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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012 · VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 98 · yaledailynews.com

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CROSS CAMPUS

W. LACROSSE ELIS PREP FOR NEW SEASON

GREEK LIFE

THE INTERNET ERA

M. BASKETBALL

Another fraternity considers creating chapter at Yale

SOCIAL LIFE HAS BEEN REDEFINED, STARTUP CEO SAYS

With seniors set to graduate, underclassmen prepare to take over

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ICE program begins amid protests

Breaking records. The Senior

Class Gift campaign for the class of 2012 ended with a party at Box 63 Wednesday night. At 11:10 p.m., during the party, the campaign received a late gift to top last year’s participation record.

Ultimately, 97.3 percent of current seniors donated — ahead of the class of 2011’s record 97 percent participation.

$6.7 MILLION IN CUTS TO SCHOLARSHIPS TO AFFECT STATE’S WEALTHY UNIVERSITIES

Whose cuisine will reign supreme? After weeks of

emails, posters and general buildup, Final Cut will come to Commons today at 5 p.m., as student chefs from the residential colleges compete to win the coveted title of Iron Chef Yale. Two iPads and a chicken tenders dinner for 10 will be raffled off at the event.

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lawsuit it filed against ICE’s use of detainers on criminal suspects in the wake of Secure Communities’ implementation in the state.

“Implementing [Secure Communities] poses a real threat to every state resident, no matter the person’s citizenship or immigration status,” the letter submitted to Malloy said. “[Secure Communities] incentivizes racial profiling, undermines community policing and burdens Connecticut taxpayers.”

Connecticut students who attend some of the state’s top colleges, including Yale, may lose access to state-funded scholarships as part of the budget cuts Gov. Dannel Malloy proposed Tuesday.

Malloy, who testified before the General Assembly’s Education Committee on Tuesday evening, is seeking to cut $6.7 million in funding from the Connecticut Independent College Student Grant program (CICS), which provides needbased scholarships to Connecticut students attending in-state private colleges. Last year CICS awarded funding to more than 5,400 students at 16 different schools, and Malloy is proposing to cut off funding that supports students attending schools with endowments greater than $200 million. Though University President Richard Levin said the proposed cuts will not have a large impact on Yale’s financial aid, other presidents of Connecticut private colleges said the cuts could change their admissions outcomes.

“Yale actually receives very little from [CICS],” Levin said. “I think it’s an important program for many private institutions in the state, but its impact on Yale

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Exploring new media? The

name of Louise Glück, Yale’s Rosenkranz Writer-inResidence and a former poet laureate of the United States, popped up on Yelp earlier this month with a glowing review of Heather’s Home Cleaning in Berkeley, Calif. “Never have I seen clean like this: walls and tiles changed color, surfaces I’d been reluctant to actually touch glittered,” wrote one “Krystal G.,” who said she was writing the review for Glück.

Some have to wait. As part of the state’s effort to balance its budget, the chief state prosecutor’s office will not take on any new “cold case” homicides from local police departments, the Hartford Courant reported Wednesday.

Another round. Daniel Esty

LAW ’86, a professor at the Law School and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, won unanimous legislative approval for a second year as comissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, CTNewsJunkie reported.

Need a ride to Toad’s?

Winfield Davis, the deputy director of public space for New Haven’s Town Green Special Services District, said plans are in the works to set up a taxi stand on Crown Street between Temple and College Streets, the New Haven Independent reported. The new taxi stand would function similarly to the stand at Union Station, and would operate from 10 p.m. until 2 or 3 a.m.

On the verge. Yale’s own The

Fifth Humour is in the running to receive $5,500 in Zipcar driving credits via a Facebook contest run.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1968 During a morning panel on coeducation, an audience member asks University President Kingman Brewster whether, in choosing female students, the admissions committee “will pay any attention to appearance.” In response, Brewster rises and says, emphatically, “yes.”

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Immigrants’ rights groups headed to the capitol building in Hartford Wednesday to protest the implementation of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement program known as Secure Communities in Connecticut.

ICE DEPORTATION PROGRAM BEGINS OPERATION IN STATE; YALE LAW CLINIC FILES CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT

BY MICHELLE HACKMAN AND JAMES LU STAFF REPORTERS Over 70 New Haven workers and immigrants’ rights advocates travelled to Hartford Wednesday to protest the federal deportation program that launched in Connecticut that day.

As the controversial U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement program known as Secure Communities

rolled out statewide, the group delivered a letter to Gov. Dannel Malloy expressing “alarm” at the program, which will begin checking fingerprints of suspected criminals against ICE databases today in an effort to deport criminals living in the country illegally. Meanwhile, the Yale Law School’s Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic asked a federal district court to expedite a class action

Dilapidated HGS awaits renovation

BY CASEY SUMNER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER As the Hall of Graduate Studies approaches its 80th birthday, the deterioration of the building has begun to take a toll on some of its inhabitants.

Staff and faculty interviewed who work in HGS — which is home to classrooms, administrative offices, graduate student housing, and five academic departments and programs — said they have observed many general maintenance problems, including water damage, paint chipping and poor ventilation. The building has not undergone a major renovation since it was built in 1932, and although University President Richard Levin said administrators intend to improve the space, the economic downturn stalled their plans.

Thomas Pollard, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said he is a “strong advocate” for restoring the building and is “optimistic that much-needed repairs for HGS are moving toward the top of Yale’s priorities.”

“The building is elegant but in desperate need of renovation since its exterior and infrastructure … are all failing after many years of use,” he said in an email.

Lisa Brandes, assistant dean for student affairs at the Graduate School, added that improvements would help the Graduate School stay “competitive” with peer institutions in attracting potential students.

Gareth Nellis GRD ’15, who lives in HGS, said while elements of the building are “extremely attractive,” windows in the

rooms are worn down and the heating system is inconsistent.

Because of water damage or mold in the building, several faculty members have had to move from their offices in recent years, said Marcy Kaufman, graduate registrar in the History Department. History professor Jennifer Klein said she had to switch offices a few years ago because of water damage on the ceiling, adding that there have been persistent maintenance issues with the building since she began working there in 2003.

[HGS is] in desperate need of renovation since its exterior and infrastructure … are all failing after many years of use.

THOMAS POLLARD Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Inhabitants interviewed also complained about the windows — which do not seal completely and allow dust to accumulate indoors — and the ventilation. Kaufman said that the heating system fails to keep the temperature constant throughout the building.

“It can be really hot in one room, and across the hall it could be freezing,” she said.

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Devoted journalist took risks for truth

BY DANIEL SISGOREO AND JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTERS Marie Colvin ’78, a prolific foreign correspondent who covered war zones ranging from the Balkans to the Middle East for the past two decades, was killed Wednesday in a mortar strike while on assignment in Syria.

She was 56.

A Yale Daily News Magazine staffer during her years at the University, Colvin took a job in journalism straight out of college and began reporting on war zones worldwide for Britain’s Sunday Times in 1985. Though Colvin braved numerous dangers while on assignment, those close to her said she felt compelled to tell the stories of the civilians most affected by war.

“She was appalled by war, appalled by what it did to children and the innocent bystanders that made up the population,” said Katrina Heron ’78, Colvin’s best friend and roommate in Silliman College. “Her work led her to do a lot of political reporting and political analysis, but she really wanted to focus on the lives of civilians who are

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Colvin ’78 lost vision in her left eye while reporting in Sri Lanka. torn by these conflicts.”

Colvin was “hell-bent” on entering journalism from the moment she graduated, said Bobby Shriver ’77 LAW ’81, one of her closest friends. She developed her interest in reporting while writing articles on Yale’s cultural scene for the News and long-form pieces for the SEE COLVIN PAGE 4

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e expect the world’s news to be free and easy. It’s not.

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and what ultimately killed them — was their drive.

Ochlik paid his own way after Paris Match magazine decided the situation was too dangerous to send him.

Colvin was on her way out of the country but returned because she knew the offensive was not over. Shadid shrugged off a first asthma attack so he could keep reporting. All knew they might die on the job but decided that the truth was worth that sacrifice.

Their readers must take up that drive. We may not venture into war zones, but we aspire to the same dedication to the pursuit of truth that Colvin, Ochlik and Shadid took to Syria and to other assignments across the world.

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magine yourself as an Orthodox Jewish owner of a local kosher delicatessen. Things are going well until, one day, for whatever reason, the government passes a law requiring that all food outlets serve pork. What are you to do?

Bishop William Lori presented this hypothetical to Congress last week in the wake of Health and Human Service Department’s mandate that Catholic hospitals provide contraception. It is not a perfect comparison, but it underscores a tension between perceived social good and the religious principles of an accepted faith.

Some have said the lesson of the HHS controversy is simply about management. Social goods and services just need to be delegated better. But sooner or later, we need to let go of the temptation to draw from the never-ending pool of compromise.

Looking at this issue as a matter of entitlement reform genuinely overlooks the cultural elephant in the room. What some see as the clumsiness of the welfare state may actually be society’s confusion about its prioritization of values.

Despite our fondness for ideological purity, we ask our political leaders to be walking contradictions. We ask each politician to be two different yet compatible people: a political one and a religious

one.

The guiding presumption here, embodied by the HHS mandate, is that we deem secularHARRY ism impartial.

GRAVER It is the foundation everyGravely one shares, and individual mistaken people can add to it privately as they choose. The statesman is expected to embrace a sort of civil secularism, where his first principles, moral codes and sense of rights come from a view of the ideal, fair society.

Sure, this secularism tolerates the religious sprinkles of “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance or Christmas as a national holiday.

But it also holds that universal, consequential matters can only be decided objectively, apart from the irrationalities of religion.

In the United States, this way of thinking does not translate to a rise in atheism. Instead, there is a growing trend of the modernized religion — a modified faith, grounded in age-old tradition yet at the same time mutable enough to accommodate the times.

Certainly, this overarching civic reverence is not always at odds with religion. Civil virtues often protect and complement religious ones. Our jurisprudential history

is full of constitutional defenses of religious activity.

However, the HHS mandate is a matter of divine apples and oranges. It is a battle of competing requirements. On one hand, certain American mores have decided that contraception is a matter of civic rights. Logically, civic secular morality calls for the protection of these rights. On the other hand, the morality of the Catholic Church deems such action abhorrent and sinful.

I agree, largely, that the legislative specifics of this controversy could be solved with some general common sense. But to next wipe one’s hands clean ignores the mandate’s guiding mentality, which will remain culturally fixed to our generation well beyond this dilemma.

