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CROSS CAMPUS Speaking to the masses. In an email to the Yale community Wednesday afternoon, President-elect Peter Salovey introduced a new website that aims to help members of the Yale community send him suggestions and feedback regarding changes they hope to see at Yale in the coming years.

The open forum is meant to give Yalies a chance to share their suggestions, concerns, ideas or simply offer greetings and well-wishes.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Malloy proposes cuts, bond sales to address $1.2 billion deficit

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Elis try to break doubledigit winning streaks vs.

Harvard, Dartmouth

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Cautiously, Yale moves online

BY MATTHEW LLOYD-THOMAS AND ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTERS

Mirror, mirror, on the wall?

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will unveil a video portal to Duke University in its student center this Friday, UNC reported yesterday. The oval-shaped portal — which features a 50-inch high-definition monitor, webcam, microphone and speakers — will allow students from both schools to communicate more directly with each other. Talk about taking rivalry to the next level.

computer screens.

The MOOC system is one of many ways the field of online education continues to grow and change. Yale Teaching Center Director Bill Rando called the field of online education a

Just under nine months before the end of her term as Ward 1 alderman, Sarah Eidelson ’12 presided Wednesday over a meeting of the New Haven Board of Aldermen’s Youth Services Committee.

With Eidelson at the helm, the sevenmember committee moved to proceed in the coming year with two definite priorities: jobs and community spaces for the city’s youth. What remains unclear, though, is whether Eidelson will even hold her post as alderman in a year’s time, as she has yet to indicate whether she will seek re-election this November.

As Eidelson moves forward with her youth initiatives, two Yale undergraduates have already expressed interest in running to replace her, but said their decisions may hinge on whether Eidelson seeks reelection. Drew Morrison ’14, former president of New Haven Action, an organization that works on public safety, housing and other local issues, said he would only consider running if Eidelson chooses not to run.

Jon Silverstone ’15, the president of Dwight Hall’s New Haven Policy Assistant Program,

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#SodaProblems. An upcoming

conference sponsored by PepsiCo for Yale’s female graduates has raised concerns among some University alumni regarding Yale’s partnership with the beverage and snack company — which announced in 2009 that it would fund a graduate fellowship in nutritional science with the School of Medicine. According to a New York Times article published today, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79, who is scheduled to speak at the event, has also received criticism for her participation. Yale administrators, though, have said they welcome PepsiCo’s participation and support.

Wait, Valentine’s Day is next week? Sadly, yes. But

if you’re a freshman and don’t have a valentine yet, fret not. The Freshman Class Council is here, and FCC members — much like the television producers for ABC’s hit television show “The Bachelor” — want to help you find your one true love. The council is distributing a free matchmaking survey that will pair up freshmen with their perfect mates. It’s a match made in heaven.

Ward 1 election chatter begins

O N L I N E E D U CAT I O N

BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER Andrew Ng, a computer science professor at Stanford University, has over one million students.

Ng — who is also the co-founder of Coursera, one of the world’s larg-

est Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms — has been a pioneer in the rapidly evolving field of online education. In 2011, Coursera’s inaugural year, over 100,000 students around the world participated in Ng’s MOOC course entitled “Machine Learning” from their

ROBERT EVENSON 1935 -2013

Prof leaves mark on agricultural economics

Restaurants energize Chapel Street

A distinguished guest. Former

United Nations SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan will speak at Yale today as part of a Jackson Institute town hall meeting. Annan served two terms as the U.N.’s top official from 1997 to 2006 and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001.

Snap to the future. Has

Snapchat taken over Yale?

Sean Haufler ’13 thinks so. In a Tuesday blog post entitled “How Snapchat Took Over Yale,” Haufler argued that Snapchat’s temporary nature makes its messages more engaging and personal.

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1914 Harvard’s hockey team defeats Yale 4–3 in a hardfought overtime game at the Boston Arena.

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Economics professor Robert E. Evenson died on Feb. 2 at the age of 78.

BY AMY WANG AND CLINTON WANG STAFF REPORTERS Robert Eugene Evenson, an economics professor who taught hundreds of students in his 30 years at Yale, died in New Haven of Alzheimer’s disease on Feb. 2. He was 78.

A key figure in the field of agricultural science, Evenson directed Yale’s Economic Growth Center and International Development Economics Program and researched farm productivity in developing countries, pioneering new methods of surveying agricultural households. His former students said his greatest legacy may be the Yale students he left in his wake to carry on his mission to help the world’s poor and starving.

“I think of Bob as a farmer who planted ideas and cultivated people,” said Agnes Quisumbing, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute who was mentored by Evenson.

Beginning his career as a farmer in southern Minnesota, Evenson left agriculture in his late 20s to pursue a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the University of Minnesota, focusing his studies on agricultural economics.

He went on to earn a doctorate from the University of Chicago, where he met his wife Judy Evenson, and was appointed to an assistant professorship at his alma mater in Minnesota before coming to Yale in 1977.

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Chipotle’s new restaurant on Chapel Street has led to a flurry of student excitement.

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER With this year’s openings of Shake Shack and Chipotle, New Haven’s historic Chapel Street is in the midst of a restaurant revitalization.

The opening of Shake Shack last semester and Chipotle last week have spurred excitement among students on campus about the new, local food outlets that now claim Chapel Street in New Haven as their home. Soon to join these restaurants on Chapel are Panera Bread and the historic Richter’s bar. City officials attribute this influx of Chapel Street restaurants to several factors ranging from Gateway Community College’s opening to the regular ebb and flow of city business.

“It’s certainly a large increase,” said Michael Piscitelli, New Haven’s deputy economic development administrator. “We’re starting to see a blend of locally owned restaurants and national chains.”

Chapel Street currently has a roughly 88 percent ground floor occupancy, Piscitelli added.

The first two restaurants to lead the charge, Shake Shack and Chipotle, opened in September and January, respectively. These two restaurants grill hamburgers and wrap burritos just a stone’s throw away from Old Campus. Edwin Bragg, the director of marketing and communications for Shake Shack, said that the restaurant SEE CHAPEL STREET PAGE 4

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Taking advantage of a crisis

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Diversity and dialogue A

cademia is hard. The graduate school application process alone requires networking skills worthy of any financial or consulting hopeful. A senior project requires a summer’s worth of data and a year’s worth of writing and editing. Candidates must crawl into bed with a dissertation topic and get very, very intimate with it for a very long time. Like many elite spaces, academic circles are governed by a strict set of unspoken rules that every graduate student must learn to navigate.

And on top of that, the academy is frequently incredibly hostile to women and people of color. Recently, some academics have stepped forward to publish entire anthologies of horror stories of sexual misconduct, disrespect, discrimination, racism, sexism, homophobia, intellectual theft and other aggressions from elite institutions across the country. Yet these stories do not appear in mass media, nor are they part of the debates on affirmative action, the gender wage gap or education reform.

As someone who wants a career in academia, I am wellaware of the risks of the job. As a woman of color, I am also aware that those issues are exacerbated by subtle and overt racism and sexism. So, when I got an email about Monday’s Women’s Faculty Forum (WFF) panel discussion on women and diversity in the academy, I was curious about Yale’s role in this debate.

The panel included faculty and administrators involved with increasing gender, racial and ethnic diversity at Yale. But the composition of the panel was itself a red flag. Although there were several women, there were only three people of color. There were no East Asian or Latin@ faculty, no black or Latina women and one woman of color.

It was not an auspicious start.

The discussion opened with a quick overview of the statistics for diversity at Yale. Allison Tait, the postdoctoral associate who wrote the diversity report, candidly told the audience that diversity at Yale “does not look good.” University-wide, women make up less than a quarter of tenured faculty. More disturbingly, the report included very little information on race and ethnicity. A full 86 percent of Yale’s faculty is white; men of color make up 10 percent, and women of color — a category which includes East Asian, South Asian, Black, Latin@, Native and mixed women – make up the last four.

Yale is not unique in hosting a primarily white male faculty. Elite spaces, from Congress to billionaires clubs, are densely populated with white men. This panel sought to address some of

the unique reasons why that disparity exists at Yale.

Roughly equal numbers of men and women complete undergraduate degrees, begin graduate school and actually finish a Ph.D. However, the vast majority of women don’t make it into postdoctoral positions, and can’t find assistant professorships or get tenure-track jobs. Thus, we see discrepancies between male and female tenured faculty members.

According to the panel, the lack of postdoctoral offers is less a matter of women’s inability to find positions, but the consequence of women simply not applying. Absence of mentors, family commitments, industry pressures, sexual misconduct, weak support systems and institutional culture were offered as potential explanations. A combination of all of these possibilities likely factors into the decision-making process. Possible solutions include better mentoring, improved child care and better training to help new professors negotiate for higher wages. Seems reasonable.

Institutional overhaul is always difficult. Given its constraints, I commend the administration; it has implemented important policies to address the issue.

However, discussions of race were painfully and noticeably absent from the panel. One audience member asked about the administration’s strategies for making people of color feel more welcome, citing stories of colleagues who felt alienated by the atmosphere here.

Two white panelists “answered” before Paul Turner, the first tenured African-American in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, finally spoke up about the importance of supporting new faculty of color. I can’t imagine how two white administrators could answer a question about an experience that they couldn’t possibly have lived through while silencing a black professor who was sitting two seats away.

