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same day that the University announced that United States Vice President Joe Biden will be speaking at Class Day this year (not a hoax, by the way), some other items on the VP’s upcoming agenda came to light. Biden will pass through the Bay Area this week before attending the Detroit NAACP’s Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner on May 3. The big news, however, was Biden’s selection as the United States Naval Academy’s commencement speaker for the second time in five years.

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LGBTQ activism finds a home at Yale-NUS

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n March, staff reporter Rachel Siegel traveled to Singapore to examine LGBTQ activism at Yale-NUS and in Singapore at large. This is the first of a twopart series on the young liberal arts college’s evolving role in Singaporean society.

And it’s a large group. We’ve already written about Harold Ekeh, who was accepted to every Ancient Eight school last week; but a simple Google search of the term “Ivy League” reveals recent story upon recent story about high school students getting into several Ivy League colleges this year. Bottom line: This happens all the time. Congrats.

We’ll take it. We’re sure all of

you are absolutely devastated about Columbia passing Yale in admissions selectivity this year, but fear not: We’re still second banana to Harvard in at least one regard, according to CollegeRank’s latest publication. The Peabody Museum placed second on the website’s “50 Most Amazing College Museums” ranking, the subject of a Los Angeles Times article on Tuesday.

Three freshmen hurlers on the baseball team carve out their niches.

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Vice President Biden to be Class Day speaker

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speak on the condition of anonymity for privacy reasons — came out to some of his coworkers in the Ministry of Defence. He was surprised to find support from them.

Still, he was not yet out to his family back home.

“Even in the National Service, I was out to all my friends even though the army is thought to be a very homophobic place,” he said.

Vice President Joseph Biden will be the speaker at this year’s Class Day on Sunday, May 17.

In an email to the senior class on Tuesday evening, Class Day co-chairs Jeremy Hutton ’15 and Akinyi Ochieng ’15 announced that Biden will be the keynote speaker at Class Day this year. Biden, the 47th and current vice president of the United States, has been in office alongside President Barack Obama since 2009. Before being elected vice president, Biden represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate for 36 years. Recently, Biden’s name has been circulated throughout a number of media outlets as a potential contender for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.

Hutton and Ochieng said they could not be more thrilled to bring Biden to campus for the event.

“We chose Vice President Biden because of his resiliency, compassion and humor,” Ochieng said. “Despite having faced tragedy during his life and dealing with difficult questions in the political arena, Vice

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Purgatorio. Dante de Blasio,

son of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, is among the group of fortunate high school seniors currently saddled with choosing among numerous Ivy League acceptances. On Tuesday, The New York Times profiled the de Blasios as they decide between front-runners Yale and Brown while weighing financial aid considerations.

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An exhibition raising awareness of the Singaporean transgender community was on display in the Yale-NUS dining hall.

BY RACHEL SIEGEL STAFF REPORTER When a Yale-NUS student began filling out his medical intake forms for the Singaporean National Service, he was as healthy as any other 18-year-old ready to embark on two years of mandatory conscription.

Without any significant physical or mental disabilities, there should have been no reason for him to lie about his medical history, except for

the fact that he is gay.

Homosexuality is defined by the Singaporean government as a psychological disease. Gay men who declare that they are homosexual are at time relegated to National Service jobs with lower security clearances, such as being a storeman or driver as opposed to an officer or weapons supervisor.

Despite the typical treatment afforded to gay men in the National Service, the student — who agreed to

Alternatives to MH&C abound, despite costs rebuffed.

On April 2, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin and Yale College Council representatives met to discuss October 2013 recommendations on mental health reform. Holloway and Genecin agreed to a number of the report’s recommendations, such as improved patienttherapist communication and allowing students to schedule appointments via email. However, they did not accept the

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER In the conversation about Yale’s mental health resources, the issue of capacity has surfaced over and over again: Mental Health and Counseling is overbooked and understaffed.

But while many students have recommended that MH&C address this problem by referring patients to therapists outside of Yale Health, this suggestion has been repeatedly

YCC’s recommendation that Yale Health coordinate with therapists outside of MH&C or extend its insurance coverage to other providers. Such a plan, the administrators said, would be costly and impractical, according to the YCC’s write-up of the meeting.

YCC President Michael Herbert ’16, who attended the meeting, said the administrators raised concerns with the proposal on two grounds. First, they said, there is a limited

number of mental health providers in the New Haven community, and many do not accept health insurance. Additionally, they said the scope of such a reform would be limited, as only roughly 20 percent of students utilize the Yale Health plan, Herbert said.

But students and practitioners interviewed disagreed, citing the plentiful mental health resources available nearby as well as dissatisfaction with the care offered at MH&C.

Keeping up with the Clintons.

Pre-empting an entire book on the subject (titled “The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House”), a piece published by Politico yesterday peeked into the lives of Bill Clinton LAW ’73 and Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. And White House staff interviewed didn’t paint a very pretty picture.

Blow the whistle. Meanwhile,

outside the White House gates, former Yale student Oliver Stone will be directing shots of “Snowden,” a film about (who else?) National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden this week.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Members of some colleges received an email from their dean’s office informing them (prematurely, it would seem) that next year’s fall registration will take place on Sept. 1. Duly noted.

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Initiative launched to create more societies

“There are many, many licensed psychotherapists, psychiatrists and psychologists in the New Haven metro area,” said Joseph Woolston, vice-chair for clinical affairs for the Yale Child Study Center, which serves as the home of the Yale School of Medicine’s and Yale-New Haven Hospital’s Department of Child Psychiatry. “I’ll bet a lot of money that the number of mental health professionals in SEE MENTAL HEALTH PAGE 4

Buddhist leader extols activism

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER A new initiative by former Yale College Council President Danny Avraham ’15 will likely make the senior society system a little less exclusive.

In an email to all Yale College students Tuesday evening, Avraham announced that he and a group of friends would be undertaking a project to establish as many societies as necessary to accommodate all members of the senior class who wish to join a society. The email also included a larger indictment of the current society process, describing it as non-meritocratic and overly stressful. Based on junior demand, new societies would be created and eventually funded by private donors, Avraham wrote in the email.

“I think societies have had a very negative impact on the well-being of many students, both on those who ended up in societies and were very concerned during the interview and tap process and of course on those who didn’t and wanted to be in them,” Avraham said in an email to the News. “What I hope this initiative will do in the future is remove one layer of uncertainty from the process — if you want the experience you can have it.”

Avraham said he started working on the proposal this past weekend after conversations with juniors who were not pre-tapped prompted him to think of a mechanism to bring them together. The new societies, he said, would be funded by donors with strong connections to Yale who SEE SOCIETIES PAGE 6

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His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje spoke in Woolsey Hall yesterday afternoon.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Speaking to a sold-out Woolsey Hall on Tuesday, Buddhist leader His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje decried the degrada-

tion of the environment and encouraged environmental activism rooted in a spiritual connection to nature.

Addressing Yale students, faculty and the local community through a Tibetan translator, the Karmapa recounted his

personal journey with environmentalism, citing early experiences with “living systems” in the mountains of Tibet. The Karmapa, who heads the oldest of four main schools of Tibetan SEE HIS HOLINESS PAGE 4

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For finance director, no endorsement W

e never thought we would decline to endorse a candidate in a contested race for Yale College Council finance director.

But we cannot, in good conscience, back either Daniel Tovbin ’17 or John Risbergs ’17. In meetings with the News, neither demonstrated a capacity to do anything but a haphazard job.

This is surprising, especially for Tovbin, who is currently treasurer of the Sophomore Class Council and a member of the Events Committee. But there was no trace of Tovbin’s platform anywhere online until several hours after our meeting with him. When we asked him why he hadn’t made his platform public, he said someone on his campaign advised him that he would have a greater chance of winning if he kept his platform private. This would be funny, if it were a joke. But it’s not — this is the genuine belief of someone who is asking students to trust him with a budget of $250,000. Here lies another problem: Tovbin misstated the budget as $197,000.

This might seem inconsequential, but if there’s one fact the finance director should know, this is it.

The single concrete idea Tovbin could provide is using added funds from the slated $250,000 increase in the student activities fee to reorient a greater proportion of money toward student organizations and club sports, 60 percent to be precise, leaving 40 percent for the YCC to spend on Spring Fling and other events.

On paper, Tovbin has the requisite experience to execute this shift in funding. He has managed a budget, admittedly a much smaller one, as treasurer of SoCo, and he has a working knowledge of how decisions are made by the Council.

At the same time, and somewhat inexplicably, Tovbin has betrayed an utter lack of knowledge about the scope of the YCC’s authority, and how it relates to the rest of the University. One aspect of his newly publicized platform is funding something related to mental health. When asked to elaborate, he said he thought the YCC could help compensate additional clinicians hired by Yale Mental Health and Counseling. Put simply, this makes no sense. It demonstrates a lack of care in putting together a plan for the job he is seeking. We can only speculate that Tovbin was so sure he would win the election that he didn’t feel the need to have the vaguest sense of what he could feasibly accomplish.

In a platform that he subsequently emailed to the News,

Tovbin fails to explain any specifics about how he would work with the Undergraduate Organizations Committee or the YCC Events Committee to allocate the increased funds. Nor does he adequately tie his past YCC experience to the job of managing the budget for the entire body.

Risbergs, meanwhile, has a worrying lack of experience.

He has never attended a Yale College Council meeting in any capacity, nor has he been involved with any other level of student government. While being a member is certainly not required, it is helpful. Even current YCC President Michael Herbert ’16, who cast himself as an outsider when he ran last year, attended meetings before vying for a role on the Council.

In addition, Risbergs’ idea to donate $100 to a charity of students’ choice rather than spend that money on campaigning is nothing but a gimmick. Most candidates spend far less than $100 on their campaigns, and donating that sum to a charity does not prove his ability to manage the YCC’s finances.

Risbergs has clearly spent time researching the details of the YCC’s budget, and he showed initiative in reaching out to various companies about sponsorships and other partnerships, but we are worried about his ability to communicate effectively with outside groups and students alike. He was pugnacious in responding to questions about his experience, refusing to grant that there is a difference between working as an analyst for a hedge fund and collaborating with peers in distributing intensely sought-after funds.

We worry about his ability to build relationships with the business team charged with carrying out his decisions. Risbergs might be expert with numbers, but if he can’t build consensus and motivate others, he will fail as finance director.

It might behoove Risbergs to think through why he wants this job in the first place. When asked, he cited his role as a Freshman Olympics captain and said he wanted to have a greater impact on the student body. Why YCC? Why finance?

The 2015–16 year will be a critical one for the finance director, as the increase in the student activities fee will give the YCC much-needed funds to expand events and breathe life into student organizations.

There are 24 hours before polls open. There is time to do better. Risbergs must rethink his approach to the Council, and how he would work to be a team player. Tovbin should take a second look at the numbers and seek to craft a vision of the YCC’s finances based in fact.

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his has been a banner year for the Yale College Council — visible, accessible and, if not always able to get its way, consistently searching for a seat at the table when important decisions are being made.

We believe Joe English ’17 is the candidate best-equipped to carry on the YCC’s work. He shows the most promise in legitimating student government in the eyes of its constituents, which remains the central task going forward. Only then will students and student groups, from the cultural houses to athletic teams, trust the YCC to take up their cause. This trust is the bedrock of successful student government.

Specific priorities will vary depending on the needs of the campus; their implementation will be the responsibility of the YCC at large. But it’s the president who sets the tone for the relationship the YCC maintains with the broader community. English, who is currently YCC chief of staff, will be the most effective spokesperson before the administration. Further, he will work hardest to make sure students are being heard. His experience, competence and enthusiasm for what the YCC can mean for students make us confident in his leadership.

Still, something about the structure of the YCC and its elections makes it difficult for presidential candidates to appear entirely appealing. This year is no exception. Rather than thinking

critically about campus issues, the three candidates running for president seem to have taken every hot-button topic of conversation or subject of student protest and shoved them into a set of promises that are little more than a pledge to fix everything that’s making students angry. It’s as if they don’t realize they’ll ever have to say “no” once they’re elected.

The clearest example lies in the promise of Andy Hill ’17 to put a student on the Yale Corporation, an idea to which he has devoted so little thought that he could not even name three members of the body when prompted, much less justify why undergraduate representation should be privileged over that of graduate students or the faculty. Meanwhile, Ben Martin ’17 wants to ensure that administrators follow through on projects to which they’ve already committed, such as expanding the number of clinicians at Yale Mental Health and Counseling and freezing the student contribution in students’ financial aid packages. But he could not explain precisely how he would go about monitoring hiring procedures at Yale Health, certainly something that lies outside the purview of the Yale College Council president.

English is not immune to similar criticism. In his platform, he states his intention to “demand a comprehensive shift in sexual assault policy and the operations of the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct.” This is a foolish and dangerous prom-

ise in the hands of someone who admitted to us his ignorance of the federal laws dictating how universities handle sexual assault complaints, as well as the Yale administrators who hold sway on this issue.

This sort of rhetoric is the reason some students don’t trust the YCC, and the reason why administrators are often justified in laughing its representatives out of the room. Big demands must be meticulously researched. Otherwise, student government should focus on more tangible, realistic goals. Of the smaller-scale, more targeted projects pitched by the three candidates, we find English’s most promising. If elected, he should follow through on his promises to examine reconfiguring seminar registration and extending hours for Durfee’s lunch swipes, to name just two.

