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Ja Rule to replace Chance

Birthday Shoutout. This week marks the 376th anniversary of New Haven’s founding.

Not a chance. A fake email sent around yesterday imitated University President Peter Salovey’s “Notes from Woodbridge Hall” to announce that Chance The Rapper would be coming to Spring Fling.

The confusion arose because Salovey interpreted Chance’s use of the words “ill” and “mad sick” as literal descriptions of “Mr. The Rapper’s immune system” according to the email. The note also promised Salovey would make an effort to acquaint himself with rap music to avoid further confusion.

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Committee have found an act worthy of replacing Chance the Rapper.

“We had to find an artist who was still going to get everyone excited … and pumped for the craziness that will be Diplo,” he said, adding that both Ja Rule and Chance have more laid-back styles that will help lead into the later acts.

Spring Fling Committee Chair

Michael Herbert ’16 will be next year’s Yale College Council president after defeating Leah Motzkin ’16 by 104 votes in a runoff election.

After leading the general election by 44 votes, Herbert extended his margin in the runoff election, capturing 1205 votes to Motzkin’s 1101 votes, and winning with 52.5 percent of the total ballots cast for candidates. The runoff was held online from 9 a.m. on Tuesday to 9 p.m. on Wednesday and showed a decline in voter turnout with 2306 total votes cast — 341 fewer votes than in the election that ended Friday night.

“I am very pleased, I am very excited,” Herbert said. “Obviously this in and of itself accomplishes nothing, but there has been a clear statement from the student body that they want a YCC that does not deal with day-to-day issues that marginally improve student life, but a YCC that tackles larger issues.”

Herbert ran on a platform of repurposing the YCC, reconfiguring financial aid and

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Learning to cook. In an

interview with the News on Wednesday, Yale College Dean Mary Miller revealed some long-harbored aspirations. “My aspiration is to watch Breaking Bad when I’m done being dean,” Miller said. “I want to join the rest of America. Starting June 26, I’m gonna do some binge television watching.” Then she confessed that her alter ego was Heisenberg or The One Who Knocks.

Modern day Achilles? Actor Brad Pitt will play Gen. Stanley McChrystal in an upcoming movie. McChrystal is currently teaching a course on leadership at the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs.

Drinks for dinner. Graduate

students are enjoying alcohol with their dinner tonight at the McBrewgal Fest Belgian Beer Dinner in the Hall of Graduate Studies dining hall. The meal is a celebration of the end of prohibition during April, National Beer Month.

Rising star. Lupita Nyong’o

DRA ’12 has been named People Magazine’s Most Beautiful Person for 2014, joining the ranks of past winners including Julia Roberts, Beyonce and Tom Cruise. The win comes after a streak of success for Nyong’o this year including winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 12 Years a Slave and signing on to become Lancome’s first black ambassador. The 2014 Most Beautiful issue marks People’ Magazine’s 25th annual.

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Rapper Ja Rule is now slated to play at Spring Fling after Chance The Rapper canceled Tuesday due to health reasons.

BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER The Yale College Council announced yesterday on Facebook that New York-based rapper Ja Rule will be performing in place of Chance The Rapper at this year’s Spring Fling.

Following Chance’s Tuesday cancellation, which was ordered by the rapper’s doctors due to health rea-

sons, the YCC has scrambled to find an alternate performer. The search was made especially difficult because of the condensed time frame, said YCC Events Director Eli Rivkin ’15 — as Spring Fling was only four days away when Chance dropped his performance plans. The other two acts lined up for Spring Fling are Diplo and Betty Who. But Rivkin said he is confident that the YCC and Spring Fling

November lockdown suspect arrested

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER Five months after the city’s police chiefs conceded that a malicious hoax had triggered the lockdown on Yale’s campus in November, they took to the podium to announce the arrest of the man they say made the initial false report.

A Wednesday morning press

release from New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman named 50-year-old Jeffrey Jones of Westbrook, Conn., as the person charged with falsely reporting that his roommate was on his way to campus “to start shooting people.” Later, NHPD Chief Dean Esserman was joined by Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins to recount the

investigation and eventual arrest. Esserman said investigators from both departments have pursued the case diligently from the moment the lockdown was lifted, and that their efforts culminated in the Tuesday arrest.

Jones faces charges of falsely reporting an incident, seconddegree threatening, seconddegree reckless endangerment, misuse of the emergency 911

Possible conflicts on divestment

Yale School of Drama alum, Meryl Streep ‘75 MFA ‘83 DFA (Hon.), has recieved the 14th Annual Monte Cristo Award for her contributions to American theater. The award is given by the O’Neill Center. One of Streep’s first professional credits after graduation from the School of Drama was participating in the O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference in 1975.

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system and a breach of peace.

“We are very clear that we have brought the right person to justice,” Esserman said. “And we’re very clear that this person needs to be held accountable for the fear that he brought to this community.”

NHPD Assistant Chief Achilles Generoso said that his detectives, led by NHPD Detective Kealyn Nivakoff, identified Jones

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In a conflict of interest, two Yale Corporation members have strong ties to the fossil fuel industry.

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS The Yale Corporation’s vote on a proposal to divest the University’s assets from fossil fuels, expected in the coming months, will serve as a test of the body’s conflict of interest policy.

Two Corporation mem-

bers in particular, Paul Joskow GRD ’72 and Charles Goodyear ’80, have substantial ties to companies in the fossil fuel industry. Joskow sits on the Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility, which decides whether to implement the pending divestment proposal. He previously served as a director of TransCanada, a major energy

company based in Alberta, Canada, from 2004 through 2013. Joskow also currently serves as an independent board member of the Exelon Corporation, an American energy producer and distributor, as well as a government board and task force through the U.S. Department of SEE DIVESTMENT PAGE 6

as a suspect early in the process.

Police used security footage of the area around 307 Columbus Ave., the address from which the caller contacted city police using a phone booth, to identify a person of interest. The resulting suspect description noted a man walking with a “distinctive gait,” and officers acted on SEE HOAX PAGE 6

Robinson to leave post

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER

Yale in Hollywood. Another

1981 A Two for One party is held in Morse and Ezra Stiles followed by the Yale Prom in Commons. Meanwhile, Commander Cody performs at Toad’s Place.

Herbert ’16 wins runoff for YCC presidency

Twenty-nine years and thousands of legal matters later, University Vice President and General Counsel Dorothy Robinson will depart her post at the end of August.

Robinson, who serves as the University’s top legal counsel and was the second woman ever to be appointed a vice president of the University, arrived at Yale in 1978 as the first attorney appointed to the newly formed Office of General Counsel. On Wednesday, University President Peter Salovey announced Robinson’s departure in an email to University deans, directors and officers. Although Robinson will step down at the end of August, she will stay on as a counselor through the winter of 2015 to ensure a smooth transition to her successor, who has not yet been appointed.

“It is difficult for me to think of Yale without Dorothy, as we have worked closely for more than a decade, and I have come to rely on her for the deep wisdom and guidance that she has so freely shared with deans,

directors and Yale’s presidents,” Salovey said in the email.

As general counsel, Robinson has been involved in many facets of Yale, almost always behind the scenes, according to her colleagues. Although many students are unaware of her office’s work, nearly every aspect of Yale, they said, from student issues to major donations — is somehow related to the law.

Special Assistant to the President Penelope Laurans said that Robinson has “seen it all” in her role at Yale.

“My career at Yale has been an amazing arc,” Robinson said in an email. “I see my work as confidential advisor to five Yale presidents [as] my most significant, and my work with others outside of Yale to improve the conditions for higher education and research in America.”

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heard rumors about a drug incident in Durfee Hall well before the story appeared in print. In late March, reports of an acid trip gone wrong made news around Old Campus, and the campus-wide email from Yale Health director Michael Rigsby made an enigmatic reference to events involving LSD, cocaine and heroin. The resulting coverage (“Incident draws attention to drug use,” April 21) implied that administrators would decide consequences for those involved in the distribution and use of the drugs. Comments on the piece voiced harsh condemnation of those involved, including advocating expelling students caught using drugs and pleading that they not “throw away” their opportunities at Yale.

In August, Berkeley Master Marvin Chun delivered a lecture to newly arrived freshman to address “Why smart people make bad choices.” On most levels, the reported drug incident in Durfee would appear a perfect case study. Master Chun cited the cognitive biases that incline us to think of ourselves as exceptions to the rule. But it’s also important to acknowledge the external factors that incline students, especially those considered to be academically high-achieving, to do things like LSD in a Yale dorm.

Substance use and the desire to engage in risky behaviors don’t usually occur in a vacuum of bravado and experimentation. When the benefits of hard drug use outweigh the potential risks for an informed, intelligent student, it signals dissatisfaction with an emotional or social status quo. Drug use can easily be motivated by a need to stave off feelings like stress, grief or apathy. This type of explanation provides a more understanding, nuanced motivation for the use of drugs than just “stupidity.” It also requires that we find fault in a system bigger than just the individual who ingests the hallucinogens.

“Drugs can be fun” doesn’t seem a sufficient explanation for why Yale students — for whom the stakes are pretty high — choose to use cocaine, LSD or other substances.

There are other variables in the equation. The fact that the rate of at least one-time drug use at Yale College has been more than one-third the school population in recent years suggests that other forces endemic to campus life might encourage students towards substance use.

I’d suggest that the immense pressure under which students operate — academic, social, familial and extracurricular stress being primary factors — plays into these ostensi-

bly “stupid” decisions, just as it contributes to many of the issues with our campus culCAROLINE ture. Drug use or the POSNER proclivity for frequent Out of Line risk-taking behaviors can be seen as another manifestation of the substance dependence fostered by college life, like addictions to caffeine, cigarettes and alcohol that also begin on Yale’s campus.

College becomes an important exploratory ground for coping mechanisms because — for many, at least — we’re tested by a workload and set of demands beyond that of high school. Yale obviously attempts to play a role in guiding how we deal with this stress. Libraries on campus close earlier on weekends to encourage active social lives, a legitimate tool for dealing with academic stress. But likewise, risky and unhealthy behaviors like smoking, drugs and alcohol do have legitimate functions as coping mechanisms and self-medication. Those students who tend to habitual or frequent use of these substances likely do so because they haven’t found the relief they feel they need in healthier processes for alleviating pressure and emotional strife.

