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Court upholds Zedillo decision

Ghosts of libraries past.

Yesterday, Bass Library hosted a drop-in session for students to get help on their research papers. The event photo they selected for their advertising showed a photo of a student pretending to study … but actually reading Playboy. The picture was originally taken in Silliman in 1962 and is now part of the Yale Manuscripts & Archives.

Connecticut’s ACA system serves as model for other states PAGE 5 CITY

Cho faces additional charges

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ple who were attending a religious meeting.

Judge Michael Shea of the Connecticut Judicial District dismissed the case in July after the U.S. State Department claimed Zedillo was immune from prosecution for actions within his capacity as head

After posting a $5,000 bond in cash after his initial arrest, Gourmet Heaven owner Chung Cho was arrested for the second time on Monday for five violations of illegal discrimination against workers and five violations of failure to keep wage records between Nov. 22 and Jan. 19.

Cho was arrested for the first time last Thursday on 42 felony and misdemeanor charges for wage theft committed throughout 2013.

In light of both arrests, the New Haven Police Department hosted a press conference at their headquarters Wednesday afternoon, where Board of Alders President Jorge Perez, representatives from the Department of Labor, labor advocates and former Gourmet Heaven workers met with media to announce their resolve to end wage theft in the city.

“New Haven is making wage theft a priority,” said DOL investigator Blair Bertucci, who led the Gourmet Heaven investigation.

“We want to create a level playing field so law-abiding employers don’t have to compete with cheaters.”

After workers’ complaints of being paid under minimum wage initiated a DOL investigation in August, Cho was discovered to be paying workers in cash at wages as low as $4.44 an hour, with no overtime.

Cho reached a settlement with the DOL in November to pay $140,000 in back wages to 25 workers in three installments at the beginning of the year.

But he was one week late on the first payment and three weeks late on the second, at which point the DOL decided to press criminal charges for not complying with the resolution on which they had agreed, said Gary Pechie, head of the DOL’s wage and workplace standards division.

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The diet after the storm.

Following a succession of chocolate-themed events, graduate students finally get a break with an event today centered on relaxation. At “Cultivating Gratitude,” attendees will design a planter with a seed or bulb to grow throughout the spring. The event is accompanied with a light soup and salad dinner, a drastic break from last night’s graduate student life event which advertised the “world’s largest jar of Nutella.”

How not to raise a psychopath. Students hoping

to raise socially well-adjusted children got some helpful tips last night at an event the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. An event titled “Emotionally Intelligent Parenting” gave families tools for teaching their kids emotional intelligence at home. Although this trait does not constitute a portion of the SAT, emotional intelligence has been shown to be connected to well-being and success at home, work and school.

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A $50 million suit against Ernesto Zedillo GRD ’81, former President of Mexico, was dismissed last week.

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER Ernesto Zedillo GRD ’81, head of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and a former Mexican President, may finally be able to put a lawsuit alleging human rights abuses behind him.

Last week, a federal appeals court

in New York upheld the July decision of a Connecticut court to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that Zedillo bore some responsibility for a 1997 massacre in a Mexican village. The $50 million suit was filed in July 2011 by 10 unnamed plaintiffs, who claimed they were survivors of the massacre in Acteal, Mexico, where a paramilitary group killed 45 peo-

Lox et veritas. A recent

IvyGate post called Yaliesout on their complaints about Yale Dining switch from normalsized bagels to mini-bagels.

“In classic form, Yale students have found a petty nonissue to latch onto and raise hell over,” the post said. The post cited a few angry Facebook statuses, one complaining that the new bagels could be buttered only with a microscope.

Walk with me ... to TD. For students who enjoy long walk and talks with their professors, Timothy Dwight College hosted a “Take Your Professor to Dinner” meal Wednesday evening. Participating professors enjoyed a menu of Caribbean chicken and Haitian rice and beans, as well as chance to take the scenic route down to Temple Street.

A gallery opening of sorts.

The Yale Women’s Center has opened voting for its competition on feminist art.

Entries include photos, art, poems and videos around the theme of “Feminism Today.”

Tides of history. A panel last night at Sterling Memorial Library explored “Black Panthers and the FBI.” On the panel was a former secretary for the Black Panther Party.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

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Homebuyer Program turns 20

BY POOJA SALHOTRA STAFF REPORTER 20 years after former University President Richard Levin started the Homebuyer Program — one of his most widely acclaimed town-gown initiatives — the University pledged to continue subsidizing homeownership in New Haven for Yale

employees for at least another two years.

The Yale Corporation evaluates the program biennially and decided to renew the program for another two years during its meeting last December.

As of this January, the program had helped over 1,000 employees who have purchased homes in New Haven, over 70 percent

of whom were first-time homeowners. Faculty members and full-time staff members are eligible for the program, which provides a total of $30,000 over 10 years to those who purchase homes in designated areas surrounding campus, including Dixwell, Beaver Hills and Fair Haven.

Levin initiated the Yale

Homebuyer Program in 1994 to encourage investment in the city and to improve what was then a strained town-gown relationship. As the largest employer-assisted home ownership program of any American university, the program has committed $26.8 million to over 1,000 employees who chose to live in New Haven over the past

20 years.

“The Homebuyer Program has been one of the ways in which Yale helps maintain the positive momentum for the city and its residents,” said University spokesperson Mike Morand ’87 DIV ’93.

He added that the program SEE HOMEBUYERS PAGE 6

Light Fellowship distribution remains steady

BY YUVAL BEN-DAVID AND RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTERS For Yalies the Richard U. Light Fellowship program provides a major incentive for studying Chinese, Japanese or Korean at Yale.

Founded in 1996, the Light Fellowship provides full funding for Yale students to study Chinese, Japanese or Korean for a summer, semester or year in Asia. As enrollment in Chinese classes continues to rise, students in the Korean and Japanese programs said they are worried the growing Chinese program will eventually eat into resources for their own language study. But faculty members interviewed said they are not concerned by the growth of the Chinese department at Yale, adding that the distribution of Light Fellowships between the three language departments has not changed significantly in recent years.

“The committee gives this issue careful consideration each year,” said Rob Clough, the Light Fellowship director. He added that the Greenberg Scholars program, which is specifically dedicated to Chinese, has helped mitigate imbalances between the departments because it has enabled

the Light Fellowship to support more Chinese language learners while not reducing the number of Japanese or Korean language learners supported.

Cloud said 141 Light Fellowships have been awarded for the summer of 2014 and the 2013–’14 academic year, with approximately 70 percent of the recipients studying Chinese, 20 percent Japanese and 10 percent Korean. According to Kelly McLaughlin, deputy director of the Center for International and Professional Experience and the director of fellowship programs, 67 percent of recipients studied Chinese, 22 percent studied Japanese and 11 percent studied Korean during the summer of 2013 and 2012–’13.

Still, six of the seven students interviewed said they think that the size of the Chinese department poses a threat to the Japanese and Korean programs. As the Light Fellowship is critical to the study of Korean and Japanese at Yale, some students said even a slight decline in Light Fellowship funding may have adverse consequences on those programs. Students who do not receive a Light Fellowship may stop taking the language, causing higher SEE LIGHT FELLOWSHIP PAGE 4

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OPINION

.COMMENT “Yale does not exist to make all students equal.” yaledailynews.com/opinion

What’s your thing?

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very time I meet a new person at Yale, the litany of questions we ask one another remains relatively unchanged. Each of them is part of our desire to place this new acquaintance, to situate him or her into one or two relevant locations. We recite name, college, hometown, perhaps major, if we’re feeling intellectual, and then the classic question crops up: “So, what kind of stuff do you do?”

These questions are perfectly innocuous and make a lot of sense; in order to forge a connection with someone, it’s helpful to find common ground. They’re in Berkeley — do you two have any mutual Berkeley friends? They’re from Los Angeles — perhaps they know your one random friend from camp. And how are those Lakers doing? The questions are just part of a ritual to begin the pleasantries of a new and slightly awkward conversation.

But the question of “What do you do on campus?” I’ve found, is a question that is, if not unique to Yale, at least of more pressing concern here than at other schools. The question somehow implies that the very fact of being here, going to your classes, dutifully doing your reading and just hanging out with your friends isn’t quite enough. I have yet to ever talk to someone who responds to the question of what he or she does with the answer, “I take classes.”

IT'S PERFECTLY OK TO SPEND TIME ON CLASSES, NOT EXTRACURRICULARS Is that such a ridiculous answer, though? It is, of course, admirable to take immense satisfaction in one’s extracurricular activities. I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t spent more time fretting about my a cappella group than I spent on my problem set this past week. The work that we are all involved in outside of the classroom can become an incredibly involved experience, if we let it. Often people say that they learn more from managing their respective groups than they do in any of their esoteric classes.

There is no doubt that this is true for many. But that doesn’t mean we should impose that norm on everyone. Or, to put it differently, it doesn’t mean that those who find it rewarding to invest all their spare time in publications, clubs or theater ought to expect the same of their peers. It’s easy to forget, but at many other schools

it’s more than enough to simply go to your classes and spend time doing your reading, VICTORIA catching up with friends, HALLor, God forbid, sleeping PALERM eight hours a night.

