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SLAVERY YALE’S HISTORICAL ROLE RE-VISITED
UNEMPLOYMENT
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City hopes ‘pipeline’ will connect jobless residents with work
HOWARD DEAN URGES YOUTHDRIVEN CHANGE
Elis eye home wins as Crimson, Big Green come to Ingalls
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Funding changed Sex Week
Global Zero comes to Yale
Moving on. Former Yale
Provost Susan Hockfield announced today she will leave her position as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In a letter to the MIT community on Thursday, Hockfield said it’s time for a new president to take the reins of the university as it prepares to launch a significant new fundraising drive.
BY CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTER Although administrators banned corporate sponsors from Sex Week 2012, intensified efforts to raise money and a focus on inviting local speakers allowed its organizers to offer roughly twice as many events as the previous Sex Week, in 2010.
In Memoriam. Richard Hegel
’50, the city’s historian and a librarian at Southern Connecticut State, died at his home on Tuesday. He was 83. “There was no mistaking Dick Hegel was a New Haven guy,” Mayor John DeStefano Jr. told the New Haven Register.
SEX WEEK
It’s over. North Haven’s 16-year-old rising star Gabi Carrubba got cut from “American Idol” on Thursday, just missing a chance to advance past the group round and become one of the top 42 contestants. Carrubba was the only one cut in her group. In the wake of Tacogate.
Weeks after his remarks about tacos landed him in the national news, East Haven Mayor Joe Maturo has started reaching out to Latinos in his town, the New Haven Register reported. Maturo has spoken to several Latino leaders in his town, and has visited businesses owned by Latinos. One witness said he lunched at the Ecuadorian-owned Guti’z Bakery, the Register reported. Save the artists. After pleas from the leaders of Connecticut’s arts communities, Gov. Dannel Malloy on Thursday reversed a decision to cut millions in arts funding from the state budget, the Hartford Courant reported. Getting it in order. The arts, living, fashion, architecture and lifestyle magazine Out of Order, or OOO, has launched its new website that features photos of Yale sophomores at campus hangouts like Rudy’s and Yorkside. In an email to members of the Yale community on Thursday, the magazine advertised a new interview with filmmaker Woody Allen. A mystery. An article published in the British newspaper The Telegraph earlier this week claims that, when the University invited children of professors at Oxford and Cambridge to stay at Yale for the duration of World War II, its reasons were not purely philanthropic — the University, the article claims, brought over the Oxford children to preserve their superior intellect as part of their eugenics-crazed effort to preserve superior human beings. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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of Yale’s Global Zero Chapter, said the conference will feature speeches by an array of prominent experts on the politics of nuclear weapons, including ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and John Sheehan, the former commander-in-chief of United States Allied Command. Global Zero, which counts more than 450,000 members worldwide, started as the brainchild of cofounders Brown and Bruce Blair SOM ’84. Brown and Blair met at Yale in
The biennial event, which concluded Tuesday, secured $13,000 — a larger operating budget than in 2010 — after soliciting support from the Yale administration, student groups and outside donors, said Sex Week co-director Connie Cho ’13. Cho said the lack of corporate sponsors forced organizers to cancel some events at the last minute and reach out to fewer high-profile speakers. Still, all 10 students interviewed said they thought Sex Week organizers succeeded in avoiding the material that some critics considered sexually explicit last fall. “This year, we planned Sex Week with a huge commitment to writing grant applications, soliciting funds through Yale and the Yale community,” Cho said. “Any time we spent on fundraising was time that we couldn’t spend on content or execution of events.” Sex Week had faced an uncertain future after the Advisory Committee on Campus Climate recommended that administrators ban the event series in its November report, though University President Richard Levin said he would give organizers the chance to draw up a proposal that “might warrant continuation” of the event. Sex Week organizers agreed not to use the Yale name or corporate sponsors in this year’s event, and adminis-
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This weekend, the Global Zero Summit will bring anti-nuclear weapons activists from around the world to Yale’s campus. BY HOON PYO JEON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This weekend, anti-nuclear weapon activists will congregate on campus to discuss how to make the atomic bomb a thing of the past. The Global Zero Summit, called “Reaching Zero: Student Summit at Yale 2012,” will bring students, activists and experts from across the world to Yale for a two-day discussion about eliminating nuclear weapons. Harrison Monsky ’13 and Matt Shafer ’13 collaborated with
Global Zero, an anti-nuclear weapon nonprofit advocacy organization, in organizing this weekend’s events. Global Zero co-founder Matt Brown LAW ’01 and Monsky said they hope to spread awareness and galvanize student movements in support of Global Zero’s mission through the summit. “This is an issue that speaks to our generation, born right after the end of the Cold War,” Shafer said. “This is a truly international issue, a global movement.” Monsky and Shafer, co-presidents
Yale-NUS releases costs, financial aid
State invests in tech startups BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER In an attempt to improve the state’s economic climate, Gov. Dannel Malloy announced last week that the state will invest $250 million in startup technology companies over the next five years. The money is set to come from both the state and Connecticut Innovations, the state’s quasipublic authority responsible for technology investing. The funds will then be distributed to both high-tech startup companies and other firms that assist startups in an attempt to make capital more widely available and fostering business-friendly environments, especially around universities. “Small business ventures really provide the best potential for economic growth in the short and long term,” said Jim Watson, a spokesman for Connecticut’s Department of Economic and Community Development. “It’s about these three things: innovation, entrepreneurship and startups.” According to Catherine Smith, chairperson of Connecticut Innovations and commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, the intent is to create an “innovation ecosystem” conducive to entrepreneurship and business growth. Smith said the state will pay existing companies to provide services for businesses, such as accounting assistance, business classes and help with Internet publicity. Different
companies will bid for the opportunity to provide these services, and the state will choose among them based on their proposals. “We’re not going to do this whole thing by ourselves, because one thing we know about the state government is that it’s really not very good at this stuff,” Smith said. “We are, however, going to fund these services.”
We’re not going to do this whole thing by ourselves, because one thing we know about the state government is that it’s not really good at this stuff. CATHERINE SMITH Department of Economic and Community Development, Commissioner Smith said there will be a focus on developing “business hubs” near universities, where talent is often concentrated. Citing Yale’s Science Park, Smith said there are several companies that originated as startups created by members of the Yale community and eventually grew throughout the state. Among these companies are Higher One, a company SEE STARTUP GRANTS PAGE 4
BY ANDREW GIAMBRONE AND TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTERS While Yale-NUS College has modeled much of its curriculum and student life on Yale College, the tuition and financial aid policies for the overseas liberal arts college, released Wednesday, more closely resemble those of a Singaporean institution. Though all undergraduates at Yale are charged the same baseline tuition, Yale-
NUS has determined students’ tuition costs based on their citizenship, in accordance with Singaporean law. Yale-NUS is also offering merit-based scholarships — a type of financial aid not available at any Ivy League school. The tuition and scholarship policies, which will be reviewed again after the college’s first year, are designed to attract top students in Singapore and interSEE YALE-NUS PAGE 6
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o Yale student should ever walk in fear of the city he or she lives in. Yet by the time our four years in New Haven are up, far too many of us will have gone through our time at Yale having barely ventured beyond the so-called bubble. And most Yale students will admit — some openly, others tacitly — that the reason is simple: crime. In his last column (“The Myth of Dangerous Dixwell,” Feb. 15), Colin Ross admirably tries to dispel the stereotype that neighborhoods like Dixwell, which sit right on the University’s doorstep, are simply too dangerous for Yale students to enter. We have devoted the past six months to compiling data on Dixwell’s crime, health and housing situations and traversing the neighborhood, getting to know both its streets and some of its residents.
DIXWELL STILL FACES MUCH ADVERSITY First, it is undeniable that recent changes in Dixwell have vastly improved living conditions for many of its residents. The redevelopment of the old Elm Haven projects into mixedincome housing took drug dealer-infested apartments and turned them into a pleasant neighborhood of singlefamily houses with barely any crime at all. Similarly, the Science Park complex has stabilized the east side of the neighborhood, where criminals used to gather near the abandoned Winchester Arms factory. If Dixwell was ever the most dangerous part of New Haven, it certainly is no longer. But as much as we might wish it were otherwise, the fact is that Dixwell does suffer from dismally high rates of crime. Only two shootings have occurred so far this year, but the colder winter months see fewer shootings than the rest of the year anyway. Looking at 2010, the last full year for which complete data is available, Dixwell had 212 incidents in the four categories that traditionally comprise violent crime: murder, rape, assault and robbery. In a neighborhood of just 5,300 people, this figure equates to a violent crime rate of 39 per thousand people — more than twice the New Haven average and well above the figures seen in even the most
impoverished American cities (Flint, Mich., for example, stands at 24 per thousand). And while the neighborhood accounts for only about 4 percent of New Haven’s population, it saw 8 percent of the city’s murders in 2010. Instead of noting that Dixwell has few crimes in terms of raw numbers, we should be shocked that such a small neighborhood accounts for so many of the city’s violent crimes. No matter which way you cut the data, Dixwell has a crime problem. Going beyond the pure data, disturbing patterns begin to emerge. Stores on Dixwell Avenue go out of business and aren’t replaced because no entrepreneur wants to risk opening a business on such a dangerous street. Slumlords leave their apartments in disrepair because there is no incentive to make their buildings look nice on a street where many others sit abandoned. In fact, our preliminary research has indicated that crimes seem to cluster on these particularly dilapidated blocks, creating a vicious circle in which crime invites neglect, which in turn invites more crime. Given that this is the reality of living in Dixwell, it is easy for people to simply write off the neighborhood as a lost cause. Maybe it isn’t worth venturing into Dixwell after all, you’re thinking right now. In fact, the lesson we should glean is the opposite. Dixwell has its problems, but it is improving in ways that should make even the most cynical observer optimistic. What’s more, many strategies to improve living conditions are simpler than most people think. Promoting home ownership, creating a mixed-income environment and working closely with local police to create beats that cover the most crime-ridden street corners are all goals that anyone who cares about the future of American cities can embrace. Dixwell has a problem with crime. It is not a permanent problem, but no one will be able to solve it until everyone involved admits that the problem exists — even if it means acknowledging that some of the stereotypes we hear about New Haven are true.
