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CROSS CAMPUS Shakespeare dreams. A

lecture on the works of William Shakespeare by English professor David Scott Kastan drew big crowds to the Beinecke Wednesday afternoon. Kastan began and closed his speech by making reference to lyrics from the Eurythmics, an influential rock group from the ’80s.

LINSANITY FROM HARVARD TO THE BIG LEAGUES

ANTI-SEMITISM

SHAKESPEARE

TRACK AND FIELD

New institute to offer research grants to students, faculty

CONTEST WINNER TOURS SEVEN DEADLY SCENES

No such thing as an off season for three-season distance runners

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Online lectures enter classroom Five years after the launch of Open Yale Courses, some professors are changing their syllabi to take advantage of the online content.

FEDS SAY SETTLEMENT DOES NOT IMPLY FAULT; FOUR STILL FIGHTING DEPORTATION

BY CHRISTOPHER PEAK AND BEN PRAWDZIK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER

Supreme Court bound?

Connecticut lawyer Karen Torre gained fame in 2009 when she successfully argued for a group of New Haven firefighters in front of the Supreme Court of the United States in Ricci v. DeStefano.

Now, Torre has filed a motion in a suit filed by another firefighter, who’s claiming the 2003 exam that came into question in the 2009 Supreme Court case did not adequately assess his qualifications. Torre filed the motion because the interests of the firefighters she previously represented are at stake in the current trial, the New Haven Independent reported.

A Peru of One’s Own. The Princeton University Art Museum returned six works of art to Italy in December, ending a decade-long legal battle over ownership of the works, the Daily Princetonian reported.

The challenge. Kevin Ryan ’85,

the founder of Gilt Groupe, is sponsoring a 24-hour campaign for the Senior Class Gift starting today at 10 a.m. If the Gift can get to 80 percent participation, Ryan will donate $5,000; if it can reach 85 percent, he’ll donate $7,000; 91 percent, $10,000, and if the Gift can beat last year’s record of 97 percent, Ryan will pitch in $15,000. Currently, 74.7 percent of the class of 2012 has donated, according to the Gift’s website.

One semester down. Of the

115 2011 graduates of New Haven public school students who received one of the first scholarships from New Haven Promise last spring, 105 are enrolled in state colleges this semester.

School district on a hill. In a Tuesday article, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called New Haven “ground zero” for school reform because of the district’s ability to include the teachers’ union in the reform process.

Superstar. North Haven

crooner Gabi Carrubba, 16, advanced past the group stage of American Idol on Wednesday night, making Idol judge Jennifer Lopez sway in her seat to her group’s version of Duffy’s “Mercy.”

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1988 The Gay and Lesbian Cooperative requests that the Yale College Dean’s Office expand its freshperson counseling program to handle the concerns of homosexual freshpeople, calling for the creation of four positions for gay and lesbian counselors.

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Implications of ICE raid suit unclear

While immigrants’ rights advocates lauded Monday’s settlement between the U.S. government and 11 New Haven men arrested in a 2007 raid by federal immigration agents, litigation for four others detained in the raids is still pending, and the case’s legal implications remain unclear.

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Many students interviewed complained that this format makes the courses much more time-intensive, but some said they appreciated the chance to engage actively with the material during lecture.

Diana Kleiner, the founder and director of Open Yale Courses, said she expected that the creation of the site would cause professors to re-evaluate their teaching methods. As an art history professor whose course “Roman Architecture” is online, Kleiner said she

Six of the 11 men, members of their legal team and local supporters spoke at a press conference about the case in the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library in the Hill neighborhood Wednesday morning. The settlement — a $350,000 award to the plaintiffs and the cessation of all deportation proceedings against them — is among the largest monetary settlements ever made by the U.S. over Immigration and Customs Enforcement residential raids and is the first to include both compensation and immigration reviews, said Trudy Rebert LAW ’13, a member of the legal team.

Twenty-nine Fair Haven residents were arrested during the 2007 raids, in which ICE agents entered five households on the morning of June 6 without search warrants and in

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Ecology and evolutionary biology professor Stephen Stearns has revamped his lecture course “Principles of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior” to use its video lectures available online through Open Yale Courses.

BY SARAH SWONG AND ANTONIA WOODFORD CONTRIBUTING REPORTER AND STAFF REPORTER Open Yale Courses has made professors’ lectures available to Internet users around the world, but it is also changing how those professors teach on campus.

The website, which now features videos and transcripts for 35 Yale courses, launched in 2007 in an effort to broaden access to a Yale education. But in some cases, the program has led to revisions in a Yale education: many professors

whose lectures are posted online have since altered their courses to avoid redundancy and give students a reason to attend class in person. While many professors have changed the topics they cover, others have completely redesigned the structure of their classes and incorporated the online material.

Ecology and evolutionary biology professor Stephen Stearns and religious studies professor Christine Hayes both require their students to watch their online lectures before coming to class so that they can spend class time on discussion.

SOM to increase marketing funds

BY DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTER In an effort to promote the School of Management more effectively, SOM Dean Edward Snyder decided during his inaugural year to add $1 million to the school’s marketing budget.

Upon assuming the deanship last summer, Snyder identified a handful of “strategic shortfalls” at SOM, among them the school’s approach to marketing its programs and initiatives beyond the Yale community. While specific uses of the

expanded marketing budget will not be announced until later this year, Snyder said the change will ultimately attract more students and faculty to SOM. As the number of Master of Business Administration programs continues to grow worldwide, two associate deans at peer business schools said Yale’s push for increased marketing fits with an international trend.

“There are now over 13,000 MBA programs around the world, so the landscape is getting crowded and noisy,” said Trip Davis, senior associate

Engineering broadens appeal

BY CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTER In an effort to draw a more diverse selection of students, some engineering professors have broadened the focus of their courses in recent years.

Two advanced engineering courses that emphasize socioeconomic factors and consumer needs — a departure from engineering’s traditionally technical approach — are becoming increasingly popular with students. Vincent Wilczynski, deputy dean for the School of Engineering and Applied Science, said these interdisciplinary courses encourage students to combine engineering with other fields to address real-world problems. He added that as student demand for these courses continues to increase, he anticSEE ENGINEERING PAGE 4

dean for external relations at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, where Snyder served as dean from 1998 to 2001. “For high-quality, wellknown schools, the integrity of the brand is very important, and those that have the resources to market their brands are going to do that.”

Snyder said SOM has many unique educational offerings, but that those are often not adequately publicized.

In addition to offering a multidisciplinary curriculum, the school also hosts events such as

the annual Education Leadership Conference, which brings together speakers to discuss education policy, Snyder said.

These events frequently do not receive the amount of media attention they deserve, he added.

“We do all these great things and people just don’t know about them,” Snyder said. “Basically, [the budget increase] shifts us from, ‘We’re Yale — people will come to us,’ to ‘Here are all the terrific things we’re doing.’ ” SEE SOM PAGE 6

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Dean Ted Snyder upped SOM’s marketing budget by $1 million.

Reno coaching era begins EIGHT-MAN STAFF INCLUDES FORMER HARVARD, YALE ASSISTANTS; ONLY ONE WILLIAMS-ERA COACH REMAINS

BY CHARLES CONDRO AND JIMIN HE STAFF REPORTERS A month after his introduction as the 34th head coach of the Yale football team, Tony Reno officially

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New Yale football head coach Tony Reno has selected an eight-man staff.

announced the members of his first coaching staff yesterday.

Reno’s first set of staff members, all seven of whom hail from New England, includes three former Harvard assistant coaches and two of Reno’s colleagues during former Yale head coach Jack Siedlecki’s tenure from 2003 to 2008. The only coach Reno decided to retain from former head coach Tom Williams’ regime is defensive coordinator Rick Flanders, who now enters his 16th season at Yale.

“They are experienced, winning coaches, coming from programs that have had great success,” Director of Athletics Tom Beckett said. “Their reputations are such that they are outstanding teachers and communicators, and they love the young men who play the game of college football.”

Reno could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

On the other side of the ball, for-

mer University of Massachusetts head coach Kevin Morris will be Yale’s offensive coordinator. Morris compiled a 16–17 record over three seasons running the Minutemen and a more impressive 43–19 record during his five seasons as the UMass offensive coordinator.

Four players interviewed said they are confident the new coaches will help the team improve next season.

“Coach Reno wouldn’t have brought in anything less than someone who can take us to the next level,” quarterback John Whitelaw ’14 said. “Hopefully they can bring their experience and help us become a winning football team.”

Reno came to Yale from his position as the special teams coordinator at Harvard, a post he held for three years. Three Cantab coaches — Dwayne Wilmot, Kris Barber ’97 and Joe Conlin — will follow in Reno’s footsteps in transitioning from Harvard to Yale.

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.COMMENT “Jeremy Lin is an example of why we should have athletes in our

GUEST COLUMNIST MARISSA MEDANSKY

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ment of flaw or fault poses an existential threat to Lincoln’s legacy of greatness. Abraham Lincoln deserves more.

Lincoln’s evolution of thought — not some sort of static exceptionalism — made him remarkable. Over the course of his life, and especially during the Civil War, Lincoln did a lot of thinking.

He grappled with his moral objections to slavery and the political realities of his time.

He thought about realism and idealism and tried to find where, if anywhere, the two might intersect. Sometimes, he even changed his mind.

His beliefs evolved — not as a result of politically prudent flip-flopping, but rather of genuine thought.

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ing — and I would certainly not lament seeing them pass by as I walk through my college. The colleges are beautiful spaces to read or study outdoors for most of the year, and, in the winter, who wouldn’t like to take a shortcut or two through the colleges? I can only speak anecdotally, of course — many graduate students may well be psychopaths, not the pleasant intellectuals seeking to read or pass through. (Maybe an interview process for their admission might be a decent idea after all.)

But does anyone really think our community is better served or made safer by denying them gate access?

We already let these people into a large part of Yale, including classrooms, labs and administrative offices, and if someone is truly intent on doing serious mischief, gates that are regularly opened by a steady stream of undergraduates at almost all hours of the day — and frequently politely held for passerby — are not a meaningful protective measure.

On the other hand, gate access might facilitate a lot of positive interactions between graduates

and the current residential college populations. There are a multitude of Master’s Teas and talks that would interest graduate students and spark ideas for dissertations or other works.

Allowing conversations in section to continue in the dining hall would promote the academic passions that all Yalies share, yet we block graduate students there too — even if they have meal plans that allow them access to the Hall of Graduate Studies dining hall.

I understand the allure of forming the residential colleges as spaces where a relatively small group of people can get to know each other well.

But those who have suggested that an influx of graduate students would destroy that intimate feeling are off-base. People passing through or reading on benches does not devastate a sense of community any more than having interlopers from another residential college frequent your courtyard. Everyone makes quite a few friends from outside his or her college. No one begrudges inter-collegiate friendships, even if they detract from potential intra-collegiate

ones. Graduate student friendshipss are analogous.

Ultimately, creating contact points where people with similar interests can meet each other and interact presents an opportunity that could create tremendous rewards for undergraduates, who have much to learn from wiser and more experienced graduate students. If I had known half the things some of my graduate student friends have shared with me, I would have tweaked quite a few aspects of my life — and might have been far happier far sooner. Those relationships come from lunches and chats with grad students — and maybe even from welcoming them into some of our student organizations.

The New Students and Alumni at Yale organization, which seeks to bring together undergraduates, graduate students and alumni, may well prove a powerful mechanism to drive our separate communities together.

In that spirit, we should throw open our gates as well.

MICHAEL MAGDZIK is a junior in Berkeley College. Contact him at michael.magdzik@yale.edu .

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ive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” was not written about graduate students, but it may as well have been. Between years of work, small stipends — or for those lucky folks getting masters’, crushing debt! — boring tomes dusty enough to constitute a choking hazard and, for prospective Ph.D.s, a job market with higher unemployment than Greece’s, Yale’s graduate students could use a break and a friendly gesture. We should give them a few.

First up on the list? Gate access. Whatever purpose the gates of the colleges are meant to accomplish, barring fellow scholars from the residential courtyards is not one of them.

(One might even argue that the sheltered nature of the Ivory Tower is undesirable, and we should throw open the gates to everyone — but that’s more contentious and best left for another day.)

