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CROSS CAMPUS Yale Law School Musical.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Zac Efron has been cast as a Yale Law School graduate in the upcoming film adaptation of John Grisham’s 2009 novel “The Associate.”

The film follows the YLS graduate as he is blackmailed by a criminal group into taking a job at the world’s largest law firm where he serves as a spy on a dispute between two multi-billion dollar defense contractors.

Let the hunger games begin.

Sunday marks the start of New Haven restaurant week, offering you six days of alternatives to the Yale Dining diet. Participating restaurants are offering three-course, prix fixe menus at $18 for lunch and $32 for dinner

The Storming of Toad’s.

Members of the Yale Precision Marching Band took to Toad’s this Wednesday in “attack bands.” Marching band members of Team Y stormed the premises and played “I Love It” by Icona Pop. Tea time.The Green Teahouse

at 1008 Chapel St. is hosting its grand opening today. The affair will feature a traditional Chinese Lion Dance as well as a tea pouring ceremony for Mayor Toni Harp. The Teahouse offers traditional Chinese loose leaf teas as well as tea pots and cups. The Zen atmosphere comes free.

Battle of the bars. A cocktail

competition is being held tonight at 45 Church St., hosted by On9. Local mixologists will be pitted against each other to see who can create the best alcoholic beverage, competing for the titles of “Signature Cocktail for 2014” and “People’s Choice” cocktail. The winning cocktail is to be featured at On9 events for 2014.

Tea Time again. The annual Edible Book Tea is being hosted

by Creative Arts Workshop this weekend. An edible book is defined as “something you can eat and it looks like a book and/ or makes reference to a book title, content, or structure.”

Entries from last year included Slaughterhouse Five — a meat and cheese platter, Madeline — madeline cookies, Grapes of Wrath — decorated bowl of grapes, and more. The only entry fee is “bring some tea!”

Shoot for the moon, if you

miss you’ll land in an unpaid internship. The Harvard Crimson recently published a feature on unpaid internships.

The piece concludes that an unpaid internship “is experience that you pay for.”

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1966 Three senior society members announce in an open letter they plan to help in the formation of new societies for juniors who are not tapped or who rejected taps on Tap Day. Four existing societies endorsed this initiative.

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Beloved French professor dies

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN AND MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTERS Pierre Capretz, a former French professor at Yale and a worldrenowned leader in French language teaching, died in Aix-en-Provence, France on Tuesday. He was 89.

Best known as the creator of “French in Action,” a languagelearning program composed of textbooks and a widely-broadcast television series, Capretz taught at Yale for nearly half a century. During his time at the University, Capretz emphasized improving pedagogy in the French Department through immersing students in everyday French conversations, according to his colleagues.

“If you look at what he created, it still ranks among the best [teaching materials] in terms of learning languages,” French professor Ruth Koizim said.

Born in 1925, Capretz grew up in France and attended the University of Paris. Four years after the end of the Second World War, Capretz arrived in Gainesville, Fla. on an army boat.

The next morning, he began teaching Latin at the University of Florida, Capretz told the News in 2010.

When Capretz moved on to teaching French, he said he found that the subject was taught using dull textbooks. Creating “French in Action” was an attempt to rectify that problem, he said.

“I thought we had to change the way we were doing it, and that a better way to teach French would be to

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Penalty sought for animal violations

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“He did an enormous job at trying to make the French department a language-teaching department,” said French emeritus professor Chuck Porter GRD ’58. “In general it was the one that would have gotten the least help from the older members of the department, who were all literature people.”

Capretz was catapulted to national attention in 1987 with the airing of the “French in Action” television series on PBS. Produced by the Bos-

In a complaint filed with the United States Department of Agriculture on Monday, the animal rights organization Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) urged the USDA to impose a $60,000 fine on Yale for multiple self-reported animal welfare violations.

In February and August 2012, associate vice president for research administration Andrew Rudczynski informed the National Institutes of Health of the three violations, as required

by NIH funding regulations. SAEN obtained the reports through a filing with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). While the names of the researchers and locations of the labs are not included in the self-reports, as required by FOIA regulations, the filings detail a series of human errors that led to 33 animal deaths in Yale laboratories between August 2011 and June 2012.

“Yale has clearly demonstrated incompetence that has killed multiple animals,” said SAEN executive director Michael Budkie in an April 1 press release. “This bungling laboratory deserves the maximum penalty allowable under the law.”

University Spokesperson Tom Conroy said in a Thursday afternoon email that Yale has not been notified of the complaint, but will be fully cooperative if notified.

According to the University reports, on Aug. 1, 2011, a dog died after an oxygen tank malfunctioned. Seventeen hamsters died on June 28, 2012, the same day a laboratory staff member

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Capretz was known for his audiovisual innovations in the teaching of French. put the students in front of what I call reach French — that is, French that is used in real contexts,” Capretz said.

“So that’s where the idea came from.”

Capretz moved to Yale in 1956, where he began developing “French in Action” with recordings and visual aids for his students. Attempting to immerse students in the language, Capretz took some 10,000 photographs around France.

In his early years at the University, Capretz’s colleagues said he played a major role in refocusing the French Department on teaching.

Mysterious graffiti artist returns to Yale

BY GEORGE SAUSSY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Believe in People has left his mark on another Yale building.

The graffiti artist known as BiP, left a plaque outside of the Yale Art Gallery’s Kahn Building facing York St on Monday night.

The plaque was made of wood treated to imitate bronze and was mounted using caulk,

and claimed to be a part of the National Register of Historic places. It purported to mark the place on the wall where fictional graffiti writer Sam Dilvan, whose name is an anagram for “vandalism,” had written the word “BOOBZ.” The full text of the plaque reads, “National Register of Historic Places” followed by “This plaque marks the site

on which Sam Dilvan use a felt marker to scrawl the minimalist yet emotionally complex tag “BOOBZ,” preceding such works of artistic genius as “ASS BUTT” and “GILF MAGNET.” This occurred during his oft-celebrated ‘BALLZ’ period. Although the original is no longer visible, Dilvan’s penchant for using words carelessly throughout his environment

remains a guiding force in modern society and culture.”

The plaque was taken down by gallery workers almost as soon as BiP posted on his Twitter account, taking credit for the piece. However, the Gallery decided to put the plaque on display outside the museum’s main entrance from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. yesterday.

The idea to display the plaque

came from Jock Reynolds, the director of the Yale Art Gallery. He said in a Gallery press release that the plaque should remain available for the public to consider. The Gallery has also extended an invitation for BiP to claim the piece, stating that if the piece remains unclaimed it will be auctioned off and the SEE BELIEVE IN PEOPLE PAGE 6

Faculty defend new Profs weigh evaluations college expenses

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID STAFF REPORTER

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTER In 2007, the price tag of the two new residential colleges was projected to be nearly $600 million. Six years later, cost projections have fallen by almost $100 million.

Although the University has curbed construction costs for the project since the recession, the residential colleges remain more expensive than most residential college construction projects at Yale’s peer institutions in recent years. And with a price tag of approximately $500 million, the new colleges are also among the most expensive capital projects on any single site in Connecticut. Though 10 faculty members interviewed declined to comment on the cost of the new colleges, 10 other professors said the importance of expanding Yale College through the establishment of two new residential colleges justifies the planned expenditure.

“I think one has to take a holistic and a longer term view of any capital project,” School of Management professor Ravi

Dhar said in an email. “I trust the [University’s] overall strategy and commitment to ensure capital projects are built for the long term.”

Morse College Master Amy Hungerford — who serves on the Ad Hoc Committee of the Yale College Expansion and the Budget Committee — said the original plans for the new residential colleges were made before the financial recession, at a time of budget surpluses.

She said the University reconsidered those plans once a $250-million gift from Charles Johnson this fall made it possible to begin moving forward again on the colleges, which will be funded entirely using donations rather than the University’s budget. As work had already been done to prepare the building site for the original plans, Hungerford said the options to change cost structures were somewhat limited.

Despite these constraints, she said she believes the University has made good attempts to rein in costs.

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Two months after the controversy surrounding Yale Bluebook Plus raised questions about Yale’s online course evaluations, faculty members have begun to discuss potential tweaks to the course evaluation process.

At Thursday’s Yale College faculty meeting, approximately 60 faculty members spoke in general terms about potential changes to the content and wording of the course evaluation system, according to Yale College Dean Mary Miller.

Rather than debating specifics, professors used the meeting as an opportunity to “think out loud” on the issues, Miller said.

Prior to the meeting, the Teaching, Learning and Advising Committee had already met with the directors of undergraduate studies and department chairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to solicit ideas about the evaluations, Miller said, adding that the committee will now convene to make specific recommendations for changes.

The University shut down Yale Bluebook Plus — a student-created website that let

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Faculty members have begun to discuss possible alterations to the online course evaluation system. students easily sort classes by course and instructor evaluations — on the premise that the website had violated Yale’s online acceptable use policy. At the time, Miller told the News that the website also violated the spirit of the University’s long-standing agreement with the faculty to not let the quantitative component of instructor evaluations get in the way of a holistic assessment.

Still, Miller said faculty

members at the Thursday faculty meeting voiced both support and opposition to the practice of using quantitative data in course evaluations.

“There are members of the faculty who would like to see more quantitative data assembled, and there are some who would like less,” Miller said.

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Fossil Free Yale’s mistake Develop engineering clubs Y

ale University — one of the world’s premier institutions of higher education. Many a respected economist, best-selling author, successful entrepreneur and powerful politician got their professional start in New Haven. It’s almost assumed that a large portion of incoming students will study economics, political science, language or even medicine. And there’s nothing wrong with that. All those majors have a well-deserved place in Yale’s curriculum and in society.

But what about the engineering students? Yale is a high-profile institution that produces high-profile individuals. Why are almost none of them engineers? Shouldn’t all majors be equally successful from a place like Yale? Why are the most successful engineers borne of schools like Stanford, CalTech, MIT and Purdue? Yale is on par or better than any of those schools in most other disciplines. This just doesn’t seem right.

BRINGING STEM TO YALE MEANS MORE THAN JUST IMPROVING ACADEMICS Fortunately, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science began asking those questions about a decade ago. With the help of the Yale administration, money was pumped in to beef up the engineering program and increase interest in STEM fields. Yale SEAS now has fantastic new facilities like the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design and the Malone Center, plus more funding for projects and new equipment than ever before.

However, new buildings and funding won’t enhance Yale’s engineering pedigree alone.

Even with the best facilities in the world, engineers will still want cool projects to work on once they get to school.

