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Domino effect. Harvard, in all

its cleverness and originality, just secured Jessie J to headline its Yardfest concert, which just so happens to take place during its admitted students weekend. Apparently, these are the measures the Cantabs have to go through to convince prefrosh that they’re fun. Bang Bang all over the Ivy League.

Survive and advance. Such is the mentality of the men’s hockey team, which arrived in Manchester, N.H., on Wednesday to prepare for their first-round showdown with Boston University tomorrow. We’d imagine the survival instinct kicks in pretty strongly in the state where you either “Live Free or Die.” Living free. The Human Rights

Foundation and Yale for North Korean Human Rights have assembled quite a cast of former prisoners, refugees, defectors and other all-around interesting people to speak at the College Freedom Forum at Yale event that takes place this evening in SSS 114. We’re pretty keen on good stories, and we’d expect a few to be told here.

Paperless Hoax. First came

“Re-elect Herbert,” now some “Spirit of Dialogue” dinner invitation is making rounds through campus emails, thanks again to Paperless Post.

To those of you who took it seriously, would the William F. Buckley Program and “Overheard Microaggressions at Yale” really host a black tie event at Union League? Think.

Mooses? Meese? Apparently,

Ezra Stiles has made an annual tradition of creating a “Men of Stiles” calendar that is so highly demanded that the college’s moose (plural) were informed via email yesterday that they should get ready to pre-order the publication. It’s all for a good cause, of course, with the $10-per-issue going to the Movember Foundation.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1985 For the second time in six years, the University revisits discussions about constructing a 5,000seat basketball facility to replace the Payne Whitney Gymnasium parking lot facing Lake Place.

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words that our friends over at Rumpus used to describe life at the News also capture our experience flipping through their annual 50 Most issue, which hit “news”stands around campus yesterday.

Don’t hate us cause we’re… you know the rest.

Stratton saga — in which the former Ward 19 Alder was accused of breach of peace and disorderly conduct following a June altercation with his girlfriend — ended with a bit of a plot twist. According to a Wednesday article by the New Haven Independent, the two have decided to get married.

The lineup for the Festival of Arts and Ideas was announced.

HGS tower to take David Swensen’s name

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Happily ever after? The Mike

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The 14-story tower of the HGS will be named in honor of Chief Investment Officer David Swensen.

Harp orders officer off patrol

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER After protesters stormed City Hall on Tuesday to rally against an incident of police brutality, Mayor Toni Harp announced that she had directed New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman to remove the officer in question from patrol duty.

After protesting on the steps of the NHPD headquarters Monday evening, more than 20 protestors continued efforts on Tuesday afternoon when they entered City Hall, demanding to meet with the mayor. They were responding to a video from

March 15, which showed New Haven police officer Joshua Smereczynsky pushing a handcuffed 15-year-old girl to the ground during the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Following the incident, the NHPD launched an Internal Affairs investigation but did not make any public statements about the incident.

When the protestors refused to leave City Hall Tuesday, Harp addressed their concerns, telling them that she had asked Esserman to put Smereczynsky on desk duty until the completion of the internal investigation.

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The 14-story tower of the Hall of Graduate Studies will be named in honor of Yale’s longtime Chief Investment Officer, David Swensen.

On Wednesday, the University announced that it had secured the first major donation for the Hall of Graduate Studies renovation and refurbishment, in which the building will likely be converted into a “new home for the humanities.” The $25 million donation, which was given by Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin ’78, will be used to help cover the building expenses associated with the project, according to Provost Benjamin Polak, who first announced the refurbishment in January. Though Polak said there is still a lot of work to be done in planning and securing capital for the project, the gift marks a “big step” in both affirming the importance of the humanities at Yale and honoring the contributions of Swensen to the University.

“It is a very iconic tower — you can see it from everywhere — and I like the idea that it is named for [Swensen],” Polak said. “[Swensen] believes incredibly strongly in the mission of the University — it is why he does the job he does — and he deeply believes in the strength of the humanities as part of that core mission.”

Swensen said he is deeply humbled by the honor and that Rausing and Baldwin deserve the gratitude of all who care about the role of the humanities in higher education.

He added that the naming is particularly special for him since he lived in the Hall of Graduate Studies during his first year as a graduate student in 1975. Moreover, Swensen said it was in the Hall of Grad-

uate Studies where he met with then-Provost Bill Brainard in 1984 to discuss his return to Yale as manager of the University endowment.

“At a time when too many measure the value of a degree in dollars and cents, [Rausing] and [Baldwin] remind us that Yale teaches much that may not lead directly to monetary gain, but enriches us nonetheless,” Swensen wrote in an email to the News. “I find it difficult to express the depth of my gratitude to [Rausing] and [Baldwin] for their support for the humanities at Yale and for their designation of this signal honor to me.”

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Swensen’s leadership of the Yale Investments Office, during which he has helped grow Yale’s endowment from $1.3 billion to its nominal high of $23.9 billion, as of June 30, 2014.

Polak said the conversion of HGS is a major undertaking for the University and may take seven to eight years to complete.

Still, he said the timeline for the project ultimately depends on the completion of the new graduate and professional school housing complex on Elm Street, which is expected to open in 2017.

Polak added that work on the building will be completed in phases. “[This project] is more than just a renovation because what were once bedrooms will have to be converted to offices — and that is not such a big deal — but we will [also] have to create spaces in there that are appropriate for colloquia, spaces that are going to make this work for the humanities, not just for faculty, but for the students as well,” Polak said.

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Withdrawal policies spark questions of access

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER In campus discussion about Yale’s policies for withdrawal and readmission, students and administrators alike have focused on how to make a difficult process less alienating.

One area of explicit focus has been on a seemingly simple issue of semantics.

During an open forum on Feb. 25 in which students were invited to voice their concerns about campus mental health, administrators highlighted potential problems with the word “readmission” and its implications about students’ relationship to the University. English professor John Rogers, who chairs a committee tasked with reevaluating Yale’s withdrawal and readmission policies, said during the panel that use

of the word is under discussion, as it suggests withdrawn students are no longer Yale students — a notion that he added “simply isn’t true.”

“When I’m meeting with a student, one of the first things I try to do is say that readmission is nothing like admissions in the first place. You are a Yale student,” Lorraine Siggins, director of Yale Mental Health and Counseling, added during the panel. “The terminology is not just misleading but [also] creates a negative impression.”

But many withdrawn students said that a word change would do little to address their underlying concerns surrounding their Yale-affiliated status. According to students interviewed who have previously withdrawn from the University, a lack of access to norSEE WITHDRAWAL PAGE 6

YIO alum to lead Stanford endowment

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Robert Wallace ’02, former senior associate at the Yale Investments Office, has been named the new head of the Stanford University endowment.

On Monday, Stanford announced that Wallace would become president and CEO of the Stanford Management Company, the body responsible for investing and managing Stanford’s $21.4 bil-

lion endowment. Wallace, who most recently served as chief investment officer and CEO of London-based investment firm Alta Advisers, will succeed John Powers, who led the Stanford endowment for nine years. Wallace’s appointment follows a broader trend of former Yale Investments Office alumni gaining experience under Chief Investment Officer David Swensen before going on to manage the endowments of peer institutions.

“The Stanford endowment is

a critical resource for the university’s present and future students and scholars,” Wallace said in a statement released by Stanford. “I am very fortunate to have the opportunity to lead Stanford Management Company and to contribute to such an important mission and institution.”

Before graduating summa cum laude with a degree in economics, Wallace gained experience at the YIO as an intern and later worked full-time at the office for nearly three years.

According to the NACUBOCommonfund survey — the most comprehensive annual report on higher education endowments — Wallace will be the fourth former YIO team member to currently head one of the 10 largest endowments in the U.S. The list includes Seth Alexander ’95, president of MIT Investment Management Co.; Peter Ammon GRD ’05 SOM ’05, CIO of the University of Pennsylvania; and Andrew Golden SOM ’89, president of the Princeton University Invest-

ment Co. Jane Mendillo ’80 SOM ’84, who was a manager in the YIO from 1980 to 1982, served as the president and CEO of the Harvard Management Corporation before stepping down at the end of 2014.

“The Yale Investments Office has for a few decades now been regarded as the one of the leading — if not the leading — university investment offices in the world,” said William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the ComSEE WALLACE PAGE 6

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’d imagine that for normal high school students, being a second semester senior means ditching class and planning your yearbook quotes and trying to care about AP Calc, or something like that.

Weirdly enough, at my high school, second semester senior year meant boot camp. Israel boot camp, to be exact. Our teachers spent weeks training us on ways to engage with the Israel-centric discourse that unfolds in college communities. They warned us that our campus conversations were sure to be bitter and harshly divided. We watched Discordia, a documentary focused on the riots that occurred at Montreal’s Concordia University when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to speak to the student body.

So I arrived at Yale my freshman year prepared for the worst: Riots! Campaigns for divestment! But what I found instead was virtual silence.

None of the fierce and deeply personal political debates my high school had warned of.

To be sure, Yale has small communities that actively discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and advocate for a two-state solution. There are groups that bring in relevant speakers and organize roundtable debates. But these conversations are most often held in the basement of the Slifka Center. They aren’t splayed out across Cross Campus, as they so often are at nearby universities. They don’t draw too much attention from the student body at large. In 2011, Yale’s Students for Justice and Peace in Palestine coordinated a public campaign protesting Israeli settlements, in which students distributed mock eviction notices to suites around campus. Since then, however, there have been few — if any — public activist initiatives on the issue.

You don’t have to look far to find schools that fit the stereotype my high school teachers described — campuses constantly afire with debate over Israel. Oberlin College is well known as a hotbed for both Zionist advocacy and antiIsrael activism. The University of California at Los Angeles’ student government recently passed a resolution formally calling for divestment from firms that profit from the Israeli occupation.

Yale’s campus dialogue is of a completely different nature.

