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With three challenges, Mayor Toni Harp looks to lock up alders’ support.

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This is the end. With this issue, the News concludes production for the academic year. Best of luck with finals, the summer and all else. We’ll see you on the other side.

Spring has sprung. For a moment, let’s disregard how cold and windy it was yesterday because, if this Sunday’s Cherry Blossom Festival at Wooster Square doesn’t signify the peak of springtime, then we don’t know what does.

On a Sunday. There may never again be a study break as exciting as the iLoveMakonnen concert at Toad’s on May 3.

Everyone’s favorite York Street dance club will certainly be going “up” that night.

Grant us peace. The Yale

Sustainable Food Program has decided to host a “Lamb Roast & Spring Planting” to celebrate the end of classes at the Yale Farm this afternoon. May the academic gods look kindly upon us for this sacrifice as we enter the thick of finals season.

The return. In case you’re already counting down, residences will open to upperclassmen at 9 a.m. on Aug. 26, which is fewer than 20 weeks from today. Fall classes, meanwhile, start on Sept. 2, when the News will also kick back into gear. ’Til then.

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viewed praised the process as part of a historic moment for faculty governance at Yale, some were skeptical of the formal procedures and voting mechanisms that will be employed.

“I have been heartened by the fact that we have been able to persuade so many busy, talented people to run,” Wilkinson said. “Everybody

Before Ugonna Eze ’16 can officially seek the position of Ward 1 alder as a Republican candidate — as he plans to do this November — a host of tasks await him.

Eze announced late Wednesday evening that he will run for the seat, one of 30 on the New Haven Board of Alders. He has not yet filed papers with the City Clerk’s Office to run. When he does, he plans to state his intention to run as a Republican. Because he is currently registered as “unaffiliated” in both New Haven and his home state of New York, according to state voting records, he must re-register as a Republican, a process that takes roughly three months.

Further, according to Vincent Mauro, chair of the Democratic Town Committee, Eze must acquire a nomination from the Republican Town Committee — a step he will likely take in the coming months.

“I am running as a Republican because I am one,” Eze said. “Growing up, I saw that many Democratic policies, though well intentioned, had negative effects on the people and neighborhoods they were supposed to help.”

Eze said that while he believes in core Republican ideals such as limited govern-

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Fling is tomorrow. And then, Bang Bang into reading week and exams.

If Yale has ever hosted an event with such a dignified name, we haven’t heard of it.

Next Thursday, University President Peter Salovey will join 75 Navy midshipmen and Air Force cadets in the John J. Lee Amphitheater at Payne Whitney, where he will serve as commanding officer to recognize the ROTC program’s contributions to Yale.

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Not done yet. After all, Spring

The President’s Review.

The summer will set the tone for potential football recruits.

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Farewell. With the University’s 314th Commencement looming, seniors can officially begin feeling sentimental about their Bright College Years. But don’t get too sappy just yet. Senior Week, advertised as “the best week of your life,” kicks off on May 10 with events at all the places you’ll surely miss, notably Box, Bar and, of course, Toad’s.

Holi day. Today, the Yale Hindu Students Council is hosting Holi @ Yale, a highly anticipated event that doesn’t get lost in the shuffle, despite everything else that’s going on these days. To experience all the colors, show up at Swing Space at 4 p.m.

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Elections to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate are set to occur in early May.

BY LARRY MILSTEIN AND EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTERS With elections slated to occur in early May, the inaugural Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate is moving one step closer to reality.

Over the past month, members of the FAS have engaged in a nomination process, in which professors were asked to recommend up to five

of their peers to stand for the election of the 22-member Senate. During the next 10 days, chair of the FAS Senate Nomination Committee Steve Wilkinson said, he and the committee will continue to review the nominations and contact members of the faculty who received several nominations. They expect that this procedure will yield a ballot of 35 to 40 candidates. Though all faculty inter-

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“Turkish Einstein,” Yale chemistry prof, renaissance man

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER To those who knew him, Oktay Sinanoglu was more than just a scientist.

A professor emeritus of chemistry and molecular biophysics and biochemistry, Sinanoglu was frequently hailed as the “Turkish Einstein.” He first achieved world renown in the early 1960s, when he was given his first full fac-

ulty position at Yale. Appointed a professor in 1963, Sinanoglu was the youngest full professor of the 20th century and the thirdyoungest Yale professor ever. He went on to serve on the Yale faculty for 37 years.

Sinanoglu passed away at a Miami hospital on Sunday, April 19. He was 80 years old.

Among his leading achievements was the development of the Valency Interaction Formula

Alcohol office set for expansion

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Yale is devoting more resources and staff toward efforts to evaluate drinking culture and promote healthier habits among students.

The Alcohol and Other Drugs Harm Reduction Initiative, a unit of the Yale College Dean’s Office, is set for a significant expansion next year.

It has already created new paid student intern positions and is in the midst of searching for a director. Seven upperclassmen were selected as interns at the end of March, and the director is expected to be hired by the end of the term, according to Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd, who oversees the office.

These new additions will significantly increase both the size and capacity of AODHRI, which is currently supported by four staffers who work on policy assessment and educa-

Theory. But he was also instrumental in developing a theory of the electron structure of molecules, which has helped with the development of accurate approximations for the electron Schrödinger equation — considered an essentially impossible equation to solve.

“My father was definitely what I would call a renaissance man,” said Elif Armbruster, Sinanoglu’s eldest daughter. “He was

extremely gifted at everything and we all shone a little brighter because of who he was.”

For Armbruster, tinkering with the beakers and test tubes in her father’s Prospect Street lab as she tip-toed over the large Turkish carpet he laid proudly in his office are among her most cherished memories of her father. A lover of Turkish music and culture, Sinanoglu never forgot where he came from, Armbruster said. His

deep love for Turkish music also manifested in family concerts.

Sinanoglu would play the saz, a Turkish instrument, while other family members played flutes and violins.

Chemistry professor Robert Crabtree said he always enjoyed the lively discussions he had with Sinanoglu over the years.

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School of Medicine faces compensation challenges

tional programming surrounding Yale’s harm reduction initiatives. AODHRI was launched in 2011.

AODHRI’s goals are the same as the student body’s: to have a fun campus culture that is also safe.

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The fact that the School of Medicine compensation model is dependent upon federal grants complicates salary distribution for its faculty.

BY BRENDAN HELLWEG STAFF REPORTER Yale may sit at the top of research institution rankings, but in times of financial uncertainty, this status actually hurts its researchers’ salaries.

While most of the University pays its faculty members to teach and participate in University functions, the School of Medi-

cine operates off of a different compensation model, where professors and researchers are expected to pay for most or even all of their salaries through federal grants. This compensation model, based on grants that are approved only a small fraction of the time, according to Yale clinical professor of therapeutic radiology Douglas Brash, is a signifiSEE MED SCHOOL PAGE 4

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skipped the sixth grade. This fun fact has approximately no effect on my daily life, but I like bragging about it. Few people skip grades, and even fewer skip grades beyond lower elementary school.

At 11, skipping a grade felt like the biggest, most important thing in the world. I was going to be younger than almost everyone in my grade for the rest of my life. I would start college at 17. This was exciting; I was ahead of where I was supposed to be. I felt like I had done something extraordinary. In a way, being admitted to Yale gave me a similar satisfaction. I figured out a way to achieve something that most people do not get to do.

This week, I’ve thought a lot about my Yale visit as a high school senior. Three years ago, I was so marveled by Elm Street in the sun and the benches in the courtyards.

In the months following my admittance, I was overwhelmed by the sense that the rest of my life was ending. Yale would be an entirely new, immersive environment. I would leave behind my old identity. This was the most tantalizing prospect of starting college: I wouldn’t be awkward or weird anymore. I would kiss more boys. I would find other people who cared about feminism and poetry.

The good news is that I no longer feel weird for reading a lot of Joan Didion and watching CNN. At Yale, I’ve definitely kissed boys. I’ve learned that there are many kinds of feminism and poetry, and I have mixed feelings about them. Yale lives up to the hype in a lot of ways, but I’ve also had times that made me feel like everyone else had figured out a way to maneuver Yale better than me. Everyone else is cooler or more successful or more impressive.

Marina Keegan '16 wrote about this feeling in a Weekend column almost four years ago: She wanted to be remembered, and she was jealous that other people at Yale seemed to be so much better at … everything. I read that column in the summer before my freshman year and wondered how I’d manage those feelings. I wondered if they’d plague me as much as they plagued her. What would make me feel out of place at Yale?

Back during my two-year stint in middle school, I often believed that I’d be less anxious if only I hadn’t skipped a grade.

Everyone else must have figured out how to be cool during sixth grade because I didn’t get invited to pool parties on weekends, and my eighth grade boyfriend dumped me for a cheerleader with braces. Sixth grade was something I’d maneuvered my way around, but it eventually

became something I resented. I missed a year of socializing and science class worksheets, and I’d never get the chance to fill in that gap of experience.

Almost a decade later, I know that almost everybody feels awkward during early adolescence, regardless of whether they’re slightly younger than most of their classmates. I know those feelings were silly, but it felt so real to me back then. Skipping sixth grade was a burden and a privilege.

At Yale, I’ve never totally shaken the suspicion that everybody else had some special preparation that I didn’t get. Other people know how to survive on less sleep. Other people know how to engage in super chill, totally casual romantic entanglements with grace. Other people are more popular, or they have more followers on Instagram.

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he last three lines of Bright College Years, Yale’s unofficial alma mater, offer a maritime metaphor to help make sense of our time here: “May let these words our watchcry be, / Where’er upon life’s sea we sail: / ‘For God, for Country and for Yale!’” The idea is that when we leave we take this place with us no matter where we go.

On the sea of life, Yale is the map or the binoculars or maybe even the entire boat, bow to stern.

There’s a reason that when seniors sing those last three lines at graduation, stumbling through those final high notes, tradition holds that we wave a small white handkerchief in the air above our heads.

The symbolism — of sails, of sailors, of one majestic vessel propelling us forward — is enticing. The great ship Yale, like the walls that ensconce our residential colleges, protects us from the monsters lurking in mare incognitum, uncharted sea.

On the cusp of graduation, I find myself thinking about another boat: the ship of Theseus. Legend goes that the Athenian king owned a mighty tri-

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two new residential colleges and hundreds of new students, hundreds of new ID numbers and fresh mattresses wrapped in blue plastic. Ten new senior societies, at least. And less numerically quantifiable changes: renovated buildings, new places to eat late at night, updated syllabi.

When I return to visit, what will connect this new Yale to the Yale I left behind? Could I recognize what stands in this spot a century from now?

Theseus may have slain the Minotaur, but he left the brainteaser about his boat for us to resolve. That, I think, is the privilege and responsibility of our four years here. To decide what binds us together and what we should throw overboard. The challenge is formidable, and we are bound to disagree, but how lucky we are to have the debate on the deck of such a beautiful ship, its sails waving like a handkerchief on the horizon.

MARISSA MEDANSKY is a senior in Morse College and a former opinion editor for the News. This is her last column for the News. Contact her at marissa.medansky@yale.edu .

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The Yale I’m leaving is not the place where I arrived four years ago, covered in post-Harvest dirt. Last year, the School of Management debuted some triumphant new building. The University bank account is much bigger now and that café in Becton Center where they exclusively play Diana Ross is still shiny and fresh. And in turn, that old Yale was not the Yale attended by its first-ever students in 1701, the Yale that Dink Stover traipsed through in 1912, or the godless Yale that inspired former News chairman William F. Buckley — incidentally, another great lover of boats — to write his own columns in this paper more than half a century ago.

On the cusp of graduation, I understand that desire to stand athwart. To make my Yale last well into the future, longer than every other Yale that has come before.

That task would be impossible. We flow through here quickly, after all. Plus bigger changes than this routine cycle of human capital confront us in the next few years: the arrival of

I know better than this. After talking to most of my close friends for just a few minutes, I realize that they’re lost, too.

But I need to constantly remind myself that the awkwardness of being a person will never really go away, wherever I live or study.

While I’ve definitely grown in confidence throughout college, there have been many moments of chaos. I am still tempted to think that I’ll reach another turning point. It seems like every semester I believe this is it! My moment! Life didn’t begin until now! This is the beginning of a newer, more graceful existence!