They will want a community of like-minded tinkerers and builders with whom to collaborate and learn. Yale has provided world-class facilities and funding for students to start their own projects, so it’s up to the students to elevate

Yale Engineering to the level of Stanford and MIT. A few big student-engineering groups like Engineers without Borders, Bulldogs Racing and Aerospace can draw about 20 committed members each, but considering that Yale graduates approximately 60 engineers each year, there is significant room for improvement. More engineers should get involved in engineering groups.

This year, I — along with a few of my friends — founded the Yale Undergraduate Rover Association (YURA) to compete in the University Rover Challenge in Hanksville, Utah. After reading an article about the competition, I decided I wanted to build a Mars Rover and reached out to some people I knew on campus. Over the past 10 months we’ve founded an organization, made a plan, contracted a few sponsors and now we’re assembling a rover to take with us to Utah. It’s been incredibly fun and, in my mind, provided another 20 Yale students the opportunity to explore a cutting-edge field. Additionally, with Bulldog Days approaching, we are hoping to recruit new members for next year, and more importantly, new students for Yale. Nothing sells to an engineer like a big, shiny robot and a place to work on it.

I’m not suggesting that every Yale Engineer go out and start his own club — that would be more than slightly irresponsible. I am, however, stressing the importance of participating in engineering extracurricular programs.

Go to the CEID, register and become a member — and check out some projects. If you see something you like, ask how you can get involved.

If nothing catches your eye, then either grab a pair of glasses or round up some friends and start something yourself.

Yale SEAS made a bold decision when it decided to elevate its engineering program to the next level. But it’s not an easy task to infiltrate the old boys club of MIT, Caltech and the like. So, please do your part as an engineering student and help Yale help you. After all, if people believe in Yale Engineering, they’ll think the same about Yale Engineers too.

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hen I returned from Washington, D.C., after having been arrested for tying myself to the White House fence in protest of the Keystone XL pipeline, people were shocked. While some found it admirable, they admitted they would never do it themselves. Reasons varied from “too risky for my future,” to “not my cause,” to “it won’t make a difference.”

While Yale has maintained some semblance of activism on campus for the past few decades, students seem less willing to make sacrifices for causes larger than themselves than previous generations.

News of injustice is usually met with just a Facebook post raising awareness. Students are politically aware but do not act powerfully on their opinions. Where is the anger that led students to dramatic, conspicuous actions like daily protests on the New Haven Green during the 1970 Black Panther trials, or Beinecke Plaza shantytowns in the 1980s, demanding divestment from apartheid?

The most recent on-campus demonstrations, MEChA’s Gourmet Heaven protests, were meaningful and impactful, yet were only done by a small group of student organizers. Most other students were apathetic.

Why was MEChA not joined by others fighting for justice, as has happened in the past?

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Today we have cause to be furious. We now face the increasingly harsh reality of global climate change, a problem that we have brought upon ourselves. It threatens our existence as a species on this planet; the situation has never been more urgent. An IPCC report from this week reaffirms that the planet is warming at an alarming rate with dangerous implications.

Fortunately, we know a root of this catastrophe: the enormously powerful fossil fuel companies (the most profitable industry in history) and their relentless extraction. They currently hold over 2,765 gigatons of carbon in reserves and plan to burn it all, despite the United Nations statement that only one-fifth of that amount is safe to burn to avoid the most catastrophic climate change effects.

This industry is treacherous, and it must go.

That’s why I joined Fossil Free Yale (FFY) as soon as I got to Yale. Thus far, FFY has drawn up a convincing policy proposal for Yale’s Corporate Committee on Investor Responsibility and has invested much time and energy into securing private, exclusive meetings with corporation members. Although FFY has made a great deal of progress with the administration by gaining influential allies, this seems to be the extent of the tactics FFY is willing to take.

Unfortunately, its conservative approach is holding us back.

When I and other students returned from XL Dissent, the action protesting Keystone XL, Fossil Free Yale refused to associate with it. It decided not to support the action because it was seen as a radical threat to fragile negotiations with the administration. The decision is understandable, but alarming, proving that the institutional approach is FFY’s priority. They emphasize this instead of other important tactics like coalition building with other justice organizations and building solidarity with frontline communities (those who live near extraction sites). With the exception of FFY, the action was endorsed by every other participating school’s divestment campaign.

Fossil fuel divestment is powerful not because it will financially harm the companies, which it probably won’t, but because it damages their reputation. If Fossil Free Yale is concerned primarily with getting a “yes” from the administration, specifically through private conversation and delicate word choice, it will not cause the social damage that is needed. Taking an institutional approach will probably get a “yes” faster, but we must not do so at the expense of not effecting real change on campus. It will take more than sitting in a boardroom to make a real differ-

ence; the “yes” is meaningless if the public’s mindset has not shifted.

We should respectfully negotiate with the administration, but we cannot hesitate to antagonize the Corporation members if we want them to make decisions they are uncomfortable with. We also need a sizeable and strong coalition of determined students to be respectful and even formal in certain settings, but also to prove our willingness to make real sacrifices to get what we want — and ultimately, what we need to have a future on this planet.

Finally, our varied approach must include more radical strategies. FFY’s lack of bold action only reflects what has become the student body’s general attitude. Let’s attempt to foster a Yale where students feel compelled to act regarding issues they have strong opinions about — I’m looking at you, the 2,369 students who voted “yes” on our referendum. Tuesday’s action demanding divestment is a great start. The risks of climate change are scarily real, so we must start taking risks of our own. If civil disobedience in front of the White House seemed risky for your future, it’s nothing compared to what lies ahead.

ALEXANDRA BARLOWE is a freshman in Branford College. Contact her at alexandra.barlowe@yale.edu .

Found among the graves

BRIAN CLARK is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at brian.clark@yale.edu .

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here is a tombstone, towards the left back corner of the Grove Street Cemetery, that I find myself visiting every spring, as the weather turns warm and the cemetery once again becomes the perfect spot to take an afternoon walk.

The tombstone marks the grave of a man, and on it is inscribed his academic position at Yale, every committee he sat on, where he went for his bachelor’s degree and even his graduate work. He seems to have been buried alone.

Who was he? What was his life like? Why did these honors matter so much to him?

Spring break usually marks the beginning of the close of the year. Final papers become real, summer decisions need to be tended to and seniors’ bucket lists gain new urgency. Campus is full of lovely libraries and historic buildings, but for stressed out Yale students, the cemetery is a large, beautiful and quiet space to escape for a few hours.

Which is why I’m always surprised by the number of students, alumni and faculty that tell me they have never gone inside the cemetery.

I don’t know if this is because of a lingering taboo over death, or because the architecture of the cemetery, surrounded as it is by such a high and sturdy

wall, erases it from public view. Everyone, of course, is familiar with the outside.

Who hasn’t been creeped out by SHIRA inscripTELUSHKIN the tion, over the entrance, Behind “And The Dead Shall Blue Eyes Be Raised”?

(As the running joke goes, the dead shall be raised if Yale ever needs the space.) And the entrance gate, dedicated in 1845 and designed

by Henry Austin, dominates Grove Street, visible all the way from Elm Street, past the Sterling Memorial Library. The Yale Health Center, evoking many jokes, looks directly over the graves, as do a number of the rooms in Swing Space. To walk up Prospect Street is to walk alongside the looming sandstone wall that surrounds the cemetery on three sides, with just the tallest of tombstone obelisks and angel statues peering out above it. The outside of the cemetery is a fixture. But pass the gate, inside the walls, is where it is worth an afternoon.

There is a lot to learn from

cemeteries, especially one as old as that on Grove Street, which was founded in 1796. Scattered around the résumé-cum-tombstone of my scholar are other tombstones, listing other honors, recording different deaths.

Nearby are the plots of Yale students who couldn’t be sent home for burial. Along the walls are the gravestones moved from the Green in 1821, without the bodies, decorated with the characteristic winged cherub face or skull and crossbones figurehead. Walk around the grounds, pausing now and then, and you find the most unusual names, surprisingly exotic birthplaces of men from the distant past — mostly the children of Christian missionaries — and information on family life; a treasure trove of details that once mattered so much to somebody. A number of the graves mark not only the years but also the months that the person lived, so that the inscription reads, “d. 86 yrs. 8 months.”

Family plots, and the changing fashions in grave marker choices, yield so much about the attitudes towards death over the past couple of centuries.

When the two new colleges come in, the Yale campus will be centered around the Grove Street Cemetery, though the cemetery itself is independent of Yale Uni-

versity. Some people find this morbid. I don’t. We all know we are going to die — it is one of the few things we all know with certainty — and the cemetery presents death in a beautiful way.

Still an active burial ground, with between 10 to 15 burials a year, it is a place for both mourners and visitors to come and find solace.

I don’t think it needs to mix with the causal goings-on of student life. Proposals have been made in the past, most recently in 2009, to replace some of the foreboding wall with a fence, a decision that would open the cemetery up to viewers from the street, but it was met with a torrent of protest. For those uncomfortable with the intrusion of death into the public sphere, the walls and the gate keep the cemetery protected, away from daily life.

But just because the interior of the Grove Street Cemetery cannot be seen from the street does not mean it should be ignored. It is one of the most compelling and unique spaces around the Yale campus. I hope it stays the same, even as it becomes increasingly central, and I hope more choose to visit.

SHIRA TELUSHKIN is a senior in Pierson College. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact her at shira.telushkin@yale.edu .

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HILLARY CLINTON “If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.”

GUEST COLUMNIST EZRIEL GELBFISH

How can we learn lishmah

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efore transferring to Yale, I used to study at Yeshiva University, and before that, at several yeshivas in New York City and abroad. People often ask me how Yale compares to the other institutions I’ve been at, and the answer of course is varied.

Yeshiva days were long and grueling, as are Yale days; in the former we studied Torah and our focus was primarily religious, while at Yale our focus tends to be on secular studies.

But the distinction between Yale and the yeshivas I’ve attended plays out most dramatically when it came to testing. At yeshivas there aren’t many tests, as each person was expected to study rigorously because of his love for Torah.

We called this learning lishmah, a Hebrew word roughly translating to “for its own sake,” which denotes a devotion to study irrespective of its material dividends. If students at Yeshiva University spent so much time poring over ancient Jewish texts, it was out of their intrinsic

love for such study.

Yale has many instances of activities done lishmah as well, but they tend to come in the realm of extracurriculars — students throw themselves wholeheartedly into theater, athletics, political advocacy and writing with zeal. The passion with which we throw ourselves into these activities is akin to that which drove YU students to learn Torah; extracurriculars are done lishmah.

