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The life of a genius. Chess Grandmaster Robert Hess ’15 will travel to St. Louis, Mo., on May 3 to compete in the U.S. Chess Championships. The chess whizz will spend 10 days facing o! against the greatest chess players in the country in a battle for monetary prizes totaling $180,000. Hess previously competed at the World Team Chess Tournament in 2009, where he placed second.

Apple picking 2.0. In a Sunday email sent to the Yale community, Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins reminded students to keep their laptops closely guarded at all times, warning Yalies of a 20-something-year-old man recently arrested for his connection to two laptop thefts at Blue State Co!ee. Higgins’ email followed a similar warning last fall, when the police chief alerted students of an increase in iPhone thefts, a phenomenon dubbed “apple picking.”

Writer turned speaker. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and editor in chief of The New Yorker David Remnick will give Princeton’s Class Day address on June 3, the school announced last Thursday. Remnick, who graduated from Princeton in 1981, will succeed comedian Steve Carell as the school’s Class Day speaker.

Keeping secrets. In a Sunday email to the Yale community, Dean of Student A!airs Marichal Gentry reminded students about the University’s hazing regulations and laws in anticipation of this Thursday’s senior society “Tap Night.” According to Gentry, hazing laws prohibit a number of activities, including indecent exposure, mental stress, blindfolding, confinement, assault, ingestion of substances or “physical activity that could endangerer the health or safety of the individual.”

A technology boost. Tired of having to forfeit intramural games when not enough players show up? Ben Sherman ’13 has the answer: The tech-savvy senior created a new IMs website that hopes to make it easier for college captains to keep track of how many participants have signed up for upcoming games. Sherman said in a Saturday email to IM captains that he hopes the new website will replace the existing one next semester.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY1968 The activist group “Black Women of New Haven” announces plans to boycott all white establishments in the Elm City as part of an e!ort to honor the mission of the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., who passed away four days earlier. Though the Black Students Alliance and Dwight Hall Committee at Yale both endorse the boycott, three residential college dining halls are unable to open after several employees participating in the boycott fail to report for work.

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BY JULIA ZORTHIANSTAFF REPORTER

Members of the Yale Corpora-tion chose not to initiate any major new budget or policy proposals dur-ing their meeting this weekend on the cusp of a complete overturn of its leadership.

Instead, the fellows discussed projects already in progress and approved a capital budget similar to last year’s plan. The meeting marked the penultimate Corporation gath-ering for both University President Richard Levin and Senior Fellow Edward Bass ’67 ARC ’72, who will be replaced by President-elect Peter Salovey and Margaret Marshall LAW ’76, respectively, on June 30. Levin said the Corporation approved addi-tional funding for ongoing building projects and the finance committee approved a $375 million capital bud-get for the upcoming year.

“My view was the president-elect and the provost should have the sum-mer to think about [budgeting major projects] and come up with their own priorities,” Levin said.

The $375 million total the Corpo-ration’s Finance Committee approved for the next fiscal year remained con-sistent with last year’s budget, he said. The budget, which is well-below recent years’ totals of $500

to $600 million because no major construction projects have been launched, covers minor projects and continuing initiatives such as finish-ing the School of Management build-ing construction on Whitney Avenue by January 2014.

Levin said the Corporation had the “full panoply” of committee meet-ings on Friday, in which various sub-committees of the Corporation, such as the Development and Alumni Affairs Committee and the Educa-tional Policy Committee, presented updates to the rest of the group. Members of the Yale Corporation also interacted directly with students this weekend, holding meetings with both the Yale College Council Execu-tive Board and the recently graduated Woodbridge Hall fellows.

YCC President John Gonzalez ’14 said he brought up what the YCC considers three major issues on cam-pus — alcohol policy, the proposed changes to the grading system, and changes to the academic calendar that took place this year.

“I trust a lot of these corporation members, but they’re not undergrad-uate students and they don’t know the nitty-gritty of what it’s like to be a student,” he said. “I think that’s an integral part of those decisions they

Corp. approves budget, meets with students

BY CYNTHIA HUASTAFF REPORTER

After its final meeting on Feb. 25, the Task Force on Alcohol and Other Drugs concluded that Yale has unclear disciplinary policies regard-ing alcohol-related incidents.

The 17-member task force, which was convened by the Yale College Dean’s O"ce in December to make recommendations on creating a safer drinking culture at the Univer-sity, submitted a report in March to Yale College Dean Mary Miller and the University Council Commit-tee on Alcohol in Yale College. The University has not publicly released the report, Dean’s O"ce fellow Gar-rett Fiddler ’11 said, in order to keep specific facts about Yale’s drink-ing culture out of the national media and because administrators will not implement all recommenda-tions. The bulk of the group’s rec-ommendations centered on creating new events and initiatives, such as improved alcohol-education during Camp Yale, said Yale College Council President John Gonzalez ’14, who is also a member of the task force.

The main policy recommenda-tion addressed by the task force was the need for Yale to clarify disciplin-ary procedures, including the con-

sequences of hospitalization due to intoxication, said Paul Hudak, mas-ter of Saybrook College and a mem-ber of the task force.

“As of right now, in practice, stu-dents do not receive any disciplin-ary action for going to Yale Health or Yale-New Haven for intoxication, unless it’s been a recurring problem,” Fiddler said. “However, a lot of that is practice but not explicitly written out. A lot of people, especially stu-dents, are not clearly informed.”

Students on the task force raised concerns that some undergradu-ates may expect disciplinary mea-sures for being transported to Yale Health or Yale New-Haven Hospital,

Task Force criticizes unclear policies

BY LORENZO LIGATOSTAFF REPORTER

New Haven has been struck by three murders in the past nine days, lifting the city’s murder tally to a total of five homicides this year.

The last homicide to hit the streets of New Haven took place Friday evening, when the New Haven Police Department received reports of a shooting in the area around the Super Deli #7, a convenience store located at 1613 Chapel St., just a six-minute drive from Yale’s cen-tral campus. When the o"cers

arrived at the convenience store at 7:06 p.m., they secured the scene and learned that the vic-tim, Richard Eichler, had been transported by private car to the St. Raphael campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital, depart-ment spokesman David Hart-man said. Eichler, a 26-year-old New Haven resident, died from the gunshot wounds shortly afterwards.

Detectives from the depart-ment’s Major Crimes Division and Bureau of Investigation have started their investigations and are currently in the process of interviewing witnesses and col-

lecting evidence, Hartman said. He added that according to sev-eral witnesses, the suspect is an African-American male of short stature, wearing dark purple pants and a blue sweater at the time of the shooting.

Friday’s homicide is the third to hit the Elm City in just over a week, after a nearly 65-day mur-der-free streak — an interval New Haven had not seen since March 2012.

Roughly 48 hours before Fri-day’s homicide, on Wednesday, April 3, Asdrubal Bernier, 32, was fatally shot in front of 145 Wolcott St., in the heart of the

Fair Haven neighborhood of the city. While investigations into Bernier’s death are still ongoing, several witnesses have described the shooter as an African-Amer-ica male, between 25 and 35 years old, Hartman said. According to the same witnesses, the suspect might have fled in a black pickup truck, leaving Bernier on the ground, Hartman said.

And just four days prior to Bernier’s murder, a shoot-ing in Newhallville ended with the death of Eric Forbes, 33. A few minutes before being shot, Forbes had left the Taurus Café, a nightclub at 520 Winchester

Ave., where he was seen hav-ing an altercation with two unknown men. Detectives are still completing their investi-gations into this week’s mur-ders, Hartman said, adding that all three cases are receiving much attention from the police department’s Detective division.

With five homicides in total this year, New Haven has reached more than twice the murder rate for this time last year. Still, the 2013 murder count is far down from the 10-homi-cide high in the first trimester of

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PAINT PARTY ON THE GREEN — FOR CHARITYOn Friday, 250 Yale students and New Haven residents gathered for a 5-kilometer run on the Green. Participants raised $1,250 for Kiva Microfinance, which gives small loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.

As of right now, in practice, students do not receive any disciplinary action for going to Yale Health or Yale-New Haven.

GARRETT FIDDLER ’11Student a!airs fellow, Dean’s O"ce

BY LORENZO LIGATOSTAFF REPORTER

Sixteen months after a fatal crash at the 2011 Yale-Harvard game left a Massachu-setts woman dead, the victim’s estate has filed a negligence suit against the Univer-sity, the city of New Haven, Sigma Phi Epsi-lon Fraternity, Inc. and others involved in the crash.

Nancy Barry, a 30-year-old woman from Salem, Mass., died after being struck by a U-Haul truck during the tailgate before the Yale-Harvard football game on Nov. 19, 2011. Brendan Ross ’13 was driving the rented U-Haul into the tailgate area assigned to the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity,when the vehicle accelerated and swerved into the Yale Bowl’s D-Lot on Central Avenue at around 9:39 a.m., killing Barry and injuring Sarah Short SOM ’13 and Harvard employee Elizabeth Dernbach.

Paul T. Edwards, an attorney represent-ing Barry’s estate, filed a lawsuit with the New Haven Superior Court on Friday seek-ing charges against many parties allegedly involved in the crash for failing to take all

Yale sued after tailgate

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I wasn’t tapped last year. And I am hesitant to write about my own experience. What

if I appear bitter and unhappy to my peers? But I find that risk worth taking — especially when I remember how much I drew comfort from those who lis-tened to my anxieties last March and April.

In his column last Thursday, Teo Soares ’13 started a public conversation about the tap pro-cess and society — I would like to take up where he left o!.

In my case — and I believe for many of my peers — the process of society tap, more than the result, a!ected me.

Second-semester juniors are in a particularly vulner-able place — or at least I was. You have a perception that you should have reached the peak of your Yale academic and extra-curricular potential — because, after all, if you're applying to jobs or graduate school the next fall, your record ends with your junior year. You are beginning to think about life after Yale and are starting worry for the first time. A major fear for me: If I didn’t do a banking or consult-ing internship, would I have a

post-college plan?

In short, I was in a place where all I wanted was some reas-surance that e v e r y t h i n g was going to be all right. I wanted someone to tell me that I

did OK at Yale. Then the tap process hap-

pens. Society looks like an insti-tutionalized stamp of approval — a way to give you the reas-surance you so want. And all your peers (or so it seems) are engaged in the system. It's all so shrouded in its semi-privacy that it acquires an air of legiti-macy. You know that certain professors are involved in the selection process, which only adds to the sense that societies are a value judgment by Yale, as an institution. When Dean Gen-try sends out an email to “stay safe” on tap night, he only con-tributes to the mix.

The entire combination — personal vulnerability, the

seemingly legitimate system and administrative oversight — forces young people (we were only 21 after all) to lose perspec-tive.

In my experience, the tap process (again, not necessar-ily its result) made me anxious beyond belief. I felt like the issue at stake was not just a student a"liation, but my entire worth as a person. Maybe mine was an extreme case — but society anx-iety certainly seemed to a!ect many of my peers. In a partic-ularly insidious twist, you can't talk to your friends about it, because it seems uncouth.

Your worry gnaws at your stomach; you have nowhere to turn and soothe the pain.

I'll admit that my particular case was compounded when I wasn't tapped — I was incredibly dejected. I thought I was wholly

unsuccessful — regardless of my academic interests and suc-cesses at Yale. Worse also, I thought that the university I loved disapproved of me. (In a particular fit of despair, I almost refused to recruit an admitted student from my hometown, New Haven, because I felt such a profound sense of alienation from my community.)

I regained my perspective with time, slowly though. I now know the process was not a value judgment or a stamp of approval. (It helps when you watch your friends, as a senior, tap others and realize they are not infal-lible.) I also know, though, that I could never, never, never have understood that simple conclu-sion junior year.

So if you’re feeling anxious and worried: I’m sorry to say I can’t stop that. Know you’re not alone. In fact, a lot of peo-ple, even the ones for whom it works out, feel the way you do right now.

NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a junior in Berkeley College. Contact

him at [email protected] .

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“High school is worlds away from college, just as college is worlds away from real life.” 'LAKIA' ON 'GRADING BY NUMBERS'

NATHANIEL ZELINSKYOn Point

The need for reassurance

Until the bitter endDear our comrades in the

Democratic Republic of North Korea,

Greetings from your lifelong friends and allies from the other side of the Yalu River. You might have been alarmed by the recent comments that our new Presi-dent, Xi Jingping, made at the 2013 Boao Economic Forum in Hainan, China.

During his speech, President Xi declared, “No one should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gain.” The West-ern media (those cursed run-ning dogs of capitalism!) have read President Xi’s words to be a veiled criticism of your beloved leader’s recent actions, which have resulted in escalat-ing tension on the Korean Pen-insula. They speculate that we are beginning to reconsider our relationship with you, and that we might be withdrawing our support.

We want to assure you that this cannot be farther from the truth. No matter how pro-vocative your military maneu-vers may be, and no matter how ridiculous Brother Jong-un’s rhetoric (or his haircut), China will stand firmly by your side until the bitter end.

Sometimes a little decep-tion is necessary to trick the enemy. Those Western imperi-alists, scared out of their wits by

your coura-geous spirit, have put a lot of pressure on us recently. So we placate them with a few words here and there, make a couple of ges-tures to make them happy.

D o n ’ t worry — we will continue

to feed you, clothe you and give you guns. Sorry that we had to cut o! the crude oil for a while — spring’s already here and we figured you wouldn’t freeze too much. Once the current situa-tion dies down, we promise we’ll give you a couple more mobile missile launch pads to make up for everything.

The real reason why we’ll be forever loyal to you, however, is not because of the prospect of millions of refugees flooding into Northeastern China in the case of a regime collapse; or the fear that we’ll be surrounded by U.S. allies without you; or even Brother Jong-un’s deceptively sexy double chin. It’s because we continue to harbor illusions that your regime can be sus-tainable, that through a com-bination of ever-intensifying repression, ubiquitous propa-

ganda and life support provided by us, you will be able defy Fate and live on forever.

You see, we’ve grown attached. We’ve invested too much in this relationship in the six decades that have passed since our fateful encounter in 1950, when both of us were so young, so brash and so naively confident in our own strength. Despite your many flaws, you and us have too much history; we have too much in common to part now.

We have long since given up trying to convert you to our path, that of an authoritarian regime presiding over a more or less open economy. You are too committed to the sacred blood-line of the Kim family, and you have ruled your people with such wisdom, benevolence and foresight that if you let them see the su!erings of the rest of the world, they wouldn’t be able to come to terms with their

own privileged status as North Korean citizens.

Some people have suggested that if such an exalted regime as yours cannot long grace this Earth, China would do well to cooperate with South Korea and the U.S. now. They say that we should actively pursue a Korean Peninsula resolution that maxi-mizes our own interests — inter-national assistance with the ref-ugee crisis and the establish-ment of a new China-friendly, nuclear-free Korean state.

Rest assured, we will never buy into such an idea. To play an active role in dismantling the North Korean regime amounts to a direct recognition of the failure of the socialist system. It would come dangerously close to admitting the mortality of our own model, which, although more sophisticated and virile, is nevertheless cut from the same cloth.

Our friends in Pyongyang, you can sleep safe tonight. We’re on your side. Whether that’s going to be enough, how-ever, might be an entirely sepa-rate matter.

With undying love, The People’s Republic of

China

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

[email protected] .

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T C H A R L E S B A I L Y N

At Yale-NUS, strengthening the liberal artsThe liberal arts seem to be

welded to the adjective “embattled” these days.

Elected o"cials denounce the “waste” in college budgets as they reduce funding levels; pun-dits decry the fall of standards and the rise of tuition; inter-net gurus tout the virtues of Massive Online Open Courses, a MOOC-ified education. But other parts of the world, where geopolitical fortunes are on the rise, are moving quickly toward the model that the United States appears to be abandoning. All across Asia, attempts are being made to create institutions that embrace the kind of education we are familiar with here at Yale. This combination of strong but challenged institutions in the United States, and rapidly growing interest in this model of education elsewhere, has resulted among other things in the creation of Yale-NUS Col-lege, which will open in a few months in Singapore.

In preparation for the new college, the inaugural faculty of Yale-NUS has been working in New Haven since last Sep-tember to consider how to pre-serve and enhance the virtues of a liberal arts approach in a new

time and place. We have had the remarkable opportunity to spend a full academic year dis-cussing these matters with each other, and with colleagues from Yale and elsewhere. The result-ing debates were often quite heated — but we could not sim-ply hold our positions or agree to disagree, as so often in academic debates, since we will be teach-ing the courses that emerge from our conversations in a few short months. So creative syn-theses of seemingly incompat-ible ideas had to be achieved.

Last Thursday, the cur-riculum committee of Yale-NUS College released a report describing some of the consid-erations that have emerged from this incubation year. Among the issues we discuss in the report

are the purpose and value of a residential college in the inter-net age; the importance of a community in which unfet-tered, articulate communica-tion is developed and practiced; the tensions between research and teaching in a collegiate set-ting; the relative virtues of dis-tribution systems and common curricula; ways to strengthen introductory science education for majors and non-majors; the potential of bringing together course work, extracurriculars and o!-campus activities to form a robust “co-curriculum”; how to create powerful inter-disciplinary programs while still maintaining the intellec-tual integrity of the disciplines themselves; and of special importance to this particular venture, how best to bring texts and ideas from di!erent cul-tures into conversation inside the classroom.

