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Campaign comes to Connecticut Clinton, Sanders speak in Elm City

Bomb scare. Police arrested

a 20-year-old Connecticut man after he sent a threatening tweet about the Donald Trump rally in Waterbury, Connecticut. The tweet read, “Is someone going to bomb the Trump rally or am I going to have to?” According to police, this tweet was followed by one warning friends and family to stay away from the rally for their safety. The state police contacted the U.S. Secret Service after seeing the tweet.

Ernst it. The Yale Women’s Center and the women’s crew team will jointly host a screening of “A Hero For Daisy.” The 1999 documentary film tells the story of twotime Olympian and Yale rower Chris Ernst ’76 who, with her team, stormed the Yale Athletic Director’s Office to protest the lack of facilities for women’s teams in 1976 — a revolutionary moment in the history of Title IX. The screening is at 7 p.m. tonight at the Women’s Center.

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n the days leading up to Connecticut’s April 26 primary, Democratic and Republican candidates alike have come to the state to fight for votes. SEE PAGE A5.

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The rent is too high. RadPad,

a mobile apartment search and rent payment platform, ranked Yale the 31st most expensive college in the country to rent nearby campus, reporting that the median two-bedroom apartment close to campus costs $2,600. This number has gone up after the openings of two luxury buildings: College and Crown Apartments and The Novella. The No. 1 spot went to Stanford and Brown was the only other Ivy on the list, at No. 23.

Singing in the shower. The

off-campus woes continue at the Cambridge Oxford apartments on High Street, where the hot water was not working for much of the day yesterday. Residents were told that maintenance work could not be done until this morning.

Get out the vote. The deadline

to register in-person to vote in tomorrow’s primary election is noon today. Connecticut residents may only vote within the party with which they are officially affiliated, and unaffiliated voters may not cast ballots. Look up your registration status by name and town online at ct.gov.

Join us. Two thousand high

school seniors will arrive on campus today for Bulldog Days 2016. For three days, student groups will attempt to recruit early by trading Yorkside Pizza and Ashley’s Ice Cream for prefrosh email addresses. Visit us at 202 York St. at 10:30 p.m. tonight to join the News.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1984 According a report released by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee on the Education of Women, Yale needs to make greater efforts to recruit and retain female faculty members.

The committee — which was formed in 1982 — called on the University to double the number of tenured women in the faculty.

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New Haven, a new millennial magnet

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ver the past decade, dozens of new bars, restaurants and housing developments have gentrified downtown New Haven. In a city with over 300 years of history, why has the Elm City transformed now of all times? JIAHUI HU reports.

Elm City Social opened last July. Since then, the bar’s wood paneling and jazz notes of modern hits have transported patrons to the pre-prohibition era. Bartenders in all black serve up craft cocktails such as The Black Widow, which combines absinthe and Sauvignon Blanc with deep cherry notes, and The Rubber Ducky, which is served to patrons complete with a yellow duck floating atop the ginbased mix.

The opening of the craft cocktail establishment — the

UPCLOSE sort of bar that might seem more at home on a side street in Manhattan than in a city 60 times smaller than New York — is not an anomaly in the Elm City. At least, not any more.

A decade ago, visitors to downtown New Haven would have encountered parking lots interspersed with boarded-up shop windows and the odd retail store or two, said Chuck Mascola, who has lived in the city

since the 1980s and now runs an advertising firm. Now, in 2016, parking is impossible to find and commerce thrives on every block, Mascola said.

“It was sleepy,” Mascola said.

“There were nice things, but crummy things mixed into it.

Now it is hard to find eyesores or to see anything that disturbs a great urban landscape.”

“You find a city that is seamless,” he added.

New Haven has quickly transformed from its 1990s reputation as a crime-ridden

Power to headline Class Day

BY DAVID SHIMER STAFF REPORTER U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power ’92 will be the speaker at this year’s Class Day on May 22.

Class Day co-chairs Benjamin Ackerman ’16 and Katayon Ghassemi ’16 made the announcement in an email to the senior class Friday morning. Before becoming America’s top diplomat to the U.N. in January 2013, Power served as special assistant to U.S. President Barack Obama and a senior director on the National Security Council. She previously covered the Yugoslav Wars as a journalist and served as founding executive director of a human rights policy center at Harvard from 1998 to 2002. Power is the third Obama administration official to speak at Class Day in three years: Vice President Joe Biden addressed graduating seniors last year, and SEE POWER PAGE 4

wasteland to a burgeoning commercial zone that is quickly attracting a flurry of new residents.

But what has been the driving force behind the city’s change of pace?

People — young people. And lots of them.

As the Millennial Generation — born of the baby boomers, between 1980 and 2000 — transition to adulthood, New Haven has seen its under-35 population increase by 45 percent.

Millennials have been graduating from college and moving to cities since the turn of the century. With the net increase in young educated professionals with money to spend on luxury lofts, cocktails and restaurant options, New Haven entrepreneurs, developers and government officials have seized the

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WHO ARE THE MILLENNIALS?

Atlanta-native Melody Oliphant is no stranger to changes of scenery. After attending boarding school in Tennessee and college at Wesleyan, Oliphant needed to find a medical job in New Haven if she wanted to live and work alongside her girlfriend of one year, who returned from a fellowship in Rio de Janeiro with a job offer in the Elm City. Oliphant, who previously worked as a genetics researcher at New York’s Icahn School of Medicine, secured a two-year fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center. She and her SEE MILLENNIALS PAGE 6

Berkeley Dean Genoni to depart

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER

Samantha Power ’92, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., will be this year’s Class Day speaker.

opportunity for lasting economic growth beyond Yale’s gates.

Berkeley College Dean Mia Genoni announced on Friday that she will step down from her position at the end of the school year.

In an email to Berkeley students that afternoon, Genoni wrote that she will begin a new position this summer as the dean of Westhampton College — the college for undergraduate women at the University of Richmond — and associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Richmond. Genoni, who has been dean since the 2011–12 academic year, received her Ph.D. from the University of Richmond in 2007, and her former students from when she was pursuing her degree there nominated her for the new position.

“As I hope you know, I found a new home when I had the great fortune to become your dean, and I have cherished

every moment we have spent together,” Genoni wrote. “It has been a joy and an honor to be your dean: to live with, to advise and — quite simply — to know — each and every one of you.”

Genoni’s departure leaves Berkeley to welcome both a new dean and master in the fall — current master Marvin Chun announced in October that he would leave his position at the end of the academic year. Chun told the News in October that he plans to take a sabbatical year to focus on his academic work and family.

Genoni is the sixth dean or master this academic year to announce that he or she will leave their position. Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway said the administration knew Genoni was being considered for the position at the University of Richmond, but only found out about her appointment and decision to leave on Tuesday.

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Yale is forever

GUEST COLUMNIST CLAIRE WILLIAMSON

Alone but not lonely T

here’s a stigma about living alone at Yale. The joys of suite living are touted everywhere, from the daily tours given to potential applicants to the residential life panels offered for parents and prefrosh during Bulldog Days. So much emphasis is put on living in a suite with your four or five best friends that the desire to live alone can be seen as a personal failure. My parents, too, lived with some of their best friends here at Yale and I grew up hearing about how much fun it was to hang out together in the suite common room and talk late into the night before falling asleep. When I first came to Yale three years ago, that was the idyllic suite life I craved.

I’m here to unashamedly say that for my senior year — the capstone to my Yale tenure — I will be living alone. And I think that for many reasons this is preferable to living in a suite.

THERE’S ONLY SO MUCH A PERSON CAN TAKE BEFORE THEY NEED TO RETREAT... SPACE, IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS, IS WHAT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO BE BETTER, MORE SUPPORTIVE FRIENDS THAN IF THEY LIVED TOGETHER First of all, there’s the drama of room selection. This is more of an issue sophomore and junior years, but let’s be honest: No one wants the double.

Once you’ve drawn your suite (which is a whole other battle), it all boils down to who gets shafted into the double. Any card you have, you play: weird sleep schedule? Overly neat or messy? Significant other?

They’re all incentives for you, and not someone else, to have your own room. The goal is to be desirable enough that people want to live with you, but enough of a pain that no one wants to be your roommate.

It’s a fine line that many people (but not myself) have mastered, and after compromising

what I wanted out of my junior year for the sake of group harmony, I decided to prioritize my own needs.

Secondly, there’s the issue of cleaning. Now, I know I fall on the neater end of the cleanliness scale, but I don’t think it’s too much to ask for everyone to share the burden of tidying and taking out the trash.

Often, one or two people in my suite end up doing the majority of the cleaning while everyone else, riding on the coattails of “being busy,” don’t do as much. The solution is either to nag your suitemates, which is unpleasant for everyone, or to let the trash pile up in a futile attempt to inspire someone else to step in. Rather than harp to my friends about how open food and trash attract bugs and rodents, I’d rather just have a place where I can enforce my own standards without having to impose them on everyone else.

And finally, there’s just the desire to be by yourself for selfcare purposes. I know I’m not the only introvert at Yale. Parties tire me out after a short while, and I love nothing more than curling up with a mug of tea and a book in my bed to recharge and destress. But when you’re in a suite, other peoples’ stress follows you. No one wants to walk into a suite and have it feel like Bass Library during midterms. Living with other stressed people just adds to your stress unnecessarily.

And when people are stressed and living together, or even just having a bad day, it’s impossible to find solace in your own room. Even though I want to help people talk out problems and vent, a person can only take so much before they need to retreat and care for themselves.

In situations like these, space allows people to be better, more supportive friends.

I will miss living with people now and again. Yelling across the suite about a funny cat video, laughing in the common room and catching up with everyone on a daily basis are all moments that I treasure.

I love my current suitemates dearly, but just because I won’t be living with them doesn’t mean we won’t remain friends or that they matter any less to me. I’m not ashamed to prioritize what I need out of my last year at Yale: It just happens to involve a lot of quiet and personal space. So while I’ll be living alone, I won’t be lonely. I’m just a couple doors away.

CLAIRE WILLIAMSON is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College.

Contact her at claire.williamson@yale.edu .

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or the past two years, I’ve worked as an usher at Yale’s annual commencement ceremonies. It’s Yale at its most manicured and best: The weather is sublime and there are no more exams to be taken.

A handful of nerds get awards, everyone is slightly more tan and there is something called the “Last Chance Dance.” Think Camp Yale, but instead, you know everyone.

I won’t spoil too many of the details, but one mainstay of the commencement weekend has stuck with me since I first witnessed the three-day ordeal my sophomore year and the phrase bears repeating. When a student receives a degree at other schools, that student receives all of the “rights and privileges” that the degree entails. But at Yale, we're different. Instead, we are “admitted” to our degree with all of its “rights and responsibilities.” The person who says it changes —sometimes it’s the dean and sometimes it’s the president— but the phrase is tradition.

I’ve always loved the idea that the Yale degree involves responsibilities. Instead of a

golden ticket, degrees are bestowed upon Yale students with the understanding that they’ll use them wisely AUSTIN with BRYNIARSKI and intention.

E v e n Guns & though today marks the butter last week of classes, the last ever for the class of 2016, our degrees come with the explicit suggestion that our work is never done. I savor the thought that soon I may never have to sit at something called a Harkness table ever again, but I know that the critiquing and the analyzing I’ve done won't end with reading period and will serve me well in serving others well into the future.

With the end of college in sight, I’ve often returned to this idea of Yale conferring responsibility upon its students to help cope with the inevitability of graduation. Since the beginning of the school year at least,

seniors have been wistfully looking upon quotidian events as momentous “lasts,” and naming them as such. But this week, the sentiment around nearly every circumstance reaches critical mass. The last master’s tea. The last seminar meeting. The last laundry load. The last Woads.

Other senior columnists have marked the finality of their columns, using them as a site for reflection. I’m writing this last column of mine in Phelps Hall, minutes before it is due, and there is cheering emanating from a Bernie Sanders rally at the New Haven Green that I desperately want to be at. True to form, the column is a victim of a bout of procrastination, just like every other column I've written.

This pervasive fixation on lastness reinforces the myth that Yale ends. It doesn’t.

When I think about what life after Yale might be like, I think about the alum who spontaneously let me live in her home in Boston for a summer when I needed housing. I think about the interviewer I met as a high school senior, a member of the Branford class of 1955, who told me recently that after 50 years of

running a business, he is finally planning to reduce his workload in his mid-80s. I remember the painting of Harkness Tower behind his desk, which he said he came across in Germany. I think about the man who stood in line in front of me in security last year in Cartagena, Colombia, who introduced himself after overhearing me mention New Haven and promptly recounted the particularities of Yale’s punk scene in the 1980s.

Without the Yale association, this cast of characters is random and arbitrarily connected.

But maybe that’s the point: that they’re only linked by a certain je ne sais quoi that is a Yale degree, all bearing out some sense of obligation that they may or may not have heard about at their graduation.

The saying goes, "Yale is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends." I would like to add that Yale is forever.

AUSTIN BRYNIARSKI is a senior in Calhoun College. His column usually runs on alternate Fridays.

Contact him at austin.bryniarski@yale.edu .

Toni's magic

ASHLYN OAKES/ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR

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wo weeks ago I ventured into Harvard territory to witness Toni Morrison delivering a lecture to an audience of 300. Among her many accolades, the 85-yearold author of 11 novels has won a Pulitzer Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom. She is also the first African American female Nobel laureate in literature. After seeing Morrison handle topics both light and serious, from sex to racially charged police brutality, I realized that her literature has two profound implications for intellectual culture at Yale.

The first revolves around pot pie. See, good writing is like good pot pie: food for the soul crafted in a creative, homemade fashion.

Excellent writers have exemplary cooking skills — they thoroughly knead dough, astutely chop onions without crying and whisk eggs at breakneck speed.

In other words, pen-wielding artists have a keen ear for syntactical cadence, appropriatelyscaled metaphors and nuanced antidotes to naive cliches.

Writers differ, however, with respect to the ingredients they inject into the pie — that is, the mental content and structural variation they bring to the table. The literary establishment regards Morrison as genius for good reason: Her ingredients contain the same high quality fiber as those of James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Langs-

ton Hughes and more contemporary authors such as Zadie Smith. Morrison specifically infuses her prose with ISAAC a deep historiAMEND cal knowledge of black hisThe tory, a brutally honest grasp iconoclast on the black conscience, fantastical thinking, word pressure, invisible ink, anecdotal symbolism, iconoclasm and wisdom.

