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Higher ed adopts shared services

The odds were not in their favor. Around 100 Scroll and

Key hopefuls gathered at the society’s College Street tomb Thursday afternoon after receiving a cryptic message — sent to members of the junior class — requesting their presence to “celebrate the Rites of Spring.” As the students looked on, the Keysmen began playing a modified version of “duck, duck, goose” substituting the words “scroll” and “key” for “duck” and “goose.”

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Experts say higher education is headed toward a cost-cutting business model — one that has stirred controversy among some of Yale’s faculty.

Solidarity. Yale’s Muslim

Student Association is launching a “calling campaign” to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office tomorrow in response to recent reports that the New York Police Department kept watch of Muslim students at Yale. The campaign urges supporters to call Mayor Bloomberg’s office tomorrow at any time from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Busted. A man police are

calling “The Hamburglar,” was arrested in South Windsor, Conn., Thursday morning. He was caught on camera stealing about $900 worth of food from a Johnny Rockets, a popular American fast-food chain, the Hartford Courant reported.

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Quinnipiac University poll on Connecticut’s U.S. Senate race shows U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy ahead of former secretary of the state Susan Bysiewicz ’83 for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate, 37 percent to 25 percent. On the Republican side, meanwhile, wrestling executive Linda McMahon leads former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, 51 percent to 42 percent.

Obama in trouble? In a Thursday afternoon talk at Luce Hall, Democratic pollster Peter Hart pointed to numerous indicators of a generally negative climate — including the stat that only 30 percent of Americans believe the country is going in the right direction — as indication that President Barack Obama could lose come November.

The artist returns. A new mural from Believe in People has popped up on the side wall of Hull’s on Chapel Street. The painting features an image of a man pole vaulting over what appears to be a mountain range, behind which a sun is setting. The caption reads, “Do Something Amazing.”

R.O.T.C. goes to Cambridge.

Harvard University announced on Wednesday that it plans to open an office for the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps this fall. Harvard has already allowed a Navy R.O.T.C. to come to campus.

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1916 Two professors advise in a talk that, in business, stamina and training with patience will win out.”

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Since January 2010, Yale’s Shared Services Center in Science Park has handled common tasks for departments.

BY GAVAN GIDEON STAFF REPORTER Despite the criticism shared services has received from faculty, administrators at other universities with efforts to streamline and centralize administrative tasks say Yale is at the forefront of a movement in higher education.

At the February Yale College Faculty meeting, about 20 professors challenged shared services and its alleged cost-cutting merits, describing it as an across-the-board model that cannot meet the needs of

individual departments. But administrators at three other universities working with the shared service business model said its cost-reduction advantages are attracting colleges and universities to the system, especially during a period of tight finances caused by the nationwide economic recession.

“I see shared services as something that is inevitable,” said Rowan Miranda, associate vice president for finance at the University of Michigan. “It’s the next logical influx of thinking in the business world brought into higher education.”

Teachers resist Malloy’s reforms

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER An education reform bill proposed by Gov. Dannel Malloy is hitting fierce resistance from the state’s teachers.

Malloy is fielding complaints over provisions that require teacher evaluations and changes to tenure protections from teachers statewide as he embarks on his “Education Reform Tour.” The bill is currently being debated in the state legislature’s Education Committee, which is expected to present a modified proposal early next week.

Malloy’s proposals take their lead from the New Haven teachers’ contract signed in 2009, which was lauded as a “breakthrough” in the national education reform movement. The contract strengthened performance evaluations and reduced job protections for teachers, in addition to giving the city the authority to convert failing schools to charter schools.

Malloy said he is championing these reforms because Connecticut has “lost its edge” as a leader in national education. The achievement gap in Connecticut is the worst in the nation, he said, and the current condition of Connecticut education calls for “boldness and real reform.”

Of the proposal’s six objectives, the one calling for a standardized teacher evaluation system and reforms to the tenure system, called “Develop the

Nearly two years after administrators decided to equalize residential college budgets, some students in the once-wealthiest colleges interviewed said they have noticed the drop in resources.

Administrators announced the change in May 2010 in an attempt to make the opportunities available to students more equitable across residential colleges. The University determined an appropriate budget for all colleges and distributed University funds to those that received smaller returns from their own endowed funds. University President Richard Levin said the two colleges whose endowment returns exceed the current equalized budget can spend these funds on initiatives such as “financial aid and student support,” but not on “student activities.”

There have been some traditions in JE that have been going on for a while, but because of the equalizations we’ve had to cut back.

Miranda said he estimates that up to 12 schools in the United States have implemented, or are implementing, the shared services model on a university-wide level. Yale and other frontrunners in this transition may face resistance, Miranda said, because people are unfamiliar with the system. But administrators at colleges and universities will eventually be unable to ignore the longterm cost-cutting advantages of the system, he added.

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Though residential college endowments have grown unevenly in the past because of

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Rights to Green questioned

Very Best Teachers and Principals,” has stirred up the most controversy.

A state agency, the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC), would evaluate teachers on a rubric that weights standardized and classroom test scores 45 percent, administrator evaluations 45 percent and parent and student feedback 10 percent, said Andrea Johnson, president of the Hartford Federation of Teachers.

One thing that does distinguish New Haven school [reform] is that it’s been a collaborative effort.

ELIZABETH BENTON ’04 Spokeswoman, City Hall Under Malloy’s proposed tenure reform, teachers would earn tenure based on performance, as opposed to the amount of time on the job, and teachers could also lose their jobs for ineffectiveness, not only for incompetence.

The state’s teachers’ unions have come out in vigorous disagreement with Malloy’s approach, arguing that nonschool factors such as socioeconomic background play a larger SEE SCHOOL REFORM PAGE 6

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A lawsuit by Occupy New Haven protesters has raised questions over the Green’s ownership.

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ust over five months after the Occupy movement first moved onto the New Haven Green, the continued existence of the protest in the city’s commonhas brought questions of ownership into debate. NICK DEFIESTA and NATASHA THONDAVADI report.

On Wednesday, March 14, members of Occupy New Haven waited anxiously for the New Haven Police Department to march onto the Green and forcibly remove their encampment, the last of its kind in New England. But as the clock struck noon, the deadline set by City Hall for tents to be off the Green, the protestors found themselves still waiting.

Fifteen minutes later, protesters on the Green received an explanation in the form of a text message. Their attorney, Norm Pattis, had succeeded in a last-ditch lawsuit

to protect the encampment from the city’s planned eviction — but only for the next two weeks.

Pattis argued that the First Amendment protects the protesters’ right to demonstrate on the Green, which has traditionally been downtown New Haven’s primary space for public gathering.

Regardless of the outcome of the case, which U.S. District Court Judge Mark Kravitz will hear on March 28, the protesters’ lawsuit SEE GREEN PAGE 6

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Watching the watchers

GUEST COLUMNIST KIKI OCHIENG

The myth of a post-racial society O

n February 26, high school junior Trayvon Martin stepped out of his father’s girlfriend’s home during the halftime break of a basketball game to grab some Skittles and iced tea at a nearby 7-11. As Martin walked down the street of the small, gated community, George Zimmerman, a 28-yearold Hispanic man, deemed him suspicious, followed him in his car and shot him — in selfdefense, or so he claimed. A series of 911 calls have helped us piece together the story and new pieces of information continue to emerge.

While he followed Martin, Zimmerman placed a call to 911, the audio and transcript of which are available online. In those calls, Zimmerman says Martin appeared to be “walking around and looking about” and that he “looks like he’s up to no good.” Despite the 911 dispatcher’s attempt to dissuade Zimmerman from following Martin, he persisted in following the 17-year-old in his car.

In the next few minutes, Martin was dead on the ground, Zimmerman had blood on his shirt and 911 calls from neighbors flooded in with shouting and shots in the background.

Zimmerman had a handgun; Martin had a bag of Skittles and some iced tea. Zimmerman weighed 250 pounds; Martin, 140 pounds.

Almost a month has passed and Zimmerman has not been arrested. He remains free due to a Florida statute which permits the use of deadly force in response to a “reasonable” perceived threat.

As Martin walked down the street, talking to his girlfriend on the phone and keeping to himself, how did he pose a threat to Zimmerman? Zimmerman actively pursued Martin, getting out of his car to confront him while in possession of a handgun, thus calling into question the classification of this case as one of self-defense.

In a society in which stereotypes of black men pervade the national consciousness and tell us that they are violent aggressors, thieves and criminals, should it come as any surprise that some people perceive the mere presence of a black man as a “reasonable threat?” By refusing to arrest or even question Zimmerman, the Sanford police department appears to have reached this conclusion. As the commentator Touré stated in his March 21 column on the website of TIME, “blackmaleness [in this country] is a potentially fatal condition.”

In his 911 call, George Zimmerman described Trayvon

Martin as just another one of those “a--holes [who] always get away.” By referring to Trayvon as an “a--hole,” I can only presume that Zimmerman’s statement is based on a caricature of a delinquent black teenager. If Trayvon Martin had been white, I have no doubt that he would not have been stalked and killed in the first place.

By bringing issues of racial profiling to the forefront of national news coverage, this case illustrates that the United States is not the post-racial society that many hailed it to be after the 2008 election. Numerous commentators, journalists and civilians have been outspoken in their demands for justice and their criticisms of the Sanford police department and police departments across the nation for unfair treatment and sentencing of black people. Rallies around the country are currently being organized to protest laws, policies and people who perpetuate the prejudice and mistreatment of black people, particularly young black men.

In my efforts to stay informed about the case, I have come across numerous blog posts, newspaper articles and televised news pieces. The authors of these pieces have been members of minority communities and, for the most part, black. I find this deeply disturbing because injustice is not a fight that solely concerns blacks but a cause around which every American should rally.

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are prevented from recording police activity. This bill would undoubtedly help to assure citizens the right to film and photograph police activities.

When Looney proposed a similar bill last year, it failed to gain passage in the House. Many lawmakers expressed fears that filming an arrest or other police action could impinge upon the privacy of a victim or even those being arrested. This is a valid concern, but fear over the impingement of privacy in some cases should not prevent the protection of civil liberties in all cases. Provided that those filming are not legitimately interfering with the police investigation, it is their fundamental right — enshrined in the First Amendment — to document public activity.

POLICE OFFICERS CANNOT ARREST US FOR EXERCIZING OUR RIGHTS This bill must not fail a second time. In addition to helping citizens sue in the event that they are wrongfully arrested for filming

KIKI OCHIENG is a freshman in Silliman College. Contact her at akinyi.ochieng@yale.edu .

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the police, the law would serve an even more important purpose. It would chip away at the mentality, engendered by cops like Melendez, that “you don’t take pictures of us.” It would demonstrate to cops that filming or photographing police actions is unquestionably legal.

As citizens, we should be grateful for police officers that put their lives on the line every day to protect us. However, this gratitude does not translate to blind trust in the police. Everyone in a free society — even those who guard that free society — should be held accountable for their actions. As Horace wrote in his Satires, “Who will guard the guards?” We will! And this bill would further allow us to do so.

Because of the possibility of civil action already on the books, South Windsor Police Chief Matt Reed told the Shoreline Times that, though he supports the proposed bill in theory, “I don’t think it’s necessary … I don’t think it needs to be statutory.”

It does need to be statutory, not just to further assure citizens the right to legal recourse.

This law would do much to prevent these wrongful arrests in the first place.

SCOTT STERN is a freshman in Branford College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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filming video of public activity — even of cops — is clearly protected under the First Amendment. Simply, the public has SCOTT a right to see STERN — and document — what A Stern the police are Perspective doing. Arrests like Luna’s have since been condemned by Mayor John DeStefano and, of course, the Connecticut ACLU. But condemnation is not enough. Because of actions like Melendez’s, the arrests and harrassment of those recording police activity have quickly become institutionalized. As The New Haven Independent reported, when Southern Connecticut State University student James Kelly was seen filming the police, one cop threatened him with violence, while another grabbed his camera and told him, “you don’t take pictures of us.”