The truth is that my life started 20 years ago, and college is just a part of it. You get approximately four years here: eight semesters and a handful of summers, and each of these periods is exciting in its own way. For the most part, this is true for everyone.

During my Bulldog Days three years ago, I snuggled on a hammock with my hosts, and they told me about how they had to wake up at dawn to finish papers.

They were tired and hadn’t done their laundry. They complained about Yale’s dating scene and hookup culture.

Their lives were messy. Mine is, too.

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hen I was a senior in high school, I dedicated the brightest portion of my bedroom wall to college rejection letters. With the exception of the stationary they’re printed on, they are all more or less identical. There is a formula. Begin with the news — don’t delay and don’t use euphemisms. Instead, use words like “unable” and “regret” to drive home the point. Leave no ambiguity. Make sweeping statements about the talent of the applicant pool and compliment your readers before reminding them that you are, in fact, rejecting them. Tell them to try again next time or, if that’s not an option, wish them good luck elsewhere. Mail merge.

Sign. Seal. Each of the letters on my wall follows this rubric with its own panache. Each is at once unique and formulaic, something like Grandma’s chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Unlike chocolate chip cookies, though, rejection is universally unpleasant. Rejection plays suitor to vulnerability. Whether by application declined or election denied, all rejectees have considered the delicate balance between fear of rejection and hope for acceptance, sided with the latter and failed. Failure is disappointing. No letter can spin that positively.

These rejections are often

intensely private. We try to hide them, we try to forget them and we definitely don’t try to share them. The reason is self-evident: to be rejected implies weakness or flaw. In a society where success is determined by our ability to sell ourselves to prospective employers, peers and love interests, sharing stories of rejection is adaptively unintelligent. It lessens our prospects of acceptance and, moreover, it favors the prospects of our competitors who may not be as willing to admit past failings.

And so, in our society, rejection is silent and acceptance is loud.

But this silence can be harmful. When we laud only the greatest accomplishments of our peers without also accepting their failures, we create false realities. We create metrics for social comparison that are based in speculation rather than actuality. It’s not that accomplishment doesn’t deserve recognition — acceptance is exciting and often worth celebrating.

But we shouldn’t dwell on rejection, either. The healthiest communities allow their members to confront and share both successes and failures, and to rejoice in each unique acceptance as a worthy triumph over the rejections that may have accompanied it. This is what I

wish for Yale.

So let me attempt to tear down the facade: My name is Douglas Streat.

I am a junior at Yale, one of 12 schools I applied to, though I was rejected from or waitlisted at five. In my time at Yale, I have been rejected from eight a cappella groups and joined one. I have been denied seven student jobs but I currently hold three. I have been rejected by eight people but gone on dates with four.

I applied to one Master’s program, was accepted and have matriculated. I received three senior society interviews, and was turned away by all.

I’m not sure that publicizing rejection is meant to feel good.

As far as I can tell from having written it here, it doesn’t.

But it feels honest. It is healthy to remove the veil of privacy that accompanies the pain of rejection and force oneself to acknowledge successes and failures simultaneously rather than in isolation. In so doing, we create contrasts that promote robust metrics of self-evaluation rather than false pretenses for social comparison.

Of course, it’s easy to philosophize about rejection and harder to accept it in practicality. For most people, there must be time to grieve. This is true for me too. This semester alone, I’ve been rejected from several

things I’ve desperately wanted.

It hurts. But eventually, even the deepest of wounds can scar over time. I may not ever look back upon any of my rejections positively, but I will face each of them again. And when that time comes, however far into the future it may be, these memories will have their own place on my wall.

My life, like those of many Yale students, is built around a set of inherent privileges. I am lucky. Even spoiled. I have never experienced a real high-stakes rejection — one that threatened my livelihood or even my ability to live a safe and secure life — though I know many people who have. That said, I think the truth here is universal: Rejection should not be and is not a definitive determinant of worth. Action is. As one admissions dean from a school up in Boston wrote to me in his letter three years ago, “past experience suggests that the particular college a student attends is far less important than what the student does to develop his or her strengths and talents over the next four years.” Rejections are badges of strength and catalysts of talent, and they are made for the wall.

DOUGLAS STREAT is a junior in Morse College. Contact him at douglas.streat@yale.edu .

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The Armenian Genocide continues O

n Tuesday, 93-year-old former SS member Oskar Gröning entered a German courtroom to face charges for his involvement in the greatest atrocity in history. He was complicit, prosecutors say, in the mass murder of Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. For years, German prosecutors refused to try cases like Gröning’s, saying the link to the atrocities was too tenuous.

Not anymore.

One hundred years ago today – April 24, 1915 – Ottoman Turkish authorities rounded up and executed 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul. They were the first victims among the 1.5 million Armenians who would subsequently be marched to their deaths in the murders and “deportations” that constituted the Armenian Genocide.

In 1915, there were 2 million Armenians living across Ottoman Turkey. By the 1920s, less than 500,000 remained. Cities across Anatolia became ghost towns. Valleys were filled with corpses and bones. Today in these regions, local inhabitants can describe what happened. They will point you to “cursed ravines” they still avoid during their daily commutes.

These villagers, plus a handful of brave Turkish and Armenian journalists and activists, are perhaps the only people who will tell you what occurred. The Turkish government won’t. In fact, saying the words “Armenian Genocide” can get you put in jail — or worse, killed at gunpoint. Not only does Turkey refuse to

recognize what happened in 1915, but it also does its best to prevent other gove r n m e n ts, including ours, from doing the same. When the JOHN used the AROUTIOUNIAN Pope words “Armenian Genocide” Johnny come last week, Turkey was furious. lately On Wednesday, Ankara prevented Bosnian politician Milorad Dodik from flying over Turkish airspace to personally offer his condolences at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital.

Read any op-ed or historical account of the Armenian Genocide, and much of what’s been mentioned here will almost certainly come up.

But I’d like to argue something more: that the Armenian Genocide continues today. Historians, who are virtually unanimously in agreement about what happened, often call denial the “last stage” of genocide. In this case, it manifests itself in many ways. A few years ago, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, threatened to “deport” the remaining Armenian citizens in Turkey. Last year, he called “allegations” that he had Armenian blood “ugly,” insisting he was a “purebred Turk.”

But there’s something even more painful than outright racism from

the leader of almost 80 million people. It’s that today’s Turkish citizens largely don’t know what happened, because their government forbids the unfiltered teaching of history. I remember the first time I brought up the Genocide to a Turkish friend: she looked at me, staring blankly. She had no idea.

Armenia is a tiny country today because of the Genocide. At my Armenian church, I often still hear the names of cities from which survivors came: Erzurum, Van, Kharpert, Diyarbakir, Bitlis, Sebastia. The survivors and their children are old now, and many will take their memories with them when they die. They, and those who couldn’t escape, were the “others” who had to disappear for modern Turkish political and cultural identity to be forged in the aftermath of World War I. It is an identity that leaves little room for minorities to this day, whether Armenian, Jewish or Kurdish — whose collective lineages are often repressed.

Turkey claims that, in the fog of war during World War I, Armenians and Turks suffered equally. It’s a criminally ignorant false equivalence: Raphael Lemkin, the PolishJewish jurist who coined the term “genocide” in 1943, cited the Armenian case as the first example.

Four years earlier, as Adolf Hitler readied Germany for the ghastly extermination campaigns that were soon to begin, he assured Nazi party members of success: “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihila-

tion of the Armenians?” he said. The Genocide has been a template for war criminals ever since.

Genocide denial is, as Stefan Ihrig recently wrote in the Huffington Post, “brutalizing the world,” emboldening the enemies of humanity everywhere and making true reconciliation impossible: How do you mourn the dead and find forgiveness when the victims, deniers insist, never existed? And denial is also brutalizing the Armenian psyche, which cannot get beyond distrust, paranoia and revulsion towards Turkey.

“Personally, I don’t feel vengeance,” Auschwitz survivor Hedy Bohm said of Gröning on Tuesday.

“I don’t want to see him go to jail.

It’s too late for it, he’s too old. I’m just hoping that the law…will come to the judgment that he was guilty.”

Another survivor, Eva Fahidi, said the trial “is one of the most important events in my life.”

Today, Armenian genocide remembrance day is about mourning and prayer. At 6:30 p.m., the Yale community will gather at Beinecke Plaza to remember those senselessly killed for the crime of being Armenian. But today, unfortunately, cannot be about reconciliation and healing. There can be no definitive healing until denial ends. When it does, the Armenian Genocide will finally be over.

JOHN AROUTIOUNIAN is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. This is his last column for the News. Contact him at John.Aroutiounian@yale.edu .

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our years ago, the Class of 2015 walked through Phelps Gate into what seemed to be an existential crisis: “To be an investment banker or not to be?”

That same September, Occupy Wall Street rippled through the country. From my suite on Old Campus, I could hear the chants of protesters on the New Haven Green condemning the massive levels of inequality in the United States.

That year, I remember being told that students come to Yale hoping to be journalists, activists and chemists, but graduate as consultants and bankers. This prediction didn’t seem to match up with the people I was meeting, or the idea I had of a Yale graduate. Stories of students mobilizing against the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s and the Law School’s progressive reputation fueled our image of Yale as a place with socially conscious students. I was inspired by the University's track record of civic engagement, and expected these issues to be at the forefront of our college experience. So I was surprised to see that, inevitably, one of the most attended career events every year was the Boston Consulting Group info session. Career events for other prominent consulting and finance firms were just

as popular. It just didn’t line up.

Steeped in these contradictions, I resolved to found Net Impact, an undergraduate organization emphasizing social entrepreneurship, to expose students to the many professional possibilities at the intersection of business, innovation and social impact. It was a space that we were certain would attract many Yalies. And it has. Net Impact surveyed the student body, and of the 354 responses we received, 58 percent of the students indicated they were “very interested” in social innovation. Eighty-one percent of respondents said they’d consider a job or internship in this field.

Entering senior year, I was eager to see if our class — one that entered New Haven at a time of nationwide protests against Wall Street and News columns decrying the “brain drain” of talented Ivy League graduates to these companies — would follow more alternative pathways after graduation. I wondered if these debates, which so clearly marked my freshman year experience, had similarly affected others’ mentality three years down the line. Would my class recognize our social responsibility, and judge careers not only for their monetary benefits but for their broader contribution to society?

Yes, this has started to happen.

If you look around, you can see the effects of the backlash against Wall Street that first began in the aftermath of the Great Recession. When people talk about attending a JP Morgan info session, many do so in hushed tones. They preface it by telling you that it’s just to expand their options. They mention something about obligations. When one student announced at her Mellon Forum that she was working at Bain next year, she was met with dozens of joking head shakes and “boos.”

This class-wide consciousness about “selling out” is likely new — the product of our time at Yale, post-2008 financial crisis. But has this consciousness actually altered students' post-graduate plans?

We wouldn’t be surprised if we learned that a similar percentage of students from the class of 2015 moved to Wall Street as from prior class years. As a senior, I'm starting to understand why. I too have felt the pressures that others around me are feeling: the need to achieve what Yale has defined as “success,” an equation that doesn’t account for social impact. Indeed, at Yale, a “good” job fits a very narrow set of characteristics. When we enter the job search, it’s all about “me." We think about professional development and skill-building opportuni-

ties. We care about how many people have heard of the company, and how fast we’ll be able to advance in the company. We care about the salary. There is a widely recognized hierarchy of jobs, as defined by these “me-centered” characteristics. In comparison to our friends who sit leisurely on a six-figure contract and a prestigious addition to their resumes, we find that some jobs suddenly seem less legitimate.

Career planning does make sense, don’t get me wrong. Introspection and skills development (and good pay) are all important considerations. But this focus on the “me” prevents another conversation from surfacing. A conversation about what we can contribute to society, or what makes us happy or where our real interests lie. With our Yale degrees in hand as a shield of insurance, surely we can afford to think more broadly about success.

So, to the class of 2015, let's reflect on our responsibility to give back, be bold in tackling the world and take risks while we can.

KARA SHEPPARD-JONES is a senior in Trumbull College. Contact her at kara.sheppard-jones@yale.edu .

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Yale has its flaws. That’s a given. Every large institution has its flaws. But for all its flaws, it’s become my home and a place that I love.

