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CROSS CAMPUS From one man to another. At Yale Hillel’s annual Hanukkah banquet, Yale Journalism Initiative Coordinator Mark Oppenheimer ’96 GRD ’03 imparted a few words of wisdom to President-elect Peter Salovey in his keynote address: “There are two ways to win my favor. One is to pull out of that Singapore deal.

The other is to grow back the moustache.”

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A teaching museum for all

BY AMY WANG STAFF REPORTER

Will we survive 2012? Yale College Dean Mary Miller thinks so. In a special report to CNN, the Mayan expert aimed to dispel the widespread “hoopla” about the impending apocalypse, declaring that she is “confident that Dec. 22 will see the dawn.”

Awe and excitement hung in the air on the evening of Dec. 4 at a preview party for the renovated Yale University Art Gallery, where student employees of the YUAG and the Yale Center for British Art gathered to get a glimpse of the new spaces. Beneath architect Louis Kahn’s trademark tetrahedron-patterned ceiling, students talked animatedly to one another about the gallery’s extensive collections and the comfort they felt within its walls.

In an effort to create a safe environment on campus, Yale administrators are forming two groups to address alcohol and drug use among students.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller and University Secretary and Vice President for Student Affairs Kimberly Goff-Crews announced the initiatives — the Yale College Dean’s Office Task Force on Alcohol and Other Drugs, and the University Council Committee on Alcohol in Yale College — in a campuswide email Monday night. The task force will make recommendations based on information gathered from the campus community on alcohol and drug use, while the committee will consider expert opinions and provide top administrators with proposals on potential policy strategies.

University President Richard Levin said the committee will form in response to the Sept. 2011 report of the Advisory Committee on Campus Climate, which found that most instances of sexual misconduct are fueled by alcohol.

“People who are on this committee will [include] people who are academic experts on alcohol use by college students,” Levin said. “We’ll get some comparative perspective, and that will be helpful to us in understanding strategies that might be useful for students to think about implementing.”

Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry, who will chair the task force, said he and other administrators worked to gather

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Fred Shapiro, associate librarian at the Yale Law School, has released his seventh annual list of the most notable quotes of the year. The winner? Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney. His “47 percent” and “binders full of women” comments took the top two spots on the list.

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familar master’s portrait went up in Timothy Dwight’s dining hall over the weekend. Strangely, the subject bears a closer resemblance to TD senior Alex Werrell ’13 than to any previous serving TD master. Perhaps current TD Master Jeff Brenzel just looks different in colonial regalia.

And back to Singapore.

The National Coalition Against Censorship joined the American Association of University Professors in expressing concern that Yale-NUS College would undermine Yale’s commitment to academic freedom. In response, Yale-NUS faculty members released a Sunday statement responding to AAUP’s letter and encouraging AAUP members to contact Yale-NUS faculty directly.

Obama nation. Yale and Harvard scientists have identified a new lizard species that they say was likely wiped out during the asteroid collision that killed the dinosaurs. The catch? They named the species Obamadon gracilis, a nod to President Barack Obama. No word on how the president feels about sharing a name with an extinct lizard.

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1961 Harkness bellringers announce they play Christmas songs on Harkness Tower.

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his is the second part of a series exploring the development of the Yale University Art Gallery — which will officially reopen today at noon — over its 14-year renovation process. Part 1 investigated how the gallery’s architecture and collections pay tribute to the YUAG of old while considering its changing place in the art world. Part 2 examines how the YUAG has grown into its role as a teaching museum. YANAN WANG reports.

After over three years, Koh to return

BY ALEKSANDRA GJORGIEVSKA STAFF REPORTER After serving as the State Department’s legal adviser since 2009, Harold Koh will return to his teaching position at Yale Law School next semester.

University President Richard Levin said Koh, who served as Law School dean from 2004 until he joined the Obama

administration, will come to New Haven immediately after the presidential inauguration in January 2013. Students and professors interviewed said they are pleased about Koh’s return to the Law School, citing his experience in public office as an asset to his teaching.

“I look forward to seeing my friends and making new ones,” Koh said in a Monday email to

the News. “Yale Law School and New Haven are my home, and it is always great to come home.”

Though Koh did not provide a reason for his decision to rejoin the Law School faculty, Levin said he thinks Koh’s departure from the State Department is part of President Barack Obama’s restructuring of his administration during his second term. Jeh Johnson, gen-

eral counsel for the Department of Defense during Obama’s first term, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have both announced that they will step down from their positions at the end of the year.

While serving as the State Department’s legal adviser, Koh supported Obama’s drone program against militants in countries such as Afghani-

Mid-term in Ward 1

BY DIANA LI STAFF REPORTER In November 2011, Sarah Eidelson ’12 won the race for Ward 1 alderman against opponent Vinay Nayak ’14 by a 566–407 vote.

Both promised better prisoner re-entry programs, friendlier streets for cyclists and pedestrians, community policing and increased representation of Yale students.

After spending over a year as one of 30 legislators on the city’s Board of Aldermen and chair of the board’s Youth Services Committee, representing all Yale College students except those who live in Silliman, Timothy Dwight, Morse, Stiles, Swing Space and some off-campus areas, Eidelson has seen her campaign promises and commitment to stay connected to Yale tested.

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Sex Week planned for February

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REVISITING 2011

During his freshman year, Nayak worked as a policy assistant to the board, researching legislation for aldermen. Eidelson, meanwhile, spent her first three years at Yale working in a childhood care center through Dwight Hall, registering residents of highcrime neighborhoods to vote and managing

stan and Pakistan. In a March 2010 speech, Koh said targeted killing by aerial drone strikes “compl[ies] with all applicable law, including the laws of war.” That same year, Koh wrote a letter — which was released to the public — on behalf of the State Department to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his

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Sarah Eidelson ’12 has been Ward 1 alderman for over a year.

Sex Week is returning to Yale this year.

The weeklong series of events on sexrelated topics usually takes place once every two years, but organizers decided to begin hosting the events annually to make Sex Week more institutionalized and familiar to students. Organizers decided to abridge the event series into Sex Week(end), which will begin Thursday, Feb. 28 and last through that weekend, in part because they did not want to compete with the February 2013 IvyQ conference for funding and publicity. Sex Week(end) co-director Ruby Spiegel ’15 said she expects events this year to be “less controversial” than last year, when Sex Week came after the 2011 report from the Advisory Committee on Campus Climate recommended Yale ban the event series.

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.COMMENT “Maybe for some people, it's enough to focus on one or two things, and yaledailynews.com/opinion

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as the dictated by the maker. A generative education is participatory, one in which you leverage the resources of the University to experiment and test ideas. Yale has both of these on campus now, but it shouldn’t in the future. The tethered education should go online where it is cheapest — and arguably better — and Yale’s campus should exclusively focus on “generativity.”

The most egregious example of a tethered education is the lecture. The lecture invites no generativity: sitting, listening, memorizing and filling out exams doesn’t invite the student to tinker or modify knowledge to realize new ideas. It is my hope that the lecture goes the way of the horse and buggy — and as lecturers seek end-ofterm feedback, they should heed Henry Ford’s famous quote: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”

Every course that is more focused on disseminating knowledge than learning experientially should become a MOOC. If the course involves problem sets with clear right and wrong answers, it can be a MOOC. If the course has an exam, it can probably be a MOOC. This is consumable knowledge, and should be consumed as cheaply as possible: online. Students should take relevant MOOCs before coming to Yale, so that they have the foundation necessary to join a campus optimized for generativity.

Then, when you come to Yale, you are given access to buildings, professors, peers and other resources. This is like being given a computer; you are told to freely write and run your own code for this platform. Your sole responsibility should be to tinker, to create, to invent. The extracurriculars, small seminars, independent studies and thesis groups we currently have should all remain, and we would have more time for them. In each class, students would be assessed solely on their portfolio of creations: new research, engineered prototypes, architectural blueprints, feature films, books, software, sculptures. Our time here together is scarce, and should be optimized for this collaboration, research and creation.

MOOCs and the technology enabling them aren’t inconveniences; they enable a revolution that requires a reimagining of Yale education. With strong leadership, Yale can provide the best of both educations: top MOOCs that are free to the world, and the most innovative campus.

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The future of smart drugs

he season for final exams and papers is here. Cafes in New Haven observe a sharp increase in caffeine sales; nightclubs dread a few weeks of spotty dance floors. For many students, however, coffee no longer promises long hours of alertness and concentration. As stress begins to shadow the Yale campus, many students seeking a competitive edge on their finals will either consume or consider consuming some form of smart drugs. Call them Adderall, modafinil or adrafinil — these nootropics are now as easy to obtain as a copy of “Fifty Shades of Grey.”

I will not bore you with specific pharmacological details, but these drugs come in many forms and use different mechanisms of action. They are meant for people with serious cognitive problems, but if you invent a prescriptionworthy story for your physician or Google some online drugstore, you soon will have some cerebral candies to last a few months.

As scary as this might seem, many college students confess openly to using these nootropics without a prescription. According to a 2006 Pharmacotherapy study, over 5 percent of college students reported using stimu-

lants illicitly to help them concentrate and study. This could easily translate to over 300 Yalies out of about 5000 who already have or will unlawfully consume nootropics by the end of the academic year.

I do not intend to disapprove or advocate the use of nootropics, but rather share my thoughts with the rookies and seasoned pill-poppers that will compose this year’s statistic.

SHARING YOUR USE WILL LEAD TO THE POLICIES OF THE FUTURE FOR ADDERALL Millions of dollars are spent to incite public awareness about the addictive potential and the detrimental effects of using controlled substances. One does not know the real content of drugs purchased online or on the black market. Fortunately, however, we get our daily anti-drug warnings from TV commercials, so there is

no need to mention the devastating consequences of using methamphetamine, cocaine and other similarly abused chemicals.

