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CROSS CAMPUS Oh, Snap. We wish we were announcing the return of the Yale Campus Story to Snapchat. That’s not the case, unfortunately, but the recent creation of a geotag — “New Haven,” adorned by Harkness Tower’s silhouette — for all your disappearing photos and videos just might suffice as a consolation prize. Apparently, Elm City pride is a thing now.

Debate update. Yesterday, we wrote about a crew of Yale debaters as they took on opponents from Harvard, Brown and Morehouse for the U.S. Universities Debating Championship title. And after press time, the good guys came out on top. Congrats. Not that we expected anything less.

The rich get richer. Tuesday’s Stamford Advocate included an article about discussions between Bridgewater Associates and various town officials, as the hedge fund prepares to relocate its headquarters from Westport, Conn., to Stamford.

Bridgewater seems to have brought numerous demands to the negotiating table. And you know they’re going to get what they want. It’s Bridgewater.

What Hillary wants. In a *truly* captivating display of journalistic doggedness, The New York Times’ Upshot team dove deep to analyze the — wait for it — ingredients of a burrito bowl ordered by Hillary Clinton LAW ’73. We know she just officially declared for the 2016 election, but come on.

What’s new with Newman?

With major figures like Clinton dominating headlines these days, though, one might forget that Yale still counts legends like Paul Newman DRA ’54 among its famed alumni.

Trailers for “Winning,” a documentary about the actor’s career racing cars off-screen, have been making rounds online this week, reminding us of Newman’s victorious ways.

No driver necessary. Looking

to the future of policing, GovTech.com wrote Tuesday about Connecticut Senate Bill 974, which requires that state and local police obtain warrants before dispatching surveillance drones to aid in criminal investigations.

The Golden Rule. In

anticipation of upcoming Take Back the Night events, the Communication and Consent Educators and the Yale Women’s Center are joining forces to host “Taking Care of Ourselves and Each Other” over dinner in the Davenport dining hall this evening. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1927 The University lands $9.5 million in preliminary gifts and pledges toward its Endowment Fund Drive — seeking to raise a total of $20 million — before the drive’s official launch.

Nearly 3,000 Yale graduates are involved in the initial push.

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For the fourth year in a row, the SOM’s student body president is female.

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STUDENT VOICES New Haven Public School students vie for spots on Board of Education.

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Investing with more than money in mind

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER Exactly 43 years ago on April 15, 1972, The New York Times declared that Yale University had fundamentally redefined the role of its endowment.

UPCLOSE “Yale University has decided to exercise its right to speak out when business corporations in which it has invested appear to be engaged in anti-social activities,” the article read. “Yale thus becomes the first major university to resolve this controversial issue by abandoning the role of the passive institutional investor.”

The article was referencing the Yale Corporation’s adoption of the guidelines put forth in the book, “The Ethical Investor” — a 200-page manual that outlines the “ethical, economic and legal implications” of Yale’s institutional investments. In short, Yale would no longer eschew the ethical consequences of its money management. The University had formally taken steps to become the first “moral investor” in

higher education.

Yale Law professor John Simon LAW ’53, one of the three authors of the book, still has one of the original prints on his bookshelf. Though the cover of Simon’s copy may be faded and its pages slightly yellowed, the function of “The Ethical Investor” is largely unchanged.

“It obviously expanded the notion of what Yale’s role as a shareholder ought to be,” Simon said. “There had not been any serious discussion or debate at Yale previously about its role as an investor, except that Yale generally stayed out of political issues.”

Provost Benjamin Polak described the book as a “touchstone” for Yale: a “simple and transparent” standard to ensure that the University investment policy remains consistent with its mission.

In many ways, the endowment is the lifeblood of the University. Annual returns from its investments help fund research, support scholarship and, more generally, maintain the University’s independent status as a private organization.

But four decades after the SEE ENDOWMENT PAGE 4

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ver the years, the Yale endowment has grown from a humble sum intended largely to fund operations and scholarship to a massive pool of capital numbering in the tens of billions. Over this period of growth, Yale has had to wrestle with the ethical implications of its endowment policy. With the University endowment at a historical high and calls for divestment growing even more contested, it is critical that Yale define what role it must take both as an institution of higher learning and as an “ethical investor.”

Mary Lui, a professor of American Studies and history, will succeed Jeffrey Brenzel as the next master of Timothy Dwight College.

Hundreds of students filled the TD dining hall Tuesday evening — some kneeling in order to find space in the room — as University President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway praised Brenzel’s mastership and expressed excitement over Lui’s new appointment. Lui is the first Asian-American female to serve as a residential college master at Yale.

Addressing the audience, Lui said she already feels at home in TD and hopes to work towards bridging the

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gap between the college and New Haven during her tenure.

“I’m pretty sure we’re at the right college,” Lui said. “I feel like you guys built this community, and we were just lucky enough to be selected.”

Lui specializes in Asian-American history, urban history, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and public history. She is the author of “The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City,” which uses a 1909 unsolved murder case to examine race and gender in the cultural formation of New York City’s Chinatown from 1870 to 1920.

Before Salovey addressed Brenzel, SEE NEW MASTER PAGE 6

YPU debates rape adjudication

BY VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTER Roughly 120 students gathered in Linsly-Chittenden Hall on Tuesday evening to debate an issue that has captivated not only Yale’s campus but campuses across the country: Who should be adjudicating cases of sexual misconduct?

The discussion was hosted by the Yale Political Union and co-sponsored

by Yale’s Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program. It opened with a speech by Carol Tracy, executive director of the Women’s Law Project, an organization dedicated to using lawsuits to challenge gender discrimination. Tracy spoke against the resolution of the night, which was that rape cases should be left to the criminal justice system.

“Why are so many students looking to campus disciplinary proceedings to enforce Title IX mandates, instead of the criminal justice system?” Tracy said. “It suggests they are turning [there] because they are reluctant to participate in criminal justice processes where they fear they will not

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be believed and justice will not be served.”

Tracy’s argument centered on the history of rape law. Rape law originated to protect property, not people, Tracy said, with a woman’s chastity defined as her family’s property.

As such, rape law was designed with men’s rights in mind — a problem she said persists today, as criminal courts use the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard of evidence.

By holding rape claims to such a high standard of proof, she said, society implicitly states that women who claim to be victims of sexual assault are probably lying. The lower “preponderance of the evidence” standard used in civil cases gives both parties equal footing, she added.

She also criticized the criminal justice system’s mishandlings of women’s rape claims, citing cases from Cleveland to Milwaukee to Philadelphia of prosecutors rejecting complaints that later turned out to be legitimate.

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Malik Jones march protests police brutality

BY STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE AND NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTERS As rush hour neared on Tuesday evening, the route from Fair Haven to Downtown was flooded with protesters walking the street crying, “Justice for Malik Jones.”

Malik Jones was fatally shot by an East Haven police officer after a car chase on April 14, 1997. On the 18th anniversary of his death, protestors staged a march from Grand Avenue in Fair Haven — where Jones was shot — to the Afro-American Cultural House at Yale. At the head of the march was Emma Jones, Malik’s mother, who has become a prominent New Haven activist in the years since her son’s death.

Standing at the site of her son’s death, Jones told protesters that she was moved by the number of people who had come out in support of her son, but that Malik’s death was not an isolated case.

“We are not discouraged today, because there are so many people who have gone on, but look at you standing here today, emerging to say justice for all of the people who have been brutalized by the police,” Jones said.

Jones also noted the importance

of constructing a broad coalition for equality — justice can only come, she said, if whites as well as minorities speak out against police brutality.

Tuesday’s event was the latest in a series of protests against police brutality in recent weeks. After 15-yearold Teandra Cornelius was slammed to the ground during the St. Patrick’s Day parade, activists staged three protests: two at New Haven Police Department headquarters on Union Avenue, and one at City Hall, where they confronted a group of pro-police protesters. The officer who pushed Cornelius — who had a knife in her purse — was taken off patrol during investigation of the case, but the police department exonerated him after finding that he had committed no wrongdoing.

As part of the demonstration on Grand Avenue, Jones presented white roses to three parents also looking for justice from the police. Those parents’ whose children were among 43 student-teachers who went missing in Iguala, Mexico in September, joined Tuesday’s march. The parents claim that the Mexican police and other federal authorities are partially responsible for their children’s disappearance, SEE MALIK JONES PAGE 6

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Yale women’s basketball coach Chris Gobrecht, the winningest in University history, will become the Air Force head coach. PAGE 12

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Whose side are we on?

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ast Thursday, Fossil Free Yale staged a sit-in at Woodbridge Hall. Among the many refrains chanted by FFY, one stood out in particular: “Whose side is Yale on?”

One argument for fossil fuel divestment goes something like this: The fossil fuel industry harms the environment and disproportionately affects marginalized communities. When Ivy League schools like Yale divest from fossil fuels, it sends a powerful message. If enough institutions divest, the fossil fuel industry will depreciate and, eventually, die. Therefore, we should divest from fossil fuels.

This argument assumes that Yale’s actions will have a major long-term effect on the world economy. That’s certainly possible, but very hard to prove. It also ignores divestment’s potential costs, which could cut into financial aid, grants and even scientific research that may end up mitigating climate change.

The more convincing argument is that, regardless of financial impact, Yale has a moral obligation to divest from industries that exploit the poor and threaten the human race. We should support divestment on principle, even if doing so comes at a hefty cost to the University.

Yet FFY’s slogan is not “divest for justice” or “fossil fuels kill.”

Rather, the tagline repeated ad nauseam is “Whose side is Yale on?”

This question puzzles me for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it has an obvious answer: Yale is on the side of the students.

The Yale Corporation decided against divestment last August.

This might be because all its members are greedy nihilists with dollar signs in their eyes, as some have alleged. Or it might be that the Corporation did its job, calculated the risks of divestment and decided that it wasn’t worth it.

The endowment funds research grants and fellowships.

It lets Yale offer generous financial aid packages that far outclass most of the competition (despite frequent assertions to the contrary). Above all else, it makes sure that Yale remains one of best institutions of higher education in the world. So when 8 percent of Yale’s endowment is on the line, prudence is more than understandable.

It’s true that 83 percent of the undergraduates who responded to the YCC’s online referendum support divestment. That sounds like a compelling number. But the response rate of that referendum was roughly 50 percent. We can only say with certainty that 43 percent of Yalies definitely support divestment.

The rest either oppose it or — more damningly — did not even care enough to complete a survey.

But it’s a pretty safe bet that a greater percentage of Yale students care more about their own

education and financial security than a tenuous utilitarian calculus or abstract moral principles. Don’t AARON believe me?

SIBARIUM Let’s examine the protesters who The flocked to Moderator Woodbridge Hall last week.

Forty-eight students from FFY sat in Woodbridge Hall.

But after being threatened with arrest, most students decided to leave. The 19 students who remained were fined and issued infractions.

All of us voluntarily choose to attend Yale and, by doing so, we legitimize its practices. If Yale contributes to exploitation and oppression worldwide — as FFY claims it does by not divesting — then every student here is implicitly valuing their own education over any deontic prohibitions on the fossil fuel industry. The Yale Corporation seems to agree with them.

Does this mean it’s wrong to support divestment? Not necessarily. If you think human rights matter more than your own Ivory Tower education, and that divestment furthers those human rights, the prodivestment position is perfectly coherent.

