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CROSS CAMPUS If you can’t take the cold, then

go to the kitchen. Specifically, the kitchen in Commons, host to student cooks this evening for Final Cut 2015. Though the event will force Commons’ doors closed for lunch, the gourmet dinner just might make up for it. And remember: A chicken tender dinner goes to the best-represented residential college.

This is the end. Senior Class Gift season comes to a close tonight with an event at Harvest. Seniors with plans to head there from Final Cut will be living the good life that is endlessly flowing (free) food and drink.

Well, that settles that. We at

Yale love our media rankings.

The latest to make rounds was yesterday’s National Law Journal listing of the top Go-To Law Schools for 2015. Coming in just above the University of Southern California Gould School of Law was the 14th-ranked Yale Law School.

Good to know.

On the bench. Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79, hailing from the 14th best, played through the pain on Monday, sporting a cast on her right arm. The Washington Post reported that Justice Sotomayor received treatment on compressed nerves in her arm and will likely keep the cast on through the week.

All over Washington. Another

high-profile D.C. Yalie also had a busy Monday: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 worked in Geneva, Switzerland, to settle on terms with Iran preventing the nation from building nuclear bombs for the next several years.

On smart people. Monday’s Paul Krugman ’74 column in The New York Times weighed in on the relationship between education and income inequality. While Krugman claims that “Education is a friend of [his],” it’s not at the heart of the problem, he says.

By athletic people. The Yale Student Athlete College Council is stirring up campus support for Eli sports teams currently entering the home stretch. A hype video released by the Council last night called for support of the men’s basketball team in its final four games this year. Better late than never.

Rattled. Meanwhile, the

men’s lacrosse team is just getting things started. A story in Monday’s Baltimore Sun checked in with the University of Maryland squad that fell to Yale this weekend and, apparently, paid the price in practice yesterday. “We were pretty tough on them,” Coach John Tillman told the paper.

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Stark ’17 considers run for alder

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Fish Stark ’17 is formally investigating a run for Ward 1 alder.

Stark filed papers at the New Haven Hall of Records on Monday that formed an exploratory committee to investigate running for the seat on the city’s legislative body that represents the bulk of Yale College students. Although he said he has yet to decide whether he will run, Stark’s formation of an exploratory committee represents a major step towards a formal declaration.

Hedy Gutfreund ’18, the communications director for the Yale College Democrats, will serve as the committee’s treasurer.

Sarah Eidelson ’12, the current Ward 1 alder, has not yet announced whether she will seek a third term in November. Both Stark and Eidelson are Democrats, and on Monday, Stark registered his exploratory committee under a Democratic party affiliation.

Eidelson could not be reached for comment.

A member of Jonathan Edwards College, Stark previously served as the membership coordinator for the Yale Dems, but is currently without a leadership position in the organization. Stark, hailing from a small town near Annapolis, Maryland, comes from a political background — his father, Fortney “Pete” Stark Jr., served as a member of Congress representing various districts in California for 40 years until he narrowly lost his seat in 2013.

Stark said he has spent recent weeks discussing the role of the Ward 1 alder in informal conversations with members of the Yale

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also seeks a third term, the two will compete for the Democratic nomination later this year, said Jacob Wasserman ’16, co-chair of the Ward 1 Democratic Committee and vice president of the Dems.

He said the ward committee’s endorsement vote will take place before the end of the academic year.

The candidate who wins the ward

Although the opening of the new residential colleges in 2017 will begin to increase the size of the student body by 15 percent, the number of student jobs is unlikely to see a proportionate boost.

Currently, over half of the Yale College population holds at least one student job, manager of the Student Employment Office Heather Abati said. She said that even in the face of cutbacks in federal support for work study programs, the University remains committed to providing enough jobs for its students, especially those on financial aid. But it is unclear how the University intends to accommodate job seekers in an expanded student body, especially when students say the current employment process is already highly competitive.

University Librarian Susan Gibbons said that at present, the University does not expect the opening of the new colleges to require additional student workers in the Yale University Library system. Gibbons’ remarks were consistent with those of Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan and Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi, who said the University as a whole does not intend to make any changes to student employment policies.

“Yale is not necessarily expecting an increase in [student job] applications to accompany the increase in the size of Yale

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Fish Stark ’17 filed papers to form an exploratory committee to investigate running for Ward 1 alder. community. He added that the formation of the exploratory committee marks a “continuation of what we’ve been doing so far.”

“I just want to keep continuing those conversations,” Stark said.

“This is a way of formalizing that, and of showing that we’re really serious about considering this possibility.”

If Stark does decide to run for alder as a Democrat and Eidelson

Users say MyChart fails to meet expectations

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER As Yale Health begins to push MyChart enrollment to students, current users are warning students to push back.

On Monday afternoon, Yale Health sent out a campuswide email encouraging students to enroll in MyChart, an online interface that allows patients to interact with Yale Health providers. The email also said MyChart allows users

to request appointments and view test results and medication information using the portal. But current users — who were also initially told that they could refill prescriptions with the website — warn that MyChart does not function as advertised.

“The whole thing does not work like they claim it works,” said senior administrative assistant at the Yale Writing Center and MyChart user Walter Foery. While the physi-

cian messaging capability has been functional for him since he registered for MyChart shortly after the application’s launch, he said he is unable to use MyChart for anything else.

MyChart is part of an effort to move away from paper records. Administrators at Yale Health hope to create a system where students no longer need to call Yale Health for basic administrative tasks.

However, current users note that this goal is far from being

Wheelchair accessibility leaves much to be desired

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER When Christina Kim ’16 showed up for the first day of her math class in Leet Oliver Memorial Hall, she could not get to her classroom — the building is not wheelchair accessible. Only after she consulted with Judith York, director of Yale’s Resource Office on Disabilities, was the class finally moved to William L. Harkness Hall a week later.

There are many resources in place for students with disabilities at Yale.

The ROD is dedicated entirely to accommodating such students and provides services from note-taking to special transportation. Moreover, the majority of buildings on campus are designed to be accessible to people with mobility impairments.

However, even after resources like elevators and automatic doors are put in place, practical barriers to accessibility still confront students.

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, public buildings constructed prior to 1992 — the

vast majority of Yale’s buildings — do not need to be made handicapaccessible until they are scheduled for a major renovation. But with a renewed wave of construction and renovations across campus, accessibility issues have again come to the forefront, as the ADA mandates that all new construction be fully compliant with accessibility codes.

According to York, the University makes accessibility adjustments whenever the need arises, even if the ADA does not specifically mandate them. For example, she said, although the ADA does not require that internal doors be automatic, her office will install automatic internal doors in a residential space where a student requires them.

But Benjamin Nadolsky ’18, who uses a wheelchair to get around campus, said this type of proactivity is the least that Yale can do.

“The ADA allows for a lot of good things, but it’s also lenient on other things,” he said. “Yale can get by SEE HANDICAP PAGE 6

achieved, and that the information on the MyChart website is misleading.

“When you activate your MyChart account, you will immediately be able to request appointments with your primary care clinician,” the MyChart FAQ page reads.

However, on MyChart’s appointment scheduling page, none of these providers are listed as eligible for online scheduling. While it is possible for students to request

appointments, and be notified if their request has been approved within two business days, it is not possible for anyone to directly schedule appointments with Yale Health providers.

Foery — who has been on MyChart for roughly a year — said the website has been displaying the online scheduling option prominently on its homepage for over a year despite SEE MYCHART PAGE 6

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s gun rights advocates push to legalize firearms on college campuses, an argument is taking shape: Arming female students will help reduce sexual assaults.”

When I saw these words printed in The New York Times, I assumed they were an ill-conceived editorial joke. Someone had decided to parody the gun lobby’s penchant for unevidenced non-sequiturs. The piece’s flippancy towards sexual assault seemed like edgy, but probably well-intentioned, satire. And then I realized the article was listed under “News.”

Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore puts the argument for arming female students like this: “If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them.

The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head.” If girls have guns, they can shoot would-be rapists in self-defense. Wouldbe rapists do not want to get shot. Therefore, would-be rapists won’t rape, and the rate of sexual assault on college campuses will decline.

This reasoning gravely misstates the central drivers of campus rape. It also demonstrates the pervasive solipsism of the gun lobby, which seems incapable of separating gun rights from every other political issue. So, in order to disabuse gun enthusiasts of their absurd delusions, let’s take a look at how sexual assault really happens.

Expert consensus is that most rapists already know their victims. Shooting a stranger in a back alley is one thing. Shooting an acquaintance — and in some cases a friend — is quite another.

Even when sexual assault occurs in a victim’s room, where she keeps her putative gun, this fact complicates matters. Could a woman in this situation reach for her gun? Perhaps. But would she? That isn’t a given.

Consider, too, that sexual assault sometimes begins with consensual sexual activity (this is one reason these cases are so ambiguous and challenging to adjudicate fairly). I’d guess that, generally, most people do not have sex while armed. So, if an encounter begins willingly but then turns ugly, what’s the likelihood a victim will be able to extricate herself in time to reach for a gun? Not terribly high.

These situational realities suggest arming women will not increase their safety as significantly as GOP lawmakers might hope. Gun apologists could of course protest that this policy still has some potential to protect women. But the most damning objection to guns on campus is this: They have a far higher potential to kill women and men than to save them.

There is a strong positive

correlation between alcohol consumption and sexual assault.

I m a g ine women AARON begin bringSIBARIUM ing guns to parties. And imagine The that, as per Moderator usual, they and their male counterparts have a bit too much to drink. Guns, alcohol, hormones all in one place.

Why does this sound like a terrible idea?

Probably because, by the NRA’s own admission, it is.

“Never use alcohol or over-thecounter, prescription or other drugs before or while shooting,” warn the NRA gun safety rules in a rare instance of social responsibility. Conservatives often stress the importance of personal responsibility and training to preventing gun accidents.

By that logic, letting women — or men — bring loaded firearms to a party is absurd. What happens when an enterprising frat brother decides to borrow his date’s gun for an exciting new twist on beer pong? Or when a lonely, mentally ill youth shows up to the party, grabs a gun and opens fire on a crowd of drunk college students? What happens when the drunk college students try to fight back but can’t aim properly?

Such objections are too obvious for this to be an honest policy faux pas. Democrats, Republicans and sexual assault activists should not be afraid to call Ms. Fiore’s bill what it is: a despicable attempt to exploit an emotionally charged issue for political motives.

Controlling the quantity of alcohol consumed at parties, improving services for victims, encouraging dialogue about healthy sexual behavior — none of these things will stop sexual assault, but at least they get at its root causes. Guns will not disincentivize rapists — but they will magnify the consequences of alcohol-induced stupidity and make campus less safe for all students, not just women.

