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CROSS CAMPUS
FOOTBALL HILL ’69, FROM YALE TO THE PROS
IMMIGRATION
YALE-NEW HAVEN
2012 ELECTIONS
ICE arrests 2 New Haveners, 43 others in four-day operation
HOSPITAL SEEKS EXPANSION AS MERGER FINALIZED
State unlikely to sign onto a pact challenging the Electoral College
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Juniors tapped for Whiffs, Whim
In memoriam. Moira Banks-
Dobson ’11 was killed Tuesday night in a five-car crash caused by a drunk driver. She was 24.
Launched. Oprah, Lady Gaga and mama Gaga Cynthia Germanotta were all at Harvard on Wednesday to celebrate the launch of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, an organization that follows the message of acceptance and selfconfidence expressed in Gaga’s hit 2011 single, “Born This Way.”
BY CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTER As Yale works to improve its sexual grievance procedures for students, its efforts have also adjusted the resources available to staff and faculty members.
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
But not without controversy.
A Facebook event asked Harvard students and affiliates to meet at 3 p.m. in front of Sanders Theater — where, inside, Gaga would be launching her Foundation — to ask the university to officially renounce a secret court it created in the 1920s to find and expel gay students and award them honorary degrees. Protestors said they would present Harvard administrators with an online petition in support of these demands which as of Wednesday night had received more than 5,600 signatures.
America’s Next Top Historian.
After winning high praise among reviewers for his biography of George F. Kennan, history professor John Lewis Gaddis has won the seventh annual American History Book Prize for his work. The prize, which has been handed out by the New York Historical Society, is awarded for a nonfiction American history book “that is distinguished by its scholarship, its literary style and its appeal to a general as well as an academic audience.”
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WHIFFS, WHIM TAP NEXT GENERATION New members of Yale’s two senior a cappella groups, the all-male Whiffenpoofs and the all-female Whim ’n Rhythm, were tapped Wednesday night.
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Yale Law aims for diversity
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n Tuesday, Yale Law School Dean Robert Post LAW ’77 announced to students that it had offered tenured positions to several professors. Those receiving offers included one woman who — if she accepts — will become the first person of Hispanic descent to join the school’s tenured faculty. DANIEL SISGOREO reports.
Happy Fifth Birthday!
During Wednesday night’s dinner, Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti delivered a cake to his college’s dining hall to celebrate the birthday of EB Saldaña ’14, whose Feb. 29 birthday makes her a “leap baby.” “The cake was delicious,” according to a source who attended the event.
Going viral? Fresh off the
heels of their “Scarves” video, The Yale Record released a new video on Wednesday called “Jelly Beans.” The video features a scene in which Bea, played by Kat Lau ’13, is frustrated as Natey Weinstein ’14 and Olivia Scicolone ’14 loudly attempt to eat jelly beans as she tries to force them to watch a video on her smartphone.
Town-gown. Architecture professor Alan Plattus ARC ’76 spoke Wednesday night at the Milford Library on ways the city could improve its downtown. “I’m a huge fan of downtown Milford,” Plattus said, according to the New Haven Register. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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Admins focus on faculty, staff misconduct
At a town hall on faculty diversity held Tuesday afternoon, more than 140 Yale Law School students gathered to learn about the school’s faculty hiring process. But early in the hourlong meeting, Dean Robert Post LAW ’77 made an announcement: a Hispanic woman had been offered tenure. Six attendees of the meeting, who requested anonymity because the session was closed to the press, identified Cristina Rodriguez ’95 LAW ’00 as the potential hire. If Rodriguez — who was a visiting faculty member in fall 2009 — accepts the offer, she will become the first Hispanic professor to whom Law School has awarded tenure.
Rudolph Aragon LAW ’79, who served as a co-chair of the Latino Asian Native American law students association (LANA) during his years as a student at the Law School, said the announcement was “long coming.” His classmate and fellow LANA co-chair, Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79, had already become the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009. The Law School — ranked number one by U.S. News & World Report since the publication began evaluating law schools in 1987 — has diversified its tenured faculty ranks in recent decades, but has not yet given tenure to a Hispanic professor. “How can it be that the Supreme Court has a Latina jus-
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Cristina Rodriguez ’95 LAW ’00 may become the Law School’s first tenured Latina professor.
tice, and YLS has never had a tenured Latino faculty member?” said Carel Alé LAW ’11, who served as a co-chair of the Latino Law Student Association while at the Law School. But even as Rodriguez decides whether to take an office at 127 Wall St., students, alumni and faculty interviewed said they hope the Law School’s efforts to diversify its faculty will not end with Rodriguez’s offer. SEE DIVERSITY PAGE 6
Faculty to raise Yale-NUS concerns BY GAVAN GIDEON AND ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTERS Professors say they intend to raise objections to the liberal arts college Yale has planned with the National University of Singapore at today’s Yale College faculty meeting. Though Yale-NUS was officially announced in March 2011 and is set to open in fall 2013, professors said they still wish to debate the merits of the project. Yale-NUS is the only major item on the agenda, which temporarily caused Yale College Dean Mary Miller to cancel the meeting on Feb. 17 because she did not feel there were enough
issues to be discussed. But Miller said the meeting was reinstated after faculty stated their desire to address YaleNUS “sooner rather than later” — a conversation that will begin after University President Richard Levin reports on the developing college. “It is time for the Yale College faculty to be heard on issues affecting our own future relations with this new institution that bears our name,” French and African American studies professor Christopher Miller said in an email Wednesday. Beginning in September 2010, faculty were invited to discuss Yale-NUS at “town
hall” meetings, and over the next two years some expressed concern about whether academic freedoms and civil rights would be suppressed at YaleNUS because of Singapore’s allegedly authoritarian government. But professors said they do not recall addressing the liberal arts college at their monthly faculty meetings, which they said allow for more formal discussion than town hall gatherings. Classics professor Victor Bers said deliberation on YaleNUS should take place in faculty meetings because they follow parliamentary procedure, SEE FACULTY MEETING PAGE 4
After the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) clarified its Title IX regulations last April, administrators nationwide have taken steps to make their universities’ responses to complaints of sexual misconduct more consistent across staff, faculty members and students, according to six higher education law experts interviewed. Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler, who began overseeing Yale’s Title IX compliance in November, said in a Wednesday email that her appointment is part of a larger effort to improve coordination between the University’s various grievance processes. Still, some of the University’s procedures remain separate for different subsets of the Yale community, and some policies — such as the use of nondisclosure agreements — differ between those procedures. “This process [of reviewing Yale’s sexual grievance procedures] has not been limited to complaints involving students but rather has addressed the procedures for reviewing complaints from all members of the University community, thus providing opportunities to harmonize the University’s approaches to sexual misconduct complaints and provide enhanced coordination of related procedures,” she said. Higher education law experts said universities generally assign different administrators — such as student
life officials, academic deans and human resources officials — the responsibility of addressing sexual misconduct issues for certain segments of a college’s campus, adding that this division can create confusion among individuals seeking help. At Yale, while undergraduates and graduate students are encouraged to seek advice from the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center, employees and postdoctoral students can reach out to the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs, which addresses complaints related to racial and gender-based discrimination. All members of the Yale community can file complaints with the Yale Police and Title IX coordinators, and the newly-established University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC) hears all complaints except those filed by faculty or staff members against staff members. Employees with grievances against other employees can also bring complaints to human resources officials. One library staff member interviewed, who filed a sexual harassment complaint against a colleague two years ago and wished to remain anonymous because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said she thinks the University “compartmentalizes [its procedures] too much.” When she approached administrators with her complaint, she said she had been asked to talk to a variety of different administrators, who she said were each responsible for handling different parts of her case. She added that she felt this process “divided up all the different offenses until it looked like not much had happened” since no administrator was responsible for SEE COMPLAINTS PAGE 4
City sees second murder-free month BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER Wednesday marked the end of New Haven’s secondstraight month without a homicide, an interval not seen since summer 2009. The number of violent crimes is down citywide by more than 20 percent compared to this time last year, according to data from the New Haven Police Department. But city and police officials said it is still too early to tell what role, if any, the community policing strategies implemented in the past three months by NHPD Chief Dean Esserman have played in the drop. “We’ve implemented many strategic changes, and there are more cops walking the beat, so I think it would be unwise to specifically attribute [the drop in violent crime] to any one thing,” NHPD spokesman David Hartman said. “What we do know is that we have a new chief, a new direction, and have zero homicides to date this year.” While Hartman said the statistics so far this year are prom-
ising, he stressed that “statistics are simply statistics” and rarely provide an insightful look into the city’s crime situation. Since the statistics can change instantly, it would be “arrogant or foolish” to declare the department’s community policing efforts successful yet, he added. Hartman could not immediately supply detailed statistics of New Haven crime in February, but in January, the violent crime rate was 28.7 percent below the rate in January 2011. This figure includes a 29.9 percent drop in robberies and a 16.7 percent decrease in assaults. This figure followed a year in which violent crime dropped 11 percent citywide even as the number of homicides rose by 10 to 34 — a 20-year high. By this time last year, the Elm City had recorded four murders. “It’s a very short period to judge on, but I do think community policing is making a difference in bringing violent crime down significantly,” said Richard Epstein, the chairman SEE NHPD PAGE 4
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nlike the 18th birthday — that due moment of pomp and circumstance that triggers the right to vote for office and die for country — the 19th birthday confers no particular responsibility. It passes relatively unnoticed. Consider the ghost of your birthdays past: the cultural milestones of doubledigits, the bar or bat mitzvah, the quinceanera, the sweet sixteen and so on. Preteens really dig birthdays. And why shouldn’t they? In third grade, I turned however many years old I turned and got a paper crown and card signed by every member of my elementary school class. Our teacher displayed little construction-paper cakes on the bulletin board, each cake signifying one unique celebration for one special snowflake of a child. Now, time stops for neither cupcakes nor candles — and the lowly birthday once again assumes its rightful insignificance. The temporary extravagance of the 21st cannot salvage the birthday from its ultimate demise into routine. Today, I turn 19 years old. I’m shocked — not because I feel particularly old, but not because I feel particularly young, either. Today, my birthday poses an existential threat to the perceived sluggishness of collegiate time. Each day drags on, a seeming year in 24 hours of lecture, classes, papers, parties. You look at Yale as a freshman — you look at the Blue Book, at your reading, at your Saturday night — and you feel like you’ll be a freshman forever. Turning 19, in a way, means coming to terms with the ephemeral nature of my freshman year — each action I take might very well be my last performance of that action as a freshman. My last midterm. My last all-nighter. My last 19th birthday. And turning 19 means realizing college won’t last forever, either. Maybe I’m thinking about this because of Chipotle. You see: I took a road trip to Chipotle last Sunday, piling into a beat-up red rental car with a handful of friends and a handful of cash. The sky turned burnt orange and we cruised along the highway, exit after exit blurring past into the evening. Did you know that New Haven’s just a few minutes away from the international Pez Visitor Center? You won’t learn that during Camp Yale, of course, because either nobody knows or nobody cares enough to tell you between whispered
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words of We n z e l s and societies and all the little things yo u ’ r e finally old MARISSA e n o u g h know MEDANSKY to about. But knowing Sidewinder that Yale is so close to the Pez Visitor Center is like a little piece of chocolate or a penny you find on the ground — an amuse-bouche of knowledge, secrets shared between two people like seats in a red rental car. I don’t think driving to Chipotle signifies the ultimate act of independence. I don’t think driving to Chipotle is comparable to raising a family on my own, or buying my first apartment, or filing my own taxes.