What does not make sense is the equation between morality and public opinion. To ask, “whose side is Yale on,” is to implicitly suggest student input matters in the debate over divestment. But the reason divestment is good has nothing to do with what people think!

It has to do with coastal flooding, the spread of disease and climate change’s disproportionately large affect on already marginalized communities. No amount of education justifies such human costs.

The majority does not determine what is right and what is wrong. Morality is not democratic and FFY should stop pretending otherwise. If divestment is merely a cost-benefit analysis, we should seriously consider the Corporation’s assessment that the costs outweigh the benefits.

If divestment is about rights and principles and the stakes are as high as FFY claims, then we all have either a moral obligation to accept those steep costs, or to immediately withdraw from such a morally impoverished university. But most of Yale just isn’t willing to do that. Seeing as most of them aren’t even willing to risk an arrest, I don’t think FFY is either.

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'ANUBIS' ON 'RUINING HIGH SCHOOL'

Reclaim the spotlight T

wo weeks ago, I was talking to history professor George Chauncey '77 GRD '89 when he reached back into his memory to describe the late professor John Boswell. He couldn’t find words of his own, so he relied on a story. One day while walking out of Boswell’s undergraduate lecture, he overheard a student talking to a friend. The student excitedly proclaimed, “You see what I said about how amazing his lectures are. It’s like he’s in an opera!”

Chauncey paused, as I am sure he did when he told the same story at Boswell’s memorial service 20 years ago, and said, “He was right. And Jeb was our diva.”

I suppose when someone commands a place in the spotlight, it brings both the adoration of an attentive audience as well as their sorrow during the ensuing tragedy of his death. By this standard, Boswell was indeed a diva.

Boswell joined the Yale faculty at age 28, won the National Book Award at age 33, taught a famous Yale lecture and fathered the concept of lesbian and gay studies here at Yale. In late 1994, at age 47, Boswell also joined the scores of Yale community members who lost their battle to HIV/ AIDS. The Yale AIDS Memorial Project’s website catalogs memo-

ries of some of these men: David W. Dunlap ’74 still remembers a night with Warren Smith ’74, KYLE who died of TRAMONTE AIDS-related complications: “We Green on got into bed the Vine and looked at one another across the space of the pillow.

And it was, ‘Are you thinking what I’m thinking?’ And, ‘I think I am.’”

Bill Rubenstein ’82 still remembers John Wallace ’82: “Our senior year at Yale, John and I had been in an American Studies reading group together, and I sat across the seminar table mesmerized by his beauty while everyone chattered on about the social significance of Barbie dolls and ‘Graceland’ and ‘My Mother the Car.’” Reading over the transcript of Chauncey’s remarks at Boswell’s memorial service, I couldn’t help but notice something: Chauncey lauded John Boswell’s extraordinary gifts and his efforts that helped make Yale the “gay Ivy.” He spoke of members of the University who would yearn for his presence. But he didn’t say that

the University would miss him.

The implication was that Yale would move on. At first I thought this was an unintentional omission, but then I realized it wasn’t.

Even the most profound experiences and people will fade from campus memory as, year by year, the composition of the student body and the faculty changes.

The unyielding churn of the University all but ensures that one’s Yale experience remains personal and not institutional.

This produces an unfortunate result: Because the student body evolves, the concerns of a class year or a series of class years, left unruffled on the shelves, fade from memory. Individuals might remember John Boswell, John Wallace and Warren Smith. But Yale University as a body does not; it has moved on from its struggle with HIV. Yale sacrificed many of its sons to the epidemic, but their identities seem lost in the past.

The University has failed because, like everyone else, it let a welcome shift in the meaning of a positive HIV diagnosis — from acute infection and certain death to chronic illness — absolve it of its responsibility to act. People stopped dying around us, so we have stopped caring, stopped remembering and haven’t taken the active steps necessary to secure an HIV- and AIDS-free

generation. It is no longer a priority.

Next month, many young gay men, myself included, will leave this campus and flock to metropolitan areas. Some will move to cities like Atlanta, where nearly half of newly diagnosed HIV cases at Grady Hospital have already progressed to AIDS. Others will take up residence in New York, where a large white and upper-class gay population acts as a buffer to transmission. Some will avoid HIV. Others will help fulfill the prediction that 50 percent of young gay men will contract this race- and class-segmented virus in the next 30 years, likely suffering unwarranted shame and isolation in their post-college years.

But for some reason, on this campus, we relegate the issue of gay men’s health to a tiny office in Swing Space and the generic advice, “Use a condom.”

Yale needs to step up its game.

But until then, we, the students, gay and straight, must take up the charge, both here on campus and when we leave. Let’s reclaim the spotlight Boswell left behind.

We can be divas too. We can refuse to exit the stage.

KYLE TRAMONTE is a senior in Saybrook College. This is his last column for the News. Contact him at kyle.tramonte@yale.edu .

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AARON SIBARIUM is a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. His column usually runs on alternate Mondays. Contact him at aaron.sibarium@yale.edu .

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ast week, I paused my Spotify playlist while I followed two strangers through Cross Campus. I was about to play a new song when I heard one stranger say to the other, “Imagine what it’s like to live here.”

They stood on the pavement and spun around to admire Berkeley and the expanse of trim grass between Calhoun and WLH. The second said, “Oh, there’s no way they don’t take this place for granted. I’m sure of it.”

Something felt funny when I heard this exchange. I felt guilty at first that I don’t think much about how lucky I am to attend this institution. I am lucky to work with professors I admire and befriend students who help me grow. We have a Gutenberg bible and van Gogh’s “Night Café.” We have gorgeous libraries with plush, paprika carpets and cozy bedrooms inside of literal towers.

By many standards, my junior spring has been a good semester. I became even closer to some of my closest friends. I went on a lot of inconsequential coffee dates. I wrote poems that don’t make me feel like cringing. I’m stronger than I was last year; I’m happier than I was last semes-

ter. However, I don’t know if I’d call myself happy the way I think I should be.

Last week, I called my mother.

I told her some good news about my major that she didn’t really understand, and so I got grumpy.

This led to a 45-minute conversation that involved some shouting. She said she didn’t understand why I seemed so displeased. I didn’t really know what to say. I think I croaked that things had been hard, and I was in the process of getting better.

My mother didn’t go to college when she was young. She quit school to marry my dad, and then she supported him through law school. When he left her years later, she decided to start earning her bachelor’s degree at the age of 37. I was nine, and my brothers were six and two. At the time, we lived in the suburbs of Boston.

My mother took a full course load while raising three kids. When we moved to South Florida in 2006, she transferred to St. Thomas University, and graduated with a degree in sociology and criminal justice.

To keep things afloat, I had to help out around the house. I babysat my brothers a lot growing up. I was used to being respon-

sible for other people and things.

I had to unload the dishwasher and unpack the lunchboxes. I needed to make sure the boys actually showered on the nights when mom had a test coming up.

My mother now works full-time, and my brothers are starting college and high school this year. My family doesn’t need much of my help. They can fend for themselves. The boys actually care now about how they smell.

For the past few years at college, I’ve only had to take care of myself. But somehow, that’s been harder than my old list of chores.

Some days, I don’t want to get out of bed. Some days, I am scared of all the horrible things that have happened because I am afraid more awful things could happen.

I am not yet ready to talk about those scary things on such a public platform. My world is so much bigger than it was before college.

There’s a part of me that wants to address those Cross Campus strangers and give them a detailed list: Here are my reasons to be unhappy.

I have some very compelling reasons. I have dealt with trauma!

My childhood was difficult! I am allowed to be upset about those things. As a dear friend told me

once, “When you feel so miserable and unsafe at Yale, all of its beauty and privilege feels like a big joke.” You can’t enjoy this place when you’re miserable.

I get angry with myself sometimes for not being happier because, unlike my mother, I am going to school at the expected time. I don’t have to worry about making dinner or signing field trip permission slips. I just have to manage my own life, as big and scary as it can sometimes be.

I’m trying to be more optimistic. I’m forcing myself to come up with lists of things to be happy about: when finals are over I get to see my cat, there are sometimes avocados in the JE dining hall, I’ve been listening to a lot of Shania Twain lately.

I’m doing it for myself and for my mom. By the end of our phone call last week, she said, “I just want you to be happy.”

But the truth is, as a human being, my relationship with my environment is allowed to be complicated — regardless of the admit rate.

ADRIANA MIELE is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College.

Contact her at adriana.miele@yale.edu .

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NEWS

“Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well we don’t see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day.” ROBIN CHASE CEO OF BUZZCAR

CORRECTIONS FRIDAY, APRIL 10

A previous version of the article “UP CLOSE: Tech life after Yale” did not include in its count of computer science majors in the class of 2014 students who double majored in computer science or completed a computer science joint major. The number of class of 2014 students who graduated with computer science as their sole major, one of two majors or part of their joint degree was 48.

TUESDAY, APRIL 14

A previous version of the article “Numbers key in climate change messaging” contained several errors. First, it stated that Jennifer Marlon is a research assistant, when, in fact, she is a research scientist. It also stated that Sander van der Linden is a research associate and lecturer in Princeton’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, when, in fact, he is a research associate and lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. The article also misstated that van der Linden said scientists almost expect the general public to be confused or unsure about climate change research. In fact, he said \ climate change is a complex issue for which not everyone has the tools or resources to learn about in the immediate moment. Finally, the article stated that Dr. Sander van der Linden was not involved in this study. He was involved in a study that was similar to this one on climate change and messaging.

Overtime spending drops in police, fire depts

BY FINNEGAN SCHICK STAFF REPORTER The New Haven Fire and Police Departments are spending less money on overtime pay thanks to new staff increases.

The NHFD’s and the NHPD’s most recent monthly financial reports, which were submitted to Mayor Toni Harp at the end of March, demonstrate that overtime costs in those two departments have already decreased since new hires were made last December, said City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer.

In anticipation of these savings, Harp’s proposed budget for the 2015–16 fiscal year, presented to the Board of Alders in March, reduces the NHPD’s overtime cost budget from $4.4 million to $3 million and lowers NHFD overtime costs from $3.9 million to $1.7 million. “[The new hires] allowed the fire department to begin filling shifts with firefighters with straight time rather than overtime. The savings started to

accumulate instantly and dramatically,” Grotheer said.

After she was elected mayor of New Haven, but before her inauguration, Harp learned of the “staggering overtime costs in the NHPD,” City Budget Chief Joe Clerkin said.

After a peak in staffing in 2001, the number of vacant positions in the fire department began increasing as a number of firefighters retired. Last October, a third of the fire department’s 370 positions were unfilled.

To counteract this decline, Clerkin said that a new class of roughly 40 firefighters joined the NHFD in December 2014 after completing a training course. A second class is set to graduate next month, and there are plans to hire a third class during this calendar year, said Clerkin. The police academy has graduated two classes of new officers since Harp took office.

The firefighter’s union’s collective bargaining agreement

stipulates that a total of 280 fire fighters are working at all times in the city, with 70 working at each of the department’s four divisions. The police department does not have these requirements because its staffing needs are more variable, said Clerkin, although he added that the police department had made similar staffing changes at Harp’s request.

“It was very possible that each division was down 20 or more firefighters each night,” Director of Labor Relations Marcus Paca said, referring to the state of the department before the staffing increases.

Across the city, the NHFD was filling 40 to 80 positions every day with firefighters who were working overtime.

