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CROSS CAMPUS 14,400 minutes. That is, more or less, how much class time remains in the school year.

Make ‘em count.

Thanks, Obama. As excited

as much of Yale was to have United States Vice President Joe Biden as this year’s Class Day speaker, we all just got one-upped by our neighbors at the Coast Guard Academy. On Friday, it was announced that Biden’s boss, President Barack Obama, will be delivering a commencement speech at the New London, Conn., academy on May 20.

Breaking news. Hillary Clinton

LAW ’73 did, in fact, officially declare her plans to join the hunt for Obama’s current position as part of the 2016 presidential election. But something — perhaps the very quick appearance of official Yale for Hillary social media campaigns — tells us that this wasn’t exactly unexpected.

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But not in Phelps Hall.

Two sororities vie to expand to Yale.

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s the nation focuses its attention on campus sexual misconduct, students, administrators and activists alike turn to data for answers. But low reporting rates mean most stories go untold — leaving universities largely unguided in their efforts to address a widespread yet simultaneously highly particular problem.

VIVIAN WANG reports.

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BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER On Dec. 2, 2014, thousands of students, faculty and staff in Woolsey Hall burst into applause as former United States President Jimmy Carter confronted University President Peter Salovey about Yale’s sexual misconduct policies.

“I read one article on the way up here ... and it pointed out that Yale has in previous years … [students who] had been guilty or admitted that they committed sexual assault, and they had not been expelled,” Carter said.

Carter was citing an August 2013 Huffington Post article

about Yale’s controversial July 2013 Report of Complaints of Sexual Misconduct. While the report concluded that four students were found responsible for engaging in nonconsensual sexual acts, none of them had been expelled, and only one was suspended.

Carter’s remark soon spread across the Internet, from Twitter to Inside HigherEd and back to the Huffington Post. But Yale was quick to distance itself from the criticism.

Karen Peart, the University deputy press secretary, told the News later that day that the original Huffington Post article had not correctly stated the facts. Indeed, the article states that Yale “found six students guilty of ‘nonconsensual sex,’” but the language of the report itself points to “certain nonconsensual acts during otherwise consensual sexual activ-

Almost. This weekend, many freshmen dressed in odd garb and yelled nonsensical things throughout Old Campus.

No, there’s no such thing as Freshman Tap (yet): Saturday’s festivities were part of Freshman Olympics, which Saybrook won. About time they had something go right.

Do better. Over the weekend,

The New York Observer wrote about a WYBCX interview with Robert Storr, dean of the School of Art, who took aim at art critics everywhere for not being “interesting enough.”

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ity” in several of the cases. The cases in question involved violations of Yale’s more “stringent” definition of consent as positive, voluntary and unambiguous, Peart said.

But the conflicting explanations reached by Yale administrators and Carter indicate a problem beyond punishment or definition. They illustrate how even experts in sexual misconduct policy can be confused by the limited data on campus sexual misconduct.

Indeed, as Yale — and campuses across the country — races to address a burgeoning nationwide conversation about sexual assault, policymakers, politicians, university counselors and students alike are faced with a lack of quantitative information. Instead, vague reports and anecdotes dominate the conversation about a problem that, more often than not,

Kissinger examines “world order”

last two items, it would only be fair if we gave an update on a fourth major player during the 2008 election, Mitt Romney.

The two-time Republican nominee visited Harvard, his old stomping grounds (for both law and business), on Friday to speak about paths from the private sector to the public sector. “If you get the chance to run for president, do it. It’s great,” Romney told students gathered, according to The Harvard Crimson.

FOMO. Some members of the class of 2017 who just could not wait another year for *actual* tap season participated in Junior Tap Night yesterday. If you were serenaded by students dressed as cowboys or Spongebob or lions, now you know why.

Crepes Choupette to open shop on Whitney Avenue.

In sexual misconduct, data offer limited guidance

Remember him? Given the

“Pay attention to me!” All this talk about the actual presidency makes it easy to forget that campus just recently elected a new Yale College Council president.

But, so as to make sure that we don’t actually forget about him, President-elect Joe English ’17 sent out a college-wide email Sunday night to solicit interest for his Executive Board.

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occurs behind closed doors.

Administrators acknowledge their inability to know either the true incidence or reporting rates of campus sexual misconduct. Left out of every SemiAnnual Report of Complaints of Misconduct — which lays out all the complaints that come to the University’s attention in a period of six months, as well as their outcomes — are the students who do not tell their stories, at least not to administrators or police. “[Sexual assault] goes on at all the universities,” Carter said.

“But I think the main thing is to let the students know what is going on and teach them if they want to know what can be done in case there is a case of sexual assault.”

The question, then, is this: What exactly is going on?

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English ’17 elected YCC president

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versity President Peter Salovey, Ferguson and Kissinger discussed how historical peace treaties, such as the Treaty of Westphalia or the Congress of Vienna, could be used to understand present circumstances more clearly.

“There’s never been a world order before. What used to be considered world order was a regional

With 68.25 percent of the student vote, Joe English ’17 cruised to victory in this year’s Yale College Council presidential election. While English received 1,225 votes, his opponents — Ben Martin ’17 and Andy Hill ’17 — garnered 316 and 254 votes, respectively. Maddie Bauer ’17 was elected YCC vice president in an uncontested race.

“I’m so excited to be serving Yale as president of the YCC next year,” English said upon learning thathe had won. “I’m excited to bring the YCC to students and work with different student organizations, as well as the administration, on a whole host of issues.”

This year’s race saw a dramatic drop in turnout, with 825 fewer votes cast this year compared to last.

During his campaign, English ran on a platform of pursuing five policy areas.

These included continuing current YCC initiatives such as reforming mental health policies while also pursuing new projects, such as the creation of a task force on campus dining and a comprehensive evaluation of distributional requirements.

English said his first order of business will be to meet with members of the Yale Corporation on Friday. During the meeting, he plans to address a variety of issues ranging from reforming financial aid to improving the cultural houses. The YCC also began its search for candidates to

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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger spoke about the need for a re-examination of the 21st century world order.

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER Nobel laureate and two-time Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger spoke on Friday to a full Levinson auditorium, calling for a re-examination of the 21st century world order.

Hosted by the Yale Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy, Kissinger was joined

by Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson to discuss possibilities of what the world order will look like in 2025, using diplomatic history as a tool for predicting the future.

Kissinger drew on his extensive diplomatic experience in China and the Middle East, explaining the complexity of establishing order in a world with diverging conceptions of international norms.

After opening remarks from Uni-

Athletic donations charge set to increase

BY GREG CAMERON AND LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTERS Beginning next fiscal year, should a Yale donor give $1,000 to one of the 18 alumni sports associations, just $880 of that sum will directly fund the team that the association supports.

On July 1, 2012, the Provost’s Office began to extend its indirect cost recovery policy, which charges a 12 percent administrative fee to all gifts not restricted for capital projects or endowment funds, to all departments, including athletics. Officials planned to implement the change using a three-year transitional period in which there was no fee in

2012–13, a 6 percent charge in 2013–14 and the full 12 percent assessment in 2014–15.

But according to Jim Millar, a member of the Yale Crew Association and president of the Yale Sports Federation, the University is now applying the 6 percent charge for two years, concluding this July, when the charge will increase to the 12 percent target. Millar, however, did not know the exact timing of the implementation, and University administrators declined to comment on the specific timeline of Yale’s gift giving policy.

“About four years ago, [University officials] reaffirmed that the long-standing policy regarding an assessment for indirect costs for expend-

able gifts should be applied in a fair and consistent way,” Deputy Provost for Academic Resources Lloyd Suttle wrote in an email. “Other than [assuring] that this policy is being applied across all schools and departments of the University, there is little I could or would wish to add.”

Annual giving from these associations is one of three methods by which teams receive funds for their operating expenses. Endowment returns, which are not charged an assessment, and institutional support from the University are the other two elements of team funding, according to Millar.

According to a letter that Director of Athletics Tom

Beckett sent to athletics alumni in October of 2013, the rationale for implementing this 12 percent assessment on athletic donations was to ensure that the administrative costs necessary to sustain the full functioning of the University, such as support services, facilities maintenance and business operations, could be met.

Beckett’s letter noted that in the past, most gifts to athletics and a few other departments had been exempted from this “cost recovery policy.” As a result, the University planned to phase in the assessment over three years, which would allow departments sufficient time to adjust their long-range financial plans and ensure the policy is understood by donors, he stated.

Despite this explanation, an alumnus of the University, who wished to remain anonymous, expressed confusion about the reasoning for the charge. He noted that a smaller fee might be reasonable, but that 12 percent is excessive.

“This whole thing has a bizarre feel to it,” the alumnus said. “How do you get to 12 percent? No one has presented any justification for it.”

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or a nation born out of religious liberty, recent poll numbers reveal a country sharply divided over current religious freedom proposals in Indiana and Arkansas. Within the Democratic Party and among young voters, there is little disagreement on where they stand. (Spoiler: They’re opposed.) But this need not always be the case. In fact, progressive communities such as Yale should lead the charge in supporting religious liberty.

Take for example, life-long Democrat and two-time Chair of the U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom, Katrina LantosSwett '74. During her visit last Friday to the Yale Law School, Lantos-Swett lamented that religious freedom is increasingly a partisan lightning rod.

And yet, as a proud New Hampshirite, Lantos-Swett is not only fighting for religious freedom, but also coming precariously close to making good on her state’s famous motto, “Live Free or Die.” Indeed, earlier this year, when Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi was sentenced to 1,000 lashes for criticizing powerful religious leaders in his home country, Lantos-Swett went beyond the condemnatory press release — she actually volunteered to take lashes on Badawi’s behalf.

The effort appears to have helped abate — at least temporarily — the egregious punishment.

The daughter of two Holocaust survivors (her father is the late Democratic congressman Tom Lantos), Lantos-Swett is a convert to another minority faith, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her background, she says, has helped shape her into a progressive who is deeply passionate about religious liberty — a rarity these days.

“Religious liberty is freedom of conscience,” she says.

“It is the freedom to believe and live that belief or the freedom to not believe at all — sometimes atheists are the most persecuted groups in authoritarian regimes.”

According to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, approximately 75 percent of the world’s population currently lives under high or very high restrictions on belief or religious practices. While some countries, such as China and North Korea, stifle religious activity, others such as Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia deploy blasphemy laws to enforce — often by threat of death — rigid orthodoxy. Nor is the West immune from religious illiberalism.

After the Charlie Hebdo attacks earlier this year, 18,000 marchers took to the streets of Dresden, Germany to protest

Muslim immigration. Meanwhile, across Europe, there are increasing pockets of anti-Semitism.

Lantos-Swett is troubled by what she sees. Serving her second stint as the Chair of the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, she and her fellow commissioners are charged with reviewing religious freedom violations and then recommending policies to the President, State Department and Congress.

