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CROSS CAMPUS Today’s the day. Regular Decisions for the Class of 2019 will be released this evening at 5 p.m. And with the end of the nerve-racking college admissions cycle comes the start of senior spring for high school students everywhere.

Enjoy the peace while you can, 2019: Everyone here hits the ground gunning, despite efforts to pretend otherwise.

LESS ALCOHOL MORE BRAIN ACTIVITY

FACULTY BULLDOGS

12-PAC, GOD QUAD

Professors open their classrooms to learn new teaching methods.

PARTY SUITES RAISE QUESTIONS OF FUNDING, SAFETY.

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IN THE SANDLOT Baseball drops two games to Cornell, then sweeps Princeton.

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Panel recommends body cameras for all YPD officers

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND TYLER FOGGATT STAFF REPORTERS Just over two months after Tahj Blow ’16 was briefly detained by a Yale police officer holding a gun on Cross Campus, the ad hoc panel charged with providing recommendations on University and Yale Police Department policies has issued its report.

In addition to finding that the YPD’s internal investigation into

the incident — which cleared the officer involved of wrongdoing — was comprehensive and that the ensuing report was factual, the panel’s report issued three recommendations.

Perhaps most significantly, the report recommended that the YPD institute the use of body cameras for all officers. Furthermore, it recommended that the YPD include “intentionally pointing a weapon at or in the direction of a person” in the definition of “use of force,” and

that the YPD further specify the position of “low ready,” the position in which the officer involved held his weapon. The report recommends that, for future reference, the YPD define low ready more specifically, so that it is clear that the weapon held is “at a 45 degree angle or less and not at a person with the officer’s finger outside of the trigger well.”

Lastly, the panel recommended that Yale “emphasize its continued commitment to providing a safe, welcoming and

inclusive environment for its students, faculty, staff and visitors.”

The report was released in a University-wide email sent

by University President Peter Salovey, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins.

Blow was stopped on Jan. 24 after the YPD received reports that an intruder, described as a tall African-American male wearing a read and white hat and black coat, had entered Trum-

bull College. The report followed a series of thefts in the college.

The panel consisted of Master of Berkeley College and psychology professor Marvin Chun, former President of the New England Association of Chiefs of Police Charles Reynolds and former U.S. District Judge Stephen Robinson.

The three panel members worked with Deputy Vice President for Human Resources and SEE YPD PAGE 4

Entering the mix. Yesterday,

the Yale College Council’s Spring Fling Committee began soliciting student performers to open for and play between St. Lucia, Jessie J and Klingande. It probably won’t be as easy for Harvard to just steal these performers the way it stole Jessie J for Yardfest.

Protests continue after second arrest

So disruptive. The Yale

Entrepreneurial Institute announced the winners of its $15,000 summer fellowship on Monday. Soon-to-be incubated projects range from “a high-efficiency, highpower, low-cost LED chip” to “nutritious, tasty, highprotein bean-based snacks.”

And they say Yale isn’t innovative.

Proceed to party. “Solo Cups @ Yale,” a Design for America project that matches participants with each other over meals, kicks off Tuesday in the Morse/Stiles dining hall.

Given the number of times we’ve seen something like this come up (e.g., pear | yale, ...

Tinder), it seems that Yalies really like meeting new Yalies.

Toad’$ Place. But in the end,

Toad’s is the ultimate place for Yalies to meet new Yalies.

Everyone’s favorite nightclub will host rapper Curren$y in concert tonight. You’ll need $30 of American currency to get in the door.

Professional schools weigh faculty senate

BY EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTER

culated. Cornelius was arrested that day for assault, possession of knife and breach of peace. Over two weeks later, Parker — who was accused of assaulting Cornelius’s sister — was arrested Monday afternoon at the state courthouse, where she had appeared for an unrelated felony

With the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate nearly in full swing, proponents of the body are looking ahead — and around.

Earlier this month, the nominating and election committees for the FAS Senate were approved by faculty at the meeting of the Joint Board of Permanent Officers of the FAS — a body responsible for approving faculty appointments and promotions that consists of tenured professors in Yale College and the Graduate School. And last Friday, the nominating committee sent a message to all eligible faculty members asking them to nominate their peers by April 17, with elections planned to follow two weeks after. But alongside future plans for the FAS Senate itself has come the suggestion that a similar body be established at each of the University’s professional schools.

Recent debate over a drafted document of faculty standards of conduct called into question the role that the FAS Senate may take, in its fledgling stages, in affecting University-wide policy. When met with the idea that the FAS Senate would not be

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Community activists gathered at the NHPD headquarters in response to the recent arrest of Sabrina Parker.

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTERS On the same day that police arrested 18-year-old Sabrina Parker for her role in a St. Patrick’s Day fight, roughly a dozen community activists stood outside the New Haven Police Department headquarters yester-

day afternoon to protest the police’s response to that incident.

During the St. Patrick’s Day parade, Parker was involved in a fight at the downtown Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant. The incident garnered attention after a video depicting NHPD officer Joshua Smereczynsky slamming 15-year-old Teandrea Cornelius to the ground was widely cir-

First, order Chipotle. Such

is the universally accepted move in planning a successful event. Yale Mock Trial figured as much and will thus offer free burritos at its LSAT Logic Games Workshop tonight.

With events like this, why even bother with PHIL 115?

Clever enough. Starting at

7 p.m., a group of seniors will present their theses on various topics in food and agriculture in an event called, wait for it, the “Watermelon Forum @ Yale.” Well done, Yale Sustainable Food Program — we can’t top that one.

Small fish, big pond.

Yesterday, CTNow reviewed Chapel Street bistro-bar Barracuda. In the article, owner Sonia Salazar described herself as a “small, aggressive fish.” Fittingly, Barracuda has already made waves and is now something of a weekend fixture in its five-month stint on the local scene.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

2011 The U.S. Department of Education announces its investigation into a “hostile sexual environment” at Yale.

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CS50 teaching roles outlined

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER Over spring break, roughly 40 undergraduates and graduate students were notified that they would be hired as the first class of Yale CS50 teaching staff.

This coming weekend, the new staff will participate in a seven-hour training session. A motion made at a November faculty meeting allows the course, denoted as CPSC 100, to be the exception to a University-wide rule that says undergraduates cannot function in any teaching fellow-like capacity. The motion, made by the Teaching Fellow Program Working Group committee, reads that the course is operating on an experimental basis for three years and must be renewed by faculty at that time.

Though the application process referred to the position as teaching fellows, which is the label they are given at Harvard, the administration has insisted on calling them “undergraduate learning assistants.” According to Pamela Schirmeister, the dean of strategic initiatives for Yale College, the Graduate School and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, that language distinction is crucial to ensuring that undergrad-

uates are not working as teaching assistants during exam and reading periods. By not going by the same names, they do not need to fulfill the same requirements.

But computer science professor Brian Scassellati, who will teach CPSC 100, said that though he is “not concerned with labeling,” he believes that students will think of those undergraduate and graduate students who lead sections, grade assignments, hold office hours and help teach them the basics of computer science as their CS50 TAs. However, he clarified that “if you want to be precise though, there is no such thing as a ‘CS50 TA.’ There is not even a ‘CS50.’ ” Schirmeister said in an email that it is important that ULAs are not performing precisely the same roles as the average Yale teaching fellow, even if the job activities overlap in some respects. Because undergraduates have their own papers to write and exams for which to prepare during the reading and exam periods, they will not be asked to grade during those times.

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At other Ivies, struggling with mental health services

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER In an anonymous op-ed written in The Harvard Crimson in 2013, one student described suffering through their first psychotic episode, adrift from the support of their university. The student’s experience bore resemblance to that of many Yale students seeking mental health and counseling treatment at Yale Health. The op-ed was widely circulated in the Harvard community and beyond.

Mental health and counseling services at Harvard, Princeton and Yale have strengths in different areas. Harvard has the lowest number of therapists per student when compared to Yale and Princeton. But Harvard allows students on the university health plan to see off-campus therapists, while Yale does not. Princeton offers the most group therapy sessions.

But students at all three institutions share the view that their universities are delivering a lower standard of care than they believe is optimal.

“My expectation would be that [mental health services] would be of similar quality across the three schools and that there would be high quality all around,” said Princeton junior Tomi Johnson. “I would like to think my mediocre experience was out of the norm.”

With college tuition rising and high-profile cases of severe depression and suicide proliferating throughout the media, questions have emerged around the Ivy League about the level of mental health care avail-

able to students. Experiences with oncampus services converge to a substandard norm, students interviewed said.

COMMUNICATION CONCERNS

In the campus debate about mental health, one common complaint is not about substance, but communication. Students said SEE MENTAL HEALTH PAGE 6

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Yale Health’s counseling services have been criticized by some University students.

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A Requiem for Yale I

n January of my freshman year, I resolved to go to more funerals. Like most of the resolutions I’ve made in college, I didn’t follow through with it.

Last Saturday night, around 1,500 members of the Yale community packed into Woolsey Hall to hear the Yale Symphony Orchestra and Yale Glee Club put on a magnificent performance of Ein Deutsches Requiem (“A German Requiem”) by Johannes Brahms. Very few events on campus are able to bring as many Yalies together as the typical YSO concert does; only Spring Fling and the likes of Jimmy Carter can draw such large crowds. What does it say about our campus that some of our most popular public events are performances of orchestral pieces written over a hundred years ago?

Perhaps so many students attend YSO shows because there’s not much to do at 7:00 p.m. on Saturdays, or because an orchestra concert makes for a perfect date night, or because a few too many of us listened to Mozart in the womb. But I like to think that students are drawn to pieces like Brahms’s Requiem for deeper reasons: Because they give us a chance to confront questions about life, meaning, beauty and time; they fill a spiritual hole in our day-to-day lives.

WHY ARE YSO CONCERTS SO POPULAR? There were several reasons why, as a freshman, I thought it would be worthwhile to attend more funerals: to reflect on a human life in its entirety, to learn from the life led by the deceased and to take part in a communal gathering meant to provide solace to mourners. But, most importantly, I thought that attending funerals would serve as a constant reminder that my time on earth is short and easily wasted.

The third movement of Brahms’s Requiem begins with a similar sentiment: “Lord, teach me that I must have an end, and that my life has an end and that I must pass away.”

The translation provided by the YSO uses the word “end” twice, but in the original German text, “end” refers to two separate words. The first German word translated as “end” means “close, finish”: Teach me that my life will some day reach its conclusion. But the second word translated as “end” means “goal, purpose”: Teach me that my life has a point, that there is a standard by which my existence is measured.

So, one reading of the opening lines of the third movement of the Requiem is that, by thinkSCOTT about GREENBERG ing the inevitable end of The Segue our time on earth, we realize the urgency of making the most of our lives. But, when I listened to the Requiem on Saturday evening, I was thinking, not about the end of my life, but the end of my time at Yale.

In one sense, it’s very difficult for undergraduates at Yale to forget how limited our time here is. On our second day of school, we sing “Bright College Years,” an entire poem about how our time at Yale will end and we’ll be left only with friendships and memories. But in another sense, it’s very easy for us to forget how little time we have in this community of higher learning. We waste our time on Netflix and Facebook, put our energy into uninspiring classes and activities that “help us get ahead” and literally erase our memories after consuming too much alcohol.

During Saturday’s YSO concert, I thought back to all of the time I could have spent better during my undergraduate career: the resolutions I didn’t follow through with, the classes I should have dropped and the evenings I could have spent with friends had I gotten papers done earlier.

But Brahms didn’t write his Requiem for those whose time had passed. In fact, unlike most traditional requiems, Brahms’s Requiem barely references the dead at all; it focuses almost completely on those still living. The passage at the center of the piece is “Blessed are those who dwell in your house,” those who still have time to live their lives with purpose.

This isn’t really a column urging seniors to live the next five weeks to the fullest; it’s directed to the freshmen, sophomores and juniors.

