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Committee proposes online courses

Selecting Salovey’s successor.

Provost and President-elect Peter Salovey sent an email to Yale faculty members last week soliciting nominations for the University’s next provost, which Salovey said should be a current member of the Yale community and an “outstanding scholar.” But the real question is whether the new provost will uphold Salovey’s most famous legacy: his moustache.

Afraid of the dark? It seems some Yalies are, according to a Yale College Council campus safety report released Tuesday.

The YCC’s report, which drew information in part from a Nov. 13 crowdsourcing Google Document sent to the entire undergraduate body, said the biggest concerns Yalies have regarding safety relate to inadequate lighting. In other news, there have been nine reported crimes on or near Yale’s campus so far this term.

Blazing a trail. Two School

of Management alumni are forging a new path into the cannabis industry, looking to transform the fragmented and largely untapped marijuana market into the next great American frontier. Based in Seattle, Wash., Brendan Kennedy SOM ’05 and Michael Blue SOM ’05 have formed a private equity firm called Privateer Holdings that invests in companies that deal with marijuana, but do not directly grow or sell the substance.

More grass. Like cattle, Cornell students can now lounge on the grass as they amble around Ithaca. Cornell officials have rolled out patches of grass in the school’s Olin Library in the hopes that the “cognitive relaxing effect” of grass would stimulate students’ productivity during the last few days of the semester, The Cornell Daily Sun reported Monday.

Another search begins. The

search for Pierson College’s next master has begun, according to a Monday email from University President Richard Levin and Yale College Dean Mary Miller. A search committee chaired by history professor Paul Freedman and composed of several Pierson students will advise the administration during the selection process.

Hope stays strong. Fourteen years after the stabbing of Yale senior Suzanne Jovin, her parents say they still have hope that their daughter’s killer will be found. Jovin was a political science major from Germany who spent much of her time assisting mentallyhandicapped adults and tutoring New Haven public school children.

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1961 Officials announce the construction of fallout shelters in Saybrook College and Payne Whitney Gymnasium in preparation of a possible nuclear fallout. The project will serve as a pilot program for a shelter system at Yale.

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assess and consider ways to expand Yale’s online educational presence so that non-Yale students can benefit from Yale resources and teaching. The recommendations from this report will be discussed at Thursday’s Yale College faculty meeting.

In the midst of uncertainty about the future of Yale’s Education Studies Program, Yale College Dean Mary Miller has appointed Elizabeth Carroll to teach the program’s core course offerings next semester.

Carroll, currently a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, will take on the education studies classes formerly taught by the program’s current director, Linda Cole-Taylor, who resigned earlier this year. Miller said administrators plan to maintain the program, and next semester, the University will continue to offer the same courses under the Education Studies umbrella — EDST 190 and its associated half-credit observation course EDST 192. But Carroll will not serve as the program’s director and is only slated to teach next semester’s classes while the faculty advisory committee on Education Studies searches for a new director.

“I’m very sympathetic with students’ desires that Yale offer ways to engage with educational issues,” Carroll said. “I think it’s very exciting how Yale is in process of reinvigorating its approach and I am hopeful that it will really be a creative and ultimately fruitful process.”

Before attending Harvard, Carroll spent five years working as a high school teacher in Boston and the Bronx, and she also spent time as a teaching fellow at Harvard. Carroll moved to New Haven this summer and

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Report recommends an expansion of Yale’s online education offerings MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Recommendations from the report of the online education committee will be discussed at a Thursday faculty meeting.

BY JANE DARBY MENTON AND JULIA ZORTHIAN STAFF REPORTERS In a report released Tuesday, the ad hoc Yale College Committee on Online Education recommended the University offer online for-credit courses to undergraduates and the public during the aca-

Students push divestment

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER Students at over 100 campuses nationwide are calling for universities to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry — and the movement has arrived at Yale.

A group of roughly 30 Yale students — mostly composed of members of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, or YSEC, and the Yale chapter of the Roosevelt Institute, a national, progressive undergraduate think tank — are compiling a report to encourage the University to divest from fossil fuels. Students involved in the divestment campaign said they hope to collaborate with the Yale administration to determine the best way forward, but economists and finance experts interviewed said they are skeptical that divesting from fossil fuels would be a wise move.

Inspired by a divestment campaign popularized by environmentalist Bill McKibbon, the small group of Yale students, temporarily referred to on the YSEC website as the Divestment Working Group, are consulting with the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, or ACIR, which is responsible for ensuring Yale’s endowment assets are invested ethically.

“We want to work with the Yale administration and Investments Office to freeze all new investments in fossil fuels and to phase out existing ones SEE DIVESTMENT PAGE 5

demic year.

The final report issued to Yale College Dean Mary Miller details the committee’s findings and recommendations for the University’s development of an online education program. The committee, led by psychology professor Paul Bloom and music professor Craig Wright, convened in September to

SOM rankings hold steady

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER Yale School of Management Dean Edward Snyder was not surprised by SOM’s spot on Bloomberg Businessweek’s biennial ranking of full-time U.S. MBA programs.

The list, which came out in November, gave SOM the 21st ranking — exactly the same spot the school earned two years ago. Though there has been no change in the rankings this year, professors and students interviewed said they think the school has been evolving under Snyder’s leadership, citing the launch of the Global Network for Advanced Management, a partnership between SOM and 21 international business schools, and staff changes within the school’s career development SEE SOM RANKING PAGE 4

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Bloomberg Businessweek’s ranking of MBA programs once again listed Yale’s at 21st.

AAUP criticizes Yale-NUS

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER The American Association of University Professors issued a statement Tuesday to express “a growing concern” regarding the establishment of Yale-NUS College.

In the statement, the Association, which is dedicated to upholding academic freedom and promoting shared university governance at schools nationwide, urges the Yale Corporation to release all documents related to the founding of the Singaporean liberal arts college, and calls for the Univer-

sity to establish “appropriate and genuinely open forums” in which the academic and political dimensions of the new school can be debated.

“We are concerned about the implications of the undertaking for academic freedom and the maintenance of educational standards at Yale and elsewhere,” said the statement, which was written by AAUP members Joan Bertin, Marjorie Heins, Cary Nelson and Henry Reichman.

The statement poses 16 questions of the Yale-NUS initiative — a partnership between between Yale and the National University of Singa-

pore — including whether members of the college community will be subjected to Singapore’s Internet firewalls and monitoring systems and whether speakers invited to campus will be affected by restrictions on visitors to Singapore.

The statement refers to a previous document issued jointly by the AAUP and the Canadian Association of University Teachers in 2009, which addresses problems U.S. institutions face in establishing campuses overseas, and urges them to guarantee “proviSEE AAUP PAGE 4

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Why we cite D

id you know that millennia of scholarship occurred without footnotes? Or in-text citations?

Or bibliographies? Scholars used to get away with a lot that this year’s senior class can’t.

Alas.

I’m groaning because I have two senior projects due Friday, and like many of my classmates — we’ve all got a perpetually harried and anxious look on our faces, so we’re easy to spot — I’ve spent a semester thinking deep thoughts about subjects I find fascinating. I wrote a draft, I wrote another and now I’m staring into the cold eyes of reality: I actually have to finish off the project, and hand it in.

USING FOOTNOTES MIGHT BE A PAIN, BUT YOUR SENIOR THESIS WILL THANK YOU Which is why the generations of scholars who preceded this year’s senior class are the subject of my envy. When they mentioned a source, or even a particular text, they didn’t have to find the specific page in a pile of post-ited books lugged from the library or cite these pages in a consistent fashion. They didn’t need post-its (or have them). They didn’t agonize over choosing MLA or Chicago style, or if endnotes or footnotes was the way to go. (I’ve since learned that in-text citations are kind of last Tuesday.)

I’ll concede there are some benefits to writing a thesis in this century. Up until the 1870s, few libraries in the United States were free and open to public. Few people other than white men could participate in scholarship.

There was less need for citations because the small scholarly community was aware of the same set of texts: They had, after all, been educated in the same places, and read the same books.

As the community of students and scholars educated in the United States and around the world has grown, there has been a greater need for transparency and academic accountability. The volume of published material has increased wildly since the days before footnotes, so that the number of available texts grows constantly. Because there is simply more information available in more places, and more people who read

scholarly texts, citing has become an essential part of scholarship.

Predictably, the Internet — especially our beloved ZOR JSTOR — MERCER- has changed the way we GOLDEN do research, and even, Meditations I would argue, the way we think about information: as something accessible, easy to find and public.

One of my theses deals with public art and libraries in America at the turn of the nineteenth century, and what it meant for ordinary people to suddenly have access to paintings and texts in a way that they hadn’t before. Footnotes have become the symbol of this change in scholarly practice, but they are only a small part of the revolution that has occurred in the last two centuries about who has access to information and who gets to have an opinion — a movement from the few and privileged to the many.

I acknowledge that we at Yale are still the few and privileged in many ways (including our access to the second-largest university library in America; drat you, Harvard), but we are also a different group of the privileged few and many than existed at Yale before the advent of the footnote. Just as scholarship is more transparent, our community of scholars is more diverse. I can be irritated about the hours of work that lie ahead of me, but I am delighted to be part of a different world than the one that came before.

So yes: I’m grouchy, and if I snarl at you on the street, it’s only because I’m thinking about footnote 72 on page 20.

In a few days, I’ll be entirely happy to live in this century, and delighted that there is a place for me in scholarship after centuries of that not being the case. But until then, I’d advise not getting in my — or other senior thesis-writers’ — way. We’re being held accountable by standards that are much greater than ourselves, and as such, are not really denizens of any reality except the one that lives on the soon to be turned-in page.

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rowing up, I had extended family across the country: in Washington D.C., Minnesota and New Orleans. My relatives were always ready with some piece of self-deprecating humor, but beneath the eye-rolls or exasperated sighs, they were deeply attached to their homes, and the local attitude, ethic and even food (easily defensible in New Orleans’ case, harder in Minnesota’s). As I learned from visiting them, their love affair with the local culture was typical. Entering my time at Yale, I looked forward to a similar culture of students who could not wait to bring a piece of their unique parts of America with them to college.

This enthusiasm indeed proved to be one of the great things about being at Yale. But shortly after arriving, after seeing a strange phenomenon several times, something seemed wrong. While people from my home area of New England (America’s Dunkin Donuts, fried clam and mafia corridor) wore their love of the Northeast on their sleeves, many of those from America’s center and South seemed less enthusiastic. To be sure, I’ve known plenty of Yalies who can’t get enough of

their heartland home, but these have proved to be the exception, not the rule. And given the reactions to a classmate’s profession of coming from one of the places academics love to hate, their nervousness about (or even willingness to disown) their place of origin is no surprise. While many of these students are disaffected heartlanders preaching to an east coast choir, many more are students searching for toleration in a school where they don’t expect to be tolerated.