Though Democrats and young voters in the U.S. are often hesitant to take up the banner of religious freedom, President Barack Obama eloquently reminded us in 2009, “Freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one’s religion. … That’s why the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab and to punish those who would deny it.”

Indeed, as Lantos-Swett could tell you, the story behind her state’s motto is similarly instructive.

In the 1970s, New Hampshire decided to place the motto “Live Free or Die” on all noncommercial automobile license plates. Soon, however, Jehovah’s Witness George Maynard began covering up the words “or Die” on his license plate on religious grounds. As a Jehovah’s Witness, Maynard did not believe in death. God's Kingdom “offers everlasting life,” he explained.

But there was only one problem: Altering the license plate was a violation of the law.

Consequently, Maynard was charged, convicted, nearly jailed and repeatedly fined.

And still he adamantly refused “to be coerced by the State into advertising a slogan which [he found] find morally, ethically, religiously and politically abhorrent.”

Taking up the case, the Supreme Court eventually ruled on Maynard’s behalf, upholding “the individual’s right to hold a point of view different from the majority and to refuse to foster … an idea they find morally objectionable.”

For those who face physical and mental oppression for their beliefs, including Badawi (who still remains imprisoned), the issue of religious freedom is unquestionably a matter of “Live Free or Die.” While Republicans will likely continue to champion this cause without prodding, progressives should not let political bickering blind them to religious liberty’s unfinished work both here and abroad.

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work, talked or slept. When a d m i n i s t ra tors scurried by, we made a path for them.

When we were asked to keep down the volSCOTT ume, we did.

STERN Sitting in wasn’t terribly A Stern comfortable.

Perspective Those marble floors are hard, and administrators wouldn’t let allies on the outside bring us food. It got really hot in there.

Many protesters were preparing to sleep in Woodbridge that evening. There have recently been sit-ins for divestment at colleges across the country, including Harvard, Bowdoin and Swarthmore. At several of those sit-ins, the protesters spent the night.

Their universities didn’t stop them. I began to consider whether or not I was willing to sleep there.

But then Yale did something I didn’t expect: Administrators told FFY they would arrest protesters if we didn’t leave when Woodbridge closed at 5 p.m.

This surprised me because it has few recent precedents: No one has been arrested for any of the divestment sit-ins occurring across the country. Indeed, Swarthmore’s has gone on for nearly a month, with no end in sight and with no arrests to report.

University Secretary and Vice

President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews read us a statement, telling us in one breath how much Yale wanted to engage with students and that we would have to leave immediately or risk arrest and possibly “permanent separation from the University.”

This was a really dumb move

by Yale, and not just because it was gratuitously excessive. It was dumb because it showed the world that Yale administrators would rather threaten students than engage with them on any terms but their own. It’s bad PR, and they know that the Yale name makes headlines. This could — drumroll please — hurt their yield.

I opted to leave the building when asked and thus not to risk arrest. This decision is not something I’m terribly proud of; it was motivated by a variety of factors, including a desire not to hamper my admission to the bar one day, where, hopefully, I can do some good. But, remarkably, 19 students stayed.

Yale Police Department Chief Ronnell Higgins told the protesters, “If anyone here does not want to leave, then you will be arrested.” The protesters didn’t leave, so the police arrested them for trespassing, issued them a fine and told them to exit out the back.

And then the truly messed up thing happened. Later that evening, University spokesman Tom Conroy and Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith claimed these weren’t formal arrests. Rather, they were just the

issuance of infractions. In spite of Goff-Crews’s threats and Higgins’s affirmative statement, in spite of what police told students, University officials maintained no one was actually arrested.

This is dishonest. This is an attempt to keep the Yale name out of the Times. By doing this, the University not only threatened to arrest its own students for nonviolent, non-disruptive protest. It lied to them.

I speak for no one but myself, but I don’t think many protesters would have left Woodbridge at 5 p.m. without the threat of “arrest” — with all the brutality and force and compulsion that word entails. Students were told, if you don’t leave, we will arrest you. They didn’t leave; they were thus arrested. In a statement, FFY reported, “our legal counsel confirms that arrests took place.”

University officials made very clear what was happening — literally telling the students they were being arrested — but, later, in a craven attempt to avoid controversy, changed their story.

In so many ways, Yale no longer operates in good faith.

And yet, let’s remember that at the end of the day, as the 19 were being arrested (or whatever), hundreds of supporters linked hands and entirely encircled Woodbridge and sang and chanted. Our last chant was, “We’ll be back.”

SCOTT STERN is a senior in Branford College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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n Thursday morning, I was sitting in seminar, as usual, when I got an email alert telling me that 48 Fossil Free Yale members had entered Woodbridge Hall and weren’t planning on leaving any time soon. I emailed a friend of mine in FFY, and she invited me to join. So, immediately after class, I ran over, entered Woodbridge and sat down. I would remain there for the next six hours or so. What follows are a few jumbled thoughts on the sit-in.

Let me get something out of the way: I don’t speak for FFY. I played no role in planning the sitin. At the end of the day, I opted not to risk arrest. FFY organizers are brave activists who planned and executed an action I deeply admire. I’m a guy who writes about stuff.

That said, I was present at the sit-in from roughly 11:30 a.m. until we were kicked out at 5 p.m.

So I have some insight into what happened at the sit-in.

A little before 9 a.m. on Thursday, 48 FFY members entered Woodbridge and presented University President Salovey with a bouquet of flowers and a polite demand. They were not asking Yale to divest on the spot; they were simply asking the University to publicly state its willingness to reconsider divestment. Otherwise, they wouldn’t leave.

Hannah Arendt has written about the banality of evil; when I got to the sit-in, I began to witness the banality of fighting evil.

Those sitting in just tried to do

On stolen phones I

’ve always been a city kind of kid. I like the sidewalk singers and the chalk drawings on cement, and I like that you can always find somewhere to buy Skittles at 3 a.m.

I like the noise — the sirens, the garbage trucks, the sound of your neighbor watching Netflix on the other side of the kitchen wall. I like the sort of affectation that people get when they talk about growing up in New York, not the Upper East Side or Brooklyn but the real New York stripped of stereotypes and clichés. I like the grime.

So I can’t say I was really fazed

by Yale’s freshman year security warnings. I figured they were aimed at my classmates coming from middle-of-nowhere Montana. I laughed when my friends from high school called it “pistol wavin’ New Haven.” I walked home from the library at 5 a.m.

Sometimes I went on midnight runs, zigzagging along Chapel and Crown more focused on my Spotify playlist than on any potential safety threat.

I felt like New Haven quickly became my home (corny, but real).

I grew to love this city, the food and texture and colorful, fraught history. I guess I sort of did it by separating out my own experience from news articles and crime

reports. I drew a line, detaching my version of the community from my classmates’ somber conversations about EMMA own-gown GOLDBERG trelations and the murder Dilemmas of Christian Prince ’93.

Which all worked out okay until this past February.

It was 11 a.m. on a Tuesday and it was gross and gray and my friend and I were pretty proud of ourselves for deciding to go on a run. We started out on Orange and jogged up toward East Rock.

Heading up Farnam Drive, we were grabbed by a man passing by who pretended to have a gun.

“Hey, I need to talk to you,” he said, gripping our arms. He then demanded we give him our cell phones.

That was it. It all happened too quickly for us to really be scared.

Later, sitting in a cop car, we collapsed laughing and realized our mugger was pretty attractive.

The police officer looked deeply confused. That evening I forwarded Chief Higgins’s email to my roommates and enjoyed the

brief moment of celebrity. It felt kind of cool, like "CSI: Miami" meets "Broad City."

YOU CAN’T LIVE ONE VERSION OF NEW HAVEN AND THEN HAVE LOFTY PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATES ABOUT ANOTHER. That’s not to say it wasn’t scary. I spent a few weeks convinced that even the mildest senior citizens passing me on Elm were trying to rob me. It still freaks me out getting emails that notify us of muggings at 11 p.m. right by central campus.

Feeling any sort of fear, though, brought on a kind of guilt. Is an East Rock mugging really the worst thing in the world? I don't really think I have the right to get worked up. Not when other residents of this city fear street violence on a daily basis, fear even call-

ing for the police because they haven’t been given reason to trust the law enforcement in this city. It was all a reminder of my own dumb naiveté, and also a reminder of my own privilege.

But it was also a reminder of something more important. Anyone can go around pretending that their experience of New Haven doesn’t overlap with the stereotypes and textbook readings on town-gown tensions, but that only works for so long. It’s easier to make a city home by pretending its crime and grime and corruption don’t apply to us, but that also isn’t real. You can’t live one version of New Haven and then have lofty philosophical debates about another. At some point, those two visions of this city are going to bump up against each other.

And you can’t really get attached to just one dimension of a place. Cities are complicated. That’s what makes them worth sinking into. At the end of the day, maybe the price of this city’s color and complexity is a stolen phone or two, but that’s alright by me.

EMMA GOLDBERG is a junior in Saybrook College and a former opinion editor for the News. Her column runs on alternate Mondays. Contact her at emma.goldberg@yale.edu .

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“You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections: There is nothing like it in this world.” CHARLOTTE BRONTE ENGLISH NOVELIST AND POET

New sororities present pitches to students

BY JON VICTOR STAFF REPORTER This past weekend, Chi Omega and Alpha Phi, the two sororities vying to come to campus next fall, introduced their organizations and outlined their plans for a potential chapter at Yale.

Roughly 25 students attended each presentation, which took place in Linsly-Chittenden Hall and ran approximately 90 minutes. The presentations focused largely on the sororities’ founding values and their respective service initiatives. Representatives from Chi Omega described the organization’s partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, while those from Alpha Phi discussed their own Alpha Phi Foundation, which provides yearly grants to support women’s cardiac research. Among those addressing the students were alumni, presidents of other chapters and the sororities’ respective executive boards, including each organization’s national president.

“They both had strong presentations,” said Jéssica Leão ’16, president of Yale’s Kappa Alpha Theta chapter.

She said she appreciated that both were committed to providing consultants — adults who live in the sorority to provide guidance to the sisters — in New Haven and that they each planned to set up a facility near campus like Yale’s other sororities.

Still, she declined to identify which sorority she favored,adding that it was too early in the deci-

sion process and that the question has not yet been put to a formal vote. The Panhellenic Council will vote by May 1 for which organization it will invite to campus, Leão said.

Payton Gartman, director of extension for Chi Omega, said the sorority is looking to recruit roughly 100 sophomores, juniors and seniors for its charter class in fall 2015. Then, she said, they could recruit enough freshmen to bring the chapter up to standard size during the traditional rush process in January.

However, Megan Bouche, director of extension for Alpha Phi, said it would take several years to get a new Alpha Phi chapter up to full capacity.