Action is clearly needed to combat this mentality.

Apparently, State Senator Martin Looney (D-New Haven) agrees. Last week, the state legislature held a hearing on a bill sponsored by Looney that would give citizens a statutory right to sue the police if they

The fury surrounding this case has only begun. Trayvon Martin, as an innocent, promising young boy, serves as a sort of martyr for the black community and for those who have been subject to the injustices of law enforcement. However, as we remember him, we must also take care to remember the thousands of other young black men who have been murdered without adequate investigation by the police or humiliated in public due to their race. Their stories may not fit as perfectly into the soundbite of “skittles vs. handgun,” but seeing these stories brought to light and ensuring that justice is served should be just as important.

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n September 25, 2010, Luis Luna was arrested.

His crime? Filming a police officer. Yes, when Luna used his iPhone to record several arrests being made on Crown Street by then-NHPD Assistant Chief Ariel Melendez, his phone was confiscated and he was placed under arrest. Melendez ordered another officer to erase the video on Luna’s phone. Luna then spent the night in jail.

In the weeks after Luna’s arrest, an internal affairs investigation found that Melendez violated NHPD rules when he arrested Luna. The charge against Luna — “interfering with police” — was eventually dismissed. Melendez resigned several months later.

This case was not unique. Four Yale students were threatened with arrest at the October 2010 Elevate raid, also for interfering with police (in other words, filming them). Luna’s case is notable, however, because the arresting officer was of such a high rank.

Melendez was “not an ordinary beat cop,” Luna’s lawyer, Max Simmons, told the New Haven Independent. “This is a person who’s in a position to set policy.”

The policy of arresting citizens for filming or photographing cops should never be set. The act of recording police activity merely serves to hold the police accountable. Taking pictures or

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Suspicious of Singapore In their defense of President Richard Levin’s great Singapore folly, professors Charles Bailyn, Deborah Davis and Pericles Lewis (“Rethinking Liberal Arts Education,” Feb. 29), none of whom has ever drawn a paycheck in Southeast Asia, let alone actually run anything in this part of the world, peep, “We recognize that Singapore has very different laws and traditions from our own.”

Yes, it does. And the Singaporean state functions as it does for a reason. Yale has now hired itself out to the Singaporean state to create a new college on the campus of the National University of Singapore. It is therefore incumbent on Yale both to develop and to demonstrate an understanding of the rationale according to which the Singapore state works, for that state’s determination to have a liberal arts college on this island and all planning for the operation of that college each conform to that rationale.

No one at Yale involved in this project has ever shown either the sophistication or the respect for the Yale community to share his or her understanding of the University’s new Singaporean employers. Woodbridge Hall has offered that community only smug assurances that there is nothing to worry about in Singapore. But Yale’s failure to demonstrate that it has any idea what it is getting into renders these assurances irrelevant.

In their manifesto, Bailyn, Davis and Lewis mention a curriculum brainstorm-

ing session held at Yale last August. What they do not reveal is that Yale’s Council on Southeast Asia Studies was kept in the dark about this session until after it had happened. Little epitomizes Yale’s lack of interest in the Singaporean and Southeast Asian contexts in which it would operate as this childish stunt.

MICHAEL MONTESANO March 1 The writer is a 1983 graduate of Saybrook College and a resident of singapore.

Celebrating Patton and Bouchet The news of the discovery of the papers of Richard T. Greener, Harvard’s first black alumnus, recalls a similar revival of interest in another once obscure black American achiever, Edward Alexander Bouchet, recipient of a doctorate in physics from Yale in 1876 and the first AfricanAmerican doctoral recipient in the United States. He received his Ph.D. almost 19 years before W.E.B. DuBois became the first black to be awarded a doctorate from Harvard.

A member of the Fisk University class of ’56, Dr. Curtis Patton

initiated independent research into Bouchet while on the faculty of Yale Medical School. Patton rescued Bouchet from relative obscurity, reminding Yale of its historical achievement in awarding the first doctorate to a black man in the United States.

In the Sterling Memorial Library on the Yale campus, you will see the portrait of a solemn young black male on the wall near the approach to the stacks, an achiever of historic consequence, who is now venerated and honored at Yale (and nationally) thanks, in great measure, to the efforts of Curtis Patton. It is instructive how important it was to rediscover Bouchet, both for Yale, black history and posterity.

Though now retired, Dr. Patton can draw satisfaction whenever he enters Sterling and glimpses that gilt framed portrait on the wall, passes the memorial sculpture on the campus, and participates in the awards and societies resulting from the rediscovery of Bouchet, the son of a slave who accompanied his student master to New Haven so long ago.

DR. NORMAN HODGES March 14 The writer is a 1961 alumnus of the graduate school.

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HERMAN MELVILLE “Let America praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises the best excellence in the children of any other land. ”

Visiting Yale’s brain

GUEST COLUMNIST MICHAEL FISCHER

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Yale-NUS is not Yale

ale-NUS, the new liberal arts college being created in Singapore under the guidance of Yale University and the National University of Singapore, raises two almost completely separate issues. Both are important but easily confused. First, is it possible and desirable to attempt to establish a Western-style liberal arts college in an environment whose social norms do not support freedom of expression? And second, what is the relationship between Yale and Yale-NUS? Most of the discussion has centered around the first issue. I want to share my views on the second and say why I am troubled by what I am seeing.

Yale is a collegium of scholars dedicated to create, preserve and disseminate knowledge in an environment of mutual trust, tolerance and respect. Its goal is to bring light and truth to a world often confused by darkness and deceit.

For over 300 years, the name Yale has stood for these values that the Yale community holds so dear. The current faculty are stewards for these ideals and have the responsibility to preserve and perpetuate them for future generations and for the benefit of society.

The new college, Yale-NUS, is being promoted as “an entirely new liberal arts college in Asia [that] would allow Yale to extend to other parts of the world its long

tradition of leadership in shaping liberal education,” according to a September 12, 2010 email sent to the Yale faculty by President Richard Levin and Provost Peter Salovey.

“Yale has never embarked on a joint project to create an overseas campus bearing its name, but this initiative to establish a YaleNUS College has special appeal,” they say. But the Yale the administrators are talking about here is the Yale Corporation, not the real Yale — the collegium — which has never voted on this venture.

Despite the rhetoric, Yale-NUS is not a part of Yale. It is a new institution with its own governing board and funded by the Singaporean government. It will not teach Yale’s curriculum, nor will Yale approve Yale-NUS courses.

Its faculty will not be subject to Yale’s rigorous appointment process. Its students will not receive Yale degrees.

Nevertheless, the publicity for the new college encourages one to believe that it is a part of Yale and that its degree will offer the same prestige as a real Yale degree. For example, the home page for YaleNUS prominently displays a banner with the words “Yale-NUS College” against a Yale blue background, where “Yale” and “College” are in white, separated by the letters “NUS” in subdued orange.

Yes, Yale-NUS has ancillary

ties to Yale. Yale President Richard Levin and Yale Vice-President and Secretary Linda Lorimer both serve on the Yale-NUS governing board. Yale-NUS Inaugural Dean of the Faculty Charles Bailyn is a Yale faculty member. Individual faculty and staff from Yale are playing roles in Yale-NUS faculty hiring and student admissions. But such dual service arrangements do not make Yale-NUS a part of Yale any more than does Levin’s service on the board of directors for American Express make American Express a part of Yale.

By conflating the two institutions under the banner of “Yale,” the meaning of the Yale brand changes to reflect a mixture of the values of the 300-year-old New Haven institution and the YaleNUS experiment. The value of a Yale degree becomes diminished since it will be easily confused with the degree from a very different institution. Yale’s core values of freedom of expression and tolerance of diversity similarly become compromised. In the same 2010 email, Levin and Salovey admitted, “The limitations we would need to accept [on the scope of public discourse], given Singaporean tradition and law, have to be weighed against the opportunity we have to influence over time the curriculum and pedagogy in a major part of the world.”

Once freedom of expression is

compromised at Yale-NUS, how comfortable can anyone feel that it will continue to be strenuously defended on the New Haven campus? Will Yale faculty feel uncomfortable about expressing views critical of the Singaporean government, perhaps out of fear of damage to our so-called colleagues at our satellite campus in Singapore, or perhaps out of fear of retribution from the Yale administration that has as-yet-undisclosed financial ties with the Singaporean government? Ethical standards cannot be compromised a little bit at a time and retain any force.

The new college may well meet an educational need within Singaporean society, but it is not Yale and must not bear the proud Yale name. Let us be transparent and honest and label it for what it is — a new college with an unproven track record in an environment that lacks many of the basic freedoms we take for granted.

I ask that the Yale name be removed from the new college, that the Yale administration make clear to all that Yale’s role in YaleNUS is only as consultants and that the Yale collegium has no control, responsibility or affiliation with Yale-NUS. MICHAEL FISCHER is a professor of computer science.

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magine the following situation: A businessman runs a profitable company, providing much-needed employment to the economy. An integral part of the business, however, consists of paying off thugs who terrorize the community, stealing and raping at will. Would you invest in this business?

This is essentially the question that the Yale Corporation and other investors face regarding the mineral trade in the eastern Congo. There, pick and shovel mining puts cash in the pockets and food on the tables for hundreds of thousands spread over an area the size of Florida. The minerals they mine are also estimated to provide the largest source of financing for armed groups that commit thousands of rapes and murders each year.

This epidemic of violence led the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence to dub the Congo “the rape capital of the world,” and recent health surveys suggest that as many as 40 percent of women in the eastern Congo have been sexually abused.

Mortality studies show that 5.4 million people died as a result of the conflict between 1998 and 2007, and thousands have been killed in recent years.

While the roots of the conflict are complex, there is no doubt

that rebel soldiers make millions each year off the mineral trade — numerous United Nations reports detail armed groups taxing trade routes and mining pits, owning transport companies and smuggling ore into neighboring countries.

Something had to be done. In July 2010, U.S. legislators inserted several pages into the mammoth Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill to help regulate this mineral trade; once this part of the law goes into effect, companies listed on U.S. markets will have to publish conflict mineral reports detailing what they have done to find out whether they use minerals involved in the conflict.

This bill does not sanction businesses trading in conflict minerals. It doesn’t even require them to stop buying these tainted goods.

Rather, the law only requires that companies make their supply chains more transparent. Penalties are left to private investors and concerned individuals.

This is where Yale comes in.

Around the same time as the Dodd-Frank bill was passed, we approached Yale’s Advisory Committee on Investment Accountability (ACIR) about weighing in. This is the body that recommended that Yale divest from Apartheid South Africa and from companies doing business with

Sudan.

We urged the committee to adopt a policy of engagement: Tell companies that Yale will not invest in supply chains that finance violence, provide a grace period for companies to implement substantial reforms and otherwise consider divesting.

Unfortunately, ACIR is reluctant to take a position on the matter. “We couldn’t conclude with any certainty that if we started boycotting them it wouldn’t do more harm than good,” ACIR chair Jonathan Macey told the News last month. The problem, he said, was that the committee found conflicting data.

Some journalists and academics are concerned that the DoddFrank bill has resulted in a boycott of Congolese minerals and pushed hundreds of thousands of Congolese into unemployment. Yet most experts and field researchers disagree. A United Nations expert panel found that the Dodd-Frank bill led to a decrease in mineral production. While some miners have indeed lost their jobs, those losses are likely lower than many estimates. Many miners have migrated to other jobs. The Congolese army has withdrawn from some key mining areas, and mining companies have begun to separate clean from dirty minerals.

The UN panel backs the Dodd-

Frank legislation, as do campaign groups like Global Witness and Amnesty International, several dozen Congolese human rights groups and the Catholic Church.

The Congolese government has also thrown its weight behind the U.S. legislation.

So is the data really so conflicting?

There is no doubt that the crackdown on conflict minerals will lead some miners to lose their jobs in the short run. But to compare these modest job losses with the rape and killing perpetrated by armed groups is untenable. Yale has fallen behind Harvard, Stanford and Dartmouth in its efforts to ensure that its investments do not underwrite violence.

