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Frats criticize rush ban

This actually happened. In ECON 131 “Econometrics,” professor Nancy Qian implemented a tried-andtrue method for encouraging class camaraderie: She asked everyone in the class to introduce themselves by sharing their names and hometowns. All 100 of them.

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“[The ban] discourages freshmen from making bonds with fraternities early in the year,” said Russell Holmes ’13, Sigma Nu vice president of special projects, in an email to the News. “And [they] potentially [will] not form the important bonds that a fraternity offers.”

This fall’s smaller rush classes decreased the number of dues-paying members compared to those

Continuing a trend that began more than two decades ago, the Yale Investment Committee approved a slight increase in the endowment’s exposure to private equity for the 2013 fiscal year, according to a December report.

At its May 2012 meeting, the committee — a group that meets four times a year to review the University’s investment strategy — set the target asset allocation for private equity at 35 percent, compared with 34 percent during the last fiscal year, and also raised the absolute return target from 17 percent to 18 percent of the endowment and the real estate target from 20 percent to 22 percent. In the report, the Investments Office said the endowment is biased toward equity because “the need to provide resources for current operations as well as to preserve the purchasing power of assets dictates investing for high returns.”

Finance and investment experts interviewed said the alterations to the University’s asset allocation are consistent with the demonstrated preference for alternative asset classes that Yale has demonstrated since David Swensen took the reins as chief investment officer in 1985.

“Yale’s endowment with Swensen at the helm has always been known to be creative and at the forefront of its peers with respect to alternative investments like pri-

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Academia. Professor Kathryn Lofton asked her “Religion and Popular Culture” class to write commentaries on any of the following academic subjects: Rump Chat, Frank Ocean, Taylor Swift, “Girls,” “Django Unchained” or “Gangnam Style.” School has never been so fun.

Savin’ Sandy. The House of Representatives voted last night to approve $50.7 billion in emergency relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy more than 10 weeks after the Frankenstorm swept through the Northeast. Officials expect the Senate to approve the measure early next week before sending it to President Obama.

A law-abiding citizen. Yale graduate and Rhodes scholar Luke A. Bronin ’01 LAW ’06 has been named Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy’s chief legal counsel at the ripe old age of 33.

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The ban on fall freshman rush has resulted in financial difficulties for fraternities.

BY CYNTHIA HUA AND KIRSTEN SCHNACKENBERG STAFF REPORTERS A new ban on fall freshman rush for Greek organizations has resulted in negative effects on the groups, according to fraternity leaders interviewed.

Administrators announced the rule prohibiting freshmen from rushing Greek organizations during the fall semester in March 2011

to encourage freshmen to explore extracurricular opportunities outside of Greek life during their first semesters. Six out of seven fraternity leaders interviewed said their groups held fall rush events for upperclassmen, and both Alpha Epsilon Pi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon reported lower numbers than in past years. Fraternity members interviewed said they found the ban had negative results for fraternity culture and finances.

Drumming on Cross Campus.

The Association of Native Americans at Yale — along with similar groups across the Ivy League — will throw a “flash mob”-style protest at 10 a.m. this morning in solidarity with the “Idle No More” movement, which aims to preserve Native American sovereignty over tribal land.

Dr. Gage goes to Washington.

Yale historian Beverly Gage ’94 is scheduled to cover President Obama’s second inauguration for “PBS NewsHour” on Monday. She will join two other historians and political analysts, including David Brooks, the New York Times columnist who is teaching “Humility” this spring.

Remember her name. The town council of Stratford, Conn. has voted to rename a local elementary school after Victoria Soto, a Sandy Hook Elementary teacher who died after shielding her students from bullets in the seconddeadliest school shooting in U.S. history.

Who says Yale can’t do math?

Professor Emeritus George Daniel Mostow has been awarded the 2013 Wolf Prize, one of the top international awards for mathematicians, for his contributions in geometry. Mostow is known for his discovery of the strong rigidity theorem and will travel to Jerusalem in May to accept the award.

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Influenza hits the Elm City

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER New Haven has become a hotbed for influenza this year, as an uncharacteristically high number of Connecticut residents are suffering from the virus.

As of Jan. 10, Connecticut’s Department of Public Health had 1,676 laboratory-confirmed cases of the flu in the state, which City Hall characterized as an “early and comparatively higher” number of reported cases of influenza. According to a City Hall report, an estimated

Task force to address gun policy

10.4 percent of New Haven residents have suffered from the flu, which the report said mirrors the incidence rate seen throughout the rest of the state.

City Hall spokeswoman Anna Mariotti said that since the flu is hitting the nation more severely than usual, city officials are “closely monitoring” the situation in New Haven. She encouraged all residents of New Haven to get vaccinated.

Yale Health is providing free flu shots to those who have not already received them at SEE INFLUENZA PAGE 5

Students compare competitive majors ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER Despite their reputations for drawing similar groups of students, the Global Affairs and Ethics, Politics & Economics majors have not had to accommodate each other’s existence in order to maintain enrollment numbers.

Steve Wilkinson, director of undergraduate studies for Ethics, Politics & Economics, said he has not seen a change in student interest in his major since Global Affairs began accepting applications in 2011. Though Wilkinson and Sean Smith, DUS of Global Affairs, declined to provide specific application and admission numbers, both said the two majors com-

pete for students with different career interests despite overlaps in subject matter. Seven sophomores admitted to either major said they think it would be difficult for students to be competitive applicants to both majors because the number of prerequisites for each is difficult to squeeze into just three semesters.

Smith said Global Affairs sees increases in applications each year and admits roughly 50 students each round, and Wilkinson said EP&E normally receives 75 to 85 applications each year and admits just under half. While yield rates for both majors this year are not yet available, Wilkinson said only SEE MAJORS PAGE4

Gov. Malloy has created a Sandy Hook Commission to suggest policies to curb further violence.

BY MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTER One month after a shooter took 27 lives at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Democratic and Republican congressional leaders announced a joint legislative task force to propose policies aimed at preventing similar future tragedies.

The bipartisan task force, announced in a Tuesday morning press conference, will tackle issues including gun regulation, mental health and school safety. It plans to review the current laws and release its legislative proposals by late February. The legislature’s joint task force will work concurrently with a Sandy Hook Commission created earlier in the month by Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and a federal task force headed by Vice President Joe Biden.

“The eyes of the nation are on Connect-

icut to see how we respond to the horrific tragedy in Newtown and the plague of gun violence,” said State Senate President Donald Williams Jr. at Tuesday’s press conference. “Our children’s safety is not a partisan issue, and I am pleased to join with Democrats and Republicans in crafting a bipartisan plan to reduce violence, improve school security and address access to mental health services.”

Since the shooting took place on Dec. 14, dozens of legislative responses have already been filed, including an expanded assault weapons ban, a public registry of gun owners and increased funding to mental health care services. The task force’s main job will involve shepherding these proposals through their respective committees so that they can come to a vote by late February — several SEE GUNS PAGE 5

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ith shopping period in full swing, Yale students are overwhelmed with seemingly impossible decisions. But for around half of Yale students, an even bigger question lurks: how to earn almost $3,000 this summer for my financial aid plan.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m a huge fan of Yale financial aid. I think it’s absolutely incredible that Yale has given so many students, including me, the opportunity to attend college at an affordable price. Still, I think Yale can do better.

Last year, students on financial aid were expected to contribute $2,900 in summer earnings towards their education.

In the age of unpaid internships — and even worse, paying placement companies to obtain unpaid internships — earning money over the summer as an undergraduate is difficult.

As a financial aid recipient starting to make plans for my first college summer, I found myself incredibly limited by the student income contribution. Beyond the difficulty in obtaining a paid position outside of Yale’s gates, I found that looking within Yale to finance my summer plans was problematic as well. Many Yale fellowships specify that they cannot be used to cover the student income contribution. Additionally, many expensive international programs warn students not to commit unless they are confident that they can pay the full price without a fellowship award, since fellowship results frequently arrive later in the semester.

I spoke to a financial aid representative about my options going into the summer, and I was given three choices: Find a way to earn the money. Ask my parents to cover the additional cost.

Take out a student loan.

Granted, most Yale students could find a way to earn $2,900 over the summer. National minimum wage is $7.25, so working 30 hours a week for 15 weeks would cover the contribution.

The problem, however, is that most Yale students also hope to use their summers to expand their educational horizons, not just earn cash by mindlessly scooping ice cream.

College summers should be treated just as the fall and spring semesters are: a time for education and growth. Summer internships and travel experiences are factors taken into consideration by employers and graduate schools. One of the main reasons that Yalies take their summer plans so seriously is that they know their choices could have serious implications in the future.

Yes, parents could opt to cover their child’s summer earning costs, but if Yale is truly asking families to contribute the amount they can afford, chances are they don’t have an extra couple thousand dollars sit-

ting around.

Although the Yale A d m i s sions website proudly boasts that students are not expected DIANA to take ROSEN out loans, financial Looking aid recipients who Left wish to pursue unpaid opportunities over the summer may be left with no other option.

The net effect of the summer income contribution is that lower-income students are forced to limit their summer experiences to ones that will return substantial paychecks. Yes, Yale is giving these students the fantastic opportunity to attend the University at a reduced cost, but what’s the point of doing that if their opportunities will be limited once they arrive? I haven’t even touched on the term-time job component of Yale financial aid plans, which sucks 10 hours a week out of extracurricular and academic pursuits. If Yale genuinely wants to open the door for these students, they should reform the student financial aid requirements, allowing students to fully take advantage of everything the University has to offer during the school year and unpaid summer opportunities.

Yale’s International Summer Award program does help finance one summer abroad for financial aid recipients, but it is limited to specific programs and fellowship awardees. Much more than this one program can, and should, be done to alleviate the problem of the student income contribution. Some immediate solutions could be expanding the number of fellowships that can cover the student contribution and moving fellowship deadlines up so that the results are known in time for students to commit to summer plans.

In the future, given that Yale’s endowment is greater than the GDP of many countries, the financial aid budget can be expanded. Even just by looking at our favorite Cambridge peer, we can see that it’s possible. According to Harvard’s net price calculator, students are expected to contribute only $1,600 in summer earnings each year, little more than half of what is expected at Yale.

It’s time for Yale to stop putting financial aid recipients at a disadvantage every summer and to start granting them the full experience of a Yale education — 365 days a year — that they earned with their admission.

DIANA ROSEN is a freshman in Pierson College. She is an Online Blogger for the News. Her print column runs monthly. Contact her at diana.rosen@yale.edu.

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'CONCERNED' ON 'ECONOMICS CHAIR POLAK NAMED PROVOST'

Looking to Cooperstown I

to meet Mark McGwire when I was in first grade.

Although a Yankees fan at the time, I wore a Cardinals hat all HARRY day and gidGRAVER dily counted the minutes Gravely until meeting the man who Mistaken had just struck 70 home runs.

He was an idol, larger than life in a fashion both perplexing and permanent.

But now, that memory is joined to those of watching these men trade their jerseys for courtroom suits, and their bats for depositions. In the place of the fascinated admiration of many childhoods lies an acute vacuum where these giants once towered.

The fall of a baseball hero holds a particular brand of tragedy. For many American children, our first impression of our national identity comes through the introduction to our national pastime. Many of us will never forget the first time we craned our necks at the towering

was never going to be recruited to Yale for baseball. Over the three seasons I played on my high school varsity team, my career average never topped .200, and it wasn’t because I was facing the next generation of all-star prospects.