Equally appealing is English’s view that YCC leaders must reach out to different campus groups, rather than expecting them to come to him. Hill’s plan, simply to bring everyone together, doesn’t seem feasible, at least in the abstract. In frank terms, Martin doesn’t seem to grasp the hard work that goes into leading student government. His suggestion that a steeper learning curve — “I would not hit the ground running,” he told us — would make him a more earnest and responsive president is perplexing.

English is the best person for the job because he has the experience and because he has the stat-

ure and vision to make a good case to the administration when students need him to go to bat for them. We hope he uses this platform to gain favor with students and high-level decision makers, but we urge him not to shy away from conflict. It's troubling that he supported former YCC President Danny Avraham ’15 in his refusal to put the selection of a student representative to the college dean’s search committee to a campus-wide vote. He later changed his mind, last month backing a YCC resolution requiring popular elections in future cases. There is some validity to the concern that English simply goes in whichever direction the political winds blow. If he is elected, he must convince his constituents this is not the case.

In our eyes, the defining moment of the tenure of current president Michael Herbert ’16 was when he stood at the open forum on mental health and challenged Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and other University officials to respond, point by point, to the YCC’s recommendations on mental health.

When Holloway would not commit, Herbert responded: “This is why people in general have tremendous distrust for our administration.” He’s right. It is the privilege — and the job — of the next YCC president to continue fighting this fight.

When students vote tomorrow, we hope they task Joe English with this job.

Amour Alexandre '17 for events director W

e are impressed with both women running for Yale College Council events director, Amour Alexandre ’17 and Megan Ruan ’17.

Both candidates have valuable experience planning events.

Both have thought carefully about the role of events director. We are confident that either candidate would be effective in the position. In fact, we wish we could say the same for candidates in all four races.

We are especially confident in Alexandre, however, which is why we endorse her for the role of events director.

This role is bound to change in the 2015–16 academic year, as the Student Activities Fee increases, most likely augmenting the funds at the disposal of the Events Committee. While Ruan has more experience in the YCC, we are not convinced that she would experiment with new events or reach out to students who have not traditionally attended YCC events. Alexandre brings innovation to the posi-

tion, envisioning events that appeal to a broader audience.

Alexandre has solid experience that she would bring to this position. She has spent two years on the Events Committee and has executed several successful events, including the Inaugural Ball and Night at the Planetarium. She is also a member of the Davenport College Council.

Ruan currently serves as the deputy events director and as the Pierson College representative to the full Council. She is also a member of the Spring Fling Committee. Our single reservation about Alexandre is her lack of experience planning Spring Fling. Her challenge will be learning on the job as cochair of the Spring Fling Committee next year.

In an endorsement meeting with the News, Ruan said she would not make overarching changes as events director.

Her primary goals are improving communication within the Events Committee, encouraging athletes to join the Spring

Fling Committee and planning a greater number of small events, targeted at groups of 12 to 18 students. She would like to see the majority of the additional SAF revenue go toward Spring Fling.

We are concerned that her platform is too narrowly focused on Spring Fling and that she doesn’t have a concrete plan to expand the audience for YCC events.

Alexandre, on the other hand, plans to launch several new events-oriented initiatives in the fall. The first, “Yalies’ Choice,” involves the YCC crowdsourcing event ideas on a monthly basis. Students will vote via email polls each month, choosing everything from the type of event to the food items served.

Second, as part of an initiative called “YCC Collaborate,” a registered student group will cohost an event with the Council each month. Alexandre intends to choose groups that need resources and may not be popular enough to garner a large audience on their own. Both of these

initiatives aim to increase attendance at events by appealing to a larger number of students.

They are up against structural problems of student apathy and insular social circles, but they represent valiant efforts to make YCC events accessible to anyone who might want to take advantage of them.

Third, Alexandre hopes to plan workshops called “YCC Reality Checks” that will teach students basic life skills, such as financial management and networking. Similar workshops are currently offered by the Office of Career Strategy and the Association of Yale Alumni. Alexandre told us that she does not intend simply to multiply existing workshops, but to streamline all workshops through the YCC. We are glad to see that Alexandre has concrete ideas beyond Spring Fling improvements. Her vision for the Events Committee is a testament to her creativity, which is the most important characteristic in a job that could otherwise be perfunctory.

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Maddie Bauer '17 for vice president

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nce again, an executive board position on the Yale College Council will be filled by default. Though we wish the election for YCC vice president were contested, Maddie Bauer ’17 is qualified and ready to do the job.

Her time at Yale has been defined by her continued loyalty to student government: She has served on the Freshman Class Council and as a representative to the full YCC, in addition to her current role as the University Services Director of the YCC. The vice president’s portfolio is expansive. She must forge partnerships with administrators, run the day-to-day operations of the YCC and oversee projects. Her prior experiences prove she is exceedingly well-prepared for the job. As the YCC’s director of University Services, a member of the Events Committee and a liaison to the University Mental Health Steering Committee, Bauer has shown dedication to every aspect of the YCC’s

inner workings. That she is goodnatured and diplomatic is important, too; she will build consensus on the Council and work effectively with the winning presidential candidate.

Bauer recognizes that the vice president is not a co-president or a president-in-waiting. Instead, Bauer will focus on holding the YCC to its own commitments: managing the staff, keeping projects on track and ensuring that the Council is well-positioned to serve students.

Bauer has an excellent track record in improving the student experience. She has helped Bass Library install phone chargers, worked to improve the conditions of the intramural playing fields and increased the accessibility of special service vans. Though these projects are small in scope, they inspire faith that Bauer understands the Council’s ability to make incremental but real change in the lives of students. We support

her call for the circulation of Harvard-Yale tickets in the residential colleges, as well as for implementation of midterm evaluations for teaching assistants across departments.

Many of her ideas are realistic. Yet others are more lofty aspirations that YCC candidates routinely and carelessly tack onto otherwise sensible platforms. Rather than creating an Asian American Studies major at a time when Yale only offers on average one such course each year, we urge Bauer to push for an increase in the number of Asian American Studies courses — a more feasible ambition.

Bauer told the News that she wants to bolster student confidence in the Council and be held accountable for what she does as vice president, even though she will be seated in an uncontested election. This is an admirable goal.

In practice, it means listening to students and making the YCC a vehicle for engagement with the

administration, not just an internal forum for policy discussions.

While she is wise to promise a nonpartisan YCC, she must be willing to mobilize student government to support causes that energize the Yale community, such as divestment and mental health.

Bauer’s fluency both in her platform and in YCC protocol is promising. Widespread support for her campaign is emblematic of the strong leadership we would like to see more of in the YCC. The vice president ensures that next year’s YCC will continue a legacy of student-driven policy change on campus. As a prominent female voice in student government, Bauer makes us hopeful that a strong legacy of female leadership can take root in the YCC, not just in the vice president’s spot but reaching all the way to the top of student government.

We hope that students vote for Maddie Bauer as YCC vice president — even if she doesn’t need them to.

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Report finds racial disparities in NHPD traffic stops

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE STAFF REPORTER The New Haven Police Department will be monitored by researchers after a statewide report found high rates of racial disparity in traffic stops.

On Tuesday, researchers at the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy from Central Connecticut State University published a report analyzing traffic stop data collected from around the state. The project was designed in compliance with Connecticut’s Alvin W. Penn Act, which requires all police departments in the state to record traffic stop data. Opening a conversation that lasted over two hours at the Public Safety and Security Committee Briefing, Kenneth Barone — one of the authors of the report — explained that two state police troops and 10 Connecticut police departments, including the NHPD, had been identified as having racial disparities in their traffic stops between Oct. 1, 2013 and Sept. 30, 2014.

However, Michael Lawlor, state under secretary for criminal justice policy and planning, stressed at the hearing that while Connecticut reports some racial discrepancies in traffic stops, residents should not fear repetition of the events in Ferguson last summer.

“Even the most outlying town in our state is nowhere near the type of racially disparate treatment that was demonstrated by the Ferguson Police Department,” he said.

Barone said at the meeting that the researchers determined outliers in the data using seven different statistical methods. These included comparing the number of minority drivers in a particular area to the number of minorities stopped by police. Furthermore, the number of minorities stopped during the day was compared to the number stopped at night to see if police officers had pulled over more minorities when race is visible.

New Haven was one of the cities identified as an outlier. The report stated that the committee will monitor the city’s future traffic stops to determine whether there is a need for further analysis.

The report includes data from 101 of the state’s 102 police departments. Stamford’s data was not included after reports surfaced that the department was not accurately recording data.

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The New Haven Police Department will be monitored by researchers after a statewide report found high rates of racial disparity in traffic stops by the department.

The report states that 620,000 traffic stops were recorded throughout the state. Overall, 13.5 percent of motorists stopped during this period were black, 11.7 percent of motorists were Hispanic, while 73.1 percent were white, according to the data.

The NHPD stopped 11,159 motorists, arresting 2.4 percent of those and searching 7.5 percent.

Just over 63 percent of stopped motorists were minorities and 45.5 percent were black — the highest percentage reported in the state. The Yale Police Department exceeded the statewide average for stops of black drivers, with 37.9 percent, and also exceeded the statewide average of Hispanic motorists stopped with a rate of 11.9 percent.

However, the report notes that New Haven has a higher black population than other areas of the state, a statistic accounted for in the analysis for outliers.

Neither NHPD spokesman David Hartman nor YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins responded to requests for comment on Tuesday.

Despite the depth of the analysis, the report received criticism at the hearing for not accounting for citizens’ concerns. State Rep. Minnie Gonzalez, who represents Hartford, confronted Barone about municipal departments, including Avon and Danbury, where she knew of multiple citizens who had filed complaints of racial profiling. Those departments were not identified as outliers in the recent report.

James Fazzalaro, an author of the report, responded by acknowledging that the statistical outliers identified are not the only departments asked to review their data. Every police department in the state has received information about further training for officers and a detailed analysis of the

NHPD cracks down on distracted driving

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER Police officers in the Elm City will be doling out an unusually high number of driving tickets throughout April.

In a press release on Monday, the New Haven Police Department kicked off its version of the national “U Drive. U Text.

U Pay.” initiative as a part of distracted driving awareness month. Forty states, including Connecticut, are participating in the crackdown on multi-tasking at the wheel, reported the Governor’s Highway Safety Organization, a national association of governors. The traffic division of the NHPD will concentrate their efforts on high-traffic locations with a history of motor accidents, said NHPD spokesman David Hartman.

This is just a concentration of officers on this specific type of danger.

DAVID HARTMAN New Haven Police Department Spokesman “This is not extra officers, this is just a concentration of officers on this specific type of danger,” Hartman said. “It doesn’t take away from their other enforcement responsibilities.”

Although the campaign is named after the crime of texting while driving, officers will also be on the lookout for a variety of other illegal activities at the wheel, such as reading the newspaper and eating breakfast, Hartman added.

Melinda Tuhus, a member of Elm City Cycling, which promotes bicyclist safety in New Haven, said she and Elm City Cycling applaud initiatives against distracted driving because they pose a par-

ticular danger to cyclists and pedestrians.

“I realized that if someone is texting, it doesn’t matter if I’m on the front of them or the side of them,” Tuhus said.

“They’re not looking where they’re driving and they could hit or steer into me.”

Tuhus added, however, that traffic safety initiatives in the past have lacked long-term commitment. She said the police department has shown temporary surges of enthusiastic enforcement of traffic laws, where, for example, cyclists were heavily ticketed for violating bike laws — such as one requiring cyclists to have a light on their bike at night.

Although the “U Drive. U Text. U Pay.” program will only be in effect for the next three weeks, the program is meant to increase awareness of the dangers of distracted driving for better long-term safety, Hartman said.

Connecticut’s federal highway system has been at the forefront of decreasing cases of distracted driving for the last six years, wrote Connecticut Department of Transportation Highway Safety Office Supervisor Kathryn Faraci in an email. In 2009 and 2013, Faraci wrote, Connecticut was one of two states awarded federal grants to experiment with new methods, such as rovers and checkpoints, for catching distracted drivers.

Faraci said the state Department of Transportation is also seeking to raise awareness about distracted driving through publicity campaigns.

Abigail Roth ’90 LAW ’94, Ward 7 Alder and member of the Yale Traffic Safety Group, said she supports the “U Drive. U Text. U Pay.” initiative.

City Hall will host a press conference on April 15 at 10 a.m. on traffic safety enforcement in New Haven.

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

data received from their specific department.

While the report highlights police departments that stop minorities significantly more than Caucasians for traffic violations, Connecticut State Police Union Chief Sgt. Andy Matthews said that individual officers, not police departments, should be held accountable for their actions. He said he is confident that the police departments, on the whole, do not have any motivation to racially discriminate.

Even though Matthews said racial profiling is not tolerated by police departments, the report explains the phenomenon of “unconscious bias,” where officers are unaware of their racial bias.

“I believe unconscious bias has a role to play in this conversation,” Barone said. “[It] exists in every profession.”

Gonzalez questioned the state justice department’s ability to

train a police officer out of an unconscious bias they may have.

However, according to the report’s staff, there are many police departments who have already expressed interest in this kind of training.

Lawlor added that many police departments are also adopting other initiatives that will help the state better monitor police activity, including mandating that officers use body cameras, dashboard cameras and other recording instruments.

“This report provides the data to understand the importance of making these changes,” Lawlor said.

These initiatives are expensive, Lawlor added, so most progress is channeled into the state’s largest departments, located in Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven.

Hartford Police Chief Brian Foley told the News in February of his department’s plans to expand

their use of body cameras, and a recent investigation of the YPD has also recommended body cameras for all their officers.

David McGuire, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut praised the report’s ability to pinpoint areas where racial bias is most severe.