To expand the staff of the fire department last year, the department needed to make available additional Firefighter 1 positions, the largest segment of the department. To do so, employees who then occupied the Firefighter 1 posi-

tion were eligible for promotions to lieutenant and captain positions after passing promotional exams. The format of these exams was negotiated in September and October 2014 between the city and the firefighter’s union. The tests consist of a written portion, weighed at 65 percent, and an oral section, weighed at 35 percent. The test also includes questions that seek to determine the psychological state of the firefighter.

“I felt and still feel that anything can be accomplished through compromise and having an open mind about working with people,” Paca said. “That wasn’t always the position of the administration in the past.”

Fire Chief Allyn Wright could not be reached for comment on the overtime changes.

The New Haven Fire Department was organized as a paid department in 1862.

MTA moves to improve maintenance Female student leaders thrive at SOM

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER

A report released last December by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s inspector general highlighting poor maintenance work on the MetroNorth commuter railroad has only recently captured the state’s attention.

The report, completed by the MTA’s Inspector General Barry Kluger, revealed that MetroNorth’s maintenance crews are poorly supervised, not given proper assignments and not obligated to document their daily work activities. Although the study was published last year, the MTA released its first public statement in response to the findings this Monday.

In the statement provided by MTA spokeswoman Marjorie Anders, MTA officials said they are actively working to solve the issues highlighted in the report.

There has been an awful lot of mistakes by Metro North … it just seems to be without end.

GAIL LAVIELLE Connecticut State Representative “The Communications department still does not have an inventory of its equipment, nor are there repair records,” Kluger wrote in the report. “Its supervisors still do not track the performance of their crews and there are no written records of the work. Assignments are still made verbally, and crews still do not have to log their activities or document their work.”

In her recent statement, Anders said the MTA is working to develop a computer-based system of record keeping to better track the tasks assigned and completed by maintenance workers, who are responsible for the railroad’s infrastructure. She added that this information will be integrated with a workflow database to improve the assignment and performance of maintenance tasks.

But, in the past, the MTA has failed to deliver on its promises.

In 2001, a report was completed by the Office of the Inspector General that found similar grievances with Metro-North’s maintenance work.

“Upon issuance of this 2001 Audit Services report, MetroNorth management agreed with

the report’s findings and agreed to fully implement all of its recommendations,” Kluger said in the 2014 report.

Yet, many of the same problems reappear in this new report — most significantly, employees still don’t keep records of their work and managers still don’t track their performance, Kluger wrote.

State Rep. Gail Lavielle, a Republican who represents Norwalk, Westport and Wilton, said this report is the latest in a series of studies highlighting structural problems within Metro-North.

She said she was not surprised by the findings of the report, given the large number of issues MTA still needs to correct.

“There has been an awful lot of mistakes by Metro-North — fatal accidents, all kinds of breakdowns, power losses, and it just seems to be without end,” Lavielle said. “I think that they continue to owe us a great deal of accountability.”

Despite recurring issues with the railroad line, the state’s contract with Metro-North, signed three decades ago, lasts 60 years.

Until then, only amendments to the contract can be made in fiveyear intervals.

Lavielle encouraged the state’s Department of Transportation to negotiate institutionalizing performance standards for Metro-North during one of these reviews. At the moment, the contract does not include any performance standards to which Metro-North must adhere and it also does not outline any penalties for poor performance, Lavielle said.

Students interviewed who frequently use the Metro-North rail lines — riding the line at least once a month — said they were overall satisfied with the service.

But, when informed of the findings of the report, all three students expressed concerns about using Metro-North given their poor maintenance work.

“Knowing this certainly makes me feel more apprehensive about taking the train,” Deborah Leffell ’17 said. “I, of course, have heard of a number of devastating accidents that have occurred on Metro-North as a function of operators going too fast and other forms of negligence.”

Metro-North Railroad’s five active lines include 122 stations serving New York and Connecticut.

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At the Yale School of Management, female students have been taking an increasing number of leadership positions.

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN STAFF REPORTER On April 3, the Yale School of Management student body elected its fourth female student body president in a row — a sign of increasing female involvement and diversity at the business school.

Brittan Berry SOM ’16, who was just elected for the position, will follow current student government president Alexa Allen SOM ’15, Maya Sudhakaran SOM ’14 and Caitlin Sullivan SOM ’13 in a line of SOM female leadership. Although the SOM does not reveal or publish the breakdown of election results, Berry said that in order to win the presidential seat, candidates need to win the votes of at least 40 percent of student voters. This year, that percentage amounted to 112 people, she said. Berry also said this continuity in female leadership speaks to the SOM’s dedication to diversity.

“I think the SOM is continuously moving forward in its mission to become one of the most diverse business schools,” she said.

Berry said that although positions on the student government for next year’s firstyear students have not yet been decided, the chosen members of the next year’s student government are very equitably divided between men and women. In the 2014–15 academic year, 15 out of 31 elected student government officials were women, Allen said, adding that the trend is reflective of how at the SOM, “diversity is the norm.”

Sullivan said it is unsurprising that this unique student body does not pay credence to traditional gender hierarchies in selecting student government leaders.

Sullivan also said this trend is indicative of women across the school taking leadership positions in various clubs. To this effect, Sullivan said that

although her class at the SOM was about 35 percent women, the women within the school exhibited disproportionate influence because of the leadership positions they occupied.

Similarly, Nicholas Veltri SOM ’15, who does not sit on the SOM’s student government but said he has been to some of the organization’s open meetings, said a female leadership presence is growing on campus.

The Finance Club, for example, for which Veltri currently serves as president, will be led by a woman next year.

Allen said that roughly half of all leadership positions at the SOM are occupied by women.

She also said that because student government members are from all kinds of backgrounds, many diverse groups at the school are represented through this medium. However, she said that in case this does not create adequate means for voicing minority opinions, the student government has in place

various feedback mechanisms and subcommittees to address all points of view. For example, at every student government meeting, there is a 30-minute period called “buzz,” during which concerns can be raised.

Rob Wu SOM ’15, who served as a vice president in the SOM’s student government this year, said that although women have occupied the student government presidential position in recent years, men at the school have also been interested in running for the position. Two men ran against each of the women for the last four years.

“In reality, these four women are extremely different. They each have their own viewpoints, agendas, styles, strengths and weaknesses,” Wu said.

The SOM’s student government in its current form was established in 2006.

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

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“Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.” CARRIE UNDERWOOD SINGER

In managing endowment, considering more than rates of return ENDOWMENT FROM PAGE 1 Yale Corporation’s adoption of the guidelines articulated in “The Ethical Investor” — when the University endowment stood at roughly half a billion dollars — the debate over the total purpose of the Yale endowment remains far from resolved.

If anything, the responsibilities that Yale must assume with its investments have only become more emotional and political. While the University’s endowment stands at a historic, nominal high of $23.9 billion, protests for divestment from fossil fuel companies, for instance, resulted in the citation of 19 Yale students last week.

Many students and activists argue that Yale’s endowment is a tool to be leveraged for social or political change. Others, however, maintain that it is a financial resource, plain and simple, with the sole purpose of supporting the academic mission of the University.

But perhaps, the true function of Yale’s endowment actually falls somewhere in between.

A SOCIAL WEAPON?

When William Jarvis ’77 entered Yale in 1973, one year after the publication of “The Ethical Investor,” the size of and focus on the University’s endowment were quite limited. But after 40 years of growth that has consistently outpaced inflation, Jarvis said the importance of the endowment — and the function it has come to serve in funding education — has grown accordingly.

“These are very visible piles of money,” said Jarvis, who serves as managing director of the Commonfund Institute, an institutional investment firm. “[The endowment is] performing a function that is much more visible than even 10 to 15 years ago.”

According to Yale’s Fiscal 2014 Endowment Report, spending from the endowment to support the University’s operating budget grew from $502 million to $1.0 billion over the past decade. But despite popular conception, this sum of money is not an “undifferentiated honey pot” that the University can dip into whenever it needs some cash, Jarvis said.

In fact, nearly 84 percent of the Yale endowment is restricted in gifts specified by donors to provide long-term funding for designated purposes, which range from financing professorships, endowing fellowships and prizes or supporting scholarships for students. If the University were to make investments based not on purely financial parameters but on a moral rationale instead, Jarvis said, the University would not be respecting donors’ original intents to simply maximize returns for the overall benefit of the institution.

“The point is that the endowment is a contract of the past with the future,” Jarvis said.

“And that contract is the contract between the donors who trusted the University to take their hard-earned financial asset and to carry it forward with a purpose in perpetuity.”

According to Christianna Wood, president and chief executive officer of Gore Creek Capital Ltd and a trustee of Vassar College, a university’s endowment should only be defined through the financial responsibilities of its “fiduciaries,” members of the board who are entrusted by the university to protect and grow the institution’s assets.

“I don’t know any governing document of an endowment in any university that says, we are here to use the endowment

to advocate for social change,” Wood said. “I have never seen that.”

Even Jon Gunnemann GRD ’75, another co-author of “The Ethical Investor” and a retired social ethics professor at Emory University, said the Yale endowment cannot and should not be used as a tool to influence political issues — even if those causes are praiseworthy and commendable.

Gunnemann said using the endowment to serve a social agenda would require getting all alumni donors to agree about what issues are consistent with the mission of Yale.

“The endowment is to support the educational goals of the University and not to be used as a social weapon,” Gunnemann said.

A NEW SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY

But in recent years, there has been growing momentum to expand the scope of what institutions must consider in their investment policy. Activists and outside experts have called upon colleges and universities to use their financial weight to influence social, political and increasingly, environmental matters.

According to the last survey of the Commonfund Institute on the topic in 2013, 18 percent of the 831 responding institutions of higher education participated in environmental, social and governance investing. This approach involves integrating one of these three factors into their investment analyses.

And the number of universities engaging in socially responsible investing has only risen over the past three years, experts said. From 2010 to 2012, assets managed under sustainable and responsible investing principles grew by approximately 22 percent from the $3.07 trillion reported in 2010, the Commonfund Study wrote.

The Intentional Endowments Network, which urges schools and other mission-driven organizations to consider the societal ramifications of their investments, is one such organization that has been pushing for schools to redefine the policies guiding their investment principles, particularly in regards to issues of sustainability.

“We felt that higher education should be a model for society in every aspect, and that, to me, includes how they invest their money,” said Tony Cortese, principal of the Intentional Endowments Network. “It is not just what they learn in the classroom, but what you learn as a member of the community at Yale — how the university purchases, how it operates its campus, how it manages all of its buildings, how it works with the local community and how it invests — these are very important parts of an educational strategy for producing the whole citizen.”

He said those who argue that universities should not consider ethical or political factors when investing are using inverted logic. Rather, not paying attention to the social impact of an investment is, in and of itself, a political statement in support of the status quo, Cortese added.

Other experts have also begun to employ the legal argument to justify this more progressive approach to endowment management.

According to Dan Apfel, former executive director of the Responsible Endowments Coalition, universities are held to a higher ethical standard than corporations because their nonprofit status exempts them from federal income tax.

“The primary mission of the

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school is how an endowment should be managed, as well as with the social purpose given to the school by its charitable status,” Apfel said. “So institutions have a charitable obligation to have a social purpose … and the endowment is purely a tool to allow them to accomplish this.”

