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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014 · VOL. CXXXVI, NO. 119 · yaledailynews.com

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CROSS CAMPUS Down memory lane. Fortnight, Kitchen Studio, a studentrun restaurant at 248 York St. recently released a Yalethemed menu titled “Bright College Years” for April 18.

The menu opens with a salad named “Freshman 15” followed by the “Sophomore Surprise.”

Next is a dish called “Jaded Junior #chickentendersday.”

The last two menu items are desserts titled “Senior Washed Up Girl” and “Graduation Day.” Previous menu themes for Fortnight have included “The Elements” and “Dumpster Diving.”

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Peabody courts undergrads

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ith over 12 million specimens in collections, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History ranks among the preeminent collections in the country.

Yet, most freshmen interviewed have never visited the museum. How can the Peabody better connect with the undergraduate population?

STEPHANIE ROGERS reports.

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS When the new residential colleges open three years from now, fewer Yale students will be annexed from their residential college housing.

If students are annexed from their residential colleges … one important part of the larger educational panorama in which the College places great store is displaced.

Power Couple. Sasha Pup

— the Samoyed puppy of Timothy Dwight courtyard — posted photos featuring her and Dean of Timothy Dwight College John Loge on Facebook yesterday. “With the One and Only DEAN. What will I do without you?” the caption read.

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ingly that they either did not have enough time or that the museum, located on Science Hill, was simply too far away. The Peabody is free to members of the Yale community, though is unique among Yale museums in charging admission to the

Administrators confirmed last week that the new residential colleges will have 904 beds rather than the 850 originally planned. But Provost Benjamin Polak said Yale’s undergraduate population will increase by fewer than 904 students, allowing Yale to allocate fewer students toward residential colleges whose populations currently exceed their physical capacity. Administrators said the new colleges will give the University some breathing room to deal with overcrowding in Yale’s housing system and reduce the

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Run, Yalies, run! A recent

post from the Yale Alumni Magazine chronicled the large number of Yalies seeking political office this spring.

In addition to Ted Kennedy Jr. FES ’91, described as the “best-known political name,” others running a campaign this season are: Gus Christensen ’94 for New York State Assembly, Andrew Romanoff ’89 for Congress as well as Dan Clodfelter LAW ’77, who was sworn in as the mayor of Charlotte, N.C. last week. That’s not to mention the four Yalies currently in the race for Yale College Council president.

Bright College Years. In a Monday email to the Branford community, Dean Hilary Fink reminded students about the impending deadline to withdraw from spring-term courses: “Advice: check to be sure you know what classes you are enrolled in.” Good to see undergraduates are making the most of their Yale education.

“We need help with sex ... ”

read an email from Elizabeth Bradley, master of Branford College, to her students.

The request was the header for an advertisement for Communication & Consent Educators.

Love in the time of the Internet. At Princeton, a

Facebook profile similar to “Yale Crushes” and “Bulldog Admirers” has been taken down for violation of Facebook’s policies. The profile, titled “Tiger Admirers,” allowed Princetonians to voice their crushes anonymously, but violated Facebook user policy because it was a profile and not a fan page. Meanwhile, a Facebook page titled “Reinstate Tiger Admirers” has popped up.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1966 An Easter party is held in the Branford courtyard. Wayne Southwick, master of Branford College, displays the “original Easter Bunny” of the Yale School of Medicine.

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New colleges to help reduce overcrowding

In Yale College Dean Mary Miller’s freshman address on August 24, she urged Yale’s newest scholars to embrace learning, pointing to the vast resources available in the museums on campus. But seven months after that sweltering day in Woolsey Hall, one major resource would remain unexplored by most

of the freshmen.

Only 31 of 100 freshmen interviewed had visited the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, in comparison to the 83 who had visited the Yale University Art Gallery. When asked about the most significant barrier to attending the Peabody, students responded overwhelm-

Arianna Huffington redefines ‘success’

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER Arianna Huffington, founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, never charges her smartphone by her bed.

Huffington advised a crowd of 50 people at Yale Law School on Monday to leave phones far from reach when sleeping — otherwise, waking up in the middle of the night to check messages will interrupt sleep. The simple act of distancing oneself from technology is one of the lifestyle choices that Huffington promotes in her new book “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder,” which outlines a life philosophy that prioritizes sleep and rest. Huffington spoke about this philosophy in the form of an interview with Yale Law School professor Amy Chua. “‘Thrive’ is not against hard work or big dreams or accomplishments,” Huffington said.

“It’s about nurturing human SEE CHUA/HUFFINGTON PAGE 4

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Arianna Huffington, founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, spoke to a crowd of 50 at the Yale Law School on Monday.

Students graduating with less debt

BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER On average, Yale seniors preparing for graduation in May face less student debt than their predecessors a decade ago.

According to Director of Student Financial Services Caesar Storlazzi, student debt for the class of 2014 will likely be simi-

lar to that of the classes of 2013 and 2012. In 2013, 15 percent of Yale seniors graduated with debt, and the average borrower owed $13,009, Storlazzi said.

The average indebtedness was slightly higher than the previous year, when 17 percent of the class of 2012 graduated with an SEE FINANCIAL AID PAGE 4

DOL cracks down

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER In the wake of Gourmet Heaven’s highprofile wage theft investigation, the Connecticut Department of Labor (DOL) is conducting sweeps of downtown New Haven businesses to sniff out workplace violations.

Gary Pechie, head of the DOL’s Wage and Workplace Standards Division, said the Gourmet Heaven incident was not the sole reason for the sweeps, formally known as “compliance audits.” He said his division is reacting to calls from advocates who have informed him that wage theft is a wide-

spread issue among New Haven businesses.

“Gourmet Heaven is an indicator of what could be going on,” he said. “Advocates are encouraging us to do more enforcement.

We’re not finished, but I hope we don’t find any cases as egregious.”

As of this February, almost all of the stopwork orders the DOL had issued in New Haven for failure to provide workers with coverage went to construction companies, contractors and developers, with one major exception: Gourmet Heaven.

Since March, however, the DOL has SEE DOL PAGE 4

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Exactly what gives street art so much of its power is its nontraditional setting. This artistic movement was founded in direct rejection of the typical practice of museum display, where works of art are housed behind glass in a private, sterile environment, labeled and analyzed by scholars — a place where public entrance is a privilege. By creating their art directly within the public sphere, with no explanation and a limited sense of ownership, street artists give their works directly to the people.

This art is not glorified and placed upon a pedestal; it is not separated from us by glass and guards.

This is the intent with which the plaque was created — so that every person walking down Chapel Street would have equal access to the work, and an equal right to experience, interpret, and interact with it as they wished. The meaning of the work itself can be fully appreciated only within this original context. While the YUAG wisely chose not to physically destroy Believe In People’s work, its decision to display it within a museum setting is almost equal in its damage to the work’s meaning.

In a recent statement, the YUAG explained its decision, asserting that “It is in our interest as a teaching museum, steward of art and community institution to return this work to a public venue for further contemplation and appreciation.” This sentiment is admirable — but the YUAG must recognize that while art museums are incredibly valuable institutions, they are still not truly “public venues.” Museums are much more open to the community today than in decades past, and they continue to evolve to become more accessible and better serve as resources for the free education of all. However, many issues do still exist within this institutional form of the preservation and display of art. Thus, a growing number of contemporary artists, such as Believe In People, are intentionally choosing alternate modes of display for their works — which in many ways better convey their intended message.

The original wishes of Believe In People in the display of his work should be respected, as of those of any artist within the YUAG’s collection. In acting otherwise, the YUAG will place itself firmly in the past, stubbornly unwilling to adapt to the constantly developing field which it was created to preserve.

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n Wednesday, the Dwight Hall Cabinet will meet to vote on, among other things, whether to grant member status to Choose Life At Yale, which bills itself as Yale’s undergraduate pro-life club.

CLAY is petitioning to join the Social Justice Network, one of four constituent networks in Dwight Hall, an independent not-for-profit that is home to over 90 service and social justice oriented student organizations. As the Chair of the Yale chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a Dwight Hall organization and member of the Social Justice Network, I will be voting not to admit CLAY into Dwight Hall.

This vote is not a question of free speech; Yale students have an incredibly diverse array of backgrounds and opinions, and the range of student organizations on campus rightfully reflects this. Groups like CLAY play an important role in promoting a constructive dialogue on campus about some of the most divisive political

EMMA FALLONE is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at emma.fallone@yale.edu .

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GUEST COLUMNIST ANDRE MANUEL

Does the YUAG believe? xactly two weeks ago, the Yale University Art Gallery appeared to have gained a new distinction: a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. That morning, a plaque was affixed to the wall outside the entrance of the museum. It started off: “This plaque marks the spot on which Sam Dilvan used a felt marker to scrawl the minimalist yet emotionally complex tag, ‘Boobz.’”

An April Fools' joke? Clearly.

But the plaque was more than just a simple prank. It was soon claimed as a work by Believe In People, a highly active, anonymous street artist. Yalies may be most familiar with his spray-painted messages of encouragement located on street curbs throughout the city, or his larger murals on the back walls of several downtown buildings.

The emergence of the medium of “street art” is a fascinating and continually evolving aspect of the contemporary art landscape. Unlike simple graffiti, which usually involves the scrawling of initials or rude symbols in alleyways and is done out of youthful recklessness, street art is when an artist intentionally chooses to create his or her artwork on a building within public space.

Street art is just as illegal as graffiti, and it certainly is controversial as to whether or not such works can even be truly classified as “art.” However, it is undeniable that such works, without an owner and in constant danger of alteration or removal, raise crucial questions about the fundamental nature of art itself. They force us to re-examine the space in which we live, introducing a bit of unexpected beauty or contemplation into an otherwise unremarkable street corner and granting all passersby equal access to an encounter with art.

That being said, I was incredibly curious to observe the reaction of the Yale University Art Gallery to this intrusion into its venerated space, the encounter between the wellestablished and traditional institution and the young, controversial new field. And what I saw has been worrying indeed.

Many have praised the YUAG for its decision not to destroy the plaque and its subsequent recognition of Believe In People’s work as a form of art — and of course I cannot disagree.

However, I am concerned by the museum’s conclusion that the best way to allow the piece to serve its intended purpose as a catalyst for contemplation of the relationship between “street art” and traditional art is through display within a traditional museum context.

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issues of our time. Members of CLAY already have every right to express their opinions loudly on campus, and have a number of channels through which they can attain funding. They do not, however, have a claim to membership in Dwight Hall.

To allow CLAY into the Social Justice Network would signal that we consider its work social justice, and would compel Dwight Hall to divert funds away from groups that do important work pursuing actual social justice and helping communities in New Haven and around the world. Social justice means fighting injustice and discrimination, and working to provide everyone with the chance to live a full and enriching life. It is about the equal provision of political, economic and social rights, and it means opening doors and breaking down barriers so that opportunity exists for all people, not just a lucky few. A necessary component of any coherent definition of social justice is bodily autonomy and the abil-

ity of all people to make decisions about their futures safely and free of stigma — this means the protection of reproductive rights.

The pro-life, anti-choice agenda stands in the way of gender equity, and thus in the way of social justice. Through legislation, deception and stigma, it seeks to limit reproductive freedom and the ability of women to control their own futures. I believe that these goals are antithetical to the concept of social justice and if fulfilled, would undermine the push for a free, just and equal society.