And yet, after last week, Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds may well have about the same chances of getting into the Hall of Fame as I do. Over winter break, the Baseball Writers' Association of America made a resounding rejection of the legends of the “Steroid Era,” voting nobody into Cooperstown for 2013. Among the rejected group were the all-time leader in home runs (Bonds), the pitcher who amassed the most Cy Young awards in history (Clemens) and someone with 600 career long balls (Mark McGwire).

For our generation, there is a particular, profound distinction — and accompanying heartbreak — that comes with this group of players. They are not just a distant era’s group of elite, but they were our heroes, the group of titans that championed the baseball diamond in our childhoods. We won’t get a second batch.

I remember getting the chance

coliseum before us, steeped in tradition and wonder, the trance only broken by a father’s hand, leading us inside so that we wouldn’t miss batting practice.

Yale University historian J.H. Hexter once wrote, “Baseball is society, played as a game.” There is something exceptional to the sport that makes it almost instinctually American. It exudes an aura that connects, with a natural fluidity, to our national psyche, aggregating experiences into a near muscle memory of our character.

As Walt Whitman wrote: “Baseball is our game. The American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us.”

Yet, the social elixir of which Whitman speaks, while not wholly absent, is poisoned just enough for our generation. The memories still exist, but there is a bright, blinding asterisk that serves as the guiding light when we look back at them.

The timing of the Hall of Fame vote comes at a fitting juncture for people our age. Having just filled out our first presidential ballot, we are coming to the point in our lives where we are closer to being the hand guiding someone into the stadium rather than the eyes gazing upwards. Perhaps not in a

strict sense of years, but certainly in disposition.

And at this point, it is difficult not to find ourselves searching for Cooperstown in some other form.

But, in places, the road appears equally forlorn. On the precipice of adulthood, we do not have a Roosevelt or Kennedy or Reagan to embody the identity that straddles reality and reverie. Our political class, rather, is steeped in folly, vice and madness. Trade in your performance-enhancing drugs for shallowly constructed sound bites, and we have the same cheap tricks temporarily clinging onto varied heartstrings.

But perhaps, as we stand one more pile of cover letters away from the real world, this is exactly the blessing we need. In an age like ours, ignorant of our limits yet indulgent in our affectations, we are living in an age of heroes that look more like Icarus than Aeneas. Maybe it’s the right time, as we look to Cooperstown, to look straight ahead, rather than crane upwards.

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

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hanks to the flu, the city of Boston and the state of New York have both declared a public health emergency.

Now, before your schadenfreude kicks in, I’d warn you that we here in New Haven are not safe, either. The Connecticut Department of Public Health has released an update that classifies current flu activity, based on metrics such as emergency room visits, as “widespread.” Not a lot of exit strategies are available to us.

Fortunately, there are measures you can take to protect yourself.

You can get a flu shot, wash your hands, abstain from touching your face and even avoid all social interaction. Obviously, some of these methods are more realistic than others; communication via Facebook probably can’t sustain you all semester. That being said, I’d still be careful about sharing drinks or bodily fluids.

The severity of the flu is often understated, but don’t let the fact that most people survive it lower

your guard. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, estimates that the influenza virus claims between 3,000 and 49,000 lives in the United States every year. Children below the age of 5 or seniors above the age of 65 are at higher risk; if you are either, please take extra precautions.

Remember the swine flu scare back in 2009? That was actually the second pandemic involving H1N1. Scientists sometimes refer to the first, known as the Spanish flu of 1918, as the “mother of all pandemics.” Influenza can take an economic toll, too, costing U.S. businesses about $10.4 billion a year.

The virus itself is between 80 and 120 nanometers wide in diameter. This means I’m approximately 18 million times larger than a single particle (for scale, Kim Kardashian has 17 million Twitter followers). At the center of this microscopic monster, you’ll find the RNA that hijacks your healthy

cells for its unscrupulous purposes. The RNA is surrounded by a shell of proteins called a capsid — which in turn is surrounded by an envelope of lipids.

This lipid envelope is studded with proteins, two of which we use to label the strains of the virus.

Those two proteins are called hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA), which are known as antigens. Antibodies, Y-shaped weapons of your immune system, recognize these antigens. When HA and NA change, your body may no longer be able to see the invading virus. That’s when an epidemic can occur.

The best way to prepare for the upcoming flu fest is by injecting your body with pieces of dead influenza. Flu vaccines are designed to help your body recognize the proteins on the latest virus strains going around each season.

It takes a week or two for the vaccine to work, so if you haven’t gotten your flu shot yet, you might

think it’s too late. The CDC disagrees. Influenza is unpredictable. Sure, the worst might be already over — but the virus could also surge back in a couple weeks.

Given this uncertainty, the CDC continues to recommend that people get vaccinated.

The CDC says that this season’s vaccine is 62 percent effective. This means that those protected by the vaccine are 62 percent less likely to need a doctor.

Presumably, that 62 percent is also 100 percent less likely to need an undertaker.

Get yourself vaccinated if you haven’t already. The flu clinic is on the second floor of Yale Health, and it’s free (or, at the very least, factored into our tuition). You should be able to handle shots pretty well by now. And don’t forget: Protecting yourself protects others as well.

JONATHAN PARK is a junior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact him at jonathan.park@yale.edu .

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women.”

n a quiet December morning, two teenaged women walked the streets of the Pakistani city, Peshawar. They posed no threat, carrying only clipboards with lists of local schoolchildren and boxes of refrigerated polio vaccines. Yet along with seven other U.N.-backed health workers, they were stalked and gunned down by men on motorbikes, killed instantly in billowing gunfire of hate and violence.

Within hours, UNICEF, Rotary International, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization ordered their 225,000 polio vaccinators off the streets, thereby ending the threeday mission that aimed to administer nearly 5.2 million drops of the vaccine. Although no specific group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, polio officials suspect Pakistan Taliban groups based in the Pashtun region at the Afghanistan border.

These militant groups have long issued threats against the U.N.’s anti-polio efforts, citing the use of health workers as U.S. spies and the inefficacy of the vaccine.

Eradication campaigns, often backed by the U.N., have proven effective in the majority of the world. In 1988, over 200 countries and 20 million volunteers joined together to start the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Since then, 2.5 billion children have been immunized, with only 214

reported cases of polio worldwide in 2012. The WHO classifies Pakistan as one of three “polioendemic countries,” along with Afghanistan and Nigeria. Worldwide eradication of polio remains elusive: annual cases can fluctuate in the thousands depending on the year. As one of only three nations with a high incidence of the disease, these eradication campaigns in Pakistan are crucial.

Given the pressing nature of these efforts, where lies the opposition? Cultural distrust, medical misunderstanding and politicized relationships account for this gap.

Historically, “polio rumors” have poisoned the vaccination process.

Recipients of the vaccine — many of whom are isolated in rural villages — believe that the vaccine contains pork, that it hosts the HIV virus or that traces of estrogen may be responsible for female sterilization. These suspicions explain the resistance to polio vaccinations in Afghanistan — where the Taliban targeted eradicators until Mullah Mohammed Omar’s fatwa in 2007 — or in Nigeria, where Islamic extremist group Boko Haram continues to attack police officers accompanying WHO teams.

However, more recently, vaccination efforts have been hampered by political conflict — confrontations far more damaging. In May 2011, the CIA admitted to using Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi to run a vaccination scheme as a ruse

to enter bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad. Even though the cover failed, the global reaction was explosive, damaging the credibility of the polio campaign and putting lives of vaccination doctors, nurses and volunteers in danger. In the months following the discovery of this ploy, public outcry and attacks against health workers became all too common.

Just a few months after the bin Laden raid, angry villagers chased out health workers in the KhyberPakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Since this incident, the Taliban commanders have banned vaccination teams from entering North and South Waziristan, justifying the prohibition with the same suspicion. A follow-up study quantifying global “vaccine confidence indexes” revealed plummeting trust in the polio campaign. The recent attacks on the health workers — all Pakistani natives — serves as a cry for a serious reform of where to draw the line between medicine and political conflict.

The recent attacks only highlight the impact of Afridi’s vaccination ploy and the bin Laden raid. A trajectory of intense suspicion has been established, thereby hampering further discourse in eradicating the disease.

Most concerning, the attacks were extensively coordinated and wellplanned, indicating a symbolism far beyond simple medical misun-

derstanding.

By using vaccination efforts as covers for our military ventures, we link public health with our politicized efforts abroad. Political conflict has crossed the line too far, compromising the wellbeing of millions of impoverished individuals as well as the safety of those who are eager to help combat the wrongs of such illness. But we should not and cannot introduce health campaigns into this equation. It encourages reactions like those in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, where commanders will not allow polio vaccinators into their villages until U.S. drone strikes are stopped. It turns the health of children into a weapon.

It justifies acts of violence against innocent aid workers.

If we are to truly achieve 100 percent eradication, we need to eliminate global conflict and political disagreement from these health conversations. This latest attack should serve as a tipping point in the grand scheme of eradicating the disease. The line between health and politics cannot be blurred.

RIMA ABHYANKAR is a junior in Branford College and ISABEL BESHAR is a junior in Saybrook College. They are co-coordinators of the Public Health Coalition. Contact them at rima.abhyankar@yale.edu and isabel.beshar@yale.edu .

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CORRECTION TUESDAY, JAN. 15

The article “Dean’s Office debuts bartending classes” misstated the name of the fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Professors teach at One Day U

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The article “High BMI tied to cancer” mistakenly stated that 550,000 women completed a 1995 self-reported survey used for a recent study from the Yale School of Public Health. In fact, 550,000 men and women completed the survey.

Safety committee considers antiviolence initiatives

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER The Board of Aldermen’s Public Safety Committee met with Dean Esserman, New Haven chief of police, Tuesday evening to discuss two recent violence reduction initiatives.

The first, Project Longevity, a Department of Justice program to reduce gang violence in Connecticut cities, was launched with federal, state and local sponsorship in late November.

The committee also reviewed the results of the “community policing” initiative with Esserman, who spearheaded its implementation last year along with Mayor John DeStefano Jr.

We’re moving in the right direction. The murder rate is down 50 percent and shootings are down a third.

DEAN ESSERMAN Chief, New Haven Police Department Policies similar to Project Longevity have been successful in certain neighborhoods of larger cities like Boston and Cincinnati, the Department of Justice reported, but committee chairman Brian Wingate hesitated to recognize it as the perfect solution.

“I’ll give it time,” he said.

“New Haven is a small town, and Project Longevity is big picture.”

Pastor William Mathis, a longtime advocate for Project Longevity, explained that the policy relies principally on community members discouraging the culture of violence and criminal lifestyle. “We’re sending young gang members a message of the sanctity of life,” he said.

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between law enforcement and the community at large and the gang members themselves, giving many an escape from crime and institutionalization, Esserman and Mathis said. Esserman added that people connected to gangs who have not yet committed serious felonies, as well as juvenile offenders, are offered community support as well as amnesty in the form of a “clean slate” voucher so they do not get trapped in the penal system.

“We want to do the right thing, not just going to arrest someone just because they’re associated with somebody,” Mathis said.

In conjunction with Project Longevity, community policing is a system in which police officers walk regular patrols in historically high-crime neighborhoods. “It’s always the same officers in each district, which builds trust in these communities,” Esserman said. He updated the committee on his efforts to recruit more officers to expand this system.