Similar situations happen daily here. That’s racism. It’s subtle, more insidious and not at all intentional. Fixing it requires honesty, self-reflection and a willingness to admit to wrongdoing. We must proactively include people in our community, and that can mean the difference between a new black woman in biological sciences and another white male faculty member. But, until we open a real, honest and probably painful discussion about active inclusivity in the academy, we’re not really talking about diversity.

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ny American attuned to the follies of our nation’s recent history snaps his head up at the sound of the word “comprehensive” coming out of Washington, D.C. The word has been bandied about quite frequently in our nation’s recent debate on gun control. It has been used to describe legislation which promises to address the very limited (though horrific) problem of public mass shootings by deranged gunmen, with an approach that threatens to primarily affect people who have never and likely will never be involved in a mass shooting as perpetrator or victim.

This approach typifies our generation of American politicians who, in the words of Franklin Roosevelt, believe that having tried “something” is more important than that policy’s results or harmful side effects. This moment is a vital one for American conservatives to stand up in opposition, against politicians who would use the victims of tragedies like the Newtown school shooting as means to this sort of self-congratulatory politics — a politics that cares more about the feelings behind a policy than how it actually affects flesh-and-blood human beings. While good intentions may be enough in the afterlife, on this earth they are not.

Each year, more than 10,000 Americans die as victims of gun crimes. In 2012, 150 were killed

or injured as part of mass shootings.

I would venture a wager that I am not the only Yalie who has found this d i sc re pa n cy JOHN rather strange MASKO considering the tone The of our debate.

Unmasked Why it is that with such an Truth endemic problem of gun violence on America’s city streets — mass shootings being freak incidents by comparison — the gun-control discussion centers on the latter?

First, the majority of these homicides — single murders on the streets of cities like New Haven, are harder to pigeonhole.

Most happen with small guns, often semi-automatic handguns, not the “scary” assault weapons mentioned in gun regulations.

But they could be carried out with knives or even fists. These murders are sometimes motivated by drugs, another embarrassing testament to the ineffectiveness of government bans.

Gun-control legislation has proven remarkably ineffective in this sort of environment. Chicago, one of the most gun-controlled cities in the United States,

still experienced 600 murders last year. These tragedies tend to fall out of sight in the public debate, because they do not carry a clear mandate for a centralized exertion of power.

In accordance with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s famous maxim, the “comprehensivists” are determined to let no crisis go to waste. And right on cue, from the Obama administration, members of Congress and states, has come a flurry of suggestions for things to ban or regulate (high-capacity rifle ammunition magazines, assault weapons, etc.). Many mass killings have occurred with weapons that would be unaffected by these bans. The scary-looking automatic assault weapons we hear discussed in the media are already heavily regulated.

The actual effect of such continued regulations is to make it so arduous to go through the process of obtaining or maintaining a firearm that more and more gun owners will decide that it’s just no longer worth it. And, from the Rahm Emanuel useful-crisis perspective, that is exactly the point.

More regulation will not prevent these attacks. As investigation continues into the motives and methods of recent mass shooters, it has become more and more apparent that the tragedies were extensively thought-out.

As criminologist James Alan Fox at Northeastern writes, “Mass

killers do not just snap and seize whatever weapons of destruction are handy. They are deliberate and determined; they will find the means despite the impediments placed in their path.”

But still, asks the sensitive liberal, how can these regulations possibly hurt? Why is this issue not, to the patriotic American, a “no-brainer”? Because it gets down to the deepest foundations of our American liberty, the quintessentially Enlightenment idea that a body of citizens, in order to be truly free, must always have the power to assert its rightful supremacy over its leaders — made law in the Second Amendment. It was an acknowledgment not only that a government founded on checks and balances can still become unchecked and imbalanced, but that its entire structure can together begin to threaten the very source of its legitimacy, its people. The right to bear arms is the guardian of our liberty, even in an era when government has planes, bombs and advanced weaponry. The Second Amendment is a symbol of where American power truly lies — it’s impossible, in the long run, to repress a country that knows in its heart that it is free.

JOHN MASKO is a junior in Saybrook College. He is a staff blogger for the News. Contact him at john.masko@yale.edu .

Forgetting our stories I

t’s Sunday night when these thoughts begin to form, and they’re coming because I’m loafing in a common room that reeks of stale beer and microwaved chicken wings, sitting with two friends and a third, who snores on the couch while Beyoncé sings at the Superdome; and though my passed-out friend will soon wake up, bitter for having missed the halftime show, and though the empty beer bottles will (at some point, anyway) be tossed into a garbage bag and the sweet tang of wings will be masked with vanilla-flavored Febreeze — in other words, though the whole scene will be erased, so the only thing that remains is this sentence — at that moment, I was happy.

Writing this now is like running a rake through memory, hoping that something true will mangle itself in its teeth. It’s like trying, as I did when I was 8 or 9 and saw snow for the first time, to trap snowflakes in a jar, hoping they’ll still be frozen when you unscrew the lid back home in Brazil.

Another: It’s sophomore year and spring break, and when we walk back to Silliman, our footsteps echo off Slifka and Phil’s barbershop — we’re the only

people in the universe. One night, instead of working on our papers, we order Chinese and watch bad horror movTEO SOARES ies.

And a third: It’s some time Traduções into our freshman spring, and for some reason we thought it a good idea to pour Emergen-C into shots of Majorska. The combination makes my jowls cringe, so I chase the shots with sake, straight from the bottle. I also wear aviators.

I tell these stories in order to remember. Memories are like homes with shoddy foundations, always threatening to come crashing down. I buttress mine with words, hammering them into the weakest studs, stuffing them into the cracks that open on the drywall. But I know that some years from now, the foundation will give way, the inner structure will collapse and all that will remain are the stories: skeletons of homes, built out of words.

For example: We go to Brooklyn for a friend’s birthday, and after dinner we buy cigars at a

Rite Aid because we think it’d be cool to light them while looking out over the East River. The cold bites our fingertips. We sit by the Brooklyn Bridge and choke on the smoke.

What I want are truer words, words that recreate these moments as I felt them in my

I TELL THESE STORIES IN ORDER TO REMEMBER bones. Instead you get these paragraphs, the flavors and textures and feelings reduced to meandering sentences and mixed metaphors. It’s like trying to send Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” through the mail, folding it over and over again so it’s tiny enough to fit into a No. 10 envelope and flat enough to glide under a door.

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Joan Didion said that. I think she was a little off.

We tell ourselves stories not to live but to hold on to life, to recreate for ourselves the moments

we hold dear. The rub is in the fact that we will forget, that memories have a shelf life only slightly longer than the things they recall, and that when they pass, they’ll be survived by stories that are hollow shells of experience. One day, we will tell people we went to Yale, and that sentence will be little more than a statement of fact.

So to hell with stories. I want the now. I’m four months short of four years at Yale, and I want to drown in their every instant.

It’s not about doing more — it’s about doing things fully, about being wholly present. I want to feel the Toad’s dance floor pulse under my feet. I want to blow off my phone and become so invested in conversations that I can hear my friends’ thoughts.

I want to stuff my pockets with the smell of coffee that lingers in my apartment in the mornings, the combination of used Starbucks cups and the drip brewing at Woodlands downstairs. I want to savor, to relish, to bask — and then, for as long as I can, I want to remember.

TEO SOARES is a senior in Silliman College. His column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact him at teo.soares@yale.edu .

EB SALDAÑA is a junior in Ezra Stiles College. Contact her at eb.saldana@yale.edu .

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The center cannot hold

n the early 20th century, Yale faced a vast civic crisis, or, rather, a vast civic crisis by Yale standards. As the student body grew and diversified, many students fled for the socially cohesive comfort of residential fraternities and societies, a trend that carved the campus into fiefdoms of social interest and classbased exclusion. The solution was one only Yale could dream up: to build obscenely expensive residential colleges, small enough for social coherence, large enough for heterogeneity and ostentatious enough to compete with Harvard.

I expect the proposal of the Student Center Ad Hoc Committee (“University-wide student center considered,” Feb. 5) aims at the ideals that founded the residential college plan: promoting unity among students, offering sufficient social space and creating a prominent locus of student life. I agree entirely with these aspirations, but I can imagine no worse remedy than an undergraduate student center.

It helps to look beyond Yale

when assessing space needs, and “total building square feet per student” is a helpful inter-campus standard. By this measure, according to Columbia University statistics, a Yale student has about 30 percent more space than a Harvard student, 50 percent more than a Berkeley student and 160 percent more space than a Columbia student. When compared to our peer campuses, we look like space hoarders.

There is a common maxim among transit planners and twoyear-olds: Activity fills the space it is given. Usually the problem is not a lack of space, but a poor optimization of existing space.

Lengthening building hours, expanding access privileges and reconfiguring rooms to allow for multiple uses will go a long way to relieving our space crunch, all while lowering costs and minimizing our campus footprint.

All this is not to deny that a center for graduate and professional student life is badly needed. MacDougal offers a pittance of graduate student services, and no renovation will ever

make that poky corner of the Hall of Graduate Studies into a dazzling social hub.

