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GOING GREEN(ER)

Judge denies subpoena of Lishan Wang, accused of murder.

PLANNING FOR NEW SUSTAINABILITY PLAN BEGINS.

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Investigations into crash begin

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know the drill by now: YDN Open House, tonight from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., 202 York St.

Loud noises. The Whale will be packed to the rafters on Friday night — tickets to the men’s ice hockey game against Harvard sold out yesterday. With so much on the line between the Elis and the Cantabs, the home-ice advantage is sure to make an impact. Let’s get a little bit rowdy, Yale.

Elicker did it best. Justin

Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 popped back into the spotlight yesterday in a New Haven Independent profile that recapped the Dec. 11 birth of his first child, Molly. That day, Elicker’s wife Natalie went into full labor before the couple could make it to a hospital, prompting Justin Elicker into action: Following instructions from 911 dispatch supervisor Nikki Britton over the phone, the former mayoral candidate delivered Molly himself.

G for “Guy in Mean Girls.”

Today at 7 p.m., the South Asian Society is hosting Rajiv Surendra — whose role as “Kevin G” in the film “Mean Girls” garnered him a cult following — in a talk at Sudler Hall. With nearly 800 RSVPs gunning for a spot in the 200-seat facility, you should probably get there early.

Who you gonna call? Bad boys

beware: A new Connecticut Public Corruption Task Force was formed yesterday at the Department of Justice offices on Church Street. And when the word “Corrupticut” was used to describe the Nutmeg State at the presser, you know they’ll have their hands full.

Looped back in. After winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress last year, Lupita Nyong’o DRA ’12 will once again walk the red carpet to present an award at this year’s show, which will take place on Feb. 22.

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Withdrawal’s unexpected burden: money In the spring of 2014, after withdrawing from Yale the previous fall, Stewart McDonald ’15 enrolled at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

He began taking classes in his hometown because he was required by Yale’s regulations to complete two term courses. McDonald said that while help from family members made the financial cost of a semester at a private university more manageable, the amount he spent for SMU classes was more than he has ever spent at Yale over the course of his four years here.

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train struck the car Tuesday evening.

“At the moment, there are more questions than answers, and there is a need for answers right away,” Blumenthal said on the call.

Blumenthal said that, in previous Metro-North crashes, the government did not respond quickly enough to properly investigate the incidents.

This time, however, he said there will be an immediate preliminary assess-

The expenses of being a full-time Yale student are well known, ranging from tuition to textbooks to meal plans. But for some students who withdraw from the University, a less expected, heavier financial burden awaits.

As part of a wider campus discussion surrounding Yale’s policies on withdrawal and readmission, many students have criticized University regulations that they say complicate the process of temporarily leaving school for medical reasons. Conversations often center on the technicalities and stigmas associated with the withdrawal process itself.

However, some students who have experienced the withdrawal process firsthand also

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with an Elm City twist.

Captured in a picture posted to Twitter by NHV.org, a stray glove sat on the sidewalk outside Cedarhurst Cafe on Crown Street. “Hoping this post helps reunite it with its other half,” the tweet read. If we hit a slow news day, we’d probably wander the streets of New Haven looking for something to do, too.

Men’s basketball to take on Duke, USC and SMU in 2015–16 season.

BY RACHEL SIEGEL AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS

Who let the ’dogs out? But first, the boys in blue got some time off the Ingalls ice with a visit to an outdoor rink in Connecticut, playing hockey the way it was meant to be played: in the elements.

Kinda-rella. It was Cinderella

FACE-OFF

State officials have already begun calling for an investigation into the Metro-North crash that killed six on Tuesday.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTERS One day after a Metro-North train slammed into an SUV in Valhalla, N.Y., killing six and injuring 15, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and two separate federal agencies have launched investigations.

The incident has once again thrust into the spotlight Metro-North’s safety record, which has featured five

accidents — including a derailment in the Bronx in Dec. 2013 that killed four and injured 61 — in the last two years. The MTA, the Federal Railroad Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have all launched separate investigations.

In a Wednesday afternoon press conference call, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal ’73 and New York Sen. Chuck Schumer vowed to push for answers to what transpired in the moments before and after the

Ground already broken, Simons calls “groundbreaking” delayed treatment unfair

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Shovels may already be in the dirt, but the ceremonial groundbreaking on Yale’s two new residential colleges has been pushed back by months.

Administrators have maintained for over a year that the formal groundbreaking on the project would occur in February 2015 — even though construction work on the two new residential colleges had been in progress since mid-fall. But with February now well underway, the University has quietly changed the date of the ceremony to April.

University President Peter Salovey dismissed suggestions that the decision to move the groundbreaking ceremony to April was connected to the announcement of the colleges’ names.

“The Corporation has not made decisions yet,” he said. “I actually think it’s unlikely they’ll have [the naming] done [by April].”

Though the ultimate decision of naming the colleges is up to the president and Yale Corporation, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said he was “hopeful” that the names would be unveiled at the ceremony.

Still, Salovey cited convenience and weather for the delay, saying that the University decided to move the date because the risk from “standing outside on a construction site on a freezing cold day was

too high in February.”

Despite these outlined justifications, administrators and workers interviewed gave different assessments on the reasons for the delay of the ceremony, and its bearing on the actual construction timeline.

Ellen Lewis, the senior director for marketing and communications at the Office of Development, offered additional explanations related to weather concerns.

She said April was chosen since it would be more favorable for those who need to travel to attend the event.

She denied that the University had previously finalized a date for February.

However, in a campus-wide email sent in October 2013, Provost Benjamin Polak outlined the schedule for the construction project: “to break ground on the new colleges in February 2015” with the goal of completing them in August 2017.

Polak reaffirmed this timeline in November 2014 when asked whether the heavy machinery — first seen on site at the time — meant the actual groundbreaking had occurred months ahead of schedule.

“We have been working on the site for several years now, and there is a great deal of work to do to continue the site preparation before the formal groundbreaking scheduled for February,” Polak wrote in an email in November.

But when asked last week whether the SEE GROUNDBREAKING PAGE 4

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTERS To hear Michael Simons MED ’84 tell it, the sexual misconduct case against him — which ended in Simons’s removal from his posts as chief of cardiology at the Yale School of Medicine and director of the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center (YCVRC) — exhibited a “lynch mob mentality.” But numerous faculty and administrators interviewed disagreed with Simons’s characterization.

“PROFOUNDLY UNFAIR”?

“The faculty felt Simons’ original penalty was not adequate,” said professor of immunobiology at the School of Medicine and chair of the Women’s Faculty Forum Paula Kavathas, referring to Provost Benjamin Polak’s decision to turn a permanent removal from the helm of the cardiology department, recommended by the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct, into an 18-month suspension. “There was no lynching involved.”

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Michael Simons has criticized the handling of his sexual misconduct case.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1987 The Joint Council of Social Chairpersons announces plans to bring students to Honolulu for a football game between Yale and the University of Hawaii and a series of “Yale in Hawaii” parties.

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Harp credits community policing for drop in homicides

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER When New Haven rang in the new year, the city’s last homicide — the shooting of Darryl McNair, 58, which came on the heels of three other homicides in August — was more than four months in the past.

“Our entire community ral-

lied this year, in what I call peaceful retaliation against urban violence, and the results are undeniably positive,” Mayor Toni Harp said in her state of the city address Tuesday evening.

But on Jan. 23, 56-yearold Winnie Evans was killed in what investigators say was a fire intentional set in his apartment building.

Still, 2014 was an exceptional year in terms of crime in the Elm City. Homicides fell 40 percent from 2013 — from 20 to 12 — and non-fatal shootings fell by 9.1 percent. Overall, the crime rate dropped by 14.5 percent.

In her address Tuesday evening, Harp attributed the reduced crime to collaboration between different city depart-

ments, notably the New Haven Police Department and the Fire Department.

Harp singled out the Board of Alders in her address for helping provide funding and services that committed resources for 100 new sworn police personnel. Spokeperson for City Hall Laurence Grotheer added that NHPD Chief Dean Esser-

man, who reintroduced community policing to the Elm City, helped to combat a growing distrust between police and their communities. Esserman, who was selected last month to serve on a national advisory board, mandated that each NHPD officer engages in a “walking beat.”

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Make tap 'opt in'

Embracing smart partisanship A

merica hates Congress. A 2013 poll by Public Policy Polling revealed that Congress is less popular than cockroaches, used car salesmen, root canals, colonoscopies and worst of all, Nickelback. It’s easy to see why. The 113th Congress was one of the least productive on record. Every week, yet another story about Congressional ineptitude seems to pop up like clockwork.

It’s become a political cliché to hear calls for bipartisanship or compromise — after all, there are two sides to every story, right?

This view of politics is as myopic as it is naïve. We shouldn’t always respect every viewpoint. Sometimes, there is a right answer: Some opinions are just stupid, and compromise can often be more dangerous than doing nothing at all.

If I were to walk up to you and suggest that murder is permissible, you’d consider me insane; if I were to say that the elderly should be denied medical care because they’re going to die anyway, I’d certainly lose friends. These ideas are patently absurd.

However, the idea that our children shouldn’t be vaccinated is considered perfectly reasonable by a chunk of the population despite a clear consensus to the contrary in the scientific community. It’s considered rational not to believe in climate change even when more than 90 percent of climate researchers tell us otherwise.

We entertain such ludicrous notions because of an allegiance to seeing both sides of these “debates,” even when there aren’t two sides to be found.

Sure, a tiny, tiny, tiny number of researchers disagree, but to call these “debates” is like calling stepping on a single ant the extermination of a species.

Many believe that it is our right to hold these beliefs — a right so fundamental that we’ve fought to the death to protect it. I don’t disagree. But that doesn’t mean we should respect such beliefs. We certainly shouldn’t enact laws that recognize them — yet 20 states allow parents to opt out of vaccinations for their children due to “conflicting philosophies.” When an issue has been clearly and definitively decided by science, “debating” about it is a waste of time.