The gun lobby’s latest antics do not signify a newfound concern for women’s safety. They signify an appalling willingness to make a mockery of a serious issue. If gun apologists really care about stopping sexual assault, they should pursue relevant, well-informed legislation that will actually make a difference. They should not use sexual assault as pretext to push through their appallingly myopic agenda.

AARON SIBARIUM is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. His column usually runs on alternate Mondays. Contact him at aaron.sibarium@yale.edu .

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do to help with this.”

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A dean who listens I

have contributed to these pages for nearly two years now, and not once have I used my 700 words to praise the Yale administration. In general, I think that trend is both natural and perfectly justifiable. Citizens do not rally at the town square to demonstrate when they are perfectly pleased with the status quo. Neither do writers pen letters to the editor just to say the kids are all right.

But this column breaks with opinion writers’ combative tradition to laud Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway for finally being the kind of administrator students deserve. Over the last year, he has broken the mold to prove that, with enough effort, administrators can make active listening an institutional part of their job.

I must admit I began as one of Holloway’s sharpest critics. Indeed, my very first column for the News as a freshman columnist pointedly criticized him for blocking gender-neutral housing in his role as chair of the Council of Masters. When rumors began to swirl that he might replace Mary Miller as dean, I joined several students in calling for an undergraduate to be on the decanal search committee. The hope was that he or she could speak against any would-be administrators who

were going to hold up progress.

But as dean, Holloway has defied my expectations. Outlining a model TYLER adminBLACKMON other istrators should folBack to low, Holloway swallowed Blackmon his pride and reversed his opinion on gender-neutral housing after listening to actual students whose lived experiences gave him a new perspective. For once, it seemed to student activists, an administrator had trusted students with a high-level policy decision directly affecting our lives.

Though that decision meant a lot to me personally, I’ve come to realize it was indicative of a dean who listens. Throughout his tenure, Holloway has rightfully earned a reputation as one who truly values student voices in his decision-making process.

For example, in the ongoing discourse about mental health, students and the administration have rarely seen eye-to-eye. And though our disagreements continue, few can question Holloway's genuine efforts to ascer-

tain how students feel about Yale Mental Health and Counseling. His responses to student concerns have been quick, and his ongoing work on readmission policies shows he is committed to putting words into action.

Next week, Holloway has even promised to stop by a meeting of the Yale College Council to discuss the issue further.

Controversy has also arisen regarding Yale’s cultural houses.

Much like mental health concerns, students have fundamental disagreements with the University over how to proceed. But regardless of the eventual results of this reform process, there has been little doubt throughout that Holloway was listening.

In an email to the student body presumably responding to a student petition calling for the resignation of Rodney Cohen, the director of the Afro-American Cultural Center, Holloway validated passionate student voices by saying, “We give you our promise to take action informed by your good counsel.”

This analysis of Holloway’s leadership may prove controversial for some students, but we must remember a key distinction between a leader who listens to students and one who blindly turns every student proposal into reality. As students, we have never demanded the latter.

Sadly, Holloway's genuine desire to listen sets him apart from others in the administration. On the opposite end of the spectrum lies the Yale Corporation, a body that met last week under a shroud of secrecy so thick it would put the society tap process to shame. Those at the highest level at Yale not only do not solicit student input; they actively avoid it at all costs.

So there are a couple of lessons to be learned here: first, that the University as a whole should operate a lot more like Jonathan Holloway. Doing so would not only enrich the undergraduate experience but would also heal the deep mistrust between students and their administrators.

But the second lesson is for students: We must take more seriously our role as policy developers at this University.

Yale often makes misinformed decisions about mental health, housing and financial aid simply because not enough students think they have the power to speak up. For the Holloway model to work, we must be active participants in our own governance.

TYLER BLACKMON is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. His column runs on alternate Tuesdays.

Contact him at tyler.blackmon@yale.edu .

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My glimpse into admissions I

n about a month, hundreds of high school students around the country will receive a letter of admission from Yale and wonder, “Why me?” Last Thursday, after almost four years at Yale, I had the opportunity to find answers to this question.

On Jan. 17, I submitted a request to view a copy of my admissions files to the Registrar’s Office, under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Passed in 1974, FERPA gives students over 18 years old the right to “inspect and review” education records kept by schools and universities. Last year, a group of students at Stanford discovered that they could invoke this provision of FERPA to successfully request to view their admissions records, including the comments that application readers had written about them.

Admissions processes at Ivy League schools are notoriously opaque, and I had my suspicions about them. With over 27,000 applications to read the year I applied, how could the Yale Admissions Office have devoted enough attention to each application to properly evaluate it? How do admissions counselors distinguish between so many qualified candidates? Does the admissions process simply incentivize high school students to develop ridiculous extracurricular resumes? Is it true, as Harvard professor Steven Pinker claims, that top-tier universities select fewer than 10

percent of students based on academic merit?

So, I submitted a FERPA request to view my admissions SCOTT hopGREENBERG records, ing to better underThe Segue stand how Yale chooses each class of freshmen. Twenty-three days after my request, the Admissions Office set up a 30-minute time slot in which I could view my admissions records, including the worksheets filled out by those who read and evaluated my application. While I was not allowed to make a copy or take a picture of these records, I took extensive notes and learned a great deal about how the admissions process works.

High school students might be relieved to learn, for instance, that Yale admissions officers don’t look up their Facebook profiles, track their campus visits or know basically anything about them other than the information they include in their applications.

This is, of course, both a positive and a negative. Going through my admissions worksheets, I was struck by just how little application readers knew about me apart from the descriptions and essays I had carefully curated (none of my readers, for better or for worse,

referenced my “short takes”).

Much of their information was encoded in numbers: Each of my recommendations was scored on a scale of 1–9, my grades and scores were compiled into an academic index on a scale of 240 and I even received a score for “personal/extracurricular” activities.

Given this limited information, I was surprised and impressed by how much the readers of my application were able to glean about my personality. While my first reader went through my application section by section in her comments, it was clear that she was synthesizing different portions of my application to create a holistic picture of my character and interests. At one point, she noted how a comment I had made in one of my essays fit thematically with some of my extracurricular commitments, for instance.

Yet, any broad themes about my life that my readers identified were almost certainly those that I intended them to pick up on when I wrote the application four years ago. It is often said that, above all else, Yale’s admissions process implicitly selects for high school students who can craft a good personal narrative to sell themselves. Viewing my admissions records did not contradict this hypothesis. I like to think that I represented myself honestly in my application, yet I was somewhat disturbed by how easily I was able to convey a certain set of personal qualities that all three of my read-

ers picked up on.

Of course, the Admissions Office probably cares almost as much about applicants’ backgrounds as their personal qualities, and this was also reflected in my records. The worksheet contained extensive demographic information, a checkbox for whether I lived in a “low-income” zip code and a textbox that noted my parents’ occupations. Presumably, because the Admissions Office is need-blind, it relies on these various proxies to estimate applicants’ socio-economic status. Yet, presumably, like most of the other portions of the application, the information provided by these proxies has an uncomfortably high ratio of noise to signal.

All in all, the anecdotal evidence from reviewing my own records is insufficient for all of the bold claims that I want to make about the admissions process: that it prizes self-promotion over hard work, long lists of extracurriculars over love of learning and superficial measures of diversity over a truly well-rounded student body. What I did learn is that Admissions Officers review applications more carefully than I thought, but the limited information they have to work with makes admissions, at the end of the day, mostly a matter of luck.

SCOTT GREENBERG is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. His column runs on Tuesdays. Contact him at scott.greenberg@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.” HARRY TRUMAN FORMER AMERICAN PRESIDENT

CORRECTIONS TUESDAY, FEB. 17

A previous version of the article “Bright stars, dim galaxies” misidentified study co-author Johan Richard as a female.

MONDAY, FEB. 23

The caption for a photo that ran alongside the article “New masters search nears end” mistakenly stated that Timothy Dwight College Master Jeffrey Brenzel would be retiring. In fact, he is merely stepping down from his position as master.

The headline of the Sports Monday article “Sweep clinches ECAC playoff berth” incorrectly stated that the women’s hockey team clinched a berth in the ECAC playoffs this weekend. In fact, the team clinched a spot on Friday, Feb. 13. The headline has since been changed online to “Elis finish weekend with two wins.” The article also incorrectly referred to Yale’s second goal against Princeton as having occurred in a four-on-three situation, when it was actually a five-on-four situation.

Medical Campus Data Center to close

BY LARRY MILSTEIN AND AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTERS After 15 years, the Yale Medical Campus Data Center power down for good.

Last week, the University announced it would be closing the center — which once housed over 250 physical computer servers that contain research software and applications — this March due to cost-saving and efficiency measures.

The decision will save Yale roughly $350,000 per year and is part of a larger University effort to consolidate these once critical data hubs as the spaces become increasingly expensive and inefficient to maintain. Yale’s two other data centers — one on central campus and the other on West Campus — will become the new locations for some of the data still at the Medical Center. The data centers across campus are dedicated spaces where some of the University’s most important network components and information is stored and protected. The data that are not stored on those campuses will be stored in the cloud.

Though both administrators and faculty interviewed said the closing is unlikely to have a large impact on users on the medical or central campuses, the shift to greater virtualization signals a broader change in the nature of information storage on campus.

“It is possible that we may be closing other data centers in the coming years to gain operational efficiency and financial savings,” said Susan West, associate director of strategic communications for Yale’s Information Technology Services. “This does reflect the trend of greater use of applications that are hosted in the cloud.”

In general, research data are either held by individual researchers through secured connections or entrusted to offsite data centers, said Nihar Desair, professor of cardiology and member of the Center for Outcomes, Research and Evaluation. As a result, oncampus data centers have become a relic of the past, he added.

West said the decision to shutter the Medical Campus Data Center’s doors was motivated by both fiscal and pragmatic concerns. She added that there is currently unused capacity in the other two data centers on central campus and West Campus, and the medical campus data center was not ideally located since it is in a flood zone.

This is not the first time ITS has closed its data centers in recent years. Since 2010, the University has shut down two other data centers on campus and coordinated the relocation of the equipment on site, West said.

Most recently in 2013, the Becton Data Center — which housed 300 servers and storage devices — was decommissioned due to aging heating and cooling systems that would have required a $2.5 million capital investment, wrote Lou Tiseo, director of Data Center Services, in the ITS announcement at the time. Like the Medical Campus Center, the site was shut down as more information previously housed at the location was moved to virtual platforms.

Despite these cost cutting measures and downscaling of operations, West said no jobs are being cut or relocated as a result.

She added that ITS plans to conduct a data center strategy study to analyze the future of Yale’s data centers as technology evolves in

computer storage and the needs of the campus change.

The news of the data center closing prompted little reaction among members of the medical community interviewed. Of the 12 physician-researchers surveyed, eight had no knowledge that a data center existed, and the four that were aware did not know the details of the closure, including Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern. Though Alpern said he knew almost nothing about the specifics of the center, he was reassured that the closure will not affect services at the school and is part of a broader efficiency effort.

