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University will host the annual Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive today in Commons from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., honoring former women’s ice hockey player Mandi Schwartz ’11, who passed away from leukemia in April 2011.
Pundits? An email from “YCC Elections Committee” — email address yccelectionscommittee@ yahoo.com — informed students that the YCC elections committee had overlooked yet another clause in the YCC’s election rules, and that there would need to be another runoff election. “The YCC Constitution specifies that if a candidate has a given name of four or seventeen letters, or a name that ends in the letter Y, they are prohibited from running in the election, unless they win by a margin of EXACTLY 43.9975835562 percent,” the email said. Continuing coverage.
Two Westbrook, Conn., men accused of stabbing several alpacas to death at Applesauce Acres Alpacas Farm in Essex, Conn., back in December appeared in court on Wednesday for their arraignment, the New Haven Register reported.
Stop the speeders. On Wednesday, the Connecticut NAACP came out against a bill that would allow Connecticut’s 19 largest cities — New Haven among them — to install red-light cameras at intersections, saying it would unfairly target the state’s urban populations, the Hartford Courant reported. More opportunity. A new summer fellowship program will allow more undergraduates to conduct research in science and engineering during the summer after freshman year. At least 25 more fellowship slots will be available to freshmen by summer 2013. THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY
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Energetic scientist, musician mourned Zachary Brunt ’15, described by friends as a curious, outgoing musician and scientist, died Wednesday. He was 19. Brunt’s body was found early Wednesday afternoon in Gibbs Laboratories on Science Hill, and his death has been termed an apparent suicide. Known for his long, blond curly hair, Brunt was an active member of Davenport College and an aspiring engineer from Alexandria, Va. Brunt’s friends said he had an upbeat character and the ability to connect with a diverse group of students. “Zach was the most caring, fun, easygoing individual I have met on Yale’s campus,” said Lincoln Mitchell ’15, a fellow member of Davenport who considered Brunt an honorary suitemate. “He seriously had no social fears about anything. The first night I met him, he came into our room telling hilarious stories about his life, his childhood, his upbringing and his hopes for Yale.” Brunt came to Yale last fall after graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria. A member of the Yale Drop Team, Brunt was scheduled to take a flight today to Houston, Texas, and take part in a zero-gravity experiment. The team was planning to test how zero gravity would affect metal surface tension screens, and Brunt had spent many hours preparing for the trip, his friends said. “If there was one guy [about whom] I would say, ‘Yeah, he was in zero gravity for four days at NASA,’ it would be Zach Brunt,” said Ruchit Nagar ’15, Brunt’s close friend in Davenport. Joe O’Rourke ’12, last semester’s copresident of the Drop Team, said Brunt’s work on the project’s electrical system was “invaluable,” noting that the project had been progressing far more smoothly than in previous years. The Drop Team canceled its Houston trip in the wake of
CAUSE OF DEATH STILL UNDETERMINED; VIGIL SET FOR TONIGHT BY JAMES LU AND DANIEL SISGOREO STAFF REPORTERS Davenport College student Zachary Brunt ’15 was found dead Wednesday in an apparent suicide. Brunt’s body was discovered on the sixth floor of Josiah Willard Gibbs Laboratories early Wednesday afternoon. The police were called by a student shortly after 2 p.m., and he was pronounced dead at the scene. His body was taken to the state medical examiner’s office for an autopsy. Yale College Dean Mary Miller first informed the Yale community of Brunt’s death in an email at 6:29 p.m., and said there is “no evidence of foul play nor is there any indication of an accident.”
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Davenport student Zachary Brunt ’15 was found dead on campus Wednesday afternoon. the tragedy. In addition to his scientific pursuits, Brunt also played both electric and acoustic guitar in a group called “Honest Liars” with four other freshmen. The band played casual covers of “HindiEnglish fusion” music, said Nagar, who is also a member of the group. He added that the band had just begun recording its first song, and that Brunt played his part “exceedingly well.” Constantly exploring and trying new things throughout his life, Brunt began teaching himself Russian as a child, competed in Yale’s Iron Chef competi-
tion in February and developed an encyclopedic knowledge of trivia, his friends said. Other students said they will remember Brunt for his offbeat sense of humor and wild blond hair, which he insisted on leaving long despite jokes that he should cut it. “We always joked about him wearing hair nets [during Iron Chef] because of his huge ’fro,” said Julie Leong ’15, who competed on Brunt’s team in Iron Chef. “Instead he put on a bandanna, so he SEE OBITUARY PAGE 7
His death is a terrible shock to all of us, and we hope that we will be able to give each other comfort and support this evening and in the days ahead. RICHARD SCHOTTENFELD Master, Davenport College The Yale Police Department is conducting a full investigation into the death, Miller wrote. YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins deferred comment on the investigation to the Office of Public Affairs and Communications. Davenport College Master Richard Schottenfeld ’71 MED ’76 held a meeting at his house Wednesday evening at which he said the death appeared to be a SEE BRUNT PAGE 7
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What next? Around a dozen
former occupiers were spotted lingering outside the New Haven Green around 9 p.m. They were gone by 10 p.m., their new curfew.
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second-annual Yale College Council App Challenge, YaleTravelogue took home the $1,500 first-place prize. Built and developed by Jared Shenson ’12, Charlie Croom ’12, and Bay Gross ’13, the app works to help Yalies connect with each other over the summer by mapping out their travel plans. A $500 secondplace prize went to YaleMobile, an app designed by Danqing Liu ’13 to create a hub for various facets of Yale life, while Rafi Khan’s ’15 Screw Me Yale won $200 for third place.
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ith food and dancing in celebration of Greek Easter last weekend, Yalies from Greece shared their nation’s culture with other students. But as Greece continues to face economic and political struggles, Greek Elis are considering their obligations toward their homeland. JANE DARBY MENTON reports. Last Sunday, approximately 120 students and faculty members lounged on the grass in the Ezra Stiles courtyard, eating from plates piled high with homemade spanakopita, baklava and souvlaki as they celebrated Greek Easter. A student wearing a blue Yale Hellenic Society T-shirt watched over a blackened lamb slowly turning over a simmering fire, a traditional component of the festivities. The Hellenic society, which aims to “promote and disseminate Greek culture at Yale” and “provide a home on campus for Greek nationals, those of a Greek descent and others interested in Greece,” hosts several events throughout the year. But its Easter celebration is the largest, drawing both Greeks and non-Greeks in attendance. Greek Easter falls on a different date than the non-Orthodox Easter
each year because the Greek Orthodox Church adheres to the Julian calendar, rather than the Gregorian calendar. For both religious and cultural reasons, Easter is one of the most important holidays celebrated by Greeks, said Stefano Gandolfo ’13, president of the Hellenic Society. As the familiar strains of “Zorba the Greek,” a song and associated dance popularized in the 1964 movie by the same name, came over the speakers, people leapt up to join the dance. They linked arms, rotating in an ever-growing circle. “Everyone thinks they know the steps,” Gandolfo said with a laugh, “but really they just make it up.” Eight Yalies from Greece interviewed said they are proud of their heritage SEE GREEKS PAGE 7
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New Haven Police Department officers arrived at the Occupy New Haven encampment Wednesday morning to force remaining protesters to leave the Green. BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER The “occupation” has ended: after six months on the Green and a protracted legal battle with the city, Occupy New Haven is finally gone. Police removed Occupy protesters from their Upper Green site early Wednesday morning, allowing the city’s parks department to clear the Upper Green of tents and debris. Occu-
py’s departure ended a two-month saga of city efforts to bring about the protest’s removal — first through talks and then forcibly — and came one day after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the city could legally remove the protesters from the Green. “In the 28 weeks since Oct. 15 this became less about [protesting income SEE OCCUPY PAGE 4
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or those who did not catch it, Tupac returned this weekend at Coachella. Brought back to the stage via the work of James Cameron’s company Digital Domain, the deceased rapper performed a live, hologram-enabled set with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. And while Cameron was resurrecting Tupac, I received a chain email from Newt Gingrich’s campaign. Inside, I found not the expected request to help the man who seems not to know it’s over, but an advertisement for LifeLock. The email had absolutely no content related to the Gingrich campaign besides the promotion code “NEWT,” showing that political rock bottom comes with 30 percent off on a yearlong membership. While Gingrich and Tupac Shakur are virtually opposites in every conceivable way, together they bring to my mind an important American cultural theme: We have trouble letting stuff go. Boxers punch themselves back to a second-grade reading level before throwing in the towel. TV shows, from Happy Days to 24, drag on seasons well beyond their natural expiration date. MySpace still exists. And yet, April at Yale is a living lesson in the grace of letting go. As seniors at Yale take their last classes, participate in their last debates and sing their last sets, they throw off a particular air. It’s the nature of the institution – there is a palpable sense that it is just time to go. Although a certain reaction comes to all of us each April – successive disbelief at having finished your freshman year of college, suddenly being halfway done and then, astonishingly, being about to enter senior year – we can always hold on to the fact that there is something left. But for our seniors, there is no avoiding the elephant the room – or the exit sign hanging on the wall. Still, we see seniors casually in the dining hall or across campus, laughing, joking and enjoying themselves. No albatross visibly lingers above their heads. While assuredly sad and nostalgic to a degree, they seem, for lack of a better word, content. There are many times – a shot at moral relativism here and at normativity there – when it is proper to critique our time at Yale. But, at the end of the day, we still love the place. It becomes as much a part of us – despite, at times, our best efforts – as anything we will be a part of. We do not need to be told that Yale possesses a wide swath of unique resources. Nonetheless, there is a subtler opportunity that Yale allows – one we
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often forget but are afforded a glimpse into this time of year. As the Greek gods unders t o o d envying their mortal counte rparts, the end endows
meaning. When Yale says goodbye, it is a chance to let go. It is a lesson many, like Speaker Gingrich, never receive and that we are privileged to learn young. We are forced to experience closure. We learn, despite our temporary resentment or wishes for just one more week, to appreciate walking away. For those of us who have not yet turned in a thesis and are not actually on the cusp of leaving, this is a very odd phenomenon. We cannot understand, fully, what the outgoing class is experiencing. The thought of leaving is both utterly inconceivable and strangely intimate. But even if it’s not our turn yet, April should provoke a question for us: When you’re in their shoes, what will you miss? There is no formula for the right Yale experience. Yet the question also makes us realize that there is one thing we can do, one impulse we ought to curb. There is a nagging idea that a successful Yale experience is a cruelly busy one. We take pride in lauding our sleep deprivation, overfilled Google Calendars and countless leadership positions. Not having enough hours in the day is simply the sign of a job well done. I do not expect this to be a particular novel insight. But, almost to its detriment, the problem’s intuitiveness often leads us to dismiss it. You can rationalize these things: There will always be time down the road to smell the roses. But this creates a trap – one that I fall into as much as anyone. Seniors are able to reminisce. The time to create enduring memories at Yale has mostly passed. But for the rest of us, it’s important to remember that one day, deceptively soon, we are going to ask where the time went. Remember that certain tasks don’t show up on a Google Calendar. Thankfully, we have April at Yale to remind us to slow down for a bit. HARRY GRAVER is a sophomore in Davenport College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at harry.graver@yale.edu.