HOW CAN WE BRING PASSION INTO OUR CLASSROOMS, SO WE CAN LEARN FOR THE SAKE OF LEARNING? But when it comes to classes and academics, I find a disturbing

lack of learning for its own sake, perhaps because of the crushing weight of grades and GPAs. I see it clearly in myself and in others: Yale students, obsessed with glowing remarks from professors and spotless transcripts, often spend unreasonable hours obsessing over problem sets and exams, which diminishes our overall love of learning.

It’s not that I don’t enjoy doing the work, it’s that I’m too stressed to do it lishmah. Any one task I’ve been assigned for class would excite me in a vacuum, but given its mandatory nature, its crushing due date and the fact that it’ll appear on my transcript, it becomes a task — a chore I don’t have time to do. The evidence of similar disillusionment is all around me. How many Yale students go to class and pay attention with interest, work on research projects with passion and are actually excited by their homework?

I’m not advocating for a pass/ fail system or a different system of grading entirely. I understand the role of grades in getting things

done. But we don’t necessarily have to change the system in order to promote more positive attitudes on academics — we all play a role in shaping the culture. We all have the capacity to turn towards our schoolwork with the same passion we devote to our extracurriculars, to choose classes that we’re genuinely interested in and to study lishmah.

There will always be those who slack in the absence of external measures, like grades; in Yeshiva it wasn’t uncommon to find people who scammed the system by lying in bed and listening to music all the time. But so many others made up for it, devoting themselves to hours of voluntary study, motivated simply by passion and creativity. It behooves us to reclaim learning as a sandbox of creativity instead of as the drab and painful pressure-onour-heads that it’s become.

EZRIEL GELBFISH is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact him at ezriel.gelbfish@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST HUNG PHAM

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s the eldest son of two Vietnam War refugees who raised a family on love, pride and food stamps, I was a lot larger than most kids my age growing up, and not in a good way. McDonalds, Taco Bell and Chinese takeout made dinner for my family affordable because fast food came cheap and in large quantities. In elementary school, kids teased me for my weight, calling me names like “dumpling boy,” “hippo” and “fatass.” “Fatas” hurt the most.

And I thought I deserved it, too.

I thought that it was my fault because my family didn’t have the means to eat healthier foods that often came too pricey for us. At 12 years old, I was convinced that I was ugly.

In middle school, I started running three miles every single day and secretly forced myself to vomit after dinner, because I wanted to lose weight and become someone worthy of friends rather than of petty fat jokes. And I got skinny, all right. After first semester of

eighth grade, I got so thin that kids at my school, the same ones who had teased me for being big, started calling me “toothpick” and “anorexic Asian.” They spread rumors that my parents were upset with me and left me to starve at home. To save myself the trouble of high school, I contemplated taking my own life the summer before ninth grade started.

Thankfully I didn’t, and now I am here at Yale. Inspired after that dark experience to learn more about different understandings of beauty, I’m now a healthy young adult majoring in art history. I’m not an artist in the classical sense: I don’t paint; I can’t sculpt; I draw stick figures that are just sad. But when I started bodybuilding at the beginning of last year — because I was so angry with myself for constantly seeking approval from others rather than giving validation to myself — I became my own type of artist.

In a way, the weight room is my studio, the barbell is my paint-

brush and my body is a canvas.

The weight room enables me to chisel out my masterpiece. Unfortunately, I think the general public often misunderstands the benefits of bodybuilding, perceiving it as a hobby adopted by someone aesthetically preoccupied and morally shallow. But bodybuilding isn’t about excessive narcissism, or constructing false perceptions of physical perfection or constant self-criticism. It’s about having a dream, it’s about formulating goals, it’s about executing a plan without compromise and above all, it’s about knowing the very real value of sweat.

Bodybuilding reminds me that at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what others think of me or whether I have external social approval; all that matters is that I invest love and emotion into improving my body for myself, not modifying it to fit social expectations.

Each and every one of us is a work of art created with the many brushstrokes of failures and successes, of

families, of laughter, of culture, of stories yet to be told and of inextinguishable beauty.

WITH BODYBUILDING, MY WEIGHTS BECOME THE PAINTBRUSH; MY BODY IS A MASTERPIECE When I was young, I viewed my body as a burden, as weight I had to carry around. Now my body is a source of pride. Sometimes artists seem to lose agency over their work, but I am not a finished work — I’m a work in progress, one that I alone control.

HUNG PHAM is a junior in Pierson College. Contact him at hung.pham@yale.edu .

or much of the person I am today, I have Ryan Seacreast to thank. For at least one prolonged period of my adolescence, Seacreast produced the vast majority of the entertainment MARISSA media I consumed. This in no small part due MEDANSKY was to my peculiar middle school homecoming ritLittle Fables ual, which consisted of one bowl of Special K Red Berries cereal, consumed as I watched an hour of programming on the E! television network. I’d watch E! News first, where Giuliana Rancic (née DePandi, for the bulk of my TV-watching consciousness) offered a pillar of Cronkite-like consistency throughout my teenage years in her coverage of the Hilton-Lohan feud; after that came 30 minutes of another program, usually an episode of whatever new reality series the network was promoting that month. It was a lineup of now-forgotten shows, relics like “Sunset Tan,” “Taradise” and “Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood” that would alternate daily.

I have little to show for this brief obsession with E!, save for a strange hyperawareness of American pop culture during a time that roughly approximates George W. Bush’s second term in office. But one thing that has lingered is a keen interest in Kim Kardashian, one of the celebrities most closely associated with that era of the network.

Though the narrative of her celebrity primarily offers insight into my fantastically age inappropriate choices of media circa the time of my bat mitzvah, it also reveals much about contemporary celebrity culture more broadly.

Kardashian has of course been notorious for many years. Her roots are quasi-famous already: her biological father a defense attorney for O.J. Simpson and her stepfather Bruce Jenner, the former Olympian.

Her own career took off in 2007 thanks to the leak of Kim K Superstar, a film best described as an explicit video that also featured Ray J as head performer. Following the sex tape incident, the family rode its momentum to a reality show on E!, and it was out of this brouhaha that the now long-enduring “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” was born. Now in its ninth season, the program continues to style itself as a pseudo-unscripted look inside the Jenner-Kardashian household, with Kim the often-volatile center of the project’s “Brady Bunch” meets “Big Brother” variation.

It’s worth mentioning that the result of this entire operation is certainly not more offensive than anything else E! has ever done, a history that includes the complete chronicles of Hugh Hefner’s three live-in girlfriends via “Girls Next Door” and all nine episodes of “Pretty Wild.”

All of this history has led us to today.

Now Kim Kardashian is married to Kanye West, the “New Slaves” provocateur. Both something of outsiders themselves, the pair recently burst into the public spotlight again with their recent cover for Vogue magazine, which dubbed them the #worldsmosttalkedaboutcouple.

(The pair occupies the front of the recent issue in a wedding-themed shoot; their infant daughter, North, appears in several accompanying promotional shots.)

For their appearance in the magazine the twosome has been the subject of much media attention, a significant portion of which has been dedicated to vilifying Kim Kardashian.

Critics have castigated her as unworthy of her newfound status as a cover girl in one of America’s most aspirational publications — had the magazine, its critics asked, lowered its standards by including her? Tina Brown, the Daily Beast editor, suggested as much when she dismissed Kardashian as “the reigning queen of trash television,” writing that the socialite hardly exemplified the “women of excellence” to which the magazine ought to devote its covers.

To me, such outright dismissal is simply a project of revisionist history — something I, as an expert in reality television of the period from 2004-2008, am uniquely positioned to rectify. While it’s true that Kim Kardashian lacks the creative credentials of a bona fide content producer, it's hard to explain away her success; There’s a reason the women of “Sunset Tan” aren’t on the cover of Vogue magazine, and it’s not for lack of trying.

Kim Kardashian, for better or for worse, possesses a formidable power in the contemporary media landscape; to captivate the narrative, for better or for worse, with or without any sense of newsworthiness.

What we value in her is not the content she produces but her ability to survive in the face of biting criticism and escape the looming threat of irrelevance. The “Girls Next Door” have been long forgotten, but it’s a testament to her stardom that Kim Kardashian remains. That alone warrants the cover of Vogue.

MARISSA MEDANSKY is a junior in Morse College and a former opinion editor for the News.

Her columns run on alternate Fridays. Contact her at marissa.medansky@yale.edu .

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“France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws. ” JOACHIM DU BELLAY FRENCH POET

Capital projects: expensive and necessary?

“I’m really quite convinced that this administration understands that there is not an endless supply of money, and I feel this administration is really taking a hard look,” said Peggy Deamer, Assistant Dean of the Yale School of Architecture and member of the University Budget Committee. “I feel there is a sincere concern whether money is being spent in a responsible way.”

Provost Benjamin Polak, who co-chairs the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Yale College Expansion and chairs the Budget Committee, could not be reached for comment this week.

Though Dhar said faculty members do not have enough information to assess whether $500 million is too much or too little to spend on the residential colleges, he stressed that “cutting corners” on capital project expenditures is unwise in the long-run.

The new buildings will be in service for at least a century, so there is little margin for error, said chemistry professor William Jorgensen and Ronald Breaker, chair of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department. When the University does not devote resources to build state-of-the-art buildings, the results can be “endlessly problematic,” Jorgensen added.

Institutions that must balance long-term financial planning against shorter term operational needs often make the mistake of ignoring capital improvements and instead focusing on shortterm needs, School of Management professor Thomas Kolditz said. But the longer institutions wait, the more it costs to perform the improvements, he said, adding that the construction of

Yale’s new residential colleges seems to be a “pretty wise move.”

“We need to consider the fact that most of the large projects, including the new colleges, will create the infrastructure and the building-scape that will affect the Yale community for the next 200 years,” Breaker said.

“We’ve got to get this right, even if it means we will pay more for a building than Princeton.”

The costs of Yale’s new residential colleges are significantly greater than those of recent capital projects at Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

I think one has to take a holistic and a longer term view of any capital project.

RAVI DHAR Professor, Yale School of Management Princeton University’s Whitman College — a 500-person residential college similar to one of Yale’s — opened in the fall of 2007 and cost a total of $136 million. Five years earlier, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spent less than $94 million on the 350-student Simmons Hall, the building’s elaborate architecture and high cost was widely reported in the media.

The per-student construction cost of Simmons Hall was $268,000 — more than quadruple the national average of $48,387 per student, according to a 2008 report by American School & University magazine.

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failed to perform standard morning monitoring of the animals. Fifteen mastomys — a type of rodent — also died on June 28 after receiving an oral vaccination.

The USDA has not yet taken any legal action against the labs in the four days since the complaint was filed. Of the five most recent complaints filed by SAEN with the USDA, excluding Monday’s, four have produced fines.