But sometimes, I LEO KIM think that I take this for granted.

On Us During Bulldog Days two years ago, I made a deal with a group of prefrosh I was walking around campus with.

Every month, we would take a break from our lives and just go around and admire the campus. It seemed so obvious — Yale was so beautiful, and what kind of person wouldn’t take time to appreciate that?

But I don’t think that group ever once met to do what we said we would.

What happened? Well, life at Yale happened. Neo-gothic became the norm, something I saw each day when I exited my dirty dorm room. Worldrenowned professors turned into “that one hard grader” and “the boring lecturer.” This opportunity that was once a dream is now mundane, everyday, normal life.

But seeing the prefrosh again this year, I remembered. I had never wanted it to be this way. Coming to Yale, I wrote an op-ed (“The opportunity cost,” Aug. 13) in which I tried to express the obligation I felt when I first arrived. We had been granted a privilege most would never have, and I felt the need to use it for something.

I didn’t necessarily want to use it to be rich or important, but I didn’t want to let it go to waste, whatever that meant.

As I sat in class Tuesday afternoon browsing the Internet next to a prefrosh who was rapidly scrambling down notes on dense analytic philosophy, I realized that I had forgotten what I had written in these pages my freshman year. Maybe that’s precisely what the “sophomore slump” is, but as this year comes to a close, I know that’s not what I want the next few years to be.

Freshmen — or even worse, accepted high school seniors — are often given a hard time because they don’t “know anything.” Admittedly, I didn’t know anything arriving at Yale (even if I thought I did), so that’s not completely ungrounded. But I think there’s some value to this kind of inexperience. It gives us the attitude that

Stepping stone to heaven B

efore it faded from memory, students used to call a small cupola in the roof of one residential college the stepping stone to heaven. That is, until the authorities sealed the space, along with the healing it provided.

Late one misty spring night in 2012, a freshman traveled up to the cupola to mourn the death of a friend. He looked for quiet companionship in the face of tragedy. He left a scarlet, self-bound book full of blank pages full of future thoughts up there.

Before Yale sealed off the door, you needed upper body strength, a flashlight and the ability to take risks to access the space. You needed to find the rope tied to a metal beam. After hauling yourself up, you’d find a shaky staircase leading to a plywood panel. You wouldn’t think the staircase could hold your weight, but it would. After pushing on the panel bumping against your head with the crown of your skull, you would emerge into a small, gazebo-like structure. Far above courtyards, you would be greeted with encompassing views of Yale’s towers.

Evening by evening during that spring and summer, rumors guided students to the cupola. Finding the book, they left their thoughts, insecurities and meditations. A sophomore pondered his proximity to the moon with his roommate, and waited to hear the results of his transfer application to Reed College. He advised future explorers not to remain unhappy alone, but to seek camaraderie with others. His roommate wrote on the next page that he was “one of the bravest people I know.” Five seniors spent their last night of college up there, 12 hours after graduating, staring at their old world in miniature.

While some entries in the journal intentionally speak wisdom, most stumble into unexpected profundity. A student arrived up on the roof after the urgings of her roommate. She advised to always agree to adventure’s inconvenient timings, before saying she’d return after thinking of something profound. She never did.

As time went on, the book lost its original purpose of mourning, but shifted to the more whimsical pursuits of life in college. A suite in the college wrote up a formal constitution under the stars. The next entrant declared the past declaration null and void, and declared another superseding constitution.

FIND PLACES TO THINK IN THIS ALL-TOO-OFTEN STIFLING CAMPUS

challenges us to do something we’ve never done before, to push ourselves beyond our comfort zone — something I don’t do nearly as often as I’d like to now that I’ve settled into my routine.

Sometimes it’s good to “stop and smell the roses,” in a way. We have to see Yale for what it is. Many times, that means that we need to recognize its flaws and imperfections. But that doesn’t mean we should forget the things that made this our home, and even before that, a future I never expected to be given.

Ultimately, I guess that’s why I’m writing this right before we leave for the summer. With several months of freedom before us, we’re able to reapproach Yale with fresh eyes. There’s some credit to be given to naiveté.

The mentality we all had coming here, the mentality that dared us to try new things, to do our best, to make a mistake or two, shouldn’t be abandoned.

We shouldn’t let life at Yale prevent us from making the most of what Yale has to offer.

Eventually, around September of that year, the entries stopped. The rumors of an open rooftop must have drifted to facilities, or some poor soul could have been caught up there. Whatever the reason, explorers returned to their space only to find a shiny, polished Master Lock. The lock frustrated those trying to access the cupola. As months turned into years, those who remembered it graduated and drifted into adulthood.

Last week, someone performing at a poetry slam told the story of a book of advice found in an attic tower. Fortunately, an audience member had an encyclopedic knowledge of campus, so she knew just the amount of pressure to apply to the sealed door described by the poet. She found the book and returned it to its original owner with the hope that he’d return it to the space.

I write this message to communicate a mess of emotions. Tragedy wrenches hearts apart, but also leads to unexpected joy and discovery. Adventure and wonder can be found in unexpected corners of Yale at unforeseen times.

Take risks because without risks, there is no discovery. Callous administrative action seeking to make spaces safer can actually make campus more dangerous by removing campus spaces where people go to think.

The stepping stone to heaven remains open (although it will not be long after this column’s publication).

However, the cupola is just one of thousands of places like it. And they’re not all locked. So go exploring, find places to think in this all-too-often stifling campus. You never know who has been there before.

LEO KIM is a sophomore in Trumbull College. His column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact him at leo.kim@yale.edu .

HENRY CHAPMAN is a junior in Pierson College. Contact him at henry.chapman@yale.edu .

Kaity Hsieh '15 contributed to the writing of this column.

The Bulldog Days are over s Bulldog Days passed earlier this week, I saw, beyond the flocks of prefrosh, a reflection of myself. Two years ago, I was in their shoes. Wide-eyed at the front door of one of the most prestigious and storied universities in the country, if not the world, I felt a mix of excitement and apprehension about my future. Now, two years into Yale, nose crammed in dry books and even drier papers, I have almost forgotten where I am.

At Yale, we spend a lot of time worrying. We worry about school and we worry about grades. We worry about divestment and we worry about microaggressions and we worry about safe spaces. And granted, these are things we should worry about. But sometimes we get so caught up in what we’re worried about that we forget the simple fact that we go to Yale.

As a forewarning, I’ll say this: What I’m about to write isn’t particularly novel. Honestly, certain segments may sound like they may have been written as part of a cheesy selfhelp piece, but hear me out. Since I’m writing for the last issue of the News this year, I want to reflect and maybe be a bit nostalgic.

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FROM THE FRONT

“Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.” IMELDA MARCOS FORMER FILIPINO FIRST LADY

Before November, Eze must first secure GOP nomination EZE FROM PAGE 1 ment, he does not agree with the party’s views on racial politics and climate change, for example. Still, he confirmed that he intends to enter the Ward 1 race as a GOP candidate.

Eze will face either incumbent Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 or challenger Fish Stark ’17.

Both are Democrats. Previously, both had committed to running as Independents in November, so as to provide freshmen living in Ward 1 more time to learn about the race. But following Eze’s announcement, the two have opted to face each other in a Sept. 16 Democratic primary.

[Eze’s] goal is to raise the level of discourse on campus to transcend party politics.

REED DIBICH ’17 Communications director, Eze campaign Eze’s campaign manager, Amalia Halikias ’15, said the team has not yet thought about approaching the Republican Town Committee for a formal nomination.

Members of Eze’s campaign, some of whom are Democrats, emphasized the bipartisan nature of his platform. Reed Dibich ’17, the campaign’s communications director, is a former legislative captain for the Yale College Democrats, and Halikias is the communications director

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Should he secure the Republican Party’s nomination, Ugonna Eze ’16 will be the second GOP candidate for Ward 1 alder in 20 years. of the Yale College Republicans.

“Ugonna is running a bipartisan campaign and will put forth a bipartisan platform,” Dibich said. “His goal is to raise the level of discourse on campus to transcend party politics.”

Dibich said the three issues

that Eze has chosen to focus on — homelessness, education and crime rates — are largely nonpartisan issues.

Eze said that, if elected, he hopes to address city issues with the help of student activism at Yale. For instance, he said

he hopes to unite the many student groups on campus who are working towards providing sustainable and affordable housing for New Haven’s homeless population with the Board of Alders.

The campaign team is working to talk to Ward 1 constitu-

ents and city leaders to spread their message, Eze said. Halikias added that Eze has met with several city leaders over the past few weeks.

If he qualifies for the Republican party’s nomination, Eze will be the second GOP candi-

FAS Senate elections set for May FAS SENATE FROM PAGE 1 has lots of research, department, family obligations and the fact that a bunch of really good peers are prepared to put themselves forward for this makes me feel good about the process.”

He added that when the formal nomination period closed on April 17, 249 faculty members had received at least one nomination. Though any faculty member who receives eight or more nominations will automatically be put on the ballot, Wilkinson said the committee has also directly solicited faculty members to run in an effort to ensure that a wide range of departments are represented on the ballot. Ultimately, the FAS Senate will represent between 900 and 1,000 faculty members — slightly fewer than the current 1,145 FAS members, as the group’s constituency excludes such positions as visiting professors or those on one-year contracts.

According to the FAS Senate Implementation Report, the senate’s membership must be made up of six senators each from the humanities and sciences, four senators from the of social sciences and six “atlarge” senators, who would repre-

sent the FAS as a whole. Two professors interviewed said the FAS Senate should feature diversity, including junior and senior faculty across the spectrum of academic departments.

“No group of 22 people could possibly represent the diverse group of the FAS,” Wilkinson said. “But having said that, we have had a lot of interest in having diversity in the slate [of candidates] and hopefully diversity in the resulting FAS Senate as well.”

Statistics professor and Chair of the Committee on Elections Jay Emerson said the nomination and election process will be managed through Yale Qualtrics, a webbased survey tool. Faculty also have the option of sending their choices by paper ballot in a double-sealed envelope, Wilkinson said.

Though several faculty members said the process of selecting their nominees had run smoothly, others said they encountered technical difficulties when casting their votes and voiced criticism of Qualtrics as the voting mechanism.

“This tool is quite flexible but is not designed for election use,” computer science professor Michael Fischer said. “It is unclear to the user what is private and what is not.

Of course, no promise of privacy was made for nominations.”

In addition, Fischer said that after clicking a button that appeared to proceed to the next page, he unintentionally submitted a blank nomination form. He was only able to cast a vote after receiving manual assistance by the election committee.

However, Linguistics Director of Graduate Studies Claire Bowern said she nominated several faculty members through the e-ballot system, which she found clear and easy to use.

Wilkinson defended the voting mechanism and said the committee is currently testing software over the next 10 days to address bugs or problems before officially holding the election. He stressed that all members of the implementation and election committees — who are not eligible to stand for office — as well as ITS officials are committed to preserving confidentiality of the ballot.

Further, Emerson said that after examining different options for holding the election and consulting with faculty at the University of Chicago, which also has a faculty senate, the election committee decided that it will print the ballots and manually count the votes by hand.

“The counting process becomes more labor intensive, but we wanted to do it as best we could without possible technology issues getting in the way at that point,” Emerson said.

But beyond the logistics, faculty were united in their support of senate as a body to serve as a direct conduit of faculty opinion to administrators — a line of communication several professors said has been lacking in recent years.

Both Fischer and history professor Glenda Gilmore said this is a crucial time for faculty voices to be heard.

“I hope to see a senate composed of outspoken members who make our concerns clear to the administration,” Gilmore said. “Faculty input is limited to a dwindling group of hand-picked professors with whom the administration is comfortable … We are at a moment when many are becoming resigned to topdown management. The senate gives us the opportunity to communicate to the administration how its rigid policies impact our teaching, student interactions and research.”

cant financial burden to the medical school faculty.

Faculty of the medical school typically receive 30 percent or less of their salary from the University, said Brash, with the rest coming from grants, primarily through the National Institutes of Health. That means the medical school faculty must spend much of their time working on writing grants and calibrating their research plans to put them in the best position to win those grants.

