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END OF AN ERA

After nearly two decades, Levin to retire in 2013

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BY TAPLEY STEPHENSON STAFF REPORTER After two decades leading the University, Richard Levin will end his presidency after this academic year.

Levin’s announcement, emailed to the Yale community Thursday morning, was not totally unexpected: He had said previously that he would see the Yale Tomorrow drive to its conclusion before departing. With Yale Tomorrow

concluded in July 2011, a new set of four-year labor contracts ratified over the summer and YaleNUS College set to open in Singapore next fall, Levin told the News he felt it an apt time to step down.

Levin said he told the Corporation three years ago that he had several objectives he wanted to complete before leaving Yale — settling the labor contracts, balancing the budget, developing West Campus, launching YaleNUS in Singapore and construct-

ing the two new residential colleges.

Of those stated goals, Levin leaves one notably unfulfilled: Yale still needs to raise roughly $300 million to complete the new residential colleges, a $500 million project.

“The best thing I can do is to raise as much for my successor as I can, to leave some sort of dowry behind,” Levin said. “And depending on who the successor is, it may be a person who has similar expe-

rience with this.”

Former Yale Corporation Senior Fellow Roland Betts ’68 said the University is “one or two major gifts away from breaking ground,” adding that he expects Levin to work on fundraising for the colleges and to continue serving on the board of Yale-NUS during his sabbatical year.

But after his nearly 20 years in Woodbridge Hall — currently, the longest term of any Ivy League president — Levin’s decision still

Legacy spans city, globe

caught many off guard.

Several faculty and administrators interviewed said they had been expecting Levin to step down in the near future. But most learned of Levin’s plans Thursday morning, either from his email or during a meeting of deans and directors. Yale College Dean Mary Miller, who was at the meeting, called the timing of the announcement an “enormous surprise.”

“I immediately rolled back to 20 years ago,” Miller said. “As a

BY GAVAN GIDEON STAFF REPORTER As members of campus absorbed the news of University President Richard Levin’s coming departure, it didn’t take long for the question to arise: Who will be next?

[Provost Salovey has] had University-wide responsibility for 10 years as dean and provost. He’s an obvious one.

ROLAND BETTS ’68 Former senior fellow, Yale Corporation

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University President Richard Levin pictured after the announcement of his appointment.

On Oct. 2, 1993, Yale President Richard Levin took the stage at his inauguration. Previously the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Levin assumed leadership of a University that was running a substantial budget deficit, allowing its physical plant to deteri-

orate and planning to reduce the faculty by 10 percent.

On Thursday morning, nearly 20 years later, Levin announced that he plans to step down at the end of the academic year. As one of the longest-serving presidents in Yale’s 311-year history, he leaves behind a legacy defined by revitalization in New Haven and newfound expansion abroad.

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Speculation about successor begins nearby

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tenured member of the faculty who had received the news of Rick Levin’s appointment with such incredible joy, and to feel the time collapsing across this 20 year span.

It felt downright teleological, this sense of an era.”

Fifty-seven of 112 students interviewed Thursday said they were “surprised” or “shocked” by the news of Levin’s departure.

Twenty one said they expected

With the end of Levin’s era now in sight and the hardships of the early 1990s a distant memory, many are already asking whether he might be remembered as one of Yale’s greatest presidents — if not the greatest.

“Rick’s a legacy,” Law professor and former Dean of Yale Law School SEE LEGACY PAGE 6

The search for Yale’s 23rd president has yet to begin, and multiple administrators declined to comment Thursday on matters regarding Levin’s potential successor. But with Levin’s days in office definitively numbered, speculation has begun as to whether the top candidate to take the helm of the University is already close at hand. Chief among potential successors, Provost Peter Salovey — the University’s second highest-ranking administrator — has been mentioned as a candidate who might be prepared to take the reins.

Yale Historian Gaddis Smith ’54

GRD ’61 said Salovey, who came to Yale in 1986 as a professor of psychology, has earned “high qualifications” for the presidential post through his current role as provost, to which Levin appointed him in August 2008. Before his provostship began, Salovey served as dean of Yale College for four years and as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for about a year — the post Levin held before he became president in 1993.

Roland Betts ’68, a former member of the Yale Corporation who was appointed in 1999 and served as senior fellow for eight years, said that Salovey “is obviously going to be a candidate.”

“He’s had University-wide responsibility for 10 years as dean and provost.

He’s an obvious one,” Betts said. “Who the others will be, I have no idea.”

In examining potential candidates, the Corporation’s search committee will consider a number of factors, such as age, experience and relationship to the University. The search committee will also decide between choosing SEE SUCCESSION PAGE 6

MORE INSIDE For an analysis of Levin’s impact on Yale’s relationship with New Haven, see page 6.

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“It may be malarkey … but it is charming malarkey.”

‘THEANTIYALE’

ON ‘THE SPELL-CHECK REVOLUTION’

GUEST COLUMNIST SHIRA TELUSHKIN

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ichard Levin has built a Yale few could have imagined when

he was appointed 19 years ago.

When University President Richard Levin steps down at the end of this year, he will leave a Yale far stronger than it was at his inauguration 19 years ago.

His understated but brilliant leadership has left a positive impact on everything from Yale’s finances to its place in New Haven, to its international outlook.

The News and others have sharply criticized Levin in recent years, notably in regard to Yale’s venture into Singapore. But we should remember Levin for all his accomplishments at Yale’s helm, and those will rank him among the University’s greatest leaders.

Levin assumed the presidency as a wonkish professor of economics many knew little about. He has not strayed from that approach since he took office: He has very quietly dreamed very big — and followed through.

Yale has transformed from a nationally prominent institution to a leader in the globalization of higher education with a reputation as one of the world’s best universities. West Campus, the new School of Management campus and the 12 renovated residential colleges are evidence of a physical renaissance. Levin has pushed for the improvement of Yale’s science departments, dramatically increased financial aid, replaced student loans with student grants for undergraduates and resolved the labor disputes that once crippled campus. The endowment has grown from $3.2 billion to more than $19 billion under his watch.

Many students are unaware of Levin’s profound impact on Yale. It doesn’t help that the president en-

gages directly with students only rarely. Undergraduate institutional memory is short, and it is easy to forget that Levin assumed the presidency only two years after town-gown relations hit their low point with the murder of Christian Prince ’93 on Hillhouse Avenue.

For all Yale’s progress under Levin, some questions remain. The University’s commitment to free speech has been inconsistent in recent years. As Yale-NUS prepares to open, it remains unclear whether issues surrounding freedoms of speech and association in Singapore will outweigh the good the new college will do for Yale’s footprint abroad and liberal arts education in Asia.

In a speech several years ago, Levin called Charles Eliot, who led Harvard from 1869 to 1909, the greatest university president ever. In Levin’s telling, Eliot transformed Harvard from a college into a modern university — and Levin’s record reflects similar ambitions. The Yale he leaves behind is a global leader that has adapted expertly to the changing landscape of the digital age. Eliot reduced Harvard’s curricular requirements and broadened the school’s regional reach; Levin looked to China, Singapore and the Internet.

Like Eliot, Levin has worked to make his university universal.

Levin’s memory is built into Yale’s landscape. He leaves an imprint on our campus, Yale’s global reputation and its future that we should not forget when he leaves Woodbridge Hall.

Students will live in Levin’s Yale for many years to come.

his is not the beginning of the end. I’ve had to remind myself this as I assemble my shopping list junior year, painfully passing over courses I now must admit I may never take at Yale.

I love bluebooking. I bluebook early and often. Halfway through the fall semester, I am already deep into the more obscure corners of OCI’s spring course listings. I love reading syllabi, riding the predictable wave of evaluations (there is always the student who thinks the course is a life-changing musttake, the one-word-answer student, the bitter loner who obviously is the only one who rated the class “poor,” the helpful student who gives you tips on getting into the course and a run-down of assignments and the inevitable reminder that “you should take it if you are [sic] interested in the subject”).

Inevitably, friends come to me for suggestions when they want a fun class and leave unsatisfied when I light up about Cartography, Identity, and Borders or Rabbis and Others in Late Antiquity. To be fair, my interests are in magic, myth and folklore, and my bookshelf is crammed with volumes on Satan, witchcraft, demonic tales and exorcisms, so I feel equipped

to advise on the weirder possibilities of a Yale education. Any obscure or highly specific course delights me by its sheer existence. My schedules always came together easily.

This whole college thing seemed to be humming along pretty well, I’d think as I pored over medieval descriptions of Satan’s penis for a final paper.

Junior year. After taking a surprisingly strong liking to working in Washington, D.C. over the summer, my fanciful course selections face the intrusion of more history; more political science. Creative writing becomes non-fiction writing, and suddenly those five time slots disappear as my interests split and go to war on the battleground of my ever-lengthening shopping schedule. The urgency rises with each decision of which class to shop. I weigh who will be on leave in the coming fall and brush past that cold reminder that we will not be students forever.

Junior year. The remaining semesters suddenly shrink into a hard, dry and stingy four. Weren’t they once a hazy expanse, limitless? Four semesters. Four semesters to take a beautiful art history class, Harold Bloom, John Gaddis, do an independent study, finally

understand economics, learn something about Kant, take Intro Psych. What about creative writing? What about Intro to American Politics? What about languages?

What does it mean to take control of your education?

The freedom of the bluebook, which once gave me such giddy pleasure as I procrastinated by searching random terms like “goddess” and “friends” on OCI, became a mean joke, out to limit my identity and force me to define myself. For a fleeting moment I envied my friends who had gone to college in England and seemed to face only the most meager of choices.

For most of us, our identities as students have always been at the center of our lives. There has always been someone out there whose job it was to care about us and our personal growth. The start of my third year this week beckoned the start of my fourth, and that meant the end of my academic wanderings.

I don’t want to dismiss offhand the fact that when we graduate we cease to be students. Our job will no longer be to decide which course would be the best science credit, or whether poetry or poli-

tics will better serve our personal development.

But we would be poor students if we believed that to be the whole truth. As my schedule fell more closely into place and I reconciled myself more to where I am in my time at Yale, that fear — panic, almost — began to subside.

As I was forced to let more courses slip away, I also had to re-think my definition of a student.

We are students forever. I believe that. We can always pick up books, form study groups, go to local lectures, watch a documentary. We are here to learn how to learn so we can learn for the rest of our lives.

Shopping period can seem crazy, but remember: This is not the beginning of the end. The path of knowledge does not narrow with each course we pick but, hopefully, widens. While art history courses may not always be around for you to take, art history — and, for that matter, historical descriptions of Satan’s penis — aren’t going anywhere.

SHIRA TELUSHKIN is a junior in Pierson College. Contact her at shira.telushkin@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST SAM COHEN

Redirecting Directed Studies O

n Wednesday, a whole new crop of lucky freshmen buckled down to begin their year in Directed Studies. DS, the study of Western literature, philosophy and historical and political thought from antiquity through the modern era, has many advantages. It lays a solid foundation for students interested in the humanities by exposing them to many of the West’s greatest writers and thinkers. It is a crash course in college-level analytical writing. It fulfills many of the distribution requirements we’re all still trying to cram into our schedules. And it’s a readymade community for freshmen trying to figure out the brand-new world of Yale.

But there are a number of ways that Directed Studies could be strengthened and improved in the future. To begin, students in Directed Studies are expected to read about 60 books (or at least lengthy sections of them) over the year — that’s 30 books a semester, not including any other classes students choose to take. That is an absurd amount of reading.

Unless you want your only friends to be the late-night (early-morning, really) Bass security guards, it is just not possible to read all the

pages assigned and make friends.

Surely each discipline could find a way to cut down the reading; after all, even when DS students aren’t reading, they’re probably working on their weekly paper.

Second, on paper, everyone in DS has the same experience. They read the same books, attends the same lectures and meet in section twice a week. That would be fine if grading were also uniform, but it isn’t. Grading and paper topics depend entirely on the section professor. It isn’t fair to DS students to have varying grading standards in each section when everyone’s transcripts list the same course. If the DS faculty together came up with a list of common paper topics for each assignment and two professors read each paper to ensure that grades were fair, the entire Directed Studies experience would be more equitable and transparent for the students.

With such an integrated program, a cooperative grading system shouldn’t be too hard to implement.

As a general warning to DS students this year, don’t be fooled when the class is called “History and Politics” — it isn’t. The class really is about political phi-

losophy only, which leaves a tremendous gap in understanding the context in which the thinkers wrote. While DS tries sometimes to fill in that context in lecture, some historical context would be helpful. For example, Edmund Burke’s “Reflections on the Revolution in France” would only be enhanced if the students were taught the basics of the revolution in France. Without the background knowledge, the class can sometimes feel random and disjointed, jumping from one thinker to another.

For me, the hardest DS course was philosophy. I had never taken any philosophy before, and I didn’t really enjoy the abstract thinking about thinking. But many of my classmates were philosophy buffs who had read far more than just what is assigned on the syllabus. This disparity meant that professors were forced to try to keep class interesting for the advanced students and comprehensible for the beginners.

Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t, but organizing sections based on students’ previous exposure to the texts — not just in philosophy, but in all three courses — would help everyone have a better learning experience.

Lastly, Directed Studies is a wholly Western program. While I’m well aware that I’m not the first person to voice this complaint, there are no non-Western texts on the syllabus — not even handouts. It would immensely enhance our understanding of the texts and writers if we were exposed, however briefly, to alternate ideas that originated in a different part of the world. The strengths and flaws in each argument would become clearer, and our knowledge would become broader. I enjoyed focusing on the Western canon, but I would have loved at least to be exposed to writers and philosophers from other traditions.