To see the effects of today’s pro-life ideology, one need only look to the multitude of state governments that are using all means possible to shut down clinics and place burdensome and intrusive regulations on abortion. Around the nation, protesters outside abortion clinics stigmatize a decision that should be left up to a women, her doctor, family members and loved ones. So-called “crisis pregnancy centers” mis-

lead and deceive women, under the guise of impartiality, about the consequences of abortion.

In my mind, those advocating to legally and socially limit reproductive choice are working against the goals of social justice.

I do not seek to impose my own definition of social justice onto anyone else. Members of the Yale ACLU gave significant thought to our decision not to support CLAY’s entry into Dwight Hall — that discussion was healthy and productive. I urge leaders and members of other Dwight Hall groups to consider what social justice means to them and make an informed, conscientious decision on Wednesday. If you, like we did, come to see the importance of the movement for gender equity and reproductive freedom in any larger pursuit of social justice, then vote no on CLAY. ANDRE MANUEL is a sophomore in Pierson College. Contact him at andre.manuel@yale.edu .

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ne of the dumbest things I’ve done at Yale is wait to become friends with people. We all have, or have had, our fair share of friend crushes, some debilitating in their intensity, some more casual and lighthearted. We see certain people as paragons of confidence, cleverness or cool, somehow set apart in some other realm of Yale that doesn’t seem to overlap our own.

We put our peers on gleaming pedestals, overwhelmed by their talents or social tact, thinking that their accomplishments make ours look piddling in comparison (like stacking Hershey’s up against Lindt or that crappy kind of gummies against Fruit by the Foot).

The irony about pedestaling people (yes, I’m making it into a verb) is that everyone is doing it. The musician is awed by the athlete, the athlete by the actor, the actor by the campus journalist, the campus journalist by the political debater, the political debater by the musician. Frosh pedestal their frocos; frocos often pedestal their frosh, humbled by the integrity and resolve of those so young and new to Yale. Frosh on FOOT pedestal their FOOT leaders, FOOT lead-

ers pedestal other FOOT leaders; teammates pedestal teammates, suite m a t e s pedestal suitemates.

At TAO TAO a place like HOLMES Yale, it’s easy to fall into the Taoisms mind-set of thinking that everyone around you is cooler than you are, that they have no need for new friends and that you ought to just stick within your own safe, steady and established circles.

The result? Everyone misses out. It’s incredible the number of people here who are mutually friend crushing without realizing it, who are standing on invisible pedestals built by the other.

Not only is this extraordinarily dumb, but it’s also a bit of a tragedy. Time at Yale is limited, and yet we spend much of it admiring and crushing on our peers from afar. We’re held back and pulled down by shared insecurities that our accomplishments are insufficient or unimpressive, somehow unworthy of others. What

a bunch of head cases! Everyone here has something going for them, something to offer and something to learn from. The endemic practice of pedestaling peers detracts from everyone’s experience instead of enhancing it.

I’ve felt the regrettable effects of pedestaling people at Yale my last two years in particular. I’ve played on a club sports team since freshman winter, and I’ve had intense friend crushes on all my fellow 2014 teammates since our first Peles — like, intense.

But they all seemed to already be doing their own thing, grooving to another social and extracurricular beat, all set in the friend department. It wasn’t until the past year that I finally developed close one-on-one relationships with these other girls, and we actually talked about it — about how we thought the other person hadn’t “needed” us as a friend or seemed elevated in our eyes, somehow set apart.

I wish we’d cleared up this idiocy bred of insecurity earlier; I regret that I wasted time I could have spent growing to know these incredible individuals better. By senior year, none of us care about each other’s majors or campus

activities, social groups or secret societies — we’re just looking for people with whom we can have good conversations, now and who-knows-when-and-where in the future. Yet for so long, we allowed immense amounts of mutual respect and admiration to serve as an inhibitor, rather than as an enabler. Maybe it was all a matter of time. Or maybe it was a matter of developing our own sense of self and confidence, both internally and within the community of Yale.

I think one of the special things about Yale is that it is a place infused with this everpresent sense of admiration — for our predecessors, for our professors, but above all, for our peers. I hope that never changes, because there is so much to admire. Yet I hope that admiration doesn’t hold people back, that it doesn’t allow us to place our classmates on pedestals, and that it doesn’t prevent us from taking mutual friend crushes and transforming them into lasting friendships.

TAO TAO HOLMES is a senior in Branford College. Her columns run on alternate Fridays. Contact her at taotao.holmes@yale.edu .

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“It is not more vacation we need — it is vocation.” ELEANOR ROOSEVELT FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES

Students vacation in school

BY POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER Over 20 students in grades one through eight crowded around a table at Wexler-Grant School on Monday afternoon, watching wide-eyed as a chemical reaction between vinegar

and baking soda caused a balloon to inflate.

In the wake of a spate of recent gun violence that killed two New Haven teenagers, Mayor Toni Harp and Superintendent of Schools Garth Harries ’95 announced last week that six schools in the dis-

trict would remain open during April break in order to provide students with a safe environment and productive activities.

Instead of sitting idle at home during this week’s spring break, New Haven Public School students have the option of coming to school to participate in

workshops that include science experiments, team-building exercises and dance training.

More than 250 students attended one of the six open schools on Monday, according to Director of NHPS Communications Abbe Smith.

Two city departments —

Youth Services as well as Parks, Recreation and Trees — collaborated with the Board of Education to put together a schedule of youth activities to inform parents about the program in just one week. According to city and school officials, the purpose of keeping schools open is to give kids a safe place to stay during the day and to transform idle time into productive time.

None of my siblings are home right now, so I know I’d just be bored sitting at home.

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Six schools in the district will remain open this week during the April break with science experiments, team-building exercises and dance training.

House opposes GMO bill

“It’s very easy for kids to get into trouble when they are away from school and not occupied,” said Rick Melvin, who works for the city’s Parks, Recreation and Trees Department and is supervising the program at WexlerGrant School. “This gives them something fun and productive to do.”

From 2 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. each day, different agencies offer workshops that teach skills including team-building, nonviolence and goal-setting.

Following the workshop, students eat a hot meal provided by the NHPS food service department and then head to the gym to play games like dodgeball, basketball and touch football.

At Wexler-Grant School, Heidi Gold-Dworkin GRD ’84

The House voted 103–37 against a bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale of genetically modified grass seed in the state.

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER Just one day after a bill banning genetically modified grass seeds cleared the Connecticut State Senate, the same bill died in the House.

The bill, which was voted down 10337, was opposed by the Republican caucus and a significant portion of the Democrats. For the first time in this legislative session, Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey, a Democrat, brought a bill up to vote only to have it voted down by both himself and other Democrats.

“In a short session that is supposed to focus on jobs and the economy, I’m concerned about enacting legislation this year that looks to preemptively ban a product that doesn’t yet exist without allowing the public, and experts, to weigh in,” Sharkey said in a statement.

The bill would have banned the manufacture and sale of genetically modified grass seed in Connecticut, though it is not currently used or sold in the state. In fact, Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, the corporation that is developing the seed, has not even begun to market it yet.

Still, public concern has already arisen over allowing the seeds to enter Connecticut, mirroring a national trend of distrust of genetically modified crops.

“Part of the problem with genetically modified Kentucky bluegrass is you start to develop weeds that are resistant to that herbicide because that just naturally happens,” said Jerry Silbert, direc-

tor of ConnFACT, an anti-pesticide lobbying group in the state. “Now you get weeds that you can’t kill, or you need much higher concentrations of glyphosate. So it’s a nice deal for the chemical companies, but it’s not a great deal for the consumer.”

It’s such a complicated science that I don’t think that anyone is really adequately educated on it.

LARRY PEROSINO Press secretary, Rep. Brendan Sharkey Silbert speculated that part of the reason the bill moved so quickly through the House was that House leaders did not want to give groups such as GMO Free CT time to mobilize like they did in support of last year’s bill on GMO labeling.

But according to Sharkey’s press secretary, Larry Perosino, Sharkey believes the time expended on research and hearings for the bill would detract from more important issues. Perosino also cited inadequate information as a reason that many representatives may have been reluctant to vote yes.

“It’s such a complicated science that I don’t think that anyone is really adequately educated on it, particularly when we’re talking about a product that has never even come to be marketed any-

where,” Perosino said.

In recent years, agricultural companies have increasingly pushed to create and market GMOs, but public distrust has stunted their sales. While some scientists say that the technology is safe, others claim GMOs they pose significant health and environmental risks.

For activists like Bonnie Wright, director of New Hampshire Right to Know GMO, a “better safe than sorry” approach to legislating seems the most prudent.

“GMOs have not been tested on humans for long term health studies, so … we don’t know how safe they can be,” she said.

While no humans will be eating the grass that the genetically modified seeds will grow, the grass poses a potential problem to organic farmers. If grass seed that is genetically modified blows into their farms, and their livestock eat it, they will no longer be able to classify that livestock as organic.

In a statement after the House vote, Senate President Don Williams, who had championed the bill’s initial passage in the Senate, expressed pride that the bill had come as far as it had. He said the Senate vote represented a stand against chemical companies that had special interests in marketing genetically modified grass seed and pesticides.

The bill passed in the Senate 25-11.

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.childress@yale.edu .

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

Society lands on Chapel Street

BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER

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’88, founder of the education organization Little Scientist, taught students about different chemical reactions by guiding them through hands-on experiments on Monday afternoon.

In a classroom down the hall, four students wrote down their goals and discussed the steps they could take to reach those goals. This workshop was led

by The Future Project, an organization founded by two Yale alums, that works with students to develop their leadership skills and encourages them to have a positive mindset.

Ten students interviewed at Wexler-Grant said that they were happy to come to school over break. The students said they would be sitting at home watching TV if they weren’t in school.

“None of my siblings are home right now, so I know I’d just be bored sitting at home,” said Sutanya Hamid, a fifth grader at Wexler-Grant . “It was also really awesome to get to look at my cells under a microscope.”

In addition to Little Scientists and The Future Project, other agencies that will provide workshops across the six schools this week include the CT Center for Nonviolence, the Community Action Agency and FAME — a youth empowerment group that promotes cultural diversity.

The six schools are open from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. April 14 through 17.

Four years after its revival as a student group on campus, the Desmos senior society has acquired a house for future meetings and other functions.

Desmos — a senior society that was founded in 1950 but went through an inactive period from 1967 to 2010 — will purchase its house at 1249 Chapel St. within a couple of weeks, according to Joel Schiavone ’58, a Desmos alumnus who currently owns the house. But soon, due to other construction plans in the area, the house will be physically transferred to a nearby vacant lot at 1255 Chapel St. Schiavone said the house had been slated to be torn down and replaced with a new apartment building.

“I suggested that instead of tearing it down and incurring the ire of every preservationist in the community that our society, [should] purchase this [from me] and move it to the vacant lot next door,” Schiavone said in an email.

The main idea behind buying the house was ensuring the longevity of Desmos, according to current and former society members interviewed.

Desmos, like many other societies that lack a tomb to serve as their official buildings, has never had a house on campus before.