The The depth Notorious of people’s V.H.P. involvement in their extracurriculars is a crucial part of what makes this campus so fulfilling. But the pressure to prioritize extracurriculars above all else can quickly become toxic. Sometimes I feel like I use my involvement in my a cappella group or my participation in the News as a crutch or tool for social capital. “I keep busy,” these accomplishments seem to say. It allows me to be more than just a student; these things are, in the eyes of my peers, more real than the confines of what one learns in a classroom.

But I think it might not be bad to recall that at the end of the day, many of us are here to take our classes very seriously.

And there is quite simply nothing wrong with that — oftentimes in our zeal to express enthusiasm for our individual pursuits I worry that we belittle those who prioritize their academics. And even more than that, I worry that sometimes we allow our love of extracurriculars to serve as a justification for neglecting our classes.

It’s so passé to let something as simple as a reading assignment take up a whole afternoon, much less let it be the most exciting part of your day.

Classes are often treated as something to suffer through — something to occupy the hours of ten to three until you can get back to doing your real things.

That sentiment might hold true for many. But for those who want to go about their day investing time and energy in their classes rather than side projects, who are we to impose upon them a different set of priorities? It’s just as legitimate to love classes as it is to love singing. I worry that in asking our peers what they “do,” we’re leaping to the conclusion that everyone needs to have their “thing” — beyond a challenging course load. We’re forcing people to alter their behavior in an attempt to conform to the archetype of an overworked, bustling Yale student.

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Reconcile alcohol policy E

arlier this week, my roommate excitedly remarked to me, “Know who I saw today? Sober Buddy.”

The myth of Sober Buddy began as part of new alcohol initiatives introduced last fall, when Yale College freshmen were required to complete a brief alcohol-safety training program online before arriving on campus. The interactive video program included Yale students who discussed the drinking culture on campus — a mostly forgettable conversation, with the exception of the oft-mistaken narrator Sober Buddy, whose prosobriety antics were corrected by more realistic Yale students. For many freshmen, though, Sober Buddy has become the caricature of Yale’s alcohol policies.

Yale likes to drink, and alcohol is part of campus culture in a different way than at many of our peer institutions. Senior societies aside, Yalies aren’t limited by the exclusive eating clubs of Princeton or the Manhattan brownstones housing Columbia’s fraternities. Yale students share alcohol at community events, organization bonding and open parties — often with positive results when it comes to making the community closer. To deny the presence of drinking at these gatherings would be immature and irresponsible, both for students and administrators. To that end, the administration has made largely positive steps in recognizing and examining the drinking culture

at Yale among both legal and underage students.

But the a d m i n i s t ra tion has been dealt a difCAROLINE ficult task in re c o g n i z i n g POSNER and discussing the inevitabilOut of Line ity of underage drinking and also acknowledging the authority of Connecticut state law.

The freshman alcohol training video was comical not because of the caped narrator, but because it makes clear the University’s insecure teetering between polar messages. On one hand, the video’s narrators explicitly say that underage students drink; they advocate safety — not necessarily sobriety — a realistic goal given college culture nationwide. On the other hand, the administration continues to push messages of compliance with the law, which is obviously required of the institution. Policy dictates, “Under no circumstances may alcoholic beverages be served, directly or indirectly, to anyone under the legal drinking age.”

It’s hard not to laugh at the competing messages of reality and legality, and they speak to larger issues with the drinking age and University life. But it’s a problem that these juxtaposed policies make applying Yale’s alco-

hol training less likely, because the abuse and dangerous consumption of alcohol is still a problem among undergraduates. I’ve known far too many late night visitors to Yale Health to believe that new policies or educational videos have made a real impact on freshmen. The administrative decision to develop new alcohol policies seems like recognition of that failure.

Last night, I took part in a dialogue between members of Yale College’s Student Affairs and Student Life departments, Berkeley students and Master Marvin Chun on the proposed changes to Yale’s policy on alcohol. The focus of the new initiative — which will include student additions to an existing implementation committee and the formation of a new student advisory committee — is unification, clarification and communication of University policy, improvement of alcohol education for students, and engagement of the Yale community. These are lofty ideals and don’t hold much weight on their own, but promise of concrete policy and education changes is clear in the new administrative attitude.

Perhaps the most important topic discussed was the goal of shaping drinking culture among underclassmen by modeling positive behavior in those of legal drinking age. That’s a particularly pragmatic vision, considering our peers are likely more influ-

ential in changing campus attitudes towards alcohol then are the policies themselves. Dangerous drinking arises most frequently from quick consumption with the intent to get drunk, a major component of college drinking culture. For students whose first exposure to serious drinking is college life — a solid portion of Yale — this model is particularly dangerous.

That’s really to say, college students are drinking dangerously because they’re drinking wrong.

Master Chun makes clear his positive-modeling attitude through events that encourage tasteful, smart drinking among seniors — events that offer wine, beer and even scotch tastings. This isn’t a cure-all for a seriously corrupted drinking culture, but this scheme helps reconcile the reality of a campus drinking culture with an institutional respect for the authority of law.

The reformed focus of alcohol policy leaves me cautiously optimistic about administrative plans.

But it is utterly necessary that students continue to voice our opinions on that matter — we’re subject to both the influence of Yale drinking culture and Yale administrative policy, and we ought to be primary actors in advising these decisions.

CAROLINE POSNER is a freshman in Berkeley College. Her columns run on Thursdays. Contact her at caroline.posner@yale.edu .

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VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a junior in Berkeley College. Her columns run on alternate Thursdays. Contact her at victoria.hall-palerm@yale.edu.

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hen Yale opened the first of its residential colleges in 1933, University leadership drew the names of the colleges from the ranks of prominent alumni and New Haven leaders. At the opening of the most recent residential colleges, Ezra Stiles and Morse, Yale College had not yet begun accepting women despite their enrollment in the graduate schools. A few years later, when the women who joined the class of 1973 made history, each new female student joined a residential college named after and run by men — that is, until the appointment of Katherine Lustman as the first female residential college master in 1971.

I’m not the first to point out these disparities. And I certainly am not the first to notice that Yale — with the construction of the two new residential colleges — is now presented with a great opportunity to recognize the accomplishments of our inspiring female forebears. With the goal of our University structures reflecting the realities of today’s Yale, I propose naming one of the two newest colleges after Grace Murray Hopper, honoring both Yale’s legacy of storied leadership and its technological prom-

ise for the future.

Born in New York City in 1906, Hopper came to Yale to earn advanced degrees in mathematics, including her Ph.D., in 1934.

After taking a position on the faculty at Vassar College, she joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943, eventually rising to the rank of Commodore (later converted to Rear Admiral, Lower Half) over an unprecedented career that lasted more than 40 years. Her final promotion to “flag” rank came by special Congressional support, which only solidified her place as a symbol of progress for the Navy and for the federal government more generally.

As a computer scientist, she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language and coined the term “debugging” to describe the process of fixing computer glitches.

“Amazing Grace,” as many came to call her, was a true pioneer.

Her first Navy assignment was to the Mark I at Harvard, the first computer ever built in the United States. For her groundbreaking work, she set the bar of achievement high for the women — and men — of our STEM programs here at Yale.

Born into a family with a longstanding military tradition,

Hopper distinguished herself as someone with great intellectual promise who chose to leave academia behind for a nation that needed her vision for the future of technology. In that, she is like Yale and like the many alumni who have left this campus with the fortitude to do good. While in the Navy, Hopper, too, often focused her efforts on educating the next generation.

Our University has long been at the front line, with alumni and faculty serving in nearly every major conflict in which America has fought. A walk through the Memorial Hall, just outside Commons, amidst the names of Yalies who paid the ultimate price for our freedom, is a touchstone for this collective experience. For our shared history of service. For our responsibility as a community to the outside world.

In a 1986 interview with David Letterman, just after her retirement, Hopper spoke in a matter-of-fact way about her life of service. Her steadfastness and dedication reflect a career that spanned nearly the entire length of the Cold War. At one point, when describing her reasons for joining the Navy during World War II, even though she already

had tenure as a professor at Vassar, she eulogizes “a time when everyone in this country all did one thing together.” Her experience in service during the Vietnam War is undoubtedly the support for her lament.

Hopper perhaps shared the University’s troubled visions of the Vietnam era, when the Army and Navy officer training programs were forced from the Yale campus, to return 40 years later in fall 2012. Making her the namesake of a new college would make good on the words of Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, who applauded the closeness of “Navy blue and Yale blue” when he visited campus to reinstate the Naval ROTC unit in May 2011.

While I am not of the right academic background to appreciate the breadth of her accomplishments in computer programming, I have a sense that her example as someone who did so much with her Yale education, who showed the discouraged and disheartened the way forward, is one that we can all strive to follow. And Grace Hopper College has a certain ring to it, too.

JOSH CLAPPER is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact him at josh.clapper@yale.edu .

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“It’s hard to say goodbye to the streets.”

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Grad students discuss two way streets

BY HAILEY WINSTON STAFF REPORTER Between classes and dissertations, Yale graduate students have found time to speak out against the conversion of New Haven’s streets.