This isn’t a determinist argument to explain away accountability for poor choices, and I do believe those who distribute and consume illegal substances on Yale’s campus should face consequences. I also believe, though, that the intersecting forces that shape substance use and abuse should be the primary focus as Yale decides these consequences, as well as the overarching policies for addressing what Rigsby called “a growing health risk on college campuses.”

The University clearly expresses an attitude that addresses drug use as a health risk and seeks to provide help for those using or “tempted to try” drugs, as the email states.

Any effort to focus on prevention would be remiss if it didn’t consider the enormous influence of pressure and workload on perpetuating unhealthy habits. Those who decide policy and disciplinary consequences for substance use should keep in mind the Yale forces that influence drug culture.

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

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'SMH' ON 'JA RULE TO PLAY SPRING FLING'

GUE ST COLUMNIST KYLE TRAMONTE

Great expectations R

emember your Bulldog Days? That first dance at Toad’s; that first introduction to extracurricular life on campus; that first hookup with a future classmate; that first new college friend?

Let’s drop those shiny, plasticwrapped first impressions that will inevitably be replicated on college campuses across the country this time of year. The spa water buffet and Solo Cup of beer aren’t as special when we realize that they are similarly doled out in New Haven, Cambridge, New York, Philadelphia — anywhere overrun with gaggles of overeager high school seniors.

Prefrosh, I would implore you to move past the easily consumed experiences, the fun facts that have been hurled at you over the past three days. Put aside the famous professors and their master classes and the twenty billion dollar endowment and all the

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supposed perks that come with it.

Yes, the information found in your glossy brochures is mostly true.

But while it may differentiate Yale from other institutions, it is not, in essence, Yale.

Yale is the all-nighter that you pull because you would rather sit in the common room with friends drinking Franzia than write a paper. Yale is the recognition that you are not the smartest person in the room. Yale is Adam at GHeav and Annette at the Berkeley dining hall swipe desk. Yale is the one and only Wenzel.

BEING AT YALE IS ABOUT GROWTH To our prefrosh: You have occupied space on this campus for some three days now, but you have

yet to experience the real Yale.

That selfie with Handsome Dan is truly glorious, but the real stuff has yet to come.

When you’re forming expectations of a Yale education, you must move completely beyond the tangible. The real prize isn’t made of lambskin. It’s not something you can hold, something waiting for you at the end of four years.

It’s the way your classmates and educators will push you, compelling you to encounter, maybe for the first time, a sense of comparative inadequacy. It’s the moments that will force you to question your sexuality, gender and ideological and philosophical persuasions. It’s the hope that you will talk about taboos — like socioeconomic class and personal failure — and help us all move beyond topics that still leave many hamstrung. Simply put, you will learn.

Class of 2018 (damn that sounds rough), despite what you might

have heard, your time on campus doesn’t automatically promise great success. It doesn’t promise perpetual happiness. It promises only growth — growth that is sometimes less than evident and sometimes painful, but growth nevertheless.

Seeing all of you here certainly brings back a flood of memories for me. With about a week left to make the decision about where you will spend the next four years of life, I am sure you have many great expectations. When you do finally make your decision, I hope that you know that Yale can’t meet all your expectations, but it can meet the greatest expectation — growth.

So if you are ready for change, I have only this to say: Welcome.

I can’t wait to meet you in the fall.

KYLE TRAMONTE is a junior in Saybrook College. Contact him at kyle.tramonte@yale.edu .

Almost-senior blues

t finally feels, amidst all of the finals craziness and lateblooming good weather, like the year is coming to a close. And that means that I’m almost a senior.

Cue the nostalgia, the existential anxiety and the end-of-year musings.

The way in which the Yale community views the role of its seniors has often confused me in the past few years. It almost seems like your first three years at Yale are part of one experience, one in which you join clubs, groups and publications, one in which you devote energy to climbing the ranks and holding leadership positions in those clubs and one in which a great deal of your social life comes out of those friends you make through those activities.

Simultaneously, your first three years are also an academic journey.

In those years, people generally do a bit of exploration and soulsearching, finding (hopefully) a major they are passionate about.

But for the most part, freshman through junior year is spent in a rather constant state of overwork.

Students seem to bond over commiseration; many of my friends over the past few years have been what I like to call “Bass friends” — friendships that have been solidified exclusively through those long, tragic nights in the basement of the library.

But going into senior year, there is something of a seismic shift, not

only in academic life but also in seniors’ extracurricular (and, as a result, social) focus. Senior year at Yale is a huge exerVICTORIA cise in treating oneself; to a HALLcertain extent, it seems like PALERM an opportunity to take a year Notorious of self-analyVHP sis and reflection. For that reason, we cut ties with some of the things we did as underclassmen. Many seniors spend a good portion of the year applying to jobs or graduate schools, or at the very least introspectively thinking about what the next chapter of their lives will look like. Almost all seniors will also spend a huge portion of their senior years researching and writing their theses, the culmination of their academic work at Yale, which is, from all I’ve heard, equal parts daunting and exhilarating.

But both of these are fairly solitary endeavors. As far as the social experience goes, a good portion of the senior class joins societies.

The entire point of joining a society is to meet a group of people with whom you might never have interacted. Societies’ very mis-

sion is to provide something altogether unlike what seniors would have found in their underclassman experience. And from all I’ve heard, for those seniors who choose to fully embrace the potential of that new experience, it can be one of the most rewarding parts of Yale.

OUR FIRST THREE YEARS ARE ONE EXPERIENCE; OUR LAST IS ANOTHER I’m looking forward to my senior year. But a small part of me hopes that I’m also able to hold back from fully embracing the “other”-ness of senior year — because the fact of the matter is that I have loved the things I did during these past few years.

It seems almost unfathomable to me that I will suddenly cease all involvement in my underclassman a cappella group, an experience so formative and fundamentally important to my Yale experience.

I know that my time in New Blue has come to an end; I know that the year for me to branch out and meet new people and face new, transitioning-out-of-college challenges has come. And

I embrace that. But I also hope, and I hope that my other fellow almost-seniors do, too, that I will remember to stay firmly grounded in all of the things that have been important to me in the past three years. I hope that the friends that I’m planning to make through my society will be life-changing — but the friends I made in a cappella, Berkeley or suffering through classes together are just as (if not even more) formative.

The things that mattered to us freshman and sophomore and junior year are just as important as the new experiences awaiting us.

From the perspective of an underclassman, too often it felt like my senior friends got wrapped up in the novelty of this year. They discarded their underclassman versions in the excitement of new opportunities.

I don’t want to be that person.

Even as I’m excited for new adventures, for a year of self-discovery and maybe a bit of relaxation, I hope I always remain aware of the experiences I’ve had in the past few years that made me who I am. It’s my goal to stay firmly grounded in the worlds I inhabited as an underclassman, even as the time comes to think of moving on.

VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a junior in Berkeley College. Her columns run on Thursdays.

Contact her at victoria.hall-palerm@yale.edu .

In praise of silence A

bba Silvanus, a fourth-century monk from the Egyptian desert and a founding father of Christian monasticism, once said: “Unhappy is the man whose reputation is greater than his work.”

Truth. But in a world where many a man has profited from building up an undeserved reputation, it is a truth worth analyzing. After all, how we are perceived is often just as important to our success as what we actually do. The man may be unhappy, but he has a decent chance of landing a fellowship.

If there is one thing I know about the high school seniors flooding campus this week, it is that they know how to tell their story. Without the ability to convey a narrative, nobody gets into Yale. This is a point of institutional pride — we look beyond the numbers. Once here, telling a cohesive and captivating story becomes increasingly important: It’s how we win scholarships and get jobs and kill it at interviews.

Yalies with the ability to weave their lives into a compelling web of interrelated interests and pursuits are consistently rewarded.

Who we are develops and hardens in exchange with the social gaze under which it is shared; we become, slowly, the stories that others like to hear.

This makes for beautiful idealized truth, but also for reputations and public personas at times worryingly distant from the (sometimes bland) reality of who we are.

Over spring break, I had the chance to spend some time in

Egypt with the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project, directed by professor Stephen Davis.

The YMAP team SHIRA analyzing TELUSHKIN was the remains of a monasBehind tic complex, just miles Blue Eyes from where Abba Silvanus would have taught. The team, coming from all over the world, adopted me into their schedule with ease and hospitality. We made fun of each other, laughed, watched TV, lingered over meals.

Nobody asked where I was from, what I was going to do next year, my last name, or why I had decided to join them in the desert. Halfway through, somebody asked if I was still a student.

I would wander the monasteries for hours, and when I returned I was not asked what I did. I was asked my thoughts on Syriac.

At first, this puzzled me — how unlike Yale, where, out of love and concern and social habit, our standard greeting is, “What have you been up to today?” Quickly, however, freedom hit. The gift of not needing to justify my time.

Not needing a prepared, pithy, sentence-long answer to what I had been doing all day. I just was.

I could just be. I began to notice how much time and energy I spend each day packaging my story, processing and sharing

events. At the monastery, I had no Internet, no camera, no impulse to filter my experience for external consumption.

As I returned to campus I started to wonder (during thesiswriting breaks) if I had become more invested in my reputation — how my life was perceived — than in how it was actually lived.

If I had become like the proverbial villagers who, instead of learning to fight, learned only to build more formidable shields.

A few weeks later, I heard my friend McKay Nield ’14 describe a project he had designed, in which he took six students on a tour of New Haven. Unbeknownst to them, he had prepared three different recordings of city tours, with every two students downloading one to their iPods. The first tour was a gruesome narration of the various crimes that had happened in New Haven, the second set to bouncing music and about the color yellow and a third neutral tour about the history of the city. They had been synced up as carefully as possible, so that at the moment one group was told to turn left and look at the yellow store sign, another was told to turn left and heard about a stabbing that had occurred underneath the sign.

Afterwards, the students on the yellow tour shared how happy and upbeat they felt, prompting the neutral tour students to agree that the music had also put them in a great mood.