“When I talk to a lot of researchers in AAUP [American Association of University Professors, a national academic union] they’re often concerned about cuts to federal funding for the NIH and National Science Foundation that they’ve experienced since 2008,” said John Barnshaw, senior program director of the AAUP. “There has been less money in the pipeline than there has been in previous years — that’s where faculty are feeling the additional pressure.”

NIH research grants have been becoming increasingly selective over the last 40 years. In 1970, 36 percent

of grants were funded. In 2014, only 18 percent were funded, according to the NIH.

There has been less money in the pipeline than there has been in previous years.

JOHN BARNSHAW Senior program director, American Association of University Professors Professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Joan Steitz, who runs a lab at the School of Medicine that draws primarily from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said the stress of the compensation model applied to junior faculty and tenured professors alike who do not receive academic year salaries.

Steitz said she knew of faculty who were unable to continue working at Yale because they were unable to fund their own salary through grants.

Barnshaw said difficulties in securing grants were not in any way due to

problems with the grants. Rather, he said, the highly competitive process resulted in entirely valid proposals losing out on the margin.

“If there’s a proposal and it’s ranked seventh out of a hundred, when there’s an environment with a lot of federal funding, then it gets a grant, but it gets pushed out when there’s a harsher environment,” he said. “This is a very high-stakes game when there’s not a lot of money.”

Barnshaw said only a few universities are able to use a grant-based compensation model. Other than the nation’s top private and public universities, he said, it is not possible for schools to rely on funding from government grants to come regularly enough to support the majority of research faculty’s pay.

Nationwide, at lower-ranked schools, professors in research capacities typically are hired to teach and train students, he explained, noting that these schools cannot rely on grant money to come in frequently. But when a professor at one of these universities does receive a federal grant, the grant essentially buys out the professor’s time and allots it towards funded

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

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research. In that situation, government funding will replace university funding at the value of the grant.

At top schools, though, universities can hire professors with the understanding that their time will be pointed towards research from day one. That allows these universities to have much larger faculties — a smaller proportion of each researcher’s salary comes from the university.

“About 70 percent of publications in the last five years came from faculty in the top 60 schools, and Yale is at the top of the list,” said Barnshaw. “These schools are different from the other 4,000 institutions.”

Though these top schools’ compensation models mean they save substantial amounts of money, can hire more faculty and can rely on constant streams of research, the model creates uncertainty for faculty members.

“There’s a lot of anxiety, and with good reason,” said Steitz. “I think everybody [experiences it.]”

In 2014, the NIH gave Yale $360,548,763 in 882 awards.

out in a thick atmosphere of cigar smoke, as a result of the habit to which he always adhered,” Crabtree said fondly. “One did not need to be a bloodhound to track his movements around the department by following the trail of aromatic smoke.”

Though Sinanoglu’s spoken word was spirited, it was his eloquent writing that was particularly touching, Armbruster said. On one occasion when she was out of the country, she communicated with her father through letters.

“He wrote me the most incredible letters while I was abroad for three years,” Armbruster said. “He was such an eloquent writer both in Turkish and English. I’ll never forget it.”

Though the international world knew Sinanoglu as a scientist, his first love had always been writing, Armbruster said. Sinanoglu wrote short stories and poetry as a teenager, but his love of science was more practical and, as a result, prevailed.

As he grew older, academia became more than a career for Sinanoglu.

According to Sinanoglu’s son Murat Armbruster, Sinanoglu’s work comforted him. As he got older, he would often work on math and science problems as a way to relax.

“If he could not sleep at night, he would go and study,” Armbruster said.

In addition to being a thinker, Sinanoglu was also a teacher, and those who knew him were touched by how well he taught, both in word and in action. Murat Armbruster described a memory of Sinanoglu carefully explaining all the molecular models and structures in his office to Murat when he was young.

“We could well have been learning graduate-level chemistry when me and my siblings were less than 10 years old!” he said.

Elif Armbruster agreed, saying that there was no question in her mind that her choice to enter academia was because of her father. In her father’s eyes, a bachelor’s degree was like a high school diploma — only the beginning of one’s education — she said.

Sinanoglu also used his influence to become a thought leader, emphasizing Turkish pride and the preservation of the language.

Though his health had been declining for some time before his death, both of Sinanoglu’s children said they were still in disbelief.

“It is the end of an era — that’s how we’ve been talking about it,” Elif Armbruster said as she thought back to the call her family received from the Turkish Prime Minister offering condolences. “He had such an impact on our lives, we all expected him to live forever.”

Sinanoglu’s funeral will be held in Turkey this Sunday.

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

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

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu and EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

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date to run for Ward 1 alder in the past 20 years. Paul Chandler ’14 became the first when he ran in 2013. There are currently no Republican alders on the board.

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CORRECTIONS TUESDAY, APRIL 7

A previous version of the article “12 colleges, 12 ways to sign up for housing” stated that Kugan Ishwar ’17 said Branford, his residential college, was unhelpful to him throughout the housing process. Ishwar only felt that the housing portal, not his residential college, was unhelpful.

TUESDAY, APRIL 21

A previous version of the article “Study could help reduce tiger killings” misstated the class year of Jennie Miller. She graduated in 2015, not 2012.

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A previous version of the article “Graduate students design new humanities classes” reported an incomplete name for the seminar “The Classical Tradition, East and West.”

Harp consolidates establishment support

Layoffs will only be last resort

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER Though Yale-New Haven Hospital has vowed to make staffing cuts a last resort, many fear that if Gov. Dannel Malloy’s proposed budget is passed unamended, patient care will suffer due to a shortage in nurses employed by the Yale New Haven Health System.

On Feb. 18, YNHHS discovered that it may face a $67 million reduction in the amount of money it brings in from Medicaid reimbursements. Though the system now loses roughly 40 cents per dollar for every dollar spent on a Medicaid patient, the budget would increase that number by 50 percent, leaving the system shouldered with 60 cents per dollar for every Medicaid patient it serves. YNHH was able to survive $100 million cuts in 2013 after merging with the Hospital of St. Raphael in 2012, but it may not be so lucky near the end of May if Malloy’s budget passes.

As YNHH awaits the alternative budget from the Appropriations Committee, which will be released next week, the atmosphere at the hospital remains tense.

“YNHHS should not be penalized for the mission-driven work

that it does,” YNHH Senior Vice President of Public Affairs Vince Petrini said. “We will look for opportunities to increase efficiencies well before laying people off.”

In 2013, over $500 million was cut from Connecticut’s hospitals, with more than 20 percent of this figure being shouldered

by YNHHS, the largest provider of Medicaid services in the state.

Luckily, Petrini said, YNHH’s 2012 merger with St. Raphael’s allowed it to streamline its costs without laying off a significant number of people. Instead, YNHH removed and consolidated systematic redundancies, such as inefficient programs.

Petrini explained that employees who were displaced by these reintegrations were given new positions elsewhere in the hospital system, as YNHH aimed to “minimize the effect on the people,” he said.

But Malloy’s cuts, which would coincide with increases in hospital taxes levied by the state, are set to have a much larger impact on YNHH’s finances — this time there will be no hospital merger to reduce redundancies and cushion the fall.

Patrick McCabe, senior vice president of corporate finance at YNHHS, said the $67 million in

lost funds that would be brought on by Malloy’s budget will need to be restored in some fashion in order for the hospital to achieve a margin that can sufficiently pay employees’ pensions and retirement funds. Expenditures would likely take a sizeable hit from the cut, he said.

Though McCabe emphasized that the hospital is not currently planning for layoffs and would prefer to reduce cost through increasing efficiency, he acknowledged that staffing numbers may be negatively affected.

The hospital system might have to resort to leaving vacancies unfilled in order to save money.

Marjorie Funk NUR ’84 SPH ’92 GRD ’92, professor of nursing who began her career as a YNHH staff nurse, said she never felt like there was any shortage of nurses when she worked in the Intensive Care Unit. But Funk said she cannot speak for the general wards, where, when staffing problems arise, tend to manifest most.

Wendy Duarte, who worked at YNHH for over 20 years, said these shortages existed long before the state budget forced the hospital system to restructure and that the number of nurses available to patients in the general wards is a concern. “[Yale-New Haven Hospital]

is a good hospital, but it is understaffed,” Duarte said. “I have been spouting that message for years.”

Duarte added that though the quality of care from both physicians and nurses at the hospital is excellent, the low nurse-topatient ratio in the general wards makes it difficult for nurses to do their jobs well.

She claimed that since her departure in 2009, she has not been replaced. Her colleagues, she said, have told her that they have been left to take up the extra work without a corresponding increase in salary, she said.

“Yale employees do the work of several people but only get paid for one job,” she said. “Nurses are rushing around and believe me, hand washing is skipped plenty by exhausted and overworked staff.”

Petrini emphasized that, right now, it is tremendously unusual for laid-off or retired staff members not to be replaced, and that the hospital is constantly focusing its energies on recruitment and building relationships with institutions that train nurses.

YNHHS discharged over 110,000 inpatients in 2013.

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

Yale may change standardized testing requirements

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Incumbent Mayor Toni Harp will formally announce her intention to run again at a kickoff event on May 16 in Edgewood Park.

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Despite facing three challengers for her office in this year’s election, Mayor Toni Harp appears well-positioned to consolidate support among elected officials in the Elm City.

East Shore firefighter Salvatore Consiglio — who joined the race for mayor in late March — is the second independent candidate to challenge Harp this cycle.

Earlier this month, Ron Smith, former alder and city clerk, announced that he was throwing his hat in the race. Both Consiglio and Smith will face the incumbent on Nov. 3, while Newhallville plumber Sundiata Keitazulu will run against Harp in the Democratic primary this September.

According to the city charter, Smith and Consiglio must both submit the signatures of 208 registered voters to the City Clerk’s Office by Aug. 5 to qualify as petitioning candidates. Smith and Consiglio did not respond to requests for comment Thursday evening.

But in terms of endorsements from other city leaders, Harp appears to have a head start. Several alders interviewed agreed that Harp’s experience gives her a clear advantage over her opponents who have thus far declared their candidacies.

“I think whoever decides to run against [Harp] will have a long, hard fight,” Hill Alder Dolores Colon ’91 said. “[Smith and Keitazulu], I would dismiss immediately, and I’ve never heard of Salvatore [Consiglio].”

Colon was one of 18 alders to endorse Harp in 2013. She said that while she has not yet made a formal decision to endorse the incumbent for re-election, she has been impressed with Harp’s work, especially in balancing the city’s budget. Beaver Hills Alder Brian Wingate, who also endorsed Harp in 2013, confirmed that he will be endorsing her for re-election.

West Rock Alder Carlton Staggers was among the alders who did not formally endorse Harp in 2013. He added that while he plans to consult with the co-

chairs of his ward before committing to a formal endorsement, he will be supporting Harp in November.

“I think the mayor needs at least two more years to keep doing the work that she’s doing,” Staggers said.

None of the four mayoral candidates have formally announced their intentions to run, but Rick Melita, Harp’s campaign manager, said the mayor will make her public announcement at 1 p.m. on May 16 at Edgewood Park during a campaign kickoff event.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro is scheduled to open the event and introduce Harp.

In March of last year, the College Board announced its commitment to a redesigned SAT that is “more open and clear” than any previous version of the exam. In light of the future change, Yale is evaluating its standardized testing requirements.

Stacy Caldwell, vice president for the SAT and PSAT/ NMSQT, said that beginning in March 2016, the SAT will more closely resemble the type of work expected in college.

The redesigned SAT will have a stronger emphasis on evidence-based reasoning, include a more specific math section, shift away from obscure vocabulary to terms that students will see more often in college, and return to the 1,600-point scale.

Additionally, the redesigned SAT will include an optional essay, which Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said the University is “strongly considering” requiring.

“It’s been discussed by the faculty committee on admissions and financial aid,” Quinlan said. “And it’s been discussed by Admissions Office staff. There are a few more dis-

cussions that need to be made before we make a final decision.”

He added that the University will announce its decision in early May. Yale currently requires applicants to either submit test scores from the ACT Plus Writing Test, or the SAT and any two SAT subject tests.

Caldwell said that while the current essay on the SAT asks students to take a position on a concept or question and then support that position using evidence, the new essay will give students authentic source texts to evaluate. Students will then be expected to analyze how the author of the source text uses evidence to support his or her point of view, she added.