But what of partisanship in general? Surely not every issue is quite so cut and dry. Shouldn’t we strive for compromise in Congress when the answer isn’t clear?

Remember that there’s a difference between considering other viewpoints and compromising. The former is an intellectual exercise; the latter is capitulation — surrender for the sake of passing some form of a bill rather than nothing.

I challenge the notion that compromise is even desirable.

The biggest sign that we

SHREYAS TIRUMALA Rhyme and Reason

need more compromise, people suggest, is that we’re not passing enough bills.

But should we really be eva l u a t i n g our politicians based on the quantity, rather than quality, of laws

passed?

Congress is, by design, a place where little changes at any given time. When we do pass laws — when we finally get one of the rare opportunities to change America — why pass half-baked solutions? When the answer to a problem is unclear, we should be implementing our best ideas as policy. Compromise makes us non-committal — dipping our toes in the water without actually trying any one method. There’s no need to slow down what is already a sluggish process.

Besides, a party in power has a mandate to push the country in a certain direction. Indeed, said party shouldn’t be compromising at all unless doing so is absolutely necessary to pass a plan — and even then, it ought to be a difficult decision. There’s a certain finality to passing a bill — especially a hotly contested one. Americans don’t like to revisit issues that we think we’ve dealt with already; there’s a real chance that passing a major immigration bill with no teeth, for example, means the end of immigration discussions for years. If we’re going to try out a plan, we may as well do so properly.

Moreover, partisan politics provides a certain accountability to Washington: It’s harder for Republicans to blame the Democrats for a failed policy when the Dems didn’t help write any of it (and vice versa).

This empowers voters. If we don’t like what the current majority is doing, then we know exactly what we can expect from the other side. Elect a Democrat and expect more spending on social welfare programs; elect a Republican and expect the size of government to shrink. And with elections every two years, as many have pointed out, we have a chance to “throw the rascals out” pretty darn often.

We’ve been giving politicians an out — promising them forgiveness so long as they pass something regardless of its quality. If we want to improve this country, we’ll need to embrace partisanship, at least when there are actually two sides to an issue.

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’m a senior. I’m not in a secret society. Given this, I can’t speak first-hand to the society experience. But I can speak to what it’s like to experience the tap process because I — like every other member of my class — did not have a choice in participating.

I’ve heard some well-reasoned defenses of secret societies (always from those who have benefited from them, never from those left out), but I’ve never heard anyone defend the tap process. Society tap may be fun for some people, but, if not outright mean, it is certainly not kind.

I decided before the tap process began last spring that I would not join a secret society on principle. I wrote an op-ed for this newspaper (“To be tapped, or not to be tapped,” Mar. 25, 2014) that I hope you’ll read about why I made that decision. Nevertheless, I still found the tap process to be painful, as did many of my friends.

Even though I did not want to join a secret society, I wanted to be wanted. I think this is a natural and universal human feeling. I wish I could tell you honestly that I was too consumed with bigger and bolder things to think twice last spring about societies and that I couldn’t care less if my peers wanted me in their groups enough to trudge

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t h r o u g h the snow to slip a waxsealed envelope under my door. But I did care.

Even though I intended to VIVECA turn any tap MORRIS offers down, I still wanted to Animal be considered “worth getSpirits ting to know” enough to be selected by my peers in the first place.

I wanted nothing to do with them — and yet, secret societies held power over me!

I’m not alone in feeling this way. It goes without saying that secret societies hold a lot of power over juniors each spring.

This power derives largely from the fact that all juniors are, in theory, eligible for consideration by societies.

Effectively, all juniors are automatically entered into a selection process that some, who do not want to be evaluated for membership by or participate in societies — like me last year — would rather not be part of at all.

Therefore, I think eligibility in the society selection process should be voluntary, rather than involuntary as it is today.

Certainly this would help many juniors have happier spring semesters. The change would be simple for societies to implement.

Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Wolf’s Head, Book and Snake, Manuscript, other tombsmen and tombswomen — it would be so, so easy for you to make this important change to the tap process. Here’s one quick way to do it: First, announce publicly that you will only consider juniors who choose to put their names up for consideration. You can do this by emailing the junior class or by taking out an ad in the Yale Daily News, as societies do every spring to announce the date of tap night. Second, email a Google form to the junior class. Juniors who want to be considered for secret societies can use the form to “opt-in” to the selection process by a set date. Juniors who choose not to “opt in” will not be considered. After the deadline, share the list of interested juniors with all of the societies that have committed to this kinder tap process. Then only interview and tap people who are on the list.

This small change to societies’ tap process would eliminate a lot of the pain caused by the current system, while maintaining all the supposed benefits.

To go one step further, if societies are truly about making

new friends with students from diverse backgrounds, just randomly divide the list of interested juniors. This would also ensure that everyone who wants to be in a society could be in one.

Being in a senior society is optional. Being part of the junior year tap year process should be optional too.

So I call upon the members of the class of 2015 in secret societies — who surely remember the anxiety that the tap process may have caused them or their friends — to pledge to one another this spring to implement this change.

Come March, the class of 2015 will wield the power of selecting society members from the class of 2016. With power comes responsibility. As Abraham Lincoln said, “If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” The secret society members of the class of 2015 should not waste the power they have been granted. They should use it for good to make the system better for everyone.

Seniors in societies: When you come together tonight for your weekly Thursday meeting, be it in a tomb or in a bar or in a common room, I hope you’ll bring this idea up and take action. Consider it a charge.

VIVECA MORRIS is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at viveca.morris@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST RICH LIZARDO

SHREYAS TIRUMALA is a freshman in Trumbull College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at shreyas.tirumala@yale.edu .

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All black lives matter

ince last December, race has dominated political discourse on campus and across the country. Almost two months after the troubling grand jury decisions surrounding Eric Garner in Staten Island and Michael Brown in Ferguson, our community continues to debate racial discrimination and the excessive use of police force.

This is especially the case after the recent controversy in which a YPD officer pulling his gun on a black Yale student.

In the immediate aftermath of events in Ferguson, members of Yale’s Black Men’s Union took dignified photos of themselves holding up whiteboards that read, “To My Unborn Son,” followed by personalized messages.

One wrote, “Be proud of who you are, respect yourself and others, and strive to be the change you want to see in the world.”

Another: “We will fight to create a system where you can shine as bright as you truly are.” Another: “Your worth runs deeper than your skin.” And another stated simply: “I love you.”

Of course, a driving purpose of this photo campaign was to promote solidarity within the black community, and it was moving that several news outlets featured it on their websites.

Yet when I first saw the phrase

“To My Unborn Son,” I could not help but immediately think of one extreme racial disparity that has garnered far less attention of late: abortion.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest numbers, white women had the lowest abortion rate and ratio: 8 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years, and 132 abortions per 1,000 live births. Black women, on the other hand, had the highest abortion rate, 29.7, and ratio of 459 abortions per 1,000 live births. In other words, black women are almost four times more likely to get abortions than are white women. And blacks, who make up just 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, account for 36.2 percent of all abortions.

In New York City alone, where more abortions occur than anywhere else in the country, the numbers are even more shocking. According to its Department of Health, in 2012, more black women had abortions (31,328) than had babies (24,758): That’s a ratio of 1,260 abortions for every 1,000 live births. Meanwhile the city’s ratio for white women: 248 per 1,000 live births.

One’s first instinct might be to think that these numbers are a result, first and fore-

most, of differences in socioeconomic circumstances. But according to a 2011 study by the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute, even when controlling for income, “African American women had the highest abortion rates, followed by Hispanic women and then white women.”

The numbers, which span eight years, suggest a sustained disparity. Their study shows that the abortion rate for wealthy white women was 6.3 per 1,000 women, while it was 20.1 for wealthy black women. And for women below the poverty line, those numbers were 33.7 and 72.7, respectively.

Whether pro-life or prochoice, all of us should be deeply disturbed by these numbers.

Even the most ardent choice activist ought to be concerned about such racial disparities.

Even if one doesn’t believe the fetus has personhood, simply the fact that black women have far more abortions — irrespective of income — should startle.

So why is there such astounding silence on this issue?

I wish I knew. But to be fair, there have been conservatives who have raised this issue in previous years. Some on the left have argued in response that the numbers reflect unintended pregnancies and there-

fore a lack of access to contraception and sex education. This argument seems quite plausible, and perhaps it’s indeed correct, but it’s complicated by the fact that, again, the disparities persist even when controlling for income. So a more thorough explanation is necessary. Nevertheless, the point is that all of us across the political spectrum ought to be more aware of these facts; we ought to be talking about them, debating them, trying to discern their underlying causes and seeking out solutions.

Two weeks ago, at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., several pro-life activists held up signs that read, “Black Lives Matter Even in the Womb.” The only thing missing was to affirm that the lives of their mothers matter too. As we enter Black History Month, and as we continue discussing issues of race, let’s not forget that all black lives matter: of course, the black men who are unjustly criminalized, but also the black women who are disproportionately affected by abortion and the black babies who never get a chance in life.

RICH LIZARDO is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at richard.lizardo@yale.edu .

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“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” ISAAC NEWTON ENGLISH PHYSICIST

CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4

A previous version of the article “Malloy unveils statewide criminal justice reform” incorrectly referred to the Institution for Social and Policy Studies as the Institution for Social and Political Sciences.

A previous version of the article “Legislators push affirmative consent policy” incorrectly identified State Sen. Mae Flexer and Rep. Gregory Haddad as Republicans. They are, in fact, Democrats.

Judge grants Yale’s motion in murder case

Russian ambassador talks Ukraine, Sochi

BY SAMANTHA GARDNER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER “The worse relations are, the more I get invited to speak,” Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak told a packed room of nearly 100 people in Horchow Hall Wednesday afternoon.

