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CROSS CAMPUS

ELIS NCAA-BOUND MEN’S HOCKEY NABS NO. 15 SEED

MARRIAGE EQUALITY

DOWNTOWN CROSSING FENCING

Will Portman ’14 sheds light on his father’s announcement

SHOVELS HIT THE GROUND ON CITY CONSTRUCTION

Four Elis traveled to San Antonio for the NCAA National Championships

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‘Hamlet’ opens at the Rep

Welcoming YTV. With the

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

BY AMY WANG STAFF REPORTER

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

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

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

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

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

“Whenever we do our projections, we start from where we are now,” Storlazzi said.

“We’ve actually come out a million or so under our projection.”

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

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

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Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio reversed his stance

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

Beauty and brains. Yale has long been known for its sterling academics, but now, it appears the Bulldogs are making waves for their stupendous looks. According to a list published on Business Insider from data compiled

by College Prowler, Yale is the 15th-best school in the country for its combination of good looks and good learning. Guess you really can have it all.

Celebrity professor. NBC

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

Double dipping. It looks like

Yale was not the only Ivy League school eyeing Cory Booker LAW ’97 as a Class Day speaker: The Newark mayor will also deliver a speech at Cornell University’s convocation on May 25.

Booker has spoken at eight commencement ceremonies since 2009.

Pushing for free speech in Singapore. A group of over

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

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1914 Signers of the “Senior Society Resolutions” meet today to decide whether they are eligible on Tap Night for election to senior societies.

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Term bill increases, financial aid budget falls

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

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

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

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

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

City judge may run for mayor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“We as a campaign are focusing on the fundraising side of things right now, and then in April, we’re going to start switching to field operations where we’re going to get a lot of volunteers going door to door in different neighborhoods throughout the city, identifying more supporters and getting out our message,” Elicker said. “That doesn’t change no matter how many people or who gets in the race.”

Holder-Winfield could not be reached for comment.

Other potential candidates SEE MAYOR PAGE 4

Mexican court rules Zedillo ineligible for immunity

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

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER A recent ruling by a Mexican court declared that former Mexican President and Yale professor Ernesto Zedillo GRD ’81 — who was accused of committing war crimes during his presidency but was granted a suggestion of immunity in a Connecticut suit by the State Department last year — is not eligible for immunity protection under the Mexican Constitution.

In the March 6 ruling, the court also

invalidated a letter from the former Mexican Ambassador to the United States Arturo Sarukhan to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 requesting immunity for Zedillo, claiming that the letter did not satisfy several conditions essential to its validity under Mexican law: it lacked Sarukhan’s signature and the authorization of his superiors in the Mexican foreign relations department. Experts interviewed said the Mexican court’s ruling might affect the U.S. suit against Zedillo, SEE ZEDILLO PAGE 6

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Coming out

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came to Yale as a freshman in the fall of 2010 with two big uncertainties hanging over my head: whether my dad would get elected to the Senate in November, and whether I’d ever work up the courage to come out of the closet.

I made some good friends that first semester, took a couple of interesting classes and got involved in a few rewarding activities. My dad won his election.

On the surface, things looked like they were going well. But the truth was, I wasn’t happy.

I’d make stuff up when my suitemates and I would talk about our personal lives. I remember going to a dance in the Trumbull dining hall with a girl in my class and feeling guilty about pretending to be somebody I wasn’t. One night, I snuck up to the stacks in Sterling Library and did some research on coming out.

The thought of telling people I was gay was pretty terrifying, but I was beginning to realize that coming out, however difficult it seemed, was a lot better than the alternative: staying in, all alone.

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

In February of freshman year, I decided to write a letter to my parents.

I’d tried to come out to them in person over winter break but hadn’t been able to. So I found a cubicle in Bass Library one day and went to work. Once I had something I was satisfied with, I overnighted it to my parents and awaited a response.

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

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

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

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

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

WARNER TO WOODBRIDGE

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

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

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

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

When looking at this year’s YCC Mid-Year Report, it becomes clear that too many proposals are pending without progress.

We are left wondering whether our administrators feel any obligation to respond to YCC initiatives.

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

As a result, students see the YCC as an organization

without teeth.