Many members of the Yale faculty have contributed sig-nificantly to the development of the Yale-NUS curriculum. The link they are providing between Yale and Yale-NUS ensures that the influence of Yale on the new institution will be strong, as its name suggests. At the same

time, many of the participating Yale faculty members agree that their thinking about pedagogi-cal and curricular matters here at Yale has been enriched and enhanced by their conversations about Yale-NUS — the posi-tive influence works both ways. This will only accelerate in the future as a small but steady flow of Yale faculty members partici-pate directly in the new college, and return to New Haven with a broader perspective on under-graduate education.

Institutions benefit from interacting with a di!erent cul-ture in the same way that indi-viduals do — they acquire a clearer view of their own assumptions and preconcep-tions, and a deeper understand-ing of the strengths and weak-nesses of their own traditions. Yale and Yale-NUS are both benefitting by the interactions between their faculties, and lib-eral arts education around the world will be the stronger for it.

CHARLES BAILYN, the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University, is the dean

of faculty at Yale-NUS College.

NEWS’VIEW

Getting help for mental health

Yalies want to talk about mental health issues. As a campus, we are largely able to discuss the stresses and challenges that we all face as Yalies in a high-intensity academic environment, but our conversation falters when we are confronted by more serious, long-term problems.

To impact the day-to-day lives of students, President-elect Peter Sa-lovey’s administration must cut through Yale Health’s bureaucracy to bring e!ec-tive mental health care to campus.

Students seeking psy-chological treatment may initially feel alone or anx-ious. Admitting a need for real medical help is hard — especially for Yale students. The stigma surrounding mental health issues dis-courages many students from coming forward. Yale cannot single-handedly reverse the unfortunate stigmatization of mental health issues in our society, but our University can take conscious steps to lessen the institutional barriers that preclude students from seeking help.

Getting mental health treatment at Yale should be not a maze. The lack of a clear and streamlined pro-cess ultimately discourages many students from seek-ing help. Students often face waiting times that belie the severity or immediacy of their problem, and an unnecessarily opaque website only worsens the red tape.

Students seeking im-mediate counseling such as grief counseling are often burdened by waits that may last weeks. By the time these students can get appointments, they may have already sought help elsewhere. Yale should guarantee that students can see a professional within a short, standardized amount of time.

Students seeking long-term counseling for chronic illness are similarly dis-advantaged. Yale Health’s website states that “indi-vidual therapy is available on a short-term basis,” but o!ers no information on what constitutes short-term, as well as no obvious destination for students re-quiring long-term services. Students may be forced to turn o! campus to find resources that they believed would be made available on campus. Yale commits itself to four-year physical health, but the double-standard concerning mental health issues jeopardizes students’ ability to receive adequate long-term treat-ment. Moving forward, Yale must be able to triage ef-fectively between short and long-term cases without denying any student timely care.

Moreover, mental health professionals often serve as gatekeepers. In certain extreme cases, their evalua-tions can determine wheth-er a student with pressing mental health issues will be permitted to remain on campus, or forced to take a leave of absence. Stu-dents hear stories of other students compelled to leave campus for a semester, or admitted Yalies forced to defer enrollment.

Of course, Yale Health should be empowered to take some kind of preventa-tive actions to deter stu-dents from self-harm. But simply sending students with mental illness away from campus can send the message that Yale is unwill-ing to engage with these students — and this reputa-tion deters students from coming forward for help.

Our dialogue about men-tal health cannot be only reactive to campus tragedy. We must broaden our daily conversations to demand answers and action from those who lead us.

WARNER TO WOODBRIDGE

XIUYI ZHENGProper-gandist

COLLABORATION WILL IMPROVE THE LIBERAL ARTS MODEL

A LETTER TO NORTH KOREA, FROM CHINA, WITH LOVE

THE TAP PROCESS CAUSES US TO LOSE

PERSPECTIVE

NEWS

BY ROSA NGUYENSTAFF REPORTER

To promote the Elm City’s college-going culture, nearly 200 parents enrolled in “Parent University,” a semiannual pro-gram intended to increase par-ents’ involvement in their chil-dren’s education.

New Haven parents gathered at Gateway Community Col-lege this Saturday to attend the program, which consisted of a college fair and 47 workshops aimed at life enrichment and academic and behavioral sup-port. Parent University began as a part of the city’s School Change Initiative, a campaign launched in 2009 aimed at rais-ing student test scores, increas-ing graduation rates and pro-moting college attendance.

“Parent University empowers mothers and fathers and grand-parents to help their children be successful in life,” said Reginald Mayo, superintendent of New Haven Public Schools, in a press release. “Bringing a college focus to Parent University gives parents the tools and the knowl-edge to support their children — from kindergarten through high school — on the path to college.”

The program is loosely based on the Boston public school sys-tem’s Parent University, which Susan Weisselberg, chief of the New Haven Wraparound Ser-vices department for troubled youth, attended in May 2012. While the Boston program pro-vided a useful model, Weissel-berg said New Haven’s Parent University has “more commu-nity engagement,” not only drawing support from the New Haven Public Schools sys-tem but also from local orga-nizations such as Boost!, New Haven Promise and United Way of Greater New Haven. Work-shop ideas were solicited from the Citywide Parent Leadership Team, a group of New Haven parents who set monthly agen-das on behavioral and academic issues.

Following the first Par-ent University in November, this season’s Parent Univer-sity included workshops that focused on college preparation, family and community, aca-demic resources for children in early childhood and support for kindergarten through 12th grade students. O!ered in both Eng-lish and Spanish, courses varied from “Supporting Your Child’s Success in Math” — an inter-active seminar in which par-ents learned skills such as how to use a protractor — to panel discussions in which college admissions officers revealed their requirements for potential applicants.

Abbe Smith, director of com-munications for New Haven Public Schools, said Elm City’s Parent University is unique because of its focus on both stu-dent support and enriching the lives of parents.

“A stronger parent means a

stronger family, a stronger stu-dent and ultimately a stronger community,” Smith said.

In addition to four work-shop sessions, parents had the option of visiting a college fair with representatives from 29 colleges, including Trinity Col-lege, Providence College and Wesleyan University. Anthony Carberry, associate director of admissions at Central Connect-icut State University, said he was unaccustomed to the lim-ited amount of activity at the college fair.

“With all of the workshops going on, the college fair’s been kind of slow,” Carberry said. “But it’s a good thing that there’s so much going on. This is the best setup.”

Parents also had access to community resource tables, which advertised services such as Planned Parenthood and New Haven Promise, an orga-nization granting scholarships to New Haven youth. Eleven parents interviewed expressed satisfaction with Parent Uni-versity, saying that the work-shops were “informative.” New Haven parent Jennifer Sanders said she would like this event to be “more frequent.” Kim Jack-son, another parent attendee, said she would like Parent Uni-versity to be a two-day event, allowing parents to attend more workshops.

Brett Rayford, who headed one of Parent University’s most popular workshops, “Address-ing the Needs of Urban Boys,” also expressed a desire for a lon-ger session with parents.

“There’s so much informa-tion that this could be a four-hour presentation,” Rayford said.

Weisselberg said Parent Uni-versity will expand its pro-grams to include smaller-scale, neighborhood workshops in the future.

“Boston’s [Parent University] has neighborhood [workshops]. It’s very powerful to [have a Parent University] on a city-wide basis, but we could reach more parents on a neighborhood basis,” Weisselberg said.

While parents attended Par-ent University, about 150 chil-dren participated in the corre-sponding “Youth University” at Cooperative Arts and Human-ities High School. Activities included a fossil exhibit from the Peabody Museum, Latin dance classes and Ranger Ray, a reptile-toting employee from the New Haven Parks and Rec-reation Department.

“I can’t think of a better and more enriching way for a kid to spend a Saturday,” said Laoise King, United Way’s vice presi-dent of Education Initiatives.

The New Haven Public School Department will host its next citywide Parent University in fall 2013.

Contact ROSA NGUYEN at [email protected] .

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NEWSCORREC T IONS

FRIDAY, APRIL 5The article “The power of seduction in ‘Richard III’” mistakenly attributed a quote by Clio Contogenis ’14 to Cambrian Thomas-Adams ’13. Thomas-Adams was also misquoted as referencing the character “Anna,” when in fact the character’s name is “Anne.” In addition, the article suggested that the character Richard ordered the arrest of the character Clarence when in fact it was ordered by another character named Edward.

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS IRISH POET

BY HANNAH SCHWARZSTAFF REPORTER

Last Thursday and Friday, New Haven’s Omni Hotel and Shubert Theater became home to hun-dreds of education reformers from around the country.

The seventh annual Yale School of Management Edu-cation Leadership Confer-ence brought in roughly 700 attendees from organizations like Democrats for Education Reform, the KIPP Foundation, Teach for America, City Year and Achievement First. The two days included five discussion panels, two of which were keynote events featuring o"cials such as Provi-dence, R.I., Mayor Angel Taveras and Louisiana State Superinten-dent of Education John White. The panels held during the con-ference, which this year cen-tered on “Inspiring Transforma-tional Change,” focused on topics including parental involvement in community education trans-formation, the role of technology in personalized learning, how to use New Orleans as a model for change and how to reach stu-dents of all socioeconomic back-grounds.

The conference’s first panel, moderated by Connecticut’s Commissioner of Education Ste-fan Pryor, focused on how Con-necticut can begin to implement

its recently passed education reform bill. The bill will cre-ate the Commissioner’s Net-work of Turnaround Schools, which will use top educational practices from across the nation to improve the state’s low-per-forming schools and will imple-ment a new state-wide system of teacher evaluations.

While all panelists emphasized the importance of strong school and district leadership, panel-ist David Low, the vice president of the New Haven Federation of Teachers and New Haven’s most recent “Teacher of the Year,” advocated for not “pulling the best teachers out of the class-room” to become administrators. Instead, these teachers should be

able to expand their reach, per-haps by supervising other teach-ers while continuing their own teaching, he said.

Conference attendees also discussed the opportunities and challenges presented by the Common Core Standards, a newly created set of stan-dards that aims to align vari-ous state curricula. Assistant Commissioner of Curriculum and Instruction of the Tennes-see Department of Education Emily Barton ’04 said that such “research-based” standards will transform curriculum from being a “mile-wide and inch-deep to inch-wide, mile-deep.” Kate Gerson, another conference panelist and the senior fellow for educator engagement & the Common Core in New York State, said the Common Core is in dan-ger of seeing “a shift in rhetoric phenomenom,” in which admin-istrators and teachers say they are enforcing these new standards while in fact no changes occur.

At a panel about creating “diverse coalitions” to better address the achievement gap, panelist Melanie Mullan, vice president for the nonprofit Pro-grams of Turnaround for Chil-dren, noted that poverty has “traumatic” e!ects on kids.

“These kids are dealing with detachment, exposure to vio-lence, hunger and homelessness,

and they’re expected to show up in school and focus on math,” she said. Having clinically trained social workers in every school and giving teachers very specific strategies to deal with affected children is necessary to target the “recurring trauma of poverty,” she added.

President of education-focused nonprofit City Year Jim Balfanz noted that 240,000 ninth graders in New York City were held back a grade last year, and those who are held back have a 25 percent chance of graduating.

“It feels like a crisis now. What it’s going to feel like in 10 to 15 years is unthinkable,” he said.

Diversity panel attendee Can-dice Dormon, associate director for Advocacy and Parent Engage-ment for the Achievement First schools, expressed her con-cern about how the majority of low-income students are “left behind.”

“Your zip code shouldn’t determine your chance in life,” said Amanda Pinto, a commu-nications associate for Achieve-ment First.

The conference was sponsored by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Pearson and Wire-less Generation.

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at [email protected] .

Education reformers convene in New Haven

BY SOPHIE GOULDSTAFF REPORTER

Provost Benjamin Polak will eat dinner twice on April 23 — once in honor of a retired economics pro-fessor and once with a group of eight students known as the Pro-vost’s Advisory Committee.

Since his appointment as pro-vost in January, Polak said it has been di"cult to find time to engage with students because of the obligations and “crowded” schedule that accompany the role of the University’s second highest administrator. Though Polak has had one meeting with the Provost’s Advisory Commit-tee and one meeting with repre-sentatives from the Yale College Council, the Graduate Student Assembly and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate this spring, he said his meetings so far are “not enough” and that he hopes to make more room in his schedule to converse with stu-dents next year.

“We’re here to be an educa-tional institution,” Polak said. “The students aren’t just some random voice. They’re what this is about. They’re the point.”

At the Feb. 27 meeting with the representatives from the three student government orga-nizations, Polak, Deputy Pro-vost Stephanie Spangler and Vice

President for Student Life Kim-berly Go!-Crews listened to stu-dent opinions about several Uni-versity issues, including concerns about introductory science, tech-nology, engineering and math classes, YCC President John Gon-zalez ’14 said. The group also dis-cussed mental health counseling and improving access to health care, Polak said.

Gonzalez said he thinks increasing student engagement with the provost is important, adding that he hopes the YCC will be able to sit down with Polak in the fall to outline some of the issues that “need student input.”

“With a collaborative environ-ment, the YCC can solicit student opinion in a way that guarantees that the provost will care about and pay attention to the findings,” he said.

Unlike administrators that

oversee faculty and students, the provost interacts primarily with faculty and administrators, so contact between students and the Provost’s O"ce is less common.

Former YCC President Bran-don Levin ’14, who co-founded the Provost’s Advisory Commit-tee, said he does not think stu-dents’ lack of familiarity with the provost’s responsibilities is a matter of great concern because the role of the provost is “not necessarily the most well-suited to engaging with students” and impacts students less directly than administrators specific to Yale College or the graduate and professional schools.

Still, former Provost and President-elect Peter Salovey and Levin both saw a need for increased communication between students and the pro-vost when they established the Provost’s Advisory Committee in 2011, Levin said.

Salovey said he met with this group, which consists of eight students, two or three times per semester while he was provost, adding that he has continued to meet with the committee since his appointment as President-elect.

“Many good ideas have been shared in this group,” Salovey said. “Our conversations are con-fidential because I would like the

students to feel they could raise any concern, but I can tell you we have focused on all kinds of issues from [the] room draw to student activity [spaces] to financial aid policies.”

Polak said he aims to be responsive to student opinions, some of which are voiced in in-person meetings and many of which he hears about indirectly through channels like online course evaluations.

“It’s not always the case that everything that every student wants to get done should get done,” Polak said, “but there’s an enormous amount of information about what we’re doing well and what we can improve.”

Student engagement is not always about policy, Levin said, adding that Salovey was impres-sive because he remained a visible campus figure while he was pro-vost through teaching the “Great Big Ideas” seminar, guest lectur-ing in “Introductory Psychology” and attending a variety of sports events.

“The Salovey model worked well,” Levin said. “I think Provost Polak will probably aim to simi-larly engage.”

Polak was appointed provost on January 14.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at [email protected] .

Polak looks to student engagement

JENNIFER CHEUNG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Provost Benjamin Polak will meet with the Provost’s Advisory Committee to increase communication between stduents and the Provost’s O!ce.

These kids are dealing with detachment, exposure to violence, hunger and homelessness, and they’re expected to show up in school and focus on math.

MELANIE MULLANVice president, Programs of Turnaround

for Children

ROSA NGUYEN/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Forty-seven workshops were held as part of Parent University on Satur-day at Gateway Community College.

City holds second Parent University

The Salovey model worked well. I think Provost Polak will probably aim to similarly engage.

BRANDON LEVIN ’14Former president, Yale College Council

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FROM THE FRONT 137Years since the first Harvard-Yale football game. The first Game took place Nov. 13, 1875 at Hamilton Field in New Haven. Harvard won 4-0 by scoring four touchdowns and four field goals. American football was still evolving from rugby at the time.

Third lawsuit results from accident $375 million capital budget

approvedmake.”

The YCC members recommended the University take a clearer stance on its alcohol policy, establishing alcohol consumption as a safety issue instead of a disciplinary issue — which is not made as clear as it should be to students, Gonzalez said.

In addition, the YCC o!cers made rec-ommendations about the grading policy and academic calendar changes that reflect the feedback it has gathered from students.

“It seemed like by the end of it we were all very much on the same page,” Gonzalez added.

The Buildings and Grounds Committee, chaired by Bass, approved funding for new turbines in the Yale Power Plant, which Levin said the group had planned to do before the power outage last week. They also approved continued budget spending on renovat-ing the Sterling Memorial Library knave, to restore the stone from water damage so it more closely resembles the Starr Reading Room. Levin said the construction should transform the use of the knave to allow for more activity in the cavernous area.

“[The restoration] creates a social space,” Levin said. “It should enliven that space so it will be bright and beautiful.”

The University certainly dressed the knave up on Friday night for a dinner the Yale Cor-poration members held for Levin in honor of his retirement as president. Over 100 past Yale Corporation members, alumni and fac-ulty attended the event, for which the Uni-versity filled the area with round tables fea-turing centerpieces of models of University architecture.

