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Record printed fake issues of the News yesterday. The lead article, titled “Campus-wide blackout hits Yale,” ran with a completely black front page photo. The issue included all joke articles such as “Three found dead,” and “Global Grounds kicked off campus,” as well as a surprisingly long list of “People Who Contribute to a Respectful and Balanced Discussion in Section.”

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Yale cuts Dutch program

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the size of the colleges as well as the method of transitioning new students into the colleges. In 2012, the administration announced that the new residential colleges would

After reviving its Dutch program three years ago, Yale will drop the language from its course offerings at the end of this year.

The University has decided not to renew its three-year hiring contract for a Dutch language lector, according to current Dutch lector Bonny Wassing. He added that the decision was explained to him as a cost-cutting measure undertaken by the Provost’s office.

To Wassing, the drawbacks of cutting the Dutch program outweigh the minor fiscal benefit of its removal.

“Of course I understand that people have to cut costs,” Wassing said. “But it’s just my salary they’re cutting.”

Yale’s program lasted three years, barely enough time to build up a reputation, Wassing said.

The program was also institutionally vulnerable, he said. It is folded into both the German Department and the European Studies Council but has no independent standing.

“I’m very sad that after building up the program for three years they’re letting all that hard work go,” said Laura Grimbergen ’15, who currently studies elementary Dutch.

But as Yale loses an on-campus language program, it stands to gain more through an online platform.

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Chemistry and coloring.

Work like a STEM major, dress like an art major. Yale Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) is hosting an “Amazing Technicolor Lab Coat Contest.” Students are encouraged to decorate lab coats of any color and are even eligible to receive free lab coats from EHS.

Adding friends. The McDougal

Center held “Dinner with Strangers” this week so graduate students can meet new friends and/or “people from outside [their] department.” Participants all gathered for drinks before being shuffled into groups and sent out to one of six local restaurants serving Restaurant Week menus: Caseus, Zinc, Barcelona, ROÌA, Oaxaca and Heirloom.

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The University has decided to alter its design plans less than a year before breaking ground for the new colleges.

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND ADRIAN RODRIGUES STAFF REPORTERS With less than a year to go before Yale breaks ground on its two new residential colleges, the Univer-

sity has decided to alter its design plans — adding more than 50 new beds and replacing some singles with doubles.

According to several senior administrators, decisions were made earlier this year to change

Star Wars. The force is with

us this weekend. On Saturday, RJ Julia Booksellers is hosting members of the 501st Legion — an international group organized around wearing screen-accurate costumes of Star Wars. Stormtroopers, officers and even Darth Vader himself will be taking part in a meet and greet.

Democracy in action.

Campaigns for Yale College Council will be underway for the next week. Positions up for the vote are: president, vice president, finance director, events director and the 24 residential college representatives.

The money shot. A new Twitter account has popped up publicizing the DFMOs of Brown University students. The Twitter handle @BrownMakeouts is posting photos of students kissing, usually on dark and blurry dance floors. The description reads “You may not remember, but we will never forget.”

Internment summer camp.

The Harvard Crimson recently ran an editorial comparing internships to “internment.”

The editorial, from the Crimson staff, argued that “unpaid internships exploit students eager to gain experience.” “Harvard should change, but more importantly, so should the myriad companies and organizations that recruit students to work for free,” the piece said.

Yale Dining vendors scrutinized

BY LARRY MILSTEIN AND POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTERS When Yale Dining dropped a bread vendor, students in the dining halls scarcely noticed.

But one city lawmaker is “appalled” by the decision, saying it calls into question the University’s commitment to local sustainability.

During a public meeting between the New Haven Board of Alders and Yale President Peter Salovey in March, Dwight Alder Frank Douglass criticized the University for terminating a long-standing partnership with Lupi-Marchigiano Bakery in the Hill neighborhood. Douglass — who worked as a chef for Yale Dining for 20 years — said abandoning the family-owned business does a disservice to the local economy.

“To sustain our community, we need to involve our community and use our local community vendors,” Douglass said.

“Are you helping out our local economy, or are you trying to destroy it?”

Lupi-Marchigiano owner Peter Lupi was surprised when Yale Dining representatives called him early last year to notify him that the University had decided to stop purchasing bread from his bakery.

Although Lupi did not have a formal contract with Yale Dining, he had supplied its bread for 60 years and did not expect a change in the long-standing relationship.

“We honored Yale,” he said.

“They would always have our best pricing.”

Director of Supply Management and Sustainability Gerry Remer did not give comment on the shift in bread vendors.

Instead, she touted the University’s support for other New Haven vendors and Yale’s commitment to decreasing environmental impact in the area. Yale obtains products from different regional and local vendors via two primary distributors, U.S. Foods and Fresh Point.

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Students participated in Tap Night festivities on Thursday evening.

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN AND NICOLE NG STAFF REPORTERS Students dining in Commons on Thursday witnessed a male student dressed as a pregnant woman pretending to give birth on a Commons table with the help of a fake midwife.

On Thursday, campus was invaded by students dressed as pink dinosaurs, astronauts and Aladdin — with his monkey sidekick, Abu — as members of the junior class sought to fulfill their induction requirements for Yale’s secret societies. Commonly known as Tap Night, the event is one of Yale’s oldest traditions and serves as the culmination of society tap week, which began on April 3.

“I was asked to be a famous fictional character,”

said a student outside Saybrook College dressed as the Super Mario character, who asked to remain anonymous.

“When [Tap Night’s] done just for fun, it’s really great.”

Many juniors were asked to keep their schedules free for the afternoon to participate in the festivities.

In the early afternoon, one junior girl donned a floorlength red cape and black mask outside the Women’s Center, reciting Latin.

“I’m reciting Latin, that’s all I’ll say,” she said.

Many students in festive attire, busy with their induction activities, declined to comment to the News.

Among these were men wearing black capes, veils and masks, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and various Disney princesses.

A female student dressed as the Little Mermaid hold-

ing a dining hall fork stood on Chapel Street and smiled at bystanders.

“I am not allowed to speak,” she mouthed to the News.

Further down on Chapel Street, a junior pretending to be Belle from Beauty and the Beast passionately sang songs from the Disney film’s soundtrack. Outside the Apple Store on Broadway, two students dressed as Harry Potter and Dobby asked pedestrians for socks.

Meanwhile, on Cross C a m p u s, two j u n i o rs dressed as Princess Leia and C-3PO from the Star Wars series stood near the Women’s Table, gesturing with their hands.

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A new kind of Cold War I

f you happen to be bored today and want a mildly seasonal, mildly repetitive, mildly outdoorsy and mildly flavored activity, here’s my suggestion: Go get frozen yogurt at every single one of New Haven’s froyo vendors.

Start with Polar Delight, then head to Go Greenly and feel mildly adventurous because you have left the official froyo district — i.e., there are no other froyo establishments within three blocks. Continue to Flavors (wave at Ashley’s, we’ll get back to that in a second) and stop in at Froyo World. Finally, for dessert, head to Pinkberry.

ENOUGH WITH THE FROYO; WE NEED A NEW KIND OF COLD WAR. WHERE IS THE ICE CREAM? It opened yesterday, which I am sure you already know.

Currently, I’m enjoying the sunshine from the benches outside of the Yale University Art Gallery and staring at the absurd line. I would estimate that the length of the line equals the average distance between any two froyo stores in New Haven. You would think they were giving out their froyo in diamond-encrusted cups. Police motorcycles sit parked outside, like they’re trying to make sure there isn’t a riot. It’s serious business.

When I think about a cold war, I think of this. The cluster of pink and green balloons marks the territory. Maybe the owners of FroyoWold who can see them from their window feel scared. I am baffled.

If there are free samples and a short line today, I encourage you to partake in the celebration of this momentous event, but I would also like to encourage you to join me in protest of a problem encroaching upon our campus.

No, I am not referring to the proliferation of chain stores on our streets — though this deserves our attention, because there are many basic necessities, such as underwear and towels, that cannot be easily acquired despite the availability of hand creams and bracelets. I’m referring to the shortage of ice cream.

Yes, Ashley’s has been

voted best ice cream in New Haven every year since Yale’s founding.

But through these many CAROLINE c e n t u r i e s , did anyone SYDNEY stop to consider that it Selfis also the Yale comAbsorbed m u n i t y ’s only icecream vendor? I don’t think this counts as a monopoly, but rather a disregarded business opportunity.

If the Yale College Council wanted to conduct a report on the State of Ice Cream at Yale, they literally could not, because Ashley’s would occupy the entire first line of the excel spreadsheet and then all the other rows would sit empty. I have nothing against Ashley’s, don’t get me wrong, but I am very pro choice.

I spent a while thinking about the cause of this shortage. Maybe dining hall ice cream, not Ashley’s, actually corners the market. But this seems unreasonable, because of the limited availability of flavors and constrained hours.

Maybe people care about their health more than the creaminess of the desserts they consume. But that also doesn’t add up because nobody truly sees health benefits in a bag of candy dumped into a puddle of yogurt.