It’s far quieter, less public. It’s hard to imagine the Yale College Council debating the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

Some would argue that’s a net positive. Were Yalies to be more deeply immersed in debate over Israel, the issue would likely divide the student body across partisan lines. We might see the sorts of rallies and even

riots present at other n e a r b y campuses.

By muting public discourse, we’ve managed to quell EMMA GOLDBERG tensions.

B u t I’d argue Dilemmas that we’ve reached a moment when radio silence on Israel is no longer acceptable, particularly for a campus so attuned to matters of social justice.

During last week’s Israeli election, Netanyahu took his long-standing racism and war hawk attitude to new heights.

First, he campaigned by guaranteeing that no Palestinian state would be created on his watch. Second, he drove citizens to the polls by decrying the Arabs who were voting in “droves.”

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across the room and so the whole previous year flees away from us and we cannot relive it. We are always thrown into the world.

Spring break, however, simply was. There was no capturing it; the time was passing by and it was up to me to use it as I saw fit.

And because I made no attempt to capture it, I realized how futile that whole project was. What I realized while I stared at the ceiling in the midst of an unbearably humid Florida night was that there was no way to grasp the past. Memory is no help. It gives us snapshots, but not the experiences as we lived them.

When I came to Yale my freshman year, people always told me to make the most of my time because it would go by so fast. I realized that night that they were wrong. Four years is a long time and it does not go by fast. Every week is an epic saga filled with a thousand little dramas. However, retrospectively it seems fleeting because we cannot recover any of what came before.

We have our paltry collection of memories, all insubstantial and unsatisfying, but nothing more.

And so we string these bits and pieces together and are left with

the sensation that it all went by so fast.

Of course, the point is not a sad one; it is simply a reminder of what really matters. We cannot live in the past or the future.

We are only ourselves in this particular moment. And as things draw to a close, countless new possibilities open up to challenge and excite us. We all know this, I think. But this understanding will affect how I handle these final few weeks and the commencement ceremonies. This is not a time to yearn for what was or even to excitedly anticipate what will come.

It is sufficient unto itself and should be enjoyed for what it is.

So I will not cringe any longer when someone reminds me how few weeks we have left in school.

I also won’t spend my time (as is my morose inclination) running through my precious memories and mourning my loss of place here. We only have our present moment, but that is more than enough.

ISA QASIM is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at isa.qasim@yale.edu .

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EMMA GOLDBERG is a junior in Saybrook College. Her column usually runs on alternate Mondays.

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I think that it stuck in my mind at least in part because no one asked me to commemorate it.

No one asked ISA how I felt to QASIM be on my final spring break, The or if I would do anything Passerby special this last time or if there was anything in particular I would miss about the holiday.

I find attempts to mark moments in time supremely frustrating. That is why I have always been bothered by New Year’s Eve parties. They are the definition of anticlimactic.

Everyone counts down to zero and shouts, “Happy New Year!”

But already and immediately the New Year is as mundane as the old one. We try to momentarily halt the progress of time, to give ourselves a moment outside of it to reflect on what was and what is to come, but we are frustrated.

We are thirsty and tired and we want to talk to the cute girl

When the leader of a major U.S.-allied nation makes blatantly racist comments, we should be talking about it.

When Israel’s prime minister promises a roadblock to peace, we should get angry.

Across American college campuses, students are questioning and debating and issuing renewed calls for a two-state solution. They are calling on the Obama administration to continue signaling frustration with Netanyahu’s behavior. Yet at Yale, we’ve largely ignored the topic.

If there were ever a time for Israel to take center stage on Yale’s campus, that time is now.

This isn’t just an issue for Jewish and Palestinian students — it’s an issue for all students who care about human rights and Middle East dialogue. We have the capacity to contribute to national discourse on a subject pertinent to U.S. politics and Jewish identity. We’re long overdue for a serious community-wide conversation.

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The end of things

little over a week ago, in the midst of spring break, I was having trouble falling asleep. It has become a recurring issue.

The combination of stress over my senior essay and other classes, the pressure to get the most out of my last few weeks of college, the genuine fear over what the future holds, all in addition to the guilt I feel when I realize that I am afraid of the future, combine into a heady mixture of angst perfectly calibrated to keep my eyes wide open even when the lights are off.

Last week, though, I was having trouble falling asleep for a more specific reason: I'd realized it was my last spring break.

I am not sure exactly why this realization bothered me so much that night. So far this senior year I have experienced many “last events,” many of which, like the end of the cross-country season, should hold a much deeper personal significance to me. But even now I have trouble feeling the weight or finality of those moments. They passed by in such a way that there was no space to celebrate or mourn them. But spring break kept me up.

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ecret societies affect everyone at Yale by shaping our culture and aspirations.

Even if you aren’t interested in a society, it’s likely the people around you are. This year, only 12 students in the entire junior class decided to opt out of the society process.

Plenty of columns on this page have decried the existence of societies. But beyond simple criticism, it’s important to consider how societies create a class structure at Yale and train us to be social competitors.

When we arrive at Yale, we don’t get to choose our suitemates. The University intends for us to live with people whose backgrounds are completely different. It’s an effort to democratize the experience.

It works for a while. We forget about our different backgrounds since we eat in the same dining halls, take the same classes and sleep in identical beds.

Junior spring we are reintroduced to class in an unambiguous way. The entire process is almost a caricature of itself: the tap lines, the wax-sealed letters and the windowless tombs. To the outsider, it reeks of elitism.

The old societies trade on ties to institutions and families that hand down power through these types of hidden channels. That

the oldest societies still remain the most sought-after shows how privilege has endured to this day. But the growth in the number of societies suggests how hungry everyone is to belong.

There are all sorts of new societies to accommodate the socially mobile. These are the West Eggs of the society system.

Don’t kid yourself that these new societies are any different. The principle of selectivity for its own sake persists. The only difference is that these societies are lower on the hierarchy, and exist to exclude 70 percent of the student body while the older ones exist to exclude 99 percent of us.

The society system transforms a flat community into a hierarchy. Open rooms become closed doors.

When you choose to join a society, you think you are only making a personal decision.

But the act of separation is an active choice. You are altering the community and separating yourself from the vast majority who did not receive taps.

Perhaps I’m being naïve.

Maybe Yale’s attempt to create a flat community is too idealistic.

Cliques existed in high school — society suggests these never go away.

But secret societies don’t just change our environment, but us

as individuals. They train us to be social competitors.

A lot of us are at Yale precisely because we are good social competitors. We are good at getting letters of recommendation, winning grants and fellowships — using the right language with the right connections.

You might argue: These skills are all important means to more meaningful ends.

I agree. But sometimes we focus so much on the means that they become ends in and of themselves.

Sometimes exclusivity isn’t just justified but necessary. Only five people can step on a basketball court to represent Yale.

A cappella groups can only hold so many people. Even Yale itself needs to be selective — we can only accommodate a certain number of students.

But societies aren’t exclusive for some higher end. We seek societies not as means to noble ends but for the prestige itself. It doesn’t reward a skill, but whoever has the best connections or can ingratiate themselves in the right circles.

Societies don’t just reflect values. They actively shape the values and aspirations of our community. For those who already exercise this mentality, it reinforces their attitude. For

those who don’t, it introduces them to this kind of thinking and demonstrates its potential rewards.

Societies change our values, but the most destructive part in my eyes is that they change how we perceive and value relationships. It’s not a surprise that even the so-called “meritocratic” societies often hand down taps to their best friends.

It’s not a surprise that so many juniors clamor to join the right groups or befriend the right upperclassmen.

Society distorts how we view other people. A friendship becomes a letter of acceptance.

Their value is proportional to the society they are in.

Maybe all this is preparation for the real world. It trains us to think about whom we want to associate ourselves with. It teaches us how to ingratiate ourselves with old channels of power.

Eliminating societies won’t solve this problem overnight.

We will still all have the instinct to exclude and form inner circles. But societies provide a framework for us to act on this instinct.

KEVIN TAN is a junior in Calhoun College. Contact him at kevin.tan@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS

Teaching center to relocate to Sterling Library

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25

A previous version of the women’s basketball article “Yale splits final two games” incorrectly stated that the Yale women’s basketball team finished in fourth place in the Ivy League in the 2014–15 season. In fact, the team tied with Harvard for third place in the conference.

A previous version of the article “Admissions Office changes file retention policy” incorrectly stated in the headline that the Admissions Office changed their FERPA policy. In fact, the Admissions Office did not change their FERPA policy or their interpretation of FERPA, but rather, their file retention policy. The headline of the article has been altered to reflect the change.

A previous version of the article “Proposed charter school moratorium ignites debate” neglected to mention that Achievement First has a charter school in Rhode Island, in addition to its schools in New York and Connecticut. It also misstated the name of the standardized test CAPT as CAT.

Students prove critical in consent bill

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER “Yes means yes” is set to be the new definition of sexual consent across universities in Connecticut, after a bill that mandates affirmative consent passed the Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee of the state legislature on Tuesday.

The bill — proposed by state Sen. Mae Flexer, D-Brooklyn, and state Rep. Gregory Haddad, D-Mansfield, earlier this year — received support from the Yale College Democrats and other activism groups on campus concerned with campus sexual climate. Both Flexer and Haddad said it was students like the Dems, who demonstrated passion for the issue, whot inspired them to follow through with the bill.

“The credit for getting this legislation out of committee should go to those student activists who first introduced me to the idea and secondly who were testifying and in communication with the committee,” Haddad said. “They made sure it passed with bipartisan support.”

Even though the bill passed the committee with bipartisan support, Haddad said Tuesday’s debate indicated additional work needs to be done to make sure lawmakers understand exactly what the bill entails.

According to the bill, affirmative consent is defined as an “active, informed, unambiguous and voluntary agreement … to engage in sexual activity with another person that is sustained throughout the sexual activity and may be revoked at any time by any person.” It adds that any form of dating relationship or past sexual relationship does not constitute consent.