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y mother, who is a wise woman, sent me a column a week ago that she had cut out of the newspaper. The column had been written by a grief counselor, someone who works closely with the dying and their loved ones in the face of terminal diagnoses. While she identified five lessons that she had learned from the dying in the column, I want to draw on the last one, particularly because it was just Valentine’s Day and it’s still winter. She wrote that the dying most regret that they didn’t allow themselves to be happy, that they worked harder than they should have and didn’t spend enough time with people that they loved. At the end of their lives, they found new priorities. This idea is hardly a new one, but it’s one I’ve been thinking about a lot in the last few weeks as my life has become increasingly hectic among planning the summer, dealing with extracurriculars and discovering that papers are not merely the universe’s bad joke on the sleep-deprived. My life has
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become about fitting loved people and joyous experiences into the pre-existing framework of activities and o b l i ga t i o n s, ZOE the other MERCER- not way around. And I’ll be GOLDEN honest: there has been a lot Parenof death in my thetically life and the lives of my close friends in the last few years. Grandparents have passed away; tragic accidents have occurred; parents have inexplicably been diagnosed with cancer. In the shadow of death and grieving, I’ve become both more grateful to be alive and more conscious of the compromises I make on an everyday basis — the compromises that sometimes keep me from really being happy. So it was a pleasant surprise this Valentine’s Day to wake up
to a goofy Valentine from a friend in my college, to receive a loving email from a friend who I traveled with in China but who I haven’t seen in months, to get a phone call from my surrogate big brother who lives halfway across the world. I went to dinner with a dear friend and felt unspeakably grateful both that I was making time to be happy — making time for the people that mattered — and that the shadow of tragedy can be cut short with love. Today, when I went in to work at the nonprofit where I intern downtown, I noticed for the first time a quote someone had stuck next to the computer in the cubicle where I was typing. The quote said that gratitude was clarifying because it makes order out of chaos. In the chaos of my own life, and in the disorder that death and tragedy leave in their wake, I often forget to be grateful for what I do have. The gratitude I felt on Valentine’s Day was short-lived: I went back to the paper I was writing immediately thereafter. But this idea that gratitude was a force
of clarification has stuck with me, maybe because I need a little clarity, maybe because something did slam into place when I thought about what I was grateful for even in the midst of coping with frustration and loss. Gratitude and grieving are two sides of the same paradigm: both are an acknowledgment of our deep feelings of attachment to being alive and our deep need to be loved and acknowledged. In looking at the quote, reading my mother’s article and by living through one of the first not-silly Valentine’s Days I’ve ever had, I remember that it is appropriate to feel both grief and gratitude, sometimes at the same time. I put the article up on my wall to remind me how important it is to chase happiness, to find room for people and pleasures that show us why being alive is wonderful, even when it’s winter. ZOE MERCER-GOLDEN is a junior in Davenport College. Her column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact her at zoe.mercer-golden@yale.edu .
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Fighting Islamophobia at Yale S
ince the end of the Jim Crow era, politicians have dressed racism in the rhetoric of food stamps and illegal aliens. But as the past 10 years have shown, it seems that politicians need no such disguise for Islamophobia. Unspoken assumptions often provide more insight into American public opinion than what can be explicitly stated. Public figures today assume that they can openly disparage Muslims, thinking that Muslims are worthy of our fear and hatred. This Islamophobia pervades the discourse of the Republican primaries. Putting aside the claim, still common today, that Barack Hussein Obama is secretly a Muslim, let’s take a look at what some of the current and former GOP hopefuls have to say about Islam. While he was a frontrunner in the race, Herman Cain said he would never appoint a Muslim to his cabinet and that the majority of Muslims hold extremist views. You would have to work hard to be more blatantly intolerant than that. What is even more deplorable, however, is that this comment had little to no impact on his popularity. Newt Gingrich, who famously claimed that Palestinians are “an invented people,” is known for his support of patently Islamopho-
JACOB ANBINDER AND DREW MORRISON are sophomores in Ezra Stiles and Branford colleges. Anbinder is the head of the Dixwell Map Project for New Haven Action, and Morrison is the organization’s president .
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bic anti-Shariah legislation, such as the bill Alabama State Senator Gerald Allen proposed last year that would ban courts from citing Shariah and other foreign laws. When asked at a press conference to define Shariah, Allen was unable to muster a response. It turned out the text of Allen’s bill that defined Shariah was lifted from Wikipedia. Even the moderate frontrunner, Mitt Romney, based much of his 2008 campaign on the need to combat “violent, radical Islamic fundamentalism.” In a debate last month, he claimed, “The right course for America is to recognize we’re under attack … [by] radical violent jihadists around the world.” It is exactly this sort of simple-minded explanation of world events that feeds America’s growing paranoia of Islam and Muslims. If this is the rhetoric we tolerate from a man who might be our next president, imagine the kind of discrimination that Muslims face on a day-to-day basis. You don’t need to go very far to see the real consequences of negative attitudes towards Muslims. Yale Muslims — your classmates — have been (and, judging by the direction of our society, will continue to be) victims of Islamophobia. Rakibul Mazumder ’13 recalls growing up in post-9/11 New York City, where he faced
random searches and profiling on a weekly basis. To his surprise, the hate followed him to Yale; he recalls being harassed by drunken partiers one night with antiMuslim slurs. Parents of Muslims students said their goodbyes at the beginning of last school year knowing that their sons and daughters were coming to New Haven just as Connecticut Muslims had requested police protection for Friday prayers. “Politicians and pundits are playing the fearmongering game,” said James Jones, president of the Masjid alIslam mosque on George Street. “It absolutely scares me.” For Muslim Yalies, the safety of being Muslim in New Haven has come into question. As the Alabama state senator’s inability to define Shariah attests, much Islamophobia is based in utter ignorance of Islam. College campuses have historically been influential in combating such ignorance, and Yale in particular has been exemplary in this regard. In the 1960s, Yale Chaplain William Coffin organized busloads of students to challenge racism in the Jim Crow South. Those Yalies put themselves in harm’s way to combat hate. However, the situation today is often different from the Jim Crow South and merits a dif-
ferent response. Today, we can be informed and inform others. To promote this goal, the Yale Muslim Students Association recently organized Islamic Awareness Week, hosting events every day that exhibited a different side of Islam and Muslims — one based in truth rather than fear. In the tradition of the Yalies who opposed Jim Crow, we must spread the word: people like Herman Cain are wrong. Not only are they wrong, but the Islamophobia they represent has no place in acceptable public discourse. Just as it was absolutely unacceptable for the mayor of East Haven to make offensive statements against Hispanics, so too should we be outraged about inflammatory comments against Muslims. While Islamophobia is frightening for so many reasons, Yalies have a chance to make their mark in stemming the growth of intolerance. Educating ourselves is an important first step in eradicating this hateful mindset and progressing to a more respectful public discourse. MOSTAFA AL-ALUSI AND FAISAL HAMID are juniors in Morse and Trumbull Colleges. They are the president and vice president of the Muslim Students Association.
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Investing in our state W
e, as Yale students, pride ourselves on being bright, curious and engaged citizens. We are part of an institution that aims to educate its students to better the world. We tend to think that we do not fit the stereotype of ignorance and apathy that is all too often associated with America. But Yale students often forget the most accessible outlet to effect change: state politics. Before I lose you, consider the implications of the upcoming U.S. Senate race. Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent, Bull Moose or Whig, this is important race for all of us. I admit it is easy to forget or dismiss the responsibility we have to Connecticut and think only of our civic duties in our home states, but this is a mistake. Even if you could care less about Connecticut, you probably do care about Yale. And, to be sure, Connecticut has given a lot to Yale, so it is important for us to give back. In some cases, we do. The Ward 1 aldermanic race this fall marked a height of participation by students, and programs run by Dwight Hall, the Roosevelt Institute and New Haven Action mark student involvement in our community. But we should all take a moment to look at this senatorial
race. On November 6, the seat held by former Democrat and current Independent Joe Lieberman is up for grabs. Joe Lieberman is my least favorite politician of all time, excluding President Franklin Pierce (he just annoys me — not sure why). But I digress. This Senate race, while still in its infancy, is about to get interesting. So please, step into my office for a closer look. Both the Republican and Democratic primaries for this race will be held on August 14, and the Republican nominee is likely to be Linda McMahon. McMahon, who served as president and then CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, enjoys as much as a 33 percent lead in the Republican primary contest. McMahon ran for U.S. Senate in Connecticut in 2010, and despite pouring $50 million into her own campaign, she lost to Democrat Richard Blumenthal by double digits. On the Democratic side, the candidate who will likely face McMahon is not yet certain. I strongly support Chris Murphy for the Democratic nomination and, while he enjoys a lead over his primary challengers, Murphy could use Yale’s support in both the Democratic primary and the general election.
Murphy’s political career began when he was elected to the Planning and Zoning Commission in Southington, Connecticut in 1997. In his next two races — first for the Connecticut House of Representatives and then for the state Senate — he defeated longtime incumbents. In 2006, Murphy ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and won big despite challenging a 24-year incumbent who outspent him two to one in that election. As a U.S. congressman, he organized an independent and nonpartisan ethics panel to evaluate ethics complaints concerning members of Congress. He vocally supported the Affordable Care Act in 2009, establishing himself as a staunch advocate of the public option. He supports a woman’s right to chose as a legal and moral issue — and he supports gay marriage on those same grounds. Murphy also strongly supports public education, an issue we, as students, should pay close attention to. He advocates for legislation that would prevent shortening the school week and increasing class sizes. He also voted to increase the federal Pell Grant program by 37 percent to allow more high school graduates the chance to go to college.
And consider that, if elected, Murphy would be the youngest member of the U.S. Senate at 40. This means he might actually know how to use a computer. Now that you are more familiar with the race and might feel sort of guilty for not having voted in the Ward 1 aldermanic race — or, more likely, if you have no idea what an alderman does — view this senatorial race as an opportunity to invest in Connecticut, not just your party’s candidate. Voting in Connecticut is a way to make Connecticut a home, not just an area surrounding Yale that we happen to be in for four years. In fulfilling our basic civic obligations, we express our values and invest — even if it is just in the effort of voting — in the future of our state. If we feel that we have something at stake in this election and we act on this by voting, we give back to Connecticut in the most basic way and show that our school doesn’t just care about curing cancer and ending poverty, but that we know we’re part of a local polity that can do real good for us — but only if we ask it to. JACK SCHLOSSBERG is a freshman in Trumbull College. Contact him at john.schlossberg@yale.edu .
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WOODY ALLEN “I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.”
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A gift, not a statistic
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ince the Senior Class Gift campaign kicked off Feb. 1, the numbers have constantly been e-mailed, shared on Facebook and tweeted at us: 97 percent last year, 91 percent for the class of 2010 and 82 percent so far for the class of 2012. It’s overwhelming, especially for the seniors who gave and want to be done with it, or for those who haven’t given, or for those who are tired of seeing nothing on Facebook but updates on the Senior Class Gift and new Yale memes. I’m not majoring in anything remotely quantitative, but even I know there’s a simple reason why these numbers keep getting forwarded, posted and retweeted: They matter. The whole point of the campaign is numbers — not dollar amounts, but participation.
THE CLASS OF 2012 CAN SET A RECORD AND LEAVE A LASTING GIFT FOR FUTURE CLASSES I like to think of the ultimate participation rate of the Senior Class Gift as a grand gesture. The dollar amount probably won’t be large enough to cover the average cost of a single Yale College financial aid package. But the percentage is large enough to do a lot. That percentage is a direct sign — not necessarily of approval, but of gratitude for an opportunity. It is a sign that we seniors are willing to pay it forward and make the Yale experience even better for the class of 2016 — and for future generations of Yalies, too. Moreover, that overall grand gesture of a
percentage is a combination of a lot of individual gestures. The reasoning behind individual gestures varies as much as the 1,320 freshmen who moved into Yale College on Aug. 29, 2008. Every individual gesture is unique, as are passions we have each pursued here at Yale that have allowed us to spread out and meet others, to challenge ourselves and grow. Collectively, these passions and interests are what make the class of 2012’s Yale experience so distinctive. Similarly, the combination of individual gifts makes the overall giving percentage from the Senior Class Gift so powerful. Why are you grateful for Yale? Perhaps it’s because whether or not you received financial aid, tuition only covered about half the cost of your Yale education with the rest coming from donors. Maybe it’s because you made a few close friends here, or because you became more open-minded here, or you discovered your calling in life. Maybe you still have no idea what your purpose is at all, but you feel prepared to go in an unlimited number of directions come graduation. Whatever feelings we may have about our time at Yale, each of us has the power to send a message in giving. At the end of the day, a high rate of participation shows that the class of 2012 appreciates the Yale experience and that we joined together to make Yale a better place. Moreover, each donation, in contributing to something larger than itself, increases the sense of cohesion and unity among the class of 2012. The senior class runs the gamut from athletes to actors to activists, but we are united by a common sense of gratitude for the past four years. The percentage is more than just a number — it is a testament to our collective commitment to Yale’s future. MARGARET GREENBERG is a senior in Calhoun College. Contact her at margaret.greenberg@yale.edu .