But most of her ingredients are not taught in the traditional classroom. Take wisdom, for instance, which abounds in her novel “Jazz.” The main character sagely remarks, “Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.” This understanding of a universal emotion only comes with fine-tuned perception of the turbulence and triumphs of daily existence — not SAT grammar exercises or vocabulary quizzes.

Another ingredient, iconoclasm, is actually shunned in conventional pedagogy. Institutions like Yale thrive on prestige and cultural mores that date back centuries to John C. Calhoun. Iconoclastic practice is taboo at Yale, where a gen-

eral thirst for objective achievement dominates campus culture through grade inflation, a judgmental social pecking order and the quest for hot summer internships. Questioning the flawed status quo is nearly impossible on this Gothic campus, where a faux utilitarian calculus conditions our every move.

Morrison teaches that intellectualism often results from the twin forces of wisdom and iconoclasm, instruments that are essential to investigating human existence. Such investigations produce fine literature, but are neglected for fear of disrupting the Ivy League social order.

The second implication that Morrison brings to intellectual culture at Yale involves a crucial distinction between individualistic and collective pot-pie making. When Morrison writes a story such as “Song of Solomon” or “The Bluest Eye”, she endeavors to tell a tale that hasn’t been told before, one that wrings emotional candor and intellectual irreverence. Morrison doesn’t write for money, fame or ego-stroking. She makes her pot pie for a village, not a private mansion. As a stylistic icon and thematic boundary-pusher, she writes both for personal enrichment and for the story-starved masses.

There is an astounding difference between “selfish smart” and “selfless smart.” “Selfish smart”

is the rising senior you know who has already locked down an internship at Goldman Sachs.

“Selfless smart” is the uppermiddle-class friend who dedicates their life to social justice in NGO-form.

The bottom line is that “smart” does not exist in a moral vacuum — it carries character. The choices you make at a $240,000 institution like Yale reflect your principled dedication to an intellectual cause, or lack thereof. A student who creates an anemia-detecting, marketable finger machine uses their education for infinitely better purposes than the student who crunches expensive numbers at a hedge fund in Connecticut. This distinction matters.

In the end, Morrison teaches us that intellectual undertakings matter more when executed in the service of others, and when they impart knowledge that is not and cannot be taught in school. As a consequence, baking first-rate pot-pie necessarily eclipses the constant grind of college academics. That’s disappointing, but enlightening at the same time. If discovering my own pot pie's ingredients means sacrificing a few points of my GPA, so be it.

ISAAC AMEND is a junior in Timothy Dwight College. His column runs on alternate Mondays. Contact him at isaac.amend@yale.edu .

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“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.” MARIE CURIE FRENCH PHYSICIST AND CHEMIST

CORRECTIONS

STEM students to benefit from visa extension

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

The article “Suddenly Spring: Alexa Derman’s Why We Have Winter” misstated the name of the character in Derman’s play who was assaulted.

WORD CT stages largest rally yet

BY REBECCA KARABUS STAFF REPORTER In response to nationwide prolife protests of Planned Parenthood Saturday, around 80 Greater New Haven pro-choice advocates also rallied Saturday outside Planned Parenthood of Southern New England on Whitney Avenue in support of the organization.

Elm City-based members of Women Organized to Resist and Defend, a nationwide grassroots feminist organization, led the rally, which enjoyed support from Yale students, members of various faith communities and local progressive activists. While WORD has been leading rallies since late last year — when protests of Planned Parenthood increased following the August 2015 release of controversial videos alleging that company executives sold fetal parts for profit — Saturday’s rally nearly doubled the attendance of most previous rallies, thanks to heightened community outreach.

“As long as misinformation and bigotry are being spread and attacks continue, there needs to be people like us out there to stand up for Planned Parenthood workers and patients,” WORD organizer IV Staklo said.

Staklo said the organization has been reaching out to activists across the state to rouse support.

Staklo said pro-choice advocates in Bridgeport, Milford and West Hartford have expressed interest in rallying at the Planned Parenthood locations in or near their towns.

New Haven-based WORD organizer Deb Malatesta said she and other supporters went out Saturday morning to defend all patients’ rights and access to health care. She added that members of the pro-life opposition became more aggressive and intimidating toward Planned Parenthood patrons after the November 2015 shooting at a Colorado facility, which left three dead. This heightened hostility necessitated greater action from the pro-choice movement, Malatesta said.

But Chris O’Brien, vice president of legislative affairs at prolife outreach organization Connecticut Right to Life, said he has not heard of a single attack or act of aggression directed toward Planned Parenthood patients or volunteers. He called pro-choice activists’ claims of such acts a

“scare tactic” and “rallying call” to defame pro-lifers. O’Brien and other members of his organization did not partake in protests Saturday because they conflicted with their annual Right To Life Conference in Waterbury.

Sa t u rd ay ’s d e m o n s t ra tion drew support from activists who consistently attend WORD’s weekly rallies and newcomers. Kara Tschetter, a former Planned Parenthood volunteer and employee, said Saturday was her first time demonstrating in New Haven because she recently moved back to the Elm City from New Orleans. She said Planned Parenthood activism is more prominent in New Haven than in Louisiana.

Tschetter added that she wishes more people knew about Planned Parenthood, which she called a primary source of health care for men and women of all ages. Planned Parenthood provides reproductive health services, including contraception, STD screenings and abortions.

Steve Hall, a Hamden resident who has been attending WORD’s rallies since they began five months ago, said he is “disgusted” by Planned Parenthood protestors who belong to the middle or upper-middle class. He said he thinks these opponents do not understand or care that Planned Parenthood is one of the only resources available to many lowincome residents.

“This is the only health care some people can afford,” Hall said.

“At the end of the day, it’s about denying reproductive rights.”

Staklo said the presidential election season has played a role in galvanizing activism because it has brought many divisive topics — including reproductive and LGBT rights — to citizens’ attention. Many of Saturday’s supporters were Yale Divinity School students, and some pro-choice advocates from local high schools also took to the sidewalk.

Jennifer Mydosh, a senior at the Catholic high school Sacred Heart Academy, and Hamden High School senior Mack Paddock said they have been attending the rallies for about two months.

Planned Parenthood of Southern New England opened in 2009 after Planned Parenthood of Connecticut and Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island merged.

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

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OISS provides online workshops and meetings with advisers for OPT applications.

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER International students at Yale have long faced time restrictions on how long they can stay in the country after graduation. But next month, that challenge will be made slightly easier for students in STEM fields.

On March 11, the United States Department of Homeland Security announced the amendment of its F-1 nonimmigrant student visa regulations on Optional Practical Training for undergraduates with degrees in STEM from American colleges and universities. OPT permits international students who have either completed or are pursuing their degrees to seek on-the-job training. The new regulation, effective May 10, allows STEM students on F-1 visas who have chosen to pursue the 12-month OPT to extend the period by 24 months. Previously, STEM students could only extend OPT by 17 months. International students outside of the STEM fields are still only eligible for one year of OPT without the possibility of an extension.

“The process is problematic in the sense that internationals know there is a limit to how much they can achieve in the U.S. and how far they can progress in their career before being forced out of the country,” said Jae Hyung Kim ’18, a

computer science major and a Korean citizen. “This extension is a small step towards alleviating those fears, but an extra extension does not really help in the grand scheme of things.”

With the new extension, international students pursuing STEM degrees will have more time to pursue an H-1B work visa. The H-1B work visa allows U.S. companies to employ foreign workers in specialized occupations for a period of up to six years.

However, while there is no cap on the number of F-1 stu-

The process is problematic in the sense that internationals know there is a limit to how much they can achieve in the U.S. JAE HYUNG KIM ’18

dent visas given out each year, only 65,000 undergraduate applicants and 20,000 advanced-degree applicants are awarded an H-1B work visa each year. In 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received almost 233,000 H-1B applications, and the

USCIS uses a random computer-generated lottery to determine which applications to consider. These odds ultimately leave many applicants with no choice but to continue to reapply year after year. The new visa extension will give STEM applicants more chances to apply for the H-1B visa if they are not initially accepted.

“Especially given that for international students, the government has also placed restrictions on the number of H-1B work visas, this increased extension would make things easier because there would be more time and a chance to apply again for the H-1B,” said Pratik Gandhi ’18, an astrophysics major from India.

“Given that the OPT is a period of time internationals can use to explore things and try out new positions to see what they want to do, it will give people more time and flexibility since first jobs can be pretty informative and foundational.”

While applicants do not need a job offer to apply for an OPT, they must pay a filing fee of $380. Additionally, the application generally takes about three months to process.

Alizeh Maqbool ’17, a physics major from Pakistan, said the cost of the application only enabled her to apply for summer internships with deadlines early in the academic year.

Because of the application’s long processing time and high

cost, it does not make sense for someone to apply for an OPT unless that person is sure he or she will have an internship, she said.

“The problem is that if I use my OPT during the academic year, the amount of time I can stay after I graduate is reduced by how much I used up,” Maqbool said. “A lot of people say it is better to use the OPT later on, because while internships matter, they do not matter as much as jobs do, but you are sort of on your own to figure these things out and no one really talks about them.”

Even before coming to Yale, international students deciding where to apply for college carefully consider their postgraduation career options both in the U.S. and their home countries. Yale College Director of International Admissions Rebeka Westphal said prospective international students are often concerned about their career paths following graduation. She added that in reaching out to international applicants, the admissions office stresses the number of connections students are able to make during their time at Yale which can help support them once they graduate.

Yale University currently enrolls 2,581 international students from 118 countries.

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

Yale swimmers teach their craft to Elm City youth

BY DANIELA BRIGHENTI STAFF REPORTER Members of the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams gathered Saturday afternoon together to swim. Though this offseason activity is typical for the two teams, their companions were less common: Dozens of elementary school children joined the athletes in the waters of the third-floor practice pool.

Saturday’s gathering marked the eighth edition of Swim New Haven, an annual free-of-charge swimming clinic for local youth.

Run primarily by members of the Yale swimming and diving programs, this year the event also included swimming alumni, who volunteered as instructors in the pool.

“For families who may not have the resources to get paid instruction, this event is a way for these children to become acclimated to water, learn how to take care of themselves in the water and enjoy spending time in the pool,” member of the men’s swimming and diving team Derek Kao ’18 said.

“We had a lot of instructors come up to teach, so much so that many of the children were getting twoto-one attention during their one-hour lesson.”

Yale swimmer Mackenzie Franklin ’17, who has organized Swim New Haven for the past three years, said this time she had significant help from Matthew Meade ’87, the president of the Yale Swimming and Diving Association.

Meade and Franklin were two of more than 40 instructors, including 10 alumni, individually teaching 33 students in the water. As each child had a different level of experience in the pool, the instructors catered their lessons to students’ needs, Meade said.

This year, Swim New Haven partnered with the Boys and Girls Club of New Haven and St. Martin DePorres, a faith-based school that provides tuition-free education for children from lowincome families in the New Haven area, to bring those organizations’ children to the event. The event was part of the Yale Day of Service, when alumni across the world participate in a variety of service opportunities.

“Many of these children either do not know how to swim or do not have the resources to pay for swim lessons to improve their basic skills,” women’s swimming and diving captain Michelle Chintanaphol ’17 said. “This event is especially important

since drowning is one of the leading causes of death for children in lower-income families.”

According to statistics from the USA Swimming Foundation, swimming lessons can reduce the risk of drowning by 88 percent in children from one to four years old. Additionally, 70 percent of African-American and 60 percent of Hispanic and Latino children in the United States cannot swim.

Franklin said in addition to providing information on water safety, the event’s goal is to introduce children to the “wonderful” sport of swimming early on. She said she has drawn both physical and social benefits from swimming during her life.

Meade’s student, for example, had little experience before jumping in the water on Saturday, but by the end of the hourlong session, he could dive and do flip turns, Meade said. The child’s mother contacted Meade at the end to ask how she could sign her son up for a New Haven swim club.

The event came at no cost to the organizers, Franklin said. In addition, USA Swimming donated multiple items to the event, such as goggles, bag tags and temporary tattoos, through the organization’s Make a Splash founda-

tion.

“Yale, particularly Yale athletics and Yale swimming, has given all of the volunteers in this Day of Service event so much,” Meade said. “It is our hope that by giving back to the New Haven com-

munity and sharing our love of the water with New Haven children we will make swimming a fun and safe experience for all of the participants.”

Swim New Haven first started in 2009 by Annie Killian ’11 and

Ileana Lucos ’11, who were then both sophomores on the Yale women’s swimming and diving team.

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

COURTESY OF BRENDAN WOO ’08

Former women’s swimmer Moira McCloskey ’07 was one of 10 alumni instructors at the event.

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FROM THE FRONT UN Ambassador to speak on Class Day POWER FROM PAGE 1 Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 did the same in 2014.

Ackerman and Ghassemi said Power’s passion for human rights and public service, as well as the fact that she is a Yale College graduate, made her an appealing choice for Class Day speaker.

“Power is incredibly well-spoken and well-respected in her field,” Ackerman said. “She has made it her career and life’s passion to fight for the underdog.

That is something that really resonated with us. Beyond that, she is also an incredible speaker. And it doesn’t hurt that she’s been to Class Day one time before.”

Penelope Laurans, master of Jonathan Edwards College and Class Day adviser, said she appreciates that Power is a Yalie and that she is a talented public speaker. Based on previous Class Day ceremonies, Laurans said it is crucial that the keynote speaker engage all members of a diverse audience.

Ghassemi added that in searching for someone to help guide seniors into the next phase of their lives, she could not think of someone better than Power, who attended a Class Day of her own more than two decades ago.

She has lived a life with great moral conviction,” Ghassemi said.

“To have that example and to see that person speak and give a wonderful speech — we’re so excited.”

But five of seven seniors interviewed said they only learned who Power was on Friday, after the announcement had been made, and just two said they were especially excited for the speech.

Julia Schwarz ’16, who did not know Power’s name prior to the announcement, said she is look-

ing forward to hearing what Power has to say not because she is terribly familiar with the ambassador’s background, but instead because she has been told that Power is a good writer. Schwarz added that her family seems to be much more excited for Power’s speech than her undergraduate peers, who have expressed mixed opinions on the Class Day guest.

“None of us know who she is, and that in itself said something,” Sarah Bull ’16 said.

Still, Daniel Hamidi ’18 said Power is someone whom he respects greatly, most especially because of the conviction with which she has led her life. Hamidi added that he is sure she has significant pieces of wisdom to share with the class of 2016.