In a Tuesday statement, he said the next step is to train police to understand how their unconscious bias can lead to discriminatory behavior.

“It is incumbent upon police departments to recognize and correct the bias that is driving many of their traffic stops,” he said.

Traffic stop data will be updated online on a regular basis, according to Barone, so that analysis can continue.

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

Yale-NUS to offer new double degree

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER O n Mo n d ay, Ya l e - N US announced the launch of a new partnership with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore: a concurrent degree program in public policy for students at the young college.

The program, which will accept roughly five students, is slated to begin in August 2016. Students will be able to apply to the program during the second semester of their third year at Yale-NUS, and selected students will graduate with an honors B.A. or B.S. degree from Yale-NUS and a master’s degree from the LKY School in public policy.

Though this new offering is the first concurrent degree Yale-NUS will offer in public policy, it is not the first dual degree option the school has made available to its students. In addition, Yale-NUS offers a concurrent degree program with the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a double degree program in law with the NUS Faculty of Law. Yale-NUS professor Khoo Hoon Eng, who was on a Yale-NUS faculty task force that proposed the concurrent degree program with the LKY School, said that although concurrent degree candidates will continue to gain a liberal arts education at Yale-NUS, their degree in public policy will be a professional degree. Furthermore, she said the skills learned in Yale-NUS’s liberal arts-focused program and the LKY School’s public policy-focused program should inform each other.

“As the [concurrent degree] program builds upon the skills learned and refined across [students’] four years of undergraduate work here at Yale-NUS, it

complements the liberal arts and sciences curriculum we offer. We see it as a good opportunity for our students and one that allows us to expand the curriculum avenues we offer,” Khoo said.

Yale-NUS students interviewed said they were enthusiastic about the upcoming concurrent degree option.

The whole point of the liberal arts and sciences program here at Yale-NUS is to be able to apply your broad base of foundational learning to an area which you would like to focus on.

KEVIN LOW YNUS ’17 Walter Yeo YNUS ’17, who is currently enrolled in Yale-NUS’s double degree program in law, said that even though the public policy program was just announced, he already knows students who are interested. Kevin Low YNUS ’17 said this concurrent degree option will allow Yale-NUS students to apply their liberal arts educations in a meaningful way.

“The whole point of the liberal arts and sciences program here at Yale-NUS is to be able to apply your broad base of foundational learning to an area which you would like to focus on, and I think this program would do that,” he said. “I don’t think it undermines [Yale-NUS’s] ‘liberal arts status’ at all.”

Jason Carlo Carranceja YNUS ’18 said he thinks the new con-

current degree option will expand the academic options for students majoring in Global Affairs and Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Yale-NUS, which are two of the college’s most popular majors.

He also said the program will give students the experience of lecture courses, a novel experience for many since Yale-NUS classes are mostly seminars. However, he did caution that students who enroll in the new concurrent degree will face a difficult commute to their NUS classes, which will be located a little under an hour away from Yale-NUS by bus.

Jacob Schneidewind YNUS ’18 said he thinks that by combining a liberal arts model with field-specific training in public policy, the concurrent degree may encourage future alums to approach Singaporean policymaking in a way that is more influenced by liberal thought. However, he said he is wary of the overlap of the first year of the master’s degree program with students’ senior year at Yale-NUS. “The [double degree program in law] shows us that it is difficult to handle two degree-granting programs at the same time. In the case of DDP students, this currently leads to a sacrifice of liberal arts education at Yale-NUS (in the form of a significantly reduced number of electives) to spend enough time at NUS Law,” Schneidewind wrote in an email. “A similar situation could occur in the fourth year of Yale-NUS-LKYSPP students.”

The LKY School enrolls about 400 students every year. It is named after Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister of Singapore, who died on March 23.

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

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Buddhism, is believed by Buddhists in the Karma Kagyu school to be the 17th re-embodiment of the original Buddhist teacher, Chubb Fellowship Director and Timothy Dwight College Master Jeffrey Brenzel ’75 said during the talk. “In order to understand the necessity of environmental protection, we need to understand how connected we are to one another and to our environment,� the Karmapa said during the talk. “If you look at the situation, there is absolutely no reason not to support environmental activism.�

The Karmapa, who gave speeches at both Princeton and Harvard this spring prior to visiting Yale, emphasized the importance of living in communities supportive of environmental conservation. Students and Fossil Free Yale members thought the talk challenged Yale’s current sustainability initiatives.

During his talk, the Karmapa pinpointed a specific environmental issue that he thought the world needed to address: the intrusion of non-biodegradable and artificial substances into nature. He added that his decision eight years ago to be vegetarian was a small way he chose to combat the effects of climate change. The Karmapa encouraged individuals to change their daily habits, and to think differently about what he called an “artificial boundary� between humans and the environment. “We’re all human beings living in the same world and relying on the same environment,� he said. “Some people have the idea that the environment is so vast and so primordial that nothing we do to it will have any effect. Unfortunately that is not the case.�

President Biden continually approaches life with good humor and grace. These are qualities that we need as we enter the post-graduate world.�

Hutton and Ochieng said the University was incredibly supportive throughout the process of scheduling Biden to speak at Yale, adding that they wrote their own request to the Vice President’s Office before receiving help from friends and administrators alike.

The co-chairs also worked extensively with Jonathan Edwards College Master and Special Assistant to the Yale President Penelope Laurans.

Over time, Laurans said, Class Day has hosted many distinguished people. The chosen speaker is always someone who the Class Day chairs believe will excite their classmates, as well as have interesting things to say to Yalies on “the brink of their futures,� she added. “It is an honor to have the vice president speak and to address what has become a very international audience, with people from all around the world,�

Laurans said. “His presence will bring a special buzz of excitement to an already exciting and nostalgic occasion.�

Laurans added that Hutton and Ochieng did a fantastic job in the selection of the speaker, exhibiting hard work and patience in bringing Biden to New Haven.

Biden is the first Roman Catholic and Delaware native to serve as vice president of the United States. During his time in office, Biden has played a key

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The Karmapa spoke about the necessity of environmental protection and understanding our relationship to the environment.

After the talk, FFY activists said the Karmapa’s comments were in line with the broader mission of their organization to dissolve the distinctions between natural and social environments.

Project Manager Mitch Barrows ’16 said in an email that FFY’s core values are grounded in the sentiments the Karmapa expressed, but added that FFY places an emphasis on Yale’s institutional responsibility. “Power-laden institutions, like Yale, share blame for socioenvironmental harm, but also share responsibility in changing the systems responsible,� Barrows said.

Auguste Fortin, board member at the New Haven Zen Center and associate professor at the Yale School of Medicine, said he was pleasantly surprised by the Karmapa’s emphasis on spirituality as a vehicle to change the environment. While Fortin said

he thought Buddhism was especially environmentalist, other students found a source of inspiration in their own spiritual and cultural traditions.

Sebastian Medina-Tayac ’16, president of the Association of Native Americans at Yale, said that as a Native American, his spirituality leads him to think that all natural life is sacred and needs to be cared for. “I think that there’s a very innate connection between environmentalism and Buddhism,� said Lillian Childress ’17, leader of Yale’s official Buddhist organization, Yale Sangha, and a former reporter for the News.

The Karmapa concluded the discussion by pointing out that human desire is limitless while natural resources are limited. “I don’t have all the solutions,� he said.

role in various Obama administration policy decisions, overseeing infrastructure spending from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act during the Great Recession, and negotiating bipartisan agreements with Republicans to address the taxation deadlock of 2010, the debt ceiling crisis of 2011 and the fiscal cliff of 2012.

More recently, Biden has dedicated his time to addressing gun violence after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, serving as head of the Gun Violence Task Force. In 2013, Biden’s 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which provides funding towards the investigation of violent crimes against women, was reauthorized. The reauthorization extended the act’s protections to gays, lesbians and transgender individuals, and led to the creation of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault and the White House Council on Women and Girls.

Though the Class Day speaker is oftentimes a Yale alumnus — such as last year’s speaker, Secretary of State John Kerry ’66, or 2013 speaker Sen. Cory Booker LAW ’97 — Ochieng said this is not always the case. “The speaker is chosen based on who we think will resonate with the class,� Ochieng said. “We’ve had many speakers who have been alums as well as many who are alumni of other institutions.�

Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 and Syracuse Law School in 1968. He entered politics just one year later, before becoming a senator in 1972. At age 29,

he became one of the youngest people ever elected to the Senate.

Students interviewed said they are extremely excited that Biden is coming to New Haven.

Devika Mittal ’15 said the co-chairs did an excellent job selecting Biden as the Class Day speaker, since his speech will be enjoyed by students, and by their parents and family members as well. “I am thrilled to hear that Vice President Biden will be our Class Day speaker,� Nicole De Santis ’15 said. “He has an impressive background and will no doubt give an inspirational speech shaped by his time in office.�

Because Yale students are typically quite liberal, Caroline Andersson ’15 said, choosing a prominent Democrat as the Class Day speaker was a smart choice. She added that she is excited to hear what Biden has to say to the graduating class.

Kimberly Fabian ’15, a student from Delaware, said Biden is one of her “biggest celebrities,� and that she cannot wait to hear him speak at Class Day. “Vice President Biden has also served his country with tremendous dignity and strength, and has been a true leader on a number of difficult and important problems throughout his life,�

Hutton said. “Whether on foreign policy, economic issues or social progress, Vice President Biden has time and again proved his commitment to justice and providing a voice for the voiceless.�

This will be the University’s 314th Commencement.

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Looking beyond MH&C for care MENTAL HEALTH FROM PAGE 1 New Haven exceeds most other places in the country.â&#x20AC;?

School of Medicine professor Dorothy Stubbe, who is also a practicing psychiatrist in the city, agreed, noting that New Haven has â&#x20AC;&#x153;plentifulâ&#x20AC;? psychiatrists for a town of its size.

Genecin did not return request for comment.

Woolston acknowledged that many of these practitioners often have full practices, which may entail a waiting time for new patients, but he said this should not be an insuperable obstacle for students who want to seek care outside of MH&C. A number of CSC faculty, himself included, have been providing treatment to Yale College students for decades, he added.

But insurance coverage for these providers can be limited, Stubbe conceded, noting that most of these providers charge on a fee-for-service basis. CSC services would need to be paid for out-of-pocket, Woolston said.

Scott Abbott, managing director of Arete Psychological Services in North Haven, said that though out-of-network providers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; those that do not accept health insurance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; can be perceived as expensive, they also are often able to take on new patients much faster.

While the wait time at in-net-

work providers can be considerable, he said, he is usually able to fit in college students for their first appointment at his out-ofnetwork practice within eight to 10 days.

Care at MH&C is free to Yale students. But for some students, cost is not as important a factor as quality of care â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a quality which they believe they cannot obtain at MH&C. For one currently withdrawn student, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the subject, the medications prescribed when she visited MH&C were not at all suited to the problems she faced.

She was never given a long-term prescription, she said, but was instead prescribed short, fiveday dosages of insomnia medicine for an anxiety disorder.

At a Feb. 25 college-wide forum on mental health, Chief Psychiatrist of MH&C Lorraine Siggins said MH&C tries to follow a short-term model of care.

While the student said she does not know if MH&C follows that model for prescriptions as well, she added that it should have become apparent after several visits that the issues she faced were not isolated incidents, but required a longer treatment schedule. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to say that all of MH&C doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing, but the person I saw specifically had absolutely

no idea what he was doing,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any degree, and I couldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done a better job.â&#x20AC;?

Siggins did not return request for comment.

Rather than continue care at MH&C, the student said she decided to commute home each month to see a provider there.

She is not alone in her frustrations: According to the 2013 YCC report, 31 percent of 353 students surveyed called the quality of care they received at MH&C â&#x20AC;&#x153;poorâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;very poor.â&#x20AC;?

Abbott said he is currently treating several Yale students, who said they were driven to seek an outside psychiatrist by the difficulty of getting timely appointments at MH&C. Jessie Agatstein LAW â&#x20AC;&#x2122;16, a member of Yale Law Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mental Health Alliance, said the short-term model of care only makes sense if students are referred to outside providers when MH&C becomes overbooked and are given support for those providers through extended insurance coverage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yale â&#x20AC;Ś should be thinking about how to provide students with consistent access to mental health care, whether thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at Yale Health or not,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Over half of Yale undergraduates seek care at MH&C at some point during their time at Yale.

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

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BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER Following a slew of high-profile corruption trials, Connecticut’s General Assembly is pushing two bills aimed at curbing government misconduct in state politics.

The General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee heard House Bills 7051 and 7052 last week.

The first bill intends to provide state prosecutors with the tools necessary to tackle public corruption cases by granting them subpoena powers, while the second aims to prevent convicted politicians from running for office as of Jan. 1, 2016.

The bills arrive at a time when many highly publicized corruption trials are taking place across the state. Former Connecticut congressional candidate Lisa Wilson-Foley and former Gov. John Rowland were recently convicted of campaign fraud. A jury convicted Rowland in September of six felony and misdemeanor charges for violating federal campaign laws by covering up his role as a paid consultant to Wilson-Foley’s congressional campaign. This is Rowland’s second corruptionrelated conviction; in 2004, the former governor pleaded guilty to taking payments from state contractors.

The Judiciary Committee, currently in the stage of hearing the bills, will vote to pass, amend or defeat them.

State Rep. William Tong, a Democrat representing Stam-

ford who serves as co-chair of the Connecticut General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee, spoke in support of legislation preventing convicted public officials from running for office.

“I don’t think people should have the opportunity to betray us again,” he said. “Serving in public office is a privilege.”