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nce, while walking down York Street next to my beloved Jonathan Edwards College, a homeless man shouted to me and asked, “Hey you! What’s the best nation in the world?” I stared at him with a blank look on my face before responding. “Uh … Bangladesh?” I said. “No, no, my friend. The best nation is a do-nation.” Amused by his pitch, I gave him a dollar. It was an unexpected moment of philanthropy. In any case, it was worth it for the entertainment, and I gave willingly. This month, we have a different type of beggar flagging us down on the street — our own classmates. February marks the start of senior class gift fundraising. Earlier in the year, Yale seniors received an email urging us to participate in this year’s class gift effort. Since the beginning of this month, the emails have become more frequent and even more urgent. But I will not be participating. First and foremost, the senior class gift is not treated as a gift but as an entitlement. Having lived with seniors last year, I witnessed firsthand senior class gift coordinators — and even administrators of Yale College — haranguing a suitemate, coming to the suite and demanding a nominal gift of $5. After about a week of what I would call harass-
ment and even written appeals from the dean and master, my suitemate finally succumbed to the pressure. And so his donation was marked down in the books as another percentage point in JE’s heralded 100 percent participation rate. But just how much of that 100 percent was voluntary? I doubt all of those donations were done as willingly as mine on York Street some time ago. But wait a minute. This campaign is called the senior class gift. Aren’t gifts supposed to be voluntary? Well, maybe not. As the Senior Class Gift coordinators see it, it is your duty as a Yale undergraduate to keep the dollars flowing back to the institution’s coffers. To me, this senior class gift feels more like a senior class tax expected of my classmates and me, with non-payment punished with shame and alienation. I also take objection to how some of the senior class gift funds are allocated. Don’t get me wrong; these gifts go to a lot of areas of the University worthy of support. The funds raised by the senior class gift campaign can support Yale College’s financial aid fund, our libraries, general undergraduate life and the facilities budget. These are all great, and if I were to give, I would gladly help finance all of those causes.
However, the senior class gift is also partially allocated to fund what the campaign’s website refers to as “Faculty Support and Curriculum Development.” This one-line item piqued my interest. Aren’t faculty support and curriculum development among the primary budgetary costs of Yale College? When did the senior class gift become part of the operating budget? Who decided to start funding essential costs of Yale College with gifts? This feels just a little bit too presumptuous. To me, it feels like my gift will just end up fulfilling some kind of donation quota for senior class gift coordinators. To me, it feels like someone in the budget office doesn’t necessarily view the senior class gift as a voluntary donation. Let me be clear: I don’t have a grudge against Yale College. As I’ve said, I would be happy to support many of the elements of the Yale experience that the senior class gift supports. However, the gift has become more of bureaucratic requirement than a thoughtful, concrete donation. I may give to Yale in the future, but for now, I’m holding off. DAVID EDWARDS is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at david.edwards@yale.edu .
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worry a lot about not taking advantage of Yale’s library resources. Early in my Yale career, I quit every panlist I’d been strong-armed into and signed up for the e-newsletter Nota Bene: News from the Yale Library. I liked this publication, which has headlines like “OHAM [Oral History of American Music] Announces Wolpe Acquisition and Increases Jazz Holdings” and briefly made me want to journey to a medical school exhibition space to catch “A Soviet Poster Campaign Against Venereal Disease.” I loved the acquisitions lists. There, I learned that Yale had North America‘s largest collection of Italian/Abyssinian Occupation propaganda postcards and had just acquired a guide to the prostitutes of 18thcentury Covent Garden entitled “Kitty’s Attalantis.” Leaving parties as an under-
classman, I’d think of stranger, better fêtes I’d read about in Nota — “Library celebrates 150 years as a Government Documents Depository,” a Babylonian Collection Centenary Concert, the 10th birthday of BorrowDirect. I had a problem as a freshman that I still have now — I barely use Yale’s libraries. As a student in the English major, I don’t write many research papers. But my problem has a broader cause, one many undergraduates experience but which afflicts me with obviously abnormal poignancy: surrounded by the vast resources of a research university, I am no scholar. I like learning, but I never really want to make an argument. I want to make some facts up. My papers are bad. Yale’s libraries, which I love, are made for other people — the brighter, clearer thinkers, more single-minded, more meticulous than I. For years, I experienced Yale’s
libraries touristically. I signed up to be shown around the Sterling map collection. I applied for student jobs at the Beinecke but did not get them. I lugged books home sometimes — on one occasion checking out a stack with publication dates predating white settlement in my home state of Washington! — tasting the pleasures of research. But I remained sidelined at the library, a fan. Enter, belatedly, my Bucket List. It is not too late to grow my footprint in the library system. Recalling Nota, I saw my ambition to up my library usage as an altruistic act. I’d read the stats — “764 patrons took advantage of extended library hours, with a total of 23 percent more undergraduates using the library.” They wanted me. And they were keeping track. So how would I do it? Would I “Ask! a Librarian?” Would I
text my time-sensitive request? Would I invent some composite assignment that would send me trekking from the Medical History Library, with its over 300 printed incunabula, to the Horace Walpole Library in a historic house in Farmington, where “members of the staff would be delighted” to show me Pennant’s “A Journey from London to the Isle of Wight”? No. I would start with my Personal Librarian. And how quickly things progressed. From my Personal Librarian, I was directed to another librarian, who pointed me towards another librarian, and there I was, standing in the heart of it all — Manuscripts and Archives. I felt fraudulent. But emboldened by my appointment time, I stepped inside. I’d asked to examine some of Yale’s LGBT collections to research context for a fiction project I am work-
ing on. My goals were vague — imagine lesbians better? — and I wasn’t sure why I couldn’t turn to secondary sources. But no one questioned me. Nervous, I read every word of the licensing and copyright agreement, pretending I was a person who read every word of licensing and copyright agreements. I donned my name tag, hung my coat and, for the first time, entered the hushed room of the researchers. On the other end of the room, I spied the box I’d ordered. The people around me all looked like they’d been doing this for days. This was the first room I’d been in since elementary school where every table had a pencil sharpener. Every chair had wheels. Why? The other people knew. I reached my box and shook it. Was that appropriate? They’d brought it in a truck from Hamden for me. Hundreds of letters
were inside. Later, I made sure to exit through the library. I turned the corner, past the Judaic studies showcase, past a Babylonian tablet exhibit and out into Sterling’s striking nave. I turned back. I’d missed the labels. This is what I loved — “Rimush: Atrocities and Prison Camps,” “Shulgi: Consummate Bureaucrat,” Rimsim, the king who murdered the murderer by ordering that he be thrown into the hottest oven! These tablets were 4000 years old. Oh, Yale’s libraries! I would be back in the manuscript room soon, rifling through — no, examining with new exactitude — some of the University’s youngest documents. I’d started my research. KATE LUND is a senior in Silliman College. Contact her at kate.lund@yale.edu .
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“We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility and individual responsibility.” REP. PAUL RYAN R-WIS.
Malloy announces investment in startups STARTUP GRANTS FROM PAGE 1 that handles financial services at 650 colleges and universities, and Alexion, a pharmaceutical company, according to Smith. “There’s a lot of evidence that some of the best thinking and new ideas come out of university systems, so as we’re building in Connecticut, we’re going to build off these anchors,” Smith said, citing the University of Connecticut, Wesleyan University and the University of Bridgeport as a few of these “anchors” in addition to Yale.
Connecticut has been active, but perhaps not as active in the past as some other states, in promoting startup businesses. RICHARD LEVIN University President School of Management professor John Feinstein said small businesses are key to the “economic revival” Malloy promised in his State of the State address last week, but expressed concerns about the cost of the governor’s plan. “Right now, we’re not really supposed to be spending money,
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Gov. Malloy has proposed a plan that would increase the state’s investments in technology start-up companies. which is a main worry of mine,” Feinstein said. “I’m not a big fan of deficits.” Still, some members of the University community expressed support for Malloy’s plan. “Connecticut has been active, but perhaps not as active in the past as some other states, in promoting startup businesses, so I
think that’s why Gov. Malloy is trying to turn on the spigot here and make that effort more successful,” University President Richard Levin said. Annelies Gamble ’13, president of the Yale Entrepreneurial Society, an organization that supports and funds Yale startups, stressed the importance of policies that
encourage entrepreneurs to accept risks. “People don’t necessarily want to open themselves up to the risk of starting a business, so if the government can figure out a way to push and encourage people, that would be great,” she said. Noah Sheinbaum ’13, CEO of Elmseed Enterprise Fund, a stu-
dent-run nonprofit that provides lending and consulting services to New Haven entrepreneurs, said that the increased funding is a “great start,” though it should be only one part of the state’s economic development strategy. “Simplifying the processes that prospective entrepreneurs have to go through to start businesses
would be equally, if not more helpful,” he said. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Connecticut’s unemployment rate stands at 8.2 percent. Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .
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Boston College professor Kerry Cronin outlined problems with the hook-up culture in a Sex Week talk.
trators approved the organizers’ proposal on Dec. 20. Yale College Dean Mary Miller said she thought Sex Week was “educational rather than sensational,” though she added that she did not attend any events herself. Still, Cho said the lack of corporate sponsorship limited organizers’ ability to attract highprofile speakers, a restriction that encouraged organizers to instead invite more students and faculty members — who would not need to be reimbursed for travel or food expenses — to moderate Sex Week activities. Emphasizing Yale’s resources allowed Sex Week to hold more events this year, she said, adding that the “Faculty Lunch Series” program, in which students could eat lunch with faculty members and discuss issues of sexuality, added eight activities to the schedule by itself. The Yale College Dean’s Office agreed to help fund four Sex Week events — the first time the Dean’s Office has provided financial support to the event series, Cho said. She added that Sex Week also received donations from other campus resources, including the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center, the Communications and Consent Educators program, and several residential colleges. Despite the advisory committee’s concern that Sex Week had strayed from its original mission
of promoting sexual health and instead featured “titillating displays, ‘adult’ film stars and commercial sponsors of such material,” students interviewed who attended Sex Week events said they did not think the material was inappropriate.
