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BY DIANA LISTAFF REPORTER

New Haven Judge Jack Keyes, 63, told the News on Friday that a “life in politics” has pushed him to consider running for mayor.

The probate judge said that he will make his decision on whether to run within the next two weeks, and that he can-not legally discuss his candidacy publicly until he resigns from his position as judge. Keyes, who runs a law practice with State Senate Majority Leader Mar-tin Looney, has helped establish funds to aid impoverished guard-ians with taking care of children and has served as board presi-dent of Life Haven, a shelter for city women and their newborn children. Keyes said that he has to “wait until everything is lined up properly” to ensure that he com-plies with all legal rules regarding what he can say in his position as probate judge.

“I don’t like an orange jump-suit, and I don’t like prison,” Keyes said. “I will decide promptly. I’ve got to search my soul and see if I can find any-thing.”

Board of Aldermen President Jorge Perez also announced last week that he is not planning to run for mayor this November. If he had run, Perez was expected to receive the support of a major-

ity of aldermen as well as the backing of the Democratic Town Committee and the city’s unions, which would have given him a substantial advantage in the elec-tion.

“I have never said I am going to run,” Perez said on Friday.

If Keyes resigns and o!cially files his papers with the city clerk to run for mayor, he will become the fourth official candidate in this November’s race, joining Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, Connecticut State Rep. Gary Holder-Win-field and Sundiata Keitazulu, a plumber.

Elicker said that potential new candidates will not change his campaign’s approach to the elec-tion.

“We as a campaign are focus-ing on the fundraising side of things right now, and then in April, we’re going to start switch-ing to field operations where we’re going to get a lot of volun-teers going door to door in di"er-ent neighborhoods throughout the city, identifying more sup-porters and getting out our mes-sage,” Elicker said. “That doesn’t change no matter how many people or who gets in the race.”

Holder-Winfield could not be reached for comment.

Other potential candidates

FENCINGFour Elis traveled to San Antonio for the NCAA National ChampionshipsPAGE B4 SPORTS

DOWNTOWN CROSSINGSHOVELS HIT THE GROUND ON CITY CONSTRUCTIONPAGE 5 CITY

MARRIAGE EQUALITYWill Portman ’14 sheds light on his father’s announcement PAGE 2 OPINION

ELIS NCAA-BOUNDMEN’S HOCKEY NABS NO. 15 SEEDPAGE B3 SPORTS

Welcoming YTV. With the end of spring break, the News is proud to announce the launch of YTV, a weekly video broadcast. Starting March 31, YTV will broadcast on the News’ website on Sunday evenings at 5 p.m. with weekly headlines, original broadcast reporting and interview segments with major campus and world figures. Check our home page for more information on this new and exciting feature.

Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio reversed his stance on same-sex marriage earlier this month after reassessing the issue when his son, Will Portman ’14, told his parents he was gay. Sen. Portman, who voted for the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act as a member of the House of Representatives, told reporters that he began to see the same-sex marriage issue from a “new perspective” after his son came out to him two years ago.

Beauty and brains. Yale has long been known for its sterling academics, but now, it appears the Bulldogs are making waves for their stupendous looks. According to a list published on Business Insider from data compiled by College Prowler, Yale is the 15th-best school in the country for its combination of good looks and good learning. Guess you really can have it all.

Celebrity professor. NBC News’ chief science and health correspondent Robert Bazell announced on Friday that he will be leaving NBC to serve as an adjunct professor in the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department at Yale. Bazell has produced over 4,000 reports for NBC since he joined in 1976 and has won four Emmys and a Peabody Award.

Double dipping. It looks like Yale was not the only Ivy League school eyeing Cory Booker LAW ’97 as a Class Day speaker: The Newark mayor will also deliver a speech at Cornell University’s convocation on May 25. Booker has spoken at eight commencement ceremonies since 2009.

Pushing for free speech in Singapore. A group of over 30 students, sta" and alumni at the National University of Singapore sent an open letter to NUS administrators on March 8 urging them to hire Cherian George, a Singaporean journalism professor known for criticizing Singapore’s media regulations. George, who was refused tenure at Nanyang Technological University for a second time, claimed he was denied because of his outspoken views.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1914 Signers of the “Senior Society Resolutions” meet today to decide whether they are eligible on Tap Night for election to senior societies.

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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013 · VOL. CXXXV, NO. 106 · yaledailynews.com

BY AMY WANGSTAFF REPORTER

In line with tuition hikes at universities nationwide, the cost of attending Yale will increase by roughly 4 percent for the next academic year.

The University announced a $57,500 undergraduate term bill for the 2013-’14 aca-demic year on Tuesday, up from this year’s $55,300 bill, which includes tuition and room and board. After increasing from $114.7 mil-lion in 2011-’12 to $120 million in 2012-’13, Yale College’s financial aid budget is expected to fall slightly, dropping to $119 million next year.

University Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi said his o!ce makes budget projec-tions based on the previous incoming classes’ financial data, adding that the o!ce found that last year’s $120 million budget overshot students’ financial need by roughly $1 million.

“Whenever we do our projections, we start from where we are now,” Storlazzi said. “We’ve actually come out a million or so under our projection.”

Storlazzi said the o!ce has not adjusted its financial aid projections to take into account the sequester — a series of blunt reductions to the federal budget that are expected to slash the amount of federal financial aid given to universities nationwide — because estima-tions by national financial aid organizations, including the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, have predicted that Yale and most other Ivy League institu-tions will not be heavily hit, at least for the upcoming academic year.

Financial aid awards for Yale College stu-dents include federally funded grants, like work-study, the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant and Pell grants. Though the federal government will maintain funding for Pell grants for at least for the upcom-ing year, the amount students receive

Term bill increases,

financial aid budget falls

‘Hamlet’ opens at the Rep

BY ANYA GRENIERSTAFF REPORTER

Alas, poor Yorick, who didn’t get a ticket to see “Hamlet” at the Yale Repertory Theatre.

The show had already been sold out for over a week when the first audi-ence members got to see the much-anticipated production on March 15, the theater’s most commercially successful in at least 11 years. The show stars Academy Award nomi-

nee and New Haven native Paul Gia-matti ’89 DRA ’94 in the title role and is directed by School of Drama Dean and Yale Repertory Theatre Artistic Director James Bundy DRA ’95, who has the choice of what he would like to direct in a given season.

Steven Padla, the School of Dra-ma’s senior associate director of communications, accounted for the show’s extraordinary popularity by the combination of “[Giamatti] and this particular role.” The rest of the

cast features professional actors, many of whom are Yale alumni, as well as current students at the School of Drama and Yale College. At 21 actors and four onstage musicians, “Hamlet” is a larger production than any other show taken on by the Rep this season, with others featuring between two and 12 performers.

“I think that the Yale and New Haven communities have infused

JOAN MARCUS

Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti ’89 DRA ’94 plays the title role in Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of “Hamlet.”

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City judge may run for mayor

Mexican court rules Zedillo ineligible for immunity

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKASTAFF REPORTER

A recent ruling by a Mexican court declared that former Mexican Presi-dent and Yale professor Ernesto Zedillo GRD ’81 — who was accused of commit-ting war crimes during his presidency but was granted a suggestion of immunity in a Connecticut suit by the State Depart-ment last year — is not eligible for immu-nity protection under the Mexican Consti-tution.

In the March 6 ruling, the court also

invalidated a letter from the former Mex-ican Ambassador to the United States Arturo Sarukhan to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 requesting immunity for Zedillo, claiming that the letter did not satisfy several conditions essential to its validity under Mexican law: it lacked Sarukhan’s signature and the authorization of his superiors in the Mexi-can foreign relations department. Experts interviewed said the Mexican court’s ruling might a"ect the U.S. suit against Zedillo,

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Former Mexican President and Yale professor Ernesto Zedillo GRD ’81 has been accused of cover-ing up a December 1997 massacre of 45 civilians in the village of Acteal, Mexico.

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I came to Yale as a freshman in the fall of 2010 with two big uncertain-ties hanging over my head: whether

my dad would get elected to the Senate in November, and whether I’d ever work up the courage to come out of the closet.

I made some good friends that first semester, took a couple of interesting classes and got involved in a few reward-ing activities. My dad won his election. On the surface, things looked like they were going well. But the truth was, I wasn’t happy.

I’d make stu! up when my suitemates and I would talk about our personal lives. I remember going to a dance in the Trumbull dining hall with a girl in my class and feeling guilty about pretend-ing to be somebody I wasn’t. One night, I snuck up to the stacks in Sterling Library and did some research on coming out. The thought of telling people I was gay was pretty terrifying, but I was begin-ning to realize that coming out, however di"cult it seemed, was a lot better than the alternative: staying in, all alone.

I worried about how my friends back home would react when I told them I was gay. Would they stop hanging out with me? Would they tell me they were sup-portive, but then slowly distance them-selves? And what about my friends at Yale, the "Gay Ivy”? Would they criti-cize me for not having come out ear-lier? Would they be able to understand my anxiety about all of this? I felt like I didn’t quite fit in with Yale or Cincin-nati, or with gay or straight culture.

In February of freshman year, I decided to write a letter to my parents. I’d tried to come out to them in person over winter break but hadn’t been able to. So I found a cubicle in Bass Library one day and went to work. Once I had something I was satisfied with, I over-nighted it to my parents and awaited a response.

