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Ivies mull alcohol culture
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Winning where it counts.
In a dramatic wine-tasting showdown in New York, five Yale Law students reinforced Yale’s dominance in all things alcohol, claiming the U.S. Intercollegiate Bordeaux tasting championships. The five-member team beat out competitors from Harvard, Stanford and Columbia to win the crown, proving that when it comes to wine, nobody messes with Yale. Aside from eternal glory, the champions also won a free trip to the Château Lafite Rothschild wine estate in France, where they will compete against teams from the U.K., France and China. Team Yale, represent!
Hungry? Chipotle is coming to town. The popular Mexican grill will open next Tuesday, Jan. 29, and is already poised to fill many late-night study breaks with burritos and guacamole. Another side effect? Looks like we’ll be seeing a lot more burrito costumes this Halloween. Eat to live, not live to eat.
Or at least learn to cook. Yale Dining is launching “Reality Bites,” a series of activities designed to help members of the senior class transition to the real world. Interested? The events include “Cooking 101,” “Wine and Meal Pairing,” “Mixology,” “Formal/Business Etiquette” and “Cooking Locally/In Season.” Aleksey Vayner ’07, who
became an Internet celebrity for his video resume entitled “Impossible is Nothing,” has reportedly died in New York. The cause of death is still to be determined. His memorial service is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 26, in New York.
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BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER This fall, Ivy League institutions simultaneously debuted new student life policies and programs intended to bolster alcohol safety on college campuses. Seven of eight Ivy League universities — Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard — have all rolled out new alcohol-related
policies since last August, with a series of major regulation changes occurring at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. Administrators and students said they have noticed a shift away from direct disciplinary approaches toward more creative educational programs, but students at four schools said the recent policies have targeted alcohol usage at the expense of Greek life. Administrators said the recent changes do not stem from collab-
orative efforts between the universities, but reflect growing concerns nationwide over safe drinking practices. “We are in a wave where many universities are trying to curb highrisk drinking,” said Yale Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Affairs Melanie Boyd ’90. “There is a lot of research that high-risk drinking has risen in recent years.”
After 20 years in office, John DeStefano Jr., New Haven’s longest-serving mayor, will face fierce competition to hold onto his post this November — Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, an environmental consultant and two-time East Rock alderman, has announced his candidacy for the job. The chair of the board’s City Services and Environmental Policy Committee and a member of the Finance and Legislation committees, Elicker will officially announce his candidacy tonight at 7 p.m. at Manjares, a coffee shop on Whalley Avenue. At the event, Elicker will give a speech to explain his platform, he said, adding that he chose the local café because he thought the location set the campaign’s tone as “accessible and open to people.” Additionally, he said
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Bystander training introduced BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER All sophomores will be required to complete a 75-minute bystander intervention training as part of an ongoing effort to improve the campus sexual climate, according to a Wednesday email to the class of 2015 from Yale College Dean
Mary Miller and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd ’90. Over 90 workshop sessions on strategies for preventing sexual misconduct as a third party will be held from Jan. 31 to Feb. 3. The program will be run in small groups of 14 or 15 students, and each group will be led by student communi-
cation and consent educators in an effort to establish a conversational setting, Boyd said. The curriculum of the training consists of a video showing a hypothetically harmful scenario, an overview of the ideas behind bystander intervention and group discussions about applicable situations. “This is a fairly new area in
sexual violence prevention,” Boyd told the News. “Preliminary research at other universities is showing that bystander intervention training can produce dramatic drops of sexual violence on campus, as well as improving the climate overall.” In contrast to traditional prevention programs that target potential victims or perpe-
trators, bystander intervention will teach students methods to respond to instances of sexual misconduct as third-party community members, Boyd said. Sexual assault tends to unfold through fairly standardized two-person interactions, according to studies, but SEE WORKSHOPS PAGE 4
Based on graduate student reviews, the Yale School of
Management has been ranked 16th in the nation. SOM received high marks in several categories, including second place for student diversity and third place for faculty accessibility and support. It’s the season of love. For
Students share apps with Yale-NUS
freshmen — at least for those interested in attending Freshman Screw, which will be held on Feb. 2 and titled “The Great Gatsby: Drop it Like F. Scott,” or participating in freshman speed dating. Love is in the air! Just pull out your pearls and flapper dresses, and get ready to party like it’s the Roaring ’20s.
BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER
Madam President? Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter has become the people’s choice for Princeton’s next president, based on suggestions gathered online. Slaughter, who gained national attention for her article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” won with roughly 32 percent of the vote. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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Yale-NUS has accepted its first round of applications, which will form its class of 2017. BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA AND AMY WANG STAFF REPORTERS Over 9,200 applicants to the Yale College class of 2017 chose to submit their applications to Yale-NUS as well, competing for spots in the Singaporean college’s inaugural class.
Roughly one-third of the total 29,970 applications Yale received this year will be independently evaluated by the Yale-NUS Admissions Office. Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said his team of admissions officers will not SEE YALE-NUS PAGE 4
Last semester, the first class of seniors in the newly created Global Affairs major completed their senior capstone projects, a hallmark of the major that students ultimately gave mixed reviews. Students in the class of 2013 — the first to graduate from the Global Affairs program — finished projects designed to serve as a bridge between students’ academic work and realworld policy experience, a theme emphasized throughout the major. The capstone projects, which take the place of the senior essay or project requirements typical of other majors, were executed for clients including the World Bank, the U.S. Treasury and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Clients and faculty interviewed said they were pleased with the results of the project, though students said experiences varied across the different capstone groups. “We sought out projects with a strong research component that would feel comfortable to the students and also give them an opportunity to apply the academic skills they have developed at Yale to real-world policy challenges,” Director of Undergraduate Studies Sean Smith said. “One of the comments we heard more than once from clients was how impressed they were with the depth of analysis that translated into specific policy
recommendations.” At the end of their junior years, students in the major ranked their preference for the six capstones projects, which were developed by Smith and the clients. Eight to 10 students were selected to collaborate on each project under the guidance of two faculty members with expertise in the subject matter. Though three projects focused on themes in the major’s international security track and three emphasized concepts in the international development track, students could choose any of the six regardless of their concentration. Smith said all students were placed in one of their top two choices.
We sought out projects that would give [students] an opportunity to apply their academic skills … to realworld policy challenges. SEAN SMITH Director of undergraduate studies, Global Affairs Smith said organizing the first round of capstones was challenging because most organizations had not worked with students in an academic SEE GLOBAL AFFAIRS PAGE 6
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Thanks for the citizenship It will take more than gun control GUEST COLUMNIST IKE LEE
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said an oath, too, a few days before the president did, and his oath, as he himself pointed out, was pretty similar to mine, to the oath “taken each time … an immigrant realizes [his] dream.” By this, he meant the oath taken when an immigrant becomes an American citizen. I took mine last Friday, in a group naturalization ceremony in Texas. The anthem was sung. Our allegiance was pledged. Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” was played, its chorus (“I’m proud to be an A-me-ri-CAN”) croaking over the speakers. Certificates were awarded, pictures were taken and throughout we were reminded — by immigration officers, by the judge who administered our oaths, by Obama in a video message — that we had finally fulfilled our “dream.” How odd. I can’t speak for the other 120 newly minted Americans who sat through that ceremony with me, but when I shut my eyes that night, Lee Greenwood didn’t feature in the soundtrack. I find it curious that the word “dream” has become so pervasive in the rhetoric surrounding immigration (e.g., the DREAM Act). It’s a neat word, which conjures images of freshly arrived immigrants gazing upward at wondrous America, but it’s also problematic: It implies that, by letting immigrants in — that is, by letting them realize their supposed dream — Americans are doing them a favor. To be sure, immigration happens because foreigners would rather live in this country than stay in their own, but the logic of the dream rhetoric obscures the fact that America has as much, if not more, to gain from their decision to pack up and migrate. This is especially true in the case of naturalized citizens, whose average wages are a full $4,500, or 11.5 percent, higher than those of natural-born citizens, according to a study from the University of Southern California published in December. In other words, naturalized citizens, on average, have more disposable income and pay more in taxes. What’s more, applying for citizenship (and visas and green cards, for that matter) is a tedious bureaucratic process, and the sort of motivation that propels immigrants past all the paperwork and into this country often translates into entrepreneurship. The stereotype of the immigrant-owned bodega or dry cleaner or nail salon is a testament to that fact, as is the list of immigrants whose names are attached to wellknown American institutions. To name a few: Andrew Carnegie, Scotland; Joseph Pulitzer, Hungary; Marcus Goldman
(as in Goldman Sachs), Germany. Or how about this: Sergey Brin, half of the duo that invented oogle, TEO SOARES Gmoved to the United Traduções States from Russia at age 6. And along with the Carnegies and the Brins, immigration also attracts hordes of new workers, whose presence here benefits Americans. One Cato study from 2009 found that legalization of low-skilled immigrants could add $180 billion to the gross national product of the United States — that is, U.S. nationals would themselves be $180 billion richer. Conversely, the study showed that stricter border security could take $80 billion out of American pockets. But that’s Cato, and their findings are not for everyone. Fine. Consider this: Immigration is itself an American act. Leaving your country to pursue happiness in a foreign land requires a certain gung-honess that is quintessentially American. Saying that America is a land of immigrants doesn’t mean that it’s a melting pot of nationalities (though it’s that, too — I wonder if it ever occurs to anti-immigration advocates that they probably wouldn’t be around if, instead of “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,” the plaque on the Statue of Liberty read, “Piss off”), but it means that America is a land made up of people who will go to great lengths to pursue their dreams. Which is not, obviously, the same as saying that their dreams are fulfilled when they place their right hands over their hearts and pledge their allegiance to the American flag. Their dreams are bigger, bolder, sometimes Googlesized. To assume otherwise is problematic because it implies that immigrants have more to gain from this country than the other way around. It’s not a leap to say that this mentality leads to bad policy. The dream rhetoric casts immigration as charity work, and it’s hard to be charitable when Americans at home are hurting. If, as Obama said, “Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity,” he would be better served finding a vocabulary that highlights for America the benefits of welcoming these striving immigrants.