I don’t think [Sex Week] was sexually explicit. [Organizers] talked about sex in a frank way which a college campus should be the way it’s done. KLARA MARKUS ’13 “I don’t think [Sex Week] was sexually explicit,” Klara Markus ’13 said. “[Organizers] talked about sex in a frank way which in a college campus should be the way that it’s done. I don’t think that it makes sense to do it any other way.” But Bijan Aboutorabi ’13, one of the co-founders of True Love Week — an alternative series of events organized by Undergraduates for a Better Yale College that aimed to promote love and fidelity — said he thought Sex Week still focused too much on casual sex and Yale’s “hook-up culture,” citing the event’s “Forni-
cation 101 with Oh Megan!” and “BDSM and Alternative Sexualities” activities as objectionable. He added, though, that he recognized that Sex Week organizers took steps to “tone down” the event and reduce its “sensationalism.” While True Love Week and Sex Week operated as distinct events this year, Cho said she could see the possibility of collaborating in the future as long as “all speakers were in accordance with [Sex Week’s] rigorous LGBTQ-inclusivity process and [the event’s] mission to raise multiple voices on campus.” On Feb. 6, about 50 students staged a “kiss-in” in protest of a True Love Week talk with Providence College professor Anthony Esolen, who had published statements criticizing homosexuality that some students found offensive. But Aboutorabi said he did not think True Love Week would likely collaborate with Sex Week in the future. “Even the name ‘Sex Week’ is not something that we would want to sign on to,” he said. “It makes sex itself the center rather than human relationships.” The next Sex Week will take place in 2014, and True Love Week organizers said they hope their event will happen annually. Contact CAROLINE TAN at caroline.tan@yale.edu .
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“The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes!” SEN. TED STEVENS R-ALASKA
TODAY’S EVENTS 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. 7:00 PM South Asian Film Festival: “Dev. D.” Directed by Anurag Kashyap, this comedic modern take on the classic Devdas follows a young man who finds his solace in drugs after breaking up with his childhood sweetheart. As his life begins to spiral out of control, his path crosses with a teenage girl caught in the world of prostitution. Will they be destroyed, or will they find redemption? Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Room 102. 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.).
EliApps migration waits on most BY LIZ RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDO STAFF REPORTER Three months after all undergraduates were invited to convert from Yale Horde email to EliApps, Information and Technology Services is still waiting for the majority of students to switch their accounts. Though students have received multiple emails from ITS reminding them to make the switch before the end of the academic year, 60 percent of undergraduates have yet to transition from Horde to EliApps, said Loriann Higashi, manager of the Student Technology Collaborative. ITS has not finalized plans for what will happen to students who do not migrate before the year ends, but Higashi said those students will likely have their EliApps accounts created automatically and may lose access to their old emails. Until they officially switch to the Google Apps for Education platform, students will continue to receive reminder emails from ITS, Higashi said. She added that students who transfer their accounts before the deadline should have no issues maintaining access to old email files. “We want every student to choose what they wish to do with their existing account,” Higashi said. “We really want students to be happy with [EliApps].” EliApps accounts give students 25 gigabytes of storage along with access to Google Calendar, Documents and Sites. The one EliApps feature not yet enabled is Google Groups, Higashi said, which ITS has “soft-launched” and is testing. Higashi said an official release date has not been set for Google Groups, which she said will likely serve the same purpose as mailman lists and panlists. Members of the class of 2012 have the option to opt out of the change, and Higashi said 20 percent of those students have chosen to do so thus far. The class of 2016 will automatically enter with EliApps. But three of six students from the classes in-between said they had not migrated to EliApps and are fine with waiting for ITS to make the switch, as their Horde accounts already forward to other email systems. “Even though it would just take a few minutes, I don’t want to have to go through trouble of setting up my Apple Mail again,” Chuyang Wei ’15 said. “Things are convenient for me the way they are.” Liz Jones ’15, who has not migrated to EliApps, said she is hesitant to switch during the middle of the semester for fear an error could occur. Jones said she would prefer to convert after the semester ends, adding that she is comfortable with forwarding her Yale mail to her Gmail account at the moment. STC Assistant Manager Adam Bray ’07 said that only approximately 20 transfer errors have occurred among the 40 percent of students who have already switched. He added that ITS successfully resolved all those transfer errors.
Bray said transfer errors occur if Horde accounts have exceeded their two-gigabyte storage limit, causing the accounts to become “corrupted.” Sometimes students experience this problem if they forward their mail to another email server but do not delete the emails from their Horde account, Bray said. If students plan to continue forwarding their email to another account, they must still switch to EliApps and then reforward their email, he added. David Crosson ’14, who transferred to EliApps in early January, said he finds the new server more user-friendly, noting that EliApps is easier to access from multiple computers. Crosson said he has felt frustrated by Horde since he first began using the system and quickly began forwarding his email to another account. He added that he hopes ITS will launch Google Groups soon. “I’m hoping if they do a Google version of panlists, new groups will be able to be created and people will not have to be grandfathered into existing panlists,” Crosson said. “Panlists connect students and allows for organizations to run much better.” Jessica Xu ’15 said she never forwarded her mail from Horde, but now has her phone synchronized with EliApps account, and prefers the new setup. Of the nation’s top 100 schools, 61 currently use Google Apps for Education, according to the Google Apps for Education website. Contact LIZ RODRIGUEZFLORIDO at liz.rodriguez-florido@yale.edu .
TIMELINE ELIAPPS OCTOBER 2006 The Google Apps for Education Suite is released. FEBRUARY 2010 The News reports that ITS plans to switch to Google Apps for Education for its email server. SPRING 2010 The change is stalled after Yale faculty and students express concern with Google Apps for Education’s security. A committee is formed to deliberate the switch. OCTOBER 2011 Student techs and about 70 students who volunteered to test out EliApps are allowed to invite up to ten friends to join EliApps. NOVEMBER 2011 ITS sends out an email notifying students that they all can begin migrating to EliApps. FEBRUARY 2012 Forty percent of students have switched to EliApps. MAY 2012 Yale Horde email will be disabled.
City plans jobs ‘pipeline’ BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER With the latest figures from City Hall showing 12.9 percent of New Haveners without work, the city has begun the first stages of a “pipeline” intended to help funnel Elm City residents into jobs. The pipeline — a term Mayor John DeStefano Jr. adopted from some of the Board of Aldermen’s new labor-backed representatives — includes a January proposal to open a vocational school, and focuses on improving employment prospects for the city’s jobless residents. Central to the pipeline’s success, supporters have argued, is the city’s success in reforming its public schools, which city officials say do not adequately prepare students to enter the workforce upon graduation. “There is a mismatch in some instances between the jobs growing here in New Haven and the skills of New Haven residents,” City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said. “We think there is a role for the city to play in connecting New Haven residents to local employers, and in facilitating coordinated training opportunities for New Haven residents.” Last week, aldermen approved the creation of a pipeline working group, staffed by representatives from City Hall, local businesses and the public, which is tasked with returning a plan to the board within three months. According to Benton, the proposed vocational school would focus on technical skills and skills in growing industries in the city, such as culinary arts or biotechnology. It would also house some
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Mayor John DeStefano Jr. is working to create a “pipeline” to help the 12.9 percent of New Haveners without jobs re-enter the workforce. of Gateway Community College’s programs, such as automotive repair, and could act as an “incubator” for new city businesses by providing a space to work and plan before the business is opened. This would offer New Haven students stronger training programs not available in other cities’ schools, Benton said. The benefit of having a college, high school and incubator located together is that students would receive a internship and job experience, which she said would improve the city’s jobs picture. “The mayor’s been pretty clear
when he talks about growing jobs — he always talks about the importance of school change,” Benton said. “The tech high school is a component of that, making sure we’re giving kids the choices, resources, tools that they need to be successful.” New Haven has asked the state, which began its three-month legislative session last week, for a planning grant of $750,000. Rebecca Bombero, DeStefano’s legislative director, said New Haven will also ask for $750,000 for its workforce development initiative. That initiative, she said, would increase the scope
of the Commission on Equal Opportunities, whose efforts are presently focused on construction. “[The funding] would expand the purview of the [Commission on Equal Opportunities] and make other opportunities available for job development,” Bombero said. “They have some terrific results in terms of construction and we’re looking to beef that up.” New Haven schools enroll more than 20,000 students. Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu .
Drama school program finds its footing BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER In early April, the projection design program at the Yale School of Drama will admit two students to the class of 2015, the third class admitted since the concentration was established in fall 2010. With the three-year program filled for the first time, the 18-month-old concentration is still seeking to define itself. The youngest Master of Fine Arts program within the school’s design department, the projection design concentration focuses on a field that Drama School Dean James Bundy DRA ’95 said is becoming increasingly important in contemporary theater as more directors choose to incorporate video and still photography into their sets. Bundy added that the school seeks to train a new generation of designers in a growing area of the theater. “Projection is everywhere,” said Wendall Harrington, a professional projection designer and the professor who devised the program. Harrington added that 81 percent of the productions that opened on Broadway last year used projections in some way. The Broadway debut of “American Idiot,” the 2010 musical based on the music of the punk rock band Green Day, for instance, incorporated video projections into its backdrop, flashing images such as former President George W. Bush’s iconic “Mission Accomplished” banner to help recreate the mood of the Iraq War in 2003. “One would be foolish to have any kind of theatrical design program that doesn’t include [projection design classes] in some way or the other,” said Harrington, who had for several years taught isolated courses in the field at the School of Drama prior to the institution of a full-fledged MFA concentration. Harrington said Ming Cho Lee, the chair of the school’s design department, proposed the idea for a full projection design curriculum to her in 2010 and asked her to plan a course of study. “It was a little scary because you have to really think up something brand new,” said Harrington. Projections are more popular now because people watching and acting in productions have grown up watching television and accepting the idea of the ethereal as real, she added. Also, Harrington said, producers use pro-
jections because they are “cool and cost-effective.” “Those are the two worst reasons to use projections, but them’s the facts,” she said. Michael Bergmann DRA ’14, one of the two students admitted to the program last fall, said he believes the use of projection will continue to increase as it has in recent years. He added that when applying to drama schools, he found that Yale’s program was the only one that would give him the kind of projection training he sought. “Nobody’s doing this,” said Harrington. “It’s us and CalArts [The California Institute of the Arts].” Harrington, who has worked in projection design since the early 1970s, said she hopes to give students the kind of training she wishes someone had given her earlier in her career, when the use of projections was much more limited. But the challenge in constructing a projection program, according to Harrington, is that “nobody knows what [the course] is or should be.” As a result, Harrington and her students have been designing the concentration as they go along. “I was not nervous entering a young program,” said Hannah Wasileski DRA ’13, one of the pair of students that joined the program in its first year. “On the contrary, [I was] very excited to be a part of the new endeavor, and to be part of the process of discovering how a program teaching something so new can be sculpted.” In the program’s first two years, students have worked not only on School of Drama productions, but on a range of shows put up by members of the wider Yale community such as the School of Music and an undergraduate dance group. Harrington said that she seeks to give her students exposure to as many projects as possible. Bergmann said that he believes the program needs to bring in more instructors, preferably from the technical side of the field, to discuss how to deal with actual problems encountered on sets. Paul Lieber DRA ’13, who was admitted to the program with Wasileski, said he would like to do more practical work within the program, particularly involving installation. “Hannah and I have been pushing for that since last year, and [next fall], with a full contin-
gent of designers, that’s something we could do,” said Lieber. Wasileski said that the introduction of two new students when she entered her second year had a positive effect on the perceived legitimacy of the projection design program. “The support network has doubled and will only get better once the program reaches its full capacity,” she added. Increasing the number of students in the concentration means more work will have to be sought out, Harrington noted. She added that she prioritizes giving each of her students opportunities to work on actual productions and go on trips to New York to see professional designers at work. But restrictions on the school’s teaching hours, which only run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. to give students time to work on productions, limit time available for field trips, Harrington said.