They called as soon as they got the letter. They were surprised to learn I was gay, and full of questions, but absolutely rock-solid supportive. That was the beginning of the end of feeling ashamed about who I was.

I still had a ways to go, though. By the end of freshman year, I’d only come out to my parents, my brother and sister, and two friends. One day that summer, my best friend from high school and I were hanging out.

“There’s something I need to tell you,” I finally said. “I’m gay.” He paused for a second, looked down at the ground, looked back up, and said, “Me too.”

I was surprised. At first it was funny, and we made jokes about our lack of gaydar. Then it was kind of sad to real-ize that we’d been going through the same thing all along but hadn’t felt safe enough to confide in each other. But then, it was pretty cool — we proba-bly understood each other’s situation at that moment better than anybody else could.

In the weeks that followed, I got seri-ous about coming out. I made a list of my family and friends and went through the

names, checking them o! one by one as I systematically filled people in on who I really was. A phone call here, a Skype call there, a couple of meals at Skyline Chili, my favorite Cincinnati restaurant. I was fortunate that virtually every-one, both from Yale and from home, was supportive and encouraging, calming my fears about how they’d react to my news. If anything, coming out seemed to strengthen my friendships and family relationships.

I started talking to my dad more about being gay. Through the process of my coming out, we’d had a tacit under-standing that he was my dad first and my senator a distant second. Eventu-ally, though, we began talking about the policy issues surrounding marriage for same-sex couples.

The following summer, the sum-mer of 2012, my dad was under con-sideration to be Gov. Romney’s running mate. The rest of my family and I had given him the go-ahead to enter the vet-ting process. My dad told the Romney campaign that I was gay, that he and my mom were supportive and proud of their son, and that we’d be open about it on the campaign trail.

When he ultimately wasn’t chosen for the ticket, I was pretty relieved to have avoided the spotlight of a presi-dential campaign. Some people have criticized my dad for waiting for two years after I came out to him before he endorsed marriage for gay couples. Part of the reason for that is that it took time for him to think through the issue more deeply after the impetus of my coming out. But another factor was my reluc-tance to make my personal life public.

We had decided that my dad would talk about having a gay son if he were to change his position on marriage equal-ity. It would be the only honest way to explain his change of heart. Besides, the fact that I was gay would probably become public anyway. I had encour-aged my dad all along to change his posi-tion, but it gave me pause to think that the one thing that nobody had known about me for so many years would sud-denly become the one thing that every-body knew about me.

It has been strange to have my per-sonal life in the headlines. I could cer-tainly do without having my sexual ori-entation announced on the evening

news, or commentators weighing in to tell me things like living my life honestly and fully is “harmful to [me] and society as a whole.” But in many ways it’s been a privilege to come out so publicly. Now, my friends at Yale and the folks in my dad’s political orbit in Ohio are all on the same page. They know two things about me that I’m very proud of, not just one or the other: that I’m gay, and that I’m Rob and Jane Portman’s son.

I’m grateful to be able to continue to integrate my two worlds, the yin and yang of Yale and Ohio and the di!erent values and experiences they represent in my life. When you find yourself between two worlds — for example, if you’re nav-igating the transition between a straight culture and a gay identity — it’s possible to feel isolated and alone, like you don’t fit in with either group that makes up a part of who you are.

But instead of feeling like you don’t belong anywhere, or like you have to reject one group in order to join another, you can build a bridge between your two worlds, and work to facilitate greater understanding between them.

I support marriage for same-sex cou-ples because I believe that everybody should be treated the same way and have the same shot at happiness. Over the course of our country’s history the full rights of citizenship have gradually been extended to a broader and broader group of people, something that’s made our society stronger, not weaker. Gay rights may be the civil rights cause of the moment, but the movement fits into a larger historical narrative.

I’m proud of my dad, not necessarily because of where he is now on marriage equality (although I’m pretty psyched about that), but because he’s been thoughtful and open-minded in how he’s approached the issue, and because he’s shown that he’s willing to take a political risk in order to take a princi-pled stand. He was a good man before he changed his position, and he’s a good man now, just as there are good people on either side of this issue today.

We’re all the products of our back-grounds and environments, and the issue of marriage for same-sex couples is a complicated nexus of love, iden-tity, politics, ideology and religious beliefs. We should think twice before using terms like “bigoted” to describe the position of those opposed to same-sex marriage or “immoral” to describe the position of those in favor, and always strive to cultivate humility in ourselves as we listen to others’ perspectives and share our own.

I hope that my dad’s announcement and our family’s story will have a positive impact on anyone who is closeted and afraid, and questioning whether there’s something wrong with them. I’ve been there. If you’re there now, please know that things really do get better, and they will for you too.

WILL PORTMAN is a junior in Trumbull College.

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T W I L L P O R T M A N

Coming out

Yes, this is a column about fortune cookies, and why you should order Chinese

takeout more often.You’ve had it a million times.

The creamy yellow cracker, bal-anced on top of the guest check holder, served to you after you’ve finished your General Tso’s chicken or shrimp fried rice. Sometimes it comes with a sliced-up orange, sometimes just a mint.

You break apart the cookie along the crevice between its two cone-shaped ends, reveal-ing the piece of paper tucked inside. For fun, you try to read the Chinese word it teaches. “Ping guo.” Apple. “Kan bing.” To see a doctor. The tones are hard to pronounce.

You flip over the slip of paper to reveal your fortune. (By this point, you’ve already forgot-ten the Chinese word you just learned.) The “fortune” takes the form of a vaguely worded sentence that seems too gen-eral or completely unrelated to your life. You stare at it for 25 seconds. Your friend teaches you to add “in bed” to the end of the fortune to great comedic e!ect, as in “A soft voice may be awfully persuasive. In bed.” You laugh. Its uses exhausted, you proceed to throw away the for-tune, and maybe even the unfin-ished cookie itself.

While I understand why you might think fortune cookies are but a pointless gimmick, I’m

afraid you are sorely mis-taken. Here are three rules you must fol-low to prop-erly interpret what a for-tune cookie has to teach you:

Ask the fortune cookie a ques-tion. No one will ask a friend to just give some general advice. How can anyone help you if they don’t know what you need help with? Present your biggest pre-dicament to the fortune cookie, and it will give you the answer you seek.

Second, interpret the for-tune cookie’s answer liberally. This rule has nothing to do with whether you support Obam-acare. The fortune cookie, like all sources of wisdom, priori-tizes style over clarity, and has a flair for the dramatic. To fully appreciate what it has to o!er, you must master the art of read-ing between the lines.

Third, you must not delib-erately seek out the fortune cookie. It must be a fortuitous encounter. If you happen to be at Ivy Noodle or Great Wall, feel free to grab a cookie and ask for advice. However, the cook-ie’s powers fade if you rely on it too much. Revelation is only the added benefit to a serving of Peking duck, not the other way

around.Some months ago, I half-jok-

ingly asked the fortune cookie if I was really interested in a girl. My fortune read, “Don’t fall into illusions.” The answer made so much sense — I immediately realized that I wasn’t actually into this particular person; I was merely attracted to the thought of being close to someone.

On a more recent occasion, I asked for advice on how to approach a co!ee date. The for-tune cookie told me, “Your can-did approach is refreshing.” I was happy to comply.

The questions you can ask fortune cookies are not limited to those about relationships. Feel free to inquire about that paper you’re stressed about, or the results of your grad school application. You will find that although the fortune cookie is not always reliable, the process of interpreting its message can prove to be surprisingly thera-peutic.

Of course, the fortune cookie has no magical powers. It is not

the embodiment of a helpful fairy, or a 200-year-old Chinese sage with long whiskers and 10-inch fingernails. (Cultural stereotypes. Eww.) Instead, the act of rationalizing and con-structing reasonable inter-pretations for a vague piece of advice is much more important than the actual advice itself. Too often, we know what we should do, but our judgment can be clouded by extraneous debris that is di"cult to filter out. The fortune cookie merely acts as a stethoscope through which you can hear what your heart is tell-ing you.

If you ask the fortune cookie about your upcoming midterms and it says “Long life is in store for you,” perhaps you will think that it is telling you to look at the big picture. Life is a long pro-cess, in the context of which these midterms can’t even count as a speed bump. Why have you decided on that interpretation? It’s because you have subcon-sciously decided that it’s what you need the most.

So the next time you find yourself at Ivy Noodle, grab a fortune cookie. Just remember not to abuse it too much — we Yalies have a tendency to over-think.

XIUYI ZHENG is a junior in Dav-enport College. His column runs on alternate Mondays. Contact him at

[email protected] .

Your fortune in a cookie

XIUYI ZHENGPropergandist

NEWS’VIEW

Legitimizing student government

We see President-elect Salovey as a listener. He will enter Woodbridge Hall with a reputation for reaching out to students — and we hope he will resist the separation from the student body that can often accompany adminis-trative promotion.

There is one specific student group to whom Salovey is supposed to listen: the Yale College Council. Salovey must therefore work with the next generation of student body leaders to reimagine and relegitimize student government at Yale.

Since the Yale College Council absorbed the Yale Student Activities Com-mittee beginning in 2009, the YCC has struggled with a dual mandate. As a com-munity, we seem to accept that the YCC serves as our student body event plan-ners — our administration and our student activities fees fund major, successful undertakings like Spring Fling.

