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CROSS CAMPUS Video overload. Fresh off the

heels of the Yale Record’s “Jelly Beans,” two new Yaleborn YouTube videos are trying to make it big on the Internet. One, a piece titled “Frap Bros,” features several bros discussing their favorite varieties of frappuccino.

Another, titled “Call Me Baby,” features Julie Shain ’13 in a parody of the Carly Rae Jepsen hit “Call Me Maybe.”

Connecticut matters. The

eyes of the Northeast are on Harford this weekend as the Big East women’s college basketball tournament descends on Hartford’s XL Center this weekend. The event draws more than 40,000 people each year.

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Admins ban fall rush for freshmen FRATERNITIES, SORORITIES TO BE PROHIBITED FROM ACCEPTING FIRST-SEMESTER FRESHMEN

BY MADELINE MCMAHON STAFF REPORTER Fraternities and sororities will be prohibited from holding fall rush for freshmen beginning next year, Yale College Dean Mary Miller and Dean of

Student Affairs Marichal Gentry announced in a campuswide email Thursday afternoon.

The change in the Undergraduate Regulations was first recommended in April by the Committee on Hazing and Initiations, which formed in

response to the offensive chants of Delta Kappa Epsilon pledges in fall 2010. Gentry said the rule only applies to Greek organizations and is intended to give new freshman adequate time to evaluate their extracurricular opportunities and to finish freshman orientation. Gentry will chair an implementation committee to draft the specifics of the policy, he added, and five members from Greek organiza-

tions will sit on the committee to provide input.

Silliman Master Judith Krauss, who chaired the Committee on Hazing and Initiations, said the committee found that in the spring, freshmen are able to make more educated decisions about the organizations they join because they have been exposed to hazing education programs and are more adjusted to college life.

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Admissions responds on Conan? In a bit Thursday

night, comedian Conan O’Brien featured a video reportedly from Yale’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions responding to a YouTube video produced by deferred Yale applicant Jackie Milestone called “White and Blue for You.” The video response on Conan features admissions officers telling Milestone she just had not done enough to earn admission. “Next time, write a better essay. Do better on the SAT,” the officers recommend. “Make a large cash donation ... Good luck next year at Arizona State.”

Scandal at Columbia. The Columbia University College Republicans’ president and director of finance resigned on Thursday after evidence emerged that the two had drafted documents inviting Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to campus, and that the two had lied to other members of the CUCR’s board about drafting the documents.

Join the club. Following the lead of Yale, Brown and Penn, Princeton officials announced on Thursday that, for business reasons, the New Jersey Ivy would no longer invest with HEI Hospitality, a Norwalkbased hotel investment firm that has been accused of mistreating its employees.

Yale announced in November it would not make any new investments in HEI. Filial piety, alive and well. A

71-year-old Connecticut man has decided not to pursue further legal action to evict his 98-year-old mother from her home in Fairfield. The man said he wanted to evict his mother so she could live with him, but his mother did not want to leave the family home.

Awarded. Jourdan Urbach ’12

has won a Jefferson Award, a top national public service award. Urbach’s work with Concerts for a Cure has raised more than $5.1 million for medical research.

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“A freshman is more likely in the spring term than in the fall term to know hazing when they see or experience it and might be better equipped to ‘say no,’ .” she said.

Although most fraternities are not registered as student organizations with the Yale College Dean’s Office, fraternity leaders are required to SEE GREEK LIFE PAGE 6

Faculty weigh Yale-NUS RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONCERN WITH NEW COLLEGE DEBATED; VOTE DELAYED UNTIL APRIL FACULTY MEETING

BY GAVAN GIDEON AND ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTERS

year, three-quarters of New Haven property owners will see their property taxes decrease. The other quarter of residents, if DeStefano’s Homeowner Fairness Initiative is passed by the state legislature, will see their taxes increase in gradual phases over the next five years.

Professors introduced and debated a resolution demanding that Yale-NUS College protect civil liberties and uphold principles of non-discrimination at a Yale College faculty meeting Thursday.

After University President Richard Levin updated faculty on the liberal arts college planned by Yale and the National of University of Singapore, around 15 professors made statements, many of which criticized the Yale-NUS project. Faculty then voted to introduce a new item for debate — a resolution expressing concern about Yale-NUS written by political science and philosophy professor Seyla Benhabib. The step was unusual in that it first required a two-thirds faculty vote to suspend the rule against presenting motions not already on the agenda, Yale College Dean Mary Miller said. Though the nearly three-hour meeting was twice extended by faculty votes, the roughly 150 professors present voted to postpone a decision on the resolution until their next meeting in April.

Benhabib said the resolution helps demonstrate that the Yale College faculty is an “equal deliberating body” to the Yale Corporation — which was ultimately responsible for approving the creation of Yale-NUS — even if the faculty is not responsible for all decisions concerning the University.

“We took a big and positive step forward this evening, perhaps opening up the larger question about governance in Yale University and the place of the faculty,” Benhabib told the News Thursday night.

The resolution, which was written on

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Gregory Sterling was announced as the new Divinity School dean in a ceremony at the school on Thursday.

BY DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTER Roughly 10 months after Divinity School Dean Harold Attridge announced that he would step down this summer, University President Richard Levin named the next dean at a Thursday ceremony at the Divinity School.

Gregory Sterling, the current dean of the Graduate School at the Univer-

sity of Notre Dame, will assume leadership of the Divinity School on Aug. 1. Faculty on the search committee said they felt Sterling was a strong candidate whose leadership background would help him continue fostering a community that discusses changes in religion in American society and other issues.

“People find him a terrific colleague, a natural collaborator, a person who checks his ego at the door-

way and devotes himself entirely to the task of service,” Levin said of Sterling at the ceremony.

Levin said Sterling was the inaugural dean of the Graduate School at Notre Dame, a post he assumed in 2008. During his tenure, Sterling increased diversity and helped establish a career development office.

As a professor of theology, he has SEE DIVINITY DEAN PAGE 4

Mayor proposes budget

BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER Mayor John DeStefano Jr. maintained focus on his legislative priorities in the budget proposal for fiscal year 2013 he announced Thursday.

At a City Hall press conference Thursday afternoon, DeSte-

fano outlined a proposed budget of $486.8 million, up 2.4 percent from last year’s total. Among his proposals are a $2.7 million increase in police department funding and a $1.2 million jump in education funding, the first such increase in four years.

Following the revaluation of city properties that took place last

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early two weeks after the AP released information about NYPD surveillance of the Muslim Students Association, students have come together in discussion of issues of civil liberties and free speech. JANE DARBY MENTON and DAN STEIN report.

This past Tuesday, standing on Cross Campus, Mostafa Al-Alusi ’13 held up a sign that read “I’m a Muslim” while another student snapped a photo that would soon be posted to Facebook as part of an online campaign.

Al-Alusi was one of 116 participants in the “Call the NYPD Cam-

paign,” a student-organized response to news released Feb. 18 that the New York Police Department had monitored the activities of Yale’s Muslim Student Association. A student had pitched the idea for the photo campaign at a Muslim Students Association meeting the week before and recruited a group of both Muslim and

non-Muslim students to execute the campaign in protest of racial and religious profiling.

“Given the news from the NYPD, I feel targeted and vulnerable,” Faisal Hamid ’13, who serves as Vice President of Yale’s Muslim Student Association and also participated in the campaign, told the News on Tuesday evening.

In a Feb. 20 email to the Yale community, University President Richard Levin had asserted Yale’s opposition to the NYPD’s actions, and Hamid said he and other MSA leaders hope to “capitalize” on the administraSEE MUSLIMS PAGE 4

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MSA president Mostafa Al-Alusi ’13 participated in the campaign against the NHPD’s surveillance of his group.

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t a monthly Yale College faculty meeting yesterday, professors debated a resolution submitted by political science professor Seyla Benhabib that demanded that Yale-NUS “respect, protect and further the ideals of civil liberties for all minorities, the principles of non-discrimination and full political freedom, both on the Yale-NUS campus and in Singapore as a whole.”

Yale’s proposal for a college in Singapore has spurred some debate since its introduction in September 2010. Some criticize Singapore’s limits on free speech, its homosexuality ban and the effects these and similar policies would have on a liberal arts college there. Others argue that Singaporean and American cultures have inherently different values and that compromise is essential.

One camp cites the Singaporean law against homosexuality and asks how Yale — which claimed to have kept ROTC off campus in opposition to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell — could build a school in a country where the university population could not live freely. The other says the homosexuality law and others like it are not enforced, points to the hire of a gay Yale-NUS faculty member and brushes off that criticism.

There has been little clear dialogue between the two sides. Up to now it has seemed that faculty, alumni and students are largely uninterested in questioning Yale’s venture into Singapore and what it means for Yale’s vision of the liberal arts.

Yesterday’s faculty meeting finally showed that, even if plans for the college are all but finalized, there is a dis-

cussion to be had.

Thursday’s faculty meeting focused entirely on Singapore and lasted three hours. This is progress. No matter what the faculty decides when the Benhabib resolution comes to a vote next month, that discussion is encouraging. Too many questions have never been answered sufficiently.

The faculty, bearers of Yale’s pedagogical mission, should be asking those questions.

Chief among those is one Benhabib’s resolution poses: What values are essential to what Yale stands for, and how will those values have to be compromised in Singapore? At what point are we willing to sacrifice values we hold sacred for the sake of accepting foreign customs?

There is no simple way to answer that question, but University President Richard Levin commented recently on values he considers fundamental: “Police surveillance based on religion, nationality, or peacefully expressed political opinion is antithetical to the values of Yale, the academic community, and the United States.”

If an initiative like the New York Police Department’s monitoring of Muslim Student Associations is discovered in Singapore, will Levin issue a similar statement? Is he confident about what is antithetical to the values of Singapore? Will he respond with equal force if a professor is jailed for leading a protest at Yale-NUS? As the administration delves further into planning Yale-NUS, Yale’s leaders must determine whether Yale’s values can be compromised and how the University’s concept of freedom translates to Singapore.

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ack when my bathroom had a ceiling, it dripped.

The drip was intermittent, innocuous at first. But its persistency persuaded me to place a pot under its pitter-patter and call my landlord.

The maintenance man dispatched to solve the issue inspected the bathroom ceiling from one angle, then another. With a grave look on his face, he poked at the drywall, ran his fingers along the water’s path, knocked on the hollow surface twice. It should be fine, he eventually concluded.

My upstairs neighbor was probably showering with the curtain pulled open, and water was seeping through the floor. He would just tell my immodest neighbor to use the curtain, and the drip should stop.

Two days later, the ceiling collapsed.

I moved off campus because I wanted my own space. I chose my one-bedroom apartment after a tour of available properties and signed my lease a few weeks later.

The move allowed me to bypass the drama of housing draw and choose my own living space without being subject to chance and awk-

ward suite configurations. It also allowed me to furnish the place as I saw fit: When summer ended, I went to Ikea and bought a queensized, five-zoned, memory-foam mattress.

But months would pass before I fully grasped the implications of having my own space. When I lived on campus, life related to time in strange ways. No problem was ever permanent. If I didn’t clean up the remains of last night’s Wenzel, someone else would. If I didn’t call maintenance when the radiator refused to turn on in December, someone else would. If I didn’t replace the toilet paper in the bathroom when the roll ran out, someone else would. With some time, problems simply disappeared. And if things ever went south in a big way — if furniture broke, if fruit flies infested the common room, if a jungle juice spill permanently tinged the floor bright red — then, well, there was always next year.

Off-campus life, on the other hand, feels more permanent. Inertia trumps time, so a stationary garbage bag will remain at rest until I take out the trash. Today’s problems will be here tomorrow, and the day after, too, unless I

address them.

“A piece of my ceiling just fell in,” I told my landlord over the phone. He asked how much ceiling I was talking about. “About a foot’s worth,” I replied, though any amount of collapsed ceiling seemed sufficient to me.

“Oh,” he uttered finally and told me that he’d have someone over soon.

If I hadn’t called my landlord, the hole above my toilet would remain agape for the foreseeable future.

That same permanence applies to other aspects of off-campus life. I’ve learned, for example, that dishes don’t wash themselves, the floor doesn’t sweep itself and my Comcast bill doesn’t pay itself.

Importantly, my fridge also refuses to stock its own shelves. Without time to trek to Stop & Shop during last semester’s finals, I watched my nutritional pyramid implode as my diet went from balanced to nothing but Claire’s cake.

Owning a space also demands acceptance for its idiosyncrasies — neighbors, noises, quirks that went unnamed and unnoticed during property tours. Every few weeks, for example, I wake up to find a large, strange man inside my bed-

room, who (after I utter all the cuss words in my vocabulary) reminds me that he’s there for routine pest control — which, in turn, reminds me that my apartment requires routine pest control.

Yet when my landlord asked if I’d renew my lease for next year, I agreed without a second thought.

Off-campus living is not without its complications, but neither is it without its benefits. Though I’ll starve if I don’t stock my fridge, I’ll never again be subject to the dining hall’s tofu concoctions. Though inertia prevents the trash from taking itself out, it also keeps the books strewn about my apartment opened to the same page. Though pest control men jolt me awake every few weeks, the experience makes for a good story. Despite the implications, I like having my own space.