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so ingrained in our nation’s history and culture without considering the unintended consequences of doing so. Perhaps what I’m suggesting here is too idealistic. Perhaps the reason why we only tend to call for gun control measures is because that’s the easiest solution, most likely to materialize above all else. Sure, interest groups and lobbying pose harsh obstacles to passing reform, but tackling more complicated social problems may be an even more daunting challenge. Some would say forcing cultural change is next to impossible, but when complacency becomes deadly, we must act. Let’s stop focusing all our energy on clamoring for our lawmakers to do something. Laws and policy changes can only go so far; it’s we, the people, who have the power and responsibility to push for social reforms, in tandem with our gun control cries. This is a narrative the media has forgotten, but we cannot. It will certainly be harder than what we have been doing, but why not try? IKE LEE is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at ike.lee@yale.edu .
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hen teaching undergrads, organizing your information and managing your presentation are surprisingly important. Here are a few items I’ve seen work well. Make your lessons sticky. Chip and Dan Heath — authors of The New York Times No. 1 bestseller “Switch” and the wildly popular “Made to Stick” — wrote a 12-page article about how to make your lessons stay in our heads as securely as the ABCs. The article is well-worth a read if you’re thinking of restructuring your lesson plans toward permanent learning. Two accounting professors, for instance, helped students retain information simply by framing the concepts of their lessons in the context of a story. Assign reading that you actually expect to get done. Courses that are not “Constitutional Law,” yet somehow have assigned 500 pages each week, tend to see a lot of students BSing. While some might contend
BS-ing is a valuable skill to master, I doubt any professor wants to lead that discussion; being a student in such seminars is intolerable enough. Assign reading responses. When we have been forced to think critically about a piece of writing and come up with a few thoughtful points, not only will we have something to draw upon in discussion, but we will remember your readings much better for having processed them. At the very least, we will not be able to get away with reading just the introduction and conclusion. If students haven’t done the reading, reinforce to us that this isn’t acceptable. One winning professor, tired of an unproductive conversation, announced that he would go to the bathroom and expected to see, upon returning, only students who had actually done the reading. Ideas flow more when we’re reminded that this course truly is a priority and that the reading
is essential. When leading a discussion, don’t play ping-pong. That is, don’t focus serially on one student at a time — it should not always come back to you. Aim to have students debating and discussing with one another. How do you accomplish that? Ask an interesting and specific question that can have more than one correct answer. If you ask us to summarize the text we were supposed to have read, not only will the discussion fall flat, but we will not do the reading in future weeks because we know we will have SparkNotes coming straight from the horse’s mouth in class. If you ask us how we “felt about the reading,” the discussion is yet again likely to flounder as students wonder whether they’re supposed to answer that they were moved to tears when in truth they were tears of boredom. Also, be okay with students disagreeing, as long as we are being respectful and ground-
ing our points; this is exactly the type of discussion that we will learn from. Encouraging all students to be in heated agreement is unlikely to produce critical thinking. It is when we are encouraged to argue and justify our opinions that we’ll really learn about ourselves, the text and how to formulate a compelling stance. Finally, remember that we really do appreciate your course. We may not show it — especially in Week 7 when midterms are sapping our stamina — but we are genuinely excited to learn from you. While it is certainly incumbent on students to show a little appreciation, on the days we fail to do so, do not let our midterm grouchiness drag down your mood. If you continue to come to class excited and with enthusiasm for the material you teach, we will pay attention. NATALIA EMANUEL is a senior in Branford College. Contact her at natalia.emanuel@yale.edu .
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tragedies from occurring. After all, cultures have a way of sticking around after the laws that perpetuated them are long gone — clearly, neither racism nor discrimination were fully remedied by the abolishment of slavery. It’s not too hard to envision an enlargement of an already burgeoning black market for firearms that becomes a by-product of laws to restrict legal gun sales. If illegal drugs, which were never legal in the first place, can cultivate such a perverse culture, why would the same not hold true for guns after centuries of being freely available? Black markets have fueled wars and further violence, which would make the entire endeavor counterproductive and ironically tragic. As our nation’s gun problems have spiraled into an uncontrollable vortex, it is you and I who have failed as we stood by and watched. We have neglected calls to reform the socio-economic problems that do much to spur gun violence on a dayto-day basis. We have turned a blind eye to mental health issues and failed to both identify and assist those who need guidance. We have focused all our energy on trying to reform laws that are
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turned back to calls for tighter gun control, and we’ve heard nothing else since. I do not hazard to propose that the open availability of guns in America does not contribute to the occurrence of mass killings like the ones we’ve witnessed time and time again. Easy access can lead to a culture that trivializes the danger guns carry. I get that. However, this narrative only paints a fragmented picture for us. Gun violence and shootings are not simply products of lenient accessibility to guns. As tragedy after tragedy has taught us, the perpetrators of mass shootings tend to be mentally unwell. Throughout the country, economically and socially disadvantaged towns and cities breed higher gun violence rates than elsewhere. Our mass media, from TV shows to movies to blockbuster video games, have desensitized a generation of young Americans to horrific potential of guns — causing them to forget the respect that guns once carried and still require. America has always had a gun culture, but merely targeting gun control is not the approach we should be taking in our pursuit to prevent similar
won’t start with aggregate statistics, names of shooters and victims or a shocking anecdote describing my neardeath experience face to face with a gun barrel. (I’m lucky enough to not have such a story.) America has a problem, but gun control is not the only answer. It’s always intrigued me what the national media turns to after a devastating shooting incident. For Virginia Tech, Aurora and Newtown, it was all the same — we watch worthless political theater typically involving the president, National Rifle Association, congressional representatives and countless advocates bickering over restrictions on access to guns. Then a kind of great awakening occurs, and a piece or two focusing on other problems that feed this type of incident will make a guest appearance. In Newtown’s case, an essay by a mother of four children with special needs, entitled “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother,” described the urgent need for greater awareness of mental illness and went viral for a day or two via social networking sites. Then it disappeared into oblivion. The rhetoric of our media
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’m not planning on wasting anyone’s time talking about how stressful shopping period is. The few days before the first day of class, my schedule, like everyone else’s, is overcrowded with classes in my major, classes in my fallback major, classes that everyone says everyone else should take (I’ll miss you, Con Law) — the list goes on. But the single factor that has caused me the most stress is the ominous “Sc.” If I don’t take a science credit this semester, I don’t become a junior. On principle, I’m a firm believer in distribution requirements. I was more than happy to keep up my math skills even as I slaved over my DS readings last year, and it was with excitement that I began to look through the Bluebook for a science class I might like. In the fall, nothing seemed to work. Some classes were during others that I absolutely had to take for my major, some that seemed interesting had evaluations that sent me running and my pride was still too strong to let me take one of the legendary
gut sciences. Finding a science class this semester became my first priority. As I was looking, I was guided initially by my fair share of arrogance. I almost refused to put certain easier classes on my shopping schedule because, hey, I took AP Physics back in my day. If I’m going to take a science to fulfill a requirement, it should be a science I’ll enjoy and feel challenged by. But after reading scary eval after scary eval, I also had to take my GPA into account. When I know that seminars for my major will take up most of my week, not even self-loathing can make me sign on to a class that will take away from those assignments — especially when I’m only taking the Sc for a requirement. In theory, I understand why Yale isn’t wild about letting people take classes that count towards distribution requirements Credit/D/Fail. The point of making people take classes in disciplines they wouldn’t otherwise study is to make sure we all come out of college wellrounded, having spent some
time working hard on something that isn’t our main area of focus. And I respect that. There’s no point in making someone take a science class if they can just enroll, Credit/D it, never go and call it a semester. But at the same time, I do think there’s something to be said for taking (maybe even only one of the two) distribution requirements for just credit. After all, the point behind distribution requirements is to make sure that, even as we choose majors and delve deeply into them, we still find things that interest us in other disciplines. But this trend of humanities kids finding gut sciences — and scientists hunting high and low for the easiest writing credits — does us even more of a disservice than risking Credit/D slackers would. And we’ve all earned a degree of trust from the administration: Everyone somehow got themselves here. It seems safe to say that for the most part, we’re not here to slack. I’m sure math majors would love to read some quality literature without panicking about
when they’ll have time to work on their psets if they have to spend hours at the writing tutor working on a paper that doesn’t come naturally to them. Just like how I’d love to be able to take some cool-sounding science class without wondering how that’ll hinder my ability to invest time in writing good papers. If I could Credit/D my science, you bet I’d take something that I knew would be both interesting and also challenging. I’m not scared of effort; I’m just scared of being penalized for trying to take a risk in an area far from the one of my expertise. Maybe letting us take intense classes we’ll actually invest in fulfills the spirit of our distribution requirements more than scaring us out of classes we want to take and into easier courses designed for non-majors that interest us less. In which situation are we learning more, more enthused and more motivated? I think the choice is clear. VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a sophomore in Berkeley College. Contact her at victoria.hall-palerm@yale.edu .