But what is less accepted is that the YCC should also be our community’s answer for resolving issues of campus policy with our administration.

When looking at this year’s YCC Mid-Year Re-port, it becomes clear that too many proposals are pending without progress. We are left wondering whether our administra-tors feel any obligation to respond to YCC initiatives.

And when administra-tors do not respond, it therefore feels as though the YCC has failed to pres-sure them to take quick action. The YCC, a student advocacy group, seems unwilling to criticize its closest partner for fear of losing political capital with the Yale administration.

As a result, students see the YCC as an organization

without teeth.For the ultimate benefit

of the College, Salovey must encourage a con-structive, and occasion-ally contentious, dialogue between his administration and the elected represen-tatives of Yale’s student body. In times of disagree-ment, a strong YCC will rally student support against the administra-tion, and our administra-tors must not take o!ense. Salovey should let future leaders know that the YCC’s current timidness only does a disservice to the goals of the student body it represents.

Salovey must also help the YCC better integrate into the administrative architecture of our Univer-sity. Too many committees consider the same issues simultaneously, with one made up of YCC represen-tatives and one of adminis-trators. Salovey must close gaps between the YCC and Yale College Dean’s O"ce — creating committees with both students and faculty — so that proposals are not left waiting indefi-nitely for a response from the other side.

These cultural and structural changes will lead to a YCC with whom stu-dent groups want to col-laborate in order to achieve their goals. No longer will its agenda be filled with ideas from within its own set of interested students. The YCC will not be lim-ited to passive polling, and can instead partner with other campus organiza-tions for change.

This cannot be done by administrators alone. In the upcoming elections, we hope to see candidates prepared to make use of the Salovey administration’s blank slate. Next year will be a moment for two presi-dents to step up.

DON'T UNDERESTIMATE

THE FORTUNE COOKIE

I'M PROUD OF MY DAD BECAUSE HE'S SHOWN THAT HE'S WILLING TO TAKE A POLITICAL RISK

IN ORDER TO TAKE A PRINCIPLED STAND.

WARNER TO WOODBRIDGE

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BY CYNTHIA HUASTAFF REPORTER

Karl Turekian, a giant in the field of geology who brought dynamism and energy to the Geology and Geophysics Department for over half a century, died of cancer in Branford, Conn., on March 15. He was 85.

Geologists and geochemists inter-viewed credited Turekian with oversee-ing the coming of age of modern geo-chemistry — a field that drew little attention before Turekian began teach-ing and researching oceanography at Yale in 1956. During his 57-year career at the University, Turekian, a Sterling Profes-sor of geology and geophysics, collected countless accolades and participated in some of the most significant scientific research of the 20th century, including the study of the first lunar samples col-lected during the Apollo space mission — and colleagues said Turekian’s research brought him to the pinnacle of achieve-ment in his field.

“The world has lost one of the great-est geoscientists who ever lived,” said Jay Ague, the current chair of Yale’s Depart-ment of Geology & Geophysics, in an email to the department dated March 15. “His influence is so large it is impossible to measure.”

Turekian’s research brought him to the frontiers of discovery regarding the ori-gin of the solar system, the extinction of dinosaurs and climate change, among other issues. William Graustein GRD ’81, a former student of Turekian’s, said the professor was never intimidated by the scope and importance of the problems he confronted, adding that Turekian guided his lab to approach “the big ques-tions.” Former students said Turekian was known for saying that “one good data point” could change the world.

During his illustrious research career, Turekian edited eight scientific journals, published hundreds of papers, authored five books and received awards includ-ing the V. M. Goldschmidt Medal of the Geochemical Society and the Maurice Ewing Medal of the American Geophys-ical Union. He chaired the Department of Geology and Geophysics during the 1980s and also served as president of the Geochemical Society and a member of

the National Academy of Sciences.Raised in an Armenian immigrant

family and overcoming financial hard-ship, Turekian went on to receive one of the first doctorates in geochemistry at Columbia University in 1955 and become one of the first geoscientists to teach at Yale. His intellectual brilliance took him to academic heights, but he never for-got the humility instilled in him through his blue-collar upbringing, said his wife Roxanne.

Turekian’s wealth of scientific achievement was paralleled only by his “larger-than-life charisma,” said his son Vaughan.

“His science never got in the way of his humanity, and his humanity never got in the way of his science,” Graustein said.

Since his death, Turekian’s family members said they have received an out-pouring of condolences from the gen-erations of geoscientists that Turekian taught and mentored around the world.

For Turekian’s 70th birthday in 1997,

many of his former students returned to campus to visit him, and each stu-dent brought a co!ee mug from his or her respective institution — a reference to Turekian’s “co!ee hours,” in which he would invite students and faculty of all levels to gather and discuss cutting-edge research.

“He made you feel that you were the center of the world,” his daughter Karla said. “He was like that with the students, believing in you when you didn’t neces-sarily believe in yourself.”

Karla said she felt she had “won the lottery” with Turekian as a father. Turekian’s wife, Roxanne, said Turekian was a devoted husband during their 51-year marriage.

Turekian is survived by his wife Rox-anne, his children Karla and Vaughan, and two grandchildren, Aleena and Charles.

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C L A R I F I C A T I O N S

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6The article “Under Gibbons, library makes strides” misidentified StatLab as the former social science and statistical laboratory, when in fact it was only the statistical laboratory.

FRIDAY, MARCH 8The article “The Classicist” in WEEKEND stated that University President Richard Levin would assume a Stanford professorship in the fall. While Levin will be a visiting professor at Stanford during the fall semester as he conducts sabbatical research there, he will remain a member of Yale’s faculty.

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“I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.” BRAD PITT AMERICAN ACTOR AND FILM PRODUCER

BY CYNTHIA HUASTAFF REPORTER

Merton Peck, a devoted teacher who chaired the Eco-nomics Department during its “golden age,” died in Florida on March 1. He was 87 years old.

A respected scholar and administrator, Peck came to Yale as an economics profes-sor in 1963 and served as chair of the Economics Department for several terms in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. His former colleagues remember him for his kind and patient nature and ability to foster compro-mise during his lengthy tenure. In addition to recruiting many prominent economists to his department, Peck strength-ened the faculty by keeping peace and oversaw a period of growth in the department, said Richard Nelson GRD ’56, a for-mer economics professor.

“One of the reasons he stayed in the chair [position] for so long is because he was able to push the department upward and avoided conflict,” said Gustav Ranis GRD ’56, a economics professor. “He didn’t have any enemies.”

When disputes arose in the department, Peck listened to both sides and gently brought arguments to a resolution, Ranis said. He frequently met with faculty individually and ensured that all professors felt their voices were heard, Ranis said, adding that nobody in the department was ever upset under Peck’s leadership.

William Brainard GRD ’63 said Peck was respected among colleagues for the care and attention he devoted to teach-ing economics. His undergrad-uate seminars, Brainard said, were often so popular that he had to teach more than one section of the same course.

“He embodied many of the characteristics a professor should strive for, in being both a great scholar and giving a lot to Yale in terms of leadership,” economics professor Joseph

Altonji ’75 said.Brainard said Peck’s conge-

nial personality and clarity of thought made him a sought-after adviser. Altonji, who worked for Peck as a research assistant and took one of his undergraduate courses, said Peck was influential in his decision to pursue a doctor-ate in economics and, later, to become a professor.

An expert in the econom-ics of technology, Peck spe-cialized in industrial orga-nization and government regulation, producing books and papers that touched on numerous disciplines, includ-ing defense, communications and transportation. He served as a member of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s “Brain Trust” and on former President Lyndon Johnson’s Council of Economic Advisors in the 1960s.

Peck earned his bachelor’s degree at Oberlin College in the 1940s, during which time he met his wife, Mary Bos-worth Peck, who died in 2004. The couple married in Ober-lin, Ohio, in 1949, the year of Peck’s graduation from col-lege. He went on to receive a doctorate in economics from Harvard.

During World War II, Peck served in the Signal Corps in Japan. His service abroad launched a lifelong interest in Japan that led to his later aca-demic interest in the country and technology as an industry, said his son Richard.

Throughout his life, Peck remained modest about his intellectual and administrative achievements, Richard said. Outside of academics, Richard said Peck, who retired in 2002, cultivated a love of reading and jazz music.

Peck is survived by his children, Richard, Kather-ine, Sarah and David, and four grandchildren.

Contact CYNTHIA HUA at [email protected] .

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Frank Ruddle, a trailblazer in genetic research and former professor in both the Biology and Genetics departments, died March 10 at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He was 83.

Ruddle’s lab at Yale was the site of many scientific milestones beginning in the 1970s, including the first insertion of for-eign genes into the mouse genome in 1980, which created the first transgenic animal and opened the way for scientific research on genetically modified organisms. Ruddle is credited with organizing the first human genome mapping workshop at Yale in 1973 and developing gene-mapping technol-ogy that helped lead to the establishment and success of the Human Genome Proj-ect. Ruddle’s friends, students and col-leagues remember him as a quiet, generous man with a wonderful sense of humor and a passion for science.

“I always felt that Frank was a pioneer in the field and really directed the project that eventually led to the mapping and sequenc-ing of the human genome,” said Raju Kucherlapati, a genetics professor at Har-vard Medical School who worked as a fel-low in Ruddle’s lab in the 1970s. “They are not given posthumously, but he deserves to win a Nobel Prize for that e!ort.”