All my teaching fellows, classmates and friends who have been graduate students have been perfectly pleasant and very intellectually engag-

MARISSA MEDANSKY is a freshman in Morse College. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact her at marissa.medansky@yale.edu .

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Lincoln was not — as we are so often told as children — born perfect. But in actively and affirmatively wrestling with issues — and in challenging himself and others — Lincoln became more perfect, much like the Union he tried to create. And he became, in a way, like us — or, more accurately, how we could be — as he and we and Americans everywhere work through the issues of our time.

This Presidents’ Day, if you remember Abraham Lincoln at all, do not remember Abraham Lincoln because he was perfect. Remember him as someone who, as it turns out, really did have the complexity of someone who secretly fought vampires in his spare time. Lincoln said it best: “with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.”

Like Lincoln, we’re all striving to be better.

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Lincoln’s hunt he great Illinois poet Carl Sandburg — the scribe of his big-shouldered city — published “Chicago Poems” in 1916. A prolific non-fiction author and poet, Sandburg wrote volumes upon volumes chronicling the childhood and the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln — a fellow man of the Midwest—fascinated him, and Sandburg’s fascination spawned one of his most unassuming poems: a mere quatrain entitled “In a Back Alley.”

“Remembrance of a great man is this,” wrote Sandburg. “The newsies are pitching pennies. / And on a copper disk is the man’s face. / Dead lover of boys, what do you ask for now?”

Two hundred years later, the conversation between Lincoln and his legacy has tempered. Sandburg encapsulates this kind of passive remembrance. We remember Honest Abe in token places: our pennies and our Presidents’ Day, crammed in with George Washington as a demigod of American history.

We remember Lincoln in token catchphrases, too. Lincoln freed the slaves; he had a wife named Mary Todd. He lived in a log cabin and taught himself to read, so stay in school and eat your vegetables. Abraham Lincoln liked to wear a big black top hat, and at the end of his life, a bad man shot him in the neck at a theatre in Washington D.C. As children, we listened. And we learned — legs crossed in a kindergarten carpet on a Presidents’ Day past — that evil existed in the world. Sic semper tyrannis, or something like that.

Last Sunday, Abraham Lincoln turned 203 years old. He celebrated his birthday with little fanfare—as dead men often do. His life merited a token Twitter mention from @ Yale. One day later, 20th Century Fox released the teasertrailer for “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” a new film — based on Seth GrahameSmith’s novel of the same name — that imagines Honest Abe as a vampire slayercum-abolitionist, wielding his trademark axe against the evils of slavery and vampirism alike.

But Abraham Lincoln’s life deserves a complexity of understanding that we do not afford him on the front of a five-dollar bill. We tend to remember Lincoln as though he were eternally great — and as though any acknowledge-

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week and a half ago, on Feb. 4, a day celebrated as Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, a 23-year-old Saudi blogger named Hamza Kashgari posted three Tweets that set his country on fire.

“On your birthday, I will say that I have loved the rebel in you,” he Tweeted, addressing Prophet Muhammad. “You’ve always been a source of inspiration to me, [but] I do not like the halos of divinity around you. I have loved aspects of you, hated others, and could not understand many more. I shall not pray for you. I shall not kiss your hand. Rather, I shall shake it as equals do, and smile at you as you smile at me.”

The response to his tweets surprised even Kashgari. Weeping clerics called for him to be punished for insulting Islam. An online lynch squad was formed, with over 13,000 people joining a Facebook page called “The Saudi People Demand the Execution of Hamza Kashgari,” and scores of Saudis bayed for his blood, such that King Abdullah felt obliged to issue a warrant for his arrest under the charge of blasphemy — a capital offense in Saudi Arabia.

Kashgari’s tweets weren’t heroic — certainly not by usual standards — something that Kashgari himself would be the

first to admit. This was no hero challenging an overbearing theocracy; it was an ordinary person earnestly expressing his mixture of doubt, affection and confusion about the Prophet, a young man struggling to come to terms with his faith.

Despite numerous commentators hailing Kashgari as the Saudi Salman Rushdie, Kashgari’s tweets could not have been more different from “The Satanic Verses.” Far from being an exquisite work of art or a compelling critique of religion, Kashgari’s tweets were the most innocuous of messages in the most banal of mediums.

While Rushdie doggedly stuck to his guns, even in the face of Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa, Kashgari quickly issued a long apology and removed the offending tweets, but to no avail. The mob would not be soothed. Kashgari had unwittingly tweeted his own death warrant — virtual suicide in 140 characters.

Fearing for his life, Kashgari boarded a flight to my home country of Malaysia, from which he was to transit to New Zealand where he would seek asylum.

Unfortunately, upon landing, he was detained by Malaysian police at the request of the Saudi government. After some delibera-

tion last weekend, the Malaysian government decided to send him back to Saudi Arabia to face whatever passes for justice there.

There are a few things that are surprising about this case and a few things that are not. Under the circumstances, the actions of the Saudi and the Malaysian governments were unsurprising. I did not expect courage or humanity from the corrupt and despotic House of Saud. Nor did I expect it from the Malaysian government, least of all from the administration of Prime Minister Najib Razak, who I regard as an unprincipled coward and whose simpering attempts to appeal to the lowest common denominator of religious bigotry are a national disgrace.

I did, however, expect a degree of courage and humanity from the U.S., the U.K. and other European governments. But despite the strident calls from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to the Malaysian government urging it not to return Kashgari, the voice of Western governments seemed conspicuously muted. They appear to have failed to pressure the Malaysian government while Kashgari was being detained, when such pressure could have made a difference.

It’s possible that Western embassies just overlooked this issue over the weekend, but that’s dubious given the extensive media coverage it received.

A more convincing reason is the one alluded to by the Washington Post in an editorial: The U.S., scrambling to form a coalition against Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, badly needs continued Saudi support.

I can sympathize with the utilitarian reasoning behind Western inaction — to an extent.

After all, the life of one blogger has to be weighed against the lives of the thousands of Syrians who could be saved if a successful intervention were arranged. If allowing the Saudi government to parade Kashgari before howling mobs were a necessary sacrifice for uniting against Syrian violence, I’d like to see in coming weeks that it was worth it. But as the U.S. and its allies continue to stall while Assad shells his people into submission, the justification for such egregious inaction in the Kashgari case becomes increasingly hollow.

SHAUN TAN is a second-year student in International Relations.

Contact him at shaunzhiming.tan@yale.edu .

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“Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.”

DONELLA MEADOWS AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST

YPD sets date for police academy

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 4:00 PM “Roundup-Ready Alfalfa: Queen of Forages or Whore of Babylon?” Cooperative extension specialist and agronomist Dan Putnam, chair of the California alfalfa workgroup Western Alfalfa Symposium and professor of plant science at the University of California, Davis, will give this Biotechnology in Agriculture seminar. Kline Biology Tower (219 Prospect St.), Room 1214.

4:30 PM “The ‘Rise’ of China: A Metaphor for Americans.”

University of Chicago history professor Bruce Cumings will argue that the the metaphorical idea of China “emerging, rising, overcoming the U.S.” is a peculiarly American view. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Room 203.

6:30 PM “Cross Cultural Identities: Feminism and Sexuality in South Asia.” Geetanjali Chanda, senior lecturer in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, and Madhavi Murty, a visiting international professor and expert in WGSS, will address vital questions related to the role of women and perspectives on sexuality in South Asia. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Room 116.

7:00 PM “Blue Valentine.” The screening of this 2010 romantic drama will be followed by a discussion with producer Jack Lechner.

Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), auditorium.

Carbon Fund makes green strides

BY LILIANA VARMAN STAFF REPORTER Since joining forces with the New Haven Office of Sustainability a year and a half ago, the Yale Community Carbon Fund has worked to expand renewable energy use in the city.

Having exceeded its goal of installing programmable thermostats in 125 New Haven l ow- to - m o d e ra te - i n co m e homes in the 125 Homes Project, the Fund is now in the process of providing the thermostats to households undergoing free energy assessments courtesy of a current Office of Sustainability program. The thermostat project comes as the Carbon Fund is planning other renewable energy initiatives to disseminate throughout the city.

“We’re really looking to bring about a reduction in emissions and change behavior in the long-term, and do so for low-income people for whom it would be more difficult to make these changes themselves,” said Annie Harper GRD ’10, coordinator for the Yale Community Carbon Fund. “[Yale is] a center of excellence and we have a responsibility to expand expertise and learning outside just the campus.”

Through the 125 Homes Project, which began in 2010, the Carbon Fund aimed to install programmable thermostats — which allow users to pre-set the temperature at different levels during the day — in 125 households throughout the city. Though the Fund has installed 50 more thermostats than originally intended, Harper said, it is possible that some homes received more than one thermostat. Still, Harper said, she feels that the goal of the project was met.

“The aim was to improve energy efficiency in as many homes as we could cover,” she said, adding that houses can vary in the number of thermostats they require.

She added that she is just starting to assess the impact of the project and is planning to survey thermostat users to see whether their energy bills dropped. According to the Carbon Fund’s website, the thermostats are estimated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 342 tons of carbon for the first 125 homes reached.

The Carbon Fund distributed the thermostats through the Elm City Green and Healthy Homes Initiative, which offered to install them when conducting free energy assessments for homes in New Haven. The energy assessments include a blower-door test to pinpoint critical drafts and air leaks, as well as a duct test assessing air leaks within the ductwork system, said Christine Eppstein Tang, director of the New Haven Office of Sustainability. Additionally, she added, the assessments entail the installation of energy-

efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs and hot-water saving measures such as low-flow showerheads and faucet aerators.

Eppstein Tang said 870 energy assessments had been conducted by the end of 2011 — 208 in low-income homes — each of which costs approximately $75.

Homes that undergo an energy assessment can also choose to have a tree planted in front of their residence for free, said Eppstein Tang. The city’s goal, she said, is to have 10,000 new trees planted by 2015.

But the tree-planting initiative has faced budget cuts in the past year, said Colleen Murphy-Dunning, director of the Urban Resources Initiative (URI), the non-profit partnership with the University that plants the trees. As a result of cuts from the city, MurphyDunning said, URI is no longer able to meet the mayor’s initial goal of planting 1,000 trees annually, but has adjusted its goal to 333 trees per year.

We have a responsibility to expand expertise and learning outside just the campus.

ANNIE HARPER GRD ’10 Coordinator, Yale Community Carbon Fund “Our goal has not changed, but it might just take a little longer to reach it,” she said.

Moving forward, Harper said, the Carbon Fund is developing a home insulation program which would reduce the amount of heating needed in the winter. Though the program already has funding available, Harper said, no money has been used so far since she has yet to decide whether to focus on houses or apartments. She added that some buildings, especially those built in or before the 1970s, are likely to have thinner insulation than current standards regulate, and others may not have any insulation at all.

The Carbon Fund also has plans to outfit local nonprofit organizations. The Fund hopes to install solar thermal panels on the roofs of the Mary Wade Home, a nursing home on Clinton Avenue, and the Columbus House homeless shelter on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, Harper said. She added that this project is currently awaiting funding confirmation from Connecticut’s Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority.

The Yale Community Carbon Fund is a joint project of the Yale Office of Sustainability and the Center for Business and Environment at Yale.

Contact LILIANA VARMAN at liliana.varman@yale.edu .

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Former Yale Police Chief James Perrotti speaks at the department’s Citizen’s Police Academy in 2009.

BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER The Yale Police Department will kick off its next Citizen Police Academy on March 30.

The program, which will run for six consecutive Tuesday evenings at the YPD’s Ashmun Street headquarters, aims to increase understanding and awareness of the department’s history, operations and capabilities, Chief Ronnell Higgins said. As part of the YPD’s expanded community policing strategy, the police academy, now in its fifth year, is free for those in the Yale or New Haven community.

“We saw this as an opportunity to showcase the commitment, dedication and professionalism of the department while engaging members of our community in the hopes that we could strengthen public trust with the community we serve,” Higgins said.

This year’s police academy will offer an “inside look” at the YPD and includes classroom and hands-on activities. The curriculum features crime scene processing, “CSI vs. Reality” and a showcase of the communications and technology used in modern policing, according to a flyer advertising the program.

