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CROSS CAMPUS

SOFTBALL R. I. TAKES TWO FROM BULLDOGS

STREETCAR WOES

JOBS, JOBS, JOBS

U.S. EDUCATION

Yet again, aldermen reject proposal to study potential system

YOUTH PLEAD WITH ALDERMEN TO EXPAND OPTIONS

Charter school network founder encourages Yalies to teach

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Yale-NUS debate to continue

Senate OKs death penalty repeal

Ladies and gentlemen, Yale.

During a talk examining how Watergate would unfold in the digital era, fabled journalist Bob Woodward ’65 recalled a story in which Yale journalism students had to write a onepage paper on what coverage of a Watergate scandal would look like today. Woodward told the annual conference of the American Society of News Editors that he “came as close as I ever have to having an aneurysm” because one of the students wrote “‘Oh, you would just use the Internet and you’d go to “Nixon’s secret fund” and it would be there.’”

RESOLUTION ON PRINCIPLES LIKELY TO BE VOTED ON TODAY BY GAVAN GIDEON AND ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTERS

prison without parole by a vote of 20 to 16. The measure now heads to the House of Representatives, where it is expected to pass within the next few weeks. Gov. Dannel Malloy has said he would sign the bill. Senate Democrats, whose amendment toughening sentences

A resolution urging Yale-NUS College to uphold principles of non-discrimination and civil liberties will likely be brought to a vote at today’s Yale College faculty meeting. Professors voted to suspend the rules of the meetings to introduce and debate the resolution, written by political science and philosophy professor Seyla Benhabib GRD ’77, at their monthly meeting in March, but they postponed a decision on it until their April meeting. After the last two faculty meetings drew high attendance, administrators decided to move today’s meeting from Connecticut Hall to Davies Auditorium in the Becton Center. Faculty members interviewed — including those who have worked on the college — said they have appreciated the active discussion of Yale-NUS and look forward to continuing the debate. “The underlying principle [of Benhabib’s resolution] — that Yale-NUS College should abide by academic freedom, non-discrim-

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Flying high. Red Bull, famous

for giving you wings, held a paper airplane contest in Commons Wednesday afternoon in which students could enter to win an allexpenses-paid trip to Austria to represent the United States at the Red Bull Paper Wings World Finals.

They’re back. Remember the freshman “Whaling Crew” that started selling shirts last fall in honor of the start of hockey season? They’re back with a tank-top design that costs $10 during pre-sale. The big leagues. In an article

published today, the New York Times takes its own look at faculty dissent on campus in New Haven, calling it “a whiff of a Yale Spring” in which professors are feeling “disempowered,” as political science professor Seyla Benhabib says in the article.

More time in the Times.

Yale Law School professor Linda Greenhouse published a column on the Times’ Opinionator blog Wednesday evening in which she claims that the case currently facing the Supreme Court — whether the Affordable Care Act violates the Constitution — is an easy case, but the Court has made it look difficult.

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Religious leaders opposed to the death penalty marched at the State Capitol in Hartford as the State Senate began deliberations that ended in an early morning vote for a bill that would repeal capital punishment in the state.

WITH 20–16 VOTE, REPEAL OF DEATH PENALTY CLEARS KEY HURDLE; HOUSE LIKELY TO APPROVE BILL BY CASEY SUMNER CONTRIBUTING REPORTER HARTFORD — Early this morning, Connecticut took a critical step toward making the state’s

death penalty a thing of the past. After nearly 12 hours of debate in a session that began Wednesday afternoon, the state Senate passed a bill that would eliminate capital punishment in favor of life in

UOFC redefines responsibilities BY MADELINE MCMAHON STAFF REPORTER Just one week before the Yale College Council elections, administrators approved a proposal Wednesday that formalizes additional responsibilities of the Undergraduate Organizations Funding Committee and renames it the Undergraduate Organizations Committee. A subsidiary of the YCC, the UOFC mainly oversees funding for registered undergrad-

uate organizations, but will begin handling policy issues concerning student groups in the 2012-’13 academic year under the title of the UOC. Current UOFC chair Allen Granzberg ’13 said the change will formally recognize duties the UOFC already performs in Yale College: providing information about the processes of registering with the Yale College Dean’s Office and obtaining funding, and allocating resources such as room space and equipment to student

groups. The UOC also intends to work more closely with the administration to represent the interests of student groups.

We can give undergraduate organizations the support they need. ALLEN GRANZBERG ’13 UOFC Chair

“We realized we can give undergraduate organizations the support they need with our resources, and it felt like a natural progression,” Granzberg said. John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources and a member of the committee that approved the UOC proposal, said administrators are considering putting the UOC in charge of approving applications of student groups that want to register. Meeske said

he and a colleague currently run this process, but Granzberg said shifting the responsibility to the UOC would further the effort to “integrate information” for both registered and unregistered student organizations. The UOC could serve as a particularly useful resource for unregistered student groups, Granzberg added, as they are not overseen much by administrators. The YCC and the UOFC are SEE UOFC PAGE 6

Seussical the Hospital.

Thanks to a generous donation from Theodor Geisel — popularly known as the famed children’s author Dr. Seuss — Dartmouth’s medical school will now be known as the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Big cash, first cash.

Jamestown, The First Town in America, a band whose members mostly include Yale undergrads, raised more than $3,000 via a campaign on Kickstarter — that’s double their original goal of $1,500.

Watch for black robes. Pretap for senior societies starts tonight at 8 p.m., starting a weeklong process that ends with tap night next Thursday. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1981 Recognizing an area of weakness in Judaic studies, the University starts raising $6.2 million to make the program into a “great asset.” Submit tips to Cross Campus

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New ward lines begin to emerge BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER The city’s future political map began to take shape at a meeting of the Board of Aldermen’s special redistricting committee Wednesday. By city charter, aldermen must redraw the lines that define the city’s wards by a May deadline, and the special redistricting committee took public testimony Wednesday night on its first draft of a new ward map. While the current proposal brings the populations closer to the balance required by the charter, ensuring equal representation for each voter, the Board still has work to do before reaching its final plan. In creating the proposed ward map, aldermen sought to balance the number of voters in each ward, which have shifted in the 10 years since the last census. By law, aldermen had to negotiate ward boundaries with one another until they could each represent a population within 5

percent of the target 4,326 people, the legally allowed deviation. According to city corporation counsel Victor Bolden and former alderwoman Nancy Ahern, the city charter requires the Board of Aldermen to keep each ward within a single state legislative district “to the maximum extent feasible.” If the Board were to do so — given the recent movement of state legislative district boundaries — it would split Sarah Eidelson’s ’12 Ward 1, a change that would threaten to alter the character of the traditionally “Yale ward.” Made up almost entirely of Yale students, the current Ward 1 houses Old Campus and eight of Yale’s residential colleges. Concern that Ward 1 would no longer be a Yale student-majority ward drove four members of the Yale College Democrats to testify before the special redistricting committee. Dems event coordinator Rebecca Ellison ’15, SEE REDISTRICTING PAGE 6

TOURISM

As visitors surge, Yale serves as anchor

ith the arrival of spring, prospective students and their families are flocking to Yale for campus tours. As they descend on New Haven, they contribute to the rise in tourism the city has seen in recent years. CYNTHIA HUA reports. The past few weeks have marked the start of the college visit tour season that will last through the summer. Still, apart from the typical summer surge soon to follow, tourism in New Haven and Yale has been growing over the past several years, said Ginny Kozlowski, executive director of REX Development, a group that helps market businesses in the greater New Haven area. From 2010 to 2011, hotel occupancy rates in New Haven increased by 4.4 percent and average daily rate per room increased by 3.3 percent. Both measurements are indicators of growth in New Haven’s tourism industry over the last several years, Kozlowski said, adding that both Tweed New Haven Regional Airport and Union Station have also seen increased traffic. “We can see the rise just by the noticeably increased foot traffic and the opening of

businesses that cater to travelers,” she said. The city has built on its relationship with Yale to market New Haven as a tourist destination, especially its culinary and cultural offerings. Universities in the greater New Haven area — including Yale, Quinnipiac and the University of New Haven — attract a “natural base” of visitors that the city can rely on, Kozlowki added. “We’re here all for Yale,” said one tourist from Michigan, Patricia Sundman, on a visit with her husband and three children. “For the Yale buildings, the Yale architecture and … the Yale gear.”

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VIEW Vote for the Benhabib resolution

oday’s faculty meeting offers a chance for professors to support

a strong Yale-NUS and to assert their role in University governance.

he Yale College faculty will vote today on a resolution proposed by political science professor Seyla Benhabib that calls for Yale-NUS College to commit as Yale does to the “ideals … at the heart of liberal arts education.” The resolution is an attempt to have the faculty clearly state that the Yale name stands for something. Professors of all opinions on Singapore should recognize that concerns about gay rights and freedom of expression, no matter how much they are downplayed, still exist. Those concerns are not a condemnation of Singapore or Yale’s venture there. Indeed, Benhabib’s resolution does not critique the project. It calls instead for Yale to stand for its values. This afternoon, professors should consider what the resolution says, not the existential debates about Yale-NUS that led up to today’s vote but are now moot. Benhabib’s resolution will not change any of the concrete plans for YaleNUS, but faculty should still support it. A vote in favor of this statement as it stands now would not be a vote for or against Yale-NUS. It would be a demonstration that faculty care about how Yale works and about the liberal arts education for which the University stands. Such a vote might spur faculty to recognize their duty to speak up in the future. Initial reaction to the Yale-NUS proposal was muted. Two town hall meetings for fac-

ulty about the new college were sparsely attended and spurred little debate. Robust public discussion about Yale-NUS has picked up only recently. Faculty silence has been the norm over the past few years. That seems to be changing. Opposition to shared services — which would streamline administrative services in departments — has been mounting. Faculty have been trying to establish more of a say in the governance of the graduate school. Their delayed and thus inert reaction to Yale-NUS can serve as a lesson about the faculty’s duty to voice its opinion and how much weight that opinion should bear. Faculty are the guardians of Yale’s soul. Professors do the bulk of the work that animates this place. As the University globalizes and expands, it needs a clear grasp of what makes it Yale — and the faculty are key to defining what that is. They must not let themselves fade out of that role just because a portion of Yale’s administrative attention will be directed across the world. Whether or not professors support Yale-NUS, they should vote for a resolution for the college to “uphold civil liberty and political freedom on campus and in the broader society.” The resolution is not just about Singapore but also about the spirit of the liberal arts. And voting for it is the way for the faculty to establish its voice.

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s master of Berkeley College, I get to vicariously experience the kind of college life that I wish I had for myself. It is with the same motivation that I support the Yale-NUS College project. Life at Yale cannot be described in words, but here are a few glimpses from the past week. Last Tuesday, I joined a group of about 50 Berkeley seniors to hear and discuss student presentations on topics ranging across Southern liberalism, a biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Pierson College master John Hersey, molecular mechanisms for cell maintenance and the history of the Titanic — all in two hours. Later in the week, I met with a student who developed a likely publishable essay exploring the cognitive science of political corruption and another student planning a fund-raiser for the homeless. On Friday night, Berkeley College Council organized a blacklight dance party in our basement space that the council transformed into a glowing Pandora wonderland. On Saturday night, my family and I attended a Yale Symphony Orchestra concert that featured student soloists and conductors that I personally knew as musical directors of the Berkeley College Orchestra. Academic interests and extracurricular life span seamlessly across all activities and spaces — Yale synergizes the liberal arts and residential college experience more harmoniously than anyone. I am from the academic 99 percent who had neither a liberal arts education nor a residential college experience. In South Korea, I dutifully studied 16 hours a day during high school to score above the national examination cutoff that gave me entry into an elite private university there.