All these criticisms aside, however, I am still glad I took Directed Studies. Yes, it was frustrating at times to be stuck in the library instead of dancing at Toad’s. But, for most of the assignments, the experience of reading (or skimming) and analyzing the texts was a great experience. And don’t worry, DSers: You’ll still get to go to Toad’s way too much.

SAM COHEN is a sophomore in Calhoun College. Contact him at samson. cohen@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST ISABEL BESHAR

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eated on a plastic kindergartener’s chair, I must have looked ridiculous. My long legs barely fit under the chair and the 103-degree heat was becoming uncomfortable. In contrast to my inelegance, my companions seemed completely poised. Meet Mira and Anna, two 16-year-old preschool teachers in Goyena, Nicaragua.

Four hundred Nicaraguans inhabit this sleepy village, nestled in the hot farmland of the northwest. The community was displaced here following the devastating Hurricane Mitch of 1979, which explains the weak, hastily built infrastructure. The church is a small lean-to, and the doctor’s office is without running water and electricity (making it impossible to see patients after dark).

Most of the men in Goyena work the soil, collecting sugarcane for the San Antonio ingenio, Nicaragua’s largest sugar company. The women and young adults complete communal chores and work as preschool teachers, nurses and members of the church clergy.

I was traveling in Goyena with seven other Yale students as part of

a delegation from the New HavenLeón Sister City Project. Founded in 1984, the grassroots organization helps promote sustainable economic projects in Goyena and educates the New Haven community of the social and political problems many Nicaraguans face.

To better understand these struggles, our group spoke with the people of Goyena. My time with Mira and Anna was one of many conversations I had in Goyena, but their incredible story and confident manner particularly affected me.

Both Mira and Anna were balancing their preschool teaching jobs with an ambitious academic program. The girls teach Goyena’s schoolchildren every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday and Friday, they endure the bumpy 1.5-hour bus ride to their high school in León. To make up for their days leading preschool, Mira and Anna also attend supplemental Saturday classes; however, an unreliable weekend bus schedule requires a 3 a.m. wakeup. While most people in Goyena rest on Sundays, the girls spend the day finishing homework

and cleaning the preschool classrooms. They are among Goyena’s first generation to attend high school.

The girls nonchalantly described this routine. To them, a 3 a.m. alarm signified opportunity.

It promised a future unreachable to most in their community. As the girls spoke, I evaluated my customary morning. To me, my 8 a.m. alarm launched a day of fatigue and disenchantment. I generally cursed my professor for scheduling class so early and grudgingly walked 15 minutes up Science Hill.

A rigorous year of organic chemistry had exhausted me. Distracted by a violent cycle of midterms and papers, I stopped appreciating the beauty — and ease — of my education.

Had I met with Mira and Anna two years ago, I would have been less shocked by our contrasts.

Unpacking my car during Camp Yale, I was wide-eyed and exuberant, eager to attend Master’s Teas, play club sports and begin the premed track. Most of all, I was genuinely excited about my education. Today, as the class of 2016 buzzes around campus, fresh-

men spout similar excitement and energy. However, during their four years here, the current freshmen will doubtlessly find themselves exhausted and, like me, sometimes apathetic toward their education.

To the class of 2016: The disillusionment is normal, but it should not be persistent. Yes, there will be times where you’ll have to battle exhaustion and simply survive a class. Yet in these moments, seek an experience that might shock you out of your malaise. It could be a summer trip to Nicaragua; it could be a change in major. For me, it’s revisiting my memories of Goyena while writing about them.

Whatever your solution, always seek to regain — or, if you’re lucky, keep — the excitement you currently feel for education. Don’t let the midterms, homework or 3 a.m. bus rides distract you; an education of any kind is something to be excited about.

ISABEL BESHAR is a junior in Saybrook College. Contact her at isabel. beshar@yale.edu .

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HERMAN MELVILLE “… they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them any more than he would a riotous lad at Yale or Harvard.”

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T C H R I S T I A N VA Z Q U E Z

For Yale, but not of it W

hen President Rick Levin began his term at Yale in 1993, close to half of the undergraduate student body had yet to be born and Yale was quite a different place. As I’ve heard from alumni of the 1980s and 1990s, our facilities and dormitories were in absolute disrepair and New Haven was an awful place to live.

In less than two decades, his administration has spearheaded several significant transformations. All the residential colleges have been renovated and two new ones are in the process of being built. Yale transitioned from a place purely dedicated to the liberal arts to a research university in which STEM majors occupy an equally important place in the intellectual community.

Yale’s place among the world’s universities became ever more prominent. We are no longer just an important American university in Connecticut, but rather a player on the global stage. Yalies began to study abroad at an unprecedented rate; programs were no longer limited to learning Italian in Siena but included such far-flung ventures as astronomy research programs at observatories in Chile. Closer to home, Yale’s transition from a northeastern bastion of liberal arts education toward an institution that attracts students from countries as varied as Mauritius and Argentina has been an amazing accomplishment. Not only that, but international students can also get financial aid, allowing for those students from abroad not all to be from the most privileged backgrounds.

In New Haven, Levin has improved a town-gown relationship that was in

shambles in the wake of peaking crime rates and the urban decay of the early 1990s. These efforts have been struck through partnerships with private developers and University Properties that have helped revitalize and make the town-gown relationship not simply a one-way street but a true collaboration.

We should applaud these accomplishments. They have gone a long way toward making Yale the community where we’ve learned and made some of our best friends.

YALE UNDER LEVIN SAW PROGRESS, BUT STUDENTS DIDN’T SEE LEVIN But some of these changes have come at the cost of making Yale an increasingly top-down institution with an impersonal bureaucracy. This is something I’ve become more conscious of after speaking to alumni who attended Yale in the Giamatti and Brewster years, when the administration was less corporate. I heard from many alumni that previous University presidents were always visible leaders, visiting the college dining halls and interacting with the student body on a regular basis — something entirely unlike the Levin style of administration and interaction with the student body.

Much of this can be a result of the fact

that Levin was not a Yale undergraduate. His perspective of the Yale experience is that of a graduate student, perhaps explaining why much of the residential college system has lost much of its autonomy: He wasn’t a product of it.

He didn’t have the Yale experience of watching the hockey team play at the Whale or tailgating the Game as undergraduates do. Many of the complaints from alumni come in the form of a lack of understanding as to how important these programs are to the undergraduate experience.

At times, the policies pushed by the administration annoyed students. On many occasions, I remember talking to a group of friends with absolutely no interest in China, and our disdain for the constant bombardment of East Asian languages that began during our freshman year continues to be a sore subject.

Other policies — like the new Yale-NUS College — many of us strongly disagreed with. This in particular might tarnish Levin’s otherwise spectacular presidency, not only for being a project that students are not too keen on but also for his lack of regard for the opinions of the faculty.

The next president of our University must lead in a manner that balances the ability to lead an operation as massive and corporate as modern Yale with the intimacy warranted of a small liberal arts college.

CHRISTIAN VAZQUEZ is a senior in Branford College. Contact him at christian. vazquez@yale.edu .

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Nathan Harden no Bill Buckley Sex and God at Yale

Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad

By Nathan Harden 301 pp. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press. $25.99.

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am predisposed to like “Sex and God at Yale.” Nathan Harden ’09 peddles a thesis — Yale has lost its moral compass — that dovetails with many of my columns. And I admire William F. Buckley Jr. ’50, from whom Harden shamelessly cribs his title.

By all accounts, “Sex and God at Yale” should be the jam to my polemic toast.

I’ll admit: I tried to like the book. I wanted to. But I couldn’t.

Yale — along with the academy at large — needs to discuss honestly our values and lack thereof, our misguided focus on multiculturalism and, yes, issues like sex and gender. Sadly, political correctness has long stymied these discussions.

Unfortunately, “Sex and God at Yale” is not the thoughtful give-and-take we need. Harden dispenses with any pretense of nuance. He shocks his readers with graphic depictions of Sex Week and points: Look. Bad. No morals.

And by graphic, I mean I was disgusted reading page after page describing bizarre porn and body manipulations.

Well, yes, Sex Week is distasteful, very much so. I have never attended an event and never will. I almost wish I never read about it.

But gruesomely gross sex is not the root problem at Yale. Something more complicated is.

Two other books help elucidate where Harden goes wrong: The first, “Chloe Does Yale,” is now properly forgotten chick lit by former News sex columnist Natalie Krinsky ’04. The second, Bill Buckley’s original classic “God and Man at Yale,” happily withstands the test of time.

“Chloe” was not written for Yalies. The racy novel sold copies because of Yale’s name, and the main character was nothing more than a vicarious thrill for anyone wanting the Ivy League experience.

“Sex and God at Yale” is much the same, a product for those outside our school. When Harden recalls info sessions on how to pierce genitals, he wants to shock middle America into masochistic repulsion — and, I imagine, to leave them feeling superior. After all, Yale can’t be much if it’s this depraved, right?

With outsiders peering into an Ivy fish bowl, Harden plays fast and loose with facts, intentionally confusing Yale and Sex Week’s organizers — not once, but repeatedly. The impression we get: The University president is inviting porn stars to campus.

The reality we know: Vulgar displays come courtesy of undergraduates at extremes of the ideological and sexual spectrum. Most of us, I gather, prudishly abstain from freakish piercings, as well we should.

By contrast, Buckley wrote a good faith critique of his alma mater for her alumni — “God and Man at Yale” was for Yalies, by

a Yalie. He warned his fellow graduates of Yale’s trending communism at a time when incidents like Alger Hiss NATHANIEL the trial revealed ZELINSKY how deeply Soviet forces On Point were penetrating America.

As a result, unlike “Sex and God,” “God and Man” is honest, complex and still worth reading today. Unbeknownst to most, Buckley’s book carries a subtitle: “The Superstitions of Academic Freedom” — and he posits a thorough philosophical framework against free expression on college campuses.

Harden, too, butts up against the beast of free speech, but he fails to develop any argument. He wants to ban Sex Week, just like last year’s Undergraduates for a Better Yale College. Sadly, he devotes less than a paragraph at the end of the book to explicitly justifying censorship.

In fact, in 292 pages, Harden fails to mention Yale’s philosophy of free expression enshrined in the 1975 Woodward report. The best he can say is that free speech is just a “private good” that can be easily abrogated away. That seems a bit shallow from someone who claims to have “studied everything from natural law to Benthamite utilitarianism.”

No, Mr. Harden: Freedom to talk, to think, to argue is a deeply important public necessity. James Madison put it best: We cannot pick enlightened statesmen — or even good college deans. So we protect speech to protect the truth from censorship. Contrarians (including Harden and me) benefit from this freedom. Sex Week — however gross and vile and painful to watch — also falls under that freedom, a point I have made on these pages before.

So Harden titillates for a nonYale reader. But he makes an even bigger philosophical mistake: He thinks values and free speech cannot coexist. They can. Instead of censorship or silence, Yale should vigorously condemn the things it finds offensive. We should stand for something. We can make value judgments while simultaneously recognizing that free expression is one of those values we hold dear.

In one regard, Harden is correct. In his words, we love to “promote sustainable food and fluorescent lightbulbs,” but we avoid “bold moral positions.” Too bad Harden also shied away from a gutsy and intricate stance.

At the end of the day, Harden is more “Chloe” then Buckley.

enjoyed the repercussions of this week’s hurricane, but under certain circumstances, hurricanes do have their upsides. To Yale and to the class of 2016 in particular, I say: We need another hurricane!

Obviously, I am not proposing a literal hurricane — during which, it should be remembered, people across Connecticut lost their lives. Instead, I am prescribing an altered state of mind among the freshmen. It seems unlikely that Yale will choose one night during which all freshmen are placed in their dorms, loaded up with food and not allowed to leave. However, if freshmen are more willing to stray from their comfort zones and have actual conversations, venture across entryways and even across colleges, they might have the same bonding experience my class did during Irene.

We upperclassmen, in our infinite wisdom, can recall what it felt like to be brand-new freshmen. It

was terrifying as it was exhilarating. Even with all the new people and institutionalized meetings, friendships can form slowly.

We inevitably resort to shallow, single-sentence conversations, and we have a tendency to turn inward — to our FOOT groups or friends from high school.

A hurricane mentality — a drive to stray beyond your comfort zone, meet new people and have real conversations — will help make the freshman experience that much better. Maybe the class of 2016 doesn’t even need a hurricane for this to happen. And maybe the rest of us — older and wiser though we are assuredly are — should adopt this mentality as well.

NATHANIEL ZELINSKY is a senior in Davenport College. His column runs on Mondays. Contact him at nathaniel. zelinsky@yale.edu .

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s Hurricane Isaac blows its (his?) way through the Gulf Coast, the pundits have been whipped into their own storm of epic proportions, pontificating about the environmental and political impacts of the rain. Yet I urge Yalies to resist this speculation for the moment and to try to think back nearly one year to the day — to another hurricane, one that had profound effects on the class of 2015’s freshman experience.

Last year, hours after helping me move in, my parents fled New Haven, trying desperately to outrun Hurricane Irene. Irene was the first major storm of the 2011 hurricane season, and it was expected to devastate Connecticut and Yale. Members of the Yale administration sent urgent emails to freshmen, warning us of Irene’s projected repercussions. Freshman orientation events were cancelled, and food was doled out like provisions

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at the Super Dome. FroCos warned us about what to do in the event that rooms flooded or furniture started blowing about.

