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STUDENTS AT YALE-NUS PUSH FOR HEALTH RESOURCES.

City mourns Daniels, first black mayor

And here we go. As the (alltoo-recent) snow continues to melt away, so too does the amount of time left in the school year: Five weeks of classes, then two weeks of papers and finals remain.

Better hit the ground running — the grind continues.

Those of you looking to relive Spring Break adventures from around the globe (or redeem a lack of them) can do so by dining through New Haven Restaurant Week’s “internationally diverse” lineup. Prix fixe abounds.

Changing the game. As the Crunchbutton-Foodler empire continues to grow, a new player will bring something different to the table. Alcohol delivery startup Porter21 is set to launch locally this month, the New Haven Register reported yesterday.

Spring into action. In case you end up wanting to burn off the Restaurant Week and Porter21 calories, take advantage of the new intramural season that kicks off today. Offerings include softball, dodgeball and ultimate frisbee.

Denial is unhealthy. Given everything that unfolded this break, we might admit that Harvard has had our number in basketball and hockey recently. But Yale will always be king of the law school game, something that Business Insider tried to question in an article titled “Yale Law always beats Harvard, and it’s a complete mystery why” published last week.

On the big stage. After hosting the season’s last Yale hockey game, Ingalls Rink held the state championship games for Connecticut high school boys hockey teams from three divisions this weekend. Teams from Darien, Suffield/Granby/ Windsor Locks and E.O. Smith/Tolland all took home hardware from the Whale.

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2011 A survey conducted by the News reveals Silliman students to be the most satisfied with their college dining hall.

Students also call for the addition of later dining hours.

Follow along for the News’ latest.

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Cohen resigns amid student concerns

In 1989, after the incumbent mayor Biagio DiLieto declined to run for a sixth term, Daniels won the election, defeating future Mayor John DeStefano Jr. in the Democratic primary. Daniels remained in office for two twoyear terms before stepping down, paving the way for DeStefano’s 20 years in the position.

Almost a month after 147 students signed a petition asking for the removal of Assistant Dean of Yale College Rodney Cohen from his position as director of the AfroAmerican Cultural Center, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway sent a campuswide email informing students that Cohen had resigned.

At an external review meeting chaired

by Holloway and University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews on Feb. 16, Elisia CeballoCountryman ’18, a freshman liaison for the Black Student Alliance at Yale, presented a 60-page petition to the administration on behalf of the 147 student signatories.

The petition contained letters from alumni and students expressing numerous grievances about the way the house was being run, including claims that Cohen was rarely present in the house, did not make funding opportunities easily accessible to students and retaliated against critical students by terminating their campus job contracts.

The petition called for Cohen’s immediate resignation, but many students said they were “pleasantly surprised” by Holloway’s announcement.

Now, Yale’s African-American community is calling for more transparency and community leadership from the individual chosen to replace him.

“We needed an immediate response in

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weekend’s almost-blizzard appears to have just been an aberration. Multiple weather sources point to temperatures pushing into the high 40s and low 50s by the end of this week. Welcome back to the Elm City, where post-winter flurries no longer strike us as out of the ordinary.

From Adriana’s to Zinc.

Former Yale provost Andrew Hamilton takes NYU’s top job.

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTERS

Not quite Cabo. Fear not: This

“How was your break?” To spare you from the inevitable small talk, here’s some of what we’ve gathered: the Spizzwinks were in Colombia, some of YIRA hit Scotland, Medical Brigades visited Panama and many, many others took to the beach for… less legitimate reasons.

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John Daniels, New Haven’s first black mayor, won his first term in 1989. Daniels died just over a week ago at the age of 78.

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Dignitaries, community leaders, city officials and hundreds of New Haveners gathered in Battell Chapel Friday to mourn the passing and celebrate the life of John C. Daniels, New Haven’s first black mayor.

Daniels served as mayor for four years, from 1990 to 1994. He was a

New Haven native, playing football at James Hillhouse High School in his youth and later working in the administrations of several mayors after graduating from Villanova University. In addition to serving as mayor, he was also a seven-term alderman for the Dwight, Westville and Newhallville neighborhoods and a five-term state senator from New Haven. He died just over a week ago at the age of 78.

Harp to seek re-election, unopposed thus far

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Mayor Toni Harp will run for re-election this November.

Harp filed papers with the City Clerk’s office on Friday and formed a campaign committee, setting in motion her bid for a second two-year term.

The mayor also scheduled her campaign’s first fundraiser for 5:30 p.m. on Monday, March

30, at the Barracuda Bistro and Bar. Harp has not yet formally announced that she is seeking re-election, but no other individuals have thus far declared an intent to run — either formally or informally. City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said Harp would likely make a formal announcement after building her campaign team.

Thus far, Harp has selected

Animal rights activists protest lab practices

BY JUN YAN CHUA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Students returning to campus yesterday afternoon were greeted by a choreographed demonstration outside of Old Campus of a protestor in a cage being treated by two others dressed in animal costumes.

Demonstrators at the performance art protest, staged

by Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), alleged that Yale research scientists have been violating U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations for testing on animals for years.

The group also claimed that Yale laboratories hold over 150,000 animals in captivity. Two protestors appeared dressed in animal costumes and lab coats, as the demonstration centered around the question “What if the tables were turned?”

“Many of these animals have holes drilled into their brains and are exposed to electrocution or potentially fatal drugs as part of laboratory experiments,” DxE said in a press

former downtown alder Bitsie Clark as her campaign treasurer and Larcina Wynn — president of Carrington Financial Services, an accounting firm — as deputy treasurer.

Clark said she expects Harp will select a campaign manager soon.

“We’re just getting started.

I expect things will really get going by the end of the week,” Clark said on Sunday. “We’re

hoping to start raising money and have meetings to get people fired up about Toni.”

Clark added that, in addition to public fundraisers such as the Barracuda event, the Harp campaign will also organize private parties to raise funds in the next two weeks.

She said she is working to organize such events with the help of Wynn and New Haven attorney James Segaloff — a former

member of the transition team that advised Harp after she was elected in 2013.

In her February state of the city address, Harp defended the city’s progress in youth services and economic development under her leadership — two areas of success that will likely be echoed in her campaign. She underscored the SEE RE-ELECTION PAGE 6

GHeav changes ownership, but protests continue

release Friday. “Lab technicians routinely kill primates, sheep, rodents and other animals after the experiments are completed.”

Yale is amongst the worst in the Ivy League in its treatment of animals.

ZACHARY GROFF ’13 Protest Leader, Direct Action Everywhere The protest drew a crowd of 10 residents, most of whom were not Yale affiliates. Many drivers blew their horns in solidarity with the protestors, who were situated at the intersection of College Street and Elm Street.

Bob Davis, acting director of Yale’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, could not be reached for comment over the weekend. However, according to the IACUC SEE ANIMAL RIGHTS PAGE 4

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On March 13 the two Gourmet Heaven stores changed ownership and were rebranded as the Good Nature Market.

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Despite a change in ownership, Good Nature Market, formerly known as Gourmet Heaven, continues to be the target of protests.

On March 13, the two Gourmet Heaven

stores on 15 Broadway and 55 Whitney Ave. changed ownership overnight from Chung Cho to Sun Yup Kim, a grocer from New York City. Good Nature Market will maintain the same operating hours and continue to employ most of the same workers as the SEE GHEAV PAGE 4

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Against a culture of greed I

n 2007, Congress created the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. In a nutshell, PSLF aimed to help college and professional school graduates with heavy loan debt take lowpaying, public service jobs. PSLF states that, if a graduate works in public service for 10 years and makes all of her payments on time, the rest of her debt will be forgiven. For many graduates, this is life-changing.

“Public service” here is defined pretty broadly. It includes government employees at all levels — from Justice Department lawyers to military service members to public school teachers (excluding only members of Congress); it also includes workers for nearly all nonprofits, AmeriCorps, Peace Corps and most public interest law organizations. PSLF is not an easy path: One must have taken out eligible loans (Federal Direct Loans) and then made the 120 monthly payments separately, on time and in full, after which any remaining debt will be forgiven. This can spare a student from a considerable chunk of loan debt, as well as much of the interest that accrues on that debt; further, under PSLF, students don’t have to pay taxes on the forgiven debt.

PSLF was created explicitly to benefit high-debt graduates taking a specific kind of low-paying job. If a student has low-enough debt or high-enough earnings, PSLF is mostly irrelevant to her, since she’ll likely have her loans paid off in 10 years anyway.

No one’s studied it too closely, but, eight years later, PSLF looks like a success. Public interest lawyer Isaac Bowers wrote in a Huffington Post blog post that “The initial results of a survey designed by Equal Justice Works … indicate PSLF is playing a critical role in allowing many people to embark on, and remain in, long-term public interest careers.” This survey quoted one respondent as writing, “Public Service Loan Forgiveness is critical to my ability to work at a nonprofit and serve the greater good.

Without it, I would be forced to leave my current job and work for a much higher salary.”

In recent months, however, PSLF is looking increasingly doomed. In President Obama’s proposed 2015 budget, he suggested capping the amount forgiven at $57,500. To put this number in perspective, many of PSLF’s recipients are law graduates; according to a recent New America Foundation study, the average law graduate debt is over $140,000. In order to be debtfree after 10 years, the average graduate in debt would have to pay off more than $80,000 in a decade; meanwhile, the median starting salary for a legal services attorney is less than $43,000.

If a lawyer stays in this field for 11 to 15 years, she can expect her salary to go up to a princely $65,000.

But then the situation got

worse.

Last Tu e sd ay, Republicans in the House of Re p re se n ta tives released a plan to eliminate PSLF a l t o g e t h e r.

SCOTT Now let’s take STERN our $43,000a-year public A Stern services attorPerspective ney. According to public interest lawyer Sam Wright, in order to pay off an average amount of debt in 10 years, with interest and without PSLF, a legal services attorney would have to pay “almost half” of her annual income yearly.

It’s easy to be mad at the sociopathic Republicans in Congress, or the wimpy Democrats in the White House. It’s easy to throw up one’s hands and rant.

Especially since Yale has such excellent financial aid compared with nearly every other school, it’s easy to just ignore this whole situation.

But I blame something larger.

I blame a culture that has completely devalued careers in public interest and public service.

I blame a culture that asserts that working in public service is somehow soft or quaint or ineffective. I blame Ronald Reagan, who famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” I blame the Tea Party. I blame the Democrats, who seem far more comfortable serving corporate interests than aiding those attempting to help others.

At Yale specifically, I blame a culture that has taught us that greed is acceptable, that social responsibility is meaningless and that judging our peers’ career choices is taboo.

We don’t need more bankers and consultants and corporate lawyers. We need more teachers and social workers and public defenders. Let’s look at the legal profession again. David Stern, the Executive Director of Equal Justice Works (and no relation), wrote in a post on the Harvard Law Record: “There is just one legal aid attorney available for every 6,415 low-income Americans. About 80 percent of defendants in criminal cases can’t afford a lawyer, and the majority of parties in housing, probate and family courts across the country go unrepresented.”

This column is not intended to suggest a way to save PSLF. If you take just one thing away from this column, let it be this: Don’t contribute to a discourse that continues to devalue or stigmatize public interest or public service. Don’t be part of a culture that scoffs at trying to help those around us.

SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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GUEST COLUMNIST DOUGLAS RAE

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John Daniels’ legacy

got to know John Daniels in 1983, shortly after the Census Bureau announced that New Haven had climbed into the top 10 of America’s poor cities.

Apparently believing that any self-respecting mayor should surely do something about such a presentment, incumbent mayor Biagio DiLieto called for the establishment of a “Special Commission on Poverty” in New Haven. Based perhaps on my very modest accomplishments organizing youth soccer for New Haven kids of all races and income tiers, DiLieto asked me to head that group. Given what the city would be prepared to do about its poverty, even a more potent leadership choice would have made little difference.

