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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012 · VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 68 · yaledailynews.com

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CROSS CAMPUS Closer to heaven. Gourmet Heaven closed from Dec. 19, 2011 to Jan. 3 to renovate the interior of its Broadway store.

The furniture on the upper level of the store has been replaced with wooden tables and benches, the walls and ceiling were repainted (orange and off-white, respectively) and the floors were waxed.

RECRUITING GENEROUS AID DRAWS ATHLETES

LABOR

HEALTH INSURANCE

ASTRONOMY

Yale Police negotiations signal continued tensions with University

BUCKING TREND, CT TO RUN ITS MEDICAID PROGRAM

Geology and Geophysics Department collaborates on exoplanets

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Admins divided on interviews

SCIENCE HILL

New library counters architectural challenges

SOME GRAD SCHOOL DEPTS. QUESTION VALUE IN ADMISSIONS

BY ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTER

Things Fall Apart. After months encouraging students to dine trayless, the Silliman dining hall finally removed trays Monday in what was supposed to be a semester of trayless dining. But in an email Monday night, Master Judith Krauss told the Silliman community that early reports named the initiative an “unmitigated disaster.” Trays have returned to the dining hall.

Programs in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will be required to interview doctoral candidates this year before offering them admission, but not all departments are pleased with the new policy.

Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard said he asked departments to conduct interviews — whether in person, over the phone or via Skype — after a “growing number” of programs found them useful for making admissions decisions. Interviewing is common among Yale’s graduate science programs, which can often use grant money to bring applicants to campus. But some departments, particularly in the humanities, have reservations about a practice they say does not fit their needs.

Fall of print. The New Haven

Register’s printing operations — that is, its actual printing press and distribution center — will close down in March, the New Haven Independent reported on Tuesday. The move will cut 105 jobs. The Register will remain in print, its papers now printed on the Hartford Courant’s presses.

More open news. The Register

is also planning to shut down its operations in Long Wharf and move to an open newsroom in downtown New Haven.

Wild bear hunt. With nearly 3,000 bear sightings in the past year, the state of Connecticut is deciding whether to implement a hunting lottery, used in states such as Maine, the Hartford Courant reported Tuesday.

Megacourses. Two days into shopping period, three courses have potential enrollments of over 500 students on the Online Course Selection system, according to course demand data accessed at 11 p.m. Leading the pack is “Introduction to the History of Art,” with 584 shoppers, while “Great Hoaxes and Fantasies in Archaeology” has 519 and “Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature” has 505.

By the people, for the people.

The Yale College Council emailed on Tuesday a midyear report on its activities and achievements halfway through this academic year, as part of its promise for greater accountability, the report stated. The report groups achievements into categories from dining to gender-neutral housing. Top achievements include expanded dining hall services over Thanksgiving break, the Bluebook app and emailed grade notifications.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1965 The New Haven Railroad files a petition asking permission to end service between New Rochelle, N.Y. and New York City, as part of an effort to end passenger service on the bankrupt line.

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The new “info commons” in the Kline Biology Tower is, administrators hope, a step toward a friendlier environment in KBT.

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oday marks the open house for Yale’s new information center in the basement of Kline Biology Tower, a space that will not only provide a home for the Social Science Library and StatLab but also promises to attract students to a building notorious for its intimidating architecture. NATASHA THONDAVADI and SHARON YIN report.

Looming and austere, the 14-story Kline Biology Tower — Yale’s tallest building — rises up from between Sachem and Edwards streets on Science Hill. Those trekking to class cannot fail to notice the overbearing structure, designed by modern architect Philip Johnson in 1965.

Though University planners meant for the tower to foster collaboration between science faculty and students, KBT’s “cold” design has impeded this sense of community, Yale spokesman Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93 said in a December interview.

This academic year, Yale has

I am anxious about what kind of door we open when we begin to assess … personability … We should instead be looking solely for intellectual brilliance.

made strides to make the building more user-friendly. Last fall, administrators opened KBT Cafe on the building’s first floor. Today marks another step in this initiative: the open house for the Center for Science and Social Science Information (CSSSI) in the basement of KBT will present what Yale administrators have called an “information commons” between the Social Science Library, StatLab and Kline Science Library.

The complex marks a new home for both the Social Science Library and StatLab, and administrators hope CSSSI could become the model for other integrated academic support units on campus,

“I am anxious about what kind of door we open when we begin to assess, consciously or unconsciously, applicants’ personal self-presentation or even personability as an implicit [criterion] for graduate education,” Katie Trumpener, director of graduate studies for Comparative Literature, said in a Tuesday email. “We should instead be looking solely for intellectual brilliance.”

But Pollard said interviews “bring the written application alive” and can help programs determine if applicants are able and motivated to succeed in graduate study.

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KATIE TRUMPENER Director of graduate studies, Department of Comparative Literature

Republican primary Prof. schools welcome new VP draws Yalies to N. H.

BY MADELINE MCMAHON AND DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTERS Next fall’s arrival of Kimberly Goff-Crews ’83 LAW ’86 as vice president for student life will bring much needed oversight to student affairs, administrators said.

DOUBLE TAKE As part of her new role, GoffCrews will chair a new committee of student life administrators from Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools.

Future members of that committee said they have collaborated occasionally in the past but have lacked consistent coordination.

Though students’ academic lives differ substantially across Yale’s schools, administrators said they would benefit from a more formal exchange of ideas and practices.

“The management of student services and student life issues is highly decentralized at Yale,” said Lisa Brandes GRD ’94, director of graduate student life at the McDougal Center, “so I see the creation of this new position of vice president for student life as a

very positive step.”

Martha Highsmith DIV ’95, deputy secretary for the University, currently chairs a committee of student life deans in the graduate and professional schools, but University President Richard Levin said Goff-Crews’ new committee will meet more regularly and include a representative from Yale College.

The management of… student life issues is highly decentralized… so I see [this] as a very positive step.

LISA BRANDES GRD ’94 Director of graduate student life, McDougal Center Highsmith did not respond to questions about the committee’s operations or how Goff-Crews’ arrival would affect her own role.

Dale Peterson, associate dean of student affairs at the Divinity SEE GOFF-CREWS PAGE 4

BY NICK DEFIESTA AND CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTERS MANCHESTER, N. H — Although Tuesday’s New Hampshire presidential primary solidified former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s standing as the Republican front-runner, it also revealed a field as yet unsettled, with many voters expressing a lack of enthusiasm for the candidates.

Romney, who won the primary with nearly 40 percent of the vote, edged out his nearest competitors Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who earned 23 percent and 17 percent of the vote, respectively.

But dozens of voters interviewed said they were unhappy with the Republican candidates and, in a political climate that is regarded as advantageous to Republicans, displayed less enthusiasm than they had in 2008.

“I don’t feel like any [of the Republican candidates] has caught fire with conservatives,” Michael Cassily, a Manchester resident who is undeclared.

“I didn’t like any of [the candidates].”

Just as New Hampshire conservatives supported a variety of

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Mitt Romney won New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary yesterday with nearly 40 percent of the vote. candidates, Republican undergraduates at Yale also demonstrated a diversity of preferences as the voting in New Hampshire began Tuesday. Yalies have been most vocal in their support for Huntsman, said Nathaniel Zelinsky ’13, the president of the

William F. Buckley Jr. Program.

Zelinsky attributed this in part to Michael Knowles’ ’12 role as the national co-chair for Huntsman’s youth campaign.

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Fix shopping period, one seminar at a time

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rofessors should craft their own policies to alleviate the hallmark

chaos of shopping period.

Shopping period offers us the luxury of sampling classes before we choose them. But when it comes to seminars, it causes more anguish and lost time than it is worth.

Last year, we proposed that Yale adopt a preregistration system for seminars. Students would be able to sign up before the start of the term, thus ensuring that classes could genuinely start on the first day. Some spots would remain open to shoppers in a system similar to what the History and Political Science departments, among others, already employ. But Yale shows no signs of moving towards such a policy, so individual departments and faculty should institute better systems of choosing students for seminars.

As the system stands now, both professors and students suffer when it takes two weeks for class rosters to settle.

First meetings are devoted to ironing out enrollment.

Students sit in every corner of classrooms’ floors. Professors assign books they know will go unread.

In lectures, we appreciate the opportunity to see whether we want to hear the professor speak for a few hours each week. Professors make valid complaints about lecturing to students who are constantly coming and going, but that chaos offers students the chance to plan an academically rewarding term.

But in seminars, sky-high demand leads to a desperate hunt for acceptance rather than a chance to pick just the right class. Since professors shorten or water down opening classes to accommodate shoppers, the first few days aren’t necessarily a good preview of the rest of the course. Because we often have

to sit through several seminars in the hope of being admitted to just one, we have less time for the more fruitful project of shopping lectures.

Every professor handles differently this system that is a hardship for them but supposed to be a boon for us.

The English department has adopted a good application system for its writing classes.

But its other seminars are a free-for-all. With a mix of index cards, emails and postponement of certainty, professors try to accommodate us.

But the waiting and jostling for spots that ensues often leaves us wondering whether shopping seminars is a luxury we really want and whether it is worth professors’ trouble.

It is impossible to find a perfect way to sign up for seminars. Universal preregistration would limit our choices. Departmental attempts to simplify the process can exclude nonmajors. We can’t have everything; choice and stability do not completely jibe.

Instead, professors should exercise more control over the process. Although they can’t shorten or eliminate shopping period, they can set their own terms and make quick decisions. If the University won’t institute a preregistration system, individual departments and professors can.

There’s nothing to stop professors from instituting preregistration or simply establishing rosters within the first two days of shopping period. Doing so would restore a degree of sanity to the semester’s first two weeks and would allow us to take full advantage of the opportunity to shop lectures. It would let professors control their own schedules. It would finally grant us a full 13 weeks of productive classes.

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here has been a lot of anger about crime in New Haven lately. Well, not about the crime itself so much as the way it is counted. This anger threatens to dilute accountability for city officials and distract from the city’s actual problems.

Here’s the source of the dispute.

Per capita crime rates, determined by calculating crimes per 100,000 residents, allow citizens, government, the media, anyone really, to compare crime across cities, counties, regions and countries.

It’s a fairly simple metric and thus a potent one for holding leaders responsible. For city officials, there is no escaping the data. But some would like to provide an escape hatch.

Yale and New Haven officials are both fighting ferociously to prevent media outlets and others from using the per capita crime rate.

They argue that because New Haven‘s boundaries do not include the surrounding suburbs and neighborhoods, where crime is far lower, the measure is an invalid one. And the population of New Haven, a regional hub, is greatly increased during the day by workers and visitors. Some even put forward the dubious claim that New Haven’s population for the purposes of evaluating crime rates should be as high as 400,000, over three times the actual number. Our own Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins

went so far as to send out an email over the summer in an odd attempt to personally refute the per capita rankCOLIN ROSS ings.

Here are the Gangbuster facts. 130,000 people live in New Haven.

Those are the citizens who elect city leaders to office and whom those leaders have a sworn duty to protect. If a city’s jurisdiction doesn’t include the suburbs, tough. However narrow the city boundaries were drawn, that hardly matters now. The New Haven Police Department patrols within the city limits only — it had no role in creating the low crime rates of the surrounding areas and so cannot complain that it does not receive credit for them. Lamenting past boundary-drawing mistakes is not an anti-crime strategy.

To be fair, New Haven and Yale are not alone in their condemnation of the per capita numbers.

Without indicting the data itself, the FBI has cautioned against ranking cities using that type of data. The real criticism has come from organizations such as the U.S. Conference of Mayors. For the stated goal of nuance, they want cities to be evaluated on a

vague, methodologically standardized definition of what and how big a city is. Essentially, they want to erode an easily understandable conception of the city and substitute an academic one.

This would not change the number of people which mayors and police chiefs have an actual responsibility to protect nor blunt the effects of crime on city residents. It would only muddy the waters and add another layer between officials and accountability.

At the heart of the issue is also how we judge the problem of crime. Do we look at a crime rate to get an individualized personal safety report? To determine what is our percentage chance of getting mugged or shot in this area? I suspect that many see the rankings this way, and city officials are right when they say crime rates don’t give the full picture when it comes to individual risk. The most serious crime is concentrated among certain neighborhoods and atrisk populations — notably, young black males with criminal records.