On April 18, a vehicle in Power’s official caravan struck and killed a seven-year-old boy while driving to a refugee camp in Cameroon. Hours later, Power visited the family of the boy to offer condolences and express her grief.

Though tragic, Ackerman said the accident in Cameroon should not impact Class Day. “I don’t think they’re connected,” Ackerman said. “While it’s unfortunate and devastating that the boy was killed, we should not lose sight of the fact that she was in the region doing amazing work — and it is because of that work that we are bringing her here.”

In 2003, Power won a Pulitzer Prize for her book “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” about the United States and how it understated, responded to and ignored genocide in the 20th century.

Contact DAVID SHIMER at david.shimer@yale.edu .

“The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.”

RALPH BUNCHE POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Berkeley Dean leaves for Richmond GENONI FROM PAGE 1 The college’s new master will be announced this semester, and Berkeley students will learn more about the search process for a “wonderful new dean” in the coming days, Genoni wrote. Holloway said the college’s new master will “certainly” be involved in the search for a new dean.

According to Holloway, the search committee for a new dean will be formed after final exams, and the administration will look for Berkeley students who will be on campus over the summer to join the committee. He added that he recognizes the need to move quickly with the dean search, and that the administration experienced a similar situation last summer after Branford Dean Sarah Insley announced her departure after the end of spring semester. Though it is an “admitted challenge” that Berkeley’s mastership and deanship will be turning over at the same time, Holloway said he is confident the college will thrive under the incoming leadership.

“We are just two strands in a large web that will ensure that Berkeley stays strong,” Chun said. “The students, fellows and staff will provide continuity by working closely and collaboratively with the new master and dean. I am confident that the new master and dean will be awesome colleagues who will want to sustain the traditions we cherish … while introducing exciting new ideas and ways to enhance our community.”

Genoni, who first arrived at Yale in 2008 as a lecturer, currently teaches in the Humanities and History of Art Departments.

COURTESY OF BERKELEY COLLEGE

Mia Genoni, dean of Berkeley College, will step down at the end of this year.

Diksha Brahmbhatt ’18, a student in Berkeley, said the college community is saddened to hear that Genoni will be departing because of how “amazing” she was. But Brahmbhatt added that many are also excited for Genoni given that her new position is a significant promotion in comparison to her current role.

“Dean G will be missed for being a source of light in the Berkeley community with her unbridled enthusiasm, impeccable memory and majestic Pekingese Leeloo,” Berkeley student Rodrigo Huyke ’18 said. “The amount of sup-

port and wisdom she provides Berkeley students and other members of the Yale community on a daily basis is unparalleled. She, alongside Master Chun, are a huge reason why I am able to call Berkeley my home.”

Chun expressed similar thoughts, highlighting how Genoni cares not just about her student’s academics, but also their extracurricular activities and personal lives.

Once both depart at the end of the semester, Chun and Genoni will have worked side by side as dean and master for a total of six years.

“While both the Chuncellor and I will be leaving this year, I know you will help the new master and dean keep Berkeley the incredibly strong, talented and caring community that we are known to be,” Genoni wrote to Berkeley students on Friday.

The next academic year will start with new masters in Berkeley and Jonathan Edwards Colleges, as well as new deans in Ezra Stiles, Pierson, Trumbull and Berkeley.

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

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ELECTION 2016

“Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.”

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Clinton LAW ’73 speaks at Orangeside

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 returned to her old stomping ground Saturday, four days before Connecticut casts its vote in the presidential primary.

Clinton, former secretary of state and current frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, met with a variety of local residents to discuss an issue that strikes at the heart of many in the area: raising the incomes of working families. Clinton’s remarks to the audience, seated inside Orangeside on Temple, focused mostly on the need to raise the minimum wage, mandate paid family leave and strengthen labor unions. The American Dream, Clinton said, is threatened, and the government must act to improve the lives of all citizens.

“I fear that we are losing that dream,” Clinton said. “And there are many reasons for that — there’s a lot of crosscurrents at work. But we need to figure out what to do about it. We can’t just watch it, and pray about it and worry about it.”

Instead, she said, government must intervene to correct injustices — to make college affordable, to make the quality of elementary education equal across school districts and to work to help working families who cannot

afford even to put food on the dinner table.

In a city where labor unions exert a notable hold over the political structure, Clinton argued that strong labor unions are crucial to the prosperity of the American class. One health care worker told Clinton that her union, SEIU Healthcare 1199NE, had secured pay increases without which she would be struggling to make ends meet.

“I think it’s important to underscore what each of you have said about how unions have helped you fight for and get more support, more pay, more benefits,” Clinton said. “I believe strongly that the American labor unit really helped to make the American middle class, and the pressures that are being brought on the unions … are bad not just for the unions, they’re bad for all workers, because they suppress wages on everybody.”

According to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the Democrat who represents the New Haven area in Congress, Clinton’s desire to improve the lots of working families is at the “heart and soul” of her campaign — and, moreover, her vision of the nation’s politics.

DeLauro is no stranger to Clinton and her campaign; her mother campaigned with Clinton at Sally’s Apizza in Wooster Square during Bill Clinton’s LAW ’73 bid

for the presidency in 1992.

New Haven residents raised a variety of concerns with Clinton, all regarding the issue of improving the fortunes of the working class. One resident was Gloria Council, who lives in Westville.

After suffering an injury that left her unable to work, Council applied for disability benefits.

But those benefits have been late in coming, and now Council faces foreclosure on her house.

Council, who told that same story to the Board of Alders Monday, asked Clinton what her vision was for helping homeowners.

Though not seeking a “handout,” Council said, she was looking for fair treatment from the bank that owns her house.

Clinton was sympathetic to Council’s predicament, saying she had been mistreated.

“You’re in a terrible position, because you’re waiting for your benefits, and they’re not willing to wait,” Clinton said. “That is just wrong, and we should either pass a law, or figure out ways to stop them from doing this. The whole foreclosure crisis was, in a large measure, caused by the banks in the first place.”

Local issues were at the forefront of the roundtable discussion, attended only by members of the press corps and roughly 20 participants while a crowd of over 100 gathered outside the restaurant.

ROBBIE SHORT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 returned to her alma mater four days before the primary.

Michael Wishnie ’87 LAW ’93, director of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School, told Clinton that wage theft is an enormous problem in the New Haven area. Wishnie praised Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez — a rumored possible vice-presidential pick — for his efforts to improve wage-theft reporting systems, but said more needs to be done.

Clinton agreed and echoed Wishnie’s praise of Perez. Cast-

ing the tipped-wage exemption from the minimum wage as an issue that primarily affects women, she called for the “twotiered” system to end.

Mayor Toni Harp brought up the issue of affordable housing in New Haven, which has the nation’s lowest vacancy rate.

Clinton said affordable housing has become an increasingly prominent issue over the last few years, one she has heard about from residents in markets in the Northeast and in California. Too

many issues, like proper maintenance and construction of public and private buildings, have been neglected for years, Clinton said.

As Clinton campaigned in New Haven, Republican candidate Donald Trump spoke in Waterbury, and Clinton rival Sen. Bernie Sanders is scheduled to hold a rally on the New Haven Green Sunday evening.

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

Thousands flock to Sanders rally on the Green

BY NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH STAFF REPORTER Thousands descended on the New Haven Green Sunday night to hear presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders deliver his stump speech in advance of the Connecticut Democratic primary on Tuesday.

Sanders’ evening in New Haven began with a stroll through Downtown, where he shook hands with voters and greeted incredulous students who had stepped out of their Old Campus rooms to greet the candidate.

Three hours later, the Vermont

Senator emerged before an estimated crowd of 14,000 to make the case for his social-democratic platform: paid family leave, lower income inequality, a reformed campaign system and, above all, a $15 minimum wage. Throughout his speech, Sanders emphasized his antiestablishment stance.

“We are doing something very unusual in American politics,” Sanders told the crowd after taking the stage to Bruce Springsteen’s “We Take Care Of Our Own.” “We are talking and fighting for issues that the establishment would prefer to sweep under the rug.”

Though Sanders faces an uphill battle in his bid for the Democratic nomination — especially after his recent defeat to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 in New York — he continued to highlight the differences between him and Clinton, whose name was always accompanied by jeers from the crowd.

Repeating an attack he has employed throughout his campaign, Sanders criticized Clinton for her much-publicized 2013 speeches to Goldman Sachs, each of which garnered her $225,000.

Sanders said he would be happy to speak to Wall Street bankers —

ROBBIE SHORT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sen. Bernie Sanders drew a crowd of 14,000 to his rally on the New Haven Green.

not for a fee, but to excoriate them for their “illegal” actions during the financial crisis of 2008.

Sanders also played to local issues in his speech. In a city where roughly 30 percent of children live below the federal poverty line, he noted the wide disparity between the city’s poverty and Yale’s endowment.

“Right here in this great city, we have one of the outstanding institutions of education in all of the world,” Sanders said. “But a few miles away from here in this same city … we have children who are getting totally inadequate education. All over this city and this state, we have children who are living in desperate poverty.”

Sanders vowed to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure and inner cities as president, accomplishments he said would create jobs and provide the means for all Americans to achieve social advancement.

The loudest cheers of the night came after Sanders’ call for criminal justice reform, an appeal that has a particular pull in New Haven, where crime vexes many minority communities. Sanders linked criminal justice reform to financial reform — he noted that though a young man in Connecticut might receive a lifetime mark on his criminal record for mari-

juana possession, no bankers have been convicted of crimes stemming from the financial crisis.

Sanders’ call for criminal justice reform came in tandem with his demand for stricter standards on police misconduct. The use of lethal force, he said, should be considered the last option in any situation.

Sanders was introduced by a host of local speakers. State Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven, praised Sanders for his stance on campaign finance reform, arguing that Connecticut’s own experience proved that it could lead to substantive changes in the nation’s politics.

“Connecticut has campaign finance reform, and because of that campaign finance reform, I was able to run against the New Haven machine and win,” said Winfield, who has publicly endorsed Sanders. “And you know what they called me when I ran? They called me a dreamer.

They call some of you dreamers, too?”

Alejandra Corona Ortega ’19, an undocumented immigrant who lives in New Haven, told the crowd that her support for Sanders came from his positions on undocumented immigration and college tuition. Over the course of his campaign, Sanders has

advocated for free public college tuition and a continuation of the Obama Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy.

By the end of the rally, Sanders’ speech had become a passionate diatribe against bigotry — the persona of Donald Trump hung over the rally, though his name went mostly unsaid. Mustering the force of historical moments from the Gettysburg Address to the Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage last summer, Sanders argued that the people — through their concerted actions — can bring about monumental change.

Just before he exited the stage, Sanders noted that he tends to win high-turnout primaries and lose low-turnout ones. He urged attendees to make the turnout in Tuesday’s primary the highest in Connecticut’s history.

“No president, not Bernie Sanders or anybody, can do it alone,” Sanders said over cheers.

“What we need are millions of Americans — working people, middle-class people, young people — standing up and saying as loudly as we can, ‘Enough is enough.’”

Contact NOAH DAPONTE-SMITH at noah.daponte-smith@yale.edu .

Trump holds rallies in Waterbury, Bridgeport

BY AMY CHENG AND SHUYU SONG STAFF REPORTERS With Pavarotti’s “Nessun Dorma” and Coldplay’s “Fix You” blasting throughout Crosby High School’s gymnasium on Saturday morning, New York real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made Waterbury his campaign’s second stop in Connecticut. Trump also spoke in Bridgeport Saturday in advance of Connecticut’s Tuesday primary.

At Saturday’s rally in Waterbury, around 3,000 Trump supporters gathered in the gymnasium waving signs that read “The silent majority stands with Trump,” and hundreds waited outside after the gymnasium had reached its maximum capacity. During his onehour speech, Trump touched upon many key issues and controversies that he has iterated in his campaign, including strict border controls, repositioning U.S. allegiance overseas and a “rigged” election system. To appeal to the residents of Waterbury, Trump also promised to reinvigorate the local business environment and employment prospect by denouncing free-trade policies such as NAFTA.

“There have to be consequences for companies that leave our country, go to another country and then think they are going to sell products back to the United States and not be taxed,” Trump said. “We have dumb people representing us [in free-trade negotiations] or the people paid off by special interest and by campaign contributions.”

Speaking about the local economy, Trump said Waterbury lost 60 percent of its manufacturing jobs and reduced its labor force by 3,000 people in the past five years. He attributed the economic recession to China’s and Mexico’s manipulation of free trade, pointing out that both of his opponents within the Republican party, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, support the approval of transPacific partnership.

In order to solve the problem that he dubbed “corporate invasion” — which Trump defines as foreign countries exploiting the U.S. through free-trade policies — he proposed to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a proposal central to his campaign. He promised that the wall would stop illegal immigrants from entering the country and becoming naturalized citizens,

whom he said would not stand with the Republican party.

Protesters shouting against Trump supporters and holding signs that read “Black Lives Matter” tallied in the hundreds as they stood outside the gymnasium. Shelby Williams, a protester and senior at Wilby High School, viewed Trump as a “great danger to the nation.” She said that the future generation of America will be negatively affected by Trump’s lack of experience in foreign policy, his opposition to feminism and his attitude toward racial inequality.

Williams described Trump’s plan to build a wall on the Mexican border as a “complete joke.” “[The wall] will only foster tensions with the Mexican-American community and the immigrants who moved to America legally,” Williams said.

In speaking about foreign policy, Trump said the U.S. faces difficulty in fulfilling its mission to protect other countries without being “reimbursed” for its service.

Trump cited examples of U.S. protecting Japan against the totalitarian North Korean regime, adding that currently NATO does not propose any solution to confront the “free-rider problem.”

“Saudi Arabia would not be there for a week if we’re not there.

Yet they chisel with us. They make a fortune out of it. They make $1 billion a day and we’re protecting them,” Trump said.

In his speech, Trump also accused the Republican nomination process of being “rigged,” citing the Louisiana primary. He said though he won the popular vote, he saw the same increase in delegate headcount as Cruz within that state. Trump said delegates can be manipulated through simple means such as “a fancy dinner” or “a flight to Paris.” He did not hesitate to throw accusations and unsubstantiated claims at his Republican opponents. “[Cruz] is so far behind despite the fact that they are buying off delegates with fine dinners and nice steaks,” Trump said.

Trump elicited some of the loudest responses with his allegations of election corruption, as well as his critique of “dishonest” media practices. After Trump called journalists “the most dishonest people that you will ever deal with,” hundreds turned to the press box and showered reporters with insults. Trump said that if he had to choose between “crooked Hillary Clinton LAW ’73” and

the media, he would still find the media worse.