When asked about her experience, one of the girls on the crime tour mumbled something about

music and happiness, mimicking her peers. After the big reveal, she explained that having heard her peers share their reactions, she assumed she had done something wrong, perhaps downloaded a track she wasn’t supposed to listen to. This is what McKay deemed “the silent minority” — the way in which those with dissonant realities suppress the truth of their experiences, assuming that any impressions so different must be wrong. I think we’ve all experienced that: the tendency to hold back our own truths, to the point that sometimes we don’t even recognize them.

Tuesday concluded the holiday of Passover, a celebration of both storytelling and freedom.

While stories are nice, they also shackle. We impose a heavy burden when we both expect from ourselves and demand of others a constant stream of stories.

Maybe next time, don’t greet someone passing on the street with, “How is your day going?” but with a simple, “Hey, it’s good to see you.” Knowing the details of someone’s daily life is one form of intimacy, but it is hardly the most rewarding. On the monastery, I was accepted sight unseen, with no pressure to prove I was interesting or worthy. To not always need an answer in hand, to exist without justification — that’s a step towards happiness.

SHIRA TELUSHKIN is a senior in Pierson College. This is her last column for the News. Contact her at shira.telushkin@yale.edu .

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Admitted students flood campus

BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER Both lecture halls and dining halls are overflowing with people, which can mean only one thing: Bulldog Days.

Bulldog Days, an annual threeday program to welcome admitted students and their parents to the University, began on Tuesday and ends today. During Bulldog Days, prospective students — commonly called “prefrosh” — are offered on-campus housing with current undergraduates and attend activities presented by the Admissions Office in conjunction with various other departments and student extracurricular groups. According to Mark Dunn, director of outreach and recruitment for the Admissions Office, almost 1,150 admitted students registered for this year’s Bulldog Days, with an expected 800 to 900 parents tagging along. Both numbers are slightly lower than last year’s totals of 1,235 students and about 1,000 parents.

“As always, students seem thrilled about the opportunity to engage with the Yale community for three days,” Dunn said in an email. “Based on what we’ve heard from students who have called or emailed our office or posted on social media forums such as the Class of 2018 Facebook group, enthusiasm seems high.”

Last year’s inaugural scavenger hunt was replaced this year with a large “ice-breaker” event on Old Campus, where prefrosh played a series of games and activities under the supervision of Freshmen Outdoor Orientation Trip leaders. Dunn said the games were structured around the orientation activities that FOOT leaders do on their trips with incoming freshmen.

During the Tuesday afternoon registration, Dwight Hall and the surrounding area was bustling with prefrosh and their undergraduate hosts, many of whom were carrying their guests’ bags and introducing them to suitemates. Of 14 prefrosh interviewed, eight said they were likely to attend Yale and six said the University is one of their top choices.

“The University is so attentive to the students compared to British universities and everyone has been really friendly,” said Helen Price, a prefrosh from London.

Price, who committed to Yale last year before taking a gap year, added that she has found Yale’s school spirit to be singular among the universities she has visited in America.

Grace Shu, a prefrosh from California, said Bulldog Days helped convince her to attend Yale, citing the passion with which University professors teach their classes and mentor current undergraduates.

Dunn said this year’s Bulldog Days is the first to feature a forum dedicated to Directed Studies, as well as a forum entitled “Learning Beyond the Classroom,” which highlighted the growing strength of Yale’s Global Health Initiative and the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said the University is also hosting a number of academic forums such as ones for the social sciences, humanities, engineering and science.

Olivia Herrington, a prefrosh from New York who attended the Bulldog Days Directed Studies Forum, said she was impressed by the intellectual rigor of the Directed Studies program and the intimacy of its seminars. A prospective classics major, Herrington said she was leaning toward Harvard before visiting Yale and is now undecided.

Dunn said more than 600 undergraduates signed up for the Admissions Office’s host matching process, while several hundred more students are staying with friends who are current undergraduates. He added that there are over 100 events for this program created by Yale student organizations and about 300 clubs participated in Wednesday’s extracurricular bazaar.

Faculty and staff from more than 100 departments, programs and resource centers attended Wednesday’s Academic Fair, Dunn said.

“We are routinely impressed by the commitment of the Yale community in helping us put on a Bulldog Days that matches the vibrancy of the University’s environment,” Quinlan said.

Still, he added that it is not for ideal for Bulldog Days to be held on the last week of classes because many students are taking exams or have final papers due. Last year’s Bulldog Days were held in mid-April, he said.

Nevertheless, Dunn said the

Admissions Office had great success finding hosts and other volunteers, despite this being a very busy time of the academic year.

Both Quinlan and Dunn said the scheduling was unavoidable because of the timing of this year’s Passover and Easter holidays, adding that the University did not want to disadvantage religiously observant students by hosting it at those times. After consultation with Conference Services and Events, the Chaplain’s Office and officers of the Yale College Dean’s Office, Dunn said the office decided last May to host Bulldog Days this late in the term.

Dunn said it is regrettable that this year’s events overlapped entirely with Brown’s annual program for admitted students — A Day on College Hill — but that these conflicts were inevitable because so many schools chose not to host events during this year’s religious holidays.

In a Monday email to the student body, University President Peter Salovey asked that current students help show the prefrosh that “Yale is the best place to be an undergraduate in the world.”

The same day, Quinlan sent an email requesting that students treat admitted students and their families as guests and reminded students that Bulldog Days is a “dry” campus event and undergraduates could be “held liable for a prefrosh who is intoxicated.”

Still, not all activities during Bulldog Days displayed Yale in a positive light.

On Wednesday afternoon, Christopher Landry ’15 organized a public reading on Cross Campus of students’ experiences with mental illnesses at Yale. He said he decided to organize the event on Bulldog Days in part because it was important to discuss this issue not only with University administrators but also with incoming students. Diane Kim ’16, one of the speakers at the speak-out, said she hopes the timing of the event will pressure University administrators into action.

Landry said he did not hope to dissuade students from attending Yale. Rather, he said it was important for students to both see the best that Yale can offer and also areas where the school can improve. He added that mental health is a problematic area

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Around 1,150 admitted students and 800-900 parents visited campus during this year’s Bulldog Days.

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Hill Alder Dolores Colon ’91 spoke in Spanish at Wednesday evening’s Board of Alders meeting to make a point: The city is ill-equipped to serve its Spanish-speaking residents.

“How would you like it if you walked into a room and no one understood what you were saying?” she asked. The majority of her colleagues voted in favor of creating a new bilingual receptionist position in the mayor’s office, in addition to two other staff additions requested by Mayor Toni Harp.

The vote, 22-5, fell down familiar ideological lines, with the majority team of union-backed alders supporting the personnel expansion and the handful of dissenting alders, known as the People’s Caucus, voting against the additions. Downtown Alder Abby Roth ’90 LAW ’94, who has resisted aligning with either group during her first month in office, voted against all three positions.

Alders who voted in support of the addition defended the positions by saying they will be covered by special funds — leftover grants and other spare cash — and thus will not add to the budget or increase property taxes. But Roth said each position also includes ongoing costs, including pension obligations and medical benefits.

In addition to the bilingual receptionist position, the Board also approved the creation of a Director of Minority and Small Business Initiative and a Director of Development and Policy, charged with overseeing the city’s grant-writing operation. The three additions were slimmed down from the initial seven that Harp had requested.

“The mayor is not getting her wish list,” said East Shore Alder Al Paolillo, qualifying one of his colleagues’ principal reasons for backing the request: that Harp has to be given a chance to set her own course, which means

exercising authority over the positions in her own office.

Paolillo offered a different rationale. He said City Hall needs these positions to be competitive with peer cities in Connecticut. By coming before the Board of Alders to submit quarterly reports on their progress, he said, the director positions will be accountable to the mayor’s promises.

The minority and small business position was voted on first and passed only with the opposition of Roth, East Rock Alder Anna Festa and Prospect Hill and Newhallville Alder Mike Stratton.

Bishop Woods Alder Richard Spears and West Rock Alder Carlton Staggers joined in opposition to the bilingual receptionist position and the grants manager position, which were clustered into one vote.

Before the second vote took place, Stratton offered two amendments as last-ditch efforts to steer the Board in a different direction. First he suggested that City Hall should undergo a thorough search to identify an existing receptionist or administrator with Spanish-language skills and then swap that person with the current receptionist in the mayor’s office.

If the city can avoid doling out money for an additional receptionist, Stratton said, it should invest it instead in updating the city’s website and voicemail system with bilingual capacity.

The amendment was summarily shot down.

He then offered an amendment to change the salary of the grants manager from $114,000 to $70,839, the sum earned by a comparable grants writer for the Board of Education.

That, too, was rejected. Festa, after initially suggesting a hiring freeze until the city’s finances stabilize, offered an amendment to lower the salary and then peg bonuses to the amount of money the grants manager is able to bring in for the city. The Board rejected that change as well.

Michael Harris ’15, Harp’s liaison to the Board, said Stratton’s salary com-

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not just for Yale but for most universities across the country.

For the second consecutive year, visiting parents received their own printed programs with recommended events, Dunn said.

Staff additions get final approval

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In addition to the backpacks, buttons and maps that each admitted student receives, Dunn said this year’s “swag bags” include an aluminum water bottle and a Yale Class of 2018 sticker.

The Board of Alders voted to create a bilingual receptionist position, as well as two new director positions. parison is off. Rather than just a manager overseeing the procedural details of grants, the director position will “chase new sources of income,” taking on more of a development role similar to existing positions in cities such as Hartford and Stamford. Those jobs are more handsomely compensated than the one the mayor proposed, he added.

Spears explained his decision to vote in favor of the small business director position but against the other two, saying there is a need to oversee minority contracting and the feasibility of start-ups. With plans for the redevelopment of the former Coliseum site moving forward, opportunities are multiplying for minority businesses and contractors, Spears said.

The bilingual receptionist will earn $40,000 per year. The Director of the Minority and Small Business Initiative will earn $80,000.

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .

Faculty split on reformed hiring process

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER

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Admitted students have until May 1 to decide whether to come to Yale or another college.

A week after a University committee announced that Yale’s system of managing faculty positions will change, faculty have expressed varied reactions.