College students have a really large role to play, as this is one [issue] legislators don’t know as much about.

JACKSON BECK ’17 Legislative coordinator, Yale Dems In the meeting, state Rep. Whit Betts, R-Bristol, was among the committee members who raised concerns with the bill. He said that while he agrees with the principle behind affirmative consent, he does not believe that the committee should be creating legislation governing sexual activity. Betts’ concerns were echoed by state Rep. Tim LeGeyt,

R-Avon.

“This bill, as good as the intent is, it really doesn’t belong in statute,” Betts said.

The bill passed through to the Senate 14–3, with one abstention. Both Democrats and Republicans had voiced concerns, but ultimately each Democrat on the committee voted in favor of the bill.

Flexer said she was grateful for the support of the committee members, but she was disappointed by some of their concerns.

“The conversation did demonstrate the need to talk more about this issue,” she said. “[It] showed a little bit of a knowledge divide.”

She added that she was surprised by the lack of awareness concerning current sexual assault policies at universities.

Still, Flexer said she is hopeful that the bill will appear on the Senate calendar in the next few weeks. Haddad also said he is he is confident about the bill’s prospects in the Senate.

The Yale Dems have been supporting this bill since it was introduced in January, inviting Flexer to campus in February to discuss it with them. The bill is unlikely to impact Yale, which is one of two colleges in the state that had already adopted an affirmative consent policy as of last September.

Jackson Beck ’17, legislative coordinator for the Dems, said the group was glad to hear that the bill had passed through committee, echoing Flexer’s and Haddad’s belief that students had played a major role in this discussion.

“College students have a really large role to play, as this is one [issue] legislators don’t know as much about,” he said.

At the bill’s public hearing on Feb. 26, the Dems were well-represented, with five students providing statements. Each of the individuals said that affirmative consent policies had provided Yale with an positive environment in which concerns of sexual assault and violence on campus could be discussed.

In her statement, Dems Communications Director Hedy Gutfreund ’18 said the affirmative consent policy contributes to Yale’s generally positive sexual climate — though it “is far from perfect.”

Moving forward, Dems Events Director Olivia Paschal ’18 said the organization hopes to meet with individual legislators in order to explain to those who will be voting why they believe the affirmative consent bill has been successful so far at Yale.

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

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BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER The Yale Center for Teaching and Learning is in the process of consolidating their programs into one location in Sterling Memorial Library by the end of next summer.

The CTL currently runs eight programs, including the Writing Center and the Center for Scientific Teaching, at seven different locations on campus. Under the leadership of Scott Strobel, deputy provost for teaching and learning, and Jennifer Frederick, executive director of the center, the CTL has actively sought to increase collaborations among the programs, and the centralized location on campus is an important step towards that goal. Although the renovation and design plans have not been finalized, the CTL will be relocated to Sterling, occupying a 19,000 square-foot space on two floors that is currently used for the library’s administrative work.

“With a centralized location in the Sterling Library, we will have a home base where the CTL staff can come together in one place,” Frederick said. “It will also allow us to make teaching more visible and public.”

She added that consolidating so many units into one center would be very difficult without a physical space.

According to the relocation plans, the CTL will occupy the ground floor space in the library along York Street, as well as two small mezzanines that are

located immediately above.

Roughly 60 staff members will work within the new location.

The plan to relocate started around a year ago, and SML was chosen because the center and the library share many similarities as spaces for education and learning. Strobel said the new location would bring the center’s dedication to education physically and symbolically into the heart of the University.

Furthermore, he added that the space within the iconic SML building would give the center added value and status.

University Librarian Susan Gibbons said the center could complement and enhance the library’s current functions.

“For many, the library is a key place to go for research assistance,” she said. “With the addition of the Teaching Center, my expectations are that students and faculty will think of Sterling Memorial Library as an intuitive destination for teaching, learning and research assistance.”

Although there are no official floor plans for the center yet, Frederick said she envisions several components in the design that will support its teaching efforts and enhance its presence on campus. Aside from office space for the center’s staff, the new location will have small spaces for tutoring and a reception lounge that will be open to the public.

“We want to create a welcoming space for everyone from the community to come and spend time, do readings, wait for appointments or share ideas

about learning and teaching,” she said. She added that this may not be too different from the library setting but encouraged students to take ownership of the communal area.

The CTL may also feature exhibitions that showcase innovative efforts in teaching at Yale or elsewhere, as well as a technology “sandbox.” In this area, community members will be able to test out the latest technological equipment, such as Google Glass, and have conversations with experts about how they can be used for educational purposes.

A centralized location in [Sterling] … will also allow us to make teaching more visible and public.

JENNIFER FREDERICK Executive director, Yale Center for Teaching and Learning The center currently runs programs geared for undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral affiliates and fellows and faculty members. Frederick said a unified space for the programs would allow the center to solve problems from different angles.

Despite the plans for consolidation, Frederick stressed that the center would continue to hold events and activities in other locations. For example, the residential colleges

will retain their writing tutors, while events for graduate students and faculty would be held in locations that are convenient for the respective groups.

Given that the center will occupy a large section of SML’s administrative office, plans are already in place to relocate library staff to 344 Winchester Ave., which is located in the Science Park area of campus. This follows the relocation of 50 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library staff members and its preservation and conservation department to the same location. This move will make 344 Winchester Ave. the largest location of University Library staff at Yale.

All five students interviewed were in favor of a consolidated space for the center.

“It would be very convenient if all of the tutors were consolidated in the same area,” Peyton Nora ’18 said. She added that she had previously tried to sign up for a quantitative reasoning tutor, but the process took a long time. She added that a physical registration location may make that process easier.

In Kyu Chung ’18 said he has not made much use of the tutoring services at Yale partly because of their lack of visibility. A physical location for the tutors, he said, would help publicize the program and also make things more convenient.

The Yale Center for Teaching and Learning was formed in July 2014.

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The various programs run by the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning will be consolidated in Sterling Memorial Library by next summer.

Parents debate opting out of Common Core test

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Children across Connecticut may soon have reason to rejoice at the prospect of having to take one less standardized test.

Over the last two years, some parents in areas around the state have pulled their children out of taking the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium test, which provides measurements for Connecticut’s Common Core standards. This movement follows on the heels of similar initiatives in states including Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan and New York. The Empire State saw over a quarter of a million parents opt their children out of Common Core-mandated testing.

Opponents of the SBAC, including Jonathan Pelto, a Connecticut education activist and blogger, said the test is not indicative of academic excellence at a school. Rather, income, parental education and language barriers most impact the testing results.

Pelto added that, despite strong evidence revealing a weak correlation between test performance and quality of instruction, the state uses the test scores to evaluate teachers and designate lowperforming schools for privatization. The tests would also place an undue burden on children and strain their self-esteem, Pelto said.

“Within Connecticut, we have the largest achievement gap in the country because we have high income inequality,” Pelto said. “If 80 or 90 percent of poor children are failing these tests, you then set up this dynamic where a child is told repeatedly throughout their career that they are failures.”

Although opponents of the Common Core point out many faults in the SBAC, parents and teachers should be able to gauge students’ performances on a regular basis to see opportunities for improvement, according to Don Romoser, the president of the Connecticut PTA. Romoser noted another merit of the SBAC:

test results would be available in late spring or early summer so that incoming teachers could understand their students’ weaknesses and strengths.

Romoser added that some parents believe their students’ privacy may be in jeopardy because the SBAC will be administered on a computer and scored by a party separate from the Connecticut Board of Education. But, Romoser noted, Connecticut standardized tests have always been scored by a thirdparty organization.

Proponents of SBAC also highlighted the importance of student participation in the exam, as federal funding for Connecticut schools requires that the state benchmarks its students’ performances. Failure to do so for over 95 percent of students would jeopardize valuable resources, Romoser said.

“The vast majority of federal funding is in support of special needs children and those in needy populations,” Romoser said.

But Pelto said that despite the many years in which such a threshold has been in effect, federal funding has never been taken away.

This year, Connecticut is far from going below the threshold, as few parents in Connecticut have been opting out, Pelto said.

While, in the wealthier areas, the numbers are two or three times higher, he added, the overall movement has yet to gain significant traction.

Judy Puglisi, president of the Metropolitan Business Academy in New Haven, said that no parents at her school have approached her about opting their children out of the SBAC testing.

“The testing has not started yet and it won’t start until late May,” Puglisi said. “And I really haven’t heard any conversation about opting out; students haven’t approached me and neither have parents.”

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

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HGS tower renamed in Swensen’s honor SWENSEN FROM PAGE 1 January, Polak and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler appointed Amy Hungerford, professor of English and American studies and divisional director for the humanities, to lead a committee to explore “the feasibility and desirability” of this central home for the humanities.

Over the past months, Hungerford said the committee has visited with nearly half of the humanities departments to solicit ideas about how space and programming can be utilized in ways that can have “a transformative effect” on the humanities at Yale. She said the committee has upcoming consultations with humanities graduate students, and plans to reach out to staff and undergraduates as well.

“This generous gift helps makes it possible to go forward with the quality of renovation that would make HGS a place where faculty and students will want to gather, work and learn,” Hungerford wrote in an email.

“Some of this thinking has been truly imaginative — including ways to teach across disciplines, gather faculty and students around collections and promote organic social networks between and within departments.”

Still, planning remains in the early stages of discussion and the committee has not yet asked any departments to commit to relocating to the new space, Hungerford said.

She added that while some departments remain attached to their current spaces, others expressed eagerness to consider new possibilities with this move.

Polak said the next step will be to raise money not only for the costs associated with the building project, but to also help fund the programmatic elements of the new facility.

The plan to convert HGS into a “home for the humanities” comes after years of calls for major renovations to the building.

Huasha Zhang GRD ’18, who lives on the ninth floor of the tower, said she felt the condition of HGS was not too bad, and that living in the building fostered a community among graduate students. She added that the structure of the residential spaces in the tower — with dorm rooms connected by a common bathroom — may present difficulty in converting the space to offices.