Stephen Heintz ’74, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, said every major nonprofit — whether a hospital, museum, foundation or a university — must use its position to serve as a leader in social development.

Heintz and two heirs of the Rockefeller family, Valerie Rockefeller Wayne and Steven Rockefeller, made headlines in the fall when they announced the foundation would divest their $860 million fund from the fossil fuel industry, a symbolic gesture given that John D. Rockefeller created the Standard Oil empire.

“These institutions have missions that are specific in nature and not just economic, and in fact, not even primarily economic — they are primarily civic in the broad use of that term,” Heintz said. “Saying that I am only going to invest in those things that are giving me the short term economic benefit I am looking for, and not looking at the consequences of how I am investing — I think that is hypocritical.”

INVESTING IN THE MISSION

But defining which investments fall outside Yale’s mission has often raised more questions than answers.

Last Friday, Simon turned to page 171 of “The Ethical Investor” and read aloud the definition of “social injury” — the heart of Yale’s approach to delineating the “good” investments from the “bad.”

“Social injury is the injurious impact which the activities of a company are found to have on consumers, employees or other persons,” Simon read.

In other words, the University carries a moral obligation to avoid any investments that perpetuate such activities as “the deprivation of health, safety or basic freedom,” he added. The book listed some types of investments that fell into the category of “social injury,” including companies that “manufactured napalm” or “failed to hire or house blacks.” These examples are outdated or, at the very least, uncontested.

But over the past four decades, other causes have come to test the very definition — and more importantly, Yale’s willingness to adhere to it.

During the mid-1980s, for example, Yale students invoked “The Ethical Investor” to argue that the University must withdraw its shares in companies that operated in apartheid South Africa.

This movement has often been heralded as a model for campus divestment movements, since students used a combination of administrative persuasion and protest tactics, including the construction of shantytowns on Beinecke Plaza, to achieve limited success. By the early 1990s, the University had divested its shares in 17 companies doing business in South Africa, representing a total market value of approximately $23 million.

But more than the specific arguments in favor of or against divesting from South Africa, it was the University’s view on the role of the endowment that presented an obstacle to the movement, said Matthew Countryman ’86, one of the students involved in the movement.

Countryman recalled that following a debate over divestment from South Africa, Yale’s

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While the University adheres to the tenets of “The Ethical Investor,” debate over fossil fuel divestment continues.

Chief Investment Officer David Swensen argued that there should be no politics involved in the University’s investments in foreign countries.

“I responded that all foreign investments are political interventions,” Countryman said.

“What distinguishes an educational institution from other investors is precisely these ethical questions.”

However, Swensen denied that he said any remark that indicated opposition to divestment from companies with business in South Africa.

“I fully supported Yale’s policy, which included intensive corporate engagement and divestment when companies failed to meet Yale’s standards,” Swensen wrote in an email.

Since the anti-apartheid divestment movement, activists challenging Yale’s investments in the tobacco industry in the 1990s and investments in Sudan in the early 2000s have also cited the language of “The Ethical Investor,” forcing the University to grapple with these guidelines in practice.

Eric Bloom ’08, a former cochair of the Yale chapter of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur, said many students, faculty and administrators recognized that Yale’s investments in South Sudanese firms were in clear contradiction to the core values of the University.

Though both the apartheid and Sudan divestment movements ultimately saw a degree of success, the University administration and its Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility, Yale’s highest body on policy matters related to ethical investing, are now facing a new challenge.

FUEL TO THE FIRE

On Thursday morning, 48 students from Fossil Free Yale burst through the doors of Woodbridge Hall, the seat of the Yale administration, and staged a daylong sit-in.

At 5 p.m., University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews stood before the group of students sitting in the marble foyer of the building, flanked by portraits of long-gone University leaders and other historical figures.

Silence fell over the room as Goff-Crews pulled out a sheet of paper and read the prepared statement on behalf of the University. In addition to urging students to vacate the building and reassuring that the University respected their right to free expression, she once again reminded students about the standard in which their demands would be considered.

“The principles established in ‘The Ethical Investor’ provide a guidepost for the consideration of arguments,” Goff-Crews told protesters. “[That] includes any new arguments in favor of divestment.”

However, the debate about fossil fuel divestment has raised the stakes of the University investment policy.

Stephen Mulkey, president of Unity College, the first institution of higher education to divest its endowment from fossil fuels, said issues of climate change are in a separate moral category, the gravity of which makes divesting from South Africa seem like “small potatoes.”

“I don’t care what your institution of higher education is all about — your mission in an ultimate sense is the maintenance and renewal of civilization,” Mulkey said. “The problem with fossil fuel companies is — either intentionally or not — they have a business model that includes the destruction of civilization, and there is no way to put lipstick on that pig.”

But the University has countered that unlike past calls for divestment for humanitarian reasons, which have had a clear connection to the violation of human rights, fossil fuel companies still “remain essential to some degree.”

“In order to justify taking action against a company, Yale’s policy requires that the targeted company be causing social injury, and in the case of divestment, grave social injury, through its actions,” the CCIR stated in its August announcement. “The buildup of atmospheric [greenhouse gases] through fossil fuels use is caused by the combustion of fossil fuels, not by … bringing fuel to market.”

Still, the University conceded that climate change was a “critical challenge” and warranted using the endowment in some way to pressure change in corporate behavior.

Most notably, Swensen sent a letter in September to all of Yale’s active external money managers urging them to consider the consequences of climate change in their investment decisions.

This act alone, said Bennett Freeman, senior vice president for sustainability research and policy at Calvert Investments, demonstrated Yale’s willingness to expand the traditional definition of how the endowment can be used to address broader social problems.

In September, Swensen told the News he believed the letter was based on economic principles and would affect the University’s portfolio in a much more nuanced way than divesting from fossil fuels would. Over the long run, Swensen added, the letter will help move the University’s assets away from firms with higher greenhouse gas emissions. While not explicitly promoting divestment, Swensen said the letter may have a similar effect on the endowment.

“It was motivated from the right thing to do from an investment perspective,” he said at the time. “The bottom line is that if Yale’s managers do not act in a

manner that is consistent with the University’s goals, Yale will terminate the relationship.”

A CONTROVERSIAL TOOL

In 1972, then-Yale President Kingman Brewster said the endowment must balance “the terrible tension at the moment between the imperative of University neutrality and the imperative of University morality.”

But in the 40 years since he uttered those words, this particular tension has extended far beyond “the moment” and even beyond the bounds of Yale’s investment policy.

“In many ways, endowments have changed dramatically over the last 100 years; they were nothing on the scale to the institution as they are today,” Apfel said.

Apfel added that as the size of endowments continues to expand, the scope of the endowments’ responsibilities will grow as well.

Still, others argue that the Yale endowment should remain in its capacity as a financial asset to be invested for greatest return. Allowing ethical considerations to supersede investment decisions could cost the University.

“This is where these notions that … endowments should be a different thing really bumps up against the hard facts,” Jarvis said. “If donors feel that the future is going to mess with their intent, they aren’t going to give.”

And even some former student divestment activists were hesitant to label the Yale endowment as a tool to be wielded for social or political change.

Bloom said the endowment’s purpose should be largely focused on financial considerations.

“There are funds out there specifically focused on social impact or social responsibility, and the Yale endowment is not one of those,” he said.

Simon, however, reflecting on the impact of “The Ethical Investor,” conceded that there will never be consensus on how the University endowment ought to be managed. The governing guidelines for the Yale endowment are unique because they were structured to be open for interpretation to acknowledge that “legitimate competing considerations” exist on this issue, Simon said. Yale should not wield its financial assets as a political instrument, but it also should not ignore the ethical implications of its investments, he added.

“The whole point is that yes, we are not doing the proactive thing to change the world with our endowment,” Simon said.

“But when we are sitting there with something that stinks, we should do something about it.”

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“Equal pay isn’t just a women’s issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.”

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Local businesses participate in Equal Pay Day

BY MRINAL KUMAR STAFF REPORTER Six New Haven establishments participated in Equal Pay Day on Tuesday, largely thanks to the efforts of three Yale students.

A nationwide initiative begun in 1996 by the National Committee on Pay Equity, Equal Pay Day marks how far into the new year the average American woman would have to work to earn what the average American man did during the previous year. Kiki Ochieng ’15, Dianne Lake ’15 and Emma Goldberg ’16, a former opinion editor for the News, teamed up with the Women’s Center to convince six New Haven restaurants and retail outlets to offer female customers a 22 percent discount in recognition of the fact that nationally, women in the workplace earn 22 percent less than their male counterparts.

Tuesday marked the second year that local businesses have been involved with Equal Pay Day. “It’s really an opportunity for us to get more awareness out into the community,” Lake said. “People think about it more when they realize that businesses they love are participating and interesting in having this dialogue about the wage gap.”

FroyoWorld, Orangeside Donuts, Katalina’s Bakery, Insomnia Cookies, Ordinary and Therapy were the businesses that took part in the awareness movement this year. FroyoWorld, Katalina’s and Insomnia also participated in 2014.

Ochieng said she was pleased

with the local response to the Equal Pay Day effort.

“I think it’s gotten a lot of people talking about [the gender wage gap] on campus,” she said. “I’ve had several come up to me and ask about these issues, and also ask how we can make a change, even on a micro level.”

The way in which men and women interact with one another as undergraduates has a large impact on these same interactions in their future professional lives, according to Ochieng. She said she believes it is important for different genders to engage with one another as equals in classes and extracurriculars on campus.

Lake said she and the others targeted small businesses in the city because these establishments have close relationships with their customers. Lake added that local businesses were generally amenable to promoting Equal Pay Day, noting that the only businesses that refused to participate were those whose profit margins would suffer heavily from doing so.

Ochieng said that while she has never been a victim of the pay gap, she has several family members who have. She emphasized that the wage gap issue extends beyond New Haven and Connecticut.

“It’s kind of ridiculous that working just as hard as my Yale colleagues at the same jobs, I could make less,” said Ochieng.

“And there are problems in all fields, even higher paying ones like [medicine and STEM]. Equal pay should be a national priority.”

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Froyo World, among other New Haven businesses, participated in Equal Pay Day by offering discounts to female customers on Tuesday. reached out to and received support for their initiative from Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro.

DeLauro has long been a staunch supporter of equal pay, according to Sara Lonardo, her communications director. DeLauro has introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act to the U.S. Congress every year since 1997 and has held multiple workshops that promote pay negotiation for women.

Gov. Dannel Malloy also released a statement yesterday to recognize Equal Pay Day. “In Connecticut, we are working every day towards [address-

State appraises contamination at English Station

BY NOAH KIM STAFF REPORTER The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Department of Public Health have begun the process of decontaminating and removing equipment from English Station, a non-operational power plant in the nearby Mill River.

Dennis Schain, a spokesman for the DEEP, said the state recently moved to contain the potential risks of keeping equipment in the plant that has tested for asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls and heavy metals. These efforts entail first sterilizing the equipment — which includes a bulldozer, a backhoe and several trailers — and then returning each item to its respective owner due to concerns of theft.

According to a 2011 report by Janet Kwiatkowski, a DEEP environmental analyst, roughly $3 million in scrap metal has been stolen by trespassers since the plant closed down, despite security measures including a locked gate, razor wire and a surveillance camera.

This week, officials from both departments visited the plant to appraise equipment and chart a course of action.