Students, fellows and other members of the Yale community gathered for a conversation with Kislyak to discuss the relationship between the United States and Russia. The discussion marked the inaugural event of the Russian Studies Program’s “Contemporary Thinkers: Focus Russia” series, which will include films and speakers before concluding with a conference in April.

While Kislyak praised the benefits of a diplomatic partnership between the United States and Russia, he also articulated factors that have put stress on the relationship, mentioning recent disagreements over Ukraine, Edward Snowden and the Sochi Olympics.

“Challenges of the United

States and Russia are very similar,” he said. “We all need to work on them together to get them solved.”

When the two nations work together, Kislyak said, both agendas are advanced.

Together, they have been productive on issues of international terrorism, international crime, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and space programs, he said. Kislyak highlighted the collaboration to remove Syria’s chemical weapons as an example of what can be done when the countries work together.

Specifically, Kislyak claimed that events in Ukraine “brought all the difficulties that [the United States and Russia] had to maximum temperature.”

According to Kislyak, the crisis began when “an armed anti-constitutional force overthrew [the] legitimately elected government” of Viktor Yanukovych. The U.S., he said, chose to support this “unconstitutional overthrow.”

He said the new government

of Petro Poroshenko restricts people who think, speak, believe and live as Russians do and tried to prevent Crimeans from exercising their right to self-determination. In this conflict, Russia has consistently encouraged Kiev to “stop shelling its own people” and negotiate, but the Ukrainian government refused, Kislyak said.

Speaking to other disagreements between the two nations, Kislyak said the Russian government did nothing illegal in providing asylum to Snowden.

Snowden did not break any Russian laws, and the U.S. does not have an extradition agreement with Russia, Kislyak explained.

Kislyak also said that on the eve of Russia’s first Winter Olympics, international pressure about Russia’s laws on “non-traditional relations between genders spoiled … the atmosphere.”

“We are a conservative country,” Kislyak said. “We do not try to impose our views on others, and do not want to see the

views of others imposed on us.”

Students interviewed after the discussion said they appreciated hearing the Kremlin’s perspective.

Julia Sinitsky GRD ’16 said Kislyak’s views were consistent with the general policy line that Russia has been standing by for the past few years.

Alexander Dubovoy ’16 said it was interesting that Kislyak traced the change in AmericanRussian relations to the time of the Sochi Olympics. Dubovoy also commented on Kislyak’s reference to Russia’s laws regarding homosexuality.

“His veiled reference to gay rights is an interesting way of phrasing things … he downplayed the issue and portrayed it as a tool in ongoing relations between two countries,” Dubovoy said.

Kislyak has served as Russia’s ambassador to the United States since 2008.

Contact SAMANTHA GARDNER at samantha.gardner@yale.edu .

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Lishan Wang is on trial for the murder of Yale-New Haven Hospital postgraduate fellow Vajinder Toor.

BY SARA SEYMOUR STAFF REPORTER During a pre-trial hearing yesterday, a New Haven Superior Court judge granted Yale’s motion to quash a subpoena submitted by the man accused of murdering a Yale-New Haven Hospital postgraduate fellow in 2010.

Lishan Wang, the defendant in the case of Vajinder Toor’s murder, sought to compel Yale to release the “personnel, disciplinary and human resources records,” of the deceased last December. After Wang submitted the subpoena, Yale motioned in early January to quash Wang’s motion. Although Wang, who is representing himself, submitted a memorandum in further support of his subpoena, Judge Thomas O’Keefe Jr. ruled that Wang had not provided sufficient evidence to compel Yale to release those files.

“I read your submission Mr. Wang, and there’s nothing in your submission that convinced me that there is anything relevant in the files of Dr. Toor,” O’Keefe said during yesterday’s pre-trial hearing.

Though O’Keefe granted Yale’s motion to quash the subpoena, he did tell Wang that if it becomes more clearly relevant later on in the trial, he may resubmit the motion.

In 2010, Wang was arrested for the murder of Toor, who was a postgraduate fellow at YaleNew Haven. Wang allegedly shot and killed Toor, and shot his pregnant wife at the couple’s home in Branford, Connecticut.

Wang has been accused of murder, attempted murder and several weapons charges. Both Toor and Wang had worked at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center between 2006 and 2008 as medical residents. Wang was terminated from his post at KJMC in 2008, and has a pending civil case of wrongful termination.

In his memorandum of support of the subpoena, Wang alleged that Toor had discriminated against him while they worked together, and that Wang had been mislabeled by Toor and his colleagues as “‘violent,’ ‘mentally unstable’ and ‘with memory loss.’” Wang’s hope in obtaining the personnel documents from the University, according to the memorandum, was to expose “Toor’s character, behavior pattern, habit, bias, prejudice, trait, credibility, truthfulness.”

Early on in the hearing,

O’Keefe asked Wang whether or not he had chosen to pursue a psychiatric defense. Because Wang said that he had not yet been able to speak to an expert, O’Keefe gave him an extension on the decision until the end of the month. Wang has also had difficulty finding an investigator to gather and analyze criminal evidence for his case, and so the judge said he would bring Wang back to the courthouse in two weeks to address this issue.

The judge decided that because Wang has neither settled this issue of submitting a psychiatric defense nor managed to find an investigator for his case, several motions — including being allowed to have more boxes in his prison cell — could not be addressed yesterday.

Wang has filed over 200 motions since the case opened.

Supervisor of the public defender’s office for the Judicial District of New Haven Thomas Ullman has submitted a motion to revoke Wang’s right to represent himself. The judge ruled that arguments for replacing Wang as his own counsel will be on Feb. 24. Because the last time Wang was tested for competency to stand trial was in September 2010, O’Keefe ordered an additional competency exam to be ready by Feb. 24.

Ullman asked that the competency exam encompass the ability to represent himself in court, but O’Keefe denied that motion.

O’Keefe stressed that context was central to his ability to make decisions about motions.

“I have to monitor your competence to stand trial every day.

I need some updated information,” said O’Keefe.

Several times during the hearing, O’Keefe pointed out that some of the difficulties the defendant faces — such as effectively navigating legal procedures — are inherent to selfrepresentation. In an interview with the News, Wang’s standby counsel and public defender, Jeffrey LaPierre, said Wang has chosen to exercise his pro se right because he believes that only he has his best interests in mind.

In 1975 the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Faretta v. California that criminal defendants have the right to represent themselves in criminal cases, but this constitutional right is not absolute.

Contact SARA SEYMOUR at sara.seymour@yale.edu .

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Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak spoke on Wednesday as part of the Russian Studies Program’s “Contemporary Thinkers: Focus Russia” series.

At CEID, design courses proliferate

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER When the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design opened in fall 2012, only one course was held in the building.

This semester, over 100 students are enrolled in the six courses offered at the CEID, up from only 14 students in 2012.

Many of the courses are interdisciplinary and draw students from across campus, particularly those in music, art and engineering.

Professors teaching the new CEID courses noted a large increase in interest over the past few semesters, so much so that some of the courses are consistently oversubscribed.

Director of the CEID and Deputy Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Vincent Wilczynski said in an email that the increase in enrollment and courses reflects students’ growing interest in design and creative work.

“This interest is part of Yale’s DNA that strives for not just the desire to learn, but also demands a desire to create that which did not exist before,” Wilczynski said. “The growth in new classes combined with the existing design-oriented classes reflects in part a national trend where students apply knowledge to solving problems, not just on paper, but in the physical world.”

In “Musical Acoustics and Instrument

Design” (ENAS 344/MUSI 371), co-taught by music lecturer Konrad Kaczmarek, the students’ first lab involved building a xylophone by cutting bars of wood and measuring their density in order to get the proper tune. Last fall was Kaczmarek’s first teaching a class that combines traditional learning with hands-on activities. He said he thinks the class’s structure provides an “invaluable lesson” for students about patience.

“I messed up in this class more than I have in any other class I have taken,” said Jordan Plotner ’17, who took Kaczmarek’s class.

“When I messed up drilling or soldering, there was no one there to say ‘that’s wrong’ and deduct a point, but instead, I had to fix it in order to fully bring my idea to life. I was invested in this class as a creator more so than a student.”

The course could not have existed anywhere but the CEID, explained Lawrence Wilen, senior research scientist of mechanical engineering and materials science, who co-taught the class. Nowhere else on campus are all those resources offered, he said.

According to Paul Anastas, director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the CEID “revolutionized” his course, “Green Engineering and Sustainable Design” (ENVE 360). Before the class moved into the CEID, the students did not

have the chance to build a prototype. Now, the class can put into practice and bring to life the theoretical concepts they talk about, Anastas said.

Other classes struggled to access adequate resources. Before Global Affairs lecturer Bo Hopkins was able to move his class, “Appropriate Technology in the Developing World” (MENG 491), into the CEID, students worked in a small shared basement lab space where they found themselves scrambling for tools.

Now, he said, the class could not do without the CEID. Last spring in Hopkins’ class, a team of four students from different disciplines came together to design Khushi Baby, a special bracelet with a communication chip that contains a child’s entire vaccination record.

Khushi Baby competed against 21 other teams in InnovateHealth Yale’s inaugural competition and won the event’s $25,000 Thorne Prize. This month, the device begins its trial program.

This year, Hopkins’ class will use the CEID to design technology that solves problems related to the 2014 Ebola epidemic, he added.

The CEID opened to all students in August 2012 and held its dedication ceremony on Valentine’s Day 2013.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.” NOAM CHOMSKY LINGUIST, PHILOSOPHER, ACTIVIST

At Yale, withdrawal comes with more than one cost WITHDRAWAL FROM PAGE 1 voiced concerns about what happens after the decision to take time off and the financial costs associated with trying to return.

According to the withdrawal and readmission policies outlined in Yale’s Undergraduate Regulations, students who withdraw after the 10th day of a term can receive only a partial rebate on their tuition, room and board for that semester — 50 percent for those who withdraw in the first quarter and 25 percent for those who withdraw in the second quarter. Students who withdraw after midterm are not entitled to any reimbursement of tuition.

