campaign.

Possibly the best natural talent of his generation, the 14-time All-Star sits fifth on the all-time home runs list with 654 dingers in his career. Rodriguez also happens, however, to be the best scandal-producer of his generation. He’s been photographed out on the town with women while he was married, blasphemed Derek Jeter, gotten divorced, dated Madonna and twice been caught using steroids after he had denied doing so.

It finally caught up to him with the 2014 suspension, and that may be the best thing that’s ever happened to A-Rod. Before, A-Rod had always been forgiven — posting 13-straight seasons with at least 30 homers and 100 R.B.I. helps — but in 2014 he finally had to face the consequences of his actions. As writer J.R. Moehringer SEE COLUMN PAGE 8

NUMBER OF PITCHERS THAT TOOK THE MOUND FOR THE YALE BASEBALL TEAM IN ITS GAME AGAINST FAIRFIELD YESTERDAY. The sextet combined for nine shutout innings, striking out nine batters and walking just one in a 4–0 victory over the Stags.