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haven’t figured it out, Kim Jong Un isn’t actually visiting New Haven as we “reported” yesterday. Thanks for playing along — back to the real stuff.

Shh — it’s a secret. Several juniors are going to be preoccupied tonight doing who-knows-what during the collective debutante that is pre-tap night. Congrats on coming out into society, 2016.

Blue beacon. As part of the Students for Autism Awareness at Yale’s day-long campaign for World Autism Awareness Day, Harkness Tower will be lit up in blue come nightfall. Also on tap are discussions with some of Yale’s leading autism researchers and an art exhibition in the Woolsey Rotunda.

First things first. Maybe we

should’ve made this the first item here… Anyway, shortly after Ivy Day decisions went out, Business Insider took to Twitter to aggregate screenshots taken by students immediately after getting into the Ancient Eight schools. Yale, with its evermemorable “Bulldog, Bulldog” clip, was the only school to go beyond the standard “Congratulations” greeting favored by its peers.

“Happy state of being.”

Clearly satisfied with his choice, Kwasi Enin ’18 — who went viral last year for gaining admission to all eight Ivy League schools — resurfaced on Tuesday to update the world on how things have been since he picked Yale over everyone else. The profile also appeared in Business Insider, which just had to milk Ivy Day for all its worth.

He’s probably happy. Michael Bilow ’09 is walking away from a four-day run on the popular quiz show Jeopardy! with a cool $96,000. Bilow initially made big news for putting $19,798 on the line during Tuesday’s Final Jeopardy round. The gamble paid off, earning the former math major $57,198 that night, good for the fourth-highest single-game total in show history.

Think you know it all? In a Wednesday article on Engadget, psychology professor Frank Keil spoke on his finding that the volume of information available online has made people overestimate how knowledgeable they really are. Sounds more like a Harvard problem.

Three days of summer. The

Dramat’s Freshman Show, “The Trouble with Summer People,” kicks off today. The name elicits visions of the warm weather and sunshine right around the corner.

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National sexual misconduct survey released

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Today, Yale is launching its installment of one of the largest nationwide surveys on campus sexual assault.

Through a survey that is being distributed today by University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler, all students across Yale College and the graduate and professional schools will be invited to participate in the Association of American Universities’ campus sexual climate survey. The survey, which

will compile data from 27 participating institutions across the United States and reach over 800,000 students, is intended to provide quantitative information about national trends, as well as patterns within individual universities, said Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd, who worked on the team that helped tailor the survey to the needs of participating campuses. This data will supplement the body of qualitative information that the University has already gathered on the topic, she added.

“The Campus Sexual Climate

Survey will provide an unprecedented level of local quantitative data,” Boyd said. “Knowing so much more about student attitudes and experiences [in regards to sexual misconduct] will be enormously helpful as we work to assess and improve our policies, resources and strategies.”

The survey encompasses several topics related to campus sexual climate, including students’ perceptions of campus resources, their opinions of fellow students’ and administrators’ likely reactions to a report of misconduct and their own

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of its own and release a report in the fall, Boyd said.

Yale has been collecting data of its own for some time before this survey. Spangler has been publishing semi-annual reports of sexual misconduct since January 2012. But, Spangler said, these reports can only provide “part of the picture,” as they only include complaints that were reported to the University.

The AAU survey data will help administrators gain a clearer understanding of the various factors that facilitate or hin-

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The Courtyard by Marriot at Yale was acquired by the Noble Investment Group on Monday. age the Courtyard by Marriott. Robert Sullivan, senior vice president of operations for Interstate Hotels and Resorts, said there have been no terminations or layoffs at the Court-

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Hospital opposes Malloy budget

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER The Courtyard by Marriott New Haven at Yale was acquired by the Noble Investment Group Monday, prompting questions from community members who were unaware of the ongoing transaction.

The Noble Investment Group, which has made more than $3 billion in investments in primarily upscale select-service and extended-stay hotels throughout the U.S., purchased the Courtyard from 30 Whalley Avenue Associates, which was represented by the JLL Hotels and Hospitality Group.

Ward 2 Alder Frank Douglass, who represents the Dwight area, expressed anger that the transaction took place unbeknownst to the Board of Alders.

“I should’ve been the first to know, but to them, apparently, it doesn’t matter,” he said. “Once again, it seems as if a developer’s trying to come into the neighborhood without approaching us. It’s very disappointing.”

Founded in 1993, Noble tends to invest in hotels in areas which have stable demand, typically generated by major universities and medical centers.

The group recently hired Interstate Hotels and Resorts, a company that oversees 35 Noble-owned hotels, to man-

experiences with stalking, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment and sexual assault since arriving on campus, Boyd said. The survey will remain open until April 23, Boyd said, after which responses will no longer be accepted.

Responses will be sent directly to Westat, the independent research firm that designed the survey, and the data that is returned to universities in July will be kept entirely anonymous, said Barry Toiv, the AAU’s vice president for public affairs.

When Yale receives its data, it will perform additional analyses

yard as a result of the transaction.

“We re-hired everybody who wanted to stay at the hotel,” he SEE COURTYARD PAGE 4

Yale New Haven Health System has launched a letter-writing campaign in opposition to possible Medicaid cuts in Gov. Dannel Malloy’s proposed state budget.

On Feb. 18, Malloy submitted his proposed budget for the next two years to the state legislature. The budget, if passed, would lead to a $67 million reduction to the Medicaid payment system at YNHHS, causing the network to lose 60 cents on every dollar used to treat a Medicaid patient.

The system currently loses 40 cents per dollar. Moreover, the proposed budget would reduce the number of people who qualify for Medicaid in Connecticut by roughly 34,000 while imposing a tax, to the tune of a total of $165 million, on hospitals across the state.

Almost immediately after the budget was announced, YNHHS began an online campaign to encourage state legislators to reconsider the governor’s proposal.

“This [budget] seems like

a politically viable strategy,” said Howard Forman, professor of diagnostic radiology, management and public health at the School of Medicine and director of Yale’s M.D./MBA jointdegree program. “But in the long run, it is a failed strategy.”

Alongside education spending, Medicaid accounts for one of the largest portions of Connecticut’s expenses. Connecticut’s budget deficit is nearly $173 million, and the state is statutorily mandated to fix it.

Malloy’s $40 billion twoyear budget deals with this by cutting spending rather than raising taxes. In fact, sales tax will decrease from 6.35 percent to 5.95 percent over the two years.

Though Patrick McCabe, senior vice president of corporate finance at YNHHS, agreed that expenditures on Medicaid are currently too high and need to be controlled, he characterized the state government’s methods of reducing spending as “short-sighted,” adding that some hospitals are SEE YNHHS PAGE 4

Online PA program comes under harsh scrutiny ANALYSIS: Univ. kept program under tight wraps

Program expands access, but at what cost?

BY TYLER FOGGATT AND EMMA PLATOFF STAFF REPORTERS

Earlier this month, Yale announced its proposal to offer a new Physician Associate degree almost entirely online. The program will likely require only roughly two weeks total on campus over the course of its 28-month duration.

The proposal signals a renewed commitment to expanding online- and distancelearning opportunities — as program director James Van Rhee said, the new offering will allow more students in rural areas to achieve the prestige of a Yale degree without relocating to the Elm City.

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BY EMMA PLATOFF AND AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTERS As one recent admit to the Yale Physician Associate program scrolled through his Facebook newsfeed on March 10, he was surprised to see headlines stating that Yale’s program would likely be made available online. Since the announcement, this student has chosen not to enroll at Yale.

The day after the Wall Street Journal reported that Yale had approved a proposal to offer an online Master of Medical Sciences program — the University’s first full-time online degree program — an email was sent to all current PA students and select alumni confirming the news. Spearheaded by PA Program Director James Van Rhee and Deputy Dean for Education at the Yale School of Medicine Richard Belitsky, the proposed online degree will allow PA students to view lectures and attend discussion sections from the comfort of their hometowns. Yale’s PA community has objected to the proposal, and hear-

ing the news from the press before their own professors is only one of their many complaints.

Although the online program will be a joint venture with 2U, a wellestablished education technology company, PA students and alumni are concerned that the development of the degree did not take into account the views of the students themselves.

“We feel as though our input is not valued or welcomed, and that we have been excluded from the planning process despite demonstrating interest and being stakeholders in the outcome,” reads a collective statement from the PA classes of 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013.

Van Rhee explained that he thought incoming PA students had been included on the email announcement sent to current students — they had not — hypothesizing that perhaps their Yale emails had not yet been activated. In addition to apologizing to students, he held small, online town hall meetings with the incoming class to address their concerns and answer

their questions. But Van Rhee said he does not share their concerns about the online program.

In fact, he thinks the online expansion will only enhance oncampus students’ experience.

Described as an expansion in class size, the new online PA program will run alongside the current on-campus program, enabling students who do not live in New Haven to have access to Yale’s academic resources.

Currently, roughly 36 students are admitted to Yale’s PA program on a rolling basis each year. According to Chandra Goff MED ’14, an alumna in the PA program, the University intends to grow that number nearly tenfold to 350 students, answering calls from the medical community to increase the number of primary care clinicians.

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Rumors of the online expansion of the PA degree had begun circulating among current students and SEE PA PROGRAM PAGE 6

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t’s easy to look at the problem of sexual assault on college campuses and simply wring our hands. It’s so big, so multifaceted, so fraught with seemingly unshakable problems of party culture and alcohol abuse.