“We want it to grow slow and methodically, so that each formal recruitment class is an equal size as we develop the chapter,” Bouche said. “Our experience has told us that women at Yale are going to want to see what it’s like before a lot of them want to join.

Women at Yale want to join established chapters.”

Cassidy Rosenthal, manager of collegiate extension for Alpha Phi, said the organization would work with the Yale Panhellenic Council to specifically target students who withdrew from recruitment this year, and to have channels through which students in Greek life could recommend women who are not in sororities.

While Gartman said a Chi Omega Yale chapter would be the sorority’s only expansion project this year, Bouche said Alpha

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Representatives from the sororities Alpha Phi and Chi Omega introduced their organizations to Yale students this past weekend.

Phi will be setting up chapters on three other campuses — at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Mississippi and the University of North Florida — in addition to a potential chapter at Yale.

Alpha Phi Executive Director Linda Kahangi said the orga-

BYX finds space on Crown

BY JIAHUI HU STAFF REPORTER The four-story building near the corner of High and Crown Streets is set to become a new center of religious life at Yale — not exactly a house of worship but a fraternity house.

Seven members of Yale’s second-newest fraternity, Beta Upsilon Chi (BYX), signed a lease last week for a property on 279 Crown St., where they will move this fall. The new BYX house, owned by property management company Pike International LLC, is proximate to three existing fraternity houses on High Street and between two sorority houses on Crown Street. Unlike other Greek organizations at Yale, however, BYX is centered on the Christian faith. Members regularly meet to worship and discuss their beliefs and values, BYX President Alex Green ’16 said. He added that because the BYX chapter at Yale maintains a smaller group, comprising roughly 20 students, the house will be used for small events that foster brotherhood rather than for large parties.

“At the present time, we don’t see ourselves ever being compared to or similar to other large fraternities on campus that throw large social events,” Green said.

“That’s not our goal, first of all.

And second of all, [the smaller size] is more comfortable for us.

The smaller social events allow us

to develop stronger and more personal relationships better.”

The 279 Crown property is currently used not as a residence but as a meeting space, and it does not have full bathrooms or bedrooms.

Green said Pike International will be converting this space into a more livable housing unit over the summer by adding single bedrooms and bathrooms.

In addition to meetings, the new house on 279 Crown will also host date nights and may host mixers with other groups on campus, Green said. He added that one of the group’s goals is to work with the ministries on campus to increase engagement with New Haven through community service.

Green said that unlike BYX chapters at large universities in the south — such as Texas A&M, Oklahoma State University or University of Alabama — Yale’s chapter is small because religious culture on Yale’s campus is less prominent. At Yale, BYX has a smaller pool of people in Christian communities on campus from which to draw, said Green.

Christian organizations on campus include Yale Faith and Action, Yale Students for Christ and Athletes in Action.

Since BYX started its chapter at Yale in the fall of 2012, the group has held meetings in Linsly-Chittenden Hall as well as the AfroAmerican Cultural Center and the Native American Cultural Center.

Both Green and BYX member Travis Reginal ’16 said the house will allow the group to hold more frequent and informal events.

Although Yale’s BYX chapter is designed to strengthen its members’ Christian faith, the group is not limited to Christians. Still, Green said only those interested in growing their Christian faith choose to rush, given the high intensity and religious focus of the group’s activities.

Ethan Young ’18 said he considered joining BYX but ultimately decided against it because some of the ceremonial aspects of the organization, in addition to the concept of a closed society, do not fit the specific tenets of his Christian faith.

But, Young said, BYX is one of the few venues on campus for men to come together and discuss their Christianity. BYX also emphasizes respect for women and safety in consuming alcohol, values which are generally not associated with fraternities, Young said.

“I think a group of Christian guys who are gathering together to strengthen one another in their faith is a very rare thing,” Young said. “It’s definitely something that they can benefit from and that our community can benefit from.”

BYX currently has 35 active chapters across the country.

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

nization has already started searching for a house for the new chapter and has identified some potential properties in New Haven. In addition, Kahangi said some chapters of Alpha Phi — including those at Harvard and Stanford — offer need-based financial aid to help students

pay their membership dues.

At the event on Saturday, Tori Gill, a senior and president of Harvard’s chapter of Alpha Phi, shared her background as a founding member of the sorority, which she said enhanced the experience.

“I went from a girl who never

wanted to be in a sorority to the president of a sorority, so I think that speaks to the power of starting [one],” she said.

The last sorority to come to Yale was Pi Beta Phi in 1989.

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

28 years later, Ward 5 to change hands

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER A new face will soon represent the Hill neighborhood on the Board of Alders, as its longstanding alder takes his leave of New Haven politics to assume a statewide position.

Board President Jorge Perez, who currently represents the Hill neighborhood as alder for Ward 5, resigned from his seat Friday after he was unanimously confirmed as Connecticut’s banking commissioner. Gov. Dannel Malloy appointed Perez to the position in February, citing his 25 years of experience in the banking sector as proof that he would serve the state well. Perez currently serves as senior commercial lending officer for Liberty Bank on Church Street. Last Friday, the General Assembly voted 36–0 to confirm Perez.

“There are a lot of emotions that come with resigning,” Perez said. “But I look forward to serving in my new role.”

Although Perez said he stepped down from the Board on Friday, his resignation is not yet effective. Currently, Perez — still a member of the Board’s Finance Committee — is involved in public hearings and workshops concerning Mayor Toni Harp’s budget proposal for the 2015–16 fiscal year.

The city will hold a spe-

cial election to determine who will finish Perez’s term as alder. Perez said he has thus far only spoken to one candidate — Johnny Dye — who has expressed interest in taking over the Ward 5 seat. Dye currently serves as a co-chair in Ward 5, helping to lead the neighborhood’s ward committee.

There will only be a special election if additional candidates come forward, Perez said.

According to Democratic Town Committee Chairman Vincent Mauro, after Dye is formally endorsed by his fellow co-chair to run for Perez’s seat, there will be a period of several weeks for petitioning candidates to collect signatures to appear on the ballot. If there are no petitioning candidates, Mauro said, Dye will take over as Ward 5 alder for the remainder of Perez’s term, which lasts until the end of this year.

Dye told the New Haven Independent last Thursday that, if elected, he only plans to serve as Hill alder for the period between Perez’s resignation and the end of the term. He does not plan to run again for the seat in November, he told the Independent. Meanwhile, Perez said he expects more people to run for the seat during the election in November.

City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said that, in the case of an uncontested special

election, the turnover of the Hill seat will be overseen by city clerk Michael Smart.

Grotheer added that, while Perez’s 28 years of experience in municipal government would be missed, the mayor is confident that he will advocate for New Haven in his new role as banking commissioner.

“The mayor recognizes that New Haven’s loss will be the benefit of the state banking department,” he said. In a statement following Perez’s nomination, Harp praised the alder’s financial acumen, evident not only in his day job as a banker but in his steady guidance of the finance committee.

Bitsie Clark, a former alder for the downtown neighborhood and Harp’s 2015 campaign treasurer, said Perez’s perspective would be especially missed in meetings of the finance committee, tasked with scrutinizing and ultimately approving the budget proposals the mayor sends to the Board.

According to the bylaws of the Board of Alders, president pro tempore and West River alder Tyisha Walker will take over for Perez as the board’s president. Perez has served two terms as the board’s president — once from 2000 to 2006 and a second time since 2012.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.”

KURT COBAIN AMERICAN MUSICIAN

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NUMBERS MATTER, TO A DEGREE

Yale is trying to find out.

On April 2, the University released its iteration of the Association of American Universities’ campus sexual climate survey, one of the largest efforts ever to compile information on campus sexual assault. The survey encompasses several topics related to campus sexual climate, including students’ perceptions of campus resources, their opinions of fellow students’ and administrators’ likely reactions to a report of misconduct and their own experiences with stalking, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment and sexual assault since arriving on campus.

The results, which will be published in the fall, will offer a glimpse into problems at Yale and across the nation.

But even before a new set of information arrives, Yale already stands ahead of the curve.

An August 2013 statement by the University said that Yale was the only institution “to [its] knowledge” to release a comprehensive log of the complaints that came to its attention. Yale also formed one of the nation’s first campus adjudicative bodies specifically dedicated to cases of sexual misconduct in 1978.

Over time, Yale has worked to build an environment where reporting is an accessible option, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd said. Yale’s Sexual Misconduct Response website lists nine avenues through which a student could make a report, three of which also function as formal complaint mechanisms. There is no right or wrong entry point to the system, Boyd said.

But all of the University panels and reporting mechanisms have done little to diminish confusion surrounding the prevalence of sexual misconduct.

Yale’s semi-annual reports reveal nothing about incidence or reporting rates. The number of reports of sexual misconduct made to the University has increased steadily over the years, from one undergraduate complaint of sexual assault, stalking or intimate partner violence brought before the Executive Committee in 2005–06 to 46 such cases brought to the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct or Title IX coordinators in 2013–14. However, University Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler has repeatedly noted that it would be a mistake to extrapolate trends from the relatively small body of data available. As a result, the University’s true incidence rates remain unknown.

Meanwhile, data that does purport to represent incidence rates has come under attack.

A 2007 study sponsored by the Department of Justice concluded that one in five women will be sexually assaulted before graduating from college. But in 2014, another study released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics put that number at just 0.6 percent of college-age female students nationwide.

This discrepancy has cast the legitimacy of statistics like “one in five” in doubt, said Joe Cohn, legislative and policy director at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Cohn said he is “deeply skeptical” of the 2007 results.

“Advocates often cherry pick which study they want to cite, depending on whether it supports their worldview,” Cohn said.

Because of the different methodologies used, though, Christopher Krebs, co-author of the 2007 Campus Sexual Assault Study, warned against viewing the onein-five statistic — or indeed any broad statistic — as indicative of any individual school’s condition. His study used data from two large public universities, while the 2014 study relied on data from the National Crime Victimization Survey.

“I don’t think the data from those two schools [in my study] are necessarily useful if I’m an administrator in another state or across the country or of a totally different ilk,” he said. “I think that sexual assault is something that probably happens at all schools, but is unique to each school.”

Even statistics from the Jeanne Clery Act of 1990 — whose reporting parameters are standardized by law — do not paint a complete picture of the size of the sexual assault problem. Under the Clery Act, schools are required to disclose information about crime on or near their campuses, which are

defined through certain predetermined geographic boundaries. But even these distinctions can provide muddled information: An incident on one side of the street may have to be reported, while an incident across the street would not, Boyd said.

Still, Lynn Langton, co-author of the 2014 BJS study, said generalized data can be important for benchmarking purposes if examined alongside more specific data.

“An individual school should not … assume that the rates we’re putting out are what they would expect to see at their school as well,” she said. “But if a school conducts a campus climate survey … they can use the national data to understand whether what they’re seeing on their campus is consistent with the nationwide picture, or whether there are some variations that might be important for them to better understand.”