The city has seen a drop in violent crime since the implementation of community policing. “We’re moving in the right direction. The murder rate is down 50 percent, and shootings are down by a third,” Esserman said. “It’s a beginning; we have a long way to go.”

Despite this decrease in violent crime, one board member expressed her constituents’ continued feelings of insecurity and fear of street crime.

“We’re not just trying to bring down the numbers, we’re trying to bring up sense of comfort and safety,” Esserman acknowledged. He added that violence would have to decrease consistently over the course of several years before anyone would recognize it.

The number of homicides fell in New Haven from 34 in 2011 to 17 in 2012.

Contact SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC at sebastian. medina-taya@yale.edu .

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One Day University, a program that offers adults lectures by prestigious professors, featured Yale professors Paul Bloom and Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84.

BY LAVINIA BORZI STAFF REPORTER One Day University gives adults the opportunity to relive their bright college years — but only for one Saturday or Sunday.

One Day U holds a series of classes over the course of a day in cities across America taught by professors from prestigious universities.

The program, which is open to any adult for up to $239, was founded in New York City in 2006 and has included classes taught by wellknown Yale professors such as law professor Akhil Amar ’80 LAW ’84 and psychology professor Paul Bloom.

“We’re every bit an entertainment company as we are an education company,” said Steven Schragis, the founder of One Day U. Steven Schragis said he originally came up with the idea for One Day U when he dropped his daughter off at college and he discussed his wish to go back to college with other parents. He researched professors from Ivy League schools who received the best evaluations from students and contacted them to see if they were interested in teaching a class for adults. Over time, Schragis said, class participants began to request professors from nonIvy schools as well.

A typical One Day U session begins at 9:30 a.m. and ranges from an average of 10 to 12 classes in one day. Participants can register for up to five classes, with subjects ranging from “The Psychology of Money” to “Who was Confucius and What Did He Really Say?”

Schragis said he thinks most professors accepted the offer to teach a different crowd than university students, adding that the professors also receive a speaker’s fee.

Amar said he participates in One Day U because he can share his ideas with a wider variety of people as well as encourage people to buy his books. One Day U is also a medium to get Yale’s name “out in the world,” he added.

A large number of the audience members of his lectures were parents of high school students, he said, and by teaching he was able to promote Yale at the same time.

Yale wants me to produce ideas that will change the world, and those ideas won’t change the world if they don’t get into people’s heads.

AKHIL AMAR ’80 LAW ’84 Professor, Yale Law School “Yale wants me to produce ideas that will change the world, and those ideas won’t change the world if they don’t get into people’s heads,” said Amar.

The pay and the opportunity to “take a mini-vacation” are also appealing aspects of participating in the program, said Yale film studies professor Marc Lapadula, who teaches

“Five Movies That Changed America” at One Day U. Tamar Gendler ’87, the chair of Yale’s Philosophy Department, said her experience with One Day U influenced her teaching method because it helped her make her lectures more accessible.

“The process of thinking about how to lecture effectively for an audience like the One Day U audience was a transformative experience that ultimately shaped the way I lecture to Yale undergraduates,” she said.

Lectures can be freer at One Day U because the adult audience is not tested on the material, said Harvard biology professor Hopi Hoekstra. She added that she teaches One Day U courses with a more casual tone than the one she uses with her undergraduate students.

Wendy Schiller, who teaches political science and public policy at Brown, said her lectures at One Day U differ in content, but not in style, from those she teaches to her undergraduate students.

Schiller said she thinks the adult participants respond with stronger opinions than typical undergraduates because the adults are more willing to speak their minds. But Lapadula said he found that despite the difference in age group, he received the same enthusiastic response from students in both venues.

The next One Day U event in New York City will take place on Sunday, April 21.

Contact LAVINIA BORZI at lavinia.borzi@yale.edu .

With missing alderman, new faces emerge

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER Two candidates have entered the race for the Ward 14 seat on the New Haven Board of Aldermen vacated by the long-absent Gabriel Santiago.

Santiago, who had not shown up to a board meeting for over five months, resigned the first week of January in a letter delivered to the Office of Legislative Services. City officials interviewed said they did not know the reasons for Santiago’s absence, as he has not responded to phone calls or emails — including from his constituents — since July.

Ward 15 Alderman Ernie Santiago — who bears no relation to the resigning Santiago — said that his colleague’s resignation might have to do with his having moved to an unknown location.

He also cited Gabriel Santiago’s trouble balancing the position with his evening job as a possible cause of the former alderman’s truancy.

“The only one who can explain his absence is him, and he’s been unwilling to do that,” Santiago said. “What we do know is that this was a huge missed opportunity. He’s a young guy who

was passionate about youth programs and could have been involved in politics for a long time.”

With the formal resignation received, the New Haven city clerk’s office will hold a special election for the vacant board seat on Feb. 22, said deputy city clerk Sally Brown. With candidacy announcements due this Thursday, two Fair Haven residents have entered the race.

One is Alberto Bustos, a 62-year-old businessman who first came to New Haven in 1981 from Peru and has since started a travel agency on Grand Avenue called Expresso Latino. Bustos said that his diverse experience in the community — founding a Spanish-language newspaper called Los Andes in 1985 and creating a citywide youth soccer league — will allow him to serve his neighborhood effectively.

“The people can trust me because I’ve been working with the community for more than 30 years,” Bustos said. “I know work needs to be done on the schools and safety. I want to work with the police department to make sure our neighborhood is more secure and drug-free.”

Bustos said he decided to

run two weeks ago and plans to knock on every Ward 14 door to campaign over the next month.

Also vying for the seat is Santiago Berrios-Bones, a 64-year-old biology teacher at Wilbur Cross High School. Berrios-Bones moved to the city in 1987 from Puerto Rico, where he studied education and biology before being recruited as a bilingual teacher by New Haven Public Schools.

Berrios-Bones, who said he has been planning to run for alderman for over a year, will reach out to community members and city leaders, including Fair Haven Ward 16 Alderman Migdalia Castro, to ready himself for the race.

“I’m not ready to say which issues are most important because I’m looking to the people to tell me that,” Berrios-Bones said. “As of now, I know we need to look at traffic and trash problems in the ward.”

Ward 14 co-chair Rafael Ramos said he and his fellow cochair will endorse one of the two Democratic Party candidates by this Thursday. A Republican or Independent challenger is unlikely because of the compressed schedule for the special

election, he added.

“The endorsement will depend on which candidate we think knows more about the neighborhood and which will be able to fight for the important issues,” Ramos said. “Some of the important considerations are going to be waterfront properties along the Quinnipiac River, zoning and traffic.”

Above all, Ramos said, he hopes the new alderman will show up to work.

“Being on the Board of Aldermen is a big commitment, and you need to attend meetings in order to work with your colleagues and cooperate on policies that affect multiple wards,” he said. “Santiago was very young — maybe 21 or 22 — and he clearly just couldn’t make the commitment.”

“Now he’s resigned out of the blue and we have to choose between two candidates we know little about,” Ramos added.

According to the city’s charter, the clerk’s office has 45 days from the time a resignation is received to hold a special election.

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ALBERTO BUSTOS is a businessman SANTIAGO BERRIOS-BONES is a who has resided in New Haven since 1981. biology teacher at Wilbur Cross High He started a small business in 1985 and School and a New Haven resident since 1987. has since founded a Spanish-language He was recruited to the school district as a newspaper and created a city-wide bilingual teacher from Puerto Rico, youth soccer league. On the Board, where he specialized in college in biology and Bustos says he will focus on safety and education.

education. On the Board, Berrios-Bones will look to reform traffic and sanitation policy.

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The percentage of Americans that received the flu vaccine last winter.

The most commonly cited reason for not receiving the vaccine is “I don’t need it,” followed by “I didn’t get around to it” and “I don’t believe in flu vaccines.”

Endowment sees rise in alternative assets

Yale’s endowment with Swensen at the helm has always been known to be creative.

ANDREW KAROLYI Finance professor, Cornell University William Jarvis’77, managing director of the Wilton, Conn. investment firm the Commonfund Institute, said Yale’s target allocations suggest that the University expects private equity investments to yield slightly greater returns than other asset classes with similar risk levels this fiscal year.

Though the committee slightly increased the target allocation to absolute return this year, the trend since the onset of the nationwide economic recession has gone the opposite direction. The current 18 percent target allocation is significantly lower than the 25.1 percent of the endowment Yale allocated toward absolute return in fiscal year 2008.

It is difficult for absolute return managers to generate returns that exceed current interest rates by a margin great enough to justify the fees the managers charge for their services, said Scott Clemons, chief investment strategist of New Yorkbased investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman.

Yale continues to direct only a

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Global Affairs and EP&E avoid overlap MAJORS FROM PAGE 1 one student so far has refused the EP&E offer.

“I see Global Affairs kids as very careerist, they know what they want to do after college … be it working for the foreign service or in a global agency,” said Rachel O’Connell ’15, who was admitted to both majors, adding that EP&E students tend to be the “more academic type who want to discuss issues on a theoretical or philosophical level.”

Wilkinson said EP&E makes a sustained effort to link its students with graduate schools, as many EP&E majors often contemplate advanced academic degrees. Smith said the Global Affairs major reacts to contemporary problems and has a faculty largely composed of visiting bureaucrats and policymakers.

It’s tough for students to combine a language, economics, philosophy and political science in their first three terms at Yale.

HADIA SHAH ’15 Of seven sophomores interviewed who were admitted to either major, only one applied to both.

Hadia Shah ’15, who was admitted to Global Affairs, said the informal prerequisites for the two majors made it difficult for students to submit strong applications to both.

“It’s tough for students to combine a language, economics, philosophy and political science in their first three terms at Yale unless they’re consciously aiming for both majors,” she said.

Justin Schuster ’15, also a new Global Affairs major, said he thinks the major is becoming more established among younger classes at Yale. He added that students are increasingly comfortable studying Global Affairs as a stand-alone major given that the program will soon graduate its first class.

Frankie Costa ’14, a double major in EP&E and Global Affairs, said students in his year matriculated before Yale offered Global Affairs, adding that he thinks “aggressive and effective marketing of [the Jackson Institute’s] brand and the Global Affairs brand” has driven inter-

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vate equity, absolute return (hedge funds) and real estate,” said Andrew Karolyi, a professor of finance at Cornell University, in a Sunday email. “It has paid off very well for them.”

Since 2008, Yale has increased its allocation toward private equity by almost 15 percent. Private equity investments have produced a 30 percent annualized return to the University since 1973, and the Investments Office estimated that Yale’s private equity portfolio will generate real returns of 10.5 percent with a risk of 26.8 percent, which is the chance the return will differ significantly from the predicted return.

small proportion of its endowment toward fixed income — a decision the report attributes in part to the University’s vulnerability to inflation.

Fixed income, which has the lowest-expected returns of the seven asset classes that make up the endowment, is the least attractive asset for the Yale endowment, the report said. Similarly, Yale decreased its exposure to domestic equity this year by 1 percent. Jarvis said the decrease is a logical move for Yale, since U.S. stocks are very efficiently priced, meaning that their price reflects the value of the asset, so even the best managers have few opportunities to achieve outperformance.

The report stressed the importance of hiring active managers who can identify and exploit market inefficiencies. In the context of private equity, good managers are able to add their expertise to the management of companies, helping to grow the value of businesses as opposed to just predicting their performance, the report said, adding that private equity also demands high manager fees and less liquidity, making for a riskier investment.