(For those who missed the lesson: Get into the halls, stay away from the win-

dows and cower.)

Abandoned by our parents, locked in our dorms, warned of apocalyptic weather, the freshmen — many away from home for the first time — could have been terrified. But we weren’t.

Instead, liberated by our captivity, we bonded.

Shut in our dorms, stocked up for the storm, freshmen finally began getting to know one

another. I’m not talking about the ice cream social hey-whereare-you-from getting to know someone — but true bonding. In Vanderbilt Hall, where Branford and Saybrook freshmen lived, the emergency doors between entryways were unlocked, and, with nothing else to do, freshmen ventured forth and just hung out.

In the days before Irene, Summer Baxter ’15 spent most of her time in Bingham, hanging out with friends she had made during Cultural Connections. The night of the hurricane was the first she spent in Vanderbilt, where she actually lived. Two different entryways — previously separated by locked emergency doors — held a party that night. While playing games at the party, Baxter was paired with someone she had never met before from a different Vanderbilt entryway.

“We started just making casual chitchat, and we had so much in common,” she said. It turned out

she and her partner were taking essentially the same classes and had the same angst about prospective majors. Today they are best friends. “I probably never would have had that experience if I had not been stuck in Vandy,” Baxter said. “That was the beginning of my Yale socialization.”

Monica Chen ’15 was also living in Vanderbilt, but her suite didn’t venture out across entryways. Instead, because they couldn’t go out that night, “we just sat down and shared secrets with each other.” For about an hour, Chen’s suite discussed life stories, past crushes and the sort of confidences that drew them closer. Later, freshmen from other entryways came to them.

There were also practical advantages to being locked inside: Chen’s suite had time to build Ikea furniture — a feat for which a long, uninterrupted block of time can come in handy.

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SCOTT STERN is a sophomore in Branford College. Contact him at scott.stern@yale.edu .

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The Russia Purchase Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867 for under two cents an acre at the end of the American Civil War. The offer was accepted, but many Americans scoffed at the purchase, calling Alaska “Seward’s Icebox” and “Seward Folly.” Nevertheless on October 18, 1867, the Stars and Stripes flew for the first time over Alaska.

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En route to poli sci degree, Kreiss-Tomkins takes a campaign stop

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onathan Kreiss-Tomkins first stepped onto Yale’s campus four years ago, but he never forgot his love for his Alaskan hometown. He remained engaged in its development, but took this involvement to a new level this fall — as a candidate for a position in the state’s House of Representatives. LORENZO LIGATO reports.

After he took a break from Yale in the fall of 2011 to work on a writing project in his hometown of Sitka, Alaska, Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins had to defer graduation by a semester. Now, only one course credit stands between Kreiss-Tomkins and the completion of his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, but his candidacy for a seat in the Alaska House of Representatives has put his graduation on hold even longer.

After a summer of door-todoor campaigning in Alaska state House District 34, which includes Sitka, Kreiss-Tomkins was nominated as the Democratic party candidate on Aug. 28 with 1,256 votes. He ran unopposed but will face incumbent Republican candidate Bill Thomas in the November general election.

Kreiss-Tomkins said that the results of this month’s primaries are both “exciting and scary,” as he expects a large amount of money from the Republican Party and oil companies will begin to wash over the race in support of Thomas.

“So far, all has been honest and fair: low-key advertising, no personal attacks, limited outside dollars trying to influence the race. But this will change,” Kreiss-Tomkins said in an email to the News.

He added that he is counting on the energy of hundreds of volunteers to run “the best grassroots campaign” in southeast Alaska.

“It’s shaping up to be a classic

political battle: outside money versus local grassroots and volunteer energy,” he wrote. “I’m glad we’re the latter.”

JOINING THE RACE

After the Alaska Supreme Court ruled the state’s redistricting plan unconstitutional on May 22, the redistricting board drew a new map that affected the political geography for Sitka’s state House district.

A day later, Kreiss-Tomkins said, he received two recruitment calls. One was from Guadalupe Marroquin, a former Democratic candidate for the Alaska House of Representatives from Anchorage, and the other from Gershon Cohen — a high school debate coach resident in Haines, which is also in the newly drawn district.

Cohen, who met Kreiss-Tomkins at a debate competition when he was 14 years old, said he has always been impressed by the Democratic nominee’s “remarkable” political savvy.

In 2002, at the age of 12, Kreiss-Tomkins garnered national media attention when he organized the Alaska campaign for presidential candidate and former Vermont governor Howard Dean ’71. Kreiss-Tomkins continued to campaign for various state and national campaigns, including Tony Knowles’s bid for U.S. Senate in 2004 and Barack Obama’s presidential race in 2008.

“Jonathan clearly had an interest in politics and I imme-

diately saw this as an opportunity for him,” Cohen said. “I always thought he’d be a wonderful person to have in politics: not just because he’s smart, but because he’s a good person and would make decisions based on the needs of people in the community.”

Dr. Robert Hunter, a clinician at Sitka Medical Center, agreed that Kreiss-Tomkins’ sincere demeanor and innovative platform will convince Alaskans to cast their ballots in his favor.

“I’ve known Jonathan and his family for years, and he’s been outstanding at whatever he’s attempted to do,” Hunter said.

“He’s got new ideas and I’m sure he’d be an outstanding state representative.”

Before he received the recruitment call from Cohen, KreissTomkins had planned to interview for an internship with the White House or to come back to Yale this fall. He had nine days to decide whether he would file papers for the June 1 deadline declaring his intent to run for office.

He submitted the paperwork on that final day, explaining that he is confident he can win.

In particular, Kreiss-Tomkins’s platform centers on the use of Alaska’s oil resources. KreissTomkins believes that oil companies should not be the only ones to profit from the state’s resource, but that Alaskans too should benefit from this resource.

Other tenets of the candidate’s platform include building connective infrastructure in the region, increasing jobs in the fishing industry and ensuring public school funding is provided with ample time for administrators to react to any changes.

According to official records for the last campaign finance reporting period, Kreiss-Tomkins outraised Thomas $10,500 to $2,500 — reaching a new record in Alas-

BOA gets input on jobs pipeline

BY NICK DEFIESTA STAFF REPORTER The Board of Aldermen heard testimony Thursday night on a proposal for its long-awaited jobs initiative, one they hope will prepare residents for jobs within the city.

While the board’s human resources committee held a public hearing on the plan, locally called the jobs pipeline, residents testified in support of the idea, and offered suggestions to make the program more effective. The idea of a jobs pipeline has its origins in a slate of freshman labor-backed aldermen who campaigned last fall on bolstering city education and training initiatives for the types of jobs offered within city limits.

“I live in a community that is in desperate need of jobs, I live in a community where people want to work,” New Haven resident Maurice Caders said at the hearing Thursday. “I don’t want to see New Haven not [implement the pipeline.]”

Upon taking their seats in January, all 30 aldermen agreed upon a resolution that tasked a jobs pipeline working group with developing a proposal for putting New Haveners back to work. While New Haven has been the site of job growth in recent years, many of the gains have been in industries like biotechnology, which require education and skills that most city residents lack.

Ward 26 Alderman Sergio Rodriguez, who chairs the committee, said the Board is looking for a way to put residents back to work amidst the ongoing recession. New Haven’s unemployment rate for the month is 11.6 percent which, while down from 13.6 percent in July 2011, remains over 3 percent more than the national average of 8.2 percent.

More than 80 people attended the meeting, which began with a summary of the working group’s report examining current education, training and jobs pro-

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Supporters of Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins’ Alaska statehouse campaign form his initials with their bodies. ka’s state house campaign contributions.

Kreiss-Tomkins said his campaign has received donations from 152 people, which he said is more individuals than any other house campaign in the state.

“Statistics substantiate that we’re not a sacrificial lamb campaign, a narrative that is sometimes easy to assign simply because I’m young,” said the 23 year old candidate.

BULLDOG SUPPORT

Alaska citizens are not the only supporters for the campaign.

Several Yale professors have donated to Kreiss-Tomkins’ campaign, such as former Democratic National Committee chairman Dean, Branford College Master Elizabeth Bradley MPH ’95 GRD ’96 and FES Associate Dean Gordon Geballe GRD ’81.

Geballe emphasized the nominee’s passion for Alaska and his home state.

“Jonathan is a patriot of Alaska, so it’s not surprising that he’s doing what he’s doing,” the professor said. “This state House race is really just him finding another way of living out his passion for his home state.”

While at Yale, Kreiss-Tomkins was not involved in city politics but pursued other extra-curricular activities like music and running. He said his time at Yale largely prepared him for his new political endeavor because of the variety of personalities and backgrounds within the student body.

“Politics should be about people and Yale is filled with complicated, wonderful people,” he said.

“I learned a lot about people at Yale.”

Still he never forgot about his hometown: in 2011, he created the Sitka Fellows program to bring young high-achievers from Yale and other universities to Alaska to work on a variety of artistic projects for the summer.

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grams. The group concluded that instead of creating a new program, the pipeline should focus its efforts on coordinating existing initiatives like the city’s Construction Workforce Initiative, efforts to work with formerly incarcerated residents and services offered at New Haven’s One Stop center.

“Currently there are local initiatives aimed at connecting targeted populations to jobs,” the report says. “Throughout the working group process, it became clear that the goal should not be to create new training programs, but to develop a coordinating entity that could bring coherence, organization and transparency, while enhancing the elements related to individual outreach, casework, follow-up and support services.”

After members of the working group presented their plan, New Haven residents spoke before the board about why the city needs the pipeline and what could be done to improve the proposal. Drew Morrison ’14, the president of Yale’s New Haven Action, suggested

the board take advantage of the state’s First Five initiative that aids Connecticut employers who commit to adding a large number of jobs. Meanwhile, Elm City resident Alan Felder implored the Board to focus on young black men, who he said face a particularly steep disadvantage in the current economic environment.

The idea for the jobs pipeline, first proposed by winning aldermanic candidates endorsed

by Yale’s unions last fall, was quickly embraced by Mayor John DeStefano Jr., who called for the program’s quick implementation in his February State of the City address. Aldermen on the human resources committee are now set to spend more time retooling the proposal before presenting it to the full board for approval.

According to the jobs pipeline working group, the New Haven labor market added 1,400 jobs in April, while Connecticut lost 4,100 jobs overall in the same month.

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

Contact LORENZO LIGATO at lorenzo.ligato@yale.edu .

Months after Occupy, Green restored to old form

BY LILIANA VARMAN STAFF REPORTER

Drew Morrison ’14, left, the president of New Haven Action, testified before the human resources committee Thursday night.

Over the past two years, more than 50 Yale students spent their summers in Sitka, working on a multitude of writing, music and artistic activities.

Tully McLoughlin ’11, who participated in the Sitka Fellows program, applauded Kreiss-Tomkins’ commitment to his home state.

“In some ways, [Kreiss-Tomkins] sees that people don’t give Alaska enough consideration and, therefore, he wants to put it on the map,” McLoughlin said. “He did a very good job in bringing people to Sitka and really showed the national beauty and opportunities that Alaska can offer.”

When asked of his future plans, the Democratic nominee said he would not count on flying back to New Haven any time soon but does plan to complete his studies within the next year.

After a months-long restoration process, the New Haven Green has fully recovered from the damage done to it by the Elm City’s Occupy encampment.

The restoration process, which began within a week of Occupy’s eviction in April, required the city to completely replant the grass on the Upper Green, said Christy Hass, deputy director of the city’s parks department. The Green was reopened to the public in June after being roped off from the public to allow healthy grass to grow, she added, and the reopening was delayed until the grass had developed substantially.

Although the Green does suffer some damage from regular use, Hass said Occupy’s prolonged presence harmed it more than usual. She explained the Green is currently in “pretty good condition”, keep an eye out for Occupy’s long-term environmental effects to the soil and trees.

Chris Randall, executive director of the New Haven Land Trust, told the News that the Occupy movement not only “completely obliterated” the Green’s grass but also heavily damaged the root structures of the park’s trees.

“The trees weren’t really doing that well to begin with, but I’m sure it didn’t help to have all that weight [of the encampment] for that long a period of time on them, either,” he added.

City Hall spokesperson Elizabeth Benton ’04 said volunteers used air spades to loosen topsoil compaction around the trees and to avoid harm-

ing tree roots. In addition to aerating the soil, she said, the area also had to be fertilized and composted before grass seeds could be planted.

Though the city estimated it would take $25,000 to repair damage to the New Haven Green, Benton said donations from local groups, businesses and corporations helped reduce the municipal restoration costs to $4,000.

In addition to monetary assistance — including an $8,000 gift from the Proprietors of the New Haven Green, the Green’s legal owners — the city received machinery donations and manpower from contractors, she said. As a result, Benton added, the city only needed to supply grass seed and a few additional volunteers.

Members of the Occupy movement volunteered to donate both time and resources to reseeding the upper portions of the Green, but Benton said the city rejected their offer.

“This was not the kind of job that simply required grass seed — it required specialized knowledge to protect the Green and also the trees,” she said.

Randall said he thinks the city was successful in quickly restoring the Green to its former state, and the public area has already been used for several events since its reopening.

The Occupy New Haven movement began on Oct. 15 and was forcibly evicted by the city on April 18, by which time it had earned the status of the longest-lasting Occupy encampment in New England.

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

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The New Haven Green is fully restored following damage caused by the Occupy New Haven encampment.

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BY BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER When University President Richard Levin steps down in June, he will leave behind a transformed relationship between Yale and New Haven.