BEYOND THE DATA

If there are variations on Yale’s campus, some might be the result of policies the University has put in place to foster an environment that encourages reporting. Beyond the wide range of formal and informal options available to potential complainants, Yale has worked to ensure that the process of filing a report or complaint is as much in the victim’s control as possible.

The distinction between making a report and filing a complaint is a critical one, Boyd said.

For example, making a report — in other words, telling somebody of a distressing incident — in no way obliges a student to pursue disciplinary action through a complaint. A Title IX coordinator may need to take independent action if there is an acute threat, but even then the student is not required to participate. At some other schools, Boyd said, fewer options exist.

In addition, students may drop out of the complaint process at any point. Even if they initiate a formal complaint, they are never forced to cooperate and in fact do not even have to attend their own UWC hearing, said UWC chair and ecology and evolutionary biology professor David Post. Sometimes a Title IX coordinator will serve as the complainant if the person alleging harm does not wish to directly participate, he added.

Last October, the UWC also eliminated time limits for filing a complaint, so that any community member who wishes to bring a complaint may do so, even years after the incident. The purpose of the change, Post said, was to allow complainants sufficient time to process their experiences.

Alexa Derman ’18, public relations coordinator for the Yale Women’s Center, said that although there is still work to be done, Yale as a community seems to do better than most in encouraging reporting. She said this could be a result of “pioneering programs” on campus like the Communication and Consent Educators program, increasing University responsiveness to issues of misconduct, as well as student activism that tries to keep the conversation open.

“From the number of programs to the number of individuals delegated specifically to these issues, dialogues about sexual misconduct are never far from the campus radar,” she said. “I think as a result, there’s a higher-than-average amount of awareness, both of the issue and of the possible avenues of response.”

Corey Malone-Smolla ’16, a CCE, agreed. While there is a great deal of conversation and activism about sexual misconduct on other campuses, she said — citing what she has heard from friends at the University of Virginia since the publication of the now retracted Rolling Stone article “A Rape on Campus” — few other universities seem to have institutionalized prevention and awareness in the way Yale has.

Compared to its peer institutions, Yale also has a larger number of community members with obligations to report cases of sexual misconduct brought to their attention, Boyd said. Under Title IX law, anyone whom a student could reasonably expect to have authority to address an issue of sexual misconduct is obligated to report the alleged occurrence to a University official or Title IX coordinator. For example, if a student disclosed an alleged incident of sexual assault to their professor, the professor would have to relay that information to a Title IX coordinator. According to publicly available information on Harvard and Princeton’s sexual misconduct policies, some faculty and spe-

cially designated students there have reporting obligations. But Yale has an unusually high number of students in formal leadership positions who fall into that category, Boyd said, and so students may be more likely to find their way into making a report.

In addition to faculty and administrators, several groups of students on campus have reporting obligations as well. Freshman counselors, CCEs and freshman pre-orientation leaders are all required to report any account of potential misconduct they hear, Student Affairs Fellow Hana Awwad said. The Title IX coordinator will then reach out to the student and offer support.

A POORLY KNOWN, FLEXIBLE SYSTEM

Even so, administrators agreed that sexual violence remains a stubbornly underreported crime at Yale. And the effectiveness of Yale’s specific policies to encourage reporting is unclear.

“I did know that [the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center] existed,” said Eden Ohayon ’14, who filed a formal complaint with the UWC in May 2014. “But it had to be explained to me what all of the different kinds of complaints you can file — Title IX coordinator, UWC formal, UWC informal — were. I didn’t know all of that. I learned about that through the SHARE counselor, and I had to read over all the procedures.”

For students who identify as survivors, the multiple avenues that Yale offers to file a report are commendable — if people know about them. Four of the five students interviewed who described themselves as victims of sexual assault said they were not initially familiar with the avenues available to them to discuss their experiences. One student knew only about SHARE. Another only remembered the frozen yogurt consent workshop run by the CCEs during freshman orientation.

The question of reporting obligations drew more mixed reviews.

The purpose of these obligations is to ensure that everyone who may have experienced sexual misconduct knows the options available to them, Boyd said, adding that even if students decide they do not want to speak with the Title IX coordinator who has reached out to them, just the experience of having help offered can be valuable.

But some students, advocates and researchers interviewed emphasized the importance of respecting victims’ privacy wishes.

“I think to get an email directly from the administration about something you clearly have opted not to talk about with the administration can be surprising, and I think for some people it might not be a super welcome surprise,” said one student who chose not to report her incident because she did not believe it would help her healing process.

She added that if a CCE or someone else overheard a conversation that triggered a reporting obligation, it would be fine for the CCE to approach the person to ask if they wanted to be referred to other options — but if the person said no, that should be the end of it.

Callie Marie Rennison, associate dean of faculty affairs at the University of Colorado Denver and a researcher who has studied sexual violence research methodology, said having a hard rule about reporting obligations minimizes victims’ autonomy.

“It’s like going to a funeral.

Twenty people are in the room — one guy is laughing, one guy is sobbing uncontrollably, and somebody else is indifferent.

Everybody handles trauma very differently,” she said. “We just have to accept that and allow people to handle that they way they need.”

Boyd said that Yale’s focus is the same: to allow a potential complainant to pursue his or her own path. For example, it would be very rare for someone to be blindsided with an email from a Title IX coordinator, she said, because whenever possible, the reporter will tell the person that they are going to report and explain what will happen next. Additionally, there are several groups exempt from reporting obligations on campus, such as SHARE, Walden Peer Counseling and the undergraduate Sexual Literacy Forum.

Malone-Smolla said that though some people who have approached her to talk about sexual misconduct have been sur-

prised to hear that she is a mandatory reporter, they are usually still willing to talk after she explains what that mandatory reporting entails.

“I say that all it looks like is that a Title IX coordinator will send you an email and say, ‘These are the resources on campus; feel free to talk to me,’” she said. “I always tell them, ‘You can simply ignore that email, delete it, and that will be the only kind of contact that will happen between you and them.’

Because if they’ve already come to me wanting to talk about it, something like that doesn’t usually deter them once they actually know what [reporting] looks like.”

And if a student is extremely adamant that they do not want to hear from an administrator, that, too, can be taken into consideration. Yale College Title IX Coordinator Angela Gleason said if that is the case, she tries to respect the student’s wishes as much as possible.

Barring a situation where leaving an incident unaddressed would compromise campus safety, Gleason said, she will often work with Spangler to look for other ways to make sure the student knows about available resources.

“These [reporting requirements] are the guidelines we’re working by, but we do everything we can to take into account extenuating circumstances,” Boyd said.

INVISIBLE BARRIERS

Ultimately, conversations with students who identify as survivors revealed that the most important barriers to reporting are not unique to Yale.

For one student who said she was raped her freshman year by someone with whom she shared many mutual acquaintances, the hostile responses of her friends kept her from reporting for a long time. They would constantly tell her “not to make things awkward” and to pretend nothing had ever happened, she said. By the time she came to see the incident as sexual assault months later, she said, she was too exhausted by the experience to pursue a complaint.

Ohayon said she struggled with self-blame in the months after her experience. Her alleged attacker was also a friend at the time, she said, and she took that fact, as well as her own level of intoxication, to mean that she was responsible for having sex.

It was only after she realized she was not at fault that she filed a complaint with the UWC four months later, she said. The UWC later found the respondent not responsible for sexual assault.

Another student said she chose not to report an alleged rape during her freshman year because reliving it through a report or complaint would not help her achieve her goal of feeling better or of finding her place at Yale.

“I think people think about it almost a little too rationally in the sense that someone did something wrong to you, so don’t you want to pursue them?” she said. “You can imagine if you get mugged that a big priority is to get your stuff back and get that person punished. But here I think what [the incident] took away from me is … a sense of faith and security. That’s just not something you get back by opening a complaint.”

She emphasized that although she did not know about SHARE or the possibility of an informal complaint until some time after her incident, knowing about

such options from the beginning would not have changed her thought process. She would have arrived at the same conclusion — a desire to move on and protect her social life — at any university in the country, she said.

In many ways, the stories of these students reveal that barriers to reporting are not just matters of poorly shaped policy but rather community-based obstacles.

While her own close friends were supportive after her alleged assault by a friend at the time, Ohayon said, she worried about backlash from mutual acquaintances, especially given the involvement of alcohol in her case and possible disagreements about her ability to give consent.

“We could definitely do a better job at Yale of taking [cases involving alcohol] seriously and of talking about what consent really means, instead of just parroting back a definition that we were told by CCEs as freshmen,” she said. “Everyone agrees with it on paper, but when we’re asked to make judgments about certain situations, I feel like that’s where opinions aren’t as consistent and people tend to be more judgmental.”

Others, however, noted that community pressure can go the other way, pushing people to report when they do not want to do so. One student said she told a few close friends about her alleged rape after it happened, and a few of them encouraged her to report in order to protect other women from being similarly assaulted.

But their encouragements did not take into account what she perceived would be the great personal sacrifice required by reliving the incident, she said. Even though her community was supportive and policy was not a barrier, she chose not to report.

“I just don’t think there was much that Yale could have done to make me tell them about it,” an anonymous student said.

“Speaking to the question of that initial decision to even pursue avenues, it’s not clear to me that Yale could do a significantly better job.”

WHAT COULD MORE DATA DO?

Even so, Yale is trying to gather more information through the AAU survey in an attempt to better focus its efforts against sexual misconduct. But in any data set, there remains the potential for misinterpretation.

In the University’s semi-annual reports, confidentiality concerns mean that each complaint is summarized in only a few broadly cast sentences. Differences in interpretation are inevitable, Boyd said, adding that administrators try to write the summaries in ways that remind people not to assume they know what a certain experience entailed just by reading the report.

“Even when a specific act is clear, people need to be careful not to jump to conclusions,” Boyd said.

“Each case of sexual misconduct has its own complexities.”

Still, administrators can learn from readers’ confusions as well.

Because UWC procedures are complex, Post said, educating the community about them can be challenging. But Spangler said the semi-annual reports have raised community awareness about Yale’s sexual misconduct procedures, and the conversations — and concerns — the reports gener-

ate have been informative in their own turn.

“The broad community discussion … serves as yet another source of information, as we seek to improve not only our procedures but also our ways of communicating about them,” Spangler said.

She added that while she cannot predict how the AAU survey data will inform Yale’s thinking until the data has been analyzed, she offered a hypothetical scenario: If the data revealed that students in a specific school or community were less likely to report misconduct than the general population, for example, the University could target concerns specific to that community by offering special programming or recruiting more UWC members from that school.

But even with more information, administrators should be careful when deciding how much to disclose, said Alison Kiss, director of the Clery Center for Security on Campus. She defended,for example, the Clery Act’s requirement that timely campus-wide alerts be sent only when there is an ongoing criminal threat. That distinction limits the amount of information sent to the community and helps protect the privacy of the victims involved, she said.