So many of these conversations arrive at tales of the disaffected Midwesterner or Southerner’s own disillusionment — when he realized for the first time that he was surrounded in Georgia by uneducated racist bumpkins, or when his Texas teacher first revealed her latent “heteronormativity.” These stories are usually followed by a sheepish and relieved smile to those sitting around them, a plea for their sins to be absolved.

These students are involved in an endless battle to convince everyone who can be convinced that they are not one of them.

Whether this disease owes itself to real disillusionment or a reac-

tion to Yale’s prejudices toward the cultures beyond its walls is hard to know. All I do know is that for an inordinate number of students I have met from the South and Midwest, the first instinct of their public persona, when the subject turns to their home state, is shame.

Often this shame is associated with their home states’ overriding social conservatism, one of Yale’s favorite political bogeymen. This conservatism is something coast Yalies are confused by and find easier to dismiss than to actually address or understand. In doing this, we marginalize a solid half of our country and expect those who come from that half to renounce it too.

Of course, not every Midwestern or Southern student I’ve known at Yale fits this description.

But, an unfortunate side-effect of Yale’s Southern-Midwestern disease is that when students actually seem proud of those backgrounds, it strikes us as strange.

We give a skeptical glance at the girl who tells us Yale is interesting and educational for sure, but she’d really rather be back on her family farm in the real United States. Or the girl so proud of her Southern

upbringing that she wants everyone, online and in person, to know about it. And the guy who flicks a PETA table tent off the dining hall table in disgust, snapping that whoever wrote the brochure knows nothing about how pigs are farmed in real life.

Those are moments I find truly refreshing. I can’t help feeling great admiration for those heartland Yalies who wear their pride on their sleeves, no matter what their neighbors think. I chose Yale for these rather rare times.

We can afford to learn a lot from those parts of the country that see personal integrity and not efficiency as the greatest virtue, look to the government as a last — not a first — resort for what ails them and don’t run on Dunkin Donuts.

I am saddened that while Yale has made great leaps toward embracing a large international student body, we have lagged behind in embracing those parts of our own nation that challenge our academic perspective.

JOHN MASKO is a junior in Saybrook College. Contact him at john.masko@yale.edu.

John will be a Staff Opinion Blogger beginning next semester.

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n Black Friday, I learned a friend had died. The following Monday, I learned she had committed suicide. That Thursday, her sorority held a campus-wide candlelight vigil and on Friday, I wrote a letter to be read at the family memorial, which was held this past weekend.

Alyssa Weaver and I were both part of an academic program at Northwestern to study ethics and civic life. We examined Rawls and Bonhoeffer and Nagel together to find answers to questions on our responsibilities as citizens, on moral courage, on what it means to be good. I knew her in context of the most intellectually rewarding experience I had had at the university before transferring to Yale.

Alyssa was the last person I would have thought to be, as her mother told the Daily Northwestern, “in a dark place.” All of my memories had her laughing and smiling, and her exuberant spirit was of the rarest kind, the kind that makes the world a

warmer place. She was interested in chemistry and art, and loved books and museums. She had that colorful personality that would make everything she did, whether discussing philosophy or arguing for the impoverished, vibrant and engaging.

I’ve tried to see if I missed anything, any warning signs I should have noticed in order to lend her a helping hand. But Alyssa and I were not close friends; we ran in different circles and lived different lives. Besides, she did not share her suffering with her family, let alone her friends. I wish I had known her better, but I no longer have the opportunity to do so.

A slew of articles, panels and discussions about mental health have engaged Northwestern’s campus in the wake of Alyssa’s death. The director of the ethics program that Alyssa and I were in offered her phone number and office hours to her advisees, even while she herself grieved. I hesitated — should I call? I put the phone back down as I decided

that I would be all right. That was when I began to understand our aversion to seeking help. Seeking help can seem like a sign of weakness. Seeking help may not seem worthwhile. Seeking help requires admitting you need it.

But I think the most profound deterrent to seeking help is the thought of being alone. Who can truly understand what you are going through? Especially at elite universities like Yale and Northwestern, where most of our peers seem effortlessly superhuman and well-adjusted, we rarely see the private demons that each of us may hide. An English teacher once told me that everyone puts on a different persona for different people, but we mustn’t be afraid to reveal more of our real selves to others. It’s risky, sure, but making an honest effort to connect can help lighten our burdens and cement solidarity. Even if reaching out does not bring catharsis, it allows the people around you to catch you before you fall.

I’d imagine, however, that

many of us are not in as dark a place as Alyssa was. So we can — we must — be there for those who are. The first writer Alyssa and I read in class was Robert Gibbs, who begins his book Why Ethics? by examining the idea of the conversation. One of his more salient points was that there is an asymmetry between the listener and the speaker. Responsibility begins with the act of listening, not with the act of speaking. Each one of us has an immense power, the power to soothe and relieve simply by extending an open ear. The onus is on us, then, to do so, especially in times of stress.

So introduce yourself to someone you recognize from class.

Spare a second longer with a friend. It’s a cold, vast universe out there, and we only have each other for warmth.

JONATHAN PARK is a junior in Ezra Stiles College and a transfer student from Northwestern University. Contact him at jonathan.park@yale.edu .

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“I ended up eating a swordfish dinner at a strip club and Kenneth grabbed a cop’s gun and shot a blimp.” LIZ LEMON “30 ROCK” CHARACTER

CORRECTIONS TUESDAY, DEC. 4

The article “Prof remembered for dedicated” misstated the name of Larry Alexander’s ’72 daughter, Katie.

TUESDAY, DEC. 4

The article “Yale memorial project expands” misstated that 100,000 copies of a journal featuring profiles of Yale AIDS victims compiled by the Yale AIDS Memorial Project were printed. In fact, 1,000 copies were printed. In addition, the article stated that there will be 25 profiles on a website launched by YAMP when in fact there will be 20.

TUESDAY, DEC. 4

The article “Students, faculty observe World AIDS Day” quoted Jeremy Schwartz as saying that Gerland Friedland said “it’s the beginning of the end of AIDS.” In fact, Schwartz said that Friedland said “it’s the end of the beginning of AIDS.” TUESDAY, DEC. 4

The article “Climbing team still lacks Yale gym” mistakenly referred to City Climb as the Connecticut Rock Gym, which closed last year. The City Climb gym opened in the same area this fall.

City electronics company acquired

BY TIANYI PAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER On Dec. 3, Chicago-based Clover Wireless announced its acquisition of YouRenew, a New Haven-based electronics recycling company launched

by Yale graduates.

Both companies offer services that allow individuals and businesses to trade in their obsolete wireless electronics such as smart phones, tablets and laptops. The acquisition will improve Clover Wireless’ offerings by integrating YouRenew’s new online platform, which ensures data security and environmental compliance.

“The combination of the two companies could really accelerate growth,” said Brian Regan, executive vice president of Clover Wireless.

The platform developed by YouRenew, which Regan said “will serve a key role in Clover’s strategy onward,” facilitates trade-in of used mobile devices directly from consumers through the web. Programs are designed specifically for large enterprise clients, such as large investment banks that purchase new smart phones for their employees and trade in the old devices, and for retailers who sell mobile devices and services to end users. “[YouRenew’s platform] offers an online solution that allows businesses to monetize their obsolete electronics,” Regan said. “Not only are they able to earn money, they are also having an environmental impact.”

While Clover Wireless leaders expect their business to benefit from the acquisition, the YouRenew founders expect similar gains. The acquisition gives the New Havenbased startup a comprehensive trade-in platform with a wider reach than it had before, extending the company’s reach to national and international

businesses.

“Clover has a great reputation in our industry, and we realize that as a part of their organization we will have the ability to grow and offer our solutions to a wider consumer base even faster,” Bob Casey ’10, CEO and founder of YouRenew with classmate Rich Littlehale ’10, said in a Tuesday email.

Clover Wireless’s investment in YouRenew will also create greater employment opportunities in the city of New Haven, Casey said. Regan said he believes that there is a lot of talent within the Elm City, and the newly acquired YouRenew development team will start to expand by looking for programmers in the city.

Since the acquisition, YouRenew — now the New Haven branch of Clover Wireless — has already posted several job openings online.

City officials and legislators also commended the acquisition. Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 said that the acquisition will benefit the city’s economy by creating jobs in the technology sector.

“It’s a great sign of Connecticut’s innovation recognized in the world,” Hausladen said.

“It shows that there is a lot of intellectual property flowing out of New Haven.”

New Haven Economic Development Administrator Kelly Murphy said that the purchase demonstrates the value of the IT companies and ideas that are coming out of Yale and New Haven and that the city will continue to foster the growth of young companies.

Investments like Clover Wireless’ acquisition of YouRenew, she said, will help to promote the “innovation economy” that exists in the state.

YouRenew was started in 2008 by Casey and Littlehale.

Contact TIANYI PAN at tianyi.pan@yale.edu .

Armory discussion continues

BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER City debate about how to best utilize the Goffe Street Armory continued at a public hearing on Tuesday night.

The committee formed this summer to create a plan for the Armory listened to community groups and residents’ suggestions about how to use the space.

Some of those who attended the meeting said they wanted to see the armory as a space with programming solely for New Haven youth and shared ideas about how to raise revenue to keep the space sustainable, while others stressed that any new uses should collaborate with existing programs.

The building was last used by two National Guard units over four years ago, and since $2.8 million was approved for repairing the armory, a committee created by the Board has been holding public hearings about how to best use the space. The building also needs to be repaired, and according to the city’s chief administrative officer Robert Smuts ’01, rehabilitation could take anywhere from 15 to 18 months.

Rachel Heerema, the executive director of the Citywide Youth Coalition, said she supported the work the committee was doing and suggested including a library branch, coffee shop or musical recording spaces in the armory.

“In general, the coalition stands for more safe space for young people with high-quality programming and more effective services,” Heerema said. “Young people need more opportunities and spaces to explore talents like music, arts and sports.”

Heerema also said that there was potential for entrepreneur-

ship within the space. Stephanie Barnes, the executive director of the Boys and Girls Club of New Haven, added that the committee should keep in mind that the armory is located in a primarily residential area, although it is still possible to create a small business hub at the armory.

Melissa Huber, the producer of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, said that she was interested in being able to use the armory as a space to host its events. She added that the festival was a way to make New Haven a destination and support both local and international artists.

Ward 28 Alderman Claudette Robinson-Thorpe, who is one of two organizers of the committee, pointed out at the meeting that having other groups rent out the space would bring in revenue.

Two people who testified said that they wanted the space to be primarily for youth. Don Dimenstein, former director of the city’s Department of Elderly Services, emphasized that youth need a space dedicated solely to themselves and that seniors already have other spaces.

Those in attendance also discussed the importance of taking advantage of and supporting already existing programs. Esther Massie, the executive director of Leadership, Education, and Athletics in Partnership, a nonprofit and youth development organization, said that the committee should think about how to bolster existing programs.

“There are programs that already exist and are doing really good work in New Haven that are addressing the critical needs of children,” Massie said. “But some of them don’t have after-school programs, or have limited hours,

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A Tuesday hearing discussed possible uses of the Goffe Street Armory. or limited librarians, and all of that points to the idea that new space is not necessarily the main issue when it comes to supporting the needs of people in New Haven, but that funding always is an issue.”