That being said, I’m looking for a summer subletter. Let me know if you’re interested. Hopefully, the hole in the ceiling will be mended by then.

TEO SOARES is a junior in Silliman College. Contact him at teo.soares@yale.edu .

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ast week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up a case on affirmative action for the first time since 2003. The earlier decision, Grutter v. Bollinger, said that state universities couldn’t develop racial quotas for admissions but that they could use race as one of multiple factors in determining which students to let in.

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor provided the crucial fifth vote in Grutter, and, now that she has retired, it appears that the conservative majority on the court will have the votes to roll back that earlier decision.

Such a move would represent a tragic loss of opportunity for minority students nationwide. But the fact that the court is hearing this case at all provides us with an important chance to grapple with the question of exactly what affirmative action is meant to accomplish and whether it is the best means of meeting that goal in the long run. I don’t think it is.

First, a little background on the new case, known as Fisher v. University of Texas: A white student named Abigail Fisher applied to the University of Texas several years ago, but she was not admitted — and she claims that her rejection was due to her race. UT uses an admissions system that

strives for racial diversity not just in each class but also in each major and at the classroom level. Fisher’s lawyers claim this system violates the Grutter principle.

But, more important, if the court ultimately decides that the University of Texas meets the Grutter standard, the lawyers have asked the court to review the constitutionality of their earlier decision. Given the composition of the court, this could blow the issue of affirmative action wide open.

In Grutter, O’Connor and the majority claimed — rightly — that affirmative action is a policy of planned obsolescence meant to eventually make itself unnecessary; O’Connor, for her part, envisioned that the process would take 25 years. If the court rules as it is expected to, it will be abandoning affirmative action only nine years into O’Connor’s timeline. But even if the court allows Grutter to stand, affirmative action will not be able to fulfill the purpose for which it is intended.

The goals of affirmative action are twofold. In the short run, it is meant to increase diversity in higher education; in the long run, it is meant to provide enough minority students with a decent college education to help eliminate racial inequality. While it does a

good job of meeting its short-term objective, affirmative action on its own will not be enough to reverse the results of centuries of slavery and discrimination. The changes we need are more fundamental — and more difficult to implement — than just giving minority students a leg up in the college admissions process.

What we really need is an education system that doesn’t perpetuate the income- and race-based achievement gaps that develop from birth. Early childhood education in particular is critical: Preventing the gap from occurring in the first place is much cheaper — and much more effective — than trying to fix it later.

But wholesale reform of the American education system is a tall order. The measures necessary to make it happen — more academically qualified and better-paid teachers, improved working conditions in rural and innercity schools, tenure reform, longer hours and school years for underperforming schools and better teacher training programs with yearlong residencies — will produce a great deal of partisan ire and have little chance of passing through the polarized Congress or all 50 state legislatures without a huge effort. Supporting affirma-

tive action is a convenient way for politicians to gesture toward the problems of minority students without having to take on the Herculean task of reforming the education system as a whole. This needs to change.

For now, affirmative action must remain intact. Until politicians can work up the courage to tackle the bigger issue of education inequality, affirmative action is one of the few ways for disadvantaged students to catch up to their peers.

However, socioeconomic status — not race — should be the major factor involved. Race and class are, unfortunately, closely connected, so economic affirmative action would still help minorities. But it would also ensure that those who are no longer disadvantaged would not get a benefit they don’t need, while underprivileged white students would be able to get the leg up they deserve.

Soon, though, we will need to confront the larger educational issues that are perpetuating racial and class inequality in this country. The stakes are too high to wait.

NOAH BOKAT-LINDELL is a senior in Pierson College. Contact him at noah.bokat-lindell@yale.edu .

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his past week, I stopped to read the inscriptions on the walls of Memorial Hall for the first time since I arrived at Yale. I was returning from a run at East Rock and was cold, sweaty and tired, though elated that I had taken an hour to be away from Yale and all the voices that echo when I walk around campus. For once, I found myself alone in the strange and beautiful hall-room between Commons and Woolsey. With my footsteps echoing, I paused to read — really read — what the walls had to say.

The names overwhelmed me.

Marble walls with more names than I could count, names stacked on names, ranks, class years, places of birth and death. The statistics of lives terminated too young and too suddenly on battlefields at home and abroad, every name representing a life, a monumental investment of time, energy, education, love. Perhaps I’ve gotten good at ignoring these names because they remind me of the extent to which I live in the shadow of their legacy.

They fought to preserve the country — indeed, the institution — that I live within, and that sense of indebtedness requires more time and energy, more space for reflection, than I have to give on a daily basis.

My meditation on memory became a meditation on solitude, on the ways in which my being alone in Memorial Hall allowed ZOE to reflect on MERCER- me these names I don’t — or GOLDEN try not — to Meditations see. On a usual day, Memorial Hall is full of the sound of conversations, people tugging at their backpacks and putting on their coats after lunch.

It is exactly the “cacophony” that William Deresiewicz describes in his speech on solitude and leadership, a cacophony in which “it is impossible to hear your own voice, whether it’s yourself you’re thinking about or anything else.”

Deresiewicz, a former English professor at Yale, understands better than anyone how hard it is to be alone at Yale. His speech on solitude, delivered at West Point to the graduating class two years ago, muses on the need for leaders to ask difficult questions of themselves so they establish their own values without the voices of other people or institutional cultures

resounding in their heads.

The stakes are high, Deresiewicz suggests: Our generation has stopped asking why we do things, failing to look more closely at the values we espouse and the people we are becoming because we don’t have the space, time, energy or training to do so. The failure of our education to cultivate reflection means that I don’t read the walls of memory in a room that I walk through most days — and it means that I don’t think about what those names symbolize in terms of courage, devotion and solitude.

As I returned to the cacophony that surrounded my moment of solitude, I examined the engraved words above the four figures that stand on the way out to Beinecke Plaza. “Memory here guards ennobled names,” the words above a woman holding an hourglass read.

Beside her, a man clutches a sword and shield with the Yale crest on it.

“Courage disdains fame and wins it,” his read. On the other wall the quotations expressed a celebration of devotion to cause and an endorsement of the peace that comes on the other side of sacrifice. Together, the four short sayings echoed Deresiewicz’s quest for solitude, for self-made morality — and my own failure to think about the symbolism of these

names and walls.

The men whose names cover those walls died alone, bravely, facing something that I will never fully understand. When the walls tell me that “courage disdains fame and wins it” or that “devotion gives sanctity to strife,” I reflect that courage and devotion are attributes formed out of time spent alone, staring one’s own limitations in the face and drawing conviction from places deep within.

I may never be called upon to give my life for my country, for God or even for Yale, but every day I live, I want to remember that I walk in the shadow of forces greater than myself, in the wake of men and women who fought and died — on the battlefield and off it — to preserve and create the future that all of us must also seize, protect and defend in whatever way we can.

It is only in solitude that we can look at what we have lost and what we must find: in ourselves, on our walls, by looking closely at the worlds internal and external that sometimes we forget or try not to see.

ZOE MERCER-GOLDEN is a junior in Davenport College. Her column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact her at zoe.mercer-golden@yale.edu .

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Fraternities are a boon

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esterday, Deans Mary Miller and Marichal Gentry announced a change to the Undergraduate Regulations that prohibits fraternities and sororities from all freshman rush and initiation activities until the spring semester. Greek leaders on campus are particularly frustrated with this new rule because it reflects a gross misunderstanding of the role of fraternities for those of us that have chosen to join one.

Miller and Gentry argue that during the fall, freshmen need time to “establish their own routines and independent friendships and to explore the full range of activities on campus,” suggesting that committing to a fraternity impedes the process of acclimation to life at Yale. Furthermore, they imply that devoting time to a fraternity prevents freshmen from experiencing the “richness of the broad Yale experience.” Their claims could not be further from the truth, and had they consulted with even one Greek officer or fall pledge before enacting this rule, perhaps they would have been persuaded to reconsider their decision.

Fraternities provide one of the best ways for freshmen to realize and develop their passions while receiving guidance from upperclassmen about transitioning from high school to college life. The 79 brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon represent more than 12 nationalities, a full scope of socioeconomic backgrounds, straight and gay men, a spectrum of political affiliations, an a cappella group, Yale student government, four varsity athletic teams and seven club sports, in addition to a long list of other organizations. The freshmen who choose to join our fraternity gain instant access to our insights and experiences, and we always enjoy sharing our pursuits with

them.

The process of developing a genuine friendship relies upon these types of conversations. I would urge any skeptic to ask freshmen who pledged during the fall if fraternity life somehow hindered their personal growth and exploration. Most of the brothers I have spoken with tend to describe their pledging experience as the best decision they made at Yale and the defining moment of their Yale career.

While some Yalies may claim that fraternities serve merely a social purpose on campus — and yes, we all host social events — most students and administrators fail to recognize our close sense of community and brotherhood. I joined my fraternity because I was looking for a group of interesting men with whom I thought I could develop lifelong friendships. We consider ourselves a family. We have an incredibly strong support system. The social benefits are always secondary to our sense of brotherhood.

The most frustrating aspect of this new regulation is the lack of inclusion of Greek leaders in the discussions that led to the change. The Yale administration made a deliberate decision to exclude us from their decision-making process. Because not one fraternity was consulted, the administration does not understand that each of us rushes and conducts pledge during the fall for specific reasons. Many of the fraternities that attract athletes must account for the timing of their seasons, while other fraternities rely upon pledging during the fall for financial reasons. We are organizationally dependent on the timing of fall pledge. We will all face immeasurable troubles in terms of trying to attract membership, which is the only way our frater-

nities can grow and flourish.

We are also bothered by the administration’s choice to single out Greek organizations. There are a number of organizations on campus that require a greater time commitment than pledging a fraternity and are more narrowly focused in their missions. Is there something about the time and effort devoted to a fraternity that is different from a singing group or political organization? To be clear, I certainly would not urge the administration to apply the new rule to all organizations, but it’s unfair to target one student group while exempting all others.

The “broad Yale experience” Miller and Gentry hope to encourage with this rule is actually something fraternities tend to provide, but the administration has chosen to view fraternities in a negative light and presuppose that we only engage in inappropriate activities. We know we have our faults and sometimes make poor decisions, which the past has witnessed, but the core of our organization is something powerful and meaningful. Sigma Alpha Epsilon has initiated over 300,000 brothers over the past 150 years because it has been successful in fostering the very sense of community and brotherhood that appeals to the 15 or so freshmen who join us every fall.

Reconsider the new change to the Undergraduate Regulations, Dean Miller and Dean Gentry. And please include us next time you make a decision that seriously impacts our organizations.

BENJAMIN SINGLETON is a junior in Trumbull College and the vice president and past president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Contact him at benjamin.singleton@yale.edu.

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like to think that in the fall of A.D. 3100, our great-great- … -grandchildren will matriculate at New Yale, located in the city of New New Haven on the icy surface of Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s Galilean moons and the largest satellite in the solar system. I imagine students complaining about how far away the Science Modular Bubble lies from the Main Campus Modular Bubble, while New Stiles and New Morse students — who were unlucky enough to be placed in the colleges whose architect chose to create bubble-buildings without the use of smooth curves — listen enviously, knowing they have a strenuous three-hour ice trek to get back to their dining bubbles.

Students eagerly await Synthetic Protein Tender Day but ridicule Synthetic Protein Apple Crisp Day. And each night, New Yalies hurry from Multi-Dimensional Improv Rehearsal to section for Xenobiology, faces turned downward and vision clouded by protective gas masks.

As they dash from activity to activity with eyes glued to the screens of their iPhone 2678s, a sight of unrivaled beauty plays out over their heads: the rise and fall of Jupiter.

The massive sphere travels ponderously across the heavens, filling the entire horizon. Eternal battles rage on its surface.

Under the surveillance of the Great Red Eye, multicolored atmospheric belts wage war on each other, their edges crackling with hot spots of turbulence and electric-

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ity. Distant stars can but twinkle feebly on Ganymede, for Jupiter owns the sky.

Sadly, this grandeur goes unnoticed by students of New Yale, who are caught up in the mundane regularities of everyday life on Ganymede. Perhaps things are not so different at New Yale after all.

Friends, Yalies, countrymen: lend me your eyes. Tonight as you hustle from section to rehearsal, step back from the details of life at Yale; cast your gaze to the night sky. Warning: It is beautiful, and captivating, and you will probably trip on the stones on Cross Campus as you stare upward, mouth agape, passers-by wondering if you are quite right in the head.

But it will be worth it. Starting around dinnertime, look to the west; you will see two particularly bright celestial objects doggedly overcoming the haze of light pollution. They are clearly disc-shaped, rather than the twinkling points that signal stars. Venus sits near the horizon, while Jupiter shines above — a sight less impressive than the view from Ganymede, but awe-inspiring nonetheless.

To the east, a rufous Mars appears low in the sky, sullen and angry. Between these planetary beacons, constellations pepper the night sky, and stars flicker with faint shades of red, blue and yellow.

It is difficult to make out detailed constellations; after all, we do live in a city.