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Required to choose a major before entering college, I took over half of my credits in psychology, memorizing the material in a way that perhaps qualified me to teach Introduction to Psychology now. I passively learned, but I did not feel actively engaged or inspired. Imagine spending your college years never speaking up in class or receiving any feedback on the papers you submit. My study groups did not discuss ideas but focused on how to distribute the best student’s notes (not mine).

A LIBERAL ARTS EDUATION IS A GIFT TO BE SHARED By the end of my stifling freshman year, I had enough and wanted out. I tried to transfer to any college in the States that would take me. However, scholarships were nonexistent, and when I asked my father to sign a financial support commitment, he declined, saying that he couldn’t afford it. Then I remember how he left to his room. Disappointed at the time, I was more embarrassed and sorry to hear my father apologize for it many years later when he was dying from cancer. I assured him that things worked out okay for me. Any memory of my having wounded his parental esteem was buried along with him over 10 years ago. However, while walking out of the Yale College faculty meeting last month, I was surprised to see this memory erupt from its psychoanalytic dormancy. Will Yale-NUS be

Yale-NUS and Yale-New Haven We often tell ourselves that no email is really private; nevertheless, it was a surprise to discover that a small portion of an email I had sent to some of my colleagues about Yale-NUS was published in the News (“Yale Takes Brand to Singapore,” March 27). These are informal exchanges not intended for public distribution. And what the News published was out of context. Like some of my colleagues, I emailed President Richard Levin and Provost Peter Salovey six months ago to express my concerns about the YaleNUS initiative — worried it would require significant time and energy. I was also worried about the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns — to paraphrase former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. At this point, the University as a whole is faced with a fait accompli. So far there have been no huge, unexpected challenges to the Yale-NUS effort, but it does seem to have become a distraction. Simply put, all is not well with the Yale-New Haven campus. Some of the best people — people we have worked with closely for years — left in the recent, abrupt reorganization of Information Technology Services. Shared services is, from the perspective of many if not most faculty, a brutal and inappropriate effort to apply a corporate model to an academic institution. One thing Vice President for Finance and Business Operations Shauna King may not have realized is that tenured faculty cannot be fired the way staff can. Moreover, one hears numerous complaints about the kinds of directives and leadership coming out of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Running Yale is more than a full-time job, and one wonders if these problems — or some of them — would have been avoided if the top levels of the administration had kept their full attention closer to home. It is important to remember that Richard Levin has been an outstanding president. Anyone who remembers our pre-Levin University knows just how lucky we have been. (This is perhaps the main reason why it has taken so long for the faculty to shed their complacency in the face of a series of interlocking setbacks that cannot be simply linked to the budgetary crisis.) Although Yale-NUS may be an unwanted distraction, it seems possible and finally important for faculty to engage Levin’s efforts in a constructive manner. This was the impetus for my email, which is offered here in a slightly refined, shortened version: Colleagues — I too find the use of the Yale name to be somewhat unnerving. If Yale-NUS is really an autonomous institution, Yale’s name should not be associated with it indefinitely. If it is going to be something like a sister campus, the Yale name will remain and we (the faculty) need to be much more involved. What would we expect

denied to numerous students around the world like me who lack the hypertalent or mega-resources needed to study abroad at a place like Yale? All faculty and students unanimously support the premium importance of academic freedoms and equal human rights for all. These principles are not only fundamental to Yale-NUS, but Yale has an exit plan if they are not sustained. So is a faculty resolution necessary to state the obvious, when its motivation risks the perception that the Yale-NUS project is being held political hostage? I emphasize that I agree with most of my colleagues’ concerns and statements, as much as I know we all share an unwavering commitment to education. In fact, I am encouraged to see the open nature of the debate, well covered by the News and other outlets. Both critical and supportive op-ed statements, coupled with admirably balanced reporting, already demonstrate that Yale-NUS enjoys free and critical debate. We have exhibited the kind of diverse and scholarly dialogue here in New Haven that should exchange freely across to the Yale-NUS campus. Indeed, the visibility of this liberal arts partnership guarantees an international audience for all our voices. Now that I’m now a lucky member of the academic one percent — a beneficiary of several devoted and brilliant teaching scholars — I join many of our faculty and students in supporting Yale-NUS as an unprecedented opportunity to share our gifts and privileges. This commitment to others is what the “Y” symbolizes to me, and why I am proud to see Yale’s name on the new college with NUS. MARVIN CHUN is professor of psychology, neurobiology and cognitive science and the master of Berkeley College.

and find appropriate — and what would students and the world expect from a campus halfway around with the Yale name on it? 1) All students at Yale-NUS should be able to do a semester abroad at Yale-New Haven. 2) Yale-NUS students can come to Yale-New Haven to take our summer classes (not independent Yale-NUS summer classes). … 4) A certain number of transfer students each year seems inevitable and even appropriate. 5) Yale’s name on the degree itself. Is Yale (or rather Yale-New Haven) going to be ready for that kind of substantial commitment? Are the faculty? The students? I think we need a forceful resolution like the one Seyla Benhabib proposed at the last faculty meeting and another resolution calling for a future vote by the faculty — in six to 10 years — whereby we will determine whether we believe Yale’s name should be on the BA degree that students receive at Yale-NUS or Yale be removed from the university’s name in a way that will signal its maturity as an independent institution. At present, we are told that the Yale name can be taken off Yale-NUS if something goes wrong — but what about if something goes right? What if Yale-NUS eventually became known as the Independent College of Singapore and was on its own? Or what if we discover that having a half-sister campus in Singapore is a boon? The assumption has been that we are generously bestowing our knowledge and educational wisdom on Singapore, but it seems more important (and more likely) that a truly successful outcome would result if our students and faculty members were learning from the dynamic exchanges generated by a properly reciprocal relationship. But is this what is envisioned? And what we want? How much would it change college life to have so many students rotating through? Who would not be attending Yale-New Haven if we are busy meeting our responsibilities to Yale-NUS? CHARLES MUSSER APRIL 3

The writer is Professor of American Studies, Film Studies and Theater Studies and a 1973 graduate of Berkeley College.

Judge Yale-NUS for academic opportunity, not politics Last fall, faculty at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies considered opportunities for graduate study by students of the planned Yale-NUS College. The one-year master’s program that emerged is based on the successful model developed to serve Yale College students. The F&ES faculty considered the proposed program, the new College, as well as its situation within Singapore. Many issues raised in both formal and informal discussions mirror those occurring in advance of another vote planned at the Yale College faculty meeting taking place today. Why did a diverse group of Yale faculty vote unanimously to strengthen Yale’s interactions with the new college? The motivations are both specific and general. The opportunity to work with students from a region where questions of the environment are of global significance is certainly important. It is equally clear that the environmental studies major at Yale-NUS is of great interest. Yale-NUS is probably the first place on the planet where an EVST major is being designed from the ground up, not as the product of an interdepartmental melee for representation. But more critically, our faculty often work internationally. The scale of the problems they focus on and the contexts within which they carry out their research are tremendously diverse and challenging. Nevertheless, we can make a difference. Suggesting that we wouldn’t engage with Singapore to create a new college because we don’t completely agree with their government’s policies misses the point. DAVID SKELLY APRIL 4 The writer is Professor and Associate Dean at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

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“What you are talking about is desire — just brutal Desire. The name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs … up one old narrow street and down another.” BLANCHE DUBOIS “A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE”

Aldermen seek to promote youth jobs

4:00 P.M. Susan Howe poetry reading and performance with musician David Grubbs. Poet Susan Howe, winner of the 2011 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and musician David Grubbs will perform a collaborative piece based on Howe’s volume “That This.” Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.). 6:00 P.M. A Different Drum Dance Company presents: “Synesthesia.” Join A Different Drum Dance company for its spring show. There will be two performances on Saturday, at 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students and $8 for adults ($5 for adults in groups of five or more). Reserve tickets at yaledramacoalition.org/synesthesia. Off-Broadway Theater (41 Broadway). 7:00 P.M. “Reclamation!: Taking Back, Giving Away, and the Future of (Queer) Language.” Liz Montegary, lecturer in women’s, gender and sexuality studies will lead a discussion of etymology, historical usage, and the posibility of reclaiming derogatory words and working toward empowerment. LinslyChittenden Hall (63 High St.), room 105.

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The article “Chaplaincy fellows begin training” paraphrased Nat DeLuca GRD ’06, program coordinator for the Chaplain’s Office, as saying that Timothy Dwight College is one of four residential colleges that will not have two student chaplaincy fellows, as originally planned. However, University Chaplain Sharon Kugler later told the News that TD will have one fellow when the program begins next year.

Streetcar plan derailed, again BY MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTER In a 22-4 vote Monday night, the Board of Aldermen once more struck down a proposal backed by Mayor John DeStefano Jr. to build a streetcar in downtown New Haven, and this time, the blow may have been fatal. The proposal would have approved a $780,000 grant from the federal government to study the feasibility of a streetcar system in the Elm City. Aldermen said they opposed the measure because it required the city to contribute $90,000 to the study, a price tag too onerous for the city’s strained budget. On Oct. 24, the Board of Aldermen rejected a similar proposal to fund a streetcar feasibility study that would have required the city to contribute approximately $190,000 to the project. The second time around, City Hall obtained a promise of outside funding from the Connecticut Department of Transportation, reducing the city’s overall contribution to $90,000. “I think ultimately, the Board of Aldermen still felt that the item did not align with its agenda of youth jobs and public safety,” City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton said. Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12 was among the 22 aldermen to vote against the proposal. In an email newsletter on Tuesday, she explained that under normal circumstances, she would support the construction of public transportation to provide an accessible and economical option for the city’s commuters, but the cost of the project prevented her from voting in favor of it. “We all know that these are tough budgetary times for our city,” she wrote in the email. “Which means that our Board needs to set clear priorities and simply cannot fund every appealing project.”

O t h e r a l d e r m e n wh o opposed the measure echoed similar concerns. Ward 2 Alderman Frank Douglass Jr. said he opposed the measure because it would divert funds from more urgent legislative matters, such as creating more jobs for the city’s young people. Douglass and Eidelson also cited the fact that the proposed streetcar would only serve downtown New Haven as a reason for their opposition. “I figure it would be a wonderful idea if the streetcars were going to service everyone — north, south, east and west — but apparently they are just focusing on certain areas,” Douglass said. “If 10, 15 years from now it services everyone in need of it, I’ll consider, but at this point we have other priorities.” But Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 said the city should consider investment in in public transportation aspart of a long-term economic development strategy. “We shouldn’t be looking two years ahead of time or to the next election but five, 10 years ahead for the health of the city,” Elicker said. “If we invest in that infrastructure, we can pay for the things we want now and in years to come.” Despite the measure’s scant support among aldermen, the proposal has gained wide public support in the city since it was first introduced in a public hearing last September. Several residents testified during a legislative public hearing held in advance of the vote, and all but one spoke in favor of the streetcar, Elicker said. Elicker said he believes it is unlikely that the bill will be raised again in the foreseeable future. Mason Kroll contributed reporting. Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at michelle.hackman@yale.edu .

CREATIVE COMMONS

Aldermen delivered what appeared to be a fatal blow to a proposal backed by City Hall to study the potential for a city streetcar system.