The support network has doubled and will only get better once the program reaches its full capacity. HANNAH WASILESKI DRA ’13 Enrolling in the program and working on productions has been eye-opening, Lieber said. “We’re truly learning the power of the image, and how it can dwarf anything else on stage,” he said. “I could never have known that, working on a small scale.” Even as a professional in the field of projection for theater, Harrington said she hopes to train her designers to understand the proper use of projections, given their potentially overwhelming visual impact and directors’ inclination to overuse the tool. Harrington said that not every show requires a projected component. She added that she is known for walking out of meetings with directors whose shows she felt did not need her work, and that she wants her students to have the confidence to do the same. “I love teaching designers but I also want to teach the directors … that projections are not the punchlines of shows,” said Harrington. Since the establishment of the projection design concentration,
Harrington has taught a range of courses on projection design that are open to all students at the school. Liz Diamond, chair of the school’s directing program, said that students in her department who have worked with Harrington have found the experience “terrifically valuable,” helping them as collaborators and challenging them to question why they believe their shows need projections. The question for the contemporary director, Diamond said in an email, is how to use projection as a vehicle for metaphor, not just illustration. “Directors need to develop a deep visual culture, to understand how the projected image works on us emotionally, viscerally, intellectually,” said Diamond. “This is what this new department promises for the student director at Yale. It’s a tremendous development.” For the students in the concentration itself, however, the program has room for development and clarification in the coming years. “Since we got here at the beginning of last school year, the program has really grown for the better,” said Wasileski. “There is generally much more recognition and support from the school and from the faculty, who are responsive towards paving a sturdy road for the department.” Harrington said that she hopes that she will solidify a range of new opportunities for her students in the next two to three years, decreasing their reliance on the varying number of Yale productions incorporating projections given year. She added that she has found the school’s faculty supportive of her tactic of designing the program as she goes along, an issue she said has been faced in sound design, another relatively new field that was recently introduced as a concentration. “We’re a little suspect, coming in from the digital age,” Harrington said. “It’s not a problem, but it’s like you’re coming into the room wearing purple — they’re still trying to figure out why we’re wearing purple.” Applications for admission to the projection design track in the school’s design department were due Feb. 1. Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .
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“If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.” WINSTON CHURCHILL
Global Zero conference heads to Yale GLOBAL ZERO FROM PAGE 1 December 2006, Brown said, and realized that they shared a belief that it was time for a new international movement for the total elimination of nuclear weapons. Together, they reached the conclusion that young people, especially college students, would have to be the driving force behind this movement.
Most movements, the truly big policy changes throughout history, have been led by the young people at the forefront of them . MATT BROWN LAW ’01 Co-founder, Global Zero “Most movements, the truly big policy changes throughout history, have been led by the young people at the forefront of them,” Brown explained. “Young people need to push to be creative, bold, and grab the world by the collar and shake it, saying that 20 years after the Cold War, it doesn’t make sense to have nuclear weapons.” Brown added that the ultimate aim of Global Zero is the multilateral reduction in nuclear arsenals, which would be enforced by some monitoring mechanism able to verify and detect any attempts to build nuclear weapons. Interna-
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Harrison Monsky, left, a co-president of the Global Zero chapter at Yale, speaks at a Global Zero summit in London in 2011. tional diplomacy is not capable of dealing with the threat of nuclear weapons in the long term, he said, and the only solution is to eliminate the weapons completely and verifiably. Monsky and Shafer said significant public support is needed to convince world leaders that reducing their nations’ nuclear arsenals is necessary. In the midst
of a rapidly growing landscape of student movements, they said they viewed Yale as a great location for grassroots student activism. Shafer added that in addition to raising awareness and sparking discussion about further action on Yale’s campus, the summit will have a broader impact, reaching political communities outside of
the University. He cited the broad range of countries that will be represented in the 300 students who will attend the summit, including Pakistan, Australia and Germany. Though five Yale students interviewed said they were not planning to attend, they praised the conference’s aims. “I‘m always in favor of more intelligent discourse and I support
the general principle of nonproliferation.” Zac Krislov ’15 said. The summit will be jointly hosted by Global Zero, the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and its director, Ernesto Zedillo GRD ’81, the former president of Mexico. Events will kick off at 9 a.m. on Saturday and conclude at 2 p.m. on Sunday. They will be held
either at the Yale University Art Gallery auditorium or LinslyChittenden Hall and are open to the public with a $10 registration fee for Yale students and $20 registration fee for New Haven residents. Contact HOON PYO JEON at hoonpyo.jeon@yale.edu .
Yale-NUS costs depend on residency YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 nationally, administrators said. According to the Yale-NUS website, students will fall into one of three tuition categories. Singaporean citizens have the cheapest tuition costs, at S$7,500 per semester, which is roughly equivalent to $6,000 U.S. dollars. Permanent residents — noncitizens who reside in the country — will be charged S$10,500, while international students will be charged S$15,000. But unlike tuition, financial aid and scholarship eligibility will not vary based on a student’s citizenship, Yale-NUS Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeremiah Quinlan said Thursday. “We’re going to be doing an individual analysis of every student,” Quinlan said. “Even though we don’t know how many students will receive scholarships or be on need-based financial aid next year, we’re committed to trying to make this an affordable education for as many students and families as possible.” According to the newly released Yale-NUS policies, students admitted to the college’s inaugural class will automatically receive one of three merit-based scholarships.
Students deemed the strongest applicants by the Yale-NUS Admissions Office will be awarded the “Founder Scholarship,” which covers the full cost of attendance. The next tier of applicants will earn the “Merit Scholarship,” which pays for a “significant portion” of tuition and pays for half of one year’s room and board. Those who do not qualify for a founder or merit award will receive a “Community Scholarship,” which also covers half of one year’s room and board, but does not pay for any tuition expenses.
This is much less expensive than Yale or a liberal arts college in the United States. JEREMIAH QUINLAN Yale-NUS Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid University President Richard Levin said administrators decided Yale-NUS would give merit-based scholarships to keep the school competitive in a country where all colleges and universities offer merit-based awards.
“We’ll have merit-based scholarships as a base layer of financial aid, with need-based aid on top of it for those who need financial help,” Levin said. “It’s necessary to attract the best students, that some component of their package is merit-based.” Quinlan noted that all the scholarships allocate money to housing costs, which is important since all Yale-NUS students are currently required to live on campus — an uncommon stipulation, as many students at Singaporean schools live at home to save money. Ronald Ehrenberg, director of Cornell’s Higher Education Research Institute, said merit scholarships allow institutions to attract top-notch talent, though these awards detract from the amount of need-based financial aid an institution can provide. But Levin said he does not expect the merit-based aid at Yale-NUS to take away from needbased aid. He said the school’s financial aid policy will be competitive with those of many elite U.S. universities, though not on par with the aid offered by Harvard, Princeton and Yale, whose need-based financial aid packages meet students’ full demonstrated need with only grants, not loans.
Ehrenberg also said it makes sense for Yale-NUS to differentiate tuition based on citizenship, comparing the Singaporean policy to those of U.S. state schools, which charge out-of-state students higher fees. Quinlan said the Singaporean government determines the levels of tuition by first setting the price for Singaporean students and then using a “price multiplier” to increase costs proportionately for permanent residents and international students. Despite the variations in price, Quinlan said YaleNUS is relatively inexpensive for all students. Still, international students who receive additional financial aid in the form of tuition grants are required to work for a Singapore-based company for three years upon graduation. “This is much less expensive than Yale or a liberal arts college in the United States,” he said, adding that the Singaporean government heavily subsidizes higher education for its citizens. Tuition fees for Singaporean citizens are currently set to increase to S$9,000 for the college’s third class of students, Quinlan said, to help cover additional construction and maintenance costs on the new campus.
Yale-NUS will open in fall 2013. Contact ANDREW GIAMBRONE at andrew.giambrone@yale.edu and TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS HOWARD DEAN Howard Dean ’71 was an early frontrunner in the race for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He famously delivered a loud and peculiar speech after the Iowa caucuses, which included a final, throaty “Yeah!” that has come to be known as the “Dean Scream.”
Dean urges ‘bottom-up’ activism among youth BY IKE SWETLITZ CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean ’71 told students Thursday afternoon that they are better positioned to enact political change than previous generations. At a Pierson College Master’s Tea, Dean said the connectivity fostered by the Internet and has empowered young people to develop long-term solutions to societal issues. This shift lends itself to “bottom-up” efforts, he said, particularly in education reform. “I think that your generation doesn’t do change the way our generation tried to,” Dean said. “Our generation believed in changing the system. You really don’t believe in the system or care about it very much [because] you have been able to circumvent it with the Internet.” Online resources have made activism more feasible by allowing people to more speedily connect with those who share their views and take action, he said. Dean said bottom-up movements are more effective in promoting change than top-down ones, especially when local communities engage in efforts to improve the quality of public education. “Education reform is never going to happen from the federal government,” Dean said. “Education gets changed from the bottom up. So does everything else.” In re-evaluating school systems, he said, policymakers should focus on extending educational services to children between the ages of 0 and 3. Dean said children whose families do not have access to educational resources early in life will struggle, even if they later enter a strong school system. Dean also said the increasing
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Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean ’71 was on Yale’s campus Thursday afternoon for a Pierson College Master’s Tea. Dean discussed the opportunities students have to solve societal problems, stressing especially the role of the Internet in enacting reforms. ethnic and cultural diversity of communities in the United States is enhancing the need to alter the political system to reflect the wishes of all people. Dean said as a child, he had few friends of different ethnicities, but youth today live with people of various immigration statuses, religions, races and sexual orientations. He said certain political movements, such as the Tea Party, do not reflect this diversity, which
limits their effectiveness. “America is a much bigger quilt than that,” Dean said of the Tea Party movement’s demographics. Dean also took time to discuss politicians running for the Republican presidential nomination. He said he thinks Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney would win the nomination, but he expects Romney to lose the general election in part because he has asserted he would veto the DREAM Act —
which would allow undocumented immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition at public colleges and universities — and because of his “Swiss Bank account and investments in the Cayman Islands.” Still, he said he fears that former Sen. Rick Santorum may pull ahead in the Republican nominating race because of his ability to connect with audiences. He added that he thinks the “straightforwardness” of Rep. Ron Paul has
contributed to Paul’s popularity, but he said the “world would probably collapse” if Paul’s ideas were implemented. Three students interviewed said they appreciated the optimism Dean expressed about America’s youth. “It’s reassuring to hear [optimism] coming from someone who has seen so much,” said Jonathan Yang ’13. Deena Gottlieb ’15 said Dean
may be neglecting the Internet’s contribution to complacency in young people, but nevertheless called his perspective “refreshing.” Dean teaches a Yale College Seminar, “Understanding Politics and Politicians,” with clinical professor of psychiatry David Berg ’71 GRD ’72. Contact IKE SWETLITZ at isaac.swetlitz@yale.edu .
