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CROSS CAMPUS In protest. The Yale Muslim

Students Association hosted a “Hoodies and Hijabs” day Thursday afternoon in protest of the murders of Trayvon Martin, an AfricanAmerican teenager who was shot on Feb. 26, and Shaima Alawadi, an Iraqi Muslim who was found murdered in her home last month. Organizers urged students to wear either a hoodie or hijab — a Muslim headscarf — or both to protest discrimination based on an individual’s clothing.

Open to the world. Open Yale

Courses, the initiative that makes video lectures of Yale College courses available for free online, added seven new courses to its website on Thursday. The courses range from philosophy and cognitive science professor Tamar Gendler’s “Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature” to history professor Paul Freedman’s “The Early Middle Ages” and courses in AfricanAmerican history and organic chemistry.

Turn with our biological clock.

A new study out from the Yale School of Medicine shows that many women don’t fully appreciate the consequences of delaying motherhood and think that assisted reproductive technologies can reverse aged ovarian function.

No more racket! A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad noise was coming from the Central Power Plant on Thursday, disrupting the lives of Swing Space residents. One emailer speculated that the sound could be caused by the transfer of natural gas, but said he had no way of knowing whether that’s the case.

Schedule changes. Payne

Whitney Gymnasium will remain open Friday and Saturday, but will close Sunday for the Easter holiday, according to an email sent to students Thursday.

And we’re live. The pilot episode of “TOO DAMN LIVE” starring campus politico Michael Knowles ’12 and generally famous politician Jimmy McMillan, who rose to fame for claiming that the rent is “too damn high,” debuted Thursday night, to acclaim from several commenters on the website chattrspace.com.

Sparks fly. A number of the Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate seat that will be vacated by U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67 at the end of the year participated in a debate Thursday night in which one candidate — Lee Whitnum of Greenwich — accused U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, the frontrunner for the nomination, of selling his soul to Israel.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1971 In a memo from Yale’s personnel director, the University opposes its employees’ efforts to unionize.

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More students transfer out of Timothy Dwight than any other college

ELIS CHASE THIRD STRAIGHT WIN AT DARTMOUTH

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Faculty approve Yale-NUS resolution LEVIN CRITICIZES PROPOSAL’S LANGUAGE, CITING ITS ‘MORAL SUPERIORITY’

BY GAVAN GIDEON AND ANTONIA WOODFORD STAFF REPORTERS Despite a statement of opposition from University President Richard Levin, faculty voted by

a wide margin to pass a resolution urging Yale-NUS College to uphold principles of non-discrimination and civil liberties at Thursday’s Yale College faculty meeting.

The roughly 200 Yale College

faculty members who attended the meeting spent two and a half hours discussing revisions to a resolution proposed last month by philosophy and political science professor Seyla Benhabib GRD ’77. After debating the text of the three-paragraph resolution nearly word for word, professors — including some who support the Singaporean liberal arts college — approved a ver-

sion that begins by expressing concern over a “history of lack of respect for civil and political rights” in the country. Immediately before the final vote, Levin made a brief statement objecting to that language.

“I felt that the tone of the resolution, especially the first sentence, carried a sense of moral superiority that I found unbecoming,” he told the News Thurs-

At Arch. School, role of drawing in doubt

BY NATASHA THONDAVADI STAFF REPORTER From Feb. 9 to 11, more than 500 architects, professors and critics from across the globe descended on New Haven to debate the place of hand drawing in contemporary architecture. Meant to fill Hastings Hall to capacity, the symposium — “Is Drawing Dead?” — was so popular that attendees were relocated to overflow rooms elsewhere in the School of Architecture’s Rudolph Hall to watch the symposium via live-streaming video.

day night.

The meeting marked the first time faculty members have taken a stance on Yale-NUS through a formal vote. Levin said in February that the decision to launch the college ultimately rested with the Yale Corporation, as the venture is a new school and not a program within Yale College.

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College designs finished CONSTRUCTION OF 13TH AND 14TH NOW WAITING ON DONATIONS

UPCLOSE When architecture professors George Knight ARC ’95 and Victor Agran ARC ’97 approached Dean Robert A. M. Stern more than 18 months ago with the idea for the symposium, Agran said they were motivated by personal passions for drawing and a desire to improve on their own teaching of drawing in today’s educational environment. But they had no idea the subject would strike such a raw nerve in the global community. What was originally planned as a more modest event grew into one of the largest symposia in the school’s history.

The discussion did not end that weekend. In the two months since, architectural journals and blogs have been flooded with reviews, forums and opinion pieces that asked broad questions about what role drawing can, should and does take in architecture today.

“The symposium will hopefully spark a conversation between people in the field about different types of drawing and their virtues,” Knight told the News in February.

BY TAPLEY STEPHENSON AND NATASHA THONDAVADI STAFF REPORTERS

Despite administrators’ hopes, fewer high school seniors applied for New Haven Promise scholarships this year.

Program officials said Thursday that 351 students applied to New Haven Promise — the Yalefunded college scholarship program — by the Monday deadline, down 20 from last year’s 371 applications. Announced in November 2010, the Promise program awards college tuition scholarships to New Haven public high school graduates who meet certain academic and disciplinary standards and matriculate to an in-state institution.

Despite Promise administrators’ predictions that the program would see a boost in participation and efforts to spread a “college-going culture” in the city’s schools since the scholarship program’s introduction, the 5.4 percent decline in applications marks a setback for the program.

Administrators of the program, which is funded primar-

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At the Yale School of Architecture, a student’s workspace contains space for hand drawing and modeling as well as a computer equipped with architectural software.

In the months since the symposium, the issue of drawing has come to occupy an important place in the school’s evaluation of its own curriculum. Peggy Deamer, a School of Architecture professor who heads the school’s curricular

Fewer students apply to Promise

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review committee, said that the faculty is considering increasing the emphasis on certain computer-based technologies.

Stern said that the school maintained

Architectural plans for Yale’s two new residential colleges were completed last week, but University administrators said construction cannot start without fundraising toward the $313 million outstanding for the project.

The completed set of construction documents for Yale’s 13th and 14th residential colleges was issued by Robert A. M. Stern Architects last Friday, University Planner Laura Cruickshank said in a Thursday email. The final changes to construction documents concerned “technical work” on the structures themselves, School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern ARC ’65 said, while minor decorative elements, such as the designs for sculptures and plaques in the colleges, have

ily by Yale and administered by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, told the News in February that Promise was poised to significantly increase the number of New Haven students receiving its scholarships in the coming years.

Betsy Yagla, the communications and research coordinator for New Haven Promise, said Thursday that it is unclear why the number of applicants fell.

“It’s hard to tell why fewer kids applied, but our assumption is that because last year’s application was on paper, kids were handed it and some filled it out instinctively. This year the application was only online, so kids had to take the initiative to apply,” Yagla said.

Yagla said while administrators had hoped to see an increase in the number of applications this year, they were not disappointed at the decrease because the program’s goal is to increase the number of students who qualify for and accept the scholarship, SEE NH PROMISE PAGE 6

AT H L E T I C S

Canadians opt for Eli teams

BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER While approximately 15 percent of Yale College students are members of varsity athletic teams, that statistic is much higher for Canadian undergrads: Forty percent of Canadian students at Yale are varsity athletes.

Yale’s peer institutions show a similar trend: at Harvard, 30 percent of Canadian college students compete at the varsity level, and a whopping 60 percent of Dartmouth’s Canadians are on a varsity roster. But, like Yale, only 20 percent of both schools’ student bodies is on a varsity team.

Not surprisingly, the majority of Canadian athletes at Yale play on the hockey teams, but they are also active in other varsity sports, including crew, lacrosse, track and field, and fencing.

While 16 Canadian Elis interviewed said most high schoolers in Canada stay

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Each year, the Canadians on the women’s hockey team scrimmage against their American teammates. there for university, they added that it is highly desirable for Canadian athletes to come to the United States and compete in the NCAA, which offers a higher level of competition than Canada provides at the collegiate level.

“As a Canadian athlete, coming to the States for school is kind of spoken

of as inevitable,” track and field thrower Stefan Palios ’14 said. “It was just always thought of as the thing good athletes did.”

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Service, not politics L

ast week, Yale announced that the class of 2016 had an acceptance rate of only 6.8 percent. In such an astonishingly competitive year, I can only imagine the great minds and talents coming into this school. However, I would hazard to guess — with a relative degree of confidence — that these students are not coming here because of New Haven.

The disparities of privilege between students and the residents of New Haven are immediately apparent, but we remain a socially conscious campus.

There would be a grave ethical problem if we actually behaved the way the Occupy narrative describes us: drinking single malt while lamenting the riffraff outside our Ivy League suites. So we are moved to do something. And this is a good thing. However, at times, this impulse can be misguided.

The recent push to maintain the current borders of Ward 1 is an example of this error.

New Haven is in the process of redistricting, and Yale students have advocated for the preservation of the current Ward 1, which consists almost entirely of Yale students. The running argument for the student ward is that it helps Yale students become better citizens of New Haven. The student ward bridges a gap and allows us to engage with the citywide community. But we are citizens of New Haven no more than in name. We are guests. At its core, this is not actually our home.

Playing at politics in a city that is only ours for four years is not the way Yale students should satisfy our inclination for civic service.

As a temporary student resident elected by temporary student residents, the aldermanic position plays directly on our proclivity for social engineering. New Haven becomes an exciting piece of clay, and here we have the chance, guided by the progressive ideas we learn around campus and in the classroom, to mold it.

The truth is that we are here and then we leave — be it for a summer or for good. Yet the outstretched hand from a man struggling on the street will still be there in June when we are at whatever internship or fellowship we have secured for ourselves in New York or London.

We will leave, but Yale remains. And it is through that grounded institutional presence that we can do our best to help New Haven.

Yale has a responsibility to New Haven. Now, I do not mean this in the way it is often invoked on campus, in that Yale needs to pay its fair share, hire a certain percentage of New Haven employees or the like.

Instead, if the purpose of academia is to blend ideas and action, then a Yale education must involve the HARRY surrounding GRAVER community.

The most Gravely troubling part of our Mistaken commitment to a student ward is the increasingly popular outlook that we can, with the best intentions, fulfill our obligations to the community almost entirely by government service — that the bureaucracy can be an organ for charity and fulfillment.

Yale, from a position of perspective and reason, must guide and reorient those passions.

With that spirit in mind, Yale should usher our attentions from the halls of government to the actual streets, schools and structures of New Haven.

Yale should not simply recognize this general appetite among its students; the school, aware of both its obligations to its undergraduates and surrounding community, needs to actively guide students’ existing inclinations. In addition to the 36 credits required for graduation, Yale should mandate a fixed amount of community service.

We should not be able to write laws for a world we have yet to sufficiently know. Sure, we can harmlessly and insufficiently muse about them in school papers, but that is too easy. Government is also too easy. It is insulated social service with the swipe of a pen.

Our college years are for experiencing firsthand the world that’s been given to us. It’s where we learn the virtues and traits we will apply later in life.

Yale brands itself not just as an education but also as a mindset that extends from a student’s first class to his deathbed. Students need to experience volunteerism beyond the ballot box.

For Yale students, New Haven is neither a charity case nor a blight on our society. It is an opportunity for learning and growth at the highest form. The city provides a sobering perspective that can be a profound opportunity to better our student years. But it needs to be done in the right way, by service in the real community, not political maneuvering.

HARRY GRAVER is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact him at harry.graver@yale.edu .

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Last man standing T

oday is the first anniversary of the longest dodgeball match in history.

Well, the first anniversary of the end of the longest dodgeball match in history.

The event itself, played in Albany, N.Y., took longer than a day — 31 hours, 11 minutes and 13 seconds, to be exact.

I learned this on Wikipedia about five minutes after I decided to subject myself to intramural dodgeball and about two minutes after I realized I had no idea what dodgeball entailed. I hadn’t even seen that Vince Vaughn movie.

I had participated in Stiles IMs before.

Twice. I played in a soccer game during the first weeks of freshman year. I went because I’d learned about intramurals on every Yale tour, during every Yale info session and in every glossy Yale handout I’d ever perused. I went because some of my suitemates were going, and in those days we were joined at the hip. But mostly I went because I was still on the upswing of my Yale-gear-hoarding phase and desperately wanted a Stiles IM T-shirt.

I was told that all skill levels are welcome at IMs. But when I got out to the field, I realized that my fellow Moose were actually good at soccer. Some had played varsity in high school. All seemed to be able, at the very least, to control the ball when they tried — something which, I quickly learned, was more than I could do. I ran up and down the field, staying as far away from the ball as possible. I cheered from the sidelines. I assured everyone that no, I really didn’t want to re-enter the game.