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The article “Irish play blends humor and history” misidentified Edward Morris DRA ’13 as the scenic and production designer for “Stones in His Pockets,” the newest play at the Yale Repertory Theatre. In fact, Morris is the scenic and projection designer. The article also misidentified the gender of alumna Evan Yionoulis ’82 DRA ’85, who is directing the play.
SOM draws top recruiters BY ALEKSANDRA GJORVIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER SuperWeek, an annual recruiting event, drew a record of 11 investment banks to Yale School of Management earlier this month. The recruiting opportunity, which took place between Jan. 2 and 11, allows banks to interview summer interns from SOM’s first-year MBA class. Major banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley returned to SOM for this year’s SuperWeek, and two banks — Perella Weinberg Partners and Peter J. Solomon Company — came to SOM for the first year. The recordhigh number of recruiters this year follows the March 2012 appointment of Career Development Office, or CDO, Director Julia Zupko, who restructured the operations of the department, SOM Dean Edward Snyder said. “Recruiters understand that our students can work across sectors, which coincides with their needs., Snyder said. “In some cases, that message is just taking hold and replacing some of the older views about the school, and it’s sort of fun for me to see not just recruiters, but faculty, staff and young alumni as well converge on a more modern and up-to-date image of the school.” Lloyd Baskin, CDO senior associate director, said companies are looking to recruit students who think creatively and holistically as opposed to “just people who run numbers.” SOM succeeded in bringing a record number of companies to campus this academic year — both during SuperWeek and throughout the year — due to “a team effort,” Baskin said, adding that SOM administrators, staff, faculty, students and alumni have all contributed to building and maintaining relationships with recruiters. Zupko said Snyder has helped “institutionalize” the collective approach to the recruiting process. Snyder said Zupko, who moved to SOM from the University of Chicago, has made organizational changes within the office that have strengthened the school’s recruitment efforts. Prior to Zupko’s arrival, Snyder said CDO administrators responsible for different areas, such as marketing or operations strategy, often reached out to companies independently. Now, Snyder said, each CDO admin-
istrator focuses on a separate industry, which maximizes the number of companies the CDO contacts while avoiding overlaps. Since SOM is smaller than most top MBA schools, Zupko said the CDO needs to “balance student interest with employer capacity.” “We have to do the best job possible to make sure the employers are happy, as they want people to accept the offers,” Baskin said. “We want to hit that maximum — enough banks for students and enough students that accept the offers.” Snyder said SOM students like to explore different career options and often decide what path they want to pursue later than MBA students at other schools, adding that the SOM is challenged to bring in recruiters from companies that reflect the student body’s interests. The total number of internship offers made to students this year surpassed last year’s numbers, Baskin said, but he added that the CDO cannot yet release specific numbers as the recruiting season is still ongoing. Many banks’ summer associate pool is a primary source for future permanent full-time hires, and the percentage of alumni employed three months after graduation is a key factor in many major business school rankings, said John Byrne, a former executive editor of BusinessWeek who designed the publication’s ranking system. He added that having a large number of graduates employed at banking and consulting firms can also help a business school’s ranking by increasing the average alumni salary, another important factor in rankings calculations. All SOM administrators interviewed said they are mindful of the fact that the school’s recruitment efforts affect its position in business school rankings. Einar Ingvarsson SOM ’14 said he thinks the CDO did a good job scheduling interviews during SuperWeek. The scheduling is important, he said, because students can experience high levels of stress when they have multiple interviews per day. Twenty-one percent of graduates of SOM’s class of 2012 accepted jobs in investment banking. Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .
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“Inflation is taxation without legislation.” MILTON FRIEDMAN AMERICAN ECONOMIST, STATISTICIAN AND AUTHOR
State grapples with budget BY JACOB WOLF-SOROKIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Two reports released in the past two weeks by the state Office of Policy and Management detailed the grim fiscal picture for Connecticut. Office of Policy and Management Secretary Ben Barnes authored a report released Tuesday that shows the state suffering from a $64.7 million budget shortfall. This follows the Consensus Revenue Report, released on Jan. 15, that revealed the state’s revenue coming in about $163 million dollars below the projections originally used to calculate this year’s budget. These struggles come a month after a bipartisan deficit mitigation plan passed in December that included major cuts and cost savings, but failed to curtail the shortfall completely. Gian-Carl Casa, undersecretary for legislative affairs at the Office of Policy and Management, said his office was not surprised by the shortfall. “The economy and state government finances are extremely difficult to project in these unusual times, particularly given the significant shifts in income tax revenue that occur surrounding the dates of major tax changes,” Casa said. According to sources from both sides of the aisle in Hartford, it is unlikely that any immediate action will be taken until Gov. Dannel Malloy releases his budget for the coming two fiscal years, which he is expected to do in about two weeks. Most of the debate over how to address the state’s budgetary challenges — which Pat O’Neil, press secretary for House Republican Leader Larry Cafero, described as a potential shortfall of up to $1 billion over the next two years — will
occur in the Legislature following the release of the governor’s budget. State law does not require the governor to submit an emergency fiscal reduction package until the deficit is greater than 1 percent of the total state budget, which is about $20 billion. While Malloy was forced to propose such a package in December, the current deficit has not yet reached that level. Malloy is working to present a balanced budget for the coming years, said Adam Joseph, communications director for the Senate Democrats. “Job creation and economic growth in the state has been a top priority, and the budget is an opportunity to set the stage for economic growth,” Joseph said. While both parties agree that the budget should be balanced, they approach the issue differently. Republicans in the House blame budget shortfall on the massive tax increase passed last year and think spending cuts will lead to both a balanced budget and economic growth. “[The solution is] cutting spending, which we’ve never done,” O’Neil said. “The current budget when this year ends, before we took any action, [had] a net total of [a] 5.5 percent spending increase.” Many options for cutting the deficit have been exhausted, O’Neil added, citing a downgrade in the state’s credit rating a year ago and the deal struck by the governor with major state labor unions a year ago, which prevents layoffs to state workers for another two years. Larry Dorman, the spokesman for Council 4 AFSCME, which represents over 30,000 state and municipal employees in Con-
BY THE NUMBERS BUDGET PROBLEMS $170m $252.3m Cuts ordered by Gov. Dannel Malloy on Nov. 28 to reduce the deficit
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necticut, said that workers made immense sacrifices in salaries and health care and pension benefits in 2011, when they agreed to a concession package negotiated with the state. He said that the focus of budgetary decisions should be on reaching comprehensive solutions like raising revenue. “The last time I checked, keeping middle-class workers employed is good for the economy, not bad,” Dorman said. “The state would be in a sufficiently worse position if we had not agreed to the concession package.” He said the union is working in coalition with other groups, including New Haven nonprofit Connecticut Voices, to make recommendations about raising revenue. Economist Steven Lanza, the executive editor of The Connecticut Economy, a publication of the Economics Department at the University of Connecticut, said that both raising taxes and reducing spending have the effect of
slowing economic growth. The growth rate of the national economy has been slower than following previous recessions, Lanza added, requiring difficult budgetary decisions to be made. He said that short-term effects are going to be similar no matter where funding is cut, as the government will buy fewer goods and services. But he added that preserving funding for initiatives that help the economy gain productivity — like investments in technology and education — is important to long-term growth. “Hopefully we will make the tough choices, live within our means and hopefully the economy will pick up this year or next year,” Lanza said. “I think a lot of economists are cautiously optimistic.” According to state reports, sales tax revenue is down $159.7 million compared with projections used in the budget. Contact JACOB WOLF-SOROKIN at jacob.wolf-sorokin@yale.edu .
Conn. considers university tuition hikes GRAPH CONNECTICUT COLLEGES AVERAGE TUITION COSTS 2003–’12 $20,000
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BY ROSA NGUYEN STAFF REPORTER As the state budget deficit surpasses the billion-dollar mark, Connecticut college students may pay the price with higher tuition bills. The Board of Regents for Higher Education — an organization overseeing 17 state institutions across Connecticut — projected a possible 12.4 percent tuition increase to accommodate the $1 billion deficit. The projection, formed earlier this month, follows reductions in government-funded block grants and state grants in the past year, and could increase the cost of campus-living per student by as much as $1,375. At present, the federal block grant provides $143,196,097 to Connecticut community colleges, and the state offers $141,194,660 to state universities. “These are challenging financial times, so it’s not surprising that increases in tuition are being considered by our institutions of higher education,” said Andrew Doba, director of communications for Gov. Dannel Malloy.