“I’ve never had to use it, and I’ve never heard of it,” said Desair, explaining that his lack of knowledge reflects the limited utilization of the space of it speaks well to how highly utilized the data center is, as far as he is aware.

We may be closing other data centers […] to gain operational efficiency and financial savings.

SUSAN WEST Associate Director for Strategic Communications, Yale ITS Dean of the School of Public Health Paul Cleary noted that ITS has been pursuing a targeted strategy to increase the quality and efficiency of research and computing over the past several years. Cleary said he had not been informed of whether the data center’s capacity will be replaced but agreed with Alpern that it is unlikely that researchers, staff or students at their respective schools will be negatively impacted.

While most of CORE’s research is conducted on site, numerous security precautions must be taken to keep the data secure, including holding some data off site and using highly secured lines to transmit secure data online. As a result, CORE, like other research projects holding patient information, has no need for the Medical Campus Data Center.

Desair added that neither small nor large research projects would require on-campus data handling.

If a study is of a relatively small scale, but still requires collecting data such as protected health information, researchers tend to keep it on their own storage devices. However, when the numbers of participants or data points in a survey increase, it is the norm for that data to be housed off site or sent to a third party.

“For anything large scale, the rule is to send it to a third party,” Desai said, adding that though there are sometimes exceptions to this rule, researchers typically turn to contract research organizations due to privacy concerns.

He added that the Institutional Review Board — which is responsible for overseeing human research — takes these precautions into consideration when deciding whether a study is ethical.

Only 150 servers remain in the Medical Campus Data Center as of February, nearly 100 servers fewer than the center housed at its peak.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu and AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

OCS expands gov’t resources

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER Having received complaints from students concerning the murky process of applying to government jobs — with their long applications and security clearances — the Office of Career Strategy is expanding its resources in this area.

Government is one of the most popular career sectors for students after graduation, OCS Director Jeanine Dames said, with nearly 12 percent of the class of 2014 employed at government agencies and public institutions.

Dames said navigating the government job search can be difficult due to the vast number of opportunities available and the demanding expectations of certain application processes. Jobs at certain agencies require lengthy security clearances, she said, and the larger federal agencies have longer applications and interview processes beginning in the fall.

Joshua Altman ’17 echoed this statement, noting that all of the public sector positions to which he applied had multiple-stage hiring processes that spanned the course of a few months.

“The main difficulties in pursuing a career in government are a lack of information and the length of the process,” Altman said. “Since the recruiting process is external to Yale, OCS naturally has less information on the distinct recruiting process, which, in my experience, is a lot more bureaucratic than many positions in the private sector.

Without on-campus recruiting, the public sector recruiting process is less familiar to Yale students.”

He added that often the incentive to go through these cumbersome processes is that government agencies offer an exceptionally wide range of opportunities to students. For instance, Altman said, the State Department offers positions around the globe.

Many students also choose to enter government at the state and local levels.

“It all depends on the impact the student wants to have,” Dames said. “A lot of students think of government [careers] as working at federal government agencies, but it’s also important for students to think about state and local government. Some-

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The Office of Career Strategy is expanding its resources for students applying to public sector jobs. times more of an impact can be made at the local level.”

Assistant Director of OCS Stephanie Waite said students have pursued careers with the CIA and FBI, while others look toward technical organizations such as the Missile Defense Agency. OCS hosted an event last week with the MDA, in which engineering students were able to learn about some of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics-oriented roles available at government agencies, Waite said.

OCS hosted the first government networking event for this academic year last September, Waite said, in which students were able to speak with representatives from several different government agencies and organizations. Fifteen different organizations were present, including the State Department, Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy’s office, the IRS and the Peace Corps, Waite said.

Waite said OCS is holding a U.S. Foreign Service Information Session next month with Ana Escrogima, Foreign Service Officer and diplomat-in-residence.

OCS had already received several RSVPs for the event, Waite said, which is relatively uncommon for an event that is more than a week away.

Despite the expansion of resources in this area, students interviewed said the government

job search remains challenging, especially when seeking summer internships.

“As an economics and political science double major, I am interested in both finance and government internships,” Siddhi Surana ’17 said. “However, financeand business-related internships are much more accessible and recognizable to students through [OCS] than ones related to the government or [the] State Department.”

Surana added that OCS should offer a more comprehensive database for internships in this sector.

Altman said the internship and job positions on OCS are disproportionately grouped in the private sector, resulting in a dearth of openings in the public sector. This may be due to government agencies and politicians hiring through their own channels, he said, but OCS could help connect interested students with alumni currently working in government.

“Unlike other industries, which have specific hiring timelines and can anticipate their hiring needs well in advance, a lot of the government positions are coming up on an as-needed basis,” Waite said. “A lot of the work we do is connecting students interested in entering the federal government with specific contacts, and giving students a heads up about the long process

ahead.”

She added that OCS has established many online resources over the past year for students interested in government and public service, such as the “Explore Careers” pages, which provide information for students looking at government fellowships, opportunities in Foreign Service, positions at think tanks and congressional internships. Further, seniors can sign up for the OCS public service panlist, in which opportunities are emailed out to students, Waite said.

In addition to the info session that will be held in March, OCS has other events planned for this spring, such as a CIA information session, and smaller discussion groups for seniors interested in government and public service careers, Waite said.

“This is part of a larger effort to make sure students know about the careers available in the area that we define very broadly as public service,” Dames said.

“What’s really important is that students are educated early on about the variety of opportunities that exist in these areas, which might be challenging to navigate because they’re not organizations that have the resources or the bandwidth to place themselves right in front of students.”

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

Officials seek to bring “lean urbanism” to city

BY MRINAL KUMAR STAFF REPORTER Four years after city officials launched an initiative to improve road safety in New Haven, the project is being revamped to emphasize low-cost solutions.

Complete Streets 2.0 is set to kick off in May with renovations on Edgewood Avenue. The original Complete Streets projects, which launched in September 2010, focused on expensive infrastructure changes to New Haven roads with the goal of enhancing safety and usability. Led by Douglas Hausladen ’04, director of the Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking, and City Engineer Giovanni Zinn ’05, the new Complete Streets project focuses on improving roads quickly using low-cost solutions.

“The real impact will be threefold: better projects, faster projects and more affordable projects,” said Zinn. “Previously, we were able to do about two to four projects a year. We want to bump that up by a factor of 10.”

Hausladen said Mayor Toni Harp has been pushing for more of a “lean urbanism” approach that emphasizes cheap and temporary procedures like painting, signing and planter installations over more resource-heavy procedures like curbing and infrastructure adjustment. Complete Streets 2.0 will follow this model, placing an emphasis on more efficient techniques.

Hausladen said much of this approach is based off its success in other parts of the country, including New York City.

In the original Complete Streets project, fixing an intersection cost $500,000. With Complete Streets 2.0, the same project can be completed for $50,000, according to Haus-

laden.

Zinn stressed that Complete Streets 2.0 will benefit all road users equally, including pedestrians and cyclists.

“This is a philosophical change,” Zinn said. “Previously, the worst incarnation of traffic engineering was where you’re slave to the car and nothing else was served. In Complete Streets 2.0, you’re not only serving cars — you’re serving pedestrians and cyclists and all the users of the street.”

Like its predecessor, Complete Streets 2.0 will be localized in its impact, according to Hausladen, since projects often involve renovations to a small portion of a street.

Zinn said projects are started by someone in the community sending in an application or suggestion.

Currently, Hausladen and Zinn are working with the Resource Allocation Committee to figure out which applications to work out first. Within a month, they expect to have 10 projects planned. The Edgewood Avenue redesign will replace twolane traffic in each direction with one travel lane each way, creating more room for a protected bike lane. This project will be completed using cheaper materials than were used for the first Complete Streets program. Whereas the first Complete Streets project involved creating curbs that cost $40 a foot, the new project uses striping which costs 40 cents a foot. Hausladen said he expects that the entire Edgewood Avenue project will cost under $80,000.

Ivonne Gonzales ’16, who regularly cycles on Edgewood Avenue, said she would benefit from the project.

“I have ridden my bike on Edgewood Avenue many times before, and I usually have to use

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The Complete Streets 2.0 Initiative seeks to improve roads in New Haven. the sidewalk. It can sometimes be a little dangerous — the road winds and bends, and you can’t see the incoming traffic,” she said.

Hausladen said another advantage of Complete Streets 2.0 is how easily projects can be adjusted or even removed.

He explained that with low cost approaches, designs can be tested without risk of losing a large investment.

Zinn said Complete Streets 2.0 is not looking to rebuild New Haven, but rather to reconfigure it in subtle but effective ways.

Hausladen admitted that the temporary and cheap nature of

the materials used threatens the stability of Complete Streets 2.0.

“I wish I could rebuild New Haven,” he said. “But that would take 100 years. In the interim, we can try to focus on temporary pilot installations, which will last five to 10 years.”

In addition to the Edgewood Avenue project, Complete Streets 2.0 includes plans for renovating Clinton Avenue and Cleveland Road.

Stephanie Addenbrooke contributed reporting.

Contact MRINAL KUMAR at mrinal.kumar@yale.edu .

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“Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.”

MAGGIE GALLAGHER AMERICAN WRITER

No plans exist to increase student jobs after new colleges open 274 students work in the University library system (all 15 libraries).

The Center for Language Study employs 94 student foreign langage tutors.

The Admissions Office employs 65 student tour guides.

www.yalestudentjobs.org As of Feb. 20, 2015: Over 300 job openings are posted on the student employment database.

Fall 2014: Yale College students worked more than 197,000 hours and earned more than $2.6 million in over 8,255 jobs.

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STUDENT JOBS FROM PAGE 1 College,” Quinlan said.

More than half of the 12 students interviewed spoke about applying to at least 20 jobs, only to hear back from three or four.

Kevin Hwang ’17, who currently holds three jobs on campus, said there is often a delay when it comes to hearing from potential employers after applications are submitted. Hwang said there is already a high demand for part-time jobs, and he expects that the increased number of students on workstudy packages would increase the demand for student jobs.

“A lot of us try to find jobs initially through the Yale student employment website, but, from personal experience, most employers listed on the

website don’t respond or keep up with their postings once they’ve found someone to work for them, leaving applicants in limbo,” Hwang said.

The Center for Language Study currently employs 94 students in the foreign language tutoring program, according to Assistant Director for Specialized and Interdisciplinary Language Programs Angela Gleason.

Tutors are hired according to need, Gleason said, and there are 40 to 50 prospective tutors on the waiting list every semester.

Vanessa Ague ’17, who applied to become a campus tour guide her freshman year, said tour guide positions are already so hard to come by that it was hard to imagine how the Visitor Center and Admissions Office — under both of which tour guides

are employed — would respond to a potential uptick in applications for the job.