Dozens of New Haven youth attended a meeting of the Board of Aldermen’s youth services committee Wednesday to testify about the importance of expanding employment opportunities for the city’s young people. . BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER More than 50 people packed the aldermanic chamber at City Hall Wednesday as aldermen discussed ways to expand job opportunities for the city’s youth. Chaired by Ward 1 Alderwoman Sarah Eidelson ’12, the Board of Aldermen’s youth services committee heard youth and community advocates explain the importance of employment, which they said would would help young people stay out of crime, support their families and become self-sufficient and responsible. Together with older community members, 20 young New Haveners suggested ways to make more jobs available to youth and prepare young people for the job market. After multiple people cited New Haven’s lack of jobs as a primary reason that people, particularly youth, begin selling drugs, Ward 30 Alderman Carlton Staggers expressed surprise at the consistency in all the testimonies. He asked whether working as a drug dealer was particularly lucrative. “It’s better than not having money at all,” responded Tenaiya Baker, a junior at Hillhouse High School. One student called work a “safe haven,” and multiple teenagers shared their experiences losing friends to crime that could be avoided if more jobs were available. One said he had personally seen innocent victims get shot on street corners by drug dealers and gang members. Students expressed their desire to

take on more responsibilities and learn about life in the “real world,” but said they struggled to find jobs in the city. One teenager, who holds jobs at Burger King and Best Buy, said the only reason he got those jobs was through personal connections at both stores. “Seeing our parents struggling every day but still not being able to provide for us really makes us sad. We just want to step up and be able to help them, but we can’t, because there isn’t enough for us to do,” said a teenager.

[Working as a drug dealer] is better than not having money at all. TENAIYA BAKER Junior, Hillhouse High School One teenager suggested that the city hold job fairs downtown and give tax breaks to stores if they hire young people. Another argued that without job training programs, youth would almost never be able to get jobs. Students also expressed doubt about whether they would be able to pay for college without jobs, and some noted that even college degrees are no longer enough to guarantee jobs in the current economy. “Paying for college is also stressful even if I receive merit- and need-based aid, and the only barriers are the financial

ones,” said Jazmine Vega, a high school student who has four siblings, adding that her family was worried they would not be able to afford to send them all to college. Two Yale students, Drew Morrison ’14, a native of New Haven, and Gabriel Zucker ’12, a former director of the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project, also testified at the meeting. Morrison discussed the necessity of improving public transportation in the city so youth without access to cars could get to potential jobs, while Zucker emphasized the importance of making jobs available for students immediately after they graduate high school or college. Suggestions of ways to induce job growth aired at the meeting included volunteer programs pairing college students with young kids in schools and financial incentives for businesses that hire youth. Lisa Bergmann, a youth organizer from New Elm City Dream, a local youth group that promotes youth job creation, said aldermen should also look into methods of ensuring that people with criminal records could still get jobs and re-integrate themselves into society. Eidelson said the Board will set another date to continue the discussion. According to Connecticut Voices for Children, a research and advocacy group, 18.2 percent of job seekers between the ages of 16 and 24 were unemployed and 30.7 percent were underemployed in 2010. Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .

Div library acquires Chinese Christianity collection BY SHARON YIN STAFF REPORTER The University Library announced last Wednesday a collaboration between the Divinity School Library and the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) to preserve contemporary collections of Chinese Christian materials. The new agreement allows the Divinity Library and HKBU to select materials documenting the history and practice of Chinese Christianity. The project, which is funded by the Divinity Library’s Kenneth Scott Latourette Initiative for the Documentation of World Christianity, aims to increase knowledge of how Christianity is practiced in China among religious organizations, library administrators said. “HKBU is an excellent partner for us because of its library’s rich special collections focused on the history of Christianity in China,” University Librarian Susan Gibbons said. In the new partnership, HKBU library staff will identify potential projects and send specific proposals to the Divinity School Library, said Paul Stuehrenberg, a Divinity School professor who works at the school’s library. The first proposal will create a microfilm collection of publications by the Chinese Christian Literature Council to be stored at the Divinity Library, he said, adding that library administrators are currently reviewing the proposal. Though the funding will vary depending on each individual proposal, library administrators “anticipate that the agreement will be ongoing,” Stuehrenberg said. Materials included in other proposal could include books, periodicals, reports, archives and personal papers, according to a Yale University Library press release. To help with the documentation of contemporary Asian Christianity, Stuehrenberg said library administrators plan to hire a new Librarian for Asian Christianity. Stuehrenberg added that he hopes the Library will be able to make an appoint-

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More than half of the collection of the Divinity School Library, located in the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, consists of material published outside of North America. ment by the end of the summer, Stuehrenberg added. Amanda Patrick, director of communications for the Yale University Library, said the collection will make “invaluable primary source material” for the study of Chinese Christianity more accessible to researchers at Yale. Chloe Starr, an assistant professor of Asian Christianity at the Divinity School, said she currently buys her own research books and looks forward to the Divinity School Library’s expanded Chinese holdings so that she can reduce shipping costs and save time. The project builds on seven years of collaborations between the two universities. In 2005, they worked together to improve the documentation of Asian Christianity at Trinity Theological College in Singapore, and most recently they digitized Hong Kong denominational

periodicals in 2011. Library administrators said the new project will add to an already expansive collection of materials on Chinese Christianity, particularly materials dating from before 1950, Stuehrenberg said. He added that researchers from China “regularly” come to New Haven to use the Divinity Library’s collections since the Library holds materials unavailable in China. “We have one of the best mission archives in the world here at Yale, but collaborating with libraries and centres that have Chinese language archives of unique or rare texts will benefit us, the host institution and wider scholarship,” Starr said. HKBU was founded in 1956 and has three campuses in Hong Kong. Contact SHARON YIN at sharon.yin@yale.edu .

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“A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.” CARLO GOLDONI PLAYWRIGHT AND LIBRETTIST

New Haven sees rise in tourism, both at Yale and beyond

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While many visitors — whether prospective students, theatergoers or alumni — are drawn to the city by Yale, it is not the only tourist attraction in town. TOURISM FROM PAGE 1 dramatic decline in hotel occupancy rates as other Connecticut cities did, said Kozlowski, an indication that New Haven’s tourist base is leisure-driven, rather than dependent on business. Yale is one of the “primary draws” to New Haven, Kozlowski said, falling under the category of “leisure-driven.” Kozlowski said sources such as tour registration totals indicate that Yale draws around 500,000 visitors a year, between alumni, prospective students and families of current students. Both local and international independent tour groups contribute a “significant number” of these visitors to Yale, Kozlowski said. For the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, peak seasons align with the University’s calendar,

said Jill Flynn, Omni’s director of sales and marketing. She cited the Yale-Harvard football game, Commencement and Family Weekend as times of peak occupancy. Win Davis, acting director of the Town Green Special Services District, said that INFO New Haven — the visitor information center operated jointly with Yale on the corner of Chapel and College streets — experiences similar trends, with peaks in tourism occurring when Yale hosts major events and lulls during the summers. “When the freshmen are moving and their parents are coming in from all over, we see an upswing. When you are guys are gone it’s slower,” added Donna Wardle, executive assistant at the New Haven Museum on Whitney Avenue. Yale offers two different tours to visitors, one geared toward prospective students and the

other to the general public. The Yale Visitor Center, which runs the general tours, gives over 1,100 tours to more than 80,000 visitors annually, said Nancy Franco, the Center’s director, in an email.

When you guys are gone it’s slower. DONNA WARDLE Executive assistant, New Haven Museum Like INFO New Haven, the Yale Visitor Center also markets the University’s tour attractions to bus tour and travel planners. Private tour bookings with the Yale Visitor Center have doubled since 2006, Franco said.

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the University also work to bring in tourism to the New Haven area, building off of Yale’s reputation. “With Yale University as the centerpiece, the hospitality industry is the economic driver of downtown — anchor hotels, award-winning dining, world-class museums and theater, and eclectic shopping and night clubs,” said Anne Worcester, chief marketing officer of Market New Haven — a parternship promoting the city funded by public and private groups including the city, Yale and local businesses — in an email. Market New Haven collaborates with Yale year-round on initiatives to promote the city. Partnerships include work with University Properties — Yale’s real estate arm — to promote downtown shopping, collaboration with Yale Visitor Center tours to draw tourists into the

city, and work with the Association of Yale Alumni to encourage alumni to visit and explore the developing Elm City. The city’s 375-year history and 171 restaurants make New Haven a valuable vacation destination, Davis said. Referring to New Haven as the “cultural capital of Connecticut,” he said that “many but not all” of New Haven’s cultural institutions are affiliated with Yale. Major New Haven events annually draw in thousands of visitors to the city, with the New Haven Open and the International Festival of Arts & Ideas each drawing between 75,000 and 100,000 attendees annually, according to Market New Haven. The Omni Hotel at Yale receives guests largely from the New England area, coming to New Haven for non-Yale-related weekend getaways, Flynn said, taking advantage of New Haven’s restaurant, club and theater scene. She said the Omni’s romance and spa packages provide a possible measure of how many visitors come for purposes unrelated to Yale, receive around 5,000 nights of bookings a year. “We are very encouraged about the amount of tourism we’re seeing. New Haven is just growing in popularity — the buzz is out about the restaurant scene and the theater scene and the numbers are on the rise,” Flynn said. Colin Caplan founded Taste of New Haven last September, taking advantage of the city’s restaurant scene and walkability to offer food tours of New Haven. Over 800 people have participated in tours since the company started. Part of his inspiration for starting the business was a desire to get people back to New Haven, despite the negative press surrounding crime in the city, by exposing them to the increasing number of dining options, Caplan said. Rather than the Yale alumni crowds he expected, he said, the core demographic signing up for tours is young people from

across the state who are unaffiliated with Yale. “With my company, I’m dealing with people that haven’t been to New Haven in years. They are glad to be able to have this enjoyable experience. They want to be able to come here,” said Caplan. Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .

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Upwards of 75,000 — 100,000 attendees; an art festival featuring musicians, artists, dancers and other performers at programs designed to induce creative thinking and family entertainment MUSIC ON THE GREEN

Upwards of 20,000 attendees per summer; a variety of annual music performances, including the New Haven Jazz Festival NEW HAVEN RESTAURANT WEEK

Over 55,000 diners per year; participating restaurants this spring will offer three-course, prix fix menus for the week of April 15-20.

Resolution revised in advance of vote YALE-NUS FROM PAGE 1 ination and protect the civil liberties of students — I’m in favor of that,” said Pericles Lewis, professor of English and chair of the humanities faculty search committee for Yale-NUS. “Then you get into questions of what’s the relevance of the Yale College faculty’s views on different governmental systems.” Since the March meeting, Benhabib has proposed a revised resolution that faculty “urge Yale-NUS to respect, protect and further principles of non-discrimination for all, including sexual minorities and migrant workers; to uphold civil liberty and political freedom on campus and in the broader society.” The original version introduced in March states that faculty

“demand,” rather than urge, the college to respect these principles. Benhabib declined comment until after the meeting. Over the past month, several faculty members have debated the merits of the Yale-NUS project through opinion columns in the News, national media outlets and other statements. In a March 16 column published by the Huffington Post, political science lecturer Jim Sleeper criticized the YaleNUS venture and noted that several current or former trustees of the Yale Corporation have connections to Singaporean state-owned investment funds. University President Richard Levin issued a statement Sunday detailing the connections three current or former trustees have with the Singaporean government.