But look for the W of stars that define the vain queen Cassiopeia and the three stars that comprise Orion’s belt; you should

The health of Yale science I am sorry to read that Lily Twining (“Unhealthy Competition,” March 1) has witnessed personal differences among her faculty advisers in the natural sciences at Yale. She insinuates that this amount of personal discord extends to most Yale natural science faculty and that the tenure system is largely to blame for a competitive atmosphere among Yale’s science professors and departments. As a scientist in training, Twining would do well to appreciate the perils of extrapolating anecdotal evidence to draw generalized conclusions.

My own experience with science at Yale, which includes four years as an undergraduate student and ten as a rising faculty member, has seen nothing of the kind of strife that Twining depicts.

Twining also misrepresents the Yale tenure system. Non-tenured junior faculty do not compete with each other for tenured slots. I am formally involved with mentoring our junior faculty to help guide them through the tenure process. I received similar mentoring when I was going through the same process. Twining’s misguided assertions about the tenure process, and the accompanying illustration of two caricaturized faculty members “fighting for tenure” against each other, do little to assuage the stress of our junior faculty, who in fact are fighting for prominence only within their own disciplines at other

also be able to see Orion’s bow and dagger.

(An aside: The ancient Egyptians identified Orion as Unas, the first known pharaoh to have pyramid texts, writings to aid his soul in navigating the hostile Underworld, inscribed within his tomb. “ReAtum, Unas comes to you, a spirit invincible … so that you both may stride over the sky, uniting in darkness, and rise on the horizon in the place that you like to be.”)

Visit the Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium, and with the help of a telescope you will see so much more: the Galilean moons, pinpricks of light orbiting Jupiter; stars in the spaces between the spaces between familiar stars; and myriad galaxies, fuzzy spots dotting the night sky.

Many of us are swept along in the fastpaced current of Yale, caught up in details and activities. We ride the river enthusiastically, encountering amazing people and things, but it may be worthwhile to step out of the current from time to time and just stand still. Play bridge with some friends, go for a walk, stop by the New Haven Public Library. Look to the stars, let your mind wander. And perhaps one day, like Unas, we will stride across the sky; perhaps our great-great- … -grandchildren will, indeed, go to school on Ganymede.

DAKOTA MCCOY is a junior in Branford College. Contact her at dakota.mccoy@yale.edu .

institutions. There are more productive ways in which we can address the needs of natural science instruction at Yale, and in my opinion these are primarily curricular and infrastructural.

DAVID EVANS March 1 The writer is a professor of Geology and Geophysics.

Supporting Yale’s Muslims I write in the wake of the discovery that the NYPD has been scrutinizing Muslim students at Yale and other colleges to express my sense of horror. To know that you are being followed, observed, judged precisely because you are a member of a minority religious group makes my Jewish skin creep. But more, to learn that the country in which you are grateful to live as a citizen bears a fundamental distrust of you, a fear that finds expression in police actions directed at you, is heartbreakingly sad. I embrace Muslim citizens, residents and visitors, fellow denizens of Yale, in your time of agony. And I hold that

the search for security inside a democracy cannot succeed so long as it indiscriminately scatters the seeds of distrust and xenophobia.

JAMES PONET Feb. 29 The writer is the Howard M. Holtzmann Jewish Chaplain at Yale

Leading in science Lily Twining (“Unhealthy competition in Yale’s Sciences,” Mar. 1) makes the mistake of generalizing her experience with one or two departments to an unsupported conclusion that Yale science departments in general have a special problem with internecine rivalry and internal competition between junior faculty candidates. As a department Chair (Applied Physics, in my ninth year), former Director of the Physical Sciences and Engineering Divisional Committee (responsible for tenure and promotions decisions) and former member of FASTAP (the committee which established a tenure-track at Yale), I must strongly differ with this conclusion.

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reshman spring I took a course called “Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics,” which required a “working knowledge of elementary algebra” and met beneath busts of Kant and Goethe on the first floor of Linsley-Chittenden Hall.

My grandma told her friends that I was majoring in rocket science.

I was majoring in English, actually, and despite my genuine interest in the third item on the syllabus — “the age and ultimate fate of the universe” — I’d come to LC 102 primarily for a QR in an off-the-hill location. The professor had discovered many more black holes than I had. I knew this, and yet I’d sometimes just space out or look to the window where the stained glass toes of the figure allegorizing Music looked bright and strangely realistic.

As a senior, I sometimes wonder — what was up with satisfying my distributional requirements?

I remember very little about the universe, despite taking virtually the same course — ASTR 170, in LC 211 — my junior spring for a Sc credit. And so this week, I decided to check a few items off my bucket list that pertain to the astronomic interests apparent on my transcript. I would go to science. Science had already come to me.

My first stop was a windowless office in KGL where I’d scheduled an appointment with meteorite archivist Barbara Narendra.

A meteorite is bit of rock or iron that flames through earth’s atmosphere and is recoverable after its impact on the ground. Narendra has been working with the Peabody meteorite collection since 1965 and thinks meteorites are better than dinosaurs.

The drawers in Narendra’s office have labels like “Pacela to Pulturk” that list the places where the meteorites were recovered.

Meteorites come in three types — stones, irons and stony irons, also called pallasites, which when cut in cross-section display gorgeous crystal patterns. Narendra showed me a meteorite from the moon, a meteorite from Mars, a rock found by a muskrat hunter in 1890 in Homestead, Iowa and a picture of the bruised midsection of an Alabama woman who was hit by a meteorite after it came through her roof and ricocheted off the radio in 1954. She didn’t get to keep the meteorite because she was a renter.

Like in ASTR 160, when I became fascinated by the drama that surrounds booking a stay in a coveted South American observatory tower, I focused in on things a scientist would call peripheral. Prodding Narendra toward historical narrative, I learned that New World meteoritics got its start at Yale. The first meteorite recovered in America

fell on Weston, CT in 1807 and was immediately claimed by Benjamin Silliman. He donated it to the Peabody, and by the 1890s the museum had acquired many more specimens from H. A. Ward, a famous naturalist and mineral dealer who was known to keep meteorites in the tails of his coat.

Only four meteorites have ever been recovered in Connecticut.

Strangely, two fell on Wethersfield, just eleven years apart from one other. One crashed through the ceiling of the couple called the Donahues – Naendra shielded them from reporters and later met with them for reunion brunches on the crash’s anniversary for more than 20 years.

faculty, Yale now can be proud that it has the most generous and supportive system of any elite research university. Of course we must apply a standard of outstanding leadership in the relevant field for promotion to tenure, as do all of our competitors. However, we allow junior faculty eight years to demonstrate that standard (unlike, for example, Princeton or Stanford, which allow five or six). Moreover, we are unique among our peers by guaranteeing two full years of paid research leave in those eight years, along with very generous childcare and family leave policies.

In addition, junior faculty mentoring has been a priority emphasized to all Chairs for at least a decade. In my own department, the last five internal promotion candidates have received tenure. In the Physics department, an informal tenure track was put in place even before FASTAP, reducing internal competitiveness between junior faculty.

The current FASTAP tenure process involves no comparison to other Yale faculty, junior or senior, just our best assessment of leadership in the field, along with teaching and citi-

zenship in the University. We are highly sympathetic to the stress junior faculty naturally feel in being evaluated by these standards, but I am certain we are no worse than our peers and in many ways we are better.

As for interdepartmental cooperation and respect, Applied Physics, for example, is part of a multi-million dollar NSF Materials Research Center, involving faculty from all four Engineering departments and from Chemistry. In this era of modern science it is well understood that interdisciplinary research is critical, and most scientists I interact with have high respect for their peers in other departments.

I am not as familiar with the particular departments from which Twining has drawn her conclusions, but I can emphatically state that the internal environment for junior faculty and interdepartmental cooperation in sciences and engineering overall at Yale is not lagging behind its peers.

I REMEMBER SOMETHING FROM SCIENCE CREDITS AFTER ALL From KGL, it’s a short walk to the Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium, a multidomed beige building nearby the Yale Farm. The planetarium show I came for turned out to be for children, but I didn’t care.

The Seven Sisters are closer to the moon tonight. On the Spitz SciDomeHD system, the astrophysicist rotated the sky from east to west, skipped the time to 9 PM when the shadow of Io will cross Jupiter and turned off all the light pollution so we could see the stars.

Encouraged by the reclining chairs and the inspirational (or Christian?) music, I recalled something I had forgotten from my freshman year: I am lying in the Silliman courtyard, it is incredibly humid and a group of us are looking up at the orange skies of New Haven, trying to count stars into double digits.

As a child in the planetarium cried, I imagined turning off my strongest memories and seeing a set of lost or obsolete Yale knowledge emerging from the background like the — sorry, I can’t help it — Milky Way. Was my QR knowledge there somewhere, brighted out but still recoverable?

Um, not really.

And yet, when the astrophysicist coughed and said how many light years away another star is, I felt muscle memory setting in as I wrote, in shorthand familiar from a pile of carelessly completed problem sets, “4000 lya.”

KATE LUND is a senior in Silliman College. Contact her at kate.lund@yale.edu .

A. DOUGLAS STONE March 1 The writer is the Carl A. Morse Professor and Chair of Applied Physics

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FROM THE FRONT

“The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.”

ALI HOSSEINI-KHAMENEI SUPREME LEADER OF IRAN

Muslim students work to open dialogue

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A total of 116 participants took their photos on Cross Campus as part of the “Call the NYPD Campaign,” in which the photos were posted to Facebook as a public protest.

MUSLIMS FROM PAGE 1 tion’s support. Levin’s announcement provided an opportunity for the MSA to re-open what they now view as necessary dialogue on campus about being Muslim at Yale, Hamid said.

STUDENT REACTION

The week before the news broke, the MSA and the Chaplain’s Office hosted their annual Muslim Awareness Week, designed to help Non-Muslim Yalies better understand the Islamic faith.

While Muslim Yalies said they felt shaken when they learned about the NYPD’s actions, seven interviewed said they still feel welcome in Yale’s environment.

Yale’s Muslim community is made up of between 200 and 300 students from both domestic and international backgrounds, said Omer Bajwa, Yale’s coordinator for Muslim Life. Bajwa said that the chaplain’s office, in conjunction with Yale’s Muslim Students Association, hosts Friday prayer sessions, weekly religious dinners educational programming and pastoral counseling.

“Being a Muslim at Yale hasn’t

made my experiences any different from any other student’s,” Sana Samnani ‘12 said. “In many ways, I have felt empowered and supported by the Yale Muslim community.”

Samnani said she was attracted to Yale’s Muslim community because she knew she shared a common background with other members. Participating has helped her better understand her religion, she added.

When news broke that the New York Police Department had conducted surveillance on the Yale Muslim Student Association, all seven students interviewed said they were caught off guard by the revelation.

“My gut reaction was to wonder, to myself and to others, why the NYPD felt a need to investigate Muslim students,” Samnani said.

“Obviously, we found out very soon that there was no real reason, other than the fact that we are Muslims.”

Bajwa said many students told him the news confirmed their suspicions about dubious law enforcement practices regarding surveillance of Muslims nationwide. Still, he said, they were

Sterling named Div School dean DIVINITY DEAN FROM PAGE 1 focused his studies on the preservation of Jewish and Christian identity within a Greco-Roman context.

During his opening speech at Thursday’s announcement, Sterling said he will need to address the world’s changing religious climate — characterized by a growing diversity of religions — through his work as Divinity School dean.

“We can no longer think simply of Christianity — we have to think of Christianity among other religions,” Sterling said. “I hope that we can be unashamedly Christian without ever being narrowly Christian.”

Search committee chair John Collins, a Divinity School professor, said Sterling is equipped to guide the school through a period of religious change because he has no “ideological agenda.”

The search committee also considered candidates’ fundraising abilities when proposing names to Levin, said Lamin Sanneh, another search committee member and Divinity School professor. Sterling, who worked on the $2 billion capital campaign Notre Dame concluded in June 2011, told the News that he plans to implement a number of fundraising strategies at the Divinity School.

Sanneh said Sterling has experience with several branches of Judeo-Christian tradition, which will help him collaborate effectively with the Divinity School’s diverse students and alumni.

Sterling, a Protestant, has studied in Israel and is married to a Catholic woman, Adrian.

After Levin introduced Sterling to members of the Divinity

School, he awarded a Sterling Professorship — Yale’s highest academic rank — to Attridge, who will continue teaching at the school after a year-long sabbatical.

“The school, arguably, is the best it’s been in decades, so we all applaud and thank Dean Attridge for [his] achievements,” said Christopher Sawyer DIV ’75, who chaired a group of alumni and others who advised Levin on the search. “We’re delighted he gets a little rest, but also delighted he’ll come back.”

Search committee members said Attridge recruited talented faculty during his tenure and bolstered the school’s ties to the University during his 10-year tenure.

Attridge also increased financial aid and oversaw the school’s portion of the Yale Tomorrow capital campaign, which concluded in June 2011 and raised $38 million.

Sterling said he feels “humbled” to walk in Attridge’s footsteps.