“The risk is from contact with on-site contamination,” Schain said. “The danger is that people trespass on the property or steal equipment.”

William Gerrish, spokesman for the DPH, said that while the two departments will share duties in the project, the DPH will primarily be responsible for properly performing the asbestos abatement. Schain added that, currently, the hazard remains contained within the grounds of the power plant.

Before shutting down in 1992, English Station was owned by the United Illuminating Company, which paid Quinnipiac Energy $4.25 million in 2000 to assume ownership of the property. By selling the plant, United Illuminating shed itself of the responsibility to decontaminate equipment and dismantle English Station.

Quinnipiac Energy originally hoped to fix and reopen the plant for additional support during peak periods of energy demand in the area. But following resistance from then-Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73, now a U.S. senator, the energy company failed to secure the environmental permits it needed to do so and sold English Station in December 2006 to Asnat Realty and Evergreen Power

LLC. Their plans — to salvage scrap metal from the plant before demolishing it — also stalled in December 2012, when state Attorney General George Jepsen and DEEP filed a cease-anddesist and then an administrative order holding that Asnat and Evergreen were obligated to decontaminate the site before beginning to salvage material.

“Any demolition and scrapping activities conducted at the site without proper characterization and disposal of [polychlorinated biphenyls] and other hazardous substances are likely to result in imminent and substantial damage to the environment or to public health,” read a letter that DEEP Emergency Response and Spill Prevention Director Mark DeCaprio sent to Asnat and Evergreen in December 2012.

The danger is that people trespass on the property or steal equipment.

DENNIS SCHAIN Spokesman, DEEP Asnat and Evergreen eventually appealed the administrative order, claiming that United Illuminating should take financial responsibility for the decontamination process, despite the 2000 sale to Quinnipiac Energy.

Asnat, Evergreen and United Illuminating could not be reached for comment. However, Ann Catino, an attorney representing Evergreen Power and Asnat, was quoted in the New Haven Register last week saying that the “deteriorating environmental condition of the property rests squarely with the United Illuminating.”

City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said the city has no direct contact with the parties involved and that responsibility for the regulation of the clean-up process resides purely at the state level. He also added that the property’s owners, not the city government, should handle English Station’s security.

“It is prime waterfront property, and certainly the city looks forward to a time when that property can be restored to a productive state,” Grotheer said. “However, the city is a step removed from this process.”

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ing the gender wage gap],” Malloy said. “This year, we have introduced legislation to change Connecticut’s pay secrecy laws, a practice that ultimately perpetuates income discrimination and allows the gender wage gap to persist. Women deserve the same pay for the same work.”

Ochieng noted that progress has been made in the equal pay movement, as the national gender wage gap has dropped from 23 percent last year to 22 percent this year.

Goldberg, who was the outreach coordinator of the Yale

Women’s Center last year, said she hopes to make Equal Pay Day an annual event in New Haven.

She added that she wants the day to be a more institutionalized political holiday with as many businesses involved as possible.

According to Lake, the future of the equal pay movement lies in raising awareness about government policy, educating people about the wage gap and encouraging voters to elect representatives who can work to fix the problem.

“At the University level, there should be a consistent conversa-

tion about gender issues, not only for women on campus but also for men,” Ochieng said. “The more conversations we have, the more we can take our discussions from the personal arena to the workplace.”

Connecticut’s gender wage gap matches the national average, with data from the American Association of University Women showing that women in the state make 78 cents for every dollar that men make.

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Search for student Board of Ed reps begins

BY REBECCA KARABUS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER New Haven’s high school students are less than two months away from having representation on the Board of Education.

A revision to the city’s charter, which was voted on in 2013, included a change in the selection process for BOE representatives. The revision called for the creation of two positions elected by the public — as opposed to appointed by the mayor — and two elected student positions. A committee chaired by Ward 1 Alder Sarah Eidelson ’12 has been working since March to organize the election process, which will mirror the process used for aldermanic elections and will occur on June 4. Eidelson said she wanted to ensure that the process would give students as much agency as possible in their selection of representatives.

Elections for the two student representatives will take place on June 4.

“I’m looking forward to getting multiple students’ perspectives on policy that we make,” said BOE President Carlos Torre.

As with aldermanic elections, the election process for the students will have two stages: a petitioning and campaigning period. The petitions were first

made available to candidates on April 9, and students interested in running are expected to collect 100 signatures from other New Haven students by May 7, according to NHPS Projects Manager Suzanne Lyons, who sits on the BOE election committee. Fifty signatures may include those from students at potential candidates’ own schools, but the other 50 signatures must come from students at five or more other schools.

Following approval by the committee, candidates will have nearly a month to campaign before the June 4 election.

Thus far, only Kimberly Sullivan, a rising senior at the Sound School, has begun the petitioning process, but Lyons said she has received emails from almost a dozen other students who are interested in running.

Sullivan said she is running because there are a number of areas where the school system can improve, and she thinks students should have a voice in those changes.

“It’s not going to happen overnight, but just to make students’ voices heard will make a difference,” she said.

In order to run for the position, students must be New Haven residents enrolled at one of the city’s public or charter schools. For this year’s election, the committee is allowing both

rising seniors and juniors to run, but for each subsequent annual election, one rising junior will be elected to serve for two years.

Per state law, the student representatives will not be allowed to vote on policy. They will, however, contribute to the BOE’s conversation and have the opportunity to offer input on legislation.

Lyons said she thinks this will present “an amazing opportunity” for students who have served on school councils and want to continue to have an impact on their education. She noted the potential challenge of having only two students represent the over 22,000 students in the district, but added that the committee will make sure that those two students get input from students across the district. Furthermore, Lyons said the two student representatives will go through training and be paired with a current BOE member who will act as a mentor.

City Hall spokesman Laurence Grotheer said he believes the change in BOE selection protocol is consistent with the idea of representative democracy and “government by the governed.”

There are 10 high schools in the NHPS system.

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

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FROM THE FRONT Protesters decry police brutality

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Emma Jones, Malik’s mother, speaks at the site of her son’s death.

MALIK JONES FROM PAGE 1 and they are part of Caravana 43, an organization currently touring the United States to raise awareness about abuses of power by and the corruption of the police forces in Mexico.

Through a translator, one of the leaders of Caravana 43, Felipe de la Cruz Sandoval, told protesters that the situations in Mexico and the U.S. are not that different, and that all groups must join together to fight police.

“Young people here in the United States must organize and must start a revolution,” he said.

“The courage that comes from deep within our souls ... will tell everybody that we can get together and fight.”

The march began with roughly 80 people on Grand Avenue, but swelled to about 100 by the time it arrived on Chapel Street in Downtown. Throughout the march’s duration, police vehicles accompanied protesters, closing off streets when necessary.

New Haven residents composed the majority of the marchers, but roughly a dozen Yale students also participated.

Chris Garaffa, one of the protest organizers, said he was very pleased with the turnout, adding that the intersection of New Haven residents and Yale students was particularly special.

One of those Yale students was Fish Stark ’17, one of two announced candidates in November’s election for Ward 1 alder. He said the issue of policy brutality is one that has the capacity to attract many Yale students, and he cited as evidence the high turnout for a student-organized protest after Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson was not indicted in the killing of black teenager Michael Brown.

The march ended at the Af-Am

Cultural House on Park Street.

Garaffa said he and other organizers wanted the event to be not only a march, but also a community-based discussion about police brutality in New Haven.

At the Af-Am House, both students and New Haven activists spoke about the march they had just completed. Karleh Wilson ’16, leader of Yale’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Yale students often forget the privileges attached to the University’s name.

“As a Yale student, it is really easy to ignore all the injustices that happen outside of Yale in New Haven,” Wilson said. “We are surrounded by gates and ivory towers, and as a Yale student, these gates make me sick.”

Protesters renewed calls for police transparency, calls they have often made in recent months. Stark said he hopes for three results from the protest movement: a fully empowered Civilian Review Board, police accountability and progress towards “true community policing.”

Protesters also emphasized that police brutality is not an issue limited to New Haven, or even to the United States. The presence of the three Mexican parents at the event served as a reminder of the transnational character of police brutality.

“Terror is going on everywhere in this country — not just in New Haven, not just in South Carolina. It’s in every single town, every single community,” said Norm Clement, one of the protest leaders.

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

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fullfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves” LAO TZU PHILOSOPHER

Lui to succeed Brenzel NEW MASTER FROM PAGE 1 students gave the current master a standing ovation. Brenzel spoke briefly, asking TD students to join him in a resounding “Àshe,” the college’s motto, which means “We make it happen” in Yoruba.

“Having introduced your master and family, I can’t let the moment pass without talking about your current master, Master Brenzel,” Salovey said. “Master Brenzel has been an exemplary master.

He has built this incredibly community along with all of you.”

Last November, Brenzel announced that he would be stepping down after 18 years as a senior administrator. Brenzel previously served as dean of undergraduate admissions from 2005 to 2013 and teaches philosophy in the Directed Studies Program and a lecture class called “The Catholic Intellectual Tradition.”

Joined by her husband and two young sons, Lui spoke of how TD was the perfect fit for her family, especially given the college’s proximity to the New Haven Free Public Library. Lui’s husband, Vincent Balbarin, is a solutions architect for

Yale Information Technology Services and will serve as associate master. The family’s Lakeland Terrier, Chloe, will join the community as well, Lui added.

All nine students interviewed said they were sad to see Brenzel leave but also excited to welcome Lui and her family.

“It’ll be a tough transition because we’ve all grown to love Master Brenzel, but [Lui] seems like an excellent replacement and very well qualified and kind,” Reyna Schaechter ’17 said.

According to Rebecca Connelly ’16, Brenzel has been an important part of the TD culture, and his presence will be greatly missed in the college next year.

However, Connelly said she is also excited to see what kind of a personality Lui will bring to TD as the college’s new master.

Stephanie Anaya ’17 said TD has been looking forward to the master’s appointment for months. The community is very excited about welcoming the new family, she said.

“TD is such an incredible community of students and a nice foundation for her [Lui] to come into,” Emma Simon ’16 said.

“Having a master who is as passionate as we are helps — all it takes is love for the college, and TD isn’t hard to love.”

Although Simon noted that TD has been experiencing a different transition — after the recent change in deanship earlier this school year — she said she feels positive about Lui’s ability to contribute to the TD community.

Connelly also said she was already very impressed that Lui was taking the time to walk around the dining hall and greet students after Salovey’s announcement.

Engaging in the excitement of the moment, Lui remained in the dining hall until after everyone had left.

“I was not prepared for the incredibly boisterous and energetic welcome,” Lui said after the announcement. “It was very, very lovely. I’m looking forward to getting to know the students and trying to understand the fun and intellectual energy of the community.”

Contact RACHEL SIEGEL at rachel.siegel@yale.edu and MONICA WANG at monica.wang@yale.edu .

Tracy argues for campus adjudication

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Over 100 students gathered Tuesday to debate the proper adjudication procedure for rape cases on college campuses YPU DEBATE FROM PAGE 1 Tracy acknowledged that campus adjudication systems are imperfect as well, but emphasized the more diverse array of tools at universities’ disposal to address sexual misconduct — for example, changing students’ housing or class arrangements, or instituting prevention and education programs.

Tracy’s speech was followed by several student speakers from different parties, who advocated both for and against the resolution.