I didn’t re-emerge on the IM circuit until I found a sport in which I thought I had at least a modicum of skill. I was a competi-

tive swimmer when I was younger, so midway through the winter, I grabbed my onepiece and headed for the pool. I eagerly signed up for several races, ready to prove that the athletic ZARA prowess I lacked on land more than made KESSLER was up for in the water. But I dove in for my Bucket List when first event, I realized that my competitive swimming days were long gone: I had quit at age 11. I could still slog through a handful of passable races but by the end of the evening could barely pull my exhausted limbs out of the chlorine. The next morning, walking to class was a slow, painful process.

THERE IS MORE TO DODGEBALL THAN DODGING BALLS I couldn’t find that IM shirt from freshman year when I dressed for my inaugural dodgeball game. I arrived at Payne Whitney wearing a “Moose Crossing” shirt, which I’d opted for over the “Saarinen Protractors” one for its less esoteric joke and brighter yellow hue — the better to make my body a target instead of my head.

Stiles won a quick victory. The TD team forfeited because it only had one girl. I’d

like to say my femininity proved useful in Stiles’ success, but we had five girls. All present decided to scrimmage anyway.

I went with the strategy I’d learned when we thought we’d be playing a real game: hide. Don’t throw. Stand in the corner and hope no one aims at you. I was the last one left on my side during the first game. I sat on the sidelines during my second and third, got hit in the foot during the fourth, made an attempt to throw in the fifth (bad idea: my ball was caught) and was pelted on the left hand in the sixth.

During the seventh and final game, I again ended up as the last man standing for my team. I realized my strategy could no longer work. I needed to throw some balls and get the opposing side out or catch some and get some of my teammates back in. Dodging wouldn’t be enough.

Stilesians were encouraging me from the sidelines, telling me to throw, to catch, to do anything. I thought back to the bad scores I got for “ball-handling skills” in lower school PE class (wording I still find much too amusing for my level of maturity). “If it’s on your bucket list … ” someone yelled. I tried to throw, but the squishy multicolored objects stubbornly refused to go where I directed them.

And then, all at once, my opponents ran forward and aimed at me. I went to catch, but over a decade later my ball-handling skills were apparently still subpar. The ball went straight through my arms.

Game over.

ZARA KESSLER is a senior in Ezra Stiles College. Her column runs on alternate Fridays.

Contact her at zara.kessler@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST XIUYI ZHENG

Chinese students face hard choice I

n the past week, hundreds of colleges across the United States have released their admissions decisions for the class of 2016. Acceptance letters, tucked into neat packages alongside T-shirts and posters, are still being sent to anxious students everywhere. One thing is certain: More and more of those letters are making their way to the most populous nation in the world.

While Chinese students have traditionally preferred to go abroad for graduate school, they are now making the jump much sooner. The past few years have witnessed an astonishing rise in the number of Chinese undergraduate students in the United States. According to the Institute of International Education, nearly 57,000 Chinese nationals enrolled in American colleges for the 2010-’11 academic year.

That’s more than a fivefold increase from four years ago, when the total number of Chinese college students in the States hardly exceeded 10,000.

Why are so many Chinese students going abroad for college?

About a year ago, a friend from high school told me that he was applying to transfer to a public university in the Midwest. I was thoroughly surprised. At the time, he was a freshman studying business at a decent, albeit not top-notch, university in Shanghai, and, by all accounts, he was doing well.

He consulted me about his options, and I advised him to reconsider. I knew that his family wasn’t exceptionally wealthy, and a $150,000 price tag would put a considerable burden on his parents. I also knew that, although his English was quite good, the transition to an American college classroom could be a tough one.

What drove him to make the leap across the Pacific was disillusionment with the education he was getting, combined with a strong urge to maximize his future career prospects. He called his Chi-

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nese education “uninspiring,” and said that his individuality was being stifled. He also doubted whether his Chinese degree would be able to prepare him sufficiently for Shanghai’s hypercompetitive job market.

My friend’s story turned out to be a successful one, as he quickly adapted to college life in America. He is currently studying finance and math, and he hopes to go into the finance industry when he graduates.

Sometimes, such decisions are made in more difficult circumstances. A few weeks ago during one of our Skype conversations, my father brought up the topic of my younger cousin, who is currently a senior in a local high school in the southern city of Hangzhou. We discussed his prospects in the upcoming National Higher Education Entrance Exams, colloquially referred to as the gaokao, which solely determine which college he will attend.

My father told me that my cousin hadn’t improved his grades as much as we had hoped. In fact, with his current marks, it was possible that he would only be able to attend a second- or third-tier university. If he did indeed fail to do well on the gaokao, my father said, his parents would consider sending him abroad.

The plan was that my cousin would first go to a language school, where he would study English for a year. He would then apply to colleges and, hopefully, be able to adjust like my friend did. Presumably, the prospect of a better education in America would outweigh the risks associated with sending a teenager to a completely foreign environment. I can’t help but worry about his poor language skills and the fact that it would be his first time leaving home, but the alternative seems equally bleak.

What these two cases show is that for Chinese families, sending their kids abroad has become an option no less viable than following the educational system

Women welfare rankings betray bias iVillage’s recent report ranking states in terms of which are “best for women” (“Report ranks Connecticut ‘best for women,’” April 3) is but another attempt by the pro-choice world to conjure out of thin air a “war on women” waged by evangelical conservatives from states like Mississippi. As a woman from Mississippi, I am offended that the website would call my home state the “worst for women”.

The study is at best uninformed and at worst purposefully misleading. The truth is simple: Mississippi is consistently the poorest state, and Connecticut is consistently among the wealthiest. It has nothing to do with a “war on women”: Men in Connecticut are, in many quantifiable ways, better off than men in Mississippi, but where are the studies naming Mississippi the “worst for men?”

I am disappointed that the News would publish an article about such an unacademic and misleading study that was clearly motivated by political biases.

ELIZABETH HENRY April 3 The writer is a sophomore in Calhoun College.

at home. This is a key development for China, but it has long been true for most developed nations in the world.

The astonishing outflow of students demonstrates the profound tension between China’s newfound affluence and the persistent underdevelopment and rigidity of its education system, especially at the undergraduate level. Once Chinese parents realized that better educational options were accessible and that they had the means — even if just barely — to reach them, they dove into a frantic arms race to secure the best possible result for their kids.

EVER MORE CHINESE STUDENTS ARE COMING TO THE US FOR COLLEGE So will the explosive growth in the number of Chinese students studying abroad ever slow down? Think of the entire situation like a disrupted equilibrium that is quickly rebalancing itself.

Chinese applicants to American colleges are already lamenting the rapidly intensifying competition, and foreign degrees are dropping in value at home.

While Chinese application numbers will probably eventually stabilize, they are likely to remain high as long as there exists a substantial gap between quality of education at home and abroad.

I hope my cousin, one among a new generation of kids who find themselves stuck between the two options, ends up on the right path.

XIUYI ZHENG is a sophomore in Davenport College. Contact him at xiuyi.zheng@yale.edu .

Mission unaccomplished Together with nearly a third of the Yale College faculty, I spent almost two and a half hours yesterday listening to a debate about the exact language to be used in a resolution expressing our concern about human rights in. We heard much about the finer points of rhetoric and grammar, and a little about human rights and Singaporean politics. We heard almost nothing about whether Yale-NUS is a good idea or not.

In the end, we passed a resolution “urging” some things and “expressing concern” about others. Few among the faculty would disagree with the underlying convictions, and yet it was not even close to passing unanimously, probably because neither juridical precision nor literary eloquence distinguishes it.

Exactly what impact the resolution will have remains to be seen. I doubt that it will matter

very much. I do not think this meeting was time well spent.

Editing by a committee of two hundred people is not a pleasant experience, although there were amusing moments and we were all in a position to admire the precision of Robert’s Rules of Order and how well the College dean handled them.

I would hope that the lessons to draw from this exercise will be obvious. If we are to pass more resolutions, I hope their proposed language will have been worked out and negotiated ahead of time, so that faculty meetings may approve them quickly and with overwhelming majorities when the basic issues are widely agreed upon. Perhaps we might then even achieve precision and eloquence in Yale College resolutions?

ANDERS WINROTH April 5 The writer is a professor of history.

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VLADIMIR PUTIN “The democratic choice Russian people made in the early ’90s is final.”

Occupy public discourse T

he Occupy New Haven encampment has been having a hard time. Reports of infighting and crime on the Green coincide with city efforts to dismantle the site completely.

On Monday, city workers took down the wooden barricades surrounding Occupy, calling them a fire hazard. Not to worry, though: Quinnipiac to the rescue!

Not the school, though. I’m talking about the Quinnipiac Native American tribe. Recently, a Quinnipiac chief imprisoned in Texas for charges of rape and kidnapping told the New Haven Independent that he supports the Occupy movement. Furthermore, this chief, Iron Thunderhorse, claimed that the city does not have the authority to evict Occupy from the New Haven Green, as the land truly belongs to the Quinnipiac tribe – and has for as many as 10,000 years.

This doesn’t sound like such a good argument. Occupy doesn’t need the help of QPac. It needs support from Yale! Yalies should fight to help the last remaining Occupy outpost in New England.

At this point, I expect vehement protests from many a reader.

I would try to list all of their arguments here, but I would surely be lambasted for missing a great deal of them. Here’s my attempt at a summary: Occupy New Haven is an eyesore; it doesn’t stand for anything; it is rife with crime and bickering; it does not have unified goals; what is it accomplishing anyway? If Occupiers are so worried about economic inequality, why don’t they do something about it? Occupy Wall Street — that was so six months ago!

At first glance, these concerns appear to be valid. Yes, Occupy New Haven has been there for a while, its members — being human — don’t all agree on every point and there have been crimes committed at the site. (It

is worth noting, however, that Occupy New Haven has its own security teams to prevent crime.)

But no matter what they’re SCOTT saying, the STERN important point is that A Stern New Haven Perspective residents are still saying something about Occupy.

The same cannot be said for New York — or most of the rest of the country. A few months ago, the Occupy movement was all anyone could talk about. And in talking about Occupy, people began talking about the broader issue: economic inequality. Nowadays, Occupy has been displaced

by Trayvon Martin — which in turn displaced “Kony 2012” — as the issue du jour. That is, except in New Haven.

This country has just emerged from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, with levels of income inequality we haven’t seen in decades. While the upper class has been exploiting tax loopholes and influencing elections in unprecedented ways, countless Americans are barely surviving without jobs and without ways to feed their families. This is a problem — one we should be talking about.

Which brings us back to Occupy New Haven. If it goes, we might talk about it for another week or two. But then it will be gone as a matter of public discourse, and so, I fear, will income inequality.

Even if you fundamentally disagree with Occupy, you might agree that everyone in this country should be able to make enough money to put food on his table.

You might agree that wealth

should not be so concentrated among the wealthiest few individuals. To say that Occupy does not have clearly defined goals or that it seems to lack direction obscures the national movement’s larger significance: They were expressing frustration, and, for the first time in a long time, we were listening.

OCCUPY NEW HAVEN KEEPS US TALKING Even Mitt Romney, the crown prince of the 1%, said, “I look at what’s happening on Wall Street and my view is, boy, I understand how those people feel.”

Now that Occupy is no longer on Wall Street for Mitt Romney to look at, will he still sympathize?

And, more important, will he still talk about this sympathy in public? Will economic inequality still be as much of an issue in New Haven?

I doubt it. In our culture, advocacy becomes a fad, and without a daily visual reminder, we forget issues as quickly as we embrace them.

This is why Yalies should support Occupy New Haven — we still need it there because there is still so much more to say about the frustration Occupy exemplifies. If the encampment is dismantled — as is looking increasingly likely — I hope that Yalies will continue to talk about what Occupy was trying to accomplish.

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

GUEST COLUMNIST JAC K S C H L O S S B E R G

Can’t stop, won’t stop, from VA to CT A

t Yale, you can find someone passionate and enthusiastic and involved in just about any issue. For many of us, though, our school’s prevailing progressive political atmosphere can make us complacent.

I only realized this after I spent time with the Virginia Young Democrats (VAYD) this past weekend. On Saturday, I left Yale for Richmond to attend the Virginia Young Democrats Convention, where I had been invited to speak.

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but what I found was a sense of enthusiasm and a political community that is rare to come by in our bluestate bubble.