Though Yale’s structure for faculty positions — which are known as “slots” — will change slightly, the size of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will remain constant, according to a report sent to faculty last week. The report compiled the findings and recommendations of the Academic Review Committee, a group that was charged in August 2012 with reviewing the allocation of faculty positions across University divisions and departments. Professors interviewed said they were split on the effectiveness of the ARC’s proposals.

“It is hard to argue with an approach that provides greater clarity about available slots and enables the University to respond to priorities and opportunities,” said Philosophy Department Chair Stephen Darwall ’68. But, he added, “Clearly this will require some shared sacrifice.”

The ARC recommended the creation of a new FAS Faculty Resource Committee to oversee both a new common pool of faculty slots and the permission process for conducting searches for new faculty. Under the guidance of the FRC, departments will once again manage their own slots, as they did before the 2008 recession, and fewer slots will be left vacant.

While classics professor Christina Kraus said the Provost’s Office has not yet determined the number of slots within her department, she believes vacant slots will be filled in the future.

“It has been a while since people remember having a slot was a pretty good indicator of their ability to hire someone,” ARC Chair and economics professor Steven Berry said last week.

“And under the new system, it should be.”

Still, other professors found the ARC’s recommendations to be flawed.

There is not much the new slot system does to help newer departments and programs, said women’s, gender and sexuality studies professor Inderpal Grewal.

Grewal said her small department has no vacant slots, and so it is unlikely to be able to take advantage of the common University slot pool. She added that in general, she believes larger departments benefit more from the ARC’s proposal.

Grewal said she believes the ARC recommendations make it easier for departments who have not focused on diversity hires to do so in the future.

For departments like hers, which have already taken strides towards diversity, it will be harder to earn new slots.

“I worry that since we are diverse, we won’t be able to make claims for diversity,” Grewal said. “I worry that [other departments] will get more incentives to do diversity and diversity won’t go to us. I don’t see how we can even benefit from any of this.”

Others, however, view the changes to FAS slot procedures as inconsistent with hiring occurring elsewhere in the University.

Molecular, cellular and developmental biology professor Joel Rosenbaum said while he is confident his department will be able to fill vacant slots in the future, he questions how new faculty appointments in West Campus can occur while the total size of the FAS is set to remain constant.

Still, Berry defended the ARC’s report.

“I think that overall this is a positive thing,” Berry said last week. “The overhang was going to be eliminated one way or the other.”

The ARC informally presented its report to professors last Thursday for discussion.

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

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FROM THE FRONT Herbert defeats Motzkin in runoff

“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.”

BLAISE PASCAL FRENCH MATHEMATICIAN

Mixed reactions over Ja Rule

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The announcement of Ja Rule as Chance The Rapper’s replacement was met with a mixed reaction from students.

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After a close initial election led to a runoff this past week, the next Yale College Council President has been announced to be Michael Herbert ’16.

HERBERT FROM PAGE 1 reforming Yale’s sexual assault and mental health treatment policies.

Although Herbert has not served on the YCC, he said he has demonstrated leadership on campus by founding his own fraternity, serving as vice president of the Saybrook College Council and creating the Facebook group STEM at Yale.

He attributed the success of his campaign to the commitment of his campaign team. He added that his team toned down their outreach efforts on the final day of the runoff due to the campus-wide fatigue he identified among the student body.

“What I suppose it boiled down to is the winning candidate maintained membership in groups that are more easily mobilized,” said Council Elections Commission Chair and current YCC Vice President Kyle Tramonte ’15.

Herbert said his first step as president will be to sit down with the Vice President Maia Eliscovich Sigal ’16 and review applications for YCC executive board positions, including chief of staff, communications director, academics director, student life director, University services director and student organizations director. He added that his first policy issue will be to address how incoming freshmen are taught about sexual misconduct.

“The reality is that we have a bunch of individuals right now on campus who will be incoming freshmen,” Herbert said. “It is important that when they are going through Camp Yale, they will not be equating sexual violence with making someone go to froyo.”

Herbert said he would like to congratulate Motzkin on running a successful campaign and said he is interested in pursuing some of the ideas from her platform, including making YCC representatives responsible for “secondary constituencies,” which may include cultural houses or athletic communities.

Although Motzkin said she was disappointed with the final results, she said she may apply for some other YCC positions and hopes to dedicate her time to different campus pursuits as well next year.

“I am so lucky and thankful for the support I received,” Motzkin said.

“No matter what, I am happy I had the experience.”

Both Tramonte and Motzkin noted the small margin of victory in the runoff. A difference of 100 votes is so small that it could come down to four or five effective emails sent to large panlists, Tramonte said. Motzkin said the result serves as a reminder to students that every vote matters.

Both candidates acknowledged that the race had taken a negative tone at times.

I am so lucky and thankful for the support I received. No matter what, I am happy I had the experience.

LEAH MOTZKIN ’16 Presidential candidate, YCC Tramonte said with four candidates competing in the general election — which included Sara Miller ’16 and Ben Ackerman ’16 in addition to Herbert and Motzkin — the campus witnessed a rise in negative and aggressive campaign strategies. He added that though penalties were issued by the CEC during the election cycle, he is unable to disclose the details of the cases.

Though Herbert said he is optimistic about creating a unified YCC because a majority of the elected YCC representatives who chose to endorse a presidential candidate expressed support for his campaign, he added that he hopes to address any potential divisiveness on the council directly by sitting down with members, putting aside differences and reminding students about the shared goal to make Yale a better place.

According to the campus-wide email sent by the Yale College Council Wednesday night, there were 71 abstention ballots cast in the runoff, which were not counted towards the total vote or percentages. Herbert said he was satisfied with the low number of abstentions, which he said speaks directly to strength of his message and the commitment of his supporters.

The new board and Council’s term will begin May 8.

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

Erica Leh ’15 said it was “heartbreaking” to hear that Chance could not perform. She added that the search for a new performer was hectic because the committee essentially had eight hours to complete a task that normally lasts months. Rivkin said the search was financially constrained, as Chance had been booked cheaply in the fall.

I think the turnaround is great.

It’s going to be a good party.

KERRI LU ’14 The choices were also limited in securing such a last-minute performer, Rivkin said.

“Everyone who is relevant was

booked,” Rivkin said, adding that the committee had to change its search approach from looking for up-andcoming performers to more established artists.

The idea of booking Ja Rule came out of that mindset, Leh said, adding that he is one of the best options that the committee considered. Most fundamentally, Leh said, Ja Rule’s music is “danceable” and easy to sing along to — which fits into the idea of what students requested in the Spring Fling survey that was sent out earlier in the year to the undergraduate body.

However, students interviewed had a mixed reaction to the announcement. Of 10 students interviewed, four said Ja Rule was a suitable replacement, two said they were disappointed by both the choice and Chance’s cancellation and the remaining four students were unfamiliar with Ja Rule or had never heard of him before.

Jeff Zhang ’16 said he is not very excited by the announcement of Ja Rule as the new performer, though he plans to keep an open mind about Ja Rule’s music.

“I don’t know Ja Rule as much as I know Chance’s stuff,” he said.

Adeline Yeo ’14 said she is happy with the decision and is more excited about Ja Rule than she was about Chance. Nell Meosky ’14 agreed, adding that Ja Rule’s performance will be a throwback of sorts.

Kerri Lu ’14 had never heard of Ja Rule before, but said she was impressed with how quickly the committee acted to find a new performer.

“I think the turnaround is great.

It’s going to be a good party,” Lu said.

The Spring Fling festivities begin at 3 p.m. on Saturday.

Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

Colleagues praise Robinson ROBINSON FROM PAGE 1 been responsible for overseeing Yale’s relations with the federal government since 2007.

University Vice President Linda Lorimer, who arrived with Robinson as a junior lawyer in 1978 and was one of the first women to hold a senior position at the University, said the scope of federal matters concerning the University — notably federal grants and compliance with regulations — has dramatically increased during Robinson’s tenure. Simultaneously, Yale has grown in complexity as an institution, she said.

For my 20 years as president, Dorothy was the University’s conscience — urging us to live by our values every day.

RICHARD LEVIN Former University president “Thirty years ago, Yale didn’t have many patents to protect, and there were many fewer federal regulations applying to University,” Lorimer said.

“She couldn’t have imagined needing to know about Peruvian law or Internet privacy issues or Beijing leases.”

Lorimer said Robinson has contributed to a culture of women working in senior administrative positions at the University.

Administrators past and present heaped praise upon Robinson when reached Wednesday.

“Dorothy Robinson is without question the finest university general counsel in the nation, and she is widely regarded as such by her peers,” said former University President Richard Levin. “But to say that she is a great lawyer only begins to characterize her contribution to this University. In both internal and external matters, Yale holds itself to a much higher ethical standard than simply complying with the law; its behavior must be exemplary. For my 20 years as president, Dorothy was the University’s conscience — urging us to live by our values every day.”

When she first arrived at Yale, Robinson worked under then-General Counsel Jose Cabranes, who now serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

“She was there at the beginning and she has built a first-class legal office during a period when Yale and all other colleges and universities have faced increasing legal and regulatory challenges,” Cabranes said.

Special Adviser to the President Martha Highsmith said Robinson has effectively combined institutional memory, affinity for Yale and team-

YALE

Dorothy Robinson, the University’s top legal counsel, will leave her post at the end of August. building abilities.

“Some lawyers seem to think their role is to tell you what you can’t do,” Lorimer said. “Dorothy has always seen her role as to be helpful in achieving the goals of the institution.”

The general counsel’s office is located at 2 Whitney Avenue.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”

BEVERLY SILLS AMERICAN OPERA SINGER

City launches “Youth Map” to catalog programs

BY SARAH BRULEY STAFF REPORTER The launch of the New Haven Youth Map turns the spotlight on a wealth of youth programs available to New Haven’s parents and students.

Yesterday evening, Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 announced the release of the New Haven Youth Map, a database where parents can search for a variety of youth programming for their children. The website is the end result of a two-year project, on which the Board of Alders collaborated with the Board of Education, the United Way and other service providers to consolidate the information in one user friendly website.