“It’s closer to the type of writing that students will be doing in college,” Caldwell said.

Quinlan noted that the objective of the new section is to analyze arguments in the text and to think critically about argument construction and sourcing, which are “two critical building blocks” for a successful Yale education.

C a l dwe l l a d d e d t h a t although the new essay section will be optional, the writing section is still mandatory.

The redesigned SAT will comprised a math section and an

evidence-based reading and writing section, both worth 800 points apiece.

Some institutions, such as the University of California schools, have already made the decision to require the essay section of the redesigned SAT, effective in the spring of 2016.

Brian Taylor, director of The Ivy Coach, a New York-based college consulting firm, said most schools will probably choose to require the optional essay portion.

The writing section is optional, but it’s been required by highly selective colleges since the beginning of time.

BRIAN TAYLOR Director, The Ivy Coach “We believe every highly selective college will require the optional writing section,” Taylor said. “That probably won’t be unique to Yale. That’s the case with the ACT as well.

The writing section is optional, but it’s been required by highly selective colleges since the

beginning of time.”

All five students interviewed said it makes sense for the University to require the optional SAT essay in the same way that the optional ACT essay is required, but only three said they believe the changes to the essay will result in a better overall SAT. John-Paul Pigeon ’17 said he prefers the writing section as is, since it allows students to exercise more creativity depending on the prompt. Pigeon said the new section may more closely mimic college writing, but that argument analysis is just a slightly duller way of evaluating a student’s writing skills.

“I’m in favor of the changes because the questions they ask on the essay are usually pretty broad and not based on anything substantial,” Siddhi Surana ’17 said. “But using a source text works more to the strengths that are taught in school, like critical reading analysis, which makes the redesigned essay section more relevant.”

For the 2014–15 academic year, SAT writing score ranges in the 25th to 75th percentiles for enrolled students were between 720 and 800 points.

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

I think whoever decides to run against [Mayor Toni Harp] will have a long, hard fight.

DOLORES COLON ’91 Alder, The Hill Melita said the Harp campaign is not yet focused on opposing candidates.

“I’ll let the opponents speak for themselves,” he said. “Right now, we’re interested in getting our message out there.”

One of the key components of the campaign message, Melita said, is Harp’s commitment to youth services in the city. He specifically cited the success of New Haven’s City Youth Stat — a city initiative recognized by President Barack Obama during his address at the 2015 U.S. Conference of Mayors. Youth Stat uses data surrounding student absences from school and students transferring between schools to identify and assist atrisk youth.

“It’s innovative,” Melita said.

“And New Haven was the place that figured it out.”

Harp’s next fundraiser will be hosted at Park Place East Restaurant in East Rock on April 29.

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

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In May, the University will announce its decision regarding whether or not to require the essay section of the redesigned SAT.

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“I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.”

TAYLOR SWIFT AMERICAN SINGER

Univ. devotes staff to examine drinking culture

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The Alcohol and Other Drugs Harm Reduction Initiative is set for a significant expansion next year that will increase its size and capacity.

ALCOHOL FROM PAGE 1 ing guidelines will help pull together disparate policies, University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews said. She added that efforts to increase campus safety extend beyond alcohol to the work done by groups like the Communication and Consent Educators, who focus on preventing sexual violence.

“It’s really important to have someone who can oversee the entire [AODHRI] initiative from start to finish,” she said. “Someone who’s looking at what’s going on when people are referred to [the Executive Committee], what’s going on with educational components, but also doing it

in a way that complements the other things being done to build a safe campus. Having a person who fits into that overall framework but is also focused on alcohol will make the initiative run better and help it be more confident in everything it does.”

Boyd said the director will take over some responsibilities currently assigned to her and to Director of Student Life Hannah Peck DIV ’11. These responsibilities include designing new educational and social programming, as well as incorporating public health research about factors that influence alcohol and drug use on college campuses. The director will work closely with the Yale College Dean’s Office, Yale Health and the Yale Police Department.

She and Peck will both remain involved with AODHRI, Boyd said, adding that the director will simply allow the program to expand in scope.

Three candidates for the director’s position are being interviewed by a search committee composed of student life administrators, students, a residential college dean, a residential college master and Chief Psychiatrist of Mental Health and Counseling Lorraine Siggins, said Boyd, who is also on the committee. Candidates also meet with other administrators and students while on campus, including Goff-Crews, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry.

Among the students who will have a chance to meet the candidates are the new AODHRI interns. While students have had input on alcohol policy in an advisory capacity in the past, Student Affairs Fellow Hana Awwad ’14 said, the intern positions will allow a core group of students to play a consistent role in shaping and implementing new initiatives.

In addition to helping with existing programs, such as bartender training and freshman alcohol education, the interns will focus most of their energy on developing new programming, said Student Affairs Fellow David Lindsey ’12. Because students are the most familiar with alcohol culture on campus,

they are an ideal source of ideas, he said.

“Students are particularly familiar with the details and challenges of hosting a fun and safe event on campus, so it makes sense to have students with additional training and knowledge help their peers think through the planning process,” Lindsey said.

Leah Motzkin ’16, one of the newly hired interns, said she has witnessed instances when students are confused about Yale’s alcohol policies and concerned about getting in trouble, even when safety is at stake. Her goal is to spread awareness of Yale’s safety-first policy, she said, adding that having students as the mouthpiece of that message

will ensure that the information comes across clearly.

When asked if she had any concerns about engaging students from her position as a student, rather than that of an authority figure, Motzkin emphasized that peer-to-peer conversation is the key to helping administrators shape effective policy.

“AODHRI’s goals are the same as the student body’s: to have a fun campus culture that is also safe,” she said. “We can only find more creative and fun initiatives through ongoing dialogue between the student body and the administration.”

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

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“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.”

STEPHEN HAWKING ENGLISH PHYSICIST

Yale Systems Biology Institute space opens on West Campus

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER On Tuesday morning, nearly 100 scientists from across the country sat in the West Campus Conference Center’s Grace Hopper Auditorium preparing for a two-day conference celebrating the renovation of the Yale Systems Biology Institute’s space, which will foster interdisciplinary connections between various biological science departments at the University.

The symposia included talks from leading researchers, a poster session for scientists to present their work and tours of the newly renovated building. According to Ryan Croteau, senior administrative assistant at West Campus, the Integrated Science and Technology Center, where the recent renovations happened, was built

by Bayer Pharmaceutical Company in the mid-1980s. She added that the building is now in the final stages of a renovation and will house the six faculty research groups of the Systems Biology Institute.

“We hope this is something progressive and a positive interdisciplinary point of excellence for science at Yale,” said Vice President for West Campus Planning and Program Development Scott Strobel.

Director of the Yale Systems Biology Institute Andre Levchenko emphasized the importance of communication between disciplines in working to solve larger biological problems, which will be the main focus of the systems biology team. As the sciences have fragmented and specialization increased, it is crucial to understand what other researchers are working on and considering, he added. The symposia and

renovated building work to bridge these divides at Yale and globally by bringing various leaders in their respective fields into one space to talk and collaborate with one another, he said.

The renovated space replaces a now completely gutted chemistry plant, Strobel said. It features a “well-balanced mix” of open laboratories, dedicated support rooms, shared equipment rooms and interactive offices and community space, Croteau said.

During his opening remarks, Levchenko referenced the new collaboration spaces inside the building as an important space to continue the mission of interdisciplinary communication.

Attendees lauded the lineup of speakers, which included entrepreneurs, professors from MIT and Harvard Medical School, as well as professors from British Columbia and Dublin.

Molecular, cellular and developmental biology professor Joseph Wolenski said all speakers present at the conference are among “an elite group” of scientists who focus on larger problems in personalized medicine and utilization of genomic information to prevent and cure disease.

In his talk, Harvard professor of genetics George Church showed, using a gene editing system, that a genetic mutation in a mouse can be corrected and wild-type phenotype restored.

University President Peter Salovey attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. on Wednesday.

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

Future of housing project unclear

BY REBECCA KARABUS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Despite years of discussion to redevelop the rundown Church Street South housing project, the city and the landlord have not yet come up with concrete plans for improvement.

The Church Street South housing project, which consists of 301 individual family units located across from Union Station, was originally constructed in 1969. The site has been notoriously “troubled” for decades, according to former Mayor John DeStefano Jr., who was in office when the initial phase of redevelopment planning began.

When Northland Investment Corporation of Boston bought the project from a private landlord in 2008, the city began to discuss the project, which operates as a Section 8 site — a federal program that provides housing to Americans living in poverty. But the project has not been able to move forward, as Northland has not put forward a plan for renewal.

“There’s really nothing we can do on our own, unfortunately. We really want to work with [Northland], but at this point, they have been unwilling to come back to us with a plan of action,” said Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81, the city’s economic development administrator.

According to DeStefano, residents have complained about a host of issues in their apart-

ment units, including mold and poor ventilation, which led to carbon monoxide leakage. He said the property was already falling into disrepair and was plagued by criminal activity and drug-related gang violence by the 1980s. The city, he said, recognized that the existing site should be demolished and redeveloped into a site with both housing and commercial spaces when it began discussions with Northland.

Erik Johnson, former director of the Livable City Initiative — a neighborhood-focused agency whose goal is to enhance residents’ experiences in New Haven — began negotiations with Northland in 2012. DeStefano said that despite the city’s support, Northland never felt comfortable enough to proceed with redevelopment.

Northland could not be reached for comment on Thursday.

Nemerson said that since 2012, the city has talked to representatives from Northland a number of times and encouraged them to consider a collaborative effort to redevelop the site along with LCI. For the past few months, members of LCI have been evaluating the conditions of the apartments to determine the best course of action. But because Northland owns the property, they have the final decision on redevelopment, Nemerson said, adding that the housing project as it stands is lucrative for Northland.

The housing project is unique in the city in that it accommodates large families, unlike many other affordable housing sites in New Haven.

LCI Director Serena Neal-San Jurjo, who assumed the position in November, said that prior to Johnson’s departure late last year, she had been helping Johnson develop the Hill-to-Downtown Community Plan, which was issued last November. In the plan, residents of the Hill — a neighborhood southwest of the Yale medical school — called for the redevelopment of the Church Street South project into a building consisting of up to 750 units for mixed-income housing and other uses, including retail and restaurants. The goal of the plan is to turn the current, dilapidated project into a public space and hub of activity for residents and visitors.

The Community Plan also calls for the implementation of a steering committee of community representatives to work with the owners of the Church Street South project, according to the online report.

“The city’s goal is to have the vision the community came up with come to fruition,” said Neal-San Jurjo. “We’ll do it, ultimately.”

Neal-San Jurjo said that the Board of Alders must approve the plan before it can move forward.

Contact REBECCA KARABUS at rebecca.karabus@yale.edu .

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“The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.”

HERMAN E. DALY AMERICAN ECOLOGICAL ECONOMIST

As pollution authority expands, resistance rises

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER The Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority is one of the region’s lesser-known public institutions. But the authority plays a vital role in the region’s infrastructure, dealing with the treatment and disposal of wastewater. Now, a proposed expansion of the authority to Stratford, some 15 miles down the coast, has provoked an intense debate in that town.

Last year, Stratford Mayor John Harkins proposed the merger with the GNHWPCA, often referred to as “regionalization,” as a means of raising money and alleviating the town’s debt burden. Earlier this month, Stratford’s 10-member town council approved the deal, through which Stratford’s wastewater treatment infrastructure would become controlled by the GNHWPCA. But even though the council approved the deal in an 8–1 vote, fierce resistance to regionalization has taken root in the town. Those opposed to joining the GNHWPCA have launched a petition drive, which they hope will force Harkins to submit the merger to a townwide up-down referendum.

The deal comprises two portions. The first concerns the political incorporation of Stratford into the GNHWPCA’s organizational structure. Stratford will gain two seats on the

authority’s 11-member Board of Directors, and will contribute about $500,000 to its $2.7 million administrative budget, said Gabriel Varca, the GNHWPCA’s finance director. The other four towns under its umbrella — New Haven, East Haven, Hamden and Woodbridge — will contribute the remaining nine members.

The other part of the deal involves financial incorporation.