In 2010, Schiavone, Bob Olmstead ’61 and Christopher Cory ’62, a former executive editor of the News, resurrected the society by contacting a new society on campus — which was jokingly named Key and Stone after the beer Keystone — and asking them to adopt the tradition and legacy of Desmos.

Schiavone, Olmstead and Cory admitted that the society’s nearly four decades of inactivity meant the majority of its history had disappeared. Everything from furniture to silverware to memorabilia had vanished, Olmstead said, and even today, members and alumni are not sure about the fates of these items.

“We don’t exactly know what happened yet,” Olmstead admitted. “Desmos had literally disappeared.”

Olmstead said the society’s purchase of the house “follows in the footsteps” of other formerly “underground” societies that have since acquired a house

or tomb in order to ensure continuity of the society.

Four current members of the society, all of whom requested to remain anonymous, said the house will serve as more than just a meeting space. According to one student, members of the society will be able to access the house to study or host parties. Although the society currently rents an apartment, the student said the house will provide more space and a greater sense of ownership.

We don’t exactly know what happened ... Desmos had literally disappeared.

BOB OLMSTEAD ’61 All students interviewed said Desmos is unique for its focus on establishing a sense of community and synergy within each class of members, as opposed to scoping out prestigious or popular students. According to Cory, Desmos’s very name comes from a Greek word meaning “bond.”

A current Desmos member said her class of members really took the name to heart.

She recalled spending time with the society outside of weekly meetings at each other’s events, concerts and athletic games, as well as participating in community service together. Like many other senior societies, Desmos requires each member to give an autobiographical presentation at some point in the year — but she added that students in Desmos write letters to each other after each presentation, in order to provide feedback and foster closeness.

“At the end of the day we have to respect one another,” she said.

“That mentality has really been important to me.”

The unique values of Desmos become evident in the tap process, said another current member. In picking the new class of students last week, he said, the group considered diversity but also thought about the group as a collective whole.

Each year, Desmos taps 16 juniors to join the society as seniors.

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

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“Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it’s the time when they most need to think.” BILL CLINTON AMERICAN PRESIDENT

DOL investigates New Haven businesses DOL FROM PAGE 1 issued roughly a dozen stop-work orders to restaurant and mercantile businesses in downtown New Haven, estimated Resa Spaziani, supervisor of the DOL’s fraud unit. The DOL accomplished this by inspecting businesses and interviewing workers to determine that work conditions, wages and workers’ coverage were in compliance with state regulations.

DOL investigator Blair Bertaccini, who led the Gourmet Heaven investigation, appears to have made good on his promise in February that “New Haven is making wage theft a priority.”

J&B Deli, which rents from Yale University Properties, and Chap’s Grille were among those recently shuttered for labor violations. Six other businesses canvassed by the News in and near the Broadway strip said they had not been inspected.

These sweeps are not localized to New Haven, however. Investigators are visiting towns and cities across the state, including Hartford, to conduct similar audits. Spaziani said the Department plans to return to New Haven for a second round of inspections soon.

Pechie insisted that the DOL was making every effort to educate business owners on how to fall into compliance with regulations. Still, one small business owner — who preferred to remain anonymous because his business received a “stop-work order” — said the agency was unfair in its demands. He said he was asked to produce large amounts of paperwork that he did not have on hand without any prior notice.

“Large manufacturers and companies don’t get these stopwork orders because they have strong lawyers,” he said. “This hurts small businesses.”

Spaziani said the greatest number of complaints alleging workplace violations come not from employees at the restaurants themselves, but rather from competing businesses who are following the law and want an even playing field. She said employers pay around 30 percent more if they observe proper protocol for payrolls, making them resentful of business owners who cheat the system.

“There was a public outcry,” she said. “Businesses that don’t follow payroll regulations are forcing legitimate businesses to pick up the slack.”

Spaziani said the recent spike in stop-work orders issued to restaurants was also the result of new partnerships the DOL has formed with various other agencies including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Department of Revenue and the Liquor Control Division.

John Lugo, an Unidad Latina

Huffington discusses sleep, success CHUA/HUFFINGTON FROM PAGE 1 capital.”

In addition to her role as president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, Huffington is a nationally syndicated columnist and the author of 14 books. She launched The Huffington Post in 2005, and it has since become a Pulitzer Prize-winning online news outlet.

In her talk, Huffington proposed that a new metric be introduced into the calculation of success, in addition to the two traditional metrics of money and power. This third metric should be the ability to achieve personal fulfillment and satisfaction, she said.

Huffington said she first developed the idea of the third measurement of success when she collapsed from exhaustion, injuring her eye and breaking her cheekbone. The accident caused Huffington to question whether her business accomplishments truly made her successful in life, and whether or not her continuing exhaustion was actually beneficial to her work.

In answer to a question about whether she could have successfully launched her business with her current life philosophy, Huffington said she probably would still have accomplished the same things — but with less stress and more joy.

Huffington said too many role models are

praised for being exhausted and burned out.

“I’m constantly looking now for new role models,” Huffington said. “One of them is God, who took the seventh day off.”

Hopefully, more and more companies will adopt policies that help employees avoid extreme exhaustion, she said. She pointed to Goldman Sachs, which has adopted a weekends-off policy for certain employees. These kinds of standards are going to become more and more popular in the business world, even on Wall Street, she said.

Audience members were enthusiastic about Huffington’s philosophy.

Christen Romero LAW ’14 said he appreciated that Huffington gave attention to the extra complications minorities and people of diverse backgrounds face when trying to incorporate the third metric into their lives.

Dahlia Mignouna LAW ’16 said she felt validated by Huffington’s talk.

“When I give my friends advice, I tell them to take good care of themselves. But it’s nice to have her say that and to remind us to internalize it for ourselves,” she said.

Huffington has been named one of Forbes Magazine’s Most Powerful Women and one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People.

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

New colleges strive to balance housing NEW COLLEGES FROM PAGE 1 number of students annexed outside their college.

Still, administrators have not yet determined exactly how extensive the reductions in the size of the populations of the current 12 residential colleges will be.

In 2008, there was only room for between 78 and 84 percent of Yale College students to live on campus in the freshmen dorms on Old Campus and the residential colleges, according to a report from that year compiled by a committee planning for the construction of the new colleges.

It’s annoying and the cause of a lot of unnecessary stress.

BRIA GODLEY ’16 “If students are annexed from their residential colleges to parts of the campus remote from it, or if they are driven off campus by overcrowding, one important piece of the larger educational panorama in which the College places great store is displaced,” the report said.

University President Peter Salovey said one of the goals of the new colleges is to ensure that more students can take full advantage of Yale’s residential college system.

Originally, the freshmen in the new colleges were going to live in Swing Space during their first year while the construction was being completed, Polak said. But the planning committee has since decided that the freshmen will move directly into the new colleges.

Calhoun Master Jonathan Holloway said this situation is preferable because freshmen will have access to their own dining halls and other essential elements of the traditional

residential college experience.

Though administrators said they consider annexing a high proportion of a college’s students a sub-optimal solution to the problem of overcrowding, some students interviewed said their experiences at Yale are primarily determined by the ability to live with their friends, not the physical location of their housing.

Still, students interviewed agreed that overcrowding is a significant issue in the current colleges.

According to Zachary Blickensderfer ’16, who is one of the housing representatives for Jonathan Edwards, approximately 60 percent of the college’s juniors will be annexed to rooms on Old Campus next year.

Otis Blum ’15, who serves on the Berkeley Housing Committee, echoed Blickensderfer, adding that there are more members of Berkeley than there are rooms to house them within the college.

“It’s annoying and the cause of a lot of unnecessary stress,” Berkeley student Bria Godley ’16 said of the high proportion of students in her college who are annexed.

Godley added that she does not see peers who live in Berkeley’s annex, Swing Space, nearly as frequently as she sees those who live in the college proper.

Approximately 150 students live in Swing Space, 50 of whom are annexed from Berkeley, according to Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions Bowen Posner, who is a fellow in Swing Space. Morse, Ezra Stiles and Calhoun each have approximately 30 students living in the building.

According to the 2008 report, overcrowding was first identified as a major concern for Yale College in 1928, when the University set strict annual limits on freshman enrollment for the first time.

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

en Accion (ULA) activist who led the charge against Gourmet Heaven, said that the case showed many workers the extent of their legal protections and empowered them to pursue complaints against their employers.

“This case made workers aware they have rights and that they can do something about wage theft,” he said. “Now, workers are not waiting to get in contact with ULA before reporting exploitation.”

Still, many workers are intimidated into silence by their employers, who often will “coach” them into lying to DOL investigators, Pechie said.

When the DOL shut down J&B Deli for three days in March, workers told DOL investigators and the News that they were being paid $690 for a 62-hour workweek, but further investigation revealed that they were being paid about 100 dollars less, placing them under the state’s

minimum wage.

The deli, like the other restaurants that were shuttered downtown, is now open and in compliance with regulations, said store owner John Rhee.

Gourmet Heaven workers told the News in November that the deli’s management coerced them into lying to DOL investigators by threatening them with termination or cut hours. They originally told investigators that they were being paid the minimum wage and working 40 hours a week.

In November, a group of workers came forward anonymously to the DOL to report that they were being paid as low as $4.44 an hour. When their identities were discovered, four of them were fired in retaliation, and others saw their hours cut.

The United States Department of Labor is now investigating the deli’s two locations in Providence, R.I. because the state has no DOL of its own. Pechie said

his division is aiding the federal agents’ efforts to bring justice to workers in Providence.

Though Connecticut’s workers are protected under a state-level DOL, Spaziani said the Wage and Workplace Standards Division’s enforcement is undercut by a lack of personnel to conduct sweeps and to investigate the thousands of complaints they receive each year.

“Three of us issued stop work orders to 1300 businesses in the past 5 years, but we often have to pull people from other units,” she said. “It’s not sustainable to have so few. Other states have whole forces — if we had 10 more people that could really make a difference, but as it is, we do what we can.”

Gourmet Heaven was issued a “stop-work” order on Aug. 7.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINATAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

Student debt at Yale decreasing FINANCIAL AID FROM PAGE 1 average debt of $12,347 per borrower, according to the Project on Student Debt, an annual report compiled by the nonprofit The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS). Though administrators interviewed said these numbers fluctuate from year to year, all administrators and financial aid experts interviewed said Yale is one of the few schools where recent students are graduating with less debt than their predecessors a decade ago.

“Across the country, nearly every school is seeing and accepting rising levels of debt and more students borrowing for their studies,” said Matthew Reed, program director at TICAS. He cited Yale’s numbers for the class of 2004 — the earliest numbers considered by the Project on Student Debt — as evidence that the University is doing a better job of minimizing student debt.

While 39 percent of the students from Yale’s class of 2004 borrowed money to pay tuition, only 15 percent of students from the class of 2013 did so.

Even the debt that each borrower assumed in 2004 was larger — the average borrower from that class took on $16,911 in loans.

Mark Kantrowitz, vice president of Edvisors Network, a financial aid and higher education consulting firm, said Yale’s downward trend can be attributed to the University prioritizing a strong financial aid program Yale’s large endowment has allowed the University to spend immense resources to subsidize the education of its students, Kantrowitz said. He added that most universities in America do not have the resources to sustain a quality academic program and allocate the resources necessary for helping more students pay for

college.

