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Policing New Haven after Ferguson

The final countdown. You’ve

probably been too busy to notice, but the end is fast approaching. Power through — Spring Fling beckons.

GOP candidate Eze ’16 to run for Ward 1

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH AND ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTERS

that the deadline to drop a class is tomorrow at 5 p.m. You know what they say: “Take the ‘W’ now, rather than the ‘F’ later.” Hopefully things don’t even get to that point.

Dinner plans? Now you can make yours for Saturday, thanks to another campuswide email that went out on Wednesday, this one from Yale Dining about dining hall availability during Spring Fling. Unless you want to miss Jessie J et al., we’d recommend sticking with the Old Campus option over Silliman, Stiles or Morse, no matter how good you think the pizza is.

Grown-up things. But soon

enough, you’ll face the moment where you must leave all fun things like Spring Fling behind. To help guide students through it all, the Asian American Cultural Center is hosting a dinner and discussion event this evening on life after Yale to tackle the big questions about relationships, jobs, etc.

Some answers. Offering its own take on the aforementioned work-life balance that everyone aspires for, Yale Law Women just released its latest ranking of family-friendly firms, placing Arnold & Porter, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and Duane Morris in its top three.

The other Wall Street. The

one sector that doesn’t seem to care much about worklife balance is finance (even consulting firms like BCG at least acknowledge it). But Wall Street Pizza cares: The restaurant sent out promotions for its Study Pack Special (one large pizza, six wings and two sodas) in anticipation of finals yesterday. We’d never thought of studying there, but now…

Print lives on. At least for now.

The deadline to apply for the Lohmann and Van Sinderen Printing Prizes is today at 5 p.m. Judges accept hard-copy design work demonstrating exemplary “skill, discipline and imagination.”

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2014 After winning a runoff, Michael Herbert ’16 is elected Yale College Council president for the 2014–15 year. In total, Herbert took 52.5 percent of ballots cast.

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But just in case. Don’t forget

Safety first. It is important, however, to always keep things in perspective. Your health and wellbeing take priority over your schoolwork, and Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins is here to remind you as much. Yesterday, Higgins sent out a Public Safety Update to the University community with tips like, “Trust your instincts.”

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with batons and tear gas, he told them not to respond violently to protesters. He said that, in the spirit of community policing, it is important for officers to hear the concerns of their constituents, even if they are difficult to hear.

“We’re going to go out there, and we’re going to allow people to protest,” Esserman recalled telling his officers.

Esserman said Yale students spat on and cursed at police officers, and even though other departments across the country had made arrests in similar protests, the NHPD did not. Esserman said, for him, the most telling moment of the protest was when one student broke from the group, ran towards an officer and said, “You treated us better than we

Ugonna Eze ’16 will run for Ward 1 alder as a Republican candidate this November.

His entrance will make the contest for the Ward 1 seat a three-candidate race. At roughly 11 p.m., a Facebook page for Eze’s candidacy went live. Fish Stark ’17 and current Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 declared their candidacies earlier in the spring.

Eze, a Global Affairs major in Pierson College, has spent time in New Haven advising students at Hillhouse High School on issues affecting black teenagers.

“A lot of Yalies have a white knight complex,” Eze said. “They see themselves as saviors of New Haven. I really want to encourage Yalies to see ourselves as part of this city.”

Eze, the current speaker of the Yale Political Union and a member of the Black Men’s Union, has selected Amalia Halikias ’15 as his campaign manager and Reed Dibich ’17 as communications director. The role of campaign manager will turn over, Eze said, when Halikias graduates.

Bronx native Eze said that, while he is still in the process of developing his platform, he will focus on improving education and rates of homelessness and crime in the city.

“My decision [to run] was informed by my three years at Yale and my experiences growing up,” Eze said. “I grew up in a part of New York that is very similar to New Haven in its issues.”

He added that he does not yet know whether or not he will campaign in New Haven this summer. This will depend, Eze said, on whether or not he finds a way to fulfill the student effort portion of his financial aid package while staying in the city.

Halikias added that Eze has the potential to bring “real change” to the city.

“He is the only person I know who is able to act as a bridge between completely different communities,” Halikias said. “When he speaks,

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n Aug. 9, Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, over 1,000 miles away from New Haven. But, that has not stopped the Elm City from feeling the effects of a national movement. STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE reports.

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The corridor leading to the office of Dean Esserman, chief of the New Haven Police Department, is lined with thank-you cards written in children’s handwriting. The cards display love and admiration for the city’s police department, with crayon sketches of the children standing alongside their neighborhood officer.

On the streets outside, protesters tell a different story.

During one recent protest, chants

UPCLOSE of “out with the killer cops” rang through the streets of New Haven.

This protest, along with several others of its kind over the past year, reflects a nationwide trend of tension between police departments

and their communities.

On Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American, was fatally shot in Ferguson, Missouri, by Darren Wilson, a white police officer. Ferguson erupted into protest, defining the incident as police brutality and arguing that it stemmed from an inherently racist police department. The cries of “Black Lives Matter” permeated the nation’s media, increasing in volume after the deaths of Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Walter Scott and others.

Those cries have reached New Haven.

On Dec. 1, a week after a jury decided not to indict Wilson, Yale students responded with a protest.

Esserman said he called in his officers ahead of the planned demonstration. Instead of arming them

Carbon charge gets mixed reviews

BY JED FINLEY AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS Days after the Presidential Carbon Charge Task Force presented its blueprint to introduce a carbon charge on campus, students and environmental experts have both praised and criticized the plan.

On Wednesday, economics professor William Nordhaus ’63, the chair of the task force, presented the group’s yearlong research process and subsequent recommendation to roughly 40 audience members in Luce Hall.

While Nordhaus explained details behind the carbon charge implementation plan, he stressed that this proposal is “just a blueprint,” adding that he is unsure of its future success.

Some faculty and students praised the initiative while others — both at Yale and across the country — have questioned the effectiveness of a university-wide carbon charge.

Joseph Stagner, executive director of Sustainability and Energy Management at Stanford University, told the News that the internal carbon charge, while “well-intentioned,” was a “distracting and ineffective” initiative to cut down on carbon emissions.

“Very little control of carbon emissions is in the hands of individuals, or individual departments,” he said. He suggested that a more effective method would be to adopt a topdown approach in changing the camSEE CARBON CHARGE PAGE 4

PWG to open for longer hours

BY GREG CAMERON AND FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTERS Starting in the fall, Payne Whitney Gymnasium will be open for 106 hours per week, up from the current 92 hours.

The one-year pilot program follows a petition, submitted in 2013, by the Graduate Student Assembly and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.

Payne Whitney’s closing time will now be extended by one hour on Monday through Thursday, three hours on Friday, and three and a half hours on the weekend, bringing the gym’s total weekly hours of operation to the 106 goal, University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews announced in an email to Yale students yesterday. Although Payne Whitney’s pools, crew tanks and facilities

on the seventh floor and above will not see extended hours, the Israel Fitness Center, Brady Squash Center and Lanman Center basketball and volleyball courts will be open later under the new pilot program.

“This is a quality of life improvement for graduate students. Access to exercise and personal fitness is beneficial for both for our physical and mental health,” GSA Steering Committee member Brian Dunican GRD ’15 said.

The “Gym User Pilot II Proposal” was developed and approved by the administration after negotiations with the GSA and the GPSS, Goff-Crews said in the email. Goff-Crews added that the University will evaluate student usage of the gym during these new opening hours to SEE PAYNE WHITNEY PAGE 4

Zero grad students accept spots in Spanish Dept.

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER This year, the Spanish and Portuguese Department’s graduate admissions process culminated in an anomalously low yield rate: zero percent.

At an April 16 faculty meeting, professors learned that none of the five students offered admission to the department’s graduate program had matriculated. The department did not keep a waitlist this year —

it usually does not — and this fall, no new students will join the department’s graduate program.

“We have a splendid record over quite a spread of years of getting a very good acceptance rate for new students,” Spanish Director of Graduate Studies Noël Valis said. “This is extraordinarily unusual.”

Spanish professor Anibal González-Pérez GRD ’82 said he was saddened but unsurprised by this development.

Several professors indicated that the low yield could be the consequence of the March 6 unsigned letter claiming that an individual in the department sexually harassed others within the department — students and faculty, alike — and the controversy that followed. The letter also detailed divides between junior and senior faculty members, issues with the curriculum and the alleged intimidation of graduate students.

The anonymous letter indi-

cated that recently, visiting prospective graduate students have been “warned of the hostile environment and encouraged to go elsewhere.” One graduate student who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation confirmed that these warnings did occur, but only some graduate students sent them.

“Most of us try just to be candid, and I haven’t gone so far as to warn anybody against coming, but to give them sense of the landscape,” said one stu-

dent who did not send a formal warning. “‘Warning’ suggests the reason they didn’t come was because we were discouraging them. I think that they were discouraged by the environment they picked up on.”

Spanish Department Chair Rolena Adorno also pointed to a March 25 article in the News that detailed the letter’s concerns about the department’s environment, along with stuSEE SPANISH PAGE 4

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EMMA GOLDBERG & ELIZABETH VILLARREAL

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n the chaos of the last week of classes, it’s easy enough to miss an email or two. But there’s one we’d like you to take note of: the Yale College Council and the Women’s Center’s report on sexual misconduct policies and procedures, released on Tuesday. The report — which we helped to write along with Sarika Pandrangi '17 and Isabel Cruz '17 — is based on the results of a January survey that collected undergraduate feedback on Yale’s current policies and procedures. It contains 20 recommendations for action on the part of administrators, faculty and students.

In writing this report, we were inspired by the YCC’s September 2013 report on mental health.

The mental health report, also based on the results of a student survey, outlined a list of recommendations for reforming Yale’s mental health services. Over the past year, it has played a critical role in galvanizing and grounding campus-wide conversations on mental health, including during February’s forum on mental health.

We hope that our report contributes to campus dialogue in a similar way. Through our roles on the YCC and the Women’s Center board, we realized that there was a gap between students and administrators that we wanted to bridge. We wanted to provide information to our peers, both to educate and anchor our campus and to ground our community discussions in real facts and data. We also wanted to convey student concerns to administrators; we particularly hoped to capture the thoughts of students who had chosen not to report an incident and therefore had never been in contact with the Title IX Office.