Charles Ellis, who retired from the Corporation in June 2008, served as an adviser to the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) up until June 2009. Current trustee Charles Goodyear, who joined the Corporation in July 2011, served as CEO-designate of Temasek Holdings, another Singaporean investment company, between March and August of 2009. G. Leonard Baker, who has been a Yale trustee since 2000, has worked with the GIC since 2001 and has served as an adviser to the National University of Singapore’s Investment Committee. Levin said in his statement that Ellis and Goodyear were not on the Yale Corporation when Yale-NUS was discussed between January 2009 and February 2011, and Baker recused himself from voting when

it came time for the Corporation to approve the college. Since the possibility of Yale’s partnering with the National University of Singapore was first announced to faculty in September 2010, several professors have expressed concern over whether academic freedoms and civil rights will be suppressed at Yale-NUS because of Singapore’s allegedly authoritarian government. Some professors have also questioned the college’s use of the Yale name, even though Yale-NUS will not grant Yale degrees. The debate concerning YaleNUS has gained momentum in recent months. Professors requested in February that YaleNUS be placed on the agenda for the March Yale College faculty meeting, and around 15 faculty

members gave their thoughts on the project at last month’s meeting. Laura Wexler, a professor of American studies and women’s, gender and sexuality studies, said she believes faculty should “continue to engage” in discussions about Yale-NUS. “We need to understand an awful lot better what we’re getting into,” Wexler said. Administrators discussed YaleNUS at town hall meetings with faculty in the fall of 2010 — before an agreement to create the college was finalized with NUS in March 2011. Levin has also presented on Yale-NUS four different times at faculty meetings in the past three years, most recently at last month’s meeting. But some professors maintain that they were

not adequately consulted in the past and would like a greater say as the project moves forward. Wexler and other professors interviewed have placed the debate over Yale-NUS in the larger context of how Yale makes decisions on University-wide initiatives. Faculty raised concerns over the University’s handling of shared services at their February meeting, and some professors are advocating the creation of an elected faculty advisory committee in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to counsel the school’s dean on new policies. Yale College faculty meetings take place on the first Thursday of each month at 4 p.m. Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu and

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS NEIL SELKIRK Neil Selkirk is a British photographer known for his portraitures. He studied under Diane Arbus in 1971 and is the only person authorized to make posthumous prints of Arbus’ work.

KIPP charter schools founder shares story

In recording, photographer Arbus delivers lecture dren with toy hand grenades, people suffering from gigantism and transvestite prostitutes. At several points, Arbus interacted with her original audience — when the recorded lecture attendees laughed at a picture of a nudist, she interjected, “I don’t know what’s so funny.”

BY SIJIA SONG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Wednesday night, the Yale University Art Gallery hosted “A Slideshow and Talk by Diane Arbus” in its MacNeil Lecture Hall. Despite the absence of the noted American photographer herself, who died in 1971, the talk drew a large audience that filled the auditorium. The talk featured a 1970 audio recording of Arbus presenting a lecture on her work, followed by a panel discussion between art history professor Alexander Nemerov GRD ’92, photographer Neil Selkirk of the Diane Arbus Estate, and Jeff L. Rosenheim, curator of photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nemerov, who is Diane Arbus’ nephew, introduced the lecture, noting that the recording, which is owned by the Diane Arbus Estate, has been played in public fewer than 10 times. The recording was pieced together using clips from a lecture that Arbus gave on at least three separate occasions, in which she shared her photographic inspirations and commented on her own work. An accompanying slideshow displayed the photographs Arbus referred to during her original lectures. In the recorded lecture, Arbus shared anecdotes about the creation of her photographs, which featured images of murder victims, convicts, nudists, chil-

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I do [photography] because I think there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them. CREATIVE COMMONS

DIANE ARBUS American photographer (1923-’71)

The YUAG hosted a recorded lecture by the late Diane Arbus.

Selkirk, who studied with Arbus and is today the only person authorized to reproduce her photographs, said that he does not believe Arbus was happy to speak to an audience. “She was very ambitious and wanted to be seen in the upper echelon of photographers, so she needed to have a public persona,” he said. “But she was really wishing she wasn’t there.” In the recording, Arbus said of her own work, “I do it because I think there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” She also discussed the permanent nature of a photograph, which often outlives its subject.

Regarding images of a murdered couple, she said, “They were living and breathing and they took a photo, and the photo’s still here and now they’re dead.” Arbus herself, whose voice is preserved in the recording, committed suicide 41 years ago. Zachary Bell ’14 said that it was interesting to hear Arbus describe her photographs in her own words and discuss why she felt it was worthwhile work. The talk was co-hosted by the Art Gallery, the Yale School of Art and the History of Art Department. Contact SIJIA SONG at sijia.song@yale.edu .

Dave Levin ’92, co-founder of the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) and superintendant of KIPP New York, drew on his experiences as an educator in public schools to advise students to pursue their passions instead of seeking prestige in society. At the Ezra Stiles Master’s Tea, Levin spoke to a crowd of roughly 50 people about a negative stigma public school teachers encounter, as well as the problems facing public education in the United States. Though as an undergraduate he did not know which career path he would choose, he said he eventually recognized that public education was often poor in the United States and decided to found KIPP, which now comprises 109 public charter schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia and enrolls more than 33,000 students. “I had no idea what I wanted to do as a freshman and by junior year I wanted to do something, and I was pretty sure I didn’t want to live at home,” Levin said to laughter from the audience. “You don’t come to Yale to become a public school teacher,” said Levin. After graduating from Yale in 1992, Levin joined Teach for America, where he taught fifth-graders for three years in Houston, Texas. While in Houston, he said, he would discuss his frustrations about the achievement gap in the public school where he was teaching. He and Mike Feinberg, who also participated in Teach for America, began discussing potential solutions and went on to co-found KIPP in 1994. Levin and Feinberg founded KIPP with the philosophy that education does not end when the bell rings, Levin said, adding that KIPP teachers assume an active role in the lives of their students outside the classroom and help teach the importance of character. “We started KIPP by going door to door in the Bronx and asked ‘Do you have a student going into the 5th grade? We’re starting a brand-new school to help your student into college,’ ” said Levin, “How bad does the school system have to be for the parent to

invite us in?” In response to a question about what makes someone a strong teacher, Levin answered that mastering the craft of teaching takes practice through trial and error. He said someone could have a strong command of a subject but still be a poor teacher if they cannot communicate effectively.

We started KIPP by going door to door in the Bronx … how bad does the school system have to be for the parent to invite us in? DAVE LEVIN ’92 Co-founder, KIPP “The best math teachers weren’t always the best math students,” he said. After becoming a public school teacher, he said he frequently felt that society often views teachers negatively. Levin retold an instance when his date at a speed-dating event learned that he was a teacher and said, “ ‘That’s it?’ ” She then took out her BlackBerry and sat in silence for the remaining five and a half minutes. Five students interviewed who attended the talk said they thought Levin’s anecdote drew attention to a large problem in America. “These issues are known, but we aren’t reminded of them enough,” Jim Liu ’13 said. After starting KIPP, Levin was named an Ashoka Fellow in 1994, received the Robin Hood Foundation’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Hero Award in Education in 1999, and was appointed to the New York State Commission for Education Reform in 2003. At the end of this academic year, Levin will step down from his current superintendent position and return to the classroom. Contact DAVIS NGUYEN at davis.nguyen@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT With approval from Senate, death penalty repeal likely DEATH PENALTY FROM PAGE 1 for certain murders helped corral support for repeal, hailed the vote as the beginning of the end for an unjust policy. “The death penalty, as a punishment, is deeply flawed in many ways,” said Sen.Eric Coleman, a Democrat from Bloomfield and the Senate chair of the Judiciary Committee, which approved the bill March 21. “It is a poor deterrent to crime, inequitably applied across racial and economic lines and a fundamental contradiction — killing as a punishment for killing.”

The death penalty, as a punishment, is deeply flawed in many ways. It is a poor deterrent to crime, inequitably applied across racial and economic lines and a fundamental contradiction — killing as a punishment for killing. ERIC COLEMAN State Senator (D-Bloomfield) As the debate began Wednesday afternoon, much of the controversy centered on the fate of the 11 prisoners currently on death row in Connecticut. Democratic proponents of the bill said the measure is entirely “proactive,” meaning that it applies only to future convictions and will not repeal established capital sentences. But Republican opponents to the measure were unconvinced, arguing that the measure would provide new ground for defense attorneys to appeal these existing sentences. Susan Story, Connecticut’s chief public defender, advocated a retroactive ban on the death penalty in testimony during a March 14 hearing on the bill. She also indicated that her office might appeal prior capital sentences. But Democrats said the experience of New Mexico should allay those concerns. In 2009, the New Mexico Supreme Court denied the appeal of an inmate with a previous capital sentence after the state passed a “proactive” death penalty repeal. Sen. John Kissel, Republican of Enfield, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, was unconvinced by the New Mexico example, arguing that since it was not clear whether the ruling was constitutional, there remained room for a different judicial interpretation. At the Monday morning press conference, Senate Democrats also proposed an amend-

ment to the repeal bill that creates a new set of punishments for criminals convicted of “felony murder with special circumstances.” They said they designed this category specifically for the purpose of replacing the capital sentence. “These inmates will face conditions that are similar to and in some cases more severe than conditions on death row,” Senate President Donald Williams, a Democrat from Brooklyn, Conn., said. “It is a punishment and sentence that is certain and final.” Williams also said it was “one of the key factors” in getting other lawmakers to sign on the bill. The penalties include high-security housing, continuous escort and increased searches, among others. These conditions would apply for the duration of a life sentence for those convicted of the new felony category. The amendment passed 21–14 on a vote that went entirely along party lines. Kissel criticized the amendment’s inclusion of a risk assessment of these inmates, which he argued will allow for too much flexibility in how the additional penalties are applied. “We are spelling out in statute that [the Department of Correction] will do a risk assessment,” he said. “There is no guarantee that future heinous, diabolical criminals will end up in housing like this.” He offered an amendment that removed the possibility of a risk assessment, but it failed along the same 21–14 party-line vote. This is lawmakers’ third attempt to repeal the state’s death penalty since 2009. A repeal passed both houses of the General Assembly in 2009, only to be vetoed by former Republican Gov. Jodi Rell. A similar effort passed the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2011, but it never came to a vote after two lawmakers withdrew their support, citing the ongoing trial over the infamous home invasion and triple homicide in Cheshire, Conn. A March 21 Quinnipiac University poll found that 62 percent of Connecticut residents consider repealing the death penalty a “bad idea.” But at the press conference, Williams said the wording of such polls often influences the result, adding that respondents tend to favor repealing the death penalty when life without parole is given as the alternative. In an earlier Quinnipiac University poll, conducted in March 2011, 49 percent of respondents favored life without parole over the death penalty when given the choice between the two. Connecticut has executed one individual since the 1976 Supreme Court case Gregg v. Georgia lifted the ban on capital punishment. Contact CASEY SUMNER at casey.sumner@yale.edu .

Number of executions by hanging in the United States since 1976.

There have also been three executions by firing squad, 11 by gas chamber, 157 by electrocution and 1,115 by lethal injection.