Darryl Brackeen, a New Haven resident, agreed with the necessity of evaluating existing programs and finding new ways to collaborate with those programs.

“I’m not advocating for any new programs: We have more

than enough and I believe we have many effective people that have been around for a long time, and they should come together,” he said. “This is the time to do it. We have a building sitting there and it’s losing revenue as we wait.”

Along with Robinson-Thorpe, Ward 1 Aldermen Sarah Eidelson ’12 is an organizer of the committee.

Contact DIANA LI at diana.li@yale.edu .

Charges dismissed for gun owner

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS STAFF REPORTER Nearly four months after New Haven attorney Sung-Ho Hwang brought a gun to the latest “Batman” film, conjuring memories of the summer shooting in Aurora, Colo., New Haven Superior Court judge Maureen Keegan dismissed all charges on Monday.

Hwang, who is president of the New Haven County Bar Association, was arrested on Aug. 7. on charges of breach of peace and interfering with the police after he carried a loaded gun into a movie theater. On Monday, Assistant State’s Attorney David Strollo moved to have Hwang’s charges “nolled,” meaning that the prosecution chose not to present the charges to the court. In response, Hwang’s attorney Hugh Keefe moved to have the charges dismissed, which can only be done by a judge. Siding with Hwang and Keefe, Judge Maureen Keegan promptly dismissed the charges.

“I’m hopeful he’ll be able to recover 100 percent. I think

most people understand that when a case is dismissed there was very little basis for it,” Keefe said.

Strollo could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

On the night of Aug. 7, police were called to the Criterion Bow Tie movie theater on Temple Street after staff reported a man with a gun in the theater. A dozen police officers rushed into the theater showing “The Dark Knight Rises,” where Hwang was sitting. Those in the theater were told to raise their hands and exit the theater.

According to a statement given by New Haven Police Department spokesman David Hartman at the time, Hwang did not comply with the officers’ requests to raise his hands.

“Officers identified the suspect and with weapons drawn, ordered the suspect to put his hands up,” Hartman said. “He remained in his seat while using his cell phone. He did not comply with the officers’ commands, and was taken into custody by force.”

H a r t m a n sa i d o f f i ce rs removed a loaded Glock

.40-caliber pistol from Hwang’s waistband.

In the following days, Hwang responded by reiterating that he had a license to carry the concealed weapon and that entering the theater with the gun did not violate any Connecticut laws.

He further justified his actions by suggesting that he did not feel safe late at night without the gun.

“I normally do not carry, but I live in downtown New Haven and the movie was getting out at 1 a.m., so I felt that I should protect myself since I was alone,” Hwang said at the time.

Hwang declined to comment Tuesday.

Shortly after the incident in August, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. called for tighter gun control, including a gun offender registry. Moreover, DeStefano urged residents of the city to base their actions not solely on legality, but on common sense as well.

“We ought to reflect on some behaviors that are clearly legal, but that do not reflect the values by which New Haveners wants to live,” DeStefano said. “I still

do not believe that it is acceptable to walk into a bar, a crowded movie theater or a house of worship with an armed weapon at the ready.”

Keefe was quick to dismiss DeStefano’s suggestion, saying that those interested in changing Connecticut’s gun laws “ought to go to Hartford and change the law if they don’t like it.”

“It may not be smart to smoke cigarettes either but it’s legal,” Keefe said.

At the time the incident brought up memories of the July 20 mass shooting in an Aurora, Colo. movie theater during a showing of the same film. The shooting, which was carried out by 24-year old James Eagan Holmes, a doctorate student in neuroscience, killed 12 and injured 58.

All of the guns used in the Colorado shooting were bought legally.

Contact MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS at matthew.lloyd-thomas@yale.edu .

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Yale SOM’s ranking in Businessweek

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The biennially published rankings placed the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business at the top and ranked Harvard Business School second. The magazine began publishing the list in 1988. The ranking considers, among other factors, average salary, cost, yield and selectivity,

SOM ranks twenty-first in nation SOM RANKING FROM PAGE 1 office as important initiatives Snyder has spearheaded since June 2011, when he assumed his post as the 10th dean of SOM. Most agreed that changes within an institution are usually slow to manifest themselves in rankings — especially in ones that come out annually or biennially. “I did [not] anticipate a substantial change in SOM’s rankings the moment a new dean arrived,â€? said Jim Baron, the SOM professor who chaired the faculty committee that recommended Snyder’s appointment to the SOM deanship. “There is something pretty fishy about the notion that you can or should assess ‌ how well institutions [like ours] are performing on a yearly or biannual basis.â€?

Snyder, who said he “did not have strong expectations� about this year’s rankings, said he has been trying to integrate SOM with the rest of the University and engage the school globally — initiatives he said take time to reach their full effect.

SOM student government president Caitlin Sullivan SOM ’13 called rankings “a lagging indicator,� adding that students have noticed improvements — such as the growing number of degree programs and the new associate deans hired to manage them — within the school since Snyder joined its administration. She said rankings with sound methodologies will likely reflect such improvements in the future.

Della Bradshaw, the business education editor of the United Kingdom-based Financial Times, said one would not

expect a rise in SOM’s rankings before next year, adding that it can take up to three or four years for rankings to recognize a school’s improvements. The Financial Times ranked SOM 20th globally in its latest rankings released in January 2012.

But Snyder said he is “impatient� to see the school’s position in the rankings rise as soon as possible, since business school rankings influence the quality and range of opportunities offered to SOM students and alumni.

I did [not] anticipate a substantial change in SOM’s rankings the moment a new Dean arrived.

JIM BARON School of Management Professor John Byrne, a former executive editor of Businessweek who designed the publication’s business school rankings and currently runs the business school news site Poets and Quants, said he was surprised SOM’s Businessweek ranking has not improved, adding that he thinks Snyder has been at SOM long enough for his initiatives to affect the primarily opinionbased ranking.

Byrne said Businessweek’s rankings are predominantly based on surveys that assess the satisfaction of a school’s graduates and the opinions of corpo-

rate recruiters. When compared with the University’s $19.3-billion endowment, Byrne said the amount of money Yale spends on its MBA program is “less than what [one] would expect,� a factor he said must lead to some graduate dissatisfaction.

Byrne added that some recruiters might not be clear about the professional training SOM students receive, given the school’s historic reputation of educating students to work in the nonprofit and public sectors. As a result, companies may be more hesitant to hire SOM graduates, Byrne said. “What we say to recruiters when they ask about the profiles of our students is that we have students interested in all sectors who have appreciation for the need to work across sectors,� Snyder said. “Recruiters and hirers like that, [but] it may take some time for it to be understood.�

SO M ’s ra n k i n gs co u l d increase substantially, Byrne said, if Snyder makes a concerted effort to turn SOM into a “core recruiting school� by bringing mainstream recruiters like JPMorgan, McKinsey, Microsoft, Amazon and Google to campus.

A potential reason for SOM’s relatively low ranking, Bradshaw said, is the fact that only 89 percent of SOM graduates are employed within three months of graduation. Roughly 97 percent of 2011 alumni from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, Harvard Business School and Columbia Business School — all ranked higher than SOM — were employed at three months after graduation.

Yale-NUS faces criticism AAUP FROM PAGE 1 sions to ensure academic freedom and tenure and collegial governance,� including antiharassment and anti-discrimination provisions and rights to procedural fairness. Because the 2009 statement “did not cover everything that is now at stake in Singapore,� Nelson said the AAUP decided to release a statement to address Yale-NUS specifically.

[The AAUP] had made assumptions without really investigating the matter.

PERICLES LEWIS Yale-NUS President Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said the school, which will welcome its inaugural class of roughly 150 in the fall of 2013, has shown a strong commitment to academic freedom.

“The AAUP doesn’t seem to have looked at the documents Yale-NUS has circulated already, such as the principles on academic freedom and nondiscrimination,� Lewis said. “It has made assumptions without really investigating the matter.�

In October, Yale-NUS administrators announced that branches of existing political parties in Singapore as well as organizations “promoting racial or religious strife� would be prohibited on the college’s campus in accordance with the nation’s laws.

Nelson, an English professor at the University of Illinois who co-wrote the statement, told the News that AAUP members involved in drafting the statement have read “every single piece of paper that exists in the public domain on YaleNUS,� adding that they have had access to a substantial archive of documents about the endeavor. Nelson said several AAUP members have been in touch with Yale faculty in Yale’s AAUP chapter — which held an initial organizational meeting on Sept. 26 — in recent months

to discuss issues concerning the Singaporean college.

University President Richard Levin said the Yale-NUS charter, which is published on the college’s website, addresses all major aspects of the Yale-NUS agreement except its finances.

He added that Yale will not derive any monetary benefits from the project, which is to be fully funded by the Singaporean government.

Still, Nelson questioned Yale’s commitment to academic freedom in establishing a college in Singapore. “The Yale Corporation can say all it wants to say about academic freedom in Singapore, but it’s not true that in such an authoritarian state one can maintain an acceptable level of academic freedom,� he said.

The AAUP was founded in 1915.

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Snyder said students at other business schools may have firmer plans for their post-graduation career trajectories than SOM students. “The types of students we attract are exploring lots of options,� he said. “They like to

explore all sectors. One thing we don’t want to do to improve our rankings is [stop] attracting such students — the broadminded, intellectually curious, I-want-to-explore type of students.�

Before Snyder arrived at Yale,

he was dean of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Contact ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA at aleksandra.gjorgievska@yale.edu .

Online explored ONLINE EDU. FROM PAGE 1 “Yale has this mission — the creation, preservation and dissemination of knowledge. This is dissemination,� Bloom said. “We’re extremely excited for the use of digital initiatives to disseminate knowledge and we plan to move forward building upon the strengths we’ve already established.�

The report also separately encourages faculty members to experiment with making their course materials public on a larger scale such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), which provide free online lecture courses to anyone who signs up — a platform embraced by a number of Yale’s peer institutions. Miller said the University is proceeding carefully in the realm of online education, and therefore not committing to a certain program.

Professors interviewed had mixed reactions to the effectiveness of online education, and students interviewed said they were unlikely to take a course with section that met online over a course that met in person.

Bloom said the online forcredit platform will expose students to new technologies while enabling them to learn in a classroom setting with students across the globe, though he added that the committee does not recommend students enroll in more than one online course during their Yale education. Students studying abroad will also benefit from the program since they will be able to fulfill requirements while offcampus, he said.

The online courses would follow the template of ten online summer courses Yale offered in 2011 and 2012 that were open to the public and limited to 20 students each. Participants attended the classes via live video stream and interacted with the professor and one another over the video stream. The course technology also included a chat function, in which students could type to each other or privately to the instructor during the session.

Bloom said online courses will be held to the same standard as courses held on-campus and that the Course Selection Committee will vet them extensively.

Course admission will be conducted through an application process, he said, and non-Yale students who would like to apply

will face the same admissions standards as enrolled undergraduates.

