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FIXING UP THE HOUSE

National Adjunct Walkout Day raises questions for Yale’s non-ladder faculty.

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Jessie J to headline Spring Fling

Knife to a gun fight.

Something called “The Yale Letter” was sent out to the University community last night before being retracted by its senders for invading student inboxes. But we’re still around. Take note: There’s only room for one kind of snarky bulletin about the various happenings across campus in this town.

days until spring break, most of Yale is either completely done with work or very much still buried in it. Those of you lucky enough to be in the former category should be able to find something to pass the time — perhaps Sigma Chi’s “Thirsty Thursday” event tonight. They sure don’t miss a beat, do they?

x_O. Alternatively, DJ BL3ND, whose odd performance mask resembles the “x_O” emoticon found all over his Twitter page, will be playing a concert tonight at Toad’s in a prime opportunity to show the Spring Fling Committee that they should have chosen him instead of Klingande.

Before takeoff. Students flying home (or elsewhere, for that matter) on JetBlue will have the chance to thank the airline’s founder in person today.

Also the creator of Brazilian company Azul Airlines, David Neeleman is the guest of honor at a Pierson College Master’s Tea this afternoon at 4 p.m.

Throw them an apple.

A message from the Teaching, Learning and Advising Committee to the undergraduate community invited students to nominate their best instructors — ranging from graduate student TFs to tenured professors — for teaching prizes. We imagine these write-ups will be more personal than the typical course evaluation.

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1954 Yale’s Freshman Prom event draws roughly 1,200 people (550 of them being females from other schools).

And to guard against presumed debauchery on campus, the University has 14 extra officers from the Yale Police Department on duty.

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With tuition increase, student effort level constant

ing a choice of roughly 30 artists, YCC Spring Fling Committee Chair Thomas Marano ’16 said Jessie J was chosen as one of the most popular options among students. YCC Events Director Jaime Halberstam ’16 said students in

Although the Yale College term bill will increase by 4 percent for the 2015–16 academic year, for the first time in three years the student effort amount will not rise.

Students receiving financial aid from the University this year were expected to contribute between $4,475 and $6,400 — a mix of their summer earnings and income from a term-time job — toward their term bills for the 2014–15 academic year. This component of financial aid packages is called the “student effort,” composed of a “student self-help” amount, intended to come from term-time work and set at $2,850 for freshmen and $3,350 for sophomores, juniors and seniors, and a “student income contribution” of $1,625 for freshmen and $3,050 for all other class years that is intended to derive from summer work.

Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi said the student effort rose by 1.5 percent between the 2013–14 and 2014–15 academic years, which both also saw fourpercent increases in tuition. However, Storlazzi added, the student effort will remain at its current rate.

“We are freezing the total student effort,

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SEE TERM BILL PAGE 6

Undergraduate Admissions Facebook page listed the best spots on campus to stay warm: coffee shops, libraries butteries, one’s own bed… This might all be moot, though, because it seems to be heating up outside. Go step in a puddle for proof.

Sigma Quick. With just two

Swimming and diving alumni push toward $47 million goal.

BY TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTER

Not for long. A post on the Yale

Heating up inside. The Chinese American Students Association Hotpot Night event takes place this evening at the Asian American Cultural Center on Crown Street Promises of “high quality, amazing [and] tasty” food, plus a 60-seat cap, is absolutely a recipe for frustration for those unable to secure a spot.

A NEW POOL?

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The Spring Fling Committee’s selections of Jessie J, Klingande and St. Lucia were announced last night at Toad’s.

BY JON VICTOR AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS For the first time in 17 years, the Spring Fling headliner is a female artist: Jessie J. The Yale College Council formally announced this year’s lineup at

half past midnight on Thursday, via a three-minute video screened at Toad’s Place before a crowd of roughly 300 people. The opening performance will be by St. Lucia, followed by the headliner Jessie J. Klingande will be the closing act. Taking into account feedback from two YCC surveys contain-

Mental health forum elicits questions about YCC influence

BY VIVIAN WANG AND JOEY YE STAFF REPORTERS On Feb. 25, at an open forum where University officials invited students to voice their concerns with Yale’s mental health and withdrawal procedures, Yale College Council President Michael Herbert ’16 asked administrators if they would commit to addressing the YCC’s recommendations on mental health and withdrawal by the end of the

year. The recommendations were published in two separate reports in September 2013 and March 2014.

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and English professor John Rogers, who chairs the committee tasked with evaluating Yale’s withdrawal and readmission policies, did not agree to Herbert’s request.

“This is why people in general have tremendous distrust of our administration,” Herbert responded during

Blow case findings garner tepid response STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTERS The report released Tuesday clearing a Yale Police Department officer of wrongdoing in the Jan. 24 detention of Tahj Blow ’16 appears to have generated a tepid response on campus.

Of students interviewed Wednesday, only two of 21 had read the report in its entirety.

Many of those interviewed blamed midterm exams for not making it through the report.

Christopher Rim ’17 said he has plans to read the report eventually, but did not have time to examine it carefully after it was sent to the Yale community.

“I’m interested in seeing the findings, since the original incident was such a point of controversy,” Rim said. “But I haven’t had time to look at it this week because of midterms, and other students probably feel the same way.”

Jordan Coley ’17, a member

of the Yale Black Men’s Union, said that although he had not read the internal investigation report, he thought it was important that the most recent campus-wide email acknowledged that the event had “intersect[ed] with current national conversations about race, prejudice and policing.”

He said the first email the campus community received when the incident occurred shied away from this.

“We are at Yale, but Yale is part of a greater American society that is grappling with these issues, and we cannot assume that our position as a top-tier private university leaves us exempt from these problems,” Coley said.

The mild campus reaction stands in contrast to the response that immediately followed the Jan. 24 incident.

That night, Blow was stopped by a police officer after the YPD received reports that an intruder SEE BLOW REPORT PAGE 4

the panel. “There’s a very real question about how seriously [these issues are] being taken.”

The 2014–15 academic year has seen a variety of YCC initiatives. Some have been successful: Whole milk was introduced, and in December, Holloway approved sophomore mixed-gender housing, a project that the YCC had introduced the previous year. And for the first time in three years, the student effort contribution expected of students on finan-

cial aid will not rise next year.

This freeze partially arose from a January YCC report on financial aid, Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi said.

Other initiatives, however, have met more resistance.

The YCC’s push to move next year’s academic calendar up by one week, one of its most widely supported projects, was unsuccessful. For many students, Holloway’s and Rogers’ inability to honor Herbert’s request is another example of

administrative inaction. Still, YCC representatives interviewed emphasized their appreciation for the administration’s willingness to engage in conversation.

Holloway said the administration works closely with the YCC and gives serious consideration to its proposals.

“I do everything I can to be the students’ best advocate and listen to and work with SEE YCC ADMINS PAGE 6

THE VALUE OF THE THREE

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YALE BASKETBALL CHANGES THE GAME With the emergence of guard Jack Montague ’16 as the top long-range threat in the Ivy League, the Yale Bulldogs have been revitalized thanks to one of basketball’s hottest analytical trends: the three-pointer.

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GUEST COLUMNIST WILL CONLON

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n 2005, Yale began a groundbreaking program aimed at making an international experience possible for students of all income levels. Called the International Summer Award, it consisted of two parts. First, Yale funded a study abroad program or an international internship at a percentage relative to a student’s financial aid package. Second, Yale provided compensation to cover the Student Income Contribution for the following term, recognizing that students studying or working an unpaid internship would be unable to earn the expected $3,050 over the summer.

Called the “ISA-SIC” (if it only covered the income contribution) and the “ISA-SIC Plus” (if it also covered a percentage of the program cost), the award was a powerful statement of Yale’s commitment to global participation and equal opportunity.

This year, Yale quietly eliminated SIC compensation from the 2015 ISA. Further, if a student receives outside grants, the new policy reduces the ISA award once the student’s program budget has been reached, not allowing the student to use the extra funds toward the SIC. This regressive policy change places a significant burden on high-need students.

YALE'S ISA POLICY CHANGE PLACES A BURDEN ON HIGHNEED STUDENTS The hypotheticals are easy to imagine. Consider Sarah, a Yale student with 95 percent ISA eligibility. Brilliant Sarah got her dream Yale-coordinated internship this year, working to protect reindeer in Denmark. The Yale estimated budget for a Denmark internship, including housing, airfare, health insurance, food and work commute is $6,155.

Using the ISA calculation, percent eligibility times program budget, the student would receive $5,847.

Based on the Yale-estimated SIC, however, this student would find herself short nearly $3,000 dollars when she returned to campus in the fall. This means she might be unable to pay for books, supplies or travel to and from New Haven.

If only Sarah had decided to go abroad last year instead. She then would have received the ISA-SIC Plus, which on top of the $5,847 from the program budget, would have provided prorated funds to make up for the lost income incurred by going abroad.

Tabling for this article’s purposes the arguments against the SIC itself, the change in ISA policy fundamentally tarnishes Yale’s mission to allow students with significant financial need an international experience.

Many students cannot afford to lose a summer of income.

Perhaps all is not lost for poor Sarah. She could still apply for fellowships to replace her lack of earnings, right? Not so with the ISA: “a student’s total scholarships, fellowships and salary cannot exceed the total program budget.” Any additional funds Sarah earns would cap at $6,155, and the ISA would be reduced by the amount of the surplus.

According to the information I received from the financial aid office, this applies equally to fellowships that include “earnings replacement” as an explicit purpose. This rule effectively and illogically prevents even outside sources from assisting with the SIC. Even if Yale believes the SIC shouldn’t be included in the ISA, the least they could do is not hamper external funding for that purpose.

Yale defends this policy change in two ways. First, they have raised the overall cap on funding by $500, to $10,500.

Practically, this means that if your program ends up costing $12,000 and you have high enough eligibility, you will receive $10,500 rather than $10,000. Obviously, for the handful of programs with this higher cost, the change is a marginally beneficial one. However, the cap is high enough that it ends up not applying to any of the international internships’ budgets and less than half of the study abroad options. I can’t shake the feeling that, because the dollar amount increase is so small in comparison with cutting the SIC coverage, the raised cap is largely symbolic.

Second, since students received the award as a lump sum in May, most ended up using the SIC funds during their summer abroad, rather than for school the next term. I completely understand this criticism, but Yale’s chosen remedy is extreme.

It it’s broke, fix it, don’t eliminate it. Perhaps Yale could tie the SIC Plus to percent eligibility rather than pro-rated based on time.

That would be a more direct proxy for those who would need the funding the following year.

Reading literature on the ISA, it’s clear Yale is proud of the program. In 2010, for example, the annual CIPE report noted that funding the ISA-SIC Plus “at a time of financial constraint is an indication of the extent to which international experience for undergraduates is a core component in the plan for a global Yale.”

Yale was right to be proud. The ISA-SIC Plus showed the institution at its best. As a junior with high eligibility who was offered his dream international internship this summer, I mourn its elimination. As a member of the Yale community who believes in promoting equal opportunity and global experience, I would anyway.

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We are grateful for the opportunity that last week’s mental health forum offered to express concerns about administrative policy and the services of Yale Mental Health and Counseling, and we are encouraged by the progress the forum represents. This conversation marked a large step forward in administrative visibility on the issue, and we trust that you have heard our voices and thought over our concerns and suggestions.

However, despite frequent assurances that the administration is receptive to the changes suggested by the student body, we find that barriers to the success of this dialogue persist. We still await answers to many of our questions on policy and statistics in mental health care and withdrawal; we continue to fight for transparency in the reform process.

In this letter, we illuminate some of our most urgent concerns and provide constructive suggestions for their resolution.

First, we are unsettled by the lack of transparency from the administration in matters of institutional reform, which we believe surpasses the level of discretion necessary to protect medical confidentiality. We reiterate Yale College Council President Michael Herbert’s request that the administration commit to providing a point-by-point response to the Report on Mental Health (September 2013) and the Recommendations for Improvement to Withdrawal and Leave of Absence Policies (March 2014). We do not demand definitive acceptance or rejection of any recommendation, but we do ask that the administration acknowledge and reply to each. We also ask that the administration cite any legal restrictions preventing the Review Committee on Withdrawal and Readmissions from releasing information about its proceedings. These acts will further understanding between students and administration.