But Yale undergraduates do not experience similar neglect, and, in fact, a student center threatens to upend the balance of familiarity and dissimilarity in our residential colleges.

As the residential college planners realized 80 years ago, 5,400 undergraduates do not suffer for some subdivision. Though student unity is never an unworthy cause, it can’t be called camaraderie unless it is cohesive.

There is a good deal of value in the surfeit of small social spaces found in our colleges. They bring about unbidden interactions and unexpected friendships.

They offer refuge and spontaneity alongside activity and order.

Most of all, they let us briefly tune out from our regularly scheduled programming. With these virtues in mind, I fear the gravity of a large student center pulling us out of the orbit of our colleges and into the traction of our calendars and extracurriculars. The only difference between

societies cloistered in tombs, fraternities huddled in houses and small groups gathered in a student center is that the last arrangement permits the illusion of togetherness.

Though the Ad Hoc Student Center Committee says its greatest obstacles are a lack of a site and funds, I think the greater obstacle is a lack of need. The reason we have not followed other schools in spending millions on a student center is that we have spent hundreds of millions on 12 of them. The longtime lack of a student center on campus speaks to the persistent strength of our residential colleges. There are certainly unkind things to be said of them — that they are stuffy, inward-looking and old-school (perhaps the last is too literal) — but students have always been their great corrective. Better to reform what we do best than to invent the center anew.

NICK ALLEN is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact him at nick.allen@yale.edu .

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“But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the legislature to act.”

GEORGE PATAKI GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK FROM 1995 UNTIL 2006

CORRECTION WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6

The article “Students push for Korean Studies” mistakenly suggested that Yong Cho ’13 had to “settle for” majoring in art history. In fact, he is double-majoring in art history and East Asian Studies with a concentration in China.

Governor unveils new budget

Israeli gov’t blasts Yale

BY JACK NEWSHAM CONTRIBUTING REPORTER A new study of Israeli and Palestinian schoolbooks led

by Yale School of Medicine psychiatrist Bruce Wexler has come under fire from the Israeli government.

Produced by a team of Israeli and Palestinian researchers who surveyed over 3,100 excerpts from 168 Israeli and Palestinian textbooks, the study, titled “Victims of Our Own Narratives?”, found that the books generally put a nationalistic spin on historical events and frequently depict the other nation as the enemy. But the study also reported that “dehumanizing and demonizing” depictions of Israelis and Palestinians were rare in both groups’ textbooks, representing a break from past analyses.

In a statement released Jan. 30, the Israeli Ministry of Education accused the report of extreme bias. The Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs followed the Education Ministry by releasing a 21-page statement that accused the researchers of neglecting to analyze Palestinian propaganda outside of certain schoolbooks and provided several examples of anti-Semitic messages.

“The overall approach and tone of the study reflect an attempt to present an artificial and inaccurate picture of balance,” the second statement said.

Wexler, his co-authors and members of the study’s Scientific Advisory Panel — a group of 19 academics convened to assess the study’s scientific rigor as it progressed — have accused the study’s detractors, including the Israeli government, of being politically motivated.

A few members of the advisory panel, though, have sought to distance themselves from the study since before its publication. Wexler said Arnon Groiss, a panel member who has researched Palestinian textbooks, created a list of examples the researchers had allegedly missed when compiling their data. But Wexler said the research team reviewed Groiss’s quotes and found many of them to have been taken from sources outside the scope of the survey.

“Most of those examples aren’t talking about textbooks,” Wexler said. “They’re talking about incitement more

broadly.”

Nathan Brown of George Washington University, who sat on the panel, said Elihu Richter, a professor at Hebrew University who was also on the panel, criticized the study’s methodology for neglecting to analyze media other than schoolbooks.

Professor Elie Podeh of Hebrew University, another member of the advisory panel, noted that the examples cited

by Groiss and the Ministry of Strategic Affairs would have had little impact on the study even if they had been included.

“These are the numbers, these are the figures,” Podeh said. “If you find here and there some examples, they won’t dramatically change the results in any case.”

This business of dissenting is part of a political process to divert attention from these findings.

BRUCE WEXLER Psychiatry professor, School of Medicine Sami Adwan, an associate professor at Bethlehem University and a co-author of the study, said Wexler kept the advisory panel informed of the survey’s progress, adding that the advisory panel, co-authors and researchers of the study openly discussed the study’s findings at a meeting in May 2012. Wexler said the study’s methods and findings were approved unanimously by the advisory panel.

“They agreed that the study was of the highest scientific quality,” Wexler said. “This business of dissenting is part of a political process to divert attention from these findings to the procedural issues.”

Wexler also expressed disappointment that Yale did not “stick up for [his] academic integrity.” University spokesman Tom Conroy did not return multiple requests for comment.

The study was funded by a grant from the U.S. State Department and was initiated by the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land in 2009.

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Gov. Dannel Malloy’s recently announced biennial budget proposal must confront a projected $1.2 billion deficit for the upcoming fiscal year.

BY MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTER Gov. Dannel Malloy unveiled his biennial budget proposal for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 in a speech to the Connecticut General Assembly Wednesday afternoon.

The governor’s proposal, which must address a projected $1.2 billion deficit for the fiscal year beginning July 1, aims to spend $43.8 billion over the next two years, a 5 percent increase over the state’s current level of spending. The budget plan contains no major tax increases and recommends significant cuts to the state’s hospitals and social services while selling $750 million in state bonds.

“[This budget] furthers a plan we started two years ago,” Malloy said in his remarks to the Legislature. “A plan to get our finances in order, to live within our means and to do it while making bold investments to create jobs and grow our economy.”

Among the cuts that Malloy included in his plan were over $200 million in spending reductions drafted during a special legislative session in December and designed to address a shortfall of over $450 million for the current fiscal year. The December cuts slash $103 million from the state’s hospital system that was intended to pay for uninsured patients, and Malloy’s proposal would maintain it for the coming fiscal year and increase the cut to

BY THE NUMBERS CONNECTICUT BUDGET 1.2 43.8 5 103

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Contact JACK NEWSHAM at jack.newsham@yale.edu .

The proposed funding increase in millions of dollars toward education

$146 million by the 2014–’15 fiscal year.

Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney declined to comment on the parts of the budget Malloy chose to cut, emphasizing that the proposal will be substantially shaped by the Legislature before it is ultimately passed. Still, he added that some cuts cannot be avoided.

“It is inevitable that this process will involve some painful cuts, because to do this without any substantial infusion of new revenue, it is going to be painful,” he said.

Many line items in Malloy’s proposal saw spending increases for the next biennial budget.

Chief among them is the state’s Medicaid spending, which the governor’s office estimates will cost an additional $384 million in the fiscal year starting in July. Additionally, the governor has proposed to funnel $119 million into education above current spending levels.

Though the proposed budget does not raise income taxes — as Malloy repeatedly promised not to do throughout the past year — it does preserve some taxes intended to be temporary, such as a tax on power plants and a surcharge on the corporation levy, which were both due to expire on July 1. Malloy’s budget plan would also reduce the state’s new earned income tax credit, from 30 percent to 25 percent retroactive to Jan. 1, which would bring the state $18 million in additional funds.

Beyond these revenue increases, Malloy has proposed selling $750 million worth of state bonds to maintain a balanced budget — a move Pat O’Neil, press secretary to House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero, called “dishonest.”

“Any household that, at the

end of the month, realizes that ‘we don’t have enough money for groceries, so we’re going to put some debt on our credit card’ — that’s what [the governor is] doing,” he said. “The idea that this is a balanced budget is absurd. It’s only balanced because he borrowed an enor-

He’s not coming off as an out-of-control tax-andspend Democrat, and that’s pretty savvy.

GARY ROSE Chair, Government and Politics Department at Sacred Heart University mous amount of money.”

Cafero and Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, who are both mulling gubernatorial runs in 2014, could not be reached for comment.

Gary Rose, chair of the Government and Politics Department at Sacred Heart University, said that in his last budget, Malloy angered many in the state by pushing through an income tax increase. By contrast, this time Malloy produced a budget that is much more balanced — a turn of events he called “very surprising.”

“As a political scientist, I start to wonder what the political motivation is, and my thoughts go to 2014,” he said. “He’s not coming off as an out-of-control tax-and-spend Democrat, and that’s pretty savvy.”

The budget will now be taken up by the Senate and House appropriations committees.

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

LGBTQ Office finds home in Swing Space

BY CYNTHIA HUA STAFF REPORTER For the first time since its founding in 2009, the Office of LGBTQ Resources has a physical space on campus.

The LGBTQ Office has moved into the first floor of Swing Space, an area it will share with the Office of Gender & Campus Culture and the Alcohol & Other Drugs Harm-Reduction Initiative. Office of LGBTQ Resources Director Maria Trumpler GRD ’92 said she hopes the space will give her office a stable meeting and event area and foster a sense of community for LGBTQ students. Andrew Dowe ’08 GRD ’16, assistant director for the office, said the new location reflects a “monumental shift” in increased administrative support since his undergraduate years at Yale.

“When I first arrived, without this direct administrative support, faculty members … were triple-burdened with fighting for LGBTQ studies, their own academic work and supporting LGBTQ students,” Dowe said. “It’s nice that now there are more resources and [the programs have] more secure footing.”