Storlazzi echoed Kantrowitz’s statement, making a comparison between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Yale.

“RPI’s academic costs and quality of education is just as good as Yale’s but [students] need to borrow very heavily because they just don’t have the financial backing that Yale has,” he said.

Tuition hikes across universities have been the primary factor driving the rise in student debt, Kantrowitz said. Reed agreed, adding that as the value of a college degree rises, more students from low-income communities are entering college with the help of loans. He said it is especially impressive that Yale’s numbers have trended downwards even as the Yale student body has become more diverse.

Across the country, nearly every school is seeing and accepting rising levels of debt.

MATTHEW REED Program Director, TICAS Storlazzi said his office conducts internal reviews and calculates the University’s student debt numbers and those of its competitors, adding that the estimates produced by the Project on Student Debt are largely correct.

Reed said TICAS was still in the process of awaiting the publishing of the figures for the class of 2013.

Among the Ivy League, Yale’s figures for the class of 2012 were the second lowest, narrowly edging out Harvard which reported that a quarter of its 2012 gradu-

ates took out an average debt of $13,098. Still, Princeton reported that 24 percent of its graduates from the class of 2012 held only $5,096 in loans, a substantially lower number than any of its counterparts.

“Frankly we have a slight mistrust of some of the numbers we see at Princeton,” Storlazzi said.

“We find it hard to believe their numbers really are that low.”

Reed said it was impossible for TICAS to verify numbers because all submissions are voluntary. He added that only about half the colleges and universities submit these statistics for publication.

Storlazzi said many students who graduate from Yale with debt choose to take out loans rather than work campus jobs to pay off their self-help and summer contributions. He added that some students take out loans because they believe they can pay back their loans once they have wellpaying full-time jobs as graduates.

Still, he said the office has made strides in reducing the long-term indebtedness of Yale students by lowering the selfhelp numbers for students on financial aid. Around 10 years ago, Storlazzi said the University’s self-help numbers for juniors or seniors were about 8,500 dollars.

“The numbers were so high that even if you had a campus job, you’d still have to take out a loan or maybe even two loans,” he said.

Next year’s freshmen will need to contribute $2,850 to their education, while upperclassmen will need to contribute $3,350.

This year marked the second consecutive year that the cost of attending Yale rose by four percent to $59,800 from $57,500.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.” COLIN MOCHRIE CANADIAN COMEDIAN

Peabody increases outreach efforts

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In an effort to connect with the undergraduate population, the Peabody is working to bring its collection into the classroom and to bring students to its collections through courses like “Collections of the Peabody Museum.”

PEABODY FROM PAGE 1 general public.

While the Peabody offers indepth research prospects, diverse lecture series and volunteer outreach opportunities, few undergraduate students take advantage of these opportunities. But those students who do report meaningful mentorships and research opportunities and often cite their work with the institution as one of their most valuable experiences at Yale.

Over the past decade, the Peabody has made strides to connect with the undergraduate population. While Peabody administrators say they are satisfied with the museum’s current relationship with undergraduates, they continue to work on improving the connection.

“Of course, life at Yale is generally incredibly busy,” said Peabody Director Derek Briggs. “All that said, we are very keen to increase student involvement with the museum in any way we can. After all, that is a major part of our mission.”

THE GREAT UNDERGRADUATE EXTINCTION

Daniel Tovbin ’17 is a science major and often passes the Peabody on his way to classes on Science Hill. Tovbin cited the Peabody’s location — and lack of time — as the main reasons he has not visited the Peabody.

Although Sinclair Williams ’17 was urged recently by his English professor to visit the Peabody, he still does not know where the Peabody is located or what exactly he would find there. Forty-one percent of surveyed freshmen said they would be unable to find the location of the Peabody on campus without a map.

Halsey Robertson ’17 said she did not even know it existed until the end of first semester. Kugan Sivamuni ’17 was one of the only 27 freshmen to know a shuttle stopped directly at the Peabody.

“Regardless, it’s still on Mars,” Sivamuni said.

At the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art, undergraduates compete for coveted spots as tour guides. At

the YCBA, student tour guides get to create their own tours and even have the opportunity to fashion their own exhibits. While anybody can serve as a tour guide at the Peabody, no undergraduates currently serve as guides, said David Heiser, head of education and outreach at the Peabody.

“The friends I have dragged to the [YCBA] have always appreciated the exposure,” said Emily Feldstein ’16, a YCBA tour guide.

“It provides a different atmosphere than being in the dorms.

It is definitely a part of Yale but it also functions as a space beyond.

If each guide can reach out to three friends, that’s 75 people who wouldn’t have gone.”

Yale’s other museums, particularly the YUAG and YCBA, are working to attract Yale’s science community. Last semester, the YUAG inaugurated the STEM + Arts initiative, an effort aimed at bringing science-minded students to the exhibits. All first year students at the Yale School of Medicine are required to take a class at the YCBA that hones their observational skills.

Kevin Lih ’14 leads science tours for the Undergraduate Admissions Office. There is no scripted mention nor any stop at the Peabody Museum on this official science tour, although the museum is within sight on the tour. By contrast, Directed Studies is scripted on the science tour, Lih said. Tour guides sometimes mention the Peabody in relation to prospective research possibilities when providing anecdotes in the unscripted parts of the tour, he added.

Ayaska Fernando ’08, the director of Science, Technology, Engineering and Recruitment for the Admissions Office, said the decision to add the Peabody to the script rests with undergraduates, who write the scripts. Fernando said STEM recruitment weekend does feature a behindthe-scenes tour of the Peabody for admitted students.

Heiser said many of the museum’s annual events are tailored to young children and not undergraduates, though the events provide the opportunity for undergraduates to volunteer.

“The museum has such a strong outreach program, espe-

cially for primary school students,” said William Gearty ’14, collections assistant at the Peabody. “However, this outreach never really reaches the undergraduates that are not directly associated with the museum. The collections are constantly being used for new projects on campus, but people outside of the ‘Peabody bubble’ never think of it as a resource of information, merely a museum to see nice and often old things like dinosaurs.”

We are very keen to increase student involvement with the museum in any way we can.

DEREK BRIGGS Director, Peabody Museum In grappling with engaging the undergraduate population, the Peabody is not alone.

The Harvard Museums of Science and Culture — an umbrella organization of four of Harvard’s museums — face many of the same issues with undergraduate involvement, according to a recent report. In the fall, Harvard hired undergrads Haley Adams and Sara Price to study the relationship between the museum and the student body.

The report states that the two primary barriers to undergraduate engagement on Harvard’s campus are a lack of awareness and a scarcity of opportunities targeted towards students.

The fellows propose museum literacy — the ability to interpret a curated exhibit as one may deconstruct a literary passage — as an invaluable skill all undergraduates should learn before their departure from campus.

According to HMSC director Jane Pickering, Harvard will be conducting exit surveys with this year’s senior class and, for the first time, will include questions discussing student attendance of museums on campus.

As a former staff member at the Peabody, Pickering said she notices the same passion and willingness to work with stu-

dents among the Harvard and Yale curators.

Price said she hopes that Harvard undergraduates entering in fall 2015 will have a pre-orientation program about museum resources. She added that she hopes to create a group of undergraduate student liaisons to bolster the relationship between undergraduates and the museums.

AT YALE, WORKING TO LINK UNDERGRADS

With one month until commencement, Jenny Dai ’14 said she is currently buried in her senior thesis and has yet to create her Yale bucket list. While she has been to all of the major museums on campus, she has still yet to visit the Peabody.

“The main reason that I haven’t been to the Peabody is probably because I’m not that interested in science,” Dai said. “I know distance might be a common thing [preventing people], but I’ve had plenty of classes in that area.”

Although some students interviewed echoed Dai’s sentiment, Director of Public Programs at the Peabody Richard Kissel said natural history museums are accessible to a wide audience, and that the Peabody in particular is very much an interdisciplinary institution.

Curators and staff often see art students sketching or students taking inspiration from the specimens in the halls, he said.

Over the past 13 years, the Peabody has increased its efforts to introduce more specimens from the collection into the classroom, Briggs said. Last year, over 1,000 students used Peabody materials in over 75 different undergraduate courses at Yale, compared to 400 students in the 2000 to 2001 academic year. Although many of these courses included the typical suspects — ornithology, mammalogy, and ichthyology — but humanities and social science courses, including women’s gender study classes and Afro-American studies, also used Peabody specimens.

The Peabody also brings students to its collections. The freshmen and sophomore semi-

nar “Collections of the Peabody Museum,” most recently offered in 2011 by professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Leo Buss, allows eight students to engage in independent studies of Peabody collections. Recent topics have included the Giant Squid, the evolutionary history of flowering plants, the form and function of seashells, the Galilean moons of Jupiter, and the arrangement, orientation, and function of Stegosaurus plates.

Buss plans to bring the class back after in the fall of 2015, after having taken a break to teach the introductory course in ecology & evolutionary biology.

This intimate connection with Peabody resources was transformative for many students in the course. Harvard postdoctoral fellow Mary Caswell “Cassie” Stoddard ’08 earned a Marshall Fellowship to study zoology at Cambridge after studying plumage at the Peabody.

Another “Collections” student was Cody McCoy ’13, who called the class her best at Yale.

The seminar inspired her to continue researching at the Peabody for the rest of her time at Yale.

For McCoy, who is now studying zoology at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, the Peabody is more than one the best natural history museums in the world — it is also a community of the genuine, friendly, supportive and brilliant people. McCoy said the museum is underutilized by undergraduates on campus, adding that professors across the University should learn from the classes that make extensive use of the Peabody.

“Since the day Chris [Norris, collections manager for Vertebrate Paleontology] opened the door, literally and metaphorically, I haven’t looked back,” McCoy said in an email.

William Gearty ’14 began working at the Peabody in the spring of his freshman year, and is now using many specimens from vertebrate paleontology collection for his senior thesis. Gearty said undergraduates can access the specimens with nothing more than an email to a collections manager.

On Saturday April 5, the Pea-

body hosted the Night at the Museum, the first ever afterhours event for undergraduates.

Night at the Museum featured a museum wide scavenger hunt and attracted over 100 undergraduates. Event coordinator Angela Chen ’16 said the event was a success, helping to create a stronger relationship between the Peabody and undergraduate community.

“A lot of undergrads can’t attend tours or events at the Peabody that are from nine to five, so we wanted to open up the museum for a fun event that was after hours,” Chen said.

Bhart-Anjan Bhullar ’05 fell in love with the Peabody during his second semester at Yale when he took a graduate course based at the Peabody. Research on lizards sent him to Mexico over spring break, and Bhullar said he forged many lasting relationships with his peers.

Since his graduation from Yale, Bhullar said he has noted an influx of undergraduates researching and learning at the Peabody, largely due to the “Collections of the Peabody Museum” seminar. Still, he said, more can be done to increase undergraduate presence at the museum.

Next summer, Bhullar will return to the Peabody to work as a researcher. Bhullar plans to teach a class for undergraduates where students will have the opportunity to use CT scanners to research the specimens. He added that he hopes that he can help to create a program much like the Directed Studies program for freshmen at Yale that could be centered on involvement at the Peabody.

“If there isn’t a constant pulse of students running through its halls like blood cells through veins, then it is dead, lifeless and no more than a husk of what it should be,” Bhullar said.

