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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT · MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012 · VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 110 · yaledailynews.com

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CROSS CAMPUS

M. LACROSSE ELIS FALL IN LONGEST GAME

ACTING ASPIRATIONS BELIEVE IN PEOPLE Alum gives practical career advice to Yalies hoping to ‘make it’

NEW MURAL APPEARS IN CHAPEL STREET ALLEY

Bulldogs kick off spring season with routs of Columbia, Penn

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Students react to Fling picks

Bells are ringing. William

Kamens ’09, the son of Prof.

Edward Kamens and Yale College Dean Mary Miller, was married on Sunday to Rachel Darcy Butler ’08.

Jewish Chaplain James Ponet ’68 officiated the wedding, which was held at McLean Gardens Ballroom, an event space in Washington, D.C. The wedding was featured in the New York Times’ wedding announcements.

a cappella group Out of the Blue took first place at the semifinals of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. The group will now move to the ICCA finals in New York City in April.

Bye bye, Broadway Liquor.

Broadway Liquor — a favorite stop for undergrads seeking liquor — has officially vacated its Dixwell Avenue storefront, after the University refused to allow the store’s owner to renew his lease on the property.

Moving on up. President Barack Obama nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to become president of the World Bank on Friday. “The leader of the World Bank should have a deep understanding of both the role that development plays in the world and the importance of creating conditions where assistance is no longer needed,” Obama said. “It’s time for a development professional to lead the world’s largest development agency.”

Gant + Yale. On Monday, New Haven-based Gant, famous for its preppy fashions, will launch a new advertising campaign that focuses on its relationship to Yale and its Yale Co-op shirt collection. “We are really dusting off this brand and really going back to our roots,” Bob Andrews, the creative director at Gant, told the New York Times.

Controversy. The Vietnamese ambassador to the United States, Nguyen Quoc Cuong, spoke at Luce Hall Friday afternoon. The event drew a number of protesters.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1980 Silliman freshman Mike McGowan battles flames in his dorm room after an itinerant cigarette dropped into a trash can in his first floor single on the Wall Street side of Silliman. The flames draw three fire engines.

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SOM visit to S. Korea stirs debate

BY DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTER A meeting between School of Management students and a former South Korean dictator over spring break has sparked controversy in South Korea and raised questions about the morality of meetings with controversial figures abroad.

If someone is trying to use Yale to help their image, there’s no way to know that in advance.

Silli-bration. Silliman College was in a celebratory mood Sunday afternoon, as Master Judith Krauss announced that her second grandchild, Charlotte, was born Saturday night. It comes as the college hired sushi chefs to cook Sunday night’s family dinner in honor of the college’s victory at the Final Cut competition last month.

We have a winner. The co-ed

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DINA MAYZLIN Professor, Yale School of Management

he would not perform well alone because he often collaborates with other artists.

“T-Pain is a guest-verse rapper,” said Bijan Stephen ’13. “I don’t know what he is going to do without the people that feature him.”

Best known for the songs he records with fellow hip-hop artists, T-Pain has won two Grammy

During the trip to South Korea — part of a first-year SOM requirement for which students analyze business and management issues abroad — a group discussed economic policy with Chun Doo-hwan, a former dictator who took power in a 1979 military coup. Though the Chun administration is often credited for paving the way for Korea’s economic prosperity in recent decades, Chun was found guilty for leading a brutal military repression of pro-democracy protests in the city of Kwangju in 1980. The two-hour visit at Chun’s home was televised and gained media scrutiny throughout South Korea because Chun’s questionably accurate descriptions of his presidency went unchallenged by the stu-

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CREATIVE COMMONS AND PASSION PIT

T-Pain and Passion Pit are among the artists that will perform at this year’s Spring Fling on April 24.

BY MADELINE MCMAHON STAFF REPORTER After a Spring Fling lineup that includes rapper T-Pain, Passion Pit and DJ 3LAU leaked online last week, students have voiced mixed feelings about the upcoming event.

News about the Spring Fling performers broke after a posting on songkick.com, a website that tracks artists and their concerts, indicated

that T-Pain, Passion Pit and 3LAU would play at Yale on Tuesday, April 24 — the same day as Spring Fling.

Rapper BIG RyAT had also posted earlier that week that he would perform at a concert with T-Pain at Yale on April 24. Though the majority of 15 students interviewed said they were excited to hear Passion Pit’s electronic dance music, students were more divided over T-Pain, and some expressed concern that

AT H L E T I C S

Recruitment caps come at a cost

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s the number of recruited athletes has decreased over University President Richard Levin’s 18-year tenure, some alumni are voicing concerns.TAPLEY STEPHENSON reports.

Chris Getman ’64, the current owner of Handsome Dan, took the stage at the Yale Blue Leadership Gala last November to receive the George H.W. Bush ’48 Lifetime Leadership Award. Decorations for the celebration lit the Lanman Center blue, and a giant Yale banner hung behind the stage. University administrators, including University President Richard Levin and Athletic Director Tom Beckett, sat on the stage with other coaches and alumni,

while the Yale Precision Marching Band played a rendition of “Bulldog.”

But the tone of Getman’s speech was less than celebratory.

“I’m disappointed that Yale’s announced admissions policy will more than likely relegate our teams in the future to an unlevel playing field in the Ivy League,” he said. “It’s disheartening to me that while we have what is arguably the finest athletic venue in the country … the University has openly decided to take far

fewer of the recruited athletes than allowed.”

Since Levin became University president in 1993, recruiting totals have dropped from 18 percent of the incoming Yale College class of 1998 to 13 percent for the class of 2015.

Beckett said the class of 2015 had 177 recruited athletes, though the Ivy League allows Yale to recruit 230.

“I have wanted to maintain a strong athletic program, and I believe we have demonstrated this can be accomplished without admitting quite so many athletes,” Levin told the Yale Alumni Magazine in an often quoted interview from the September/October 2010 issue.

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NHPD to announce new asst. chiefs

BY JAMES LU STAFF REPORTER New Haven Police Department Chief Dean Esserman will appoint a new leadership team today.

At a City Hall press conference with Mayor John DeStefano Jr. scheduled for 5:30 p.m., Esserman is expected to announce four new assistant chiefs: Lt. Thadeus Reddish, Lt. Luiz Casanova, Capt. Denise Blanchard and Archie Generoso, an inspector for the state’s attorney’s office, according to the New Haven Independent. The announcement comes almost two months after Esserman asked the department’s three then-assistant chiefs to resign or retire so that

he could assemble his own management team.

“The police department has issued a strategic plan that outlines strategies for reducing violence through community policing, close partnerships between police and citizens, and by upholding to the highest standards for excellence and integrity,” City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said in a press release previewing the announcement. “Monday’s announcement will address staffing and leadership decisions that will enable the police department to deliver on that vision.”

In selecting three internal candidates and a former district manager — Generoso oversaw

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Archaeology cancels fieldwork course

the Dwight neighborhood in the early 1990s — Esserman is fulfilling his promise not to bring “anyone from New York or Providence” into the NHPD’s leadership.

Each of the three officers promoted to assistant chief from within the department already holds a position of authority within the NHPD. Casanova heads the patrol division, Reddish is district manager in the Newhallville policing district and Blanchard runs the police training academy.

All four candidates are expected to be cleared by the Board of Police Commissioners, which holds the ultimate

Starting next fall, a roughly 50-year-old archaeology course that sent students to excavate historic sites around New England will no longer be offered.

The course was required for both undergraduates and graduate students in archaeological studies, but professors said its time-intensiveness and difficulties finding archaeological sites close to campus made it increasingly hard to offer during the academic year.

Instead, archaeology students will now have to take a summer course approved by Yale at a field school in the United States or abroad, said Roderick McIntosh, director of undergraduate studies for the major. Five students interviewed who have taken the class expressed

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OPINION

“Yale as an American version of the OxBridge model is going, going, and go.COMMENT ing to be gone. Enjoy it while you can.” ‘LDFFLY’ ON ‘RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES ADJUST yaledailynews.com/opinion

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Why women don’t write Q

uot homines tot sententiae: So many men, so many opinions. Such is my reckoning after a morning foray through the opinion pages of the major publications of our time. Individual contributors’ popularity ebbs and recedes. Then again, as I open the paper, I am unfailingly met by a barrage of authors of the male persuasion.

Indeed, glance at the Yale Daily News, The New York Times, the Washington Post and other major news outlets, and you will see a conspicuous deficit of female contributors in the typical man-fest that is the opinion section.

In a byline survey by the OpEd Project for March 14-20 of last year, men authored an average of 70 percent of op-eds published in eight leading professional and college newspapers, including the News. The ladies trailed behind with an average of 30 percent of articles.

Figures like this might suggest that newspapers are simply less inclined to choose a woman’s submission over a man’s, but, according to the OpEd Project, men accounted for an astonishing 90 percent of submissions to the Washington Post in 2008. This is no matter of the repression of female writers. If anything, the numbers would suggest an affirmative action of sorts in favor of that small percentage of women who have the gumption to submit.

Moreover, when a woman does finally grace the page, she regularly broaches themes of sex, sexism, reproductive rights, feminism and relationships — so rarely does she venture to grapple with issues independent of the female experience. And yes, though I’m sure you’d all be very entertained by my romantic endeavors (they make for fantastic stories), I ask you, ladies, do we have nothing else to say?

In confronting this peculiar scarcity of female contributors, I’m inclined to ask myself — an avid writer profoundly intrigued by collapsing the events of our time into thoughtful interpretations — why this column is my first submission.

For me, at least, it wasn’t a lack of initiative — my own journal is littered with ideas that could be considered healthy starts to an article. I had no qualms about sharing my ideas, nor an aversion to the inevitable liability that comes with their publication in a public forum.

My reason for abstaining from submission was, well,

it had never occurred to me before. Of course, I’ve reacted to current events with passionate arguments to friends or silent journal entries, but I rarely find myself riled enough to revert to the opinion pages’ sort of proselytizing.

Unlike our male counterparts, who will casually take on issues only tangentially related to their livelihoods, women find the might of the pen mainly in response to situations of profound personal significance where our own safety, dignity or sanity is in peril.

It follows, then, that many females find their opinions fit to print only in cases of obscene infringements on their rights or (not-so-) tongue-and-cheek quips on a frustrated sex life.

Instead of writing with the interest of consolidating world events from manifold perspectives, too often women write as a defense on behalf of their fellow females.

All said, I find it absurd that we allow ourselves to shirk an individual voice in the interest of championing a cookiecutter female perspective. This sort of dialogue is overdone and serves only to undervalue the potency of our opinions.

We profess our dealings with the world solely in the role of the independent, self-reliant woman. This is an egregious hindrance to gender equality.

I seek success not as a female, but as a person.

My opinions are indeed informed by my experiences — being a woman among them — though my voice is the voice of a person who happens to be female and does not assume the burden of speaking for womankind.

When I write, I glean very little fulfillment from providing the female angle. To confine myself to such an approach is to slight my individual ideas and perceptions.

I’m not suggesting that we stop the discussion on women’s rights in opinion articles, but rather that we broaden our selection of topics and expand our written dialogue to suit our diverse views and interests.

Let’s talk about the economy, our military campaigns, science and the trials and tribulations of the human experience.

If we want readers to judge our voices to be equal to our male counterparts, we need to stop pointing to the plight of women and decrying its injustice and instead declare our opinions on all matters.

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he debate over Yale’s partnership with the National University of Singapore is alive and well. Last week, no fewer than nine people authored or co-authored letters and columns in the News on the topic. Most were critical, arguing that our venture in Singapore violates our core values. Since 2009, when Levin announced Yale-NUS, others have asserted the impossibility of recreating our university in another setting.

The critics of the Singapore scheme raise an interesting question: What makes Yale unique that can’t be picked up and moved to Asia?