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his past Tuesday, I attended the promotion ceremony of Lt. Col. Thomas Boccardi to the rank of colonel, United States Army. I know Tommy as a classmate in the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, and through our discussions in the classroom on topics ranging from Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps to his own military experience, I discovered a man of honor and wisdom. Seeing Tommy, accompanied by his wife and three daughters, accept the silver eagle insignia from a former commanding officer served as a stark reminder of America’s greatness and its challenge for the years to come. The presiding major general spoke of America’s backbone; Tommy and his comrades are that backbone. Devoting one’s life to the service of one’s nation embodies the spirit this country was founded upon and upon which its future is contingent. That devotion does not come without sacrifice — a sacrifice made not only by the soldiers in
the field, but also by the families left behind and the priceless memories missed. As a former soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces (staff sergeant, reserve), I feel a powerful connection to Tommy and the other service men and women who were present. In whatever positions we served, we have all seen and done things that escape words, only to be known by those who were there. Our common bond is not one of nationality, religion or culture. It is a bond of duty, forged upon hearing the call of our nation, and answering that call. Both American and Israeli soldiers serve not because they want to, but because they are compelled to. For me, as, I’m sure, for many others, duty is not a conscious choice between doing and not doing. It the understanding that our world faces many challenges, and as members of the human race, we have an obligation to resolve them. As Alexander Hamilton wrote, “the sacred rights of
mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” Even now, humanity’s struggle to be free of tyranny and oppression goes on, as countless masses protest in the squares of Moscow and die in the streets of Syria. As members of the Yale community, we are endowed with the finest education in the world, but that must come with a price. I do not demonize those who seek high-paying jobs after college, yet we must ask ourselves the purpose of our time inside these hallowed halls of light and truth. We must ask ourselves: What does being a Yalie actually mean? It is the great burden of our generation, perhaps of every generation, to pay for the mistakes of our ancestors. The problems of our world seem almost insurmountable, and yet we
must look up to people like Marie Colvin ’78 and Nathan Hale 1773, who devoted their lives to freedom and paid the ultimate price. Yale’s tradition of duty still exists among those who choose to devote their lives to a cause greater than themselves, be it in the arts, sciences, education or any other field of endeavor which elevates the human condition. The world needs good people to solve the challenges of the coming decades, and Yale graduates count among the very best of our generation. If we do not devote our time in the service of greater goals, who will? As Col. Boccardi and his family head to their next deployment, let us all wish them good luck and Godspeed and hope that their spirit of devotion, honor and duty will be a clarion call for our generation to enlist in the service of the world. BENJI PREMINGER is a junior in Pierson College. Contact him at benjamin.preminger@yale.edu .
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ith the courts’ approval, the City of New Haven finally evicted Occupy New Haven yesterday. Looking back on the encampment’s history, there are four important lessons we can learn. First, we should resist any temptation to glorify Occupy in hindsight. The tents were a lifestyle choice. By the end, the so-called protestors were a mishmash of conspiracy theorists and homeless people who wrapped themselves in incoherent populist rhetoric. The Occupiers’ only defining attribute was their sense of personal entitlement to public land. Selfordained to represent “the people,” they monopolized (and ruined) a public park for their own enjoyment. So let’s place New Haven’s Occupiers in the rubbish bin, along with the cranks and kooks of history.
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Second, the Yalies who supported Occupy also deserve some attention in our postmortem. In defending the NATHANIEL m o v e m e n t , ZELINSKY they adopted some trouOn Point bling double standards. Two of the students organizing the Yale Working Group of Occupy New Haven were also among the most vocal of claimants in the recent Title IX suit against Yale. However, they were conspicuously silent about the welldocumented instances of sexual assault in Occupy encampments around the nation. They remained silent after a woman reported being raped in an Occupy tent on the Green this
The real reason for Israel’s existence I write in response to Sam Lasman’s elegant column (“Poetry, not politics,” April 17) in which he takes up the paradoxical struggle that goes back at least to Plato regarding the role of poetry in the realm of politics. Mr. Lasman’s attention to language moves me to note and question one phrase he deploys to clarify what he sees as the special responsibility of German writer, Gunter Grass, to the State of Israel. Having noted Grass’s Nazi background, Lasman writes, “As a participant in the unconscionable evil that necessitated Israel’s creation, Grass is uniquely responsible for ensuring that the nation survives by listening to the better angels of its nature.” While scholars argue about the impact of the Holocaust upon the creation of the State of Israel, let the record show that the State of Israel was not the creation of international morality, a universal recognition of the evil perpetrated against the Jew. The 1947 United Nations vote notwithstanding, the State of Israel was tragically born in war and has been sustained by war. Were it not for the brilliant effectiveness of Israel’s civilian militia there would be no State of Israel. Not moral necessity but flawed human will brought a real flawed Jewish state into geopolitical reality. I further note that the majestic poetic summons to listen “to the better angels our natures” was crafted by Abraham Lincoln in his first Inaugural address, 1861, a magnificent rhetorical effort to preclude and elude civil war. Does Mr. Lasman think that if a state, say the State of Israel, fails to live in conformity to the better angels of its nature that it loses its right or capacity to survive? I doubt it, but his language allows the inference, an instance perhaps of confusing poetry with politics. JAMES PONET April 18 The writer is the Howard M. Holtzmann Jewish chaplain.
past March. Whatever you think about the Title IX suit, we have to ask: Why do the Occupiers get a pass? Similarly, a year ago, those Title IX claimants deemed DKE’s boorish chanting to be “threatening.” Yet, they rediscovered the spirit of the First Amendment for Occupy, claiming intrusive tents and sleep-ins were protected speech. Ultimately, the federal courts got it right: Free speech is a core constitutional value. Municipalities cannot regulate the content of speech but can impose reasonable rules about time, place and manner. There was nothing reasonable about the Occupiers’ takeover of the Green. Third, throughout this entire episode, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. failed to lead. He should not have permitted the Occupiers to live on the Green in the first place. He should not have given the Occupiers advance warn-
Bring back syringe exchange funding As the News reported (“Walkers raise AIDS awareness,” April 16), Sunday marked the eighth annual AIDS Walk New Haven, which benefits the organizations of the New Haven Mayor’s Task Force on AIDS (MTFA). While the reporters covered the event itself, they missed a key theme of the Walk: funding for syringe exchange programs. This is a critical point to note, especially now, because of the Congressional ban on funding for syringe exchange efforts, which eliminates approximately thirty percent of funding for this public health measure. In Connecticut, thirty-six percent of all HIV infections are caused by injection drug use, nearly double the national average. Before the federal ban, Connecticut programs also received more federal funding for syringe exchange than almost all other states because of this severe infection burden. This issue matters to Connecticut, and a number of speakers at Sunday’s Walk were also integral players in Elm City’s battle against HIV/AIDS in this respect. The MTFA itself was critical in starting up New Haven’s syringe exchange program in 1990, which was one of the nation’s first efforts of its kind and also the first legal program in Connecticut. State Representative Patricia Dillon is also an enthusiastic supporter of syringe exchange efforts. At the Walk, she emphasized in her speech that we “must not be discouraged despite setbacks in Washington,” and that syringe exchange programs “grew out of the commitment of people in this community,” and will only last with the same grassroots and state-level support. While the Walk is fundamen-
ing of the city’s first eviction attempt. This was a mistake that sparked a costly and unnecessary legal battle. We should not credit the mayor because things ultimately worked out. It could easily have been much worse. Finally, one party deserves our approval for its role in the Occupy saga: New Haven’s police under Chief Dean Esserman. At every point in the various eviction attempts, they acted with dignity and restraint, employing minimal force. As demonstrated by their misconduct during last fall’s Elevate raid, the New Haven police department has in the past not always demonstrated professionalism and care. Here, they did. Occupy will quickly become a footnote in history. I, for one, am happy to say good riddance. NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a junior in Davenport College. Contact him at nathaniel.zelinsky@yale.edu .
tally a community event, it is not solely about raising money and awareness. It is about supporting and protecting evidence-based public health efforts that save people’s lives. SHEILA ENAMANDRAM April 17 The writer is a junior in Calhoun College
No Yale support for African ambassador We were very surprised and disappointed that no Yale professors or students associated with the African Studies department, the Yale Anthropology department, the Yale Afro-American Cultural Society or representatives from the Peabody or Yale Art Gallery (where there is an important African collection) could mange to be present to greet the Namibian Ambassador to the United Nations, Wilfried Emvula, at the reception for the photo exhibit, “The Amazing Himba people of Namibia,” at the New Haven Public Library this past Saturday. He is obviously a very important representative from an African country, and it seems the Yale community, which was informed in advance, could not make the effort to walk over to the library for a thirty-minute visit that afternoon to turn out for him. This doesn’t say much for Yale and indeed reflects badly on the institution. There were some people who came from far away, including a Harvard faculty member. Yale’s unfortunate absence was embarrassing for us, for the library, and for the Ambassador. BARBARA PAUL April 16 The writer is the photographer whose work was exhibited.
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PAGE THREE TODAY’S EVENTS THURSDAY, APRIL 19 3:30 PM “Consequences of the War on Drugs and the Search for an Integrated Policy.” Ana Paula Hernández, Fund for Global Human Rights program officer for Latin America, will speak. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), room 203. 4:00 PM “Singapore Uncensored: What’s Missing from the Yale-NUS Debate? Singapore Students Speak.” Hear Singaporean Yalies speak about issues that haven’t appeared in the Yale media but are important to the discussion of Yale-NUS College. Speakers will represent a wide range of views. Gay activist and writer Ng Yi-Sheng will Skype in. Submit questions to tinyurl. com/yalenus. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), room 101. 4:30 PM “Embodying Guanyin Through Hairpins as a Means of Transcendence.” Postdoctoral associate Li Yuhang will speak as part of the Society for the Study of Religion Lecture Series. Religious Studies Department (451 College St.), room B04.
CORRECTION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18
The article “Levin’s ‘alter ego’ to fill role of VP misstated the location of the former Randolph Macon Women’s College. The college, now named Randolph College, is in Lynchburg, Va., not Ashland, Va.