According to official documents, the GNHWPCA will buy the reserves and assets of Stratford’s current wastewater treatment authority — including the sewage plant and the land upon which it sits — for roughly $11 million. It will also relieve the $37 million of debt Stratford’s authority currently holds.

Stratford will receive an immediate $5.1 million transfer of funds from the GNHWPCA, according to the town’s projected budget for fiscal year 2016. That cash transfer has led many to describe the proposal as a stopgap measure meant to fill a budget gap.

For many in Stratford, the deal seems dubious. Eddie Goodrich, a prominent community leader, has been involved with the anti-regionalization movement orchestrated by the group “For Stratford.” He said that selling the town’s sewage plant will deprive Stratford of its ability to control its own sewage tax rates, putting the town at the mercy of the GNHWPCA. “We are selling off a town asset

for peanuts, in my opinion, and we don’t have to do that,” he said.

“This is something valuable for the municipality to have — we can actually make money on it, and it can do a service for the town.”

Goodrich questioned why Stratford would sell the wastewater plant to the GNHWPCA for a mere $11 million — he suggested the entire infrastructure could be worth up to $100 million.

Goodrich added that For Stratford has so far gathered over 1,000 signatures supporting their petition; the group asserts that it needs roughly 3,200 signatures, or one-10th of the town’s voting population, to force a referendum on the issue. He said most people whom he has encountered have expressed their dissatisfaction at the speed at which the Town Council passed the deal. Though representatives from the mayor’s office did not respond to request for comment, Harkins described the deal in an April 9 editorial in the Stratford Star as a means of protecting the environment at the lowest cost while also providing a “greater return on investment.”

He wrote that the protestors against regionalization are mostly composed of “a small faction in our town that continues to engage in petty politics by making baseless claims and ignoring the facts” who “[choose] to engage in the politics of fear.”

The legality of the hypothetical referendum has come into question. In an opinion issued on

April 9, the day after the Council approved the deal, Town Attorney Timothy Bishop stated that no right to a public referendum exists in this case. Though the Town Charter does provide for the right to a referendum, Bishop posits that state statutes regarding the powers of towns override that right.

We are selling off a town asset for peanuts, in my opinion, and we don’t have to do that.

EDDIE GOODRICH Community leader The dissenters disagree.

Goodrich said that For Stratford believes its actions are unambiguously legal. Mark Dugas, For Stratford’s lawyer, said in an op-ed published in the Connecticut Post earlier this week that the statutes Bishop cites only come into effect once Stratford has already become a member of the GNHWPCA — and because not all of the member towns have assented, Stratford has not yet acceded to the GNHWPCA. Whether or not For Stratford will gather the requisite 3,200 signatures remains uncertain, but Goodrich said the organization has heard mostly positive

feedback.

During an East Haven Town Council meeting earlier this month, Varca said Stratford, not GNHWPCA, proposed the merger. He said the GNHWPCA and its constituent towns would not agree to the deal unless it presented some substantial benefit.

Ward 17 Alder and GNHWPCA board member Alphonse Paolillo Jr. told the News that the alders will consider the “best option” for taxpayers when the proposal comes before the Board of Alders for approval later this spring. He suggested that Stratford’s regionalization may help to reduce costs of treatment and lessen the environmental impact of the merger.

“Regionalization offers an opportunity to identify cost efficiencies across the board,” Paolillo said. “And there are environmental benefits — we all treat [Long Island Sound] as an asset of every community. Discharging water into the sound — that’s something we don’t want to be doing.”

Paolillo added that the GNHWPCA’s plants have a strong record on environmental safety, and they hope to bring this record to Stratford.

Varca also identified possible cost reductions as part of the authority’s motivation for regionalization. Stratford has a higher per capita income and more expansive sewage coverage than the four current member

municipalities, he said.

Because potential creditors’ financial assessments often take into account those two factors, Varca is confident that bringing Stratford into the GNHWPCA would lead to a better bond rating, thus reducing the cost of borrowing. In the long term, he said, those savings, while small annually, could amount to millions of dollars and lower rates paid by residents.

The deal will involve savings for Stratford as well, Varca said.

“Whether Stratford enters into regionalization or not, their costs will increase,” he said. “If regionalization does not happen, their costs will increase even more.”

He pointed to the need for capital improvements in Stratford’s plant and the requirement to meet federal environmental standards as sources of Stratford’s projected cost increases.

Despite the talk of “merging” Stratford’s system with that of the GNHWPCA’s four towns, no physical merger will take place.

Stratford shares no geographic border with any of the four towns; regionalization would merely involve placing Stratford’s infrastructure under the GNHWPCA’s purview. Though the WPCA will purchase Stratford’s plant, none of New Haven’s waste will be treated there.

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

GSA asks for student resource replacement

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER As the Hall of Graduate Studies transitions in 2017 from a graduate student space to a center for the humanities, graduate student leaders are calling the University to support student life and programming.

In particular, students have focused on restoring student-life resources that may be displaced by the renovation of HGS. On Wednesday, the Graduate Student Assembly unanimously passed a resource outlining the current resources HGS provides to graduate students, as well as recommending the creation of a permanent destination for Student Affairs and Programs after the renovation. “[HGS] is our equivalent of a residential college,” said GSA Chair Joori Park GRD ’17. “It didn’t just provide housing — it provided a physical space where the entire grad community could convene.”

If a permanent relocation destination is not readily available, the GSA resolution asks the University to form a complete plan for a temporary location.

Graduate students at the GSA’s general assembly meeting expressed their irritation with the lack of specifics from the University regarding the new space.

“The answer [from the University] has always been ‘I don’t know.’ Or they say, ‘don’t worry

we’ll find something for you,’” said GSA Vice Chair Colton Lynner GRD ’16.

Graduate students are dissatisfied with the lack of a concrete plan for a replacement space, said Wendy Xiao GRD ’17, chair of the GSA Facilities and Healthcare Committee, adding that the GSA resolution was a way to obtain more amenities in a new student center. The resolution suggests ways that graduate student resources could be improved.

Among them are a 24-hour study space, recreational space and Yale Dining options for breakfast in addition to lunch and dinner.

“I’m very afraid that if we stay here there are going to be changes that make it less of a grad center,” Xiao said.

Although Park said the GSA advocates for resources to be moved outside HGS, graduate students do not merely want a large room in an arbitrary place on campus, she said. Facilities provided by HGS include meeting spaces that can accommodate more than 100 people, storage space for the GSA, music practice rooms and rooms for graduate student mothers.

Convocation, graduation, orientation activities and monthly social events for graduate students currently take place in HGS. “The space needs to fulfill certain functions. This resolution documents specifically what kinds of space we need to have a functioning grad community,” Park

said.

The resolution also recommends the creation of a committee comprised of faculty and elected graduate student representatives to make recommendations to the University about a new student life center. The committee should approve the final destination of the space, the resolution says.

Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Director of the McDougal Center Lisa Brandes said in an email that she is working with Provost Benjamin Polak to find space on campus to create a new graduate student center. Although the McDougal Common Room and Blue Dog Café will reopen and will still be available to graduate students after the renovations are complete, HGS will no longer house the center for graduate student life.

The Graduate School Dean’s Office requested that the GSA create a list of current resources housed by HGS, something that GSA members saw as a sign that the University is concerned with graduate student needs.

To provide housing to graduate students living in HGS who will be displaced by the renovations, Yale will build new apartment-style housing for graduate students at 272 Elm St. with room for 82 graduate students in 41 two-bedroom units.

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

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“Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.”

LARRY KING AMERICAN TELEVISION AND RADIO HOST

Yale summer internships expand in some cities

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER For students seeking internships coordinated through Yale College, the Office of Career Strategy expanded opportunities for the upcoming summer.

Split between domestic and international internships, summer opportunities through OCS have expanded in the past year. With the debut of summer internships in Accra, Ghana, four new positions in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and an expanded program in Sitka, Alaska, for example, alumni networks both across the country and worldwide have been instrumental in establishing career opportunities. Students interviewed said finding their internships through OCS made securing summer plans both more efficient and reliable.

According to OCS Director Jeanine Dames, 426 coordinated internships — those in which OCS is in direct communication with an employer or alumnus providing the position — were offered to Yale College students in the summer of 2014. Though the overall number of internships offered this year will remain roughly the same as in the past, Dames said, certain cities saw significant growth in the concentration of programs — substituting some other programs that were offered previously.

“We’ve done a lot of work to expand over time,” OCS Associate Director Brian Frenette said.

“We want students to have certain opportunities and we can provide the resources.”

Julia Bourque, assistant director of the International Internships Program, said the Yale alumni club presidents in Accra and Buenos Aires were essential in bringing summer opportunities to Yale College students.

This year, the total number of positions offered in Buenos Aires jumped from 15 to 19. Internships in 23 other countries from Singapore to Denmark to Mexico were available this summer as well, according to the OCS website.

Richard Low MED ’76, president of the Yale Club of Argentina, said internships available in

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The Office of Career Strategy has expanded the range of Yale College-coordinated internships for the upcoming summer.

Buenos Aires span a wide range of student interests. This year’s internships are at law firms, local nonprofits and software companies, as well as the film production company which released a film that was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar this year.

“Students do not come to Argentina simply to work but to … immerse themselves in our local culture,” Low said. “The student learns how others handle the same issues so differently and why the local psychology

may be worse or better than the U.S. It is a personally enriching experience.”

Tim Follo ’16, who will be interning in Buenos Aires this summer, said having his housing coordinated through OCS was the most beneficial part of the process. Follo added that OCS international internships are especially attractive because students can use International Summer Award funding.

Ben McCoubrey ’17, who will be interning at Low’s software company, added that having OCS

coordinate his internship meant the position had been “vetted” by students from summers past.

Domestically, OCS coordinated internships in 20 cities this year, with the most significant growth in Sitka, Alaska.

Either through the expanded Sitka Winter Fellows Program — a yearlong fellowship for recent college graduates — or summer internships, former participants interviewed said Sitka afforded a summer off the beaten path.

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins ’12, a native Sitkan who helped

launch the program between his sophomore and junior years, said over 175 Yale students have come to Sitka through OCS in the past five years. Kreiss-Tomkins currently serves in the Alaska House of Representatives.

“I was talking with OCS and we were chuckling that Sitka probably hosts more Yalies in a summer than American cities such as Denver,” Kreiss-Tomkins said. “It changes the lives of many who come.”

Onagh MacKenzie ’15, who held internships in Sitka dur-

ing the summers of 2013 and 2014, said it was unlikely that she would have found out about opportunities in Sitka had it not been for the Sitka-Yale relationship. Camping trips, mountain climbs and playing bananagrams with her host parents helped her completely immerse herself in small-town life, she said.

Summer internships coordinated through OCS must be at least eight weeks in length.

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

Students launch e-commerce website

BY JED FINLEY STAFF REPORTER Four undergraduates have launched a Yale-exclusive, community-based e-commerce startup which seeks to become the platform by which students and faculty exchange goods on campus.

The startup, which is called BoolaMarket, hosts the buying and selling of goods through its website. BoolaMarket enables users to make wish lists and select their preferred categories of goods — such as furniture, electronics or dorm commodities. BoolaMarket CEO Kevin Fung ’17 said the site intends to facilitate efficient transactions between members

of the Yale community. Users are required to sign up with their Yale NetIDs, he added.

BoolaMarket is … for highturnover communities who need trust and close proximity.

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dents commonly use, including the Facebook group “Free and For Sale” and Craigslist. Fung added that the site aims to provide a “platform built on trust,” between Yale students, so that they feel more comfortable and safe using it than they would using an external platform. The community base of the site, he said, will incentivize people to use it.

“On a fundamental level, people trust others who share common interests, backgrounds or experiences, more than they do complete strangers,” Fung said.

Fung said he met with the University’s Office of Sustainability to discuss a potential relationship between the office and the site this past Friday. Four days later,

Fung said, the BoolaMarket team released the website to campus.

He said the sustainability office shared the team’s goals of promoting sustainable efforts among both students and faculty on campus, as the service would offset waste by promoting the exchange of reusable goods.

Woodbridge Fellow for the Office of Sustainability Ryan Laemel said BoolaMarket offers a tremendous opportunity for members of the Yale community to reduce the amount of waste on campus. He added that the site provides a streamlined platform for online transactions and that it has the potential to replace the EliSurplus Exchange for staff members and faculty, which is currently

the existing mode of electronic commerce between the University’s various departments and offices.