For the ultimate benefit of the College, Salovey must encourage a constructive, and occasionally contentious, dialogue between his administration and the elected representatives of Yale’s student body. In times of disagreement, a strong YCC will rally student support against the administration, and our administrators must not take offense.

Salovey should let future leaders know that the YCC’s current timidness only does a disservice to the goals of the student body it represents.

Salovey must also help the YCC better integrate into the administrative architecture of our University. Too many committees consider the same issues simultaneously, with one made up of YCC representatives and one of administrators. Salovey must close gaps between the YCC and Yale College Dean’s Office — creating committees with both students and faculty — so that proposals are not left waiting indefinitely for a response from the other side.

These cultural and structural changes will lead to a YCC with whom student groups want to collaborate in order to achieve their goals. No longer will its agenda be filled with ideas from within its own set of interested students.

The YCC will not be limited to passive polling, and can instead partner with other campus organizations for change.

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

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names, checking them off one by one as I systematically filled people in on who I really was. A phone call here, a Skype call there, a couple of meals at Skyline Chili, my favorite Cincinnati restaurant.

I was fortunate that virtually everyone, both from Yale and from home, was supportive and encouraging, calming my fears about how they’d react to my news. If anything, coming out seemed to strengthen my friendships and family relationships.

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

I'M PROUD OF MY DAD BECAUSE HE'S SHOWN THAT HE'S WILLING TO TAKE A POLITICAL RISK IN ORDER TO TAKE A PRINCIPLED STAND. The following summer, the summer of 2012, my dad was under consideration to be Gov. Romney’s running mate. The rest of my family and I had given him the go-ahead to enter the vetting process. My dad told the Romney campaign that I was gay, that he and my mom were supportive and proud of their son, and that we’d be open about it on the campaign trail.

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

We had decided that my dad would talk about having a gay son if he were to change his position on marriage equality. It would be the only honest way to explain his change of heart. Besides, the fact that I was gay would probably become public anyway. I had encouraged my dad all along to change his position, but it gave me pause to think that the one thing that nobody had known about me for so many years would suddenly become the one thing that everybody knew about me.

It has been strange to have my personal life in the headlines. I could certainly do without having my sexual orientation announced on the evening

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WILL PORTMAN is a junior in Trumbull College.

Your fortune in a cookie Y

es, this is a column about fortune cookies, and why you should order Chinese takeout more often.

You’ve had it a million times.

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

You break apart the cookie along the crevice between its two cone-shaped ends, revealing the piece of paper tucked inside. For fun, you try to read the Chinese word it teaches.

“Ping guo.” Apple. “Kan bing.”

To see a doctor. The tones are hard to pronounce.

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

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

afraid you are sorely mistaken. Here are three rules you must follow to propXIUYI ZHENG erly interpret what a forPropergandist tune cookie has to teach you: Ask the fortune cookie a question. No one will ask a friend to just give some general advice.

How can anyone help you if they don’t know what you need help with? Present your biggest predicament to the fortune cookie, and it will give you the answer you seek.

Second, interpret the fortune cookie’s answer liberally.

This rule has nothing to do with whether you support Obamacare. The fortune cookie, like all sources of wisdom, prioritizes style over clarity, and has a flair for the dramatic. To fully appreciate what it has to offer, you must master the art of reading between the lines.

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

around.

Some months ago, I half-jokingly asked the fortune cookie if I was really interested in a girl.

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

On a more recent occasion, I asked for advice on how to approach a coffee date. The fortune cookie told me, “Your candid approach is refreshing.” I was happy to comply.

DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE FORTUNE COOKIE The questions you can ask fortune cookies are not limited to those about relationships.

Feel free to inquire about that paper you’re stressed about, or the results of your grad school application. You will find that although the fortune cookie is not always reliable, the process of interpreting its message can prove to be surprisingly therapeutic.

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

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

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

It’s because you have subconsciously decided that it’s what you need the most.

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

XIUYI ZHENG is a junior in Davenport College. His column runs on alternate Mondays. Contact him at xuiyi.zheng@yale.edu .