Now is not the time for riskaversion and hesitation. Just this month, violence displaced another 100,000 people in the eastern Congo. And thanks to industry lobbyists with far deeper pockets than human rights groups — and without firm action from private investors like Yale — the Dodd-Frank legislation risks being diluted into a toothless bill. Yale now has to decide: Will it lead?

JASON STEARNS is a third-year graduate student in political science.

JULIA SPIEGEL is a third-year joint degree student at Yale Law School and Princeton.

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t’s in large part thanks to Harvey Cushing that Yale possesses more brains than Harvard. After graduating from Yale in 1891, Cushing, the “father of modern neurosurgery,” headed to Harvard for medical school.

He did a stint at John Hopkins University, where, in 1902, the pathology department claimed to have misplaced a pituitary cyst he was studying. Enraged, Cushing vowed that he would henceforth keep track of all his own brain specimens.

Three decades and over 2,000 tumor operations later, Cushing returned to Yale, serving as Sterling Professor of Neurology. He offered his collection of approximately 600 jarred specimens to Harvard, but when the university dawdled, Cushing brought his brains back to New Haven.

Those jars of formaldehyde — together with copious records, detailed drawings, glass plate negatives and a collection of historically significant medical books — remained at Yale upon Cushing’s death in 1939. And for about 30 years, young neurosurgeons studied his specimens housed in a sub-basement of Brady Memorial Laboratory.

But by 1979, no one paid much attention to the jars. The collection was locked in a room near a fall-out shelter in the basement of Harkness Hall and forgotten.

Kind of.

By the mid 1990s medical students had discovered the collection and, in typical Yale fashion, created a rite of passage and a society around sneaking into it, a process that apparently required removing door panels and picking locks. Those who entered signed a poster-board emblazoned with the words “The Yale Medical School Brain Society” and instructions to “Leave Only Your Name, Take Only Memories.” Mike “Hippocampus” Schlosser, Prem “Queen Amygdala” Bhat, or José “Hole in the Head” Prince, they scrawled. In 1996, Christopher Wahl ’96 MD — among the first to rediscover the room after a night of drinking at Mory’s in 1991 — got permission to write his MD thesis on Cushing’s Brain Tumor Registry.

I was sober when I went to see Cushing’s brains (a good thing, considering it was 10 a.m.). I did not crawl through any steam tunnels, duck under pipes, remove door panels or pick locks. I didn’t even get to sign my name on the Brain Society poster. (I think I would have gone with Zara “Medulla Oblongata” Kessler.)

Instead, I climbed down two flights of stairs in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library to the Cushing Center, accompanied by Education Services Librarian Jan Glover, who agreed to give me a tour. I signed my name in a guest book.

Beginning in the late 90s with the renewed interest in Cushing’s brains, Yale began

to explore potential homes for the collection, and in 2008, the subbasement of the Medical library was ZARA Soon KESSLER chosen. thereafter, a sciBucket List forensic entist cleaned the jars, replaced the formaldehyde, moving the brains, two-by-two in individual buckets (accompanied by Yale’s Environmental Health and Safety team) from Harkness to the Pathology lab.

In June 2010, the Cushing Center opened.

There are about 400 jars of brains, still bearing their original labels and tags, in cases along the shelves of the center.

The lighting is a bit eerie, and I imagine visiting the spheres of wrinkles might not make the best solo expedition. Underneath the glowing orbs are some highlights of Cushing’s book collection: a 13th century manuscript containing writings by Aristotle, a first edition of Andreas Vesalius’ Humani Corporis Fabrica, a first edition of Nicolaus Copernicus’ “On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres” with a note scribbled in the margin by Edwin Hubble of telescope fame.

My favorite non-cranial jar is a tiny one in a display devoted to Cushing’s life. It sits next to a photograph of Cushing and Ivan Pavlov. The two met at the 13th International Physiological Congress in Boston in 1929. Cushing invited an interested Pavlov to come see him do surgery with an electrosurgical knife. Pavlov was so fascinated by the tool that Cushing decided to call down to the hospital kitchen for a piece of liver so Pavlov could play around with the knife. Pavlov used the tool to sign his name in the meat.

Cushing, not surprisingly, preserved the liver in the little jar on display. It’s a pretty historic piece of meat (and unlike during my venture to Louis’ Lunch, this time I didn’t even have to eat it).

So yes, since June 2010, going to the Brain Room has become a bit more mainstream of a Bucket List activity. But I’d say swallow your pride and go in to look at some of Yale’s most distinguished brains. Of course, if you’ve been paying attention, you’ll realize that there are about 600 jars in the collection, and about 400 are on display. The other 200? Glover and a couple of others who work at the Center say they think that they’re still in the basement of Harkness.

ZARA KESSLER is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Her column runs on alternate Fridays. Contact her at zara.kessler@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST IKE LEE

Developing without pressure I

spent spring break in Tena, Ecuador, helping deliver much-needed primary care to the indigenous. To get to the small city, which lies next to the Amazon rainforest, we took a four-hour bus ride from the airport through rubble-ridden mountain roads and saw all but 20 buildings on the way; at our hostel, dead butterflies littered the floor and there was no hot water. We were even told to not use the tap water for drinking or brushing our teeth.

Those conditions are attributes of a developing country. Although not as primitive as other countries in South America, Ecuador is still some distance away from matching American or Western European standards. As habitants of such countries, we often sympathize with those living in develop-

ing areas and give our time and support to help them become more modernized and lead better lives. I once also shared that mindset, but I now question it.

At a mobile clinic that saw more patients than usual, I chatted in broken Spanish with Javier, a middle-aged man, about his life as a farmer. As I expected, he said his lifestyle was difficult, laden with hours of physical labor, even during the daily torrential rains that hit the area.

However, he also added that he still very much enjoyed getting the steady income, working close to home and being able to watch his four kids grow up together.

My family and community are everything, he whispered.

He once had the opportunity to move his family to Quito, Ecuador’s capital. But although he would have taken a job that gar-

nered more respect there, he decided to not go because he would have lost the close connection to his family.

When we weren’t working with patients at the clinics, the many children in the communities, swarmed around us, eager to play and horse around. As one piggyback ride turned into several, I noticed a subtle difference between these kids and those I’ve played with back in the U.S. These preteens and teenagers are not under the pressure of scoring high on standardized exams or gaining admission into the top schools of their region. Liberated from the burden of grades, they freely immerse themselves in learning for learning’s sake.

There is no competition — there isn’t much to compete for — no badmouthing, no nothing. I saw in their faces a kind of light-

heartedness and cheerfulness that just isn’t present in American children anymore.

In developed nations such as ours, however, we’ve sacrificed the values those Ecuadorians still hold dear. We relinquish precious time with our friends and lose massive amounts of sleep in pursuit of lofty goals.

We travel 3,000 miles across the country to attend our dream college, leaving behind our family and hometown. We drool over that prestigious scholarship or job position.

But after we’re all done, after we’ve become the established authority in our field with a large paycheck and résumé littered with names and titles of all sorts, what are we left with? Though we may be happy with our accomplishments, can we say we’re truly as happy as Javier is?

Can our pressured children ever be as carefree as those kids I had so much fun with? During our search for success as we define it, we lose people and things that once meant so much to us without even realizing it.

My point is not that developed countries breed nothing but expectations and stress. The modernization of societies has indeed worked wonders for us, and it would be egregious to say otherwise. There are opportunities to do amazing things in the U.S., Europe and East Asia that you just can’t find anywhere else.

However, just because we think our resources are superior to those in countries like Ecuador doesn’t mean we should always be actively pushing for advancement and industrialization there. Who are we to think that everyone else wants our

ostensibly enjoyable lifestyles?

What gives us the right to define who or what is developed?

I didn’t come back from Ecuador having learned that it’s a country with much room to develop, for I had known that already. No, I came back from Ecuador questioning how much Ecuadorians should want their country to change. Before nations like ours push for more development in nations abroad, we should contemplate the hidden adverse effects that come with such growth, think about whether the people in the other country would like it and reevaluate what it really means to be developed.

IKE LEE is a freshman in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at ike.lee@yale.edu .

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Shared Services Shared services refers to the consolidation of administrative tasks by a centralized unit.

Some events cut in wealthiest colleges COLLEGE BUDGETS FROM PAGE 1 alumni donations directed to specific colleges, all future donations to residential colleges will go into a “common fund” and will be redistributed evenly between the colleges, Levin said. Chair of the Council of Masters and Morse College Master Frank Keil said the budgets are now “as equal as they can be” but added that some variation remains “due to things like endowed speaker funds.” He added that the Morse budget is now larger than it was at the beginning of his tenure.

“Compared to 2001 when I started as Master, we are still much better off in inflation-adjusted dollars,” he said, “but of course we all have had to deal with the budget realities of the last few years.”

Several students interviewed in Pierson College and Jonathan Edwards College said while they have noticed that the new policy has left them with fewer activities, the change has not significantly altered their college experiences. Alyssa Navarro ’14, president of JE’s Student Activities Committee, said the college’s activities budget has shrunk as a result of the equalization.

“There have been some traditions in JE that have been going on for a while, but because of the equalizations we’ve had to cut back,” she said.

For example, Dana Zhu ’12 said JE no longer sponsors dinners for championship-winning IM teams. Though she said she would “really hate to see certain traditions in JE that [she has] grown up with fade,” she said she has noticed no other changes so far.

Pierson College Master Harvey Goldblatt used to host an annual trip to Italy with Pierson seniors, but the trip has been can-

celled for the last two years due to the budget equalization, said Pierson student Jonathan Martin ’12. He added that student organizations like the international affairs publication The Globalist, which previously relied on Pierson funding, have been forced to find other sources of funds.

Still, several students, such as Pierson senior Vanessa Baratta ’12, said the effort to equalize college budgets has not prevented individual colleges from retaining their unique traditions. Baratta added that the equalized budgets will be especially important once the new residential colleges are built to ensure those colleges begin with the same resources as others.

JE student Spencer Cromwell ’12 said the main way he has benefited from college funding is through his participation with the JE Orchestra, which has retained its funding from the college.

Taneja Young ’12, another JE student, said despite the elimination of some popular trips, such as the visit to Per Se Restaurant in New York, she does not think the change has “practically affected [her] experience.” She added that she does not think “future JE’ers will miss what they never had.”

In a similar vein, Martin said upperclassmen are more aware of the changes caused by the new policy than younger students.

Since 2008, eight “operations managers” have been appointed to work with residential college masters for financial oversight.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie. gould@yale.edu and MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline. mcmahon@yale.edu .

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Two colleges have trimmed events in response to smaller budgets, yet students said their Yale experience has been largely unaffected.

Admins defend model’s flexibility SHARED SERVICES FROM PAGE 1 Richard Levin and Vice President for Finance and Business Operations Shauna King first announced plans to implement shared services at Yale, their aim was to reduce strain on faculty and staff by streamlining administrative tasks. But the onset of the recession in 2008 forced administrators to reexamine their priorities, and shared services became part of efforts to reduce a $350 million budget deficit the University faced from its declining endowment.

Over the past few years, administrators at Cornell University, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley have also stepped up efforts to bring the shared services model to their institutions.

The University of California, Berkeley, approved a university-wide project about a week ago that will consolidate services in finance, research administration, information technology and human resources, communications manager for the project Sybil Wartenberg said. Though implementing the project will increase costs at Berkeley during its first few years, Wartenberg said the system is projected to save money in the long run.

Organizations implementing shared service models often face “certain start-up investments

with savings being generated in future years,” King wrote in a February email. But that has not been the case at Yale, King said, as tight finances during the recession required administrators to scale back plans for improvement in areas such as IT infrastructure.

Even as administrators made adjustments, they still proceeded with plans for the creation of three shared service groups.