Remember that your time at Yale will end, and figure out how you want to measure your time left. This doesn’t mean cramming as many activities as possible into already unhealthy schedules. Spend your time at Yale on the really important things, whether hanging out with friends, going to academic colloquia or making the world a better place. And go to as many YSO concerts as you can.

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he report of the ad-hoc panel reviewing the Yale Police Department’s internal investigation into the detainment of Tahj Blow '16 demonstrates the lengths the University will go to investigate misconduct and allay public concern that it has wronged one of its members.

The University’s response has been staggering in its speed, breadth and detail, culminating in yesterday’s report, whose authors span race, expertise and Yale affiliation. They are Marvin Chun, master of Berkeley College; Charles Reynolds, former president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and a consulting expert on policing; and Stephen Robinson, a former U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Rightly, the report does not dispute the “startling and upsetting nature” of the Jan. 24 incident, in which a Yale Police officer stopped Blow, drawing his gun though not aiming it at the junior ecology and evolutionary biology major, instructing him to lie face down on the ground.

Rightly, too, the panel does not re-investigate the incident, which occurred in the context of a campus search for a suspected burglar, the description of whom closely matched Blow’s appear-

ance and clothing, according to the report.

This fact — and the fact that an extensive internal police investigation found that the officer’s actions complied with department policy — does not make it less frightening that a student exiting the library on a Saturday evening was forced to the ground by an armed police officer.

Nor does it strip the incident of its troubling racial associations. Just yesterday, Charles Blow, Tahj’s father and a columnist for The New York Times, wrote of the brutal beating of Floyd Dent, a black autoworker, by police officers in Inkster, Mich., a suburb of Detroit. Earlier this month, Martese Johnson, a black student at the University of Virginia, was bloodied by police during an arrest outside a Charlottesville bar. Here in New Haven, protesters have questioned whether a New Haven Police officer used undue force in detaining a young woman at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

The confrontation on Cross Campus seemed to bring the dangerous intersection of policing, race and violence — which reached a fever pitch over the summer with the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner

— to Yale’s gates. It is unimaginable that something similar would have happened to a white student, a truth not refuted by the color of the officer's skin or the angle at which he held his gun.

Despite the assurance of University President Peter Salovey that what happened was “not a replay of what happened” in Ferguson or Staten Island, it is proof that Yale is long overdue for a conversation about race — about the lines we draw among ourselves as students and between Yale, which is mostly white, and New Haven, where racial minorities are the majority. The University is complicit in the myth that New Haven is a dark unknown, lurking beyond the bookstore on Broadway or anywhere outside a narrow pathway to East Rock Park. Teaching freshmen that the population of New Haven poses a threat to their safety legitimates the militarization of our campus.

The panel’s report does not strike at these problems.

It does, however, make several meaningful suggestions. Most substantively, the panel recommends that the YPD require all officers to wear body cameras while on duty. Officials across

the country have backed this move, designed to enable review of police encounters. President Barack Obama has requested millions of dollars to equip law enforcement with cameras.

Currently, only one Yale Police supervisor per shift is required to wear a camera, and rules about when they must be switched on are unclear. Cameras do not ensure consensus, as the case of Eric Garner, recorded on a phone, laid bare. Still, videos can be reviewed; they provide a basis for scrutiny and investigation.

In its final recommendation, the panel asks that Yale “emphasize its continued commitment to providing a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment for its students, faculty, staff and visitors.” This statement is so vague as to mean virtually nothing, obscuring the lessons — about racial bias and the use of force — we should draw from Blow’s run-in with the YPD. So when the report suggests that the University hold public panels on race, prejudice and policing, it gets halfway there.

Conversations must spill out from these events — including tonight’s teach-in on Ferguson — and begin to make “troubling” events inconceivable.

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SCOTT GREENBERG is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. His column runs on Tuesday. Contact him at scott.greenberg@yale.edu .

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ust over a year ago, the New Haven Green cleared its benches of the Elm City’s homeless population with the enforcement of a nightly 10 p.m. curfew. While crossing the Green these days, I often wonder, “Where did New Haven’s lowincome population migrate?”

Historically, the Green has served the public good. From colonial religious congregations to the Occupy movement of 2012, locals have long used the Green as an outlet for public discourse and the exchange of ideas. But the fact that a private collective oversees the 16-acre park space limits the extent to which the Green can serve New Haven. My fear is that the private ownership of this public privilege will ruin the true values for which it was built. The Proprietors of New Haven Green prioritize the beautification of the area over its true purpose: to further the common good through community.

The foundations of the Green are entrenched in the original nine-square groundwork for the colonial Elm City. Derivative of the classical Roman tradition, the nine-square grid designed civic life to orbit the Green. During this era, the religious and civic principles radiated outward

from the public space that the Green provided. The park was replete with haggling and sermonizing.

Although it shed its religious underpinnings, the New Haven Green remained a cornerstone of public congregation into the 20th century. During a speech in 1979, Reverend Leonard Bacon celebrated the heritage of the common grounds as a place “for all such public uses as were reserved by the Forum at Rome.”

The 1960s saw the revival of the Green as a breeding ground of cultural upheaval. Sixties radicalism peaked at the 1970 May Day rally, where New Haven locals and students congregated on the Green to protest the Black Panther trials.

But the tensions inherent in the private ownership of public space were realized when the Committee of the Proprietors of Undivided and Common Lands at New Haven — the owners of the Green since 1805 — forcibly removed Occupy New Haven protestors in 2012. The city evicted the anti-corporate movement with legal action that University of California, Davis law professor Brian Soucek deemed “unconstitutional” in an open letter to the city of New Haven.

It’s the undermining of these values that troubles me. Private jurisdiction over public grounds eliminates an area where all New Haven residents can truly speak.

During the colonial period, the village green was the crux of civic engagement, religion and community life in New England settlements. It gave settlements a sense of identity, it made neighbors into friends and it bred ideas. How are citizens to express opinions and make statements when the Green’s owners choose to censor? The dismantling of the Occupy New Haven movement foreshadowed the new Green, founded on maintaining the Elm City aesthetic.

Fast-forward to last January 2014, when the Proprietors of the Green declared a 10 p.m. curfew on the New Haven Green.

What has changed? For one, a stroll through the Green in 2015 is eerily quiet, aside from my feet shuffling through the February slush and the faint noise of traffic on Elm Street. Beyond that, the Proprietors displaced the Elm City’s homeless population. The ordinance effectively eliminates a refuge for New Haven’s downand-out. I can only imagine that they migrated to another green space only to receive a similar eviction notice sometime in the

future.

From city hall, administrators and employees have a panoramic view of the Green from nearly every front-facing window. I’d like to think that city officials occasionally glance through the window and watch the coming together of the community.

Activity on the Green reminds those who run New Haven of whom they serve. A smattering of worn transients sleeping beneath tattered blankets and newspapers becomes a poignant reminder that poverty plagues the streets.

The Proprietors have no right to control an expanse that is meant to be public. Their curfew indicates that the fortification of the Green is complete and the precepts upon which the public space was built are as dead as the colonial skeletons that lie beneath it. The residents of New Haven, led by Mayor Toni Harp, should demand that the Green be returned to its rightful owners: the entire Elm City. Only with new and collective ownership can the Green fulfill its original mission of serving as a bastion of democratic dialogue.

NATE STEINBERG is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at nate.steinberg@yale.edu .

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“A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.” W. H. AUDEN ANGLO-AMERICAN POET

Professors to attend classes, share teaching methods

BY VICTOR WANG STAFF REPORTER This April, Yale professors will be going back to school.

The Yale Center for Teaching and Learning has organized the first Faculty Bulldog Days — a weeklong initiative from April 6 to 10 that invites professors to attend courses taught by their colleagues. More than 100 professors have opened their courses for the event, and many faculty interviewed said they see the initiative as an opportunity to reignite dialogues about teaching while exploring interesting topics outside of their academic field.

“Faculty spend a lot of time only in their own classroom, and they do not enjoy the breadth of study the undergraduate students have,” said Scott Strobel, deputy provost for teaching and learning. “This event is an effort to create an environment that lets faculty see what is going on academically in different parts of Yale.”

Strobel and Jennifer Frederick, executive director at the Center for Teaching and Learning, drew inspiration for the event from Yale College’s Bulldog Days event for admitted students, as well as a teaching week for faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Frederick said the event will remove the barriers between faculty members and their fields of interest, and promote conversations about intriguing teaching pedagogies and techniques.

Frederick added that the event will also show students that Yale professors are interested in many areas of study. While some professors have signed up to attend classes in familiar academic fields, many have chosen courses in radically different areas of study, she said.

Economics professor Doug McKee will be attending an English course titled “Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances,” which he said will “exercise his softer side.” Art history professor Diana Kleiner, on the other hand, said she plans to attend “ The Scientific Revolution,” a course taught by history and history of medicine professor Paola Bertucci that explores the changing relationship between the natural

world and the arts.

English professor Catherine Nicholson said she chose to balance “novelty with a touch of familiarity,” opting to visit film and social psychology classes, rather than a STEM course.

“I’m so delighted to have the chance to return briefly to my own days as a liberal arts undergrad, when the pleasures of learning were open-ended,” she said, adding that her job as a professor has made her learning more targeted and research-oriented.

While the Faculty Bulldog Days will allow faculty members to explore intriguing topics taught at Yale, all seven professors interviewed stressed that the event will more importantly broaden their understanding of teaching. Professor of psychology and cognitive science Laurie Santos said she is particularly excited about the diversity of great lecturers and innovative educational techniques, while Kleiner said she is interested in the effectiveness of lectures, which have come under scrutiny in the teaching community.

At Yale, Strobel said, the culture often makes teaching a private exercise between individual professors and their students. Because of this, he said, many experiments of pedagogy are not shared among faculty members.

Nicholson agreed, adding that she has rarely seen her colleagues teach.

This is her first term teaching a lecture course and she said she hopes to pick up a few techniques through the event.

Following the event, the CTL will encourage professors and their visitors to meet informally and share their thoughts on the class. Since this event is the first of its kind at Yale, Frederick said the center is more focused on the logistical planning this year, and will turn its attention to the follow-up conversations as the program grows. Nevertheless, she hopes to host several roundtable discussions for interested faculty members.

The CTL was created in July 2014.

Contact VICTOR WANG at v.wang@yale.edu .

COURTESY OF SCOTT STROBEL

Deputy Provost for Teaching and Learning Scott Strobel said the event is an effort to let faculty see what is going on in different parts of Yale.

Univ. releases sustainability updates

BY TYLER FOGGATT AND LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTERS Seven months after University President Peter Salovey announced six new sustainability initiatives, the University has released an update on those projects, prompting both praise and renewed skepticism.

On March 20, the University published a progress report on its series of efforts to address climate change, which ranged from capital investment for energy conservation to exploration of an internal carbon pricing mechanism.

However, some students — most vocally, members of the pro-divestment group Fossil Free Yale — have criticized the University for launching initiatives that focus on reform at the campus level, while neglecting harms caused more broadly by the fossil fuel industry.

In the recent update, the Office of Facilities reported that the University is on track this year to exceed the goals of its $7 million investment in energy-efficient capital projects, which will be completed across 10 buildings and five parking garages on both the central and medical campuses. A three-year $21 million capital investment for energy conservation also went towards an “Energy Solutions Fund,” through which the Yale’s Office of Sustainability has awarded $50,000 since August.

According to the Director of the Office of Sustainability Virginia Chapman, seven student proposals — which include the installation of LED lights, replacement of inefficient refrigerators and pilots for new technologies and engagement tools — have been selected for additional concept development.

“The fund seeks innovative ideas that assist Yale in conserving energy, reducing energy costs, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and promoting renewable technologies,” Chapman wrote in an email. “The thought was that the projects would be collaborative efforts that serve to educate and inform the Yale community

on energy-saving results of the projects.”

Other projects addressed in the update include the complete installation of 350,000 square feet of solar panels on West Campus by mid-April, sustainability plans for each professional school and two new Green Innovation Fellowships.