Students who later wish to be readmitted to Yale College must meet certain requirements before they are eligible to apply. Any withdrawn student not in good academic standing — which includes any student who left while the semester was in progress, even for medical reasons — is required to complete two term courses, either through Yale Summer Session or at another college or university, to prove that he or she has been “constructively occupied” and is ready to return to Yale.

Applicants for readmission must also complete several in-person interviews with the members of the Committee on Readmission — interviews which, according to the Undergraduate Regulations, are usually conducted “just prior to the beginning of the term to which the student is seeking readmission.”

After readmission, students who will be able to complete their graduation requirements in eight terms will regain their financial aid eligibility. However, during the first term back, the student will receive less gift assistance than usual.

Students who apply for a ninth term are normally not eli-

gible for additional financial aid.

Some students interviewed pointed to these regulations as a source of significant financial burden, while others emphasized Yale’s generosity and flexibility in the readmissions process. But all students revealed a process that is inconsistent, confusing and lacking in communication from the University.

“CONSTRUCTIVE” CRITICISM

When McDonald withdrew from Yale in the fall of 2013, he said, it was never clear to him what remaining “constructively occupied” meant. McDonald said administrators provided confusing and incomplete answers that made it difficult to know what kind of work or study program would satisfy the requirements, especially since he was barred from applying to many Yale programs due to his status as a non-Yale student.

In addition to the two courses at SMU, McDonald said, he was unsure whether he also needed to find an internship or additional work to fully satisfy the readmission requirements. The uncertainty about his readmission not only caused added stress but also increased the financial burden of his education.

“The lack of clear requirements is what makes you spend all this money because you never know if you’re fulfilling the requirements [the University] is setting,” McDonald said. “It’s the cost of things you have to pay for before you know if you’re readmitted, and the cost of being constructively occupied despite not having the resources of [a Yale student] to be constructively occupied.”

Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi said that when students withdraw and take courses at another institution, they should apply for financial aid through that institution.

But Alexa Little ’16, who was

readmitted this past fall, said that when she took two courses at the University of Pittsburgh, she was unable to obtain financial aid from that school because she was not a fully enrolled student. Little finds it unlikely that any institution that withdrawn students choose to attend would provide financial aid to them, she said.

“I called both Yale’s financial aid office and the University of Pittsburgh’s financial aid office, and both said that it would be the other one who would pay for [my classes],” she said.

Ultimately, Little said, her parents paid for the classes out of pocket, and she eventually paid them back.

The summer before he was readmitted, McDonald returned to New Haven to take summer classes at Yale and received partial financial aid. The summer classes and accompanying financial aid at Yale are available to any student at any university. McDonald said he was lucky because being in New Haven that summer also meant that, unlike other withdrawn students he knew, he would not have to fly back and forth to attend the meetings and interviews that were part of the readmission process.

When it came time for McDonald to make a down payment for his off-campus apartment, he still had not received confirmation of his readmission for the fall 2014 semester.

That notification did not officially come until Aug. 13, just two weeks before the start of the term. While this timeline is consistent with the University’s stated readmission policy, McDonald said it forced him to commit to an apartment lease he was not sure he would need.

Little echoed McDonald’s concerns about the late notice of readmission. Her readmission interviews were conducted, as stated in University policy, near

the end of the summer, and she also did not receive notice that she had been accepted for the fall term until Aug. 13. Her parents had to take time off work and rearrange their schedules in order to drive her back to campus, Little said.

Mark Kantrowitz — an expert on student financial aid, scholarships and student loans — said other obstacles in returning to school, like relearning study habits, are more difficult when financial burdens are added to the mix. Kantrowitz said issues regarding the cost of readmission are not unique to Yale, and that financial commitments like paying for housing can be “frightening before you know whether you’re actually going to be able to return.”

Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs for Yale College and chair of the Readmissions Committee Pamela George did not respond to specific questions about students’ complaints regarding the cost of withdrawal and readmission. However, she said the Readmissions Committee takes students’ finances into account.

“Whenever a student has presented a financial hardship, the committee has done all we can to accommodate the student, and in some cases we have waived or lessened financial requirements,” George wrote in an email to the News.

HIT AND MISS

Ian Akers ’14, who withdrew from Yale College twice — once in 2010 and once in 2012 — was one of the students for whom the requirements were lessened.

While Little said she was explicitly told she had to take the required two courses at an accredited four-year institution, not at a community college or online, Akers said he told his residential college dean that he could only afford to do so at a community college and was subsequently allowed to do so.

Yale’s withdrawal policies state that courses taken to fulfill readmission requirements should be cleared in advance with George or the applicant’s residential college dean.

Little said she is not surprised to hear of such wide variation across application of the policies. While Akers was permitted to take classes at a community college, Little claimed her residential college’s dean denied her the same permission.

Akers added that while Yale’s policies guarantee each student only eight semesters of financial aid, the University offered him two additional semesters of full financial aid to complete his education.

“When I [first] came [to Yale], they agreed to give me eight semesters,” Akers said. “They gave me 10. That’s another $50,000.”

While the Undergraduate Regulations state that readmitted students applying for financial aid will receive “less gift assistance than usual” in their first term back, Akers said that, to his knowledge, he received the same amount of aid as before.

He acknowledged that there were certain financial complications that came with withdrawal — for example, withdrawn students lose access to Yale Health Insurance, meaning that Akers had to pay for his own insurance. But overall, Akers said, the costs in his particular situation were not overly burdensome and were mitigated by Yale’s generous financial aid.

“I think a lot of people think it’s this really terrible process, and part of it is intimidating and scary, but a lot of it is not necessarily Yale doing anything wrong,” he said. “I certainly didn’t feel like Yale owed me anything.”

One currently withdrawn student, who asked to remain anonymous for privacy reasons, said that while their cost of readmis-

sion was ultimately manageable, it was not clear from the outset that this would be the case.

The student, who is on full financial aid, said they were originally told they could not take the required classes at a community college — a rule that would have rendered their two classes at an outside institution much more expensive than a semester at Yale. Initially, the student said, they thought they might have needed to take an additional semester off in order to support themselves and their younger brother, who will be starting college next year.

But after speaking with George, the student said, they were given permission to take classes at community college.

While this solution is significantly cheaper than taking classes at a four-year university, the expenses still do not seem fully necessary, the student said.

The student will not receive any Yale credit for the courses. They are essentially only to fulfill the “constructively occupied” requirement, the student said.

“They’re joke classes, and they seem a little bit like a waste because they’re not being used for anything,” the student said.

“The classes I ended up settling on are essentially only due to circumstance.”

Rather than simply requiring two course credits, the University should allow for more flexibility in what students choose to undertake, the student said.

George acknowledged that the readmission process is due for re-evaluation.

“As the number of withdrawals have increased over the last few years, I think it wise to reflect and reconsider our policies,” she said. “I look forward to further input and dialogue.”

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.wang@yale.edu .

Corporation is yet to decide on new college names

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Though the ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony for the new residential colleges has been pushed back from February to April, construction has been underway for months.

GROUNDBREAKING FROM PAGE 1 University still planned to move forward with breaking ground this month, Polak said he did not know.

Despite the change in plans, Yale facilities staff have denied that the new groundbreaking ceremony date means construction on the site will be slowed.

Yale Associate Vice President

for Facilities John Bollier said in an email to the News that the construction schedule is independent of when the ceremonial groundbreaking is scheduled.

Still, construction workers interviewed on the Prospect Street site were not as optimistic about the projected timeline.

“The snow kills us … it slows us down,” said one construction worker, who spoke on the

condition of anonymity due to contractual constraints. “We’re probably a bit behind [schedule] because of the weather.”

Representatives of Dimeo Construction Company, the lead contractors on the project, could not be reached for comment.

Others on the site, however, said that work was running smoothly.

One worker, who is employed

by Camputaro & Son Excavating, also anonymous because of contract, said construction is on schedule and there have not been any major problems since she first arrived three months earlier.

She added that though teams have already began the process of digging and building concrete forms for the building foundations, the construction crew

has not been notified about a groundbreaking ceremony.

According to Salovey, the larger purpose of holding the groundbreaking ceremony — even with construction formally beginning months earlier — is to celebrate the major donors who helped make the project a reality.

Jonathan Holloway echoed similar sentiments and said since construction is already

well underway, the University may decide not to call the new ceremony a groundbreaking.

“It’ll be an opportunity to have important stakeholders present before you start seeing the building rise,” Holloway said. “It’s an important symbolic moment.”

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

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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

MARGARET THATCHER FORMER U.K. PRIME MINISTER

City looks to combat youth jobs crisis

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER As the national economy continues to recover from recession, the New Haven Board of Alders’ Youth Committee met last night to discuss potential solutions to combat the city’s youth jobs crisis.

The meeting offered an opportunity for the youth committee, chaired by Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12, to hear testimony from Mary Reynolds, executive director of New Haven Works, a city program dedicated to connecting residents with jobs at local companies and institutions. New Haven Works also collaborates with Yale and other universities to provide internships for disadvantaged residents, many of whom have no college education. The youth jobs crisis in the city and state is particularly acute — at least 60 percent of low-income youth in Connecticut have never held a paying job, said Rachel Heerema, the executive director of the Citywide Youth Coalition.

Reynolds said that, as a result of the post-2008 economic downturn, companies have raised the level of qualifications necessary for jobs, making many young New Haven residents no longer eligible for these positions.

But some, including Ward 14 Alder Santiago Berrios-Bones, believe college degrees can often be meaningless in equipping youth with the tools necessary to succeed in the workplace.

He said the city should focus on providing youth with skill sets, not with degrees.

“After so many years of stud-

ies, I look back and I say that I didn’t need all those credits that they made me take,” Berrios-Bones said. “I just need the credits to do the job … just train the person to do the job. It’s much cheaper, and people don’t get into those huge debts.”