“I’ll take an 80 percent effectiveness rate any time,” Budkie said Thursday.

All laboratories that receive funding from the NIH must selfreport any violations of the Public Health Service Policy (PHSP), the NIH’s animal welfare regulations.

The NIH itself cannot enforce penalties; only the USDA can levy penalties on labs that have violated animal welfare regulations.

The USDA enforces the less stringent Animal Welfare Act which, in contrast to the PHSP, explicitly excludes rats, mice, birds and all cold-blooded animals.

The FOIA-obtained self-reports reveal more than the three inci-

dents detailed in the SAEN complaint. On Sep. 18, 2012, Rudczynski reported an incident that occurred on Aug. 14 of that year, in which 204 mice and rats were accidentally disposed of in a trash compactor. After the incident, all of the animals were removed and subsequently euthanized.

Other incidents revealed through FOIA filings include failure to euthanize mice in a timely manner and failure to euthanize mice using the proper chemicals.

According to Budkie, SAEN did not file any complaints involving mice and rats because the AWA, which the USDA enforces, does not cover these animals. Budkie added that the NIH is not required to communicate with the USDA when it hears of any animal violations that would also fall under USDA authority.

“One government agency is sitting on…an immense stack of information which thoroughly documents major violations of the AWA by labs across the U.S.,” Budkie said. “It’s literally withholding the information from another branch of the federal government that is charged with enforcing that

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Capital Projects dents each, will be approximately $625,000 per student.

Given the cost of the two new colleges, two professors interviewed were not convinced that the expenditures are sensible.

“There has been a culture at the University that every building has to be done to the highest aesthetic quality,” said School of Management professor and University Budget Committee member Judith Chevalier.

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fessor Fiona Scott Morton ’89 questioned the wisdom of prioritizing capital spending over other University initiatives.

She said the real value that Yale provides to society is the way professors change how students think and how well they think.

“The University clearly needs buildings to fulfill its mission, but in my opinion the priorities of our decision-makers have skewed somewhat in the last

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law.”

Conroy said Yale had followed the NIH’s Public Health Service Policy by self-reporting these incidents to the NIH’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW).

After self-reporting, the University received a response from OLAW stating that Yale had taken the appropriate actions to correct the issues and that the Office would not further pursue the matter.

“Yale takes seriously its responsibility for the humane care of animals; our self-monitoring programs meet or exceed federal regulations and independent accreditation standards,” Conroy wrote.

Rudczynski, who wrote the Yale reports to the NIH, could not be reached for comment. Pat Preisig, who was the Yale’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Chair during the time of the incidents, declined to comment.

The NIH provided approximately $457 million to Yale researchers in fiscal year 2011.

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah.schwarz@yale.edu .

decade away from teaching and research and towards property,” Scott Morton said. “You need a building in which to teach [students], but the expenditures on it need to be balanced so as to also allow expenditures on the other inputs into learning.”

Still, School of Management professor Olav Sorenson said adding the donor-funded colleges is a prudent financial move.

The 15 percent increase in the size of the student body will bring in

additional revenue in the form of tuition, he added. The new colleges will also help Yale recruit faculty and expand educational opportunities for students.

Fundraising for the new colleges is set to be completed by the end of the year, though the colleges still needed an additional $75 million in funds as of October 2013.

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

Faculty divided on course evaluations FACULTY MTG FROM PAGE 1 leaned one way or another, noting that faculty members were not polled at the meeting.

Miller also said faculty members raised the idea of combining two of the questions on the course evaluation questionnaire into a single question. The proposal was to merge question one, which asks students to describe the strengths and weaknesses of a course, and question for, which asks students whether they would recommend a course to another student and is the only question to which students’ written answers are made publicly available.

At Thursday’s meeting, the faculty also approved a new track in quantitative biology within the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology major, according to Doug Kankel, the department’s director of undergraduate studies. The department currently offers tracks in neurobiology and biotechnology, as well as standard and intensive tracks.

Kankel said the new track will start next year and will deal with issues associated with a “mathematical analysis of an array of biological problems.”

Based on current student interest, Kankel projected that the new track would see participation from about six students per class year —

less than a 10th of the undergraduates majoring in MCDB. The track will offer courses taught by the three current professors in the department who have an explicit interest in quantitative biology, Kankel said. All three professors were hired in the past eight years, he said, noting that quantitative biology is a field that has emerged within biology over the past decade.

Chareeni Kurukulasuriya ’16, who majors in MCDB, said the new track is a “step in the right direction” and a welcome acknowledgement that there are many different ways to teach biology.

Both Kurukulasuriya and Mitchell Powell ’16, another MCDB major, suggested that the new track focus on computational modeling of biological problems, which Kurukulasuriya called a particularly employable skill.

“In the lab, they’re moving more towards using computers to model things like protein structure,” she said. “To be able to understand what the technology is doing and employ it — it’s a huge skill to have.”

Yale College faculty meetings take place on the first Thursday of every month.

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

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“The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.” PAUL HAWKEN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALIST

Branford College spearheads sustainability

BY NICOLE NG STAFF REPORTER Though its colors may be blue and yellow, Branford may be one of the greenest colleges at Yale.

Over the last year, Branford has made great strides towards environmental sustainability in its facilities, which include plans to install new water-efficient showerheads, change light bulbs and install motion sensors.

Many of these initiatives, developed in conjunction with the Office of Facilities and the Yale Office of Sustainability, will be implemented over the summer.

According to Branford College Master Elizabeth Bradley, Branford is also the only residential college to collect reports on its usage of electricity and water and production of solid waste.

“We’re trying to figure out the things that are low-hanging fruits, easy structural changes that don’t impact anyone negatively,” said Branford Sustainability Coordinator Blake Hofmeister ’14. “It would be pretty foolish not to do these things — they make sense in terms of efficiency and the environment.”

Hofmeister said many of the current initiatives in Branford are designed to pay off in three to five years. Office of Sustainability Education and Outreach Coordinator Amber Garrard said because of its efforts, Branford could be used as a model of sustainability for other residential colleges.

New water-efficient showerheads were piloted in one entryway of Branford in the fall, Hofmeister said. If implemented in all Branford bathrooms, they could save 350 to 400 gallons of water per day by reducing the usage of water per minute. Though watersaving showerheads were tested in Branford in spring 2013 with negative student feedback, the current pilot showerheads consume slightly more water and do not have a noticeable effect on water pressure.

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Over the last year, Branford has promoted environmental sustainability in its facilities.

Hofmeister, and Bradley said they will most likely be installed in all suites over the summer.

Concurrent with Branford’s showerhead program, Garrard said the Office of Sustainability also piloted a similar waterefficient showerhead program in a few spaces on Yale’s campus in January as part of the University’s Sustainability Strategic Plan.

These showerheads are a newer model with better water pressure than those used in Branford’s 2013 trial, she said. The Office of Facilities is currently testing five models and plans to install the new showerheads more broadly across campus in the future.

Bradley said Branford is also currently in the process of developing plans for the replacement

of existing light bulbs with LED bulbs in the dining hall, common room, computer room and other common spaces in the college.

Branford receives monthly reports from the Office of Sustainability on the college’s electricity and water consumption, as well as the production of solid waste. Each month’s report includes data from the previous month, as well as monthly and yearly comparisons and targets. Biannually, Branford also receives a comprehensive report that includes heat use and looks at trends over the last six months.

Though the Office of Sustainability collects metrics on water, electricity and waste for most spaces on campus, Branford is the only college to have requested

Reality Bites serves seniors life lessons

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER With graduation quickly approaching, Yale Dining hopes to make the transition to life after college a little more palatable for the Class of 2014.

This month, Yale Dining is offering three workshops as part of an annual series called Reality Bites, which aims to educate outgoing seniors on living and eating in the real world. The kickoff event, “Etiquette and Wine Pairing,” took place on Tuesday evening in the President’s Room in Woolsey Hall, and students interviewed said the workshop offered valuable information and the opportunity to bond with other seniors over good food. The remaining two events — “Mixology” and “Cooking 101” — are scheduled to take place Friday and next Tuesday.

“Reality Bites is designed to give seniors some of these basic skills — equipping a kitchen, stocking a pantry, selecting healthy foods, choosing a wine that pairs with food and drinking from their own water glass at dinner,” Special Events & Projects Manager Pedro Tello said in an email.

He added that while some students are “adventurous culinarians,” many outgoing students want to learn the skills necessary to cook for themselves, maintain a household, host dinner parties and exhibit proper etiquette.

Seniors signed up for the workshops by filling out an online survey that allocated the 60 available seats per event on a first-come-first-serve basis, Tello said. He added that each event filled up within the first few hours.

Event costs will be offset by meal swipes and Yale Dining funding, he said.

The first event was hosted by Vincenzo Lauria, Associate professor of hospitality and service management at the Culinary Institute of America.

Throughout a four-course meal — which featured dishes including classic consommé, chicken breast with smoked gouda and sun dried tomato and opera torte with elderberry flower mousse — students learned everything from when to use each fork to what wines pair well with chicken, according to Isabelle Napier ’14, who coordinated the event.

“I think that graduating from college is the perfect juncture to learn

basic skills in the kitchen, as well as the social rituals we have surrounding food outside the kitchen,” she said. “Beyond the practical skills … Reality Bites also brings seniors together to socialize and have fun in our last few weeks before graduation.”

Students interviewed praised the first event and stressed the importance of this type of series.

Jessica Perfetto ’14 said learning how to behave oneself in a formal setting is an important component to socializing in the “real world.”

She added that this series aims to teach lessons that students would not necessarily learn from four years on a meal plan, such as why champagne is an “aperitif.”

David Ottenheimer ’14 said the first event delivered some of the best food he has ever had at Yale. Still, he said the best part of the evening was the enthusiasm and charisma of Lauria, who he said made a potentially “stuffy” topic very entertaining.

Although there was high demand among seniors and the first event was fully booked, Ottenheimer noted that there were some empty seats at the actual event. He said this could be due to the way the waitlist system was managed, adding that he hopes this issue will be resolved before the subsequent dinners.

Sara Sampoli ’14 said she wishes she could have signed up for all three events instead of just one. She added that in the future, Yale Dining could host more iterations of these events to reflect the level of interest.

The next event, “Mixology” will be taught by Bob Sullivan, a certified professional mixologist, who will instruct students to make simple and delicious cocktails, as well as review how to stock a basic bar and how to pour wine correctly, Napier said.