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CORRECTIONS AND C L A R I F I CAT I O N S

KARL TUREKIAN 1929-2013

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 8

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 8

The article “Book features city journalism” misstated the number of unique visitors per month to the New Haven Independent’s website. The site garners 300,000 visitors per month, not 30,000.

MERTON PECK 1925-2013

Peck led Econ Dept ‘golden age’

BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER Merton Peck, a devoted teacher who chaired the Economics Department during its “golden age,” died in Florida on March 1. He was 87 years old.

A respected scholar and administrator, Peck came to Yale as an economics professor in 1963 and served as chair of the Economics Department for several terms in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. His former colleagues remember him for his kind and patient nature and ability to foster compromise during his lengthy tenure.

In addition to recruiting many prominent economists to his department, Peck strengthened the faculty by keeping peace and oversaw a period of growth in the department, said Richard Nelson GRD ’56, a former economics professor.

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

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

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

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

Altonji ’75 said.

Brainard said Peck’s congenial personality and clarity of thought made him a soughtafter adviser. Altonji, who worked for Peck as a research assistant and took one of his undergraduate courses, said Peck was influential in his decision to pursue a doctorate in economics and, later, to become a professor.

An expert in the economics of technology, Peck specialized in industrial organization and government regulation, producing books and papers that touched on numerous disciplines, including defense, communications and transportation. He served as a member of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s “Brain Trust” and on former President Lyndon Johnson’s Council of Economic Advisors in the 1960s.

Peck earned his bachelor’s degree at Oberlin College in the 1940s, during which time he met his wife, Mary Bosworth Peck, who died in 2004.

The couple married in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1949, the year of Peck’s graduation from college. He went on to receive a doctorate in economics from Harvard.

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

Throughout his life, Peck remained modest about his intellectual and administrative achievements, Richard said.

Outside of academics, Richard said Peck, who retired in 2002, cultivated a love of reading and jazz music.

Peck is survived by his children, Richard, Katherine, Sarah and David, and four grandchildren.

Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .

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Merton Peck served as chair of the Economics Department over three decades.

Prof left immeasurable legacy

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

Geologists and geochemists interviewed credited Turekian with overseeing the coming of age of modern geochemistry — a field that drew little attention before Turekian began teaching and researching oceanography at Yale in 1956. During his 57-year career at the University, Turekian, a Sterling Professor of geology and geophysics, collected countless accolades and participated in some of the most significant scientific research of the 20th century, including the study of the first lunar samples collected during the Apollo space mission — and colleagues said Turekian’s research brought him to the pinnacle of achievement in his field.

“The world has lost one of the greatest geoscientists who ever lived,” said Jay Ague, the current chair of Yale’s Department of Geology & Geophysics, in an email to the department dated March 15.

“His influence is so large it is impossible to measure.”

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

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

VAUGHAN TUREKIAN

Yale geochemist Karl Turekian, whose groundbreaking research delved into everything from the extinction of dinosaurs to the origin of the solar system, died on March 15. the National Academy of Sciences.

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

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

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

Since his death, Turekian’s family members said they have received an outpouring of condolences from the generations of geoscientists that Turekian taught and mentored around the world.

For Turekian’s 70th birthday in 1997,

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

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

Karla said she felt she had “won the lottery” with Turekian as a father.

Turekian’s wife, Roxanne, said Turekian was a devoted husband during their 51-year marriage.

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

Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .

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Genetics ‘pioneer’ praised for research

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

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

“I always felt that Frank was a pioneer in the field and really directed the project that eventually led to the mapping and sequencing of the human genome,” said Raju Kucherlapati, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School who worked as a fellow in Ruddle’s lab in the 1970s. “They are not given posthumously, but he deserves to win a Nobel Prize for that effort.”

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

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

Just as genomics began gaining international fame, Ruddle withdrew from traditional genetics and focused on developmental genetics, studying how a handful of similar genes control the development

of multicellular organisms. During a sabbatical from Yale, he joined a team of scientists at the University of Basel in Switzerland and, together with William McGinnis, cloned the first mouse homeobox gene in 1983.

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

Ruddle’s research on the evolution and expression of genes in animals expanded the scientific community’s understanding of how humans develop and how genes vary between species, biology professor Ronald Breaker said in a March 15 email.