Bass also presented Levin with a Depart-ment Chairmanship to be named after him for any department Levin chooses. Levin said Sunday evening he has yet to decide upon a department.

The next Yale Corporation meeting will take place in May around the time of Com-mencement.

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at [email protected] .

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A U-Haul truck driven by Brendan Ross ‘13 swerved into the Yale Bowl’s D Lot, killing Nancy Barry Nov 19., 2011..

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TIMELINE TAIL-GATE LITIGATIONNOV. 19, 2011The U-Haul truck driven by Bren-dan Ross ‘13 swerves into the Yale Bowl’s D-Lot, killing Nancy Barry and injuring Sarah Short SOM ’13 and Harvard employee Elizabeth Dernbach.

APRIL 5, 2012Short files a memorandum with the New Haven Superior Court claiming that she had su!ered “severe and painful injuries” from the crash and seeking at least $15,000 in dam-ages from either Ross or the U-Haul Company of Connecticut.

MAY 4, 2012Ross turns himself in for arrest but is released shortly afterward with a written agreement to return to court.

SEPT. 14, 2012Brendan Ross ’13 pleads not guilty to misdemeanor charges of negli-gent homicide with a motor vehicle and reckless driving.

JAN. 28, 2013The lawsuit filed by Short in April is amended to include Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, Inc. as a defen-dant in addition to Ross and U-Haul.

FEB. 1, 2013Ross agrees to enter a probationary program that will allow him to main-tain his criminal record clean, upon completion of 400 hours of com-munity service. Under the plea deal, his charges are revised to reckless driving and reckless endangerment.

APRIL 5, 2013Barry’s estate files a negligence suit against Ross, U-Haul, Yale Univer-sity, the city of New Haven, Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, Inc. and oth-ers.

appropriate safety measures.“[The crash] was the result of an

accumulation of incredibly bad deci-sions by several parties,” Edwards said in a press release about the suit.

The lawsuit claims that Yale Uni-versity should have known that the use of box trucks posed a risk to the crowd gathered in the parking lot. According to Edwards, the Univer-sity failed to demarcate driving areas within the parking lot to prevent col-lisions with pedestrians.

“Yale University permitted and encouraged organizations to rent large box trucks to bring to a desig-nated section of the Yale Bowl park-ing lot to host their alcohol-fueled tailgate parties,” Edwards said in the press release.

In a Sunday email to the News, University spokesman Tom Con-roy expressed sympathy for the fam-ily and friends of the victim but dis-missed the claims of the lawsuit.

“The tragic vehicular accident that took the life of Nancy Barry saddened the Yale community, and we feel the

deepest sympathy for her family and loved ones who su"ered such a ter-rible loss,” Conroy said in the email. “We do not believe, however, that Yale or those working on behalf of the University were a cause of the acci-dent.”

The lawsuit also seeks charges against the City of New Haven for failing to provide a su!cient num-ber of New Haven Police Department o!cers tasked with tra!c and crowd control. The response of the city to the suit was rapid and brief.

“The City is aware of this lawsuit and will respond accordingly at the appropriate time,” said City Corpora-tion Counsel Victor Bolden in a state-ment released Friday. “That said, the claims against the City warrant dis-missal.”

The list of defendants also includes Ross, the U-Haul Company of Con-necticut, the student who rented the vehicle and Contemporary Services Corporation, the company Yale hired to provide security and crowd man-agement services at the tailgate area.

Ross, who passed a field sobri-ety test at the scene of the accident,

faced charges of negligent homi-cide with a motor vehicle and reck-less driving following the crash, but in February, he was granted accel-erated rehabilitation, which offers first-time o"enders a path to a clean record upon successful completion of probation. Under the plea deal, his charges were revised to reckless driv-ing and reckless endangerment. Ross will have to complete a total of 400 hours of community service.

In addition to the lawsuit filed by Edwards, Ross, SigEp and U-Haul still face another civil lawsuit from Short. The woman is seeking at least $50,000 in damages for the “severe and painful injuries” she su"ered as a result of the crash.

In response to the accident, Yale tightened its tailgating regulations, banning beer kegs and U-Hauls and containing tailgates to a “student tailgate village” zone that would be set up before 8:30 a.m. and close at the start of football games.

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5Homicides in New Haven this yearLast Friday’s homicide marked the third in just over a week, after more than 65 days without a murder in New Haven. Data collected over the past decade indicate that the frequency of homicides in New Haven has approximately doubled since the early 2000s.

City tallies fifth 2013 homicide Alcohol Task Force submits report

2011 — a grisly year that saw a total of 34 murders in only 12 months.

Earlier this year, at a Jan. 9 press con-ference in City Hall, New Haven o!cials reported a 50 percent drop in the num-ber of homicides from 2011 to 2012 — a fall that Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and other city o!cials have largely attributed to city policies aimed at supporting youth programs, preventing recidivism and strengthening the police force.

Many of these initiatives have worked in concert with NHPD Chief Dean Esser-man’s return to a model of community policing in November 2011. Commu-nity policing, which moves o!cers away from their desks and puts them on walk-

ing patrols throughout the city, began in New Haven under former NHPD Chief Nick Pastore in the early 1990s and was largely credited with the resulting drop in the crime rate.

Although the three homicides fol-lowed one another in close succession, the events are not indicative of a new trend in New Haven’s crime, according to Mark Abraham ’04, executive director of DataHaven, a nonprofit organization that compiles public statistics for the greater New Haven area.

“Because of the small numbers and random distribution of homicides over time, it is not unusual in any city for many months to go by without a murder, and then for several to cluster together within a few weeks time,” Abraham said.

But Abraham added that data collected over the past 10 years indicates the fre-quency of homicides in the Elm City has approximately doubled since 2003-’05, rising to roughly two murders per month on average in the past three years.

“The long-term trend of rising homi-cide is one that we need to work on sub-stantially reversing,” Abraham said. “I think it is too early to determine whether or not any new tactics or approaches have been able to do this.”

At this time last year, the city had recorded two murders, en route to a three-year low of 17 homicides.

Contact LORENZO LIGATO at [email protected] .

Gonzalez said. He added that he is unsure whether rumors of such incidents are true, but student members on the task force emphasized that even the perception of potential con-sequences could deter stu-dents from calling for help when needed.

The task force also discussed methods of consolidating and clarifying both alcohol policies and practices, Fiddler said.

“Every case that requires medical help is di"erent, so it’s impossible — and unwise — to create a single policy that covers every situation,” Dean of Stu-dent Affairs Marichal Gentry, who chaired the task force, said in a Tuesday e-mail. “However, it’s fair to say that any student who needs medical help because of intoxication should expect to be referred, usually by their res-idential college dean, for follow-up counseling.”

Fiddler said intoxicated stu-dents who go to Yale Health or Yale New-Haven are asked to meet with Marie Baker, a clinical psychologist at Yale Health, and, in most cases, their residential college dean. He added that the meetings are about health rather than discipline.

Students are required to appear before the Executive Committee in a small num-ber of situations, Gentry said, such as when they are hospital-ized for intoxication multiple times or when a separate vio-lation of undergraduate regu-lations accompanies alcohol-related issues. Still, not all cases that appear before the Executive Committee result in disciplinary action, Gentry added.

The latest Executive Com-mittee report, which describes

cases from spring 2012, stated that the majority of cases that did not result in disciplinary action from ExComm involved alcohol-related violations of University policy. Twenty-two of the 80 cases that did not result in disciplinary action involved transports to the hos-pital.

“It is my hope that stu-dents will continue to call the Yale Police promptly when a fellow student is in need of help because of alcohol abuse, whether at an event or as a result of drinking in their rooms and apartments, and that we will maintain a sense of community that encourages people to do so,” said Carol Jacobs, chair of the 2011-’12 Yale College Executive Committee, in the report.

Discipline was the main pol-icy issue discussed during the task force, but student mem-bers also informed adminis-trators about current drinking practices, Gonzalez said, namely that high-risk drinking takes place in suites rather than fra-ternities or o"-campus parties.

The task force met nine times since it was formed.

Contact CYNTHIA HUA at [email protected] .

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BY PAYAL MARATHESTAFF REPORTER

After serving on the Fresh-man Class Council and the Yale College Council, Kyle Tramonte ’15 said he hopes to take an even more active role in campus poli-tics as YCC vice president.

Tramonte said his goals for the position involve tackling what he sees as the two greatest chal-lenges to the YCC — unrespon-siveness from administrators and the student body’s negative per-ception of student government. While the responsibilities of the vice president are traditionally not well defined, Tramonte said he hopes to carve out a role simi-lar to a “YPU whip,” in which he acts as a facilitator among YCC members working on certain tasks.

He said he plans to “[sit] down with [the] administration to carve a new role” for the YCC in which students are consulted before administrators announce new policy changes. But Tramonte said he is also realistic about how

effectively student outcry can lead to change.

“It’ll be di!cult — to say the least — because Yale is conserva-tive with respect to its own poli-cies,” Tramonte said. “[The YCC] can’t just push through policies on the grounds that students are in favor of them.”

He thinks the YCC should work within the University’s decision-making framework to confront issues such as revising Yale’s grading policy and declin-ing summer financial aid contri-butions.

Another of Tramonte’s goals as vice president is to encour-age increased student interest in YCC activity since he thinks that interest has declined over the past two years. He said he thinks students appreciated the YCC’s “triumph” of postponing the faculty vote on grading but added that the council must continue improving its reputation for e!-cacy.

“We’ll know we’ve done well if next year every race is contested,” Tramonte said. This year, three

candidates are running unop-posed.

Eric Stern ’15, who worked with Tramonte when the can-didate was treasurer of the Yale College Democrats, said he thinks Tramonte did an “amaz-ing job bringing the [the Col-lege Democrats] up to date” and that Tramonte’s “southern hos-pitality” makes him friendly and approachable.

Omar Nije ’13, former YCC vice president, said Tramonte is prepared for the job because he has a clear vision for the role of vice president and is a “brilliant communicator.”

“He won’t simply be a mouth-piece for the student body — he’ll be a real advocate for the student body,” Nije said.

As a YCC member this year, Tramonte has worked most closely with the Center for Inter-national and Professional Expe-rience and Undergraduate Career Services.

Contact PAYAL MARATHE at [email protected] .

BY EMMA GOLDBERGSTAFF REPORTER

Four months after becoming vice president of the Yale College Council, Danny Avraham ’15 has led the charge against changes to Yale’s grading policy and reorga-nized the YCC’s internal struc-ture.

Now Avraham is running for YCC president in an uncontested election, and he plans to spear-head initiatives that will make the YCC “stronger and more relevant” on campus. As far as his new role is concerned, Avraham hopes to overhaul alcohol policy and cre-ate academic minors. But in order to accomplish his goals, he said he will restructure the YCC executive board to promote e!ciency.

“The YCC’s organizational structure isn’t conducive to fol-lowing through on everything we

want to do for the student body,” Avraham said. “It’s critical that the student body feels YCC can be a helpful organization.”

As president, Avraham said he will create three new executive board positions — directors for academics, student life and Uni-versity facilities & services. He said he also hopes to improve the council’s institutional memory by documenting previous YCC proj-ects on an online platform.

Other initiatives he proposes aim to improve student life. Avra-ham said he plans to reform the University’s alcohol policy to focus administrators on safety rather than discipline, adding that he hopes to ensure that lead-ers of student organizations can-not be disciplined by the Execu-tive Committee if guests at their events violate University alcohol restrictions. His plans for aca-

demic reform include introducing blind TA grading, restoring read-ing period to its previous length and developing a proposal for a program that allows secondary concentrations, similar to minors, based on research he has con-ducted this year.

Though Avraham’s future as president hardly depends on the outcome of the election, students can expect to find him knocking on their doors this week to cam-paign. Avraham’s campaign man-ager Jeremy Hutton ’15 said they have arranged to meet with a vari-ety of student organizations in the coming days. Current YCC Presi-dent John Gonzalez ’14 said one of Avraham’s strengths is his ability to connect with diverse constitu-encies on campus.

Avraham served in the Israeli military for four years before he came to Yale and he is currently 24 years old. But his friends and co-workers said his unconventional experiences will not preclude him from relating to the student body.

“He recognizes that he’s from a di"erent background, and he’s taking strides to understand Yale undergraduate college life,” Gon-zalez said. “He also brings unique insights as an international stu-dent.”

YCC members elected Avra-ham to serve as vice president on Jan. 20 after former Vice Presi-dent Debby Abramov ’14 stepped down. As vice president, Avraham asked each YCC representative to take ownership over an individual project, abolishing the system of

committees that had previously managed YCC initiatives. Gonza-lez said Avraham stepped into his new role quickly and easily.

As chair of the YCC Academics Committee, Avraham is working to reform the Credit/D/Fail pol-icy so students can retroactively convert two letter grades into the Credit/D/Fail option.

Avraham’s YCC colleagues describe him as a personable indi-vidual who listens to others.

“Rumpus gave Danny the award for ‘best smile’ and I think that’s indicative of his friendly and approachable personality,” Daven-port YCC representative Djenab Conde ’15 said.

Aside from his involvement with YCC, Avraham is an Admis-sions O!ce tour guide and a Yale Refugee Project volunteer.

Contact EMMA GOLDBERG at [email protected] .

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D A N N Y AV R A H A M ’ 1 5

Branford CollegeEthics, Politics & Economics Tel Aviv, IsraelAge: 24

ACTIVITIESAdmissions O!ce tour guide, Yale Refugee Project volunteer

PLATFORMOverhaul of University alcohol policy, restructuring of YCC executive board, creation of academic minors, YCC communication with student athletes

KY L E T RA M O N T E ’ 1 5

Saybrook CollegeEconomics Galveston, TexasAge: 20

ACTIVITIESYale College Council, Yale College Democrats

PLATFORMGet students better access to the administration, make student voices heard in the grading policy debate, get the student body more interested in the YCC

The Yale College Council candidatesO N T H E N E X T T H R E E PA G E S , T H E N E W S P R E S E N T S T H E C A N D I D A T E S ,

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The president is responsible for leading the YCC in all of its inititatives and ensuring the constant improvement of the organization. The president serves as the main liaison to the administration.

The vice president is responsible for running the internal a!airs of the council and leading the council on all main policy projects. The vice president should also proactively approach student groups and organizations to see how the YCC can collaborate with them to improve student life.

The vice president is also in charge of moderating elections.

He reocognizes that he’s from a di!erent background, and he’s taking strides to understand Yale and undergraduate college life.

JOHN GONZALEZ ‘14YCC President

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Trumbull CollegeGlobal A"airs, Security track Paris, FranceAge: 19

ACTIVITIESInternational Editor of The Yale Politic, co-founder of The Myanmar Project, Sig Ep

PLATFORMCreating an additional Fall Music Festival, adding more evening social gatherings, expanding events that occur o"-campus to integrate Yale and the New Haven community, and increasing student input about YCC events by establishing a clear contact person

EVENTS DIRECTORThe events director is responsible for planning and executing YCC’s main events,

including Spring Fling, Fall Show and Mr. Yale. Some other examples of YCC events include World Food Fair (Fall Festival), Fall Comedy Show, Iron Chef, Pep Rally and

the Yale-Harvard Dance. Additionally, the events director is tasked with forming the Spring Fling Committee.

BY HANNAH SCHWARZSTAFF REPORTER

As the uncontested candidate for YCC events director, Eli Rivkin ’15 hopes to show-case all of Yale’s talents.

While Rivkin plans to continue the tra-ditions of the “Fall Show” and “Last Comic Standing,” he said he feels YCC events show-casing “student musical talent” are lacking. This academic year, he spearheaded a two-hour event at Ko"ee on Audobon, which fea-tured performances by student musicians.

Rivkin joined the YCC as an associate at the start of his freshman year. A member of YCC’s events committee for the past two years, Rivkin served on this year’s Spring Fling committee and led last fall’s “Last Comic Standing.”

Rivkin said he is suited for the job because he has a vision for the future and the experi-ence to put that vision into practice.

“On day one, I’d be able to immedi-ately facilitate those discussions [between YCC members],” he said, adding that his approachability is an asset. His e"orts to constantly walk around and talk to fellow students makes it easy for them to come to him with suggestions, he said.

Rivkin’s friends said he fits the bill for the position of events director because he is

organized and likes to have fun.“His room is spotless,” his suitemate Jack

Schlossberg ’15 said.Andrea Villena ’15, YCC secretary, said

Rivkin is “detail-oriented,” a quality nec-essary to put together a successful event. Rivkin is also able to keep track of venues, pubicity and audience types, she said, and is able to approach problems from every angle.

“Eli works hard and plays hard, so [events director] is a perfect role for him” said Edward Han Myo Oo ’15, Rivkin’s friend and fellow co-founder of the Myanmar Project. While Rivkin likes social events and par-ties — he went to Cancun for spring break — Myo Oo said there are many sides to Rivkin’s personality. Rivkin backpacks and led a high school photography trip to Myanmar, which he has visited three times.

According to Schlossberg, Rivkin also gets things done.