The answer isn’t so simple. My first thought was that Yale is its 12 residential colleges — you certainly can’t move those to Singapore. Unfortunately, the college system is only some 80 years old, meaning we would have to roll forward Yale’s birthday quite a bit.

Maybe Yale is its faculty, a company of scholars who police the halls of academia, as computer science professor Michael Fischer suggested recently (“Yale-NUS is not Yale,” March 23). This, too, doesn’t hold up to historical scrutiny. For much of the University’s early life, Yale’s faculty had little say in governance.

What about a set of eternal values?

President Levin always talks about tolerance, open-mindedness and Isaiah Berlin.

Are we a school that respects free speech — a freedom that does not exist in Singapore? That notion, too, butts up against

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some stubborn facts.

In Yale’s first 100 years, religious dissenters faced discrimination for expressing their views. So much for free speech and tolerance.

Yale might simply be the amalgamaNATHANIEL tion of its own hisZELINSKY tory, real or imagined, as we remember it. It On Point could be alumni, a collection of Dink Stovers and Cole Porters. It could be stories about the war years or the May Day rally of 1970.

At first glance, this seems pretty compelling. Then again, how many Yalies know our history today? Our collective memory is pretty scant. Unless Yale is a flimsier institution than we’ve been led to believe, we must strike that off the list as well.

What about New Haven? Do College, Elm, Chapel, High and Park define the Yale experience? Are we just a school near Louis’ Lunch and J. Press? This would explain why Yale wouldn’t work in Singapore. But our city constantly changes.

New shops pop up, and old ones close. If New Haven were Yale, then it would be in perpetual flux. Besides, tomorrow’s new Shake Shack and today’s Au Bon Pain could simply be built in Asia to recreate the University.

Sticklers will say Yale is its Corpora-

tion, the unbroken chain of people with whom the buck stops. That answer should also leave us unsatisfied. Our community seems more than just a legal entity of the State of Connecticut.

Maybe Yale is all of these things, at different times, to varying degrees. Maybe our school grows and transforms, defying absolute definition. Yet, if that were the case, why couldn’t we simply evolve ourselves into a new partnership with Singapore?

So what makes Yale unique? Based on my own predilections, I want to quote Margaret Thatcher, who once called America a unique nation, the only one founded on an idea. I want Yale, too, to be a place founded by an idea. Or two. Lux and Veritas.

I want to say that, in every age, we try to define what it is to walk in these principles. We know they exist, but no one agrees on exactly what they are. For Levin, the light is toleration. For me, lux is the difference between Right and Wrong.

Only one of us is right.

Before we know if Singapore is right or wrong for Yale, we need to articulate who we are.

NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a junior in Davenport College. His column runs on Mondays.

Contact him at nathaniel.zelinsky@yale.edu .

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Occupy New Haven on thin ice

GUEST COLUMNIST FRANCISCO DIEZ

JULIA PUCCI is a junior in Berkeley College. Contact her at julia.pucci@yale.edu .

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Singapore raises questions

Liberals for the status quo I

t’s no secret that most self-identified liberal Yalies don’t question the political status quo that persists on campus. Most students accept issues like the immense inequality in New Haven and the fact that Yale is a bastion of privilege with little more than a shrug.

At the same time, the loudest and most revolutionary voices belong to the growing conservative presence on campus. Among all the liberals on our campus, where is Yale’s Left? There are two possibilities: It’s either far smaller or much less driven than we think. While a number of Yalies certainly wave the flag of progressivism, at a place like Yale, this strand on the Left mainly supports what amounts to the status quo.

But my point is not about which structures at Yale are unjust or about how terrible conservatism is. Rather, most of Yale’s liberals face numerous ideological problems and inconsistencies, which I believe are one factor to a thick mélange of problems with liberals not only on campus but in the rest of the country.

I’ve met many intelligent, selfdeclared liberal Yalies, but they tend not to question the foundations influencing their beliefs and where they come from. Instead, they opt to toe the Democratic Party line or parrot Howard Dean.

If they want to take seriously the principles at the root of their beliefs — support of some semblance of social equality, for instance — they must be much more dissatisfied with the status quo. As

it stands now, they help propagate a status quo little better than that many conservative students are willing to accept.

That said, plenty of groups at Yale — such as MEChA, the Liberal Party of the YPU and the Undergraduate Organizing Committee — do precisely what has to be done. Intellectually, they partake in the great tradition of critique instead of simple, unexamined action that can be so often misdirected or done for the wrong reasons. If people who consider themselves on the Left really want to transform what they see as wrong with the world, they need to realize that the political framework they work in could be very, very wrong. They must critique seriously and passionately. They ought to think and work in a manner that enacts serious alternatives to the broken system in which we live.

The problem with a student body so steeped in liberal ideas and assumptions is that the reality it faces is assumed to be liberal and just. If we who claim to be on the Left are to act in any way to secure long-term change, we have to try to understand how our privilege may blind us.

Almost all leftist traditions are those of dissatisfaction with the status quo and the frameworks that restrict people from positive freedom. We have an obligation to stay true to those traditions.

Unfortunately, most of the self-proclaimed progressive values on campus don’t go far enough. The Left isn’t about ideologically uncaring pragmatism but about being loud and dissatisfied while

providing real alternatives and solutions that break the paradigms entrenching terrible orders.

I acknowledge that the conservative movement has tremendous resources, but I believe the challenge faced by liberalism is something more deeply problematic: all too often, it is not serious enough.

Especially at Yale, the unfortunate truth may be it is in many liberals’ best interest to take their leftism lightly. It may be in their best interest to sympathize with those advocating for equality, but to stop short and think charity and NGO work is the best way to do it, while forgetting that the system under which they are working is one that hinders the implementation of their visions.

We can’t patch up a bleeding aorta with Band-Aids.

Our models should not be charity and fair trade, but Eugene Debs, the student protesters of 1968 and groups like Students for a Democratic Society. If we are to work within a system, we must go in it with every intention to understand and reject what goes against our fundamental values. If we are to take our liberalism and our leftism seriously, we cannot proxy justice with a warm, fuzzy feeling of charity or occasional Democratic campaign work. We need loud, raucous political action.

FRANCISCO DIEZ is a sophomore in Morse College. Contact him at francisco.diez@yale.edu .

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“The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‘Thus far and no farther.’” LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN COMPOSER

Aspiring actors get career advice

12:00 PM “Urban Encounters: Struggles for Space and Place in Post-Civil War Southern Cities.” Caitlin Verboon, a graduate student in American history, will speak as part of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Brown Bag Lunch Series. Bring lunch; drinks and dessert wil be provided. 230 Prospect St., Room 101.

4:00 PM “Protein Folding in the Cell.” Sterling Professor of Genetics and professor of pediatrics Dr. Arthur L. Horwich will give the Paul Sigler Lecture. Osborn Memorial Laboratories (165 Prospect St.), Room 202.

6:30 PM “Law and Society in Israel: Contemporary Issues.”

Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, founder and director of The Shalom Comparative Legal Research Center at Ono Academic College in Kiryat Ono, Israel, will speak. Sterling Law Buildings (127 Wall St.), Room 110.

7:00 PM “Machuca.” This film, directed by Andrés Wood, tells the story of two boys observing a political coup in their native Chile. Running time 121 minutes. Actress Manuela Martelli will present the film. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), auditorium.

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CORRECTION

Students interested in pursuing acting as a career attended a seminar by actress Maria-Christina Oliveras ’01, who gave practical advice and spoke about her life in the field.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21

The article “Occupy art” inaccurately attributed the creation of a broken television art installation to Martina Crouch ’14 and Matthew Osbourne. In fact, Josh Heltke and Justin Sabatino are planning the installation.

New program merges sciences, humanities

BY HOON PYO JEON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A program recently established through the Whitney Humanities Center aims to bridge the divide between scientists and humanists.

The Franke Program in Science and the Humanities will sponsor public lectures and discussions that integrate knowledge from the sciences and the humanities. Richard Franke ’53, who will fund the program along with his wife Barbara, said he hopes the program will encourage students and faculty members to consider how fields of study across the University can reveal additional insights into their academic work.

This initiative promotes dyanmic thinking at the juncture of two [...] systems of thought.

RICHARD LEVIN University President “What we hope happens when a person comes to a university is that they are able to have a course of studies at the end of which he or she is on the right road to be an educated person,” Franke said. “It would be a shame if a person came to a university like Yale and is simply isolated by the demands of the degree and specialization, not exposed to different ways of thinking.”

Franke, a former chairman and CEO of the investment banking firm John Nuveen & Co. Inc. and the recipient of the 1997 National Humanities Medal, said in addition to creating new events, the program will bring together existing Yale programs that already combine the two disciplines.

As one of its first initiatives, the program has incorporated the Shulman Seminars, which were established in 2007.

This year’s Shulman Seminar, taught by music professor Gary Tomlinson, is titled “Music and Human Evolution.”

After Franke initially approached University President Richard Levin with the idea for the program, Franke formed an investigative committee comprising roughly 10 faculty members from both the humanities and sciences, and Levin officially approved the program last fall. Levin appointed Richard Prum, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology who is currently on sabbatical in Spain, to lead the program as its first director.

“This initiative promotes dynamic thinking at the juncture of two interdependent systems of thought,” Levin wrote in an email to members of the faculty, deans and directors. “[The initiative] recognizes that the fundamental questions that engage humanists must be informed by basic insights of science, just as meaningful scientific inquiry depends on humanistic knowledge.”

William Sledge, a former master of Calhoun College and psychiatry professor at the School of Medicine who served on the program’s executive committee in its early stages, said the program faces the challenge of encouraging professors in different fields to collaborate, which can be difficult in part because members of the Yale community are often confined within the boundaries of their own departments.

He added that scholars must try to understand and speak the same conceptual language, as participants have varying degrees of awareness of other disciplines.

“Whenever two or more disciplines come together, there is always the challenge of different methods with different cultures and foci,” Sledge said.

Franke previously served as senior fellow of the Yale Corporation and on the University of Chicago Board.

Contact HOON PYO JEON at hoonpyo.jeon@yale.edu .

RICHARD FRANKE ’53 Franke, who majored in history at Yale, was the only businessman who testified in Washington against discontinuing federal support for the humanities in the late 1990s, Franke said.

As a former investment banker, he said the study of humanities provides excellent training for a wide array of careers since it emphasizes critical thinking.

Franke has served as the senior fellow for Yale Corporation and on the University of Chicago Board, during which time he continued his monetary support to the humanities programs in various universities, including the Whitney Humanities Program.

BY AKBAR AHMED STAFF REPORTER With help from alumni like MariaChristina Oliveras ’01, a slew of Yale theater students are seeking to discover what makes for a functional acting career in New York City.

Oliveras, who has had roles in the successful Broadway musical “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” and the Emmy Awardwinning television series “Damages,” led a seminar called “An Actor Gets Started” at the Undergraduate Career Services office at 55 Whitney Ave. on Friday. Students who attended the seminar said they appreciated the level of detail Oliveras offered in her advice, as well as the confidence in acting as a career path that her success inspired in them.

“She got down to dollar figures for rent, for the gym — she shared her personal schedule,” said Michael Knowles ’12, a senior who plans to move to New York and look for acting jobs after he graduates this May. “Anything that can ground you in this business is priceless. [Of] all of these sorts of careers panels I’ve been to, for different industries and theater, it was the most personalized and helpful.”

Laurel Durning-Hammond ’14, who said she intends to pursue a career in theater as an actor, said she found the seminar helpful because Oliveras provided “concrete” answers to students’ questions and issues such as what one should do on arriving in New York and how to get an agent.

The event was organized by UCS, the Traphagen Alumni Speakers Series, the Yale College Office of Student Affairs, the Creative Yale Alumni Network (CYAN) and the Yale Drama Coalition.