Reynolds, however, said he believes that the critical issue with youth employment in New Haven is actually a dearth of jobs on the market. Hospitality and food service are the two most rapidly growing sectors in New Haven, she said, but they are still hiring few young people. “[The youth] are ready — you just need to hire them,” she said.

“It’s not a skills gap; it’s a lack of opportunity.”

Ward 23 Alder Tyisha Walker said she believes the youth committee could spearhead an uptick in employment.

She specifically said exposing young people to employment opportunities early in life should be a priority for both the committee and New Haven Works, a sentiment that Heerema echoed. Walker added that the organization should begin to work on breaking down the system wherein a bachelors’ degree is a prerequisite for oftentimes menial jobs.

New Haven Works has rapidly expanded since its inception in 2013. The organization has seen large crowds at its orientation sessions on Saturday mornings, which over 2,300 residents have attended so far. Of those attendees, 323 were hired or placed into a job program. The organization currently works largely with people between the ages of 18 and 24, but Heerema suggested that they begin to reach out to

younger high school students.

The organization still has a long way to go, Reynolds said.

Youth unemployment is an enormous and pressing issue, she added, and New Haven Works must start on a small scale.

“We’re not going to solve the whole [problem],” said Reynolds. “But if we could get a hundred into quality paid jobs that lead to an entry level career pathway, then you start to see the collective impact of that.”

New Haven Works already has extensive relations with Yale, Reynolds said. Twentyfour residents held paid internships with Yale through New Haven Works in 2014; this year, she said, the program hopes to place 35.

Walker said changing the perception of New Haven students and residents is an important goal. She added that opening an honest conversation into youth employment and poverty in the city is an accomplishment in itself. Too often, she said, city officials and representatives “talk around what the real problem is.”

The Youth Committee will begin looking into data relating to youth employment in New Haven, Eidelson said, per Reynolds’ suggestion. Reynolds added that the alders can assist in community outreach in preparation for the employment expo that New Haven Works plans on holding in early May. The youth committee will hold its next meeting on March 4.

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

School choice fair clarifies application process

BY VICTORIO CABRERA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For some New Haven Public School students, going to school literally means winning the lottery.

NHPS’s school choice policy means that all New Haven area residents can attend any one of the city’s 58 Public Schools of Choice. It also means that acceptance to many of the district’s schools depends on a lottery. To help parents navigate the process of selecting a school, the New Haven Schools of Choice Magnet Office held their annual Citywide School Choice Fair last night, with booths representing various schools, educational organizations and other community groups.

Students can submit up to four applications per year, so last night’s event, which was held in the gymnasium of the Floyd Little Athletic Center, aimed to help families make a more informed application decision.

Debbie Breland, the student recruitment coordinator and director of the fair, noted that parents are often surprised by the number of schools and services that are available. Fifty schools were represented at the fair, along with several education organizations such as Head Start and the New Haven Adult Education Center.

“A lot of times, [parents say] ‘I didn’t know New Haven offered that,’” Breland said.

By exposing parents to the entirety of NHPS’s school offerings, the fair serves to help simplify their decisionmaking process, Breland said, adding that parents use the fair to decide which schools’ open houses they will attend.

Several parents who attended the fair said that although some booths were crowded, it was easy to have oneon-one conversations with school representatives.

William Marks, a Bethany resident whose son attends a public school in New Haven, praised the convenient access to information that the fair offered.

Natasha Perez, a part-time clerk

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with the Choice and Enrollment Office, said that with other forms of communication, such as phone or email, miscommunication with parents is more common. The personal interactions at the fair mitigate those issues.

Not all parents had such positive experiences at the fair, however. Kenya Torres said she has put her son in the magnet school lottery for three years to no avail, and she came to the fair because she thought she “had to be doing something wrong.” But the fair revealed no more information about the lottery process than what was available online, she said. Though she found the fair’s variety of informational booths to be convenient, Torres said she does not think they offered any information she could not find elsewhere.

A lot of times, [parents are] like, “I didn’t know New Haven offered that.”

DEBBIE BRELAND Coordinator, Student Recruitment In addition to offering information at the booths, the fair served as a place for parents to exchange information.

Sandra Fitzpatrick, a parent of a preschool student, said she ran into several acquaintances at the fair. She said they gave her advice “the people at the booths might not necessarily give you.”

In one corner of the gymnasium was a group of auxiliary education agencies, including Head Start and New Haven Public Schools Bilingual Services. Deborah Lawson, a recruitment coordinator for Head Start and an 11-year veteran of the fair, described the experience as “one-stop shopping.”

The fair, according Breland, is in its 18th year.

Contact VICTORIO CABRERA at victorio.cabrera@yale.edu .

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The youth committee of the Board of Alders met to discuss solutions to combat the city’s youth jobs crisis.

Soda, candy may be taxed

BY APARNA NATHAN AND MALINA SIMARD-HALM STAFF REPORTERS A newly proposed tax could make soda and candy a little less sweet.

Connecticut state Rep. Juan Candelaria, D-New Haven, has proposed a new state tax on sugary soft drinks and candies. The tax aims to curb childhood obesity through a multipronged approach of disincentivizing sugary foods and drinks and using the added tax revenue to support antiobesity programs. Policy experts and researchers interviewed said that the exact effects of the tax are hard to predict — it will be the first such tax in the nation if it passes the legislature — but it is a promising public health measure.

“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that there is a serious problem with the public’s health,” Candelaria said. “This measure can decrease consumption of sweets and health concerns associated with that.”

The proposed tax will levy one cent per ounce of drink or candy. Similar taxes have been proposed by Connecticut legislators in the past, but none has been enacted into law. Last year, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., introduced the SWEET Act to impose a national tax on sugary drinks, while State Sen. Martin Looney, D-New Haven, proposed a similar bill in the Connecticut legislature. Candelaria’s proposal is the first that taxes candy as well.

The proposal states that the revenue generated from the new tax will be used to support childhood obesity prevention programs, fund municipalities and contribute to the Governor’s Scholarship program fund, a college scholarship for low-income students.

According to the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity’s Revenue Calculator for Soft Drink Taxes, which generates predictions based on past data, a “penny per ounce” tax on all sugary drinks, including fruit drinks and sports drinks, would yield an annual revenue of $141 million. An equivalent tax on only soda would yield an annual revenue of $88 mil-

lion.

The goal of this tax is to address the rising trends in cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity, especially among children, Candelaria said.

Candelaria first got the idea for the bill during a discussion about healthcare disparities at the National Council of Hispanic State Legislators. A similar tax was proposed by Mayor Toni Harp to address the high incidence of obesity, said Laurence Grotheer, spokesperson for the mayor’s office.

Based on past research suggesting that prices of food have an impact on what people eat, it is reasonable to conclude that increasing the price of sugary drinks will decrease consumption, said Marlene Schwartz, director of the Rudd Center. Tatiana Andreyeva, director of economic initiatives at the Rudd Center, added that the “penny per ounce” tax will be equivalent to a 25 percent tax, which is a substantial price increase.

But this strategy alone will not lead to a decrease childhood obesity rates, Schwartz said.

Jason Block, professor of population medicine at the Harvard Medical School, noted that studies of similar taxes have shown that they result, on average, in only a 20 to 30-calorie decrease in consumption per person per day. But he added that the effect will be magnified over the entire population, affecting obesity rates.

Economists have also been debating whether penalizing soda purchases is the right way to motivate healthy behaviors, Block said. Incentivizing alternate beverages, such as water, might be a more politically feasible approach, he added.

The tobacco tax, considered by some to be an analog to the soda tax, faced similar backlash in the mid20th century. According to Schwartz, the results of the tobacco tax show that taxes can be used to disincentivize certain products while simultaneously helping the economy.

“The government exercises a role to protect the public health,” Candelaria said. “We regulate seatbelts, vaccinations, alcohol and tobacco taxes — this would be for the same purpose.”

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Candelaria said he is certain that the bill will receive opposition from soda and candy companies. Some of those companies have already begun to oppose it.

Chris Gindlesperger, senior director of public affairs at the American Beverage Association, considers the tax to be a “short-sighted proposal.”

“We can’t tax our way to better health,” Gindlesperger said. “It takes all sectors of society coming together to address the issue in a comprehensive way.”

The American Beverage Association has been opposed to soda taxes, Gindlesperger said, since they arbitrarily discriminate against soft drinks. These beverages, he said, constitute only 4 percent of a person’s daily caloric intake.

He added that soda taxes could have detrimental impacts on the economy, affecting employment and day-to-day business in small convenience stores which carry out a lot of business in soda and candy.

But a study from professor of health policy and administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago Lisa Powell indicates otherwise. She and other researchers simulated the effects on employment of a soda tax, and found that Illinois and California would experience a 0.06 percent and 0.03 percent increase in employment, respectively.

Because there have been no studies of widely implemented soda taxes, it is difficult to predict their exact effects, Andreyeva said. The first soda tax was approved in Berkeley, California in November, so studies are just beginning, she added.

Block predicted a difficult battle for policymakers in enacting the legislation. The bill has been referred to the Committee on Children, and a public hearing will be held some time within the next month, Candelaria said.

Forty-eight percent of Americans drink soda on a daily basis, according to a Gallup poll.

Contact APARNA NATHAN at aparna.nathan@yale.edu and MALINA SIMARD-HALM at malina.simard-halm@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Crash puts spotlight on rail line’s safety METRO-NORTH FROM PAGE 1 ment of the accident conducted by the NTSB — selected because the organization is not subject to pressure from outside parties.

The train and a Jeep Cherokee SUV collided Tuesday around 6:30 p.m. in the Westchester County hamlet. After the train hit the car at roughly 58 miles per hour — within the train’s speed limit, Schumer noted on Wednesday’s call — the train track’s electrified third rail came off the ground and pierced both the car and the train. That, combined with gasoline from the car, was enough to start a deadly fire in the train’s first car.