Certainly, the legal use of nootropics is justifiable. Eugeroics, such as modafinil and adrafinil, are used to treat sleeping disorders and narcolepsy. Listed in Schedule IV of the Controlled Substances Act, they are known to have low abuse and dependence potential. The amphetamine class of drugs, on the other hand, which includes Adderall and Dexedrine, can be addictive. While these drugs benefit those who need them for medical reasons, they can cause adverse effects.

With time, we will know their long-term effects; currently, however, one cannot speculate on the future of nootropics. Who knows? Maybe in a few decades we will be able to purchase nootropics over the counter, or even walk into Starbucks and ask for a shot of modafinil with our coffee. It might sound crazy now, but remember that the recreational use of marijuana was recently voted legal in Washington and Colorado. And if alcohol was once as prohibited as cannabis, then one can certainly imagine that society will one day accept

over-the-counter nootropics.

The off-label use of smart drugs is still a taboo in the U.S., but there will be tough moral and political fights on this topic in the near future. But for now, if you are still contemplating spending a few bucks on them, remember that the old-school “study harder” method always works, too. And if you’re already taking a cognitive booster, and especially doing so unlawfully, do so responsibly. Seek advice from legitimate health sources and legal users in order to minimize possible adverse effects and overdose.

More importantly, I urge you to be less private about your use. As daring as it might seem, it would help keep the topic on the table and allow for more accurate statistics needed for pharmacological studies. We all know that curiosity can kill the cat if measures are not taken to ensure her safety. So, call yourself a risktaker or a curious person, but the statistics you make today will determine the future policy and use of smart drugs. Good luck on your finals.

CHIMEZIE ONONENYI is a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine.

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Let’s reimagine Yale education T ale’s administration and faculty convened last Thursday to discuss “ways in which the University could expand online,” including having faculty “experiment” with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). We the students, though, must pressure the University to quickly advance this agenda beyond basic “experimentation.” MOOCs enable us to get most of a Yale education for free, and to optimize our Yale campus experience around creativity and collaboration. Online education isn’t waiting for some grand Yale agenda; it has already arrived. If Yale wants to advance the future of education — both globally and here on campus — we need a bold vision.

MOOCs gained significant cultural traction in 2011, when Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun offered his “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” class online — for free. Over 160,000 people around the world signed up to learn from him, take quizzes, complete homework assignments and engage online with their peers. Since then, interest in MOOCs has ballooned; Coursera, an online MOOC platform, now offers 208 courses.

Presuming these trends continue, what is the future role of brick-and-mortar Yale? Yale’s campus of the future should focus exclusively on handson creative learning, not passive knowledge absorption. Our campus should offer a purely generative education, leaving tethered education for the Net. What are generative and tethered educations? These terms come from Jonathan Zittrain’s 2008 publication “The Future of The Internet — And How To Stop It,” in which Zittrain distinguishes between a generative device and a tethered device.

A tethered device is locked down and controlled entirely by the maker, such as your toaster.

You use your toaster exactly how the manufacturers intended.

Your iPhone is also a fairly tethered device; you only use it for what Apple allows via the App Store, and, at any point, Apple can reconfigure settings remotely.

A generative device, on the other hand, is open and accessible to modifications by the user, who has full control. Your laptop is a generative device; you can write and run code on it that the designers and manufacturers may never have imagined. The freedom to tinker and modify produces innovations independent of centralized, authoritative control. A user can take the resources of a generative device like the computer, and leverage them to implement new ideas.

Consider education in these terms. A tethered education is one that you consume as is,

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Learning from Bangladesh The Nov. 24 Tazreen Fashions Factory fire in Bangladesh shines a ghastly light on our utter failure to organize a global fair trade movement. What the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire did for garment workers in the United States in 1911, the Tazreen fire should do for the now-globalized textile industry: inspire genuine reforms, minimum labor and safety standards, and oversight. It is a terrible thought that all we have accomplished in a hundred years is the exporting of misery from New York to China, Bangladesh and a host of other countries where virtually the entire U.S. garment sector now gets its wares made at shameful wages and conditions.

We need, we desperately need, a college student fair trade movement. At some point, it would be lovely if the University got involved too — if, say, leases for storefronts on Broadway were only given to outfitters who could demonstrate that all their goods were made in fair trade factories. But the movement has to start with students.

And wouldn't it be something if one day more Yale graduates got jobs inspecting and regulating garment factories worldwide than end up working for the corporations that now exploit so many millions of workers?

LESLIE BRISMAN DEC. 7 The writer is the Karl Young professor of English.

Our responsibility to fight the fire

Of the different news stories that have captured our attentions over the past several weeks, one still sticks with me more than the others: Right around Thanksgiving, about 100 textile workers in Bangladesh were incinerated in a sweatshop with locked windows and doors. While reminiscent of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911, their deaths were not the result of a country with a few backward laws. The deaths may not have been intentional on the part of any party, but they most certainly were no accident. It is a definite reminder of a much more sinister reality to a globalized world.

Their deaths can be immediately traced to problematic regulations and their implementation on behalf of the Bangladeshi authorities. But we have to dig deeper and follow these specters down a more important causal chain. The situation in much of the Global South is similar. A number of groups — corporations, political elites from developing countries, diplomats from the affluent world and lobbyists — influence the economic rules of the market on a global level. And what has emerged and solidified over recent decades are a set of rules that funnel final prof-

its to those with power and exacerbate poverty. These rules have avoided basic safety regulations in treaties, meaning that development comes with deadly risk for the people these elites do not bother to notice.

Economic integration is not negative in and of itself, but the consequences of the current trend of globalization are very dangerous. These 100 or so innocent workers, members of the global poor, were just another invisible addition to the 18 million estimated people who die of disease, famine and starvation. Like at the turn of 20th century, these situations can be avoided, and these lives do not have to be horribly extinguished. It is to this silent atrocity that Yalies have perhaps the most responsibility. Not the infamous conflicts that cloud our Facebook feeds — whether in Egypt, Gaza or the EU — but the poverty that is more than avoidable. As potential movers and shakers, we must think carefully about how the power and prestige we chase in our careers at the State Department or at J.P. Morgan only exacerbate such situations all around the world.

FRANCISCO DIEZ '14 DEC. 11 The writer is a junior in Morse College.

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Due to an editing error, the article “Student drinking tops national average” mistakenly stated that Dean of Student Affairs W. Marichal Gentry did not respond to a request for comment. In fact, Gentry was never contacted.

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A Board of Aldermen-appointed commission will discuss potential revisions to New Haven’s charter.

BY CHRISTOPHER PEAK STAFF REPORTER For the first time in a decade, a Board of Aldermen-appointed commission met Monday to begin the process of revising New Haven’s charter, the document that outlines the structure of the city government.

The 15-member charter revision commission began its work Tuesday night with a briefing from Board of Aldermen President Jorge Perez. In a process that the board is required to undergo every 10 years, the commission’s recommendations will be submitted to the Board of Aldermen for approval next May and voted on by the public next November. Community activists also began organizing in a Monday night meeting to discuss the process and suggest ideas they would like to see before the revision commission.

“You must really try to listen to what people have to say,” Perez told the committee Monday. “It is us collectively, as residents in the city of voters, who are going to decide.”

Perez stressed the importance of seeking public input from a large portion of city residents and from special interest groups and suggested holding meetings in each neighborhood.

The last charter revision was narrowly defeated in 2002 by 247 votes, less than a 2 percent margin.

Perez said he believed the ballot proposition was defeated because all of the proposed changes to the city charter were presented as a package rather than as individual questions. Every union in the city opposed one controversial question about the city’s civil service exams, Perez said.

“A lot of work gets put into it, but at the end of the day, it may not pass,” Perez told the committee said. The last time the charter was successfully revised was in 1992, when the Board of Finance was eliminated and its responsibilities were transferred to the Board of Aldermen.

In the months ahead, the commission, which includes Aldermen Delphine Clyburn and Mark Stopa, must consider 15 topics submitted by the board. The questions include increasing mayoral and aldermanic terms to four years, imposing term limits, reducing the number of aldermen and changing the process for appointing the city’s boards and commissions.

The charter revision commission must also hold at least two public hearings and can consider any other issue it wishes for its recom-

mendations.

For its first action, the commission elected Ward 8 Alderman Michael Smart as its chair in a unanimous vote.

“My vision is to carry out the wishes of the community,” Smart said before the vote. “If I’m elected, I will make sure we have a very transparent process for the public and get this job done.”

Also on Monday, city residents held a a two-hour open meeting on Monday night at The Grove on Orange Street to discuss the changes they would like to see in a new charter. Four aldermen and state Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield joined in the conversation.

“We spend a lot of time talking about the personality of politics and not enough time digging into the structures of government,” said Aaron Goode, one of the three activists who organized Monday’s meeting. “The process of charter revision is a singularly important opportunity to create the structures and institutions for good governance and a thriving city. As concerned citizens, there is nothing more important we can do than make our voices heard.”

Roughly 30 people listened to a presentation about the revision process and opportunities for public input before dividing into smaller groups to brainstorm solutions to individual problems they see in the structure of city government.

Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 led a discussion about how to increase transparency and improve the current system of public notification. Ward 9 Alderman Jessica Holmes contributed to a discussion of potential changes to the Board of Aldermen, including changing the term “aldermen” to a gender-neutral term. Other groups focused on better allocation of the city’s resources, a system for tracking indicators of wellness and the process for selecting the Board of Education, whether that be by election, appointment or a hybrid of both.

At the end of the session, participants went around in a circle with three-word responses to the first meeting: “an exciting start,” “more change needed,” “lots to explore.”

Nate Bixby, one of the organizers, gave the last assessment: “We’re not done.”

The charter revision commission will reconvene at City Hall in mid-January.

Contact CHRISTOPHER PEAK at christopher.peak@yale.edu .

Early applications for the class of 2017 to most Ivy League schools are more competitive than ever, keeping within the trend of the past decade.