Yale students and other city residents who live in safe neighborhoods are much safer. But crime rates should be about more than just individual risk — they should signify how safe and secure we are as a community. If any segment of the population has to walk the streets in fear, that should matter to all of us. And the crime rate

should hold our leaders to the highest standard and be a way for citizens to demand action.

After a rash of shootings last year, Yale’s former liaison to New Haven, Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93, told the News that city residents were more upset about the perceived unfair crime rating than about the violence itself. Maybe that is true for residents who live in safe, suburb-like neighborhoods such as Westville or East Rock and who care more about the city’s reputation than about actual crime.

But those in the neighborhoods afflicted by crime want a public debate and response to actual, not manufactured, problems. At a community meeting held at Hillhouse High School last month, I saw hundreds of victims’ families, friends and community members as they gathered, galvanized to demand action by the knowledge that 34 murders in a population of 130,000 is an unacceptably high toll. Should they have been told that, actually, given the tourist and worker trade and taking nuanced demographic shifts into account, it isn’t as bad as it sounds? Just as in the question of whether criticisms of using the simple, basic crime rate are justified, the answer is no.

COLIN ROSS is a senior in Berkeley College. His column runs on Wednesdays. Contact him at colin.ross@yale.edu .

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GUEST COLUMNIST RICH LIZARDO

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his election season, Republican primary voters have demonstrated their utter fickleness and absolute uncertainty about what they want.

After the rise of the Tea Party, the GOP seemingly returned to the ideas of limited government and fiscal responsibility. And yet the Republican electorate has recycled a number of candidates who either do not have the best experience for the presidency or do not adequately represent these renewed conservative ideals.

The GOP first flirted with a former Democrat — now former Republican — Donald Trump, simply because he led the birther movement. Then conservatives decided to move on to other loud candidates who engaged in Obama-bashing but lacked the articulation or experience needed. These were the campaign-flops that became Rep. Michele Bachmann, Gov. Rick Perry and “entrepreneurial charlatan” Herman Cain.

But the real surprises this season have been the emergence of big-government conservatives Newt Gingrich and subsequently Rick Santorum. They have experience, several conservative accomplishments, but, most importantly, they have made sure to trash President Obama. The irony lies in the fact that both Gingrich and Santorum represent

the antithesis of the Tea Party movement that everyone all too quickly chose to embrace them as the anti-Mitt Romney. In fact, had Gingrich and Santorum been seeking reelection to Congress in 2010, their big-government conservative records of deficit spending, entitlement projects and earmarks would have been sourly exposed by the Tea Party.

But though it may be surprising, the fixation with these candidates is completely explainable.

It was the result of the popular anti-Romney sentiment. Consequently, many voters chose to forgo economic issues in favor of insignificant cultural crusades.

Though not with the fanatic base of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, Gingrich and Santorum — merely seen as alternatives to Romney — have certainly enjoyed a large percentage of the electorate.

It is understandable that a significant majority of the Republican Party dislikes both Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. The former comes across as a political opportunist, disingenuously engaging in an inordinate amount of pandering. The latter lends himself too easily to conspiracy theories and extremist views on the economy and foreign policy.

However, the candidate that has been largely ignored by the GOP electorate — and to its own detriment — is Jon Hunts-

man. Republican voters dismiss Huntsman as far too moderate.

However, this perception is quite unfair.

Sure, Huntsman holds more liberal positions with regard to global warming, immigration and civil unions. But on the issue that matters most to Republican voters — the economy — Huntsman is a staunch fiscal conservative.

As Governor of Utah, he cut taxes at record rates, passed health care reform without a mandate and enacted education reform that included voucher programs. As a candidate, Huntsman easily passes the Republican litmus test with his proposals to cut taxes, eliminate regulations, repeal ObamaCare, slash deficits and promote free trade.

Even when it comes to social issues, Huntsman is mostly conservative. He’s pro-life, having passed three bills that restricted abortions in Utah and adopted two foreign daughters. And on gun rights, Huntsman even got an “A” from the NRA. Despite his relaxed tone, Jon Huntsman is no moderate. While it might be understandable that the base doesn’t respond well to Huntsman, I am completely baffled by the Republican establishment’s sheer disregard for the accomplished technocrat.

Jon Huntsman is arguably the most experienced in the field: He

has business experience as a twotime CEO, executive experience as a two-term Utah Governor and diplomatic experience as a threetime U.S. ambassador. There is no question that Huntsman has the capability not only to handle the job of the presidency but also to excel at it.

And yet the GOP establishment’s choice is a former governor whose only consistency lies in the number of positions he’s held on each issue. Their favorite is a candidate who underperformed as Massachusetts’ governor, raising taxes, mandating health care and bringing the state to No. 47 in job creation. They have crowned a candidate whose tax proposals the Wall Street Journal deems “timid.”

At the end of the day, my fellow conservatives simply want a candidate who is bombastic in his — or her — conservatism. But that’s not very conservative. It is a foolish strategy that has taken precedence over substantive policy proposals. It is unfortunate that my fellow Republicans cannot recognize presidential material staring them right in the face.

And we will lose to President Obama because of it.

RICH LIZARDO is a freshman in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at richard.lizardo@yale.edu .

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PAGE THREE TODAY’S EVENTS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11 9:00 AM Perspectives on Aging Study Group. The talk will be given by Dr. Marianthe Gammas, a cliinical fellow in the department of internal medicine/geriatrics at the School of Medicine. Yale Bioethics Center (238 Prospect St.), Conference Room.

4:00 PM Opening Celebration for Center for Science & Social Science Information. An event celebrating the opening of CSSSI. Kline Biology Tower (219 Prospect St.), Concourse level.

CORRECTIONS TUESDAY, JAN. 10

The article “Summers urges stimulus“ misstated the amount by which former White House economic adviser Larry Summers said the federal budget deficit would be reduced if the nation were at full employment levels. It was $300 to 400 billion, not $3 to 4 billion.

The article “Abused teens show mental scars” incorrectly stated that an article by Jennifer Pfeifer and Philip Fisher was published on sciencedaily.com. It was actually published in the Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine.

State moves to run Medicaid the state budget, said Wyman, adding up to approximately $4.6 billion.

Starting this year, ConnectIn 2004 Oklahoma impleicut will no longer rely on pri- mented a similar program, vate insurance companies to called Sooner Care. Mike Fogmanage its low-income health arty, chief executive officer care programs. of the Oklahoma Health Care On Jan. 1, Connecti- Authority, a state agency, said cut assumed direct financial that Oklahoma has been doing responsibility for its Medic- “extremely well” since the aid, HUSKY and Charter Oak switch, citing the “extraordihealth care programs, which narily low” rise of per-memoffer medical services to eli- ber total costs as 1.2 percent gible low-income residents. per year.

This move represents a change Fogarty added that Oklafrom the state’s former policy homa transitioned to stateof paying private health insur- managed low-income healthance companies such as Aetna care after this after running and UnitedHealthCare to both private and stateadminister their low-income directed programs simultanehealth care services. With this ously and finding that patient change, Connecticut became satisfaction and quality care the second state in the nation measurements were the same to move away from private or higher for state-run sermanagement of low-income vices. He said that one challenge faced by Oklahoma’s healthcare. state-run program was establishing credibility and conThe current Medicaid nections with the healthcare network, which it has now system… offers no achieved.

Frayne, senior coordination or support to viceStephen president of health policy of the Connecticut Hospatients. pital Association, which represents the state’s hospitals and health care organiBEN BARNES Secretary, Connecticut office of policy and zations, said that Connectimanagement cut hospitals do not expect to feel any negative effects from the change, as they have been “Our overall direction working to make sure the tranremains system change and sition takes place in a “budimprovement,” said Ben get-neutral way.” He added Barnes, secretary of Con- that the major challenge for necticut’s Office of Policy and the health care community Management, in a Sept. 29 will be “delivering the prompress release announcing the ise” of institutionalized, qualdecision to switch to a state- ity health care at low costs. run program. “The current Aetna spokesman MatMedicaid system for seniors, thew Wiggin, whose company people with disabilities and used to manage Connecticut’s single adults in poverty offers Medicaid program, said Aetna no coordination or support was successful when it manto patients beyond paying for aged Medicaid for the state. their care. By the same token, “From the beginning when the managed care system in Aetna entered Medicaid, we HUSKY can be confusing to reduced costs by 1.2 percent in enrollees and has been identi- Connecticut Medicaid, while fied as overly profit-driven at costs were rising [nationwide],” he said. “We were the expense of taxpayers.”

Under the new “person- actually able to move down.” centered medical home proWhen asked what might gram,” Medicaid, HUSKY and change for consumers as the Charter Oak healthcare will state assumes control over be cumulatively overseen by a low-income healthcare, Wigstate-selected administrative gins said Aetna’s large size services organization, Com- allowed it to connect with the munity Health Network of highest-risk members and Connecticut Inc., a Walling- enroll them in services to betford-based non-profit orga- ter their health. nization.

16 percent of Connecticut Lieutenant Gov. Nancy residents are enrolled in MedWyman said in the press icaid, according to statistics release that the goal of the provided by the Kaiser Famnew program is to provide ily Foundation, a non-profit improved customer service for health policy group.

HUSKY and Medicaid enrollees while saving taxpayers’ Contact MARIANA money. Medicaid, HUSKY LOPEZ-ROSAS at and Charter Oak represent the mariana.lopez-rosas@yale.edu . largest service expenditure in

BY MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS STAFF REPORTER

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“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.” HARRY S. TRUMAN 33RD PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

YPD labor tensions persist

BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER A rocky 18 months of negotiations preceded the final ratification of a new six-year contract between the University and the Yale Police Department’s union on Oct. 26.

The University adopted “hard bargaining and high pressure tactics designed to force settlement” when negotiating with the union — the Yale Police Benevolent Association (YPBA) — alleged Rich Simons, its president, in a November statement to the News. When asked to explain Simons’ comments last month, YPBA vice president Elias Roman offered several examples of what he called “hardball, condescending and bullying tactics” employed by University negotiators. But University spokesman Tom Conroy said the YPBA ratified an “excellent contract” without the need for outside assistance or interruption in department operations, indicating that the negotiation process was successful.

The drawn-out negotiations suggest that Yale has not overcome its longstanding labor difficulties with its police department. The most recent negotiation process, which Conroy said involved over 60 bargaining sessions, culminated in a contract that will last until June 2016. The agreement includes annual across-the-board wage increases from 2 to 3 percent, he said, as well as wage adjustments and stipends based on years of service, grade and special duty assignments.

This contract did not come without acrimony during the negotiating process, according to YPBA representatives.

According to a December email from Roman, Andrea Terrillion, Yale’s chief negotiator, issued an ultimatum to the union at a bargaining session on Aug. 19 — it must either accept Yale’s current offer, or the University would “retool [their] economic

offer to reflect the realities of today’s economy.”

Roman added that before the University delivered this ultimatium, Yale’s senior director of compensation and benefits, Hugh Penny, provided YPBA leadership with an “unsolicited presentation” on the costs of the Aetna Health Plan, the health plan that covers the union’s members. The implication of this presentation, according to Roman, was that Yale might decrease union members’ health care benefits if the YPBA did not accept the University’s offer.

The [Yale Police Benevolent Association] leadership has always believed a strike must be an absolute last resort.

ELIAS ROMAN Vice president, Yale Police Benevolent Association The University later threatened to walk away from a deal if the YPBA leadership did not deliver to rank-and-file an “enthusiastic endorsement” for the tentative agreement when it was reached, said Roman.

When contacted about the YPBA’s allegations, Conroy did not specifically comment on the University’s negotiating tactics, stressing instead the positive outcome.

“It cannot be too strongly underscored that the Yale police officers overwhelmingly ratified an excellent contract with a highly competitive compensation structure that compares excellently to the market, both regionally and among university police departments,” he said in a Jan. 10 email.

Relations between the administrators and the YPBA appear

likely to remain tense. Although the current contract does not expire until the end of June 2016, Roman said the YPBA may adopt a firmer bargaining stance in future contract negotiations in response to the “hard bargaining posture” that the University has adopted. While Roman did not offer details, he warned that the union might be forced into actions that could “[endanger] the Yale community.”

“The [YPBA] leadership has always believed a strike must be an absolute last resort,” he said.

“If our members were to strike, the lack of police coverage could well result in harm to membes of the Yale community, especially its students. That is something we want to avoid at all costs.”