“We’ve been working to support existing youth programs and to pursue new ones where we need them,” Eidelson said. “We also know that there are so many service providers who are already doing extraordinary work in the community.”

Creating the New Haven Youth Map has been a part of the Board of Alders’ youth agenda to increase accessibility to camps, mentoring services and other programs,

Eidelson said. Accessibility is key in student involvement in these programs, which have a large impact on student performance and engagement in school, said Garth Harries ’95, superintendent of New Haven Public Schools.

The website’s launch addresses parents’ requests for more clear access to educational resources for their children, Harries said. The Youth Map also serves as a starting point for schools to continue adding resources to the website, he added.

People didn’t use the old one. It wasn’t intuitive to use and it was old fashioned.

SARAH EIDELSON ’12 Alder, Ward 1 The Youth Map offers users several methods for searching for programs. Once the user has selected a program, the website displays a profile that the service provider has provided a description containing the program costs, hours

and goals, said Alicia King, a United Way Boost! representative.

The website serves as a tool that raises awareness about the opportunities for youths and addresses concerns that New Haven does not offer enough educational services for its students, said Stephanie Barnes, executive director for the Boys and Girls Club of New Haven.

“One of the things we often hear is there is nothing to do for youth in New Haven, and I have to disagree,” Barnes said.

The biggest challenge currently facing the website’s creators is community outreach, King said. They are planning to promote the program through Parent University, school orientation papers and eventually online advertisements, King said.

Collaborators looked to past youth maps programs that had failed and to current programs from other cities in order to ensure the program’s permanence, Eidelson said, adding that they paid special attention to what made Boston’s youth services website, Boston Navigator, a success.

“People didn’t use the old one. It wasn’t intuitive to use

Republicans propose ‘more honest’ budget

BY CORYNA OGUNSEITAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last week, Republicans in the Connecticut state legislature proposed an alternative budget, which they claim will cut taxes while maintaining basic social service programs.

The budget was proposed as an alternative to Gov. Dannel Malloy’s plan, when the governor challenged assembly Republicans to create a budget free of debt obligations or political “gimmicks.”

Key elements of the plan, which Republicans refer to as “the only honest budget out there,” includes eliminating sales tax on over-thecounter medicines and clothing items under fifty dollars. It would also cut the Earned Income Tax Credit program, which provides tax credit for low income working families.

The idea behind the budget is that the removals of certain sales taxes will offset the loss that low-income families suffer from the destruction of the EITC, according to State Senator Toni Boucher, a Republican from the 26th Assembly District. Boucher said the program costs $130 million each year, and that its removal would reduce costs for everybody.

When asked why the Republican platform prioritizes the decrease in sales tax over the EITC program, she said that the program has been recently implemented and is fiscally unstable “[Low-income families] get all they need from other programs that are more substantial,” she said. “Programs that are for everyone, not just one group.”

Fred Carstensen, a professor of economics at the University of Connecticut, said that the net effect the Republican budget would have on Connecticut’s economy is only “moderately” different from the vision set forth

by Assembly Democrats. In particular, Carstensen pointed to a $3 million increase in mental health spending as one of the most pos-

itive aspects of the Republican proposal.

But Carstensen added he believes the Republican call to eliminate the EITC was an irresponsible recommendation.

“The peculiarity of the elimination of the EITC is that it was initiated at a federal level by Ronald Reagan, who thought it was the greatest thing we’ve had to help low-income households because it forces people to work and takes them off other types of social safety nets,” Carstensen said. “It was a core Republican idea.”

Adam Joseph, a spokesman for the Senate Democrats, said he agrees that removing EITC would be more harmful than helpful.

He said that there are over 1,000 families dependent on the EITC, who would not benefit equally from Republicans’ proposed savings in sales taxes.

However, Patt O’Neal, a spokesman for the House Republicans, questioned the integrity of the EITC program, calling it one of the “most fraudulent tax programs in the country.” He said the income tax returns proposed will directly benefit the working poor and will not affect the wealthy as much. “[The Republicans] are the only budget that won’t increase the deficit next year,” he said.

Carstensen said that, though it claims to be more fiscally responsible, the Republican proposal fails to address Connecticut’s long-term economic challenges.

While the Republican budget would create about 1200 new jobs, he said, these would be cut by two thirds because of the elimination of the EITC. The state’s bonded debt for capital projects totaled $17.7 billion at the close of the 2013 fiscal year, and the state’s liabilities came out to $46.5 billion.

Contact CORYNA OGUNSEITAN at coryna.ogunseitan@yale.edu .

and it was old-fashioned,” Eidelson said.

The next step for the website is sharing data, said Jason Bartlett, youth services director. If nonprofit providers can see which programs are being used, they can allocate resources away from ineffective or unpopular programs to ones that New Haven residents use the most, Bartlett said. New Haven policymakers plan on using the Youth Map to track which programs are the most popular to determine where they should allocate the city’s resources, he added.

The creators of the website also plan to develop a Youth Map in Spanish to reach out to more families in New Haven, King said. Because the contributors wanted to release the website before the summer, efforts were primarily focused on creating the English website, she said, adding that the Spanish website should be running in time for this fall.

The New Haven Youth Map currently features youth programming from 125 different providers.

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

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Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 announced the launch of the New Haven Youth Map, a database designed to make it easier for parents to find youth programs in the city.

Undocumented students’ request for aid denied

BY TYLER FOGGATT CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Earlier this month, state education officials rejected a petition to extend in-state university financial aid to undocumented college students.

On March 6, Connecticut Students for a DREAM (C4D) filed a petition requesting access to financial aid for undocumented students.

Although this petition was supported by many policymakers — including a spokesperson for the University of Connecticut and Gov. Dannel Malloy — the item was tabled in early April. Now, C4D must turn to other measures in order to give undocumented students access to aid.

“They said they don’t believe that they have the authority to make this change,” said Carolina Bortoletto, co-founder of C4D. “But our legal team has looked into it and they do have this power.”

C4D is a statewide network of undocumented youths, allies and educators that seeks to promote the rights of undocumented youths and their families through leadership development, community organizing and advocacy.

The organization was started in the fall of 2010 by a group of undocumented college students in Connecticut advocating for the Connecticut DREAM Act. The DREAM act — which was passed in 2011 — gave undocumented students instate tuition rates and lent C4D a measure of credibility. But as the organization began working with schools to ensure the implementation of the Connecticut DREAM Act and educate students about the new law, C4D discovered that they still needed to make college more accessible to undocumented students, said Lucas Codognolla, lead coordinator of C4D. “We wanted to build on the victory of in-state tuition,” Codognolla said. “We quickly found that tuition is still very expensive for undocumented, low-income families, which is why we joined with the Yale Law School and began researching ways for undocumented students to get some kind of aid here in Connecticut.”

Last year, State Senator

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The petition requesting financial aid access for undocumented students had the support of many policymakers, including Gov. Dannel Malloy.

Andres Ayala, a Democrat from Bridgeport, introduced a bill on behalf of C4D that would open up either federal or state financial aid to undocumented students. When this bill died in committee, C4D filed a rulemaking petition with the Office of Higher Education, Board of Regents and Board of Trustees for the University of Connecticut.

Our legal team has looked into it and they do have this power [to extend financial aid].

CAROLINA BORTOLETTO Co-founder, Connecticut Students for a DREAM The petition asked these agencies to loosen regulations or issue policies that would allow undocumented students to access institutional financial aid at public universities and colleges in Connecticut, said Claire Simonich LAW ’16, who works at the Law School’s Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic and serves as counsel for C4D. “Institutional aid is a type

of financial aid generated from student tuition dollars, not state or tax dollars,” said Simonich LAW ’16, in an email. “These are dollars that undocumented students pay into but cannot access, even though they are eligible.”

C4D and the law school interns found that public universities are supposed to use 15 percent of tuition revenue to create in-house scholarship funding. Although undocumented students contribute to this tuition revenue, they are unable to access the scholarships because they cannot file FAFSA forms without social security numbers, Bortoletto said.

Although the petition received many positive responses from state legislators, university professors and interest groups, it was denied earlier this month.

The agencies’ refusal to allow for controversial reform is disheartening, said Codognolla, but C4D has many plans going forward and still hopes to achieve their goal of acquiring institutional aid for undocumented students.

Currently, C4D is building a campaign called “Afford to Dream,” which involves organizing campuses and youths in different regions of the

state in order to raise awareness about education inequity. If both the community and people from within public universities begin pressuring higher education agencies to change the current policy, Bortoletto said she believes the agencies will eventually give in and use their authority to open up institutional aid.

The organization is also assessing whether it should continue with litigation and start pressuring Gov. Malloy to come out in full support of institutional aid.

“Connecticut has the highest achievement gap in the U.S., so Governor Malloy has been talking a lot about college affordability as part of his agenda for the election,” Codognolla said. “But when Gov. Malloy comes out and speaks about college affordability for all Connecticut families, he doesn’t mention that there are over 1,000 students that could potentially benefit from institutional aid.”

Texas, California, New Mexico and Minnesota are the only states that currently offer institutional financial aid to undocumented students.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.”

ANNE LAMOTT AMERICAN NOVELIST

Corporation members tied to fossil fuel industry

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Members of the Yale Corporation cited a potential conflict of interest in relation to divestment.

DIVESTMENT FROM PAGE Energy.

Goodyear, who is not on the CCIR, previously served from 2003 to 2007 as chief executive of BHP Billiton, a multinational petroleum mining and processing company. He is now a member of the National Petroleum Council and a board member of Anadarko, one of the largest fossil fuel companies in the world.

The financial holdings of Joskow, Goodyear and other Corporation members in companies in the fossil fuel industries have not been disclosed. At the same time, the impact of the implementation of the current divestment proposal on fossil fuel companies — either

by Yale alone or a broader cohort of colleges and universities — is not precisely known.

“All Corporation members commit themselves to observing the conflict of interest policy, and

they treat this commitment with the utmost seriousness,” University Secretary Kim Goff-Crews said in an email.