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Since the Board of Regents is still waiting for Malloy’s budget presentation scheduled for early February, no plans for a tuition increase have been finalized. “The Board of Regents is trying to anticipate state budgetary allocations for the next fiscal year before it makes a decision,” said David Levinson, vice president for community colleges under Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (ConnSCU), an association of colleges governed by the Board of Regents. “There has been no firm decision on the amount of a tuition increase for next year. The 12.4 percent was mentioned as a possibility, though the Board of Regents has not taken any definitive action,” Levinson added. According to ConnSCU Director of Public Affairs Colleen Flanagan, a tuition increase is only “a piece of the puzzle,” and budget cuts and other methods will also be considered to accommodate the state deficit. These future proposals would first have to be brought before some of the students they affect — any proposed increase would first be presented to the Student Advisory Commit-
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tee (SAC) of the Board of Regents, composed of 17 members representing each of the 17 ConnSCU institutions. Once there is a definitive proposal, the members of the advisory committee would be responsible for gauging student reactions on their respective campuses and discussing these reactions with the Board of Regents. “We are making sure that whatever proposal the regents consider has an opportunity to be analyzed and discussed by students of our institutions,” Johnson said. “While the SAC’s input and suggestions are helpful to the Board of Regents, and it’s critical to have student voices heard throughout any process that impacts them, any decisions regarding tuition or fees are made solely by the Board of Regents itself, including the two student members.” News of a potential tuition increase has stirred campus dissent within the state-funded universities governed by the Board of Regents. “Many [students] go to Southern because the prices are cheaper than private schools,” said
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Aubrinne Losty, a Southern Connecticut State sophomore with two other college-aged siblings. “It’s not fair that we have to pay more.” Katie Johnstone, another sophomore at Southern Connecticut State University, also questioned the fairness of a possible increase in tuition. “I don’t get any financial aid, and my mom already has to shovel in a lot of money. This is a state college, and people should be able to afford it,” Johnstone said. However, the Board of Regents promises to take student financial situations into account. “The regents are very mindful that any increase is very difficult for students to absorb,” Johnson said on behalf of the board. “[The board] is trying to be very understanding and make things affordable, while being mindful of the fiscal situation we’re in. It’s a balancing act.” The Board of Regents will convene in February to discuss potential proposals for increasing tuition rates. Contact ROSA NGUYEN at rosa.nguyen@yale.edu .
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“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IRISH PLAYWRIGHT AND A CO-FOUNDER OF THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Elicker to challenge Destefano ELICKER FROM PAGE 1 that Manjares represents a growing local business in New Haven, as the owner previously worked at a coffee shop in East Rock before starting this café in Westville. “I’ve spent a lot of time listening to what the people are interested in changing about the city, and now I feel confident that I’m making the right decision that I think I can be an effective mayor,” Elicker said. DeStefano, who is in his 10th term, was the first person to officially file his papers with City Hall to declare his candidacy; Sundiata Keitazulu, a plumber and New Haven resident, was the second. State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield has also expressed interest in running: Upon forming an exploratory committee last November, Holder-Winfield was able to accept campaign contributions. Holder-Winfield, who said he has not yet had a chance to work directly with Elicker, added that he will announce whether he will run for mayor at the end of January, as originally planned. “Justin may have filed, but Justin’s filing doesn’t change the plan that I laid out from the beginning: The plan is still to file my paperwork next week, unless something huge happens,” he said. Elicker also said that he has used the past few months of conversation to understand the “common issues” with which people are concerned, such as improving schools, encouraging long-term fiscal responsibility, improving neighborhoods beyond downtown New Haven and strengthening youth programs.
Both Holder-Winfield and Elicker said that they are still committed to using the public finance system, originally created by DeStefano. However, DeStefano opted out of the system in 2011 and outspent his opponent, Jeffrey Kerekes, by a 14–1 margin. “Money doesn’t buy elections, and Linda McMahon and Mitt Romney are proof of that,” Elicker said. “I think we won’t have to pay for a lot of things that DeStefano will have to pay for, like volunteers and people going door to door.” While he said that he was not going to necessarily support Elicker, Ward 2 Alderman Frank Douglass ’04 said Elicker would do “just as good a job as anyone else.” “[Elicker’s] been in public service for a number of years now, and he’d do a swell job,” said Douglass, who serves with Elicker on the board’s Legislation Committee. “I think he’s a fair person, and he’s got some deep morals.” Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen, who also serves with Elicker on the board’s Finance Committee, said he will be officially supporting Elicker’s candidacy and called him a “mentor.” “I think our [current] mayor is of the old style of government, and I believe we need a new way of doing government in this country, and I am confident that Justin will bring us closer to that,” Hausladen said. “Top-down is the old style of government. … We as a citizenry are interested in bottom-up and participatory government.” DeStefano first assumed the mayoral office in 1994. Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .
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Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10, center, aims to improve schools, strengthen youth programs and encourage fiscal responsibility.
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consider whether students have also shared their applications with the new Singaporean liberal arts college, and added that he cannot estimate how many students will be admitted to both schools as the two admissions offices will operate independently.
[Yale and Yale-NUS], despite being closely linked, are so different that I think students will have an interesting choice.
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“We were expecting this level of interest [in Yale-NUS], particularly from international applicants to Yale, because there are very few institutions in the world that offer a liberal arts education and are need-blind for international students,” said Jeremiah Quinlan ’03, dean of admissions and financial aid at Yale-NUS. This admissions cycle’s Yale supplement included a box for students to check in order to automatically apply to Yale-NUS by applying to Yale. Though Brenzel acknowledged that nothing will prevent Yale admissions officers from seeing the checked box on students’ application forms, he added that they have been instructed not to take the Yale-NUS option into account when evaluating the student for admission to Yale. Quinlan said he expects Yale-NUS to compete with Yale and other top universities around the world for the best applicants, adding that due to the difference in class size at the two
institutions, the potential number of students admitted to both schools is small. He said he expects the school to admit over 150 students — the target size of the Singaporean college’s inaugural class — and added that Yale-NUS admissions officers will not know whether the students they admit were also admitted to Yale. “The two institutions, despite being closely linked, are so different that I think students will have an interesting choice,” Quinlan said. Roland Allen, director of college counseling at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in California and a former admissions officer at Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he thinks that providing the option on the application drew prospective Yale students to Yale-NUS, but may have caused confusion among some applicants. He added that he thinks Yale should have done more to educate college counselors about the liberal arts college it is creating with the National University of Singapore. Though he has done research into the Singaporean school, he said some of aspects of its operation — such as its curriculum and accreditation — are still “fuzzy areas” for him, and he suspects the same is true for students and parents. Kristen Lee, a Yale applicant who also chose the Yale-NUS option, said she would be happy attending either school, though she was initially only interested in Yale. She added that she was drawn to Yale-NUS because the college will provide her with the opportunity to practice Chinese, a language she studied in high school. Yale-NUS admitted 96 applicants in its first round of admissions in May 2012 and 65 in its second round in December. Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu. Contact AMY WANG at amy.wang@yale.edu .
Sophomores to attend mandatory intervention training WORKSHOPS FROM PAGE 1 the introduction of a third party quickly disrupts the original power dynamic and can prevent potential sexual misconduct, Boyd said. The program aims to encourage students’ tendencies to intervene in harmful situations and to shift the broader mindset of the campus community, rather than emphasizing the promotion of new content, she added. T h e e n t i re so p h o m o re class will be trained because bystander intervention is most effective at a community level,
Boyd said. Training of sophomores will round out existing workshops given to freshmen, which educate them about the dynamics of sexual pressure, and leadership training workshops geared toward juniors and seniors. The added sophomore workshops are part of an effort to structure the University’s sexual awareness programs more effectively, with bystander trainings a “middle ground” between the existing approaches for students in other classes. “Yale looks very different to sophomores than it does to freshmen,” said Paul McKin-
ley DRA ’96, spokesman for the Yale College Dean’s Office. “You’re not focusing so much on yourself, your field of vision is so much broader.” The training will focus on early intervention, which is more effective than stepping in when sexual misconduct is about to occur, Boyd said. Students will discuss methods to give friends “an out” in uncomfortable situations and ways to pick up signals of unhealthy interactions, she added. Pilot versions of the workshop have been conducted previously with freshman coun-
selors, peer liaisons, CCEs, members of party suites on campus and various other student groups, Boyd said.
Bystander intervention training can produce dramatic drops of sexual violence on campus. MELANIE BOYD ’90 Assistant dean, student affairs
Daisuke Gatanaga ’14, an Asian American Cultural Center peer liaison who took part in a pilot workshop, said he had a positive experience with the training sessions and felt the training would be applicable to a large portion of campus. Bystander intervention programs at the University of New Hampshire and the University of Kentucky have largely proven successful, said Joan Tabachnick SOM ’86, author of “Engaging Bystanders in Sexual Violence Prevention.” Bystander intervention training shows positive results because people learn
to be more aware of signals for action, Tabachnick said. “It’s like knowing when you see a drunk driver to take away their keys or not let them drive, which is very different from the understanding when I was growing up,” she said. Nine out of 10 sophomores interviewed said they do not think the workshops will be effective. Bystander intervention training was initially piloted by the University of New Hampshire. Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .
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“Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.” COCO CHANEL FRENCH FASHION DESIGNER
McChrystal talks leadership
Malloy announces bioscience act BY DHRUV AGGARWAL STAFF REPORTER
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In a Wednesday talk, retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal used personal anecdotes to outline effective leadership strategies. BY JR REED STAFF REPORTER Former U.S. Army General and Jackson Institute for Global Affairs senior fellow Stanley McChrystal provided guidance on effective leadership strategies to an overflow crowd of roughly 50 former Army veterans, community members, officers-intraining and students Wednesday afternoon in the Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall. During his talk, titled “History, Leadership, and Personal Experience: From the Post-Vietnam Army to Today,” McChrystal drew on his background as former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and former commander of the Joint Special Operations Command to explain leadership lessons he has taken from the battlefield and supply career advice to audience members. Beginning his lecture discussing the army environment in which he grew up and his U.S. Military Academy experience at West Point, he cited the three concepts in his talk’s title as primary themes that have defined his life. Throughout his lec-
ture, McChrystal advocated that audience members never desert their values regardless of the new environments they might encounter. “That’s the one thing that nobody can take away from you,” McChrystal said. “That’s your understanding of what you believe is right and wrong.” Though he urged audience members to stay true to their values, he emphasized the need to adapt leadership strategies to one’s surroundings. During McChrystal’s experience as commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, which oversees the military’s counterterrorism units, his leadership tactics led to Saddam Hussein’s capture in December 2003 and Abu Musab alZarqawi’s tracking and killing in July 2006. He said he needed to encourage rather than direct members of the organization to accomplish their tasks. The former Army general also stressed the need to understand one’s colleagues in order to lead and communicate with them effectively. During his time advising President Barack
Obama, McChrystal explained that he was told to include only three bullet points in each slide during his presentations. “I had to ask myself, ‘What am I trying to get him to walk away with?’” McChrystal said. “If you try to give more than someone can take, then it’s tough. Pretty soon people dial you out.” Finishing the lecture with his biggest takeaway for his audience, McChrystal said audience members must convince people that they have credible ideas and must share information with everyone involved in their projects. McChrystal said individuals working on different levels of an organization bring their own special expertise, adding that no one person should be treated as more important than anyone else in order for an organization to run productively. Five audience members interviewed praised the ways in which McChrystal incorporated his personal experiences into his lessons on leadership, in addition to the humility they thought he displayed. Connor Bagley ’16 said he thought McChrystal demon-
strated much broader knowledge of the world than he would have expected, adding that McChrystal’s perspectives on torture interrogation methods and “Zero Dark Thirty,” a documentary film about bin Laden’s capture, were especially interesting. McChrystal considered the film detrimental to intelligence because it degraded the moral capacity of the military — an opinion about the film that Bagley described as uncommon. Yale aerospace studies instructor Maj. Bai Lan Zhu said she thought McChrystal’s discussions of humility and the ways in which he said he changed his leadership style to adjust to different settings were particularly applicable to the audience. “It’s important for leaders to show humility and, in doing so, I think the ROTC cadets that were in the audience this afternoon took that to heart,” Zhu said. McChrystal is the co-founder of the McChrystal Group, a leadership consulting firm based in his home state of Virginia. Contact JR REED at jonathan.reed@yale.edu .
Gov. Dannel Malloy announced his plans for a $200 million Bioscience Innovation Act, which aims to boost Connecticut’s biotechnology sector, at a ceremony held in Farmington last week. Malloy spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Jackson Lab project, a $1.1 billion partnership between the state and the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine. He said that this new $200 million project would build off the momentum generated by the Jackson Lab’s opening and would expand the growing bioscience industry across the state — an industry Connecticut United for Research Excellence estimates employs 18,000 people and spends $6 billion annually on state operations — while developing partnerships with universities, research institutes and businesses. “[The Bioscience Innovation Act] … will allow us to attract and invest in more companies in this sector and create good-paying jobs with good benefits for our residents,” Malloy said in a press release last week. The act’s funding is designed to address shortcomings in the biotechnology industry by covering areas which are not already funded by the state. The act also calls for the creation of an advisory board to provide oversight of fund allocation and the institution of a vetting process for investments made under its provisions. The entire act will be monitored and administered by Connecticut Innovations, the state’s economic development entity. Noting that cities like New Haven that have a lot of universities around them tend to become bioscience hubs, Michael Kinch, managing director of the Yale Center for Molecular Discovery, said he welcomed Malloy’s announcement. “It’s a great thing that the governor and the political legislature are moving in this direction,” Kinch said. “Connecticut has a lot of interest in the biomedical area.” Kinch pointed to the existence of several large bioscience companies like Pfizer in the state, alongside various insur-
ance companies and medicaldevice manufacturers, as indicators of the importance of passing such an act. The biomedical sector, Kinch added, produces highpaying jobs, and the exposure to ideas from investigative labs in Connecticut universities is “outstanding.” Mike Hyde, Jackson’s vice president for advancement and external relations, said in a Wednesday email to the News that the new Bioscience Innovation Act would position Connecticut as a global leader in biomedical research. “[The Bioscience Innovation Act will] spur economic development with new jobs, and improve the health of Connecticut residents,” he said. “The new funding that Gov. Dannel Malloy is proposing would support all of those important goals.”
It’s a great thing that the governor and the political legislature are moving in this direction. Connecticut has a lot of interest in the biomedical area. MICHAEL KINCH Managing director, Yale Center for Molecular Discovery Kinch said the growth of the bioscience industry has had a lot to do with funding being allocated to stem cell research, especially by private organizations like the Jackson Lab. Edison Liu, president and CEO of the Jackson Lab, joined Malloy at the Farmington ceremony, along with Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and other state officials. The Jackson Lab in Farmington was originally sanctioned by the state Legislature in October 2011, when the state agreed to pay $291 million of the $1.1 billion required for the project. The new act is part of Malloy’s legislative package for the 2013 legislative session, which he is set to announce on Feb. 6. Contact DHRUV AGGARWAL at dhruv.aggarwal@yale.edu .
Alumni discuss investment banking BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER At an alumni panel about careers in investment banking Wednesday afternoon, speakers stressed the idea that the industry is rewarding but toilsome, and urged students to weigh their career options carefully. The panel, which was organized and moderated by investment banker Peter Young ’74, featured Kelly Cheng ’00 and Sharyar Aziz ’74, a vice president from Barclays Capital and a managing director at UBS, respectively. Speaking to a small audience of about 20 students through a video conference from the Yale Club of New York, the panelists sought to provide audience members with a realistic view of the investment banking career. They said the public has a general misconception that the future of investment banking is dark and unpromising. “It is tragic to pursue a career based on false positives, but also to pursue a career based on false negatives,” said Young. Aziz said the public’s pessimist outlook on investment banking is excessive. Although investment banking has changed tremendously over the last decade, which Aziz said has been particularly turbulent for the industry, he added that the job itself and its rewards have remained largely the same. The speakers said repeatedly that the income an investment banker earns continues to be substantial. Still, Cheng said the first few years of investment banking for recent college graduates working as financial analysts are often rough. “Nobody really loves being a financial analyst,” she said, “but if you work hard enough and you get to the point where you can see the forest and not just all of the trees, you will start to see a purpose.” Aziz said many young investment
bankers become burnt out and end up leaving the industry. But Young said most employees actually leave because they are let go in job cuts, adding that investment banks often hire too many employees at the same time and then have to eliminate very competent workers each year. The panelists directly addressed common concerns of Yale students seeking careers as investment bankers, urging students to pursue their true interests and consider carefully whether they are ready to enter such a demanding and unpredictable profession. “Don’t go into financial banking ‘just because,’” Young said. “It is just way too hard.” Young said he supports liberal arts education, adding that students’ programs of study, whether they major in economics or art history, are unimportant to their career prospects as investment bankers. As long as students have strong analytical skills and work well in teams, they can succeed as bankers, Young said. Audience members interviewed said they appreciated the panelists’ efforts to consider the future of Yale students. “It’s nice that they address the liberal arts education directly,” David Crossen ’14 said. “Sometimes it seems like a handicap.” Still, Haroula Gotsi ’14 said the panelists overemphasized the negative aspects of the profession, adding that she felt they focused more on discouraging people from banking rather than promoting the career path. The panel was the fifth in a series of events designed to give Yale students and alumni a “candid view of each profession” that would debunk both positive and negative myths in circulation. Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .
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In William L. Harkness Hall on Wednesday afternoon, students listened to alumni discuss their careers in investment banking.