Heading down to the convention, however, I thought these Young Dems might be apathetic about the upcoming election. After all, I thought of Virginia as a state that usually goes red, a state with a very conservative governor, a state that began the recent assault on birth control when the state’s legislature proposed that women considering an abortion be subject to mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds — a state, in short, where being an outspoken Democrat might not make you too popular.

I couldn’t have been more wrong. I realized this when each delegate who spoke to the convention had the whole hall chanting a newly adopted motto: “Can’t stop, won’t stop.”

Though I had anticipated the VAYD would be a group of smart but apathetic and cynical kids, I realized that a group of Democrats like that wouldn’t get far in Virginia. I asked one delegate, a 20-year-old guy from Mechanicsville, Va., how he became a Democrat and about his experience as a Democrat in a typically conservative area. He said his mother was a Republican and he was brought up that way, but when he got interested in government, he realized that Democrats were “more accepting of many different kinds of people.” He said, too, that while he thought his generation was more liberal than prior ones, he still couldn’t talk comfortably about certain issues, like gay rights, among most Virginians.

But what really grabbed me was when he explained that he and his fellow Young Dems

“have a deep sense of urgency because we know that if we do nothing, then we risk letting people have a very poor quality of life.”

I realized that I don’t feel this way most of the time, but I should. I’ve always been in an environment saturated with Democrats, and because we aren’t constantly challenged, we feel little urgency, we struggle to be enthusiastic and we can get lazy.

Now, that’s not to say that some people at Yale aren’t excited by and invested in politics. But the sense of community, the level of urgency, the can’t-stop-won’t-stop attitude that I saw in Virginia is hard to find here. How could this be true at a university as progressive as ours in a state as blue as Connecticut? Consider that, if you are like me and strongly support gay marriage, at Yale, the so-called Gay Ivy, you might not feel like you are risking “letting people have a very poor quality of life” if you don’t fight for these rights. In Connecticut, recently ranked the best state in the country for women to live and work, the threat of mandatory invasive ultrasounds isn’t even on the horizon.

Perhaps that sense of urgency can be found among Republican organizations on campus. I wouldn’t know — though it would make sense — but my point is not that we need to be more like Virginia or that most Yalies are lazy. Rather, we should try to challenge ourselves to figure out what we really care about and then get excited about it together.

If what excites you is the Democratic Party and the 2012 election, great. If it’s environmental action, that’s great, too. No matter what political cause compels us, we should always feel as though it’s being threatened. We should use these causes, whatever they are, to bring people together and get each other excited about our role, so we feel like we can’t stop and won’t stop.

JACK SCHLOSSBERG is a freshman in Trumbull College. Contact him at john.schlossberg@yale.edu .

S TA F F I L L U S T R AT O R AU B E R E Y L E S C U R E

From Russia with love

GUEST COLUMNIST RACHEL O’CONNELL

Bigger bowls, bigger worries O

n Tuesday morning, I reached below the cereal bar at Commons to grab a bowl for my Cheerios. To my surprise, instead of emerging with the usual, nicely sized dish, my hand surfaced with a veritable basin.

I tried to dole out my regular amount of cereal. Looking down, I saw that the Cheerios hardly covered the bottom of the bowl. The inches of empty space somehow made my breakfast seem inadequate. Even though my stomach desired no more food, my eyes did.

Recently, new, larger bowls have cropped up in Commons and residential college dining halls.

The shallow, wide dishes hold

significantly more than the previous ones, which have disappeared from the shelves. The change echoes dining halls’ unveiling of larger plates earlier this year, a move meant to reduce waste.

As someone who used to be overweight, I take issue with Yale Dining’s switch to bigger bowls.

In my youth, I had trouble with self-control, and I struggled to eat appropriate serving sizes.

Now, Yale Dining has made my weight-loss maintenance all the more difficult, and I worry that my peers will suffer as well.

The connection between dish size and the amount of food a person takes has its basis in an optical illusion. A small circle placed within a larger circle looks even

smaller. Extend this concept to bowls. A person’s perception of how much soup he or she ladles out depends on how that soup looks in its container. The bigger the bowl, the more a person tends to put in it.

Seeing large dishes at Yale’s facilities hardly comes as a shock given dining trends in the United States. The size of the average American-made dinner plate has grown by almost 25 percent in just over a century. Meanwhile, weight issues have skyrocketed; currently, about one-third of Americans are clinically obese.

Until about four years ago, I ranked among the overweight.

I neglected to keep my serving sizes in check. I habitually filled

my bowls to capacity, and I always ate all of the food from my plate.

Now, with these larger dishes, I will have to check my portions even more cautiously to keep my eyes from playing tricks.

I worry that my less self-aware peers will suffer due to the larger bowls. A busy student grabbing a bite in the awkward 30-minute time slot between classes hardly has the time or energy to keep track of how much food he or she takes. Extra calories could contribute to the infamous freshman 15 — or weight gain at any age, for that matter.

Granted, I recognize that I cannot completely avoid large dishes.

Perhaps both my classmates and I should just adapt to the coun-

try’s new culinary conditions and monitor our food intake more carefully. However, education can only lessen, not eliminate, the tendency to over-serve into large dishes. So no matter how much we try, we will still tend to take more when offered big bowls.

Yale Dining has confused its priorities. Perhaps it wished to minimize the number of times a student must get up to refill his or her bowl. Yet should time take precedence over health? If the move intends to cut waste, like the switch to larger plates, I still wonder why the University would not willingly make a small sacrifice to benefit students’ wellbeing.

Students should, at the very

least, have a choice about which bowl size to use. I suggest that Yale Dining put out both the old, smaller dishes and the new, larger ones. Students can heap healthier options — like light soups and steamed vegetables — into the larger ones while putting sugary cereals and ice cream into the smaller ones.

I hope that my friends will fill their bowls thoughtfully. But education can only do so much.

Smaller bowls and self-awareness should both play a role in helping Yalies to maintain healthy lifestyles.

RACHEL O’CONNELL is a freshman in Davenport College. Contact her at rachel.oconnell@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth.” ALA BASHIR ARTIST

As architects shift to software, Yale keeps focus on drawing

ARTISTIC ORIGINS

The Yale School of Architecture has differed from its peer institutions since the school’s founding in 1916 as a department in the now defunct School of Fine Arts, a conglomeration of the disciplines that later became the School of Drama, the School of Art and Architecture, and the History of Art Department. When the School of Fine Arts split into separate professional schools in the mid- to late 1950s, the establishment of a School of Art and Architecture based out of Rudolph Hall kept the two fields inextricably linked, Stern said.

“Until 1969, when [Rudolph Hall] had its fire, there was a real intimacy between painters, sculptors and architects,” Stern said, referring to a mysterious fire that damaged much of the building’s interior.

It was only after the fire that the disciplines began to occupy separate spaces, and the architecture program began to forge its own identity independent of the art school. In 1972, the School of Architecture split from the School of Art, to be born as its own professional school, independent of other disciplines.

These artistic beginnings were “atypical,” Stern said, explaining that most of the School of Architecture’s peer institutions were once departments in technical or scientific schools. The first architecture school in the United States was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1865. Columbia University established its program in 1881 out of its engineering school, the School of Mines. Harvard’s architecture department, established in 1914, was influenced by both engineering and fine arts, Stern said, but art faculty never had as much influence in the architecture program as they did at Yale, due to the absence of an art school at Harvard.

Only Princeton, which officially began its program in 1919, also chose to intertwine its architecture department with its art school. In its focus on studying architecture in the context of art, Stern said, Yale “seemed to be on to something.”

Before computer-based tools gained prominence, the School of Architecture devoted three faculty members and three courses to the art of drawing by hand, Deamer said. Now, architecture students learn hand drawing through a mandatory summer class taught in Rome and within broader visualization survey courses.

Stern said when the department of architecture was first planned, administrators intended for students to take technical courses at Yale’s Sheffield Scientific School, the undergraduate science and engineering school that operated from 1847 to 1956. But the group of faculty members formulating the department’s new curriculum felt that those courses were too technical, Stern explained.

“We felt we had to have our own faculty of engineering who would introduce students to enough engineering [to practice architecture], but that we were really an art discipline,” Stern said. “Architecture is an art.”

AN INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

The school’s connection to the artistic thought process has led to a focus on individuality that both professors and students feel differentiates it from many other top-tier architecture programs. In order to allow students to explore their own developing aesthetic, the School of Architecture developed a pluralistic teaching style, a deviation from the pedagogic approaches of other top-tier architecture schools, Deamer said.

“Yale’s coming from the art

them since the programs become obsolete so quickly. It is important to gain an intuition for how to use architecture programs, which are often more complex than the software used in everyday life, he added.

Stern said Yale should not offer courses primarily devoted to software, because Yale is not a “trade school.”

“There has to be an academic component to get credit for a course here,” Deamer said.

“And just teaching software is not enough.”

FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE

The School of Architecture treats the field as both a theoretical academic pursuit and a professional discipline, aiming to send students to some of the nation’s best architecture firms. These studios are so diverse in focus that it is difficult to shape a curriculum around them, Jonas Barre ARC ’12 SOM ’12 said.

Barre added that some firms are so focused on winning competitions that they are willing to sacrifice constructability for theoretical complexity in design, meaning they would prefer to hire students with a strong capacity for manipulating forms on a computer over those with a more traditional education rooted in drawing.

But nearly every firm today requires fluency in architecture software, professors and students said.

“Basically you won’t find employment now if you don’t know how to use computer software,” said Antoine Picon, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design who spoke at February’s symposium. “The practice is already ahead in that aspect.”

While students at Yale are expected to have sufficiently learned how to use computerbased technologies by the time they graduate, not all feel prepared to enter the workforce.

In a survey by the News sent out to students at the architecture school, nearly half of the 61 respondents said that they were not completely confident in their preparation for entering the job market, given their current grasp of computer-based drawing and modeling techniques. Nearly half also said that they felt Yale had “too little” or “way too little” of a focus on these digital tools.

While Stern and several other professors interviewed said they feel this fear is unjustified, Deamer said she feels these students are rightly worried.

“I think it’s a valid concern for us to make our students [employable],” Deamer said. “They want to go out into the world with all the skills offices require, and the more tools they know, the more [employable] they are.”

Deamer said that she believes the school doesn’t sufficiently emphasize Building Information Modeling, and that the school is currently discussing increasing its focus on the software. She added that while she, as the head of the curriculum review, will push for an increased focus on BIM, not all members of the school’s faculty — or the review committee itself — would agree that the school is behind on this front.

She did not, however, apply this analysis to other computer-based tools, such as computer drafting, parametric drawing and the computer modeling software Rhino, adding that she believes the school already focuses enough on these tools to prepare students for the workplace.

“BIM is in a category by itself,” Deamer said.

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a strong emphasis on drawing before he was dean and that he has advocated for retaining drawing courses in the curriculum since he came to the school in 1998. But since computers became a principal force in architectural design in the late 1980s and early ’90s, Stern explained, architecture education has been “in a crisis situation” where drawing is concerned. “[By the early 1990s], architects began to use software to explore creating new shapes, and software has become a determinist force in architectural design,” Stern said.

“This was, and still is, very seductive to students. But if every student is working in the computer, one has to wonder whether they have lost touch with the age-old relationship between the hand, the eye and the brain.”

school has its biggest impact in the idea that we, in teaching architecture, are nurturing each individual student’s voice,” she said.

Deamer added that the tradition of art education emphasizes students’ ability to make their own stylistic decisions, while engineering education has typically been more focused on teaching students one set of principles. An architecture school’s affiliation with either the artistic or the technical side of the discipline influences which of these approaches it adopts.

For example, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, which Stern said was influenced by engineering to a greater degree than Yale’s school, tends not to question the merits of the modernist movement to the same extent as other institutions, giving students a slanted view of architectural history, she added. This in turn impacts the work produced by Harvard students and their abilities to develop unique styles, she said.

At Yale, the root of individuality is pluralism, in both architectural style and preferred visualization tools. Just this semester, the visiting professors at the school include Massimo Scolari, an expert in architectural representation through drawings and watercolors, as well as Greg Lynn and Frank Gehry, who employ cutting-edge computer-based tools in their own practices. Reflecting this diversity of drawing methods, each budding architect is given a large drafting table in addition to a computer desk in their workspace in Rudolph Hall, David Bench ARC ’12 said. He added that comparable institutions like Columbia’s architecture school do not provide students the desk space to draw or model by hand. “[The conversation about drawing] is a big deal here because there’s a plurality to the school — we have all kinds of voices,” Bench said. “That doesn’t happen at other places. They have very united fronts.”