“If they don’t [hire more tour guides], there are going to be more competitive cuts at each round,” Ague said. “They could be cutting hundreds of people.

It’s a job everyone wants.”

Director of the Visitor Center Nancy Franco said there are currently 65 campus tour guides — not including engineering or science tour guides, who undergo a different hiring process. This year, 188 people applied to be a tour guide, and only 15 to 20 will be accepted.

But Grace Chiang ’15 said the biggest challenge to student workers is finding enough hours at a high enough wage to cover the student contribution of financial aid packages. Chiang

said she too applied to every job for which she was qualified on the student employment website only to hear back from two, one of which she eventually had to quit because the available shifts could not work with her schedule.

“It’s impossible to fulfill [the student contribution for financial aid packages] if you don’t work during term time,” Chiang said. “If the hundreds of new students they’re admitting maintain the same ratio of financial aid, you need that many more jobs.”

In aggregate, Yale College students worked more than 197,000 hours in over 8,200 jobs in the fall of 2014, Abati said.

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

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As Yale expands, students are concerned about whether or not they will be able to fulfill their contribution to the financial aid packages .

Considering Ward 1 run, Stark ’17 forms exploratory committee WARD 1 FROM PAGE 1 committee endorsement vote will appear on the top line of the primary ballot as the officially endorsed Democratic candidate.

But the Dems, an organization separate from the ward committee, will not endorse a candidate should both Stark and Eidelson run, said Tyler Blackmon ’16, president of the Dems and a columnist for the News. He said members of the Dems are free to support whomever they like, but the organization will make no

official endorsement until after the primary. He also said the organization will still remain involved in the race by running voter registration drives and organizing debates between the candidates.

Gutfreund, the exploratory committee’s treasurer, said Stark would be a strong candidate for alder, but she emphasized that he has not yet made a decision on whether to run. As treasurer, Gutfreund said, she will handle all monetary issues relating to the committee, but she added that the campaign is not currently seeking

financial support.

Stark said that, if he runs for alder, he will seek to foster a culture of community engagement among Yale students. He said his background as the Dems’ membership coordinator, a position in which he “worked to engage freshmen and get them to go out of the Yale bubble,” has prepared him well for the role of Ward 1 alder. Stark also emphasized that he feels the Ward 1 alder should be a current Yale student.

“It’s very important that we have an alder that is present, visi-

ble, vocal on campus, that is regularly engaging with group leaders, who is communicating with the student body through newsletters of social media,” Stark said. “And I think there’s an extent to which that role is best filled by someone who is a current student and has those connections on campus.”

In the fall of 2013, eighteen months after she had graduated, Eidelson defeated Republican challenger Paul Chandler ’14 to win a second term on the Board.

Stark has been heavily involved in the New Haven community

since his arrival at Yale. Last summer, he taught classes to New Haven middle and high school students as a President’s Public Service Fellow at Squash Haven, a selective youth development program. As a commissioner on the New Haven Peace Commission — to which he was appointed earlier this year — he said he works to create a “culture of peace in the city” alongside “progressive” city leaders such as Alfred Marder, director of the Amistad Commission, and Joelle Fishman, a former congressional candidate for the

Communist Party.

Stark said he has not yet met with Eidelson to discuss his prospective candidacy, but he plans to do so in the near future.

Amalia Halikias ’15, communications director for the Yale College Republicans, declined to comment on whether Stark’s move will affect the Republicans’ decision to run a candidate for alder.

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

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“You’re always better off if you quit smoking; it’s never too late.”

LONI ANDERSON AMERICAN ACTRESS

Campaign to make city smoke-free slow to develop

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Three months after its launch, the city’s campaign to be smokefree by June is at a standstill.

Last November, Mayor Toni Harp partnered with the University and several city departments to inaugurate the New Haven Smokeout, a city-wide effort to eliminate smoking.

The American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout — a one-day event on the third Thursday of November that encourages smokers to quit — spurred the proposed campaign, which includes plans to implement anti-smoking education programs in public schools and to provide city residents with resources to quit. The Smokeout aimed to have the city be smoke-

free by June, but City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said this deadline would likely be missed.

“We’re working on it,” Grotheer said. “But there’s nothing to report yet.”

The city, however, has published on its website a document listing local clinics that conduct programs to help smokers quit.

The document also provides links to websites with advice about quitting smoking.

Additionally, the document includes directions on how to use a statewide hotline — dubbed the “CT Quit line.” The hotline offers counseling services in English and Spanish and sets up callers with personal “Quit Coaches” who help them develop personalized plans to quit smoking.

Grotheer said easing city residents’ efforts to quit smoking was a priority for both Harp and Health Department officials. Lower rates of smoking in the city will drive down healthcare costs, he added.

“We’re trying raise awareness among residents of the harmful health effects of smoking,” he said.

Martha Okafor, City Community Services administrator, said the city officials involved in the New Haven Smokeout have divided into four task forces. The first team is working to develop posters as part of a city-wide anti-smoking campaign. Another group is drafting legislation to designate public parks and school grounds as smoke-free zones. A third team has focused on developing pre-

vention programming for youth in schools. Finally, a fourth team is working to help city residents quit smoking.

We’re trying to raise awareness among residents of the harmful effects of smoking.

LAURENCE GROTHEER City Hall Spokesman Okafor added that the first event of the New Haven Smokeout would be the “Kick Butt Campaign” in March — an education program targeting city youth.

Charaign Sesock, media rela-

tions officer for the American Cancer Society, said that, while she has seen several college campuses use the Great American Smokeout to organize a day’s worth of awareness events, she has not yet seen a city use the day to launch a larger campaign.

As part of the New Haven Smokeout, Southern Connecticut State University pledged to become a smoke-free campus. Although Yale is a partner in the effort, the University has not announced any plans to follow suit.

Harp named Marta Moret SPH ’87, the wife of University President Peter Salovey, as the city’s partner in the Smokeout campaign. At November’s launch, Moret said the University would provide spaces for city officials to meet throughout the cam-

GPS tracking may come to Special Services van

paign and discuss its progress.

Grotheer could not confirm whether or not these meetings have occurred.

In addition to assisting residents to quit smoking, city officials pledged to make smokefree housing available through the New Haven Smokeout and to develop an anti-smoking curriculum for New Haven Public Schools. These programs have yet to be carried out.

In April 2004, Connecticut’s state legislature passed the Clean Indoor Air Act which prohibits smoking in workplaces with five or more employees as well as in bars, restaurants, hospitals and other public establishments.

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

New database eases access to student info

BY MARTHA LONGLEY STAFF REPORTER

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Some students using the Yale Special Services Transportation have reported delays in arrival of transportation or a failure for transportation to arrive at all.

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER For students who have had to use Yale Special Services Transportation, inaccurate arrival times may become a problem of the past.

The Yale College Council submitted a proposal that outlines several measures to improve Special Services Transportation, a van service that transports members of the Yale community who are permanently or temporarily disabled. The main component of the YCC’s initiative calls for the vehicles to be tracked via GPS and their routes displayed on a smartphone application. Similar to Uber, users will be able to pin both their location and desired destination on the GPS app for both passengers and drivers to see, YCC project leader Benjamin Martin ’17 said.

According to students interviewed, the app would help improve the service.

“I was on crutches for about four months, and the call service was inefficient,” Martin said. “Arrival times were not accurate, and being

handicapped, you would have to rush outside in order to not miss your ride.”

According to Martin, students would not only be able to see an outlined route to their destination, but would also be able to track the position of their driver before arrival, eliminating the current problem of inaccurate arrival notifications. He added that Yale Special Services is considering several GPS apps from various companies.

Currently, drivers only wait three minutes at the designated location to pick up a student. If they do not see the student by that time, they are allowed to drive away to their next destination. This policy, coupled with various student disabilities, has led to several alleged instances in which students have had to wait for more than one ride. “[Special Services] are severely understaffed, and it’s a system with a couple easy fixes that could bring a lot of benefits,” said Michelle Hackman ’16, a disabled student and former city editor for the News. “I’ve missed interviews and very impor-

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tant meetings because of Yale [Special Services].”

Hackman said there have been frequent occurrences where the driver would fail to see her waiting or would not even come. She explained that because she is blind, there was no way for her to know when the driver had arrived unless they first saw her. Once the driver left, the next available ride would often be an hour later, she said.

Other students said even planning far in advance sometimes did not provide enough time to arrive according to schedule.

Christina Kim ’16, another student with a disability, said she sometimes would book a ride an hour ahead of schedule for what should have been a five-minute trip.

She said the delay was often because drivers would pick up multiple students instead of going straight to and from destinations.

“The GPS service would really help the timing and also help to confirm that the ride has been correctly scheduled,” Kim said. “I’ve had experiences where I would call later

on and find out that my ride wasn’t booked so I usually try to have a lot of buffer time before classes.”

In addition to the GPS app, the YCC also proposed to give disabled students priority in reserving rides after 6 p.m. and increasing ride availability during peak hours in the day.

Director of the Office on Resource Disabilities Judy York cited the winter weather as one of the reasons for delayed rides. She said both the snow and cold temperatures lead more people to take advantage of Yale’s transit services.

“I have been on the bus several times when it has been stopped in traffic for several minutes because snow banks have created one lane streets in New Haven,” York said.

“No vehicle is exempt from the traffic jams, including the Special Service van, and it throws off any good planning in timing rides.”

There are 71 students registered for special services transportation.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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Technology is quickly making its way into New Haven Public Schools.

In addition to web-based tools such as Google accounts and the college match system Naviance, NHPS has launched a web-based database called PowerSchool to make it easier for parents to check in on their children’s academic progress. PowerSchool is an online student information system where teachers post students’ assignments, grades, comments and attendance records in an online system that is accessible to students and their parents. NHPS first started introducing the program in high schools three years ago and has since implemented the program in middle schools. Currently, NHPS is working to expand the program to grades K-3 while also offering training sessions to teach parents and teachers how to use the system effectively.

The goal of the database, according to NHPS Parent Advocate Daniel Diaz, is to increase parent engagement.

“We as a district want as much [parent] engagement as possible,” Diaz said. “Parent engagement comes at many levels: some parents attend meetings, some write emails, some help their students at home. What we’re doing is giving parents another tool to become engaged in their children’s educations.”

Delthine Ko, whose son is in eighth grade at Worthington Hooker School, said she has been happy with the system. Before PowerSchool was in place, she noted, teachers used different sites to connect with students and parents, making it difficult to keep up with students’ progress.

It was these types of complaints from parents that led NHPS to adopt PowerSchool, said NHPS Assistant to the Director of Communications Latrice Hampton. Hampton said PowerSchool has effectively addressed many of the complaints from parents, although she added that the district cannot accurately measure the effectiveness of the program until they have completed the training sessions, where teachers and parents are taught how to use the program.