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number of plausible explanations have been given for why Yale undergraduates don’t flock to the natural sciences in the same numbers as their peers at other Ivy League institutions do, including a lack of interesting intro-level courses, a harsher grading scale in science departments and the sheer difficulty of natural sciences. However, I’d venture to guess that while our peer institutions may be doing a better job combating these issues than we are, none of these issues is unique to Yale. But at least one uncomfortable issue does appear to be Yale-specific: the unhealthy and unnecessary amount of competition among faculty in natural sciences at Yale. I am all for healthy competition between researchers — after all, the race to make new discoveries is an essential part of what makes the scientific process so exciting — but it’s hard to make students feel welcome in a world where everyone seems to hate each other. Yale’s unhealthily competitive
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But there’s a sort kind of magic that comes from taking a Sunday road trip to Chipotle, even if the guacamole is soggy and the only table left shakes a little. It’s the same kind of unexpected magic that comes from watching the sky turn orange, or finding the Pez Visitor Center hidden on the exit of a highway. It’s the same thing that happens when you venture off campus and realize that New Haven is bigger than Yale, that Connecticut is bigger than New Haven and that you are smaller than you thought. There’s a certain wonder that comes with not having everything here in a place that tries to give you everything: Go forth and find it. Today, birthdays lose their magic. We’re not in third grade anymore; we buy our own cupcakes. But we make our own magic now. After all, it’s pretty easy to find it on the way to Chipotle. And, honestly, there are a lot of ways to get there.
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groups in which it’s not uncommon for competing faculty members to bad-mouth others in their department. With some notable exceptions, those who eventually make it to the ranks of senior faculty generally do little to prevent this or to foster anything in the way of departmental collegiality and cohesion. As bad as things are within departments, Yale’s unhealthy levels of competition are often even worse between departments. Take, for example, the schism between researchers in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Despite the fact that professors I’ve worked with in the two departments often work on similar or complementary research topics, they rarely even communicate, much less collaborate. When they mention the other department at all, what they say usually isn’t positive. Even students who have tried to work across departments haven’t been able to break down this barrier
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and bring about more collegiality. Getting the people who advise me to sit in a room together for five minutes last year was a small miracle that isn’t likely to be repeated again any time soon. As a Yale undergraduate, I assumed this was just way the way it was everywhere. On top of the challenging course load, Yale’s natural science majors enter a system in which their mentors have nothing but negative things to say about each other. Is it really any wonder that such a large portion of our science majors decide to opt out of this type of environment? It wasn’t until I visited a number of other equally well-regarded research institutions as a prospective doctoral student — including several other Ivies — that I realized it didn’t have to be this way. Collegiality doesn’t have to come at the expense of top-notch research. In fact, it’s usually quite the opposite. LILY TWINING is a student in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a 2011 graduate of Pierson College.
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atmosphere in the natural sciences exists both within and between departments. Within departments, I suspect that much of this competition stems from the tenure process at Yale. Unlike at other schools, where senior faculty assist their junior faculty in negotiating the tenure process, Yale’s faculty often do little to make their young faculty feel wanted and welcome. Even the most successful junior faculty who get hired at Yale realize they’ll have to outcompete their peers for a permanent position because the chances they’ll all get tenure are extremely slim. Although things aren’t quite as bad as they were in the days when two junior faculty were brought in to compete for a single position that neither were likely to get, many young faculty I’ve spoken to still view a job at Yale as an insecure extended post-doctoral position. Academic criticism for the sake of improvement is one thing, but the tenure system at Yale creates a catty network of cliquey lab
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akashi Kawamura is the mayor of Nagoya, Japan. Yet he wasn’t representing the citizens of Nagoya last Monday when he publicly denied that the Nanjing Massacre of 1937 had ever occurred. What’s perhaps most bizarre is that he chose to make this statement in front of a visiting delegation of government officials from Nanjing, who were in Nagoya to celebrate the sister relationship between the two cities. Kawamura’s statement has stirred Chinese communities worldwide, including at Yale. It is easy to criticize Kawamura for his grossly inappropriate remarks, but more needs to be said about the underlying causes of this incident and what an appropriate response entails. First of all, the Nanjing Massacre is a well-known historical fact. The Tokyo War Crimes Trial estimates that the Japanese Imperial Army murdered more than 200,000 civilians and prisoners of war in the 1937 invasion. Although exact number of people killed remains disputed, there is irrefutable evidence to show that a horrific massacre indeed took place. In fact, there is an impressive collection of first hand photographs and documents recording the massacre in the Yale Divinity School Library. Since his original statement, Kawamura has tried to frame his comment as a “personal opinion.” According to Japan’s
Mainichi News, he remarked at a press conference in Tokyo a few days after the incident: “Since I became a lawmaker I’ve said there was no massacre of hundreds of thousands. It is better to say so openly, rather than saying it secretly.” Although he recognized that it was “uncourteous” to express “a personal opinion during a visit of senior Nanjing officials to Nagoya City Hall,” Kawamura has not apologized for his actions. Suppose we believe that Kawamura was simply being forthright about his personal opinions. Under the most charitable interpretation, Kawamura’s position can be reconstructed in the following manner: The alleged massacre in Nanjing was a historical incident, and therefore its veracity and scope should be open to academic scrutiny and debate. One should certainly be permitted to hold his or her opinion in a discussion of history, no matter how unpopular that opinion might be. There is no reason to treat an issue differently simply because of its politically sensitive nature. Indeed, Kawamura is treating himself like a beleaguered academic surrounded by a furious mob. Instead of retracting his claim, he offered to hold a public debate in Nanjing to discuss whether the massacre happened. Kawamura’s assumption that the issue can be settled in an open debate reveals his igno-
rance about the nature of the Nanjing Massacre. Certain historical events are so emotionally charged and so deeply embedded in the collective conscience of nations and peoples that they cannot possibly be limited to purely academic discussions. Furthermore, such historical events such as the Holocaust and the bombing of Hiroshima do not remain static throughout time. They become concepts and evolve with the reflection and imagination of each passing generation. The Nanjing Massacre must be understood in context. For the Chinese, it has come to symbolize the countless atrocities that the Japanese committed in China in the Second World War. Kawamura’s open denial of the Nanjing Massacre throws into doubt his stance on Japanese war crimes in general. It is a purposeful attack on the goodwill of the Chinese people and perpetuates hatred between the two countries. More troubling is the fact that Kawamura isn’t alone. He isn’t the first Japanese politician to deny the massacre, and, sadly, he will not be the last. Just days after Kawamura’s statement, Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara stepped forward to defend him. Despite the fact that certain Japanese right-wingers have not been shy about historical revisionism, the Chinese people must resist the temptation to
make generalizations about Japanese politicians and the Japanese people as a whole. More than anything, generalizations feed stereotypes and fatten the radical nationalism that lies at the core of those historical revisionists’ beliefs. Kawamura and Ishihara deny the Nanjing Massacre because the glorious Japanese national character they uphold does not square with what occurred in Nanjing. They deny history in an effort to honor their nationalist beliefs, but they fail to recognize that it was the latter that bloodied history in the first place. Kawamura and Ishihara’s claims must be rebuffed. They must apologize. Yet the Chinese must not respond to extreme nationalism in kind. I cannot help but worry about a growing Chinese nationalist sentiment that harbors regrettable misconceptions of Japanese people and constantly pushes the Chinese government toward hard-line responses. Hate begets hate. If we let the perpetrators of hatred bring out the worst in us, then they win. We don’t need to be hyper-nationalists to see through Kawamura’s farce. Rather, we simply need to stand firmly by history’s side. XIUYI ZHENG is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact him at xiuyi.zheng@yale.edu .
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The article “Chamber musicians revamp performance” misspelled the name of Kikuei Ikeda, the coach of the Eli String Quartet. The article also misattributed a quote from violinist Geoffrey Herd ’12 to Colin Brookes ’13.