Furthermore, there is currently no publicized timeline for the anticipated hiring of new MH&C staff, nor any offer of a provisional date for the release of the coming

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report by the Review Committee on Withdrawal and Readmission.

The administration has repeatedly asked students to have faith in the committees and individuals tasked with discussing and enacting changes, but we in turn ask for evidence that our most urgent needs will be met with prompt and decisive action in the coming weeks.

Second, we are concerned by the administration’s assertions that student perception of MH&C is misinformed or distorted. We worry that this belief may preclude a thorough investigation of the miscommunication between MH&C and students.

We acknowledge that many students have had positive experiences with MH&C, and that published student experiences do not reflect overall rates of patient satisfaction. Still, a significant number of students report unsatisfying or unacceptable interactions with MH&C. We believe that if the administration makes information on MH&C policies more readily available, we can better distinguish legitimate policy shortcomings from incidents of miscommunication.

In particular, we request publication of the operative standards for involuntary withdrawal and an overview of the involuntary withdrawal process. This is absolutely necessary when Yale administrators, rather than clinical professionals, have the ultimate say in determining a student’s future. Far too many students do not seek professional help or do not disclose the severity of their symptoms out of fear that their statements will be grounds for involuntary hospitalization or involuntary withdrawal. Although the best course of action for students varies on a case-by-case basis, the absence of information on the process discourages

some students from obtaining the treatment they need to heal and thrive. If MH&C desires to close this information gap, we believe that this is a necessary first step.

Third, we emphasize that the burden of recognizing MH&C shortcomings does not lie on the patients. We trust that the administration was indeed unaware of specific policy violations, such as the failure to follow up after missed appointments or the enforcement of a twelvesession maximum for one-onone counseling. But when such policies are not publicly or easily accessible, students cannot be expected to notice or report violations. We urge you to release a clear, comprehensive handbook of Yale’s policies and statistics pertaining to mental health. To facilitate low-stakes avenues for patient-provider communication, we call for the distribution of simple post-visit patient satisfaction surveys and feedback tools to all patients of Yale MH&C. The student body and administration must stay firmly focused on these mental health care issues and remain committed to maintaining productive collaboration. We urge you to move forward with the proposals we have outlined, and we look forward to a climate of constructive dialogue and reform that does not end with this academic year.

Respectfully submitted, Chris Cappiello ’15, Joseph Cornett ’17, Hiral Doshi ’17, Aaron Gertler ’15, Carlee Jensen ’15, Christopher Landry ’15, Jessica Liang ’17, Alexa Little ’16, Adrian Lo ’15, Tammy Pham ’15, Šimon Podhajský ’16, Caroline Posner ’17, Korbin Richards ’15, Nathan Sitaraman ’15, Geoffrey Smith ’15, Charlotte Storch ’15, Ella Wood ’15

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WILL CONLON is a junior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at william.conlon@yale.edu .

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t’s rare that the debate over a state law irks me enough to write an op-ed about it.

The Yale College Democrats are currently pushing the Connecticut State Legislature to pass SB 398 — important legislation that would reform financial aid at public universities.

That sounds relatively innocuous, right? Indeed, it certainly would be if it weren’t for the bill’s main provision: undocumented students finally get access to financial aid programs.

Cue the firestorm. Including that one word, “undocumented,” changes everything.

Regardless of the controversy, SB 398 must pass.

Why, oh why, am I up in arms about a State General Assembly bill? There’s the future of Obamacare hanging in the balance, a presidential race heating up and certainly more exciting national news than a meaningless Connecticut bill, right?

I disagree. Hundreds of pieces of state legislation are passed each year that nobody hears about, many of them about topics as important as gun control, abortion and gay rights. It seems pretty evident to me that we should be paying far more attention to state legislatures — and we should certainly keep our

eyes on bills like SB 398 — but let’s set that point aside for now.

The bigger issue is that this bill repSHREYAS resents a job TIRUMALA half-finished, something emblemRhyme and atic of most legislation Reason these days.

Politicians are capricious. It’s not easy to get them to focus on any bill, let alone follow through on an entire issue.

Take this very bill for example. In 2011, the state legislature passed a bill that allowed undocumented students to have access to in-state tuition. I’m sure there were cheers heard around the Democratic establishment for weeks. And as a Democrat, I certainly would have been cheering too. That’s the problem. We laud our politicians for taking any incremental step in the right direction. We let them be complacent, tolerating minimal change instead of meaningful reform.

With in-state tuition rising, however, how are students

expected to pay without financial aid? It’s like buying someone a car without giving them the keys; without the keys, it’s an expensive gift that’s almost entirely unusable. We need to force legislators to hand over the keys.

Of course, I’ve presented a very abstract argument. Much of the talk surrounding issues such as immigration and education policy deals in these sorts of buzzwords. It’s easy to create a split between Republicans and Democrats when we’re talking about the hypothetical undocumented immigrant applying for college. It’s much harder to have a friend or classmate that you’ve known for years struggle to make the best of his situation.

It astounds me how xenophobic the debates about DREAM Act/DACA legislation get as a result of all this abstraction.

As many have noted before, the idea that helping immigrants takes away “American” jobs suggests that immigrants aren’t American. It’s dangerous to establish this type of mindset. I’m an immigrant myself, and I recently became a citizen. When I was turning in my paperwork, an elderly couple walked by and spoke pointedly about how immigrants were

“taking over the country.” Obviously, the attitude of one rude couple isn’t enough to establish that America is anti-immigrant, but it’s certainly not an encouraging sign.

This bill doesn’t enable criminals to break the law or facilitate some destruction of the American way of life. It allows children who spent their whole lives in this country to get a college degree — almost a necessity these days. Can anyone really fault children for the actions of their parents? Would it not be entirely cruel to force children out of a country they grew up in?

If we’re committed to change, we need to actually follow through with our ideas. SB 398 follows in the footsteps of California, Minnesota, New Mexico, Washington and Texas in giving undocumented students access to state financial aid. Not every bill should be an ideological fight between the left and the right. Sometimes the answer’s as obvious as helping students go to college.

SHREYAS TIRUMALA is a freshman in Trumbull College and a member of the Yale College Democrats. His column runs on alternate Thursdays.

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CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4

A previous version of the article “Fish Stark ’17 to vie for Ward 1” incorrectly stated the gender of Minh Tran.

A previous version of the article “New exhibition ‘illuminates’ artwork by William Blake” spelled Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship and exhibit curator Patricia Guardiola’s name incorrectly.

Concerns for adjuncts not always felt at Yale

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER Last Wednesday, on the first National Adjunct Walkout Day, unsatisfied instructors around the country stormed out of their classrooms, wielded signs demanding better treatment and staged alternative protests like teach-ins and rallies. They were rallying against poor job security and low wages. But at Yale, adjuncts seem to have stayed put.

All 10 non-ladder faculty members — instructors at Yale who were not hired with the opportunity for tenure — interviewed said they were unaware of any demonstrations for National Adjunct Walkout Day at Yale, perhaps because of the different role non-ladder faculty play at Yale compared to other campuses. At most institutions, adjunct professors are parttime, non-tenure track laborers with little job security and often unlivable wages. These roles are frequently filled by young academics who have recently finished graduate school.

But in the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences, non-ladder faculty are “individuals with special qualifications who play important roles in the teaching … but who may not be fully engaged in the research activities characteristic of ladder faculty,” according to the Faculty Handbook.

The instructors included among the non-ladder faculty represent a broad swath of potential appointments — including professor adjunct, associate professor adjunct and assistant professor adjunct, lecturer, senior lecturer, lector, senior lector and Gibbs assistant professor.

This school year, there are 15 adjunct professors in the FAS and 462 tenured faculty.

PLAYING THE NAME GAME

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said the University is working on titling issues, adding that the title of adjunct professor differs between FAS and the professional schools, and the goal is to reach a point where the nomenclature is consistent. FAS Dean Tamar Gendler, who Holloway said is leading the charge on these efforts, did not return request for comment.

Nine adjunct professors expressed satisfaction with their positions, citing good experiences at Yale and in their departments.

Jay Emerson, an adjunct professor of statistics, said he contributes to his department in many diverse ways. For example, Emerson serves on committees, advises Ph.D. students and even serves as director of graduate studies — roles that adjuncts at other institutions would be unlikely to fill. And unlike many adjuncts who enjoy only very brief tenures, adjunct professor of chemical and environmental engineering Yehia Khalil has been at Yale for 23 years.

Theater Studies adjunct professor Murray Biggs said Yale’s conception of adjunct provides a process for hiring adjuncts who have unique abilities but may not fit into traditional ladder norms.

While Yale’s adjuncts may not face the problems of their peers in name at other institutions, other instructors on campus cited some grievances.

Lecturers and lectors at Yale, for example, teach on contract, the longest of which must be renewed every five years. Lecturers’ salaries are significantly lower than even assistant professors. This year, lecturers are paid an average of $80,624 annually while full professors make $198,383 on average.

Still, Ruth Koizim, a senior lector in the French Department, said that while it can be stressful

and disruptive to have her contract renewed every three years — a process which includes multiple visits to her class to observe her teaching — in general, her payment and insurance situation is good. However, she said many non-ladder faculty have far less comfortable situations. “[The people] teaching one or two classes, those are the real adjuncts,” she said. “Their lives are really precarious.”

Still, Koizim noted that even senior lectors have fewer privileges than tenured faculty. For example, tenured professors have always been allowed free lunches in dining halls during the week, and this offer was only extended to lectors and lecturers a few years ago.

Other non-ladder faculty also described a clear hierarchy in departmental politics.

James Berger, a senior lecturer in American Studies and English, noted that there are large distinctions between serving as a lecturer and as a full professor, as he formerly did at Hofstra University.

“I miss a little bit being in the thick of departmental policy-making,” Berger said. “I’m not involved in hiring decisions, not involved in curricular decisions, not involved in the life of the department. It frees up my time — [departmental politics] are time consuming. But it was also sort of fun.”

Report calls for lower Hep C drug prices

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER Yale’s Global Health Justice Partnership has released a report warning the international community that scientific discoveries will not be enough to prevent the over 500,000 deaths that occur every year from Hepatitis C. Last week, in partnership with the AIDS policy think tank Treatment Action Group and the Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge, which aims to increase access to medicines worldwide, the GHJP cautioned that despite the development of Sovaldi — a Hepatitis C drug, marketed since 2013, with a 96 percent efficacy rate in some patients — there are numerous remaining hurdles to ending the “silent epidemic” of Hepatitis C, especially in lowand middle-income countries. In their report, “Ending an Epidemic: Overcoming the Barriers to an HCV Free Future,” the four lead student authors advocated for legal, economic and political solutions to the challenge.

“The bottom line takeaway is that if you make a breakthrough, there is no guarantee that it will get to everyone,” said co-author Kyle Ragins MED ’15 SOM ’15 . “You need innovation in your intellectual property law, your financing and the way care is delivered.”

According to co-author Allana Kembabazi LAW ’15, despite an incidence rate of 150 million people worldwide, very little attention has been given to the growing spread of Hepatitis C. Co-author Christine Monahan LAW ’16 said the disease can often take years to present symptoms, so its spread is often described as “silent.” Because so few people know that they are carriers, they are more likely to infect others.

Before 2013, most Hepatitis C drugs contained interferon-ribavirin, a chemical component that caused severe side effects in patients, Monahan said. The drugs were also only 30 percent effec-

tive, she added.

While Sovaldi has been available in the United States for over a year, its exorbitant price has left it a distant hope for patients in low- and middle-income countries, Monahan said.

“When the drug was announced, there was a lot of hope out there — and then you hear that it costs $1,000 per pill,” Kembabazi said.