Nearly 80 percent of Yale’s outperformance relative to the average university endowment in the past two decades reported by Cambridge Associates was attributable to the value added by Yale’s active managers, while only 20 percent was the result of Yale’s asset allocation, the report said.

Though the Yale endowment saw a 4.7 percent return in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2012, it still has yet to recover fully from the financial downturn. It remains 15 percent below its level at the end of the 2008 fiscal year, according to the report.

Considering the inflation that has occurred since then, the purchasing power of the endowment remains well below where it was five years ago.

In fiscal year 2009, the endowment was able to provide 46 percent of the University budget, whereas in 2012 it provided less than 35 percent, the report said. The decline in endowment spending amounts to $181 million.

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est in the major among younger students.

Schuster added that he thinks students will perceive a smaller overlap between the two majors as Global Affairs further cements its policy-oriented identity.

“People will realize the serious distinctions between the two and preselect which one suits them best,” he said, adding that he already knows few students who applied to both majors.

Students applied to Global Affairs on Nov. 16, 2012 and EP&E on Dec. 3, 2012. They heard back from the two majors on the Dec. 19 and 21, respectively.

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .

G L O B A L A F FA I R S RECOMMENDED CLASSES RECOMMENDED FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE CLASSES FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS

Progress towards L5 proficiency in one language other than English Introductory Microeconomics Introductory Macroeconomics Applied Quantitative Analysis (GLBL 121) 1-2 other GLBL classes, such as Gateways to Global Affairs RECOMMENDED FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE CLASSES FOR EP&E

Introductory Microeconomics Introductory Macroeconomics 1-2 Philosophy classes or Directed Studies 1-2 Political Science classes

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‘STRATEGIES IN TIMES OF CRISIS’ Ambassador Peter Ammon, Germany’s highest-ranking representative to the U.S. government, gave a talk on German-American cooperation Tuesday afternoon in Luce Hall. The talk was sponsored by the German Club at Yale and the Program in European Union Studies at the MacMillan Center.

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FROM THE FRONT Fraternity leaders defend fall rush FALL RUSH FROM PAGE 1 from previous years. Three fraternity leaders said this decrease has had noticeable negative effects on their organizations’ finances, and Delta Kappa Epsilon President Nick Daffin ’13 said the fraternity must limit certain events they have held in the past as well as cut back on parts of the fraternity house’s planned renovation.

Two of three fraternity presidents whose organizations did not participate in spring rush in previous years said coordinating a new spring rush period posed logistical challenges.

Zeta Psi President Cameron Sandquist ’14 said his fraternity had to “completely revamp how our process works drastically.” Daffin said in past years, DKE has hosted a barbecue and several small events to help upperclassmen get to know the freshmen, and many of these events will be scaled back this year.

This year, all the freshmen could not [rush], so sophomore [pledges] were non-varsity athletes.

BRENDAN SHI ’15 Member, Sigma Nu Sigma Phi Epsilon President Will Kirkland ’14 and AEPi President Daniel Tay ’14 said they think fall rush would not have prevented freshmen from pursuing other experiences because fraternity brothers can help introduce freshmen to other student groups. In addition, current fraternity members missed out on the experience of mentoring new college students, Tay said, which is an important part of being in the fraternity community.

John Meeske, dean of student organizations and physical resources, said administrators plan to meet with Greek leaders in January or

“Health is not valued till sickness comes.” THOMAS FULLER ENGLISH CHURCHMAN AND HISTORIAN

Influenza swarms city INFLUENZA FROM PAGE 1 the Preventative Health Department on the second floor of the Yale Health Center weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. University spokesman Tom Conroy said several hundred people a day have been coming in for the vaccine.

At Yale-New Haven Hospital, the high number of reported cases of the flu has led to a new policy prohibiting those under 18 from visiting the hospital, barring a hospital exemption.

“We have seen a sharp increase in flu activity over the past few weeks here in Connecticut,” Connecticut DPH Commissioner Jewel Mullen said. “People should take steps to avoid getting the flu, including getting vaccinated. Even though the flu is here, it’s still not too late to get vaccinated.”

February to hear feedback about the new policy, but he thinks Greek leaders need more time to understand the full effect of the rule.

Only one fraternity leader interviewed said the ban positively affected his organization.

Sandquist said the ban allowed Zeta to increase its outreach efforts to upperclassmen and attract a rush class made up of students with more diverse interests.

Brendan Shi ’15, who joined Sig Nu this fall, said fraternities that typically have strong ties to certain varsity athletics teams have expanded their memberships to students beyond those teams, because the fraternities had more room in their fall pledge classes.

“For example, Sig Nu is kind of affiliated with golf, tennis and soccer and traditionally fall rush is really mostly athletic teams,” he said. “This year, all the freshmen could not [rush], so sophomore [pledges] were non-varsity athletes. I kind of see the same thing happening with DKE.” Shi added that he thought rushing sophomore year helped him choose a fraternity that better suited him because he was able to better get to know the other members of the fraternity.

Three freshmen interviewed said they did not feel the effects of the postponed rush period and they agreed with the reasoning behind the new rule.

“Most freshmen weren’t that concerned, including myself … it seems the basis for the rule made sense,” said Rafi Bildner ’16. “I would think that most freshmen didn’t even notice the new rule.”

All fraternities will hold spring rush, and this semester marks the first spring rush period for the Sigma Nu, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Zeta Psi fraternities.

Even though the flu is here, it’s still not too late to get vaccinated.

JEWEL MULLEN Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Public Health This year has already seen a severe flu epidemic spreading across the country. New York state and Boston have both declared states of health emergencies in order to channel more money into fighting influenza. As of Jan. 14, 19,128 cases had been reported in New York, compared to 4,404 cases during the 2011–’12 season, while Boston saw 700 confirmed flu cases by Jan. 9, 10 times the number of reported cases last year.

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An estimated 10.4 percent of New Haven residents have suffered from the flu, a sharp increase over last year’s rate. restricting visitors under the age of 18 is the first such policy since the H1N1 virus infected the city in 2009, said Yale-New Haven Hospital Associate Director for Hospital Epidemiology Louise Dembry. The hospital began the policy last Friday, and it is unclear when visitors under the age of 18 will be allowed to visit the hospital again, she added. Hospital officials will continue to monitor the flu situation and will relax the policy after the influenza epidemic has died down, she said.

Dembry added that while it seems like slightly more people are

getting vaccinated this year than in previous years, the hospital will not offer more vaccinations than usual because the hospital ordered vaccinations in the summer. She stressed that the sooner a person is vaccinated the better, since it takes about two weeks to become immune to the virus after receiving the vaccine.

In Connecticut, all pre-K students must have received the flu vaccine in order to be enrolled in school.

Contact MONICA DISARE at monica.disare@yale.edu .

Legislative task force to address gun regulations GUNS FROM PAGE 1 months before the end of the fivemonth legislative session.

“It is our sincere hope that we can come together and reach consensus on legislation that will safeguard our children and society as a whole while at the same time honor our constitutional rights,” State House Republican Leader Larry Cafero said.

State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney said that many of

the proposals the task force will consider are proposals that would have come up in the legislature either way, though the Newtown tragedy has lent them “a sense of impetus and urgency.” He mentioned adding additional assault weapons to the current ban, as well as banning high-capacity ammunition magazines and awarding grants to public schools to strengthen security measures.

Connecticut currently has an assault weapons ban in place,

though that ban renders specific models illegal when they possess at least two attributes on an extensive list, including a magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip and a folding or telescoping stock. Since this definition was put into place in 2001, gun manufacturers circumvented the ban by manufacturing their weapons to possess one or none of the attributes, said Mike Lawlor, undersecretary for criminal justice policy and plan-

ning for Connecticut.

On Tuesday afternoon, the New York State Assembly passed a Senate-backed bill that tightened its assault weapons ban by changing the definition of an assault weapon as a gun possessing one, rather than two, of the attributes. The bill is expected to be passed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, making New York the first state to put new laws into place in response to the Newtown tragedy. Lawmakers may

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take New York’s bill as an example, Lawlor said.

Earlier this month, Gov. Malloy created a Sandy Hook advisory commission to recommend policies to prevent future violence. Members on the commission include experts on education, mental health, school security and public safety. Critics noted that gun advocates and sellers were conspicuously absent from the appointments.

The commission is due to

report its proposals to the governor by March 15, over two months before the end of the legislative term. Spokespeople for the governor’s office and the legislature did not respond to questions about how the governor’s commission and the legislative task force will collaborate, if at all.

The current legislative session will adjourn on June 5.

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ON CAMPUS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16 12:30 PM “Stones of Beautiful Colors: The History and Treatment of the Gerasa City Mosaic” The talk will explain the historical and iconographic significance of the mosaic, as well as the conservation treatment that prepared it for display in the YUAG’s reopened galleries of ancient Mediterranean art. Lisa R. Brody, associate curator of ancient art, and Carol Snow, deputy chief of conservation, will give the lecture. Open to the general public. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 2:30 PM Coastal Adaptation Symposium Jennifer Leung, Ed Mitchell, Peggy Deamer, Bimal Mendis, Aniket Shihane and Alex Felson are conducting a second-year core urbanism studio in the master of architecture program will investigate a post-Sandy future for Coney Island’s development. The symposium will be convened jointly by the School of Architecture and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Rudolph Hall (180 York St.), Hastings Hall.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 18 11:30 AM “We Love Reading: A Community-Based Model to Advance Early Childhood Development in Jordan” Part of the Edward Zigler Center Social Policy Lecture Series. Free and open to the general public. William L. Harkness Hall (100 Wall St.), Room 116.

12:30 PM Furniture Study Tour Behind-the-scenes tour of the American Decorative Arts Furniture Study, the gallery’s working library of American furniture and wooden objects, with more than 1,000 works from the 17th century to the 21st century. The tour will take place every week until Feb. 22, 2013. Open to the general public. Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

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“Most gentlemen don’t like love, they just like to kick it around.” COLE PORTER AMERICAN COMPOSER AND YALE CLASS OF 1913

Star-studded production celebrates 100 years of

BY ANYA GRENIER STAFF REPORTER Generations of past and current Yale actors and musicians will come together this Saturday to honor the musical legacy of Cole Porter 1913 in a staged reading of “Kiss Me Kate,” one of Porter’s best-known musicals.

“Kiss Me Kate” will be the kickoff performance for a year’s worth of events at Yale commemorating the 100th anniversary of Porter’s Yale College graduation. Aided in part by the speed with which staged readings can come together, the organizers were able to bring in many illustrious professional alumni to take part in the performance as volunteers.

The event will also mark the premier of a critical edition of the musical’s orchestral score created by acclaimed conductor David Charles Abell ’81.

While it is common for scholars to produce authoritative critical editions for classical music works, they rarely do the same for musicals, Abell explained.

As with scholarly versions of Shakespeare’s text, critical editions of musical works compile sections of competing versions of the score and include annotation.

“I’m giving the respect granted those European masters to our own American musical theater,” Abell said.

“It’s our American art form — it’s what we have to offer the world.”

The Cole Porter estate hired Abell to take on the project of fully restoring the orchestral score, which previously contained errors and was not readily available to the public. Abell worked by digging up and comparing various versions of the orchestration to decipher Porter’s original intent. “[The result is] as close as possible to what the orchestra would have had in front of them on the show’s opening night in 1948,” Abell said.

[Musical theater] is our American art form — it’s what we have to offer the world.