Isaac Cohen ’16, a member of the Conservative Party, delivered a rebuttal.

Cohen, who wrote a February editorial for the News titled “Leave rape to courts,” reiterated his argument to the audience, advocating for judicial rather than university adjudication of rape cases.

In particular, Cohen critiqued universities for eliminating cross-examination — a key feature of the judicial process — from their own adjudication procedures.

This is one of the many reasons that complaints of sexual assault would be better left to the legal system, he said.

“Why has cross-examination been discarded? The key word is trauma,” he said. “[Trauma] seems to have become the catch-all excuse for abdication of duty ...

[including] the victim’s duty to seek real justice in the real criminal justice system, not merely for herself but for future victims [as well].”

Cohen added that if society were to relieve women of their obligation to report rape to the police, it would be accepting that women are weaker than men. His concluding remarks were quickly drowned out by applause from the right and laughter and hissing from the left.

“Women today are not so feeble as feminists would have us believe, and I think they can handle real justice,” he said.

Speakers from both sides of the aisle followed. Isadora Milanez ’18, from the Party of the Left, emphasized Tracy’s argument that universities are obligated to preserve an equal learning environment for both men and women, and are equipped to do so through educational measures that the criminal justice system cannot implement. She, too, acknowledged that university adjudicative bodies often make mistakes, but said the recent media attention to the issue provides a strong incentive for them to improve.

Jenna McGuire ’18, from the Conservative Party, responded that universities will never be able to do an adequate

job of addressing campus sexual assault, because the strongest punishment they can administer is expulsion — a punishment that does nothing to take dangerous perpetrators off the streets, she said.

Seven more student speakers followed.

Speaker of the YPU Ugonna Eze ’16, who moderated the discussion, said after the event that the conversation had been very productive. Both sides seemed to recognize the “heinous” nature of the crime in question, he said, and arguments seemed more rooted in political interpretations than disagreements about the severity of the problem.

Farheen Maqbool ’17, secretary of the Conservative Party, said the topic is too difficult to be resolved in such a politically charged environment.

“I think this is a very hard topic, and I don’t know that this is the most productive forum to discuss it,” she said.

“The hissing and the pounding just add a very emotional atmosphere, and I think [the issue is] much too nuanced to be discussed in affirmative and negative speeches.”

Tracy became executive director of the Women’s Law Project in 1990.

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

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“Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20 gallon hat.” RICKEY HENDERSON ALL-TIME MLB LEADER IN STOLEN BASES

Yale coach leaves for AFA

Elis fall short of finals at USAG nationals GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE 12 Throughout the season, Ryan was unable to train high-impact events. Though she hopes to eventually regain all her skills and compete as an all-around gymnast, Ryan focused mainly on the uneven bars.

All the practice paid off: Ryan scored a 9.675, the Bulldog’s third-highest score on the event.

“I was actually really nervous but I knew I needed to hit and stay calm and do what I do in practice,” Ryan said. “I think the routine went well. I could’ve done better, but I did the best I could at the time.”

Ryan’s 9.675 was the Bulldog’s third-highest score in the event.

Two Yale gymnasts also placed in the top-18 of the allaround competition. Anna Merkuryev ’18, recently crowned ECAC Rookie of the Year, put up a score of 37.075 to finish 16th.

The freshman, who competed in the all-around throughout the season, turned in solid performances on vault and bars, in particular.

Traina finished five places ahead of her teammate with a 37.950. The eventual all-around champion, Kierstin Sokolowski of Lindenwood, scored 38.925.

The event finals were much tighter than the all-around.

Opperman’s score of 9.750 on floor exercise tied her for 10th in a highly competitive field that saw only .150 separating the 10 competitors. The junior is coming off an impressive season in which she earned ECAC Specialist of the Week two times for her performances on vault and floor, and she also earned the ECAC Floor title last month.

Uneven bars was equally competitive, with a 0.200 difference between the top and bottom score. Traina, with a 9.750, ended up in seventh, one place

GOBRECHT FROM PAGE 12 Overall, Gobrecht finishes with a 117–162 record at Yale, giving her the most wins in program history. She also holds that honor at the University of Washington, where she went 243– 89 in 11 seasons. Her 542–473 record as a Division I head coach gives her a win total in the top 30 among active coaches in the NCAA. “When I was recruited, she was an amazing coach,” forward Meredith Boardman ’16 said. “She was one of the only ones that was completely transparent throughout the whole process, so that is something that I have always really admired in her. It’s sad, but I know that she is going to do great things and I just feel lucky to have played for her.”

Halejian added that Gobrecht took the Yale basketball program to new levels in her decade as head coach, and that she is confident the Elis will continue to improve after her departure.

According to Boardman, none of the players had ever considered that Gobrecht would leave during their time at Yale.

“Each season we focus on doing well,” Boardman said. “Our focus is always about the team. [Gobrecht leaving] was never [something that] I thought about.”

Boardman and Halejian both highlighted memories of Gobrecht supporting her players both on and off the court. Halejian described the team’s trip to Ireland in the summer of 2013 as an opportunity for players to enjoy each other’s company in a less intense environment, while Boardman said Gobrecht took each class out to dinner each year, a kind gesture that showed her care for players.

Gobrecht could not be reached for comment after the Air Force announcement last night.

Gobrecht will be the eighth head coach in Air Force women’s basketball history.

ahead of teammate Li, who scored a 9.725.

“One of the best parts about being on event finals was watching the other routines,” Traina said. “We had no falls [on bars].

I don’t think anyone on floor fell either, which is rare. I think it was exactly how it was supposed to be, since you want to watch every routine.”

By qualifying to their respective event finals, Opperman, Traina and Li earned All-American honors.

The entire team was able to watch the three Bulldogs and the rest of the event finalists, though Winkelman noted it was “weird” to be sitting in the stands rather than on the floor.

The weekend marked the final time the four seniors — Traina, Li, Brianna Chrisman ’15 and Katherine Lucas ’15 — will wear their Yale leotards in competition. Winkelman complimented the seniors on their leadership by example and said their performances elevated the team to reach its full potential.

Although the team is losing four gymnasts, it will keep the solid foundation laid by its record-setting season. Both Traina and Winkelman expressed hope that the Bulldogs will continue to qualify to USAG Nationals as a team. Ryan added that she hoped the team can step up and fill the seniors’ shoes.

“Right now we’re all kind of focused on recovering a little bit,” Winkelman said. “Our bodies are hurting and a lot of people need some down time. But [this season] just shows we are good enough to make it to USAG Nationals year after year as a team. We’re looking forward, and next season we’re trying to do better.”

Contact DANIELA BRIGHENTI at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu and GREG CAMERON at greg.cameron@yale.edu .

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

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At the beginning of the recruiting process, I had these big aspirations of playing for top Division-I schools, as I wanted to win a national championship. But as the process progressed, I realized that softball could only take you so far in life; you need to also think about getting a job after college. The game bigger than softball, I realized, was the game of life that I would be playing after college. This was where I found the idea to use my softball and academics to be able to get me into a college that would afford me the just opportunity to prepare for the game of life. So, I started recruiting at Ivy League schools and other top tier colleges. I had received offers from Cornell, Tufts and Williams.

But ultimately, I could not turn down the chance to play at such an amazing school. I also really loved the coaches, the team and

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The team dynamics are amazing. Everyone is so supportive of one another and you know that you always have the team behind you. We really do trust each other because we know that everyone on this team can make an impact in every one of our games. There doesn’t have to be a single person that will win our games, it truly is a team effort because every game, someone different steps up and makes an impact.

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Last week was a tough weekend for us. But moving forward, I know that everyone has a fire in their belly to come out and prove that last weekend was a one-time thing.

We are so much better than how we played, granted Dartmouth was a great team, but we have so much more fight, spirit and talent to let that weekend define our season. I am excited for Harvard this weekend and then Princeton and Brown next weekend because I know that we will end our season off with a bang. This being said, I just want everyone to have the most fun and to enjoy every game because it has gone by so fast.

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

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Many members of the men’s lacrosse team said their dream in high school was to play for the Bulldogs.

M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 Chaminade Flyers, neither Better was formally recruited to play at Yale. David applied to Yale as a non-athlete, knowing that he would be able to walk on when he began attending the University.

For Charlie, who attempted to follow the same path two years later, David’s experience was a big motivator in pushing Yale to the top of his list.

“The fact that David had successfully taken this chance was huge for me, as it convinced me to the do same,” Charlie Better said. “Having an older brother to guide me through the admissions process definitely helped as well.”

In addition to the trios from Chaminade and Brunswick, Yale boasts a pair of players — Conor Resch ’17 and Jeff Cimbalista ’17 — who attended Pennsylvania’s La Salle

together, and two more from Manhasset High School in New York.

In fact, the Bulldog roster is filled not only with high school pipelines but also family dynasties. In addition to the Betters and Pratts, midfielder Jon Reese ’16 follows in both his father’s and uncle’s footsteps as an Eli lacrosse star, while goalie Dylan Meyer ’18 plays the same position as his older brother did four years earlier.

“I think the fact there are so many family ties in our program speak to how special it is,” David Better said. “There are few, if any, other programs that have had as many sets of brothers, sons, fathers, etc. come through, which I think says a lot about the unique culture players and coaches have built here.”

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

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 12:30 PM Gallery Talk, Baudelaire Between Romanticism and Photography. Working outward from Etienne Carjat’s stunning portrait photograph of Charles Baudelaire from the 1860s, Carol Armstrong, professor of the History of Art, considers a complex of questions and images surrounding Baudelaire, Romanticism and photography. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

THURSDAY, APRIL 16 10:00 AM Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive.

In recognition of the impact her courageous battle with cancer has had on efforts to save lives through marrow donor registration drives, the Yale athletic department will once again hold a drive in memory of women’s ice hockey placer Mandi Schwartz ’10. Yale’s six previous drives had added 4,538 potential donors to the Be The Match Registry, and at least 28 life-saving donor matches for patients in need have been located through the Bulldogs’ efforts.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 17 12:30 PM Furniture Study Tour. Go behind the scenes of the American Decorative Arts Furniture Study, the Gallery’s working library of American furniture and wooden objects, which features more than 1,000 works from the 17th to the 21st century. Space is limited. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

SATURDAY, APRIL 18 8:00 PM Yale Symphony Orchestra: Season Finale. The final concert of the 2014–2015 season brings together two beloved works from the early twentieth century. Margret Erlendsdottir ’15, winner of the 2014 William Waite Concerto Competition, will perform Prokofiev’s third piano concerto. The YSO will then end their season with An Alpine Symphony, the last of Strauss’ symphonic poems. Woolsey Hall (500 College St.).

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ARTS & CULTURE Ballet company brings Carroll classic to stage

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The Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company’s production of “Alice in Wonderland” will open this Friday at the Co-Op Arts and Humanities High School and will feature original choreography by YUBC members.

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER After journeying to Neverland a year ago with a production of “Peter Pan,” the Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company will travel into a rabbit hole this weekend.

The YUBC’s production of “Alice in Wonderland” opens this Friday at the Co-Op Arts and Humanities High School on College Street. Following a score composed by Tchaikovsky and arranged into a ballet by Carl Davis, the production is based on the original story written by Lewis Carroll. Director and Producer Nicholas Smith ’16 said unlike most ballet companies, which bring in outside choreographers, the YUBC’s perfor-

mance features completely original choreography by members of the company.