The BoolaMarket team also met with Kyle Jensen, director of entrepreneurial programs at the School of Management, to strategize the development and marketing of their startup. Jensen said he generally offers Yale students advice, but his advice is framed in terms of encouragement and conversation.

“At its core, BoolaMarket is a marketplace for high-turnover communities who need trust and close proximity to efficiently transact,” Jensen said. “There are many such communities, colleges being the most obvious. I suspect

they’ll find much success here at Yale and other universities.”

Josh Hochman ’18 said that though he has never heard of BoolaMarket, he would be interested in using the service.

“It sounds convenient, useful and like something I would try,” he said.

Nikki Hwang ’17 said that if BoolaMarket became a primary means of transactions between members of the Yale community, she would readily use the site.

As of late Thursday evening, the site has attracted over 1,416 page views, 291 users and $12,195 worth of items.

Contact JED FINLEY at james.finley@yale.edu .

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“The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.” BOBBY BOWDEN LONGTIME FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL COACH

For HS juniors, summer is about exposure TIMELINE YALE FOOTBALL RECRUITMENT

April 23rd: Stanford visits Koby Quansah’s spring practice

March 14th: Damarea Crockett attends SPARQ Combine April 15th: Carter Hartmann receives calls from Princeton and Harvard

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THE REGULATION OF RECRUITMENT

Since its inception in 1906 as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, the National College Athletic Association has served as the ultimate authority on college athletics. As the number of student-athletes has swelled, the NCAA has grown right alongside it, as have the rules and regulations it creates.

Today, Division I football recruiting is an almost scientifically precise process. Each year, the NCAA puts out a colored calendar demarcating the four different types of recruitment periods: the quiet period, in which prospects can unofficially visit schools and communicate with coaches via written or electronic methods; the evaluation period, in which offcampus interactions between prospects and students are forbidden but coaches may visit high schools and prospects may visit colleges; the contact period, in which coaches and prospects may communicate and visit anywhere, provided a coach does not visit a high school more than once in one week; and the dead period, in which only written or electronic communication is permitted.

In addition to abiding by the NCAA standards, schools in the Ivy League adhere to further standards set forth by the Ivy Group Agreement.

The first agreement, signed in 1945 and restricted to football, affirmed the decision to uphold the same eligibility rules and academic standards and to dispense only need-based financial aid, not athletic scholarships.

By extending the agreement to all sports in 1954, the Ivy League was formally created.

Since then, Ivy League football has been regulated separately from all other sports. The football programs operate under a slightly different set of rules, as the league allows 120 students over four years to matriculate with support from the football coach, according to Carolyn Campbell-McGovern, Deputy Executive Director of the Ivy League.

“All other sports are lumped together,” Campbell-McGovern said. “Every institution makes their own decisions about how they’ll further limit, or how they’ll allocate the number of slots that they have. They’re bound more by institutional limits.”

Of course, that does not mean a perfect 30 football players matriculate — or are even admitted — to Yale in any given year, according to Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan. CampbellMcGovern noted that there is a much larger pool of students who are contacted by, and subsequently communicate with, the football programs.

Reno explained that due to the school’s high academic standards, the football program is forced to start looking early

and cast a wide net.

“We’ll start gathering information on recruits or potential prospects in February of their junior year,” Reno said. “As you can imagine, at Yale we need to cast a wide scope because we’re looking for students that we can predict … [will] get through the application process academically, student-athletes that can play Division I football.”

Sometimes it falls to the student-athlete to put him or herself on a school’s radar. Gathering information often begins with players or coaches reaching out to recruitment coordinators.

The name of the game is exposure. You got to get your name out there.

JASON MARTINEZ Football head coach, Kingswood-Oxford High School Highlight tapes, unofficial transcripts and conversations with high school coaches allow the football staff to sketch a basic profile for each player.

“What we do is we get recommendations from high school coaches and we get transcripts from the student-athletes,” Reno said. “They’ll give us unofficial transcripts and we’ll take a look at them and see where they are, how well they’re doing in class, their strength of schedule and the classes they’re taking.”

Per NCAA standards, prospects are permitted to visit a school unofficially as many times as they like and whenever they like, provided that there is no contact with a coach if the visit falls during a dead period.

Official visits, which the universities pay for, do not begin until Sept. 1 of a student-athlete’s senior year. There is a limit of five for each prospect, and it is up to his or her discretion to choose which schools to visit.

In the meantime, summer camps provide another method of evaluating players.

ROLE OF SUMMER CAMPS

Yale hosts eight one-day prospect camps throughout the summer to help student-athletes attract attention. According to Reno, these summer camps are valuable because they allow the staff to evaluate personal characteristics.

“I think for us, it’s a way to see how players work, how they take coaching, how they react when the chips are down and they’ve made some mistakes,” Reno said. “Are they able to pick themselves up, dust themselves off and go to the next play? Those are all very important things. For me, the intangibles are very important: how they carry themselves, how they treat others. What we’re looking for are Yale football players, guys who look like they’re going to live by our core values and what we believe in.”

High school coaches, however, were more ambivalent

when it comes to the importance of summer camps.

“The name of the game is exposure,” said Jason Martinez, the head coach at KingswoodOxford High School in West Hartford, Connecticut. “You got to get your name out there.

You got to go out there [and] go to camps. You can’t expect, as a blue chip kid, to get recognized. Some kids choose to not go to camps and [they] don’t get recognized because they’re not putting themselves out there.”

Martinez coaches Koby Quansah, a linebacker who began receiving calls from coaches in his sophomore year of high school. Now finishing up his junior year, Quansah said he might not attend summer camps this year because he has already done so and earned scholarship offers. Instead, he will relax and give his body some rest.

According to Martinez, this strategy works for certain athletes. For players with 20-plus offers like Quansah, Martinez explained, there is not much to do with the summer.

“He’s done all the work already,” Martinez said. “A lot of these camps are money camps, and you’re fighting for exposure and twisting in line to get reps.

I’m not sure that’s where Koby is right now. I think he’s above that.”

Much like Quansah, Hartmann has already turned heads.

He is currently sitting on three preliminary Ivy offers of support as well as one Football Bowl Subdivision scholarship offer.

The defensive end is also talking to two other FBS schools, Vanderbilt and Boise State.

While he is considering attending Stanford’s football camp on June 20, he will participate in Mission Viejo’s varsity football summer training regimen.

That plan was deemed acceptable by Bob Johnson, Hartmann’s head coach at Mission Viejo High School.

“His potential off the field, in the classroom, is off the charts,” Johnson said of Hartmann. “It comes easy to him. He’s the brightest football player I’ve ever been around, and I’ve been around a long time.”

Summer camps are one of several methods of attracting attention. While Hartmann went the traditional route of sending his highlight tape, other recruits succeeded in catching Reno’s eye with performances at various combines.

COMBINES

A series of timed drills, tests and exercises, football combines offer an empirical standard by which to evaluate players. Their results can factor into national rankings, which in turn generate the exposure necessary to attract Division I attention.

Last Sunday, Quansah participated in the invite-only Rivals100 camp in central New Jersey, walking away with the top linebacker award. He is now considered a four-star recruit: Rivals.com ranks him as the best inside linebacker in Connecticut and the sixth-best in his class in

the country.

In addition to 15 FBS offers, two preliminary Ivy offers of support and one FCS offer, Quansah has been talking to Stanford and Oregon, two perennial powerhouse Pac-12 football programs. His coach added that Stanford visited Kingswood-Oxford on April 23 to see Quansah.

During that visit, the Cardinal linebacker coach told him that Stanford wanted to make an offer, Quansah said. However, since Quansah was informed that the school recruits at a slower pace than many other schools, he will have to wait before receiving his offer.

“I don’t think this is common in the northeast,” Martinez said of west coast schools flying east, which Stanford did in both January and April. “I talked to the Stanford coaches who said I’m only here for Koby. So I don’t know how common it is that the west coast schools come over here, or the [Southeastern Conference] schools, I don’t know how common it is for them as well. But we’re fortunate for getting schools from all over the place.”

Damarea Crockett, an Arkansas native and current high school junior, also benefitted immensely from his performance in a combine. At the Nike SPARQ combine on March 14, the running back earned the highest score in the country.

Official combine results measured Crockett’s 40-yard dash at 4.69 seconds, his shuttle run at 4.00 seconds and his vertical jump at 38.7 inches. For reference, running back Tyler Varga ’15, the Ivy League’s leading rusher last season, ran a 4.72 40-yard dash and had a 38.5inch vertical jump at his pro day on March 31.

“I was getting approached more [after the combine]. I was getting more calls, I was getting more mail,” Crockett said.

“That’s when I began to think about everything more and more.”

His coach at Little Rock Christian Academy, Jeff Weaver, said that while Crockett was already attracting attention before the combine, his phone began ringing from all over the country afterwards.

With seven FBS offers, including ones from Arkansas State, Vanderbilt and Colorado State, Crockett is going to have a tough decision to make, Weaver said.

“Damarea can go as high as it can go, honestly,” Weaver said. “He is the strongest overall player on our team, even as a running back. He’s a guy that’s getting lots of offers and you know, he’s a smart guy. He’s going to be eligible for everybody.”

PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENTS

Eligibility is a key factor in Yale’s football recruiting process. The admissions criteria for Ivy League athletes, listed on the Ivy League website, make it clear that academic standards must be met before athletic ability is

taken into consideration. Student-athletes know that, to get a shot at an Ivy League school, they must have an excellent academic record.

So when two-way player Jacob Morgenstern, then a sophomore at Ketcham High School in Wappingers Falls, New York, was given the opportunity to transfer to St. Luke’s School in New Canaan, Connecticut, he took it.

“I think it’s one of the best academic institutions in the nation,” Morgenstern said. “The academics speak for itself. It’s an incredible school with some incredible people who’ve done some crazy things.”

Morgenstern currently has offers of support from coaches at both Harvard and Yale, the latter of which he has visited twice this year. The coaches’ support can only come into play after Oct. 1, when the admissions committee is permitted to begin reviewing completed applications.

But these offers of support are more tenuous than scholarship offers extended by any other Football Bowl Subdivision or Football Championship Subdivision team. Unlike other Division I schools, Ivy League schools do not provide athletic scholarships and maintain much more rigid academic standards.

Therefore, coaches noted, many academically ineligible prospects find out that their applications will not be supported by an Ivy League school earlier than a prospect being recruited by another Division I school.

It’s much more about looking at transcripts and saying ... these are some things you need to work on.

TONY RENO Yale football head coach “Another school might just drag its feet and you might think you have a shot, but you really don’t,” Martinez said. “But the Ivy League [schools], I’ve noticed, are pretty much upfront with the kids. They’ll say, hey listen, your GPA is not where it should be, or your test scores won’t allow you to get in here … They’re not stringing them along, and I don’t think anybody wants to be strung along or given false hope. Sometimes it’s tough. But they’re honest.”

This honesty pervades public recruiting information.

The Ivy League explicitly states online that “a ‘verbal commitment’ by a coach is not an offer of admission, as only the Admissions Office has that authority. An Ivy League coach can only commit his or her support in the admissions process.”

Before committing support, a coach can ask for a preliminary assessment of a prospect.

According to the Ivy League, the admissions office may review

the student-athlete’s academic credentials beginning July 1, including standardized test scores and high school transcripts. It then crafts an initial assessment, which may be shared with the prospect. But even if it is positive, this preliminary assessment in no way guarantees acceptance.

Reno said he will sometimes request these early assessments from the admissions office during the summer.

“Nothing is set in stone, they just take a look at things,” Reno said. “For us, it’s much more about looking at transcripts and saying, guys, these are some things we think you need to work on, whether it be your SAT scores or your ACT scores or your classes in general, just things that can make the application stronger.”

Hartmann, for example, spoke to Harvard on April 15.

The school knew from Hartmann’s unofficial transcript that the defensive end had a 5.0 GPA his first semester of junior year.

But that is only one factor.

Even without the official preliminary assessment, Harvard advised him to continue retaking the SAT. “I got an 1890 and [Harvard] said, ‘Okay yeah, you’ll get into this school.’ But they asked me to keep taking the test because if I score higher then they can recruit someone that scored lower,” Hartmann said.