DAVID CHARLES ABELL ’81 Conductor, ‘Kiss Me Kate’

The music will be the star of this weekend’s staged reading — the enormous 44-piece orchestra will sit on the stage rather than in the orchestra pit below, producer Amber Edwards ’82 said.

Ethan Freeman ’81, who will play the male lead, Fred Graham/Petru-

chio, said classical, operatic musicals like Porter’s are rarely performed in the world of professional musical theater, “That level of vocalism is very different from the kinds of noises I usually make on stage,” Freeman said. “You’re not usually required to sing in such a fine and cultivated manner.”

Terrence Chin-Loy ’14, who will sing the part of Hortensio, said he was drawn to the performance because it provided an unusual chance to work with prominent, professional arts alumni and to sing in a more traditional musical.

“Kiss Me Kate” will be done on script, and without the costumes, blocking and dance numbers required of a full production. Opera soprano Sari Gruber ’93, who will sing the lead role of Lilli Vanessi/Kate, said the singers will need to convey a great deal of emotion through their voices alone to get the story across.

“You have to think of different ways to deliver the comedy and deliver the drama because it’s all coming from voice and body language,” Chin-Loy explained.

Edwards said the show will be recorded, both for archival purposes and for eventual release as a CD, making it even more important that the music stand on its own.

Director Marc Vietor ’83 explained

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that “Kiss Me Kate” is a highly visual show, full of physical comedy — the characters hit and throw objects and roll around. The reading’s challenge was “to tell a story in as amusing and witty and elegant a way as we can, without being able to throw a flowerpot on stage,” he said.

To compensate for the absence of physical staging to convey the comedic element, the production is borrowing a technique from old-time radio plays: Ensemble members Raphael Shapiro ’13 and Bonnie Antosh ’13 will also serve as Foley artists, who create sound effects with everyday objects.

The two will stand at a table on stage and use various tools to reproduce the noises that should accompany action not actually being shown, Vietor said.

“The sound effects created a whole third layer of the script,” Edwards said.

“It’s as if the audience was walking into the [National Broadcasting Service] studios in 1948.”

“Kiss Me Kate” will run at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Jan. 19 at the University Theater. The next event in the centennial celebration will be a Cole Porter-themed swing dance in Jonathan Edwards College.

Art school celebrates Katz

BY JOSEPHINE MASSEY STAFF REPORTER The latest exhibition at the School of Art’s Edgewood Gallery celebrates American figurative artist Alex Katz in the largest display ever of his personally owned work.

“Katz x Katz,” curated by Robert Storr, dean of the School of Art and longtime friend of Katz, includes 70 works from Katz’s private collection, many of which have never been seen together before. The pieces include paintings, drawings, prints, cutouts and collages and aim to give an overview of Katz’s six-decade career.

“Alex has been around for a very long time, but is sort of taken for granted because he’s not known in-depth,” Storr said.

“This is a good occasion in terms of a wider audience to remind people of what a substantial figure he is and also focus on him with a critical eye.”

The Tuesday night opening of

the show attracted over 200 visitors from as far as New York and New Jersey. Guests ranged from undergraduate students who had never before seen Katz’s work to longtime friends and family members of the artist.

Katz’s work is arranged on the walls in a mosaic-like fashion, rather than in the single line typical in art galleries.

“All the different heights put [the work] in a different perspective,” said Keely Orgeman, an assistant curator at the Yale University Art Gallery who attended the opening. “You feel like you’ve stumbled upon his studio.”

Typical of Katz’s work are large painted portraits, and the show highlights the artist’s array of famous New York friends.

Included are portraits of dancer Karole Armitage, poet Allen Ginsberg and writer Sanford Schwartz.

“There are all kinds of people but it’s not a ‘who’s who,’ it’s a way to describe a milieu that was

really thriving and active and exciting,” Storr said.

Although Katz worked during the height of Abstract Expressionism at the same time as artists like Jackson Pollock, who pioneered “action painting,” Katz preferred figurative art, which depicts real objects rather than pure abstractions. Irving Sandler, an art critic and friend of Katz, said the artist did not employ a “painterly” style — the active brush strokes that characterized the mid-20th century — and instead had a more controlled style.

While the show is not explicitly didactic in purpose, the inclusion of smaller studies alongside larger paintings can help students visualize the entire creative process, Storr said.

“It’s hard to look away,” Njoki Gitahi ART ’14 said.

“Katz x Katz” runs until March 10 at 32 Edgewood Ave.

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

COLE PORTER TRUST

Cole Porter 1913, composer and lyricist for many legendary Broadway musicals, was a member of the Yale class of 1913.

‘January Joiner’ brings horror to the stage

BY PAYAL MARATHE STAFF REPORTER With the Jan. 9 premiere of “January Joiner” at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre, writer Laura Jacqmin ’04 is challenging two conventions of theater by confronting body-image issues on stage and bringing horror to live audiences for one of the first times.

The play, which Jacqmin called a “weight-loss horror comedy,” uses obesity as a springboard into issues of body image and poses questions about how people deal with changes in their loved ones. Jacqmin added that the play challenges the notion that only skinny actors belong on stage, instead featuring a cast of people with “normal” bodies.

By casting only thin actors in plays, theater companies set dangerous expectations of beauty that eventually get absorbed into culture at large, Jacqmin said. But rather than treating weight as an object of embarrassment and magnifying the challenges of being overweight,

“January Joiner” treats an individual’s weight as a fact of life, director Eric Ting said.

Ting recalled how 20 minutes into the first rehearsal for the show, one of the actors frankly asked whether they could admit their issues with body image out loud rather than tiptoeing around them.

“The more we work on this, the more I’m surprised that we don’t really talk about this fact in theater,” said Meredith Holzman, an actress in the play. “This play breaks some rules, and overall it’s been a very empowering experience because so much of the play is about being accepting of who you are and of other people when they go through a change.”

In fact, the central story of “January Joiner” is one about family, as two sisters, played by Holzman and Ashlie Atkinson, enroll in a weightloss program together, Ting said.

The play uses weight loss to spark a transformative journey and to explore the consequences “when the people who have loved us all our lives

LONG WHARF THEATRE

“January Joiner” confronts the issues of body image and self-acceptance.

LONG WHARF THEATRE

Two sisters, played by Meridith Holzman and Ashlie Atkinson, enroll in a weight-loss program together.

The toilet brush: used expressly for cleaning purposes. Right?

Wrong. A trip to the Yale University Art Gallery’s exhibit “Once Removed: Sculpture’s Changing Frame of Reference” proves to visitors that the toilet brush, among many other commonplace goods, can readily become art. The exhibit, which opened on Dec. 12 with the unveiling of the YUAG’s new renovations, focuses on the diversity of contemporary sculpture, featuring works from 1974 to the present that employ media ranging from an Ikea bookcase to cowskin to Vaseline. Visitors must keep one foot in the gallery and the other in the outside world to understand a work in its entirety, curator Cathleen Chaffee said.

fright much more quickly in a comedic setting, she explained. Holzman said the complexity of balancing horror and comedy is fitting for the play’s themes of body image, change and family relationships.

While the Long Wharf attracts an older audience for its subscription tickets, Jacqmin said she thinks the unconventional elements of horror and body image will appeal to Yale students as well.

It’s not about reaching out to an idea, but reaching out to the world and how you interact with it.

This play breaks some rules, and overall it’s been a very empowering experience.

“I compare it to a tripod. [The pieces] all have at least one leg that is outside the gallery; they’re pointing you away from each of the different works,” Chaffee said.

Chaffee explained that the works she chose for the exhibit exemplify the tendency of contemporary artists to create work that does not snugly fit into a museum, but instead requires the viewer to turn outside the gallery for meaning. Rejecting the traditional view of sculpture as an autonomous art form allows artists to respond to the world for broader purposes than political messages or social criticism, Chaffee explained.

“It’s not about reaching out to an idea, but reaching out to the world and how you interact with

MEREDITH HOLZMAN Actress, ‘January Joiner’ “This isn’t an easy take on weight loss — it’s more than a glancing comment,” Jacqmin said. “It’s something you will definitely be talking about in the cab on the way back.”

“January Joiner” will run at Long Wharf Theatre until Feb. 10.

Contact PAYAL MARATHE at payal.marathe@yale.edu .

JACOB GEIGER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Over 200 visitors attended the show’s Tuesday night opening at 32 Edgewood.

‘Once Removed’ examines contemporary sculptures

BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER

start to see somebody different,” Ting said.

When the two sisters start their weight-loss regimen, they start to notice strange phenomena, including a seemingly haunted vending machine and the suspiciously low enrollment for their weight-loss session — both examples of how Jacqmin introduces horror to the play. According to Ting, horror is an uncommon element of theater productions because it is difficult to scare a live audience, given the limited special-effects toolkit available to stage teams. But for “January Joiner,” the production team was able to take advantage of the similarities between horror and comedy to incorporate elements of horror into stage theater.

“The great thing is that they’re both about timing — to successfully scare an audience is in many ways the same as making people laugh, because you need a good lead-in and punch line,” Ting said.

Jacqmin said she is happy with the hybrid of horror and comedy, since marrying the two genres produces great audience reactions. When audiences are already laughing, they are much more shocked by a show’s horror elements; at the same time, spectators can recover from their

Contact JOSEPHINE MASSEY at josephine.massey@yale.edu .

MARTIN KERSELS Professor, School of Art

it,” School of Art professor Martin Kersels said.

The works in the exhibit force viewers to think about their own lives and interactions with materials, culture, shopping and junk, Kersels said. These concepts are immediate; they exist in the present, as opposed to the antiquated stories told by classical sculpture.

Kersels highlighted the relevancy of the museum’s pieces with Nam June Paik’s “Real Plant/ Live Plant,” which features a gutted television from the 1950s that is partially filled with dirt and fitted with two “antennae” — vases of live flowers — and an internal monitor that receives real-time feed of the flowers from a video camera. The piece invites the audience to step back and marvel at objects that are so pervasive in society that they are often overlooked.

“One might think about how the monitor has become embedded with society,” Kersels said.

“We hold them in our hands as phones and on our laps as laptops — they’ve become so ubiquitous with our culture.”

Anne Gunnison, a conservator who works on “Once Removed,” said using commonplace objects as artistic media may pose a challenge to the audience. She added that viewers may find it difficult to separate such ordinary objects as plastic bottles from their intended use and begin to view them as art.

Gunnison discussed the implications of sculptor Marcel Broodthaers’ use of a 16 mm projector in his “Un voyage en Mer du Nord.”

The projector runs still images on a loop, but is so obsolete as an entertainment device that it is considered a sculpture itself. The audience must question how this projector is different than one in a living room or movie theater, since using it in an unusual context does not make it less effective, Gunnison said.

The YUAG will host a talk by two of the featured artists Feb. 7.

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

HENRY EHRENBERG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Everyday objects are transformed into works of art in the “Once Removed” sculpture exhibit at the Yale University Art Gallery.

DANA SCHNEIDER

Perform or study?

BY DANA SCHNEIDER GUEST COLUMNIST Last year, I decided to shop one of Yale’s “must-take” courses — “History of Western Music: Baroque and Classical.” Professor James Hepokoski is renowned as a brilliant lecturer, and as a non-music major, I was curious to explore the Music Department beyond the traditional theory courses. At the end of the day, I found myself staring at 158 tracks of over nine hours of music in an iTunes playlist. My classmates and I would soon be tested on the title, composer and date of those tracks, based on only 45-second clips of music. And that was only for the first quiz. What was this class?