“It’s a difference between needto-know for safety and need-toknow just to be in the know,” she said. “I’m often concerned about the second case, because I think it could have a chilling effect, especially if it’s the type of environment where the campus is very aware of what social events were happening this weekend and may be able to identify the victim.”

ONE IN FIVE?

In many ways, Yale has been a leader in the field of sexual misconduct. Over 30 years ago, the University was the defendant in the trailblazing case Alexander v. Yale, which established sexual harassment as a violation of Title IX. But even three decades on, dealing with sexual misconduct remains a figurative minefield for universities.

“The definitions [of misconduct] are controversial, the way we measure it is controversial, getting people to come forward is difficult, and so is getting people to even identify what happened to them as violent,” Rennison said. “This area has every research challenge associated with it.”

The lack of data surrounding the problem of sexual violence is problematic, as it hinders administrations’ abilities to tailor programming and prevention to the needs of their own campuses.

But at the same time, many of the broader challenges campuses face are not dependent on numbers and graphs but on community perceptions — perceptions that are, by all accounts, widespread.

“We should always be transparent about the fact that the data just isn’t good enough to tell us exactly how many attacks are taking place or to be able to chart trends from year to year,” said Scott Berkowitz, the founder and president of the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. “But I think that even the most conservative estimates are that there are many, many thousands of sexual assaults taking place on campuses every year.

In terms of whether we’re going to focus on it, it doesn’t really matter what the exact number is.”

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“I have two daughters, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.” TINA FEY AMERICAN COMEDIAN

Apps help students get to college

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER Want to increase college attendance rates for low-income, first-generation students? There is an app for that — many apps, actually, as students at Career High School learned Friday morning.

College Summit, a national nonprofit that helps low-income students successfully apply to college by training students to serve as leaders for their peers, hosted the “app-a-thon” at the high school. At the event, Career’s peer leaders — seniors in their last few months of high school who have gone through the college application process — showed dozens of younger students how to use 20 apps designed to help them navigate financial aid, compare different schools, learn to manage their time and hear stories from first-generation students.

“New technology is available to help students sort through an array of information,” Mayor Toni Harp said at the event.

In addition to Harp, New Haven Public Schools Superintendent Garth Harries ’95, College Summit Connecticut Executive Director Veronica DeLandro and Career senior peer leader Shaina Blumell spoke at the event. Dean of Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan attended as well.

The apps range from the game “Zombie College,” designed to make players understand the steps of applying to college by setting the process as a battle against the undead, to the planning tool “Tractus Insight,” which allows user to research and compare schools.

College Summit trained roughly 40 Career students to become peer leaders through a weeklong workshop at the University of Connecticut last summer, where they got accustomed to campus life, worked on their essays and resumes and learned tips about the process.

The peer leaders were introduced to the apps just last month, however, and peer leader Jessica Bromell said she thinks the apps will be helpful to younger students beginning their college research and applications.

“I wish we had had them,” Bromell said.

As the peer leaders showcased the apps on iPads and laptops in their cafeteria, they also shared more general advice about their college admissions experiences with the freshmen, sophomores and juniors circulating through the room.

First-generation students Jayla Manning, headed to Southern Connecticut State University, and Tanasia Edwards, bound for Tuskegee University in Ala-

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College Summit, a national nonprofit that helps low-income students apply to college, hosted an “app-a-thon” at Career High School. bama, described how being the first in their immediate families to go to college created additional challenges. Parents who had not gone through the application process could not always answer questions, and understanding financial aid was critical.

A college-going culture has to be built in the schools and things follow from that.

DOLORES GARCIA-BLOCKER Director of College and Career Pathways, New Haven Public Schools Manning and Edwards also helped students navigate the online community “I’m First,” which is designed to address those concerns. It allows users to compare schools’ first-generation student graduation rate, financial aid options and other criteria. It also features blogs and video posts by first-generation students about their time at college.

“You can see, ‘I’m not alone,’” Manning said, gesturing at a video of a young woman discussing how she chose her school. “She’s just like me.”

Freshman Julius Dixon said the apps

he had looked at offered information he had not seen before. He said he plans to use them over the next few years.

Harp noted that the app-a-thon is just one piece of NHPS’s broader effort to promote college access and readiness.

Last month, the district made headlines when Gov. Dannel Malloy announced at New Haven Academy that the district’s graduation rate has increased 13 percentage points since 2010 to 75.5 percent in 2014.

Dolores Garcia-Blocker, director of college and career pathways in the district, attributed the improvement to the development of what she called a “college-going culture” in the district.

“A college-going culture has to be built in the schools and things follow from that,” Garcia-Blocker told the News last month.

Events such as the app-a-thon, like much of College Summit’s programming, are aimed at building that culture.

“It is happening, not just at Career but all over New Haven,” DeLandro said.

The Career app-a-thon was part of a nationwide push to train 100,000 students in the use of the apps, with similar events held in California, Colorado, New York and Florida, according to DeLandro.

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After a successful debut in New Haven, food cart Crepes Choupette will soon become a full-size restaurant within a year of opening.

Owner Adil Chokairy said that he plans to open the restaurant at the end of May on 24 Whitney Ave., across from Anna Liffey’s Irish Pub and Restaurant. While the cart — which exclusively sells crepes — will still remain in operation, the restaurant will feature an expanded menu that will include coffee and raclette, a Swiss cheese-based dish.

“It’s exciting to expand because with more machines we will finally be able to reach the demand,” said co-owner Aurelia Taleb.

Chokairy moved from France to the U.S. and founded the crepe cart, his first business venture in the country, in New Haven last June. Taleb said the cart, stationed at the intersection of College and Wall Streets during lunch hours, has gained widespread popularity among students.

The Whitney Avenue location, which is situated directly behind Timothy Dwight College, will join a number of restaurants on the street, including Katalina’s bakery and the recently opened New Haven Salad Shop. Natasha Mclain, a bartender at Anna Liffey’s, said she thinks the restaurant will bring increased traffic to the street.

“The owner is a dear friend, a great customer,” Mclain said. “It will be a great addition.”

Students i n te rv i ewe d expressed excitement about the restaurant, including Madeline Tomlinson ’17, who said the crepes are a “perfect quick lunch or snack for anytime.” She added that she believes the restaurant will be popular among students, potentially as a latenight food option.

Natalia Salinas ’17, who lives in Timothy Dwight, said she looks forward to another restaurant option near her residence.

“The crepe truck has been a cute and charming addition, so I think the restaurant expansion is a logical and welcome next step,” she said.

Chokairy said both he and Taleb, who are cousins, originally came to the U.S. from France to get married to their significant others. After they both married and settled in Connecticut, he said they decided to start a business which would allow them to spread joy in a simple way. He added that the social aspect of making crepes is crucial to his business, and that he values getting to know his customers personally.

The crepe truck has been a cute and charming addition, so I think the restaurant expansion is a logical and welcome next step.

NATALIA SALINAS ’17 Chokairy said he is planning an elaborate grand opening, with free crepes and wine. He added that since Yale students and faculty are his main customers, he plans to hold a grand opening when classes are in session in the fall.

Crepes Choupette offers both sweet and savory crepes, such as “The Choupette,” which contains fig spread, arugula, prosciutto and goat cheese, and “Amour et Jalousie,” which is filled with mascarpone and red fruits.

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

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“I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way.”

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Twelve percent athletic donation fee set to kick in DONATIONS FROM PAGE 1 in the face of fluctuations in other cash flows is indeed the rationale offered by Yale Athletics for donations: According to the 2013 Plan for Athletic Excellence, donating to athletic programs and helping to create team endowments helps athletic programs “thrive regardless of the economic climate.”

Each year, the president of each alumni association meets with the athletics department in order to set a target amount of fundraising for the year. These target amounts are based on history of support, size of the association, the program’s needs and the timing of other fundraising initiatives, said Alison Cole ’99, director of athletics development.

While Millar said that the Yale Crew Association’s targets for annual giving have been rising each year to move toward the goal of eliminating dependency on institutional funding, it has not seen a significant increase in its fundraising goals since the beginning of the assessment policy change, despite the reductions in amount received from donations through these administrative fees.

“The crews’ target amounts had large increases back in 2010–12 and have not increased significantly since then,” Millar said in an email.

Though a smaller proportion of a donation is now directly financing team expenses, Cole said, the assessment has done little to discourage giving to Yale athletics, or to keep team associations from reaching their target amounts each year.

Cole deferred all comments on the implementation of the assessment to the Provost’s Office, while Beckett was unavailable for comment. Cole did highlight a successful year in athletics fundraising as evidence that the existing assessment has not hampered donors’ willingness to give.

“Last year, we broke our annual fundraising record, with many associations seeing their all-time best numbers to date,” Cole said. “The assessment has not impacted our associations’ ability to meet their fundraising goals each year. I believe we are transparent with our alumni and they understand why the assessment is necessary. [We] partner with Yale to make sure that together we provide the best possible experience for Yale student-athletes.”

Yale spent close to $17.5 million on athletic teams in the 2014 fiscal year.

Contact GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu and LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milsten@yale.edu .

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The Provost’s Office will charge a 12 percent administrative fee for all gifts received by Yale departments, including athletics.

English cruises to YCC win YCC RACE FROM PAGE 1 fill positions on its executive board with a schoolwide email soliciting applications on Sunday evening, English said.

Although Martin and Hill said they were disappointed by the results, both contenders said they think English will make an effective president. Martin said English’s commitment to the YCC and his experience in the organization are both evident.

Although he will not return to the YCC next year, Hill said, he still plans on pursuing his campaign platform’s policy initiatives: reforming the cultural centers and establishing an interfraternity council.

Martin said he is unsure whether or not he will continue to serve on the YCC. English attributed his success to his campaign team, adding that their work had reaffirmed his belief in Yale’s supportive community.

“I wish Joe and Maddie all the best of luck, and of course, I think he’s qualified for the position,” current YCC President Michael Herbert ’16 said. “I worked with him a lot this year, and he definitely has a lot of experience with the YCC, so I don’t think it’ll be too much of a learning curve for him.”

Students interviewed expressed their desire to have the incoming YCC board work on a variety of issues — ranging from grading policies and communication with the student body, to changes in mental health policies and the approval of academic minors.

Christina de Fontnouvelle ’16 said she

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would like the YCC to continue sending out emails and comprehensive reports to the entire student body, while also providing more opportunities for student involvement in the YCC. Michael Zanger-Tishler ’18 said rather than social events, the YCC should focus on being an effective advocate for students and promoting policies that address student concerns.

“Yale students are looking for change on a lot of different fronts,” Megan Valentine

’16 said. “If the new YCC president can get the Yale administration and the Yale Corporation to listen to at least one of these it will be a really big step.”