U.S. Attorney Deirdre Daly, whose office runs the Connecticut Public Corruption Task Force, is prohibited from taking a position on any pending legislation. But, at a February press conference, she said she believes that corruption is particularly widespread in Connecticut because state prosecutors have limited subpoena power.

“They don’t have a viable grand jury system, which hampers their ability to do complex cases,” she said. “I can’t think of any other state that is handicapped in that way.”

As a result, many Connecticut corruption convictions have been carried out at the federal level. The Connecticut Public Corruption Task Force, which began operating last year, investigates and prosecutes state officials suspected of corruption.

The group consists mostly of federal officials, including investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service and the Offices of Inspector General of the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development.

Former Bridgeport Mayor Tom Bucci joined current Mayor

Bill Finch in backing the legislation introduced to the Judiciary Committee.

“We saw Bridgeport set back by more than a decade because of avarice,” Bucci said in a letter to the committee.

Joseph Ganim, mayor of Bridgeport from 1991 to 2003, served seven years in prison after being convicted of 16 counts of public corruption. Ganim reportedly steered city contracts in exchange for bribes.

Ganim is currently considering another mayoral campaign.

In February, Finch sent a letter to the Judiciary Committee cochairs requesting that the disqualification measure apply after the 2015 election cycle, so as to avoid making it seem as though Bill 7052 is intended to specifically drive Ganim off the ballot.

City of Bridgeport Communications Director Brett Broesder called the bills “commonsense” laws.

“People deserve second chances, but we need to set people who are re-entering our community after serving time up for success,” he said in an email.

“Sex offenders shouldn’t work in a day care, and corrupt politicians shouldn’t work in government.”

New York, Michigan, South Carolina, Virginia, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Mississippi and Montana all currently have a lifetime ban on politicians convicted of corruption charges.

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BY CAROLINE HART STAFF REPORTER New Haven-based software company Square 9 will open a new, larger office downtown in June to accommodate increased staff and company growth, adding to a growing number of software and technology startups choosing to remain in the Elm City as they expand.

Founded nine years ago, Square 9 designs and sells document management software aimed at eliminating paperbased processes. The company’s management recently decided to move its office from 129 Church St. to 123 Church St. in a few months, tripling their office space from 10,000 square feet to 30,000 square feet. Square 9’s decision to keep its headquarters in the Elm City is the latest in a series of recent moves boosting the local start-up scene. Continuity Control, a financial technology company that offers a compliance management software platform for community banks and credit unions, also recently expanded its staff and resultantly moved to a larger office in the Elm City.

“New Haven has a vibrant tech community,” said Brian Banet, chief technology officer at Square 9. “Independent companies downtown attract a lot of technical talent.”

While the company’s headquarters are in New Haven, the company also has regional offices in Indianapolis, Indiana and Irvine, California.

Banet said his firm initially chose to set up shop in New Haven because of its proximity to both New York and Boston — cities considered to be hubs for software companies and startups. Banet added that many of the tech companies working out of The Grove have also flourished, creating a strong tech culture downtown.

New Haven has a vibrant tech community.

Independent companies downtown attract a lot of technical talent.

BRIAN BANET Chief Technology Officer, Square 9 The Grove, which originally started through the city organization Project Storefronts, is a collaborative workspace on Chapel Street that houses designers, entrepreneurs and engineers.

Krishna Sampath, who operates out of an office at The Grove, directs the A100 program, an apprenticeship program that trains aspiring software developers. He said that his program works directly with software and technology companies in the city to educate and provide employees. According to Sampath, A100 has worked with a number of local tech companies,

including SeeClickFix and Prometheus, to offer job and training opportunities for the program’s apprentices.

He added that he believes his program helps support a strong structure of apprenticeship and internship in New Haven by hiring college and graduate students “to get them exposed to real world practices in terms of software development and its craft.”

Sampath also said organizations such as newhaven.io, a nonprofit confederation of developers from different companies, actively seek to promote collaboration among the New Haven tech community, incentivizing companies to continue to operate out of the Elm City.

Rohit Sharma, director of finance and innovation programs at the Economic Development Corporation of New Haven, also said New Haven has an abundance of highly educated human capital to feed into the many growing tech companies in the city.

Sharma added that although his organization does not have significant funds to devote to courting potential tech ventures, he still collaborates with prospective companies to help them search for working space.

He added that one of the perks of tech companies settling in New Haven is its transportation system, with easily accessible trains to Boston and New York.

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

Activists urge juvenile justice reform

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER At a forum in the Dwight Hall common room last night, New Haven activists and legal experts underscored the importance of granting minors convicted to life sentences without parole a second look at their sentences.

The event — co-hosted by the Yale College Democrats, the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project and Project Youth Court — focused on juvenile justice reform in the state of Connecticut. Both the Dems and YUPP have been active in promoting reform in this arena. The Dems, in particular, have strongly advocated for reform. Representatives from the group travelled to Hartford earlier this year to testify before the General Assembly in favor of a “second look” bill, which would ban mandatory lifewithout-parole sentences for juveniles and also retroactively apply to current life-withoutparole sentences.

Speakers at the event included New Haven and Yale figures. Among them were Barbara Fair, a longtime activist, and George Chochos DIV ’16, who spent over a decade in New York prisons, where he earned two bachelor’s degrees before enrolling at the Yale Divinity School.

The speakers devoted the bulk of their time to discussing the “second look” bill. The legislation is before the General

Assembly for the third consecutive year, said Sarah Russell LAW ’02, a speaker at the event and professor at the Quinnipiac University Law School. It passed the House on both occasions but never came up for a vote in the Senate.

Alexandra Harrington LAW ’14, another criminal justice reform advocate, said the bill came about after Graham v.

Florida and Miller v. Alabama, two Supreme Court decisions that established rules regarding the sentencing of minors.

Fair also criticized the current state of the juvenile justice system beyond life-withoutparole sentences. She said the system has too often neglected the interests of at-risk youths, an area that needs immediate reform. “[The juvenile justice system] was created because we recognize that children are children,” she said. “So rather than treat them as criminals, we want to help them with prevention and protection. That seems to have gone away now, and we’ve begun to criminalize them.”

The speakers also discussed the role of solitary confinement in both the juvenile and adult justice systems. Fair and Chochos, both of whom have had either familial or personal experience in prisons, strongly opposed the use of solitary confinement.

Fair said her son went into solitary confinement on his 17th birthday. She described

its use as “nothing less than torture,” and said her son has never been the same since his experience there. Noting that international law has condemned the U.S.’s use of solitary confinement, she called for its curtailing in prisons.

Chochos echoed Fair’s sentiment. He said his experience in solitary confinement has inalterably changed him.

“I spent 20 days in solitary, and it still affects me,” he said.

“It’s still hard to go into a place where there’s a lot of people, and it’s hard to go into a place where there’s no one. And prison alone is a psychological onslaught.”

The speakers were divided on the prospects of success for criminal justice reform. Russell said she remains optimistic about the legislation, adding that the advocacy work done by groups like the Dems might prove crucial to its passage.

But Fair was less enthusiastic. Referencing cases of abuse in for-profit prisons in New Jersey, she said prison has become an industry, and the justice system creates criminals to fill up spaces.

“I don’t even think it can be reformed,” she said. “I think it needs to … start all over again and [center] on prevention.

Let’s try to keep kids from getting into the system in the first place.”

Contact NOAH DAPONTESMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

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In Singapore, a vanguard for LGBTQ activism YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 “The unit I was in was very supportive. Even my officers knew about it.”

Such an inconsistency encapsulates a broader trend in Singaporean society — strict laws regarding homosexuality are kept on the books, while, increasingly, no one actually abides by them.

The social acceptance for the LGBTQ community is broadening in this city-state that Yale has, in some ways, adopted. While older generations still adhere to religious and conservative traditions, their children are adopting those beliefs less and less. Singapore is changing.

Of the 25 students from YaleNUS and other Singaporean universities interviewed, almost all spoke to Singapore’s attitude towards gay rights as one plagued by contradictions. Same-sex couples comfortably hold hands in public, yet many are not out to their parents or close relatives.

Even students at Yale-NUS — a college known locally for its liberal culture — freely pursue gayrights activism on campus but are wary of appearing in Facebook posts that might betray their identities.

“Many in Singapore are still ambivalent about homosexuality,” the anonymous student said.

“It’s like, ‘You can be gay, but as long as my children are not, that’s fine.’”

Singapore’s proscription against homosexuality dates back to before the country’s independence, with multiple versions of the law existing previously across former British territories. In 1955, Section 377A was codified into the Singaporean Penal Code, criminalizing sexual acts between men.

In Singapore, the traditional family structure is a deeply rooted cultural norm, one that enjoys sanctification in the form of government policies. Unmarried Singaporean citizens, for instance, do not qualify for heavily subsidized government housing until they turn 35, yet gay marriage is illegal in Singapore. Sex education in schools is administered by six government-hired agencies, four of which are linked to conservative Christian groups.

For gay men and women, these norms — and their codification in Singapore’s laws — mean that they also cannot adopt children.

These anti-gay laws have fueled some of the major attacks waged by faculty and thought leaders against Yale’s Singaporean experiment.

Professor of French and African American Studies Christopher Miller said Yale should not have set up its first franchise campus in a place where such a law still presides. Political science lecturer Jim Sleeper said the legalization of gay sex would improve the attitude of most to Singapore, but would also be insufficient to make up for the suppression of free speech in the city-state.

But, in a touch of irony, students across Singapore described Yale-NUS as a vanguard for gay rights, pointing to the college’s institutional support for activism. Leaders of the college’s main student group raising awareness on issues of gender, sexuality and feminism, The G Spot, said the Yale-NUS administration has never once clamped down on initiatives deemed to be too controversial.

At Yale-NUS, nestled in a corner of NUS’s massive campus, The G Spot is free to host events such as Ally Week, held last month to promote allyship among various communities. But beyond the walls of Yale-NUS, students must conduct their advocacy discreetly.

Natalie Tai — a student at NUS who is graduating this fall and coordinates the unauthorized LGBTQ student group Gender

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Students at Yale-NUS wrote messages on white boards pledging their allyship to Singapore’s LGBTQ community.

Collective — said this is certainly the case at her school.

“There is less support for LGBTQ activism at [the National University of Singapore], or really any activism at all,” Tai said. “At a bureaucratic NUS, you’ll be given a ‘no’ straight away except for environmental activism. I feel like Yale-NUS has been exceptionally accommodating towards G Spot.”

SPLENDID ISOLATION

When Herman Lim YNUS ’18 first came to Yale-NUS last fall, he said he was unsure about whom he could be open with about his homosexuality. But although he was used to being reserved with his conservative Muslim family, he quickly learned that he could be more open at Yale-NUS. “Here I found one of the strongest support groups in my life,” Lim said.

Three other openly gay YaleNUS students interviewed echoed Lim’s experience. One of them, Hamid Roslan YNUS ’17, cofounder of The G Spot, said YaleNUS exists as a bubble where students are out at school but not at home. Sherlyn Goh YNUS ’17, also co-founder of The G Spot, said members of the group are privileged because of the amount of institutional and financial support they receive from the administration.

Unlike at other Singaporean universities, students at YaleNUS said their administration has never stood in the way of student organizing surrounding controversial issues. According to the anonymous student and Dean of Students Kyle Farley, student groups do not have to clear events with the administration but must simply fill out an event registration form one week in advance.

Furthermore, each student group has a designated faculty and Dean’s Fellow advisor, and students said they regularly turn to staff members for advice and help advertising and funding.

“We didn’t give too many details on what exactly we were doing,” the anonymous student said of Ally Week.

Students interviewed also acknowledged the difference in climate between off-campus and on-campus spaces. Students said Yale-NUS and Singapore are not one and the same. Although it is not uncommon for same-sex couples to be seen holding hands on a public street, it is also not out of the question for them to get

hostile stares — much like what could happen in some areas of the United States. But inside YaleNUS, students said they never need to worry about being judged in this way.

Even the anonymous student, who is among the most outspoken LGBTQ advocates on campus, said his family does not know about his work with The G Spot. After coming out to his mother in high school, he said she brought him to therapy. His parents insisted his boyfriend had cast a spell on him, he said. After being forced to break up with his boyfriend, he lied to his parents and reassured them that consultations with the psychologist had turned him straight.

“We don’t talk about it anymore,” he said.

When Roslan and Goh founded The G Spot the summer before their freshman year, they knew that had they been enrolled at any other Singaporean university, they would have faced immediate administrative opposition because of their confrontational group name and mission.

But Yale-NUS was different.

The first liberal arts college in Singapore, the school also bears the imprint of a school where progressivism is as much a hallmark of the campus as Gothic architecture.

Indeed, The G Spot has grown substantially at Yale-NUS. Roslan said that Ally Week — which took place in the beginning of March — is a testament to how much the group has grown.

The weeklong series consisted of six campus events addressing various issues across the LGBTQ community. One panel discussed how students could reconcile their faiths with support for the LGBTQ community, while a photo exhibition set up in the dining hall raised awareness of the Singaporean transgender community. A debate co-hosted by the Yale-NUS Debate Society grappled with whether porn empowers or denigrates women, and the closing event invited students to an open mic session to share their stories of personal identity and allyship. Almost every event was attended by Farley and other Yale-NUS administrators.

But although The G Spot can count on support from the administration, opposition to the group has come from an unexpected place — the student body itself. This has sometimes only

come in the form of light criticism. The anonymous student described how many students were taken aback when The G Spot distributed condoms during move in and put up posters questioning gender norms next to bathroom doors.