What if ice cream just isn’t hip enough? This makes me so sad. What could be more ontrend for this spring weather than a waffle cone piled high with scoops of coffee chip ice cream? Perhaps my new robin’s egg blue flats, but I’ve always firmly believed in matching accessories. Unfortunately, Ashley’s does not sell coffee chip. I settle for mint chip. But only because I have to — I have nowhere else to go.

I cannot conceive of a single reason why ice cream lacks the firepower to start its own cold war on this campus. If temperatures remain this lovely and the creamy treat situation this dire, I may just end up ordering an ice cream maker on Amazon. Watch out Ashley’s — my coffee chip wants to be Best of New Haven in 2015.

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Save Battle of the Bands

’ve been in a band at Yale for four years and it has not always been the easiest way to spend my time. The alternative (for lack of a better word) music scene is small and it is frustrating to fight to get a handful of people to your shows.

All the while, you watch your classmate’s plays and a cappella jams fill auditoriums.

But there has always been one day of the year when the campus at large pays attention to the alternative music scene: Spring Fling.

At Spring Fling, three student bands open up the show and entertain their highly inebriated classmates while the sun shines on Old Campus. These opening slots are the crown jewels of the alternative music scene. These bands play at an event that our peers want to attend, rather than one in a basement blocks away from the center of campus or a bar with a cover charge.

Traditionally, the opening slots for Spring Fling have been chosen through WYBC’s Battle of the Bands. This has always been a great event. All of Yale’s

bands squeeze under one roof and play their hearts out for a chance to win an opening spot.

I’ve seen bands play amazing sets over the years at BOTB; I remember Jamestown bringing down the house, A Street Car Named Funk getting the whole crowd dancing, Nathan Campbell standing on his head doing bicycle kicks with Sister Helen, 9 Tigers putting on one of the most unhinged, guitar kicking, face painted sets I’ve ever seen.

The event is usually judged by a panel including a few music professors, a member of WYBC and a member of the Yale College Council Spring Fling Committee.

This year, however, it was announced that instead of the Battle of the Bands, the opening slots for Spring Fling would be decided by online voting. I emailed some of the members of WYBC to find out what was going on. YCC made the call, I was told; they had decided online voting was better. I encouraged WYBC to protest that decision and after some back-room deliberation it was decided that the Battle of the

Bands could decide one opening slot for spring fling: the earliest slot, the slot that used to be for third place.

This arrangement is wrong.

First, this arrangement has made the process of choosing the Spring Fling openers into a popularity contest. It is not the best band that puts on the best show that will get the slot, but the band with the most members who can rally the most votes.

Voting, in addition, is not even Yale-only, opening the possibility of recruitment of family and high school friends to boost their numbers.

Second, it makes the Battle of the Bands relatively irrelevant.

While WYBC has offered studio time as a prize and many bands will play because any show is a fun show, the stakes have been lowered considerably.

Third, and most importantly, it undermines the cultural currency of WYBC on campus.

WYBC is one of the few organizations on campus that tries to support Yale’s alternative music scene; they organize shows, they do publicity and they run

the Battle of the Bands. Taking away the Spring Fling opening slots from WYBC is taking away what is arguably their most visible moment of the year — and amounts to a slap in the face to the organization and the bands that they champion.

I’m sure YCC had reasons to nix the Battle of the Bands.

Maybe Sister Helen’s unfortunate last minute dropout last year encouraged them to change the rules. Maybe they were frustrated that the process wasn’t as streamlined as online voting.

Maybe they just didn’t realize the consequences of what probably seemed like a minor change in rules. I don’t really know, and honestly I don’t really care. Save the Battle of the Bands! It’s a great event, and a far fairer way to decide who gets to play Spring Fling. I hope that, in the long run, this year is seen as a bizarre experiment and not the year that Battle of the Bands started to fade.

JACOB BACKER is a senior in Morse College. Contact him at jacob.backer@yale.edu .

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Five questions for President Correa In my seventeen years on the faculty here at Yale, I have never sought to write to you.

I reach out to you today because the visit of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa was an affront to many of the values we treasure here at Yale and the United States.

Though elected to his post, Rafael Correa rules as a despot. He has all but silenced the news media in his country and has also crushed political opponents through violence and intimidation.

I attended Correa’s talk yesterday, but was not allowed to ask any questions. So here are five questions for him.

1. Mr. President, you have been criticized for attacks on freedom of expression by groups including Human Rights Watch, Committee to Protect Journalists and the U.S. Department of State for your attacks on media and civil society. Yet here you are speaking at a University that prides itself on freedom of expression and vigorous debate.

If Yale were located in Ecuador, would any considerations keep you from closing down Yale if its students and faculty dared to challenge your policies?

2. Mr. President, you have approved a law that requires public media in Ecuador to report on all issues the government considers of public interest. You were educated in the USA and have seen first hand the contribution a free press and robust civil society can bring to a nation. Why is it that you refuse

to tolerate free speech and open debate in Ecuador?

3. Mr. President, you are an enthusiastic supporter of the Castro regime in Cuba, one of the most repressive states on earth, which forbids freedom of expression to all its citizens, denies them internet access and has been condemned repeatedly by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders as one of the most flagrant abusers of human rights on planet earth.

Would you like to comment on this?

4. Mr. President, it is common knowledge that Ecuador wants to return to international financial markets to borrow money again following its 2008 default.

Yet you yourself have publicly attacked bond holders, calling them “true monsters.” Outside institutions tend to think that the rule of law and protection for investors is weak in Ecuador.

So what is the case you make for investing in Ecuador today?

5. Mr. President, your government has approved laws that give you the right to close an NGO if the government determines it has undermined “public peace.”

Pachamama, one of Ecuador’s most prominent environmental NGOs was ordered shut down

after being accused of stirring up rowdy protests. Would you like to comment on this incident and others like it?

6. Mr. President, LifeSitesNews.com reported in Jan. 6, 2014 from Quito that you had “criticized gender ideology, calling it absurd and very dangerous.” Speaking about gays, you were also reported as saying “We respect them as persons…

But we don’t share these barbarities.” Would you like to explain these statements to the Yale community?

While Correa has every right to speak freely here at Yale, and to be treated with respect, he also needs to be reminded that back in Ecuador he is denying his country the same rights that allow him to speak to us.

Dictators should never feel comfortable beyond their borders, or within them. And when they venture to praise themselves on foreign soil, they should be reminded that tolerance is a twoway street.

Carlos Eire April 10

The writer is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies.

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BARACK OBAMA “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for.”

YALE TALKS YCC PRESIDENCY GUEST COLUMNIST LEAH MOTZKIN

GUEST COLUMNIST SARA MILLER

Bringing YCC to you “I

don’t know who my YCC reps are.”

As a representative on Yale College Council, that’s something I hear an awful lot (if you’re in Branford — hi, it’s me!), which, for an organization that is supposed to represent you, is a pretty discouraging statement.

But more encouraging is the fact that it’s usually followed with, “But I do have a friend on YCC!” One of Yale’s greatest strengths is the ability we students have to organize ourselves into communities, to join up with other individuals to exchange ideas, rally around a cause, produce something. As YCC president I want to empower and support those communities which define us and our time here. I want to make sure YCC is relevant and working on issues that matter to students.

As YCC president, I will re-envision the way that the Council works.

In addition to representing residential college communities, each member will also be responsible for a different subset of Yale College life. They will attend open meetings for organizations like Dwight Hall, La Casa, The Yale Drama Coalition and Athletes in Action, and they will get to know the leadership and members of these groups. When YCC determines its goals, your rep-

resentatives will have a sense of what matters to particular subsets of the Yale community and they will bring your issues to the table.

My goal is to bring student leaders into the room with administrators to talk about the issues that are important to them and their organizations. We deserve to have access to Yale funding and resources, to have a say in how this university is run. Rather than 100 disparate groups individually trying to get the administration’s attention, let me and YCC do the work for you.

But what about the many students who don’t fall neatly into categories? How do we reach them?

For these students I plan to introduce Fix Our Campus, an online platform that will give students a direct and immediate voice. Already in use at Duke and UNC under a similar name, the site will be manned by a committee of ten students who deliver quick responses and results, addressing both larger issues and small requests that might make our lives a little more fun. I hope to use Fix Our Campus both as an agendasetting tool and as a way to increase the day-to-day visibility and relevance of YCC on campus.

These are just two of the many ideas, policy changes and hopes I have for next year’s Council. I encourage you to visit my website,

leahforyccpresident.com, to read more about my specific platform.

But perhaps even more important than policy and ideas is attitude. My friends say I am a listener.

They tell me I’m approachable. My favorite way to spend an evening is surrounded by people, talking about the things that are important to us. We all know that the best meals in the dining hall can last for hours because at no other point in our lives will we be surrounded by so many engaged and interesting people.

LEAH, BRANFORD'S YCC REPRESENTATIVE, EXPLAINS HER HOPES FOR A MORE ACCESSIBLE YCC THAT REACHES DIVERSE GROUPS As YCC president, I want to listen to you. I will be your voice, someone you can trust, someone you can be excited about. The views and opin-

GUEST COLUMNIST MICHAEL HERBERT

A YCC for everyone M

y Yale College Council presidential candidacy is, in many ways, an unlikely one. I didn’t arrive at Yale and immediately begin an FCC campaign and I do not have a particularly strong enthusiasm for student government. I have invested large amounts of my time in other organizations and find myself, in some of them, in the position for a more traditional leadership progression. Until recently, I had not given YCC much thought at all.