The $25 million gift by Rausing and Baldwin is not their first major contribution to the University. The couple, who oversee a London charity called the Arcadia Fund, donated $25 million in 2011 to launch the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, which is located at the Yale West Campus.

In addition to the HGS tower, the Berkeley College Master’s House was named in honor of Swensen in 2013.

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

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Chief Investment Officer David Swensen has led the Investment Office for 30 years. He is pictured here on the right at a November 2013 Master’s Tea.

Officer under investigation ordered off patrol POLICE FROM PAGE 1 City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer told the News Wednesday evening that no formal statement had been made by either the city or the NHPD, but that Harp had asked for a change in the officer’s status to effect a “cooling-off period.” The change was effective immediately, he added.

In response to protestors’ demands that the charges against the girl be dropped, Harp said she did not know the details of what happened on March 15.

“This is a matter under investigation,” she said. “We will wait for that.”

Harp told protestors that she had seen the video sparking the community’s outrage, adding that police are reviewing addi-

tional footage of the incident as part of their investigation.

Grotheer said he did not know how long the independent review would take.

Barbara Fair, one of the protest organizers, said that while she was pleased with Harp’s response, she was frustrated when the protestors were initially told they would need to make an appointment to see the mayor.

The appointments need to be booked three weeks in advance.

“When [Harp] was running for mayor, she said something that would be different [from previous administrations] would be an open-door policy, so it was very disappointing to be told to wait,” she said.

In a video of the protesters inside City Hall, several alleged

that the NHPD’s response to the incident was racially motivated.

According to the protesters, the NHPD did not respond when they asked why Smereczynsky had remained on patrol even though Najea Poindexter, an officer under investigation after her boyfriend was arrested in January for driving her car without a license and was later found to be in possession of drugs, was placed on desk duty, then barred from the police department. Protestors claimed that Poindexter’s race influenced the decision. Smereczynsky is white, while Poindexter is African-American.

Harp conveyed to protestors that Esserman argued that the two incidences were very different.

However, the complaints

stretched beyond the police’s current investigation. Protestors claimed that the incident could have been prevented by the school and police department responding to prior reports of bullying in the girl’s school.

[Mayor Toni Harp] should have used her backbone and stood up for what is right.

LOUIS CAVALIERE JR. President, New Haven Police Union “She was being bullied, now she’s being bullied by the police,”

one protestor can be heard saying in a video of Harp’s response posted on Youtube.

Even though Fair said the protestors left thankful for Harp’s response, New Haven police union president Louis Cavaliere Jr. was not as pleased. He told the New Haven Independent that Harp’s announcement was “a total slap in the face of the rankand-file officers of [the] department,” adding that he believed the mayor was too heavily influenced by the protestors.

“She bowed down to an angry mob,” he told the Independent.

“This mayor should have used her backbone and stood up for what is right.”

However, with the internal inquiry still pending, it remains unclear what the future of the

case will be.

Moving forward, Fair said she hopes Harp will be able to initiate an independent review board for sensitive internal inquiries.

She said the city has been working on one, but that there have been continuous delays that have caused unrest and distrust.

“We do not trust the police to police themselves in situations like this,” she added.

The Civilian Review Board, which provided a venue for New Haven residents to air complaints regarding police conduct, held its last meeting in September. The meetings have since been suspended for review.

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Bill to provide three cities with police body cameras

BY ALEC HERNANDEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Connecticut state legislature will soon vote on a bill that would provide the police departments of three local cities with body cameras.

The bill was first introduced to the state Senate’s Public Safety Committee in January, and it passed last Thursday with a 20–3 consensus to advance the bill to the full legislature. If passed by the Legislature, the bill would enact a yearlong pilot program that would provide three Connecticut police departments with wearable body cameras.

The three departments would be selected by Connecticut’s Commissioner for Emergency Services and Public Safety, though the bill requires that one of those participating cities have over 124,000 residents, a stipulation that is met by only three cities in the state: Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford.

State Sen. Martin Looney, D-New Haven, Hamden and North Haven, introduced the bill to the committee earlier this year.

In his testimony before the committee in February, Looney outlined several benefits to such a program.

“There is some evidence that implementation of body cameras can be beneficial both to the police officers wearing them and to the citizens whom they serve,” Looney said.

Looking to garner votes for the bill, Looney cited other American cities that benefited from similar programs. He also referenced a study that found an 88 percent reduction in the number of complaints filed against police officers during the first year of a body camera pilot program in Rialto, California. That study, conducted by the Rialto Police Department, also reported a 60 percent drop in the use of force by law enforcement during the first year of the program.

The bill’s primary purpose is to conduct the proper research in order to later develop effective legislation to standardize the use of body cameras across the state.

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A bill currently before the state Legislature would provide the police departments of three cities with body cameras.

Adam Joseph, communications director for the Connecticut Senate Democrats, agreed that Looney’s proposal is an effective path for Connecticut to take in order to ultimately garner a better relationship between citizens and their police forces.

Looking to emulate cities such as San Diego and Dallas, which have successfully inte-

grated body cameras into their police forces, some Connecticut cities have already attempted to establish similar programs. The Hartford Police Department initially introduced body cameras to their city in 2012, only to run into resistance from the Hartford Police Union, which wished to see further studies on the subject before allowing the program

to be implemented, according to Deputy Police Chief Brian Foley.

Although the program does not currently run in the state capital, Foley said he is hopeful that the bill will pass the legislature and eventually become law.

“Of course we support it — statistically it’s a win,” Foley said.

“If our community wants it, then that’s what we’ll support.”

Senators call for ban on M855 bullets

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman, Sen. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Sen. Chris Murphy are urging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to renew its attempt to ban M855 armor-piercing bullets.

Earlier this month, the ATF proposed a ban of M855 “green tip” rounds — which can be fired from some handguns and can penetrate bulletproof vests — but they withdrew that proposal after receiving widespread criticism from members of the public, congressional Republicans and the National Rifle Association. In response, Esserman and Blumenthal held a press conference on March 13 to encourage people across the state to write to Congress and to the ATF in support of the ban. “[Police chiefs] worry every day and every night about the safety of our officers. An officer who wears a bulletproof vest should be one who has a sense of some safety,” Esserman said during the conference. “A bullet that can pierce a bulletproof vest can also pierce their body. It’s just something that none of us can accept.”

Blumenthal told the News that the ATF had succumbed to pressure from a small minority of Americans opposed to the ban and that the purpose of the press conference was to ensure that the ATF hears from the “vast majority of Americans who agree with common-sense measures” such as the regulation of armor-piercing ammunition.

A proposed ban would prevent manufacturers from producing, sell-

ing, importing or distributing M855.

The ATF announced the withdrawal of their proposal for an indefinite amount of time. ATF Public Affairs Chief Ginger Colbrun said in an email that the withdrawal was motivated by widespread criticism of the ban.

An officer who wears a bulletproof vest should be one who has a sense of some safety.

DEAN ESSERMAN Chief, New Haven Police Department “Although ATF endeavored to create a proposal that reflected a good-faith interpretation of the law and balanced the interests of law enforcement, industry and sportsmen, the vast majority of the comments received were critical of the framework, and include issues that deserve further study,” Colbrun wrote.

M855 rounds were originally produced for the military and were later adopted by civilians for sporting purposes. The majority of armorpiercing bullets are already banned under federal law. However, the Gun Control Act of 1968 allows for the exemption of armor-piercing ammunition that the Attorney General determines “primarily intended to be used for sporting purposes” — such as M855. The ATF recently proposed banning M855 because it is

now used in some handguns, which were not commercially available in 1986 when the ammunition was granted exemption from the federal ban.

Catherine Mortensen, a spokesperson for the NRA, characterized the attempted ban as “backdoor regulation,” stating that Blumenthal and Murphy are urging the ATF to ban the bullets because they know any attempt to ban the ammunition through legislative action would fail.

“They’re doing this because they’re desperate, and they don’t have the will of the American people on their side,” she said.

According to Mortensen, 239 members of the House of Representatives and 52 members of the Senate signed letters to the ATF opposing the ban. Mortensen added that no law enforcement official has ever been killed by M855.

In response, Blumenthal said in an email to the News that police have sound reason to be concerned about the ammunition.

“Chief Esserman told me that he worries every day and every night about the safety of his officers,” he said. “I fully understand his concern since there are bullets being sold — legally — capable of piercing his officers’ bulletproof vests. For police in New Haven, and in all communities across the nation, we simply cannot wait for tragedy to act here.”

Under the proposed ban, gun owners who had purchased the bullets before the ban could continue to own them legally.

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The program, strongly supported by Hartford residents and the city council, would help bring body cameras back to Hartford.

East Haven has also recognized the implementation of body cameras as an effective tactic. In a December 2014 press release, the East Haven Police Department stated that body cameras support officer safety

and provide video evidence that helps in the prosecution of both traffic violations and criminal offenses.

The body cameras can be worn either on glasses or as an attachment to the police officer’s uniform.

Contact ALEC HERNANDEZ at alec.hernandez@yale.edu .

State commission to tackle youth violence

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER Crime in Connecticut is at 48-year low, but Gov. Dannel Malloy is preparing a new panel of experts and advisors to find strategies to push down crime rates even further across the state.

On Tuesday, Malloy launched the Commission on Youth and Urban Violence, which will bring together experts and community leaders focused on reviewing the sources and causes of youth violence in urban areas. The commission’s intent is to develop proposals to reduce the rate of violent crime even further.

The announcement of the committee came in conjunction with Malloy’s release of statistics showing massive improvement in crime rates across the state.

“To make even more progress, we must reduce the risk factors that lead some youth down the wrong path, so that we can ensure our neighborhoods remain safe and productive places to live,” Malloy said in a Tuesday press release.