“Improving communication is part of our overall scheme, and this gives parents a way to keep up even though they’re busy” Hampton said.

Ko noted that PowerSchool makes it easier for parents and students to catch clerical errors in grade entry.

Still, Ko said that the outreach to parents regarding how to use the system could be improved.

“I know about it because my son loves it, but I don’t know how much I would know about PowerSchool if my son wasn’t interested in it, and I don’t think there was much communication from the schools to the parents,” Ko said.

She added that not all teachers use PowerSchool to its full capacity, as they use it only to enter grades and not to enter comments about a student’s performance.

Annie Harper, another parent at Worthington Hooker School, added that since teachers do not use the system consistently, it can be difficult to gauge the accuracy of the information on the site. She also said that the constant access to grades made her children more anxious about grades.

Hampton noted that some parents of children in younger grade levels criticize the rollout of PowerSchool because it is not yet used in every classroom, particularly in early childhood education. PowerSchool is an optional tool for teachers, and early childhood education does have as much use for the program since homework assignments are not always graded.

The tool is only accessible to those who have internet at home, and certain parents and students could feel excluded if they do not have internet at home, Harper pointed out.

PowerSchool was developed by Pearson’s K-12 Technology Group in 1999.

Contact MARTHA LONGLEY at martha.longley@yale.edu .

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“Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty.”

HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL REFORMER

MyChart users point out flaws in the system MYCHART FROM PAGE 1 it still not being functional today.

When Foery first registered with MyChart, he said, there were only four providers listed, and none were based in New Haven. Now, eight providers are listed on the website, but again, none are based in New Haven.

Instead, the providers listed are based in Wesport, Stamford, Guilford, Greenwich, Trumbull and West Haven.

If someone asked me whether you should sign up for MyChart, I’d say probably not right now.

WALTER FOERY Senior Administrative Assistant, Yale Writing Center Foery said that since users can only book appointments with physicians that they have already seen, the scheduling function is next to useless for most Yale Health users, as few have seen providers at other cities in the state.

Yale Health Medical Director Michael Rigsby MED ’88 said in an email that the self-scheduling service is not yet fully functional, acknowledging that the pharmacy interface needs to be improved.

Rigsby said MyChart is unable to take care of prescription renewals after a patient gets three refills of the same drug.

But he added in a later email that he advised patients not to use MyChart for refills either because the system cannot communicate with the pharmacy database.

On two occasions, Foery was

unable to refill prescriptions using MyChart.

“I’m holding the bottle clearly in my hand that says I have enough refills left, yet I am faced with an error message,” Foery said.

One student, who asked to remain anonymous to keep her contraceptive choices private, said that while refills occasionally work on MyChart, the system is unreliable, so she has to call in instead.

According to Rigsby, MyChart is most helpful when patients want to communicate directly with clinicians. But Foery said the application is not completely reliable even in that domain.

Since providers have to opt into using the messaging system, there is no guarantee that Yale Health patients will be able to message their specific providers, Foery said.

However, Foery acknowledged that the number of physicians who have opted in to the new system has increased in the past year. Of the six doctors he has seen in his 20 years using Yale Health, 90 percent of them can now be messaged on the application, he said, adding that he cannot comment on how well-utilized the messaging capacity is across the board.

Despite that increase in messaging functionality, Foery does not recommend using the system as it is now.

“If someone asked me whether you should sign up for MyChart, I’d say probably not right now,” he said. “The benefits aren’t great.”

According to Rigsby, when self-scheduling is fully functional, it will initially only be available to students.

Contact AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

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Yale Health is encouraging students to enroll in the MyChart system, which allows them to interact with Yale Health providers.

COURTESY OF MYCHART

The University says that MyChart allows users to request appointments and view test results and medication information.

Despite progress, challenges remain for disabled at Yale HANDICAP FROM PAGE 1 without doing a lot of things because they’re so old, but at the same time they have to be held to a higher standard.”

COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN

During her freshman year at Yale, Kim realized that she could not participate in activities at the Asian American Cultural Center, due to the stairs leading to its front door. She spoke with York as well as the dean of the AACC, and after a year, a ramp was installed to allow her access to the building’s back door.

But the back door, which is infrequently used, is almost always locked, and Kim cannot reach the doorbell. She must call a friend to let her in every time she wants to access the center.

Accessibility can also be a

matter of upkeep. Although WLH is technically accessible due to its elevator system and automatic doors, Kim said she has experienced times when the elevator breaks down and is not repaired for a few days, inhibiting her ability to attend her classes.

Nadolsky called WLH a “nightmare,” citing instances in which the automatic doors have been locked in the middle of the day or have failed to open as they should.

York acknowledged that maintenance difficulties can pose inconveniences, but also said they are inevitable.

“The University has worked consistently to make its buildings and facilities accessible, and it responds quickly to rectify problems with [accessibility] mechanisms,” Associate Provost for Health Affairs

Cynthia Smith, who advises the Provost Advisory Committee on Resources for Students and Employees with Disabilities, said in an email.

Inaccessibility may also result from a lack of communication.

During the renovations of Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Nadolsky was not notified when the elevators were turned off, and subsequently was late to class.

While Kim emphasized that she appreciates measures the University has taken to accommodate wheelchair accessibility, she added that she would like to see a more consistent awareness of the need for maintenance.

“I wish they would maybe do regular check-ups to just make sure the elevators or automatic doors are working,” she said. “I wish there was a more effective way to repair and notify students or people who might need to use

a [broken] elevator, because it’s just a surprise [to find it broken] when I get there.”

A MATTER OF CONVENIENCE

According to a campus access map on the website of the Resource Office on Disabilities, Mason Lab is handicap accessible. But “accessible,” in this case, is liberally interpreted.

“Access to Mason Lab is via an underground tunnel that runs from Becton on Prospect Street and through Dunham on Hillhouse Ave.,” the map says. “Take elevator to basement floor in either building. An elevator at the end of the tunnel leads into Mason.”

For Kim, a molecular, cellular and developmental biology major whose classes often take place on Science Hill, this kind of design is essentially equivalent to no accessibility at all.

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Barriers to accessibility still confront handicapped students at Yale.

“Mason Lab is not accessible from the outside,” she said. “The underground routes are helpful, but sometimes when I’m limited for time, like between classes, it’s hard to quickly go outside and get out of the building.”

The University has worked consistently to make its buildings and facilities accessible.

CYNTHIA SMITH Associate Provost for Health Affairs Nadolsky pointed out that while most students going to Payne Whitney Gymnasium can cut through Ezra Stiles and Morse Colleges, the stairs on this pathway make it impossible for handicapped students to do the same.

These extra steps that must be taken by handicapped individuals would be a hassle to anybody, but are especially difficult for people whose mobility is already impaired, said Glenn Weston-Murphy, an engineering design advisor within the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences who uses a wheelchair.

When Weston-Murphy first came to Yale over 15 years ago, Woolsey Hall was not handicap accessible from its primary entrance on the corner of Grove and College Streets. Handicapped individuals who wanted to access the performance space had to use the Beinecke Plaza entrance — 600 feet away.

Although the exterior of Woolsey has now been made accessible, the President’s Room on the upper level is still a “fiasco” to access, WestonMurphy said. Previously, it could only be wheelchair accessed by cutting through somebody’s office.

“I stopped going to things that were in the President’s Room, because I didn’t want to go through all the hassle of making arrangements and getting someone to open doors [for me],” he said. “If you’re going out for an evening reception, you don’t want to have to deal with that.”

But issues of convenience stem beyond historic buildings like Woolsey. The new School of Management building on Whit-

ney Avenue is another example of ways in which accessibility at Yale only meets the minimum requirements, Weston-Murphy said.

Weston-Murphy, who sat on the Provost’s Advisory Committee for 10 years, said that when his Facilities Access subcommittee was first presented with the sketches for the new building, he noted that entrance to the inner courtyard to the SOM required a step all the way around the courtyard except in the farthest corner, where there are ramps.

“I fought tooth and nail to have [the ramps] put in front,” he said. “I lost.”

York said the Advisory Committee has usually had great success in influencing the planning stages of construction but acknowledged that new constructions often have many stakeholders. Architects must create and negotiate environments that satisfy everyone, she said, necessitating “honestto-goodness, practical give and take.”

Still, she said, when the Advisory Committee’s input is made available early in the construction process, it is easier to accommodate the needs of all parties involved. She pointed specifically to the two new residential colleges, which she said will be fully handicap accessible in all suites.

“All of our other residential colleges were built so long ago, before this kind of [accessibility] code came out,” she said. “We now have the opportunity to do it right with these new buildings.”

Progress has been made in other areas as well: The current renovations of Hendrie Hall will render it more accessible, York told the News last October. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway told the News last week that the AACC and La Casa Cultural should be made accessible by the end of the summer.

Still, Weston-Murphy said, there is always more room for improvement.

“I’ve been here [over] 15 years, and from when I came to now, there’s been a lot of progress on campus,” he said. “But it’s the kind of thing where you have to stay on it, or you lose ground.”

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

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4:15 PM A Path Appears: Poynter Talk by Nicholas Kristof.

Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for The New York Times since Nov. 2001, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who writes op-ed columns that appear twice a week. He will speak as part of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. Sterling Law Building (127 Wall St.), Rm. 127.

5:00 PM Jackson Town Hall with Michele Flournoy. Michele Flournoy is the former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, the third-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Defense., and the most senior female Pentagon official in history. She will be interviewed by Jackson Senior Fellow Gen. (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal. Yale ID required. Horchow Hall (55 Hillhouse Ave.), GM Room.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 5:00 PM Ancestors Tale: A Journey to the Origins of Complex Animal Eyes. Todd Oakley, a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at University of California, Santa Barbara will speak as a part of the E&EB Seminar Series.

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SPORTS

“Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” MICHAEL JORDAN FIVE-TIME NBA MVP

Yale takes third at Ivy Classic GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE 12 still have varsity women’s gymnastics team.

A year after Traina took home the top score on beam at the Ivy Classic, the crown went to her teammate, Brittney Sooksengdao ’16, with a score of 9.800.

“I think it is really special that we’ve managed to have a lot of beam titles at Ivy’s,” Sooksengdao said. “I know Morgan [Traina] won it twice [in 2012 and 2014] and finished top last year. There was an alum in the audience, and she told us to keep the beam Ivy title with Yale, keep passing it on within Yale.

And we did, so that was pretty special.”

The Bulldogs also put up strong individual performances on bars, their strongest event this season.

Li, Traina and Allison Bushman ’18 all put up scores of 9.750, good enough for a tie for sixth place.

The 9.750 marked a career best for Bushman, who recently returned from a concussion. Her bars routine features a particularly difficult dismount — a double layout — but Bushman stuck the landing, according to Traina.