“I think we have to understand that the necessary risk of having an active and open collection is to occasionally lose or break a specimen and that that is fine if it maintains the life of the museum.”

Contact STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu .

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YCC ELECTIONS Yale College Council presidental candidates Ben Ackerman ’16

BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER After serving on the Yale College Council for two years — first as an associate member and currently as the Student Organizations Director — Ben Ackerman ’16 hopes to institutionalize students’ ability to make decisions for themselves.

Ackerman said the next YCC president must work towards making student participation in Yale’s most important administrative meetings a regular and institutionalized process.

Ackerman said the two biggest obstacles to this goal are unresponsiveness from administrators and the student body’s apathy towards student government. As president, Ackerman said he hopes to be known for starting the process by which students will have a substantive and more frequent dialogue with faculty and administrators.

“Institutional change is the most important challenge we face,” he said. “Currently there isn’t a mechanism by which the students can compel administrators to make the changes we want them to make.”

Ackerman said one of his central goals would be to place students on the Yale Corporation, adding that students at Cornell have successfully lobbied for students to sit on the school’s Board of Trustees.

If students had a seat at the

Corporation, they would be able to lobby President Peter Salovey to reverse decisions after they have been made, he said. Still, he acknowledged that this long-term aspiration would probably not be reached in a single year.

Ackerman said he also hopes to see relations between students and administrators more closely mirror those between faculty and administrators.

Yale administrators should have a formal obligation to consult with students when making changes to policies and programs, Ackerman said. He added that students should also have “two-way channels” through which they can also propose policy changes to administrators.

As the only presidential candidate with prior experience on the YCC Executive Board, Ackerman said he has already prepared strategies for integrating the YCC into the broader administrative system at Yale.

Students have a unique opportunity to make institutional reforms right now, he said, because Salovey is still new in his role.

Ackerman also said he would practice a more “inclusive” form of leadership than his predecessor, as president.

Corey Malone-Smolla ’16, treasurer of Timothy Dwight’s College Council, said Ackerman’s current role as president of the group is a testament to

Michael Herbert ’16

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER

his love of his residential college and his organizational skills.

“Ben is not afraid to disagree with [administrators] to get what he thinks is better for students,” she said, adding that Ackerman has sat down with TD Master Jeffrey Brenzel and Operations Manager Bob Kennedy many times to talk about improving the college’s basement.

Kennedy said Ackerman has matured as a leader since his freshman year, adding that he has become more realistic about what students can accomplish within the limits of administrative and budgetary priorities.

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

Yale College Council presidential candidate Michael Herbert ’16 tries to avoid taking himself too seriously.

His sense of humor makes him approachable, Herbert said. But he added that having a sense of humor does not mean he is not ready to take on serious issues.

“Running a campaign for YCC election and having fun are not mutually exclusive. You’re able to do both,” said Chris Moates ’16, a candidate running for YCC vice president on the same slate at Herbert. “You’re able to reach students by having the sense of humor that Michael does.”

Herbert — who is a member of the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps, as well as the founder of the Yale chapter of the Chi Psi fraternity — is not the prototypical YCC presidential candidate, as he has never served on the council before. But his lack of involvement in YCC has allowed him to get to know more of Yale, he argued.

Herbert said his work in founding a fraternity “translates a lot” to the role of YCC president.

“That was an example where I went in and I had to communicate a vision,” he said.

If elected, Herbert said he would concentrate on reforming the YCC’s image to increase student engagement.

Additionally, Herbert said,

one of students’ biggest grievances with the YCC is that it “fails to address important issues in a meaningful way and dithers on small ones.”

“If elected, we’ll end the dithering, but we’ll also address problems we perceive as being of broader importance to the community,” Herbert wrote on his website.

First among those issues, Herbert said, is sexual assault. Herbert faulted the current council for not taking a public stance on Yale’s sexual assault policy, which he called “unacceptable.” He would work with Students Against Sexual Violence at Yale to close loopholes that allow those found guilty of sexual assault to return to campus after only missing a few weeks of class, he said.

Herbert also differs from the

other presidential candidates in his campaign strategy. Rather than running individually, Herbert has assembled a slate of candidates for spots on the Yale College Council.

Among those is Ari Zimmet ’16, who said he is supporting Herbert because of how relatable he is.

“What I’ve seen from other candidates has reminded me of self-important politicians looking to appeal to everyone, and no one in specific by remaining vague and focusing on overtalked points without specific plans of action,” Zimmet said.

Herbert founded the Yale chapter of Chi Psi last year as a freshman.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

Vice presidental candidates

Maia Elisovich Sigal ’16

Allison Kolberg ’16

Christopher Moates ’16

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BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER

After serving on the Freshman Class Council as well as the Yale College Council, Maia Eliscovich Sigal ’16 said she hopes to utilize her deep understanding of the Yale administration as next year’s YCC vice president.

Eliscovich Sigal said her prior experiences make her the most qualified candidate for the role, adding that she knows how to navigate the channels through which YCC members and administrators implement change.

“I know how long it takes to conduct a survey, write a report and present it to the council,” she said. “I’ve also worked with the administration, and I know how it works with them.”

Eliscovich Sigal said she has gained the support of her fellow YCC representatives, many of whom will likely serve on the council again next year. Because the vice president leads YCC meetings, respect from fellow council members is essential, she added.

As vice president, Eliscovich Sigal said she would hold office hours and connect with other leaders of campus organizations in order to amass student ideas and opinions.

“We need to listen to more students,” she said. “We are students, but just because we did YCC instead of another extracurricular doesn’t mean our voices are more important.”

As vice president, Eliscovich Sigal said she hopes to improve student services by pushing the University to accept credit cards in all residential college butteries, improve mental health services and provide low-cost summer storage options.

Additionally, she plans to help standardize seminar registration, ban problem sets during shopping period and ensure that the Yale College grading system remains based on a letter-grading scale. She also

Allison Kolberg ’16 said she is running for YCC vice president because she sees it as a way to give back to Yale.

Kolberg, who currently serves as vice president of the Sophomore Class Council and as a YCC representative for Saybrook College, said her experience would make her an effective manager of internal YCC affairs, one of the primary responsibilities of the vice president. As vice president, Kolberg said she would strive to engage more students in YCC initiatives.

“I’m running because I feel like YCC is one of the best ways to give back to the Yale community,” Kolberg said. “When people are doing the correct sort of work, [YCC is] a really good way to affect student life.”

If elected, Kolberg said one of her primary focuses will be pushing the University to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry, which she hopes to accomplish primarily by engaging with the Yale Corporation.

Kolberg said she thinks the YCC has not yet made engaging with the Corporation on divestment a priority.

“If [the Corporation] were going to meet with us, and to meet with the president and vice president of [YCC] next year, we can make it attractive to them to talk to us,” Kolberg said.

As a result of her position on divestment, Kolberg has gained the backing of some active members of Fossil Free Yale, a student group advocating for divestment.

Mitch Barrows ’16, who is involved in Fossil Free Yale, said that after meeting with all of the

Christopher Moates ’16 said his bid for YCC vice president is centered around changing the student body’s apathy toward its student government.

Moates, who currently serves as chairman of Saybrook College’s Activities Committee, said he believes this apathy stems from YCC’s lack of accessibility.

To address this issue, Moates has set goals for next year that include reaching out to groups that are underrepresented in student government and making the organization more transparent.

One example of a measure to increase transparency would be holding YCC office hours in a different residential college every week, Moates said.

Moates said another major component of his platform revolves around tackling issues that he believes the University administration has done an inadequate job of addressing — sexual assault, mental health policy and financial aid in particular. He pointed to a loophole in Yale’s sexual assault policy that could allow an offender to serve a suspension of only a few weeks instead of a full semester if the offense occurred at the end of the semester.

“I plan to work with [Students Against Sexual Violence at Yale] and other student organizations to change the timing of the penalty to ensure that suspended students serve their full punishment,” Moates said.

As Moates is a member of the varsity baseball team, he will bring a unique perspective to the YCC, Amalia Halikias ’15 said.

Ari Zimmet ’16, who has served on Sophomore Class Council,

hopes to continue advocating for mixed gender housing for sophomores.

“She was always a person I could go to if I had questions,” said Michael Marcel ’16, who worked with Eliscovich Sigal on the YCC’s proposal to extend mixed-gender housing to sophomores. “She was always available and had great opinions to offer.”

Marcel said she consistently made herself available and hosted office hours to meet with other representatives about the project.

Madeline Bauer ’17, who also worked with Eliscovich Sigal on YCC projects, said Eliscovich Sigal is prepared for the role because of her extensive experience working on student life projects.

“She’s a clear leader,” Bauer said. “She would check in with me on our project at least once each week to see how it was going, and she was committed to talking to the right administrators.”

As YCC Student Life Chair this year, Eliscovich Sigal organized the athletics subcommittee, managed YCC’s summer storage program and helped carry through last semester’s student referendum on divestment.

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

presidential candidates and two of the vice presidential candidates, he found Kolberg to be the most impressive.

“Out of all of the candidates I was most impressed with Allison, regarding her ability to talk about divestment,” Barrows said. “I’m really confident in Allison to keep the issue on the table.”

Layla Khuri ’16, who served on Sophomore Class Council with Kolberg, said Kolberg has been an organized and effective vice president.

Emily Van Alst, who worked with Kolberg on the Sophomore Class Council, said she was “blown away” by how enthusiastic Kolberg was about Sophomore Class Council and about reaching out to the student body.

“She knows how YCC works,” Van Alst said. “She knows the resources on campus.”

When not at Yale, Kolberg lives in Denver, Colo.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYDTHOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

said Moates has connections with many people who are not usually represented in or interested in the YCC. If elected, Moates could help bring those people into the student government process.

“While some of those people might be uninterested in the YCC because of their lack of representation, he’s interested in getting them excited in YCC and what it could be if they considered it a body that could actually help them out,” Zimmet said.

Halikias said most Yale students make friends with people who are similar to themselves, but Moate’s decision to run for YCC vice president as a varsity athlete is just one example of how Moates “breaks the mold.”

“Chris has managed to get me interested in the issues and more interested in student government in general,” Halikias said. “That’s the kind of YCC I want to see.”

Moates was unable to attend Sunday’s YCC debate due to the baseball team’s away game at Dartmouth.

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

The YCC Vice President is responsible for recruitment, elections, project assignment to representatives, and committee and team oversight. The Vice President also oversees the Management Board and meets with key University officials.

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“I never vote for anybody; I always vote against.”

W. C. FIELDS AMERICAN COMEDIAN

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The President of the Yale College Council is responsible for developing a vision for YCC and leading all of its operations. As president of the student body he or she is the primary liaison between students and Yale’s administration. The President regularly meets with the University President, Dean of Yale College, and other University officials. In addition, the president represents Yale’s undergraduates to persons or groups outside of the University when necessary.

Leah Motzkin ’16

Sara Miller ’16

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER

Yale College Council presidential candidate Leah Motzkin ’16 has specific characteristics in mind for the next YCC president. “[The president] should be someone who is approachable, someone who anyone on campus is comfortable sitting down with [to share their concerns],” she said. “I believe that is something my skill set is very good for.”