Finally, “Cooking 101,” will be led next Tuesday by Yale Dining Director of Culinary Excellence Chef Ron DeSantis and Yale Athletics Nutritionist Lisa Canada. They will teach students how to prepare nutritional dishes and teach skills such as stocking a kitchen, properly using a knife and avoiding common kitchen errors, Napier said.

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

these metrics for its own analysis. “[Branford has been] able to go through the data and come up with projects and look at how implementing those projects would affect these numbers,” Garrard said.

In February, Bradley said the Office of Facilities approached her with plans to pilot a program in fall 2014 that would provide all Branford common rooms with Yale-owned reusable furniture, in an effort to reduce the furniture waste generated at the end of every academic year. Garrard said the program corresponds with a University-wide goal to reduce solid waste by 50 percent.

But after receiving negative student feedback, Bradley and the Office of Facilities decided

to shelve the project for the year — and a student committee will be created to reconsider the program in the fall. Bradley said plans could include piloting the program in freshman housing on Old Campus in fall 2015.

Sustainability initiatives may also be hindered by potential costs. Though she was initially enthusiastic about installing double-flush toilets in Branford bathrooms, Bradley said the fixed cost of this project was ultimately too high for implementation.

Funding for many of Branford’s sustainability initiatives originates from sources that include the Office of Facilities budget and the residential college’s own budget. Garrard said the Office of Facilities’ energy management

department frequently looks into incentives — such as funding provided by energy providers or by Connecticut — that are available for funding initiatives like LED lightbulb replacements in Branford.

Pierson College Master Stephen Davis said sustainability will be a major factor in Pierson’s summer renovation plans.

“We have to strike the right kind of balance between our program budget for students … and creating an environment in the colleges that is kind to the environment,” said Davis.

Yale’s Office of Sustainability was founded in 2005.

Contact NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .

Yale outreach hits home

BY POOJA SALHOTRA AND RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTERS Although no official data exists tracking the number of New Haven Public School students who are accepted to Yale each year, numerous individuals involved in the admissions process say they have noticed a rise in local admits.

The Yale Admissions Office does not publish data on the number of applicants or accepted students from New Haven Public Schools, but New Haven Promise — a university scholarship program founded in 2011 and funded

by Yale — has been tracking its students’ college acceptances for the past three years. To qualify for a Promise scholarship, a student must reside in New Haven, attend a New Haven Public School or approved charter school and graduate with a minimum GPA of 3.0.

Students in [New Haven] are generally more aware than students elsewhere that if they are accepted at Yale they can afford Yale.

JEREMIAH QUINLAN Dean of Undergraduate Admissions While only four Promise scholars were accepted to Yale in 2012, 10 Promise applicants were accepted to Yale last week when the University released regular decision results, said New Haven Promise Executive Director Patricia Melton ’82. Melton said that even though the numbers might fluctuate and therefore do not reflect the total number of New Haven students admitted to Yale, there does seem to be a gradual increase in acceptances her program sees.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that there is more outreach and that Yale is making a more dedicated commitment to getting more minority, urban students, and those who would be the first generation go to college,” Melton said.

She said this increase may stem from Yale’s efforts to increase diversity among its student body.

Yale’s partnerships with New Haven Public Schools, including New Haven Promise and Yale undergraduate volunteer programs, have raised the University’s profile in the lives of New Haven high school students. The University’s goal of this outreach is primarily to enhance students’ education and motivate them to develop high aspirations, said Director of Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan.

This increased awareness has led to a gradual increase in the number of New Haven students applying to Yale, said James DossGollin ’15, a native of New Haven who attended Wilbur Cross High School and has founded an organization called REACH to increase college access for youth in the city.

He said more families now understand that although Yale’s ticket price is upwards of $50,000, they would not have to pay the full sum if they qualify for financial aid.

“We believe that, as a result of all our strong partnerships with New Haven’s public schools, students in the city are generally more aware than students elsewhere that if they are accepted at Yale they can afford Yale,” Quinlan said in an email.

In addition to understanding Yale’s financial aid policies, DossGollin said, students are beginning to set higher standards for themselves. Whereas most students in his graduating class did not consider applying to a school like Yale, Doss-Gollin has noticed an increasing trend of high achieving students considering the school as a realistic option.

These higher aspirations could be the result of Yale students’ presence in New Haven high schools, said Alondra Arguello ’17, who graduated from New Haven Academy last year. She said that she may not have considered applying to Yale if she had not interacted with students through a summer scholars program on Yale’s campus.

“Before I took those classes at Yale, I was like there’s no way I would ever apply, its way out of my league,” she said. “But having Yale

students reaching out, I realized that you don’t have to be a crazy genius who knows every subject to get in. Having contact with the students gives you confidence and makes you realize that maybe I can do this too.”

Career High School college counselor Barbara Drummond also said students become familiar with Yale through partnerships with the University. She highlighted a program that connects students taking honors level Anatomy and Physiology with students at the Yale Medical School and another partnership between Yale undergraduates and Career’s debate team. This familiarity with Yale, she explained, makes students at Career High School more inclined to apply to Yale than other Ivy League schools.

Although not a precise gauge, according to Yale Facebook, there are 60 current students who hail from New Haven. Even a brief comparison suggests that New Haven’s representation is far greater than that of neighboring towns with similar demographic and socioeconomic diversity. Yale Facebook reports one current Yale undergraduate from Hartford and five from Bridgeport.

Still, some college counselors think Yale is not making enough of an effort to recruit students from New Haven Public Schools. At an annual college fair this week, over 40 colleges from the New England region travelled to different New Haven Public Schools to promote their schools and answer students’ questions about the application process.

Although Yale is invited to the fair each year, it has never chosen to participate, said Chaka FelderMcEntire, a college counselor at Hillhouse High School. She added that while other college admissions officers come to the school throughout the year to recruit students, Yale has never come to her knowledge.

This year, 6.26 percent of applicants to Yale College were admitted.

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu and RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT French in Action creator remembered CAPRETZ FROM PAGE 1 ton-based PBS station WGBH, Yale and Wellesley College, the 52-episode series follows a young couple as they fall in love while travelling around France.

The romantic comedy series aimed to introduce viewers around the country to the French language in an accessible and lighthearted way, Capretz told the News in 2010. Each episode is punctuated by grammar lessons taught by Capretz.

Brigid Sullivan, the vice president at WGBH who oversaw the “French in Action” series, said the project was initially very risky because nothing like it had ever been done before.

During the production of the series, she said, she “had [her] heart in her throat.”

The series was a hit, quickly gaining a cult following.

“His technique was brilliant, and translating that technique to television was a very risky venture. It was very exciting, and was pretty scary and was fabulously successful,” Sullivan said. “It became one of the most popular telecourses of all time.”

Barry Lydgate, a French professor at Wellesley College who worked with Capretz, described “French in Action” as being “like a giant internet course, except it came out before the Internet.”

Agnes Bolton, an administrative coordinator in the French Department, said that after the series, Capretz quickly became a recognizable figure in New Haven and elsewhere.

“Everyone would recognize him,” Bolton said. “People thought he was a conductor or famous chef.”

University President Peter Salovey called Capretz “a great Yale figure” on Thursday.

Capretz’s colleagues and students described him as having a complex personality, at once formal, professional and friendly.

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Alec Baum ’14, whose L1 and L2 French classes used “French in Action,” said Capretz’s dynamic personality shone through in episodes of the series.

Lydgate described his rapport with Capretz as “the most important professional relationship in my life.”

Over time, “French in Action” evolved into an increasingly extensive series of textbooks, workbooks and video supplements, which are still used by French Departments at Yale and elsewhere. French in Action is one of the top 10 highest royalty revenuegenerating licenses at Yale. “[Capretz] made a great contribution to the study of French in America,” said Emmanuel Odjo, a French instructor at Phillips Academy Andover familiar with French in Action.

“There’s probably no French teacher with over a decade of experience who did not come across French in Action.”

Zach Edelman ’16, whose French classes also used “French in Action,” described it as “the best method I’ve used to learn a language.”

“I had my doubts about the immersion approach because you were immediately speaking French and I come from a more old-fashioned school of thought that you should be learning conjugations from Day 1,” Baum said. “[But] somehow the method works.”

Capretz continued teaching at Yale until 2003, after which he moved back to France. However, he continued working on a third edition of “French in Action” as well as other projects. In 2012, he attended a 25-year reunion for those involved in the PBS series.

He is survived by his children and companion, Sylvie Mathe.

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu and MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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“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,” Reynolds said in the statement.

In a rare public statement released via his Twitter account, BiP said “The museum’s shown a lot of character in adapting to a situation they didn’t ask for.” Later in the statement he said, “Everyone should be giving YUAG full support for quickly embracing such a crucial emerging medium.”

However, BiP is not comfortable with the sale of his work, stating that it belongs to the public and should not be allowed to go to a private collection.

“It’s not morally justifiable to auction a piece of public art. That’s Banksy 101 and where the dialogue was ten

years ago,” he said. “I would rather see it destroyed than corrupted.”

The artist also offered to create a replica to auction for ARTspace in place of the original.

Local photographer Chris Randall, who is an associate of BiP, was contacted by the artist to take pictures of the piece before it was taken down. He said that he thinks the artist may not be doing well financially and that BiP is upset by the Gallery’s decision to auction the piece because he could have sold it himself — but chose to put it on the Kahn Building instead. However, Randall does not believe that BiP is interested in becoming a gallery artist.

This counters previous speculation by Lou Cox, owner of Channel One and former associate of BiP, who told the News in February that he believes BiP is trying to get his work noticed by galleries, citing the fact that some of BiP’s work was for sale when the artist announced he was leaving New Haven in early Febru-

ary.

Since leaving in February, BiP has worked in both Detroit and Brooklyn and been featured on the front page of the prestigious Brooklyn Street Art’s website homepage.

Randall said he thinks BiP chose to put the plaque up on the wall of the YUAG in part because of the gallery’s status.

“I think it was a spoof on a world renowned art institution,” he said. “I think in general there’s an overall frowning on street art by big institutionalized art in places like the Yale University Art Gallery and anywhere else that’s reputable or established.”

Although the YUAG contains a large collection of modern art — including pieces by Picasso, Pollock, Lichtenstein, and Warhol — it does not have any street art.

BiP’s identity remains unknown.

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

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Suggested cuts draw ire

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Educations cuts and other spending reductions backed by a dissenting group of city alders emerged as a flashpoint at Thursday’s public hearing on the mayor’s proposed budget, as residents came out in droves to defend the funding they said underwrites the city’s well-being.

The People’s Caucus, as the breakaway coalition is known, would like to trim $40 million from the city’s education funding, as well as make significant reductions in youth, library and elderly services. Their goal?