“This year, the YDC is trying to create more of a relationship with alumni working in the arts, such as those in the CYAN,” YDC vice president Kate Heaney ’14 said.

“We have all these great things going on on campus, but as a student you want to know what happens after you graduate.”

She added that the YDC hopes to continue to build on its relationship with

alumni to offer more workshops and panels in collaboration with UCS. Oliveras’ talk touched on many topics that can be expanded into larger conversations in further seminars, Heaney said.

“This particular workshop had a very high interest level, especially because we’re at this point in the year when the year is winding down [for seniors],” YDC president Irene Casey ’14 said.

Knowles said he appreciates the opportunity CYAN panels have given him to network with Yale graduates working in the field who can offer him advice.

“Acting is a people’s business,” Knowles said, adding that he emailed eight people who he met at an earlier CYAN panel, to solicit comments on his film demo reel.

After two rounds of receiving suggestions from alumni and editing the reel himself, Knowles said, he felt “more prepared to send it to an agent.”

“In any other industry, you’re marketing your skills and experience,” he said.

“In this industry, you’re fundamentally selling yourself.”

YDC treasurer Sara Hendel ’14, who will star in “Sunday in the Park with George” next weekend, said she was more confident about pursuing acting as a potential career path as a result of the workshop and that it allayed her fears about job insecurity in the field.

“A lot of people from Yale are apprehensive about acting as a career path … because for other jobs, you have a trajectory … or they might give it to you because you went to Yale. Here, they’re not going to do that,” she added.

Knowles, who attended the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York during his senior year of high school, said that actors graduating from Yale need advice about how to break into the professional acting world because they do not have the benefits of a conservatory training, which he said is a “much better structure to expose you to the real world.”

“My impression is that we Yale actors do not have the same leg up that conservatory actors do from having spent years learning about the business and prepar-

ing a rep book with pieces to fit any type of audition,” said Durning-Hammond, who went to the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Mass., and said a number of her friends from high school went on to conservatories. “Also, many conservatories have showcases for seniors which land most of the students with agents as soon as they reach the city, which we do not have and would be incredibly helpful.”

Still, both Durning-Hammond and Knowles said that the Yale environment ensures that students develop a set of key skills that benefit actors.

“Where else in four years could you do over 20 plays, a couple of web series and student films just outside of class?” said Knowles, referring to projects he has been involved with that were funded by Yale’s Creative and Performing Arts Awards.

Durning-Hammond added that Yale’s academic environment fosters organizational and problem-solving skills that aid actors. She said that, for the actor and artist she wants to be, Yale’s theater program is ideal, because it gives her acting training, educational depth and a creative, energetic theater community.

“Yale makes it very, very clear that we are not a conservatory, and we are not a technical school,” Hendel said. “For me and a lot of other people, that’s why we came here: because we didn’t want to be pigeon-holed.”

Still, Hendel said, now that she has realized she may want to pursue acting professionally, she wishes the Yale Theater Studies program offered more technical training to students. The YDC has been trying to fill in what students perceive as “gaps” in classroom opportunities by putting together workshops on areas like stage combat, the Commedia Dell’Arte and dialects, she said.

“As helpful as [YDC events are], I still wish that the department would do it,” Hendel said.

The Theater Studies program is currently undergoing a curriculum review.

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

FES students win research fellowships

BY LILIANA VARMAN STAFF REPORTER Two graduate students are the recipients of the 2012 Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy’s research prize fellowship.

Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies students Vanessa Lamers FES ’13 SPH ’13 and doctoral candidate Xin Zhang FES ’13, will each receive $7,500 to fund their research proposals. Zhang’s prize money will help support her research on improving the reliability of national greenhouse gas inventories, whereas Lamers’ funding will cover the costs of her study of water quality near shale gas development sites in southwestern Pennsylvania.

“I am very excited about winning this research fellowship because it will provide me funding support for extending my current doctoral research, which mostly focuses on the basic science, to the policy end,” Zhang said.

Zhang said she has spent the past four years measuring and quantifying greenhouse gas emissions in the “agriculture-dominated” regions of the northern Midwest, where she and her research team found that current guidelines for developing greenhouse gas inventories may lead to uncertainty and bias.

She is collaborating with Uni-

versity of Minnesota professor Timothy Griffis for the experimental portion of her project after having spent the summer of 2009 collecting data at the university’s Tall Tower Trace Gas Observatory. The observatory, Griffis said, allows researchers to measure greenhouse gases in the atmospheric boundary layer with high precision.

The grant, Zhang said, will allow her to examine how uncertainties in measuring carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions affect policy. In her future research, she added, she will explore the “top-down approach,” which involves using Tall Tower, aircraft and remote sensing approaches to improve current national greenhouse gas inventory estimates.

Lamers said she first became interested in her research topic during a talk last year given by billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens at the Yale Law School auditorium last March. During the talk, she said, Julie Botnick ’14 asked Pickens about his opinion regarding water quality complaints from people living near hydraulic structures used for shale gas development. Pickens responded that he “didn’t know” of any environmental risks associated with hydraulic fracturing.

The talk, Lamers said, inspired her to conduct research on natu-

YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Fellowship recipients Vanessa Lamers FES ’13 SPH ’13, left, and Xin Zhang FES ’13, right, posed with interim director of the 2012 Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and law professor Doug Kysar. ral gas collection.

As part of her research project, Lamers said she will work to develop new methodologies for assessing isotopic analysis in water in close proximity to drilling sites. She and her team will collect samples of well water from private homes and farms in southwestern Pennsylvania and examine water quality and other related factors including well depth.

Lamers said the research team is discussing the possibility of investigating water samples for the presence of toluene, benzene and arsenic — three contaminants that in high doses are particu-

larly hazardous to human health — in addition to acids, heavy metals and general suspended solids. Although Lamers said she has not officially decided which particles she will be measuring, she added that she will likely focus on contaminants affecting human health due to her interest in public health.

The Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy was created in 1994 as a joint initiative between the environment school and the law school.

Contact LILIANA VARMAN at liliana.varman@yale.edu .

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Archaeology field survey Archaeologists use field surveys to search and collect information about the location, distribution and organization of past human cultures across a large area.

Korea trip receives media scrutiny EXCERPTS FROM CHUN DOO-HWAN’S REMARKS TO SOM STUDENTS: I was in office for seven years, […] and I was afraid that I would be tempted to stay in office for 3-4 times like my predecessors, which would have caused further political turmoil, so I only ruled for seven years. I wanted to provide a good model for future presidents during my term.

If I had planned to be president, I would have done a much better job. But the previous president passed away unexpectedly and I was responsible for investigating the case, and then I became president. I am thankful that I finished my term without major failures.

I am from a military background, which put me in danger of ruling the country in a military style. However, thanks to the guidance of people like my former finance minister Sakong Il who studied in America, I was able to implement an American-style democracy.

SOURCE: JTBC, A CONSTITUENT CHANNEL OF THE JOONGANG MEDIA NETWORK, WHICH TRANSCRIBED THE SOM VISIT. TRANSLATED FROM KOREAN.

SOUTH KOREA FROM PAGE 1 dents.

Professor Shin Jiwoong, who led the trip, said Chun’s office carefully vetted students’ questions in advance, adding that he and his students were informed the media would be present at the visit three days beforehand. SOM Dean Edward Snyder, along with Shin and three other professors who led spring break trips, said students should not be automatically pro-

hibited from meeting with leaders with a poor human rights records, since their perspectives can have educational value.

“If you had a chance to meet Hitler, would you avoid it because he’s a bad person?” Shin said. “I’d say it’s better to meet him and hear from him.”

SOM professor Dina Mayzlin, who led a trip to Israel this spring break, said she felt students must “deal with the good and the bad” in order to gain a stronger under-

standing of countries’ economies.

She added that students are mature enough not to be swayed by a politician’s inaccurate representation of history, in part because they prepared extensively before leaving the United States.

But SOM professor Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, who led a trip to Bangladesh and Vietnam, said it was important to consider whether meetings with leaders might provide implicit support for their political actions.

“If there are important and credible human rights concerns about certain people, then we ought not to help legitimize them by allowing them to advertise that a group from Yale University visited to learn from them,” he said, adding that such concerns must be considered on a case-by-case basis and weighed against educational benefits and academic ideals.

Professors said private meetings and meetings covered by the media can have different tones and implications, adding that media coverage can result in politicians using events as platforms for their ideas.

Still, they said it is difficult to completely control the itinerary of a trip, and media outlets sometimes arrive unexpectedly.

“If someone is trying to use Yale to help their image, there’s no way to know that in advance,” Mayzlin said. “Any time you meet a politician, it’s a photo op for them. If you met with Barack Obama, it would be the same thing.”

Five students interviewed who went on the trip to South Korea said they felt meeting Chun and Sakong Il, Chun’s finance minister and economic secretary, contributed significantly to the educational value of the trip, adding that Sakong fielded the majority of students’ questions.

Adam Rose SOM ’13 said meeting

NHPD selects asst. chiefs THE NEW HAVEN POLICE DEPARTMENT’S NEW ASSISTANT CHIEFS LT. LUIZ CASANOVA

Head of the NHPD’s Patrol Division. Has served 16 years with the department.

LT. THADDEUS REDDISH

District manager for the Newhallville neighborhood, where he grew up.

CAPT. DENISE BLANCHARD

Oversees the police training academy.

Previously served as head of Internal Affairs.

ARCHIE GENEROSO

Serves as an inspector in the state’s attorney’s office. Previously led the NHPD’s Narcotics Unit and served as district manager in the Dwight neighborhood.

Chun supplemented the required SOM course “State and Society” because it allowed students to learn firsthand about why the Chun administration supported state-sponsored private companies.

If you had a chance to meet Hitler, would you avoid it because he’s a bad person?

I’d say it’s better to meet him and hear from him.

SHIN JIWOONG Professor, Yale School of Management But students said they felt uncomfortable challenging Chun’s description of his rule — which included claims that he had not intended to become president — because they were in the former dictator’s home and because their conversation was intended to focus exclusively on economic policy. Shin said the media coverage focused mostly on Chun’s remarks about his presidency, without paying attention to the fact that the students were there to discuss economics.

“If we were representatives of the U.S. government, we wouldn’t want to visit somebody who committed certain crimes, but from an educational standpoint, there isn’t a line,” Su Wang SOM ’13 said.

Students on the South Korea trip also visited the facilities of Samsung, LG and Hyundai.

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

Chun Doo-hwan (born Jan. 18, 1931) took over the South Korean presidency in 1979, following the assassination of President Park Chung-hee. Serving as the chief of army security command for the Republic of Korea army, Chun led the investigation CREATIVE COMMONS into Park’s death, arresting several suspects within the military. He quickly rose through the ranks of the military and became the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in April 1980.

Soon after, the military declared martial law and brutally suppressed democratic uprisings in the city of Kwangju. Official South Korean figures put the death toll at 200 with 1,000 protestors injured, though the BBC reported on May 17, 2000 that between 1,000 and 2,000 died by other estimates.

After then-President Choi Kyu-hah resigned on Aug. 16, 1980, Chun took over the presidency while continuing to enforce martial law, eventually creating a new constitution that gave him significant control over the country in late 1980. During his term, Chun fostered economic growth, causing the 30-40 percent inflation rate in 1980 to decrease to 5 percent within two years, while the gross national profit increased from -5.2 percent growth to double-digit growth.

Chun’s 1980 constitution forbid him from serving a second seven-year term, so he named Roh Tae-woo his successor in 1987, retiring from politics in 1988. In 1995, Chun was indicted on charges of accepting bribes during his presidency, and the prosecutor’s office pursued charges related to his involvement in the 1979 coup and his response to the 1980 democratic uprising in Kwangju. Chun was found guilty of all charges in August 1996 and sentenced to death, only to receive a presidential pardon in December 1997.