Motzkin said that ideally, any student with an idea or concern would immediately think of going to YCC — but right now that idea is “laughable” to many. Still, she said, she wants to take at least a few significant steps in that direction.

Motzkin’s main idea for improving YCC communication with students is the establishment of secondary constituencies. In addition to the YCC representative positions that already exist in the residential colleges, she said, she would like to add representatives for “interest groups” such as cultural houses, athletic communities and publications.

Representatives would establish direct lines of contact with interest groups, which would strengthen YCC’s support role in different communities, she said.

As she nears the end of her term as the Yale College Council’s Pierson College representative, Sara Miller ’16 looks to the YCC presidency as a role that can make the council more accessible to the student body.

Miller, who is also a photography editor for the News, said she has a “clear vision” of how the YCC should interact with the student body — a vision she said makes her stand apart from the other candidates, she said. She stressed the importance of increasing the council’s transparency so that students can always feel informed about the group’s activities.

“I want to foster a greater relationship with different organizations on campus because I actually care about what happens at Yale,” Miller said. “One goal is actually listening to the student body and engaging them.”

Miller’s platform includes pushing for gender-neutral housing, University divestment from fossil fuel companies and reform of the Undergraduate Organizations Committee. She also pledges to address changes in academic policy, including moving the academic calendar back to a week-long reading week and extending the deadline for Credit/D/Fail grading conversion.

Miller said she would work to make Yale’s promise to lowincome students a reality, by ensuring that students have access to jobs, expanding collaboration with

But Motzkin added that YCC must also implement other mechanisms to increase the Council’s credibility with the student body. She plans to launch an online platform similar to the “Yale Ideas” Facebook page, she said, allowing people to post ideas that the YCC would then discuss as a group.

Students should also have more freedom to explore academically, she said, adding that she is in favor of allowing courses taken on the Credit/D/Fail scale to be counted for distributional requirements.

Motzkin said that implementing minors, advocating for gender neutral housing and pushing for tangible reforms in mental health, are also important parts of her platform.

The infrastructure of YCC has the potential for making lots of effective change, Motzkin said, but what is lacking is student buy-in.

“As a student body, if we don’t utilize [YCC] directly, we lose a lot of power, because administrators take the YCC seriously,” she said.

Rafi Bildner ’16, who has worked with Motzkin on the Freshman College Council, said Motzkin’s ability to connect with both students and administrators is unrivaled. She is effective and well-respected in the council because of her flexibility and openness, he said.

Khalid Attalla ’16 said Motzkin’s greatest attributes are her willingness to compromise and listen to students’ ideas.

“Student politics tends to get petty, and she is someone who thinks about the bigger picture,” said Ethan Karetsky ’14. “That is something I think is incredibly special about her.”

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .

Undergraduate Career Services, reforming the International Summer Award and pushing for a change in the student income portion of financial aid packages.

In terms of other policy changes that she would like to implement as YCC president, Miller said she would like to add a survey question to YCC’s weekly emails to the student body, in order to effectively collect student input on specific topics.

Miller also intends to post meeting minutes and agendas as soon as they are available and make meetings open to those who take interest in a given issue. All of these resolutions will make YCC more accountable, she said.

Miller hopes to build stronger relationships between YCC and student organizations than those that have existed in the past. She proposes holding rotating office hours amongst the residential colleges so that students can come and talk in a casual setting, she said.

“I think the president’s position

fits my personal strengths because I work well with other people and feel comfortable talking to them,” Miller said. “I have the ability to foster a relationship with other organizations instead of fighting them. I think I’m an approachable person and am willing to listen and talk to everyone.”

Michael Marcel ’16, who has worked with Miller on YCC this past year, said Miller’s contributions to YCC thus far regarding financial aid and Facilities Appreciation Day have already displayed the scope of her dedication to the Council. Marcel added that Miller’s policy initiatives regarding gender-neutral housing, fossil fuel divestment and improvements to mental health on campus are some of her most progressive — yet achievable — goals.

Miller is an intramural volleyball captain for Pierson and a member of the Pierson Student Activities Committee.

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

Finance director candidate Connor Feeley ’16

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER Connor Feeley ’16 said he hopes to economize YCC’s expenses as the organization’s finance director.

After serving as a Timothy Dwight College representative on Freshman College Council last year, Feeley joined YCC this fall as a representative for Timothy Dwight and also took on the newly created position of Internal Affairs Manager in November. As finance director, Feeley said he would use his administrative experience to guarantee that YCC operates as efficiently as possible from a financial perspective. “[This job] involves going over every

expense that YCC has traditionally had in the past and reevaluating and determining whether they add value for the campus,” Feeley said.

Feeley said he would aim to utilize YCC’s newly established business team more effectively. For example, the team should communicate with local businesses about partnership deals for Yale students, he said.

He added that he would also consider reallocating YCC funds so that more funding can be allocated to student organizations.

More of the money YCC currently uses for internal expenses should be devoted to other organizations and causes around campus, Feeley said,

adding that this initiative would require YCC to operate on less money.

Currently, 50 percent of YCC funds go to student organizations and club sports.

In addition, Feeley said he wants to be involved in the procedure by which Yale determines financial aid and to be “a liaison” between students and the administration on issues of financial aid.

While Internal Affairs Manager, Feeley said he learned to “take care of the administrative tasks that make YCC run.” He cited organizing council agendas and communicating with different representatives and members of the management board as some of the experience he gained.

Megan Ruan ’17, a member of YCC’s Events Committee, said Freeley always responds to other council members’ concerns in a prompt manner, is very organized and can “get things done.”

Madeline Bauer ’17, a YCC representative for Calhoun College, described Freeley as a highly competent member of the council, especially when it comes to sending out weekly emails detailing the state of YCC’s internal affairs.

“He’s a really positive presence,” she said.

YCC’s current finance director is Leigh Hamilton ’15.

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

The YCC Finance Director oversees budget allocation, securing funds, fundraising efforts, forming partnerships to provide student discounts, and seeking sponsorships. The Finance Director also manages the Business Team and chairs the Council of Represenatives’ Special Funding Committee.

Events director candidate Jaime Halberstam ’16

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER As the unopposed candidate for YCC Events Director, Jaime Halberstam ’16 said she will use University events to form a sense of community both on campus and with the Greater New Haven area.

Currently a Silliman College YCC representative, member of the YCC events committee and two consecutive year member of the Spring Fling committee, Halberstam said she plans to apply her experience toward maintaining some of Yale’s most cherished traditions while also considering new opportunities to better allocate funding for events.

“I don’t just want [to] do something because it happened in the past,” Hal-

berstam said. “Especially when those resources could be better funneled into making new traditions.”

Halberstam served as a project manager for Yale Dining’s Final Cut competition in February and is currently helping plan the Mr. Yale competition, which will take place later this spring.

Throughout her experience on the events committee, Halberstam said she has looked to the leadership of current Events Director Eli Rivkin ’15 as a model for proper conduct in the role.

The best way to overcome potential obstacles and to host successful events is through learning from past experiences, Halberstam said. Rather than simply applauding what may have been successful following an event, there needs to be greater post-event evaluations to determine what could have

been improved, she said.

Halberstam said she hopes to use events to bolster support for various YCC initiatives, citing the Insomnia Cookie study break to unveil the new YCC logo as a past example of this type of effort. She said events can be a unique tool for conveying YCC initiatives because they unite students in a communal space.

Halberstam said she hopes to implement new events, such as a “New Craven” series in which local chefs host private dinners and talk about living and working in the Elm City.

“Some people may feel uncomfortable venturing off on their own,” Halberstam said. “But once you rally the troops to break from Yale, we’ll take advantage of an opportunity.”

For Spring Fling, she said there

remains some uncertainty about budget due to the continued debate about the student activity fee. Still, she said she hopes to provide students with the best possible performers and improve the nonmusical aspects of the day, including organizing food trucks and carnival stands for those “who want a break from the mosh pit.”

Alex Desronvil ’17, a co-project manager for Mr. Yale, said Halberstam is highly organized and will bring creative ideas to the position.

Megan Ruan ’17, who worked with Halberstam for two semesters on the events committee, said Halberstam’s greatest strength is thinking on her feet during stressful situations.

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

The YCC Events Director is responsible for producing YCC events, spearheading YCC’s involvement in co-sponsored events, and managing the council’s internal social events . The Events Director chairs the Events Committee and oversees the Spring Fling Committee.

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SPORTS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS BROWN WOMEN’S RUGBY Women’s Rugby will become Brown University’s 21st women’s varsity sport for the 2014-2015 academic year, as the University announced yesterday that they would be elevating the club sport to varsity status.

Club basketball wins nationals

Crimson chips past Yale

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The men’s club basketball team went 6–0 at the national championships en route to the title this weekend.

CLUB BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 and semifinals, respectively, according to Ritchin. Although the Elis went to Raleigh, N.C. without a coach, captain Kevin Kirk ’15 said they benefited from listening to everyone, rather than just one person.

“We all bounce the right ideas around and are constantly focusing on what things we can do to win,” Kirk said. “Everyone can score, but nobody is desperate to. We know how to play with each other.”

The confident, self-coached Bulldogs played team basketball all weekend. While most players were quick to praise Bartlett, the former varsity player, club team’s leading scorer and tournament MVP, he was unwilling to discuss his personal accolades.

“It’s great to be MVP,” Bartlett said.

“But we were better than our opponents at all five positions, and that’s why we won. It’s amazing how much talent ended up on this team, and even more amazing how much chemistry we developed.”

Miles and Michael Wiacek ’16 were two of the less publicly recognized players on the Yale team, but both were crucial to Yale’s victory.

Wiacek tied for the tournament lead with 10 three-pointers, while Miles led the event with 41 rebounds. Both players were selfless, and their performances were critical to the team’s success.

“I can see that there are people on our team this year that do many things better than I do. I can do a little bit of everything, and when we need it, I like to think I can step up and make it happen,” Miles said. “The team needed me to really step it up on the boards, both

offensively and defensively and that’s what my focus was in both the regional and national tournaments.”

Bartlett, Harrison, Kirk, Miles, Ritchin, and Wiacek seemed to do everything they needed to in the championship game to lead Yale to its firstever national club basketball title.

Bartlett’s spin move proved to be a problem for Cal Poly’s defenders, who could slow him only by fouling him, as he continued to go to the free-throw line far more than any other player in the event; he finished 36-for-41 from the line. Harrison was the floor general, spreading the defense to open things up for Wiacek and Ritchin, who seemed to be unable to miss. Kirk and Miles controlled the boards, preventing Cal Poly from getting second-chance opportunities.

The substitutes cannot be overlooked, either. While the aforementioned players dominated the minutes, every single player was vital to the team’s success, according to several members of the team. The starters unanimously agreed that the bench players were fully capable of coming in and leading the charge, if they were called upon.

“We had to win a lot of tough games to get where we did,” Ritchin said.

“There weren’t any games where I felt we were overmatched as a team. All we had to do was play good team basketball, and that’s exactly what we did.”

As the players cut down the net, the team shouted Chadd Cosse’s ’17 motto for the team, “We are nice.” And after this weekend, that much is not up for debate.

Contact ROBERT HESS at robert.hess@yale.edu .

YALE ATHLETICS

The men’s golf team took second at the Princeton Invitational this weekend.