Levin assumed the presidency in 1993 in the midst of what many alumni, administrators, city officials and local residents consider to be the lowest point for the University’s relationship with its home city. Between 1970 and the early 1990s, Yale neglected its surrounding home, and decades of disconnect left students wary of venturing beyond campus and New Haven residents distrustful of an expansive neighbor. But Levin’s inauguration marked a change in Yale’s attitude toward New Haven at the highest level — he made engaging New Haven an institutional priority, leading to numerous educational, economic development and outreach efforts over the past 19 years.

“It was a conscious effort by the Yale Corporation to choose Rick and grow a collaborative relationship between Yale and the city,” said Mayor John DeStefano Jr. “If you look at his policies one at a time, you are missing the arc of the accomplishments — Rick’s leadership and collaboration redefined healthy university growth and engagement in a host community.”

INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES

At the level of University governance, Levin institutionalized the importance of building a strong relationship with the city early in his tenure by establishing the Office of New Haven and State Affairs (ONHSA) in 1996. The office, a liaison between Yale and the city, is charged with “supporting public school and youth programs, revitalizing neighborhoods, creating a vital downtown and fostering economic development,” according to its website. A vice president position was created to oversee the office, and in 1998, former real estate developer Bruce Alexander ’65 was appointed to the post.

Alexander said the creation of the vice president role marked a pivotal change in town-gown relations, since being a part of Levin’s “cabinet” meant that “whenever a major decision on behalf of the University was made, there was input from the community.”

“Rick and I tried to get Yale out of the quid-pro-quo relationship with the city.

We tried to develop a partnership,” Alexander said. “I spent a lot of time listening to members of the community, and because I knew what Rick and the trustees were doing, I could speak credibly on behalf of the University.”

‘HUMAN CAPITAL’

This partnership between the University and the city resulted in an array of outreach and community development initiatives, many of which target New Haven public schools, said Claudia Merson, the director of public

school partnerships for ONHSA. Prior to Levin’s tenure, she said, strained relations between city school officials and Yale administrators inhibited collaboration on youth learning projects.

“I went into the job in 1995 and was astounded that people were very mistrustful — it was clear that there was not really a good and amicable relationship between the University and the town,” Merson said. “In the earlier days there was obviously a lot of residue from an earlier time.”

But over the years, ONHSA established many youth programs and partnerships with public schools in the Elm City, Merson said. In 1997, Yale partnered with the Hill Regional Career High School and enriched the school’s programs through several initiatives such as allowing the schools anatomy and physiology class to perform dissections alongside second year medical students twice a week. During the summer, Yale operates a residential summer science program to expose public school students to fields in science and technology, and the University’s partnership with the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School on College Street gives students the opportunity to write and produce a play with the help of professional playwrights.

Throughout Levin’s tenure, Merson said the new youth programs have impacted “thousands upon thousands of students.” This past summer alone, more than 750 children participated in programs organized by Yale.

“If you look at the last 20 years, an enormous amount has been accomplished,” she added.

Yale’s education outreach efforts under Levin culminated in 2011 with the unveiling of New Haven Promise — a Yale-funded program that awards college tuition scholarships to high-achieving public high school students who matriculate to in-state universities.

DeStefano lauded Levin’s “investments in human capital,” citing Promise as well as his efforts to improve relations with Yale’s labor unions. Despite strikes in 1996, 2002 and 2003, Levin managed to end a history of bitter confrontations with the unions, Locals 34 and 35 of the international union UNITE HERE. Last June, Yale administrators and union leaders announced they had agreed on new four-year contracts after a year of negotiation. Those contracts included the establishment of a jobs pipeline program allowing New Haven residents’ to more easily attain entry-level positions at Yale.

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Still, DeStefano and Alexander both said the city and the University have weathered tensions during Levin’s tenure by bearing in mind that the partnership is more important than any single issue of contention.

“You’ve got to learn to see things from each other’s self-interest, and if you don’t have complementary interests you just try to find a place that’s palatable for both,” DeStefano said. “Over time, our partnership has become defined by being open and absolutely transparent and never letting disagreement interrupt that, which I think has become easier since we’ve worked together for a while.”

In an interview with the News, Levin said he “hope[s] the commitments [Yale has] made to New Haven are irreversible” regardless of whether his successor makes the University’s relationship with the city a priority.

Alexander said he believes the University’s dedication to the positive relations with the city is here to stay.

“There has been such tremendous progress made in terms of our relationship with the city and in terms of improvement in the city,” Alexander said.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that the University finds great value in this new set of relationships.”

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Since the founding of UP, Yale has spent millions of dollars acquiring properties while renovating existing spaces to attract new, “high quality” tenants, UP Director Abigail Rider said. Having amassed a network of over 100 retail tenants and 500 residential holdings, UP now owns nearly the entire Broadway shopping district as well as parts of Chapel Street and pays over $4 million in annual property taxes. The university has been able to leverage its real estate and financial weight to attract national tenants including Apple and J. Crew.

“Our downtown retail environment is alive because of Yale investing in New Haven,” said Claire Criscuolo, owner of Claire’s Corner Copia on Chapel Street.

“I only hope that whomever fills the position of president will love and care for this city the way President Levin did.”

One of Levin’s first initiatives as president was the Yale Homebuyer Program, established in 1994, through which University employees are given an income benefit if they purchase a home in the Elm City. The program notched its 1,000th participant last December.

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While Levin’s reign as president has rebuilt a strained town-gown relationship, the path to improvement not been without rough patches. Tensions grew strained in 2007 when Yale announced it would build a new science campus, now known as West Campus, in West Haven rather than in New Haven. Discontent

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Levin’s tenure has led to a transformation in Yale’s relationship with New Haven.

One of his first initiatives, the Yale Homebuyer Program, gives Yale employees a financial incentive to buy homes in New Haven.

Levin has focused on increasing Yale’s ties to the wider world, beginning with his 1996 decision to increase the percentage of international students at Yale. He has also pursued partnerships with Chinese universities and government institutions.

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Union-administration antagonism persisted into the Levin years, with employees striking in 1996, 2002 and 2003. With the exception of a strike last year over altered dining hours, Levin has managed to largely move the University past its troubled labor history.

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In 2000, Levin pledged that the University would invest over $1 billion in the sciences. When the opportunity to purchase the former Bayer Pharmaceutical campus in West Haven, Conn. arose in June 2007, Yale purchased the 136-acre set of facilities for $109 million.

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Buoyed by gifts from capital campaigns, the endowment grew more than sixfold under the watch of Levin and Chief Investment Officer David Swensen. Valued at $19.4 billion as of July 2011, Yale’s endowment is the second-largest in higher education.

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In September 2010, Yale announced a partnership with the National University of Singapore to open a liberal arts college in the city-state.

The school, set to open in fall 2013, marks the final milestone in Levin’s efforts toward expanding Yale’s international presence.

Record ‘unmatched’ in Yale history, colleagues say LEGACY FROM PAGE 1 Anthony Kronman GRD ’72 LAW ’75 said. “His accomplishments taken in the aggregate over the very long time that they have accumulated add up to something which is unmatched in American higher education today, and many will argue, I think with justification, in the whole history of Yale University.”

spurred by a ballooning endowment and guided by Levin’s hand. Now, Kronman said, the campus “glows.”

Major expansions and renovations seen under the Levin administration include the roughly $500 million renovation of all 12 residential colleges, the $107 million purchase of West Campus and the ongoing construction of the $322 million new School of Management campus.

Many of those projects were made possible by the University’s expanding endowment, which grew more than sixfold during Levin’s tenure — from $3.2 billion when he took office to roughly $19.4 billion as of June 2011. Key to this success was the president’s partnership with Chief Investment Officer David Swensen, who was at the University when he arrived and is widely credited with redefining the model for institutional investing.

Further bolstering the endowment, Levin oversaw more than $7 billion in donations during his tenure. He pledged to see the latest capital campaign — a five-year endeavor known as Yale Tomorrow — through

its finish, and the drive concluded on June 30, 2011 as the largest in University history, raising $3.88 billion.

Only one of his major fundraising goals remains incomplete: Yale must secure an additional $300 million before it can begin construction on the two new residential colleges.

BEYOND THE ELM CITY

The reputation Levin holds today as a university president with a global outlook began in the early years of his term.

“Yale’s early 18th century mandate was to educate leaders and citizens for a small New England colony.

By the mid-19th century, our compass had become the whole nation,” Levin said in his inaugural address.

“As we enter the 21st century, we must aspire to educate leaders for the whole world.”

Since then, the proportion of international students at the University has more than doubled. The number of study abroad programs available to students and partnerships with elite international schools, such as Peking University in

Beijing and University of Oxford, has also increased.

Chief among the international efforts Levin has overseen as president is the University’s partnership with the National University of Singapore in the creation of a new college: Yale-NUS. The school, announced in September 2010 and set to open in the fall of 2013, will be the first liberal arts institution in Singapore and will be entirely funded by the city-state’s government. Administrators have said curriculum taught at the school will incorporate both eastern and western tradition and help build Yale’s reputation abroad.

Yale-NUS has faced criticism from some faculty and students in New Haven concerned by the lack of political freedoms in Singapore. Last year — against Levin’s wishes — the Yale College Faculty passed a resolution on Yale-NUS by a significant margin, urging the college to uphold principles of non-discrimination and civil liberties.

But Betts said he remains confident that Levin’s work with Yale-

NUS will be continued by the Corporation and the Yale-NUS Board of Governors, the latter of which Levin will continue to serve on even after stepping down from the presidency.

“During his two decades of tenure, Yale has become global in a way it simply wasn’t before,” said John Pepper ’60, former University vice president for finance administration and former senior fellow of the Corporation.

SETTING STANDARDS

The relationship between administrators and faculty was at a historic low when Levin took office.

Confronted by budget shortfalls, former University President Benno Schmidt Jr. ’63 LAW ’66 and his administration had considered cutting the size of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences by 10 percent. The sciences in particular had been overlooked, and Yale was questioning whether it even needed an engineering school, Yale College Dean Mary Miller said.

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At the time of Levin’s appointment, the University was “broken,” with a “profound” physical deterioration after years of neglect, former Yale Corporation Senior Fellow Roland Betts ’68 said.

“I had the feeling that I had been living in the house that had been built by a very generous grandfather, but that I couldn’t afford to keep it up,” Kronman said. “It was becoming threadbare, shabby around the edges. It has been the work of two decades to put all of that right.”

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Aside from a renewed focus on New Haven education and jobs programs, Levin has worked to funnel millions of dollars into city real estate investment.

Under the ONHSA, he founded University Properties (UP) — an office that manages Yale’s portfolio of residential and commercial real estate holdings. The University held several properties along

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Smith said the majority of people picked for the Yale presidency have come from within the University. Of Levin’s two predecessors, A. Bartlett Giamatti ’60 GRD ’64 was a professor of English and comparative literature and master of Ezra Stiles College before his appointment, while Benno Schmidt Jr. ’63 LAW ’66 came from the deanship of Columbia Law School.

Schmidt’s tenure, which spanned from 1986-’92, was marked by poor relations with the faculty and he is widely regarded as having been an unsuccessful president.

Judith Chevalier ’89, a finance and economics professor at the School of Management, said she thinks it would be “unusual” to appoint a president with no past connections to the University.

“I deeply suspect in the end, it would make sense to have a choice of someone who knows Yale, either as a faculty member or a former student,” said Chevalier, a former deputy provost whose name has also been floated as a potential presidential candidate.

“But that doesn’t have to be someone at Yale now.”

If Salovey were chosen to be president, he would not be the first Yale provost to

take leadership at a major university. Under Levin, four consecutive provosts went on to become presidents at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.

President of Duke University Richard Brodhead ’68 GRD ’72, who served as dean of Yale College between 1993 and 2004, told the News that many of Yale’s greatest academic leaders — Levin, former University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin, former University of Cambridge Vice Chancellor Alison Richard and himself — first developed administrative skills while serving on influential academic committees.

“He was a major figure on the [2001] Yale Education Committee,” Brodhead said of Salovey. “How long do you wager until Peter’s president of a major university?”

Reached Thursday night, Salovey deflected questions on whether he feels prepared to be president or would be interested in serving as the president of a university.

“I think all I can say is I love the University, and I know the Corporation will make an excellent decision,” he said. “I’ve loved every role that I’ve played at Yale but I really don’t want to speculate.”

Salovey said Levin’s impact on the University has been “multidimensional,” point-

ing to how he has helped expand Yale internationally, revitalize New Haven, diversify the faculty and improve the school’s physical plant. He said Levin will be missed, but called periods such as these “natural transitions in the life of a university.”

In a Thursday interview with the News, Levin said he hopes that his successor will continue the University’s global push — including the creation of a new liberal arts college in Singapore — and that Yale’s efforts in New Haven will be longstanding. The next president will need to focus on continued improvement of physical facilities and advancement in Yale’s approach to online education, he said.

Howard Gardner, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said in an Aug. 14 email that schools satisfied with their presidents generally act conservatively when choosing a successor and look to “someone who will carry on his predecessor’s legacy.” If a school is “eager for change,” then it tends to seek candidates who differ greatly from their predecessor in areas such as “age, demography, vision, even disciplinary background.” The 54-year-old Salovey is significantly older than Levin was when he assumed the presidency at age 45.

“If I had to make a prediction, I would predict that Yale will pick someone who is much like President Levin was 20 years ago,”

Gardner said.