An initiative of former YPD Chief James Perrotti, the police academy began after the YPD relocated five years ago from its old headquarters on Sachem Street to the Rose Center in the Dixwell neighborhood, Higgins said.

Twenty-nine members of the Yale and New Haven community, ranging from self-proclaimed “Law & Order” enthusiasts to security professionals, participated in the program last year.

Camille Hardiman GRD ’13, who studies microbiology and attended the academy last fall, said she strongly recommends the program to fellow students. The Citizen Police Academy was “really different, much more involved” than she expected, Hardiman said, adding that she enjoyed meeting the chief and was impressed with his “vision” for the YPD.

You feel more in control of your safety on campus, and it’s great to recognize the officers on patrol or in the newspaper.

CAMILLE HARDIMAN GRD ’13 “[The program is] part educational, part like sitting in a bar eavesdropping on veteran cops sharing their stories,” she said. “You feel more in control of your safety on campus, and it’s great to recognize the officers on patrol or in the newspaper.”

The police academy is one component of the YPD’s community policing strategy, which also includes walking patrols around Wall Street, Howe Street, Edge-

wood Avenue and Park Street, Higgins said in a Feb. 9 email to the Yale community.

As part of that strategy, Higgins said the YPD has strengthened its partnership with the New Haven Police Department. Under the leadership of Chief Dean Esserman, the NHPD is reviving community policing strategies first employed in the 1990s. In the past few months, the NHPD has rolled out walking beats to the Elm City’s 10 districts, initiated a weekly department-wide meeting to track crime and ensure accountability and increased the involvement of probation and patrol officers to combat recidivism.

While the NHPD’s community policing tactics waned through the early 2000s, the YPD has maintained its “community-oriented” approach to policing since its inception in 1894, Assistant Chief Michael Patten said in a November email to the News.

“Community safety is best enhanced and ensured when all work together,” he said. “We believe in the value of community understanding of the police and their role and recognize [that] the community has a voice in how police services are provided.”

The Citizen Police Academy will be capped at 30 participants and those interested can register online through the YPD’s website.

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

YPSA to award research grants

BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER Beginning this spring, Yalies interested in the study of anti-Semitism will be eligible for funding from the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism.

As a part of its mission to foster scholarship of anti-Semitism on campus, YPSA will award grants this April to approximately five students and five faculty members. The grants, funded by the Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Foundation, will range from $500 to $2,500 for students and will amount to about $3,000 for faculty. Students and faculty must apply for the grants by March 1, and program director Maurice Samuels said the grant recipients will become integrated members of YPSA. “One of the core missions of YPSA is to promote scholarship,” said Samuels, who is also the director of graduate studies for the French Department.

“We feel that the quality of Yale’s student and faculty research really has something to offer.”

YPSA was founded last June after the controversial termination of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, which administrators deemed too politically oriented for an academic environment. Provost Peter Salovey told the News in June that YPSA would focus on reviving the scholarly study of anti-Semitism.

The new grants are a natural extension of YPSA’s commitment to “serious scholarly interest” in the field of

anti-Semitism, Samuels said, adding that YPSA’s ability to promote scholarship differentiates it from an advocacy group. Since its establishment, YPSA has also hosted panels and lectures on topics ranging from Holocaust denial to the Israeli-Palestenian conflict, and Samuels said the organization hopes to bring visiting professors to campus in the 2012-’13 school year.

It’s important to put modern antiSemitism into context and not ignore it. It has not gone away and… we must understand it.

URIEL EPSHTEIN ’14 Samuels said projects eligible for funding will range from trips abroad to research conducted using Yale’s own archives. Grant recipients will be expected to attend all YPSA events in the 2012-’13 academic year, Samuels said, and will be required to present their findings at a YPSA colloquium.

Rabbi James Ponet ’68 said he believes that studying anti-Semitism can better scholarly understanding of other prejudices such as racism and xenophobia.

“Antisemitism has resulted in terrible collective persecutions,” Ponet said.

“If we can understand the dynamics of

what happened and why it happened, we might be able to intervene to help other hatreds and prejudices that are operative in the world now.”

Although YPSA grant applications are not due for several weeks, Samuels said six students have already expressed interest. Samuels said no faculty members have directly approached him so far, adding that he emailed YPSA-affiliated faculty about the grants this week.

Sam Gardenswartz ’13, co-president of Yale Hillel, said he included an announcement about the grant in Hillel’s weekly newsletter. Gardenswartz said he hopes that YPSA will make it easier for Yalies to study anti-Semitism.

Uriel Epshtein ’14, who is considering applying for a grant, said he thinks YPSA is helping students by offering grants, noting that obtaining sufficient funding is often an obstacle for undergraduates who want to pursue independent research. Epshtein added that he feels anti-Semitism is an important area of study.

“It’s important to put modern antiSemitism into context and not ignore it,” Epshtein said. “It has not gone away, and to combat it, we must understand it.”

YPSA’s next event is a panel titled “Theorizing the Study of Anti-Semitism,” which is slated for Feb. 16.

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Remember that when you say ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,’ you have denied America with that word.” STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT ’19 WRITER

Despite settlement, questions persist over ICE raid ICE FROM PAGE 1 some instances with guns drawn.

The 11 men who won the settlement filed a lawsuit in October 2009 alleging that federal immigration authorities violated their Fourth, Fifth and 10th Amendment rights through the raids’ planning and execution.

Immigration agents didn’t respect our rights, they didn’t respect our privacy, they didn’t respect the tears of our children.

WASHINGTON COLALA-PEÑARRETA Plaintiff “Immigration agents didn’t respect our rights, they didn’t respect our privacy, they didn’t respect the tears of our children,” said plaintiff Washington ColalaPeñarreta, who was arrested by ICE agents in a raid of his Fillmore Street apartment, at Wednesday’s press conference. “Nothing compensates us for what we suffered during that period in prison, but

the settlement agreement demonstrates that injustice always comes with some compensation.”

Although Cristobal SerranoMendez, another plaintiff, said he thinks the outcome shows “the government knows it did something wrong,” and immigration rights supporters similarly cheered the settlement, no ICE agents or officials have been found guilty of a crime or admitted to any wrongdoing, raising questions as to how substantial the victory is for immigrants.

“As stated in court documents, this settlement is in no way intended to be, and should not be construed as, an admission of liability or fault on the part of the U.S. government,” ICE spokesman Ross Feinstein said in an email to the News, adding that ICE decided to settle with the plaintiffs in hopes of avoiding prolonging costly litigation on the case.

FOR SOME, THE TRIAL CONTINUES

Four people arrested in the 2007 raids who chose not to participate in the civil rights lawsuit remain in immigration proceedings.

“The facts of those cases are identical to the cases of the indi-

viduals here today with whom the government has settled,” said Muneer Ahmad, a Yale Law School professor and attorney representing the 11 plaintiffs who settled Monday and the four still in proceedings. “They were in the same homes that were broken into in the same manner by the same agents.”

In the four outstanding cases, an initial motion to suppress evidence from the raids was denied by immigration judge Michael Straus. The Board of Immigration Appeals overturned Straus’s earlier decision and sent the cases back to him to correct any previous error.

“We are, at a minimum, several years from the resolution of those cases if the government chooses to continue its efforts to deport those four,” said Michael Wishnie ’87 LAW ’93, a Law School professor and an attorney for the four cases.

Ahmad said he has filed applications to the government for a settlement to end litigation concerning the conduct of ICE agents and proceedings on the immigration status of the four remaining plaintiffs.

“Our hope is that the government will treat those cases with the same commitment to recon-

YDN

Members of Fair Haven’s St. Rose of Lima Church, above, worked with Junta for Progressive Action volunteers to get the latest information about the raids to members of the community. ciliation that they did [with Monday’s settlement],” he said.

Wishnie said at least four of the 29 arrested in the raids have since earned a green card or some form of legal status. Others have chosen to return to their country of origin rather than pursue litigation. Only people two detained in the raid were deported.

NO CLARITY OFFERED ON IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS

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The majority of New Haven’s 10,000 to 15,000 undocumented immigrants live in Fair Haven.

While it is unclear what effect Monday’s settlement might have on immigrants’ rights, Yurika Cooper, a partner at the Immigration Law Group in Washington, D.C. — a private firm practicing exclusively in immigration law — said the lawsuit’s outcome fits into a national trend toward greater recognition of rights, including those of undocumented residents.

“If you are illegal and you are a victim of a crime, does it make you less worthy of police protection than someone who is a U.S. citizen?” Cooper asked. “The trend has been one of greater awareness of victims’ rights in general — there are a lot of advocacy efforts and a lot of attorneys working pro bono for susceptible groups.”

Cooper also said the settlement

is an example of “prosecutorial discretion,” where ICE officials employ circumstantial judgement to determine whether deportation is appropriate. Cooper and student interns at the Law School legal clinic said ICE typically targets fugitives and felons guilty of violent crimes for deportation proceedings.

Cooper cited a deadly Florida car crash in January this year as an example of the policy. Jose Carmo, his wife and their two daughters were driving a van on an interstate highway before colliding with several other vehicles in a pileup accident. The Carmo family had emigrated from Brazil to the United States illegally in 2000, and every family member except for the younger, 15-yearold daughter was killed in the crash. Cooper said through prosecutorial discretion, ICE decided it would be unjust to deport the orphaned girl, who had been raised her entire life in the United States.

In August of last year, President Barack Obama introduced legislation promoting greater use of prosecutorial discretion in deportation cases. While such policy measures do not offer formal amnesty to illegal immi-

grants, several states have resisted Obama’s plan.

Law professor Wishnie said Obama’s new guidelines “will take time” to take full effect, but added that he hopes they will eventually change the institutional culture of ICE. Lauren Filiberto, an immigration attorney at Murtha Cullina, a law firm in New Haven, said ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are increasingly exercising prosecutorial discretion in a manner that is pro-immigrants’ rights. It is unclear, however, whether the 11 Fair Haven plaintiffs received a settlement in recognition of a violation of their constitutional rights or if the payout was a means to “shut the door” on pending litigation that would have cost more dollars, she said.

According to an October statement by ICE Director John Morton, 396,906 individuals were deported from the United States in the 2011 fiscal year, the largest number of deportations in the agency’s history.

Contact CHRISTOPHER PEAK at christopher.peak@yale.edu and BEN PRAWDZIK at benjamin.prawdzik@yale.edu .

Engineering seminars aim for accessibility ENGINEERING FROM PAGE 1 ipates other engineering professors may introduce similar design courses, particularly after the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design opens next fall.

Mechanical engineering professor John Morrell, who coteaches “Appropriate Technology and the Developing World,” said demand for the course has exceeded the 18 slots in its first two years, adding that this spring he there was an increase in interest from professional schools students and undergraduates in fields other than engineering. Another interdisciplinary course, “Biotechnology and the Developing World,” attracted only three students when it was first offered two years ago, but eight took the

course last year, and some interested students were denied spots this spring after around 80 students shopped the seminar, said biomedical engineering professor Anjelica Gonzalez, the course’s instructor.

“The course allows someone with less technical backgrounds to use their expertise to come up with very appropriate designs,” Gonzalez said. “We’re very interested in reaching out to the [student body] as a whole. Engineering can get a bad rap for being mathematically intensive, so this helps make it accessible.”

The two courses split class time into two sections: analysis of the research and development process through case studies, and the development of technological solutions to issues in developing

countries. Gonzalez said past projects have included the creation of new vaccines, a vitamin delivery system and medical equipment, adding that some students have tested their designs over the summer using research fellowships.

Morrell, a former Segway engineer, said students in his course have produced several promising ideas, but testing a design in the field takes a significant effort that is not feasible in a one semester class. He added that he hopes some students may bring their ideas to agencies in developing countries.

“Once we’ve got as much as we can in a classroom environment, we hope to bundle the ideas to [field test] them, but we haven’t come up with a good process for doing that,” Morrell said. “While

we can do some interesting projects, nothing sets us up to do a multi-year commercialization trial.”

Engineering can get a bad rap for being mathematically intensive, so this helps make it accessible.

ANJELICA GONZALEZ Professor, “Biotechnology and the Developing World” Seven students interviewed who are taking the interdisciplin-

ary design courses said the combination of technical engineering strategies and societal research offers a useful framework to approach real-world issues. Two SOM students in the mechanical engineering course said they enrolled in part to have the chance to work with engineers.