But as I have become more involved on campus and gained a better understanding of what makes Yale unique, I have recognized an extreme chasm between student perception of Yale and our perceptions of YCC. Yale’s campus has an extraordinary energy, an enthusiasm eloquently encapsulated in “The Opposite of Loneliness” by the late Marina Keegan ’12. There is a sense of togetherness that distinguishes Yale in a way no amount of Nobel laureates or academic awards could. It’s a special spirit felt not only when the Whiffenpoofs sing “Bright College Years” or when we pass around a Mory’s cup at a banquet, but during a FOOT group reunion, a late night at Yorkside or even just an interesting discussion in the suite.

No one can argue that our attitude toward YCC lacks that enthusiasm.

Last fall, in fact, student apathy was so profound that seven out of twelve colleges did not even have contested elections for the Council of Representatives.

Although it would be unreasonable to expect Yale students to think of YCC as highly as they regard Yale, I nevertheless believe there is a lot of work that can be done to give Yale the YCC it deserves.

Integration is a crucial component of the creation of that YCC. Towards this end, as president I will seek out student leaders and hold office hours in all of the colleges; more substantively, I will implement the YCC Pulse App at Camp Yale which will, in real time, gauge student opinion on campus issues and make YCC more accessible than it has ever been.

But if we do not create a YCC people care about, all of these efforts will be in vain. Accessibility will mean nothing if students don’t care enough to take advantage of the access. The Pulse App will go unused. Student leaders will lose interest in meetings. I will spend office hours doing homework because no one will bother to attend them.

To truly create the student government Yale deserves, YCC must lead on important issues in a meaningful way.

This past year, YCC made progress in turning ideas into tangible results, best manifested in the reinstatement of one extra day to reading period. There are other projects of a similar vein, such as

dinner swipes at Durfee’s, that I would pursue to marginally improve the life of Yale students. However, Yale is an institution that prides itself on producing the future leaders of the world. With that mission in mind, we should expect a student government capable of effecting change in realms beyond first world problems.

MICHAEL WANTS TO CHANGE STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARD YCC The most egregious failure along these lines can be found in regards to sexual assault. While CNN, the Huffington Post and Forbes all gave national coverage to the extraordinary problem of sexual assault on our campus, YCC was silent, asleep at the switch. If I am elected, YCC will lead on this issue, and not just with rhetoric but with action. I will focus heavily on reforming policies on sexual misconduct; for example, I will work to close a loophole in current disciplinary regulations that allows individuals suspended for a semester to miss only a few weeks of school.

There are other serious issues where I intend to guide YCC’s energies. Although some critical issues have already been touched by YCC, such as financial aid, the unfortunate reality is that YCC’s proposals are often superficial. As president, I will advance substantive, tangible changes. For example, on financial aid, I will seek to work on a comprehensive solution indexing the student contribution for those on full financial aid to a specific criterion, such as the Consumer Price Index, to combat its disturbing and opaque upward trend.

This past year, YCC declared itself “reinvented” following the ratification of its new constitution. However, this ratification only reinvented YCC’s structures. I am now calling for the reinvention of its soul. I am calling for a YCC that is not only accessible but also engaging, a YCC that leads on important issues and effects meaningful changes, a YCC that is a magnet not just for student government enthusiasts but also for student leaders. I am confident that I can create a YCC students care about, a YCC for everyone.

MICHAEL HERBERT is a sophomore in Saybrook College. Contact him at michael.herbert@yale.edu .

ions of the student body should hold final say — not my opinions, nor the opinions of 24 individuals who, let’s face it, aren’t as knowledgeable about the things that matter to you as you are.

I hate politics. I did not come to Yale to follow in the footsteps of former presidents and congressmen. I have not been charting my path to YCC presidency since I received my acceptance letter in the mail. I somehow fell into student government at Yale because I love this school, my classmates, this campus. My freshman year, I just wanted to be at the heart of it all, to find a way to meet as many people as I could, to have my finger to the pulse of student life and figure out what makes it tick. I wanted to help enrich this place that has already provided me with so many opportunities.

After two years, I have come to realize that YCC is not the organization I want it to be — not yet, at least.

As YCC president I will bridge that gap. As YCC president I will make the Council a direct voice for the student body. Because if it isn’t, what are we even doing?

LEAH MOTZKIN is a sophomore in Branford College. Contact her at leah.motzkin@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST BEN ACKERMAN

Give students the authority to decide W

hen I joined the Yale College Council as a brighteyed, first-semester freshman, many laughed. They chuckled not that I was a freshman interested in making a difference, but rather that student government was the means by which I expected to improve campus life.

At the time I was quite hurt, but in hindsight they were right to laugh.

BEN, YCC'S STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS DIRECTOR, WANTS TO EMPOWER THE STUDENT BODY TO CREATE CHANGE They were correct because the YCC had no authority then and has no authority now to foster any real change on campus. Even after a year filled with many successes, our undergraduate student government today still lacks the influence it requires in order to enact policies, even if ubiquitously popular amongst students.

This lack of authority is largely correlated to the decision-making paradigms of the University.

Presently, when students seek to change policies or programs, we must make a formal recommendation to administrators. Any recommendation, for the most part, will only be seriously considered if accompanied by extensive survey data and pages of reasoning. When these proposals are finally presented to the University, administrators are not compelled to act in any way; they can “consider” a proposal for any period of time, sometimes weeks, but often for months or even years at a time.

Conversely, administrators currently need not consult with students when making changes to policies or programs. For instance, when alterations were made to the academic calendar, administrators were not required to have the approval of the student body, despite its obvious

effects on all aspects of campus life. Although they might be well intentioned, administrators can sometimes make decisions that inadvertently harm students.

It is this asymmetrical decision-making, among other things, that I seek to change as president of the Yale College Council.

By incorporating student government into the decision-making process, the 24 elected Council representatives can be given the authority they require to not only engage with administrators on important decisions, but also to quickly and effectively enact the policy and program changes that we all seek. Without this empowerment of students, it will be impossible for any student body president to accomplish his or her largest goals.

Although all of the candidates have good ideas, it is unlikely that many, including my own, will become a reality without the increased authority of students. As academic minors, for instance, have been placed on (and then swiftly removed from) the desks of administrators in the past, we will likely not see any reasonable discussion without a shift in the decision-making paradigm. Previous attempts to reform our Credit/D/Fail program have failed similarly, indicating a need for a new approach.

Without the ability of our student government to achieve the objectives of the student body, I certainly understand now why my peers laughed when I told them about my involvement in the YCC. The process of empowering students will be filled with challenges; it certainly won’t be easy. Without this effort, however, undergraduates will never have the ability to impact Yale as they seek. I am hopeful that one day, another bright-eyed freshman will not be laughed at when he or she looks to improve the vibrancy and diversity of campus life through our student government.

Please visit http://ben4ycc. com to learn more about my candidacy, my experience, and my vision.

BEN ACKERMAN is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College.

Contact him at benjamin.ackerman@yale.edu .

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f I’m elected Yale College Council president next year, I will need to take out a loan. I won’t have time to hold down my four jobs, meaning that I’ll be unable to satisfy the $3,350 self-help portion of my financial aid package. I have already accepted this — in fact, it is part of the reason I want to be next year’s YCC President.

As an incoming freshman, I was promised an affordable education and I took this promise to heart. Unfortunately, I quickly realized that I would not be able to fulfill the terms of my financial aid package without holding several student jobs. Unable to find a job on campus via the Student Employment website, I took a job at Urban Outfitters for four months. In order to accommodate my course schedule, I sometimes worked as early as 4:00 am.

Sophomore year, I received my financial aid decision a month into the school year; I distinctly remember sitting at work in the Master’s Office when I realized that I was expected to earn far more money as a sophomore. I scrambled to apply to jobs through Student Employment where I, again, received no replies.

SARA, PIERSON'S YCC REPRESENTATIVE, WAS INSPIRED TO RUN FOR YCC PRESIDENT BY HER DESIRE TO IMPROVE FINANCIAL AID And this is how I found myself interested in joining student government. I had considered YCC before that moment, but honestly, until then I had lacked passion. I wanted to reform Yale’s financial aid policies and YCC seemed like the best avenue to do so.

When YCC was restructured this year, each representative was asked to develop his or her own project — I immediately asked to be assigned financial aid. My work so far has included researching and developing proposals on the student contribution, term-time employment and fellowship funding.

I have been both pleased and dissatisfied with this year’s YCC performance. I’ll forever acknowledge and applaud the dedication of the council members and executive board who spent hours debating policy and the intricacies within our constitution, but I know I’ll always question certain decisions that were made during this past year.

I began to consider running for YCC president because I was appalled by the manner in which the Council decided whether or not the President and Vice President should be elected on a joint ticket.

We voted overwhelmingly in favor of the joint ticket in November, but were told several weeks later by President Danny Avraham ’15 that we were having a revote.

After the joint ticket won a second time, Avraham sent an email to the Council during winter break arguing against the joint ticket proposal and calling for a third vote via email. When we returned to campus, we were informed the joint ticket had not passed and would not be included in our new constitution.