Yale’s early applications increased by 4.4 percent this year, while Princeton and Harvard — currently in their second early admissions rounds since reinstating early action programs in 2011 — experienced increases of 10 percent and 15 percent, respectively. Excluding Cornell, which has yet to release its early admissions numbers, Dartmouth is the only Ivy League school that reported a decrease in applications, dropping 12.5 percent from last year’s numbers. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeffrey Brenzel said in an email to the News that he believes the rise in applications across the board can be attributed partly to an increased perception that early admission programs, and particularly binding early decision programs, provide applicants a better chance of acceptance.

“It’s always hard to say what causes fluctuations in application numbers, but over the past 15 years they have been rising steadily at all the most selective schools,” Brenzel said.

Yale, Harvard and Princeton are the only Ivy League schools that offer nonbinding early action options, as the others offer early decision programs. Yale received a total of 4,514 early applications this year, while Harvard received 4,856 and Princeton received 3,791.

Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania received 1,574, 2,957, 3,126 and 4,780 applications, respectively.

On Monday, Dartmouth announced that it accepted 464 early applications with a 29.5 percent acceptance rate.

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Kurt Schmidt, director of college counseling at St. Ignatius College Prep in Illinois, said he thinks the decrease in Dartmouth applications this year could have resulted from an altered outreach strategy — but, he said, negative media attention surrounding the school’s fraternity culture this year could also have had a small impact.

Despite Dartmouth’s downturn, Chuck Hughes, president of college admissions consulting service Road to College, said he thinks a large component of the rise in early applications stems from an increased number of international students applying to selective American universities.

Students all over the world are jumping on the early application bandwagon.

MAPLE CHEN Applicant, Yale’s early action round Roland Allen, director of college counseling at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in California and a former admissions officer at Stanford and MIT, said that in the past two years, he has seen more than a 30 percent increase in the number of students who decide to apply early to universities. SMEC encourages students to apply early because it “helps take the stress out of the process” and urges students to get organized earlier in the year, he said. He added that many students believe sending an early application to selective universities, such as Yale and Harvard, shows a special interest in the school.

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tions could be caused by an increase in outreach by the universities themselves.

More students apply early because schools are better at getting “the word out there,” he said.

“The answer is the same for the last 10 years — it’s the most competitive class ever,” Hughes said. “But I don’t see it as domestic applicants getting more competitive at these schools [because] we are at that point of pretty much maxing out.

I think the influx is coming from international [applicants].”

But Allen said he thinks many American students feel more confident that they are “going to be that special applicant to stand out,” leading to an increased number of applications in early admissions rounds. When a student has friends who apply to selective colleges, he said, it “encourages a kind of groupthink” and inspires competition regardless of their chances.

Students interviewed said they opted for early admissions because of the faster response. Maple Chen, a high school senior from Pennsylvania, said she chose to apply in Yale’s early action round because Yale is her first choice and she wants to hear her admissions decision before the regular decision round in the spring.

“Of course the increased number of early applications makes me nervous,” Chen said. “But I think that students all over the world are jumping on the early application bandwagon, probably for the same reasons that I did.”

Yale’s early admissions decisions this year will be released to applicants on the evening of Dec. 14. All early applicants to Ivy League universities will be notified of their decisions by the end of December.

Contact AMY WANG at amy.wang@yale.edu .

New Haven crime on the rise

BY LORENZO LIGATO STAFF REPORTER Despite a 20-year downward trend in overall criminal wrongdoing on and off campus, the University reported an uptick in crime this past semester, particularly thefts, and has reminded students to be wary of their surroundings.

Following a national trend, iPhones have been the primary targets of New Haven’s thieves this fall. Between midAugust and early December, the Yale Police Department received reports of 77 larcenies that occurred on or near Yale’s campus, said Associate Vice President for Administration Janet Lindner. Among these, 33 incidents involved thefts of bikes not properly locked and several others involved thefts of portable electronic devices, including laptops, iPhones and iPads.

Dubbed “Apple Picking,” the new phenomenon of iPhone thefts has been on the rise both in the city of New Haven and nationwide. Smartphone crime, which has hit an all-time high this year in major cities like New York City and Los Angeles, seems to have arrived in New Haven this semester, Lindner said.

Both the YPD and the New Haven Police Department, she said, have received reports of incidents in which teenaged thieves, riding bicycles or walking in groups, quickly grab a cellphone right out of a victim’s hands.

“These phones can be sold for cash, so they are very tempting targets,” Lindner said. “Displaying a phone is the same as displaying cash, but we use them so often that it’s easy to forget that.”

An increase in smartphone crime

during the first half of the semester prompted YPD Chief Ronnell Higgins in mid-October to send a safety advisory on iPhone theft. In a Oct. 17 campuswide email, Higgins warned Yale students that the YPD has seen “several instances of phones being stolen on and around campus.” He cautioned students to “be aware” of their surroundings when talking or texting and to “look for well-populated, well-lighted areas.”

In addition, Higgins advised students to register for Apple’s built-in GPS tracking system, which allows users to locate geographically a stolen iPhone as well as change security settings remotely.

Displaying a phone is the same as displaying cash, but we use them so often that it’s easy to forget that.

JANET LINDNER Associate vice president for administration “We have successfully recovered several iPhones and iPads recently and have been able to return them to their owners and to arrest the thieves,” Higgins said in his email, encouraging students to report any iPhone thefts immediately to the YPD. Smartphone crime was also at the center of a conversation between Higgins and Yale College Council President John Gonzalez ’14 last week. Gonzalez and Higgins met last Tuesday to dis-

cuss the findings of the YCC’s report on campus safety, which detailed an array of safety issues ranging from poor street lighting to insufficient police presence. On the question of “Apple Picking,” Gonzalez said that the YPD chief asked the YCC to encourage students to obtain insurance coverage, activate GPS tracking applications for their electronic valuables and avoid texting while walking late at night.

While thefts of iPhones and other valuables have been on the rise this semester, no street robberies occurred directly on campus property, according to Lindner. Nine robberies, however, were reported in areas near Yale’s campus. Lindner said that while these kinds of incidents still remain a concern citywide, the close partnership between NHPD and YPD patrols has helped bring down crime and has led to a number of arrests this semester.

“There is no single system, safety tip or approach that can prevent all crime,” Lindner said. “We are fortunate that we have a safe campus, but we are in a city and, just like every other campus located in an urban setting, we need to be aware that crime can and does happen.”

In total, this semester Higgins sent 11 messages to the Yale community about crimes that occurred on or near campus, seven of which involved robberies or attempted robberies. Two messages reported sexual assaults against Yale students, and one email involved violent assaults of Yale students.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“With a subject matter as broad as life itself, the arts easily relate to aspects of almost everything else that is taught.” CHARLES FOWLER ENGLISH ARCHITECT

Renovated Gallery embraces community YUAG FROM PAGE 1 “It’s so beautiful,” said Adrian Chiem ’15, who attended Tuesday’s event. “I can see myself hiding in a corner and studying in this place all day.”

When the YUAG officially reopens today at noon, it will mark the debut of a reorganized and extensive art collection spanning ancient art to contemporary works, alongside a newly strengthened educational model for teaching through art.

In 2006, the YUAG changed its mission statement to reflect an equal emphasis on collecting and educational programming. Through efforts within and beyond the Yale community, the gallery aims to function as a “teaching museum” that embraces all audiences, said Deputy Director for Collections and Education Pamela Franks, who joined the gallery’s staff in 2004.

YUAG Director Jock Reynolds said the gallery aims to give students a reprieve from the whirlwind pace of their everyday lives, offering them a place to “look and linger” free of charge. He added that constant exposure to the YUAG’s collections will allow students to develop a natural affinity towards art.

“Yale students have spent a lifetime trying to excel academically, but they never took an SAT on visual intelligence,” Reynolds said. “I ask students who come in here, ‘Did anyone ever test you on how to see?’”

GALLERIES FOR STUDY

Sinclaire Marber ’15 has wanted to be a gallery guide since high school, when she interned for New York City’s Frick Collection art museum. There, she was mentored by a Yale undergraduate who was a member of the YUAG guide program, which trains a group of about 13 students to give personalized tours of the gallery.

As Marber prepares to lead tours around the renovated museum, she has begun to

notice how the YUAG’s teaching resources have expanded in the last 14 years.

“The sheer amount of space and resources devoted solely to study areas is a testament to the gallery’s relationship with the University and teaching in general,” Marber said.

Along with the guide program, the YUAG’s expanded spaces make it easier for faculty members to incorporate the study of its collections into coursework.

On the top floor of the restored Street Hall — which composes the renovated gallery along with the Old Yale Art Gallery and the Kahn building — visitors will now find the Jane and Richard Levin Study Gallery, constructed to facilitate the viewing of art related to specific courses. Prior to today’s opening, museum staff had already invited faculty from all departments to request works to be displayed for the coming spring, allowing students to view the pieces at any time during the semester. The gallery now houses art for classes as diverse as women’s, gender and sexuality studies professor Laura Wexler’s “Photography and Memory” course and African American studies professor Hazel Carby’s class on “Re-Visioning Subjectivities.”

In the past, the History of Art Department has scheduled all of its sections in the gallery, but the expansion’s added space will give more diverse departments such as Biology and Religious Studies the opportunity to bring their sections to the gallery as well.

University Provost and President-elect Peter Salovey recalled that as a psychology professor, he used to take his classes to view representations of mental illness in art.

“I hoped to help them develop interest in art by infusing it with what they were learning,” Salovey said.

Students can also integrate their extracurricular activities with the YUAG through the “Gallery +” series. Recently, the “Gallery + Dance” segment hosted 10 undergraduate and

graduate Yale dancers for a performance in the main lobby.

The dance, which included both structured and improvised components, was a response to four artworks displayed in the gallery, including two Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings.

Organizer Elena Light ’13 told the News in October that the event intended to demonstrate the physical element of viewing art.

“What about our bodies?”

Light said. “We are people looking at works of visual art, and when I approach a work of art it’s not like suddenly my body is not there and it’s just my mind.”