John Daniels, then a state senator, was easily the most important member of DiLieto’s Commission. He had grown up in New Haven, graduated from Hillhouse High in 1955 and gone on to Villanova, where he starred in football long before blacks were entirely welcome inside mainstream college athletics. By 1983, back in town, John was a successful businessman, an acknowledged leader of black civic life in our city and a powerful figure in the Connecticut General Assembly. He was

widely respected as a legislator, and as a reliably sane advocate on public policy. He knew vastly more about New Haven’s people than I did, and had a much firmer grasp of the constituencies we would need to address with our commission’s report. Senator Daniels, consultant Harry Wexler and now-mayor Toni Harp provided much of the substance attained in our work together.

DANIELS BUILT A COALITION REACHING ACROSS RACE AND CLASS IN NEW HAVEN John Daniels died just over a week ago at the age of 78.

Daniels was as decent a man as I have known in my first 75 years on earth. Indeed, he was a kinder and gentler man than New Haven politics of the late 20th century deserved. In 1989, when poverty, crime and the school system had gotten even worse than in 1983, Daniels assem-

bled a rustic weekend retreat up near Litchfield. Should he run for mayor? Most of us thought “yes” in the expectation that he would likely lose to incumbent mayor DiLieto in 1989, but position himself to win an open-seat contest when DiLieto retired from office. Shortly after Daniels announced his candidacy, DiLieto dropped out. Knowing roughly how large a wave of unfunded expense awaited the next mayor, he graciously retired from office. Defeating a then-youthful John DeStefano Jr., Daniels won office and served two terms as mayor.

If Daniels was not a gifted executive, he was assuredly an admirable mayor. His enduring legacy to New Haven has three main parts. First, he brought community policing to our city.

As of 1990, New Haven police work was still built on a military, us-against-them model.

Women were largely excluded from the force on the basis of an “agility test” requiring candidates to press a hundred-pound weight. How often is it necessary to bench-press a suspect? As we now know, police who walk the streets, and who ally the law with each neighborhood’s citizenry, are vitally important. In Daniels’ time,

Chief Nick Pastore got the program installed with some help from a young officer named Dean Esserman — now the chief and a stalwart of community policing. Second, Daniels and Yale President Benno Schmidt began a constructive dialogue about Yale’s increasingly important role as New Haven’s dominant employer. There were doubtless some errors on each side, but the two-decade dialogue later carried out by Rick Levin and Mayor DeStefano grew from the seeds left by Daniels and Schmidt.

Finally, Daniels built a coalition reaching across race and class in New Haven — no easy task.

In an increasingly diverse city like New Haven, reaching across race, national origin and linguistic heritage and bridging the town-gown divide will be even more important than in Daniels’ time. Harp, and her counterpart in Woodbridge Hall, Peter Salovey, will benefit from all three parts of John Daniels’ legacy. So will the rest of us.

DOUGLAS RAE is the Richard Ely professor of management and professor of political science. He served as the Chief Administrative Officer of New Haven under Mayor John Daniels in 1990 and 1991. Contact him at douglas.rae@yale.edu .

Boycott synthetic activism

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hough Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana hastily scrambled to rectify their controversial remarks, the outrage over “synthetic children” isn’t going away.

Celebrities like Elton John have refused to back down from their promised boycott, understandably slow to forgive the perceived dehumanization of gay families.

I have serious problems with Dolce and Gabbana’s narrow conception of family. Two dads or two moms have every right to raise a child, no matter what a couple of fashion designers think. I do not believe IVF children are in any way “synthetic,” and those who believe otherwise are deplorable.

But boycotts like this one — organized by the Hollywood elite and directed at unfortunate slips of the tongue — send a horrible message about activism that is counterproductive in the long term. Turning a politically incorrect faux pas into a social justice campaign does two things: It needlessly elevates minor injustices while trivializing major ones.

No one should have believed for a moment that two gay men actually thought IVF children were “synthetic.” It is true that in vitro fertilization is not the “natural” (or, perhaps, “ordinary”) way of conceiving a child, but this doesn’t imply anything about the value of that child’s life. It’s supremely unlikely that Dolce and Gabbana failed to understand this distinction, and it’s incredibly uncharita-

ble to accuse Gabbana — who has said he underwent 10 years of therapy because of his sexuality — of homophobia.

AARON Dolce and SIBARIUM Gabbana are bad targets The for other reaModerator sons. Elton John’s boycott does little to help the LGBT community and even less to help its most vulnerable members. Only rich people — like Elton John — can afford to shop at Dolce and Gabbana. Those most likely to participate in the boycott aren’t making a sacrifice of any kind — unless once counts not wearing Gucci as a sacrifice. This protest is as thoroughly one-percent and anti-populist as it gets.

It signifies a gentle slap on the arm, nothing more.

Most of all, it trades substantive issues for rhetorical buzzwords. By repeating “synthetic children” ad nauseam, activists have ignored a less flashy but far more problematic idea espoused by Dolce: “I’m Sicilian and I grew up in a traditional family, made up of a mother, a father and children.”

The hegemony of this domestic ideal is a far greater impediment to LGBT rights than brusque comments about “wombs for rent.” Living in a nation quickly approaching full marriage equality, we forget the

long-standing divide between issues of family structure on the one hand and gay rights on the other. Historically, accepting gay relationships did not necessarily imply a more expansive definition of family.

History was wrong. I believe — and I suspect Elton John does too — that embracing alternative family structures is crucial to ensuring lasting, meaningful equality for the gay community. So rather than launching a feel-good crusade against dumb slips of the tongue, why not engage seriously with Dolce and Gabbana’s traditionalism? Why not challenge the philosophical underpinnings of this view, which predominates in southern Europe and large swaths of America?

IT'S EASY TO CRITICIZE DEFAMATORY SPEECH It’s more important for activists to correct the underlying context of offensive speech than it is to correct the speech itself. Instead of just decrying the insensitivity of two gay men with an aristocratic boycott, let’s tackle the insidious homophobia that produced their remarks in the first place.

Let’s tackle, for instance, the cultural conservatism still

prominent in many Italian businesses, as evidenced by pasta maker Barilla’s controversial remarks last year that they will never showcase a homosexual couple in their advertisements.

Let’s tackle the persistent failure of the Italian parliament to pass anti-discrimination legislation. Let’s address the claims of Ivan Scalfarotto, the first openly gay man in the Italian government, that “in Italy it is completely acceptable to say homophobic jokes.”

Grassroots campaigns leveled against these less visible but far more pernicious injustices would actually improve life for many people in the world. It’s much easier to criticize defamatory speech than it is to dismantle structural inequalities and bigotry around the world.

Yet the latter objective matters far more than the former.

We can and should disavow Dolce and Gabbana’s remarks, because what they said was socially irresponsible. But, in light of their revisions and apologies, it was not unforgivable. Celebrity activism can make a real difference, but only if celebrities use some selfcontrol and confront the most pressing problems facing the world.

So, instead of boycotting Dolce and Gabbana, let’s boycott armchair activism.

AARON SIBARIUM is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. His column runs on alternate Mondays.

Contact him at aaron.sibarium@yale.edu .

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“In my day we didn’t have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.” VICTORIA WOOD BRITISH COMEDIAN

CORRECTIONS

Lawsuits allege sexual misconduct at YSM

THURSDAY, MARCH 5

A previous version of the article “Report calls for lower Hep C drug prices” incorrectly stated that Hepatitis C drugs contained interferon-ribavirin. In fact, they relied on interferon. Also, Sovaldi can be produced at $102 per treatment cycle, not per pill, with the highest price for a cycle being $84,000. Finally, the Indian High Court, not Supreme Court, removed a patent from Sovaldi.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6

A previous version of the article “College construction offers jobs, raises questions on bidding process” mistakenly attributed a comment to Bruce Alexander, vice president for New Haven and State Affairs, that should have been attributed to University spokesman Tom Conroy.

A previous version of the article “Fossil Free Yale threatens escalation” incorrectly stated that the protest saw an attendance of roughly 40. In fact, roughly 60 people attended the protest.

Protestors rally against alleged wage

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A crowd of about 50 protestors gathered outside 116 Crown to protest alleged wage theft and labor violations in New Haven.

BY SKYLER INMAN STAFF REPORTER Late last week, a crowd of roughly 50 protesters rallied outside of 116 Crown, a high-end bar in downtown New Haven.

Though they came to support one man’s labor complaint, the protestors spoke out against what they see as a greater trend of labor violations in the community.

Organized by local workers’ rights group Unidad Latina en Accion, participants attempted to raise public awareness of a labor complaint from former employee Edgar Sandoval, who worked as a dishwasher at 116 Crown for roughly two years.

Sandoval says he was denied over $16,000 of overtime pay during his employment. Labor activists said this complaint is indicative of the wage theft and worker abuse that they believe is rampant in the New Haven community.

Sandoval, who participated in Thursday’s rally, said that even though he worked anywhere from 60 to 100 hours per week, he was paid a flat hourly rate. The state of Connecticut requires employers to grant overtime pay — one and a half times the regular rate of pay — for every hour past the traditional 40-hour work week.

Shortly after being fired from the bar in November, Sandoval was hospitalized with depression, anxiety and high blood pressure. He said the long work hours impacted his physical and mental health.

ULA organizer John Lugo said that soon after this, Sandoval decided to lodge a formal complaint with the Connecticut Department of Labor.

John Ginnetti, Sandoval’s former employer at 116 Crown, did not return a request for comment, but reportedly responded to a letter from ULA on the matter earlier this year.

According to Lugo, Ginnetti stated that Sandoval had, in fact, been salaried and not paid hourly. Ginnetti also said in his response that Sandoval was head of the dishwashing division rather than a regular dishwasher.

These two caveats in Connecticut labor laws could allow an employer to forgo overtime pay.

Sandoval said both claims are untrue.

ULA has worked with other workers on similar cases in recent years, including last

year’s Gourmet Heaven wage theft case, which resulted in the court ordering owner Chung Cho to pay $140,000 in back wages to the complainants and a $10,000 fine to the DOL. Earlier this month, University Properties announced that Gourmet Heaven would be renamed as Good Nature Market and operate under new ownership. ULA organizers said those wages are still owed.

“Even in 2015, we see people making wages that are from the 1970s or the 1960s,” Lugo said.

“We can’t have people making the same wages they made back in 1988.”

This case, and others like it, Lugo said, are indicative of a larger trend of worker abuse in New Haven and across the country.

A 2009 study conducted

by Annette Bernhardt — then the Policy Co-Director of the National Employment Law Project — and 10 other policy experts found workplace violations to be severe and widespread in lowwage labor markets, like the food service industry.

Over a quarter of the study’s 4,387 survey respondents — low-wage workers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — worked more than 40 hours during the previous week. Of those respondents, 76 percent reported that their employers had not paid the legally required overtime rate.

Lugo said that in addition to Sandoval’s complaint, ULA is now working on reviewing the claims of two unnamed individuals who also claim that Ginnetti stole wages from them when they were employed at 116 Crown.

Sandoval said he has no personal problem with Ginnetti and called him “a good guy.” But he said his former employer had brought issue with the number of hours per week Sandoval claimed to have worked. “[Ginnetti] didn’t want to pay me because I was saying I was working 65 to 100 hours a week, and he said the restaurant was only open about 60 hours a week. But those are just the business hours. I was always the last one to leave,” said Sandoval.

The Fair Labor Standards Act — the U.S. federal statute that first protected employees from wage theft — was passed in 1938.

Contact SKYLER INMAN at skyler.inman@yale.edu .

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE, STEPHANIE ROGERS AND AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTERS In two federal lawsuits, seven individuals have leveled new charges of sexual misconduct against a Yale doctor and the University, which employed him until last year.