Conroy said that strikes represent the failure of the collective bargaining process. If one were to occur, he added, it would be “painful process,” potentially damaging the relationship between the University and the union for years to come and causing economic harm to both parties.

While Roman said the University’s negotiations with unions are often contentious, Yale’s bargaining with Unite Here Locals 34 and 35 — the unions that represent Yale’s clerical and technical staff — has produced new contracts nine months prior to the expiration of former contracts.

The University’s most recent agreement with Locals 34 and 35, a three-year extension to a previous contract that will run through Jan. 2013, was the first reached without a strike in 21 years, according to the New Haven Register. The last time members of Locals 34 and 35 went on strike was in 2003, and the strike lasted for three weeks. Also in 2003, the YPBA threatened to strike after its negotiations with Yale lasted over 14 months.

Negotiations for the University’s next contract with Locals 34 and 35 have already begun, Conroy said, as part of a deal that discussions on successor agree-

TIMELINE YALE’S RELATIONSHIP TO ITS POLICE UNION FEBRUARY 2010 The University commences negotiations for a new contract with the Yale Police Benevolent Association, the Yale Police Department’s union.

APRIL 2011 The YPBA makes several public complaints against the administration, including that the the University did not allow crimes to be properly investigated — including investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct.

AUG. 19, 2011 Andrea Terrillion, Yale’s chief negotiator, issues ultimatum to the YPBA: accept the University’s offer or it will revise down the offer to “reflect the realitites of today’s economy,” according to YPBA representatives.

OCT. 26, 2011 Members of the YPBA vote to ratify a new contract with the University that will last until June 2016.

The contract includes across-theboard wage increases from 2 to 3 percent and stipends based on salary grade and years of service.

ments must start a minimum of 12 months prior to the expiry of existing contracts.

The union representing Yale Security reached its first contract agreement with the University in November, following over a year of negotiations.

Contact JAMES LU at james.q.lu@yale.edu .

McChrystal shares leadership lessons

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER Retired four-star Gen. Stanley McChrystal advised aspiring business leaders at the School of Management to lead by example and build unified teams with clear objectives.

McChrystal, who currently teaches the seminar “Leadership,” spoke to a crowd of over 100 people Tuesday morning about the power and qualities of strong leadership. The former commander of American forces in Afghanistan said management that fosters “shared consciousness and purpose” can revolutionize any organization, from an army to a business.

McChrystal said his strategy as a general was to get “everyone to have common ownership and responsibility for a clearly understood mission,” emphasizing the importance of “leading by influence” instead of leading by command.

“If someone says ‘dig a hole,’ you’ll do it, but you won’t do a good job if you don’t know what it’s for, and you pretty much don’t care,” he said. “You’ve got to get people to want to do things because they think it’s right and in their best interest.”

McChrystal said that improving efficiency within an organization often requires changing its culture — an idea that established team members often find threatening. Change can only occur when leaders set a personal example, he added. In order to demonstrate his commitment to the war in Afghanistan, McChrystal said he stayed deployed for five years — against the wishes of his family.

“When you lead transparently, it’s exhausting,” McChrystal said. But he added that personal investment is crucial for inspirational leadership and building the necessary trust between a team and its leader. “They either believe in you or they don’t,” he said.

One of the more difficult “culture changes” McChrystal had to implement while in power was

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Gen. Stanley McChrystal discussed the qualities of strong leadership at the School of Management Tuesday. convincing American troops that “real security comes from a credible relationship with the Afghan people.” This meant that, beginning in the summer of 2009, troops had to fight in a way that put themselves at much greater risk in order to reduce civilian casualties. McChrystal said soldiers’ families protested that he was not letting their sons protect themselves, but he said that retaining the support of the Afghan people had to take priority. Enacting this reform took months of daily reinforcement, he said, but it proved necessary.

“At the end of the day, it’s about winning — the war, the business competition, whatever

it is,” he said. “Winning does not necessarily mean destroying your enemy. Winning could be educating kids.”

McChrystal said leaders often must adapt their strategies to fit evolving competition and circumstances. In the case of the military, the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s put unprecedented demands on the Joint Special Operations Command, he said.

“Suddenly, we had a much bigger problem than we had been designed to deal with,” he said.

“We had to expand our counterterrorism capability. We had to build an organization and use it at the same time.”

Joshua Ray ’13, who will be

taking McChrystal’s seminar this semester, said he especially appreciated McChrystal’s comments on the importance of finding employment for veterans.

He also said even campus organizations could benefit from McChrystal’s leadership advice.

“I think we’re lucky to have him at Yale,” Jonathan Yang ’13 said of McChrystal. “Obviously, he has a wealth of experience to draw from.”

McChrystal began teaching at Yale during the fall of 2010, just months after he retired from the army.

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

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Kline Biology Tower The Kline Biology Tower was designed by Philip Johnson, who founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art. When it was built, KBT was the tallest building in New Haven. It is now the fourth-tallest.

Admins hope KBT to grow in popularity

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Critics say the Kline Biology Tower’s design does not invite collaboration, but the KBT Cafe and brand-new Center for Science and Social Science Information provide new space for social gathering.

KBT FROM PAGE 1 Deputy Provost Lloyd Suttle said in an email to the News.

“Together, CSSSI and KBT Cafe provide a much needed social and intellectual space on Science Hill,” Suttle said.

But first, the center must overcome the challenges posed by KBT’s intimidating design.

‘STRENGTH AND AGGRESSION’

Because of the building’s design, people did not initially regard KBT, which houses the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department, as a comfortable space in which to gather.

Carter Wiseman ’68, a School of Architecture professor and modern architecture critic who was an undergraduate when KBT was built, said KBT seemed so impersonal he could not imagine anyone conceived it as a community space.

“It’s part of a family of buildings that have very hard materials, little grass, few windows — a symbolic statement of excluding people and telling them they’re not welcome,” he said.

This architectural “family” — common during the late

1950s and early ’60s – resulted from architects’ heavy reliance on models, rather than gut instinct about a structure’s emotional effect. This group of buildings includes Morse and Ezra Stiles colleges, the architecture school’s Rudolph Hall, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Wiseman said. He added that their features convey strength and aggression rather than warmth and welcome.

“It is really imposing from the outside,” Chris Landry ’14 said of KBT. The building seems more impersonal because it “could be anywhere,” Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen ARC ’94, School of Architecture professor and expert on modern architecture, said.

The building’s tall, narrow frame has also limited professors’ ability to collaborate with their colleagues. The building’s verticality makes interaction among those located on different floors challenging, Suttle said.

For example, few people used the two dining rooms originally on the building’s top floor because KBT’s elevators could not handle the additional traffic.

Although Wiseman said that architects have since turned away from these “hostile” designs

in favor of more user-friendly features, knocking down the building is unrealistic. Instead, Yale needed to work with the resources it had.

“You’re not going to tear down Kline or scrap whole buildings, so you have to retrofit them to make them more user-friendly,” he said.

CSSSI and KBT Cafe provide a much needed social and intellectual space on Science Hill.

LLOYD SUTTLE Deputy provost MCDB chair Douglas Kankel added that he believes it is important to more thoroughly integrate Science Hill into the general life of Yale college, since, as Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Director of Undergraduate Studies Jeffrey Powell explained, Science Hill has always been considered a “satellite to main campus.”

MANAGING THE MENACE

Library administrators said

Goff-Crews to bring coordination GOFF-CREWS FROM PAGE 1 School, said meetings between administrators have been productive since they allowed the deans to address common concerns. For example, he said, Brandes brought the deans together to discuss ways of designing effective orientation programs.

Peterson added that student life deans would benefit from increased collaboration because all graduate and professional students encounter similar issues outside of their academic lives, such as traveling safely to off-campus residences or raising children while working toward a degree.

But Peterson said schools will still have to generate some policies individually to meet the unique needs of their students.

“Half of [the Divinity School’s] students are preparing for something that would generally be regarded as church-related,” Peterson said.

“The things that are unique to that particular goal and vocation are things that are dealt with within our curriculum.”

Janet Conroy, Law School spokeswoman, said the Law School internally addresses many of its students’ needs, such as help with studying for the bar examination or navigating the requirements of a joint-degree program.

Graduate and Professional School Student Senate President Emily Stoops GRD ’13 said she hopes the greater coordination will provide a platform for the Senate to interact more with administrators. She added that problems often arise concerning safety, housing, transportation to and from campus, and inclusion in the broader campus culture.

Yale College Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry did not respond to several requests for comment about his role in the new system.

Goff-Crews currently serves as vice president for campus life and dean of students at the University of Chicago.

Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu and DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu .

they hope the opening of CSSSI will finally establish the KBT building as a space in which students and faculty will congregate.

“There has never been a shortage of space for students and faculty to get together for agreedupon meetings” Kankel said.

“What has usually been lacking is a reason for undergraduates to come to Science Hill outside the bounds of academic necessity and the standard times for classes.”

Previously the social science library and StatLab were housed at 140 Prospect St., which was demolished to make way for the two new residential colleges, said CSSSI director Jill Parchuck. After considering the frequency of interdisciplinary work on campus, administrators decided to merge the social science resources with the science library in the basement of KBT, Parchuck explained. Still, while 12 of 15 science majors interviewed said they will spend more time outside of class on Science Hill because of CSSSI, only three of 12 social science majors said the same.

Before the libraries could make the move, University Librarian Susan Gibbons said that the

space was in “desperate need” of renovation. Though CSSSI is housed in the same space that the Kline Science Library once occupied, the location previously had fewer study seats and research librarians and no classroom or on-site technology support. After tearing down and repositioning walls, administrators designed the new space “to improve efficiency and quality of patron and staff experience,” Parchuck said.

Though the location is centrally located in terms of Science Hill, KBT is far enough to need a special attraction for people to make the trek, said Themba Flowers, manager of social science research services. With a 24-hour study facility, group study spaces, concentrated science and social science expertise, and a statlab classroom, CSSSI’s features will draw students to the location, Flowers added.

“It’s like one-stop shopping,” he said.

This change, though in part a result of the new colleges, tackles problems the building faced in encouraging community.

Administrators pointed to KBT Café’s success as an example of their hopes for the future of Science Hill: Suttle said it serves as

many as 450 lunches on some days, more than any residential college dining hall. Along with expanded resources, Gibbons said that food and drink are allowed in CSSSI in order to create an environment that supports collaboration and conversations.

“I think the combination of the KBT Cafe and CSSSI will turn KBT into a very popular destination for students, much like the combination of the Bass Library and Thain Cafe,” Gibbons said, adding that the library’s proximity to the cafe will give the building the communal sense it was supposed to have.

KBT Cafe’s hours may be the only thing standing in way of the building’s original goals. Currently the café closes at 3 p.m., but Flowers said he hopes these hours will change since CSSSI will be open 24 hours.

Amanda Patrick, director of library development and communications, said library administrators have planned to host around 400 guests at the open house today.

Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu and SHARON YIN at sharon.yin@yale.edu .

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Number of exoplanets that have been identified (as of Dec. 23, 2011)

Tens of billions of exoplanets are thought to exist in the Milky Way galaxy.

Exoplanets a ‘high priority’ for G&G Department

BY DANIEL BETHENCOURT STAFF REPORTER The Astronomy Department’s newest seminar is the University’s first course offering to undergraduates in a rapidly developing scientific field.

The spring semester class, “Exoplanets,” studies planets that exist outside the solar system and marks a growing collaboration between Astronomy and Geology and Geophysics — two departments that have had increased reason to work together since the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995.

Since then, the field has gained momentum and now represents a “high priority” for Geology and Geophysics to pursue over the next few years, department chair David Bercovici said.

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets since 1995, said Shun Karato, a professor of geology and geophysics who will teach a portion of the new seminar. Moving forward, Bercovici said his department will emphasize exoplanetary science when hiring faculty. But Bercovici said his department has not yet written formal proposals for additional positions, and new hires have been limited since the recession hit Yale in 2008.

“Exoplanet discovery is some of the biggest science happening,” Bercovici said. “It’s a booming field.”

The study of exoplanets has grown in importance over the past

decade because recent observations by scientists show that some of these exoplanets exist in a “habitable zone” in orbital systems, which increases the chance of life existing outside the solar system, Karato said.