To cut city taxes by five percent — a proposal which stands in sharp contrast to Mayor Toni Harp’s proposed 3.8 percent tax increase.

The most forceful criticism of the Caucus’ tactics came from Art Perlo, who retired from a job in Information Technology at Yale. He said taxes have kept pace with inflation and are the reasonable cost of city services.

“I have a problem with the so-called People’s Caucus and their budget,” Perlo said before a crowded auditorium at Hill Regional Career High School.

“They’ve come in with a confrontational and combative approach to the mayor, toward the majority on the [Board of Alders] and toward the unions in New Haven.”

More than a dozen residents testified against the Caucus’ proposed cuts to education, which were devised by Ward 19 Alder Mike Stratton after he discovered that the city was pumping money into the school district in the form of medical benefits and workers’ compensation for teachers and administrators.

Zeidy Cruz of Division Street said through tears that the Caucus’ proposed cuts represent an “attack on students with special needs,” including her own autistic son. Barbara Tinney, executive director of the New Haven Family Alliance, called reducing education spending “insane.”

The Street Outreach Worker Program, which would see its funding eliminated under Stratton’s proposal, protects vulnerable youth while “everyone in City Hall is sitting on their behind,” said David Morales, an outreach worker. “We’re doing the footwork,” he added.

Gary Doyens, a budget watchdog sharply critical of the mayor’s budget, came to Stratton’s defense. He said the city cannot justify a $200,000 line item for the street outreach program before producing a report detailing the results of their work.

Stratton defended the Caucus’ budget proposal following Thursday’s hearing, saying it represented a rough outline and not a final draft ready for implementation. He said he heard the concerns of street outreach workers and that he plans to go out and observe their work.

The mayor’s office also took a swing at Stratton’s budget proposal this week, saying it attempted to “balance our budget at the expense of our children.”

Stratton’s argument is that the city’s contribution to the school district is not only excessive but illegal, as it comes in the form of “commingled benefits for city employees and employees of the Board of Ed.” Stratton said the payments were intentionally hidden to justify increased city spending, a tactic he said former Democratic Town Committee Chair Jackie James and Board of Alders President Jorge Perez were aware of.

James responded in a City Hall press release, saying Stratton’s statements were fabricated. Corporation Counsel Victor Bolden said the city’s payments are legally sound, as the “Board of Education is a city department,” a fact Stratton contests. He maintains that the funding is fraudulent, and bankrolls an expansive and wasteful school administration rather than helping children.

The final public hearing on the budget is scheduled for May 1.

Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

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Education cuts and other spending reductions emerged at Thursday’s hearing.

New Haven Farms triples capacity

BY TASNIM ELBOUTE STAFF REPORTER New Haven Farms, an urban agriculture non-profit that provides free produce to disadvantaged residents, is in the process of acquiring a new farm that will triple its food output.

NHF works to combat both food insecurity and health conditions including diabetes and obesity by providing families with fresh produce and nutrition lessons for one season. The organization currently operates eight small garden sites throughout the city, growing 5,500 pounds of produce feeding 20 families over the winter and 40 over the summer.

The new farm on Burr Street, which totals one acre, will dramatically increase the amount of food NHF can produce.

“Our eight farms total about half an acre, and this new farm is an acre. It essentially will triple the number of people we serve, triple our production, triple our capacity,” said Rebecca Kline, the executive director of NHF. The space is currently owned by the city of New Haven and operated by the Livable City Initiative, which will transfer operations to NHF at no cost. NHF has also generated $20,000 through a Crowdrise campaign — akin to a Kickstarter campaign but for nonprofits — to cover employees, equipment and other development fees.

NHF’s main program is its collaboration with Fair Haven Community Health center.

Patients who live within 200 percent of the federal poverty line and suffer from two risk factors for diet related chronic disease, such as obesity, being overweight, high blood pressure, diabetes, or a family history of disease, are awarded a season-long “prescription for produce.”

The participants bring their families to NHF’s main site at Phoenix Press in Fair Haven once a week for an educational program, which entails a nutrition class, a cooking class led by Bun Lai, the chef of Miya’s Sushi Restaurant and a farming class. At the end of each weekly program, each patient leaves with enough produce for each member of his or her family for seven days.

NHF distributed its produce to 40 families through its Wellness Program last summer.

The production goal for this summer season is to distribute to 80 families, said Jacqueline Maisonpierre, Farm Manager of NHF and current co-chair of the urban agriculture work-

ing group within the New Haven Food Policy Council. NHF would like to similarly double the number of families it services each winter.

In addition to its wellness program, NHF hosts educational events, invites volunteers to learn how to farm and partners with local bakeries including Chabaso, which provides food to Atticus Café. Taking into account these other programs, NHF will triple its food output overall once it acquires the new space.

Food insecurity, defined as one member of a family having to skip a meal within a 30-day period, affects 13.6 percent of New Haven residents, Kline said. New Haven is the seventh most food insecure town in Connecticut, which has an overall average of 12.3 percent.

“Food insecurity combined with intake of cheap calorie dense foods means that people in New Haven, especially minority communities, are dealing with high rates of obesity,” Kline said.

75 percent of African American adults and 60 percent of Hispanic adults in New Haven struggle with obesity. New Haven is the second most obese county in Connecticut and has a diabetes rate of 8.3%, Kline said.

Each week, program participants fill out surveys about their fruit and vegetable intake, food security status, blood pressure and BMI. This data is collected for research that the organization conducts with Debbie Humphries, a clinical professor at the School of Public Health “There has been a lot of satisfaction with the program,” said Monique Stefani, a Researcher with NHF. “Over 85 percent of participants felt that they had more food in the household to the extent they could allocate money to other needs.”

Tagan Engel, another member of the New Haven Food Policy Council and the community food systems coordinator at City Feed, said NHF has thrived because it has popularized a culture of urban farming and healthy eating — behaviors that spread beyond the families with which it works directly.

“They bring attention to gardening as a vital part of healing our community,” Engel said. “Their work has a ripple effect of bringing positive attention to other gardens in the city.”

New Haven Farms is entering its third summer season.

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

With $60 million, cancer drug develops

BY J.R. REED STAFF REPORTER With an infusion of $60 million, New Haven-based Kolltan Pharmaceuticals is primed to develop a drug targeting malignancies in cancer patients.

Earlier this year, the drug passed Phase I development after being successfully tested on a small group of subjects to ensure its safety, determine the appropriate level of dosage, and identify potential side effects. Now with millions in funding from a group of investors, Kolltan plans

to advance the drug into Phase II testing to measure effectiveness on a larger sample of subjects. The drug in development, called KTN3379, blocks a receptor that is overly abundant in solid tumors.

Michael Locke, a representative with KLP Enterprises, one of the leading investing groups in this stage of funding, said his company was particularly drawn to Kolltan for its scientific backing.

Yale chair of pharmacology Joseph Schlessinger co-founded Kolltan in 2007, using drug targets

uncovered in his laboratory work.

Schlessinger previously founded Sugen and Plexxikon, two other biotechs in Connecticut on the front line of critical drug research.

“This is a remarkably exciting and promising platform for oncology,” Locke said. “Drug development is not an inexpensive or short-term program, and this is a company with a very deep [research and development division], and we are happy to be a part of the additional financing.”

Locke said Yale’s Office of Cooperative Research (OCR) reached out to KLP to raise funds

when the company first started.

According to OCR Director Jon Soderstrom, Schlessinger, Kolltan CEO Gerald McMahon and Chairman of the Board Arthur Altschul. were all instrumental in identifying potential investors.

Kolltan is recruiting four fulltime employees to support the progression of KTN3379’s clinical studies, as well as other drug development, said Justin Jackson, executive Vice President of Burns McClellan — a life sciences communication group representing Kolltan. Kolltan has also already expanded its footprint in its 300

George Street office space.

“Entering Phase II is an important step for a company like this conducting a clinical program for a number of reasons, a key one being that it gives an early indication of the drug’s potential activity in the selected patients,” Jackson said.

Beyond funding KTN3379, McMahon said Kolltan plans to spend a portion of the $60 million to advance two preclinical drugs for cancer treatment.

Soderstrom said that further drug development could have a significant impact on the New

Haven economy.

“Kolltan’s continuing success in developing and expanding its pipeline of development candidates is creating significant positive interest from the investment community,” Soderstrom said.

“Kolltan’s success helps convince investors that successful biotechnology companies can grow and flourish in New Haven.”

Since its founding in 2007, Kolltan has raised roughly $135 million.

Contact J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu.

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Threats to execution drugmakers unlikely Fort Hood attacker believed unstable

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Anti-death penalty advocates believe Texas is trumping up the possibility of violence to avoid having to disclose their name of suppliers.

BY NOMAAN MERCHANT AND BAILEY ELISE MCBRIDE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — Texas prison officials have offered scant evidence to support their claim that pharmacies that supply the state with execution drugs would be in danger of violence if their identities were made public.

If those officials are investigating the threats, including a suggestion a truck bomb could blow up a such a pharmacy, as a serious risk to the safety of the pharmacies or their employees, they refuse to acknowledge doing so.

The Associated Press could find no evidence that any such investigations are underway in Texas, and police in the community where one such pharmacy is located said they are not concerned. In neighboring Okla-

homa, the attorney general said Thursday he was investigating such a threat, but several other law enforcement agencies told the AP his office has never mentioned it.

Instead, anti-death penalty advocates believe Texas and other states are trumping up the possibility of violence to avoid having to disclose their name of suppliers, ensuring they can keep buying the drugs they need to put condemned inmates to death.

“If these are the types of threats that the departments are hearing and they’re not providing the information to back it up, it’s just sort of irresponsible and playing on people’s fear,” said Jen Moreno, an attorney at the University of California-Berkeley who has represented death row inmates.

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As major drugmakers, many based in Europe, have stopped selling pentobarbital and other substances used in lethal injections to U.S. corrections agencies because they oppose the death penalty, Texas and other states are increasingly forced to rely on compounding pharmacies for the drugs.

Years of protests and public relations campaigns by antideath penalty advocates have made many of these pharmacies wary of selling execution drugs because of the negative publicity that often follows.

After a suburban Houston compounding pharmacy was identified last fall as the source of Texas’ supply of pentobarbital, it demanded the prison system return the drugs and accused officials of placing the

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“I, and my staff ... do not have the time to deal with the constant inquiries from the press, the hate mail and messages, as well as getting dragged into the state’s lawsuit with the prisoners, and possible future lawsuits,” wrote Dr. Jasper Lovoi, owner of The Woodlands Compounding Pharmacy, in a letter dated Oct. 4.