For undergraduates, Yale College is primarily an academic institution. The students who major in music graduate with a bachelor of arts degree as opposed to the bachelor of music degree offered by conservatories.

In fact, the college does not offer bachelor of fine arts degrees in any discipline. As a result, there is an inherent tension between performance and academia within the undergraduate music degree.

The School of Music stands out among other Ivy League institutions, considered an equal to the nation’s top music conservatories. Thanks to a generous donation by Stephen Adams ’59 and Denise Adams, all masters and doctorate students receive free tuition. With such an incredible powerhouse of performance on campus, many high school students, including myself, chose Yale because of its outstanding musical resources — for musicians majoring in any discipline.

But when it comes to actually majoring in music, the extensive theoretical prerequisites and requirements for the major can be a significant deterrent to students wishing to pursue performance after graduation. While there are many composition-minded students, a vast majority of music majors are also practicing musicians. Despite this fact, neither private lessons nor any other performance classes are a requirement for the major. Only two semesters of lessons-for-credit may be applied towards the major requirements, and an additional two may be used towards the graduation requirements. After four semesters of private lessons, students only receive credit at the graduate level. With students rushing to complete their major and distributional requirements, those who want to pursue performance may not even have the time to practice. “As someone hoping to pursue music professionally, I do not have the option of not taking lessons, and the extra course load leaves me constantly overworked,” commented Chelsea Lane ’14, a music major.

While the major does offer some performance courses, many — including seemingly essential ones like “The Performance of Chamber Music” — are offered at the 200-level. Considering that only one 200-level course can be applied towards major requirements, this is hardly a solution.

I am not advocating that Yale convert its undergraduate music major to an entirely performance-based curriculum or betray its liberal arts core. Many musicians on campus chose Yale over conservatories to pursue the academic degree and balanced education that conservatories lack. For them, a liberal arts education is an invaluable resource, even if it means less practice time. Still, Yale has much to improve concerning performance for credit, from instituting curricular orchestras to requiring instrumental professors to teach undergraduates.

On Cross Campus, Sterling Memorial Library faces the School of Music. For undergraduate musicians with their eyes on performance, the University still needs to resolve whether the two are opposites or complements.

Contact DANA SCHNEIDER at dana.schneider@yale.edu .

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ARTS & CULTURE

“Most gentlemen don’t like love, they just like to kick it around.” COLE PORTER AMERICAN COMPOSER AND YALE CLASS OF 1913

Star-studded production celebrates 100 years of

BY ANYA GRENIER STAFF REPORTER Generations of past and current Yale actors and musicians will come together this Saturday to honor the musical legacy of Cole Porter 1913 in a staged reading of “Kiss Me Kate,” one of Porter’s best-known musicals.

“Kiss Me Kate” will be the kickoff performance for a year’s worth of events at Yale commemorating the 100th anniversary of Porter’s Yale College graduation. Aided in part by the speed with which staged readings can come together, the organizers were able to bring in many illustrious professional alumni to take part in the performance as volunteers.

The event will also mark the premier of a critical edition of the musical’s orchestral score created by acclaimed conductor David Charles Abell ’81.

While it is common for scholars to produce authoritative critical editions for classical music works, they rarely do the same for musicals, Abell explained.

As with scholarly versions of Shakespeare’s text, critical editions of musical works compile sections of competing versions of the score and include annotation.

“I’m giving the respect granted those European masters to our own American musical theater,” Abell said.

“It’s our American art form — it’s what we have to offer the world.”

The Cole Porter estate hired Abell to take on the project of fully restoring the orchestral score, which previously contained errors and was not readily available to the public. Abell worked by digging up and comparing various versions of the orchestration to decipher Porter’s original intent. “[The result is] as close as possible to what the orchestra would have had in front of them on the show’s opening night in 1948,” Abell said.

[Musical theater] is our American art form — it’s what we have to offer the world.

DAVID CHARLES ABELL ’81 Conductor, ‘Kiss Me Kate’

The music will be the star of this weekend’s staged reading — the enormous 44-piece orchestra will sit on the stage rather than in the orchestra pit below, producer Amber Edwards ’82 said.

Ethan Freeman ’81, who will play the male lead, Fred Graham/Petru-

chio, said classical, operatic musicals like Porter’s are rarely performed in the world of professional musical theater, “That level of vocalism is very different from the kinds of noises I usually make on stage,” Freeman said. “You’re not usually required to sing in such a fine and cultivated manner.”

Terrence Chin-Loy ’14, who will sing the part of Hortensio, said he was drawn to the performance because it provided an unusual chance to work with prominent, professional arts alumni and to sing in a more traditional musical.

“Kiss Me Kate” will be done on script, and without the costumes, blocking and dance numbers required of a full production. Opera soprano Sari Gruber ’93, who will sing the lead role of Lilli Vanessi/Kate, said the singers will need to convey a great deal of emotion through their voices alone to get the story across.

“You have to think of different ways to deliver the comedy and deliver the drama because it’s all coming from voice and body language,” Chin-Loy explained.

Edwards said the show will be recorded, both for archival purposes and for eventual release as a CD, making it even more important that the music stand on its own.

Director Marc Vietor ’83 explained

Cole Porter

that “Kiss Me Kate” is a highly visual show, full of physical comedy — the characters hit and throw objects and roll around. The reading’s challenge was “to tell a story in as amusing and witty and elegant a way as we can, without being able to throw a flowerpot on stage,” he said.

To compensate for the absence of physical staging to convey the comedic element, the production is borrowing a technique from old-time radio plays: Ensemble members Raphael Shapiro ’13 and Bonnie Antosh ’13 will also serve as Foley artists, who create sound effects with everyday objects.

The two will stand at a table on stage and use various tools to reproduce the noises that should accompany action not actually being shown, Vietor said.

“The sound effects created a whole third layer of the script,” Edwards said.

“It’s as if the audience was walking into the [National Broadcasting Service] studios in 1948.”

“Kiss Me Kate” will run at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Jan. 19 at the University Theater. The next event in the centennial celebration will be a Cole Porter-themed swing dance in Jonathan Edwards College.

Art school celebrates Katz

BY JOSEPHINE MASSEY STAFF REPORTER The latest exhibition at the School of Art’s Edgewood Gallery celebrates American figurative artist Alex Katz in the largest display ever of his personally owned work.

“Katz x Katz,” curated by Robert Storr, dean of the School of Art and longtime friend of Katz, includes 70 works from Katz’s private collection, many of which have never been seen together before. The pieces include paintings, drawings, prints, cutouts and collages and aim to give an overview of Katz’s six-decade career.

“Alex has been around for a very long time, but is sort of taken for granted because he’s not known in-depth,” Storr said.

“This is a good occasion in terms of a wider audience to remind people of what a substantial figure he is and also focus on him with a critical eye.”

The Tuesday night opening of

the show attracted over 200 visitors from as far as New York and New Jersey. Guests ranged from undergraduate students who had never before seen Katz’s work to longtime friends and family members of the artist.

Katz’s work is arranged on the walls in a mosaic-like fashion, rather than in the single line typical in art galleries.

“All the different heights put [the work] in a different perspective,” said Keely Orgeman, an assistant curator at the Yale University Art Gallery who attended the opening. “You feel like you’ve stumbled upon his studio.”

Typical of Katz’s work are large painted portraits, and the show highlights the artist’s array of famous New York friends.

Included are portraits of dancer Karole Armitage, poet Allen Ginsberg and writer Sanford Schwartz.

“There are all kinds of people but it’s not a ‘who’s who,’ it’s a way to describe a milieu that was

really thriving and active and exciting,” Storr said.

Although Katz worked during the height of Abstract Expressionism at the same time as artists like Jackson Pollock, who pioneered “action painting,” Katz preferred figurative art, which depicts real objects rather than pure abstractions. Irving Sandler, an art critic and friend of Katz, said the artist did not employ a “painterly” style — the active brush strokes that characterized the mid-20th century — and instead had a more controlled style.

While the show is not explicitly didactic in purpose, the inclusion of smaller studies alongside larger paintings can help students visualize the entire creative process, Storr said.

“It’s hard to look away,” Njoki Gitahi ART ’14 said.

“Katz x Katz” runs until March 10 at 32 Edgewood Ave.

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

COLE PORTER TRUST

Cole Porter 1913, composer and lyricist for many legendary Broadway musicals, was a member of the Yale class of 1913.

‘January Joiner’ brings horror to the stage

BY PAYAL MARATHE STAFF REPORTER With the Jan. 9 premiere of “January Joiner” at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre, writer Laura Jacqmin ’04 is challenging two conventions of theater by confronting body-image issues on stage and bringing horror to live audiences for one of the first times.

The play, which Jacqmin called a “weight-loss horror comedy,” uses obesity as a springboard into issues of body image and poses questions about how people deal with changes in their loved ones. Jacqmin added that the play challenges the notion that only skinny actors belong on stage, instead featuring a cast of people with “normal” bodies.

By casting only thin actors in plays, theater companies set dangerous expectations of beauty that eventually get absorbed into culture at large, Jacqmin said. But rather than treating weight as an object of embarrassment and magnifying the challenges of being overweight,

“January Joiner” treats an individual’s weight as a fact of life, director Eric Ting said.

Ting recalled how 20 minutes into the first rehearsal for the show, one of the actors frankly asked whether they could admit their issues with body image out loud rather than tiptoeing around them.

“The more we work on this, the more I’m surprised that we don’t really talk about this fact in theater,” said Meredith Holzman, an actress in the play. “This play breaks some rules, and overall it’s been a very empowering experience because so much of the play is about being accepting of who you are and of other people when they go through a change.”

In fact, the central story of “January Joiner” is one about family, as two sisters, played by Holzman and Ashlie Atkinson, enroll in a weightloss program together, Ting said.

The play uses weight loss to spark a transformative journey and to explore the consequences “when the people who have loved us all our lives

LONG WHARF THEATRE

“January Joiner” confronts the issues of body image and self-acceptance.

LONG WHARF THEATRE

Two sisters, played by Meridith Holzman and Ashlie Atkinson, enroll in a weight-loss program together.

The toilet brush: used expressly for cleaning purposes. Right?

Wrong. A trip to the Yale University Art Gallery’s exhibit “Once Removed: Sculpture’s Changing Frame of Reference” proves to visitors that the toilet brush, among many other commonplace goods, can readily become art. The exhibit, which opened on Dec. 12 with the unveiling of the YUAG’s new renovations, focuses on the diversity of contemporary sculpture, featuring works from 1974 to the present that employ media ranging from an Ikea bookcase to cowskin to Vaseline. Visitors must keep one foot in the gallery and the other in the outside world to understand a work in its entirety, curator Cathleen Chaffee said.

fright much more quickly in a comedic setting, she explained. Holzman said the complexity of balancing horror and comedy is fitting for the play’s themes of body image, change and family relationships.

While the Long Wharf attracts an older audience for its subscription tickets, Jacqmin said she thinks the unconventional elements of horror and body image will appeal to Yale students as well.

It’s not about reaching out to an idea, but reaching out to the world and how you interact with it.

This play breaks some rules, and overall it’s been a very empowering experience.

“I compare it to a tripod. [The pieces] all have at least one leg that is outside the gallery; they’re pointing you away from each of the different works,” Chaffee said.