Psychology professor and committee member Laurie Santos taught her popular lecture course “Sex, Evolution & Human Nature� this summer by assigning the recorded lectures as homework material and conducting section discussions with 18 students over the video-conferencing technology.

Santos said aspects of the online platform were more “intimate� than her large lecture course because the class was discussion-based. Students who might otherwise not speak in class had the ability to message her their thoughts privately, she added. “I could actually see students’ private reactions to what was going on in the section in a way I couldn’t in the classroom,� Santos added.

Political science lecturer Jim Sleeper said he is skeptical of the ability to communicate in a discussion over the Internet. He said that he thinks body language and eye contact were essential to successful communication in his past seminars.

Sleeper added that he bases his comments on his own experiences teaching seminars, and he has not yet read the report.

I could actually see students’ private reactions to what was going on in the section.

LAURIE SANTOS Professor, Yale University Recently, MOOCs have gained attention as an effective way to share university resources on a large scale. MOOCs integrate assessments and peer conversation into courses while also offering recognition upon completion. The evaluation structure of MOOCs is different from that of the courses currently offered by the Open Yale Courses program, which provides free online lecture footage and other limited course materials.

English professor David Kastan said he has been asked to put his lecture course “Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies� online as part of Open Yale Courses but that he has no plans to participatein any online courses

because he does not believe an online format will let him fully communicate with his students. “MOOCs are a wonderfully efficient way to disseminate needed information, but information isn’t knowledge — knowledge is what happens to information when it is put under the pressure of concentration and reflection,� Kastan said. “MOOCs aren’t good for that.�

Many of Yale’s peer schools have embraced the MOOC format. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology currently offer MOOCs through the platform edX, and Stanford University and Princeton University use the platform Coursera.

While the Committee on Online Education made no formal recommendation to utilize MOOCs, Anant Agarwal, president of edX and a professor at MIT, said he hopes Yale will adopt the MOOC platform and join edX in the future. “The online movement now continues to go ahead, and the whole MOOC movement is the next step of the evolution,� Agarwal said. He added that with Yale Open Courses’s founding in 2006 Yale was at the forefront of developing open course material, and edX built upon the foundation Yale Open Courses and other similar courseware provided.

Four students interviewed said they would consider taking an online course while on-campus, but four said they would not enroll if they had the option to attend in person. “I think it would just make me lazier and just not want to do the work,� said Jose Limon ’14, though he added that he would enroll in an online course if the program turns out to work well.

Though Yale and non-Yale students can use the credits towards their undergraduate degrees, the committee recommended that Yale College not offer online degrees. Non-Yale students can use the credits as transfer credits.

Miller announced the ad hoc Yale College Committee on Online Education in a Sept. 21 message to the Yale community.

Nicole Narea contributed reporting.

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“I have had it! I have had it with this school, Skinner! The low test scores, class after class of ugly, ugly children!”

SUPERINTENDANT CHALMERS “SIMPSONS” CHARACTER

Carroll appointed to Education Studies CARROLL FROM PAGE 1 began independently researching the New Haven public school system. As part of this research, Carroll said, she attended the city’s Board of Education meetings and also spoke with several Yale faculty members who told her about the job opening.

Carroll said EDST 190’s and 192’s curriculum — which includes observing local New Haven schools — will remain the same as they were under ColeTaylor, but she added that she hopes to incorporate some of her own research and background.

She said she is eager to see how the University will decide to approach the program in the coming year.

I think that Yale is really well positioned to actually be a leader in innovating a new approach.

ELIZABETH CARROLL Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University

“I think that Yale is really wellpositioned to actually be a leader in innovating a new approach to how a school like this can engage students in these conversations and issues and prepare them to be leaders in the education sector,” Carroll said.

In 2010, administrators canceled the Teacher Preparation Track — a program that allowed students to become certified teachers — citing financial concerns and dwindling student interest in accreditation. Follow-

ing the cancellation, then-Director of Education Studies Jack Gillette resigned and Cole-Taylor took Gillette’s place as director.

Joseph Gordon, dean of undergraduate education, said the alterations to the Educational Studies program reflect a changing landscape of education study at universities rather than a phasing out of the program. He said the increasing popularity of programs such as Teach for America means many students do not need to get certification while they are undergraduates, adding that the faculty advisory committee is looking into the best way to present an educational studies program without certification.

Gordon said he is not sure of the program’s future structure, but he thinks the program could be organized around a similar “initiative” model as Yale’s global health and journalism programs — bringing together students from different majors to focus their skills and knowledge on the study of education. Many programs that follow this model also include a summer commitment, he said, which could be fulfilled through summer teaching jobs, work in educational policy or internships with school boards.

But this decision will be made by the faculty committee on educational studies next semester, he added.

“I think students are obviously concerned about whether or not the program will continue,” Gordon said. “We are trying to reassure them that it will — not in the way that it was five years ago and maybe not in the way it is today, but in a way that is suitable for educational studies at Yale.”

Grace Lindsey ’15, who has taken education studies classes and shadowed New Haven school

ELIZABETH CARROLL

Elizabeth Carroll’s appointment to teach Educational Studies classes is temporary as the search for a director continues. teachers, said she is glad that Yale will maintain the core education studies courses, which are traditionally oversubscribed, but she is concerned that Carroll does not have the same long-term relationships with local schools and teachers as Cole-Taylor.

“Part of the reason [Cole Tay-

lor’s course] worked so well was that Professor Cole-Taylor has a lot of contacts with New Haven School teachers,” Lindsey said.

“So much of educational studies at Yale lies in the way it interacts with the community and it is important that there is a focus in not losing that with someone that

is new to New Haven.”

Lindsey said despite Carroll’s appointment, she thinks the future of the program will remain uncertain until the faculty advisory committee appoints a new director and clearly indicates how the program will be organized.

She added that she hopes the

committee solicits student input while making decisions.

Yale does not have its own School of Education, unlike Harvard, Columbia and Stanford.

Contact JANE DARBY MENTON at jane.menton@yale.edu .

Students protest investment in fossil fuels DIVESTMENT FROM PAGE 1 over the next five years,” said Ariana Shapiro ’16, referring to the recommended campus campaign goals on McKibben’s website, 350.org.

“We want an endowment that represents our values and the values of the institution.”

The students involved in the divestment campaign are meeting with Daniel Shen ’14, one of two student members of the ACIR, this week, and intend to meet with the full committee in January to get feedback on the draft of their report.

If the ACIR is convinced, it will write a report for the Yale Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility, which is composed of Yale Corporation fellows, Shen said. Darcy Frisch ’92, a member of the ACIR, said the Corporation has the authority to determine policies for the Investments Office.

Chief Investment Officer David Swensen declined to comment for this story.

Patrick Reed ’15, president of YSEC, said the divestment group wants to approach the administration first and articulate its concerns before taking any accusatorial stance, which he said would be counterproductive to the cause.

Students involved said they hope to start a campus movement for divestment next semester, and cited Unity College in Maine and Hampshire College in Massachusetts — whose endowments were most recently valued at $13 million and $33 million, respectively — as examples of schools that have already agreed to pull investments from the fossil fuel industry. If the administration is not

supportive of divestment, the student group will turn to activism and get the word out to the community to show “that we have a broad base of support,” Shapiro said.

In writing the report, Alice Buckley ’15 and Abigail Carney ’15, coheads of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy for Yale’s chapter of the Roosevelt Institute, said they have consulted the Ethical Investor, a 1972 volume that set the guidelines on divestment for the Yale Corporation. Buckley said their report aims to demonstrate that fossil fuels present a “grave social injury” — the phrase used in the Ethical Investor as the standard for divestment.

If it’s wrong to wreck the climate, then it’s wrong to profit from that wreckage.

BILL MCKIBBEN Campaigning for divestment from fossil fuels is the central strategy of a national movement against climate change, popularized by McKibben. In his “Do the Math” speaking tour of 21 cities this fall, McKibben argued that divesting from the fossil fuel industry is the first step toward causing stock prices to drop and pressuring fossil fuel firms into agreeing not to burn their reserves.

“If it’s wrong to wreck the climate, then it’s wrong to profit from that wreckage,” McKibben said on tour at Boston’s Orpheum Theater in early November, arguing that students are

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obligated to oppose investments in fossil fuels on moral grounds. McKibben noted that a “green” portfolio is just as necessary as an energy-efficient campus.

But two experts interviewed said divesting from fossil fuels is unlikely to have any effect on the industry.

Publicly traded U.S. energy companies in the S&P 500 index had a combined value of $1.4 trillion as of the end of 2011, while the endowments of all colleges and universities in the country combined currently amount to $400 billion — only a fraction of which is invested in fossil fuels. Unlike Yale, most universities have endowments under $1 billion and cannot afford to be as illiquid in their investment strategy, and therefore invest much less in alternative assets and fossil fuels than Yale does.

The combined divestment of every university would not “make a dent” in the industry, Boston College economics professor Eyal Dvir said.

Timothy Considine, director of the University of Wyoming’s Center for Energy Economics and Public Policy, said other investors would buy fossil fuel stocks if universities like Yale sold them.

Dvir said most economists are skeptical that campaigns such as McKibben’s affect how firms behave, and added that McKibben’s stated goal of getting the energy companies to commit to not using their reserves will not succeed because it does not align with the long-term interests of those firms. Dvir added that investing more in firms like Shell and Exxon will allow universities to have a stronger voice on the boards of those companies — a voice universities could use to push firms into more

sustainable practices.

In response, students stressed the importance of drawing attention to climate change.

“I don’t think the economic impact of Yale divesting will really hurt [the fossil fuel industry] that much, which is why the advocacy is really important,” Carney said. “It’s more of a symbolic thing.” Reed said he hopes a large student movement and statements from major universities will send a strong message to national policy makers.

Experts added that fossil fuel divestment could negatively impact the schools involved.

Dvir said divesting from fossil fuels would likely generate a lower return for the Yale endowment, which would negatively affect the University’s ability to provide financial aid and other resources for its students. Considine said energy firms have yielded strong returns in recent years.

After losing nearly a quarter of its value following the onset of the nationwide economic recession in 2008, Yale’s endowment has yet to return to its high-water mark of roughly $22.9 billion. During the fiscal year that ended June 30, Yale ‘s endowment posted a 4.7 percent return on its investments but dropped in value because spending distributions outpaced growth by $100 million.

A recent publicly disclosed University divestment on ethical grounds involved seven gas and oil companies in Sudan and Darfur in 2006.

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

FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT C A M PA I G N S N A T I O N W I D E With slogans like “Ask me about divestment,” “Fossil free,” and “Swarthmore: Divest from Destruction,” college students are writing petitions and holding demonstrations protesting their schools’ endowment investments in the fossil fuel industry.

Though two small schools agreed to pull investments in fossil fuels, no universities with endowments over $1 billion have agreed to divest.

Some schools have been more responsive than others to students’ calls for action.