Ragins explained that while drug companies may sometimes reduce the price of life saving drugs in low-income countries, they are reluctant to do so in middle-income countries like Egypt or India because they do not want to lose out on potential profits. Major drug companies, including Gilead — which produces Sovaldi — are mainly based in the United States, whose government, Ragins said, has no incentive to encourage selling generic drugs in middle-income countries. If pharmaceutical companies were allowed to produce generic versions of Sovaldi, the price per pill would drop from $1,000 to $102, he added, citing the minimum predicted cost of the drug.

Ragins noted that universities like Yale also play a part in limiting access to life-saving drugs.

Universities conduct basic science research and sell the rights for those findings to pharmaceutical companies in return for a portion of sales profits.

When those drugs are then sold at unaffordable prices, universities become complicit in hindering accessibility, Ragins said.

In the early 1990s, Yale researcher William Prusoff invented d4T, the first antiretroviral drug that was effective for HIV patients. After the University sold the patent to Bristol-Myers Squibb for $40 million a year, the company set the price of the drug at roughly $10,000, effectively pricing it out of reach for most patients in sub-saharan Africa, where HIV was taking its largest toll. Amy Kapczynski LAW ’03, faculty director of GHJP, led a campaign

urging the University to allow a generic company in India to sell d4T at a price low enough to make it accessible in subSaharan Africa. That campaign, which was ultimately successful, reduced the price of the drug substantially.

The d4T events also led to the creation of the Office for Technology Transfers, which oversees the University’s licensing of technology to third parties, such as pharmaceutical companies.

According to Ragins, the same pricing-out phenomenon is occurring with Sovaldi, which varies in price from $300 to $1,000. While drug companies are still able to make a profit from selling the drug at prices in the low hundreds, they choose to mark it up to extract a larger profit, he added.

Monahan noted that solutions to drug accessibility lie beyond economic strategies. Membership in the World Trade Organization allows countries to contest patent awards and issue compulsory licenses, which unilaterally open a drug up to generic production in cases of public health crisis.

Brazil is known for contesting patents, Ragins said, and India’s Supreme Court recently released a ruling that takes away Gilead’s monopoly rights on Sovaldi. But it is expensive and difficult for countries to contest patents, which may be why India and Brazil’s example has not yet been followed by many other middle-income countries, Monahan said.

The Egyptian government contested the price of Sovaldi in March 2014.

The drug’s price fell 99 percent from $84,000 to $900 for a 12-week course.

But that price is still not low enough for many who need the drug, Kembabazi said.

Sovaldi reached the $10 billion revenue mark faster than any other drug in history.

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

WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES

Berger also said much of the work done by adjuncts in the traditional sense is done by graduate students at Yale. The University could not survive without their work, just as most other institutions could not survive without adjuncts, he said.

Brittany Angarola GRD ’17, the Cell Biology Department’s Graduate Student Assembly representative, said that while she does not have the grievances of some adjuncts, she knows that there is greater concern about teaching positions in other disciplines. Recently, humanities graduate students have expressed concerns about finding teaching jobs and reduced funding rates.

Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18, chair of the unrecognized graduate student union Graduate Employees and Students Organization, said graduate students share many concerns of adjunct professors at other institutions.

GESO’s priorities also align with those of many adjunct groups who hope to unionize.

The University’s upcoming expansion will only exacerbate these problems, Greenberg added, citing GESO’s recent report on the topic. Faculty members expressed similar sentiments.

“Yale is definitely moving in the direction of more and more part-time people, with the prospect of the new residential colleges, and statements on the part of the University that they’ve hired all the professors they need,” Koizim said. “Someone’s going to have to teach all those students.”

Holloway said the University is cognizant of the increased teaching demand that will accompany the opening of the colleges, and is working to address these problems. While the University will not grow its ladder faculty — as it already grew in advance of the opening of the new colleges — Gendler is focused on how Yale will adjust other instructional staffing, he added.

Over 7,000 people liked the National Adjunct Walkout Day page on Facebook.

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

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Although Solvadi, a new drug to treat Hepatitis C, is very effective, its high cost may preclude its use in low- and middle-income countries.

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“Without music, life would be a mistake” FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER

Jessie J to be first female Spring Fling headliner in 17 years

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Last year’s headliner, American DJ Diplo, will be replaced this year by a more European-heavy lineup of the English Jessie J and French Klingande, alongside St. Lucia.

SPRING FLING FROM PAGE 1 the past had also indicated their desire for a pop music headliner like Jessie J. “What we’re most proud of is that these are all artists who you can’t help but dance to,” Halberstam said. “Jessie J is from England and Klingande is from France, so we’re bringing the European vibes to New Haven.”

Students interviewed at Toad’s immediately after the YCC’s announcement expressed their satisfaction with the committee’s decision, despite the lack of a hip-hop act in the lineup as has been case in previous years.

YCC President Michael Herbert ’16, who did not know about the lineup before it was

announced, said the Spring Fling Committee completed a successful search in the face of high anticipation across the University. Rachel Miller ’15 also commended the group for making the most of limited resources, noting that she was excited to see a pop performer take the stage in April.

“It was more exciting [for me] not knowing who the lineup was,” Herbert said. “Our Spring Fling team was up the creek without a paddle and they made it happen.”

Born and raised in London, Jessie J — born Jessica Cornish — gained international fame after the release of her debut single “Do It Like a Dude,” which rose to number two on the U.K. singles charts. With over a billion total

views on YouTube, Jessie J has performed at the Olympics and worked with other prominent artists including Chris Brown, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj.

As in past years, the YCC Spring Fling Committee was able to secure the headliner at a significantly lower price relative to the artist’s bookings later in the year, Marano said. He attributed the relatively low cost to the fact that the committee had booked Jessie J the week before her third album “Sweet Talker” was released on Oct. 13. The album features the single “Bang Bang,” which peaked at number six on Billboard’s Hot 100.

“When it comes time to determine our following artists we think about how they form a

cohesive and diverse lineup,” Halberstam said. “We watch a lot of music videos of the artists’ live performances and we also consider not just quality but how the student body would react.”

Klingande first gained international success with their single “Jubel.” The single reached the number five spot on the French singles chart. Halberstam noted the committee chose Klingande as the closing act due to the duo’s prominent use of piano and saxophone, which she said is well suited for the laser lighting during the night.

Spring Fling Committee member Tobias Holden ’17 said he thinks Kingande’s more mellow tunes will be ideal to listen to after the headliner’s perfor-

mance.

Brooklyn-based band St. Lucia released their first full length album in October 2013.

Lead singer Jean-Philip Grobler has remixed songs for musicians such as Passion Pit and Foster the People.

“I’m most excited for St. Lucia,” David Lilienfeld ’15 said.

“I like their fresh sound that treads the line between hipster rock and dance music.”

Spring Fling Committee member Jamie Hobson ’17 said that every year the committee tries to introduce students to underground artists with wellknown music.

Former Spring Fling Committee chair Erica Leh ’15 said most students do not know the open-

ing and closing acts, adding that as the budget goes down, so do the reputations of the artists.

Ella Anderson ’17 said while she has seen Jessie J in concert, she only knew one song by each of the other artists.

“We always try and choose a diverse lineup to make it as accessible to everyone as possible,” Marano said. “What we’re most happy about is that all of the artists are people who none of the students take issues with.”

The last female headliner to perform at Yale’s Spring Fling concert was the Indigo Girls in 1998.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu and JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

Blow report receives minimal student reaction BLOW UPDATE FROM PAGE 1 had entered Trumbull College.

However, even though few students interviewed said they had read the report, University spokesman Tom Conroy said on Tuesday that it was necessary for the full report to be released publicly. He said sharing the findings with the community means that the fullest possible information is in the public’s domain and, therefore, people can make their own judgments based on all the facts available.

The report concluded that the officer who had approached Blow complied with department policy. He did not hold the gun at the student, the report said, contrary to what early rumors suggested, but instead had held his firearm in the “low ready” position, with his finger off the trigger.

The campus-wide email — sent by University President Peter Salovey, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins — told students they can expect to engage in open dialogue with the administration about issues of race, prejudice and policing. Although Martha Highsmith, senior advisor to the president and provost, told the News Tuesday that students will hear after spring break about how these conversations will proceed, many students interviewed already expressed interest in finding out what the format of the conversations would be.

We find it important to show solidarity … because we know people who have been wrongly targeted.

DAVID RICO ’16 Member, Native American Cultural Center Dara Huggins ’17, a member of the Yale Black Women’s Coalition, said groups within the Afro-American Cultural Center have already been facilitating discussions like these, but added that she is interested in how the administration will tackle the conversations.

“I would hope that these conver-

sations, at the very minimum, generate respect for the viewpoints of others and compassion for those who are directly or indirectly affected by the salience of implicit bias in our society,” she said. “I don’t expect everyone to understand, but I expect everyone to listen.”

Groups beyond the African-American community need to be discussing these issues as well, Huggins added.

Israel Tovar ’17, a peer liason at La Casa Cultural Center, said he does not believe there has been much of a conversation about the specific investigation report among La Casa members.

But members of the Native American Cultural Center said discussions both about the report and broader issues such as racial profiling are very common at the NACC. Sebastian Medina-Tayac ’16, a former staff reporter for the News who read the investigative report in its entirety, said he was dissatisfied by the document.

“I was really displeased with how obvious the attempts were to try and mitigate and cover up what actually happened,” Medina-Tayac said. “Just because his finger wasn’t on the trigger doesn’t mean he wasn’t pointing his weapon at an innocent student.

Obviously they’re not going to release a police report that would incriminate an officer. But this is something that affects all students of color on campus.”

He added that many students, particularly NACC members, have had “bad encounters” with the YPD and have experienced feeling racially targeted by police officers. They thus believe the Blow incident is not an isolated one.

David Rico ’16, also a member of the NACC, said it is important for cultural organizations on campus to make note of these issues and discuss them thoroughly.

“We find it important to show solidarity, and to think about these situations and talk about them, because we know people who have been wrongfully targeted and put in prison,” Rico said.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu

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“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AMERICAN FOUNDING FATHER

Eidelson defends youth agenda

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Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 has chaired the city’s youth services committee since January 2012.

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Though she has not yet announced whether or not she will seek a third term, Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 would leave a void in leadership in the city’s youth services committee if she chooses not to run for re-election.

Eidelson has served as the committee’s chair since January 2012 — two months after she was first elected to the Board of Alders. Under her leadership, the city has spearheaded several new long-term projects intended to benefit New Haven youth, including implementing state violence prevention grants and launching the New Haven Youth Map — a website that connects families to after-school and summer programs around the city.

On Wednesday evening, Eidelson led a youth services committee meeting focused on the Youth Map’s progress. United Way, a nonprofit working to help enrich and educate children from disadvantaged families and the architect of the Youth Map, solicited the committee’s advice on marketing strategies at the meeting. “[Eidelson has] been instrumental in our process,” said Laoise King, vice president of education initiatives at United Way. “I can say that we would really miss her. [She and West River Alder Tyisha Walker] have been really great partners.”

King said she has worked exclusively with Eidelson and Walker throughout the development of the Youth Map, periodically presenting progress to the alders and seeking their input.

United Way had conceived of the New Haven Youth Map before Eidelson was appointed chair of the youth services committee, King said, but the alders’ commitment to a “comprehensive youth agenda” — championed by Eidelson — has helped to move the project forward.

At the meeting, Eidelson and Walker suggested that King and her team develop posters and pamphlets to advertise the Youth Map website in both English and Spanish. Walker added that United Way could distribute these materi-

als at waiting rooms in family care clinics.

Fair Haven Heights Alder and committee member Rosa Santana asked King if the Youth Map’s website included any information about free after-school programs for families that cannot afford often-expensive program fees.

Although the website does connect families to free options, King said, the Youth Map could be streamlined to make such programs more easily searchable.

A second initiative of the alders’ youth agenda — launched in early 2012 — has been the procurement of funds from the state youth violence prevention grant, Eidelson said. New Haven has thus far collected $1.25 million dollars for youth services from the grant, which has been offered to Connecticut cities on an annual basis since 2011. As committee chair, Eidelson has overseen the city’s application process to the Connecticut Judicial Branch — the body which decides the grant’s recipients.

Eidelson said the city will vie to receive the grant for a fourth time this fall. The application process will begin over the summer, but the grant will not be secured until late fall, likely after the aldermanic elections in November.