Fifty-year old course discontinued

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authority in determining the NHPD’s leadership. Richard Epstein, the board’s chairman, has previously said he and his four colleagues on the board would give their full support to Esserman’s leadership picks.

When the four new assistant chiefs are sworn in, the Elm City will have seen 11 assistant chiefs in just three years. That high turnover in leadership prompted concern among city and police officials that candidates might be deterred from the assistant chief position if they have not yet served 20 years, the minimum amount of time to qualify for a pension. Assistant chiefs are not protected by the NHPD union’s contract.

Rob Smuts ’01, who oversees the NHPD as the city’s chief administrative officer, previously expressed confidence that job security concerns would not prevent the department from getting the most qualified people to fill the vacant assistant chief spots. But he also said the city would potentially make accommodations for well-qualified candidates who have not worked 20 years.

City officials worked with Casanova, who has served 16 years with the department, to ease his job security concerns, the New Haven Independent reported. Under their plan, which will need approval by the Board of Aldermen, assistant police or fire chiefs would be allowed to trade 30 days of sick time in exchange for an extra year of service toward a pension.

These accommodations were not necessary with the most recent slate of assistant chiefs.

Last April, then-NHPD Chief Frank Limon appointed John Velleca, Patrick Redding and Petisia Adger to the department’s secondhighest position, all of whom had served more than 20 years with the NHPD. Redding announced his retirement in December, while Esserman asked Adger and Velleca to step aside Jan. 27.

surprise and disappointment at the change since they said it prepared them well for fieldwork abroad and served as a bonding experience in the major.

The discontinued course, “Archaeology Laboratory I,” has traditionally been offered in the fall along with a course in archaeological field techniques, followed by a course on methods of analyzing students’ own archaeological findings in the spring.

Starting next year, students will still take a course on methods for analyzing uncovered artifacts, but the fieldwork component will be moved to the summer, McIntosh said. He added that summer field school offerings are strong enough to provide a suitable alternative, especially since many archaeology students already choose to do excavations over the summer. Students will be able to apply for funding to cover the cost of summer field schools through the archaeological studies program’s existing fellowships.

Archaeological Studies Chair Richard Burger ’72 said the canceled course’s weekly excavation trips — which took place on Saturdays at sites such as the Eli Whitney gun factory in New Haven or an old house in Guilford, Conn. — could feel like a “sacrifice” to students given the weekend activities they would miss.

The state also imposed more stringent requirements for reporting the results of excavations done on stateowned property than in the past, Burger said, which complicated the process of choosing a site. He added that the time commitment became an increasing burden as the class

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had to travel further from campus to find “important and interesting” sites since many good sites near New Haven have been destroyed by urban expansion.

Students said trips in recent years to a dye house in Bethlehem, Penn.

— about a three hour drive from New Haven — required that they devote their entire weekends to the class.

[We’d] camp out in a 19th century granary [...] on weekends, but this was very difficult for students.

RODERICK MCINTOSH Director of undergraduate studies, Council on Archaeological Studies “We would camp out in a 19th century granary for Friday and Saturday nights on weekends, but this was very difficult for students, particularly around exam time,” said McIntosh, who taught the course.

Frances Liu ’13 said she thinks a summer requirement will “save time” for students during the school year and might allow them to explore a wider range of courses through the archaeological studies program.

But Michael Coe, a professor emeritus of anthropology who created the course in the 1960s, said he felt having students do fieldwork during the academic year was preferable because they can analyze what they find as a class.

“What was good about having actual excavations going on during the fall semester here, in my day, is

that the classroom would be a place for discussion for what had been found,” Coe said. “It would play back into the actual course material.”

He added that when he first started the course, few other universities or field schools in the United States offered rigorous field courses, so a summer requirement would not have been viable.

Another professor affiliated with the program, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid conflict with colleagues, expressed concern that replacing the course with a summer requirement “represents an outsourcing of the curriculum,” setting a “dangerous precedent.”

Sally Johnson ’12 said she wished future students in the major could take the course, but that she did not think having a fieldwork course through Yale was strictly necessary. The course served as a bonding experience for archaeological studies majors, she said, and prepared her for a summer fieldwork experience in Belize.

Ava Ghezelayagh ’15 said her class had to be very careful about recording the results of their excavations this year — reflecting the need to meet stricter state guidelines — but she added that despite the time commitment, she found the class “one of the most enjoyable” she has taken at Yale.

Archaeological studies is an interdisciplinary program drawing on courses and faculty from the departments of anthropology, history of art, history, geology and geophysics, classics and near eastern languages and civilizations.

Contact ANTONIA WOODFORD at antonia.woodford@yale.edu .

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“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.” ANTON CHEKHOV RUSSIAN PLAYWRIGHT

New Believe in People mural appears on Chapel

BY SARAH MASLIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER New Haven’s most famous anonymous graffiti artist has struck again, but this time with permission.

A mural next to Hull’s Art Supply & Framing on Chapel Street, depicting a silhouetted pole vaulter in front of maroon mountains and a golden sun, is the latest work of the anonymous and sometimes controversial graffiti artist who calls himself “Believe in People.” At the bottom of the painting, which measures 15 by 15 feet, the words “Do Something Amazing” appear in black block letters. Although Believe in People first gained recognition by illegally painting on Yale’s property in October 2010, this mural represents the first time the artist received permission for his work.

Since arriving on the New Haven scene last school year, the artist has sparked controversy among Yale students, administrators and other New Haven

residents, most notably for his recent painting on the back wall of a classroom in Linsly-Chittenden Hall that showed a distressed young man contemplating a future in finance.

That mural, which appeared in LC 211 one early Sunday morning in late January, was quickly painted over by Yale maintenance.

“No matter how beautiful [graffiti] may be… it is an act of vandalism,” University Properties Director Abigail Rider wrote in an email to the News last March, adding that she encouraged Believe in People to “convince someone to sponsor a wall painting.”

With the mural in the alley by Hull’s, the artist appears to have struck a balance between his previous endeavors and a more legal approach.

An intermediary going by the name “Neils” contacted Hull’s owner Stephen Kovel SOM ’78 several weeks ago for permission to paint on the side of the building, Kovel said, adding that he agreed on the condition that if Hull’s did

not like the result, Believe in People must paint over it.

Believe in People accepted the condition, and ladders and buckets soon appeared in the alley, Kovel said. After several weeks, the artist announced the mural’s completion with a YouTube video and a Twitter “shout out” to Kovel and Hull’s creative director Victoria Taylor for “donating the canvas” and “letting me do my thing.”

In the end, Hull’s management said they were pleased with the artwork.

“Given its positive message and bold color, we intend to keep [it,]” Taylor said in an email to the News.

Other Chapel Street businesses said they agreed that the mural was an improvement.

“I don’t mind it at all,” said Bansit Chanhom, the owner of Thai Pan-Asian, located on the opposite side of the alley from Hull’s, adding that “anything would be better than a blank wall.”

Across the street, several guests of the Hotel Duncan agreed.

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Believe in People, an anonymous graffiti artist, has created a mural urging viewers to “do something amazing” in an alley abutting Chapel Street.

Duncan guest Robert Jones, who has lived in the hotel for five years, described the alley prior to the appearance of the colorful art-

work as “ugly” and “depressing.”

Hull’s has been in New Haven since 1947.

Yanan Wang contributed reporting.

Contact SARAH MASLIN at sarah.maslin@yale.edu .

Summit preps for Rio+20 Symposium celebrates guitar

BY CAROL HSIN STAFF REPORTER

BY JORDAN KONELL STAFF REPORTER

People from all walks of life gathered in Kroon Hall this weekend to share their vision of a sustainable future.

Over 200 people, ranging from entrepreneurs to lawyers to social advocates, congregated for the US/ Canada Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development. They discussed issues relevant to this summer’s upcoming United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or the Rio+20 summit, eventually drafting a declaration to submit to the U.S. and Canadian delegations. This weekend’s conference’s goal was to promote dialogue and add momentum to the Rio+20 conference, said conference organizer Sebastien Jodoin FES ’14.

“If we want Rio+20 to be a meaningful event in our generation, we want to have an event to start building that conversation,” Jodoin said.

The conference began with a panel discussion on why the environmental movement has lost momentum since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

While the 1992 conference was a major victory for the environmental cause by enhancing collaboration between nations, many nations’ promises from it remain unrealized, said Daniel Esty LAW ’86, a School of Forestry & Environmental Studies professor who is on leave while serving as commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

The inertia of the environmental movement is often blamed on its “lack of political will,” but that is a symptom, not the cause, said Esty, an attendee of the 1992 summit. Esty blamed a lack of “good science,” an absence of economically attractive policy choices, and a tendency for advocates to stray into politics based on “moral righteousness.”

The Citizens’ Summit sought to create political momentum in the lead-up to the Rio+20 conference. The participants spent two days sharing their views on issues such as green energy and sustainable cities in a series of one-anda-half-hour sessions.

Katrina Malakhoff, a sophomore at Harvard, said she attended the sessions on environmental justice, creative sustainable development, and fisheries and sustain-

The guitar took center stage at Sprague Hall this weekend.

On Saturday, the School of Music hosted its seventh annual Guitar Extravaganza, gathering guitarists from across the globe to lecture on the intricacies of guitar playing and to perform both original compositions as well as classical arrangements. Entitled “The Guitar: Today and Tomorrow,” the symposium provided technical instruction in addition to discussing the instrument’s evolution and its place in the musical world today.

Drawing Yale students, local high-schoolers and amateur guitarists from around the country, the event featured seminars on the future of classical guitar, improvisational skills and guitar education. Benjamin Verdery, a professor of guitar at the School of Music, hosted the program and moderated many of the panels, which were taught by School of Music faculty members, high school music teachers and worldrenowned guitarists.

Jack Vees, director of the Yale Center for Studies in Music Technology, gave a workshop performance titled “Improvising for Large Guitar Ensembles” with Verdery. In this performance, Vees and Verdery split 30 students of various ages and skill levels into two groups, each conducting their ensemble in a pre-selected variety of improvisational techniques.

“We took five or six basic ideas, such as percussive sound and staccato, divided the group, and instructed them on how to listen while improvising in a group,” Vees said. “At the end, we switched and let students take our place. The most fun thing was to be a player in the group and watch what students would do as conductors.”

The acclaimed Italian classi-

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Over 200 people of various fields and professions gathered at the US/ Canada Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development this past weekend. able oceans. She said she learned how to take a more holistic perspective by interacting with people from different fields, such as business or academia.

It’s been great to interact with the people here and discuss how all of our interests are aligned.

KATRINA MALAKHOFF Harvard sophomore “It’s been great to interact with the people here and discuss how all of our interests are aligned,” Malakhoff said. “We’re all working on the same goals and we have different perspectives on how to get there.”

Each session also had speakers and moderators who directed the conversation and synthesized the group discussion into answers to three questions, Jodoin said. These questions were on the future of sustainability, what people wanted to see at Rio+20, and what civil society could contribute, he said.

The summit organizers compiled the answers from each session into a concise “outcome document” to submit to the UN, Sarah Barbo FES ’13 said. She said the statement, to be released this

week, would be no more than three pages.

“We want it to be read,” she said jokingly.

To live up to its mission of giving people a voice at Rio+20, Citizens’ Summit included ways for people to participate electronically, said summit organizer Jose MedinaMora FES ’13.

“People said they couldn’t come because it’s expensive to travel from Alaska or Hawaii,” MedinaMora said. He also said the three months in which they organized the summit may have been too short notice for some people.

To include more voices, the summit’s online presence included a blog with the environment school’s Sage Magazine website, live streaming, Twitter and other social media.

Despite the high attendance at the summit, Jodoin said, 200 people is not enough and the summit committee needs to “grow” the sustainability movement.