For the next three weeks, we have the chance to do something small to help focus the University’s efforts to make our campus a place where assault does not happen. This opportunity comes in the form of a survey promising the University data on incidents of misconduct, on barriers to reporting and on resources that help students navigate disturbing sexual experiences.

It takes 20 minutes, on average. Take the Yale Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Misconduct. Take it right now, if it’s sitting unopened in your inbox. Take it whether or not misconduct has harmed you or someone you love. Take it whether or not you think this is a problem that compels the University’s attention.

We all stand to benefit from a clearer picture of what’s actually going on. This is what the survey, a collaboration among 27 universities in the American Association of Universities, aims to achieve. But the numbers will only be statistically significant if we make time to take the survey. Let’s set a high goal — 100 percent participation. There are few things done in common by every Yale student, across the college and the graduate and professional schools. Let’s make this one of those things. Take the survey.

We see three principal benefits of highly representative data.

The first is clarity. The conversation about sexual misconduct, whether at Yale or on the floor of the U.S. Senate, suffers from the lack of shared understanding. Dueling perceptions about the scope of the problem frustrate policy changes.

For evidence, one need look no further than the troubling yet fiercely contested statistic that one in five women will face an attempted or completed sexual assault during her time in college. Skeptics point to the meager sample size — 5,446 women at two universities — and cry foul.

Perhaps shaky numbers are being used to exaggerate the problem; or perhaps the sta-

tistical oversight is a red herring, mobilized only to discredit the problem. The survey can help us find out.

The second is data-driven reform. While the University’s semi-annual reports of sexual misconduct complaints offer insight into a set of incidents, they leave many questions unanswered. How many students experience misconduct and do not come forward?

Why do students choose to utilize some University resources over others? How do peer-topeer networks, including the practice of bystander intervention, figure in efforts to make campus a safer space? Is social stigma pervasive?

Specifically, the survey tracks four forms of misconduct: stalking, intimate partner violence, harassment and assault. It uses descriptive language to capture the nuances of students’ experiences, rather than asking them to label what they’ve undergone.

Data will help guide the University’s qualitative work, defining priorities and enabling comparisons among demographic groups and parts of campus. To draw inferences and reach conclusions, the University needs large numbers.

The third is accountability.

The AAU will publish a report on its national findings, and University officials have said they will make core Yale-specific results public as well. In participating, we endorse the weight these numbers will carry and ensure they take the University to task. We urge the University to be as open as possible with the information we provide as students. Trust is built on transparency. We want to help, but we want to see the wheels turning.

A distributional analysis is not going to settle the issue of campus sexual assault. But it’s one thing we can do right now to help — to be a part of clarifying what’s going on in our community.

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ent from mine and are allowing me a glance. Experiencing this within the “Yale bubble” made me wonder what else this world had to offer me. Hence began the saga that is my junior year.

There is no greater teacher than experience. You can take a class on economic inequality or you can visit a Brazilian favela, a mere five-minute walk away from a luxury mall. You can major in environmental science, or you can snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef and learn how global warming and water pollution are destroying the natural habitat. You can read an article that your friend posted on Facebook about caste systems in India, or you can stay up late at night while your host sister tells you that she and her boyfriend of five years recently broke up because his family could not accept that she is Dalit and he is Brahmin. You can get trapped in a mosh pit at Spring Fling on Old Campus or get lost in a crowd during Sao Paolo’s carnival. You can attend a Master’s Tea with a leading commentator on global-

ization or you can sit in a boardroom with developers for Indian Prime Minister Modi’s plan for 100 smart-cities and critique the Westernization of the world.

When you are on your way to visit Robben Island to walk into the prison where the late Nelson Mandela spent over 20 years of his life, you will not be thinking about how you are missing out on Jessie J or about how your friends posted way too many awesome pictures from sorority crush. You will be thinking about how blessed you are to be learning in such a hands-on, experiential way and contemplating why you didn’t do this sooner.

Your friends will, god willing, be there after your time away.

(Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram will ensure that you don’t miss a beat.) That awesome lecture will be offered next year.

Your extracurriculars will be there with open arms upon your return. Steppin’ Out will have another amazing spring jam (shameless plug, I know). And I promise that Toads will not

magically become the hot spot while you’re gone.

Moral of the rant: Yale will not vanish into thin air if you choose to study abroad for a semester (or two). The best cure for the fear of missing out is to do something 10 times more exciting. Studying abroad was the best decision I could have ever made. I took classes, met people, saw places and experienced things that I could have only read about in New Haven.

This is not to diminish the beauty and power that Yale holds as a world-class University. We are at an institution with access to amazing resources, peers and professors, and that fact is alluring enough to keep many of us here in Connecticut. But when you understand that there is an entire world out there waiting for you to explore, you will understand why my junior abroad was a near necessity rather than an option.

BREA BAKER is a junior in Saybrook College. Contact her at brea.baker@yale.edu .

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uring the 2013–14 school year (regular and summer terms), 915 students studied abroad. That’s 915 out of the 5,453 students attending Yale College. Most undergraduates choose to study abroad during the summer — only 90 students applied to study abroad this term. So I understand the bewilderment that people feel when they hear that I took my entire junior year to study abroad. Yet what I don’t understand is why more students don’t take advantage of the amazing study abroad opportunities out there.

If Yale has taught me anything, it’s that the world is my oyster. More than anything, Yale has surrounded me with peers and faculty members with interesting and different perspectives from which to learn and grow. I have learned more during walks from class, meals in dining halls and late night chats with friends than I have anywhere else on Yale’s campus. The people I’ve met at Yale are not the people I grew up with. The people here have seen worlds very differ-

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n just a few short weeks, hundreds of high school seniors will be flocking to Yale for Bulldog Days. Post-admission season inevitably attracts comparisons between schools, and this year will obviously be no different. Undoubtedly, a good number of prefrosh will arrive in New Haven having memorized such important information about our school such as our admissions rate, our U.S. News and World Report ranking and our prominent alumni. They’ll be primed for the experience — armed with knowledge gained from neurotic posts on College Confidential and various urban legends about the Ivy League.

Pretty soon, we’ll be asked to answer the big question: Why Yale?

Of course, we’re not really being asked, “Why Yale?” It’s more like, “Why Yale over insert-school-here?” We’ll be peppered with questions about every department, every class and every professor. And of course, we’ll answer — likely with unnecessary superlatives and gushing adoration. The problem is that our answers will be almost entirely meaningless.

I always hated college visits.

There was never much that I got out of a tour that I couldn’t find out with some basic Googling and a modicum of resourcefulness. The reality is that we, as students, will have a far greater impact on prefrosh than the admissions office ever will. And

the problem is that we tend to answer the wrong questions about our school.

The vast majority of prefrosh tend SHREYAS be pretty TIRUMALA to myopic. We be Rhyme and should pointing Reason them to the right questions — the questions that they should be asking, but aren’t.

Now, this isn’t to blame prefrosh. It’s difficult for anyone to understand what aspects of a school will affect his experience before he actually attends college.

Take this quintessential question, for example: “How’s the insert-department-here compared to the one at Cornell or Harvard?” Our answer is almost always “It’s great!” Most of us then continue by rattling off a few important or particularly effective professors. We talk about the opportunities and programs that the department offers; we discuss the various majors and academic counseling services available. But aside from being an entirely inane question that’s better answered by a quick search of the Yale website, our answer really won’t help a prefrosh decide between schools. We’ve never attended any of Yale’s peer institutions

and, consequently, we can’t give them a fair comparison between our history department and Princeton’s or our architecture major and Stanford’s.

These types of academic questions are unnecessary. Even if we could objectively compare the quality of our academic programs with those of one of our peer institutions, it’s hard to imagine that the discrepancies are significant at all. It’s hard to go wrong with an undergraduate education at pretty much any major school. I’d be hardpressed to find many high school seniors who can say with certainty that they would exhaust the resources available at most schools.

I suggest that high school seniors focus you attention on each college campus — what life is like outside of studying for classes. There’s so much more to the college experience than a vanilla set of statistics about departments or what one school’s seniors tend to do after graduation.

It’s not as though this is a particularly novel insight: We all understand this intuitively, and most Yalies at least try to give prefrosh a taste of the rest of Yale. But I’d also point out that it’s not enough to simply discuss Yale’s party culture or which clubs on campus to join, which is the most frequent non-academic conversations we have with prefrosh.

I have yet to meet anyone who

feels like he hasn’t changed significantly since high school.

That change doesn’t happen because of a few club meetings or parties, however. It’s the dayto-day moments that make Yale special.

Unfortunately, people have a habit of assuming that the minutiae of their daily lives aren’t worth sharing. Realistically, they’re often right. Other Yalies probably don’t care. That said, you’d be hard-pressed to find a prefrosh who’s experienced even half of the things that we take for granted every day around here. If we want to be useful resources to prefrosh, we should describe the late-night philosophical debates we had last night in our suites or the hilarious story of what happened at Screw last weekend.

We shouldn’t tell them which classes are worth taking; there’s time for that when they begin bluebooking as freshmen.

We should answer questions like “What did you do today?”

— not “Where do you study?”

Recount what you’ve gotten out of Yale; talk about how you’ve changed or grown. Was it what you wanted? What about college made that happen? Answer questions that add meaning to the college admissions process, not those that would appear in an admissions booklet.

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

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Under continued campus scrutiny of Yale Health’s Mental Health & Counseling division, administrators have hosted open forum, distributed questionnaires and suggested that they are willing to reform Yale’s formal resources. What has received less attention is their quiet adjustment to another, more informal mental health resource on campus: the freshman counselor program.