Robert Sumwalt, a member of the NTSB board, said in a press conference yesterday that the entire interior of the first rail car had burned down.

“It’s too early to point any fingers. We are not casting any blame yet,” Schumer said.

The NTSB will examine the infrastructure of Metro-North trains and tracks, as well as the condition of lighting and signage along the tracks in order to prevent future accidents, he noted.

In Connecticut, State Rep. Tony Guerrera, who is the co-chairman of the legislature’s transportation committee, is already seeking ways to improve Metro-North train safety, according to the Hartford Courant.

The Courant also reported that Guerrera intends to ask MTA President Thomas Prendergast to bring answers to the committee.

Vice chairman of the Connecticut Commuter Rail Council John Hartwell told the News that Metro North’s first priority is to get the line operating again.

“This is the biggest, deadliest accident

from Metro-North,” Hartwell said. “There’s clearly a lot of work to be done.”

Hartwell stressed that Metro-North must focus on boosting commuter confidence, adding that this most recent accident only exacerbates public worry that currently stems from a number of accidents on MetroNorth in the past two years.

[Train crashes] bring a lot of attention … but there’s a large number of casualties going on out there in the streets.

DOUG HAUSLADEN ’04 Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking, New Haven New Haven Director of Transportation, Traffic and Parking Doug Hausladen ’04 said that, although the fatalities were tragic, the public often fails to view accidents, such as the recent Metro-North collision, in perspective. Hausladen specifically noted that more lives were lost that day in accidents on I-94 and I-95.

“These accidents bring a lot of attention because they’re in the media, but there’s a large number of casualties going on out there in the streets,” Hausladen said.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

“The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Faculty, Simons disagree on case SIMONS FROM PAGE 1 Simons was accused of sexual harassment and retaliation in 2013, after School of Medicine researchers Annarita Di Lorenzo and Frank Giordano complained that Simons had made unwanted advances towards Di Lorenzo, and then, in retaliation, prevented Di Lorenzo’s husband Giordano from being promoted.

Simons, who refused an interview with the News because he felt he had already expressed in the Yale Alumni Magazine his perception of his treatment, acknowledged an “error in judgment” in his sexual conduct in an email to the Alumni Magazine. But he said that the details of a New York Times article on the case, which included claims that Simons had removed Giordano’s name from a grant — thus preventing him from receiving credit for the work — were wrong.

In an email to the News, he added that coverage from the New York Times was one-sided, as no one at the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center had been interviewed, and thus their side of the story — in defense of Simons — has been unheard. Members of the YCVRC, including Medical School Cardiology Professor Martin Schwarz and Vice Chairman of Pharmacology William Sessa, declined the News’ requests for comment.

Professor of Cardiology and Cellular and Molecular Physiology Anne Eichmann, who in the past has supported Simons, said she could not comment directly on whether Giordano was rightfully denied promotion. However, she suggested that “looking at [Giordano’s] publication records and grant records is an objective way to assess

promotion.”

Eichmann also stressed that the weakening of Simons’ original punishment needs to be put into context, noting that Simons was brought in to create a basic science program — with which, she added, he has done a great job — and the University wants to protect that program. She added that Simons created a wonderful working environment in the basic science department, that his hiring of women was second to none, with almost equal numbers of men and women faculty in the YCVRC, and that the Times coverage of the case was completely skewed.

“The whole [Times] article was biased in favor of the ‘victim,’” she said.

While Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern refused to comment directly on the case because of confidentiality reasons, he said that the way Simons’ case was dealt with is no different to how anyone else’s case would have been handled.

A DIFFERENT REACTION?

Despite Alpern’s claim, several women faculty interviewed suggested that the end result of the Simons case stood in contrast to a practice of responding to sexual misconduct at the medical school with minimal, or even nonexistent punishment.

In particular, Kavathas cited the 2006 sexual harassment and academic misconduct case involving Pharmacology Chair Joseph Schlessinger and his secretary as evidence of the contrary.

Mary Beth Garceau filed a lawsuit against Yale because her boss, Schlessinger, had been sexually harassing her for three years, but the University

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had refused to step in despite numerous complaints. In Garceau’s sworn statement, she alleged that Schlessinger made comments about her breast size and underwear style, in addition to showing her hardcore pornography at work. Garceau’s case was settled outside of court. Schlessinger remains chair of pharmacology.

Kavathas said that Simons’s removal occurred in a different context than Schlessinger’s case, but that the former marked an improvement in how women’s issues are dealt with at the University.

One faculty member, who chose to remain anonymous to protect their privacy, speculated that the reason different actions were taken in the Simons and Schlessinger cases had more to do with administrators’ priorities.

“I can only speculate that the difference was in the amount of pressure applied from the highest echelons of the Yale administration,” the source said, noting that different administrations were involved in the two cases.

The Times article suggested that, unlike Schlessinger, Simons was originally kept in his leadership position, because of the amount of grant money he brought in. Simons brought nearly $5 million of grant money to the University in the last three fiscal years, and never brought in less than $1.5 million over the past five years.

“As far as we are concerned, this has caused a lot of trouble in our department,” Eichmann said. “I think we should try to put it behind us.”

Simons was removed from his directorships on Nov. 13, 2014.

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The contrast between the 2014 statistics and those of 2011, when Esserman took over as chief, is stark. In 2011, the city saw 34 homicides in what then-Mayor John DeStefano Jr. described in 2012 as “carnage.” The spike in homicides coincided with a 17-year high in the overall crime

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“New Haven has embraced community-based policing, [so] any tension between police and the community is greatly reduced,” Grotheer said.

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to identify youths who may be at risk of entering a life of crime.

However, Roth added that efforts to enhance neighborhood block watches — groups of volunteers who oversee the safety of their neighborhoods — could further reduce crime in the city and reinforce community policing.

However, it is not just New Haven that is experiencing new lows in reported crime rates.

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School Tuesday night, 2014 saw the lowest crime rate in Connecticut in 48 years.

“Over the last four years, violent crime is down 36 percent and criminal arrests have decreased by nearly 28 percent,” a release from Malloy’s office said. “Violent crime in the state’s three largest cities has fallen 15 percent since 2008.”

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

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“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”

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Sustainability office seeks student input

BY JED FINLEY STAFF REPORTER The University is currently pursuing its 2013–2016 Strategic Plan, but planning in the Office of Sustainability for future initiatives is already under way.

“We are starting the planning process for the next Yale Sustainability Strategic Plan,” Director of the Office of Sustainability Virginia Chapman said. “We are very excited for the possibilities for this new plan, as it will expand on past plans to include input and initiatives that will engage the full Yale community in the process — faculty, staff and students — in addition to the New Haven community.”

In keeping with the office’s willingness to engage the University and New Haven communities at large, the Office of Sustainability is considering recommendations from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the University’s faculty-led Sustainability Advisory Council as well as students and other faculty.

According to Chapman, recommendations from the Sustainability Advisory Council are currently under review by University President Peter Salovey.

Meanwhile, students and faculty in Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences are working on sustainability initiatives of their own, said Amber Garrard, manager of education and outreach at the Office of

Sustainability. The Sustainability Advisory Council intends to take into account the students’ assessment in future discussions of campus sustainability, she said.

This past fall, Brad Gentry, professor in the practice and co-director of the Center for Business & the Environment, coordinated a course-project designed to connect Yale’s sustainability initiatives more closely to teaching and research.

Gentry said the course, called “Yale’s Sustainability Plan: Deepening the Connections and Impact,” gives students an opportunity to put theory into practice.

Gentry also pointed to the course’s practical necessity for campus life.

“What could be a better vehicle than sustainability projects to better Yale?” he said.

Gentry’s course involved students forming teams and working with groups of faculty, staff, alumni and outside experts.

Together, they focused on energy production, fuels, transportation, land and water usage, materials and well-being. Each team corresponded with a category of sustainability initiatives that are currently being worked on as a part of Yale’s ongoing 2013–2016 Strategic Plan.

At the end of the semester, the teams presented their findings and recommendations to the Office of Sustainability in the plan for 2016–2019.

Lindsay Toland FES ’15 took Gentry’s course and was a mem-

Salad shop opens branch on Whalley

ber of the “materials team,” which was tasked with assessing both the material products Yale uses and the wastes produced.

Toland said the materials team recommended that the University streamline communication within its procurement and disposal facilities to optimize their acquisition of materials.

“The University has done a great job of putting energy behind waste diversion, but there are opportunities for greater overall reductions,” Toland said. “Our team believed that closing the loop between procurement and disposal could achieve these reductions.”

Other recommendations from students in the course included transportation system reform as a way to address issues of

A new Yale Shuttle Express Line will seek to improve access to Union Station for those hoping to catch trains at the end of the workday.

The new Pink Line will run on a 15-minute short loop around the School of Medicine and Union Station from 4:10 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on weekdays. The Pink Line was introduced this Tuesday after Yale Transportation received recurring complaints from Yale School of Medicine students and staff. A majority of them take trains home and frequently have trouble finding seats on the shuttle to Union Station at the end of the workday.

“We’re adding a little bit more seat [space] and capacity to the existing Red Line, but instead of sending it all the way back uptown, we’re keeping it in the general vicinity of the med school,” Director of Yale Transportation Ed Bebyn said.

If there’s a problem out there … we’ll do our best to find a way to accommodate the riders.

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BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER Students seeking a custom-made salad or smoothie from the New Haven Salad Shop can now pick up food from the restaurant’s new location at 9 Whalley Ave. In 2011, two Yale students, Jerry Choinski ’12 and Etkin Tekin ’12 founded the Little Salad Shop, which has since been renamed the New Haven Salad Shop. The two founded the shop, located at 45 High, with support from the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, which provides mentorship and grants to students and faculty starting scalable business projects. The Little Salad Shop’s second location opened on Jan. 22 in response to growing demand, according to employees at the restaurant.

“We are popular, so we opened a new location,” said Shanequa Williams, an employee at the High Street New Haven Salad Shop. “Both locations are doing

well and serving Yale students.”