Further, Chapman said the Office of Sustainability is “close to finalizing” Yale’s boundary of emissions, which will allow the University to gather data and submit its inventory of GHG emission for 2014 by June 30.

This step is part of Yale’s process to adopt third-party verification of its greenhouse gas inventory.

However, some projects appear to have taken longer than initially outlined.

Investing in green ventures and research is … a great way to leverage the talent on this campus.

SACHITH GULLAPALLI ’17 Though Salovey said in August that he asked the Presidential Carbon Charge Task Force — tasked with exploring the feasibility and effectiveness of instituting an internal carbon pricing mechanism — to issue its report “early next year,” the committee currently plans to release its report in April.

Since first meeting in October, the task force has held two University-wide competitions to solicit ideas for reducing energy use at the University and organized a full-day meeting with experts to discuss the implementation of carbon pricing in companies and universities.

According to Ryan Laemel ’14, a Woodbridge Fellow for the Office of Sustainability, the task force is still in the process of incorporating feedback from senior administrators.

Still, FFY representatives have framed the University’s announcement as a direct

response to increased pressure on the administration to take action.

On March 5, FFY protested outside Woodbridge Hall and delivered a letter to the President’s Office, demanding the University plan to “address the multiple injustices created by the fossil fuel industry” by midnight on April 1, or risk “escalated direct action” by the group. With the deadline two days away, it appears the response by the University did not sufficiently meet these standards.

“Salovey’s response indicated that Yale is not on our side — yet. But that can change,” FFY said in a statement. “We are taking action until the administration chooses to become a leader for environmental justice and divests.”

But others on campus argued the sustainability efforts do meaningfully address climate concerns beyond the scope of the University.

Sachith Gullapalli ’17, one of the winners of the Green Innovation Fellowship, said the $15,000 in grant funding has been a tremendous opportunity for he and his co-founder to get their sustainability venture “Grovio,” which provides real-time data on crop health for farmers, off the ground. He added that while other universities have awards for student sustainability efforts, this combination of entrepreneurship and sustainability seems unique to Yale.

“One of the University’s stated reasons for not divesting is that it would primarily be a symbolic sacrifice of investment income, which could better be used to address climate change in the long term by investing in the University’s students and faculty,” Gullapalli said. “Whether you buy that or not, investing in green ventures and research is definitely a great way to leverage the talent on this campus and keep Yale at the forefront of the battle against climate change.”

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

YCC asks for greater administrative responses

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER Members of the Yale College Council have requested that the University formally respond to all student government proposals.

YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 and YCC Vice President Maia Eliscovich Sigal ’16 met last Friday with Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway to discuss an official framework for administrative responses to YCC proposals. While their proposed plan allows for flexibility in the timing of an administrative response, the framework calls for all YCC reports to be officially addressed with written statements by the relevant administrators. The administration must provide justifications for any decisions that they announce in its responses, the proposal stated.

Herbert said the framework came as a result of the Feb. 25 mental health open forum, where he said it was “disheartening” when Holloway said he could not commit to responding to the YCC’s earlier reports on mental health.

“We’re spending countless hours on reports, and you have a constitutionally structured student voice debating about them,” Herbert said. “We go through that entire process, and to me it makes sense that the administration will engage with that document.”

While Herbert noted students have been actively trying to voice their concerns with the administration, he added there is an inconsistency between what administrators have been saying and what they were actively doing. He said having a clear framework by which to streamline student concerns would be much more effective in gaining specific answers.

In some cases, the administration has chosen not to reply to YCC reports. YCC Academics Director David Lawrence ’15 said that last year, the YCC did not receive

an official reply to its report regarding academic minors.

“Dean Holloway has been incredibly responsive, but of course there is no guarantee that this will continue with others administrators,” Lawrence said. “Having this framework in place and making sure that the administration will respond is a good idea.”

YCC representative Benjamin Martin ’17 agreed that the framework guaranteeing an official public response is necessary. He said it is not enough for the administration to verbally say they are considering a report, but that they also have to follow through in action. He noted the idea may not have come up in the past due to a lack of student faith in the YCC with regard to administrative influence.

Eliscovich Sigal said this proposal is a part of the YCC’s push to gain formally recognized means of communication with the administration. She said the administration has given positive feedback regarding their proposal, adding that the outlined process would allow both student and administrators to have more direct contact.

Students interviewed agreed that the YCC should have a role in ensuring that proper administrative responses are made. Junior Class Council President Emily Van Alst ’16 said the YCC is an important vehicle in regard to conveying campus-wide concerns, noting that the framework would be a good start in making sure student opinions are addressed.

Sumedh Guha ’17 said that although he thinks the administration has students’ best interests in mind, the administration would also do well to listen more to student complaints. He added that the YCC is currently limited by the administration’s choice of whether or not to respond.

The YCC has filed four reports thus far in the current academic year.

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FROM THE FRONT FAS Senate examined FAS FROM PAGE 1 the proper body to adjudicate faculty standards of conduct for all University faculty because it will only include FAS faculty, history professor Glenda Gilmore wrote a letter to the News on Feb. 26 calling upon the University to form FAS Senate-type bodies in all of its 11 professional schools as well.

“There are many substantive differences peculiar to each school, particularly in the ways that aspirational policies are translated into operational practices,” Gilmore said in a Monday email to the News. “That is why each school needs input from its faculty. It seems to me that the most efficient and representative way to facilitate that input is through elected faculty members who agree to devote a substantial part of their time to that task.”

However, the 2013 ad hoc report of the committee on faculty input — which proposed the formation of an FAS Senate — did not recommend a University-wide senate, partially because the smaller faculty size in many professional schools makes the more traditional “town meeting” model work better than it does in the FAS. Despite the mixed opinions, issues of faculty representation may not weigh heavily on most professional school faculty members’ minds. Nearly 60 faculty members across the professional schools declined to comment on the issue, with more than half clarifying that they are uninterested in, uninvolved in or uninformed on the subject.

Still, faculty in the professional schools interviewed were split on the issue, with some identifying a need for greater faculty representation but most saying that an elected body would be redundant.

Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern said the current system of governance at the school involves faculty reporting to their department chairs reporting to the dean — a structure the 2013 report said seemed satisfying to the school. Still, Alpern said he is in the process of creating a body similar to the FAS Senate, a Faculty Advisory Council, that would improve the system by providing another avenue of communication and influence between faculty and administration. Alpern added that he does not see any drawbacks to adding such a system.

Despite Alpern’s initiative, some faculty members were less than optimistic about the potential influence of a senate-type body at the medical school. Pathology professor David Stern said that in practice, the laudable ideals of democratic organizations could be defeated by busy faculty members’ potentially lax participation.

“The idea of a faculty senate or something like that is good in principle, but … it will no doubt have little authority, and even if invested with authority, will soon be coopted by the dean,” history of medicine pro-

fessor William Summers said. “This is not unexpected — real governing and administrating is a lot of work, and most faculty and other members of the academic community have other work to do, in contrast to the actual job of the dean, which is to run the place.”

Instead, Summers said the University would do well to appoint department chairs with contrary ideas and viewpoints, rather than continuing the practice of naming “yes-men.”

At Yale Law School, the expanded governing board, which includes all tenured, tenure-track and clinical faculty, meets almost weekly to discuss matters including faculty appointments, YLS professor Robert Burt said. The governing board, instead — which includes only tenured faculty — largely “runs the enterprise,” he said. He added that an elected body is not necessary to assure wide participation in YLS decisions the way it might be in other University spheres, because the faculty is small and so participates directly.

The School of Management and the Divinity School employ similar governance structures to the law school. Both have governing bodies in place that are made up of tenured faculty. SOM professor Subrata Sen said faculty voices are already heard by the school’s administration, adding that a senate would take up too much time — professors’ “most valuable commodity.”

Four of five Divinity School professors interviewed and all seven SOM faculty members, including Deputy Dean Andrew Metrick and Dean Edward Snyder, said the senate’s role is already filled by their school’s governance structure. Most cited the size of the school’s overall faculty body as determining the necessity of an elected body. The medical school, for example, has 2,549 faculty members this academic year, and there are 1,145 in the FAS. But the Divinity School has only 57, while the School of Management and the Law School have 88 and 146, respectively.

Still, in an email to the News, Gilmore identified an important feature unique to elected bodies — elected representatives are expected to devote a great deal of time to University policies, a duty she said requires sustained attention to administrative proposals and other issues. And others identified other advantages to the system.

“The idea of electing faculty committees with term limits is something worth considering across the university,” Divinity School professor Lamin Sanneh said. “It avoids the appearance of impropriety with handpicked committees doing the bidding of whoever chose them.”

The FAS Senate’s bylaws were approved on Tuesday, Dec. 2.

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

“If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.” P. J. O’ROURKE AMERICAN JOURNALIST

More protests after second arrest

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Activists and members of the police union alike have criticized the NHPD’s investigation of recent events.

POLICE PROTEST FROM PAGE 1 weapon case. According to a press release from NHPD spokesman David Hartman, Parker is being charged with risk of injury to a minor, assault and breach of peace.

Even though Hartman’s Monday release does not include Cornelius’s name, the details of Parker’s arrest match those related to her case. Hartman has repeatedly declined to comment further on the investigation or the response it has garnered in the city.

The NHPD’s investigation into the event has received widespread criticism from both community activists and members of the police union. After NHPD Chief Dean Esserman announced on Friday that Smereczynsky had been exonerated, pro- and antipolice protesters stood in opposition outside City Hall for close to an hour. Monday afternoon some of the same anti-police protesters gathered for a rally outside NHPD headquarters on Union Avenue, where they criticized the police department’s ability to conduct its own internal investigations.

“There’s no accountability. There’s no one saying ‘Hey, let’s look into that,’” said Norman Clement, who attended both protests. “And if they do look into that, it’s only them looking into themselves.”

For the protesters, Parker’s arrest means little. The pro-

test had been planned ahead of the announcement, and Parker’s arrest was not its focus.

Chris Garaffa, who also attended both protests, said Smereczynsky, not Parker, should have been the one arrested.

“I know the family’s happy about it because they’re trying to get some justice and all that, but I’m certainly not happy about that being the arrest and not the officer,” Garaffa said.

Clement echoed Garaffa’s sentiments. He said the protesters will continue to build momentum around the movement. The protesters publicly expressed their intent to continue approaching the city administration on this issue and discussed the possibility of attending Cornelius’s court date to show solidarity with her.

Clement spoke to a group of no more than a dozen members of the community, most of whom had also been at the protest on Friday. At 5 p.m., when the protest was scheduled to begin outside of NHPD headquarters, the street outside was mostly empty. Forty minutes later, protesters unraveled the same sign they held on Friday, which lists names of 15 people in New Haven who have experienced violence from police.

Blest Peters, a longtime New Haven resident, said the protesters should consider alternative ways to garner support, especially given yesterday’s low turnout. He

also proposed that the protesters renew their push for the establishment of a new Civilian Review Board in New Haven, which would hear, review and investigate claims of police misconduct. The previous review board was suspended last year to allow the Board of Alders to create a new iteration.

Peters suggested that the protesters flood the next Board of Alders meeting in support of the board’s quick creation.

Barbara Fair, a prominent New Haven activist, largely agreed with Peters, but remained skeptical about the prospects of such a strategy. She noted that the group has already advocated in favor of the review board, and that the issue is now in the hands of the alders.

“We’ve had so many times where we go to the Board of Aldermen, we go to all the legislators, we do all of these things, and nothing seems to happen,” she said. She agreed with Peters’s suggestion to make a show of numbers at board meetings, saying that it might be a good way of showing the strength of the movement.

The Civilian Review Board last met in September.

Contact STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE at stephanie.addenbrooke@yale.edu and NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

Panel releases report on Blow case YPD FROM PAGE 1 Administration Janet Lindner, Yale’s Acting General Counsel Cynthia Carr and Higgins to draft the report. The panel was convened on Feb. 10, 2015, almost a month before the YPD report was released to the Yale community on March 4.