Training for freshman counselors, which began on March 27 and continues into the fall, has always focused on how to connect freshmen to mental health resources on campus, said Director of Student Life Hannah Peck, who directs the training program.

She added that this component of training takes up more time than any other portion. While the changes for next year have not been solidified yet, she said, the focus of these developments will be on teaching FroCos how to help freshmen build community. To this end, the program will include a new session on navigating “difficult discussions.”

“We want the FroCos to have the ability to help their freshmen connect to others who have different life experiences [or] beliefs,” Peck wrote in an email to the News. “This is obviously a difficult task, but one that is vitally important in shaping Yale to be the kind of community we want it to be.”

Almost every session of the FroCo training program is amended on a yearly basis, said Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry. The mental health component of training usually takes place in the fall, he said, with FroCos participating in three evening sessions at Yale Health that involve meeting with psychiatrists, learning about resources and enacting role plays.

The “difficult discussions” segment in particular will offer strategies for FroCos responding to unexpected or painful disclosures, broaching sensitive subjects or facilitating group conversations “when emotions are running high,” said Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd.

All of the FroCos interviewed expressed satisfaction with their level of preparation to respond to freshmen’s mental health concerns. Jeb Roberts ’15, a FroCo in Ezra Stiles College, described the extent to which mental health considerations made their way

into every part of training, even those that were not explicitly dedicated to the topic. For example, he said, during segments about alcohol use or the international student experience, the FroCos considered the potential effect of such factors on freshmen’s mental health.

Still, FroCos interviewed emphasized that their job is not to serve as a trained mental health professional, but rather as a conduit that connects students to those professionals. One of the biggest components of FroCo mental health training is simply learning to recognize warning signs, Roberts said.

In their roles as conduits, FroCos are also trained to explain Yale’s mental health system to freshmen and to dispel any misconceptions, said Lincoln Mitchell ’15, a FroCo in Davenport College.

“I think mental health at Yale does have a stigma in that there are a lot of misunderstandings about the processes that go on and what happens to students if they go to MH&C,” Mitchell said. “We are trained to properly answer those questions.”

If a student is hesitant about going to seek help, he added, FroCos will often accompany them to the Yale Health building or help them set up an appointment.

Ira Slomski-Pritz ’14, a FroCo in Davenport last year, acknowledged that when trying to help freshmen with their mental health issues, the greatest challenge is to get them to open up in the first place.

FroCos have served as an informal support resource during the recent campus conversation about mental health as well.

They meet weekly with their residential college dean, Peck said, and these meetings allow them to develop responses to specific situations that arise on campus.

Both Mitchell and SlomskiPritz said that while their training covered everything it could, there will always be issues training cannot address.

“Of course when something hard came up, I felt like I was adequately trained to know where to direct the student or at least had resources at my disposal to figure that out,” Slomski-Pritz said. “At the same time, though, of course in dealing with complicated situations, you always feel like you could be better prepared.”

There are 100 FroCos across the 12 residential colleges.

Columbia U. of Pennsylvania (Wharton)

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MIT (Sloan)

For FroCos, training emphasizes mental health

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BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER Amidst a nationwide trend of rising business school tuitions, the School of Management will increase its tuition for next year.

For the 2014–15 academic year, tuition at the SOM was $58,975, not including mandatory fees. For the 2015–16 school year, this number will increase to $61,500, a 4.28 percent rise that SOM Associate Dean Anjani Jain labeled “modest.” Tuition at the SOM his risen by $9,075 since the 2010–11 academic year.

Last week, Bloomberg Business reported that half of the MBA programs in the Bloomberg Businessweek Top 20 — a ranking in which the SOM placed sixth this November — have announced tuition increases for next year. Within this group, the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business will be leading the pack with a tuition hike of nearly 10 percent for out-of-state residents.

“The drivers of this [tuition increase] frankly are to stay within our peer set in terms of where our tuition is, and most

of our focus is on increased scholarship support for our students,” SOM Dean Edward Snyder said.

Snyder added that the school is raising its tuition because last year it did not raise its price tag as much as peer institutions did. He explained that peer MBA programs try to set their tuitions within the same range because lower tuition rates do not significantly impact the application numbers to the cheaper schools. Instead, with the increased revenues from higher tuition, Snyder said, the SOM aims to dispense more scholarship money to those students who need it most.

Rob Wu SOM ’15 said that although business school tuition does pose a significant cost to students, many students come to terms with this fact before coming to business school. In turn, he said, he thinks that unless business school tuition makes a huge jump, students have already decided business school is worth the cost.

“I think ultimately tuition rising doesn’t affect current students or incoming students that much,” Wu said.

Similarly, D’Andre Carr SOM ’16 said that unlike most other graduate stud-

ies, students are mostly comfortable with the cost of business school because they often have prior savings to cushion their lack of wages and high projected earnings after graduation.

But Tyler Godoff SOM ’16 said the sizeable cost of business school is on students’ minds, especially because many students take out loans that they will have to repay over many years after their graduation. He said that the cost of business school has become so high that he thinks some people are turning business school acceptances down because of its price tag. “[Business school] is very much an investment, and that is very much in the minds of students at [the] SOM,” Godoff said.

The most expensive school in the top 20, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, will increase tuition for its next class of students by 3.1 percent, raising the total to $65,750.

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu .

Ivy Noodle to reopen

BY CAROLINE HART AND JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTERS After much confusion and speculation among students surrounding Ivy Noodle’s future, owner Coreen Guo confirmed Wednesday that the restaurant will re-open next month under the name Ivy Wok. Guo said that the restaurant, which closed for unannounced “personal reasons” in early February, will re-open before April 15. The newly renovated restaurant will include smaller, freestanding tables, a larger kitchen and an expanded menu. The restaurant will offer new items including crab rangoon, General Tso’s chicken, chive dumplings, Singapore curry, chicken wonton and healthier options such as brown rice, Guo said.

After reflecting on the expanded menu options, Guo said, she decided to change the name to Ivy Wok because the restaurant would be serving much more than just noodles.

“They think it’s a noodle house and if they don’t want noodles then they don’t come here,” Guo said. “We have a lot of new dishes and a wok [can cook a lot of dishes] other than noodles.”

Patrick O’Brien, marketing coordinator for University Properties, said the restaurant will serve a similar menu and have similar price points to the former Ivy Noodle.

Students interviewed said they were excited about the re-opening of the restaurant but expressed mixed reactions on the name change.

Alex Herkert ’17 said he was especially upset by the switch.

“Ivy Noodle was a Yale institution, and even though it’s coming back, the name change might, in fact, entirely alter its status on this campus,” said Josh Young ’17.

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The reopened Ivy Noodle, under the name Ivy Wok, will offer an expanded menu. The restaurant is expected to open before April 15.

tion period to make room for more cooks.

Guo also said that, prior to the renovations, there were only tables for six and one table for eight. With the smaller tables, customers would be able to combine into larger groups or sit at one for privacy, she added.

“Now you can join tables and you can have 30 people sitting at one table,” Guo said.

Although Ivy Noodle underwent renovations during the last two months, the restaurant also closed for “personal reasons,” about which Guo declined to comment. Regardless, Guo said, despite Ivy Noodle’s abrupt closure, landlord University Properties helped her with the general renovations by explaining

building codes and supporting her new visions.

Students interviewed said they missed a critical late-night food option during the renovation period.

“We need more places that are open late so there’s been a vacuum for cheap, not-so-good food late at night,” Anna Walton ’16 said.

Ivy Noodle first opened in 2000. Aside from the Elm Street location, the owners of Ivy Noodle also own Ivy Bistro at 302A Winchester Ave., near Science Park.

Contact CAROLINE HART at caroline.hart@yale.edu and JIAHUI HU at jiahui.hu@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Investment group buys Courtyard Marriott COURTYARD FROM PAGE 1 said. “When we buy an asset, we don’t bring a bus of new people along with us.

We want to work with the people who’ve made the hotel great in the past.”

Noble Principal and Executive Vice President for Acquisitions and Development Ben Brunt said Noble has planned major renovations for the Courtyard by Marriott.

New Haven Economic Development Administrator Matt Nemerson SOM ’81 said the group filed paperwork in the city plan several months ago suggesting that the hotel might go through a title change.

He said the economic development staff was not contacted directly by the Noble Group. But this is the case in most private transactions, he added.

“We’re excited to welcome the group to the neighborhood,” Nemerson said.

“My advice to them, however, would be that they reach out to the neighborhood management team as soon as possible and, in particular, to Alder Frank Douglass.”

The Courtyard by Marriott has had a complicated relationship with the surrounding Dwight neighborhood. In September, Marriott’s plans to add a new Residence Inn to the hotel faced opposition from residents, who were angered by the lack of community engagement on the part of the developers. Tensions rose when Newport Hotel Group CEO Douglas Cohen did not show up to a meeting where he had agreed to discuss the plan with the Dwight Central Management Team, a group of neighborhood representatives and several alders. Due to frustration among neighbors, Cohen eventually withdrew the hotel group’s application to build the Residence Inn while also apologizing for the lack of communication.

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more negatively impacted by these cuts than others.

Forman explained that there are already many physicians in Connecticut who refuse to see Medicaid patients because of how expensive it is for them to do so. Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern agreed, adding that while academic medical centers provide care to Medicaid patients and will always do so, academic physicians will be forced to find ways to cut costs and compensate for the lost revenue if the budget passes unamended.