“We do have a couple people

putting upgrades on bars,” Traina said. “Our lineup has been changing constantly this season. We’re not just doing more but trying to improve quality as well. We’ve been hitting more of the routines we’ve been doing in practice.”

Lineups are carefully set the night before the meet to ensure that routines improve upon each other.

Since scores build, the coaches craft a lineup that increases in difficulty and cleanliness of execution as all six gymnasts compete. If one gymnast misses a routine, Li said, she prevents the scores from building, so everyone ends up with lower scores.

Yale unveiled a vault lineup at the Ivy Classic that took advantage of this building philosophy. Instead of having specialist Camilla Opperman ’16 anchor the event, Anna Merkuryev ’18 was given the last slot.

Merkuryev competed a layout full, turning one complete flip and one twist with her body in a straight position. Her vault has a starting value of 10.0, as opposed to the vault that Opperman and Traina competed — a full in a tuck position — which has a starting value of 9.9.

The freshman hit her vault, and her score of 9.725 tied not only her career-high on the event but also the day’s second-best score on the apparatus.

Unlike the majority of their meets this season, however, the Bulldogs did not start on vault.

Rather than proceeding in Olympic order, which concludes with floor, Yale began the day on floor.

Opperman anchored the event with the team’s highest score, 9.800, which placed her in a fourway tie for third on the apparatus.

“Usually during the meet, scores get higher as the meet goes on,” Brianna Chrisman ’15 said. “The last event gets higher scores. Floor requires the most energy, so it’s good to compete it when everyone has high energy.”

This order actually worked to Yale’s advantage, Li explained, because the team was able to end the day on bars and beam.

Although beam is usually not the preferred apparatus on which to conclude because it creates pressure, the team played to its strengths.

The Bulldogs will also start on floor at the ECAC Championship, the second big meet of the season,

according to Li. Yale hosts the conference championship at the end of March, when it welcomes the three aforementioned Ivy schools as well as Temple and William and Mary.

Though the Quakers took the team title and the Bears won the all-around, the Elis are looking forward to getting another chance to compete against their rivals.

But from Yale’s perspective, no specific team enters with a target on its back, according to Traina.

“I think it would probably be different if you ask the upperclassmen or underclassmen,” Traina said. “Brown has been quite good the last few years, and they won the Ivy Classic last year. All the upperclassmen would tell you Brown because they’re the team we’re looking to beat. But Penn did great yesterday, so we’re equally looking to beat both of them.”

Before hosting the ECAC Championship, Yale competes in three more meets. Next Friday, the team travels to Maryland to take on Rutgers and Michigan State at Towson University. Competition begins at 7 p.m.

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

Elis narrowly defeated

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Brittney Sooksengdao ’16 followed in the footsteps of teammate Morgan Traina ’15 by winning the beam title.

Bulldogs fall to GW WOMEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12

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The women’s swimming 400-yard medley relay squad set a pool record with a time of 3:39.09 at HYP. SWIM & DIVE FROM PAGE 12 200-yard medley relay to start day two, setting another pool record at 1:40.34 in the process. Success continued to pour in for the Bulldogs as Fabian placed first in the 1,000-yard freestyle, followed by teammate Cailley Silbert ’18 in second. In the 400-yard IM, Sydney Hirschi ’17 placed second, and Zimmerman won gold in the 100yard butterfly. Zhou continued her impressive campaign, placing second in the 200-yard freestyle, while Kaminski won the 100-yard breaststroke by a tight margin of 0.1 seconds.

The final event of the day came in the form of the 800-yard freestyle relay and Yale’s team of Liu, Zhou, Olivia Jameson ’17 and Fabian placed second, less than one second behind Princeton. The point totals at the end of day two put the Elis ahead of Princeton by only one point, and behind Harvard by nine points.

With the totals being so close, the Bulldogs had to maintain another strong day of performances to maintain their lead over Princeton and to keep the possibility of overtaking Harvard. Fabian and Silbert led the way, placing first and second in the 1,650-yard freestyle — over 10 seconds ahead

of the rest of the competition. In the 200-yard backstroke, Michelle Chintanaphol ’17 placed fourth, while Zhou swam to victory in the 100-yard freestyle sprint.

Kaminski continued her impressive freshman year performance, winning the 200-yard breaststroke. Hutchinson-Maddox and Hirschi combined for a three-four finish in the 200-yard butterfly to follow.

For the divers, the three-meter dive finished in much of the same fashion of the one–meter, with MacRae taking second behind Princeton’s Chambers. The final event of this year’s competition, the 400-yard freestyle relay, saw the Elis fall behind into sixth place.

Competition ended with Princeton in first at 1,423 points, Harvard in second at 1,401.5 and Yale in third at 1,377.

But the Bulldogs actually ended up having the most first-place finishes of the competition with a total of eight — Harvard finished with five and Princeton with seven. The difference in points instead came from Harvard and Princeton’s athletes consistently placing in the top three spots — all of whom brought in additional points for the team total.

Zhou commented on the team’s strength this season and how the

Ivy League Championships were finally an opportunity for the team as a whole to show how hard they have worked.

While the swimmers and divers were all striving for the overall first-place victory, the strong performances — especially by the younger Bulldogs — give the team a positive outlook for next year.

“I think only losing by 20 to 40 points to Princeton and Harvard gave us a new drive for next year,” Hutchinson-Maddox added. “I think we all are united now behind the common goal to win Ivies next year, and I think that will help us immensely next season during training.”

Besides Ivy League competition, the team will focus on individual performances for the remainder of the season in order to prepare for NCAA qualifications.

“We were looking to improve upon our placing from last year, and to qualify as many athletes for NCAAs as we can,” Fabian said.

The NCAA Diving Zone competitions begin on March 9 in Piscataway, New Jersey, while the NCAA Championship Meet begins on March 19 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

Despite the “uncontrollables,” the Elis never ceased fighting back. The team opened the second half with a goal scored by attacker Tess McEvoy ’17 just 52 seconds after halftime. The Bulldogs continued their counter with goals from midfielder Sophie Mussafer ’17 and midfielder Kelly Anne Sherlock ’16. This was Mussafer’s first career goal for the Bulldogs.

Looking back on the game, in terms of improving technical details, Sherlock suggested that the Elis need to limit their turnovers, maintain possession and be able to recognize and capitalize on the opportunities for strong offense plays. Yale turned the ball over 20 times, while George Washington committed just 15 turnovers.

Mullins, on the other hand, alluded to the other major piece of competition, the mental game. According to Mullins, the Bulldogs could not keep a firm mindset in order to overpower the Colonials.

Sherlock pointed out midfielder Christina Doherty ’15, who had a pair of goals, and Mullins for maintaining their strength and performing in crucial moments.

“Christina had a really great game,” Sherlock said. “She really helped our team in crucial moments … Mullins put on a tough fight with the snow blowing in her face.”

Despite the score, the Elis and the Colo-

nials finished with similar statistics. Yale and George Washington each had 10 draw controls, and the Bulldogs had just one fewer ground ball pickup than the Colonials, with 18 to George Washington’s 19.

Free position shots proved to be one of Yale’s weaknesses against George Washington. The Colonials went 4–7 on free position shots, while Yale connected on just one of eight attempts: Mussafer’s goal in the final minute.

“Towards the end of the game, we really started to play like ourselves,” attacker Kiwi Comizio ’18 said. “But unfortunately we ran out of time.”

The team is looking to get a win in the season much sooner rather than later, as they prepare for in-state rival Quinnipiac this Wednesday.

The Elis are aiming for an Ivy Championship, according to McEvoy. She also elaborated that the Bulldogs are looking to take each game one at a time.

“We still have a lot of work ahead of us this week,” Mullins said. “We are looking to Wednesday as a day to get back on track and restart.”

The team looks to get a win on the board at Reese Stadium this Wednesday against Quinnipiac at 4 p.m.

Contact NICOLE WELLS at nicole.wells@yale.edu .

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Two separate 5–0 runs after early Yale goals in the first and second halves proved to be the difference for Yale.

Elis close out team competition MEN’S SQUASH FROM PAGE 12

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The Elis fell 6–3 to Rochester in the consolation bracket at nationals, ultimately taking sixth place.

have secured a top-four finish.

“We had a heartbreaking close loss to Columbia on Friday and our expectation was to win that match — not in a sense of entitlement, but in a sense of feeling capable,” Columbia said. “We got edged out. People fought hard and played very well, and we ended up just coming up short 5–4. It was made adamantly clear that we needed to finish strong and play out the rest of the matches a high level.”

The next day the Bulldogs set their sights on No. 8 Penn (9–8, 3–4 Ivy). Despite a tighter match than Yale’s 7–2

triumph over the Quakers earlier this season, the Bulldogs still managed to come away with a 5–4 win.

Yale then moved on to the consolation finals, in which they faced No. 6 Rochester (12–5). Despite edging out Rochester 6-3 in January, the score was reversed as Rochester bested the Bulldogs by the same score. The trio of freshmen — Columbia, Martin and Pierson Broadwater ’18 — contributed all three of Yale’s wins.

To demonstrate the closeness of college squash, Rochester, who finished fifth, was the only team to beat eventual national champions Trinity during the regular season.

With the loss, Yale ended its season and finished sixth in the national tournament.

“This weekend was tough as we had the hope of winning it all but I thought we all bounced back well from our initial disappointment of losing to Columbia,” Thomas Dembinski ’17 said. “Now that this season is over, I couldn’t be prouder to start training for next season with such a great group of guys by my side.”

This season the Bulldogs faced challenges both on and off the court, as top-six players Zach Leman and Kah Wah Cheong ’16 both sustained injuries that prevented them from playing.

For captain Joseph Rob-

erts ’15 and fellow senior Huw Robinson ’15, the match against Rochester marked the conclusion of their collegiate squash careers.

“Playing squash for Yale has exceeded all expectations,” Roberts said. “It was a huge privilege and honor to play squash here … I have had the privilege of playing with some great guys throughout my four years and … I couldn’t have asked for much more.”

While Yale’s season concluded Sunday, several Bulldogs will compete next weekend at the C.S.A. Individual Championships at Princeton.

Contact GRIFFIN SMILOW at griffin.smilow@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES THE DARTMOUTH

Recruitment comes at a cost

BY KATIE RAFTER According to a recent study carried out by Bloomberg Business, Tuck School of Business students pay on average over $10,000 for “non-essentials” during their job search, which puts the school among the top 12 MBA programs whose students spend the most on discretionary purchases. Most of this cost derives from students traveling to visit potential employers.

Aviran Sethi, Apurva Sacheti and Mathew Sevin all said that the value of these trips are larger

than their costs, especially comp a re d to T u c k ’ s t u i t i o n — Tuck’s estiDARTMOUTH total mated costs a re ove r $93,550 for the class of 2016, with $61,605 going towards tuition alone.