Though Yale has used shared services in the sciences for at least a decade, the Yale Shared Services Center for financial tasks — designed “to take common, repeatable work out of departments,” King said — was formed in January 2010 through the consolidation of three preexisting business service units. It was moved to its current location at Science Park’s 344 Winchester Ave., roughly one mile from main campus, in January 2011.

Ronn Kolbash, assistant vice president and director of the Yale Shared Services Center, said the shared services model can help trim costs by improving how back-office tasks are handled, and that shifting work to shared services employees can also allow for reductions in departmental staff through attrition. Kolbash said the vast majority of the center’s 67 employees were transferred from other parts of the University, and King said all shared services staff have been transferred

from other administrative units, largely her own office.

While the shared services model is most commonly used in the private sector, Kolbash, who used to head a shared services system in the State of Ohio before coming to Yale in November 2010, said he thinks it can also be effective in higher education. But he added that the model applies differently in higher education, as private companies have less diverse needs than those of colleges and universities.

The financial challenges in higher education … are accelerating the use of shared services.

JOSEPH GRASSO Associate dean, Cornell University Joseph Grasso, associate dean for finance, administration and corporate relations at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, noted that accounting arrangements in higher education often have to consider restrictions placed on gifts and funds, making them more complex than those of most businesses in the private sector.

Grasso said some schools at

Cornell started transitioning to the business model about 10 years ago. Though the model does not exist university-wide at Cornell, Grasso said administrators created seven different financial transaction centers in 2010 — partly driven by financial difficulties from the recession — that were designed to share services among groups of schools.

Faculty were at first “skeptical” of the changes, Grasso said, but he added that faculty have not since complained about the management of financial transactions.

He said the regional shared service centers eased the transition by helping the model adjust to the needs of individual departments.

“The financial challenges in higher education in general, I think, are accelerating the use of shared services,” Grasso said.

Miranda, who is also a professor at Michigan’s public policy school and law school, said Michigan is only now planning for a university-wide system, though some regional shared service centers have been in place for over a decade. Though Miranda said a gradual transition to shared services can make the process easier for those involved, he said the benefits of the model — most notably cost-reduction — can be realized more quickly through a university-wide push.

But achieving savings is only one potential advantage of the

business model, which also frees up resources for the “academic and research mission” of a university, Miranda said.

Administrators at Yale and three other schools working with a shared services model disputed the claim that shared services cannot meet the needs of individual departments and programs. They said the system can be designed to meet the varied requirements of departments, emphasizing that only tasks common across programs are brought to shared services.

“Shared services isn’t a simple and militant consolidation,” Miranda said. “It’s a model that recognizes differences among the customers and tries to develop processes that are responsive to them.”

Kolbash said there will always be a need for “local presences” of staff in academic departments.

He said employees at the Yale Shared Services Center work to understand the nuances of different programs before a department’s transition to shared services begins. Kolbash said he recognizes there is always room for improvement, noting that his office recently expanded its contact center — where employees communicate with faculty and departmental staff who encounter problems with services.

Though departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are

in different stages of their transition to shared services, all currently receive some support from the Yale Shared Services Center.

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu .

SCHOOLS THAT HAVE IMPLEMENTED OR ARE IMPLEMENTING THE SHARED SERVICES MODEL ON A UNIVERSITYWIDE LEVEL:

Yale University University of Michigan University of Illinois Indiana University Ohio State University University of California, Davis University of California, Berkeley University of Florida Texas A&M California State University System

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“Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.” JOSEPH SMITH MORMON RELIGIOUS FIGURE

TODAY’S EVENTS FRIDAY, MARCH 23 4:00 PM Yale NROTC Marine Corps Information Brief. This event is open to all Class of 2015 undergraduates and will be lead by Captain Christopher Reinke, the incoming marine officer instructor for the Yale Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps unit.

William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), room 202.

4:00 PM Japan History Lecture: Famine Relief & Local Society in Early Modern Japan. This talk relies on the journals of town officials duing the Tenmei Famine that occurred in a small territory in central Japan from 1783-1788. LUCE Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), room 202.

7:30 PM Yale Cubed: A Rubik’s Cube Mosaic Project. The Bulldog Cube Club has made various well-known icons out of 2,500 Rubik’s cubes. Maya’s Room (Silliman Art Gallery).

CORRECTION THURSDAY, MARCH 22

The article “’Winter’s Tale’ warms Rep stage” misspelled the name of the king Leontes.

Minor flooding affects Branford

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER When Chelsea Dunlap ’14 glanced at her phone Monday night to see seven frantic texts with references to “firemen” and “flooding,” she said she thought her roommate was kidding. Then she saw the fire marshal outside her door and the water seeping through the ceiling into her suite.

Members of the fire department on the scene informed students that the flood was caused by a fourth-floor student who accidentally set off the sprinklers while trying to get rid of a bug, Dunlap said.

Less than 24 hours after the incident, a second flood began Tuesday when a fire alarm was tripped in the basement during some “plumbing work,” according to an email from Branford Master Elizabeth Bradley. Though the Undergraduate Regulations hold students responsible for any damage that occurs in their suite, Dunlap said she does not expect that she and her suitemates will have to pay for the water damage, and Dunlap’s suitemate Emily Miller ’14 said she does not know whether Yale will help pay for cleaning supplies or items that have been damaged, like her printer and books.

“Yale doesn’t insure anyone’s property,” Yale College Dean Mary Miller said in an email to the News. “[Every] resident in Yale College is encouraged to take independent insurance, from masters and deans to students.”

Bradley deferred comment to Branford Building Supervisor Ian Hobbs, who did not respond to requests for comment.

According to the Undergraduate Regulations, Yale is not responsible for damage to any personal belongings, “regardless of the cause,” and students are held responsible for any damage to their rooms, even if they are not present when the

damage occurs. The University also retains the right to charge a $100 fine, as well as cleanup and repair costs, to a person responsible for “unnecessary discharge of a sprinkler.”

But these rules are not always enforced. A female student who caused a flood in Ezra Stiles College told the News in 2009 that she was not held responsible for the damage, “since the flooding was accidental.” She also said that Yale had paid to house students temporarily in the Courtyard Marriott, and that Ezra Stiles Master Stephen Pitti had offered to pay for students to dry clean their wet clothes.

As of Wednesday, Emily Miller and Dunlap, along with their suitemate Aly Moore ’14, were staying with friends because their suite was too “smelly” for sleeping, Dunlap said. Though Dunlap said firefighters and Yale facilities staff have been “very nice” about making sure nothing is unsafe, Emily Miller said she and her suitemates are left with the task to “scrub everything and wash the rusty water residue left on our things.”

“My desk was directly under one of the places in the ceiling that water was coming through,” she said. “I am very grateful that my computer was not on my desk.”

The Branford basement, whose flood was unrelated to first incident, has since been cleaned and reopened for students. While the water was being cleared away, Bradley asked students in an email with the subject line, “Surf’s up in Branford,” to stay away from the basement area between entryway M and N due to “electrical dangers and flooding.”

Stormwater flooding hit Timothy Dwight College in fall 2010, leaving a shallow layer of water throughout the basement.

Contact SOPHIE GOULD at sophie.gould@yale.edu .

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A fire alarm was tripped in the Branford College basement during routine plumbing work, leading to minor floods earlier this week.

Budget to bolster NHPD ambitions

BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER The New Haven Police Department will grow over the next three years in a two-phase strategy aimed at restructuring and strengthening the department.

NHPD Chief Dean Esserman unveiled the plan at the department’s weekly CompStat meeting Tuesday, setting in motion the expansion of the Elm City’s police force that Mayor John DeStefano Jr. previewed earlier this month when he announced his budget proposal, which increases police funding.

DeStefano’s budget would swell the NHPD to 467 sworn officers over the next year from the current 397, a move that will allow the department to double the number of walking beats in the city’s 10 districts to 40, fully staff all car beats and double its Internal Affairs division.

All these changes will allow Esserman to more fully realize his community policing efforts, which emphasize engagement with the public and proactive policing, NHPD spokesman David Hartman said.

“The chief would rather have a larger number of people out there detecting crime, building relationships and finding patterns than merely responding to crimes,” Hartman said. “This latest set of changes are consistent with the underlying strategy of community policing and will further encourage the healthy relationship between the people who live in the city and the police department.”

Since taking office in November, Esserman has implemented a slate of changes as part of his efforts to reintroduce community policing strategies he first helped bring to the Elm City in the early 1990s as an NHPD assistant chief. The latest plan, which was officially submitted to the Board of Alderman Monday, will expand the NHPD to 494 budgeted positions within three years and shift more personnel to patrol duties.

When he announced his budget proposal March 1, DeStefano said the increased visibility of officers on walking beats had already had an effect in deterring crimes. Four members of the Board of Aldermen interviewed said the new plans were a positive response to requests they heard from constituents during last year’s election season, in which residents expressed concerns about the city’s violent crime problem.

2011 saw a 20-year high of 34 homicides.

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In his budget proposal, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. calls for increased police funding, a move intended to bolster the department’s community policing efforts.

“We’ve had two homicides already this year and 34 last year, so I don’t want to see that crime rate go up,” said Ward 29 Alderman Brian Wingate, chair of the Board’s Public Safety Committee. “We want to be proactive, not reactive, but we also have to be smart where the money is coming from.”

We’ve had two homicides already this year and 34 last year, so I don’t want to see that crime rate go up.

BRIAN WINGATE Ward 29 alderman DeStefano said the initial enlargement of the NHPD will be only to the size currently budgeted by the city, while additional expansion may become possible thanks to the city’s projected $7.5 million increase in property tax revenue

and other savings in administrative expenditures.

But Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04, a member of the Board’s public safety and finance committees, said he did not see where DeStefano was “getting the money from.”

Still, Hausladen said he hoped the department could expand sustainably and that he had received much positive feedback from residents of his ward about the walking beats in the downtown area.

As well as the assignment of additional officers to patrol capacities, Esserman’s new plan will double the Internal Affairs division, a move that DeStefano said will better “police the police.” Hartman said the expansion will double a “currently depleted staff” and will ensure continued strong police professionalism.

The new strategy also calls for restoring the number of school resource officers to 12.

By addressing crime perpetrated by students, Hartman said the school resource officers

will further help deter youth criminal activity and deal with students who are the victims of crime.

Collectively, the mayor’s support of the NHPD’s new strategy demonstrates his commitment to ensuring Esserman’s vision can be translated into reality, said Richard Epstein, chairman of the Board of Police Commissioners.

Esserman’s proposal will also augment the NHPD’s media relations by creating a new “community communications manager” position, Hartman said. While he said he was unsure when the position would be filled, it would affect his job greatly by “allowing [him] to get some sleep.”

The first 20 candidates of the year for the NHPD’s police academy were officially cleared Thursday after they passed physical agility tests, Hartman said.

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

Div School rated ‘sexually responsible’

BY DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTER Recent efforts to redesign the Divinity School’s curriculum have earned it a place on the Religious Institute’s list of sexually healthy and responsible seminaries.

In response to its failure to make the previous list in 2009, the school began requiring students to take at least one sexuality-related course prior to graduation and used a $10,000 grant from the Religious Institute — which promotes sexual health, education and justice in religious communities — to revamp a workshop that addresses issues of sexuality in students’ ministerial careers. The list, which was released last month, evaluated seminaries nationwide on the prevalence of themes of sexuality in their coursework and on institutional policies addressing sexuality. Despite the Divinity School’s placement on the list, professors and administrators said sexuality-related topics could be more effectively integrated into the Divinity School curriculum. “[Students] need to be aware of the issues in the contemporary world that are going to trouble their congregations,” Divinity School Dean Harold Attridge said.

Lucinda Huffaker, director of supervised ministries at the Divinity School who co-teaches the 16-hour “Negotiating Boundaries” workshop that is required for Divinity School students who hope to intern in ministries, said the revised workshop places a greater

emphasis on sexuality and on creating safe spaces in churches for victims of sexual assault through case studies and other group activities.