On Feb. 12, five women and one man filed a 103-page complaint in U.S. District Court in New Haven. It outlines 41 allegations of misconduct against three entities: Yale University, DVA Renal Healthcare, Inc. and Rex Leroy Mahnensmith MED ’77, the now-retired medical director of the DaVita New Haven Dialysis Clinic and the Acute Hemodialysis Clinic in New Haven, the latter located on the eighth floor of Yale-New Haven Hospital. The suit accuses Mahnensmith of sexual harassment, violation of medical bylaws and perpetuation of a hostile work environment.

The complaints lodged against the University and the dialysis clinics Mahnensmith directed include sexual discrimination, violation of Title VII and Title IX legislation and maintenance of a “culture of tolerance” of inappropriate behavior. A 54-page suit lodging similar complaints was filed by an additional female plaintiff in Hartford on the same day.

Though the plaintiffs have filed against the University, they are not Yale employees, University spokesman Tom Conroy said in an email. Instead, they are current and former employees of the company, DaVita, which operates the two clinics where Mahnensmith worked.

According to Arthur Laske III, the attorney of the plaintiff filing in Hartford, DaVita has a contract with the Yale School of Medicine, which provides physicians from the Nephrology Department to the clinic. In exchange for staff, DaVita pays Yale and the medical director — formerly Mahnensmith — a “significant amount of money.”

Mahnensmith retired from his position in April 2014 and is no longer part of the faculty, Conroy said.

In response to the allegations, the University has said it actively addresses all concerns and complaints of sexual misconduct across all departments, defending further accusations that the complaints against Mahnen-

smith were overlooked for financial gain. Conroy said in an email that “all complaints of sexual misconduct are investigated and addressed when they are reported to the University in accordance with our practices and procedures and our commitment to provide a safe and respectful environment for all.”

Mahnensmith and his attorney, Elizabeth Acee, did not respond to requests for comment.

The lawsuit accuses Mahnensmith of repeated unwanted sexual advances and comments toward employees and patients, retaliation when confronted with complaints and unprofessional behavior toward patients that contravened Yale’s bylaws and DaVita’s policies.

One specific claim filed against Mahnensmith under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act — which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin — accuses the doctor of touching the shoulders and upper chests of staff members, and the midthighs of female patients “for no clinical purpose.” Further accusations claim that Mahnensmith frequently made inappropriate sexual comments and sexual advances while interacting with patients and colleagues. The plaintiffs claim his behavior created a hostile work environment for women at the dialysis treatment center.

In addition to accusations of sexual misconduct, Mahnensmith was also accused of violating Yale and DaVita’s medical policies regarding infection control, hours of operation, prescription drugs and acceptable patient behavior. The suit claims that these violations were “flagrant,” “extreme and outrageous.”

Dean of the Yale School of Medicine Robert Alpern, who also specializes in nephrology, was criticized in the lawsuit for a failure to supervise Mahnensmith, despite allegedly being aware of the director’s treatment of women and unprofessionalism in the workplace. The suit further alleges that Alpern’s unresponsiveness fits a broader pattern of the dean failing to supervise faculty members, after reports of misconduct, if they are adept at securing funding either for grant money or, as in Mahnensmith’s case, corporate funding.

In a Saturday night email to the News, Alpern declined to comment on ongoing litigation and

said he does not “comment on personnel matters.” However, he said Yale encourages reporting of misbehaviors by faculty, staff and students, and added that “it is critical” that all affiliated parties understand “Yale’s desire to be informed immediately” about such misbehavior.

Yet, the plaintiffs claim that the University had been “aware of [Mahnensmith’s] sexual harassment and misconduct towards women” long before the most recent lawsuit was filed in February. At least one formal and other informal sexual harassment complaints had previously been filed, including repeated complaints made by two other staff members in 2013, the complaint states.

The suit claims that the School of Medicine neglected to respond to complaints due to Mahnensmith’s ability to bring in corporate funding, and that DaVita neglected claims in order to protect its contract with Yale. According to the lawsuit, DaVita made known to the plaintiffs that its primary concern was “to keep Dr. Mahnensmith happy” for this reason.

“DaVita gets to charge the clients, and in return Yale and the medical director get paid,” added Laske, the attorney for one of the plaintiffs. “DaVita tolerated Mahnensmith because he was put there by Yale, and they needed to maintain the contract with Yale.”

A similar claim, that officials in the medical school declined to punish harassment in the interest of financial gain, was made earlier this academic year when former chief of cardiology Michael Simons MED ’84 was given a lighter penalty than the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct recommended after allegations of sexual misconduct. Simons had brought the medical school close to $5 million in research grants every year for the past three fiscal years. He elected not to return to his position as chief of cardiology at the School of Medicine and was subsequently dismissed from the directorship of the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center amid accusations of sexual harassment.

Alpern called the claims that reporting misbehaviors would affect a contract “misplaced and quite concerning.” He added that it is Yale’s policy to firmly and efficiently address incidents of misbehavior.

In addition to accusing Yale of letting finances and prestige determine handling of com-

plaints, the lawsuit accuses DaVita’s Northeast Division Vice President Elise Duke — who is responsible for the management of the New Haven clinic — of neglecting to act on complaints because she was worried about the “impact of the accusations on DaVita’s relationship with Yale.”

On behalf of Duke, DaVita’s Director of Communications Vince Hancock declined to comment on the pending litigation.

As a result of Mahnensmith’s alleged behavior and the hostile working environment they said they experienced, three of the seven plaintiffs said they felt compelled to leave their jobs at the DaVita center in 2014. Two left the company — which has over 2,000 centers across the country — altogether.

When the Simons case surfaced in November, in the form of a front-page story in The New York Times, Alpern sent a faculty-wide email telling his staff that he was “entirely committed” to addressing complaints, and said the school did not countenance behavior marked as harmful, harassing or demeaning.

He reaffirmed this statement in a Saturday email to the News, saying that a major focus of his recent work at the medical school has been to share with the community his commitment and the commitment of senior leadership to address issues of misconduct.

He said it is, and will remain, a high priority for both him and the school.

But according to Laske, Yale has shown a “lack of responsiveness” to both formal and informal complaints, leading DaVita employees to deal with Mahnensmith’s behavior “beyond a point that they should have.”

“The real issue for us is whether Yale is going to be accountable and accept its responsibilities and if DaVita is going to do the same,” Laske said. “They were both working in concert to preserve a very bad person.”

Mahnensmith completed his residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a three-year fellowship in internal medicine and nephrology at the School of Medicine.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu, STEPHANIE ROGERS at stephanie.rogers@yale.edu and AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

Students urge Yale-NUS to take on sexual health

BY SCOTT CURRIE SPECIAL TO THE NEWS SINGAPORE — Yale-NUS College has yet to establish clear sexual health policies or education programming for students, though this could change as the college looks into hiring a health coordinator and possibly expanding student insurance packages to cover testing for sexually transmitted infections. In the meantime, student-based initiatives have been the force behind sexual health awareness.

The University Health Center at the National University of Singapore, currently the primary health center for students, has the capacity for sex-related care, though it is limited to medical assistance. The NUS Counseling and Psychological Service can provide sexual health advice upon consultation. Although Yale-NUS has a Wellness Center, its only sex-oriented policy pertains to sexual misconduct and support for victims. Beyond these services, Yale-NUS has no sexual health awareness or safe sex programs.

Dean of Students Kyle Farley said the college does not seek to condemn or endorse sex, but rather aims to ensure students are well informed in this regard. He said students can also approach the wellness team, comprising Wellness Director Sha-En Yeo and two psychologists, as well as dean’s fellows, who undergo “intensive training … that includes being sensitive to issues surrounding sexual health,” according to Farley. Yeo said in an email she could not comment in time for deadline.

Whereas Yale has Sex Week, Farley said, he does not necessarily see a similar week-long educa-

tion and awareness program taking place at Yale-NUS. “I think we should be sensitive to location of our school, in the same way we aren’t trying to recreate Yale in Singapore — we are creating our own community and our own institution, and part of that is to be sensitive to where we are physically located in that community,” Farley said.

He added that sexual health education should be framed in terms of “healthy relationships,” pointing to the example of a rector’s tea, akin to a Master’s Tea in New Haven, by a sexologist in November 2013, and two hourand-a-half-long lectures focused on sexuality held by the Association of Women for Action and Research during student orientation in 2014.

Students, however, questioned whether the latter sessions were satisfying.

“They really just skimmed … [and] didn’t really talk about the real aspect of sexual health,” said Megan Chua YNUS ’18. Because she comes from a conservative family in Singapore, Chua said, she did not grow up learning about birth control and other means of making decisions about her sexual health.

“I had to figure it out myself.

I had to see the gynecologist by myself and talk to people and research,” she said, adding that she feels it is incumbent on YaleNUS to aid students with these matters.

Changes may be underway as the Office of the Dean of Students looks into altering its insurance package.

“As we re-evaluate … I think looking at coverage for [STI] testing is something we could look into,” said Farley.

He also said the college intends

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Yale-NUS students advocate better sexual education programming. to hire a health coordinator, a qualified medical professional who will work with the Wellness Center and the dean’s fellows on student health.

Students interviewed agreed that more sexual health education and support is necessary.

Wei Jie Koh YNUS ’17 said misconceptions about sex are present on campus, threatening student safety. Chua suggested having more sexual health workshops “centering around different methods of birth control both for men and women, or on how being sexually active is a perfectly okay thing.”

Luke Ong YNUS ’18 said he approached the Office of the Dean of Students with a proposal for a condom dispenser on the new campus. “[Sexuality education] is not

something we should be ashamed of, because in Singapore it [used to be] kind of taboo to talk about.

Now it’s not so bad,” he added.

In the meantime, The G Spot, a student organization, remains the primary sexual health educational resource in the college, having organized several sexual health and sexuality-related events since its inception in 2014. The group currently stocks all common lounges with sexual safety kits comprising condoms, lubricants and pamphlets on sexual health, although there is discussion about handing over this responsibility to a peer-to-peer network.

Yonatan Gazit contributed reporting.

Contact SCOTT CURRIE at a0127930@yale-nus.edu.sg .

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“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” GEORGE ELIOT ENGLISH AUTHOR

New owner at fmr. Gourmet Heaven fails to deter protests GHEAV FROM PAGE 1 previous Gourmet Heaven. Kim will, however, implement multiple renovations over the next few months and completely change the menu and product selection, said Joel Kim, a manager at Good Nature Market.

“I don’t know how long the renovations will take. We’re going to change the seating tables, the hot-food table, also we have a deli case,” Kim said.

“Good Nature Market will be 100 percent totally different, not any more Gourmet Heaven.”

Despite the change in ownership, members of the local social justice group Unidad Latina en Accion staged a labor rights protest in front of Good Nature Market on Monday afternoon. Megan Fountain ’07, a volunteer organizer at ULA, said the organization wants Yale University Properties — which owns both Good Nature Market properties — to take greater responsibility in protecting workers’ rights. Gourmet Heaven’s previous owner still owes his former-workers $120,000 in unpaid wages, according to Fountain. Cho was first arrested in February 2014 for 21 counts of felony wage theft and 20 misdemeanor counts of defrauding immigrant workers.

“Mr. Chung Cho thinks that he may avoid legal responsibility by putting the business under new management, and Yale University thinks they can sweep this under the rug. Don’t be fooled,” said ULA leader John Lugo in a press release before the protest.

Lauren Zucker, associate vice president for New Haven Affairs and University Properties, however, wrote in an email to the News on Saturday that the State of Connecticut Department of Labor, not UP, is responsible for making sure that businesses are

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Over the next few months, Good Nature Market will be renovated and the menu and product selection completely changed. complying with state law and treating workers fairly.