The Yale Corporation has a policy in place to prevent conflicts of interest, which calls for Corporation members to recuse themselves from discussion or voting in any instance where they or their family members have a financial interest. The policy, however, includes a clause, which states that in some cases, the University’s interest would be served by an individual’s participation in a decision despite a conflict of interest. The chair of the committee — Neal Keny-Guyer SOM ’82 for the CCIR — or the University president are responsible for that decision.

University President Peter Salovey declined to comment on the Corporation’s deliberations, which are confidential.

Joskow declined to say whether

he would recuse himself from the CCIR’s deliberations on divestment.

“I plan to conduct myself according to the Yale Corporation conflict of interest policy,” Joskow said. Goodyear did not respond to requests for comment.

University Vice President for Strategic and Global Initiatives Linda Lorimer, who served as University secretary when the policy was developed in the mid-1990s, said the policy is followed whenever it applies, and that the issue of divestment will be no different.

“There are many cases where disclosure of a person’s situation is the best solution, and it is a matter of judgment whether the facts of a particular interest present a conflict, and whether the Corporation is better served by the participation of the trustee in question rather than by his or her recusal,” Lorimer said.

Fossil Free Yale members —

the leading student group advocating divestment on campus — were divided on the significance of potential conflicts of interest on the Corporation.

Gabe Rissman ’16 said he is not worried about the conflicts of interest issue, adding he does not find it a worthwhile pursuit of Fossil Free Yale.

“I have faith in the Yale Corporation that it will do the best thing for Yale,” he said. “That’s the point of the Corporation — that it makes those executive decisions.”

However, other members of the student group expressed stronger opinions and said Corporation members with potential conflicts of interest should recuse themselves from the deliberations.

“Doing so would show Yale they take the issue seriously and show neutral members that they trust their judgment,” Yonatan Landau SOM ’15 said.

Jessica Grady-Benson, a stu-

dent at Pitzer College involved with the school’s recent divestment campaign, said she thinks there was one trustee at her school whose career as a financial investor seemed to pose a potential problem on divestment.

Grady-Benson added that she could “definitely sense his hesitance.”

“Divestment inherently challenges how he makes investment decisions,” Grady-Benson said.

Some members of the Corporation, though, appear to have already made a determination on divestment. Catharine Hill GRD ’85, a Yale Corporation member who also serves as president of Vassar College, rejected a divestment proposal there last year.

Hill did not respond to requests about whether the decision at Vassar would influence her vote on the CCIR. Fossil Free Yale’s proposal calls for companies’ disclosure of the

emissions they generate relative to their energy production, a metric designed by the Carbon Disclosure Project, to give Yale an empirical estimate of each company’s impact. In the event that companies do not comply with disclosure requests, the group hopes the University will decide to divest from those companies, said Gabe Levine ’14, policy coordinator for Fossil Free Yale, earlier this year.

The Yale Corporation’s conflict of interest policy last came into public focus over a 2009 vote to partner with the National University of Singapore to create YaleNUS. Then-Corporation member G. Leonard Baker ’64 recused himself from the vote because of business interests in Singapore.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu and ADRIAN RODRIGUES at

Suspect arrested after five-month investigation resource available.”

Jones was arraigned in New Haven Superior Court on Wednesday and now faces a $200,000 bond, Generoso said.

He added that Jones decided to turn himself into police on Tuesday after speaking with an attorney, but did not enter a plea in court.

Generoso added that Jones is also a suspect in another, similar case in which an anonymous caller told police that he was on his way to Hillhouse High School to shoot a specific teacher. Though police have not officially connected Jones to this incident, Hartman’s release said that they have found similarities with the nature and

voice of the call leading to the Yale incident.

Police also list Jones as a person of interest in a third case involving a call made in Branford, Conn., and an incident from January has tied him to recent acts of vandalism targeting local police cars and facilities.

“I cannot emphasize [enough] how serious an incident this was,” Generoso said. “This individual was a menace to this city and has been for a while.”

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Dec. 6 when they spotted Jones walking in a similar fashion. By this point, Jones was wanted for two separate outstanding warrants.

Though police did not present a potential motive for the call, Hartman’s release pointed to a history of contempt for police, including an incident during the same police encounter in which Jones berated officers for their involvement in the Dec. 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

“All those kids died in Newtown,” Jones said, according to Hartman’s release. “You’re not doing [anything] about that.”

Hartman’s release added that Jones was reluctant to identify himself on the scene and attempted to distort his voice by covering his mouth while speaking, but police eventually obtained a warrant for a voice recording to compare against the original call.

T h o u g h Jo n e s re p ea t edly attempted to disguise his voice, Hartman said, authorities reportedly found that it matched their recording of the initial 911 call.

“This case was worked on daily,” Generoso said. “It’s April — this case started at the end of November. We never lost sight of that, we kept investigating this incident. We used every

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Rail safety effort marred by squabbling

BY JOAN LOWY ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Spurred by a series of fiery train crashes, a push by government and industry to make safer tank cars used for shipping crude oil and ethanol has bogged down in squabbling and finger-pointing over whether they’re needed and if so, who should pay.

The Transportation Department, worried about the potential for catastrophic accidents involving oil and ethanol trains that are sometimes as many as 100 cars long, is drafting new tank-car regulations aimed at making the cars less likely to spill their contents in the event of a crash. But final rules aren’t expected until late this year at the earliest, and it is common for such government rule-making to drag on for years.

But one safety official said urgent action is needed.

The Obama administration needs to take steps immediately to protect the public from potentially catastrophic oil train accidents even if it means using emergency authority, Deborah Hersman, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said Wednesday.

“We are very clear that this issue needs to be acted on very quickly,” she told reporters at the conclusion of a two-day forum the board held on the rail transport of oil and ethanol. “There is a very high risk here that hasn’t been addressed.”

The Transportation Department said in a statement in response to Hersman that: Safety is our top priority, which is why we’re putting every option on the table when it comes to improving the safe transport of crude oil by rail.”

The freight railroad industry proposed tougher tank-car standards last fall, and recently upped its proposal another notch. The

government and the Association of American Railroads say oil being shipped from the booming Bakken region of North Dakota and Montana may be more volatile than previously thought.

But oil companies — which own or lease the tank cars, and would have to bear much of the cost of tougher standards — want to stick to voluntary standards agreed to by both industries three years ago unless it can be shown that new standards are needed, American Petroleum Institute officials said.

The railroads, they say, are refusing to share the “scientific basis” for their proposal.

The petroleum institute wants “a comprehensive examination” of changes proposed by the rail industry, including whatever computer-modeling was used to support tougher standards so that it can be peer-reviewed, said Brian Straessle, a spokesman for the institute. “So far, no data has been provided,” he said.

The railroads are “pulling this out of thin air,” said Eric Wohlschlegel, another petroleum institute official.

The government, however, says it’s the oil industry that’s not sharing its data. Transportation Department officials complained recently that the agency had received only limited data from a few oil companies on the safety characteristics of Bakken oil, despite requests made in January by Secretary Anthony Foxx.

Hundreds of oil producers, shippers, and brokers operate in the region.

So far, only seven oil companies have responded, and several of those provided only sparse information, Foxx said in an interview.

The government wants to know what is in the oil so regulators can decide what types of protections are needed for shipping, he said.

“One of the most fundamental questions that cuts across everything in crude oil by rail is how it

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An effort by government and industry to make the tank cars used to ship crude oil and ethanol safer is becoming mired in squabbling and finger-pointing. is classified,” Foxx said. “If it is not classified correctly at the beginning, then it is not packaged correctly and the emergency response needs aren’t understood by the communities through which this material is moving.”

The oil industry is using every tank car available to keep up with the exponential growth in Bakken oil production since hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” made it possible to extract more oil from the ground. Freight railroads transported 434,032 carloads of crude in 2013, up from just 9,500 in 2008. Three years ago, the U.S. became a net exporter of petroleum products for the first time

since 1949. Ethanol production has also escalated dramatically, creating competition for available rail cars. About 69,000 carloads of ethanol were shipped on rails in 2005. Last year, it was about 325,000 carloads.

In July, a runaway oil train derailed and exploded in LacMegantic, Quebec, near the Maine border. Forty-seven people died and 30 buildings were incinerated.

Rail and safety officials said they were surprised by the ferocity of the fire. They were used to dealing with sludge-like crude that doesn’t ignite easily, but Canadian investigators said the combustibility of the 1.3 million gallons of

light, sweet Bakken crude released in Lac-Megantic was more comparable to gasoline.

There have been eight significant accidents in the U.S. and Canada in the past year involving trains hauling crude oil, including several that resulted in spectacular fires, according to a presentation by crash investigators at a two-day National Transportation Safety Board forum this week on the transport of crude oil and ethanol.

Most of the accidents occurred in lightly populated areas, although one derailment and fire in December occurred less than two miles from the town of Casselton, N.D. Railroads can’t be sure what

they’re hauling, said Robert Fronczak, assistant vice president of the rail association. Given that uncertainty, he said, they want oil shipped in tank cars with thicker shells like those required for chemicals that form toxic vapor clouds when released.

Regulators who have tested some Bakken oil samples on their own warned emergency responders and the public in January that it could be more dangerous than many conventional types of crude.

But petroleum institute officials say they don’t believe Bakken crude is significantly different than other light crudes, such as those from Texas.

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“You can observe a lot by watching.”

YOGI BERRA HALL OF FAME BASEBALL PLAYER

W. lax ends season on a bear hunt

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The women’s lacrosse team will take a 2–4 record in the Ivy League into Friday’s game with the Bears.

W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 trols this season. This has helped Yale surpass both the cumulative shooting and scoring efforts of its opponents. The team currently boasts two of the top three point scorers in the Ancient Eight.

The team has been focusing on its skills in the final week of training in order to secure the win, according to midfielder Ashley McCormick ’14.

“This week we have been working on specific elements of our game such as pushing transition while also focusing on the fundamentals in order to minimize turnovers,” McCormick said.

Brown fell to Penn in its game this past weekend; the loss also

knocked the Bears out of contention for a spot in the Ivy League Championship. Bruno started the season on fire, with seven consecutive wins. The team did not, however, hold its streak and is coming off consecutive losses to Cornell and Penn.

“We are looking forward to ending the season on a high note against Brown so that the seniors can go out with a bang, though we certainly respect Brown and are anticipating an exciting game,” McCormick said.