Roughly 20 percent of attendees were adolescents. High school senior Dante Camacho, who traveled from Massachusetts to hear Trump speak, said the majority of the students in his high school are rooting for either Trump or Democratic presidential candidate and

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“Our generation grew up under Bush’s and Obama’s administration,” Camacho said. “We are tired of establishment politics.”

Contact AMY CHENG at amy.xm.cheng@yale.edu and SHUYU SONG at shuyu.song@yale.edu .

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Donald Trump continued his campaign at Crosby High School in Waterbury on Saturday.

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UP CLOSE

“By the time I was 22, I was a professional.

A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.” STEPHEN SONDHEIM AMERICAN COMPOSER AND LYRICIST

Millennials move to, shape the Elm City The Beer Collective opening in 2016

100 College Street 2016 ALL PHOTOS BY JACOB MIDDLEKAUFF/PRODUCTION & DESIGN STAFF

100 College St. opened in January 2016. The following are developments that preceded it.

MILLENNIALS FROM PAGE 1 girlfriend are two of the several hundred net recent college graduates that move to New Haven each year.

Taking into account the number of college graduates who leave New Haven, Elm City has seen a yearly net increase of 300 to 400 of this demographic between 2000 and 2012, said Mark Abraham, president of Data Haven — a New Haven-based data analysis nonprofit.

This demographic change is a microcosm of a larger national trend. Although college grads typically move to cities, there is a much larger cohort of 25–35-yearolds in the U.S. — who make up the majority of millennials — than there have been ever before.

The Elm City’s 45 percent boon in recent college graduates matches that of common “yuppie magnets,” such as Nashville, Tennessee; Denver, Colorado; and Austin, Texas. New Haven’s increase also exceeds that of Northeast metro areas Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island, where the percentage growth during the given time period was 12 and 6 percent, respectively.

In fact, Abraham said, adjusting for overall population growth, New Haven may be attracting and retaining a higher proportion of college-educated adults than Austin, Texas or Houston, Texas which are traditionally known as hubs for this cohort.

Matthew Nemerson SOM ’81, city economic development administrator, provided historical perspective on the recent trend. When baby boomers, who are the parents of the millennials, graduated from college in the mid-1980s, a large influx of young educated professionals moved to New Haven, similar to what is happening today, Nemerson said. But less than a decade later, these professionals departed for the suburbs to raise their families, he added.

Mascola and the young professionals interviewed all recounted childhood memories of living in the suburbs. But many say they are questioning the idealized model of a suburban family lifestyle, given their experience living in or near downtown New Haven.

“I wanted to move some place closer to work,” said Jenny D’Amico, who works for Yale Health Plan and moved from a Connecticut suburb to an apartment between downtown and Hamden.

D’Amico added, “The idea of being able to walk to work was really cool. It’s also a really good city for young people, especially down Chapel Street, by the [New Haven] Green and by the hospital.”

Although Oliphant and D’Amico happen to be Yale employees, many more of the city’s new influx of educated young professionals work for small tech companies and biopharma firms.

WHERE DO THEY WORK?

Last summer, Arvinas CFO Sean Cassidy considered taking his company — one of the most successful biotechs based in New Haven — out of the city. A lack of lab space almost convinced him that the company’s future was elsewhere in the Northeast.

But City Hall administrators caught wind of the rumor that Cassidy would leave New Haven and take his $300-million-deal-scoring biopharm with him.

Nemerson said the city estimated that each Arvinas employee that left the city would take 150 other jobs with them. Though Arvinas has only 30 employees, Enrico Moretti, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that each high-tech job creates five new jobs in the city it is based in.

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Moretti’s research indicates that job markets are larger in cities with high-tech industries because employees tend to spend large proportions of their salaries on local businesses, such as housekeeping, therapy and restaurants.

In response to these predictions, the city hastened to assist Arvinas’ purchase of more lab space. By midOctober, the company had signed a deal on a 5,000 square foot lot in Science Park.

For Nemerson, the proactivity exhibited by the city to keep Arvinas must continue for the city’s job market to grow.

“The main thing right now that will determine whether we hold onto this population will be the continued introduction and evolution of modern knowledge-based jobs,” Nemerson said. “Companies like Alexion, Achillion and Arvinas become our future.”

The Elm City’s advantages lie in its low rents and wealth of available space for expansion, Nemerson said. Biotech companies looking to expand can easily purchase new space, which is not the case in the crowded real estate market of Cambridge.

The scene in New Haven is really transcending toward a more refined craft era … It’s in a less clubby stage with more of your craft cocktail and beer elegance, if you will.

RYAN HOWARD Manager Partner, Elm City Social

In January of this year, the city regained one of its greatest success stories. Alexion Pharmaceuticals — a $2.64 billion biopharmaceutical founded in Science Park that employs roughly 1,200 people — moved into its new headquarters to 100 College St. after leaving the Elm City in 2000 due to difficulties securing enough lab space to serve its needs.

At the company’s ribbon-cutting ceremony in February, Mayor Toni Harp expressed excitement for what Alexion could do for New Haven’s economic development.

“Our economic base is growing stronger as our innovative businesses collaborate with global ones,” Harp said. “New Haven is a model of progressive urban development of national significance.”

Nemerson added that tech companies such as Prometheus Research and Square 9: Softworks also provide significant employment opportunities.

As Arvinas and Alexion employees settle into their new home in the Elm City, they — together with other members of the Millennial Generation — must think carefully about how to make New Haven their home.

But where do they tend to pin down their roots?

WHERE DO THEY LIVE?

Yale postdoctoral associate Chloe Taft GRD ’14 teaches a seminar titled the History of Housing in America. She and her class took a March tour of the high-end apartment building, The Novella, which opened last year and offers studios from $1,400 and

two-bedroom apartments for $3,200 at the very cheapest.

During the tour, property developers explicitly told her class they were targeting Yale graduate students and young professionals like those at Alexion.

“Downtown New Haven has become a hot site for developers seeking to cash in on a young professional demographic,” Taft told the News. “The majority of these new projects bill themselves as ‘luxury apartments’ and do not include affordable units, although Winchester Lofts does include some.”

Roger Lopez ’18, a student in the class, recounted The Novella’s extensive amenities: a gym, private movie theaters, a rooftop terrace and more. Lopez said residents pay roughly two times the average market price in New Haven for an apartment in The Novella for a sense of community — something that 30-yearolds look for when they relocate.

As Taft’s students toured the building, The Novella’s property manager added that residents were also paying to insulate themselves from the rest of New Haven, which is still perceived as unsafe.

“The tour guide said that you’re paying to not have to walk past the Green and go into the ghettos of New Haven,” Lopez said. “It’s a community in a one-block radius. Rudy’s is across the street. Miya’s is down the block and Yale is right next door.”

With vacancy rates among the lowest in the country, New Haven is also attracting developers hoping to cash in on the high demand for housing. Given the development projects currently underway, by 2017, there will be approximately 2,000 more new apartment units than at the end of 2015. Almost all will be luxury apartments like The Novella.

Other recent developments include the Winchester Lofts, which opened in Science Park in 2013. College & Crown: A Centerpiece went live for rent last year. 360 State St., which opened in 2010, was one of the earliest and also the quickest to be leased-out, Pearce Real Estate President Barbara Pearce said.

“Because of students, New Haven has one of the lowest vacancy rates in the country,” Pearce said.

“Now there is a race to keep on [building]. State Street rented so quickly. Eventually like everywhere else, we will stop building once the vacancy rate goes up.”

From the rooftop terrace of The Novella, residents can spot dozens of new bars and restaurants to visit — another consequence of the Millennial Generation’s migration into the Elm City.

WHAT ARE THEY DRINKING AND EATING?

Craig Sklar grew up in New Haven before he entered the beer industry in New York City. For seven years he brewed and bottled the malted drink for Whole Foods Market and then S.K.I. Beer.

Last year, Sklar decided to open a craft beer bar of his own. He chose the Elm City because rent prices in New York City were too high, he said. This summer, his bar The Beer Collective will open on 130 Court St., which is located just three blocks from Old Campus.

Like Sklar, many entrepreneurs and restaurateurs are choosing to take a chance on New Haven due to how cheap it is to rent out a brick-and-mortar site, said Chris Nicotra, who has been an investor in New Haven real estate for the past decade and a half.

According to Nicotra, rent in the Elm City is still well-below that of Manhattan despite having risen steadily to $100 per square foot for commercial space downtown. In the past month, Nicotra has met with

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several investors from Boston and Providence who have taken note of New Haven’s recent growth and low rent. “[Entrepreneurs, restaurateurs and developers] see this young demographic of the city and see how they can capture their needs,” Nicotra said. “With The Beer Collective, you’re taking this really hot beer concept and really hot New Haven. The combination is a home run.”

Other home runs — popular bars and restaurants that cater to the young — include Ordinary, Kelly’s, Cask Republic, Barcelona and BAR. In the upcoming months, the owners of Mecha Noodle Bar will open an unannounced concept restaurant that they hope will be novel, like the restaurant-arcade combination Barcade that will open in New Haven this summer.

In the past decade, this pop-up of unique restaurants has made New Haven a foodie destination, Pearce said. Although famous, places like Louis’ Lunch did not transform New Haven into a food capital of the Northeast, she said. But in recent years, restaurants are full in downtown New Haven every night of the week.

“There’s been an explosion beyond what it was before,” Pearce said. “Before it was just pizza and Italian. Young professionals now will spend a greater percentage of their income on food than people did before.”

With The Beer Collective, you’re taking this really hot beer concept and really hot New Haven. The combination is a home run.

CHRIS NICOTRA Long-time Investor in New Haven Real Estate

As investors succeed in the Elm City, opening restaurants and leisure venues such as Karaoke Heroes, their young professional patrons have built a community around their products.

“In the past, I would have said that I would have moved into the suburbs and bought a house,” Josh Levinson, a 35-year-old software engineer, said. “But the more that I am here, I love it and love being a part of the community.”

Bars and restaurants such as Olea, Zinc and Elm City Social receive paragraphs-long reviews on Yelp by the site’s active contributors. Levinson, who is among those that rave about New Haven’s food scene, also operates a blog “Between Two Rocks” where he publicizes his reviews of bars, restaurants and the best pizza in New Haven.

With these new high-rise apartment buildings, fivestar restaurants and swanky bars, New Haven is well on the way to transforming its past reputation.

WHAT IS THE CITY’S NEW REPUTATION?

Mascola, born in 1958, did not leave his native New Haven until he turned 18 and moved to Ohio for college.

Upon graduating from Dayton University, Mascola worked on Madison Avenue before returning to the Elm City to found the Mascola Group advertising agency.

His firm serves companies far and wide, including many based overseas. But one of his most loyal customers is right across from the Green: City Hall.

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For the past four years, Mascola has been helping the New Haven Parking Authority promote the new meter system downtown, which he described as the “welcome mats” to New Haven. He added that welladvertised parking meters should convince visitors that downtown is a place to not only play, but also live and work.

He said his dream project would be to create a marketing plan for the city of New Haven. The city should tout its vibrant arts culture, rental prices, economic growth and other attractions for both the young and elderly across the region.

“New Haven has the product and delivers on the experience for younger people and older people,” Mascola said. “What we’re not really doing is packaging and selling that, even though it’s happening without us putting it into a marketing component and giving it a great position line.”

But what is New Haven’s product?

Fun, cosmopolitan and cultured living for a fraction of the cost of New York City living expenses, Nemerson said.

At the forefront of this new reputation is the city’s recent acclaim as a food destination. Levinson added that the city’s recent expansion of bike lanes and sophisticated new apartment buildings have contributed to the city’s new visage as a destination for young adults looking for a modern lifestyle.

Over the past 10 years, the atmosphere downtown on a Friday night has also changed to mirror the sophistication of Manhattan, manager partner of Elm City Social Ryan Howard said.

“The scene in New Haven is really transcending toward a more refined craft era,” Howard said. “It’s in a less clubby stage with more of your craft cocktail and beer elegance, if you will.”

To Nemerson, New Haven’s reputation is a key factor in the city’s retention of jobs. One of the most important considerations for biotech companies deciding on whether to stay in the city for the long haul is the quality of life that the city would provide for their employees, Nemerson said.

To prevent the city’s leading high-tech companies from leaving, Nemerson said he needed to not only facilitate the growth of a high-tech hub in the city, but also show the company’s employees that they would lead an exciting life in the Elm City. The city demonstrates it is an appealing place to live as well as work, he said, with arts, culture and rental prices that are almost 60 percent lower than those in Cambridge or New York City.

“If you have enough people who say that this is a cool place to hang out and spend time, then the software and biotech jobs will come and say we want to hire you and we want you to stay here and have you be happy,’” Nemerson said.

In addition to the growth of high-tech jobs, city officials also hope to persuade New York commuters to live in the Elm City, where rent is lower and the quality of life is comparable to cities such as Stamford, White Plains and New Rochelle.

Taft reaffirmed that all the private housing and business developments — many of which have been publicly supported by the city — fit into city officials’ plans to “rebrand” New Haven and attract a creative class of young professionals including graduate students, researchers, entrepreneurs and artists.

When asked how he would market the city, New Haven native Mascola responded in glowing terms.

New Haven, Mascola said, deserves a brand that is much more illustrious than the city’s current reputation. The combination of creativity outside of Yale’s walls as well as the presence of the University would create a convincing message that the Elm City is, indeed, an attractive place to live.

“New Haven is a brilliant city,” Mascola said. “It is America’s brilliant city. It shines.”

While downtown New Haven glitters on, the sparkle is less brilliant for New Haven’s poorer population, many of whom can no longer afford to live, eat and play in the downtown area.

WHO ARE MILLENNIALS REPLACING?

Last October, West Haven native Kiana Marie Hernandez ’18 sat down with the News.

She and her mother had just spent a year searching the Elm City for an apartment to call home. As they traveled from apartment to apartment, debates about prices —not amenities or decorating styles —lengthened their search.

Hernandez and her mother are not alone.

With the scheduled demolition of Church Street South — a 300-unit affordable housing complex condemned by the city last fall — at least several hundred families in New Haven must enter a housing market that is both tight and high-priced.

Edward Mattison LAW ’68, a member of the mayor’s City Plan Committee, recounted a visit to a homeless shelter for families. Every single family in the shelter possessed federal housing vouchers to subsidize rent.