During that time, research into exoplanets has increasingly united astronomy with geology and geophysics, said Debra Fischer, director of undergraduate studies for Astronomy and an instructor for the new seminar. Astronomers gather information about an exoplanet, such as its mass and position relative to a star, while researchers in geology and geophysics create theoretical models that explore whether the exoplanets could hold life, Bercovici said. “[The collaboration] is being driven out of a need, because we have a hole in our knowledge in astronomy,” Fischer said. “It’s a convergence of two different fields to create something new.”

The new seminar is open to both undergraduates and graduate students, who will work in small groups to write an original research paper based on Fischer’s research and other data available through NASA. Nine students were listed as shopping “Exoplanets” as of Tuesday night.

Fischer said she plans to teach the course next in the spring of 2014 and it will likely be offered every other year. There are no immediate plans to create additional classes on exoplanets, Bercovici said, given current faculty

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A new astronomy seminar focuses on exoplanets, planets that exist outside our solar system. commitments, though he noted other routinely offered classes could be expanded to include exoplanets in their curricula.

Before the Astronomy Department opened its new seminar to undergraduates, those students could study exoplanets by enrolling in a two-part joint Geology and Geophysics and Astronomy graduate seminar that met in the fall of 2010 and spring of 2011, Bercovici

said. The graduate level course was not offered this academic year, he added.

Matt Giguere GRD ’15, who is studying exoplanets for his doctoral thesis in astronomy, said he enrolled in the new seminar because he wanted to learn more about past attempts to research exoplanets, and hopes to use principles of geophysics he had not previously studied.

“This will help capture a big picture of what you’re trying to achieve and see what’s been done before,” Giguere said.

“Exoplanets” meets at 9 a.m. on Monday and Wednesday.

Contact DANIEL BETHENCOURT at daniel.bethencourt@yale.edu .

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The New Hampshire primary A state law requires that New Hampshire’s primary be the earliest in the nation. The election, which in the past has been held as late as the second Tuesday in March, has been moved earlier and earlier in the year in order not to break the law.

Humanities depts. oppose interviews GRAD INTERVIEWS FROM PAGE 1 Given that the Graduate School invests so much in each student, guaranteeing five years of financial support, Pollard said it is worthwhile for programs to make contact with applicants.

The average humanities student costs the University a net value of roughly $143,000 over six years of study, according to a report on Graduate School education released in August.

Most science programs at Yale already conduct interviews, said Associate Dean of the Graduate School Richard Sleight, who oversees admissions in science departments.

David Post, director of graduate studies for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, said his department has invited top candidates to campus for almost a decade. He added that because the department’s graduate program is small, interviews are especially important to determine whether applicants’ interests match those of researchers in Yale’s labs.

“It’s a chance for us to get to know the candidates, and for the prospective students to get to know us and our program,” Post said.

Interviews are less common in programs outside the sciences.

Dale Martin, director of graduate studies for Religious Studies, said he feels that Pollard, as a scientist, is trying to “force” ideas

from the sciences onto departments that do not want them.

Martin said while interviews are useful for science programs, which may care about admitting students that are personable and can conduct lab work well in teams, they are not necessary for judging humanities students.

Since these students tend to work alone, Martin said his department prefers to choose students purely based on their academic credentials, which can be judged from their written applications.

Associate Dean of the Graduate School Pamela Schirmeister ’80 GRD ’88 said while undergraduate admissions emphasize putting together a class of students with diverse talents, graduate programs are primarily interested in students’ scholarship in their chosen field. Schirmeister, who oversees admissions in humanities and some social science departments, said she knew of only two humanities departments — Classics and Music — that systematically interview all applicants they consider before making offers.

The Classics Department has brought some of its applicants to campus since 2005 to meet with faculty and students, said Egbert Bakker, director of graduate studies for Classics. He said this visit allows the department to gauge if they are admitting students who are likely to be “good future colleagues” and complete a doctorate.

Yet Classics is unusual among humanities programs at Yale in having enough endowed funds to pay for students to visit. Most other programs will likely need to do interviews by phone or Skype, which professors said might be very different from talking to candidates in person.

The Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Department has done interviews in the past, said Ekhart Frahm, director of graduate studies for the department, but he said they should not be the primary criterion for judging a student.

“Occasionally, genius hides behind awkwardness, while inversely silver-tongued applicants can turn out to be shallow scholars,” Frahm said in a Tuesday email.

Within the social sciences, some departments have already begun experimenting with interviews. The Economics Department interviewed a few applicants for the first time last year using Skype, said Truman Bewley, director of graduate studies for Economics. He added that the department intends to conduct “many more” interviews this year, especially when it seeks more information about applicants’ mathematics and economics background or prior research experience.

The Graduate School received a total of 11,257 applications this year, 9,462 of which were to doctoral programs.

Contact ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .

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STUDENT LIFE A D M I N I ST R AT O R S YALE COLLEGE - MARICHAL GENTRY SCHOOL OF LAW - SHARON BROOKS LAW ’00 DIVINITY SCHOOL - DALE PETERSON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE JOHN JACOBSON ARCH ’70 SCHOOL OF ART - SAMUEL MESSER SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES - JOANNE DEBERNARD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NANCY ANGOFF MED ’90 SCHOOL OF MUSIC - SUZANNE STRINGER SCHOOL OF NURSING - FRANK GROSSO

Number of applications to doctoral programs the Graduate School received this year.

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH - ANNE PISTELL

Percent increase in applications to doctoral programs this year.

INSTITUTE OF SACRED MUSIC JENNA-CLAIRE KEMPER MUS ’02

Target number of first-year Ph.D. students the Graduate School would like to have in fall 2012.

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES - LISA BRANDES GRD ’94

Number of applications to master’s and doctoral programs in the Graduate School overall this year.

Yalies weigh in on GOP presidential field NH PRIMARY FROM PAGE 1 vocal conservatives on campus who support Mitt Romney,” Zelinsky said.

The Huntsman campaign hoped to beat expectations in New Hampshire, said Knowles, but did not expect to come out on top. While Knowles helped Huntsman campaign in New Hampshire during the summer, he did not travel to the state on primary night.

Knowles, who is also the chairman of the Yale College Republicans, acknowledged the divided support for Republican candidates on campus, citing students who support Romney, Huntsman, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Paul. But he said these students will likely come together to support the Republican presidential nominee in order to defeat Obama.

In New Hampshire, the general election race against the president proved a major talking point throughout the day — primary-goers regularly spoke of candidates’ electability.

At Romney’s celebration rally following the release of primary results, a crowd gathered to hear the candidate speak. Meghan Maguire, a student at the University of New Hampshire, and Michael Crowell, a student at St. Michael’s University, said they supported him in part because they thought Romney was the candidate most likely to beat Obama in the November election. “[Romney] knows what he’s talking about in terms of business and the economy,” Crowell said. “I like his idea

of American greatness — I don’t like having to apologize for our success.”

Maguire, who said she voted for Huntsman but still supported Romney, said she supported Romney’s goal of repealing Obama’s health care law, although she said she did not know about Romney’s similar law as governor of Massachusetts.

Catherine Dzenis, Morgan Parr and Hanna Lundgren, students at Londonderry High School, said they also thought Romney was the most electable out of the field of candidates. Dzenis added that she thought Romney’s experience in the private sector — as well as his ideas about the military, which will make “no one want to mess with us” — made him the only candidate that the three of them would consider voting for.

When Romney arrived to the stage, he thanked his supporters for their help and for giving him “more than eight votes,” a reference to his narrow margin of victory ahead of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses last week. Following her husband’s speech, his wife Ann Romney told reporters that if youth voters wanted a job, they should support his husband in November.

At Huntsman’s post-results rally, he told supporters that he would continue to run and that his campaign would “head south” to South Carolina and Florida, the next two states to vote in the primary election season. Katie Lanzarotto, a Quinnipiac student who attended the rally, said she supported

Huntsman because he seems “down to earth” and “practical,” and added that she thinks Huntsman can eventually clinch the nomination despite his third-place showing in New Hampshire, where the candidate spent most of his time.

Students Eric Brandolini and Jake Wagner said they supported Huntsman, who served as Obama’s ambassador to China, because of his foreign policy, business and executive experience. They both said that, should Huntsman drop out of the race, they would not vote for any other candidate in the race.

Youth who supported Santorum said they appreciated his socially conservative stance.

Seventeen-year-old Ryan Nichols, who volunteered for Santorum’s campaign, said the candidate shares his Catholic background and values, and called him a “family person.”

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich barely edged out Santorum, with each candidate receiving less than 10 percent of the total vote. Perry, who skipped the New Hampshire primary to spend more time campaigning in South Carolina, received less than 1 percent.

Baobao Zhang contributed reporting.

Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu and CLINTON WANG at clinton.wang@yale.edu .

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Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman came in second and third place in Tuesday’s primary in New Hampshire.

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ARTS & CULTURE THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS 7 P.M., THURS. JAN. 12 “HENRY V” AND SCENES FROM “RICHARD III” Screenings of Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptation of “Henry V” and an excerpted scene from John Barrymore’s “Richard III.” Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

8 P.M. FRI. JAN. 13 YALE PHILHARMONIA PERFORMS BRUCKNER The Yale Philharmonia will perform a concert including music by Bruckner, Ravel and Tchaikovsky.

Woolsey Hall, 500 College St.

2 P.M. SAT. JAN. 14 “SHAKESPEARE WALLAH” Screening of the film “Shakespeare Wallah,” which tells the true story of “The Buckingham Players,” a family and traveling Shakespeare performance company in the last days of British colonial rule in India.

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.

3 P.M. SUN. JAN. 15 SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK CONCERT A concert by the internationally renowned a capella group Sweet Honey in the Rock, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Woolsey Hall, 500 College St.

1-5 P.M. SUN. JAN. 15 “SWING & BLUES DANCE BEGINNER BOOTCAMP” An immersive dance class for those learning swing and blues.

Graduate and Professional Student Center, 204 York St.

7 P.M. THURS. JAN. 19

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Shakespeare in the Spring

After two years, festival a reality

BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER This semester, Yale will exercise its vast collection of Shakespearean resources with events ranging from “Baking With the Bard” at the Yale Sustainable Food Project to student productions of “Macbeth” and “Othello.” But behind all the excitement of the Shakespeare at Yale initiative is a year’s worth of work and cooperation.

After English professor David Kastan first pitched the idea of showcasing Yale’s Shakespeare collections to University President Richard Levin in early 2010, a planning committee comprising 24 Yale professors and administrators spent last spring meeting to discuss the vision for the event and identify Yale’s breadth of potential offerings.

“When Professor Kastan had the idea of showcasing all of Yale’s resources relating to Shakespeare, I know he had some idea of their range, depth and distinction. But I don’t believe that even he had any idea of just exactly how rich those resources were,” said Penelope Laurans, special assistant to the president and a member of the festival’s development and administration team, in an email.

Kathryn Krier DRA ’07, the program’s coordinator, said in an email that the collaborative nature of the festival has been clear from the start,

when the committee began brainstorming during the first phase of planning last year. “[The festival] also showcases Yale’s institutional ability to gather all those resources in a way that displays the whole as being even greater than the sum of its parts,” Laurans said.

There will be a Shakespeare at Yale event each day this semester, with students having the opportunity to attend theatrical productions, film screenings and exhibits at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Yale Center for British Art, among many other events.

But while Shakespeare at Yale will coordinate and promote its partners’ events, the program will not produce any events itself, Krier said. How exactly each organization chose to celebrate Shakespeare is left entirely to its own administrators, she added.

The celebration incorporates professors from many different disciplines and students from a variety of backgrounds, student coordinator Katharine Pitt ’12 said.

“Shakespeare’s work can be applied to arts and academia in as many ways as there are people to read his plays,” she added.

Many undergraduates became involved with the project as a result of the Shakespeare Challenge, a campus-wide call for event ideas last semester, Krier said. Selected undergraduate initiatives received funding

from the Office of the Dean of the Arts for their projects.

Funding was a particular draw for senior Theater Studies majors: there are a total of 11 majors working on Shakespeare for their senior projects, Pitt said, more than any year she could remember.

In another year, such productions may only have received funding from the Creating and Performing Arts Fund. Projects supported by the Shakespeare Challenge, however, have money over and above this amount, said Timmia Hearn Feldman ’12, the student director of “Coriolanus,” the first show to go up.