The Yale women’s lacrosse team currently has 37 players on its roster and will graduate nine seniors.

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

M. lax to host Crimson M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 ters. In addition, goaltender Eric Natale ’15, who has nine games with double-digit saves, mustered only three stops against the Bobcats.

The Bulldogs, however, regrouped in the fourth quarter with Craft leading by example. The senior caused two turnovers and collected the resulting ground balls to give himself two fast break opportunities in the period.

Craft leads the defensive unit with 36 ground balls and 17 caused turnovers on the season.

“Our preparation was a little off and we were on our heels during the game, which is uncharacteristic for us,” Craft said. “We just need to play fast and sound defense, like we’ve been all year and be great off the ground to put us in a good position.”

Yale’s premier faceoff specialist, Dylan Levings ’14, has dominated his opponents in the second half of the season.

After starting the season with a .505 success rate in his first five games, the Tewaaraton Award Watch List nominee — one of three on the Bulldog roster in addition to Mangan and Oberbeck — has improved his average to .586 and has posted a whopping .673 in his last four games. Against the Bobcats, Levings won 18 of 29 restarts, including five of six in the final quarter.

Despite the Bulldogs’ lethal attack and their depth of scoring options from midfield, Saturday afternoon’s contest looks set to be a classic matchup between a shutdown defense and an explosive offense. The Crimson offense ranks second in the Ivy League and 16th in the nation, with 11.62 goals per game.

The dynamic duo of Devin Dwyer and Will Walker spearhead the attack for the team from Cambridge. Walker has been a goal machine this year and leads the team in goals with 31. His compatriot,

Dwyer, has played assist master, leading the Ivy League with 24 helpers. Harvard’s midfield is also a potent force.

Team captain Peter Schwartz stands alone atop the Crimson’s leaderboard with 39 points. Four other midfielders have registered doubledigit point hauls this season.

“Harvard’s offense are unbelievably sound and efficient,” Craft said. “They don’t create a lot of turnovers and they have a strong balance of dodgers, passers and shooters.”

Harvard surprised many by throttling previously undefeated No. 11 Cornell in Ithaca on April 5th to stay undefeated in the Ivy standings at 3–0 in a year many figured would be dominated by No. 20 Princeton. Despite an overtime loss to Penn, Harvard rebounded by beating the Tigers 9–8 and holding All-American Tom Schreiber without a point for just the second time in his illustrious four-year career.

The Elis will look to their home crowd to bring the ruckus on Senior Day at Reese Stadium. Yale’s class of 2014 has been one of the most successful in the program’s history, racking up two Ivy League titles, two NCAA tournament appearances and 41 wins to date.

“This game means so much to so many people but nowhere near as much as it means to the 40 guys in the huddle on Saturday, especially the seniors,” Mangan said.

The seniors are headlined by Mangan, Levings and Craft, who have been crucial to the Bulldogs’ success for all four of their collegiate years.

The six other members of the class, however, have also been significant contributors. Jack Ambrose ’14 has played in 48 games, picking up 29 GBs and 10 CTs. Midfielder Ryan McCarthy ’14 has been a scoring threat from midfield, featuring in 53 games and registering 46 points. Alexander Otero ’14, who has 53 ground-

As a reliever, Moates ’16 spells victory for Yale MOATES FROM PAGE 12 from the Deerfield-Windsor School after leading the Knights to the state finals, and he completed a stellar freshman campaign in 2013. He tied for second on the team with 29 strikeouts and finished with a 2.98 ERA in 42.1 innings of work spread across 13 appearances, four of them starts.

But with four other starters on this year’s roster, Moates shifted to middle relief situations and has been the fireman out of the pen, coming in to snuff out opponents’ rallies. His recent outing against Harvard, in which he earned his third save of the season, saw his scoreless innings streak snapped at 9.2. It remains the second-longest streak of any Yale pitcher all season.

“When you start a game, you get out there and you know that you’re expected to pitch six or seven innings,” Moates said. “When you come in at the end of the game, you can see the finish line, two or three innings [away] at the most. You can leave everything out there and go at the hitters with everything you’ve got. You can really empty the tank.”

Much of Moates’ success is due to his ability to avoid putting runners on base. He has walked just eight batters all season, the fewest among all Yale pitchers with at least 17 innings pitched.

Moates attributed his low walk total to his willingness to pitch to contact, as well as the stellar defense behind him in the field.

“I just challenge the hitters with my best stuff and I hope my best beats their best,” Moates said. “The reason I can have success throwing strikes is because I know that there is an exceptional defense behind me that is going to make all

the plays. We all just have complete faith in each other to do what we need to do.”

Both Baldwin and captain Cale Hanson ’14 said that Moates is even more effective coming out of the bullpen than he was as a starter.

Hanson added that because he only has to throw to six or nine batters, he can put a little extra on his fastball. Baldwin, however, attributed Moates’ success to the way the reliever throws his pitches.

“Chris has a nontraditional throwing motion, with lots of downward run on the ball,” Baldwin said. “He gets a lot of ground balls. Batters see a [different] starter and they take strange swings when they eventually face [Moates] in later innings because he’s throwing it a little bit differently.”

The Bulldogs’ penchant for late-inning heroics has meant high-leverage situations for Moates. In game one of a doubleheader against Cornell earlier this month, Moates entered in the seventh inning with the score deadlocked at zero. He struck out four in two innings and held serve until third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 was able to win the game with a walk-off single.

A few months before, in Yale’s dramatic 8–7 victory over then-No. 3 LSU, Moates took over for starter Michael Coleman ’14 and held the Tigers at bay for a pair of innings to keep the Elis within striking distance.

His three saves have come in the aforementioned victory over Harvard, in a 4–2 win over Princeton that saw Moates throw 2.2 unblemished frames, and the final two innings of a 1–0 victory over UMass-Lowell. That victory was notable because the Bulldogs pulled out the win despite not recording a single hit.

“Most of the games that I’ve

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The men’s lacrosse team currently sits in fourth in the Ivy League standings. balls in 55 games, has been key to the Bulldog’s defense by playing significant minutes as a short-stick defensive midfielder. Goaltender Jack Meyer ’14 has played 23 games and was named to the Ivy League All-Tournament Team in 2012 after stopping 22 shots in two games, including 14 saves in Yale’s 5OT final against Princeton to lead the Bulldogs to victory. Midfielder Jackson Logie ’14 and defenseman Alex Moffit ’14 have also been contributors to Yale during their four years.

“This game is definitely important, not only for the senior class and what they’ve brought to the program over their four years, but more

importantly for the four letters on the front of our jerseys,” midfielder Michael Bonacci ’15 said. “ Yale and Harvard has always been a huge rivalry and this game is going to be a battle of who is tougher and who cares more.

Just because we have been assured a spot in the Ivy Tournament does not mean that we will take this game lightly whatsoever. There is a lot of pride on the line and this is the biggest game we have had this year.”

The Elis face off against Harvard at 1:30 p.m. this Saturday at Reese Stadium.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

Balta ’14 leads Bulldogs

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Team captain Tori Balta ’14 leads the team in batting, slugging and OBP.

a team that features QWith many freshmen, what does the future of the team hold?

surreal to me that these are the last games of my career, but at the same time I am incredibly thankful for the opportunities that I have had playing for Yale.

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have the highlights QWhat been for the team throughout

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Reliever Chris Moates ’16 has appeared in a team-high 13 games for Yale this season. pitched in [have been] very close games,” Moates said.

“You have to make sure you keep a level head. It’s intense and I love it.”

The Bulldogs have had one of their most successful seasons in recent memory in 2014. With a two game lead over Dartmouth in the Red Rolfe division, the Bulldogs can clinch a berth in the Ivy League championship series with three wins in the upcoming four game series against Brown.

Moates, however, does not remember the last Yale baseball championship — since it came ten days before his first birthday in 1994. But, accord-

ing to Hanson, if the Elis can win this year’s championship, Moates will be one of the main reasons why.

“It’s really awesome to have a guy that can come out of the bullpen and really give you a good chance of putting up zeroes and not letting the other team score,” Hanson said. “It’s a powerful thing to have, and it’s fun to play behind him. We know that we have a great guy out there.

He’s exciting to watch.”

The first pitch of Friday’s doubleheader at Brown is schedule for 1 p.m.

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

I think the future of Yale softball looks good. We were a fairly young team this year, but I think our team has gained some valuable experience. I think the players will take what they learned this year into the offseason and continue to work on weaknesses so next season the team comes out strong.

were your thoughts QWhat going into your final season?

the season?

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I think our Florida trip was one of the highlights of our season. Playing tough competition like USF was both exciting and an incredible learning experience. Our team had a great time down there, and it was a great way to start our season.

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I was excited and sad going into my final season. I was sad because I knew this was going to be my last time ever playing at this level, but I was excited to see what the team could accomplish. Going into the last series, I have a similar mix of emotions as in the beginning of the season. It still seems

enjoyed most?

My time on the softball team has been really great and I have enjoyed all the friendships I have built along the way. I will definitely miss my team next year and getting to play the sport that I love.

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

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, APRIL 24 12:15 p.m. “Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons, Jails, and Other Places of Detention.” David C. Fathi, director of the ACLU National Prison Project, will deliver this talk. The ACLU National Prison Project challenges conditions of confinement in detention facilities, and works to end the policies that have given the United States the highest incarceration rate in the world. Sterling Law Buildings (127 Wall St.), Rm. 129.

1:00 p.m. Mushroom Cultivation Workshop. Yale West Campus Urban Farm is hosting a special workshop to learn both established and experimental methods for cultivating edible mushrooms on logs. Space is limited; register in advance. West Campus (137 Frontage Rd.), West Campus Urban Farm.

DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU

5:00 p.m. “The Arts in Spiritual Care: A View from the Bridge.” Sally Bailey will discuss her work to integrate the arts in spiritual care in the health care setting and the imperative to continue, so that our sensitivity to the human and spiritual needs of our patients will not be eclipsed by the technical sophistication of the last few decades. Anlyan Center (300 Cedar St.), Aud.

FRIDAY, APRIL 25 3:00 p.m. Last Day of Classes Celebration at Yale Farm.