But none of them had been able to find vacant units of affordable housing to spend their vouchers on.

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Mattison and Hernandez are not the only ones who have spoken out about New Haven’s alarming shortage of housing for low-income families. Since the federal Department of Housing and Urban development began to relocate families last fall from the complex, it has discovered that it is particularly difficult to keep these families in New Haven because of the city’s dearth of affordable housing units.

Taft, who completed her doctoral thesis on urban planning, said the question that remains is how New Haven residents who face high poverty levels and a severe shortage of affordable housing units will benefit from the city’s economic growth.

“Can some of the investment going to downtown go to address inequalities in other parts of New Haven?”

Taft said. “And is the city getting a good return on investment with the incentives it offers developers downtown, or are those profits mostly going to the developers?”

New Haven is a brilliant city … It is America’s brilliant city. It shines.

CHUCK MASCOLA Long-time Resident of New Haven

The mayor, Nemerson said, hopes to ensure that downtown New Haven is an integrated community in terms of income and race. According to Nemerson, the city’s new housing developments benefit all demographics of the city’s population by adding supply to the housing market to lower prices. Former Downtown Alder Abigail Roth ’90 LAW ’94 added that the new housing developments will provide revenue to the city to subsidize affordable housing.

But the plight of the city’s poor can be difficult to remember amidst the luxury amenities of The Novella and the hip, dim lighting in New Haven’s newest bars.

Oliphant said she has noticed that New Haven is highly segregated with strict geographical boundaries of race and class. She added that issues of segregation, though not unique to New Haven, are particularly noticeable because of the city’s small size and wealth contrasts in East Rock, Wooster Square and downtown. “[In New Haven], I often find myself disheartened by the way people, especially so-called progressive people, talk about low- and middle-income neighborhoods that are populated predominantly by people of color,” Oliphant said. “And while the problems in New Haven may not be entirely unique, I do think there’s tremendous potential in locally powered solutions that could prove unique to the communities they’re intended to serve.”

If Nemerson and Roth are correct and the city’s new gentrification will benefit all, how long will that process last?

The recent influx of the forever young millennials has also been accompanied by their parents’ move into the city.

Hundreds of empty nesters in nearby suburbs have sold their homes to buy apartments downtown, a trend completely new to the Elm City, Pearce said, adding that apartments on 360 State St. or 100 York St. are particularly popular options.

Pearce added that only in New York City have retired adults moved back downtown after raising children in the suburbs. They did so to avoid having to drive, Pearce said.

She conjectured that in New Haven, the recent boom in construction and desire to be close to children has convinced the elderly to trade their grassy lawns for a downtown loft.

“My father moved from his big house in [Greater] New Haven to Whitney Grove Square,” Pearce said.

“That was unusual. Now it is very common for people to do stuff like that. If you just took one building at 100 York you would find it astonishing how many people who live elsewhere in Greater New Haven now live there.”

This and the Millennial Generation’s decision to begin families later in life will combine to make the current demographic wave longer and larger, Nemerson said.

Mascola said that signs from his market research suggest many millennials will remain in the city, whether they decide to move into residential neighborhoods or defy their suburban upbringing by raising children downtown.

Mascola learned from his firm’s marketing campaign for the Union, an apartment building on 205 Church St., that the majority of people moving into the building were young adults with children. They wanted to raise their children in the vibrant arts culture that can only be found downtown, Mascola said.

“The new generation came up and wanted to do a different thing,” Mascola said. “They don’t want to go to a mall in a suburban town. They want to go downtown.”

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

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Percent change in the number of college graduates aged 25–34, from 2000 to 2012

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D’Amico said she will not stay in the Elm City forever.

Many young professionals choose to begin a family in residential neighborhoods such as East Rock and Wooster Square that are still reasonably close to downtown, D’Amico said. But New Haven’s reputation as a city with a high crime rate lingers on in D’Amico’s mind.

She said the noise of sirens, gunshots and ambulance trucks prevent her from beginning a family anywhere in the city.

“There’s a lot of stuff that I wouldn’t want my kids to be exposed to at a very young age,” D’Amico said.

“There’s a lot of poverty. While this is important for everybody to realize, it’s hard to deal with that kind of thing as a child.”

D’Amico’s reluctance to remaining in the city is exactly what Nemerson and other economic development officials in the city dread. They hope that the young professionals currently flooding into New Haven will either move from downtown to streets in the city with stand-alone houses and grassy front lawns. By remaining in New Haven, this demographic will continue to attract businesses, developers and more likeminded professionals to the Elm City.

In a good omen for city officials, key indicators suggest New Haven’s cohort of millennials will not abandon the city, at least, not any time soon.

Unlike their parents, the Millennial Generation is choosing to begin families later in their lives. Young educated professionals in New Haven will continue pursuing the single-life — with high-rise apartments and regular revelry at Elm City Social — for longer than their parents did. Levinson confirmed that he and many of his friends are enjoying their historically lengthy youth. “[A lot of people I know in New Haven] don’t have kids or want to buy a house — the path that a traditional lifestyle would lead them to,” Levinson said. “A lot of people are delaying buying a house and having a family. They’re pushing it out further and they are enjoying being young.”

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“For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.” SALLY RIDE AMERICAN PHYSICIST AND ASTRONAUT

AACC hosts intercultural colloquium

BY JOEY YE STAFF REPORTER On Friday, the Asian American Cultural Center hosted the first annual Yale Intercultural Colloquium, which featured student work on a range of topics within ethnic studies.

Drawing a crowd of roughly 50 members of the Yale community, the colloquium included 11 presentations on senior theses, term papers and independent research. The event was sponsored by the Black Student Alliance at Yale, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, Association of Native Americans at Yale, the Asian American Studies Task Force and the newly founded Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration. Following a keynote address by Alicia Camacho, professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration, students spoke on their research ranging from black student activism at Yale to the history of Chinese women’s labor struggles.

“My favorite part of the event is just seeing undergraduates stand up there and talk about their research which they have put so many hours into and proving that they are the next generation of ethnic studies,” said Hayun Cho ’17, a member of the Asian American Studies Task Force. “They are showing that this is where it all starts, that spaces and scholars like these go on to do so much, and it is empowering to see these people share their scholarship.”

Titania Nguyen ’18, who also sits on the Asian American Studies Task Force, said the colloquium was valuable for a number of reasons, one of the most compelling being that ethnic studies is often not given the same weight as other academic subjects like European or American history. People cannot overlook all of the work

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Eleven students presented their research related to ethnic studies at the AACC on Friday. that scholars in ethnic studies are doing, she said, and Friday’s presentations only scraped the surface of the depth of scholarship available in the field.

Nguyen said her favorite part of the afternoon was how packed the venue was, adding that the turnout showed that many people genuinely care about this field of scholarship. Still, others lamented the turnout. MECHa co-moderator Viviana Arroyo ’18 said even though the sponsoring groups had publicized the gathering, it still did not attract as much interest as would have a similar symposium in the sciences, for example.

“I think that a lot of times, especially at a place like Yale, ethnic studies is not something that is really recognized as a legitimate field of study, or interesting enough to get people to show their research,” Arroyo said. “At least starting

the conversation and having a place where students can present that kind of research is very important.”

Student attendees interviewed agreed that the colloquium drew much-needed attention to a field that is often not recognized as a legitimate area of scholarship. Daad Sharfi ’17 said that as an ER&M major, she was inspired to see the amount of work currently being done at an academic level by students across a variety of disciplines, from African American studies to political science. It is exciting to see how much more of the field there is to be unraveled and what can be accomplished in the future, she said.

While the conference may have been the first to bring together diverse fields of academia within ethnic studies, it is not entirely the first event of its kind. For the past few years,

the AACC has held an Asian American studies senior thesis colloquium. What is remarkable about ethnic studies is that it emphasizes solidarity and scholars of different fields coming together, she said.

“The students are really encouraging each other to keep going and to hear the power of a lot of this work,” Camacho said. “But I think as underrepresented scholars, students of color working in ethnic studies, which also feels like it is still in its critical developmental stages here at Yale, it is very significant to know what you can do and what student contributions are allowing these fields to flourish here.”

There are currently 32 professors affiliated with the Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program.

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

Stanford psychology professor Gregory Walton GRD ’05 addressed an audience of 30 Friday evening at Sterling Chemistry Laboratory on how to reduce inequality for women in the STEM fields.

In a lecture as part of the DiversiTeas series, organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning, Walton gave a talk entitled “Fraught Interactions: How Stereotypes Shape Women’s Experience in STEM and What We Can Do About it.” Walton’s research focuses on the nature of disenfranchisement, stereotypes and selfidentity in academic settings. He spoke about the need for academic settings like Yale to work to create a more inclusive, less threatening environments for disadvantaged groups. After presenting social psychology studies that exemplified the differences in equality and peer acceptance for women in the STEM fields and discussing remedies to counteract inequality, Walton engaged the audience in a postlecture discussion with tips on how to improve workplaces and academic settings, including tactics on how to create safer spaces.

“My goal today is to help you have your own conversation as a community to see how the issues and experiences you are encountering might be understood in a formal social scientist perspective,” Walton said.

Walton compared the feeling many women have in STEM workplaces to a moment in the movie “8 Mile” when the white rapper Eminem is unable to perform in an allblack rap battle because he is told that people of his race are incapable of performing well. Walton claimed that whenever people enter into a setting that may promote a negative stereotype about them — like female students in a male-dominated physics class, for example — they are vigilant for cues as to whether they belong.

Walton argued that people will ask three different questions when they encounter a new environment: Will people treat them with respect or view them as a stereotype; if they perform poorly, will they think the stereotype is true and can they belong and succeed here?

Walton said social settings that adults enter into today are not blatantly biased, but rather “covert and sophisticated in their exclusivity.” He said that in a room full of Caucasians, an African-American individual might count how many other people of color are in the room, submitting to a numerical representation of belonging. He said women in STEM are likely to do the same, evaluating whether they can succeed in an environment dominated by males by counting the number of females in the field.

“Think about what you want the environment to represent, what you want it to be,” Walton

said, advising attendees on how to create better places of work. “[We need to] ask ourselves: What is the environment signaling, what do we want it to signal?”

Walton cited a study conducted at Indiana University in which participants were shown two different videos of a STEM conference.

One video represented an equal numbers of males and females, but in the other, the conference was male-dominated. While showing the participants the two separate videos, Murphy measured their cardiovascular response and the degree to which participants felt threatened after viewing each video. Female subjects had a higher cardiovascular response than the men who were shown the video of an unbalanced gender representation. The women subjects also reported feeling more threatened and anticipated that they would not belong at the conference.

Walton proposed a series of remedies to this pervasive issue.

Walton encouraged audience members to create safe spaces for people to work together and to address cues in the workplace — like “portraits of old, white males”— that may be perceived as threats to women.

He also encouraged audience members to foster positive interactions between men and women and to incorporate personal values at work to help each individual feel like a “whole person” and not a stereotype.

Attendees interviewed agreed that institutions like Yale should be taking more steps to reduce inequalities among genders. All six female attendees interviewed said they had either experienced unequal treatment or had witnessed another woman experiencing unequal treatment.

“Yale deals with inequalities for women very inefficiently,” said Mahnaz Sahraei, a postdoctoral associate at the School of Medicine. “When a problem comes up in the School of Medicine, it goes to the dean, who sends it to a committee, that sends it to a subcommittee and another subcommittee and another subcommittee and the problem eventually gets dissolved so you don’t hear about it for a year.

Marissa Tousley GRD ’17, an engineering student, said members of the STEM faculty should be required to attend talks like Walton’s.

Joyce Guo ’17 said that while she believes the administration would support most initiatives to foster a better work environment for women in STEM, she feels that much of the burden is left on the students or on the STEM faculty.

“Every professor should have to listen to the lecture we just heard,” Guo said Friday. “A lot of the faculty who show up are interested and want to make a difference but there is a core set of faculty that isn’t showing up.”

Contact MANASA RAO at manasa.rao@yale.edu .

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“I suppose if you’ve never bitten your nails, there isn’t any way to explain the habit. It’s not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction.” ANDERSON COOPER AMERICAN JOURNALIST

Cooper talks time at Yale, journalism

BY RACHEL TREISMAN STAFF REPORTER Prominent anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper ’89 visited Battell Chapel on Friday to accept the 2016 Yale Undergraduates’ Lifetime Achievement Award.

The award, which was created in 2014 by the Yale College Council in partnership with the University President’s Office and the Association of Yale Alumni, is the only award in Ivy League history that is completely elected and administered by students. Cooper was selected as this year’s recipient by student body-wide vote, according to the YCC announcement, in recognition of his “unparalleled” career in journalism and his accomplishments while an undergraduate at Yale.

At the event, Cooper discussed his experiences in and immediately following college. He said that when he was deciding on careers, he knew he did not want to look back on his life from a desk in a cubicle. Once he started reporting, he added, he could not imagine doing anything else, and he will continue working in journalism for as long as he is passionate about it.

“I consider it a great privilege of my life that I’m able to still go to places and tell people’s stories … and to bear witness to the struggle of people who are trying to live good and decent lives in the midst of chaos and war and disaster,” Cooper said. “For me, it’s one of the most rewarding things about what I do.”

According to YCC President Joe English ’17, who led the conversation with Cooper, the award’s purpose is twofold: first, to honor and thank alumni who have done outstanding work in a specific field, and second, to cultivate a richer dialogue between current students and these alumni.

The fact that the award is administered entirely by students, English said, lends it extra significance.

“Anderson Cooper is essentially being given this award by students who are sitting in the seats he occupied 25 years ago,” English told the News.

The YCC emailed a link to free tickets for the event — which drew over 1,000 students alongside a waitlist of nearly 200 — at 5 a.m. the morning of April 18. Spots ran out within hours, English said.

Students had the opportunity to submit questions for Cooper online. English said

the YCC received between 40 and 50 submissions, from which he chose five. Students’ questions addressed Cooper’s time at Yale, emphasizing his role not only as a journalist but also as an alumnus.

Before answering questions, Cooper discussed his transition from college student to war correspondent. He said he initially did not know what he wanted to do but had “watched a lot of TV news growing up” and so decided to go into journalism. But after he was not hired for any of the entry-level jobs he applied to — Cooper punctuated this anecdote with a joke about the “value of a Yale education” — he eventually forged a fake press pass and snuck into Burma to report on his own. He has worked in the industry ever since.