He added that Ruddle’s lab was a model for modern biology research labs because Ruddle used large teams to work on “truly exciting research with profound implications.”

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

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

Ruddle played an influential role in the careers of many of his postdoctoral fellows and often invited them to his home, either individually or as a group. Kucherlapati recalled one afternoon when Ruddle took him to lunch in one of Yale’s residential colleges, which was a “thrill” for Kucherlapati.

Ruddle and Kucherlapati — whose heights measured 6-foot-7 and 5-foot-2, respectively — earned themselves the nicknames “Mutt and Jeff” around the lab, a reference to the classic comic strip.

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

JANE JERVIS

Frank Ruddle, whose lab at Yale spearheaded advances in genomics and developmental genetics, died March 10 at the age of 83. down the house” with his rendition of “The Girl from Ipanema” at an annual talent show last year.

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

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

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie.gould@yale.edu .

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President-elect Peter Salovey told the News in March that Yale will compensate for decreases in federal financial aid if students are affected.

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

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But because Yale continues to feel the effects of the 2008 economic downturn, he added, changing the University’s scholarship budget now may be especially taxing.

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

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

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Yale’s undergraduate term bill has increased steadily for the last decade.

The total costs for the 2003-’04 academic year were $37,000 — 35.7 percent less than the figure for next year.

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

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

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

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

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

Keyes served as the city clerk from 1980 to 1986.

Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .

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Inches of snow fell on Georgetown, Colo.

Amounting to over 5 feet, this record for the greatest snowfall in a single day in the United States was set on Dec. 4, 1913.

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

BY MONICA DISARE AND YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS New Haven broke ground on Phase 1 of the Downtown Crossing project last Friday, marking the beginning of the city’s attempts to reunify its urban communities.

Attended by Mayor John DeStefano Jr., U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Gov. Dannel Malloy as well as several business and community leaders, the event followed an announcement earlier this month that the city was prepared to begin the project, which has been many years in the making.

Centered around the removal of Route 34 — a highway that separates the Hill neighborhood in the city’s south from downtown — the Downtown Crossing project aims to bridge existing divisions between blocks and to stimulate the city’s economy with new housing and retail facilities.

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

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

Route 34 was constructed in the 1950s as a part of the era’s Urban Renewal movement, when city planners demolished the Oak Street neighborhood, considered a slum at the time, displacing over 1,400 families and destroying hundreds of buildings in an attempt to eradicate inner-city poverty and build new city infrastructure.

But the Urban Renewal philosophy, which did not yield the expected tax revenue and

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

A crowd gathered to witness the official start to the massive construction project — set to correct the wrongs of Urban Renewal — which DeLauro said has been anticipated for over 30 years.

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

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

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

“The company is pleased to provide the foundation for a growing biotechnology industry in New Haven, and to work in an area that is heavily focused on education and academia including Yale’s medical campus and the Yale-New Haven Hospital,” Adler added.

The state government has invested over $30 million to foster economic growth in New Haven, Malloy said at the ceremony.

He called the project an “ambitious reimagining” of the city, adding that he is committed to firmly rooting Alexion into the fabric of the community.

According to city officials, the project’s first step will involve connecting Route 34

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

Phase 1 of the Downtown Crossing project will be partially funded by a federal Tiger II grant, which is designated for economically beneficial transportation projects.

Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu.

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

DOWNTOWN CROSSING DEVELOPMENT TIGER II INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS

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

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

Following the unpopular decision to cancel February break following last month’s blizzard, NHPS officials decided last week to extend the school year into June and replace several half days with full days, though the district’s April break will remain untouched. School officials said the plan was made after consulting parents, teachers and school administrators.

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

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

ABBE SMITH Spokeswoman, New Haven Public Schools In a year of extreme weather — including Hurricane Sandy in October, which saw gusts of wind up to 90 mph, and the February snow storm that dumped nearly three feet of snow on New Haven — the district amassed a total of 10 snow days, but only two were built into the NHPS academic calendar at the beginning of the year.