Krier said the schedule of Shakespeare at Yale was filled in “organically” based on the partner organizations’ schedules. The festival will wrap up with “Festival Weekend” on Apr. 20-22, which will include talks, performances and nine exhibition, Krier said.

“It makes you in awe of Yale,” Laurans said. “Its stunning holdings make you realize what a place this is and how lucky we all are to have access to what it offers.”

Shakespeare at Yale kicked off on Jan. 3 with “‘While these visions did appear’: Shakespeare on Canvas,” an exhibiton at the YCBA.

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. The first Shakespeare film adaptation [we are aware of] dates from 1899, which is just a few years after some of the first commercial films were made. This shows that Shakespeare has been a part of the movies for as long as movies have existed. It’s just a one minute clip of “King John,” which isn’t the most well-known play. Very quickly, however, as many as 400 silent Shakespeare films were made. They weren’t all full — some are just 10- to 15-minute long scenes — but there was a very rich tradition in the silent film era. Early adaptations of “The Tempest,” “Richard III,” “Hamlet” and “Othello” are particularly notable.

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

“ALEXANDER SMITH COCHRAN AND THE FOUNDING OF THE ELIZABETHAN CLUB” Curated by professor Fred Robinson and sponsored by the Elizabethan Club, this exhibition honors the memory of Alexander Smith Cochran.

Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St.

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A new adaptation of “Coriolanus” will be the first play to go up as part of this semester’s Shakespeare at Yale festival.

BY LIZ RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDO STAFF REPORTER In a new production of Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus,” the Bard’s minor players grow in importance beside the play’s leading war heroes.

Set to run Jan. 18 to 21, the Roman tragedy is the first play to go up under the umbrella of this spring’s Shakespeare at Yale festival and the result of a collaborative effort between members of the theater studies seminar “ReMaking Shakespeare.”

Under the direction of theater studies professor Daniel Larlham ’00 and Timmia Hearn Feldman ’12, this rendition of the play expands Shakespeare’s vision of wartime Rome with a new emphasis on oft-overlooked characters such as plebeians and servants, with particular attention to the female voice.

“We’re not doing Shakespeare’s ‘Coriolanus,’” Feldman said. “‘Coriolanus’ is a man’s play about men with one very masculine woman, glorifying violence.”

The play tells the story of the eponymous Roman general who turns his back on Rome after being betrayed and losing out on a position in the Senate. But Feldman said their version, a senior project for actors Jesse Kirkland ’12 and William Smith ’12, focuses more on human emotions and interactions than plot narrative.

The class added several new features to Shakespeare’s tale in order to build up traditionally obscure characters, such as excerpts from BBC articles, historic documents from the United States Department of War and a poem written by Serina Allison Hearn, Feldman’s mother, about waiting for a soldier to return home.

Larlham and Feldman decided to collaborate on the play last spring, and the directors and performers have worked together to develop their version since August, said Smith, who plays Coriolanus.

Jessica Miller ’15, who acts the role of Coriolanus’ quiet and loyal wife Virgilia, said the additions to the script allow the audience a deeper understanding of her character’s inner concerns.

“The character only has about 14 lines, but throughout the process of monologues and pieces [of historical articles, poems and letters added throughout the entire show] you can see the inner life of someone who longs to speak their mind but cannot because of societal conventions and also personal fears,” Miller said.

Though Virgilia is one of only three women originally written into the play, Feldman said the ensemble chose to add a fourth woman named Veturia, played by Clio Contegenis ’14, to represent a modern-day feminist and antiwar mindset.

The mixing of old and modern ide-

als wasn’t a stretch for this adaptation, Smith said, as war, personal ambition and the pressure of family expectations are issues that still exist today. The staging, Feldman said, similarly mixes past and present. The all-white set is furnished with a steel back wall and Ikea chairs, contrasting with the characters’ traditional Roman garb of robes, sandals, shields and swords.

Despite the play’s updated feel, Smith said he found complexities in bringing the title character’s classic angst to the stage. His challenge as an actor, he said, was to tap into Coriolanus’ anger and egotism.

“In Coriolanus we don’t really get a guy we can get behind. We don’t get a clear-cut good guy [or] bad guy,” Smith said. “I want the effects of betrayal on the human psyche to come through [in] my performance of Coriolanus. He was motivated by rage, which comes from betrayal.”

Smith and his fellow performers have had almost half a year to study their characters, and the entire production has been researching adaptations and historical background since August.

The production will run Jan. 18 to 20 in the Whitney Humanities Center theater.

Contact LIZ RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDO at liz.rodriguez-florido@yale.edu .

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. Some people reject it on the basis of the fidelity model but most film scholars think that it actually produces the least interesting reading of the works. Within the academy, most people are interested in seeing new perspectives … Most people who work on Shakespeare films are supportive of experimentation, arguing that there’s no point to a staid version of a Shakespeare film — it looks pretty but doesn’t really add much. Even if the films end up being silly or failing, it’s worth taking material and doing something new to it.

It’s a dangerous thing to do, because there’s a sense that it’s a vulgar way to mess with some of the greatest works ever written. With the general public, this is more of an issue. A lot of people want Shakespearean works produced and that’s why we see some films trying to respond to what the general audience might want. Baz Luhrmann’s [version of] “Romeo and Juliet” was a radical adaptation, but it was called “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet” to emphasize a sense of authenticity for marketing purposes.

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English professor Brian Walsh is currently teaching “Shakespeare on Film.” be showing lots of clips from YouTube — they’re easy to access and you can find clips from obscure films like Orson Welles’ “Othello.” Films therefore bring Shakespeare to people who might never otherwise go into a theater. Also, as an art form, films can do things visually that theatre can’t. You can depict 200 people in battle in a way theater can’t. That means a level of realism which brings with it expectations of what realism should be like.

So it’s an interesting and productive way to imagine Shakespeare outside the small, confined space of live theater.

Despite the surge in ShakespearQ.ean adaptations in the 1950s and 60s, we’re seeing fewer productions today. Do you think there’s still demand for Shakespeare on film?

What’s the most outlandish There was a real revival after Q.adaptation V” in 1989, where you you are aware of?

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What were the early stages of Q.Shakespearean film like in terms . A lot of filmmakers adapted Shakespeare’s work to film noir.

We can think of Laurence Olivier’s “Hamlet” as an example. It’s shot in black and white, with specific camera and photography techniques and the mysterious female figure of Gertrude. What happened was that a lot of Shakespeare films were molded to fit specific film genres. The 1995 version of “Richard III,” for instance, is almost like a gangster film version — it’s an homage to a gangster picture called “White Heat.” Cinema has adapted Shakespeare to its own conventions. There have been some radical adaptations more recently, with a Shakespearean plot but new lan-

“TREE OF LIFE” Screening of Terrence Malick’s 2011 film, which focuses on a family with three boys in the 1950s.

guage and wild imagery. You saw a lot of that stuff in the silent period too, when there was radical experimentation. One Danish version of “Hamlet” from the 20s suggests that Hamlet was actually a woman, a big step because, even though there was a tradition of female actors playing him as a male role, this was the first time the character’s gender was radically changed.

. “Prospero’s Books,” directed by Peter Greenaway, was very divisive. He takes a lot of the language from “The Tempest” but adds his own as well. Also, the film had lots of nudity and strange imagery — at one point, it featured a cherubic child, supposed to be Ariel, peeing into a swimming pool as part of creating the tempest. Some people like Greenaway’s aesthetic: He makes beautiful films, the way he works with colors. But it was controversial and split audiences. I don’t think anybody really had a neutral view.

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Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St.

Thursday’s screening of Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptation of “Henry V” at the Whitney Humanities Center kicks off a series of film showings organized as part of the Shakespeare at Yale festival this semester. English professor Brian Walsh, who currently teaches the “Shakespeare on Film” seminar, spoke with the News about the history and unique challenges of bringing the Bard to the silver screen.

and when did the tradition Q.ofHow adapting Shakespeare’s work to

“OTHELLO” Screening of Orson Welles’ 1952 adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic play.

“WHILE THESE VISIONS DID APPEAR”: SHAKESPEARE ON CANVAS An exhibition of 17 works painted during the 18th century inspired by Shakespeare’s comedies.

BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER

. I would say that, because of Shakespeare’s iconic status, the films are always treated with a level of suspicion by some people, particularly those who believe in a hierarchy with the written word and theater at the top. It’s a mistake to go in with a sense that there is an ideal version of, say, “Hamlet” or “Othello,” and the film is trying to match that. You’re always going to be disappointed.

What you need is an open mind.

Look at the film as its own independent piece of art, which is obviously still tied to Shakespeare to various degrees but features a different vision from the director, actors and film production team.

New voice for ‘Coriolanus’

One came out in 1966 and the other in 1981. Both were made for television.

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Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .

Number of English-language film adaptations of Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida.”

different from, say, a balleticized version (for example, “Romeo and Juliet,” scored by Tchaikovsky or Berlioz) or an operaticized version (such as Verdi’s “Othello” and “Macbeth”)? What about radio?

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. Film is just the most available.

There’s a popular, democratizing sense about it. Even though people don’t really listen to radio plays the way they used to, and don’t really have the reach to attend the opera and the ballet, they can stream the film, just go to cinema, or even watch it on YouTube. In fact, in my class, I will

saw a number of films in between the art house independent type and the more widely circulated sort. It kind of comes in waves. There were indeed a lot of Shakespeare films in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, so the market has been a little bit saturated.

Recently, Branagh’s “Love’s Labor’s Lost” (2000) did very poorly at the box office. But a new “Coriolanus” just came out, and Al Pacino put out a “Merchant of Venice” film in 2004.

There are different moments in which particular actors make Shakespeare films happen. Right now, individuals like Pacino are still pushing for these films, but we’re not in a moment where there’s a high demand for them. Still, I don’t think that means there won’t be such demand again.

We might need a moment like 1989 to make people realize that Shakespeare’s work is fresh and engaging.

“Coriolanus” could be something like that. But the movie industry at large is in a bit of trouble right now with executives trying to figure out what works for Hollywood. So the reduced demand could be part of a bigger trend of no one knowing what really works in terms of getting audiences into cinemas.

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spearean features like long speeches and his particular language in film?

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. If you’re sitting in a theater, you’re just watching an actor pace around and deliver what could be a 20-line speech. It’s hard to do that in a film. It has to be more of a dialogue and a back-and-forth. So such extracts are often split up a little, with voiceovers, different backdrops, etc,, to make the soliloquies partly internal. A lot of editing techniques are used to make long speeches more palatable to us, just because psychological realism is a thing we tend to expect in movies, and seeing someone go on and on in a film doesn’t match that. In the 2000 version of “Hamlet” with Ethan Hawke, they used voiceovers and New York city imagery. In terms of length, I was reading the other day that, in Shakespeare films, 50 percent of the text gets cut. One exception was a 240-minute production of “Hamlet,” but that kind of length has an effect in terms of how many people want go see the film.

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. Well, some are art house films with niche audiences but there are occasional blockbusters, like 1993’s “Much Ado About Nothing” or “Romeo + Juliet,” We’re also now seeing the rise of the Shakespeare spinoff — a film that’s suggested by Shakespeare plots, for example “10 Things I Hate About You” or “O.” It’s funny that Shakespearean works have this kind of appeal to teen audiences. It’s possible directors try to create a synergy with things that young people may be studying in school to entice them to come to cinema, as they might find the film more entertaining than just reading the text. It also depends on your definition. “Shakespeare in Love” was considered a Shakespeare film by some, because it incorporates “Romeo and Juliet” and “Twelfth Night” — that was a box office hit and won the Academy Award for Best Picture; it became big in the popular consciousness.

Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .

YCBA spotlights comedies

BY URVI NOPANY STAFF REPORTER In the first of two Shakespeareinspired exhibitions this spring, the Bard’s comedies take center stage at the Yale Center for British Art. Amid a flurry of Shakespearean events promoted by the Shakespeare at Yale project, the exhibit “‘While these visions did appear’: Shakespeare On Canvas,” opened Jan. 3 to showcase the playwright’s influence on the art world.

Curator Christina Smylitopoulos said that while the British Art Center has displayed Shakespearean art in the past, an exclusive focus on Shakespeare’s comedies distinguishes this exhibit from its predecessors: past exhibitions, she said, have often focused on the more serious histories and tragedies.