It is crucial to understand that until the tremendous backlash, the Obama administration had no moral qualms about forcing the Catholic Church to violate its core beliefs directly. The hand of the state unwaveringly inserted itself as a barrier to their path to God. This choice was not an act of welfare-minded clumsiness. It was conscious prioritization, and we need to explore its justification.

The issue is not that the Obama administration missed an opportunity to compromise. The issue is that in a conflict between civil secularism and the faith-based principles of the Church, the former

won.

On a lower level, this is a question of liberty in the modern state.

On a fundamentally more important plane, the question is: Is natural law still supreme in our system of law?

It is profoundly naïve to believe that two codes of rights — natural rights grounded in faith and God and civil rights grounded in reason and philosophy — are mutually compatible if only they are relegated to the right spheres.

Stemming from disparate foundations, these two understandings of rights, duties and morals will conflict again. Institutions of God will not defer to the proscriptions of man. The HHS mandate hits exactly this tension, and our generation will not be able to avoid these choices.

The sound bite-driven current presidential campaign makes this issue seem like a last-chance grasp at theocracy on the behalf of the Right. This could not be further from the truth. Instead, the HHS mandate is a sobering reminder that if society hopes to separate church and state, the former must occasionally be protected from the latter. Our national conscience cannot tolerate anything else.

HARRY GRAVER is a sophomore in Davenport College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at harry.graver@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST JOSEPHINE MASSEY

A look inside Occupy New Haven

Protecting Yale’s students n the wake of reports that the New York Police Department monitored the Muslim Students Associations at Yale and other schools, University President Richard Levin emphasized Yale’s support for its MSA on Monday and condemned “police surveillance based on race, religion, nationality or peacefully expressed political opinion.”

Creating an environment that encourages open expression is fundamental to the work of a university, and Levin has a responsibility to protect his students’ ability to speak freely. A segment of the Yale community felt violated on Sunday. Levin was right to place Yale’s weight behind the MSA. Levin implied that the NYPD’s surveillance was wrong, but did not say so explicitly. Given incomplete information, he was right to leave room for arguments

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Church and state in conflict

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t is easy to take information for granted these days. A few keystrokes and clicks give us the world.

But knowledge carries a price tag, even if we don’t see it.

This week, we paid for our knowledge. Marie Colvin ’78, of England’s Sunday Times, and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed by a rocket yesterday in the besieged city of Homs, in Syria. Anthony Shadid of the New York Times died in Syria Thursday, apparently after an asthma attack. They had all snuck in to report on violence the Syrian government is trying to hide.

Colvin, Ochlik and Shadid were known for their compassion, their honesty and their storytelling. But what most distinguished them —

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both for and against surveillance of MSAs and to focus broadly on core values. His moralizing, however, tended too far toward the idealistic. Peaceful expression of some political opinions should absolutely merit the concern of a dutiful police force.

Since Levin’s statement, further AP stories have made the NYPD’s excess clear. Undercover NYPD officers investigated the Muslim community of Newark, N.J. in 2007 despite “no evidence of terrorism or criminal behavior,” the AP reported yesterday.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg explained away Levin’s criticism with vague notions that his police are keeping America safe, but the news reveals that Islamophobia is alive and well. We are encouraged to see Yale stand firmly on the side of tolerance.

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ack in October, like most other freshmen living on College Street, I considered Occupy New Haven a loud and obnoxious obstruction to our attempts to study and sleep.

Regardless of whether we aligned with their cause or not, we could agree on one thing: Vuvuzelas and 3 a.m. drum circles were unnecessary.

To a certain extent, the occupiers’ celebration was understandable. They were — and still are — infatuated with the idea of change.

Fired up with the fervor of a political upheaval, they expressed their excitement in song, dance and chants. However, once they got a hold of a projector and loudspeakers and began to play documentaries, the news and the Smurfs movie until the wee hours of the morning, their lifestyle started to enter the realm of disturbance of the peace.

It was with this mindset that I decided to go pay a visit to the New Haven Green and see what life as an Occupier was like.

Entering the camp is an adventure in itself; there is no clear entrance and no clear layout to the camp. I formed my own route and went straight up to one

occupier by the name of Gregory Walker. Greg is 24 and wants to be a farmer, but, in the meantime, he just wants to live outside.

He gave me a tour. Our first stop was a large, insulated tarp structure that protects many smaller tents inside. Scattered around are bikes, clothes and other occupation essentials.

Greg showed me his tent, explaining that he has a place to stay elsewhere but chooses to sleep here. When I asked what his routine looks like, he chuckled at the idea of a schedule. “I print fliers,” he said. Without a paid job, he spends most of his time at Tyco or other printers. When he isn’t printing, he helps out around the camp.

Next, he showed me the clothing tent, which was rather large and filled with donated clothes.

Most of the items Occupy owns are either donated or found.

Occupiers quite intelligently set up a deal with Au Bon Pain, Atticus and other restaurants to collect food at the end of the day that would otherwise have been throw out. Additionally, organizers of Yale events often come by and drop off pizza, cookies and other food left over from campus

events.

One of my favorite tents is not actually a tent but a teepee constructed out of actual branches and cloth, inside of which are piled more than 15 TVs. Justin Sabatino, another occupier, says they plan to hold a demonstration where people will donate money to smash the TVs to their favorite music, indulging their hatred for television and politicians. The money raised will go to a combination of charitable and political causes.

The central tent is where I spent most of my time. In one corner sits a drum set where a hooded fellow played a slow, continuous beat that lasted the entire hour I was there. In another corner is a bunch of mismatched chairs, and the middle of the tent holds a jumble of crated books that the occupiers call the library. Most people gravitated towards the lounge.

As I chatted to them about their lives, the occupiers seemed content, if a little bored. They explained how they have different committees in charge of things like food, how they are on very good terms with the Yale Police and how Connecticut shelters are awful, awful places. As the inte-

rior of the tent grew hazy with smoke, the occupiers told me that besides political upheaval and food, what they usually wanted was cigarettes.

Although they have been criticized for spewing utopian rhetoric while having no plan of action, the occupiers are definitely achieving something. For one thing, they have discovered a way to make it as a self-perpetuating commune and to avoid being mired in dull day jobs. Additionally, they have provided the New Haven homeless with food and shelter and have made it explicit that if members do not contribute to the welfare of the camp, they will be kicked out.

They haven’t achieved the political upheaval they desire, and they won’t ever be able to without significant backing and political power and a real plan, but they have figured out a way to live harmoniously and help others along the way. That, more than anything else, is making a significant social impact on the city of New Haven.

JOSEPHINE MASSEY is a freshman in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at josephine.massey@yale.edu .

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walked into Commons early yesterday morning and saw blue-gray smears dotting the foreheads of a handful of my classmates. I’m embarrassed to admit that I was strangely surprised. Of course, I knew that it was Ash Wednesday. I knew that the beads and colored drinks from last night’s Feb Club party were to celebrate Mardi Gras — the last great celebration before the temperance of the Lenten season. But it still felt odd to see my classmates wear their religion so prominently on their foreheads. It was hard not to feel self-conscious on their behalf.

But I can’t say that I didn’t feel a little bit jealous, either. I’ve been an atheist since I was old enough to drive, and I don’t find the stories in the Bible any more believable now than I did when I was 16. But atheists still miss out on a comfort provided by religion — not necessarily in the beliefs per se, but in the ritual of it all.

I love Christmas far more than I have any right to, and I’d guess that I love it for the exact same reasons most Christians love it:

Lent for atheists there’s something really special about spending time with family, giving thoughtfully to those in need and those we care about and listening to nostalgic music while drinking hot cocoa by the fire with your cats (or dogs, or grandparents). I don’t see why Christianity is necessary to enjoy any of that, and I refuse to let the faithful have all the fun.

So it bothers me when other atheists are too quick to do away with the beauty religion cultivates, as if it were necessary to toss the beauty out right along with the cosmology. I think we make a mistake when we fail to distinguish the form from the content of religion. Doing away with both is like smashing a glass because we don’t like the drink inside it.

Depending on context, the exact same techniques can serve propaganda when used by fascists or public service announcements when used by our government.

The form is all the same, of course.

Good advertising is good advertising. But what matters is what the advertisements are about. Goebbels was an evil man, but he could

sure sell a point. If we can use his talents for good, why not?

I see the practices of religion a lot like how I see advertising. If there’s one thing religions have gotten down since the Agricultural Revolution, it’s enriching the human experience through ritual. So why not borrow some of that, even if the content that currently fills it leaves something to be desired? Not that I’m comparing Christians to fascists.

Something along these lines is the premise of the writer and philosopher Alain de Botton’s upcoming book, “Religion for Atheists.”

And while his ideas have been violently opposed by atheist bloggers (about as charming a group as you might expect), I actually find them pretty compelling.

So I was sitting in Commons yesterday looking around at all my classmates, and I began to think about Lent. Not about Jesus wandering through the desert for 40 days and 40 nights while being tempted by the devil, but about my Catholic friends’ yearly test of willpower, sacrifice and selfimprovement. I realized that was

something worth doing on its own.

I decided then that I’d take part in Lent. I’ve been mostly a vegetarian for the last two years. But the reasons I object to eating beef and chicken apply equally to drinking milk and eating eggs: I don’t necessarily object to consuming flesh per se, but rather how we treat livestock and how factory farming impacts the environment. So while I’ve been finding the transition from a vegetarian diet to a vegan diet particularly daunting, the Catholic Church provides me a perfect and relatively low pressure avenue for a brief period of selfimprovement. I don’t see any reason not to try it out.

Is picking and choosing religious rituals and practices a bit irreverent and patronizing? Probably a little. Is it a potentially great way to enrich secular life? Definitely. That’s as good a reason to practice Lent as I can think of.

VLAD CHITUC is a senior in Timothy Dwight College. Contact him at vladimir.chituc@yale.edu .

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“Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain’d! Was it not to refresh the mind of man after his studies or his usual pain?” “THE TAMING OF THE SHREW”

Second frat eyes Yale chapter

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 7:00 PM Arab Students Association Finance Series. The purpose of the ASA Finance Series is to shift gears and focus on the dynamism of the economy in the Arab world and in particular to discuss financial, corporate or economic trends that are linked to the region. Tonight’s event will consist of a panel discussion on Islamic finance and what can be learned from it. LinslyChittenden Hall (63 High St.), Room 317.

4:00 PM Producing Concerts and Special Events. Manager, agent, promoter and producer Barry Garber will discuss how to begin a career in the Performing Arts. He will also take questions on the various aspects of managing talent and producing and promoting concerts and other live events. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Room 108.