The suggestion that the YPD institute body cameras for all officers follows a national conversation about the devices, sparked in large part by instances of alleged police brutality in New York, Missouri and elsewhere. After the report’s release on Monday, students interviewed expressed support for the proposed measure.

“I would say that it seems like a good idea for the police to have more accountability,” Irene Connelly ’17 said. “And body cameras could accomplish that.”

YPD currently owns 10 body cameras, according to Deputy Press Secretary Karen Peart who told the News in February that the department began piloting its body camera program in fall 2013.

However, only one police super-

visor is required to wear a camera during each shift. Moreover, rules about when the camera needs to be switched on are unclear.

The broader fourth recommendation — that the University continue to provide a safe and welcoming environment — was accompanied by a range of suggestions on how it can be accomplished. Among the ideas were University-sponsored opportunities for dialogue about race and policing, and a direct channel through which concerned individuals can communicate with senior administrators and Higgins.

University spokesman Tom Conroy said the University is seriously considering these recommendations outlined in the report.

“The University is taking the panel’s recommendations seriously and has begun a review of the policies and training programs, and is already reaching out to begin the important dialogue with the community,” Conroy said.

The email from Salovey, Hollo-

way and Higgins noted that there will be a teach-in this evening entitled “Ferguson and Beyond.”

The event — led by Crystal Feimster, a professor in the AfricanAmerican Studies Department — is designed to be, according to its Facebook page, an “open discussion about race, policing and social justice.”

But Julia Henry ’17, a staff photographer for the News, said that there are upsides to the delay; namely it has kept the momentum for a discussion on race going, reminding students that problems of prejudice are still very prevalent in our society.

“Even at places as open as Yale, I think it’s hard to talk about issues of race,” Henry said. “And I think events like this are really important for facilitating discussion.”

The teach-in will take place tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Sudler Hall.

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

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“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’” ROBIN WILLIAMS AMERICAN ACTOR

Party suites raise questions of funding, safety

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER As students across Yale College prepare for spring housing draw, certain suites within each residential college may bear a special appeal or lack thereof: the socalled “party suites.” Although many students believe these suites are a key feature of Yale’s social landscape, some disagree about their overall importance in Yale’s larger party scene.

Roughly three-quarters of Yale’s 12 residential colleges contain a party suite — a large suite that comes with the expectation that its residents will host events that are accessible to the larger college community. But according to residential college masters interviewed, whether or not each college financially supports the activities of such suites is left to each college’s discretion. As a result, only some of these party suites receive funding, with the rest of the party suites’ residents left to fund events on their own.

Still, residents of party suites interviewed said the different level of funding across colleges has a minimal impact on events they host. While most students said that on-campus parties tend to be safer than off-campus ones, they also agreed that increased funding ultimately would not

change Yale’s off-campus party culture.

“I think [on-campus parties] are definitely easier to regulate because the fact that the room is within the college, under the sight of the master and dean, probably tames the degree to which [unsafe] events occur,” said Mevlut Ikiz ’17, a resident of Timothy Dwight College’s Octet, which does not receive funding from the college. “But my experience has shown me that ... giving more money will not attract more people to parties in residential college suites, and [they’re] definitely not a substitute for off-campus parties.”

Of the 12 residential colleges, members of five — either the college’s master or residents of the party suite — confirmed that some suites in the college receive or have received funding in the past to host social events. Two said no such funding is provided, and five did not return request for comment or did not specify.

Both Branford College Master Elizabeth Bradley and Davenport College Master Richard Schottenfeld said their colleges provide social funding in order to promote a sense of community within the college. Bradley emphasized that while Branford does not support its party suite, the “God Quad,” as a “party suite per se,” it finan-

cially supports some approved events that the suite’s residents put on. Schottenfeld cited the vision statement that Davenport students drew up for their party suite, “The Cottage,” several years ago, which emphasizes that residents of the Cottage are expected to be leaders and role models in promoting college life.

But Timothy Dwight College Master Jeffrey Brenzel said the college does not provide funds to subsidize the parties of any particular suite, party suite or not.

Still, both current and future potential residents of the Octet said the lack of funding is not a deterrent in their planning for social events or in their decisions to live there.

“I think the lack of funding doesn’t disincentivize people [from throwing parties], but receiving funding could incentivize people,” Ikiz said. “It would’ve incentivized our suite to throw parties thinking that we had some kind of approval from our college.”

Nate Gugenheim ’18, who is hoping to live in the Octet next year, agreed. Given extra support from the colleges, he added, the party suites could conceivably play host to fraternity parties and other typically off-campus events.

Other students disagreed

about the ability of better-funded party suites to serve as a substitute for the off-campus social scene. Three of eight other students interviewed said on-campus events would never affect the popularity of off-campus events, and four said the effect of increased funding would be negligible.

Students and administrators also expressed differing opinions over whether greater promotion of on-campus parties would improve the safety of Yale’s party culture. Six of the eight students interviewed said on-campus parties are made safer by their familiar location and proximity to authority figures. Jonathan Edwards College Master Penelope Laurans cited her familiarity with the students hosting on-campus parties as a reason for her comfort with such events.

“I feel [the students hosting parties] have a clear understanding of what the dean and I value, what we think is important and of the sense of community we try to establish,” she said. “They know we want people to have fun — and they also know that we in turn expect parties to be thoughtfully planned and to have the right tone.”

Political science professor Steven Smith said that during his tenure as master of Branford, from

1996 to 2011, he always worked closely with students in the God Quad to ensure that events were “safe, inclusive and, hopefully, legal.” He would sometimes drop by the events to play beer pong with the students, he added.

But other students said that supporting on-campus parties would not necessarily lead to any increase in campus safety.

“People who are throwing the parties, whether they’re at an offcampus spot or a campus suite, pretty much can do whatever they want,” said a resident of one of Yale’s party suites, who asked to remain anonymous because of his sensitive position. “I don’t think that giving more funding to campus suites would increase the [University’s] ability to supervise those parties or keep a healthy sexual climate.”

The student added that most of the sexual assaults that have happened and been publicized to the student body have taken place on campus.

Alcohol consumption is also higher on campus than off.

According to data released by Yale’s Alcohol and Other Drugs Harm Reduction Initiative, 57 percent of high-risk drinking at Yale takes place in dorm rooms.

In addition, off-campus events involving over 50 people are required to be registered with the

University, just like on-campus events of such size.

Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd said that location alone is never a sufficient predictor for the safety of a party.

“Right now, we have a powerful, overly simplistic cultural narrative that equates big off-campus parties with sexual danger,” she said. “Evaluating the safety of a party — of any event, for that matter — is much more complex than just looking at size or location ... Too often, we assess safety based on stereotypes.”

Overall, Bradley said, whether or not increased University support for on-campus party suites would play any role in shaping the safety of campus drinking and party culture remains unclear.

“A lot really depends on the leadership of students who take on these roles of managing social events,” she said. “It is not easy, and it is not about financial support in my opinion. A safe and healthy social event begins with the tone, the preparation and the goals of the community giving the event.”

In the past, the residents of the God Quad and The Cottage have sometimes been selected by the rising senior class.

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

CT’s black and hispanic prison populations drop

BY EDDY WANG STAFF REPORTER Connecticut’s African-American and Hispanic prison populations have decreased significantly more than the state’s white prison population in the last seven years, according to a report released last Thursday.

The report, conducted by the Council of State Governments Justice Center, a national nonprofit organization focused on public safety, included prison population data broken down by race and year for Connecticut, Georgia and North Carolina. The study revealed that, between 2008 and 2015, Connecticut’s African-

American and Hispanic prison populations decreased by 21 percent and 23 percent, respectively, while the white prison population decreased by just 6 percent.

“We are very proud that as we continue to reduce our prison population, we’ve continued to reduce crime,” said Mike Lawlor, Connecticut’s undersecretary for criminal justice policy and planning and chair of the Board of Directors of the CSG Justice Center.

Lawlor said he attributed this reduction in inmates to the increased focus under Gov. Dannel Malloy on incarceration for violent crimes rather than for nonviolent victimless crimes, such as

drug possession and drug sale, for which racial disparity is more pronounced.

He cited the 2011 marijuana decriminalization bill as an example of a policy that minimizes incarceration for a non-violent victimless crime. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, blacks in Connecticut were 3.3 times more likely to be arrested as whites for marijuana possession in 2010. Since the 2011 bill, there have been 6,000 fewer marijuanarelated arrests each year.

According to NBC Connecticut, punishment for marijuana possession has been reduced to fines only.

Lawlor added that arrests in Connecticut are 28 percent lower

than they were in 2008, and recidivism rates have also dropped since Risk Reduction Earned Credits were instituted in 2011. Risk Reduction Earned Credits are given to prisoners for participating in programs that reduce their risk of recidivism and accompanying good behavior. These credits can then be used for a maximum of five days off their prison sentence per month.

Mark Abraham ’04, executive director of Datahaven, a nonprofit that analyzes public data from Connecticut and Greater New Haven, pointed out that although the number of African-American and Hispanic inmates has dropped, there are still twice as

many African Americans and Hispanics as there are whites in Connecticut prisons — even though whites outnumber blacks and Hispanics by an almost three-to-one ratio in the state’s general population.

“This continuing level of inequity has enormous implications for children, families, and neighborhoods as a whole,” he said in an email.

Abraham added that the state or CSGJC should consider publishing a follow-up report that looks at whether disparities have been reduced between neighborhoods in the state’s major cities, not just between racial and ethnic groups at a statewide level.

Chance Jackson, a coordinator of Project Fresh Start, a city initiative aimed at reintegrating released inmates back into society, noted that the number of inmates released into New Haven has been relatively stable over recent years, but the New Haven Correctional Center, located on Whalley Avenue, was overpopulated. The warden of the New Haven Correctional Center could not be reached for comment.

In 2013, the FBI reported that violent crime dropped in Connecticut by twice the national average.

Contact EDDY WANG at chen-eddy.wang@yale.edu .

Comptroller talks budget projections

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER Although Gov. Dannel Malloy’s proposed two-year budget has dominated this legislative session, state legislators might have to focus efforts on closing this year’s budget deficit.

State Comptroller Kevin Lembo, who will release his next set of projections on this fiscal year’s budget deficit tomorrow, previously predicted a deficit of $101 million on March 2. The nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis overshadowed that projection last Wednesday, claiming that the state is expected to be in the red by $191 million. Should Lembo’s newest projections declare that the deficit is over 1 percent — approximately $175 million — of the total budget, state law requires that Malloy present the General Assembly with a deficit-mitigation plan.

In order to balance the budget, Office of Policy and Management Secretary Ben Barnes warned state agency heads in a letter last Wednesday to prepare for potential emergency spending cuts, following two rounds of cuts in November and January.

“I write to you today to reemphasize that all spending, including hiring and overtime, contractual services and purchased commodities, be significantly curtailed,” Barnes wrote.

“Savings in the state’s General Fund and Special Transportation Fund are of greatest importance, but agencies funded through other appropriated funds should

also reduce expenditures where possible.”

However, Lembo said at a discussion hosted by the Yale College Democrats Monday evening that his major budgetary concerns are not based on this fiscal year, noting that a $100 million deficit is relatively small compared to a $20 billion budget.

Instead, Lembo said Malloy’s budget proposal for the next two fiscal years is more of a pressing issue.

“Some of the budget assumptions, particularly revenue assumptions ... that led us to where we are now are baked in to the two-year budget,” Lembo said.

“So if it’s a problem now, the likelihood that it’s going to continue to be a problem next year’s budget is high.”

Over the last month and a half, higher education officials, human services advocates and even the state Supreme Court have all spoken out over the cuts couched within the governor’s proposed budget, which has relied on spending cuts of over $1 billion to avoid tax hikes.

At a press conference last Thursday, Malloy said that in spite of deficit concerns for this fiscal year, which ends June 30, he does not anticipate the legislature will seriously consider tax hikes for the upcoming two years.

“Given the framework of the budget, I think when we get a budget back, it’s going to be largely like the one we sent, which is protective of the middle class here in Connecticut,” Malloy said.