Spokesmen for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Texas Attorney General’s office would not answer questions this week about whether they are investigating any threats to The Woodlands Compounding Pharmacy or any other pharmacy that might sell lethal injection drugs. A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety said he could locate no such investigation taking place.

FORT HOOD, Texas — The soldier who killed three people at Fort Hood may have argued with another service member prior to the attack, and investigators believe his unstable mental health contributed to the rampage, authorities said Thursday.

The base’s senior officer, Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, said there is a “strong possibility” that Spc. Ivan Lopez had a “verbal altercation” with another soldier or soldiers immediately before Wednesday’s shooting, which unfolded on the same Army post that was the scene of an infamous 2009 mass shooting.

However, there’s no indication that he targeted specific soldiers, Milley said.

Lopez never saw combat during a deployment to Iraq and had shown no apparent risk of violence before the shooting, officials said.

The 34-year-old truck driver from Puerto Rico seemed to have a clean record that showed no ties to extremist groups. But the Army secretary promised that investigators would keep all avenues open in their inquiry of the soldier whose rampage ended only after he fired a final bullet into his own head.

“We’re not making any assumptions by that. We’re going to keep an open mind and an open investigation. We will go where the facts lead us,” Army Secretary John McHugh said, explaining that “possible extremist involvement is still being looked at very, very carefully.”

Investigators were also

looking into Lopez’s psychological background. He had sought help for depression, anxiety and other problems, military officials said.

“We have very strong evidence that he had a medical history that indicates unstable psychiatric or psychological condition,” Milley said. “We believe that to be a fundamental underlying cause.”

Scott & White Memorial Hospital in nearby Temple, Texas, was still caring for several of the 16 people who were wounded. All of them were in either serious or good condition, and some could be discharged before the end of Thursday.

Hospital officials had no information about patients being treated elsewhere, including at a base hospital.

But because Scott & White is the area’s only trauma center, the patients with the most serious injuries were probably taken there.

Investigators searched the soldier’s home Thursday and questioned his wife, Fort Hood spokesman Chris Haug said.

Lopez apparently walked into a building Wednesday and began firing a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol.

He then got into a vehicle and continued firing before driving to another building. He was eventually confronted by military police in a parking lot, Milley said.

As he came within 20 feet of a police officer, the gunman put his hands up but then reached under his jacket and pulled out his gun. The officer drew her own weapon, and the suspect put his gun to his head and pulled the trigger, Milley said.

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“Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.” DOUG WILLIAMS FORMER PRO QUARTERBACK

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Elis looks to take on Tigers

M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 scoring machine with five hattricks or better through 10 games this season.

JW McGovern ’16 has stepped into a starting role on attack and has been a revelation with seven points in his last three games. The sophomore set a personal best on Tuesday with two goals and an assist against the Friars. Sophomore midfielders Michael Bonacci ’16 and Mark Glicini ’16 have also taken on bigger roles this season. Bonacci has five goals and eight assists so far and has used his quickness to greatest effect when dodging from behind the cage. Glicini has transformed into one of Yale’s best two-way midfielders. The New Jersey native has benefited from playing on the wing during faceoffs and scored immediately off restarts on a number of occasions, with five to his name to go along with nine points so far.

Highly rated face-off specialist Dylan Levings ’14 has not had the kind of season he would have liked after a terrific 2013 campaign. The senior has averaged just .547 percent on restarts this year but will have a chance to dominate Saturday’s game against Dartmouth, who have the worst face-off winning percentage in the Ivy League at just .489 percent.

The Big Green (1–5, 0–2 Ivy) have suffered in conference games this season with a — 24-goal differential in losses to No. 2 Cornell and Harvard. Dartmouth has lost three straight games and has scored more than seven goals only twice all season. The Big Green have both the fewest number of shots on offense and saves on defense in the conference.

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The women’s lacrosse team will travel to New Jersey to take on conference rival Princeton this weekend.

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The men’s lacrosse team will face Dartmouth in Hanover this Saturday.

Still, Dartmouth has conceded the second fewest turnovers in the league. Attacker Mike Olentine leads the offense with seven goals while Patrick Resch, brother of Yale defender Michael Resch ’17, leads the defensive unit with 19 ground balls and seven caused-turnovers.

However, the Ivy League has again displayed its tendency to produce upsets, with Yale and Princeton falling unexpectedly last weekend.

The contest is a must-win game for the Bulldogs, as only the top four teams advance to the Ivy Tournament. The Elis are currently tied for fourth

in the conference along with three other teams — but have a chance to move up the table as Brown, third in the conference, travels to No. 13 Penn.

“We are looking to execute and get back to doing what we do well,” Mangan said. “If we execute the rest will take care of itself. Most games in the league are one-goal games and every game is battle. This one will be no exception.”

The Elis face off against the Big Green at 1:00 p.m. in Hannover, N.H. Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

Yale ends season M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 lead soon after the intermission, the Racers went on a 9–1 run to extend their advantage to seven. The Elis responded with buckets from forward Matt Townsend ’15, Sherrod and guard Nick Victor ’16 to cut the lead down to one.

Minutes later, when tournament MVP Cameron Payne’s three pointer extended Murray State’s lead to 11, Yale went on a 10–0 run in just 2:18 to again cut the deficit to a single point. But the Bulldogs never drew that close again, making just four field goals in the final 7:42 of the second half.

“There’s no one on this team who’s going to go down without a fight,” Pritchard said. “If we’re going to lose, they’re going to have to take us out in body bags. I think we

proved that tonight. We battled all the way through and we just played hard. I think we can all hold our heads high after this one.”

The entire Bulldog team struggled to shoot, hitting on just 20 of 77 shots, or 26 percent. That figure was the worst for the Elis this season, and was the team’s worst output since Nov. 12, 2012 against Saint Joseph’s.

Despite the loss, the future still looks rosy for Yale. All eight of the top scorers are underclassmen and should return, though Sherrod’s status is in question, as he will be joining the Whiffenpoofs next school year.

“The future is bright, but like every team we still have to go out and prove how good we can be,” Duren said. “This postseason tournament was a

great experience and I’m glad we can build off of it. The sky is the limit, but we have to put the work in.”

Sherrod agreed, saying that the Bulldogs will be “dangerous” next year.

Both Sears and Duren were named to the all-tournament team, and each had fantastic performances throughout the CIT. Sears sunk the game-winning three against Quinnipiac in the opening round, while Duren poured in a career-high 33 points in the quarterfinal victory over Columbia.

Before winning four games in the CIT, the Bulldogs had just one previous postseason win, a victory over Rutgers in the 2002 National Invitational Tournament.

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

The women’s lacrosse team (7–3, 1–2 Ivy) will look to its vaunted defense when the squad travels to Princeton (6–3, 2–1) to face the Tigers’ red-hot offense on Saturday.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE Currently riding a two game win streak, the Elis have had one of their best seasons in recent memory thanks to strong defense and its two explosive attackers.

The Bulldogs have given up double-digit goals just twice all season, both coming in conference losses to Penn and Harvard.

“I believe the key to beating Princeton this weekend is directly linked to the idea we have focused on all season in the locker room: playing Yale lacrosse,” defender Flannery Carney ’16 said. “We are all aware that this match against Princeton will be a battle, and a win is not going to come easy.

However, we have trust in the incredible talent of our team and the stamina to fight until the last second of the game.”

Goaltender Erin McMullan ’14 has the 11th-best goals against average in the nation and the third most saves in the conference, while captain Adrienna Tarver ’14 has been a rock on defense for Yale. The senior defender leads the team with 29 ground balls and 16 caused turnovers, good for first and third in the Ivy League

charts, respectively. She, along with starters Emily Markham ’17, Victoria Moore ’17 and Carney have helped Yale’s defensive unit rack up the most ground balls and CT’s in the league.

“Our defense is very athletic and has the ability to shut down one-on-one drives from all around the 8-meter,” Carney said. “We are also backed up by an experienced and extremely skilled goalie. The amount of hustle stats our unit has acquired so far this season is at an all time high.”

Attacker Nicole Daniggelis ’16 has backed up a 2013 season that saw her named first team AllIvy, the only freshman to earn the honor. She has racked up 39 points–second on the team–and has futher dominated on draws, ranking fourth in the nation with 7.4 controls per game. Her partner on attack, Jen DeVito ’14, has continued to boost her assist numbers this year with 25 to her name. The senior has 40 points, already nine better than her career best with five regular season games to play. DeVito ranks first in the conference in assists and second in points, while Daniggelis stands at fourth in the league in goals and third in shots.

The Tigers are tied for second in the conference thanks to a high-powered offense that does not turn the ball over often.

Princeton ranks highest in goals per game, averaging 13.33 a contest, while losing possession only 11 times a game. In comparison,

nated hitter Lauren Delgadillo ’16. “We didn’t have enough timely hits to help us score runs but we played our hardest …

We just need to play our game the way we know how and the runs will come.”

Pitcher Lindsay Efflandt ’17 added that the team is close to putting it all together, and that she has faith the team will reach its full potential.

Yale (3–19, 0–4 Ivy) will play in its home opener at DeWitt Family Field on Friday afternoon against Cornell (8–15, 0–2). While the Bulldogs have faced rough weather conditions early this season, so have their opponents. The Big Red fell to Dartmouth 5–1 and 8–2 in its first weekend of Ivy League play before postponing its doubleheader against Harvard due to rain.

Cornell finished just above Yale in last year’s standings, but the Elis were victorious in their two meetings last year. The Bulldogs defeated the Big Red in extra innings in both games of a doubleheader, winning by

scores of 7–2 in 13 innings and 7–5 in nine innings.

Yale will look to replicate its success against Cornell, which currently has a team batting average of .239. The Bulldogs will need to limit first baseman Christina Villalon, who is hitting .308, the team-high among players who have more than 30 at-bats. The Elis will also try to get to Cornell ace Alyson Onyon, who has started nine games and leads the team with a 3.65 earned run average.

Following its contests against Cornell, Yale will face Princeton (7–17, 0–2), which was scheduled to face the same opponents as Cornell last weekend. The Tigers attempted to complete its doubleheader against Harvard, but the first game was suspended in the fourth inning due to weather before both teams decided to postpone the second game. Princeton also fell to Dartmouth last weekend, 1–0 and 4–1.

Last season, the Bulldogs split their season series with the third-place Tigers, losing game one of their dou-

bleheader 6–1 before coming back to win game two in eight innings, 3–2. The Princeton offense is currently led by outfielder Maddie Cousens, who is hitting .321 on the season.