New ward map takes shape

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A proposal for the city’s new ward map was unveiled at a meeting Wednesday, but the final version is yet to come. REDISTRICTING FROM PAGE 1 who said she cast her first-ever ballot in last fall’s Ward 1 aldermanic election, said that dividing the ward would dampen voter enthusiasm on campus and remove students’ voice in the city legislative process. Dems treasurer Nicole Hobbs ’14, meanwhile, argued that the Ward 1 alderman, unhampered by traditional constituent concerns that are instead managed by the University, has a long history of bringing innovative policy initiatives to the Board, such as former Ward 1 Alderman Mike Jones’ ’11 living wage expansion. “Looking at the history of what’s been performed and the promise of Alderwoman Eidelson, it would be a detriment to the city to lose that voice,” Hobbs said. The special redistricting committee also heard a letter from a constituent who asked aldermen to consider distance from polling places when redistricting, and testimony from Lisa Seidlarz, who testified that despite living in what is considered the East Rock neighborhood, she was formally a resident of Wooster Square’s Ward 8. The map presented at the meeting was based off the committee’s negotiations at its March 29 meeting, and reduces the number of unbalanced wards from 21 to nine while lowering the aver-

age population deviation across all wards. But while most wards approached the correct numbers, others, like Ward 14, actually moved further away from the target population.

Looking at the history of what’s been performed … it would be a detriment to the city to lose that voice. NICOLE HOBBS ’14 Treasurer, Yale College Democrats Ward 14’s population originally stood at 5,350, nearly 24 percent above the target — in the new map, its population increased to 6,295. Fixing this deviation, the largest of any ward in the city, was on the top of aldermen’s priority list Wednesday night. Overall, the redistricting process reflects a general population shift towards the east, with the eastern neighborhoods of Fair Haven, Fair Haven Heights and Quinnipiac Meadows among those seeing the greatest population growth since 2000. Wards in the western neighborhoods of Dwight, Westville and West River, meanwhile, will all need to increase in size to compensate for their population decreases.

Ward 6 Alderman and committee chair Dolores Colón said the redistricting process would become more labor-intensive than it was in the past. After engaging in initial negotiations to equalize ward populations as best they could, she said aldermen on the committee would now need to strategize to move voters from western neighborhoods to those in the east, likely by coordinating among multiple wards. By law, the Board must also do its best to take into account demographic factors like race and income, follow natural boundaries like large streets or parks, maintain the “core” of each ward and ensure each ward possesses a polling place. Aldermen are also seeking to avoid displacing any alderman’s residence from his or her ward, forcing that alderman to move in order to be eligible to continue representing the ward. The committee will take into account Wednesday’s testimony when designing the final plan, which it will complete in a private meeting before presenting it in its next public meeting on April 10. If aldermen do not meet their May deadline for approving a final redistricting plan, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. will produce the new ward map instead. Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu .

UOFC to take on expanded duties UOFC FROM PAGE 1 essentially independent of one another in their current operations, Granzberg said, though the UOFC reports to the YCC. Redefining the committee will allow the two bodies to collaborate on more projects and initiatives, Granzberg added. For example, he said the YCC and the UOC might work together to address issues of sexual misconduct or the administration’s

new policy banning fall rush of Greek organizations for freshmen. “In the past, it’s been unclear why the funding committee is part of the YCC,” he said. “But now we’re saying we’re part of the YCC to represent undergraduate organizations.” YCC President Brandon Levin ’13 said he does not expect the dynamic between the committee and the YCC to change in the coming year, as the UOC

will still operate under the umbrella of the YCC. He said the approved proposal “simply formalizes” the role the UOFC fills for undergraduate organizations. Members of the UOFC began working to redefine the committee’s role at the start of the academic year, Granzberg said. After bringing their proposal to the YCC in February, Granzberg and other UOFC members presented it to the Committee on

Undergraduate Organizations in the Dean’s Office shortly before spring break. Meeske said administrators were initially hesitant to increase the UOFC’s responsibilities for fear that the UOC would take on too much, but eventually decided to approve the change and re-evaluate after the UOC’s first year. Should the UOC format prove unsuccessful, Meeske said, administrators would consider modifications

such as splitting the group into multiple committees. He added that the success of the UOC will largely depend on its new chair. Joel Sircus ’14, a current member of the UOFC, said details of how the UOC will work with administrators will need to be determined during the new committee’s inaugural year. He added that the responsibilities the UOC will assume make “inherent sense,” as they will formalize the committee’s

control over decisions it already makes. “It doesn’t make sense that our decisions should be governed by [the YCC], to which none of us were elected,” he said. The UOFC gave out $90,000 to more than 300 student organizations last semester. Contact MADELINE MCMAHON at madeline.mcmahon@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS FRIDAY, APRIL 6 12:00 P.M. “Suicide, Mental Resilience and Meaning in Life in Japan.” Emory University anthropology professor Chikako Ozawa-de Silva will speak about how ethnographic research can help prevent suicide by contributing to positive mental health and subjective well-being. Anthropology Department (10 Sachem St.), room 105. 5:00 P.M. Vietnamese Cultural Dinner. Is pho the only Vietnamese meal you’ve ever heard of? Expand your horizons and try some other authentic Vietnamese dishes like bun thit nuong, banh xeo, banh mi and more. Tickets are $5 pre-order and $6 at the door. Asian American Cultural Center (295 Crown St.).

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SATURDAY, APRIL 7 7:30 P.M. Yale Anjali presents “MAYA: South Asian Dance Showcase.” Explore the traditional and modern cultures of South Asia through Yale Anjali’s spring showcase. The showcase includes traditional pieces that portray the ancient stories and mythologies of India, as well as semiclassical and Bollywood pieces which highlight South Asia’s evolving culture. Free admission. Co-Op High School (177 College St.), Mainstage Theater. 7:30 P.M. “Slamlet.” Join Teeth Slam Poets for their very first Shakespeare-inspired poetry slam. Featured poet Kate Tempest will perform original work, and Yale’s own Teeth Slam Poets will follow with poems inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnetes and plays. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), auditorium.

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4:00 PM Yale Raga Society and the South Asian Studies Council present: “The Gundecha Brothers: An Evening of Dhrupad.” Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha are leading exponents of the Dhrupad tradition of music, an ancient and stately genre of music that developed in the princely courts of North India. The artists will be accompanied by Akhilesh Gundecha (pakhawaj) and Shraddha & Antoine Gundecha (tanpura). Admission free. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.).

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DOJ to respond to judge BY CARLA JOHNSON ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the Justice Department will respond “appropriately” to a federal appellate judge in Texas who demanded a letter recognizing federal courts’ authority to strike down laws passed by Congress. Holder spoke a day after 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jerry Smith questioned President Barack Obama’s remarks this week about an “unelected” court possibly striking down the president’s health care overhaul. Smith, during oral arguments in a separate challenge to the health law, asked the Justice Department for a three-page, single-spaced letter affirming the federal court’s authority. When asked during a Wednesday news conference in Chicago what an appropriate response to Smith would

be, Holder said, “I think what the president said a couple of days ago was appropriate. He indicated that we obviously respect the decisions that courts make.” “Under our system of government ... courts have the final say on the constitutionality of statutes,” Holder said. “The courts are also fairly deferential when it comes to overturning statutes that the duly elected representatives of the people, Congress, pass.” The White House, meanwhile, struggled for a third day to explain Obama’s original remark that a Supreme Court reversal of the case would be “unprecedented.” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters in Washington that Obama does not regret using that word, and he insisted Obama was not trying to bully the justices by weighing in before the case is decided. “It’s the reverse of intimidation,”

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Attorney General Eric Holder attempted to clarify the remarks of President Barack Obama about the Supreme Court’s ability to strike down federal legislation.

Carney said during a lengthy defense of Obama’s comments. “He’s simply making an observation about precedent and the fact that he expects the court to adhere to that precedent.” A reversal would not be unprecedented, even under the very narrow terms Obama and his spokesman later attached to his comments, but it would be very unusual. Obama had sought to clarify his remarks under questioning at The Associated Press annual meeting on Tuesday. There, Obama said he was referring only to a specific class of constitutional law, and to the pattern of judicial deference to Congress exemplified by the upholding of New Deal legislation in the 1930s. Carney on Wednesday said Obama’s remarks were the object of criticism “only because a handful of people didn’t seem to understand what he was referring to.” Carney also repeated Holder’s assurance that the Justice Department would comply with the Texas judge’s demand for a letter of explanation. Smith on Tuesday had seemed to take offense to comments Obama made Monday that he didn’t believe the Supreme Court would take the “unprecedented” step of overturning a law passed by a strong majority of Congress. He said he wanted reassurance that Holder and the Justice Department recognized judicial authority. “The letter needs to be at least three pages, single spaced, no less and it needs to be specific. It needs to make specific reference to the president’s statements,” Smith said during a case brought in part by a spine and joint hospital in East Texas that is challenging the constitutionality of a portion of the health care law. Smith’s office in Houston said Wednesday the judge would not be commenting on the issue because the case before his court still is pending. Smith, a native Texan, was nominated to the appeals court by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the Senate in 1987.

GOP stars dismiss VP potential BY PHILIP ELLIOTT ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Tag. I’m not it. Republicans considered to be up-and-comers are scrambling to declare a lack of interest in becoming Mitt Romney’s running mate, taking themselves off the still-forming short list of would-be vice presidents. With Romney poised to win the GOP nomination in June, if not earlier, some of the focus has shifted to his pick for the No. 2 spot on the ticket. But no one is rushing forward and many of the top prospects are trying to shut down the conversation before it begins. “I’m not going to be the vice president,” Sen. Marco Rubio said Wednesday. “If offered any position by Gov. Romney, I would say no,” South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley told The Associated Press a day earlier. “I’ve taken myself off the list,” former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said recently. “It’s humbling, but I’m not inter-

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ested,” New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez said. It’s not that bad of a job, is it? Well, it depends. John Nance Garner, who was President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s vice president, described the job as “not worth a bucket of warm spit,” among other characterizations. Some of the would-be picks already have pretty good day jobs as governors: Mitch Daniels in Indiana, Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, Chris Christie in New Jersey and Bob McDonnell in Virginia. Rob Portman of Ohio and John Thune of South Dakota have seats in the Senate, and Paul Ryan of Wisconsin in the House. Part of the dance is trying to appear uninterested in the role of designated attack dog and potential GOP front-runner for 2016 if Romney falls short in November. Part of it is also preserving a personal brand; campaigning for the second slot and coming up short is embarrassing, as Pawlenty remembers from his unsuccessful effort to become Sen. John McCain’s running mate in 2008. McCain went with Sarah Palin.

And, potentially, no one wants to play second fiddle on a second-place ticket. If Romney falls short in his bid to make President Barack Obama a one-termer, the fresh faces in the GOP today might be tainted as losers heading into 2016 if the campaign goes badly. Just look at Palin, the former Alaska governor. She flirted with running this year but ultimately decided against it, given her divisive reputation, lagging poll numbers and sour memories of the 2008 race. Palin offered some advice to the nominee, whether it ends up being Romney or someone else: “Don’t necessarily play it safe and do just what the GOP establishment expects them to do,” she told Fox News Channel, where she is a paid contributor. “It doesn’t matter if that person has national level experience or not, they’re going to get clobbered by the lame-stream media who does not like the conservative message.” That may also be part of the reason why no one is rushing to join Romney’s team.