Six Timothy Dwight college students interviewed said they were excited about the prospect of a healthy lunch or dinner option close to their dormitory. The restaurant offers customized salads and wraps ranging from $8 to $10.

Adriana Embus ’17, who lives in TD, said she is excited about the new food option that is accessible to residents of the area around TD, adding that the growing number of businesses behind TD is making it an attractive area for students.

Students outside of TD echoed this sentiment, noting that they would be willing to walk to Whalley Avenue to go to affordable, healthy restaurants such as the New Haven Salad Shop.

Anna Russo ’17, who lives in Berkeley College, said that with the recent developments of high-end stores on Broadway, the Whalley Avenue area has become relatively less expensive and has more to offer on a student budget.

“Especially with the opening of Emporium DNA and Barbour, as well as the build-up on Chapel, the Broadway and Chapel areas are becoming less and less attractive to actual students,” Russo said.

“The TD area is a gem, and I’m willing to make the trek.”

Allie Banwell ’17, echoed that sentiment, noting that the trio of New Haven Salad Shop, Koffee? and Go Greenly will likely draw students, despite their distance from central campus.

Nicole Wilson, a sales associate at Go Greenly, said she thinks the New Haven Salad Shop’s presence will have a positive affect on her frozen yogurt business because it will attract more health-conscious consumers to the area.

“I think on campus, to a large extent there is very much an awareness of being healthy, apart from late-night food,” said Isi Hummel ’17.

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New shuttle aims to alleviate congestion

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The New Haven Salad Shop has opened a new location at 9 Whalley Ave.

social and climate justice. The “transportation team” released a report proposing that the University alter its current New Haven Homebuyer program in order to incentivize employee home ownership within walking and biking distance of campus.

According to Toland, the teams’ proposals were wellreceived, but the office’s immediate reactions were not known to students.

“The Office of Sustainability was very supportive of the materials team and of the class overall, though we’re not sure which recommendations are being pursued or implemented,” Toland said.

Before adding the Pink Line, the Red Line was the only Yale Shuttle line that passed the School of Medicine and traveled on to Union Station. However, by the time the Red Line reached the School of Medicine during rush hour, shuttles were often already at full capacity.

Bebyn said he began receiving emails from students and staff who could not get on the shuttle, as well as reports from drivers saying that they had left people at stops because their shuttles were full.

Instead of adding another full Red Line, Bebyn decided to simply add an hour and a half of service that would directly service those that needed to get to the station during rush hour. He added that it did not make sense to add a four-hour shift, equiva-

lent to another Red Line, to solve an issue that only spanned one hour.

Currently, only one express shuttle is running. Its driver, Denise Rogers, explained that she already used to work the 6 p.m. shift and is now simply working the two additional hours.

“With this plan, we take care of our costumers, and don’t waste the University’s budget,” Bebyn said.

Frequent shuttle riders interviewed said they were optimistic that the new Pink Line could alleviate some of the passenger congestion.

“I didn’t know about this new line yet, but I think it will definitely be very helpful,” said Victoria Schulman, a post-doctorate research associate at the School of Medicine. “I’ve often had trouble getting a seat on this shuttle.”

Schulman lives in Stamford, Conn., and the train there leaves once every hour. She explained that if she cannot take a shuttle because all the seats are filled, she is stuck at the station for at least another hour and a half.

Gladys Twarkins, a frequent Yale Shuttle rider, also expressed enthusiasm about the change.

She added that she believes the Yale Shuttles are vital to travel around New Haven and sees a new line as yet another improvement for the city.

However, both Schulman and Twarkins argued that this new line might not alleviate all of the issues, noting that the shuttles are often full at other times of the day as well.

Schulman explained that, in the morning, she usually ends up taking the New Haven Hospital Shuttle because the Yale Shuttles are “frustrating” and too full. Twarkins added that at noon, she and others often have to wait for one or two shuttles before getting seats.

“All of the routes on campus are designed in some sort of collaboration between riders and managers,” Bebyn said. “If there’s a problem out there that we hear about, we’ll do our best to find a way to accommodate the riders.”

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“I’m trying to stay as calm as possible … but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.”

SHAWN JOHNSON US OLYMPIC GYMNAST

Elis face Springfield at home

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Several gymnasts state the major aim of the Elis is to minimize the small deductions that add up on their overall score.

GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE 12 ing landings over the next week.

However, she and her teammates acknowledged there are still areas other than minimizing mistakes that need work.

“The next couple weeks, we’re working on consistency and making sure everyone is hitting solid and clean routines,” Allison Bushman ’18 said. “We’ve certainly got room to improve. It’s looking very promising.”

In an effort to increase their maximum scores, other gymnasts will take this week as an opportunity to raise the difficulty level of their routines. Brittney Sooksengdao ’16 and Tatiana Winkelman ’17 will be working on upgrades to their beam routines, according to Sooksengdao. Both plan to unveil new elements against Springfield.

Though the team does not set its lineup until Friday, these upgrades could theoretically change the order of competition.

“The lineup is designed so routines build on each other,” said Opperman, who anchors the floor rotation. “We want to start with someone strong and generally follow that with routines that have more difficulty, or people you assume will score higher.”

Captain Morgan Traina ’15 often anchors the other two events — bars and beam — but competes in the vault and floor events as well. However, as she sprained her ankle

three days before the Don Tonry Invitational, Traina did not compete on floor last weekend.

Traina said that taking a few days off of tumbling helped the healing process, and although the final decision is up to the coaching staff, she hopes to compete in the all-around this weekend.

Though Yale will be hosting the ECAC Championship in March, this weekend marks the Bulldogs’ last regular-season home meet. According to Sooksengdao, the gymnasts are looking forward to a homefield advantage one last time.

“Being home was great,” Sooksengdao said. “There’s always so much energy. It also meant we had one of the larger crowds.”

Among this crowd were members of the Yale football team.

The football players are in charge of working the meets, according to Anderson, and are responsible for setting up, scoring and cleaning up.

“I don’t know how they were designated this job, but it’s fun to have a bunch of our good friends there,” she said.

Both the football players and the gymnasts will be in Payne Whitney to compete against Springfield on Saturday at 1 p.m.

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

Non-Ivy slate includes USC, SMU BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 Big Dance, Krzyzewski, often called Coach K, left the team midway through the year for medical reasons.

But Jones does not see the chance to go mano a mano with the Blue Devils’ legendary leader as part of the allure of facing off against Duke.

“I don’t ever think about it for me personally in terms of coaching against Coach K,” Jones said.

“Playing at different venues for me is probably more exciting than anything else. That’s actually part of the allure to play these teams, because you get to play in these different environments that are going to be a little bit more difficult than what we see in the Ivy League.”

Jones’s players share this sentiment, as Downey mentioned that opportunities such as getting to play at Duke’s historic Cameron Indoor Stadium are part of the appeal of playing for Yale, given Jones’ tendencies to play top-flight programs.

For guard Makai Mason ’18, who has shone as a freshman during the Elis’ hot start to conference play, the Duke meeting will be one of added significance.

“I always hoped to play against Duke because they were recruiting me early on and then stopped,” Mason said. “I’ll definitely relish the opportunity and go in there with a little bit of a chip on my shoulder. Hopefully we can get a win in front of the [Cameron] Crazies.”

A win in any of these three meetings would be a first for the Bulldogs, who are 0–3 all-time against SMU as well as 0–1 in their lone meeting against the Trojans back in 1988.

Whereas Mason’s significance comes from a desire to prove himself to a program that snubbed him, soon-tobe seniors Khaliq Ghani ’16 and Nick Victor ’16 will have a chance to return to their home regions and likely play in front of their families.

Ghani, a guard from Inglewood, Calif., and Victor, a guard from Dallas, Texas, will each

get to indulge in a homecoming of sorts, when they travel to USC and SMU respectively. Just as when guard Javier Duren ’15 was able to travel to St. Louis Mo. last year and how guard Jack Montague ’16 had the chance to return go back to Tennessee for a meeting with Vanderbilt this season, Jones is continuing to reward some of his older players with a trip close to home.

“We’ll get to play a team that I grew up watching and going to camps at as a kid,” Ghani said.

“My mom graduated from there and I got to walk the stage with her when I was little … That’ll be the best part, getting to compete in front of my hometown, my friends and [my] family.”

These trips across the country not only reward Jones’ veterans, but they also double as recruitment tools for the Elis, allowing players from distant regions to get to see the team in action without making the trek to New Haven.

On the flip side, when Yale travels to North Carolina to take on the Blue Devils, it will surely

be a welcome sight for Duke President Richard Brodhead ’68 GRD ’72.

Prior to becoming Duke’s ninth president in 2004, Brodhead served as the dean of Yale College for 11 years, capping off nearly 40 years at Yale between being a student, professor and administrator.

While Jones stated Brodhead’s connection to the school as the reason for the scheduling of the game, Brodhead denied having any involvement in the matter.

“I am delighted at this news but the president doesn’t play a role in setting the basketball schedule,” Brodhead said in an email. “Pleased that I am at such fantasies of omnipotence!”

While USC has struggled to a 9–12 mark this season, Duke and SMU are each ranked nationally, with the Blue Devils currently sitting at fourth and the Mustangs coming in at 23rd.

Greg Cameron contributed reporting.

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Guard Makai Mason ’18 received interest from Duke early in the recruiting process.

New football recruits from across the country MAP RECRUITING CLASS

High School Teammates TE/DE Kyle Mullen and RB/DB Dan Debner will join Yale from Manalapan High School, N.J.

Bo Hines, WR, Charlotte, NC Sophomore transfer from NC State.

Led NC State in receiving yards in 2014

Tre Moore III, QB, St. Louis, MO Had interest from Syracuse and Notre Dame when he committed to Yale in June

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Running back and defensive back James Nicholas was recruited to Yale not just for football, but for every sport that he played in high school. Nicholas will play both football and golf at Yale, choosing not to play hockey because conflicting seasons would have required that hockey be his only sport.