Trumpler said the office had plans to move into a physical location before the

onset of the 2008 economic recession, but she added that the strain on University finances caused all non-essential building projects to be canceled at the time.

With its new location, Trumpler said her faculty office will no longer be hampered by the logistical struggles it faced without a permanent space, adding that she hopes the first floor of Swing Space will serve a similar purpose as cultural houses, where students are able to socialize, study or relax.

“It’s important for [the new office] to exist because when coming out for the first time, it’s not easy to meet people or identify those with similar experiences, and not everyone is interested in joining a specific identity group,” said Kati Moug ’13, an Office of LGBTQ Resources staff member.

Moug said the LGBTQ peer liaisons currently staff a facility at 305 Crown St. called the Queer Resource Center, which she described as being too small and far from campus to be a popular communal location.

The two other groups that are moving into Swing Space — the Office of Gender & Campus Culture and the Alcohol & Other Drugs Harm-Reduction Initia-

tive — underwent no substantial changes, other than that both were given formal names, which Hannah Peck DIV ’11, a Yale College Dean’s Office fellow who staffs the initiative, said reflects the programs’ rapid growth in recent years.

The three offices work on separate projects, but staff members said they foresee a harmonious relationship in sharing the space. Trumpler said the three staff members of the Office of Gender & Campus Culture and the AOD Harm-Reduction Initiative will primarily use the space during the workday and the Office of LGBTQ Resources will host events there afterhours and on weekends.

“The space was initially offered for [the Office of LGBTQ Resources] which hosts a lot of events,” said Melanie Boyd ’90, assistant dean of student affairs. “Then it was a question of good partner initiatives to be alongside.”

The Swing Space facility will now host the offices of Trumpler, Boyd, Peck and YCDO Fellow Garrett Fiddler ’11.

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

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FROM THE FRONT Richter’s to reopen on Chapel Street

“The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” JOHN PERRY BARLOW AMERICAN AUTHOR AND CYBERLIBERTARIAN POLITICAL ACTIVIST

Prof leaves legacy

EVENSON FAMILY SARA STALLA/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The opening of Shake Shack this year was a highlight of the Chapel Street restaurant revitalization.

CHAPEL STREET FROM PAGE 1 already has regular guests and considers itself a part of the New Haven community.

“It was important for us to be a part of the neighborhood and be around other local restaurants, shops and businesses,” Bragg said, adding that settling on Chapel Street made “perfect sense” both in terms of the restaurant’s proximity to college students and local New Haven residents.

A new addition to the Chapel Street restaurant family, located next door to Shake Shack, is the old Richter’s bar, which is slated to reopen in March, according to Chris Ortwein, the manager of the Economic Prosperity Initiative, a local development organization for the Town Green Special Services District. 990 Chapel St., the spot of the historic Richter’s bar, has been serving drinks to the city of New Haven since before Prohibition, when it was converted into a speakeasy. It has undergone numerous changes in management over the years, the latest of which has yet to be made public. Though it remains unclear who is working to reopen the location, Ortwein confirmed that it will continue to be a food establishment and bar.

Meanwhile, Panera Bread is slated to open at 1048 Chapel St. Panera Bread’s headquarters could not be reached for comment about

exactly when the store will open. A permit was also recently filed to reopen the old Hot Tomatoes restaurant location on the corner of Chapel and College at 261 College St., said Andrew Rizzo, New Haven’s building official.

City officials offered several reasons for Chapel Street’s revitalization. Piscitelli noted that Yale and the newly opened Gateway Community College jointly sandwich Chapel Street, providing an opportunity for increased business from college students. He added that residential units, as opposed to offices, have increased in New Haven in recent years, which may also encourage restaurant growth because of greater demand for food outside lunchtime.

Ortwein said that the Town Green Special Service District has worked to create a new retail market report to help businesses find information about downtown New Haven.

She added that nationally, American cities are seeing a trend of increased entertainment and food establishments.

Rizzo, on the other hand, called these new restaurants “just the natural progression of what goes on in downtown New Haven.”

There are 56 Zagat-rated restaurants in New Haven.

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

Much of Evenson’s work was dedicated to helping improve agriculture on a global scale.

EVENSON FROM PAGE 1 Judy said she had been teaching at a small college in the Chicago area when she met Evenson at a local church. The two were eventually married at that same church during regular Sunday morning service, she added, with a congregation of mostly students in attendance.

Though she said Evenson had a generally quiet disposition, Judy added that her husband was always very fond of his students.

Evenson’s former students remember him for his generosity and approachable, if sometimes absentminded, nature. They said he spent hours with graduate and undergraduate students alike and often opened his New Haven home to international students.

“His office was filled with piles and piles of paper,” Quisumbing said. “I found that the best way to get him to concentrate on a research question was to walk home with him” — a home that Evenson’s own Ph.D. students had helped him build.

Several of Evenson’s students eventually rose to prominent posi-

tions in the United Nations, nongovernmental organizations and academia.

In his academic life, Evenson worked steadily toward improving developing nations’ economies and agriculture by studying the most efficient ways to research agricultural commodities, lecturer Cheryl Doss GRD ’87 said.

Ward said his pursuits focused on farming and travel, adding that he was concerned with global agriculture and focused intensely on the well-being of people everywhere. He was very interested in raising enough food for the world, Doss said.

Evenson’s daughter Sarah Ward said Evenson was extremely passionate about his work and frequently traveled abroad with his family over the course of his career.

Traveling became one of his main interests, she added, recalling the trips she took with her father to countries such as India and Brazil as a child, and the three years the family lived in the Philippines.

“I think he was an excellent student, and he had a passion to do more globally rather than on a local farm,” Ward said. “But he

always had definitely fond memories of farming, and when we would drive by fields, he would know what was planted — in all of the fields. He would understand all that.”

Throughout his life, Evenson always stayed connected to his farming roots. Despite achieving pre-eminent status as an economist, Evenson was incredibly humble and able to identify with the farmers he visited in Filipino villages while conducting field studies, visiting professor Douglas Gollin GRD ’88 said.

Ward said she has fond memories of her father taking her on trips to Italy, Napa Valley in California and Sunday afternoon Yankees games.

He was “very kind — a sweet father,” she said.

Evenson is survived by his wife, four children — Ward, Patsy Opsal, Nancy Bogue and Joseph Evenson — and seven grandchildren.

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

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

Yale slow to adopt MOOCs platform ONLINE EDUCATION FROM PAGE “moving target” as new technologies and discoveries continuously push the field in new directions.

In response to recent advances in the field, Yale College Dean Mary Miller convened an ad hoc Yale College Committee on Online Education in September to recommend ways the University can evaluate and expand its online presence. The committee’s report recommends Yale College continue increasing its existing online programs — including its for-credit online summer program — and suggests that the University “investigate” new vehicles for online dissemination of knowledge, including Massive Open Online Course platforms, though it does not recommend adopting a specific platform immediately.

In the past, Yale has engaged in ambitious but carefully planned expansions of its online presence, notably demonstrated in the Open Yale Courses project — which makes some of the University’s most popular lectures available for the public to stream over the Internet. Despite its history at the forefront of online education, though, Yale is one of three Ivy League schools not yet affiliated with the MOOC movement.

“There may be a liability in moving too quickly in a landscape that is changing so very rapidly,” said music professor Craig Wright, a co-chair of the Committee on Online Education.

As the University considers new ways to make its educational resources available online, faculty members and administrators have chosen to proceed carefully, while some professors question what an increased online presence will mean for traditional classroom education.

THE CUTTING EDGE?

When the committee’s report was released in December, psychology professor and committee co-chair Paul Bloom said Yale has historically been a leader in

the field and would continue to “move forward building upon the strengths we’ve already established.”

In 2000, Yale formed the Alliance for Lifelong Learning (AllLearn) with Stanford University and the University of Oxford. For a small fee, the program enrolled over 10,000 people in the 110 online courses — but financial struggles forced the universities to disband AllLearn in 2006.

History of art professor Diana Kleiner, who had spearheaded the AllLearn initiative at Yale, said she and University President Richard Levin decided it was important for the University to remain a key player in online education after AllLearn was discontinued. Later that year, the University announced the Open Yale Courses initiative, which Kleiner — who now directs Open Yale Courses — said aims to provide people throughout the world with the opportunity to audit the same courses students take in New Haven and to allow the University’s educational endeavors to reach a broader audience.

We have reached thousands and thousands of people through these [open] courses, and that’s exciting.

JOHN MERRIMAN Professor, Department of History Though other universities such as MIT already provided some online course materials, with Open Yale Courses, Yale became the first to provide constant lecture feeds from inside its classrooms. Since lectures went online in 2007, Kleiner added, the website has received over 6 million unique visitors, while the videos on iTunes U and YouTube have been accessed over 30 million times.

But in the last two years, many

of Yale’s peer institutions have adopted a new approach to online education — the MOOC. The term “MOOC” was first coined in 2008, and the movement rapidly grew into a partnership of 33 universities from eight different countries. Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown and Columbia have partnered with Coursera, and Harvard and MIT launched their own MOOC platform, edX, in fall 2012. Cornell, the only Ivy League besides Yale and Dartmouth not yet affiliated with a MOOC platform, told the journal Inside Higher Ed on Jan. 29 that it will announce a MOOC partnership in the next few weeks.