Bench added that he feels learning to switch between different media forces students to develop flexibility and critical thinking skills that will serve them well in their careers. Yale’s graduate students are not explicitly taught to draw or use software like Building Information Modeling, which enables students to create “smart” models embedded with data that can be shared with and edited by multiple parties, including architects, electricians and clients.

Instead, students are provided with the resources to practice and explore the entire range of visualization options. While students can request informal workshops to learn the software from their professors, most achieve fluency in the programs through independent practice.

“I’ve had to spend a lot of time outside of class learning the software,” said Zac Heaps ARC ’12.

Before coming to Yale, Heaps completed Notre Dame’s five-year undergraduate architecture program, in which students “don’t touch a computer” until their fourth year.

Rather than teaching technical skills, classes are meant to focus on the implications of tools and their effects on design and thought, not how to use the tools themselves, Deamer said. Several students interviewed said that at other schools they considered attending, faculty members offered courses explicitly focused on using software.

Heaps said that while professors integrate computer-based tools into classes, it would not be productive to have specific courses on

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ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

Zaha Hadid’s Galaxy Soho building in Beijing uses the fluid shapes made possible by computer-based drawing.

Heaps said he believed that he would not have been able to get a job at a non-classical architecture firm with his heavily drawing-based Notre Dame education alone. He added that the emphasis on drawing lent itself far more to the classical tradition than to any other style due to the limits of straight edges and other handdrafting tools — while the right angles of Yale’s Gothic structures, for instance, can easily be rendered by hand, more contemporary buildings that make use of curved organic lines require computer modeling. Accordingly, Heaps said, most of his classmates who did not go straight to graduate school began to work for firms that specialize almost exclusively in traditional architecture. Spending less time practicing computerbased tools pigeonholed the students into a “niche” market, he said.

Michael Lykoudis, dean of University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, disagreed that his students were destined to be employed only by a specific type of firm, arguing instead that modern and avant-garde firms value

the solid grounding of a drawingbased education.

“When students draw and model by hand, they are able to better conceptualize the context and challenge of a client, which is what real firms do,” Lykoudis said. “They understand the principles of construction, which are the foundations of classical architecture. It’s a pragmatic approach.”

Heaps said he thinks Yale falls somewhere in the middle of a spectrum of architecture schools, ranging from those that more greatly emphasize hand drawing and modeling to others that focus on computer-based tools. Unlike many other schools, Yale’s program does not emphasize prerequisite software skills, Heaps said, which indicates the school’s versatility in its approach to the tools available today.

Agran, who co-coordinated the February symposium, teaches hand drawing at the School of Architecture during the academic year and in its summer program at Rome. But as a senior associate at New Haven-based Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, he said he thinks it is necessary for students to be flu-

ent in software to be productive in the workplace.

“As a practicing architect I could not function without digital tools. They are much faster and more powerful than traditional hand drafting and model-making practice,” Agran said in an email.

“Conversely, if one doesn’t know how to draw by hand or quickly develop a hand sketch, something is lost. Both are critical.”

Agran added that he believes hand drawing and modeling are necessary, because the physical nature of those techniques causes the body to absorb and remember the experience of a site. Architecture schools, he said, should advocate for both hand and digital techniques because of the critical thinking skills gained from both methods.

‘WHAT WE AS HUMANS CAN DO’

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NEWS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ANTONIO MACHADO While he is known for being a poet, Machado, who was born in Spain in 1875 and died in France in 1939, himself worked at several different occupations over the course of his life. He was an actor, a translator and a French professor.

TODAY’S EVENTS FRIDAY, APRIL 6

TD sees highest transfer rate

11:00 AM “Shakespeare in Brief: ‘Macbeth’”. Director Sam Lasman ’12 and undergraduate actors will perform a scene from “Macbeth.” A talk on “Macbeth” as it relates to the Beinecke’s current exhibition, “Remembering Shakespeare,” will follow.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (121 Wall St.).

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 Student Association 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.).

Int’l Bulldogs sees rise in app count

BY ANDREW GIAMBRONE STAFF REPORTER After repeatedly extending the deadline to apply for International Bulldogs programs this summer, Undergraduate Career Services has seen a rise in application numbers to those internships.

UCS initially reduced the number of International Bulldogs internships for which students could apply to two earlier this semester, but the career center decided last week to reinstate the three-application rule it has used in past years, UCS Director Allyson Moore said. Though the initial deadline for International Bulldogs programs was Feb. 13, UCS has since extended that date three times, and applications are now due this coming Monday.

The number of applications to these programs has seen “modest growth,” Moore said, with 1,237 applications received as of Monday compared to 1,183 total applications last year — despite the fact that UCS internships are competing with an increased number of other employment options.

“Student interest in International Bulldogs still appears strong,” Moore said in an email Monday. “Interestingly, the greater challenge is the increased number of alternative intern options available to students. In other words, it seems as though our students are attracting good intern offers from multiple sources.”

Moorse said UCS increased the number of applications students were allowed to submit after attracting several new positions from employers during the spring semester. UCS initially lowered the number of applications to encourage students to be “more selective” in their choices, she added.

UCS anticipates about 120 student participants in the International Bulldogs program this summer, Moore said, compared to 113 students last year. These figures only include “pure” International Bulldogs programs, and not the internships UCS offers with its partner organizations AIESEC, Unite for Sight and Cultural Vistas, which she said “will likely generate additional student placements.”

Seven students who participated in International Bulldogs internships last summer said they enjoyed their experience and that UCS was particularly helpful in setting them up with “in-country contacts,” who introduced them to their host cities. But two of those students said UCS could do more to smooth the transition

into their summer jobs.

Erik Urosa ’13, who participated in the 2011 Buenos Aires International Bulldogs program and worked for TerraCycle — a marketing and recycling company headquartered in Trenton, N.J. — said he had a positive experience with the program and appreciated the guidance he received from two in-country contacts that UCS provided. Still, he said UCS could provide more opportunities geared towards students interested in science and engineering fields. The career center could also do a better job ensuring that internships offered through International Bulldogs are “productive and worthwhile,” he added.

“Although I feel that most of the people I was with felt good about their jobs, some often complained about the lack of interesting work or projects,” Urosa said.

Interestingly, the greater challenge is the increased number of alternative intern options available to students.

ALLYSON MOORE Director, Undergraduate Career Services Urosa said he applied to another International Bulldogs program this year but “mainly as a backup,” because the internship would be unpaid, as living abroad for a summer can be expensive.

Kerri Lu ’14, who participated in the Beijing International Bulldogs program and interned at the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City, said her experience was “fantastic” but added that some of the Yalies on her trip had difficulty finding convenient housing and had long commutes.

“My specific placement was a little disorganized, but I knew that coming in,” Lu said. “It would have been nice to have more facilitated communication between the internship placement and [International] Bulldogs, since I had some difficulty getting in touch with them prior to the summer.”

Students on financial aid who are placed for an internship through the International Bulldogs program may be eligible to receive an International Summer Award to help them cover the cost of their trip.

Contact ANDREW GIAMBRONE at andrew.giambrone@yale.edu .

BY THE NUMBERS INTERNATIONAL BULLDOGS PROGRAM 1,183 1,237 13 120 Total applications received in 2011.

Applications received in 2012 as of Monday.

International Bulldogs programs available.

Student participants expected in summer 2012.

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Ten students in Timothy Dwight requested to transfer out of the college this spring, the most of any college this year.

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER For some students, the grass may be greener in a different courtyard.

This spring, 10 students requested to transfer out of Timothy Dwight College for the 2012-’13 school year — six more than last year, and more than any other college this year, according to John Meeske, associate dean for student organizations and physical resources. Students interviewed who applied to transfer from their residential colleges generally said they decided to move in order to live with their close friends, though two students in TD said the college’s distance from central campus also motivated their decisions.

Roughly 50 transfer requests are granted each year, Meeske said, but the number of requests per college varies unpredictably, and no college consistently has particularly high or low numbers of transfers requests.

“These numbers change radically from year to year,” he said.

“One year, one college will have a

‘large-ish’ group going, and the next year, others will have more going.”

Students hoping to transfer explain their motivations to the masters and deans of their current college and the college in which they hope to live, and fill out a form with the students they hope to room with the next year.

Whether a request is approved depends on the “housing capacity in the receiving college,” TD Master Jeffrey Brenzel said.

Hannah Flaum ’15, who is transferring from TD to Ezra Stiles College, said that while TD has a “great community,” she wanted to be closer to Payne Whitney Gymnasium and live with her friends in Stiles. Students who live in more central colleges are always relatively close to their friends, she said, adding that TD is “more isolated” than other colleges.

Chris Carey ’15, whose request to transfer from TD to Berkeley was denied, said TD is far from many of his friends, but his main reason for wanting to transfer out was related to his potential living situations in the college.

“A good number of the kids I

could have seen myself rooming with in TD were either transferring themselves or had already set up rooming for next year,” he said.

Carey said that his rooming situation has “worked out,” though he was disappointed that his request was not approved. He added that he will probably live off campus during his junior and senior years.

Three other freshmen who are transferring from TD declined to comment on their experiences.

Three students interviewed in other residential colleges who are transferring all cited friendships outside their own colleges as motivating factors for the switch.

Lauren Hickey ’15, who is transferring from Branford to Davenport, said she decided to leave Branford after Thanksgiving break when she realized that her “lasting friendships” were all outside of her residential college.

“I never really felt a huge connection to Branford at the start,” she said.

Marc DeWitt ’15, who is transferring from Saybrook to Ezra Stiles, said while other members of his entryway in Vander-

bilt “bonded very quickly” at the beginning of the year and are planning to live together in Saybrook next year, he made his friends while rushing fraternities and participating in Yale’s Orientation for International Students.

Two transferring students added that they wished information on how to transfer was more readily available to students.

Sophie Kaye ’15, who is transferring from Morse to Saybrook, said the transfer form is due two months before the housing draw, but she felt that the deadline was not publicized well. She added that she thinks many students who were considering transferring missed the deadline. Hickey said she also had trouble finding information about the transfer process, adding that when she first approached her freshman counselor for advice, her freshman counselor did not know how the procedure worked. The fall 2011 enrollment for Yale College was 5,322, according to the Office of Institutional Research.

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

Food writer, chef tells Yalies to go ‘off-script’

BY ADLON ADAMS CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Tamar Adler had a message for Yalies at a Master’s Tea Thursday: Whatever you have planned for the future is not what you will end up doing.

Adler, recent author of “An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace,” spoke to a group of about 30 people about how she began writing about food at a Saybrook College Master’s Tea. Adler, whose book focuses on back-to-the-basics home cuisine, compared cooking to her path in life, explaining there is no set way of doing anything, be it cooking a chicken or deciding your future.

“I’ve felt recently like there is a tyranny of the recipe that I am pitching a battle against,” Adler said, comparing off-script cooking to her life philosophy. “It does not allow for any amount of perceptiveness or intuition. [Recipes] have a tendency to ask you to make all these assumptions and only think about the outcome.”

Adler began writing about food for the Bangkok Post about local street vendors after she graduated college. She said she felt that writing about food wasn’t “serious or helpful enough to the world,” so she came back to the United States to become an editor at Harper’s Magazine in 2001.

After several years at different jobs, Adler eventually decided that writing a book could combine her love of writing and her “desire to do good in the world.”

Adler described the path she has taken in her career since college by quoting Antonio Machado’s poem, “Traveller, There Is No Path,” saying she lives by the passage, “Traveller, there is no path / The path is made by walking.” She said she thinks that life, like cooking, is made up of little decisions necessary to achieve something.

“If you have some big goal,

then you start wondering if you should turn things down because they’re not what you’ve planned,” Adler said. “It can be very distracting to assume that you want to get somewhere and that anything that is not in a straight visible line with that ultimate goal is a distraction or deterrent.”

Adler said she worries that those in academic environments like Yale can be too singularly focused when comes to careers.

Instead, she said, students should focus on their immediate decisions and not worry too much about the future.

If you have some big goal, then you start wondering if you should turn things down because they’re not what you planned.

TAMAR ADLER Author “I came to Yale to study literature and ended up stumbling onto the Yale Farm and haven’t left since,” said Zan Romanoff ’09, program coordinator of Yale’s Sustainable Food Project.

“I had the experience of having the path I was going to follow and then wandering off of it. It’s really helpful for Yale undergraduates to hear that alternative narrative.”

Adler said she views the learning process of cooking as another path that is made through little decisions. Her advice for someone just learning to cook is to pay complete attention at every moment — her book focuses on what the details of what really goes on in the kitchen, such as the boiling of water, she said.