Uncomfortable with the revote process, I refused to sign the new constitution until we held a vote in person. The joint ticket ended up losing, and I walked away from the process with one clear thought: Democracy does not exist in a system where the policy is “revote until it’s my vote.”

As much progress as YCC has made this year, we still have a long way to go in terms of properly representing student voice.

Only with a transparent, democratic student government will we be able to push through real progress on the issues students care about. As YCC president, I promise to not only support the interests of students, but to actively fight on behalf of them.

As president I will work to ensure that next year’s sophomores are granted the right to live in gender-neutral housing. Last year, sophomores, including me, were denied the opportunity to live in a mixed-gender suite, because the administration thought we weren’t mature enough. This year’s sophomores have been denied the same right for unclear logistical reasons. Living in a safe, comfortable environment is a right that must be available to all students.

But I also intend to advocate for student interests far beyond the issue of mixed-gender housing. I will push the administration to listen to concerns about the student portions of the financial aid package. I will work with student groups to change some of the University’s approaches to alcohol consumption, mental health and sexual violence. I will work to engage STEM students on how best to funnel graduate-level enthusiasm for STEM initiatives into undergraduate life.

I know the job will be a difficult one. I will have to take out loans and dedicate more time than I ever could have imagined to the position. But it will all be worth it, if it means creating a democratic, transparent government that can finally push through results on the issues students have cared about for years.

SARA MILLER is a sophomore in Pierson College and a photography editor for the News. Contact her at sara.miller@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“We are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies.”

JOHN F. KENNEDY 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tap Night tradition continues TAP NIGHT FROM PAGE 1 dressed as C-3PO said. “But we don’t have the force actually, because I’m a robot, and she’s a woman.”

A student in a gorilla suit accosted pedestrians as they passed Berkeley College on Elm Street, tossing banana peels at their feet. He chased one passerby down Elm Street, causing her to scream and take refuge in the bushes lining Berkeley College, losing her glasses in the process.

When [Tap Night’s] done just for fun, it’s really great.

MARIO Plumber and Turtle-slayer A mock Yoshi was also spotted on Cross Campus. True to her character, she stuck her tongue out at pedestrians and pretended to lick them. A few blocks North, towards the Grove Street Cemetery, students were spotted in gray onesies carrying fishbowls.

A small “silent rave” took place at around 6 p.m. on Old Campus, featuring students dressed in black dancing without music.

Thursday’s festivities followed a week of pre-tap activities. On Monday evening, one society held a competitive and exuberant game of musical chairs in Bass Cafe for newly tapped members.

Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry reminded students in an email a few days prior to tap week of the Undergraduate Regulations and state laws that govern harassment, vandalism and alcohol and drug use. Dean Gentry reminded students to take responsibility for their actions on Tap Night and that all hazing processes, including blindfolding, would not be tolerated.

Yale’s oldest senior society, Skull and Bones, was founded in 1832.

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe. kimmelman@yale.edu and NICOLE NG at nicole.ng@yale.edu .

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The annual slate of silly shenanigans, from mock births in Commons to inexplicable costumes and gestures, descended on the campus once again this week.

New colleges’ projected population to increase COLLEGES FROM PAGE 1 comprise only single rooms. But with the addition of some doubles into the plan, the occupants of the colleges will rise from 850 to 904, said School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern. Stern’s firm, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, is in charge of the design project.

[The] combined resident population of the two colleges will be 904 students — 452 in each.

ROBERT A.M. STERN Dean, School of Architecture Provost Benjamin Polak added that the first enlarged freshman class will be moved into the new colleges in 2017, and not staggered in 2016 as previously stated.

“As faculty and deans have reviewed the plans, it has been decided to house the freshmen in suites of non-bunked doubles, and to provide for some double rooms for upperclassmen, so that the combined resident population of the two colleges will be 904 students — 452 in each,” Stern said.

University President Peter Salovey said that the motivations for the addition of doubles to the new colleges included the mitigation of crowding in the 12 existing colleges and stu-

dents’ desires to live in suites as opposed to stand-alone singles.

Under the new plans, the balance of suites and stand-alone singles in the new colleges will more closely resemble the plans of existing colleges.

Polak said many students actually enjoy having doubles, according to conversations he has had with undergraduates.

He added that the increase in the size of the residential colleges was not a financially motivated decision.

Stern said that changes in design are routine as projects evolve.

“The changes now being contemplated do not compromise the original goals and artistic vision I had for the design,” he said.

Those working on the designs, he added, are currently in the process of finalizing them for a May 1 deadline.

Polak — noting that the opening of the colleges is still three years away — said any projections for the total number of undergraduates by the time the colleges open are only estimates right now. The reason for the uncertainty, Salovey said, is that the number of beds in the new colleges and total number of new Yale College students may not necessarily be the same, since the new colleges will also help the University ease crowding in the current colleges.

Additionally, administrators noted a major change in the University’s plans for how it will introduce the new students into the colleges. Rather than stag-

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gering the transition of new students starting in 2016 and gradually increasing this number each year, Yale will now simply admit a full cohort of freshmen for the new colleges in 2017.

The University has also scrapped its previous plans to have its initial set of additional freshmen live in Swing Space during their first year when the new colleges will still be under

construction. Instead, now, the new freshmen will move directly into the new colleges.

The addition of the two new residential colleges, both on Prospect Street, was first

approved by the Yale Corporation in June 2008.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu

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Provost Benjamin Polak said that Yale’s first enlarged freshman class will be moved into the new colleges in 2017.

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“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” ARISTOTLE ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHER

Pepe’s considers Boston expansion

Gubernatorial race rests on economy

BY J.R. REED STAFF REPORTER An historic New Haven pizza restaurant could soon be establishing a new post in Boston, according to a recent online advertisement.

A Craigslist post from late last month indicated that Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria Napoletana is looking to open multiple locations in the Boston area later this year, although the restaurant has not publicly acknowledged any such plans. Information regarding the specific locations in Boston has yet to be announced.

“While the chain is actively pursuing various real estate opportunities in and around Boston … nothing has been signed, sealed, or delivered yet,” a publicist for Pepe’s said.

The manager and various employees of the restaurant’s original New Haven location declined to comment on the potential move, adding that the Pepe’s corporate office handles plans for potential expansion.

BY J.R. REED AND ABIGAIL BESSLER STAFF REPORTERS As Gov. Dannel Malloy formally enters the fray as a candidate in this November’s gubernatorial race, both his supporters and detractors will attempt to use the state’s recent economic activity to measure his time in office.

In recent months, Malloy has continually stressed that the state’s economy is headed on an upward trend. In an effort to build the economy, this Wednesday, the Governor and the Connecticut Department of Agriculture Commissioner Steven Reviczky announced an agreement that will allow the State to use more than $8 million in federal funds to boost agricultural production. Still, Republicans have pointed to the state’s sluggish economic growth overall – Connecticut had the slowest growth rate of all states in 2013 – as evidence that Malloy’s economic policies have fallen short.

“In the last three years, the private sector has grown more than 40,000 private sector jobs, the state’s long-term debt has been reduced by more than $11.5 billion, and the state budget went from a $3.6 billion deficit to a $500 million surplus,” the Governor said in a statement in March. “These are all signs of progress, however there is still more work to do.”

Several Democratic state representatives have pointed to this reduction in the budget deficit as one of Malloy’s key economic policy victories.

According to the State Comptroller’s Office, Malloy plans to invest $250 million in the Rainy Day Fund, an additional $100 million payment to state employee pensions, and $155 million in $55 tax refunds to 2.7 million taxpayers.

“The economy is improving,” said State Sen. Martin Looney, the Democratic Majority Leader. “We have been in a relatively slow recovery from the deep recession, but there are signs of improvement. And a good deal of those signs are signs of the Governor’s leadership.”

But Connecticut still ranks low compared with other states in terms of economic development and business growth due to high corporate taxation, according to Gary Rose, a politics expert at Sacred Heart University.

Malloy’sfirstyearinofficeincludedataxincrease thatexpertshavepeggedatabout$1.5billiontotal, whichRosesaidhasnegativelyimpactedconsumer spending.

“Connecticut’s economy is in terrible shape,” said Sen. Toni Boucher, a Republican and former candidate in the 2014 governor’s race, pointing to what she deemed an over-dependence on the investment sector. “We need a more diversified economy. We need to increase the opportunity for growth and make this a more conducive environment for businesses to prosper.”

Boucher critiqued the Governor’s actions toward businesses, claiming that

The chain is actively pursuing various real estate opportunities in and around Boston.

Publicist, Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria Napoletana In an earlier News article, Anthony Rosselli, one of the seven grandchildren who now own Pepe’s, said that when the restaurant was first considering opening up two locations in Connecticut, the key to the new restaurants would be to replicate the Wooster Square ambiance and to retain the legendary quality of its pizza.

Current and past Yale students interviewed said that even if it were to move, Pepe’s would still be considered a New Haven institution.

However, they did express optimism that the restaurant chain could succeed in another city.

Danielle Cassel ’92 said that she and her college friends ate out at Pepe’s at least two or three times each year, adding that she would most likely return to the restaurant in a visit back to Yale and the Elm City.