Morse master search ongoing BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER Roughly one month after Morse College Master Frank Keil announced that he would leave the post at the end of the spring semester, the search for his successor has begun. A search committee consisting of Morse fellows and students is gathering input as to what “strengths and characteristics” members of Morse think their new master should have, committee chair and Deputy Provost for Science and Technology Steven Girvin said. Though there is no definitive timeline for appointing Keil’s successor, Girvin said the committee will present its findings to University President Richard Levin next week, adding that he expects a candidate to be chosen “well before” the semester ends. Girvin said in a Tuesday email that the search committee has met with college staff and emailed all members of Morse asking for suggestions and feedback on the search process. Committee members were available to speak with students during family night dinner last Sunday, Girvin said, and after the Morse College Council meeting last Tuesday. He added that the committee has invited Morsels to suggest faculty or staff members as candidates for master. “The job of master in Yale College is incredibly important for our students,” Girvin said. “The master is the ‘mayor’ of this community as well as an academic leader, counselor, disciplinarian, and champion for the community.” Levin said in an email Wednesday that Yale looks for masters who can connect with their students, and serve as both intellectual and moral leaders in their colleges. Residential college masters are usually senior faculty either in Yale College or one of the professional schools, but they can also be senior staff
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Deputy Provost Steven Girvin is leading the search for a new master of Morse College.
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Current Morse Master Frank Keil will leave his post at the end of the semester. members, Girvin said in an email to Morse students on Feb. 6. Angelica Calabrese ’14, a member of the committee responsible for talking to students, said she has received input from a “good number of people.” She said more juniors and seniors have contributed suggestions than freshmen or sophomores, adding that this is likely because older students tend to have had more one-on-one interaction with professors. “Students are definitely coming forward with thoughts, ideas, opinions and suggestions,” Calabrese said. “I’ve gotten both names and general ideas.” Keil, who announced he would step down on Jan. 11, said in an email Thursday that developing relationships with students outside of an academic context has been the best part of his job as master. He described his students as having “remarkable talents,” compassion and community involvement. Calabrese said students will miss Master Keil, who has been a “great, fatherly figure” in Morse. Two students said they are interested to see what impact the change of leadership will have next fall. John Aroutiounian ’15 said he thinks the new master should be experienced and should match the college’s “eccentric, eclectic” character. “Whether it will be a seamless transition or not depends on how adept the new master will be at doing what Master Keil has done well, and building upon that,” Aroutiounian said. Keil and his wife Kristi Lockhart, the college’s associate master, have served in Morse for 11 years. Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie.gould@yale.edu .
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Cambridge crime reaches historic low BY JULIA DEAN STAFF WRITER The Cambridge Police Department reported on Wednesday that crime in Cambridge has reached a historic low. According to the report, the Department responded to 3,567 serious crimes in 2011 — the lowest registered number of incidents since 1963 and a 1.3 percent decrease from 2010. CPD spokesperson Daniel M. Riviello said that the police department’s increased transparency contributed to lowering crime rates. “We do not just tell the community what the police are doing to combat these trends, but also provide them with tips and information on what they can do to protect themselves and their property from becoming a victim of crime,” he said.
These efforts … have succeeded in making Cambridge a safer and more welcoming place. ROBERT C. HAAS Commissioner, Cambridge Police Department Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert C. Haas also attributed the dip in crime rates to the efforts of his police force. “The men and women of the Cambridge Police Department are extremely professional and hardworking, and it is their daily efforts which have had such a positive effect on crime,” Haas said in a statement. “These efforts, coupled with our strong community partnerships and commitment to allocate our resources based on data and analysis, are what have succeeded in making Cambridge a safer
and more welcoming place.” The re p o r t showed that serious crime has decreased by 68 percent since 1974. Serious crime talHARVARD lies are measured in accordance with classifications set by the Federal Bureau of Investigations’ Uniform Crime Reporting Program, according to the report. Under FBI guidelines, “serious crime” indicates the number of committed “index crimes,” which include homicide, rape, larceny, burglary and aggravated assault. Serious crime is further divided into violent crimes and property crimes. According to the release, Cambridge registered 436 violent crimes and 3,309 property crimes in 2011. Of violent crimes, street robbery in Cambridge declined by the widest margin. The CPD reported 113 street robberies in 2011, 20 percent less than the number committed in 2010 and the fewest robberies registered in the past 50 years. Though the city saw a decrease in street robberies, the number of registered murders and commercial robberies increased in 2011. The Cambridge Police Department recorded five homicides last year, but no homicides were reported in 2010. The CPD said that despite this spike in the city’s homicide rate it closes 82 percent of such cases, which is higher than the 65 percent national rate. Commercial robberies increased by 55 percent in the last year. “While burglary did increase in 2011, this increase must be tempered by the fact that both 2009 and 2010 saw near record lows for this crime type, and 2011 levels were settling back toward the average number of those types of crimes we historically see in Cambridge,” said Riviello.
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City schools may go paperless BY PHOEBE DRAPER STAFF WRITER Kindergarten students may soon be learning arithmetic on iPads, as part of a new “paperless classroom” initiative sponsored by the Rhode Island Department of Education. The idea of paperless classrooms is gaining traction as state textbook costs swell to $3.9 million annually, according to a report submitted by the Special Legislative Commission to Study the Purchase and Use of Textbooks in Public Schools. The Rhode Island Department of Education announced a $470,000 grant Jan. 18 “to support the redesign of a school that will use technology to transform education.” All public and charter schools are eligible to apply for the grant, but only one school will receive the funding and function as the pilot school for the paperless classroom program. The chosen school will launch the initiative this fall. The program includes digitalized curricula and a “one-to-one” policy, in which every student is paired with an electronic device such as a laptop or an iPad. State Rep. Joy Hearn, who co-sponsored the bill to create the commission and served as co-chair of the commission, lauded the Department of Education for adjusting to the “changing educational landscape,” according to RIDE’s Jan. 18 press release. Teachers and educational administrators converged to learn more about the possibility of going paperless at the Innovation Powered by Technology Conference, hosted Saturday by the University of Rhode Island. For educators, cost is one of the primary concerns regarding the program’s full-scale implementation. “You’re looking at a time of budgeting when it may be constrictive,” said Javier Montanez, principal at the Dual Language School at Lima Annex. But Dave Fontaine, professor of educational technology at University of Rhode Island and member of
the commission, said cost is actually “one of the tremendous benefits.” “When you i n co r p o ra te BROWN digital content and digital textbooks, you end up saving a lot of money,” he said. “Even in the course of one year, if the cost doesn’t break even, by the second year you’ll certainly be making a profit, or at least saving a significant amount of money.” This is largely due to the ease of updating electronic material, Fontaine added. Fontaine admitted that a major obstacle to the program is staff training and development. But training staff to work with the technology is a one-time cost, while textbooks require routine spending because they need to be updated every few years, he said. Educators are also concerned about technological infrastructure to support electronic curricula. “We’d have to be very conscious to make sure that the students and parents and families at homes also have access to the information,” Montanez said. Mari-Ellen Boisclair, principal of Anthony Carnevale Elementary School, said she understands how an interactive technological classroom would especially benefit the large population of special-needs students at Carnevale. While both Montanez and Boisclair expressed interest in the program, neither educator had heard of the grant prior to speaking with The Herald. The paperless classroom initiative was launched when the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a joint resolution in March 2011, sponsored by Hearn and Sen. Edward O’Neill. The resolution established a special legislative commission co-chaired by the two legislators to “study the possibility of bringing electronic learning to
Rhode Island classrooms,” according to a General Assembly press release. The 15-member commission met for the first time in May 2011 with several explicit objectives — to reduce textbook costs, provide students with devices that would allow them to access information, eliminate the growing problem of 40-pound backpacks and conserve the natural resources used to print and distribute textbooks, according to the commission’s report. Several months passed as the commission held hearings with public agencies, private e-book distributors, education officials and existing paperless programs in other states. “It was exciting,” Fontaine said. “We started off with what we thought was going to be a simple goal, of simply trying to study the option of moving hard copy textbooks to digital textbooks. What happened was that we found that our mission expanded as we began going through our research. We began calling in experts in the field,” he said. Among these experts was Jeff Mao, learning technology policy director for Maine. Mao described Maine’s decade-old “one-to-one” Learning Technology Initiative, in which all seventh and eighth grade students in the state are provided with an Apple laptop computer. Maine’s program has been “very successful,” according to a report published by the Maine Education Policy Research Institute. According to the report, 75 percent of teachers find that laptops are beneficial in helping their students meet state learning standards. After “lots of discussions, lots of complication and lots of networking,” Fontaine said the commission submitted its report to the state legislature in November, recommending the implementation of a similar program at a Rhode Island school. This pilot school will function as a “statewide model” until the paperless program can be scaled up to a “grander version.”
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ON CAMPUS 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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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 8:00 PM Yale Percussion Group. This concert will celebrate the anniversaries of the births of Steve Reich and John Cage. Featuring, among other works, Reich’s “Mallet Quartet,” “Electric Counterpoint” and “Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ,” as well as Cage’s “Third Construction,” “In a Landscape” and “Amores.” Free. Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College St.), Morse Recital Hall.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 ALL DAY Sips for Smiles. Operation Smile at Yale presents: SIPS FOR SMILES. For the month of February, every time you buy the delicious, cupcake-flavored hot chocolate at Claire’s Corner Copia, 20 percent of your purchase will help fund Operation Smile surgeries. Operation Smile is an international medical organization that provides free surgery for children born with cleft lip and cleft palate. Claire’s (1000 Chapel St.).
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Flames leap into the air from a car and building bombed in the Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province, central Syria. BY KIMBERLY DOZIER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Top U.S. intelligence officials pointed to al-Qaida in Iraq on Thursday as the likely culprit behind recent bombings in Syria, the deadliest attacks against the Syrian government in the 11-month uprising. Though the U.S. has called for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, his fall could lead to a power vacuum that al-Qaida’s largest regional affiliate or other extremist groups could fill, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress. And that could allow such groups to help themselves to Syria’s vast stockpiles of chemical weapons, he said. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the crisis in Syria has become “that much more serious” and worrisome to the United States as a result of indications that al-Qaida has infiltrated the government’s opposition. “It does raise concerns for us that al-Qaida is trying to assert a presence
there,” he said. “As to just what their role is and how extensive their role is, I think that still remains to be seen.” In New York, meanwhile, the U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution backing an Arab League plan calling for Assad to step down and strongly condemning human rights violations it said his government had committed. The vote, though not legally binding, reflects widespread world opinion. Likewise, in Vienna, U.N. SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon accused the Syrian government of committing “almost certain” crimes against humanity as activists reported fresh violence and the arrest of several prominent dissidents, including a U.S.-born blogger. The comments by Panetta and Clapper in Washington marked a diplomatically dissonant moment of near-agreement between American officials and the Syrian leadership they have called on to step down, after the deaths of thousands of Syrians in the unrest that started during last year’s Arab Spring. Syrian President Assad has long
blamed terrorists for starting the uprising, which has pitted his military against a ragtag group of angry Syrians, divided by religion and neighborhood. Al-Qaida’s leader called for Assad’s ouster last week. That endorsement has created new obstacles for the U.S., its Western allies and Arab states trying to figure out a way to help push Assad from power. Clapper said bombings against Syrian security and intelligence targets in Damascus in December, and two more recent bombings in the nation’s largest city, Aleppo, bear “all the earmarks of an al-Qaida-like attack,” leading the U.S. intelligence to believe the Iraqi militant branch is extending its reach into Syria. He added the mixture of Syrian opposition groups may have been infiltrated by such militants, probably without their knowledge. “We’ve seen evidence of Sunni extremists,” he said. “Can’t label them specifically as al-Qaida, but similar ilk who are infiltrating the oppositionist groups.”