According to McCabe, in order for YNHHS to have a margin that allows them to invest in programs and benefit structures for employees, such as pensions and retirement funds, they will need to make up for the $67 million of lost funds. That loss in funding, McCabe said, will likely hit their expenditures the hardest.

Though McCabe said YNHHS is not looking at layoffs, he said that advanced vacancy techniques — which involve leaving vacancies unfilled — might have to be used.

“We will be focusing on reductions on our expense base, [which] consists of supplies and people,” McCabe said. “At some point, it has to have an impact on the number of folks employed.”

Forman explained that if the state wants to keep costs down, it can either cut the types of services provided, reduce the number of people eligible for Medicaid or reduce the amount of money providers

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The Courtyard currently features 207 guest rooms and suites.

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are reimbursed with for their services.

He noted that the least politically appealing solution for the government is to reduce coverage, and that cutting provider reimbursement seems more politically feasible in comparison.

At some point, [reduction of the expense base] has to have an impact on the number of folks employed.

PATRICK MCCABE Senior vice president, YNHHS corporate finance Sheldon Toubman, an attorney for the New Haven Legal Assistance Association who has represented Medicaid clients for more than 20 years, said the reduction in coverage, which will roughly result in a 5 percent reduction in coverage statewide, will result in low-income individuals losing access to essential and comprehensive care.

He explained that although Malloy is arguing that people who lose Medicaid will be able to buy healthcare on the subsidized personal health insurance exchange, a high percentage of the 34,000 who will lose coverage will not be able to afford insurance on the exchange, even with the state subsidy. And even those former Medicaid patients who are able to afford private insurance may be

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“It’s an inappropriate cut,” Toubman said. “Most people will be worse off than they were before Obamacare.”

YNHHS’s advocacy against the budget began on the system’s website. With some 20,000 employees spread across nearly every town in the state, the system asked its employees to spread the word to friends and family, inviting them to send an online message to their state legislators. So far, 11,000 messages have been generated, McCabe said.

Though the petition is being organized

by YNHHS, McCabe emphasized that the budget cuts will have a negative effect on the medical community statewide.

“The hospital has had a very aggressive campaign to oppose these cuts and I am supportive of the hospital’s efforts,” Forman said.

McCabe said he hopes the state will appeal to more innovative payment models. He added that it would be better to give hospitals a block grant and put the onus on them to think about how care delivery should be amended to make the most of this money.

Toubman said a better approach would be reinstituting higher capital gains taxes like Massachusetts has done, shifting the burden onto higher-income individuals.

Almost one in five of Connecticut’s 3.6 million residents are currently on Medicaid.

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“We have wanted to collect data for some time, and indeed, began working on a Yale-only survey last year,” she said. “[But] when the opportunity arose to collaborate with the AAU and other institutions, we eagerly pursued it, knowing that the collective expertise and resources would strengthen the project.”

According to Toiv, the survey’s design is based on a template developed by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. He added that, as part of the survey’s design, each of the 27 universities paid $87,500 to participate — part of which will be used to fund incentives, such as a lottery to maximize participation, and another portion will be used to compensate Westat.

A significant criticism of similar previous surveys has been their small sample sizes and low response rates. Joe Cohn, legislative and policy director at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, an organization that has openly criticized the federal government’s approach to addressing campus sexual misconduct, pointed to the frequently cited statistic that one in five women will be the victim of sexual assault while they are in college.

This statistic emerged from a 2007 study published by the Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice that reached its conclusions from a survey of just two universities and, despite incentivizing participation with Amazon gift cards, still received low response rates — a fact that Cohn said makes him “deeply skeptical” of the results’ significance.

Other experts have raised concerns about this survey in particular. In a Jan. 27 letter addressed

to university presidents and institutional review boards that had signed up to participate in the AAU survey, five psychology professors from various institutions proposed that the survey violated the guidelines of the 1978 Belmont Report, which outlines ethical principles that should be followed when conducting human research.

The professors wrote that the survey’s design at the moment “[had] the potential to vastly underestimate the true scope of sexual victimization” on college campuses.

On Feb. 3, AAU President Hunter Rawlings responded to the letter in a public statement of his own, asserting that the draft they had seen was outdated and their criticisms were based on misinformation. Many changes had been made to the survey in the intervening period, he said.

“There is nothing ‘reckless’ about this survey,” he wrote. “It is a well-considered survey, informed by research and practice from the fields of sexual violence and survey methodology.”

Boyd also expressed confidence in the survey’s potential to produce high participation rates and yield powerful results. She cited Yale students’ enthusiastic participation in previous surveys that have gone out about sensitive topics such as alcohol use.

University President Peter Salovey also sent a campus-wide email on March 30 informing students of the survey and encouraging them to respond to this “critically important effort.”

“Over the last few years, we have made important progress together in creating a community that is safe and respectful,” he wrote. “But our work is not done.”

Yale is one of six Ivy League universities participating in the survey.

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

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“To be prepared is half the victory.”

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CT residents underestimate hurricane risks

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER A majority of people living near Connecticut’s shoreline underestimate the danger they could face during coastal storms, according to a report released last week by Yale researchers.

The report, authored by four Yale researchers at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, revealed that many residents in areas that are at risk for flooding during hurricanes do not follow the government’s storm safety guidelines. Researchers said the report highlights the need for improved communication between government officials and residents.

Local New Haven and state emergency response administrators said that residents should evacuate their homes when advised to. But according to the report, many people do not take this advice out of fear for abandoning their homes during a storm.

Jennifer Marlon, the report’s lead principle investigator and a professor at the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, said Hurricane Evacuation Zones are determined by the National Weather Service using the modeling software titled “Sea, Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes.” Residents in Zone A are at risk for flooding in either a Category 1 or 2 hurricane. Those in Zone B are at risk only during a Category 3 or 4 hurricane.

Any person living in an at-risk zone can be advised to evacuate their homes before a hurricane, although no resident can be forcibly removed from their homes.

“We’re not going to force them out,” said New Haven’s Deputy Director of Operations of the Emergency Operations Center Rick Fontana. “We tell them this is why we think you should leave, this is what we think you should bring and this is where we think you should go.”

Surveys were sent in the mail to randomly selected residents in Zones A and B along Connecticut’s coastline between September and October of last year. In total, 1,130 adults responded to the survey, some with zip codes in New Haven, East Haven and Branford. According to the data from the survey, Zone A residents tended to have higher incomes, allowing them to be better prepared for a hurricane than those in Zone B, who tended to be more ethnically diverse and of lower economic status than their Zone A neighbors.

The report found that 21 percent of Connecticut residents in Zone A would evacuate in the event of a Category 2 Hurricane if they did not receive an official notice.

Seventy-four percent of residents who responded to the survey had never seen their local hurricane evacuation map.

Fin. literacy sessions praised

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A report released by Yale researchers last week has highlighted the need for improved communication between government official and residents during coastal storms.

In New Haven, which has both Zone A and Zone B areas, the city begins to warn residents as soon as a large storm is forecasted, usually three or four days in advance, according to Fontana.

There are three primary hurricane shelters in New Haven, said the city’s Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Jennifer Pugh, who added that she believes many residents do not leave their homes because they fear looting and want to protect their property during a storm.

New Haven has faced a growing erosion of trust between residents and the city during hurricane warnings, Fontana said, after initial weather predictions for Hurricane Irene in 2011 fell short of the actual storm.

During Hurricane Sandy the following year, many residents did not take the city’s advice and stayed in their homes.

“Forecasting a storm is not an exact science,” said spokesman for the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Scott DeVico. “When we’re faced with a hurricane or tropical storm, we have to prepare for the worst.”

The report also found that coastal Connecticut residents generally underestimate storm impacts: Over half of the survey respondents said that damage from past storms was more than they had expected, while only 19 percent reported that past damage was less than they had expected.

Marlon added that she hopes the report helps state and local emergency response officials use information about the psychology behind residents’ decisions to stay in their homes to implement more specific evacuation strategies.

A second phase of the research will be released in four to six weeks. Marlon said that this second, more in-depth analysis of the data will identify five different types of residents, classifying them on the basis of how likely they are to respond to a hurricane warning.

While Marlon said these groups have not been fully defined yet, she said they will likely range from “die-hard” homeowners who never evacuate their homes during a hurricane, to more anxious residents who take extra precautions before a large storm.

“The groups will not be defined by demographic; they will be defined by attitude,” Marlon said. “It’s about the attitudes and perceptions of the risk. Those are the biggest predictors of behavior.”

The report, titled “Hurricane Perceptions of Coastal Connecticut Residents,” was approved and funded by the organization Sea Grant, and was one of 10 proposals in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York to receive aid.

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

Over two years, an alumni-led project to provide financial literacy education has reached an audience of exactly 2,650 Yale College and Graduate School students.

The workshops, sponsored by the Association of Yale Alumni and Students and Alumni of Yale (STAY), feature presentations on issues such as budgeting, taxes, employee benefits and retirement plans. After its first session in April 2013, the workshop has been held 110 times for students and alumni at Yale and across the country. Over this period, the events have earned praise from students and alumni, with participants asking for a greater depth of subject material.

“Every Yale student who wants to develop a comfort level for how money fits into their life should get the opportunity to do so,” said Stephen Blum ’74, the senior director of strategic initiatives at the AYA and the project’s founder.

The workshops have been popular with students, Blum said. He added that participants are surveyed after each session, and they often rate the experience highly.