Snyder looks to bolster scholarships BY DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTER In an effort to make the School of Management more competitive among admitted students, SOM Dean Edward Snyder has identified scholarships as a fundraising priority. As SOM currently pays about 6 percent of the student body’s annual tuition costs through merit-based scholarships — roughly one-third the percentage at its peer institutions — Snyder said he is working to increase the school’s scholarship budget from its current level. Though Snyder said SOM attracts strong applicants, he said a shortage of scholarship funding leads some applicants to choose other schools. Still, directors of financial aid at peer business schools said they did not think variations in scholarship funding would markedly affect admissions yields. “We have a really strong applicant pool,” Snyder said. “We’re doing very well, but having said that, we’re working out of a scholarship budget that is not very robust.” Bruce DelMonico, SOM’s director of admissions, said the school’s admissions yield has historically hovered just below 50 percent, which he described as “not dramatically lower” than those of peer business schools. DelMonico said the school naturally attracts highly qualified applicants who have many enrollment choices, and said he could not predict whether increasing scholarship availability would impact the yield. Even if bolstering scholarship funds may not improve the yield, DelMonico said he and Snyder agree that money “should be taken out of the equation” of an admitted student’s enrollment decision. SOM does not offer need-based financial aid but sets aside roughly $3 million for combined scholarship and loan forgiveness funding, he added. Joel Getz, SOM senior associate dean for development and alumni relations, said fundraising for scholarships is one of his office’s “top priorities.” The
majority of the money needed to construct the school’s new campus — another central fundraising priority — has already been raised, Getz said, allowing SOM to pursue other goals. He added that donors have responded positively to the idea of giving to scholarship funds. “We’ve already seen the idea resonate with people,” Getz said. “People definitely understand the need for it, as Dean Snyder has prioritized it based on his vast experience as a dean.” Laurence Mueller, the director of financial aid at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, said improving scholarship availability could help business schools distinguish themselves from similarly ranked peer institutions. But Mueller said he did not think increasing scholarship funding would dramatically impact students’ decisions, particularly for those choosing between schools with large differences in rankings. Jack Edwards, director of financial aid at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, said in an email Wednesday that roughly half of the school’s student body is on need-based financial aid — the only type the school offers. But he added that business programs can be competitive without offering a strong financial aid program. “For graduate schools, there typically is an expectation that the student has saved to cover [tuition costs],” Edwards said. Though SOM does not offer need-based financial aid like Stanford does, DelMonico said the school’s loan-forgiveness program, designed to support recent graduates who enter eligible low-paying careers, is more generous than those of many peer institutions. DelMonico said SOM pioneered loan forgiveness repayment efforts, though he added that many students value up-front scholarships over loan repayment when deciding where to enroll. SOM tuition for the 2012-’13 academic year is $55,050. Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu .
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School of Management Dean Edward Snyder to expand the school’s financial aid budget.
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According to the Yale New-Haven Hospital website, there are currently 966 beds available to patients at the hospital, the largest medical facility in the state.
ICE arrests 40 in Conn. BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER In a four-day operation that kicked off last Friday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 45 undocumented residents in Massachusetts and Connecticut, including two in New Haven. ICE officers in the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations arrested the 45 individuals, 40 of them Connecticut residents, as part of “Operation Threats Against the Community,” which targeted convicted criminals, according to a Wednesday afternoon ICE press release. The arrests come after last Wednesday’s statewide rollout of Secure Communities, an ICE program that seeks to deport criminals residing in the country illegally. “The results of this targeted enforcement operation underscore ERO’s ongoing commitment to public safety,” ERO Boston field office director Dorothy Herrera-Niles said in the press release. “Because of the tireless efforts and teamwork of ERO officers — along with our federal, state and local law enforcement partners — there are fewer criminal aliens in our neighborhoods.” According to the press release, “numerous” law enforcement agencies throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut assisted ERO in making the arrests. When reached Wednesday evening, City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said the city had only learned of the arrests several hours before ICE announced the news to the press. New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman could not immediately be reached for comment. Benton said it was too early to comment on the arrests or
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 40 undocumented Connecticut residents over four days. whether they were related to Secure Communities, which city and police officials have denounced as harmful to community policing efforts in the past several weeks. The arrests were made as part of ICE’s “Criminal Alien Program,” ICE spokesman Ross Feinstein told the New Haven Independent Wednesday. Those arrested will be held at an ICE detention facility pending deportation proceedings before an immigration judge, he added. Of the 45 people arrested, 24 had felony histories and 18 had multiple convictions, including prior charges for assault and battery of a child, sexual assault, possessing and selling drugs, drunk driving and larceny. This is the second time in five years ICE has made arrests in New Haven after city officials openly opposed federal immigration policy. In 2007, the Board of Alder-
men approved a plan to issue identification cards to city residents, regardless of immigrant status, that would allow them to borrow library books, pay parking meters and open bank accounts. The cards — popular within New Haven but criticized nationally as overly friendly to illegal immigrants — protected New Haven’s estimated 10,000 to 15,000 undocumented residents, who had been targets of robberies due to their inability to deposit money. Two days after the Board passed the Elm City Resident Card plan, ICE agents raided Fair Haven, home to the majority of the city’s undocumented residents, and detained 29 individuals the agency claimed were in the country illegally. ICE officials denied the resident card plan’s passage and the raids were connected, calling the agency’s actions “routine.” More recently, city officials
have criticized ICE’s Secure Communities program, which will collect suspected criminals’ fingerprints from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and check them against ICE’s database in an effort to deport criminals living in the country illegally. “Secure Communities is a misguided and mishandled program that will neither make New Haven more secure nor a stronger community,” Benton said on Feb. 21. “Secure Communities will harm community policing efforts in New Haven to build trust between immigrant communities and the police department.” ICE launched Secure Communities in Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland last Wednesday, and the program will become mandatory nationwide by 2013. Contact JAMES LU at james.q.lu@yale.edu .
Y-NHH to expand patient care HOSPITAL SEEKS APPROVAL FOR MORE BEDS, FINALIZES PURCHASE OF SAINT RAPHAEL’S BY MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS AND BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTERS With patient intake levels pushing maximum capacity, Yale-New Haven Hospital — Connecticut’s largest medical facility — is attempting a twofold approach: increasing the number of beds at its current campus, and finalizing its purchase of the Hospital of Saint Raphael, the state’s fourth-largest hospital. Yale-New Haven is asking state regulators to approve the addition of 70 beds to its campus over the next two years — an investment of $1.4 million — that will grow the facility’s current 1,008 beds and ease a spike in patient volume, said Vincent Petrini, senior vice president of public affairs at the hospital. But Petrini added that local expansion is only a first step: On Feb. 9, Yale-New Haven and Saint Raphael’s submitted an application to the Department of Public Health’s Office of Health Care Access for regulatory approval of Yale-New Haven’s acquisition of Saint Raphael’s facility on Chapel Street for $160 million. If approved, the acquisition would spare Yale-New Haven from having to construct a fifth patient tower, which Petrini said would cost an estimated $400 million and take five years to build. The terms of the acquisition would help Yale-New Haven meet excess demand and allow Saint Raphael’s to recover financial stability, Petrini said. According to the Certificate of Need application submitted to the Office of Health Care Access on Feb. 9, Yale needs at least 140 additional patient beds in the next five years to cope with demand. At the same time, Saint Raphael’s future “is uncertain,” as it has experienced significant financial losses for several years — making it impossible for it to survive without outside assistance. “We have seen a significant increase in patients, and because of the large demand, we need more space,” Petrini said. “The proposal makes perfect sense for our community and growth while stabilizing Saint Raphael’s financial challenges — we’re optimistic about it.”
Saint Raphael’s currently has 511 beds, but only 421 are used, according to the Certificate of Need. Under the proposed agreement, Yale-New Haven would have control over both hospital facilities and could use the 90 unoccupied beds at Saint Raphael’s Hospital, in addition to the 70 additional beds pending approval at the Yale-New Haven campus, to meet future demand. Within the first five years after the acquisition’s approval, YaleNew Haven Hospital would invest $129.5 million to finance capital improvements, clinical service enhancements and expand its electronic medical records system to Saint Raphael’s Hospital, according to the Certificate of Need. Yale would also assume Saint Raphael’s long-term debt and contribute to its current shortfall in pension funding for hospital staff. While proponents of the acquisition said the proposal meets the needs of both hospitals — increased capacity at YaleNew Haven and financial stability for Saint Raphael’s Hospital — the deal raises questions about the future of hospital competition within the Elm City. YaleNew Haven and Saint Raphael’s are the only two hospitals in the city and are often considered rivals. An acquisition joining the two facilities as one entity would eliminate competition between the two and could create a single health care option for city residents. “I don’t know if the acquisition will be approved,” said Robert Alpern, dean of the Yale Medical School. “The Federal Trade Commission is going to have to decide if [the deal creates] a monopoly and if it’s good for the community.” Petrini said he has not heard any complaints that the proposed acquisition would create a monopoly hospital in the Elm City. He added that Yale-New Haven’s patient base is much broader than just the city of New Haven. He said Yale-New Haven receives patients from several bordering states and is competing with hospitals across Connecticut, New York City and Boston. In addition to expanding its inpatient care capacity, Yale-
New Haven announced plans earlier this week to expand its options for outpatient care — medical services where patients do not stay in a hospital — by developing an outpatient center in North Haven. According to a Feb. 29 press release, Yale-New Haven will purchase a 120,000-square-foot, fourstory building formerly owned by AT&T and remodel it to become a walk-in primary care center. “The concept of a Yale-New Haven ambulatory [outpatient] center has received widespread community support,” said Richard D’Aquila, Yale-New Haven president and chief operating officer. “It will create access to key health services for residents of North Haven, Hamden, Cheshire and other surrounding communities.” According to Petrini, YaleNew Haven is experiencing a rapid 2 to 3 percent annual patient rate growth while other hospitals in the state have not seen similar rises. He said he attributes this demand to the rising number of transfer patients, about 4,000 a year, that Yale-New Haven received after implementing the “Y Access Line” — a phone line which allows neighboring hospitals to request space at YaleNew Haven for their critical care patients. Petrini said well-known physicians and new facilities, such as the Smilow Cancer Hospital, also contributed to this growth. Across the state, inpatient volume was flat for several years, and has dropped slightly since 2009,
Connecticut Hospital Association spokeswoman Michelle Sharp said. She added that the decline in patient volume is partly due to the loss of insurance that accompanied loss of jobs in the economic recession. But as the state’s population continues to age, these rates are expected to climb higher, she said. “We expect to see inpatient utilization increase as Connecticut’s population ages, though that increase will likely be tempered some by systems changes resulting from health care reform,” Sharp said. Alpern said he thinks the acquisition will have a positive effect on the Yale Medical School. Some Saint Raphael’s doctors will form part of the school’s faculty, and Saint Raphael’s facilities will be available for student and resident training, Alpern said. “We think the acquisition is a really good thing for the community, the hospitals and the Medical School,” Alpern said. “It just makes sense for the two hospitals to work together.” The Department of Public Health’s Office of Health Care Access has 30 days following the submission of a Certificate of Need application to decide whether to approve the deal. The department will announce by March 10 whether the acquisition will be permitted. Contact MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS at mariana.lopez-rosas@yale.edu and BEN PRAWDZIK at benjamin.prawdzik@yale.edu .