President of Middlebury College Ronald Liebowitz recently announced in an email to students, faculty and staff that Middlebury would consider divesting from fossil fuels, and said the college had about 3.6 percent of its $900-million endowment directly invested in the fossil fuel industry.

“A look at divestment must include the consequences, both pro and con, of such a direction, including how likely it will be to achieve the hoped-for results and what the implications might be for the College, for faculty, staff, and individual students,” Liebowitz wrote in the email.

Harvard has been less cooperative with its student campaigns.

In early November, 2,600 Harvard undergraduates voted in support of a referendum, included on the Undergraduate Council president ballot, that called for Harvard to divest from fossil fuels, but Harvard Director of News and Media Relations Kevin Galvin said in an email to The Crimson the university is “not considering” divestment.

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ARTS & CULTURE

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS GEORGES SEURAT Georges Seurat was a French post-impressionist painter known for his invention of the technique known as pointilism. His “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” is an iconic painting from the late 19th century.

‘SIC Beatz’ full of flair

Students collaborate on ‘Sunday’

BY ANYA GRENIER STAFF REPORTER “Sunday in the Park with George,” opening on Dec. 14 at the University Theatre, will bring undergraduate and graduate performers together in an unusual collaboration.

An examination of artists’ struggles to stay true to their craft while navigating the commercial side of art, the 1984 musical — with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim — looks at the creation of artist Georges Seurat’s masterpiece, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” To bring together the large cast and crew required by musicals, the show recruited students from multiple Yale schools, said Ethan Heard ’06 DRA ’13, who is directing the show for his senior thesis project this semester.

While most School of Drama productions feature only professional theater students, “Sunday” includes two undergraduates in its cast, others on its creative team and two in its orchestra, which is otherwise composed of and conducted by students from the School of Music.

Heard said that as an undergraduate student, he admired the School of Drama but perceived it as a bubble he could not enter. So when he began to cast “Sunday,” Heard knew that undergraduates might enjoy the chance to act in a graduate school production.

“I knew the undergraduates were out there, and I wanted to reach out,” he said.

Students involved in “Sunday” received the voice and movement training from theater faculty and the physical resources typical in the Drama

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The production of “SIC Beatz” seeks to push back against the increasingly common perception of classical music as being inaccessible or elitist.

BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER What if the music of Beethoven and Mick Jagger had a love child?

The premiere of “SIC Beatz” — a collaboration by SIC InC and the Yale Bands Percussion Group — might be the outcome.

The show, which opens Thursday at the Off-Broadway Theater, is the first joint effort by SIC InC and the percussion ensemble, two groups in Yale’s undergraduate music scene. The concert will feature original pieces — the fusions of rock and classical music that usually characterize SIC InC’s productions — written and performed by classically trained musicians who are hoping to make classical music more accessible to today’s audiences, said director Nathan Prillaman ’13.

“The way that classical music is presented and consumed is

broken,” Prillaman said.

Prillaman noted that over the past century, audiences have lost interest in classical music due to listeners’ inability to identify with the genre. He said he hopes to revitalize classical music by taking its various elements — wind instruments, piano and stylistic nuances among others — and blending them with components of rock, jazz, pop and electronic musical elements such as electric guitar and computer-generated sounds. This synthesis of classical and contemporary may make the classical style more approachable and understandable to the audience, Prillaman said.

Christian Schmidt ’14, a member of the Yale Bands Percussion Group, said audience members often have a false perception of classical music and its musicians as snobbish and conservative. “SIC Beatz” will provide the audience with an opportu-

nity to see classical musicians in a new light, playing music outside of their normal repertoire, he said. The show’s fusion of genres has the potential to make classical music “hip” again, he added.

This show will be the fattest beats we’ve ever done, [because] we’ve got percussionists.

NATHAN PRILLAMAN ’13 Director “[It has the] flair that people need to see in our fast-paced, pop-oriented culture,” Schmidt said.

Schmidt said the flying drumsticks and wide array of percussion instruments used in the show

— including a vibraphone, bongos and a bass drum — add a visual component to the performance that brings it to a new level. He added that the introduction of live percussion to SIC InC’s electronically generated percussive sounds creates a thrilling audio effect.

“This show will be the fattest beats we’ve ever done, [because] we’ve got the percussionists,” Prillaman said.

The use of lighting in the show also contributes to the visual extravaganza. Prillaman said lighting effects are particularly essential for this show because they can help create a multisensory experience for the audience, allowing for a completely immersive experience that diverges from the monotonous setting of traditional classical concerts.

“It makes the performance an all-encompassing experience rather than just an auditory one,”

said Leeza Ali ’15, who composed a piece for and will play in “SIC Beatz.”

Ali said the amplified sounds of thunderstorms and cavernous winds help convey the dark, frightening mood of one of her pieces, adding that lighting effects appeal to the audience’s senses, intensifying the emotions conveyed by the music and heightening those felt by the audience.

Three students familiar with SIC Beatz are eagerly anticipating the show’s premiere and expect it to be an enjoyable experience.

“I remembered seeing SIC InC during Bulldog Days, and they were, quite literally, sick,” Mahir Rahman ’16 said.

Free tickets to the event can be reserved on the Yale Drama Coalition’s website.

Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .

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“SIC Beatz“ will feature original pieces that fuse rock and classical music in order to make it more accessible.

Guppies swim into Dwight Hall

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“The Guppy’s Tale” will be performed by the Yale Children’s Theater and centers around a Bildungsroman-esque coming-of-age tale that features a guppy named Algie who embarks on a journey of self-discovery.

As the majority of Yale students crank out papers in the library, members of Yale Children’s Theater are focusing their energies on bringing engaging theater to New Haven youth.

After weeks of rehearsal, YCT actors will perform “The Guppy’s Tale,” an original work by director Caroline Barnes ’13, Saturday and Sunday in the Dwight Hall Common Room. The play centers on a guppy named Algie who wakes up in an

unfamiliar frog’s pond and embarks on a journey to return home, learning lessons about friendship and happiness along the way.

Six cast, crew and board members interviewed said one of YCT’s fundamental goals is to make plays accessible to elementary school audiences and to keep their attention throughout each performance. “‘Subtlety’ is not a vocabulary word that we choose very often in children’s theater,” said YCT Artistic Director Kyle van Leer ’13, adding that the characters’ personalities as well as their costumes are “over

the top” so that the audience stays engaged throughout the roughly 40-minute long show.

Nicole de Santis ’15, who plays Algie, said “The Guppy’s Tale” features interaction between actors and the audience. In one of the play’s early scenes, Algie encounters several frogs and asks the audience to identify the creatures, and during multiple points in the show, characters appear behind the audience and make noise to maintain a high level of excitement.

“You have to be very animated all the time,” de Santis said. “If you

don’t, the kids will become disengaged.”

In addition to creating a highenergy atmosphere, members of the cast and crew said they also hope to teach meaningful lessons to the audience with “The Guppy’s Tale.”

Barnes said the play delves into the causes of happiness, explaining that the show teaches the lesson, “You can make yourself happy by making others happy.” Marjorie Berman ’13, who plays Richard, Sabina and Jill, said the play also encourages audience members to have self-confidence and explore new avenues of

life. By communicating multiple messages, the play remains complex enough to prevent the audience from growing bored, Producer and Assistant Director Steffina Yuli ’16 said.

Productions like “The Guppy’s Tale” promote YCT’s overall mission of using theater to help New Haven children “develop emotionally and creatively,” van Leer said, adding that successful performances allow the audience to “let loose their imaginations.”

Barnes said that since she wrote “The Guppy’s Tale” herself, the cast and crew revised the play through-

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The musical “Sunday in the Park with George” alludes to Gerges Seurat’s famous pointilist masterpiece.

[than undergraduate theater],” Sirakian said. “These are people who are fully devoted to their very specific craft.”

While “Sunday” is part of School of Drama students’ curricular work, the show remains an extracurricular activity for the team’s undergraduate members. Chiocchi said she was willing to make the necessary sacrifices — which include rehearsing into reading and exam weeks — because participating in a graduate show is such a unique opportunity.

These are people who are fully devoted to their very specific craft.

ERIC SIRAKIAN ’15 Assistant director Heard said that while he was initially unsure whether the school had the vocal talent to carry a musical, he is happy with how the show has turned out. Dramaturg Dana TannerKennedy DRA ’14 explained that all Drama School students must sing when auditioning for the acting program and that they all receive some musical training in the acting department. And while the experience of acting in a musical may have felt “a little alien” for some of the Drama School actors at first, Grant said working on “Sunday” has boosted his confidence in his musical theater abilities.

“The same tools we get working on Chekhov or Shakespeare are still useful when we approach Sondheim,” Grant said. “It’s the same thing we do every time we approach a new text.”

Tanner-Kennedy said the lyrics in Sondheim compress so much meaning into every line that they pose a poetic opportunity to actors analogous to that of performing Shakespeare.

“It’s an invitation to be imaginative,” Heard said. “You are singing, [and] you get to unleash in a thrilling, expressive way.”

“Sunday in the Park with George” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1985.

Contact ANYA GRENIER at anna.grenier@yale.edu .

Architecture students tackle flooding

BY CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTER

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER

School, Heard said. Since undergraduate theater productions are largely extracurricular, this level of support was a new experience for the undergraduates involved, he added.

The “Sunday” team also solicited advice from several theater professionals, including Tony Award-winning actress Victoria Clark ’82, whose first Broadway role was in “Sunday,” and the show’s musical conductor Daniel Schlosberg ’10 MUS ’13 was mentored by Michael Starobin, who orchestrated the show for its 1984 premiere.

Catherine Chiocchi ’15, who plays the photographer Louise and is one of two undergraduates in the cast, said the experience has pushed her acting to a higher level. School of Drama shows involve many more hours of rehearsal time than undergraduate productions, Chiocchi said. This added time gave her more space to experiment with her role, rather than performing a given scene the same way during each rehearsal.

“I got to think about all facets of my character,” Chiocchi said. “As actors it’s what we’d like to do all the time. We don’t always have the opportunity.”

Chiocchi added that she thinks many undergraduates would love to have more avenues for involvement with the School of Drama.

Eric Sirakian ’15, the show’s assistant director, said he finds Drama School students’ level of commitment and sense of purpose inspiring.

“It’s a whole different level

out the rehearsal process. Donald Woodson ’16, who plays the 1st Frog and the Skate, said the original script only called for a brief conversation between Algie and the frogs, but now, the frogs will perform an entire musical number as well. All three cast members interviewed said Barnes has been incredibly open to the cast’s suggestions for script changes.

The Yale Children’s Theater stages four productions every year.

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .

Designing a research campus for a university halfway across the world would be an unexpected task for most architects. But for 10 students at the School of Architecture, theoretically designing such a commission represented the culmination of a semester’s work on integrating climate studies and architecture.

Students in an Advanced Design Studio created a master plan for a hypothetical research center in Taipei. Beyond laying out buildings and detailing space usage throughout the 2.5-kilometer-long campus, the team had to grapple with creating infrastructure to deal with the frequent flooding in the region.