Though the financial literacy program appears to be a success, several key members of AYA and STAY emphasized the need to expand the workshops’ focus to include the topics on investment management, family budgeting and home mortgages. In the future, Blum said, he hopes that the sessions become part of the academic programs at Yale College.

“My vision is that this should get translated to a credit course at Yale just like accounting courses should again be offered at Yale College,” Blum said. “Yale students should get the chance to learn the language of finance.”

Scott Williamson ’80, the former president of the Yale Club of Chicago and a member of the AYA’s executive board, said the

financial literacy workshops offer a tremendous resource for current students and recent graduates.

Dilan Gomih ’13, who became involved with the initiative shortly after she graduated, said she is currently working to make blogs for the workshops to make basic financial knowledge “virtual, viral and accessible.”

“People graduate from some of the most selective universities in the world, and they may be able to do their laundry or make a sandwich, but they otherwise are lacking in some of the essential practical financial skills you need in the world,” Williamson said.

Michael Greenwald ’75, the former vice-chair of the AYA, added that Yale alumni are uniquely qualified to lead these workshops. He said increased funding would allow the AYA to offer more resources to current students.

Alumni interviewed agreed that the aim of the workshop is to ensure that Yale students graduate with a better understanding of personal finance.

John Caserta ’01 — who is the founder of the New Haven financial planning firm Caserta & Co. and volunteers to help lead the AYA workshops — lamented that he graduated from Yale with a poor understanding of basic financial concepts. He said his only experience with financial matters during his undergraduate years was a single conversation with a financial aid officer about student loans.

“It is a fact that we come out of Yale very well-educated and worldly in so many ways, and yet really not aware in so many ways of the basics in finance,” Greenwald said.

The next financial literacy workshop will be held on April 7 at the Rose Alumni House Great Hall.

Contact SPANDANA BHATTACHARYA at spandana.bhattacharya@yale.edu and MATTHEW STONE at matthew.stone@yale.edu .

Med school honors cadaver donors

BY AMAKA UCHEGBU STAFF REPORTER For the first time in its history, the families of individuals whose donated bodies have been dissected by Yale medical students were invited to campus for a Service of Gratitude.

On Tuesday evening, students and faculty in Yale’s medical and nursing schools gathered in the School of Medicine’s Harkness Auditorium to honor those who had donated their bodies to the University for dissection. Tuesday’s service marked the time first in Yale’s history that relatives of donors were invited to join.

Students, faculty and donors’ relatives all said the service served as an opportunity to learn from each other. “[Donation] is not just what your organs can give to someone that’s living but what your body can give to someone that’s still learning,” said Nicole Primoff NUR ’17, who was one of the event’s organizers.

After opening remarks and an auditorium-wide meditation session, faculty and students of the medical school, nursing school and PA program shared reflections of their experiences dissecting cadavers. Original artwork lined the lobby outside the large lecture hall, and students shared poems, musical compositions and sound collages documenting how the donors had helped them in their personal and career growth. In the audience, relatives of the donors looked on at the presentations and their own contribution to the proceedings — excerpts of interviews they had taken part in as part of a short documentary.

Max Farina MED ’18, a student who helped film the documentary, emphasized the difficulty of condensing the wide range of emotions experienced by the donors’ relatives and students into such a short clip.

“You’re crossing this boundary that’s been in place our entire

life,” Farina said of the act of dissection. “It’s a strange sensation, especially without express permission, since the person decided to do this, but they didn’t tell you that.”

Farina added that speaking with the families of donors as he produced the video provided him with an “incredible” insight into how different families of donors experience the process.

For Chris Cowles, an attendee, the service was particularly moving. Just the day prior, he celebrated the first anniversary of the death of his mother,whose body was donated to the medical school after suffering a severe stroke and becoming increasingly frail. Cowles was initially surprised by his mother’s decision, but said he soon came to understand that it was part of her giving nature. When the time came for her body to be dissected, he was far less anxious than he thought he would be, he added.

“It seemed right. I thought that it would be harder and it was not at all,” he said.

On the receiving end of the donation process, Tafadzwa Chaunzwa MED ’18 had a far more difficult experience conducting his first dissection. When he was only 23, Chaunzwa lost his father. His father’s corpse was the last dead body he saw before facing his cadaver, he said. Though he appreciated the opportunity to learn anatomy in an interactive way, he said he was “initially very overwhelmed” when he found himself facing a second dead body and tasked with dissecting it.

According to associate professor of surgery and Director of Medical Studies Lawrence Rizzolo, it is not uncommon for both students and donors’ families to struggle with the concept of dissection.

He gave the example of a man who found it so difficult to reconcile his father’s decision to be dissected that his father’s body was eventually returned to him. The

students who had been dissecting the cadaver were also conflicted about what to do with the request of the donor’s son, Rizzolo said, adding that they felt that stopping might go against the donor’s wish to contribute his body to scientific research.

It seemed right. I thought that it would be harder and it was not at all.

CHRIS COWLES But according to Rizzolo, that case is not typical. While some relatives are uncomfortable with dissection, others — such as those who attended the service — view it as honoring their deceased relatives’ wishes to contribute to scientific knowledge.

Melissa Spinner and her brother Christian DeMusis fell into the latter category. Their mother had “long conversations” about the prospect of donating her body before eventually deciding to do so. Spinner said that accepting her mother’s decision was not difficult “even for a moment,” as they understood it was their mother’s way of honoring her own father, a physician.

DeMusis, who plans to donate his body to science when he dies, like more than 10,000 other Americans do each year, said he enjoyed the service and was grateful for the respect the medical school afforded him throughout the process of his mother’s donation.

Cowles shared Spinner and DeMusis’ sentiments.

“I’ve been thinking a lot about it since mom died and this is kind of the clincher,” Cowles said as a smile spread across his face. “I think I will donate my body when I die too.”

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

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FROM THE FRONT Students criticize online PA program

“Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”

MITCHELL KAPOR ’71 IT ENTREPRENEUR

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The online Physician Assistant program would expand the program by nearly tenfold, to about 350 students.

PA PROGRAM FROM PAGE 1 alumni as far back as spring 2014, said Goff. But it was only in March of this year that the PA community received confirmation of the program, which includes online coursework, clinical rotations in their hometown and roughly two weeks spent on Yale’s campus.

A March 10 email sent from the medical school dean’s office to students and alumni informed recipients that, after “six months of thorough study,” the school had approved a new pathway for earning the PA degree and was awaiting approval from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, the national PA degree accrediting agency.

But students such as the anonymous student who decided not to attend Yale were disappointed that they were not informed that the launch would be happening so soon.

During his interview for the program in October 2014, no one mentioned to the student or other interviewees about the possibility of the online degree, the student said. Goff explained that students who were helping run the interviews for the incoming class of 2017 were specifically told not to reveal the plans to establish an online degree.

According to incoming PA student Lauren Prince MED ’17, had she known that her degree would likely be made available online, she would have chosen to matriculate at a different university. Like many other incoming students, she said she had no knowledge that plans were underway to make her degree available online. But Van Rhee said the University had to be discreet about the potential launch partly to guard against illegal financial behavior.

“When you’re a publicly traded company, you have to worry about insider trading,” Van Rhee said. “When people are in a position to know information that others wouldn’t, it isn’t fair to the shareholders.”

According to Bloomberg, 2U’s share prices increased by more than 20 percent in the week after their partnership with Yale was announced.

In addition, the contract was not finalized until shortly before the announcement, Van Rhee said, and it would have been inappropriate to release uncertain information. Still, he said that though he did not tell students which company Yale was planning to work with, many were aware that Yale was in negotiations with a company to offer an online degree.

“If we could’ve announced it earlier, I would’ve been glad to,” he said. “I know people see this perception as trying to hide things, but we have not shied away from talking to anybody. I have been as transparent as I can be.”

STUDENT INPUT DURING COURSE DEVELOPMENT

Last April, the Yale Committee on Online Education released a nearly 30-page document titled “Online Education — Pathways for Yale.” Citing examples of successful online degree programs,

including those offered at Stanford, University of North Carolina’s business school and Duke’s environment school, the document advised the University to invest in programs that would “[extend] the school’s impact around the globe by increasing the number of those benefiting from its educational programs.”

According to Van Rhee, the proposed online PA degree will do just that.

While the committee was crafting its recommendations, the University vetted several companies that could provide the technological framework for expanded online educational offerings. Companies began to reach out to Van Rhee earlier that year — even before the committee’s document was released — but discussions did not become serious until later, in the spring of 2014, he said.

Van Rhee said he began to consult with current PA students on the proposed expansion in the late spring or early summer. He met with the first-year students as a group, though he said that at that point, much of the plan had yet to be fleshed out. Later that week, he met with a smaller group of representatives from the second-year students, per their request. Afterwards, he brought student concerns to a task force that had been created by Dean of the School of Medicine Robert Alpern.

After those first two meetings, Van Rhee said, student input on the program was much more informal. Still, students often initiated small group meetings with him to discuss the proposal’s progress, and he received many emails detailing student concerns and suggestions.

“Did we do something formal all along?

No, we didn’t, but we did communicate,” he said.

Throughout, Van Rhee said, he brought student concerns to the task force that was working on finalizing the plans. The task force, whose membership was determined by Alpern, included one PA faculty member and no students. Though Goff emphasized that Belitsky is normally supportive of PA students, she said she was disappointed that students were not included in the task force, nor told when it was formed.

But Alpern said he was not aware that students wanted to participate in the group.

Van Rhee said that when he brought student concerns to the task force’s attention, those concerns were often issues its members had already been considering.