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“If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.” JIM ROGERS ’64 AMERICAN INVESTOR
‘Dear Colleague Letter’ prompts changes for employees COMPLAINTS FROM PAGE 1 addressing the complete issue. Nancy Cantalupo, an adjunct law professor at Georgetown University who has been working on sexual misconduct issues for over 15 years, said confusion about the pathways available for filing complaints is “inevitable” because of the different legal regimes that govern members of a campus community. Spangler said administrators have been working to improve consistency between different departments, adding that officials reviewed the updated Title IX regulations in April’s “Dear Colleague Letter” as part of its “broader review of issues relating to sexual misconduct.” University President Richard Levin appointed Spangler in November following a report by the Advisory Committee on Campus Climate, which was convened last April after the OCR launched its ongoing investigation into whether Yale has a hostile sexual climate. Colleges and universities nationwide have pursued different strategies as they attempt to streamline the process of filing sexual misconduct complaints. Peter Lake, director for the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson University, said initial reactions to the Dear Colleague Letter involved attempts to “find some consistency” within a university’s different
procedures, but added that the change did not necessarily entail “unifying” its processes.
The federal government needs to get away from a ‘gotcha’ system and work more toward educating so we as an institution know what to expect. DAVID ARMSTRONG General Counsel and Vice President for Development, Notre Dame “You may not need to have one singular system,” he said. “Suppose you could have polytheism: you could have many ‘gods’ of Title IX enforcement, but there does have to be one master Title IX coordinator who oversees all of the ‘lesser deities.’ So there does need to be some coherence to the system.” David Armstrong, general counsel and vice president for development at Notre Dame College of Ohio, said the Dear Colleague Letter prompted Notre Dame officials to standardize its policies for different subsets of people in the community, though universities could have interpreted the letter in different ways. He added that he thinks the OCR is not always clear about its expectations for Title IX com-
pliance. “The federal government needs to get away from a ‘gotcha’ system and work more towards educating so we as an institution know what to expect,” he said. “If a situation occurs on campus, the problem is that it’s ex post facto. The Department of Education will come in after and say ‘you did this wrong,’ but nobody tells us how to do it right.” Yale’s use of confidentiality contracts serves as one instance in which procedures for students and staff differ — a discrepancy some experts attributed to differing legal obligations between administrators and the two groups. Michael Della Rocca, chair of the UWC, said in a January interview that the committee does not use written nondisclosure agreements, though he said administrators do request during complaint processes that all parties maintain confidentiality. On the other hand, Vice President and General Counsel Dorothy Robinson said Yale may ask staff members to sign nondisclosure agreements, a practice she said is “common” among employers. One complainant, who also requested anonymity, said she was asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement with the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs. The contract she signed prohibited her from discussing the terms of the agreement — except with family members and legal counsel — and requested that she
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allow faculty to bring issues to a vote and are recorded in permanent minutes. Sociology professor Deborah Davis, who is chairing the social sciences search committee for the new college, said town hall meetings and faculty meetings facilitate similar types of discussion because both invite professors to attend and air potential grievances. The University has also provided other opportunities for discussion of Yale-NUS, Davis said, such as holding meetings with groups concerned about the rights of LGBTQ faculty in Singapore. But Davis also said Thursday’s faculty meeting is necessary in providing a forum for the professors who “feel that they haven’t been heard” on Yale-NUS issues. Art history professor David Joselit said in a Wednesday email that universities depend on the free exchange of ideas, and that Yale must consider whether its educational aims are compatible with the political climate in Singapore. “Yale is undertaking an alliance with a state that does not
share these values,” Joselit said. “It is imperative for us as a faculty to practice what we preach — to probe, explore, question and debate the great dangers, as well as the possible virtues, of such an alliance on the part of our University.”
Yale is undertaking an alliance with a state that does not share these values. DAVID JOSELIT Professor, History of Art Faculty have also continued to raise objections to the “feedback loop” administrators have said they envision forming between the two schools, which could bring policies tested in Singapore back to New Haven. Four professors interviewed said faculty should have a voice in the process because the college will be impacted by YaleNUS, though Levin said Feb. 19 that the decision to create YaleNUS ultimately rested with the
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Yale Corporation since the project is a new school and not a program within Yale College. “The Yale College faculty is supposed to govern itself and to control matters related to the college,” Christopher Miller said. “That should and must include its relations with Yale-NUS.” Two professors also expressed concern over the possibility of faculty leaving to teach abroad, and over Yale-NUS bringing students to study in New Haven as part of programs like a master’s degree in environmental studies that was announced in early January. If faculty members choose to teach at Yale-NUS for a term, the Singaporean government — which is underwriting the new college — will pay their salaries while abroad. Yale College faculty meetings are held on the first Thursday of every month, and are designed to address issues specific to Yale College. Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu and ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .
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plaint investigation are asked to keep the matters confidential, adding that her office informs individuals of all sexual grievance resources available to them. Last month, Spangler released a report documenting 52 sexual misconduct complaints brought to administrators from July 1 to Dec. 31 of
last year. The report included sexual harassment issues among undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral students, staff and faculty members. Contact CAROLINE TAN at caroline.tan@yale.edu .
So far, no homicides recorded in 2012 NHPD FROM PAGE 1 of the Board of Police Commissioners. “Some of that is attributable to more visibility of officers on the beat, and other strategies implemented [by Esserman] will make a difference.” Like Hartman, Epstein cautioned that it is “too early to declare victory yet” but said the Board of Police Commissioners is encouraged by the crime figures posted so far this year. Hartman said the NHPD’s progress in solving cases, both in the Major Crimes Unit and the newly formed shooting task force, has helped prevent other crimes from being committed. “When warrants are being signed for past homicides … along with the general increase in solved crimes, if you are a criminal, and you see people being caught and convicted left and right, that seems to be quite a deterrent,” he said. The last time New Haven saw multiple months without a homicide, between April and August 2009, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. attributed the trend to “more enforcement.” The community, not just the department, has contributed to the decrease in violent crime, said Bishop Theodore Brooks, who served on the Board of Police Commissioners
until earlier this month. “It has to do with the community itself, with people reaching out to each other and asking them to stop the violence and the senseless killings,” Brooks said. The involvement of federal and state officials in New Haven policing may also explain the positive crime statistics so far this year, said Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04, who serves on the Board of Aldermen’s public safety committee. Hausladen said the drop in violent crime may also be related to an improving economic climate in the city. While Hausladen said he did not know specific data about youth employment in the Elm City, hiring has picked up and jobless claims are decreasing in the city. “Job availability is definitely a factor in crime,” Hausladen said. “Economic viability and possibility and hope — those things do help solve crime. They take the violent offender and make them an active member of society.” A report presented to the state legislature’s Judiciary Committee on Feb. 10 showed that crime is at a 44-year low in Connecticut. Contact JAMES LU at james.q.lu@yale.edu .
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“I have ever considered the constitutional mode of election ultimately by the Legislature voting by States as the most dangerous blot in our Constitution...” THOMAS JEFFERSON FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT
State unlikely to join popular vote compact BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER State legislators said it is unlikely that Connecticut will sign onto a system in which it assigns its Electoral College votes based on the national popular vote in time for the 2012 presidential election. The National Popular Vote Compact, which requires its signatories to award their Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote in presidential elections, was not proposed by lawmakers in Hartford before last week’s deadline set by the General Assembly’s Government Administration and Election Committee. Despite efforts by members of the National Popular Vote, a nonprofit advocacy organization, state legislators said the bill was not introduced because they prioritized other legislation, such as education reform, but supporters of the bill said they are hopeful that it may still pass through nontraditional channels. “There is some interest in [the National Popular Vote bill], although I don’t know if there’s enough to take action on it this year,” said Senate Majority Leader
Martin Looney, who represents New Haven. “It is a short [legislative] session.” Without the committee’s support, Looney said it is more difficult, though not impossible, for the bill to advance any further. National Popular Vote regional director Ryan O’Donnell said the bill is unlikely to pass given the short length — three months — of the current legislative session, though he added that there are “a number” of ways for legislation to go forward and that he did not dismiss its chances. The National Popular Vote bill — which 74 percent of state residents support, according to a 2009 poll conducted by Public Policy Polling — was cleared by the Government Administration and Election Committee last year by a 10 to 5 margin, but was never brought to the House floor for vote. Looney attributed the General Assembly’s failure to raise the bill to the body’s acknowledgement that it would generate a “very time-consuming debate” and take time away from other pressing issues. Given the Electoral College’s structure, in order to become the
system by which presidents are elected, the National Popular Vote Compact would need enough states to join such that it represents a majority of the nation’s electoral votes — more than 270. Currently, eight states and the District of Columbia have joined the compact, representing a total of 132 electoral votes.