“The biggest thing we did this weekend was we found over 200 people from different fields and backgrounds that have not spoken to each other before,” Jodoin said. “But there are a lot of people already part of this movement that are not linked up.”

The United Nations will hold Rio+20 in Brazil on June 20-22.

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cal guitar duo SoloDuo, formed by Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli in 2003, closed the symposium with a performance. Other concerts throughout the day included the University of Hartford’s Hartt School Suzuki Guitar Ensemble, the Heritage High School Guitar Ensemble from Leesburg, Va., and the experimental, New Yorkbased Dither Guitar Quartet.

Daniel Corr MUS ’02, a lecturer and the artistic director of the Gateway International Guitar Series at Gateway Community College, who participated in a panel titled “The Future of Classical Guitar Pedagogy,” discussed the evolution of guitar instruction and learning, as well as strategies for learning guitar.

“With downloadable scores and YouTube videos, learning music and guitar has changed,” Corr said, adding that despite the prevalence of self-teaching, technical skills are nonetheless best

acquired through a teacher. In his experience as a lecturer, Corr said guitar majors often enter the program without a “sustainable” foundation.

Kevin Vigil MUS ’90, who leads the Heritage High School Guitar Ensemble, said that in the public school districts of Virginia at which he has taught, art and music education programs help engage students in school. Vigil said that in addition to ensuring that music programs receive funding in the first place, it is important that guitar instructors, who are often themselves amateurs, provide a uniform level of technical skills.

The Guitar Extravaganza was sponsored by the D’Addario Foundation for the performing arts, a national nonprofit organization that supports community music education.

Contact JORDAN KONELL at jordan.konell@yale.edu .

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Guitar Extravaganza, a Music School event, included seminars and panels on the understanding, playing and teaching of classical guitar.

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“When I first started doing music I was singing, then I started rapping, then I came back to the singing. It was a big transition. Big time.” T-PAIN ARTIST

Alumni question recruiting policies RECRUITING FROM PAGE 1 recruited athletes than the Ivy League allows.”

Getman, a former baseball player, said those policy changes have left Yale teams at a disadvantage within the Ivy League.

At the end of his speech, Getman received a standing ovation from the crowd.

Indeed, his tone is indicative of the sentiments held by several alumni of Yale athletics: 16 alumni interviewed said they believe Levin’s recruiting policies will ultimately hurt the University by risking its strong athletic tradition, and all directly blamed Levin for creating the policy. Beckett said he has no recollection of any alumni coming to him in support of the new recruiting quota.

Other alumni said that the problem expands beyond the athletic fields and the classroom, and that it has a direct, negative effect on the donations that the University receives.

“Monetarily, what difference is my donation going to make? Or is it just a way of saying ‘I care’ ” Brian Clark ’74 said. “I have finally decided that I have cared enough … if the University doesn’t care, why should I continue to care?”

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According to Levin, Yale decided to lower the number of recruited athletes roughly seven years ago as a response to an increasingly selective applicant pool and a higher “opportunity cost” of each admit. But the effect

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of that policy remains unclear, and many athletics alumni believe teams are suffering as a result.

“Yale attracts students with all kinds of talents. The only issue here was ‘what is the right size of the athletics program?’ ” Levin told the News last week. “There are many objectives that we factor into the admissions process and devoting one in five of these spots [to recruited athletes] seemed high.”

Clark said Levin may have been influenced by his daughter’s book “Reclaiming the Game.”

The study — published in 2003 in conjunction with former Princeton president William Bowen — argues that elite institutions would be best served by lowering the amount of recruits on their campuses. Levin told the News that the book did influence his outlook on the subject, though he pointed out that the study was well received in peer reviews.

Several alumni interviewed voiced concern for Yale’s athletic tradition, which they said has suffered as a result of Levin’s policy.

Yale has not led the Ivy League in number of athletic championships since the 1960-’61 school year, but Levin said that the 2010’11 year was a 21-year high in number of Ivy League championships won by Yale. He added that Yale athletics’ win-loss record in the past fall was the best in the Ivy League.

Still, during Levin’s 18 years in Woodbridge Hall, Yale has won 7.72 percent of Ivy League championships, a decrease of roughly

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one third from the 18 years preceding him.

“I think it’s getting to the point where Yale has to make a decision whether it wants to stay in the Ivy League,” Neil Brendel ’76, a former wrestler, said. “It’s just not fair to ask the athletes and the coaches to compete with the likes of Princeton and Harvard when the school doesn’t want to make the same level of commitment.”

student athletes will be less than the population of student athletes at our sister institutions,” Beckett said. “That is a challenge, and our coaches and student athletes understand that, and we’re fully aware of where we stand.”

Beckett added that Levin has been receptive to discussing the policy with those in the athletics department.

Ultimately the only vote we have is with our contribution dollars.

Several alumni said they believed Levin’s recruitment policy — and the athletic challenges associated with it — would have a direct effect on Yale athletics alumni’s donating to the University.

“Excellence in one realm is supposed to imbue the entirety with ambition for excellence in all realms,” Clark said. “If you’re content with mediocre or less, relative to your archrival, then some part of you has decided that mediocrity or less is okay.”

Clark added that “mediocrity” would have a “non-quantifiable” effect on fundraising, through damage to Yale’s reputation as a competitor and as an academic institution.

While most alumni interviewed said they would still donate to the University, four interviewed said they are withholding donations to Yale in efforts to change the policy.

“Levin’s the king, and we’re a bunch of subjects who are just whining,” Buck Smith ’75, a former swim team captain, said.

“Ultimately the only vote we have

BUCK SMITH ’75 Former captain, Yale swimming team Several alumni cited Yale football’s performance in The Game over the past 10 years — with only one win in that span — as evidence of the policy’s detrimental effects.

But according to Beckett, the number of football recruits has been steady throughout Levin’s presidency at roughly 30 recruits per year, with ice hockey and basketball numbers also remaining largely unaffected.

Beckett said coaches and athletes are aware of the challenges that come with fewer recruits, adding Yale teams are actively pursuing championships at both the team and individual levels.

“It is, I will tell you, extremely challenging to do all of this for 35 varsity sports with the understanding that our population of

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port for the University, so I think it’s hard to argue that alumni are holding back their support of the University for any reason,” Reichenbach said.

Levin also cited Yale Tomorrow as evidence that alumni were not withholding donations due to his policy.

Charlie Zupsic ’76 added that though he remained strongly opposed to the policy, he did not think fundraising would be hurt

by Levin’s stance on recruiting because most alumni will support the school no matter what.

“I think its stupid for alumni to say ‘I won’t support Yale since I don’t agree with this.’” he said.

“I think we need to keep talking about the subject.”

How much of an effect the policy has had on donations given to Yale remains unclear: With two capital campaigns during his tenure, the University’s endowment has more than doubled, and almost the entire athletics physical plant has been renovated.

But with two new residential colleges offering room for 800 more students, Levin said the number of recruited athletes could rise again.

“That remains to be seen. It’s a ways off, and I think we can make that decision later. I wouldn’t rule it out that there may be some effect,” Levin said.

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is with our contribution dollars.”

Smith said he recalled being asked for a large donation recently, but given Levin’s recruiting policies, he now only donates to the Yale swim and water polo teams rather than to the University as a whole. He said he wants to show support of the athletic teams but not the administration.

Alexis Katz ’94, a former Yale swimmer and current board member of the Yale Swimming and Diving Association, added that some athletes voiced their frustrations to her when she was fundraising for her class’s gift given in honor of its 15th reunion.

“I have to say that I did feel a lot of the same sentiment in terms of a bit of disappointment in the way teams have performed as of late,” Katz said. “I would say that it certainly would have made my job a lot easier had the teams been doing a lot better.”

Katz added that she did not think athletic alumni would be any less devoted to the University, only that many were upset by Yale’s recruiting policies.

University Vice President for Development Inge Reichenbach said she is aware of concerns over the policy, but she added that the concerns have never been brought up in any of her gift negotiations with alumni. Given the success of the recent $3.88 billion Yale Tomorrow campaign, Reichenbach said she did not think the policy has had any effect on fundraising.

“For the last seven years we have seen a groundswell of sup-

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From 1975-’92, Yale won 11.94 percent of Ivy League championships. From 1993-2010, after University President Richard Levin’s appointment, Yale won 7.72 percent of Ivy championships.

Spring Fling lineup leaks, Passion Pit welcomed SPRING FLING FROM PAGE 1 awards: one for “Good Life” with Kanye West in 2008, and one for “Blame It” with Jamie Foxx in 2010.

Katie Donley ’13, events director of the Yale College Council, which sponsors the event, would not confirm the lineup and declined to comment on the artists playing at this year’s Spring Fling. Kat Lau ’13, chair of the Spring Fling committee, said the

number of acts at the event will likely be consistent with last year’s four. Lau added that the YCC has not made an official announcement about the lineup because of factors “on the artists’ ends.”

Karl Medina ’14 said he expects T-Pain to be more enjoyable than last year’s headliner, Lupe Fiasco, because T-Pain has more of a “pop feel.” Betsey Lowell ’12 said she had hoped for a “better” headliner act than T-Pain, but added that after MGMT’s disap-

pointing performance in 2010, “you can only go uphill.”

Both Sonja Peterson ’14 and Isabel Ortiz ’14 said they take issue with the messages about women and alcohol that T-Pain promotes in his songs, such as “Blame It,” which advises listeners to “blame it on the alcohol.”

“I’m unimpressed with the choice by the YCC to honor him at Spring Fling,” Ortiz said.

Nine students interviewed said they are looking forward to

Passion Pit, an electronic band known for the 2009 album “Manners,” which features the hit “Sleepyhead.” Arvind Mohan ’14 said he thinks Passion Pit is a “high-energy” band that is “easy to dance to.”

Of 15 students interviewed, only one had heard of 3LAU, a 21-year-old mash-up DJ and producer from Las Vegas. 3LAU’s music is “post-progressive house,” according to his website.

In addition to the profes-

sional acts the YCC will bring in, the three student bands that win a “Battle of the Bands” cohosted by the YCC and WYBC during Bulldog Days will open at Spring Fling, said Nathan Campbell ’14, who is running the contest. Campbell said the contest is a unique opportunity for students to earn the chance to perform at a larger venue. “[Spring Fling] is a more festive atmosphere than any other student show at Yale,” Campbell

said. “There’s not anything going on at the same time, it’s a huge central event, and they can see their friends or other undergrads on a huge stage with a great sound system.”

Last year’s Spring Fling lineup featured Big Gigantic, Third Eye Blind, Lupe Fiasco and Designer Drugs.

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BY MIRWAIS KHAN AND HEIDI VOGT ASSOCIATED PRESS KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The U.S. paid $50,000 in compensation for each villager killed and $11,000 for each person wounded in a shooting rampage allegedly carried out by a rogue American soldier in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Sunday.

The families were told that the money came from President Barack Obama. The unusually large payouts were the latest move by the White House to mend relations with the Afghan people after the killings threatened to shatter already tense relations.

Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is accused of sneaking off his base on March 11, then creeping into houses in two nearby villages and opening fire on families as they slept.

The killings came as tensions between the U.S. and Afghanistan were strained following the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base in February. That act - which U.S. officials have acknowledged was a mistake - sparked riots and attacks that killed more than 30 people, including six American soldiers.

There have been no violent protests following the March 11 shootings in Kandahar province’s Panjwai district, but demands for justice on Afghan terms have been getting louder since Bales was flown out of the country to a U.S. military prison. Many Afghans in Kandahar have continued to argue that there must have been multiple gunmen and accused the U.S. government of using Bales as a scapegoat.

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But it also raises new questions about how the suspect could have carried out the predawn attacks without drawing attention from any Americans on the base.

Bales has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and other crimes and could face the death penalty if convicted.