At a two-hour Tuesday night meeting in the Hall of Graduate Studies, roughly 15 graduate students voiced their concerns about a current city proposal to convert many downtown streets that surround Yale from one-way to two-way lanes.

T h e c i ty ’s p ro p osa l includes plans to convert 10 major downtown streets, including York, College, Crown, Church and Grove Streets.

According to Sachi Inukai GRD ’15, chair of the Graduate Student Assembly Transit and Security Committee, the proposal does not sufficiently take into account the needs of the Yale community, which include biking, pedestrian traffic and bus route congestion.

I think a lot of the proposal is too overreaching. York Street is already a mess.

BILL RUFF GRD ’18 “Yale’s needs are different from New Haven’s because we’re actually living here [in downtown],” Inukai said. “There’s a difference between living here and working here.”

The GSA organized Tuesday’s town-hall style meeting in order to gather the opinions of graduate students and formulate suggestions to the city on behalf of the Yale community, said GSA President Brian Dunican GRD ’15.

Several students who attended the meeting raised questions about converting streets that are already congested. Because downtown streets have parking lanes on either side, converting them to two-way streets would mean that cars traveling each direction would

have only a single lane.

“I think a lot of the proposal is too overreaching,” said Bill Ruff GRD ’18. “York Street is already a mess. To convert it, you’d have to lose one side of parking, but it’s prime parking for the businesses.”

Students also discussed the conversion of streets that receive heavy foot traffic, because pedestrians might face more difficulty and danger crossing twoway streets.

In addition, the proposal does not account for frequent Yale Shuttle stops, Ross Federman GRD ’19 said, adding that the introduction of two way traffic would cause significant congestion.

“Even the way it is now, the buses in the city really push the limits of the roads,” he added.

Though graduate students questioned the conversion of many of the streets, they also generally supported changing Church and Grove Streets into twoway streets. Church and Grove are less congested, Federman said, and it would be significantly more convenient if they were twoway.

The students also supported the city’s proposal to add a bike lane on Church Street. They unanimously agreed that the city should add bike lanes to several other streets as well, including College, Prospect, Church and Grove Streets.

“We’ve settled on the importance of bike lanes and making College and Prospect Streets major thoroughfares for bikers,” Inukai said. “Bike lanes are really lacking in New Haven.”

Fe d e r m a n s u g ge s te d that the city not only paint lines indicating bike lanes, but also construct concrete blockades around them to ensure that drivers do not use bike lanes to pass other cars.

Other issues graduate students have recently debated include housing options in New Haven and campus security.

Contact HAILEY WINSTON at hailey.winston@yale.edu .

Alders terminate Science Park agreement

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After 22 years of a positive relationship between the company and the city, the Board of Alders ended its agreement with the nonprofit Science Park.

BY LARRY MILSTEIN STAFF REPORTER On Wednesday, the Community Development Committee of the Board of Alders voted unanimously to terminate an agreement between the city and Science Park, a nonprofit organization that attracts entrepreneurs to an industrial site adjacent to Yale’s Science Hill.

The agreement was initially formed in January 1992 to provide a grant in aid to Science Park Corporation, which used the funds for development projects and property improvements, said President and Chairman of Science Park Development Corporation David Silverstone. In return, Science Park Development Corporation agreed to pay a portion of its positive revenue through the end of 2011, when the agreement expired. Silverstone added that the city initially invested $625,000 and

has received roughly $1.3 million over the course of the 19 years.

“I think it was a win-win in reference to the taxes that were gained from Science Park,” said Ward 29 Alder Brian Wingate.

“All the details came together and it was also an issue of time.”

Although the terms of the agreement formally ended in 2011, the city attorney ruled that the Board of Alders must vote to terminate it as they initially voted to approve the deal, Silverstone said.

The other consenting parties including the Olin Corporation, the state of Connecticut and Yale University have already terminated the provision, said Frank Douglass, chairman of the Community Development Committee.

Silverstone said that because of this agreement and the success of the Science Park development, the Elm City has witnessed major improvements over

the past few years, including the entrance of 30 new companies to Science Park and over 100 million in private sector investment.

He added that the Science Park Corporation sought formal termination of this agreement since the Corporation is in the process of renegotiating its mortgage with the state and its lenders want to see “clean type.”

Ward 6 Alder Dolores Colon clarified that termination of the contract will not affect the current leases on buildings in Science Park. However, she questioned whether new tenants — including Yale’s potential relocation of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to 344 Winchester Ave. — would be taxed as additional income to the city.

Although Silverstone said he did not know the specifics of the Beinecke project — Science Park owns the land and does not handle internal leases — he said

he would provide documents regarding property assessments and taxability to the board for final consideration.

Silverstone projected that following two more readings by the Board of Alders, the official termination of the agreement can be expected to come by April 15 at the latest.

In addition to the Science Park agreement, the committee also discussed two other legislative items: the acquisition of 99 Edgewood Ave. and a public hearing for RMS Chapel West, two multiunit buildings. Both measures passed unanimously.

Science Park Development Corporation was formed in 1981 by the City of New Haven, Olin Corporation and Yale University to develop a high technology business, research and industrial park.

Contact LARRY MILSTEIN at larry.milstein@yale.edu .

Zakaria talks the American Dream

BY AKASH SALAM STAFF REPORTER The American Dream has changed, according to Fareed Zakaria ’86.

Zakaria — editor-at-large of Time Magazine and the host of CNN’s foreign affairs show “Fareed Zakaria GPS” — spoke before a packed audience at the Levinson Auditorium of the Yale Law School on Wednesday afternoon. Zakaria talked about how the shifting global economy and increasing levels of technological advancement are affecting the American Dream, describing everything from his decision to leave India to come to Yale in the 1980s in pursuit of the American Dream to his current work in analyzing economic markets.

“Wherever you go there is a sense, there is anxiety in America that the future is not going to be the best,” Zakaria said. “So much of the energy, so much of the dynamism in the future is no longer quite as true.”

As a child, Zakaria said he fantasized about America based on what he saw in VHS tapes and newspapers. But when he first came to the United States in the 1980s during one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression, Zakaria said he found his dreams crumbling away.

Within a year of his arrival, however, the economy turned the corner and jobs were plentiful.

The “animal spirits” of capitalism had returned, he said.

Yet the sense of anxiety remained and is still present to this day, Zakaria said.

“Well, what [was] going on?” he said. “Well, I think we were

creating a new global system that was very different from the past and difficult to understand when you’re in the midst of it.”

Zakaria outlined three key reasons for the change in the global system. The peace and political stability that followed the Cold War, the economic convergence of the global economy and the boom of technological advancement and connectivity all helped raise the standards of living in other nations, particularly China and India, he said.

In recent years, developing countries have advanced, and their manufacturing and labor markets have caught up to the United States, he said. The United States is no longer leading the pack — the world has caught and globalization and technology have helped level the playing field, he added.

Today, every nation is trying to participate in a single global model of capital and goods, he said.

“You can’t stop China from growing. You can’t stop the Internet,” Zakaria said. “But it does mean you have to honestly recognize these are forces that are having these very profound [effects] in our societies that are going to continue.”

Zakaria said one of the problems America is facing is that, before the 1990s, people got their jobs back very quickly after recessions hit. Since that time, the dynamic has changed, and it is much more difficult for employment to bounce back, he said.

While it may have taken five months on average for people in the latter half of the 20th century to get their jobs back, it will now likely take 40 to 60 months from

the 2008 recession, he said.

“For the average person, those with a college degree and mostly likely those without, what is going to happen?” Zakaria said. “You are left wondering how this is going to work out.”

Students interviewed said they were impressed with the way Zakaria handled questions and gave a comprehensive overview of America’s place in the world.

Colin Lu ’14 said Zakaria gave a balanced view of major world issues and recognized that problems cannot be solved unless people understand how America’s situation has changed.

“It was pretty eye-opening in the sense that, in my own mind, I had some critiques of capitalism and anticipated that people would ask that, but he had pretty convincing answers that I had not considered,” Omar Malik FES ’13 said. “The way he linked globalization with [technology] was pretty remarkable.”

Gautam Chopra SOM ’15 said Zakaria seemed optimistic about the future of the U.S. economy in the new global order.

At one point, an audience member asked Zakaria whether he believes the American Dream is alive today.

“It may be because in some ways I still feel like an immigrant in this country, and perhaps it is a little corny, but yes, I do still believe in the American dream,” Zakaria said.

While at Yale, Zakaria was president of the Yale Political Union and editor in chief of the Yale Political Monthly.

Contact AKASH SALAM at akash.salam@yale.edu .

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Fareed Zakaria ’86 discussed the role and position of the U.S. in a new globalized economy.

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FROM THE FRONT

“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Cho arrests spark discussion over wage theft GOURMET HEAVEN FROM PAGE 1 Pechie said arrest is only used in about 1 percent of the 5,000 cases he sees per year.

“We never press charges immediately. We always give employers time to comply and to rectify the situation,” Pechie said. “If we went immediately to prosecution we’d be in court all day long. But you simply cannot make a settlement with us and then not live up to it.”