Unlike previous protests staged by ULA that have not garnered a response from the University, a representative from UP addressed the crowd during Monday’s protest. In the middle of the protest, Patrick O’Brien, marketing coordinator for University Properties, walked out of Good Nature Market and spoke to the protestors. Kim, an honored and award-winning grocer,

will run the business legally and is an upstanding citizen, O’Brien said, the New Haven Independent reported.

Zucker and Community Affairs Associate Karen King will meet with members of social justice student group MEChA de Yale this Friday, said co-coordinator for MEChA Ava Tomasula y Garcia ’17.

At the meeting, which MEChA and UP scheduled a month ago, MEChA will ask to see UP’s

lease with Good Nature Market, Tomasula y Garcia said. She added that the lease must include language about the repercussions for labor law violations in order to discourage Good Nature Market from creating a business model that relies on wage theft.

She added that the DOL regulations are not sufficient to ensure workers’ rights — even workers who win wage theft cases only receive a fraction of their unpaid wages.

“The point about workers not getting paid is super important because it is a microcosm of wage theft violations throughout the country,” said Tomasula y Garcia. “All of the private actors that are very much a part of the equation are able to wash their hands of the matter. It’s only setting a precedent that wage theft can happen and you can get away with it.”

As for Good Nature Market, both Sun Yup Kim and Joel Kim

said they will continue making the planned renovations and not respond to the protests.

“I’m trying to work together with the workers like a family.

Give more service to the customer and the laborers,” Sun Yup Kim said.

Kim is a member and former chair of the Korean-American Grocers Association of New York.

Contact JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

Yale lab practices criticized in animal rights protest ANIMAL RIGHTS FROM PAGE 1 website, “animal care is conducted in a cordon with the highest scientific, humane and ethical principles and is in compliance with regulations.”

This is not the first time Yale’s use of animals has come under scrutiny. In 2010, the Connecticut Animal Rights Network staged a similar protest, naming and shaming researchers who had supposedly mistreated animals.

In anticipation of the event in 2010, Yale issued a statement defending the humane use of animals in its research.

“Yale takes seriously its responsibility for the humane care of animals; our laboratories comply with or exceed all federal regulations and independent accreditation standards,” the statement read.

Last March, the animal rights organization Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! filed a complaint against the University.

Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information

Act, which were released to the public after the SAEN filing, revealed a range of animal welfare violations in the University’s laboratories. In the over 40 violations reported between January 2011 and May 2013, failing to administer postoperation painkillers, or infrequently administering them, as well as forgetting to place a milk source with baby mice, appeared on multiple occasions. SAEN urged the USDA to impose the maximum financial penalty on Yale for three particular animal welfare violations.

“Yale is amongst the worst in the Ivy League in its treatment of animals,” protest leader Zachary Groff ’13 said. He added that the group intends to hold a campaign focused on Yale Dining’s food later this year.

Passer-by Ava Tomasula y Garcia ’17 expressed sympathy for the protestors’ cause.

“Students should be aware of the issue,” Tomasula y Garcia said. “But this should probably be paired with talking with the

administration.”

Yale professor Shelly Kagan, who has written extensively about animal rights, noted that regulatory safeguards tend to be morally inadequate.

“Although there are requirements that animals be ‘welltreated’ in terms of their cages and feeding, there is no consideration required at all of the animal suffering involved in the experiments themselves,” the philosophy professor said.

DxE has staged numerous protests across Connecticut.

In January, the group held protests at Whole Foods outlets throughout the state alleging Whole Foods commits violence against animals.

The grassroots organization DxE comprises a global network of activists and seeks to challenge speciesism — the idea that humans are entitled to superior moral rights — through creative forms of protest.

Contact JUN YAN CHUA at junyan.chua@yale.edu .

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“Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense.

It’s patriotism.” JOE BIDEN U.S. VICE PRESIDENT

Rowland’s sentencing sparks call for anti-corruption measures

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER

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Former Gov. John Rowland was sentenced to 30 months in jail for conspiracy and obstructing justice.

After a second former state official was sentenced to prison this month, state officials are calling for lifetime disqualification from office for public officials guilty of corruption.

On March 18, former Republican Gov. John Rowland was sentenced to 30 months in jail after facing a maximum sentence of 57 years in prison on counts that included conspiracy, obstructing justice and falsifying documents.

Five days earlier, former state Sen. Ernie Newton was sentenced to six months in prison for violating campaign finance laws. Rowland’s sentence came a decade after he was first sentenced to prison for corruption, while Newton’s sentence follows his 2005 sentencing for charges of bribery, mail fraud and tax evasion.

The day after Rowland’s sentencing, Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch wrote a letter to the General Assembly Judiciary Committee encouraging them to strengthen laws that crack down on public corruption. General Assembly Judiciary Co-Chairman William Tong agreed to lead an effort to pass more legislation combating public corruption in the state, according to a Sunday press release from the city of Bridgeport.

“Public corruption isn’t a victimless crime,” Finch’s letter read.

“Now more than ever, we need to take action against public corrup-

Former provost named NYU president

BY TYLER FOGGATT AND LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTERS On March 18, former Yale Provost Andrew Hamilton was named the next president of New York University.

Hamilton, who served as provost from 2004 to 2008 and joined the Yale faculty in 1997 as a professor of chemistry, most recently served as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. At NYU, he will succeed John Sexton, who has led the university since 2002 and most recently faced criticism regarding NYU’s expansion into Abu Dhabi, one of several contentious issues that led faculty to issue votes of no confidence against him in 2013. Still, following his nomination, Hamilton praised Sexton and said he was excited to lead NYU, a school he described as a “game changer” in the field of higher education.

“I am delighted to be selected as NYU’s 16th president,” Hamilton said in a statement. “I have been a keen observer of NYU, its accomplishments, its trajectory and its renowned president, John Sexton, for some time.”

Hamilton is one of five consecutive Yale provosts to be named to the top job of a university. He follows Susan Hockfield, who became president of MIT; Alison Richard, who became vice-chancellor of University of Cambridge; Judith Rodin, who became president of University of Pennsylvania; and most recently University President Peter Salovey, who succeeded Hamilton as provost in 2008.

Hamilton’s largest contributions to Yale during his time as provost included the acquisition of Yale’s West Campus, the reestablishment of the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and reform to the tenure process, according to his University of Oxford personal bio.

“Andy Hamilton has led major initiatives to strengthen Yale in science, engineering and medicine while at the same time enthusiastically supporting investments in the humanities, social sciences and the arts,” former University President Richard Levin said in a statement in 2008, following Hamilton’s nomination to vicechancellor at Oxford. “He is a first-rate scholar, who is respected by his faculty colleagues as a wise academic leader.”

According a press release by NYU, Hamilton was selected from among a pool of over 200 nominees during an eightmonth search for NYU’s next president.

He will officially begin his duties as NYU president in January 2016.

Salovey said the combination of having served both as provost of Yale and vicechancellor of Oxford will give Hamilton a unique strategic and international perspective on issues facing higher education.

“Andrew Hamilton’s energy, creativity and wisdom will serve NYU well,” Salovey said. “I very much enjoyed working with vice-chancellor Hamilton when he was Yale’s provost, and I was a dean. His style is collaborative and engaging; he is someone who always has intriguing ideas.”

Still, it remains clear that Hamilton will likely inherit challenges faced under Sexton’s leadership, including criticism of NYU’s expansion.

NYU’s international presence has not been without controversy, particularly in regards to its campus in Abu Dhabi.

tion at the state level.”

Tong’s new initiative is expected to follow the three-pronged approach laid out in Finch’s letter, said Bridgeport city spokesman Brett Broesder. Legislation would remove all corrupt politicians from the pension roll, create stronger state laws and penalties against corrupt politicians and implement a lifetime ban for politicians convicted of corruption from running for public office.

The legislative initiative will have a hearing with the General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee in the coming weeks, Broesder added.

“Unfortunately, state laws against public corruption aren’t doing enough to dissuade politicians from harming taxpayers,” Broesder said in an email to the News. “But that could change.”

In September, a jury in federal court found Rowland guilty of secretly collecting campaignconsulting fees from congressional candidates. Rowland was allegedly paid $35,000 to work on the failed 2012 congressional bid of Republican Lisa Wilson-Foley. The former governor conspired to hide these payments through a consulting contract with Apple Rehab, a nursing home company owned by her husband, Brian Foley SPH ’81.

Both Wilson-Foley and her husband pled guilty.

Prosecutors also accused Rowland of trying to strike a similar deal in 2010 with another failed GOP congressional candi-

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Last week, an NYU professor was barred from entering the United Arab Emirates following his public criticism of the condition of migrant workers in the country. Other controversies often colored Sexton’s tenure, including the collective bargaining rights of its graduate school teaching assistants and lack of freedom of political expression in both the NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai campuses.

In addition to controversy abroad, Sexton’s tenure has also faced criticism in Greenwich Village, where NYU’s main campus is located.

Andrew Berman, director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, said he welcomed the leadership change with “guarded optimism.”

“NYU’s unrelenting expansionism in the surrounding community, without regard for the impact upon the residential environment around it or consideration of reasonable alternatives that would meet their needs while respecting the concerns of Greenwich Village residents, has led to an extremely strained relationship,” he said in an email. “We hope that Mr. Hamilton will be willing to consider alternatives that the university administration has thus far been unwilling to, in order to repair the nearly two-century-old relationship between NYU and the community which it has called home since its founding.”

He added that while he hopes Hamilton will be more respectful and engaging of differing viewpoints than his predecessor, ultimately the success of that relationship will come down to the policies.

NYU faculty, however, were more optimistic about Hamilton’s ability to restore relations between the faculty and the administration, which reached a low point in 2013 when faculty issued multiple votes

of no confidence on Sexton’s leadership.

Allen Mincer, a physics professor and the incoming chairman of the NYU Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council, said that in recent years, the NYU administration has taken greater efforts to engage faculty in university governance.

He added that he is hopeful that Hamilton will continue this effort as he steps into the university’s leadership.

“There is much still to do,” Mincer said in an email. “But the choice of Dr. Hamilton and everything he has been quoted as saying on the subject indicate a strong will to continue in this direction.”

Jules O’Connor, NYU senior and student member of the Presidential Search Committee, said she was excited about the selection of Hamilton since he is dedicated to enhancing the student experience, as well as furthering and solidifying the “NYU global network.”

Despite criticism of Sexton, Linda Lorimer, Yale’s vice president for global and strategic initiatives — who was instrumental in global projects like Yale-NUS — said she believes NYU’s global ambition was one of the main things that attracted Hamilton to the university.

“NYU is mighty fortunate to have convinced Andy, who has been an outstanding leader at two very different universities,” Lorimer said. “He will want to work very closely and collaboratively with the faculties of all of the schools there, as he did here and at Oxford.”

Hamilton’s appointment was unanimously recommended by NYU’s search committee to the Board of Trustees.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu and LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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

Head pantry workers can return to colleges

BY TYLER FOGGATT AND DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTERS

Vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford and former Yale Provost Andrew Hamilton was named as the next president of New York University.

date, Mark Greenberg. Rowland’s actions were found to be in violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, which limits financial influence in the election of candidates for federal office.

In a press release after Rowland’s sentencing, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Gustafson said it was disheartening that an individual who once held public office and had previously been convicted of a federal crime “chose to deceive voters and violate laws that were established to ensure fair and open elections.”

In the formal sentencing request, federal prosecutors condemned Rowland for not learning from his previous transgressions, adding that the court’s sentence should ensure that the people of Connecticut are relieved from further harm.

Both Rowland and Newton were among the state politicians cited

by U.S. Attorney Deirdre Daly as reasons that law enforcement agencies created the Connecticut Public Corruption Task Force in February. The Task Force aims to investigate allegations of corruption.

Eight states currently have a disqualification law that prevents officials convicted of corruption from returning to office, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

After a contentious battle between Yale Dining and Local 35, head pantry workers have been given the opportunity to return to the residential colleges.