“We’ve taken [all student complaints] to heart, and they’re all serious concerns,” he said. “But all of their concerns were things I had talked to students about before [...] that I was concerned about, the task force was concerned about, the medical school was even concerned about. And these are all issues we think we’ve addressed.”

He acknowledged that at the town hall held after the announcement, many students were adamantly opposed to the proposal. Going forward, Van Rhee said it will be important to communicate to students how the online program will work, and how it will maintain Yale’s high educational standards.

He emphasized that no efforts were made to exclude students from decisions or keep the news hidden. And yet, PA students and alumni maintain that their exclusion was intentional.

CLOSED OFF TO COMPLAINTS

Students interviewed said they are concerned that the rigor and reputation of the online degree will not match those of the regular degree. Administrators did not share these concerns.

“I’m afraid that an online version only compromises the quality of the PA education and ultimately puts patients and America’s health care at risk,” Meredith Keppel MED ’14, an alumna of the PA program, said in an email. “An online version of the program would increase the quantity of PAs, but at what price?”

According to Van Rhee, Yale’s current PA program has already been allowing some students to complete their clinical rotations at pre-approved off-site locations that are monitored by the University for some time. Students, however, are concerned that Yale’s high standards for these locations may be compromised as the number of proposed locations expands exponentially.

But Van Rhee said he is confident that the University will make sure to only approve sites that are up to par.

Goff also expressed concern that students enrolled in the online program may not receive high-quality practical training. Though the online course of study requires students to be on campus for two weeks to learn practical skills, Goff said she does not think this will be enough.

Other students were also concerned that having an online program would dilute the prestige of the program as a whole.

Because many patients already do not understand what PAs do, Goff said, it may be harder for PAs who studied traditionally to have their expertise recognized if patients are made aware of the online program’s existence.

Kelsey O’Dell MED ’14, an alumna of the PA program, added that PAs are also misunderstood by medical practitioners themselves.

“We have still had the unfortunate experience of having a professor walk into our classroom to teach, and ask us if we had completed undergraduate degrees,” O’Dell said. “In fact, many of us also have completed additional master’s degrees.”

But Van Rhee said students who complete the program through distance coursework will be just as prepared as their on-campus counterparts. They will meet the same admissions requirements, take the same exams, work clinical rotations at Yale-approved sites, pass the same graduation requirements and ultimately take the same accrediting exam.

“They’re all going to meet the same requirements and do the same thing,” Van Rhee said. “So I think they deserve the same degree.”

Contact EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu and AMAKA UCHEGBU at amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu .

But ultimately, the question is not whether the program will increase availability — indeed, organizers ultimately hope to expand the program from roughly 36 per class to about 350, according to Chandra Goff MED ’14 — but rather, at what cost this expanded access may come. “[Yale] wants to [bring] an Ivy League education to more people and fulfill demand for primary care providers in the U.S.,” Goff said of the proposed PA program. “We agree with those goals, but we don’t think this is the right way to do it.”

A recent survey Goff conducted of Yale’s current and former PA students demonstrated an overwhelming opposition to the proposed blended program, largely because students are concerned that the online version of the program will not reach the same high standard as its on-campus equivalent.

Lucas Swineford, executive director of the Office of Dissemination and Online Education, said technology companies like 2U, which Yale has partnered with to provide the online program, have successfully worked to decrease the stigma associated with online degrees. But the students in the PA program were less sure.

Several students enrolled in the program said they feel that the online PA program will cheapen their degree and worsen public perception of it.

One student who had planned to come to Yale in the fall even chose to switch PA programs following the announcement.

“One of the many reasons that I came to Yale to study medicine, was the weight that the Yale name carries behind it,” Kelsey O’Dell MED ’14 said in an email to the News. “If this online program is approved, I worry that patients will no longer trust my care as they once did.”

Currently, Yale advocates for online education in selective spheres. The University offers online courses, even almost completely online degrees, but wavers on the question of whether online courses are good enough for students in the college. For example, students withdrawn from Yale may not complete their twocourse requirement using online courses.

Incoming students can also get a taste of the Yale education before arriving on campus, in the form of “Online Experiences for Yale Scholars,” a precalculus math module meant to prepare students for the University’s quantitative reasoning requirement. The pilot session of ONEXYS ran last summer, with 19 students following online lectures and working with tutors via Skype. The University announced in the fall that ONEXYS will expand to 40 students this coming summer.

However, ONEXYS is meant

to be a supplement to a student’s education — not a replacement.

Participants cannot use the class toward their QR requirements, and no grades are awarded.

The University has also furthered its efforts to expand online education in other fields.

In January, the Massive Online Open Course selection, provided on the online education platform Coursera, was expanded. Still, students cannot receive Yale College credit for taking MOOCs.

This is not the kind of online endeavor that allows students to be passive.

LINDA LORIMER Vice president, Global and Strategic Initiatives However, while students interviewed said they support Yale’s efforts to make these classes available to people outside the University, no students interviewed expressed interest in taking a MOOC themselves.

Inside Higher Education recently published a study regarding 30 medical students in Germany who finished the first edition of a HarvardX MOOC titled “Global Health: Case Studies from a Biosocial Perspective.” Students took the MOOC independently, then participated in two mandatory classroom sessions toward the end of the course. Despite the quality of the online offerings, student feedback mainly consisted of recommendations to expand the portion of the MOOC that was conducted face-to-face. The study concluded that although MOOCs are valuable learning tools, it would be almost impossible to use them to completely replace the traditional classroom experience.

As the Inside Higher Ed study recommends, the PA program combines online components with some required faceto-face interaction. However, many current PA students have expressed concern that it will not include enough in-person teaching. Still, University administrators were more positive on the development.

“This program will be very intensive in terms of the interaction between students and faculty. This is not the kind of online endeavor that allows students to be passive,” said Linda Lorimer, vice president of global and strategic initiatives.

Approval for the online PA degree is currently pending from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant.

Contact TYLER FOGGATT at tyler.foggatt@yale.edu and EMMA PLATOFF at emma.platoff@yale.edu .

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Youth Stat program looks to expand

BY VICTORIO CABRERA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As year one closes for New Haven’s Youth Stat program, its leaders are looking back at its beginnings and planning ahead for expansion.

Last night, the Board of Alders Youth Services Committee met with representatives of organizations involved in New Haven’s Youth Stat program to review the initiative’s history and hear suggestions about potential areas for growth. The program, which was started last year and received praise from President Barack Obama, seeks to identify and aid disengaged youth in New Haven.

Various educational and community organizations and partner

corporations were represented at last night’s meeting, such as New Haven Public Schools, education organization Hallah Edutainment, Veterans Empowering Teens Through Support and Integrated Wellness Group.

“We’re open to other community organizations,” said Jason Bartlett, New Haven’s youth services director, adding that Youth Stat is currently in talks with another corporation to expand the program.

Several present at the meeting spoke about the importance of expansion. When Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12, chair of the Youth Services Committee, asked what the committee could do to help Youth Stat, Hashim Allah, the managing partner for Hallah

Edutainment, emphasized the importance of securing adequate funding. Citing the costly nature of their community outreach efforts, he asked that the committee work to increase funding sources.

In response to a question of how much money Youth Stat receives from the city, Bartlett explained that since Youth Stat started after the last budget was passed, the program does not appear as a line item on the budget. He said there is no discretionary funding for Youth Stat, but that the program did receive a federal grant worth $250,000 in kind. He added that the group is currently applying for the Performance Partnership Pilots program, a federal grant that would

provide the committee with $750,000.

Youth Stat operates by collecting personal information about youth — such as their academic record and involvement in the juvenile justice system — in order to determine who is at risk.

The amount of information sharing required for so many groups to work together initially proved to be a challenge.

This information cannot be shared without consent from the individual, so until the program developed a consent form, Bartlett said, the various agencies could only share general data rather than specific information about individual youth.

Gemma Joseph Lumpkin, the executive manager of dis-

trict strategy and coordination for NHPS, laid out the program’s approach to identifying disengaged youth.

“We wanted to address root causes [of youth disengagement],” she said.

Bartlett said the identifiers for disengaged youth include low attendance, disruptive behavior and a poor academic record.

To this list, Lumpkin added traumatic events — losing a family member or friend to violence, for example. These indicators, she said, are often less obvious than those listed by Bartlett.

Julie Keen, director for community programs at Integrated Wellness Group, said that part of Integrated Wellness’s focus within Youth Stat has been

avoiding “the stigma that’s still attached to mental health in various ways.”

Frank Galli, the coordinator for VETTS, spoke about the work his program is doing for New Haven’s disengaged youth. Veterans are assigned to mentor a youth in the program and are available to their mentees 24/7, he said.

“They’re driving out to neighborhoods at 3 a.m., when [their mentees] aren’t coming home,” Galley said.

Youth Stat is based on the CompStat policing model, which similarly focuses on data sharing between agencies in order to reduce crime.

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

New Haven tests bioswale system

BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER West Park Avenue will soon contain eight different models of bioswales as part of a research project headed by the Urban Resources Initiative and Yale scientists.

A bioswale is a system used to remove silt and pollution from runoff water and takes the appearance of a small well. The research, funded by a $150,000 grant from the Long Island Sound Study, will help the city decide which design would be best to use in an large-scale project to incorporate bioswales into the entire city landscape. The research project will be completed by July, and the city will use its $2.5 million Community Development Block Grant to build the city’s

bioswales in the next two to three years, Mayor Toni Harp said in an email to the News.