Even after they agreed on the settlement in November, Cho allegedly continued to pay some workers overtime in cash off the books. Workers continued to tell the News that the management mistreated them and intimidated

them into underreporting labor violations to the DOL. In January, four workers alleged that they had been fired in retaliation for testifying to the DOL, sparking outrage from Yale students and community organizers from Unidad Latina en Accion (ULA), the grassroots organization that has led a boycott and weekly pickets in front of the store since August. The state’s Labor Commission is still investigating this claim.

The NHPD, the DOL and the workers thanked ULA activists for their efforts over the past half year.

“We’re trying to fight for all workers in New Haven. They deserve fair wages for their hard

work,” said Julio Olivar, one of the workers who was fired after working at Gourmet Heaven for over seven years.

Megan Fountain, an ULA organizer, said it will be up to students to decide whether they want to support a business that has proven itself incapable of complying with minimum labor standards.

Pechie said Gourmet Heaven’s future is now in the hands of Yale University Properties, who are in charge of the store’s lease. On behalf of University Properties, Vice President Bruce Alexander issued a statement in the fall saying that they “will not renew the lease of any tenant not in complete compliance with the labor

laws regarding fair treatment of employees.”

Alexander could not be reached for comment.

Most of Cho’s felony charges carry penalties of up to 5 years in jail and/or $5,000 fines. Because the sum of wages stolen exceeds $10,000, he also faces a charge of first-degree larceny, which carries a penalty of 1 to 20 years imprisonment and/or a $15,000 fine.

The misdemeanors are punishable by up to one year imprisonment and/or a $2,000 fine.

The violations with which he was most recently charged are civil violations and will be handled by the State Infractions Bureau.

Bertucci said Cho will take a

plea bargain.

In both arrests, he was notified of the warrant for his arrest and turned himself in to the police.

For both his Thursday and Monday arrests, he posted his $5,000 bond in cash.

Now that the case has been turned over to criminal prosecutors, it is out of the DOL’s jurisdiction. Pechie said that, for the time being, the DOL cannot distribute the remainder of the back wages, leaving workers in limbo.

“We continued to receive information that he was still violating the law,” Pechie said. “He didn’t seem to understand the gravity of charges he could be facing.”

At the press conference,

NHPD officers expressed their intention to contribute to the city’s efforts to eradicate wage theft, which activists at the conference called “rampant” in New Haven.

“We have made a commitment to the DOL and the people of the community to do everything we can to assist their efforts to stop wage theft,” said Assistant Chief of Police Achilles Generoso. “If there is a violation of the law, NHPD will see that justice is served.”

Cho’s arraignment will occur on March 4.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINATAYAC at sebastian.medina-tayac@yale.edu .

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Gourmet Heaven owner Cho Chung has allegedly continued to violate labor laws after coming to an agreement with the Department of Labor to pay workers $140,000 in deserved wages.

Students concerned over Light distribution LIGHT FELLOWSHIP FROM PAGE 1 level classes in these already small departments to be canceled from lack of enrollment, they said.

“Because [Korean is] such a small program, there’s not a whole lot for you to keep doing once you get to a high enough level,” said Jake Albert ’16, who received the fellowship last year to study in South Korea. “If you want to keep on doing Chinese for a long time there’s a lot more options.”

Though Albert took an L5 Korean course in the fall, he said his spring course was cancelled when only two people expressed interest.

Andrew Stein ’16, who received a Light Fellowship for the summer of 2013 and has received another Light Fellowship for the 2014–’15 academic year to study in Japan, said the presence of Chinese undergraduate students at Yale and the sheer number of native Chinese speakers at the University mean there are more opportunities for students to practice Chinese outside the classroom than Japanese or Korean.

“If you don’t send as many people [on Light fellowships], it’s harder for a department to sustain student interest at the higher levels, beyond fulfilling a language credit,” said Jeremy Liu ’16, who was denied a Light Fel-

lowship to study in Korea.

While Albert said at least seven students in “Korean 120” received the Light Fellowship last year, Liu and Mahir Rahman ’16 — both enrolled in Korean 120 — said their instructor told them only two students in each of the two L2 Korean courses would receive a Light Fellowship this admissions cycle.

McLaughlin stressed that the number of applications from each language program fluctuates year to year, adding that the application numbers for Japanese and Korean were lower than normal this year. Although each student’s application is evaluated on its individual merit, McLaughlin said the Light Fel-

lowship currently aims to distribute funds in line with the overall enrollment rates of the three languages, and it is unusual for the committee to diverge significantly from these enrollment rates.

East Asian Languages and Literatures department chair Tina Lu said she doubts that any slight decrease in awards to students studying Korean or Japanese this year was intentional. The Richard U. Light Foundation stresses that the fellowship should serve students interested in different East Asian languages, she said.

Ruchi Gupta ’16 and Sei Han ’16 said the Light Fellowship’s percentage system, although seemingly fair, could threaten

the Japanese and Korean departments in the distant future if the number of students studying Chinese continues to rise relative to the number studying Korean and Japanese.

Gupta suggested that the University implement a minimum threshold to guarantee that each language receives at least 10 percent of Light Fellowship funding. Ensuring that a significant proportion of students return to campus with exposure to all three languages and cultures is critical to maintaining Yale’s intellectual diversity, she said.

Liu said the fellowship gives students the opportunity and incentive to study a language beyond the L3 level. Cultural

exposure gives students a newfound appreciation for their language studies, he said.

“Without the Light, I think Japanese would suffer greatly,” Stein said. “You can’t get significantly better at Japanese without being totally immersed in it, and with such a difficult language, what’s the point studying it for four years in college if you can’t master it upon graduation?”

The Light Fellowship has funded study in Asia for over 1,000 students.

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“Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.”

P.J. O’ROURKE AMERICAN POLITICAL SATIRIST

Campaign finance law fuels debate Tom Foley

Businessman and former ambassador to Ireland under former U.S. President George W. Bush ’68.

Ran against Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy in 2010 and lost by less than one percentage point.

Mark Lauretti

Shelton Mayor. Weighed runs for governor in 2010 and then for U.S. Congress in 2012.

John McKinney

Minority leader of the Connecticut State Senate, representing the 28th district since 1999.

Participating in public financing? Maybe.

Participating in public financing? Yes.

Participating in public financing? Yes.

Mark Boughton

Toni Boucher

Joseph Visconti

Danbury Mayor since 2002 and Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in 2010.

Participating in public financing? Yes.

BY ISABELLE TAFT STAFF REPORTER As Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy stalls on the announcement of whether he will seek a second term this November, Republican challengers are racing to qualify for public campaign funding under the state’s Citizen’s Election program. But a new campaign finance law passed

by Malloy in June could make public funds a smaller part of a candidate’s war chest.

The new rules allow state political parties to make unlimited contributions to publicly funded candidates. Malloy supporters claim the changes will help mitigate the impact of the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, which led to substantial spending by super PACs and individuals in

Connecticut in 2012. Now, parties will be able to respond with similar spending. But advocates for campaign spending regulations charge that the new rules undo some of the progress the Citizen’s Election Program has made in limiting the influence of big money in elections.

Cheri Quickmire, executive director of Common Cause Connecticut, a nonprofit that lobbies for restrictions on campaign financing, said she is concerned about the potential for an influx of spending by undisclosed donors.

“Short of rewinding the Citizens United decision in court, which is something I think would be a good idea, we need to know where that money comes from,” Quickmire said.

The law also doubles the amount that an individual can

Connecticut State Senator representing the 26th district since 2009. Before that she served in the Connecticut House for 12 years.

Former West Hartford Town Councilor and nominee in 2008 for Connecticut's 1st congressional district.

Participating in public financing? Yes. donate annually to a state party from $5,000 to $10,000. When a party or PAC donates to a candidate, voters can view records of the transaction online, but they can’t see who made the initial contribution.

State Sen. Toni Boucher, who is one of six Republican candidates seeking to challenge Malloy, is trying to qualify for public financing by raising $250,000 in donations under $100. Boucher said she thinks the new law undermines the intent of the public financing system — which she has used in state senatorial campaigns — by strengthening the influence of political parties over that of individual donors.

Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit that analyzes campaign finance laws across the

country, said Connecticut’s public financing system gave the state some of the strongest campaign regulations in the nation when it was implemented in 2008. But the June law sapped the strength of those regulations and opened a loophole for greater individual donations, she added.

“State party contributions to candidates can be used as a means of evading individual contribution limits,” she said.

James Hallinan, a spokesman for the Democratic Party, said the party had been fundraising aggressively to counter a predicted influx of spending by outside groups.

“Democrats can never compete when it comes to the super PACs and the Tea Party groups,” Hallinan said. “But we certainly can work very hard and raise our

Participating in public financing? No. grassroots donations to try and counter it.”

Boucher said she believes the Democrats have also been taking advantage of outside spending, citing a trip Malloy took to California in October.

Chris Cooper, a spokesman for Tom Foley, said his candidate was prepared to match Malloy’s fundraising and additional contributions by the Democratic Party.

By the end of the last reporting period, he said, Foley had raised $130,000. Foley has not yet decided whether he will use public financing should he qualify for it.

Gary Rose, chairman of the Department of Government and Politics at Sacred Heart University, said he believes the Republican Party will wait for the primary to conclude before donating

to a gubernatorial campaign. He added that the eventual Republican nominee will need a huge amount of money to combat the Democratic Party’s fundraising.