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FROM THE FRONT
“I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.” KEVIN MITNICK CONVICTED CRIMINAL AND HACKER
Across the Ivies, schools tighten alcohol policies ALCOHOL FROM PAGE 1 In 2010, administrators from Dartmouth launched the National College Health Improvement Project, a group of 32 colleges and universities gathering data on the effectiveness of alcohol regulation policies on campus. Lisa Johnson, a director of NCHIP, said five Ivy League schools including Yale take part in the project, adding that the group represents a shift toward a stronger emphasis on health in college drinking regulations. Yale College Dean’s Office Fellow Hannah Peck DIV ’11 said the establishment of NCHIP was “indicative of the Ivies starting to pay attention” to problems related to excessive alcohol use, and Tim Marchell, Cornell’s associate director of health promotion, said NCHIP has helped Cornell expand its efforts to reduce highrisk drinking. Two Ivy-wide organizations dealing with alcohol currently exist — a student-run conference, the Ivy Student Summit on Alcohol Harm Reduction, and a coalition of mental health and student affairs professionals, said Peck. The summit was hosted at Dartmouth last spring, but the consortium of professionals has been inactive in the past few years, Peck said. Paul McKinley DRA ’96, a spokesman for the Dean’s Office, said these organizations allow for schools to exchange ideas, but they have not led to a coordinated effort to implement alcohol policies across all Ivy League schools. “There is a lot of sharing of data and sharing of practices,” he said. “But as far I know there is not a [collusive] effort.” While broader efforts have not produced changes in drinking culture across the Ivy League, universities have begun to address alcohol-related problems on their own. Yale administrators announced a new regulation requiring all offcampus parties to be registered with the Dean’s Office in August, as well as two new committees to address alcohol and drug use among students in December. Students interviewed at Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Dartmouth said a number of the recent alcohol-related policies tackle issues concerning alcohol usage by expanding regulations on Greek life. Oscar Correia, a member of Cornell’s President’s Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs in the 2011–’12 academic year, said Cornell’s attempt to restructure its Greek system in the past year is partly aimed at reducing high-risk drinking, which is most prevalent among fraternity members and during hazing. Dartmouth has also seen a series of policies relating to alcohol usage and Greek life implemented in the past few years, including a ban on punch at parties and the introduction of random walkthroughs at fraternity and sorority houses by safety and security officers, said Cole Adams, the social chair of Dartmouth’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
chapter. At Princeton, a ban on freshman rush that came into effect this fall was indirectly aimed at reducing freshman access to alcohol, said Nathan Mathabane, a member of Princeton’s Alcohol Coalition Committee and a residential adviser. Matthew Breuer ’14, a member of the Yale College Dean’s Office Task Force on Alcohol and Other Drugs, said he thinks the alcoholrelated policies implemented at Yale and other Ivy League universities can result in exclusive social spaces rather than more open ones because fraternities and other groups will restrict attendance at parties. “As Yale and universities around us work towards combating binge drinking, we have to think about the side effects of our policy choices,” Breuer said. “If we start to shut down these social spaces or they are forced to become more restrictive about who is allowed in, not only do we push drinking into more dangerous, underground spaces, but it runs the risk of establishing a social hierarchy that has really negative consequences for the social and sexual climate on campus.”
Privilege or entitlement to heavy drinking pushes back on well-known interventions that can help limit them. TOBEN NELSON Associate director, College Alcohol Study at Harvard School of Public Health Smaller initiatives not associated with formal policy changes have also taken place this fall at universities such as Yale, Cornell and Princeton. Marchell said Cornell takes a “public health approach” to alcohol that involves creative efforts at curbing alcohol abuse, such as holding dry latenight events and implementing student-led alcohol safety initiatives. A culture of heavy drinking exists on Ivy League campuses because heavy drinking is more prevalent among people in New England and of higher socio-economic status, said Toben Nelson, associate director of the College Alcohol Study, a group at the Harvard School of Public Health that conducts national surveys on college students’ alcohol consumption. “That sort of privilege or entitlement to heavy drinking pushes back on well-known interventions that can help limit them,” Nelson said. Yale students drink more than the national average for college students, according to a survey conducted by the Dean’s Office.
COMPARISON ALCOHOL POLICY CHANGES AROUND THE IVIES SINCE FALL CORNELL
New initiatives at Cornell include the opening of an on-campus bar, The Bear’s Den, and Cayuga’s Watch, a program that pays students to attend parties sober to prevent potential health emergencies.
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Columbia lifted an absolute ban on alcohol possession in two of its freshman-dominant housing areas as part of a shift toward an emphasis on alcohol harm reduction.
Dartmouth banned punch at Greek life events and started a policy requiring all common areas, including fraternities and sororities, to submit to random walkthroughs by Safety and Security officers.
A new set of alcohol-related policies on Harvard went into effect in November that creates requirements for dorm parties and requires a specific system for serving hard alcohol at House formals to those of age among other regulations.
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Yale administrators have announced a requirement to register all off-campus parties with the Dean’s Office to help monitor underage drinking as well as two new committees — the Yale College Dean’s Office Taskforce on Alcohol and Other Drugs and the University Council Committee on Alcohol in Yale College — to address alcohol and drug use among students.
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The University of Pennsylvania began an “alcohol pilot program” in the fall with new regulations, in particular a party registration policy, and started an administrative committee on alcohol policies last week.
Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .
Capstone projects meet mixed reviews GLOBAL AFFAIRS FROM PAGE 1 setting in the past, and because he wanted the projects to be substantial for the students as well as useful for the organizations. Despite these difficulties, Smith said, clients trusted the students on serious projects such as ones involving policy recommendations for global cybersecurity and presentations on the impact of economic sanctions on terrorism. Jennifer Fowler, a senior adviser to the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the U.S. Treasury Department, said the Treasury maintained a constant line of communication with its capstone group throughout the project and was impressed by the final result. “I think we were all blown away with the quality of work the students did,” Fowler said. “They brought really fresh perspectives to things we see every day, which was really exciting for us.” Eric Berman GRD ’90, the managing director of the Geneva-based Small Arms Sur-
vey, which collaborated with students on one of the capstone projects, said the quality of students’ work led his organization to funnel additional resources into rigorously reviewing the final project so that it could be made public in a few months.
We were all blown away with the quality of the work the students did. JENNIFER FOWLER Senior adviser to the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, U.S. Treasury Department Smith said several of the clients have approached him already about being involved in future capstone projects. All six global affairs majors interviewed said they thought students’ experiences varied depending on which capstone they were involved with. Rey-Hanna Vakili ’13, who participated in the Treasury
Department capstone, said her own experience was very positive, though it was not exactly what she expected going in. “I definitely got the sense that we were guinea pigs, because at the beginning a lot of it was self-directed,” Vakili said. “But it worked out very well, and I’m very happy with the final product” Vakili said her group involved a constant stream of communication between the clients, professors and students, but added that other capstone groups did not have the same relationship with their clients and felt “aimless” while working on the project. Patrick Ouziel ’13, who participated in the World Bank capstone group, said he felt the instructions for his group’s project were vague and the scope of the project was too large for unspecialized undergraduate students. “I think we learned a lot in the end, but I think some people were disappointed,” Ouziel said. “We wanted the project to be helpful to the World Bank,
and I don’t think we felt that by the end of the semester.” Daniel Pitcairn ’13 said his capstone project on cybersecurity presented different challenges than a written thesis because working collaboratively required different skills from working independently. Pitcairn said he hoped the individual capstones in future semesters would better interact with one another — such as a session when the groups come together to present their final projects — and that he approached Smith with this suggestion. Smith said he is carefully considering the evaluations of students and professors as the program moves into its second year. Like Vakili, Smith said he thought students benefited from meeting their clients face to face and wants to make this opportunity available to all capstone projects in the future. Roughly 50 students are accepted to the Global Affairs major each year. Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .
2013 GLOBAL A F FA I R S CA P ST O N E PROJECTS CLIENT: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, OFFICE OF TERRORISM AND FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE Project: Assessing the efficiency of economic sanctions in preventing terrorism CLIENT: SMALL ARMS SURVEY Project: Study of armed groups operating in western Africa CLIENT: PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY Project: Looking at possible forms for global cybersecurity
agreements CLIENT: WORLD BANK, INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION Project: Examining the link between urbanization and economic growth in developing countries CLIENT: MOTHERS2MOTHERS Project: Analyzing the effectiveness of programs to reduce HIV transmission in mothers and children CLIENT: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Project: Examining effects of different investments in agriculture on rural development and women’s socio-economic empowerment
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Debt debate postponed BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Retreating with a purpose, Republicans sped legislation through the House on Wednesday to avert the imminent threat of a government default but pointing the way to a springtime budget struggle with President Barack Obama over Medicare, farm subsidies and other benefit programs. The current legislation, which cleared the House on a bipartisan vote of 288–144, would permit Treasury borrowing to exceed the limit of $16.4 trillion through May 18. As it passed, Speaker John Boehner pledged that Republicans would quickly draft a budget that would wipe out deficits in a decade, and he challenged Democrats to do the same. The Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to approve the debt bill as early as Friday or perhaps next week. The White House welcomed the legislation rather than face the threat of a first-ever default at the dawn of the president’s second term in the White House, and spokesman Jay Carney pointedly noted a “fundamental change” in strategy by the GOP. House Republicans cast the bill as a way to force the Senate to draft a budget for the first time in four years, noting that if either house fails to do so, its members’ pay would be withheld. They called the bill “no budget, no pay,” a slogan if not a statement of fact, since lawmakers would be entitled to collect their entire salaries at the end of the Congress with or without a budget in place. With polls showing their public support eroding, the Republicans jettisoned, for now at least, an earlier insistence that they would allow no additional borrowing unless Obama and the Democrats agreed to dollar-fordollar federal spending cuts in
exchange. The average American family “can’t buy everything they want every day; they have to make tough choices. It’s time to make Congress make the same choices,” said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., underscoring the new Republican rallying cry. Rep. Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin lawmaker who will be responsible for drafting the budget for Republicans, said Congress has “a moral obligation” to prevent a debt crisis that he said will hit hardest at seniors and others who depend on government the most.