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Mitt Romney addresses a crowd at a campaign event in Broomall, Penn. on Wednesday. BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney unleashed a strong attack on President Barack Obama’s truthfulness Wednesday, accusing him of running a “hide-and-seek” re-election campaign designed to distract voters from his first-term record while denying them information about his plans for a second. Addressing an audience of newspaper editors and publishers, Romney said Obama’s recent remarks to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on a second-term arms reduction treaty had called “his candor into question.” Romney, the likely GOP opponent for Obama in November, also accused the president of undergoing “a series of election-year conversions” on taxes, government regulation and energy production. “He does not want to share his real plans before the election, either with the public or with the press,” Romney said. “By flexibility, he means that what the American public doesn’t know won’t hurt him. He is intent on hiding. You and I will have to do the seeking.” Romney himself has been sharply criticized by Rick Santorum and other Republican rivals for changing his own positions on issues ranging from abortion to climate control as part of an attempt to win the backing of conservative primary voters. Earlier this year, he reversed course on the minimum wage to bring his stance in line with party orthodoxy, saying he no longer believes it should rise along with inflation. Romney spoke to the Newspaper Association of America and the American Society of Newspaper Editors as the Republican nominee-in-waiting, his standing confirmed by three primary victories Tuesday night in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C. He campaigned Wednesday in Pennsylvania, where there’s a GOP primary March 24 — though Romney treated it more like the general election battleground it will be in the fall. “Please help me defeat Barack Obama in November!” Romney told a cheering crowd in Broomall, a Philadelphia suburb. Romney will also campaign in Pennsylvania

on Thursday. The former Massachusetts governor holds a commanding lead in delegates to the Republican National Convention and is on a pace to clinch the party’s top prize by the end of the primary season in June. Responding to a question, he declined to say if he would support proposed legislation to protect confidential sources that journalists often rely on. “Do I see a role for confidential sources? Yes. Do I ever see a time when a confidential source would have to be revealed? Yeah, I can see that, too,” he said. And while he joked about sharing the rigors of campaign travel with reporters, he also took a mild swipe at some of the practices they employ. “Frankly, in some of the new media, I find myself missing the presence of editors who exercise quality control. I miss the days of two or more sources for a story — when at least one source was actually named,” he said. The bulk of Romney’s remarks amounted to a rebuttal of sorts to Obama, who spoke from the same stage on Tuesday to the annual meeting of The Associated Press. The president said a newly drafted Republican budget in Congress represented a radical vision. “It is a prescription for decline.” Romney disagreed. He said that instead of laying out plans for a second term, Obama “railed against arguments no one is making — and criticized policies no one is proposing. It’s one of his favorite strategies, setting up straw men to distract from his record.” The Republican highlighted two areas in which he said Obama has been particularly opaque about his plans, one involving presidential comments made recently to Medvedev and the other relating to the future of the government’s largest benefit programs, Social Security and Medicare. Obama told Medvedev in a remark picked up on a microphone that he would have more flexibility to negotiate an arms treaty with Russia after the U.S. election. White House aides have since said it was a statement of the obvious. But Romney said the episode raises questions.

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“The constitution must be in the hands of all Egyptians, because it will for a long time chart the road Egypt takes internally and externally.” MOHAMMED HUSSEIN TANTAWI FIELD MARSHAL

Despite boycott, constitution on track

Islamists impose sharia in Mali’s Timbuktu BY RUKMINI CALLIMACHI ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Egyptian protesters chant anti-regime slogans and carry banners during a rally in Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — The head of Egypt’s constitutional assembly said Wednesday the committee will forge ahead with its work despite appeals from liberals, Christians and others who walked out in protest against the Islamist domination of the panel. The walkouts are angry that the Islamist majority parliament appointed a panel that they say is not representative of minorities and other political factions. More than 20 panel members who withdrew, including a representative of AlAzhar, the prestigious Sunni learning institute, and Christian representatives of the Coptic Church, demand the panel be totally redrawn. The makeup of the 100-member panel, which currently boasts 60 people affiliated with Islamist groups, is a highly contentious issue in the country. The new constitution will determine whether Egypt leans toward more conservative Islam and whether the decades-old system that concentrated power in the hands of the president will be main-

tained or replaced by an empowered parliament under an Islamist majority. Liberals and secular-minded Egyptians, who fear an Islamistdominated committee will write an Islam-inflected constitution, say a new charter should be written by a broad swath of Egyptian society and not by a parliamentary majority. Saad el-Katatni, the head of the panel and a leading member of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood that dominates parliament, said the walkouts have until Tuesday to consider a proposal to replace members of the panel from a list of reserves already selected by lawmakers. “This is a committee that was formed and elected to work,” he told the meeting in comments broadcast live on television. “We won’t hold up its work, and we will continue our path.” Islamist panel member Nader Bakkar said the proposal is to replace 10 members from a reserve list of 40 people. If the walkouts don’t return, reserves will be used to fill all the

walkouts’ seats. Ahmed el-Naggar, a committee member who pulled out, rejected the proposal, saying reserve members are predominantly Islamists, and that the suggestion doesn’t address the walkouts’ fundamental complaint — the panel’s lopsided composition. He also said religious institutions, such as Al-Azhar and the Coptic Church, were underrepresented. “Islam has become what it means to the Brotherhood and the Salafis only,” he said. Egypt’s Islamist groups, including both the Brotherhood and the ultraconservative Salafis, make up nearly three-quarters of parliament after sweeping the vote in the first elections since the uprising that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak last year. Some Islamists on the panel say the number of walkouts is insufficient to call for its dissolution and the creation of a new panel from scratch, while others contend that an elected Islamist majority is entitled to dominate the process.

BAMAKO, Mali — Mali’s crisis deepened Wednesday, as officials in the fabled northern city of Timbuktu confirmed that the Islamic rebel faction that seized control of the town over the weekend has announced it will impose sharia law. Rebels in the country’s distant north have taken advantage of the power vacuum created last month when renegade soldiers in the capital of Bamako overthrew the nation’s democratically elected leader. In the chaos that followed the March 21 coup, they advanced on strategic towns in the north, including the ancient city of Timbuktu, located over 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the capital. The ethnic Tuareg rebels included a secular faction fighting for independence, and an Islamic wing, Ansar Dine, whose reclusive leader called a meeting of all the imams in the city on Tuesday to make his announcement. “He had the meeting to make his message to the people known, that sharia law is now going to be applied,” said the Mayor of Timbuktu Ousmane Halle, who was reached by telephone. “When there is a strongman in front of you, you listen to him. You can’t react,” he said, when asked what the reaction was of the imams of a historic town known for its religious pluralism and its moderate interpretation of Islam. “Things are going to heat up here. Our women are not going to wear the veil just like that,” said the mayor. Kader Kalil, the director of a communal radio station who was asked to cover the meeting and who later interviewed the Ansar Dine leader Iyad Ag Ghali, confirmed that sharia had been imposed. He said in addition to the wearing of the veil, thieves will be punished by having their hands cut off and adulterers will be stoned to death. In a show of force, the Islamic rebels on Wednesday drove through the town in a tank-like armored-personnel carrier, their ominous black flag flapping in the wind above the cannon. More than 90 percent of the city’s roughly 300 Christians have fled since the city fell to the rebels on Sunday,

said Baptist Pastor Nock Ag Info Yattara, who is now in Bamako. He said not one of the 205 people in his congregation, which has worshipped in Timbuktu since the 1950s, has stayed behind. “We cannot live like that,” he said. Mali has effectively been partitioned in two ever since the rebel takeover. The fighters started their insurgency in January, but only succeeded in taking a dozen small towns before the coup. Then in a lightning advance, they took the three largest towns including the provincial capital of Kidal on Friday, the largest town of Gao on Saturday and Timbuktu on Sunday. What is worrying is that it is not yet clear which rebel faction has the upper hand. Ansar Dine is believed to be allied with an al-Qaida faction, which has already kidnapped over 50 Westerners since 2003, including a Canadian diplomat in Niger and a British national, who was later executed. “The problem for us is that we don’t know who is the master of our town,” said the mayor, who explained that the Islamist faction had taken over the city’s military camp, while the secular rebel group was stationed at the airport. “What I deplore is the departure of the Christian community. Many said to me that they are obliged to leave. And they are right. I cannot guarantee their safety. And these are people that have lived side-by-side with us for centuries.” The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday condemned the military coup, calling for the immediate restoration of constitutional rule. In a statement read by U.S. Deputy Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the council called on the rebels who have taken advantage of the coup to wrest control of the northern half of the country to cease all violence. “Mali has never experienced such a situation,” Mali’s U.N. Ambassador Omar Daou told the council. “Our people are divided. Our country is threatened with partition. The north of Mali is today occupied by Tuareg rebels and Salafists (Islamic extremists). Hundreds of thousands of refugees and IDPs (internally displaced persons) are currently living in unimaginable conditions.”

Somali theater bombing kills 10, shatters calm BY ABDI GULED AND JASON STRAZIUSO ASSOCIATED PRESS MOGADISHU, Somalia — Two weeks ago, Somalia’s National Theater reopened for the first time in 20 years for a concert that drew an audience in festive colors in a city trying to rise above war. A welcoming banner proclaimed: “The country is being rebuilt.” On Wednesday, the theater was turned into a scene of screams, chaos and blood when a suicide bomber attacked another highprofile event, killing 10 people, wounding dozens and shattering a tentative peace in the capital of Mogadishu. The blast occurred as Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali stood at the podium to deliver a speech. He was unharmed, said government spokesman Abdirahman Omar Osman, but the president of Somalia’s Olympic committee and the head of its soccer federation were among the dead. The government said a female suicide bomber carried out the attack. The Islamist militant group al-Shabab used its official Twitter feed to claim responsibility for the bombing. The al-Qaida-linked organization said explosives had been planted in the theater before the event, but an Associated Press journalist at the scene said there was no large blast crater, making a suicide bombing more likely. “It was a cowardly act and that will not deter the government from performing its national duties,” Osman said. “The prime minister will energize the government to eliminate the terrorists.” Omar Jamal, the charge d’affaires and first secretary of Somalia’s mission to the U.N., said in New York that the bombing was an attempt to assassinate Ali. The prime minister was sitting among a group of officials, and the suicide bomber was in an adjacent row, trying to figure out which one was her target, when Ali got up and went on stage to speak, Jamal added.

“It clearly shows that al-Shabab is still active and a real threat to the lives of government officials,” he said. Fighters belonging to al-Shabab were pushed out of Mogadishu in August by government and African Union troops after two decades of violence that have gripped the Somali capital. Since then, sports leagues have blossomed, markets have appeared and Western-style restaurants have sprung up, marking a long-awaited revival of the seaside capital. The National Theater was refurbished and reopened with a concert of singing, guitar-playing and drums on March 19 that drew hundreds of people and was broadcast live on TV. Wednesday’s ceremony was part of that rebirth of entertainment, celebrating the first anniversary of the start of a national TV station. “The blast happened as musicians were singing and spectators were clapping for them,” said Salah Jimale, who attended but received only scratches from the bombing. “Huge smoke made the whole scene go dark.” Amid the screams, nervous soldiers outside fired into the air to disperse crowds gathered around the theater. A man wounded in the head and chest tried to sit up but suddenly collapsed and died. Shoes and blood-splattered cellphones were scattered on the floor of the theater, which can accommodate 2,000 people and is partly open to the sky. An old woman in tears ran toward a policeman, saying: “My son was in there.” The policeman stopped her. She sat down and cried, but later ran inside, where she learned her son had died. Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu’s ambulance service who provided the death toll, said the wounded included the national planning minister. At a nearby hospital, nurses led stumbling patients into operating rooms.