One major finding that emerged from our report was that students are confused and misinformed about Yale’s sexual misconduct policies and procedures. This is understandable — these policies and procedures must be nuanced, and are thus also complex. In the coming months, administrators will be working to develop new educational resources that streamline and clarify information on the reporting and complaint processes. But the responsibility is not on administrators alone; we hope that students will take this as an opportunity to learn about these processes, to educate ourselves so that our campus discourse is not premised on misinformation.

Our report also shed light on some of the barriers to reporting sexual misconduct. While the Title IX Office will be working to strengthen the process, students must also play a role in reform. Together, we can create

communities that eliminate any stigma around reporting. Students should not have to worry about being judged by their friends. We have plenty of campus resources that can be helpful with this. SHARE and the Communication and Consent Educators, for example, offer helpful guidance on supporting friends through the reporting process.

Our work differed from that of previous YCC reports in that we collaborated with the University’s Title IX Steering Committee throughout the process. After our preliminary data analysis, we sat down with members of the committee to seek out their input in developing our recommendations. Once our recommendations were developed, we met with committee members to talk through them and develop clear action steps.

There are moments that call for strong activism outside the system. But that doesn’t preclude us from pursuing partnerships. We can work alongside administrators to identify areas for reform, while also maintaining pressure and accountability. Last night, Yale screened “The Hunting Ground,” a documentary that explores the work activists are doing to place pressure on universities to address sexual misconduct. Still, putting pressure on administrators doesn’t rule out collaborating with the University and working toward our common goal of building sexual respect. In our case, collaboration made our activism more powerful.

For students looking to get involved in the movement against sexual violence right now, take the Campus Climate Assessment as a first step. This survey closes today. Unlike the YCC and Women’s Center survey, it is for all Yale students — not just undergraduates — and it measures incidence rates, not just perceptions of the reporting process. It is unprecedented in its size and scope, and its results will enable administrators at Yale and 26 other schools to better develop policies that will affect generations of future students.

It isn’t always easy to join in campus discourse on sexual misconduct. These are sensitive discussions, ones too often limited to particular segments of the community. We hope our report will serve as a tool that opens up the conversation.

Speaking out as undocumented Yalies

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ast semester, a friend of mine mentioned he was undocumented. We were hanging around the big black table in the kitchen of La Casa Cultural talking when he said this. We weren’t close friends, but we knew each other fairly well. I had met him at Bulldog Days over quesadillas at the Berkeley buttery, where we both had talked about our passion for science and education.

(He would go on to double major in science and the humanities, while I would dump physics for history.) We had bumped into each other in classes and at La Casa for almost four years. When he said that he was undocumented, I was stunned, even a little hurt, because he hadn’t shared his story with me before. We were two undocumented students who had never really known each other.

A year before our conversation, I had spoken to the Yale Daily News about my experience as an undocumented student, hoping that other DREAMers (undocumented students who have benefitted from the DREAM Act) would come out with their stories.

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few DREAMers sent me messages of support and gratitude for my willingness to discuss my undocumented experience in public. But no one came forward with their own stories.

Few students publicly identify themselves as DREAMers.

Almost no one mentions that we are second-class citizens who were brought to the United States at a young age, or that we can neither vote nor leave the country when we want to.

Three years from now, we may be gone from the country. Or we may be temporarily working in the States with no guarantee of future employment. Or perhaps we may have legal residency given ungraciously to us

by Washington.

But politicians will not give us anything if we do not tell them who we are and what we want.

And few DREAMers at Yale have dared to stand up and speak.

DREAMers have different reasons for keeping their statuses private. I cannot speak for everyone, but I understand one reason: Undocumented Yalies live and work in an environment that is scary. We are scared about what our friends and classmates will think of us as people. We fear being seen and talked about as “those undocumented kids.”

We don’t want our personal issues to be out in the light. So

we keep our statuses private, tucked in an envelope from the Unites States Center for Immigration Services beneath a stack of papers deep in our desk.

It shouldn’t be this way. We are undocumented, but we are also much more than that.

DREAMers differ in personalities, interests and skin color.

We exist in the cultural houses, fraternities and residential colleges. We also exist outside of them. A dream unites us all: to have access to all of the resources that we deserve as Americans. It is not a private dream.

IT’S TIME FOR DREAMERS TO HAVE A VOICE HERE Yale does not have an undocumented student movement. A few organizations, like MEChA and the Dems, have taken immigration reform under their wing. They’ve done wonderful work getting scholarships to New Haven DREAMers, protecting undocumented workers from exploitation and rallying support for immigration

EMMA GOLDBERG is a junior in Saybrook College and a former opinion editor for the News. Contact her at emma.goldberg@yale.edu.

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reform. A few months ago, they launched Yalies for a Dream, an organization that advocates for institutional financial aid for undocumented students in Connecticut. But to my knowledge, only a handful of DREAMers have actively participated in it. Without undocumented student leaders, Yalies for a Dream lacks experience with issues that only undocumented students intimately understand, such as institutional financial aid, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and advance parole. Yalies for a Dream is an opportunity for undocumented students to share their experiences with the rest of Yale and rally behind issues pertinent to the undocumented community.

Groups like MEChA and the Dems are powerful allies that will propel immigration justice forward. But allies can only do so much. To build an undocumented student movement at Yale, we need DREAMers at the forefront of the fight for our civil rights. It’s time for DREAMers to have a voice here. It’s time for our suitemates, friends, professors, administrators and representatives in Washington to know our stories.

JUAN CARLOS CERDA is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact him at juan.cerda@yale.edu .

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s I write this, I am sitting on a bus driving with some of the track team to Philadelphia for the Penn Relays.

Behind me, several of my friends are dancing poorly to “Price Tag” and discussing possible performance art pieces we could stage.

The most popular idea thus far is to take a movie theater but replace the screen with a mirror and then fill the theater with paid actors. The idea is so conceptually magnificent that we have decided it need never actually take place in order for it to have its full effect.

To me, this is what Yale is.

These beautiful, goofy, silly, loving moments have defined my four years here. It is an unfortunate foible of the human psyche that we remember our failures and pain for years afterwards, while we often forget moments like this just hours later. Remembering the moments that made one happy takes active work. In many ways, my column this year has been an attempt to do that work. I have tried to explain to myself what it is that I love about

this place as well as what frustrates me.

I have been blessed to have had this forum to do this, and I want to sincerely thank ISA all of you for QASIM taking the time to read The my writing and offer your Passerby thoughts and advice.

All that is not to say, of course, that Yale is a perfect place. Far from it. And, as one columnist pointed out this week, criticism is often a genuine expression of love (“If you love Yale, critique it,” April, 20). So rally and question — let us all dedicate ourselves to pushing this place forward. But it is important to keep in mind that life is ultimately defined not by grand ideas or righteous causes but by goofy kids dancing to Jessie J. It is meeting with a professor at office hours and walking out confident

and excited to write your paper. It is skipping your class so that you can make room for lunch with a girl you think is cute.

I do not know if Yale is better suited at creating these moments than other places. They cannot be planned and do not benefit from administrative oversight. I probably could have had equally touching experiences if I had gone to a different school, but that is not what I really care about. What I care about is that these experiences happened here, on this campus. The courtyard of JE, the halls of LC and the walk up Hillhouse have been endowed with a special meaning to me, as they have been for every student to attend this school.

When I return in 10, 20, 50 years, I will be transported back to the 21-year-old I am now, even though I will be older and hopefully wiser. Eventually, I suppose, my concrete memories will fade away and I will be left with a hazy romantic affection for stone walls and glaring gargoyles. But this place is a part of me now and I am, in a small way, a part of it.

I have spent a good time here unsure if I was truly happy. I have doubted myself more deeply here than at any other time in my life.

I still do. I have often felt unsure of my place, of my friends, of the purpose behind what I am doing. I have been ashamed by my inability to understand or even finish my readings and been gripped by fear in section when it is my turn to speak. And I have tried to act blasé when I’ve failed and to muster up the will to do a better job next time. Yale, like life, is tough. It can hurt. And sometimes it is not the type of pain one gets over quickly.

But now the bus is quiet.

Most of the guys are asleep. The only people left talking are two freshmen in the back giggling over Kanye lyrics. Soon I will be graduated and it will be time to say goodbye to them and to the place that has become my home.

Goodbye. I love you deeply.

ISA QASIM is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. This is his last column for the News. Contact him at isa.qasim@yale.edu .

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Bulldog Days draws thousands

CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, APRIL 17

Several words in two paragraphs of the column “Eliminate Ward 1” have been modified after it was brought to the News’ attention that two phrases in the original version resembled language in a prior column on this topic.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22

A previous version of the article “Following gun violence, police to request funding” mistakenly stated that Alphonse Paolillo represents East Haven on the Board of Alders when, in fact, he represents the Annex and East Shore neighborhoods.

A previous version of this article “Yale Baroque Opera Project to stage rarely performed piece” mistakenly stated that Ethan Heard is the show’s stage manager. He is, in fact, the show’s stage director.

Yale-NUS construction overcomes setbacks

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER Despite facing substantial challenges, Yale-NUS’s new campus is nearing its final stages of construction as the school prepares for relocation to begin in the coming weeks.

The campus, which has been under construction since July 2012, will open for the first relocations in early May. The rest of the move will be completed in June. The space will span 60,000 square meters of real estate and house new and expanded facilities for the college, including three residential colleges, new dining halls, faculty apartments and 1,000 student rooms. Yale-NUS Governing Board member Roland Betts ’68 said in November that Yale has overseen the design and construction process. However, Betts said that the National University of Singapore — which is funded by the Singaporean government — will bear the entire financial burden for the project.

Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said that over the last few months, construction has been progressing well and should finish on target.

“No project is without its challenges and we have been working very closely with our Design and Construction team to keep things on track,” Lewis said. “Through their hard work we are pleased to share that we expect to complete our move into the new campus over the summer.”