CCEs focus on intervention BY CAROLINE TAN STAFF REPORTER In an effort to prevent sexual misconduct before it occurs, the Yale College Dean’s Office has launched pilot “bystander intervention” workshops that began in March. Organized by the Communication and Consent Educators (CCEs) — a group of 40 students employed to help improve the University’s sexual environment — the workshops encourage students to be more aware of their surroundings and take steps to intervene in uncomfortable situations, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd ’90 said. While the workshops were mandatory for incoming freshman counselors, the CCEs have also offered optional training sessions to student groups that demonstrated interest in the initiative. “The idea behind bystander intervention is simple: to give people better tools for recognizing and intervening in problematic situations,” Boyd said in a Tuesday email. “On campuses where bystander intervention has been studied, it appears to be especially effective in reducing the rates of sexual violence.” This spring’s workshops are discussion-based and center on the importance of effective intervention, said Evan Walker-Wells ’13, a CCE who helped develop the workshops. Students who attend the training are first shown a video that begins with a sexual assault, followed by four alternative scenarios in which someone could have intervened and prevented the attack. Walker-Wells said CCEs use the video as a “jumping-off point” to break up into smaller discussion groups and talk about the way people think about interventions and different strategies students can use to help their friends. “I think the workshops are one of those things which seems sort of common sense,” he said. “It seems like stuff you’ve already known and heard but it’s kind of helpful to think through it all at once. And I think after you’ve spent some time to think about intervening, it becomes a lot easier for people to imagine actively intervening when they see something.” Emily Suran ’12, a CCE who also helped plan the one-hour workshops, said educators have already trained campus groups including Walden student counselors, peer liaisons and students living in “party suites” next year. Suran added that feedback from this semester’s pilot program will improve the workshops for next year, when she said they will be mandatory for sophomores and likely offered to other student groups as well. Suran is a former photography and copy editor for the News. Alison Kiss, executive direc-
tor for Security on Campus, Inc. — a nonprofit organization focused on safety on college campuses — said bystander intervention has become a “newer trend” as administrators shift away from relying on individual “risk reduction” methods as the primary preventative measure for sexual violence. She added that there is evidence that suggests the importance of bystander intervention, especially since the aggressor and victim typically know each other for the majority of sexual misconduct incidents that occur on college campuses. Still, Gina Smith, a Philadelphia-based lawyer who specializes in sexual misconduct issues, said administrators need to recognize that bystander intervention training is just “one factor in a multi-factored equation” toward improving a university’s sexual climate. She said she thinks the strategy is an “appropriate and effective” tool for raising awareness, but added that it is not sufficient to address sexual misconduct issues completely.
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Diameter, in feet, of the Unisphere globe
The Unisphere, a stainless steel globe located in Queens, N.Y., is the largest globe in the world. The globe was donated by the United States Steel Company for the 1964’65 World’s Fair, and weighs over 700,000 pounds.
Blue Dog Café under review BY MCLANE RITZEL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Graduate students are pushing back against the possible closure of the Graduate School’s only student-run dining facility, Blue Dog Café. News that the café, a staple of the McDougal Center in the Hall of Graduate Studies, may be replaced with a Yale Dining facility or vending machines has generated frustration among the Graduate School community, six graduate students interviewed said. Students have expressed concern that closing the café would harm the Graduate School community by eliminating a popular study spot and communal area. Lisa Brandes, assistant dean and director of graduate student life and the McDougal Center, said in a Tuesday email that administrators have not yet made a decision on the fate of the café, and are “gathering student input.” Brandes said the Graduate School is undertaking a review of use of the McDougal Center common room — which houses the Blue Dog Café — noting that Jen Mendelsohn, associate director for graduate student life, conducted a survey about the space. The survey’s results have not yet been released, but Brandes said she, Graduate School Dean Thomas Pollard and other administrators will discuss them soon. Though administrators have not reached a final decision, Marita Von Weissenberg GRD ’12 said students are worried because the café’s fall management post — which is historically appointed before the end of the spring term — has not been filled for next year. Over the course of several emails in recent weeks, Pollard wrote that he had received a number of pleas from students to save the Blue Dog Café, and expressed interest in respond-
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Graduate students fear that closure of Blue Dog café would hurt the Graduate School community. ing to those concerns. But two students interviewed who contacted Pollard about the café said they have not received replies to their emails, and that the only efforts to gauge student opinion has been a small survey included in the McDougal Center’s weekly “Life Notes” newsletter. Other students have expressed other concerns about the decision administrators will reach on the café, and whether they will consult students sufficiently in the process. Danielle Guillen ’13, an employee at the café, said the Yale administration has made a “number of decisions” over the past two years that have not necessarily reflected the opinions or needs of the student body. She said the HGS community would
lose “an essential part of socializing” in the McDougal Center should administrators decide to close the café. “By not allowing their concerns to be addressed by the Blue Dog community, it seems as if the administration, by closing the Blue Dog, has found a solution to a problem that does not exist,” Guillen said. After his first visit to the Blue Dog Café, Robert Jones SOM ’12 said he was concerned that it would be replaced with a Bass Café-type environment, which he described as “crowded and loud.” He added that graduate students already have the HGS dining hall available nearby, and do not need another facility in the building like the one in Bass or in Kline Biology Tower.
Tony Domestico GRD ’13 said he holds weekly office hours in the café, and cannot imagine his graduate experience without it. “It’s unlike any other café on campus, and that’s a good thing — it’s one of the last holdouts against the increasing homogenization of the University,” he said. “I bet that if you polled students on whether the Blue Dog should continue to exist as is, or should be converted into a Bass- or Kline-style café, almost everyone would choose the former. And it seems to me that such opinion should be taken into account in any decision on the cafe’s future.” The McDougal Center was founded in 1997. Contact MCLANE RITZEL at mclane.ritzel@yale.edu .
Globe collection to be preserved
I think the workshops are one of those things which seems sort of common sense. EVAN WALKER-WELLS ’13 Communication and Consent Educator The workshops follow the mandatory leadership training sessions and freshman workshops that were held in January, two initiatives unveiled by the Dean’s Office this year that also aimed to reduce sexual misconduct issues on campus. Hannah Slater ’13, an incoming freshman counselor for Berkeley College, said she thought the bystander workshops were helpful and provided “manageable tips” for intervening in situations that might lead to sexual misconduct. She said the sessions were particularly useful because they focused on a “range of scenarios that felt real and like things that would actually happen here,” adding that the sessions provided another perspective for viewing sexual misconduct. “It was helpful for thinking about ways [that are not only] about rape,” she said, “because I think that sort of turns people off and people are like, ‘That’s the scary violence thing. That doesn’t happen here.’” Fifty-two cases of sexual misconduct were brought to University administrators from July 1 to Dec. 31 last year, according to a January report from Deputy Provost Stephanie Spangler. Contact CAROLINE TAN at caroline.tan@yale.edu .
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After Yale University Library received a report from a private conservator about the condition of the globes in its Lanman Globe Collection, library administrators are now considering how best to pursue the collection’s conservation. BY SHARON YIN STAFF REPORTER Last September, the Yale University Library commissioned T.K. McClintock, a private conservator, to assess the conditions of the roughly three dozen globes in the Library’s Lanman Globe Collection. After receiving the report from McClintock in December, Library administrators are contemplating how best to preserve the globe collection, said George Miles, a curator at the Beinecke. Donated to the Library in 1980 from a cartographic collection and by Jonathan Lanman ’40 MED ’43, the collection in the Library’s Map Department holds globes dating from the late 17th century and created by renowned European globemakers such as Willem Blaeu and Vincenzo Coronelli. Christine McCarthy, chief conservator for the Library’s Preservation Department, said she will meet with Miles and Map Department Director Abraham Parrish over the summer to discuss rec-
ommendations from the December report and to select the first globes for conservation treatment. “Conservation treatment is as much a decision-making process as it is a craft and there is always a continuum or range of possible options for any object that could be acceptable,” McCarthy said in an email last week. “We now have a more complete and accurate view of both the individual conservation needs of the globes and improvements we can make to their storage, handling, and upkeep for long-term access.” The Library first considered a conservation assessment for the globes in summer 2009. McCarthy drafted a proposal for the project in early 2010, which called for consultation with a globe conservation specialist. She added that the Library decided to bring in a private specialist because “a high degree of connoisseurship and experience is necessary to accurately diagnose issues and suggest solutions” for objects like globes.
Though Allan Bulley III ’86 donated funds for the specialist’s assessment in honor of his 25th class reunion last May, McCarthy said the Library will need to raise additional money to carry out much of the prescribed work. The first globes treated will be those with the greatest risk of “sustaining significant loss,” Miles said, adding that all of the globes will be preserved eventually. McCarthy said the “first, highest-priority treatments” will also be funded through Bulley’s donation. To carry out all of the recommendations, the Library would need to spend nearly $300,000, McCarthy said. Roughly half that amount would be needed to address “the minimum level of recommended treatment for the collection,” she said, adding that the globes have different values depending on their rarity, scholarly appeal and monetary worth. “We must choose wisely and weigh all aspects of each of the globe’s value and degree of improvement that can reasonably
be expected through treatment,” she said. Currently, the condition of the globes ranges from “very good” to “quite compromised,” McClintock said in a Wednesday email. His firm, the Somerville, Mass.-based TKM Studios, will perform the conservation. The conservation work is intended partly to improve the legibility of the globes in the collection, and will also allow the globes to be handled and photographed more easily, McCarthy said. Treatments will include surface cleaning, repairing stands, treating plaster and paper components and removing varnish. “Improving the legibility through cleaning and varnish removal will allow more information to be capture more clearly through imaging,” McCarthy said. The Map Collection is located on the seventh floor of Sterling Memorial Library. Contact SHARON YIN at sharon.yin@yale.edu .
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Dollars, in millions, spent on police overtime by New York City due to Occupy Wall Street NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced in March that New York’s Zuccotti Park occupiers cost the city approximately $17 million due to the overtime costs associated with policing the encampment.
After protracted battle with city, Occupy leaves OCCUPY FROM PAGE 1 inequality] and more it seemed about occupying the Upper Green, and holding onto that space,” Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said after the eviction. “It was important in my opinion and the opinion of the proprietors [of the Green] to secure the use of the Green for the rest of the city. I think that was the right decision, and I think most of New Haven felt that way.” Beginning at around 8 a.m., the deadline set by the New Haven Police Department for members of Occupy New Haven to vacate the Green, police began to arrest protesters who sat and linked arms around a tent and refused to leave. While some protesters passively protested inside the encampment, others stood outside the encampment and yelled at police officers. Though at the beginning of Occupy New Haven’s six-month stint, protestors enjoyed a friendly relationship with police officials, relations have soured dramatically since protesters filed a federal lawsuit against the city in attempt to maintain their encampment.