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The Somali Olympic Committee President Aden Yabarow Wiish is carried from the bomb blast site at the Somali National Theater in Mogadishu, Somalia. U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the reopening of the theater was a sign that normal life was returning to Mogadishu, “so the fact that al-Shabab chose this site for their attack shows their true stripes.” He said the U.S. supports the transitional government in Somalia, as well as the African Union mission and the Somali security forces “to return peace and stability to Somalia. And we stand with the people of Somalia as they are trying to build a normal and functioning society.” Reporters Without Borders said seven Somali journalists were among the wounded. “Despite claims that Mogadishu is safer with the ousting of alShabab, the challenges and dan-

gers Somali journalists face in the capital are still very prevalent,” said Tom Rhodes of the Committee to Protect Journalists. The International Olympic Committee said it was shocked by the attack that killed Aden Yabarow Wiish, the president of the Somali Olympic Committee, and Said Mohamed Nur, head of the Somali Football Federation. “Both men were engaged in improving the lives of Somalian people through sport and we strongly condemn such an act of barbarism,” the IOC said. “Our thoughts are with the Somalian sporting community who lost two great leaders, and with the families of the victims.” British Prime Minister David Cameron called the bomb-

ing “sickening” and acknowledged the “difficult moment” for everyone involved with Somalia’s Olympics efforts. He said he hoped Somalis would honor the memory of those killed by participating in London Olympics this summer. “At the London Conference on Somalia in February, the international community came together to back the efforts of the Somali people in building a new future for their country. So let us be absolutely clear today. Terrorists and violent extremists have no part in that future,” Cameron said. “And we will not allow their actions to destabilize the process of political reform through which ordinary Somalis are, for the first

time, getting a real say in how their country is run.” The revival of sports in Mogadishu is an important part of its transformation. Women who lived under harsh rules when al-Shabab held sway can watch sports and even participate. AlShabab defectors have put down their guns and are participating in sports leagues. Despite the advances, al-Shabab has continued to carry out bombings, sometimes with devastating effect. In October, militants detonated a truck bomb outside a government ministry, killing more than 100 people. Augustine Mahiga, the U.N. special representative to Somalia, said Wednesday’s bombing must not derail Somalia’s progress.

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS TYMISH J. HOLOWINSKY Holowinsky, the executive director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, has worked at Harvard since 1990. He has worked for Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, as well as in its Office for Sponsored Research.

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BY RADHIKA JAIN AND KEVIN WU STAFF WRITERS Following a nearly 50 percent reduction in federal funding, several of Harvard’s regional centers have been forced to rely on alternative sources of funding — including individual endowments and support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences — to maintain the quality of the academic and extracurricular opportunities offered to students. “We’re giving less support to students, and to some extent making it up from other sources,” said Professor Andrew D. Gordon, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies. “But some people are not getting the funds they need.” Four of Harvard’s centers for regional studies — the Committee on African Studies, the Asia Center, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies — are recipients of Title VI grants from the Department of Education. But Title VI grants were cut by 46 percent for the current academic year after Congressional debates last year. They will remain at that level for the upcoming fiscal year as well, according to Alexandra M. Vacroux, executive director of the Davis Center. Vacroux said the Title VI grant represented approximately 17 to 18 percent of the Davis Center’s budget — an amount that has since decreased to less than 10 percent. Similarly, the Reischauer Institute, which was receiving about $500,000 dollars of federal grant money a year in the form of Fulbright-Hayes grants and Foreign Language and Areas Studies fellowship programs,

saw t h a t funding slashed in half, according to institute director Andrew HARVARD Gordon. The cuts in funding have affected language training programs, course offerings, and scholarships, said Professor Ali Asani, member of the Standing Committee on Middle Eastern Studies. Meanwhile, some institutes like the Reischauer Institute have also reduced the number of postdoctoral fellowships and invited fewer guest speakers in order to cope with lower budgets, added Gordon. “It’s a big issue for international centers across the country,” said William C. Kirby, director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. “The federal government since the 1950s has funded graduate fellowships to train the next generation of professors in international studies.” Title VI grants, which date back to the Cold War period, are awarded to undergraduate and graduate programs in foreign language or area studies through an application process that takes place every four years. But Kirby said he thinks the federal cuts have been misguided. “On the one hand these are long-standing grants — it’s understandable if they were to be changed into some new or different approaches,” he said. “But sadly it just seems that they’ve been slashed to be slashed.” Regional centers experienced cuts in federal funding even before Title VI grants were reduced. For example, the Social Sci-

ence Research Council funded grants for the Ukrainian Research Institute until five years ago, when their funding from the Department of Education was cut, according to Executive Director Tymish J. Holowinsky. “We have maintained the program as best we could,” he said. The Ukrainian Research Institute, like most of the regional centers on campus, has relied increasingly on its own endowment. Endowments were first established by individual patrons or private foundations upon the founding of most centers, and include monies brought in by private donors from around the world as well as foreign governments. The Fairbank Center has even raised its own funds to support titled professorships, “in order to ensure that there would be a permanent cadre of professors in what we believe to be critical areas,” said Kirby. The reduced financial support from the federal government has meant that centers have had to dip into their own endowments more than usual. In some cases, the FAS has served as a source of aid, funding tutorials and language courses that would otherwise be cut, Vacroux and Asani both said. Because centers did not find out about Title VI cuts until early in the summer of 2011 — after they had already finalized budgets for the upcoming year — the FAS went “outside of the normal budget process” to provide support, Vacroux added. Overall, however, funding from the FAS for regional centers has fallen since the economic crisis in 2008, when regional centers were asked to redirect part of their own endowments to FAS to help close the deficit.

BY CAROLINE FLAX STAFF WRITERS Cornell has the second highest percentage of tenured faculty in the Ivy League, according to an April 2011 survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education. University administrators say that this trend is not only due to the increasing average age of faculty, but is also a result of the University’s difficulties in hiring adjunct professors, who are paid per course taught and usually work part-time. According to Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs John Siliciano ’75, adjunct professors generally teach more specific courses that focus on the “nuts and bolts” of a certain discipline. “[Adjunct faculty are] used here, and everywhere else, to fill very specific curricular need, but they do not have the training, the scholarship, the experience of full-time tenured professors,” Siliciano said. Because the University tends to grant tenure to its more experienced faculty members, the percentage of tenured faculty will be higher as faculty remain at Cornell longer, according to Prof. Ron Ehrenberg, industrial and labor relations. “Increasingly, faculty are staying beyond the formal retirement ages of 65 to 70,” Ehrenberg said. “When you have an older faculty, they will disproportionately have tenure.” Provost Kent Fuchs said that Cornell’s tenure rate is one of the highest among its peer institutions in part because of problems it has with hiring adjunct and visiting professors to supplement the University’s full-time faculty. Fuchs cites Ithaca’s rural location as a potential deterrent for adjuncts. “It is true that Cornell has fewer adjunct or visiting faculty,” Fuchs said. “The reason for that is … we don’t live in a big, urban environment.” Ehrenberg noted that Ithaca lacks the opportunities available in major cities. “In Ithaca, Cornell is the only game in town,” Ehrenberg said. Lack of transportation access to Ithaca could also be a problem, he added.

“For people who are in fields where they would like to go back and forth to different places … or for people who want to live in a rural community but who would like access to big-city cultural life … CORNELL it’s very difficult to get to any place from Ithaca,” Ehrenberg said. Fuchs noted that the challenges faced by Cornell in hiring adjunct professors can limit the University’s ability to expand the breadth of courses offered to students. One disadvantage of having fewer adjunct professors “is that we can’t leverage expertise that is outside of the faculty,” Fuchs said. Despite these difficulties, administrators said a high number of tenure and tenure-track faculty ultimately benefit the University. “I actually like the fact that almost all of our faculty are full-time,” Fuchs said. Prof. Adam Smith, anthropology, added that universities with a large number of adjunct professors tend to experience conflict as a result. “It’s a good thing for Cornell, I think, that it has low levels of adjunct faculty because it is creating considerable amount of distress and turmoil on more urban college campuses where there are a lot of adjunct faculty,” Smith said. “[Hiring adjunct professors is] a way of garnering teaching without the university making a commitment to the faculty member.” Furthermore, Ehrenberg said that student graduation rates are lower when there is a higher percentage of part-time faculty. He said the precise cause of this phenomenon is unclear. “Undergraduate students benefit from having a faculty that is largely full-time,” Ehrenberg said. “There is something that full-time tenure and tenure-track faculty do that is very helpful to students.” Siliciano echoed Ehrenberg, saying that although adjunct professors are effective in teaching specific practical courses to “fit curricular need,” the University’s focus should be on maintaining its full-time faculty.

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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS JARED SULLINGER Sullinger, a two-time All-American forward who helped lead Ohio State to the Final Four, announced yesterday that he would enter the NBA Draft in June instead of continuing on with the Buckeyes. He averaged 17.5 points per game this season.

Elis struggle against URI SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 12 and be aggressive at the plate early on,” Balta said. “Then you set the tone. If the tone is high at the beginning of the game, it will carry over for the rest of the game.” Still, the team shows improvement over last year. On Apr. 6, 2011, the Bulldogs were 1–13 outside of Florida. Yet last year against Rhode Island, the Elis swept in a tight doubleheader. Yale won the first game 4–3 in eight innings and took the second 12–11 victory with two doubles in the bottom of the seventh. In Wednesday’s opening game, the Bulldogs came out strong against the Rams. Nelson singled to center field and teammate Sarah Onorato ’15 answered with an RBI double, but the Bulldogs did not score for the next five innings. While they had many scoring opportunities — including in the second inning when the bases were loaded with only one out — they could not bring any runners home. The Rams built up their lead and left the Elis down 5–1 in the top of

the seventh. Meg Johnson ’12 started a rally with a single, and Jen Ong ’13 responded with one of her own. Singles by Nelson and Kylie Williamson ’15 brought the score to 5–3 with runners on second and third. But the comeback fell short, the inning ended, and the Bulldogs took their first loss of the day. “It was good to see our team come back in the last inning of the first game and put pressure on the other team,” Nelson said. “We just made our adjustments at the plate a little too late.” Chelsey Dunham ’14 (5–7) pitched all six innings and struck out three batters. She took her second loss in a row. While the Bulldogs outhit the rams 11–9, they could not convert hits to runs. Ong said the team looked strong at bat, but Nelson added that the team often scores only one run an inning and has struggled with multiple-run rallies. “We need to be tougher when we are hitting with runners in scoring position and have a little more edge and determination to get those RBIs,” she said.

In the second game, the team fell apart, center fielder Tori Balta ’14 said. In its sixth shutout of the season, Yale was held scoreless and got only one hit for all seven innings. Over the course of the game, the Bulldogs had four errors, which resulted in four of the Rams’ seven runs. Team members said the Elis lacked concentration on the field. “As a team, you can’t let previous losses carry over to the next game,” Balta said. “We have to make sure past errors and past mistakes don’t snowball on top of each other.” This weekend, the Bulldogs will take on two Ivy League teams at home. They face Princeton on Friday and Cornell on Saturday. “We are just going to stay positive going into the weekend knowing we still have 16 more league games ahead of us,” Nelson said. The first pitch against Princeton is set for 2 p.m. Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .

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The softball team continued its losing streak Wednesday against Rhode Island with 4–3 and 7–0 losses.

Midwest powerhouses often overlooked COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 attitude the disproportionate number of New Yorkers and Bostonians at this institution have in regard to places the commuter rail doesn’t go. This year’s tournament made the middle of the country proud. Looking at the Final Four, one national semifinal was two Midwestern teams, Ohio State vs. Kansas. The other was an intrastate matchup of Louisville and Kentucky, definitely not East Coast schools, and since they are just across the Ohio River, they might be liberally considered Midwestern as well. Midwestern dominance in the past month went so far as to colonize bastions of the haughty East Coast attitude; Ohio State and Cincinnati matched up in the Sweet 16 in the TD Garden in Boston.