Cooper emphasized that he did not initially visualize a concrete career path for himself. He said he was hesitant to offer any “blueprint” to students. He discussed riding a truck across sub-Saharan Africa during his senior year of high school, receiving his Yale acceptance letter at Mount Kilimanjaro’s base camp and traversing war zones.

“I’m a big believer in jumping headfirst into the things that scare you most,” Cooper said. “I don’t like the feeling of fear, which is a natural thing, but I don’t like that nervousness. I really set out, by the time I got to Yale, to systematically try to eliminate that as much as possible.”

He also discussed his fascination with “issues of survival,” explaining how his father’s early death and his brother’s suicide made him interested in telling the stories of people who had suffered losses. He said he sees his job as more of a duty than a career.

But Cooper noted that his relationship to journalism has changed over the years, saying he is now more attuned to the “business of news” and the danger of seeing oneself as a public figure. Cooper said celebrity can lead to a sense of entitlement, which is an issue for a reporter whose job is to focus on other people.

Attendees said they were drawn to the event by Cooper’s professionalism and passion for his work, as well as his status as a Yale alumnus. Manasi Patwa ’19 and Dasia Moore ’18 said they had grown up watching Cooper on television and were excited to hear him in person.

“As a Yale alum there’s obviously a sense of affinity there, but I like that as a person he’s been able to gain this posi-

Barboza discusses international reporting

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Cooper spoke in Battell Chapel on Friday. tion of fame and reputation within a pretty serious industry, but also be pretty funny and not take himself too seriously,” Aaron Berman ’16 said.

Deputy Secretary and Senior Director of Corporation Affairs Martha Schall said it was great that Cooper was able to take time out of his busy schedule to make an appearance, especially in an election season. While the 2016 presidential election was not explicitly discussed, Cooper did make reference to the debates and candidates, whom he has interviewed at various televised town halls.

“I love that he’s coming back as an alum,” Vashaana Sahadeo ’19 said. “It shows that people can go from Yale and accomplish so many great things, and then to be able to come back and share that is amazing. For him to get recognition from where he started is so cool.”

Cooper delivered Yale’s Class Day address in 2006.

Contact RACHEL TREISMAN at rachel.treisman@yale.edu .

New York Times journalist David Barboza spoke to roughly a dozen students and faculty Saturday afternoon about his time in China as a foreign reporter and the process of writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the family wealth of former Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.

Barboza’s series “Princelings,” which was published in 2012 and won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, highlighted how influential government officials benefited financially from businesses connected to the state and identified the companies and investments in which the Wen family hid at least $2.7 billion.

During the talk, which was hosted by the China Economic Forum in the Calhoun Fellows Lounge, Barboza described the high-risk nature of such reporting, noting that he received many death threats before, during and after the publication of the series.

“If I was wrong I was dead; if I was right I was dead,” he said. “I still cannot believe that we could publish this, and that I’m alive and my wife is okay.”

The event attracted journalism enthusiasts and sinophiles alike, and the variety of topics Barboza covered catered to a broad range of interests.

He spoke about his evolving interests growing up: his childhood passion for sports, his desire to do “crazy things as a student journalist” at Boston University, and his 11 years living in China as the Shanghai bureau chief for The New York Times.

School of Management Professor Zhiwu Chen GRD ’90, an advisor to the China Economic Forum who has known Barboza for many years, also attended the talk.

Barboza — who was part of a team that won another Pulitzer in 2013 for a series on globalized high-tech industries — said that though he has achieved success, his countless failed investigations have taught him the most about journalism. The inquisi-

tive nature of an investigative reporter continues to inform his writing in other areas, he said.

“That’s part of being an investigative reporter,” he said. “I like the mystery of going down a road you really don’t know about and finding something unexpected.”

Despite major censorship and media biases in the Chinese government’s favor, Barboza maintained that Chinese journalists are extraordinarily knowledgeable and capable reporters — “if only they had the freedom to publish it.” He described Chinese journalism as simultaneously amazing and corrupt.

Barboza also credited his translators and assistant journalists in Shanghai for accepting the “inherent risk” associated with working for The New York Times as Chinese citizens.

“I did all I could to protect them by not involving them in certain things,” he said. “They are my heroes in China.

I couldn’t have done it without them.”

Nicholas Religa ’19 said he attended the event because of his interest in China’s government and economy.

Religa also said he was impressed

by Barboza’s ability to conduct such a thorough investigation given the obstacles of censorship and restrictive government regulation in China.

Several other attendees also described the importance of Barboza’s reporting in the face of government censorship.

“Dr. Barboza’s brand of investigative journalism offers a crucial alternative perspective to the state-run media rhetoric,” Simiao Li ’18 said.

CEF co-president George Shen ’18 said he would have enjoyed hearing more about Barboza’s personal interactions with government officials.

“Chinese politicians are typically not as open about showing or creating their public personalities,” he said. “This might provide important insights to understanding their decision-making.”

Contact VEENA MCCOOLE at veena.mccoole@yale.edu .

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CDCJ ends eight-day occupation

BY TEO ARMUS AND CAUVERI SURESH The six members of Columbia Divest for Climate Justice occupying Low Library have ended their sit-in after University President Lee Bollinger agreed that he will address the issue of fossil fuel divestment in an email to the group.

The message —confirmed by the group’s adviser, Pete Cerneka— will serve as a followup to a University-wide email he sent on the topic in May 2015, in which Bollinger said the issue of fossil fuel divestment would be likely to go before the Board of Trustees in the current academic year. “There are no guarantees as to what’s going to be in the email,�

CDCJ organizer Iliana Salazar-Dodge said. “I’m not sure if he’s going to exactly meet our demand, but I think he’s going to be favorable in considering fossil fuel divestment.�

At the beginning of the eightday sit-in, protesters said they would remain inside Low until Bollinger made a public statement in support of divesting from the top 200 publicly traded fossil fuel companies.

Sixteen members of the group slept over inside the building on the first night of the sit-in—a number that dwindled down to six over the course of eight days.

Since the sit-in began, protesters who leave have not been able to re-enter. “We are leaving because President Bollinger will be out of town and it doesn’t make sense for us to continue our occupation when our target isn’t here,� SalazarDodge said. “We’re ready to continue to collaborate with students on the outside, continue to build student power and make sure that Columbia divests from the top

200 companies at the very least.�

Bollinger will be leaving campus for CaliforCOLUMBIA nia on Tuesday to attend the funeral of former trustee Bill Campbell, who died earlier this week, according to CDCJ. “[Bollinger] better know I was ready to wait another week,� protester Cristian Padilla said.

In addition to the email, Columbia Law professor Michael Gerrard has sent a proposal to the Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing asking for a response to a letter signed by 25 Earth Institute faculty members.

ACSRI Chair Jeffrey Gordon told the Columbia Spectator the committee will consider the proposal “in due course.�

Although ACSRI rejected CDCJ’s proposal for full fossil fuel divestment in the fall, the Earth Institute letter recommends that the University divest from coal and run its other fossil fuel investments through a fourpoint test.

CDCJ member Rachel Fifi Culp said that the Institute presenting this proposal confirms that the University will continue to address full fossil fuel divestment.

On the first day of the sit-in, Bollinger offered the protesters a meeting with him the following Monday under the condition that they leave Low. After the students continued to occupy Low, Rules administrator Suzanne Goldberg later clarified that Bollinger would not meet with a student group in active violation of the rules.

In subsequent meetings over the course of the protest, Cerneka said that Bollinger believed meet-

ing with CDCJ would not be fair to other student groups who also wanted a meeting but were not violating the rules.

In his May 2015 email, Bollinger said he anticipated that the issue would come before the Board of Trustees at some point during the current school year. “The student group Columbia Divest for Climate Justice has petitioned for fossil fuel divestment and has kept this issue at the forefront of campus conversation, exactly where it belongs,� the email said. “There is more work to be done, but I support the ongoing deliberations of the ACSRI subcommittee and it is my hope to see a resolution to this complex but vitally important issue within the year.�

The email also noted that he would be arranging for “student leaders� to meet with trustees—a promise that Bollinger did follow through with, as CDCJ has met with members of the board four times in the past year. “Climate change is one of the most important issues of our time,� he wrote. “Columbia is home to some of the foremost scholars in this field and our University community is engaged meaningfully in this issue in a number of ways, one being the ongoing discussion regarding divesting University funds from fossil fuels.� “No matter what, we’ve accomplished a lot,� SalazarDodge said. “We’ve definitely been victorious in how much support we’ve gotten. Us exiting is most definitely not a sign of weakness. It’s in fact an extreme sign of power to show that us being here a few days has transformed that atmosphere on campus in terms of uniting students under a common goal, a common cause.�

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Assistant professor William Rankin will moderate a discussion with the filmmakers afterwards. Scientists, physicists, artists and architects will find the event particularly interesting. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud. 4:00 PM The Beekeeper: Performing Black Southern Women Who Love Women. E. Patrick Johnson, a professor of performance studies and African American studies at Northwestern University, presents a lecture/performance exploring the oral histories of black Southern women who desire women. Johnson will discuss the methodological challenges of being a man conducting research on women, and will perform excerpts from the oral histories. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Rm. 102.

TUESDAY, APRIL 26 10:00 AM Bringing Order out of Chaos: A Century of Robert Shaw. Robert Shaw was the most renowned choral conductor of the 20th century, and a major orchestral conductor as well. Our exhibit features musical scores annotated by Shaw, correspondence with prominent persons as well as letters he wrote to his choruses, photographs of Shaw throughout his long career and a variety of other items. Sterling Memorial Library (120 High St.).

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MONDAY

JAMES RANDON ’17, FRANCES SCHMIEDE ’17 TWO MORE RECORDS BROKEN These days, there are very few events these two athletes run in which they do not break a school record. Randon and Schmeide, the incoming Yale cross country captains, shattered the respective Yale records in the 1500-meter run at the Virginia Challenge this weekend.

“It’s not even a bench.

It’s more like starters who aren’t starting.”

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Elis all alone in first place BASEBALL

No. 4 Yale drops second straight in OT

BY MATTHEW MISTER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The opponent was different, the setup nearly the same.

The last time the Yale men’s lacrosse team played a weekend game at Reese Stadium, the Bulldogs tied the score with just 17 seconds left in regulation and proceeded to win 11–10 over Penn in thrilling overtime fashion.

MEN’S LACROSSE On Saturday, against No. 6 Albany, the No. 4 Elis leveled the contest even more dramatically, as just 5.8 seconds remained on the clock when attackman Jeff Cimbalista ’17 fired a shot off the stick of Albany goalie Blaze Riorden and into the net. Momentum on its side once again with the score knotted at 13, Yale looked poised to complete another come-from-behind

victory and bounce back from its first loss of the season last weekend at No. 3 Brown.

But three weeks earlier against the Quakers, the Bulldogs did not need to put their game winner past Riorden. The six-foot, 210-pound senior, who entered Saturday third in the nation in save percentage, produced two crucial stops in overtime before Albany attackman Seth Oakes scored to win the contest nearly three minutes into overtime.

The game was as close as they come, with Albany (10–2, 5–0 American East) barely outshooting Yale (10–2, 4–1 Ivy) 37–36 while winning just two more faceoffs and turning the ball over just once more than the Bulldogs. With the defeat, Yale has now lost two straight games and conceded 14 goals in each.

“Another incredible lacrosse SEE MEN’S LACROSSE PAGE B3

YALE DAILY NEWS

Righthanded pitcher Chasen Ford ’17 picked up his fourth win of the season on Saturday after a seven-inning, three-run effort.

BY JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER On Saturday, the Yale baseball team became just the second Ivy League team since 2008 to sweep a doubleheader against Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire.

The two Eli victories broke a tie between the two teams for first place in the Red Rolfe Division, and on Sunday, the Bulldogs maintained that divisional advantage by splitting the final two games of the series.

The Elis (16–23–1, 10–6 Ivy) won the first three games by scores of 7–6, 5–3 and 4–3 before dropping a 10–4 decision against the Big Green

(14–23, 8–8) late Sunday afternoon. With only four games remaining in the regular season, the Bulldogs are in an enviable position, now two games ahead of division rivals Dartmouth and Harvard. Next weekend, Yale can lock up the Red Rolfe, as well as a trip to the Ivy League Championship series, for the first time since 1995.

Yale’s three wins over Dartmouth are more than the Bulldogs had over the Big Green the previous five seasons combined, as Dartmouth had won 15 of the 17 past meetings between the two programs prior to this season.

“Emotions ran high during these close games late in

the season, and we rely on our Ivy League experience to make sure we stay calm and focused,” shortstop Tom O’Neill ‘16 said. “We’ve got a group of guys who love to have fun and play relaxed, and I think that’s been a key to our success so far. We can’t wait to take this momentum into next weekend as we look to clinch our division.”

The freshman class came up huge in the early contest on Saturday, as second baseman Simon Whiteman ’19, first baseman Benny Wanger ’19 and center fielder Tim DeGraw ’19 each collected two hits and at least one RBI. DeGraw doubled in the top of the second inning and drove

in designated hitter Harrison White ’17 to put the Bulldogs on the board first, as Whiteman followed up with a 2-RBI triple to right field to give the Elis the early 3-0 lead.

The Big Green plated five runs in the fourth inning, but a two-run homer from Wanger in the fifth and two more unanswered runs, both unearned, in the sixth put the Bulldogs back ahead for good.

“The home run was to left center field, [which is] not usually my power ally,” Wanger said. “But their pitcher had beaten me twice earlier in the game on offspeed pitches so I was lookSEE BASEBALL PAGE B3

MATTHEW MISTER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Attackman Ben Reeves ’18 tallied a team-high three goals during Yale’s 14–13 loss to Albany.

Peng ’18 wins Ivy individual title, teams finish third

BY MAYA SWEEDLER STAFF REPORTER Though the two tournaments took place almost 100 miles apart, the Ivy League men’s and women’s golf championships yielded surprisingly similar results as Yale’s two teams both finished third in fields of eight to finish their spring seasons.

GOLF

COURTESY OF THE IVY LEAGUE

Jennifer Peng ’18 shot a 225 (+6) to win the individual title of the three-day tournament.

STAT OF THE DAY 3

Harvard took both the men’s and women’s title, each ending with a team score of 43-over. However, Yale still came away with some hardware when Jennifer Peng ’18, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year, became the first Eli to win the women’s individual title since 2011. Peng built a three-stroke lead over the nearest golfer with scores of 72 and 74 in her first two rounds, and she managed to hang onto that advantage in the final day with a 79 and finish the tournament with a 225 (+6).