Rose said that because the new law also allows parties to spend as much as they like on legislative campaigns, polarization in the state house could increase.

Because candidates will be more reliant on donations from the state party, they’ll hew more closely to the party line, Rose said.

“This is definitely going to strengthen the hand of Jerry Labriola and Nancy DiNardo, the state chairs,” Rose said.

Ten states have public financing systems in place for gubernatorial elections.

Contact ISABELLE TAFT at isabelle.taft@yale.edu .

Connecticut sets example for health care

BY ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As Connecticut’s success in providing health insurance to citizens catches national attention, other states are seeking to franchise the state’s model.

Access Health CT, led by Chief Executive Officer Kevin J. Counihan, has succeeded in signing up 55,000 citizens for private coverage through the exchange. Counihan is offering to license the Connecticut exchange to states that have expressed interest in using a similar system.

“The process should be pretty simple,” Counihan said. “We’ve got the capacity to take on other states.”

Counihan attributes the success of Access Health CT to his hardworking staff, many of whom come from the insurance industry.

He added that the insurance background of his employees helps them aggressively recruit customers.

Counihan said he thinks other states should use Connecticut’s model. If they do not, it could be because “politics and profes-

sional ego” are involved; states might feel less in control when using another state’s framework, Counihan explained.

Counihan added that those at Access Health CT know the system’s limits. They decided, for example, that they would not be able to accommodate all of the Connecticut Medicare and Medicaid Services’ regulations this year in order to operate efficiently.

Access Health CT has scaled back the functionality of its exchange about 20 percent to focus on the most important aspects of coverage for custom-

ers, according to Counihan.

“We wanted to build a Mercedes,” Counihan said. “But we’ve scaled back to a Ford Focus. And that has worked.”

Counihan also credits Connecticut’s “great sales and outreach plan,” which has trained over a thousand brokers to talk to potential carriers at Access Health CT’s retail stores.

The insurance provider currently has retail locations in New Haven and New Britain, and is establishing a third in Fairfield County. Access Health CT recruits about 200 carriers a day

from each of the locations, Counihan said.

Access Health CT has also built alliances with outreach organizations to broaden the distribution of its insurance coverage and to educate carriers.

Access Health CT has worked with students from Yale College and Yale Medical School and members from the Board of Alders, among others.

“We went door to door to talk to constituents,” said Ward 22 Alderwoman Jeanette Morrison. “People were really excited to be hearing about their health insurance.”

Morrison said she canvassed for health insurance around New Haven over the weekend.

Yale Democrats communications director Lily Sawyer-Kaplan ’17 also canvassed with other Yale students this past weekend.

“Access Health has done a great job already,” she said. “And I think it will continue to help people in the state.”

With Access Health CT, Connecticut is the only state to have retail locations for carriers.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

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“The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.” MARTIN LUTHER KING

City reflects on Homebuyer Program

Zedillo case appeal dismissed ZEDILLO FROM PAGE 1

ered moving out of New Haven until he found a school his son could transfer to.

Stuart DeCew SOM ’11, program director at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, purchased a home in East Rock in August 2012. He said that there are always trade-offs to consider when purchasing a house. For DeCew, the benefits of living in a walkable urban city outweighed the costs of paying higher property taxes and having a smaller backyard.

“For me, it fits with my values and with my lifestyle to live in New Haven,” DeCew said. “I believe in walking rather than driving, so I love having a grocery store just half a block away.”

One third of the people who work at Yale live within New Haven’s city limits.

of state.

“Of course, I am pleased that the slanderous lawsuit has been dismissed,” Zedillo said in an email. “Although it has not been a distraction from my work and family life at all, it is always good to see that justice is done.”

The 10 plaintiffs first filed the lawsuit in Sept. 2011, claiming to be members of Las Abejas — a Catholic pacifist society targeted in the 1997 massacre — who survived the killing. They claimed Zedillo turned a blind eye to the paramilitary groups that ultimately carried out the massacre. Further, they said, Zedillo may have attempted to cover up the massacre during subsequent investigations.

In addition to the $50 million dollars, the plaintiffs in the case sought a declaration of guilt against Zedillo.

University spokesman Tom Conroy said the University was pleased to see the case dismissed. Conroy added that Zedillo had remained fully engaged in his Yale responsibilities throughout the legal proceedings.

In appealing to the three-judge federal panel after the July dismissal, the plaintiffs argued that the Connecticut court should have given them the opportunity to amend their complaint.

The federal court, however, suggested that any amendment would be futile for the plaintiffs given Zedillo’s immunity as a head of state.

“The primary basis for the suggestion of immunity is that the complaint relates exclusively to actions taken in the defendant’s official capacity as head of state,” the federal court’s decision said. “The additional allegations plaintiffs want to press — that Zedillo was personally involved in the massacre and that the Mexican ambassador’s request for immunity was invalid — would not overcome the immunity.”

The plaintiffs have not yet announced whether they will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, their attorney Roger Kobert stated after the decision last week. Kobert could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Zedillo’s lawyer, Jonathan Freiman LAW ’98, said appealing to the Supreme Court would be “ridiculous.”

The 10 plaintiffs have remained anonymous, prompting questions over their identities.

“The organization that has long represented the victims said very plainly after this lawsuit was filed that the description of the anonymous plaintiffs doesn’t match the details of any known survivors or families from the massacre,” Freiman said.

A 2012 investigation by Spanish-language news channel Univision claimed there was evidence that former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari was behind the lawsuit. Salinas served as president directly before Zedillo.

By pushing forward democratization in Mexico, Zedillo alienated many members of his and Salinas’ party, the Industrial Revolutionary Party, which had controlled Mexican politics for decades. While president, Zedillo also ordered the arrest of Salinas’ brother for complicity in a murder and illegal enrichment.

Univision alleged that there were several links between a Miami-based law firm associated with Kobert — Rafferty, Kobert, Tenenholtz and Hess, P.A. — and Salinas’ family. Kobert told Univision that one of Salinas’ lawyers knew Kobert’s colleague Marc Pugliese, who was listed last week along with Kobert as one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs.

In a 2012 email to The Economist, Salinas denied being involved in the case or knowing the lawyers on either side.

“For our part, we will consider taking legal action against the person who orchestrated and financed this calumnious lawsuit,” Freiman said.

Zedillo served as President of Mexico from 1994 through 2000.

Contact POOJA SALHOTRA at pooja.salhotra@yale.edu .

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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The Yale Homebuyer Program, which was recently renewed for another two years, has helped over 1,000 Yale employees buy homes in New Haven.

HOMEBUYERS FROM PAGE 1 makes the city more attractive to other potential investors. When Levin started the program, New Haven was suffering from a lack of investment and a weak housing market that followed the recession of the 1980s. Many properties were vacant, the population was declining, and what is now a thriving retail district was barren. The Homebuyer Program was among several initiatives — such as establishing University Properties in 1996 and creating the President’s Public Service Fellowship in 1994 — to invest in a struggling city.

Former Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said that Yale’s investments have contributed to New Haven’s recent growth. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, New Haven has had the largest population growth of any New England city between 2000 and 2010.

But because New Haven has changed so much in 20 years, the University must reconsider how to best invest in the city, he explained.

“The real question is, ‘Is [Homebuyers] the best investment today, as it was 20 years ago?’” DeStefano said. “In some ways, it was designed to solve problems that don’t exist anymore.”

Although DeStefano did not suggest terminating the Homebuyer Program, he suggested two ways the University could positively impact the city: investing in entrepreneurship and working to reduce violence in the city.

Morand said that while the University will continue to look for other possible town-gown partnerships, the Homebuyer Program will likely remain intact as long as it attracts employees who may otherwise not purchase a home in New Haven.

Four program participants interviewed said that they may not have purchased a home in New Haven without the University subsidy.

“It definitely made moving to New Haven look a lot more attractive,” said Assistant Director of the Yale World Fellow Program Daniel Juárez MUS ’02.

Juárez purchased a home in Beaver Hill in August 2012.

While Juárez said he likes the convenience of living five minutes away from his office, he noted that the city’s high property taxes and inequitable school system are downsides of living in the city itself rather than the surrounding suburbs. When Juárez and his family first moved from North Branford to New Haven, Juárez’s six-year-old son was placed in an “overflow” public school. Juárez was dissatisfied with the school environment and said he even consid-

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4:00 p.m. Charles Bernstein: “The Pitch of Poetry” Poet and essayist Charles Bernstein has authored and edited more than 50 books over the course of his diverse career. His most recent books “Recalculating” and “All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems.”

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Kroon Hall (195 Prospect St.), Burke Aud. 4:00 p.m. “Dangerous Assignments: Physical Safety and Cyber Security for Journalists.” Deputy Managing Editor and Standards Editor for The Associated Press Thomas Kent ’72 will speak about his myriad of experiences around the journalistic world. Kent was also the associate executive editor at the Yale Daily News during his undergraduate tenure. Saybrook College (242 Elm St.), Saybrook-Branford Rm.

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS MIKE TROUT The 22-year old star outfielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim received a record $1 million in a pre-arbitration deal for the 2014 season. Trout hit .326 with 30 home runs and 49 stolen bases as he won the 2012 American League Rookie of the Year Award.