In June of last year, the University announced that it was shifting the production of salads, dressings and deli items from the residential colleges to the Culinary Support Center, an off-campus food preparation facility. Two months later, head pantry workers were asked to leave their residential colleges to work in the new facility. Although no jobs were eliminated in the creation of CSC, many employees were upset about their relocations.

These issues pushed Local 35, Yale’s blue-collar union, to file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board in September.

After a year of public opposition to the changes, the union and the University have come to an agreement, University spokesman Tom Conroy said.

“This was not an issue about jobs, pay or hours,” Conroy said. “It was about where people worked.

And it’s good to have the matter resolved in a way the University and union both accept.”

Head pantry worker Sally Notarino said it was always her goal to return to the Silliman dining hall, and she will be taking advantage of this opportunity to leave the CSC. Notarino said she has not yet been told what sort of position she will be working in Silliman, since the “head pantry worker” job is not being recreated in the dining halls. This issue will be discussed between Notarino and her manager before she returns to her home unit, she said.

Silliman Chef Stu Comen said Notarino and Debbie Ruocco were the only two former head pantry workers who opted to return to residential dining halls. He said he believes other workers chose to stay at CSC not because they enjoy their current positions, but because they fear putting themselves in a position of uncertainty.

Comen added that CSC workers only work during the week, while dining hall staff often have weekend shifts. This difference played a role in the decision-making process, he said.

“They don’t know if they will be treated better in the dining halls, and some of the girls have already gotten part-time jobs, while others don’t want to work Saturdays again,” he said. “I know a lot of them had a really hard time deciding what to do, but when push comes to shove they would rather take a good schedule with a bad manager.”

Ruocco, who previously served as head pantry worker in Berkeley College, said she is returning to Berkeley because she feels the way in which Yale Dining moved her to the CSC was unfair.

However, she added that she had expected this decision to be reversed.

“I think this change was inevitable. In my mind I was always going back,” she said. “When I was forced to clean out my locker, I left my things in the back of my car — I never brought them into the CSC.” Conroy said the University made sure the CSC would not be impacted by this deal. The center will retain all of its current responsibilities going forward, he said, meaning the preparation of all salads, dressings and cold deli items.

“What’s most important to the University is that the CSC, which reflects the best practice, will continue to operate and progress,” he said. “And it’s always positive to reach an agreement that meets the needs of both parties involved.”

Conroy added that Yale has been negotiating with the labor union since late last year. As a result of workers leaving the CSC, he said, Yale will post new job openings at the CSC, which will be open to current Yale Dining workers and outside employees.

Head pantry workers have a month to decide whether they wish to retain their positions at CSC or return to their home units, Conroy said.

However, Ruocco said workers were not effectively given a month to make their decisions. The given month is the deadline by which the changes must take effect, she said.

Comen said that if the University had extended this opportunity to workers earlier, it is likely that more people would have chosen to return to their home units. He added that although it is good that the University and the union have reached an agreement, it would have been better if more workers had decided to go back to the residential colleges. Many workers miss the family feeling of the colleges and being involved with the other employees, but they are nevertheless afraid to return, Comen said.

“To put it simply, they’re afraid to go back because they don’t know if it will happen again,” he said.

“They just started getting comfortable out there.”

According to Notarino, workers returning to the colleges were told that they must be back in their units on or before April 5.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu and DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” IMMANUEL KANT GERMAN PHILOSOPHER

After petition, Cohen resigns from Af-Am House

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Assistant Dean of Yale College Rodney Cohen resigned from his position as director of the Afro-American Cultural Center.

COHEN FROM PAGE 1 order to start creating the community we want,” Ceballo-Countryman said after the Monday announcement. “I’m thankful that Dean Cohen saw that his idea of what the community was and ours did not line up.”

Although the petition was not addressed in his email, Holloway said that the ongoing review of the cultural centers, as well as suggestions and feedback from members of the Yale community, showed that Cohen’s vision

for the house did not align with those of the house’s community. According to Holloway’s email, Cohen chose to step down because of these differences in opinion.

Though Ceballo-Countryman said Cohen’s vision was never entirely clear to her — and that this ambiguity was part of the problem with his leadership — she is glad that the Af-Am House is now better poised to rebuild its community, more in line with student visions.

Michelle Nearon, assistant

dean and director of the Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has agreed to be the interim director, Holloway wrote in the email. He also noted that an advisory group will be formed to help guide the selection of a new director. Holloway did not respond to a request for comment.

As the African-American community moves forward to select a new figurehead, Ceballo-Countryman said the “key element” of the search for new leadership

will be student input in ensuring a common vision for the house.

When Cohen was appointed in 2010, students were also involved in the process. However, this time, Jacob Neis ’17 said, transparency will be of the utmost importance, and stronger measures of accountability need to be enforced so that students feel comfortable making complaints.

Neis noted that following discussions with faculty members familiar with Cohen’s role, professors said that Cohen’s involvement in numerous proj-

ects, combined with the low levels of accountability of leading the Af-Am House, made it easy for management of the house to fall by the wayside. Cohen also leads the STARS and Peer Liaison programs, and is Holloway’s designate to the Yale College Executive Committee. Cohen will still retain these three roles In a statement on behalf of the Black Student Alliance at Yale, President Micah Jones ’16 said Cohen’s resignation was “the best decision for everyone involved.”

Austin Johnson ’16, who took part in the letter-writing campaign that called for Cohen’s removal, said he is happy about “the prospect of the house moving forward and selecting a new figurehead.”

Cohen was director of the Afro-American Cultural Center for five years.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

Filings indicate Harp will pursue second term RE-ELECTION FROM PAGE 1 city’s efforts to bolster afterschool programs to curb youth violence and the development of Downtown Crossing on the old Coliseum site, specifically.

Clark, who was not affiliated with Harp’s 2013 campaign, said her admiration for the mayor has grown since Harp took office.

“I decided that this woman would be great [as mayor],” she said. “We’re lucky to have her.”

Town Chair of the Democratic Party Vincent Mauro said the Democrats were pleased to hear of Harp’s intent to run and looked forward to canvassing for her in the coming months.

Clark said she specifically was impressed with Harp’s gracious attitude toward her opponents in the 2013 general election, adding that she appreciated that Harp did not run a slanderous campaign. She added that she expects Harp to run a similar campaign this year.

In an email early Saturday morning, Justin Elicker FES ’10

SOM ’10, Harp’s opponent in the 2013 campaign, told supporters and New Haven residents that he is not planning on entering the mayoral race. He said he plans to keep working as executive director of the New Haven Land Trust, a nonprofit organization committed to improving the city’s environmental health.

“I have thought a lot about this decision and am confident it is the right one,” Elicker wrote.

“I am committed to growing the New Haven Land Trust … and feel it would be premature for me to leave the organization at this time.”

In 2013, Harp took 52.5 percent of the vote, beating Elicker by less than 6 percent.

As the incumbent candidate, Harp will run a strong campaign, Mauro said.

Harp’s predecessor, John DeStefano Jr., served 10 consecutive terms before stepping down.

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

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Mayor Toni Harp will run for re-election this November, and has formed her campaign committee.

Hundreds celebrate life of trailblazing mayor DANIELS FROM PAGE 1 “From the Board of Aldermen to the State Senate, to the Mayor’s office, he was a trailblazer,” Gov. Dannel Malloy and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman said in a statement. “He broke barriers and truly personified progress. Respected by leaders across Connecticut, he encapsulated what it means to serve the public.”

As per Daniels’s wishes, no politicians gave speeches at the service itself. Mayor Toni Harp, who served as an alderwoman from Dwight-Kensington during Daniels’s tenure and chaired

one of the committees of Daniels’s 1989 election campaign, spoke at the viewing before the service. Harp described the late mayor as “an exemplary and great citizen and friend, who devoted himself to improving the lives of others.”

Daniels’s son and daughter both delivered remarks during the service, followed by a eulogy from Rev. John Henry Scott III. Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and DeStefano attended the funeral but did not speak.

“If there’s anything we can take away from my father’s legacy — and I know it is hard to sum an entire life into a few

words — I would say that he had a vested interest in his community,” said John Key Daniels, the late mayor’s son. “He lived and breathed New Haven. He never wanted to live anywhere else but right here in New Haven.”

Indeed, Daniels’s life was marked by extensive involvement in his community, both before and after his terms as mayor — whether as a senior deacon at the Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ, a public schoolteacher in the New Haven area, or a referee for high school and college football games.

Daniels governed a New

Haven rife with hardship. During his tenure, violent crime posed serious problems, the homeless population was larger than ever and the city’s finances looked bleak. A crippling recession nationwide coincided with the beginning of his term, and inevitable property tax increases attracted substantial criticism.

But even in the face of such difficulties, Daniels ushered in significant progress in several areas.

As Harp noted in her remarks, New Haven owes community policing to Daniels. Through the hiring of New Haven Police Chief Nicholas Pastore during

Daniels’s first term in office, the late mayor introduced community policing to the city, tactics still used by the NHPD under current Chief Dean Esserman.

And in the early 1990s, as AIDS became a national issue, Daniels pioneered tactics to combat the spread of the disease in New Haven. He instituted a needle exchange program in the city, which proved unpopular at the time but drastically reduced the risk of intravenous drug users’ contracting the virus. “[Daniels] was a doer, standing for love, justice, mercy and faith,” Scott said in his eulogy.

“Mayor Daniels was blessed and

used his blessings to bless others. He didn’t want anything from anybody — he was a public servant.”

In recognition of Daniels’s service to New Haven, the city named a public school in his honor, the John C. Daniels Interdistrict Magnet School of International Communication, which provides dual-language immersion programs in English and Spanish.

Martin Lim contributed reporting.

Contact NOAH DAPONTESMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

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“Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.� CANDICE OLSON CANADIAN DESIGNER

After asbestos scare, Saybrook dining hall reopens

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTERS The Saybrook College dining hall reopened to students Sunday evening. And yet only a week before, the dining hall was being cleared of traces of asbestos.

Last month, a sprinkler head pipe in the ceiling broke and flooded the dining room, causing damage to the floor so severe that the entire floor needed to be replaced, Saybrook Master Paul Hudak wrote in an email to Saybrook students on Friday. Prior to removing the floor, Yale’s Environmental Health and Safety Department discovered traces of asbestos — a group of minerals that can increase the risk of cancer — in an adhesive used for installing the floor, prompting the dining hall to be sealed during its removal over Spring Break.

Still, University spokesman Tom Conroy said the facility did not pose a risk to students. “As the floor had not been disturbed, no asbestos hazard existed,� Conroy wrote in an email.

Saybrook, along with all dining halls except Stiles, Morse, Trumbull, Calhoun and Silliman, has been closed for spring break since March 6. Since there was not enough time during the recess to remove and replace the floor, the concrete underneath the damaged wood was painted temporarily and sealed until summer, Hudak added.

While the wood floor was removed, the entrance to the Saybrook dining hall was insulated with red tape and a plastic covering, with a danger sign warning students, faculty and staff from entering the restricted area.

Albert Jiao ’16, a student in Saybrook College who posted a photo of the doorway on Facebook, said he saw the sign on Sunday, March 8 after his suitemate had come across it. He said the University’s response likely indicates that the situation is under control. “If there was truly a problem, they would definitely have that entire [common room] area blocked off and we would not know about it,� he said.

Two other Saybrook students interviewed after the dining hall’s closure said they were surprised they had not received any prior notice from the college.

Saybrook resident Apitha Srivicharnkul ’17 said the problem in the dining hall may be reflective of larger issues with the state of the Saybrook building infrastructure. “As much as I love Saybrook, I must admit that the overall quality of our facilities is rather abysmal,� she said.