“It’s not just their knowledge … but also the way they think about a problem,” Elliot Greenberger SOM ’12. “Some of them are obsessed with technical data, and that’s just not the first place my mind goes. I also believe it’s more reflective of what work teams and organizations will increasingly look like in the real world.”

Joshua Pugil ’13, an environmental studies major, said he values the biotechnology course for its technological approach to

issues in global health and its rigor in directing students through the process of designing a product.

But this type of interdisciplinary course does not appeal to all engineering students. Yishai Kamin ’12, a biomedical engineering major, said the approach of Gonzalez’ interdisciplinary biotechnology course is not as relevant to him since he plans to focus his studies on tissue engineering.

“Appropriate Technology and the Developing World” has no prerequisites, while “Biotechnology and the Developing World” requires students to have taken MCDB 120, “Principles of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.”

Contact CLINTON WANG at clinton.wang@yale.edu .

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NEWS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS MELINDA GATES Gates was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at Duke University. After earning a master’s in business administration, she started working for Microsoft, where she met her future husband.

The couple was married in 1994 and now has three children.

Two Yalies win Gates fellowships

BY ANDREW GIAMBRONE STAFF REPORTER

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Harry McNamara ’11 was awarded the 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

Two Yale students were awarded the 2012 Gates Cambridge Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England, Yale Director for National Fellowships Katherine Dailinger said Tuesday.

Sarah Armitage ’12, a history major in Pierson College, and Harry McNamara ’11, an alumnus of Branford College who completed a double major in Ethics, Politics & Economics and physics, will both pursue masters of philosophy at Cambridge this coming fall — Armitage in social and economic history and McNamara in micro- and nanotechnology enterprise. The two Yalies are among 40 American students who received the scholarship this year from a pool of approximately 750 applicants, according to a press release from the Gates Cambridge Trust.

Yale was one of five Ivy League institutions to have students named Gates recipients this year.

Princeton boasted the largest

number of scholarship recipients, with five students named Gates scholars, while Harvard University had four and both Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania had one. The University of California, Berkeley, also had four winners, while the University of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had three and two winners, respectively.

The scholarship was established in 2000 with a $210 million endowment by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and at least two Yale students have won the award each year for the past decade. Two Yalies also received the scholarship in 2011.

According to its website, the Gates Cambridge Trust awards scholarships according to four criteria: intellectual ability, leadership capacity, commitment to improving the lives of others, and the candidate’s fit with Cambridge.

Armitage, who hails from Concord, Mass., said she is interested in studying urban planning, the history of cities and modern

Shakespeare forms sinful cabaret

BY JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTER A spin of the carnival wheel on the set of “The Deadly Seven: Shakespeare’s Purgatorio,” determines which of the seven deadly sins the audience experiences next.

“The Deadly Seven,” opening today as a part of the semester-long Shakespeare at Yale festival, is a medley of seven scenes and monologues from Shakespeare’s plays, performed by seven actors and each featuring one of the deadly sins. Director Alexi Sargeant ’15 came up with the idea for a play drawn from Shakespeare’s texts as his submission to last term’s Shakespeare Challenge organized by the Office of the Dean for the Arts in Yale College, which offered funding to select undergraduates with ideas for Shakespeare-related events.

seven props reoccur in [each] scene,” Sargeant said.

While Costume Designer Marisa Kaugars ’15 described the costumes as “mostly modern with some historical references,” Sargeant said they were not designed to modernize the script as a social commentary.

“The costume choice is more about giving consistency to the show, so it doesn’t have to be leaping from 16th century England to Ancient Rome,” Sargeant said, adding that while he is not setting the scenes in the presentday, he “would never say Shakespeare is irrelevant.”

Sargeant said audience members do not have to be well-versed in Shakespeare to follow the play; the production team has worked to make sure the scenes can be understood out

of context, and the program includes short blurbs about each narrative’s background.

The play does not draw its own conclusions about the seven deadly sins, but instead leaves the message up to interpretation by audience members, Sargeant said.

“In some ways we’re not imposing an interpretation on this. It’s more that we’re giving [the audience] these seven scenes, showing them ways in which they can be tied together, and then seeing what they get out of that,” Sargeant said.

“The Deadly Seven” runs through Sunday in the Pierson-Davenport Theater.

British history. At Cambridge, Armitage said she plans to write a dissertation on the municipalization of social services in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s.

After completing her studies at Cambridge, Armitage said she intends to work as an academic historian or a policy researcher.

“One thing I have learned is that cities very rarely follow general theories,” she said. “An understanding of their particularities and local context really matters.”

Armitage added that her interest in urban planning expands beyond the classroom. She said she has worked with a “socially responsible” investment fund, volunteered for a case management agency for low-income and homeless clients, and worked with the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen.

McNamara, who grew up near Pittsburgh, Pa., said his undergraduate research focused on circuit quantum electrodynamics and quantum information processing. McNamara said he is interested in studying how nano-

technology can be used in medical research, such as monitoring neuron activity in the brain, and added that he plans to pursue a Ph.D. in condensed matter physics after studying at Cambridge.

“The types of problems I find rewarding to study are human problems, with direct human impacts,” McNamara said. “My dad is a doctor, so I’ve always been interested in the issue of health, and I’m particularly interested in different types of technology that could be applied to biology.”

During his time at Yale, McNamara also served as president of Yale’s chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity and coordinated FOCUS on New Haven, a community service and urban studies orientation program for sophomores and transfer students.

Fifty more Gates scholarships will be presented in Cambridge to 50 international students in late March.

Contact ANDREW GIAMBRONE at andrew.giambrone@yale.edu .

Lovins advocates for energy efficiency

Contact JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

Everything is tied together by this very limited palette of red, black and white and … the same seven props that reoccur in [each] scene.

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Environmentalist Amory Lovins spoke at Kroon Hall Wednesday about how to reduce fossil fuel usage.

ALEXI SARGEANT ’15 Director, “The Deadly Seven”

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER

The script focuses on scenes from Shakespeare in which a central character represents or provides commentary on one of the deadly sins, Sargeant said. In editing the script, he said he drew from Shakespeare’s tragedies, comedies and histories, including “The Merchant of Venice;” “Henry VI, Part 3;” “Henry IV, Part 2;” “Measure for Measure;” “Richard II;” and “Antony and Cleopatra.”

Producer Derek Braverman ’15 added that the play is more of a “cohesive production” than an collection of disparate scenes. Wilfredo Ramos ’15 plays Falstaff, the likeably sinful knight from Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” plays, who serves as a “Master of Ceremonies” of sorts to help transition from sin to sin.

Sargeant said that part of the appeal of the show’s format was being able to pull scenes from different plays that are not often performed. In order to avoid “treading on the shoes” of other Shakespeare at Yale productions this term, Sargeant said he turned to more obscure plays and “criminally under-read” scenes such as an monologue in which an envious Richard III covets the crown in “Henry VI, Part 3.” “[The histories] aren’t done very often because the titles are so unfortunate. ‘Henry VI, Part 3’ is a terrible title,” Sargeant said. “The play can stand on its own, or as direct prequel to ‘Richard III’, so the numbers in the title do it a disservice.”

Other acts in the show include an “intense psychological scene” about lust and obsession from “Measure for Measure,” and a highly comedic dialogue from “Antony and Cleopatra” about Cleopatra’s romantic affairs with powerful Romans.

Sargeant added that the “creepy fairground aesthetic” of the setting connects the scenes, which span across centuries and continents.

“Everything is tied together by this very limited palette of red, black and white and [by] the fact that the same

According to a leading thinker on green energy, America’s dependence on fossil fuels may be on its deathbed.

Amory Lovins, the co-founder of the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute, thinks so, he told a crowd gathered Wednesday at the Burke Auditorium in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies’ Kroon Hall.

Lovins, who has been an environmental adviser to corporations and governments in more than 50 countries for the past four decades and was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009, addressed a packed crowd of students, professors and community members. At the talk, Lovins focused on his latest book, “Reinventing Fire,” which details strategies for reducing fossil fuel usage through efficient energy policies.

“We humans are inventing a new fire,” Lovins said. “[It is] not scarce, but bountiful — not costly, but free.”

Lovins’ strategy for ending the United States’ current “aging, dirty, insecure system” of energy consumption is to use efficiently the renewable energy sources already available.

While the focus of most strategies is on increasing the supply of energy, Lovins’ is on decreasing the demand for energy, Joseph Teng FES ’12 said after the talk. Lovins said he believes that through structural changes to infrastructure, such as electricity, transportation and buildings, the demand for energy will drop to a level that can be managed by renewable energy resources.

Lovins said that transportation can be made more efficient by promoting hybrid vehicles called carbon-fiber electric cars. Germany currently leads the world in such technology, he said.

The same technology that can revolutionize cars can also be applied to larger vehicles, such as trucks and airplanes, he added.

In addition to his proposals for changes in transportation technology, Lovins advocated for structural changes in buildings in order to save

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Alexi Sargeant ’15, director of “The Deadly Seven: Shakespeare’s Purgatorio,” stated that the “creepy fairground aesthetic” helps unify the show’s seven scenes.

energy and electricity. He cited the Empire State Building as an example of a structure using integrative design.

The Empire State Building saves 40 percent of its energy since installing windows that allow for the passage of light, but not heat into the building.

One of the tricks to integrative design, he said, is to have one structure perform multiple functions for a single price.

We humans are inventing a new fire. [It is] not scarce, but bountiful — not costly, but free.

AMORY LOVINS Co-founder, Rocky Mountain Institute Another way to implement integrative design, he added, is to change buildings’ pipe structures. He said one facility increased its energy efficiency by replacing crooked, small pipes with large, straight ones. Prior to this change, friction in the crooked pipes eliminated 90 percent of the available energy.

A reduction in fossil fuel usage can be accomplished without national government involvement, he added.

“It is really interesting to have one of the godfathers [of energy renovation] talk about how we can revolutionize the system without any major federal policy,” Teng said.

Using energy-efficient policies, Lovins said he believes by 2050 the United States can save $5 trillion, increase the size of the economy and eliminate its use of oil and coal.

“For people working in this area [of study], it is refreshing to hear somebody who can inspire us to go out and do more work,” said Jake Seligman FES ’12, who attended the talk.

Currently, the United States gets 41 percent of its electricity from oil and 40 percent from coal.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.” ST. PAUL “THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO TITUS”

Snyder boosts SOM marketing budget SOM FROM PAGE 1 As business schools look to distinguish themselves from thousands of competing programs, showcasing expertise in a “niche area” is particularly valuable, said Davis, who also serves as president of the Darden School Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the Darden School of Business. To better publicize one of its distinctive annual events, Davis said the business school partnered with news network CNBC last October to produce and broadcast the Jefferson Innovation Summit, a conference on the role of entrepreneurs and innovators in society. He added that marketing efforts are important in conveying the “strengths and essence” of a school to prospective students and faculty members.

For the high-quality, well-known schools, the integrity of the brand is very important.

TRIP DAVIS Senior associate dean for external relations, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Randy Allen, associate dean for international and corporate relations at the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University, said competition for students and faculty is continually rising among MBA programs.

Efforts to attract faculty are par-

ticularly heated, she said, as professors from the Baby Boom generation prepare to retire.

“It is critical to have strong marketing programs and to continually be re-evaluating the effectiveness of what you’re doing,” Allen said. “But it’s complicated because you’re trying to reach multiple audiences.”

Both Allen and Davis said strong marketing can also indirectly impact a business school’s ranking.

Effective marketing campaigns can help attract prospective students with high GMAT scores and grade-point averages, Davis said. If these students enroll and earn high salaries after graduation, their credentials positively impact their school’s rankings, he added.

But Snyder said the decision to expand SOM’s marketing budget was not related to the school’s performance in business school rankings. BusinessWeek’s 2010 ranking of American business schools gave SOM the 21st spot, while the school earned the 20th spot on the Financial Times’ 2012 Global MBA Rankings.

Snyder said Yale’s $1 million marketing push was financially feasible because SOM had tightened its budget under former SOM Dean Sharon Oster, who stepped down in 2011.

Though the SOM communications department handles the school’s marketing and will use the additional funds, SOM spokeswoman Tabitha Wilde said her department has not finalized plans for the expanded budget.

Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu .

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Construction is underway at the School of Management’s new campus on Whitney Avenue.

Open Yale prompts course changes OPEN COURSES FROM PAGE 1

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Professor Stephen Stearns has modified the way he teaches “Principles of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior” since it was added to Open Yale Courses.

worried whether students would skip class and watch the lectures on their own time. But she said she feels that the process of filming courses allows professors to reflect upon and improve how they present material.

Stearns modified his course “Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior” this spring after students complained in course evaluations that his lectures were “too similar” to what was available on the Internet, he said. He now spends most of class asking students questions based on his online lectures and introducing some new material, he said, which allows him to conduct the large lecture course in “section mode” with more student participation, though sections with teaching fellows are still offered.

But his new approach has generated mixed reactions from students. While two of nine students in the class interviewed said fielding questions during class better prepares them for exams, many students said they struggled to find time to watch the online lectures and then felt lost in class when the material was not covered.

“If he just asks questions, he’s not teaching,” Leen van Besien ‘14 said.

“He’s just quizzing us.”

Stearns, whose course has over 100 students, said he intends to continue tweaking the course format in response

to student feedback.

While Hayes, who teaches “The Bible” in the fall, has also asked students to watch her online lectures in advance, she said she spends the beginning of each course covering the main points of lectures before turning to close reading of texts. Hayes’ course typically draws around 50 students and does not have a discussion section component.

Once it went online, I thought, “I’m not going to stand here and give the same lectures [students] can watch at home.”

CHRISTINE HAYES Professor, “The Bible” She said she realizes that the course is a lot of work and “turns into two courses in one,” but that she has received “very positive” student responses.

“Once it went online, I thought, ‘I’m not going to stand here and give the same lectures [students] can watch at home,’” she said. “That’s just not very interesting for me to do.”

Four students interviewed who took Hayes’ course last fall said her approach allowed them to delve into biblical texts more deeply since they had the infor-

mation from her online lectures as a foundation. All four praised the course, though they said it was considerably more work than other courses and that watching the online lectures was essential in order to keep up.

Six of 10 other professors whose classes are featured on Open Yale Courses said they have changed their courses to avoid repeating material available online. Religious studies professor Dale Martin said a steady drop in enrollment in his introductory course on the New Testament after the course went online prompted him to stop offering it.

Instead, he modified half of the syllabus to create a new class, “The New Testament in History and Culture,” which has been more popular, he said.

Other professors said they are partly motivated by a desire to avoid repeating the online lectures when they update course material to incorporate new research in their fields.

Kleiner said she has not noticed a trend in changes to course enrollments after classes were posted to Open Yale Courses, adding that many factors can influence student demand for courses.

The Open Yale Course website has received 3.5 million unique visitors since it went live in 2007, Kleiner said.

Contact SARAH SWONG at sarah.swong@yale.edu and ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .

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BULLETIN BOARD

TODAY’S FORECAST

TOMORROW

Rain likely, mainly after 4pm.

Increasing clouds, with a high near 45.

SATURDAY

High of 50, low of 29.

High of 46, low of 31.

WATSON BY JIM HORWITZ

ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 7:00 PM “Luminaria.” This play, by Evelina Fernandez, uses a comedic framework to address serious themes of the Latin@ experience through the life stories of four women. Addressing feminism, machismo and homosexuality, the play strives to create an intimate dynamic between the show and its audience. Ezra Stiles College (19 Tower Parkway), Morse/Stiles Crescent Underground Theater.

8:00 PM “I Heart DPops.” The Davenport Pops Orchestra will perform a concert of romantic ballads and classics. Pieces on the program include: “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “I Will Survive” and music

by Frank Sinatra. Battell Chapel (400 College St.).

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 9:00 AM First Annual Progressive Principles at Yale Conference. Activists, journalists, intellectuals, academics and artists will come to campus for informal, egalitarian discussions about the ideas and identities that make up the vision for the future of the new progressivism. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.).

8:00 PM Yale Symphony Orchestra presents Robinson, Hindemith, and Liszt. The YSO will feature internationally acclaimed pianist Idil Birert along with guest conductor Michael Li ’12. Woolsey Hall (500 College St.).

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Sarkozy seeks second term

BY ANGELA CHARLTON AND SYLVIE CORBET ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS — Nicolas Sarkozy threw himself Wednesday into what may be the toughest fight of his political career: Unpopular for years and running a feeble economy, the divisive French president announced he’s running for a second term.

The man who improved French relations with the United States, rallied European leaders to ward off financial meltdown and kicked off international airstrikes in Libya is widely disliked back at home.

Polls suggest his Socialist challenger will be the one attending world summits come May. But Sarkozy is not one to give up easily. He pledged Wednesday to get the jobless back in the workforce and new reforms to ensure a “strong France” and that the French “way of life” can survive the 21st century.

“Yes, I am a candidate,” he said on national TV network TF1 on Wednesday night, ending weeks of largely artificial suspense over whether he would run.

Pollsters say the president will face an uphill battle to convince voters that they should elect him again. He has only two months to change minds: The first round of the two-round vote is April 22.

For months polls have shown Sarkozy well behind Socialist Francois Hollande, who has threatened to roll back Sarkozy’s reforms and is campaigning against “the world of finance.”

Sarkozy also has lost ground to far-right candidate Marine Le Pen of the resurgent, anti-immigrant National Front party.

A man usually more brash than humble, Sarkozy admitted Wednesday that he hasn’t accomplished all he set out to when he was elected in 2007 on a wave of hope for change that would rekindle France’s pride and enhance its global influence.

Five years later, France is struggling to emerge from its worst recession since World War II and the French are disillusioned.

Jobless rates are nearly 10 percent, Europe’s economic future is uncertain and huge government debt cost the country its prized AAA credit rating with Standard & Poor’s.

In his announcement Wednesday, Sarkozy blamed French voters’ troubles in part on three years of financial woes and said he would focus on getting more people working. “France cannot pretend that the crisis doesn’t exist,” Sarkozy said. “We have to con-

tinue to make changes.”

He only outlined one solid proposal, however: a referendum on unemployment benefits and training the unemployed.

Now that he’s officially a candidate, his challengers quickly lit into him. His tenure has been a “fiasco,” Hollande said at a huge, boisterous rally in northern France. Le Pen criticized his “false modesty” and said he couldn’t make the French forget “the serious failures” of his term.

France’s two-round presidential ballot in April and May is likely to have an impact throughout the European Union. Sarkozy has been closely involved in the fight to save the euro amid a sovereign debt crisis in the bloc that has affected markets worldwide.

Earlier Wednesday, Sarkozy launched a personal Twitter account — with the handle NicolasSarkozy — and thanked all those “who will kindly follow me.” Tens of thousands of followers joined within hours.

Sarkozy’s candidacy had become one of France’s worstkept political secrets. Within minutes of his announcement, his new campaign team sent an invitation to his first rally, in the Alpine town of Annecy on Thursday.

Pollsters suggest that Sarkozy’s political problems are as much of his own making as France’s economic woes. Critics say Sarkozy failed to deliver on promises to improve purchasing power, hiked his own salary, and infused the gilded presidential palace with “bling” that was ill-suited for France’s cultural self-image.

On the night of his 2007 election, he celebrated at one of Paris’ most glitzy restaurants; before taking office, he jetted off to spend a few days on a yacht owned by a super-rich French industrialist friend.

Later in 2007, Sarkozy divorced his longtime wife and began courting Italian former supermodel Carla Bruni — including trips to Disneyland Paris and the Middle East with reporters in tow. In early 2008, Sarkozy crudely insulted a passer-by at Paris’ biggest agricultural fair, an incident caught on videotape that led many to doubt his presidential caliber.

Internationally, Sarkozy has drawn plaudits. While holding France’s EU presidency, he took a key mediating role to ease tensions after the brief war between Georgia and Russia. Last year, he committed French soldiers to help support the overthrow of entrenched autocrats in Libya and Ivory Coast.

He brought France back into NATO’s top echelons in 2009.

Iran claims nuclear progress

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad observes Iran’s first domestically produced fuel rod inserted into a reactor in Tehran.

BY ALI AKBAR DAREINI AND BRIAN MURPHY ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran — In defiant swipes at its foes, Iran said Wednesday it is dramatically closer to mastering the production of nuclear fuel even as the U.S. weighs tougher pressures and Tehran’s suspected shadow war with Israel brings probes far beyond the Middle East.

Iran further struck back at the West by indicating it was on the verge of imposing a midwinter fuel squeeze to Europe in retaliation for a looming boycott of Iranian oil, but denied reports earlier in the day that six nations had already been cut off.

The uncompromising messages from Iran, however, came with a counterpoint.

The official IRNA news agency said Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, told European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton that Iran is ready to return to talks with the U.S. and other world powers.

The dual strategy — taking nuclear steps while proposing more talks — has become a hallmark of Iran’s dealings for years and some critics have dismissed it as a timebuying tactic. The advances claimed Wednesday could likely feed these views.

In a live TV broadcast, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was shown overseeing what was described as the first Iranian-made fuel rod inserted into a research reactor in northern Tehran. Separately, the semiofficial Fars agency reported that a “new generation” of Iranian centrifuges — used to enrich uranium toward nuclear fuel — had gone into operation at the country’s main enrichment facility at Natanz in central Iran.

In Washington, the assistant secretary of state for International Security and Nonproliferation, Tom Countryman, dismissed the Iranian claims of reaching a piv-

otal moment. “The announcement today

by Iran has much more to do with political developments in Iran than it has to do with factual developments,” he said.

White House press secretary Jay Carney said Iran’s “defiant acts” seek to “distract attention” from the damage brought by international sanctions.

Meanwhile, Iran is facing major new international complications: Accusations of bringing an apparent covert conflict with Israel to points stretching from Thailand and India to the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

In recent days, Iran’s terror operations are being laid bare for all.

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU Prime Minister, Israel Officials in Israel ramped up allegations that Iran was linked to international bomb plots, saying magnetic “sticky” bombs found in a Bangkok house rented by Iranians were similar to devices used against Israeli envoys in a foiled attack in Georgia on Monday and a blast in New Delhi that injured four people, including a diplomat’s wife.

“In recent days, Iran’s terror operations are being laid bare for all,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who convened his security cabinet. It included discussions about “preventive measures” against Iranian threats, said a statement from Netanyahu’s office that did not elaborate.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman,

Ramin Mehmanparast, called the allegations “baseless” and an attempt to push “conspiracy” theories to discredit Iran with its Asian partners, including major oil buyer India.

Iran, in turn, accused Israel of being behind clandestine attacks that have claimed the lives of at least five members of Iran’s scientific community in the past two years, including a “sticky” bomb blast that killed a director at the Natanz labs last month.

Framed photos of the five scientists were shown by Iranian TV before a speech by Ahmadinejad, who was flanked by the flags of Iran and the country’s nuclear agency.

He repeated Iran’s goal of becoming a technological beacon for the Islamic world and insisted that scientific progress is the right of all nations. Here rests one of the biggest dilemmas for the West.

Iran has merged the nuclear program with its national identity and is unlikely to make any concessions without huge incentives.

“I hope we reach the point where we will be able to meet all our nuclear needs inside the country so we won’t need to extend our hand before others, specifically before the world’s dastardly people,” Ahmadinejad said. “For a gentleman, for a chivalrous nation, the most difficult moment is when he has a need to ask (for something) from a dastardly person.”

Iran also used the announcements as a carefully crafted show of unity.

The families of the slain scientists attended the ceremonies. State TV showed the father of the scientist killed last month, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, clicking on the computer to inaugurate the advanced centrifuges inside the Natanz facility.

TV showed tears in the eyes of Roshan’s mother and wife when the father opened the project.

Hundreds killed in Honduras prison fire

BY MARCOS ALEMAN AND FREDDY CUEVAS ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Rescue workers handle the bodies of victims of a Comayagua prison fire.

COMAYAGUA, Honduras — Honduran officials confirmed Wednesday that 358 people died when a fire tore through an overcrowded prison, making it the world’s deadliest prison fire in a century.

With 856 prisoners packed into barracks, the farm prison in the Comayagua province north of the capital was at double capacity, said Supreme Court Justice Richard Ordonez, who is leading the investigation.