Participants must sign up for MOOC courses, which last an average of five to 10 weeks and generally adhere to the format of 10- to 20-minute lecture segments followed by a brief assessment. MOOCs do not yet carry institutionalized academic credit in any university, though they do grant certifications upon completion.

The MOOCs’ aim to open global educational access is similar to that of Open Yale Courses, Wright said, but MOOCs have a more modular and interactive structure that emphasizes mastery of discrete concepts.

Members of the Committee on Online Education said they wanted to take the time to assess possible options before committing the University to a specific platform.

“The MOOC is just one component of an online education strategy,” said Lucas Swineford, a committee member and the director of the Yale Broadcast and Media Center. “This is an area where we wanted to take our time because we had such a great history and make sure any decision we made was going to support current and future ambitions.”

Miller said Yale has been innovating in a different direction from the MOOCs, focusing on interactive seminar-style online courses offered for credit over the summer. The courses occur in real time, and enrollment is

capped at around 20 students already enrolled in Yale Summer Session. Following what committee member and psychology professor Laurie Santos called the “great success” of last year’s 10 summer courses, the University will offer four additional online for-credit courses this summer.

The committee also encouraged the University to consider establishing for-credit online courses during the semester.

Despite the focus on other online ventures, Swineford said the committee will present a recommendation to the University president and provost about a MOOC partnership in the upcoming weeks.

TRANSFORMING EDUCATION ONLINE AND ON CAMPUS

Daphne Koller, one of the cofounders of Coursera, said the goals of MOOCs are twofold — to provide open educational opportunities to the rest of the world and to change the way professors think about in-class instruction.

Most Yale professors interviewed expressed enthusiasm about extending the University’s educational resources to the rest of the world.

“I’m proud to be part of something that brought people back into the life of the mind,” said history professor John Merriman, who put two lecture courses, “European Civilization, 1648– 1945” and “France Since 1871” on Yale Open Courses. “We have reached thousands and thousands of people through these [open] courses, and that’s exciting.”

Koller said she envisioned online education as a “fulcrum” to move in-class education away from the traditional lecture format and toward a more discussion-based format through techniques such as “flipping” the class by assigning lectures posted online as homework.

But professors interviewed expressed concern over transforming what they called an “ancient” method of education.

“The online courses are a wonderful supplement to what goes

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Yale is currently exploring options to expand its online education offerings. on in the classroom, but they’re not a replacement for them,” history professor Frank Snowden said. “I don’t think it would be a positive step forward to do anything that made the live interaction between students and professors less personal, less direct and less intimate.”

English professor Amy Hungerford said even with today’s technology, she does not think the lecture format has become obsolete because the experience of learning simultaneously with peers is an important aspect of the college experience.

“Do you lose something by not being together in the same room experiencing the same discussion that then radiates out to students walking back to their rooms or having dinner in [their] dining hall?” she said. “Is there enough of a shared experience when you only have section?”

Jonathan Holloway, a professor of history and African-Amer-

ican studies, said that while the University will have to assess its place in the context of advances in online education, he thinks “the jury is still out” on which methods he thinks the University should employ.

But committee member and psychology professor June Gruber said she is enthusiastic about the University’s approach to examining its online presence.

“I think Yale has simply employed a thoughtful, thorough approach to systematically investigate all possible MOOC options before making any commitments,” Gruber said. “We care a lot about this new wave of education, and want to make sure we’re doing the best possible job upholding the same standards of traditional brick-and-mortar Yale education while moving it into the realm of the Internet.”

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

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“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.” BILLIE BURKE AMERICAN ACTRESS

Caseus chef explains passion for cheese

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Jason Sobocinski, owner and head chef at Caseus, discussed his career and the philosophy behind his cheese business at a Wednesday Master’s Tea.

BY J.R. REED STAFF REPORTER When most people are asked what they cannot live without, some respond with a delicious brand of chocolate, their favorite stuffed animal or their dearest loved ones. For Jason Sobocinski, owner and head chef at Caseus, that love is cheese.

At a Wednesday Branford College Master’s Tea, Sobocinski reflected on his culinary experiences and outlined his future goals in the cheese industry in front of a crowd of roughly 30 students. Caseus, Sobocinski’s local cheese shop and restaurant, sells more than 100 professionally aged artisan cheeses and other gourmet goods in its retail space while serving critically acclaimed cheese-focused

meals in its bistro. Sobocinski discussed his career that led him to open Caseus as well as his philosophy that dining should be an experience.

“I love the idea of a business that has a name that everyone pronounces differently, because it strikes up a conversation. And that’s a big part of what we are — a conversation,” he said. “I want you to come [to Caseus], cram chow and leave with something you’ve learned and that you can take away, and that you’ve actually educated your palette.”

While pursuing a master’s degree in gastronomy from Boston University, Sobocinski worked as a baker at the Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge from 3 a.m. until 11 a.m. and spent the rest of his time studying the anthropology of food — how

one’s food choices defines him or her as a person, he said. While working at Formaggio Kitchen, he decided to move back to New Haven, where he had grown up, to open a cheese shop and restaurant, Caseus.

Sobocinski said he opened the restaurant in addition to the retail store as a way to use leftover cheese from the store as cooking ingredients. The restaurant also allows cheese to become more approachable to customers who may be unfamiliar with the large variety of cheeses available, he said. He added that he hopes Caseus customers leave having learned about a new dish or product that they had not previously tasted or having experienced a meal that they want to share with others in the future.

“The bistro allows people to feel less intimidated about cheese,” he said. “It’s inherently intimidating and a lot of people don’t know much about where it came from, how it’s made [or] why it looks so funny. But if I take something like [cheese] and turn it into something that has nostalgia, like a grilled cheese sandwich or mac and cheese, then it’s very approachable and you are willing to try it.”

The Caseus Food Truck, bought by Sobocinski and his brother, developed as an alternative to Caseus because of the restaurant’s relatively high prices that result from using local ingredients, Sobocinski said. He added that he “loved the idea of street food, because it’s simple and straightforward.”

The Caseus Food Truck only

serves grilled cheese and soup.

Sobocinski said he is currently developing a cheese manufacturing company in Mystic, Conn.

I love the idea of a business that has a name that everyone pronounces differently, because it strikes up a conversation.

JASON SOBOCINSKI Owner and head chef, Caseus Five audience members interviewed said they appreciated the humorous and lively way Sob-

ocinski engaged with the students.

Alexis Wise ’13, who has eaten at Caseus three times, said she thinks it was great for students to hear from an entrepreneur from the local New Haven area.

Doris Lin ’16 said Sobocinski related well with audience members and was enthusiastic about his food and career throughout the talk.

“If the atmosphere in the restaurant is like the one he created in the Master’s House, then I definitely want to check it out,” Lin said.

Sobocinski published “Caseus Fromagerie Bistro Cookbook” featuring his recipes in November 2011.

Contact J.R. REED at jonathan.reed@yale.edu .

ITS launches cloud storage system

BY SEBASTIAN MEDINA-TAYAC STAFF REPORTER With its first foray into the realm of cloud computing, Yale Information Technology Services has made a storage service available to students many times larger than Google Drive or Dropbox.

Box, the new program, was rolled out to students, staff and faculty in late January and allows users to store up to 50 gigabytes of data — 10 times more than Google Drive and 25 times more than Dropbox. Student Technology Collaborative Assistant Manager Laura Tomas said Box will offer students a free, easy way to back up their files,

which she added will allow ITS to fix computer problems without having to find external hard drives to back up important data, and ITS Senior Change Management Specialist Kay Davis added that 2,500 people have signed up for Box at Yale, representing roughly 10 percent of the community. Students interviewed said they have already signed up for the new service or plan to do so soon.

“It’s important for people to have a single place to keep their files, and Box gives them much more space than, say, Drive,” Tomas said.

Davis said Box allows students, faculty and staff to work together regardless of their email

service or the electronic device they are using, adding that the Box service is available on and off campus and offers applications for Windows and Apple computers and most mobile devices.

Tomas said a possible drawback of the new service is that users need to have Box already activated in order to receive shared documents and collaborate with others using the service, while Google Drive is available to everyone with a Google Account. Davis also said ITS has encountered problems with moving data from other storage systems to Box, but she added that these issues have been minimal and can be quickly addressed by the ITS Help Desk

and Student Technology Collaborative. Students will still be able to access and use their Box accounts after they graduate, she said.

I don’t think most people are going to use Box instead of Dropbox … because everyone already has [Dropbox].

CHRIS BROWN ’15 The collaborative has been

working to promote the new service to students on campus in the past couple weeks, sending Gil Phish, the collaborative’s costumed mascot, to Commons rotunda to spread word to undergraduates.

Six students and staff interviewed said they are happy Yale introduced the service.

David Preschel, an ITS senior engineer, said he has already started using the Box service in order to collaborate with vendors and co-workers on projects and files remotely, as well as store and organize his notes securely.

Kevin Li ’14, who works at a lab in the Medical School, said he signed up for Box because he and

his co-workers often share large files with each other, adding that he expects his lab to transition to Box. Chris Brown ’15 said he appreciates the service but added that he does not think many students will use it immediately.