Daniel Tovbin ’17 and Amour Alexandre ’17 won the elections for finance director and events director, respectively. The YCC will turn over on May 8.

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

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Kissinger, Ferguson talk world order KISSINGER FROM PAGE 1 order,” Kissinger said.

Kissinger went on to say that what Americans call “world order” originated from the Treaty of Westphalia that ended the 30 Years’ War, and was not designed for international adoption. The Western concept of world order — sovereign states interacting peacefully through a balance of power and shared responsibility — is not shared among all countries in the world, he said.

Ideas about world order that conflict with the West’s include those of China, Russia and countries with theocratic regimes. A central challenge is convincing other nations to buy into a certain set of norms, Kissinger said.

China’s unique conception of a hierarchical universe explains some of the problems the U.S. has had in negotiating with China, Kissinger said. In Kissinger’s view, China’s emergence on the world stage threatens the West-centric world order.

“When one speaks of world order, we tend to say that Russia or some other country is violating international order. You have to ask yourself what they think they’re doing,” Kissinger said.

Ferguson, who specializes in British history, suggested the possibility of a new world “disorder,” and said he thinks the world has forgotten the need for order in the time since the Cold War ended over three decades ago.

Although the discussion focused on diplomacy on a large scale, Ferguson said he thinks Ivy League schools like Yale and Harvard have a responsibility to encourage students to study the variety of ways of thinking about the international system, adding that Kissinger’s typology of four world orders — the West, Russia, China and the Islamic world — is only one of them.

“Both Yale and Harvard have

a clear responsibility to educate students about the kinds of issues Kissinger raised on Friday, particularly the importance of historical understanding for anyone wishing to participate in or even comment on international relations and foreign policy,” Ferguson said in an email to the News.

I don’t think one should confuse order with harmony.

HENRY KISSINGER Former Secretary of State, United States of America During the event, Kissinger criticized American foreign policy for its inability to work toward long-term goals — every new administration tends to start from scratch without taking advantage of past lessons and gains, he claimed.

Kissinger also offered advice for grappling with the definition of “world order,” in both abstract and concrete terms, in international relations.

“I don’t think one should confuse order with harmony. The key to an orderly system is [that] grievances exist but they are attempted to be solved within the framework of order that exists,” he said.

Kissinger, whose recent book “World Order” came to shelves in September 2014, initiated talks between the U.S. and the People’s Republic of China in 1972 and helped negotiate the Peace of Paris one year later, ending the Vietnam War. He donated his personal papers to Yale in June 2011.

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

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NEWS

“When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.”

DENG XIAOPING FORMER CHINESE LEADER

U.S.-China forum seeks to build bilateral relations

BY QI XU CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Sunday, the third Yale U.S.-China Forum — a series of keynote speeches and panel discussions on legal, economic and environmental issues that the U.S. and China share — drew over 200 people to the Yale School of Management. The forum, which featured speakers from both the Yale faculty and corporations with business in China, was commended by several participants interviewed as a timely and meaningful dialogue. The audience included faculty, students and professionals both from inside and outside of the Yale community.

During the first panel, which focused on issues of legal and economic reform in China, David Wertime ’01 discussed the communication dynamics between the U.S. and China.

“Although [the U.S. and China] are codependent, they rarely speak to one another,” Wertime said.

During the same panel, Jamie Horsley, executive director at the China Center of the Yale Law School, discussed the steps China has made to make its firms and corporations comply with the laws. The more China becomes law-abiding at home, the more China can be expected to be a transparent partner for both the U.S. and other countries in the world, Horsley said.

In the keynote speech, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Professor Daniel Esty said it is good for these conversations to take place on a campus like Yale’s, where Chinese students have a significant presence and can bring the community together in thinking about how China and the U.S. can collaborate on world-scale political issues.

Linshu Li, GRD ’19, dep-

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Panels at the Yale U.S.-China Forum, hosted at the School of Management on Sunday, focused on issues such as legal and economic reform in China. uty president of the organizing committee for the forum, said the main goal for this year’s edition was to pick up momentum and to annualize the forum, which had been held most recently in 2012.

“What Yale had during 2011 and 2012 was unique,” Li said.

“Now almost every Ivy League hosts a China-oriented forum.”

Li said the organizing committee worked hard to inject a “Yale character” into the forum by bringing in Yale’s experts.

The forum focused on the bilat-

eral relationship rather than China alone, he said, and it emphasized practical issues rather than big-picture theories. This is what separated Yale’s forum from its counterparts at other universities, Li added.

Li said that in particular, he was inspired to revive the forum

by University President Peter Salovey’s meeting with China’s Vice Premier Yandong Liu in Beijing last October. According to an article in Xinhuanet — the Chinese news authority

— from last October, Liu said in her meeting with Salovey that she wished Yale could promote more personal exchanges to help build a new model of U.S.-China relations.

Yale has the resources to help strengthen the U.S.-China partnership, Li said. He cited the law school’s China Law Center, the collaboration between Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and China’s Tsinghua University, as well as the Yale Center Beijing, as examples of these avenues.

Dan Murphy, director of programs at the Yale Center Beijing, said he is excited to see the Yale U.S.-China Forum revived.

He added that the center looks forward to the possibility of expanding the forum to China.

Stephen Roach — the former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and a professor at the School of Management who teaches a class titled “The Next China” — said the forum is a step forward in building the relationship between Yale and China, but cautioned that it will not be

an immediate breakthrough.

“I think it is pretty informative because it presents different views from different types of [people]” Xiaodong Zhu, GRD ’18 said.

The forum was co-organized by the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale, the China Economic Forum, Chinese Undergraduate Students at Yale and the Greater China Club.

Contact QI XU at qi.xu@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS MONDAY, APRIL 13 12:30 PM Norman Wirzba Panel With Mark Bomford and Andrew McGowan. Norman Wirzba, professor of theology and ecology at Duke Divinity School and editor to Wendell Berry, will be discussing the intersection of theology, philosophy, ecology and agrarian and environmental studies. He will be joined by Mark Bomford, director of the Yale Sustainable Food Program, and Andrew McGowan, dean of Berkeley Divinity School and a scholar of Christian customs of eating. Sterling Divinity Quadrangle (409 Prospect St.), RSV Rm. 4:00 PM High Tea & Tropical Plants. Help us welcome spring by joining us for high tea and tropical plants! We will be enjoying light snacks and brilliant colors as we tour greenhouses and/or gardens, weather permitting. Adults only, advance registration required. Marsh Botanical Garden (227 Mansfield St.).

4:30 PM Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad. Gilder Lehrman Center Director David Blight sits down with Eric Foner, two-time Bancroft Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, to discuss his new book, Gateway to Freedom, about the Underground Railroad in New York. LinslyChittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 102.

TUESDAY, APRIL 14 10:00 AM Tom Vilsack, USDA Secretary. Tom Vilsack has been Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture since 2009.

In that role, he has helped expand markets for U.S. farmers at home and globally, spearheaded passage of the Healthy, Hungry Free Kids Act to help combat child hunger and obesity, and led a comprehensive effort to improve the safety of the American food supply. Kroon Hall (195 Prospect St.), Burke Aud. 7:00 PM Screening of Kumu Hina (2014). Kumu Hina is about the struggle to maintain Pacific Islander culture and values within the westernized society of modern-day Hawaii. It is told through the lens of an extraordinary Native Hawaiian who is both a proud and confident mahu, or transgender woman, and an honored and respected kumu, or teacher, cultural practitioner and community leader. 212 York St., Rm. 106.

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THROUGH THE LENS

Y

ale is as lauded for the beauty of its architecture as it is for its stellar academics – but perhaps because of stress caused by the latter, students don’t often have the time to appreciate the former.

Campus buildings boast many interesting details besides the typical “gothic revival” themes: notably, the multitudes of faces and figures incorporated into the architecture. Next time you’re walking around campus, take a second to look around – you might just see a sculpture, gargoyle, or bust staring back. IRENE JIANG reports.

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MLB Mariners 8 Athletics 7

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SPORTS QUICK HITS

ALEX LYON ’17 AND ROB O’GARA ’16 ALL-AMERICANS Prior to this past weekend’s Frozen Four, the two Yale defensive stars were named All-Americans by the American Hockey Coaches Association. Both O’Gara and Lyon have confirmed that they will remain at Yale next year rather than pursue a professional career.

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MONDAY

YALE FOOTBALL JUNIORS TRIP TO GETTYSBURG Continuing a recent tradition, the members of the class of 2016 on the Yale football team took a trip to Gettysburg with General Stanley McChrystal, who is currently a senior fellow at the Jackson Institute.

“We were concentrating on leaving emotions in the locker room and playing our style of lacrosse.”

HARRY KUCHARCZYK ’15 MEN’S LACROSSE YALE DAILY NEWS · MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2015 · yaledailynews.com

On Senior Day, Bulldogs shine in the sun

BY JONATHAN MARX CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

MEN’S LACROSSE

The No. 7 men’s lacrosse team faced No. 12 Brown on Saturday, hoping to contain the nation’s second-leading offense and win its fourth consecutive game.

Yale’s defense limited the Bears to well below their season average of nearly 16 goals per game, while the Bulldog offensive provided fireworks of its own in an impressive 16–10 senior day win at Reese Stadium. Brown’s 10 goals represented the Bears’ second lowest output of the season. The Elis, on the other hand, matched its second-highest scoring total in the victory.

With the win, Yale jumped ahead of Brown in the Ivy standings, moving up to third place, behind Cornell and Princeton. As the Bulldogs (9–2, 3–2) have already faced both the Big Red and Tigers, they must rely on other teams to upset the leaders if they want to move further up the ranks of the Ancient Eight.

The Bulldogs relied on an impressive defensive effort to shut down the Brown offense and the nation’s leading scorer, Dylan Molloy. While Molloy was able to score five times on the day, only two of his goals came after the first quarter.

The difficult assignment of covering Molloy fell to defenseman Christopher Keating ’17, who was able to limit the attackman’s effectiveness within Brown’s fast-paced transition offense. Keating also led the team with seven ground balls.

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Coming into the game that put Yale above Brown in the Ivy League standings, Brown had the most points per game of any team in the league with 24.70.

Softball slumps to four straight losses

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER After a sweep of Hartford on Wednesday, the Yale softball team returned back home for arguably its most disappointing series this season, which ended with four straight losses to Dartmouth.

SOFTBALL

The Elis (7–16, 2–8 Ivy) lost every game in the pair of doubleheaders against the Big Green (18–13, 11–1), only managing to score three runs across the series and getting shut out in both contests on Sunday. The Bulldogs are now in their longest losing streak of the season.

“We lost all four games, which was tough,” shortstop Maddie Wuelfing ’18 said. “DartSEE SOFTBALL PAGE B3

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The Bulldogs dropped four straight games to Dartmouth in two consecutive double-header series at home.