“Eli hates cockroaches, so when he saw one crawling on the floor of the room, he personally saw to it that the exterminator was at the door within 30 minutes,” he said.

Rivkin was born in Los Angeles, but attended high school in Paris, where he cur-rently lives.

Contact HANNAH SCHWARZ at [email protected] .

BY JOSEPH TISCHSTAFF REPORTER

Zenas Han ’15 hopes to apply the skills he learned through a semester away from Yale as chair of the Undergraduate Organizing Com-mittee.

Han, one of four candidates for UOC chair, said he has no experience on any of Yale’s stu-dent councils but aims to bring clarity and accessibility to the UOC’s funding and equip-ment-rental processes. After spending last fall at a tech incubator in Philadelphia working to launch Altair Prep, an online tutoring startup, Han said he plans to build on his experience trying to obtain funding by heading the cam-pus organization that grants it to others.

“I know exactly how di!cult it is,” Han said of the application process, adding that he plans to give organizations clear criteria they must meet in order to receive funding. He said he also plans to give feedback to groups whose requests for funding are denied or not fully met about why they did not receive their requested funding.

Additionally, Han intends to expand the UOC’s Capital Equipment Rental Program “both in scope and accessibility.” He hopes to o"er a greater variety of equipment and hold UOC liaisons accountable for making sure items are properly set up and in good working condition.

“There’s no inspection [and] there’s no quality control as of right now,” Han said. “And if there is, then they’re not doing a very good job.”

Han said he is confident in his abilities, adding that he is not running for any “super-ficial” reasons — only because he truly feels he is the best person for the job. He said he will approach the UOC in the same way he approached his startup — by finding small steps to take in the direction of a larger vision.

“It’s not a matter of saying this should

be done,” Han said. “It’s a matter of find-ing actionable things that could be accom-plished.”

Joseph Murdy ’15, one of Han’s suitemates and a fellow brother in the Sigma Alpha Epsi-lon fraternity, noted Han’s competency, pointing to how Han and his partners devel-oped a company that has been valued at three-million dollars from scratch.

“He’s a pretty driven kid. He’s on top of his stu",” said SAE President Michael Wolner ’14, who also serves as Financial Coordinator for Dwight Hall.

Han is currently a member of the club rugby team, eminent recorder for SAE and on the business team for the Yale Economic Review.

Contact JOSEPH TISCH at [email protected].

BY COLLEEN FLYNNSTAFF REPORTER

Through her student government experience, Leigh Hamilton ’15 said she knows budgets.

Hamilton, who is running for Yale College Council treasurer, has served as Berkeley College Council secretary and a member of the YCC 10K committee this year, and she said her participation

in the YCC events and academics committees has prepared her to address the challenges a treasurer faces. She said she hopes to bring more flexibility and transparency to the YCC budget.

Hamilton said “I think a treasurer should be cognizant of the fact that there will be great last-minute and spontaneous ideas, and that should be built into the budget so that those events can hap-pen,” she said.

A lack of funding has thwarted several creative ideas for YCC events this year, Hamilton said. As treasurer, Hamilton added that she hopes to work closely with the YCC events director to provide funding for projects that arise throughout the year.

Hamilton said she plans to publish a projected budget at the start of term and a final budget at the end — both of which would be released to the student body. This year, the YCC did not vote on its budget until halfway through spring semester, Hamilton said.

“As it is, there is a lot of power for the treasurer to just use money as they see fit,” she said, adding that she hopes to include student opinion in her decision-making as treasurer.

She added that she will continue working on projects she has taken up this year. She plans to alter the structure of the 10K Challenge to ensure that ideas are selected and implemented in the same year, adding that funds for the project have not been allocated for two years.

Danny Avraham ’15, who is running uncon-tested for YCC president, said Hamilton played an important role on the academics committee, which he chaired this year.

“She is extremely responsible, and she took a lot of initiative to propose new ideas and then follow through with them,” he said.

Outside student government, Hamilton holds a leadership role in Pi Beta Phi sorority, plays on the women’s club soccer team and serves as a Berkeley College master’s aide.

Contact COLLEEN FLYNN at [email protected] .

BY LAVINIA BORZISTAFF REPORTER

Grant Fergusson ’16 said he plans to emphasize how the Undergraduate Orga-nizations Committee can serve as a sup-port network for organizations rather than an administrative unit for funding.

Fergusson, who is one of four candi-dates running for the position of UOC chair, said he hopes to di"erentiate him-self by not relying on an “aggressive” campaign. Rather, he is concentrating on informing people and ensuring students fully understand his platform.

“I won’t give out cookies and buttons,” Fergusson said. “I like to call those bribes.”

Fergusson said that from his experience with student groups, mainly the Freshman Class Council and Duke’s Men of Yale, he has noticed a large discrepancy between organizations that receive a great deal of funding and support from the administra-tion and others that receive little to none.

As UOC chair, Fergusson said he would both equalize funding and attempt to de-emphasize its importance, highlighting instead the variety of support services the UOC can o"er. He said, for instance, that he hopes to design a handbook that will help organizations learn how to increase their campus presence and request fund-ing.

Fergusson added that he will try to increase the transparency and accessibil-ity of UOC services.

“I want to make sure that people who are passionate about something can feel that it’s an accessible thing to do rather than this maze,” Fergusson said. Fergusson says that as UOC chair, his

accessible nature — his commitment to checking email “neurotically,” and always putting students’ needs and time con-straints above his own — would be a strength. When asked about a weakness, Fergusson admitted that his willingness “to make everyone happy” could make it di!cult for him to say no to students requesting funding and other resources.

Darien Lee ’16, who is helping Fer-gusson with his campaign, said Fergus-son would be “100 percent committed” to his position, adding that the candidate is always willing to help others out. Alex Carrillo ’16, Fergusson’s roommate, said

that while Fergusson is an “honest per-son,” he is also very “diplomatic.”

“He is not the person who will tell you look fat in a dress,” Carrillo said.

Brooke Eastman ’16, who works on the FCC with Fergusson, noted that while the race is competitive, Fergusson has the advantage of being “a great listener” in addition to a “good leader.”

Fergusson is the co-chair of this year’s Freshman Olympics, which will take place on April 13.

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at

[email protected] .

BY JASMINE HORSEYSTAFF REPORTER

As treasurer of the Yale College Council, Eugene Yi ’15 aims to make the Council a more active and repre-sentative voice for the student body.

Given the upcoming transition among University and New Haven leadership — in the fall, Yale will see a new president and admissions dean and New Haven

will acquire for a new mayor — Yi thinks the YCC has a unique opportunity to “try and build a new rela-tionship” with the newly appointed administrators. Yi believes that building these relationships will also involve improving the dialogue between the YCC and the student body so the YCC can better represent stu-dent interests. Currently, he added, student opinion is gauged mostly through online e"orts such as sur-veys — an overused and impersonal strategy.

“Obviously it’s really easy to send out surveys, but we get tired of doing them,” he said. “I think they can be done in a better way. We can work with UOC and maybe other student leaders on campus towards a better solution.”

Yi said he intends to ensure that student input is considered before administrators finalize new poli-cies, including the new grading policy and perceived alcohol crackdown, because “most of us are against changing the grades and alcohol policy coming down like a hammer.”

As treasurer, Yi also hopes to change the YCC’s budget allocation and make it more transparent. This year, the funds allocated for the 10K initiative were reabsorbed into the YCC budget instead of used for a proposed project, he said, adding that the money should have been better managed. He also plans to introduce smaller measures, including the option to change Yale ID photos, the establishment of a new pay-as-you-go on-campus meal plan, and the instal-lation of Wifi in the Yale University Art Gallery.

As a YCC member this year, Yi spent time working on a referendum system to facilitate student feedback that was approved Sunday.

YCC member Mohammad Salhut ’14 said that although the YCC itself has been “disappointing this year,” Yi has stood out from other YCC members because he “is the type of guy who will include every-body’s opinion.”

Yi previously served as investment head of the Yale Student Investment Group and started an invest-ment firm called Refraction Capital LLC with a group of undergraduates.

Contact JASMINE HORSEY at [email protected] .

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUESCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Ben Ackerman ’16 asks students a simple ques-tion: “Who wouldn’t want more Benjamins?”

Ackerman, one of four candidates running to chair the Undergraduate Organizations Commit-tee, said he wants to streamline the current funding process. His platform has six key points that involve simplifying and updating the way student organiza-tions receive money, share information and reserve facilities. He added that he not only wants to direct financial changes in the UOC but also increase com-munication between student groups.

“I want to bring students into the fold of student government,” Ackerman said.

Ackerman describes himself as positive, ener-getic and outgoing. This year, he served on the Yale College Council as an associate member and web-master. Ackerman said his experience working with University administrators has allowed him to be involved with a number of projects, including the Bike Share program.

But over the past year, Ackerman said he has real-ized that the current UOC funding process is “cum-bersome.”

“It provides unnecessary stress that kids don’t need,” Ackerman said.

In order to a"ect change, Ackerman breaks down his platform into six key points: “Easy funding, easy room reservations, easy communication, easy equipment rental, easy representation, easy infor-mation.” He added that the emphasis is on making the funding process accessible.

Ackerman explained that from his time on the YCC, he has realized that students are incredibly devoted to their extracurricular activities. The pro-cess of receiving funding from the UOC is unclear,

and the information is not well-presented, he said. He wants to make the entire process easier so stu-dents can spend more time organizing events rather than hassling for money.

To improve the system, Ackerman hopes to rede-sign the UOC website. Since he is the YCC webmas-ter and designed his campaign’s page, he believes he is uniquely positioned to achieve this goal.

“I think I can e"ectively make the changes that need to be made,” Ackerman added.

Current UOC Chair Aly Moore ’14 said in an email that while Ackerman does not have previous UOC board experience, he is passionate about his proj-ects and adopts leadership roles. Still, Moore cau-tioned that any candidate not already on the UOC

board would have di!culty catching up, though she added that she is “confident [Ben] would put in the time to do so.”

Fellow YCC council member Eugene Yi ’15, who is running for YCC treasurer, has worked extensively with Ackerman. He said Ackerman’s ability to orga-nize and work hard will serve him well as UOC chair.

“Ben is a miracle worker,” Yi said. “I full-heart-edly endorse him.”

Beyond the YCC, Ackerman serves on the Stu-dent Technology Collaborative Developer Steering Committee and is a member of Squash Haven.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at [email protected] .

BY DHRUV AGGARWALSTAFF REPORTER

Brian Lei ’16 hopes that, as the only candidate with experience serving on the Undergraduate Organizations Committee, Yale students will elect him the group’s chair.

This year, Lei was a member of the UOC execu-tive board and held the position of capital equip-ment director last semester. Emphasizing the organization’s diverse responsibilities, he said he is the only candidate who truly knows how the UOC works — unlike other candidates, who Lei says are making unsubstantiated claims about transparency, e!ciency and increased funding without understanding the organization’s struc-ture.

“Money doesn’t grown on trees,” Lei said. “You can’t just promise more funding if you have a set budget.”

Lei added that electing a chair from outside the UOC’s current executive board will lead to a loss of momentum. Lei said he already knows about cur-rent developments in the pipline, as well as how to prioritize certain events over others. He explained that he thinks events featuring community ser-vice or famous speakers should be given priority over those whose main priority is giving free food to undergraduates.

“[Other candidates] would start from square one and by the time they figure it out, the school year will be gone already,” he said. “We can’t go back to square one every school year.”

The reforms Lei envisages include designing a new and less cumbersome banking system — an umbrella UOC account that would replace the current practice of reimbursing individual stu-dent organizations for their expenditures.

He added that the UOC has no room for error: The organization faciliates student groups in all ways possible, both financially and by provid-ing resources for publicity and room reservation. The importance of these functions prompted him to begin redesigning the capital equipment web-site. He said he has also started working with Bass Media Technology to ensure that its machines are reliable and do not malfunction.

Lei added that he has worked closely with John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources, and administrative o!ces.

Aly Moore ’14, current chair of the UOC, said in an email that Lei is “detail oriented and orga-nized”, adding that she would call him first “if an

emergency came up that needed to be handled with both haste and care.”

A freshman in Calhoun, Lei is from Poughkeep-sie, N.Y and plans to major in both Economics and Mathematics. He is also involved in the Yale Stu-dent Investment Group and plays for both the Saybrook college orchestra and the Yale Sym-phony Orchestra. He also teaches for Yale Splash, a community service initiative where Yale stu-dents teach classes to middle and high school stu-dents for a day.

Contact DHRUV AGGARWAL at [email protected] .

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ELECTION PREVIEW

E U G E N E Y I ’ 1 5

Timothy Dwight CollegeUndeclaredLared0, TexasAge: 20

ACTIVITIESYale College Council Representative, Fossil Free Yale, Timothy Dwight Housing Committee, Refraction Capital LLC, Fence Club

PLATFORMCreate a cohesive forum for policy initiatives, increase the e"ectiveness of the YCC in regards toward new administration, execute 10K projects, improve/increase the transparency of the YCC budget, create larger selection of meal plans

R O H A N G O S WA M I ’ 1 5

Ezra Stiles CollegeUndeclaredTowson, Md.Age: 19

ACTIVITIESPitches and Drums, YCC Ezra Stiles Rep, The Yale Banner, Master’s aide andYIRA

PLATFORMIntroduce Grade Cover initiative, which would allow students to ‘hide’ two grades on their transcript, improve online system for room reservations, launch Durfee dinner swipes

A N D R E W G R A S S ’ 1 6

Jonathan Edwards CollegeEconomics and Global A"airs (prospective)Sarasota, Fla.Age: 18

ACTIVITIESFreshman Class Council chair, Yale College Council associate member, Special Assistant to the Director of the Yale Young Global Scholars program

PLATFORMEnsure emails are clear, concise and e"ective, improve the YCC website, increase the YCC social media presence, improve forums for seeking student input, streamline internal YCC communications

L E I G H H A M I LT O N ’ 1 5

Berkeley CollegeEconomics and Political Science C0lorado Springs, Colo.Age: 19

ACTIVITIESYCC Council Member, secretary of Berkeley College Council, Vice President of Administration of Pi Beta Phi, Women’s Club Soccer team, Berkeley master’s aide

PLATFORMMore flexibility in the budget to allow for spontaneous events, reform 10K challenge, budget transparency, play a leadership role in committees as well as fulfilling role of treasurer

B R I A N L E I ’ 1 6

Calhoun CollegeEconomics and Mathematics Poughkeepsie, N.Y.Age: 18

ACTIVITIESYale Symphony Orchestra, member of UOC Exec Board, Yale Student Investment Group, Saybrook College Orchestra

PLATFORMNew UOC banking system, more reliable capital equipment provision, prioritizing more important events

Z E N A S H A N ’ 1 5

Davenport CollegeEconomicsMarietta, Ga.Age: 20

ACTIVITIESBusiness team for Yale Economics Review, SAE, Rugby

PLATFORM Increase transparency for funding, expand scope of and accessibility to capital equipment

B E N A C K E R M A N ’ 1 6

Timothy Dwight Computer ScienceNew Rochelle, N.Y.Age: 18

ACTIVITIESYCC webmaster, member of the TD college council, serves on the Tra!c Safety Committee and the Student Technology Collaborative Developer Steering Committee, Squash Haven and the Yale College Democrats

PLATFORM Easy funding, easy room reservations, easy communication, easy equipment rental, easy representation, easy information

SECRETARYThe YCC secretary is responsible for external communications for the council. This includes drafting campus-wide emails, communicating with outside groups, responding to student

questions concerning YCC initiatives, managing the website and fulfilling other roles neces-sary for achieving greater student understanding of the council.

TREASURERThe treasurer is responsible for managing the YCC’s finances, leading e!orts to secure funding for council activities and ensuring transparency in the council’s spending.

The treasurer meets with the assistant dean of student a!airs, works closely with the events director and other council members to ensure appropriate funding of events and coordinates UOC special events funding with the UOC chair.

UNDERGRADUATE ORGANIZATIONS COMMITTEE CHAIRThe UOC chair is responsible for leading UOC board meetings, assigning funding applications to UOC

liaisons, supervising the Capital Equipment Project and overseeing events funding.

G R A N T F E R G U S S O N ’ 1 6

Branford CollegeUndeclaredAtlanta, Ga.Age: 18

ACTIVITIES FCC Branford representative, FCC Social Chair, Co-Chair of the Freshman Olympics, Duke’s Men of Yale

PLATFORMMore accessibility and transparency, less emphasis on funding and more emphasis on creating a support network for organizations

BY JACOB WOLF-SOROKINCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Andrew Grass ’16 believes the most important task of the Yale College Council secretary is to streamline communication and make the organi-zation more e"ective.

Grass, who currently serves as Freshman Class Council chair and as an associate member of the Yale College Council, said he would focus on inter-nal and external communications as secretary.

“[YCC] would be my number one extracurricu-lar commitment,” he said. “I want to see it through to the end.”

Students want easy access to the most impor-tant information from the YCC, Grass said. He hopes to revamp YCC emails to ensure they are clear, concise and readable.