First pitch imminent for baseball

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER Despite the snow still frozen to the ground and the frigid temperatures outside, spring is right around the corner in New Haven, and spring means baseball. And this spring, things are looking up for the Yale team.

Only three seniors graduated from last year’s squad, and though the Bulldogs went just 13–25, a respectable 10–10 finish in the Ivy League headlined by a season-ending sweep of Brown gives the Bulldogs reason to look forward to this season.

This year’s pitchers look to be much improved compared to last season’s pitching staff, which ranked in the upper half of the Ancient Eight.

Every pitcher returns this year, including southpaw David Hickey ’14, who was selected to the All-Ivy second team last season. “[Hickey] had an unbelievable Ivy season. It’s hard to top a 0.00 ERA,” said pitcher Ben Joseph ’15. “But it’s going to be

big for him to set the tone for the season in the first start of the year and to continue it through the road trip and into the Ivy League opener.”

Hickey, however, is by no means the only stud on the Bulldogs’ staff, which posted a 2.68 ERA in conference games in 2013. Rob Cerfolio ’14 was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 34th round of the MLB Draft after posting a 2.94 ERA over 49 innings pitched but chose to return to Yale.

Six-foot-seven right-hander Michael Coleman ’14 acted as the staff workhorse last season, throwing 54.2 innings and allowing just a single home run.

Four other players saw significant action on the mound last year. A pair of freshmen, Chris Lanham ’16 and Chris Moates ’16, threw 42.1 innings apiece and started 11 games between them. Joseph, who will miss the season due to injury, struck out 29 batters in just 28 innings of work. Even Hanson got in on the pitching fun, transitioning to the mound after an injury

in mid-March and putting up a 1.16 WHIP (walks plus hits divided by innings pitched).

“We’re really excited about our depth on the mound,” Hanson said. “We did a great job last year, and we brought back every single pitcher.”

A trio of freshmen will join this established corps, and all three could contribute from day one. Chasen Ford ’17 was named Baseball America’s preseason Ivy League Rookie of the Year and could crack the Elis’ starting rotation, according to Hanson. With a fastball that can touch 92 miles per hour, Ford chose the Bulldogs over Duke, Stanford and defending champion UCLA. Jackson McClain ’17 and walk-on David McCullough ’17 also add depth to the staff.

The Bulldogs have the smallest roster in the Ivy League, making it imperative that the Bulldogs replenish their pitching depth every year to maintain a stable of arms. “[Ford] is a big, tall pitcher that can eat a lot of innings for us and maybe even be in the

starting rotation,” Hanson said.

“Another pitcher [McClain] is a hard-throwing guy that should be pretty effective coming out of the bullpen … And we never really expect a walk-on, but much less a walk-on to be so effective.”

As good as the pitching staff may be, its efforts are for naught without some help from the position players. The Bulldogs lost three starters from last year’s squad, including captain and all-Ivy first team selection Chris Piwinski ’13. Designated hitter Josh Scharff ’13, who hit .284 last season, and outfielder Cam Squires ’13 also graduated.

But the Elis will be buoyed by an experienced infield. Hanson will man shortstop, which he played until an injury forced him to the mound last season, and his double play partner will be second baseman Nate Adams ’16. Jacob Hunter ’14 will hold down the fort at first after posting a .336 average and a .391 onbase percentage in 33 starts last season. And Richard Slenker ’17 is starting at third after winning

the job.

“I really think we’re going to have one of the better defenses, not only in the Ivy League, but in the country,” Cerfolio said.

“If we go out there and throw strikes and give the guys behind us a chance to make plays, good things are going to happen, especially with the way we played defense in the fall.”

Joseph agreed, saying that having a defense like this behind him is a great confidence booster.

The outfield, however, is much more wide-open. Though Green Campbell ’15 is the starter in centerfield after recording a sensational .391 batting average in 16 games, the corner outfield spots remain anybody’s to seize. Outfielders Eric Hsieh ’15 and Joe Lubanski ’15 each played extensively in those roles last year.

Other players that figure to make a big impact on the lineup card include David Toups ’15, who led Yale in RBIs and runs scored, and all-Ivy second team third baseman Brent Lawson

Baseball Season Preview 18th season

KEY GAMES MAR. 7 @ SOUTH CAROLINA @ RICHMOND MAR. 25 APR. 20 DARTMOUTH APR. 26 YALE

COACHES’ POLL 6th

BRETT BORETTI 9TH season

KEY GAMES MAR. 18 MAR. 23 MAR. 30 APR. 19

@ TEXAS A&M @ TEXAS YALE CORNELL

COACHES’ POLL 5th

Harvard BILL DECKER 2ND season

KEY GAMES MAR. 15 MCHIGAN STATE @ SC PENN APR. 5 APR. 19 @YALE APR. 27 @DARTMOUTH

COACHES’ POLL 5th

Cornell

28–20 1st (GEHRIG DIVISION) [16–4]

Last year, the Crimson’s season was defined by close losses, with five of the team’s games decided by two or fewer goals. The Crimson will match its No. 7 Inside Lacrosse recruiting class with a returning squad that loses only three of its top 12 point getters from 2013. The Crimson attack is led by two preseason all-NEILA selections in Devin Dwyer, who was third in the Ivy League in assists with 27, and Daniel Eipp (6 G, 10 P), who missed the last eight games of the season after injury. Despite losing two key starters, the defense will most likely be the Crimson’s strongpoint this season with captain Joe Petrucci (11 CT, 23 GB) and sophomore Robert Duvnjak (16 CT, 26 GB) anchoring the unit. Harvard will have to replace goaltender Harry Kreiger, who started every game in between the pipes in 2013; nonetheless, the Crimson defense was ranked No. 10 in the nation by Inside Lacrosse.

The Crimson play a tough out-of-conference schedule this year with trips to Georgetown, No. 3 North Carolina and No. 2 Duke before ending the season at Reese Stadium on April 26.

BILL WALKENBACH 6TH season

KEY GAMES MAR. 1 APR. 4 APR. 20 APR. 27

@NAVY @YALE COLUMBIA @PRINCETON

COACHES’ POLL 2ND

JOHN YURKOW 1ST season

KEY GAMES FEB. 28 MAR. 29 APR. 19 APR. 25

@DALLAS BAPTIST YALE @PRINCETON COLUMBIA

COACHES’ POLL 4th

BOB WHALEN 24TH season

KEY GAMES MAR. 14 APR. 12 APR. 27 APR. 30

@FIU YALE HARVARD @PRINCETON

COACHES’ POLL 7th

In last season’s Ivy League tournament, Yale knocked out the Quakers in the first semifinal with a 9–6 victory. Penn finished the year just behind Yale in Ivy standings, going 3–3 against Ancient Eight competitors and 8–5 overall for a 0.615 win percentage. Penn will maintain its advantage in goal this season, with top-performing goaltender Brian Feeney returning in net. Last season, Feeney had the lowest goals against average in conference at 7.29 goals against per game and the highest save percentage, stopping 136 out of 231 shots on goal for a 0.588 save percentage.

The Quakers will continue to exploit offensive opportunities into the 2014 season. In 2013, Penn had the second highest man-up scoring percentage in the Ivy League, converting 18 out of 42 attempts throughout the season. Furthermore, Penn’s second, third and fourth scoring leaders from 2013 will all return to the 2014 squad.

SCOTT BRADLEY 15TH season

KEY GAMES MAR. 18 MAR. 29 APR. 6 APR. 27

@UNC HARVARD @YALE CORNELL

COACHES’ POLL 1ST

32–9 1st (ROLFE DIVISION) [15–5]

Last season, the Big Green finished in last place in the Ivy League, taking just one Ivy win all season. They put up a total of 109 goals and let 148 past them in their 2013 campaign. This season’s Big Green has 11 incoming freshmen to aid its nine senior players. While just four of the nine seniors are either midfielders or attackmen, Dartmouth is looking to increase its offensive production from its 109 goals last season with four of its 11 freshmen at midfield and three of the 11 at attack. Although some of Dartmouth’s production is bound to come from its freshman class, last season’s second leading scorer, attackman Adam Fishman, will return to the team as a junior. Last season, Fishman contributed 11 goals and 10 assists for 21 points.

The position for goalkeeper is up for grabs on the Big Green squad as last season’s starter, Bernie Susskind, has graduated. Freshman Jake Landman and sophomores Blair Friedensohn and Ham Sonnenfeld, as well as 6-foot-7-inch 210 junior Colin Heffernan, are all in the running. Sonnenfeld played the second most under Susskind last season with two games and just over 18 minutes.

Princeton

22–21 4TH (GEHRIG DIVISION) [7–13]

7–33 4th (ROLFE DIVISION) [3–17]

Brown and Harvard tied for fifth in the Ivy League last season, finishing with identical 2–4 records and 0.571 overall win percentages. The Bears allowed the second fewest goals against in the Ivy League last season with 134 — just one fewer than Yale — and put a total of 140 shots past opposing goalkeepers in conference. Brown will only improve its offensive numbers this season. In 2013 its top scorer, attackman Henry Blynn, put up 27 goals and 8 assists for 35 points in his freshman campaign. The second-leading scorer for the Providence-based team, senior attackman Sam Hurster, has also returned to the Bear squad for his final campaign. An increase in experience will help Brown in goal as well. Last year’s starting goaltender, Jack Kelly, was also a freshman and finished the season with a 0.533 save percentage — the fourth best in the Ivy League.