She added that the previous version of the workshop was ineffective and overly simplistic — so much so that students frequently joked that its main message was “not to sleep with your parishioners.”

It’s crucial for students to learn to deal wisely with sacred texts about the body and sexuality.

CAROLYN SHARP DIV ’94 GRD ’00 Lecturer, Yale Divinity School

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Emilie Townes said the school also worked to make its community more inclusive by adding a formal “inclusivity statement” to its mission statement in 2010, welcoming all races, religions and sexual orientations to the school.

As the school bolsters its sexuality curriculum, it is building on a collection of courses where professors have already incorporated themes of sexuality into their syllabi. Carolyn Sharp DIV ’94 GRD ’00, who teaches courses on the Hebrew Bible, said she felt the Bible contains many references

to gender and sexuality that are important to study.

“The Bible presents us with wonderful and troubling stories and poems about the body, relationships in community and sexualized dynamics of power,” Sharp said. “It’s crucial for students to learn to deal wisely with sacred texts about the body and sexuality.”

Still, Huffaker said the school will need to work to integrate sexuality more effectively into its standard coursework, an effort she described as “an ongoing struggle.” She added that discussion about the concept of “building sexually healthy congregations” should be more widespread at seminaries nationwide.

“The whole thing about preparing for religious leadership is protecting the vulnerable,” Huffaker said. “So often those things have to do with sexuality and interpersonal relationships, and those are things that we tend to shy away from talking about.”

Kate Ott DIV ’00, who worked for the Religious Institute and designed its initial 2009 study, said it is often difficult to implement strong sexuality-themed coursework in seminaries. Students have the challenge of addressing a wide range of differing opinions on sexuality while adhering to their religious traditions, she said.

Nineteen other seminaries made it onto the Religious Institute’s list this year.

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

RELIGIOUS INSTITUTE’S LIST OF SEXUALLY HEALTHY AND RESPONSIBLE SEMINARIES

Andover Newton Theological School Bangor Theological Seminary Brite Divinity School Candler School of Theology, Emory University Chicago Theological Seminary Claremont School of Theology Drew Theological School, Drew University Episcopal Divinity School Harvard Divinity School Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion The Jewish Theological Seminary Meadville Lombard Theological School Pacific School of Religion Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Starr King School for the Ministry Union Theological Seminary University of Chicago Divinity School Vanderbilt University Divinity School Wake Forest University Divinity School Yale Divinity School

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159

Days that the Occupy New Haven movement has staked out the Green

The Occupy New Haven website homepage includes a timer that tracks down, to the second, the time that the group has spent on the Green. The New Haven protest has occupied the space for 159 days.

Occupy suit shines light on Green’s proprietors PUBLIC OR PRIVATE?

GREEN FROM PAGE 1 is shedding light on the Green’s true legal owners. Since 1683, ultimate authority over the space has rested with a group called the Committee of the Proprietors of Common and Undivided Lands at New Haven.

The lawsuit accused the proprietors of infringing on the movement’s right to assemble, which federal judge Janet Hall found compelling enough to grant the encampment an extra two weeks.

As the presence of the Occupy movement — a nationwide protest against economic inequality that began last September — has been increasingly perceived as permanent in New Haven, both the proprietors and City Hall have been re-evaluating what role the Green should serve. While City Hall first approached the Occupy movement about leaving, both groups have come to the conclusion that Occupy needs to go.

Perhaps a part of the New Haven protest’s message lies in calling attention to defining proper use of public space offered by the Green, said School of Architecture professor Alan Plattus, who co-coordinates the school’s “Urbanism and Landscape” program.

“Most people assume that once a protest is over, the space goes back to being what it was before,” Plattus said. “But Occupy is making a statement: a more persistent and continuous transformation of this space. That’s really part of the message.”

Now, with less than a week before Occupy pleads its case before Judge Kravitz, one question stands out above all: Just whose Green is it, anyway?

DEVELOPING THE NEW HAVEN GREEN 1638-2012

Because the Green has not been used in a consistent way since it was first designed in 1638, Hall ruled on March 14 that New Haven did not have the right to ask Occupy to leave until the purpose of the Green is made more clear.

City founders designated the Green as “common land,” Plattus said. Such spaces were typical of New England towns and were intended for activities ranging from civil meetings to livestock pasturage, he said, adding that the Green has since been used for many other purposes.

While the Green operates as a public space day-to-day — the New Haven Parks Commission oversees upkeep of the park — the proprietors assumed legal control of the Green 45 years after its founding. They pre-date the city government by almost 150 years and have continued to regulate the space’s uses from the background. The proprietors, a group of five prominent citizens of New Haven, hold their positions for life. When one proprietor passes away or resigns the position, the remaining four elect another to take his or her place.

Drew Days, the Green’s head proprietor, declined to comment for this article, citing the ongoing litigation with the Occupy protesters.

For Elihu Rubin, a School of Architecture professor who is the other co-coordinator of the “Urbanism and Landscape” program and created a video documentary about the Green, the main criterion in determining what uses of the park fall under the category of public space is based on whether a certain use prevents another citizen from also using the Green.

The Green is “New Haven’s liv-

1638 New Haven is designed.

1683 Proprietors assume legal control of the Green.

1784 New Haven is incorporated as a city.

ing room” that no citizen should be prevented from enjoying, said Karyn Gilvarg ARC ’75, the executive director of the New Haven City Plan Department, adding that the aesthetic value of the space is part of its appeal. For every citizen in New Haven to be able to enjoy the space, the park should be green and well maintained, Gilvarg said.

Still, since Occupy New Haven allows anyone to enter or exit their campsite at will, Rubin said, perhaps a permanent encampment like Occupy does not prevent others from using even their portion of the Green.

I think the strength of the Occupy movement is that it’s a porous environment, one where the barriers to entry are relatively low.

ELIHU RUBIN School of Architecture professor “I think the strength of the Occupy movement is that it’s a porous environment, one where the barriers to entry are relatively low,” Rubin said. “My sense of the place is that it’s not an exclusive club.”

Rubin added that if New Haven citizens not participating in the movement feel encouraged to enter the Green and engage in civil discourse more than they did before Occupy began its campaign, it could be argued that the movement adds to a sense of the Green as a space for every person in New Haven.

1969 Anti-war moratorium protest takes place on the green.

1971 May Day protest occurs on the green.

HISTORY OF PROTEST

To protesters, the success of the movement is linked to maintaining their “occupation” of the Green; to leave seems like giving up. A letter posted to the Occupy New Haven website declares: “Our presence is not a camping trip.”

Occupy members have continued to argue that the Green is meant for anyone’s use, adding that they only take up a small portion of the park.

“It’s our constitutional right to be here, and I believe they need to look inside them and figure out what’s the right thing to do,” said a protester who identified herself as Danielle. “It’s not even just our right, it’s our obligation to do this.”

Between Occupy New Haven’s beginning on Oct. 15 and early February, the protesters faced no opposition from City Hall, a contrast to Occupy protests in several other municipalities nationwide.

City officials told protesters that while they supported the movement’s overall goals, they believed the protest’s permanent presence on the Green inhibited other residents from using the space. At the city’s next meeting with protestors, one of the proprietors attended to express the group’s agreement with the city’s position.

When Occupy first arrived on the Green, city and police officials made no mention of a limit to the time protesters could camp on the Green. Then-City Hall spokesman Adam Joseph stressed that the city’s only priority was public safety.

“In New Haven we have a 373year tradition of public assembly on the New Haven Green — as long as the Occupiers are conducting themselves in a safe and responsi-

FEBRUARY 8, 2012 City Hall asks Occupy to meet.

FEBRUARY 15 City and Occupy meet again, this time with head proprietor Drew Days.

OCTOBER 15, 2011 Occupy New Haven begins.

ble manner, we’re fine with that,” Joseph said when protesters first arrived. “It’s city and police policy that as long as everybody is following the rules, following the law, we support it as a city.”

But while Benton maintained the City still supports Occupy’s efforts, she said a “permanent tent community” on the Green is not “a long-term viable solution.”

Numerous protests have occurred on the Green in years past, especially in the late 1960s and early 70s with events like the anti-war moratorium and the May Day protest. But none challenged the historical precedent of maintaining the Green’s open space longterm.

Edward Zelinsky ’72 LAW ’75 GRD ’75 ’78, a former alderman and longtime New Haven resident, recalled the city’s “very strong policy against permanent structures on the Green” after the assassination of former president John F. Kennedy. Kennedy had spoken in New Haven while campaigning, and after his death, a proposal to erect a statue of the former president was sent to the proprietors. Citing the Green’s purpose of housing as much open space as possible and their duty of looking to the long-term good of the Green, the proprietors rejected the proposal.

“The proprietors have always felt and have had widespread public support that this is open space,” Zelinsky said. “And if we can’t have a statue of President Kennedy, we have to wonder if this tent city is good for the longterm health of the community.”

Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu . Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .

MARCH 7 City proposes that Occupy vacate the Green.

MARCH 14 Judge Janet Hall allows Occupy at least two more weeks on the Green.

MARCH 10 Occupy refuses to leave.

MARCH 12 City announces that Occupy has to leave after two days.

MARCH 28 Court hearing in front of U.S. District Court Judge Mark Kravitz.

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From top to bottom, the New Haven Green as it was drawn on the 1638 New Haven Colony plan, in 1800, in 1921 and in 1939.

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role in determining educational outcomes than teacher effectiveness.

“The playing field is not level for everyone else in the state,” Johnson said, whose school district she said has demographics that differ widely from those of high-performing suburban districts.

Malloy’s tenure proposals have won support from management in some school districts. The current process for dismissing teachers is costly and time-consuming, Christina Kishimoto, the superintendent of Hartford schools said

in her testimony to the Education Committee on Feb. 21. Removing a full-time tenured teacher can cost more than $100,000 and take over a year, she added.

But teachers said Malloy’s proposal does not account for how difficult it is to acquire tenure.

Johnson said Malloy once said in a speech that teachers only need to “show up for four years” in order to receive tenure.

“I almost fell over when I heard that,” she said. “Those first four years of your professional working life are so difficult … it’s four years of being on probation. I don’t know any other professional

job where you’re on probation that long.”

New Haven’s evaluation system, which has been praised for helping to ease tensions between teachers and administrators, led to the removal of 2 percent of the city’s teachers this school year. In spite of the similarities between the New Haven system and Malloy’s proposed system, the governor has not yet garnered the same support from teachers that New Haven enjoyed in hammering out its contract.

“The one thing that does distinguish New Haven school [reform] is that it’s been a collab-

orative effort, not just between teacher’s unions and district but community groups like united way and non-profits, business partners who have invested in some of the schools and projects,” City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said.

Should the Education Committee approve a version of the proposal, it must pass both houses of the General Assembly by May 8, the end of the legislative session, to become law this year.

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

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“A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.” MARY LANDRIEU U.S. REP. FOR LOUISIANA

Aldermen deliberate on federal fund allocation

BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER Representatives from nonprofits across the Elm City made their case for a slice of federal money before the Board of Aldermen Thursday night.

Nearly 30 groups appeared in front of the Board’s joint community development and human services committee, asking for money in the form of federal Community Development Block Grants to support their organizations. But with cities like New Haven receiving less money from the federal government than in previous years, there is more at stake in process of deciding the allocation of funds.

The city will receive a total of $6,443,460 in federal funding this year, $3,673,534 of which is from Community Development Block Grants, compared to $3,891,395 in CDBG funding last year. Many community organizations rely on these federal funds to cover operating costs, especially CDBGs, which are designated for local community development.

“Over the past two years, New Haven’s total allocation has been reduced by more than $1 million,” City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said in a statement following the federal government’s release of its CDBG budget. “Due to the substantial decrease in funding, the city narrowed its funding priorities for the upcoming fiscal year, focusing on evidence-based youth development activities, job training and employment opportunities, public safety and neighborhood revitalization.”