Architecture critic Jennifer Leung said the studio course gave students an opportunity to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to architecture that reflects the school’s growing focus on ecology and sustainability in recent years. Studio participant Altair Peterson ARC ’13 said that rather than implementing a one-size-fits-all approach to architecture, this focus on flooding taught her that it is essential to focus on local climate conditions when designing architecture, a skill that will prove particularly valuable for accepting foreign commissions in the future.

“We have embraced the need for architects to be able to work collaboratively with experts from various fields,” Leung said. “Our group of students have benefited from interaction with climate scientists and ecologists, as well as lighting designers, structural engineers and sustainability consultants.”

The course is one of several third-year courses at the School of

Architecture to take a trip abroad, which Peterson said are often tailored toward the visiting professor’s specific interests. In this case, visiting professors Roisin Heneghan and Shih-Fu Peng, who co-taught the course along with Leung, wanted to explore the intersection between climate studies and architectural design.

[Our work] raises larger questions as to what type of leadership roles schools of architecture can take in climate change issues.

JENNIFER LEUNG School of Architecture critic The students examined and analyzed the proposed campus’s site on a trip to Taipei earlier in the semester and were encouraged to think about innovative ways to address the flooding. Leung said that while resisting floods through barriers — the current approach in Taipei — is “viable,” students explored less common options including retention, diversion and reuse of floodwaters, allowing them to build outside of the existing floodwall.

Peterson said the studio also challenged students to think holistically about the space, as they had to incorporate infrastructure ranging from the landscape surrounding campus to the rooms within campus buildings in their designs.

“I took away confidence in dealing with a large range of scales of architecture while thinking about how to incorporate the flooding

[issue],” Peterson said.

Leung said the School of Architecture has the unique opportunity to address the need for interdisciplinary solutions to contemporary issues that are currently restricted by the limited solutions professionals tend to adopt.

Although Taipei already has a powerful flood control system and the proposed plan remains purely theoretical, Leung said the novel model “may have widespread implementation.”

“We take certain license and risk in the hope of expanding architecture’s influence — as a think tank of sorts,” Leung said. “The influence of the work that happens at schools of architecture could be much greater than typically assumed.”

Leung noted that their model may apply to flood plains and university campuses along the east coast, adding that there is increasing demand for campus development in the Far East and Middle East.

Indeed, the Yale Climate and Energy Institute and Taipei’s Academia Sinica have already expressed interest in the work, and Nina Rappaport, editor-in-chief of the School of Architecture’s biannual publication “Constructs,” plans to host a roundtable discussion on architectural responses to flooding later this month. “[Our work] raises larger questions as to what type of leadership roles schools of architecture can take in climate change issues,” Leung said.

The student group will present their master plan at the School of Architecture this Thursday.

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

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Ten students at the School of Architecture designed a hypothetical research center in Taiwan that reflects the school’s growing focus on ecology.

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ARTS & CULTURE

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS GEORGES SEURAT Georges Seurat was a French post-impressionist painter known for his invention of the technique known as pointilism. His “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” is an iconic painting from the late 19th century.

‘SIC Beatz’ full of flair

Students collaborate on ‘Sunday’

BY ANYA GRENIER STAFF REPORTER “Sunday in the Park with George,” opening on Dec. 14 at the University Theatre, will bring undergraduate and graduate performers together in an unusual collaboration.

An examination of artists’ struggles to stay true to their craft while navigating the commercial side of art, the 1984 musical — with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim — looks at the creation of artist Georges Seurat’s masterpiece, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” To bring together the large cast and crew required by musicals, the show recruited students from multiple Yale schools, said Ethan Heard ’06 DRA ’13, who is directing the show for his senior thesis project this semester.

While most School of Drama productions feature only professional theater students, “Sunday” includes two undergraduates in its cast, others on its creative team and two in its orchestra, which is otherwise composed of and conducted by students from the School of Music.

Heard said that as an undergraduate student, he admired the School of Drama but perceived it as a bubble he could not enter. So when he began to cast “Sunday,” Heard knew that undergraduates might enjoy the chance to act in a graduate school production.

“I knew the undergraduates were out there, and I wanted to reach out,” he said.

Students involved in “Sunday” received the voice and movement training from theater faculty and the physical resources typical in the Drama

JACOB GEIGER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The production of “SIC Beatz” seeks to push back against the increasingly common perception of classical music as being inaccessible or elitist.

BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER What if the music of Beethoven and Mick Jagger had a love child?

The premiere of “SIC Beatz” — a collaboration by SIC InC and the Yale Bands Percussion Group — might be the outcome.

The show, which opens Thursday at the Off-Broadway Theater, is the first joint effort by SIC InC and the percussion ensemble, two groups in Yale’s undergraduate music scene. The concert will feature original pieces — the fusions of rock and classical music that usually characterize SIC InC’s productions — written and performed by classically trained musicians who are hoping to make classical music more accessible to today’s audiences, said director Nathan Prillaman ’13.

“The way that classical music is presented and consumed is

broken,” Prillaman said.

Prillaman noted that over the past century, audiences have lost interest in classical music due to listeners’ inability to identify with the genre. He said he hopes to revitalize classical music by taking its various elements — wind instruments, piano and stylistic nuances among others — and blending them with components of rock, jazz, pop and electronic musical elements such as electric guitar and computer-generated sounds. This synthesis of classical and contemporary may make the classical style more approachable and understandable to the audience, Prillaman said.

Christian Schmidt ’14, a member of the Yale Bands Percussion Group, said audience members often have a false perception of classical music and its musicians as snobbish and conservative. “SIC Beatz” will provide the audience with an opportu-

nity to see classical musicians in a new light, playing music outside of their normal repertoire, he said. The show’s fusion of genres has the potential to make classical music “hip” again, he added.

This show will be the fattest beats we’ve ever done, [because] we’ve got percussionists.

NATHAN PRILLAMAN ’13 Director “[It has the] flair that people need to see in our fast-paced, pop-oriented culture,” Schmidt said.

Schmidt said the flying drumsticks and wide array of percussion instruments used in the show

— including a vibraphone, bongos and a bass drum — add a visual component to the performance that brings it to a new level. He added that the introduction of live percussion to SIC InC’s electronically generated percussive sounds creates a thrilling audio effect.

“This show will be the fattest beats we’ve ever done, [because] we’ve got the percussionists,” Prillaman said.

The use of lighting in the show also contributes to the visual extravaganza. Prillaman said lighting effects are particularly essential for this show because they can help create a multisensory experience for the audience, allowing for a completely immersive experience that diverges from the monotonous setting of traditional classical concerts.

“It makes the performance an all-encompassing experience rather than just an auditory one,”

said Leeza Ali ’15, who composed a piece for and will play in “SIC Beatz.”

Ali said the amplified sounds of thunderstorms and cavernous winds help convey the dark, frightening mood of one of her pieces, adding that lighting effects appeal to the audience’s senses, intensifying the emotions conveyed by the music and heightening those felt by the audience.

Three students familiar with SIC Beatz are eagerly anticipating the show’s premiere and expect it to be an enjoyable experience.

“I remembered seeing SIC InC during Bulldog Days, and they were, quite literally, sick,” Mahir Rahman ’16 said.

Free tickets to the event can be reserved on the Yale Drama Coalition’s website.

Contact JESSICA HALLAM at jessica.hallam@yale.edu .

GEORGES SEURAT

JACOB GEIGER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

“SIC Beatz“ will feature original pieces that fuse rock and classical music in order to make it more accessible.

Guppies swim into Dwight Hall

MARIA ZEPEDA/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

“The Guppy’s Tale” will be performed by the Yale Children’s Theater and centers around a Bildungsroman-esque coming-of-age tale that features a guppy named Algie who embarks on a journey of self-discovery.

As the majority of Yale students crank out papers in the library, members of Yale Children’s Theater are focusing their energies on bringing engaging theater to New Haven youth.

After weeks of rehearsal, YCT actors will perform “The Guppy’s Tale,” an original work by director Caroline Barnes ’13, Saturday and Sunday in the Dwight Hall Common Room. The play centers on a guppy named Algie who wakes up in an

unfamiliar frog’s pond and embarks on a journey to return home, learning lessons about friendship and happiness along the way.

Six cast, crew and board members interviewed said one of YCT’s fundamental goals is to make plays accessible to elementary school audiences and to keep their attention throughout each performance. “‘Subtlety’ is not a vocabulary word that we choose very often in children’s theater,” said YCT Artistic Director Kyle van Leer ’13, adding that the characters’ personalities as well as their costumes are “over

the top” so that the audience stays engaged throughout the roughly 40-minute long show.

Nicole de Santis ’15, who plays Algie, said “The Guppy’s Tale” features interaction between actors and the audience. In one of the play’s early scenes, Algie encounters several frogs and asks the audience to identify the creatures, and during multiple points in the show, characters appear behind the audience and make noise to maintain a high level of excitement.

“You have to be very animated all the time,” de Santis said. “If you

don’t, the kids will become disengaged.”

In addition to creating a highenergy atmosphere, members of the cast and crew said they also hope to teach meaningful lessons to the audience with “The Guppy’s Tale.”

Barnes said the play delves into the causes of happiness, explaining that the show teaches the lesson, “You can make yourself happy by making others happy.” Marjorie Berman ’13, who plays Richard, Sabina and Jill, said the play also encourages audience members to have self-confidence and explore new avenues of

life. By communicating multiple messages, the play remains complex enough to prevent the audience from growing bored, Producer and Assistant Director Steffina Yuli ’16 said.

Productions like “The Guppy’s Tale” promote YCT’s overall mission of using theater to help New Haven children “develop emotionally and creatively,” van Leer said, adding that successful performances allow the audience to “let loose their imaginations.”

Barnes said that since she wrote “The Guppy’s Tale” herself, the cast and crew revised the play through-

NICHOLAS HUSSONG/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The musical “Sunday in the Park with George” alludes to Gerges Seurat’s famous pointilist masterpiece.

[than undergraduate theater],” Sirakian said. “These are people who are fully devoted to their very specific craft.”

While “Sunday” is part of School of Drama students’ curricular work, the show remains an extracurricular activity for the team’s undergraduate members. Chiocchi said she was willing to make the necessary sacrifices — which include rehearsing into reading and exam weeks — because participating in a graduate show is such a unique opportunity.

These are people who are fully devoted to their very specific craft.

ERIC SIRAKIAN ’15 Assistant director Heard said that while he was initially unsure whether the school had the vocal talent to carry a musical, he is happy with how the show has turned out. Dramaturg Dana TannerKennedy DRA ’14 explained that all Drama School students must sing when auditioning for the acting program and that they all receive some musical training in the acting department. And while the experience of acting in a musical may have felt “a little alien” for some of the Drama School actors at first, Grant said working on “Sunday” has boosted his confidence in his musical theater abilities.

“The same tools we get working on Chekhov or Shakespeare are still useful when we approach Sondheim,” Grant said. “It’s the same thing we do every time we approach a new text.”