8:00 PM Yale TAPS’ Annual Show: License to Tap. TAPS, Yale’s only all-tap dancing group is hosting its annual show which will feature everything from classic broadway-style tap to cloginspired dancing. Tickets are free. Off-Broadway Theatre.

Performance explores Bard’s ties to music

BY YANAN WANG STAFF REPORTER On Wednesday afternoon, visitors to the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript library got a taste of William Shakespeare’s writing playlist.

Under the direction of music professors Grant Herreid and Robert Mealy, the Yale Collegium Musicum performed a repertoire of musical pieces that influenced the Bard’s plays at the library.

Dedicated to exploring music from before the 1800s, the graduate and undergraduate student music ensemble highlighted the function of Shakespeare’s musical choices in his plays.

“In a theatrical tradition that utilized very little in the way of painted scenery and props, the power of music to amplify the setting and emotional tone of a scene was exploited by Shakespeare and his colleagues,” said Herreid.

While singers in the Collegium Musicum sang Shakespeare’s lyrics, the musicians played instruments dating from the Bard’s day, including drums made from cow’s skin and a viola da gamba, a string instrument used during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

In most of the performances, Herreid sang and played the lute, flanked by singers dressed in black. The works played included Desdemona’s “Willow Song” from “Othello,” dance numbers featured in several plays and Feste’s musical ponderings on love in “Twelfth Night.”

In between songs, performers read lines from Shakespearean plays, giving the event the feel of a theatrical production.

Although many of the lyr-

ics in the music performed were written by Shakespeare himself, the music was written by outside composers, said Collegium Musicum vocalist Emily Langowitz ’12, adding that she was interested in learning how the Bard’s words had been interpreted into music.

In a talk preceding the performance, Herried explained that while almost all of Shakespeare’s plays contained music, lyrics were never accompanied by a score, and it was up to each theater company to put the words to a tune. Most of the songs in Shakespeare’s plays do not directly develop the plot, Herreid added, but rather contribute to the overall mood of the show.

The Collegium Musicum is tied to a course currently taught by Herreid called “The Analysis and Performance of Early Music,” which Herreid said gives students a unique chance to both perform and analyze a specialized variety of classical music. In addition to researching manuscripts and prints from the Beinecke’s collection, the Collegium Musicum also uses the library as a performance space several times a year.

By the end of the lecture, the upper level of the Beinecke where the performance took place was been filled to capacity with spectators. Audience members interviewed said they appreciated the authenticity of the performance.

Next Wednesday, the Beinecke will feature a talk entitled “Vulgar Venus and Politic Poetry: Reading Shakespeare in the Renaissance.”

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

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Chi Psi, a fraternity, has sent a consultant to campus to determine the feasibility of starting a Yale chapter.

BY CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTER Less than a month after Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity put its official efforts to expand to Yale “on pause,” another fraternity is looking to establish a chapter on campus.

Justin Froeber, leadership consultant for Chi Psi fraternity, arrived on campus Wednesday for a two-day visit to contact student leaders, observe Yale’s social culture and determine the feasibility of creating a Yale chapter. Though Alpha Sig began expansion efforts immediately after arriving on campus, Chi Psi assistant executive director Bradley Beskin said the fraternity will first evaluate whether there is “room on campus” for a new chapter before committing to the effort.

“We don’t do things haphazardly,” Beskin said. “We’re only going to [begin expansion efforts] if it makes sense and we can justify it and we are confident we will be successful. We’re putting one foot in front of the other in a logical fashion.”

HARRISON KORN

We’re putting one foot in front of the other in a logical fashion.

BRADLEY BESKIN Assistant executive director, Chi Psi fraternity McDonald said last month that the absence of an inter-fraternity council at Yale prevented him from easily communicating with students who had previously shown interest in Greek life, adding that Yale’s lack of a central student center or other “heavily trafficked” areas in which to post flyers presented additional obstacles.

Beskin said he expects Chi Psi

will contact Alpha Sig to learn about the fraternity’s experience at Yale. Though he said Greek organizations may compete with each other locally, different fraternity headquarters often collaborate and “either succeed together or fail together.”

Whether Chi Psi continues expansion efforts at one of its target campuses depends on the university’s student life, Greek system, alumni support, housing options and the national fraternity’s resources at the time, Beskin said. As a result, Beskin said a “very small percentage” of Chi Psi’s considered expansions result in new chapters.

Froeber said Chi Psi is reaching out to Yale because of its reputation for “academic excellence,” adding that Chi Psi had a chapter at Yale from 1924 to 1963.

The fraternity does not want to “compete directly with other organizations,” Beskin said, adding that Chi Psi instead tries to attract students who have not yet found their niche.

Fraternity leaders interviewed last month said they did not think

a new fraternity could easily generate excitement at Yale.

Though McDonald faced difficulty garnering student interest, he said in a Tuesday email that he was not concerned that Chi Psi’s presence would interfere with Alpha Sig’s ongoing, informal recruitment. Scott Eisner ’14, one of two students who expressed interest in founding an Alpha Sig chapter, said he does not think the competition would present a major obstacle.

“If we’re going to [try to establish Alpha Sig], we should be able to do it regardless of this new fraternity,” Eisner said. “If we’re recruiting next fall, we’re going to be competing with … many more established frats. Of all of the potential people to draw away, Chi Psi would not be as big of a threat as the other groups.”

Chi Psi currently has 30 “active” and 20 “dormant” chapters, according to Froeber. Yale is listed as a dormant chapter on the fraternity’s website.

Contact CAROLINE TAN at caroline.tan@yale.edu .

Federal grant cuts hit city services

BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER

Yale Collegium Musicum, a graduate and undergraduate student music ensemble, performed Elizabethan music at the Beinecke.

Geoff McDonald, Alpha Sig’s coordinator of chapter and colony development, intended to recruit on campus for a month but ultimately cut his visit 11 days short after failing to attract sufficient student interest.

Amid shrinking federal budgets, city officials have begun the process of allocating funding to community organizations from a reduced pool of funds.

Mayor John DeStefano Jr. submitted his recommended allocation budget for the 2012-’13 fiscal year to the Board of Aldermen Tuesday night, appropriating money to organizations that support his legislative priorities. The budget — which included funding for federal programs including Community Development Block Grants (CDBGs), HOME Investment Partnership, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS and Emergency Solutions Grant — will be debated by a joint committee of the Board’s human services and community development committees and likely modified before being passed by the entire Board. Aldermen expressed concerns about how the reduction in the amount of federal funding allotted to the Community Development Block Grants in particular would affect the city’s services.

“This is one of those city entitlement programs that really provides safety nets for those who are most vulnerable in our community,” said Ward 26 Alderman Sergio Rodriguez, chair of the human services committee. “The really

wonderful thing about it is that it comes straight to cities, cities get to make the decisions [about who receives funding].”

Over the past two years, New Haven’s total [CDBG] allocation has been reduced by more than $1 million.

ELIZABETH BENTON ’04 City Hall spokeswoman Many community organizations rely on these federal funds to cover operating costs, particularly CDBGs, which are designated for local community development and are the largest of the four in scope and size. But with the federal government slashing aid to states, organizations — including churches, housing programs, and youth and elderly services — have had to make do with less money in recent years.

“Over the past two years, New Haven’s total allocation has been reduced by more than $1 million,” City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said in a statement accompanying the budget’s release. “Due to the substantial

decrease in funding, the city narrowed its funding priorities for the upcoming fiscal year, focusing on evidence-based youth development activities, job training and employment opportunities, public safety and neighborhood revitalization.”

These funding priorities correspond with those laid out in DeStefano’s State of the City address earlier this month, in which the mayor cited education, job growth and public safety as the main issues he hopes to tackle this year. Although the proposed funding amounts for some organizations have decreased, she said, others such as the Greater New Haven Business and Professional Association, received an increased allocation because DeStefano proposed eliminating funding for non-prioritized organizations.

The city will receive a total of $6,443,460 in federal funding this year, $3,673,534 of which is from Community Development Block Grants, compared to $3,891,395 in CDBG funding last year. In fiscal year 2011, New Haven received nearly $6.9 million in total funding, a drop from over $7.6 million the year before.

CDBGs, Rodriguez said, have been under constant threat of federal budget cuts. He said at one point former President George W. Bush ’68 called for an end to the entire program until he faced

overwhelming resistance from cities.

“The Block Grants is one of those grants that we always worry about because the federal government is always cutting it,” Rodriguez said. “It may actually go away, depending on what happens to Congress [in the 2012 elections].”

The federal funding process began in November, when community organizations attended a mandatory meeting and submitted applications to be considered for funding. Now that DeStefano has submitted his recommendations to the Board, it will hold public meetings in which representatives from each affected organization explain how the group will use the funding and ask for more funding.

Then, after the joint committee has made its own recommendations, the entire Board will vote on the final budget proposal, which Rodriguez said will happen in late April or early May. In general, Benton said, the final proposal is a revision, but not an entire overhaul, of the mayor’s initial proposal.

The U.S. government has paid over $3.8 billion in Community Development Block Grants to states in the fiscal year 2012.

Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT Cuts target tuition at wealthy schools

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Gov. Dannel Malloy’s proposed cuts to college scholarships would affect students attending schools in Connecticut with endowments over $200 million, including Yale.

SCHOLARSHIPS FROM PAGE 1 is not significant.”

Under Malloy’s proposal, six Connecticut schools would lose CICS eligibility, including Yale, whose endowment is valued at $16.5 billion. Other in-state schools with endowments exceeding $200 million include Wesleyan University, Connecticut College, Trinity, Quinnipiac University and Fairfield University.

Malloy has made state education reform a top legislative priority for the upcoming year. In a Jan. 26 press release, the governor said he will propose legislation “potent enough to make Connecticut a national leader in narrowing the achievement gap, and comprehensive enough to set the stage for a restoration of Connecticut as a model of creating academic excellence for all.”

The proposed $200 million endowment cutoff for CICS eligibility is a close margin for some colleges, including Connecticut College with its $212 million endowment, Fairfield University with $254 million and Quinnipiac University with $277 million. And while Malloy has stressed the importance of closing the achievement gap in K-12 schools, legislators at the General Assembly hearing Tuesday evening cautioned against adopting policies that could prevent students from low-

income families from attending the state’s top colleges.

Because most of the colleges and universities Malloy’s plan targets employ “need-aware” admissions decisions — meaning admissions officers consider financial aid needs when determining which applicants to accept — the cuts threaten to pressure schools that rely on CICS scholarships to accept fewer students with significant financial need.