“As somebody who cooks a lot, I think it was really interesting what she was saying about how

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Author, chef and food writer Tamar Adler encouraged students at a Master’s Tea Thursday to experiment with different career paths. to balance constraints and the sensuality and understanding of producing food,” said Lucas Sin ’15, the second-place finisher at the Iron Chef Yale competition.

Since graduating from Haverford College in 1999, Adler has been involved in a wide range of career fields. In addition to editing at Harper’s Magazine from 2001–’04, Adler worked at Prune restaurant in New York City and Farm 255 in Athens, Ga.

She moved to California in 2007 to work with the Northern California chapter of nonprofit Slow Food USA, and eventually left the organization in 2009 to become a writer.

Adler said she is currently working on a second book and plans to continue writing for the next few years.

Contact ADLON ADAMS at adlon.adams@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

Pablum Pablum is a trademarked name for a processed baby food made of farina, oatmeal, cornmeal, bone meal, dried brewer’s yeast, and powdered alfalfa leaf. The product was fortified with iron and provided infants with many vitamins and minerals. Bone meal, which is made of crushed bones, was used as a calcium supplement until the 1980s, when it was found to be frequently contaminated with toxic metals.

Resolution debated intensely Colleges pending donations RESOLUTION FROM PAGE 1 In the final version of the resolution, the Yale College faculty expresses concern over the history of civil rights in Singapore, urges Yale-NUS “to respect, protect and further” non-discrimination and civil liberty, and states that these values comprise the core of a liberal arts education.

Benhabib told the News Thursday that she was satisfied with the results of the meeting.

“I am really proud of the way in which the Yale College faculty rose to the occasion and debated relentlessly for two and a half hours this resolution and its details,” Benhabib said. “I think we just have to sit back and take stock, but it’s a big moment for Yale and this is not the time to spin things every which way.”

While faculty agreed on the broad principles of the last two paragraphs — which urged YaleNUS to respect the ideals that “lie at the heart of liberal arts education” — the first paragraph’s statement on the Singaporean government led to contentious debate.

Economics Department Chair Benjamin Polak, who supports the Yale-NUS project, said some professors worried the discussion of the Singaporean government in the resolution would be “offensive” or “arrogant.” Polak said he voted for the resolution because he thinks it will strengthen the partnership between Yale and the National University of Singapore, explaining that the main principles of the resolution go “hand in hand” with a liberal arts education.

“I think that one can be strongly supportive of the project, as I am, and support this resolution strongly, as I did,” Polak said.

Sociology professor Deborah Davis, chair of the social sciences faculty search committee for Yale-NUS, proposed the most significant revision to the resolution, which was defeated after a long debate. Under that revision, the resolution would have been reduced to a single-paragraph statement upholding the principles of non-discrimination and civil liberty. It would not have specified that these principles be upheld for “sexual minorities and migrant workers” in Singapore, or discuss the history of the nation’s government, professors who attended the meeting said.

Classics professor Victor Bers, an outspoken critic of the Singapore venture, called Davis’ revision “pablum” during the faculty meeting debate and told the

News he viewed it as an attempt “to water down Seyla Benhabib’s resolution to the point where it had almost no meaning.”

In a final change to the resolution, faculty voted to remove the adjective “proposed” from the description of the Yale-NUS project in the first paragraph. Yale College Dean Mary Miller said striking “proposed” was important for the faculty to move from thinking of Yale-NUS as a possibility to accepting Yale’s commitment to the project.

Faculty members who attended the meeting emphasized that even seemingly minor details of punctuation were debated rigorously.

“People picked apart the words, commas, semicolons,” said Joel Rosenbaum, a professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology who voted for the resolution.

Miller characterized the final vote, which was conducted by paper ballot, as “substantially in favor of the resolution, but also substantially divided.”

Three professors interviewed estimated that about 100 to 110 faculty voted in favor of the resolution, while around 70 voted against it. University Spokesman Thomas Conroy declined to release the exact vote in a Thursday email, saying vote details of faculty meetings are not public.

Under Robert’s Rules of Order, which govern the procedure of faculty meetings, Miller said votes can be taken by voice, standing or ballot. Bers said he felt the paper ballot vote was important because faculty have told him “they are afraid to have the administration see how they vote.”

The resolution drew support from both faculty who oppose Yale’s involvement in Singapore and those who support or are actively involved in planning the project.

Political science professor Bryan Garsten, a member of the social sciences faculty search committee for Yale-NUS, said the language of the resolution risks doing “injustice” to his colleagues in Singapore working on the project. Still, he said he ultimately voted for the resolution.

“I felt that the partnership we have with our colleagues in Singapore is strong enough, and that people who we’ve been working with are fundamentally on the same side on the question of intellectual freedom and its connection to the liberal arts,” Garsten said.

History professor Anders Winroth, who also supports the Yale-

YA L E COLLEGE FA C U LT Y RESOLUTION We, the Yale College Faculty, express our concern regarding the history of lack of respect for civil and political rights in the state of Singapore, host of Yale-National University of Singapore College.

We urge Yale-NUS to respect, protect and further principles of non-discrimination for all, including sexual minorities and migrant workers; and to uphold civil liberty and political freedom on campus and in the broader society.

These ideals lie at the heart of liberal arts education as well as of our civic sense as citizens, and they ought not to be compromised.

NUS project, said he voted for the resolution even though he thought its language was “poorly formulated” as it lacked “precision” and “eloquence.” He added that he thinks the dissatisfaction some faculty members have with governance and decision-making processes at Yale underlies the debate on Yale-NUS. But English and comparative literature professor Pericles Lewis, who chairs the humanities faculty search committee for Yale-NUS, said he voted against the resolution because the reference to Singapore’s history was “broad-brushed” and “a little out of context for a Yale College faculty resolution,” though he said he supports the resolution’s support of non-discrimination, academic freedom and civil liberty.

“I hope that people in Singapore will realize this is not intended by the faculty of Yale College as an insult to Singapore as a society or as a nation,” he said.

Yale-NUS is scheduled to open in fall 2013.

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

NEW COLLEGES FROM PAGE 1 yet to be determined. Though Stern said the finalized construction documents would usually be the last step before breaking ground, Levin said fundraising issues have kept the University from announcing a detailed timeline for construction.

“I would love the colleges to start in the fall of 2012, which means that they would be finished, furnished, and up and running by fall 2015,” Stern said. “It’s one of my great dreams.”

Levin said the construction of the colleges will likely take 30 months. But he noted that the University will first have to bid out the contract for construction, which will take an additional three to four months.

The colleges had originally been scheduled to open in fall 2013, but the project was postponed indefinitely after the onset of the recession in late 2008 left the University facing a $350 million budget deficit. Yale still needs to fundraise extensively for the $500 million project before construction can begin, Levin said, and there is currently no formal timeline for the colleges’ construction.

“The holdup is fundraising, it’s

NH PROMISE FROM PAGE 1 rather than the number who submit applications. She added that these figures cannot be determined until administrators evaluate the seniors’ applications at the end of the school year. To be eligible for full funding, applicants must maintain a minimum 3.0 GPA, achieve a 90 percent school attendance rate or higher, demonstrate good behavior in school and complete 40 hours of community service.

Over the past year, the program has distributed over $93,000 to students in tuition money through 115 scholarships.

In a February email, Adriana Arreola, interim director for New Haven Promise, told the News that she hoped to see a 25 to 50 percent increase in the number of students qualifying for the scholarship.

Of last year’s 371 Promise applications, 115 qualified to receive a scholarship.

City Hall spokeswoman Elizabeth Benton ’04 said it is necessary to create a “college-going culture” in New Haven in order to grow Promise participation, and creating such an academic environment takes time.

“A college-going culture is something that we know starts very young — it’s something that we need to start growing from pre-K all the way to grade 12,” Benton said. “And that’s not something we can do overnight.”

Benton said education officials are taking steps to instill college ambitions in New Haven schoolchildren. She cited door-to-door advocacy efforts to raise awareness of the Promise program and

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Mayor John DeStefano Jr. announced the New Haven Promise scholarship program at a ceremony on Nov. 8, 2010. school curriculum changes at the pre-K–8 level as evidence of this push, as well as the city’s partnership with College Summit, a national nonprofit that helps school districts prepare lowincome students for the college application process.

Arreola said to achieve a “college-going culture,” students and families should be thinking about college before high school. To that end, she said, school administrators introduced “Pathway to Promise,” a program for pre-K–8 schools that is designed to adapt the skills that College Summit is teaching to a pre-high school setting, last fall. Yale-New Haven Hospital committed $500,000 annually for the next four years to fund this effort.

“If you look at the test scores, graduation rates and internal trajectory rates — which show the number of kids graduating on time — you will see that the rigor in the classroom and academic achievement are steadily increasing,” Benton said. “I think we are on a path to lower the achievement gap.”

While Promise distributed approximately $93,000 in scholarship money this year, Community Foundation CEO William Ginsberg said the size of scholarship awards will also grow because of the way the program is structured. The Promise program is being implemented in stages — graduating seniors are eligible for scholarship money based on how long they have been in high school since the program’s announcement, Ginsberg said. Those who accepted the scholarship last year received 25 percent of the full award, this year’s seniors will be eligible for 50 percent, and next year’s seniors will be eligible for 75 percent before full funding kicks in the year after they graduate, he added.

New Haven Promise was announced on Nov. 8, 2010 at a ceremony at Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School on College Street.

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

drawings are now complete,” Stern said. “There are design drawings and then there are technical drawings that translate the design drawings into their technical components.”

Cruickshank said the final technical plans look extremely similar to previously approved designs.

Levin added that the modified drawings mostly involve changes to “wiring and pipes.”

With the technical plans complete, Stern’s office is now working to perfect ornamental details such as gates and sculptures. Stern said his team is also working with Levin and the Corporation on themes for smaller decorative elements like plaques, adding that he is consulting the administration on both the design and content of these embellishments. Stern said potential themes for the adornments could include the history of the new colleges’ site and past Nobel Prize winners from Yale.

The newest residential colleges at Yale, Ezra Stiles and Morse, were built in 1961.

Contact TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu and NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .

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Yale’s two new residential colleges, located near Science Hill, will be constructed once the University has raised enough funds toward the $500 million project.

Role of drawing questioned ARCHITECTURE FROM PAGE 4

Promise sees drop in apps

nothing to do with the construction documents at this point,” he said. “It’s a question of when we will have enough committed gifts to begin the process, and from that point it’s just under three years.”

Vice President for Development Inge Reichenbach said in February that $187 million has been raised for the project so far and that the new colleges are one of her office’s “top priorities,” though she added that the recession had a negative impact on the University’s ability to finance major construction projects like the colleges.

Stern said Levin’s office and the Yale Corporation have complete control over when construction begins, though he said work could start almost immediately once his firm “gets the green light” from the administration.

Last month, Levin, the Yale Corporation, the facilities department and Stern’s firm visited a life-size mock-up of the colleges in Science Park. The mockup, which was constructed to test various design elements, helped Stern’s firm narrow down the options for features like windows, brick and grout.

“There’s a huge amount of technical work in an architecture project, and all those technical

said they feel Yale is entrenched in a drawing-based mindset that takes away from its ability to fully embrace technology.

Barre said he feels that the introductory visualization courses at the school do not encourage students to use push digital technologies to their capacity.

“Early courses at the school focus on [formal hand] drafting at first, and even though you eventually move to digital tools, the aesthetic is based in the hand drafting aesthetic,” Barre said. “It’s not really an exploration into what the mode of digital expression could be. It’s rooting technology in an outmoded aesthetic — digital drawing is limited by the notion that it should look like a hand drawing.”

Deamer said that Yale is often deemed conservative since the focus on hand drawing constrains architects to shapes that can actually be constructed. She added that by contrast, many schools that focus less on hand drawing and modeling also have an ideological focus on shape and form for its own sake. At these schools, she said, students are encouraged to design buildings using fantastic shapes for the sake of dialogue and conceptual debate, even if it is unfeasible to construct them with the materials currently available.

But Heaps said that with the development of new construction technology, the emerging generation of architects now has the chance to build forms previously possible only on a screen.

He explained that construction materials are beginning to keep up with design technology, and that by using BIM, architects are finally able to approach unique shapes and forms with pragmatic engineering elements.

“We need to adjust our drawing,” Patrick Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects in London said at February’s symposium. Zaha Hadid Architects is known for

designing contemporary buildings that make use of fluid shapes and curves — their Galaxy Soho building in Beijing, for instance, comprises a cluster of five orb-like structures with no straight lines.

“We can no longer rely on shapes we can track on a piece of paper,” Schumacher said. “We need to let our repertoire of aspects and opportunities proliferate and acknowledge that there is a difference between what we as humans desire and what we can do.”