But there have also been more serious attacks. On a Yale-NUS Facebook page which allows anonymous posts, students repeatedly lashed out against The G Spot for being too aggressive with their programming. One post read, “If you can take a dick you can take a joke. Something I felt was apt considering you guys can’t stop being controversial.”

Another post mocked Goh for her “pseudo-feminist agenda.” The site even went so far as to out a student. “[The posts] were overwhelming because they were anonymous and they kept coming,” Goh said. “Your friends tell you, ‘they posted something about your group again.’ As a queer person, this is just really scary because you don’t know who it is and you don’t know how many of them there are.”

In another incident, posters from the G Spot meant to explain when to use the word “transgender” were mocked by parody posters bearing words like “transformer” or “transfat.” Roslan said some students even protested when the mock posters were taken down, claiming this violated their right to freedom of speech.

But the anonymous student said he actually thinks those who were attacking The G Spot for being too upfront were actually disrespecting their own freedom of speech.

“I know the school is more liberal and accepting than the other local universities, and I wanted to take advantage of that to organize more for queer youth activism,” the anonymous student said.

“Why can’t we talk about whatever we want?”

A FAR CRY

Even though many students referred to The G Spot as the most recognized LGBTQ group at any Singaporean university, similar groups do exist elsewhere. And while each group differs in its exact mission, the most fundamental distinction between The G Spot and these smaller organizations likely lies in the inability to secure administrative support.

Tai heads the Gender Col-

lective at NUS — one of the few groups concerning LGBTQ issues for the university’s nearly 40,000 students. She said the group has helped her find support in dealing with her sexual orientation.

The Gender Collective is not formally recognized by the university, she said. However, the group did register more informally through NUS’s University Scholars Program. Similar to NUS’s four residential colleges under which student groups can register, USP is a multidisciplinary academic program for NUS undergraduates.

“NUS doesn’t support LGBTQ organizing officially,” Tai said.

“The NUS policy is like a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ because gay sex is still illegal. If I tried to register as a group I would probably just get a ‘No.’” For example, Tai said she wants to organize a dildo workshop through Gender Collective but is not even seriously considering proposing the event to the NUS administration. The anonymous Yale-NUS student, among several others, said that, were they to propose such an event, they do not think they would face obstacles.

In fact, Tai said, The G Spot is over-used as a selling point for Yale-NUS’s liberal culture.

“I feel like The G Spot has constantly been pointed to say, ‘Look how progressive Yale-NUS can be,” Tai said. “My personal view is that they sometimes use The G Spot to deflect tension since they are still subject to Singapore laws, but if The G Spot benefits then that’s great.”

Professor Tan Tai Yong, executive vice president for academic affairs at Yale-NUS and the former vice provost for student life at NUS, said NUS cannot be seen to promote LGBTQ activism.

“We don’t go out to say we want to promote a particular viewpoint or stance,” Tan said. “We create a safe environment so people don’t feel threatened because of who they are. We have students who want to pursue certain activities, and as long as those activities don’t break the law or offend somebody in a confrontational or adversarial way, they can do what they want.”

But as homosexuality remains illegal in Singapore, administrators essentially have their hands tied.

Tan said that as a national university, NUS cannot be seen formally advocating for activities

which are against the law. But as Yale-NUS is also funded by the Singaporean government, it remains partially unclear as to why the government seems to have more influence over NUS than Yale-NUS. Tan added that talks or panels discussing issues surrounding Section 377A are not disallowed, but blatant student advocacy would be more problematic.

Restrictions regarding LGBTQ organizing are not unique to NUS, according to students at the Nanyang Technological University and the Singapore Management University, the other two major research universities in Singapore.

An anonymous student at NTU, who heads the university’s LGBTQ-affirming group Kaleidoscope, said the organization has been advised against seeking official recognition from the university. As is mandatory for all NTU student groups, Kaleidoscope underwent a two-year probationary period after first being formed in 2011, but experienced trouble over approval for events for reasons its members deemed unfounded.

“They told us they didn’t feel that our club served a purpose for the student body anymore,” the anonymous NTU student said.

“We weren’t just talking about LGBTQ issues, but also on gender and race because the club was pretty diverse.”

Now, the student said Kaleidoscope operates largely under the radar, screening movies and holding small discussions without any formal publicity or institutional support. She said she has experienced classmates making snide remarks and asking about “what sort of agenda [the group] was pushing,” adding that she has felt significant resistance to LGBTQ advocacy from the NTU student body.

At SMU, two members of Out To Care who wished to remain anonymous for privacy reasons said their group’s focus is not on activism. OTC is formally supported by SMU’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee as a social, and not an activist, group.

For the students, Yale-NUS is leading in the context of LGBTQ rights in Singapore.

“Yale-NUS is pushing the boundaries,” they said.

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Avraham ’15 aims to make society tap process less exclusive SOCIETIES FROM PAGE 1 have requested to remain private at this point. Avraham said a fund has already been established to finance new societies.

YCC Vice President Maia Eliscovich Sigal ’16 said Avraham told her about the plan last weekend, and she thinks it is a good way to make the society system available to everyone. Some students interviewed expressed the same senti-

ments.

“Everything at Yale is already exclusive enough,” Gabrielle Fong ’16 said. “We made it here.”

Javier Cienfuegos ’15 said that with the creation of new societies, the bigger societies could continue to be just as competitive, with smaller ones opening up access for everyone.

However, other students have criticized the proposal for perpetuating the exclusivity already

created by the society system and for failing to address a larger issue that students are too concerned with the prestige of societies. “[The initiative] is still perpetuating another generation of insecure Yalies who don’t need to be insecure,” Karin Shedd ’16 said.

“At some point, Yalies are going to have to deal with disappointment of not being chosen for something.”

Emmy Reinwald ’17 said seniors

who were interested in meeting on Thursday and Sunday night could have easily done so without having the formal title of a society, and that creating more to accommodate people who were not tapped gives off the impression that people only join societies for prestige.

However, Fong said the society format has a unique ability to bring new people together in a way that a more casual get-together

cannot.

Laurel German ’15 said that while she thought the proposal was a fine idea, she thought the money used to establish new societies would have been better spent reducing the financial barriers to entry for the existing ones.

Ultimately, several students remained concerned with the stressful junior pre-tap season, adding that the evaluative nature of the process creates a lot of addi-

tional anxiety.

“I think that it’s been completely exhausting, and it’s been hard to be at a place where you’re feeling judged,” Eliscovich Sigal said. “There will still be the stress of which society you’ll get into, but I think that having the security that you will have that experience is amazing, and it’s a great idea.”

Contact JON VICTOR at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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BY ANDREW JONES While “pregaming” before a party is an integral part of many college students’ social scenes, it could have more adverse consequences than are typically expected, according to a new study involving a Brown researcher.

The research team, composed of psychologists and sociologists from Lehigh University and Loyola Marymount University in addition to Brown, gathered data from over 900 students attending California universities in order to examine the motives behind pregaming and its consequences, especially as they relate to one’s sex. Pregaming — or “prepartying” as the study calls it — is defined as the “consumption of alcohol prior to attending an event or activity (e.g., party, bar, concert) at which more alcohol may be consumed,” according to the article, which will be published in the June issue of the journal Addictive Behaviors.

Three-quarters of all college students engage in prepartying, said Shannon Kenney, a postdoctoral research fellow in behavioral and social sciences.

Previous literature has suggested a relationship between prepartying and adverse consequences, but this study distinguished itself by focusing on event-level consequences, meaning one single instance of drinking.

The team first sorted each participant’s preparty motives and general drinking motives into a variety of categories. Preparty motive categories included interpersonal enhancement, situational control, intimate pursuit and barriers to consumption, such as legal restrictions at various establishments or events. Participants’ general drinking behaviors were classified as having social motives, enhancement motives, coping motives and conformity motives.

Then, by analyzing responses to a survey about negative alcohol-related consequences, the researchers assessed the rela-

tionship among m o t i ve s , consequences and sex.

Prepartyrelated BROWN consequences were assessed on a survey with items such as “I found it difficult to limit how much I drank,” and “I took foolish risks,” according to the study.

The study’s results showed that both drinking to cope and drinking to conform were linked to greater preparty alcohol consequences. Of the preparty motives measured, situational control, interpersonal enhancement and barriers to consumption also correlated with a higher risk of adverse alcohol-related consequences.

The team’s analyses controlled for alcohol consumption, which “suggests something about the context of prepartying that places students at heightened risks,” Kenney said. In addition to drinking, there may be an effect of social pressure that leads to negative outcomes, she added.

Women in the study were more likely than men to select situational control and barriers to consumption as preparty motives. The authors partially attribute this result to women wanting to protect themselves by avoiding drinks that have been tampered with, according to the study. Males in the study were more likely to use prepartying to find a potential sexual partner, according to the study.

Men’s sexual motives could be “concerning” given past evidence that alcohol consumption is linked to risky sexual behavior.

Prepartying, which often involves “drinking quickly and excessively,” is often used to “get a good buzz” before going to a party, Kenney said. Students should be aware of possible outcomes of their actions and “maximize the positive aspects of their social life in college and minimize the negative aspects” when they go out, Kenney said.

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Divest Harvard plans weeklong blockade of Mass. Hall

BY MARIEL KLEIN Environmental activism group Divest Harvard said Monday that it will attempt a weeklong blockade of Massachusetts Hall from April 12 to April 17, focusing on barring administrators, including Harvard President Drew G. Faust, from entering the central office building.

The “Harvard Heat Week” protest, which organizers originally promoted as a sit-in, aims to bring students, faculty and alumni to Harvard Yard to demand that the University divest its $35.9 billion endowment from fossil fuels.

Divest member Ben Sorscher said the protest would not disrupt the 14 freshmen who live in Massachusetts Hall and that Divest members had individually notified each freshman of the plans and scheduled one-on-one meetings with them.

Protesters intend to form a circle around Massachusetts Hall and camp out at night, according to Divest Harvard co-founder Chloe Maxmin. She added that “hundreds” of advocates of the movement, including dozens of students, are willing to be arrested.

The activists have said that they will need 50 to 100 participants in the sit-in each day.

Members of Divest Harvard speak about the history of the group, which began with three students and has held active peaceful protests, fasts and sit-ins since its conception three years ago in Ticknor Lounge on Monday evening.

“The time for dialogue has passed. The time for action is now,” Maxmin said to a crowd of 30 people gathered for a Divest teach-in on Monday afternoon.

Sorscher said that at the end of the protest, the activists hope for “a change in stance of the administration from the outright opposing [of divestment] they have right now.”

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last year, when one student was arrested. Harvard did not press charges against the student, Brett Roche.

Despite the activists’ demands, Faust has repeatedly argued against divesting from fossil fuels.

She has consistently said that Harvard can contribute to environmental sustainability and reduce fossil fuel dependence through research and teaching.

Faust has also said that she is wary of making a political statement with Harvard’s finances. On Monday, one Divest member discussed that reasoning.

“Maybe they’re worried that divesting will alienate really huge donors, or maybe they actually do shy away from what they think is only making a political statement by divesting,” Divest member Sidni Frederick said at the teachin. “They’re making a political statement being invested in the fossil fuel industry.”

Faust has spoken about her own activism in college, when she skipped midterm exams to join a protest in Selma, Alabama. Still, she said last month that she does not support the disruption of Harvard business by demonstrators.

“Peaceful protest is absolutely a part of our campus, and they have every right to peacefully protest,” Faust said, referencing the Divest group. “They don’t have the right to stop University business.”

Faust said the “breach of perimeters” in the February occupation made her and her staff consider the security issues surrounding Massachusetts Hall.

Harvard University Police Department spokesperson Steven Catalano said in a March statement — before the news of the blockade — that HUPD was aware of Divest Harvard’s plans to conduct further protests.

“As always, HUPD will work to safeguard the rights of Harvard community to express their views, while also ensuring the ability of other community members to continue conducting University business, including teaching, learning, research and administration,” Catalano said at the time.

Faust could not be reached on Monday night. Her spokesman, Jeff Neal, wrote that he hoped protesters would allow “others the freedom of movement and expression necessary to pursue their lives and work.”

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“We have to be disruptive and … demonstrate that the support is there and that it’s a HARVARD deep support, that people are willing to take action on this type of movement,” Sorscher said.

“Heat Week” will also include action training, teach-ins and nightly vigils, according to protest leaders. The movement has already garnered support from students, faculty, staff and notable alumni, including former Colorado Sen. Timothy Wirth and activist-author Cornel West, both of who will be speaking at events throughout the week. Some students have said they will miss the entire week of class to protest, according to Sorscher.

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Students concerned with initial draft of Rules of Conduct revisions

BY DANNY LI The University Senate Rules of Conduct committee presented a summary of the current version of the first draft of revisions to the Rules of Conduct at the University Senate plenary on Friday. Though this draft is yet to be finalized, based on the current revisions, some students are concerned that the committee will fail to address criticisms of the existing rules.

“I’m very worried and disturbed that following the senate plenary, the external process was eliminated. … At the town hall people were advocating for the need of the external process and that the internal process couldn’t address conflicts of interests,” Columbia Queer Alliance President Caitlin Lowell said. “That was a clear preference of students in the town hall, and I’m worried that that’s not at all reflected in the proposed revisions.”

University Senator-elect and Columbia College Student Council Class of 2017 President Sean Ryan, however, praised the committee for demonstrating a respect for transparency.

“From my understanding, I’m happy with the fact it looks like the rules committee is seriously considering student involvement. … I’m also very happy that the committee seems to be considering open hearings and the ability to have attorneys present and I think that will help make that process a lot more transparent,” Ryan said.