The city began participating in the application process after Eidelson was appointed committee chair, and she has thus presided over the city’s implementation of the grant money during the last three application cycles.

“To me, the grant has been really, really inspiring,” Eidelson said.

Since the inception of the 2012 agenda, the youth services committee also has worked on the revitalization of the Q House — a Dixwell community center that closed in 2003 due to insufficient funding.

While preliminary plans to renovate the space were unveiled last September, there has been no significant headway on the project. Eidelson and Walker said rebuilding the Q House remains a committee goal.

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

Yale makes deal with city on theater

BY MALINA SIMARD-HALM STAFF REPORTER College Street’s Palace Theater — which has been dark for 12 years — will be able to reopen in May with or without the use of University-owned property.

Since Mayor Toni Harp took office in 2014, the New Haven Center For Performing Arts, a not-for-profit corporation, has set out to renovate the Palace Theater, which will reopen as College Street Music Hall. Though the theater is slated to reopen in May, the theater’s prospects were threatened in November when the city and the University clashed over an easement agreement that would have provided access to a University-owned alley to serve as a fire escape. Since then, the NHCPA has located an alternative fire escape option on the theater’s property, nullifying the need for this particular agreement.

Still, University and city officials are currently negotiating a separate agreement that would allow the theater to use a University-owned parking lot adjacent to the theater. “[The agreement] being negotiated now addresses vehicular loading access to the stage area of the theater,” Steve Mednick, the attorney representing the theater, said in an email. “That is the only remaining issue between the parties.”

In addition to permitting loading access, the parking lot agreement would also allow for visitors to park on a lot on University land, said New Haven Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81. He added that those with season tickets to the

theater could park in the College Street lot while inexpensive overflow parking would be available on Temple Street.

The status of the parking lot agreement, however, remains unclear.

According to Bruce Alexander ’65, University vice president for New Haven and state affairs, the University sent a document to the NHCPA and it is currently awaiting signature.

But Mednick said there has been no agreement or document that is awaiting signature and that the parties are still negotiating.

The NHCPA received a revision of its agreement proposal from a University lawyer roughly two weeks ago, said Mednick, to which they responded with a revised version within 72 hours.

“There is no agreement between the city and Yale,” said Mednick.

“All I have to say is that we are still negotiating, we’re hopeful for an agreement, but we believe everybody is operating in good faith to do what is in best interest for the downtown community,” Mednick added that NHCPA’s request is relatively uncomplicated and that he expects the matter will resolve in the near future.

Alexander attributes any confusion between the parties to the “back and forth [communication] by lawyers on the language details.”

This is not the first instance of miscommunication between city and Yale officials regarding the Palace Theater. At end of last year, the NHCPA believed that in order to attain a building permit, City Hall would need to establish an easement agreement with Yale in order to gain access to an alley

that would serve as an emergency fire escape. According to Mednick, the NHCPA sent a draft easement agreement to the University in autumn 2014.

Email exchanges between Alexander and Mednick — obtained by the New Haven Independent through the Freedom of Information Act — revealed heated disagreement over the fire escape agreement.

In the extended email conversation surrounding the easement, Alexander cited his specific concerns with the theater’s reopening.

The main point of dissent concerned Yale’s legal right to terminate the fire agreement easement with only five days notice, which was drawn up in a 2007 license agreement with the NHCPA. But cancellation of the agreement with such short notice could seriously harm the business, said Mednick, so he proposed an agreement that would require 13 years notice of any cancellation. Ultimately, the NHCPA discovered an alternative fire escape in an archway once they looked at the floor plans of the theater.

Although the parking agreement has not been signed, the College Street Music Hall will open in the May, said Mednick.

“The city has issued permits, the renovation is underway, and they are planning a springtime opening of the Theater,” said Laurence Grotheer, communications director for City Hall. “Everything is in line for the venue to open this year.”

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

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Once the site of conflict between the NHCPA and the University, the Palace Theater is finally set to reopen.

Cultural houses in poor condition, students say

BY STAPHANY HOU AND LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTERS Two of the cultural centers at Yale — La Casa Cultural and the Asian American Cultural Center — are in drastic need of renovation, according to students involved in the houses.

According to the report released on Feb. 3 by the consultation committee convened on the cultural centers, the state of some of the cultural centers appears to be equally pessimistic.

“Spaces that are inaccessible, unventilated, or even dangerous due to asbestos or electrical shock risk, pose an immediate and urgent call to action,” the report stated.

“Neglected, outdated buildings — and furnishings or equipment — do not foster a welcoming environment.”

It added that as diversity will be a defining feature of the University’s future, the physical presence of the cultural centers will offer visible evidence of that commitment.

La Casa and the AACC, both of which are on Crown Street, are plagued with structural problems, students say, with some calling the houses “decrepit” and alleging certain spaces have even been deemed “dangerous” to enter. Though Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said there are plans in the coming months to upgrade the state of the buildings, students said small-scale renovations may not be enough to resolve these issues.

“There are scratches and cracks in the walls, there are ceilings falling down and floors sunken in,” AACC Co-Head Coordinator Hiral Doshi ’17 said. “It’s not just enough to renovate a room. We need a new house.”

However, in recent months, it appears the administration has taken some initial steps to address con-

cerns about the cultural houses.

Holloway said that starting in April and over the summer, there will be some changes made in dealing with issues of accessibility and asbestos abatement. He added that there will also be smaller-scale improvements, such as furniture replacement and painting.

“Yale remains committed to making sure the places are fully accessible,” he said.

Still, Holloway said though it may change, he did not believe there would be a full renovation of the houses due to constraints on the facilities budget.

Students, however, argued for immediate and complete renovations.

While the asbestos in the ceiling of one of AACC’s meeting rooms has been fixed, Doshi said meetings were still held in the room for a few months because no one from the University had notified them of the hazard.

Similar problems have also been reported at La Casa, where students said certain parts of the building are in such poor condition that they are rendered inaccessible.

La Casa Peer Liaison Israel Tovar ’17 said the basement of the house was deemed “hazardous.” La Casa Student Coordinator Benjamin Bartolome ’16 said the third floor of the building is unheated.

“You can’t go downstairs,” Tovar said. “Oftentimes we have to reserve a room in the [Afro-American Cultural Center] because we don’t have enough space in the center to accommodate everyone.”

He said other problems include a lack of handicap access, couches that have not been replaced in 20 years and a dilapidated third floor. Due to poor heating systems, Tovar said students need to wear a jacket inside La Casa since it is often very cold.

However, University spokesman Tom Conroy said the process of making these buildings accessible has been an ongoing effort over the last eight years.

According to Holloway, each year facilities does a survey and keeps records of repair requests, which is then used to prioritize what needs to get done, he said.

According to Yale’s most recent Financial Report, the University facility budget in fiscal 2014 was $270.5 million for capital projects, which include major building projects, renovations on Science Hill, construction on Evans Hall and design work on the new residential colleges. Thirteen percent — roughly $35 million — was used on projects to upgrade infrastructure systems and complete exterior corrective work throughout the central campus, along with other planned capital maintenance projects throughout the University.

Conroy said $6 million has been spent on the cultural houses over the last 10 years, funding both the comprehensive renovation on 26 High St. for the Native American House and implementing a variety of upgrades at the other facilities.

“In general, the overall condition of space within the portfolio of cultural houses is similar to that of the entire campus,” Conroy said.

Looking forward, students at both La Casa and the AACC said they have high expectations for the administration. Some of these requests, Bartolome said, are pretty basic needs, including handicap access and safety concerns, that can easily be fulfilled at an institution like Yale.

Contact STAPHANY HOU at staphany.hou@yale.edu and LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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According to students, La Casa Cultural and the AACC are in dire need of renovation.

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“Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.”

DIANE ACKERMAN AMERICAN POET

Student effort stays constant with new term bill TERM BILL FROM PAGE 1 both the summer contribution and the term-time self-help levels,” Storlazzi said.

Storlazzi said University administrators considered the student effort levels at peer institutions, along with concerns expressed by the Yale College Council Report on Financial Aid, when setting the student effort for the coming academic year.

According to the FAQs page about financial aid and student borrowing in Yale College, Yale’s student effort level for the current academic year is lower than its competitors for freshmen, although it is higher for upperclassmen.

The Yale College Council presented its suggestions for financial aid reform to the administration on Jan. 9 in a 25-page report.

The recommendations ranged from increased clarity in financial aid award letters to a shortterm freeze on the student effort portion of aid packages, followed by a long-term recommendation for the eventual elimination of the student effort entirely.

According to the report, the selfhelp requirement of the student effort has increased by 28.8 percent since the 2009–10 academic year, climbing from $2,600 to its current rate of $3,350 for upperclassmen.

“The YCC Report on financial aid was very helpful in pointing out ways that Yale can be more transparent and do a better job in communicating the theory and practice of Yale’s financial aid and, in particular, the student effort component,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan said. “Because of the strength of our program, we need to work harder to help students understand the financial commitment they are making when they and their families choose a Yale education over many other attractive options.”

Quinlan added that he and Storlazzi look forward to continuing their work with YCC representatives to improve the usability of the financial aid website and to modify award letters to admitted students, among other changes.

YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 said the YCC is satisfied with the effect that it had on the Corporation decision, but there is still work to be done.

“We’re glad that the trend of the levels rising has been stopped,” Herbert said. “This is a very positive first step. This is obviously not the end of the line, so we’re going to continue working on a longterm restructuring on the contribution. But our goal all along was to freeze the contribution for this year.”

Nickolas Brooks ’17 said he is very pleased that the student effort amount will remain the same for the next academic year, since working more hours in order to meet a higher tuition would place a burden on many students.

But YCC representative Tyler Blackmon ’16, who co-authored the YCC financial aid report and is a staff columnist for the News, said he is disappointed that University administrators have not set forth any plans to eventually decrease or eliminate the student income contribution.

“I think there’s a temptation to say this is a victory because they froze the levels at the current levels, but I think that’s a very low bar,” Blackmon said. “The administration has still not put forward any plans over the long term to decrease or eliminate the student income contribution, and there’s still no sense from the administration that the student income contribution is too high.”

Four of five students interviewed agreed with Blackmon, noting that the administration did not release any information about how long the levels would be frozen for or announce any future plans for altering the student effort.

For the 2015–16 academic year, students not receiving financial aid will be responsible for $62,200, in comparison to the $59,800 undergraduate bill for the 2014–15 academic year. Students on financial aid will not pay an increased amount, since aid packages are automatically adjusted to offset changes in the term bill.

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

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Admins need to be transparent with students, Herbert says YCC ADMINS FROM PAGE 1 them,” Holloway said. “I take the YCC seriously. I understand why [Herbert’s] frustration led to that kind of declaration [about distrust in the administration], but I’m never going to give in to grandstanding politics.”

Rogers added that while the review committee is certainly taking the YCC’s recommendations seriously, it also solicited its own data in the form of a survey distributed earlier this semester to all recently readmitted students. Many of the survey’s responses move beyond just the scope of concerns detailed in the YCC reports, he said.

Still, Rogers said both the YCC report and the survey’s results will play an important role in the committee’s work.

Rogers added that he would not commit to Herbert’s request because he wanted to leave the committee with some leeway.

“To restrict the committee’s work to a point-by-point engagement with the proposals set forth in one document might restrict the scope of the review,” he said.

But Herbert said that while the YCC has been pleased with the dialogue it has had with Holloway regarding reforms within the college, the administration’s response during the mental health forum was indicative of barriers encountered

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Herbert acknowledged the confluence of factors that must go into every administrative decision, but expressed a desire for more transparency.

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Students i n te rv i ewe d acknowledged limits to the YCC’s influence, but agreed that student support for YCC initiatives can increase their effectiveness.

Holloway echoed students’ words about the importance of widespread support for student government, saying it would be better if more students “believed in” the YCC. Ultimately, Holloway said, no administrator acts alone.