Still, Lembo’s concerns

with the budget echoed those expressed by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

Lembo cited a miscalculation, discovered less than a week after Malloy presented his budget to lawmakers in mid-February, that led to the budget briefly breaking the state spending cap, which then required lawmakers to cut an additional $60 million from that original proposal. Lembo also voiced concern with Medicaid shortfalls and a decreasing revenue stream.

At the Dems meeting, Lembo noted the volatility of Connecticut’s revenue stream, advocating for a greater emphasis on filling and enlarging the rainy day fund, which currently contains $519 million. The balance of the state’s rainy day fund is capped at 10 percent of net General Fund appropriations, although a Senate bill aims to raise that cap this legislative session in order to protect the budget during economic downturns. Lembo, who testified in front of the Appropriations Committee in favor of the bill last Friday, has also proposed legislation that would take excess revenue from Connecticut’s most volatile revenue sources — such as corporate taxes — and automatically deposit them into the fund.

Connecticut recently scored an ‘A’ on transparency in government spending, according to a report issued by the Connecticut Public Interest Research Group last Wednesday.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”

EDSGER DIJKSTRA DUTCH COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Better communication is key for counseling services at Ivies, students say MENTAL HEALTH FROM PAGE 1 they do not think there is enough of it. At town halls and in interviews, students have said they have outstanding questions about issues that they believe have been poorly communicated — therapy session caps, length of wait time before initial therapy appointments and the conditions that lead to involuntary withdrawal.

Yale Health’s MH&C website — the interface most students use to access MH&C information — deconstructs the steps that students new to the department must work through in order to schedule an initial appointment, but does not tell students specifically how long they should expect to wait for their intake appointment. Harvard’s Counseling and Mental Health website, in contrast, tells students exactly how long they should expect to wait in between their first call to the department and their phone consultation.

Harvard’s website notes that, regardless of whether students request their first appointment by phone or by using the university’s patient portal, they should expect a call to discuss their needs “no later than 48 hours after [a] request.” At Yale, students are told to wait for “a few days” before being contacted for an intake appointment.

Still, at both institutions, the publicized wait times are far from the reality. According to a report

conducted by five students at the Yale Law School, median wait times for an intake appointment fall between one to two weeks for the law students surveyed. Further, they waited a median of three weeks to two months for a subsequent appointment in the 2013– 14 academic year.

In an April 2014 News survey, 65 percent of respondents considered the amount of time they had to wait for MH&C appointments unacceptable. Only 34 percent of students in other departments reported wait times they considered unacceptable.

At Harvard, students similarly said advertised wait times are misleading — some have waited up to a month before being referred to a therapist.

Princeton University’s website does not tell students how long they should wait for an initial consultation or how long students must wait for their first therapy session after an intake appointment. Princeton Media Relations Specialist Min Pullan declined to comment to clarify this.

“Our position is that each institution will provide services based on what suits its needs or concerns, and general comparisons ... are not constructive,” Pullan wrote in an email.

But Johnson said her experience with Princeton’s Counseling and Psychological Services, which involved only one appointment, Princeton’s counseling service,

was much quicker than those that have been reported at Harvard and Yale. Johnson, who booked an appointment for counseling after struggling with a writing assignment toward the end of the academic year, waited “two to three days at the very maximum” to see a therapist.

In Yale’s February open forum on mental health, Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin discussed the potential for appointments to be booked through secure online messages in order to avoid the “phone tag” that often occurs in an attempt to make and confirm appointments. Yale MH&C Director Lorraine Siggins emphasized that this is being strongly considered by Yale Health. At Harvard, online scheduling already exists.

At the same forum, students were told that, if they do not hear back from MH&C about therapy visits after requesting a session or missing one, they should call back or contact Siggins personally.

But students at the forum argued that this advice places an unrealistic burden on students who are undergoing mental health challenges, as such students may be experiencing unusually low motivation. The same criticism was voiced against Harvard, when multiple students interviewed by The Crimson said they had missed appointments and did not get a follow-up call or message.

In the anonymous op-ed to The Crimson, one Harvard stu-

dent described how, in their early months of suffering from schizophrenia, they had such low motivation levels and fear of the voices in their head, they did little besides sleep, falling behind on school work.

Though Siggins told the attendees of the February open forum that they could attend as many therapy sessions as their therapist thought was medically appropriate, weekly appointments that are projected to last the full academic year are not the norm at Yale. At Princeton, Johnson said, she considered weekly therapy sessions to be “the default” for therapy regularity at Princeton, adding that she was offered weekly sessions after her first appointment at Princeton’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

SESSION LIMITS AND PRIVATE PRACTICE

“Feeling better does not mean that counseling will end abruptly,” reads the message on Harvard’s Counseling and Mental Health homepage. “You and your counselor can discuss options for increasing time between sessions, preparing to end counseling, adding a group or workshop or finding alternative supports.”

Neither Yale nor Harvard has a strict cap on therapy sessions available for students. But students at both institutions report a pervasive pressure to keep ther-

apy visits down to as low a figure as possible. At Yale, students at the February forum reported that their therapists had told them they could only have 12 therapy visits a year. Harvard students reported a similar perception that the University is reluctant to offer extensive treatment or care that extends beyond crisis control.

Though Siggins noted in the forum that therapy can be continued if a therapist deems it necessary, Caroline Posner ’17, who spoke up during the forum to share her experience with mental health issues, told the News that any perception of a session limit whatsoever leaves therapists in the awkward position of ranking which patients they believe are more in need of care. Posner added that perceptions of limited therapy visits could make students who are coping well with mental health treatment become unnecessarily anxious.

Psychiatrist and Director of Harvard Health Services Paul Barreira said Harvard does not aim to provide long-term mental health care for its students. Rather, its main objective is to treat illnesses as they arise, so that students are able to progress through their university years, remaining productive and happy.

The care models evidenced at Yale and Princeton suggest that short-term care models are preferred to those emphasizing long term care.

As a result, there is a relatively low therapist to student ratio at all three schools. Yale’s 12,336 students are served by 28 therapists, while Princeton has 20 therapists for only 7,910. At Harvard, 30 therapists are available for roughly 21,000 students. In Harvard’s case, the low ratio is supplemented by allowing off-campus therapy visits. While Harvard students are calling for the number of covered visits to rise, Jessie Agatstein LAW ’16 is encouraging graduate students to opt for private health insurance instead.

According to the YLS study, wait times at off-campus therapy clinics are often half that of wait times at Yale MH&C. Therapist shortages are endemic in all three institutions, students said.

To cope with this, all three institutions offer group therapy sessions, with Princeton leading with 13 group therapy options, Harvard following with 10 and Yale lagging behind with five listed on their website.

Even with these measures, all three institutions have a distance to go if they are going able to fulfill their own aim for short-term health care management, students said.

Harvard, Princeton and Yale all offer urgent 24-hour care in the case of mental health emergencies.

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

Undergrads accepted to CS50 teaching posts CS50 FROM PAGE 1

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Yale’s CPSC 100, an adaptation of Harvard’s CS50, will employ students as “undergraduate learning assistants.”

In a Feb. 20 email to computer science faculty, Schirmeister corrected faculty on their use of “teaching fellow” instead of “undergraduate learning assistant.”

“It’s important that there be no confusion about this issue,” the last line of the email read.

Scasselati and Jason Hirschhorn, a longtime CS50 teaching fellow senior from Harvard College who is leading the teaching staff at Yale, said that there would be no hierarchical difference between the graduate students functioning as TFs and ULAs, as they are all working on the same team. The motion states that the ULAs are only allowed to report to the faculty member advising them.

ULAs are not allowed to grade during finals or reading periods while TFs can grade during this time period.

Although there are payment differences handled by the administration, all teaching staff members will go through the same training, Scassellati said.

While graduate students are paid stipends with the understanding that the stipend covers all aspects of their graduate training, the ULAs are paid on an hourly basis to perform a job, Schirmeister said. She added that teaching is an integral part of graduate student training, while undergraduates are not being paid as part of professional training.

Schirmeister said she was unsure of where the name ULA originated, but because of the distinctions made between ULAs and the average TF,

she said she thinks it is logical to label the positions differently.

But Scassellati added that CS50 teaching staff have been working with the Center for Teaching and Learning to establish special training courses on rules about the ULAs interacting with their students and dealing with potential conflicts of interest. For example, no ULAs will be allowed to lead a section with their significant other in it.

It’s important that there be no confusion about this issue [of labeling].

PAMELA SCHIRMEISTER Dean of strategic initiatives Hirschhorn said it is still too early to tell how the Yale teaching staff will create a different culture from the teaching staff at Harvard.

Since few Yale students have experienced CS50 before, the training will be slightly different and more intense than it is at Harvard, Hirschorn said.

“We want to do the best job in training everyone,” Hirschhorn said.

Hirschorn said 40 staff members is only a working number of staff members. If the high class enrollments at Harvard are any indication, the Yale CPSC 100 course may need to hire more staff members.

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

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“The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.” BRENDAN I. KOERNER AMERICAN AUTHOR

At Peabody, the Samurai re-examined

BY STEPHANIE ROGERS STAFF REPORTER On Saturday at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, visitors watched as experts in traditional Japanese sword drawing and modern Japanese martial arts performed.

These performances signaled the opening of Yale’s temporary exhibit “Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace.” This is the first temporary exhibit fully curated by Yale since “Echoes of Egypt” debuted in spring 2013. The exhibit, composed entirely of Yale materials, features more than 150 artifacts from four Yale collections — the Peabody, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments and the Sterling Memorial Library. Although samurai are often remembered as being experienced warriors, most people forget that Tokugawa Japan experienced a 250-year period of peace due to tight control by the shogun, the ruler of Japan, said Richard Kissel, director of public programs at the Peabody.

“Most real-life samurai during the Tokugawa period lived boring lives, with days filled with guard duty and bookkeeping,” said professor of theater studies and East Asian languages and literature Will Fleming in an email. “But in popular novels, songs and illustrations, they were martial heroes who were shown as willing to lay down their lives in the service of higher ideals. We try to highlight this telling gap between the real-life samurai and the imagined samurai.”

The impetus for the exhibit came from a Carpenter Foundation grant which gave the Peabody the ability to restore several samurai swords. A master swordsman from Japan helped restore the swords, Kissel said.

The armor and swords of the samurai were often symbols of status and were not used for actual combat fighting, Kissel said. One unique Peabody piece, which Kissel said is “like no object ever seen before,” features a helmet with a golden sea urchin on the top.

According to Kissel, only a leading member of the Japanese army like a commander would wear this piece.

“In the 18th century, a samurai owed his status as a warrior to the fact that his great-

great-great-great-great grandfather had been very good at killing people,” Fabian Drixler, professor of history and the exhibit’s head curator, said. “If he was lucky he was allowed to test his sword on the corpse of a criminal at some point in his life, but that was the closest he got to experiencing what it is like to kill somebody.”

But Drixler added that despite the strong association of the samurai with the sword, by the mid-16th century most battles were decided by firearms, archers or pikemen. At the time, Japan probably had more guns than all European states combined.

Fleming said the curators sought to highlight the “diverse groups who supported [the samurai] as a class and existed around them.”

Although Japan was isolated for many years from foreign interaction, the country interacted with the Ainu, the indigenous population of northern Japan. Drixel said he expects people will draw parallels between the Ainu and Native Americans.

“What we have been trying to do is to show the Ainu as agents, as people who make their own decisions and take charge of their own lives, for example, by creatively integrating Japanese artifacts into their world — while at the same time acknowledging that the Ainu suffered exploitation and physical abuse from their much more populous neighbors,” he said.

The exhibit also displays scenes related to Japanese filial piety, including images of a woman breastfeeding her sickly elderly mother and a son putting on a show of youth to entertain and console his parents.

Head of Education and Outreach at the museum David Heiser said the Peabody continues to increase its efforts to link history and art with contemporary culture. Thus, the exhibit includes a variety of event programming that will extend throughout the year, including various lecture and film series as well as cultural performances of contemporary Japanese arts.