Although the new campus is still under construction, it has already received its share of accolades — particularly for its commitment to environmentally friendly initiatives. These include eco ponds, rooftop gardens, energy-efficient sensors and a stormwater filtration system. The campus will also have occupancy sensors to reduce the use of air conditioning and

artificial lighting. The project received the 2013 Green Mark Platinum Award from the Building and Construction Authority in Singapore and the 2014 Landscape Excellence Assessment Framework certification from the National Parks Board.

Prior to this fall, Lewis said, there were some setbacks to construction, namely due to the monsoons — which take place in Singapore from December to early March and from May to September. Further, in August 2014, progress on the new campus was halted by a stop-work order when dengue mosquitoes were found breeding at the construction site. These complications caused the timeline for construction to be delayed by several months.

Betts said the original plan was to finish most of the campus

by January 2015. But although residential rooms were ready in January, classrooms, common areas and campus quadrangles were not yet completed.

Walter Yeo YNUS ’17 said he does not mind that construction is taking longer than expected, if the end result is a higher-quality campus.

“I understand that these things take time and the more time you give the builders, the higher the chances that they get things right. I would be very happy with the construction company instead taking their time, well within reason to build something that would last,” he said.

However, Yeo also said his opinion is in the minority, and that a lot of students are frustrated with the delays in construction.

As they are waiting for construction to be completed, YaleNUS students live in a NUSowned residential tower.

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

Despite the pouring rain and thunder, more than 1,000 high school seniors armed with blue ponchos stormed Yale’s campus on Monday.

The students came for Bulldog Days, an annual threeday program held to introduce admitted students and their parents to the University, which formally ended yesterday with its traditional Old Campus pizza party. Over the course of Bulldog Days, prospective students — often referred to as “prefrosh” — attend a wide range of Yale College events and student extracurricular activities hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions while staying in oncampus housing with current undergraduates. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said roughly 1,100 admitted students attended this year’s Bulldog Days along with 900 parents and family members, roughly the same number that attended last year.

“For admissions folks like myself, Bulldog Days is the high point of our work,” Quinlan said. “During these three days, I actually meet the students and families my colleagues and I have been reading about, hear-

ing about and discussing for the past six months. It is a great feeling.”

Prefrosh were greeted on Monday not only by stormy conditions, but also by the Welcome Showcase in Woolsey Hall. The showcase featured various student groups, including the Whiffenpoofs and Rhythmic Blue, and was followed by a welcome dessert, DJ and photo booth. Though the less than favorable weather conditions remained until Tuesday, Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trip leaders held icebreaker games on Old Campus on Monday with dozens of prefrosh in ponchos. Tuesday afternoon, the Extracurricular Bazaar at Payne Whitney Gymnasium — which included over 300 student groups — drew hundreds of prefrosh.

Director of Outreach and Recruitment Mark Dunn ’07 said more than 20 tour guides helped lead large groups around campus despite of the downpour, adding that the Admissions Office distributed close to 1,800 Yale ponchos on Monday.

During registration on Monday, admitted students dragged their suitcases out of Dwight Hall and mingled on Old Campus. Quinlan said students traveled from 48 states and 20

countries — including Saudi Arabia, New Zealand and South Africa — to attend Bulldog Days.

Similarly to last year, prefrosh were outfitted with a blue drawstring bag, Bulldog Days water bottle and program of events. Of 15 students interviewed, 11 said they either have already committed or will commit to Yale and four said they are still deciding.

“I toured Yale and Princeton and they’re both schools with incredible resources and are at an incredible level, but the personalities of the people at Yale — that’s what got me,” said Brett Greene, a prefrosh from Florida.

“People at Yale are diverse not just ethnically or culturally, but broadly in every way possible.”

Other members of the class of 2019 also cited Yale’s wide array of interests as very appealing.

Charles Kenney, a prefrosh from Connecticut, said Yale would allow him to explore any career path he desired. Nick Indorf, another prefrosh also from Connecticut, highlighted the Undergraduate Jazz Collective and said he enjoyed listening to the Yale Precision Marching Band even before he was admitted.

Still, not everyone shared the same positive sentiments.

While Glenn Yu, a prefrosh

from New York, said he thinks the environment at Yale is more conducive to collaboration and learning, he added that he believes Stanford has stronger science departments and also noted that they offered him more financial aid.

“I’m still undecided because I haven’t visited Harvard yet, but I’m heavily leaning towards Yale,” said Rishi Mirchandani, a prefrosh from Pennsylvania.

“What I don’t like though is that I get the sense that Yale is sort of isolated, not because it’s in an isolated suburban place like Princeton, but mostly because of the urban environment that students don’t really venture into.”

Despite the large numbers of prefrosh, finding space to house them was not a problem for the Admissions Office. Quinlan said more than 500 Yale College students had signed up to house prefrosh.

“Despite the rain [on Monday], the Yale community welcomed our Bulldog Days visitors with open arms,” Dunn said.

More than 300 pizzas from eight different local pizzerias were ordered for the Old Campus pizza party.

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Many of the 1,000-plus Bulldog Days participants attended yesterday’s Old Campus pizza party, which offered over 300 pizzas.

GESO presents grievances to Warner House

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Nearly two weeks after presenting a list of grievances to University administrators, the Graduate Employees and Students Organization took to the steps of Warner House a second time on Wednesday to address gender and racial inequities at the graduate school.

Roughly 50 graduate students gathered at 1 p.m. to hear the grievances of three GESO members — who also delivered nine personal testimonies from 11 other graduate students across several departments. The grievances included the underrepresentation of women and people of color among Yale faculty, and the lack of financial and community support for students who decide

to become parents.

While the doors of Warner House were locked, an employee of the Provost’s Office cracked the door open to take the letter from GESO members, saying that he would deliver it to Provost Benjamin Polak.

The grievances were also submitted to Graduate School Dean Lynn Cooley and Dean of Strategic Initiatives for Yale College, the

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Graduate students gathered outside Warner House, hoping their testimonials would be heard.

Graduate School and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Pamela Schirmeister later on Wednesday.

GESO’s letter claims that the underrepresentation of women and people of color in ladder faculty positions at Yale makes it difficult for students to find mentors. The letter goes on to say that these deficiencies cause “welldocumented attrition at every step in the academic pipeline.”

As a student in political science and African American Studies, GESO member Adom Getachew GRD ’15 said she finds it difficult to create an academic community that shares her niche field of study and that can help her navigate her professional development. However, Getachew said she did manage to form a group of women who support her studies, although it was difficult because of the gender imbalance.

A 2006 faculty diversity initiative set goals for hiring more women and minorities to the FAS by June 2013. The initiative called for 30 new professors from minority backgrounds and at least 30 female professors specifically in economics and the sciences.

Getachew said that in the nearly 10 years since the commitment, those goals have not been met.

“I call on Yale to diversify its

faculty,” Getachew — who was one of the three GESO members to present GESO’s grievances to Warner House on Wednesday — yelled to the crowd.

Further, GESO members attributed the difficulty of finding a female advisor to the absence of female ladder faculty.

Also at the demonstration, Claire Dickey GRD ’20 said Yale needs to actively recruit more women and make more safe spaces for women on campus, adding that this would help students conduct better research.

Dickey also pointed out that although Yale hired many female faculty members, many of these have since left the University, either because they were not on a tenure track or because they did not feel comfortable in their departments.

Although only three graduate students delivered their personal testimonies during the demonstration, 11 other graduate students also wrote down their grievances. Co-chair of GESO Robin Canavan GRD ’18 said some of these testimonies are personal stories that were not presented at the event at the request of the students.

“Since I got to Yale eight months ago, I’ve already faced very casual discrimination and

microaggressions that are pretty common in a male-dominated field,” Dickey told the News.

Underrepresentation was not the only issue addressed in the grievances. Yale does not subsidize childcare support, which GESO members feel undermines the professional credibility of students who decide to start a family.

I call on Yale to diversify its faculty.

ADOM GETACHEW GRD ’15 Member, Graduate Employees and Student Organization GESO member Anna Jurkevics GRD ’15 said she faced both explicit and subtle disapproval from faculty and peers about having a child with her husband.

Jurkevics also said her peers told her they were concerned about her prospects on the job market, while her husband was not advised against having a child.

As the Warner House doors closed, GESO members chanted, “See you all next time.”

Contact FINNEGAN SCHICK at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

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dent and faculty responses. Once online, the article “went viral,” she said.

Spanish professor Kevin Poole, who will leave the department at the end of this academic year, said he and one of his colleagues have received questions from friends and colleagues about the department’s issues.

“The very fact that people have called us or emailed us asking about information in those articles lets us know what’s going on here has been made known quite widely,” Poole said. “I don’t want to say that all five of the students based their decision on what’s going on in the department right now, but I most definitely cannot discount the idea that it did have some effect.”

With offers made to students in February and an April 15 acceptance deadline, Valis said, she believes the timing of the letter and article contributed to this year’s yield rate.

On March 24, the University announced in an email to students and faculty in the department that it would undergo a “climate review.” But Adorno said she does not think the department review is related to this year’s graduate student yield.

Valis said the lack of incoming students will not affect the courses offered in the department next fall, though it will influence the size of these classes.

One of the anonymous students said prospective students may be aware of other problems

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No students offered admission to the Spanish and Portuguese Department’s graduate program matriculated. within the department, such as the faculty’s adherence to conservative literary interpretations, the department’s limited conference funding and the difficulty that many alumni of the department have in their job searches.

But Valis said the department’s record of placing graduates in tenure-track positions is “outstanding.” She noted that alumni have recently been hired at institutions such as the University of

Carbon charge may not be panacea CARBON CHARGE FROM PAGE 1 pus energy infrastructure. He added that since 2013, Stanford has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 68 percent because of sustainability decisions made by the university’s board and president rather than through an internal carbon tax.

Shana Weber, the director of Princeton’s Office of Sustainability, said Princeton has been applying an internal carbon tax as a shadowing pricing tool — in other words, a way of dealing with intangible costs — in major building projects since 2006 and is currently updating its carbon tax program. She noted that a tax can be effective for reducing emissions, but suggested that it is challenging to determine an accurate price for the carbon charge. Princeton’s carbon tax is set at $35 per metric ton, compared to Yale’s proposed $40.