Born in 1929 in New Jersey to British parents, Ruddle grew up in Ohio and left high school early to join the U.S. Army Air Forces in Japan in 1946. He attended Wayne State University before receiving his mas-ter’s degree jointly from Wayne State and the Children’s Hospital of Detroit and earning a Ph.D. in zoology from the Univer-sity of California, Berkeley. He joined the Yale faculty in 1961 after conducting post-doctoral research at Glasgow University.

During his 41 years at Yale, Ruddle served two terms as chair of the Biology Department for a total of 10 years. He men-tored dozens of undergraduates, supervised roughly 52 postdoctoral fellows and guided 30 graduate students to their Ph.D.s.

Just as genomics began gaining inter-national fame, Ruddle withdrew from tra-ditional genetics and focused on develop-mental genetics, studying how a handful of similar genes control the development

of multicellular organisms. During a sab-batical from Yale, he joined a team of scien-tists at the University of Basel in Switzer-land and, together with William McGinnis, cloned the first mouse homeobox gene in 1983.

“The whole idea of transgenesis took o! from his work,” said Cooduvalli Sha-shikant, a biology professor at Penn State University who worked in Ruddle’s lab for nearly a decade in the 1980s and 1990s.

Ruddle’s research on the evolution and expression of genes in animals expanded the scientific community’s understand-ing of how humans develop and how genes vary between species, biology professor Ronald Breaker said in a March 15 email. He added that Ruddle’s lab was a model for modern biology research labs because Ruddle used large teams to work on “truly exciting research with profound implica-tions.”

Ruddle was a thoughtful, methodical man who knew exactly how much guidance and how much freedom to give researchers in his lab to help them thrive, former Yale postdoctoral fellows said.

Jon Gordon GRD ’78 MED ’80, the post-doctoral fellow who created the first trans-genic mouse in Ruddle’s lab in 1980, said Ruddle always prioritized the advance-ment of human understanding of the world rather than emphasizing fame and career success, and he held his students to the same standard.

Ruddle played an influential role in the careers of many of his postdoctoral fellows and often invited them to his home, either individually or as a group. Kucherlapati recalled one afternoon when Ruddle took him to lunch in one of Yale’s residential col-leges, which was a “thrill” for Kucherlapati. Ruddle and Kucherlapati — whose heights measured 6-foot-7 and 5-foot-2, respec-tively — earned themselves the nicknames “Mutt and Je!” around the lab, a reference to the classic comic strip.

Ruddle loved his family, dogs and cook-ing, and he often took his 18-foot sail-boat, Shamrock, out for day sails. After he retired, he started taking singing lessons at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven. He had a “rich, baritone voice,” said New Haven resident Rita Umile, and Jane Jervis, a family friend, said he “brought

down the house” with his rendition of “The Girl from Ipanema” at an annual tal-ent show last year.

An active member of the New Haven community, Ruddle helped found the non-profit now known as HomeHaven, which organizes activities, assistance and other services for New Haven residents who choose to continue living in their homes as they get older. The first president of the board of directors for Science Park, estab-lished as a small business incubator on the site of an abandoned factory, Rud-dle co-founded and helped launch sev-eral biotechnology companies. In 2000, he won the Connecticut Innovations Special Achievement Award for his contributions to the biotechnology industry in Connecti-cut.

He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Nancy Ruddle GRD ’68 — a professor emeritus at the School of Public Health and the School of Medicine — two daughters and three grandchildren.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at [email protected] .

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Frank Ruddle, whose lab at Yale spearheaded advances in genomics and developmental genetics, died March 10 at the age of 83.

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through the other two types of grants may change as a result of the sequester, Storlazzi said.

President-elect Peter Salovey told the News in March that Yale will com-pensate for decreases in federal finan-cial aid if students are a!ected.

“While I don’t expect that students will feel the e!ects of sequestration in their financial aid, the University will,” Salovey said.

When the federal budget has changed in the past, Storlazzi said, Yale has adjusted its institutional

scholarship budget to compensate. But because Yale continues to feel the e!ects of the 2008 economic down-turn, he added, changing the Univer-sity’s scholarship budget now may be especially taxing.

Storlazzi said he does not antici-pate any major changes to financial aid in the upcoming academic year. Even so, his o"ce has taken the precaution of including a note that financial aid packages could change midyear due to “funding uncertainties at the federal level” in the award paperwork for newly accepted students.

Ron Day, national chair of the

National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said each school is dealing with the poten-tial e!ects of the sequester in di!erent ways. For his school, Kennesaw State University, Day said campus funds and work-study funds will definitely be cut, but the situations at other schools on a national level are a “totally di!er-ent matter.”

Despite the increase in the term bill and the decrease in the financial aid budget, University spokesman Tom Conroy said in a Tuesday release that Yale is still committed to meeting the “full demonstrated financial aid of

all undergraduates.” Yale students’ expected self-help contributions will increase by $100 to $2,800 for fresh-men and $3,300 for upperclassmen, but expected family contributions will not increase.

Yale’s undergraduate term bill has increased steadily for the last decade. The total costs for the 2003-’04 aca-demic year were $37,000 — 35.7 per-cent less than the figure for next year.

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include Hillhouse High School Princi-pal Kermit Carolina, former Chamber of Commerce President Matthew Nemerson and former city Economic Development Administrator Henry Fernandez. Carolina said that he is still in the process of deciding whether or not to run for mayor, and that he is “strongly considering” the option.

“I want to assemble a team of diverse res-idents throughout the city — I’m talking about diversity in terms of race, gender and neighborhood — and I want to sit and listen to them and have the opportunity to gauge the potential of my candidacy and what it could be,” Carolina said.

Both Elicker and Holder-Winfield have said that they are dedicated to using the Democracy Fund, New Haven’s public cam-paign finance program for mayoral candi-dates. Keyes, however, said he is still unsure whether he would opt in to the system if he were to run for mayor.

Keyes said that the Citizens United deci-sion, in which the Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits the govern-ment from restricting independent politi-cal contributions from corporations and unions, has had a “huge negative impact” on campaign finance, and that the ability for political action committees to give can-didates sums of money is a factor he must consider when making the decision to use public finance.

“You have to see if everyone else [running for mayor] is using [the Democracy Fund], and you have to see if the rules are still e!ec-tive,” Keyes said. “It’s a great idea, but the real question is, is it real?”

Perez said that this November’s election is going to be a “competitive mayoral race,” and that while he thinks the Democracy Fund has great potential, he will not be able to gauge its success until after the election.

Keyes served as the city clerk from 1980 to 1986.

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City breaks ground on Crossing

BY MONICA DISARE AND YANAN WANGSTAFF REPORTERS

New Haven broke ground on Phase 1 of the Downtown Crossing project last Fri-day, marking the beginning of the city’s attempts to reunify its urban communi-ties.

Attended by Mayor John DeStefano Jr., U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Gov. Dan-nel Malloy as well as several business and community leaders, the event followed an announcement earlier this month that the city was prepared to begin the project, which has been many years in the making. Centered around the removal of Route 34 — a highway that separates the Hill neigh-borhood in the city’s south from down-town — the Downtown Crossing project aims to bridge existing divisions between blocks and to stimulate the city’s economy with new housing and retail facilities.

The undertaking, which will close streets in the area as construction pro-ceeds, is expected to span seven years. The first phase involves the construction of a 426,000-square-foot medical building at 100 College St., which will house, among other tenants, the o!ces of Alexion Phar-maceuticals.

“Today, we are reclaiming part of our city,” DeStefano said at the groundbreak-ing. “The ditch we are now standing in will once again be turned into a thriving, vibrant neighborhood.”

Route 34 was constructed in the 1950s as a part of the era’s Urban Renewal move-ment, when city planners demolished the Oak Street neighborhood, considered a slum at the time, displacing over 1,400 families and destroying hundreds of build-ings in an attempt to eradicate inner-city poverty and build new city infrastructure. But the Urban Renewal philosophy, which did not yield the expected tax revenue and

largely failed to lift families out of poverty, is now considered to have been a mistake.

A crowd gathered to witness the o!-cial start to the massive construction proj-ect — set to correct the wrongs of Urban Renewal — which DeLauro said has been anticipated for over 30 years.

“Seeing the new Downtown Cross-ing take shape is special. I remember first working on this project over 30 years ago, and am proud to have seen it through to this point.” DeLauro said.

Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 estimated that there were about 40 to 50 people at the event, including a significant number of people from New Haven’s busi-ness and political communities. He said the day was a “great celebration, marking the culmination of a lot of work and the start of a lot more.”

Irving Adler, Alexion’s executive director of corporate communications, expressed excitement about the ground-breaking ceremony. He added that he looks forward to the move that the construction project will facilitate, as the company’s headquarters will relocate to its new build-ing from its current location in Cheshire, Conn.

“The company is pleased to provide the foundation for a growing biotechnol-ogy industry in New Haven, and to work in an area that is heavily focused on educa-tion and academia including Yale’s medi-cal campus and the Yale-New Haven Hos-pital,” Adler added.

The state government has invested over $30 million to foster economic growth in New Haven, Malloy said at the ceremony. He called the project an “ambitious rei-magining” of the city, adding that he is committed to firmly rooting Alexion into the fabric of the community.