LIMITING THE SCOPE OF DRAWING

“In a sense, this isn’t really a question of whether or not people will actually be performing hand sketches [in the future], but what form those will take,” Bench said. “There’s general agreement that that initial sketch will never go away.”

Whether it takes place when an architect draws a prospective site, produces a quick pencil sketch to show a client, or gradually develops an idea through hand drawing, professors and students agree that the act of drawing will never be absent from architectural practice.

But as computer-based drawing and modeling tools become more prevalent in the workplace, it seems that Yale’s curriculum is shifting further and further toward the integration of technology into the classroom, even at the expense of hand drawing. While students and professors said they valued the critical thinking abilities developed by non-digital techniques, nearly all agreed that learning to sketch informally is an intuitive skill that can be practiced but is less important to learn in a classroom setting.

The more formal processes of hand drafting and modeling may take more training, but the functions of these tools have been largely subsumed by the computer with greater efficiency, Barre said.

He added that there is a distinction between non-technical sketching and modeling, which Stern and

Agran argue are necessary for the thinking process, and tedious and technical hand drafting.

In the future, it seems that the School of Architecture will aim to leave students with an understanding of both drawing and computer-based techniques, but it is unclear which functions of each of these approaches will remain relevant.

“Ultimately, it is best as a designer to have as many tools at your disposal [as you can],” Agran said.

Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .

TIMELINE HISTORY OF THE YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 1865 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology founds the first school of architecture in the United States.

1916 A department of architecture is established in the Yale School of Fine Arts.

1959 The School of Art and Architecture becomes an independent professional school.

1969 Art and architecture students adopt separate work spaces after a fire in Rudolph Hall.

1972 The School of Architecture develops into an independent professional school.

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TODAY’S FORECAST

TOMORROW

Sunny, with a high near 57. North wind between 8 and 14 mph. Low around 32.

SUNDAY

High of 58, low of 34.

High of 61, low of 41.

BEAR IN ANTARCTICA BY ILANA STRAUSS

ON CAMPUS 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.

PANCAKES AND BOOZE BY TAKUYA SAWAOKA

SUNDAY, APRIL 8 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.).

MONDAY, APRIL 9 6:00 PM “The Mystery of the Matzah.” Eli Rogosa of the Heritage Wheat Conservancy will give this workshop exploring matzoh as a symbol of resistance to the modern food system’s exploitative and depletive tendencies and techniques. Participants will discuss the reasoning behind the grains not eaten during Passover, explore the ways in which climate change affects grain farming and consider why the ancient grains of the Bible may actually be a smart answer to the needs of modern American agriculture. Slifka Center for Jewish Life (80 Wall St.).

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AROUND THE IVIES

Public transportation in Providence, R.I.

The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority manages public transportation in Rhode Island. After its creation in 1964, it oversaw private trolley and bus systems in the state, and in 1966 it began operating its own buses. The RIPTA trolley, which began running in 1999, runs through downtown Providence. The vehicles are historicallooking tourist trolleys. Base fare for a bus ride is two dollars.

T H E B R O W N D A I LY H E R A L D

Funds put plan for streetcar line in motion

BY ALEXA PUGH STAFF WRITER The board of directors of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority approved plans for a $126.7 million Providence streetcar system, with preliminary plans for a two-and-a-half mile route that would connect Rhode Island Hospital, downtown Providence and College Hill.

The idea was originally proposed by the Transit 2020 Action Group in 2006 as part of a greater initiative to invest in the growth and improvement of Providence transit over the long term.

The approved plans are based on findings from the Providence Core Connector Study, which considered multiple options for

routes and technology, including enhanced buses as an alternative to the streetcar.

BROWN U l t i mately, the study concluded that a streetcar would be the better option, citing its potential to incite economic development, its community impact and its better passenger experience.

“Streetcars will help concentrate and accelerate economic development,” said Amy Pettine, RIPTA’s special project manager.

A streetcar line would increase nearby property values, as well as encourage patronage at businesses

on the route, she said.

The line could create 6,000 jobs over the next 20 years as well as stimulate up to $1.1 billion in investment, according to the Providence Core Connector Study.

The project will also seek to take advantage of the roughly 100 acres of vacant or underused land made available by the recent Interstate 195 relocation, Pettine said.

Compared to standard dieselfueled buses, “a rail is a cleaner, greener technology,” Pettine said.

The type of streetcar selected for the project would most likely rely on overhead electric lines, though emerging hybrid technologies that would allow for wireless operation are also being considered. Streetcars also provide a more pleasant passenger experience and

have a higher passenger capacity than enhanced buses, the study reported.

A streetcar would reduce car traffic downtown for people making short commutes during the day and is intended to be part of “multi modal” system in conjunction with walking and bikes, Pettine said.

The streetcar would also help to integrate Brown’s main campus with that of the Alpert Medical School, said Dick Spies, executive vice president for planning and senior advisor to the president.

Construction is slated to begin as early as 2015 and finish by 2017, but this is the “most aggressive timeline,” Pettine said.

Now that the board has approved plans, RIPTA will need

to look outside of the organization in order to build support and find funding, said Steve Durkee, secretary for the RIPTA board of directors. With the organization facing a $8 to $10 million deficit going into the next fiscal year, finding funding for the project could be challenging, he said.

RIPTA is already struggling to pay the operating costs of the bus system, which relies on money from the state gas tax. Operating costs for the streetcar system would be comparable to those of the buses — approximately $3.6 million annually — but funding issues related to the current bus system will have to be addressed before moving forward, Pettine said.

RIPTA will not sacrifice bus

service for new streetcar service, Durkee said.

RIPTA will also need to raise $126.7 million in capital to fund the project, though it could be constructed in stages in order to split up the cost, Pettine said.

Pettine said she expects federal funds to comprise more than half of the capital for the project, though RIPTA will not apply until it has a better understanding of options for local financing to fund the remaining costs.

Previous plans had proposed landowners within a certain distance of the track pay a percentage of their land’s value to finance the line, but RIPTA voted not to pursue this strategy. Instead, much of the local financing for the project will come from bonds.

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Students, faculty doubt efficacy of plagiarism software

BY MARGARET YODER STAFF WRITER One year after the Faculty Senate passed a resolution adopting Turnitin.com as a strategy to reduce plagiarism on campus, the Judicial Codes Counselor Office — which represents students accused of Code of Conduct violations — has yet to see a case in which the software detected plagiarism. However, several students and administrators said they doubted whether this indicated a decline in the number of stu-

dents actually plagiarizing their work.

In a 2010 poll conducted by a Cornell CORNELL o rga n i za tion, 30 percent of 227 Cornell undergraduates surveyed admitted to some form of cheating. Carol Grumbach, associate dean of students, said the real percentages are likely even higher, because not all students will admit to cheating.

She added that the lack of cases involving Turnitin that have been seen by the JCC does not necessarily mean Turnitin is not working. Students accused of plagiarism may have not used the JCC to represent them.

Last spring, the Faculty Senate voted to pass a resolution adopting Tunitin.com as part of a broader approach to reducing plagiarism at Cornell, according to Grumbach. Turnitin is an optional tool professors can use to detect plagiarism by electronically running papers through a database that com-

pares documents with web content, publications and papers that have previously been submitted.

The software will create an “originality report” — a percentage that indicates how much of a submitted paper was copied from an outside source.

It also highlights those sections.

However, it is at the discretion of the instructor to determine whether there was any actual plagiarism in the paper, according to Grumbach.

While Cornell is using Turnitin to reduce plagiarism cam-

pus-wide, some students do not believe that Turnitin is targeting the assignments where plagiarism is most rampant.

“I don’t think the issue is really with papers, it is more prevalent in the sciences where you are supposed to have the same answers as other people,” Christina Hardin ’15 said.

“I don’t think they’re looking at the right area. Turnitin only looks at the arts, it doesn’t look at anything” science-related.

Tobi Simon ’15 agreed, saying that she doubted Turnitin will have an impact on the amount of

plagiarism on campus because she thinks the number of professors who actually use Turnitin is low. She also noted the difficulty of plagiarizing an essay versus a problem set.

“I don’t know too many people who plagiarized essays … you can’t really copy what other people think when you’re writing about what you feel, whereas problem sets are really basic answers,” Simon said. “Math and science is definitely easier to copy. I don’t think using Turnitin.com will help plagiarism at all.”

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WORLD P.R. warns Occupy to clean up mess

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico officials threatened the island’s Occupy Movement with legal action Thursday if its supporters do not clean up a public park they occupied for five months and abandoned suddenly this week.

The group has 48 hours to respond, said Mari Batista, director of San Juan’s Sports and Recreation Office.

“The amount of garbage, waste and rubble left behind is impressive,” she said. “They were supposedly defending the environment, fighting for a better Puerto Rico ... what they left behind is everything to the contrary.”

At least five big trucks are needed to carry away the garbage left behind, including makeshift toilets, books, blankets, tents, tables and wooden crates, she said.

The group also damaged a children’s

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attended a Mass with family Thursday after returning from his latest round of radiation therapy treatment in Cuba.

Chavez put an arm around his mother while a priest led a prayer for the president’s health. Chavez’s father and other relatives joined him at the Mass in his home state of Barinas.

Chavez returned from Cuba late Wednesday and hugged relatives as he stepped off the presidential jet in Barinas, where his parents live.

The president said on the tarmac that he has been recovering well since the February surgery in Havana that removed a second tumor from his pel-

Syria cease-fire hopes dashed

playground within the Jose N. Gandara park in the financial district of Hato Rey that at least a dozen protesters occupied last year, Batista said.

If the group does not agree to pay for the damage and clean up the park, the city will do so and charge for it, she said.

Miguel Lozada, who once served as the group’s spokesman but said he no longer does, said the movement split up several months ago following differences about its goals.

“I’m perplexed that this is the outcome,” he said, declining further comment.

A message left with the group’s new unidentified spokesman was not immediately returned.

Batista said authorities had not interfered with the occupation or the protesters’ right to freedom of expression, but she warned that future groups will face greater scrutiny as a result of the damage to the park.

After treatment in Cuba, Chavez returns to Venezuela

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

“Oh, I love trash! Anything dirty or dingy or dusty, anything ragged or rotten or rusty. Yes, I love trash.” OSCAR THE GROUCH

vic region.

“So far, fortunately there hasn’t been any adverse reaction to the treatment,” Chavez said. “All the exams that have been carried out have shown positive results of physical recovery.”

The 57-year-old leader has vowed to overcome cancer and is running for re-election in October.

Chavez underwent his second round of daily radiation treatments this week. He began the treatments in late March and has said he plans to have a total of five rounds to help prevent a recurrence of his illness.

He has regularly traveled to and from Cuba for treatment since last June, when he said an initial surgery removed a tumor the size of a baseball.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Syrian youth stand in a building damaged by tank shells in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, after a raid by Syrian troops killed several rebels and civilians on Thursday.

BY ZEINA KARAM AND ELIZABETH KENNEDY ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Syria launched a blistering assault Thursday on the outskirts of its capital, shelling residential areas and deploying snipers on rooftops as international envoy Kofi Annan demanded every fighter lay down arms in time for a U.N.-brokered cease-fire.

The bloodshed undermined already fading hopes that more than a year of violence will end soon, and France accused President Bashar Assad of trying to fool the world by accepting Annan’s deadline to pull the army back from population centers by April 10.

According to the plan, rebels are supposed to stop fighting 48 hours later, paving the way for talks to end Assad’s violent suppression of the

uprising against his rule. The U.N. says more than 9,000 people have died.

“Can we be optimistic? I am not.

Because I think Bashar Assad is deceiving us,” French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told reporters in Paris.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon said the crisis was getting worse, even though the Syrian government accepted Annan’s plan March 27. Activists have accused the regime of stepping up attacks across the country, and they described Thursday’s assault in Douma as among the worst around the capital since the uprising began.

“Cities, towns and villages have been turned into war zones. The sources of violence are proliferating,” Ban told the U.N. General Assembly. “The human rights of the Syr-

ian people continue to be violated. ... Humanitarian needs are growing dramatically.”

He said the violence has not stopped and the situation on the ground “continues to deteriorate.”

Black smoke billowed from residential areas of Douma, about 8 miles (12 kilometers) outside Damascus, amid heavy cracks of gunfire.

Douma, which has seen anti-Assad activities since the uprising began, has been subjected to several campaigns by Assad’s regime over the past year.

Activists said soldiers occupied Douma’s Grand Mosque, one of the largest in the area.