ART IN THE ELM CITY

In partnership with New Haven-area K-12 schools such as the Cooperative Arts High School and James Hillhouse High School, the Wurtele Gallery Teachers program was founded in 2005 and trains graduate students from a variety of disciplines to create lesson plans based on the gallery’s collections. During one of his weekly lessons for New Haven elementary school students who visit the YUAG, Wurtele Gallery Teacher Tyler Griffith GRD ’15 led a class of 8-year-olds through the Modern and Contemporary Art sections.

When they passed a painting

by German artist Anselm Kiefer titled “The Unborn” that depicts children’s clothing hanging off the branches of barren trees, Griffith was struck by the truth of one student’s reaction.

“The stuff that kids say is sometimes shocking,” Griffith said. “This boy looked at me and whispered, ‘What a somber picture.’”

Associate Curator of Education Jessica Sack explained that the goal of the Wurtele program is to nurture love for the YUAG’s collections early on in children’s lives. In collaboration with the YUAG, the New Haven School District has worked to ensure that every third-grader has visited the YUAG or the YCBA at

least once.

Coinciding with the gallery’s reopening is the debut of the Nolen Center for Art and Education, a facility in the lower level of Street Hall that houses classrooms, a library and work spaces for students, faculty and members of the public. The center offers YUAG visitors the resources to further analyze and reflect upon the pieces they have seen by providing books and other materials relevant to the collection. Nolen Curator of Education and Academic Affairs Kate Ezra said she hopes the facility will be used by local schools to connect more deeply with the artwork on display.

Classics professor Andrew Johnston, who brought sections of his “Roman Republic” class to the gallery’s Coins and Metals department, said there is no textbook equivalent to seeing an ancient artifact face to face.

“In the gallery you can see the brushstrokes, the materiality of the work,” said Emma Stein GRD ’16, who taught a section of Alexander Nemerov’s “Introduction to Art History” course last spring. “The students find that the actual experience of being able to feel the scale of the work, to walk around the sculptures, is incomparable.”

The elementary school students who participate in the Wurtele program share this feeling of awareness.

“The kids come in awestruck and a little intimidated by the grandeur of the space,” Wurtele Gallery Teacher Erin Thomas GRD ’14 said. “But through the course of the lesson, you can see a physical change in their comfort level. After the visit, they really see it as their museum.”

OPEN ACCESS

YUAG

For those unable to travel to New Haven and see the gallery in person, the YUAG is working to expand its digital collections to reflect the size of its current holdings. Even with the new spaces, the YUAG is only able to display just over 4,000 pieces of its 200,000-work collection. But with the technical staff working to launch a redesigned online platform this coming February, visitors to the site will be able

YUAG

to view images of the gallery’s holdings in their entirety.

“The underlying goal of the gallery is to make art broadly accessible,” Director of Visual Resources John ffrench said. ffrench noted that due to Yale’s open access policy, digital representations of works in the public domain are waived from copyright law, making them available for download by all members of the public. He added that the magnitude of the YUAG’s online collection creates avenues for research collaboration with external agencies such as ARTstor, a digital image resource.

YUAG Chief Curator Laurence Kanter said that despite the increased cost of maintaining the renovated gallery, the museum remains committed to keeping entrance free to the public. He noted that thanks to generous contributions from donors over the past 14 years, the gallery has more than 20 staff positions endowed for perpetuity.

“The art wasn’t given to us so

we could make money with it,” Reynolds said.

Salovey pointed out that the absence of an entrance fee affords visitors the chance to “get lost in art,” an endeavor which he called one of life’s greatest pleasures.

Djenab Conde ’15, who toured the new spaces during the community preview on Thursday, agreed that without an entrance fee to hinder potential visitors, the YUAG truly fulfills the role of a public museum.

“The best part is that it’s free,” she remarked. “It’s really an amazing opportunity for people who don’t have access to museums where they come from.”

“I’m definitely going to go back,” she added, “And I’m going to encourage people who have never gone to tag along.”

Contact YANAN WANG at yanan.wang@yale.edu .

Former Law School dean leaves State Dept.

KOH FROM PAGE 1

US MISSION GENEVA/CREATIVE COMMONS

State Department legal adviser Harold Koh will return to Yale in January.

lawyer, urging Assange to cease violating U.S. law by publishing illegally obtained U.S. government classified documents.

Law professor and former Law School Dean Guido Calabresi ’53 LAW ’58 said he thinks Koh’s return to the school is “a wonderful event.”

“The experience [Koh] has had in public life will add yet another dimension to his teaching and scholarship,” Calabresi said. “[His return] will be great for every one of us — for students, faculty and anyone connected to the University.”

The Law School spring course listing includes two classes taught by Koh — a lecture entitled “Foreign Relations and National Security Law” and a seminar entitled “International Human Rights Law and Policy.”

Tina Thomas LAW ’14, who worked with Koh in the State Department for two years before

she enrolled at the Law School, said she is “absolutely thrilled” Koh is returning. “[Koh] not only wishes for [his students’] professional and aca-

[Koh] is an incredibly potent symbol for AsianAmericans pursuing law.

JAMES SHIH LAW ’13 demic success, but he wants us all to be upstanding citizens, people of good character,” she said. “His teaching will surely reflect how what we learn in the ivory tower has real-world implications.”

Christine Tsang ’07 LAW ’13 said Koh’s experience in government will be beneficial to his teaching, as he will be able to discuss both theory and practice on major issues in public international law, like questions con-

cerning cyber security and targeted killings.

James Shih LAW ’13 said he thinks Koh’s lecture will be “enormously oversubscribed, in spite of the ungodly 8:20 start time,” and added that he is especially excited about Koh’s return because of his significance to the Asian-American legal community. “[Koh] is an incredibly potent symbol for Asian-Americans pursuing law,” he said. “His enormous success in legal academia and as a public servant is an inspiration to all of us, and I look forward to the chance to get to know him as a personal role model.”

Koh graduated from Harvard Law School with a J.D. in 1980.

Isaac Stanley-Becker contributed reporting.

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

MILESTONES HAROLD KOH 1985 Koh joins Yale Law School faculty.

1993 Koh is named Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professsor of International Law. 2004 Koh becomes the 15th Yale Law School dean.

2009 Koh joins the Obama administration as the State Department’s legal adviser.

2013 Koh returns to teach at the Law School.

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NEWS

“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.”

PABLO PICASSO

CO-FOUNDER OF THE CUBIST MOVEMENT

Foley seeks 2014 election rematch

BY MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTER

TOM FOLEY

Republican businessman Tom Foley plans to challenge Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy in the 2014 gubernatorial election.

US Energy Dept. funds Yale proposal

BY EDDY WANG CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Two Yale professors want to generate power by using a currently untapped energy source — wasted heat in the atmosphere caused by machines.

Yale chemical and environmental engineering professors Menachem Elimelech and Chinedum Osuji, along with Colorado School of Mines engineering professor Tzahi Cath, recently won $2.6 million in funding from the U.S Department of Energy’s “Open 2012” program. The program funds sustainable projects that reduce energy use or use innovative forms of energy.

Elimelech, Osuji and Cath proposed creating a power generation system using water and waste heat — heat produced by industrial or chemical processes that escapes into the atmosphere. They have recommended using this latent energy source from geothermal wells, industrial facilities and power plants.

The proposed system will contain two streams of water, one dilute and one concentrated, separated by a membrane. Water will flow via osmosis from the dilute into the concentrated stream, and this water flow will generate energy that will eventually be converted into electrical energy. Since the system is closed-loop, the same water will be used again and again, conserving water.

“The nice thing about this project is that we don’t need large quantities of water,” Cath said. “[The water] is continuously recirculated into the system.”

Using waste heat as the system’s energy source has the potential to cut electricity costs, Cath said. “We don’t need people to generate [energy] for us.

We are going to use heat that people don’t need instead of letting it go into the atmosphere.”

The Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy, which administered the funding for the “Open 2012” program, touts the proposal as a “highly inno-

vative and promising technology.”

“We hope that Yale’s project will spur just the sort of breakthrough that is needed to convert wasted energy into usable power,” said Pramod Khargonekar, deputy director for technology of the ARPA-E. Khargonekar said the ARPA-E hopes the funding will “catapult the project forward and put it on the potential path to commercialization.”

Cath said they view the funding as an opportunity to demonstrate that the technology is viable and hope to solicit interest and investments from companies in the coming years.

We hope that Yale’s project will spur just the sort of breakthrough that is needed to convert wasted energy into usable power.

PRAMOD KHARGONEKAR Deputy director for technology, ARPA-E Elimelech said the government funding will be used to support graduate students and postdocs, purchase equipment and lab supplies, and construct lab and field-scale prototypes.

The three-member engineering team is currently working on developing membranes and incorporating all the technologies proposed into one single machine. They are also in the process of collaborating with companies that employ the technologies used in the project.

Although Yale and the Colorado School of Mines have lent their facilities for the system’s development, they are not funding the project.

The engineering team will be required to submit quarterly progress reports to the Department of Energy as part of the funding negotiations.

Contact EDDY WANG at chen-eddy.wang@yale.edu .

Tom Foley, the Republican businessman who lost to Gov. Dannel Malloy in the 2010 gubernatorial race, is making preparations for a 2014 election rematch.

Denied the state’s highest office by less than 6,000 votes in 2010, Foley was long expected to run for governor again in 2014. Though he has not officially announced his candidacy yet, Foley has begun meeting with newspaper editorial boards across the state to win over their support. He is pledging to improve his standing in Connecticut’s largest cities, where he lost the race last time.

“Yes, I plan to [run], but it’s still early,” he told the Connecticut Post in Tampa during the Republican National Convention.

Foley has repeatedly blamed the state’s financial troubles — a $1 billion deficit in 2013 and an unemployment rate above the national average — on the Malloy administration’s decision to raise taxes and its failure to cut sufficient spending.

In 2010, Foley ran on a pledge to not raise taxes, while Malloy made no such pledge. After Malloy raised taxes in his first year in office, Foley promised to run on the same no-tax pledge in 2014.

“I believe whoever our Republican candidate is will do really well, considering our current governor put into effect the largest tax increase in the state’s history,” Republican state Sen. Rob Kane said. “Yet, we still have a deficit looming. His policies are not working for the state of Connecticut.”