N.J. passes gay marriage bill BY ANGELA DELLI SANTI ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey Assembly on Thursday passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriages, setting the stage for an expected veto by Gov. Chris Christie. The 42–33 vote sends the bill to Christie, who won’t take immediate action. The Republican governor who opposes gay marriage had promised “very swift action” if the bill passed both houses of the Legislature, but the Assembly isn’t required to send the bill to his desk until the close of business Friday. The Senate approved the bill Monday. “Without question this is a historic day in the state of New Jersey,” Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver said after the vote. She said she had never been more proud of the Democratic caucus for doing “what citizens sent us here to do: to deliberate, to use the legislative process to represent the interests of all New Jerseyans.” Steven Goldstein, chairman of the gay rights group Garden State Equality, echoed the speaker’s sentiments. “Today, the Legislature has brought us to the promised land,” said Goldstein. “We know the governor won’t let us enter, but we finally behold the view of our
dreams and we will never turn back.” Christie and most state Republican lawmakers want gay marriage put to a popular vote. Democrats say gay marriage is a civil right protected by the Constitution and not subject to referendum. Six states and Washington, D.C. recognize gay marriages. Washington State’s new gay marriage law is scheduled to take effect in June. However, 30 states have adopted constitutional amendments aimed at preventing gay marriage, most by defining marriage as a union between man and woman. The affirmative vote in the Assembly after more than two hours of debate ended weeks of speculation over whether Democrats who control the chamber would muster the 41 votes needed for the measure to pass. Four of the Assembly’s 47 Democrats voted no, and a fifth was out of town and didn’t vote. No Republicans voted in favor of the bill. The Senate passed the bill 24–16. In that chamber, two Republicans voted for the bill and two Democrats voted against it in what was otherwise a party-line vote. The bill would need several Republican votes in each house to override the governor; Christie himself essentially guaranteed that
that won’t happen. With that in mind, Democrats who identified same-sex marriage as their No. 1 priority for the two-year legislative session that began in January have adopted a longer view. They say there’s no rush for an override vote, especially because the Legislature has been unsuccessful in every prior attempt to override Christie, most notably to reinstate a surcharge on millionaires. Instead, they plan to bide their time in hopes that support for gay marriage — currently 52-42 percent in New Jersey, according to one recent voter poll - will continue to grow. “We do have two years,” said Reed Gusciora, a Trenton Democrat who sponsored the bill in the Assembly and one of two openly gay state lawmakers. “We changed a lot of views in the last couple of weeks. Give us two years and we’re going to change a heck of a lot more.” Gusciora also expressed hope that the governor would reconsider. “I hope at the end of the day the governor understands what it’s like to grow up as a gay or lesbian in the state, and that there are challenges, there is discrimination and this will come a long way of helping right all the wrongs,” he said.
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DETROIT — Defiantly declaring “a day of victory,” a Nigerian man was given a mandatory life sentence Thursday for trying to blow up a packed jetliner with a bomb sewn into his underwear. People aboard the flight testified that the failed attack had disturbed their sleep and travels for more than two years. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was the same remorseless man who four months ago pleaded guilty to all charges related to Northwest Airlines Flight 253. He seemed to relish the mandatory sentence and defended his actions as rooted in the Muslim holy book, the Quran. “Mujahideen are proud to kill in the name of God,” he said. “Today is a day of victory.” Had the bomb not fizzled, nearly 300 people aboard the flight would probably have been killed. The case stirred renewed fears that terrorists could still bring down an American jetliner more than eight years after 9/11, and it accelerated installation of body scanners at the nation’s airports. Before Thursday’s sentencing, four passengers and a crew member from the flight told U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds that they have struggled to live and travel normally since the incident on Christmas Day 2009. During their remarks, Abdulmutallab appeared disinterested, rarely looking up from his seat just a few feet away. Abdulmutallab “has never expressed doubt or regret or remorse about his mission,” Edmunds said. “In contrast, he sees that mission as divinely inspired and a continuing mission.” Life in prison is a “just punishment for what he has done,” the judge said. “The defendant poses a significant ongoing threat to the safety of American citizens everywhere.” Abdulmutallab, the 25-year-old, European-educated son of a wealthy banker, tried to set off the bomb minutes before the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight
landed. The government says he first performed a cleansing ritual in the lavatory — brushing his teeth and perfuming himself — then returned to his seat. The device didn’t work as planned, but it still produced smoke, flame and panic. He was subdued by fellow passengers and quickly confessed after getting hauled off the plane. He told authorities that he trained in Yemen under the eye of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Americanborn cleric and one of the best-known al-Qaida figures. The judge allowed prosecutors to show a video of the FBI demonstrating the power of the explosive material called PETN found in Abdulmutallab’s underwear. As the video played, Abdulmutallab, who was wearing a white skull cap and oversized prison T-shirt, twice said loudly, “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great.” Lemare Mason, a Detroit-based flight attendant who helped put out the flames, told the judge that he suffers night sweats and his “dream job” no longer is a “joy.” Passenger Shama Chopra, founder of a Hindu temple in Montreal, left Muslim prayer beads for Abdulmutallab on the defense table after her testimony. She recalled smelling his burning flesh inside the plane’s cabin, a moment “that gives me nightmares to this day.” Theophilus Maranga, a New York lawyer who was aboard the plane, said he was disgusted by Abdulmutallab’s continued references to religion as justification. “What kind of God is that? God is peace-loving,” Maranga said in court, adding that he prays daily for Abdulmutallab. Because he was a passenger, Detroitarea lawyer Kurt Haskell was allowed to publicly repeat his wild claim that the U.S. government outfitted Abdulmutallab with a defective bomb partly to force the rollout of body-imaging machines at airports.
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SPORTS Yale preps for Ivy foes M.HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 games, continuing a trend that has plagued the team since the start of the second semester. Prior to the Elis’ Jan. 14 matchup against St. Lawrence, they had gone 19–67 with a man-advantage, good for a 28 percent conversion rate that put them as high as second in the nation in that category. But since that game, they have scored just six goals in 45 power plays, a paltry 13 percent mark. However, the power play might lose its significance if this weekend’s games go anything like the team’s last matchups against Dartmouth and Harvard did. Three weeks ago when the Bulldogs traveled to take on the two Ivy League foes, they only went on the power play three times and converted once. Laganiere remarked that although the Harvard game was fairly clean overall, he thought the low amount of power plays was likely a coincidence. The Elis first skate against the Big Green (9–12–4, 6–9–3) on Friday. Dartmouth gave Yale a run for its money when the teams last played on Jan. 28. After heading into the second period down 4–1, the Bulldogs stormed back and captured a 5–4 victory when forward Kenny Agostino ’14 scored with 34 seconds remaining. With the two teams deadlocked at 15 points apiece in the ECAC standings, Friday’s game will be strongly contested. Although the Dartmouth game will be televised on NBC Sports Network, Saturday’s game against Harvard (8–7–10, 6–4–8) will likely be the game to watch. Aside from the rivalry, the game will give the Elis a chance to put a serious dent in the five points separating the two teams in the ECAC standings. The most interesting matchup on the ice this weekend is between Harvard forward Alex Killorn and Yale captain Brian O’Neill ’12. The two are almost identical statistically and have each led their respective teams offensively. Although O’Neill has tallied 17 goals to Killorn’s 16, Killorn leads O’Neill in points, 31 to 30. Like O’Neill, Killorn has been a force
to reckon with on the power play. He has vs. notched eight power-play goals through 25 games, just Dartmouth two fewer than O’Neill’s DiviSaturday, 7 p.m. sion I high of vs. 10. Laganiere, who played with Killorn at DeerHarvard field Academy prior to Yale, said that despite their similar numbers, the two players have distinct playing styles. “They’re two hard-working players, two very skilled players,” Laganiere said. “I think O’Neill is a little grittier and works harder. Obviously, it’s been a couple years since I played with Killorn, but from what I remember he’s very skilled and dangerous when he’s on the puck, but when he doesn’t have the puck I think it’s to O’Neill’s advantage.” Last time the two sides met, Killorn had the upper hand. The senior from Quebec scored twice, including the game-winner with just 1:19 left to play. Still, O’Neill made it interesting by scoring a goal in the first period that gave the Bulldogs a 2–1 lead. Whether or not O’Neill or Killorn has the hot hand on Saturday could give either team an advantage. For the Bulldogs, the goalie situation remains unclear. After Jeff Malcolm ’13 and Nick Maricic ’13 had alternated in net for three consecutive weeks, Connor Wilson ’15 made the trip last weekend and saw action in the Cornell game. At this point, it is reasonable to expect to see any of the Elis’ three goaltenders between the pipes. The Bulldogs will kick things off at 7:40 p.m. on Friday against Dartmouth and round out the weekend when the puck drops at 7 p.m. for Saturday night’s game against Harvard.
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Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at kevin.kucharski@yale.edu .
Jeremy Lin added to NBA All-Star Weekend Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin was added to the roster of players for the Feb. 24 AllStar weekend on Thursday. He will also assist Knicks rookie Iman Shumpert in the dunk-contest. In this year’s contest only fan voting will be taken into consideration. Lin’s story has been reported in the London Financial Times, France’s L’Equipe, Italy’s Gazzetta dello Sport and Spanish newspapers Marca and AS.
Fencer named All-Ivy BY EUGENE JUNG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Last weekend, the men’s fencing team took fifth place in the Ivy League Championships at Coxe Cage. Despite their disappointing finish, two of the Bulldog fencers earned the All-Ivy Honors, foilist James Broughton ’15 and epeeist Peter Cohen ’14. Now with the NCAA National Championship looming ahead next month, the News sat down with Cohen. Hailing from Irvington, N.Y., last season’s All-American talked about the state of Eli fencing, his fencing career and the team’s prospects for the future.
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Epeeist Peter Cohen ’14 earned All-Ivy Honors last weekend at the championships.
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First of all, congratulations on earning All-Ivy Honors. How do you feel about earning this award? How do you think you got this?
I’m very happy. It shows recognition of my hard work. It shows that I am dedicated to the team. We didn’t end up winning all the matches, but I still contributed.
is the atmosphere on the QHow team right now? How are the practices faring? I heard the team got the Monday off.
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The result was not ideal, but people are working really hard.
The team hasn’t changed much from last year. Basically it is all about mentality, and we just have to work on that. Did many people show up to support you? Parents? Suitemates like Adam Fields ’12?
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Two of my suitemates, my parents, sister and my high school coach were there.
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How is your relationship with the coach, Henry Harutunian? He seems to regard you highly.
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place finish?
He is such a legend. He is really interesting. He takes fencing into a lifestyle, more than just a sport. He matured me as a person. I really appreciate that. He is also really wise so I can learn a lot from him.