STAT OF THE DAY 7

After sweep, playoff hopes dim

BY JAMES BADAS STAFF REPORTER Yale’s hopes for an Ivy League baseball title rested heavily on this past weekend’s faceoff against Dartmouth. But unfortunately for the Elis, those hopes were largely dashed after the Big Green dominated action at Yale Field.

BASEBALL Entering the weekend just two games behind Dartmouth (10–19, 8–4 Ivy) in the Red Rolfe Division and primed to make a jump in the standings, the Bulldogs (9–18, 2–8) saw two lopsided defeats.

With scores of 3–2 and 22–10 on Saturday followed by 7–0 and 3–2 finals on Sunday, the Elis find themselves in the basement of the Ivy League, trailing division leader Dartmouth by six games with only eight conference matchups left on the schedule.

“We’ve struggled a little bit this season early on. We knew this had to be a turning point for us,” said Michael Ketchmark, first baseman for Dartmouth, who blasted a two-run homer on Saturday. “It’s hard to look at our overall record and say that it doesn’t show us being a very good team … but we just have to focus on what’s in front of us and not look at our record.”

Saturday’s opener was highlighted by a standout performance from last year’s second team All-Ivy selection, pitcher Chris Lanham ’16. The Elis’ ace returned to his typical form following his last three starts in which the right-handed pitcher had allowed 17 earned runs over 19 innings.

“I felt like I had more con-

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The Elis’ 0.277 average ranks fourth in the conference, though Yale has more total bases than just two Ivy schools. trol and a sharper curveball than in previous weekends,” Lanham said. “That helped me be more effective for a longer time this outing.”

Against Dartmouth, Lanham allowed three runs — one of which was unearned — over eight innings of work, tossing a complete game as the seven-inning contests required extra play.

The Houston native struck out six batters while walking just one Big Green batter, reminiscent of a similarly dominant shutout of Dartmouth a year ago in which Lanham struck out four while allowing only four baserunners.

However, it was the sole unearned run that decided the SEE BASEBALL PAGE B3

THE NUMBER OF SENIORS ON THE WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM THAT PLAYED THEIR LAST GAME AT HOME THIS WEEKEND AGAINST DARTMOUTH. The seniors still have two more games left in their Yale careers — one against Penn and one against Harvard.

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SPORTS

“But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.” BARRY BONDS 14-TIME MLB ALL-STAR

Top finishes for sailing SAILING FROM PAGE B4 Belling noted that although this was not the team’s most consistent performance, they managed to stay resilient throughout the regatta.

“It was important to take each race one at a time and not really get phased … Everyone’s going to have an up and down regatta with the conditions on the Charles,” Belling said. “It’s just important to be able to come back after tough races. Overall, we did a good job keeping our eye on the big picture.”

The regatta this weekend was the New England Championship for the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Associa-

tion. The top four finishers will move on to the national championships in May. No. 3 Boston College and No. 12 Roger Williams took first and second respectively, followed by Yale and Tufts.

Landy said the finish would encourage the Bulldogs to continue to improve as they head toward the end of the season.

“This offers a little bit of motivation and really pinpoints the areas of improvement needed for nationals,” Landy said. “The goal for this event is always just to qualify. It’s a really tough event to get through knowing it’s always a very deep district for team racing so just to make it through to the nationals is always a success.”

The co-ed team also sent a group of sailors to compete at the Admiral Alymers regatta hosted by Mass Maritime.

The Elis’ skippers were KB Knapp ’18, Henry Lewis ’16 and Claire Huebner ’18, and crews were Emily Johnson ’16, Sanam Rastegar ’16 and Chase Skoda ’17.

The teams finished ninth overall out of 13 schools.

Next weekend, the co-ed team will host the Owen, Mosbacher and Knapp Trophies at home, while the women will head to the President’s Trophy in Boston.

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6

0.455

6

Harvard

1

3

0.250

6

6

0.500

Dartmouth

1

3

0.250

3

6

0.333

1

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

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SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

Penn

4

0

1.000

10

2

0.833

Princeton

4

0

1.000

9

3

0.750

Cornell

3

2

0.600

8

4

0.667

Harvard

3

2

0.600

5

6

0.455

5

Yale

2

3

0.400

7

6

0.538

6

Brown

1

4

0.200

6

6

0.500

Columbia

1

4

0.200

4

8

0.333

Dartmouth

1

4

0.200

1

10

0.091

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SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

1

Dartmouth

111

1

0.917

18

13

0.581

2

Harvard

8

4

0.667

17

16

0.515

3

Penn

6

4

0.600

15

14

0.517

4

Princeton

4

4

0.500

12

18

0.400

5

Columbia

5

5

0.500

11

19

0.367

6

Brown

4

8

0.333

10

15

0.400

7

Cornell

2

8

0.200

8

17

0.320

8

Yale

2

8

0.200

7

16

0.304

BASEBALL IVY

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Prior to this weekend, the co-ed sailing team won five straight regattas.

OVERALL

SCHOOL

W

L

%

W

L

%

1

Columbia

10

2

0.833

19

11

0.633

2

Penn

10

2

0.833

15

11

0.577

3

Dartmouth

8

4

0.667

10

19

0.345

4

Cornell

6

6

0.500

9

20

0.310

5

Harvard

5

7

0.417

16

15

0.516

6

Brown

4

8

0.333

8

20

0.286

7

Princeton

3

9

0.250

6

24

0.200

8

Yale

2

10

0.167

9

18

0.333

Elis bounce back against Dartmouth W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 defenseman Clare Curran ’15 said. “[Defenseman] Emily Markham ’17 did a great job shutting down one of Dartmouth’s dangerous attackers and she also got a key interception that caused a big momentum shift in our direction in the first half.”

The second half started with an even longer stalemate than the first. It took a full 13 minutes before the Elis entered a scoring run. But when they did, the notched three goals within a minute and three seconds, each separated with a draw control. The second goal in the series was scored

by Fleishhacker, who brought her season total up to 20, the best amongst the Bulldogs this season.

Yale held on to the 7–4 lead for seven minutes until the Big Green started to make a comeback.

Another pair of goals from Leto within less than a minute put Dartmouth back in contention with only seven minutes remaining.

The match remained 7–6 until the last few moments when midfielder Cathryn Avallone ’15 stretched the Elis’ lead to two. Although Leto managed to put one more up on the board for Dartmouth, with 92 seconds left in the contest, the Big Green could not fend off Yale, and the game ended 8–7 in favor of the Bulldogs.

“Our attack was able to gain some momentum and get a few quick goals early in the half,” midfielder Kelly Anne Sherlock ’16 said. “As always, our defense was solid in coming up with big stops when we needed them.”

With this win, the Elis are in fifth place in the Ivy League, just one game behind Cornell and Harvard, who are tied in third. Yale will face Penn on Saturday, who is undefeated in conference play.

All seven seniors started against Dartmouth, playing their last game in Reese Stadium.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

YALE 8, DARTMOUTH 7 YALE

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There were no penalties in the first half of action, but Yale took three yellow cards and Brown took two in the second half.

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SPORTS

“I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” LARRY BIRD THREE-TIME NBA CHAMPION

Elis edge out Brown M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B1

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Yale and Brown were tied 4–4 at the end of the first quarter, but the Bulldogs then pulled ahead and never lost the lead.

“Keating had a really tough assignment,” midfielder Colin Flaherty ’15 said. “He did a great job limiting him offensively.”

Flaherty also pointed to defenseman Reilly Naton ’15 as a key player who turned in a stellar performance on Saturday.

On the other side of the ball, Yale’s top attackmen all turned in top-notch performances. Jeff Cimbalista ’17 deposited a season-high four goals to pace the Bulldog offense, and Conrad Oberbeck ’15 added three goals and an assist. Oberbeck’s second goal, an unassisted tally to open up the second quarter, gave the Bulldogs a 5–4 lead that they would not relinquish.

In addition to the stellar play of Cimbalista and Oberbeck, midfielder Eric Scott ’17 added three goals, and attackman Ben Reeves ’18 provided two goals and two assists.

“It was really the usual suspects who came up and were clutch for us,” defenseman Mike Quinn ’15 said. “We had some big momentum plays to keep the ball on the offensive end and keep our guys comfortable.”

The Bulldogs also saw an unexpected offensive contribution from midfielder Tyler Warner ’18, who tallied his first point in Yale blue with a second-quarter goal off of an assist from midfielder Brian Pratt ’17.

Pratt added five ground balls for the Elis, tying for second on the team with Naton.

Goalie Eric Natale ’15 also turned in a solid performance. His eight saves gave him a total of 369 for his career and moved him past Dan Liu ’83 for seventh place on Yale’s career saves leaderboard.

The key contributions from Natale, Oberbeck, Naton and others were partic-

ularly fitting given the senior day celebrations occurring before the game.

“It was pretty emotional for us, but we were concentrating on leaving emotions in the locker room and playing our style of lacrosse,” midfielder Harry Kucharczyk ’15 said. “Everyone’s giving a little bit extra, which ended up helping us.”

The Bulldogs next go on the road to face No. 9 Albany, the nation’s top-scoring offensive team.

The Great Danes feature Lyle Thompson, arguably the nation’s most talented and famous player. Barring a scoreless game Tuesday against Bryant, Thompson will own the NCAA record for career points by the time the Bulldogs travel to Albany. Thompson also set the single-season points record last season before being honored with the Tewaaraton Award for the nation’s best college lacrosse player.

“We just played the second-best player in the country, and now we’re playing the best player in the country,” Kucharczyk said.

“That focus on one superstar on the offensive end is really going to translate well, but the style in transition is different.”

The Bulldogs travel to Albany to face the Great Danes on Saturday. Face-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.

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

YALE 16, BROWN 10 YALE

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Bulldogs swept at home BASEBALL FROM PAGE B1 game. With two men on and one out in the eighth inning, a potential double-play ball was ripped in the direction of shortstop Derek Brown ’17, who was unable to handle the grounder, allowing the bases to be loaded.

A fly ball to center during the ensuing at-bat was enough to drive in the game-winning run, as the Elis went down one–two– three in the bottom half to end the game.

The top of the order did its job for the Elis, as left fielder Eric Hsieh ’15, center fielder Green Campbell ’15 and third baseman Richard Slenker ’17 combined for an impressive 6–11 day at the plate. The rest of the lineup did not step up, however, as Yale’s fourthrough-nine hitters managed a mere 2–18 showing.

In Saturday’s second contest, the play on the field recalled Yale’s season-opening contests, in which

the Elis went 1–2 in three games, all blowouts.

At one point, heading into the bottom of the eighth inning, Yale found itself trailing 17–3. However, the Bulldogs rallied to put up a seven-spot in the inning to make the scoreline more respectable. Dartmouth, though, tacked on five more in the ninth to put an emphatic finish on a 22–10 contest that included 17 hits from each lineup and required 11 total pitchers.