“New Haven’s plan to install hundreds of bioswales will meet two goals,” Harp said. “Bioswales reduce the overall amount of stormwater runoff and also filter the water, so that which drains into local streams and rivers — and the Long Island Sound — is cleaner.”

In addition to the eight bioswales on West Park Avenue in the Edgewood neighborhood, the city plans to build 200 additional bioswales in downtown New Haven and along Howard Avenue.

Colleen Murphy-Dunning, director of the URI, said Yale students from the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies have been employed to visualize optimal locations for the bioswales.

The model will be easy to replicate in the city’s large-scale project.

She added that City Engineer Giovanni Zinn ’05 frequently meets with the URI to review designs and identify critical areas where bioswales might be needed.

Ross Bernet FES ’15 said he and his colleague Uma Bhandaram FES ’15 are using a Geographic Information System to visualize optimal locations for the bioswales, considering information about locations of current storm drains and building owners.

Chris Ozyck, the on-site director of the West Park Avenue project and associate director of the URI, said the city hopes to eventually see one bioswale per storm drain. He added that the addition of the systems will be an econom-

ically and ecologically efficient way for the city to drain and filter water, which will in turn reduce pollution in local rivers and the Long Island Sound.

[The project] is a chance for us all to partner together and learn.

COLLEEN MURPHY-DUNNING Director, Urban Resources Initiative The West Park Avenue research project is a joint effort run by the URI, Common Ground High School, Emerge Connecticut and the city’s Engineering Department. Those working on the project include Common Ground

High School students — who will assist with research and plant flowers around the bioswales — as well as participants of Emerge, a New Haven-based transitional work program.

“I think that this is a great learning opportunity for the men from Emerge, students, researchers and Common Ground,” said Murphy-Dunning. “It’s a chance for us to all partner together and learn something.”

Emerge participants working on the project said that they have enjoyed learning about designing the bioswales despite the intensive manual labor.

Tyler French, who has been working on the site for four weeks, said that installing the large filtration device is an arduous task due to the precision necessary in leveling the ground

prior to installation. Another employee, Antjuan Martin, said that building the stone walls to ensure each system’s stability has been challenging.

Before the unveiling of the bioswales in July, Common Ground High School students will have the opportunity to conduct their own research project, according to Murphy-Dunning. She said the students will analyze the amount of stormwater coming off of each property on West Park Avenue.

The Long Island Sound Study is a bi-state partnership consisting of federal and state agencies, user groups, concerned organizations and individuals dedicated to restoring and protecting the sound.

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

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SPORTS

“It’ll be nice not to have to use my fake IDs anymore.” PHIL MICKELSON AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL GOLFER

Alessi, Comizio star year-round

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TWO SPORTS FROM PAGE 10 afternoon and never complains.

We expected him to be good, but he’s exceeded all expectations and become a big part of our offense.”

Unlike Alessi, on the other hand, Comizio came to Yale expecting to deal with the challenges of balancing two different sports.

Comizio started playing lacrosse when she was roughly

eight years old and joined a travel league after seventh grade; by contrast, she did not pick up field hockey until about a year later. She was recruited by Yale for lacrosse and verbally committed in the fall of her junior year.

Comizio never considered that she would have the opportunity to play both sports after high school and was surprised when she received a phone call from field hockey coach Pam Stuper asking

her to consider accepting a spot on the roster in January of her senior year. With support from Stuper and women’s lacrosse head coach Anne Phillips, whose offices are across the hall from each other, she was happy to get the chance to give both sports the college try.

“In season, I made an agreement that when I’m in season, you have all my attention,” Comizio said. “In the fall, field hockey takes precedence. In spring, lacrosse

does. It’s hard to adjust sometimes. Teams do things differently.”

Comizio trains throughout summer and winter breaks to get back into practice with both sports, although lacrosse comes more easily for her.

That said, her biggest impact has been for the field hockey team.

The New Vernon, New Jersey native tied for sixth on the team with three points and played in all 17 games last season.

According to teammates, Comizio has proved her dedication to both teams with her work ethic and preparation.

“Being a two-sport athlete doesn’t affect her play in each season,” field hockey teammate Emmy Reinwald ’17 said. “When she steps on Johnson Field, she isn’t a two-sport athlete, she’s a field hockey player. Kiwi brings a high level of athleticism and competitiveness which makes it easy to see why both teams wanted her.”

Despite the fact that both lacrosse and field hockey involve stick handling skills, Comizio says that sports are quite different.

Because lacrosse is played in the air and field hockey is played on

the ground, the skill set is largely dissimilar, according to Comizio.

Furthermore, she plays attacker in lacrosse and defenseman in field hockey, positions that require opposite mentalities.

Alessi acknowledges the differences, but he sees his two sports as complementary. As a midfielder in lacrosse and a defensive back in football, both positions put a premium on good footwork. In addition, both sports are extremely demanding physically, so many of the workouts and exercises from one sport also help him improve in the other.

For Alessi, the biggest difference between the two is the preparation involved from game to game.

“Football is really time-consuming because we do so much film study and scouting … it’s crazy how much film we watch,” Alessi said. “Lacrosse is less scouting, and more just going out and playing. At the end of the day, if you have the skills and play well enough, you should win.”

Being a dual-sport athlete is tough and requires a large time commitment, according to Comizio. However, she believes that the advantages far outweigh

the disadvantages. She has learned how to manage her time and she is constantly in shape in order to be ready for both seasons. She also credits the time she spends with the players, coaches and alumni of both teams as a major benefit of belonging to both rosters.

“I’m taking it year by year, but I already know that next year I’m playing both,” Comizio said. “I guess I can’t really imagine a life here where I’m not always playing a sport. I’m definitely [happy].

I don’t think there’s any time I really regretted it.”

Alessi, on the other hand, admits that he struggles some with juggling the two teams, having to attend multiple workouts, meetings or practices for both teams every day, even in the offseason. Nonetheless, he will definitely be playing football next year before re-evaluating his future.

“As I get older, I should gain respect in both sports and hopefully have more leeway,” Alessi said. “To be honest, I have no idea [about future plans].”

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu and JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

Yale tops Sacred Heart LACROSSE FROM PAGE 10 pair of goals to give him a teamleading 26 and his two assists allowed him to leapfrog attackman Ben Reeves ’18 for the lead in that category with 12.

Reeves continued to excel as well with a goal and an assist.

Against Sacred Heart, though, his role as the offensive second banana was eclipsed by the performance of attackman Jeff Cimbalista ’17. Cimbalista recorded his second consecutive hat trick and tied his season high with a total of four points, including a goal to open the game and an assist on a first-quarter Reeves goal before Yale had fully taken control.

“Jeff has definitely stepped up big time in his sophomore year, he battled some injuries last year and has now been an integral part of our attack,” midfielder Michael Keasey ’16 said. “He had a big

game yesterday … we’re hoping he can continue to be a solid third attacker for us.”

Three Yale midfielders also showed off their scoring prowess.

Scott and Sean Shakespeare ’15 each scored twice, with three of their four combined goals coming in a five-minute span of the second quarter. Shane Thornton ’15 led all midfielders with three points, including a goal and an assist during the team’s dominant 5–0 second quarter.

Thanks to their early dominance, the Bulldogs were able to give playing time to a number of their normal bench players. Most notably, the two backup goalies saw a bit of time in net in the fourth quarter, giving Natale a spell of rest. Additionally, attackman JW McGovern ’16 scored an unassisted fourth-quarter goal to conclude the Bulldog offensive output, only his second tally of the season.

Given the game’s midweek status, it was nice for the Bulldogs to be able to coast for one game. Their next contest, however, should provide more of a challenge. Dartmouth, Yale’s next opponent, is ranked No. 26 and sits just above the Elis in the Ivy standings at 1–1. While the Bulldogs should be favored, they can expect a tough contest from the Big Green.

“This Saturday is a big, big league game for us against Dartmouth, they’re a team that’s shown a lot more energy than in previous years,” defenseman Mike Quinn ’16 said. “There’s a lot more on the line because they’re 1–1 in the league, so we’ve got to make sure we bring it on Saturday.”

Yale hosts Dartmouth on Saturday at Reese Stadium. Face-off will be at 3 p.m.

Contact JONATHAN MARX at jonathan.marx@yale.edu .

From throwing strikes to hitting them BASEBALL FROM PAGE 10 a hitter, as he has just 6.2 total innings on the bump in the past two years. But, according to Hsieh, his experience as a pitcher has helped him at the plate.

“Being a pitcher myself, I know that the opposing pitchers really want to get ahead in the count,” Hsieh said. “I look for hittable pitches early, and I really try to capitalize on any mistakes that those guys make.”

Hsieh has been a consistent threat in the Bulldog lineup for the past three years. He started in at least 35 games as both a sophomore and a junior, and his 0.395 on-base percentage a year ago was fifth-best in the Ivy League.

He is currently second on the team behind leadoff hitter Richard Slenker ’17 for the most base hits on the team this season. Yet Hsieh’s most impressive feat may be that he has already walked 15 times, which is more than double the amount of any other Bulldog, and his walksper-game ratio is 17th-best in the nation.

“He has some of the best pitch selection I have seen of any hitter, and he just finds ways to get on base,” Ford said. “He is a contact hitter.

He is going to put the ball in play.”

Hsieh added that he considers his strength to be getting on base and letting other players drive him in, and he does whatever he can to just get on base.

In addition to his role at first base and as the anchor in the middle of the Bulldog lineup, Hsieh has taken a stronger leadership role this season.