Chaffee explained that the works she chose for the exhibit exemplify the tendency of contemporary artists to create work that does not snugly fit into a museum, but instead requires the viewer to turn outside the gallery for meaning. Rejecting the traditional view of sculpture as an autonomous art form allows artists to respond to the world for broader purposes than political messages or social criticism, Chaffee explained.

“It’s not about reaching out to an idea, but reaching out to the world and how you interact with

MEREDITH HOLZMAN Actress, ‘January Joiner’ “This isn’t an easy take on weight loss — it’s more than a glancing comment,” Jacqmin said. “It’s something you will definitely be talking about in the cab on the way back.”

“January Joiner” will run at Long Wharf Theatre until Feb. 10.

Contact PAYAL MARATHE at payal.marathe@yale.edu .

JACOB GEIGER/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Over 200 visitors attended the show’s Tuesday night opening at 32 Edgewood.

‘Once Removed’ examines contemporary sculptures

BY JESSICA HALLAM STAFF REPORTER

start to see somebody different,” Ting said.

When the two sisters start their weight-loss regimen, they start to notice strange phenomena, including a seemingly haunted vending machine and the suspiciously low enrollment for their weight-loss session — both examples of how Jacqmin introduces horror to the play. According to Ting, horror is an uncommon element of theater productions because it is difficult to scare a live audience, given the limited special-effects toolkit available to stage teams. But for “January Joiner,” the production team was able to take advantage of the similarities between horror and comedy to incorporate elements of horror into stage theater.

“The great thing is that they’re both about timing — to successfully scare an audience is in many ways the same as making people laugh, because you need a good lead-in and punch line,” Ting said.

Jacqmin said she is happy with the hybrid of horror and comedy, since marrying the two genres produces great audience reactions. When audiences are already laughing, they are much more shocked by a show’s horror elements; at the same time, spectators can recover from their

Contact JOSEPHINE MASSEY at josephine.massey@yale.edu .

MARTIN KERSELS Professor, School of Art

it,” School of Art professor Martin Kersels said.

The works in the exhibit force viewers to think about their own lives and interactions with materials, culture, shopping and junk, Kersels said. These concepts are immediate; they exist in the present, as opposed to the antiquated stories told by classical sculpture.

Kersels highlighted the relevancy of the museum’s pieces with Nam June Paik’s “Real Plant/ Live Plant,” which features a gutted television from the 1950s that is partially filled with dirt and fitted with two “antennae” — vases of live flowers — and an internal monitor that receives real-time feed of the flowers from a video camera. The piece invites the audience to step back and marvel at objects that are so pervasive in society that they are often overlooked.

“One might think about how the monitor has become embedded with society,” Kersels said.

“We hold them in our hands as phones and on our laps as laptops — they’ve become so ubiquitous with our culture.”

Anne Gunnison, a conservator who works on “Once Removed,” said using commonplace objects as artistic media may pose a challenge to the audience. She added that viewers may find it difficult to separate such ordinary objects as plastic bottles from their intended use and begin to view them as art.

Gunnison discussed the implications of sculptor Marcel Broodthaers’ use of a 16 mm projector in his “Un voyage en Mer du Nord.”

The projector runs still images on a loop, but is so obsolete as an entertainment device that it is considered a sculpture itself. The audience must question how this projector is different than one in a living room or movie theater, since using it in an unusual context does not make it less effective, Gunnison said.

The YUAG will host a talk by two of the featured artists Feb. 7.

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

HENRY EHRENBERG/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Everyday objects are transformed into works of art in the “Once Removed” sculpture exhibit at the Yale University Art Gallery.

DANA SCHNEIDER

Perform or study?

BY DANA SCHNEIDER GUEST COLUMNIST Last year, I decided to shop one of Yale’s “must-take” courses — “History of Western Music: Baroque and Classical.” Professor James Hepokoski is renowned as a brilliant lecturer, and as a non-music major, I was curious to explore the Music Department beyond the traditional theory courses. At the end of the day, I found myself staring at 158 tracks of over nine hours of music in an iTunes playlist. My classmates and I would soon be tested on the title, composer and date of those tracks, based on only 45-second clips of music. And that was only for the first quiz. What was this class?

For undergraduates, Yale College is primarily an academic institution. The students who major in music graduate with a bachelor of arts degree as opposed to the bachelor of music degree offered by conservatories.

In fact, the college does not offer bachelor of fine arts degrees in any discipline. As a result, there is an inherent tension between performance and academia within the undergraduate music degree.

The School of Music stands out among other Ivy League institutions, considered an equal to the nation’s top music conservatories. Thanks to a generous donation by Stephen Adams ’59 and Denise Adams, all masters and doctorate students receive free tuition. With such an incredible powerhouse of performance on campus, many high school students, including myself, chose Yale because of its outstanding musical resources — for musicians majoring in any discipline.

But when it comes to actually majoring in music, the extensive theoretical prerequisites and requirements for the major can be a significant deterrent to students wishing to pursue performance after graduation. While there are many composition-minded students, a vast majority of music majors are also practicing musicians. Despite this fact, neither private lessons nor any other performance classes are a requirement for the major. Only two semesters of lessons-for-credit may be applied towards the major requirements, and an additional two may be used towards the graduation requirements. After four semesters of private lessons, students only receive credit at the graduate level. With students rushing to complete their major and distributional requirements, those who want to pursue performance may not even have the time to practice. “As someone hoping to pursue music professionally, I do not have the option of not taking lessons, and the extra course load leaves me constantly overworked,” commented Chelsea Lane ’14, a music major.

While the major does offer some performance courses, many — including seemingly essential ones like “The Performance of Chamber Music” — are offered at the 200-level. Considering that only one 200-level course can be applied towards major requirements, this is hardly a solution.

I am not advocating that Yale convert its undergraduate music major to an entirely performance-based curriculum or betray its liberal arts core. Many musicians on campus chose Yale over conservatories to pursue the academic degree and balanced education that conservatories lack. For them, a liberal arts education is an invaluable resource, even if it means less practice time. Still, Yale has much to improve concerning performance for credit, from instituting curricular orchestras to requiring instrumental professors to teach undergraduates.

On Cross Campus, Sterling Memorial Library faces the School of Music. For undergraduate musicians with their eyes on performance, the University still needs to resolve whether the two are opposites or complements.

Contact DANA SCHNEIDER at dana.schneider@yale.edu .

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Dozens killed by blasts in Syria

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J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Barack Obama answers questions from members of the media during a news conference in the East Room of the White House.

BY JULIE PACE AND ERICA WERNER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is launching the nation’s most sweeping effort to curb gun violence in nearly two decades, urging a reluctant Congress to ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines like those used in last month’s massacre of 20 elementary school children in Newtown, Conn.

The broad package Obama will announce Wednesday is expected to include more than a dozen steps the president can take on his own through executive action.

Those measures will provide a pathway for skirting opposing lawmakers, but they will be limited in scope, and in some cases, focused simply on enforcing existing laws.

But Congress would have to approve the bans on assault weapons and ammunition magazines holding more than 10 bullets, along with a requirement for universal background checks on gun buyers. Some gun control advocates worry that opposition from Republicans and conservative Democrats, as well as the National Rifle Association, will be too great to overcome.

“We’re not going to get an out-

right ban,” Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., said of limits on assault weapons. Still, McCarthy, a leading voice in Congress in favor of gun control, said she would keep pushing for a ban and hoped Obama would as well.

White House officials, seeking to avoid setting the president up for failure, have emphasized that no single measure — even an assault weapons ban — would solve a scourge of gun violence across the country. But without such a ban, or other sweeping Congress-approved measures, it’s unclear whether executive actions alone can make any noticeable difference.

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ALBANY, N.Y. — Jumping out ahead of Washington, New York state enacted the nation’s toughest gun restrictions Tuesday and the first since the Connecticut school massacre, including an expanded assaultweapon ban and background checks for buying ammunition.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the measure into law less than an hour after it won final passage in the Legislature, with supporters hailing it as a model for the nation and gun-rights activists condemning it as a knee-jerk piece of legislation that won’t make anyone safer and is too extreme to win support in the rest of the country.

“Common sense can win,” Cuomo said.

“You can overpower the extremists with intelligence and with reason and with common sense.”

Owners of an estimated 1 million previously legal semiautomatic rifles, such as the Bushmaster model used to kill 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Conn., a month ago, will be allowed to keep their weapons but will have a year to register them with police. The sale of any more such weapons is prohibited.

“When there’s a pileup of events, when the federal government does not do it, the state of New York has to lead the way,” said state Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, a Brooklyn Democrat and co-sponsor.

In addition to outlawing a broader array of military-style weapons, the measure restricts ammunition magazines to seven rounds, down from the current 10, creates a more comprehensive database of people barred from owning guns, and makes New York the first state to require background checks to buy bullets. The system will also help flag customers who buy large amounts of ammo.

In another provision, therapists, doctors and other mental health professionals will be required to tell state authorities if a patient threatens to use a gun illegally. The patient’s weapon could then be taken away.

Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, said Cuomo clearly understood gun violence is a complex issue requiring broader solutions

than simply banning a particular weapon.

“I think that’s an important message for the nation,” he said.

In a statement, the National Rifle Association said: “These gun control schemes have failed in the past and will have no impact on public safety and crime.”

“While lawmakers could have taken a step toward strengthening mental health reporting and focusing on criminals, they opted for trampling the rights of law-abiding gun owners in New York, and they did it under a veil of secrecy in the dark of night,” the NRA said.

Common sense can win. You can overpower the extremists with intelligence and with reason.

ANDREW CUOMO Governor, New York President Barack Obama will unveil his own proposals in response to the Newtown tragedy on Wednesday. He favors sweeping gun legislation, including a ban on assault weapons.

But because of powerful opposition from the gun lobby, he is said to be weighing 19 steps he could take through executive action alone.

Those could include ordering stricter action against people who lie on gun-sale background checks, seeking to ensure more complete records in the federal database, and striking limits on federal research into gun use.

New York’s law passed the state Senate, which is run by a Republican-dominated coalition, 43-18 Monday night. The Democrat-controlled Assembly approved it 104-43 Tuesday afternoon.

Republicans complained the measure was rammed through the Legislature and infringes on the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

“A lot of people say, `Why do you need these guns?’” said Assemblyman James Tedisco, a Schenectady Republican. “It’s part of the freedoms and liberties we have. ... It’s for our public safety. It’s to protect us from our own government.”

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“Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.” LIONEL MESSI, ARGENTINE SOCCER PLAYER

Key gymnast for the Elis

Defining great games COLUMN FROM PAGE 14 baseball season.

2. The storyline entering the game must be one of the following two: a) the significant underdog vs. the overwhelming powerhouse, or b) two of the very best squaring off.

3. The game must be close at its end, including either a tie or a lead change. No one, not even those involved, knows what the outcome will be. A play could happen that is so ridiculous that it couldn’t have been scripted; a star can be born.

4. A great player (or more than one) is involved. Sometimes, although this need not be the case, he or she takes over the game. In professional sports, this great player is a perennial all-star. In college or high school sports, this can be a local (or national, these days, I suppose) legend.

5. The decisive play is a product of the players, not the referees.

A great game ought not to be confused with one in which something extraordinary is achieved. A perfect game in baseball is a rare occurrence, but it lacks the back-and-forth drama that we all love in a great game. And, of course, that drama is the reason that we watch sports and that the athletes play them.

After the Ravens defeated the Broncos, Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh said at a press conference, “That football game did football proud.” Given time to heal from the wounds of defeat, I am sure that Broncos head coach John Fox will say the same.