“A lot of productions of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ stick to a more balletic interpretation and it’s just purely dance, more like a suite instead of a story,” Smith said. “We really tried to take the book, theme and story bits and incorporate them in a way so that we can actually portray a story while heavily incorporating ballet.”

Ensemble members interviewed said some of the largest challenges posed by “Alice in Wonderland” are the surreal transformations made by characters and settings. Winter noted that the cast constructed three differently sized doors to illustrate the scene where Alice

shrinks and grows. Ellie Dupler ’16, who plays the Cheshire Cat, said the group is considering turning spotlights on and off to depict the appearance and disappearance of her character.

Acted out completely through dance and gestures, the performance will not feature any dialogue between the performers.

Smith said that while the company tried to adhere as closely as possible to the original storyline, the members needed to make a number of edits because certain scenes in the novel are only meaningful in the presence of dialogue.

Theresa Oei ’15, who choreographed the production, said she believes the story is well suited for a ballet company because it contains a wide variety of char-

Musical explores coming of age

BY MICHELLE LIU STAFF REPORTER While most poets merely write about death, a character in an upcoming musical will cause one.

An original adaptation of Janet Fitch’s 1999 novel “White Oleander,” with its book by Eric Sirakian ’15 and music and lyrics by Alex Ratner ’15, opens Thursday in the Calhoun Cabaret. The production serves as a senior project in American Studies for Ratner, who is also the show’s musical director. The musical follows the life of 14-year-old aspiring artist Astrid Magnussen, the daughter of a poet named Ingrid Magnussen, who is sent to prison for murdering her boyfriend. Sirakian said the show explores situations that are unfamiliar but still relatable to most Yale students.

“The play [poses] questions about what is home: ‘What do I owe to my family?’ versus ‘What do I owe to myself?’” Sirakian said. “Our protagonist is thrown into the most extreme and awful circumstances you can imagine for a young girl growing up.”

Set in Los Angeles in the early nineties, the play deals with Astrid’s coming-of-age as she struggles to define herself in relation to both her mother and her foster mothers. In the story, Astrid is sent through a series of foster homes until she turns 18.

Ratner and Sirakian said the play also tackles issues surrounding America’s foster care system, a topic rarely approached in theater and other media.

The three foster homes that Astrid passes through form a triptych in the production, Ratner said. Each of Astrid’s foster mothers is represented by a different musical style, ranging from country western to jazz, while Astrid, like her mother,

acters. Unlike other productions such as “Cinderella,” which features only two main characters, she noted, “Alice in Wonderland” is able to feature a large cast while ensuring that each performer plays an important role in the show.

“We built the ballet from scratch, writing the plot, creating the characters, planning scene elements, and choreographing every bit of it,” said Lea Winter ’15, who plays Alice.

“The unique challenge in adapting a piece of literature to a ballet is how communicate the imagery and symbolism that the author left between the lines.”

Unlike most adaptations of Carroll’s novel, YUBC’s production features two Queens instead of one — the Queen of Hearts

and the Queen of Diamonds.

Andrina Tran GRD ’18, another choreographer for the show, said the company chose to have two queens to introduce an additional dimension to the story that is not found in previous productions. She highlighted the humorous relationship between the two queens, adding that the Queen of Hearts is depicted as more dominant.

Oei said the whimsical nature of the show distinguishes it from the bulk of art that the Yale community produces, which tend to touch on more serious themes.

Smith described the play as being more relevant to themes such as the innocence of childhood and the mysteries of life.

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maintains a pop rock sound throughout the show. Ratner said that the distinct styles, which he gleaned from researching musical influences found in various parts of Los Angeles during the nineties, are helpful in distinguishing between characters.

Director Leora Morris DRA ’16 said that no matter how many people Astrid is exposed to throughout the show, she always retains a bit of Ingrid’s musical style.

As undergraduate productions are rarely directed by Yale School of Drama students, Morris said she agreed to work on the show because she was moved by Ratner’s and Sirakian’s “energy and ambition.” Morris highlighted the way the production subverts expectations of the Broadway musical genre by addressing the serious issues that Astrid must face.

Sarah Chapin ’17, who plays Astrid, described her character as unwaveringly devoted to her mother at the beginning of the

play. But as Astrid encounters other characters throughout the course of the play, she starts to question her devotion to Ingrid, Chapin said. The show explores whether Astrid’s happiness is contingent on her mother’s presence in her life, she added.

As Astrid begins to distance herself from her mother, Ratner said, she realizes that she has inherited some of Ingrid’s traits, such as vindictiveness and capacity for outrage and anger. “[Astrid] has unwittingly inherited parts of her mother even as she’s being conditioned to be other people, these other foster mothers,” Ratner said.

Chapin said that ultimately, the musical is about what it means to be a daughter and what it means to be a mother.

“I’m going to walk out of there and hug my mom and say, ‘Thank you for not being Ingrid,’” Chapin said.

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

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

Ensemble brings AfricanAmerican theater exhibit to life

BY ALEC HERNANDEZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

“White Oleander,” an original production with music and lyrics by Alex Ratner ’15, opens Thursday in the Calhoun Cabaret.

ated financial challenges for the company throughout the production process. Small in size, the YUBC has to make do without a significant budget and faculty oversight. Smith said group members made frequent trips to Home Depot, IKEA and the Center for Engineering, Innovation and Design while constructing the set themselves. The entire budget was roughly $2,000, he said, with funding from the Yale Undergraduate Organizations Committee, Creative Performing Arts Award and the Arts Discretionary Fund.

Performances of “Alice in Wonderland” will run through Saturday night.

This weekend, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will become a theater stage for undergraduate performers who will pay tribute to a century’s worth of African-American theater.

In conjunction with the Beinecke’s “Casting Shadows: Integration on the American Stage” exhibition, which showcases a variety of works by notable 20thcentury African-American playwrights, eight members of Yale’s Heritage Theater Ensemble will perform a series of monologues and scenes from the collection on Saturday afternoon. The library’s collection is amalgamation of playbills, written correspondence, photographs and other ephemera from a variety of the Beinecke’s archives. Andrew Williams ’16, a member of the ensemble, said the upcoming performance is inspired by pieces to which group members felt a personal connection.

“We picked the pieces that resonated with us and that we would also enjoy as actors,” Williams said.

The monologues include excerpts from Paul Green’s adaptation of Richard Wright’s “Native Son,” Langston Hughes’s “Don’t You Want to Be Free?” and “In the Red and Brown Water” by Tarell Alvin McCraney DRA ’07.

The works in the collection provide a glimpse into the earliest instances in which African-American roles in theater were played by black, rather than white, actors.

Melissa Barton, the curator of drama and prose for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke, said the featured monologues are all part of the collection currently on display, adding that the performance hopes to highlight often forgotten pieces of American theater.

“I hope that the exhibition demonstrates that there is much more to the history of African American theater than August Wilson and Lorraine Hansberry,” Barton wrote in an email.

Ashley Greaves ’16, who plays several roles in the showcase, said the pieces from the Beinecke collection highlight issues of race and ethnicity, specifically for African Americans in the United States. “In the Red and Brown Water,” for instance, tells the story of an African-American high school track star who faces several obstacles once her mother falls ill, Greaves explained.

Greaves said she hopes the performance will draw parallels between issues faced by African Americans in theater during the twentieth century as well as today. She noted that her characters face a variety of racial challenges that Yale students face daily, adding that the goal of the show will be to engage the community with these issues and challenge the audience to think about racial conflict in today’s society.

I hope that the exhibition demonstrates that there is much more to the history of African American theater than August Wilson and Lorraine Hansberry.

MELISSA BARTON Curator, Yale Collection of American Literature “I think especially when you come to the performance and see and hear what we’re talking about, you’ll say okay, that makes sense in today’s context, how some of these issues that were really big during the civil rights movements and of that era are coming back today in greater force,” Greaves said.

“Casting Shadows” will be on display at the Beinecke until April 18.

Contact ALEC HERNANDEZ at alec.hernandez@yale.edu .

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“I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It’s called expatriate.”

JAMES HILLMAN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST

Century-old novel receives a modern makeover

BY VICTORIO CABRERA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A Theater Studies senior project will bring a Victorian novel into the 21st century.

“La/Dy/Da,” an experimental theater adaptation of Henry James’s “The Portrait of a Lady” that was devised by students in the “Company and Text: Portrait of a Lady” (THST 382) performance seminar, opens tonight at the Whitney Theater. The play, a senior project for Miranda Rizzolo ’15 and Gabrielle Hoyt-Disick ’15, explores themes of feminism and individual freedom through its protagonist, Isabel Archer. Kate Pincus ’15, the play’s producer, said the ensem-

ble hopes to demonstrate that the medium of experimental theater can appeal to all audiences. Rizzolo, who plays Archer, highlighted the transformation that her character undergoes throughout the play.

“She starts the play idealistic, maybe even naive, and she grows up a lot over five years or so,” Rizzolo said.

The play’s plot centers on Archer, a newly wealthy American expatriate in Europe.

Throughout the course of the narrative, Archer is courted by many men before settling into one ultimately unhappy marriage. The story explores the nature of Archer’s choices and her inner life.

Rizzolo said much of the play’s attention is devoted to highlighting Archer’s inner thoughts and emotions. In one scene, Rizzolo explained, a character speaking to Archer repeats the same line over and over again, but Archer responds in a different way each time. The audience can see Archer work through every possible emotional reaction to the statement, she noted, adding that the lines between thought, dialogue, asides and soliloquy in the play are often blurred.

In addition to exploring how the characters’ inner worlds affect their daily behavior, the play explores how the interactions between characters have consequences on their psyches.

“Watching someone changes their life — the people who watch Isabel Archer change her life,” Hoyt-Disick said.

THST 382 ensemble members interviewed noted that their stage design for the production reflects the theme of Archer as a character who is constantly watched. As Archer is watched, Rizzolo said, the audience notices how the act of observation changes her as she molds herself to fit others’ expectations.

Margolin said the play’s devised nature makes it a highly collaborative venture that lends itself to being interpreted in a variety of ways by students in the class. Hoyt-Disick explained that every student in the seminar

contributed to writing the script, including students who are not actors in the performance. Margolin stressed the importance of collaboration in the creative process for the play.

“In the process of adapting, the humanity and feelings of people’s very personal lives become attached to the text and comment on it,” she said.

Rizzolo said the imbuing of personal experience was important to her understanding of Isabel Archer. Hoyt-Disick likened the production process to examining Henry James’s work through a uniquely modern perspective.

Margolin noted that one example of the ensemble’s con-

temporary interpretation of the text is their feminist reading of the original novel. Hoyt-Disick said she saw the play as an exploration of the role of a woman who is more of an object than a freewilled actor.

Pincus also emphasized the balance of serious and lighthearted elements in the production, noting that the play contains a number of jokes, several choreographed dances and references to music artists, game shows and other elements of popular culture.

“I think Beyoncé would like it,” said Margolin.

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

Q&A: Setting Baldwin to music and lyrics

BY DAVID KURKOVSKIY STAFF REPORTER After reading James Baldwin’s 1956 novel “Giovanni’s Room” for a paper on Paris as a gay haven, Julian Hornik ’17 was inspired to begin writing a musical based on “Giovanni’s Room,” which opens tomorrow night at the Off-Broadway Theater. The News spoke to Hornik, the composer and lyricist of the musical, and Emma Hathaway ’17, who wrote the book for the play, to learn about the duo’s hopes for the show as well as the process of adapting Baldwin’s novel for the stage.