Building o" his experience in the FCC, Grass — who wrote the YCC’s campus safety report — wants to bolster the organization’s social media presence to advertise events and solicit student input.

“Social media has an advantage of [being] a less intrusive way to remind people of what’s going on,” he said.

For his campaign, Grass built a website to explain his platform — if elected, he hopes to lead an upgrade of the YCC website to make it more useful.

Part of his platform involves streamlining inter-nal YCC communications. For representatives to be most e"ective, he said, they need to have easy access to all YCC information including studies, survey results and minutes. Grass wants to develop the website in such a way that makes internal information accessible.

He said he thinks every board has much to learn

from preceding leaders. To this end, Grass hopes to help develop an organizational history that allows board members to learn from one another, an ini-tiative he said would improve internal communi-cation and make the YCC more e"ective as new members could learn from the successes and fail-ures of previous YCC leaders.

Grass is an approachable and realistic leader, said Michael Leopold ’16, the current FCC vice-chair.

“He’s always just a very ethical guy with a strong moral fiber. It’s often unnoticed,” Leopold said. “I just feel like Andrew is a guy you can trust. You can trust him to lead a team to whatever its goal is.”

FCC Director of Outreach Brooke Eastman ’16 said Grass is one of the nicest and most genuine people she knows at Yale, adding that he would be a “crucial” part of next year’s YCC executive board if elected.

When not reading for Directed Studies, Grass plays intramural basketball for Jonathan Edwards College and watches one of his favorite TV shows at the West Wing Weekly club.

Contact JACOB WOLF-SOROKIN at [email protected] .

BY APSARA IYERSTAFF REPORTER

When Rohan Goswami ’15 receives a text, friends say it is not long before he replies with advice or suggestions. His communication skills and accessibility are what supporters feel make him the ideal candidate for secretary of the Yale College Council.

“The role of secretary is really focused on com-munication and distribution of information,” Gos-wami said. “I feel the YCC secretary has the capac-ity to be a moderator, going between students and administrators.”

Described by his campaign manager, Arash Fereydooni ’15, as “a factory machine that pro-duces ideas,” Goswami said his platform focuses on academics, extracurricular work and student services.

Three of Goswami’s eight outlined goals deal with academics, specifically increasing student flexibility and grading transparency. Goswami hopes to start a Grade Cover initiative, already in place at John Hopkins and Princeton, which

allows students to “hide” grades in two of their courses on their transcript. He plans on including final grade distributions for classes on Yale Online Course Information (OCI) and having professors release midterm grade distributions.

Goswami also plans to improve the online sys-tem for room reservations and increase access to Undergraduate Organizations Funding Commit-tee funding.

“I’m in a lot of science classes, so I definitely appreciate his e"orts with the grading policies,” said Ilana Scandariato ’15, who created Goswani’s campaign Facebook page. “Also being involved in a lot of clubs has made me feel his ideas for making room reservations easier is really good.”

His proposed student services policies include launching Durfee dinner swipes and extending HBO GO to Yale.

This year, Goswami has served as a YCC repre-sentative on the dining and events committees. He was on the Ezra Stiles Class Council for the past two years, an experience Goswami credited with motivating his YCC bid, as he wanted to see how the college fits into the larger picture of student government and student life.

“He’s really involved in the Yale community, and I think the di"erent activities have given him a keen awareness of what he needs to do to help improve the Yale experience for everyone,” Stile-sian Obssa Bizuwork ’15 said.

Outside of his work with student government, Goswami works as a Master’s aide in Ezra Stiles, sings a cappella, debates with the YPU and partic-ipates in YIRA events.

Contact APSARA IYER at [email protected] .

[Goswami’s] di!erent activities have given him a keen awareness of what he needs to do to improve the Yale experience for everyone.

OBSSA BIZUWORK ’15

He’s always just a very ethical guy with a strong moral fiber … I just feel like Andrew is a guy you can trust.

MICHAEL LEOPOLD ‘16Vice-chair, Freshman Class Council

It’s not a matter of saying this should be done, it’s a matter of finding actionable things that could be accomplished.

ZENAS HAN ’15Candidate, UOC chair

I want to make sure that people who are passionate about something can feel that it’s an accessible thing to do.

GRANT FERGUSSON ’16UOC chair candidate

BY JOSEPH TISCHSTAFF REPORTER

Zenas Han ’15 hopes to apply the skills he learned through a semester away from Yale as chair of the Undergraduate Organizing Com-mittee.

Han, one of four candidates for UOC chair, said he has no experience on any of Yale’s stu-dent councils but aims to bring clarity and accessibility to the UOC’s funding and equip-ment-rental processes. After spending last fall at a tech incubator in Philadelphia working to launch Altair Prep, an online tutoring startup, Han said he plans to build on his experience trying to obtain funding by heading the cam-pus organization that grants it to others.

“I know exactly how di!cult it is,” Han said of the application process, adding that he plans to give organizations clear criteria they must meet in order to receive funding. He said he also plans to give feedback to groups whose requests for funding are denied or not fully met about why they did not receive their requested funding.

Additionally, Han intends to expand the UOC’s Capital Equipment Rental Program “both in scope and accessibility.” He hopes to o"er a greater variety of equipment and hold UOC liaisons accountable for making sure items are properly set up and in good working condition.

“There’s no inspection [and] there’s no quality control as of right now,” Han said. “And if there is, then they’re not doing a very good job.”

Han said he is confident in his abilities, adding that he is not running for any “super-ficial” reasons — only because he truly feels he is the best person for the job. He said he will approach the UOC in the same way he approached his startup — by finding small steps to take in the direction of a larger vision.

“It’s not a matter of saying this should

be done,” Han said. “It’s a matter of find-ing actionable things that could be accom-plished.”

Joseph Murdy ’15, one of Han’s suitemates and a fellow brother in the Sigma Alpha Epsi-lon fraternity, noted Han’s competency, pointing to how Han and his partners devel-oped a company that has been valued at three-million dollars from scratch.

“He’s a pretty driven kid. He’s on top of his stu",” said SAE President Michael Wolner ’14, who also serves as Financial Coordinator for Dwight Hall.

Han is currently a member of the club rugby team, eminent recorder for SAE and on the business team for the Yale Economic Review.

Contact JOSEPH TISCH at [email protected].

BY COLLEEN FLYNNSTAFF REPORTER

Through her student government experience, Leigh Hamilton ’15 said she knows budgets.

Hamilton, who is running for Yale College Council treasurer, has served as Berkeley College Council secretary and a member of the YCC 10K committee this year, and she said her participation

in the YCC events and academics committees has prepared her to address the challenges a treasurer faces. She said she hopes to bring more flexibility and transparency to the YCC budget.

Hamilton said “I think a treasurer should be cognizant of the fact that there will be great last-minute and spontaneous ideas, and that should be built into the budget so that those events can hap-pen,” she said.

A lack of funding has thwarted several creative ideas for YCC events this year, Hamilton said. As treasurer, Hamilton added that she hopes to work closely with the YCC events director to provide funding for projects that arise throughout the year.

Hamilton said she plans to publish a projected budget at the start of term and a final budget at the end — both of which would be released to the student body. This year, the YCC did not vote on its budget until halfway through spring semester, Hamilton said.

“As it is, there is a lot of power for the treasurer to just use money as they see fit,” she said, adding that she hopes to include student opinion in her decision-making as treasurer.

She added that she will continue working on projects she has taken up this year. She plans to alter the structure of the 10K Challenge to ensure that ideas are selected and implemented in the same year, adding that funds for the project have not been allocated for two years.

Danny Avraham ’15, who is running uncon-tested for YCC president, said Hamilton played an important role on the academics committee, which he chaired this year.

“She is extremely responsible, and she took a lot of initiative to propose new ideas and then follow through with them,” he said.

Outside student government, Hamilton holds a leadership role in Pi Beta Phi sorority, plays on the women’s club soccer team and serves as a Berkeley College master’s aide.

Contact COLLEEN FLYNN at [email protected] .

BY LAVINIA BORZISTAFF REPORTER

Grant Fergusson ’16 said he plans to emphasize how the Undergraduate Orga-nizations Committee can serve as a sup-port network for organizations rather than an administrative unit for funding.

Fergusson, who is one of four candi-dates running for the position of UOC chair, said he hopes to di"erentiate him-self by not relying on an “aggressive” campaign. Rather, he is concentrating on informing people and ensuring students fully understand his platform.

“I won’t give out cookies and buttons,” Fergusson said. “I like to call those bribes.”

Fergusson said that from his experience with student groups, mainly the Freshman Class Council and Duke’s Men of Yale, he has noticed a large discrepancy between organizations that receive a great deal of funding and support from the administra-tion and others that receive little to none.

As UOC chair, Fergusson said he would both equalize funding and attempt to de-emphasize its importance, highlighting instead the variety of support services the UOC can o"er. He said, for instance, that he hopes to design a handbook that will help organizations learn how to increase their campus presence and request fund-ing.

Fergusson added that he will try to increase the transparency and accessibil-ity of UOC services.

“I want to make sure that people who are passionate about something can feel that it’s an accessible thing to do rather than this maze,” Fergusson said. Fergusson says that as UOC chair, his

accessible nature — his commitment to checking email “neurotically,” and always putting students’ needs and time con-straints above his own — would be a strength. When asked about a weakness, Fergusson admitted that his willingness “to make everyone happy” could make it di!cult for him to say no to students requesting funding and other resources.

Darien Lee ’16, who is helping Fer-gusson with his campaign, said Fergus-son would be “100 percent committed” to his position, adding that the candidate is always willing to help others out. Alex Carrillo ’16, Fergusson’s roommate, said

that while Fergusson is an “honest per-son,” he is also very “diplomatic.”

“He is not the person who will tell you look fat in a dress,” Carrillo said.

Brooke Eastman ’16, who works on the FCC with Fergusson, noted that while the race is competitive, Fergusson has the advantage of being “a great listener” in addition to a “good leader.”

Fergusson is the co-chair of this year’s Freshman Olympics, which will take place on April 13.

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at

[email protected] .

BY JASMINE HORSEYSTAFF REPORTER

As treasurer of the Yale College Council, Eugene Yi ’15 aims to make the Council a more active and repre-sentative voice for the student body.

Given the upcoming transition among University and New Haven leadership — in the fall, Yale will see a new president and admissions dean and New Haven

will acquire for a new mayor — Yi thinks the YCC has a unique opportunity to “try and build a new rela-tionship” with the newly appointed administrators. Yi believes that building these relationships will also involve improving the dialogue between the YCC and the student body so the YCC can better represent stu-dent interests. Currently, he added, student opinion is gauged mostly through online e"orts such as sur-veys — an overused and impersonal strategy.

“Obviously it’s really easy to send out surveys, but we get tired of doing them,” he said. “I think they can be done in a better way. We can work with UOC and maybe other student leaders on campus towards a better solution.”

Yi said he intends to ensure that student input is considered before administrators finalize new poli-cies, including the new grading policy and perceived alcohol crackdown, because “most of us are against changing the grades and alcohol policy coming down like a hammer.”

As treasurer, Yi also hopes to change the YCC’s budget allocation and make it more transparent. This year, the funds allocated for the 10K initiative were reabsorbed into the YCC budget instead of used for a proposed project, he said, adding that the money should have been better managed. He also plans to introduce smaller measures, including the option to change Yale ID photos, the establishment of a new pay-as-you-go on-campus meal plan, and the instal-lation of Wifi in the Yale University Art Gallery.

As a YCC member this year, Yi spent time working on a referendum system to facilitate student feedback that was approved Sunday.

YCC member Mohammad Salhut ’14 said that although the YCC itself has been “disappointing this year,” Yi has stood out from other YCC members because he “is the type of guy who will include every-body’s opinion.”

Yi previously served as investment head of the Yale Student Investment Group and started an invest-ment firm called Refraction Capital LLC with a group of undergraduates.

Contact JASMINE HORSEY at [email protected] .

BY ADRIAN RODRIGUESCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Ben Ackerman ’16 asks students a simple ques-tion: “Who wouldn’t want more Benjamins?”

Ackerman, one of four candidates running to chair the Undergraduate Organizations Commit-tee, said he wants to streamline the current funding process. His platform has six key points that involve simplifying and updating the way student organiza-tions receive money, share information and reserve facilities. He added that he not only wants to direct financial changes in the UOC but also increase com-munication between student groups.

“I want to bring students into the fold of student government,” Ackerman said.

Ackerman describes himself as positive, ener-getic and outgoing. This year, he served on the Yale College Council as an associate member and web-master. Ackerman said his experience working with University administrators has allowed him to be involved with a number of projects, including the Bike Share program.

But over the past year, Ackerman said he has real-ized that the current UOC funding process is “cum-bersome.”

“It provides unnecessary stress that kids don’t need,” Ackerman said.

In order to a"ect change, Ackerman breaks down his platform into six key points: “Easy funding, easy room reservations, easy communication, easy equipment rental, easy representation, easy infor-mation.” He added that the emphasis is on making the funding process accessible.

Ackerman explained that from his time on the YCC, he has realized that students are incredibly devoted to their extracurricular activities. The pro-cess of receiving funding from the UOC is unclear,

and the information is not well-presented, he said. He wants to make the entire process easier so stu-dents can spend more time organizing events rather than hassling for money.

To improve the system, Ackerman hopes to rede-sign the UOC website. Since he is the YCC webmas-ter and designed his campaign’s page, he believes he is uniquely positioned to achieve this goal.

“I think I can e"ectively make the changes that need to be made,” Ackerman added.

Current UOC Chair Aly Moore ’14 said in an email that while Ackerman does not have previous UOC board experience, he is passionate about his proj-ects and adopts leadership roles. Still, Moore cau-tioned that any candidate not already on the UOC

board would have di!culty catching up, though she added that she is “confident [Ben] would put in the time to do so.”

Fellow YCC council member Eugene Yi ’15, who is running for YCC treasurer, has worked extensively with Ackerman. He said Ackerman’s ability to orga-nize and work hard will serve him well as UOC chair.

“Ben is a miracle worker,” Yi said. “I full-heart-edly endorse him.”

Beyond the YCC, Ackerman serves on the Stu-dent Technology Collaborative Developer Steering Committee and is a member of Squash Haven.

Contact ADRIAN RODRIGUES at [email protected] .

BY DHRUV AGGARWALSTAFF REPORTER

Brian Lei ’16 hopes that, as the only candidate with experience serving on the Undergraduate Organizations Committee, Yale students will elect him the group’s chair.

This year, Lei was a member of the UOC execu-tive board and held the position of capital equip-ment director last semester. Emphasizing the organization’s diverse responsibilities, he said he is the only candidate who truly knows how the UOC works — unlike other candidates, who Lei says are making unsubstantiated claims about transparency, e!ciency and increased funding without understanding the organization’s struc-ture.

“Money doesn’t grown on trees,” Lei said. “You can’t just promise more funding if you have a set budget.”

Lei added that electing a chair from outside the UOC’s current executive board will lead to a loss of momentum. Lei said he already knows about cur-rent developments in the pipline, as well as how to prioritize certain events over others. He explained that he thinks events featuring community ser-vice or famous speakers should be given priority over those whose main priority is giving free food to undergraduates.

“[Other candidates] would start from square one and by the time they figure it out, the school year will be gone already,” he said. “We can’t go back to square one every school year.”

The reforms Lei envisages include designing a new and less cumbersome banking system — an umbrella UOC account that would replace the current practice of reimbursing individual stu-dent organizations for their expenditures.

He added that the UOC has no room for error: The organization faciliates student groups in all ways possible, both financially and by provid-ing resources for publicity and room reservation. The importance of these functions prompted him to begin redesigning the capital equipment web-site. He said he has also started working with Bass Media Technology to ensure that its machines are reliable and do not malfunction.

Lei added that he has worked closely with John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources, and administrative o!ces.

Aly Moore ’14, current chair of the UOC, said in an email that Lei is “detail oriented and orga-nized”, adding that she would call him first “if an

emergency came up that needed to be handled with both haste and care.”

A freshman in Calhoun, Lei is from Poughkeep-sie, N.Y and plans to major in both Economics and Mathematics. He is also involved in the Yale Stu-dent Investment Group and plays for both the Saybrook college orchestra and the Yale Sym-phony Orchestra. He also teaches for Yale Splash, a community service initiative where Yale stu-dents teach classes to middle and high school stu-dents for a day.

Contact DHRUV AGGARWAL at [email protected] .