TIMELINE OCCUPY NEW HAVEN OCT. 15 Occupy New Haven arrives on the New Haven Green, staging a march that brings hundreds out to march against income inequality. FEB. 8 City officials hold the first of two meetings with protesters, asking them to help develop a plan under which they would leave the Green. MARCH 10 Protesters hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall to reject a proposal by city officials that they leave by March 14. MARCH 14 Occupy attorney Norm Pattis receives a stay from a federal district court judge, saving Occupy New Haven from impending eviction. MARCH 28 Federal judge Mark Kravitz hears arguments from Pattis and city attorneys about Occupy’s presence on the Green. APRIL 9-10 Kravitz rules in the city’s favor. The next day, as city officials begin to evict protesters, Pattis receives another stay from an appeals court. APRIL 17 The appeals court also rules in the city’s favor. Police warn protesters to expect eviction Wednesday. APRIL 18 Police force the remaining Occupy protesters to leave the Green before bulldozing the encampment.
As the police arrived Wednesday morning, Occupy protesters called officers “facsist pigs” and “dogs,” brandishing a sign that read “New Haven Police: You are the underpaid servants of the 1 percent.”
I don’t care if one of you gets killed and I see it happen. I will never cooperate, ever.
ated itself since the 17th century — decided that the protest was unacceptably hindering public use of the Green. But after Occupy members rejected a city proposal, officials issued a notice to protesters that they would have to leave the Green by mid-March. Attorney Norm Pattis took up the protest’s cause in court, filing a last-minute lawsuit claiming officials were unfairly infringing on protesters’
First Amendment rights. Though Pattis managed to win Occupy New Haven nearly a month of extra time on the Green, protesters finally ran out of legal options when the federal appeals court issued its ruling Tuesday morning and a state housing court turned down an appeal that afternoon. Following the appeals court ruling, police warned protesters that they would be evicted at 8 a.m. the following day.
Despite their defeat, some protesters are sticking to their mantra of “You can’t evict an idea.” Ty Hailey, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the city, said he does not think the eviction will hurt the Occupy movement. “I’m still feeling really positive about this,” Hailey said. A group of around 40 Occupy protesters met for their weekly general assembly meeting Wednesday evening, this time on
the Lower Green. There, protesters shared stories of the eviction and said they were “proud” of the way they had acted earlier Wednesday. Occupy New Haven, which arrived in the city on Oct. 15, was the longest-lasting encampment of the Occupy protest movement in New England. Contact NICK DEFIESTA at nicholas.defiesta@yale.edu .
JOSH HELTKE Protester, Occupy New Haven “I don’t care if one of you gets killed and I see it happen,” Josh Heltke, one of Occupy New Haven’s earliest members, shouted to police officers during the eviction. “I will never cooperate, ever.” Heltke was later arrested for trying to enter the encampment site after it had been cleared of protesters. According to DeStefano, who praised the “incredible professionalism and discipline” NHPD officers displayed at the eviction, a total of 13 protesters were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, interfering with police or both. An Occupy supporter who identified himself as Frank called the eviction “disgraceful” and “disrespectful” to the American ideal of peaceful protest. The city, he said, should have given Occupy more than a day after the appeals court ruling to leave the Green. After the immediate campground was clear of protesters, a hazmat team and bomb-sniffing dog examined tents and debris for any dangerous material. After police found a sleeping homeless man in one of the tents, who apologized to police and said he overslept before leaving the encampment, bulldozers began to clear the encampment nearly 100 minutes after the eviction began. At a press conference after the eviction, DeStefano said the cost to the city of the Occupy protest, including six months of city services for protesters and the restoration of the Green, will total around $145,000. Deputy Director of Parks, Recreation and Trees Christy Hass said the city would begin uncompacting the dirt under the former encampment and reseeding bare swaths of the Green this week. If all goes according to plan, she said the Green might be restored before the summer. Occupy protesters are free to return to the Green as soon as they want, DeStefano said. “If Occupy participants return to the Green today, they are free to use the Green consistent with city regulations until 10 o’clock tonight,” DeStefano said. “They will not be permitted to erect structures on the Green, but they have a right to be there as do other residents of the city.” Wednesday marked the end of long series of twists and turns in the city’s attempt to clear the Green of the Occupy encampment. The city invited Occupy protesters to two meetings in City Hall in February to determine the future of the Green after city officials and the Green’s legal proprietors — a group that has perpetu-
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After the New Haven Police Department forced Occupy protesters to leave the Green, city bulldozers arrived to clear the site, which the protest had occupied for six months. City officials estimate the protest’s total cost to the city was $145,000 in city services and land restoration.
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“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.” ALFRED HITCHCOCK FILM DIRECTOR
Students team up for public health art
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Students from the School of Art and the School of Public Health joined forces to open an exhibit this week that promotes awareness of health issues among parents, teenagers and Spanish speakers. BY MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS STAFF REPORTER School of Public Health and School of Art students opened an exhibit this week of posters promoting health issues. “The Art of Public Health” show — which opened in a School of Art gallery on April 13 and closes April 24 — features themes ranging from vaccines, to nutrition and global health. According to organizers, the posters aim to condense “complex” public health information into visually striking posters, while targeting parents, teenagers and Spanish speakers. After the success of this year’s pilot project, the group expects to produce a similar gallery next year, said Vanessa Lamers SPH ’13 FES ’13, one of the gallery organizers. This project marks the first time students from both schools have collaborated on interdiscplinary work, she added. “We wanted to focus on bringing the ideas we were learning in
the classroom to the public,” Lamers said. “So we chose an interdisciplinary project that condensed all that information into powerful visuals.”
It’s easy for students to learn lots of things, but they are not often implemented in the community. CATHERINE YECKEL Professor, Yale School of Public Health The idea for the project, said School of Public Health professor Catherine Yeckel, originated as an outside activity in her “Physiology for Public Health” class. She said the more students learned about the scientific concepts behind public health, the more they realized that they were losing focus
on the “public” part of it, to which Yeckel responded by challenging the students to create a public project. “It’s easy for students to learn lots of things, but they are not often implemented in the community,” Yeckel said. “Students became so creative that they decided to bring the project outside the classroom and came up with this brilliant idea.” Lamers and three other students contacted School of Art lecturer Julian Bittiner ART ’08, who recruited artists from his graphic design classes to help design the posters, Lamers said. Fourteen undergraduates and graduate students from the School of Art responded, and were then paired up with School of Public Health students based on topics of interest to work on their posters for the show. One of the highlights of the project, Lamers said, is that the students became invested in cri-
tiquing each other’s work, holding meetings that at times ran for four hours. A good poster effectively condenses the large and complex issues of public health into a “visual shorthand” that influences its audience, can be spread online, and naturally extends to other media, Bittiner said. Pointing to a white poster on measles vaccines as an example, he said that its creators aimed to provide a subtle, yet eye-catching message for the parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. The poster, he said, featured 14 crowded gray shadows of children that remind the audience of a classroom setting. Crawling orange clouds that remind of measles scars, he added, cover two of them. On the left corner, a subtle message completes the image: “Two out of 24 children have not been vaccinated for measles.” Danica Kuncio SPH ’12 worked with artist Martha McGill ART
’12 to create the measles vaccines poster. She picked this topic, she said, because even though vaccines are effective, people still refuse to give them to their children, so that preventable diseases still kill many people every year. Hanae Fujii-Rios SPH ’12, one of the organizers of the show, said she hoped to continue the project in the future, adding that SPH Director of Student Affairs Susan Whalen helped the group with organizing the exhibition. “This project just shows how committed and passionate Yale students are and how supportive faculty are to their ideas,” FujiiRios said. The Connecticut Office of Health Reform and Innovation will sponsor a showing of “The Art of Public Health” exhibit at the State Capitol in July. Contact MARIANA LOPEZ-ROSAS at mariana.lopez-rosas@yale.edu .
Film studies honors founding professor BY NATASHA THONDAVADI STAFF REPORTER Former Yale professor and experimental filmmaker Standish Lawder GRD ’67 returned to campus Wednesday to receive the Film Studies Program’s annual award for a talented member of the field. Over the course of the day, the Film Studies Program held several events at the Whitney Humanities Center to honor Lawder, who was one of the first to teach and develop the film studies program at Yale in the late ’60s, before the program was officially approved in 1987. The primary event, attended by about 40 students and faculty members, featured a screening of five of Lawder’s short films accompanied by an hour-long
question and answer session and was followed by an honorary awards dinner with members and affiliates of the film studies program. In a talk earlier that afternoon, Lawder presented a screening of cubist films by other filmmakers and discussed the relationship between film and art. The five films Lawder presented, created in the early ’70s, made use of variation in lighting and music to add nuance to short clips running on repeat. In a 20-minute film called “Corridor,” the camera captures a naked girl standing at the end of a long, narrow hallway from varying distances and under changing lighting conditions. Lawder set the black-and-white clips to music to structure the film, as there is no
speaking or easily discernible narrative.
I love his sense of humor. He manages to make experimental films fun to watch. SUSAN BLOCH During the question and answer segment of the event, Lawder said he personally constructed devices similar to printers that allowed him to create film negatives for movies out of previously shot
clips. Many of the ideas Lawder discussed during the talk touched on stylistic issues of filmmaking that were prevalent during the time period when he created the featured films and began to develop the program. Both Lawder and several audience members said that one of the defining features of experimental film in the early ’70s was a sense of fun prevalent in the films shown. “I love his sense of humor,” said Susan Bloch. “He manages to make experimental films fun to watch.” In “Dangling Participle,” Lawder arranged a collage of audio and visual clips from sexual education classes. Every few minutes, the clips cycle back to a woman
explaining that “sex is a part of life” and that “the size of the penis has nothing to do with sexual ability.” Several audience members interviewed felt the details that Lawder revealed during the talk added to how they understand Yale’s film program. “I came because [Lawder] started the program, and it’s really cool to see what was going on in the field when Film Studies was established as its own program,” Jason Douglass ’13 said. Lawder is currently a visual arts professor at the University of California, San Diego. Contact NATASHA THONDAVADI at natasha.thondavadi@yale.edu .
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Estimated number of Greek folk dances
Greek dance has been an important part of Greek culture since the days of Plato and Aristotle, who both referenced it in their works. It differs greatly between regions and islands around the country — over 4,000 traditional folk dances have been catalogued.
Freshman Brunt’s ‘glowing personality’ remembered found dead OBITUARY FROM PAGE 1
looked like a pirate instead.” Several of Brunt’s friends fondly recalled spending time with him this past Sunday outside Welch Hall, the dormitory for Davenport freshmen. Late that night, Brunt had pulled a bench underneath the lamplight and was working on his Russian homework. Students gathered around Brunt, talking and laughing into the early hours of the morning, Fabian Fernandez ’15 said, adding that Brunt’s “glowing personality” could attract all types of people. Nagar said everyone else had gone to bed by the time he arrived, but that Brunt was still working. “I asked him why he was studying outside and he said, ‘Well, it’s a great night isn’t it?’” Nagar said. Reached Wednesday night, Brunt’s father Charles recalled his son’s creativity, passion for music and “funloving” personality. “I have 19 years’ worth of memories,” he said. Brunt’s friends plan to wear neon colors and bright orange today in memory of his passing. A Universitywide memorial vigil will be held in Davenport’s upper courtyard at 8 p.m.