“We think the proposed funding cut, if enacted, will have a serious impact,” said Judith Greiman, president of the Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges, a non-profit higher education advocacy organization that represents 16 colleges and universities in the state, including Yale. “It could affect application decisions, and I think it will more likely affect admissions decisions.”

Greiman explained that despite having relatively large endowments, the colleges and universities affected by Malloy’s plan have already leveraged their financial aid resources to their limits. She said endowments are not “just big pots of cash” schools can tap into, but are subject to many laws and regulations governing how much funding universities can withdraw at a given time. Greiman added that since 2008, many higher education institutions have had to “vastly increase” aid to

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college applicants and current students as their families’ economic situations worsened during the recession.

Amy Martin, spokeswoman for Connecticut College, said the school has increased its financial aid budget by 25 percent since 2009. Students receiving financial aid at the college use a combination of university aid, federal funding and CICS grants to pay the $54,970 yearly fee for tuition and room and board.

She said 272 students currently enrolled at Connecticut College — 8 percent of the student body — receive CICS funding amounting to $399,000 in total. This funding could disappear under Malloy’s proposal.

“Financial aid is a serious concern for Connecticut families,” Martin said. “All colleges have limited resources, and the CICS grants can make a difference [in] whether students in the state can get into private schools or not.”

CICS scholarships average $4,000, but a maximum grant of over $8,100 is available depending on a student’s financial need. The same scholarship program was cut last year under Malloy’s budget from $23 million to the current level of $18 million. The governor’s proposed cuts would bring program funding down further to $11.3 million.

Greiman added that it is unclear what legislative hurdles Malloy’s proposal will face in the state General Assembly. She said she has heard from “several key legislators” that they did not enjoy making the financial aid cuts last year, when the state faced “more dire economic problems.” The state passed a highly contentious two-year budget of $41.1 billion in May 2011, which included the largest single tax increase in state history. The budget faced an initial $3.5 billion deficit, triggering the layoffs of more than 4,700 state employees.

Across the state, some college and university presidents, state legislators and students are working to defeat Malloy’s proposal. In a letter from Fairfield University President Jeffery von Arx to Malloy, von Arx said the proposed cuts would affect the state in “a dramatic fashion.”

“Due to the weakened economy, there are more students in need of CICS grant support today as a result of job loss, investment loss and lowered income in the family,” von Arx said. “If students do not receive CICS funding next year, many may not enroll in a college or may attend college out of state.”

As evidence of the program’s success, von Arx said 29 of 30 CICS-funded seniors graduated from Fairfield last year with GPAs above the class average.

Yale Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi could not be reached for comment on how many undergraduates currently receive CICS funding.

The CICS program was established in 1983.

Contact BEN PRAWDZIK at ben.prawdzik@yale.edu .

“Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies.

Women weeping for children … Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.” MARIE COLVIN JOURNALIST

Colvin ’78 dies in Syria blast

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Marie Colvin ’78 (second row, third from left) poses with editors and fellow staffers of the Yale Daily News Magazine.

COLVIN FROM PAGE 1 Yale Daily News Magazine, her younger sister Cathleen said.

During her time at Yale, Colvin was known for her strong personality and quickly established herself as a “noise-maker” on campus, Shriver said.

“She was very noisy — not in a rude way, but like ‘I’m here, pay attention,’ ” Shriver said. “She wore a lot of all-black outfits, high heels, scarves, smoking thousands of cigarettes a day. She was a character.”

Colvin graduated Yale in 1978 with a B.A. in anthropology, and became a crime reporter for United Press International one year later. She was promoted to UPI Paris Bureau Chief in 1984, and spent a year in that position before beginning to work for the Sunday Times.

[Colvin] was very noisy — not in a rude way, but like ‘I’m here, pay attention.’

BOBBY SHRIVER ’77 LAW ’81 Despite the bombings and attacks that struck while she worked in the field — including a 2001 bomb blast in Sri Lanka that cost her the vision in her left eye — Colvin continued to cover wars “out of necessity,” Heron said.

But Heron said Colvin’s journeys into war-torn regions were not reckless. Colvin fully understood the danger of reporting in war zones, but took risks for journalism she thought were meaningful and necessary, Heron said.

Cathleen added that her sister would occasionally report alone because she did not want to risk the lives of photographers or other journalists.

While reporting on the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, Colvin spent time with families from both communities. Heron recalled that Colvin was taken aback by how similar the two peoples were on basic levels such as meal preparations, despite their ongoing conflict.

Colvin postponed her scheduled departure from Syria in order to continue reporting on local conflict and to file a dispatch Tuesday night, despite increas-

ingly hostile conditions, Cathleen said. In that final broadcast, Colvin recounted visiting a hospital and watching a baby die from bomb-blast injuries.

Shriver said he felt the powerful description of that scene in Colvin’s last report was emblematic of her “toughness and sensitivity.”

“I will never forget that image,” Shriver added. “That baby’s legacy is part of Marie’s legacy. She gave her life so that baby would be a part of us.”

Though Colvin knew she would likely die in the field, Cathleen said her sister was “absolutely ferocious” and would not be held back by fear. Cathleen added that Colvin’s reports were often the only means she had of tracking her sister’s location.

Colvin’s younger brother, William, said he and Cathleen at times felt like their sister was invincible. Even as conflict in Syria escalated, William said he remained convinced that Colvin would survive.

“She wanted to get the truth out,” William said. “Unfortunately, that’s what led to her death, but she had nine lives — she was in the same situation dozens of times before this, and we were sure she’d get out.”

Lloyd Grove ’76, a former editor of the Yale Daily News Magazine who knew Colvin at Yale, said he believes her journalistic legacy will extend beyond her final dispatch. Colvin’s death will “throw a spotlight” on conflict in Syria, and may even inspire public support for the war-torn civilians on whom she reported, Grove said. She is “not going quietly,” he added.

Just as Colvin stretched the limits of her reporting, she also urged her peers not to fear taking risks or making mistakes.

“The point is that it doesn’t matter if you mess up, choose the wrong road, flop in Vegas,” she wrote in a reflection piece for the 1978 commencement issue of the News. “What’s important is to throw yourself in head first, to ‘go for the gusto.’ ” Colvin is survived by her mother, four siblings, and 10 nieces and nephews.

Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu and JULIA ZORTHIAN at julia.zorthian@yale.edu .

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“The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.” JONATHAN ZITTRAIN PROFESSOR, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

Defense dept. lawyer promotes rule of law

BY MICHAEL MAGDZIK CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The top lawyer at the Department of Defense encouraged law students to enter public service on Wednesday in front of a crowd of over 100 at Yale Law School.

Jeh Johnson, general counsel of the United States Department of Defense, explained how legal principles shape his office’s work in the government’s counterterrorism efforts. Although the courts are frequently bypassed in national security decisions, he said the Department of Defense includes a strong group of lawyers within the executive branch who are dedicated to maintaining the rule of law.

“We must not make [principles] up to suit the moment,” Johnson said.

“We must guard against aggressive interpretations of our authority.”

Johnson argued that conventional legal principles — like the Geneva

Conventions — should be maintained. Still, he said the work of lawyers in the department involves creating a vigorous internal debate about the extent of the law. The standards of evidence required in the executive branch differ from what most people in the audience would associate with federal rules of evidence. For example, decisions about whether an armed group is a belligerent against the United States and can be targeted often need to be made in short periods of time.

“There is no bar to the use of hearsay in assessing an intelligence picture,” Johnson explained.

At the end of the talk, Johnson explained that the main purpose of his talk was to appeal to the students to consider working as lawyers in the public sector. He said one of his greatest disappointments was seeing young people give up public service because of the need to repay loans,

or the lure of large law firms and high starting salaries.

“We need talented lawyers serving in government at all levels,” Johnson said. “Your legal career will be summed up not by what you got, but what you gave.”

We must not make [principles] up to suit the moment.

CORY BOOKER Mayor, Newark, N.J. Four attendees interviewed were generally positive about the Obama administration’s handling of national security law and about Johnson’s call to service. Asher Smith LAW ’14 praised the Obama administration’s

handling of thorny legal issues in counterterrorism.

“Even though it’s easy to say there are a lot of similarities between what the Bush and Obama administrations did, there is a difference in how [U.S.] efforts are portrayed,” Smith said, citing multilateralism in the NATO-led effort in Libya.

Two students said while they understood the value of entering public service, they planned to spend time in the private sector first. Albert Nah, LAW ’14, said he has always been “interested in public service … [but] the [private] firm is a stepping stone.”

Many law schools, including Yale’s, offer programs that partially subsidize tuition loan payments for graduates who enter relatively lowsalary careers.

JEH JOHNSON GENERAL COUNSEL OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Johnson was the first African-American elected partner at the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison LLP. From 19982001, he served as general counsel of the Air Force in the ClinCREATIVE COMMONS ton Administration.

During his time in the Obama Administration, Johnson co-chaired a working group alongside Army General Carter Ham to study the impact of a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and ultimately oversaw the final implementation of the repeal in September 2011.

Contact MICHAEL MAGDZIK at michael.magdzik@yale.edu .

Startup chief discusses website, modern social life

BY CATHERINE DINH CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Internet startup founder Scott Johnston ’82 spoke about his new website and the role of social media in modern relationships at a Wednesday master’s tea.

Johnston, co-founder and vice chairman of internet startup Wayin — a website founded in 2010 that encourages users to post photos with polls in the hopes of generating discussion — spoke to six students about the relationship between data and social media in his alma mater, Pierson College. Johnston emphasized that Wayin and other social networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, can help people expand their social horizons and connect with strangers — redefining the

way people approach friendships and relationships.

Johnston cited Dunbar’s Law, which states that one person can maintain a maximum of 150 stable friendships, and argued that social media sites have made it possible to exceed this friend limit.

“Social media lets you violate Dunbar’s Law,” Johnston quipped.

“You never have to lose track of anyone ever again.”

Wayin, which Johnston cofounded with chairman Scott McNealy, aims to help users find common ground with an unlimited number of other users on the site through questionnaires, discussion forums and images.

The goal, he said, was to create a centralized place where people could interact through the pho-

tos and accompanying questions they shared — from serious ethical inquiries to random trivia and opinions.

On Wayin, users must post both a photo and a question as a package, Johnston said. Questions can be left open-ended, or be created with a set of answer options that the user designs, he said. The site organizes questions by category, such as sports, politics, travel and photography, he added, and allows users to “follow” each other.

The polls Wayin offers are different from others available on the internet because it allows users to access the demographic information of people who answer their questions, Johnston said. He added that Wayin is particularly attractive to advertisers,

as they can use the demographic information to determine which groups of people like their products most.