Dartmouth

23–17 2nd (GEHRIG DIVISION) [11–9]

Last season, the Big Red’s offense propelled the team to an Ivy League regular season championship and a Final Four appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The No. 16 Cornell Bears lose 16 seniors this season, including the dynamic duo of Rob Pannell, winner of the 2013 Tewaaraton award, and Steve Mock on attack, and three-year starter AJ Fiore in net. The Bears will also lose head coach Ben DeLuca after a tumultuous offseason, culminating with the firing of DeLuca due to a hazing scandal that led to cancelled fall action. The Big Red, however, still has plenty of weapons on offense, as attackman Matt Donovan and midfielder Connor Buczek return to the defending Ivy champs.

Both scored 35 goals apiece last season and will be expected to help carry the burden on offense. Doug Tesoriero took nearly every faceoff for Cornell last season and ranked 12th in the nation in faceoff percentage; he returns for his senior year. The Big Red has a relatively easy schedule until meeting with ACC powerhouse No. 5 Virginia a week before its March 15 matchup with Yale in Ithaca.

Penn

10–31 2nd (ROLFE DIVISION) [7–13]

Last year, the Crimson’s season was defined by close losses, with five of the team’s games decided by two or fewer goals. The Crimson will match its No. 7 Inside Lacrosse recruiting class with a returning squad that loses only three of its top 12 point getters from 2013. The Crimson attack is led by two preseason all-NEILA selections in Devin Dwyer, who was third in the Ivy League in assists with 27, and Daniel Eipp (6 G, 10 P), who missed the last eight games of the season after injury. Despite losing two key starters, the defense will most likely be the Crimson’s strongpoint this season with captain Joe Petrucci (11 CT, 23 GB) and sophomore Robert Duvnjak (16 CT, 26 GB) anchoring the unit. Harvard will have to replace goaltender Harry Kreiger, who started every game in between the pipes in 2013; nonetheless, the Crimson defense was ranked No. 10 in the nation by Inside Lacrosse.

The Crimson play a tough out-of-conference schedule this year with trips to Georgetown, No. 3 North Carolina and No. 2 Duke before ending the season at Reese Stadium on April 26.

Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

BROWN MAREK DRABINSKI

Columbia

’16, who hit .281 and notched seven doubles on the season.

“We have a lot of guys that know how to work the count and score runs effectively,” Cerfolio said. “The hardest thing when facing our lineup is not to give up those extra one or two things to help, like walks and errors, because we have guys that can capitalize on that.”

Behind the plate, catcher Robert Baldwin ’15 will be the starting backstop. He played in 11 games in the field last season and appeared in eight more as a reliever.

With so much talent returning to the field this year, it is no wonder that the Bulldogs have their eyes set firmly on the prize: taking home the Ivy League championship.

“We want to win the Ivy League,” Hanson said. “That’s on the forefront of all of our minds.”

Yale opens its season this Friday at No. 3 Louisiana State.

14–28 3rd (GEHRIG DIVISION) [11–9]

The Tigers fell to the Bulldogs 12–8 in last year’s Ivy League Tournament Championship for the second straight year. This year, however, could be Princeton’s year to usurp Cornell and Yale for top spot as the Tigers return a multitude of talent in every part of the field. No. 10 Princeton is strongest at midfield, where it returns every starter, including Tom Schreiber (28 G, 60 P), a Tewaaraton Award finalist last year. Mike MacDonald, who posted 59 points but went largely unnoticed last season, headlines the attack unit.

Despite being ranked 29th in the nation last year, conceding over 10 goals a game, the Tiger defense looks set to be a potent stopping force in 2014. Princeton returns every starter at close-defense and LSM and is led by newly named captain Derick Raabe (10 CT, 73 GB). The Tigers have several giant games on the calendar before starting their Ivy campaign, including contests against No. 8 Johns Hopkins and No. 3 North Carolina in successive weeks in March.

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SPORTS

“Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True.

And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.” GEORGE WILL JOURNALIST

M. lax to face Bryant

From worst to … worse?

COLUMN FROM PAGE 10 is to find a star player first and build from there.

The only ways to acquire such players in the NBA are to trade for them, sign them in free agency, or draft them. Few teams would be willing to part with their franchise players unless convinced they were leaving anyway, and free agents often choose the biggest markets or to play with their superstar buddies (see James, Lebron). For small market teams like Philadelphia or Milwaukee, the best way to get one of these players may well be to hope for a high draft pick. That’s how San Antonio snared Tim Duncan and Seattle/Oklahoma City grabbed Kevin Durant. As much as the city may hate him now, Cleveland got seven years with Lebron that it never could have dreamed of without the draft.

But tanking may make more sense on paper than in practice, so I decided to take a look at how the teams with topfive picks in the past 20 drafts have done in the years following their selections. The only two players capable of carrying their teams to a championship drafted beyond that range since 1994 were Kobe Bryant (pick 13, 1996) and Dirk Nowitzki (pick 9, 1998). But those guys were a high school player and an international player before those categories were heavily scouted, so it’s reasonable to assume that to get a franchise talent, you need to look at the top five picks in the draft.

I looked at what percentage of those teams made the playoffs three years and five years down the road compared to the same percentages for teams with picks 6–10. These are also lottery picks, but the teams holding them are probably a little less bad and less likely to walk away from the draft with an elite talent. Lo and behold, the worst teams had about a five percent better chance of making the playoffs in three years, and an eight percent better chance of making the playoffs in five years.

It looks like there may be some wisdom in trying to rig the draft after all.

The superstar argument really isn’t about making the play-

offs, though; it’s about winning championships. So how did the franchises with top-five picks do by that standard? The sample size for teams that went from worst (or near-worst) to first isn’t very big, so I decided to look at teams that made their conference championships at some point in the three or five years after picking in the top five.

Here, the results were reversed: better draft picks didn’t help a team go far in the playoffs.

Conventional wisdom in the NBA dictates that the worst place to be is a kind of no-man’s land between bottoming out and contending. In this space, you can’t get a superstar draft picks, and free agents don’t want to come to a team that is more than a couple steps away from a championship. To quantify this no-man’s land, I looked at teams that finished below the top 12, but above the top six in the NBA for three straight years.

Last year that category included the Detroit Pistons, Minnesota Timberwolves and the 76ers.

Apparently tired of this purgatory, the Philadelphia front office blew up its team this offseason and, after the young roster overachieved to start this season, traded away two of its best players at the trade deadline.

No-man’s land teams have had a 40 percent chance of reaching the conference finals at some point over the next five years and a 20 percent chance over three years. Both numbers are nearly double the odds that a team with a top-five pick accomplishes the same feat.

These sample sizes are too small to draw any definitive conclusions, and there could be many other reasons that the teams I analyzed succeeded at different rates. At the very least though, Philadelphia should be careful what it asks for. It might hit the jackpot with some college star next year, and it might even be back in the playoffs in a couple years. But history suggests that the 76ers are just as likely to spend the rest of the decade dreaming about the days of Allen Iverson.

Contact JOHN SULLIVAN at john.j.sullivan@yale.edu .

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The men’s lacrosse team will head to Rhode Island to take on Bryant this Saturday.

LACROSSE FROM PAGE 10 people outside of Yale who learned about the ability of our team this year.”

The game against St. John’s was tied at the beginning of the second quarter, but Yale scored six of the next eight goals, leading the team to a 10–6 win.

The Bulldogs had eight different goal scorers, including two each from attackman Brandon Mangan ’14 and midfielder Michael Bonacci ’16. Yale’s midfield unit, which lost only one player from last season, posted four goals and eight points on the afternoon. The Elis got points from two of their three leading freshman.

Starting attackman Jeff Cimbalista ’17 scored the first goal of Yale’s season five minutes into the game, while midfielder Eric Scott ’17 found the back of the net halfway through the third quarter.

The Bulldogs will want to work on turnovers and groundballs heading into

Saturday. The Elis lost both battles to St. John’s.

“I think last weekend we came out a bit slow and played a bit sloppy at times, but part of that may have been the first game jitters,” Bonacci said. “Overall, I think it’s just important for us to play tough, communicate on all parts of the field and control what we can control.”

Yale’s opponent this Saturday, the Bryant Bulldogs, has found goals from all over the field with 10 different players contributing to the team total of 23 on the season.

Bryant has three different players with four goals, and a long-stick-midfielder with two tallies.

Two weeks ago, Bryant pulled a 12–9 upset over then-nationally ranked Bucknell and never trailed in last week’s 7–5 victory against Fairfield. Goaltender Gunnar Waldt has posted a 67.2 percent save rate with 44 saves through three games.

Face-off specialist Kevin Massa has won

Squash to end season

a respectable 50 percent of restarts this season, taking all 55 face offs for the Bulldogs.