The families of the dead received the money Saturday at the governor’s office, said Kandahar provincial council member Agha Lalai. He and community elder Jan Agha confirmed the payout amounts.

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The officials spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the subject.

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On March 11, men stood next to human remains inside a home that was the scene of an apparent shooting rampage by a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is accused of the killings.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is likely to shake the presidential election race in early summer. But the winners in the court will not necessarily be the winners in the political arena.

No doubt, a decision to throw out the entire law would be a defeat for Obama. His judgment and leadership, even his reputation as a former constitutional law professor, would be called into question for pushing through a contentious and partisan health insurance overhaul only to see it declared unconstitutional by the court.

But it would not spell certain doom for his re-election. In fact, it would end the GOP argument that a Republican president must be elected to guarantee repeal of the law. It also could re-energize liberals, shift the spotlight onto insurance companies and reignite a debate about how to best provide health care.

If the court upholds the law, Obama would be vindicated legally. Republican constitutional criticisms would be undercut because five of the nine justices were nominated by Republican presidents.

But opposition would intensify in the political world. Without legal recourse, Republicans would gain new energy to argue that the only path to kill the law would be to elect a Republican president and enough GOP candidates to control the House and Senate. They might be wary of promising overnight repeal because a filibuster-proof Senate majority seems beyond their reach in the November election.

Central to the dispute over the law is a provision that requires individuals to have health insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty. Polls show that this mandate is opposed by 3 of 5 Americans. Among Republicans, calls for its repeal are a surefire applause line.

Of the four federal appeals courts that have ruled, two upheld the law, one struck down only the insurance mandate and one punted, saying an obscure tax law makes it premature to decide the merits until the main coverage provisions take effect in 2014.

With the court hearing arguments Monday through Wednesday, operatives from both parties have been playing out the potential outcomes. It’s a calculation complicated by the intensely polarized public attitudes toward the law, by the still unsettled race for the Republican nomination and, most important, by the range of potential court decisions.

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President Barack Obama greeted Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, right, prior to his January State of the Union address.

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS JIM YONG KIM The son of a South Korean dentist, Jim Yong Kim graduated class valedictorian in high school. He went on to earn an MD from Harvard University and a MacArthur grant in 2003.

Kim is the current president of Dartmouth College.

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Obama taps Kim ’82 to lead World Bank

Univ. cracks down on rush ban violators

BY DAVID CHUNG AND ELI OKUN NEWS EDITOR AND SENIOR STAFF WRITER President Obama announced Friday the nomination of Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim ’82 to lead the World Bank. Kim, a public health expert and physician, has been called an unconventional choice for the presidency, a position that since the bank’s founding has been filled by individuals with experience in politics or business.

“It’s time for a development professional to lead the world’s largest development agency,” Obama said in a Rose Garden ceremony announcing the pick.

It’s time for a development professional to lead the world’s largest development agency.

BARACK OBAMA President of the United States The Obama administration searched for candidates outside the traditional banking and government fields due to signs of developing countries’ increased dissatisfaction with the United States’ control over the World Bank’s leadership. Bloomberg reported earlier this month that the Obama administration had included President Ruth Simmons on an initial list of potential nominees to lead the World Bank.

Kim has served as Dartmouth’s president since July 2009. His selection DARTMOUTH made him the first Asian-American to occupy the presidency of an Ivy League school. Kim previously headed the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights within the Harvard School of Public Health. He also served as a director of the department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization from 2004 to 2006 and co-founded the nonprofit Partners in Health, which offers health care services for the poor, with internationally known physician and public health leader Paul Farmer in 1987.

“As a physician, anthropologist and pioneer in the field of global health, (Kim) has proven himself to be a creative, determined leader,” wrote Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and University relations, in an email to The Herald. “I congratulate President Obama on an inspired choice for this important post.”

Kim has been widely regarded as a leading voice in global health issues. He received a grant from the MacArthur Fellows Program in 2003 and was mentioned on the Time 100 list of influential people in 2006 for his work on global health issues. In 2009, he received an honorary Doctor of Medical Science degree from Brown.

BY LUC COHEN ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR NEWS Freshmen will be prohibited from attending formal and semiformal events held by Greek organizations, among other activities that affiliate freshmen with fraternities and sororities, beginning in Fall 2012, according to the report of the Freshmen Rush Policy Implementation Committee.

In addition to explicitly enumerating the details on how the ban will be implemented, the report — which was released by the University at 2 p.m. today — threatens to ban fraternities and sororities altogether if there is not widespread compliance with the policy.

“When President [Shirley] Tilghman met with our Committee in December, she suggested that in the future, violations of the prohibition on freshman affiliation can be expected to further reduce the University’s tolerance of sophomore, junior and senior affiliation,” the report reads.

In October, Tilghman charged the committee with describing exactly what types of activities should be prohibited under the ban, which was announced in August, as well as recommending appropriate penalties and devising a strategy to effectively communicate the terms of the ban to the student body. Tilghman will make a final decision on the policies recommended by the committee later this spring.

The committee is chaired by Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan and includes Associate Deans of Undergraduate Students Thomas Dunne and Victoria Jueds, English professor William Gleason and psychology professor Deborah Prentice. In addition, the committee includes three undergraduates who are involved in Greek life — Jake Nebel ’13, Jamie Joseph ’13 and Shreya Murthy ’13 — and three who are not — Kees Thompson ’13, Thomas Hellstern ’12 and Arda Bozyigit ’12.

The report recommends that both freshmen found to have knowingly violated the policy by “joining, pledging

or rushing” a Greek organization and older students that organize such events for freshmen should be suspended.

According to the students and PRINCETON report, community members provided feedback in support of a lesser penalty such as disciplinary probation, noting that rushing a fraternity or sorority is not as serious as other infractions that warrant suspension, such as sexual misconduct or illegal drug distribution.

However, the report argues that giving the same penalty for this less severe infraction is justified given that “institutional values” are at stake. In defense of this argument, the report notes that plagiarism, which by some accounts is not as severe as a violent or dangerous activity, also warrants a suspension because it is against the University’s core value of academic honesty.

The committee acknowledged that some freshmen might accept invitations to a fraternity or sorority event mistakenly if they are not told that the event is affiliated with a Greek organization, a case in which students would not be punished, according to the report.

“Students should only be held responsible for actions which a reasonable person in that student’s position would know were violations,” the report reads. In order to ensure that freshmen are as aware of the policy as possible, the report recommends that residential college advisors discuss the ban with their advisees and that an explanation of the policy be included in the annual letter incoming students and their families receive discouraging incoming students from joining fraternities and sororities.

Furthermore, freshmen who attend a fraternity or sorority event that does not involve joining, rushing or pledging a Greek organization would face the lesser penalty of disciplinary probation.

One of the Committee’s main purposes was to determine how wide-reaching the

rush ban should be and to define which exact types of events should be prohibited. Ultimately the report recommends barring freshman attendance at nearly all events associated with a Greek organization.

Though the report clearly states that rushing, joining or pledging are clearly prohibited for freshmen while casual conversations with members of Greek organizations are not, it notes that the group focused most of its attention on activities that “fall in the middle of the spectrum.”

Violations of the prohibition... can be expected to further reduce the University’s tolerance of [upperclassmen] affiliation.

FRESHMAN RUSH POLICY COMMITTEE REPORT The committee proposed an addition to “Rights, Rules, Responsibilities” that delineates specifically what would qualify as an activity “sponsored” by a Greek organization. Signals of Greek sponsorship include invitations to events sent on behalf of a fraternity or sorority, financing the event with fraternity or sorority funds and other “explicit identification” of a Greek organization’s involvement.

Freshmen would be prohibited from attending formal or semi-formal dances sponsored by fraternities or sororities.

Though the committee considered the possibility of allowing freshman males to attend sorority events and vice-versa, the report notes that it would not make exceptions based on gender as that would discriminate based on sexual orientation.

The report defends the decision to prohibit freshmen from attending any event sponsored by a Greek organization by noting that the administration disapproves of fraternities and sororities in general and discourages joining them and participating in their activities.

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riday night, Morse College dining hall was the setting for a fashion show that explored themes of time through design. The collections, entitled “Space Sheep,” were designed by Elliy Peng ’12. Staff photographer SHARON YIN and contributing photographer KIRSTEN ADAIR report.

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WOMEN’S SQUASH TOMLINSON, HAY ARE ALL-IVY Millie Tomlinson ’14 and Kim Hay ’14, who played at No. 1 and No. 2 for the Bulldogs this past season, were unanimous selections to the All-Ivy team, announced on Friday. Tomlinson, who lost only twice all season, is ranked No. 2 nationally. Hay is No. 6.

MEN’S FENCING TEAM PLACES 12TH AT NCAAS Captain Shiv Kachru ’12, right, Nate Benzimra ’13 and Peter Cohen ’14 represented the Yale fencing team at the NCAA National Championship in the foil, saber and epee, respectively.

Kachru placed seventh overall, Benzimra 12th, and Cohen 17th.

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BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER The Elis dusted off their bats and appeared to find their stroke on Friday, but the Bulldog batsmen ended up on the wrong side of history on Saturday.

BASEBALL Yale (6–13–1, 0–0 Ivy) split a home doubleheader with Hartford University (4–16, 0–0 American East), winning the second game 8–5 in nine innings after dropping the opener 7–5 in a seven-inning game. In Hartford, however, the Bulldogs went quiet at the plate, managing only four hits as they won the first game 4–1 in eight innings. Their bats went quieter still in the afternoon’s second game, as they were no-hit and fell 2–0 in seven innings.

Hawks’ freshman lefthander Sean Newcomb struck out 10 Elis

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to keep Yale hitless in the nightcap on Saturday. It was his first collegiate victory as well as the first no-hitter in the history of Hartford’s Division I baseball program, according to the Hartford athletic department.

Hitting is tough. [It] comes and goes. [Sean Newcomb] was good. His defense made some terrific plays behind him.

RYAN BRENNER ’12 Catcher, baseball “Hitting is tough. [It] comes and goes,” catcher Ryan Brenner ’12 said. “[Newcomb] was good SEE BASEBALL PAGE B2

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After hitting well in the first of two doubleheaders against Hartford over teh weekend, Yale was no-hit in a Saturday night loss.

Dylan Levings ’14 won ten of seventeen faceoffs against Princeton on Saturday, including seven of his last eight.

Bulldogs sweep opening regatta

BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTERS Despite cold wind, choppy water, and racing only three boats against Brown’s five, the heavyweight crew team managed to sweep all three races of its season-opening regatta on Saturday morning.

HEAVYWEIGHT CREW Yale hosted Brown at the Gilder Boathouse in Derby, Conn., for the annual Yale-Brown regatta, which consisted of three races: the freshman eight, the junior varsity eight and the varsity eight. The Bulldogs have not won this varsity race in five years and have not swept the regatta in at least 10 years.

“It was incredibly gratifying to see the work we have put in over the last seven months begin to pay off,” varsity oarsman Zach Johnson ’14 said. “Most of the rowing community was expecting Brown not to have a problem with us. This was an excellent start to the season.”

Fellow oarsman Joe Alagna ’12 and varsity coxswain Oliver Fletcher ’14 agreed, but added that the team will not rest on its laurels of the day and will continue to improve throughout the season.

It was incredibly gratifying to see the work we have put in over the last seven months begin to pay off.

ZACH JOHNSON ’14 Heavyweight crew “It’s still very early days [in the season], and we won’t let any complacency creep into our mindset for the months ahead,” Fletcher said.

The Bulldogs certainly did not show complacency on Saturday morning. In the first race of the day, their first freshman eight boat bested the Bears’ top freshmen by a full boat length, with times

of 6:21.6 to 6:24 for the 2000m course on the Housatonic River.

Brown’s second freshman boat was 40 seconds back.

During the regatta, the upstream headwind started to pick up and create particularly rough water in the middle of the course, where the river turns slightly.