Johnston said Wayin’s founding was a “very improbable” story. After graduating from Yale, Johnston said he founded and served as the chief executive of hedge fund Peconic Management for 11 years. He then worked as a managing partner at the Belstar Group, a New York-based investing firm, and eventually left that job to pursue Wayin with McNealy. Though Johnston said heading an internet startup was not a viable career option when either he or McNealy graduated college, he added that technology has progressed dramatically since then.

“If you plucked one of us from

1982 to Yale now it would have been very confusing,” Johnston said. “A lot of it would have seemed like magic.”

As the site grows, Johnston said he envisions companies using Wayin to survey workplace morale, or teachers and professors using the site to encourage participation among quieter students.

Johnston also noted that his site has a privacy policy, which states that people should not sign up for accounts if they do not want their information made public or used for targeted advertising. He added that privacy concerns are a “very big deal” for all social media sites.

Two students interviewed, both of whom are considering careers in social media, said they

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found Johnston’s talk helpful and agreed that social media is a growing field.

Wen Hu ’12 said he thinks Wayin is unique in the social media world because it has the potential to be developed further. He added that Wayin could become another social media site that students use to waste time, much like Twitter or Facebook.

“It’s a very general platform, so you can do anything and everything on it,” Hu said.

Kevin Lai ’13 said he thought the talk was valuable for students interested in starting their own businesses.

Wayin currently has 100,000 users, according to Johnston.

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FROM THE FRONT HGS shows signs of its age

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The Hall of Graduate Studies has not undergone a full renovation since its construction in 1932.

HGS FROM PAGE 1 can studies, described the conditions in some of the bathrooms as “embarrassing,” especially when guests use the space for events.

Besides the need for structural maintenance, many cited concern with the general level of cleanliness and expressed a desire for more frequent custodial services. Victorine Shepard, an administrative coordinator with the American Studies Program, said the custodial workers work effectively during their shifts, but their schedules prevent them from cleaning as often as needed.

“The system doesn’t take into

consideration the usage of the space, and how often it’s used,” Kaufman said.

Paul Catalano, the building’s superintendent for Yale Facilities, did not respond to requests for comment this week.

HGS houses the departments of history, East Asian languages and literature, Slavic languages and literatures, and Near Eastern languages and civilizations, as well as the American Studies Program.

Tapley Stephenson and Antonia Woodford contributed reporting.

Contact CASEY SUMNER at casey.sumner@yale.edu .

Secure Communities Secure Communities is a federal deportation program under which the fingerprints of people who are arrested by state and local law enforcement are checked against immigration databases. The program began operating in Connecticut on Wednesday.

ICE program protested in Hartford PROTEST FROM PAGE 1 While members of the Yale College Democrats, MEChA — Yale’s Chicano student organization — and Connecticut Students for a DREAM were slated to attend the rally at the state capitol building in Hartford, leaders of the student groups said none of their members were able to attend.

Still, the letter submitted to Malloy was signed by 24 organizations across the state — including the above — and spearheaded by Armando Ghinaglia ’14, policy coordinator of Connecticut Students for a DREAM. Because Secure Communities works with law enforcement officials directly under the governor’s supervision, Ghinaglia said the coalition believed going directly to Malloy with their concerns would be the most effective course of action.

The letter asks Malloy to “publicly resist the hurried implementation of a deeply flawed program” by directing state law enforcement officials not to comply with detainers issued under the program.

While the governor was not on hand at the state capitol to receive the group when it arrived shortly after 11 a.m., Mike Lawlor, the state’s undersecretary for criminal justice policy and planning, accepted the letter on Malloy’s behalf.

In a Tuesday email to the News, Lawlor said Connecticut’s Department of Correction will decide whether to honor ICE’s detainment requests on a caseby-case basis.

Malloy’s office adopted that position after New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and several city and state officials held a press conference at City Hall Monday, asking the governor to distinguish between serious and lowlevel offenders in handling detainment requests. Through Secure Communities, when ICE officials have reason to believe a suspect may be undocumented, they can issue a detainment request to the state, allowing the suspect to be held for up to 48 hours, during which immigration officials decide whether to initiate deportation proceedings against the suspect.

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Mike Lawlor, an official in Gov. Dannel Malloy’s administration, accepted a letter from protesters urging Malloy to resist the implementation of a new federal deportation program.

The city did not receive any word of detainment requests from ICE on Wednesday, City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said. In the past several days, the city has warned that the ICE program will harm the New Haven Police Department’s efforts to revive community policing in the city.

NHPD Chief Dean Esserman, who has shaped the department’s return to a community policing strategy since being sworn in last November, said the program threatens to erode trust between the city’s immigrant population and the police department.

Members of the Law School’s Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic are questioning the constitutionality of the immigration detainers used by ICE

under Secure Communities.

“Detainers are the linchpin of the Secure Communities program. Without them, the program cannot function,” said Matthew Vogel LAW ’13, an intern at the clinic. “But confinement pursuant to these ICE notices is unconstitutional and unauthorized by Congress.

The Department of Correction cannot hold people without lawful authority to do so.”

ICE also launched Secure Communities in New Jersey and Maryland on Wednesday.

Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at michelle.hackman@yale.edu and JAMES LU at james.q.lu@yale.edu .

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YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012 · yaledailynews.com

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country’s brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats alike are increasingly saying the nation is heading in the right direction and most independents now approve the way he’s addressing the nation’s post-recession period.

But trouble could be ahead: Still-struggling Americans are fretting over rising gasoline prices. Just weeks before the summer travel season begins, the Associated Press-GfK survey finds pump prices rising in importance and most people unhappy with how Democratic president has handled the issue.

It’s seemingly no coincidence that Obama this week is promoting the expansion of domestic oil and gas exploration and the development of new forms of energy.

It’s his latest attempt to show that he, more than any of the Republican presidential contenders, knows that voters’ pocketbooks remain pinched even as the economy improves overall. And on that question of empathy, solid majorities continue to view him as someone who “understands the problems of ordinary Americans” and “cares about people like you,” the AP-GfK survey found.

There is evidence that the nation is becoming markedly more optimistic, and that Obama benefits from that attitude.

Thirty percent in the poll describe the economy as “good,” a 15-point increase since Decem-

ber and the highest level since the AP-GfK poll first asked the question in 2009. Roughly the same share say the economy got better in the past month, while 18 percent said it got worse, the most positive read in over a year.

Looking ahead, four in 10 said they expect the economy to get better in the next year and a third said they think the number of unemployed people in the U.S. will decrease, the highest share on either question since last spring. A quarter of those surveyed said they expect the economy to get worse over the next 12 months, while 31 percent said it would stay the same, the poll found.

As optimism has risen, Obama has received a corresponding bump in his approval rating for handling the economy. Fortyeight percent now say they approve of how he’s handling it, up 9 points from December.

Still, for some it’s hard to sense an improvement - or give Obama credit for it - when any extra money is being gobbled up at the gasoline pump.

“I give him credit for trying to make improvements, but I don’t believe it’s had that much effect,” said Michael Lee Real of Indianola, Iowa, a city water authority worker who counts himself as a Republican-leaning independent. The cost of gasoline is “one of the big things,” says Real, 58. “It fluctuates so much, it makes it hard for me to budget my money.”

Overall, seven of 10 respondents called gas prices deeply important, up 6 points from December. Those who view gas prices as “extremely important” rose 9 points, to nearly 39 percent.

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Newark accuses NYPD of deception

BY DAVID PORTER AND SAMANTHA HENRY ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWARK, N.J. — The mayor and police director of New Jersey’s largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark’s Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.

“If anyone in my police department had known this was a blanket investigation of individuals based on nothing but their religion, that strikes at the core of our beliefs and my beliefs very personally, and it would have merited a far sterner response,” Newark Mayor Cory Booker said.

In mid-2007, the NYPD’s secretive Demographics Unit fanned out across Newark, photographing every mosque and eavesdropping in Muslim businesses.

The findings were cataloged in a 60-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, that served as a police guidebook to Newark’s Muslims. There was no mention of terrorism or any criminal wrongdoing.

Officials reacted strongly on Wednesday.

“It is deeply offensive to me to do blanket surveillance for no reason other than religious affiliation,” said Booker, who called on his state’s attorney general to investigate.

Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio, who was deputy chief of the department at the time, said the NYPD asked to be shown around the city. New York police said it was part of an investigation but never revealed what it was about, DeMaio said.

“We really want to be clear: This type of activity is not what the Newark PD would ever do,” he said.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who was the top federal prosecutor in the state in 2007, said he didn’t remember the NYPD ever approaching him about surveillance in the city or a threat that would justify it. He called the Newark report “disturbing” and said Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa was looking into the report.

“The NYPD has at times developed a reputation of asking forgiveness rather than permission,” he said.

Such surveillance has become common in New York City in the decade since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Nearly 3,000

Americans died when al-Qaida terrorists hijacked airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon near Washington and a field where one crashed in Pennsylvania.

Police have built databases showing where Muslims live, where they buy groceries, what Internet cafes they use and where they watch sports. Dozens of mosques and student groups have been infiltrated, and police have built detailed profiles of local ethnic groups, from Moroccans to Egyptians to Albanians.

If [Newark police] had known this was a blanket investigation of individuals based on nothing but their religion … it would have merited a far sterner response.

CORY BOOKER Mayor, Newark, N.J. But the NYPD’s intelligence unit also operates far outside its jurisdiction and has worked to keep tabs on Muslims across the Northeast. The department has cataloged Muslim communities in Long Island, conducted undercover operations in New Brunswick, N.J., and has turned often innocuous Internet postings by Muslim student groups into police files.

The monitoring of Muslim college students across the Northeast drew sharp rebukes from administrators at Yale, Columbia and elsewhere earlier this week.

But New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued his most vigorous defense of his police department to date.

“The police department goes where there are allegations. And they look to see whether those allegations are true,” he told reporters Tuesday. “That’s what you’d expect them to do. That’s what you’d want them to do. Remind yourself when you turn out the light tonight.”

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne did not respond to a message seeking comment on the Newark effort Wednesday. He has previously denied the existence of the Demo-

graphics Unit.

The documents obtained by the AP show, for the first time in any detail, how the NYPD’s intelligence-gathering efforts stretched outside the department’s jurisdiction. New Jersey and Long Island residents had no reason to suspect the NYPD was watching them. And the department is not accountable to their votes or tax dollars.

NYPD conducted similar operations in Suffolk and Nassau counties on suburban Long Island, according to police records.