Attendees at Wednesday’s presentation also questioned whether the University could more effectively tackle its carbon footprint by tracking the emissions of individual units.

“The idea is very good, but it would rely on a extremely efficient organization, which Yale is not,” mechanical engineering professor Alessandro Gomez said during the talk. “You are trying to hit at the emissions, but we have no control of the emissions.”

One of the changes the task force recommended is more careful control of temperature in University buildings, but Gomez said his building’s temperature is determined by Yale Facilities, not his own department. According to Gomez, the only meaningful way of conserving energy would be to make changes elsewhere — not within his department.

During the talk, Nordhaus said while Yale cannot make a “big dent” in climate change, the University can serve as a leader to influence individual behavior.

“We think our role is not to actually change the global emissions, but to introduce policies, introduce ideas — what I call institutional innovation —

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to show the kinds of tools that can be used … to change the way people behave,” he said at the talk.

Emily Flynn, the associate director at the Sustainable Endowments Institute, an organization that focuses on campus environmentalism, said she strongly supports tracking energy and resource usage at universities. She believes that increased monitoring of individual departments’ operations will produce new data and identify problematic areas. She added that the SEI has seen a number of universities offer incentives to reduce energy usage, and said Yale’s carbon charge plan is a good method to add an element of “inter-college competition.”

“Yale’s mission is educational,” Provost Benjamin Polak said in his opening remarks at the talk. “[For] Yale to try to design something like this and put it into practice as a sort of experiment is an incredibly important educational thing to do. It’s a win even if we fail because we’re going to learn how hard it is.”

Fossil Free Yale Policy Coordinator Nathan Lobel ’17 said that though FFY applauds any efforts by the University to decrease emissions on campus, the group believes that “sustainability initiatives alone will always be insufficient so long as Yale endorses a business model that is incompatible with a just, livable planet for future generations through its investments.”

The task force recommended that the charge be phased in within three years beginning in the 2015–16 academic year.

The period will allow the University to test the recommendations, make actual calculations of carbon emissions and initiate the budget charges for selected units. However, in his announcement of the report, University President Peter Salovey did not explicitly agree to a University-wide implementation within that time frame.

Contact JED FINLEY at james.finley@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and McGill University.

French Director of Graduate Studies Christopher Miller said his department, which also does not maintain a waitlist, has never had a year in which no students accepted their offers. Similarly, Italian Department Chair Giuseppe Mazzotta also said that in his memory, the department has always had at least one student. None accepting, he added,

would be “largely unusual.”

Germanic Languages and Literatures DGS Carol Jacobs said in her time at Yale, it has never happened that no students accepted the department’s offers.

There are currently five students in their first years of the Spanish and Portuguese Department’s graduate program.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

people listen. That’s what this ward needs.”

At the outset of their campaigns, Stark and Eidelson — the latter of whom will be running for her third consecutive term — both said they would run as independents in the general election in November.

But Eze’s announcement has thrown that into flux.

In an interview with the News, Stark said he plans to run in the Democratic primary on Sept. 16.

“I commit to abiding by the results of a Democratic primary, and I hope that Sarah will agree to do the same,” he said.

“The Ward 1 alder really needs to be a Democrat, and we don’t need a three-way race. I think come November, it should be one Democrat and one Republican.”

Stark added that he believes the Ward 1 alder should be “substantially” connected both to campus and the city, and he feels he is the best candidate in the race to strike that balance.

Eidelson could not be reached for comment by press time.

Tyler Blackmon ’16, the president of the Yale College Democrats and a columnist for the News, said Eze’s entry will

entirely change the dynamic of the race. He said he was “blindsided” by Eze’s announcement.

“A Democrat will work much better with the existing Board of Alders,” Blackmon said. “Ugonna doesn’t have very much experience in New Haven at all. Either Sarah or Fish would do much better in the role.”

In the case of a primary, the Ward 1 Democratic Committee will have the power to make an endorsement in the race, according to Ward 1 Co-chair Jacob Wasserman ’16. Should the committee choose to make an endorsement, the endorsed candidate will appear on the first line of the primary ballot.

Blackmon added that the Dems will support whoever wins the primary. Before Eze’s announcement, he had said the Dems would not formally support Stark or Eidelson.

Eze is the second Republican candidate to run for Ward 1 alder since 1993. Paul Chandler ’14 unsuccessfully ran against Eidelson in 2013; he won roughly 35 percent of the vote.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu and ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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Associate Athletic Director of Payne Whitney Gymnasium Anthony Diaz said he thought the extension would put Yale in the “upper-middle” of gym availability hours in the Ivy League — Yale is now seventh, one hour above Harvard. Princeton leads the League with 126.5 hours per week.

While undergraduates have 24-hour gym access through their residential colleges, Payne Whitney serves as the single Yale exercise facility for graduate students. Diaz said graduate students do not have the option for late-night workouts.

Diaz added that the total usage of Payne Whitney, including varsity and club athletes, is approximately equal for graduate students and undergraduates. However — not counting students who are affiliated with a club team, varsity team or student organization that uses the gym facilities — the proportion of independent gym-goers is greater among the graduate population, Diaz said.

Dunican said he believes the policy change will disproportionately benefit graduate students, since undergraduates have their own college gyms as well. He said the petition was not meant to cater to Yale athletics, and is more about the personal fitness of graduate students.

But although graduate students and administrators said they think the extension was directed toward graduate student needs, undergraduates interviewed said they would also take advantage of the longer hours.

Nick Wawrykow ’17, who uses Payne Whitney daily but at varying times, said he will likely use the extended hours once or twice a week, specifically on the weekend.

“I like the new hours. It should make it easier to get school work done while allowing me to work out,” Wawrykow said.

Yale club men’s basketball player Kevin Kirk ’16 said he would use the gym during the new hours, but not consistently. Nina Campbell ’18 said she would use Payne Whitney’s new hours when she was not close to her residential college.

Diaz said logistical plans for the extensions are still up in the air. He said the gym will require extra security in the evenings and on the weekend, two people to cover the front desk and additional staff to keep the gym monitored.

“I don’t know exactly how I’m going to staff it yet,” said Diaz. “It’s going to be complicated. The weekend is going to take more creativity on my part.”

Dunican said the main reason that

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it took so long to extend the hours was difficulties with obtaining funding. He added that the extension plans will be “University-funded,” but declined to specify further.

This change is the second hours extension to be piloted at Payne Whitney recently. Yale held a “Grad Late Night” for four Tuesdays in October and November of 2011, in which graduate students and their spouses could use the gym between 10 p.m. and midnight.

In addition to longer gymnasium hours, the GSA has also advocated for extended library hours, GSA Chair Joori Park GRD ’17 said, adding that she thinks

the approval of the gym pilot proposal shows the possibility of a similar change at Bass and Sterling Memorial Libraries.

The adoption of the pilot proposal was discussed in monthly meetings throughout the year between Goff-Crews and Park, as well as with GPSS President Gregg Castellucci GRD ’17.

Payne Whitney Gymnasium was built in 1932 and is the second-largest gymnasium in the world.

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Starting in the fall, Payne Whitney Gymnasium will be open for 106 hours per week, up from the current 92 hours.

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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” ZORA NEALE HURSTON AMERICAN AUTHOR

BoE develops role for student reps

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER As several local students prepare to run for new spots on the city’s Board of Education, the Committee on Student Elections met yesterday to work toward a definition of the elected position’s roles and responsibilities.

The committee, chaired by Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12, discussed the procedural aspects of elections for the two new student spots and the legal details of the amount of power the two students will possess. So far, four candidates have emerged to compete for the seats, said Suzanne Lyons, project manager for the Board of Education. Two candidates attend High School in the Community, with the other two hailing from Sound School and the Metropolitan Business Academy. Lyons said roughly six other students have contacted her expressing interest in the position. “[The students] are really excited,” Lyons said. “I get mired in the details sometimes, but the students are excited, even the students who aren’t from New Haven or aren’t New Haven residents.”

The students are currently gathering the required 100 signatures, and their petitions will be due May 7. The election will then take place before the end of the year, so that the students will take their seats at the start of the next academic year.

The two student positions were created by the City Charter revisions of 2013, but the language of the revisions left the task of defining the positions to the alders.

While the committee approved no formal clauses delineating the responsibilities of the student members, much of the discussion involved presenting questions to Floyd Dugas, an education lawyer with the Milford-based firm Berchem, Moses & Devlin.

Using Dugas’ guidance, the committee will move toward a formal definition in the next few weeks.

Dugas said the committee must consider two documents when making their decision: the Freedom of Information Act and Roberts’ Rules of Order, the standard guide to parliamentary procedure. Lyons said students had posed the question of whether the student members would be able to introduce a motion, but Dugas said Roberts’ Rules would likely forbid such an action.

New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Garth Harries ’95, who was sitting in for

Board of Education President Carlos Torre, suggested that the board might be able to create informal ways of further involving the student members. For example, the voting members of the board might introduce motions on behalf of the students, he said.

FOIA, meanwhile, would impede the ability of the student members to be present during executive sessions, when the board suspends normal procedural rules and excludes the public due to the sensitive nature of the information discussed — often personnel matters or ongoing litigation, Dugas said.

“I don’t think it would be appropriate to have [students] during executive sessions,” Dugas said. “But certainly in any public deliberation, it would be valuable to have student input.”

In matters of ethics, student members will likely be included under the city Board of Ethics, Dugas said. Harries noted that the Board of Ed currently falls under the Board of Ethics’ jurisdiction when ethical questions arise.

Because NHPS serves many students who live outside New Haven, some questions regarding residency requirements have arisen. Dugas said enforcing residency requirements would likely be left to the discretion of the superintendent. The student members will likely not have any attendance requirements at board meetings — Harries noted that alders have no such requirements, but alders often step aside once low attendance becomes an issue.

Harries emphasized that students should see their role not as a strict representative of students, but rather as a participant in a collaborative decision-making process.