It’s going to be obvious [during the 2012 elections] that Connecticut and twothirds of our states are going to be ignored once again. RYAN O’DONNELL Regional Director, National Popular Vote
Though Looney said support for the bill is “growing” in the state legislature, he added that members will continue to con-
sider how the bill might affect other states’ voting outcomes. Some state Democratic lawmakers, he said, have expressed concern about the fact that Connecticut’s electoral votes in the 2004 national election would have gone to George W. Bush ’68 if Connecticut and enough other states had passed the National Popular Vote bill before the election. Still, deciding elections by the national popular vote would ensure that the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes across the country is victorious, O’Donnell said. He added that this has failed to happen in four presidential elections, including the 2000 election between Al Gore and Bush. The enactment of the National Popular Vote, he added, would force presidential candidates to campaign more widely, rather than focusing on a few important battleground states as they do now. “It’s going to be obvious [during the 2012 elections] that Connecticut and two-thirds of our states are going to be ignored once again,” O’Donnell said. “If you want to get involved in Connecti-
cut, or get involved as a Connecticut resident, you should get in your car and drive to your nearest swing state.” He said one of the Compact’s goals is to make each state equally important to administrations and campaigns. He added that around 200 million Americans live in states that are virtually ignored by presidential candidates because they are considered noncompetitive. But David Mayhew, a Sterling Professor of Political Science whose work focuses on U.S. elections, said he does not believe establishing national popular vote system would significantly alter the behavior of national politicians toward Connecticut. Instead, he said, they would visit “media-heavy” Boston and New York City. Mayhew added that he does not think changing the current Electoral College system would be beneficial. Overall, he said, the current system does not tilt the political playing field to either major party’s advantage, and changing to a national popular vote system could “end up in a mess” because of different voting laws in each
state. He said that state legislatures could potentially renege on their commitments to the Compact in order to affect national elections depending on which political party held the majority. O’Donnell said the Compact has seen national momentum in recent years, with California and Vermont both passing the bill last year. But Mayhew said he does not expect that enough states will sign on to reach the 270 Electoral College vote minimum, given that the Compact tends to be more popular with Democrats than with Republicans. “[The national popular vote] has the support of very Democratic states … It makes it hard to make it past 13 states if the political situation stays as it is,” Mayhew said. “It would take some election event for this project to gather steam.” Currently, Vermont, Maryland, Washington, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, California, Hawaii and the District of Columbia are members of the National Popular Vote Compact. Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu .
Majors applaud career guidance at Engineers Week BY ROBERT PECK AND CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTERS Last Friday, students wrapped up Yale’s first Engineers Week by using homemade catapults to fling stuffed animals into targets set up throughout Davies Auditorium. The catapult launch was one of the culminating events for the week, which was planned by Enping Hong ENG ’14 and Ying Zheng ENG ’13 to showcase Yale’s engineering resources and address the gap in career guidance for engineers between Yale and other top-tier schools. Five out of six undergraduates interviewed who attended the week’s events, all future engineering majors, said they felt that the program provided them with valuable insight on extracurricular and job opportunities available to them.
I feel like the opportunity [for research] is definitely there, but this is the first I’m being told about it. PABLO NAPOLITANO Prospective engineering majors “The problem isn’t that [engineering] opportunities aren’t here at Yale,” Hong said. “The problem is that people aren’t connected to them.” The duo planned Engineers Week to include fun activities such as the catapult launch and ice cream social that would appeal to undergraduates, Hong said. He said he hoped the week, which also included a career panel hosted by the Center for International and Professional Experience, would put undergraduate engineering majors in touch with career opportunities. Jennifer Saucier-Sawyer ENG ’15, who helped organize the ice cream social, said graduate students discussed research opportunities with undergraduates and referred them to friends and colleagues who work in their fields of interest. This sort of informal networking is valuable, Zheng said, because the lack of publicity about Yale engineering opportunities could put Yale students at a disadvantage compared to graduates of other schools. Yale’s program is not as well-known as that of Harvard or MIT, and it is too small to attract as many recruiters as a school with more engineering majors, she said. Only 4 percent of Yale College students major in engineering, compared to 60 percent at MIT and 10 percent at Stanford. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Deputy Dean Vincent Wilczynski said the primary purpose of the week was not career guidance but to celebrate engineering at Yale. However, he added that providing a new avenue to showcase engineering resources was also a positive aspect of the week.
Wilczynski said he did not think there was a lack of engineering opportunities at Yale College, and pointed to the annual academic and activities fairs as examples of outreach by the department. Daniel Noble ’15 and Pablo Napolitano ’15, both prospective engineering majors, said that they learned of new research opportunities from Engineers Week. Noble added that the week also exposed him to undergraduate engineering organizations at Yale for the first time. Napolitano said Engineers Week helped him make connections to faculty and graduate students, which helped him decide to perform research with a Yale professor this summer. He said he regrets that there were no earlier engineering events to inform him of such opportunities, because he has now missed deadlines to apply for research fellowships. “I feel like the opportunity is definitely there, but this is the first I’m being told about it,” Napolitano said. “Outside this event, I haven’t been told how to get in touch with profs or find research opportunities.” Sagar Yadama ’15, also an engineering major, said he did not think Engineers Week overcame the deficit in career services for Yale engineering majors. He said Yale needs to devote more resources to its engineering departments to keep them competitive. Both Hong and Zheng are part of the Advanced Graduate Leadership Program, which gives SEAS students the chance to have experiences in fields other than engineering, such as academia, public service and business. They are in the International and Off-Campus Undergraduate Engagement track of the Leadership Program, focusing on expanding resources and opportunities for Yale undergraduate students. “I believe that, as someone considering an academic profession, serving and helping my students is as important as doing quality research,” Hong said. “In graduate school, it’s too easy to focus solely on the next project or paper, and spend one’s time divorced from the vibrant undergraduate community other than the students one teaches or mentors.” In the fall, Hong said, the pair collaborated to host representatives from the engineering firms Sikorsky, Engineering World Health, Covidien and Oracle at on-campus talks and career recruitment events. They also held a “how to apply to graduate school” information session for seniors interested in pursuing higher engineering education. The Leadership Program was created in February 2010 through a $1.91 million grant by The Goizueta Foundation, a cooperative funding program for universities and charities. Contact ROBERT PECK at robert.peck@yale.edu and CLINTON WANG at clinton.wang@yale.edu .
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FROM THE FRONT
“Diversity at YLS is not a talking point in a brochure; it is a reality for which I am thankful.” “M.W.” STUDENT PERSPECTIVES: THOUGHTS ON LIFE AND LAW AT THE LAW SCHOOL
At Yale Law, tenure offer raises diversity questions
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Yale Law School has never had a tenured Hispanic professor on its faculty, though that will change if Christina Rodriguez ’95 LAW ’00 accepts the school’s offer of tenure.
When Aragon was a student, he said LANA encouraged administrators to increase the Law School’s faculty diversity. The student body at the time was itself far from its current diversity. Today, according to data from the American Bar Association and Law School Admissions Council, Yale Law School’s student body of 629 full-time students includes 46 Hispanic students, 1 Native American student, 83 Asian students and 41 black students. But when Aragon was a student, he said, the school required groups to have 10 initial members in order to be formally recognized. There were too few minority students of each ethnicity to form group to exist separately, so Aragon said three minority backgrounds had to band together in order to create LANA. Aragon, who identifies as Hispanic, recalled questioning Harry Wellington, the Law School dean at the time, about what he perceived as a shortage of people of color on the faculty. “His words to us were, ‘We have to be patient, we have to wait, things will change,’ ” Aragon said. More than 30 years later, law students interviewed said many of their peers remain dissatisfied with the level of diversity in the
FLOW CHART LATERAL FACULTY HIRING AT YALE LAW SCHOOL Students and professors recommend scholars to the faculty appointments committee, which consists of tenured faculty and the Yale Law School dean. The committee also considers candidates it finds on its own.
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Twenty-five years after he graduated, Aragon returned to the Law School to serve on its executive committee, which he said is a group of interested alumni that the dean asks to work with the school on fundraising and boosting alumni involvement in the school. While the student body had become more diverse than it was when he was a student, he said little had changed in the way of faculty diversity. The Law School had hired an openly homosexual professor, several Asian professors and more African-Americans and women since Aragon’s time, but the school still had a gap in its grow-
ing diversity profile: it continued to lack a tenured Hispanic faculty member. Aragon said he appreciated the increased diversity across several minority groups, but noticed the school still had not given tenure to a Hispanic professor. Aragon took this issue to then-Law School Dean Anthony Kronman GRD ’72 LAW ’75, and said received the same response as he had when broaching the issue with Wellington a quarter of a century earlier — that he should be patient. Aragon said he continued to raise the same questions with Kronman’s successors, Harold Koh and Post, who still serves as dean of the Law School, and all gave the same response. “I’ve had three successive deans look me straight in the eye and say that this was one of their top priorities,” Aragon said. “I don’t think they were really committed to getting a tenured Hispanic professor — if they were, it would have happened long ago.” When asked to describe the criteria for hiring new professors, Law School spokeswoman Janet Conroy said the school’s faculty hiring committee seeks candidates with “scholarly excellence no matter the field of expertise.” She added that the school adheres “rigorously” to the University’s non-discrimination policies in its hiring. Post could not be reached for comment this week. In a paper presented at the 2009 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Ming Zhu, a graduate of Harvard Law School, investigated whether race plays any role in faculty hiring. While her study noted that identification with a minority group increased a candidate’s chance of being hired, this minority status correlated with hires at less prestigious institutions. Zhu’s study also noted that of the top 16 law schools, none had given tenure to a minority professor in the 2004-’05 hiring year, the year the study examined. Though alumni and students interviewed questioned whether hiring processes at elite law schools might have unintentional biases against minority candidates, deans and chairs of faculty appointment committees at other law schools said the pool of minority legal scholars remains small. Kevin Johnson, the dean of the University of California, Davis School of Law, said many hiring committees give preference to alumni from a small group of elite institutions, namely Harvard, Stanford and Yale. Because such institutions have historically been less diverse than others, minority alumni are scarce. In an effort to increase diversity, Mark West, associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Michigan Law School, said schools could increase the size of the pools from which they draw candidates. Simply increasing the size of the pool, he said, is bound to increase the number of strong minority scholars considered for positions.