Hartmann has the entire fall to improve his score, as football operates on a comparatively late recruiting schedule, according to both Reno and Quinlan.

Reno said the recruiting process comes to a completion when student-athletes are prepared to apply and the coaching staff is ready to move forward with them to support applications. While the date varies, Yale sometimes will not complete the entering class until the February before the student-athletes matriculate.

This is mostly because the fall is a key element to a football player’s recruitment. Throughout the prospect’s senior season, the coaching staff keeps tabs on the players. His senior year performance is a helpful benchmark in determining his ability to play at the next level, Reno said.

“A lot of it depends on senior film,” Reno said. “We look deeply into their senior film.

We do that with every player …

What you’re looking at is how they’ve grown from their junior film to their senior film. Have they made improvements? Have the questions you had on their junior film been answered on their senior film?”

Many of these improvements come out of the work athletes put in over the summer, both on and off the field. Although many rising seniors have not yet begun the college application process, it is well underway for these four recruits.

Greg Cameron contributed reporting.

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

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“Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder and give more than anyone else.” VINCE LOMBARDI TWO-TIME SUPER BOWL CHAMPION

Elis face Crimson for tourney berth

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Though Harvard’s offense ranks third in the Ivy League with 151 goals, Yale’s defense boasts three players who rank in the top five in the conference in forced turnovers per game.

W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 14 itives from the defeat — which came from a talented squad with only one loss this season — and move forward.

“After every game we play, we try to put together a list of some of the key takeaways from that particular game in order to recognize the things we need to either work on or continue doing well during the next week of practice,” attacker and captain Kerri Fleishhacker ’15

said. “We’ve been able to adjust our play and start fresh after each game, whether we’ve won or lost.”

One of the biggest disparities between Yale and Harvard is the offense. The Crimson ranks third in the conference with 151 goals this season, while the Bulldogs are only above Dartmouth with 120 goals. But Yale’s midfield game is tied for second in the league in ground ball pickups per game, compared to Harvard’s sixth-place rank.

The Harvard players that may prove a challenge to the Elis’ defensive unit are sophomore Marisa Romeo and junior Audrey Todd, who rank fourth and eighth, respectively, for number of goals per game in the league.

“We need to play at full force and bring out our strongest abilities,” attacker Nicole Daniggelis ’16 said. “The challenge for this weekend will be sticking to the game plan in an effort to play a full 60 minutes of Yale lacrosse.

We will set the pace and the tone of this upcoming game.”

Perhaps Yale’s greatest strength is its defense. Three Yale players — midfielder Christina Doherty ’15 and defenders Victoria Moore ’17 and Kate Walker ’16, a staff reporter for YTV — rank in the top five in the conference in forced turnovers per game. Doherty also ranks second among all Ancient Eight players in ground ball pickups per game.

Additionally, goalkeeper Erin

Mullins ’15 boasts a save percentage of 48.5 percent, good for second in the conference among goalkeepers with at least 15 saves.

One thing to watch for in Saturday’s contest is both teams’ propensity to commit fouls. Harvard and Yale are each tied with 25.5 fouls per game, the most in the Ivy League.

Despite the potential chippiness of the matchup, however, the Bulldogs said they are ready to play for a chance at the Ivy playoffs.

“We are really excited for the chance to play this weekend and make the tournament,” attacker Kiwi Comizio ’18 said. “We have been working really hard this week to improve any weak areas and prepare for the game.”

Saturday’s game starts at 1 p.m. in at Soldiers Field Boston. The Cantabs have won each of the previous four matchups against Yale.

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

Bulldogs set to add six new players M. BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 of the recruits] have a chance to be impact guys.”

Beside the incoming freshmen, Kroon is the first of two players returning to the squad.

The 6’10” La Crescenta, California native was with the Elis this past season but was unable to earn any playing time before withdrawing from school due to an injury. Kroon, who will be reclassified as a freshman next season, figures to play a big role down low next season, at least based on his pedigree: He was ranked the No. 13 player in Massachusetts and was also a McDonald’s All-American nominee as a high school senior.

Sherrod, meanwhile, has been across the country and beyond as he has spent the academic year touring with the worldrenowned Whiffenpoofs. The Stratford, Connecticut native was a regular in Jones’ rotation in his junior year and will look to reclaim his role as a reliable post player and strong defender.

Highlighting the incoming freshmen class is point guard Alex Copeland of HarvardWestlake School. The 6’2” playmaker stuffed the stat sheet in his senior season but no number stood out more than 25.4 points per game. Thanks in part to his scoring prowess, Copeland finished the year as the No. 37 ranked player in the state of California according to ESPN. Newly elected captain and guard Jack Montague ’16 and guard Makai Mason ’18 are early candidates to handle backcourt duties following the graduation of All-Ivy first team selection Duren, while Copeland will attempt to bolster the perimeter play of the Elis right off the bat.

“During my senior year, I had to score a lot when I drove, but next year I’m going to focus on using that ability to draw defenders and dish to guys like Justin [Sears ’16] and Brandon and kick out to shooters like Jack,” Copeland said. “But if the help doesn’t come over to stop me, then I’ll keep going and finish.”

In the frontcourt, forward Eli Lininger is set to arrive in New Haven as the fifth-ranked player from the state of Oregon. At 6’6”, Lininger proved to be a doubledouble machine as he averaged north of 20 points per game to go along with nearly 14 rebounds a contest last season.

Following in the footsteps of Mason, who had a stellar rookie campaign for the Elis and earned the team’s award for most outstanding freshman, is fellow Hotchkiss attendee 6’5” Matt Greene. An athletic forward with a penchant for finishing around the rim, Greene will add depth to a frontcourt that is losing a trio of seniors: Townsend, Armani Cotton ’15 and former captain Greg Kelley ’15.

Montague likened Greene to Sherrod in terms of athleticism and said that he hopes Sherrod will be able to take the newcomer under his wing.

Rounding out the new class of forwards will be Jackson, Missouri native Blake Reynolds.

Another 20 point-per-game scorer, along with 9.6 boards a game, the 6’7” forward earned the Southeast Missourian Boy’s Basketball Player of the Year award to cap off an illustrious high school career.

With the three incoming forwards, in addition to Kroon and Sherrod, Jones is particularly excited about how the added depth may be able to help Sears, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year.

“At the end of last year, we were down to three post guys,” Jones said. “[All these post guys] sure up our frontline and it gives Justin Sears some more competition in practice where we lacked that last year.”

The fifth and final recruit offers an NBA pedigree. Guard Trey Phills of Charlotte, North Carolina, son of the late Charlotte Hornets star Bobby Phills, attends the same high school — Charlotte Christian — that produced NBA superstar Steph Curry and capped off a dazzling senior year by averaging 22.3 points per game.

Just over a year removed from

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After taking a year to sing with the Whiffenpoofs, forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 will rejoin the basketball team next season. knee surgery to repair a ligament tear, the 6’1” guard has his eyes set on much more than just adjusting to the Yale campus and easing into the college game.

“Hopefully I’ll make a huge impact, but it’s all up to how much I work,” Phills said. “To be honest, I feel like next year is going to be the first year we go back to the [NCAA] Tournament.

I definitely feel like I could push them over the edge, so whatever coach needs me to do, it’ll happen.”

Before helping send Yale back to the Big Dance for the first time since 1962 became a goal of Phills’, however, the Elis had to

convince him Yale was the school for him. Despite offers from five-time defending Ivy League champions Harvard as well as from Princeton, Phills credited the coaching staff for helping him make his choice.

Second-year assistant coach Anthony Goins, whom Jones credits for “knowing everybody who is anybody in North Carolina,” was able to serve as a valuable connection for the recruit, but according to Phills, it was Jones’ dedication that ultimately tipped the scales in Yale’s favor.

“Coach Jones, he made me a priority,” Phills said. “The first day that you can take in-home

visits, he was there at eight in the morning and that meant a lot because all the other schools just sent assistants later throughout the day.”

With a scarcity of players with the requisite skill sets to succeed both academically and athletically in the Ivy League, it is only natural for Ancient Eight colleges to fight for the same recruits each year.

Yale and Princeton, in particular, have often competed for recruits in recent years, according to Jones.

“We go up against Princeton more than anyone else, and I’d say it’s been 50/50 over the last

couple years,” Jones said. “They really wanted Justin Sears and Armani Cotton, and there are a few players on their roster that shall go nameless that we really liked, and they chose Princeton.”

Rounding out the new class will be yet another Hotchkiss product, guard Thomas Ryan, who Jones confirmed will walk on to the team.

Yale’s 22 victories last season were the most since the 1941 campaign.

Ashley Wu contributed reporting.

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BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER At 6:30 a.m. on April 15, 2015, the Hartmanns’ phone rang. It was the first day of the NCAA’s spring evaluation period, and Princeton University wanted to be the first to call defensive end Carter Hartmann, a current junior at Mission Viejo High School in Southern California.

They were indeed the first.

“Harvard called me at 3 [p.m.] and they’re like, ‘Hey, we just wanted to be the first people to call you. We are the first, aren’t we?’”

Hartmann said. “I had to tell them, ‘Yeah, Princeton called me at 6:30.’ It was pretty funny.”

Hartmann, however, has not yet spoken to Yale, the last of the three Ivy League schools that has expressed serious interest in him, during this spring evaluation period. He said his parents will be speaking with head coach Tony Reno sometime before the period ends on May 31.

Not every high school football player is woken up by a call from a Division I university. As football recruiting for the class of 2020 approaches its peak, high school athletes around the country are seeking the one thing that can get them that phone call: exposure.

With classes out and football season quickly approaching, the summer between a player’s junior and senior years can set the tone for his recruitment process. Data derived from summer camps, combines and preliminary academic assessments helps Ivy League coaches to whittle down the prospect pool, and although NCAA restrictions limit the contact between student-athletes and coaches, there is increased communication as the deadline for official visits approaches.

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Entering his fourth season at the helm of the Yale football program, head coach Tony Reno has his eyes set on the long-term future. This is the second of a multi-part series about four high school juniors — prospective members of the class of 2020 — who are considering Yale.

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Yale sets sights on Crimson, Ivy tourney

BY NICOLE WELLS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As the Yale women’s lacrosse team enters its last game of the season, Harvard is the last team standing between the Bulldogs and a possible spot in the 2015 Ivy League Tournament.

W. LACROSSE Yale (7–7, 2–4 Ivy) and Harvard (7–7, 3–3 Ivy) enter the regular season’s final weekend with Harvard in the fourth and final playoff spot and the Elis one

game back. Princeton, Penn and Cornell already have guaranteed spots in the tournament by virtue of finishing in the top three Ivy League spots. A Yale win over the Crimson would bring the Bulldogs into a tie for fourth with Harvard and potentially Dartmouth, but by virtue of their head-to-head victories over both squads, Yale would clinch the final tournament berth.

Though the Bulldogs lost to thenNo. 11 Penn last Saturday in a 13–7 game, players hope to focus on the posSEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 12

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In his 16th season with the Bulldogs, head coach James Jones won the inaugural Ivy League Coach of the Year award.

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER

than just one or two members of the 2019 recruiting class.

After a historic run, the Yale men’s basketball team has been tasked with attempting to replace a special senior class. Though 47.5 percent of the team’s scoring and 48 percent of the team’s rebounding is set to graduate in a few short weeks, the responsibility to fill that void will fall on more

MEN’S BASKETBALL Instead, five new recruits and one walk-on will be joined by the return of forwards Sem Kroon ’19 and Brandon Sherrod ’16. In total, eight players who did not record a minute of on-court action a year ago will battle

for playing time as the Bulldogs set out to defend their Ivy League championship.

“We obviously lose a lot — [point guard] Javier Duren ’15 was the unnamed captain of our offense and [forward] Matt Townsend ’15 was the unnamed captain of our defense,” head coach James Jones said. “But [all SEE MEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 12

STAT OF THE DAY 8.21

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The Crimson have score 151 goals this season compared to Yale’s 120.

THE GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE OF THE WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM. Through 14 games played, the Elis have allowed just 115 goals — the second lowest total in the Ivy League. Yale trails only to Penn.