Attridge said he did not know he would be awarded a Sterling Professorship prior to Levin’s announcement, adding that he is looking forward to focusing on academic work. Though the Divinity School will lack a dean from when Attridge steps down June 30 and Sterling assumes the post, Attridge said the school will operate normally, as July is not a busy month.

Before Sterling was appointed as dean of the Graduate School at the University of Notre Dame, he served as the associate dean, senior associate dean and then executive associate dean of the university’s College of Arts and Letters..

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

shocked by the “infiltration on college campuses.”

Students said Levin’s swift and firm response, condemning the NYPD’s monitoring of the MSA, affirmed their confidence in the University.

Al-Alusi, MSA president, said administrators were in contact with the MSA immediately, and students met with University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer, whose office oversees the Chaplain’s Office and security on campus, on Monday night.

Al-Alusi said the news shook his faith that academic institutions are places where students can freely express their ideas, but he added that the administration’s response cleared that fear for him.

“When the administration came to our defense, it was a lot better,” he said. “We realized that Yale had nothing to do with it, that Yale was taking a stance against it.”

TAKING A STAND

But Hamid said he believes there is still misinformation concerning Islam on campus and he thinks Muslim students on campus should be more vocal about their identity so that other stu-

dents can approach them with questions.

“We’re being targeted by this large group,” Hamid said. “I feel vulnerable because although we spoke with Yale administration and they’ve been very supportive, there’s only so much that they can do.”

Bajwa said that increased discussion about Islam both on campus and nationwide has prompted some students to approach him about Islamophobic comments they have heard on campus. While Bajwa said he does not think these comments are characteristic of all Yalies, he said he believes heightened conversation has revealed latent attitudes of Islamophobia as well as a degree of cultural ignorance.

“It’s a much more subtle thing,” Al-Alusi said. “People who wouldn’t consider themselves Islamophobes, who have a very academic and sterilized way of talking about it, hold underlying assumptions without knowing anything that reveal the mindset with which they are approaching Islam.”

William Redden ’14, chair of Yale’s Chapter of the American

Civil Liberties Union, said he feels students on campus had grown too accustomed to infringements on civil liberties, adding that there is room for further action.

Samnani said while she is heartened by the support expressed across campus and beyond the Yale community, she is concerned by the way some people have dismissed the monitoring as justifiable.

“There seems to be a sentiment among some students that profiling or monitoring Muslim student groups is justified in the name of national security,” Samnani said. “At this point, it’s a process trying to educate these people and raise awareness that singling out an entire group, for any purpose, without cause is completely unjustifiable and un-American.”

Al-Alusi and Bajwa both said they hope to combat stereotyping by continuing to educate students about Islam and Muslim culture through events such as Islamic Awareness week and panel discussions. Bajwa said even at an elite institution, educational outreach is crucial and that he and the MSA will continue working to counter the abundance of misinformation

about Islam.

On Cross Campus last Tuesday, Muslim students did not stand alone. Maddy Yozwiak ’14, who attended an open meeting of the MSA and decided to help plan the MSA’s “Call the NYPD” photo campaign, identifies as Catholic.

Yozwiak said the campaign was intended to be a visual and funny demonstration of “broader support” for the issues at stake.

“The thing that we were concerned about was that the issue was being cast in too much of a religious light, but it needed to be about civil rights,” Yozwiak said, later adding that the issues raised by the NYPD surveillance were not specific to Muslims but could apply to any student.

Isaac Wasserman ’14, who also participated in the campaign, agreed the issue tied into a broader conversation about free speech.

“There is never any justification for saying you belong to a certain group and you therefore must act a certain way,” he said.

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu and DAN STEIN at daniel.stein@yale.edu .

Resolution on Yale-NUS debated FACULTY MEETING FROM PAGE 1 behalf of the Yale College faculty, questions the record of the Singaporean government with respect to “civil rights and political liberties.” It then “demands” that Yale-NUS “respect, protect, and further the ideals of civil liberties for all minorities, the principles of non-discrimination and full political freedom.”

“These ideals drive our pedagogical mission as well as our civic sense as citizens, and they must not be compromised in any dealings or negotiations with the Singaporean authorities,” the resolution reads.

Miller said she had never before seen faculty suspend the rules to introduce a new resolution at a faculty meeting during her three and a half years as dean.

Since he was appointed president in 1993, Levin said there have been “several” resolutions like Thursday night’s brought up by faculty during their monthly meetings.

While it remains unclear if the resolution will pass a faculty vote, classics professor Victor Bers said he believes the document is “good for the reputation” of Yale’s faculty because it demonstrates their anxieties over the partnership with the Singaporean government.

Yale-NUS was the only major item on the agenda for Thursday’s faculty meeting, which began with the routine business of approving course proposals from the Course of Study Committee.

Levin then spoke about faculty involvement in discussions surrounding Yale-NUS — the fourth time he has reported on Yale-NUS at faculty meetings in the past three years, but the first time faculty had requested the item be placed on the agenda. Professors made their request about Yale-NUS at last month’s faculty meeting, in which several professors also protested the University’s efforts to centralize and streamline administrative services, an initiative known as shared services.

In light of February’s meeting, Levin told the News Thursday that administrators are aiming to increase faculty input in discussions about shared services. But

he said professors have been involved in planning Yale-NUS since fall 2009, adding that administrators plan to continue discussions with faculty.

“The whole conversation exhibited the very values that some members of the faculty wish to affirm in their resolution,” Levin said. “We had a very full and robust discussion in which many views were heard.”

Before the resolution was introduced, several professors aired concerns about the political climate in Singapore, particularly the country’s law on homosexuality.

French and African American studies professor Christopher Miller spoke at the meeting about section 377A of the Penal Code in Singapore, a law that bans homosexual conduct between males in the country. He said the work of Singaporean scholars Audrey Yue and Michael Hor demonstrates that the law still regularly affects the life of LGBT individuals in the country, despite assurances by Yale administrators and the Singaporean government that the law is no longer enforced.

“I just can’t imagine going to a place where it’s illegal to be me,” Christopher Miller, who identifies as homosexual, said in an interview with the News.

Art history professor Mimi Yiengpruksawan voiced concern at the meeting that Singapore is not a signatory to a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization convention that prohibits the theft of cultural property.

Yiengpruksawan also said she fears Yale is compromising its values for the sake of collaborating with NUS. While she said international exchange programs such as Yale’s program with Peking University in Beijing are “wonderful opportunities for cross-cultural engagement and learning,” she said Yale-NUS is “a ‘new’ Yale that is paid for by the government of Singapore and addressed to the needs of that government.”

But Levin and several professors who spoke at the meeting maintained that Yale has considered issues of academic freedom, civil rights and Singapore’s

political climate throughout the YaleNUS planning process.

English and comparative literature professor Pericles Lewis, who chairs the Yale-NUS humanities faculty search committee, spoke about the success he and his colleagues have had in attracting diverse faculty applications to YaleNUS. He said academic freedom is, on the whole, thriving in Singapore, and that he thinks the “general sentiment” of the faculty with respect to Yale-NUS is that the project is a “promising” venture.

Administrators officially announced the creation of Yale-NUS in March 2011.

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu and ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .

T E X T O F YA L E NUS RESOLUTION INTRODUCED A T FA C U LT Y MEETING The Yale College faculty express our concerns over the record of the government of Singapore, host of the proposed Yale-National University of Singapore College, in regard to civil rights and political liberties. We demand that YaleNUS, in all aspects of its activities and operations, respect, protect, and further the ideals of civil liberties for all minorities, the principles of non-discrimination, and full political freedom, both on the Yale-NUS campus and in Singapore as a whole. These ideals drive our pedagogical mission as well as our civic sense as citizens, and they must not be compromised in any dealings or negotiations with the Singaporean authorities.

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PAGE FIVE FRIDAY, MARCH 2 11:00 AM “Vineyards, Sheep, and Bandits: Debating the Sardinian Shepherds’ Migration to Rural Tuscany (19601990).” University of Michigan history professor Dario Gaggio will give this Program in Agrarian Studies Colloquium. Institution for Social and Policy Studies (77 Prospect St.), Room B012.

12:00 PM “Fukushima’s Victories and Victims: Contemplating Alliances Between Japanese Soccer, the State, and Nuclear Power.” Butler University anthropology professor Elise Edwards will give this lecture as part of the Japan Anthropology Colloquium Series. Anthropology Department (10 Sachem St.), Room 105.

CORRECTIONS THURSDAY, MARCH 1

The photo essay “Trumbull rolls to CHoops IM title” stated that Davenport was the C Hoops regular season intramural champion. In fact, Davenport and Saybrook were co-champions, because they were both undefeated in the regular season.

The article “Y-NHH to expand patient care“ stated that the Department of Public Health’s Office of Health Care Access will announce by March 10 whether Yale-New Haven Hospital’s acquisition of Saint Raphael’s Hospital on Church Street will be permitted. In fact, the Department has until March 10 to review the submitted application and request

MOIRA BANKS-DOBSON 1988-2012

Singer, athlete dies in car crash

BY JACQUELINE SAHLBERG AND DAN WEINER STAFF REPORTERS Moira Banks-Dobson ’11, who friends and teachers described as a skilled singer, accomplished athlete and dedicated student, was killed in a car accident Tuesday in Berkshire County, Mass. She was 24.

At Yale, Banks-Dobson explored both artistic and athletic passions. She sang in two musical groups — Something Extra and Tangled Up in Blue (TUIB) — and also spent one year rowing for the varsity women’s crew team after walking on as a freshman. A member of Morse College, she earned a bachelor’s degree in English and had intended to become a teacher after graduation.

“Moira was a gentle, sweet person who loved literature, music and nature,” Morse Dean Joel Silverman said in a Thursday email to the News.

“We are all shocked and saddened by this terrible tragedy.”

While Banks-Dobson enrolled with the class of 2009, she completed her Yale career over six years and graduated in May 2011. She began teaching disabled students in Pittsfield, Mass., soon after graduation — her intended career path, her aunt Robin Dobson said.

Banks-Dobson began pursuing music as a freshman when she joined the a cappella group Something Extra as well as the folk singing group TUIB, said Rebecca Levi ’07, who sang in the group with BanksDobson.

Silverman said he once saw Banks-Dobson perform at a TUIB concert in Timothy Dwight College and recalled being moved by the “beauty of her voice.” Liza Angila ’09, who lived with Banks-Dobson during their time at Yale, described her as a “beautiful singer, beautiful person, a beautiful artist.”

During the April of her sophomore year, BanksDobson sang in a play called “Curse of the Starving Class,” the senior project of Brian Reed ’07 and Max Broude ’07.

Broude said Banks-Dobson was “always incredibly sweet and friendly,” and also remembered her vocal talents.

Aside from joining Yale’s music community, BanksDobson also spent one year in the athletic sphere when she walked onto the women’s crew team and earned a spot in a varsity boat.

Though Banks-Dobson had not rowed crew for the

Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., where she attended high school, she had played a number of other sports there — cross-country, track, sailing and soccer, said Roberta Jenckes, a Hotchkiss spokeswoman. Banks-Dobson also sang in her high school’s gospel choir and cabaret troupe, said Sarah Tames, an English teacher at Hotchkiss and Bank-Dobson’s advisor.

Moira was a gentle, sweet person who loved literature, music and nature.

JOEL SILVERMAN Dean, Morse College While most Hotchkiss students enrolled in five courses per semester, Bank-Dobson regularly chose to take six, and won numerous awards for her academic and extracurricular pursuits, Tames said. Charles Frankenbach, Banks-Dobson’s English teacher of two years at Hotchkiss, said she was a passionate English student.

While Banks-Dobson initially attended private boarding school Hotchkiss as a day student, Tames said BanksDobson’s warm personality helped her bond with the boarding school community “as if she [were] a resident.”

“Moira was truly extraordinary, both in her generosity of spirit and her genuine humility,” Tames said. “She had talents that were too much for one heart. She just was an amazing child. There was something about her willingness to be alive that is so tragically cut off now.”

Banks-Dobson was killed in a five-vehicle crash allegedly caused by a repeat drunk driver who has been charged with operating under the influence, the Berkshire Eagle reported Wednesday.

She is survived by her parents Anne Banks and Edwin Dobson, and her siblings, Ben Banks-Dobson, Ted Dobson and Melany Dobson. A service will be held Sunday, and Banks-Dobson’s family is also planning to commemorate her 25th birthday at a March 11 memorial.

Contact JACQUELINE SAHLBERG at jacqueline.sahlberg@yale.edu and DAN WEINER at daniel.weiner@yale.edu .

TED KENNEDY FORMER U.S. SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS

Conn. to limit cooperation with ICE GOV. MALLOY TO DEVELOP CHECKLIST FOR STATE’S COMPLIANCE WITH DETAINMENT REQUESTS

BY BENJAMIN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER As of Thursday afternoon, no Connecticut immigrants had been detained through Secure Communities, a federal deportation program that was implemented statewide on Feb. 22. Still, Gov. Dannel Malloy’s administration is taking measures that could curb the program’s efforts in the state.

Under Secure Communities, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials check police fingerprints of criminal suspects against ICE databases in an effort to deport criminals residing in the country illegally. If ICE officials believe a suspect may be undocumented, they can issue a detainment request that the state hold the individual in custody so that ICE can determine whether to initiate deportation proceedings.