Here are some notable problems students have identified with the proposed revision:

VAGUE LANGUAGE PERSISTS

The tightening of the language in the rules was not mentioned as one of the proposed revisions at last Friday’s plenary.

The language used in the current rules has been subject to criticism for being

vague and s we e p i n g .

Students have worried that ambiguous rhetoCOLUMBIA ric used to describe what constitutes a rules violation makes it easier for the University to arbitrarily punish students.

Even Chris Riano, co-chair of the University Committee on the Rules of Conduct, acknowledged the importance of revising rules rhetoric at the Oct. 17 town hall meeting.

“Language is consistently troublesome in some of the rules, and I think that that’s an important thing for us to be thinking about,” he said.

Eric Wimer, a vocal advocate for rules reform, expressed concern over the lack of changes to language.

“Without more explicit and reasonable definitions, this simply changes the holder of a dangerous carte blanche,” Wimer said. “We need a document that the new committee can actually work with, and the rules as they stand are still inadequate for that task.”

concerns over conflicts of interest by including a conflict of interest provision that prevents the dean of a student’s school to serve on their appeals board.

Despite the University’s effort to address issues of bias, Lowell believes that any involvement in the adjudication process by deans would still constitute a conflict of interest.

“I saw that there’s a conflict of interest provision, but it still states that there would still be an appeals board judged by all deans even though none of those deans would be from the students’ school,” Lowell said. “It would

still be a conflict of interest with the people who are responsible for fundraising and the visible position of the school being the ones making the decisions about free speech.”

RESPONDENT’S RIGHT TO COUNSEL

At town hall meetings about the Rules of Conduct, students requested that the rules provide respondents with accessible representation during the disciplinary process. Vice President of the Columbia Queer Alliance Brennon Mendez found that the right to accessible representation was

overlooked at last week’s plenary.

“Students’ rights to legal counsel was glossed over at the senate plenary, which I think is an issue that absolutely has to be addressed for students to have any confidence in the protection of their free speech rights on campus,” Mendez said.

PROTECTION FOR MEDIA

At Friday’s plenary, University Senator Marc Heinrich expressed concern that the initial proposal did not include protection for members of the press covering protests, an issue brought to light when a reporter and photogra-

pher from Spectator were sent warnings after covering No Red Tape’s protest at a prospective students’ information session in February.

“At a recent action there was a warning given to members of the media and I am very concerned about no protection,” Heinrich said. “We can work out some system to figure out [who is press]; I agree there shouldn’t be a blanket protection but that’s something that would certainly give me pause in voting for this.”

The senate will release a draft of the revisions before its town hall meeting on April 17.

CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS IN APPEALS PROCESS

In the current rules of conduct, respondents can opt to have their case adjudicated either through the process of Dean’s Discipline or through an external process, in which students are allowed to bring their rule violation to a formal hearing outside of the University purview. The involvement of deans in the process has come under scrutiny, given that the deans themselves are often the subjects of the protests.

By moving away from the Dean’s Discipline process to an alternative internal process, the Rules Committee responded to

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Winter corporate recruiting sees lower numbers

BY PARKER RICHARDS Fewer students participated in corporate recruiting this winter than the prior year, according to figures released by the Center for Professional Development.

A total of 665 students submitted 8,256 applications for the 189 positions advertised through the CPD by 121 employers.

Last winter, over 700 students applied for positions, submitting over 8,200 individual applica-

tions.

Of the students who applied for jobs through c o r p o ra te DARTMOUTH re c r u i t i n g this winter, 413 were offered at least one interview. In total, 1,650 interviews were offered, of which roughly equal numbers were on campus or remote. The number

of interviews offered increased from last winter, when around 1,000 interviews were held, CPD Senior Associate Director Monica Wilson told The Dartmouth at the time.

The CPD was unable to provide statistics on how many students received offers.

The slight dip in winter corporate recruiting participation was not reflected in the summer, during which a growing number of students have participated for

the past several years. In 2009, 154 students participated in summer recruitment, and that number has been steadily rising, reaching 244 in 2014.

The corporate recruiting process involves a large time commitment on the part of participating students, several participants told The Dartmouth.

“I would go for an interview, miss classes, then have to work extra hard to catch up on classes,

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Fewer students participated in corporate recruiting this winter than in 2014.

then not be fully prepared for the next interview, and that continued until I eventually got a job,” Kartik Menon said.

While Menon eventually secured a position, it was not one advertised through the CPD, he said, but rather a position in a different department in the same firm.

Many students do not find a job at the end of recruiting.

With only 189 advertised positions and almost 700 applicants, many end up disappointed.

Emily Tregidgo, who found a job through the process, said that knowing that many applicants will not receive job offers can be stressful.

“No matter how many interviews you get, you may not end up with a job at the end of it,” she said.

Preparation for corporate recruiting requires a substantial time commitment for writing cover letters and drafting resumes, students said. Tregidgo said that she devoted much of her winter break to drafting cover letters and preparing for the recruiting process.

Jacob Savos said that he found drafting resumes and cover letters to be valuable since it could be constructive even if he had not eventually received a job offer.

“No matter what happens in the process itself, those are skills I’ll use the rest of my life,” Mariel Wallace said.

Students go through corporate recruiting for various reasons. Tregidgo said that she had a long-term ambition to work in the finance sector and believed that corporate recruiting was the best way to fulfill that ambition.

Wallace said that she wanted an experience in the private sector after having worked exclusively in public sector internships.

Members of certain organizations may gain an additional leg up from connections with alumni interviewers, Menon said.

“I know that a lot of the interviews are conducted by alums who come back, and maybe give special preferences when they see familiar Greek letters or

something like that,” he said.

The first step in the corporate recruiting process is an information session in the beginning of the term in which students learn about the different companies that will advertise positions, Savos said. Applicants can find out what companies and positions appeal to them at the session.

Next, students complete online applications through DartBoard in which they submit cover letters and resumes for the positions they want. After a week or two, Savos said, the applicants find out if they will be asked back for a first-round interview, either by phone or in person.

Final interviews often occur at companies’ headquarters or a branch office, Menon said.

Final interviews could last for as much as a day, Tregidgo said, and usually include a more involved look at the company to which a student applied.

While the official CPD corporate recruiting process is not the only way to obtain jobs in the corporate sector, it can be useful to go through the CPD program as future job applications will require the same skill sets the applicants used for this process, Tregidgo said.

“It’s really kind of a pain because most people will tell you that recruiting is like doing another class because you have to spend so much time preparing for interviews,” said Menon.

Wilson wrote in an email that the CPD has introduced other programs in addition to the corporate recruiting program in order to provide students a broader range of options, citing the addition of a graduate school fair in October 2014 and two virtual career fairs for the West Coast and the East Coast, in December and January respectively.

The CPD also hosted a virtual career fair for careers in biotech, health and life sciences this February and plans to host an April 21 event featuring alumni who now work in marketing.

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High of 41, low of 37.

FRIDAY High of 61, low of 47.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 1:00 PM “Conversation, Race and Society: Exposing Hidden Narratives Through Art.” This program, featuring Elizabeth Alexander, Yale professor of poetry, African American Studies and American Studies, and artist Titus Kaphar is part of a series of public conversations held in conjunctions with Alexander’s course “Contemporary African American Literary, Visual and Performing Arts,” which explores the work and innovations of contemporary African American authors and artists. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

7:00 PM Swing Into Spring at the Yale Library! All are welcome to an evening of dance and fun with music from the Music Library’s archives. A free swing dance lesson, unique film footage, free cake, good company and more. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.), L&B Room.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 9 4:30 PM Memory Politics in Estonia: 20th Century Literature and a New National Consciousness. Andrei Hvostov will give a talk about the social and political situation of Russians in Estonia and the other Baltic countries in light of developments in Putin’s Russia. Rosenkranz Hall (115 Prospect St.), Rm. 241.

FRIDAY, APRIL 10 4:00 PM Tree of Life. An outdoor art and music improv by Wa Liu and Chuhan Zhang to raise awareness for environmental conservation. Wa will be painting on a silk canvas draped over a tree branch, while Chuhan will be playing the piano. Cross Campus.

5:00 PM College Night on Broadway. College Night on Broadway brings students together for a night of fun in the Broadway District in New Haven. The event is open to all area students and will feature music, henna tattoos, and more.

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SPORTS

“I never really enjoyed third base.”

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Golf underperforms in Northeast GOLF FROM PAGE 14 had been sick with the flu for several days before the tournament.

“It was difficult not having Marika for her leadership and of course her play,” Rompothong said. “We needed her this past weekend.”

Despite their captain’s absence, the Elis had two players finish in the top 15.

Jennifer Peng ’18 tied for sixth place, while Bernabe tied for 15th.

Rompothong said both players have been showing great consistency and have been able to post solid scores throughout this spring season.

Despite the harsh weather conditions, the men’s team fared better but still performed below their expectations for the tournament.

“We came in as the highest ranked team in the field, so our material goal was to win the golf tournament,” captain Will Davenport ’15 said. “Unfortunately, this was not accomplished.”

However, Davenport added that he

Elis keyed by frosh hurlers BASEBALL FROM PAGE 14 each carved out their own roles with more than half the regular season already in the books.

Kukowski, a 6’2” power righty from Katy, Texas, has established himself as head coach John Stuper’s closer. Given that Yale has not found itself in many save situations — Kukowski is credited with the only two saves on the season for the Bulldogs — his role has included being Stuper’s go-to late-inning arm capable of shutting down the opposing offense, often an inning at a time, as he has made the second-most appearances of any pitcher in the Ivy League.

Kukowski has smoothly stepped into a vacancy made by another Katy, Texas native — last year’s captain and shortstop Cale Hanson ’14. When Hanson was not fielding grounders at short, the first team All-Ivy selection compiled five of the team’s eight saves while recording a 3.60 ERA in 15 innings of work.

“I remember my first few pitching appearances as a freshman being some of the most stressful times of my career,” Hanson said. “I cannot even imagine if those appearances had been in a save situation … For a young freshman to have poise and command of his pitches in that environment really is special.”

Kukowski has improved upon Hanson’s time and effectiveness on the mound, recording a 3.38 ERA of his own through 16 innings of work.

Kukowski’s velocity, a hallmark of his repertoire, has shone through as he has recorded at least one strikeout in all but one of his outings, averaging nine per nine innings. That rate is the most of any Yale pitcher with more than three innings of work and the best of any conference pitcher with at least one save.

“Any pitcher will tell you that when you are on the mound, you can feel the weight of the game on your shoulders,” Hanson said. “That stress is amplified when you are the closer because you know there is no one coming out of the bullpen to save you if you get into trouble. It’s just you until you win or lose.”

Whereas Kukowski has settled in as a one-inning flamethrower, Scott has been one of the most versatile arms at Stuper’s disposal. The Virginia native has made eight appearances, including two starts, and has been able to serve as a long-man in the pen on more than one occasion.

But the lack of a clearly defined role has not bothered Scott, who said he is willing to perform in whatever capacity helps out the Bulldogs.

“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure how much of an impact I’d have my freshman year,” Scott said. “I’m willing to accept whatever role I’m given. It’s really not that different

was pleased the team was able to play rounds in difficult conditions that tested their resolve. Having experience in these types of conditions will be beneficial going forward, he said.

The men’s team also snatched four top-15 positions. Henry Cassriel ’18 was the best placed Eli, finishing third in the event. Li Wang ’17 finished tied for fourth, and both Thomas Greenhalgh ’15 and Davenport finished in the top 15.

Both teams are now practicing for their next tournaments. With spring finally arriving, the Yale Golf Course has opened up and normal practices have started this week, Cassriel said.

Previously, the course had been covered with snow.

Ivy League play will start this weekend for both teams. The men’s team will play the Princeton Invitational on April 11, and the women’s team will play the Brown Invitational on April 12 and 13.

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

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The men’s golf team played in the Met Intercollegiate tournament in the face of 30 mile per hour gusts of wind and temperatures below 40 degrees.

Dorato directs with dedication M. TENNIS FROM PAGE 14 Tennis Center.

Although Dorato is the winningest coach in Yale history, he noted that he has lost the most number of games in Yale history, too.

According to Photos Photiades ’17, Dorato typically avoids the stardom, and with his quiet demeanor and motivating coaching style, he exemplifies humility.

“On the court, he is a great coach,” said Alex Hagermoser ’17. “He is really focused and dedicated to the team and the program. He always executes his game plan even in practice.”

Dorato characterized his relationship with his players using two words: trust and respect. He expressed the desire to see them succeed on and off of the tennis court. That desire, he said, extends beyond graduation.

According to Dorato, his highest priority is to give his players the best possible college tennis experience.

“Off the court, he is a very gentle person where you can have a normal conversation with him,” Photiades said. “He really cares about his players and wants them to do well in school.”

While Dorato has been the head coach at Yale, the Bulldogs have exemplified academic excellence and community involvement.

Since 1996, Yale is the only Division I men’s tennis team to receive the ITA All-Academic Team Award every year. Dorato has also coached winners of the Fulbright and Rhodes scholarships. He is the president of New Haven Youth Tennis Education, a non-profit organization that reaches inner-city youths in New Haven through tennis, and Dorato also participates in the New England Division of the United States Tennis Association.

“Community service has been a huge part of what I have been doing for the last 10 years,” Dorato said.

“I have tried to give back as much as I could, and I really enjoy doing so ... My players see that I want to help them in school and give them an opportunity to do community service.”

Dorato and the Elis will be back in action this weekend as they travel to Columbia and Cornell for matches on Saturday, March 11 and Sunday, March 12.