Foley’s critics say that the Republican, a former venture capitalist and ambassador to Ireland under President George W. Bush ’64, bears a striking resemblance to failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

According to Roy Occhiogrosso, one of Malloy’s top aides, both men made their names by “buying companies and driving them into bankruptcy or breaking them into smaller pieces.” Both, he added, are also self-described “disciples” of supply-side economics, the theory that tax breaks for the wealthy will cause them to spend more, which will in turn strengthen the economy and create jobs.

“And like Mitt Romney,” Occhiogrosso said, “Mr. Foley seems to believe that because he has a lot of money to spend on a campaign, he’s entitled to be governor.”

Like Mitt Romney, Mr. Foley seems to believe that because he has a lot of money … he’s entitled to be governor.

ROY OCCHIOGROSSO Top aide, Gov. Dannel Malloy

But Malloy himself faces an uphill battle. Malloy defeated Foley in 2010 with a margin of 49.5 percent to 48.9 percent, one of the closest gubernatorial elections in Connecticut history.

In his first year in office, Malloy raised the state income tax in the face of a $3.7 billion budget deficit, something Foley had pledged not to do in his campaign. According to Doug Schwartz, the director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Center, Malloy’s decision to raise the state income tax in the face of a $3.7 billion budget deficit remains one of the major key

reasons for the low approval ratings that have plagued his term in office.

In a poll released in late September by liberal-leaning Public Policy Polling, for example, 32 percent of those polled approved of Malloy’s time in office, while 51 percent say they disapproved. According to the same PPP poll, Malloy trailed a generic Republican in a hypothetical 2014 matchup by 42–38 percentage points.

Malloy has also upset unions across the state — one of his key constituencies — because of a state employee concession package he negotiated in 2011 as part of last spring’s education reform bill, which was widely challenged by teachers across the state.

And this year, in the face of another $415 million budget deficit, Malloy has proposed other cuts that would dig into the state’s social safety net and its university system.

“We’re concerned about cuts to services and programs that benefit the citizens of Connecticut,” said Larry Dorman, a spokesman for Council 4, one of the state’s largest state employee unions. “Our members provide those services, and they see the importance and the value of those services. We don’t want to point a finger at state employees as the cause of the problem that we’re in.”

“Last time the race was extremely close, and this time Foley has the experience of having run once already for governor,” Schwartz said. “However, he would first need to win the Republican primary.”

Other rumored contenders for the 2014 Republican primary include Danberry Mayor Mark Boughton, State House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero, State Senate Minority Leader John McKinney and former U.S. Rep Chris Shayes.

Contact MICHELLE HACKMAN at michelle.hackman@yale.edu .

Peabody leader goes to Harvard

BY EMMA GOLDBERG STAFF REPORTER Jane Pickering, deputy director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, will be leaving Yale for its northern rival in January.

Pickering will take on the role of executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, a consortium of six partner museums formed last spring, which includes the Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Pickering will be responsible for the consortium’s public programming and exhibitions, as well as general administration, fulfilling a role similar to the one she held at the Peabody. She was named to the position by Michael Smith, Harvard’s dean of faculty of arts and sciences, on Dec. 4, with the goal of directing this new initiative in the Harvard community.

“Under the leadership of Jane Pickering, Harvard is launching a new model for university museums, one that has the potential to be so much more than the sum of its parts,” Smith said in a Dec. 4 Harvard Gazette press release. Smith said he hopes that Pickering, as founding executive director, will develop a coordinated face for the collections in the consortium’s six partner museums.

Pickering, who will replace current interim executive director David Ellis, said she is excited to develop the structure and public image these museums will have within Cambridge.

“It was a hard decision to make because there are so many exciting things coming up here at Yale, but it’s fun to be able to start something new,” she said. “I’m sad because the Peabody is an amazing museum.”

Although she will be leaving the Peabody after more than a decade there, Pickering has been in the museum business for over 20 years. After completing her master’s degree in museum sciences from the University of Leicester, she began her career as assistant curator of zoological collections at the Oxford Museum of Natural History. Pickering then worked as director of the MIT Museum before joining the Peabody in 2002, where her responsibilities ranged from managing public programs to handling day-to-day operations.

Pickering’s colleagues at Yale praised her contributions to the Peabody and her outreach efforts to the New Haven community.

“It’s obviously wonderful for Jane to be going, and it’s a great new responsibility for her at Harvard, but from the standpoint of the Peabody it’s awful,” said Michael Donoghue, Yale professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and former director of the Peabody. Donoghue, who worked closely with Pickering for seven years, said he was impressed with the breadth and depth of tasks she took on, from running

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Jane Pickering, deputy director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, was praised for the breadth and depth of her contributions to the museum. public affairs to coordinating educational activities.

Though excited for his colleague, Donoghue said he is nervous that Pickering’s departure will pose difficulties for the Peabody. When he first hired Pickering, he did not realize how much responsibility she would eventually shoulder at the museum, he said.

“When I was the director of the Peabody, I relied on her for so many things day to day,” Donoghue said. “I am sure that whatever success I had is largely due to her.”

Pickering’s colleague Tim White, the Peabody’s director for collections and

operations, said Pickering’s Peabody replacement has “big shoes to fill.” Having developed a close personal friendship with Pickering, he has been impressed with her professionalism, expertise in museum management and passion for science. He recalled various exhibits at the Peabody where Pickering not only coordinated logistics, but also displayed passion about the science behind the museum’s works.

“She is definitely the right leader for the Harvard consortium,” he said.

The Peabody was founded in 1876.

Contact EMMA GOLDBERG at emma.goldberg@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.” MARILYN MONROE AMERICAN ACTRESS, MODEL AND SINGER

Eidelson brings youth to Board EIDELSON FROM PAGE 1 the aldermanic campaign of Sarah Saiano in Ward 18, who ultimately lost.

Gabe Levine ’14, who worked on Eidelson’s campaign, said he connected with her message and belief that people “should come to Yale not in spite of New Haven, but because of New Haven.”

“I think the general impression in Sarah’s campaign of Vinay was that he was very smart, very well-qualified and very interested in policy, but Sarah was looking to come at the Board of Aldermen from more of a local perspective,” Levine said. “They thought of Vinay as having this general interest in politics and policy, and even though he was sincerely concerned and involved, he didn’t know the city as well as Sarah.”

Aldermen who endorsed Eidelson in the election included Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 and Ward 22 Alderwoman Jeanette Morrison, whose ward includes Yale students as well.

“In the campaign, a primary argument on her side was that she would have relationships with members of the board that would be coming in, and I think you can definitely see that has been an asset in that she has professional relationships with people on her committee and on the board,” said Nayak campaign manager Zak

Newman ’13.

Nayak commended the work that Eidelson has done in office and said that she has tackled many of the issues both campaigns highlighted last year. But at the time of the election, Eidelson was a senior and Nayak was a sophomore, and Nayak’s campaign pointed out that Eidelson would not be a student for both years of her term as alderwoman.

Now, having graduated earlier this year, Eidelson is no longer a Yale student living on campus. And while her ward consists almost entirely of Yale students, Eidelson is responsible for very few policies that directly impact students, which are instead handled by the University.

STAYING IN TOUCH

In a News survey of 418 Yale students, only 20 percent of nearly 100 freshmen on Old Campus could name Eidelson as their alderwoman in a News survey.

Upperclassmen fared better, with percentages in the high 60s for the same question for the sophomore, junior and senior classes.

Mike Jones ’11, the Ward 1 alderman before Eidelson, said the results were unsurprising, given that the current freshman class arrived after last year’s campaigns and election.

Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93, who served two terms on the

board as Ward 1 alderman from 1990 through 1993, compared Eidelson’s experience to his own.

“When I was living on campus, versus living in an apartment in the ward, I think I was much more effective at staying in touch,” Morand said. “Part of relating and getting information tends to be more effective when one is a current student living like a majority of other people in the ward.”

Eidelson holds weekly office hours at Blue State and sends out email newsletters updating students about recent events, in addition to reaching out to freshmen.

Eidelson said she put together a letter and map of New Haven and taped copies on every freshman suite door. Ward 1 Co-Chair Ben Crosby ’14 added that Eidelson has held events for freshmen to meet her and discuss their ideas about New Haven. Eidelson said that 10 freshmen came to the meet-and-greet she had at the beginning of the year.

“I think it’s definitely a lot easier to engage students and to meet them in an election season because people are paying a lot more attention to politics than they usually do. But I also think that the first semester at Yale is pretty overwhelming with orientation that the freshmen go through,” Eidelson said.

As a graphic designer who travels to Brooklyn two days a week to

work, Eidelson also needs to find a balance between her work and her time as alderwoman, she said.

Serving on the board is a volunteer position, but could theoretically take up as much time as a fulltime job.

‘ANOTHER, EQUAL ALDERMAN’

Ward 1 aldermen do not have to provide basic city services such as public schools or trash removal for their constituents, Morand said, giving them flexibility to focus on an issue relating to New Haven at large they find particularly important. Ward 10 Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 said the Ward 1 aldermen could spend less time on services already provided by Yale and more on specific issues.

In the News survey, 66 percent said they thought it very or somewhat unimportant for their alderman to communicate with them regularly, and student comments showed that many believe Eidelson should focus on issues that affect New Haven at large rather than primarily caring for Yale students’ needs. While Elicker said Jones made LGBTQ and gender issues a central part of his term, Eidelson has focused hers on youth services.

As the chair of the Youth Services Committee, Eidelson leads the board’s work on youth issues.

“I think it speaks to her ability

GRAPH PERCENT OF WARD 1 RESIDENTS WHO IDENTIFIED EIDELSON AS ALDERMAN

to really build relationships with her fellow aldermen and work as part of a team that she has a committee chairship,” Crosby said. “[A committee chairship] is not something that happens with every Ward 1 alderman.”