“Our hope is that students become part of [the Board of Ed’s] community of discussion,” he said. “What’s most important to us is that they’re active and responsible members of the discussion that helps to make policy and so on.”

A need for haste was evident at the meeting, with elections and the end of the school year approaching. Any specifications about elections must be finalized before they occur — Harries said those specifications would ideally come by the beginning of next week.

“I have a heavy bias to running as simple and straightforward a process as possible, that we can implement with the resources we have,” he said.

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

Bill proposes expanding social learning

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER A new bill sponsored by Connecticut representatives from the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate aims to provide teachers with the tools and training to support students’ social and emotional learning.

The bill arrives a month after the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission recommended that social-emotional training — which addresses how children learn to recognize and manage emotions, demonstrate care and concern for others and handle interpersonal situations effectively — form an integral part of the curriculum from preschool through high school. Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 introduced the Jesse Lewis Empowering Educators Act two weeks ago. Cosponsored by Sen. Chris Murphy and Rep. Elizabeth Esty LAW ’85, the bill is named in honor of Jesse Lewis, a six-year-old who died in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Specifically, the bill would amend the No Child Left Behind Act, so that “professional development funding could be used to train teachers in concepts related to social and emotional learning.”

The bill has been referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

In an academic study published in 2007, Joseph Durlak and Roger Weissberg, professors of psychology at Loyola University Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago, respectively, found that schools with quality SEL training scored an average of 11 percentage points higher than those who did not receive SEL training. Students at these schools also had reduced rates of student depression, anxiety, stress and social withdrawal.

According to Bonnie Brown, a senior consultant at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, social-emotional training would allow teachers and administrators to predict which students may be prone to violent or destructive behavior. “[Currently,] we focus on putting out the fires as they occur: how

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The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission recommended last month that socialemotional training form an integral part of the curriculum in schools. to stop bullying, how to decrease teacher burnout, how to help students deal with test anxiety,” she said. “In this manner, we are always putting our energies into interventions after the problem has occurred, instead of prevention and developing the skills necessary to avert the problem.”

Brown also said educators have a responsibility to harness the emotional energy of their students and help them to understand and better regulate that energy so they can lead healthy and productive lives.

But, some researchers have called for a more balanced view of social and emotional learning.

David Caruso, a research affiliate at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, was quoted in a 2013 New York Times article that examined the debate around emotional intelligence.

“There are people who want to write this into the Common Core right now, but before we institutionalize this, we’d better be sure that it makes a difference in the

long run,” Caruso said.

Marc Brackett, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, said he supports the bill, but added that the question of whether Adam Lanza would have committed the crimes at Sandy Hook if he had social-emotional training “is not one that can be answered by research or the implementation of an SEL program.”

Elizabeth Benton, Blumenthal’s communications director, said the bill was not introduced as a direct response to recommendations proposed by the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission. Chris Harris, Murphy’s communications director, said that, to his knowledge, the bill has not faced substantial opposition in the Senate or the House.

Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, a Democrat, sponsored a similar bill in 2013 called the Academic, Social and Emotional Learning Act. However, the bill did not pass.

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

Reentry facility gains zoning approval

BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER Last week, the Board of Zoning Appeals granted approval for a house on 75 Henry St. to host a living facility for the Family ReEntry program, a nonprofit behavioral health group designed to help nonviolent male felons transition back into their communities after being released from prison.

The program will officially launch July 1, according to Steve Lanza, executive and clinical director of Family ReEntry. He said the program aims to reconnect individuals to a community and help them solidify critical

living skills, such as cooking and managing a bus schedule, to provide participants a “soft landing” from their discharge.

“The state has not had a program quite like this before,” Lanza said. “In an ideal world, every large city in the state would have a program like this.”

Participants will be selected for the program while still serving time in prison, a necessary component for ensuring a smooth transition once they are discharged, according to Lanza.

He said participants will undergo a thorough screening process to identify eligibility and individual mental health issues.

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The program will enroll up to 15 adult men at a time for a period of six months to one year. During this time, program participants will have access to an abundance of mental health and extracurricular resources.

Lanza said the program’s comprehensive approach to treatment — which includes cognitive behavioral therapy, medication, support groups, psychiatric advanced practice registered nurses and an on-call mental health parole unit — will prove particularly effective in reducing recidivism. He added that the neighborhood for the program’s living facility was care-

fully selected, and that similar programs in the state have proven effective in recent years.

The house, located in the Dixwell neighborhood, was first approved to be a group living facility back in 2009, according to Dixwell Alder Jeanette Morrison.

Now, the immediate neighborhood and city administration are showing support for the incoming program, she said.

“I think it is a win-win for the city to embrace the reentry population,” she said. “And it’s a winwin for the men and women that are reentering.”

She added that the program is effective in its ability to prepare

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inmates for discharge while still in prison — something she considers a crucial component of any effective reentry program.

Morrison said she and the community fully support the program, and she does not believe that it will significantly affect the community dynamic.

“The reality is that these programs are very safe,” Lanza said.

He added that, according to studies he has read, placing similar programs in targeted areas can increase surrounding property values.

Family ReEntry also has outpatient treatment centers in New Haven and Bridgeport for peo-

ple on parole. In addition to these facilities, the city has headed an initiative called Project Fresh Start, which City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said has been a major focus in Mayor Toni Harp’s administration. Project Fresh Start provides a variety of resources to formerly imprisoned people, including job resources and education.

“The mayor is committed to trying to help reintegrate former inmates and restore them to productivity in our community,” he said.

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

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“We see in order to move; we move in order to see.” WILLIAM GIBSON CANADIAN-AMERICAN WRITER

With world watching, are police more hesitant to act?

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Last week, protesters marched from Fair Haven to New Haven to remember Malik Jones, a 21-year-old African-American male who was fatally shot by an East Haven police officer in 1997. As the march approached downtown New Haven, protesters stopped in the middle of the road so that their leader could identify two NHPD officers who were wheeling a shopping cart out of the New Haven Green. The cart was full of a homeless man’s belongings. Protesters shouted at the officers, saying that taking a homeless man’s possessions is an example of police officers failing to look out for the community.

The two police officers on the scene explained to the protesters that they were taking the homeless man’s belongings to a shelter so he could receive care.

Confusions like these are common, according to another officer at the scene of the march. He said preconceived notions about the police prevent constructive dialogue between officers and citizens.

Andy Matthews, president of the Connecticut State Police Union, said these prejudices are not easily resolved. He said that even though he is confident none of his officers intend to discriminate, sometimes members of the public think otherwise.

Matthews, who started his career as an officer at the Yale Police Department 21 years ago, said 2015 stands out as a particularly difficult year to be a police officer.

He stressed that the recent tragedies are a result of the actions of a few officers, not entire police departments, who do not uphold the integrity demanded by the uniform they wear. When officers in Connecticut violate their department’s code of conduct, they are disciplined, he said. Throughout his tenure as union president, he said, he has drafted eight resignations for troopers who “did not belong on the job.”

Yet, the actions of the individual officers discussed in national media have had the greatest impact on the day-to-day lives of the officers he represents. He said the mentality of officers has shifted away from proactive policing.

Several police officers interviewed expressed the same sentivment: If an officer is worried he will be condemned for his actions, he may hesitate to use a weapon, consequently putting his own life and the lives of others in danger. “[Police officers] may wait to respond,” YPD officer Earl Reed said. “Maybe then it’s too late.”

On Jan. 4, Esserman led a small group of NHPD officers to the funeral of two New York Police Department officers who had been shot in the head by civilians. According to The New York Times, the killer had traveled from Baltimore with the intention of murdering police officers.

“They were killed because of their color, which was neither

black nor white, but blue,” Esserman said, referring to the risk that comes with wearing a police uniform.

In their annual report, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund found that the number of police officers killed in the line of duty in 2014 had risen from the year before.

Including the two NYPD officers, 117 officers were killed last year, compared to 102 in 2013. Deliberate ambush-style attacks, as seen with the two NYPD officers killed, was the top cause of felonious officer death for the fifth year in a row. Fifteen such attacks occurred in 2014, the highest number of deliberate attacks in a decade.

In a press release accompanying the statistics, NLEOMF Chairman and CEO Craig Floyd said he was concerned that an anti-government sentiment across America may have encouraged “weak-minded individuals” to engage in violent assaults against police.

“Enough is enough,” Floyd said. “We need to tone down the rhetoric, and rally in support of law enforcement and against lawlessness.”

But Matthews insists that the public did not always react negatively toward police. In the months following 9/11, Matthews said, the American public was full of admiration for emergency services.

Sept. 11, 2001 is marked by NLEOMF as the deadliest day in law enforcement history. Seventy-one officers were killed in their attempts to rescue those trapped in the World Trade Center, and another officer died when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Philadelphia.

In the years since, Matthews said, it has been disheartening to have seen public perception of the force change so rapidly.

“Fourteen years later, because of a few unfortunate incidents in other parts of the country, … people are angry with us and want to hurt us,” he said. “It is not the majority of the public, but there are some people who think all police are bad.”

But, many black communities across America argue there is good reason for the shift. Mapping Police Violence, an organization that collects data from departments across the country, calculated that over 304 African-Americans were killed at the hands of law enforcement in 2014. At least 101 of them were unarmed, according to the data.

Furthermore, a recent study analyzing traffic stops in the state revealed that the NHPD stopped minorities at a higher rate than the state average in 2014. Over the course of the year, the NHPD stopped 11,159 motorists. Just over 63 percent of those were minorities, and 45.5 percent were black — the highest percentage reported in the state. Even after New Haven’s demographics were taken into account, the NHPD’s traffic stop data was still out of the ordinary.

For Karléh Wilson ’16, these statistics present a serious problem. Wilson marched alongside New Haven protesters in remembrance of Jones, holding a sign

saying “think of all the cases that weren’t recorded.” Her brother, a young African-American male, recently turned 20 and is now in a demographic statistically most at-risk of dying at the hands of law enforcement.

“I love my brother to death,” she said. “It really worries me that he isn’t safe because of his color.”

THE WANTS OF A COMMUNITY

Wilson is not the only one concerned about the police’s interactions with the black community.