Indeed, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs Pamela George, who chairs the readmission

committee, said that while she independently promised Herbert to address all of the YCC’s recommendations on readmission by the end of the school year, those were the only recommendations she could address, adding that she in no way intended to usurp her colleagues or senior administration. “[Other administrators and I] have to work collaboratively to represent our constituencies [and] to put the best plan forward,” Holloway said. “It’s not always going to be a YCC win.

But we are listening.”

Contact VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu and JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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“We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?.” WILL ROGERS AMERICAN COWBOY

State launches Business Finder app

BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER To help residents access supplies during natural disasters and storms, the state has launched a new online application, Business Finder, that provides updated information on business hours.

Announced on Monday by Gov. Dannel Malloy and the Connecticut Department for Consumer Protection, the web-based, mobile-optimized database will help users find pharmacies, locations to receive dialysis, grocery stores and gas stations in the case of a natural disaster, storm or other type of emergency.

In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Malloy said he believes the app will contribute to the progress he has made in the state’s emergency preparedness, which has largely been through the Emergency Planning and Preparedness Initiative launched in 2012.

“From our experiences with all of the storms, we’ve learned a lot, and I think Connecticut has evolved,” Malloy said. “We’ve passed major legislation on preparation, we drill every year and this is another step to make sure that the lessons we learn where people get nervous about gas or access to pharmacies or dialysis are going to have a one-stop shop.”

In addition to locating the nearest available resources, the app will also provide directions to the indicated location. The app can function on any computer or smartphone with Internet access. The website runs on major browsers such as Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox and on both Macs and PCs, as well as iPhones and other mobile devices.

Vincent Candelora, the state representative on the Public Health and Regulations Review Committee, said that the app will be particularly helpful because it can be accessed on a mobile phone during power outages.

The website will record up-todate information, including when the website was last updated. Businesses voluntarily opt in to be listed on the

website and can update whether they are functioning with limited hours or operating without power or phone service.

The app uses a geo-positioning function, so users can immediately find for nearby options, or they can enter a street address, town and zip code.

In the statement released on Monday, John Gadea, director of drug control for the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection, said that the app is the first mobile-optimized website that is designed to provide information on pharmacy operations, portable oxygen, home medical supplies and dialysis treatment.

Two out of six Yale students interviewed said they would use the app in a state of emergency to locate necessary supplies.

Selena Maitui ’18 said she thinks the University adequately provides for students in emergency situations, and that she would probably not use the app.

Issey Norman-Ross ’15 echoed her sentiment, but added that she might use the app if she needed medical supplies such as a prescription.

“It sounds like a great idea,” said Shane Kim ’17. “If it came down to a terrible situation and the University couldn’t provide what I needed, I would use the app.”

Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81, New Haven’s economic development administrator, said that as a result of global warming, the number of natural disasters has recently increased, causing the city and state to put added resources into emergency preparation. He added that the app addresses the transition to a realtime response through technology in case of emergency.

According to data from the National Weather Service, February ended with an average daily temperature of 16.1 degrees, which is a new record for the coldest month in greater Hartford since 1904.

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

WA LIU/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The online application for use during natural disasters and severe weather, comes as part of a state movement for greater emergency preparedness.

opening lecture

Songs without Words: The Romantic Experience

Thursday, March 5 5:30 pm J O S E P H L E O KO E R N E R Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Robert L. McNeil Jr. Lecture Hall Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund

Lecture in conjunction with the opening of

The Critique of Reason: R O M A N T I C A RT,

17 6 0 – 186 0

Exhibition co-organized by the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art On view through July 26 at the Yale University Art Gallery John Constable, Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames—Morning after a Stormy Night (detail) 1829, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Juvenile sentencing bill gains traction

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER The third time’s the charm when it comes to juvenile sentencing reform, according to state Republicans.

Testimonies from government officials, medical professionals, advocates and family members of juvenile offenders in front of the Judiciary Committee Wednesday afternoon skewed in support of a bill that would allow criminal offenders the chance to receive parole for crimes committed as minors.

This is the third consecutive year a version of this “second look” bill has been raised by state Democrats. In the previous two years, the bill passed the House but died each time before reaching a vote on the Senate floor. According to the CT Mirror and CT News Junkie, Democratic leaders did not call a vote on the bill in 2014 due to a planned Republican filibuster and 20 controversial amendments that Republicans had attached to the bill.

But this year, Republican State Sen. John Kissel, ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, said the bill will see strong support from both parties.

“I see the final version [of the bill] having an extraordinarily high chance of passing out of this committee and this legislature this year,” Kissel said at the hearing.

The bill aims to align Connecticut’s juvenile sentencing policies with two U.S. Supreme Court rulings from the past five years. A 2010 decision from the Graham v. Florida case states that juvenile offenders cannot be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for non-homicide offenses, while the decision from the 2012 Miller v. Alabama case makes mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders without the possibility of parole unconstitutional.

Last week, in the State of Connecticut v. Ackeem Riley, the Connecticut Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing hearing for a man sentenced to life without parole for a murder he committed months prior to his 18th birthday. However,

the majority opinion, penned

by Justice Andrew McDonald, deferred to the state legislature in implementing the Graham v.

Florida decision.

At the hearing Wednesday, Kissel noted that, prior to the decision’s release, Republican senators and members of the Sentencing Commission had met and compromised over the bill.

From the victim’s perspective, the age of the offender does not lessen the impact suffered.

NATASHA PIERRE State victim advocate Republican Minority Leader Len Fasano said that, in prior years, the state’s nonpartisan Sentencing Commission, in working on the bill, had overextended beyond what Republicans felt the Supreme Court decisions called for. He added that this year, the two parties came to an agreement by adding certain specifications to the bill. These adjustments include the limitation of the bill to only Class A and B felonies — two of the most serious crimes recognized under Connecticut law — as well as the notification of victims if and when a criminal offender’s sentence would be reviewed.

Proponents of the sentencing reform have cited scientific evidence showing brain development which occurs during and after adolescence, arguing that, as offenders age into adulthood, they cannot always be held responsible for the same crime they committed as a youth. Proponents also say that with rehabilitation programs provided by the Department of Corrections, offenders can prove their maturity.

Marc Levin, policy director of Right on Crime, a conservative criminal justice initiative based in Texas, noted that the age of juvenile offenders often correlates to issues of mental illness, child abuse and neglect. He

added that when offenders are out of environments that may have contributed to these conditions, cognitive and behavioral therapy can help address their delinquency.

However, State Victim Advocate Natasha Pierre voiced concerns with the bill.

“From the victim’s perspective, the age of the offender does not lessen the impact suffered by the victim,” Pierre said during her testimony.

Pierre added that although the state’s Office of the Victim Advocate agrees with some of the bill’s principles, the bill must be inspected with concern to the victims of the juvenile offenders. Pierre cited an example of a defendant who had attempted multiple murder-carjackings as a juvenile, as well as the problems that might arise when a released defendant returns to live in the same community as his or her victim.

Still, Kissel said at the hearing that the bill would address the Supreme Court decisions in a cost-effective manner, enabling a drop in appeals, as well as placing less of a burden on the public defender’s office and the state attorney’s office.

John Santa, chairman of the board of the Malta Justice Initiative, a criminal justice reform advocacy group, stressed that “second look” legislation aims not to free offenders but merely to review their sentences.

Alan Bruce, director of criminal justice at Quinnipiac University, concurred, adding that although victim needs are also of utmost concern, individuals considered for a second chance will have still served lengthy prison sentences and will have “most certainly been punished for their acts.”

Santa also said that Gov. Dannel Malloy’s Second Chance Society Initiative, a set of criminal justice reform proposals unveiled in February, sets the tone for the way proposed legislation like the “second look” bill are approached this session.

“There’s a climactic change in the whole concept of criminal justice,” Santa said.

Contact MICHELLE LIU at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

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AROUND THE IVIES

“Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.”

DON MARQUIS AMERICAN HUMORIST

THE DARTMOUTH

T H E B R O W N D A I LY H E R A L D

Campus questions alcohol policy

Brown drops charges against student

BY KELSEY FLOWER Yesterday’s announcement of the details for the implementation of the hard alcohol ban, stipulated by “Moving Dartmouth Forward,” spurred discussion and has caused students and experts to question the likely effectiveness of the sanctions.

The changes to the alcohol policy include harsher punishments for the possession of hard alcohol, while punishments for possession or consumption of beer or wine will remain the same. A student found to be in possession of or to have consumed hard alcohol will face probation for a first offense, a oneterm suspension for a second offense and a two-term suspension for a third offense.

College organizations that provide alcohol to others will have their recognition suspended for one term following the first offense and face a one-year suspension following a second offense.

If another incident occurs within the three-year period following the one-year suspension, the organization will permanently lose recognition.

Ralph Hingson, director of the division of epidemiology and prevention research at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and a member of the external “Moving Dartmouth Forward” review panel, said that he believes that whenever a university tries an innovative approach to address alcohol problems with college students, it is worth evaluating.

While he has not met with the new review board yet and cannot speak for them, he did offer his personal take on the new policy implementation.

Hingson said that since the policy is not eliminating alcohol altogether, some

DARTMOUTH

may be skeptical that changing the type of alcohol students drink

will solve issues.

He added, however, that the policy is worth implementing and evaluating.

“I think that there are questions that ought to be resolved and evaluated, and I think that Dartmouth has some excellent researchers that can undertake that evaluation,” Hingson said.

Evaluation methods that Hingson said are important include surveying student opinion and measuring disciplinary actions before and after the ban. With the right evaluation, he said he thinks Dartmouth can “improve its programming and help other colleges and universities grappling with the same issues.”

Three outside alcohol policy experts criticized the ban and remained doubtful about its implementation.

“I have some concerns about this approach because students can get drunk and experience serious harm if they drink too much wine or beer as well as with distilled spirits,” Traci Toomey, an epidemiology and community health professor at University of Minnesota, said.

“I am not sure if policy will greatly reduce harm when looking across a whole range of alcohol-related problems.”

Toomey said that she hopes that Dartmouth will evaluate the many potential positive and negative consequences of the policy as it plays out.

David Hanson, an expert on collegiate alcohol policy and a professor emeritus of sociology at the State Uni-

versity of New York at Potsdam, said he thinks that there is “plenty of reason to believe that the policy won’t work.”

Hanson said he thinks that when something is prohibited it “doesn’t really prohibit the consumption, but rather changes the venue and drives people underground into very unregulated environments where there is no control.” He thinks that this may exacerbate high-risk drinking instead.

Hanson believes that other policies that have had positive effects in the past could be pursued instead. He suggested social norms marketing as an alternative strategy, which can help people realize their misconceptions that other people drink more than they do and then choose to drink less themselves.

He also suggested a system that other colleges use where an outside company monitors and takes legal and financial responsibility for policy violations that occur at a specific event. The company then has an incentive to make sure people do not overdrink, he said.

Adam Barry, a health education professor at Texas A&M University and the chair of the American College Health Association’s Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Coalition, said he thinks that the ban is a “little shortsighted” because there are health consequences resulting from all types of alcohol, not just hard liquor.

“Eliminating hard liquor will not eliminate alcoholrelated consequences. You do run the risk of students getting innovative with how they drink, what they drink, where they drink,” Barry said, adding that he is not sure if a policy like this can truly keep students from consuming hard liquor.

BY JOSEPH ZAPPA Brown will not proceed with a hearing against the Phi Kappa Psi member initially charged with serving a drink containing the date-rape drug GHB at a party held by the fraternity in October, according to multiple documents reviewed by The Herald.

In a two-sentence letter dated Feb. 21, Brown informed the two female students who filed complaints against the fraternity member that the hearing would not move forward due to insufficient evidence after a second drug test was thrown out.

In her response later that day, one of the two women expressed surprise at the hearing’s cancellation, writing that administrators had previously said that Brown would hold a hearing based on the strength of witness testimony alone. The complainant also asked for a written explanation of the Brown’s reasoning.

Yolanda Castillo-Appollonio, associate dean of Student Life and director of Student Conduct, responded March 2 to the two women that, in the absence of any conclusively positive drug test, there was not a strong enough case to proceed with charges against the student.

Castillo-Appollonio did not respond to emails and voicemails from The Herald requesting comment.