The comprehensive agenda Eidelson helped push through the board includes rehabilitating the Goffe Street Armory and turning it into a youth or community center and reopening the Q House, a Dixwell community center shut down almost a decade ago due to budget cuts. With $250,000 allocated to the youth committee to implement its agenda, the committee will split the money among youth job training, mentorship and mediation, and grants for organizations with creative ideas for youth.

Rachel Heerema, executive director of the Citywide Youth Coalition, said that Eidelson has created a “welcoming environment” during all public hearings and has engaged community leaders, the Board of Education and other stakeholders before making decisions. Morrison, whose ward includes the Q House, said that Eidelson has done a “wonderful” job involving Yale students and getting many of them to show up at an October public hearing about the Q House.

“Sarah’s always ready to get in and get her hands dirty. She really

knows what she’s talking about, and has good relationships with the people on board,” Ward 28 Alderwoman Claudette Robinson-Thorpe said. “We’re working on the armory right now, and she’s been great just by being there.”

Eidelson said she does not want to “reinvent the wheel” when existing services and spaces provide valuable information and opportunities for youth. But change has been slow, and she said that people sometimes expect to see more results without realizing that governmental change “takes time” and is a “careful process.”

According to Elicker, the person representing Ward 1 often faces the extra barrier of age: Usually a college-aged student or recent graduate, Ward 1’s representative has consistently been the youngest member of the Board of Aldermen. But he said this hasn’t posed a problem for Eidelson so far.

“The Ward 1 alderman is usually so young, and so they’re trying to overcome this perception that they’re just a kid,” Elicker said.

“But I think Sarah’s been very successful at doing that at the board level, and when I think of Sarah, I don’t think of someone different or younger than me: I think of her as another, equal alderman.”

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

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have not interacted with their alderman since the beginning of the school year

Groups to consider alcohol policies ALCOHOL FROM PAGE 1

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Speed dating was one of the events featured during Sex Week 2012.

SEX WEEK FROM PAGE 1 “We want to follow the vein of [last year’s] Sex Week … but [we also] want to set forth a well-articulated and positive framework of what sex is without [having to be] on the defensive,” co-director Hannah Mogul-Adlin ’13 said.

Although students have organized Sex Week(end) in the past, the event has been sporadic, Spiegel said. She added that holding Sex Week events on an annual basis will help the events become less shocking each time they take place and foster more consistent dialogue about sex on campus.

Sex Week(end) has received strong support from administrators, including Yale College Dean Mary Miller and Assistant Dean Melanie Boyd, Mogul-Adlin said. The current model for the event series has addressed many past criticisms, including the Marshall Committee’s recommendation that Sex Week not have commercial sponsors, Spiegel said.

She added that this year’s event will voluntarily adhere to the committee’s recommendations.

Connie Cho ’13, an organizer of Sex Week 2012, said last year’s organizers developed a relationship of trust with the administration.

“Sex Week 2013 won’t be colored by a defensive position because of the Marshall Committee report,” she said.

Since the Advisory Committee released its report, several new programs have begun that foster a healthier sexual climate, Mogul-Adlin said, and the existence of other forums for discussion of sexual topics will contribute to the quality of Sex Week(end). In particular, Mogul-Adlin said she hopes students will have a place to discuss new knowledge they acquire at Sex Week(end) at the Sexual Literacy Forum’s weekly sex-related workshops. “[These other programs] make us less controversial,” Spiegel said. “We don’t want to be the only people talking about it for two weeks a year … Sex is always a negotiation, and you never just talk about it once.”

Sex Week(end) organizers will publicly release an events proposal for administrators to review, Spiegel said, and organizers

intend to remain in contact with administrators throughout the planning process.

No events have been confirmed yet, and organizers hope to emphasize co-hosting events with cultural houses, religious groups and fraternities, Spiegel added.

Bijan Aboutorabi ’13, a member of Undergraduates for a Better Yale College, which opposed Sex Week last year and hosted a Sex Week alternative called True Love Week, said he hopes the administration will play a bigger role in “toning down Sex Week” or banning the event entirely, although Sex Week 2012 was less commercial than its predecessors.

“To many mature adults, Sex Week is the embodiment of what is wrong with the administration’s strictly laissez-faire approach to sexual culture,” Aboutorabi said.

There are no current plans for a 2013 True Love Week, he added.

The Sex Week board is composed of seven student members selected by the former board in October.

Contact CYNTHIA HUA at cynthia.hua@yale.edu .

a diverse set of people to form the task force. The six students represented on the 17-person task force include Yale College Council President John Gonzalez ’14, Junior Class Council President Caroline Smith ’14, Sigma Nu fraternity President Tommy Ratchford ’14 and varsity track athlete and Rhodes scholar Dakota McCoy ’13.

The group will review data and seek student, faculty and staff input on programming, communications, safety and education before presenting a final report by early February. Gentry added that the group’s meetings will have an open floor, with everyone allowed the opportunity to talk as much as they want.

The University Council Committee will be comprised of experts and Yale alumni and parents who currently serve on the University Council, an advisory group to the president and senior administrators. The committee will build on the findings of the task force and provide advice on possible future strategies.

Goff-Crews said the committee will meet two to four times with members of the campus community to gain a better understanding of alcohol and drug use at Yale, and will also consider the environment at other schools to evaluate possible alcohol policies. Goff-Crews added that experts on the committee will specialize in collegeage drinking issues and understand “how drinking affects choices on sexual climate issues.”

The University aims to take a leadership role among U.S. colleges and universities in its approach to reducing high-risk

drinking on campus, said Paul McKinley DRA ’96, a spokesman for the Dean’s Office.

“There has been a rising concern at Yale over the last couple years over these issues, and almost everything is on the table as options [to address the problem] right now,” said Garrett Fiddler ’11, a YCDO fellow and another member of the task force.

Gonzalez, YCC president, said he and Debby Abramov ’14, who is YCC vice president and will also serve on the task force, have considered having the YCC send out a comprehensive alcohol survey, so that its results could then be presented to the task force.

They have also considered partnering with local businesses to provide social alternatives to drinking, Gonzalez said.

“Yale students haven’t had the best alcohol education — I don’t think freshmen know much about alcohol,” Gonzalez said. “We are trying to look how we can promote alcohol education in a way that is not paternalistic.”

Matthew Breuer ’14, one of six students on the task force, said it is “really exciting” that Yale has committed to accepting student input by creating the task force, adding that he hopes students will see him as “someone to reach out to and make sure their ideas are heard.”

The task force has already begun its work, and Levin will convene the University Council Committee in January.

Cynthia Hua, Kirsten Schnackenberg and Julia Zorthian contributed reporting.

Contact AMY WANG at amy.wang@yale.edu .

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s a building that has not undergone any major renovations since its construction in the 1930s, the Hall of Graduate Studies shows its age. From peeling paint and moldy bricks, to rusty water fountains and a musty elevator with an expired safety exam, HGS proves itself in need of renovation. The facilities consistently encounter heating and air conditioning problems. Just as striking are the basement offices and classrooms, which are burdened with dingy lighting, exposed pipes and occasional pests. Photography Editor MARIA ZEPEDA documents the crumbling infrastructure.

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AROUND THE IVIES

“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling, ‘Stop!’” WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. FOUNDER OF THE CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL MAGAZINE NATIONAL REVIEW

Scalia defends opposition to gay rights

BY CALEB KENNEDY STAFF WRITER On the heels of the announcement that the Supreme Court will hear two cases regarding gay marriage, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia defended some of his more controversial decisions concerning gay rights in a lecture Monday afternoon.

Scalia came to campus to discuss his recent book and share his thoughts on interpreting the Constitution. Scalia, the longest-serving justice on the current court, has been described as the intellectual anchor of the court’s conservative wing.

When questioned by Duncan Hosie, who identified as gay, on his dissent in Lawrence v. Texas — which struck down a Texas anti-sodomy law — Scalia stood behind his decision. Hosie questioned Scalia’s comparison between having a moral objection

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to sodomy and having a moral o b j e c tion toward things like bestialPRINCETON ity or murder. Scalia defended his comparison as a form of argument.

“If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against these other things?” Scalia asked, explaining his dissent. “It’s a reduction to the absurd … I don’t think it’s necessary, but I think it’s effective,” Scalia said, adding dryly, “I’m surprised you weren’t persuaded.”

Born in nearby Trenton, N.J., Scalia applied, but was not accepted, to Princeton. He instead attended Georgetown where he graduated summa cum

laude as valedictorian in 1957.

He later graduated from Harvard Law School.

Scalia was notably plain-spoken during both the lecture and the Q-and-A.

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“For those of you who have been to some of our previous lectures, you’ll notice it was a little different this time,” said politics professor Robert George, the campus conservative leader who introduced Scalia and offered

closing remarks.

Scalia declined to discuss issues related to active cases or potential future cases during the Q-and-A, instead directing the conversation back to the general arguments he made during the lecture.

During his lecture, he defended his view that focusing on the text and the original meaning of the Constitution are the best interpretive measures to protect the Constitution and democratic ideals.

“The text is what governs,” said Scalia, explaining that it would be wrong to bring in the historical circumstances at the time of the Constitution’s signing or to attempt to interpret the intent of those who wrote the document.

“I don’t care what their intent was. We are a government of laws, not of men,” he explained.

Scalia lamented that the trend has moved toward viewing the

Constitution as a living document that is open to new interpretations. He explained that the most common argument for this approach is flexibility, explaining that his opponents argue that as society changes, the Constitution must grow with the society it governs.

“The Constitution is not an organism; it’s a legal text for Pete’s sake,” Scalia said.

He argued that while viewing it as a living document can guarantee new freedoms, it can also eliminate old ones. That is in part why Scalia said he views the structure of the Constitution as more important than the enumerated rights contained within it.

“Every tinhorned dictator in the world has a bill of rights,” Scalia said. He explained that the Founding Fathers rightly spent most of their time debating the structure and treated the Bill of

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I don’t care what [the Founding Fathers’] intent was. We are a government of laws, not of men.

ANTONIN SCALIA Associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court

Rights as an “afterthought.”