BRUNT FROM PAGE 1 suicide, students at the meeting said. He told students that a final ruling on the cause of death will be made once the autopsy is completed. “His death is a terrible shock to all of us, and we hope that we will be able to give each other comfort and support this evening and in the days ahead,” Schottenfeld wrote in an email to Davenport freshmen. University Secretary Linda Lorimer said Wednesday evening she was “not in a position to offer any more details” on the circumstances of Brunt’s death, adding that the state medical examiner will have to confirm the cause of death. Reached Wednesday evening, the state medical examiner’s office declined to comment. Schottenfeld said he spoke to Brunt’s parents Wednesday afternoon and expects to meet with them when they arrive in New Haven today. Brunt was slated to travel to Houston, Texas, on Thursday to take a zero-gravity flight and conduct physics research with four other students and their adviser, Physics Department Instructional Laboratory Director Stephen Irons. Joseph O’Rourke ’12, the group’s student leader, said they have canceled their plans in light of the tragedy. A University-wide candlelight vigil will be held in the Davenport courtyard at 8 p.m. tonight.
James Lu and Daniel Sisgoreo contributed reporting.
Gavan Gideon and Tapley Stephenson contributed reporting. Contact JAMES LU at james.q.lu@yale.edu and DANIEL SISGOREO at daniel.sisgoreo@yale.edu .
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Zachary Brunt ’15, left, competed in Yale’s Iron Chef competition this semester. Brunt was found dead Wednesday afternoon.
Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu and TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .
Greek students maintain ties to home GREEKS FROM PAGE 1 and want to retain and promote it on campus. But as the country’s severe debt crisis continues to contribute to financial insecurity throughout Europe, they said that deciding whether to return home after graduation has become more difficult.
PRESERVING TRADITION
The Hellenic Society, founded in the 1980s, seeks to uphold and promote Greek culture, Gandolfo said. Twelve of the 19 Yalies who are Greek international students participate in the group’s activities, he added. Gandolfo said the organization reaches out to include Greek Americans and the broader Yale campus in its activities, but remains a “tight-knit” community that tries to sustain Greek traditions. “It’s very different when you come to Yale,” he said. “At home you did all these traditional things as a family, but when you come here, you have to organize or they won’t happen. In some ways we have to be more Greek than the Greeks!” Throughout the year, the group organizes many events, beginning with a welcome banquet that introduces Greek and GreekAmerican students to the organization. Other programs include transportation to the local Orthodox church on Tower Lane, study breaks featuring traditional Greek food, and panels on contemporary
issues affecting Greece, including the recent financial crisis. Gandolfo said 20 to 30 students participate in most of the smaller events, while larger cultural events attract more attendees. Nikos Theodosakis MED ’16, a Greek-American and the Hellenic Society’s graduate liaison, said he thinks Greeks have a distinctively strong sense of cultural identity that they “go out of their way” to preserve in new environments. “The native Greeks use [the Hellenic Society] to create their own pocket of home, and GreekAmericans use it to connect with their roots,” he said, adding that he was a member of the Hellenic society at the University of Virginia while he was an undergraduate. Ted Papalexopoulos ’15 said he enjoys participating in the Hellenic Society’s Friday language table in the Calhoun dining hall — where both Greek students and students studying the Greek language meet to discuss various topics — because it reminds him of café conversations he has at home in Athens. Papalexopolous added that he also sees the Hellenic society as a way to help show other nonGreek students his culture, which he thinks is especially important given the media’s recent attention on the country’s instability. “I feel like it’s my responsibility as a Greek in the United States to temper the negative image that Greeks have acquired in recent years,” Papalexopoulos said. “The
crisis has given rise to several stereotypes about Greeks — lazy, immoral, deceitful, to name a few — which are greatly exaggerated.”
RETURN TO GREECE?
Since 2009, Greece has undergone a series of financial crises that led to two Eurozone bailouts and fiscal austerity measures by the Greek government. Greece’s debt is currently over 120 percent of its GDP, and unemployment rates are over 20 percent. Sparked by discontent with the Greek government’s efforts to address the crisis, riots continue to plague the country. Those interviewed said their homeland’s current economic and political struggles have complicated their post-graduation plans. Niko Efstathiou ’14, who worked in his native Athens this past summer and returned again over winter break, said he is struck by the instability’s psychological toll on Greeks each time he went back. “You could see people’s faces and know the crisis had really hit them,” Efstathiou said. “You wonder, ‘Should I stay or go back to my ivory tower and do what I have to do there?’” Gandolfo, who is a philosophy and economics double major, said he does not see himself returning to Greece in the near future. He added that Greeks pursuing careers in the sciences or academia have better opportunities abroad. While an increasing number of students are leaving Greece for
the educational and work options available, Haroula Gotsi ’14 said she hopes many will return and bring the education and skills they have acquired abroad back to their country. “We all want to help our country and feel a sense of obligation to Greece,” she said. “I think everyone is hoping that they can help in some way, even if they physically remain in the U.S.” Gotsi said that while Greek students at Yale may be geographi-
cally distant from their homelands, they stay “very connected.” She added that this link reinforces the sense that Greek students abroad have a duty to contribute to their country after graduation. Both Papalexoupolus and Efstathiou said they will have to return to Greece after college to complete the nine months of military service mandated for all Greek men. Efstathiou said he has an extension until 2019 that would allow him to remain in the States for
work or graduate school. Though he said he does not know what his immediate future will hold, he added that he has always imagined himself returning to Greece eventually. “Not only do I miss Greece, but I really care about it,” he said. “When I think of where I want to raise my kids, it’s Greece.” Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .
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Over 100 students and faculty turned out for a celebration of Greek Easter in the Ezra Stiles courtyard on Sunday.
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McEwan visits, talks literature
First dean for research to depart
BY MAYA JONAS-SILVER STAFF WRITER “Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth.” Ian R. McEwan, the acclaimed author who penned, among other works, “Atonement,” quoted Archimedes in his talk at the Mahindra Humanities Center on Tuesday. Archimedes’ declaration—alluded to in the lecture’s title, “The Lever: Where Novelists Stand to Move the World”— was McEwan’s jumping off point to talk about the use of realism in his work. “We must assume some high degree of loyalty to the levers and fulcrums—to the laws of physics,” McEwan said. “I have refused to give my characters wings.” In the lecture, McEwan emphasized his dedication to realism as one of the defining features of his work. “The air of reality, the solidicity,” McEwan said, “is among the supreme
virtues of a novel.” “[The lecture] really gave you a sense of how a writer considers his own writing and how a writer builds his own world,” said HARVARD Homi K. Bhabha, the director of the Mahindra Humanities Center. “Here you’ve got a sense of the process of writing and how a sense of reality is created through language, through light, through incidents, through facts, through fiction.” Throughout the lecture, McEwan read passages from his novels and letters from readers who pointed out fallacies in his works. McEwan described a scene from his 1981 novel, “The Comfort of Strangers,” in which he describes one of his characters observing the constellation Orion in the Italian summer sky—an impossibil-
ity, since Orion cannot be seen from the northern hemisphere in the summer. “If you want to see Orion during the summer you must go to New Zealand,” a reader wrote to McEwan. McEwan responded aloud to his audience, “It never occurred to me that I was turning the heavens around.” After the lecture, McEwan said that his goal for the talk was to shed light on the life of a novel from the perspective of an author. “Once a novel is written, that’s when its life begins,” he said to the audience. “It’s not just existing in some sort of pure space.” Michael E. Mitchell ’14, who attended the lecture, said, “I felt the talk was actually very well constructed. I liked that McEwan made it seem like he was going to be rambling with a series of anecdotes, but actually tied them together very neatly at the end of his talk.”
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British novelist Ian McEwan delivered a lecture titled “The Lever: Where Novelists Stand to Move the World” at the inaugural Rita E. Hauser Forum sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center.
BY JAMES CHANGE SENIOR WRITER A.J. Stewart Smith, the University’s current and first dean for research, will change administrative roles to serve as vice president for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the University announced Tuesday. Smith will be the University’s primary liaison to the U.S. Department of Energy. The dean for research position, which oversees the PPPL and manages research funding and grants, will be vacated in January when Smith assumes the newly created position. A search committee has been formed to determine his successor. Smith, a physics professor, joined the faculty in 1967 and chaired the physics department for most of the 1990s. He served as the chair of the University Research Board until 2006, when the position was created to streamline the University’s research fundraising efforts. Provost Christopher Eisgruber ’83 explained in an email that before Smith’s appointment as a dean, Princeton was unique in that it did not have a full-time chief research officer. Smith’s new role will focus on sustaining and expanding funding in a time of domestic budgetary challenges for the laboratory, such as upgrades to the lab’s major test facility, the National Spherical Torus Experiment. Furthermore, administrators said that Smith should facilitate better collaboration between PPPL and University researchers. “We welcome this change, which will enable Stew Smith, with his understanding of physics research and his long experience of working with DOE, to devote his efforts to PPPL,” William Brinkman, director of DOE’s Office of Science, said in the statement. Eisgruber noted that Smith’s primary responsibility will be maintaining communication between the DOE and PPPL. “That relationship requires a great deal of time, and by separating the PPPL responsibilities from the dean for research office, the University will enable subsequent deans to focus on other aspects of Princeton’s research
enterprise,” he said. S i n c e 2006, Smith has overseen the expansion of the PRINCETON U n i v e r s i ty’s research operations and increased funding from governments, corporations, foundations and other sources. From the 2005 fiscal year — the last year before Smith began as chair of University’s Research Board — to the 2011 fiscal year, funding for Princeton- and PPPLsponsored research increased by $54.6 million from $226.2 million to $280.8 million, according to the statement. Moreover, Smith restructured the University’s research functions, incorporating the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations, the Office of Research and Project Administration and various animal research and biosafety programs. With a larger senior management staff, Smith said that this realignment was a key factor in increasing funding and research support. Smith also created partnerships at the international level, including relationships with member organizations of Japan’s National Institutes of Natural Sciences in the fields of astrophysics, fusion science and biology. “Stew Smith has done a terrific job and really has built this position to take us into the 21st century in terms of our research support functions,” President Shirley Tilghman said in the statement. In the meantime, a 10-member faculty committee chaired by molecular biology professor Thomas Shenk will begin the nationwide search for Smith’s successor immediately. Representatives include Jeremy Adelman, director of the Council for International Teaching and Research, Janet Currie, director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing, and Richard Register, chair of the chemical and biological engineering department. Eisgruber said he expected the search to continue into the fall semester and that the University will consider both internal and external candidates.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 21 7:00 PM “Give Me A Shot of Anything: House Calls to the Homeless.” This documentary follows a Boston street doctor as he delivers lifesaving medical care to his struggling patients, who must deal with their demons, disease and death. The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session featuring the film’s director, the executive director of Care for the Homeless, and other experts on health care for the homeless. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), auditorium. 8:00 PM “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).” See all 37 comedies, histories and tragedies put onstage. Part of Shakespeare at Yale. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Room 102.