The commission will be tasked with exploring how current state policy regarding unemployment, access to high-quality behavioral health care, housing, juvenile justice and school discipline relate to rates of youth violence in high-crime communities. Malloy’s release added that the panel would focus on implementing new statewide interagency policies aiming to further curb youth violence.

Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman will chair the commission of 23 currently appointed members. In a press release, she highlighted the importance of focusing on young people specifically.

“All of us must be engaged in the work to reduce crime in Connecticut, and young people have a special role in shaping the very future of our communities and our economy,” she said.

To effectively supply children and youths with important educational resources, the commission includes a number of educators, including two Yale professors and Manuel Rivera, the superintendent of the New London public schools.

One of the commission members,

Andrew Papachristos, a Yale sociology professor, said he was excited to use his academic research, which focuses on the underlying causes of crime and violence in urban areas, to contribute to policymaking. As a new resident to Connecticut, Papachristos said he also hopes to bring his experience working across the country in different kinds of neighborhoods — including many in Illinois — and task forces to help inform his discussions with the commission.

Young people have a special role in shaping the very future of our communities.

NANCY WYMAN Lieutenant governor, Connecticut He praised the commission’s holistic approach, as the group combines discussions spanning employment, poverty, race and education to help inform their conversations regarding crime and violence.

“What we will be doing is thinking past the solution as just a criminal justice one,” he said.

The commission will work as part of Malloy’s wider efforts to combat crime across the state, advocating on behalf of a series of legislation referred to as the “Second Chance Society” proposals. Introduced last month, the legislation aims to implement better policies to assist nonviolent offenders reintegrate into society and reduce risk of recidivism.

Reduction of youth violence has been a key focus for Mayor Toni Harp. Her State of the City address on Feb. 2 spoke of her commitment to improving programs, training and activities to prevent young people from falling into lives of crime.

She attributed much of the improvement on these programs to the continued and successful work of the Board of Alders and the New Haven Public Schools.

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

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Wallace to head Stanford endowment

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Robert Wallace ’02, a former associate in the Yale Investments Office, will now head Stanford’s endowment.

WALLACE FROM PAGE 1 monfund Institute. “The individuals who have worked there have received probably some of the best training that can be received in the strategic and operational aspects of managing a perpetual endowment fund.

Therefore it would be surprising if individuals who had trained there were not considered very good candidates for positions at other leading endowments.”

Despite former YIO alumni going on to lead the endowments of peer institutions, Jarvis said there is no guarantee these investors will directly replicate Yale’s strategies in their new role.

Jarvis said Yale’s general invest-

ment strategy is already publicly available through Swensen’s book, “Pioneering Portfolio Management.” However, the key of the YIO’s success is that within that general strategy, it is constantly innovating and seeking new ideas of implementing these concepts, Jarvis added.

“That principle of innovation will be carried out in different ways at each institution depending on that institution’s endowment characteristic, institutional needs, liquidity needs, governance models and other factors,” Jarvis said.

Provost Benjamin Polak said Yale has historically done a little better than other endowments mainly because the University has the best

endowment managers in the world.

He added that even if strategies of the YIO are adopted by other institutions, this sharing of ideas is ultimately in line with Yale’s larger mission as an institution of higher education.

“One thing that Yale does is disseminate knowledge,” Polak said in an interview in November. “So it is wonderful that our investment office disseminates knowledge as well.”

Wallace has overseen a global, multi-asset-class investment program at Alta since 2005. He also serves on the investment committee of the University of Cambridge Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

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mal student resources often exacerbates feelings of “alienation.”

“The term is something that is indicative of a much larger problem,” said a student, who had gone through the withdrawal and readmission processes and asked to remain anonymous.

“I don’t want anyone to think that just by changing the term they’re making a step forward.”

In shaping policies surrounding withdrawn students, universities must often balance policies that come from the legal, medical and academic worlds, said Peter Lake, director of the Center for Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson University College of Law. The variety of mandates often put policymakers in a difficult position, he said.

“There’s a lot of overlapping accountability in a difficult issue like this,” he said. “But it’s clearly a mistake to focus on one area. It’s not entirely law, it’s not entirely medicine and it’s certainly not entirely student affairs. It can give you a bit of a headache.”

At Yale, students lose access to a host of Yale resources when they withdraw, including library databases, their “yale. edu” email addresses and swipe access to campus buildings.

These policies cause withdrawn students to believe that they are no longer considered Yale students in the eyes of the University, said Stewart McDonald ’15, who withdrew in fall 2013 and was readmitted last semester.

“Many administrators like to say that they still consider [withdrawn students] students in some spiritual way,” McDonald said. “Yet they systematically deny withdrawn students all campus resources… These false statements of inclusiveness on the part of administrators are perhaps meant as an expression of compassion toward students, but they mean nothing when withdrawn students are both de facto and de jure no longer students.”

However, administrators at peer institutions defended universities’ decisions to withhold certain resources from members of their communities who are taking time off.

Greg Eells, director of Cornell University’s Counseling and Psychological Services, said a loss of access to campus resources should be expected when students take time away. Cornell students on leaves of absence also lose access to campus buildings and other resources — a change that Eells said students should expect, as they are no longer paying for access to those resources.

“A [health] leave is the student initiating it and saying, ‘For these reasons, I can no longer be a student,’” he

said. “We make it very clear when you sign the health leave that you’re telling us you can no longer be a student. It’s something we make very straightforward up front.”

David Stirk, dean of Butler College at Princeton University, agreed, citing legal reasons for denying withdrawn students certain resources. There is a legal definition of enrollment, he said, and if students do not meet that definition, they must have a different level of access.

The extent to which universities restrict access to resources for temporarily un-enrolled students varies by campus.

At Yale, students who purchase Yale Health Special Care coverage will retain that coverage for a maximum of 30 days after they withdraw, according to the Yale Health website. Students who are covered only by basic Yale Health insurance will have their Yale Health membership terminated retroactively to the beginning of the semester, and any services rendered will be billed on a fee-for-service basis.

But at Cornell and Brown, students on leave are allowed to retain their insurance for the remainder of the year, with Cornell students given the option to purchase an additional year as well.

At Princeton, residential college deans can help students retain access to library and career services — a recent change that was made partially in response to heightened campus awareness of withdrawal and mental health, Stirk said.

Campus email accounts can also pose a problem, students said. Yale students who are not actively registered are not eligible for Yale email accounts, according to the Information Technology Services website. McDonald said he was told that his email would be deactivated while he was withdrawn, and although the suspension never occurred, he was not told why.

Rogers said some students may continue to have access to their emails after they withdraw because ITS only updates student email deactivation twice a year.

Still, the anonymous student said, increasing resource access for withdrawn students can be an opportunity to shape broader campus attitudes about mental health.

“No one is entitled to the University’s resources, but I think what we have to think about is, what kind of school do we really want to be?” she said. “Do we want to be the school that is … completely alienating [withdrawn students] from everything they’ve helped build up while they’re here?”

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Alcohol delivery service comes to New Haven

BY CAROLINE HART AND MALINA SIMARD-HALM STAFF REPORTERS New Haven residents looking to have alcohol delivered to their homes can now have that convenience in 60 minutes or fewer through the new online startup Porter 21.

After starting the business in November in Hartford, Ankit Harpaldas brought the service to New Haven this month. Harpaldas said the delivery service is convenient for both local retail store owners and consumers.

“We are moving from a regular retail model to one that is on demand, where people can get what they want when they want it,” said Harpaldas. “We are applying technology to retail like Uber and other businesses [do] to promote convenience.”

The service, which involves no extra delivery or sales tax for consumers, is expected to expand beyond its two primary locations to other Connecticut suburbs in the future, said Harpaldas.

The online website of Porter 21, which prompts users to enter their zip code, links customers to local liquor store menus and subsequently allows customers to order online. Although users do not select to order from any particular liquor store, the menus presented vary for each zip code, based on the liquor sold by participating businesses in that area. Each order requires a $25 minimum for delivery.

Though some have expressed concerns that such quick and easy access to alcohol could increase rates of underage drinking or alcoholism, Harpaldas said that the checks in place should prevent minors from purchasing his products. In order to purchase and acquire any alcohol through the service, a customer must present and scan a valid ID upon delivery and sign an online form to validate their age. In addition, the employee who delivers the order can refuse to carry out the order if the customer is sufficiently intoxicated or suspicious.

New Haven liquor store employees interviewed said they fear the new service could prove

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Porter 21 is an online startup launched in New Haven this month that delivers alcohol from participating local businesses to one’s home within 60 minutes. to be a significant competitor in the local market.

“It could affect small businesses everywhere,” said Mahendra Rao, an employee at College Wine in New Haven, a store that is not participating.

However, Peter Ramchandani, owner of Valley Wines in Farmington and a partner of Porter 21, said he does not think

the startup will be a detriment to local businesses that are not partnered with the website.

He added that local stores who partner with the website have an opportunity to gain increased exposure and widen their customer base. He said business has increased for him so much that he had to increase the staff at his store.

“My experience has been great,” said Ramchandani, who asked to partner with Porter 21 after hearing about the website.

“It has expanded our store from four walls, out to people who can’t get to the store.”

Although some local stores like College Wine already offer delivery, Adelaide Goodyear ’17 said her friends who have used

the delivery service have found it slow and inconvenient.

“The problem with College Wine is that they don’t give you a specific time period when they say they will deliver,” she said.

She added that the online service might appeal to a wide array of students, and that she plans to use it herself.

According to state law, liquor

stores can operate between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. These same hours also apply to the delivery service.

Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu and MALINA SIMARD-HALM at malina.simard-halm@yale.edu .

Festival of Arts and Ideas unveils 2015 headliners

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER With spring just around the corner, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas revealed its lineup Wednesday night in the Iseman Theater.

The festival, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary this summer, will take place from June 12 to June 27. The festival will encompass a wide array of the arts and intellectual life, including Cajun music concerts, poetry performances and discussion panels with New York Times correspondents. Rock singer Lucinda Williams and pop artist Darlene Love will be two of the festival’s headlining artists this year and will play free evening concerts on the New Haven Green.