“Going into this tournament, I wasn’t really expecting too much,” Peng, now Yale’s top finisher at three consecutive tournaments, said. “I think what gave me a lot of confidence throughout the tournament was my putting. The greens were hard and I was worried when we played the practice round that I would have a hard time. However, I honestly just took the tournament shot by shot and it ended up working out in the end.”

The women’s tournament at The Stanwich Club in Greenwich saw very little movement, as the first day’s standings were ultimately the same as the final results.

Behind a strong opening performance from Peng — the only individual who finished the first day under par — the Bulldogs ended the first day of competition at 21-over, 11 strokes behind Harvard.

The following day, Peng stretched her lead in the individual scoreboard while teammate SEE GOLF PAGE B3

THE NUMBER OF HOME RUNS HIT BY THE YALE SOFTBALL TEAM IN SATURDAY’S 4–2 WIN OVER DARTMOUTH. Third baseman Allison Skinner ’18 knocked two out of the park and right fielder Rachel Paris ’17 tacked on a third. Yale did not hit a single home run in its 43 other games this season.

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SPORTS

“It’s so empowering to see yourself as a machine.”

JENNIE FINCH SOFTBALL PITCHER AND TWO-TIME OLYMPIC MEDALIST

Elis split road weekend

Second-half surge falls short W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 unit. Each player competed hard and did their job individually to limit Penn’s prolific offense,” LaGrow said. “The outcome was not what we wanted but we are very happy with how the team played and competed as a whole.”

While Yale’s defense stifled the Quakers, the Bulldog offense struck twice during the first period. The first goal came on a free position shot from midfielder Lily Smith ’18 and the second was an unassisted tally from attacker Tess McEvoy ’17.

Despite not scoring another goal before halftime, Yale controlled the remaining 14:45 of the half, preventing Penn from taking a single shot and taking five more of its own.

The score at the end of the half was 5–2 in favor of Penn, but the teams’ shot totals painted a different picture; Yale launched 11 shots while Penn only released seven.

“We were down 5–0 and we came together and said ‘Enough is enough.’ We completely bought into the system and the game plan and trusted each other to do our jobs,” defender Victoria Moore ’17 said. “We knew we could play better and once we reset, we came out on a completely different note.”

Penn was the first to strike in the second half, with its dynamic duo returning to form with Condon netting another goal off of another Corcoran assist.

But Yale again answered in force, scoring four unanswered goals to draw even at six-apiece.

Midfielder Katie Smith ’18 — the second Smith twin to leave her mark on the game — scored back-to-back unassisted goals.

Attacker Hope Hanley ’17 then contributed the third goal of the run, before Katie Smith completed a hat trick to equalize the score.

The Smith twins, who were originally recruited to play field hockey at Yale, decided to become dual-sport athletes and joined the lacrosse team earlier this year. Together, the twins delivered half of Yale’s goals on Saturday afternoon.

“Katie stepped up in a big way this game,” said captain and defender Kate Walker ’16. “She and her sister Lily are finding a lot of success for us this season by utilizing their speed and quickness. I also think they both bring an unconventional style to the game, which is arguably a result of their experience as field hockey players. They shoot from down low and around their defenders, which is a shot goalies don’t often see.”

But overcoming a five-goal deficit entirely proved too tall a task as the Elis failed to capture their first lead of the game.

Instead, Penn retaliated with three unanswered goals. The electric combination of Corcoran and Condon produced the go-ahead goal to give the Quakers a 7–6 lead. Corcoran again

assisted on the score, notching her 47th of the season, a figure more than double that of the second-ranked assister in the Ivy League, Emily Tripodi of Cornell.

With 7:40 left to play, and facing a 9–6 hole, the Bulldogs mounted one final comeback attempt.

Attacker Madeleine Gramigna ’18 cut the deficit to two with a goal on a free position shot with 6:53 left to play.

The scoring stalled for more than six minutes thereafter, with neither team even able to attempt a shot during the scoring drought. But attacker Emily Granger ’18 found the back of the net with 46 seconds left to score her first goal of the game, and eighth of the season, to keep Yale’s hopes alive.

But the Elis failed to produce one last goal in those final seconds as a costly Yale turnover with 31 seconds to play allowed Penn to run out the clock.

Condon’s four goals, and Corcoran’s five assists, were just enough to hold off Yale, despite Penn taking seven fewer shots, winning one fewer draw control and scooping three fewer ground balls than the Bulldogs.

The Elis play their final game of the regular season, one with substantial postseason implications, against the Crimson next Saturday at 1 p.m.

Contact KEVIN BENDESKY at kevin.bendesky@yale.edu .

FLORA LIPSKY/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Dartmouth was looking to become the first team in 18 years to complete an undefeated Ivy season.

SOFTBALL FROM PAGE B4 series, the Elis suffered their second loss of the weekend.

Jerpbak pitched one inning and gave up four runs, all in the second inning, against a reinvigorated Dartmouth lineup.

Williams continued her strong showing at the plate, recording her third and fourth RBI of the weekend. Her teammates, left fielder Chloe Madill and designated hitter Karen Chaw, each plated additional runs in the frame.

Francesca Casalino ’18 relieved Jerpbak for 2.1 innings, but Madill again left her mark on the game, blasting a two-run shot in the fourth to put Dartmouth up 6–0. Casalino handed the ball over to Efflandt two batters after the home run, and the junior closed out the game with 2.2 scoreless innings, allowing just one hit, one walk and one hit batter.

After Ethridge shut out Yale for five innings, righty Lauren Stone gave up one run in relief,

allowing Yale to get onto the scoreboard in the seventh inning. Jerpbak scored on a fielder’s choice off the bat of second baseman Laina Do ’17 in the seventh inning.

Yale will next take on Maine in a doubleheader at the Dewitt Family Field in West Haven on Wednesday, the final two nonconference games of the season for the Bulldogs.

Contact FLORA LIPSKY at flora.lipsky@yale.edu .

MATTHEW MISTER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Yale outscored Penn 8–4 during the final 52-plus minutes of Saturday’s game but still fell 9–8 to the Quakers.

All three varsity eights win over weekend CREW FROM PAGE B4 the Bulldogs before the postseason, which will consist of Eastern Sprints on May 15 and the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship in early June. With an undefeated first boat, Trzybinski acknowledged that the team had high expectations, but he also said that the team was more focused on putting in the “best race possible at the time.”

He added that the team would take the three-week break to balance schoolwork with physical training, including endurance and strength, before focusing all of its attention on rowing after finals.

“What I’ve seen over the last two months is that the [team’s maturity] and approach to racing have developed in a positive fashion,” Trzybinski said. “[They are] very focused, very determined and have the mental capacity strength that’s needed.

These are strong trends that have become obvious over the last few months.”

coming in at 6:20.8, compared to 6:32.3 for Radcliffe’s third boat and 6:48.8 for its fourth. The second varsity race was closer, with Yale pulling away for a fivesecond win over the Crimson.

Still closer, the narrowest race of the day was the first varsity battle, but Yale still had 1.8 seconds to spare in its victory.

The Bulldogs next race Brown in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday before a two-week break for finals. In mid-May, the women’s crew competes in the

Ivy League Championship and at the end of the month, in the NCAA Championship.

DECISIVE VICTORIES FOR LIGHTWEIGHTS

The lightweight boats all rowed to straightforward victories over Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire. Although the fourth varsity did not compete, the remaining three boats finished an average of 15.8 seconds ahead of their Big Green counterparts.

“Today was another good step for the team,” captain Austin Velte ’16 said. “The 1, 2 and 3V all had solid pieces and our 4V guys put in some good work back in New Haven.”

Racing first, the third varsity boat bounced back from a loss last weekend to Cornell earned a time of 5:51.7, compared to 6:06.8 for the Big Green. Next up was the second varsity boat, which also returned to winning ways, leading from start to finish and ultimately defeating Dart-

mouth by 22.4 seconds.

The last race of the day was the first varsity boat, which easily retained the Durand Cup for the fourth time in as many years.

Facing a strong headwind, the Bulldogs pulled 10 seconds ahead of Dartmouth, finishing with a time of 5:37.9.

Next up for the Bulldogs is the Harvard-Yale-Princeton regatta on Saturday at Lake Carnegie in New Jersey. After that competition, the Bulldogs have Eastern Sprints and the national cham-

pionships to look forward to after finals.

“As the dual season is wrapping up, we’re looking forward to tightening up our preparation and performances,” Velte said. “The whole league picks up speed in the second half of the season, so we need to keep improving on a daily basis to be where we want to be come championship season.”

Contact LISA QIAN at lisa.qian@yale.edu .

YALE WOMEN DOMINATE CRIMSON

After a loss to No. 9 Princeton and tie against No. 12 USC last weekend, the sixth-ranked Yale women’s team rebounded on Saturday with a triumphant sweep over Radcliffe, the women’s crew of Harvard. In its last home competition of the season, the first varsity boat retained the Case Cup. The varsity four made it seven for seven this season in their race against Radcliffe, winning by a time of 6:44.3 to 6:53.6.

“We were pleased to come away with wins in all of our boats,” captain Colleen Maher ’16 said. “The race against Radcliffe is always an exciting one for our team, and this year proved to be no different than any other.”

The third varsity eight earned the largest victory of the day,

JENNIFER LU/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Yale women’s crew dominated rival Radcliffe (Harvard) at home, winning all four races by an average margin of 6.9 seconds.

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Bulldogs take three of four

Overtime goal downs Yale MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE B1 game between two awesome teams,” head coach Andy Shay said. “[Before the Brown game] our team hadn’t lost this season, in scrimmages, or in our fall games. I thought we were a little off-kilter in practice this week; maybe we needed another loss to shake us a little bit more. I’m excited to get back to practice on Monday.”

A significant loss for the Bulldogs, which will likely drop them further down the national rankings, was made even more significant in the second quarter, when Yale captain and defender Michael Quinn ’16 fell to the turf with an apparent knee injury and did not get up for some time.

Quinn was able to walk off under his own power and, an hour later, walk to the center of the field for the overtime coin toss, but he spent the second half on the sidelines on crutches with his knee wrapped up. Shay did not comment on the severity of Quinn’s injury, but noted his absence affected the team. “[Quinn] is our leader and best player. It was rough to finish the game without him,” Shay said.

Yale struggled early on, conceding the first three goals of the game. Much of Albany’s early success was inspired

by Riorden, who saved the Elis’ first two shots to gain momentum and transition opportunities for his team.

Riorden’s early success was indicative of what was to come, as the senior would finish the game with 14 saves.

Teammate and attackman Connor Fields said after the game that Riorden is the top goalie in the nation, and Shay said the opposing netminder was the best goalie Yale has faced this year.

“We knew it was going to be a hardfought game,” Riorden said. “Both teams are very athletic. The defense held Yale to shots that I could save.”

With Albany up 3–0 and 6:16

remaining in the first quarter, Yale was in need of a wake-up call, and got it from the program’s newest pair of brothers.

Midfielder Conor Mackie ’18 won the ensuing faceoff and scored just eight seconds after the third Albany goal. After his tally, Mackie won another faceoff, and after a minutelong Yale possession, younger brother and midfielder Brendan Mackie ’19 brought the Bulldogs within one.

Attackman Ben Reeves ’18 finished the Bulldogs’ run, one of many by both teams in a game characterized by shifting momentum. Reeves, who led Yale with three goals in the contest, took the ball from behind the net, drove to the right and buried it in the top corner to level the score.

With eight seconds remaining in the first quarter, Albany attackman Justin Reh put the Great Danes up 4–3. The teams traded goals to start the second quarter before Yale finally got its only lead of the day, 6–5, after a two-goal run with scores by midfielder Jason Alessi ’18 and attackman Jack Tigh ’19.

Just three minutes remained for Yale to take that lead into halftime, but Albany managed to shift the momentum and score two goals of its own to end the second quarter up 7–6.

Quinn was not the only Bulldog to leave the field before the second half, as goalie Phil Huffard ’18 was replaced

by Hoyt Crance ’19 after registering one save and giving up seven goals in the first half. In the second half and overtime, Crance made seven saves and conceded seven goals. “[Crance] was great,” Shay said.

“We talked about playing both of them at the beginning of the game and we would evaluate each of them and give them a chance to prove themselves. We wanted to make sure we were fair to both of them.”

In a hectic third period, four consecutive two-goal runs — two for each

side — kept the Albany advantage at one but increased the score to 11–10.

Both teams then traded goals again in the first five minutes of the fourth quarter, and with 5:14 remaining in the contest, the Great Danes scored another, looking to close out the game with a 13–11 lead.

Midfielder Michael Bonacci ’16 kept Yale alive with his second goal of the game at 3:47. Albany attempted to milk the remainder of the clock until Yale reclaimed possession with 27 seconds to play.

In one last possession, midfielder Michael Keasey ’16 made a run at the goal and threatened to shoot before lobbing a pass across the field to Cimbalista, who shot from the goalie’s right and netted the deflection goal off Riorden’s stick — one of the few gaffes for Albany’s superstar on the day.

Continuing to be the hero on the Yale side, Cimbalista picked up the first ground ball of overtime to give the Bulldogs a chance at victory. He and Keasey, both looking for their third goals of the game, took shots on net in the extra frame, but were denied by Riorden.

“We’ve been riding the big guy [Riorden] for four years now,” Albany head coach Scott Marr said.

After playing over two minutes of defense, Albany finally cleared, and 30 seconds later Oakes scored his fourth goal of the game, leading all players on both teams, to solidify the Great Dane victory.

“I had a step on my guy,” Oakes said after the game. “I was just looking for a step and the slide came late.”

Saturday was the first overtime loss for the Bulldogs since they fell 11–10 to Fairfield in 2014. Yale will face Harvard at home next Saturday with a chance to lock-up the two-seed in the Ivy League Tournament.

Contact MATTHEW MISTER at matthew.mister@yale.edu .

MATTHEW MISTER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Midfielder Jason Alessi ’18, number 45 above, scored twice, tying his career high for goals in a game.

GRAHAM HARBOE/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Righty Mason Kukowski ’18 racked up his second, third and fourth saves of the season over the weekend.

BASEBALL FROM PAGE B1 ing for a fastball early in the count. I got a fastball away, put a solid swing on it to get it up in the air. After I hit it I was not sure if it was going out but the wind picked it up a bit — it was blowing out all day — and carried it over the wall.”