Tuck’s career development director Jonathan Masland said that students commonly travel out of Hanover for network-

ing purposes and, in his opinion, networking trips cost very little for students overall. Masland did comment on the specific cost.

He added that the career development office encourages students to travel to cities where they can meet people face-toface and make personal connections.

Masland said that there are many advantages to traveling to different cities to meet with recruiters or alumni at different businesses, because a willingness to personally visit companies conveys a genuine interest

and enthusiasm to recruiters.

“It shows a lot of dedication and commitment to a certain sector or company,” Masland said.

These meetings not only benefit Tuck students, he added, but also help potential employers develop an idea of who they might be hiring in the future, as well as form a more personal image of Tuck students.

Masland said that many students participate in “industry treks,” which are when a group of students visit a series of companies in a specific place.

“Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.” VIN SCULLY AMERICAN SPORTSCASTER

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

Sexual assault climate survey nears rollout

BY THEODORE DELWICHE AND MARIEL KLEIN After January pre-testing, Harvard is making final touches on its sexual assault climate survey and — given that similar surveys have historically drawn lackluster response rates — plans to heavily publicize it before rolling it out in April.

The survey, which is a localized version of an Association of American Universities survey that 28 schools will issue this spring, will ask student respondents a range of questions on sexual misconduct and affirmative consent, according to economics professor David Laibson, a member of Harvard’s sexual assault task force who is helping spearhead the design of the national survey.

Harvard will send out its survey to roughly 20,000 students across the University on April 12.

Though a standard version of the survey will be issued to all 28 schools that participate, it will be individualized to each school in several ways, according to Laibson. Each university will generate its own responses about its individual schools, student organizations, living situations and support and reporting infrastructures, such as Harvard’s central Office of Sexual and Gender-Based Dispute Resolution, which investigates student sexual harassment complaints.

In the survey’s student organizations section, for example, the Harvard version will specifically mention final clubs, Laibson said.

Some schools, notably

Princeton, have opted out of part i c i pa t i n g in the AAU survey so as to form their own HARVARD t h a t a re more school-specific. Laibson said schools may potentially conduct supplemental, more individualized surveys in the future but said the uniformity of April’s survey will make it easier to compare different schools’ results.

“When you design a survey, the subtlest little differences like the order of the questions or the wording can make an enormous difference, and so you can’t compare data,” Laibson said. “But when you design questions that are identical and implement the survey in an identical way and compensate people with identical incentives, you learn vastly more.”

In January, Laibson and his team pre-tested the survey at Harvard by inviting 200 random students — 100 undergraduates and 100 graduate students — to view a portion of the survey and give feedback on its most “complicated” and “controversial” questions, he said. Students received $25 in exchange for written feedback on the survey and an additional $5 if they did an interview on the topic.

Laibson said survey organizers also solicited and heard feedback on the survey from about 15 student group leaders.

He declined to specify which student organizations were contacted.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Negative age stereotypes getting worse over time

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTER Ne ga t ive p e rce p t i o n s toward the elderly have been on a steady rise for the last 200 years, according to a new Yale study looking at over 400 million words in archives of American publications.

The study looked at historical usages of phrases describing the elderly, such as “senior citizen,” and analyzed the context of those words. Any descriptive terms within four words of the phrase were analyzed for their positive or negative connotations. Using a wide range of literature, newsprint and other media, the study then rated each year for its treatment of the elderly on a scale of one to five. The researchers found that over 200 years — starting in 1810 and ending in 2009 — American society’s conceptions of the elderly have steadily declined. While there were some fluctuations throughout time, Americans went from largely positive at the start to quite negative by the end.

“We looked at the context where the older person is described in the language,” said Becca Levy, professor of epidemiology and psychology at the Yale School of Public Health and the senior author of the study. “It could be looking at a variety of stereotypes, whether the old person is thought of as wise or cantankerous.”

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The study found that the year 1880 was the important turning point in public perceptions of the elderly. In that year, representations of the elderly in the media transitioned from primarily positive to primarily negative.

According to Levy, this long-term degradation in favorable views of the elderly is explained through the increased treatment of age as a disability, as well as the simple increase in the number of older people. Increasingly, older people are seen as problems for doctors to solve, putting a burden on society.

“We thought that it was possible that as the number of older people increased that the misconception that there’s fewer resources to go around to older populations would build,” Levy said. “So that might lead to more fear and negativity.”

Another factor that may have led to the increase in negative perceptions is the synonymization of aging with medicalization and disability, said Joan Monin, professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine and one of the study’s co-authors. She added that, in order for the trend to reverse, the media has to change its portrayal of older adults.

Currently, children grow up seeing negative portrayals of the elderly on television and often internalize these biases,

Monin said. Instead of seeing aging as a fundamental part of life, children learn from medication advertisements that aging is something to be fought with whatever pills are necessary to do the job.

When they grow up, she said, these adults see the elderly as a class to avoid or pity, which has a fundamentally harmful effect on the elderly.

“There’s not a lot of intergenerational contact between older adults and young adults,” added Monin. “Oftentimes older adults are segregated or put in retirement communities away from younger adults, and so more interaction between different age groups — especially in a family setting — is really important.”

The deleterious effects of ageism are not limited to hurt feelings, Levy said. Another of Levy’s studies demonstrated that senior citizens who are treated negatively live demonstrably shorter lives. If this is the case, then the increasingly poor perception of the elderly causes actual harm to some of the 36 million retired people receiving Social Security benefits in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2012, there were roughly 43.1 million U.S. residents 65 and older.

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

Q&A: Treating the hard to treat

BY MALINA SIMARD-HALM STAFF REPORTER Arielle Baskin-Sommers is a professor of psychiatry and psychology at Yale. Her research specializes in psychopathology and disinhibitions. Her most recent article concerns cognitive remediation for prisoners with psychopathologic disorders. In spring 2016, she will be teaching a course examining the psychobiology of crime. The News sat down with Baskin-Sommers to talk about psychological disorders and devising interventions for disorders and diseases that many consider untreatable. off, do you mind briefly QFirst summarizing the main conclusions of your research?

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Most of my work at this point has been looking at subtypes of disinhibited individuals, like psychopathic or general externalizing individuals, or people who are impulsive with personality or social disorders. In our research, we’ve dis-

covered that psychopathic people have trouble multitasking; they have difficulty switching from one task to the next or integrating multiple pieces of information at once. That’s why they tend to be so goal-focused on one component — why they can probably be callous or disregard others’ feelings. That’s different than the general externalizing form of psychopathology, like substance abuse. [That] tends to be more related to difficulty regulating context, so these individuals tend to get really reactive to threats, insults and stress queues because they feel uncomfortable or overwhelmed. Because of that, they have trouble inhibiting behavior and making appropriate decisions. is unique about your QWhat research on the biological

underpinnings of psychopathological conditions?

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What is unprecedented about our work is two things. Increasingly, there is an interest in looking at mecha-

nisms trans-diagnostically — the desire to look at the core underlying mechanisms and which individuals have particular mechanisms. What is also quite new about our work is the idea of looking at these mechanisms as a way to develop interventions. No one has taken these externalizing concepts and determined neural interventions to try and change their behavior. is your most recent QWhat study?

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My most recently published study is the cognitive remediation study. Most research for the study was done in a prison.

We took inmates, and we characterized them to determine their diagnostic status — to see if they were psychopathic or had externalizing mechanisms. We developed computer game programming in an attempt to see if we could change their behavior and could apply that change in other settings. This is exciting because we are targeting a specific process and we are able to see change

— it helps us find a foothold for potential treatment in what many consider to be a nontreatable population. was the most striking QWhat discovery you made during your research?

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My research concerning psychopathic behavior was surprising to me. The prior research discovered that psychopathic people were unable to experience emotions, especially fear. But there is another line of research that [shows that] psychopaths — when not in an emotional context — generally have trouble focusing on multiple things at once. I did a series of studies that used electric shock therapy on prison inmates, where we looked at neurological responses to boxes that could either shock or not shock. I discovered that psychopathic individuals can experience emotion when they focus on goals, but when that information is peripheral, or if there is a complex array of information, the psychopaths show a deficit

of emotion. This shows that psychopaths are not innately fearless, and that there is potential for change and integration, but you have to change how they consider processing information.

I was able to show that you can change this neurobiological target for individuals through cognitive remediation, so that now they are showing some ability to improve over six weeks. This is super exciting because it shows these inmates are not innately psychopathic, but rather malleable. is the best part about QWhat conducting this research?

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My most memorable work was with cognitive remediation with the prison inmates [the study previously referenced].

Initially, the inmates would complete computer sessions. When I spoke with them, they started to use language that they were beginning to see results, that they were noticing their environments, noticing when they were irritated just from com-

puter games. They talk about it in their daily lives, and are getting really engaged in the treatment we are providing. Part of this was that we weren’t packaging this as treatment, but rather packaging it as teaching skills. How do we help these people be the best person they can be? Some people might be frightened to go speak with psychopaths and murderers, but the inmates were so happy to talk to me because this was probably the first time in their lives that anyone had sat down with these inmates and asked them for their life story and really cared. It was really an eye-opening experience, and it helps you see the complexity in the world and see the similarities. Even though I might have a murderer sitting in front of me, there were things we could connect on, and obviously things we could not. But having appreciation for that connection and not being afraid of it is a very special experience.

Contact MALINA SIMARD-HALM at malina.simard-halm@yale.edu .

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Addiction can also be compulsion, gambling study shows allowed the researchers to ascertain a genetic component, but without the genetic testing, they were unable to identify which genes cause this effect. That second question, Potenza said, may lead to further research.

But clinical professor at the Stanford School of Medicine Alan Ringold, an expert on OCD who is unaffiliated with the study, said he does not believe pathological gambling is related to OCD, which is an extreme enough form of obsessive behavior that it is classified as a disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which classifies psychiatric disorders.

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Researchers from Yale University have found new evidence for a link between obsessive compulsive spectrum disorder and pathological gambling, perhaps due to genetic factors.

Building off of previous research that suggested a link between addictive behavior and pathological gambling, this study is part of an ongoing effort to further classify gambling addiction on an impulse-to-compulsion spectrum. The central question of the debate is: To what extent do pathological gamblers have impulse-control problems as opposed to a compulsion to gamble?

This study adds evidence that there is an element of compulsive behavior for some pathological gamblers.

“We were trying to understand the relation between pathological gambling and other disorders,” said Yale professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine and the paper’s senior author Marc Potenza. “There has been some debate in the literature about how best to consider pathological gambling — whether it might fall along the impulsive-compulsive spectrum or be thought of as an addiction without the drug.”