“This is not just the launch of a new festival,” said Mary Lou Aleskie, the festival’s executive director. “This is actually the launch tonight of a new decade of bringing great festivals to New Haven each June.”

The festival is an economic boon for New Haven, said Mayor Toni Harp in her remarks.

She said the festival brings in roughly $30 million in economic activity and 100,000 visitors to New Haven each year, adding that the visitors help to improve New Haven’s reputation because they leave the festival with a positive impression of the city.

This year’s festival will be partly funded by a plethora of Connecticut organizations and institutions, including Yale, the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and First

Niagara Bank. The National Endowment of the Arts also offered a grant to the festival.

This is actually the launch tonight of a new decade of bringing great festivals to New Haven each June.

MARY LOU ALESKIE Executive Director, International Festival of Arts and Ideas Several performers in this year’s lineup reflect the festival’s international scope. Plena Libre, a Puerto Rican plena and bomba band, will perform on the New Haven Green on the last day of

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the festival. Machine de Cirque, a circus show from Montreal, will make their United States debut on June 23 at the festival.

Even the U.S.-based performers in the festival come from less-traveled regions of the country. Cry You One, a theater and music act, hails from coastal south Louisiana.

Wednesday night’s event also included a panel discussion on the question of the future of interconnectivity and privacy in the Internet age. Led by John Dankosky, the host of “Where We Live” on WNPR, the panel included New Haven Independent Editor Paul Bass ’82 , longtime Connecticut politician and current director of Common Cause Miles Rapoport and postdoctoral associate Lauren Henry ’09 of the Yale Law School.

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As part of the festival’s forward-looking vision, the panelists discussed the rapid evolution and societal effects of the Internet. The extent to which privacy can and should exist in the Internet age was a primary focus of their discussion.

Bass said that the concept of privacy often feels like a “lost cause,” but he admitted that a total lack of privacy might not be a desirable alternative. Henry noted that in some cases, a lack of privacy can make people unwilling to express their true opinions, choosing instead to conform to social norms.

Bass disagreed with Henry’s statement. He said the Internet has made it easier than ever to find communities composed of people who resemble one’s own personality. For example, he

noted, people who like one type of indie music can connect with the rest of that community, even if other indie music enthusiasts live across the country.

Rapoport, who served in the Connecticut General Assembly as a Democrat for 10 years, expressed concern over the impact of the Internet on the future of democratic governance. He praised the Federal Trade Commission’s recent decision to regulate the Internet by classifying it as a utility.

Past headlining performers in the festival have included acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and rhythm and blues singer Mavis Staples.

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

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U of Oregon lawsuit sheds light on FERPA

BY CASSIDY TUCKER A lawsuit filed against the University of Oregon by a victim of sexual assault has brought to light a little-remarked-upon exception to students’ medical confidentiality rights, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on March 2.

The University of Oregon asserted in its defense that it had a legal right to use students’ college counseling center records against them. Princeton University is also currently facing a lawsuit in federal court from a student who alleges in part that the university violated his medical confidentiality.

The alleged exception to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act could apply to students nationwide, including at Princeton, if upheld as a valid interpretation of the law.

The Chronicle of Higher Education wrote that the University of Oregon’s defense appears to be correct.

The Department of Education has concluded universities can disclose educational records to courts without a court order or student consent because institutions should not have to subpoena their own records and should not be powerless to defend themselves, department guidelines say.

Counseling and Psychological Services is bound not only by FERPA but also by its own policies and the laws that govern licensure for its personnel, Princeton spokesman Martin Mbugua noted.

CPS guidelines say that the exceptions to requiring student

consent for disclosure of medical records are rare and include certain PRINCETON c i r c u m stances, such as under court order, as required by law, in an emergency or life-threatening situations and in order to assure continuity of care for students with psychological and physical conditions, among other situations.

The ethical policies of both the American Counseling Association and the American Psychological Association require that a therapist’s records can only be disclosed to a court under a court order, so insofar as an educational institution respects those guidelines, a student’s records are not at risk.

However, in the University of Oregon case, the records appear to have been disclosed legally without the student’s and therapist’s consent, since the ACA and APA guidelines are not binding and the University of Oregon maintained ultimate control of medical records at its counseling center.

Education records refers to any record about a student that is “personally identifiable,” Steve McDonald, general counsel at the Rhode Island School of Design and a well-known expert on FERPA, explained.

A financial aid record, an exam score or a medical treatment record are all considered educational records, he said.

“FERPA becomes question-

able with records that are only vaguely educational records — for instance, mental health records,” Bill Koski, a litigator and law professor at Stanford University, said.

FERPA is not all bad in that it gives students the right to control the disclosure of their education records to others, inspect and review their own education records, and seek amendment of their education records, Koski said.

FERPA becomes questionable with records that are only vaguely educational records.

BILL KOSKI Stanford University Law Professor To ensure safety for students, universities require more access to student records in terms of mental health issues than in a normal patient-therapist relationship, Ann Bartow, a professor at the Pace Law School and a member of the advisory of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said.

“I don’t think they need quite so much [as given under FERPA],” she said. “I think the law can be rewritten in a way that gives the university the access it needs to keep students safe, but still is a little more reasonable and gives students some privacy.”

The case at the University of Oregon has since brought up

many issues regarding FERPA. “I think this case is appalling,” Bartow said. “Students are very exposed.”

Dahlia Kaki said she thinks it is definitely a violation of a student’s privacy when a university accesses mental health records without the student’s consent, adding that the limitations to the protection offered by FERPA would make her reconsider seeking treatment from CPS. Molly Strabley also said that she feels less inclined to seek help at CPS for fear that her own private records could be made public or used against her in a courtroom.

“I find it concerning,” Strabley said.

The law is not always clear enough about when a student’s records can be shared, and FERPA inexplicably overrides patient confidentiality in the case of college students, Koski said.

The patient confidentiality law in Oregon may also be at fault, McDonald said.

“FERPA was never meant to provide medical record protection,” he said. “The real issue with the Oregon case is the patient confidentiality law of Oregon.

This is not something FERPA was really meant to protect.”

Normally, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act provides protection for patient medical records, but according to Department of Education guidelines, HIPAA does not usually apply to college students obtaining treatment at college-run medical centers.

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Jessie J to headline Yardfest

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Janelle Monae performed at Yardfest 2014.

BY JALIN CUNNINGHAM British pop artist Jessie J will headline this year’s Yardfest, Harvard College’s outdoor music concert scheduled for April 24, the Friday of Visitas weekend.

The Harvard College Events Board, responsible for planning the event, announced the news via their website at noon on Wednesday. The online announcement featured a mashup of Jessie J video clips that was set to one of the artist’s most popular songs, “Bang Bang.”

According to Dakota SantanaGrace, College Events Board cochair, Jessie J was the Board’s top choice during its artist selection process. He said the group is thrilled to welcome her to campus

in April.

Yardfest will take place on a Friday this year, unlike some previous years, HARVARD when the concert was held on Saturday or Sunday. The event also takes place the same weekend as Visitas, the College’s visiting weekend program for accepted students.

This year’s unorthodox scheduling is mainly a result of Jessie J’s performance schedule, according to Santana-Grace. He added that while the CEB is cognizant of the potential conflict with Visitas programming, the visiting week-

end does not officially begin until the day after the concert.

The 26-year-old pop star first topped charts in the United States with her song “Price Tag,” and since then has peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart with her song “Domino.”

She has collaborated with numerous other artists throughout her career, including Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Taio Cruz, David Guetta and Queen.

Jessie J will also headline Spring Fling at Yale on April 25, the day after Harvard’s Yardfest.

Last year, R&B and soul artist Janelle Monáe headlined the concert, and in 2013, rap and hip-hop artist Tyga was the headlining performer. The CEB’s selection of Tyga sparked controversy from

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various students who criticized his music’s lyrics as “misogynistic.” In response, the Office of Student Life requested Yardfest organizers to reconsider the choice, though Tyga still performed in the show.

This year, students said they look forward to Jessie J’s performance.

“She’s supposed to be a phenomenal live act, and I think she’ll bring great energy to Yardfest 2015,” Holly Breuer said. Breuer is a member of the CEB’s artist selection committee.

Two student groups will open for Jessie J, according to Breuer. Auditions for student openers will take place in Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub on Friday.

Cornell decries video feat. dean

BY ZOE FERGUSON Cornell University denounced Wednesday a viral video that claimed an assistant dean at the school provided advice on how to support and fund terrorist groups and invite them to campus.

In the video, which was released Tuesday, an interviewer from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas poses as a Moroccan student facing racial discrimination at his current university. Donning a hidden camera and microphone, the interviewer asks Joseph Scaffido, assistant dean of students for student activities, whether Cornell would be willing to support a “humanitarian group in the Middle East, northern Iraq and Syria.”

“I think it would be important, for especially these people in the Islamic State Iraq and Syria, the families — the freedom fighters in particular, and their families … to maybe just educate, but to maybe send them care packages, whether it be food, water, electronics,” the interviewer says.

In response, the video shows Scaffido saying, “There are a lot of our student organizations that do things like that all over the world.”

The video next shows the interviewer asking, “If you did like, supported like Hamas or something like that, is that a problem?”

Scaffido answers in the video that “the university is not going to look at different groups and say you’re not allowed to support that group because we don’t believe in them or something like that.”

“I think the university wants the entire community to understand what’s going on in all parts of the world,” Scaffido adds.

Additionally, the video shows the interviewer asking if it would be possible to bring a “freedom fighter” to campus and provide “a training camp for students.”

“You would be allowed to do something like that,” Scaffido responds. “It’s just like bringing in a coach to do a training on a sports team or something.”

In a s ta te m e n t released Wednesday afternoon, Cornell University PresiCORNELL dent David Skorton said the idea that Cornell would welcome terrorist groups such as ISIS and Hamas on campus is “ludicrous and absolutely offensive.”