Tanner-Kennedy said the lyrics in Sondheim compress so much meaning into every line that they pose a poetic opportunity to actors analogous to that of performing Shakespeare.

“It’s an invitation to be imaginative,” Heard said. “You are singing, [and] you get to unleash in a thrilling, expressive way.”

“Sunday in the Park with George” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1985.

Contact ANYA GRENIER at anna.grenier@yale.edu .

Architecture students tackle flooding

BY CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTER

BY ERIC XIAO STAFF REPORTER

School, Heard said. Since undergraduate theater productions are largely extracurricular, this level of support was a new experience for the undergraduates involved, he added.

The “Sunday” team also solicited advice from several theater professionals, including Tony Award-winning actress Victoria Clark ’82, whose first Broadway role was in “Sunday,” and the show’s musical conductor Daniel Schlosberg ’10 MUS ’13 was mentored by Michael Starobin, who orchestrated the show for its 1984 premiere.

Catherine Chiocchi ’15, who plays the photographer Louise and is one of two undergraduates in the cast, said the experience has pushed her acting to a higher level. School of Drama shows involve many more hours of rehearsal time than undergraduate productions, Chiocchi said. This added time gave her more space to experiment with her role, rather than performing a given scene the same way during each rehearsal.

“I got to think about all facets of my character,” Chiocchi said. “As actors it’s what we’d like to do all the time. We don’t always have the opportunity.”

Chiocchi added that she thinks many undergraduates would love to have more avenues for involvement with the School of Drama.

Eric Sirakian ’15, the show’s assistant director, said he finds Drama School students’ level of commitment and sense of purpose inspiring.

“It’s a whole different level

out the rehearsal process. Donald Woodson ’16, who plays the 1st Frog and the Skate, said the original script only called for a brief conversation between Algie and the frogs, but now, the frogs will perform an entire musical number as well. All three cast members interviewed said Barnes has been incredibly open to the cast’s suggestions for script changes.

The Yale Children’s Theater stages four productions every year.

Contact ERIC XIAO at eric.xiao@yale.edu .

Designing a research campus for a university halfway across the world would be an unexpected task for most architects. But for 10 students at the School of Architecture, theoretically designing such a commission represented the culmination of a semester’s work on integrating climate studies and architecture.

Students in an Advanced Design Studio created a master plan for a hypothetical research center in Taipei. Beyond laying out buildings and detailing space usage throughout the 2.5-kilometer-long campus, the team had to grapple with creating infrastructure to deal with the frequent flooding in the region.

Architecture critic Jennifer Leung said the studio course gave students an opportunity to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to architecture that reflects the school’s growing focus on ecology and sustainability in recent years. Studio participant Altair Peterson ARC ’13 said that rather than implementing a one-size-fits-all approach to architecture, this focus on flooding taught her that it is essential to focus on local climate conditions when designing architecture, a skill that will prove particularly valuable for accepting foreign commissions in the future.

“We have embraced the need for architects to be able to work collaboratively with experts from various fields,” Leung said. “Our group of students have benefited from interaction with climate scientists and ecologists, as well as lighting designers, structural engineers and sustainability consultants.”

The course is one of several third-year courses at the School of

Architecture to take a trip abroad, which Peterson said are often tailored toward the visiting professor’s specific interests. In this case, visiting professors Roisin Heneghan and Shih-Fu Peng, who co-taught the course along with Leung, wanted to explore the intersection between climate studies and architectural design.

[Our work] raises larger questions as to what type of leadership roles schools of architecture can take in climate change issues.

JENNIFER LEUNG School of Architecture critic The students examined and analyzed the proposed campus’s site on a trip to Taipei earlier in the semester and were encouraged to think about innovative ways to address the flooding. Leung said that while resisting floods through barriers — the current approach in Taipei — is “viable,” students explored less common options including retention, diversion and reuse of floodwaters, allowing them to build outside of the existing floodwall.

Peterson said the studio also challenged students to think holistically about the space, as they had to incorporate infrastructure ranging from the landscape surrounding campus to the rooms within campus buildings in their designs.

“I took away confidence in dealing with a large range of scales of architecture while thinking about how to incorporate the flooding

[issue],” Peterson said.

Leung said the School of Architecture has the unique opportunity to address the need for interdisciplinary solutions to contemporary issues that are currently restricted by the limited solutions professionals tend to adopt.

Although Taipei already has a powerful flood control system and the proposed plan remains purely theoretical, Leung said the novel model “may have widespread implementation.”

“We take certain license and risk in the hope of expanding architecture’s influence — as a think tank of sorts,” Leung said. “The influence of the work that happens at schools of architecture could be much greater than typically assumed.”

Leung noted that their model may apply to flood plains and university campuses along the east coast, adding that there is increasing demand for campus development in the Far East and Middle East.

Indeed, the Yale Climate and Energy Institute and Taipei’s Academia Sinica have already expressed interest in the work, and Nina Rappaport, editor-in-chief of the School of Architecture’s biannual publication “Constructs,” plans to host a roundtable discussion on architectural responses to flooding later this month. “[Our work] raises larger questions as to what type of leadership roles schools of architecture can take in climate change issues,” Leung said.

The student group will present their master plan at the School of Architecture this Thursday.

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

KINGS OF TAIPEI

Ten students at the School of Architecture designed a hypothetical research center in Taiwan that reflects the school’s growing focus on ecology.

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BY AYA BATRAWY AND HAMZA HENDAWI ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — More than 100,000 Egyptians protested outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Tuesday, fueling tensions over Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi’s seizure of nearly unrestricted powers and the adoption by his allies of a controversial draft constitution.

The outpouring of anger across the Egyptian capital, the Mediterranean port of Alexandria and a string of other cities pointed to a prolonged standoff between the president and a newly united opposition.

Morsi’s opponents, long fractured by bickering and competing egos, have been re-energized since he announced decrees last month that place him above oversight of any kind, including by the courts, and provide immunity to two key bodies dominated by his allies: The 100-mem-

ber panel drafting the constitution and parliament’s upper chamber.

The decrees have led to charges that Morsi’s powers turned him into a “new pharaoh.”

The large turnout in Tuesday’s protests — dubbed “The Last Warning” by organizers — signaled sustained momentum for the opposition, which brought out at least 200,000 protesters to Cairo’s Tahrir Square a week ago and a comparable number on Friday to demand that Morsi rescind the decrees.

The huge scale of the protests have dealt a blow to the legitimacy of the new constitution, which Morsi’s opponents contend allows religious authorities too much influence over legislation, threatens to restrict freedom of expression and opens the door to Islamist control over day-to-day life.

What the revived opposition has yet to make clear is what it will do next: cam-

paign for a “no” vote on the draft constitution in a nationwide referendum set for Dec. 15, or call on Egyptians to boycott the vote.

Already, the country’s powerful judges have said they will not take on their customary role of overseeing the vote, thus robbing it of much of its legitimacy.

Morsi was in the presidential palace conducting business as usual as the protesters gathered outside. He left for home through a back door as the crowds continued to swell, according to a presidential official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The official said Morsi left on the advice of security officials to head off “possible dangers” and to calm the protesters. Morsi’s spokesman, however, said the president left the palace at the end of his normal work day, through the door he routinely uses.

WASHINGTON — Bluster and hot rhetoric aside, the White House and House Republicans have identified areas of significant overlap that could form the basis for a final agreement after “fiscal cliff” posturing gives way to hard bargaining.

Both sides now concede that tax revenue and reductions in entitlement spending are essential elements of any deal. If the talks succeed, it probably will be because House Speaker John Boehner yields on raising tax rates for top earners and the White House bends on how to reduce spending on Medicare and accepts some changes in Social Security.

The White House and Boehner kept up the ridicule of each other’s negotiating stances on Tuesday.

But beneath the tough words were the possible makings of a deal that could borrow heavily from a nearbargain last year during debt-limit negotiations.

Then, Obama was willing to reduce cost-of-living increases for Social Security beneficiaries and increase the eligibility age for Medicare, as Boehner and other top Republicans have demanded.

On Tuesday, Obama did not shut the door on Republican ideas on such entitlement programs.

“I’m prepared to make some tough decisions on some of these issues,” Obama said, “but I can’t ask folks who are, you know, middle class seniors who are on Medicare, young people who are trying to get student loans to go to college, I can’t ask them to sacrifice and not ask anything of higher income folks.”

“I’m happy to entertain other ideas that the Republicans may present,” he added in an interview

with Bloomberg Television.

At the core, the negotiations center on three key points: whether tax rates for upper income taxpayers should go up, how deeply to cut spending on entitlements such as Medicare and how to deal with raising the government’s borrowing limit early next year.

White House spokesman Jay Carney dismissed Boehner’s proposals as “magic beans and fairy dust.”

I’m happy to entertain other ideas that the Republicans may present.

BARACK OBAMA President, United State Boehner countered: “If the president really wants to avoid sending the economy over the fiscal cliff, he has done nothing to demonstrate it.”

Tax rates have emerged as one of the most intractable issues, with Obama insisting the rates on the top 2 percent of earners must go up and Boehner standing steadfast that they must not.

Boehner, instead, has proposed raising $800 billion through unspecified loophole closings and limits on tax deductions.

On Tuesday, the president said he would consider lowering rates for the top 2 percent of earners — next year, not now — as part of a broader tax overhaul effort that would close loopholes, limit deductions and find other sources of government revenue. “It’s possible that we may be able to lower rates by broadening the base at that point,” Obama said.

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“It doesn’t matter who gets what. It’s just a matter of doing what it takes to win.” PAU GASOL, SPANISH BASKETBALL PLAYER

Eli offense in transition MEN’S BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 contributed to the early struggles.

While the team runs the same offensive sets as last year, its motion offense in transition and after those sets break down differs from the previous season, said captain and guard Sam Martin ’13.

He added that without the presence of Mangano and Willhite, the focus of the offense has shifted away from oneon-one play towards team offense.

Some elements of that team offense include generating efficient shots, moving the ball from inside-out, creating kick-outs off of penetration and looking for backdoor cuts.

He also said that having multiple players with the ability to score about 10 points puts more pressure on opposing defenses. Teams that were able to limit Mangano and Willhite last year effectively contained the Bulldog offense, he added.

“I think everybody on our team is a capable scorer, so now if you can spread the ball it makes us much more difficult to guard,” Jones said. “The hope is

Power play Yale strength

that we have more guys averaging more points.”

Still, the Bulldogs (2–6, 0–0 Ivy) have struggled to attain that goal. The Elis have topped 60 points in regulation in only three out of their first eight games this season; the team accomplished that feat in every one of its first eight contests last year.

Jones said the team will look to improve its offense through practice, especially by focusing on the players adjusting to their roles on the floor and continuing to learn how to share the ball.

“I think the timing just isn’t there yet. We’ve been doing a lot of dummy stuff in practice,” Martin said. “It just takes repetition, but I think we had a good week of practice and hopefully it’ll be better in the next couple of games here.”

The men’s basketball team takes on Bryant University in Rhode Island tonight at 7 p.m.