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The photograph, lower left, published by the Los Angeles Times, show American soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of dead insurgents in Afghanistan. BY ROBERT BURNS AND PAULINE JELINEK ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta apologized Wednesday for gruesome, newly revealed photographs that show U.S. soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of dead insurgents in Afghanistan. He said war can lead young troops to “foolish decisions” and expressed concern the photos could incite fresh violence against Americans. The White House called the twoyear-old photos “reprehensible,” joining Panetta and other top military officials in expressing regret for the latest in a string of embarrassing missteps by the U.S. military in a war that’s built on earning the trust and confidence of ordinary Afghans. In recent months, American troops have been caught up in controversies
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over burning Muslim holy books, urinating on Afghan corpses, an alleged massacre of 17 Afghan villagers and other misdeeds. “This is war. I know that war is ugly and it’s violent, and I know that young people sometimes caught up in the moment make some very foolish decisions,” Panetta said. “I am not excusing that behavior, but neither do I want these images to bring further injury to our people or to our relationship with the Afghan people.” “My apology is on behalf of the Department of Defense and the U.S. government,” Panetta told a news conference in Brussels following a meeting of NATO allies at which the way ahead in Afghanistan was the central topic. The photos were published in Wednesday’s Los Angeles Times. One shows members of the 82nd Airborne Division posing in 2010 with Afghan
police holding the severed legs of a suicide bomber. The same platoon a few months later was sent to investigate the remains of three insurgents reported to have accidentally blown themselves up — and soldiers again posed and mugged for a photo with the remains, the newspaper said. A photo from the second incident appears to show the hand of a dead insurgent resting on a U.S. soldier’s shoulder as the soldier smiles. Panetta said he had urged the newspaper not to publish the photos, which it said it were given by a member of the 82nd Airborne. “The reason for that is those kinds of photos are used by the enemy to incite violence, and lives have been lost by the publication of similar photos in the past,” he said in Brussels. His British counterpart, Philip Hammond, said he regretted the “besmirching of the good name” of all coalition troops who act properly. There was no evidence of a violent Afghan backlash in the first hours following the photographs’ publication. In fact, there was no immediate comment from the Afghan government or President Hamid Karzai’s office, and many officials said they were not aware of the pictures, which were taken in Zabul province. The governor of the province, Ashraf Nasary, said he could not comment because he did not know about the incident or who was involved. Mark Jacobson, an international affairs expert at the German Marshall Fund and a former deputy NATO senior civilian representative in Afghanistan, said the picture-taking incident appeared to reflect a failure of military leadership. “I think the challenge is that you can never completely eliminate incidents like this from happening on the battlefield,” Jacobson said. “You can only reduce the likelihood that they take place.” He said the horrors of war sometimes lead to such behavior by soldiers.
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‘World’s oldest teenager’ Dick Clark dead at 82 BY LYNN ELBER ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Dick Clark, the ever-youthful television host and producer who helped bring rock ’n’ roll into the mainstream on “American Bandstand” and rang in the New Year for the masses at Times Square, has died. He was 82. Spokesman Paul Shefrin said Clark had a heart attack Wednesday morning at Saint John’s hospital in Santa Monica, where he had gone the day before for an outpatient procedure. Clark had continued performing even after he suffered a stroke in 2004 that affected his ability to speak and walk. Long dubbed “the world’s oldest teenager” because of his boyish appearance, Clark bridged the rebellious new music scene and traditional show business, and equally comfortable whether chatting about music with Sam Cooke or bantering with Ed McMahon about TV bloopers. He long championed black singers by playing the original R&B versions of popular songs, rather than the pop cover. Ryan Seacrest, who took over main hosting duties on the countdown show from Clark after the legend grew frail, said in a statement Wednesday that he was “deeply saddened.” “I idolized him from the start, and I was graced early on in my career with his generous advice and counsel,” Seacrest said. “He was a remarkable host and businessman and left a rich legacy to television audiences around the world. We will all miss him.” He thrived as the founder of Dick Clark Productions, supplying movies, game and music shows, beauty contests and more to TV. Among his credits: “The $25,000 Pyramid,” “TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes” and the American Music Awards. “Dick Clark was a true pioneer who
revolutionized the way we listened to and consumed music,” record executive Clive Davis said in a statement. “For me he ranks right up there with the giants of our business.” For a time in the 1980s, he had shows on all three networks and was listed among the Forbes 400 of wealthiest Americans. Clark also was part of radio as partner in the United Stations Radio Network, which provided programs — including Clark’s — to thousands of stations. “There’s hardly any segment of the population that doesn’t see what I do,” Clark told The Associated Press in a 1985 interview. “It can be embarrassing. People come up to me and say, ‘I love your show,’ and I have no idea which one they’re talking about.” The original “American Bandstand” was one of network TV’s longest-running series as part of ABC’s daytime lineup from 1957 to 1987. It later aired for a year in syndication and briefly on the USA Network. Over the years, it introduced stars ranging from Buddy Holly to Madonna. The show’s status as an American cultural institution was solidified when Clark donated Bandstand’s original podium and backdrop to the Smithsonian Institution. Clark joined “Bandstand” in 1956 after Bob Horn, who’d been the host since its 1952 debut, was fired. Under Clark’s guidance, it went from a local Philadelphia show to a national phenomenon. “I played records, the kids danced, and America watched,” was how Clark once described the series’ simplicity. In his 1958 hit “Sweet Little Sixteen,” Chuck Berry sang that “they’ll be rocking on Bandstand, Philadelphia, P-A.” As a host, he had the smooth delivery of a seasoned radio announcer. As a producer, he had an ear for a hit record. He also knew how to make wary adults welcome this odd new breed of music in their homes.
Rubio’s immigration push a potential lift for GOP BY DONNA CASSATA ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s push for a Republican version of immigration legislation looks like the answer to the election-year prayers of the GOP - and Mitt Romney. Rubio - telegenic son of Cuban exiles and potential vice presidential pick - is pulling together a bill that would allow young illegal immigrants to remain in the United States but denies them citizenship, an initial step in the drawn-out, divisive fight over immigration policy and the fate of the 11 million people here illegally. The freshman senator calls his evolving legislation a conservative alternative to the DREAM Act - the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors measure. That Democratic-backed bill, which is overwhelmingly popular with Hispanics, would provide a pathway to citizenship to children in the United States illegally if they attend college or join the military. The measure came close to passage in December 2010 but has languished since then. “We have to come up with an immigration system that honors both our legacy as a nation of laws and also our legacy as a nation of immigrants,” Rubio told The Associated Press on Tuesday. An immigration plan from Rubio, the GOP’s best-known Hispanic, could help Republicans make some headway with the fastest growing minority group and its 21 million eligible voters, many concentrated in the contested presidential battleground states of Florida, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado. Democrats maintain a significant political advantage with Hispanics, numbers that were only strengthened by the harsh rhetoric from Republican presidential candidates in this year’s primary. Hispanics overwhelmingly backed Barack Obama over Republican presidential nominee John McCain, 67-31 percent, in the 2008 presidential race and they favored Democratic congressional candidates 60-38 percent in 2010, according to exit polling. A Pew Research Cen-
ter survey out Tuesday showed Obama with a solid edge over Romney among Hispanic registered voters, 67-27 percent. It’s a reality the likely Republican presidential nominee clearly recognizes. “We have to get Hispanic voters to vote for our party,” Romney told a private fundraiser in Florida on Sunday in which he insisted the GOP needs an alternative to the DREAM Act. He warned that a significant number of Hispanics backing Obama “spells doom for us,” according to NBC News. Rubio, who notably called on his party to tone down the antiimmigrant talk earlier this year, is working on a plan that would allow young illegal immigrants who came to the United States with their parents to apply for non-immigrant visas. They would be permitted to stay in the country to study or work, could obtain a driver’s license but would not be able to vote. They later could apply for residency, but they would not have a special path to citizenship. Rubio said he has not talked to the Romney campaign about his plan but definitely would. “He’s our nominee and I think it’s important for him to feel comfortable with and be supportive of whatever endeavor we pursue,” the senator said. The 40-year-old freshman lawmaker is looking at unveiling his bill in the coming weeks. The early outlines have drawn interest and skepticism from pro-immigration groups. Rubio’s political motivation also has been questioned, especially since congressional Republicans and Democrats say legislation as ambitious as immigration is unlikely to be done seven months from the election. “Is this really a legislative initiative or a political ploy?” asked Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice. “If it’s about a political ploy, it’s about throwing a lifeline to Romney, rather than throwing a lifeline to the dreamers.” Joaquin Castro, a Democratic member of the Texas legislature and a candidate for the U.S. House, said Rubio must be troubled by the GOP anti-immigrant talk.
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WORLD Norway gunman wants freedom BY KARL RITTER ASSOCIATED PRESS OSLO, Norway — The rightwing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country’s prison terms “pathetic” and arguing for the return of capital punishment, which was last used here to execute Nazi collaborators after World War II. In the third day of his terror trial, Anders Behring Breivik was grilled by prosecutors about the anti-Muslim militant group he claims to belong to. He rejected their suggestions that the “Knights Templar” doesn’t exist, but admitted he had embellished when describing the network in a 1,500-page manifesto he published online before the bomb-and-shooting rampage on July 22. “In principle it is not an organization in a conventional sense,” he said, describing it as a leaderless network consisting of “independent cells.” Prosecutors told reporters after Wednesday’s hearing that they don’t believe the group is real or that the meetings Breivik claims took place in Liberia, Britain and the Baltic countries ever happened. The issue is of key importance in determining Breivik’s sanity, and whether he’s ultimately sent to prison or compulsory psychiatric care for carrying out Norway’s worst peacetime massacre. If found sane, Breivik could face a maximum 21-year prison sentence or an alternate custody arrangement that would keep him locked up as long as he is considered a menace to soci-
ety. If declared insane he would be committed to psychiatric care for as long as he’s considered ill. “Acquittal or the death penalty are the only logical outcomes of this case,” the confessed killer said. “I view 21 years in prison as a pathetic sentence.” According to Amnesty International, Belarus is the only country in Europe that still applies the death penalty; two young men were executed there last month. Russia announced a moratorium on capital punishment when it joined the Council of Europe in 1996 and pledged to abolish it, but has not done so. Norway abolished capital punishment in peacetime in 1905 but retained it for war crimes until 1979. After World War II, Norway executed 24 Norwegians, 13 Germans and one Dane. The last execution was in 1948. Breivik described himself as a resistance fighter ready to die for his cause. He said there were too many “keyboard warriors” among Europe’s far-right militants, and that they have a lot to learn from al-Qaida, including its methods and glorification of martyrdom. The 33-year-old Norwegian claims Muslim immigrants are colonizing Europe, with the tacit approval of liberal “multiculturalist” governments. That’s why he says he chose to attack the government headquarters in Oslo and the annual summer camp of the Labor Party’s youth wing. Eight people were killed in the Oslo bombing and 69, mostly teenagers, were slain on Utoya island outside the capital.