Here’s to hoping that 2013 will hold a few more great games, both in the pros and here at Yale.

Contact JOSEPH ROSENBERG at joseph.rosenberg@yale.edu .

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Morgan Traina ’15 finished sixth all-around in the team’s first meet of this season.

GYMNASTICS FROM PAGE 14 the team.”

But Traina’s relationship with gymnastics has not always been so rosy.

Although she loved the sport as a child, Traina said she questioned her commitment as a freshman and sophomore in high school. Due to the exhaustive time commitment, which was up to almost 40 hours a week, and a lack of girls her age at her gym, Traina was not enjoying herself anymore.

“I thought about quitting, but then realized I had put my entire life into it and I really wanted to be able to come to college and have fun with it” she said.

“So I switched clubs and that made a really big difference. I decided I loved it again.”

Like her idol Miller, who was part of the first American Olympic team to win an Olympic gold, Traina is particularly gifted on the balance beam. She won state and regional titles on the beam in high school and was the Ivy League champion in the event last year. Her title-clinching mark of 9.825 was the sixth-highest beam score in the history of Yale gymnastics.

“Her beam routine has more difficulty than she needs for competition,” head coach Barbara Tonry said in an email to the News. “She anchors that

Elis vie for Hobey Baker

event for the team at every competition.”

Traina never would have imagined a collegiate career for the Bulldogs as a young gymnast. UCLA head coach Valorie Kondos Field was a close family friend, and Traina had an offer to compete for the Bruins, a future she had long envisioned. Although it was a tough decision, Traina decided that she wanted a change of scenery and opted for Yale Blue.

Traina’s jump to the East Coast may have established a family tradition. Her younger sister Kacie will be a freshman on the team next year, a transition that Morgan is looking forward to.

“I’m so excited,” Traina said. “We’re really good friends and have always trained together. I didn’t want to push her into the decision, but I’m really glad she chose to come here.”

As Traina enters her second season, she hopes to continue enjoying college gymnastics, both on and off the mats.

“Everything in college has been more fun, which makes it easier,” Traina said.

“I’ve enjoyed it all, even the hard days.”

Traina finished sixth all-around in the team’s first meet of this season Jan. 12.

Contact KEVIN KUCHARSKI at kevin.kucharski@yale.edu .

Elis off to strong start

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The Yale men have dropped just six matches in five contests this year.

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The Bulldogs next compete against the Crimson and the Big Green at home over the weekend.

MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 14 Laganiere said.

While it may be a long process of voting by both fans and coaches, the accompanying recognition is something of tradition for the Bulldogs.

The Elis have had a history of nominations, including six top-10 finalists: Chris Higgins in 2003, Jeff Hamilton ’01 in 1999, Hamilton again in 2001, Ray Giroux ’98 in 1998, Mark Kaufmann ’93 in 1993 and Bob Brooke ’83 in 1983.

In 2011, forwards Denny Kearney ’11 and Broc Little ’11 were also nominated for the award.

Miller said it is a great honor to be considered for the Hobey Baker Award. “But it is just the nomination process,” he said. “We are look-

ing to have a good second half of the year, where we can put a string of wins together and try and get to the top of our league’s standings.”

Pulling together strong team victories for the rest of the season will help the Bulldogs both advance toward the playoffs and simultaneously bring more notoriety to Yale’s Hobey Baker nominees.

“It’s great recognition for those guys because they certainly deserve it,” forward Jesse Root ’14 said.

With tough games against Harvard and Dartmouth coming up this weekend, Laganiere said the Bulldogs will must continue to play with the same mental toughness that they had last weekend against SLU and Clarkson, which was one of the longest road trips of the season.

During the large opening round for Hobey Baker balloting, every vote counts.

And the best news for Bulldog hockey fans is that their votes count too.

Voting has started and is open until March 10, when the list of finalists is cut down from 77 to 10. From there, a second round of voting continues until the “Hobey Hat Trick” group of three finalists is selected. The recipient of the award is chosen out of the top 10 with the most votes on April 12.

The Elis next compete on Friday night at home against the archrival Crimson. The game will also be broadcast live on NBC Sports.

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

squash-specific and catered to individual needs.

The addition of Lewis Walters, our new coach, has been tremendous. Lewis is a top-100 professional player ranked in the world, and brought some really great insight into the team, kind of a whole new level. On top of that, people have stepped up, a lot of players are playing a lot better than they did last year. … [You] can see that we can do something really big this year. We’ve got the opportunity to win it all, to go undefeated, and people are playing with that sort of confidence. And then, finally, the preparation. We put in a long, hard fall season where we were [in] Monday mornings at 7 a.m., weight lifting an additional twice a week and then training every day from 4 till 6, 4 till 7, Monday through Friday, then in on Saturdays as well. was going to ask what the goal for the season QIwas, but it sounds like it’s to win it all.

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The goal for the season, yeah, is to win it all. …

It’s really the same as any other squash team out there competing. … Anyone can go out and win it, which was proved on the weekend when Princeton’s team took down Harvard, and Harvard are kind of unofficial favorites this year, so it just shows how wide-open everything is this year.

of took on a whole new level, introduced new things again. Ryan Dowd ’12 was an inspiration, you know, he was a great, great captain who continued further in the work, so for me, my job’s been really easy. were named captain before this year. What QYou does it mean to you personally to have that honor?

A

To be chosen as a captain by your peers, not by your coach, is a huge, huge honor. It shows the players have a trust in you, and they’ve chosen you because they feel you’re the best person for the job. But I am so fortunate to have people like Richard Dodd ’13 and Kenneth Chan ’13, who are two incredible players in their own way, who whenever I’m kind of stuck for ideas or whenever I’m lacking a little bit of energy, these guys happily step up to the plate and these two guys could be the captains themselves. The only thing I do is I go out there and shake hands with everyone, but it’s a real senior team effort, and even the juniors as well, people like Neil Martin ’14 who is helping design practices, helping run everything a lot as well. He’s been a real asset to the team this year.

your last season here. What’re you going to QIt’s miss about playing Yale squash?

talked about guys stepping up and the Competing. The adrenaline rush and the QYou team’s fall workouts. Are there other things that A excitement before you go on is second to make this year’s team different from the other three Yale teams that you’ve been on?

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Not at all. The great thing is, this program started reaching its heights when I was a freshman due to our captain freshman year, Todd Ruth ’10, who was inspirational in kind of changing the whole work ethic of the team, and he really turned the program around. And then Naishadh Lalwani ’11, our captain two years ago, really kind

none. I’ve competed in junior tournaments since I was 11 and now, next year will be the first time in 12 years when I wake up on a Saturday in the middle of February, middle of January or February, and don’t have to compete. It’s going to be a different experience.

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

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MEN’S LACROSSE LACROSSE MAGAZINE RANKS BULLDOGS 16TH IN THE NATION The Bulldogs, returning from last year’s Ivy League Tournament win, came in one spot behind the Princeton Tigers. Yale returns honorable mention All-American defender Peter Johnson ’13 as well as two other starting senior defenders.

JAVIER DUREN ’15 GUARD NAMED TO IVY HONOR ROLL Duren was named to the first Ivy League Honor Roll of his career after recording 12 points and six rebounds in the Bulldogs’ record-breaking 65-point win over Oberlin on Saturday. The sophomore is averaging 6.8 points and 3.6 rebounds per game this season.

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“We’ve got the opportunity to win it all … and people are playing with that sort of confidence.

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Three Hobey contenders for Yale HOCKEY

preliminary process.”

Hard work from all of the Bulldogs helped contribute to three nominations this season.

“It’s nice to see hard work pay off,” SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 13

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prestigious individual award in all of college hockey.

On Jan. 8, Yale (9–4–3, 5–3–1 Ivy) claimed three of the 77 spots announced in the opening voting round for the Hobey Baker Award — the most

MEN’S HOCKEY Captain and forward Andrew Miller ’13, top-scoring forward Antoine Lag-

aniere ’13 and point-leading forward Kenny Agostino ’14 were the nominees from the Bulldogs who claimed three of the nine spots earned by Ivy League players.

“It is an honor to be considered,” Agostino said. “But obviously it is in the

Robinson talks expectations

A measure of greatness The Denver Broncos and the Baltimore Ravens’ doubleovertime thriller last weekend was the kind of game where the first comment in any discussion about it is a simultaneous, “That was a great game,” because it undoubtedly was.

By the numbers, it really was not: The winning quarterback completed only 18 of 34 throws; the top rusher notched 131 yards on 30 carries for a pedestrian 4.4 yards per carry; no receiver amassed even 100 yards in the extra-long game; and the defenses both gave up well above their season averages in points.

Yes, the record for return yards in a playoff game was broken, but that was a footnote, garnering almost none of the postgame attention.

If it wasn’t record-breaking that made the game great, then what was it? In fact, is there a set of criteria that are common to all great games across different sports?

There absolutely are. A great game, at the least, meets the following five standards.

1. The stakes must be high.

That is, the game must be an elimination game or close to it.

Not game 74 of the 162-game

Captain Andrew Miller ’13,forward Antoine Laganiere ’13 and forward Kenny Agostino ’14 were the nominees from Yale who claimed three of the nine spots earned by Ivy League players.

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JOSEPH ROSENBERG

Traina on the rise

BY KEVIN KUCHARSKI STAFF REPORTER It took a year of begging, but Morgan Traina ’15 finally got what she wanted.

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Hywel Robinson ’13 finished last season ranked No. 30 in the nation while his team finished at No. 6.

BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER After placing sixth at the national championship tournament last season, the men’s squash team has returned to the courts with aspirations to win it all.

The Elis have gotten off to a strong start, dominating four of their first five matches and

winning their fifth, 5–4, over Williams. The News sat down with team captain Hywel Robinson ’13 to discuss the beginning of the year and his time at Yale.

MEN’S SQUASH the team has QObviously, begun the season strongly.

What do you think has con-

tributed to the hot start?

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I think, first of all, the coaches have been really good this year. [Head coach] Dave [Talbott], [associate head coach] Pam [Saunders] have been really hands-on, really working hard and really making everything a lot more SEE MEN’S SQUASH PAGE 13

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Morgan Traina ’15 captured the 2012 ECAC Rookie of the Year award and finished third all-around at last year’s Ivy Classic.

After watching Shannon Miller lead the women’s gymnastics team to gold in the 1996 Olympics, a 4-year-old Traina was inspired to try gymnastics. But Traina’s mother, Pamela, was not immediately on board.

“I begged my mom for a year,” Traina said. “Finally, she said, ‘Fine, I’ll put her in a class. She won’t want to do it for long.’ I’ve stuck with it longer than she thought I would.”

Traina has never looked back.

After just one full season, she has firmly established herself as one of the program’s top performers, capturing the 2012 ECAC Rookie of the Year Award and finishing third all-around at last year’s Ivy Classic. Traina accomplished all of this while filling a major leadership role on the team.

“She’s a great teammate and has already shown a lot of leadership,” team captain Stephanie Goldstein ’13 said. “Even in her first year she did all-around at every meet, which is a big deal for a freshman. She’s a really hard worker and a great contributor to SEE GYMNASTICS PAGE 13

THE NUMBER OF YALE MEN’S ICE HOCKEY PLAYERS NOMINATED FOR THE HOBEY BAKER AWARD. Captain Andrew Miller ’13, Antoine Laganiere ’13 and Kenny Agostino ’14 are the nominees for the award. Voting is open until March 10, and the winner is chosen on April 12.