According to city o!cials, the project’s first step will involve connecting Route 34

with the existing street grid. The plan will also reclaim 10.5 acres currently occupied by the highway and redevelop the space, merging residential and commercial facil-ities with streets easily accessible by all forms of transportation.

Phase 1 of the Downtown Crossing proj-ect will be partially funded by a federal Tiger II grant, which is designated for eco-nomically beneficial transportation proj-ects.

Contact MONICA DISARE at [email protected].

Contact YANAN WANG at [email protected] .

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TIGER II INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTSTurning Martin Luther King Jr. and South Frontage streets into urban boulevards, reconfiguring local street connections and moving College Street to grade level.

100 COLLEGE ST.Constructing a new medical lab building with accompanying parking structure and service tunnels to 55 Park and the Air Rights Garage.

AIR RIGHTS GARAGECreating a new inbound ramp leading to the Air Rights Garage, which primarily serves Yale-New Haven Hospital.

BY MONICA DISARESTAFF REPORTER

After heated debate over how to make up eight excess days of canceled classes, New Haven Public Schools has finalized its revised academic calendar.

Following the unpopu-lar decision to cancel February break following last month’s blizzard, NHPS o!cials decided last week to extend the school year into June and replace sev-eral half days with full days, though the district’s April break will remain untouched. School o!cials said the plan was made after consulting parents, teach-ers and school administrators.

“I thank parents, teach-ers and sta" for stepping up to the plate during February break and ensuring our students had strong, academically focused schools days after missing school six days in a row [follow-ing the blizzard],” NHPS Super-intendent Reginald Mayo said in a statement last week. “Let us continue working together toward a strong finish for this school year.”

In a year of extreme weather — including Hurricane Sandy in October, which saw gusts of wind up to 90 mph, and the February snow storm that dumped nearly three feet of snow on New Haven — the dis-trict amassed a total of 10 snow days, but only two were built into the NHPS academic calen-dar at the beginning of the year. The district released a plan last week to make up the remaining snow days. April 12 and April 19, which were previously half

days, will be full days of school under the revised schedule. In addition, the school year will be extended by four days, as June 20, 21, 24 and 25 will now be half days.

According to NHPS spokes-woman Abbe Smith, school administrators reached out to the New Haven Federation of Teachers President David Cicarella, School Adminis-trators Association President Peggy Moore and parents at the city-wide parent leader-ship meeting, which brings together parent leaders from schools across the district, for their input on a revised calen-dar. After consulting with the community, Smith said, the dis-trict judged that there was over-whelming support for keeping April break.

“It’s been a long school year, and people need the April break kept intact,” Smith said.

Ira Rosofsky — the parent of a sophomore at Wilbur Cross High School, who was angered by the district’s decision to can-cel February break and the late manner in which it was com-municated to district parents — said he is satisfied with the dis-trict’s decision to make up the remaining snow days. Although Rosofsky would have preferred to see school during April break, because his son will be prepar-ing for AP exams in April, he said he has no problem with extending the school year and converting half days in order to solve the snow day issue.

Rosofsky said, however, that in the future, the school dis-trict needs to have a better plan to handle snow days. Smith said that there has not yet been a decision about the district’s snow day policy in the future, but that it will be discussed before the next school year.

Under state law, New Haven Public Schools must complete 180 days of school before June 30.

Contact MONICA DISARE at [email protected] .

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The newly undertaken Downtown Crossing project aims to stimulate New Haven’s economy with new housing and retail facilities.

It’s been a long school year, and people need the April break kept intact.

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“Of the intractability there can be no doubt. So far from being Shakespeare’s masterpiece, [Hamlet] is most certainly an artistic fail-ure.” T.S. ELIOT ENGLISH POET

the entire event with a tremen-dous sense of homecoming,” Padla said. “These are commu-nities that take great pride in the accomplishments of their own, and are thrilled to welcome back Paul Giamatti.”

Padla said in an email that the Rep sold out individual perfor-mances of “Marie Antoinette” and “Stones in His Pockets” ear-lier this season.

“It’s not uncommon for many performances to sell out once word of mouth around town and campus begins to kick in,” Padla said. “But it’s a first to sell out the entire run before the first perfor-mance.”

Critical responses, which began appearing Friday, have generally been favorable, with some reservations. Lauren Yarger, whose review of “Hamlet” appeared on the Connecticut Arts Connection blog, Manchester’s Journal Inquirer and Broadway-world.com, said she was struck by the show’s contemporary feel, which she thinks would appeal e!ectively to younger audiences.

“Hamlet” will be the Rep’s “Will Power!” production this season — an educational initia-tive that runs alongside a show each year — and includes spe-

cially priced tickets and earlier matinee performances designed to accommodate student groups. Padla said over 3,000 Connecti-cut and New Haven high school students will see the show, and that for many, “Hamlet” will be their first exposure to Shake-speare performed onstage.

Yarger added that the show was much funnier than many inter-pretations of the classic tragedy, saying “it found humor in dia-logue I hadn’t noticed was there before.” Boston Globe theater critic Don Aucoin said he sees the Rep’s “Hamlet” as part of a recent trend of “Hamlet” productions that have adopted a more comic tone, while adding that he felt the show was less successful in con-veying the play’s tragic aspects.

“It may be that after so many decades or centuries of playing ‘Hamlet’ as a very somber tragedy [that] directors are now looking to mine the lighter side,” Aucoin said.

Yarger attributed the show’s popularity to the name recogni-tion of Giamatti and actors such as Marc Kudisch, who is best known for his roles in Broadway musi-cals such as “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”

“Every time you get a larger star in a role, that starts the peo-ple talking and the tickets selling,” Yarger said. “I really think it’s a very fresh production.”

Jessica Buckey ’15 said that while she has never attended a Rep show in the past, she was dis-appointed not to get “Hamlet” tickets since it is one of her favor-ite plays.

“It has gotten a lot of hype,” she said. “I expected it would be a great version of the show.”

While some theaters can extend the runs of successful, sold-out productions, Padla said such a move would be “almost impos-sible” for the Rep during the aca-demic year, because the Rep and School of Drama production cal-endars are locked in place a year in advance.

Padla said the show has a wait-list for every performance, which hopeful viewers can sign up for at the University Theatre an hour before the show begins. He added that the theater has so far been able to accommodate many who have signed up for the waitlist.

“Hamlet” will run at the Uni-versity Theatre through April 13.

Contact ANYA GRENIER at [email protected] .

‘Hamlet’ sells out ticketsas the State Department relied on the letter in formulating its suggestion of immunity.

The Hartford federal court, which has jurisdiction over the case because Zedillo is a resi-dent of Connecticut, has not yet ruled on Zedillo’s request for immunity.

“Whether [Zedillo] is enti-tled to immunity under Mexi-can law is a separate question from whether he should receive immunity in a foreign court, including in a U.S. court,” said Curtis Bradley, a law professor at Duke University School of Law. “The latter is governed in part by international law.”

Fo l l ow i n g t h e M ex i -can court’s ruling, the State Department has so far not rescinded its September 2012 suggestion that Zedillo should be granted immunity. In its original letter, the State Department said that Zedil-lo’s actions relating to the 1997 massacre in the Mexican village of Acteal were taken as part of his official duties as head of state.

Zedillo declined to comment on the ruling and referred all questions to his lawyer, Jona-than Freiman LAW ’98.

Granting former heads of states immunity is a long-standing doctrine of U.S. and international law, Freiman said, adding that he thinks the recent ruling is irrelevant to the fed-eral case in Hartford because under U.S. law, a federal court is required to follow a sugges-tion of immunity made by the State Department. He believes the Mexican court ruling will be appealed quickly and added that he expects the U.S. federal court to dismiss the $50 million suit, he added.

Freiman said the Mexi-can court’s decision to invali-

date Sarukhan’s letter does not introduce new information into the case as the plaintiffs had already argued the letter was invalid, and their argument was rejected before the State Department made the decision to grant Zedillo immunity.

But Roger Kobert, the plain-ti!s’ attorney, said Freiman is “incorrect in stating that a U.S. court must blindly follow the State Department’s position, [and] the law actually says oth-erwise.” Kobert said that the recent ruling could render the State Department’s position “stale and ine!ective” since the State Department might not have known that Sarukhan’s letter is invalid under Mexican law when making its decision.

In September 2011, 10 anon-ymous plaintiffs represented by the Miami, Fla., law firm Rafferty, Kobert, Tenenholtz, Bounds & Hess, P.A. accused Zedillo — who served as pres-ident of Mexico from 1994 to 2000 — of covering up a December 1997 massacre of 45 civilians in the village of Acteal, Mexico, where paramil-itaries allegedly backed by the Mexican government attacked people attending a prayer meeting of Roman Catho-lic indigenous townspeople. Among the charges the lawsuit brings against Zedillo are war crimes, crimes against human-ity, and cruel, inhumane and degrading punishment.

University spokesman Tom Conroy said Zedillo has been fully engaged as a Yale faculty member while defending him-self in the lawsuit.

The case has been compli-cated by the fact that the plain-tiffs’ identity and source of funding remain unclear, lead-ing the Mexican press to spec-ulate that the lawsuit might be politically motivated. Though Kobert said attorney-client

privilege prevents him from disclosing the plainti!s’ iden-tity, he told the News in 2011 that his clients do not have the means to a!ord his firm’s ser-vices.