The Yale Farm will celebrate the end of the school year and the beginning of a new growing season with live music and a spread of Mediterranean food. Stop by in the afternoon to dance, eat, and hang out. Students only. Yale Farm (345 Edwards St).

4:30 p.m. CEAS & Yale ThiNK — “Five Myths About North Korea.” Contradictions often render North Korea misunderstood.

Sung-Yoon Lee, professor in Korean studies at the Kim Koo-Korea Foundation, will address five common myths about North Korea that have policy implications and offer prescriptions for debunking them. Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.), Rm. 217A.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 26 1:00 p.m. Exhibition Tour: “Art in Focus: Wales.” A tour of this student-curated exhibition led by a student guide or docent. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.).

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IN FOCUS C U LT U R A L H O U S E S

Native American Cultural Center

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n the third installment of a four-part series on Yale’s cultural houses, staff photographer WILLIAM FREEDBERG takes an up-close look at the Native American Cultural Center. The center opened at 26 High St. this year after long sharing a building with the Asian-American Cultural Center.

Hosting lectures, social gatherings, and cultural events, the NACC fosters leadership and community and provides a gathering place for Native students at Yale.

An exhibition of Native students’ photos from home hangs next to signs from an Idle No More action. Idle No More calls upon all people to “join in a peaceful revolution to honor indigenous sovereignty and to protect the land and water.”

Blue Feather Drum Group celebrates the opening of the Native American Cultural Center with President Peter Salovey.

Several Ivy League universities were chartered in part to assimilate and christianize our ancestors. Now, we work to reclaim these spaces in order to assert our identities as Indian people, and serve our sovereign nations. Here, we reinvent a Native education.

Before I came, Yale represented four years away from my community, my land, and my culture. But having found the house and community here, I realized Indian Country exists wherever we are brave enough to create it.

Sebastian Medina-Tayac ’16

A spray-paint mural by Ryan Red Corn and Bobby Wilson enlivens a stairwell in the NACC.

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“Where we love is home — home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. AMERICAN POET

Dr. Karletta Chief, a professor of environmental science at the University of Arizona, accepts a blanket from Chris Brown ’15 at the All Ivy Native Conference.

Messages drawn in the concrete outside the center — here, “NDNZ [Indians]” and “NACC” — reiterate the physical permanence and visibility of the Native community at Yale.

The NACC has been an extremely instrumental part of my Yale experience — providing me with great food, best friends and a home away from home. The center also has many active groups, ranging from the arts to the sciences, and I have had the opportunity to continue powwow dancing, while also learning more about my peers and their tribal heritages.

I really think that having a place of comfort away from all the stress of schoolwork and Yale is essential to one’s mental health and success. I am so appreciative of the NACC — for both its ability to attract a diverse body of people (Native and non-Native) and also provide us with a space for cultural expression.

Dinée Dorame ’15

Custom M&M’s with the Yale Native community’s insignia are included in the table setting at the spring community dinner.

The NACC has been a space for me to express myself and engage in Native cultures, which I wouldn’t be able to otherwise. Through groups like Blue Feather I can continue singing in that style and traveling to Powwows, which isn’t an opportunity anywhere else on campus. Despite being Navajo, mostly familiar with Southwestern tribes, I’ve had the opportunity to learn about Piscataway, Chickasaw, Nihantic and various other indigenous people because of the tribal diversity represented in the NACC. Not only is Yale a global community, but also a multinational hub of sovereign, tribal nations.

The NACC is a place to learn about where we all come from and to help define the narrative of indigenous people at Yale.

Reed Adair Bobroff ’16

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“When you come in at the end of the game, you can see the finish line, two or three innings [away] at the most.”

ERIN MAGNUSON ’15 WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM The junior midfielder was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll for her performance in last weekend’s 8–7 loss at Cornell. Magnuson netted three goals and assisted on another, but her four points were not enough for the Bulldogs in Ithaca, N.Y.

CHRISTINA DOHERTY ’15 WOMEN’S LACROSSE The junior midfielder made the Ivy League Honor Roll for her defensive work against Cornell last weekend.

Doherty gobbled up six ground balls and had five caused turnovers, but Yale still fell by one at Cornell.

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Balta ’14 reflects on season, career

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The softball team (5–32, 1–15 Ivy) has battled all season long against difficult non-conference opponents and tough league rivals.

Yet even against top-notch competition, captain and center fielder Tori Balta ’14 has stood out among the Elis. Balta leads the team with a .364 batting average, a .415 on-base percentage and a 0.486 slugging percentage. As the squad heads into its final weekend of competition, the News caught up with Balta to discuss her strong season and to reflect on her career. season, you led the team in a number QThis of offensive categories. What has been the key to your success?

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I approach every at-bat with a clear mind and try not to get too technical. I focus on mechanics during practice, so when it’s game time I know what I have to do.

The men’s lacrosse team will conclude its regular season at home against Harvard on Saturday.

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER In the newest installment of the most historic rivalry in college sports, the No. 13 men’s lacrosse team will take on No. 16 Harvard on Saturday with postseason seeding and bragging rights on the line at Reese Stadium.

The Bulldogs (8–3, 3–2 Ivy) and the Crimson (8–5, 4–1 Ivy) have both secured spots in the conference tournament, but a win will give Harvard the right to host the postseason championship.

“This is our final regular season game,” said captain Jimmy Craft ’14.

“In order to accomplish our goals we need to continue to get better

each and every game, and Saturday is another opportunity to do that.

However, it’s still Harvard and we are playing for a potential shot to share the Ivy regular season championship. Nothing would be better than not allowing them to win the championship outright on our field.”

Last time out, the Elis used explosive offense in the first quarter and shutdown defense in the fourth to stop cross-town rival Quinnipiac.

Yale led 7–1 after the first 15 minutes of play, but the Bobcats came all the way back, closing the score to 10–9 halfway through the third quarter.

Still, the Elis scored four of the next six to close the game out.

Yale’s attack showed its strength against Quinnipiac. Following a

combined 18-point performance against Michigan last Saturday, Conrad Oberbeck ’15, Brandon Mangan ’14 and Jeff Cimbalista ’17 lit up the scoreboard on Tuesday night.

Oberbeck, who is 17th in the nation at 2.64 goals per game, tallied a hat trick inside seven minutes in the first quarter, while Cimbalista added two scores to raise his goal total to eight in four games. The rookie, who notched two assists for a four-point night, leads the team in shooting percentage with a stunning 71.4 percent conversion rate.

Mangan took over in the closing stages of the game by scoring two goals to ice the Bobcats. He executed his patented question mark dodge to perfection midway through the

Yale’s own “Georgia peach”

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER Baseball’s original “Georgia Peach” was legendary Detroit Tiger and Hall of Famer Ty Cobb.

But based on his play for the Yale baseball team this season, righthanded pitcher Chris Moates ’16 is the latest sensation out of Georgia.

In his first season working exclusively out of the bullpen, Moates has been the Elis’ ace reliever, making 13 appearances on the season and posting a sparkling 2.25 ERA. The 6’5” righty has been particularly effective when pitching in the friendly confines of Yale Field, allowing just a single run in 11.2 innings while whiffing 12 batters.

“He’s been great in the reliever role,” catcher Robert Baldwin ’15 said. “He’s really been a bulldog in the late innings. He throws a heavy two-seam [fastball], so we can put him in a jam and expect him to get a ground ball and a double play.”

Moates matriculated to Yale SEE MOATES PAGE 8

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fourth quarter. The senior had three goals and three assists on the night, which moved him into fourth place on Yale’s all-time scoring list.

“Jeff [Cimbalista] has brought an inside crease presence that we haven’t had all year,” Mangan said.

“As chemistry builds between me, Conrad and Jeff, we will only continue to get better.”

While the offense excelled against Quinnipiac, the defense struggled to establish itself at times. The seventh best defensive team in the nation allowed its goals against average in just over one quarter of play, conceding eight goals in the span between the second and third quar-

team has played a lot of tough compeQThe tition this year. What has the team learned and improved upon most since the beginning of the year?

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This season, I think the team has learned how to work through adversity. Even when we played tough competition, the team never gave up or went in with a negative mentality. We learned how to fight hard and focused on giving maximum effort throughout the entire game.

have been the biggest challenges for QWhat the team throughout this season?

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Making adjustments at the plate and defensively were some of the biggest challenges our team faced this year. I think that learning to play from behind is very tough and I think that our team always pushed to fight back.

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W. lax hosts Brown

BY CAROLINE HART CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale (8–6, 2–4 Ivy League) is set to host Brown on Friday in its final game of the season at Reese Stadium. The Bulldogs are coming off a loss against Cornell this past Saturday and are seeking redemption to close out the spring.

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With a 2.25 ERA, reliever Chris Moates ’16 leads all Yale pitchers who have at least 17.0 innings pitched.

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Last year the Elis took down Bruno 10–8 in their season closer. This year, the team seeks to repeat its success.

“I think we’re going into this game in a really good place … it’s the last game for our seniors and we want to end on a high note for them with a win against Brown,” attack Nicole Daniggelis ’16 said.

Yale came one game short of qualifying for the Ivy League Championship, but its season is not yet over.

The team is graduating a wide variety of talent, but the underclassmen intend to hold the team together, according to defenseman Maggie Moriarty ’16.

“This game means a lot to our team, especially the seniors. Our goal is to end our season — for some of us, our careers — on a win, and we’ve being doing all we can to make sure we’ve got our heads in the game on Friday,” defenseman Adrienne Tarver ’14 said.

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The women’s lacrosse team will host Brown at 7:00 p.m. on Friday for its final regular season game.

Tarver is the team captain and currently ranks 11th in the country in ground balls per game. She is only six short of Yale’s all-time record. Daniggelis was recently named Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Week and

currently holds the Ivy League record for draw controls in a season.

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NUMBER OF INNINGS PLAYED BY THE YALE SOFTBALL TEAM IN YESTERDAY’S SCHEDULED DOUBLEHEADER WITH RHODE ISLAND. The twin bill was canceled due to rain. The softball team has had eight games either canceled or postponed due to weather so far this season.