Mike Lawlor, the state’s undersecretary for criminal justice and policy planning, said state administrators are currently drafting a “checklist” that will be used to determine the cases in which the state will comply with ICE’s detainment requests and when the requests will be ignored. He said the checklist will be a set of specific criteria to ensure that ICE is only able to deport dangerous convicts and not those who are guilty of minor crimes.

Two days prior to Secure Communities’ implementation, Malloy, who has openly criticized the program, hinted at the checklist when he released a statement through his office that said state law enforcement would decide whether to honor deportation requests on a “case-by-case

basis.”

“ICE says Secure Communities will focus on deporting serious offenders, so our goal is to take the way the program has been advertised and reduce that to a checklist,” Lawlor said. “If you meet the criteria, law enforcement will detain you, and if not, you will be released.”

Lawlor said Malloy’s office, the Department of Correction, and the attorney general’s office are currently formulating the checklist. He added that the program “is seriously flawed and risks undermining community policing efforts” to build trust between immigrants and law enforcement.

Lawlor cited instances of domestic violence as evidence of the negative effect Secure Communities could have on Connecticut residents.

“Let’s say you are a victim of family violence — if your significant other, the breadwinner in the family, happens to be in the undocumented category and he will be deported if you call police, that’s going to affect your decision,” Lawlor said. “And that’s not hypothetical, that’s real stuff. That does happen.”

Despite widespread criticism of the program, which Yale Law School students in the Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic are contesting in a lawsuit, ICE spokesman Ross Feinstein defended Secure Communities and said it has demonstrated its effectiveness in focusing deportation efforts on criminal offenders.

He added that 94 percent of those deported through Secure Communities are either convicted criminals, recent illegal border entrants,

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Protesters of Secure Communities deliver a petition during a rally at the State Capitol in Hartford on Feb. 22, when it was implemented in the state. fugitives or repeat offenders.

Feinstein maintained ICE’s authority to request that states detain requested suspects, though he acknowledged that the agency lacks the authority to force states to comply with the requests.

“Law enforcement agencies that honor ICE detainment requests ultimately help protect public safety,” Feinstein said.

“ICE anticipates that law enforcement will comply with the detainers, though we have not sought to compel compliance through legal proceedings.”

Feinstein added that he believed jurisdictions that ignore ICE’s detainment requests should bear responsibility for possible public safety risks.

Mayor John DeStefano Jr. has also been a vocal critic of Secure Communities, and City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said the mayor remains con-

cerned about the program’s threat to the New Haven Police Department’s efforts to return the city to a community policing strategy of law enforcement.

“Secure Communities runs counter to the relationships and trust we are working to grow via community policing,” Benton said.

“When we create barriers between residents and police, and between residents and important public services, our city as a whole suffers.”

Following Secure Communities’ implementation in Connecticut, Malloy also ordered a review of the program to be undertaken by the Department of Correction.

Brian Garnett, the department’s director of external affairs, said the review is in its “very initial stages.”

Contact BENJAMIN PRAWDZIK at benjamin.prawdzik@yale.edu .

Survey on sexual practices released

BY JANE DARBY MENTON AND CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTERS Undergraduates’ perceptions of sexual behavior on campus often differ from reality, according to the results of a campuswide survey released Thursday by the Yale Sexual Literacy Coalition.

The research findings were presented at an event jointly held by the Coalition and the Communication and Consent Educators, a group of 40 students trained to address issues of sexual misconduct. Allie Bauer ’12, a member of the four-person survey team, said she hopes the survey results will help students and administrators develop a better understanding of Yale’s sexual culture that is “grounded in research and analysis.”

“I think ‘sexual culture’ was kind of the buzz word in light of everything that happened last year,” she said, referring to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights’ ongoing Title IX investigation into Yale’s sexual climate. “So we wanted to do the survey to actually garner statistical findings on what sexual culture at Yale was like — not only what people’s sexual behavior was, but also what their perceptions were.”

The 61-question survey, which was sent in a Dec. 2 email to all undergraduates, garnered responses from 2,342 students — roughly 44 percent of the undergraduate population — though

Bauer said 24 percent of respondents did not complete the entire survey. The survey addressed topics ranging from students’ relationships and the “hookup culture” to sexual expectations and sexual health, and gave students the option to provide additional qualitative comments.

According to the survey findings, 69 percent of all respondents reported they were sexually active, which was defined as engaging in “manual, oral, vaginal or anal sex in the past six months.”

The findings indicated that students tend to “overestimate” the desire of their partner for sexual contact and “underestimate” others’ desire for non-physical intimacy, Bauer said. While 79 percent of students said they expected non-physical intimacy after going home with somebody after a party, only 63 percent of students said they thought their partner would expect the same.

There was also a discrepancy in how men and women perceive their partners’ expectations. Five percent of female respondents said they expect to have oral sex when they go home with somebody, but 42 percent said they felt their partners expected oral sex.

On the other hand, male respondents said they believed their own and their partner’s expectations were relatively similar: 26 percent said they expected oral sex, and 27 percent said they thought their partners expected it. This overall trend applied to expectations of vaginal sex as well.

“I hope that if people look at this information they can reevaluate assumptions about what the correct way to act at Yale is and put more emphasis on seeking what they want,” said Hannah Slater ‘13, who was one of about seven attendees at the event.

Bauer said the survey also revealed that discussions about sexual practices on campus can make students feel less “isolated” and understand that their sexual practices and concerns are shared by other students on campus.

Though 43 percent of respondents at least “somewhat agreed” that they were “representative of Yale’s sexual culture” at the beginning of the survey, 66 percent at least “somewhat agreed” with the same question when it was posed again at the end of the survey.

“I think people feel ostracized from all of the definitions and categorizations that are happening [on campus], but after taking the survey ...[they] can have an immediate change of heart,” she said. “Honestly, everybody is part of Yale’s sexual culture because sexuality can implicate the choice to have sex regardless of who you have sex with and how many times you have sex.”

In response to the short answer question about what constitutes “hooking up,” Bauer said students offered a variety of responses ranging from “making out” to sexual encounters.

As the members of the Coalition developed the survey, Bauer

said the group received approval from the Institutional Review Board — a committee that formally approves, monitors and reviews human behavioral and biomedical research. Bauer added that she received $400 from the Social Justice Network, a campus organization that promotes social change, to create posters to display the results in Woolsey Rotunda after spring break.

Charlotte McDonald ’14, a communication and consent educator who also attended the event, said she thought the CCE program could incorporate the information into their presentations for incoming freshmen. Last January, CCEs held mandatory workshops for freshmen in their freshmen counselor groups that focused on the importance of communication in sexual interactions, and administrators interviewed last month said they expected the workshops to become a part of freshman orientation.

Survey response rates were similar among the four classes, with 26 percent of respondents identifying as freshmen, 24 percent as sophomores, 27 percent as juniors and 22 percent as seniors. While slightly more than half of the respondents at 55 percent were female, 45 percent were male.

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu and CAROLINE TAN at caroline.tan@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.”

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH KEYNESIAN ECONOMIST

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CITY BUDGET FROM PAGE 1 No layoffs of city employees are projected in DeStefano’s proposal, and residents would not see an increase in any fees the city charges if it wins the approval of the Board of Aldermen.

BUDGET PRIORITIES

DeStefano’s budget presents a rosier picture of city finances than the budget he proposed a year ago, when he announced sweeping cuts and layoffs in response to the rising cost of city employees’ pensions and health care benefits. When he proposed last year’s budget, he predicted nearly 200 city employees would have to be laid off. Every city department except the Board of Education saw deep cuts to close the city’s budget gap.

With less of a squeeze on the budget, DeStefano is able to channel more money toward two of the legislative priorities he laid out for the coming year: public safety and education reform. Part of the large jump in police spending is due to the expiration of a police grant, DeStefano added.

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Included in the expanded police budget would be two new classes of 67 police recruits that would allow the New Haven Police Department to fully staff its car patrols, restore the number of school resource officers to 12, bring back two policing districts in the Hill and double the number of walking beats, the centerpiece of NHPD Chief Dean Esserman’s efforts to revive community policing in New Haven. The increase would also allow the department to double the size of its Internal Affairs bureau, which DeStefano said would help “police the police.”

Although 2011 saw the largest number of homicides in 20 years, overall violent crime in the city has fallen. According to the NHPD, violent crime is down 19.2 percent in 2012 compared to the same time a year ago.

School reform, which has been named as a central legislative priority for lawmakers in Hartford, also receives a boost from DeStefano’s proposed budget. While other departments have suffered cuts exacerbated by an economic recession, the Board of Education’s funding has gone untouched for

2012 (proposed) three years.

The $1.2 million increase in school funding — although less than the $5 million asked for by the school board — will give momentum to the city’s effort to promote New Haven’s education reform efforts, which have received attention at the state and national level in recent weeks. “[The increased funding] will allow the Board of Education to continue our nationally acknowledged teacher evaluation model,” DeStefano said.

This funding assumes DeStefano’s projection that the Board of Education will see the reduction of 119 positions due to attrition. If too few education personnel leave the city’s payroll, DeStefano said, the city would examine other ways to balance the education budget, including layoffs.

The Board of Education will also receive $6.1 million in state funding this year.

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

The city’s expanded budget, DeStefano said, is made possible in large part by a $7.5 million increase in property tax revenue.

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Mayor John DeStefano Jr. unveiled his proposed city budget for the next fiscal year at a Thursday press conference at City Hall.

Last year, New Haven’s grand list — the the total assessed value of all taxable property in the city — grew by over $860 million this year, a 16.7 percent increase over last year.

We continue to work on [employee pension and health care costs] year after year with our bargaining unit.

JOHN DESTEFANO JR. Mayor, City of New Haven This growth is a testament to the success of the city’s “aggressive” economic development strategies and has a large impact on what can be done with the city budget, DeStefano said. He added that the rest of the city’s new revenue will come from savings in other areas such as energy and recycling costs.

The largest expenditure increases, DeStefano said, will continue to come from growing

pension and health care costs for city employees. Although not as central to DeStefano’s budget as last year, when City Hall was engaged in negotiations with city unions over labor concessions, the mayor emphasized that benefits and pensions for city employees continue to be “major cost drivers” and reforming these in labor agreements is key to controlling future costs and preserving the city’s fiscal stability.

“Employee pension and health care costs remain our large cost that we continue to work on year after year with our bargaining unit,” DeStefano said.

He added that the two additional classes of police recruits he plans to hire, as well as his proposed 43 new fire department recruits, will likely see different employee benefits than what currently exist for city workers.

In the long term, he said, New Haven would have to learn to work with a lack of developable land — only 1.4 percent of city land is currently unused — a large percentage of tax-exempt property, and a low number of owner-occupied dwellings in

the city. DeStefano also called on the state to pass legislation to allow the city to diversify its tax base by levying taxes other than property taxes.

DeStefano’s proposed budget now goes to the Board of Aldermen’s finance committee, which will debate its provisions before making its own recommendations and sending a final proposal to the full board for a vote.

In the past, the board has been criticized as a rubber stamp for DeStefano’s fiscal policies. Last fall, however, aldermanic candidates endorsed by Yale’s unions defeated many DeStefano-supported candidates to win a controlling majority on the board, which may allow them to set the tone of budget discussions.

The first finance committee meeting is scheduled for March 15. DeStefano will hold his own public meetings on the budget beforehand, with the first meeting tomorrow at 11 a.m. at St. Bernadette’s Church Hall in East Shore.

James Lu contributed reporting.

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

New Greek council to oversee implementation GREEK LIFE FROM PAGE 6 comply with the regulations as Yale undergraduates. Two fraternity leaders interviewed said they do not think the new policy will be effective in addressing hazing issues on campus.

Jamey Silveira ’13, president of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, said fraternities provide a platform for freshmen to get more involved in the Yale community. Although he came to Yale not knowing anybody, Silveira said he “got over his homesickness” by joining his fraternity.

He added that he learned about academics and other opportunities through interactions with upperclassmen in the fraternity.

Because the administration will be postponing the rush by only a few months, he said he does not think this new policy will significantly impact the maturity level of freshmen students.

Avi Arfin ’14, president of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity — the

only fraternity registered with the Dean’s Office — said AEPi does not haze, and other organizations besides the Greek ones are often guilty of the hazing process.

“There are organizations on campus that have pretty serious hazing,” he said. “If the administration wants to address hazing they need to look at a broader, more cultural picture than just demonizing the frats and saying it is a Greek problem.”

On Thursday afternoon before the new policy was announced, administrators called Greek leaders together to inform them of the change and discuss the next step — forming a committee to determine the guidelines of the restriction. Gentry said this temporary implementation committee will “make clear what would be a violation.”

Silveira said serving on the implementation committee will be the first chance for fraternities to provide input. Silveira said he applied to sit on the Commit-

tee on Hazing and Initiations but never received a response.

He added that he remains hopeful that there may still be room to “tailor this in a way that it doesn’t completely throw our plans out of whack.”

I don’t buy this sudden breakthrough in the morality of undergraduates.