Smylitopoulos said she and her cocurator, Eleanor Hughes, chose the title “While these visions did appear” in reference to Puck’s last words to the audience in the comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

“Puck’s final lines from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream” break the fourth [wall] when he speaks directly to the audience,” Smylitopoulos said. The curators’ idea, she said, was that the visions of the artists captured in the works would reach out to the viewers in a similarly direct way.

Due to concerns for the conservation of certain art works, the 17-piece exhibit is relatively small compared to

past efforts, Hughes said. Because the show occupies the sunlit fourth-floor gallery, light-sensitive works on paper were deemed too fragile to be shown, and the curators opted for paintings instead.

Seen in historical perspective, [paintings] are a record of how others have seen or responded to Shakespeare.

LAWRENCE MANLEY English professor With its chronological progression, Smylitopoulos said the team intended for the exhibit to highlight the resurgence of interest in Shakespeare’s works in 18th-century England. In the mid1700s David Garrick, an actor and stage manager of the Drury Lane Theater, helped revive interest in Shakespearean theater, spurring painters to take up the subject as well. Shakespeare’s works inspired a national British school of painting in the 18th century, Smylitopoulos said, connecting connoisseurship and entrepreneurship as collectors used their acquisitions to make highquality prints that could be collected, displayed or published in new editions of Shakespeare’s works.

English professor Lawrence Manley said that he frequently uses paintings in his “Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances” class as a supplement to show students different interpretations of the Bard’s works.

“Seen in historical perspective, they are a record of how others have seen or responded to Shakespeare, and sometimes they are a guide to how Shakespeare was staged at different times,” Manley said. “And they are also examples of what further creations Shakespeare has inspired.”

David Kastan, one of the initial organizers of Shakespeare at Yale and a professor of English, said that the paintings also provide historical evidence of staging practices.

The exhibit culminates with a painting titled “Procession of Characters from Shakespeare’s Plays,” a work by an unknown artist featuring an array of Shakespearean characters. The piece, Smylitopoulos said, invites the viewer to guess the identity of each character, which struck her as a “fun” way to end an exhibit based on the Bard’s comedies.

The Center will host a second Shakespeare-inspired exhibit this spring, called “Making History: Antiquaries in Britain,” which features royal portraits and war artifacts fictionalized in Shakespeare’s historical works.

Contact URVI NOPANY at urvi.nopany@yale.edu .

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“Olivia, Maria and Malvolio from Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene iv” by Johann Heinrich Ramberg is one of 17 paintings on view at the YCBA.

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney celebrates his New Hampshire primary election win.

BY ALAN FRAM AND JENNIFER AGIESTA ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney performed strongly among conservatives and won decisive backing from voters worried about the economy and eager to vanquish President Barack Obama in this fall’s elections, propelling him to victory in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, exit polls of voters showed.

Almost across the board, the former governor of neighboring Massachusetts performed better in New Hampshire than he had last week in more deeply conservative Iowa, where he won by a whisker.

Romney was backed by 42 percent of New Hampshire conservatives, more than twice the share won by his nearest rival, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, and similar to the margin by which he prevailed among tea party supporters. It was almost double the portion of Iowa conservatives who had backed Romney.

New Hampshire moderates and liberals also flocked to Romney, with nearly 4 in 10 supporting him.

As promising as the evening was for the winner, two of the men battling to become the conservative alternative to him performed weakly with such voters in New Hampshire.

Just 15 percent of conservatives

backed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who finished a handful of votes behind Romney in Iowa last week. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has launched searing attacks against Romney, won 13 percent of the votes of conservatives. Both men also won just over 1 in 10 tea party backers.

Despite New Hamsphire’s relatively low unemployment rate of 5.2 percent, 6 in 10 voters Tuesday named the economy as the issue that most determined their vote. Among them, 45 percent favored Romney, more than double the number who supported Paul.

In Iowa, just a third worried about the economy had backed Romney.

By many measures, voters looking for a November winner said Romney was the way to go.

Given four choices, over one third said the key quality they sought in a candidate Tuesday was the ability to defeat Obama.

Of those voters, 62 percent picked Romney, bettering the 48 percent he received from them in Iowa.

Regardless of whom they voted for, just over half in New Hampshire named Romney as the GOP contender with the best shot at victory in November.

Further underscoring his wide appeal, about 6 in 10 voters Tuesday said they would be satisfied

with Romney as the party’s nominee. Majorities said they would be unhappy if Santorum, Paul or Gingrich were the nominee.

Overall, about 2 in 3 voters expressed satisfaction with the field of GOP contenders. In New Hampshire’s 1996 GOP contest, just over half of voters said they were content with the party’s candidates, while in 2000 more than 8 in 10 were satisfied.

As he did last week in finishing third in Iowa, Paul drew strength from voters under age 30 and lower-income people. He was also the strong preference for voters looking for a true conservative and a candidate with strong moral character, winning about 4 in 10 voters who were looking for each quality.

Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor, did best among tea party opponents — an ominous sign for a candidate in a party where that conservative bloc of voters wield strong influence. He also shared the lead with Romney among the 1 in 4 people seeking someone with the proper experience to be president.

The exit poll showed disappointments galore for Santorum, who had high hopes after his surprisingly strong Iowa finish.

Santorum won just small fractions of the votes of Catholics and working-class people, groups he has hoped to appeal to because of his own background.

Young adults down 9 drinks

BY MIKE STOBBE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — College-age drinkers average nine drinks when they get drunk, government health officials said Tuesday. That surprising statistic is part of a new report highlighting the dangers of binge drinking, which usually means four to five drinks at a time.

Overall, about 1 in 6 U.S. adults surveyed said they had binged on alcohol at least once in the previous month, though it was more than 1 in 4 for those ages 18 to 34.

And that’s likely an underestimate: Alcohol sales figures suggest people are buying a lot more alcohol than they say they are consuming. Health officials estimate that about half of the beer, wine and liquor consumed in the United States by adults each year is downed during binge drinking.

“I know this sounds astounding, but I think the numbers we’re reporting are really an underestimate,” said Dr. Robert Brewer, who leads the alcohol program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC report is based on telephone surveys last year of more than 450,000 adults.

They were asked about their alcohol drinking in the past

month, including the largest number of drinks they had at one time.

Binge drinking is generally defined as four drinks for women and five for men in a period of a few hours. Binge drinkers ages 18 to 24 reported nine drinks, or one more than the national average of eight drinks.

But those numbers are likely averages for all episodes of binge drinking, Brewer said, citing other studies.

I think the numbers we’re reporting are really an underestimate.

DR. ROBERT BREWER Head of alcohol program, Center for Disease Control and Prevention The number of drinks per binge went down with age, to less than six for those ages 65 and older.

Binge drinking may be considered socially acceptable — to many, a fun night out at the bar.

And many don’t see it as a sign of a serious drinking problem.

Indeed, experts say fewer than 20 percent of binge drinkers would be medically diagnosed

as alcoholics.

But health officials say binge drinking accounts for more than 40,000 deaths each year.

It contributes to problems like violence and drunk-driving accidents and longer-term issues like cancer, heart disease and liver failure.

It is possible that a round of binge drinking could lead to acute alcohol poisoning. But how many drinks at one sitting could kill you depends on many factors, including how big you are, what you consumed and how quickly you did it.

Other findings of the report: Binge drinking continues to be most common in men, people who have been to college, and those with incomes of $75,000 or more. Only about 4 percent of people 65 and older binge drink, far fewer than adults in other age groups. But they do it more often — five times a month, on average. Younger adults average closer to four episodes per month. The upper Midwest continues to report the highest prevalence of binge drinking. Wisconsin topped the list in 2010 with nearly 26 percent of adults saying they had at least one binge drinking episode in the previous month.

West Virginia, at just under 11 percent, was at the other end of the spectrum.

NEW YORK — Barricades surrounding a park that served as a camp for Occupy Wall Street protesters were removed Tuesday, allowing protesters to stream back in.

The atmosphere was celebratory but calm on Tuesday evening as about 300 protesters began filling New York City’s Zuccotti Park a couple of hours after the barricades were taken down and a day after a complaint about the barricades was filed with the city.

Protesters milled around, eating lasagna on paper plates and playing chess.

Security guards who were previously guarding the barricades stood off to the side, along with a handful of police officers. It was a minor victory for the protesters, who have complained about financial inequality in demonstrations that gained traction across the globe.

“Word spread pretty quickly, and we ran down here,” demonstrator Lauren DiGioia said.

“It’s hard to remember what it was like before the barricades were put up.”

Police spokesman Paul Browne said the NYPD and Brookfield Office Properties, the park’s owner, had been talking about removing the barriers last week. The decision was made to remove them Tuesday because officials felt they were no longer necessary, Browne said.

Brookfield spokeswoman Melissa Coley confirmed in an email that the barricades were taken down but declined to comment further. A Brookfield employee who refused to give his name told an Associated Press reporter: “The barriers are down, but the other

rules are the same.”

Some Occupy protesters planned to stay overnight, DiGioia said, but it was unclear whether they planned to use tents or sleeping bags, which have been banned from the lower Manhattan park since an early morning police raid evicted protesters Nov. 15.

One security guard told a group of protesters: “No sleeping bags allowed, either, OK, folks?”

Zuccotti Park regulations, stipulated by Brookfield, ban everything from erecting tents or tarps to lying down on benches. Those rules were not enforced until the police raid, and were only made public after protesters began occupying the park on Sept. 17. Until then, the only visible rules posted in the park forbade skateboarding, rollerblading and bicycling.

Protester Jeff Brewer said he tried to erect a tent but it was quickly taken down by security guards.

“I was still putting in the poles when they showed up,” Brewer said. “Our food is in, our library is up. I think it’s going to be a big celebration for us in the park right now.”

On Monday, civil rights groups filed a complaint with the city’s buildings department saying the barricades were a violation of city zoning law because they restricted public access to the space. The New York Civil Liberties Union commended the removal of the barricades in a statement late Tuesday.

“We’re pleased the city is finally giving the park back to the people,” said NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman. “We hope Zuccotti Park can now resume its rightful place as a center for meeting and protest in New York City.”

Since the eviction, members of the public had only been able to enter the public through two checkpoints at the park that were guarded by police officers or security personnel.

The granite plaza near the New York Stock Exchange is one of more than 500 “bonus plazas” in the city: privately owned public parks borne of a little-known compromise struck in 1961 between the city and developers. According to the compromise, in exchange for building a towering skyscraper, developers had to also construct a plaza that would provide “light and air” for passers-by. The bigger the plaza, the taller the building could be.

We’re pleased the city is finally giving the park back to the people.

DONNA LIEBERMAN Executive director, New York Civil Liberties Union

Virtually all bonus plazas are required to be open 24 hours a day, barring a safety issue.

They are governed by specific regulations in the zoning law.

For example, the law states that the layout of such plazas must promote public use and easy pedestrian circulation throughout the space.

The complaint accused the city of failing to enforce the law by allowing the barricades to exist. Buildings department spokesman Tony Sclafani said Monday that inspectors had found no problems at the park.

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8:00 PM Piano recital by Wen-Yin Chan. The Yale School of Music presents Chan, who has performed around the world, in a Doctor of Musical Arts recital. Free admission. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.

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BY NICHOLAS FANDOS STAFF WRITER Harvard Law School alumnus Joseph P. Kennedy III announced last week that he is considering a run for the Massachusetts congressional seat previously held by Barney Frank ’61-’62.

Kennedy, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy and the son of former Congressman Joseph Kennedy, would be the first in his family to run for public office since the 2009 death of his greatuncle, Edward M. Kennedy ’54’56.

“My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience—both my own and that of my family—in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges,” Kennedy said in a statement last week announcing his intentions to form an Congressional exploratory committee.

Kennedy could reach a decision to run as early as the end of

the month, a c c o rd i n g to former Boston City Co u n c i l o r Lawrence S. DiCara ’71.

Though the field for the Democratic HARVARD nomination remains wide open, DiCara said a Kennedy bid would likely discourage a number of potential candidates and set up a battle with Boston City Councilor Michael P. Ross.

“I think both those guys are very strong candidates,” DiCara said. “It could be a doozy of [a] fight.”

Kennedy, who is 31 years old, announced he would leave his position as Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County at the end of next week.