On April 18, roughly a dozen African-American residents gathered in Stetson Library on Dixwell Avenue. Seated between books highlighting African-American leaders, the group discussed police-community relations in light of one recent incident in New Haven.

Just over a month before, on St. Patrick’s Day, 15-year old Teandrea Cornelius was aggressively pushed to the ground by NHPD officer Josh Smereczynsky in an arrest outside the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant on Church Street. In a video of the arrest, which occurred during the St. Patrick’s Day parade, Smereczynsky can be seen finding a knife in Cornelius’ purse after slamming her to the ground. Whether or not Smereczynsky knew Cornelius was carrying a weapon before he pushed her is still contested.

For those present in the library, Smereczynsky’s actions reflected a systemic problem within the police department. As the meeting continued, those present shared their concerns about how the NHPD dealt with the events of St. Patrick’s Day. According to state Rep. Robyn Porter, who represents Hamden and New Haven, the controversial arrest has further torn relationships between community and police.

“I’m a mother, I’m a daughter, I’m a female,” she said. “[Watching that video] made my stomach hurt.”

Despite receiving an invitation, no representative from the police department was present at this meeting. Those at the meeting said this demonstrated a lack of willingness from the NHPD to engage in conversation.

But police have not been absent from every community discussion. Both Esserman and YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins attended “Ferguson and Beyond,” a teachin hosted by Yale’s African American Studies Department on March 31. At the teach-in, which drew over 100 students and community members, Esserman and Higgins asked the attendees for their perspectives on their relationship with the community.

“When the community doesn’t believe in the behavior of its police officers, … it erodes the confidence in [the police department],” Higgins said. “It is the exact opposite of community wellness.”

Higgins added that instead of only focusing on instances of police brutality against African-Americans, urban areas first need to fix systemic inequalities in education and social mobility that can put black youths at risk of falling into crime. He said

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NHPD Union President Louis Cavaliere Jr. joined a tense standoff between police and activists on March 30. the most frequent type of crime in urban communities is violence perpetrated by young, black males against other young, black males.

Chris Garaffa, a member of ANSWER CT (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) and an attendee of “Ferguson and Beyond,” told the News that Higgins’ comment puts unnecessary blame on the black community. He said incidents like the one on St. Patrick’s Day demonstrate clear cases of police brutality that warrant discussion.

After videos of the St. Patrick’s Day arrest began to surface online, protesters flooded City Hall on March 25. When they refused to leave, Mayor Toni Harp agreed to remove Smereczynsky from his patrol duty. However, the officer was exonerated and allowed to return to work by the end of the month, after an internal affairs investigation ruled that Smereczynsky acted in accordance with the training he had received.

The decision divided the police and community activists once more. During the press conference announcing Smereczyn-

sky’s exoneration, over 80 police officers and their allies swarmed City Hall protesting Harp and Esserman’s decision to remove him from the streets in the first place. When the press conference was over, supporters of the police remained on the steps of City Hall for over 45 minutes. They were met by community activists who, in turn, were protesting the exoneration.

When activists like Garaffa shouted that the exoneration was an example of acceptance of police brutality, officers responded with chants of “she had a knife.”

Despite the conflicts, the protesters from both sides showed discontent with how the city handled the police department, pointing to Harp and Esserman as key players. The police union condemned Esserman for visiting Cornelius’ family to apologize during an investigation, and for appearing to ignore the concerns of his own officer. They also shouted “we want a mayor, not a puppet,” condemning Harp for responding to the demands of protesters who swarmed her office.

“We feel badly disrespected, and our backs were turned against — we really felt we were abandoned on this,” Louis Cavaliere Jr., NHPD union president, said at the March 30 protest.

But community members interviewed said they too felt disrespected.

During the protest, Newhallville resident Nazim Muhammad told the News that he was disappointed to hear some of the police officers shouting derogatory comments toward members of the community. Officers called him, and other residents, “thug” and told him to “go back to the ghetto and get a job.”

Garaffa added that the actions of the police department could not be ignored. Furthermore, he said, should a case of police brutality arise in the future, the officer involved should be immediately removed from patrol.

“We want to see justice when someone is brutalized and when someone is killed,” he said. “We want to see these officers taken off the streets.”

LEGISLATING CHANGE

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Karléh Wilson ’16 marched during the April 15 protest in remembrance of Malik Jones.

Both the police department and local activists have publicly said they are dissatisfied with the way the city administration has responded to incidents like the one at the St. Patrick’s Day

parade.

Many New Haven activists have expressed their desire for a civilian review board, which would require each police investigation to be conducted by a group of citizens and criminal justice experts, instead of police officers. In addition, the group would have subpoena power — a writ issued by any government agency allowing the board to order testimony from officers under investigation.

While this movement has seen little progress, Esserman said there have been advancements toward providing body cameras to each NHPD officer, another movement supported by legislators across the nation in the months following the Ferguson shooting.

One bill before the Connecticut General Assembly is S.B. 770, which would require each officer in the state to wear a body camera. State Sen. Gary Winfield, one of the co-sponsors of the bill, said in an email that the bill “could not come at a better time.” He said body cameras would protect both law enforcement and their communities.

“In many instances of violent interactions between police and community, locally and nationally, intent to harm is hard to prove,” he said. “The use of body cameras will help to counter that uncertainty and protect both parties.”

The main argument in support of body cameras is that they would reduce confusion in cases like the shooting of Michael Brown, where there is no video evidence of what occurred.

In addition, Harp noted it is important to consider body cameras because eyewitness recordings often only provide a snapshot of a police-civilian encounter. When a video goes viral, the reality of the events that occurred becomes publicly debated.

“Everybody else has a camera,” Harp said. “It’s really appropriate from my perspective for the police to also have a camera.”

Esserman echoed Harp’s sentiments, adding that extensive research has demonstrated when body cameras are used most effectively. He said he is confident that the NHPD will slowly begin integrating them into the force.

The Police Foundation, a national research organization spearheaded by Jim Bueermann,

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FROM THE FRONT examined the use of body cameras in Rialto, California. Their research revealed that in the year after the cameras were introduced in February 2012, the number of complaints of police misconduct fell by 88 percent. The use of force by police fell by almost 60 percent over the same time frame.

Deputy Chief of the Hartford Police Department Brian Foley said he has heavily considered requiring his officers to wear body cameras because the public is asking for them in order to feel safe. In recent months, the same demands have surfaced at Yale.

In January, a YPD officer was accused of unnecessarily holding a gun to Tahj Blow ’16, whom the officers claimed matched the description of a burglary suspect in Trumbull College.

On Twitter, New York Times columnist Charles Blow said Tahj, his son, had been “accosted” by a YPD officer, adding hashtags associated with the “Black Lives Matter” movement.

An internal affairs investigation revealed that the officer was acting in accordance with YPD policy. He was holding his gun in the “low ready” position — not holding it directly at Blow — and his finger was not placed on the trigger. Still, the University said it was committed to ensuring students on campus continue to feel safe.

An ad hoc panel — tasked with analyzing the YPD’s internal investigation and providing feedback to the University — recommended that the YPD institute body cameras for all officers. When the report was released, students interviewed by the News expressed support for the proposal.

However, officers have said body cameras are not without their faults.

Matthews said one problem with mandatory body cameras is that citizens could be recorded giving private information to the police. This information could be acquired by anyone through the Freedom of Information Act, allowing private conversations with police — including reports of sexual assault and domestic abuse — to be made public.

“Everyone has the right to a confidential conversation with a law enforcement officer,” he said. “Sometimes, public voice is the only way we receive evidence.”

COMMUNITY POLICING: THE FUTURE?

In December, President Barack Obama created a task force to research 21st-century policing. The task force’s interim report recommended that police departments establish community policing, which the NHPD currently follows. According to the report, community policing should provide a code of conduct centered on four principles: treating people with dignity and respect, giving individuals a voice during encounters with police, being neutral and transparent in decision-making and conveying trustworthy motives.

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” JANE GOODALL ENGLISH PRIMATOLOGIST

Aug. 9, 2014 Michael Brown is shot in Ferguson Nov. 24, 2014 Grand jury announces no indictment for Darren Wilson Dec. 1, 2014 Yale students protest grand jury decision Jan. 24, 2015 YPD accused of holding Tahj Blow ’16 at gunpoint March 15, 2015 Teandra Cornelius pushed to the ground by NHPD officer

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Yale students gathered on Dec. 1, 2014 in protest of the grand jury decision to not indict Darren Wilson.

“Research demonstrates that these principles lead to relationships in which the community trusts that officers are honest, unbiased and lawful,” the report reads. “The community therefore feels obligated to follow the law and the dictates of legal authorities and is more willing to cooperate with and engage those authorities.”

Not everyone is convinced that community policing works in practice.

Instead of introducing officers to their community, Garaffa said, requiring police officers to walk on the streets provides more opportunities for negative encounters like the one seen on St. Patrick’s Day. He called community policing a “misguided ideal,” and said that even though police departments envision friendly officers walking through neighborhoods engaging with people,

the reality is quite different.

“People are afraid because the police are crawling our streets,” he said.

Despite the recent protests and complaints, the NHPD has been nationally recognized as a model for urban community policing — on March 12, the NHPD’s community policing model was featured on the cover of The Wall Street Journal.

Vanita Gupta ’96, acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, said at a Yale Law School conference last week called “Policing Post-Ferguson” that Esserman is one of the most “important police leaders in the country” because of his work on community policing. Esserman was recently appointed to the National Advisory Board of the National Initia-

tive for Building Community Trust and Justice, a national effort to improve the relationship between police and the communities they serve. He was also invited by the Department of Justice to provide assistance and advice to police departments in St. Louis County.

But, Esserman said that any success of community policing in New Haven is not about him. He said it is about the individual officers who walk the neighborhood streets and get to know the people who live there.

“We’re not looking for people to fall in love with the [NHPD] or the chief, we’re looking for them to build relationships with their officer,” he said.

“That’s real community policing.”

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu .

March 30, 2015 Police and community protest after NHPD officer exonerated March 31, 2015 “Ferguson and Beyond” held at Yale April 15, 2015 March remembers Malik Jones

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AROUND THE IVIES T H E C O R N E L L D A I LY S U N

“Men argue. Nature acts.”