Skorton described the video — which has been widely circulated online by various media outlets — as a “shameful” product of Project Veritas, which he said “has been repeatedly vilified for dishonest, deceitful activity.”

I think the university wants the entire community to understand what’s going on in all parts of the world.

JOSEPH SCAFFIDO Assistant Dean of Students for Student Activities “It is shameful that any individual would pose as a student facing racial discrimination at another university, ask leading questions on hidden camera about Cornell’s tolerance for differing viewpoints and backgrounds, and then conveniently splice together the resulting footage to smear our assistant dean and our University,” Skorton said.

Skorton added that while many forms of free expression are welcome at the university, violence is not tolerated on Cornell’s campus.

“Cornell has an unwavering commitment to the free and responsible exchange of ideas,” he said. “However, we remain vigilant in maintaining an appropriate balance of freedom of expression within accepted boundaries. Of course, incitement to violence is not protected and would never be tolerated on our campus.”

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SPORTS

“A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That’s how I want you to play.” MIKE KRZYZEWSKI DUKE HEAD BASKETBALL COACH

Yale coach rejects speculation BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12

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In the 2014–15 season, the Elis won more than 20 games for just the second time in Jones’s tenure.

My coverage killed the ’Dogs COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 let for my passion. I found it in the Yale Daily News sports section.

Writing about sports seemed like a perfect fit — I loved to write, and having made every mistake possible on the field, I knew how to spot when a player messed up.

My first beat was the Yale men’s basketball team. The first game I went to, Yale at Quinnipiac, would portend things to come. In what could only be described as an “ugly” game, the Bobcats outmuscled the Bulldogs for a close win. But then the tide seemed to turn. Led by forward Greg Mangano ’12 and guard Reggie Willhite ’12, the Elis were a force to be reckoned with in the Ivy League.

Yale went into the final weekend of the regular season with a chance to win the League, and claim its automatic bid to the Big Dance. But the first seeds of Yale’s misfortune had begun to grow and bear fruit. Injuries depleted Yale’s backcourt, denying the Bulldogs their best chance at the Ivy crown.

From there, it snowballed. I covered a talented Yale baseball team that somehow lost 33 games.

I then transitioned to football, covering the squad’s injury- and misfortune-riddled 2–8 campaign in 2012. In retrospect, I may have done more damage to Yale’s quarterback corps than any defensive lineman ever could, as I watched three signal callers get wounded in a single game, forcing head coach Tony Reno to raid his wide receivers for a quarterback.

After that season, my editors gave me a choice that I believe has had repercussions throughout the history of Yale Athletics. They asked me if I wanted to cover men’s ice hockey or men’s basketball. Hockey may be Yale’s best sport, but growing up in Richmond, seeing that much ice in one place just made me think I would have school off the next

day. Plus I am a college basketball fanatic, and I had grown to really care about head basketball coach James Jones and the great group of players he had brought together as I had covered them the previous season. I chose to stay with basketball. They finished under 0.500 and the Yale men’s ice hockey team won the National Championship. Was I responsible? The short answer: Yes. I only hate to imagine what would have happened if I hadn’t had the presentation in Natty Resources that prevented me from traveling down to Pittsburgh to watch the Frozen Four.

Looking at the statistics for how Yale has fared with and without me, my curse crystallizes. Yale is 0–4 in the Game with me in attendance. I covered the baseball, football and men’s basketball teams for five combined seasons, and those teams had a total of one winning season during my reign of terror. The seasons that I stopped covering those teams, football shot back up to 5–5, the baseball team came within a playoff of the Ivy League championship series and the basketball team fought its way to the final game of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament.

Yale men’s basketball has tipped off against Harvard nine times in my four years. I have been to six of those games. The Bulldogs are 0–6 when I am in attendance, but 2–1 when I fortuitously stay home.

The Boston Red Sox suffered from the Curse of the Bambino for 86 long years. The Chicago Cubs still endure the effects of the curse of the Billy Goat that started more than a century ago. Stock up on your horseshoes and rabbit feet, Yale fans, because the Bulldogs are under the Condro Curse.

CHARLES CONDRO is a senior in Trumbull College and a former sports editor for the News. Contact him at charles.condro@yale.edu .

shone in Ivy League play, with a 122– 95 mark. Since his second season back in 2000, Jones’s teams have finished in the top half of the Ancient Eight in 15 straight seasons, including two league championships.

Despite having just led Yale to that second title and returning significant talent next year, the Fordham position does offer alluring benefits.

The Bronx campus would not only provide a workplace in Jones’s native state, but also the opportunity to coach college basketball in a city known as one of the meccas of the sport.

Additionally, the Atlantic 10 conference, which the Rams have called home since 1995–96, has elevated its status in

the college basketball landscape significantly over the past decade. This season marks the eighth straight season in which the league has sent at least three schools to the NCAA Tournament.

Just last year, a conference-record six schools advanced to March Madness, tied with the likes of the powerful Atlantic Coast and Big 10 Conferences. For comparison’s sake, the Ivy League has never sent more than one school to the Big Dance in basketball’s 58-year-long history in the league.

Jones did not rule out the possibility of considering the right job if it were to come along. He said any coach would do the same, though he said such a situation is unlikely and his focus is elsewhere.

“There are certainly jobs out there that you look at and say, ‘God, that’d be a

great job,’” Jones said. “But for me, I live in the day and in the moment, and right now, my moment is at Yale.”

The Rams have languished in the Atlantic 10, having not made the NCAA Tournament since joining the conference. Fordham has established itself as a bottom-feeder in the league, having finished in last place 10 times in the past 19 seasons.

Jones is the winningest coach in Yale history and is among 16 finalists for the 2015 Ben Jobe Award, presented annually to the top minority coach in Division I men’s basketball.

Jonathan Marx contributed reporting.

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

Tennis heads west

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The Bulldogs dominated at their own invitational, defeating all three other programs invited.

MEN’S TENNIS FROM PAGE 12 court, I started playing well and the confidence came right back to me,” Photiades said.

The Bulldogs then headed to the west coast, looking to ride the momentum of their threegame win streak. However, Loyola Marymount snapped the Bulldogs’ series of wins with a 5–2 victory when Yale touched down in Los Angeles for the first match of the road trip. Although the Lions won all three of the doubles matches, Yale managed to pick up two wins in singles competition from Daniel Faierman ’15 and Svenning.

The weather and outdoor play in California was a factor in the performance of the Elis.

The team had yet to be outside all spring until their matchup with Loyola Marymount.

According to Wang, the Bulldogs had to adapt to the blistering hot weather because they were used to playing indoor matches in the cold weather.

The team was also hampered by injuries. Fedor Andrienko ’18, a strong doubles player, was sidelined with an ankle injury following his doubles match during the team’s final match with Utah. Svenning was forced to retire during the middle of his singles game against Utah’s Parker McGuiness because of an injury to his foot.

“Knowing that we had those two injuries and knowing that those are both starting players in both our singles and doubles

lineups, we all knew that there was a little bit more pressure to step up,” Wang said. “Both Martin and Fedor are two very solid players.”

Although the Elis lost to Utah 5–2 in the final game in California on March 19, the highlight of the trip was an earlier 4–3 victory over Portland at Newport Beach on March 15. In the very next week, Portland went on to defeat Loyola Marymount — the team which defeated Yale — and Pepperdine, which is ranked No. 49 in the country. According to Dorato, the match with Portland was an incredibly exciting one whose outcome was decided by the No. 1 doubles game. In that match, freshmen Doehler and Andrienko came

from behind to defeat Stefan Dierauf and Kent Andreasen of the University of Portland 7–6, clinching victory for the team.

The Bulldogs now possess a 10–5 record, and they will next compete against St. John’s in what is scheduled to be the final regular season match before the beginning of Ivy League play.

“It is our last chance to really get ready and practice the things that we have been working on, so it’s not critical that we win, but we want to really be mentally sharp,” said Dorato.

The match between Yale and St. John’s will take place in New York on Saturday, March 29 at 1 p.m.

Contact JACOB MITCHELL at jacob.mitchell@yale.edu .

Bulldogs race in San Diego TRACK & FIELD FROM PAGE 12 place with 176 points in a field of 11 teams. Middlebury won the meet with 217 points.

The Elis had 10 individual top-three finishes, including four first-place medals. The 4x100-meter team also finished first.

Perhaps Yale’s best success came in field events, where Yale won all three events that it participated in. In the shot put, Karleh Wilson ’16 took first with a throw of 14.34m, more than three meters further than the second-place finisher, and teammate Elle Brunsdale ’15 finished sixth in the same event.

Alisha Jordan ’15 beat out the field in the long jump by one centimeter with a 5.19m leap.

Finally, the Elis placed two athletes in the top three of the pole vault, won by Catherine Shih ’15 with a height of 3.55m.

“We had a number of great first-place finishes in the field events,” Brunsdale said. “Our team took advantage of the beautiful weather and kicked off the outdoor season with some very strong performances, and

it’s only up from here.”

On the track, the lone individual first place came from Sydney Cureton ’16 in the 100meter dash. Her time of 12.09 seconds was more than threetenths of a second faster than the second-place finisher. Katerra Logan ’17 took third in the event with a time of 12.47.

In the 400-meter dash, Emily Cable ’15 finished second with a time of 55.01, just over a second behind the winner.

The Bulldogs had three runners finish in the top eight in the 800-meter run, with Frances Schmiede ’17 (2:12.83) taking second, Brunsdale (2:18.18) in fifth and Delaney FitzPatrick ’17 (2:19.78) taking eighth.

Two other racers finished in third for Yale: Meredith Rizzo ’17 in the 1,500-meter run and Mackenzie Mathews ’16 in the 100-meter hurdles.

Mathews, alongside Cureton, Cable and Logan, took first in the 4x100-meter relay, beating second-place Southwestern by nearly two seconds with a time of 47.17.