Republicans have finally recognized the government must pay its bills. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN U.S. representative, Maryland As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan will take the lead role in crafting a blueprint expected to rely heavily on savings from benefit programs. The budget he wrote last year before being picked as the party’s vice presidential candidate was to take two decades to achieve balance. Ryan’s 10-year-budget task will be eased in part by higher tax revenues resulting from the Jan. 1 expiration of a two-year payroll tax cut, and in part from an anticipated $600 billion generated by raising rates on upper incomes. But given the sheer size of annual deficits in the $1 trillion range, it will be impossible to meet his goal without taking large savings from benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, farm and student loan subsidies, the federal retirement program and
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more. House Democrats made no attempt to defend the Senate’s failure to draft a budget over the past three years, instead saying a mere four-month extension in the debt limit would not give business and the financial markets the certainty that is necessary for the economy to grow more quickly. Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, his party’s senior Budget Committee member, said the good news was, “Republicans have finally recognized the government must pay its bills. … The bad news is they only want to do it for four months.” Beyond the rhetoric lay a political calculation on the part of Boehner and other House Republicans that they could not afford to set up an immediate confrontation with Obama. At a closeddoor retreat last week, the rank and file was presented with polling that showed their support eroding since the election into the mid-to-high 20s, and indicating that increasingly the public believes they oppose Obama out of political motives rather than on policy grounds. The same surveys show significant support for spending cuts, although backing wanes when it comes to reductions in individual programs that are popular. Several officials said the leadership and Ryan had solidified rank-and-file Republicans behind a shift in strategy by emphasizing a commitment to a budget that would eliminate deficits in a decade, and the sentiment was expressed Wednesday on the House floor. “This is why I ran for office. This is why I came to Washington, D.C.,” said Rep. Tom Reed of New York, first elected in 2010 as part of a tea party-flavored wave that gave Republicans their majority.
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Female soldiers train on a firing range in preparation for their deployment to Afghanistan. BY LOLITA C. BALDOR ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after generations of limits on their service, defense officials said Wednesday. The changes, set to be announced Thursday by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, will not happen overnight. The services must now develop plans for allowing women to seek the combat positions, a senior military official said. Some jobs may open as soon as this year, while assessments for others, such as special operations forces, including Navy SEALS and the Army’s Delta Force, may take longer. The services will have until January 2016 to make a case to that some positions should remain closed to women. The groundbreaking move recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff overturns a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units. Officials briefed The Associated Press on the changes on condition of anonymity so they could speak ahead of the official announcement. There long has been opposition to putting women in combat, based on questions of whether they have the necessary strength and stamina for certain jobs, or whether their presence might hurt unit cohesion. But as news of Panetta’s expected order got out, members of Congress, including the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., announced their support. “It reflects the reality of 21st-century military operations,” Levin said. Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, who will be the top Republican on the Armed Services panel, said, however, that he does not believe this will be a broad opening of combat roles for women because there are practical barriers that have to be overcome in order to protect the safety and
privacy of all members of the military. Panetta’s move comes in his final weeks as Pentagon chief and just days after President Barack Obama’s inaugural speech in which he spoke passionately about equal rights for all. The new order expands the department’s action of nearly a year ago to open about 14,500 combat positions to women, nearly all of them in the Army. Panetta’s decision could open more than 230,000 jobs, many in Army and Marine infantry units, to women. In addition to questions of strength and performance, there also have been suggestions that the American public would not tolerate large numbers of women being killed in war. Under the 1994 Pentagon policy, women were prohibited from being assigned to ground combat units below the brigade level. A brigade is roughly 3,500 troops split into several battalions of about 800 soldiers each. Historically, brigades were based farther from the front lines, and they often included top command and support staff. The necessities of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, however, propelled women into jobs as medics, military police and intelligence officers that were sometimes attached — but not formally assigned — to battalions. So while a woman couldn’t be assigned as an infantryman in a battalion going out on patrol, she could fly the helicopter supporting the unit, or move in to provide medical aid if troops were injured. And these conflicts, where battlefield lines are blurred and insurgents can lurk around every corner, have made it almost impossible to keep women clear of combat. Still, as recent surveys and experiences have shown, it will not be an easy transition. When the Marine Corps sought women to go through its tough infantry course last year, two volunteered and both failed to complete the course. And there may not be a wide clamoring from women for the more intense, dangerous and difficult jobs — including some infantry and commando positions.
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“I’m undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.” HILLARY CLINTON 67TH U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE
Centrists raise hopes for peace
Clinton takes on critics on Libya attack BY MATTHEW LEE AND DONNA CASSATA ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid Party, gives a statement outside his home in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. BY ARON HELLER AND JOSEF FEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — The unexpectedly strong showing by a new centrist party in Israel’s parliamentary election has raised hopes of a revival of peace talks with Palestinians that have languished for four years under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Political newcomer Yair Lapid, the surprise kingmaker, is already being courted by a weakened Netanyahu, who needs his support to form a ruling coalition. Lapid has said he will not sit in the government unless the peace process is restarted. But following a campaign in which the Palestinian issue was largely ignored, it remains unclear how hard Lapid will push the issue in what could be weeks of coalition talks with Netanyahu. Tuesday’s election ended in a deadlock, with Netanyahu’s hardline religious bloc of allies and the rival bloc of centrist, secular and Arab
parties each with 60 seats, according to near-complete official results. Opinion polls had universally forecast a majority of seats going to the rightwing bloc. While Netanyahu, as head of the largest single party in parliament, is poised to remain prime minister, it appears impossible for him to cobble together a majority coalition without reaching across the aisle. Lapid, whose Yesh Atid — or “There is a Future” — captured 19 seats, putting it in second place, is the most likely candidate to join him. In a gesture to Netanyahu, Lapid said there would not be a “blocking majority,” in which opposition parties prevent the prime minister from forming a government. The comment virtually guarantees that Netanyahu will be prime minister, with Lapid a major partner. Netanyahu said Wednesday he would work to create a wide coalition stretching across the political divide. Speaking to reporters, he said the
election proved “the Israeli public wants me to continue leading the country” and put together “as broad a coalition as possible.” He said the next government would pursue three major domestic policy goals: to bring ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, who are routinely granted draft exemptions, into the military, to provide affordable housing and to change the current fragmented multiparty system, which often gives smaller coalition partners outsize strength. But Netanyahu only alluded to peacemaking in vague terms, saying coalition talks would focus on “security and diplomatic responsibility.” He took no questions from reporters and immediately walked out of the room. Netanyahu’s comments were clearly aimed at the 49-year-old Lapid, a popular former TV talkshow host who has portrayed himself as an average Israeli and champion of a middle class struggling to make ends meet.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered fiery rejoinders Wednesday to Republican critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, facing off with lawmakers who included potential 2016 presidential rivals. At times emotional and frequently combative, Clinton rejected GOP suggestions in two congressional hearings that the administration tried to mislead the country about the Sept. 11 attack that killed Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans. She insisted the State Department is moving swiftly and aggressively to strengthen security at diplomatic posts worldwide. In her last formal testimony before Congress as America’s top diplomat — but perhaps not her last time on the political stage — Clinton once again took responsibility for the department’s missteps and failures leading up to the assault. But she also said that requests for more security at the diplomatic mission in Benghazi didn’t reach her desk, and reminded lawmakers that they have a responsibility to fund security-related budget requests. Three weeks after her release from a New York hospital — admitted for complications after a concussion — Clinton was at times defiant, complimentary and willing to chastise lawmakers during more than five and a half hours of testimony before two separate committees. She tangled with some who could be rivals in 2016 if she decides to seek the presidency again. Her voice cracking at one point, Clinton said the attack and the aftermath were highly personal tragedies for the families of the victims who died — Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty — as well as herself. “I stood next to President Obama as the Marines carried those flag-draped
caskets off the plane at Andrews. I put my arms around the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters and the wives left alone to raise their children,” she told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a packed hearing. Clearly annoyed with Republican complaints about the initial explanation for the attack, she rose to the defense of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who was vilified for widely debunked claims five days after the attack that protests precipitated the raid rather than terrorism. Clinton said, “People were trying in real time to get to the best information.” And she said her own focus was on looking ahead on how to improve security rather than revisiting the talking points and Rice’s comments.
I stood next to President Obama as the Marines carried those flag-draped caskets off the plane. HILLARY CLINTON U.S. Secretary of State Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., pressed her on why “we were misled that there were supposedly protests and something sprang out of that, an assault sprang out of that.” “With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans,” she said, her voice rising and quivering with anger as she and Johnson spoke over each other. “Was it because of a protest? Or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided they would go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator.”
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“I like criticism. It makes you strong.” LEBRON JAMES, AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER
Professional lockout affects scouting M. HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 NHL training camps — before the lockout began. The new collective bargaining agreement also did not change the one million dollar salary cap for new players under 25 years old, a relatively modest figure for the professional league, MacTavish added. Thanks to the lockout, NHL teams have been able to spend more time watching soughtafter seniors, such as ECAC player of the week Antoine Laganiere ’13, captain Andrew Miller ’13 and goaltender of the week Jeff Malcolm ’13.
NHL teams feel very strongly that they have to be in that college market. CRAIG MACTAVISH Senior vice president of hockey operations, Edmonton Oilers “There were definitely more NHL staff at games [during the lockout]. Usually it’s just scouts, but instead of maybe one guy per team they would bring three or four,” Laganiere said. “Even managers and higher-ups came to some of the games.” More attention to high-level players, both on the Elis and on other college hockey teams around the country, has benefitted hockey fans of college programs, players and NHL teams. Without their usual NHL fix, fans have turned their attention to college hockey. “We did have some games televised that likely may not have been broadcast if the NHL was in season at the time,” ECAC Hockey Commissioner Steven Hagwell said. Hagwell added that on nights NBC was previously committed to airing NHL games, it instead occasionally
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After last weekend’s shutout against Harvard and victory over Dartmouth, the Bulldogs moved from No. 12 to No. 8 in the NCAA coaches’ poll. devoted the coverage to college hockey. The increase in televised college hockey games has paralleled an increase in rink attendance for several college teams, No. 2 Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said.