JAMEY SILVEIRA ’13 President, Alpha Delta Phi fraternity “It’s unfortunate because it seems like ideally, I would have been part of the decision committee,” he said. “A lot of the concerns brought up today are the kinds of things that would have made the administration rethink this policy, and perhaps take a more friendly stance.”

Silveira said the new policy will affect ADPhi because the fraternity has only one rush period, which takes place in the fall. Rush occurs in the fall, he said, because about half of the pledge class are members of the varsity lacrosse team who begin their season in the spring. Silveira added that he has not yet come to a conclusion about how ADPhi will adjust its rush process.

Arfin said he thinks the administration does not realize the full extent to which his fraternity is a Jewish cultural organization as well as a fraternity.

He said fall rush is important because during Jewish holidays that take place in the fall, many freshmen enjoy having a group of students going through a similar experience.

“Freshman who join in the fall can find it to be a huge comfort to go through this religious and cultural experience with a brotherhood supporting them,” he said.

Arfin added that the policy

will also have implications for the larger Jewish community, as many of the freshmen who join AEPi in the fall end up becoming active in the Joseph Slifka Center.

The new restrictions will not affect sororities because they generally hold rush in the spring, said Caroline McCullough ’14, president of the Panhellenic Council, which oversees the sororities Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi. Although sororities’ formal recruitment process is in the spring, she added, Kappa holds an informal recruitment process in the fall. But McCullough that most girls who rush Kappa in the fall are sophomores, which is allowed by the new policy.

McCullough said spring recruitment is beneficial to the process because it gives freshmen a chance to make friends outside of sororities, as well as the opportunity to “get a sense of what the sororities stand for.”

Still, Luke Hansen ’15, a freshman who rushed the Sigma

Alpha Epsilon fraternity last fall, said joining SAE early in his Yale career has been “amazing.” He said it gave him the chance to acquire a diverse group of friends from which he could branch out to other groups.

Hansen added that the spring pledge class will become larger to accommodate for the change, which he said detracts from the experience of bonding with a small group.

Gentry said DKE, which is serving a five-year ban from holding activities on campus, must also adhere to the new rule since Undergraduate Regulations apply to all Yale students, adding that DKE was represented at Thursday’s meeting of Greek leaders.

Princeton passed a rule prohibiting all Greek organizations from holding freshman rush last August.

Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu .

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“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”

ESTRAGON, “WAITING FOR GODOT” BY SAMUEL BECKETT

Shake Shack to open in New Haven

BY DIANA LI AND CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTERS Shake Shack will come to New Haven this fall as part of the New York-based burger joint’s efforts to reach out to college campuses and expand its brand.

Scheduled to open at 986 Chapel St. — across from the New Haven Green — Shake Shack’s move to New Haven is the company’s first venture to a location near a university, said Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, a corporation that owns Shake Shack and other restaurants.

Though Meyer said he considered expanding to Cambridge, Mass., he said he decided to open a location in New Haven instead because of the city’s “amazing food culture” and local business atmosphere he said distinguished it from other Ivy League towns.

“New Haven is a city that we find fascinating because it seems like Yale and other members of the community have done so much to really build a renaissance with culture, with art and with commerce, and that’s something that we love,” Meyer said. “We really want to make Shake Shack feel like it’s part of New Haven and part of Yale — not something imposed upon either of those.”

He added that he had “secondary, selfish reasons” to expand to New Haven since it gives him give him an additional excuse to see his daughter, who is a freshman at Yale.

Shake Shack’s new location is owned by University Properties, the University’s real estate management arm. Director of University Properties Abigail Rider said in a Thursday press release that the new restaurant would be an “excellent addition” to New Haven’s dining options.

Though New Haven has a larger number of local restaurants than national chains, Meyer said he expects Shake Shack to connect with the New Haven community and integrate well into the city.

“We aspire to be the antichain chain,” he said. “We are a company that believes in acting smaller as we get larger. The

CREATIVE COMMONS

The New York-based burger joint Shake Shack will open a New Haven location across from the Green on Chapel Street. The Shake Shack is famous for the long lines it generates in New York City’s Madison Square Park around lunch time. people who run the Shack are responsible for really becoming part of their community and connecting to causes that are important to that community, which we definitely want to do in New Haven.”

He said the New Haven Shake Shack would “look unlike any shack we’ve ever opened,” adding that his team would work to make the restaurant’s physical layout fit New Haven’s architecture and cultural history.

Meyer added that Shake Shack

is considering installing solar panels to promote the restaurant’s energy efficiency.

Meyer said Shake Shack is not a franchise company and that each restaurant would hire locally. He said he hoped some Yale students would consider working at the new location, adding that the New Haven store would name some menu items after Yale and New Haven traditions.

The New Haven location will be the company’s second burger

Theater doubles up on McDonagh

BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, the theater community has its sights on bringing a slice of the Green Isle to Yale, in the form of two shows by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh.

Two plays by McDonagh, “A Skull in Connemara” and “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” opened as independent student productions on Wednesday.

The directors of the two shows, the first and second parts of the Leenane Triology, said McDonagh’s work holds strong appeal for them, enabling an exploration of ideas in a way many other scripts fail to do.

Hunter Wolk ’12, who is directing “Beauty Queen,” said that because audiences often are not as familiar with McDonagh’s work as they are with shows by lyricists and playwrights such as Stephen Sondheim or William Shakespeare, the director has more room to present his own vision of the story.

“If you’re putting up ‘Sweeney Todd’ or ‘Hamlet,’ everyone in the audience knows what happens,” Wolk said. “They come to see how you choose to tell it, and it’s your responsibility to justify the decision to retell it at all.”

But with McDonagh’s work, Wolk added, audience members often arrive without prior expectations, simply prepared to hear a “great story.” Set in the same small Irish town, “Beauty Queen” and “A Skull in Connemara” focus on family dramas and moral dilemmas.

Austin Trow ’12, the director of “A Skull in Connemara,” said McDonagh’s scripts present to audiences a type of black

humor that works well on a college campus. His comedy is so dark, Trow added, that audiences leaves questioning why they are even laughing.

“McDonagh’s plays are funny and they’re smart, so they appeal to a college audience,” he said.

For actors, too, the Irish playwright’s style has a certain draw: Ryan Bowers ’14, who plays Ray in “Beauty Queen,” said he has enjoyed performing in a McDonagh play because of its clear, spare depictions of people. McDonagh makes the intentions of the four characters in the play very clear, without adding any “fluff,” Bowers added.

McDonagh’s plays are funny and they’re smart, so they appeal to a college audience.

AUSTIN TROW ’12 Director, “A Skull in Connemara” Though McDonagh’s plays are popular among actors and audiences, their staging can be a serious challenge to directors, said Trow and Wolk. The Western Irish accents were particularly difficult for actors to master, said Trow, who noted that “Beauty Queen” and “A Skull in Connemara” are both set in a region where the accent differs from the Dunland accent most people associate with Ireland.

“We had a brief session [on accents] with someone from the School of Drama and had to use a lot of resources online,” Trow added. The cast, he said, “spent a lot of time listening to tapes of

people from Western Ireland.”

Wolk added that in addition to the difficult accents, the need for stage blood, prosthetic effects and Complan, a powdered milk supplement imported from Australia to use as a prop, have been a “nightmare” for his production.

Despite the difficulties in production, “Beauty Queen” seeks to leave its audience with a sense of having heard a story that is relatably human and true.

“Maybe that sounds silly, but that’s all I want to do when I see a play or a movie,” said Wolk, for whom “Beauty Queen” is a second foray into directing on campus.

The production manages to find very deep and very intense drama in mundane settings, revealing powerful feelings in an otherwise unremarkable situation, Bowers said.

“You come in and have your perspective completely shifted by how bizarre the action is,” Trow said of “A Skull in Connemara.” “It really encourages you to question how you think about things like family relationships.”

He added that the production’s audiences are likely to be left grateful for the world they live in and with a sense of the broad spectrum of human experience. Trow noted, for instance, that audiences may find the way McDonagh’s Irish villagers treat their dead as “funny, violent and really surprising.”

The last stagings of both productions will take place at 8 p.m. tonight.

Contact AKBAR AHMED at akbar.ahmed@yale.edu .

joint in Connecticut. Shake Shack already has a restaurant in Westport, Conn., which opened last summer. Though Meyer said he plans to establish six new locations this year, he said Shake Shack is still a “tiny national chain” relative to similar brands like Five Guys Burgers and Fries.

Shake Shack’s arrival in New Haven follows that of other national corporations such as Apple, which opened a store on Broadway last September.

Erin Guild, manager of Claire’s Corner Copia on Chapel Street, said she has noticed a proliferation of chain stores and restaurants in New Haven in her 10 years living in the city.

“Yale’s taken over more and more of the properties downtown, and they’ve had a tendency to bring in chains instead of independent retailers,” Guild said. “Personally, I think [these businesses] make New Haven lose some of its character.”

Mira Horsky, a night supervi-

sor at Blue State Coffee on Wall Street, added that independent businesses have a “personal atmosphere” and “distinct style” that chain stores often cannot match.

Shake Shack was founded in 2004 in New York City.

Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu and CAROLINE TAN at caroline.tan@yale.edu .

BOA weighs allocation of reduced federal funds

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER Aldermen met Thursday night to begin the process of allocating Community Development Block Grants to local nonprofits amid federal funding cuts.

The community development and human service committees met to prepare for the process of distributing CDBG money available to the city. These grants, which were reduced from $3,891,395 last year to $3,673,534 this year, are federal funds given to cities such as New Haven for local nonprofits. The grants fund a wide range of programs in New Haven, including JUNTA, the Boys and Girls Club of New Haven, Crossroads and the local Habitat for Humanity chapter.

“There is an attack on this grant,” Ward 26 Alderman Sergio Rodriguez said. “We have a reduction this year, and the word from Washington is that Obama has levelfunded the grant [for this coming year], but getting it through Congress it not going to be easy.”

Doubts about the future of this funding adds incentive for Board of Aldermen members to ensure the money is effectively utilized, Rodriguez said. In addition to deciding on allocations of CDBG money, the Board of Aldermen will decide where to channel federal funds from the HOME Investment Partnership, the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS and the Emergency Solutions Grant. CDBGs are some of the few grants that cities ever receive directly, Rodriguez added.

At the joint committee meeting last night, Elizabeth Smith, the CDBG program manager for the city of New Haven, presented aldermen with an overview of the grant allocation procedure. The process begins in October, Smith said, when nonprofits are sent a letter from the mayor’s office soliciting applications for funds.

This letter is followed by a mandatory meeting for all interested programs. The applications for funding must be delivered to the Office of Management and Budget, where they are reviewed for completeness

and eligibility, Smith said. If the application fails to meet either completeness or eligibility standards it is rejected, she said.

Mayor John DeStefano Jr. compiled a list of proposed funding for organizations based on these submissions after Smith’s office reviewed the applications. The next step in the process is for the community organizations to testify in front of the Board of Aldermen. During the testimony, nonprofits will explain how they plan to use funding, Smith said.

The city’s support … is really invaluable. It is difficult for us to acquire property to begin with, [so funding is] absolutely essential.

WILLIAM CASEY Executive director, Habitat for Humanity in New Haven Last year, Habitat for Humanity in New Haven received between $30,000 and 35,000 from a CDBG grant, said William Casey, the organization’s executive director. This money was used to purchase six new properties, he added.

“The city’s support, not only through CDBG, is really invaluable,” Casey said.

“It is difficult for us to acquire property to begin with, [so funding is] absolutely essential.”

In his report on the CDBGs, DeStefano proposed to give $40,000 to Habitat for Humanity in the upcoming year, which Casey said he expected would be wellreceived by his organization.

Habitat for Humanity will testify in front of the Board of Aldermen community development and human service committees on March 6 at 6 p.m.

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

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GOP fails to reverse birth control rule

BY LAURIE KELLMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — In an election year battle mixing birth control, religion and politics, Democrats narrowly blocked an effort

by Senate Republicans to overturn President Barack Obama’s order that most employers or their insurers cover the cost of contraceptives.

The 51-48 vote on Thursday killed a measure that would have allowed employers and insurers to opt out of portions of the president’s health care law they found morally objectionable. That would have included the law’s requirement to cover the costs of birth control.

Sen. Olympia Snowe, who this week dropped her re-election bid and cited frustration with the

polarized Congress, cast the lone Republican vote to block the measure. Two Democrats up for reelection and one who is retiring voted against Obama’s requirement.

Majority Democrats said the legislation would have allowed employers and insurers to avoid virtually any medical treatment with the mere mention of a moral or religious objection.

“We have never had a conscience clause for insurance companies,” said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Insurers, she said, don’t need an invitation to deny coverage for medical treatment. “A lot of them don’t have any consciences.

They’ll take it.”

Republicans argued that the requirement under the health care overhaul violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious

freedom by forcing insurers and employers to pay for contraception for workers even if the employers’ faith forbids its use. Roman Catholic leaders have strongly opposed the requirement.

The Senate vote aside, the debate “won’t be over until the administration figures out how to accommodate people’s religious views as it relates to these mandates,” said the measure’s sponsor, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. “This is a debate that might be settled at that building across the street,” he said, referring to the Supreme Court.