GOLF FROM PAGE 14 very close performances, with Jonathan Lai ’17, captain Sam Bernstein ’14 and Sean Gaudette ’14 finishing with 211, 214 and 215 strokes, respectively.

Improving scores as the tournament progressed was a common occurrence for the Elis, as they made a comeback on the second day of competition. At the end of day one, the Bulldogs were behind the Crimson by 14 strokes, but they were able to cut that down to three by the end of the last 18 holes.

In contrast to the past couple of

weeks, the Elis were able to play in favorable weather conditions and on a course they have historically enjoyed.

“It was almost 80 degrees,” Bernstein said. “It was about 15 degrees warmer than in New Haven. On Sunday there was a bit more wind than on Saturday but it was much better than previous weeks when we had to deal with heavy wind and the cold.”

The Elis will get one last shot at the Crimson before Ivies, and it will be at Yale’s home course.

“I know our team is excited to take on Harvard and the rest of the field

on our own turf this weekend, and we are definitely charged up for the Ivy League Championship,” Davenport said. “I’m confident our team will not be outworked in the next two weeks, because I speak for all of us when I say we are very hungry for an Ivy title this year.”

The Bulldogs will next tee off against the Crimson on Saturday, April 19, at the Yale Golf Course in the Yale Spring invitational.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

Women’s tennis slays lions TENNIS FROM PAGE 14 victory. The Big Red won its first doubles contest 8–1 and its second 8–5, taking the doubles point and an early lead over the Bulldogs.

When singles play began, however, the Elis started to mount a comeback. Tyler Lu ’17 pulled out a decisive 6–2, 6–3 win at the No. 1 spot, while Daniel Faierman ’15 put away Cornell’s Bernardo Casares Rosa with another straight sets win.

Unfortunately for the Elis, they fell one singles win short of total victory against Cornell, winning three-of-six and falling 3–4 to the Big Red, with their doubles defeat proving the deciding point in Saturday’s heartbreaking loss.

The next day, Yale looked to bounce back against Columbia.

Unfortunately for Yale, the No. 17 Lions are one of the strongest teams in the nation, and they thrashed the Elis in a 4–0 win to extend their winning streak to 16 matches. Though only four individual matches were finished on the day, Columbia won all of them comfortably, securing the doubles point with 8–1 and 8–2 victories and the three singles points with decisive straight sets wins. The two-loss weekend dropped the men’s team to 7th place in the Ivy League.

The women’s tennis squad posted a successful weekend of competition against Cornell and Columbia. In the first contest of their road trip, the Elis posted an impressive 6–1 win over Cornell, taking the doubles point with two 8–6 wins and then conceding only one singles win to the

Big Red. In singles play, Hanna Yu ’15 led the charge at the No. 1 spot with an impressive 6–3, 6–3 win, while Ree Ree Li ’16 posted the most dominant victory of the afternoon, winning 6–0, 6–3. Sherry Li ’17 also stepped up, pulling out a 3–6, 7–5, 1–0 comeback win at the No. 5 spot.

Yale’s big 6–1 win over the Big Red gave them momentum heading into a tough Sunday matchup against a heavily favored Columbia squad.

Though the No. 33 Lions may have appeared the stronger team on paper, the results on the courts proved quite different, as No. 59 Yale upset its Ivy opponents in a 5–2 win that pushed it to 3–1 in Ancient Eight play.

“The match against Columbia was high–pressure, high–stakes and could not have been more fun,” Caroline Lynch ’17 said.

“We lost to them in the final of the ECAC tournament this year in February on the same courts and that had been motivating us for this match. Every single person on [Yale women’s tennis] did her job on Sunday and the results showed in our win.”

Though Columbia comfortably took home the doubles point with 8–2 and 8–4 wins, the Elis mounted a shocking comeback in singles play. Yu stepped up once again with a 6–4, 6–4 win over Kanika Vaidya, the 80th ranked player in the nation.

Ree Ree Li also pulled out an impressive win, coming back from a 2–6 first set loss to secure a gritty 2–6, 7–5, 6–4 match victory. Sherry Li proved herself once more with a 1–6, 6–2, 6–3 win at the No. 5 spot that helped

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The Bulldog tennis squads will take on Dartmouth next weekend, with the women’s team going on the road and the men’s team hosting the Big Green. cement the Eli victory. With the win, the Bulldogs moved to No. 3 in the Ivy League with three matches left to play.

“Last weekend was a ton of fun and we’re all so proud that every-

one was able to step it up at big moments,” Sherry Li said. “It was a great confidence booster and has made us even more determined to bring the same performance level to the many Ivy con-

ference matches we have coming up.”

The Elis’ next matches come against Dartmouth on Friday, April 18. The women’s team will travel to Hanover, N.H., while the

men will host their opponents at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center.

Contact MARC CUGNON at marc.cugnon@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, APRIL 15 4:30 p.m. “Ken Rogoff: Policy Dilemmas in the Aftermath of the Financial Crises.” Ken Rogoff, author of the bestseller “This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly,” will speak about policy changes in the post-crisis economic landscape.

Rogoff served as chief economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund until 2003. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 101.

7:00 p.m. “Teenage.” Film screening followed by a Q&A with the director, Matt Wolf. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of youth. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Rm. 208.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16 5:30 p.m. Sketching in the Galleries. Enjoy the tradition of sketching from original works of art in the center’s collection and special exhibitions. Jaime Ursic, the center’s assistant curator of education, will offer insights on drawing techniques and observational skills. Drawing materials will be provided. Register in advance. Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.).

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

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

6:00 p.m. “Africa is Not a Century: The Power of Media in the Development of the Continent in the 21st Century.” Poynter Fellow Lola Ogunnaike is the host of Arise Entertainment 360 and a “Today Show” contributor. Dinner will be served. Afro-American Cultural Center (211 Park St.), Art gallery.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Soil texture key in deforestation

BY TASNIM ELBOUTE STAFF REPORTER

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Soil that retains water and nutrients is less vulnerable to the effects of deforestation.

A new Yale study reveals soil texture is key to understanding the vulnerability of an ecosystem to deforestation.

Researchers led by postdoctoral fellow Thomas Crowther from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies have identified soil texture as a defining characteristic for predicting the effects of deforestation. While current understandings of deforestation are drawn from a small number of studies whose results are location-specific, Crowther’s study considers 11 different sites ranging from Alaska to Hawaii. The finding, which was published in Global Change Biology on April 1, allows researchers to predict where deforestation will have the most substantial effect. It will also be important in determining forest management practices that aim to lessen the impact of climate change.

“We expected [deforestation would depend on] a sweep of characteristics like temperature, moisture and nutrients in the soil,” Crowther said. “But we found that really it’s the texture of the soil — which varies on a scale of very sandy coarse particles to very tiny fine muddy particles — determines almost entirely the effects of deforestation.”

Over three years, Crowther and his research team collected soil samples from all 11 sites annually. Each sample was divided up and studied for different attributes including the amount of carbon and nitrogen present, soil texture, effect of different temperatures and microbial analysis.

Changes to the soil impact climate change both through soil release of carbon and decreased tree density. Crowther said the study demonstrates the importance of considering the underground microbial community when addressing effects of deforestation because of soil’s important role as a carbon sink. If forests are cut down at sandy sites, all water and nutrients are lost and the microbial community changes

very rapidly in response, Crowther explained. That response causes a significant increase in the amount of carbon lost from the soil.

Wherever the soil is likely to hold onto nutrients and retain water and reduce the effects of disturbance, the land is less vulnerable to effects of deforestation, Crowther said.

Kevin Dennehy, the communications officer at the F&ES, pointed to the importance of addressing the underground carbon sink instead of thinking of trees as the only lost carbon sink.

Dennehy added that this study is “special and meaningful” because it aligns with the goals of F&ES by tackling deforestation on a global scale.

“Other studies have found that forest removal can have effects on soil microbes at very specific sites, but in this case, because the researchers took into account so many different climate types from Northern Alaska to Hawaii, their findings have the potential to be applicable to ecosystems globally and to inform forest management strategies in all parts of the world,” Dennehy said.

Hefin Jones, a soil ecologist from Cardiff University not involved in the study, said in an email that this study is a valuable advance for the understanding of soil biodiversity.

He added that soil microbes are essential components of natural ecosystems, and that it is important to identify the location of the communities most vulnerable to land use change.

Even though the study was based on data from 11 locations, Crowther said the topic needs to be studied at more sites to verify the effect. A more detailed understanding of which parts of the soil community are likely to change could help researchers predict the nature of change, he said.

According to Greenpeace UK, carbon released from deforestation contributes up to one-fifth of global man-made emissions — more than the world’s entire transportation sector.

Contact TASNIM ELBOUTE at tasnim.elboute@yale.edu .

Gene protects developing brain

BY GEORGE SAUSSY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Researchers have found a gene that may be responsible for an individual’s susceptibility to mental disease.

Scientists have known for the past five decades that the gene Heat Shock Factor 1 (Hsf1) is involved in keeping adult neural degenerative diseases at bay.

Now, investigators have found that fetal mice without the gene expressed are more likely to develop a variety of brain development disorders — including epilepsy, cell death, and schizophrenia — after being exposed to stressors. Researchers interviewed said that while the findings have the potential to develop into therapies, their short-term implications are more uncertain.

“What we found is a gene that responds to the environment to protect the fetal brain,” said Kazue Hashimoto-Torii, professor of neuroscience at George Washington University and lead author of the paper. “This gene can reduce the risk of certain types of disorders.”

Hsf1 is triggered by stress and modifies how other genes are expressed. The multistage study first discovered that Hsf1 was activated after fetal mice were exposed to different environmental stressors, including alcohol, mercury and maternal seizures. The authors then examined that likelihood of developmental problems in prenatal mice that were exposed to the same stressors and found mice without the Hsf1 gene more often had developmental disorders. Finally, the researchers examined stem cells from adult humans with schizophrenia and found abnormal manifestations of the Hsf1 gene’s signaling process.

Pasko Rakic, a professor of neuroscience at the Yale School of Medicine and senior author of the paper, said further research is required in order confirm the study’s conclusion for human

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Fetal mice that do not express the gene Heat Shock Factor 1 are more likely to develop a variety of brain development disorders when exposed to environmental stressors. cells. Rakic also said that the study suggests that the certain period of stressed development could explain which disease develops, with the expression of Hsf1 co-occurring with the development of the part of the brain implicated in the disorder.

Rick Morimoto, a professor of biology at Northwestern University who was not involved in the research, said the study is novel

because it took a developmental perspective on a gene previously explored in developed humans.

“What’s most exciting is that it’s linking together very different fields,” Morimoto said. “This is a beautiful basis science question.”

Morimoto added that such cellular and molecular investigations are conducive for developing treatments. The research

can potentially lead to diagnostic approaches, which are key to early diagnosis of these disorders.

Ivor J. Benjamin, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah not involved in the study, said significant future research will be needed before the Hsf1 pathway could be manipulated for treatments.

Arthur Horwich, professor

at the Yale School of Medicine who did not work on the study, said it is difficult to tell how Hsf1 should be manipulated developmentally to prevent disease, especially the process involved in artificially expressing the gene can be toxic.

“I am not sure how this translates easily into a sort of diagnostic setting,” he said.