He explained that unless the structure prevents the centralization of power and provides for adequate checks and balances, any protection of freedoms could be ignored. Scalia acknowledged that this same structure, which impedes rights from being taken away, also has a tendency to slow down the process of change.

“God bless gridlock,” he said.

“It’s the principal protection of minorities.”

He explained that despite his continued warnings, the idea of a “living constitution is incredibly seductive.” Scalia added that the idea is especially “seductive” to his fellow justices, and it is hard to talk someone out of such a viewpoint.

“I don’t know how we got to this stage,” he added, explaining that the approach he defends is rarely taught in law schools anymore.

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A crowd outside the office of Michigan Gov. Snyder protests right-to-work legislation.

BY JOHN FLESHER AND JEFF KAROUB ASSOCIATED PRESS LANSING, Mich. — As the chants of angry protesters filled the Capitol, Michigan lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to rightto-work legislation, dealing a devastating and once-unthinkable defeat to organized labor in a state that has been a cradle of the movement for generations.

The Republican-dominated House ignored Democrats’ pleas to delay the passage and instead approved two bills with the same ruthless efficiency that the Senate showed last week. One measure dealt with private sector workers, the other with government employees. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed them both within hours.

“This is about freedom, fairness and equality,” House Speaker Jase Bolger said during floor debate. “These are basic American rights — rights that should unite us.”

After the vote, he said, Michigan’s future

“has never been brighter, because workers are free.”

Once the laws are enacted, the state where the United Auto Workers was founded and labor has long been a political titan will join 23 others with right-to-work laws, which ban requirements that nonunion employees pay unions for negotiating contracts and other services.

Supporters say the laws give workers more choice and support economic growth, but critics insist the real intent is to weaken organized labor by encouraging workers to “freeload” by withholding money unions need to bargain effectively.

Protesters in the gallery chanted “Shame on you!” as the measures were adopted. Union backers clogged the hallways and grounds shouting “No justice, no peace,” and Democrats warned that hard feelings over the legislation and Republicans’ refusal to hold committee hearings or allow a statewide referendum would be long lasting.

Gun owners and supporters participate in an Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day rally at the Illinois State Capitol.

BY DON BABWIN AND JOHN O’CONNOR ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — In a major victory for gun rights advocates, a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a ban on carrying concealed weapons in Illinois — the only remaining state where carrying concealed weapons is entirely illegal — and gave lawmakers 180 days to write a law that legalizes it.

In overturning a lower court decision, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the ban was unconstitutional and suggested a law legalizing concealed carry is long overdue in a state where gun advocates had vowed to challenge the ban on every front.

“There is no suggestion that some unique characteristic of criminal activity in Illinois justifies the state’s taking a differ-

ent approach from the other 49 states,” Judge Richard Posner, who wrote the court’s majority opinion. “If the Illinois approach were demonstrably superior, one would expect at least one or two other states to have emulated it.”

Gun rights advocates were thrilled by the decision. They have long argued that the prohibition violates the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment and what they see as Americans’ right to carry guns for self-defense.

“Christmas came early for law-abiding gun owners,” said state Rep. Brandon Phelps, a Democratic lawmaker from southern Illinois whose proposed legislation approving concealed carry narrowly lost in the Legislature last year. “It’s a mandate.”

Gov. Pat Quinn, who favors strict gun control laws, was reviewing the opinion and did

not have immediate comment, according to a spokeswoman.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan, whose office is responsible for defending the state’s laws in court, will review the ruling before deciding whether to appeal or take other action, said spokeswoman Maura Possley.

“The court gave 180 days before its decision will be returned to the lower court to be implemented,” Possley said in a statement. “That time period allows our office to review what legal steps can be taken and enables the legislature to consider whether it wants to take action.”

Richard Pearson, the executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, said there is no reason why lawmakers cannot pass Phelps’ bill during a weeklong legislative session in January.

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“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.� DANTE ALIGHIERI AUTHOR OF THE “DIVINE COMEDY�

Egypt judges say most will boycott referendum

BY HAMZA HENDAWI AND MAGGIE MICHAEL ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Most Egyptian judges rejected any role Tuesday in overseeing the country’s constitutional referendum, a move likely to cast further doubt on the legitimacy of the disputed charter.

The nation’s worst crisis since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster nearly two years ago also forced the government to put off a crucial deal with the International Monetary Fund for a $4.8 billion loan, shattering any hope for recovery of the country’s ailing economy anytime soon.

On one side of the divide is President Mohammed Morsi,

his Muslim Brotherhood and their ultra-conservative Islamist allies, against an opposition camp of liberals, leftists and Christians who contend the draft charter restricts freedoms and gives Islamists vast influence over the running of the country.

An unexpected twist came when the defense minister, a Morsi appointee, invited the opposition, along with judges, media leaders and Muslim and Christian clerics to an informal gathering Wednesday, saying he was doing so in his personal — not an official — capacity.

It was the second time this week that the nation’s powerful military has addressed the crisis, signaling its return to the political fray after handing over power

in June to Morsi, Egypt’s first civilian president.

The military sees itself as the guarantor of Egypt’s interests and secular traditions. Earlier this week, it warned of disastrous consequences if the crisis over the country’s draft constitution is not resolved. “We will only sit together ‌ For the sake of every Egyptian, come and disagree. But we won’t be cross with one another or clash,â€? Defense Minister AbdelFatah el-Sissi, said on state television. “We are not concerned with politics. We want to reassure the people that we can sit together,â€? added Maj. Gen. Mohammed elAssar, el-Sissi’s deputy, speaking on a private TV network.

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SPORTS Presidents mull hockey changes CONCUSSIONS FROM PAGE 14 in-season days of no full-contact practice were easy to fit into the team’s schedule and did not have a significant impact on his team.

Head men’s and women’s soccer coaches Brian Tompkins and Rudy Meredith both explained that the regulations do increase awareness but do not change anything in their practices or in the game. Meredith sat on the league’s Multi-Sport Concussion Review Committee and helped to design the regulations that require three hours of preseason practice dedicated to proper heading technique.

“They’re common sense, based on what we already do,” Tompkins said of the regulations.

Another measure implemented by the committee requires education on the pre-existing NCAA rule allowing substitution of potentially concussed players.

Bobby Thalman ’13 and Jenny Butwin ’13, the men’s and women’s soccer team captains, both said they had not heard of the specific recommendations that were approved for their sport in July 2012. However, Thalman and Butwin did emphasize that they have seen an increase in the amount of concussion prevention and education since their freshman year.

“In terms of a regulation to eliminate concussions, you’d have to take air balls out of the game — forbid players from using their head,” Butwin said. “You can’t do that.” Butwin added she was one of seven players on Yale’s 26-woman roster diagnosed with a concussion in 2012.

Even with the increase in available information that Thalman and Butwin have seen, administrators in the athletic department and medical staff at Yale remain concerned that athletes may not report their concussions. Because the symptoms

differ between individuals and because the injury forces athletes to miss games, Yale Health physician Lindsay Huston, the university’s representative on the Committee on Concussions, said she knows that athletes are not always forthcoming about their concussion symptoms.

“I’m lucky at Yale because athletes value their brains and futures, but I still have athletes hide [their symptoms and head injuries],” Huston said.

“There’s not a lot I can do when I think someone is lying. I have to believe them.”

An athlete reporting his or her symptoms is the most important factor in diagnosing a concussion, according to Huston. She said she works to remind potentially concussed individuals that their future is at stake, asking “Why are you at Yale?”

The Ivy League does not have immediate plans to review and issue recommendations for another sport, Executive Director Harris said, but the league does plan to continue leading the NCAA in concussion prevention and management. In June 2012, the league announced a cosponsored research partnership with the Big Ten Conference to help provide answers about concussion prevention and treatment.

“As a sports society we’re trying to figure this whole thing out,” lacrosse coach Shay said.

“We don’t know the answers, but we’re trying to take a step in the right direction.”

The NCAA’s Injury Surveillance Program revealed this year that the rate of concussions across all fall sports — football, soccer, field hockey and volleyball — has remained steady over an eight-year period.

Contact JACQUELINE SAHLBERG at jacqueline.sahlberg@yale.edu .

Successful season opener for Elis

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS KEVIN YOUKILIS After playing more than eight seasons with the Boston Red Sox, the MLB third baseman has agreed to a one-year, $12 million deal with the New York Yankees. The Cincinnati native was traded to the Chicago White Sox last year after injuries impacted his performance.

Bulldogs crush UMass

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The Bulldogs scored first and maintained their lead to top UMass 4-2 for their seventh win of the season.

MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 to get on the scoreboard, Weberg managed to get Yale a goal in just less than three and a half minutes.

Kenny Agostino ’14 made a smart play chipping the puck out behind the Minutemen’s defensemen, and Weberg picked it up in the neutral zone. Weberg then moved it over to Clinton Bourbonais ’14, who moved to the slot and passed it back to Weberg. With the puck back on his stick, Weberg drove wide down the left side and kept his composure until he was just below the faceoff dot before snapping it over goaltender Kevin Boyle’s right shoulder before the Minuteman could react.

“We’ve been working on it in practice all week,” Weberg said. “Clint made a good play, and I just put it up top.”

Fueled with momentum early in the game, the Elis continued their onslaught.

Halfway through the second, the Yale power play struck again when Agostino hit Antoine Laganiere ’13 at the top of the left circle. Laganiere then fed Fallen in the slot. Fallen looked off a pass and ripped a

low snap shot through traffic that sailed over Boyle’s right pad to put Yale up 2–0.

Determined to finish the period down just a goal, UMass Steven Guzzo received the puck at the point and walked to the middle of the ice. Guzzo then skated around a Yale defender, put a slick move on goalkeeper Jeff Malcolm ’13 and calmly slid the puck through Malcolm’s legs to cut Yale’s lead to one.

The Minutemen’s time down by a goal was short-lived, however. Six minutes into the third, the Bulldogs put the game out of reach before UMass had a chance to bounce back.