“It was a journey to get there and fantastic when you did,” Cassel said.

Cassel, who lived in Boston during her time spent at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School, said that she thought the city could be receptive to the opening of a Pepe’s unless the establishment becomes associated too closely with Yale.

She added, jokingly, that the opening might “bring out the rivalry,” on Harvard’s turf. She said that as a Yale alumna, though, she would not view a Cambridge location as a slight to the

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The New Haven institution Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria Napoletana may be considering an expansion into the Boston and Cambridge markets. restaurant’s Yale roots.

Several undergraduate Boston residents named Regina Pizzeria and Papa Gino’s as two of the city’s most significant pizza brands. They added, however, that Pepe’s could offer fierce competition.

Massachusetts resident Thomas Aviles ’16 said that he thought that Pepe’s would not be entering into a competitive market, as Boston is not known to carry a strong pizza tradition. As a result, he said that he thinks that an institutionally small place like Pepe’s would have to build support from the ground up.

“It may take a while for it to develop and be embraced by the community,” Aviles said. “If it’s in a good spot and you put out the same product, you could see it becoming a staple piece like it is in New Haven.”

The Elm City landmark has been reviewed by Zagat as serving the “best pizza on the planet” and has expanded to seven Connecticut locations and another in Yonkers, N.Y. The original Pepe’s opened in 1925 in Wooster Square.

Contact J.R. REED at john.reed.reed@yale.edu .

the Governor’s aggressive tax increases in the past several years have led to a shrinkage in the labor force as people move out of Connecticut to states with lower taxes.

She said the tax system should be adjusted to help businesses rather than giving out “little carve-outs,” referencing the Governor’s recent $55-per-person tax refund and tax cuts for retired teachers that many deemed a political gimmick on the part of the governor to bolster his re-election.

But Fred Carstensen, an economist at the University of Connecticut, said Connecticut’s taxes were not very large in comparison to the rest of the country and awarded the Governor a “B+” in his economic initiatives. “[The Governor] has been deeply engaged in trying to meet the challenge of revitalizing the state’s economy,” Carstensen said, adding that changes still needed to be made in the areas of transportation infrastructure and information technology.

The governor’s programs to help small businesses that were passed in the last few years, including state grants to small businesses to expand and hire people who were previously unemployed are now bearing fruit and stimulating employment, Looney said.

The Governor received huge support from state unions after enacting the nation’s highest minimum wage at $10.10, including Council 4 AFSCME, a union representing 32,000 state and local government employees.

“He has shown a real commitment to making sure Connecticut is a good place for working people,” said Larry Dorman, a spokesman for AFSCME. But Rose said Malloy’s commitment to the public sector, which he said stems from the prominent place of public employee unions in the governor’s constituency base, hurts the private sector.

Looking forward to the midterm election, Rose said the economy will play a “huge” role in the election cycle, as Tom Foley, one of the projected Republican candidates, is “neck and neck with Malloy.”

“This is going to be a pocketbook election - economic issues will drive voting behavior,” Rose said, adding that jobs and taxes specifically will be major factors.

While Malloy does have support from unions, Rose said that Foley could gain support for his economic policies. Foley has advocated for a line-by-line examination of every state expenditure, and he wants a more friendly business environment by specifically reducing corporate tax rates.

Connecticut residents will vote for a new governor Nov. 4.

Contact J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu and ABIGAIL BESSLER at abigail.bessler@yale.edu .

UCS offers last-minute guidance As the job hunt reaches peak season, Undergraduate Career Services is making one final push to advise students from the class of 2014 before they graduate.

In addition to offering a series of “Life After Yale” workshops to help students with their transition from college, UCS has opened a series of one-on-one job search strategy sessions in an effort to assist current seniors still considering their postgraduate plans. While all undergraduates can walk into the UCS office for a 15 minute first-come, firstserve session with UCS advisors, the office has created a separate window of time from Monday to Thursday for current seniors to have 30 minute individualized advising sessions with advisors.

Unlike the regular walk-in hours, students can sign up for these senior-specific advising sessions online at any point prior to the appointment through Symplicity, the online resource system for students that UCS adopted earlier this year.

This is the first time that the office has reached out to seniors exclusively for extended advising sessions. Administrators interviewed said this move was designed to enhance the ease with which seniors could access UCS at a critical point in the job hunt.

“This entire initiative was focused solely on enhancing seniors’ access to career advice at a potentially stressful time of

the year,” UCS Director Jeanine Dames said.

Dames added that although it was late in the academic year, the months of March and April are actually when the bulk of seniors find their jobs.

According to a report UCS published earlier this year — which compiled survey results from the recently graduated class of 2013 — more than 45 percent of the seniors received their jobs after spring break. The report, which was entitled “First Destination Report: Class of 2013,” marked the first year that UCS had collected specific data on when Yale seniors received fulltime jobs.

Both Dames and Elayne Mazzarella, deputy director of UCS and director of career counseling, said the report’s findings encouraged the office to implement these initiatives this year.

“Although we knew that many students were getting jobs at this time of the year, we did not expect the number to be as large as it turned out to be,” said Dames.

Mazzarella said this report should reassure anxious seniors that the hiring season has not ended and is actually in full swing. She added that certain industries such as nonprofits or start-ups hire most of their employees at this point in the year.

But Dames said larger firms such as Google or Goldman Sachs tend to finish their hiring earlier in the year because they are able to anticipate their hiring

needs in advance. Smaller firms are less likely to commit to hiring a student until closer to the end of the academic year, she said.

“We’ve had so many seniors who have come to us worrying that they are the only ones without a job,” she said, adding that more than 30 seniors have come to UCS during these special senior-only hours.

Still, Dames and Mazzarella emphasized that the walkin appointments are not just for students still seeking jobs.

Because graduate school decisions are still coming out, Mazzarella said many seniors come to UCS at this point of the year asking for advice about whether to defer graduate school and enter the job market. Dames said other students who have obtained several job offers may come to the office for guidance about which job to pursue.

Although these additional walk-in hours were slated to finish on April 24, Mazzarella said the office will extend the program, citing the positive feedback she has already received from students. Although UCS does not know by how long it will extend the program, Dames said it is possible the walk-in hours will remain until several weeks after members of the class of 2014 graduate and officially become alumni.

Five of the seven seniors interviewed were not aware of UCS’s new program.

Charles Kwenin ’14 said many seniors perceive UCS to be a resource better suited for under-

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classmen who are looking for internships. He added that there is a misconception amongst seniors that they are too old for UCS’s help.

Still, Kwenin and the six other students interviewed all said they appreciated UCS’s outreach and willingness to be flexible on behalf of the students.

Mazzarella and Dames said UCS will be as open and accessible to students from the class of 2014 the day after they graduate from Yale as the office was while they were still undergraduates.

Yale is one of the few schools that offers the full spectrum of career and life mentoring to its alumni — from walk-in appointments to Skype video sessions — for free, Dames said.

John Gonzalez ’14 said the office’s new online registra-

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tion system is an efficient model that other parts of the University should adopt.

“Walk-ins are very frustrating when there isn’t an online schedule undergirding it all,” he said, adding that many students complain of walking to a professor’s office hours or Yale Health only to wait for hours.

Gonzalez said he hopes UCS will use an online-scheduling system for all walk-in appointments in the future so students who need only to ask a few questions do not need to wait for long periods of time.

Matt Lawlor ’14 said he has been impressed with UCS’s developments over the past year, adding that the office has made major strides in using technology to make its services more accessible. Still, Lawlor said he

would use UCS’s services more frequently if the walk-in hours were in a more central location.

Both Mazzarella and Dames cited UCS’s annual production of a “Life After Yale” publication and associated workshops as an example of another way in which the office has traditionally helped seniors. The publication is a compact survival guide for graduating seniors, Mazzarella said, adding that the advice it gave to seniors was broad, ranging from recipes for basic food such as Mac and Cheese to information on how young adults should balance their budgets.

The walk-in sessions for seniors are from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. every Monday to Thursday.

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.”

NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU INDIAN CRICKETER

Yale Dining questioned

Dutch program comes to a close

YALE DINING FROM PAGE 1 nating directly with individual suppliers, has the advantage of reducing transportation costs and impact. Rather than having multiple separate deliveries from different vendors, the distributor requires only two or three trucks a week.

“For environmental impact and efficiency, [this] is much preferred to having multiple small deliveries stopping at all of our locations,” Remer said in an email.

Sustainability Food System Coordinator Leila Virji said U.S. Foods also provides additional advantages to Yale as it ensures proper certification and insurance in working with the vendors.

Still, Douglass said that because Yale now uses a distributor, the bread sits in a warehouse for two days in West Haven before it is delivered to the dining halls. He added that bread from Lupi’s was always fresh, saying the shop baked its bread at 2 a.m. and delivered by 6 a.m. Lupi said his understanding was that the University ended business with his bakery because it “wanted to get trucks off the road,” but added that his trucks still drive the same route, which cuts through Yale’s campus.

Remer said working with a regional distributor allows Yale Dining to gather the necessary quantity and variety of bread products to match the scale of the dining operations. She said this distributor enables Yale to streamline its ordering while also supporting local businesses such as Whole G, an allnatural bread company in New Haven.