Another first-year Eli, right-handed pitcher Scott Politz ’19 started the game and completed three scoreless innings before being tagged for five runs in the fourth. An RBI single in the sixth inning knocked Politz out of the game, and he was replaced by righty Mason Kukowski ’18. Kukowski retired all four batters he faced to cap the 7–6 Yale victory.

Although the five earned runs was a season-high for Politz, he still emerged as the winning pitcher to move to 3–1 in Ivy play. In his 5.2 innings, the Austin, Texas native allowed nine hits and three walks while striking out a pair of Big Green batters, with one coming in a crucial two-out bases-loaded situation in the bottom of the second inning.

Kukowski, who entered the day with one save this season, was called upon to close out the Bulldog victory in the second game as well after right-handed starter Chasen Ford ’17 limited the Big Green to just seven hits and three runs, two of which were earned, in seven innings.

The formula was much the same for the Elis in game two as in game one, as the team jumped out to a commanding 4–0 lead in the second inning, and relied on solid pitching from Ford, righty Chris Lanham ’16 and Kukowski to hold on for the 5–3 victory.

During the second inning of the game, O’Neill drove in two runs with a single, and third baseman Richard Slenker ’17, who finished 2–5, added an RBI-double during the same frame as part of a fourrun outburst.

Catcher Andrew Herrera ’17 launched a solo home run over the left field fence in the fourth inning to produce Yale’s fifth and final run.

“The team played desperate all weekend,” left fielder Brent Lawson ’16 said.

“It truly was a great team effort against some great pitching.”

The Elis pulled out another tight victory to kick off Sunday after scoring three runs in the sixth inning to break a

1–1 tie. Yale’s middle of the order provided the go-ahead runs, as Slenker and White had back-to-back RBI singles in the decisive frame, followed by an RBI groundout from first baseman Alec Hoeschel ’17.

Dartmouth threatened in the bottom of the seventh as pinch hitter Joe Purritano belted a 2-run homer over right field off Wanger, who started the contest and lasted 6.2 innings, surrendering just three earned runs on four hits. Wanger had not previously thrown in Ivy League competition, but on Sunday he managed to outduel Dartmouth’s Duncan Robinson, a two-time All-Ivy First Teamer and last year’s Ivy League Pitcher of the Year.

“I’m especially impressed with how well the freshmen have been able to handle themselves in pressure situations,” O’Neill said. “Wanger and Politz showed veteran toughness on the mound, and DeGraw and Whiteman continued providing clutch contributions to the lineup.”

Following the home run, Wanger walked the next batter, causing head coach John Stuper to turn to Kukowski for the third time in three games. He induced a ground ball out from shortstop Thomas Roulis to record his third save of the weekend and secure the 4–3 outcome. Kukowski did not allow a single baserunner in 2.2 innings over his three appearances.

Dartmouth’s offense finally came to life in the final game of the series, led by first baseman Michael Ketchmark’s 4-5 performance, which included one home run, two doubles, five RBI and two runs scored.

Right-handed starter Drew Scott ’18 allowed six runs on nine hits over 6.1 innings. He was one of five Elis to pitch in the final contest of the weekend, which cut Yale’s divisional lead from three games to two.

Whiteman finished 4-5 with two RBI for the Bulldogs, while White was 2-4 with a double and one walk in the 10-4 loss.

Yale concludes its season with four games next weekend versus Brown, with two at home on Saturday and two in Rhode Island on Sunday.

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

Third-place finishes for both men and women GOLF FROM PAGE B1 Elisabeth Bernabe ’17 made a three-stroke improvement between the first and second day. But the team overall finished 25-over on Saturday and finished the second day 16 shots behind Harvard.

Bernabe pointed out the challenge posed by the course’s greens, which are guarded by thick rough. Sandy Wongwaiwate ’17, who finished tied with Bernabe at 24-over, added that the threeday tournament allowed the Bulldogs ample time to learn the intricacies of the course.

“After playing two rounds, I had a better understanding of the spots to avoid on the course and where it was safe to play to,” Wongwaiwate said.

“I also tried to keep a positive mindset during the round and that helped me while playing the course.”

Last season, the Yale women’s team lost the Ivy League title to Harvard in heartbreaking fashion, putting together the tournament’s best round on the final day but falling one stroke short.

Though Wongwaiwate and Bernabe expressed disappointment with the final results, they both said they

were hopeful for the following year. With just one senior — captain Deanna Song ’16 — on the roster, the Yale women’s golf team has a strong core returning next year.

“I think our team has a lot of potential, and if we train hard over summer and approach next year with a competitive spirit, I can see us having a successful season next fall,” Bernabe said.

The men’s team echoed that sentiment, expressing disappointment at the tournament’s results but highlighting the team’s depth and youth.

After opening the tournament in fourth place with an 18-over score, the Bulldogs came storming back on the second day behind a strong performance from Li Wang ’17, who finished with Saturday’s second-best score, an even par. While Harvard ran away with the title, Dartmouth shot a 301 on the third day, the second-best score of the tournament, to narrowly edge Yale for the second-place position.

“I think we know, as a team, that if we played our best we could’ve won,” Will Bernstein ’18 said. “We had good runs individually here and there

but collectively we didn’t play to our full potential. We’re for sure disappointed but we’re looking forward to next year and the year after.”

Bernstein, Yale’s top finisher, ended the tournament third in the individual standings after carding a 70 (-2) in the final round, tied for the best 18-hole score in the whole tournament.

Teammates Jonathan Lai ’17 and Wang finished tied for 10th and 14th, respectively.

After tying Eoin Leonard ’19 with a team-best 76 (+4) on the first day, Lai recorded the same score on Saturday and a 78 (+6) on Sunday. Though Lai finished second on the team with a 230 (+14), he noted that there were strokes he wished he could have gotten back.

“I was fairly disappointed with the way I played, especially I had myself off to a good start all three rounds but just could not find a way to finish out my rounds,” Lai said. “I realize that I finished in the top 10 for the tournament, but that wasn’t the goal for the weekend. The goal for the weekend was to win the Ivy League Championship and my struggles coming down the stretch did not help the cause.”

Leonard said he was also disappointed with his individual — as well as the team’s — performance, but praised the team’s camaraderie, adding that his freshman season was “very enjoyable.” Pointing out that this season’s Ivy League Championship provides great experience, Leonard said he hopes the team will build on this season next year.

This season’s performance marks an improvement from last season’s fifth-place finish at the Ivy League championship. Similar to the women, the men’s team features a core of experienced underclassmen returning for the 2016–17 season.

“The best part about our team is it’s incredibly deep,” Bernstein said. “It’s not even a bench. It’s more like starters who aren’t starting … Having so much internal competition will lead us to play better against other teams in future tournaments.”

The Harvard women’s golf team has now won the last five Ivy League championships.

The Harvard men, meanwhile, won their first title since 1975 this weekend.

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

YALE DAILY NEWS

Will Bernstein ’18 recorded the best score for the Yale men’s team: a 223 (+7), which put him at third overall in the tournament.

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SPORTS

“I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.”

AMANDA BEARD SEVEN-TIME OLYMPIC MEDALIST

Bulldogs spoil Dartmouth perfection

BY FLORA LIPSKY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale softball team did twice over the weekend what no other Ivy League team has been able to do even once this season: beat Dartmouth.

Dartmouth (26–12, 14–2 Ivy) entered the four-game set between North Division rivals undefeated, but it did not emerge so. Yale (15–28–1, 7–9) split each of the two doubleheaders, despite persistent heckling and jeers from the Dartmouth dugout. Though the Bulldogs lost the first and last game of the weekend 4–1 and 6–1, respectively, they successfully tarnished the Big Green’s record with back-toback wins in close contests that Yale won 4–2 and 1–0.

“We stuck it to them, and it felt great,” said pitcher Lindsay Efflandt ’17, who tossed a complete game shutout in Sunday’s victory. “It was one of the best wins that I personally have had as a pitcher because classless teams are the best teams to beat.”

In the first contest on Saturday, it became quickly apparent that the Bulldogs might be in store for a difficult road trip. Efflandt pitched a strong five innings, allowing only two earned runs, but it was not enough to overcome the efforts of Big Green pitcher Morgan McCalmon.

The Dartmouth ace silenced Yale’s bats, striking out six batters and allowing only one hit and one walk en route to her 15th win of the season.

Dartmouth’s talented offense capitalized on four Eli

errors to push across an additional two unearned runs of insurance in a game that officially knocked Yale out of contention for the North Division title.

Yale would not allow the dominant Big Green machine to have the last word on Saturday, however, as it came into the nightcap with renewed verve. This time around, things clicked on all cylinders for Yale.

Pitcher Terra Jerpbak ’19, who tossed a scoreless relief inning in the first game, picked up where she had left off and spun five innings of two-run ball against the Ivy League’s highest-scoring lineup. The only two runs of the game she allowed came on a home run in the bottom of the fifth inning to Dartmouth catcher Kassidy Williams, but Yale’s offense more than matched the pop of Dartmouth’s.

The Bulldogs hit three long balls off Breanna Ethridge, ending their drought as the only Ivy League team not to go yard in the 2016 season. Two of those moonshots belonged to third baseman Allison Skinner ’18, who has been a consistent producer for the team all season. Skinner leads the Elis with 19 RBI this season, and she has slugged a team-high 0.500 in conference action.

“I decided to just go up there and take some hacks because there was nothing to lose,” Skinner said of her mentality at the plate. “[Ethridge] threw me an inside pitch and I just turned on it as hard as I could.”

The third Yale home run

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belonged to right fielder Rachel Paris ’17, who joined the game in the field in the bottom of the sixth and stepped up to the plate for the first time in the seventh.

At that point, McCalmon was pitching instead of Ethridge. McCalmon’s impressive velocity give Paris all the power she needed to drive a ball over the center field fence and solidify Yale’s lead.

In addition to the three solo shots, center fielder Sydney Glover ’17 doubled in first baseman Lauren Delgadillo ’16 in the second inning.

The Bulldogs drew on Saturday evening’s success in their first game on Sunday.

Efflandt was once again in the pitcher’s circle, where she faced off in a pitcher’s duel with McCalmon for the second time in as many days.

This time, however, Efflandt did not let her opponent walk away with the win. Efflandt hurled a walkless three-hitter and did not allow a single run.

McCalmon nearly matched Efflandt frame-for-frame, but McCalmon was charged with the loss thanks to an unearned run scored by Glover on an error by Dartmouth second baseman Morgan Martinelli.

“It was awesome to watch Lindsay absolutely shut down the Dartmouth offense in the first game today,” Paris said.

“Getting our first win against Dartmouth was an awesome feeling and coming away with a split is just the cherry on top.”

In the final game of the SEE SOFTBALL PAGE B2

COURTESY OF YALE ATHLETICS

Lindsay Efflandt ’17 threw 14.2 innings in three weekend appearances, including a complete-game shutout on Sunday.

Yale crews defend rankings

Furious comeback attempt not enough

BY KEVIN BENDESKY STAFF REPORTER Fighting for its postseason life, the Yale women’s lacrosse team’s contest against No. 14 Penn on Saturday seemed destined to be a blowout after the Quakers jumped out to a 5–0 lead less than eight minutes into the game.

Yet the Bulldogs staged a furious comeback effort in front of the home crowd at Reese Stadium, ultimately falling just one goal short of a noteworthy upset victory.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE Penn (11–3, 5–1 Ivy) outlasted Yale (5–9, 2–4) 9–8, extending the Elis’ season-long losing streak to five games, behind the dynamic play-making ability of Nina Corcoran and the surgical finishing of Alex Condon. With the defeat, Yale sits one game behind Har-

vard for fourth place in the Ivy League — the top four teams advance to the Ivy League Tournament — with the two schools scheduled to face off this weekend in the regular season finale.

“I am proud of how our team executed and competed [Saturday],” head coach Erica LaGrow said. “Penn is a talented team and got an early lead on us that we couldn’t overcome.”

The game’s first eight minutes belonged entirely to the Quakers, whose pinpoint shooting led to five goals on their first six shots. Condon scored two of those first five, and Corcoran assisted on two as well during the momentous stretch.

At that point, any chances of an upset bid seemed improbable but the Bulldogs clamped down defensively, not allowing a goal for the final 22:58 of the half.

“Defensively we executed well as a SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE B2

JENNIFER LU/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

All three Yale varsity eights successfully defended their national rankings this weekend.

BY LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Not every Yale crew is currently ranked No. 1 in the nation — that honor goes to just two of three — but all of them put in top-rate performances this weekend to win their respective cups.

CREW The No. 1 Eli heavyweights showed their mettle against No. 3 Princeton with a crucial win in the varsity boat, though they fell to the Tigers in each of the other races. The Yale lightweight crew, which also earned a top ranking last week as the result of wins over Cornell and Columbia, did not disappoint in a sweep of No. 9 Dartmouth on Saturday, a feat the No. 6 Yale women’s crew also earned against No. 18 Radcliffe (Harvard).

HEAVYWEIGHTS FEND OFF NO. 3 TIGERS

Despite recording just one win this weekend at home, the heavyweights earned that victory where it mattered.

The first varsity boat remained undefeated after racing Princeton, its most threatening challenger since the Bulldogs raced in the Head of the Charles last fall.

The boat took an early lead and ultimately fended off the Princeton boat by 2.1 seconds, and No. 9 Cornell by 4.9 seconds. The victory meant that Yale retained the Carnegie Cup for the third consecutive year. “[Our first varsity boat] is probably one of the fastest boats in the nation right now and that is a good reference from [which] we can train the second, third and fourth boats,” captain Hubert Trzybinski ’16 said. “We lost the 2V, 3V, 4V, but the way they rowed was very good — they fought until the finish line and never really let go.”

The Bulldogs first fielded the fourth varsity boat, which defeated Cornell but lost by a little less than a length to Princeton. The third varsity race was not as close, as the Bulldogs finished last, more than six seconds slower than the Tigers and nearly four behind the Big Red. Although the second varsity boat mounted a comeback in the last 500 meters, it was not enough, and the Elis ultimately fell 5:28.2 to 5:25.8 before the first varsity’s victory.

“In general, we faced very strong opposition, especially with Princeton, [which has] a lot of depth in the team,” Trzybinski said. “We had relatively close racing except for the 3V, [which shows] we also have a certain depth as well, but we have to improve over the next week physically and technically to get ahead of Princeton.”

This competition was the last for SEE CREW PAGE B2

MATTHEW MISTER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Attacker Tess McEvoy ’17, Yale’s leading scorer, was limited to one goal on Saturday.