The district released a plan last week to make up the remaining snow days. April 12 and April 19, which were previously half

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

According to NHPS spokeswoman Abbe Smith, school administrators reached out to the New Haven Federation of Teachers President David Cicarella, School Administrators Association President Peggy Moore and parents at the city-wide parent leadership meeting, which brings together parent leaders from schools across the district, for their input on a revised calendar. After consulting with the community, Smith said, the district judged that there was overwhelming support for keeping April break.

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

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

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

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Of the intractability there can be no doubt.

So far from being Shakespeare’s masterpiece, [Hamlet] is most certainly an artistic failure.” T.S. ELIOT ENGLISH POET

‘Hamlet’ sells out tickets Zedillo lawsuit drags on HAMLET FROM PAGE 1 the entire event with a tremendous sense of homecoming,” Padla said. “These are communities that take great pride in the accomplishments of their own, and are thrilled to welcome back Paul Giamatti.”

Padla said in an email that the Rep sold out individual performances of “Marie Antoinette” and “Stones in His Pockets” earlier this season.

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

DON AUCOIN Theater critic, The Boston Globe “It’s not uncommon for many performances to sell out once word of mouth around town and campus begins to kick in,” Padla said. “But it’s a first to sell out the entire run before the first performance.”

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

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

cially priced tickets and earlier matinee performances designed to accommodate student groups.

Padla said over 3,000 Connecticut and New Haven high school students will see the show, and that for many, “Hamlet” will be their first exposure to Shakespeare performed onstage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Hamlet” will run at the University Theatre through April 13.

Contact ANYA GRENIER at anna.grenier@yale.edu .

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TUITION FROM PAGE 1 as the State Department relied on the letter in formulating its suggestion of immunity.

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

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

Fo l l ow i n g t h e Mex i can court’s ruling, the State Department has so far not rescinded its September 2012 suggestion that Zedillo should be granted immunity.

In its original letter, the State Department said that Zedillo’s actions relating to the 1997 massacre in the Mexican village of Acteal were taken as part of his official duties as head of state.

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

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

Freiman said the Mexican court’s decision to invali-

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

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

In September 2011, 10 anonymous plaintiffs represented by the Miami, Fla., law firm Rafferty, Kobert, Tenenholtz, Bounds & Hess, P.A. accused Zedillo — who served as president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000 — of covering up a December 1997 massacre of 45 civilians in the village of Acteal, Mexico, where paramilitaries allegedly backed by the Mexican government attacked people attending a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic indigenous townspeople.

Among the charges the lawsuit brings against Zedillo are war crimes, crimes against humanity, and cruel, inhumane and degrading punishment.

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

The case has been complicated by the fact that the plaintiffs’ identity and source of funding remain unclear, leading the Mexican press to speculate that the lawsuit might be politically motivated. Though Kobert said attorney-client

privilege prevents him from disclosing the plaintiffs’ identity, he told the News in 2011 that his clients do not have the means to afford his firm’s services.

A statement from September 2011 posted on the blog of Las Abejas — a Mexican civil society whose membership included the 45 victims — says that “it is evident that neither Las Abejas nor any other Tzotzil indigenous person has the money to pay the enormous costs that such legal defense would imply.” Las Abejas, which has contested claims by the plaintiffs that they are a part of the organization, also speculated that the lawsuit, filed 14 years after the Acteal massacre, seeks to advance “political-election and economic purposes,” instead of the survivors’ interests. In a September 2012 piece, journalists at The Economist speculated that the administration prior to Zedillo’s might be behind the lawsuit.

“The plaintiffs have chosen to remain anonymous, even though the names of the real victims are well-known in Mexico and outside it,” Freiman told the News on Saturday, adding that survivors of the massacre other than the plaintiffs have attached names to a lawsuit recently introduced in Mexico.

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

Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .

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

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

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

Kerry said the plane shipments — along with material being trucked

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

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

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

the U.S. and Iraq. Iraq and Iran claim the flights are carrying humanitarian goods, but American officials say they are confident that the planes are being used to arm the support the Assad regime. The administration is warning Iraq that unless action is taken, Iraq will be excluded from the international discussion about Syria’s political future.

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

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

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

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

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

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that legislation would likely be debated in his chamber next month that will include expanded federal background checks, tougher laws and stiffer sentences for gun trafficking and increased school safety grants.