The Corporation met earlier this week to begin planning for the search for Levin’s successor, current Senior Fellow Edward Bass ’67 ARC ’72 said in a Thursday email to the News. He said the Corporation anticipates selecting its appointee before June 30, 2012, when Levin plans to step down.

“The selection of the President is the most important responsibility of the Yale Corporation, and we are committed to recruiting an individual who will be an exceptional leader for Yale in the years ahead and who will continue the extraordinary momentum achieved during Rick Levin’s two decades as president,” Bass said.

The committee that appointed Levin as president took 10 months to make its decision, but Levin said he expects the upcoming search to last only four or five. Betts said he expects the Corporation to take an “aggressive approach” in order to find a successor by the spring, while Smith said he anticipates a longer search, similar to the one in 1993.

Bass said the Yale Community will receive an email today discussing the selection process.

Tapley Stephenson contributed reporting.

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

University’s status as one of the world’s finest institutions of higher education.

By 2000, the University had pledged to spend $1 billion on supporting the sciences, and in 2007, Yale purchased the 136-acre Bayer Pharmaceuticals campus in West Haven, now known as West Campus. Throughout Levin’s tenure, the size of the FAS has grown by roughly 15 percent.

Several administrators interviewed said Yale’s sciences have undergone a revolution, and Miller said Levin has increased the University’s commitment to science, technology and engineering disciplines, while never neglecting the humanities and social sciences. School of Music Dean Robert Blocker also praised Levin for his commitment to the arts and his multi-disciplinary knowledge, explaining that he has positioned the University as a global leader academically.

“There are precious few renaissance type presidents in the country, let alone the world, who could talk about Mozart with the authority of a

musicologist...[then] move to world affairs and outline all the important political and cultural considerations in forging alliances between China and the United States,” Blocker said.

“This is a person of uncommon intellect and intellectual curiosity.”

But for all of Levin’s influence on the University, the one thing he can not dictate is his successor. That choice will ultimately rest with a search committee, to be appointed by the Corporation in the coming weeks.

Vernon Loucks Jr. ’57, senior fellow of the Corporation when Levin became president, said that if asked who he thinks should be Levin’s successor, he would say “give me a Rick.”

“You can’t replace such a man, you can only follow him,” Loucks said. “I think that says it pretty well.

Whoever comes after Rick is going to be judged against a standard that’s extremely difficult to realize.”

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu and TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .

An ‘enormous surprise’ to deans LEVIN FROM PAGE 1 his departure to hurt the University, and some said they are worried his successor will not continue Levin’s projects with the same success.

Levin will take a one-year sabbatical at the end of the academic year and use the time to write about economics and higher education, though he said he does not have concrete plans for his next major commitment.

“I might resume teaching, I haven’t really decided. I get a sabbatical so I’ll take some time writing, and coming back to the faculty would be one of the options,” Levin said. “Going onto some other type of job, either a full time leadership job or assembly of part-time commitments, would be another. I haven’t really decided.”

Levin was one of three contenders to head the National

Economic Council during the winter of 2010-’11, and while the job was eventually given to Gene Sperling LAW ’85, Yale Historian Gaddis Smith ’54 told the News Thursday that Levin planned to step down if awarded the position. Levin said he has been given no current offers for positions at any other institutions.

Levin received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1974 and chaired the economics department from 1987 until 1992. He then served as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences before his appointment to the presidency in 1993.

Jane Darby Menton, Sophie Gould, Kirsten Schnackenberg, Lindsey Uniat, Dan Weiner, Clinton Wang, Antonia Woodford and Julia Zorthian contributed reporting.

Contact TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .

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BY BEN PRAWDZIK STAFF REPORTER When University President Richard Levin steps down in June, he will leave behind a transformed relationship between Yale and New Haven.

Levin assumed the presidency in 1993 in the midst of what many alumni, administrators, city officials and local residents consider to be the lowest point for the University’s relationship with its home city. Between 1970 and the early 1990s, Yale neglected its surrounding home, and decades of disconnect left students wary of venturing beyond campus and New Haven residents distrustful of an expansive neighbor. But Levin’s inauguration marked a change in Yale’s attitude toward New Haven at the highest level — he made engaging New Haven an institutional priority, leading to numerous educational, economic development and outreach efforts over the past 19 years.

“It was a conscious effort by the Yale Corporation to choose Rick and grow a collaborative relationship between Yale and the city,” said Mayor John DeStefano Jr. “If you look at his policies one at a time, you are missing the arc of the accomplishments — Rick’s leadership and collaboration redefined healthy university growth and engagement in a host community.”

INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES

At the level of University governance, Levin institutionalized the importance of building a strong relationship with the city early in his tenure by establishing the Office of New Haven and State Affairs (ONHSA) in 1996. The office, a liaison between Yale and the city, is charged with “supporting public school and youth programs, revitalizing neighborhoods, creating a vital downtown and fostering economic development,” according to its website. A vice president position was created to oversee the office, and in 1998, former real estate developer Bruce Alexander ’65 was appointed to the post.

Alexander said the creation of the vice president role marked a pivotal change in town-gown relations, since being a part of Levin’s “cabinet” meant that “whenever a major decision on behalf of the University was made, there was input from the community.”

“Rick and I tried to get Yale out of the quid-pro-quo relationship with the city.

We tried to develop a partnership,” Alexander said. “I spent a lot of time listening to members of the community, and because I knew what Rick and the trustees were doing, I could speak credibly on behalf of the University.”

‘HUMAN CAPITAL’

This partnership between the University and the city resulted in an array of outreach and community development initiatives, many of which target New Haven public schools, said Claudia Merson, the director of public

school partnerships for ONHSA. Prior to Levin’s tenure, she said, strained relations between city school officials and Yale administrators inhibited collaboration on youth learning projects.

“I went into the job in 1995 and was astounded that people were very mistrustful — it was clear that there was not really a good and amicable relationship between the University and the town,” Merson said. “In the earlier days there was obviously a lot of residue from an earlier time.”

But over the years, ONHSA established many youth programs and partnerships with public schools in the Elm City, Merson said. In 1997, Yale partnered with the Hill Regional Career High School and enriched the school’s programs through several initiatives such as allowing the schools anatomy and physiology class to perform dissections alongside second year medical students twice a week. During the summer, Yale operates a residential summer science program to expose public school students to fields in science and technology, and the University’s partnership with the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School on College Street gives students the opportunity to write and produce a play with the help of professional playwrights.

Throughout Levin’s tenure, Merson said the new youth programs have impacted “thousands upon thousands of students.” This past summer alone, more than 750 children participated in programs organized by Yale.

“If you look at the last 20 years, an enormous amount has been accomplished,” she added.

Yale’s education outreach efforts under Levin culminated in 2011 with the unveiling of New Haven Promise — a Yale-funded program that awards college tuition scholarships to high-achieving public high school students who matriculate to in-state universities.

DeStefano lauded Levin’s “investments in human capital,” citing Promise as well as his efforts to improve relations with Yale’s labor unions. Despite strikes in 1996, 2002 and 2003, Levin managed to end a history of bitter confrontations with the unions, Locals 34 and 35 of the international union UNITE HERE. Last June, Yale administrators and union leaders announced they had agreed on new four-year contracts after a year of negotiation. Those contracts included the establishment of a jobs pipeline program allowing New Haven residents’ to more easily attain entry-level positions at Yale.

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Still, DeStefano and Alexander both said the city and the University have weathered tensions during Levin’s tenure by bearing in mind that the partnership is more important than any single issue of contention.

“You’ve got to learn to see things from each other’s self-interest, and if you don’t have complementary interests you just try to find a place that’s palatable for both,” DeStefano said. “Over time, our partnership has become defined by being open and absolutely transparent and never letting disagreement interrupt that, which I think has become easier since we’ve worked together for a while.”

In an interview with the News, Levin said he “hope[s] the commitments [Yale has] made to New Haven are irreversible” regardless of whether his successor makes the University’s relationship with the city a priority.

Alexander said he believes the University’s dedication to the positive relations with the city is here to stay.

“There has been such tremendous progress made in terms of our relationship with the city and in terms of improvement in the city,” Alexander said.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that the University finds great value in this new set of relationships.”

Broadway as far back as the 1930s, and Yale acquired a large bloc of real estate on Chapel Street from the FDIC at the request of the City in 2001.

Since the founding of UP, Yale has spent millions of dollars acquiring properties while renovating existing spaces to attract new, “high quality” tenants, UP Director Abigail Rider said. Having amassed a network of over 100 retail tenants and 500 residential holdings, UP now owns nearly the entire Broadway shopping district as well as parts of Chapel Street and pays over $4 million in annual property taxes. The university has been able to leverage its real estate and financial weight to attract national tenants including Apple and J. Crew.

“Our downtown retail environment is alive because of Yale investing in New Haven,” said Claire Criscuolo, owner of Claire’s Corner Copia on Chapel Street.

“I only hope that whomever fills the position of president will love and care for this city the way President Levin did.”

One of Levin’s first initiatives as president was the Yale Homebuyer Program, established in 1994, through which University employees are given an income benefit if they purchase a home in the Elm City. The program notched its 1,000th participant last December.

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Levin has focused on increasing Yale’s ties to the wider world, beginning with his 1996 decision to increase the percentage of international students at Yale. He has also pursued partnerships with Chinese universities and government institutions.

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Union-administration antagonism persisted into the Levin years, with employees striking in 1996, 2002 and 2003. With the exception of a strike last year over altered dining hours, Levin has managed to largely move the University past its troubled labor history.

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In 2000, Levin pledged that the University would invest over $1 billion in the sciences. When the opportunity to purchase the former Bayer Pharmaceutical campus in West Haven, Conn. arose in June 2007, Yale purchased the 136-acre set of facilities for $109 million.

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Buoyed by gifts from capital campaigns, the endowment grew more than sixfold under the watch of Levin and Chief Investment Officer David Swensen. Valued at $19.4 billion as of July 2011, Yale’s endowment is the second-largest in higher education.

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In September 2010, Yale announced a partnership with the National University of Singapore to open a liberal arts college in the city-state.

The school, set to open in fall 2013, marks the final milestone in Levin’s efforts toward expanding Yale’s international presence.

Record ‘unmatched’ in Yale history, colleagues say LEGACY FROM PAGE 1 Anthony Kronman GRD ’72 LAW ’75 said. “His accomplishments taken in the aggregate over the very long time that they have accumulated add up to something which is unmatched in American higher education today, and many will argue, I think with justification, in the whole history of Yale University.”

spurred by a ballooning endowment and guided by Levin’s hand. Now, Kronman said, the campus “glows.”

Major expansions and renovations seen under the Levin administration include the roughly $500 million renovation of all 12 residential colleges, the $107 million purchase of West Campus and the ongoing construction of the $322 million new School of Management campus.

Many of those projects were made possible by the University’s expanding endowment, which grew more than sixfold during Levin’s tenure — from $3.2 billion when he took office to roughly $19.4 billion as of June 2011. Key to this success was the president’s partnership with Chief Investment Officer David Swensen, who was at the University when he arrived and is widely credited with redefining the model for institutional investing.

Further bolstering the endowment, Levin oversaw more than $7 billion in donations during his tenure. He pledged to see the latest capital campaign — a five-year endeavor known as Yale Tomorrow — through

its finish, and the drive concluded on June 30, 2011 as the largest in University history, raising $3.88 billion.

Only one of his major fundraising goals remains incomplete: Yale must secure an additional $300 million before it can begin construction on the two new residential colleges.

BEYOND THE ELM CITY

The reputation Levin holds today as a university president with a global outlook began in the early years of his term.

“Yale’s early 18th century mandate was to educate leaders and citizens for a small New England colony.

By the mid-19th century, our compass had become the whole nation,” Levin said in his inaugural address.

“As we enter the 21st century, we must aspire to educate leaders for the whole world.”

Since then, the proportion of international students at the University has more than doubled. The number of study abroad programs available to students and partnerships with elite international schools, such as Peking University in

Beijing and University of Oxford, has also increased.

Chief among the international efforts Levin has overseen as president is the University’s partnership with the National University of Singapore in the creation of a new college: Yale-NUS. The school, announced in September 2010 and set to open in the fall of 2013, will be the first liberal arts institution in Singapore and will be entirely funded by the city-state’s government. Administrators have said curriculum taught at the school will incorporate both eastern and western tradition and help build Yale’s reputation abroad.

Yale-NUS has faced criticism from some faculty and students in New Haven concerned by the lack of political freedoms in Singapore. Last year — against Levin’s wishes — the Yale College Faculty passed a resolution on Yale-NUS by a significant margin, urging the college to uphold principles of non-discrimination and civil liberties.

But Betts said he remains confident that Levin’s work with Yale-

NUS will be continued by the Corporation and the Yale-NUS Board of Governors, the latter of which Levin will continue to serve on even after stepping down from the presidency.

“During his two decades of tenure, Yale has become global in a way it simply wasn’t before,” said John Pepper ’60, former University vice president for finance administration and former senior fellow of the Corporation.

SETTING STANDARDS

The relationship between administrators and faculty was at a historic low when Levin took office.

Confronted by budget shortfalls, former University President Benno Schmidt Jr. ’63 LAW ’66 and his administration had considered cutting the size of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences by 10 percent. The sciences in particular had been overlooked, and Yale was questioning whether it even needed an engineering school, Yale College Dean Mary Miller said.

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At the time of Levin’s appointment, the University was “broken,” with a “profound” physical deterioration after years of neglect, former Yale Corporation Senior Fellow Roland Betts ’68 said.