The NYPD frequently operates outside its jurisdiction without telling federal or local officials.

The report left Newark Muslims grasping for explanations as they saw pictures of their mosques and businesses in police files.

“All of these are innocent people,” Nagiba el-Sioufi of Newark said recently while her husband, Mohammed, flipped through the NYPD report.

Egyptian immigrants and American citizens, the couple raised two daughters in the United States. Mohammed works as an accountant and is vice president of the Islamic Culture Center, a mosque a few blocks from Newark City Hall.

“If you have an accusation on us, then spend the money on doing this to us,” Nagiba said. “But you have no accusation.”

The Newark police director at the time, Garry McCarthy, is now in charge of the Chicago Police Department. He said the NYPD initiated the operation and none of his officers participated.

Newark authorities who investigated how the NYPD operation was carried out concluded McCarthy received the 60-page report from the NYPD, according to a Newark official. The official, who insisted on anonymity because the inquiry was ongoing, said there was no evidence that McCarthy circulated the report to anyone else.

The goal of the report, like others the Demographics Unit compiled, was to give police at-their-fingertips access to information about Muslim neighborhoods. If police got a tip about an Egyptian terrorist in the area, for instance, they wanted to immediately know where he was likely to find a cheap room to rent, where he might buy his lunch and at what mosque he might attend Friday prayers.

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WORLD Quran burning incites Afghan riots

BY RAMIM FAIEZ AND HEIDI VOGT ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — Clashes between Afghan troops and protesters angry over the burning of Muslim holy books at a U.S. military base left at least seven people dead and dozens wounded Wednesday as anger spread despite U.S. apologies over what it said was a mistake.

The demonstrations across four eastern provinces illustrated the intensity of Afghans’ anger at what they saw as foreign forces flouting their laws and insulting their culture.

The violence was also a reminder of how easily Afghan-U.S. relations can deteriorate as the two countries work to forge a long-term partnership ahead of the withdrawal of foreign forces in 2014.

The unrest started Tuesday when Afghan workers at the main American military base, Bagram Air Field, saw soldiers dumping books in a pit where garbage is burned and noticed Qurans and other religious material among the trash.

The top U.S. and NATO commander, Gen. John Allen, quickly issued an apology and telephoned President Hamid Karzai and major news organizations to explain that a collection of religious materials, including Qurans, had been mistakenly sent to be incinerated. As soon as someone realized what

they were burning, they stopped and retrieved what was left, Allen said.

Four copies of the Quran were burned before the incineration was halted, according to initial Afghan government reports.

Anger about the burning spread overnight. A single demonstration outside the Bagram base on Tuesday gave way to three protests in the capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, along with demonstrations in the major eastern city of Jalalabad and in Logar and Parwan province, where Bagram is located.

In Kabul, about 2,000 people massed outside a heavily guarded housing complex for foreigners, chanting “Death to America!” as they hurled rocks at the compound’s reinforced walls and set a fuel truck ablaze. The complex - known as “green village” because it boasts security equal to a military base - houses foreign contractors, police and some coalition military forces.

Eighteen-year-old Mohammad Shaker said he first heard about the Quran burning on Tuesday, and he and other members of his mosque decided to take to the streets Wednesday after morning prayers.

“This is not the first time they’re doing these things. They are killing civilians and taking photos of them. Every day they kill civilians with airstrikes. We can’t accept their crimes in our country,” Shaker said.

“Burning is no answer.”

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Western journalists killed in Syria

BY BRIAN MURPHY AND BASSEM MROUE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold where the last dispatches from a veteran American-born war correspondent chronicled the suffering of civilians caught in the relentless shelling. An intense morning barrage killed her and a French photojournalist - two of 74 deaths reported Wednesday in Syria.

“I watched a little baby die today,” Marie Colvin ’78 told the BBC from the embattled city of Homs on Tuesday in one of her final reports.

“Absolutely horrific, a 2-year old child had been hit,” added Colvin, who worked for Britain’s Sunday Times. “They stripped it and found the shrapnel had gone into the left chest and the doctor said, ‘I can’t do anything.’ His little tummy just kept heaving until he died.”

Colvin and photographer Remi Ochlik were among a group of journalists who had crossed into Syria and were sharing accommodations with activists, raising speculation that government forces targeted the makeshift media center, although opposition groups had previously described the shelling as indiscriminate. At least two other Western journalists were wounded.

Hundreds of people have died in weeks of siege-style attacks on Homs that have come to symbolize the desperation and defiance of the nearly year-old uprising against President Bashar Assad.

The Syrian military appears to be stepping up assaults to block the opposition from gaining further ground and political credibility with the West and Arab allies. On Wednesday, helicopter gunships reportedly strafed mountain villages that shelter the rebel Free Syrian Army, and

soldiers staged door-to-door raids in Damascus, among other attacks.

The bloodshed and crackdowns brought some of the most galvanizing calls for the end of Assad’s rule.

“That’s enough now. The regime must go,” said French President Nicolas Sarkozy after his government confirmed the deaths of Colvin, 56, and Ochlik, 28.

The U.S. and other countries have begun to cautiously examine possible military aid to the rebels. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton heads to Tunisia for a meeting Friday of more than 70 nations to look at ways to assist Assad’s opponents, which now include hundreds of defected military officers and soldiers.

“This tragic incident is another example of the shameless brutality of the Assad regime,” U.S. State Department

spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said of the killing of the journalists.

In Saudi Arabia, the state news agency described King Abdullah scolding Russian President Dmitry Medvedev - one of Assad’s few remaining allies - for joining China in vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution this month condemning the violence.

But even Moscow said the ongoing bloodshed adds urgency for a cease-fire to allow talks between his regime and opponents.

Washington had strongly opposed arming anti-Assad forces, fearing it could bring Syria into a full-scale civil war.

Yet the mounting civilian death tolls - activists reported at least 74 across Syria on Wednesday has brought small but potentially significant shifts in U.S. strategies. It remains unclear, however, what kind of direct assistance the U.S. would be willing to provide.

Russia warns against hasty Iran action

BY GEORGE JAHN ASSOCIATED PRESS VIENNA — Russia said Wednesday the world should not draw “hasty conclusions” over Iran’s most recent rebuff of U.N. attempts to investigate allegations the Islamic Republic hid secret work on atomic arms, but the U.S. and its allies accused Tehran of nuclear defiance.

Under international pressure to show restraint, Israel, which has warned repeatedly that it may strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, pointedly urged major world powers to mind their own busi-

ness, saying it alone would decide what to do to protect the Jewish state’s security.

France said Iran’s continued stonewalling of the International Atomic Energy Agency “is contrary to the intentions” expressed

by Tehran in its recent offer to restart talks over its nuclear activities.

In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney said while world powers have not yet reached a decision on those talks, Iran’s refusal to cooperate with the investigation “suggests that they have not changed their behavior when it comes to abid-

ing by their international obligations.”

The IAEA’s acknowledgment of renewed failure came early Wednesday at the conclusion of the second trip in less then a month aimed at investigating suspicions of covert Iranian nuclear weapons work.

The IAEA team had hoped to speak with key Iranian scientists suspected of working on the alleged weapons program, break down opposition to their plans to inspect documents related to nuclear work and secure commitments from Iranian authorities to allow future visits.

But mission head Herman Nackaerts acknowledged his team “could not find a way forward” in negotiations with Iranian officials. A separate IAEA communique clearly - if indirectly - blamed Tehran for the lack of progress.

“We engaged in a constructive spirit, but no agreement was reached,” it quoted IAEA chief Yukiya Amano as saying.

Iran continued sounding a hard line, with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei telling the nation’s nuclear scientists to forge ahead with the atomic program.

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YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012 · yaledailynews.com

AROUND THE IVIES

“If only we could sit down at a big round world table and eat tacos in a spirit of love we might begin to work on world peace!”

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Campus leftovers feed R.I. homeless

Chipotle opens to rave reviews

BY ALISON SILVER SENIOR STAFF WRITER The Swearer Center for Public Service van carrying over 20 pounds of food donations does not encounter much traffic on its midnight trips down the hill to Kennedy Plaza. While most occupants of the homeless shelter at the Mathewson Street United Methodist Church are sleeping, students from Brown’s Food Recovery Network unload the boxes of leftover muffins, bagels, pastries and packaged produce collected from campus eateries every evening. The operation hardly takes any time at all, but each nightly installment of food donations makes a difference for the local Providence community.

The network, a new student group affiliated with Rhode Island’s non-profit corporation We Share Hope, aims to reduce waste and increase food donation to local homeless people by collecting and transporting leftovers from Brown’s eateries and cafe carts. The goal is figuring out how to “make more food reach people and not the trash can,” said Shelby Wilson ‘15, one of the group’s leaders.

The network was first established by students at the University of Maryland and now has participating chapters at Pomona College, University of California at Berkeley and Brown. During his gap year before starting college, Ben Chesler ‘15 was working at Search for Common Ground in Washington when he and several University of Maryland students came up with the idea for the group. After returning from South Africa, where Chesler donated food first-hand, he decided he wanted to bring the program to Brown. Last semester, the national network, which includes all the participating colleges, donated 15,000 meals, according to the network’s website So far this spring, the network has recovered 2,000 meals.

Brown’s chapter performed its first food recovery and delivery Nov. 11 and has been growing ever since. In addition to weekly contributions of up to 200 pounds of food from Brown Dining Services, students perform a nightly pickup of leftover baked goods and packaged produce from the Blue Room, the Sciences Library, the Rockefeller Library and Barus and Holley.

With the use of a Swearer Center van, the group delivers each night’s donations directly to the Mathewson Street church.

When Chesler pitched the idea of the club to Dining Services, “there was very little hesitation.”

The group has regular meetings with Associate Director of Dining Services Peter Rossi to work out logistics and add new dining locations. Almost all of the operations take place after mid-

night, once t h e fo o d has been compiled at each of the pickup locations.

BROWN Despite the late hours, the trip is quick and easy, usually taking less than half an hour to complete. To increase efficiency, Chesler said that the group is implementing a clipboard system to keep track of the number of items collected from each campus eatery. They will also record and report the weight of the daily donations. Any students who have taken a driving course with a Brown insurance agent are authorized to drive the Swearer Center van used to transport food donations.

“We’ve been having student clubs take charge,” Wilson said. The Brown Democrats, St. Anthony Hall, Brown/ RISD Hillel, emPOWER, Athletes in Action and the Delta Tau fraternity are among the groups that have volunteered to deliver food. The Brown Democrats have been involved with deliveries for the past two weeks. After hearing about the Food Recovery Net board members of the Brown Democrats decided to get the group involved.