“No one dares to walk in the streets because of the snipers,” Syrian activist Omar Hamza told The Associated Press by telephone. “They are like stray dogs attacking sheep.”

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BY STEVE PEOPLES ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum met privately with conservative leaders on Thursday to craft plans to try to stop Mitt Romney’s march to the nomination. Pressuring rival Newt Gingrich to leave the race was part of their overall strategy.

The northern Virginia meeting included a host of fiscal and social conservatives who have long doubted Romney’s conservative credentials.

“Like halftime at a football game, you go into the locker room to gauge what has been working and what hasn’t,” meeting participant Richard A. Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said in a statement.

“The Santorum campaign team recognizes that, because of Mitt Romney’s money advantage and his support from the Republican establishment and the mainstream media, Rick has, to some extent, lost control of narrative in the campaign.”

Among other topics, according to Viguerie, the participants discussed their perception that “delegate counts being published by the Romney campaign and the media are simply inaccurate.”

The group decided to apply more pressure on Gingrich to quit, which they see as allowing divided conservatives to unite behind Santorum, according to an official close to

the campaign. The official requested anonymity to discuss private conversations.

The effort may be too late. Romney has twice as many delegates as Santorum, according to The Associated Press count, and is on track to having a majority of delegates in June. Gingrich has ignored calls to leave the race for weeks and shows no sign of bowing out even after scaling back his campaign.

Like halftime at a football game, you go into the locker room to gauge what has been working and what hasn’t.

RICHARD VIGUERIE Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com The private meeting came as Romney’s supporters, including high-profile conservatives from across the country, intensified pressure on Santorum to leave the race to allow Romney to focus on a general election campaign against President Barack Obama. The Democratic president informally launched the general election earlier in the week, going after Romney by name in a speech and a multistate advertising campaign.

The Santorum campaign insisted

that the former Pennsylvania senator will not leave the contest, despite Romney’s near-insurmountable delegate lead. Romney has collected 658 delegates compared to 281 for Santorum, 135 for Gingrich and 51 for Ron Paul, according to the AP tally.

Santorum’s strategy depends on winning Pennsylvania’s primary on April 24 and, with that momentum, finding success in a series of May contests.

But Santorum would need 80 percent of the remaining delegates to win the nomination before the party’s national convention in August.

That won’t happen as long as Romney stays in the race because most upcoming primaries use some type of proportional system to award delegates, making it hard to win large numbers of delegates in individual states.

Santorum’s only hope is a contested convention, which becomes less and less likely with each Romney victory.

Thursday’s meeting aside, Santorum is largely taking a break from the campaign trail to observe the Easter holiday. He returned to his Virginia home Wednesday night after appearing at some campaign events and going bowling in Pennsylvania, which he represented in Congress for 16 years.

Santorum has scheduled fundraising events for Monday and planned to resume campaigning Tuesday in Pennsylvania.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum addresses supporters in Hollidaysburg, Pa.

Panetta has paid $17,000 for commuting to Calif.

Obama to use justices as election issue

BY ANNE GEARAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is laying groundwork to make the majority-conservative Supreme Court a campaign issue this fall, taking a political page from Republicans who have long railed against liberal judges who don’t vote their way.

The emerging Democratic strategy to paint the court as extreme was little noted in this week’s hubbub over Obama’s assertion that overturning his health care law would be “unprecedented.”

His statement Monday wasn’t completely accurate, and the

White House backtracked. But Obama was making a political case, not a legal one, and he appears ready to keep making it if the high court’s five-member majority strikes down or cuts the heart out of his signature policy initiative.

The court also is likely to consider several other issues before the November election that could stir Obama’s core Democratic supporters and draw crucial independent voters as well.

Among those are immigration, voting rights and a revisit of a campaign finance ruling that Obama has already criticized as an outrage.

“We haven’t seen the end of this,” said longtime Supreme

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Supporters of health care reform rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on the final day of arguments regarding the health care law.

Court practitioner Tom Goldstein, who teaches at Stanford and Harvard universities. “The administration seems to be positioning itself to be able to run against the Supreme Court if it needs to or wants to.”

While Obama has predicted victory in the health care case now before the court, his administration could blame overreach by Republicanappointed justices if the law is rejected, said Goldstein, who wrote a brief supporting the law’s constitutionality.

This can be dangerous ground, as Obama discovered.

Since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, few presidents have directly assailed the Supreme Court. In Obama’s case, he issued an indirect challenge, but the former constitutional law professor tripped over the details.

Obama told a news conference on Monday that he was “confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”

The Supreme Court does sometimes overturn laws passed

by Congress. Obama later clarified that he was referring to a narrow class of constitutional law, but even then Republicans and some court scholars took issue. What’s not in question is that the law wasn’t approved by a strong, majority - the vote was a slim 219 to 212 in the House.

BY LOLITA BALDOR ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has commuted on military aircraft to his home in northern California more than two dozen times since he took over the Pentagon in July, paying about $630 per trip for a roundtrip flight that costs the Pentagon about $32,000.

The totals detailed by defense officials lay out his reimbursements for the first time, showing he paid the Treasury about $17,000 for the 27 personal trips. Based on fuel and other operating expenses for his Air Force plane, those same trips cost the government as much as $860,000.

As Pentagon chief, Panetta is required to travel on military planes because they have the secure communications equipment he needs to stay in contact with the president and other top civilian and military leaders.

His bill for the travel is calculated according to reimbursement formulas dictated by longstanding federal policies using what a full-fare coach trip would cost. And the Pentagon says it costs about $3,200 per flight hour to operate the small plane he usually uses for the 10-hour round trip.

When he took the job, Panetta made it clear that he would continue to return home to his family on the weekends as he had done as CIA director for the previous two years, and as a member of Congress from 19771993.

The cost of the flights is a tiny fraction of the Pentagon’s proposed $614 billion budget. But Panetta comes to the defense job at a particularly difficult financial time for the department. If Congress can’t reach an agreement on savings or additional revenues elsewhere in the federal budget by next Jan-

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uary, officials could be forced to cut nearly $1 trillion in defense spending over the next 10 years.

When Panetta took the post it was noted that he came with budget skills honed during his time as chairman of the House Budget Committee, head of the White House Office of Management and Budget and White House chief of staff for President Bill Clinton.

No one understands the budget pressures on the Pentagon better than Secretary Panetta.

GEORGE LITTLE Pentagon press secretary “No one understands the budget pressures on the Pentagon better than Secretary Panetta, who is responsible for identifying nearly $1 billion per week in defense cuts - or roughly $140 million per day - over the next 10 years,” Pentagon press secretary George Little said. “As a required-use traveler, he must use government aircraft for all travel.”

Little said Panetta values his time with his wife and family, and “spending time away from Washington, in fact, helps him focus on the job and recharge.”

White House national security spokesman Tommy Vietor added that, “Secretary Panetta has done an exceptional job in both his role at the CIA and as secretary of defense. He has been on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and has always been reachable through secure channels whenever necessary, wherever he is.”

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SPORTS Men’s lax takes on Big Green M. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 lone assist of the game resulting in a goal by the junior attacker.

In last Saturday’s game the two connected three times for goals

by Dempster. In order for the Bulldog offense to be successful against Dartmouth, the chemistry between these two will have to continue.

Tuesday’s win was important for the Elis because it showed the team it could win even when their primary faceoff specialist, midfielder Dylan Levings ’14, is not at the top of his game. The sophomore was ranked third in the country as of April 1, with a .657 winning percentage at the X. He struggled on Tuesday, winning only three of 10 contests, but midfielder Cole Yeager ’13 picked up the slack, winning five of his

eight faceoffs.

The last time these two teams at met, the Bulldogs prevailed, 9–7 at Reese Stadium, but Dartmouth the final score was not indicative of the way that the game was played. The Yale defense held the Big Green scoreless for 39 minutes and built a commanding sixgoal lead midway through the fourth quarter. Yale dominated the possession battle, holding a 37–21 edge over the visitors in ground balls and winning 14 of 20 faceoffs.

Tomorrow’s game begins at 1 p.m. in Hanover.

than his own success, though.

“I’m actually not having a good time because my teammates are having a rough go with it,” Hanson said. “I’m catching all the lucky breaks.”

This weekend would be a good time for the lucky breaks to start falling the Bulldogs’ way, as they will be playing host to two teams that can tear the cover off the ball.

Princeton is hitting .285 with 16 home runs. Cornell’s average is even higher at .308 to complement 15 homers.

In addition to the Big Red offense, the Elis will have to deal with a Cornell pitching staff that setting the pace for the Ancient Eight with a 3.32 earned run aver-

Unlike the Quakers, the Tigers have played top-notch opposition this spring in preparation for the Ivy season. Princeton has matched up against No. 13 Georgia Tech and No. 6 Miami (Fla.).

The Tigers lost both matches.

Vicky Brook ’12 said that Yale knows little about Penn but will go into that match looking to impose its style of play. As for Princeton, the Bulldogs are ready for a battle. In their match for the ECAC Indoor Championship, five of the six singles matches went to three sets.

“We are very aware of the way that Princeton plays, pretty baseline-oriented,” Brook said.

“They’re counterpunchers, quick around the court, and they get a lot of balls back. If we’re mentally as well as physically strong, we should come out on top.”

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age (ERA).

Despite the significance vs. of the weekend, Piwinski suggested that the Elis should Princeton remain calm.

“It does no Sunday, 12 p.m. good to add vs. more pressure,” Piwinski said. “Then you don’t play Cornell loose.”

First pitch tomorrow against Princeton and Sunday against Cornell is at noon.

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Saturday, 12 p.m.

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Entering Ivy League play, team members vs. expressed satisfaction with their performance so far Penn this season.

But the team Saturday, 12 p.m. fully expects to vs. be crowned Ivy champions. “ We a re the highestPrinceton ranked team in the Ivies, so there is a big target on our backs,” Brook said.

“We’ve been working extremely hard until now, and we’re ready to put that hard work into action.”

Today’s match begins at 2 p.m.

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Defender Katherine Sherrill ’14 has picked up five ground balls this season.

W. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 Jen Devito ’14 (who contributed two more), are returning for the rematch. In last year’s match, Yale was stronger in draw controls (8–6) and had more saves (18–5) with goalkeeper Whitney Quackenbush ’12 holding down the fort. But Princeton had 13 fewer turnovers, 20 more shots, four more clears and three fewer fouls.

Considering these stats alone, it is not surprising that the Tigers emerged victorious.

“We need to make better decisions with our offensive opportunities, and defensively we need to limit our fouls,” head

coach Anne Phillips said. “Princeton is a veteran team.” at This season, however, the Bulldogs have been improving in turnovers, shots and clears.

Princeton If the team repeats its confident movements shown against the Red Foxes, it will have higher ball possession and end up controlling the play.

Phillips said her team has defensive matchups on the Tigers to limit their offensive opportunities.

Key Princeton players include Cassie

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Pyle, who scored an unassisted goal in last year’s match. As last season’s first-team All-Region and second-team All-Ivy, she already has scored 23 goals this season and is currently the top scorer on the team.

Another potential threat is Jaci Gassaway, who scored two goals against the Elis last year. Recording 21 goals so far this season, she was named the Ivy League Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player and also earned first-team All-Region. Defenders Adrienne Tarver ’14 and Katherine Sherrill ’14’s ability in marking these two players will be a decisive factor in determining the flow of tomorrow’s game.

Captain Caroline Crow ’12 leads Yale in goals with 16, closely followed by Rhodes’ 13 goals. Goalkeeper Erin McMullan ’14 has recorded 43 saves this season. With only three more conference matches remaining after tomorrow’s match, a victory over Princeton is crucial in elevating Yale’s Ivy League standing.

“If we can beat Princeton, we give ourselves a chance to qualify for the Ivy League tournament,” Phillips said.

The Elis will take on Princeton tomorrow in New Jersey at 1 p.m.

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NCAA experience draws Canadians CANADIANS FROM PAGE 1 of two recruited student-athletes who came to the United States for college and one of only four graduates who left the province. Similarly, women’s hockey player Heather Grant ’12 was one of three students — all recruited varsity athletes — from her approximately 250-student graduating class to leave Toronto, Ontario, for the United States.

Although Eric Chen ’15, from Ottawa, Ontario, does not play on a varsity team, he said he was the only student in his high school class of approximately 200 to migrate south for his post-secondary education. He added that the two other current Yale freshmen from Ottawa are both varsity athletes.

According to Chen, most Canadian students do not even apply to U.S. colleges because they are unfamiliar with the extensive application process and the variety of post-secondary options available.