Nicholas, who is a friend of Yale golf player Will Bernstein

’18 through a common coach, said the Yale golf team was the first to recruit him, alongside many golf powerhouses in the ACC and Big 10. In addition to Yale hockey, Nicholas received interest from Boston College, Boston University and Harvard, he said.

“I want football to be my first sport and if I can make it work, then play golf,” Nicholas said. “[Head coach Tony Reno] was hesitant to let me play golf, but he was 100 percent committed to letting me play if it all worked out. It turns out that there’s no

conflict at all … it’ll be a lot of work, but I’m looking forward to it.”

Many members of the recruiting class cited strong coaching, academic opportunity and a close community for reasons that they chose Yale.

Ian Baker, an incoming defensive end from Ohio who also had interest from Harvard, said he identified Yale as his dream school as early as middle school when he spoke to a few alumni near his hometown. His oncampus visits last summer and this year only affirmed this view.

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“You could tell that [the coaches] cared about you as a student, as a person, as well as a football player,” Baker said.

“They wanted you to come to Yale because of how much you can do outside of football, as well. They painted it as a family atmosphere.”

Both Baker and LeMay noted that offensive coordinator Joe Conlin, who guided the most prolific offense in the Ivy League this season, was a major influence on their decision to choose Yale.

Baker verbally committed to

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Yale last summer, and he noted that since his signing, many of his fellow recruits have begun to bond together via official visits and social media.

“Over my official visit, I got to meet a couple commits [at Yale],” Baker said. “We had a great time, and we’re bonding well already. As of now, just talking, we’re already starting to come together.”

Baker’s high school teammate Peter Firestone, a 6’6” defensive end who had offers from the University of Connecticut and Army, added that the

recruits have a group chat and a Facebook group to help to get to know one another.

According to NCAA regulations, Yale coaches are not allowed to comment on specific recruits. Because Yale does not offer athletic scholarships, the team will not release its recruiting class until after the college decision deadline on May 1.

Maya Sweedler contributed reporting.

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5 5:30 PM Book Launch: “Dressing Up: Fashion Week NYC,” by Lee Friedlander. In 2006 Lee Friedlander went behind the scenes at New York’s Fashion Week to photograph models at work. The revealing photographs have just been published in the gallery’s latest book, “Dressing Up.” Join an evening of fashion, photography and conversation. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.)

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 12:00 PM Yale Track and Field: Giegengack Invitational. Head down to Coxe Cage this Friday to support the Bulldogs’ men and women’s track and field teams as they compete against a slew of teams in this invitational. Open to the general public. Coxe Cage (257 Derby Ave.) 12:30 PM Furniture Study Tour. Go behind the scenes of the American Decorative Arts Furniture Study, the Gallery’s working library of American furniture and wooden objects, which features more than 1,000 works from the 17th to the 21st century. Space is limited. Meet at the Information Desk in the Gallery lobby. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 7:00 PM Flute Studio Recital. The flute studio at the Yale School of Music will present their annual Studio Recital. This fun program will feature music of Ginastera, Roussel, Bach, Taffanel, Takemitsu, Chaminade and — potentially — a little dash of Verdi to end a fantastic evening! Admission is free. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Sudler Recital Hall.

7:00 PM Film Screening: Gattaca (1997). Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman star in this futuristic science-fiction thriller, screened as part of the Bioethics Film Festival. Followed by a post-screening discussion with Stephen Latham, Director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

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YALE WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING THANK YOU SENIORS During the celebration of the 40th anniversary of women’s swimming and diving at Yale, an event that will attract nearly 100 alumni, captain Elizabeth Larsen ’15, Jacqui Levere ’15 and Rebecca DeLaFuente ’15 will be honored for their contributions to Yale swimming over the past four seasons.

MARLY ISLER ’16 UNCHARTED TERRITORY Isler, a La Jolla, Calif. native, was named captain of the No. 3 women’s sailing program for the 2015 season yesterday. Isler was a member of the US Olympic Developmental team and the Youth America’s Cup team prior to joining the Bulldogs.

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“Football is on an upswing, and we have a chance to win a few championships. It was an easy decision.”

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BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Although yesterday was National Signing Day for NCAA football, Ivy League-recruited athletes do not sign a National Letter of Intent. Despite the absence of letters, the list of football players headed to Yale next fall is nearly complete.

Yale football’s class of 2019 will come from all over the United States, hailing from states such as Ohio, Texas and California.

This year’s large recruiting class — which consists of 30 players according to a list compiled by the New Haven Register — includes at least three players listed as three-star recruits on www.247sports.com, and several players who had offers from multiple Ivy League and Football Bowl Subdivision schools.

Harvard, on the other hand, has four three-star commits listed on the website, although 247sports has only about a third of each recruiting class listed.

“I was incredibly impressed with everything [at Yale],” offensive line recruit Rees LeMay said. “[Yale has] incredible people that I want to be associated with. Football is on an upswing, and we have a chance to win a few championships in the next four years. It was an easy decision.”

Because Ivy League schools do not offer athletic scholarships, recruited athletes do not make any official commitment before enrolling at the school in the fall. Still, in order to par-

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ticipate in National Signing Day, many players who had verbally committed to Yale made an event out of signing other forms that Yale requires athletes to fill out.

A m o n g t h e t h re e - s ta r recruits were defensive tackle recruit Daniel James, who recently turned down a scholarship offer from Vanderbilt, and wide receiver Abu Daramy, who verbally committed to Yale last Saturday after receiving offers from nine FBS teams.

James hails from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and it was not until last Wednesday when he was officially extended a scholarship from the Commodores.

“I decided to stick with Yale because of the relationship I built with Coach [Tony] Reno and my recruiting coach, and because of the family atmosphere,” James said. “On my visit, I went around asking people if they really loved the football team. They had no idea I was a recruit, and I got the same answer, which was a resounding yes.”

Daramy, meanwhile, will join at least three other committed freshmen who are listed as wide receivers, as well as incoming sophomore Bo Hines, who announced in December his decision to transfer to Yale from North Carolina State.

Dual-threat quarterback Tre Moore III, another three-star recruit, committed to the Elis last June shortly after attending a Yale summer camp. At that SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8

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There are at least three incoming football players listed as three-star recruits on www.247sports.com.

Duke on tap for Yale in 2015–16

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER In the midst of what appears to be its best chance to dance in March in years, the Yale men’s basketball team is already building its profile for the 2015–16 season, with recent confirmation that the Bulldogs will face the University of Southern California, Southern Methodist University and, most notably, perennial powerhouse Duke.

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Following a season-best performance at its home opener last weekend, the Yale gymnastics team looks to keep the momentum going when Springfield College comes to compete on Saturday.

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BASKETBALL The news, which has yet to be made public but has been confirmed by head coach James Jones and by assistant director of sports publicity Tim Bennett, means Yale will continue a hallmark of the James Jones era — a demanding non-conference schedule.

“We want to challenge ourselves and see what warts we have,” Jones said. “We want to be exposed, and the best way to do that is to play some of the best teams in the country, so we try to do that each and every year.”

Jones said forming the nonconference schedule, which he exclusively controls and is on the verge of completing for next season, is an opportunity to prepare the Bulldogs to be at their best for Ivy play.

Since taking the reigns of Yale’s program in 1999, Jones has led his squad to finishes in the top half of the Ivy League in every season but his first.

“Part of the reason coach Jones has been so successful in Ivy League play throughout his career has been his ability to construct a tough schedule,” forward

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Duke’s basketball program has a rabid fanbase: the “Cameron Crazies.”

Sam Downey ’17 said. “It ensures that we face adversity and get better by the time Ivy play comes around.”

The tough schedule has also provided a chance for the Bulldogs to shine on the national stage, as demonstrated by a thrilling 45–44 victory on Dec. 5 over the defending national champions, the University of Connecticut. While Jones said UConn has reached out to play Yale next season, nothing is confirmed — he has “no desire to play them,” and would like to enjoy that victory for a little while longer.

Next year’s slate will now include the fourth-ever meeting between Yale and SMU, as well as the second-ever matchup between Yale and USC. But the highlight of the non-conference schedule will be the fourth-ever meeting between Yale and Duke — arguably the most storied pro-

gram in men’s college basketball.

Although USC and SMU each boast historically rich pasts, including three Final Four appearances between the two schools, the Blue Devils have appeared in 15 Final Fours alone.

In addition, Duke has advanced to 10 NCAA championship games and won four of those title appearances, resulting in the highest winning percentage of all time in the NCAA Tournament.

In addition, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski just secured his 1,000th win, becoming the first coach to do so in the history of Division I men’s basketball. The Hall of Famer’s resume includes four national championships, two Olympic gold medals and 30 NCAA Tournament appearances in the past 31 seasons. The lone year during that stretch in which the Blue Devils failed to make the

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Last week, the Bulldogs overcame a mediocre start on vault to excel at all six of their bar routines, the majority of which included solid landings. The team total of 48.325 points on bars was a season-high. Anella Anderson

’17 called the bar rotation the highlight of her meet, saying her teammates hit their routines “beautifully.” However, as the Bulldogs gear up for their contest against the Pride, they aim to minimize the small mistakes that added to cumulative deductions to their overall score.

“Going into Springfield, the team is really looking to hit 24 for 24 routines,” Anella Anderson ’17 said. “At our past three meets we made little mistakes, but I know we are capable of putting everything together and having a flawless meet.”

Camilla Opperman ’16 echoed Anderson, adding that the team plans to work on stickSEE GYMNASTICS PAGE 8

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Last week, the Bulldogs earned a season-high total of 48.325 on the bars.

THE NUMBER OF POINTS YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL SCORED AGAINST DUKE IN 1936. The 1936 contest was the first-ever matchup between the two programs and the Blue Devils and Elis have only met two times since. The competition continues in 2015.