The process of allocating

CDBG funding began with Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s budget proposal, released March 1, in which Benton said he tried to eliminate funding for all “non-prioritized” organizations. DeStefano’s proposed funding allocation will act as a rough draft for the committee as they determine the quantity of funds each agency will receive.

Under the Board of Aldermen’s process, each of the agencies that applies for funding comes before the committee to explain their funding needs, whether or not their application is approved.

Thursday night, a majority of the agencies sailed through the committee, often receiving less funding than in years past.

“We’ve had to be a little bit tighter, a little bit stricter than in past years,” committee co-chair Sergio Rodriguez told one such applicant.

But three different organizations whose applications had been rejected for being incomplete came to the Board to plead their cases for what they said was vital funding. Along with some aldermen on the committee, they complained about what they said was an overly bureaucratic process.

Laurie Roger, whose application asking for $20,000 to support community programming at St. Luke’s Church was rejected, asked the committee to reconsider. It was her first time applying, she said, and their accountants told her she did not need to include certain forms.

Rodriguez apologized to Roger, and promised the committee would look into her request.

“It is a cumbersome application, there’s no doubt about it,” he said. “But, there is a process to

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City Hall must allocate federal funding to city nonprofits from a tightened pool of money because of federal budget cuts. it and there’s nothing we can do about it.”

The CDBG application process began in November, when community organizations attended a mandatory meeting and submitted applications to be considered for funding. After the committee has made its own recommendations, the entire Board will vote

on the final CDBG budget proposal, which Rodriguez said will happen in late April or early May. Following the meeting, Rodriguez, who has been through the CDBG process before, advised the freshman aldermen on the committee. In response to a question from Ward 1 Alderman Sarah Eidelson ’12, Rodriguez said he

did not recommend reversing any rejection, since to do so would require taking the money from another organization that already expected to receive funding.

“You take money away from an agency, you’ve got to justify why you’re going to do it. But sometimes you gotta do it,” Rodriguez said. “You saw the agen-

cies tonight, they’re all in need of more money than we can give them.”

The joint committee will meet again on Monday to continue hearing testimony from organizations.

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

Panelists conflict on military policy

BY ANISHA SUTERWALA CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Two military policy experts clashed over what role the United States military should take on the global stage at a Thursday afternoon talk.

Christopher Preble, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Washington, D.C.-based Cato Institute, and Thomas Donnelly, director of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Center for Defense Studies, debated their viewpoints on military power in front of about 20 students in William L. Harkness Hall. Preble criticized what he said was an aggressive foreign policy taken by the United States in recent decades, while Donnelly defended the nation’s interventionism.

Preble argued that the United States is currently pursuing a military policy that is more aggressive than it needs to be. The government spends $800 billion annually on defense, a figure that Preble said makes up nearly half of defense spending worldwide and is evidence of a freeloading problem in global defense.

“Our allies consistently spend far less than we do on defense spending, and for one reason,” he said. “When you buy someone a house, they’re not inclined to pay for it. When we buy them security, they’re not inclined to pay for it.”

Donnelly, who supports a more interventionist military policy, countered that the United States has always taken an inter-

est in the international balance of power, especially among its allies in Europe.

The U.S. military sometimes intervenes in regions not because it faces a direct threat, but because involvement will impact global security, Donnelly said. America’s “burden-bearing” comes at a high cost, but is worthwhile, he said.

“There’s unlikely to be a great power war in Europe in your lifetimes,” Donnelly said. “Though that’s a result of a hundred years worth of American effort and blood, the outcome is worth it.”

Our allies consistently spend far less than we do on defense spending, and for one reason.

CHRISTOPHER PREBLE Vice president of defense and foreign policy studies, Cato Institute But Preble said the United States’ military involvements have strained its already weak economy, though he added that the U.S. military budget is unlikely to drive the nation to bankruptcy.

U.S. interventionism has resulted from politicians in Washington making promises they cannot keep, and the United States fighting wars “just because it can,” Preble said. He noted that the United States has engaged in

military action more times in the past 15 years than it did during the 45-year duration of the cold war.

“It’s going to be more and more draining on the United States as its allies grow weaker and weaker,” Preble said.

Still, Donnelly said the United States’ most important allies are generally willing to fight alongside it, so long as the United States remains a “reliable partner” in their eyes. While the United States does occasionally fight wars “because it can,” Donnelly said the United States often engages in other conflicts with global implications. He cited U.S. military involvement in the Middle East as an example, noting that the region’s energy resources and political instability make its problems “not easily containable.”

Preble said he would rather see the United States promote democratic values and economic order in a peaceful manner, which he said the United States often does effectively. War should always be a last resort, he said.

After Preble and Donnelly finished debating, they answered students’ questions on issues ranging from the United States’ role as an “enforcer” to how the United States should respond if Iran were to attack Israel with nuclear weapons.

The event was hosted by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program and the Rosenkranz Foundation.

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AROUND THE IVIES

“I don’t sleep. I dream awake.”

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Students pack College Green for Fling passes

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Hundreds of students camped out on College Green Wednesday night and Thursday morning to get Fling floor passes.

BY JULIE XIE AND SETH ZWEIFLER STAFF WRITERS Hundreds of students pulled allnighters Wednesday night not for an exam, but for an opportunity to score floor passes to see Passion Pit and Tiësto.

Students began arriving on College Green at approximately 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday in anticipation of the Spring Fling floor pass sale, which began at 10 a.m. Thursday. The crowd of about 500 began the line at a small table that was selling tickets in front of the Phi Kappa Sigma, or “Skulls,” fraternity house.

At around 3:40 a.m. Thursday, the Social Planning and Events Committee began turning away students, telling them that they would not be able to get a floor pass.

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first would receive floor passes, SPEC d i s t r i b u te d re d w r i s tba n d s a n d stamped students’ hands. Only those with both a wristband and a stamp were eligible to pur-

chase floor passes.

According to College junior and SPEC Concerts Co-Director Sam Gorski, SPEC distributed 370 wristbands in total. Each student is permitted to buy a maximum of two floor passes.

“We only have so many tickets that we can sell,” Gorski said. “We’re trying to limit things so that we don’t oversell.”

Gorski and Wharton junior Julia Sternfeld, another SPEC Concerts codirector, arrived on College Green at around 11:15 p.m. after hearing reports that hundreds of students had already

begun lining up.

“We figured that there might have been more of a demand for tickets considering who the performers were, but I never thought it would be like this,” Sternfeld said, adding that the earliest she has seen students line up for floor passes in years past is 6 a.m.

Students pitched tents, brought their warmest sweatshirts and sleeping bags and stocked up on supplies from Wawa in preparation for the long night that lay ahead. Many also squinted at their textbooks to finish reading for class, while others caught some shut eye on air mattresses.

Others bonded as they sat on the sidewalk, playing card games and listening to a stream of lively music that was blasting from speakers.

Engineering senior Nitin Puri and Wharton senior Seth Harrison said they were the first to begin standing in line.

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Gambino to headline Spring Weekend

BY KATHERINE LONG SENIOR STAFF WRITER In response to student demand for up-tempo electronic artists, the Brown Concert Agency announced a Spring Weekend lineup heavy on dance music today. Providence brass band What Cheer? Brigade and understated electronic duo Sepalcure will join Childish Gambino at the Friday performance April 20, while new wave synth outfit Twin Shadow and hip-hop golden child Cam’ron will open for the Glitch Mob Saturday.

“I know we always say this, but this year more than ever we were just trying to make students happy,” said BCA Co-Chair Gillian Brassil ’12. “All the feedback we were hearing from students was, ‘We’re just down to dance.’’’

Childish Gambino was named one of seven acts students most wanted to see in a January poll conducted by BCA and the Undergraduate Council of Students. Because he is performing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival the same weekend, many believed he would be unable to perform at Spring Weekend.

He is still scheduled to perform at Coachella Sunday.

Three of the acts in the lineup — Sepalcure, Twin Shadow and the Glitch Mob — perform electronic music, reflecting “tons of student demand for a big, wellknown DJ,” Brassil said.

But such DJs “can pull hundreds of thousands of dollars performing at clubs in Europe,” Brassil said. BCA’s budget was slashed by 17 percent this year from $180,000 to $150,000.

B r a s sil said the budget cut had unintended positive consequences.

“There’s a BROWN whole range of artists we couldn’t even look at, who, if we’d had $20,000 to $30,000, more would have been real possibilities,” she said. “But this forced us to look for really solid main acts, rather than go after potentially alienating big names.”

We’re trying to be more human … more transparent, more accessible.

EMMA RAMADAN Public relations chair, Brown Concert Agency As always, timing posed problems for the concert agency, which is forced to hold Spring Weekend on the same weekend as Coachella due to the proximity of spring break, final exams and Passover. “(Coachella’s) lineup is always amazing, but it almost became funny how many times we were talking to an artist and they were like, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m going to be at Coachella,’” Brassil said. They were able to book Childish Gambino to play Friday night only because he is scheduled to per-

form at Coachella Sunday.

The concert agency is also taking extra precautions this year to ensure that the shows are held outdoors on the Green if at all possible. Concerns about lightning prevent them from erecting large tents, but agency members have found other solutions to the problem of inclement weather.

“We’re literally ordering 6,000 plastic ponchos,” Brassil said.

One major difference between this year and last year’s lineups is the absence of a student band.

Since the agency now organizes Speakeasy Sessions — small concerts featuring student bands — it did not feel the need to feature a student group at Spring Weekend this year, said BCA Co-Chair Sandy Ryza ’12.

The agency is also experimenting with making its decision process more transparent to students who have had “no institutionalized way to respond to the lineup” in the past, Ryza said. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, members of BCA will man a table on the Green to respond to student comments about the lineup and other questions about Spring Weekend.

“We’re trying to be more human … more transparent, more accessible,” said Public Relations Chair Emma Ramadan ’13. “The goal is to have people understand what’s behind the lineup.”

BCA will release 1,500 tickets for each concert on April 4 and 5 on the Brown Student Agencies website. Weather permitting, both concerts will be held on the Green, and BCA will sell 2,500 more tickets either when the first batch sells out or on April 10, whichever comes first.

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In the latest step to reverse the more-than-40-year exclusion of the military from Harvard Yard, the University announced Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with the U.S. Army to formally recognize the Army Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. The recognition follows the return of Naval ROTC to campus last year.

“This is a welcome step in the long and distinguished history of military service by members of the Harvard community,” University President Drew G. Faust said in a statement. “At Harvard, military service is rightly regarded as public service, and I am pleased that we can now broaden access for our students to the leadership and learning opportunities that Army SROTC training provides.”

As part of the agreement, Harvard will financially back student participation in the program and provide Army SROTC with access to classroom space on Harvard’s campus.

While students will continue to take their primary Army SROTC classes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MIT military science professor will offer office hours open to Army SROTC cadets on Harvard’s campus. Further, Harvard’s Army SROTC will have office space in the Student Organization Center at Hilles.

Once the program moves into its new SOCH office space later this semester, Harvard will host a ceremony in honor of the

agreement with Army SROTC. The Unive rs i ty we l co m e d the Naval Reserve HARVARD Officers’ Training Corps back to campus last year soon after the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the policy banning gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military that Harvard administrators had condemned as antithetical to the University’s antidiscrimination policy.

At Harvard, military service is rightly regarded as public service.

DREW G. FAUST Harvard University President Discussions between the University and the Air Force are still ongoing.

Members of the Harvard queer community have expressed concern that the University’s decision to recognize ROTC remains a violation of its non-discrimination policy even after the fall of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Currently, the military does not allow trans and intersex individuals to enlist, as it considers gender identity disorder—the psychological classification that describes transgenderism—and intersexism to be medical disqualifications.

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ON CAMPUS SATURDAY, MARCH 24 7:00 PM Yale Anime Society Presents: Sci-Fi. Come see this exciting double-feature of Noein and Steins;Gate. Noein is set 15 years in the future where a violent, pan-dimensional war is taking place between the two dominant “time-spaces” of the universe.