Margaret Klawunn, vice president for Campus Life and Student Services, told The Herald Tuesday, “All student complaints are handled carefully, and all evidence is considered.” She declined to comment on the specific case, citing “federal guidelines.”

Just under a week after starting to investigate the student’s role

in the incident, Brown brought charges against him Dec. 1 0, according to CastilloBROWN Appollonio’s email.

After a hair test came back “inconclusive due to an error in how the test was run,” Brown planned to proceed with the hearing given the complainants’ testimony and a urine test believed at the time to be definitively positive, according to the email.

But after an independent toxicologist — who conveyed his findings to Brown Feb. 5 — found the urine test inconclusive as well, administrators decided that “there was not enough [evidence] to move forward against any one individual,” Castillo-Appollonio wrote.

Brown announced that the urine test had been deemed inconclusive Feb. 21 — the same day it notified the two women it was dropping charges against the accused student.

Questioning the decision, one of the complainants cited Brown’s findings from the Phi Psi appeal hearing, which indicated that the two women had experienced severely reduced motor and cognitive capacity as a result of having “imbibed a substance.”

“So why were the charges against the individual that served us the substance dropped?” the complainant asked in her email to Castillo-Appollonio.

Brown offered the complainants a second hair test when the urine test was still considered positive, according to an email

exchange between one of them and Castillo-Appollonio in early January.

“I agreed to get the hair test because I was told it would aid my case even though it was an incredibly difficult experience having a large quantity of my hair removed,” the complainant wrote. “It seems extraordinarily unfair to have to forego more of my hair because of mistakes committed by Brown.”

After the urine test was deemed inconclusive, administrators canceled the hearing without checking to see whether the lack of physical evidence had made the complainants reconsider the option to undergo another hair test, the two women told The Herald.

Klawunn declined to comment on communications between the complainants and Brown regarding the possibility of a second hair test.

Though the absence of any conclusively positive GHB tests led Brown to cancel the hearing against the accused student, witness statements and other evidence were enough to uphold the ruling against Phi Psi as an organization, according to a March 1 campus-wide email. The fraternity was sanctioned with loss of recognition and on-campus housing for four years and was given the right to petition for reinstatement in two-and-a-half years.

“The final finding and sanction against Phi Kappa Psi did not rely on the results of any physical drug tests,” administrators wrote.

Klawunn declined to comment on this case in particular, but she noted that, in general, stronger evidence is required to prove that an individual is “responsible for a specific, intentional action.”

C L AU DIA R AN KI N E

T H E C O L U M B I A S P E C TAT O R

Diversity committee may form

BY DANNY LI The Columbia Senate executive committee will vote on March 27 to approve a proposed committee on the status of underrepresented minorities at Columbia. If approved, the committee would begin student outreach by the end of the semester.

University Senators Ramis Wadood and Jillian Ross proposed the committee and are leading the senate’s efforts to address the issue of diversity on campus.

Wadood and Ross said the committee would not work directly with Executive Vice President Suzanne Goldberg’s committee on race, ethnicity, and equal justice, which was announced in January, though the two committees will communicate with each other.

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger’s announcement on the creation of Goldberg’s committee said that the group would “develop a slate of programs to add to those that naturally occur on our campus which consider issues of race, ethnicity and equal justice in our society.”

“Goldberg’s committee is working on something completely different,” Ross said.

“Her approach is a more philosophical aspect of diversity.

They will have conversations about what diversity means today through panels and discussions.”

Ross hopes that the unified body the senate committee will create will be more conducive to effective policy making.

“Having one committee that unites everyone together allows us to point out issues of diversity and bias. It makes it easier to come up with new policies to address those

issues,” R o s s said.

T h e senate c o m mittee COLUMBIA isp rbeing o posed, according to Ross and Wadood, as a way to combat the lack of unity in diversity programming across the schools.

“We saw that there was a lot of good programming on the undergraduate level that was missing on the graduate level and also a lot of things missing on both the undergraduate and graduate levels overall,” Ross said. “We wanted to bring together undergraduates, graduates, professional students, administration and faculty.”

According to Ross, the proposed committee hopes to focus specifically on expanding programs of the Office of Multicultural Affairs across all Columbia schools, not just those at the undergraduate level.

“Through the senate, we’ve talked to graduate students and professional students, and they also noticed a lack of programming, and I think that’s something we definitely want to focus on immediately,” Ross said.

Wadood noted that the committee, which would include students, faculty and administrators, will focus on representing student voices if approved.

“We want to make sure this doesn’t get morphed to something else. It is a body that represents students, that speaks for students, and ensures that our policies represent minorities,” Wadood added.

Wadood said that the proposal has been met with “pretty much overwhelming support except for a little skepticism about the effectiveness of the committee.”

“In terms of the meaning and purpose, we’ve seen pretty much broad support,” Wadood said.

In order to address the skepticism, Wadood and Ross said they would create a continuous feedback process that would involve both the student and faculty bodies.

“Something we want to do after it’s passed is have some form of town hall or public feedback for students and faculty to have them submit things they want to get worked on and have that conversation going immediately,” Ross said. “We want our agenda to be fluid and open so everyone can contribute to it.”

The Asian American Alliance outreach chair, Jack Chen, sees this proposed committee as an opportunity that could lead to more meaningful conversation about campus diversity.

“I hope that the new committee helps foster a more thoughtful conversation on campus regarding what it means to truly embrace diversity,” Chen said in an email. “I believe that it’s important to not see people through a onedimensional lens, but instead recognize that who we are — and how we see and experience everyday life — is shaped by a complex intersection of factors such as race, education, sexual orientation, nationality and socioeconomic status.”

Ross and Wadood said that the committee would hold town hall meetings and develop other mechanisms that will be used to compile suggestions are still in the works.

POETRY R EADI NG AN D CONVERSATION Wednesday, March 5 5 PM at Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 101 63 High Street, New Haven Claudia Rankine’s latest collection of poetry, Citizen: An American Lyric, was a finalist for the National Book Award and is currently a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in two categories: poetry and criticism. Her other collections include Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004) and Nothing in Nature is Private (1994), which won the Cleveland State Poetry Prize.

Rankine has been awarded fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lannan Foundation. In 2013, she was elected as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and in 2014 she received a Lannan Literary Award.

She has taught at the University of Houston, Case Western Reserve University, Barnard College, and Pomona College.

Co-Sponsored by the Schlesinger Visiting Writers Series of the English Department, the James Weldon Johnson Collection at the Beinecke Library, the African American Studies Department, and the Graduate Poets Reading Series.

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SPORTS

“You live by the three, you die by the three.

Well, we lived 62 times.”

MIKE D’ANTONI FORMER HEAD COACH OF THE PHOENIX SUNS

Montague embodies new era of basketball MONTAGUE FROM PAGE 12 place in the starting lineup this season, that was not always the case in his career at Yale, despite his expectations. Montague acknowledges that as a freshman, he felt like he could make a big impact, but he was young, not as strong and not as experienced as the other players on the team.

“What really helped Jack was his strength and getting in the weight room,” head coach James Jones said. “When he first got to Yale he struggled to defend people and was a liability in that way. He really made himself much bigger and stronger and got himself in a situation where he can compete with anybody physically, which really helps him on the court.”

In Jones’s system, players rarely make meaningful contributions during their freshman seasons, and Jones expects players to develop and help the team during their sophomore years. Montague has followed this trajectory almost to a T — he appeared in just nine games during his firstyear campaign, averaging 4.8 minutes per contest before playing 11.7 minutes per game his second season. In 2014–15, Montague is third on the team with 29.8 minutes per game, and he is one of just three players to have started all 29 games for the Elis this season.

But to get to this stage, Montague has had to make adjustments to his game. At Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Tennessee, Montague was a dominant ball handler and more of a true point guard who distributed the ball to his teammates, averaging 17 points and seven assists per game during his senior season. But at Yale, he has learned to play alongside other facilitators, and has grown into the role of a shooter.

“I see my role as being one of the primary shooters on the team as well as being another guard who can handle the ball, run the offense [and] get us into motion or whatever play that we’re running,” Montague said. “After one season, I realized that if I’m going to play … this is going to have to be my role. I’m going to have to be different from Nick [Victor ’16] or Javier [Duren ’15] or Armani [Cotton ’15] by shooting more.

As a player you just really want to play, so whatever that role seems to be, you just try to figure that out through playing, working out on your own, and talking to the coaches.”

For Yale, Montague’s willingness to embrace this role has fulfilled the expectations set for him and given the Bulldogs’ offense a different look this season.

AN ADDED DIMENSION

The three-point shot has become a valuable weapon for teams across the league, but especially for the Bulldogs this season as part of their successful, multifaceted offensive attack.

In the last few years, Jones’ teams have been known for their rebounding abilities and interior play near the basket, as evidenced by the emergence of forward Justin Sears ’16 as an unstoppable force in the paint last season. But this season, the team has shifted toward a more balanced offense that has seen a rise in the number of shots taken from long range and their conversion at a higher percentage.

“I think last year [the offense] was a little more [focused] exclusively on interior play for us, but now it’s more of a balance between the [interior and perimeter play],” Sears said. “Jack, Javier and Armani, they’re very good shooters and they’re successful [outside] because we’re a very strong interior team … We’re successful inside because we’re able to spread out the offense because we shoot the three. We just have a good balance between the two.”

Last season, Yale, which finished second in the Ivy League, attempted 16.1 shots from behind the arc per game, hitting 5.3 on average for a 32.9 shooting percentage from three. Improvements in perimeter play this year, coinciding with Montague’s rise as a shooter, have led to 19.0 three-point attempts per game from the Bulldogs at a clip of 37.1 percent, or 7.1 made per contest.

In roughly the same number of possessions per game, this improved shooting from long range has boosted the team’s offense, which scores nearly two points more per outing this season than it did last season. The differences have become even

more pronounced during the Ivy League campaign, as a slower pace of play in the conference season leads to fewer possessions.

“We’ve certainly made more threes because of Jack’s accuracy,” Jones said. “But Javier has improved his percentage and so has Armani Cotton, so that really added to our team having multiple guys who can knock down shots from the outside.”

The team’s improved ability at shooting the three, however, can-

open look for a shooter.”

Mason concurred, adding that three-point shooters are a constant threat on offense. He noted that the floor opens up, and the paint in particular is less crowded, as defenders are unable to help off of knockdown shooters.

Defenses are forced to pick their poison, as opponents can be hurt inside going one-onone against Sears, attacked in the paint by a slashing guard like Duren or stabbed with a dagger

tum. “[Three-pointers are] momentum changers,” Jones said. “All of a sudden, an eight-point lead becomes five. All of a sudden, a seven-point lead becomes 10 …

There’s nothing more frustrating for a defense than to get beat with a layup or with a three-point shot.

That’s why it’s such an important part of the game.”

A recent case in point was Yale’s home game against the Penn Quakers on Feb. 28. The Bulldogs were trailing by four with less than four minutes to play when Montague drained a three to cut the deficit to one point. His long range bullet spurred an 11–0 run, to which he contributed six points on two three-pointers, helping the Elis to a 55–50 win.

The three-pointer has become integral to the flow of the Bulldogs’ offense this season thanks to Montague’s sharpshooting. It remains to be seen whether the Elis build off of this year’s model and shoot more threes in the future or return to a style focused on interior play.

AN ANALYTICAL REVOLUTION

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Despite the prowess of guard Jack Montague ’16 from behind the arc, Yale is only second in the Ivy League in three-point shooting percentage. not completely account for the team’s improved offensive play this season. Three-point shooters are just as, if not more, valuable for their ability to space the floor and give other players on the court extra room to operate on offense.

As teams hope to avoid giving up wide open looks to Montague, the league’s best threepoint shooter for whom a three is “almost like a layup” according to guard Makai Mason ’18, defenders hesitate to help against guards driving in the lane or forwards posting up down low. Thus, both guards and forwards benefit from the presence of a reliable threepoint shooter on the court.