Ordonez told The Associated Press the fire started in a barracks where 105 prisoners were bunked, and only four of them survived.

Some 115 bodies have been sent to the morgue in the capital of Tegucigalpa.

The fire started by an inmate tore through the prison, burning and suffocating screaming men in their crowded barracks as rescuers desperately searched for keys to unlock the doors.

The local governor, who was once a prison employee, told reporters that an inmate called her moments before the blaze broke out and screamed: “I will set this place on fire and we are all going to die!”

Comayagua Gov. Paola Castro said she called the Red Cross and fire brigade immediately.

But firefighters said they were kept outside for half an hour by guards who fired their guns in the

air, thinking they had a riot or a breakout on their hands.

Officials have long had little control over conditions inside many Honduran prisons, where inmates have largely unfettered access to cell phones and other contraband.

Survivors also told investigators that the unidentified inmate yelled “We will all die here!” as he lit fire to his bedding late Tuesday night in the prison in Comayagua, 53 miles north of Tegucigalpa. The lockup housed people convicted of serious crimes such as homicide and armed robbery, but also people awaiting trial.

“We couldn’t get them out because we didn’t have the keys and couldn’t find the guards who had them,” Comayagua fire department spokesman Josue Garcia said.

Other prisoners were set free by guards but died from the flames or smoke as they tried to flee into the fields surrounding the facility, where prisoners grew corn and beans on a staterun farm.

Rescuers carried shirtless, semiconscious prisoners from the prison by their arms and legs.

One hauled a victim away by piggyback.

Comayagua was built in the 1940s for 400 inmates.

Unlike U.S. prisons, where locks can be released automatically in an emergency, Honduran prisons are infamous for being old, overcrowded hotbeds of con-

flict and crime.

Once inside, rescue workers found piles of bodies so badly burned they looked like piles of charred mannequins. Some bodies fused together, and officials said it could take weeks to identify them.

Outside the prison family members gathered late into the afternoon, some crying and some demanding justice, “We want to see the body,” shouted Juan Martinez, whose son was reported dead. “We’ll be here until we get to do that.”

The other prisoners and I broke through the roof with our bare hands and fled.

Thank god I’m alive.

EVER LOPEZ Survivor of Honduran prison fire Survivor Ever Lopez, 24, who was serving time for homicide, said he was sleeping when the fire broke out about 11 p.m.

“I saw the smoke from cell block 6 and it spread throughout the prison,” he said. “The other prisoners and I broke through the roof with our bare hands and fled.

Thank God I’m alive.”

Officials said 272 people were confirmed dead, but many prisoners were unaccounted for and

the death toll could go to 300 or more. Among the dead were six prisoners who drowned after trying to seek refuge in a water tank.

There were 852 people in the prison at the time of the blaze.

A prisoner identified as Silverio Aguilar told HRN Radio that he first knew something was wrong when he heard a scream of “Fire! Fire!”

“For a while, nobody listened.

But after a few minutes, which seemed like an eternity, a guard appeared with keys and let us out,” he said.

He said there were 60 prisoners packed into his cell.

National prison system director Danilo Orellana defended the guards’ decision to keep firefighters out as flames lit up the night sky.

“The guards first thought they had a prison break, so they followed the law saying no one could enter to prevent unnecessary deaths,” he said.

Honduran President Porfirio Lobo said on national television that he had suspended the country’s top penal officials, including Orellana, and would request international assistance in carrying out a thorough investigation.

“This is a day of profound sadness,” Lobo said.

Orellana said the convicts were allowed to work outdoors, unlike those held in a maximum-security facility for the country’s most dangerous prisoners in the capital, Tegucigalpa.

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Romney targets auto bailout in Michigan

BY CHARLES BABINGTON ASSOCIATED PRESS GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is wooing tea partyers in his home state of Michigan with a potentially risky strategy: blasting the auto industry bailout that many people credit with saving the state’s most vital industry.

The tactic seems designed to undermine Rick Santorum’s popularity with conservatives who dislike government intervention in business, even when the results appear defensible. It also reinforces Romney’s image as an experienced capitalist who understands the pain sometimes involved in making companies work.

Santorum’s fast rise in national polls has forced Romney to sharpen his criticisms of the former Pennsylvania senator. Santorum says his team will “plant our flag” in Michigan while also campaigning in other states.

A Romney loss in Michigan’s Feb. 28 primary would be hugely embarrassing, or worse, to his campaign. His team has promoted an aura of inevitability for months, but Romney has failed to persuade the party’s most conservative segments to embrace him.

Romney’s father was a top auto executive and three-term governor of Michigan, and Romney still holds big financial

advantages over Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. Thus far, he has bought far more TV advertising time than they have.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signaled his plans to endorse Romney on Thursday.

And yet, when longtime Michigan political analyst Craig Ruff was asked if a Romney loss here is conceivable, he said: “I’m astounded, but yes.” Ruff worked for Republican Gov. William Milliken but now is an independent.

He said he was surprised by how vigorously Romney is criticizing the government rescue of General Motors and Chrysler in 2008-2009.

“Many, many Republicans have ties to the auto industry,” through investments or current or former employment, Ruff said. “He’s got a lot of explaining to do.”

Some GOP activists, however, said Romney’s actions make sense. He already was on record opposing the bailouts. So his Tuesday op-ed in the Detroit News gave him a chance to elaborate, they said. And his stance will appeal to business-oriented Republicans as well as more libertarian-leaning voters who oppose government intrusion in general.

“It may be dicey in the general election, but it’s not dicey in the primary,” said Lansing-based Republican strategist Steve Mitchell. “Republicans opposed the auto bailout. They opposed

other bailouts. They oppose bailouts.”

A May 2010 poll conducted

by EPIC-MRA for the Detroit Free Press found that nearly two-thirds of Michigan adults thought the auto bailout was a good idea. Republicans were more closely divided, with 51 percent calling it a good idea, and 43 percent calling it a bad idea.

Santorum, Gingrich and Paul also criticized the auto industry rescue, but Romney’s remarks have drawn more attention because of his ties to the state and the auto industry.

Santorum hopes Michigan’s tea party supporters will vote in big numbers, possibly overwhelming Romney’s advantage with party insiders. Insurgent candidates have done well here at times. Pat Robertson won the GOP primary in 1988. John McCain beat George W. Bush here in 2000 after then-Gov. John Engler promised Michigan would be Bush’s firewall.

Romney made no mention of his GOP rivals or direct references to the auto bailout in an 18-minute speech to several hundred people at a rally Wednesday in Grand Rapids. He stuck to his standard attacks on President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy.

The auto bailout started when the Bush administration loaned money to GM and Chrysler to keep them from collapsing during the 2008 financial crisis.

Payroll tax deal nears

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GOP rejects nuke cuts

BY DONNA CASSATA AND ROBERT BURNS ASSOCIATED PRESS

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, accompanied by fellow GOP leaders, talks about an accord on the payroll tax cut negotiations during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012.

BY ANDREW TAYLOR ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Calling quits to a bruising election-year fight, negotiators on Capitol Hill worked into Wednesday night ironing out final details of an agreement to extend a cut in the payroll taxes paid by most Americans. The legislation also would renew jobless benefits for millions more.

The $150 billion measure taking shape represents a tactical retreat for Republicans, who are generally unenthusiastic about the legislation but eager to move beyond the issue. With campaign season starting, they don’t want President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress to be able to claim the GOP was standing in the way of a middle-class tax cut.

Lawmakers hoped to officially unveil the measure Wednesday night so it could be voted on Friday in the House and then quickly pass the Senate. It would represent a rare burst of bipartisanship in a bitterly divided Congress.

The legislation would continue a 2 percentage point cut in the Social Security payroll tax, renew jobless benefits averaging about $300 a week for people languishing for long periods on unemployment rolls and protect doctors from a huge cut in their Medicare reimbursements.

Obama was getting his licks in before the agreement was announced.

“I’m glad to see that Congress seems to be … making progress on extending the payroll tax cut so taxes don’t go up on all of you and 160 million working Americans,” he said at an appearance at a

lock factory in Milwaukee. “It will make a real difference in the lives of millions of people.”

The measure carries a price tag of roughly $150 billion over the coming year, partly financed through requiring federal workers to contribute an additional 1.5 percent of their earnings toward their pensions. That provision, bitterly fought by federal unions, would generate $15 billion over the coming decade.

Auctions of portions of the communications spectrum to wireless companies would net another $15 billion or so — even after $7 billion is set aside to construct and run a new public safety network for emergency first responders.

We were not going to allow the Democrats to continue to play political games and raise taxes on working Americans.

JOHN BOEHNER Speaker, House of Representatives Extending the payroll tax cut and renewing long-term jobless benefits were key planks in Obama’s jobs program, which was announced last September but has been largely ignored since.

The measures are intended to help the economy by giving people more money to spend, fattening a typical bimonthly paycheck by $40 or so and giving the unemployed critical cash that most

of them turn around and spend immediately.

The measure also includes a key adjustment to the badly broken Medicare payment formula for doctors, which would otherwise impose a 27 percent cut on March 1 under a 1997 budget law.

The $20 billion cost would be covered in part by cuts to a fund created under Obama’s health care law that awards grants for preventive care and by curbs on Medicaid payments to hospitals that care for a disproportionate share of uninsured patients.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the legislation would probably be voted on by the end of the week. GOP leaders had jumpstarted the talks over the weekend by dropping a demand that the tax cut be paid for with spending cuts.

On Monday, Republicans upped the ante by threatening to advance the payroll tax cut on its own and leave jobless benefits and the Medicare fix behind, which set off alarms with Democratic lawmakers and at the White House.

“We were not going to allow the Democrats to continue to play political games and raise taxes on working Americans,” Boehner told reporters. “We made the decision to bring them to the table so that the games would stop and we would get this work done.”

Some rank-and-file Republicans continue to grumble that the measure is flawed and that the payroll tax cut, first enacted in December of 2010, has done little to prop up the economy. But the prevailing instinct among Republicans was political survival and not wanting to look like they were getting in the way of an electionyear tax cut.

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans on Wednesday vowed to block the Obama administration from sharply cutting the U.S. nuclear force, calling potential reductions of as much as 80 percent in the number of deployed weapons “reckless lunacy.”

Pointing to the growing number of trouble spots, from Iran to Syria to Egypt, members of the House Armed Services Committee said any significant cuts would undermine the U.S. ability to deter aggression. The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that the administration is weighing several options for new reductions from the current treaty limit of 1,550 deployed strategic warheads.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the committee that no decision has been made and maintaining the current level is one of the options. But that did little to assuage GOP lawmakers.

“I just want to go on record as saying that there are many of us that are going to do everything we possibly can to make sure that this preposterous notion does not gain any real traction,” said Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz.

The most modest option under discussion would return the United States to a level not seen in more than half a century, when the Soviet Union and the U.S. pushed ahead in a Cold War nuclear arms race. The administration is weighing at least three options for lower total numbers, cutting to around 1,000 to 1,100, 700 to 800, or 300 to 400.

Although Dempsey said maintaining the

status quo is one option, further cuts are consistent with President Barack Obama’s 2009 promise to pursue the elimination of nuclear weapons and the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review, which called for an “implementation study” by the Defense Department to review the nation’s nuclear deterrence requirements with an eye toward further reductions in the size of the arsenal.

[Nuclear arms reductions] does nothing but encourage our enemies and discourage our friends.

MAC THORNBERRY U.S. Representative, Texas Last March, National Security Adviser Tom Donilon said the administration was making preparations for the next round of nuclear reductions.

Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, complained that such a step would encourage other nations to advance their nuclear programs. Fearing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the United States and the international community have imposed tough sanctions on Tehran.

“If they see that we are going to come down from 1,500 to some number in the low to middle hundreds, it does nothing but encourage our enemies and discourage our friends,” Thornberry said. “And the result of that is more nuclear weapons programs all across the world, which would seem to me to be something that we would not want to have happen.”

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City council mulls Collegetown

BY MICHELLE HU STAFF WRITER There has been a slight increase in the number of cases of gastrointestinal illnesses, particularly norovirus, among College students, administrators announced in a campus-wide email on Tuesday.

Commonly called the stomach flu or food poisoning, the highly contagious illness is prevalent during the winter and can be spread through direct contact or ingesting contaminated food or water, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website.