“Eric is the most sound player on the team,” center fielder Green Campbell ’15 said. “He leads by example and doing the right things on and off the field. He doesn’t speak up often, but when he does, it’s meaningful and constructive to the team.”

Hsieh echoed the statement that he prefers to lead by example, and with this season’s scorching start at the plate, the example certainly has been set. He leads the Bulldogs in batting average, on-base percentage and walks, among other categories.

Hsieh is focused on maintaining his highlevel of hitting throughout the season, and he looks to continue his hot streak on Saturday, April 4 as the Bulldogs host Penn at 12 p.m.

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

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The Bulldogs are currently 8–9, with a 2–2 Ivy record after their opening week of conference play.

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Seven different players put up Yale’s 13 goals against Sacred Heart.

Softball falls 16–6

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After five innings of play, the Bulldogs fell to UMass 16–6.

SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 10 the same inning.

Unfortunately, Yale lost its momentum shortly thereafter and recorded zero hits in the second inning, while allowing the Minutemen to cross home plate four times.

In the third inning, Weisenbach advanced to second base and Onorato to third, but neither was able to complete a run.

Massachusetts, however, picked up the pace and recorded eight runs and eight hits, including two from first baseman Bridget Lemire alone. By the end of the third inning, the Minutemen had gained a 10-point lead on Yale and left the Bulldogs in the dust, trailing 12–2.

However, the Bulldogs did not

give up when batting or fielding and showed great resilience even after the Minutemen’s big inning, according to pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18.

“Everyone did great hitting and we passed the bat that inning,” Casalino said. “Overall it was a tough fight to the end.”

Though Yale attempted a comeback with four runs and three hits in the fourth inning, the Minutemen kept their lead with four runs and three hits of their own, leading 16–6 at the end of the inning. By NCAA rules, Massachusetts needed a lead margin of eight runs after five innings to end the game, and the Minutemen delivered exactly that. In the fifth and final inning, UMass did not allow a single run from the Bulldogs and forced the game to a

16–6 finish.

Despite the challenging 16–6 loss against UMass, the Elis feel as though it was a good experience to have prior to heading into next weekend’s Ancient Eight matchups.

“Today really got us prepared for this weekend though so we feel good going into another Ivy weekend,” Brennan said.

On Friday and Saturday, the Bulldogs will face two Ivy competitors: Columbia and Penn.

Both sets of matchups will be doubleheaders on the Bulldogs’ home turf, with the Columbia contest beginning at 2 p.m. on Friday and the Penn matchup at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Contact JULIA YAO at julia.yao@yale.edu .

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Two sports, no problem

BY HOPE ALLCHIN AND JONATHAN MARX STAFF REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTING REPORTER With demanding practices, weekly games and a full set of classes, in-season athletes have some of the most grueling schedules at Yale. However, Bulldogs Jason Alessi ’18 and Kiwi Comizio ’18 do not commit to this for just one season out of the year. Instead, they do it for two.

Alessi and Comizio are among just a handful of athletes that have the athletic ability and dedication to play multiple sports at the college level. Both are currently in the midst of the spring lacrosse season, yet they dedicate themselves to different sports in the fall: football for Alessi and field hockey for Comizio.

For both of these first-year athletes, committing large amounts of time to two different varsity teams is an overwhelming burden at times.

“I knew it’d be tough, but I didn’t know to what extent,” Alessi said. “It’s pretty insane.”

Until his senior year of high school, Alessi had not considered either Yale or playing two sports as a possible future plan.

He played football, basketball and lacrosse in high school, but only expected to play lacrosse on the college level.

As a sophomore, Alessi committed to play lacrosse at Michigan. With a family legacy of Wolverine athletes and a lifelong dream of playing in Ann Arbor, he described it as a dream scenario. After a strong junior football season, however, Alessi began to receive attention from Ivy League football coaches. The next fall, Yale invited him to campus for a visit.

“I didn’t know what to expect … I did it just to be nice,” Alessi said. “We were blown away by the whole experience. I saw the opportunity I’d have, and we knew this

Softball strikes out against Mass.

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The Bulldogs were held to zero runs in three of the five innings played against UMass-Amherst.

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Defensive back Jason Alessi ’18 recorded two interceptions in the Bulldogs’ 25–7 victory over Columbia. what where I should go.”

Following a spinal cord injury to fellow defensive back Spencer Rymiszewski ’17 in Yale’s Oct. 25 game against Penn, Alessi immediately stepped in and starred, recording two interceptions in the next week’s game against Columbia and finishing the year with 35 tackles.

But after the conclusion of the football season and Thanksgiving break, Alessi began to yearn for the lacrosse field once

again. Once he successfully convinced his football coaches to let him play, Alessi came out for the lacrosse team this winter and began splitting his time between the two teams.

“He’s been a welcome surprise for us,” lacrosse teammate Michael Keasey ’16 said. “He does his football workouts at 5 a.m. and then comes to our practices in the

Bulldogs capitalize on 10–0 start

BY JONATHAN MARX CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After snapping a two-game losing streak with a dominant 15–7 win against Penn on Saturday, the No. 11 men’s lacrosse team faced a busy week, with games against both Sacred Heart and Dartmouth.

LACROSSE On Tuesday, the Bulldogs (7–2, 1–2 Ivy) took care of business in the week’s first contest, controlling the game from start to finish and blowing out the Pioneers (4–4, 1–1 NEC) by a final score of 13–3. Yale ran up a 9–0 halftime lead, having its way on both sides of the ball, and coasted through the second half with lineups filled with younger, lesser-used players.

While the Bulldogs put up another strong offensive performance, their work on the defensive end was more notable. For the first time all season, Yale kept an opponent off the

board for an entire half, surrendering its first goal midway through the third quarter and never letting the Pioneers get closer than a nine-goal margin.

“Defensively, we did a great job of always having two or three guys there ready to help out,” midfielder Eric Scott ’17 said. “On ball, we weren’t really getting beat at all … the defense did a great job shutting it off. It’s hard to come up with something they could’ve done better.”

The Bulldog defense hounded Sacred Heart to the tune of 18 turnovers, the most for a Yale opponent since they faced St. John’s.

Seven different Yale players caused Pioneer turnovers, and goalies Eric Natale ’15, Dylan Meyer ’18 and Jack Berney ’17 combined to save eight of the opponent’s measly 11 shots on goal.

Offensively, the Bulldogs saw excellent performances from the usual suspects.

Attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15 recorded a SEE LACROSSE PAGE 8

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“Massachusetts hit the ball really well as well as dropped a lot of dinkers in behind our infield,”

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First baseman Eric Hsieh ’15 was originally recruited to Yale as a left-handed pitcher.

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This year, the Yale baseball team has found success thanks largely to its offense, which boasts four players hitting above 0.300 and two players crossing the 0.400 threshold, a mark that has not been topped in Major League Baseball since Ted Williams in 1941. But amid all this talent, the Bulldogs’ best hitter — and the fourth-best hitter in the nation entering April — is actually a converted pitcher.

The men’s lacrosse team started out on a 10-goal run against Sacred Heart, eventually winning 13–3.

On Wednesday, the Yale women’s softball team hosted UMassAmherst on their home turf. In what was the Bulldogs’ first home game this season, Yale suffered a 16–6 defeat against the Minutemen in just five innings of action.

infielder Hannah Brennan ’15 said. “We executed well and battled back when UMass had a big inning, but it just wasn’t enough.”

In the first inning, the Bulldogs jumped out to a quick 2–0 start over UMass, thanks to captain Sarah Onorato’s ’15 single to center field, which scored outfielder Sydney Glover ’17. Once Onorato was on base, catcher Camille Weisenbach ’17 hit a single to bring Onorato in to home.

Yale also stopped the Minutemen from completing a single run in

“Hitting guru” excels

BY JACOB MITCHELL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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BY JULIA YAO STAFF REPORTER

First baseman Eric Hsieh ’15 has started this season scorching hot. The lefty began last spring with an eight-game hitting

streak. During his senior campaign, he has already accumulated 25 hits in 57 at-bats entering yesterday’s game against Hartford, good for a 0.439 batting average.

He also started this season with a six-game hitting streak, including an impressive performance at the plate in the Bulldogs’ 22–3 victory over Davidson on March 7, during which Hsieh was 4 for 6 with a double, two runs and two runs batted in.

“It’s unbelievable to watch him hit,” pitcher Chasen Ford ’17 said.

“He’s a guru of hitting.”

Hsieh’s journey to New Haven, however, started on the mound rather than in the batter’s box.

He was originally recruited out of Dana Hills High School in Laguna Niguel, California, as a left-handed pitcher. During his

freshmen season, he pitched in 13 games, mainly as a reliever, and finished the year with an 0–2 record and an 8.56 ERA to go along with 16 strikeouts.

Entering the 2013 season, the Bulldogs were in need of additional left-handed hitters, and Hsieh was more than eager to return to the plate. He split time between the outfield and first base along with occasional pitching appearances during his sophomore and junior seasons at Yale.

However, last year’s graduation of starting first baseman Jacob Hunter ’14 has allowed Hsieh to return to first base full time.

Though he anticipates seeing some time on the mound this season, he has shifted primarily to SEE BASEBALL PAGE 8

THE NUMBER OF GOALS ATTACKMAN CONRAD OBERBECK ’15 HAS SCORED IN HIS FIRST NINE GAMES OF THE SEASON. Oberbeck leads the men’s lacrosse team in goals, and his goals per game average is 2.89 — nearly a hat trick every game.