Steins;Gate however is set in 2010 in the Akihabara district of Tokyo where people begin to disappear. Old Campus.

9:00 PM Late-Night Revelations: an a cappella concert.

This exciting a cappella event will feature Magevet, Yale’s Jewish/ Hebrew/Israeli a cappella group and Living Water, Yale’s Christian a cappella group. Silliman College Dining Hall (505 College St.).

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SUNDAY, MARCH 25 11:00 AM John Chester Adams Memorial Debate Tournament. Come take part in the 2012 John Chester Adams Memorial Debate Tournament, sponsored by the Yale Debate Association. Winners will receive the Adams Cup as well as various prizes from sponsors that include Alpha Delta. William LinslyChittenden Hall (63 High St.).

Latin America Week: An Intergenerational dialogue about the Future We Need. This event is part of Latin America week, organized by La Casa, CLAIS and UOFC. The event is sponsored by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and features a special talk with Luis Alfonso de Alba, Mexican ambassador to the UN. Kroon Hall (195 Prospect St.).

MONDAY, MARCH 26 6:00 PM MultiFaith Council Meeting. The MultiFaith Council is an interfaith dialogue group for students of all religions and no religion. It’s a great way to widen your perspective on religion and spirituality, and is an hour’s discussion over dinner. Bingham Hall, basement of Entry D.

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BY PAULINE JELINEK AND LOLITA BALDOR ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder, assault and a string of other offenses in the massacre of Afghan villagers as they slept, a U.S. official said.

The charges signed against Bales include 17 counts of murder, six counts of attempted murder and six counts of aggravated assault as well as dereliction of duty and other violations of military law, the official said on condition of anonymity because the charges had not been announced.

The 38-year-old soldier and father of two who lives in Lake Tapps, Wash., will be charged with going on a shooting rampage in two villages near his Southern Afghanistan military post in the early hours of March 11, gunning down nine Afghan children and eight adults and burning some of the victims’ bodies.

The charges are to be read to Bales on Friday. He is being held in a military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and faces trial under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

The killings were yet another blow to U.S-Afghan relations, following a series of missteps, including the accidental burning of Qurans, which prompted violent protests and revenge killings American troops in the war zone.

The brutal shooting rampage also prompted renewed debate in the United States about health care for the troops, who have experienced record suicide rates and high rates of post-traumatic stress and brain injuries during repeated deployments over

a decade of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bales was on his fourth tour of duty, having served three tours in Iraq, where he suffered a head injury and a foot injury.

I’m not putting the war on trial, but the war is on trial. If I can help create a discussion about the war, that would be a great way for me to go out.

JOHN HENRY BROWNE Attorney for Afghan shootings suspect Bales’ civilian attorney, John Henry Browne, has portrayed his client as a patriot, loving father and devoted husband who had been traumatized by a comrade’s injury and sent into combat one too many times.

“I’m not putting the war on trial,” Browne has said, “but the war is on trial.” He added: “If I can help create a discussion about the war, that would be a great way for me to go out.”

Army officials have said Bales was cleared for return to duty after his head injury.

Bales joined the Army in 2001 after a Florida investment business failed and after he had worked with a string of securities operations. Bales and a broker at one company were hit in 2003 with a $1.5 million arbitration ruling after an elderly couple charged that their holdings were decimated.

BY STEPHEN OHLEMACHER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Rick Santorum is falling so far behind Mitt Romney in the race for Republican delegates that his best chance might be in states that voted weeks ago.

The chief rival to the front-running Romney, Santorum is trying to improve his lot in places like Iowa and Washington, where local caucuses were just the first step in determining delegates to the Republican National Convention. In those states and a few others, supporters are now preparing for county, congressional district and state conventions, where the campaigns hope to keep their delegates - and possibly poach some from other candidates.

Santorum’s delegate count could use a boost. He trails Romney by 300 and would need to win 74 percent of the delegates in the remaining primaries to clinch the nomination before the national convention in August. So far, Santorum is winning just 27 percent, according to the tally by The Associated Press.

But the former Pennsylvania senator’s campaign predicts that he will significantly increase his delegate haul in caucus states, primarily at the expense of Romney.

“The Romney campaign likes to talk about how they have this superior organization in these caucus states and therefore they are going to perform well,” said John Yob, Santorum’s national delegate director. “If you believe the Romney campaign’s spin that they have this superior organization, but yet they’re losing these contests, it must mean they have a deficient candidate who is unable to appeal to the base of the party.”

That assessment is simply laughable, Romney’s campaign says. And his backers question whether Santorum has a sufficient organization to compete in upcoming primaries while also trying to rally supporters in states that held caucuses weeks or months ago.

This weekend, for example, Louisiana holds its GOP primary on Saturday, the same day county conventions kick off in

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Coroner’s officials said Thursday that singer Whitney Houston drowned, but her death was also caused by heart disease and cocaine use that suggested she was chronically using the drug.

LOS ANGELES — Whitney Houston was a chronic cocaine user who had the drug in her system when she drowned in a hotel bathtub, coroner’s officials said Thursday after releasing autopsy findings that also noted heart disease contributed to her death.

The disclosure ended weeks of speculation about what killed the Grammywinning singer on Feb. 11 on the eve of the Grammy Awards.

Houston was found submerged in the bathtub of her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and her death was ruled accidental. Several bottles of prescription medications were found in her hotel room, but coroner’s officials said there weren’t excessive quantities.

“We are saddened to learn

of the toxicology results, although we are glad to now have closure,” Patricia Houston, the singer’s sister-inlaw and manager, wrote in a statement to The Associated Press.

Beverly Hills police said in a statement there was no evidence of wrongdoing in connection with Houston’s death.

Coroner’s Chief of Operations Craig Harvey said cocaine and its byproducts were found in Houston’s system, and the drug was listed as a contributing factor in her death. He said the results indicated Houston was a chronic cocaine user.

Toxicology results also showed Houston had marijuana, Xanax, the muscle relaxant Flexeril, and the allergy medication Benadryl in her system. Houston died just hours before she was scheduled to appear at producer Clive Davis’ pre-

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The singer also had buildup of plaque in her arteries that can restrict blood flow. Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said the condition is common in drug users, although he said it wasn’t clear whether Houston had a heart attack on the day she died.

“It just beats up their heart and they will go to use and they will have a heart attack,” he said.

The exact amount of cocaine in Houston’s system was not disclosed Thursday but will be contained in a full autopsy report to be released in about two weeks, officials said.

Cocaine use has been known to cause damage to the heart and could have cause Houston’s death, said Dr. Michael Fishbein, professor of pathology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He had no role in the investigation.

Washington state.

Rich Beeson, Romney’s political director, notes that Santorum didn’t get on the ballot in Virginia or the District of Columbia and failed to file full slates of delegates in Ohio and Illinois.

“You’re all of a sudden going to be able to organize at a state convention, a county assembly, and start stealing delegates from us?” Beeson said. “We have a plan in place. We will maintain and increase our delegates at the caucus level.”

The Romney campaign likes to talk about how they have this superior organization in these caucus states.

JOHN YOB National delegate director, Santorum campaign Romney leads the race for delegates with 563, including endorsements from Republican National Committee members who automatically attend the convention and can support any candidate they choose. Santorum has 263 delegates, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has 135 and Texas Rep. Ron Paul has 50.

It takes 1,144 delegates to win the Republican nomination to take on President Barack Obama in the fall.

So far, Romney has won 54 percent of the delegates at stake in primaries and caucuses. That puts the former governor of Massachusetts on pace to clinch the nomination in June, but it doesn’t leave much room for error.

The last primary is June 26, in Utah, giving the other candidates hope they can stop Romney short and force a fight for delegates at the national convention in Tampa, Fla. Six states have held local caucuses that were only the start of a multi-step process to win actual delegates. Together, those states have a total of 223 delegates,

which will be up for grabs at county, congressional district and state conventions sprinkled throughout the spring.

In five of the states - Iowa, Colorado, Minnesota, Maine and Washington - the AP used local caucus results to project the number of national delegates each candidate would win if he maintained the same level of support throughout the process. The sixth state, Missouri, didn’t release statewide results from local caucuses, so it was impossible to make a projection.

Santorum has more delegates in the five states than any other candidate, according to The AP tally: 73, compared to 62 for Romney, 15 for Paul and none for Gingrich.

Most of the campaigns argue they will outperform AP’s projections, and the battle in some states is fierce.

In Missouri, a local Republican caucus near St. Louis was shut down without a vote after it got so rowdy that extra police were summoned to help. In Wyoming, Romney supporters successfully challenged a single Santorum delegate in Park County, getting local party officials to switch the delegate to Romney more than a week after the convention.

In Minnesota, Paul’s supporters showed up at the GOP convention in Carver County lugging computers and printers so they could track their delegates and tell supporters whom to vote for.

“First time I’d seen it,” said Steve Nielsen, the Carver County GOP chairman.

Despite not winning a state, Paul’s supporters have been active in all the caucus states.

John Tate, Paul’s campaign manager, said Paul’s supporters have sometimes played kingmaker, cutting deals in counties where the original caucus vote was evenly split, resulting in a divided county convention.

In some places, they have been approached by Romney supporters looking to block Santorum’s delegates. In others, they have been approached by Santorum supporters looking to block Romney.

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SPORTS M. lax seeks Ivy win M. LAX FROM PAGE 12 54.5 percent of his shot attempts this year.

The Bulldogs will also try to take advantage of their effective faceoff play. Yale’s faceoff unit of Cole Yeager ’13 and Dylan Levings ’14 have won 58 percent of their draws this season, including 11 of 17 last weekend at Cornell.

Princeton’s junior midfielder Bobby Lucas has had success at the faceoff xas well this year.

Lucas has won 54.7 percent of his contests, and this weekend’s matchup will be an opportunity to see if Levings and Yeager can continue their dominance against elite competition.

Princeton is a tough team, but we just have to learn from our mistakes and keep playing with the same effort … that we had [against Cornell].

MICHAEL PRATT ’12 Captain, men’s lacrosse Only the top four teams in the Ivy League make the conference’s postseason tournament, so a loss this weekend will give the Elis a lot of ground to make up going forward. A win should give the Elis a huge momentum boost going into next week’s game against Penn.

This three-week stretch against the Big Red, Tigers and Quakers represents the gauntlet of the six-game Ivy League schedule. After next week, the Bulldogs will have to wait until April 28, their season finale against Harvard, to face another Ivy League contender.

Tomorrow’s game is scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. at Reese Stadium.

Contact JOHN SULLIVAN at john.j.sullivan@yale.edu .

Andrew Luck answers arm strength questions at pro day Stanford quarterback and prospective No. 1 draft pick Andrew Luck found himself having to answer new, unexpected questions about his arm strength after having to throw in windy conditions in Palo Alto yesterday. Going a day after prospective No. 2 pick, and rocket-armed athlete Robert Griffin III didn’t help. “Am strength’s the most overrated tool,” NFL Network’s Mike Mayock said, reassuring Kellen Moore.

Elis look to heat up at the plate

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER The Bulldogs have won just once in five games since returning from their road trip to Florida over spring break, but they will look to right the ship when they face the Hartford University Hawks this weekend.

BASEBALL The Elis (4-11-1, 0-0 Ivy) will host the Hawks (2-14, 0-0 American East) in a doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m. today at Yale Field and then travel to Hartford for a twin bill on Saturday.

Since scoring nine runs in a 9-3 victory over Lafayette in Florida on March 13, Yale has managed just three runs in four games against Stony Brook and an 8-0 loss to the University of Connecticut on Wednesday.

“No matter how hard you are working, sometimes you go through slumps,” outfielder Charlie Neil ’12 said.

The Elis are hitting .225 on the year, but have a .155 average (22-142) as a team since returning to Connecticut.

Yale has also been too aggressive at the plate, striking out 34 times while taking just nine walks over the fivegame stretch.

“From a personal standpoint I haven’t been patient at the plate,” first baseman Kevin Fortunato ’14 said. “I’ve been swinging at pitcher’s pitches.”