All nine students interviewed in Saybrook on Sunday evening said the detection of asbestos did not influence their decision about eating in Saybrook. “I just figured it would be safe since they sent out that email,� Bertie Geng ’16 said.

“Asbestos is fine unless you disturb it.�

Three students, however, said the temporary concrete flooring was not ideal.

Though Conroy stressed there is not an asbestos hazard for students, Director of Residential Dining Cathy Van Dyke said she does not know whether similar asbestos-containing adhesives have been used in other dining halls across campus. Other Yale Facilities representatives could not be reached for comment.

Cases of asbestos within the University are managed by the Asbestos Operations and Maintenance Program, which is coordinated by the Office of Environmental Health and Safety. The office’s website states that the program is managed by certified safety and health professionals. “This program is designed to ensure that [material that contains asbestos] is appropriately managed on campus to meet federal and state regulatory requirements as well as to minimize potential health risks to the University community,� the website states.

All residential college dining halls reopened for regular service with dinner on Sunday, March 22.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

THE MACMILLAN CENTER

INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK MONDAY, MARCH 23 5:30 p.m. Robert Greenberg, Professor (Adjunct) Slavic Language & Literature, Yale University, “Current Events in Ukraine and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia.� Sponsored by European Studies and hosted by the Working Group on Interdisciplinarity in Slavic Studies. Room 117, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street.

6:30 p.m. Zeuler Lima, University of Washington in St Louis, “Writing (About) Lina Bo Bardi.� Sponsored by Latin American Studies and the Yale Architectural Forum. Smith Conference Room, Yale School of Architecture, 180 York Street.

TUESDAY, MARCH 24 12:00 p.m. Jeremy Wallace, Ohio State University, “The New Normal: Reform, Information, and China’s Anti-­Corruption Crusade in Context.�

Part of the MacMillan Comparative Politics Workshop sponsored by Political Science. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 12:00 p.m. Ranin Kazemi, Kansas State University, “Of Calorie and &RQĂ LFW )RRG 6FDUFLW\ DQG )DPLQH LQ 1LQHWHHQWK &HQWXU\ ,UDQ Âľ Part of the CMES Colloquium sponsored by Middle East Studies. Room A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.

4:00 p.m. Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, Department of Anthropology, Shandong University, “Bargaining with Normativity: Queer Kinship as Quests for Wellbeing in Contemporary China.� Part of the CEAS / Ethnography & Social Theory Colloquium sponsored by East Asian Studies, Anthropology, and LGBTQS at Yale. Room 105, Anthropology Building, 10 Sachem Street.

8:00 p.m. Haider, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. Part of the Indian and Pakistan since 1947 Film Series sponsored by South Asian Studies.

Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenu.

THURSDAY, MARCH 26 12:00 p.m. Alejandro CaĂąeque, University of Maryland, “Martyrdom, ,PSHULDO 3RZHU DQG *HQGHU RQ WKH )URQWLHUV RI WKH 6SDQLVK “Empire.â€? Sponsored by Latin American and Iberian Studies. Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street.

12:30 p.m. 6DUDK 7ROEHUW Lindsay Fellow, ´7KH 3HUFHLYHG %HQHÀWV IURP Protected Areas in the Virunga Massif (Congo Basin).� Part of the Brown Bag Lunch Series sponsored by African Studies. Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

6:30 p.m. On the Side of the Road. $ GRFXPHQWDU\ ÀOP E\ Lia Tarachansky.

Part of CMES Cinema sponsored by Middle East Studies. Co-­sponsored by PIER. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. Reception at 5:30 p.m. with special guest Lia Tarachansky, Luce Hall Common Room.

FRIDAY, MARCH 27 12:30 p.m. CHESS Workshop with Margaret C. Levenstein, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Sponsored by European Studies and The Center for Historical Enquiry & the Social Sciences (CHESS).

Room 127, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall Street.

12:30 p.m. Niloofar Haeri, Johns Hopkins University, “Private Prayer and Congregational Poetry: An Ethnography of a Group of Women in Iran.� Part of the Iran Colloquium sponsored by Middle East Studies and Iranian Studies. Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue.

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The Saybrook Dining Hall was sealed off over spring break after asbestos was discovered in its floor.

Yale to offer all-online medical degree

BY EMMA PLATOFF AND VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTERS For the first time in its centuries-long history, Yale will offer a full-time online degree.

Soon, aspiring physician associates might be able to earn their Master of Medical Science degrees from Yale without relocating to New Haven.

The School of Medicine has partnered with 2U, an educational technology company, to develop a program that will expand Yale’s on-campus PA program to non-local students as well. Through a combination of online courses, in-person clerkships at off-campus field sites pre-approved by Yale School of Medicine faculty and on-campus training sessions, non-local students would receive the same education as their on-campus peers for the same price.

In the past, some of the approximately 40 students accepted to the program each year have already completed these clinical clerkships away from Yale. The current tuition for the 28-month program is approximately $83,162.

This proposal is currently pending approval from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, and Program Director James Van Rhee said he expects to hear back in coming weeks. Linda Lorimer, vice president for global and strategic initiatives, said that if the approval comes within roughly the next six months, the program could be implemented in 2016. “This online program will not only expand the program out of the classroom, but also allow us to reach the population of students that cannot come to New Haven due to their circumstances,� Van Rhee said.

The recent announcement comes at the end of over a year of discussions between the School of Medicine, the Office of Digital Dissemination and 2U. According to Lucas Swineford, executive director of the Office of Digital Dissemination and Online Education, Yale decided to partner with 2U due to its commitment to academic excellence and its track record of collaborating with other

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institutions, such as Georgetown, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of North Carolina.

Van Rhee said Yale wants to expand its program naturally and reach different demographics across the nation. He also cited the projected 38 percent increase in employment of physician assistants by 2022, an uptick corresponding to an increased national demand, as a reason for the program overhaul. He added that the online course would encourage physician assistants to continue working in their hometown when they finish their training. “If people from the rural part of the Midwest can stay at home and train, they are more likely to work there as clinicians in the future. This is the same thing for inner-city physician assistants,� he said. “We hope that this will increase the number of PAs in rural areas.

This is our way of helping the country get more health care providers.�

This is our way of helping the country get more health care providers.

JAMES VAN RHEE Program Director, Physician Associate Program Bruce Wexler, professor emeritus of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, said the critical question will be about the quality of clerkships done at off-campus facilities, not the issue of completing coursework online. Other faculty interviewed expressed similar concerns, highlighting questions such as how to ensure the registered student is actually the one completing the online coursework.

The program’s online material will be “high quality productions,� tailor-made in studios by faculty members, not merely recordings of current lectures, Van Rhee said. Lorimer said the program would be very intensive because of the frequent interactions between students and faculty. “This is not the kind of

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online educational endeavor that allows students to be passive,� Lorimer said.

The proposed course would also incorporate hands-on opportunities for students.

For example, non-local students will be required to attend several on-campus “intensive immersions,� — likely three in total, according to Van Rhee — each lasting five days. These immersions will allow students to learn hands-on skills that are difficult to convey through the internet, he added.

Over the course of the 28-month program, students will engage in a year of didactic training as well as 14 months of in-person clerkship. During the hands-on training component, students will work with physicians, PAs and nurses in order to physically practice the material they learned online.

Swineford said the new online PA program aligns perfectly with Yale’s overall online education strategy as it both experiments with new pedagogy for improving education and amplifies the impact of Yale teaching beyond campus. He added that educational technology platforms such as 2U have played a large role in de-stigmatizing online degrees. “It is important to recognize the incredible role 2U has played in helping to remove the stigma,� he said. “2U has partnered with great institutions to deliver high-quality degrees for about five years now.�

Students interviewed were mixed on the announcement, with three of five coming down in favor of the program.

Currently, the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies offers an Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative, through which students can earn a professional certificate completely online. In 2011, the School of Nursing created a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, a hybrid degree program including on-campus and online education, designed for part-time study.

Yale launched its PA program in 1971.

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

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To the Members of the Class of 2016, We, the undersigned senior societies, declare that:

1. Tap Week begins at 8:00 pm on Thursday, April 2nd 2. Tap Night begins at 6:00 pm on Thursday, April 9th 3. Offers of election will only be made during Tap Week. No exploding offers will be issued, nor is any junior’s acceptance binding until Tap Night begins.

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a c o n v e r s at i o n w i t h

His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Compassion in Action: Buddhism and the Environment Tuesday, April 7, 2015 · 4:00 pm Woolsey Hall · 500 College Street, New Haven, CT Doors open for seating at 3:15 pm

admission is free and open to the yale community and the general public. tickets are required. to reserve seats visit www.chubbfellowship.org for questions, please email chubb.fellowship@yale.edu or call 203.464.2755. supported by school of forestry and environmental studies, south asian studies council and forum for religion and ecology at yale.

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, MARCH 23 5:30 PM Current Events in Ukraine and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia: A Talk by Robert Greenberg. Hosted by the Working Group on Interdisciplinarity in Slavic Studies, former Yale professor Robert Greenberg will give a talk about the recent events in Eastern Europe. Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York St.), Rm. 117.

6:30 PM Writing (About) Lina Bo Bardi. Zeuler Lima, associate professor at the Sam Fox School of Design of the Washington University in St. Louis, will talk about the life and work of one of the most important architects in Latin America, the remarkably prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic Lina Bo Bardi. Rudolph Hall (180 York St.), Smith Conference Room.

TUESDAY, MARCH 24 12:00 PM Executive Panel on Career Advancement at Yale.

Join us for an extraordinary opportunity to learn about growing your career at the University from current Yale leaders. Our panel will address the many questions regarding career advancement at Yale. Advance registration required. Evans Hall (165 Whitney Ave.), Zhang Aud. 5:30 PM Jane Kramer, “Celebration: From Food Ritual to Food Feast”. As European correspondent for the New Yorker, Jane Kramer has written a regular “Letter from Europe” for twenty years. From profiles of Massimo Bottura and Yotam Ottolenghi, to food proscriptions and taboos, Kramer’s exploration of European politics and culture often involves the topics of cuisine and culture. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 3:00 PM Noticing Women in Elite Sports: Research and Process in the Bikini Mosaics. Artist Angela Lorenz will discuss her work Victorious Secret: Elite Olympic Champions as Dancing Bikini Girls, which will be on display at the Sterling Memorial Library and the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library from the last week of March through June. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), Lecture Hall.

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aturday, March 14 had it all. Two archrivals — Harvard and Yale — meeting with an NCAA Tournament bid on the line. Two Ivy League Players of the Year — Wesley Saunders and Justin Sears ’16 — duking it out down low. Two All-Ivy point guards — Siyani Chambers and Javier Duren ’15 — leading their respective offenses. But in the end, it was a jumper from Steve Moundou-Missi with 7.2 seconds left that ended Yale’s season and sent Harvard dancing. LAKSHMAN SOMASUNDARAM reports.

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NCAAM Wichita St. 78 Kansas 65

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ALEX LYON ’17 STOPPING SHOTS LEFT AND RIGHT The sophomore netminder, who holds the Yale career record for shutouts with 10, was named the winner of the Ken Dryden Award as the top goalie in the ECAC. Lyon leads the country in goals against average at just 1.58 per contest.

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JUSTIN SEARS ’16 PLAYER OF THE YEAR Sears led the Bulldogs in points (14.3), rebounds (7.5) and blocks (2.4) per game, and he was recognized as the Ivy League Player of the Year. The forward from Plainfield, New Jersey was the first Bulldog to win the award since Paul Maley ’88 in the 1987–88 season.

“I just can’t understand how this team was not seen in a higher light.”

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Yale falls in heartbreaking finish

Bulldogs snubbed for postseason play

MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER One hundred and forty-eight Division I men’s basketball teams are participating in postseason tournaments this season. Sixtyeight teams will compete in the NCAA Tournament, 32 in both the National Invitation Tournament and CollegeInsider.com Tournament and 16 in the College Basketball Invitational.