A statement from Sep-tember 2011 posted on the blog of Las Abejas — a Mexi-can civil society whose mem-bership included the 45 vic-tims — says that “it is evident that neither Las Abejas nor any other Tzotzil indigenous per-son has the money to pay the enormous costs that such legal defense would imply.” Las Abe-jas, which has contested claims by the plainti!s that they are a part of the organization, also speculated that the lawsuit, filed 14 years after the Acteal massacre, seeks to advance “political-election and eco-nomic purposes,” instead of the survivors’ interests. In a Sep-tember 2012 piece, journalists at The Economist speculated that the administration prior to Zedillo’s might be behind the lawsuit.

“The plaintiffs have cho-sen to remain anonymous, even though the names of the real victims are well-known in Mexico and outside it,” Frei-man told the News on Satur-day, adding that survivors of the massacre other than the plainti!s have attached names to a lawsuit recently introduced in Mexico.

The lawsuit against Zedillo, who directs the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, teaches international econom-ics and politics, and is a pro-fessor-adjunct of forestry and environmental studies, was filed on Sept. 19, 2011.

Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at

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After so many decades or centuries of playing ‘Hamlet’ as a very somber tragedy … directors are now looking to mine the lighter side.

DON AUCOINTheater critic, The Boston Globe

BY THE NUMBERS ‘HAMLET’ TICKET SALES

640 Number of seats in the University Theatre

15K Total number of “Hamlet” tickets sold

29 Number of performances

66 Number of awards for which Paul Giamatti has been nominated

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BAGHDAD — Just days after the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry confronted Baghdad for continuing to grant Iran access to its airspace and said Iraq’s behavior was raising ques-tions about its reliability as a partner.

Speaking to reporters during a pre-viously unannounced trip to Bagh-dad, Kerry said that he and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had engaged in “a very spirited discussion” on the Iranian flights, which U.S. officials believe are ferrying weapons and fight-ers intended for the embattled Syrian government.

Kerry said the plane shipments — along with material being trucked

across Iraqi territory from Iran to Syria — were helping President Bashar Assad’s regime cling to power by increasing their ability to strike at Syrian rebels and opposition figures demanding Assad’s ouster.

“I made it very clear that for those of us who are engaged in an e!ort to see President Assad step down and to see a democratic process take hold … anything that supports President Assad is problematic,” Kerry said at a news conference at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after meeting separately with Maliki at his o"ce. “And I made it very clear to the Prime Minister that the overflights from Iran are, in fact, helping to sustain President Assad and his regime.”

The overflights in Iraq have long been a source of contention between

the U.S. and Iraq. Iraq and Iran claim the flights are carrying humanitarian goods, but American o"cials say they are confident that the planes are being used to arm the support the Assad regime. The administration is warn-ing Iraq that unless action is taken, Iraq will be excluded from the interna-tional discussion about Syria’s politi-cal future.

U.S. o"cials say that in the absence of a complete ban on flights, Washing-ton would at least like the planes to land and be inspected in Iraq to ensure that they are carrying humanitarian sup-plies. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton secured a pledge from Iraq to inspect the flights last year, but since then only two aircraft have been checked by Iraqi authorities, according to U.S. o"cials.

Kerry calls out Iran-Syria flights

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Secretary of State John Kerry steps aboard an Air Force C-17 aircraft following his unannounced visit to Baghdad on Sunday.

BY MICHELE SALCEDO ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Two of the loud-est voices in the gun debate say it’s up to voters now to make their position known to Congress.

New York Mayor Michael Bloom-berg and National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPi-erre claim their opposing views on guns have the support of the overwhelming number of Americans. They are look-ing at the next two weeks as critical to the debate, when lawmakers head home to hear from constituents ahead of next month’s anticipated Senate vote on gun control.

Bloomberg, a former Republican-turned-independent, has just sunk $12 million for Mayors Against Illegal Guns to run television ads and phone banks in 13 states urging voters to tell their sena-tors to pass legislation requiring univer-sal background checks for gun buyers.

“We demanded a plan and then we demanded a vote. We’ve got the plan, we’re going to get the vote. And now it’s incumbent on us to make our voices heard,” said Bloomberg.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that legislation would likely be debated in his chamber next month that will include expanded fed-eral background checks, tougher laws and sti!er sentences for gun tra"ck-ing and increased school safety grants. A ban on assault-style weapons was dropped from the bill, fearing it would sink the broader bill. But Reid has said that he would allow the ban to be voted on separately as an amendment. Presi-dent Barack Obama called for a vote on the assault weapons ban in his radio and Internet address Saturday.

Recalling the horrific shooting three months ago at a Newtown, Conn., ele-mentary school that left 20 first grad-ers and six school administrators dead, Bloomberg said it would be a great trag-

edy if Congress, through inaction, lost the moment to make the country safer from gun violence. Bloomberg said that 90 percent of Americans and 80 per-cent of NRA members support universal background checks for gun purchases.

“I don’t think there’s ever been an issue where the public has spoken so clearly, where Congress hasn’t even-tually understood and done the right thing,” Bloomberg said.

But the NRA’s LaPierre counters that universal background checks are “a dis-honest premise.” For example, mental health records are exempt from data-bases and criminals won’t submit to the checks. Background checks, he said, are a “speed bump” in the system that “slows down the law-abiding and does nothing for anybody else.”

“The shooters in Tucson, in Aurora, in Newtown, they’re not going to be checked. They’re unrecognizable,” LaPierre said. He was referring to the 2011 shooting in a Tucson shopping center that killed six and wounded 13, including former Rep. Gabrielle Gif-fords, and the July assault in a suburban Denver movie theater that killed 12 and injured 70. In both instances, as well as in the Newtown killings, the alleged shooters used military-style assault rifles with high-capacity ammunition magazines.

Debate over guns goes public

[Bloomberg] can’t spend enough of his $27 billion to try to impose his will on the American public.

WAYNE LAPIERREExecutive vice president, National Rifle

Association

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THE SENIOR FORWARD WAS NAMED TO THE ALL-ECAC FIRST TEAM LAST WEEK BEFORE THE ECAC FINALS. Miller ranks sixth in Yale history with 150 career points.

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NCAAB TOURN.No. 2 Ohio St. 78No. 10 Iowa St. 75

NCAAB TOURN.No. 1 Indiana 58No. 9 Temple 52

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“The tournament has validated a lot of work I’ve been putting in at practice.”

HUGH O’CINNEIDE ’15SABER, MEN’S FENCING

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PRINCETON ELIMINATED FROM NCAA TOURNEY DEFEATED BY NO. 9 FLORIDA STATEFor the fourth consecutive year, Princ-eton represented the Ivy League in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tourna-ment. On Sunday in Waco, Texas, the No. 8-seeded Tigers fell to Florida State, 60–44, in the first round of competition.

HARVARD RUN ENDS WITH LOSS TO ARIZONATEAM BEAT NEW MEXICO ON THURSAfter shocking the nation with its 68–62 upset of third-seeded New Mexico in the second round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, 14-seeded Harvard fell 74–51 to Ari-zona on Saturday. The Crimson’s win was its first in the NCAA tourney.

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The Bulldogs stumbled to a 5–0 loss against Union in the ECAC Tournament semifinals, but held onto their No. 15 seed in the NCAA tournament and will face No. 20-seeded Minnesota in Grand Rapids, Mich., next weekend.

BY ASHTON WACKYMSTAFF REPORTER

Starting the season with three road games is a challenge for any team, but the Yale men’s lacrosse team did so successfully, carrying the momentum from its 2–1 record on the road back to Reese Stadium to open up home com-petition on Mar. 9 against Fairfield and Ivy League competition on Mar. 16 against No. 2 Cornell. The Elis (3–3,

0–2 Ivy) topped the Stags, 12–8, but fell to both the Big Red and the No. 11 Princeton Tigers a week later and now have a steep road to climb in search of an Ivy League title.

The Bulldogs fell behind early against Fairfield and trailed 3–1 after the first quarter, but attackman Kirby Zdrill ’13 scored twice in the sec-

ond quarter and the Elis took a 6–5 lead into the break. The teams traded goals for most of the second half, but Yale rattled o! three straight scores to close the game and come away with the four-point victory.

Despite a strong start and 3–2 lead following the first quarter against Cornell, a scoreless third quarter allowed the Big Red to rebound and

Elis stumble against Ivy foes

BY CHARLES CONDROSTAFF REPORTER

While their classmates scattered across the globe over the two week break from classes, baseball team members trudged through a brutal 14-game stretch to open up their season.

The Elis struggled to a 1–13 record to start their 2013 campaign, though four

of those losses were decided by just one run. First baseman and outfielder Josh Schar! ’13 said that Yale was on the verge of winning many of those con-tests.

“On our end, we just need to focus on the little things,” Schar! said.

The Elis (1–13, 0–0 Ivy) began their season with eight games in Flor-ida, starting with a three-game series against Army (6–11, 0–0 Patriot). The

Spring break no party for baseball

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The Bulldogs fell twice to ranked Ivy opponents Cornell and Princeton over spring break by a combined total of three goals.

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The Elis are hitting .240 on the season, .50 behind their opponents through 14 games.