Frank announced he would not seek reelection in November after election forecasts predicted a dif-

ficult battle due to the redrawing of his district. The new district lines added 325,000 constituents—many of whom are Republican—and did not include New Bedford, an area that consistently voted for Frank.

“No one should think that because Barney occupied that district for so long that the next rep. will automatically fit (his) description,” DiCara said. “It’s not a district which automatically goes to the person who has the most degrees and is the farthest to the left.”

Though the political makeup of the district is significant, DiCara said that the packaging of the candidates—and the star power of the Kennedy name—will play an important factor in the race.

“It’s not all about who votes which way. It’s a lot about personality. Both Ross and Kennedy are very attractive, articulate, well spoken young men,” DiCara said.

In addition to resigning from the district attorney’s office, Kennedy has made plans to move from

his mother’s home in Cambridge, where he currently resides, to an apartment in Newton later next month in order to reside within the district in which he will run, according to the Boston Globe.

Though Kennedy has never held elected office, this is not his first foray into politics. He served as the co-chairman of his Edward Kennedy’s final campaign in 2006 and considered running last year when Congressman William D. Delahunt retired.

“The lack of common sense and fairness in Washington is a byproduct of the partisan gridlock that has turned obstruction into victory. Americans are better than that,” Kennedy said in a statement last week.

Kennedy has emphasized his record of public service.

After graduating from Stanford, Kennedy served a two-year stint in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. While a student at Harvard Law School, Kennedy volunteered in the Law School’s legal aid office.

T H E C O R N E L L D A I LY S U N

Business school dean named

BY LIZ CAMUTI STAFF WRITER As Cornell’s business program looks to collaborate with the University’s new NYC tech campus, President David Skorton announced Monday that Soumitra Dutta, an expert in international business and computer science, will serve as the eleventh dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.

When his term begins on July 1, Dutta — who currently teaches at INSEAD in Fontainebluea, France — will become the first major business school dean in the United States appointed from an academic institution outside the country, the University said. In addition to teaching at INSEAD, Dutta is the founder and faculty director of a media and technology innovation lab at the French university.

He will succeed Dean Joseph Thomas, who will return to teaching and research at the Johnson School after completing his fiveyear term.

Dutta’s experience and education in technology innovation will be of particular importance

to Cornell as it prepares to launch its new applied sciences campus in New York City, according to the UniverCORNELL sity.

In an interview with The Sun on Monday, Dutta said he anticipates that the Johnson School will work on collaborative projects with Cornell’s new NYC campus. In this partnership, the business school will focus on computer science and information science, two areas in which Dutta said “Cornell already has tremendous strengths.”

“The new New York City campus is not just about technology, but technology applied to business and to innovation,” Dutta said.

“The Johnson School will certainly be playing a role in collaborative programs with the College of Engineering and the computer science department … My research and education are nicely aligned with the goals of both schools.”

The Johnson School will offer graduate degrees on the new NYC campus, including joint degrees with applied science programs.

Johnson School students based in Ithaca will also have an opportunity to participate in programs in New York City, and some Johnson faculty may work full-time at the new campus, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Dutta said he was offered the position days before the tech campus announcement.

In a press release, Skorton said that Dutta is a “natural fit” for the Johnson School’s increasingly global outlook. “[Dutta] has expertise in new and emerging media, he has studied the conditions that promote innovation and he has extensive experience on the international stage,” Skorton said. “Johnson students, Cornellians who take courses at Johnson and, in the very near future, aspiring entrepreneurs at our new tech campus in New York City will benefit from this appointment.”

Dutta said he hoped that, as dean, he will be able to spread the Johnson School’s international impact through enhanced distance

learning technology. He added he hopes to prepare students for an increasingly global business world.

“I am well acquainted with different cultural groups and the business trends in these countries,” Dutta said. “I hope to utilize this knowledge to enhance the global impact of the Johnson School.”

Dutta has served as a visiting professor in the Haas School at UC Berkeley, Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford and Judge School at the University of Cambridge in England. Additionally, he has consulted governments and international organizations about their innovation policies and national information, according to a University press release.

He has lived and worked in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and has worked as an engineer with General Electric in the U.S. and Schlumberger, the world’s largest oilfield services company, in Japan.

INSEAD, where Dutta currently teaches, is considered one of the top-ranked graduate business schools in the world. It has campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.

THE DARTMOUTH

Occupy Dartmouth disbands

BY SASHA DUDDING STAFF WRITER Due to the onset of Hanover’s harsh winter, Occupy Dartmouth dismantled its encampment outside of the Collis Center on Saturday, after which its members marched their tent around campus. As Occupy groups contend with the changing weather, the movement — on campus and nationwide — remains in the early stages of planning its future.

The now-vacant site on the corner of Main Street had been occupied by the local branch of the Occupy Wall Street movement since Oct. 13. Protestors who filled the tent during Fall term and the winter interim said the dropping temperature, which dipped below zero in the days before the site was dismantled, forced them to abandon their outdoor location.

Occupy Dartmouth has begun a “new phase,” according to Nathan Gusdorf ’12, who has been involved with the group since its inception.

“There’s the possibility of an indoor occupation somewhere,” Gusdorf said.

The decision to disassemble was made at the beginning of Winter term by the students involved, and College administrators did not play a role in the decision, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College.

Organization members cited several motivating factors that influenced their decision.

“We realized that between busy

schedules and the extreme cold, it would be logistically difficult,” Gusdorf said.

The cold w e a t h e r DARTMOUTH affected not just the protestors inside the tent, but the number of visitors the group reached, according to Stewart Towle ’12.

“We were finding at the beginning of the term that no one wanted to stop by,” Towle said. “There are a lot of conversations that need to happen, and they’re more likely to happen if they happen inside.”

Alison Helzer ’14 said that the tent space had ceased “serving the purpose” for which it was intended as a result of the extreme temperatures.

Relocating to an indoor setting would provide a more welcoming and accessible environment, Anna Winham ’14 said.

“I think there may be more people who, even if they don’t want to join, will come up to us and engage us in dialogue,” she said.

Members said they hope a new location will better enable them to address some of the logistical goals of the occupation, such as increasing student body involvement, raising awareness about group events and coordinating the schedules of group members. Composing a schedule so that the tent was always occupied by at least one

protestor sometimes became difficult and became a large time commitment for many group members, according to Lily Brown ’15.

Several members said they want to stay involved with the movement and its efforts throughout the year. The group’s winter plans include holding daily meetings in Novack Cafe to discuss goals and development and to “bring these issues to the rest of campus,” Winham said.

Upcoming events may include teach-ins, marches, demonstrations and changes in physical locations, according to Gusdorf.

“Temporarily, there may be a lull in activity,” Gusdorf said. “We want to let people know we’re still here.”

While much of the logistical planning remains “up in the air,” the group will continue to discuss its new campaigns, Towle said.

The group may also begin to focus on issues such as the College’s investments, labor practices and apparel sourcing, according to Gusdorf.

Students involved with Occupy Dartmouth have continued to communicate with local groups such as Occupy the Upper Valley to remain connected to the broader movement.

“Politics goes beyond the tent,” Gusdorf said.

Following the removal of the tent, some students walking by the empty site seemed pleased, while others appeared disappointed, according to Occupy Dartmouth

member Deanna Portero ’12.

Members said they hope the dismantled site will not lead students to believe the group has disbanded.

“I really hope the student body stays aware of the Occupy movement in general and of Occupy Dartmouth,” Helzer said. “I hope they don’t think that because the tent is gone, we’ve given up.”

While the group has held onto its tent and may use it for temporary demonstrations, a selection of its posters and other items have been donated to the Rauner Special Collections Library as “relics,” according to Gusdorf.

Upon notifying the College of its decision to leave its former location, members of the group “indicated that they would be returning” to the area outside of Collis in the spring, according to Director of Safety and Security and College Proctor Harry Kinne.

Group members said they remain ambivalent about a renewed physical presence and will wait to see how the term progresses.

“If this ends up being less effective, maybe we’d go back to an encampment,” Allison Puglisi ’15 said.

The members of Occupy Dartmouth are confident the movement will remain strong during the upcoming weeks.

“We’re still occupying,” Gusdorf said. “That’s the kind of thing that doesn’t change just because it gets cold.”

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS SOUMITRA DUTTA Soumitra Dutta is a businessman, author and expert in international affairs who is currently the Roland Berger chaired professor of business and technology at INSEAD.

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SPORTS

Sports IQ: In basketball, what is the “Big Dance?”

The Big Dance is another name for the March tournament the NCAA uses to determine the national champion every year. The Ivy League champion gets an automatic berth in the tournament. Cornell made it to the round of 16 as recently as 2010.

Aid broadens recruiting appeal ation where just going back to 40 or 50 years ago when you’re just seeing entitled kids being able to access an Ivy education. That’s why you see such a diverse global campus here.”

Despite these financial aid policies, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said the admissions office continues to address recruited athletes in the same way it has in the past — by weighing the multiple facets of their applications.

“When a Yale head coach supports a recruit in the admissions process, our job is to evaluate to the

FINANCIAL AID FROM PAGE 14 of these recruits have the option of accepting athletic scholarships from schools in their home countries, Talbott said, but the 12 international players on his current roster all receive “some sort of financial aid package,” he added.

Talbott said the policy has helped Yale cultivate a diverse athletic community.

“I think it’s great to see what Yale’s done,” Talbott said. “It’s key, otherwise you’re really put in a situ-

best of our ability whether the student will be successful academically at Yale and also make a contribution overall to the campus community,” Brenzel said in an email.

Fifty-seven percent of Yale undergraduates received financial aid in the 2010-’11 academic year.

Contact ANDREW GIAMBRONE AND MARIA GUARDADO at andrew.giambrone@yale.edu and maria. guardado .

BY THE NUMBERS UNIVERSITY FINANCES 33 57 117 mil

The number of varsity sports teams at Yale.

The percentage of all Yale students who are receiving financial aid for the 2011-’12 academic year.

The number of dollars estimated in the financial aid budget.

Ivy teams climb ranks BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 Several Ivy League standouts are among the top in the nation in key statistical categories. Penn’s star senior point guard Zack Rosen is 26th nationally with 19.4 points per game, tied for 20th with 6.1 assists per game, and third in the nation with a .924 freethrow percentage.

Yale forward Greg Mangano ’12 ranks 19th in the country in scoring with 19.9 points per game and 14th with 10.6 rebounds per game. Bulldog guard Austin Morgan ’13 ranks just behind Rosen at fourth with a .923 percentage from the charity stripe. Eli Captain Reggie Willhite ’12 is 22nd in the nation with 2.36 steals per game.

This trio of Bulldogs has helped Yale’s team to 10 victories in its nonconference schedule for the first time since the 2001-2002 season.

It is unclear what factors have contributed to Ivy League basketball’s recent resurgence. A Dec. 22 New York Times article by Bill Pennington titled “Financial Aid Changes Game as Ivy Sports Teams Flourish” pointed to the increased availability of financial aid to students in the last decade as the reason that the Ivy League has become more competitive nationally. Yale head coach James Jones said that he is uncertain about the effect of financial aid on basketball recruiting.

“The numbers we recruit are so small, [it is] difficult to say,” Jones said.

“I didn’t feel that financial aid packages [affected recruiting] … Maybe some kids.” Jones added that his main focus when recruiting is to “recruit outstanding student-athletes.”

Jones said the nature of recruiting is different in the Ivy League, as the coaches do more research — checking SAT scores, GPAs and class rankings — to ensure that the prospective recruit is academically qualified to attend the school before he pursues a student further.

Current Boston University head coach and former Columbia head coach from 2003-’10 Joe Jones agreed with his older brother James that recruiting is different in the Ivy League, but he added that financial aid is an important factor.

“I always had to recruit with money in mind,” Joe Jones said. “When I was [at Columbia] I would’ve certainly

IVY LEAGUE SUCCESSES TOP 25

The Ivy League’s record against teams ranked in the top 25 during non-conference play was 1–6.

HARVARD WIN

Harvard beat the then No. 20 Florida State University 46–41 on Nov. 25. the Crimson went on to climb as high as No. 21 in the national rankings.

TIGERS TRIUMPH

Princeton downed FSU 75–73 in triple overtime on Dec. 30. loved to [have scholarships].”

In his current coaching position at BU, a school that awards athletic scholarships, Jones said money is a concern only when his recruits are also being courted by members of the Ivy League.