Make more food reach people and not the trash can.

SHELBY WILSON Brown University ’15 “We have decided to help out with Tuesday nights,” said Emily Regier ‘14, the group’s civic involvement chair. The group was already looking for various volunteer opportunities, Regier said, and as they have meetings on Tuesday nights anyway, they decided to make it their night for food collection and transport as well.

Wilson said reaching out to fraternities and other student groups is helpful as they often have their own cars.

“We’re still looking for more involvement all the time,” she added.

Chesler said the group’s greatest challenge is that the closing times of the various cafe carts and eateries differ. “We’re really willing to take any food, no matter how small the quantity, but we can’t be running around from 7 to midnight every night” collecting food, he said.

The connection to the Mathewson Street church is in part due to Chesler’s previous work with Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere, a student organization based at the Swearer Center.

BY TAJWAR MAZHAR STAFF WRITER Ithaca heralded the grand opening of its first Chipotle Mexican Grill on Tuesday with crowds of patrons wrapping around the restaurant. The popular chain first announced its opening in November, rousing the excitement of Cornell students.

“I’ve had a lot of experience with Chipotle. It is hands down the best fast food around,” Seth Braunstein ’13 said as he waited in line. “Finally Ithaca came to its senses and got one, and that’s awesome … There’s no way I’m going to miss the grand opening.”

Michael Twiford ’14, who lives in the Washington, D.C. area where there are over 75 of the burrito-based restaurants, said that, since he has a Chipotle at home, he is “so excited that it finally coming to Ithaca.”

“I’ve been waiting for this Chipotle for weeks and I’m just so happy to be here,” Twiford said.

Chipotle staff said their day was kept busy with eager diners milling around the restaurant.

“Our day’s been really busy, with people lining up all day. People have camped outside and stuff like that,” Kendra Loya, Chipotle training coordinator, said. “It’s been out the door.”

Loya, who has worked with Chipotle for three years, said she travels to train staff at newly opening branches. She has been working with the new Chipotle team in Ithaca since Feb. 13.

“It’s been great,” Loya said.

While many enthusiasts were content with waiting in lines snaked around the store, the packed restaurant was a deterrent for some customers. Ithaca resident Elayne Weiner decided to leave after seeing the mob lining up for the famed burritos.

“Somebody must have said there was free food so half of Cornell and

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probably half of [Ithaca College] are here,” Weiner said.

“They’re all waiting in line to pay for food in a Chipotle.

I’ve been to a ChiCORNELL potle in Virginia, and it is good, but I wouldn’t wait an hour for Chipotle.”

Ben Rosenthal ’13, however, said that he and his group of friends did not mind waiting in line for about half an hour.

“It was efficient, pretty fast. Not too bad at all,” Rosenthal said.

Ithaca resident Christina Kamin’s car was a casualty to the excitement surrounding the restaurant’s opening. On Monday, a driver ran into a tractor after spotting the Chipotle sign, before hitting Kamin’s car, according to Kamin.

“I figured she must know something that I don’t since she was out of state, so we decided to come here on opening day.” Kamin said. “I’m not too upset …

She was right. It really is good.”

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Student group seeks to combat ethnic bullying

BY CHANGHEE HAN STAFF WRITER College junior Jonathan Kim was more than aware of the existence of bullying based on race and ethnicity.

But when Kim — who also serves as vice chair of external affairs for the Asian Pacific Student Coalition — observed that most of the current events he was writing about in APSC’s newsletter were gravitating toward news pieces about raciallycharged attacks on Asian Americans, he realized he was looking at a problem far greater than what he had expected.

In light of an increasing trend of violence and bullying toward Asian Americans across the nation, the APSC — Penn’s umbrella organization for Asian student groups — recently started a campaign to raise awareness about racial bullying.

A study published at the end of last year showed that 54 percent of Asian students in American schools were bullied in the classroom, Kim said. Around 30 to 35 percent of students from other groups get bullied, according to the study.

The numbers hit particularly close to home, considering the 2009 controversy at nearby South Philadelphia High

School, in which students conducted organized attacks against their AsianAmerican peers.

For various constituent leaders under APSC — like PENN College junior and President of the Chinese Student Association Anthony Tran — this news story was a strong wake-up call.

“It’s jarring because you’re here at a school where it’s very diverse and tolerant; but in the same city, there’s a school that doesn’t have the same atmosphere we have here,” he said.

Wharton senior and President of the Vietnamese Student Association Minh Nguyen said that during one of the group’s general body meetings, student leaders conducted an exercise in which the moderator asked how many people were bullied for their race growing up, and more than half of the students in the room raised their hands.

Both Nguyen and Tran believe that raising awareness about these issues is a necessary step in the right direction.

“It’s beneficial to think about these topics and foster some discussion in

terms of how to address it,” Tran said.

“Whatever is going on isn’t going to stop on its own volition unless there’s a wider response.”

Engineering junior and APSC President Michelle Leong agreed.

“I was kind of shocked to hear these kinds of stories,” she said. “Maybe it was kind of idealistic to think that these types of events didn’t exist or that people werem’t being targeted specifically just because they were Asian.”

However, Leong added that the problem doesn’t apply exclusively to the classroom.

Bullying and violence toward Asian Americans has also extended to the United States military, where the recent high-profile case of Private Danny Chen — who committed suicide after being racially harassed by his fellow soldiers — drew national attention to racial prejudice within the armed forces.

In the Philadelphia area alone, there have been a string of attacks and robberies against Asian business owners in which authorities believe the victims were targeted because of their ethnicities.

For Leong, this has instilled a new mission for the APSC.

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SPORTS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS PEYTON MANNING The fan group that supports a website called “Manning to Miami,” launched yesterday, erecting a billboard at the junction of I-95 and I-595 to support brining Manning to the Dolphins. Rumors are swirling that Manning is poised to leave Indianapolis after 14 seasons.

Waiting for a miracle season

Willhite leads on & off court WILLHITE FROM PAGE 12

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Team captain Caroline Crow ’12 played 11 games last season and was third on the team in goals and points.

W. LAX FROM PAGE 12 although she expects a learning curve.

The loss of Second Team All-Ivy players Fielding Kidd ’11 and Kaitlyn Flatley ’11, who provided the bulk of the defense for the team, remains a concern, Phillips added. Jayne Flynn ’15, who is out with a foot injury, Kallie Parchman ’14 and Katherine Sherrill ’14 will round out the defense, Philips said.

Up the field, midfielder Devon Rhodes ’13 is another player to watch out for. Having scored 16 goals and played in all 15 matches last season, Rhodes was also named to the All-Ivy League second team in 2010. Rhodes said in an email that she has high expectations for the team this year.

“I think there are a lot of factors that are going to positively impact the outcome of our season,” Rhodes said. “Not only is our style of play faster than it has been in past years, but the team, especially our offense, is more confident and

energetic than we have been in seasons prior.”

On offense, the team is working on ways to increase speed and to keep turnovers to a minimum, she said. Crow added that the team has a much stronger midfield this year and will be able to control the ball and feed the offense.

While Harvard remains Yale’s biggest rival, Penn and Dartmouth are other teams to beat for the Ivies this year.

Dartmouth is known to play strong physical defense, and Penn is usually recognized as a fast team with great ball handlers.

Yale last won an Ivy title in women’s lacrosse in 2003 and last gained a bid into the NCAA Tournament in 2007.

To win the title this year the Bulldogs must prevail in the playoffs, but the team can also take an NCAA bid by securing the best record during the regular conference season.

Crow said the team tries not to rely heavily on executing specific strategies

and instead opts for adjustments from one game to the next.

“It is better to go out on the field and play your game and make the other team adjust,” she said. “The coaching staff does a great job in preparing us for how the other team plays and alerting us to their main threats.”

Although the official practice began on Feb. 1, the players have been preparing in individual workouts, lifting and conditioning since the beginning of the year. The team hopes these practices and Yale’s new talent will pay off Saturday.

“Even more importantly, our overall team dynamic on and off the field is stronger than it has ever been,” Rhodes said.

Last year, the team lost to Holy Cross 12–5. Saturday’s match begins at 11 a.m. at Reese Stadium.

The joy and pain of true fandom COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 While the trade itself seemed to benefit the Lakers more than anyone else, the Rockets had more moves in mind. With the additional cap space gained from the trade, Houston expected to sign free agent center Nene Hilario. Hilario, along with the immensely versatile Gasol, would have formed one of the strongest frontcourt combinations in the league.

The “could-have-beens” don’t stop there. Since the trade would also have sent backup point guard Goran Dragic to the Hornets, chances were that the team would never have cut Jeremy Lin, then still on a nonguaranteed contract, from its roster.

Presumably, the Rockets would have eventually recognized Lin’s talents, and Linsanity would have taken off in H-Town rather than the Big Apple.

Of course all of this was too good to be true. In professional sports, nothing ever goes quite as planned. The NBA owned the Hornets at the time and could make the final call on the team’s decisions, though NBA officials had promised to stay out of team affairs. Citing “basketball reasons” that were never quite explained, NBA Commissioner David Stern nixed the trade at the last minute. Soon thereafter, the Hornets traded Paul to Los Angeles anyway, except this time to the Clippers. The Rockets were left coughing in the dust, wondering what could, and should, have been.

When is it most frustrating to be an NBA fan? It’s not when your team is struggling at the bottom of the standings chart. If Tim Duncan and Kevin Durant taught us anything, it’s that high draft picks can change the fortune of a team in ways that can hardly be exaggerated. What’s truly scary is perpetual mediocrity, that awkward state in which a team is caught between an inevitable first-round exit in the playoffs and a draft pick at the bottom of the lottery.

As much as I hate to admit it, the Rockets are the kings of mediocrity. (The Kings are not far behind.) For two years in a row, they have missed the playoffs despite a winning record and ended up with the cursed 14th pick in the NBA Draft. Sometimes I find myself wondering — why do I still follow them? After all, like countless other Chinese fans, I only learned of the Rockets through Yao Ming. Yet the last time Yao played significant minutes was during Houston’s playoff series against the Lakers in 2009.

Perhaps I should have ditched the Rockets and found another team to root for. A team that has a legitimate shot at the title, a team with a likable superstar talent — heck, even the dreaded Miami Heat (the mere thought of supporting LeBron gives me chills). So why didn’t I climb into the Kevin Durant bandwagon, or hop onto the Derrick Rose train?