VOLTAIRE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT LEADER

THE DARTMOUTH

Univ. Assembly: Divest Brooks to headline Commencement

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNS The Cornell University Assembly passed a resolution calling for the Board of Trustees to divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies at its meeting Tuesday.

Passing by a vote of 11 in favor, four against, and one abstention, the vote makes the University Assembly the fourth Cornell assembly to support divestment and marks a reversal from a vote last year against fossil fuel divestment.

Having now passed the UA, the Assembly will send a copy of the resolution to President David Skorton, who, according to Vice Chair Matthew Battaglia, will have “30 days to get back to us or to request an extension.”

“From there he can either accept it, refer it back for changes, or decline it,” Battaglia said. “As the University Assembly has no formal legislative authority over the endowment it is just a recommendation.”

One of the sponsors of the resolution, UA member and Student Assembly President Sarah Balik, expressed her hope that the Cornell community will continue to support the effort

CORNELL

t o w a r d d ive s t ment as the supporters continue to work with the administration and the

Board of Trustees.

“I’m pleased that we voted yes,” Balik said. “I think it’s a big stride from where we were last year on the UA, and I hope that the Cornell community continues to support these efforts, even now after the resolution has passed because now is where all of the hard work begins.”

According to Balik, Skorton has said “publicly on multiple occasions that he is [against] divestment from fossil fuels,” but added that she hopes both sides can make progress on the issue.

“The resolution might end up being rejected,” Balik said. “That doesn’t mean that we can’t keep fighting, and that doesn’t mean that we can’t compromise and make further strides to make Cornell put its money where its mouth is.”

Voting against the resolution, SA President-elect and UA member Juliana Batista said

that while she thought that both sides gave “really compelling arguments,” she had concerns about the risks to the endowment.

“It’s such a small impact on these fossil fuel companies,” Batista said. “When that impact is so small of 0.000003 percent as presented by the Investment Office — it’s fairly miniscule — you have to ask if it is worth that risk.”

Before the vote, the UA heard presentations both from individuals associated with the endowment and from professors who were in favor of divestment.

Speaking first, David Shalloway, professor of molecular biology and genetics, gave environmental, ethical and financial reasons to support divestment.

Chief Investment Officer A.J. Edwards cited smaller returns and lost access to money managers from the restrictions among the risks associated with divestment.

After the vote in favor of divestment, UA member and incoming SA Executive Vice President Emma Johnston said she thought the vote more accurately reflected the opinion of the different Cornell assemblies.

T H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O N

Over one-third take climate survey

BY MARIEL KLEIN AND THEODORE DELWICHE A week and a half after a sexual conduct climate survey opened to Harvard students, 37 percent of eligible students have completed it, according to response rate results updated online by the University’s Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Assault.

Although administrators praise the response rate so far, students who are currently studying abroad or taking time off from school are not able to take the survey, prompting some criticism.

The survey, which is a Harvard-specific version of an Association of American Universities poll being conducted at 28 schools, was released through individualized links to students at Harvard on April 12 from research company Westat, which is administering the survey. It will be open until May 3.

Forty percent of students have completed at least part of the poll, and 43 percent have opened the survey link, according to the results on the Harvard task force’s website.

Administrators have said that they hope to cull a high response rate from students.

So far, undergraduates have received messages from Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana and University President Drew Faust promoting the survey in

addition to emails from Westat.

L e a h R o s o v s k y, vice presi d e n t fo r HARVARD strategy and p r o g ra m s , said each of Harvard’s schools is using specific ways to promote the survey, such as posters or messages from deans or House masters. She said she hopes student organizations will encourage their members to participate in the survey.

There have been some hiccups in the survey’s rollout that may have confused some students. When Faust emailed students about the survey, her initial message went to at least some students’ spam folders.

And according to David Laibson, a member of the Harvard task force who helped spearhead the design of the national survey, some students mistakenly associated the climate survey email with environmental activist group Divest Harvard’s “Heat Week” protests, prompting them to delete or ignore the survey email.

Additionally, Laibson, who is an economics professor, acknowledged that the administration has to compete with students’ overflowed inboxes.

“People’s attention is scarce,” Laibson said. “And you can’t expect every email to get noticed

or read, or even correctly read in the case of the ‘Heat Week’ misinterpretation.”

Those issues aside, not all students who want to take the survey have been able to do so.

Brianna Suslovic, who is studying abroad in Spain, received the message from Faust about the survey’s launch but did not receive the link from Westat inviting her to participate.

When she reached out to survey administrators about why she did not receive the link, they informed her in an email that she could not take it.

“We have spoken with contacts at Westat, who informed us that the primary reason for not including this group of students is that they will not have the same access to distress resources,” the Sexual Conduct Survey Team wrote to Suslovic, according to a copy of the exchange she shared with The Crimson. “We do hope, however, that you and other students in this position will be able to weigh in during subsequent surveys.”

Survey designers have repeatedly warned that the sexual climate survey is sensitive in nature and therefore may trigger a post-traumatic stress reaction for sexual harassment survivors.

Suslovic, though, said she was concerned that voices of students studying abroad or taking time off would not be taken into account.

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Brooks, who will speak at Dartmouth’s commencement, taught a course titled “Humility” last year at Yale.

BY THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF David Brooks, conservative political and social commentator known for his regular op-ed column in The New York Times, will deliver the college’s commencement address this year on Sunday, June 14.

Brooks, who has penned his column since 2003, is the author of the books “Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There,” “On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense” and most recently, “The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement,” which debuted at the top of The New York Times’ best sellers

list. Last yea r, h e t a u g h t a course t i t l e d “Humility” at Yale DARTMOUTH U n i v e r sity and he now appears as a commentator on PBS “NewsHour,” NPR’s “All Things Considered” and NBC’s Sunday morning political show, “Meet The Press.”

Brooks gave the commencement address at Sewanee, The University of the South in 2013 and at both Brandeis University and Rice University in 2011.

Dartmouth will award Brooks and six others, four of whom are alums, with honor-

ary degrees. Steven Chu, former U.S. Secretary of Energy, will receive a Doctor of Science, as will Columbia University geochemist and MacArthur Fellow Terry Plank. The college will give Doctor of Humane Letters to Russell Carson, philanthropist and co-founder of private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe; William Neukom, former executive vice president of law and corporate affairs at Microsoft and founder of the World Justice Project and Earl Lewis, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Valerie Steele, who is the director and curator at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, will receive a Doctor of Arts.

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SPORTS

“I haven’t celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.” MARK MESSIER 15-TIME NHL ALL-STAR

Bulldogs brace for Bears BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 centage, 0.389 to 0.327.

The best hitters in the Ivy League will be featured in the lineups this weekend: first baseman Eric Hsieh ’15 and center fielder Robert Henry of the Bears both boast the highest batting averages in the conference at 0.371.

On the hill, the Elis and Bears have both struggled against tough opposition. The Yale pitching staff has combined for a 7.63 earned run average, with Brown faring only slightly better at 7.52.

More notably, Friday marks the final time the seven seniors on the team — catcher Robert Baldwin ’15, center fielder Green Campbell ’15, righthanded pitcher Ben Joseph ’15, outfielder Joe Lubanski ’15, left-handed pitcher Nate O’Leary ’15, right fielder David Toups ’15 and Hsieh — will step on Yale Field.

For most of the players on Yale’s roster, this weekend marks the end of their baseball careers.

“I’ve spent over 18 years of my life playing the game, and it would be great to end my career on a positive note,” Baldwin said.

Toups, the team’s captain, concurred, saying that he would love to end the season on a hot streak.

Lyon named to U.S. National Team

The class of 2015 has certainly made an impact in their final season. Hsieh, Campbell and Toups make up three of the four players who have appeared in every game for the Bulldogs this season.

They also have the three highest batting averages on the team: 0.371, 0.321 and 0.295 respectively.

The senior class enters its final series with a record of 58–99–1. There have been numerous highlights throughout the past four years, including an 8–7 win against then-No. 3 Louisiana State University last season before finishing second in the Red Rolfe Division, just one game shy of the Championship Series following a loss in a one-game playoff with Dartmouth.

“Obviously it’s tough for us seniors knowing we’re putting on the Yale uniform for the last time this coming weekend,” Campbell said. “But we’re all thankful for the opportunity we’ve had to represent the school, and we’re going to do everything we can to win these next four games to give the program a rolling start into next season.”

The Elis play their final home doubleheader against Brown on Friday afternoon, beginning at 1 p.m.

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

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Last season, goaltender Alex Lyon ’17 led the nation with a 0.939 save percentage.

LYON FROM PAGE 12

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The Bulldogs are tied for last in the Red Rolfe Division with their opponent this weekend, Brown.

don’t lie.”

Lyon was also named first team AllIvy League and first team All-American this past season.

To top it all off, he earned the Ken Dryden Award for the best ECAC goalie and accepted the award just a few weeks ago.

“It gives our team unbelievable confidence knowing he’s there behind us,” forward Frankie DiCharia ’17 said.

“Just knowing that you have a goalie who has the ability to steal a game and make those key saves in moments where you need him to makes it a lot easier on us to play the game more freely all over the ice.”

The U.S. National Team roster features 11 players who played in the National Hockey League last season.

In addition, Lyon will also be joined by four other college players, includ-

ing fellow Ivy League player Jimmy Vesey, a forward from Harvard.

The team will be led by current NHL coach Todd Richards, who served as the assistant coach for the 2014 U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Team in Sochi, Russia. Richards led the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 42–35 record in the NHL this season, finishing 11th in the Eastern Conference.

Lyon said he has no great expectation to receive game time, and that he will focus more on practicing and competing hard. Lyon will most likely compete for playing time with other U.S. goaltenders, but he is currently the only goalie listed on the National Team roster.

Forward Mark Arcobello ’10, who played for the Arizona Coyotes last season, was one of the NHL stars selected for the team. According to Arcobello, he is excited to practice and compete with a fellow Bulldog. Arco-

Elis face Crimson in Cambridge

bello does not have a contract for next year so he will use the time in Prague to showcase his own skills in hopes of garnering NHL attention.