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

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The Bulldogs have a conference-worst 9.39 earned-run average. coming out of the pen versus starting for me as long as I prepare myself. … I’ve been really happy to have as much of an impact as I’ve had thus far.”

After a couple of shaky outings to begin his collegiate career, Scott has settled down, posting a 3.05 ERA over his last six appearances, to lower his season ERA to 3.80, second on the team behind only Kukowski.

Since the start of Ivy play, Scott has been especially impressive, posting a 1.50 ERA and allowing just a 0.190 batting average against over his last three appearances.

Beginning with a scoreless inning in a tight contest against Cornell on March 29, Scott followed up with what may be considered his two strongest performances of the season. His next appearance was a tworun, seven-inning start against Hartford before throwing four shutout innings against a talented Columbia offense this past Sunday.

“I’ve never been as nervous as the first time I went into a college game [March 7 versus Richmond] but after that, I have to say that the adrenaline rush of pitching in an Ivy League game is way higher than any other game I’ve pitched in,” Scott said.

“When I came into the Columbia game, I felt my heart racing … You just know that Ivy games matter way more and your body adjusts and it just makes you want to perform better.”

Rounding out the trio is Brodkowitz, who has provided his value to the team as a member of the starting rotation. Brodkowitz has the fourthmost starts for the Bulldogs and picked up the first win of his career in a stellar outing against Princeton.

Hailing from Potomac, Maryland, the righty went the distance — the sole complete game on the season for Yale — against the Tigers, allowing just three runs, with one of those being unearned. The six-strikeout

performance saw Brodkowitz pound the strike zone in an efficient manner for nine innings, needing only 98 pitches to pick up the win.

While a triceps injury postponed his slated debut against Duke back on March 10, Brodkowitz has been the No. 4 starter for the Elis in each of the two Ivy League weekend doubleheaders. Nevertheless, Brodkowitz is by no means content or prepared to rest on his laurels.

“I’m not really looking at [the No. 4 spot in the rotation] as mine,” Brodkowitz said. “I’m looking at it as something I still need to keep earning and I need to keep performing and hopefully, I can keep it just by helping my team in the best way I possibly can.”

The Bulldogs are hoping that this mindset will begin to turn around the fortunes of the club’s rotation, as conference action has seen Yale allow 67 earned runs in 62 innings of play. That 9.73 ERA is slightly more than double the league average of 4.78.

A fourth freshman, Tyler Duncan ’18, has also provided some necessary depth out of the bullpen, having entered 11 games, tied for secondmost on the team. Though Duncan has not had as much success as his frosh counterparts, he has displayed resilience in a couple of crucial moments, including a one-twothree seventh inning in a one-run win over UMass-Lowell.

“These guys were all recruited for a reason and they have a lot of talent, so as long as they believe in themselves they all have bright futures,” Lanham said.

The Elis travel to Fairfield this afternoon in preparation for a pivotal four-game series against Dartmouth this weekend.

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

The story behind sailing SAILING FROM PAGE 14 has the team managed QHow to handle the limited practice time thus far?

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I think we’ve handled it really well. Usually we do get a couple of days of practice before spring break, and that’s something we weren’t able to do just due to the winter. But I think we all realized that this was a disadvantage we were going to have this season, and so we used the time to take advantage of extra classroom time with our coaches talking strategy and extra time in the gym working on fitness. We had to make the most of it, and it’s also something that all of the New England schools have been dealing with, so it’s not like we’re totally alone

kind of leadership role do QWhat you occupy on the team? How

have you seen some of the younger members of the team progress so far this season?

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It’s sort of an interesting dynamic because although we have separate women’s and coed teams and they compete in separate leagues, we all practice together as one team and really kind of function as one team as well. Graham Landy ’15 and myself were former coed and women’s captains, respectively, and then we just elected Charlotte Belling ’16 as our new coed captain and Marly Isler ’16 as our new women’s captain. The leadership role that I have been trying to play is one that people played for me when I was an underclass-

man, which is really just motivation through wanting to replicate what the older kids on the team were doing. It was always really clear that everyone took this really seriously and that everyone on the team wanted to win and that’s something that I try to pass on. …

We have a lot of underclassmen on our team this year and I think that’s been good too. … No one is very complacent because there are all of these younger kids. have you seen the team QHow change over the course of your four years here?

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I think what’s almost more interesting than what has developed is how consistent it’s been. Obviously we graduated a lot of incredible sailors and the personalities change from year to year, but I think our coach and the leaders on the team set the tone for such an environment of excellence and also just loving the sport … As far as what’s developed, we have just gotten better and better at peaking at the right time and concentrating on what the little goals are during the season to get to what is our most important goal at the end of the season.

is the team focusing on QWhat in preparation for nationals?

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We graduated a really big class last year, so a lot of this year has been getting the underclassmen up to speed to take over roles on the team that have to be filled. Our coach always says that the goal of the season is to learn more than any other team

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Both the coed and the women’s sailing teams are currently ranked No. 1 in the nation. and to do it faster than them.

That doesn’t stop for me or anyone else who’s a senior either. So it’s really day-by-day, especially these early season events, taking it all as practice and taking it all as lessons from the weekend that we can take away … We talked a lot about not needing to go beyond our potential, but just needing to sail to our potential and that will be enough to get the job done. are your most and least QWhat favorite aspects of sailing for Yale?

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My most and least favorite aspects are probably the same. We have an incredible venue and I think we have the nicest venue in college sailing. We have incredible open water and big waves and it’s just so beautiful, but a bummer for sailing for Yale is there’s just absolutely no way to spectate from land. I’ve had a lot of friends that ask to come watch me sail and it’s just totally impossible to do that.

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

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ARTS & CULTURE Yale hosts Environmental Film Festival

BY GRACE CASTILLO CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Movie-goers and environmental activists will be able to unite for a common cause this week at the Environmental Film Festival at Yale.

The seventh annual EFFY began on Friday with a series of workshops with professional filmmakers. The festival features a variety of environmentally related films, ranging from shorts to feature-length, that explore topics that include expanding deserts in Tunisia, the work of American author Edward Abbey and a sinking mini-island off the coast of Columbia. Don Mosteller, EFFY’s executive director, said he thinks the festival aims to tackle environmental issues through film because of the unique emotional impact that films have on audiences.

“Film creates a visceral response in people that has a much better chance of whatever the film is intending,” Mosteller said.

Among other events, the festival featured screenings of films, such as Sunday afternoon’s showing of “What’s Motivating Hayes?” a short by Jonathan

Demme, whose previous directing credits include “The Silence of the Lambs.” The film tells the story of Tyrone Hayes, a biologist who discovered the devastating effects of atrazine — an herbicide produced by the company Syngenta — on the reproductive organs of frogs. When Hayes tried to release his lab’s results, Syngenta tried to discredit Hayes’s findings by claiming that his results were intentionally skewed.

Hayes’s story is one of many covered in the film festival, which will screen more than a dozen films in total. But festival organizers interviewed said they watched 160 films in the process of putting together the festival’s program. Mosteller said he wanted to strike a balance between raising awareness about the urgency of environmental problems without making viewers feel hopeless about the prospects of ultimately overcoming these issues.

“Real measureable effects of climate change are happening right now. Without question,” Mosteller said. “The signal is very easily separated from the noise, statistically.”

Nevertheless, he emphasized that “these problems are not unsolvable.”

Mosteller noted the challenges of managing the festival’s logistics, explaining that the festival relies on graduate student volunteers and is limited in funding.

Looking to the future, Mosteller said he hopes the festival can reach an even wider audience through innovative approaches, such as bringing a celebrity to the event to increase interest among the student body.

While this year’s festival has drawn hundreds of visitors so far, the featured events have seen a low turnout from the Yale undergraduate community. Of more than two dozen Yale undergraduates interviewed, none had heard of EFFY. Alex Thomas ’18 said that while he cares about environmental issues, attending the festival is not one of his top priorities as he does not have the time to watch environmental films for hours.

Iliana Lazarova FES ’16, a volunteer for EFFY, said she thinks the majority of audience members are New Haven residents.

The festival will end this Saturday with a screening of “Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story” at the Whitney Humanities Center.

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

ALEXANDRA SCHMELING/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The seventh annual Environmental Film Festival will begin this Friday with a series of workshops led by professional filmmakers. A variety of environmentally-related will be represented in shorts and feature-length films.

Undergrad play tackles mental health at Yale

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER With mental health concerns rising high at Yale, a group of students have found an outlet to examine the issue in a new light.

Written by Monica Hannush ’16, “Under” opens Thursday night at the Morse Crescent Theater. The musical follows Serena, a fictional sophomore at Yale, as she explores both past and present events leading up to her placement in the YaleNew Haven Psychiatric Hospital. Hannush, who has spent time in Yale-New Haven’s psychiatric ward and taken a leave of absence from the University, said that before her stay in the ward, the

musical consisted only of a group of individual scenes without a connecting narrative thread.

“I was in a place where the writing I was doing followed the advice of ‘write what you know’ very literally, and this was something I couldn’t not write about,” Hannush said. “Once I made a friend in the psych ward, it helped me put everything in perspective.”

Hannush described the musical as a “soft mystery” in which the audience learns more of the events that led to Serena’s placement in the ward as the story progresses. While the musical’s plot is based on Hannush’s personal experiences, she said the characters have been developed

to a point where they no longer bear any resemblance to the people in her life.

Michaela Murphy ’17, who plays Serena in the musical, said the musical does not utilize metaphors or other indirect methods of presentation to portray the topic of mental health. She noted that although she could never fully understand the personal experiences that inspired the musical, she did manage to draw from her own experiences in interpreting her character.

“This play, I think, attempts to expose the raw and internal reactions to the overwhelming Yale experience and the beating an individual can take,” Murphy said. “This play is the underbelly

of ‘the perfect Yalie’ and exposes the inhuman treatment one receives if they don’t ‘fit the bill.’”

Director Alexandra Cadena ’17 said the most challenging aspect of the show was working with an original script. She noted that actors who personally identified with their roles found it difficult to keep clear the distinction between themselves and the characters. The performers have to insure that not too much of themselves is seen in the musical as opposed to the world of the character, Cadena added.

Over the last year, campus awareness and concern about the University’s mental health policy has risen. Hannush said she believes that all members

of the Yale community will be able to identify with the musical’s storyline, adding that even if students in the audience have not personally felt the emotions that abound in the musical, they would know others who have. Hannush described mental health as the most relevant issue on campus.

“As a director, you have to have a tremendous capacity for kindness and creating a safe environment for your actors, especially for this kind of material,” Cadena said. “I think for many actors this has been some of the hardest material they’ve encountered.”

Unlike most theater productions at Yale, the musical will include an electronic dance

music soundtrack. The show will feature a live ensemble of seven student musicians, whose instruments include a piano, violin, electric bass and drums.

Julian Drucker ’16, musical director and composer for the musical, said he strove for “the dichotomy of the manic-depressive.” The musical score includes pop-rock songs as well as songs of other genres with darker tonal harmonies, Drucker explained, as a reference to Serena’s bipolar disorder, which is never explicitly stated in the musical.

Performances of “Under” run through Saturday evening.

Contact JOEY YE at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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Under, a new musical — written by Monica Hannush ’16 and composed by Julian Drucker ’16 — addresses the mental health stigma at Yale College and will premiere this Thursday in the Morse Stiles Crescent Theater.

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“Silence is so accurate.”

In new play, characters find love on suicide hotline

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“Gibel,” the senior project of Ben Symons ’15, uses absurdism and black comedy to tell a tale of love and death.

BY CONNOR SZOSTAK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER An upcoming senior project in Theater Studies will use absurdism and black comedy to tell a tale of love and death.

“Gibel,” an original play by Ben Symons ’15, opens Thursday night at the Off Broadway Theater. The play follows Reggie, a suicide hotline worker whose job is to encourage his callers to follow through on their plans to take their own lives. The business runs smoothly until he picks up a call from a woman named Mary, and a romantic connection is formed between the two. Symons described the issue of mental health that the play explores as a problem that can be kept under control by communities that are dedicated to addressing it.

“I want people to come away from this seeing that this is an issue that can be treated,” Symons said. “This is a play where everyone is wrong about the problems they are facing.”

Symons highlighted the absurdist element within the play, which reverses the traditional purpose of suicide hotlines: to prevent callers from taking their own lives. He said the concept of reversing the role intrigued him, because it allowed him to explore a world he was unfamiliar with and because such a setting allowed him to address the play’s central themes through a non-conventional but serious approach.

Tom Stilwell ’16, who plays Reggie, said the production was an extensive exercise in separating himself in real life from who he becomes in the rehearsal space. Stilwell emphasized the dedication required to explore Reggie’s twisted and unfamiliar mind, adding that he has occasionally struggled with the task of returning to his normal self

outside of rehearsal. One of the biggest difficulties was picking up the phone and having a normal conversation, he explained.

Stilwell also highlighted the difficulty of being unable to physically interact with other actors on stage, explaining that the set’s design as a calling center prevents all non-verbal communication between him and other characters. He noted that he has not been able to look at any of the other actors while on stage.

Symons said the idea for the play stems from his own experience contending with mental health concerns following his junior year at Yale, which led him to fully develop his idea into a full play.

The show’s title comes from an untranslatable Russian word, one that translates most closely to “a painful ceasing to be.”

“It’s a concept you can come to know, but we don’t have a word for it,” Symons said. “It’s interesting to see what other cultures have come to institutionalize as vocabulary.”