“The United Nations … is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.” KOFI ANNAN FORMER SECRETARY-GENERAL, UNITED NATIONS
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Syrians chanted slogans during a demonstration in Kafranbel, Syria. Activists say Syrian government forces are pounding a rebel stronghold with mortar fire. BY BEN HUBBARD ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Syrian security forces opened fire Wednesday on anti-regime demonstrators surrounding the cars of a U.N. team meant to monitor a shaky cease-fire, sending the observers speeding off and protesters dashing for cover, according to activists and amateur videos. The fresh violence in a suburb of Damascus, the Syrian capital, provided the first public glimpse of the work of the small team struggling to reinforce the international community’s stumbling efforts to end 13 months of deadly conflict in Syria. The shooting, which wounded at least eight people, could also complicate the deployment of a larger U.N. mission to help a cease-fire take hold between President Bashar Assad’s forces and opposition fighters. The difficulties of the team’s mission
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was clear Wednesday during its visit to the suburb of Arbeen, just northeast of Damascus. The team did not announce its plans to visit the area, but a local activist said residents guessed it was coming when tanks posted throughout the area withdrew early Wednesday.
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Legendary Tennessee coach Pat Summit announces retirement
Summitt, who is the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and led the Tennessee Lady Vols to eight NCAA national championships in her carrer, announced on Wednesday that she would step down from the post she has occupied since 1974. She had revealead in August that she had been diagnosed with earlyonset Alzheimer’s.
McMullan ’14 charts future of Eli defense BY EUGENE JUNG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Former soccer goalie Erin McMullan ’14 now plays a different sport, but her position has always been the same. As the women’s lacrosse team’s last line of defense, her teammates all rely on her. When asked to comment about McMullan’s play after any match, defender Kallie Parchman ’14 often says, “Erin McMullan had another great day in goal.” (With three players named Erin on the team — all with last names beginning with “M” — including the full last name is necessary.) Hailing from lacrosse stronghold Wading River, N.Y., McMullan started playing the sport in middle school. “Our high school team was so good that almost everyone played [lacrosse],” she said.
It is the defense that is fantastic, and I have to than the defenders who set everything up. ERIN MCMULLAN ’14 Goalie, women’s lacrosse Before Yale, she was second team All-Galaxy in 2009 and 2010 for the Long Island Yellow Jackets, where she met attacker Jen DeVito ’14. McMullan was also named Honorable Mention All-American in 2010. Despite her accomplishments in net during her high school years, McMullan said college lacrosse turned out to be a lot tougher than she had initially expected. “It was a big adjustment for me,” she said. “College was more demanding in every aspect, espe-
cially time-wise. Basically, the play elevated.” Although the Elis relied heavily on goalkeeper Whitney Quackenbush ’12 to guard the net last year, McMullan has also been instrumental in the team’s defense, playing in eight games and recording a .432 save percentage. This season, her save percentage is .447. Of all the team’s fierce and competitive matches, McMullan particularly remembers the one against Harvard, when the Bulldogs gave away seven goals but persistently fought back to score five goals in the first half. McMullan said Quackenbush has always been a true inspiration to her and an indispensable leader for the team. “We have a very good relationship, always supporting each other, and I have picked up a lot from her,” she said. This year, McMullan is seeing more field time and has played for more than 500 minutes. McMullan started in nine matches and recorded a total of 72 saves — 32 in Ivy games. As the team prepares for Quackenbush’s graduation this May, attacker Devon Rhodes ’13 said both McMullan and Quackenbush are extremely talented players. “[McMullan] has been playing tremendously and has stepped up so much lately,” Rhodes said. McMullan is well aware of her pivotal role within the young Bulldogs squad. Although stepping into the leadership position may put a burden on her shoulders, she does not seem to be worried: She has her protégé and partner, goalkeeper Erin Mullins ’15, to share the team’s guard duty with her. With only two games remaining before the season’s end, McMullan has a firmly set goal in mind. “What all matters is the Ivies,”
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Erin McMullan made 12 saves in Yale’s game against Brown on Wednesday. McMullan has a 10.63 goals-against average and a 44.7 save percentage. she said. “We want to finish on high notes and beat Cornell and come out with a win.” McMullan, who intends to major in political science, said she feels honored to represent the
school as a Bulldog and believes that Yale has always been the best fit for her. She added that she will continue to maintain her form by constantly practicing in summer
leagues during the offseason. Now in sixth place in the Ivy League standings, the Bulldogs will once again rely on McMullan’s goaltending skills against Ivy leader Cornell in their sea-
son’s last Ivy match on Saturday. Contact EUGENE JUNG at eugene.jung@yale.edu .
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS SIDNEY CROSBY Crsoby silenced his critics in Philadelphia as he led Pittsburgh to a 10–3 victory over the Flyers on Wednesday. After struggling to three straight losses at the beginning of the series, the Penguins looked dominant as they staved off elimination with the rout.
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Elis take 1 of 2 SOFTBALL FROM PAGE 14 game,” Johnson said. The Bulldogs were ready from the top of the first inning. Ong and Johnson singled, and Kylie Williamson ’15 drove them home with a two-RBI triple. Williamson’s hit was even more impressive considering she pitched five innings in the first game. “I didn’t have my best day on the mound, but it felt good to turn around and help out offensively,” Williamson said. Both teams were held scoreless for the next five innings. Sarah Onorato ’15 scored at the top of the seventh, bringing the score to 3–0, and the Pioneers were unable to respond. Chelsey Dunham ’14, who took her sixth season win, pitched her best game in several weeks. Securing her first shutout of the season, Dunham struck out three batters and gave up only three hits. “The win today was a complete team win,” Dunham said. “We had great hitting and solid defense throughout the game.” Team members said the Bulldogs proved more successful at bat and on the field. Yale outhit Sacred Heart in both games, 9–8 in the first and 6–3 in the second, and hits often translated to runs, though Johnson said the Bulldogs still have to work on pitch selection. The team hopes to maintain this level of play for the rest of the season, she added.
“In the next two days we just need to have two focused practices and carry the energy from today into the weekend,” Dunham said. “We know we can win this weekend, and it’s our time to do it together.” The Bulldogs next face Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. for four games this weekend — Saturday and Sunday at 12:30. Last year they won one of the three games, but team members said they are confident that the recent momentum shift may lead to their first Ivy victory.
We know we can win this weekend, and it’s our time to do it together. CHELSEY DUNHAM ’14 Pitcher, softball team Currently, the team has only won one of 12 games against Ivy League opponents. “We need to take this passion and adrenaline into Dartmouth and remember how it feels to win again,” Johnson said. “Remember that sense of pride and accomplishment and go out and do what it takes to feel that again. We’re ready.” Contact MASON KROLL at mason.kroll@yale.edu .
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Attacker Kerri Fleishhacker ’15 found the lower left corner of the cage and put Yale ahead 6–5 on a free position goal as Yale came back from a three-goal deficit to beat Brown on Wednesday. LACROSSE FROM PAGE 14 lot,” Phillips said. After missing the draw, Yale gave up another goal at 28:23. Hopeful that the Elis could come out on top, the Bulldogs’ supporters kept up the energy in the stands, and the team started to perform. The Bulldogs fiercely retaliated by pouring in six goals until in the next fifteen minutes Crow mounted a relentless offensive campaign and recorded a hat trick by 18:24 into the second half. After two minutes, Fleishhacker’s free position shot finally broke the tie and put Yale ahead 6–5. The team did not stop its goalscoring rally as Crow and Rhodes added a goal apiece, and Crow’s fifth goal of the game with eight seconds remaining sealed the match for the home team. The Bulldogs effectively controlled the game in almost every aspect except face-offs and shots. Brown outshot Yale 28–19 and won 10 draws to Yale’s seven. With 15 caused turnovers and 13 clears to Brown’s 10, the defense once again showed strength and did not leave any blind spots. “We played as a unit today and had one of our best defensive
games,” defender Kallie Parchman ’14 said. She added that the team also improved its clears in the second half, which gave Yale’s offense opportunities to score. Despite her position, Crow also contributed to defense. The captain helped the team demonstrate strong transitions and caused a turnover towards the end of the half. The Bulldogs dominated in ground balls (22–19), which provided them with more goal possessions and attacking opportunities.
We want to take this huge game momentum to the next game. DEVON RHODES ’13 Attacker, women’s lacrosse team “We had high ball possession, ate the clock and won,” Phillips said. Goalkeeper Erin McMullan ’14 recorded 12 saves with the help of her fellow sophomore defenders. “Erin McMullan played extremely well the whole game, but especially at the end of the
game when she made some key stops in high-pressure situations,” Parchman said. Phillips said the defense and McMullan’s saves allowed the offense to have time and to be on track, which pressured Brown. The Bulldogs committed six fewer fouls than their opponents, although penalties have been an area with which the Elis have struggled in the past. Phillips said the Brown game was Yale’s first comeback win, and it is a sign that the team is moving to the right direction. Yale has scored 123 goals so far and has only two more matches remaining, one against Cornell and the other against Boston College. Although both matches are important, the Elis will be putting a heavier emphasis on the showdown against the Big Red because its outcome will play a part in determining Yale’s final Ivy standings. “We want to take this huge game momentum to the next game,” Rhodes said. After two home games, the Bulldogs will take to the road again when they take on Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., on Saturday at noon. Contact EUGENE JUNG at eugene.jung@yale.edu .
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Meg Johnson ’12 moved into seventh place all time for career hits at Yale in Wednesday’s doubleheader.