“I had the feeling that I had been living in the house that had been built by a very generous grandfather, but that I couldn’t afford to keep it up,” Kronman said. “It was becoming threadbare, shabby around the edges. It has been the work of two decades to put all of that right.”

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Aside from a renewed focus on New Haven education and jobs programs, Levin has worked to funnel millions of dollars into city real estate investment.

Under the ONHSA, he founded University Properties (UP) — an office that manages Yale’s portfolio of residential and commercial real estate holdings. The University held several properties along

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Rev. Jeremiah Day served 29 years as Yale’s president, surpassing Rev. Thomas Clap’s 26, Theodore Dwight Woolsey’s 25, Timothy Dwight’s 22, Arthur Twining Hadley’s 22 and Richard Levin’s 20.

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SUCCESSION FROM PAGE 1 a candidate from within Yale or one external to the University.

Smith said the majority of people picked for the Yale presidency have come from within the University. Of Levin’s two predecessors, A. Bartlett Giamatti ’60 GRD ’64 was a professor of English and comparative literature and master of Ezra Stiles College before his appointment, while Benno Schmidt Jr. ’63 LAW ’66 came from the deanship of Columbia Law School.

Schmidt’s tenure, which spanned from 1986-’92, was marked by poor relations with the faculty and he is widely regarded as having been an unsuccessful president.

Judith Chevalier ’89, a finance and economics professor at the School of Management, said she thinks it would be “unusual” to appoint a president with no past connections to the University.

“I deeply suspect in the end, it would make sense to have a choice of someone who knows Yale, either as a faculty member or a former student,” said Chevalier, a former deputy provost whose name has also been floated as a potential presidential candidate.

“But that doesn’t have to be someone at Yale now.”

If Salovey were chosen to be president, he would not be the first Yale provost to

take leadership at a major university. Under Levin, four consecutive provosts went on to become presidents at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.

President of Duke University Richard Brodhead ’68 GRD ’72, who served as dean of Yale College between 1993 and 2004, told the News that many of Yale’s greatest academic leaders — Levin, former University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin, former University of Cambridge Vice Chancellor Alison Richard and himself — first developed administrative skills while serving on influential academic committees.

“He was a major figure on the [2001] Yale Education Committee,” Brodhead said of Salovey. “How long do you wager until Peter’s president of a major university?”

Reached Thursday night, Salovey deflected questions on whether he feels prepared to be president or would be interested in serving as the president of a university.

“I think all I can say is I love the University, and I know the Corporation will make an excellent decision,” he said. “I’ve loved every role that I’ve played at Yale but I really don’t want to speculate.”

Salovey said Levin’s impact on the University has been “multidimensional,” point-

ing to how he has helped expand Yale internationally, revitalize New Haven, diversify the faculty and improve the school’s physical plant. He said Levin will be missed, but called periods such as these “natural transitions in the life of a university.”

In a Thursday interview with the News, Levin said he hopes that his successor will continue the University’s global push — including the creation of a new liberal arts college in Singapore — and that Yale’s efforts in New Haven will be longstanding. The next president will need to focus on continued improvement of physical facilities and advancement in Yale’s approach to online education, he said.

Howard Gardner, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said in an Aug. 14 email that schools satisfied with their presidents generally act conservatively when choosing a successor and look to “someone who will carry on his predecessor’s legacy.” If a school is “eager for change,” then it tends to seek candidates who differ greatly from their predecessor in areas such as “age, demography, vision, even disciplinary background.” The 54-year-old Salovey is significantly older than Levin was when he assumed the presidency at age 45.

“If I had to make a prediction, I would predict that Yale will pick someone who is much like President Levin was 20 years ago,”

Gardner said.

The Corporation met earlier this week to begin planning for the search for Levin’s successor, current Senior Fellow Edward Bass ’67 ARC ’72 said in a Thursday email to the News. He said the Corporation anticipates selecting its appointee before June 30, 2012, when Levin plans to step down.

“The selection of the President is the most important responsibility of the Yale Corporation, and we are committed to recruiting an individual who will be an exceptional leader for Yale in the years ahead and who will continue the extraordinary momentum achieved during Rick Levin’s two decades as president,” Bass said.

The committee that appointed Levin as president took 10 months to make its decision, but Levin said he expects the upcoming search to last only four or five. Betts said he expects the Corporation to take an “aggressive approach” in order to find a successor by the spring, while Smith said he anticipates a longer search, similar to the one in 1993.

Bass said the Yale Community will receive an email today discussing the selection process.

Tapley Stephenson contributed reporting.

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

University’s status as one of the world’s finest institutions of higher education.

By 2000, the University had pledged to spend $1 billion on supporting the sciences, and in 2007, Yale purchased the 136-acre Bayer Pharmaceuticals campus in West Haven, now known as West Campus. Throughout Levin’s tenure, the size of the FAS has grown by roughly 15 percent.

Several administrators interviewed said Yale’s sciences have undergone a revolution, and Miller said Levin has increased the University’s commitment to science, technology and engineering disciplines, while never neglecting the humanities and social sciences. School of Music Dean Robert Blocker also praised Levin for his commitment to the arts and his multi-disciplinary knowledge, explaining that he has positioned the University as a global leader academically.

“There are precious few renaissance type presidents in the country, let alone the world, who could talk about Mozart with the authority of a

musicologist...[then] move to world affairs and outline all the important political and cultural considerations in forging alliances between China and the United States,” Blocker said.

“This is a person of uncommon intellect and intellectual curiosity.”

But for all of Levin’s influence on the University, the one thing he can not dictate is his successor. That choice will ultimately rest with a search committee, to be appointed by the Corporation in the coming weeks.

Vernon Loucks Jr. ’57, senior fellow of the Corporation when Levin became president, said that if asked who he thinks should be Levin’s successor, he would say “give me a Rick.”

“You can’t replace such a man, you can only follow him,” Loucks said. “I think that says it pretty well.

Whoever comes after Rick is going to be judged against a standard that’s extremely difficult to realize.”

Contact GAVAN GIDEON at gavan.gideon@yale.edu and TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .

An ‘enormous surprise’ to deans LEVIN FROM PAGE 1 his departure to hurt the University, and some said they are worried his successor will not continue Levin’s projects with the same success.

Levin will take a one-year sabbatical at the end of the academic year and use the time to write about economics and higher education, though he said he does not have concrete plans for his next major commitment.

“I might resume teaching, I haven’t really decided. I get a sabbatical so I’ll take some time writing, and coming back to the faculty would be one of the options,” Levin said. “Going onto some other type of job, either a full time leadership job or assembly of part-time commitments, would be another. I haven’t really decided.”

Levin was one of three contenders to head the National

Economic Council during the winter of 2010-’11, and while the job was eventually given to Gene Sperling LAW ’85, Yale Historian Gaddis Smith ’54 told the News Thursday that Levin planned to step down if awarded the position. Levin said he has been given no current offers for positions at any other institutions.

Levin received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1974 and chaired the economics department from 1987 until 1992. He then served as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences before his appointment to the presidency in 1993.

Jane Darby Menton, Sophie Gould, Kirsten Schnackenberg, Lindsey Uniat, Dan Weiner, Clinton Wang, Antonia Woodford and Julia Zorthian contributed reporting.

Contact TAPLEY STEPHENSON at preston.stephenson@yale.edu .

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“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ARCHITECT

Yale arch. presents at Venice Biennale

Exhibit revisits master architect

BY LINDSEY UNIAT STAFF REPORTER Peter Eisenman, the Charles Gwathmey Professor in Practice at the Yale School of Architecture, said he was inspired to study Andrea Palladio when he visited the famed Italian Renaissance architect’s Villa Rotunda as a graduate student in the 1960s. When he asked his mentor, architectural historian Colin Rowe, “Is this an ideal villa?”, Rowe responded that there was no “ideal.”

Over forty years later, Eisenman has culminated his careerspanning study of Palladian architecture in “Palladio Virtuel,” an exhibit that opened in the School of Architecture’s Paul Rudolph Hall last week. Eisenman said that over the past 10 years, he has drawn over 700 diagrams of Palladian villas, most of which do not appear in the show.

Yale Architecture critic Matthew Roman ARC ’09 began working with Eisenman two years ago to realize the exhibit.

Eisenman and Roman organized “Palladio Virtuel” into a nonchronological presentation of 20 of Palladio’s villas based on typology, starting with the most ideal Villa Rotunda and progressing towards the most “virtual” — or least classical — of Palladio’s works, the Villa Saregoa.

Roman said the exhibit comprises four main parts: 20 analytic models, 20 drawings, Palladio’s own drawings and the design of the exhibit itself.

He added that this exhibition differs from previous studies of Palladian architecture in two main ways. First, it focuses on the drawings from Palladio’s “The Four Books of Architecture,” published in 1570, many of which were never actually built.

Second, the analysis strives to show that Palladio’s villas are not reducible to stable, ideal, classical conditions, but rather are “virtual” with various overlays and superposition within the designs.

Robert A. M. Stern, dean of the School of Architecture, described the exhibit as “visually arresting and intellectually challenging.”

“It’s studying the master as if for the first time,” Stern said.

“This is not your mother’s Palladio.”

MATERIALISE

The theme of this year’s Venice Biennale architecture festival is “Common Ground.” Yale students and professors who had work in the festival won no prizes.

BY NATASHA THONDAVADI STAFF REPORTER With the start of the Venice Biennale international architecture festival, Yale student work is on view in a prominent global forum.

The Venice Biennale, which the city of Venice introduced in 1896 to serve as a global symposium for the arts, has served as either an art or an architecture festival in alternating years since 1980, said School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern, who served as chair of the prize committee. This year’s festival, which officially kicked off Wednesday, brings together a wide variety of international architects and critics but is widely influenced by Yale in several aspects, he said.

These projects are an interpretation of Piranesi’s interpretation [of Rome].

BRIAN BUTTERFIELD Director of exhibitions, School of Architecture Sir David Chipperfield, who taught a studio class at the School of Architecture last school year, directed the Biennale, which featured the work of 119 architecture firms from around the world. Among the selected architects was professor Peter Eisenman, who taught a course

examining the work of 18th-century Italian artist Giovanni Piranesi along with professor Matthew Roman ARC ’09.

Eisenman, in turn, invited his students — at the time in their second year — to contribute to his exhibit for the festival, the first time Yale students have displayed work at the Biennale since 1991.

The theme of this year’s festival is “Common Ground,” chosen to emphasize architects whose work relies heavily on cultural context and the architectural tradition, Stern said.

Eisenman, inspired by his Piranesi seminar, invited three other groups to develop interpretations of Campo Marzio — famously depicted by Piranesi — in addition to the Yale students: architect Jeffery Kipnis and his students at The Ohio State University, his firm Eisenman Architects and Pier Vittorio Aureli, who will teach at the School of Architecture this year, Roman said.

“Just as Piranesi’s Campo Marzio was an interpretation of Rome, these projects are an interpretation of Piranesi’s interpretation,” said Brian Butterfield, the director of exhibitions at the school.

“None of them were meant to be literal, just as Piranesi’s was not a literal interpretation of Rome in any way.”

The students’ component of the exhibit asked them to imagine a 3-D landscape based on Piranesi’s 2-D interpretation, Stern said, creating a link between the past and the present inherent in Chipperfield’s chosen theme.

“A tension arose when designing the

third dimension because we were torn between what we know and what we have to imagine,” said Daisy Ames ARC ’13, a student in Eisenman and Roman’s seminar who assisted in presenting the project in Venice, in a Thursday email.

“This tension is visible in the 3-D printed model because there are instances where we have invented buildings, spaces, and figures that appear completely palpable but have never existed before — ever.”

The Yale students’ model provided the historical foundation for the three modern interpretations created by Eisenman’s other collaborators and became the showpiece of the exhibit, Roman said, adding that graduate work is rarely displayed at large-scale international festivals such as the Biennale.

Since the project involved extensive model-making, several students travelled to the Biennale to help assemble the complex physical product, Roman said.

Butterfield said that the model was first printed in Belgium and painted in gold leaf before travelling to Venice.

As chair of the prize jury, Stern awarded prizes to the outstanding pavilions at the festival’s opening on Wednesday. Neither the model created by the Yale students nor the associated works

by Yale professors won a prize.

The 2012 Venice Biennale architecture festival will be on display until Nov. 25.

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

17 Hillhouse and SPL receive facelift

BY CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTER Yale renovated some of its classrooms on Science Hill and built others on Hillhouse this summer in an effort to revamp science and technology education.

Six news classrooms have been constructed at 17 Hillhouse Ave. — the site of Yale’s old health center — and around eight rooms in Sloane Physics Laboratory have been fully renovated and refurbished. The updates and additions were designed to encourage discussion and interaction among students in smaller classes and lectures alike, mainly by replacing formerly stationary furniture with more mobile tables and chairs.

Rooms also received technological upgrades such as double-screen video projectors and general touch-ups to facilities.

“Our facilities really needed a facelift,” Associate Provost for Science and Technology Timothy O’Connor said. “These facilities will also facilitate the introduction of newer pedagogical methods that aren’t possible in traditional classrooms.”

As part of the construction, Yale equipped rooms in 17 Hillhouse and SPL with tables on wheels and chairs that swiveled, replacing furniture that had formerly been bolted to the ground.

Administrators said the more movable furniture should help increase collaboration and discussion among students, by allowing them to more easily rearrange seating for group activities.