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ELECTION PREVIEW

E U G E N E Y I ’ 1 5

Timothy Dwight CollegeUndeclaredLared0, TexasAge: 20

ACTIVITIESYale College Council Representative, Fossil Free Yale, Timothy Dwight Housing Committee, Refraction Capital LLC, Fence Club

PLATFORMCreate a cohesive forum for policy initiatives, increase the e"ectiveness of the YCC in regards toward new administration, execute 10K projects, improve/increase the transparency of the YCC budget, create larger selection of meal plans

R O H A N G O S WA M I ’ 1 5

Ezra Stiles CollegeUndeclaredTowson, Md.Age: 19

ACTIVITIESPitches and Drums, YCC Ezra Stiles Rep, The Yale Banner, Master’s aide andYIRA

PLATFORMIntroduce Grade Cover initiative, which would allow students to ‘hide’ two grades on their transcript, improve online system for room reservations, launch Durfee dinner swipes

A N D R E W G R A S S ’ 1 6

Jonathan Edwards CollegeEconomics and Global A"airs (prospective)Sarasota, Fla.Age: 18

ACTIVITIESFreshman Class Council chair, Yale College Council associate member, Special Assistant to the Director of the Yale Young Global Scholars program

PLATFORMEnsure emails are clear, concise and e"ective, improve the YCC website, increase the YCC social media presence, improve forums for seeking student input, streamline internal YCC communications

L E I G H H A M I LT O N ’ 1 5

Berkeley CollegeEconomics and Political Science C0lorado Springs, Colo.Age: 19

ACTIVITIESYCC Council Member, secretary of Berkeley College Council, Vice President of Administration of Pi Beta Phi, Women’s Club Soccer team, Berkeley master’s aide

PLATFORMMore flexibility in the budget to allow for spontaneous events, reform 10K challenge, budget transparency, play a leadership role in committees as well as fulfilling role of treasurer

B R I A N L E I ’ 1 6

Calhoun CollegeEconomics and Mathematics Poughkeepsie, N.Y.Age: 18

ACTIVITIESYale Symphony Orchestra, member of UOC Exec Board, Yale Student Investment Group, Saybrook College Orchestra

PLATFORMNew UOC banking system, more reliable capital equipment provision, prioritizing more important events

Z E N A S H A N ’ 1 5

Davenport CollegeEconomicsMarietta, Ga.Age: 20

ACTIVITIESBusiness team for Yale Economics Review, SAE, Rugby

PLATFORM Increase transparency for funding, expand scope of and accessibility to capital equipment

B E N A C K E R M A N ’ 1 6

Timothy Dwight Computer ScienceNew Rochelle, N.Y.Age: 18

ACTIVITIESYCC webmaster, member of the TD college council, serves on the Tra!c Safety Committee and the Student Technology Collaborative Developer Steering Committee, Squash Haven and the Yale College Democrats

PLATFORM Easy funding, easy room reservations, easy communication, easy equipment rental, easy representation, easy information

SECRETARYThe YCC secretary is responsible for external communications for the council. This includes drafting campus-wide emails, communicating with outside groups, responding to student

questions concerning YCC initiatives, managing the website and fulfilling other roles neces-sary for achieving greater student understanding of the council.

TREASURERThe treasurer is responsible for managing the YCC’s finances, leading e!orts to secure funding for council activities and ensuring transparency in the council’s spending.

The treasurer meets with the assistant dean of student a!airs, works closely with the events director and other council members to ensure appropriate funding of events and coordinates UOC special events funding with the UOC chair.

UNDERGRADUATE ORGANIZATIONS COMMITTEE CHAIRThe UOC chair is responsible for leading UOC board meetings, assigning funding applications to UOC

liaisons, supervising the Capital Equipment Project and overseeing events funding.

G R A N T F E R G U S S O N ’ 1 6

Branford CollegeUndeclaredAtlanta, Ga.Age: 18

ACTIVITIES FCC Branford representative, FCC Social Chair, Co-Chair of the Freshman Olympics, Duke’s Men of Yale

PLATFORMMore accessibility and transparency, less emphasis on funding and more emphasis on creating a support network for organizations

BY JACOB WOLF-SOROKINCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Andrew Grass ’16 believes the most important task of the Yale College Council secretary is to streamline communication and make the organi-zation more e"ective.

Grass, who currently serves as Freshman Class Council chair and as an associate member of the Yale College Council, said he would focus on inter-nal and external communications as secretary.

“[YCC] would be my number one extracurricu-lar commitment,” he said. “I want to see it through to the end.”

Students want easy access to the most impor-tant information from the YCC, Grass said. He hopes to revamp YCC emails to ensure they are clear, concise and readable.

Building o" his experience in the FCC, Grass — who wrote the YCC’s campus safety report — wants to bolster the organization’s social media presence to advertise events and solicit student input.

“Social media has an advantage of [being] a less intrusive way to remind people of what’s going on,” he said.

For his campaign, Grass built a website to explain his platform — if elected, he hopes to lead an upgrade of the YCC website to make it more useful.

Part of his platform involves streamlining inter-nal YCC communications. For representatives to be most e"ective, he said, they need to have easy access to all YCC information including studies, survey results and minutes. Grass wants to develop the website in such a way that makes internal information accessible.

He said he thinks every board has much to learn

from preceding leaders. To this end, Grass hopes to help develop an organizational history that allows board members to learn from one another, an ini-tiative he said would improve internal communi-cation and make the YCC more e"ective as new members could learn from the successes and fail-ures of previous YCC leaders.

Grass is an approachable and realistic leader, said Michael Leopold ’16, the current FCC vice-chair.

“He’s always just a very ethical guy with a strong moral fiber. It’s often unnoticed,” Leopold said. “I just feel like Andrew is a guy you can trust. You can trust him to lead a team to whatever its goal is.”

FCC Director of Outreach Brooke Eastman ’16 said Grass is one of the nicest and most genuine people she knows at Yale, adding that he would be a “crucial” part of next year’s YCC executive board if elected.

When not reading for Directed Studies, Grass plays intramural basketball for Jonathan Edwards College and watches one of his favorite TV shows at the West Wing Weekly club.

Contact JACOB WOLF-SOROKIN at [email protected] .

BY APSARA IYERSTAFF REPORTER

When Rohan Goswami ’15 receives a text, friends say it is not long before he replies with advice or suggestions. His communication skills and accessibility are what supporters feel make him the ideal candidate for secretary of the Yale College Council.

“The role of secretary is really focused on com-munication and distribution of information,” Gos-wami said. “I feel the YCC secretary has the capac-ity to be a moderator, going between students and administrators.”

Described by his campaign manager, Arash Fereydooni ’15, as “a factory machine that pro-duces ideas,” Goswami said his platform focuses on academics, extracurricular work and student services.

Three of Goswami’s eight outlined goals deal with academics, specifically increasing student flexibility and grading transparency. Goswami hopes to start a Grade Cover initiative, already in place at John Hopkins and Princeton, which

allows students to “hide” grades in two of their courses on their transcript. He plans on including final grade distributions for classes on Yale Online Course Information (OCI) and having professors release midterm grade distributions.

Goswami also plans to improve the online sys-tem for room reservations and increase access to Undergraduate Organizations Funding Commit-tee funding.

“I’m in a lot of science classes, so I definitely appreciate his e"orts with the grading policies,” said Ilana Scandariato ’15, who created Goswani’s campaign Facebook page. “Also being involved in a lot of clubs has made me feel his ideas for making room reservations easier is really good.”

His proposed student services policies include launching Durfee dinner swipes and extending HBO GO to Yale.

This year, Goswami has served as a YCC repre-sentative on the dining and events committees. He was on the Ezra Stiles Class Council for the past two years, an experience Goswami credited with motivating his YCC bid, as he wanted to see how the college fits into the larger picture of student government and student life.

“He’s really involved in the Yale community, and I think the di"erent activities have given him a keen awareness of what he needs to do to help improve the Yale experience for everyone,” Stile-sian Obssa Bizuwork ’15 said.

Outside of his work with student government, Goswami works as a Master’s aide in Ezra Stiles, sings a cappella, debates with the YPU and partic-ipates in YIRA events.

Contact APSARA IYER at [email protected] .

[Goswami’s] di!erent activities have given him a keen awareness of what he needs to do to improve the Yale experience for everyone.

OBSSA BIZUWORK ’15

He’s always just a very ethical guy with a strong moral fiber … I just feel like Andrew is a guy you can trust.

MICHAEL LEOPOLD ‘16Vice-chair, Freshman Class Council

It’s not a matter of saying this should be done, it’s a matter of finding actionable things that could be accomplished.

ZENAS HAN ’15Candidate, UOC chair

I want to make sure that people who are passionate about something can feel that it’s an accessible thing to do.

GRANT FERGUSSON ’16UOC chair candidate

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WASHINGTON — Two influ-ential senators, one from each party, are working on an agree-ment that could expand back-ground checks on firearms sales to include gun shows and online transactions, Senate aides said Sunday.

If completed, the e!ort could represent a major breakthrough in the e!ort by President Barack Obama and his allies to restrict guns following last December’s massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn.

Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., could nail down an accord early this week, said the aides, who spoke on condition of anonym-ity to describe the private talks. With the Senate returning Mon-day from a two-week recess, the chamber’s debate on gun control legislation could begin as soon as Tuesday, though it might be delayed if the lawmakers need more time to complete a deal, the aides said.

The potential deal, which aides cautioned still might change, would exempt transac-tions between relatives and tem-porary transfers for hunters and sportsmen, they said.

Manchin is a moderate who touts an A rating from the National Rifle Association, which has opposed Obama’s gun con-trol drive. Toomey has solid con-servative credentials and was elected to the Senate two years ago with tea party support from his Democratic-leaning state.

A united front by the two law-makers would make it easier for gun control advocates to attract support from moderate Dem-ocrats who have been wary of supporting the e!ort and from Republicans who have largely opposed it so far.

With conservative Repub-licans threatening a filibuster, Democrats will need 60 of the chamber’s 100 votes to prevail. There are 53 Democrats and two Democratic-leaning indepen-dents in the Senate.

Federal background checks are currently required only for trans-actions handled by the roughly 55,000 federally licensed fire-arms dealers; private sales such

as gun-show or online pur-chases are exempt. The system is designed to keep guns from crim-inals, people with serious mental problems, and some others.

After 20 first-graders and six elementary school sta!ers were killed at Newtown, Obama pro-posed applying the requirement to virtually all firearms sales. Gun control advocates consider expanded background checks to be the most e!ective step law-makers could take to curb gun violence.

Also high on Congress’ agenda is immigration, where a decisive moment is approaching.

Bipartisan groups in the House and Senate are expected to pres-ent legislation as early as this week aimed at securing the U.S. border, fixing legal immigration and granting legal status to mil-lions who are in the United States without authorization. That will open months of debate on the politically combustible issue, with votes by the Senate Judi-ciary Committee expected later this month.

The House returns Tuesday and initially plans to consider a bill preventing the National Labor Relations Board from issu-ing rules until a dispute over administration appointees is resolved.

Lawmakers will also devote time to the 2014 budget that Obama plans to release Wednes-day. It calls for new tax increases, which Republicans oppose, and smaller annual increases in Social Security and other government benefit programs, over the objec-tions of many of the president’s fellow Democrats.

On Monday, Obama travels to Connecticut to again make the case for gun legislation, with a speech at the University of Hart-ford.

Senators work on gun deal BY ROBERT BURNS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGRAM, Afghanistan — The top U.S. military officer said Sunday the Penta-gon had bolstered its missile defenses and taken other steps because he “can’t take the chance” that North Korea won’t soon engage in some military action.

Heightened tensions with North Korea led the United States to postpone congres-sional testimony by the chief U.S. com-mander in South Korea and delay an inter-continental ballistic missile test from a West Coast base.

North Korea, after weeks of war threats and other e!orts to punish South Korea and the U.S. for joint military drills, has told other nations that it will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in the North’s capital beginning Wednesday.

U.S. Gen Martin Dempsey, the Joint Chiefs of Sta! chairman who just wrapped up a visit to Afghanistan, was asked in an Associated Press interview whether he foresees North Korea taking military action soon.

“No, but I can’t take the chance that it won’t,” he said, explaining why the Penta-gon has strengthened missile defenses and made other decisions to combat the poten-tial threat.

Dempsey said the U.S. has been pre-paring for further provocations or action, “considering the risk that they may choose to do something” on one of two nation-ally important anniversaries in April — the birth of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung and the creation of the North Korean army.

U.S. Gen. James Thurman, the com-mander of the 28,000 American troops in

South Korea, will stay in Seoul as “a pru-dent measure” rather than travel to Wash-ington to appear this coming week before congressional committees, Army Col. Amy Hannah said in an email Sunday to the AP.

Thurman has asked the Senate Armed Services Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, and the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense to excuse his absence until he can testify at a later date.

Dempsey said he had consulted with Thurman about the rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Dempsey said both Thurman and South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Sta! chairman, Gen. Jung Seung-jo, decided it would be best for them to remain in Seoul rather than come to Washington. The Korean gen-eral had planned to meet with Dempsey, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Sta! chairman, in mid-April for regular talks.

US preparing for N. Korean attacks

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A top South Korean national security o!cial said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test.

I’m still hopeful that what I call the sweet spot — background checks — can succeed.

CHUCK SCHUMERU.S. senator, New York

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“If we’re so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren’t they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban? ANN COULTER CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL COMMENTATOR

BY ROBERT BURNS ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — The United States accepts that a dimin-ished but resilient Taliban is likely to remain a military threat in some parts of Afghanistan long after U.S. troops com-plete their combat mission next year, the top U.S. military o!cer said Sunday.

In an Associated Press interview at this air field north of Kabul, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Sta", said he is cautiously opti-mistic that the Afghan army will hold its own against the insurgency as Western troops pull back and Afghans assume the lead combat role. He said that by May or June, the Afghans will be in the lead throughout the country.

Asked whether some parts of the country will remain contested by the Taliban, he replied, “Yes, of course there will be.”

“And if we were having this conversa-tion 10 years from now, I suspect there would (still) be contested areas because the history of Afghanistan suggests that there will always be contested areas,” he said.

He and other U.S. commanders have said that ultimately the Afghans must reach some sort of political accommo-dation with the insurgents, and that a reconciliation process needs to be led by Afghans, not Americans. Thus the No. 1 priority for the U.S. military in its final months of combat in Afghanistan is to do all that is possible to boost the strength and confidence of Afghan forces.

Shortly after Dempsey arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday, the Taliban demonstrated its ability to strike.

It claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing that killed five Americans — three soldiers and two civilians, includ-ing Anne Smedingho", a foreign service o!cer and the first American diplomat killed overseas since the terrorist attack Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya.

A fierce battle between U.S.-backed Afghan forces and Taliban militants in a remote corner of eastern Afghanistan left nearly 20 people dead, including 11 Afghan children killed in an airstrike, Afghan o!cials said Sunday.

There are now about 66,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. That number is to drop to about 32,000 by February 2014, and the combat mission is to end

in December 2014. Whether some num-ber — perhaps 9,000 or 10,000 — remain into 2015 as military trainers and coun-terinsurgents is yet to be decided.

Dempsey spent two days talking to senior Afghan officials, including his counterpart, Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, as well as top U.S. and allied commanders.

He also visited a U.S. base in the vol-atile eastern province of Paktika for an update on how U.S. troops are balanc-ing the twin missions of advising Afghan forces and withdrawing tons of U.S. equipment as the war e"ort winds down.

Paktika is an example of a sector of Afghanistan that is likely to face Taliban resistance for years to come.

Bordering areas of Pakistan that pro-vide haven for the Taliban and its a!li-ated Haqqani network, Paktika has been among the more important insurgent avenues into the Afghan interior.

While the province has a functioning government, Taliban influence remains significant in less populated areas, as it has since U.S. forces first invaded the country more than 11 years ago.

“There will be contested areas, and it will be the Afghans’ choice whether to allow those contested areas to persist, or, when necessary, take action to exert themselves into those contested area,” he said.

Dempsey said he is encouraged by the recent development of coordina-tion centers, including one in Paktika, where a wide range of Afghan govern-ment agencies work together on secu-rity issues. He called it a “quilt” of gov-ernment structures that links Kabul, the capital, to ordinary Afghans in distant villages.

Taliban likely to remain a threat

BY BARBARA SURK ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — After weeks of rebel gains in the south, the Syr-ian regime launched a coun-teroffensive on Sunday with widespread airstrikes and an operation that reclaimed a northern village on a strategi-cally important route.

At least 20 people were killed in heavy airstrikes that tar-geted rebels trying to topple the regime in at least seven cities and regions. To underline their resolve, the government called on opposition fighters to sur-render their arms and warned in cellphone text messages that the army is “coming to get you.”

State television said the aim of the countero"ensive was to send a message to the opposi-tion and its Western backers that President Bashar Assad’s troops are capable and willing to battle increasingly better armed rebels on multiple fronts.

Rebels have been making gains in recent weeks, especially in the south near the border with Jordan. They have seized military bases and towns in the strategically important region between Damascus and the Jor-danian border about 100 miles away.

However in the north, the main rebel stronghold, govern-ment troops have been chipping away slowly over the past weeks at rebel gains around the city of Aleppo, the country’s main commercial hub. They have been hammering rebel-held districts inside the city with fighter jets and artillery, sowing fear among residents.

Troops recaptured on Sat-urday the village of Aziza on a strategic road that links Aleppo with its airport and military bases, activists said. Rebels have been trying to capture that air-port and the nearby bases for months now.

The regime seized back the village southeast of Aleppo after a 10-day battle with rebels, said Rami Abdul-Rahman, direc-tor of the Britain-based activ-ist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

“It’s a setback for the rebels because the village is an impor-tant strategic point from which the army can shell (opposition) positions all around the area,” Abdul-Rahman said.