But Lily Shoretz ’16, the show’s director, said she hopes the production will bring the sensitive issues the play raises into everyday discussions and contribute to what the ensemble sees as an already thriving conversation among students on and off campus.

“I think there’s sort of an optimistic outlook on it… You’re watching these characters try to figure it out, and I think it goes beyond the issues of suicide or mental illness,” Shoretz said. “I hope it gets people thinking about whether losing one thing is worth losing everything.”

Performances of “Gibel” will run through Saturday.

Contact CONNOR SZOSTAK at connor.szostak@yale.edu .

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Fmr. YCBA head talks Louis Kahn

BY ROHAN NAIK STAFF REPORTER As the Yale Center for British Art remains under renovation, a Tuesday meeting between two renowned Yale faculty members gave new insight into the building’s initial construction.

Jules Prown, professor emeritus of history of art and the YCBA’s first director, discussed a new book titled “Louis I. Kahn in Conversation: Interviews with John W. Cook and Heinrich Klotz, 1969–70,” which he co-edited with YCBA information analyst Karen Dentavit. The conversation took place in Rudolph Hall and featured Prown alongside Alexander Purves, professor emeritus at the School of Architecture. Prown had hired Kahn to design the structure of the YCBA, and during the meeting, he discussed their relationship as well as the evolution and design of the YCBA’s building.

“The interviews happened right when Kahn received his commission for the YCBA, and they show us his initial thoughts,” Prown said. “They also give insight into his architectural thinking on what was his last building.”

YCBA Director Amy Meyers said the interviews included in the book provide direct insight into Kahn’s philosophy at the time of the YCBA’s construction.

The book is composed of a series of interviews of Kahn conducted by German architectural historian Heinrich Klotz, then a visiting professor at Yale, and John Cook, who was teaching architecture at the Yale Divinity School.

The book provides an edited version of these interviews, some of which were previously published in a 1973 book entitled “Conversations With Architects.”

The interviews, recorded on tapes that are currently held in Manuscripts & Archives, were retranscribed and condensed for the book. The book also features an introduction by Prown, insight into Kahn’s own architectural philosophy and a multitude of plans, drawings and photographs.

“People would always ask me questions about the building,” Prown said. “I figured it would be a good contribution to history and the history of modern architecture to have those tapes transcribed and edited.”

Yesterday’s discussion was preceded by introductions from Meyers, Dean of the Yale School of Art Robert Storr and Yale School of Architecture associate professor Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen. They spoke about Kahn’s tenure at Yale and the ways in which his experiences here influenced his artistic devel-

opment.

According to Storr, Kahn holds a special place in the University’s Architecture Department, as he was hired amid a larger departmental effort to modernize its curriculum.

The discussion focused largely on Kahn’s novel approach to designing the center. Prown said that in spite of Kahn’s practical nature, he often employed unconventional practices in his work.

Specifically, Prown noted that Kahn would deliberately submit preliminary models that lacked detail in their design in order to not create false expectations of exactly what the end products would look like.

Prown also spoke at length about the novelty of the center’s architecture when it was built. While most museums at the time used artificial illumination and were designed to maximize the amount of open space in their galleries, Prown was insistent on employing natural light sources and compartmentalizing the space into rooms.

Several audience members interviewed found the conversation to be enlightening and noted

Prown’s ability to make the subject matter easy to understand.

Connecticut-based architect Michael Ayles said he enjoyed hearing the details of construction as well as how the project came to be. He added that he thought the discussion was suited to a wide range of audiences because it involved little technical terminology.

Bimal Mendis ’98 ARC ’02, the director of undergraduate studies in architecture, said the discussion of Kahn was particularly meaningful to him, as it brought to light the person behind a collection of otherwise enigmatic statements. Mendis described the conversation as an inside look at what goes into the architectural design process.

Anjali Pala, the book’s designer, said she enjoyed hearing Kahn’s own voice in the tape recordings that were played at yesterday’s event, which she had never heard before.

Kahn passed away in 1974, three years before the YCBA first opened to the public.

Contact ROHAN NAIK at rohan.naik@yale.edu .

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Jules Prown, professor emeritus of history of art and the YCBA’s first director, discussed a new book about architect Louis Kahn, who designed the YCBA.

Student production honors Mark Rothko

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER This weekend, two actors and one canvas will fill an entire stage.

An undergraduate student production of John Logan’s “Red” opens tomorrow night in the Davenport-Pierson Theater.

The play follows the abstract expressionist artist Mark

Rothko, played by Conor Bagley ’16, through the years 1958 and 1959 as he grapples with a commission to paint a series of murals for the Four Seasons restaurant at the Seagram building in New York City. Bagley highlighted the degree of accuracy to which the play depicts Rothko’s character.

“A lot of [the play] is fiction but Logan did so much incredible

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Conor Bagley ’16 plays abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko in the production of John Logan’s “Red.”

research,” Bagley said. “If anything is a good depiction of what life probably was like for Mark Rothko, I think this play does it.”

Bagley said that in the play, much of Rothko’s internal conflict stems from his position as an artist — his character struggles to make art on commission for the wealthy elite while staying true to his desire to create meaningful and memorable works. According to Bagley’s assessment of his character, Rothko wanted his works to be understood, to the point that Rothko treated his paintings as if they were his own children.

Bagley also highlighted the tension between Rothko’s perception of art as a serious endeavor and his distaste for contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol and Frank Stella, whom he criticizes for pandering to the public. In the play, Bagley explained, this tension drives the conflict between Rothko and his fictional assistant Ken, who is torn between these two ways of approaching art.

Ivan Kirwan-Taylor ’18, who plays Ken, described his character as youthful and precocious, but also well aware of his position in relation to Rothko. Director Eliana Kwartler ’16 noted that the production is namely about the relationship between Rothko and Ken, the only two characters in “Red.” She said that over the course of the rehearsal process, the interactions between Bagley and Kirwan-Taylor sometimes mirror those of the characters they play.

“They have moments where

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Ivan Kirwan-Taylor ’18 plays Ken, Rothko’s fictional assistant. they’re buddy-buddy and trying to learn, and moments where they get at each other a little bit,” Kwartler said.

Ensemble members cited the canvas in the center of the set as a focal point of the play. In one scene, Rothko and Ken paint the canvas such that the backdrop of the set changes from completely white to completely red. The scene is representative of how Rothko’s use of color “consumes the viewer,” Kwartler said.

“That’s a visually stunning moment and it’s a joy to do,” Kirwan-Taylor said. “There’s painting, there’s music, there’s just a great deal of art going on at all

times.”

Set designer Caroline Francisco ’18 said the set effectively resembles and functions as a working artist’s studio. She explained that the actors can pick up and work with props such as brushes and jars, interacting with the set as opposed to just walking around it.

Francisco added that the set represents the sense of order Rothko demanded in his life — as seen in the central canvas and easel — while props that represent negative feelings of frustration and sadness are cast to the edges of the stage.

According to Kwartler, “Red”

reaches beyond Yale’s theater community by engaging with real historical events. She cited a visit by the cast to the Yale University Art Gallery, which currently has two of Rothko’s canvases on view. Kwartler noted that the presence of Rothko’s works on campus provides an opportunity to compare and contrast them with the Seagram murals featured in the play, while allowing the audience to note the breadth of Rothko’s art.

The Seagram Murals commission consists of 30 works in total.

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

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No. 4 and No. 7 finishes for golf

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER Both the Yale men’s and the women’s golf teams overcame significant challenges at their respective tournaments this past week.

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The women’s golf team finished the first day of the Seton Hall Pirate Invitational in 11th place, but ended the contest in seventh.

The men traveled to Purchase, New York to compete in the Met Intercollegiate tournament on Saturday. Despite brutal weather conditions, with temperatures under 40 degrees and wind gusts of over 30 miles per hour, Yale finished in fourth place behind Harvard, who finished third, and Temple, the tournament’s winner.

Meanwhile, the women participated in the Seton Hall Pirate Invitational in Bedminster, New Jersey.

The Bulldogs finished the first day in 11th place but moved up to seventh by the tournament’s end.

“The main goal was to shoot 300 or less and try to win the event, and we were far from it unfortunately,” women’s head coach Chawwadee Rompothong ’00 said.

Rompothong attributed the team’s poor performance mainly to the fact that they did not get

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a practice round before playing on the first day.

Because the two-day tournament began on Thursday, in order to play a practice round, the Bulldogs would have had to miss an additional day of classes on Wednesday.

Elisabeth Bernabe ’17 stressed that while the upperclassmen had an easier time because they had seen the course before, the lack of familiarity with the terrain was an added complication for the freshmen.

“It’s tough playing a golf course for the first time … there are so many factors that contribute to the difficulty of the course like water hazards, weather conditions, tall grass,” Bernabe said. “We were not fully prepared during the first round and it took time to adjust and learn.”

After the first round, the Bulldogs would score the second lowest round two score — taking them up to seventh place. Their second round score was 304, two strokes behind Georgia’s 302. Georgia placed first in the tournament.

In addition to an unknown court, the Yale women’s team also had to play without their captain, Marika Liu ’15. Liu said she

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Though right-hander Eric Abney ’16 is a new walk-on this season, he has thrown just 3.0 innings.

BY JAMES BADAS AND ASHLEY WU STAFF REPORTERS Despite early season struggles and inconsistency from three of its most reliable pitchers from a year ago, the Yale baseball team has received a pleasantly surprising boost to its pitching staff from a trio of newcomers.

Of the six Elis who have recorded at least 15 innings of action on the mound, three are freshmen. Two of those rookies also boast the lowest earned-run averages of all 13 Bull-

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dogs who have pitched this season, regardless of innings thrown.

“These freshmen have been vital to the staff so far this year,” starter Chris Lanham ’16 said. “They have a lot of talent and have transitioned nicely from high school to college ball. We’ve relied on them in key situations and they have come through for us.”

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Yale’s long-time leader

BY JACOB MITCHELL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In 1993, the Yale men’s tennis team tied for the Ivy League championship after compiling an impressive 19–5 overall record.

MEN’S TENNIS During the very next spring, the Bulldogs entered their regular season Ivy League match with Harvard as underdogs, but upset the Crimson after Robert Pohly ’93 and Steve Griesemer ’93, clinched the match with side-byside victories at the Culmen-Heyman Tennis Center. Current head coach Alex Dorato was the interim

head coach during the 1993 and 1994 seasons, and he recalls the two episodes as possibly the greatest moments in his 23-year tenure.

Dorato referred to his position as the Yale men’s tennis head coach as his dream job.

“This job has been an honor,” Dorato said, “and I don’t think that I will ever feel differently. No matter what happens I will always be incredibly grateful for this opportunity.”

In fact, Dorato is only the fourth Yale men’s tennis coach since 1913. He follows in the footsteps of Steve Griggs, John Skillman and William Hinchliff. When Dorato first arrived at Yale after playing

college tennis at the University of New Mexico and working in Albuquerque, he spent seven years — from 1986 to 1992 — as the associate men’s tennis coach under Griggs. Dorato simultaneously served in the same position for the women’s tennis team.

“I believe that with every year that passes, I am a better coach because I know more. I try to motivate my players internally so they want to work hard for the team and for each other and for Yale.”

Dorato was awarded the Jack Barnaby Award in 2001 as the New England College Coach of Year by the United States Professional Tennis Association. During that

season, he led the Bulldog squad to another 19–5 record and a No. 56 national ranking. The 2002 team made it to its first ECAC Team Championship final since 1977, while Dorato led the 2012 team to an extraordinary 18–6 record.

Fourteen of Dorato’s 23 seasons have been winning ones. After splitting home matches with Penn and Princeton last weekend to begin 2015 Ivy League play, Dorato has lead this year’s iteration of the Bulldogs to an overall 11–7 record — on pace to notch his 14th winning season. Nine of the 11 wins this spring for the Elis have been at home in the Culmen-Heyman SEE M. TENNIS PAGE 10

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Men’s tennis head coach Alex Dorato is simultaneously Yale’s winningest coach in history and the coach with the most losses.

Women’s sailing senior discusses season

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Katherine Gaumond ’15 was named to the ICSA All-American team each of the past two years.

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consistent dominance of collegiate sailing.

Katherine Gaumond ’15 is a member of both the Yale women’s and coed sailing teams and was named to the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association All-American sailing team the past two years.

Recently, both teams were ranked No. 1 in the country based on a poll conducted by Sailing World, and so far this season the coed team has won five consecutive regattas. Gaumond spoke to the News about the Bulldogs’ goals for this year and the secret to their

there for the rest of the semester and when it actually counts at a national championship.

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does it mean for the QWhat team to be ranked No. 1 in the nation?

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Obviously that really means a lot to the team being ranked No. 1, especially for both our women’s and our coed team, it’s really exciting and shows the depth we have as well … It’s just more motivation. We want to stay

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I think to begin with, we’re really lucky to have amazing coaches, both Zach Leonard, our head coach, and Bill Healy, our assistant coach, along with … a new assistant coach, Zeke Horowitz. I think all three of them are really good at fostering a community where we’re all really

pushing each other, which is great because we’ll have practices that end up being equally as competitive as some of the regattas that we’ll be going to over the weekend … [P]lacing that emphasis on both the women’s and the coed teams makes it that much easier to push each other when we have to compete against other schools. We’re also just really close. We’re lucky that we get along sailing and we have an amazing venue, so we’re sort of intrinsically motivated there too.

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THE NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE YEARS THE YALE MEN’S TENNIS TEAM HAS WON THE ITA ALLACADEMIC TEAM AWARD. Since 1996, the Bulldogs have been the only team to win the honor.