A ban on assault-style weapons was dropped from the bill, fearing it would sink the broader bill. But Reid has said that he would allow the ban to be voted on separately as an amendment. President Barack Obama called for a vote on the assault weapons ban in his radio and Internet address Saturday.

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

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

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

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

WAYNE LAPIERRE Executive vice president, National Rifle Association But the NRA’s LaPierre counters that universal background checks are “a dishonest premise.” For example, mental health records are exempt from databases and criminals won’t submit to the checks. Background checks, he said, are a “speed bump” in the system that “slows down the law-abiding and does nothing for anybody else.”

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

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

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

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Despite a forgettable weekend in Atlantic City, the Bulldogs have earned themselves a bid to play Minnesota in the NCAA tournament. PAGE B3 ZOE GORMAN/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

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

Elis stumble against Ivy foes

Spring break no party for baseball

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

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

of those losses were decided by just one run. First baseman and outfielder Josh Scharff ’13 said that Yale was on the verge of winning many of those contests.

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

The Elis (1–13, 0–0 Ivy) began their season with eight games in Florida, starting with a three-game series against Army (6–11, 0–0 Patriot). The SEE BASEBALL PAGE B2

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

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

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

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

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

Despite a strong start and 3–2 lead following the first quarter against Cornell, a scoreless third quarter allowed the Big Red to rebound and SEE MEN’S LACROSSE PAGE B3

TOP ’DOG ANDREW MILLER ’13

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

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

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“America, we are so sorry for messing up your brackets and also your financial system and everything else.” THE HARVARD LAMPOON, TWEETING AFTER HARVARD’S THURSDAY UPSET OF NEW MEXICO

Rough trip for baseball

Elis fall to archrival Crimson

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

BASEBALL FROM PAGE B1 Black Knights won both halves of a double-header on March 9, then completed the sweep with a 4–1 victory over the Bulldogs at the spring training complex of the New York Yankees.

Yale notched its first victory when it bested Bucknell (4–16, 0-0 Patriot) 5–2 in Auburndale, Fla. Left fielder Nate Adams ’16 led the way on offense with two hits and two runs batted in.

Pitcher Ben Joseph ’15 struck out eight Bison batters while allowing just one earned run in six innings. Chris Moates ’16 held Bucknell scoreless for the final three frames to earn the save.

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

could have been much closer.

“Talent-wise they weren’t that much better than us,” Hsieh said. “We just couldn’t put everything together.”

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

“Eric Hsieh has come off the mound and into the leadoff spot, and he’s just been killing the ball,” Scharff said.

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

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

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

Yale lost both games on Saturday by one run after allowing two unearned runs in each contest.

Defensive mistakes have plagued the Bulldogs this season — they have committed 32 errors while their opponents have made just 10 defensive miscues.

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

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

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

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

WOMEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE B4 overs to gain a big win.

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

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

Track and field jumps into season

4–1.

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

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

Contact FREDERICK FRANK at frederick.frank@yale.edu .

10th place finish at NCAA FENCING FROM PAGE B4 omore years, finishing in 23rd and 20th respectively, and Miller earned seventh place as a freshman last year.

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

This was the first time that

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

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

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

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

TRACK AND FIELD FROM PAGE B4 faster than second-place finisher Annie Norah Beveridge of Navy. Yet Demaree was not the only Bulldog in the event with an outstanding showing — teammates Jennifer Donnelly ’13 and Elizabeth McDonald ’16 finished third and fourth, respectively. All three Yale athletes met the ECAC qualifying standard for the event.

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

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

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

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

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

As the women’s distance team impressed in the 10,000m, the men’s distance team also excelled in its events.

James Shirvell ’14 won the 1500m with a time of 3:50.22, followed closely by teammates Sam Kirtner ’13 and Matt Nussbaum ’14, who finished in fourth and fifth, respectively. In the 800m, John

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

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

The men’s and women’s track and field teams will continue their seasons in two weeks at the Sam Howell Invitational in Princeton, N.J. Contact ALEXANDER EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .

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

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Florida Gulf Coast becomes first No. 15-seed to make Sweet 16 After defeating second-seeded Georgetown on Friday, Florida Gulf Coast has continued its Cinderella run by beating seven-seeded San Diego State on Sunday.