Loving sports is about loving stories COLUMN FROM PAGE 14 up and prepare to rush the field. The Broncos faced fourth and 18 at midfield with just 18 seconds left on the clock. Games don’t get much closer to being over. It’s moments like these when the greatest stories are written. Moments when our expectations for what is and is not possible are completely revised, all within the confines of a silly game. It’s moments when the sensible gives way to the magical that we are reminded why we love sports. A solemn pronunciation of finality from the telecast team could barely be heard over the deafening cheers of the Oklahoma faithful. “A last gasp for the Broncos.” Zabransky stepped back in the pocket, then heaved a bullet down midfield. It traveled 15 yards to Drisan James, who was still three yards from the first down line and surrounded by three Oklahoma defenders. He took one step to his right, then turned and chucked the ball behind him. “The lateral!”
Broncos receiver Jerard Rabb caught the ball running left while the Sooners’ defenders nearly tripped over themselves trying to switch directions. “To the corner of the endzone, can you believe that!” 35—35. On to overtime. But the Bronco defense still could not stop the mighty Oklahoma attack. The Sooners scored on the first play of overtime thanks to a 25-yard touchdown run by star running back Adrian Peterson. 42–35. Boise State would have one possession to answer with a touchdown. The Broncos managed to advance to the five-yard line, but once again faced fourth down with the game on the line. They would have to pull another rabbit out of the hat. Boise State’s second trick play of the night was sheer madness. Zabransky lined up as a receiver and started in motion to his left. Backup wide receiver Vinny Perretta lined up as a running back and took the snap. As a confused Oklahoma defense tried to adjust, Perretta tucked
the ball and ran to his right. The Sooner defenders rushed forward to tackle him, leaving tight end Derek Schouman to run into the end zone guarded by only one defender. “Perretta will take the snap, he’s going to throw it, into the endzone, touchdown!” Perretta raced down the field with his arms raised in the air as Sooners coach Bob Stoops stared in confused disbelief. Just an extra-point field goal by the Broncos and the game would be headed into a second overtime. You never go for a two-point conversion when you’re losing by one point. You just don’t. Teams only make about 40 percent of their two-point attempts compared to nearly 100 percent of extra-point attempts. What’s more, Oklahoma’s stingy defense had been getting the better of the Broncos on that final drive. By going for two, Coach Peterson was accepting odds stacked against him. He was admitting a lack of faith in his defense. He was opening himself up to a lifetime of potential “fourth and 22” criticism. Most importantly,
he was ending the game — Boise State would either score from the three-yard line to complete their undefeated season or they would fail and go home empty-handed. “Boise State for the win.” On the last play of the season, Peterson unveiled the third and final trick play in his book. The Broncos lined up all three receivers on the right side, leaving the left side completely empty. Zabransky received the snap, stepped back in the pocket, turned to his right and unleashed a mighty heave of his right arm. But the ball wasn’t in his right arm. As the Oklahoma defenders instinctively turned to Zabransky’s right, the quarterback hid the football behind his back with his left hand. Broncos running back Ian Johnson casually jogged behind the quarterback. As the confused Sooners searched for the ball, Johnson grabbed it and raced to the left side of the end zone. “They hand it off to Johnson! Boise State has won the Fiesta Bowl! Can you believe it?” To put a little more icing on the cake, Johnson weaved
through the raucous mob to meet his girlfriend, the head Boise State cheerleader. In front of a national TV audience, the hero of the 2007 Fiesta Bowl dipped to one knee and proposed. The two have been happily married since. Why am I boring you with the legendary tale of the upstart Broncos? Because whenever I’m asked why I love sports, I think of the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. For me, being a sports fan is about getting lost in stories. When you think about it, the wide world of sports is the perfect arena for narrative. These narratives exist in a wonderfully simple universe bound and defined by the rules of a silly game. Our rooting interests are developed so arbitrarily and yet leave us with clear protagonists and villains — there is no confusing good and evil. These stories have no author and are thus unpredictable. They uplift our spirits because they just as easily can break out hearts. They surprise us and inspire us, constantly challenging our understanding of what is and is not possible within the
simple confines of a game. In the wide world of sports, there are stories everywhere you turn. Watch Augusta National on a Sunday and you’ll see a man who had everything, lost it all, and is now fighting desperately to revive his legacy. Head to Yankee Stadium for a game against the Red Sox and you’ll see two houses, bitterly divided for over a century, each jockeying to write the latest chapter in sports’ most historic rivalry. Catch a Heat game and you’ll be witness to a man who traded everything for victory and still hasn’t found it. Or just watch the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. Nothing gives me joy quite like hearing and telling these wonderful stories. It’s been a pleasure and an honor to relate them here each week in my little-read sports column. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to listen to me ramble over the past two years. I hope you continue to seek inspiration in the narrative of sport. Contact JOHN ETTINGER at john.ettinger@yale.edu .
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Why I love Sports In my sports-crazed mind, it’s one of the greatest stories ever told. Boise State football didn’t stand a chance. Sure, they had won 12 games en route to an undefeated season and a Western Athletic Conference championship. But that was the problem — there was no number of games the Broncos could have won against their pillowsoft WAC competition that would prepare them to face mighty Oklahoma. This was Oklahoma! Sooners dominance was a national tradition, and the 2007 team hadn’t disappointed. They had entered the season as contenders for the national title. Despite two narrow losses at the start of the season, they had won eight games in a row and been crowned kings of the powerhouse Big 12 Conference. The two teams should not have even been on the field together. Oklahoma was a whopping 7.5-point favorite over their non-BCS opponents. But the crazy world of the Bowl Championship Series had pitted the two against one another in the Fiesta Bowl. And so we had our David and Goliath. You can probably guess what happened next. Boise State came roaring out of the gate, jumping out to a shocking 21–10 halftime lead on the power of two touchdown passes by Broncos quarterback Jared Zabransky (now of Edmonton Eskimo fame). Things only got worse for Goliath in the third quarter, as an errant pass from Sooners quarterback Paul Thompson was intercepted and returned for a touchdown. A sea of fans clad in blue and
orange danced wildly in the stands. 28–10 Boise State. But the feel-good story slowly unraveled as Oklahoma’s superior talent recaptured the game. An eight-yard touchdown run. A 28-yard field goal. A five-yard touchdown pass followed by a two-point conversion. With 1:26 remaining in the game, the Sooners had tied the score at 28–28. Things then went from bad to worse on the ensuing Broncos possession. The FOX Sports announcers relayed the tragedy to the live national audience. “Clock is running, they’ve set the ball, Zabransky a dangerous throw, and it’s intercepted! Into the endzone, Marcus Walker!” The score was 35–28 Oklahoma with 1:02 left. Broncos fans stood in absolute shock as the Sooners mobbed Walker in the end zone. The ocean of fans in Sooner red pulsated as Zabransky stared blankly towards the scoreboard. It had been a nice story, but this was Oklahoma football. The gods of sport don’t particularly care for feel-good stories. Boise State got the ball back but went nowhere at the start of the ensuing possession. With just 35 seconds left in the game, Zabransky was positively dumped by a high-flying lineman for an eight-yard sack. On the next play, a beautiful 30-yard pass was dropped at the sideline. As Zabransky’s errant third down attempt fell for an incompletion, the Sooners’ players on the sideline gestured for Oklahoma fans to get SEE COLUMN PAGE 13
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Midfielder Cathryn Avallone ’14 kicked off scoring for the Bulldogs with her 14th goal of the season as Yale defeated Brown 9–6 on Wednesday. BY EUGENE JUNG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Yale trailed Brown 5–2 almost ten minutes into the second half of the two teams’ game Wednesday afternoon. The Bears had led 4–2 at the half, only to widen their lead 1:38 into the second. Then Yale’s offense came to life. Captain Caroline Crow ’12 scored a free position shot at 20:13, then sped past two defenders and fired a powerful shot low into the Brown net to make the score 5–4. Within
the next two minutes, attacker Devon Rhodes ’13 and attacker Kerri Fleishhacker’s ’15 scored free-position goals of their own to make the score 6–5 and give Yale it would not relinquish. The Elis scored twice more before Brown could muster a response and held on for a 9–6 victory over the Bears. The victory lifted Yale (2–4, 5–8) into sixth place in the Ivy League, while Brown (1–4, 6–6) dropped to seventh. Just three days after taking down Columbia 13–9 at Reese
Stadium, Wednesday’s win gave Yale its first winning streak of the season. Crow led the way for the home team with five goals. “It was a huge win and every player did so well,” Rhodes said. The Bears (6–6, 1–4 Ivy) ended up scoring the game’s first two goals five minutes after taking the face-off. Then, only two minutes after the visitors initiated scoring, Yale midfielder Cathryn Avallone ’15 succeeded in scoring the first goal for the Bulldogs to level the game.
Head coach Anne Phillips said the first half was good, but the team struggled to win the draw. Following Avallone’s lead, Crow scored another goal, but the Bears added two more of their own to make the score 4–2 heading into halftime. In the second half, however, the Bulldogs fought back effectively. “We successfully ran different offense against Brown in the second period, which hurt [Brown] a SEE LACROSSE PAGE 13
Bulldogs snap losing streak with split BY MASON KROLL CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After 15 straight losses, the softball team turned the tide and broke its losing streak with a 3–0 shutout against Sacred Heart in the nightcap of the teams’ doubleheader Wednesday.
SOFTBALL While the Pioneers (17–26) won the first game of Wednesday’s doubleheader, the Bulldogs (8–28, 1–11 Ivy) said their first victory this month caused a significant momentum shift — just in time for more Ivy League play this weekend. “The team I saw on the field today was the Yale softball team I know and love,” Meg Johnson ’12 said. Johnson earned the 155th hit of her career in the nightcap and is now tied for seventh in career hits in Yale softball history. Sacred Heart did not just have home field advantage: Wednesday marked their first game in
the newly renovated Pioneer Park in Fairfield, Conn. In the first game, the Elis took an early 2–1 lead in the top of the second after Kelsey Warkentine ’13, Riley Hughes ’15 and Chelsea Janes ’12 each singled, driving in two runs. But Yale’s advantage ended after Sacred Heart scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth. A Pioneer grand slam in the bottom of the fifth, made possible by three walks and a wild pitch, gave the home team a 7–2 lead. Yale responded when Tori Balta ’14 started the sixth inning with a single down the left field line. Captain Christy Nelson ’13 then hit a home run, her first of the season, to bring the score to 7–4. But the Bulldogs retired leaving runners on first and third that inning, and even a double by Jen Ong ’13 was not enough for them to secure the win. “We kept our heads on the ball, made adjustments and kept up high energy in the second SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 13
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Christy Nelson ’13 hit an RBI home run to center field in the sixth inning of Yale’s first game against Sacred Heart Wednesday.
STAT OF THE DAY 5
THE NUMBER OF GOALS CAROLINE CROW ’12 SCORED DURING THE WOMEN’S LACROSSE TEAM’S GAME AGAINST BROWN ON WEDNESDAY. Yale rebouned from a two-goal deficit at halftime to secure a 9–6 win and sixth place in the Ivy League. Crow leads the team in goals.