“We have had an increase in attendance this season,” he said. “We are close to sell-outs or sold-out every game.” However, an absence of NHL coverage has not changed Yale’s perenially-high game attendance, according to Yale’s asso-
ciate athletics director, Steve Conn. Though the lockout has come to a close, the Bulldogs remain focused on the games ahead of them. “I’m excited about every single game that we get to play,”
Bulldogs dominate at Southern Conn. GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE 12 Feld ’13 and Ashley O’Connor ’14 nabbed fourth and fifth, respectively. Goldstein also noted that Brittney Sooksengdao ’16 had a particularly impressive floor routine, placing ninth in the event. Despite the team’s better meet, Goldstein said that it needs to improve its performance on the vault. “[There is] definitely room for improvement on vault, which we’ve been already working hard in practice this week on,” Goldstein said. In the individual all-around, the story of the meet was the performances of two underclassmen Yale ahtletes, Li and Traina, who finished first and second, respectively. The sophomores already established themselves as forces with which to be reckoned last year. Traina was named the ECAC Rookie of the Year, while Li was named the ECAC Rookie of the Week twice during the season. Li, however, got the better of Traina on Sunday.
away?” She caught me in a trap. “That’s completely different. It’s a character issue, but a character issue related directly to his sport. Steroids directly affected his performance on the bike. How does a fake girlfriend affect Te’o’s performance on the field? And to be honest, I don’t know if Lance should have been punished so harshly — everyone else in cycling was doing it at the time, right?”
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“Joyce Li had a fantastic start in both of our meets,” head coach Barbara Tonry said. Although Traina won the uneven parallel bars and the balance beam and Li had no first place finishes, Li scored second in those events to keep the competition close. Furthermore, Li bested Traina by only 25 hundreths of a point in the floor exercise. The real difference in their overall performances was during the vault. Li finished eigth-tenths of a point ahead of Traina on the vault en route to taking second place in the event and first in the all-around. “Though it’s great if you do well individually, ultimately it’s a team sport,” Li said. Tonry said that the team has already had to deal with a number of challenges this season, primarily injuries to an already small team. The gymnastics team continues its season at home against Penn on Sunday. JOYCE XI/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Morgan Traina ’15 was named the ECAC Rookie of the Year last year, while Joyce Li ’15 was named the ECAC Rookie of the Week twice during last season.
12 to No. 8 in the NCAA coaches’ poll. Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu . Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .
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This meet this past weekend was a definite improvement over our first meet.
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Allain said. “I don’t expect less than 100 percent every single night and I know you can’t give more than that.” Following last weekend’s shutout against Harvard and 4–2 victory over Dartmouth, the Bulldogs moved up from No.
Searching for a way to stay afloat, buoyed by the immense importance I had placed on this story all week, I smugly arrived at a new example. “But what about David Petraeus? He had an affair with his biographer, and he had to resign as CIA director!” She was unfazed. “His affair could have directly affected his job performance. He could have accidentally revealed sensitive information. Petraeus is a highranking government official, and he’s more than 50 years old. Te’o is a college football player, and he’s only 21. In the worst-casescenario, Te’o made up a girlfriend, things spiraled out of control once Notre Dame got big, and he felt he had no choice but to keep lying. Other athletes have committed assault, shot people, cheated on tests and took drugs — and this is what becomes a national scandal?” I sheepishly averted my glance, knowing that I lost. She
made a very good point. I didn’t even bother trying to explain that the story is a media sensation in part because it’s so confusing and unexpected. She was right. Knowing what we know now — that Te’o is likely not the mastermind behind the hoax — we need to re-evaluate our perspective on this admittedly fascinating story. We’re going to blast Te’o for his gullibility and for his handling of the situation when other celebrities are behaving badly — and criminally? Even Heisman winner Johnny Manziel was arrested for a late-night fight last summer in College Station. He’s only 21. He’s our age. And while we probably haven’t created fake significant others (or put our faith in a suspicious online relationship), we’ve made other mistakes in our personal and romantic relationships. Maybe you’ve exaggerated the nature of a relationship or failed to tell your friends that a date went badly. None of this is on the same scale as Manti. But we also aren’t constantly under the national spotlight. I stood in front of him at the Walter Camp Awards two weekends ago as he was assailed from all angles by cameras and fans. He looked tired and a bit overwhelmed. I bet those bright lights would occasionally blind all of us to the mistake-free course of action. And our mistakes certainly won’t deprive us of our ability to succeed in the future. This bizarre incident shouldn’t be Te’o’s biggest moment. I won’t stop following the Te’o story. It’s too interesting to resist. But I’ll make sure to keep it in perspective. I’ve been thinking about Junot Diaz’s opening description of his main character in “This is How You Lose Her.” It probably applies to Te’o, and all of us. Manti is “like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.” Contact EVAN FRONDORF at evan.frondorf@yale.edu .
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NO.25 MIAMI DEFEATS NO.1 DUKE THE MIAMI HURRICANES WERE DELIGHTED AS THEY TOOK DOWN THE BLUE DEVILS 90-63. It was the first time for Miami to rout a No. 1 team. Four of the Miami players hit 3-pointers, which switched its deficit into a 38-15 lead.
“Everyone who’s walking has to compete.” BARBARA TONRY HEAD COACH, GYMNASTICS
YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013 · yaledailynews.com
Yale and the NHL lockout MEN’S HOCKEY
Putting Te’o in perspective
Rink on Dec. 28. “The guys normally watching NHL games were freed up during the lockout to go and watch the college games more exclusively.” MacTavish added that “virtually all” newly signed players committed to their teams by last summer’s
A few days ago, I was sitting with a couple friends at dinner, talking about — what else — the Manti Te’o hoax. Or scandal. Or revelation. Whatever you want to call it. My pals don’t devour sports news like I do, but I thought this was a story that had to be told to everyone. I tried my best to summarize the details as concisely as possible. Fake girlfriend Lennay Kekua. Mastermind Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Notre Dame. Car accidents. Comas. Leukemia. Twitter. Catfishing? I was in the middle of explaining how Te’o’s NFL draft stock will likely fall — either because of his unbelievable naiveté or unthinkable deception — when one friend stopped me mid sentence. “Sure, it’s definitely an interesting story, but what does this have to do with his ability to play professional football?” I looked at her incredulously, as if her question had totally missed the point. I sputtered, “This is a character issue! Even if he wasn’t complicit in the hoax, he still lied about his relationship once he found out she wasn’t real! This was the biggest storyline in college football all year, and people aren’t happy to find out that it was all a lie!” Pausing for a second, she said, “People have the right to feel deceived and even angry. But still, why shouldn’t he be able to play in the NFL?” My reply was a lousy rejoinder. “Think about Lance Armstrong admitting, to Oprah of all people, that he doped through his seven straight Tour de France victories. Don’t you think he should have his victories taken
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Antoine Laganiere ’13, team captain Andrew Miller ’13 and Jeff Malcolm ’13 will be free agents next year. BY ASHTON WACKYM AND LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTERS With three National Hockey League draftees on the roster and several seniors heavily scouted by NHL programs, the Bulldogs have, in their own way, been affected by the recently ended NHL lockout. After four months of dispute
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between NHL players and team owners over contracts and wages, the two parties finally reached an agreement earlier this month and began the condensed season last weekend. While the newly negotiated contracts have not spurred a rise in the number of collegiate hockey players signed to NHL programs, the dispute brought more
exposure to college hockey, leading to an increase in collegiate scouting and a rise in overall game attendance. “NHL teams feel very strongly that they have to be in that college market,” said Edmonton Oilers Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations Craig MacTavish, who attended a game at Ingalls
Yale gymnastics bounces back, places second BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER The Yale gymnastics team did not start its season as it would have liked two weekends ago at Rutgers. Competing in a trimeet against the host school and AlaskaAnchorage, the Eli squad’s performance featured nervous wobbles and falls en route to a third-place finish.
GYMNASTICS But the team bounced back at this Sunday’s meet at Southern Connecticut, finishing in second, only 0.525 points behind the host school. While Yale could not snatch the victory in the team competition, the Bulldogs ruled the individual allaround competition, sweeping the first four spots. Joyce Li ’15 won the all-around with an overall score of 38.375. “This meet this past weekend was a definite improvement over our first meet,” team captain Stephanie Goldstein ’13 said. “We got a lot of the kind of nervous wobbles, nervous falls out, which was good, but I think we definitely still have a lot of room for improvement as the season goes on.” The Bulldogs dominated two of the four apparatuses. Morgan Traina ’15, Li and Lindsey Andsager ’13 placed first, second and third, respectively, in the uneven parallel bars. On the balance beam, Traina and Li again took the top two spots, while Tara SEE GYMNASTICS PAGE 11
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The Bulldogs bounced back at this Sunday’s meet at Southern Connecticut, finishing second, only .525 points behind Southern Connecticut.
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THE SCORE WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS BULLDOG JOYCE LI ’15 RECORDED. The Bulldogs ruled the individual all-around competition and swept their first four spots at Southern Connecticut over the weekend.