The boathouse commentator described these worsening adverse conditions as “rowable, but not ideal for the early season,” and as the morning went on, race times got progressively slower.

“In a head wind like that it becomes increasingly hard to control your blade, particularly as fatigue sets in,” Johnson said.

In the second race, Yale’s JV 8+ managed to get a third of a boat length lead on Brown’s JV 8+ by the 800m mark, despite a slower race cadence. The Bulldogs held onto their lead in this hotly contested race, crossing the line at 6:26.7 — half a boat length ahead of Brown at 6:27.9. Brown’s second JV boat fell behind early on

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Heavyweight crew withstood adverse conditions on Saturday to defeat Brown in all three races at home.

THE NUMBER OF OVERTIMES THE MEN’S LACROSSE TEAM PLAYED IN LAST SATURDAY’S LOSS TO PRINCETON. The Tigers saw two shots hit off the crossbar in the first overtime. The Bulldogs had two open shots, one at the end of regulation and another in the fourth overtime. Both went high.

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Ovechkin leads Capitals over Wild Alex Ovechkin scored his ninth goal in seven games as the Washington Capitals regained an Eastern Conference playoff spot, beating the Minnesota Wild 3-0.

Jason Chimera and Mathieu Perrault also scored, and Braden Holtby made 28 saves to halt the team’s two-game skid and move them into a tie with the Buffalo Sabres.

Washington holds the tiebreaker; the Capitals and Sabres will play Tuesday night.

Baseball goes 2-2 against Hartford Hawks 15 runs over the two games. The Bulldogs hit .362 (21–58) on Friday after producing a meager .155 (22–142) average over their previous five contests.

The victory not only snapped a four-game losing streak for the Elis, but it was also the first victory of Becker’s career. He threw five innings and struck out five Hawks.

Becker was sidelined by Tommy John surgery on his left arm his freshman year and then limited to just three innings pitched in his sophomore season. This year Becker has finally been able to contribute regularly as a member of the pitching staff, starting four games and second on the team with 22.2 innings pitched.

Becker’s emergence has been combined with strong starts from the rest of the Bulldog hurlers, Brenner said. Pitcher Chris O’Hare ’13 added that performing on the mound will be essential to Yale when it starts Ancient Eight play next weekend.

“The key to winning the Ivy

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Reno teams up with Dport RENO FROM PAGE B4 the right way,” Reno said, adding that the team will play with a fast, aggressive style that pressures the opposition on defense and keeps them on their heels with a nohuddle offense. That offense will be a departure from the scheme former head coach Tom Williams employed, but will resemble the attack that Harvard used to devastating effect in its 45–7 victory at The Game last fall.

The talk then transitioned into a panel discussion, with the few

members of the audience — less than a dozen people attended — asking questions of Reno and his players.

When asked how the residential colleges could help the student-athletes get more out of their Yale experience, Drake recommended planning events in line with the athletes’ schedules.

“The biggest thing is that a lot of the weeknight study breaks and social events are … a little late when we’re trying to get our school work done and have morning lift,” Drake said. “I feel

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The football team is looking to win The Game for the first time since 2006 under Tony Reno’s leadership.

like that’s one of the things that I miss out on: the opportunity to go down and socialize with my fellow Davenport classmates and some of the younger students that aren’t athletes, because the athletes kind of run in the same circle.”

Davenport Master Richard Schottenfield ’71 and Drake then discussed how moving collegewide events to earlier in the evening or opening the college’s buttery at 9:00 p.m. instead of 10 would allow for more interaction between all Davenport students.

In response to an audience member’s question, both Reno and his players shared their views about what makes an ideal coach.

“First, of all I am ultra-competitive, [so] I need someone who hates to lose,” Bibb said. “For how much people care about Yale football … there’re just too many people that have put in effort to the season to have someone that will tolerate not giving 100 percent.”

Reno said the most important quality in a coach is integrity.

Reno and the Elis will take the field March 28 for the first spring practice of 2012.

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

M. tennis looks to Ivies M. TENNIS FROM PAGE B4 “They may have given us a bit of confidence, but we also now have a clearer idea of what we need to work on,” he said.

They may have given us... confidence, but we also now have a clearer idea of what we need to work on.

ALEX DORATO Head coach, men’s tennis Captain Erik Blumenkranz ’12 added that all of the teams competing in the Ivies are quite good, and the Bulldogs are focused on training hard in the next couple of weeks.

Powers said the team has been preparing for the championships since winter break and is ready to enter Ivy League play with confidence.

The Bulldogs will host St. John’s at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center on March 31.

Contact KIRSTEN ADAIR at kirsten.adair@yale.edu .

… His defense made some terrific plays behind him.”

Newcomb’s performance overshadowed another solid outing from Yale’s starter Rob Cerfolio ’12. Cerfolio tossed six innings of two-run ball, striking out six as he took the tough-luck loss to fall to 0–2 on the season.

Despite the relapse on Saturday, the Elis are taking the offensive surge at Yale Field as a sign of things to come, rather than as an anomaly.

“A lot of guys are hitting the ball well,” pitcher Nolan Becker ’13 said. “The stats just aren’t showing it … Hopefully we saved the hits for the Ivy League season when it really matters.”

Shortstop Cale Hanson ’14 continued his hot hitting, going 5–6 on Friday with two doubles and three runs scored to lead the attack.

The rest of the Elis joined him in the offensive surge that produced

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League is pitching and good defense,” O’Hare said in a message to the News. “I know our hitters are going to do enough for us to win when our real season starts next weekend.”

I know our hitters are going to do enough for us to win when our real season starts next weekend.

CHRIS O’HARE Pitcher, baseball The Elis open the Ivy League portion of the season by traveling to Columbia for a doubleheader on Saturday, March 31, followed by another two games at Penn on Saturday, April 1.

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

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Elis step up in second half

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Goalkeeper Erin McMullan ’14 made eleven saves in the game against Harvard on Saturday.

W. LAX FROM PAGE B4 Yale’s attacker Sabine van der Linden ’14 and Harvard’s Kasey Uhlenhuth, both among their team’s tallest players, faced off at the start of the game. Amid 10 players fiercely struggling for ball possession in the Crimson’s zone, Harvard’s Melanie Baskind scooped up the ball and gave the Crimson the first possession. The Crimson made its first offensive drive in the third minute, with a rifle from Jamie Potter’s that went straight toward the net. But the Bulldogs’ goalkeeper Erin McMullan ’14 deflected the shot.

About a minute later, the Crimson’s Micaela Cyr set the flow of the match by slamming the game’s first goal straight past McMullan and into the Elis’ net. For much of the first half, Harvard continued its onslaught. Just three minutes after the first goal, Jenn VanderMeulen, who was first-team All-Ivy last year, followed with another. Within the next two minutes, the Crimson had added two more goals.

The Bulldogs’ agonizing first period did not end there. When the team switched to a zone defense towards the end of the first half, the Crimson collected three more goals, with VanderMeulen assisting the last goal before the whistle, and the Elis returned to a man-to-man defense. Although shots (13–13) and saves (5–5) were shared evenly between the two rivals, Harvard demonstrated strength in ground balls (9–6) and draw controls (5–3), and Yale went into the second half scoreless.

“Our first half penalties put a lot of pressure on our defense and allowed Harvard to take the lead early in the game,” Phillips said.

She added that poor shooting and three yellow cards hurt the team in the first half.

Coming off a humiliating 7–0 first half, the Elis transformed into a completely different team.

“After halftime, we knew that we had to make a change and that we could play better,” defender Kallie Parchman ’14 said. “We played with more intensity in the second half and executed our game plan.”

From the beginning, the Bulldogs were set on taking control of the game, with van der Linden winning the draw this time. Within a minute into the first half, attacker Jen DeVito ’14 made a quick assist right behind the goal post, and attacker Devon Rhodes ’13 connected the pass into the Crimson’s net.

HARVARD 7, Two minutes YALE 5 later, midfielder HARVARD 7 0 7 Ashley McCormick ’14 took YALE 0 5 5 advantage of the eight-meter free

position shot to secure the Bulldogs’ second goal. At 14:44, after receiving a blow in the face, midfielder Cathryn Avallone ’15 capitalized on the freed position to secure her 12th goal of the season.

“I am really proud of the way our team stepped it up in the second half,” McMullan said.

The Bulldogs kept the momentum going, narrowing the score gap to three as Rhodes penetrated past four Crimson defenders to fire in the team’s fourth goal. Harvard’s attempt to slow down the Bulldogs’ pace by calling for a timeout proved futile as the captain and attacker Caroline Crow ’12 scooped up the ground ball, rallied to the post and scored the Elis’ last goal of the match.

Despite Yale’s relentless attacks, Harvard’s Nina Kucharczyk took a shot that McMullan blocked with only about two minutes remaining.

Our attack did a great job of riding at the end of the game, creating some turnovers on Harvard’s defensive end.

ERIN MCMULLAN ’14 Goalkeeper, women’s lacrosse “We were trying to create turnovers, hoping to get the ball back and score quickly before the game ended,” McMullan said.

“Our attack did a great job of riding at the end of the game, creating some turnovers on Harvard’s defensive end.”

Yale dominated the second period by recording more saves (6–2), shots (12–8) and ground balls (8–7) than the visiting Crimson, but the Bulldogs’ dramatic efforts to turn the game around fell short.

McMullan said defender duo Adrienne Tarver ’14 and Katherine Sherrill ’14 had to guard Harvard’s best players, and both held their respective marks to one goal each. The defense did not let up a single goal for the entire half and only allowed eight shots.

Phillips said the team is moving in the right direction and this will be an important week in the team’s overall development.

“Our offense finally got on track,” she said. “We have played from behind in each of our games this season, so limiting our fouls and shooting well will be our focus this week at practice.”

The Elis will travel to New York on Wednesday to take on Marist at 4 p.m.

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

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SPORTS

“Tim Tebow is our No. 2 quarterback, but he’s also going to do other things for this football team... Let’s not just look at him as a quarterback.” REX RYAN JETS HEAD COACH

Elis fight to five overtimes

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In the longest game in Yale men’s lacrosse history at Reese Stadium on Saturday, the Tigers finally got the better of the Bulldogs.

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No. 13 Princeton (5–2, 2–0 Ivy) took a 10–9 win, but the Elis (2–4, 0–2 Ivy) pushed their opponents to the brink during the 78-minute matchup, which went into five overtimes.

“I’ve never played in, seen, or coached a game where a team put forth such an effort,” head coach Andy Shay said in an email. “I couldn’t be prouder of this team.”

The crowd of more than 1,000, one of the largest ever at Reese stadium, witnessed one of the most exciting and memorable games in college lacrosse this year.

Down by three goals with less than four minutes remaining, the Bulldogs came roaring back and scored their final two goals with less than one minute remaining to force overtime.

The teams battled back and forth for four extra periods, but neither was able to break the stalemate. In the fourth overtime, each team had an extra-man opportunity, and Yale almost scored on a clever trick play, but both goalkeepers and defenses held strong. It was the second outstanding defensive performance from the Bulldogs in two weeks, after they held the nation’s top-ranked offense to its lowest output of the season in last weekend’s one-goal loss to Cornell.

“Our coaches have been telling us during practice that there are two things we can control: hustle and communication,” goalkeeper Jack Meyer ’14 said of the defense. “We’ve been working very hard on those and I think it shows. Peter Johnson [’13] was covering one of the best players in the country and kept him quiet and Harry [Kucharczyk ’15] had some great ground balls for us [on Saturday].”

Finally, two minutes and 21 seconds into the fifth extra period, Princeton midfielder Alex Capretta scored from eight yards out off a pass from Tucker Shanley to bring the game to a close. It was Capretta’s third goal of the game and he led all scorers on both teams. Midfielder Tom Shreiber, who is tied for fifth in the country with 4.5 points per game also had two goals and two assists for the Tigers.