YALIES SHOULD LOOK BEYOND NEW YORK AND BOSTON TEAMS.

NCAA, NBA not on same page BY JOEDY MCCREARY ASSOCIATED PRESS Testing the NBA waters seemingly has become a thing of the past for college players. These days, they’re likely either in or out. The reason: Players have less time to make a decision. A new NCAA rule says players who entered the NBA draft early but want to return to school only have until next week to withdraw. That April 10 deadline is about a month earlier than before and 19 days before the NBA requires players to say they’re entering early. Not surprisingly, the NCAA and NBA are not on the same page. The NCAA says the change keeps players focused on academics and gives coaches a measure of certainty for their rosters as they prepare for the next year. NBA Commissioner David Stern isn’t buying it. His league says underclassmen have until April 29 to enter the draft and may withdraw from it by June 18 — more than two months later than the NCAA allows. “I believe it makes it harder for the player, but that’s a can that I don’t want to open up other than to say that we would like to make it as easy for the players as possible,” Stern said. “And if the NCAA would spend a little less time talking about whether players should stay in school for one year or two years and enforce their rules equally so that hockey players can talk to agents but basketball players can’t? “I think, to me, the most important thing is to get kids in college the most informed advice they can get without losing their eligibility,” Stern added. “That’s what they should be focusing on, and hopefully they’ll get around to it because it seems fair and just.” Villanova coach Jay Wright says he’s taking a wait-and-see approach this first year, pointing to former guard Kyle Lowry as an example of someone who benefited from the old system. Lowry entered the 2006 draft pool early but didn’t immediately hire an agent, didn’t decide to stay in until nearly the last minute — and wound up being picked in the first round by Memphis.

“He was able to go through workouts, and by the end of the workouts, we were able to see he was going to be a first-round pick,” Wright said. “Now, you’ve kind of just got to make your decision. You’ve got to base it based on what agents tell you and what kind of information we can get. But you don’t really get to work yourself into a spot in the workouts. It’s different. I don’t know yet. “I’m going to reserve judgment and see how it goes this year.” The rule, adopted last April and put into effect Aug. 1, is crafted so the deadline falls on the day before the start of the spring signing period. In theory, that gives coaches who lose a player a chance to find a quality replacement. In reality, many recruits talented enough to replace them already have settled on their schools by then. Only seven of the top 50 players rated by Rivals.com for 2012 have yet to sign their letters of intent. The rule’s impact might be strongest on the borderline players who in previous years could benefit from feedback from NBA teams before making decisions. The past two years, the NCAA allowed early entrants until the second week in May to decide to return to school. That still gave them some time to explore their options: They could work out for pro teams, find out where they must improve and then come back to college. Pittsburgh guard Tray Woodall says that’s something he might have tried this spring, after a disappointing junior year in which he averaged 11.5 points but missed 11 games with a groin and abdominal injury while his team struggled. Because the rule change essentially removes that option, he says he’s definitely returning to the Panthers next year. “Since the time period has been shortened, I’m not able to get the evaluation to see what I could possibly work on,” Woodall said. “Especially playing in a tournament like (the CBI) because it ends so late and guys in the Final Four, they probably only got a couple days now. It’s tough. You’ve just got to know if you’re going or not now.” For those determined to enter the draft, the new rule isn’t that big of a deal, Baylor coach Scott Drew said.

Hatten looks forward to spring season GOLF FROM PAGE 12 another huge benefit is that they team is a great group of guys that gets along really well, which provides the environment for us all to improve. are your main rivals this QWho year, and how has your relationship with them evolved?

Dartmouth is playing really well this season, as are Penn and Harvard. Harvard is probably more one of our biggest rivals, just because of the Yale-Harvard rivalry. There hasn’t been one dominant powerhouse in the Ivy League, just because everyone has their ups and downs, good seasons and bad seasons.

do you incorporate the QHow mental aspect of golf into your practices?

We can try to simulate play conditions, and definitely do

a lot of friendly matches within the team, especially between upperclassmen and underclassmen. This helps us feel the pressure that you might feel during a typical match. a typical golf practice QDescribe for your team.

We get to the course, which is about three miles from campus, at 3 p.m. It is pretty much up to us what we want to work on. We typically hit balls for half an hour to an hour, and then have the option to go out and play on the course, put on the putting green, or chip on the chipping green. We also have an indoor golf center in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium on the second floor. There is a simulator where you can essentially hit into the screen, and a camera that measures the speed of the ball. It is pretty close to an accurate portrayal of how your shot looks on the course, and a very helpful tool when the weather is too bad to play outside.

is your most memorable What other pursuits have QWhat match in your career at Yale, Q shaped your Yale experience and why?

aside from golf?

My most memorable matches definitely occurred during Ivies last year in Galloway, N.J. near Atlantic City. It was a threeday tournament, and after Friday we were one match ahead, but Saturday we were one back. On Sunday we ended up winning. Coming off the 18th green and seeing everyone smiling at our win was the best moment in my Yale golf career.

role will golf play in your QWhat life after Yale?

In the long term, it will definitely be a big part. A lot of people, especially later in life, pick up the game of golf, as it’s such a great lifelong sport. I hope it will be helpful in business. Golf is something I definitely want to come back to after I work, through more amateur competitions and tournaments.

Golf takes up a lot of time, so there hasn’t really been too much else. However, the outreach the Yale golf team does has been extremely rewarding. Every Monday we bring in kids from a school in New Haven and teach them golf. I’ve been participating in the program since my sophomore or freshman year, and it’s become a mentoring program. I love getting to share everything golf has to offer.

are your post-graduation QWhat plans?

I will be working in investment banking in Boston starting this summer, and taking some time off from golf next year. Contact KIRSTEN ADAIR at kirsten.adair@yale.edu .

In the Yale College Council Bracket Challenge, which attracted nearly 200 Yalies, students truly showed an uncharacteristic openness to teams from the middle of the country, picking national champions at proportions almost identical to the 6.45 million brackets submitted on ESPN.com. In sum, nearly 60 percent of national championship picks were not located on the coasts, while over 36 percent correctly identified Kentucky as the winner, despite Yalies’ tendency to use the state as the butt of jokes. For one month out of the year, states such as Kentucky, Kansas and Ohio are discussed with the respect that outstanding players such as Anthony Davis and Aaron Craft have earned. With the opening of Major League Baseball upon us, we will return to familiar headlines and conversation topics. But there is little doubt that this time next year, Yale’s sports fans will be back to talking about the Midwest. Until then, the Presidential election in November might have the best shot at reminding a good portion of the student body that such a place exists. Contact ADAM BERMAN at adam.berman@yale.edu .

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Plagued by weak hitting and frequent errors, the softball team took another pair of losses Wednesday against the University of Rhode Island (13–16). Since returning from the Rebel Spring Games in Kissimmee, Fla. during spring break, Yale has only won four out of 16 games. Yale fell to the Rams, 5–3, in the first game and 7–0 in the second. Although the team gets on base, the Elis (7–17, 1–3 Ivy) have suffered from an inability to gain the upper hand early on. “Our approach to the game was to just get our bats going and not put too much pressure on ourselves,” captain Christy Nelson ’13 said. “We haven’t been able to really get the momentum going.”

Depsite all of Yale’s different types of diversity, instances are still hard to come by in which Yale’s sports fans pay serious attention to events outside of the northeast. The recently concluded NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship is a welcome reminder of the excitement that the rest of the country has to offer. Generally, the sports media likes to focus on the major media markets as much as possible. To take a recent example, the Peyton Manning saga, a historic decision by one of football’s all-time greats as to whether to leave Indiana for Tennessee or Colorado somehow immediately became focused on the New York area because of the ensuing trade to the Jets of a second-rate, second-string quarterback, Tim Tebow. Granted, Tebowmania is its own separate cultural phenomenon, but the trend for sports fans at Yale is constant. Throughout the year, attentive eyes of Eli sports fans rarely stray farther than undergraduates often do on the weekend.

THE MIDWEST IS SHOWING YALIES HOW EXCITING ITS SPORTS TEAMS CAN BE. Fall is dominated by the inevitable annual Yankees-Red Sox drama. When the major northeastern teams fall out of the World Series chase, most Yalies tune out as well, at least until the Cardinals are down two runs facing elimination. The weekly grind of the college and professional football seasons are left to the teams’ loyalists, while no one really pays attention to either the NBA (when it starts) or college basketball until their postseasons. As winter comes, Yale is on break for the fun part of the college bowl season. The Super Bowl is likely the only sporting event besides March Madness that students would actually watch if New York and Boston teams were not playing, but the second meeting of the New York Giants and the New England Patriots in the grand event in the last five years is telling in this regard. Come springtime, Yalies have picked up and left by the time the NBA and NHL pick up with their playoffs, leaving more YankeesRed Sox as the predominant seasonal focus. Whether it’s the thrill of the upset or the pervasive gambling culture associated with the NCAA tourney, it represents the major annual sports event reminding Yalies of the importance of the heartland. As an Ohioan, I am all too familiar with the dismissive SEE COLUMN PAGE 11

BY MASON KROLL CONRTRIBUTING REPORTER

We need to go into the game with a positive, strong attitude and be aggressive at the plate early on. TORI BALTA Outfield, softball

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In the first game of its Wednesday doubleheader, Yale outhit Rhode Island but lost. The Elis were then shut out in the second game.

Outside of Florida, where the team went 3–5, the Bulldogs have only won games in which they scored in the second, third or fourth innings. Team members say the team’s drive never to give up is a sign of character, but they added that they are hoping to score more runs early on. Thirty of the team’s 44 runs have come from the fifth inning or later, and the Bulldogs have scored three times as many runs in the eighth inning as they have in the third. “We need to go into the game with a positive, strong attitude SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 11

Hatten leads championshipwinning team BY KIRSTEN ADAIR CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In the 2010-’11 season, golf captain Jeffrey Hatten ’12 placed fourth at the Ivy League Championship, was selected for first team All-Ivy, and achieved three straight top-10 finishes. The captain, who swings lefty but putts righty, averaged a score of 76.4 over eight tournaments and shot a low round of 71 in the 2010-’11 season. The Bulldogs will kick off their spring season with the Yale Spring Opener on Saturday.

MEN’S GOLF The News spoke with Hatten to find out about the dynamics of the golf team, his personal experiences on the team, and his pursuits outside of golf. has the golf team evolved since QHow your freshman year?

Definitely the main development over my four years was getting to the point when we won the [Ivy

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League] championship last year. Other than that, it hasn’t evolved too much. We’ve had a lot of great guys coming in and out. would you describe QHow dynamic of the team?

the

Golf is certainly different from a lot of other sports, as it’s an individual sport. That being said, we all get along really well and root for each other. Our coach always helps us if he sees something going on with our swings. He’s there to guide us.

are the benefits of being on QWhat the Yale golf team, as opposed to other schools’ golf teams?

The most obvious benefit is that we have the number one college course in the country. The course is ranked in the top 15 in the country, as well, which is a huge plus. The course is a really nice, relaxing property, and a good practice facility for us. For me, SEE GOLF PAGE 11

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Jeff Hatten ’12 finished in fourth place at the Ivy League Championship last spring in Galloway, N.J.

THE NUMBER OF RUNS OUT OF THE 44 TOTAL RUNS SCORED BY THE SOFTBALL TEAM SINCE SPRING BREAK THAT HAPPENED IN THE FIFTH INNING OR LATER. The team members say they are working to be more aggressive in the early innings of their games.