The exhibit will be on view through Jan. 3, 2016.

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

Budget hearing focuses on staffing

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New Haven residents gathered to voice their concerns and about the budget and understaffed city departments.

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER Apprehensive parents, community organizers and business owners stood before the Board of Alders’ finance committee last night to voice concerns about understaffed city departments during the second public hearing of the budget season.

The committee — which held its hearing at the Career High School Auditorium on Monday evening — heard testimonies from 33 members of the public who shared personal stories and cited data in favor of or against specific line items in Mayor Toni Harp’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year. At this public hearing, the second of three scheduled hearings on the budget, city residents spoke in favor of adding four new nurses to the Health Department to better serve New Haven Public Schools. Community members also defended the mayor’s addition of a new library staff members and a new food systems director to oversee the Food Policy Council.

Nijija-Ife Waters, the mother of an NHPS student, said that while Harp’s proposal to hire four new nurses is a start, the school system needs to add even more medical staff members.

“When you’re thinking about this budget, just know that four new nurses are not enough for our babies,” Waters told the alders.

Earlier this year, while at work, Waters received a text message from her son’s teacher saying that he was having trouble breathing.

Waters’s son, who is an asthmatic, was experiencing an attack and needed medical attention. Waters said that while her son’s teacher did her best to respond to her son, the absence of a trained medical

professional scared her. There is a nurse on duty only once a week for two hours at her son’s school, according to Waters.

Several other parents echoed Waters’s statements, and Susan Samuels, a city resident and board member at her grandchildren’s school, said that adding 10 new nurses, instead of the proposed four, in the 2015–16 budget would better address the needs of NHPS. There are 53 schools in the New Haven district, but only 31 nurses.

Medical staff members are shared between the schools, and no city schools have full-time nurses.

“I know how difficult it is to do a budget and how difficult it is to figure out what’s needed and what’s important,” Samuels said.

“But we need to look at this for safety.”

In addition to pushing for more medical support in NHPS, those who spoke at the budget hearing underscored the importance of food advocacy in improving the health of city residents. Harp’s budget proposal asks for funds to hire a new food systems director to lead the Food Policy Council and to serve as the link between the city and private organizations.

Council Chair Alycia Santilli said the new director will serve as the sole point of communication between the city and the 35 pantries and soup kitchens, which will ease coordination between public and private partners.

“The needs are so demanding that it’s difficult to think strategically and, more, to act strategically,” said Reverend Alex Dyer, the executive director at the Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry. “There’s little time for coordination and advocacy.”

Dyer said a food systems director could help private organiza-

tions connect with one another as wells as assist in decision making.

Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 , Harp’s opponent in the 2013 mayoral election and executive director of the New Haven Land Trust, also spoke in favor of a new director, adding that the hire would propel the New Haven food movement.

The budget proposal also includes four hires in the New Haven Free Public Library system.

Members of the public spoke in support of the staff additions and also requested that the finance committee consider allocating even more funding to the NHFPL, which currently receives $27 per capita from the city — below the state average of about $40 per capita.

“We need to increase library funding and put the library back on a path towards success,” said Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93, deputy chief communications officer for Yale. “It’s the best investment we have in young people and old people. It serves every single person in the city, including the homeless.”

Christine Bishop, a member of the city’s Financial Review and Audit Commission, stepped back and observed the budget as a whole in her statement. She said she was concerned that the city’s capital budget — which funds improvements in the city — has increased about $10 million to $55.5 million from the last fiscal year. She urged the alders to examine each line item and understand why the budget had increased.

The Board of Alders will vote on Harp’s proposed 2015–16 budget on May 26.

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

State launches fast track bus service

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER In line with Gov. Dannel Malloy’s focus to improve statewide transportation over the next three decades, Connecticut’s first Bus Rapid Transit system, CTfastrak, debuted this Saturday at the downtown New Britain station.

The idea for a BRT system, which offers no-transfer, highspeed transit, was first brought up in Connecticut in 1997 during Gov. John Rowland’s term.

That year, the state commissioned a study to examine possible highway and transit improvements that would relieve traffic around the state. One solution the study highlighted was a BRT system, which would create a road exclusively for the bus line.

Over the next 15 years, state officials looked for ways to fund the project, and in 2012 construction officially began.

Now, nearly two decades later, the system is up and running and can transport residents to and from Hartford and New Britain, with stops along the way.

In contrast to regular buses, the CTfastrak offers a no-transfer and higher-speed ride by operating on a dedicated busway that bypasses traffic congestion for the roughly 10-mile commute between Hartford and New Britain.

“We’re happy to help bring new transit options to central Connecticut’s growing population and the thousands of new bus riders who are expected to use the new service to connect to

jobs, education, businesses and other destinations in New Britain, Newington and Hartford,” Federal Transit Acting Administrator Therese McMillan said at the opening ceremony on Saturday.

The opening [of CTfastrak] is a great start toward creating a 21st-century transportation system.

DANNEL MALLOY Governor of Connecticut Funding for the project came largely from the federal government, Malloy’s spokesman Devon Puglia said. In November 2011, Malloy and the FTA approved a $275 million grant for the construction of CTfastrak — nearly 50 percent of its total cost of $567 million. In total, the federal government contributed 80 percent of the project’s total costs while the state put in the remaining 20 percent, said commissioner for the Connecticut Department of Transportation Jim Redeker.

At the opening ceremony, local city officials recognized both the federal and state governments’ efforts in building CTfastrak.

New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart and Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra both praised the perseverance of those involved in the project and highlighted the innovation of the BRT system.

“The opening is a great start toward creating a 21st-century transportation system,” Malloy said at the opening ceremony.

Although the new bus line runs only from Hartford to New Britain with 11 stops along the way, Redeker said the state hopes to create additional routes that go through other areas, including New Haven.

The BRT system, first implemented in Brazil, is currently present in 20 other states in the U.S., and has several features to reduce travel time. In addition to dedicated lanes, BRTs usually have platforms designed for fast boarding and exiting, as well as off-board fare collection to cut the delay associated with collecting ticket fees on the bus.

“I’m excited that the nation is talking about the most progressive bus system in the country and that it’s in Connecticut, a place which has been historically known for not having great bus service,” Director of Transportation for New Haven Doug Hausladen ’04 said.

He added that he, alongside other New Haven officials, is looking forward to a potential BRT system in New Haven.

Redeker added that Malloy’s 30-year transportation plan envisions BRT systems in all major cities and urbanized areas around the state.

The first nine days of service on CTfastrak are free, and beginning April 6, rides will cost $1.50.

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

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SPORTS

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” BABE RUTH SEVEN-TIME WORLD SERIES CHAMPION

Yale sweeps weekend CREW FROM PAGE 12 Similarly, the lightweights swept their opponents, finishing ahead of Navy in its three races, though by slim margins.

Overcoming stiff headwinds and chop on the course, the Bulldogs fought through the conditions to bring their all-time record against Navy to 8–4.

Yale won the first race of the day, the third varsity boat, by only one one-hundredth of a second.

A strong push by Navy in the final 500 meters nearly cost the Bulldogs, who hung on to finish just ahead of the Midshipmen.

The second varsity then went on to win by almost three seconds, and finally, the first varsity finished in front by 1.4 seconds.

In that last race, it took a final sprint to pull Yale ahead of Navy.

“It was great to be back to racing,” captain Matt Cecil ’15 said.

“We have been looking forward to it all winter. Now it’s up to us to improve our execution as the focus shifts to the Joy Cup this coming weekend.”

The heavyweights faced even worse conditions. Their race took place in snow and against an incoming tide. Despite the weather, the Bulldogs won three of their four races to win the inaugural Albert Cup. The fourth varsity took the first race by 14 seconds. The third varsity ended up six seconds behind Brown’s freshman boat, though 22 seconds ahead of Brown’s third varsity.

“It was snowing, windy and the water was really choppy, so the racing conditions were less than ideal,” captain Lyon Van Voorhis ’15 said. “With weather like that, it often comes down to who can handle the conditions better. Fortunately, we had seen

similar conditions for most of spring break, so they were not too much of a factor.”

Brown also took the second varsity race, edging out Yale by just over three seconds. It was the closest margin of the day.

However, the Bulldogs’ first varsity finished ahead of the Bears by a solid seven seconds to take the cup.

“The season is extremely young. Both Brown and Yale have only been on the water for a few weeks, so we won’t make too much of the results, positive or negative, at this early juncture,” Van Voorhis said. “Obviously, I’m proud of the way our guys performed on the day, especially in the 1V and 4V.” But Van Voorhis acknowledged that the team is still months out from championship season, so there is a lot of speed to gain.

“Every time we line up we want

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All three Yale crew teams won their regattas last weekend despite tough weather conditions. to win, and the team was able to do that this past weekend,” Demmerle said.

The women next race in Ithaca, New York, against Buffalo, Cor-

nell, Iowa and Northeastern for the Cayuga Cup. The lightweights take on Georgetown and MIT at home for the Joy Cup, and the heavyweights have a week off

before welcoming Dartmouth to Derby, Connecticut.

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

Tennis falls 3–4 to St. John’s TENNIS FROM PAGE 12

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The men’s tennis team will begin Ivy League play with a match against Penn on April 4.

note, capturing the doubles point with two victories by the No. 2 and No. 3 pairs Fedor Andrienko ’18/Stefan Doehler ’18 and Alex Hagermoser ’17/Martin Svenning ’16. Both of the pairs won their respective matches by scores of 6–3.

“We have recently been struggling with winning the doubles point against strong schools, but yesterday we came out with a lot of energy and managed to take the early lead coming into singles” Doehler said.

Despite the Elis’ prowess on the doubles court, the momentum swung to the opposing side

Swimming competes at NCAAs SWIM/DIVE FROM PAGE 12 when he finished in 15th place in the 1,650yard freestyle. His efforts put Yale on the board, giving the Elis two points for the overall team rankings. Hogan finished 26th in the event, rounding out his second year at the NCAA meet. Last year, Hogan took 18th with a time of 14:56.99, nearly five seconds faster than his time for this year’s event.

Yale had four swimmers qualify for the NCAA tournament, including Maddy Zimmerman ’18 from the women’s team. One of only two Ancient Eight women to qualify for the championships, Zimmerman finished 36th in the 100-yard butterfly.

Other notable performances came from the five Yale divers who competed in their respective zone competitions. McKenna Tennant ’18, Lilybet MacRae ’17, Kelly Sherman ’16 and Olivia Grinker ’16 all competed for the women in Buffalo, New York, while James McNelis ’16 led the way for the men in Piscataway, New Jersey. Wayne Zhang ’18, a staff reporter for YTV, also qualified but could not compete.

Zhang said he sprained his ankle the night before the competition began, making him unable to perform as diving relies heavily on the lower half of his body.

While none of the divers advanced to the championship rounds, the high number of divers who qualified for NCAA Zone competition this year gives reason to the Bulldogs for

being optimistic about the future.

“The dedication of the divers who qualified is tremendous and is motivating for the others on the team,” Grinker said. “As a junior, I hope to qualify, and for NCAAs to be my last meet [next year].”

The Elis had several individual highlights throughout the year and the announcement of the all-Ivy teams brought these accomplishments to the attention of the rest of the Ivy League. Eva Fabian ’16, Pauline Kaminski ’18 and Zimmerman were all selected for the first team individual events, while the 200-medley and 400-medley relay teams of Heidi VanderWel ’18, Kina Zhou ’17, Kaminski and Zimmerman were also selected. Second team all-Ivy included Zhou, Cailley Silbert ’18, Sydney Hirshi ’17 and MacRae, as well as the 200-free relay team and the 800free relay team.

“As a team, we performed very well at Ivies, and hopefully we can qualify even more people for NCAAs next year,” Zimmerman said.

For the men, Harder received the Harold Ulen Career High Point Swimmer Award and was the only Yale swimmer to make first team.