Contact ALEX EPPLER at alexander.eppler@yale.edu .

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By spreading out Brown’s penalty killers in a five-on-three situation, Yale was able to create open ice around the point — Andrew Miller’s post on the power play.

MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12

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Averaging nearly 69 points per game, the Bulldogs presented problems for opposing defenses last year.

power play and gain momentum each time they are given the opportunity.

The power play is a constant work in progress for the Bulldogs, regardless of how successful they have been.

The Bulldogs struggled on power play faceoffs early in the season, but they worked out the flaws and were able to excel on faceoffs and forcing pressure in their game against Brown.

“We were able to score because our centers did such a great job on faceoffs and we had good traffic in front of the net,” Miller said. “Those are two key aspects to scoring on the power play.”

As the Elis take on Union, who made it to the Frozen Four last season, the power play will be essential. The Dutchmen are currently ranked No. 1 in the NCAA on the power play, going 16–for–55 with a percentage of 29.09.

The Elis will also have to overcome

Red Sox rev up with Victorino

BY BEN WALKER ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Boston Red Sox kept the cash freely flowing, this time revving their lineup with Shane Victorino, while the wellarmed Washington Nationals neared a deal with Dan Haren at baseball’s winter meetings Tuesday.

No trades yet — Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey of the New York Mets is still the prime target, with Boston in the mix for him, too.

Josh Hamilton remains the top free agent amid speculation the slugger will re-sign with Texas. Ace pitcher Zack Greinke also is available, with the Los Angeles Dodgers very interested.

Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said he’s been involved in the pursuit of one free agent. He didn’t disclose who it was, but seemed to be enjoying this week’s developments.

“It’s like a smorgasbord of baseball.

It’s been good,” Mattingly said.

Boston has been the busiest team this offseason, by far. A day after giving All-Star bat Mike Napoli a $39 million, three-year deal, the Red Sox lured Victorino with the exact same contract terms.

“Can’t wait to get to Boston!” Victorino tweeted during a day of snorkeling in Hawaii.

The Red Sox are coming off their worst season since 1965 and trying to reshape the roster. The 32-year-old Victorino is a two-time All-Star and three-time Gold Glove winner who stole a career-high 39 bases for Philadelphia and the Dodgers last season.

Recently, the Red Sox added Jonny Gomes and David Ross.

“I think we’re making the prog-

ress that we’ve hoped, at least in the early going, with adding those types of players,” new manager John Farrell said before the Victorino deal.

Victorino’s arrival could also lead to a trade of center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury, coming off a down, injury-interrupted season.

The Nationals and Haren are close to completing a one-year deal for $13 million, a person familiar with the talks told The Associated Press.

The person spoke under condition of anonymity because no deal was announced.

Washington had the best record in the majors last season. The NL East champions already have a formidable rotation led by Gio Gonzalez and Stephen Strasburg, and want to throw in Haren, an All-Star from 2007-09.

“I’ve got some young guys that act like veterans, and they pitched like veterans last year for me, and a veteran like Dan Haren is just going to make things even better,” Nationals manager Davey Johnson said.

Haren was 12-13 with a 4.33 ERA in 30 starts for the Los Angeles Angels.

They nearly traded the 32-year-old righty to the Chicago Cubs for reliever Carlos Marmol after the season, but the deal fell apart. Then the Angels declined their $15.5 million option and paid a $3.5 million buyout.

For the Nationals, Red Sox and several other teams, the dollars didn’t appear to matter too much.

“It seems like this is a market flush with money,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said.

The price tag on Hamilton figured to be high. The 2010 AL MVP came to Nashville this week, presumably to talk to potential new teams, though

Union’s No. 5 penalty killing squad.

“As the season moves along, the power play becomes more crucial,” Agostino said. “It’s obviously something we’ll harp on in practice this week.”

The Elis will take on Union this Friday at Ingalls Rink.

Contact ASHTON WACKYM at ashton.wackym@yale.edu .

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Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shane Victorino follows through on a single against the Colorado Rockies in a baseball game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

Texas could be his landing spot.

“I expect we will get together relatively soon,” Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said. “I keep reading that we’ve got a deal done. I keep asking the guys in the room who snuck out and did it.”

The Mets and All-Star third baseman David Wright finalized a $138 million, eight-year contract, the largest deal in team history. The sides reached agreement last week, subject to a physical, and Wright planned to talk about it Wednesday at the meetings.

On Sunday, Dickey was at the Opryland Hotel to see a Mets trainer. The knuckleballer will make $5.25 million

next year and would like an extension.

Mets general manager Sandy Alderson briefly met this week with Dickey’s agent, Bo McKinnis.

A trade remains possible.

“Something could happen on either front that would bring this to a conclusion, presumably,” Alderson said.

“I don’t expect that’s going to happen today. It may not happen tomorrow. It may not happen in Nashville.”

The World Series champion San Francisco Giants hoped to re-sign NL championship series MVP Marco Scutaro, and Arizona reached a oneyear deal with veteran utility man Eric Hinske.

season. Conventional wisdom, in this case, had a solid basis. Over the same time period, 2003-2011, Notre Dame was ranked in the preseason poll six times, but four of those times, the Irish finished unranked. Rick Reilly, an award-winning sports columnist, said before the season that football had passed Notre Dame and the team would have to regain legitimacy to regain respect. Reilly even promised to polish the famous Notre Dame helmets if they fully defied the history of the system and beat USC to clinch their spot in the national championship. Notre Dame came away victorious and they will now don Reilly-polished helmets in Miami on January 7.

Can Notre Dame finish off an improbable season and hoist the trophy? That remains to be seen. What the football landscape can surely witness this January is the reasserted dominant conference of today, and a reminder of the sport’s proudest tradition; a quintessential clash of the present and the past. In Miami, one month from now, Notre Dame will be hoping to start a new era of success.

With or without a victory, that era will no longer exist alone on a precipice, but instead it will be squarely in the midst of the SEC’s reign of the early 21st century.

Contact TAYO AJAYI at temitayo.ajayi@yale.edu .

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“Chemistry is starting to develop on the power play.”

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Forward Antoine Lagainere’s two goals and captain Andrew Miller’s one goal against Brown propelled the No. 15 Yale to a four-power-play goal game.

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER After achieving an outstanding four-for-seven power play success rate before a sold out attendance of 3,500 in last Saturday’s match against Brown, the No. 15 men’s hockey team can now boast the eighth most effective power play in the country.

MEN’S HOCKEY Although scoring 10 out of 42 times may not sound impressive, the 23.8 percent success rate Yale has enjoyed

on the power play is a higher percentage than that of any NHL team last season and would have put the Bulldogs in fifth place in the NCAA last year. Although the Bulldogs (6–2–1, 3–2 ECAC) rely on intricate systems and set plays, they prefer a much simpler strategy for power plays.

“We don’t have any set plays,” team captain and third leading scorer Andrew Miller ’13 said. “Our goal is to make the available pass and take advantage of the extra space.”

That extra space allowed Miller to score the game-tying goal last Saturday.

By spreading out Brown’s penalty killers in a five-on-three situation, Yale was able to create open ice around the point — Miller’s post on the power play. Miller was then able to skate down the middle of the ice uncontested and rip a shot past Bears goaltender Marco DeFilippo to tie the game.

The success of the power play might seem to come naturally to the Bulldogs, but leading scorer Antoine Laganiere ’13 said the team has been working on it for months. The Bulldogs have also honed the intangibles, such as a sense of where teammates are on the ice, in addition to physical skills. Forward and

second leading scorer Kenny Agostino ’14 and other team members said team chemistry is crucial for the Elis’ continued success.

“We’ve had the same groups for a while,” Laganiere said. “Chemistry is starting to develop on the power play.”

While the team’s overtime wins against No. 6 Denver and Brown are an encouraging start for the Bulldog power play, they still have work to do.

Last week in an interview before the Brown game, head coach Keith Allain said the Bulldogs could improve their SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 11

Early on, offense struggles

BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER Led by All-Ivy selections forward Greg Mangano ’12 and guard Reggie Willhite ’12, last year’s men’s basketball team terrorized Ivy League defenses. The senior tandem averaged just over 30 points per game combined and helped the Elis to finish atop their conference scoring offense rankings at nearly 69 points per game.

MEN’S BASKETBALL Yet after the departure of Mangano and Willhite, the men’s basketball team has struggled to score in the nascent season. The squad has managed just 59 points per game in its first seven contests, ranking above only Prince-

ton among Ivy League rivals. The Elis have also seen their field goal percentage dip by nearly six percentage points, from 43.2 percent to 37.3 percent, and their number of assists per game dropped from 13.2 to 11.4.

“What we’re trying to do is share the ball between everyone on the team,” head coach James Jones said. “Last year, Greg and Reggie dominated us … The offense kind of stopped when they touched the ball because they made a lot of individual plays, so our focus this year is to try to be able to move the ball and have more equal parts on offense.”

Guard Austin Morgan ’13 said that learning a new offense has SEE MEN’S BASKETBALL PAGE 11

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The Elis have topped 60 points in regulation in only three out of their first eight games this season.

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nce upon a time, the BCS championship was not the Southeastern Conference’s domain. In fact, despite the six consecutive national champions by the SEC, that period of parity in college football was not long ago. The SEC claimed exactly one BCS title before its current run, which dates back to 2006, so what happened so drastically and quickly that the composition of the college football landscape began to tip the scales toward the realm of Alabama, Auburn and Florida?

Several of the SEC coaches, such as Nick Saban of Alabama, who is vying for a national title this year, and Steve Spurrier of South Carolina, are previous NFL coaches. The conference also has three Heisman trophy winners to its name since 2006, all of which occurred during this current championship streak. However, it is difficult to believe that the coaches and players purely capture such a sudden gap of this magnitude in national title contention, especially given how quickly this supremacy emerged. At some level, preobservation perceptions have positively impacted the SEC’s chances at titles. AP preseason polls are constantly saturated with these apparently dominant teams from the South, with five in the top ten this year.

The way the system is constructed, losing to a top team, particularly in a close game, negatively affects a team’s ranking less than a loss to a weaker opponent. There is nothing wrong with that principle in isolation. But when a majority of the perceived “top teams” are concentrated in one conference, it essentially guarantees the conference at least one, maybe two, berths in the championship game, even if those teams did not even win their own division in the conference — just see Alabama’s run to the title last season.

IN MIAMI, A CLASH OF PAST AND PRESENT Assessing the validity of the SEC’s consistent high rankings simultaneously assesses whether they come as a result of self-fulfilling expectations. The SEC makes a strong case that it does deserve to consistently have a large percentage of the nation’s ranked teams. From 2003 to 2011, about 64 percent of SEC teams ranked 11-25 in preseason AP polls (to focus on marginally ranked teams) remained a top team at the end of the season. The six straight national championships from the SEC’s 10 percent share of the nations’ teams also speak toward their rankings, which is why nearly everyone expected an SEC team like Alabama to find its way to the championship game.

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