“I think that this is really cool, but I don’t think most people are going to use Box instead of Dropbox until it runs out of space, because everyone already has that,” he said.

Students, faculty and staff can sign up for the Box service at yale.box.com.

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

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FROM THE FRONT

“Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.” NATE SILVER AMERICAN STATISTICIAN AND ELECTION FORECASTER

Eidelson’s decision to run to influence race WARD 1 FROM PAGE 1 said he was also “strongly considering” a run and that Eidelson’s presence in the race would factor into his decision.

A third student rumored to be considering an aldermanic candidacy, Ward 1 co-chair Ben Crosby ’14, declined to comment Wednesday.

“The field in November is determined by whether or not [Eidelson] decides to run again or not,” said former President of the Yale College Democrats Zak Newman ’13, who served as campaign manager for Vinay Nayak ’14 in his 2011 campaign against Eidelson.

Though potentially the most decisive factor in the race, Eidelson’s participation remains in question, as she has not yet decided whether to run for a second term. She said that the decision might not come until after the end of the academic year.

“I don’t know yet if I’ll be running again,” Eidelson said. “It’s too early to tell right now.”

TOWN OR GOWN?

Since taking office, Eidelson has championed the board’s youth initiatives. Her work, she said, has been dictated by the agenda the board passed in January 2012, which highlighted jobs, community policing and youth opportunities as the three central mandates for the board.

Gathering data to identify gaps in youth services occupied the bulk of Eidelson’s time last year, she said. As a result of that process, the committee is now poised to allocate nearly $250,000 from a state Youth Violence Prevention Grant to city service providers working on youth job training and readiness and youth leadership and mentoring skills.

Beyond youth unemployment, the committee is also working to

transform city spaces into community centers that will provide a safe haven for children otherwise drawn to violence. Along with Ward 28 Alderman Claudette Robinson-Thorpe, Eidelson established the Goffe Street Armory Planning Committee last year to consider plans to turn the deserted armory into a hub for youth programs.

Ward 23 Alderman and Youth Services Committee Vice Chair Tyisha Walker said Eidelson has been an effective leader on youth issues, adding that she thinks Eidelson should run again. On the question of an endorsement, though, Walker equivocated.

“If she’s going to run unopposed, of course I will endorse her. If other people run against her, I would like to give everyone the opportunity and find out what they’re about,” Walker said.

Ward 7 Alderman Doug Hausladen ’04 also commended Eidelson’s work on youth issues, saying she has “taken the bull by the horns.”

Hausladen, however, declined to say whether he would endorse Eidelson if she sought re-election.

But some have articulated a divide between Eidelson’s success on the board and her ability to engage students in her work.

In November 2011, Eidelson won a hotly contested race, winning 58 percent of the 973 votes cast in Ward 1. While 2011 represented the highest Ward 1 turnout in decades, Eidelson claimed that this year’s election has the potential to energize Ward 1 constituents in the same way as that of 2011.

Since then, Eidelson has come up against criticism for failing to remain visible on campus since graduating from Yale last May. In a sentiment echoed by a number of students surveyed in Commons by the News Wednesday,

Francesca Coxe ‘15 said that she is unaware of anything Eidelson has done as an alderman since her election.

“It’s sad to see that she was only visible during the election,” Coxe said.

After the record turnout in 2011, many expected a prolonged surge in Yale students’ involvement in the Elm City. The change, however, was never fully realized. Despite Eidelson’s efforts to get students more involved — including taping posters to the door of every freshman suite — few Yale students feel connected to Eidelson and Ward 1.

In a December survey of 418 students conducted by the News, only 20 percent of Old Campus students could name Eidelson as their alderman. Eidelson cited the constant turnover of students as one reason for a lack of student awareness.

Amalia Skilton ’13, former Ward 1 co-chair and an active volunteer for Eidelson’s 2011 campaign, said the current Ward 1 committee, led by cochairs Crosby and Nia Holston ’14, could have “dedicated more resources knocking on freshman doors and talking to students about the issues” over the past year.

Silverstone and Crosby declined to comment on Eidelson’s time as alderman, while Morrison praised her dedication to city youth issues, adding that he would not have done “anything differently” over the past 13 months.

LOOKING TO NOVEMBER

Despite murmurings about the upcoming aldermanic race among students active in New Haven politics, potential candidates have remained mum about their campaign plans. If this year’s election is anything like those in the past, the campaigns

will feature intensive involvement on the part of various campus political groups.

The 2011 election divided politically minded Yalies, with members of the activist group Students Unite Now (SUN) generally supporting former SUN member Eidelson and many Yale College Democrats supporting Nayak, although neither group officially endorsed a candidate.

But Newman said this year will be different, as the Dems and SUN have “moved past” such a divide.

The Ward 1 committee has the option of endorsing a candidate for the Democratic primary, which is typically held in early to mid-September. In 2011, however, the committee chose to do neither, instead asking Eidelson and Nayak to run as independents in the November general election.

Holston said the new election structure was received favorably, as it gave incoming freshmen time to learn about the race.

Whether a primary will be held this year is uncertain, but she said that the committee would not endorse a candidate if one were held.

Two sources told the News Tuesday and Wednesday that Holston’s co-chair Crosby — who worked extensively on Eidelson’s 2011 campaign — was considering a run. Both Morrison and Silverstone said they do not yet have specific campaign plans, with Morrison explaining that he did not want to undercut Eidelson’s ongoing work on the board.

“I want Sarah to feel like the other people who are considering a run support her,” he said.

“I don’t want to seem like I have all these machinations going on, which I don’t.”

Silverstone, like Morrison, said Eidelson’s potential presence in the race would be a “major factor” in his own campaign considerations, though he did not go so

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Ward 1 Alderman Sarah Eidelson ’12 has yet to announce whether she will seek re-election this November. far as to say her candidacy would be prohibitive.

Still, Eidelson’s experience on the board and her relationships with other aldermen pose significant roadblocks to potential challengers. In 2011, endorsements by three candidates in neighboring wards, who cited Eidelson’s previous involvement throughout the city, played a role in her victory.

In basing their decisions to run largely on Eidelson’s, Morrison and Silverstone underscored her role as the dominant candidate in

the race.

“I think Sarah should run for re-election. I would not challenge her under any situation,” Morrison said. “If she decides not to run, I will think very hard about running. But even then, it’s still up in the air.”

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

Contact ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

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TODAY’S FORECAST Partly sunny, with a high near 30.

Chance snow and low of 25 at night.

TOMORROW

SATURDAY

High of 34, low of 24.

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THAT MONKEY TUNE BY MICHAEL KANDALAFT

ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7 4:30 PM Jackson Town Hall Meeting with Kofi Annan The meeting will feature Kofi Annan, the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations. Yale Law School (127 Wall St.), Levinson Auditorium.

6:30 PM “Preventing Gun Violence” Panel To contribute to the ongoing discussion on gun violence and gun policy in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) will be hosting a panel, “Preventing Gun Violence: What Research and Experience Can Tell Us About What Works.”

Panelists will include New Haven Police Department Assistant Chief Archie Generoso, professor Andrew Papachristos of the Department of Sociology, Yale Law professor Tracey Meares and Stephen Barton of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The event is open to both Yale students and staff and the New Haven community at large. Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.), Room 102.

NUTTIN’ TO LOSE BY DEANDRA TAN

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 12:30 PM “Male Infertility: The Hidden Reproductive Health Problem” Eat lunch with Marcia Inhorn, professor of anthropology and international affairs, who will be discussing “Male Infertility: The Hidden Reproductive Health Problem.” Inhorn served as chair of the Council on Middle East Studies from 2008 to 2011, and was also president of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. Sponsored by the Public Health Coalition. Silliman College (505 College St.), Dining Annex.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9 6:30 PM “Les Mistons” and “Yi Yi” Part of the Film Cultures Colloquium and Screening Series, “Les Mistons” (1957), is directed by François Truffaut, and “Yi Yi” (2000), is directed

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Postal Service plans cuts, five-day week

BY PAULINE JELINEK ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Saturday mail may soon go the way of the Pony Express and penny postcards. The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except packages to stem its financial losses in a world radically reordered by the Internet.

“Our financial condition is urgent,” declared Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe. But Congress has voted in the past to bar the idea of eliminating Saturday delivery, and his announcement immediately drew protests from some lawmakers. The plan, which is to take effect in August, also brought vigorous objections from farmers, the letter carriers’ union and others.

The Postal Service, which suffered a $15.9 billion loss in the past budget year, said it expected to save $2 billion annually with the Saturday cutback. Mail such as letters and magazines would be affected. Delivery of packages of all sizes would continue six days

a week.

The plan accentuates one of the agency’s strong points: Package delivery has increased by 14 percent since 2010, officials say, while the delivery of letters and other mail has plummeted. Email has decreased the mailing of paper letters, but online purchases have increased package shipping, forcing the Postal Service to adjust to customers’ new habits.

“Things change,” Donahoe said.

James Valentine, an antiques shop owner in Toledo, wasn’t too concerned about the news.

“The mail isn’t that important to me anymore. I don’t sit around waiting for it to come.

It’s a sign of the times,” he said, adding, “It’s not like anyone writes letters anymore.”