“Having a three-point shooter on the floor, it’s hard to help off of him,” Montague said. “It basically just opens up the floor for the other four players. If you’re setting a ball screen, it’s hard for that defender to help off a shooter. You can’t play the penetration lanes as much. You basically have to know where that shooter is at all times, chasing through screens. If you don’t, it’s really easy to find an

of a three by Montague. In fact, Montague noted that adversaries often can only pick to defend the key or allow themselves to be vulnerable around the rim.

“The three-point shot puts a lot of pressure on the defense,” Duren said. “I think especially with our team, we have such an inside presence that teams really key in on that. So, it’s hard to get that [presence] initially, but when we start hitting shots from threepoint range, it opens [the inside] up, and it makes it a lot harder for [the defense] to stop our offense when we are not only hitting twos but also hitting threes.”

The team has such incredible confidence in Montague’s consistency from three-point range that Duren believes making him part of the offense is one of Yale’s keys to winning. Montague’s ability to score has taken pressure off of Sears and Duren, who combine to score 41.3 percent of the team’s points each game.

But perhaps another reason the three-point shot remains important to teams is the fact that a three can quickly shift momen-

In economics, risk premiums refer to the price an actor pays in order to avoid a given level of risk.

The flaw of paying such risk premiums is that said actor forgoes the opportunity to maximize his potential value in favor of a less risky alternative with a lower ceiling.

In basketball, risk premiums may as well refer to the distinctive arc precisely 20.75 feet away from the rim in regulation NCAA play. A matter of inches separates a made basket from being worth two points versus three — the allure of the arc seems so inviting, yet few teams fully invest in capitalizing on the advantageous extra point.

Rather, risk-averse teams pay a price — that of failing to capitalize on their maximum potential offensive production — to avoid the prospects of an off night in which their shooters go cold from deep. Such teams willingly lower their potential ceiling in order to raise their floor, lowering the chances for a spectacular scoring night in order to try to avoid a possibly catastrophic offensive performance, even though their actions hurt them in the long run.

Thus, the premise behind the contemporary push in basketball toward more reliance on the three-point attempt is unsurprising; that teams have not fully embraced such an approach is the real surprise.

“I think that because analytics have become prevalent in college basketball and all of athletics, it’s something that coaches take into consideration now,” Jones said.

“I am not a big analytics guy. I’m more of an eye test guy; I like to see it happen. I watch tape, and I can tell you who the guys we need

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to stop on the other team are. I don’t need to look at statistics, but they certainly can help from time to time.”

Whereas Jones might be categorized as a reluctant believer, acknowledging the merit of the statistical analysis that has engulfed the sports world, an example on the extreme end of the spectrum can be found at the professional level.

The Houston Rockets, led by general manager and analytical guru Daryl Morey, have launched the most three-pointers in the NBA the past three seasons, based on the simple calculation that even if shooting from beyond the arc might mean a slightly lower shooting percentage, the marginal benefit of those extra points makes it worthwhile.

Such a game plan, however, is slightly more nuanced. A look at the numbers reveals that for the 2014–15 season, 36.1 percent of Yale’s attempts from the field are from beyond the arc, and rather expectedly, Montague leads the way at 68.5 percent. The Rockets are not all that far in front of the Bulldogs, as 40.2 percent of their attempts from the floor are from deep.

In fact, rival Ivy schools Princeton and Columbia each shoot a higher percentage of three-pointers than the Rockets. Where the nuance comes into play is the disparity in available data between the NBA and Ivy League basketball.

The Rockets also value shots in the paint, close to the basket, based on the idea that layups by guard James Harden and dunks by center Dwight Howard are more efficient than longer twopoint shots. As a result, the Rockets have taken only 15.7 percent of their shot attempts from that midrange area. Not only is it by far the lowest percentage in the league, but it is 20.5 percent fewer than taken by the worst team in the league this season, the New York Knicks.

While data is not readily avail-

able for Ivy squads, one can safely assume the Elis have not nearly begun to streamline their offense to such proportions. Sears and fellow forward Matt Townsend ’15 are both known to take their fair share of jumpers from the 15- to 18-foot range, and both are comfortable with taking such shots. “[The two-point jumper] has always been a comfortable shot for me,” Townsend said. “Most of the basketball analytics guys hate that [shot] but the coaches have told me that I shoot it at a high enough rate that it actually is a good shot … I felt I could contribute more sticking with the two but I think a big part of our success this year has been guys being able to shoot from three as well as they have been.”

While the numbers can begin to paint a picture of what the prototypical offense might look like, there are still variables yet to be readily explained.

Perhaps most important in Montague’s case is his aforementioned ability to space the court as a threat teams cannot ignore, adding another dimension to the team’s offense that has created room for the team’s two leading scorers, Duren and Sears, to operate in the lane.

The numbers may not yet be able to put a precise value on Montague’s ability to space the court, and the number of baskets Montague creates for the likes of Duren and Sears simply by stretching the defense may never be accurately defined.

As a consequence, Montague’s true value to the Elis may never be appropriately measured.

But if his play can help secure the Bulldogs their first Ivy championship in over a decade, and their first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1962, then his value will be found sitting in a Yale trophy case.

Contact JAMES BADAS at james.badas@yale.edu and ASHLEY WU at ashley.e.wu@yale.edu .

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Yale takes Battle of the Bulldogs LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 back and threatened the Elis with eight of their own goals. But in the end, Yale stood its ground and finished the game by finding the net one last time with 18 seconds left on the board, ending with a 12–8 score.

“We have really stepped up our game recently and valued possession all over the field,” defender Flannery Carney ’16 said.

Keeping the ball in Bulldog hands was crucial in staying ahead of Bryant. Along with possession, the Elis also greatly prioritized the ability to capitalize when the opportunity presents itself. The team had 23 total shots and converted on 12 of them, in comparison to Bryant’s 24 shots with only eight scored. Captain Kerri Fleishhacker ’15 tallied three goals against Bryant, while midfielders Taryn Gallagher ’18 and Lauren Wackerle ’16 scored their first goals of the season in this game.

We came out flat in the second half. Bryant had a few quick goals, and they gained some confidence and momentum. We didn’t panic VICTORIA MOORE ’17 While the offensive push was present throughout the game, the defense was also doing its share of the work on the other end of the field. A force proving to be formidable force against Bryant was goalkeeper Erin Mullins ’15, who was named Ivy League Co-Defensive Player of the Week this past Monday. Mullins had a perfect save percentage during the 30 minutes that she played in the first half, putting her teammates in a great

position entering the second half.

At the start of the second half, the Bryant Bulldogs clearly decided that they did not want to be sent back to the pound yet. Throughout the second half, Bryant slowly worked to close the score gap.

With 5:11 remaining on the clock, Bryant had countered with six goals to make the score 11–6. Even with Bryant gaining on its tail, Yale managed to remain confident.

“We came out flat in the second half.

Bryant had a few quick goals, and they gained some confidence and momentum,” defender Victoria Moore ’17 said.

“We didn’t panic.”

According to midfielder Kelly Anne Sherlock ’16, the Bulldogs’ shots were not getting past the Bryant goalkeeper like they were in the first half, which allowed Bryant to get back into the game. Daja Andrews, Bryant’s goalie in the first half, saved only two out of 11 Eli shots. She was then replaced by Samantha Santeramo, who allowed just three of Yale’s eight total shots to find the back of the net.

Attacker AnnaElise Morello ’16, a staff reporter for YTV, thought that the increase in turnovers in the second half for the Elis also let Bryant stay competitive towards the end of the game. Yale committed nine turnovers in the second half and 15 for the whole game, while Bryant only turned the ball over 11 times.

Despite the Yale women’s lacrosse team struggling a little bit more in the second half, the Elis were able to withstand Bryant’s late run, as attacker Erin Magnuson ’15 solidified the win on a free position shot in the final moments of the game.

“At the end of the day, we pulled it together,” Morello said.

The women’s lacrosse team begins its Ivy League conference slate this Saturday in a home game against Cornell at 11 a.m.

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

Elis travel to Georgia, SoCal GOLF FROM PAGE 12 allows players to focus on maintaining the feel and executing technical issues that they might have wanted to work on even after the fall season.

Despite not being able to practice out on the course, both teams are confident in their abilities and are looking forward to the start of the spring season.

“We’re ranked much higher than any other Ivy League team,” Will Bernstein ’18 said. “If we keep up what we did in the fall season, we could do big things in the spring.”

Head coach for the men’s team, Colin Sheehan ’97, said he does not have an established roster for this season. He added that his roster has so much depth that it is impossible to know which player will make an impact on a weekly basis, which “is a wonderful position to be in.”

Head coach for the women’s team Chawwadee Rompothong ’00 also has high hopes for this season. Although Rompothong said she would love to win the Ivy championship, her ultimate goal for the team is to qualify for the NCAA National Championship, which would require the Bulldogs to win the Ivies and then place in the top eight at Regionals.

Although the women’s team shows a strong performance all around, one of their key players during the fall season, Sandy Wongwaiwate ’17, dislocated her kneecap playing intramural basketball. She is currently undergoing physical therapy but might be able to come back by the end of March or early April, according to Rompothong.

“I am relying on Sara Garmezy [’17] and Caroline Rouse [’15] to step up their game like they have done in the past to help fill the void of Sandy,” Rompothong said.

Despite their current strong standings, both teams are mindful of their potential adversaries. Both the men’s and the women’s team have their eye on rival Harvard, which is currently placed second in the men’s Ivy rankings and first in the wom-

Bye week as a training camp HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 has secured a first-round bye and home-ice advantage in the quarterfinals.

As players like defender Rob O’Gara ’16 noted, the team hopes to utilize the bye week to gain a leg up on potential opponents.

“Having home ice is always nice to have because you have the crowd on your side and of course we are excited to have that one more weekend this year,” O’Gara said. “Having the week off is beneficial, not having to travel is nice and being able to keep our homegame routine one more weekend in the playoffs can definitely be seen as an advantage for us.”

Head Coach Keith Allain ’80 also explained that home-ice advantage is especially crucial because it provides Yale with the advantage of the last change of skaters during the game. This way, the Bulldogs are able to ensure that they can effectively match lines with the opposing team’s skaters.

The Elis will need every advantage they can get as they go up against some of the most dominant squads in Division I this season. The last two winners of the men’s ice hockey NCAA tournament have come from the ECAC — Yale and Union — and the conference has combined for nearly 100 Frozen Four appearances since the inception of the tournament in 1948.

An Eli defense that has been stellar all season, averaging a nation-best 1.55 goals per game, could face some serious threats from offensive powerhouses in the conference. Goaltender Alex Lyon ’17, who finished the regular season with the nation’s best save percentage, 0.940, and the highest number of shutouts, six, may face offensive threats from teams like Harvard and Union. The 2014 National Champions feature the No. 1 goal scorer in Daniel Ciampini, while the Crimson boast the No. 3 scorer in Jimmy Vesey.

Meanwhile, Yale’s offense, which has been spotty at points throughout the season, will need to enter the tournament in top form if the Bulldogs hope to reclaim the title for the first time since 2011. The Elis currently sit at No. 35 out of 59 teams in Division I in terms of offensive production, averaging 2.69 goals per game, behind five other ECAC competitors including conference rival Quinnipiac.

But as forward Trent Ruffolo ’15 noted, the team has not altered its practice plans for the postseason.

“We are treating our practices leading up to the ECAC tournament like any other normal week,” Ruffolo said. “Our offense hasn’t been preparing any differently than we do under any other circumstances. We consistently try to get better with each and

every practice, and that includes trying to improve our offense.”

Last year, Yale was eliminated from the ECAC tournament by the Bobcats in the quarterfinals after besting Harvard in the first round. The year before that, Yale finished in fourth behind Qunnipiac. If the first round goes off without a single upset and the seeding remains the same, the Bulldogs will once again face the Crimson at Ingalls.

If the Elis can clinch victory in Lake Placid, they will be assured one of the six automatic bids to the NCAA tournament. If not, the other 10 at-large bids will be filled based on the highest PairWise-ranked teams and the Bulldogs currently sit at No. 12 in the rankings along with the Bobcats.

Players noted that the team is doing everything to ensure that they are prepared for the fierce competition.