Miller flew down the right side before pulling up and hitting Ryan Obuchowski ’16, who was on the rush with him. Obuchowski fired and Boyle left a rebound sitting in front of the open net, which Miller banged in the loose puck when he crashed the net to widen the Bulldogs’ lead.

A mere 20 seconds later, Wilson put the final nail in the coffin. Wilson read the UMass regroup and picked off a pass, zipped past the UMass defense and wristed a bar-down shot from the dot to put the Elis up by three.

TRACK AND FIELD FROM PAGE 14 vaulter Brendan Sullivan ’16 as a freshman who has performed well so far in the nascent season.

Despite the difficult campaign last year, the women’s team also posted heartening results on Sunday. Yale women emerged victorious in both throwing events, as Antonia Renker ’13 won the weight throw and Karleh Wilson ’16 took the shot put. The distance runners also won two events, as Annelies Gamble won the mile and Shannon McDonnell ’16 won the 1000-meter run.

“We’re definitely excited because at least at the first meet

of the season, I just didn’t see people looking very intimidated at all,” women’s team captain Allison Rue ’13 said. “I think people were really confident in a very healthy way, and they were just competing very well.”

Rue added that she believes the team will see a payoff at Heptagonal Championships if it continues to work hard.

The men’s and women’s track and field teams continue their seasons at Coxe Cage for the Yale Invitational on Jan. 12.

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Yale falls to New Hampshire

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The men’s team captured four of the day’s events, while the women’s team tallied five wins and had total of nine victories.

Both teams were given five-on-three opportunities Tuesday night. UMass had one early in the game, and both teams had chances in the third.

UMass pulled its goalie and added a sixth man with three minutes left to play, doubling the amount of skaters the Bulldogs had on the ice. The first Yale penalty expired and Miller returned to the ice, but UMass Rocco Carzo was able to overpower the Yale defense and score a garbage goal to cut Yale’s lead to two. But it was too little, too late for the Minutemen.

Yale also had strong goaltending early in the game that allowed them to gain momentum from the beginning.

“Early on in the game we had some good goaltending,” Miller said. “Malcolm came up huge early in the game.”

The Bulldogs now have some time to heal their injuries over the holidays, as they don’t compete for 17 days. Yale will face off against the Russian Red Stars of the Russian Junior Hockey League on Dec. 28 at Ingalls Rink.

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Though Sam Martin ’13 went 5–6 from the free-throw line and the Elis shot 75 percent to the Wildcats’ 55.6 percent from the strip, the Bulldogs still fell 64–56.

MEN’S BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 14 only five of their 17 field goals on Saturday, less than half their season average 10.8 assists per game.

Faulty execution was one reason why Yale shot so poorly from the floor against New Hampshire, center Jeremiah Kreisberg ’14 said. The Elis were just 1–14 from beyond the arc and shot a paltry 37.8 percent (17–45) from the floor against the Wildcats.

Cotton added that the Elis sometimes forgo open looks early in the shot clock so as not to get out of the offense, leading to contested looks late in the possession.

“We need to have some swagger and confidence in our shooting ability,” Cotton said.

The Wildcats, meanwhile, made 24 of 53 shots and dished out 13 assists on Saturday.

Recovering from off-season back surgery, Kreisberg had his second straight strong game with a 14-point, eightrebound performance. Jones said that Kreisberg has been Yale’s most consistent post player in recent practices, but the center believes that he has room for improvement.

“I got cleared to play the day before the first game started, so I was just kind of thrown back in there,” Kreisberg said.

“It’s just about me getting back in shape [and] getting more comfortable with my teammates on the floor.”

Kreisberg also scored 14 points in last Wednesday’s 64–62 buzzer-beating

victory at Bryant. Those performances earned Kreisberg a spot on the Ivy League Honor Roll for the week.

Forward Justin Sears ’16 joined Kreisberg on the honor roll. He contributed 10 points and two rebounds at New Hampshire to go with his 20-point, ninerebound game against Bryant.

Guard Austin Morgan ’13 netted 12 for the Bulldogs on Saturday, and Cotton chipped in seven points and nine boards.

Yale will return to the John J. Lee Amphitheater on Dec. 18 against Albertus Magnus at 7:00 p.m.

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Bulldogs vanquish Minutemen

Elis clawed

by Wildcats

BY CHARLES CONDRO STAFF REPORTER Yale could not take care of the basketball or University of New Hampshire forward Ferg Myrick last Saturday.

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Yale was able to lead the Minutemen at all times, with goals from Nico Weberg ’15, Tommy Fallen ’15, captain Andrew Miller ’13 and Stu Wilson ’16.

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER A burst of energy from the Bulldogs in the third period solidified the Yale lead to bring the team to its 4–2 win over the UMass Minutemen.

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Last night at Ingalls Rink, the Bulldogs (7–3–2, 3–3–1 ECAC) scored first and maintained their lead to top UMass (5–9–2, 4–6–1 HEA) for their seventh win of the season. Though possession changed constantly and Yale had to battle for the puck all over the ice, the Bulldogs managed to piece together another win fueled by team effort.

“It was kind of an ugly game, which is what happens when you play three games in four nights and you have a couple of guys banged up,” head coach Keith Allain said. “We came together as a team; we did the things we have to do to win games.”

Scoring came from all over the ice, with goals from Nico Weberg ’15, Tommy Fallen ’15, team cap-

Myrick torched the Elis for 24 points and added 11 rebounds as he led the Wildcats (4–5, 0–0 American East) to a 64–56 victory in Durham, N.H. “He played power forward but was only 6-foot-6, maybe 6-foot-5,” forward Armani Cotton ’15 said. “So he had an edge in quickness.”

Head coach James Jones added that hybrid power forwards like Myrick who can shoot the basketball have been a problem for Yale (3–7, 0–0 Ivy) all season.

The Bulldogs also shot themselves in the foot by committing 18 turnovers that New Hampshire converted into 23 points on the other end. The Elis have had 10 or more turnovers nine

times this season and have the third-most in the Ivy League with 15.3 turnovers per game.

Jones said that cutting down on turnovers will be a point of emphasis in practice during the 10-day break between games for exams.

We’ve averaged too many turnovers to be successful.

JAMES JONES Head coach, men’s basketball “We’re trying to improve on everything,” Jones said. “But really our communication on the court is extremely important to us. We’ve averaged too many turnovers to be successful.”

That lack of communication has led to poor ball movement on offense. The Elis assisted SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 13

tain Andrew Miller ’13 and Stu Wilson ’16. Yale was able to maintain a lead at all times, but the Bulldogs kept only a slight one-goal lead until the third period.

Unlike the Union game on Saturday night, in which the Bulldogs took two and a half periods SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 13

Preventing Ivy League brain drain

BY JACQUELINE SAHLBERG STAFF REPORTER In the middle of the men’s and women’s hockey seasons, the Ivy League university presidents will meet today to review and approve regulations that are designed to prevent concussions in Ancient Eight hockey. The new rules follow those that have been put in place for football, lacrosse and soccer since the Ivy League Concussion Committee first met

in 2010.

The hockey recommendations are designed to reduce the number of concussions and to increase awareness of the injury’s symptoms and severity.

According to an October draft of the Ivy League Review of Concussions in Men’s Hockey, the recommendations include increased neck strength training and support for the ECAC postgame video review and suspension policy.

“The rules are part of the Ivy League’s focus on leading the NCAA on concussions,” said Robin Harris, executive director of the Ivy League. “One part is the prevention — the other is education.”

The League’s Ad Hoc Committee on Concussions first convened in 2010 to review head trauma in football and to determine what measures could be taken to reduce risk in the sport.

In July 2011, Ivy League presi-

dents accepted the new football regulations that limit full-contact practices to twice a week and decrease the number of practices in full pads.

The committee then turned to reviewing data and research for lacrosse and soccer, and recommendations for both sports were approved in July 2012. Men’s lacrosse head coach Andy Shay said the regulations requiring 11 SEE CONCUSSIONS PAGE 13

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 scored 10 points on 4–6 shooting, but Sears and the other Eli big men struggled to contain the Wildcats’ Ferg Myrick.

Track and field looks to improve

BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER Both the men’s and women’s track and field teams struggled at last year’s Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championships. The men amassed 36 points and finished seventh, while the women scored 22 points and placed last.

Yet after disappointing 2011–’12 seasons for both squads, the Elis will look to use those results as experience and improve this year.

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The Elis began the season on the right foot this weekend, performing well at the Yale Season Opener at Cox Cage.

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The Bulldogs began the season on the right foot this weekend, performing well at the Yale season opener at Coxe Cage.

Although the meet was not scored, the men’s team captured

four of the day’s events, while the women’s team tallied five wins, bringing the Eli total to nine victories that day.

“Track is a rare sport where it doesn’t matter what you do Dec. 8, it’s what you do at Heps,” said Michael Levine ’13, who won the men’s weight throw. “You can have a horrible season, win Heps, it’s a great season. You can be great throughout the year, not do at Heps, then it’s a bad season.

That being said, a lot of guys got out there, and they ran well.”

Levine added that he thinks the team is in a good place heading into the season.

Men’s team captain Timothy Hillas ’13 described last season as a rebuilding year for the squad, explaining that the Elis were a young team with a limited num-

ber of athletes who could score points.

“I think we’re really very wellpoised this year to do some pretty interesting, great things,” Hillas said. “This past weekend was better than anything I could have expected.”

In addition to the victory

by Levine in the weight throw, Michael Pierce ’13 won the mile, James Shirvell captured the 1000-meter and the men’s 4x400-meter team took first in the relay.

Hillas tabbed Levine, members of the 4x400 squad, distance runner Matt Nussbaum ’15 and jumper Paul Chandler ’14 as returning athletes to keep an eye on this year, while noting pole SEE TRACK AND FIELD PAGE 13

THE JUNIOR DEFENSEMAN NOTCHED A GAME-TYING GOAL AGAINST UNION WITH UNDER FIVE MINUTES REMAINING. Yale went on to secure the tie against the Dutchmen with a final 2–2 score. The goal was Young’s first of the season.