The Eagles, who have won over crowds with their strong defense and highlight dunks, defeated the Aztecs 81–71. No other No. 15-seed has advanced to this point in the tournament, despite two No. 15-seeds winning their first game last year.

Yale to play Minnesota on Friday

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

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER A mixed performance in the ECAC tournament left Yale’s NCAA tournament fate hanging in the balance on Sunday, but after Notre Dame knocked off Michigan, the Elis held onto the No. 15 seed and a postseason berth.

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

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

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

nipiac goaltender Eric Hartzell is currently a Hobey Baker contender as well as a first-team allECAC player.

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

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

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

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

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

“Our lack of offense this weekend put us in a tough position,”

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

While scoring was difficult for the Elis in back-to-back games against two top-20 teams, including the No. 1 team in the country, the Bulldogs showed extraordinary performances between the pipes and on the penalty kill.

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

Goaltender Jeff Malcolm ’13

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

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

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

Elis split first two home games MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE B1 left the Elis on the wrong side of a 12–10 decision at the sound of the final buzzer.

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

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

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

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

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

“All week we just focused on process, trying to get all the details right,” Zdrill said.

“That’s a big part of our team goal of consistently trying to get better.”

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

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

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

at 9–7.

Against the Big Red, Oberbeck put away a team-high three goals for the hat trick.

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

two goals against the Tigers.

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

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

The Elis are looking for their first

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

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

Yale finishes 10th at NCAAs

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

BY GIOVANNI BACARELLA STAFF REPORTER During the final days of spring break, four Yale fencers traveled to San Antonio, Texas, to earn a 10th-place finish for the Bulldogs at the NCAA National Championship.

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

the epee competition. For the women’s team, sabreur Madeline Oliver ’13 finished in 10th place in her weapon class while Lauren Miller ’15 claimed 13th place in the foil competition.

The Bulldogs contended in a field of 144 of the nation’s top fencers.

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

“The tournament has validated a lot of work I’ve been putting in at practice,” O’Cinneide said. “Everything I’ve spent

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

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

HUGH O’CINNEIDE ’15 Men’s fencing Cohen added that with such tight competition, it is really anyone’s tournament.

“I unfortunately had a slow

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

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

To qualify for the tournament, candidates were judged by the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Fencing Committee based on both individual performances during the season and the

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results from the NCAA Northeast Regional, which took place on March 10 at St. John’s Carnesecca Arena and Taffner Field House in Queens, N.Y. The men’s and women’s teams each qualified 10 fencers for the Northeast Regional. O’Cinneide finished in seventh place for saber competition, earning him the seventh qualifying spot for the national championship.

Cohen finished fifth in epee, landing the fifth qualifier.

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

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

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

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

Cohen competed in the championship as a freshman and tied for third in epee. Oliver competed in her freshman and sophSEE FENCING PAGE B2

Elis start strong in season opener

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

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

posted impressive results over the twoday competition.

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

Still, the Elis strung together several impressive performances in a number of events. On the women’s side, one such performance came in the 10,000m. Anna Demaree ’15 won the race with a time of 36:24.10, 27 seconds SEE TRACK AND FIELD PAGE B2

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

BY FREDERICK FRANK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Saturday, the women’s lacrosse (4–4, 0–3 Ivy) team fell to archrival Harvard (2–4, 1–2 Ivy) in a 10–5 contest in Cambridge.

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

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

Midfielder Nicole Daniggelis ’16 led the scoring for Yale with two goals on four shots. Attacker Kerri Fleishhacker ’15, midfielder Cathryn Avallone ’15 and midfielder Lauren Wackerle ’16 added one goal apiece, while attacker Jen DeVito ’14 earned one assist.

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

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

Yale’s scoreless streak was caused by a slew of nine turnovers and many missed opportunities. The Bulldogs finished with 15 turnovers and placed only 11 of their 20 shots on target. Despite dominating draw controls 11–6, demonstrating successful clears and committing fewer fouls, the Crimson won the ground ball battle 21–19 and committed fewer turnSEE WOMEN’S LACROSSE PAGE B2

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