“Right now we are trying to improve in all aspects and continue to grow as a team both on and off the ice,” forward Ryan Hitchcock ’18 said. “We’re treating this bye week as if it were a training camp and using each day as a weapon.”

Yale will face off against the second-highest seeded team emerging from the first round of the ECAC tournament on March 13–15 at Ingalls.

Contact ALEX WALKER at alex.e.walker@yale.edu .

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The men’s hockey team last won the ECAC tournament in 2011.

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Both the women’s and men’s golf teams will play some of their most competitive tournaments of the year over break. en’s.

Thomas Greenhalgh ’15 said Harvard has good depth to their squad, and that the team would need to be wary. He added that although the Bulldogs should respect all teams, the team that will be able to cause them the most stress is Harvard.

Rompothong added that for the women’s league, Harvard would also be a team to watch, but that Columbia and Princeton could be in the

hunt as well.

“Traditionally, Harvard has been one of our biggest rivals,” Liu said.

“While Boston’s had 104 inches of snow, we look to break records in other ways this semester.”

There are 11 members listed on the women’s golf roster and 10 on the men’s roster.

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

New pool faces fundraising challenges POOL FROM PAGE 12 and divers, this would be a $20 million project out by the Yale Bowl or somewhere else.

But it is not. It is a student life project, a Yale life, a New Haven life, a Connecticut life project, because of the way that Yale has defined it to be, at the center of campus.”

The same winter 2015 issue of ELI magazine reiterated this multi-use statement, saying that the pool could be used by other varsity teams for conditioning as well as by other Yale and community groups.

Director of Athletic Development Alison Cole ’99, who has managed alumni volunteers and assisted central development officers throughout the fundraising phase, echoed Krebs-Dick’s statement that the past four weeks have seen an increase in fundraising activity. She added that she is confident that there will be a new Yale aquatic facility in the near future.

The aquatic center has been designed as a championship facility replacing the current Kiphuth Exhibition Pool with a nine-lane, 50-meter pool and a separate diving well, as well as a connection to the practice pool on the third floor of Payne Whitney Gymnasium.

The current design would fit primarily inside the current footprint of Payne Whitney, but an extension would have to be built to accommodate the size of the new facility.

Krebs-Dick said swimming alumni and Yale development officials are currently working hard to secure pledges until June 30, the end of Yale’s fiscal year and the date at which those involved will have a better idea of total fundraising numbers.

As of last Thursday, all donations to the project have been from swimming and diving alumni, according to Cole.

One of the decisions made after June 30 may be whether or not Yale contributes any funding to the project. According to the ELI magazine article, the project will be fully funded by donors. Clark’s email, however, noted that Director of Athletics Tom Beckett told swimming alumni during the February meeting that he believes Yale may contribute a sum that would significantly lower the amount required by alumni donors.

“Tom Beckett made the following points: Yale is committed to a first class facility as represented by the $47 million plan … We believe that if enough traction is gained by alumni pledges, Yale will contribute what it would cost to renovate the [Kiphuth Exhibition Pool], which we estimate to be between $10 million and $20 million, to the fundraising effort,” Clark wrote in the email.

Beckett, Cole and University Vice President for Development Joan O’Neill were not available for comment on the contents of Clark’s

email when asked whether Yale had confirmed this possibility.

While Beckett told the News that managers of the fundraising project have not come to any decision about the University’s financial participation, he said a full analysis of the new pool’s operating costs has been completed, and that he thinks “a new pool will be much more efficient” than the current Kiphuth Exhibition Pool.

“We are working with the University on all aspects of this,” Beckett said. “We’re working to try and get the participation from the alums, and we are working to get that identified as thoroughly as we possibly can.”

Krebs-Dick noted that while swimming alumni collectively have no opinion about where the new pool should be built, University administrators decided last spring that the new pool should be in Payne Whitney Gymnasium in order to maximize the number of people who could use it.

While she understood this desire by the University, she said this requirement made the project more expensive because of the costs of reconfiguring the left side of Payne Whitney Gymnasium to fit a bigger pool.

“We alumni thought that you could probably build a pool on a blank green space for $20 million to $30 million,” Krebs-Dick said.

“Trying to essentially redesign the left side and put a totally new 50-meter pool and a diving well with capacity for a diving tower, and linking it with the rest of the gym, then you’re looking at a $47 million price tag.”

She added, however, that she walked away from the March 2014 meeting with Salovey happy that Yale had deemed a $47 million project viable.

Cole and others managing the project are still searching for an anchor donor of $10 million or more, including a donor to name the facility after. Krebs-Dick said a main insight of the alumni meeting last month was that there are still potential donors who do not know that the project has been approved by Yale.

One of the ways in which Yale is broadening its search is through donor “relay teams,” a strategy that Cole and the Yale Swimming and Diving Association developed in order to increase alumni awareness of the project.

Four alumni can donate $25,000 each over five years, for a total of $100,000 towards the project. Krebs-Dick said this method has proved effective, as there are significantly more alumni who can donate $25,000 than those who can contribute a figure as large as $100,000.

The Kiphuth Exhibition Pool was built in 1932.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

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Romantic art is perhaps best defined by its refusing definition.

Intensifying the subjective nature of human experience, Romantic artists reached toward willfully indeterminate goals. See if you can define it after this lecture at the Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

FRIDAY, MARCH 6 1:30 PM Artist Talk, Christopher “Daze” Ellis. Though the campus will no doubt be a bit less lively by Friday afternoon, those of you who are still around will not want to miss out on this talk by Happy and Bob Doran Artist-in-Residence at the YUAG Daze Ellis.

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Moving beyond the arc MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY JAMES BADAS AND ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTERS A basketball revolution is underway with no signs of halting, and the mantra of “adapt or die” is more true than ever on the hardwood.

The future of basketball has very nearly become the present. Vanishing are the clear-cut shooting guards or power forwards, falling victim to the emergence of swingman types with wingspans that disrupt on the perimeter, handles that can lead a fast break and strength to finish in the paint.

In years past, diminutive guards could rely solely upon quickness and ball-handling skills to earn their way onto the court, but when there are players now roaming the globe — such as 6’8”, 250-pound LeBron James — who have the agility and lateral quickness to defend even the shiftiest of small guards, a new skill must be developed or expanded upon.

Enter Yale guard Jack Montague ’16. He fails to inspire onlookers with his athleticism, nor does he intimidate defenders with his physical presence. At 5’11 ¾” — he is listed in the program at a clean six feet — and 185 pounds, Montague’s appearance does not cause coaches to lose any sleep the night before a meeting

Yale aims to top ECAC, earn NCAA bid

BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a six-game unbeaten streak and an Ivy League title, the Yale men’s ice hockey team has positioned themselves well for an ECAC tournament run. But the road ahead will certainly prove difficult for the Bulldogs, as they face off against teams from one of the best conferences in college hockey in their quest for an automatic NCAA tournament bid.

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Although Montague has found a

The ECAC tournament will begin on March 6, when the eight lowest-seeded teams will take on one another in a best-of-three series to determine the four that will advance to the quarterfinals, where the Bulldogs will be waiting. The quarterfinals will then take place on March 13–15 before the final four teams advance to the conclusion of the tournament on March 20–21 in Lake Placid. After finishing third in the conference with 28 points, Yale

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Guard Jack Montague ’16 made just 26 threes in his first two seasons on campus, but he has hit 67 this year alone. with Yale.

But his three-point shooting does.

Montague is an ordinary-looking basketball player with an extraordinary skill that is just as coveted in this new era of the game as the 6’8” do-it-all athlete. He can knock

down shots from beyond the arc, and he can do it better than anyone in the Ivy League.

In part thanks to Montague, Yale finds itself two victories away from its first Ivy title since 2002. What teams across all levels of the game are beginning to realize is that the

relationship between proficient three-point shooting and team success is not a mere coincidence.

AN UNEXPECTED TWIST

Kiphuth Pool renovation moving slowly

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER Nearly 12 months after the University added a new aquatic center to its list of capital projects, fundraising efforts by both swimming alumni and the Yale Development Office are well underway. While Yale athletics administrators and Kristin Krebs-Dick ’93, president of the Yale Swimming and Diving Association, are encouraged by recent momentum in fundraising, their $47 million requirement is proving a difficult number to reach.

Yale administrators did not provide an exact figure for the total amount pledged thus far for the pool, but in the winter

2015 issue of ELI magazine, a Yale publication sent to major donors to the University, Yale said that close to $7 million has been contributed.

However, according to an email that Steve Clark ’65, a member of the alumni steering committee formed for the project, sent to other swimming alumni last week, Yale has received approximately $8 million in pledges — slightly more than $5 million from previous fundraising efforts, and about $3 million pledged since University President Peter Salovey met with a group of swimming alumni on March 28, 2014, to begin discussing the project.

Krebs-Dick that fundraising

is beginning to see new momentum after about 100 swimming alumni, mostly from the women’s team, came to campus for the celebration of 40 years of Yale women’s swimming and diving during the weekend of Feb. 7 and 8. The weekend also coincided with a Yale Swimming and Diving Association board meeting, in which alumni discussed a broader search for support in fundraising, which is being managed by the Yale Office of Development.

“Everybody agrees that the swimming alumni alone cannot raise the money for this project,” Krebs-Dick said. “If this were only for the varsity swimmers SEE POOL PAGE 10

Dominant first half spurs Elis The Yale women’s lacrosse team came out on top in a faceoff against Bryant University, the other Bulldogs, of Smithfield, Rhode Island.

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER

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Golf migrates over break Both the men’s and the women’s golf teams are on the road to warmer cities this spring break in order to prepare for the upcoming spring season.

BY NICOLE WELLS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Both teams entered the game with mirroring records of two wins and one loss. At the outset, however, Yale (3–1, 0–0 Ivy) had the stronger desire to gain another win as they prevailed over Bryant (2–2, 0–0 Northeast) on Wednesday largely thanks to nine unanswered goals in the first half. Despite their inauspicious start, the Bryant Bulldogs came

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The renovation plans to replace the current pool with a nine-lane, 50-meter pool and a separate diving well.

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Yale’s 9–0 first half gave the Elis a lead they never relinquished.

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Both teams are coming into 2015 having had a strong fall season. After winning the Princeton Invitational last October, the women’s team is currently ranked No. 65 in the nation and second in the Ivy League behind rival No. 85 Harvard. The men’s team is also building off of its fall season.

Ranked first in the Ivy League, the Bulldogs also boast four of the top 10 individual players in the Ivy League. Although the spring season officially starts on March 11 for the women’s team and March 21 for the men’s, both teams will travel during spring break to

snowless cities in order to prepare for their upcoming tournaments.

“Since spring is a condensed and intense season, the greatest challenge is hitting the ground running,” men’s golf captain Will Davenport ’15 said. “I think the structure of our spring break trip is such that we will be as prepared as possible to dive into competition again.”

For spring break, the men’s team is headed to Georgia, where they will spend several days practicing at Sea Island, which Davenport said is one of the best practice facilities in the country.

Following their stop at Sea Island, the Bulldogs will play in one of their most competitive tournaments of the season at Reynolds Plantation and will face the nation’s toughest competition, Davenport said.

The women’s team will also migrate to warmer climates.

The Bulldogs will be training in Southern California for the first

week of spring break and will conclude their time there with a Golfweek-ranked match against San Diego State University at Torrey Pines. Afterwards, they will head to Utah to compete at the Brigham Young University Entrada Classic.

“As you can tell, it’ll be really busy for us since we will be thrown full force into golfing mode, especially after the long winter we’ve been getting,” women’s golf captain Marika Liu ’15 said.

Since the end of the fall season, the Elis have had to practice indoors due to weather conditions. In addition to strength training three times a week, the Elis have also been working with a newly acquired simulator.

Called the TrackMan, the device uses radar technology to analyze precision swings and ball flight. Liu said the TrackMan SEE GOLF PAGE 10

THE THREE-POINT SHOOTING PERCENTAGE FOR GUARD JACK MONTAGUE ’16. The Brentwood, Tennessee native leads the Ivy League in that category and has already made more threes this season than he did in the previous two years combined.