While they are not actively asking professors to change their teaching styles to include more group activities, administrators said they hope faculty will consider modifying their instruction. Deputy Provost for Academic Resources Lloyd Suttle said the new facilities will serve as a “test pit” for faculty to try more interactive techniques.

“We don’t necessarily know where STEM teaching is headed,” Suttle said. “But we want to be ready.”

Two of the classrooms in 17 Hillhouse are considered “computer classrooms,” with computers installed at every desk for student and class

use. Of those two, one is finished while the other is scheduled to be completed before the spring semester. Called a Technology Enhanced Active Learning classroom, that space will seat at least 90 students at small round tables with several computers apiece. Each table will be attached to a video projectors, allowing all groups to display their work to the entire class simultaneously on the different screens lining the walls.

Some of the new classrooms in the two buildings are already housing classes this fall. While the computer classrooms were designed specifically for use in science and technology courses, several of the other rooms in 17 Hillhouse are currently being used by a range of departments, including anthropology and archeology.

Statistics professor Jay Emerson, who will teach a class in the TEAL lab in the spring, had mixed views of the new classrooms in 17 Hillhouse. He said the rooms do not meet the specific needs of his department’s classes, but acknowledged that “no classroom is one-size-fits-all.”

Emerson said time will tell if the new classrooms — particularly the TEAL lab — lead to significant improvements in teaching and learning methods.

Carla Vásquez-Noriega ’15, who is taking a class in 17 Hillhouse, called the more modern design of the classrooms “refreshing,” adding that the seating is much more comfortable than that of other classrooms, such as William L. Harkness Hall.

The renovation of rooms in SPL was the first step in a larger effort to renovate all the major classrooms in Science Hill’s older buildings, including Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Osborn Memorial Laboratories and J.W. Gibbs Laboratory. The cost of the renovations to the SPL classrooms was $4 million, and the total cost of the Science Hill classroom renovation project is projected to be around $13 million.

Work on 17 Hillhouse, which included adding research spaces on the second and third floors for engineering faculty in addition to constructing the new classrooms, cost around $16 million.

Contact CLINTON WANG at clinton.wang@yale.edu .

Director of Exhibitions at the School of Architecture Brian Butterfield said he designed the exhibit as a hybrid of a Palladian Villa with elements of Carlo Rainaldi’s architecture. He said the showroom is not a “literal space,” but rather contains elements of classical architecture such as a Corinthian column, typical of Palladio’s design style, in the middle of the exhibit.

Five Yale architecture students and three non-Yale students helped to design the project, and four other Yale students helped construct the models, Butterfield said.

While the exhibit has been open since Monday of last week, an official opening event took place last night. Roman offered a brief tour of the exhibit, and Eisenman spoke to a crowd in Rudolph Hall’s basement auditorium so large that some attendees were forced to watch the presentation on screens from overflow rooms nearby.

Craig Chowaniec ARC ’12, who attended the tour, said he planned to later spend more time examining the drawings and models.

It’s studying the master as if for the first time. This is not your mother’s Palladio.

ROBERT A. M. STERN Dean, Yale School of Architecture “It is very carefully done, very methodical,” Chowaniec said.

“It deserves more than a fiveminute walkthrough. I can’t say much about it yet, and I think that says something.”

“We hope people see it is not so much about Palladio, but about looking at architecture differently,” Roman said. “It is a way of reading architecture that could be used to analyze other works. Palladio is the perfect guise for this work because he is so well-known, probably the most emulated architect in history.”

“Palladio Virtuel” will be on view until Oct. 27 on the second floor of Paul Rudolph Hall.

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

Saybrook dean settles into role

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American studies scholar Christine Muller has replaced Paul McKinley DRA ’96 as dean of Saybrook.

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTERS Saybrook College’s new dean, Christine Muller, who called her first few weeks on the job “energizing,” said she hopes to serve as a strong listener for her students.

Muller, who succeeded Paul McKinley DRA ’96 this summer, is a Philadelphia native who taught American studies at the University of Maryland and served in residential administrative positions at the University of Maryland and Villanova University.

Saybrook Master Paul Hudak described Muller as “a compassionate person, very approachable, with a wry sense of humor and spirited intellectual curiosity” who has picked up on Yale customs very quickly and easily.

“Dean Muller has quickly assimilated [into] the Yale culture — it’s as if she’s already been here for 10 years,” Hudak said in an email. “I think it is her ability to really connect with students, staff and colleagues that has made this possible.”

Muller attended Villanova University for both undergraduate and graduate school before earning a doctorate in American studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in May 2011, after writing her dissertation about the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

Muller said the deanship appealed to her because she enjoyed working with “highly motivated, highly talented” students as the assistant director of Villanova University’s Honors Program and hoped to engage with passionate students once more. She added that she looks forward to helping students think through questions they may have about their future.

“Most of the time, we do have the answers to many questions within ourselves, and its especially important that students recognize this empowerment,” she said.

Computer science professor Julie Dorsey, who served on the search committee, said the members of the search committee considered Muller a “real find” for the deanship, in part because she displayed a genuine interest in students and also has extensive administrative experience within student residences. Hudak appointed the search committee, which consisted of Hudak, three Saybrook fellows and three Saybrook students.

“She had the most insight about the job, asked the most probing questions, and gave the best, most reflective answers to our questions,” Dorsey said.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller said in a June email to the Saybrook community that Muller’s former students and colleagues have lauded Muller for her skills as a teacher and as an adviser to undergraduates.

After meeting Muller at sophomore registration on Tuesday, Teresa Logue ’15 said she thinks Muller will “make a great dean,” adding that she is “approachable, informed, helpful and friendly — and also respectful of students.”

Four Saybrook students interviewed called Muller energetic and approachable, and three mentioned that she has an impressive sense of style.

“Dean McKinley was always the best-dressed person around, so it’s great to see [Muller is] upholding that tradition,” Megan Ayers ’15 said.

McKinley, who served as dean of Saybrook from 1997-’03 and from 2005-’11, is now the associate dean of strategic communications for Yale College.

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

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7:00 PM ADAY Dance Jam. Interested in dance at Yale, but unsure which group to join? Come see some of Yale’s dance groups perform! Sponsored by the Alliance for Dance at Yale. Off Broadway Theater (41 Broadway).

7:00 PM Beta Upsilon Chi Open Mixer. Come kick back and hang out with the brothers of Yale’s newest Christian fraternity.

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8:00 PM Yale Swing and Blues Dance Practicum. Sunday night dance practicum brings new dancers, longtime dancers, locals, and visitors together for an evening of social dancing with an informal, friendly atmosphere. Practice your dance moves to the music of local and guest deejays. Harkness Memorial Hall (367 Cedar St.).

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Romney promises 12 million jobs

BY DAVID ESPO AND ROBERT FURLOW ASSOCIATED PRESS TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney launched his fall campaign for the White House in a Republican National Convention finale Thursday night, declaring “what America needs is jobs, lots of jobs” and promising he has a plan to create 12 million of them.

“Now is the time to restore the promise of America,” Romney said in excerpts released in advance of his prime-time speech to a nation struggling with 8.3 percent unemployment and the slowest economic recovery in decades.

“Many Americans have given up on this president, but they haven’t ever thought about giving up. Not on themselves, not on each other. And not on America,” Romney said.

He muted his criticism in the advance excerpts of President Barack Obama, his quarry in a close and unpredictable race for the White House.

“I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed,” he said. “But his promises gave way to disappointment and division.”

“This isn’t something we have to accept ,” he said, appealing to millions of voters who say they are disappointed in the president yet haven’t yet decided to cast their votes for his Republican challenger.

“Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, ‘I’m an American.

I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better!

My family deserves better! My country deserves better!’”

More than the political hoopla, the evening marked one of a very few opportunities any presidential challenger is granted to appeal to millions of voters in a single night.

The two-month campaign to come

includes other big moments—principally a series of one-on-one debates with Democrat Obama—in a race for the White House that has been close for months. In excess of $500 million has been spent on campaign television commercials so far, almost all of it in the battleground states of Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, Ohio, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada.

Romney holds a fundraising advantage over Obama, and his high command hopes to expand the electoral map soon if post-convention polls in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and perhaps elsewhere indicate it’s worth the investment.

In a speech that blended the political and the personal, Romney talked in his excerpts of the importance of the love he felt from his parents and that

he and his wife Ann have sought to give their children and grandchildren.

“All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers,” he said.

The economy is issue No. 1 in the race for the White House, and Romney presented his credentials as the man better equipped than the president to help create jobs.

“When I was 37, I helped start a small company,” he said. “That business we stated with ten people has now grown into a great American success story.”

Romney’s aides scripted a closing night convention night program that included a video tribute to Ronald Reagan, the two-term president revered still by conservatives. Delegates cheered when his voice filled

the hall.

It was designed, as well to fill out a portrait of the GOP nominee as a successful businessman, last-minute savior for a troubled 2002 Olympics and a man of family and faith. A portion of the convention podium was rebuilt overnight so he would appear surrounded by delegates rather than speaking from a distance, an attempt to soften his image as a stiff and distant candidate.

Romney knows the value of dollar, delegates were assured.

“When I told him about Staples, he really got excited at the idea of saving a few cents on paper clips,” businessman Tom Stemberg said of the office supply store chain he founded with backing from Bain Capital, the private equity firm the presidential nominee co-founded.

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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney looks over the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012.

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BY RACHEL ZOLL ASSOCIATED PRESS After years of avoiding direct mention of his religion, Mitt Romney will open up about his Mormon faith as he accepts the Republican nomination for president.

The former Massachusetts governor is the first Mormon presidential candidate on a major party ticket. It’s unclear just how much detail he will provide on Thursday night, the pinnacle of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. He has spoken broadly in the past about the importance of prayer and belief in God, but has not discussed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

However, the roster of speakers promises at least a glimpse into his nearly 14 years of service as a lay Mormon pastor around Boston.

The invocation will be given by Ken Hutchins, a retired Northborough, Mass., police chief, who was also a Mormon leader in the state, and Grant Bennett, who served as a church counselor to Romney, is scheduled to offer remarks.

“I think this is a speech where he’s going to talk a lot about what’s informed his values, what’s informed his outlook. Of course his faith is an important part of that,” Romney aide Kevin Madden said in Tampa this week. “It’s an important part of who he is as a husband and a father. And so I think you can expect some of that.”

Starting in the 1980s, Romney was a bishop in the Boston suburb of Belmont, a job akin to the pastor of a congregation. He then served as a stake president, the top Mormon authority in his region, which meant he presided over several congregations in a district similar to a diocese.

He counseled Latter-day Saints on their most personal concerns, regarding marriage, parenting, finances and faith. He worked with immigrant converts from Haiti, Cambodia and other countries.

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SPORTS

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ANDY RODDICK Roddick announced at a news conference last night that he will retire from tennis after he finishes play in the U.S. Open. Roddick won the U.S. Open in 2003.

Elis pursue strong start

BY HAMMAAD ADAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The women’s soccer team kickstarts its season this weekend with away games at Hartford on Friday and Stony Brook on Saturday.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The Bulldogs possess a squad at full strength and are boosted by the return of goalkeeper Adele Jackson-Gibson ’13 from injury.

“We’ve focused a lot on defence in pre-season,” head coach Rudy Meredith said. “We conceded several goals last season in the later stages of games, and we hope to improve on that.”

Last season the Elis finished with a 9-5-3 overall record and 4-2-1 conference record. In order to improve on that, Yale will be relying on Kristen Forster ’13 and captain Jenny Butwin ’13 to control the game from midfield, while 2011 Ivy Rookie of the Year Melissa Gavin ’15 is a vital cog in Yale’s offense.

Friday’s opponents, the Hawks,

have already got their season underway, playing out a 1-1 draw against Fairleigh Dickinson, followed by a 3-2 victory over Old Dominion. Freshman forward Elise Galipo has been outstanding for the Hawks so far, with a goal and two assists to her name in just two games. With four winning seasons in the last five years, the Hawks will be formidable opposition, in large part due to their head coach, John Natale, who was a member of the coaching staff for the U.S.A. women’s soccer team at the 2012 Olympics in London.

In contrast, Stony Brook has had a mixed start to its season, having lost and drawn its first and second match respectively, but the Seawolves are now on a two game winning streak. Last week’s 3-0 win over Big East rival St. John’s was particularly impressive, with America East Player of the Week Caitlin Pfeiffer firing on all cylinders. Yale’s last game against Stony Brook in 2009 ended in a 2–1 loss for the Elis, with the winner determined by a goal deep into extra time.

Heading into this weekend, the Bulldogs remain upbeat. “The chemistry in the team is great this year,” Jackson-Gibson said.

“We’ve got a few good freshman, and will play attractive football…

We go into the weekend looking for two wins, nothing less.”

We go into the weekend looking for two wins, nothing less.

ADELE JACKSON-GIBSON ’13 Goalkeeper, women’s soccer Meredith added that two shutouts would be optimal, and spectators should expect close games.

The Elis will face Hartford away at 7 p.m. on Friday night. They will then travel to Stony Brook for a 2 p.m. game on Sunday.

Contact HAMMAAD ADAM at hammaad.adam@yale.edu .

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The women’s soccer team is starting its season with games against Hartford and Stony Book.

Yale has home advantage VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 12 few things in particular that she hopes the team does well.

“I want to be able to control Texas A&M’s serve,” she said.

“They’re averaging almost two

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We are really comfortable [in our gym]. That shows during our home matches.