It’s also an outpost from which the army will be able to protect its convoys traveling the highway to ferry supplies to its bases at the airport.

Over the last year, rebels have greatly expanded the territory they hold in the northeastern provinces, including Idlib and Aleppo along the Turkish bor-der.

In February, they extended their control into Raqqa prov-ince in the northeast, seizing the second hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River. Last month, the rebels captured Raqqa’s pro-vincial capital of the same name — the first city to fall entirely under opposition control in the two-year-old conflict.

Capturing Aleppo’s air-port would be a major strategic victory that would enable the opposition to receive aid flights.

Aziza is one in a string of set-tlements along the Aleppo air-port road that government troops have taken back.

The base inside the airport complex includes an airstrip from which regime fighter jets have been taking off to bomb targets around the country.

Sunday’s airstrikes targeted Aleppo, the central cities of Homs and Hama and the city of Idlib in the north near the Turk-ish border. The western Medi-terranean city of Latakia, and the eastern province of Deir el-Zour and the suburbs of the capital Damascus were also tar-geted.

Anti-government activists in Aleppo posted videos on line, showing the aftermath of Satur-day’s airstrike on what they say is Sukkary district in the north-ern city. Dozens of residents are standing on piles of rubble in front of a row of residential buildings, looking in disbelief at the front of the building that was blown off when a missile slammed into it.

In another video, men help a woman climb down from a bal-cony of the second floor of a building that has partially col-lapsed after a missile ripped through it.

The videos appear consistent with AP reporting from the area.

State television said the pri-mary goal of the airstrikes was to “recapture areas taken by the terrorists,” the term the regime uses to refer to opposition fight-ers in the civil war.

Regime fighter jets pounded villages in rebel-held areas in Latakia province before. But they do not frequently hit the city of the same name that is mostly populated with Syrian minority communities includ-ing many members of the Ala-wite sect, an o"shoot of Shiite Islam that Assad and his family belong to.

The rebels and opposition supporters are mostly Sunni Muslims, a majority in Syria.

The Aleppo strike was the deadliest air raid on Sunday, killing up to 12 people, according to another anti-regime activists group, The Local Coordination Committees.

In other violence, a man was shot and killed by an army sniper in the southern city of Daraa, the Observatory said, adding that clashes between troops and rebels raged in the opposition strongholds around Damascus. At least 15 people were killed in the fighting around the capital, the group said.

It’s a setback for the rebels because the village is an important strategic point.

RAMI ABDUL-RAHMANDirector, Syrian Observator for Human

Rights

HOSHANG HASHIMI/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Former Taliban militants stand hand-cu!ed after turning in their weapons during a cere-mony with the Afghan government in Herat, Afghanistan, on Sunday.

There will be contested areas, and it will be the Afghans’ choice whether to allow those contested areas to persist.

MARTIN DEMPSEYChairman, Joint Chiefs of Sta!

Syria countero!ensive targets rebels

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AROUND THE IVIES “I’m about to say two words a Har-vard man would never say: I quit!” JAMES “TOOFER” SPURLOCK “30 ROCK” CHARACTER

BY JACOB D. H. FELDMAN, MAYA JONAS-SILVER AND MARTIN KESSLERSTAFF WRITERS

Wide receiver Mitch Ross ’13 su!ered his first and only diagnosed concussion on Febru-ary 10, 2011, during a seven-on-seven drill in a Harvard football practice. Jumping for a pass, Ross collided head-to-head with a defender and fell to the ground. With his eyes closed and head still ringing, Ross got up on one knee before walking to the trainer.

Lying on the trainer’s table, Ross allayed the fears of approaching teammates who wor-ried he was concussed. Ross had not blacked out, and he believed the hit was similar to oth-ers he had played through in the past. Fourteen stitches later, Ross thought he had received all the treatment he would need for the injury.

But then came the sensitivity to light, the constant headaches, the loss of appetite and trouble sleeping. Ross had su!ered a concus-sion that forced him to miss classes for the next two to three weeks.

As he made arrangements to cope with the injury, professors were helpful and under-standing. The Harvard athletics department was supportive.

But the following fall, after he was cleared to play football again, Ross stopped asking for extensions on assignments. Academics became more di"cult as he struggled to maintain con-centration for more than an hour at a time.

Now, more than two years after he su!ered that first injury, Ross isn’t better yet, and he’s not sure if he ever will be.

“I know what I was [before the hit]” he says. “And I want to live up to what I was doing then. It can be frustrating at times when you’re sit-ting there trying to do something, and you just can’t do it because your brain—for some reason it doesn’t function the same way.”

Like the 400-plus Ivy League student-ath-letes who su!ered diagnosed concussions this past year, Ross is living with the ramifications of brain trauma. Most injuries only sideline players from competing on the field, but con-cussions a!ect students-athletes’ academic performances as well, hanging over students even after their return to play.

These top-tier students play in a league with

some of the strictest reg-ulations regarding con-cussion prevention and treatment in the NCAA, but concussed athletes still scatter Crimson ros-ters. This season alone, two players on the men’s soccer team, at least

three players on the women’s soccer team, and four of the 14 women’s basketball players sus-tained concussions, according to team mem-bers. About 55 Harvard athletes in total were diagnosed with concussions in the 2011-2012 season, according to Dr. Francis Wang, the head team physician for Harvard Athletics.

With little way of knowing how long their symptoms will last, concussed athletes face hard decisions. In making these choices, they are advised by resident deans and other admin-istrators, who help them decide whether to take time o! from Harvard following a severe concussion.

In recent years, the Ivy League and Har-vard have made preventing and treating these injuries a priority. Many say that the league’s policies, which seek to limit dangerous con-tact in sports, are ahead of the curve. Players and coaches also praise what they describe as a greater awareness of the risks of concussions in the Harvard athletic community.

But despite these changes, student-ath-letes still risk an injury that could jeopardize their futures every time they take the field for the Crimson. Because once athletes take the field of play, Harvard can’t stop people from getting hurt. And every year, the concussions keep coming.

Leaving it all out on the fieldBY CECILIA REYES

STAFF WRITER

Humanities and science department heads are still divided on the merits of open course eval-uations.

The majority of science depart-ments are signed on to release end-of-term teacher evalua-tions for current spring courses to the public in a pilot program, but humanities departments remain on the fence about the usefulness of the initiative.

In April 2012, the Senate passed a resolution strongly suggest-ing, though not mandating, that departments make evaluations public. The pilot program was approved in fall 2012 by the Com-mittee on Science Instruction.

The main concern surrounding open course evaluations lies in the possibility of negative impact on new instructors. English depart-ment chair Nicholas Dames said evaluations range from “some-what important to very impor-tant” in the tenure process and the renewal of adjuncts’ and lec-turers’ contracts.

Professor Elisabeth Ladenson, chair of the French and romance philology department, stressed the fact that evaluations are inev-itably tied to the psychology of reward.

“Evaluations — I can’t think of why anyone would categorically deny this — are tied to grades,” Ladenson said. “And it’s a tru-ism around teachers, not neces-sarily from Columbia, that if you hand out cookies on the day of the evaluations, you get better evalu-ations.”

“I don’t think anything that furthers a customer service model of education is a good idea,” she added. “And I think that’s what this does.”

But political science chair John Huber said that when the depart-ment conferred and decided to make its evaluations public, the thought that public reviews would harm faculty in the tenure process did not cross the mem-bers’ minds.

“It doesn’t affect their ten-ure possibilities, whether those are public or not, because they are an important part of the pro-cess either way,” Huber said. Most

faculty were not likely to “teach to the evalu-ations,” he said.

In science d e p a r t -m e n t s

that have already committed to the pilot open evaluations this semester, chairs are optimistic about the program.

“Making the information avail-able to students can only be good,” Peter deMenocal, chair of the earth and environmental sciences department, said. “The students are responding to roughly similar questions about how the course is offered, whether the stu-dents were satisfied with various aspects of the course, and evalua-tions are more comparable.”

“We have nothing to hide,” he added. DeMenocal said that the department often sees a response rate of 80 percent or better and added that it would be particu-larly important to include the participation rate of students in any course evaluation open to the public.

Most Columbia students con-sider Columbia Underground Listing of Professor Ability the most comprehensive compila-tion of course evaluations. Some faculty members point out that the information on CULPA often tends to come from polar ends of the spectrum and is thus unreli-able.

With University evaluations, “there’s no relationship between the grade that the student receives and the evaluation of the course,” deMenocal said. “And that’s not true of CULPA, which is made up of a very selective group of respondents.”

Dames, on the other hand, said that it is precisely because stu-dents are not forced to complete evaluations on CULPA that their responses are more genuine rep-resentations of the course.

Students who write reviews on CULPA “are people who are pas-sionately engaged, whether pos-itively or negatively, and reviews tend to be really good and useful,” Dames said. “Because CULPA is not quantitative, there has to be some reasoning behind what you say.”

Course evaluations consideredT H E H A R VA R D C R I M S O NC O L U M B I A D A I L Y S P E C T A T O R

HARVARD

COLUMBIA

COLUMBIA DAILY SPECTATOR

Columbia’s Senate is on record encouraging the release of course evalua-tions, but department chairs are still divided over the issue. I know what I was [before the hit].

And I want to live up to what I was doing then.

MITCH ROSS ’13Wide receiver, Harvard University

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Punxsutawney Phil was wrong, ladies and gents. This week, contributing photographer CARLY LOVEJOY attempted to photograph the

beauty of spring on campus and was not deterred by weather stubbornly clinging to the 40s. Here’s hop-ing that warmer weather is around the corner.

SPORTS MONDAY

QUICK HITS

BY ASHTON WACKYMSTAFF REPORTER

Midfielder Colin Flaherty ’15 took six shots in this weekend’s win against Dartmouth, scoring half of them for a hat trick. What makes the feat more of a rarity is that Flaherty scored all three of his goals to lift Yale up and come from behind in the last 12 minutes of action to top the Big Green 7–5.

On Saturday, the Yale men’s lacrosse team (6–3, 2–2 Ivy) hosted the Big Green (2-7, 0-3 Ivy) for its fourth conference match up of the season. This weekend’s win put the Elis on a three-game winning streak and lifted their conference record to an even .500. After a quick start and early two-goal lead, the Elis were lulled into inaction, giving Dartmouth the 5–4 edge going into the final quarter before an explosive o!ense put the Bulldogs back on top.

“I thought we were playing a little tight,” head coach Andy Shay said. “We challenged Colin [Flaherty] late in the game, and he stepped up when his teammates needed him to.”

Flaherty first scored with 11:54 left in the final quarter when attackman Conrad Ober-beck ’15 hit his fellow sophomore with a pass near the crease. Flaherty then took a moment before firing through Dartmouth goaltender Bernie Susskind’s legs. Flaherty struck again with just a minute and a half left in regula-tion to give the Bulldogs the last-minute lead. He sealed the game just 41 seconds later when he put away his second unassisted goal of the quarter.

“The fourth quarter was definitely not all my responsibility. I felt our o!ense really got in a flow by moving the ball well and we were able to generate a lot of scoring opportunities,” Fla-herty said. “I was fortunate enough to be able to finish a few of mine.”

Despite the late dramatics from the Yale offense, the Yale defense remained strong all game and the o!ense also jumped out to a strong start before its overwhelming perfor-mance late in the game.

Attackman Brandon Mangan ’14 struck first for the Bulldogs three minutes into the game. Two minutes later, Yale jumped farther ahead to a 2–0 lead, but each goal the Bulldogs scored

THE NUMBER OF SHUTOUTS THE YALE MEN’S TENNIS TEAM RECORDED THIS SEASON. THE NO. 54 BULLDOGS SWEPT THE PENN QUAKERS ON SUNDAY 7-0 AT THE CULLMAN-HEYMAN TENNIS CENTER. THE SHUTOUT WAS ALSO THE ELIS’ FIRST IVY LEAGUE WIN OF THE YEAR.

STAT OF THE DAY 8

“I don’t want to say one more thing about that game except David Hickey ’14.”

CHRIS PIWINSKI ’13CAPTAIN, BASEBALL

JEFF COOK, DARTMOUTH SOCCER COACHIVY COACH LEAVING FOR MLSThe Big Green’s 12-year head coach announced on Thursday that he is step-ping down to accept a coaching posi-tion with the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer. Cook, who leaves Dart-mouth with a 106–74–31 career record, will join the Union’s youth academy sta!.

KEITH ALLAIN ’80COACH OF YEAR FINALIST AT YALEThe men’s hockey head coach was named one of seven finalists for the Spencer Penrose Award, given annu-ally to the top Division I men’s hockey coach. Joining Allain on the list are ECAC Coach of the Year Rand Pecknold of Quinnipiac and six others.

SOCCERChelsea 2Sunderland 1

SOCCER TIELiverpool 0West Ham 0

NBAMemphis 89Sacramento 87

NBAN.Y. Knicks 125Oklahoma 120

NBABoston 107Washington 96IF YOU MISSED IT SCORES

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BY DAVID WHIPPLESTAFF REPORTER

After the baseball team struggled to three straight losses this week-end, left-hander David Hickey ’14 put the Elis back on their feet with a complete game shutout against Penn on Sunday.

Despite strong pitching, the Bull-dogs lost both games to Columbia on Saturday before splitting a pair against a strong Penn squad on Sun-day. The o!ense scu"ed all week-end, managing only six runs over the four contests.

Coming into the weekend on a three-game winning streak and in the mix for a playo! spot in the Ivy League’s Rolfe Division, the Bulldogs (6–18, 3–5) faced a pair of tough

teams in the Lions (13–15, 6–2 Ivy) and the Quakers (18-11, 5-3 Ivy).

Yale dropped the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader in heart-breaking fashion. Left-handed pitcher Rob Cerfolio ’14 shut out Columbia through six innings of the seven-inning contest — the first game of college doubleheaders only last seven innings — but gave up a pinch-hit home run to Joey Fal-cone in the top of the seventh to tie

the score at one. Columbia took the lead later in the inning when catcher Mike Fischer scored an unearned run on a double from the Lions’ Eric Williams. Columbia’s Alex Black then struck out the side in the Yale half of the seventh to nail down the save.

“I think we lost [the game] because we didn’t score runners

Hickey halts three-game skid

BY ALEX EPPLERSTAFF REPORTER

On the 14th hole of his first round on Saturday, Sam Ber-nstein ’14 shot a triple bogey, and by the par-five 16th hole he sat four-over par for the round. Stepping into the tee box on the 585-yard 16th, the junior had an opportunity to make up some of that ground. After a massive drive and a slightly mishit hybrid shot, he faced a 20-yard chip with a chance at an eagle. Bernstein sunk the chip to help propel Yale to a second-place finish with an overall score of 592.

“I kind of just made a good swing, went through my routine, and it was a really good chip,” Bernstein said. “It would’ve been inches away if it didn’t fall but I was lucky enough where it just kind of dropped in the cup.”

While Bernstein noted that he had an inconsistent tournament,

the senior carried the momen-tum from the eagle, the only eagle of the day in the 13-team field, to place tied for fourth overall at +4, Yale’s top finisher. Bernstein’s score, along with two other top-15 finishes from Yale’s first team, carried the Elis’ top squad to a second-place finish at the Yale Spring Opener at the Yale Golf Course on Saturday.

Villanova won the tournament with an overall score of 583 and Hartford amassed a 597 to finish in third, while Yale’s second team tied Brown for eighth.

“It was as good a day as you can hope to have, short of win-ning the event,” head coach Colin Sheehan ’97 said. “Conditions were as di#cult as they can get,” he continued, adding that wind-chill crept into the 30s in the morning and that the athletes competed for about 10 consecu-tive hours.

Golfers from 13 schools, including all of the Ivies but Har-vard, completed two rounds dur-ing the single-day tournament

on Saturday. In the first round, the Elis combined to shoot a 303 and sat in fifth place behind Vil-lanova, Princeton, Temple and Penn.

Bernstein posted the best score for the Elis in that round, shoot-ing a one-over 71, while Thomas Greenhalgh ’15 shot a 75 and cap-tain Bradley Kushner ’13 shot a 76. All golfers in the tourna-ment recorded an average round of 78.93 during the first round, almost three strokes above the second round average of 76.10.

“For some reason we got o! to a bad start,” Kushner said.

During the second round, however, the Bulldogs took advantage of their home course and powered their way to the round’s best team score. The Elis shot a combined 289, 14 strokes better than their first round tally, while Villanova shot a 290 and Hartford scored a 291.

Kushner led the way for Yale, posting an even-par 70 during

Elis finish in second at the Yale Spring Opener

ADLON ADAMS/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Designated hitter Josh Schar! ’13 went two-for-four with a double in Sunday’s 1–0 win over Penn. The senior is hitting .326 on the season with seven RBIs.

MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Bulldogs finished ahead of every other Ivy League team in their season-opening tournament at home.