In such cases, Jones said he hopes the school’s package cannot sway his potential Terriers.

“I’d be lying to you that I wasn’t hoping the package would come in [too expensive],” he said regarding financial aid offerings from Ancient Eight schools battling him for recruits.

The younger Jones agreed with his brother James that the Ivy League has a limited spectrum of recruits to choose from because of Ivy academic standards.

Joe Jones offered another way the Ivy League could enhance its national reputation — a conference tournament.

The Ancient Eight remains the last Division I basketball conference without a conference tournament to determine which team is awarded the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

“That would really add to the experience for the student-athlete,” Jones said.

The leading Ivy League school from the regular season currently receives the League’s automatic bid.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .

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Center Greg Mangano ’12 ranks 19th in the country in scoring at 19.9 points per game and 14th in rebounds with 10.6 per game.

The coaching standard COACHING FROM PAGE 14 to make a run.

If you’ve ever been in the weight room while the football team is running an off-season workout, you know that those guys don’t work to end up in the middle of the pack. Early morning runs, grueling stair workouts, bench presses and squats ten sets at a time: Yale football works to win. Nobody taking the field for the Bulldogs shies away from high expectations.

BEYOND THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING HIS DEPARTURE, TOM WILLIAMS JUST DIDN’T WIN So neither should those who support them, officially and unofficially. If stability is a product of success, instabil-

ity should be a product of a lack of it. And in all fairness, keeping in mind the expectations Yale football has earned over the years, those Ivy League titles and wins over Harvard are becoming far too rare. We all know the stats, and there’s no point in rehashing, but it’s a fact that in recent years, Yale football has simply not been as successful as its players and alumni have a right to hope it would be.

Independent of that lack of success on the field (never entirely the fault of a coaching staff), coach Williams simply had to go because of his missteps off of it. He made a mistake, one made more regrettable by the fact that he took the helm of the Yale football program with an energy, enthusiasm and respect for the community and tradition that could have made him a fixture in the Yale athletic world.

He also worked hard to revamp Yale football. Williams tried to structure a schedule that would allow his players the full gamut of the Yale experience, unhindered by afternoon practices or workouts that could prevent them from taking classes or participating in other activi-

ties. Even faced with the challenges of Ivy League recruiting, Williams drew talent to the Yale environment he so respected.

Even from the outside looking in, I can see there’s no shortage of talent and potential on the current Yale roster.

Off the field, the legacy of integrity also remains intact: for all the issues surrounding their coach and their frustrations against Harvard, football players refused to break ranks and articulate any negatives about their football family. In that way, the Yale football tradition remains admirably strong.

But for all that, and beyond the unfortunate circumstances around his eventual departure, Williams simply didn’t win.

The Bulldogs didn’t beat Harvard or win an Ivy League title, and that’s just not good enough.

Again, to attribute that entirely to a coaching staff is to ignore a multitude of factors — big injuries, near misses and even luck.

But the Yale community shows no lack of support if it voices the same opinion the Bulldogs themselves use as motivation to work through the offseason: recent years have been disap-

pointing.

This is Yale football. All involved deserve more. Whoever comes in to take the reins inherits a unique tradition, a talented and hard-working team and, quite frankly, a frustrated Yale football family. I reiterate, I’m far from a football insider, and largely because of the respect players, coaches and administrators have for their program and tradition, it’d be tough to get anyone who is to vocalize those frustrations. But they’re there, and this new coach will be expected to allay them. He could do worse than to bring the kind of enthusiasm Williams did, and he certainly shouldn’t look to completely overhaul the mindset of a team that has prioritized winning for over a century. He doesn’t need drastic change. What he needs to do is win. Period. And he needs to understand that winning is the standard. He, Yale football players past and present, and fans deserve that much.

Contact CHELSEA JANES at chelsea.janes@yale.edu .

Selig to be offered extension

BY RONALD BLUM ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Baseball owners say Commissioner Bud Selig will be offered a contract extension at this week’s meetings in Phoenix.

ESPN.com first reported that Selig will be offered an additional term when owners meet Wednesday and Thursday in Scottsdale, Ariz. Two owners, speaking on condition of anonymity so as not to attract criticism from Selig, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that a new term will be proposed.

Owners also intend to approve the completion of the sale of the San Diego Padres from John Moores to Jeff Moorad Selig has been commissioner since September 1992 and would surpass Kenesaw Mountain Landis for longest tenure in September 2016. Selig repeatedly has said he intends to retire in December but also admits almost no one believes him.

Selig, who turns 78 in July,

became acting commissioner in September 1992, when clubs forced out Fay Vincent. After saying he wouldn’t take the job, Selig was elected to a five-year term as permanent commissioner in 1998 and gave up running the Milwaukee Brewers, the team he bought in 1970 and his family sold in 2005.

Owners voted in November 2001 to extend his term through 2006, then voted in August 2004 to extend it through 2009.

Although he first said in 2006 that he intended to retire at the end of that term, in January 2008 he accepted an extension through 2012.

Before Game 7 of the World Series in October, Selig again said he planned to leave this year but admitted few thought he would. Sitting in the front row of the news conference room, Sue Selig nodded her head.

“Starting with my wife, I’m happy or sad to say, but she’s somewhat skeptical,” he said.

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YALE ON YES WINTER PACKAGE ANNOUNCED Yale announced on Tuesday that both its men’s and women’s basketball teams will be showcased on the YES Network this season. The women will play Dartmouth on TV on Feb. 17, and the men will be televised against Columbia a week later.

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BRIAN O’NEILL ’12 ECAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK O’Neill took home the league’s weekly honor after a stretch of three games in which he scored six goals and added two assits. The Hobey Baker candidate, who leads the Elis in points, earned most of those points with a four-goal effort against Bentley Jan. 1.

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“I think we had a harder time recruiting middleclass kids because most couldn’t afford [Yale].”

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Financial aid draws recruits

BY ANDREW GIAMBRONE AND MARIA GUARDADO STAFF REPORTERS As the number of Yale students eligible for financial aid has risen in recent years, so has the pool of potential athletic recruits.

Yale, like all Ivy League schools, does not award athletic scholarships. But the University’s generous financial aid policies have made Yale more accessible to student athletes from middle-income families. Six Yale coaches interviewed said larger financial aid awards have contributed to an increase in the economic diversity of teams on campus. “[Yale’s financial aid policies] have broadened the scope of kids we can recruit,” men’s basketball head coach James Jones said.

“There was a time when it was more difficult for kids to be able to come to an Ivy League school, [but] now it’s become more affordable for athletes and everybody.”

If your family isn’t extremely rich, you can pretty much go here for a great discount, so it’s almost like a scholarship in itself.”

BRIAN O’NEILL ’12 Captain, men’s hockey Jones added that while the policy has widened the pool of potential recruits, he has not noticed a significant change in the athletic abilities of his players.

Ivy League schools often lose top recruits to rival institutions that offer full athletic scholarships because of cost and athletic reputation, said Andrew McNeill, senior associate director of college counseling at the Taft School, a boarding school in Watertown, Conn.

But athletes and nonathletes alike are drawn to “no-loan” and need-based financial aid policies like Yale’s, he said.

According to the coaches interviewed, Yale struggled to recruit students from middle-class backgrounds before Yale’s range of available financial aid awards expanded in recent years.

Most recently, Yale increased its financial aid budget by 10 perent for the 2011-’12 academic year to $117 million, up from $108 million in the previous year. In addition, the University raised the annual income below which parents are not asked to contribute to their child’s education from $60,000 to $65,000.

Three of five athletes interviewed said the University’s financial aid policies factored into their decisions to attend Yale instead of schools that offered them athletic scholarship.

Brian O’Neill ’12, captain of the men’s hockey team, said many of his teammates would not have considered Yale without the possibility of receiving financial aid. He added that his financial aid award enabled him to play for Yale and turn down scholarship offers.

“If your family isn’t extremely rich you can pretty much go here for a great discount, so it’s almost like a scholarship in itself,” O’Neill said. “Getting a full scholarship is really nice at another school, but the financial aid is very generous here, and so that helps with the decision process.”

Meanwhile, Mollie Rogers ’15, an outside hitter on the women’s volleyball team who does not receive financial aid, said her athlete friends at Yale and other Ivies find it “very comforting to know that they will be able to get the money they need to afford college.”

Rudy Meredith, head coach of women’s soccer, said many middle-class students simply did not have the means to pay for a Yale education in the past, but now he expects them to consider attending.

“I think we had a harder time recruiting middle-class kids because most of [them] couldn’t afford [Yale], so they were taking the scholarships to the other schools,” Meredith said. “It’s a big difference in the sense that now we have a chance to recruit those middle-class kids, whereas before we never even had a chance.”

David Talbott, head coach of men’s and women’s squash, said the University’s financial aid policies have allowed more international squash recruits to enroll. Many TAO TAO HOLMES/STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

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Ivy teams look sharp

CHELSEA JANES

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER

Just win

BY CHELSEA JANES STAFF COLUMNIST With the resignation of former head football coach Tom Williams in late December, Yale saw the departure of just its third football coach since 1965. Stability is a rare quality among Division I college football programs, but it is a product of Yale’s success in recent decades — 12 Ivy League titles, 10 of them in the 31-year tenure of legend Carm Cozza, and two more during Jack Siedlecki’s 11-year reign.

Yet if Cozza and Siedlecki’s success was not inevitable, it was in keeping with the tradition Yale football established since its inception in 1872. Gridiron glory in New Haven became a perennial expectation thanks to 27 national championships — five more than the University of Michigan and six more than the University of Notre Dame — two of the first three Heisman Trophy winners and a reputation for sportsmanship and honor.

That lasting expectation is more than the rumblings of a restless Yale fan base, unin-

formed opinions voiced from outside the program or people (myself included) who will never have to back their thoughts up in a coach’s game plan or on the field. Opinions of all kinds surround every team, but it seems to me high expectations are an honor — the product of years of tradition that serve as evidence to the kind of program Yale football can be.

THE NEXT YALE FOOTBALL COACH HAS TO WIN. PERIOD. Ce r ta i n ly, t i m e s h ave changed. Thanks to Ivy League regulations limiting post-season play, national championships for the Bulldogs are out of the question. But Ivy League titles are not, and Yale’s current team has the on-field personnel SEE COACHING PAGE 13

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Captain Reggie Willhite ’12 is ranked 22nd in the nation in steals.

Experts may not be picking an Ivy League team to win the national titel in March, but Ancient Eight basketball has garnered its fair share of national attention recently.

Not considered a powerhouse basketball conference, the Ivy League has had a growing trend of success in the past few years. In 2010, Cornell made a splash at the NCAA Tournament. The Big Red reached the Sweet 16 and ended the season ranked No. 17 in the country. After that season, the Golden State Warriors of the NBA signed Harvard guard Jeremy Lin as an undrafted free agent. Lin’s three-minute appearance in the Warrior’s 109–91 victory of the Los Angeles Clippers on Oct. 29, 2010 marked the first time that an Ivy Leaguer played in the NBA since former Yale center Chris Dudley ’87 retired in 2003. Last year Harvard received an invitation to the 2011 National Invitation Tournament, but the Crimson fell to Oklahoma State 71-54.

This year, Harvard has garnered attention with its presence in the national polls. Crimson head coach Tommy Amaker’s squad is currently No. 25 on the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. Harvard first cracked the polls Dec. 5 and has remained on the Coaches poll since Dec. 19. Harvard rose as high as No. 21 (No. 22 in Associated Press Top 25) on Jan. 2. Although the Crimson are only the second Ancient Eight team to appear in the polls since the end of the 1997-1998 season, and no Ivy League school has ever claimed the NCAA title, the success of the league is of no surprise to coaches throughout the country.

After Wake Forest pulled out a 72–71 victory over Yale Dec. 29, Demon Deacons head coach Jeff Bzdelik said he had respect for the Ivy League even before the close matchup.

“I think the Ivy League is a great league,” Bzdelik said. “I’ve been in the business a long time …

Anybody who puts the jersey on at this level can play.”

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THE NUMBER OF YEARS THAT HAVE PASSED SINCE THE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM LAST WON 10 GAMES DURING NON-CONFERENCE PLAY. The Elis took down St. Joseph’s of Long Island on Sunday to cap a 10–4 record heading into their Ivy opener against Brown.