In fact, the Postal Service has had to adapt to changing times ever since Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general by the Continental Congress in 1775. The Pony Express began in 1860, six-day delivery started in 1863, and airmail became the mode in 1918. Twice-a-day delivery was cut to one in 1950 to save money.

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Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan is President Barack Obama’s nominee to be CIA director.

BY KIMBERLY DOZIER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A Senate hearing on John Brennan’s nomination to head the CIA could lay bare some parts of the secret war against al-Qaida: lethal drone strikes from covert bases against even American terror suspects, harsh interrogation methods and long detention of suspects without due process.

Some of the practices produced revulsion among some in Congress and the public, but the outcry has been muted because Brennan and others say that these harsh and secretive methods have saved American lives.

Those issues will be front and center in the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday for Brennan — a chance for him to answer criticism that he backed the detention and interrogation policy while he served at the CIA under President George W. Bush, charges that stymied his first attempt to head the intelligence agency in 2008.

In answers to questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee before the hearing, Brennan said he was “aware of the program but did not play a role in its creation, execution or oversight,” and added that he “had significant concerns and personal objections” to the interrogation techniques.

He wrote that he voiced those objections to colleagues at the agency privately.

Brennan also described how individuals are targeted for drone strikes, saying whether a suspect is deemed an imminent threat — and therefore appropriate for targeting — is made “on a caseby-case basis through a coordinated interagency process” involving intelligence, military, diplomatic and other agencies.

He defended the missile

strikes by Predator or Reaper drones as a more humane form of war. Aides have portrayed him as cautious in their use, restraining others at the CIA or military who would use them more often, even though as the White House’s counterterror czar he has presided over an explosion of drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Less than 50 strikes took place during the Bush administration while more than 360 strikes have been launched under President Barack Obama, according to the website The Long War Journal, which tracks the casualties.

[I was] aware of the [drone] program but did not play a role in its creation, execution or oversight.

JOHN BRENNAN Nominee for CIA director Administration officials say Brennan would further limit the use of drones by the CIA and leave the majority of strikes to the military.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and others have pressed the White House to show them the classified legal memo that outlines specifically when drones and other lethal strikes may be employed against al-Qaida. An unclassified Justice Department white paper was made public this week, outlining America’s authority to kill suspected terrorists with drones, even U.S. citizens, if a case can be made by the CIA or military that they are linked to al-Qaida and have taken part in plots against Americans.

A senior administration offi-

cial said late Wednesday that Obama now has directed the Justice Department to provide the Senate and House intelligence committees access to classified advice from its Office of Legal Counsel on which the white paper was based.

The CIA’s drone strikes primarily focus on al-Qaida and Taliban targets in the tribal regions of Pakistan, while the military has launched strikes against al-Qaida targets in Yemen and Somalia.

The CIA also carries out strikes in Yemen from a base in Saudi Arabia, including one that killed three American citizens: Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old-son and Samir Khan. Al-Awlaki was linked to the planning and execution of several attacks targeting U.S. and Western interests, including the attempt to down a Detroitbound airliner in 2009 and the plot to bomb cargo planes in 2010. His son was killed in a separate strike on a suspected alQaida den. Khan was an al-Qaida propagandist.

The location of the drone base was first disclosed by The New York Times in a story that previewed Brennan’s hearing, highlighting the sensitive issues that the hearings will bring into the open. The Associated Press first reported the construction of the base in June 2011 but withheld the exact location at the request of senior administration officials. Once it was disclosed, the AP considered the agreement to be no longer in place.

Democrats in Congress have begun to express stronger opposition to the use of drones, but on Wednesday Obama found an unlikely ally in Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who expressed his “100 percent” support of the use of drones against terror suspects.

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Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe spoke during a news conference at U.S. Postal Service headquarters on Wednesday.

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“The sexual abuse … of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind’s most basic duty to protect the innocent.” JAMES T. WALSH REPUBLICAN POLITICIAN

Clashes frighten Damascus

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Smoke billows from an explosion in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday.

BY BEN HUBBARD ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — Syrian rebels and regime forces fought their most intense clashes in weeks inside the heavily guarded capital of Damascus on Wednesday, activists said, with the sounds of shell blasts echoing through the downtown area and keeping many children home from school while residents hid in their houses.

The opposition fighters blasted army checkpoints with rifles and anti-aircraft guns while government forces shelled the eastern and southern suburbs, trying to repel a new insurgent effort to push the civil war into the heart of the capital, the anti-regime activists said.

Although bordered by rebellious suburbs that have seen fierce fighting, widespread clashes have remained mostly on the capital’s edges, saving it from the destruction that has ravaged other major cities such as Aleppo and Homs.

The military of President Bashar has focused on securing the capital, and the dozens of rebels groups that have established footholds in Damascus suburbs have failed to form a united front, each fighting for its own area with little or no coordination with others.

Much of Wednesday’s fighting was sparked by a push by a number of rebels groups in the northwestern neighborhood of Jobar, which is bisected by the Damascus ring road. Rebels, who control the area east of the road, launched attacks on army checkpoints in the regime-controlled western part to try to seize the road, one of the capital’s most important thoroughfares.

They dubbed the operation “The Battle of Armageddon.” It did not appear to be coordinated with rebel groups elsewhere in the city.

Videos posted online showed dozens of rebels collecting in the area with rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, as well as rebel attacks on army checkpoints with heavy-caliber machine guns mounted on pickup trucks. Intense gunfire was heard in the background of another video, while local mosques repeatedly broadcast “God is great” as a battle cry.

Rebels claimed to have seized at least one checkpoint near a prominent mosque on the ring road, but it was unclear where the front lines were late Wednesday. Rebels often abandon areas soon after seizing them, fearing government shelling and airstrikes.

The government responded by stopping traffic to the Abbasid roundabout on the neighborhood’s western side and closing a number of roads nearby. Activists said the army also rained shells on rebel areas east of the city. Online videos showed repeated blasts in the nearby suburb of Arbeen sending up clouds of smoke.

“We woke up this morning to the sound of fierce battles,” said a Jobar resident who had fled to another Damascus neighborhood. Speaking on condition of anonymity because he feared for his safety, he said it was not the first time he had fled fighting in the neighborhood.

“Every time there are battles, we flee and have to decide where to go,” he said. “Sometimes we stay with relatives, sometimes with neighbors who fled before us.”

Rebels also clashed with the army on both sides of the capital’s southern boundary, including in the neighborhoods of Tadamon and Yarmouk. Residents of southern neighborhoods said they could hear blasts and see smoke rising from government shelling near the rebel-held suburb of Daraya.

Tough times for Hezbollah

BY ZEINA KARAM ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — These are tough times for Hezbollah. The Shiite militant group’s uncompromising support for Syrian President Bashar Assad and allegations that it attacked Israeli tourists in Bulgaria are both unpopular in Lebanon, where it is increasingly accused of putting the interests of longtime patrons Iran and Syria over those of its home country.

For many in the deeply polarized and war-weary nation, Hezbollah’s involvement in last year’s bus attack that killed five Israelis, if confirmed, constitutes further proof that the group is willing to compromise the country’s security for external agendas.

“Hezbollah uses the Lebanese people like sandbags, they don’t care about the people,” complained Michel Zeidan, echoing the views of others who called in to a talk radio show Wednesday.

“These are very serious accusations which would demonstrate once again that Hezbollah is completely driven by foreign agendas,” Ahmad Fatfat, a Lebanese lawmaker in the pro-Western camp opposed to Hezbollah, told The Associated Press.

Hezbollah has denied involvement in the Bulgaria attack and has not made any direct comments since the findings of an investigation were announced Tuesday.

Asked to comment at a cabinet meeting Wednesday, Hezbollah minister Mohammed Fneish said: “Israel has been pointing fingers at Hezbollah from the first moment of the explosion took place.”

The group’s deputy chief, Sheik Naim Kassem, said Israel is conducting an international terror campaign against Hezbollah because it failed to defeat it militarily.

“All these accusations against Hezbollah will have no effect, and do not change the facts or realities on the ground,” Kassem told supporters Wednesday, without referring to the Bulgarian charges directly.

Bulgarian officials said Tuesday that the Lebanese group has been linked to the sophisticated bomb-

ing carried out by a terrorist cell that included Canadian and Australian citizens. They said the two living suspects have been identified and are in Lebanon.

The announcement put pressure on European countries such as France and Germany, which haven’t designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization despite the urgings of Israel and the U.S. “If the evidence proves to be true, that Hezbollah is indeed responsible for this despicable attack, then consequences will have to follow,” said Steffen Seibert, a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

He didn’t say what those consequences could be. But a ban on Hezbollah’s activities in Germany, where authorities believe it has almost 1,000 members, could limit its ability to collect funds for the group’s main branch in Lebanon.

By traveling this road, Hezbollah risks becoming a pariah organization.

FAWAZ A. GERGES Director, Middle East Center at the London School of Economics In Lebanon, there were calls for Hezbollah to come out with a clear statement outlining and responding to the accusations.

“We are waiting for Hezbollah’s response,” said Fatfat, the lawmaker.

The Bulgaria accusations come less than a week after an Israeli airstrike in Syria that U.S. officials said targeted a convoy of sophisticated weapons bound for Hezbollah.

A Lebanese radio talk show host on Wednesday morning fielded calls from people commenting on the fallout for the country from the airstrike in Syria and the Bulgarian findings.