Whole G manager Dowel Raha commended Yale for its desire to work with local businesses. She said she appre-

DUTCH FROM PAGE 1 Students who wish to take Dutch may be able to enroll in Dutch courses from Columbia University as part of a Shared Course Initiative (SCI) for the study of less commonly taught languages, Wassing said.

SCI — currently in its second year — is a collaboration between Yale, Cornell and Columbia to share low-enrollment language courses through a sophisticated video-conferencing platform.

According to Center for Language Study Director Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, the program may more than double its offerings next year.

After building up the program for three years they’re letting all that hard work go.

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Yale’s recent decision to end its contract with a local baker has raised questions about sustainability. ciates Yale’s support for her company, which values highquality products and healthy ingredients.

Virji said 37 percent of the products served in Yale Dining halls meet at least one criteria of sustainability, which include proximity, eco-sensitivity, humane treatment and fair trade.

In order to further availability and affordability, Virji suggested “group purchasing” — in which peer institutions work with suppliers to order large quantities of product as a means to allow sustainable, humane and local goods to be available at a competitive cost.

Although specific contracts for this group purchasing initiative have not been secured, she said that Yale Dining is exploring

whether this would be feasible in providing seafood and fish products in dining halls.

Sophie Mendelson ’15, student farm manager for the Yale Sustainable Food Project, praised Yale Dining’s commitment to sustainable practices and its role in the community, but said that she sees areas for improvement as well.

She said that it is often difficult for large institutions to work directly with small vendors because they cannot provide or grow the vast quantities necessary to support the operations of a school like Yale.

She added, however, that achieving sustainability is more than checking off a list of criteria and must be considered more holistically.

“It is frustrating to see the

label of sustainable in the dining halls when it can be an empty word in this context,” she said.

Virji hopes to increase communication between Yale Dining and students to create transparency about the types of initiatives already in place. She proposed posters that describe Yale’s waste practices or provide farm-level narratives describing the journey of certain foods.

On a standard menu, Yale Dining’s bread options include White, Hard Crust Rye, Stoneground Whole Wheat Hard Rolls and Tortilla Wraps.

LAURA GRIMBERGEN ’15 Yale offered eight languages through SCI this year — Classical Tibetan, Ukrainian, Tamil and Romanian from Columbia; Bengali and Khmer from Cornell; and Yoruba isiZulu from Yale itself. Dutch was offered from Yale as well, but no Cornell students enrolled.

According to Van DeusenScholl, Yale may offer around ten more languages next year from Columbia and Cornell. These languages include Serbo-Croat, Burmese, Finnish, Kannada, Nepali, Pular, Sinhala, Thai, modern Tibetan, Urdu and Wolof.

In turn, Yale may start offering more of its own language programs — such as Vietnamese, Indonesian and Greek — to students at Cornell and Columbia.

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Meanwhile, the decision to cancel Yale’s on-campus Dutch program baffles Wassing, who said his courses have seen ample enrollment from Yale students, with 11 students in both his fall semester introductory class and his current “Dutch for Reading” class.

Wassing said Dutch is a crucial research language for students across the disciplines, from art history, gender studies and water management to the history of Indonesia or of European political philosophy.

“In the whole web, we’re maybe not the spider, but we’re around the spider,” he said. “We’re not an obscure language.”

While Yale hopes to tap into Columbia’s Dutch offerings through SCI, Wassing said the plan may prove infeasible, as Columbia’s single Dutch language instructor may be unable to teach the high number of interested students from Columbia, Cornell and Yale.

The original revival of the Dutch program at Yale three years ago was assisted by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education. But while some lowenrollment languages at Yale, such as modern Greek, are sustained by donors, Dutch is not.

Wassing said the Dutch Language Union helps fund only two of around 14 Dutch language programs in the United States — the single-instructor program at Columbia and a sizable department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dutch has 28 million speakers worldwide.

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“Some day I shall be President.”

ABRAHAM LINCOLN 16TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecuadorian president speaks about national growth

BY CAROLINE WRAY STAFF REPORTER Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa believes that his country’s advance in the world will come on the heels of the government’s investment in education.

Correa addressed a crowd of over a hundred people in Luce Hall on Thursday in a talk entitled “Ecuador’s Political, Science and Knowledge Transformations.” He explored the industrial, social and political progress that Ecuador has made in the last several years.

Correa pointed to the increased social mobility in Ecuador that has occurred during his presidency, which began in 2007. His tenure has been characterized by stability — in the decade before Correa took office, Ecuador had three different presidents — and an increase of social spending in the government, precipitating a decline in poverty rates for the South American nation.

“Democracy has been established in Ecuador,” Correa said.

“And not only democracy in the form of science, but real democracy, in terms of people’s access to rights, equal opportunities and dignified living conditions.”

One in four Ecuadorians have moved to a higher social stratum since Correa took office, he said, using this change as an example of increased socioeconomic mobility. He added that the gap between the richest and poorest 10 percent of Ecuadorians has fallen drastically — though he added that it remains too large.

Correa also addressed his desire to increase scientific and technological development within Ecuador.

“That is probably the secret to the success of the United States, a nation where 10 percent control 75 percent of the wealth,” he said.

“Such concentrated economic power normally destroys a society, but it has been a system that has made possible great technological advances and with them progress that has improved life

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Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, visited campus Thursday to discuss recent transitions and improvements in the political and cultural life of Ecuador. for all.”

Correa also described how his government has worked tirelessly to improve its system of higher education. The 2008 Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly had concluded that Ecuador’s universities were of lesser quality than those in other Latin American nations, which they also deemed of lesser quality than the educational systems in other countries.

In response, the government began shutting down universities deemed unfit. Over 40,000 dis-

placed students were re-enrolled in better universities, Correa said, and the government implemented greater economic incentives for talented individuals.

Correa’s government has also established four new public universities, each focusing on their own realm of study, including technology, education, creative arts and bio-knowledge. Following these changes, Ecuador has become the nation with the highest percentage GDP spent on education.

“We have refused to accept

Supreme Court ruling hits CT

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER Though the Supreme Court’s ruling last week on McCutcheon v. FEC explicitly applied to federal elections, it could unleash a torrent of spending at the state level as well, potentially impacting Connecticut’s close gubernatorial contest this November.

The Court’s decision eliminated the cap on the total amount an individual can legally donate to national parties and candidates for federal office in a single election cycle. While the Court maintained a cap of $2,600 for donations to individual candidates, it ruled that donors can contribute that amount to as many candidates as they can afford. The ruling did not address the constitutionality of caps on spending in state elections, forcing Connecticut and 12 other states that limit such spending to scrutinize the decision and determine whether or not to continue enforcing their state laws.

Joshua Foley, staff attorney and spokesman for the State Elections Enforcement Commission, said that the Commission’s lawyers are still parsing the decision to determine the best course of action. He said it is difficult to predict how significantly the ruling will change Connecticut, which caps aggregate spending in state elections at $30,000. But, he said, the general consequences of the ruling are already clear.

“The overall effect is that more money will be allowed into the electoral process at every level,” Foley said.

“That could trickle down to have an impact that’s hard to foresee.”

He said that McCutcheon seems to affect the CT state statute that limits donor spending in a similar way to the federal limit that was struck down.

Several outcomes are possible: a donor could challenge the state law, the General Assembly could amend the statute or the Commission could simply stop enforcing it. In Massachusetts, the Office of Campaign and Political Finance announced the day of the ruling that it would no longer enforce the Commonwealth’s $12,500 aggregate limit on spending in state races.

Mijin Cha, a senior policy analyst at Demos, a New York-based think tank,

said the decision will result in an additional $1 billion in campaign spending by the biggest donors through 2020.

Ron Schurin, a professor of political science at the University of Connecticut, said the impact of McCutcheon on federal and state elections may be less substantial than many critics claim.

Very few donors are able to spend beyond the former cap, and since the Court’s decision in Citizens United v.

FEC empowered individuals and corporations to spend millions through PACs, smaller donations directly to candidates have played a lesser role in elections. Furthermore, existing restrictions on campaign spending are inadequately enforced, Schurin added.

“Every time there has been an advance in regulation of campaign finance, within a matter of weeks if not minutes, people find a way to get around it,” Schurin said.

Foley said the Nutmeg State’s aggregate limit was rarely enforced because donors were never accused of violating it.

Cha said Connecticut’s popular public financing system, in place since 2008, will help reduce the impact of the ruling by ensuring that candidates without deep-pocketed backers can afford to run. Gov. Dannel Malloy used public financing in his 2010 race against Tom Foley, who did not use public funds. Foley is the current Republican frontrunner and has not yet announced whether he will use public funds.

Because Connecticut’s public funding system is widely respected, Cha said she thinks even the elimination of aggregate limits at the state level would not push Connecticut politicians to eschew public financing in favor of private donations.

“People in Connecticut don’t want to be beholden to monied interests,” Cha said. “It’s not correct to say that politicians are fundamentally corrupt.”

Connecticut’s public financing system, called The Citizens’ Election Program, will award $6.5 million to gubernatorial candidates in the 2014 election.

Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

the classic dilemma of income inequality, where we supposedly have to choose between democratizing the system under the principle of free equity, or providing academic excellence under the principle of equality,” Correa said.