Such cultural issues have been prominent in this presidential election year, with Republican presidential candidates casting Obama’s health care law as government overreach into the most personal types of medical decisions. The contraception policy in

particular touches on religious and women’s rights important to the activists at the core of each party.

A majority of Americans support the use of contraceptives.

The public is generally in favor of requiring birth control coverage for employees of religiously affiliated employers, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll Feb. 8-13. The survey found that 61 percent favor the mandate, while 31 percent oppose it. Catholics support the requirement at about the same rate as all Americans.

The legislative fight came after the controversy had already forced the White House to budge somewhat. The administration initially ruled that religious-affiliated institutions such as hospitals and universities must include free birth control coverage in their employee health plans.

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Senate Democrats speak with reporters after they defeated a Republican effort to roll back a policy on contraception insurance coverage.

Maryland legalizes same-sex marriage

BY SARAH BREITENBACH ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malleysigns the Civil Marriage Protection Act alongside Senate President Thomas Miller.

BELTSVILLE, Md. — Maryland’s governor signed into law Thursday a bill to legalize gay marriage, although opponents vowed to rally voters to reverse the change this fall in a referendum that’s even anticipated by advocates of the new law.

“Religious freedom was the very reason for our state’s founding and at the heart of religious freedom is the freedom of individual conscience,” Gov. Martin O’Malley said before signing the legislation that made Maryland the eighth state in the U.S. to legalize gay marriage. The law takes effect in 2013.

Six states and the District of Columbia currently recognize gay marriages. The state of Washington

also has legalized gay marriage - its law takes effect in June. Voters there also are expected to petition the measure to referendum this fall.

Maine legalized the unions for same-sex couples in 2009, but later that year became the only state overturn a such a law passed by a legislature. About 30 states have constitutional amendments that seek to prohibit gay marriage, most by defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

In order to put the measure on the November ballot, opponents of the new Maryland law will need to collect nearly 56,000 valid voter signatures, equivalent to 3 percent of the people who cast ballots in the 2010 gubernatorial election. Last week, opponents submitted draft language for a ballot referendum to overturn the gay mar-

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riage measure after it passed in the state legislature.

Gay marriage advocates are hoping that young voters - whom they expect to support their cause - will turn out for President Barack Obama in November’s elections, just as they did in 2008.

“I think Obama’s election turns out a number of different people,” said Sultan Shakir, campaign manager for Marylanders for Marriage Equality, a coalition of gay rights groups that worked to get the bill passed. “(There is) a lot of attention around people who attend church, but there are plenty of other demographics who are going to be turned out.”

Some observers have noted the push to overturn the new law will heavily rely on members of black

churches. Many African-American church leaders oppose gay marriage in the liberal-leaning state that’s nearly one-third black, and Obama’s re-election campaign is expected to drive many of their congregants to the polls. The Catholic Church, which has 1.2 million parishioners in Maryland, also has openly opposed the bill.

Black pastors were given much of the credit for pressuring lawmakers to oppose a gay marriage bill that fell short in the legislature last year. The measure was pulled from the floor of the House as leaders realized if fell short of the necessary votes. Opposition from black pastors in Maryland belies an overall political stance that routinely includes their endorsement of Democratic candidates and support of their agendas.

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MONDAY, MARCH 5 5:00 PM “The Twenty-First Century Thangka.” Ann Shaftel, a preservation fine art specialist, will speak. A thangka is a Tibetan silk painting with embroidery that usually depicts a Buddhist deity or famous scene. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.)

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Favorites win at Dubai Tennis Championships World no. 1 Novak Djokovic will meet no. 4 Andy Murray in the semifinals at Dubai, facing off for the first time since their epic five-hour match in the semifinals of the Australian Open. No. 3 Roger Federer will face Juan Martin Del Potro after the Argentine upset Jo Wilfried Tsonga in the other bracket. Federer has a 9-2 record against Potro.

Elis face Big Green in Ivy opener

BY EUGENE JUNG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This Saturday at noon, the Elis will head to Hanover, N.H., to kick off this season’s Ancient Eight play against No. 14 Dartmouth.

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Team captain Caroline Crow ’12 scored four goals for the Bulldogs in last Sunday’s game against Holy Cross.

The Bulldogs (1–0, 0–0 Ivy) have good momentum heading into this weekend after defeating the Holy Cross Crusaders last Sunday, 17–13. Yale was supposed to play against Boston University on Wednesday but the game was canceled due to inclement weather. Dartmouth, last season’s co-Ivy Champion with Penn, demonstrated its prowess at its season opener by thrashing New Hampshire, 13–7.

“If we start the Dartmouth game as aggressively and with as much energy as we started the game against Holy Cross with, we should be able to beat them,” attacker Devon Rhodes ’13 said.

Rhodes added that Dartmouth (1–0, 0–0 Ivy) has a very solid unit every year.

“Dartmouth is generally known for being extremely strong and fast,” she said. “Last year their midfielders and attackers were really scrappy and aggressive and their defensive unit was very physical.”

She added that the Big Green’s offense is versatile in that they have a handful of attackers and midfielders who can shoot the ball

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very well.

Last season, the Bullvs. dogs took a close 9–8 loss to Dartmouth at Reese StaDartmouth dium. While draw controls and turnovers were almost evenly matched, Dartmouth took more shots (21–18) but committed more fouls (22–14) than Yale. In the saves category, the Bulldogs fared better, recording seven over Dartmouth’s five. With 19 underclassmen on the team, Yale’s lineup is younger and faster compared to last season, whereas upperclassmen dominate the Big Green’s roster. Dartmouth had eight upperclassmen who played against New Hampshire in its season’s opener, while Yale fielded nine underclassmen against Holy Cross.

Rhodes said the team has added a few new plays into its offensive repertoire in order to catch Dartmouth off guard in case it scouted Yale’s last game.

“We have also been practicing our transition and the draw set this week,” she added. “Winning the draw is imperative to beat Dartmouth.”

Rhodes said the Yale coaches have been watching game film of Dartmouth all week in order to scout the tendencies of its key players, adding that the team now knows exactly what to expect from Dartmouth and is preparing accordingly.

Midfielder Ashley McCormick

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BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball,” hall of fame shortstop Rogers Hornsby once said.

“I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”

Spring has finally arrived for the Bulldogs, who will begin their season tomorrow at Virginia Tech University (7–2). The Bulldogs hope new talent can replace the seniors who graduated last year and help the team improve on last year’s 23–19 record.

Though Virginia Tech is from the powerhouse Atlantic Coast Conference, the Elis are confident they can compete with the Hokies.

“Just because they’re an ACC team doesn’t mean we don’t think we can go down there and win,” first baseman and outfielder Josh Scharff ’13 said. “This team has a whole bunch of confidence.”

After playing four games in three days in the newly renovated English Field in Blacksburg, the Bulldogs will play seven games in a week — one at the University of South Florida and six more in the 2012 RussMatt Invitational tournament. The Elis will square off against Bowling Green, North Dakota State, Bradley, and Lafayette universities and twice against Georgetown.

Scharff and first baseman and closer Kevin Fortunato ’14 said that spending a week in Florida living only with the other members of the team will bring the team closer together.

Departing pitchers Vinny Lally ’11 and Brook Hart ’11 left a hole in the Elis’ rotation. Last year, they combined for nine wins and posted earned run

averages of 2.67 and 2.23, respectively. vs. “[The freshmen] are going to get a shot to play right away,” catcher Virginia Tech and captain Ryan Brenner ’12 said.

“All of them are going to have to contribute.”

Led by left-handed pitcher Eric Hsieh ’15 and right-hander Ben Joseph ’15, the Bulldogs will look to draw from the newer players to replace their production on the mound. Both young hurlers will get a chance to prove themselves right away. Hsieh will get the ball in the season opener on Saturday, and Ben Joseph ’15 will make his first collegiate start during the series as well, several players said.

Pitcher Chris O’Hare ’13 said the Bulldog pitching staff is packed with talent even with the loss of four senior pitchers.

“We have a bunch of kids that sit around 90 [miles per hour],” O’Hare said. “We [also] have three lefties in the starting rotation. We may be the only team in the whole country [with three lefty starters].”

Pat Ludwig ’12 will be a starter for Yale this year. O’Hare said he and Ludwig will need to be leaders for the underclassmen on the staff.

Along with O’Hare and Hsieh, Rob Cerfolio ’14 is the third southpaw in the Eli starting rotation. Cerfolio is one of the most improved players from last year, Fortunato added. “[Cerfolio] is throwing a lot harder,” Fortunato said. “His pitches are more polished. He’s really worked

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hard and it has showed — he’s been filthy.”

Pitching is not the only category where Yale lost production. There are holes from last year to fill as well. The Bulldogs no longer have the services of last year’s Ivy League Player of the Year Trey Rallis ’11, who batted .365, clouted four home runs and drove in 30 runs. He led Yale in all three of those categories.

Scharff said the whole lineup would have to shoulder the production lost when Rallis graduated.

“Maybe nobody hits [.365] like [Rallis] did last year,” Scharff said.

“But there are going to be two or three who hit around .330.”

Yale will need players to step up in order to reach the lofty goals that the team has set for itself. The Bulldogs — who compete in the Rolfe division of the Ivy League along with Dartmouth, Harvard and Brown — are looking to win the Ivy League championship, team members said.

Fortunato added that Dartmouth and Harvard would be the toughest challenges on the way to winning the Ancient Eight.

Although the Bulldogs are aiming high, Brenner said setting lower goals would be underachieving for the Yale nine.

“My expectations are to win the Ivy League championship,” Brenner said. “To set the bar any lower would be selling ourselves short. This could be a special team.”

Yale will open at home March 17 against Stony Brook at 1 p.m.

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

Dartmouth is a strong team, but they graduated a lot of talented seniors and are not the intimidating Dartmouth of old.

DEVON RHODES ’13 Attack, women’s lacrosse “We have some tricks up our sleeves offensively to keep Dartmouth on their toes, and they definitely will not be expecting what we have in store in terms of our speed of play,” she said in an email to the News. “Defensively, the key to the game will be communicating on and off-ball, staying on the cutters inside, and working as one cohesive unit, which will not be difficult since we are such a closeknit group.”

There are several players to watch on the Dartmouth roster.

Senior midfielder Sarah Plumb is a key player for the Big Green. As a member of last year’s All-Ivy First Team on the watch list for the Tewaaraton Trophy — given annually to the best male and female lacrosse players in the country — SEE W. LAX PAGE 11

Dogfight in Albany: Bulldogs vs. Danes

BY JOHN SULLIVAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

The baseball team will take advantage of spring vacation to open its season with a long road trip to Virginia.

’14 said the game will be determined by the Bulldogs’ ability to break through Dartmouth’s strong defense.

After starting their season off on the right foot with a dominating 19–6 win against St. John’s last Saturday, the No. 16 Bulldogs ride the momentum into tomorrow’s contest against Albany.

In their first test of the season, the Bulldogs turned in a complete team effort against the Red Storm at Reese Stadium. Meanwhile, the Great Danes (0–2, 0–0 America East) travel to Reese Stadium looking to rebound from two losses to start the season, albeit to two formidable teams — No. 8 Syracuse and Drexel. Midfielder Matt Miller ’13 said the team is feeling good going into the match.

“It’s a great feeling, now we need to just get out and focus on the next game,” Miller said.

The Bulldogs offense was firing on all cylinders. Attackmen Matt Gibson ’12 and Brandon Mangan ’14 set the pace with four goals apiece. The Elis’ faceoff unit of Cole Yeager ’13 and Dylan Levings ’14 dominated at the X, combining for a 17–for-28 record in total. The Bulldogs defense was stifling as well, limiting a vaunted St. John’s attack unit to just six goals.

The Great Danes’ first defeat was a respectable 12–7 loss against No. 8-ranked Syracuse, although Syracuse led 10–2 after three quarters. In its next game against Drexel, Albany fell 13–8, although the Dragons came within a goal of knocking off No. 1 Virginia in their season opener Feb. 18.

In its first two games of the season Albany has outshot its opponents and taken more shots on net, although it is averaging five fewer goals per game than its opponents. The Great Danes are

averaging 22.5 shots on goal per game, and Eli goalkeeper Eric vs.

Natale ’15 will likely be tested in his second collegiate start.

Natale had two saves Albany in last weekend’s contest but saw only eight shots on net as the Bulldogs’ offense controlled possession and the defense caused eight turnovers.

The Elis will once again look to control possession through the faceoff game against Albany. Yeager and Levings led the nation last year with a .659 overall winning percentage while the Great Danes’ faceoff specialists have combined to win only 22 of their 48 draws this season. In last week’s game against St. John’s, Levings was able to win several faceoffs cleanly and turn them into fast break opportunities for the Bulldogs.

Yale will also look for scoring opportunities in their man-up sets this weekend. The Great Danes have only been called for three penalties this season, but have been scored on in man-down situations three times. Midfielder Brian Mahony ’12 has one of the fastest shots in the Bulldogs’ lineup and scored two extra-man goals last week from his topcenter position.