Q

Have either of you ever adapted a book for the stage before?

JH

I had written, in high school, my Anne Frank musical. I wrote a rock opera based on Anne Frank, so I’ve adapted a book before, but I’ve never adapted from a book and worked with a collaborator, so that was a new thing — and it worked beautifully. We not only got along as friends, but we had the same sensibility.

you tell me a little bit QCan about the plot of the story?

EH

David, an American expat in Paris, proposes to a woman, and she says she has to think about it. While he’s alone, he meets this bartender, Giovanni, and it becomes a relationship that forces him to face a part of himself that he’s been repressing for a very long time.

He’s forced to make a choice.

JH

He ends up choosing her, but really can’t let go of the part of him that’s been awakened [a euphemism for the character’s homosexuality].

Ultimately, he ends up with no one.

were some of the chalQWhat lenges and innovations in

adapting the book into a musical?

JH

One of the big difficulties with this book in particular was the fact that so much of it is narration told in the past tense. A lot of these songs are story songs, people talking about something that has just happened. When I wrote it, pretty much every song was just that. Then putting it on its feet, you start to realize that gets a little boring. So thank-

fully I worked with Emma to set the scene up where it becomes a commentary, so there’s some tension in there that’s not just [the narrator] talking.

EH

At the beginning, it was me trying to incorporate the songs Julian had already written into the book. Once we started collaborating, we [came] up with concepts for the songs together.

Q

A few weeks ago, a student put on a staged reading of Frances Willard’s diaries, which are read in the popular lecture course “U.S. Lesbian and Gay History.” Why do you think it is important for contemporary plays to discuss American gay history and are these historical narratives still relevant today?

EH

together the musical?

show if there wasn’t enough in that book that we love that we could keep loving it. Occasionally, I would go back and read pages, and I remain awed by Baldwin’s use of language. He had this spectacularly unique combination of biblical and jazz writing. The other thing we thought about more is how brave [Baldwin] was, that in his time, he would be willing to tell this story which is not just daring because it has this gay content, but is even more daring in the way it’s presenting it as something that should be so familiar to people. That could have been so scary to so many people, but Baldwin did it so artfully that it was exactly what it was meant to be, which is human.

JH

Contact DAVID KURKOVSKIY at david.kurkovskiy@yale.edu .

Even though it’s set almost exactly 60 years ago, it’s still so extremely relevant. There’s this wonderful quote from a review of the piece from the 1950s that we think really sums it up well, saying that what Baldwin manages to do is to tell a story not just about sexuality, but about humans. It’s about this human story and the way that he crafts it.

JH

It still resonates. It’s not about sensationalizing anything. It’s about making completely normal this love story.

you learned more QHave about the book after putting We wouldn’t have taken the time to write this

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Giovanni’s Room, adapted by Julian Hornik ’17 and Emma Hathaway ’17, stars Mark Trapani ’15 (left in left photo), Christian Probst ’16 (right in left photo), Erin Krebs ’18 (left in right photo) and Ginna Doyle (not pictured).

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BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI AND GREG CAMERON STAFF REPORTERS

COURTESTY OF YALE ATHLETICS

Chris Gobrecht led the Bulldogs to their first-ever appearance at the Women’s National Invitation Tournament in 2011.

Following a 10-year tenure at the helm of the Yale women’s basketball program, head coach Chris Gobrecht has accepted a position as head coach of the U.S. Air Force Academy’s women’s basketball team, Jim Knowlton, Air Force director of athletics, announced Tuesday.

Gobrecht, the winningest head coach in the history of Yale women’s basketball, departs from New Haven to take on her sixth NCAA Division I head coaching job in her 35-year career. She has also asked her assistant coaches to follow her to the Air Force program, but they have not yet decided whether or not to stay, according to guard Nyasha Sarju ’16.

Yale captain and guard Sarah Halejian ’15 said Gobrecht revealed the news to her players at a team meeting yesterday afternoon, and that the announcement came as a “complete surprise” to everyone on the team.

“Obviously everyone was super upset, but I think that it’s also important at this point to move on and look to the future,” Halejian said. “I think that Yale’s athletic

department will do a great job getting the best possible candidate [as Gobrecht’s successor]. We’re all upset, but the future is still very bright.”

Though Gobrecht’s own extensive pedigree as a player and coach does not directly touch Air Force, she does hold ties to the service academy through her son, Eric Gobrecht, who graduated from the school in 2009 as a member of its water polo team.

Halejian said she does not know whether Gobrecht would be leaving for Air Force immediately, and she was unaware of the short-term plans to hire a new Yale head coach. Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said that the search for a new head coach will begin immediately and that the search committee will seek assistance from the members of the team in finding a coach.

“It is very difficult for me to leave Yale University, and in particular, difficult to leave a team that I love and one I believe is destined for great success in the Ivy League next year and for years to come,” Gobrecht said in an Air Force announcement.

Air Force hired Gobrecht just a month after announcing that former head coach Andrea Williams would not have her contract renewed. Williams began coach-

ing the Falcons in 2010 and compiled just a 22–128 record, with an 8–74 mark in Mountain West Conference play in her five years at Air Force.

Gobrecht has experience turning around struggling programs, as she stepped into her role at Yale in 2005 following three consecutive losing Ivy seasons. Though the Bulldogs went 2–12 and 5–9 against Ivy foes during her first two seasons, Gobrecht led Yale to an Ivy record of 0.500 or better in seven of the next eight years.

“Coach Chris Gobrecht has been an exceptional leader and role model as the head coach of the Yale women’s basketball program,” Beckett said in an email. “We are extremely proud of her work with the women of Yale basketball and her countless contributions to our department and the entire Yale community.”

Perhaps Gobrecht’s most notable season was 2010–11, in which the Elis boasted a 10–4 conference record and a 14–15 overall mark, and tied Harvard for a secondplace finish in the Ancient Eight standings en route to an appearance in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.

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Team struggles, individuals shine at nationals

BY MAYA SWEEDLER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last Friday, the Yale gymnasts found themselves in a familiar location, but this time around, they competed for a much greater reward: a national championship.

GYMNASTICS The Bulldogs traveled to Philadelphia last Thursday to compete at the USA Gymnastics Women’s Collegiate National Championships at Penn’s Palestra. This season marked the first time in over 10 years in which the gymnasts qualified as a team.

Yale competed in the second fourteam bracket on Friday evening, taking on Seattle Pacific University, the University of Bridgeport and Penn. Bridgeport and Seattle Pacific finished in the top two, advancing to the Saturday team finals, where they finished second and

third, respectively, behind Lindenwood University.

In the preliminary session, the Bulldogs were harmed by a shaky performance on beam that closed out their meet. Their team total of 189.500 was their second-lowest score of the season.

“We were obviously disappointed, because you never want to leave competition feeling like you could’ve done better, and we did feel like we could have done better,” captain Morgan Traina ’15 said. “But it was great to qualify for this meet.”

Much of the difficulty was due to a season-low 45.725 on the fourth and final event: beam.

As one of the more psychological events, beam is often difficult to compete at the end of a meet because falls tend to snowball. However, according to Traina, each slip-up was caused by a different injury or mistake.

“Beam is a mentally taxing event,” Tatiana Winkelman ’17 said. “It was

In her inaugural season at Yale, standout pitcher Francesca Casalino ’18 leads the team with an ERA of 3.11, enough for eighth in the Ivy League. Just five weeks into the season, the Dix Hills, New York native became the first Yale player to be named Pitcher of the Week in five years. Casalino was awarded for her standout performance against Florida A&M, in which she had eight strikeouts and allowed only two hits. In addition, Casalino ranks fourth in the conference with 72 total strikeouts. Casalino spoke with the News about her transition to Yale as well as her experience on the Yale softball team.

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Q

How was the adjustment from high school to D-I collegiate softball?

A

The adjustment for me was not too bad because of outside travel ball. I played on a competitive team in tournaments for most of the summer, which really helped to prepare me. But nothing compares to the speed that D-I games are played at. Because everything is more mental, as almost everyone has the talent to compete, the game is different in the way that you need to learn how to win the small battles within the game to win the game itself. So, you need to slow things down and focus on every batter, every out and every inning. This is the way to succeed in D-I softball, and the most difficult adjustment I have had to make.

made you choose the QWhat Ivy League and, specifically, Yale compared to other D-I schools? What are some of SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 8

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The team total of 189.500 at the USA Gymnastics national tournament was the Elis’ second lowest performance of the season.

The pipelines of men’s lacrosse

Freshman stands out on mound

BY JULIA YAO STAFF REPORTER

rough. We’ve done that rotation three or four times already, and we’ve done well, but this time it just wasn’t in the cards for us.”

Despite a bit of foundering in the preliminaries, there were individual highlights. Three Yale gymnasts earned top-five scores in individual events, qualifying them for event finals on Sunday: Camilla Opperman ’16 on floor as well as Traina and Joyce Li ’15 on uneven bars.

Additionally, Meg Ryan ’18 made her career debut as a Bulldog after battling stress reactions in her shins throughout the season.

“At team competition on Friday one of the highlights for the entire team was being able to see Meg Ryan compete bars,” Winkelman said. “It was her first time competing her routine, and we were so excited for her. She hit a beautiful routine.”

BY JONATHAN MARX CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale prides itself on drawing students from diverse geographic backgrounds, and the men’s lacrosse team is no different. This year’s roster features players from 13 different states, an especially high number for a sport that is still dominated by East Coast players and teams.

MEN’S LACROSSE Nonetheless, not everyone on the Bulldog roster comes from an unusual environment. Ten different players have at least one high school peer on the team. In fact, two high schools, Brunswick and Chaminade, boast three current Elis apiece.

Brunswick, a private day school in Greenwich, Connecticut, can call All-American attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15, sibling defensemen David Better ’15 and Charlie Better ’17 its alumni. Mid-

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fielder Shane Thornton ’15, All-American defenseman Michael Quinn ’16 and midfielder Brian Pratt ’17 all attended Chaminade, a large private school in Mineola, New York.

“There is definitely a huge pipeline from Chaminade [to Yale],” said Pratt, whose older brother, Michael Pratt ’12, captained the Bulldogs in his senior year.

Chaminade, however, is a highly unusual program for both its intensity and talent.

According to Thornton and Quinn, their graduating class sent roughly a dozen players to Division I teams, more than almost any school in the country.

For the graduates of Brunswick, the path to Yale took a bit more good fortune. When Oberbeck and the older of the two Better brothers came to Yale in 2012, they were welcomed by former high school teammates Robby Berner ’12 and Jimmy Craft ’14. But unlike Chaminade, Bruns-

wick was by no means a longtime national powerhouse.

“Lacrosse-wise, Conrad and I were there for an era that saw the program transition from a competitive local

program to one that is nationally recognized,” David Better said.

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Two high schools, Brunswick and Chaminade, each boast three current members of the men’s lacrosse roster.

THE SCORE CAMILLA OPPERMAN ’16 EARNED FOR HER PERFORMANCE DURING HER FLOOR ROUTINE IN THE FINALS AT THE USA GYMNASTICS WOMEN’S COLLEGIATE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. Opperman’s score earned her a 10th place finish and All-American honors.