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school’s faculty. Of the 104 professors listed as tenured, adjunct, visiting, clinical or emeritus faculty on the Law School’s website, eight are black, two are Hispanic and seven are Asian, according to data from the Association of American Law Schools, individual interviews with professors and biographical research conducted by the News. When Cynthia Liao LAW ’14, who identifies as Asian, came to the Law School last fall, she said she quickly noticed a lack of faculty members of her own racial background. As the first person in her family to attend law school, Liao said she looked to the faculty for mentorship. But the shortage of professors of color at the Law School, she said, “inhibits her imagination” about her future career prospects in law. When asked whether she felt she could enter a career in legal academia, she said she found the idea intimidating. “I know that, theoretically, if I worked really hard and broke barriers, it could happen, but I don’t imagine it would be an easy thing,” Liao said. Marbre Stahly-Butts LAW ’13, who identifies as black and is the political action chair for the Black Law Students’ Association, said professors could bridge the gap between a student’s background and the legal profession. But professors and students are naturally inclined to approach those who remind them most of themselves, she said. Lani Guinier LAW ’74, a professor at Harvard Law School who was a visiting faculty member at Yale last fall and identifies as black, said studies conducted at three law schools suggest that many female students as well as students of color are hesitant to approach faculty who do not exhibit clear “friendliness cues.” “They await a direct invitation or at least a clear signal that they are welcome to come see a professor during office hours or after class,” Guinier said. Viviane Scott LAW ’14, a student of mixed racial descent who identifies as black, said the number of professors who make efforts to be “proactive mentors” is small throughout the tenured faculty. Finding a minority professor to serve as a mentor is all the more difficult, she said, as there are already relatively few minority professors in the first place. Scott said she has not yet found a mentor among Yale’s tenured faculty.
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escalated, he said he stopped donating to the Law School four years ago in an effort to make his frustrations known to the school. The thought of refusing to donate to their alma mater because of a lack of racial diversity in the faculty has crossed the minds of other Law School alumni. When Rodriguez taught at Yale three years ago, many students lobbied for her to be offered tenure, said Elisabeth Centeno LAW ’11, who co-chaired the Latino Law Students Association when she was at Yale. She said a student put up a sign-up sheet in a central Law School hallway urging signees to refuse to donate to the school until a Hispanic professor was given tenure. Centeno said the sheet, which she recalled had a heading similar to “Would YLS hire Sonia Sotomayor?”, drew few signatures but was emblematic of broader student frustrations shared by students of color and white students alike. Centeno said the offer to Rodri-
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guez was “a wonderful thing,” adding that current students had told her about it within an hour after the town hall. She took Rodriguez’s “Immigration Law and Policy” course in 2009 and said Rodriguez was one of the two best professors she had at Yale. Still, while all students interviewed said they were happy with the Law School’s offer of tenure to Rodriguez, they expressed concern that the Law School might not continue to build faculty diversity if she accepts. “Just because you have a black person doesn’t mean you have enough black people,” StahlyButts said. “Just because you have a Latino face, doesn’t mean you have enough perspectives.” Roberto Saldaña LAW ’14, who identifies as Latino and said he was happy a Hispanic woman was given an offer of tenure, said the offer was not necessarily a sign of “broader structural change,” which he said many are looking for. He said such disciplines as critical race theory, which
METHODOLOGY The statistics for this graph were compiled by the News, using data from the Association of American Law Schools directory, interviews with professors and biographical research. The list of faculty was taken from the Yale Law School’s website. The tenured faculty includes tenured professors on leave. The non-tenured faculty is composed of tenure-track professors, clinical professors, emeriti professors, adjunct professors and visiting professors, including both those who taught at Yale for one or two semesters this year.
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examines race and racism from a legal perspective, continue to be underrepresented in the faculty’s academic interests. Saldaña and Stahly-Butts both said they hope Rodriguez will accept the Law School’s tenure offer. One source who attended the town hall meeting said the faculty hiring committee announced at the meeting that it currently has five standing offers of tenure, three of which are to women and two of which are to people of color. Conroy, the Law School spokeswoman, declined to comment on current hiring offers. “Our appointments committee [...] is only halfway through its work this year, but has already put us in a position to make offers to some excellent scholars and teachers in a range of subject areas that are important to our curriculum,” Conroy said. Contact DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu .
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North Korea agrees to halt nuclear activities BY MATTHEW PENNINGTON AND FOSTER KLUG ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — North Korea raised hopes Wednesday for a major easing in nuclear tensions under its youthful new leader, agreeing to suspend uranium enrichment at a key facility and refrain from missile and nuclear tests in exchange for a mountain of critically needed U.S. food aid. It was only a preliminary step but a necessary one to restart broader six-nation negotiations that would lay down terms for what the North could get in return for abandoning its nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang pulled out of those talks in 2009 and seemingly has viewed the nuclear program as key to the survival of its dynastic, communist regime, now entering its third generation. But the announcement, just over two months after the death of longtime ruler Kim Jong Il, also opened a door for the secretive government under his untested youngest son, Kim Jong Un, to improve ties with the United States and win critically needed aid and international acceptance. It also opened the way for international nuclear inspections after years when the North’s program went unmonitored. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the agreement, which was announced at separate but simultaneous statements by the long-time adversaries, was a modest step but also “a reminder that the world is transforming around us.” “We, of course, will be watching closely and judging North Korea’s new leaders by their actions,” Clinton told a congressional hearing. Indeed, North Korea has reneged on nuclear commitments in the past. An accord under the six-party talks collapsed in 2008 when Pyongyang refused to abide by verification that U.S. diplomats claimed had been agreed upon. The North Korean Foreign Ministry’s statement, issued by the state-run news agency, said the North had agreed to the nuclear moratoriums and U.N. inspectors “with a view to maintaining positive atmosphere” for
the U.S.-North Korea talks. North Korea faces tough U.N. sanctions that were tightened in 2009 when it conducted its second nuclear test and fired a longrange rocket. In late 2010, it unveiled a uranium enrichment facility that could give North Korea a second route to manufacture nuclear weapons in addition to its existing plutoniumbased program. In the meantime, its people have continued to go hungry. The North suffered famine in the 1990s and appealed for the aid a year ago to alleviate its chronic food shortages. U.S. charities reported after a trip to North Korea last fall that children were suffering “slow starvation.” Clinton said the United States will meet with North Korea to finalize details for a proposed package of 240,000 metric tons of food aid. She said intensive monitoring of the aid would be required — a reflection of U.S. concerns that food could be diverted to the North’s powerful military. A senior Obama administration official said it was only in talks last week in Beijing that presaged Wednesday’s announcement that the North had dropped its demand for rice and grains — viewed as easier to divert — and agreed to accept the U.S. “nutritional assistance” such as corn soy blend and other food targeted to young children and pregnant women. The official spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivity. North Korea’s chief rival, South Korea, a staunch U.S. ally supported by 28,000 American troops, welcomed the agreement, although it has yet to receive the apology it wants from the North for two military attacks that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010. Those hostilities nearly pitched the divided Peninsula into war, and the elder Kim’s Dec. 17 death had fueled concern that the North could attack again and conduct another nuclear test. Wednesday’s announcement should ease those concerns, and was a welcome development for President Barack Obama in an election year when he will be looking to avoid another security crisis to add to the pressing list of urgent U.S. foreign policy
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls North Korea’s agreement to suspend nuclear activities “a modest step” in the right direction. concerns. Those include Iran’s nuclear program, the bloodshed in Syria and a deeply unstable Afghanistan. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he hoped North Korea would take steps toward “a verifiable denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.” Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague said it was positive news and that the change in North Korean leadership offered a chance for “renewed engagement with the international community.” Outsiders have been closely watching how the younger Kim, believed to be in his late 20s, handles nuclear diplomacy with the United States and delicate relations with South Korea. His consolidation of power, with the help of senior advisers who worked with his father and grandfather, appears to be going smoothly, although determining the intentions and internal dynamics in Pyongyang is noto-
Romney, Santorum continue intense battle BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A victorious Mitt Romney and runner-up Rick Santorum both claimed satisfaction from the close Michigan primary on Wednesday as they swiftly shifted their duel for the Republican presidential nomination to Ohio and the rest of next week’s delegate-rich Super Tuesday contests. Campaigning in Bexley, Ohio, Romney promised “more jobs, less debt and a smaller government” if he wins the nomination and defeats President Barack Obama in the fall. “Interestingly, the people who said that the economy and jobs were their No. 1 issue, they voted for me, overwhelmingly” in the Michigan primary, he said. Santorum saw the events of the previous 24 hours differently, having won half of the 30 delegates in his rival’s home state primary even though he lost the popular vote. “We had a much better night in Michigan than maybe was first reported,” he said, in Tennessee. While Santorum contended the race to pick an opponent for Democrat Obama was down to two men, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul had other ideas as they set their own priorities for the 10 Super Tuesday contests. That made Washington’s caucuses on Saturday something of a campaign way-station, worth 40 delegates but squeezed in between two big primary nights. The pattern of the candidates’ schedules underscored a shift in the nature of the race, away from one-or-two-state nights where political momentum counted for much, and into a period of multiple contests, where the object is to pile up delegates in pursuit of the 1,144 needed to win the nomination at the party convention this summer in Tampa, Fla. As the campaigns pivoted toward Super Tuesday, it appeared Romney’s narrow home state triumph after a string of weak performances had quelled talk of a late entrance into the race by another contender. There seemed no doubt that the next major clash would occur in Ohio, a big industrial
state with 8.1 percent unemployment, 63 convention delegates at stake and a long history as a battleground in general election campaigns. Romney and Santorum have already campaigned there, and television advertising has topped $4 million in the state, a total that includes not only the two leading contenders but also super PACs that support them and Gingrich, as well. In a renewed commitment, the super PAC supporting Gingrich also disclosed it would spend more than $800,000 in radio ads in upcoming primary states, including Ohio, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Santorum has been running a shoestring campaign, but a spokesman, Hogan Gidley, said the former Pennsylvania senator had raised $9 million in February for his candidacy. Romney is all but assured of victories in at least two of next Tuesday’s states — Massachusetts, where he was governor and faces little or no competition in the primary, and Virginia, where neither Gingrich nor Santorum qualified for the ballot. Those two contests offer 84 delegates combined. Gingrich looked to Georgia, where he launched his political career 30 years ago, to ignite an improbable comeback. The former House speaker conceded it was a state he must win, and he predicted he would, decisively. Polls show him leading but below the 50 percent level he would need to sweep all 76 delegates. Surveys show Santorum running strongly in Oklahoma, which has 40 delegates, while Tennessee, with 55, shapes up as a struggle. There are modest amounts of television advertising in both states, indicating that several camps view then as competitive. Paul appears to be contesting Romney in Vermont, with 17 delegates. Paul also intends to make a rare campaign trip to Alaska for the weekend in hopes of gaining his first victory of the year in the state’s caucuses. There are 24 delegates up for grabs. Two other caucus states, Idaho, 32 delegates, and North Dakota, 28, were drawing unusual interest from all four contenders.