HALEY WESSELS ’13 Captain and middle blocker, volleyball aces per game, so I want to concentrate on our passing and getting everyone in a comfortable rhythm playing with each other.”

All of this weekend’s opponents have had a better opportunity to build team chemistry than Yale. The Bulldogs have only been practicing two weeks and have yet to play a match. On the other hand, Texas A&M, Stony Brook and American have been practicing for about a month and have all played meaningful matches.

Under similar conditions during last year’s nonconference schedule, the Elis played to a 6–4 record.

The action tips off on Friday night at 7 p.m. against Texas A&M.

Elis to open at CCSU

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The volleyball team is heading into the weekend with two weeks of practice behind it.

The comeback begins COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 priorities may just provide.

But maybe we should hold off on any Munchkinland, “Wicked-witch-isdead” type celebrations for now.

When it comes to Levin, the man who is a San Francisco Giants fan and former Little League coach, the notion that those policies show any animosity towards athletics or athletes is a misguided one. The simple fact is that Levin is an economist — a numbers guy — whose vision of an ideal Yale hasn’t added up with the kind of commitment to sports needed to keep Yale’s storied tradition alive. Hence the policies regarding recruiting “slots” that are crippling the athletic department’s ability to maintain excellence the way the rest of the University can.

But even for those in athletics who have felt the strain, it’s important to acknowledge that change at the top means the end of a tenure that modernized Yale, an administration that helped the University maintain its preeminence and laid the groundwork for excellence in years to come. To see our president’s departure only in the context of the positive effect it might have on Yale athletics is to miss 20 years of work that helped the “Yale” on the front of every Bulldog jersey hold just as much prestige and responsibility as ever.

Plus, there are no guarantees that whoever takes over will pull a complete 180, reverse policies, and give Yale Athletics a framework that will turn Yale sports into the Stanford of the East.

Amidst this uncertainty, it remains

evident that the fight to preserve Yale’s athletic tradition must continue — this year with President Levin, and in years beyond with whoever comes next. The onus remains on the Yale athletic community to continue to be a gem the school can be proud of, to commit to winning regardless of extenuating circumstances, and to continue to consider ways to prove sports are an invaluable and irreplaceable part of the University.

I’ve said it time and again: I don’t think Yale athletics should have to prove anything to anyone. But I do believe President Levin’s departure is a time to consider what kind of Yale each person involved with the University hopes to see.

For athletes and sports advocates, the vision for a better Yale is one in which Bulldog teams are given a fighting chance relative to the rest of the Ivy League. It’s one where athletes are not — unintentionally or not — portrayed as lesser members of the academic community. It’s one where efforts on the playing field are considered just as important as those undertaken in concert halls, dance studios and the rest.

For better or worse, that Yale simply does not mesh with the priorities of the current administration. Yet even with the end of Levin’s tenure in sight and the potential for new priorities at the top, the fight for that Yale is not over.

Sure, I do believe that given the uncompromising stance of the current crew, change at the top is going to help. A little more malleability may just give those in the Ray Tompkins House exactly what they need to chase down

Harvard and Princeton a little more consistently. But — while I rarely temper enthusiasm —I caution against any hopes for a quick fix.

Instead, I encourage reflection, something that often accompanies the end of an era. In reflecting, I’m sure those who have been frustrated by the plight of athletics will see that greater respect for the potential of college sports won’t be forthcoming if there’s disrespect shown for those who make choices regarding the careful balancing act required to maintain a well-rounded Yale. No, I haven’t agreed with all of those choices of late, and neither have many others in the athletic community, I am sure, but I respect that the Levin administration made these choices in the hopes of making Yale the best it can be. So while change might or might not yield choices that benefit athletics, all the athletic community can do is keep the issue at the front of everyone’s minds and continue to prove that sports are a crucial part of the best possible Yale.

Because they are, and always have been. And that’s precisely why the respectful fight for a greater commitment to athletics must continue, regardless of who’s next. Because if that fight continues, for all the uncertainty, there’s no doubt that change at the top means one thing: for Yale athletics, the comeback has begun.

Contact CHELSEA JANES at chelsea.janes@yale.edu .

last year, Thalman said the Blue Devils are known to field skilled players with considerable speed, and should not be taken lightly.

He added that the Elis have been working together effectively on offense and pressuring the opponent as a strong unit on both offense and defense. This year, the Bulldogs have increased practice time to two hours a day and gained six freshmen to fill in spots from the eight seniors who graduated.

“Our offense this year should be lethal. We are returning a lot of talent and experience up front,” Mckiernan said.

Mckiernan added the freshmen players have done well so far adapting to the speed and intensity of the college game.

“Our coaching staff changed our style of play and moved some players into some different positions,” defender Milan Tica ’13 said. “I think the biggest improvement is just more experience in that style of play.”

The offense and midfield defend as much as the defenders, Tica added.

The Bulldogs hope that their enhanced strategy can help them gain a repeat of last year’s performance against the Blue Devils on Friday.

The two players responsible for the previous win, with a goal apiece, were last season’s honorable mention All-Ivy winner midfielder Max Mckiernan ’14 and midfielder Max Morice ’15.

Morice, who signed to play for Stade Rennes in France earlier this summer, will not be returning to the lineup or to Yale this year.

In that game, Yale outdid CCSU in shots (16–12) and con-

trolled the flow of the game for much of the match, despite committing nine more fouls (21–12).

Thalman also contributed to the victory with five stunning saves.

Despite losing some important members this year, CCSU nevertheless still maintains some dangerous players in its arsenal, Thalman said. Forward Reece Wilson was responsible for scoring one-fourth of the Blue Devils’ 24 goals recorded during last season, along with three assists.

Another forward to keep an eye on is Eddy Bogle, who had five goals to his name last year. Most notably, CCSU demonstrated greater strength in games played in its home turf this season, and the Bulldogs will face them in New Britain, Conn.

On Yale’s end, midfielder Peter Jacobson ’14 recorded seven goals last season and earned an honorable mention for the AllIvy team. On defense, the Bulldogs retain the ever-reliable Nick Alers ’14. Last season, he anchored the defense core, which let up only 16 goals and earned four shutouts. Algers was first team All-Ivy and an NSCAA AllNortheast Region third team.

Between the posts, Thalman earned second team All-Ivy last season with 92 saves overall and a 0.852 save percentage.

Thalman said the team is ready to play its own game and is optimistic in general about the upcoming season.

“Some players are battling with injuries, but I believe it should not be a much of a problem,” he said.

The Bulldogs will take on the Blue Devils today at 7 p.m. at CCSU’s new soccer field.

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

Bulldogs face tough schedule FIELD HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 Forward Sakshi Kumar ’16 played on the under-18 and under-21 National Teams for Hong Kong.

Molly Wolf ’16 took part in the Junior Olympics for USA Field Hockey in 2010 and will play at Yale as a back.

Yale’s schedule includes six teams — Albany, Boston University, Princeton, Syracuse, UConn and Virginia — ranked in the top 25 of the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Preseason Poll released last week. Yale was not on the list. Sharp said that the Sept. 22 game against Princeton will be one of its toughest, as the team lost to the Tigers in the Ivy League Championship game in both 2009 and 2010.

“We have a tough schedule again which puts us against top 20 teams, including Syracuse and UVA, and to make it to the NCAA tournament we really need to come out with a win in a few of those games,” forward and midfielder Mary Beth Barham ’13 said. Sharp also said that the team hopes to make the NCAA tournament.

The Elis will open up the season this Friday on the road against Fairfield, whom Yale defeated 6–0 last season. The first home game will be this coming Sunday against Quinnipiac at Johnson Field in New Haven. The Bulldogs fell to the Bobcats in a close 3–2 loss as a result of penalty strokes last year.

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

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“All five teams over the next two weeks are going to challenge us in many different ways.”

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Men’s soccer kicks off

CHELSEA JANES

BY EUGENE JUNG STAFF REPOTER

It’s not over

After closing out a successful preseason on Monday with a 4–0 win against Glastonbury Celtic, the men’s soccer team will kick off its regular season with a match against Central Connecticut State University today.

There is no doubt that change is coming to Yale.

The end of President Richard Levin’s tenure will have an effect on all parts of the University, athletics included.

Yes: that President Levin’s administration’s policies have bolstered other parts of the Yale experience at the expense of athletics is well-documented and undeniable.

The President’s decision to keep the percentage of recruited athletes well below the Ivy League’s already stingy maximum has both tangibly decreased to ability of Yale teams to compete and unintentionally created a palpable, if not sometimes very visible, divide between athletes and non-athletes.

But exactly how his departure will affect athletics is impossible to tell. It’s no doubt dependent on who comes next, who remains and the vision whoever takes over has for the University and the place of sports within it.

Given the trouble current policies have caused Yale sports teams, I understand if the Yale athletic community is excited.

I’m excited — new beginnings always bring hope for better, and for athletics, “better” is something that a new leader with different

The team has been training hard during its preseason, which began Aug. 17, and captain and goalkeeper Bobby Thalman ’13 said the Bulldogs are ready to jump into the regular season with a debut match against the Blue Devils.

“We feel very prepared and are excited about tomorrow’s match,” Thalman said. “Last season was a big improvement and was a step to the right position.”

Last season, Yale rebounded from a rough 2010 run and managed to pull off a winning record, 8–7–2, including a 2–0 shutout victory against the Blue Devils.

“The team’s goal for this season is to win the league and try to make a run in the NCAA tournament,” midfielder Max Mckiernan ’14 said. “It will also be a team fun to watch.”

The team started to play in a more possession-oriented way last year, and has continued to build on that into the preseason.

Despite Yale’s rout of CCSU

SEE JANES PAGE 11

MEN’S SOCCER

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Goalkeeper and captain Bobby Thalman ’13, far right, made five saves against the Blue Devils in last year’s shutout.

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Volleyball tips off season at home

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER For the past four years, coming to New Haven to take on the Yale volleyball team has been a daunting task for squads across the country. The Bulldogs have gone 41–4 in the John J. Lee Amphitheater over that span en route to three Ivy titles and two NCAA tournament berths. The team will try to get this year’s home sched-

ule off to another hot start this weekend when it plays its first matches of the season against Texas A&M, Stony Brook and American University as part of the Yale Classic.

VOLLEYBALL “We get a lot of fans at our games,” middle blocker captain Haley Wessels ’13 said about the Bulldogs’ home court advantage.

“We practice well in our gym, so we are really comfortable there.

That shows during our home matches.”

As in past years, the first few weeks of Yale’s schedule will be played against nonconference opponents, with the Ivy League slate of games scheduled to begin on Sept. 22. Head coach Erin Appleman called this year’s the toughest nonconference slate she has ever scheduled, and said she

expects her team to be tested.

“This weekend and next weekend, there are really good teams coming in,” she said. “All five teams over the next two weeks are going to challenge us in many different ways.”

Two of this weekend’s opponents participated in the NCAA tournament last season. Texas A&M (2–1) earned an at-large bid after posting a 23–8 record during the regular season. After

winning their first-round game against Lipscomb, the Aggies fell 3–0 to Kentucky in the second round.

American (1–1) also went to the NCAAs after it received an automatic bid with a 3–1 victory over Army in the Patriot League championship match. It went on to fall 3–1 in the first round to Delaware, a team that Yale had defeated earlier in the season.

All three of this weekend’s

opponents will be taller, more physical and more athletic than the Bulldogs, Appleman said.

Perhaps the most daunting player on the court this weekend will be American’s Kelly McCaddin, who stands six-foot-six and is leading the Eagles in kills per set.

While it is too early in the season to expect the team to be in top form, Appleman said there are a SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 11

Elis look to repeat championship

BY ADLON ADAMS STAFF REPORTER After becoming the first Yale field hockey team crowned Ivy League champions in 31 years, the Bulldogs are aiming for another championship title this season under the leadership of captain and forward Maddy Sharp ’13.

FIELD HOCKEY

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Captain and forward Maddy Sharp ’13, far right, played in all 17 games last season for the field hockey team.

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The Bulldogs graduated six players from last year’s team, including four of their top six scorers. The championship team earned an 11–6–0 record in the previous season and finished with a strong 7–0 win over Brown to clinch the title.

“After being Ivy champs last year, our expectations for this season are much of the same,” midfielder Erica Borgo ’14 said. “Although we lost a key group of seniors last year, replacing them will be hard but manageable. The talent we have returning will help keep us on the same successful track as last year.”

Sharp, the captain, started all 17 games in the past season, proving that she will

be a consistent force as a forward for the Bulldogs. She is joined in the offensive lineup by Gabby Garcia ’14 who also made an appearance in all 17 games in the past season. She ended with four goals and one assist.

The midfield has a strong list of returners as well, including two juniors who participated in USA Field Hockey events. Borgo, who set the school record for assists in the 2011 season, played on the North team at the National Championships this past summer. Classmate Georgia Holland ’14, an All-Ivy League recipient, was selected to the U.S. under21 team.

“My expectations are that we focus on the process, take one game at a time, and play the very best that we can each day we take the field for practice or competition,” coach Pam Stuper said.

The team will gain five freshmen in the upcoming season. Three of the new additions, Danee Fitzgerald ’16, Noelle Villa ’16 and Nicole Wells ’16, were allUSA Field Hockey Futures participants.

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THE NUMBER OF GAMES THE VOLLEYBALL TEAM HAS LOST OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS IN JOHN J. LEE AMPITHEATER, OUT OF 41 GAMES PLAYED AT HOME. In that time, the team has won three Ivy League titles and earned two NCAA tournament berths.