“I think that anytime that you get the opportunity to represent your country it is definitely a huge honor,” Arcobello said.

Lyon believes that the professional style of Yale hockey will benefit his transition to the National Team.

Furthermore, Lyon views his time with the national team as a way to gauge where he stacks up.

“I am looking forward to seeing where I am at in my career and seeing how I measure up,” Lyon said. “I have skated with high-caliber players before, but this will probably be the best collection of players that I have ever played with.”

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .

From the bat to the pen COLUMN FROM PAGE 12

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Last season, the Bulldogs fell to the Crimson two matches in a row and lost their shot at returning to the NCAA tournament.

MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 cohesive style that led to their earlier success.

The Elis hope to regain their success, on both offense and defense, in Cambridge this weekend. The Crimson (6–7, 1–4 Ivy) have had an up-and-down season but find themselves entering the season’s final game sitting in the Ivy cellar.

Nonetheless, Harvard poses a challenge to the Bulldogs and has proved to be a dangerous opponent even in their losses. The Crimson defeated No. 9 Cornell on April 4, but has dropped their past two games to Penn and at Princeton.

Even in those defeats, Harvard

proved that it could hang with top teams like the Bulldogs. Both the Quakers and Tigers beat the Crimson by only a single goal, with Harvard crumpling under pressure and giving away a three-goal fourthquarter lead against Penn while staging a valiant comeback that fell just short against Princeton.

The Crimson is led by star attackman Devin Dwyer, whose 28 assists and 48 points both lead the team by a sizable margin. Dwyer also sits third in the Crimson’s rankings for ground balls, showing his versatility.

Discussing Harvard’s offense, attackman J.W. McGovern ’16 pinpointed Dwyer as the key to the

explosive Crimson attack.

“One of their standout players is Dwyer; he’s one of the best passers in the league and in the country,” McGovern said. “He’s got great vision and the other guys on Harvard’s offense are looking to cut and get open for him.”

Beating the Crimson would give the Elis some positive reinforcement heading into the Ivy tournament, in addition to providing much-needed revenge for last year’s painful season-ending losses.

For defenseman Michael Quinn ’16, the Harvard rivalry carries even more meaning than usual after last year’s difficult experience.

“Losing to Harvard twice in a

row last year is something that still resonates with the returning guys this year,” Quinn said. “Them winning the Ivy regular season title on our home field was a very sobering experience, and something that we’ve used to keep us focused for this weekend.”

Unlike last year, the Ivy title will not be at stake on Saturday. Nonetheless, for the seniors and for the entire Bulldog squad, Harvard remains as much of a must-win game as any on the schedule.

Yale visits Cambridge on Saturday. Face-off is at 4 p.m.

Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

was covering a 2–8 football team.

My reflection brought me back to a party I went to two years ago on the greatest night in the recent history of Yale Athletics: the men’s ice hockey team’s 4–0 demolition of Quinnipiac in the national championship game. In a conversation now made hazy by the effects of cheap beer and time passed, a disgruntled subject of one of my articles confronted me. He accused me, albeit in less kind terms, of hypocrisy for writing about sports that I couldn’t play.

He was right on at least one count: I couldn’t play. That was kind of the point. If I could have played his sport — or any other sport, for that matter — at the college level, I wouldn’t have been freezing to death in press boxes across the northeast. I would have been playing.

But something, whether it was God or my parents’ un-athletic genes, made sure that would not be the case. That same thing, however, instilled in me a love of sports that never went away.

The NCAA tells us that most college athletes will go pro in something other than sports. So too, will most college sportswriters go pro in something other than journalism.

Just as players hang up their cleats, we hang up our press passes.

Next year I’ll be in law school. Three years will pass and I’ll be a name and a desk and a “Condro, where on God’s green earth is that brief I asked for?”

Just like those student-athletes who play not for pro contracts or Olympic dreams, I wrote because I wanted to steal four extra years where sports were nothing but a passion. Four extra years where my life outside of classes revolved around games and stats. Four extra years for a kid who was so bad his coach made him bunt in a 0–2 count.

CHARLES CONDRO is a senior in Trumbull College. He is a former Sports Editor for the News.

This is his last column for the News. Contact him at charles.condro@yale.edu .

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Final series for Yale seniors

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER Even with the Yale baseball team eliminated from postseason contention, the Bulldogs hope to continue their three-game winning streak and send the seniors off on a high note this weekend against Brown.

BASEBALL The Elis (13–21, 4–12 Ivy) have had a disappointing season thus far, currently sitting in last place in the Red Rolfe Division, tied with Brown (9–26, 4–12). With just four games remaining, Yale has seen better results of as of late, splitting its last series against Harvard before defeating Wesleyan on Tuesday afternoon.

“Our approach as a team lately has just been to play as hard as we can, no matter the outcome,” left fielder Harrison White ’17 said. “It paid off for us against Harvard this past weekend and it paid off [yesterday] against Wesleyan. We’re going to take that same approach this Friday and Saturday against Brown. The three wins in a row definitely give us a little bit of momentum heading into that series, which is always a good thing.”

The two teams have similar offensive profiles, as Yale has a team batting average of 0.264 compared to Brown’s 0.266. Though the Bulldogs reach base at a slightly higher clip, 0.355 to 0.345, the Bears hit for more power, as evidenced by their higher slugging perSEE BASEBALL PAGE 10

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Lyon and the U.S. will travel to Ostrava and Prague, Czech Republic for the 2015 IIHF world championships.

BY JACOB MITCHELL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the 2–3 Yale loss to Boston University on March 27, Alex Lyon ’17 recorded 39 saves, including several dazzling stops that kept the Bulldogs close. When the final buzzer sounded, Lyon skated off of the ice for the last time of his sophomore season at Yale.

Lyon expected to have time to prepare for the subsequent fall when his junior season began. The accolades came, one after another, and then on April 14, nearly three weeks after the loss in the Northeast Regionals, Lyon received word that he was selected

to compete for the United States National Team in the 2015 International Ice Hockey Federation Men’s World Championship.

“It’s such an honor,” Lyon said.

“It’s a huge deal for me to get to play against guys that I emulate and look up to so I could not be more excited.”

The National Team is scheduled to face such hockey powerhouses as Finland, Norway and Russia. Lyon and the U.S. team will travel to Ostrava and Prague, Czech Republic for the tournament. The Baudette, Minnesota native, who has never been to Europe, said that he was excited to take in the culture and explore the cities.

With 10 career shutouts, Lyon already holds the record for the most career shutouts in Yale history as only a sophomore. He led the nation in 2015 with a 0.939 save percentage and seven shutouts.

Lyon played best in the Bulldogs’ toughest games. In the 12 games in which he faced offenses ranked in the top 20 in the nation, Lyon stopped 93 percent of the shots taken and posted three shutouts.

“He’s the best goalie in the country,” forward Mike Doherty ’17 said.

“Hands down. His numbers this year SEE LYON PAGE 10

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Yale ranks 291st out of 295 Division I schools in earned run average.

Bulldogs gear up for final Ivy game

CHARLES CONDRO

Four extra years I

can’t remember if the umpire actually verbalized the call, but it was plain as day. If you bunt with two strikes and it rolls foul, you’re out. I bunted with two strikes, and it rolled foul.

It wasn’t my idea. My coach had tugged at the bill of his cap as he spat Grizzly — the tugging the signal to FLIGHT bunt, the spitting a consequence of the OF THE ever-packed lip that made his speech CONDOR unintelligible.

I slunk back to the dugout, dragging my bat like a real-life version of Charlie Brown who had failed in his final chance to kick that damn football. I knew then as I slumped onto the cold metal bench that I had walked up to the plate for the last time.

When I came to New Haven a few months later, I traded my bat for a pen. All of a sudden I had the ability to affect a game like I never had before. I could influence how the outcome was portrayed simply by which events I included or left out, emphasized or played down. I could only find storylines, however; I could not create them.

Like many of my fellow seniors, I’ve begun to look back at my bright college years, both my successes and my failures, trying to define my four years here. It’s struck me, however, that my time in New Haven has been defined to a large extent by the successes and failures of others.

I’ve lived and died alongside the teams I’ve covered.

My friends can attest to the fact that my mood was often a direct reflection of the record of whichever team I was covering at the time. This was great when I was covering a playoff-bound basketball squad, and not so great when I SEE COLUMN PAGE 10

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The Bulldogs are 3–2 in the Ivy League entering their match against the Crimson, while Harvard is 1–4 in Ancient Eight matchups.

BY JONATHAN MARX CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For the men’s lacrosse seniors, their final games provide an opportunity to cement their Yale legacy. In their first two seasons on the team, Yale defeated Harvard in their final regular season game and advanced to the NCAA tournament.

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Last season, however, the Bulldogs lost 11–10 to the Crimson at home to conclude their regular schedule and dropped a 10–9 season-ending decision in Cambridge in the Ivy tournament, concluding their NCAA tournament streak.

On Saturday, Yale travels to Harvard for what is most likely the last of the seniors’ five matchups with the Crimson. Unlike past years, the Elis’ postseason fate most likely does not ride on

the outcome of their final game, but the Harvard contest is still important for re-establishing momentum after Saturday’s loss at Albany.

The No. 8 Bulldogs (9–3, 3–2 Ivy) squandered a 10–9 fourthquarter lead last weekend, giving up three goals in a span of under four minutes and falling to the No. 10 Great Danes by a one-goal margin, 12–11.

While Yale lost the matchup and their four-game winning

streak in Albany, midfielder Conor Mackie ’18 emphasized that the Bulldogs had some successful moments against the Great Danes.

“I think our defense did a good job on ball, trying to play more cohesive and on the same page,” Mackie said.

However, he mentioned that the offense struggled to control the tempo and play with the same SEE MEN’S LACROSSE PAGE 10

THE NUMBER OF CAREER SHUTOUTS MEN’S HOCKEY GOALTENDER ALEX LYON ’17 HAS EARNED WHILE A BULLDOG. Lyon holds the Yale record for most shutouts and is just halfway through his Yale career.