Hogan and Hyogo were both selected for second team, along with the 800-free relay team of Hogan, Harder, Hyogo and Jonathan Rutter ’18.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

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Several swimmers finished within fractions of a second of their season or personal bests at the NCAA championships.

during singles competition as St. John’s stormed back to erase the deficit. The overall match score was tied after Yale’s Tyler Lu ’17 was defeated 6–2, 6–4 by Lucas Hejhal of St. John’s in No. 1 singles play.

The contest was eventually decided by a three-set matchup between No. 2 singles players Doehler and St. John’s Robert Livi. Dorato praised his tenacious freshman for fighting hard and forcing the game into three sets, but Livi emerged victorious by a score of 6–2, 4–6, 6–4. Doehler was playing in the No. 2 position due to Svenning’s absence, who was sidelined during singles play because of a foot injury. While

positioning in the lineup varies between matches, Svenning was set to play the No. 2 position prior to the injury.

“Even though we lost against St. John’s, we were missing singles action from Martin Svenning, one of our best players, and yet we still competed a great match,” Doehler said.

The two singles wins for the Elis came from the No. 5 and No. 6 slots. Andrienko defeated Federico Ruiz 6–4, 6–4, while Photos Photiades ’17 managed to win against MJ Every in three sets with scores of 6–2, 2–6, 6–3. It was Photiades’ win that set the tide for the showdown between Doehler and Livi.

Dorato and Photiades said they believe that the close match on Sunday with St. John’s will help prepare the Bulldogs for the type of competition that they will face during Ivy League play, which kicks off Saturday, April 4 against the Penn Quakers.

“Overall, we played very well,” Dorato said, “It was disappointing to lose, but in terms of getting us ready for the Ivy League, I thought that it was a perfect match for us.”

The match between Yale and Penn will be hosted at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center at 1 p.m. this weekend.

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

Bulldogs split twinbills

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Third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 is hitting 0.397 this season with five extra-base hits, including one home run.

BASEBALL FROM PAGE 12 two games.”

The Tigers manufactured a run in the bottom of the first, as second baseman Danny Hoy moved station to station before scoring on an infield single. But from that point forward, Ford was dominant.

The Lake Forest, California native held the Tigers to four total hits, including striking out five of six batters in the fourth and fifth innings en route to a six-inning gem. Ford punched out eight batters and had recorded 10 consecutive outs capped by a one-twothree sixth inning.

“Although starting off down 1–0, I felt confident that that wasn’t enough to stop our team and that they would put up some runs, so I just had to give them a chance,” Ford said.

The offense eventually came through for Ford, as Toups equalized the ballgame in the top of the sixth with an RBI single to right.

The Bulldogs then rallied with two outs in the seventh to score the go-ahead run.

Shortstop Tom O’Neil ’16 reached first on a hit by pitch before stealing second base to get into scoring position. Campbell capitalized on the opportunity,

smacking a double to drive in O’Neil for what proved to be the game-winning run.

“That was one of the best feelings I’ve had playing Ivy League ball,” Campbell said. “I was just happy to reward Chasen with a W for his awesome start on the mound and help our team get the first one out of the way.”

Ford walked his first batter of the game to open the bottom of the seventh, drawing head coach John Stuper out of the dugout to call in the club’s go-to reliever: righty Mason Kukowski ’18.

The Tigers loaded the bases against the freshman with just one out, but Kukowski responded with a critical strikeout of pinchhitter Blake Thomsen before inducing pinch-hitter Tyler Servais into tapping a harmless ground ball to second baseman Nate Adams ’16 to close the game, earning Ford the win and Kukowski his second save of the season.

Minutes later, it was another freshman hurler who stepped up for the Elis. Righty Eric Brodkowitz ’18 dealt a complete game effort to pick up his first career win, scattering two earned runs on nine hits while picking up six strikeouts.

On this occasion, it was the Eli

offense that exploded for a gamechanging inning, as five runs in the eighth inning broke open what was a 3–2 edge and catapulted Yale to an 8–3 victory.

“The momentum was definitely on our side after a close win in game one,” Campbell said.

“Princeton was clearly deflated, and we held a sense of confidence that carried all the way through to the eighth inning when we busted open for five runs.”

A couple of familiar suspects provided some spark from the plate yet again, as the captain Toups knocked in two runs on a 2–5 day from the plate while the leadoff man Campbell went 3–6 with an RBI and two runs scored.

Additionally, designated hitter Harrison White ’17 stood out, going 3–4 with a walk after mustering only three hits in his past six games.

While tomorrow’s home opener against Sacred Heart has been cancelled for the time being, a make-up game may be scheduled at some point this week. If no such make-up game occurs, the Bulldogs will turn their attention to this weekend, when they host Penn and Columbia.

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

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5:30 PM Africa: The Last Frontier for Development. The 2015 Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics and Economics presents “Africa: The Last Frontier for Development,� a three-part lecture series by David Laitin, professor of political science at Stanford University.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY With alcohol, responding more to less

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BY REBECCA KARABUS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The results of a recent study may change the way wine is made and manufactured for consumers.

Researchers at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language and Yale have discovered that people’s brains are activated significantly more when they taste low-alcohol content wines than when they taste high-alcohol content ones — in fMRI studies conducted by the researchers, the brain regions that are sensitive to taste intensity lit up more. The findings suggest that higher alcohol content overshadows the taste and aroma of wine whereas lower proof wines offer drinkers a more pleasant sensory experience. The study was published online in the journal PLOS One on March 18.

“When participants had to subjectively rate the wines, their objective brain responses differed from their subjective ratings,” said senior author and Hebrew University psychology professor Ram Frost. “I think the beauty of this study is that it does not rely on subjective information. The study looks at what the brain is really telling us.”

For years, the winemaking industry has increased the alcohol content of wine, thinking that it would lead to better-selling products, Frost said.

He wanted to know whether the industry’s assumption was supported by scientific evidence suggesting that consumers prefer more alcoholic wines, which led him to the study.

Twenty-six healthy yet relatively inexperienced wine drinkers between the ages of 22 and 42 were selected to participate in the study. Each subject partici-

pated in four consecutive sessions during which they were given three different types of taste stimuli — red wine with a low alcohol content, red wine with a high alcohol content and a tasteless solution. During each tasting session, subjects’ brains were being monitored by fMRI, which uses blood flow levels in the brain to detect activation.

Co-author Manuel Carreiras, scientific director of BCBL and research professor at Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science, said he and his colleagues tried to control as many variables as they could. All wines administered were red and the pH levels of the two wines were nearly identical. The low level wines ranged from having an alcohol content of 13–13.5 percent, and the high level wines were between 14.5 percent and 15 percent alcohol. Though activation levels differed when sub-

jects drank the different wines, they reported that they could not taste a difference between the two.

“When participants had to subjectively rate the wines, their objective brain responses differed from their subjective ratings.”

RAM FROST The fMRI scans showed a significantly greater level of activation in the regions of the insula and cerebellum, which play a role in consciousness, emotion and motor control. The cerebellum has previously been shown to be sensitive to taste inten-

sity perception. Frost said that the beauty of the study is that it shows that the participants’ objective brain responses differ from their subjective perceptions of preference.

Frost said the study has many important implications for the wine industry, which he thinks should be teaming up with scientists to test assumptions about wine and improve their products using objective data.

But Yale assistant professor of psychiatry and psychology Hedy Kober, who was not involved in the study, said that although the researchers found differences in brain activity, brain activity is not indicative of what people actually prefer. The claims the study’s authors make from the data, she said, are “exaggerated at best.”

Assistant professor of marketing at INSEAD Hilke Plassmann said that because the

cerebellum and insula regions perform many functions, both regions are not constantly involved in taste-intensity processing. As a result, it is difficult to conclude from the fMRI scan results that taste-intensity processing is actually affected by alcohol content. The fact that different wines were used in the study is also an “obvious flaw,” Plassmann added, noting that the study could have been improved by administering the same wine, but varying its alcohol content.

Carreiras said he and his colleagues have several ideas to test in the future with the goal of determining why people prefer some wines over others.

As of 2012, more than 88 percent of wine produced in the U.S. was produced in California.

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

Higher mortality rates for ADHD-inflicted

BY JUN YAN CHUA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder face increased mortality rates, according to a new study from Yale and Aurhus University in Denmark.

Working with professor of child psychiatry, psychology and pediatrics James Leckman from Yale’s Child Study Center, researchers from Denmark found that children and adults with ADHD were at a higher risk of dying from unnatural causes like accidents and suicide than their non-ADHD counterparts.

The study, the first to draw a direct link between ADHD and increased mortality, was published in the journal Lancet on Feb. 26. “[The study] bolsters one’s perspective that [ADHD] is an important public health concern, and offers reinforcement that ADHD is a real condition,” Leckman said.

Although ADHD is associated with other risk factors like substance abuse and criminality, this is the first time that a direct correlation has been established between the disorder and increased mortality. To probe that link, the researchers used data from Denmark’s national registries on demographics and healthcare to study 32,000 individuals with ADHD. Leading neuroscientist Ste-

phen Faraone wrote in a commentary on the study that inattention and impulsivity — two core symptoms of ADHD — could account for this connection.

The study also found that female patients and patients who were diagnosed later in life were especially prone to premature deaths.

The brain is plastic and can be retrained to overcome early weaknesses in many populations.

LAWRENCE VITULANO Professor, Yale School of Medicine Lawrence Vitulano, clinical professor at the Yale School of Medicine who was not involved in the study, said this finding may be explained by the fact that it is often more difficult for girls to be diagnosed with ADHD. Hence, the female patients captured in the data set could have an especially serious form of the disorder, increasing the strength of the correlation, he said.

In recent years, many have criticized the over-diagnosis of ADHD, a perception which this study debunks, Leckman said.

The study, he added, offers rein-

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forcement that ADHD is a real condition that requires intervention. Leckman said his second study, which has yet to be published, shows that medication can significantly lower the risk of injury in children with ADHD. “The brain is plastic and can be re-trained to overcome many early weaknesses in many populations,” Vitulano said about

designing effective ADHD interventions. “Just because you have ADHD does not mean you necessarily must have more accidents or get involved in dangerous situations.”

But both Leckman and Vitulano cautioned against drawing sweeping generalizations from the study. Registry data have their limitations because doctors do not uniformly evaluate

everyone in the same way, said Leckman. Moreover, the actual number of ADHD patients who died is small, in absolute terms.

“I wouldn’t want to make this seem like an epidemic,” said Leckman.

He added that he would like to see the study replicated in other countries, as attitudes towards ADHD differ from culture to culture.

Vitulano added that the gender discrepancy in mortality is also worth looking into.

According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 11 percent of U.S. children aged four to 17 have been diagnosed with ADHD at some point in their lives.

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

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“Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.”

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With harder tasks, harder to be distracted

BY GRACE CASTILLO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Facebook, Buzzfeed, Twitter — how often do people end up on sites like these when working on an essay or problem set?

A recent Yale study on distractibility may provide answers about what is happening in the brain when attention strays from the task at hand.

Researchers asked participants to look at various photos of faces surrounded by a landscape, telling them to press a button if the image that appeared was different from faces shown previously. In low-load work, which requires less mental focus, subjects were more easily distracted than they were while participating in high-load work. The study sought to explore key questions

about how and why attention wavers from work, what that looks like in the brain, and if there is a reliable way to actually predict levels of distraction for different tasks.

“When someone’s doing a task, sometimes they’re going to space out and make an error, sometimes they’re really focused, and other times you’re kind of in the middle,” said

Yale psychology graduate student and the study’s lead author Monica Rosenberg GRD ’18. “I was curious if you could tell in every trial or every few seconds how engaged someone is in the task.”

Researchers ran three trials, each about eight minutes in length for a total in-lab time of about a half-hour. The lowload level flashed crisp, clear

pictures before the participants and asked them to refrain from pressing the button only if the face was different from the one that had been featured immediately before. The working memory load — which requires more focus than the low-load level — asked participants to refrain from pressing the button if the face was different from either of the two ones that had appeared

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before, effectively forcing participants to use more working memory than when recalling only the face that appeared directly before. The high-load introduced another element by adding graininess to the photos the participants looked at, making it more difficult for participants to distinguish facial features between different photos.