Somehow, something doesn’t feel quite right. When you can name every assistant coach on a team, when you find yourself working the ESPN Trade Machine every time a rumor pops up on Twitter, when you’re always clicking on the same logo in Association Mode on NBA 2K12, you have to fact that it’s hard to let go. You can’t help it; you just care too much about that team. It’s like telling yourself not to check your ex’s Facebook wall, unless you can find a way to change the privacy settings on SportsCenter, that is.

The willingness to endure hard times is what separates the real fan from the bandwagoner. If you only start following a team when they’re already up 3–1 in the Conference Finals, you’ll probably never come close to understanding what Spike Lee felt when he beamed in front of the camera wearing his brand new Harvard #4 jersey. After all, the beauty of sports lies in its spontaneity and irreversibility. Anything can happen at any given moment — a trade, a trade called off, an injury, a comeback, a buzzer beater, a miracle — and the wait is what makes all worthwhile.

So I’ll probably stick with my Rockets. This season probably won’t lead anywhere, nor will the next. Yet I’ll know when that magical season comes because I’ll have walked with my team every step along the way.

After Houston’s second NBA Finals appearance in 1986, Rockets fans had to endure a drought of five first-round exits in seven years. But what lay at the end of the tunnel? They witnessed Hakeem Olajuwon dominating Patrick Ewing, then dismantling league MVP David Robinson, and finally overwhelming a young Shaquille O’Neal en route to back-to-back championships. That’s a story they’re still telling their kids today. That’s a story for the ages.

The Rockets fans of the ’90s got their magical season. I’m still waiting for mine.

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out player on the team, he is also the team’s captain who has earned the admiration of his teammates.

Teammates said Willhite is a competitor who makes big plays and inspires those around him.

They attribute his success on the court to his work ethic.

“The freshmen and sophomores have confidence in themselves because he has confidence in them,” center Greg Mangano ’12 said.

Guard Austin Morgan ’13 explained that announcers call him ‘Highlight Willhite’ because he always makes the play that is the highlight of the game. In Yale’s Feb. 4 58–54 victory over Princeton, Willhite brought the crowd to its feet when he dunked the ball.

The following week, he was recognized on the Ivy Honor Roll for his 20 points and nine rebounds in the game.

And in the Bulldogs 59–58 win at Columbia on Feb. 11, Willhite scored 24 points over the course of the game to help the Bulldogs come back from a 21-point deficit in the last 12 minutes of the second half. With 13 seconds left on the clock, his layup secured Yale’s one-point victory.

“He provides energy for the team both with his play and his leadership,” said head coach James Jones. “He leads by playing hard and doing everything the right way.”

But for Willhite, this confidence on the court has not always come easily. Willhite faced numerous injuries in his freshman season at Yale, scoring four total points in eight appearances off the bench.

Willhite said that he went home to Elk Grove, Calif. after freshman year determined to hone his athleticism. He spent the summer running and training in a program with international basketball professionals.

And his work paid off. By his sophomore year, Willhite saw his playing time increase, and he finished the season fourth on the

team in steals with 37. Unfortunately, Willhite faced another setback when he tore his LCL after the season. Willhite overcame the injury and again pushed himself over the summer. By his junior year, Willhite began to prove his capabilities on the court, Mangano said. He finished first in the Ivy League with 28 steals in conference games and scored a career-high 21 points to lead the Bulldogs to a 87–81 double-overtime victory at Columbia. Willhite started all 28 games and received the team’s most improved player award at the conclusion of the season.

“Since freshman year, he has improved every facet of his game, from his shooting to his ball handling,” Jones said.

As a senior, Willhite is second on the team and eighth in the league in scoring with 12.5 points per game. He leads the league with 2.2 steals per game.

Willhite, a political science major and Morse College resident, has not put an expiration date on his career. Throughout college, Willhite has trained with everyone from New York Knicks guard Landry Fields to Olympic gold medalist Christian Laettner.

These athletes have given Willhite unique opportunities to improve his skills. Willhite is determined to follow in the footsteps of these professionals. His dad, Reggie Willhite Sr., whom Willhite calls before every game, is helping him to pursue a professional basketball career. Willhite said he could possibly play overseas or get tryouts with NBA Development League or NBA teams.

But enjoying his time on the court and helping the Bulldogs to complete the season is his current focus, Willhite said.

The Bulldogs are ranked third in the Ivy League and take on sixthranked Columbia at home Friday at 7 p.m.

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Victor will come to Yale in the fall after completing a postgraduate year at the Winchendon School. Jones said that taking a postgraduate year helps players to mature. “[A postgraduate year] is great for a couple of reasons,” Jones said. “Some kids need to sharpen their academics. A lot of high schools around the country don’t really prepare kids for the Ivy League. Athletically it gives them another year.”

Three players on the current roster took postgraduate years between high school and college. Willhite played at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, guard Jesse Pritchard ’14 went to Blair Academy in New Jersey and forward Brandon Sherrod ’15 came to Yale this year from Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut.

Matthew Quinn, Victor’s head coach at Winchendon, did not respond to a request for comment.

The new Elis will join a team next year that will lose a bulk of its production on the court due to graduation. Although Katz has played in just two games after his surgery earlier in the year, the senior class has combined to average 32.8 points per game and 44.4 percent of the points the Elis have scored this season. Jones said that it will be a team effort to make up for the loss.

“I expect it’ll be all hands on deck,” Jones said. “It’s harder for freshmen to contribute. There’s a huge difference [between high school and college].”

Jones added that there might be room for walk-ons on next year’s roster.

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Lax jumps into official season

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What it takes to be a true fan It’s not easy to be the fan of a bad team.

But it can be even harder to be the fan of a half-decent team when you can foresee its inevitable collapse (if you’ve been to The Game in recent years, you’ll know what I mean).

Halfway into the lockout-shortened, 66-game NBA season, my team, the Houston Rockets, is doing well. The team currently sits at 19–14, good for sixth place in the competitive Western Conference.

Yet somewhere in every Houston fan’s heart lurks a deep feeling of resignation. It doesn’t matter if we make the playoffs. It doesn’t even matter if we win home-court advantage. With our current roster, we just don’t have it in us to run with the Thunders and the Bulls of the league come playoff time.

What’s most heartbreaking is that only two months ago, we were so close to becoming contenders again. In early December, the Rockets had a three-team deal in place that would have landed the Los Angeles Lakers’ power forward Pau Gasol. The Lakers, on the other hand, were ready to ship out Gasol for the chance to pair Kobe Bryant with another bona fide superstar, the Hornets’ Chris Paul.

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Midfielder Ashlie McCormick ’12 scored six goals in 15 games last season as the lacrosse team struggled to a 3–12 record and eighth place in the Ivy League.

BY EUGENE JUNG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s lacrosse team will kick off the season at home Saturday against Holy Cross and put its nine freshmen to the test.

The team shook off its preseason jitters last weekend with unscored

scrimmages against Quinnipiac and Adelphi. Team captain Caroline Crow ’12 said Yale’s strong play against these schools indicates the team has not lost its competitive edge, despite its losing 3–12 record and its eighth-place Ivy League finish last season. Nine of the team’s 23 players are fresh-

men, and Crow said she hopes the new talent will help put the Bulldogs back on top.

“Last season we did not get the results we had hoped for, but our team has come back this year working harder than ever and ready to play,” Crow. “The freshmen are great, and transitioning into the

Recruiting renews roster

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER John Stockton put on the same short shorts for 19 straight seasons for the Utah Jazz. In contrast, players only get four years of eligibility in college, so coaches must continually recruit new talent to replace seniors.

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Armani Cotton ’15 is one of five freshmen on the men’s basketball team.

The Bulldogs will graduate four seniors this year: captain and forward Reggie Willhite ’12, forward Greg Mangano ’12, forward Rhett Anderson ’12 and guard Brian Katz ’12.

The four roster spots opened up by the graduating class of 2012 combined with the uncertain future of point guard Isaiah Salafia ’14 – who has left the team indefinitely for personal reasons — will open up space for the class of 2016 on a roster that had 17 players at the season’s beginning.

“Seventeen [players] is the most I’ve ever carried,” head coach James Jones said. “Normally I carry 13 or 14 recruited players … But Brian [Katz] had double retina surgery, and Isaiah [Salafia] had to leave with personal issues, and suddenly we’re a little thin in the backcourt.”

Jones will have to make do with the players at hand for the rest of this season until next year, when he will bring in three new Bulldogs.

According to ESPN.com and other sources, the class of 2016 will consist of power forward Justin Sears ’16 from Plainfield High School in Plainfield, N.J., point guard Jack

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college game well. We expect that they will make a big impact this year.”

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Willhite makes highlights

Montague ’16 from Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Tenn. and small forward Nick Victor ’16 from the Winchendon School in Winchendon, Mass.

Jones was only able to confirm the addition of Sears, however, because he is the only player to have officially sent in his card to matriculate to Yale.

“We can’t really comment on any of the recruits officially until we get that card,” Assistant Director of Sports Publicity Tim Bennett said.

“The recruits themselves may say that they’re coming to Yale, but we won’t officially announce it until we have that card.”

The athletic department at Plainfield High School did not return phone calls made by the News.

According to an Oct. 30 article on newjersey.com, Sears opted for Yale over Princeton University, Stanford University and Boston University.

Brentwood head coach Dennis King confirmed that Montague will bring his talents to New Haven next year. He added that Montague brings more than talent to the court.

“It’s almost like he’s an assistant coach for us,” King said. “He has that kind of maturity for us. When he talks in the huddle, we listen …

I’ve coached for 39 years, and he is probably the most committed basketball player I have ever coached.”

King said that Montague is MVP of his league and is averaging around 17 points and seven assists

Men’s basketball forward Reggie Willhite ’12 was not always destined to wear the Yale jersey.

Upon graduation from Woodside Priory School in Portola Valley, Calif., in 2007, Willhite contemplated enrolling in the United States Air Force Academy and taking his basketball talents there. Willhite took a postgraduate year because he started the recruiting process with Air Force a bit late, but two weeks into his postgraduate year at Exeter in New Hampshire, Willhite committed to play for Yale.

Four years later, Willhite is not only a stand-

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Captain Reggie Willhite ’12 hopes to play basketball professionally after graduation.

BY JACQUELINE SAHLBERG STAFF REPORTER

THE PERCENTAGE OF POINTS ON THE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM SCORED BY THE SENIOR CLASS. THE SENIORS AVERAGE 32.8 POINTS PER GAME. There are four seniors on the team: captain Reggie Willhite ’12, Greg Mangano ’12, Rhett Anderson ’12 and Brian Katz ’12.