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“America, we are so sorry for messing up your brackets and also your financial system and everything else.” THE HARVARD LAMPOON, TWEETING AFTER

HARVARD’S THURSDAY UPSET OF NEW MEXICO

Rough trip for baseball Elis fall to archrival Crimson

Track and field jumps into season 10th place finish at NCAA

omore years, finishing in 23rd and 20th respectively, and Miller earned seventh place as a fresh-man last year.

“I think returning with previ-ous experience definitely takes some of the initial pressure o! because it’s a format and expe-rience that I have become com-fortable with,” Cohen said. “But at this high of a level, everyone has had similar experiences, and much of the field is returning from previous years.”

This was the first time that

O’Cinneide secured a spot in the NCAA National Championship.

“Because I’ve been starting consistently the entire year, I’ve developed a mental game that I’ve always lacked,” O’Cinneide said. “Tough opponents or high pressure don’t faze me as much as they have in previous years.”

As the tournament came to a close on Sunday, Princeton fin-ished on top with its first NCAA Championship.

Contact GIOVANNI BACARELLA at [email protected] .

overs to gain a big win. “We have talked about little things we

need to tweak before our next game, both as individuals and as a team,” goaltender Erin McMullan ’14 said. “I’m confident we’ll work hard the next couple days in practice and come out strong against [the University of California, Berkeley] on Friday.”

Yale did reduce fouls and yellow cards, a problem in past games, during the con-test and can look to continue this in another non-Ivy game. The team has been especially strong in these nonconference games, going

4–1. Over the break, the Bulldogs beat strong

opponent Hofstra 9–7, despite being outshot 28–16. The game featured an eight-save per-formace by McMullan. Yale overcame Sacred Heart 15–9 on March 12, behind team captain Devon Rhodes’ ’13 six-point night. However, Yale fell to Penn later that week 12–8 despite a six-goal performance by Daniggelis.

The Elis will look to get back on the win-ning track at Reese Stadium this Friday against Cal at 1 p.m.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at [email protected] .

faster than second-place finisher Annie Norah Beveridge of Navy. Yet Dema-ree was not the only Bulldog in the event with an outstanding showing — team-mates Jennifer Donnelly ’13 and Elizabeth McDonald ’16 finished third and fourth, respectively. All three Yale athletes met the ECAC qualifying standard for the event.

Despite their performance in the 10,000m, the Eli women had only one other top-three finish on the day. Rue placed second in the 800m with a time of 2:15.48, less than a second o! the time of Katrina Donarski of Army. Amanda Sna-jder ’14 also placed fourth in the 100m hurdles.

“Our goals for the rest of the season are to keep improving physically and men-

tally, so that we can bring our strongest competition when we reach the champi-onship meet in May,” Rue said.

Not to be outdone, the men’s team also put together a strong showing this week-end.

“Overall, the meet was a fine start to the outdoor season,” men’s team captain Timothy Hillas ’13 said. “We view this meet as an extension of a high-energy and exhausting week of spring training so it is not a good indicator of how we will perform this spring.”

As the women’s distance team impressed in the 10,000m, the men’s distance team also excelled in its events. James Shirvell ’14 won the 1500m with a time of 3:50.22, followed closely by team-mates Sam Kirtner ’13 and Matt Nuss-baum ’14, who finished in fourth and fifth, respectively. In the 800m, John

McGowan ’15 placed second in 1:54.32, behind only Army’s Clyde Wilson. The distance team rounded out its strong day in the 3000m, in which Demetri Goutos ’13 finished third with a time of 8:30.35.

The men’s throwing team also pieced together a solid showing in the first out-door meet of the season. Michael Levine ’13 blew away the competition in the dis-cus, winning the event with a throw of 50.88m. Levine’s winning toss traveled more than five meters farther than that of second place finisher Scott Geary of Army.

The men’s and women’s track and field teams will continue their seasons in two weeks at the Sam Howell Invitational in Princeton, N.J.

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Black Knights won both halves of a double-header on March 9, then completed the sweep with a 4–1 victory over the Bulldogs at the spring training complex of the New York Yankees.

Yale notched its first victory when it bested Bucknell (4–16, 0-0 Patriot) 5–2 in Auburn-dale, Fla. Left fielder Nate Adams ’16 led the way on o!ense with two hits and two runs batted in. Pitcher Ben Joseph ’15 struck out eight Bison batters while allow-ing just one earned run in six innings. Chris Moates ’16 held Bucknell scoreless for the final three frames to earn the save.

After four more games, the Elis traveled north to face the No. 11 Virginia Cavaliers (22–2, 7–2 ACC) for a two-game set. Schar! and second baseman David Toups ’15 homered in the first game, a 14–3 loss, and the Elis were shut out 10–0 the next day. Outfielder Eric Hsieh ’15 said that the games

could have been much closer.“Talent-wise they weren’t

that much better than us,” Hsieh said. “We just couldn’t put everything together.”

Hsieh has been one of the sur-prising storylines for the Bull-dogs this year. A left-handed pitcher, the sophomore began playing the outfield this year and is now second on the team with 13 hits — good for a .317 batting average.

“Eric Hsieh has come o! the mound and into the leado! spot, and he’s just been killing the ball,” Schar! said.

The left fielder credited his success to a simplified approach at the plate. Rather than trying to overanalyze the at bat like he did in high school, Hsieh said that he is just trying to react to the pitch when he is in the box.

The Elis finally returned home to host Holy Cross (6–13, 0–0 Patriot) for four games this weekend. The first two were originally scheduled at Holy

Cross, but poor field conditions forced the games to be played in New Haven.

Yale lost both games on Satur-day by one run after allowing two unearned runs in each contest. Defensive mistakes have plagued the Bulldogs this season — they have committed 32 errors while their opponents have made just 10 defensive miscues.

The Elis will wrap up the non-conference portion of their schedule when they play Michi-gan (10–11, 0–0 Big Ten) at Citi Field — home of the New York Mets — in New York on Tuesday.

“Any time you get to play at a place like that it’s a special expe-rience that can’t be overlooked,” Scharff said. “You definitely bring an extra fire.”

The Ivy League slate starts for the Bulldogs with a doubleheader at Princeton (2–16, 0–0 Ivy) next Saturday.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at [email protected] .

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Nicole Daniggelis ’16 led the scoring for the Elis with two goals, while Kerri Fleishhacker ’15, Cathryn Avallone ’15 and Lauren Wackerle ’16 each added one of their own.

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Yale has scored 43 runs and committed 32 defensive errors through 14 games this season.

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Although the Tribe Invitational was not o!cially scored, seven Elis on the men’s and women’s teams recorded top-three finishes.

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Sabreur Madeline Oliver ’13 finished in 10th place and Lauren Miller ’15 clinched the 13th spot in foil competition for the women’s team.

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left the Elis on the wrong side of a 12–10 decision at the sound of the final buzzer.

The matchup against Princ-eton (5–2, 1–1 Ivy) last Friday was even closer, but again the Elis fell just short. Both teams tallied a pair of goals in each of the first two quarters, but the Tigers pulled ahead with a four-goal third quarter and stretched their lead to 10–7 with under nine minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. Attacker Conrad Oberbeck ’15 responded for the Elis with a goal and midfielder Harry Kucharczyk ’15 pulled Yale within one with 5:18 left in the game, but that was as close as it would get.

The Bulldogs dominated at the face-off X against Cornell as midfielder Dylan Levings ’14 won 10 of 12 face-offs in the third quarter, helping the Elis to take 22 of the 25 face-o!s during the match. Levings is currently first in the Ivy League with a .624 winning percentage.

“We’re trying to get better for next weekend doing the little things right [in practice],” Lev-ings said.

The Bulldogs were able to find success with the details in the past several games.

Along with face-offs, the Bulldogs beat both Cornell and Fairfield in total ground balls and collected just one ground ball fewer than the Tigers.

“All week we just focused on process, trying to get all the details right,” Zdrill said. “That’s a big part of our team goal of consistently trying to get better.”

Zdrill and Oberbeck contrib-uted goals in key situations for the Elis, and a lot of them.

Zdrill scored Yale’s first three goals against Fairfield, half of the goals Yale was able to put away in the first half against the Stags. He put away a fourth late in the game when Fairfield had narrowed Yale’s lead to one to push the Bulldogs ahead by two

at 9–7.Against the Big Red, Ober-

beck put away a team-high three goals for the hat trick.

Both Zdrill and Oberbeck along with midfielder Harry Kucharczyk ’15 and attackman Brandon Mangan ’14 put away

two goals against the Tigers.While the Elis were only able

to captitalize on one man-up opportunity in each conference game, they were also able to hold their opponents to one man-up goal against both the Tigers and the Big Red.

While the Bulldogs have had a slow start in league competition this season, leaving them with a 0–2 start in Ivy League play, the Elis were in a similar situation last season and went on to win the Ivy League championship. The Elis are looking for their first

conference win next weekend on Mar. 30 at 1 p.m. when they take on the No. 9 Penn Quakers in Philadelphia.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at [email protected] .

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BY ASHTON WACKYMSTAFF REPORTER

A mixed performance in the ECAC tournament left Yale’s NCAA tournament fate hang-ing in the balance on Sunday, but after Notre Dame knocked o! Michigan, the Elis held onto the No. 15 seed and a postseason berth.