It is standard protocol to inform the community in situations when health issues arise “in order to promote health and prevention,” Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Jeff Neal wrote in an email.

The norovirus incubation period is 24-48 hours, and then the illness typically lasts another 24-48 hours, according to the email from Associate Dean of Student Life Joshua G. McIntosh. The email also listed important contacts for those who are already sick and need assistance if they have vomited or cannot leave their rooms.

Brian A. Truong ’15 was sick from Friday afternoon until Sunday morning and said several others in his entryway contracted the virus as well. For Truong, the email was simply a confirmation of his sickness.

“I looked up my symptoms online,” he said. “I pretty much knew what I had.”

Tyler W. Gamble ’14 said that

BY KEVIN MILIAN STAFF WRITER At a meeting of the Collegetown Neighborhood Council Tuesday, Cornell students and City Officials voiced concerns about the struggling economy in Collegetown and proposed ways to improve the area.

The meeting was part of an ongoing discussion about the City of Ithaca’s Comprehensive Plan — a broad outline of what Ithaca residents want to see in the city over the next 20 to 30 years.

Many attendees at the meeting said they worry about what they perceived as a lack of public appeal in Collegetown.

Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D-4th Ward), who led the meeting, said that Collegetown is “too shabby.” The only benefits Collegetown offers are its dining options and proximity to campus, he said.

Alderperson Ellen McCollister ’78 (D-3rd Ward) also lamented the current state of Collegetown, and encouraged students at the meeting to inform city officials and University administrators about what they want to see developed in the area.

“The offerings in Collegetown are limited. There’s little retail, hardly any bars and no window shopping,” McCollister said. “When I was a student, there were a lot of opportunities downtown that were more diverse than the Thursday to Saturday bar scene.”

Students voiced similar sentiments during the meeting.

“As a second semester senior, I’ve seen quite a limitation. There’s little transportation to places outside of the Commons, and I wouldn’t pay a cab to get there,” Yena Kim ’12 said. “There’s nothing to do for non-drinkers; if there could be a jazz bar or a 18-plus dance bar, it would be helpful to bring more students down.”

Other students emphasized the need for more community space in Collegetown.

“There’s no space in Collegetown for neighborhood-based events. Add-

his illness lasted about two to three d a y s , during which he exhibHARVARD ited common symptoms of the stomach flu. Many of his blockmates and entrywaymates have also come down with the illness or are still sick, but he said he does not know how they all contracted the virus.

“We all live in the same tower,” he said. “We eat in the same place; it could have been food. It was just a bunch of people who live in the same area and use the same common spaces.”

According to information released on the University Health Services’ website, shared common spaces can be contaminated easily, and students who live in dorms are at a higher risk of contracting the virus.

During his illness, Gamble said he knew he was contagious and took precautions.

“I mostly slept in my room and tried not to infect other people,” he said.

Currier House Resident Dean Laura K. Johnson notified Currier residents of the outbreak on Monday, before the administration’s campus-wide announcement. The email told residents that the House would help excuse sick students from classes, and advised everyone to wash their hands with soap and water rather than using hand sanitizwer, especially before eating.

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Green jobs may come to Harlem

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Community Board 9 member Savona Bailey-McClain (right) meets with other organizers of the green construction partnership on Friday.

BY FIRST LAST STATUS LINE A green construction partnership might be bringing a wave of new jobs to Harlem.

Community Board 9 is working with the Horticultural Society of New York and STRIVE, an agency that provides job training for chronically unemployed groups, to give Harlem residents free green construction training and opportunities for jobs in the field. CB9 will serve as a link between Harlem residents and the two groups, helping them tailor their training programs to residents’ needs.

After years of trying to launch a green construction program, CB9 member Savona Bailey-McClain successfully reached out to the Horticultural Society last summer, sparking the new partnership. STRIVE, which is based in East Harlem, joined soon after.

Larry Jackson, the director of programs at STRIVE, said that while there are “some logistical things that we have to look at,” the partnership is promising.

“The meetings have been good, the resources are there, the commitments are there,” Jackson said.

To meet the requirements of the grant that funds its part of the program, STRIVE can only train people who are currently receiv-

ing fo o d stamps. In addition to being on food stamps, participants are required COLUMBIA to pass basic reading and math tests and must be able to lift 50 pounds.

Bailey-McClain said that the program will help people “on the lower end of the economic food chain” who need to learn basic office skills.

“This is great, because now we can really help people where they are, [and] educationally as well as vocationally boost up their skills,” she said.

The organizations are now conducting the first phase of the training program. STRIVE, which started its three-month portion of the program with an orientation last Friday, is focusing on work in energy auditing and efficiency, hazardous waste removal, confined-entry space training, and disaster preparedness. Participants will also be trained to meet Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards.

Bailey-McClain believes there is great potential for green construction jobs in West Harlem, because many old buildings need to be renovated to meet new legal

standards. The training will help residents get jobs with contractors and landscape architects, Bailey-McClain said.

“We’re offering people a variety of trainings so they can fit different types of needs,” she said.

“We are able to give ourselves the flexibility that we need to fit the people in our community.”

The idea behind the program is continuous training, BaileyMcClain added.

“We’re trying to introduce to people a lot of green training, so they have options to get different types of work and they have real career options,” she said.

CB9 will also partner with various organizations to offer job opportunities specifically for local residents involved in the training program.

“When people were talking about green before, people could not visualize what that could mean,” Bailey-McClain said. “It’s starting to spread and people are understanding it and seeing it.”

For now, STRIVE is running its traditional job-training programs as part of the partnership. One difference, though, is that many of the participants have been referred to STRIVE by CB9.

“There’s value that a community is proactive and aggressive and being consistent with the green movement,” Jackson said.

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Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D-4th Ward) discusses city improvements at a Collegetown Neighborhood Council meeting Tuesday. ing amenities that would cause me to stop on the way to campus would be an improvement,” Mitch Paine grad said.

Permanent resCORNELL idents in Collegetown voiced different concerns during the meeting, focusing more on Collegetown’s lack of visual appeal and housing options.

“I miss the neighborhood feeling [and] having groceries other than Wilson Farms, as well as pharmacies and family-oriented diners,” said Julie Paige, associate dean of students in the Office of Fraternities, Sororities and Independent Living.

Prof. Jennifer Wilkins, nutritional sciences, said that “there are stunning architectural buildings, but … recent construction has been lacking in any ambition.”

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 echoed concerns about housing, saying that high

rents in Collegetown hinder both graduate students and undergraduates from spending more money on retail in the area.

“Collegetown is very expensive, and graduate student stipends do not equal to the prices undergraduates pay for housing,” he said.

Myrick said that, to improve Collegetown, University administrators and city officials would educate freshmen about off-campus housing.

“What you need is an informed customer, and for the freshmen to know who the bad landlords are,” he said.

However, Sharon Marx, property manager of Ithaca Renting Company, highlighted different problems in Collegetown. She said that online shopping and University-sponsored activities have strongly discouraged students from contributing to the economy in Collegetown.

“What has killed Collegetown to me … [is that] the Internet has killed retail,” she said. “I get 100 packages to my office from my tenants, from toilet tissue to tires.”

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Police arrest four TCU football players for selling drugs The Fort Worth police arrested 17 students at Texas Christian University, including four members of the football team, yesterday morning. The arrests followed a six-month investigation to uncover illegal drug dealing. One of the football players arrested, junior linebacker Tanner Brock, is an All-American.

Seven coaches join football staff RENO FROM PAGE 1 One of the biggest challenges facing the Bulldogs next season will be replacing seven starting seniors on defense. Three of these players — linebacker Jordan Haynes ’11, defensive tackle Jake Stoller ’11 and cornerback Drew Baldwin ’11 — were named to AllIvy teams last year.

Defensive line coach Dwayne Wilmot, who spent just one season at Harvard before joining Reno’s squad, will try to duplicate the success the Crimson defense enjoyed last season. Wilmot mentored the toughest pass rush and rushing defense in the Ancient Eight, which helped Harvard on its way to an undefeated Ivy record.

On the offensive side of the ball, Barber and Conlin will take charge of tight ends and the offensive line, respectively. At Harvard, Conlin also coached the offensive line while Barber, a former Blue and White quarterback, mentored wide receivers. After graduating from Yale, Barber quarterbacked for the Trolls in Oslo, Norway.

“[Barber] knows the techinque very well,” tight end Kyle Wittenauer ’14 said. “He’s very good at communicating what he wants done. He’s very relatable, not a screamer, although he will if he has to.”

Coach Reno wouldn’t have brought in anything less than someone who can take us to the next level.

JOHN WHITELAW ’14 Quarterback, Yale football Conlin has also been named Yale’s associate head coach and run game coordinator. From 2003 to 2010, Conlin helped the University of New Hampshire to appear in seven straight NCAA tournaments as defensive and offensive line coach.

On defense, Reno is holding on

to Flanders but looking beyond Cambridge, Mass., to round out the staff. Steven Vashel, from the University of Maine, will become the defensive backs coach for the Bulldogs, and former Yale running back coach Larry Ciotti will reclaim his old position.

Players said they were happy to have Flanders back on the field. “[Coach Reno] made a great decision holding onto Flanders,” defensive back Kurt Stottlemyer ’13 said. “He knows my strengths and weaknesses. He can adjust the defense for that, and he can do it for all of the players.”

Ciotti helped produce the Bulldogs’ top three career rushing leaders, Rashad Bartholomew ’00, Robert Carr ’05 and Mike McLeod ’09, while Vashel coached the University of Maine Black Bears to lead the Colonial Athletic Association in pass defense in 2011. “[Vashel] is certainly a technician,” safety Nick Okano ’14 said.

“That will help our secondary.

He’s a player’s coach, so he’s a hard worker but he will also joke around with us.”

Elis are always in top form TRACK FROM PAGE 12 more of a benefit than a drawback. They said year-round training keeps them focused, draws them closer to the team and makes them better runners.

“Constantly pushing yourself and slowly wearing away the

rubber on your shoes — that’s what makes you good,” Thwaites said.

Such an approach does have its risks. Any sickness or injuries will inevitably conflict with competition. Kayali said the chance for overuse injuries also increases with a constant train-

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Distance runners move straight from fall cross country to winter indoor track.

ing regimen.

Even summer is not an offseason. Rather, through workouts of up to 100 miles a week, distance runners aim to build a solid foundation for the next year of competition.

“Summer is the time to build a base mileage that determines how fast you’re going to run in the fall,” Lunn said. “It’s like building a car — you can put on great wheels and a fancy spoiler, but it’s just going to be embarrassing if you’ve got the engine of a Ford Pinto in there.”

Elizabeth Marvin ’13 added this consistency is a plus. With three consecutive seasons, distance runners can fall into a comfortable rhythm. Kayali said the transition from season to season was “seamless,” whereas for sprinters, jumpers and throwers on the track and field team it may be more jarring.

But the ultimate benefit for many is simple — more opportunities to compete.

“Competing is probably the most fun [aspect], and the fact that we have three seasons makes it all the more worthwhile,” Kayali said. “There’s no fun in training if we’re not going to compete, so we’re lucky.”

The lack of an off-season is more of a necessity than a hassle, Michael Cunetta ’14 said, because distance runners cannot afford a respite from running.

In the end, though, Lunn understands that all athletes, regardless of their sports, just want to improve.

“I’d say distance running is unique, but it’s nothing too special,” Lunn said. “Any athletes with true passion for their sport will consider it a lifestyle and will always be thinking about how to get better, even if they do have an official ‘off season.’ ” The men’s and women’s track and field teams will next meet at Ivy League Heptagonal Championships on Feb. 25 and 26.

Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .

Another former assistant coach at the University of Maine, Kevin Cahill, will take control of special teams and wide receivers. Cahill coached the Maine Black Bears for four years and spent the last three working with special teams.

Boston College graduate assistant David Petzing, a former Middlebury footballer, will be the outside linebackers coach. Petzing was a voluntary assistant at Harvard during Reno’s first season on the Crimson staff in 2009.

The new collection of coaches is currently on the road recruiting the class of 2016 football players.

“We had met the guys last week before they had to go back out recruiting,” Whitelaw said, adding that Morris “is a really passionate guy.”