The researchers performed a twin study, using the Vietnam Era Twin Registry — a compiled list of male twin veterans of the Vietnam War — to study both genetic explanations of pathological gambling and its connection with latent obsessivecompulsive behavior. Twin studies allow researchers to better disentangle the complex relationship between environmental and genetic factors at play in disorders, diseases and behaviors. The researchers found a correlation between latent obsessive-compulsive behavior and pathological gambling. In addition, they found behavioral correlations between twins, suggesting a genetic component to compulsive behavior and pathological gambling.

It was unusual that the researchers decided to use a twin study, as opposed to conducting genetic testing, Potenza said. The methodology

We were trying to understand the relation between pathological gambling and other disorders.

MARC POTENZA Professor of psychiatry, School of Medicine “Gambling is an impulse control disorder. It’s not OCD,” Ringold said, highlighting the controversy within the medical community about whether gambling is compulsionbased or impulse control-based.

Because the researchers only used male participants, it is unknown to what extent the results generalize to the entire population.

“This is an example of being persistent,” said Jeffrey Scherrer, professor in the department of family and community medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. “This gambling study data collection was completed around 2003, and we began some preliminary analysis. We weren’t able to get back together on this until many years later, so the lesson is don’t give up on an idea.”

Between 5 and 7 percent of Americans have a problem with gambling.

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

Researchers solve 50-year-old problem with novel method

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BY GEORGE SAUSSY STAFF REPORTER After a five-year effort, a trio of mathematicians from across the country has solved a problem that has perplexed for more than 50 years.

The problem, the KadisonSinger conjecture, is a statement about the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics, more specifically a hypothesis about the mathematical nature of the way physicists can perform measurements in quantum systems. Although physicists have been assuming for years that eventually a positive result would be found, it was not until two papers were published in the journal Annals of Mathematics that proof of the conjecture was found.

“The purpose of these papers is to introduce a new technique to understand situations that

mathematics previously could not understand,” said Adam Marcus, visiting researcher at Yale and the papers’ lead author.

At the same time that they released their paper on the Kadison-Singer conjecture, the team published a second paper in a subfield of mathematics called graph theory. The subfield deals with mathematical objects that can be used to model networks, road maps, disease contagion and connections in the brain, in addition to other applications. Within the subfield, graphs are mathematical objects which consist of a set of vertices and lines between them called edges — not the typical X and Y plot encountered in most math courses.

In deriving their results for both papers, the team used a novel technique, the method of interlacing polynomials. The technique takes advantage of

certain manipulations one can perform on functions with specific properties. Though these polynomials have been studied and well understood for decades, the team was able to show one could use polynomials to solve a broad class of open problems.

We had no idea this was going to be a five-year project.

DAN SPIELMAN Professor of computer science “This was the Hail Mary pass,” said Yale professor of computer science and mathematics, senior author of the paper and MacArthur Fellow Dan Spielman. “We had no idea this was going to be

a five-year project.”

After years of trying and failing to prove the Kadison-Singer conjecture, the researchers gave up, and turned their attention to another problem. That problem — in the subfield of graph theory — turned into their second paper, and the method they developed to solve it allowed them to return to and solve the first problem, the KadisonSinger conjecture.

“In some sense, by going for a slightly lower target, we refined our tools,” said Spielman.

Spielman, whose background is in computer science and pure mathematics, wrote computer programs in the process of working on the proof. All of those programs proved many smaller conjectures, each of which suggested Kadison-Singer is true.

Spielman also constructed programs that would come up with random matrices on which to

test their mini conjectures.

“We tested them a lot [with computer programs], but not only could we not find counterexamples, but the conjectures looked really tight,” Spielman said.

Network sciences, or the application of graphs and graph theory to real world problems, has been a growing field at Yale.

Spielman said that with the creation of the Yale Institute of Network Science in July 2013, the University now has a dedicated space to bring researchers together.

Many other researchers have been interested in the publication of the team’s work, in particular with the method of interlacing polynomials. Although the paper has only been published online, a duo of computer scientists from the University of California at Berkeley has already applied the method to

the traveling salesman problem.

The traveling salesman problem asks the question, “Given a list of addresses and a map, what is the shortest route one can take to visit each house?” The Berkeley team used the interlacing polynomial method to derive an approximation answer to that problem.

Additionally, the papers crossed boundaries within the mathematical community. The team used techniques from real analysis, linear algebra and probability to arrive at their result. Members of the mathematical community are beginning to ask questions about how exactly these results blur the lines between mathematical subfields, Marcus said.

The Kadison-Singer conjecture was first proposed in 1959.

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

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MOLLIE ROGERS ’16 VOLLEYBALL MVP Rogers, the Ivy League Player of the Year, won some hardware at Sunday’s volleyball team banquet. Libero Tori Shepherd ’17 won the Coaches’ Award, and the Players’ Award went to outside hitter Karlee Fuller ’16 and libero Maddie Rudnick ’15.

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BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale gymnastics team set yet another new benchmark at the Ivy Classic this weekend but failed to beat Ivy foes Penn and Brown.

With a season-high team score of 192.225, the Elis placed third behind host Penn’s 193.725 and defending champion Brown’s 193.425. Yale did beat Cornell, which scored 191.175.

Last year, the Bulldogs came in second with a score of 190.250. This season, they have scored higher than 190 in all but one meet.

“I’m pretty proud of how we did as a team, at Ivy’s,” said Joyce Li ’15, who placed second in the all-around. “Our weakest events are vault and floor, so we’re going to work on cleaning them up. We had a few little mistakes this past weekend … We really needed to go out there and have a perfect meet.”

With an individual score of 38.550, Li was Yale’s top all-around finisher.

Captain Morgan Traina ’15 finished seven-tenths of a point behind Li, good enough for fourth all-around, and Anella Anderson ’17 finished sixth.

The odd-numbered all-around finishes went to Brown, as Jorden Mitchell claimed the title with a 38.650, and teammates Caroline Morant and Diana Walters came in third and fifth, respectively.

“Some of the highlights of this meet were people’s confidence and the way we hit a lot of our routines,” Traina said. “I think we went 21 out of 24, so we want to clean up the little things. We want to make all of our landings a little cleaner as well as hit those last three routines.”

The Ivy Classic — which serves as the Ivy League Championship because only half of the Ancient Eight teams have gymnastics programs — rotates through the four schools that

Yale broke its season-high score with a 192.225 mark in the Ivy Classic.

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Yale takes most first finishes, third at HYP

Yale loses opener in snowstorm

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The Bulldogs lost to George Washington in part due to 20 turnovers, while GW committed just 15.

BY NICOLE WELLS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Saturday, the Yale women’s lacrosse team lost in its first game of the season against George Washington in a 13–5 game in Washington, D.C.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE The Colonials (1–1, 0–0 Atlantic 10) got an early advantage on the Bulldogs (0–1, 0–1 Ivy) by scoring their first point within the beginning 30 seconds of the game. That did not phase the Elis, as they responded to that challenge with their own goal by attacker Erin Magnuson ’15.

However, that was Yale’s lone goal for the rest of the half, while George Washington proceeded to score five more. The Bulldogs were able to have a fresh start for the

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BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the final competition for the 2014–15 Yale women’s swimming and diving team — the Ivy League Championships — the Bulldogs took home third place after an intense back-and-forth meet with Princeton and Harvard.

SWIM & DIVE “The meet has never been so close for us — the leading team changed event by event,” Isla Hutchinson-

Maddox ’17 said. “At one point we were leading and then Princeton, and then Harvard. It made it a very tense meet until the very end.”

The three-day competition was held at Harvard, and day one began with the 200yard freestyle. The Eli team of Kina Zhou ’17, Amy Zhao ’18, Maddy Zimmerman ’18 and Danielle Liu ’18 took second behind Princeton. Eva Fabian ’16 followed up with a thirdplace finish in the 500-yard freestyle. Lilybet MacRae ’17 led the Yale divers, plac-

ing second overall in the onemeter dive behind Caitlin Chambers of Princeton. The Elis’ first victory of the day came in the 400-yard medley relay, in which Heidi VanderWel ’18, Paulina Kaminski ’18, Zimmerman and Zhou set a pool record with a time of 3:39.09. At the end of the day, Harvard, Princeton and Yale were all within 50 points of one another, far ahead of the rest of the Ancient Eight.

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Bulldogs finish sixth at nationals After a busy weekend that included three matches, the Yale men’s squash team concluded its season with a sixth-place finish at the Collegiate Squash Association national championship, hosted by Hartford, Connecticut-based Trinity College.

The Bulldogs had the most first-place finishes at HYP with eight, but Harvard and Princeton captured more top-three finishes.

second half, but could not catch up to the Colonials.

“There were variables out of our control, such as the weather, making it a very different game than what we are used to,” goalie Erin Mullins ’15 said. “It was heavily snowing the entire game, making visibility and footing difficult … They had cleats while we had turfs running through the sticking snow.”

For the past couple of months, the Bulldogs have been practicing outside in the New Haven winter. The team has experienced the strong winds and belowfreezing temperatures. Yet even with all of this preparation, playing through a game in the middle of a snowstorm with snow already coating the field proved to be a tough feat.

“[Nationals is] a sort of a compressed version of the season,” Edward Columbia ’18 said. “It’s three days of all of the toughest matches you’ve had throughout the year … Unlike in the regular season in which you might have a breather, you know you are going to have three tough matches and this elevates the level of play because people know it’s the last time to perform.”

The Bulldogs (11–6, 5–2 Ivy) headed into the tournament ranked fifth in the nation, and were set to play No. 4 Columbia (13–4, 6–1) in the first round.

Earlier this season the Bulldogs were upset 5–4 by a Columbia squad that was predicted to lose.

This weekend, the Bulldogs repeated the performance from earlier in the season, suffering a narrow 5–4 defeat to the Lions. Despite winning the No. 6 through 9 positions, the Elis surrendered matches in the top five positions.

After suffering a back injury in the first week of the season, No. 9 Zachary Leman ’16 was able to make a recovery and compete in the national tournament, despite not playing a single match this season. Leman dropped the first two games 9–11 and 1–11, but rallied and won three consecutive games (11–9, 11–7, 11–8) to secure a win.

With the teams tied 4–4, Max Martin ’18, playing at No.

5, found himself ahead 10–9 in the fifth game. After hitting what was believed to be the match-winning shot, the play was reviewed and controversially overturned. Columbia’s Mohamed Abdel Maksoud then went on to win the match 12–10, clinching a decisive victory for the Lions. Had the call gone in the Bulldogs’ favor, Yale would SEE MEN’S SQUASH PAGE 8

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The Bulldogs took the No. 6 through No. 9 positions against Columbia at nationals but were unable to win the top five spots and fell 5–4.

THE DIFFERENCE IN TIMES FOR THE 1,650-YARD FREESTYLE RACE BETWEEN EVA FABIAN ’16 AND CAILLEY SILBERT ’18. Fabian and Silbert both finished the near mile race with a time of 16:21.92 — perfect for a first-place finish at HYP.