After two important wins over Cornell and Colgate at the end of the regular season, the No. 11 Bulldogs earned a bye in the first round of the conference play-offs, sending them directly to the quarterfinals. The Elis swept St. Lawrence (18–16–4, 9–9–4 ECAC), 6–1 and 3–0 on March

15 and 16 to advance to the ECAC semifinals in Atlantic City. The Bulldogs were blown out, 5–0, by the No. 18 Union Dutchmen (21–12–5, 10–8–4) on Friday and ran into No. 1 Quinnipiac in the third-place game the following day. The Elis were shut out for the second straight game as they fell to the Bobcats for the third time this season.

Being shut out is unusual for the Bulldogs, having gone score-less just two times earlier this season, but in the Quinnipiac (27–7–5, 17–2–3) and Union games, the Elis faced formidable oppos-ing netminders. Union goalten-der Troy Grosenick was a 2012 Hobey Baker finalist and Quin-

nipiac goaltender Eric Hartzell is currently a Hobey Baker con-tender as well as a first-team all-ECAC player.

The Elis have a first-team all-ECAC player of their own, how-ever. Captain Andrew Miller ’13, who has 110 career assists, just three away from Yale’s all-time record, also received first-team all-ECAC honors before the tour-nament. He joins Mike O’Neill ’89, Mark Kaufmann ’93, Jeff Hamilton ’01 and Brian O’Neill ’12 as the fifth Bulldog to earn such an honor.

“I think the award speaks to the support that I have had play-ing with my linemates Jesse Root ’14 and Kenny Agostino ’14,”

Miller said. “They are two skilled and hard-working players that are extremely easy to play with.”

Along with Miller, leading scorer Agostino was named to the second-team all-ECAC and Ryan Obuchowksi ’16 earned all-rookie honors.

In spite of Miller’s two goals and two assists against St. Law-rence in the opening quarterfinal game and Agostino’s four points across the St. Lawrence series, the Bulldogs were unable to cre-ate many scoring opportunities against Union and Quinnipiac and could not convert on the chances they had.

“Our lack of o!ense this week-end put us in a tough position,”

Miller said. “We didn’t get the bounces we needed, but we also didn’t execute when we had scor-ing opportunities.”

While scoring was di"cult for the Elis in back-to-back games against two top-20 teams, includ-ing the No. 1 team in the country, the Bulldogs showed extraordi-nary performances between the pipes and on the penalty kill.

In both the Union game and the Quinnipiac game, the Bulldogs were able to shut down all power-play chances, keeping Union from converting on any of their three opportunities and Quinnipiac from scoring on any of their six chances.

Goaltender Jeff Malcolm ’13

stopped 27 of 30 shots from the Bobcats and 30 of 35 from the Dutchmen.

While the winner of the ECAC tournament receives an auto-matic bid for NCAA national tournament play, as do the win-ners of every other conference tournament, the Bulldogs ended the season ranked No. 15 in the PairWise rankings. Due to Notre Dame’s 3–1 win over Michigan, the Bulldogs have clinched a spot in the 2013 NCAA hockey tourna-ment and will face No. 2 Minne-sota in Grand Rapids, Mich., on March 29.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at [email protected] .

Yale to play Minnesota on Friday

Elis split first two home games

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The Bulldogs are fifth in the nation and first in the Ivy League in assists per game, averaging 7.80 per contest.

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Union only managed a 35–34 edge over Yale in shots, but the Elis could not put the puck past Dutchmen goaltender Troy Grosenick.

Florida Gulf Coast becomes first No. 15-seed to make Sweet 16After defeating second-seeded Georgetown on Friday, Florida Gulf Coast has continued its Cinderella run by beating seven-seeded San Diego State on Sunday. The Eagles, who have won over crowds with their strong defense and highlight dunks, defeated the Aztecs 81–71. No other No. 15-seed has advanced to this point in the tournament, despite two No. 15-seeds winning their first game last year.

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BY GIOVANNI BACARELLASTAFF REPORTER

During the final days of spring break, four Yale fencers trav-eled to San Antonio, Texas, to earn a 10th-place finish for the Bulldogs at the NCAA National Championship.

Representing the men’s team at the March 21–24 round-robin tournament — co-hosted by the University of the Incarnate Word and San Antonio Sports at the Freeman Coliseum — Hugh O’Cinneide ’15 earned 11th place in the saber competition and Peter Cohen ’14 finished 17th in

the epee competition. For the women’s team, sabreur Mad-eline Oliver ’13 finished in 10th place in her weapon class while Lauren Miller ’15 claimed 13th place in the foil competition. The Bulldogs contended in a field of 144 of the nation’s top fencers.

The men competed during the first two days of the four-day championship. O’Cinneide won 12 of his bouts, while Cohen won 10. Their combined score of 22 overall points put Yale in 11th place nationally by the end of the men’s competition.

“The tournament has vali-dated a lot of work I’ve been put-ting in at practice,” O’Cinneide said. “Everything I’ve spent

time on came into play, and I had some convincing wins against some very tough opponents.”

Cohen added that with such tight competition, it is really anyone’s tournament.

“I unfortunately had a slow

start in my first round and spent the rest of the tournament fight-ing back against that deficit, but in every bout you have to come out strong, and that is some-thing that I take away from NCAAs each year,” he said.

During their final two days in San Antonio, the women man-aged to bump Yale up to 10th place overall. Oliver notched 12 points, while Miller scored 11 points. With the addition of their total score, Yale finished with 45 points.

To qualify for the tourna-ment, candidates were judged by the NCAA Men’s and Wom-en’s Fencing Committee based on both individual performances during the season and the

results from the NCAA North-east Regional, which took place on March 10 at St. John’s Car-nesecca Arena and Ta!ner Field House in Queens, N.Y.

The men’s and women’s teams each qualified 10 fencers for the Northeast Regional. O’Cinneide finished in seventh place for saber competition, earning him the seventh qualifying spot for the national championship. Cohen finished fifth in epee, landing the fifth qualifier.

“Last year, my regionals per-formance was pretty poor, not making it out of the second round by one win,” O’Cinneide said. “I remembered my mis-takes from last year and kept my head in the second and the final

pools. I brought that composure to nationals, and it paid o!.”

Oliver led the women with a seventh-place finish in saber competition and the seventh qualifier. Miller fought her way to ninth place and also earned the seventh qualifying spot thanks to her performance this season.

For three of the four Bulldogs who earned a berth in this year’s national championship, this was not the first opportunity for an NCAA run.

Cohen competed in the cham-pionship as a freshman and tied for third in epee. Oliver com-peted in her freshman and soph-

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Hugh O’Cinneide ’15 finished in 11th place in saber competition, and Peter Cohen ’14 was in the 17th spot in epee competition.

BY FREDERICK FRANKCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

On Saturday, the women’s lacrosse (4–4, 0–3 Ivy) team fell to archrival Harvard (2–4, 1–2 Ivy) in a 10–5 con-test in Cambridge.

Despite Yale’s 2–1 lead after 12 minutes in the first half, Harvard scored six unanswered goals, a defi-cit that the Bulldogs were not able to overcome. The Elis scored two goals

to close the gap to 7–4 with 14 min-utes left to play in the second half, but the Crimson added three more goals to close out the game 10–5.

Midfielder Nicole Daniggelis ’16 led the scoring for Yale with two goals on four shots. Attacker Kerri Fleish-hacker ’15, midfielder Cathryn Aval-lone ’15 and midfielder Lauren Wack-erle ’16 added one goal apiece, while attacker Jen DeVito ’14 earned one assist.

“I think we need to improve upon turnovers and capitalize on each time we have possession of the ball,”

Wackerle said. “Our turnovers really hurt our momentum and chances of mounting a comeback in the game.”

Yale’s scoreless streak was caused by a slew of nine turnovers and many missed opportunities. The Bull-dogs finished with 15 turnovers and placed only 11 of their 20 shots on tar-get. Despite dominating draw con-trols 11–6, demonstrating successful clears and committing fewer fouls, the Crimson won the ground ball bat-tle 21–19 and committed fewer turn-

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Despite controlling the game 12 minutes into the first half, the Bulldogs lost the contest to Harvard 10–5.

BY ALEXANDER EPPLERSTAFF REPORTER

As most Yale students restart their routines following spring break, the men’s and women’s track and field teams are already in the full swing of their 2013 seasons.

After a trying indoor campaign, the Elis kicked o! the outdoor season this weekend at William and Mary’s Tribe Invitational. Although the meet was not scored, several of the athletes on both the men’s and women’s squads

posted impressive results over the two-day competition.

“The goal of this meet wasn’t to get our best times ever,” women’s team captain Allison Rue ’13 said in an email to the News. “Since we just came o! of a hard week of training, it’s more about building a good base for the rest of spring season.”

Still, the Elis strung together several impressive performances in a num-ber of events. On the women’s side, one such performance came in the 10,000m. Anna Demaree ’15 won the race with a time of 36:24.10, 27 seconds

Elis start strongin season opener

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In the first outdoor meet of the year, the men’s track and field team notched several top-five performances.

Costa Rica protests U.S. win in World Cup qualifierA Friday night qualifying game played near Denver, Colo., will go down in soccer history after the match was played in blizzard conditions. The U.S. won 1–0, but not without controversy. Costa Rica is now pleading for the game to be replayed because of the conditions. However, during the game, o"cials postponed the game briefly in the 55th minute, but players from both teams requested that the match continue.

Tough opponents or high pressure don’t faze me as much as they have in previous years.

HUGH O’CINNEIDE ’15Men’s fencing

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