Both Benjamin and Morim-

oto emphasized that the study reports a biological pattern of mice in utero, and that much work will be needed before the research can be applied to human diagnostics and treatment.

The paper will be published in the journal Neuron on May 7.

Contact GEORGE SAUSSY at george.saussy@yale.edu .

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“Just the Human Genome Project alone is the Full Employment Act for bioethicists.”

ARTHUR CAPLAN HEAD OF BIOETHICS DIVISION, NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER

Suskind sparks autism research

BY EDDY WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A partnership between Yale researchers and the Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Ron Suskind may lead to new treatments for autism.

Four autism researchers, including two Yale professors, are designing a study in which autistic children will undergo affinity therapy, in which movie character role-play will be used to develop social communication skills. The affinity therapy study will be conducted in addition to an ongoing study that exposes autistic children to pivotal response treatment. In both studies, social and behavioral development are measured through clinical assessments and quantified through functional MRI scans and EEG, which measure brain activity.

“We are interested in exploring what affinity therapy might be about and how we can do it in addition to the PRT work we currently have going,” said Pamela Ventola, a professor at the Child Study Center at Yale and one of the four investigators.

The term “affinity therapy” was coined by Suskind in a piece he wrote for The New York Times Magazine in March about the challenges of communicating with his autistic son Owen, who was often incomprehensible to his parents and mumbled gibberish.

Owen loved to watch Disney movies and through Disney character role-play, Suskind was able to have his first conversation with his son, three years after Owen developed autism at age 3. In the video embedded in Suskind’s article, father and son communicate fluently.

Inspired by Suskind’s work, the researchers hope to further explore role-playing, said John Gabrieli, a professor in Health Sciences and Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT and one of the researchers drafting the study. Gabrieli said that many children with autism have restricted interests, and that affinity therapy is intriguing because it views those restricted interests as a bridge to broader communication and a tool for teaching social skills.

Autism researchers have known

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Four autism researchers are designing a movie character role-play study in “affinity therapy,” a term coined by Ron Suskind in The New York Times Magazine in March. for a long time to use children’s interests as a means of teaching social skills and increasing development, said Fred Volkmar, chair of the Yale Child Study Center and autism researcher.

Volkmar said a paper he, Ventola, and seven others published in 2012 showed brain changes in two autistic children who underwent PRT. The treatment is a

behavioral approach that facilitates the development of social skills. An example of PRT on the website of Autism Speaks, an autism science and advocacy organization, is that of a child requesting a stuffed animal. If the child “makes a meaningful attempt” — uses full sentences and eye contact, for example — he will get the stuffed animal.

Aubyn Stahmer, a research and clinical coordinator at UC San Diego and Rady Children’s Hospital, echoed Volkmar that therapists have been using children’s interests to facilitate social development for quite some time. She said while affinity therapy is brand new, PRT has been around for over 30 years and is more accessible due to its for-

malized training and procedures.

“I’m not sure anything I can find on affinity therapy is defined yet,” Stahmer said.

Since the concept of affinity therapy was coined very recently, autism experts have differing views on its impact. In an email, Volkmar said the practice should be approached as a strategy and not yet as a therapy.

Ventola said the researchers should learn from the example of Owen Suskind to develop the affinity therapy trial.

The researchers hope the affinity therapy study will be ready for trial in about one year’s time.

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

Bioethicist talks personal genomics

BY AUDREY LUO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Dov Greenbaum is a professor at the Yale School of Medicine and a practicing intellectual property attorney who studies the bioethical issues in personal genomics. With the cost of genome sequencing falling from several million dollars to a few thousand dollars over the last six years, there has been a surge in companies that offer cheap personal genome sequencing and analysis. In March, Greenbaum published an article in the American Journal of Bioethics about developments in personal genetic sequencing. The News spoke with Greenbaum about his views on recreational genome sequencing and the ethical and legal questions that arise when consumers face unsavory incidental findings in their DNA. your paper, you discuss how QInactionable genomic informa-

tion can be used to evaluate athletes. What exactly is actionable information, and how is it determined?

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Actionable information, when I use it, means information that has real life applications today. You know what the application is and you know how to use it. It can tell you have to be aggressive in treatment, and it guides you. With non-actionable data, you don’t know what it means, and even if you did know what it means, you don’t know what to do with it.

For sports, what I think is most actionable is the genetic information for propensity for some sort of injury, or that is related to your prognosis for recovery from an injury. There are more obvious signs, like the gene for predicting whether or not you’ll get Alzheimer’s. You can also predict an athlete’s prognosis post-concussion.

accurate are these genetic QHow sequences? How worried should someone be if results say that someone has a propensity for a certain unpleasant disorder?

A

It depends on what you’re sequencing, the nature of test, how you’re testing it, and who is running the test. It also depends on what you mean by accuracy.

But I can give you an example: We know that many genetic alleles that can result in Tay Sachs, but we don’t know the entire range of mutations that can result in TaySachs. We can’t be 100 percent sure you won’t get Tay-Sachs, only to some degree we can be certain. We can do biochemical assays where you would test the results of that gene and protein activity of the protein made by that gene.

We are certain based on what we know, but what we can’t be certain about is whether we know everything that can cause Tay-Sachs.

Two providers who run the same DNA can come up with different results not only because of the analysis but also the interpretation has a human component.

There’s also thresh holding — the way I threshold is different from how another person thresholds.

You can be certain you don’t have a particular mutation, but just because you don’t have mutation X doesn’t mean you don’t have disease Y.

the cost of sequencing QWith genomes decreasing, compa-

nies offering relatively inexpensive sequencing are proliferating.

Can you discuss some of the ethical issues with these companies?

A

There is a whole host of ethical and legal issues that can come up [with this type of sequencing].

Do you report incidental findings to the patient or the patient’s family, and do you report the findings to the patient’s family even when the patient requests not to? What about patient privacy? Can you sell the data? What should we tell

the patients to do with the data?

Can you give the patient raw data?

What if the results aren’t clear?

For the most part, these [direct to consumer] companies aren’t doing sequencing; they are doing arrays — they are just looking for some million mutations, which is a lot cheaper. The questions are harder if you’re doing sequencing.

For arrays, there’s less information for you to dig through. There’s less chance for an incidental finding, whereas for sequencing, you will find everything. kinds of changes do you QWhat think the FDA should make in order to make personal genomics companies adopt more ethically sound practices? What information should a client be aware of?

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It should be made clear that there is no such thing as recreational genomics. The FDA needs to make sure that laboratories are regulated and should create further disclaimers that make it clear that this is complicated data. You should consult a genetic counselor or physician before you take any of the data and implement it.

The information is not straightforward and should be viewed with the help of someone who knows what they’re doing. One of the major issues here is that we don’t want to scare people away from doing analysis because the data that is created is immeasurably useful, but also don’t want to harm those that have their DNA analyzed. Regulations should, on one side, not have a chilling effect on the creation of the data, but they should protect users on unintended consequences. We want to promote analyses to create a network effect because everyone can benefit from more information.

But it shouldn’t be at the expense of the individual consumer who might do something they shouldn’t do because they misunderstood the data.

Contact AUDREY LUO at audrey.luo@yale.edu .

ANNELISA LEINBACH/ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR

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Yale, like Spieth, three strokes short GOLF

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Last week the Bulldogs edged out Harvard by five strokes. This week, the Crimson topped Yale by three just as professional golfer Jordan Spieth fell to Bubba Watson by three strokes at the Masters.

In the Elis’ final tournament before the Yale Spring Invitational, the men’s golf team took second place at the Princeton Invitational with a total score of 835. In attempting to defend the Princeton Invitational title, the Bulldogs beat out 13 teams, including six Ivies, but were unable to bring down the Crimson despite shooting 33 strokes fewer than last year’s Princeton Invitational-winning score.

“Harvard is our stiffest competition within the Ivy League,” Will Davenport ’15 said. “They are a deep team and deserve a lot of respect … we have to tip our caps to them for their outstanding play this weekend. We will see them again next weekend at our home tournament, so we will have another chance to match up before the Ivy League Championship.”

The Crimson had the top two individual performances of the 54-hole tournament with Akash Mirchandani shooting a 67, 66 and 72 for a total of 205 and Robert Deng shooting a 67, 69 and 70 for a total of 206.

Yale’s top performer, Davenport, tied for the fourth-best performance at the Springdale Golf Club, shooting a 73, 69 and 67 for a total score of 209. Joe Willis ’16 came in behind Davenport in a tie for the sixth-best performance, shooting a 74, 70 and 66 for a total of 210. Overall, the Bulldogs shot SEE GOLF PAGE 10

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The men’s and women’s golf teams will compete at Ivy League championships beginning April 25.

Nice finish for club basketball

Mixed weekend for Yale tennis

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The men’s club basketball team took home the national championship Sunday, topping Cal Poly 60–48.

BY ROBERT HESS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER April 13 has become the best day of the year for Yale University athletics. One year removed from the men’s hockey team’s 4–0 triumph over Quinnipiac at the Frozen Four, another Yale team made history with a national title.

CLUB BASKETBALL The Yale men’s club basketball team defeated Cal Poly 60–48 on Sunday to win the National Intramural-Recre-

ational Sports Association National Basketball Championships, hosted by North Carolina State University April 11–13. Led by Club All-Americans Will Bartlett ’14 and Ezra Ritchin ’15, the Bulldogs demonstrated that the Ivy League has game, dominating a field that included teams from schools from traditional power conferences such as Ohio State and the University of North Carolina.

The Bulldogs’ tournament began with two relatively easy wins over the Miami Hurricanes and Ivy Tech in pool

play, securing Yale a spot in the Sweet 16. It was there that Yale faced its most difficult game.

Ritchin, who made the most two-point field goals of any player over the course of the weekend, hit the shot of the tournament, a buzzer-beating three, to knock off the Dayton Flyers 53–50 and secure a spot in the quarterfinals. The entire play was drawn up by Hakeem Harrison ’15 in the timeout following a Dayton three to tie the game with just under four seconds left.

“Zack [Miles ’14] made a

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good pass on the inbound, and as I crossed half court the defense collapsed to me and Ezra was wide open,” Harrison said. “So I just hit him with the pass and he knocked down a big shot like he did all weekend.”

That shot did more than just win the game. It gave the team the confidence it needed to defeat teams from notable basketball schools Gonzaga and the University of Southern California on the final day in the quarterfinals SEE CLUB BASKETBALL PAGE 10

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The Yale tennis teams saw mixed results this weekend, as the women’s team won its two matches while the men’s team lost its two.

BY MARC CUGNON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

while the women posted two impressive wins.

Yale Tennis entered the middle stretch of its Ivy League season this past weekend. Both Eli teams took on Cornell and Columbia, with the men hosting their competition at home, while the women’s squad traveled on a twomatch road trip. The results of the weekend were mixed, as the men’s team fell to both squads

TENNIS The men’s team began its weekend by taking on a favored No. 52 Cornell team. When doubles competition began, it appeared as though Cornell would run away with the day’s SEE TENNIS PAGE 10

THE NUMBER OF TITLES THAT THE YALE CREW TEAMS TOOK HOME THIS WEEKEND. The women’s team won the Class of 1985 cup, the heavyweight team took the Olympic Axe and the lightweight team claimed the Dodge Cup.