While the bats have been slumping, Neil and Fortunato said they have faith in the pitching staff.

No matter how hard you are working, sometimes you go through slumps.

CHARLIE NEIL ’12 Outfielder, baseball Although the Bulldog staff has a combined 6.94 ERA, the Yale hurlers have had several impressive showings on the mound.

Most notably, the Elis held Stony Brook to just two runs in the double-

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Baseball is set to face Hartford this weekend. The Hawks have won only one of their last five games, and last year the Bulldogs swept the series against them. header at Yale Field March 17. In the first game, righthander Pat Ludwig ’12 threw 8.2 scoreless innings with eight strikeouts, but Yale fell 2-1 in 11 innings. Southpaw Rob Cerfolio ’14 matched Ludwig’s performance in the finale by tossing five shutout innings as the Bulldogs went on to beat the Seawolves 1-0 in seven innings.

The matchup with the Hawks

could prove to be an opportune one for Yale, as Hartford has won just one of its last nine games.

The Hawks’ hurlers have a lofty 7.21 ERA and opposing batters are hitting .308 against them. Regardless of their opponent, players said that the best way to break out of the slump is to keep working. “[We] just have to keep grinding

W. lax has ‘The Game’ of the season W. LAX FROM PAGE 12 and I think that our biggest challenge will be getting everyone on the same page so that we can play to our highest potential and win,” said Avallone.

Harvard, last year’s third-place finisher in the Ivies, is not faring any better than Yale and currently shares the sixth place spot with the Bulldogs. The Crimson recently lost 7-5 to crosstown local rival No. 19 Boston College.

“Harvard is a high energy team, especially on the attacking end,” said goalkeeper Whitney Quackenbush ’12. “They have a number of players that like to take it to goal, which can hurt us badly if we are not careful.”

Last season, the Elis took a devastating 19-3 loss to the Crimson, failing to repeat the victory over its archrival two years ago in New Haven. Although the Bulldogs’ attacker trio Jenn Devito ’14, cap-

tain Caroline Crow ’12 and Devon Rhodes ’13 scored one goal each in the first half, Harvard emerged as the winner. Harvard finished with an 18–3 advantage in ground balls and a 33–13 advantage in shots.

Draw controls were another weak spot for the Elis; Harvard controlled 14 out of the 23. However, Yale’s goal-scorers from last season’s match all return this year. Quackenbush said the team’s strength is in its level of talent on both the attacking and defensive ends.

There are several key Crimson players to watch out for, including attacker Jennifer Vandermeulen.

She has already scored six goals this season, and last season she scored 48 and was named first-team AllIvy League. Another key player is midfielder Danielle Tetreault.

Recording 42 goals last season, she has scored 10 goals so far this year.

She also has an All-Ivy League second-team honor to her credit.

Quackenbush said if Yale some-

how finds ways to neutralize these two potential threats, the game should definitely be Yale’s.

She added that since Yale is a very young team with only four upperclassmen, Harvard could be considered the more experienced of the two.

Harvard is a high energy team, especially on the attacking end. They have a number of players that like to take it to the goal.

WHITNEY QUACKENBUSH ’12 Goalkeeper, women’s lacrosse The Bulldogs are quite familiar with the Crimson’s squad since there are only eight freshmen play-

ers out of the 31 in its roster, and most of its starting lineup is composed of upperclassmen. On the other hand, Harvard must face new and unfamiliar opponents since Yale’s lineup is mostly made up of underclassmen.

Avallone said because the team does not rely on one person to win games, it needs every player on the field to have the same mindset in order to display its best teamwork.

Quackenbush said only one thing really matters in this version of The Game: a win.

“We are just looking to play our game. Of course it means a little more than a non-Ivy game because it’s Harvard, but playing our game will be the key to success on Saturday,” Quackenbush said.

The Bulldogs will take on Harvard on Saturday at 3 p.m. in Reese Stadium.

Contact EUGENE JUNG at eugene.jung@yale.edu .

Heavyweight crew to defend home course M. CREW FROM PAGE 12 of fewer oarsmen on the roster than in previous years.

Johnson added, “Even at this early point in the season, we can tell that we are much faster than we were last year. All we need to do is prove it.”

This time last year, the Bulldogs raced the Bears in Providence, R.I., losing the varsity 8+ by 0.43 seconds and the freshman 8+ by 1.02 seconds.

However, Yale’s second, third and fourth varsity 8+ boats won their races.

Even though the contentious Eastern Sprints are scheduled for May 13 and May 31, and the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships is not until June 2, team captain Tom Dethlefs ’12 said that the early races are important for gaining experience and establishing Yale’s speed in the East-

ern Sprints league. He added that tough competition early in the season is good preparation for the championships in May and June.

“The rowing season goes all the way through June, so plenty of things can change, but it’s always good to start out on a strong note,” Dethlefs said.

“Everyone gets faster over the next few months, so it’s a good indicator if we can start the season at a higher base level than other crews in the field.”

Last year, Yale’s varsity 8+ boat finished 10th in the nation at the IRA Regatta — a marginal improvement from the 11th place finish in 2010.

and keep improving,” designated hitter Josh Scharff ’13 said in a message to the News.

Yale and Hartford met four times on the diamond last year, with Yale sweeping the series by a combined score of 50-15.

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

W. crew heads to New York W. CREW FROM PAGE 12 The Bulldogs will look to earn a berth at the NCAA Championship for the eleventh consecutive year. Yale finished in eleventh place last season at the championships.

To prepare for the spring season, the team spent the winter logging long hours in the gym working on fitness in order to improve team speed.

Though the Bulldogs were recently ranked seventh in the nation in a CRCA/US Rowing preseason poll, Porter said he does not “have much faith” in preseason polls because they are not based on any competition.

It is important to get highly competitive racing experience during the season so that every boat is comfortable with intense, physical racing.

CATHY MCDERMOTT ’12 Women’s crew “It’s an honor for us to be in the top ten nationally,” Porter said. “We’ll see how things play out over the next ten weeks…

The only poll that really matters is the last one like every other sport.”

The Elis have a challenging spring schedule ahead of them that will pit them against eight crews that also earned national rankings in the CRCA/US Rowing preseason poll.

“It is important to get highly competitive racing experience during the season so that every boat is comfortable with intense, physical racing,” Cathy McDermott ‘12 said.

Saturday’s battle for the Connell Cup is slated to begin at 12:30 p.m. The varsity eights are scheduled to row at 1:30 p.m.

Contact LINDSEY UNIAT at lindsey.uniat@yale.edu .

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Heavyweight crew will compete against Brown on Saturday.

Contact MARIA GUARDADO at maria.guardado@yale.edu .

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BY EUGENE JUNG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER This Saturday, the two oldest Ivy rivals, Yale (2-4, 0-2 Ivy) and Harvard (2-4, 0-2 Ivy), will meet with each team pursuing its first Ivy League win of the season. The Elis are coming off a defeat on the road at the ahdns of Boston University on Wednesday in which ten saves from goaltender Erin McMullan ’14 and two goals from Cathryn Avallone ’15 were not enough ot stave off a 13–8 disappointment. The Bulldogs have struggled in the Ivy League as well, with losses already to defending co-champions Dartmouth and Penn .

W.LACROSSE “Harvard is going to be a hard competitor, SEE W. LAX PAGE 11

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Yale will chase its first Ivy League win this weekend when it takes on Princeton. The Elis snuck past the Tigers, 8–7, in overtime last year.

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Harvard solidly defeated the Bulldogs in last season’s meeting, 19-3.

The tough road to the Ivy League tournament continues this week as the Bulldogs return home to take on the Princeton Tigers (4-2, 1-0 Ivy) at Reese Stadium on Saturday. The Elis (2-3, 0-1 Ivy) have dropped their last three games, including their first loss to Lehigh since 1918, but the team still has reason to be optimistic. In its most recent game, Yale fell by a single goal to a tough Cornell team that is currently ranked No. 4 in the coun-

try. Although it was another defeat, the Bulldogs showed a fighting mentality that had been missing in their previous losses to Lehigh and Holy Cross.

“Princeton is a tough team,” captain Michael Pratt ’12 said. “But we just have to learn from our mistakes and keep playing with the same effort and intensity that we had [against Cornell], and I think we’ll be fine.”

Last weekend it was the Elis’ defense that kept the team in the game against Cornell, and the Bulldogs will need a similar defen-

Elis battle for Connell Cup

BY MARIA GUARDADO STAFF REPORTER After a long winter, women’s crew opens its competitive spring season this weekend against Ivy League rivals Columbia and Penn in New York.

But during the spring, crews compete in sprint races, which are 2,000 meter competitions where crews row side by side for the entire race. The spring is crew’s official competitive season,

since those results determine eligibility for the NCAA Championships held in late May. SEE W. CREW PAGE 11

BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER

HEAVYWEIGHT CREW

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Women’s crew kicks off its competitive season this weekend in New York City.

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goals to earn an 11-4 victory in their Ivy League opener.

The Elis’ attacking trio of Matt Gibson ’12, Brandon Mangan ’14 and Conrad Oberbeck ’15 lead Yale’s offense in scoring and are averaging over six goals per game between them. They have accounted for over half of the team’s goals thus far this season and will bear the brunt of the scoring burden against the Tigers.

Oberbeck has been particularly efficient; the freshman has scored on SEE M. LAX PAGE 11

Heavyweight crew begins season at home The heavyweight crew team will kick off its spring season this weekend with the first of two consecutive home regattas at the Gilder Boathouse in Derby, Conn.

WOMEN’S CREW The Bulldogs, who will be competing for the first time since last October, are looking to repeat last season’s firstplace finish and recapture the Connell Cup, which is awarded to the winner of the race.

“We’ve worked hard indoors since the conclusion of our fall racing season and are excited to start spring racing,” captain Kathleen O’Keefe ‘12 said.

The Elis enjoyed a series of strong performances during their unofficial season in the fall. Yale opened the season with a first-place finish at the Head of the Housatonic and followed by placing fourth at the Head of the Charles and third at the Princeton Chase.

“We had a quietly good fall,” head coach Will Porter said. “I think we were sort of establishing a work ethic for this year, and I thought they did well.”

The Elis compete in head races during the fall, which are three-mile competitions where crews follow a single file format and row against the clock.

sive effort against the Tigers. Yale held the Big Red’s top-ranked scoring offense to its lowest output of the season and held one of the most prolific attack units in the country to two goals. Princeton’s offense is averaging 11 goals per game and is ranked 16th in the country, four spots behind Yale.

The Tigers’ strength, however, lies in their defense. Princeton is sixth in the nation in scoring defense, with a 7.33 goals against average. Last weekend the Tigers smothered the Penn offense, allowing only four

Yale’s varsity 8+, junior varsity 8+ and freshman 8+ boats will race against Brown on the Housatonic River, starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday. They intend to defend their home turf. “[The home river advantage] adds a personal aspect to the race, it gives you an edge,” varsity 8+ rower Zach Johnson ’14 said. “You’ll be damned if you’re going to let another crew come to your course and beat you in front of your friends and family. Our goal for this race is to make a statement.”

Johnson and teammate Joe Alagna ’12 both noted that while being familiar with the course

and recognizing landmarks can help, “at the end of the day, the faster crew always wins.”

Four team members interviewed said that they expect a tough race against Brown, as against any Eastern Sprints league opponent, but that they feel Yale is capable of coming away with a win.

You’ll be damned if you’re going to let another crew come to your course and beat you in front of your friends and family.

ZACH JOHNSON ’14 Alagna said the team is training harder and more effectively than prior seasons and focusing on speed, partially because SEE M. CREW PAGE 11

THE PERCENTAGE OF FACEOFFS THE MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM HAS WON THIS SEASON. Cole Yeager ’13 and Dylan Levings ’14 compose the faceoff unit; Levings has won more than 63 percent of his faceoffs, Yeager more than 51. Both performed well against Cornell, winning 11 out of 17.