After Albany, the Bulldogs remain at home to take on nearby Sacred Heart on Tuesday before going on the road next week to take on Lehigh and No. 7 Cornell.

Tomorrow’s game begins at 1 p.m. at Reese Stadium.

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Attackman Brandon Mangan ’14 scored four goals last Saturday against St. John’s.

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Elis in must-win situation

Bulldogs one win away from record W.BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12

per game for the Bulldogs in her final season. vs.

Going into the last pair of games in the regular season, guard Sarah Halejian Princeton ’15 said the Bulldogs will give everything Saturday, 7p.m. they’ve got. vs.

“We want to leave it all out on the court,” she said.

“We want to walk out of there with no Penn regrets.”

Tipoff for Friday’s and Saturday’s games is scheduled for 7:00 p.m at the Lee Amphitheater.

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ference season that was decided by less than 25 points, a 57–45 win against Brown at the beginning of February.

Yale has had better luck against Penn (11–14, 4–7 Ivy) this season. In the teams’ earlier matchup, the Bulldogs came back from a halftime deficit to win by 12 points at Penn’s Palestra. Guard Megan Vasquez ’13 scored 17 points in the second half to lead the Bulldogs back to victory. Vasquez has led the Elis in scoring this year with an average of 15.3 points per game, and she currently sits in fourth place among Ivy scoring leaders, only 0.2 points behind Dartmouth guard Faziah Steen.

Captain Michelle Cashen ’12 will play her final home games this weekend. The senior has won All-Ivy honors in each of her three full seasons at Yale and is averaging 8.2 points and 5.6 rebounds

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Jesse Root ’14 scored both of Yale’s goals in the Bulldogs’ 2-2 tie with Quinnipiac last Saturday.

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“For him to play like that, I think it should give him vs. confidence going into the postseason. Nick has really stepped up for Princeton us going into the postseason, so he’s Saturday, 7p.m. our guy.” vs.

It was also Maricic in net for Yale’s most recent triumph over Princeton this past FriPrinceton day, when the Elis trounced the Tigers 5–2 on the road.

O’Neill, who was recently named Ivy League Player of the Year and ECAC Player of the Month, had a hand in four of Yale’s five goals that game to lead the way. He has come up huge against Princeton all season with three goals and five assists overall, making him the player to watch this weekend. Although Allain acknowledged O’Neill’s strong performances in those games, he pointed out that he has been superb all season.

“I can’t think of a game where Brian didn’t play well,” Allain said. “He did get the four points up there against Princeton … but I never expect anything but Brian’s best effort.”

Princeton has struggled for most of the season and finished 11th in the 12-team ECAC. The Tigers have faced offensive woes and have scored just 75 goals, which puts them at 10th in the league. However, they have limited their vulnerability by recording the fewest penalty minutes in the conference (323), which allows them to play

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little extra spark that you need in the second half of the season. I think that was a really good move by Coach, and we’re seeing the benefits of that.”

Princeton (8–14–7, 6–12–4) and Yale have faced off three times this season, with the first game back on Oct. 28. That game, part of the Ivy Shootout, was the first time either team had taken on an ECAC opponent this season, though it did not count toward conference standings.

The two sides were almost dead even in that contest, as they fought through 65 minutes of hockey to a 2–2 draw. Both teams scored two secondperiod goals and headed home with one point each.

But since then, Yale has clearly had the upper hand. The Elis first dominated Princeton on Jan. 7 when the Bulldogs hosted the Tigers at Ingalls Rink. Although the Elis fell behind by a goal early, they surged for four straight points and went on to a 6–2 win.

On both of those occasions, Jeff Malcolm ’13 was between the pipes for Yale. But Malcolm has been on the bench of late as head coach Keith Allain ’80 has opted for Nick Maricic ’13 in the team’s last four games. The two had rotated in net for about eight games until Malcolm was pulled after allowing three goals in 26 minutes to Cornell on Feb. 11. Since then, only Maricic has played in net, and it will almost surely be the California native in the crease tonight. “[Maricic] was really good in our last game against Quinnipiac, which was awesome because it was a pressure-packed game,” O’Neill said.

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Elis still in running for title M.BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 In order to come away from this weekend with victories, Yale needs to stop two of the premier players in the Ancient Eight. Princeton forward Ian Hummer averages 16.2 points and 7.3 rebounds per game, and Penn guard Zack Rosen is tied for the Ivy League lead in points per game with center Greg Mangano ’12 at 18.5 while also dishing out 5.6 assists per game.

Sherrod said that the big men for the Bulldogs will have to continue their dominance inside the paint to stop Hummer. He added that the Elis will try to wear down Rosen by attacking him offensively.

Yale head coach James Jones said that although the Bulldogs will repeat some of the strategies that helped them to beat both teams at home in February, they cannot focus on just one player.

“We’re going to try and do the same thing we did in the last games,” Jones said. “You can’t just zone in on one player because the other [players] will beat you.”

Tied to the Ivy League title is an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Failing to make the “Big Dance” does not mean

at full strength more than any other ECAC team. Still, Allain said that he expects Princeton to be a touch matchup.

“It’s going to be a heck of a battle every game this weekend,” Allain said.

“They work really hard as a team, they have some team speed, their defense does a real good job of contributing to the offense and they get real good goaltending.”

Although Princeton does not appear to be a very significant threat, anything can happen in a three-game series. Just two years ago, the No. 11 seed, Brown, upset top-seeded Yale in a three-game quarterfinal at Ingalls Rink.

If the Elis hope to avoid such an upset this year, winning the opening game of the series is a good place to start. Going back to the 2008 ECAC tournament, the team that has won the opening game of a three-game series has gone on to win the set 72 percent of the time. However, Allain said he does not necessarily consider the first game to be the most important.

“You have to get two wins, it doesn’t really matter how you get them,” Allain said. “I don’t want to place too much importance on one game. The second win is the one you have to get.”

The series kicks off on tonight at 7 p.m. and will continue with Game 2 on Saturday night. If the teams split the first two games, Game 3 is scheduled for Sunday night at 7 p.m.

Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at kevin.kucharski@yale.edu .

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The women’s basketball team is vying for its second consecutive WNIT bid.

Yale seeks first Ivy League win W.LAX FROM PAGE 10 she reeled off three goals for Dartmouth to help the team take down New Hampshire last week.

McCormick said Plumb is certainly a threatening midfielder, but she is confident that Yale’s team-oriented, aggressive defense will shut her down if the Bulldogs communicate and play cohesively.

that a team cannot play in the postseavs. son, however.

Three other tournaments — the National Princeton Invitation Tournament, Saturday, 7p.m. the College vs.

Basketball Invitational and the Coll e g e I n s i d e r. com PostseaPenn son Tournam e n t (C I T ) — all offer teams the chance to play on after the regular season has ended.

Regardless of what transpires this weekend, Jones said that he thinks the Bulldogs should be in a postseason tournament. Jones added that the CBI and CIT have already been in touch with the University regarding Yale’s entry.

With 19 wins so far this season, Yale has the opportunity to win 20 games for only the sixth time in school history this weekend.

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

We have..been practicing our transition and the draw set this week. Winning the draw is imperative to beat Dartmouth.

DEVON RHODES ’13 Attack, women’s lacrosse In addition to Plumb, Big Green goalkeeper Kristen Giovanniello and attacker Hana Bowers are expected to pose major threats to the Bulldogs.

Rhodes said she expects Saturday’s match to be very competitive.

“Dartmouth is a strong team, but they graduated a lot of talented seniors and are not the intimidating Dartmouth of old,” she said.

She added that if goalkeeper Whitney Quackenbush ’12 and the defenders can continue their strong performances so far this season, and if the offense takes advantage of scoring opportunities, the Bulldogs should win.

Hanover’s weather conditions do not appear to be so welcoming, with an 80 percent chance of freezing rain forecast for Saturday.

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A strong performance from goalie Whitney Quackenbush ’12 and the Eli defense will be key for a Yale victory on Saturday against a favored Dartmouth squad.

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Bulldogs prepare for playoff test HOCKEY

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER For the seniors on the men’s hockey team, ‘firsts’ are few and far between. The group has been to three NCAA tournaments, reached the national quarterfinals twice and won two ECAC titles.

But this weekend, the seniors will be facing a new challenge — for the first time in their careers, they will be playing in the first round of the ECAC tournament.

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The Bulldogs (13–13–3, 10–10–2 ECAC) will host Princeton at Ingalls Rink this weekend for a three-game series in the first round of the ECAC tournament. In each of the last three ECAC tournaments — two of which they have won — the Bulldogs have been a No. 1 or a No. 2 seed and received a first-round bye.

Captain and forward Brian O’Neill ’12 said those playoff trips have given the seniors the experience necessary to lead Yale on a deep playoff run this year.

“We’ve all been in the ECAC tournament and won a couple championships, so everyone knows what it takes, which is important,” O’Neill said. “I don’t think anything is too overwhelming for us right now, so I think that will definitely help us in the long run in the playoffs.”

This year’s squad heads into the tournament with only a No. 6 seed after falling to the middle of the ECAC pack this season. Despite the lower standing, the Elis begin the conference tournament with major momentum after finishing 3–0–1 over the last two weekends of the regular season. During that span, Yale has outscored its opponents 19–8. O’Neill said a new set of lines has re-energized the team’s offense over the past few weeks.

“I think we were getting a little bit stale with the lines,” O’Neill said. “To get some new life in the lines really gives everyone a

Men’s hockey captain Brian O’Neill ’12, who leads Yale in scoring with 19 goals and 40 points this season, will lead his team into playoff action against Princeton this weekend.

Final push for Ivy crown

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER The Ivy League men’s basketball season began Jan. 7 with Harvard’s 63–47 victory over Dartmouth. Fifty-five days later, the Ancient Eight crown is still up for grabs.

Entering the final weekend of the Ivy League season, three teams are within one game of leading the league. Harvard (24–4, 10–2 Ivy) leads Penn (17–11, 9–2) by a halfgame and has a one-game advantage over Yale (19–7, 9–3). Guard Jesse Pritchard ’14 said he was amazed by how competitive the league has been this year.

“It’s been a long Ivy League season,” Pritchard said. “After 11 or 12 games, that [the Ivy League champion] still hasn’t been decided is kind of crazy.”

There are a host of scenarios that could leave Harvard, Yale, Penn or even Princeton (16–11, 7–4 Ivy) with a shot at the championship. In order for the Bulldogs to have a chance at their first share of an Ivy League title since 2002, Yale must win at least one game this weekend on the road at Princeton on Friday or at Penn on Saturday.

Although Pritchard and forward Brandon Sherrod ’15 said that the road games will be tough, they expressed confidence in the Elis’ ability to get the job done.

“We’re expecting to win this weekend,” Sherrod said. “We know it’s going to be a really tough test because play at Penn and Princeton is really difficult … You look for this kind of moment … these do-or-die situations. We are going to leave it all out on the floor.”

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Elis on tip of historic iceberg

BY JOHN SULLIVAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a season of milestones, the women’s basketball team enters the final weekend of the season on the verge of breaking one most important records in team history.

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Guard Austin Morgan ’13 is currently shooting 90.3% from the free throw line for Yale, which remains a longshot for the Ivy League title.

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Yale’s win at Cornell last Saturday gave the Elis (16–10, 8–4 Ivy) its 16th win of the season, tying the University’s record for most wins in a season for women’s basketball. With a victory Friday against Princeton or Saturday against Penn, the 2011-’12 Bulldogs will move into sole possession of the singleseason wins record.

“We have the opportunity to break the wins record for the season and we’re excited about that,” head coach Chris Gobrecht said.

The last time Yale finished the season with 16 wins was in 1994, when the Elis finished 16–10. This year’s team has already matched one of the 1993-’94 squad’s feats when it finished its nonconference schedule with eight wins, the most in 18 years for the Bulldogs.

The wins record is not the team’s only goal. Yale currently sits in second place in the Ivy League, a half-game ahead of Harvard. First-place Princeton (21–4, 11–0 Ivy), has clinched the Ivy League title for the third-straight season, but the second place finisher is awarded a bid to play in the postseason

Women’s National Invitation Tournament. The Bulldogs earned their first bid to the WNIT last year and are looking for a repeat trip.

To get there, the Elis may have to beat the Tigers, who lost only one conference game in the past three seasons.

Although the Elis lead the Crimson by a half-game, the Cantabs face Cornell, Columbia and Dartmouth, three teams with losing records, in the coming week, while the Bulldogs face off against the defending champs.

We want to leave it all out on the court. We want to walk out there with no regrets.

SARAH HALEJIAN ’15 Guard, women’s basketball “Harvard is more in the driver’s seat than we are,” Gobrecht said. “But I think our team’s top priority for the final weekend is to continue to demonstrate the excellence that has marked our whole season.”

Last time Yale played Princeton, the Bulldogs fell to the Tigers, 72–47.

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THE NUMBER OF GAMES THE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM (19–7, 9–3 IVY) HAS WON THIS SEASON. Yale has earned 20 or more wins in a single season only five time in school history. Three of those seasons were between 1904-08. The Bulldogs last 20-plus-win season came in 2001-02.