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SEE MEN’S GOLF PAGE B2

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MEN’S GOLF

Senior day Ivy

comeback

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“Golf is a good walk spoiled.” MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR AND HUMORIST

Rhodes, who was honored with a framed jersey, scored four goals and tied her career-high seasongoal total, reaching 27 on the season. The game also featured a four-goal performance from Daniggelis. Midfielder Christina

Doherty ’15 added two assists while goalkeeper Erin McMullan ‘14 had nine saves on 23 shots. Although Yale was able to cut down on fouls, getting whis-tled 19 times compared to 31 for Princ-eton, the Bulldogs were outshot and committed more turnovers in addition to picking up four yellow cards.

“I think this game showed us that when we play our best we can play with anyone,” Daniggelis said. “Unfortu-nately we weren’t able to string together a complete game, but it shows progress in the right direction.”

Yale will look for its first Ivy League win against Colombia next Saturday at

3 p.m. It will be played in Oceanside as part of a fundraising event for Hurri-cane Sandy relief.

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at [email protected] .

Women’s lacrosse falls on Alumni Day

Strong start to Ivy season

Bernsteinplaces fourth

Elis stumble at homewhen we had a good chance,” captain Chris Piwinksi ’13 said. “That game was a little frustrat-ing. You have to be a tough out, and there were too many times when we weren’t tough outs this weekend.”

Yale scored its run in the third inning, stringing together a walk, a sacrifice bunt from freshman shortstop Thomas O’Neill, and an RBI single from Piwinski to take a 1–0 lead.

The Bulldogs relied heavily on the sacrifice bunt over the week-end to produce runs and bunted four times in the first game on Saturday.

“Small ball is an integral part of our offense because it gives us the opportunity to score even if we’re facing a tough pitcher,” O’Neill said.

Yale dropped the second game to Columbia 5–2. Pitcher Michael Coleman took the loss, giving up four runs, three earned, in 6.1

innings. The Bulldogs’ defense was shaky all weekend, commit-ting two errors in each of the first three games, bringing their total to 43 in 24 games this season.

“You don’t want to see that, but I can honestly say I’m 100 percent confident that guys are going to come back defensively,” Piwinski said.

Saturday’s doubleheader was followed by a 5–1 loss to Penn in the first game on Sunday, with Chris Moates ’16 on the losing end after surrendering five runs, one earned, in six innings. But the Bulldogs salvaged a split on the strength of a dominant per-formance from Hickey. The left-handed junior fired a complete-game shutout, surrendering only four hits without a walk while whi!ng eleven Quakers in Yale’s 1-0 victory.

“I don’t want to say one more thing about that game except David Hickey,” said Piwinski, who was behind the plate for the shut-out. “His slider was unbelievable.

He built confidence throughout the whole game.” The Bulldogs scored their lone run on a double from Brent Lawson in the second, and that was all Hickey needed.

Performances like Hickey’s and Cerfolio’s give the team a reason to be excited.

“If we can pitch it like that for the rest of the way, the bats will pick up and we’ll win some games,” designated hitter Josh Schar" ’14.

The Bulldogs are currently tied with Harvard for second in the Rolfe division, one game behind Dartmouth and within reach of the playo"s.

Sophomore outfielder Green Campbell left the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader with an ankle injury. Green had reached base safely in six consecutive games going into this weekend.

Contact DAVID WHIPPLE at [email protected] .

the second round. Three team-mates, Bernstein, Greenhalgh and William Davenport ’15, fol-lowed their captain by each scor-ing three-over par 73’s.

“I think that having the advantage of playing on the Yale course every day and walking the course which is pretty hilly and having the endurance after seven miles of walking to be able to keep focused and mentally fresh out there was really impor-tant,” Kushner said. “It’s kind of just golf sometimes. One round you play well, other rounds you don’t.”

While the Elis finished in the top-four for the weekend on par three, four and five scoring, they performed especially well in the latter two categories. The team finished 30 shots over par on par fours, tied with Villanova for second, and shot one under on par fives, two shots behind first-place Penn. While the Bulldogs’ top team ranked fourth in scoring on par threes, the Yale II squad ranked second.

Sheehan noted that John McNiff ’15, competing on the second team, recorded a per-sonal best score on the day, post-ing a +10 150 for the tournament. Additionally, Sheehan said that Saturday was the first time that Greenhalgh, a sophomore, com-peted in Yale’s top five and that he excelled in the position.

The men’s golf team will con-tinue its season next weekend at the two-day Princeton Invita-tional at Springdale Golf Club in Princeton, N.J.

Contact ALEX EPPLER at [email protected] .

“It’s especially great to see the freshmen Courtney and Madeleine come out so strong this weekend with big wins.”

The team traveled to Philadelphia to take on the Quakers on Saturday, using the same lineup as in their Princeton match. At No. 1 doubles Epstein and Sullivan fell 5–8 to the No. 32 ranked doubles pairing in the nation, Stephanie Do and Augustina Eskenazi. But the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles pairings for the Bulldogs saw o" their opponents in impres-sive form, 8–2 and 8–6 respectively, to secure the doubles point.

Epstein, ranked No. 46 in the nation, con-ceded her hard-fought match in the No. 1 singles position 5–7, 6–4 and Li ended up retiring in the second set to give the Quak-ers a second victory in the No. 5 position. The remaining Bulldogs stayed strong, winning

all of their singles matches for a 5–2 overall record. No. 3 Sullivan endured a tense third set super tie-break to defeat Sonya Latycheva 6–2, 3–6, (10–8), while Yu at No. 4 bulldozed her opponent 6–0, 6–0.

Li said that the team feels it is in a strong position to take down the rest of the Ivies.

“I think that the team really took a lot of confidence from the amount of fitness and conditioning we’ve put in all season leading up to the Ivies,” she said. “We all know that the work has been done and we’re really ready to make a statement.”

The team, which has five remaining matches in the spring season, will face Cornell and Columbia on Apr.13–14. Both matches will be played at home in the Cullman-Hey-man Tennis Center.

Contact JASMINE HORSEY at [email protected] .

BASEBALL FROM B1

WOMEN’S TENNIS FROM B4

MEN’S GOLF FROM B1

WOMEN’S LACROSSE FROM B4

SAMANTHA GARDNER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Bulldogs defeated both Penn and Princeton by identical 5-2 scores this weekend on the road.

ADLON ADAMS/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Elis entered the weekend riding a three-game winning streak but dropped three out of the next four games.

BRIANNA LOO/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Captain Devon Rhodes ’13 scored four goals and tied her career high goal total on Saturday.

SPORTS

national-level championships and more than half a million dol-lars in financial support.

The event attracted profes-sional squash players, Yale stu-dents, Squash Haven mem-

bers and donors and bring them together to raise money to keep the Squash Haven program run-ning.

The squash team has done work with Squash Haven the past several years and many team members are matched up in big-

sibling, little-sibling pairs for mentoring, tutoring and squash training.

“It’s a great time for everyone involved, and the money that gets raised helps the Squash Haven sta! provide the best experience for these kids during the years

that they participate in the pro-gram,” Caine said.

The men’s squash team closed its 2012-’13 season ranked No. 4 in the nation.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at [email protected] .

after Mangan’s was matched by the Big Green. Attackman Kirby Zdrill ’13 put Yale up 3–1 but Dart-mouth managed to squeeze a shot past goaltender Eric Natale ’15 with under a minute left in the first quarter.

Dartmouth held the Bulldogs to a scoreless second quarter and outscored Yale 2–1 at the start of the second half to give the Big

Green a 5–4 lead heading into the final period of action.

Flaherty’s flair in the final quarter boosted the Elis over the Big Green in the final 10 minutes of Saturday’s matchup.

“We really focused on being tough and gritty and I think it worked out for us,” Zdrill said. “We were struggling a bit on o!ence so we tried to focus on the process and play Yale lacrosse.”

Yale outshot the Big Green by

a huge 25-shot margin at 44–19 and were able to clear the ball suc-cessfully 16 of 18 times. While the Elis went 0-for-2 on man-up opportunities, they had five fewer turnovers than the Big Green and Natale made six saves.

“The one thing we did well all game was the definitely defense,” Flaherty said.

With the victory over Dart-mouth on senior day, the last Sat-urday game the class of 2013 will

play at Reese Stadium, the seniors have earned the fifth most wins ever by a class at Yale since the lacrosse program was started back in 1882.

The Bulldogs will play another league game this Friday at Reese Stadium under the lights when Brown makes the trip from Prov-idence. Face-o! will be at 7 p.m.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at [email protected] .

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“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.” SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI

CATHOLIC FRIAR AND FOUNDER OF THE ORDER OF FRANCIS

Bulldogs support Squash Haven

Flaherty boosts Yale to a win

MEN’S LACROSS FROM B1

MEN’S SQUASH FROM B4

SOFTBALLIVY OVERALL

SCHOOL W L % W L %North Division

1 Dartmouth 4 4 0.500 14 16 0.467

Harvard 4 4 0.500 11 17 0.393

3 Yale 3 5 0.375 7 21 0.250

4 Brown 1 7 0.125 7 16 0.304

South Division

1 Penn 7 1 0.875 17 13 0.567

2 Princeton 5 3 0.625 20 11 0.645

3 Columbia 4 4 0.500 15 15 0.500

Cornell 4 4 0.500 14 16 0.467

MEN’S LACROSSE

IVY OVERALLSCHOOL W L % W L %

1 Cornell 4 0 1.000 10 1 0.909

2 Princeton 2 1 0.667 6 3 0.667

3 Penn 2 2 0.500 6 3 0.667

Yale 2 2 0.500 6 3 0.667

5 Brown 1 2 0.333 5 4 0.556

Harvard 1 2 0.333 4 6 0.400

7 Dartmouth 0 3 0.000 2 7 0.222

3 Columbia 4 4 0.500 15 15 0.500

Cornell 4 4 0.500 14 16 0.500

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

IVY OVERALLSCHOOL W L % W L %

1 Dartmouth 4 0 1.000 8 3 0.727

Princeton 4 0 1.000 7 3 0.700

Penn 4 0 1.000 6 4 0.600

4 Brown 2 2 0.500 9 2 0.818

5 Cornell 2 3 0.400 6 4 0.600

6 Harvard 1 3 0.250 2 7 0.222

7 Yale 0 4 0.000 6 5 0.545

Columbia 0 5 0.000 2 9 0.182

MEN’S TENNIS

IVY OVERALLSCHOOL W L % W L %

1 Princeton 3 0 1.000 14 4 0.778

Harvard 2 0 1.000 14 4 0.778

3 Yale 1 1 0.500 15 4 0.789

Brown 1 1 0.500 12 7 0.632

Columbia 1 1 0.500 10 7 0.588

6 Cornell 1 2 0.333 12 6 0.667

7 Dartmouth 0 1 0.000 8 9 0.471

Penn 0 3 0.000 8 8 0.500

WOMEN’S TENNISIVY OVERALL

SCHOOL W L % W L %1 Columbia 3 0 1.000 9 4 0.692

Yale 2 0 1.000 13 2 0.867

3 Princeton 2 1 0.667 10 5 0.667

4 Harvard 1 1 0.500 9 5 0.643

5 Cornell 1 2 0.333 12 2 0.857

Penn 1 2 0.333 9 5 0.643

7 Dartmouth 0 2 0.000 7 6 0.538

Brown 0 2 0.000 6 9 0.400

JENNIFER CHEUNG/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Over 270 people have donated to the “Squash Haven Showdown” for a total of over $61,000 raised out of the $72,000 goal.

FREDERICK FRANK/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Colin Flaherty ’15 sealed the game against Dartmouth with 47 seconds left to play when he put away his second unassisted goal of the fourth quarter.

BASEBALLIVY OVERALL

SCHOOL W L % W L %Lou Gehrig

1 Columbia 6 2 0.750 13 15 0.464

2 Cornell 5 3 0.625 17 10 0.630

Penn 5 3 0.625 18 11 0.621

Princeton 5 3 0.625 7 20 0.259

Red Rolfe

1 Dartmouth 4 4 0.500 17 5 0.773

2 Yale 3 5 0.375 6 18 0.250

Harvard 3 5 0.375 6 21 0.222

4 Brown 1 7 0.125 3 19 0.136

SPORTS

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER

This Saturday, the men’s squash team hosted and orga-nized an all-day charity event at Yale with Squash Haven called the “Squash Haven Showdown.”

The Showdown is a 12-team fundraising tournament that has been hosted the past three years in the Brady Squash Center at Payne Whitney Gymnasium. Teams used to be organized by residential colleges, one team per

college, but this year the format was shifted to allow the teams to be captained by outside donors. Teams were made up of a local professional squash player, a Yale squash team member, a Squash Haven member and between three and five amateur fundrais-ing players. The event lasted from noon until about 5 p.m. on Satur-day.

“Overall, it was a huge suc-cess,” Eric Caine ’14 said. “The purpose is to raise money and awareness about an incredible program that’s achieved so much in only a few years of existence.”

Over 270 people have donated

to the showdown for a total of over $61,000 raised out of the $72,000 goal.

Squash Haven is an urban squash and mentoring program that provides tuition-free aca-demic enrichment and squash instruction to public school stu-dents in fifth through 12th grade from the New Haven area.

“I’ve worked at Squash Haven all four years I’ve been at Yale,” captain Hywel Robinson ’13 said.

In its five-year history, Squash Haven has helped New Haven students of its program attain 15

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BY JASMINE HORSEYSTAFF REPORTER

The Bulldogs shifted their spring success into the Ivy League this weekend by defeat-ing both Princeton and Penn on the road.

The matches, which took place on Friday and Saturday, marked the opening of the Elis’ bid for a third-consecutive Ivy title. On Friday at the Lenz Tennis Center in Princeton, the Bulldogs dealt the Tigers their first Ivy defeat 5–2. Continuing their dominant display, the Elis followed up that performance with the same result against Penn at the Hamlin Ten-

nis Center on Saturday.The Bulldogs took the doubles

point to open their match against Princeton. Elizabeth Epstein ’13 and Annie Sullivan ’14 added to their impressive doubles tally this season, winning 8–3 in the No. 1 spot. At No. 2, Amber Li ’15 and Madeleine Hamilton ’16 won comfortably 8–4, while No. 3 pair Courtney Amos ’16 and Hanna Yu

’15 conceded their match 6–8.In singles play, both Epstein

and Hamilton faced tough three-set matches at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, with the victor being decided in both cases by a super tie-break up to 10 points. Despite winning the first set, Epstein was unable to capital-ize on her form and eventually lost 6–4, 2–6, (10–5). Hamil-

ton came back from behind in her match, triumphing over Kather-ine Flanigan 4–6, 6–4, (10–2). No. 3 Sullivan and No. 4 Yu both defeated their opponents com-fortably, winning 6–2, 6–3 and 6–1, 6–1, respectively. Li strug-gled at the No. 5 spot, losing in straight sets, but Amos dealt Joan Cannon a 7–6, 6–0 defeat in the No. 6 spot to bring the Bulldogs’

singles tally to 5–1.Sullivan said she was pleased

with the team’s performance, adding that she was particularly impressed by the contributions of the freshmen.

“The team competed really well this weekend in our first Ivy matches of the year,” she said.

Bulldogs blitz Princeton and Penn

BY FREDERICK FRANKCONTRIBUTING REPORTER

Despite the Bulldogs’ spirited second half, Princeton’s six-goal streak in the first half was enough to finish o" the women’s lacrosse team 14-9 on Alumni Day.

The No. 18 Tigers (7-3, 4-0 Ivy) entered Reese Stadium on a three-game winning streak and in a three-way tie for first in the Ivy League. The day started well for Yale (6-5, 0-4 Ivy) when team captain Devon Rhodes ’13 scored the first goal of the game less than five minutes into the game. Five minutes later, a goal by midfielder Erin Magnuson ’15 tied the game at 2-2. But six Princeton goals in the last

20 minutes of the first half seemed to dampen the heightened atmosphere of Alumni day and provided enough of a cushion for the talented Princeton squad, including senior Jaci Gas-saway, who scored five goals in the half.

“Princeton’s scoring streak in the first half definitely cost us because we played right with them in the second half but it was too hard to come back from the goal di"erence,” mid-fielder Lauren Wackerle ’16 said.

The Bulldogs boasted a strong second half, tying the Tigers 6-6 in the final 30 minutes of play. Yale came out of the break and scored four of the first six goals, leaving the score at 10-7. However this was the closest the Elis would come, and Princeton finished with a 14–9 win.

Strong Princeton first half dooms Yale

SAMANTHA GARDNER/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

Captain Elizabeth Epstein ’13 prevailed in a tight singles match against Penn’s Augustina Eskenazi as the Bulldogs topped the Quakers 5-2. The senior, ranked No. 46 in the country, won her match against Eskenazi 7-5, 6-4.

BRIANNA LOO/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Bulldogs dropped their match against the Princeton Tigers 14-9 on Alumni day.

KATHRYN CRANDALL/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The No. 4 men’s squash team players have been mentoring and tutoring at Squash Haven for the last several years.

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SEE MEN’S SQUASH PAGE B3

SEE WOMEN’S LACROSSE PAGE B2

WOMEN’S TENNIS

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

MEN’S SQUASH

Elis help raise $61K for charity