riously difficult. Since Kim Jong Il’s death, North Korea has vowed to maintain the late leader’s policies and has linked its nuclear program to Kim’s legacy. Many observers are skeptical whether North Korea will ever give up its nuclear program. “North Korea uses (the nuclear program) as leverage to win concessions in return for disarmament measures. Since Kim Jong Il’s death, it has called (the program) the country’s most important achievement,” Baek Seungjoo, an analyst at the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in South Korea, said. “There is still a long way to go.” While Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. welcomed the agreement, some Republicans reacted with skepticism, warning that Washington was heading down a path it has trod before - offering aid in return for nuclear commitments, only to see North Korea
renege. “Pyongyang will likely continue its clandestine nuclear weapons program right under our noses. We have bought this bridge several times before,” said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The administration official echoed some of that caution. But he also said the U.S. took it as a positive sign that the new North Korean leadership had carried on with a policy set in train before Kim Jong Il’s death, and had shown some swiftness in reaching the accord before the official 100-day mourning period was over. While North Korea’s commitments meet the pre-steps set by the U.S. for the resumption of six-party disarmament-for-aid talks, the official said the U.S. had made no promise to restart them. He said North Korea would first have to make good
on its latest commitments. The U.S. would also have to map out a strategy with the other parties in the talks — China, Japan, Russia and South Korea — on what they could offer the North in return for the irreversible dismantling of its nuclear weapons program. The U.S. and North Korean statements on the agreement differed on some details, including whether inspectors from U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency would be allowed into both the uranium enrichment and plutonium-based programs. The North Korean statement referred only to uranium enrichment. A senior Obama administration official acknowledged that omission but said the U.S. was in no doubt that the North had agreed to let IAEA inspectors in to confirm the disabling of plutonium-producing reactor at its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon.
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS CLINT DEMPSEY United States soccer player Clint Dempsey scored the only goal of the game in the 55th minute of the U.S.’s match against Italy on Wednesday during the International Friendly. Dempsey became the fourth American player in history to score against Italy.
Hill’s NFL career was a surprise HILL FROM PAGE 10 terback and was heavily recruited by many colleges, including Ivy League schools. However, Hill did not initially consider the Ancient Eight seriously. Instead, he harbored hopes of attending a big football school from the Pacific-8 (now the Pacific-12) or the Big Ten and was especially drawn to football powerhouse UCLA. Nonetheless, on Riverdale’s college visitation day for seniors, Hill decided to visit Columbia. But Hill said that decision was motivated more by an excuse to skip class for the day than by genuine interest in the Ivy League. When he returned to Riverdale and told one of the football assistant coaches there that he had gone to see Columbia, the coach assumed Hill was considering Ivy League schools and arranged for him to visit Yale that weekend. “He was a pretty tough coach, and I didn’t want to let him know that I was more interested in missing class than I was going into the Ivy League,” Hill said. But that weekend in New Haven changed Hill’s attitude
towards the Ancient Eight. During his stay, he attended a football game and watched the Bulldogs defeat Dartmouth, 14–7, in front of a crowd of 70,000 people at the Yale Bowl. Hill was also impressed by Yale’s “gorgeous” campus, urban location and proximity to New York City. “It was a really spectacular visit,” Hill said. “I came back kind of reinvigorated about the Ivy League and started thinking about some of the other schools. But I always liked Yale.” In the end, Hill turned down all the football scholarships offered to him and decided to become a Bulldog.
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Despite being an All-American quarterback in high school, when Hill first arrived at Yale he was only the third-string fullback on the freshman team. “It wasn’t the greatest thing for my confidence,” Hill said. “I had gone from the top of the mountain to the base of the mountain.” But it was not long before Hill was climbing toward the top. In a
game against Princeton his freshman year, Hill — who played as both a fullback and a linebacker for the freshman team — led the Bulldogs to a win by scoring five touchdowns, intercepting a pass, forcing a fumble and blocking a punt. His junior and senior seasons, Hill earned first team AllIvy honors as a running back and helped lead the Bulldogs to Ivy League Championships in 1967 and 1968. His senior year, the Elis went undefeated, though Hill’s final football game at Yale ended with the infamous 29–29 tie at Harvard. With the Bulldogs leading 29–13 and 45 seconds left on the clock, Harvard launched an improbable rally and scored 16 points to tie the game and earn a share of the Ivy League title. “It just shows you what can happen,” Hill said. “Everything went right for Harvard, and everything went wrong for us. It was a forgettable day.” Hill’s athletic talents also extended to the track. Though he joined the team mostly to stay in shape for football season, Hill became one of the best jumpers in school history. In his first ever meet, Hill’s mark in the long jump beat not only all of the freshmen, but it also exceeded the best varsity jump on the team. Hill went on to become a double champion in both the long jump and triple jump at the Outdoor Championships in 1968 and helped the Elis capture the Heptagonal Championship his senior year, when he once again won individual titles in the long jump and triple jump. He still holds the school record for the outdoor triple jump. Hill’s athletic abilities also earned him the respect of his teammates both on and off the field. “Having all that ability and talent, he was a nice guy,” Ed Franklin ’69 LAW ’73, a former defensive back and teammate of Hill, said. “He was not inflated with himself.” When he was not competing for Yale, Hill immersed himself in campus culture. He pursued a major in history, with a particular interest in Russian history and the antebellum South. Outside of class, Hill was a brother in the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, although he said that “they weren’t quite as wild as they seem to be now, from what I read.” Hill also was a member of Black Students at Yale from its inception and belonged to St. Elmo Society.
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Hill was a two-sport athlete at Yale. In addition to football, he was a champion in the long jump and triple jump on the track and field team.
Even with his successes as a football player, Hill’s initial career plan involved continued education, not the NFL. In fact, Hill said his primary reason for attending Yale was always the education. Although he had been drawing interest from professional teams, his original goal was to enroll at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Hill said he hoped he would be
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Calvin Hill ’69 earned first-team All-Ivy honors his junior and senior seasons as Yale won consecutive Ivy titles. drafted or sign a free-agent contract with a team so that even if he ended up getting cut, he could make enough money to pay for two years of divinity school. But Hill never expected to be drafted in the first round. “It was a shock,” he said. “It was totally out of left field because it wasn’t something I had been planning on doing.” Still, Hill continued to excel on the gridiron. In his rookie year with the Cowboys, he rushed for 942 yards and scored eight touchdowns, earning Offensive Rookie of the Year honors and a selection to the Pro Bowl.
It [the NFL] was a shock. It was totally out of left field because it wasn’t something I had been planning on doing. CALVIN HILL ’69 Yale football alumnus Hill said his transition from collegiate to professional athletics was an easy one. “I was doing basically the same thing I had done at Yale,” he said. “In some respects you didn’t have class to worry about … [That] took a lot of discipline, whereas when you were through with football practice in the pros you just went home.” In 1972, Hill became the Cowboys’ first-ever running back to break the 1,000-yard mark for the season in a game against the Redskins, finishing the season with a total of 1,036 yards. That year proved exciting for other reasons: Hill and his wife, Janet, welcomed the birth of their son,
Grant, who would go on to collegiate glory at Duke and a successful career in the NBA with the Pistons, Magic and Suns. Hill’s football season culminated with a championship ring, as the Cowboys defeated the Miami Dolphins 24–3 in Super Bowl VI. The following year, Hill broke his own franchise record by rushing 1,142 yards and earned his third Pro Bowl selection. After six seasons with Dallas, Hill left the NFL to compete with the Hawaiians of the World Football League for one season before returning to the NFL to finish his career with the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Browns.