Previous research has showed that participants pay less attention to the landscape surrounding faces when images are blurry, Rosenberg said, noting that participants in those situations can no longer afford to let their attention wander.

Though past studies have looked at how people pay attention, less work has been done on fluctuations within attention span, Rosenberg said. This study addresses those fluctuations — the researchers measured attention within the different tasks instead of simply quantifying participants’ average attention over the entire course of their time in the lab.

The research holds implications for mental disorders in which attention is a significant issue and, perhaps more interesting to college students, implications for working effectively. People’s chances of being “in the zone” are actually better when engaged in difficult tasks like essay writing, than when they are engaged in mundane, low-level ones like checking email, Rosenberg said.

Looking to future work, Rosenberg said she wants to focus on prediction, extrapolating from data to see how focused participants will be when they complete attention tasks. Some laboratories are beginning to collect and release a wide variety of general data to researchers, making prediction work easier by providing the sheer amount of information necessary.

Americans spend an average of 40 minutes a day on Facebook.

Contact GRACE CASTILLO at grace.castillo@yale.edu .

Q&A: The Paternal Brain

BY IVONA IACOB CONTRIBUTING REPORTER James Swain, currently a professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan and a former researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, studies children’s early environments and most recently the effect of paternal behavior on infants. In his latest research, he is looking at the other side of that equation to understand how infants affect their fathers — how does the paternal brain change when a child comes into the picture?

The News spoke with Swain to talk about the implications of his research for fathers and their children.

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Could you present the purpose of your research, its context and how you decided to study the paternal brain?

this stage with the fathers we are just at the beginning of exploring healthy fathers’ brain behavior.

In the last 10 to 15 years we are increasingly aware that brains are constantly remodeling themselves, changing according to environmental cues, changing according to how people live their life. We discovered that fathers in the first three months have changes in the density of certain brain areas and certain cortical brain areas. We are trying to discuss in our paper how these changes can relate to the experience of unhealthy fathers. [It] looks like there are some interesting adaptations of father’s post-partum brains. article discusses potenQThe tial models for identifying

and treating father-child relation problems. Could you please explain what the suggestions were?

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We are just in the first steps now. Once we become confident and replicate the importance of certain brain areas of normal healthy fathers we hope we will be able to also identify deviations from that in fathers who are depressed or are prone to be depressed. Then we will be able to do a brain scan of a father and say, “your emotional regulations are working fine, but your invigoration or something else looks a little shaky.”

In the future, by doing the scan, we could identify a higher risk of depression, for example, and suggest some kind of cycle ther-

apy or some brain training program. New parents that are struggling can go to a psychologist or psychiatrist and get some treatment. the course of your QDuring research, did anything you

observed strike you as being different than expected?

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When we started this work at Yale, I wasn’t sure if we would detect anything when we compared the brains of parents when hearing their own baby cry versus [hearing] other babies’ cries. Or maybe mothers will be able to detect it. For fathers I personally thought that all babies’ cries would be annoying. And now, 13 years later, I am pleased to be surprised that fathers’

brains actually do respond and that’s what’s cool about it. It seems that there are some things that are in common with women, but there are some particular differences. Fathers have less early post-partum depression.

We’re just starting to look at the technology, and it looks like [for fathers and mothers] there are some areas in common that are important for emotional integration, and seem to be significantly overlapping.

Three to four months postpartum, there are a number of changes that occur — some radical changes. A father’s brain starts to react like a mother’s brain earlier, but there are some differences that we haven’t yet discussed in [our most recent paper].

was the best part of this QWhat research for you?

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Being among the first to look at what the brains of fathers are doing and try to make an interpretation. One of the reasons I came to Yale was that there is a very well established School of Medicine Psychiatry Department that had been studying depressed moms for years.

And it is important because, for example, post-partum depression is very well established in mothers and can have a devastating effect on children. So if we can figure out what the negatives are, we can help the parents do their job more effectively.

Contact IVONA IACOB at ivona.iacob@yale.edu .

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Rather than studying the children themselves, we started looking at the environment of development. And that is a big topic in the last 20 years in neuroscience. For children, particularly very, very young children, the environment is constituted by the parents, the mother perhaps. So the way the mother behaves, what she thinks about have been quantified by such terms as maternal sensitivity and have a huge impact on child development.

The generator of the mother’s thoughts and behaviors and potential caring is her brain. So that is why we started studying mothers’ brains in the earliest few months post-partum, using brain imaging and stimuli such as pictures of other babies and pictures of their own baby in [an experimental] design to compare brain activity. We kind of pioneered that back in 2002 to 2004, and we’ve been joined by some other wonderful researchers, using slightly different paradigms. Now a few of us have started to look at fathers’ brains as well, at their thoughts and behaviors and what made them caring fathers or not. I think at

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Pitching salvages Ivy openers

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER Postponed by 24 hours, the Yale baseball team salvaged its first two days of Ivy play, sweeping a pair of games against Princeton on Monday after losing both games in a Sunday doubleheader at Cornell.

“We got off to a slow start, but when we needed two wins we got them,” captain and right fielder David Toups ’15 said. “You have to have a short memory in Ivy League play and not let bad days snowball into bad weekends.”

Below-freezing temperatures delayed Yale’s Ivy opener in Ithaca, New York from Saturday to Sunday.

When the Bulldogs (8–8, 2–2 Ivy) finally did take the field, Cornell (6–12, 3–1) welcomed them with a pair of defeats, topping the Elis by final scores of 10–1 and 7–5.

In its first taste of conference action, Yale actually held a 1–0 lead into the bottom of the fourth, thanks to an inside-the-park home run by Toups in the second inning. Other than that, however, the Elis offense was held quiet while the Big Red utilized two big innings to break the game wide open.

Cornell singled its way onto the board in the fourth, using four singles and a walk to break the shutout of pitcher Chris Moates ’16 with three runs in the inning. The three runs turned out to be enough in the seven-inning

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The Bulldogs successfully captured the doubles point against St. John’s, however they fell 4–3.

BY JACOB MITCHELL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale men’s tennis team dropped a 4–3 decision to St. John’s University in an away match at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Sunday, March 29.

TENNIS The competition was close

throughout the entire match.

According to Yale head coach Alex Dorato, the Bulldogs came into the match expecting the showdown to be tight. The Red Storm entered Sunday scorching hot, having just won four straight matches, and the victory over the Bulldogs extended the streak to five.

Yale began the day on a high SEE TENNIS PAGE 8

Yalies compete at NCAA championships

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For the final time this year, members of the Yale men’s swimming team splashed into the pool, competing in the 2015 NCAA National Championships in Iowa City. Brian Hogan ’16, Rob Harder ’15 and Kei Hyogo ’18 were the only members of the men’s team to qualify for the meet.

SWIM/DIVE Hogan and Hyogo were the first to compete, taking on the 500-yard freestyle preliminaries on day one. Hogan tied for 32nd while Hyogo took 42nd. The event was Hyogo’s first race at the NCAA Championships and Hogan’s fourth, as Hogan swam in three events at the 2014 races.

Hogan’s time for the event was 4:19.85, which was 0.35 seconds faster than his time for the same race last year. Neither swimmer placed high enough to make it to the finals, as only the top 16 swimmers move on.

On day two, all three of the Bulldogs swam. Hyogo took on the 400-yard IM and placed 32nd out of a field of 35 with a time of 3:49.09, roughly five seconds behind the qualifying time for finals. While the results kept him out of the finals, Hyogo was the only Ivy League swimmer to qualify for the event at all.

Harder and Hogan swam the 200-yard freestyle later in the day. Harder finished 40th, less than two seconds behind Eric Schultz of Penn, the only other Ivy League swimmer in the event.

Unfortunately, Hogan’s time of

1:37.07 was scratched, as he had a false start. The time would have put him in 38th place. Last year, Hogan swam the event in 1:36.97.

All three swimmers swam their final races of the year on day three, with Harder competing in the final event of his Yale career. He competed in the 200yard backstroke and placed 39th overall. He and Jack Manchester of Harvard were yet again the only Ivy League swimmers in the event. Harder’s time of 1:44.30 was only 0.42 seconds slower than his career best time, while Manchester finished with a time of 1:41.64, 0.2 seconds slower than the time that put him in the Ivy League Championship record books weeks ago.

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affair, although the Big Red erupted in the bottom of the sixth with another seven runs, chasing Moates from the game in the process, to put the Elis away for good.

In the nine-inning contest soon after, Yale led into the bottom of the seventh behind a strong initial performance by pitcher Chris Lanham ’16.

The righty limited the Big Red to three runs over the first 6.2 innings before running into trouble.

An out away from carrying a 5–3 lead into the eighth, Lanham loaded the bases on a single, a hit by pitch and a walk. Although he had stranded six baserunners up until that point, he was unable to work his way out of trouble, allowing four runs to cross the plate in the frame.

The Bulldogs mustered a comeback attempt in the ninth as third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 picked up his fourth hit of the day, followed by a single from first baseman Eric Hsieh ’15, the nation’s leading hitter entering the day with a batting average of 0.460. The two moved into scoring position with two outs, but Toups could not deliver any heroics, flying out to center field to cap a disappointing first day of Ivy play. Lanham dropped the decision to even out his record at 2–2 this season, and it was the first regular season Ivy loss for the righty since an April 21, 2013 outing against Dartmouth.

“After the first game, we

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Designated hitter Harrison White ’17 went 3–4 with a walk in the Elis’ fourth game in two days. were definitely down, but we bounced back and played really well in the second game,” center fielder Green Campbell ’15 said. “We just had some breaks go against us late in the game that cost us. We definitely learned from those.”

Following the set of defeats against Cornell, Yale bounced back nicely on Monday with a pair of victories at Princeton (4–17, 1–3).

Led by right-handed

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The women’s first varsity eight won its race by 16 seconds at the Connell Cup.

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No swimmers from the men’s team made it to the finals at the NCAA championships, but several were the only Ivy competitors.

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Elis sweep weekend regattas

It was a successful weekend for Yale crew, as the Bulldogs went 3–0 this weekend. Each team won its respective cup: The women kept the Connell Cup out of the clutches of Ivy foes Columbia and Penn, the lightweights defeated Navy despite rough conditions, and the heavyweights retained the Albert Cup by beating Brown for the second consecutive year.

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pitcher Chasen Ford ’17 in the first game, Yale remained within striking distance much of the afternoon before two late-inning runs pushed the Elis ahead for a 2–1 victory in the seven-inning contest.

“There was some added pressure for me going into the game,” Ford said. “Our backs were against the wall today and we needed these

The women, ranked No. 9 in the nation, swept all five races by large margins. The closest race — that of the first varsity four — was won by eight seconds. The first varsity eight, second varsity eight, second varsity four and third varsity eight won by 16, 16, 22 and 26 seconds, respectively. Penn and Columbia traded off second- and third-place finishes.

“As a team, we performed really well [on

Saturday],” captain Nina Demmerle ’15 said.

“It is really great when all boats, from the [third varsity eight boat] to the varsity, race well. Depth is really important on a team, and good results in all boats push the team’s speed even more.”

Despite originally planning to race in Leonia, New Jersey, the regatta was moved to Philadelphia in anticipation of rough conditions. Columbia’s home course, Overpeck Park, is still iced over, so Penn offered its Schuylkill River.

The setting switch did not affect the Bulldogs in the slightest, according to players.

“We found out that we were racing in Philly rather than New York on Thursday evening,” Demmerle said. “We did not expect this to happen, but it didn’t affect our preparations at all. The weather this year has certainly led to a lot of last-minute switches, but [it is] helping us adjust to any kind of racing condition.”

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THE NUMBER OF RACES BRIAN HOGAN ’16 HAS SWAM IN AT THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS IN HIS CAREER AT YALE. Hogan swam in three races last year and competed in the 500-yard freestyle for the second year in a row at this season’s contest.