Correa also condemned the behavior of other nations, including the United States, in essentially exploiting Ecuador’s natural resources, such as those found in the Amazon rainforest, with no compensation. Correa said that in an “unjust new

world order,” Ecuador has been placed below larger, more powerful nations.

Audience member Salvatore Green from Branford, Connecticut said he was not too convinced

by Correa’s emphasis on knowledge as the new measure of world power.

Three other audience members, though, said they admired Correa’s efforts to advance Ecuadorian education and believed that his speech portrayed a rapidly improving Ecuador.

“We know that we cannot

change the unjust world order, but we will not accept the role assigned to us,” Correa said in the conclusion of his talk. “Ecuador has decided to base its development on the only sources of growth that cannot be limited: human talent and human knowledge. But we also do this in a sobering way.”

Correa is currently serving his third term as President of Ecuador.

Contact CAROLINE WRAY at caroline.wray@yale.edu .

One year later, gun bill praised

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER Connecticut lawmakers are touting comprehensive firearm restrictions passed one year ago as instrumental to a continuing decline in gun violence.

In April 2013, a bill reached Gov. Dannel Malloy’s desk that required, among other provisions, universal background checks for all gun purchases and a thorough registration process for all existing firearms. Malloy quickly signed SB1160 into law.

The bill’s final leg — widening the sweep of restrictions to shotguns and rifles — was phased in this month, marking a 12-month push to fight crime by ensuring weapons do not fall into the wrong hands. The Dec. 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School loomed large among the motivations for increased gun control.

“In the wake of one of the worst tragedies to befall our state, we took clear and decisive action to make all residents in every one of our cities and towns safer,” Malloy said in a statement. “The common sense limitations we put in place will make sure that guns are less likely to fall into the hands of someone who shouldn’t have one.”

Malloy said his office has also taken action to further expand school security resources and expand access to mental healthcare in connection with the gun-related legislation. Both areas received increased funding as a result of SB1160.

The law also completely bans the sale or possession of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines and requires permits and safety training for those who do get clearance to buy rifles or shotguns. As a result, the state removed 1,747 pistol permits and rejected 210 long-gun purchases due to red flags emerging from customer background checks.

Connecticut politicians praised Malloy’s actions and said they should be mirrored on a national level.

“Where Washington and other states have failed, Connecticut led the way with a bipartisan approach that culminated in the strongest, most comprehensive reforms in the nation,” State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney said in a statement.

Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey echoed these sentiments,

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The final pieces of Connecticut’s new gun legislation going into effect this month. directly calling upon the U.S. Congress to follow suit in order to reduce the incidence of gun violence across the country.

Statistics revealed in a March 2014 report compiled by Mike Lawlor, Malloy’s criminal justice advisor, show a reduction in Connecticut’s gun violence since 2011. Lawlor said that this drop would not have been nearly as significant without the reforms.

The report aggregates the number of shootings and homicides that took place in New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport — the state’s three most violent cities. Both figures have dropped consistently from 2011 to 2013. In 2011, the cities saw 81 homicides and 317 shootings, falling to 61 and 256 in 2012 and 56 and 214 in 2013.

“To me, a common sense approach would be to figure out which states have the lowest firearm homicide rates and figure out what they’re doing,” Lawlor said. “I think the murder rate [in Connecticut] dropped almost overnight because there does seem to be a strong correlation between access to guns and homicide rates.”

Tracey Meares, a professor at the Law School with a research specialty in criminal procedure, said that a ban on assault weapons is not likely to have significant impact on urban shooting and homicide rates, given that such incidents typically involve handguns.

Still, Lawlor said residents are more attuned to threats involving firearms, partially in response to how seriously law enforcement officials are treating the issue.

He pointed to the Dec. 2013 incident at the University of New Haven that resulted in a campus lockdown after several people called police about a suspicious individual walking around with an assault weapon.

“If you look at the facts surrounding that incident, it’s pretty clear that something was about to happen,” Lawlor said. “Someone decided to call the police after seeing something suspicious — it seems like a tragedy was avoided.”

In 2013, New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport accounted for 58.3 percent of the state’s homicides.

Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramio@yale.edu .

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“If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.”

DANNY MASTERSON AMERICAN ACTOR

Elis travel to Brown

Softball to face Big Green SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 10

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The men’s lacrosse team will look to improve on its third place spot in the Ivy standings at Brown today.

MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 10 Bulldogs all season. Perennial scoring threat Colin Flaherty ’15 leads midfielders with nine goals while classmate Shane Thornton ’15, coming off a hattrick against Dartmouth, headlines the unit with 15 points. Sophomore speedster Michael Bonacci ’15 had two goals and three points last time out against the Big Green and has totaled seven goals and 11 points on the season. Mark Glicini ’16 has become Yale’s most proficient two-way midfielder this season, thanks in part to his role as wingman on faceoffs. Glicini has six goals and 11 points on the season and had a career high two-goal, four-point day against Princeton earlier this year.

Yale’s offense, however, has by no means been prolific this season. The Bulldogs have the second fewest shots-on-goal and second lowest scoring percentage in the Ivy League. Additionally, man-up scoring has been an issue for the team so far. The Elis rank second

to last in the conference in man advantage scoring and had scored on only six advantages through eight games until converting on all five of their opportunities against Dartmouth last weekend.

“I think we need to execute for the full 60 minutes,” Mangan said.

“We have really great quarters and then drop off. We need to play together for the whole game.”

The Bulldog defense has revamped and shown its teeth this season. The Elis have conceded the fewest goals in the Ivy League and rank 10th in the nation in scoring defense with an 8.33 average. Mainstays on defense Michael Quinn ’16 and captain Jimmy Craft ’14 lead the unit in caused-turnovers and groundballs, respectively. After a seasonending injury to starting defender Christopher Keating ’17, who started the first six games of the year, juniors Alirio DeMeireles ’15 and David Better ’15 have stepped into more prominent roles on defense.

Natale has been critical to the

team’s success this year. The second year starter has posted seven games with double-digit saves, including the last five games. He has posted the 10th best goalsagainst average in the nation and the fourth most saves in the Ivy League.

“From a big save to a tough ground ball win, our defense as a whole has been playing well and fighting to the final whistle,” Glicini said. “Good defense and goaltending always gives us a chance.”

Yale will need to improve its shooting percentages on Friday night against the Bears if it hopes to come out with its fifth successive victory in the series. Brown netminder Jack Kelly leads the Ivy League in saves and is second in save percentage.

In all of the Bears’ last seven games, they have conceded 10 or more goals to their opponents. Still, the Bears have stayed in games due to a talented and deep offense. Senior captain Ben Hurster leads the Bears with 21 goals, while six players have over

15 points on the year, compared to three for Yale.

“We are going to have to do a great job of executing tomorrow,” Quinn said. “This one is a mustwin and has major implication for the Ivy Tournament. Offensively they run a lot of sets, and we are going to have to trust each other and communicate well to be successful.”

Brown had won three straight games before losing to Penn last weekend after the Quakers went on a late run to take control of the game in the fourth quarter.

The Bears lead the all-time series against Yale with a 35-22 advantage, but have not beaten the Bulldogs since 2009. The Elis will consider the game a must win if they hope to make the Ivy Tournament and keep their chance at the NCAA tournament alive.

The Bulldogs face off against the Bears at 7 p.m. this Friday night.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

Ivy League Championship Series. The Elis will look to reverse last year’s results, when they were swept on the weekend falling 10–1, 10–8 in eight innings, 5–0 and 8–0 in five innings.

Dartmouth has gotten off to a hot start this year, sweeping South Division adversaries Cornell, Princeton, Columbia and Penn in four two-game series. In its last conference game, the Big Green showed off its offensive prowess, defeating defending Ivy League champion Penn 12–1 in five innings.

Yale’s pitchers will have to contend with a difficult lineup from Dartmouth that features five players batting above 0.300 and a team average of 0.288.

Current Ivy League Player of the Week pitcher Morgan McCalmon is hitting 0.455 for the Big Green while contributing to a pitching staff that is led by pitcher Kristen Rumley. Rumley leads the team with 22 appearances and 17 games started, including 10 shutouts and a 2.08 earned run average in 114.2 innings pitched.

McCalmon is second with 51.1 innings pitched and a 2.86 earned run average.

The Bulldogs will need to match their offensive output from Wednesday afternoon, when the team poured out 10 hits the first game and nine hits the second. The Elis scored nine runs in their doubleheader against Hartford, which is its highest total over a two game span this season.

Yale is currently hitting 0.214 as a team, with only one player hitting over 0.300. Captain and center fielder Tori Balta ’14 is leading the team with a 0.382 batting average, a 0.435 on base percentage

and a .500 slugging percentage. Balta also initiates pressure on the defense as she has 11 stolen bases on the year. Both Onorato and middle infielder Laina Do ’17 had break out games against Hartford. They will look to continue their success in the batter’s box against the Big Green.

In the pitcher’s circle, the team will turn to Lindsay Efflandt ’17, who leads the staff with a 2.37 earned run average in 68.0 innings pitched.