The Elis will likely face staff ace pitcher Erica Nori, who has a 2.06 earned run average in 47.2 innings pitched.

Yale has been improving as of late according to multiple players on the team, who say the team’s record and number of hits are not representative of its overall performance.

“We have all the pieces to win games–pitching, defense and offense — we just need to figure out how to bring them all together into seven innings in order to get some wins against solid Cornell and Princeton squads this weekend,” said third baseman Hannah Brennan ’15.

The Bulldogs begin their doubleheader against Cornell at 2 p.m. on Friday and their twinbill against Princeton at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.

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Baseball hosts Cornell, Princeton BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 son are heavily influenced by the level of competition a team faces in its pre-Ivy slate.

“Cornell had a couple of hitters [last year] that are very good,” Lanham said. “We’ll have to watch out for that.”

Though the Big Red has dropped three of its last five games, all three defeats were decided by one run, including

two extra-inning losses to Harvard and Dartmouth.

Princeton, Yale’s opponent for Sunday, is one of just two Ivy League teams that remain unbeaten in conference play, as its doubleheader against Harvard slated for last Saturday was postponed due to rain.

The Tigers swept Dartmouth in their first Ivy matchup on Tuesday. The 4–3 and 3–0 victories were largely a result of

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the Bulldogs lead the league in turnovers, averaging 16 a game.

The Elis’ defensive unit will have its hands full as the Tigers have spread the ball around this season and possess a number of offensive weapons. Princeton has eight players registering double-digit goals so far. Freshman Anna Doherty—sister of Yale midfielder Christina Doherty ’15—leads the team with 18 goals.

Her classmate Olivia Hompe has picked up the most assists on the team with 12 to add to 10 goals for a total of a team-leading 22 points.

After opening conference play with a loss to Brown, Princeton has played well in the league, holding Columbia and Cornell under seven goals each in two straight victories. The Elis, after upsetting Dartmouth by a large 12-5 margin early in the season, have struggled in-conference as of late, surrendering late goals to Harvard and Penn in back-toback losses earlier this season.

“The Ivy League is especially competitive this year so every league game is a big one,” Daniggelis said. “We are expecting a physical and fast paced game but we match up well with Princeton. We’ve had a full week of solid practice so I think this weekend will be a good one.”

The Bulldogs face-off at 1:00 p.m. against the Tigers in New Jersey.

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The baseball team dropped both games of a doubleheader to Massachusettes on Wednesday.

exceptional pitching, as Dartmouth could only tally one run in a combined 10.1 innings pitched

by Princeton starters Keelan Smithers and Cameron Mingo.

“Like most Ivy League teams, they’ll have pretty solid pitching,” Lanham said.

If Princeton uses its four primary starters in its conference games this weekend, it is likely that Smithers and Mingo will be the ones hurling against the Bulldogs on Sunday.

Both of their performances on Tuesday were outliers compared to the rest of the season, however, as Smithers currently holds a 6.75 ERA through his five starts and six appearances, and Mingo is 1–2 on the season with a 4.20 ERA. Offensively, the Tigers have suffered from the graduation of four of their 2013 starting nine. This list includes pitcher and first baseman Mike Ford, whose .320 batting average and 0.98 ERA last season were good enough to earn the titles of both Ivy Player of the Year and Ivy Pitcher of the Year.

Numerous strong individual performers have assisted in recovering from those losses, as four members of the Tigers are currently batting over the .300 mark. Most notably, shortstop Danny Hoy has a .365 average as the second hitter in Princeton’s lineup.

Last year, the Bulldogs split both of these doubleheaders, a fitting result in a season when the team went 10–10 in Ivy League play. But Hsieh said that .500 is not the goal for this year’s team.

“It’s better than losing both games, but in order to get where we want to be, we don’t want to split with anyone,” Hsieh said.

First pitch for both doubleheaders will be at noon.

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BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER The cards were stacked against the Yale men’s basketball team in the Collegeinsider.com Tournament championship game. The Bulldogs were without their leading scorer, forward Justin Sears ’16, and had to endure a long day of travel before arriving in Kentucky for the game.

Despite everything, the Elis put up a valiant fight before falling 65–57 to Murray State. Yale was unable to overcome a cold shooting night and a record-setting defensive performance by the Racers.

“The game was obviously disappointing, but it was a tremendous opportunity to play in a championship game, since not many teams get to do that,” captain Jesse Pritchard ’14 said.

“It was disappointing to lose on senior night [against Dartmouth], and everyone on the team wanted to prove to everyone out there that we could play better. I’ll cherish the last couple of weeks.”

Yale (19–14, 9–5 Ivy) was dealt a big blow before the game when Sears was ruled out with a wrist injury. The first team All-Ivy forward was hurt in the semifinal victory over VMI when he landed on his shooting arm following a hard foul.

Without their star, the Bulldogs

struggled to sink shots from the outset. The Racers (23–11, 13–3 Ohio Valley) packed players in the paint in the absence of Sears’ dangerous dribbledrive game. In the first half, Yale shot just 8–37 and had eight shots blocked by the Racers. In total, Murray State blocked 14 shots, tying a school record.

“Justin is our best player,” point guard Javier Duren ’15 said in an email. “[He] has such an impact on our performance both offensively and defensively. Anytime we go without him, it’s that much harder to win.”

Pritchard agreed, saying that many of the team’s offensive struggles were related to Sears’ absence.

But even without the Plainfield, N.J. native, the Elis were within a single point at halftime. Four shots from downtown combined with a 12–3 edge on the offensive glass, including 10 rebounds by forward Brandon Sherrod ’15, kept the game tight.

“We fought,” Sherrod said in an email to the News. “This team is battle tested.

We’ve erased big leads, we’ve lost and won some close games and we knew that we didn’t want to go out by playing soft and weak. We fought like champions and I thought we outworked them.”

In the second half, Murray State tried to pull away, but the Bulldogs refused to lie down. After Yale pulled into the SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 11

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Baseball prepares for Ivy home opener

Ivy foes loom for softball

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER

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The Yale baseball team has had an up-and-down week, sweeping reigning Ivy champion Columbia on Tuesday but dropping three games on Monday and Wednesday by a combined score of 31–11. In the Bulldogs’ home Ivy opener this weekend, Yale will get a chance to end the week on a high note.

The softball team will face two tough conference opponents in Cornell and Princeton this weekend as it attempts to snap a 12-game losing streak.

SOFTBALL The Bulldogs will attempt to rebound from a doubleheader sweep to Massachusetts on Wednesday, in which the Bulldogs produced two runs total over the two games.

“We hit the ball hard [on Wednesday], we just hit it directly to people,” said desig-

BASEBALL The Elis (9–12, 2–2 Ivy) will host Cornell (10–10, 2–2) on Saturday and Princeton (7–12, 2–0) on Sunday, both for doubleheaders, in the Bulldogs’ second set of conference games this season.

Yale is 2–6 in its last eight games, but the two wins over Columbia on Tuesday are clear evidence of what the team is capable of in Ivy League play.

Left fielder Eric Hsieh ’15 said the key to replicating that performance is to play well defensively.

“Pitchers have to get ahead in counts, throw pitches for strikes and really attack hitters,” Hsieh said. “I don’t think we made an error against Columbia. That was huge in keeping the tempo of the game, keeping [pitchers] Chris Lanham ’16, [David] Hickey ’14 and [Chris] Moates ’16 on pace and minimizing the number of pitches they had to throw.”

Though Hsieh could not say with certainty who will pitch in each game this weekend, the Bulldogs are expected to use starters Chasen Ford ’17, Michael Coleman ’14, Lanham and Hickey for the four contests.

In the weekend’s games, the Bulldogs will attempt to end a slight offensive slump that they have faced recently. Yale averaged 6.10 runs per game through its first 10 games of the season but has averaged 3.50 in its last six.

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The softball team will look to end its current 12 game losing streak by taking on Princeton this weekend.

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The baseball team will take on Cornell and Princeton this weekend.

“We started off pretty hot down in Florida, and we’ve cooled off a bit since then,” Hsieh said. “We still have a lot of talent up and down the lineup.”

A major obstacle in the way of jumpstarting the offense is the injury of first baseman Jacob Hunter ’14, who left the field Tuesday at Columbia with a shoulder injury and will not be able to play in this weekend’s games.

Hunter was second on the team with a .328 batting average before the injury.

The Bulldogs will play Cornell on Saturday, a team that was third in the Ivy League with

an 11–9 conference record last year and could prove even more dangerous this year with an experienced pitching staff and improved offense.

The Big Red held a 3.16 team ERA last year, good for second in the Ancient Eight, and returned every member of its starting rotation for the 2014 season.

That experience has translated to a league-leading 3.60 team ERA this season.

Cornell also leads the Ivy League offensively thus far with a .281 batting average, although statistics this early in the sea-

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After alternating wins and losses over its last five games, the No. 14 men’s lacrosse team will look to bolster its postseason resume — and its record in the Ivy League — when it travels to Dartmouth this Saturday.

MEN’S LACROSSE “This weekend we are going to have to execute well,” defender Michael Quinn ’16 said. “We have yet to reach our potential this season and put in a whole 60 minute performance. This weekend gives us a great opportunity to do that in a must win game for us.”

Yale (5–3, 1–2) rebounded from a highly contested 6–5 loss to Penn last weekend with a 8–5 victory against Providence thanks to the team’s five

goal first quarter and a 15 save performance from goaltender Eric Natale ’15.

The Eli defense, which was much maligned before the season began, has been key to the Bulldogs’ success thus far.

Yale has surrendered double digit goals in only three games and has conceded the fewest goals in the Ivy League.

Midseason All-American selection Quinn ranks eighth in the nation with 2.14 caused turnovers per game and is third on the team in groundballs. Quinn and captain Jimmy Craft ’14 anchor the unit, was dealt a significant blow when freshman Christopher Keating ’17 went down for the year with an injury.

Juniors Alirio DeMeireles ’15 and David Better ’15 will have to step in to fill the void.

Second year starter Natale has been a difference maker in net, posting five games with

double digit saves. The junior has the 12th best goals against average in the nation, a .812 percentage that is also good enough for best in the Ivy League.

“I think it’s our defense that’s making our offense good right now,” said midfielder Michael Bonacci ’16.

“When we play up to our ability, our offense flows, is more patient and has longer possessions. This helps up control the pace of the game and gives our defense a rest.”

On offense, the Bulldogs have benefited from star attacker Brandon Mangan ’14 and Conrad Oberbeck ’15 as well as the emergence of several talented sophomores.

Mangan has been held without a goal in a game just once all season and leads the team with 11 assists. Oberbeck has been a SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 11

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