“Bryant has a great team and an even better goalie and face-off man,” Bonacci said. “Our coach said this is the day we have to have the best shooting percentage we can have. This goalie is not going to give up easy goals and with a very physical and talented defense we are going to have to work hard to get high-percentage shots.”

Yale leads the all-time record 2–1, having also won the teams’ last matchup 11–10 in double overtime back in 2012.

The Elis will make three trips to the Ocean State in 2014, facing Bryant, Providence and Brown.

Yale plays Bryant this Saturday at 1 p.m. in Smithfield.

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

Elis head to Ivies

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The Elis finished the Ivy League regular season tied with Columbia and Penn for third in the standings.

SWIMMING FROM PAGE 10

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The squash teams will conclude their seasons this weekend at Penn, where they will compete at the CSA Individual Championships.

SQUASH FROM PAGE 10 “I am looking forward to just playing for the love of the game this weekend with nothing to lose,” Scherl said.

The Bulldogs will be facing top players from rival teams Harvard and Trinity, amongst

other squads.

Dembinski agreed with Scherl that the individual competition will be low stakes compared to the team championships.

“I’m really looking forward to the chance to compete,” Dembinski said. “I want to

play my best, and I hope to finish the tournament as an All-American.”

In the most current national rankings, Martin is No. 14. Fenwick, Leman and Dembinski hold positions 21, 22 and 23, respectively, and Cheong is ranked at No. 25.

From the women’s team, Tomlinson holds the third rank. Hay is ranked No. 10, and Mao, Norman-Ross and Scherl are at the 16th, 18th and 24th ranks, respectively.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica.pandey@yale.edu .

senior swimmers will be taking on their last meet as Bulldogs. Hogan and Josh Ginsborg ’16 said that the whole team is emotional as it anticipates the last chance to swim together as a squad.

Tim Wise, the head coach of the men’s team, has been a major part in Yale successes for multiple seasons. He served as an assistant coach for over ten seasons before being promoted to the head coaching position in 2010. In the past four years under Wise’s leadership, the team has broken multiple

records and sent swimmers to the United States Olympic Trials. Along with assistant coach Kevin Norman and diving coach Chris Bergère, Wise has propelled the Yale swimming and diving program to new standards.

“It’s [the seniors’] last meet and it’s the first class of the Wise era to graduate,” Ginsborg said.

After a long and successful season, the Bulldogs will finish out the year this weekend in Cambridge. The first events begin on Thursday, February 27.

Contact SYDNEY GLOVER at sydney.glover@yale.edu .

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KENNY AGOSTINO ’14 MEN’S ICE HOCKEY The senior forward was recognized as the Total Mortgage Spotlight Athlete of the Week yesterday. Agostino, a Calgary Flames prospect, leads the Bulldogs in goals this season with 13 and is second in points with 28 behind captains Jesse Root ’14.

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Elis travel to Cambridge for Ivies

BULLDOGS DIG IN FOR NEW SEASON

BY SYDNEY GLOVER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale men’s swimming and diving team will head to Cambridge this weekend for the Ivy League Championships, the last meet of the school year.

SWIM AND DIVE This will be the last time the senior Bulldogs will don their Yale team gear. Last weekend, the women’s team placed in third at their Ivies, upsetting formerly undefeated Columbia, which took fourth place.

The men hope to finish in similar fashion, relying on their successes from the second half of the season.

Since Dec 7, the men have won seven of their eight meets, only falling in the combined meet against Harvard and Princeton.

This success led to the Bulldogs finishing tied with Columbia and Penn in the Ivy League standings at 4-3, with undefeated Harvard in first and Princeton at 6-1 in second. The Yale men fell in

GRAHAM HARBOE/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

NEW DAWN FOR YALE BASEBALL After an encouraging 10–10 finish in the Ivy League last year, the Bulldogs are stepping up to the plate once more this weekend. Yale will open its season against Louisiana State as it prepares to make a run at the Ivy League title. See page 8 for the season preview.

JOHN SULLIVAN

There will be a lot to remember about this NBA season. This will be the year Lebron completed his three-peat (or didn’t), the season Kevin Durant reached new heights of ridiculous offensive destruction, and maybe (but don’t count on it) the last hurrah of Tim Duncan and San Antonio’s dynastic core.

But the 2013-’14 season will also have another, less attractive label: the Year of the Tank. At the beginning of the season, the Philadelphia 76ers, Orlando Magic and Phoenix Suns appeared built to lose, fielding teams of untested youngsters after dealing away most of their veteran talent. These teams (and maybe a few others) appeared to embrace the idea that to succeed in the NBA, you have to hit rock bottom first.

Of course, teams have tanked before, perhaps most famously in 2006 when the Timberwolves obviously and unsuccessfully tried to throw away their final game of the season in order to keep a protected draft pick. More recently, the Bobcats set a record for futility with a 7–59 record during the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season. But for the first time, this year a number of teams seemed resigned to a deliberately uncompetitive season before the first game was played.

Among the group I named above, the Suns have been a pleasant surprise. Goran Dragic has been outstanding, and Phoenix currently sits in the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Still, the tanking narrative remains compelling for some teams and general managers in the league.

The argument for intentional failure hinges on the fact that 19 of the past 20 NBA champions have featured one, if not more, of the top five players in the league that year, and maybe one of the top 25 players of all time. Only the 2004 Detroit Pistons managed to hoist the O’Brien Trophy without a superstar talent on their roster. Many teams today believe that the fastest path to the top SEE COLUMN PAGE 9

SEE SWIMMING PAGE 9

Lacrosse heads to RI

BY FREDERICK FRANK STAFF REPORTER

Losing for the future

their first conference meet of the season against Columbia by only six points, but they have continuously improved and look strong going into the championships.

“We are starting to get more race specific in our preparation,” Brian Hogan ’16 said.

The team has been focusing on resting in order to be at top performance level at the meet. In recent meets, the team has performed well as whole, breaking multiple personal records. Most notably, Hogan broke two Kiphuth Pool records and recorded a time that places in the top five men in the entire NCAA for the 1650-yard freestyle.

Like the women, the men’s team has depth in its younger classes. These new swimmers will be experiencing their first Ivy League Championship. Nerves will be a factor for all team members, and Hogan says he will try hard to keep his nerves under control.

On the other end of the spectrum, the more experienced

After a well-rounded opening win against St. John’s, the No. 12 men’s lacrosse team hits the road this weekend looking to pick up a win in the team’s first of three trips to Rhode Island this season.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs (1–0, 0–0 Ivy) will face off against Bryant (2–1, 0–0 NEC), which is on a two game winning streak.

MEN’S LACROSSE “I think we came together as one unit against St. John’s and if we continue to play as a team like that we will be a hard team to beat,” Brandon Mangan ’14 said.

Last Saturday, the Elis used shutdown defense and balanced scoring to top the then-

No. 19 Red Storm. Defenseman Michael Quinn ’16 and captain Jimmy Craft ’14 each had three controlled takeaways, holding the third-ranked attack unit in the nation to just six goals on 29 shots. Freshman Christopher Keating ’17, who had two controlled takeaways, rounded out the new look defensive unit for the Bulldogs. Goaltender Eric Natale ’15 made 10 saves on the afternoon, while face-off specialist Dylan Levings ’14 was named to the Ivy League honor role after winning 13 of 19 restarts and assisting on Yale’s first goal of 2014.

“I think we all knew how we’d be capable of playing if we brought energy and focus,” Quinn said. “I think that it was mostly SEE LACROSSE PAGE 9

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The men’s lacrosse team topped St. John’s 10–6 in its season opener last weekend.

Squash to compete at Penn

BY ERICA PANDEY CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale’s top five men’s and women’s squash players will travel south to Penn this weekend to compete in the College Squash Association’s Individual Championships.

SQUASH

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Ten Yale squash players will compete in the A Division of the CSA Individual Championships.

STAT OF THE DAY 4

Neil Martin ’14, Sam Fenwick ’16, Zach Leman ’16, TJ Dembinski ’17 and Kah Wah Cheong ’17 will represent the Eli men while Millie Tomlinson ’14, Kim Hay ’14, Shihui Mao ’15, Issey Norman-Ross ’15 and Jenny Scherl ’17 will come from the women’s team. These 10 athletes will play in the A Division.

“Individuals are a great opportunity for the best players in the country to compete,” Mar-

tin said. “I’m looking to overturn a few results from earlier this season and continue to represent Yale to the best of my ability.”

Martin said that his teammates are also excited for the weekend’s action.

This weekend’s matches will be Martin’s last as a Bulldog.

Of the top 10 men and women, Martin, Tomlinson and Hay will be graduating this year.

Shiyuan Mao ’17 and Annie Ballaine ’16 have had strong seasons on the women’s team and will represent Yale in the B Division of championships.

Shihui Mao said she believes Tomlinson and Hay have potential to do well in the A Division and that Shiyuan Mao and Ballaine will come away with big wins in the B Division.

SEE SQUASH PAGE 9

GOALS SCORED BY THE MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF LAST WEEKEND’S GAME AGAINST ST. JOHN’S. The Elis used the period to pull away from their oppoents, eventually taking a 10–6 victory in their season opener. Yale takes on Bryant and Fairfield this weekend.