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Year had been held to just 11 points in the teams’ previous contest at Lavietes Pavilion, but he doubled his scoring output at the Palestra, shooting 8–15 from the field for 22 points.

Sears, this season’s Player of the Year, started the game off strong, scoring eight points in the first half to go along with five rebounds, which combined to set Sears up for a double-double. But he managed just five more points the rest of the game for a total of 13, and he grabbed zero boards after intermission.

Without a dominant performance

Coming off of two devastating defeats in a week by a combined three points, Yale (22–10, 11–3 Ivy) will not be one of those 148 schools.

“I was stunned and disgusted at the same time at how it worked out,” head coach James Jones said. “I just can’t understand how this team was not seen in a higher light.”

While the losses to Dartmouth in the regular season finale and Harvard in the Ivy League Playoff deprived the Bulldogs of an opportunity to break a 53-year NCAA Tournament drought, a trip to the NIT appeared within reach, if not probable, for the Ivy League co-champions.

Instead, the NIT passed on Yale, stunning players and leaving the longest-tenured coach in the Ivy League searching for an answer.

Jones contacted the acting director of the NIT, Reggie Minton, following the announcement, but the Elis’ head man was not satisfied with the response he received.

“He wasn’t able to give me an explanation of why we weren’t in,” Jones said of his discussion with Minton, who coached Dartmouth in 1984. “I doubt that many of the people who voted ever saw us play all season long, so I doubt they knew much about us. That’s the only thing I could come up with because, by virtue of our numbers alone, we should be in the tournament.”

Various ranking systems, including the

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The Elis shot 39.5 percent from the field against Harvard, including just 27.3 percent in the second half.

BY ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s basketball team saw its season conclude in heartbreaking fashion, as the Bulldogs fell to ancient rival Harvard in the Ivy League Playoff between the two cochampions.

Just one week after defeating the Crimson (22–7, 11–3 Ivy) 62–52 in Cambridge, the Elis (22–10, 11–3) were unable to find that same offensive magic at the Palestra in Philadelphia on March 14, letting an NCAA Tournament bid slip away in a devastating 53–51 loss after Harvard’s Steve

Moundou-Missi hit a long jumper from the top of the key with 7.2 seconds remaining to take the lead. A final second layup opportunity by point guard Javier Duren ’15 rolled out, and a tip by forward Justin Sears ’16 fell harmlessly short.

“I was looking at coach, I didn’t know if he was going to call timeout or not, and he was just telling me to go,” Duren said. “So I just tried to make a play. Unfortunately, it fell short, but I’m still proud of our guys.”

The week was bookended by lastsecond defeats, as Dartmouth forced the playoff on Saturday, March 7, with a game-winning layup by Gabas Mal-

dunas. The play, which happened with just 0.5 seconds left, came after the Elis blew a five-point lead with 35 seconds remaining and — combined with Harvard’s victory over Brown on the same day — moved Yale into a tie with the Cantabs. The sting of the collapse against the Big Green was only made worse by the fact that the Bulldogs were unable to seal the deal in the rubber match against the Crimson.

In a battle between star players, Wesley Saunders took over down the stretch for the Crimson, singlehandedly facilitating Harvard’s win.

The former Ivy League Player of the

Elis fall in ECAC tourney, rebound for NCAAs

BY MARC CUGNON STAFF REPORTER As the regular season came to a close, the Yale men’s ice hockey squad spent its spring break battling in the ECAC playoffs.

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The Bulldogs earned an at-large bid for the NCAA tournament and will face off against Boston University in the first round on March 27.

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Having earned a first round bye, the Bulldogs (18–9–5, 12–6–4 ECAC) began their tournament play against the Harvard Crimson (21–12–3, 11–8–3 ECAC) in a best-of-three quarterfinal series. After three tightly fought games, Harvard emerged victorious, winning the series 2–1.

In the first contest of this quarterfinal matchup, the Elis hosted Harvard at Ingalls Rink and fell behind early to an aggressive Crimson offense that produced two goals early in the second period. Despite Yale’s regular season dominance against Harvard, the Elis seemed unable to corral the Crimson scorers with their typical brand of physical defense. Though Yale got back in the contest with goals from forward Cody Learned ’16 in the 19th minute of the second period, and defenseman Nate Repensky ’18 just three minutes later, the Elis had their hearts broken by Harvard star Jimmy Vesey who scored the game winner late in the third.

Though Yale proved itself capable of shutting down Vesey in the past, the standout forward finally broke through against the Eli defense for one of the most important goals of his season.

“We felt like we didn’t play nearly up to our standards on Friday,” forward Mike Doherty ’17 said regarding Yale’s opening loss to Harvard.

In the second contest of the series Yale came out desperate for a win. The Elis reasserted their normal brand of suffocating defense on a Harvard squad that had dissected the Elis just a game prior. Defenseman Mitch Witek ’16 opened Yale’s scoring with a goal in the third minute of the second period. While Witek and the defense kept Vesey and the Crimson offense at bay, forward Trent Ruffalo ’15 doubled the Elis’ lead in the third period with an unassisted goal just 30 seconds from the match’s conclusion. Ruffalo’s strike iced a much-needed Yale win and ensured a do-or-die third game of the series.

“I thought we played very well in the series against Harvard,” forward Frankie DiChiara ’17 said. “We did a lot of good things that we can take into the [NCAA] tournament.”

Finally, Yale hosted Harvard in the must-win conclusion to SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE B3

THE FEWEST SHOTS THE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM HAS TAKEN IN ANY IVY LEAGUE CONTEST THIS SEASON. The 43 shots came against Harvard in the one game playoff to determine which team advanced to the NCAA tournament.

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“If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.” CHARLES BARKLEY 11-TIME NBA ALL-STAR

Elis take Brown, fall to Lions

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The Elis held the Denver Pioneers to under nine goals — the third time they have been held to fewer than 10 all season.

W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 Another factor of Yale’s defense involves veteran goaltender Mullins. The Lions shot 15 times on goal against the Bulldogs, but Mullins powered through, saving 10 of those shot attempts.

“My save percentage is directly correlated with how my teammates play,” said Mullins.

“When I play, I just let myself trust those surrounding me. The defense does a great job of forcing the opponent to take shots that I can save.”

With a strong defensive wall against the Lions, the Bulldogs tried to transition and convert that strength into offensive opportunities. The Elis threatened the Lion’s goalkeeper with four shots by attacker and captain Kerri Fleishhacker ’15 and three shots by attacker Erin Magnuson ’15. All but one of their combined attempts were on goal, yet none could find the back of the net.

Early in the second half, attacker Hope Hanley ’17 took a shot against Columbia’s starting goalie, Kelsey Gedin. The

ball soared past Gedin and hit the net with 21:04 left on the clock. Right after Hanley’s goal, the Lions called the referees for a stick check. Hanley’s goal was called back as her stick was deemed illegal.

“We were starting to get some offensive momentum,” midfielder Kelly Anne Sherlock ’16 said. “That call made it more difficult to close the gap. It also lost us ball possession, allowing for Columbia to begin slowing the ball down and stalling on their offensive end of the field.”

According to Sherlock,

moments after that call, Columbia regained possession and transitioned back against Mullins to get their fourth goal of the game. After that, the Elis found it challenging to get back on the board against the Lions.

The squad went 0–6 on freeposition shots. Columbia came down on Mullins 23 times, while the Bulldogs countered with just 16 of their own shots.

With 3:50 minutes left on the clock, head coach Anne Phillips called a timeout for the Elis.

At that point, the score was 5–2 with the Bulldogs trailing. The

timeout proved successful as immediately after, at 3:40, Avallone scored again.

The Bulldogs made three shot attempts in the final minutes of the half, but it was not enough.

“We put ourselves in a position to score, but did not complete,” Pizzo said.

Despite this loss, the Bulldogs still have a chance at the Ivy League tournament. Cornell, Penn and Princeton currently share the number one spot in the league. Harvard is listed as fourth, with Yale behind them, tied for fifth with Columbia.

The season is still young — the most games an in-conference team has played thus far is three.

With four more Ivy contests left, the Bulldogs look to boost their ranking.

“We have a great group of girls that have complete trust in each other,” Mullins said. “And that’s the most important thing.”

The Bulldogs will play against Boston University in a home game at Reese Stadium on Wednesday at 4 p.m.

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

Bulldogs fall to Tigers 11–10 M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 strong and shut down Yale, running out the clock and escaping narrowly with a win.

In addition to the excellence of Oberbeck, attackman Ben Reeves ’18 continued his stellar freshman campaign with four points, including two of Yale’s final four goals as they attempted to stage their comeback.

On the other end of the field, midfielders Mark Glicini ’16 and Conor Mackie ’18 paced the team with five and four ground balls, respectively. Mackie also won more than half of his faceoff opportunities in a supporting role.

In the end, the Bulldogs were done in by sloppy play with the ball and an inability to stop Princeton’s two offensive stars. Yale was unable to capitalize on their dominance in the faceoff circle and outshooting Princeton by seven.

“Our offensive strategy was better than it has been in the past few games, but we turned the ball over too much to see the overall benefit,” Oberbeck said.

“Against Princeton, we panicked a little when we went down which hurt our ability to perform.”

The Elis turned the ball over 15 times to Princeton’s 11, including six in the game’s deciding and frantic fourth quarter. In the game’s final seconds, a late turnover cost the Bulldogs their final chance at a game-tying shot.

Yale was also unable to stop either of Princeton’s stars, allowing Orban and attackman Mike MacDonald a combined six goals and four assists. MacDonald had a goal and an assist during the pivotal second quarter and assisted on the ultimate game-winning goal which put the Tigers up 11–7 early in the fourth quarter.

After two tough Ivy losses, Yale will attempt to rebound at Penn and make their move towards an Ivy tournament berth.

“Those two consecutive Ivy losses, while unfortunate, helped us understand where we are exposed and what we must focus on from here on out,” Glicini said.

“All that matters now is the next game, so that is where our focus remains.”

The Bulldogs and Quakers play Saturday at 5:30 p.m. The game will be televised on Fox Sports 1.

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Six of the Bulldogs’ 15 turnovers came during the fourth quarter of action.

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

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“Before I answer that question, I would like to say a few words: cattywampus, onomatopoeia and antidisestablishmentarianism. Now, back to your question.” NIGEL HAYES WISCONSIN BASKETBALL FORWARD

Season ends at the Palestra

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No foul was called on this play between Harvard’s Jonah Travis and guard Makai Mason ’18 in the second half.

BASKETBALL RECAP FROM PAGE B1 from Sears, the Bulldogs were left to rely on their experienced upperclassmen. Duren, who shined for the Elis with 22 points in Cambridge, was held to an inefficient 12 points on 2–10 shooting. His contributions, however, were matched by Moundou-Missi, who added 11 points and a game-high nine rebounds for the Crimson.

No other player scored in double figures for Yale, and the Bulldogs sorely missed the contributions from sharpshooter Jack Montague ’16, who went scoreless for the second straight weekend. The dominance of Harvard’s top two players, who scored just two points fewer than the entire Bulldogs starting lineup, overwhelmed the Elis and was the difference-maker in the final minutes of the game.

After the teams came back from halftime with Yale leading 27–23, Saunders caught fire, as he scored 18 of his 22 points in the second half. He orchestrated his own 9–0 run over a stretch of 1:40 early in the period, outscoring the Yale team for the first 11:03 of the second half.

“He made a lot of key baskets,” head coach James Jones said. “He’s a very good player,

and, certainly, he stepped up and made some shots. We guarded him with a couple of different guys, and he was still able to knock down shots and was aggressive. That’s what good players do.”