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back to the Ivies. What QGoing do you think caused the fifthWe first had Brown. They are not one of the strongest [teams], but we did well against them. Then it was Harvard. We played really hard but lost. And then we found out that Princeton won. We had a chance if we beat Princeton. We had a lot of energy going into the next day, but we lost. There wasn’t any specific thing that we couldn’t execute. We wanted to finish with a positive record. I believe nobody was in the right mindset. The loss against Columbia was again about broken mentality.
anything that could be QIsdonetherespecifically to improve in epee?
Tell me about your high school fencing days. Did it help in any way in preparing you to become a better fencer at Yale? Did you also happen to have what people call a “fencing notebook,” a record book of your fencing scores in your teenage years?
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I fenced on my high school [Hackley] team in New York. It wasn’t intense, but I fenced at the international level. I won a silver medal on Team USA in Maccabiah. That prepared for my level of fencing here. But the best thing about here is I have team that supports me.
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How did fencing influence your life?
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I have learned to lose like a gentleman and sportsmanship. I also learned determination and time management skills. My results influence the team, in the sense people rely on me, so I have to make sure I “produce and produce.” This is something the coach always emphasizes.
Captain and forward Reggie Willhite ’12 was held to just three points by the Harvard defense on January 27. M.BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 are determined not to let the shadow of the “Basketball Game” affect the game against Dartmouth this time. “If you beat Harvard but lose to Dartmouth that doesn’t help,” forward Greg Mangano ’12 said. “We control our own destiny.” In order to keep their destiny within reach, the Elis will have to win out. In that case, even if Harvard wins every game except for Saturday’s showdown at Harvard Yard, the Bulldogs will be assured at least a share of the Ivy League crown for the first time since 2002. The Bulldogs are now just past the halfway mark of their season, as they have played every Ivy League team at least once. In the six games remaining, Jones said the Ivy League competition will become even more cerebral. “[After the first game you] see coaches put wrinkles into their offenses,” Jones said. “Now in the sec-
ond time around the coaching becomes more important.” at Coaches’ strategies are nothing without execution on the court, Dartmouth however. Both the Big Green and the Saturday, 7 p.m. Crimson have playat ers who can create problems for the Bulldogs. Jvonte Brooks, Harvard freshman forward and three-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week, leads Dartmouth. He paces the team with nine points and adds 8.5 rebounds per game. Forward Kyle Casey tops the balanced Crimson attack with 11 points per game while forward Keith Wright contributes 10.6 points per contest. The Cantabs’ greatest strength is not scoring however, but defense.
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Harvard leads the Ivy League and is fourth in Division I in scoring defense by allowing a miserly 54.2 points per game. Both the Big Green and the Crimson may also gain an advantage from the long road trip the Bulldogs will face. More than 300 miles separate New Haven from Cambridge, with a stop in Hanover in between. Although not as far as last week’s odyssey to Ithaca, Jones said this weekend presents its own challenges. “It’s not as bad as the Cornell road trip — nothing is,” Jones said. “Backto-back road trips are tough. That’s the nature of the beast [playing in the Ivy League].” With a win tonight, the Bulldogs would secure a sweep of Dartmouth for the third consecutive season. Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .
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He understands that we are students. Our priority is to win, but also he knows that we go to Yale. He believes in being wellrounded.
any special diet that One of the team’s symbols, the QIsyouthere follow? Do you, or rather, QLittle Iron Man, is displayed on can you drink coffee?
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I don’t drink coffee. I don’t have a special diet. I am just tall and lean. I pretty much eat anything at the dining hall. On match days, I have bananas and Gatorade mixed with water.
seems that fencing requires QIta high level of concentration. How do you work on this?
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Basically we have to compete more and practice more. We do situational bouting, where you are put in a high pressure situation.
the second floor of Payne Whitney Gym. Can you tell us any interesting stories behind it?
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It’s the oldest trophy in the collegiate sports. It comes from IFAs ([Intercollegiate Fencing Association] that we won a couple years ago, and that is why we are still keeping it. It was for the best foil squad.
else do you do on camQWhat pus, besides fencing?
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SigEp and [Yale Entrepreneurial] Society.
you give us some of your What is the team’s goal for the QCan insights on the fencing team’s QNCAA National Championwalk-in system? Do you think more spots are needed for recruits?
ships and, going further, the rest of the year?
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I think more spots can’t hurt us. Traditionally, other teams with many recruits are better, but we have been fighting so well. Next year we need more recruits in foil since the current foilists are all graduating.
of the team’s biggest prides QOne is holding the highest average
GPA standing among all the varsity teams. What made this possi-
Last year, I earned 15 out of 24 points for Yale, and our team earned 40 points in total, which put the team in 10th. I was in third place. I definitely want to qualify and hope to make to All-Americans like last year and show some improvement. Contact EUGENE JUNG at eugene.jung@yale.edu .
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ble? Did the coach’s philosophy of putting priority on academics have anything to do with it?
place Crimson. The Bulldogs will look for leadership from the brightest spot on their team right now, guard Megan Vasquez ’13. Last week the junior, who leads the team in scoring with 15.7 points per game, entered the Yale record books as she became the 17th player in Yale women’s basketball history to score 1,000 points for her career in Yale’s 86–73 victory over Cornell. And Vasquez did not simply back into her milestone; she stormed into the accomplishment with 25 points as she led the Elis to victory. The next night, against a visiting Columbia team, Vasquez set a new career high with 28 points as the Bulldogs roared back from a 12-point first-half deficit to beat the Lions, 73–59. “She looks really comfortable and knows exactly what she wants out there on the floor,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said of her leading scorer. “She’s just hitting her stride right now, and it’s a good time for it.”
We’re just focusing on Saturday going forward. We’re obviously pumped up because it’s Harvard. SARAH HALEJIAN ’15 Guard, women’s basketball While a Harvard victory would be the real prize this weekend, the Bulldogs will have to get past the Big Green on Friday first. Dartmouth (3–18, 1–6 Ivy) has struggled to find success on the court this season, and the team’s only win in the last 17 games came against bottom-dwelling Columbia. The Big Green rank last in the Ivy League in both scoring offense and scoring defense, but they did push
Penn into overtime last weekend and came within four vs. points of victory at Cornell the week prior. The Bulldogs cannot take DartDartmouth mouth too lightly, but if they jump out Saturday, 6p.m. to an early lead and vs. put the game away quickly, they will get a valuable chance to rest their starters in preparation for Harvard tomorrow’s contest against Harvard. The Crimson (12–9, 5–2 Ivy) do not share the Bulldogs’ good fortune, as they must contend with a tough Brown team before having to make the twohour drive from Providence to New Haven for tomorrow night’s game. The Bears threw a wrench in Yale’s season earlier this year when they handed the Elis their first loss in only their second conference game, and the Crimson will have to work hard to avoid the same fate. What Harvard does have going for it, however, is revenge. While Harvard leads the all-time series 41–30, the Bulldogs have won the two teams’ last three meetings, including the first contest of this year. But guard Sarah Halejian ’15 said there is little reason to worry about the Elis getting overconfident. “We’re not concerned with [the result of the previous game],” Halejian said. “We’re just focusing on Saturday going forward. We’re obviously pumped up because it’s Harvard, and we’ll be ready.” Friday’s game is set to start at 7:00 p.m. and will be televised live on the YES Network. Tipoff Saturday is set for 6:00 p.m. at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.
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On the road again
Elis gear up for Ivy foes BY JOHN SULLIVAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As the race for the Ivy League title heats up, the Bulldogs are preparing to face Harvard for the second time this season.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL The Elis will first face off against Dartmouth tonight at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. Then, on Saturday night against
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Harvard, they will try to channel the same energy that led them to a 68–63 victory over the Crimson earlier this season. The Bulldogs (14–8, 6–2 Ivy) completed the road sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth three weeks ago, and now will try to match that feat at home. The team is currently in second place in the Ivy League to Princeton, and will try to hold onto that star this weekend against the thirdSEE W.BASKETBALL PAGE 11
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Center Greg Mangano ’12, under basket, scored 17 points as Yale was routed by Harvard 65–35 on Jan. 27. BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER The men’s basketball team says that every weekend in the Ivy League is equal, but this weekend just might be more equal than others.
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The Bulldogs will head up to Hanover, N.H., to face Dartmouth (4–20, 0–8 Ivy)
Guard Megan Vasquez ’13 scored her 1,
tonight before traveling to Cambridge for a showdown with Ivy League-leading Harvard (21–3, 7–1 Ivy) on Saturday. In a conference where every game counts towards determining the Ancient Eight champion and the recipient of the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, head coach James Jones and several players said that both games were crucial. “We’re always excited to play Harvard,” forward Brandon Sherrod ’15 said. “But you’ve got to take it one game at a time.” That does not mean that the Elis will
not be looking for blood in their rematch against the Crimson. When Yale last battled the Cantabs Jan. 27, its archrivals stole the show and demolished the Bulldogs 65–35 in front of a sellout crowd at the Lee Amphitheater. The Elis still seemed shell-shocked the next night when they went down 23–15 early against the bottom-dwelling Big Green before ending the first half on an 18–3 run and winning 62–52. The Bulldogs SEE M.BASKETBALL PAGE 11
Bulldogs angle for home-ice advantage BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER The Bulldogs (10–13–2, 7–10–1 ECAC) could be playing their last home games of the season when they take on Dartmouth and Harvard on Friday and Saturday. After this weekend’s homestand, the Elis will finish up the regular season next weekend when they travel to Princeton and Quinnipiac.
MEN’S HOCKEY But a few more games in front of the Ingalls crowd are not yet entirely out of the question. The top four teams in the ECAC get first-round byes in the postseason tournament, but this advantage is unlikely for the Bulldogs. Instead, Yale is likely to finish in the bottom eight of the ECAC. The four teams which comprise the upper half of the bottom eight each play a three-game home series against one of the bottom four teams. Currently, the Bulldogs are in eighth place, which would barely
qualify them to host a first-round series at Ingalls against the team that finishes in ninth. Whether or not the Elis maintain home ice advantage depends on the team’s success over the next two weekends.
[Last weekend] was terribly frustrating, especially Colgate. I thought we played better than them the whole game. ANTOINE LAGANIERE ’13 Forward, men’s hockey “It’s huge to get home ice advantage, not only because of the fans, but also because if we get home ice advantage we will have won most of the next four games, which will give us some good momentum going into the playoffs,” forward Antoine Laganiere
’13 said. Yale is coming off a hard-fought but frustrating 0–2 weekend against top-notch ECAC competition. The Bulldogs traveled to upstate New York last weekend and took on Colgate and Cornell, falling 4–2 on consecutive nights. The Elis played solid hockey in both games and actually outshot the Raiders and the Big Red by a combined 69–53 margin. “[Last weekend] was terribly frustrating, especially Colgate,” Laganiere said. “I thought we played better than them the whole game. We got a couple bad bounces, including a late one at the end to break the tie. That seems to be the story of the year.“ Although Yale’s offense created enough pressure to succeed last weekend, the Elis could not take advantage of enough goal-scoring opportunities to outpace the high-powered Colgate and Cornell offenses. This included a woeful 1–13 performance on the power play over the course of the two
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Last season, forward Broc Little ’11 and the Elis beatHarvard 1-0 in a February game at Ingalls Rink.
THE NUMBER OF GAMES THE HARVARD MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM HAS WON IN ITS CURRENT HOME WIN STREAK. This is the second longest streak in the nation and a program record, behind only Kentucky’s streak of 49 straight home wins.