The men’s team, on the other hand, took fifth out of 10 teams

with 130.50 points. Navy won the meet with 275.50 points.

The men had three first-place victories, two by individuals and one by a relay team, alongside many other top-three finishes.

One of those first-place finishes came from Paedyn Gomes ’18 in the 110-meter hurdles, finishing with a time of 14.52.

He finished nearly half a second ahead of the next runner. Daniel Kemp ’15 took fifth in the race with a time of 15.33.

The other individual victory came from James Randon ’17, who led a squad of eight Eli runners in the 800-meter run. He edged out the next-best finisher with a time of 1:54.43.

In the 400-meter dash, Torren Peebles ’17 took third with a time of 49.72. Mario Kranjac ’15 also competed in the event, taking eight with a time of 50.71.

Three Bulldogs competed in the 1,500-meter run. Duncan Tomlin ’16 finished just 0.27 seconds behind the leader, taking second with a time of 3:54.41. Freshmen Ryan Brady ’18 (4:02.05) and Adam Houston ’18 (4:05.16) took 10th and 15th, respectively.

The Eli 4x100-meter relay team, consisting of Peebles, Gomes, Marc-Andre Alexandre ’17 and Dylan Hurley ’15, also took first with a time of 41.68, beating the second-place Middlebury squad by nearly two seconds.

In the field, Mike Koller ’18 took second in the high jump with a jump of 1.90m and Brendan Sullivan ’16 took third in the pole vault with a height of 4.85m.

“I think the team is very focused right now and poised to have a big jump this outdoor season,” Randon said. “The great thing about having a team spring break trip is that we honestly only train and relax for a whole week. We’re all definitely rested and ready to go.”

Both teams have the upcoming weekend off, but action resumes Friday, April 3, as runners will compete at the Sam Howell Invitational in Princeton, the Stanford Invitational and the University of Virginia Invitational.

Contact ADAM JENKINSON at adam.jenkinson@yale.edu .

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Yale finished fifth at the Ross and Sharon Irwin Invite thanks to two individual and one relay first-place finishes.

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“I don’t want kids in my current program to think that I’m going somewhere and that I’m not going to be there for them.”

YALE GYMNASTICS STAYING ALIVE On Monday, it was announced that the Bulldogs qualified for the USAG Collegiate Nationals meet, which will be held at Penn from April 10–12. Yale’s score from last week’s ECAC Championships was its fifth-highest in program history.

JAMES JONES MEN’S BASKETBALL

YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

Jones denies Fordham coaching rumors

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER In the aftermath of a historic season that saw the Yale men’s basketball team win its most games since 1949 before ending without a postseason bid, rumors of another potential gut punch to the Elis swirled around Wednesday afternoon.

SportsNet New York reporter Adam Zagoria floated Yale head coach James Jones as a potential candidate for the recently vacated coaching job at Fordham University. But Jones, having just completed his 16th season at the helm of the Elis, firmly denied any connection to the job opening.

“No, I don’t know where he’s getting his sourcing but I did not interview for the job,” Jones said. “I have not interviewed and I have not applied for the job.”

Zagoria’s report comes on the heels of Fordham’s firing of coach Tom Pecora on March 18. On March 21, Zagoria first linked Jones’ name to the vacancy on Twitter before following up with a tweet on Wednesday that listed Jones as well as three other names as “among those to interview for Fordham.”

In an interview with the News, Zagoria reasserted that his sources connected Jones to the position and that he had already interviewed.

Zagoria went on to say that Jones’s dismissal of such claims made sense, as it seemed unlikely to him that Jones would receive the job, and coaches do not like being rumored as leaving their current teams.

When reached for comment, both the Fordham Athletic Department and the firm hired to oversee the coaching search — Parker Executive Search — refused to comment on an ongoing matter.

Jones, who was recently crowned as the inaugural Ivy League Coach of the Year, was steadfast in his denial of Zagoria’s reports. In fact, Jones said that he was about to meet with Director of Athletics Tom Beckett to dis-

cuss a potential contract extension and expressed his commitment to his players.

“I have not applied [to the Fordham job]. I am not a candidate,” Jones said. “I don’t want kids in my current program — those are the kids I worry about most — to think that I’m going somewhere and that I’m not going to be there for them … We have a lot more to accomplish.”

As far as his current contract, the terms of which are not made publicly available, Jones said there are four years left on his current deal.

Beckett did not disclose any specific details but did say the administration is fully supportive of Jones and implied that talks of an extension have begun.

“Yale is extremely proud of James Jones, his staff and students and everything the Yale basketball program represents,” Beckett said in an email to the News. “We want Coach Jones to be our head coach for a long time and we have had conversations with him about this objective.”

Jones, a Long Island native, is the longest-tenured coach in the Ivy League, and his 16 years rank 15th in the nation across all 351 Division I schools. As such, the rumors certainly startled some of his players.

Forward Justin Sears ’16, the Ancient Eight’s Player of the Year, said that members of the team learned of the report on Twitter but paid no more than “five or 10 minutes” of attention to what it might mean. Ultimately, Sears, who attributed Jones’s sustained tenure as a major reason for his choosing Yale, had confidence that Jones would be back patrolling the sidelines come the start of next season.

“He said he’s staying here for his four years with us,” Sears said. “He’s looking forward to next year as far as we know, so we’re not worried about any of that.”

Jones addressed his players on Wednesday in a team meeting to discuss plans for the offseason with-

MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY ADAM JENKINSON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a promising and successful indoor season, the Bulldog men’s and women’s track and field teams kicked off their outdoor season on a positive note, as both teams finished in the top five against tough competition.

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Last Saturday, the Bulldogs faced off against teams from all over the country in the Ross and Sharon Irwin Invite at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. The meet capped a week of training and resting in the warmer weather of California.

“Competing at Point Loma Nazarene University this weekend provided a great opportunity for the

I’m sure we’d understand if he decided to leave,” Mason said. “He [says] that we should be competing for championships every year and that’s what we’ve done my first year and if he stays, we’ll continue to do that.”

Though Jones sports a losing record overall at 225–231, he has SEE MEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 10

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Elis start outdoor season

The Condro curse I’m sorry y’all, but it’s my fault. I’ve thought a lot about the series of unfortunate events that have happened at the expense of the Yale Bulldogs recently, and I have come to the grim realization that I am responsible.

I finished my job calling play-by-play for the Yale women’s basketball team’s broadcast on the Ivy League Digital Network and rushed to my friend’s apartment to watch the end of the Yale-Dartmouth men’s basketball game. I got there with less than one minute to go. The Wall Street Journal later reported that Yale had a 99.1 percent chance of winning at that time.

I was the 0.9 percent. Abandoning my thesis, I then road-tripped down to the Palestra the next weekend, only to watch Yale’s hopes at the NCAA tournament rest on the rim, then crash into the ground. I returned to the library Sunday, but was drawn to Ingalls by the Twitter updates that were blowing up my phone. I got there just in time for the second overtime loss.

That was all in just one week.

Like most tragedies, this started with the purest of intentions. I love sports. I loved playing them first and foremost, but no coach in their right mind would have given me one look, other than to see how effortless it looked when the opposing pitcher rung me up or when a runner took an extra base on one of my signature dropped fly balls. What a pity, because if some coach had been foolish enough to let me ride the end of the bench or carry the water, maybe none of this would have happened. I guess hindsight is 20–20.

With no opportunity to play sports other than intramurals, I looked to find another out-

Yale head coach James Jones has been the head man for the Bulldogs since the 1999–2000 season. out even acknowledging the rumors, according to multiple players on the team.

Guard Makai Mason ’18 admitted that the team would be disappointed should Jones leave, but that such a decision is out of the team’s hands. In the end, Mason said Jones should do what is right for him and his family.

“We can’t really control any of that.

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Bulldogs go 4–2 in spring break sprint

team to compete in warm weather early in the season, which is difficult to get here in Connecticut,” Emily Cable ’15 said. “I think that this competition was great for the team’s confidence and will begin to set the tone for the rest of the season.”

The women’s team performed at a high level, tying with Southwestern for third SEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE 10

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Adjusting to the California sun was a change for the Bulldogs, who have played indoors up until spring break.

BY JACOB MITCHELL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale men’s tennis team played six matches over spring break, notching four wins and two losses.

MEN’S TENNIS

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The women’s team won every field event that it entered in San Diego.

STAT OF THE DAY 1

The barrage of competition began with the Yale Men’s Tennis Invitational at the CullmanHeyman Tennis Center on March 7 and March 8 that pitted Yale against Stony Brook, Marist and Fairleigh Dickinson. The Bull-

dogs emerged victorious in all three games.

“As the weekend went on, we played better and better. By the last match, we really played very well,” head coach Alex Dorato said. “Everyone up and down the lineup had a good day and that doesn’t happen too often.”

The 6–1 defeat of Stony Brook on Saturday featured singles wins

by Martin Svenning ’16 and Ziqi Wang ’18 at the No. 1 and No. 2 singles positions, and the pair also teamed up for a victory in the No. 1 doubles slot.

On Sunday, the Elis swept the

Invitational with 7–2 and 8–0 victories over Marist and Fairleigh Dickinson, respectively.

During the two matches, Yale received key contributions from Stefan Doehler ’18, Tyler Lu ’17 and Photos Photiades ’17. Photiades stepped into the lineup and performed admirably, winning in three sets against Marist’s Matteo Giudici and also defeating Fairleigh Dickinson’s Arnaud Valentin 6–1, 6–2.

“I hadn’t played a match in a while but after I stepped onto the SEE MEN’S TENNIS PAGE 10

THE NUMBER OF GAMES THE YALE MEN’S TENNIS TEAM BEAT PORTLAND BY OVER SPRING BREAK. Freshmen No. 1 doubles pair Stefan Doehler ’18 and Fedor Andrienko ’18 came back for a 7–6 victory at the end of the match.