Last season, the Bulldogs finished 5–5 and were tied with Penn, Brown and Dartmouth for second place in the Ivy League.

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

Contact JIMIN HE at jimin.he@yale.edu .

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Led by former Harvard assistant Tony Reno, Yale will have five coaches on the sidelines next year who once coached for the Crimson.

Lin represents Ivy League in NBA

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Jeremy Lin, shown here in 2010, has become an international sensation in his first six games with the New York Knicks, all of which have been wins.

LIN FROM PAGE 12 away with people who look at the Ivy League like it is a second tier league, I think this proves the talent we have,” Mangano said.

“The top players in our league, while they may not all be able to play in the NBA, can play professionally.”

While Jones said Lin’s assent to the top of the NBA will probably not aid Yale’s recruiting abilities, he admitted that Lin’s success “certainly doesn’t hurt.”

Although Lin was initially a novelty — no Ancient Eight baller has suited up for an NBA team since Chris Dudley ’87 retired in

2003 from the Portland Trailbrazers — his play has converted several into believers.

“I think that Jeremy Lin on a consistent basis has proved that he is legitimately a very good player,” forward Will Bartlett ’14 said. “[Lin has] almost transcended the story of an Ivy League player who can hold his own in the NBA and transformed into becoming a legitimate contributor.”

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu and JOSEPH ROSENBERG at joseph.rosenberg@yale.edu .

Lin’s playing style will cement his future ETTINGER FROM PAGE 12 ball and can absolutely handle his basic distributional requirements (pardon the fantastic pun). But Lin has committed 20 turnovers in his last three games and has yet to display the dazzling no-look passes that make Ricky Rubio and Steve Nash tops in the league.

We have to look elsewhere to explain the second-year savior’s meteoric rise. The Knicks’ conquering hero does possess some “Linnate” athletic ability. To begin with, he is an absolutely fantastic finisher. Highlight reels from the Knicks’ sevengame Lin-ning streak showcase his sensational ability to contort his body, flopping and flying

around the baseline and throwing up balls that somehow find a way through the rim. Lin’s movement drives his finishing ability. He possesses aboveaverage speed, but more importantly is extremely efficient and clever with his footwork. Lin finds a way to weave to the rim before help defenders have time to collapse in the paint. On top of that, he is big for a point guard (200 lbs) and can consistently draw fouls.

It also doesn’t hurt that he’s received so many touches. With Amar’e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony gone, Lin has been the maestro of the Knicks’ offense.

He’s had his hand in most every play, averaging a whopping 40 minutes and 20 shots per game.

His active offensive play has helped inflate his assist, point and turnover totals, each of which has been eye-popping.

The shots will go down when Anthony returns, but the forward has already pledged to let Lin run the show. With the return of the Knicks’ superstars, look for Lin to score fewer baskets but rack up more assists.

Most importantly, much of Lin’s success must be attributed to the offensive system of coach Mike D’Antoni. Simply put, the system makes point guards look good (particularly those with Lin’s skill set). D’Antoni likes to spread his players around the perimeter, which opens up space in the middle for Lin to drive the lane in a one-on-

one before defenders have time to come help. The coach also loves to set up screens and possesses two sensational big men in Stoudemire and Tyson Chandler. These screens have become Lin’s bread and butter, allowing him to slice and dice his way to the rim or to find an easy pass for the pick and roll. D’Antoni’s system offers fantastic statistical rewards to a point guard with speed, finishing ability and good court vision. Knicks fans will remember that Chris Duhon (11 points and seven assists) and Raymond Felton (17 points and nine assists) put up averages during their seasons with the Knicks that were easily career highs. Even Steve Nash was considered a mid-level talent with

the Mavericks before signing with D’Antoni’s Suns and winning two MVPs. Finally, the reigning Eastern Conference Player of the Week is playing with “Lincredible” confidence. He has the confidence to jack up 23 shots while playing opposite an elite defender, Derek Fisher. He has the confidence to keep shooting despite a dismal first half against the Raptors and the determination to continue improving his passing, despite disheartening turnover totals. And he has the will to take the “game-Linning” shot, as he showed when he calmly jacked up a three over the outstretched arms of Jose Calderon as time expired on Valentine’s Day, 2012.

Confidence pays in the NBA.

So yes, I believe “Linsanity” will continue. The guard possesses genuinely fantastic finishing abilities. His strong “Linside” play is here to stay. So long as he remains on the Knicks, he will also continue to be well served by D’Antoni’s system.

In addition, something tells me his charming confidence won’t fade. His numbers will come back to Earth as Stoudemire and Anthony return and as some of his circus shots stop falling.

It appears, however, that the Knicks have finally found their point guard after a long saga of searching for the right fit. And what a “Linderella” story it is.

Contact JOHN ETTINGER at john.ettinger@yale.edu .

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JEREMY LIN WILL GRACE SPORTS ILLUSTRATED COVER Lin is on the cover of the February 20 edition of popular sports magazine, which will feature an article about him called “From Couch to Clutch.” Lin led the New York Knicks to their seventh consecutive win Wednesday night.

GREGORY MAHONEY ’12 LOWE’S SENIOR CLASS AWARD Mahoney, a midfielder on the men’s lacrosse team, has been named a candidate for the 2012 Lowe’s Senior CLASS award. The award honors student-athletes who make positive contributions to their communities.

Mahoney is one of 20 candidates.

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“You can’t buy into [distance running] for a couple months and then put it aside to concentrate on something else.”

KEVIN LUNN ’13 CAPTAIN, M. CROSS COUNTRY YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012 · yaledailynews.com

JOHN ETTINGER

Sources of Lin-spiration “Linsanity” is everywhere.

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve already heard the aweinspiring tale of the Harvard grad turned benchwarmer turned “Linternational” sensation. Indeed, superhero Jeremy Lin has arrived to save New York from the clutches of high-priced mediocrity. And he’s doing it in style.

In her column “Lin great for Ivy athletics,” Chelsea Janes posited that Lin exemplifies the qualities of hardwork, team play and persistence for which athletes in the Ivy League strive.

But Janes did not discuss what specifically makes Lin “Linsational” on the court or how long this “Linsanity” will last.

LIN’S CONFIDENCE AND HIS DRIVE TO PLAY THE BALL WILL MAKE HIS NBA CAREER LAST. Will it last? The seven straight wins, the contortionist layups, the pretty pick and rolls, the late game heroics; the question on everyone’s mind remains: will it last? I’ll save you some time by giving you my answer up front, a qualified ‘yes.’ Lin possesses some genuine talents that will allow him to hang on as the Knicks’ starting point guard and may even continue to put numbers well above average for the position. That said, Jeremy Lin is not Kobe. Or Steve Nash. Or CP3. Or Rajon Rondo. He will regress. But it’s important to dissect what exactly is driving the point guard’s “Linsational” play.

There are a number of talents Lin does not possess. To begin, Lin’s success is not the product of freakish strength or speed.

The California native possesses below-average strength for a point guard. He is quick, but doesn’t possess the anklebreaking explosiveness of Rajon Rondo or Derrick Rose. Lin is also not an expert ball handler in the style of John Wall or Kyrie Irving. In fact, the Knickerbocker can’t really dribble to his left, and defenders have responded by cheating to his right. This is a pretty glaring hole for an NBA point guard, and one that Lin will have to fill as teams adjust. Lin is not a sharpshooter like Stephen Curry or Brandon Jennings. He’s currently scoring at just 75 percent from the line and 25 percent from beyond the arc — numbers more fitting for the D-League.

Finally, Lin does not possess the transcendental Ivy League court vision that some commentators have suggested. Yes, he plays “Lintelligently” with the SEE ETTINGER PAGE 11

A Lin-spiring story BASKETBALL

BY CHARLES CONDRO AND JOSEPH ROSENBERG STAFF REPORTERS Undrafted just a year ago, former Harvard guard Jeremy Lin became an instant legend when he burst onto the NBA scene last week. In his first five career starts, Lin has poured in 136 points, more than any other player in NBA history since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976.

BASKETBALL But his success was not always written in the stars.

Although he attended Palo Alto High School across the street from Stanford in California, the Pac-12 power never seriously considered recruiting him. Despite a stellar high school career in which he led his team to a 32-1 record his senior season, even many Ivy League universities passed on the insufficiently athletic combination guard. Brown and Harvard were the only two schools to give Lin an opportunity to play college basketball.

Yet once Lin arrived in Cambridge, his talents became apparent to many of his peers.

“I remember playing against him freshman and sophomore year, most notably sophomore year,” said NBAhopeful Yale center Greg Mangano ’12.

“I remember playing up at Harvard.

He took the game over in the second half and won it for them.”

But Mangano added, “I’d be lying if I said I expected [Lin’s success].”

That game, in late February 2010, Lin dropped 26 points on the Bulldogs.

And he improved over the course of his career at Harvard. While he averaged 4.8 points per game overall his freshman year and 12.6 points as a sophomore, the Crimson star averaged 21.5 points per game against Yale in his final two years. Yale head coach James Jones maintained, however, that his team did not do anything in particular to prepare for Lin. Although undrafted out of college, Lin signed a free-agent rookie contract with the Golden State Warriors in July 2010. Subsequently cut by the Warriors and then the Houston Rockets, Lin signed with the New York Knicks in December 2011. Due to Carmelo Anthony’s injury and Amar’e Stoudemire’s absence, Lin was given a

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Jeremy Lin scored 18 points when he led Harvard to a victory over Yale at the Lee Amphitheater on Feb. 12, 2010. chance on Saturday, Feb. 4. In his first six games since then, “Linsanity” has taken hold: Lin averaged 26.8 points and 8.5 assists per game in the Knicks’ six consecutive wins.

To put that in perspective, Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose averaged 25 points and 7.7 assists on his way to the MVP award last season. While Lin’s numbers are from a smaller sample,

his play has captured the interest of the sporting world.

Despite his praise for Lin, Jones said he could not have predicted his explosion onto the NBA scene.

“No one saw this in Jeremy Lin,” Jones said. “He’s playing like an NBA All-Star, not just like an NBA player — an All-Star.”

Lin’s Harvard education has raised

the already burgeoning profile of Ivy League basketball. In tandem with Cornell’s run to the Sweet 16 in the 2010 NCAA Tournament and Harvard’s standing in the national rankings this season, Lin’s success has legitimized Ancient Eight basketball.

“While this certainly doesn’t do SEE LIN PAGE 11

No offseason, no problem for runners

BY MASON KROLL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For Kevin Lunn ’13, captain of the men’s 2012 cross country team, distance running is like having a “super needy, high-maintenance girlfriend.”

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As a distance runner, Kevin Lunn ’13 (number 4), captain of the 2012 men’s cross country team, competes for three seasons every year.

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“She yells at me on Sunday morning if I went out the night before,” he said. “She tells me when to eat, when to study and when to go to bed. But at the end of the day, we are in love, and I can’t imagine living without her.”

Yale distance runners face a unique challenge and opportunity: three consecutive seasons. With cross country in the fall, indoor track in the winter and outdoor track in the spring, they must be competition-ready at all times.

“Distance running is more of a lifestyle than a sport,” Lunn said. “You can’t buy into it for a couple months and then put it aside to concentrate on something else for a bit.”

While other athletes have an offseason semester during which they can be “normal students,” said Matthew Thwaites ’13, runners do not have

time to rest. The longest break comes in November, as not every cross country runner competes in NCAA Regional Championships, held last year November 12. Many who do sit out the NCAA Regional Championships forgo the first track and field meet, the Yale Season Opener, on Dec. 3.

Constantly pushing yourself and slowly wearing away the rubber on your shoes—that’s what makes you good.

MATTHEW THWAITES ’13 Men’s cross country and track and field Another opportunity to rest comes in the first two weeks of summer vacation. Nihal Kayali ’13, captain of the 2012 women’s cross country team, said this is a “welcome shock.”

Of the five runners interviewed, all said that the lack of an off-season was SEE TRACK PAGE 11

THE CAREER-HIGH NUMBER OF ASSISTS JEREMY LIN HAD LAST NIGHT AS HE LED THE NEW YORK KNICKS PAST THE SACRAMENTO KINGS. Lin played 26 minutes in the 100–85 lopsided victory. The Knicks will take on the Hornets tomorrow.