Attackman Brandon Mangan ’14 led scoring for the Bulldogs with two goals and three assists, and attackman Conrad Oberbeck ’15 also contributed two goals and an assist. Oberbeck’s assist pulled the Elis within one when Mangan scored with 47 seconds left in the fourth quarter and gave the team a chance to send the game to overtime.

After Mangan’s goal, midfielder Dylan Levings ’14 won the faceoff, pushing the ball cleanly in front of him, and came down the field looking to score. The Tigers had no answer for Levings, who won seven of the last eight faceoffs in the

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Captain Michael Pratt ’12, left, scored a late goal for the Bulldogs and then continued to play despite an injury. fourth quarter and overtime. Princeton field on Saturday and seemed to will the sent four different men to the X against Elis into overtime. His goal with 3:19 Levings, but he continued to dominate. remaining in the fourth started the Yale On this attempt, Levings’ shot flew comeback, and his dodge from the left high over the net. Yale backed up Levings’ side set up Mangan’s goal a few minutes shot, and 18 seconds later midfielder Greg later. After a hard collision with a Tiger in Mahony ’12 ran through a double team, the first overtime, Pratt had to be helped curled around the right side of the net and and almost carried off the field with little slotted the ball past Princeton netminder sign of returning. But a few minutes later Tyler Fiorito to tie the game and electrify he was right back on the field and continthe Yale faithful watching. ued to make big plays on the defensive end In the first overtime period, it appeared for the rest of the game.

During the last two weeks, the Elis held this momentum would be short-lived, as the Princeton offense ran roughshod their own against their two toughest conover Yale’s defense but failed to find the ference opponents, even if the team ultinet. The Tigers had six shots in the period mately came up short. Two weeks into the and hit the pipe twice, but the Bulldogs conference season, the Bulldogs are hopregrouped and proceeded to shut down ing to gain a spot in the top four conferthe Tiger offense for the next three peri- ence teams to enter into the Ivy League ods. tournament.

“Our communication lapsed a little bit “It’s a tough loss to take and we’re reelin that first period,” Meyer said. “But we ing right now, but this is going to make buckled down after we saw that we could us a tougher team going forward,” Meyer survive and we kept playing hard and said. “I’m really proud of the way we talking to each other the rest of the way.” fought out there.”

Meyer rose to the occasion on Saturday Next Saturday, the Bulldogs face off and played his best collegiate game. The against Penn at Reese stadium. The game sophomore had a career-high 14 saves, is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. including three in the second overtime to keep the Elis in the game. When the Contact JOHN SULLIVAN at Princeton onslaught threatened to overjohn.j.sullivan@yale.edu . whelm Yale’s defense in the first overtime period, Meyer composed himself in goal and recommitted his focus for PRINCETON 10, YALE 9 the rest of the game.

The Bulldogs also got 1 2 3 4 OT 2OT 3OT 4OT 5OT an inspired performance PRINCETON 3 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 1 10 from midfielder Michael 1 2 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 9 Pratt ’12. Pratt, the team’s YALE captain, was all over the

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WEDNESDAY, MAR. 28 Yale at Fairfield, 2:00 p.m.

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13

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10

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10

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SATURDAY, MAR. 24 Hartford 2, Yale 0

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Bulldogs start on high note M. CREW FROM PAGE B1 and finished at 6:44.1.

Junior varsity coxswain Morgan Welch ’12 said her crew’s technique is well suited to the harsh conditions and that the oarsmen stayed relaxed and focused.

“Our stroke rate was slightly lower than usual because of the headwind, but the guys moved very efficiently, and we walked away from Brown while rating a few beats lower,” Welch said.

While the two varsity squads were positioning themselves at the starting line in

preparation for their race, the main and final event of the day, the Bears discovered that one of the footplates in their boat was broken. A launch boat had to return to the boathouse two kilometers down the river to fetch a replacement part, forcing the rowers to sit at the start line for 20 minutes.

During the delay, Alagna said that Fletcher helped the crew to stay warm and focused on the race. He added that the coaching staff has prepared the rowers “to face even the toughest conditions.”

“We tried to keep our oars higher off the water and away from the chop and waves,”

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Yale pulled ahead of Brown in the last 1000m of the V 8+ race to defeat Brown by 1.9 seconds.

he said. “Our results are a testament to that.”

The Bulldogs were positioned in the lane in the middle of the river, which meant the water was choppier for them and allowed the Bears to gain nearly a boat length’s advantage in the first half of the race, Johnson said.

However, Yale had the advantage of being on the inside of the mid-course turn and managed to make up time and level the boats. In the last 1000 meters of the race, Yale’s varsity was able to pull ahead and crossed the finish line at 6:43.7, beating the Bears by 1.9 seconds.

Johnson noted that in neutral conditions, the team could complete the same course around a full minute faster.

The Blue and White only raced three boats in the regatta because of a smaller roster this year. Last year, the team graduated a large senior class, and head coach Stephen Gladstone set higher expectations of the oarsmen returning after the summer, pushing some less committed athletes to leave the team.

“At the end of last season, the coach made it clear that only people who were entirely committed to the team and to going fast were welcome back,” Johnson said, adding that basic fitness requirements were introduced for team members.

“The idea was essentially to create a small elite unit, and that is exactly what we have done.”

Johnson said the weekend’s victories prove the smaller squad is a “force to be reckoned with.”

The heavyweight crew team will next race on April 7 against Dartmouth, in the last home regatta of the season.

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

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0

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4

3

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0

1

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3

3

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0

1

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2

4

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2

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2

4

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SATURDAY, MAR. 31 Penn at Yale, 1:00 p.m.

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2

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2

0

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6

1

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2

0

1.000

4

3

.571

4

Cornell

2

1

.667

6

2

.750

5

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1

1

.500

5

3

.625

6

Harvard

1

2

.333

3

4

.429

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0

3

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2

5

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4

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6

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Cantabs edge Elis

Elis dominate weekend

BY KIRSTEN ADAIR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Bulldogs took home three victories on Saturday and Sunday in West Point, N.Y., where they traveled to play St. Bonaventure, Binghamton and host Army.

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had capitalized on its late-game opportunities, it could have come back to win.

An extended men’s lacrosse match forced the game to start 45 minutes later than scheduled, but Reese Stadium was already packed with about 500 spectators eagerly waiting to witness the much-anticipated clash of the two rivals. The Yale supporters began chanting “Bulldog!” nearly 10 minutes before the start of the game.

The weekend began with a sweeping 7–0 win against St. Bonaventure on Saturday morning. Daniel Hoffman ’13 and Mark Powers ’13 set the tone for the match, defeating their opposition 8–0 in the first doubles match of the day.

“Daniel Hoffman ’13 in particular stood out during the Army match,” head coach Alex Dorato said. “He is on a tremendous winning streak, and is vital to both our doubles and singles matches.”

Hoffman, who defeated St. Bonaventure’s Elliot Fanshel, has won nine straight singles matches since mid-February.

After dominating in both the doubles and singles rounds against St. Bonaventure, the Bulldogs faced off against Binghamton on Saturday afternoon in singles and Sunday morning in doubles.

Although Dorato said Binghamton is a strong team, the Bulldogs took a lopsided 5–2 win. Marc Powers ’13 credited the victories to the team’s practice regimen and makeup.

“Our greatest advantage was the offcourt training we’ve incorporated heavily into our practices,” Powers said. “No one was tired after the matches. Also, our depth is very strong. We were winning matches pretty safely.”

The Bulldogs finished off the weekend with another 7–0 victory on Sunday afternoon against Army. While the overall match scores were lopsided, Kyle Dawson ’14 said most matches were challenging.

The team’s victories come just two weeks before Ivy League play and the start of the chase for the Ivy League championship. But Dorato said the wins have not changed the Elis’ mindset for the Ivy League title.

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Midfielder Ashley McCormick ’14 scored a goal against the Crimson on Saturday.

BY EUGENE JUNG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Hoping to avenge last season’s loss, the Bulldogs gave up a close 7–5 match against archrival Harvard on Saturday.

W. LACROSSE HARVARD 7, YALE 5 Although the defeat reflected the gloomy weather on the team’s Alumnae Day, Yale (2–5,

0–3 Ivy) nevertheless demonstrated that it is bouncing back from a slew of recent defeats against Notre Dame, Penn and Boston University. Whereas last year the team lost to Harvard (3–4, 1–2 Ivy) by 16 goals, the Elis walked away with only two goals short this season.

“Though we came out on the short end of 7–5, I am proud of how hard we played and how we almost closed the two-goal deficit late in the second half,” head coach Anne Phillips said.

She added that if the team

Reno reaches out to Yale students

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER On Friday, fans of Yale football got their first glance of a scene that will be commonplace come next fall: head coach Tony Reno surrounded by members of his team. But the setting was not the Yale Bowl.

Reno held a Master’s Tea in Davenport on Friday as part of his initiative to bring together the football team and the student body closer together.

“At any football program that is successful, there’s a connection between the college and the school,” Reno said.

He added that he wanted the team to be involved not just in the community at Yale, but also in New Haven.

Davenport students on the football team — including offensive backs Collin Bibb ’13 and Chris Brady ’14, outside linebacker E.J. Conway ’15, defensive end Dylan Drake ’13 and offensive lineman Evan Ellis ’12 — all accompanied Reno.

At the beginning, Reno stressed how

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The men’s tennis team will be home next weekend to take on St. John’s.

Elis sweep Connell Cup

important the residential college system is, both for the football team and the college itself. He added that he shows recruits the residential colleges and holds a dinner for them to meet masters and deans during their official visits.

At any football program that is successful, there’s a connection between the college and the school.

TONY RENO Head coach, football The focus of the talk then switched to the football program.

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Yale swept past Columbia and Penn with victories for all five of its boats over the weekend.

BY MARIA GUARDADO STAFF REPORTER Yale women’s crew came out strong in its spring season-opener with a sweep of Columbia and Penn this weekend.

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Tony Reno was announced as the head coach of Yale football in January. Reno, along with two members of his coaching staff, coached at Yale under Jack Siedlecki.

The Bulldogs’ five boats all earned victories in the Connell Cup, a 2000meter race on the Orchard Beach Lagoon in New York. The Elis also won the Cup last year.

“The team performed well, and the races provided all boats with a starting point for the spring,” captain Kathleen O’Keefe ’12 said. “The races gave us an opportunity to find where we will need to improve throughout the season.”

Yale’s varsity eight, the members of the fastest boat, finished the race with a time of 6:31.0, two seconds

ahead of Columbia and three seconds ahead of Penn.

The second varsity eight cruised to victory with a time of 6:40.9, which was almost six seconds ahead of the second-place Columbia boat.

“I thought we raced well and raced to our abilities for this time of year,” head coach Will Porter said.

In the varsity four race, the Elis also defeated their opponents by a six-second margin with a final time of 7:29.4.

Yale’s third varsity eight and second varsity four both had dominant races and clocked in 17.5 seconds and 15.8 seconds ahead of Penn, respectively.

Porter said he was especially pleased with the performances of the freshmen on the team.

“I think our novices did a nice job for their first race,” he said. “All five of our crews had at least one freshman in them, so it was nice to see the fresh-

men perform well in their first race for Yale.”

The Bulldogs had to overcome challenging conditions on the water.

Porter said the race was held in tidal water, water that moves differently in each lane. Boats also had to combat side wind through the first 100 meters of the race.

Despite the team’s success at this race, Porter said the team still needs to improve its speed.

“I think as a team we’ve worked really hard through the winter, and we’re fit, we’re strong, but we’re not going fast yet,” he said. “We have a long way to go. We are just getting started.”

The Elis return to action this weekend when they travel to Columbus, Ohio to take on Ohio State and Michigan.

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