“We don’t write SATs or personal essays in Canada, so it’s seen as a bit of a hassle,” Chen said. “Also, [American universities] generally don’t come to recruit students or promote American colleges in Canadian high schools.”

Anna Moore ’13, a native of Toronto, Ontario, said that most Canadian high school students do not start university applications until halfway through their senior years, at which point it is too late to apply to American colleges.

“It can be overwhelming,” Moore said.

“In the U.S., there is an industry of trying to get people into college — application companies and test prep. That doesn’t exist in Canada.”

She added that tuition rates in Canada are much lower — the University of Toronto’s is around $5,000 — which provides further incentive for students to remain in Canada.

However, for high-level Canadian athletes, it is a different story.

“I never really considered going to a Canadian university,” said Jen Matichuk ’13, a hockey player from St. Albert, Alberta. “There just isn’t as much focus on athletics. The NCAA is more prestigious, and it’s the highest level of women’s hockey.”

PERKS OF THE NCAA

Canada’s version of the NCAA is Canadian Interuniversity Sport, which governs collegiate athletics in Canada and includes the majority (54) of the country’s degreegranting universities.

But in the eyes of both Canadian athletes and administrators at the high school and collegiate levels, CIS does not begin to compete with its American counterpart.

Michael Belanger, the manager of communication and media relations at the CIS National Office in Ottawa, Ontario, said that comparing CIS to the NCAA is like “comparing apples to oranges” because the NCAA is much bigger in terms of profile, funding and marketing.

“I think it stems from a difference in philosophy,” Belanger said of the crossborder discrepancy. “In the U.S., college and high school sports are in people’s DNA and they stay attached to their alma mater.

When you meet someone from the U.S., one of the first things they say is which college they went to and who their team is. [In Canada], the philosophy is that university is first and foremost an academic institution.”

Ken Weipert, principal of the National Sport School in Calgary, Alberta., a high school which aims to help high-level Canadian student-athletes balance training and competition with academics, said that since there are more athletes in the NCAA than in the CIS, there is more com-

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General student body petition between teams. As a result, he said, the standards of performance are higher in the NCAA. For many Canadian athletes, funding is a primary motivation to move south, Belanger said. While CIS schools do offer sports scholarships, they are not considered “free rides” like they are at many schools in the U.S. and usually only cover a part of the tuition, he added.

“No one is going to dispute that the level of play is higher as a whole in the U.S.,” Belanger said. He added that there is higher pressure to perform at American colleges, particularly for athletes on scholarship, and that some Canadian athletes return to Canada because they do not want to devote all their energy to athletics.

Schools in the Ivy League do not offer athletic scholarships, but student-athletes can still receive monetary support through financial aid. In contrast, Palios said maximum support for student-athletes in Canada is usually a $1000 to $3000 bursary. He added that since both university admissions and scholarships are contingent on academics, Canadian athletes cannot rely on brawn over brains to gain admission.

“Competing in the NCAA is like the track and field version of going pro,” Palios said, adding that it offers greater opportunities and prominence in the athletic world.

RECRUITING CANADIANS

With the smaller emphasis on collegiate athletics, Palios said there is no athletic recruiting culture in Canada.

Genny Ladiges ’12, a goaltender on the women’s hockey team from Almonte, Ontario, said that Yale began recruiting her in the 10th grade. At a Canadian school, she would have first needed to gain admission to the university, then try out for the women’s hockey team.

“It’s nice to be wanted and to be recruited,” Ladiges said. “American scouts actually come to Canada and watch us, so we don’t even have to go to the States for tournaments.”

Hockey player Antoine Laganiere ’13, who hails from Ile Cadieaux, Que., agreed, adding that in Canada, he had to initiate contact with university athletics programs, but in the US, “they reach out to you.”

Men’s hockey head coach Keith Allain ’80 said that he looks to Canada for athletes because of the strong hockey culture and interest among Canadian athletes in both hockey and academics. He added that he regularly scouts two junior leagues in Canada.

“Yale’s admission standards are as rigid for Canadian athletes as they are for others, and for us the process of recruiting Canadians is really no different from recruiting Americans,” Allain said in an email to the News. “We are looking for the best and the brightest, and we work

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very hard to ensure they take a good look at Yale.”

Women’s hockey assistant coach Eddie Ardito agreed, but added that when recruiting in Canada he has to explain the Ivy League and Yale’s financial aid policies.

In addition to financial aid for individual student-athletes, seven Canadian athletes interviewed said that the amount of funding put into American college athletics programs is much greater than in Canada.

“They put more money into sports here,” Ladiges said. “The facilities are better, and they buy full equipment for us here, which not usually the case in Canada.”

Weipert said the Canadian Olympic training program offers decent funding for athletes, but most Olympic athletes are in their mid-20s, leaving a gap for Canadian athletes after high school.

WHY YALE?

Palios, who was recruited by several American colleges, said that one of the reasons why he chose to come to Yale was, ironically, that it does not offer scholarships.

“I liked that Yale wanted me for something other than being a thrower, that I wasn’t being bought through a scholarship like at other big American universities,” Palios said. “I’ve found most Canadian athletes in the States are really smart because, growing up, they know they cannot rely on athletic ability to be recruited.”

Ten Canadians interviewed said that although they regard Canadian universities as good schools, the Ivy League offers a higher level of prestige and a different college experience, with greater opportunities to network and meet people from around the world.

Palios and Laganiere added that they wanted to go to a smaller school, but Canada’s top universities such as McGill and the University of Toronto have upwards of 25,000 undergraduates.

“I couldn’t fathom going to a school that was larger than my town,” Palios said.

Laganiere said that American colleges do a better job of combining school and sports, adding that in Canada, toplevel hockey players generally make the Junior team, a national top-tier under-20 team, and take time off of school after high school.

“I thought of joining the Junior team in Canada, hoping to go pro within three years, but honestly, the odds are against me,” Laganiere said. “I think only 1 percent or so of hopefuls are successful, and I wanted to continue my education.”

Eighteen of the 26 Canadian studentathletes at Yale are on the men’s or women’s hockey teams.

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SOFTBALL ELIS LOOK FOR WINS AT HOME After struggling during a string of 10 straight games on the road, Yale (7–17, 1–3 Ivy) will look to kick of a 10-game homestand with much-needed Ivy League success as it plays doubleheaders against Princeton (6–19, 2–2) and Cornell (12–13, 3–1) this weekend.

MEN’S GOLF TEAM TO BEGIN SPRING SEASON The 2011 Ivy League champions will begin the 2012 season this Saturday at home. The team will look for a more auspicious beginning than last year, when the group placed seventh at the Opener. In their last tournament, the Bulldogs placed 9th out of 13 teams.

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Yale pursues third straight win

BY JOHN SULLIVAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER

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Tomorrow the Bulldogs will look to build on their two-game winning streak when they travel to Hanover to take on Dartmouth. Last weekend, Yale broke a four-match slump with its first Ivy League win in a thriller against Penn.

The Elis (4–4, 1–2 Ivy) led for most of the contest but allowed the Quakers to climb back into the game with a three-goal run in the fourth quarter. The win was saved by a fast break goal from Deron Dempster ’13 with 11.9 seconds remaining. The goal was Dempster’s fifth of the game and put the Elis ahead 10–9 for good.

“It felt great to get [the first Ivy win of the season]” captain Michael Pratt ’12 said. “0–2 isn’t a great place to be in the Ivy League, so we’re glad to just get this win and move forward from here.”

BY EUGENE JUNG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After taking a weeklong break, the women’s lacrosse team is set to play its first game in the month of April. Shifting their attention to the Ivy League competition, the Bulldogs will head to New Jersey in an attempt to grab their first Ancient Eight win against No. 18 Princeton.

Although Yale (3–6, 0–3 Ivy) was finally able to secure its first away win of the season against Marist last week in New York, it failed to create a winning streak on the road after falling to Colgate 16–12 last Saturday. Princeton (4–4, 2–1 Ivy) has been showing relative strength in the Ivies, currently positioning itself in fourth place in the league.

It felt great to get [the first Ivy win of the season.] 0–2 isn’t a great place to be in the Ivy League.

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MICHAEL PRATT ’12 Captain and midfielder, men’s lacrosse On Tuesday this week, the Bulldogs continued their run of good form with a 9–6 victory over Providence. The Elis gave up the first goal of the game but answered right back with four of their own and never trailed again.

The game featured another impressive performance from Dempster, who finished with four goals in only his second game back from an injury. The Bulldogs will look for him to continue his strong play tomorrow as they go for their second Ivy League win of the season.

Attacker Matt Gibson ’12 once again got the Bulldogs’ offense going in the win over Providence. The senior leads the team and is fourth in the Ivy League with 3.25 points per game and he added four more, including three goals, to his tally on Tuesday. Gibson also continued his effective play with Dempster, with his SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 11

No. 27 Elis move into Ivy play

BY JOSEPH ROSENBERG STAFF REPORTER The No. 27 women’s tennis team (12–3, 0–0 Ivy) will finally begin Ivy League play when they face Penn (5–6, 0–1) today at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center. Saturday at noon, the Bulldogs will take on the No. 70 Princeton Tigers (8–8, 1–0).

W. TENNIS Having defeated Quinnipiac and Rutgers last week, Yale enters Ivy League play on a two-match winning streak. In contrast, Penn has lost its last two. All indications point toward a victory to kick off the Ancient Eight season. One match to watch will be at the No. 1 spot, where Elizabeth Epstein ’13 will take on Penn No. 1 Sol Eskenazi, who has lost just once this spring.

Penn’s schedule this season has not featured many highly-ranked teams. In fact, Yale will be the best team the Quakers face this spring.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs will undoubtedly face a sterner test against the Tigers. Earlier this season, the Elis defeated Princeton 4–2 in the finals of the ECAC Indoor Championship.

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Bulldogs ready to handle Tigers

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Attacker Devon Rhodes ’13 said Princeton is a talented team that is fast, strong and great at ball handling.

None of the Ivy opponents that the Tigers have played against this season have overlapped with the teams that the Elis have faced.

Princeton traveled to Brown and Columbia and beat them 18–8 and 18–6, respectively earlier this season. The Tigers’ triumphant march stopped short only when visiting No. 16 Cornell took them down 13–12 on their own turf in overtime. The Bulldogs, on the other hand, are still struggling to get their first conference win.

They have thus far lost to Dartmouth, Penn and Harvard 9–8, 12–6 and 7–5, respectively. They currently share the seventh spot with Columbia.

In their last meeting, the Tigers outscored the Elis 9–3 despite Yale’s home advantage. The only two Bulldogs who scored against Princeton, Rhodes (who scored one goal) and attacker

Last year, the Bulldogs beat the Big Green 9-7 at home, holding the Big Green scoreless for 39 minutes .

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Baseball heads for home

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER The baseball team is hoping that there is no place like home as it tries to solve its recent woes.

BASEBALL Having played all but four of their first 25 contests away from the friendly confines of Yale Field, the Elis will begin an 11-game home stand this weekend. Princeton (9–11, 3–1 Ivy) will travel up the coast for a twinbill tomorrow. Cornell (17–6–1, 3–1 Ivy) will follow up by joining Yale for a doubleheader on Sunday.

“This weekend is huge for us,” captain and backstop Ryan Brenner ’12 said. “When we underperformed [last] weekend, so did the rest of our [division].”

Yale is a member of the Red Rolfe division — named for the Dartmouth graduate and former New York Yankees third baseman — which also includes Dartmouth, Harvard and Brown. All three of these teams have had trouble breaking into the win column. The three teams went a combined 4–8 in Ancient Eight ball last weekend. None of them has more than four Ivy wins this season.

The fact that the Tigers and the Big Red are in the other division — named for another former Yankee and Columbia first baseman Lou Gehrig — does not change the meaning of the games this weekend.

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The baseball team has pitched 169 strikeouts so far this season and had one shutout against Stony Brook on March 17.

“The Ivy League season is so short,” shortstop Cale Hanson ’14 said. “Every Ivy League game is important. We are trying to win every Ivy League game we can.”

While the Elis are hitting just .224

as a team, Hanson is the lone Bulldog whose hits are falling in. Hanson owns an average of .378, .111 higher than the next-best Eli. Chris Piwinski ’13 and Brenner attributed part of Hanson’s success

to his consistency in his approach at the plate.

Hanson said that the teams’ struggles are more important to him SEE BASEBALL PAGE 11

THE PERCENTAGE OF CANADIANS AT YALE WHO ARE ALSO VARSITY ATHLETES. Of the 560 international students in Yale’s undergraduate population, 70 are from Canada, making it the best represented country outside the U.S. Seventeen of those students play hockey for Yale.