Sunday’s start to the action saw right-hander Chasen Ford ’17 on the bump for the Elis, but despite a few effective innings, the Big Green lineup was able to leave its mark on the southern California native.

Ford managed to go six innings in the seven-inning affair, and despite a run in the first inning, he retired nine straight batters following a game-opening double.

In the fourth inning, however, Dartmouth’s Ben Socher blasted

a solo shot past the fences to double the lead. Yale’s defense cost its pitching staff once more when a two-out error in the frame by third baseman Mikey Sliepka ’18 allowed two more Big Green baserunners to cross the plate.

Ultimately, Yale could not muster enough offense to support its starter, as they managed just three hits in the contest.

“We had opportunities to score more runs,” Campbell said. “We had runners in scoring position with two outs multiple, multiple times … and we just couldn’t snag that crucial hit to tie the game up or put us in the lead.”

To the lineup’s defense, it did run into arguably the hottest pitcher in Ivy League play, Duncan Robinson. Sporting the lowest earned run average in conference play , 0.89, Robinson tossed his second consecutive shutout and his third straight complete game in Ancient Eight action, mowing down the Elis and needing just 79

pitches to do so.

With a slight change in the pitching rotation, head coach John Stuper was able to turn to one of his veteran leaders, Chris Moates ’16, in the game Sunday afternoon.

Fellow righty Mason Kukowski ’18 made his first career start on Saturday in the 22–10 offensive explosion Looking to spoil the sweep by Dartmouth, Moates kept the Bulldogs within striking distance for most of the afternoon. After a two-run third inning from the Big Green, Moates managed to carve his way through its lineup over the next 5.1 innings, allowing only one more run and just three more hits before exiting in the ninth inning to a standing ovation from the Yale faithful. “[Lanham and Moates] struggled last weekend against Penn and Columbia, which is irregular from those guys because they’re just so consistent and really good pitchers,” Campbell said. “It just

really stinks that we couldn’t score more runs for those two guys.”

A day after Dartmouth sophomore Mike Concato outlasted Lanham, his older brother, Louis, managed to duel Moates before turning the ball over to his bullpen in the eighth.

After the Bulldogs went down quietly in the eighth, they entered the bottom of the ninth trailing 3–1. Nevertheless, the Elis displayed some fight when designated hitter Joe Lubanski ’15 hit a double to open the inning, followed by a single to right by second baseman Nate Adams ’16.

A fielder’s choice from left fielder Tom Ruddy ’18 drew the Elis within one run as the Big Green elected to take the close out, narrowly retiring Adams at third.

After a fly out, Ruddy swiped second base to put the tying run just 180 feet away from home plate with Campbell at the plate.

But when the senior drew the count full, freshman closer Patrick

Peterson unleashed a curveball that just nicked the inside corner of the plate to end the contest and send the Bulldogs home empty.

While Dartmouth has gotten the better of Yale in 22 of the past 28 meetings between the two rivals, this was the first time that Dartmouth swept a four-game series in New Haven. The Elis do not plan to spend much time dwelling on the past, according to Lanham.

“Moving forward, we will continue to focus on ourselves and improving as a team,” Lanham said. “The most important thing next week is putting together a quality team effort.”

The Bulldogs will only have one day to regroup as a pair of nonconference opponents, Trinity and Sacred Heart, are set to pay a visit to Yale Field on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.

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

Big Green shut out Yale SOFTBALL FROM PAGE B1 mouth came out swinging bats, so each game was a battle for our pitchers and defense. But when it comes down to it, they outhit us.”

The first game of the weekend was not an auspicious start for Yale. Dartmouth wasted no time getting on the board, establishing a 6–0 lead by the end of the second inning. The Big Green scored off three home runs, including one off of the first batter.

The top of the fourth inning also proved unlucky for the Elis.

In the course of its at-bat, Dartmouth stole two bases, scored once on a wild pitch and once on a throwing error and added six runs to its total to make the game 12–0.

The Bulldogs answered with a run of their own in the bottom of the fourth, scored off of a single to center field by first baseman Hannah Brennan ’15. However, it would take more than that run and another in the next inning to rival the Big Green’s mounting lead, which continued to grow in the top of the fifth.

After a 16–2 loss the first time around, Yale took the field again later that day. Pitcher Lindsay Efflandt ’17 gave the Elis some hope after being crushed in the first game. The sophomore from Cary, Ill. retired the first seven Dartmouth batters she faced, and the Big Green did not get on base until the fifth inning.

What the Bulldogs needed, however, was more hitting power. Yale did not get a hit of its own until the bottom of the fourth inning. Center fielder Sydney Glover ’17 scored off of a single from Brennan to mark the only run and the only two hits of the game. This was Brennan’s 10th consecutive game with a hit.

“Dartmouth is a great hitting team,” Brennan said. “They have great discipline at the plate. We needed to have similar discipline to be successful against their pitching staff, and we just didn’t execute.”

The Elis held the single-run lead until the sixth, when Dartmouth once again had a powerful at-bat, sending five runners across the plate and creating a four-point deficit that the Bulldogs could not surmount.

If scoring was difficult for Yale on Saturday, on Sunday, it seemed impossible. Mirroring the previous day’s start, Dartmouth pulled ahead with an early lead in the first contest after a series of runs in the top of the second. The Bulldogs had three hits throughout the game and left two runners in scoring position.

Three unanswered runs by the Big Green in the top of the fifth led to a score of 8–0 at the end of the inning, invoking the slaughter rule and the game was called.

“They were really the best team we’ve faced this year,” pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18,

who held the top earned run average in the Ivy League prior to this weekend, said. “They were hitting balls that were in the dirt, they were hitting balls a foot off the plate. They hit pitches that weren’t strikes extremely well. You try to keep them off balance and when they hit the pitcher’s pitches, the ones that aren’t mistake pitches, it’s frustrating.”

Dartmouth completed the sweep with a win in the fourth game of the weekend after earning consistent runs throughout the contest. The Big Green shut out Yale for the second game in the doubleheader as well, finishing the game ahead 7–0.

With the four victories, firstplace Dartmouth maintained its nearly perfect conference record and extended its winning streak to 10 games. Meanwhile the Elis sit at the opposite end of the North Division.

“It’s tough to start off the North team competition against the best team in the Ivy League,” Casalino said. “We don’t want this to happen again. We are better than we showed this weekend … this is just the middle of our season and we’re going to turn this around. We’re looking forward not back, and we’re excited to get back out there.”

The Bulldogs will play a doubleheader against Sacred Heart at home on Wednesday.

Contact HOPE ALLCHIN at hope.allchin@yale.edu .

KRISTINA KIM/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Two of the four matches Yale played against Dartmouth over the weekend were stopped due to the slaughter rule.

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SPORTS

“Whenever the heat’s on, my whole life, I’ve just kind of learned to focus a little more.”

JORDAN SPIETH SECOND-YOUNGEST MASTERS CHAMPION

Bulldogs take final home game 8–7 WOMEN’S LACROSSE

BY HOPE ALLCHIN STAFF REPORTER After a narrow loss against Princeton last weekend, the Yale women’s lacrosse team finished its last home game of the season with an 8–7 victory over Dartmouth on Saturday.

The Bulldogs (7–6, 2–3 Ivy) kept fighting in a close contest with the Big Green, breaking the halftime tie with a series of goals that kept them ahead for the rest of the game. With a record once again over 0.500, the Elis are in a good position to finish the season with the remaining Ivy competition. “[Saturday’s] game was a battle on both ends of the field,” attacker Hope Hanley ’17 said.

“We played with incredible heart and intensity, and in the end, we came out on top with an important win for the team moving forward.”

The game started off slow for both Yale and Dartmouth — the teams played nearly seven minutes before the first shot found the back of the net. The Big Green took the lead first with a pair of goals by midfielder Jaclyn Leto, who would go on to score five of the seven Dartmouth goals in the game.

It took a little longer to get the Bulldogs going, but after attacker Tess McEvoy ’17 got one past Dartmouth goalkeeper Jessica Frieder, the goals kept coming. The Elis went on a four-goal run lasting nine minutes that featured goals from midfielders Christina Doherty ’15 and Maggie Pizzo ’18, as well as captain and attacker Kerri Fleishhacker ’15.

However, the 4–2 Yale lead did not last for long. The Big Green came back near the end, tacking on a pair of goals between the fifth- and seventh-minute marks to tie the score at 4–4, where it would remain until the end of the half. Despite the tie game, Dartmouth led the Bulldogs in shots, draw controls and ground balls.

“At halftime, we felt confident but knew that we would have to come out strong and that Dartmouth wouldn’t let down at all,” SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE B2

NICOLE WELLS/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Just like the men’s lacrosse team, the Bulldogs broke a 4–4 tie going after a break from play.

Sailing dominates the seas

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The co-ed sailing team took third place at the Fowle Trophy while the women’s squad topped the standings at the Emily Wick Trophy.

BY ALEX WALKER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale co-ed and women’s sailing teams were back in action this weekend, securing another pair of top finishes just a few weeks out from their championship regattas. The women’s team took home first place at the Emily Wick Trophy, while the co-ed squad secured third at the Fowle Trophy.

SAILING The nationally top-ranked women were in state this weekend, as they traveled to New London to compete in the regatta hosted by the Coast Guard Academy. The delegation for the Bulldogs included skippers Morgan Kiss ’15 and Casey Klingler ’18 and crews Natalya Doris ’17 and Isabelle Rossi de Leon ’17. The win for the Elis, who bested 17

other teams including No. 3 Bowdoin, marks the third time in a row that they have claimed the trophy at this regatta.

Kiss and Doris finished first among the A division squads with 70 points, 39 points lower than their closest competitors. Meanwhile, Klingler and Rossi de Leon finished with 102 points on the weekend to finish fourth in the B division.

Kiss noted that the team’s per-

formance this weekend bodes well for the upcoming championship, but that the Bulldogs were still striving to improve in practice.

“I think our team did a great job staying patient and capitalizing on opportunities when we could in this event,” Kiss said. “In the next two weeks, we plan to keep getting as much out of each practice as we can, and spending some more time thinking about

our approach to the qualifier as a team. In an 18-race event, it’s important to approach each race consistently and focus on decisions in the moment, rather than the overall outcome.”

Meanwhile the No. 1 co-ed team headed to Boston to compete at the Fowle Trophy regatta.

The Bulldogs were unable to secure their sixth consecutive win, but they still managed to finish third with a record of 12–6.

The delegation from Yale, which finished third among 12 teams and ahead of Tufts and Harvard, included skippers Graham Landy ’15, Ian Barrows ’17 and Malcolm Lamphere ’18, as well as crews Katherine Gaumond ’15, Charlotte Belling ’16, Clara Robertson ’17, Meredith Megarry ’17, Chandler Gregoire ’17 and Christopher Champa ’18.

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