LIFE AFTER THE NFL
After retiring from the NFL, Hill stayed on with the Browns as a consultant and helped develop player programs to provide support for athletes who were struggling with substance abuse. In 1986, he joined the board of directors of the Baltimore Orioles and eventually became vice president of the club from 1987 to 1994. Hill hired future MLB general manager Theo Epstein ’95 in 1992 to work for the Orioles. Hill now works as a consultant for the Cowboys. Hill also has remained connected to the New Haven community even after he graduated. During his rookie season with Dallas, his Yale teammate Schmoke approached him and asked if he would give his name to a daycare center a group of undergraduates were founding to help with fundraising efforts. That center, the Calvin Hill Daycare Center on Highland Street, has been in continuous operation for over 40 years. Schmoke said that while Hill was an outstanding football player in college and professionally, his character was also exem-
plary. In November 2010, Hill returned to the Yale Bowl to receive the Doak Walker Legends Award for his achievements as a collegiate football player and his dedication to the community. Hill appreciates Yale as much as Yale appreciates him. “[Yale] was a wonderful community,” he said. “The four years — they were some of the best years of my life.” Contact MARIA GUARDADO at maria.guardado@yale.edu .
TIMELINE CALVIN HILL’S ’69 CAREER FALL 1965 Hill enrolls at Yale as a freshman . FALL 1968 Hill helps Bulldogs go undefeated, end season with 29-29 tie at Harvard. 1969 Hill is named NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year. 1972 Hill become first running back in Cowboys’ history to break 1,000 yards. 1981 Hill retires from playing in the NFL, hired the Cleveland Browns as a consultant the following year. NOV. 2010 Hill presented with Doak Walker Legends Award.
MLB leaks have lasting repercussions ETTINGER FROM PAGE 10 ciation as well as an independent arbitrator (who ruled in Braun’s favor). Braun won the appeal by convincing arbitrator Shyam Das that the chain of custody surrounding his sample had been broken. After collecting the sample at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct 1., the testing official took it home for the weekend on the incorrect grounds that the Fedex shipping location was closed for the weekend. Samples are meant to be brought to Fedex immediately, where a player’s name becomes a number and thus full objectivity is ensured. The 44-hour window during which the sample sat in the official’s home refrigerator was enough to convince the arbitrator to throw out Braun’s negative test. Maybe he did it. Maybe he took steroids. Maybe the testing official tampered with the urine, or maybe that was just a convenient defense by Braun’s legal team. Maybe, as suggested by some, Braun was too embarrassed to admit that the test result was actually caused by herpes medication. At the end of the day, only Braun and the
urine tester will know for sure what happened. But all of that is beside the point. What’s most troubling about this case is not a league MVP’s failed drug test but rather the alarming breach of confidentiality by the Commissioner’s Office. MLB has a strict policy under which Braun’s failed test should not have been made public until he had been given every chance to prove his innocence. And he did prove his innocence. Unfortunately for Braun, his test result was leaked prematurely and the case immediately entered the court of public opinion. Braun and the Players Association certainly didn’t leak it, and no one else but the Commissioner’s Office had knowledge of the failed test. (Even the testing lab only knew Braun as an anonymous number.) MLB had a responsibility to uphold its confidentiality agreement under the CBA, and it failed completely. It’s not the first time. Baseball began routine steroid tests in 2003. All failed tests from the initial year were supposed to remain completely anonymous — the Commissioner’s Office was responsible for destroying the list of 100 ste-
roid abusers identified that year. For reasons never made clear, the results were not destroyed and fell into the hands of federal agents investigating the role of steroids in professional sports. The Players Association and the government are still locked in a legal battle over possession of the list. Over time, names have been leaked. David Ortiz and Alex Rodriguez were the most high-profile victims. Despite the promise of anonymity, both were outed publicly as steroid abusers. Ortiz chose to deny the allegations, while Rodriguez confessed. Both, however, were dragged over the coals in the court of public opinion. Manny Ramirez would have suffered the same fate had he not already failed another drug test in 2009. Other “anonymous” violators included Sammy Sosa, Jason Grimsley, David Segui and Barry Bonds. Taking steroids is not cool. It leads to a whole host of health problems and compromises baseball’s level playing field. It sends a terrible message about cutting corners to legions of young fans. It has cast a shadow over two decades that might otherwise be regarded as the
most exciting in the history of the game. There is no defense for taking steroids. But that’s not what is at stake here. MLB has a responsibility to preserve the confidentiality of its players as clearly outlined in its CBA. The integrity of its testing program depends on it. Even steroid abusers should feel confident in their rights as guaranteed in baseball’s bylaws. Those accused are given the opportunity to overturn their suspensions by proving themselves innocent before an independent arbitrator. In the court of public opinion, however, proving oneself innocent is not possible. Ryan Braun will forever suffer the stigma of a crime that, according to baseball’s clearly defined appeals procedure, he did not commit. During his post-appeal press conference, Braun announced he would hold back from revealing full details of the case out of respect for the confidentiality of the process and the best interests of the game. I only wish MLB had as much respect for the game as the very man they have defamed. Contact JOHN ETTINGER at john.ettinger@yale.edu .
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Ryan Braun’s failed steroid test result was leaked before he had the opportunity to clear his name.
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DICK JAURON ’73 NOMINATED FOR HALL OF FAME Jauron is on the 2012 Football Bowl Subdivision Ballot for the College Football Hall of Fame. Jauron was a running back at Yale who went on to play for the Detroit Lions and Cincinnati Bengels. He is currently the defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns.
“[Yale] really teaches you to figure out where your boundaries are, and you learn to go beyond where you thought..you could go. CALVIN HILL ’69 YALE DAILY NEWS · THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 · yaledailynews.com
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Guilty Yet Proven Innocent Major League Baseball holds suspected steroid users guilty until proven innocent. But these suspects are at least granted an opportunity to prove themselves innocent before an independent arbitrator as outlined by MLB’s collective bargaining agreement. In the court of public opinion, no such privilege is granted. Despite successfully clearing his name before an arbitration panel, reigning National League MVP Ryan Braun has been irrevocably convicted in the public eye. Braun’s failed test result was leaked to the public before he had a chance to successfully defend himself, and the Commissioner’s Office is unquestionably to blame. What’s worse, the Milwaukee Brewers’ left fielder is not the first victim of MLB’s serious confidentiality problem. On Oct. 1, Braun provided a routine urine sample after a playoff game. Eighteen days later, he was informed that he his sample contained sky-high levels of artificial testosterone. He would be suspended for 50 games at the start of the 2012 season. The test results, however, would not be revealed until Braun had been given an opportunity to appeal, as clearly stated in the CBA. Braun indeed chose to appeal the ruling but was shocked when ESPN reported news of his failed test Dec. 10. The left fielder immediately shot down the result and went on to win his Feb. 23 appeal, two votes to one. The three-man arbitration panel consisted of representatives from the Commissioner’s Office and the Players AssoSEE ETTINGER PAGE 9
Hill ’69 leaves legacy BY MARIA GUARDADO STAFF REPORTER When Calvin Hill ’69 received a call from the Dallas Cowboys informing him that he had been selected as the team’s first-round pick in the 1969 NFL Draft, he thought it was a joke. Earlier that day, Hill had called his Yale teammate Bruce Weinstein ’69 pretending to be an official from the New York Giants and tricked him into believing that he had been selected in the second round of the draft. “I just started laughing,” Hill said. “He got really pissed off. I locked my door because he’s a big guy.” Forty minutes later, Hill’s phone rang, and he assumed another one of his teammates was trying to pull a similar prank on him, so he played along. It was not until he got on the phone with Tom Landry, the head coach of the Cowboys at the time, that he realized this was no joke.
Having all that ability and talent, he was a nice guy. He was not inflated with himself. YDN
ED FRANKLIN ’69 Hill’s teammate on the Yale football team After starring at Yale as both a running back and a jumper on the track team, Hill went on to play professional football and enjoyed a successful 12-year career in the NFL. Today, Hill is still regarded as one of Yale’s greatest athletes. But his teammate at Yale, Kurt Schmoke ’71, said Hill’s success was an anomaly in that era. “A lot of Ivy League athletes
At Yale, future Super Bowl champion and NFL star Calvin Hill ’69 lived in Pierson College and was a history major. weren’t even given the chance during that particular era to compete at the pro level,” Schmoke said. “He was given the chance and he demonstrated what a great star he could become.” But Hill said the Yale experience itself was a huge life opportunity for him. Yale taught him how to succeed — a lesson he applied even after he left New Haven, he said. “It really teaches you to figure
out where your boundaries are and you learn to go beyond where you thought perhaps you could go,” Hill said. “I always thought that Yale gave me that confidence. It didn’t matter what the challenges were after Yale — I felt somehow I could figure it out.”
HIGH SCHOOL
Though Hill grew up in Baltimore, he left his hometown in ninth grade
to attend boarding school at Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, N.Y., after winning a scholarship. Hill’s first encounter with organized football was at Riverdale. It was also at Riverdale that Hill first developed into a star on the gridiron. His senior year, Hill was named to Parade magazine’s 1964 high school All-America team as a quarSEE HILL PAGE 9
Trumbull rolls to CHoops IM title I think it’s been pretty intense. I’ve been very surprised by the intensity. TESS MCNULTY ’13 Delete if second line is unnecessary
Trumbull captured the title in the lowest level of intramural basketball on Tuesday with a 25– 12 rout of regular-season champion Davenport.
The guys were really amped up about it. It was cool to see everybody get excited. DARIO MARTINEZ ’13 Trumbull Co-Captain
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THE NUMBER OF SEASONS CALVIN HILL ’69 PLAYED IN THE NFL. Hill played for the Cowboys, Redskins, and Browns over the course of his career, amassing 6083 rushing yards and 42 touchdowns. He was NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year and won a Super Bowl in 1972.