She tossed four innings of shutout relief in the second game of the doubleheader against Hartford on Wednesday afternoon, yielding only two hits to a team that scored six runs in the first two innings.

With four games slated for the weekend, the team will also turn to other members of its experienced pitching staff, which includes seniors Chelsey Dunham ’14 and Kristen Leung ’14 as well as sophomore Rhydian Glass ’16.

Onorato said that playing teams in the Elis’ division is interesting since they play four games in a two-day span. Each team will be very familiar with the other team by the end of the weekend.

“Seeing a pitcher multiple times will definitely be an advantage for our hitters,” Balta said. “It will also give us the chance to make adjustments throughout the weekend.”

Onorato added that it will also be an advantage in terms of getting to know the other team’s hitters, noting that the teams that adjusts better usually comes out on top.

The Bulldogs travel to Dartmouth for a fourgame series, which will begin at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.

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Baseball to play key Ivy rival BASEBALL FROM PAGE 10 League, as it has won the Red Rolfe division over the Bulldogs for the past six years. Last year, the Big Green took its series at Yale 3–1 en route to a 15–5 conference record and Ivy runnerup finish. But the team has faltered this year after losing all four members of its 2013 starting pitching rotation to a higher power: Major League Baseball.

The relative inexperience of Dartmouth’s new pitching staff has led to a 4.05 conference ERA, seventh in the Ancient Eight, while Yale’s conference ERA is fifth in the league at 3.66.

Center fielder Green Campbell ’15 noted, however, that playing in Hanover will be difficult regardless of the talent that the Big Green show on paper.

“It’s tough to play at [Dartmouth’s] place,” Campbell said.

“They have a lot of fans that come out, they’re loud and they chirp a lot to us as players. As long as we stay within our realm of who we are, hard-nosed with excellent pitching and excellent defense, it’ll be just fine.”

Excellent pitching has carried the Bulldogs all season and will look to keep momentum going this weekend.

Starter Chasen Ford ’17 pitched six shutout innings in Yale’s 1–0 win over Cornell on Saturday and is expected to start the weekend off this upcoming Saturday. Michael Coleman ’14 will likely pitch game two on Saturday, followed by ace Chris Lanham ’16 and southpaw David Hickey ’14 on Sunday.

Lanham has allowed just one run in 13.1 innings pitched in conference this season, while Hickey is 2–0 in conference after seven shutout frames at Columbia last week and a 6.1 inning, two-run performance last Sunday.

Relief pitcher Chris Moates ’16 has also been stellar for the Bulldogs in the Ivy season, throwing well enough to be awarded Ivy League Pitcher of the Week last week after allowing just one run over almost seven innings of relief. “[Moates] has been a huge piece of our successes so far,” Lanham said in an email. “To have a guy that can come in and pitch well multiple times in key situations over the course of a weekend is invaluable.”

Yale also holds the advantage offensively heading into the game with 4.44 runs per game to Dartmouth’s 3.65. Like all teams in the Ivy League, however, the Big Green lineup has individual performers that pose a threat.

Most notably, outfielder Jeff Keller led the entire NCAA in doubles per game last season with 0.53 and held a .702 slugging percentage, good for fifth in the country. This year, Keller has shown a slight power outage but remains Dartmouth’s leader offensively with a .310 batting average and .494 slugging percentage. Keller is also fifth in the Ivy League with eight stolen bases on 10 attempts this season.

Though a sweep would put Yale in excellent position for winning the Red Rolfe division, Hanson said that just maintaining the three-game lead over Dartmouth would be a positive for the Bulldogs.

“Splitting the series is never a bad thing,” Hanson said. “Realistically, taking three would be an awesome weekend and taking two would be nothing to hang our head about. As long as we can take two, it’ll be a good weekend.”

Both doubleheaders will begin at noon on Saturday and Sunday.

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

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The baseball team played to a 3–1 record last weekend against Princeton and Cornell.

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2:30 PM Take a Breather: A Stress Reduction Workshop. This program provides a basic introduction to stress and its effects along with an interactive group demonstration of stress reduction techniques. This event is part of the inaugural Mental Health & Wellness Weekend, a full slate of events, workshops, and speakers designed to foster thoughtful conversation about mental health at Yale. Dwight Hall (67 High St.), Common Room.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 12 2:00 PM Film: “The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain.” Two English cartographers visit a small Welsh village to measure the “first mountain inside Wales.”

When the proud villagers learn that their “mountain” is actually a hill, they set out at once to transform it into a mountain. This film is part of the series “Welsh Landscape as Muse.” Yale Center for British Art (1080 Chapel St.).

SUNDAY, APRIL 13 2:00 PM Student Voices on Mental Health — A Panel Discussion. A panel discussion in which student speakers will share their experiences dealing with mental health issues while at Yale. This panel isn’t meant to represent every Yale experience, but the event will bring together a diverse range of perspectives.

Students will speak on managing mental health concerns at Yale, utilizing resources, and navigating campus culture. Sponsored by Mind Matters. This event is part of the inaugural Mental Health & Wellness Weekend. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Rm. 309.

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SPORTS HARVARD-YALE TRACK AND FIELD Both the men’s and women’s track and field teams will take on their archrivals at Harvard this weekend in a dual meet.

The men’s team has fallen to the Crimson the past three years after eight consecutive wins.

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BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER The No. 13 men’s lacrosse team will travel to Rhode Island for the third and final time this season tomorrow night for a crucial conference matchup with Brown.

The Bulldogs (6–3, 2–2 Ivy) are on a two-game win streak thanks to dominant play from goalkeeper Eric Natale ’15 in net and balanced scoring on offense. The Bears (6–4, 1–2) upset Princeton two weeks ago before falling narrowly to Penn last week and have relied on strong performances from sophomore goalkeeper Jack Kelly, who stands at eighth in the nation with 12 saves per game.

“This game is extremely important, as is every Ivy League game,” attackman Brandon Mangan ’14 said. “We have emphasized smart shooting this week in practice and we are ready for the challenge. A win at Brown would be a huge step forward.”

After alternating wins and losses for five straight games, the Elis have gotten back on track with an 8-5 win against Providence and a comeback blowout victory against Dartmouth last week. The Bulldogs trailed by three early in the first against the Big Green but scored the next eight goals to cruise to a comfortable victory in Hanover.

Yale’s leading attackmen, Mangan and Conrad Oberbeck

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The men’s lacrosse team will face Brown in Providence today, continuing Ivy play after topping Dartmouth last weekend. ’15, continue to head the offense.

Mangan, the 34th choice in this year’s MLL draft, leads the team with 12 assists and Oberbeck, an

all-NEILA preseason selection, sits on the top of the score sheet with 22 goals. The role of third attackman has rotated between

three players early in the season.

Freshmen Jeff Cimbalista ’17 and Austin Rocco ’17 have received a fair amount of playing time, but

Baseball heads north to Hanover

BY GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTER

recently sophomore sniper JW McGovern ’16 has turned it on with nine points in his last four games.

The softball team will begin the second half of its conference schedule against the North Division defending champions Big Green on Saturday afternoon.

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The Bulldogs (12–15, 5–3 Ivy) will go head-to-head with the Big Green (7–16, 2–6) for a fourgame series. Because Dartmouth will most likely be Yale’s main competition for the top spot in the Ivy League’s Red Rolfe division, the series will have large implications for either team’s chances of making the Ivy League Championship Series.

Yale currently holds a threegame lead over Dartmouth in the Red Rolfe division and could either extend that lead or lose it in the games this weekend.

“It’s a big weekend because Dartmouth is the favorite every single year,” captain and shortstop Cale Hanson ’14 said.

“They’re off to a rough start, but they’re the team to beat in our minds. We’re going to be putting our best foot forward and hopefully we come out on top.”

Of the three Ivy opponents that Yale is yet to face, Dartmouth may be the strongest, having taken games from Cornell and Columbia in the first half of the conference season, but the team has still experienced a significant decline in the past year.

Dartmouth is traditionally a perennial powerhouse in the Ivy

Yale (5–23, 1–7 Ivy) will face stiff competition against Ancient Eight foe Dartmouth (19–13, 8–0). The Bulldogs have a tough task ahead of them

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The baseball team will play four games at Darmouth this weekend in Hanover.

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Softball prepares for Dartmouth

The Yale baseball team has built up significant momentum in the first half of its Ivy League season, jumping out to its best record through the first eight conference games in six years.

This weekend at Dartmouth, the Bulldogs’ performance may determine whether or not that momentum can translate to a playoff spot.

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A quartet of midfielders have consistently produced for the

this weekend, when they will play a team that remains undefeated in the Ivy League this season.

“Dartmouth is always a tough opponent,” said catcher Sarah Onorato ’15. “I think we need to just continue to get cuts in the next two days and get as many reps as we can for our defense to keep moving in the right direction to get a few wins this weekend.”

Last season, the Big Green claimed the North Division title with a 15–5 record before falling to Penn in the SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 8

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The softball team will travel to New Hampshire to play against Dartmtion.

NUMBER OF PLAYERS THAT CONTRIBUTED GOALS IN THE MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM’S 16–10 VICTORY OVER DARTMOUTH LAST SATURDAY. The Elis will continue Ivy play today, traveling to Providence to take on Brown.