When the Bulldogs regained the lead with 1:47 to play, Saunders willed the Crimson to victory, converting a critical three-point play at the 1:27 mark and assisting on MoundouMissi’s final jumper with 7.2 seconds remaining that sent Harvard to its fourth straight NCAA Tournament.

With the Elis just inches away from a bid for the first time in 53 years, the playoff was a disappointing end to the season, as Yale was not invited to the National Invitation Tournament. But despite the bittersweet finish, the Bulldogs ended with their most wins since the 1948–49 campaign and will return Sears, Montague and guard Makai Mason ’18, among others.

“A couple weeks from now, we’ll come back and [see this season as] something really special,” Sears said. “Hopefully it’ll be the groundwork or the foundation for more successful teams in the future of Yale basketball.”

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

No postseason bid for Elis BBALL ANALYSIS FROM PAGE B1 Ratings Percentage Index, bolster Jones’s claim that this year was one of the best seasons in Yale’s history.

The Elis finished the regular season as the 63rd-ranked team in the nation according to RPI, a tool used by the NCAA Selection Committee to fill out the ubiquitous brackets over which much of America will obsess in the coming weeks.

Such rankings, paired with highlight road victories over the Crimson as well as the defending national champions the University of Connecticut, were mere bullet points on an impressive résumé for the Bulldogs.

This season, Yale claimed its first Ivy title since 2002, won its most games since 1949 and sported the Ivy League Player of the Year in forward Justin Sears ’16 as well as the Ivy League Coach of the Year in Jones.

“I don’t understand how, after what we did on our résumé, beating UConn and beating Harvard and losing to Vanderbilt in double overtime, that didn’t carry more weight to the folks that were making the decision,” Jones said.

In an ESPN.com article about the NCAA and NIT selection committees, Andy Katz noted Yale’s omission from the tournament as “the one major snub in the NIT.” But though Yale and many of its supporters were shocked to learn that the Bulldogs would not participate in postseason play, Yale’s season was not without flaws.

The Bulldogs did not have a single victory over a top-50 RPI school, as the values of wins over preseason No. 17 UConn and No. 25 Harvard were diminished by both schools’ failures to meet such lofty expectations.

Their sole opportunity for such a résumé-boosting victory came against Providence, ranked 23rd in RPI, back in November. However, the Friars edged the Bulldogs by six points.

Moreover, Yale suffered four defeats to schools with RPIs below 150. These losses, to No. 226 Quinnipiac, No. 154 New Jersey Institute of Technology, No. 198 Columbia and No. 187 Dartmouth lessened the Bulldogs’ chances for postseason admission.

Even the Jan. 3 defeat to Vanderbilt was not particularly significant despite Vanderbilt’s status of being from a power con-

ference school. The Commodores ranked just 101st in RPI, although they did earn an invite to the NIT and have reached the quarterfinals.

Such blemishes, paired with the limited visibility of the Ivy League — the Yale-Dartmouth matchup to potentially send Yale to the Big Dance was not televised anywhere — and a perceived bias against mid-major teams such as those in the Ancient Eight, were enough to doom the Elis’ postseason hopes.

“It’s tough because you definitely have to knock off a couple big name schools before the Ivy League season,” guard Makai Mason ’18 said. “I’m sure [visibility] plays a role but there’s nothing we can really do about that …

Conferences that have big media contracts make it hard for us to compete and get the same spots as those guys get when they’re seen on TV competing against the best teams.”

Yale earned the unenviable position of being the highestranked team, according to RPI, not to be selected to advance to either March Madness or the NIT. In fact, the six teams immediately following Yale in the RPI rankings — excluding No. 67 Syracuse, which is ineligible for postseason play — will all be hosting first-round matchups in the NIT, meaning that they are among the top 16 schools in the 32-team bracket.

Furthermore, Yale is the only school in the top 80 not to have received an official invitation to a postseason tournament. No. 67 Syracuse voluntarily banned itself from postseason play in the midst of NCAA investigations regarding multiple violations.

No. 71 Florida, No. 77 Toledo and No. 80 Massachusetts each declined invites to the two lesser tournaments: the CIT and CBI. Several teams with lower RPIs from power conference schools earned entry into the NIT. For instance, No. 72 Illinois of the lauded Big Ten conference earned a No. 3 seed in the NIT while No. 84 Alabama of the Southeastern Conference will host Illinois despite having just fired its head coach. Those two programs, however, combined to go 18–1 against schools with RPI ratings below 150.

“No one is crying for the Yale basketball team right now but us,” Jones said.

While Yale awaited the announcement of the NIT bracket on the nationally broad-

cast selection show, the CIT and CBI committees each filled out their own pools without considering the Bulldogs.

According to Jones, the commissioners of each tournament believed Yale was a lock for the NIT and thus looked elsewhere for schools to invite to their tournaments.

“We were definitely all-in for the NIT. We really didn’t think about the CIT or CBI because we all expected to get into the NIT,” Sears said. “When we didn’t, we were kind of left scrambling to figure out what was happening, but coach Jones was saying that the CBI didn’t have any spots left for us.”

After a trip to the CIT championship game a year ago, Sears noted that he believed prior to the season that every game on the schedule was winnable and that playoff action was a given.

“I thought it was an expectation that we would be playing postseason basketball,” Sears said. “We didn’t even make spring break plans.”

Adding to the disappointment regarding Yale’s absence from the NIT is how the Ivy League’s lack of a postseason tournament contributed to the snubbing. For any Division I conference with a postseason tournament, should the regular season champion of that league fail to advance to the NCAA Tournament, it receives an automatic bid to the NIT. Of the 32 Division I conferences, the Ivy League is the only one to not have a conference tournament at the conclusion of the regular season. As such, Yale’s share of the regular season championship did not warrant an automatic berth in the NIT and left the Elis’ postseason fate subject to the discretion of the NIT Selection Committee.

“I certainly think the Ivy system needs to be fixed. We’re well deserving of a bid, and we shoot ourselves in the foot [by not having a postseason tournament] and not giving ourselves an automatic bid,” Jones said.

Any such correction, however, will come too late for the Bulldogs to take advantage of this season.

“It’s a bit frustrating but I mean the Ivy League rules, they’re set in stone. They’re tradition,” Sears said. “There’s nothing we can change. Next year, we have to finish out games when it matters.

We had our chances this year.”

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu .

Crimson take down Elis MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE B1 a playoff series between bitter Ivy League rivals. Finishing as a 3–2 overtime win for Harvard, the contest lived up to its billing as a matchup between two top hockey squads. Harvard’s Tyler Moy gave the Crimson an early advantage by netting a goal 10 minutes into the first period; however, Yale responded just 20 seconds later with a goal from Learned. As the second period opened, Yale rushed to an advantage when DiChiara took advantage of a power play to fire a goal in against Crimson goaltender, Steve Michalek.

Despite Yale’s forceful play, Harvard leveled the match once more in the 16th minute of the third period, forcing the match into overtime. With another goal, Jimmy Vesey returned to haunt the Elis, scoring the game-winner 16 minutes into the second overtime period. Once again, the Elis proved unable to contain Vesey’s scoring talents at a critical moment in the series.

Harvard’s overtime victory, which came after nearly two full periods of overtime play, was the longest contest in Harvard hockey history.

“We had a disappointing end to the Harvard weekend, but with recent pairwise changes we have the chance to win another championship,” forward John Hayden ’17 said. “We couldn’t be more excited.”

Yale’s season continues as the Elis open up the NCAA tournament against Boston University on Friday, March 27 in Manchester, New Hampshire.

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

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After a first-round bye in the ECAC tournament, the Elis fell to the Crimson in double overtime during the third of a three-game series.

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“Ballers make plays. Dudes are dudes. I mean, that’s the way life works.”

MATTHEW DRISCOLL NORTH FLORIDA BASKETBALL HEAD COACH

Yale splits series of road contests WOMEN’S LACROSSE

NICOLE WELLS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In one week, the Yale women’s lacrosse team has traveled to three different schools, including a trip to Columbia on Saturday afternoon for their final contest of the stretch.

But the Bulldogs returned from the week on the road with a mixed record. After losing to Denver and defeating Brown, the Bulldogs lost to the Lions 5–3.

The match against Columbia opened as a defensive battle. The Elis (4–5, 1–2 Ivy) were down by two goals as they entered the second half 3–1 against Columbia (2–5, 1–2 Ivy).

Though a goal by midfielder Cathryn Avallone ’15 in the first minute of the second half motivated the Bulldogs to tie the game against the Lions, the Elis’ offensive presence was hindered as one goal was called back, leaving the Bulldogs with only three goals to Columbia’s five when the final buzzer sounded.

Driving into New York, the Bulldogs had come off of one win and one loss in the previous couple of days. However, Yale did not let extensive travel — from New Haven, to Providence, to Denver and then to New York — hinder their performance on the field.

“I do not think traveling has any impact on our game,” midfielder Maggie Pizzo ’18 said.

“There was plenty of time between each game to catch up on rest.”

Last Tuesday, the Elis lost to Denver, a top30 team, 9–6, despite putting up a strong defensive effort. That game against the Pioneers was only the second time that Denver was kept to fewer than 10 goals this season.

“Andrea Cofrin is our new defensive coach, and has done a great job this season,” goalie Erin Mullins ’15 said. “We just continue to fine-tune things and focus on playing what we call a ‘helping defense.’”

The heavy Yale defense was apparent against the Lions. Yale had 15 forced turnovers to Columbia’s 12. Midfielder Christina Doherty ’15 and defender Victoria Moore ’17 are tied for second place in the league for forced turnovers per game. Yale’s high-pressure defense, along with the Elis’ 19 recovered ground balls, forced Columbia to fight through Yale’s midfield.

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The Brown Bears fell to the Bulldogs 8–3 on March 14.

Men’s lacrosse loses narrowly to Princeton

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In the past six contests against Princeton, the men’s lacrosse team has either won or lost by a one-goal margin.

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Following their first defeat of the season against Cornell, the No. 9 Yale men’s lacrosse team looked to rebound against Ivy rival No. 13 Princeton on Saturday. The last five matchups between the Bulldogs and Tigers were decided by a margin of only one goal, including last year’s 16–15 Yale victory, and this contest was no different.

This time, however, it was Princeton who managed to hold on for the 11–10 win, riding a strong second quarter to a commanding lead and holding off the Bulldogs’ furious fourth-quarter rally. With the loss, the Elis (5–2, 0–2) drop two games below the Tigers (6–1, 2–0) in the conference standings.

“I wouldn’t say we had a bad day,” attackman Michael Bonacci ’16 said. “I’d say we had a bad 15or 20-minute span where we dug ourselves a hole that we couldn’t quite get out of.”

Yale started the game with a strong effort on both offense and defense, outscoring the Tigers 3–2 in the first quarter while winning all six faceoffs. The Yale unit found success in the circle against the Tigers, taking 70.8 percent of

all faceoffs. Midfielder Jonathan Reese ’16 was particularly dominant, winning 12 of his 15 faceoff appearances.

In the second quarter, however, the wheels fell off for the Bulldogs. After outshooting Princeton 10–7 in the first, they were outshot 10–6 in the next period, leading to a 5–1 scoring advantage for the Tigers. Princeton midfielder Kip Orban played particularly well against the Yale

defense, tallying three of the five goals in the quarter.

“It was a really competitive game and it didn’t feel like they were dominating us in the second quarter,” midfielder Eric Scott ’17 said. “You stand there and look at the scoreboard and all of a sudden we’re down five goals; it happened really quickly.”

Facing a 7–4 halftime deficit, the Bulldogs attempted to catch up but ran out of time to close the

margin. Paced by a game-high seven points from star attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15, the Bulldogs scored an impressive six goals after halftime, including the game’s final three tallies.

Midfielder Michael Keasey ’16 scored off of an Oberbeck assist with 2:50 remaining to narrow the gap to 11–10. Ultimately, however, the Tiger defense stood SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE B2