“The economic repercussions on Lebanon will be disastrous,” said Zeidan.

Issam, a tour operator, said he was worried it would become harder for Lebanese to get visas to Europe if the

group is declared a terrorist organization there.

“We don’t want to be involved in any proxy wars anymore,” he told the AP, declining to give his full name.

His words reflected a view shared by many Lebanese who are not interested in further warfare with Israel.

Even among supporters of the group who have seen their homes and villages destroyed too many times, there is reluctance to endorse anything that may be seen as provoking a war.

Fawaz A. Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics, said there remained big question marks about whether Hezbollah was really involved in the Bulgaria attacks.

He argued that the group was “too skilled and too intelligent” to carry out an operation in Europe that would play so bluntly into the hands of Israel and the U.S. “By traveling this road, Hezbollah risks becoming a pariah organization, in particular given the importance of Europe to Lebanon and to the Hezbollah community,” he said.

Like others, he said Hezbollah must come out with a very clear statement outlining and responding to the Bulgarian claims and assertions about its role in the attack against tourists.

“Hezbollah doesn’t have the luxury to remain silent,” Gerges said.

Despite its formidable weapons arsenal and political clout in Lebanon, the group’s credibility and maneuvering space has been significantly reduced in the past few years.

The civil war in Syria, the main transit point of weapons brought from Iran to Hezbollah, presents the group with its toughest challenge since its inception in 1982.

Once lauded on the Arab street as a heroic resistance movement that stood up to Israel, it has seen its reputation and popularity plummet in the Arab world because of its staunch support for Assad.

The group has faced repeated accusations that its members were helping the Assad regime’s military crackdown against rebels in Damascus — a claim the group denies.

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A damaged bus is transported out of Burgas Airport in Bulgaria, a day after a deadly suicide attack on a bus full of Israeli vacationers.

Vatican sex crimes prosecutor seeks transparency

BY NICOLE WINFIELD ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s new sex crimes prosecutor has insisted on the need for transparency about the church’s failures to protect children from sex abuse by priests.

In his first public comments since taking office, the Rev. Robert Oliver quoted Pope Benedict XVI in saying the church must recognize the “grave errors in judgment that were often committed by the church’s leadership.” For decades, bishops around the globe actively covered up abuse by priests in their care, while Vatican officials in Rome often turned a blind eye.

Oliver, previously a canon lawyer in the Boston archdiocese — ground zero of the U.S. abuse scandal — spoke days after thousands of pages of personnel files of abusive priests were released by court order in Los Angeles.

They showed how retired Cardinal Roger Mahony and other top archdiocese officials protected the church by shielding priests

and not reporting child sex abuse to authorities.

The archdiocese agreed to release the files as part of a $660 million settlement with abuse victims in 2007. Attorneys for individual priests fought for five years to prevent the papers from being made public and the archdiocese tried to blot out large sections of the files, including the names of hierarchy involved in decision-making. The Associated Press and Los Angeles Times fought successfully to have the names of Mahony and top church officials made public.

Without citing Los Angeles by name, Oliver said Tuesday that the pope had spoken clearly about the need for transparency and justice in order to regain the trust of the faithful.

“We must confront the current situation, including our failures, with courage and determination, carried out with honesty and transparency,” he said, citing Benedict.

He added that bishops must follow civil laws and report abusive priests to police, where such

laws require it.

Oliver was named the Vatican’s “promotor of justice” or chief prosecutor in December to replace Bishop Charles Scicluna, who was named auxiliary bishop in his native Malta.

His office in the Vatican’s Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith reviews all cases of clerical sex abuse, telling bishops how to proceed against accused priests.

Oliver spoke Tuesday at a symposium marking a year since the Pontifical Gregorian University hosted bishops from around the world for a workshop on drafting guidelines to prevent abuse, help victims and better screen priests to make sure abusers aren’t ordained. The Vatican released his remarks Wednesday.

Oliver said that from a high of about 800 cases that his office received in 2004, the Vatican averaged about 600 cases per year during 2010-2012, with the majority of cases stemming from abuse committed in 19651985.

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United States falls in World Cup qualifier to Honduras In the first game of the final round of World Cup qualifying, the U.S. men’s national team lost 2–1 to Honduras. Clint Dempsey put the U.S. ahead in the 34th minute but the team lost the lead just six minutes later. The so-called “hexagonal” round is a round-robin among six CONACAF teams. The top three teams will advance to the World Cup, and fourth place will move on to an international wild-card round.

Yale ranked No. 17

Bulldogs take on Harvard, Dartmouth WOMEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12 A week after the squad took on Quinnipiac’s Kelly Babstock, the Elis will again face one of the nation’s top scorers, Harvard’s Jillian Dempsey, whose 23 goals and 17 assists rank her ninth in the country in points. She scored twice in Harvard’s 4-0 win over Yale earlier in the season.

“Dempsey is a skilled player, but we won’t treat her any differently,” Zupon said. “We want to play our toughest, hardest-working defense against everyone.”

Playing that defense against the Crimson, however, can be tricky. Harvard stands second in the conference in team offense and first in team defense.

“It’ll come down to hard work and who wants it more,” Leonoff said.

“That’s why we play the game.”

Dartmouth, on the other hand, is

known for a very physical style. The Big Green average 10.7 penalty minutes per game, which is sixth in the nation.

“Starting the game fast, aggressive and confident are key in the Dartmouth game,” Zupon said. “If we start off strong and get an early goal, we can build confidence and smother theirs.”

Leonoff added that the game is like any other game. If the team blocks shots, capitalizes on scoring chances and plays good defense, she said, “we can play with anybody.”

Of course, not all games are created equal.

“It’s always nice to beat Harvard,” Leonoff said.

The Bulldogs play Friday at Harvard and Saturday at Dartmouth.

Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

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The men’s lacrosse team is ranked No.17 in the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) preseason polls.

MEN’S LACROSSE FROM PAGE 12 adjusting and learning how to play with a younger group of guys.”

Eight of the 10 rookies are either attackmen or midfielders, and while adjusting to playing with 10 new teammates will be a challenge for the Bulldogs, the change to the NCAA regulations this season will pose a greater difficulty. Levings said that the team will have to play with a greater sense of urgency this season, facing quicker restarts and a shot clock, though he added that the Bulldogs have been simulating the new rules in practice this season.

Changed faceoff rules will also require significant adjustment for Yale’s previously No. 3 faceoff performance, as tighter calls and harsher penalties are being assessed

for repeated faceoff infractions.

With so many adjustments and a short time frame to implement them, the Bulldogs have spent a lot of time fine-tuning all areas of their game.

“We have eight days to put in our entire offensive, defensive and full field packages,” head coach Andy Shay said.

But after the next few days of practice, the Bulldogs will have the opportunity to put what they have worked on in practice to the test when they scrimmage the Division II Le Moyne Dolphins, who won three out of four national championships between 2004 and 2007 and went 17–1 last season.

The contest against Le Moyne will help supplement the Bulldogs’ practices by helping the Elis know what to spend more time on in practice.

Unrealized potential

“Le Moyne will help expose our flaws and allow us to work on those weaknesses before we play in a real game,” Shay said.

Jack Meyer ’14 said the team wants to win the ground ball battle, play good team defense and capitalize on its opportunities on the offensive end.

“As a defense we’ll focus on communicating and limiting any second-chance opportunities LeMoyne might have,” he said.

The Bulldogs will take on the Dolphins Saturday at Reese Stadium.

The following week, the Elis will scrimmage Tufts, before kicking off regular season competition against St. John’s in New York on Feb. 23.

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

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The Bulldogs are on a 16-game winless streak against the Harvard Crimson, dating back to Nov. 18, 2005.

Elis look for a win at home

COLUMN FROM PAGE 12 Back to the Super Bowl. After the Baltimore Ravens smartly committed an intentional safety to bring the clock down to 0:04, the only potential risk was that the score was then 34–31 in favor of the Ravens. On the ensuing kickoff, the San Francisco 49ers could have signaled for a fair catch and attempted a fair catch kick that would have potentially sent the game into overtime. There were a few problems with this magical plan: Since the 49ers had just scored on a safety, the Ravens were able to punt from the 20-yard line, allowing punter Sam Koch to put the ball firmly out of fair catch kick range. Second, the San Francisco kicking threat was David Akers, who finished the NFL regular season at a dismal 30th of 31 qualified kickers in kick percentage. He’s been abysmal from any sort of long distance, and so the Niners were probably right to attempt a low-percentage (but not as low-percentage as Akers’ chances) kick return on the final play of the game.

But think of the nirvana we almost reached.

Right after an intelligent-but-bizarre intentional safety, the 49ers could have sent the Ravens a dose of their own medicine by attempting the rarest play in NFL history.

Jim Nantz briefly alluded to it before Koch’s punt (“Folks, there is one potential option for the 49ers”), but imagine if he actually had to explain the fair catch kick as, of all people, David Akers lined up to try and finish the greatest postseason comeback of all time using the most obscure scoring play possible. Considering CBS was already a mess after fumbling through 35 minutes of blackout coverage, it would have been delightful. Oh, the delicious bedlam of confusion on the sidelines. Oh, the rage of bewilderment on the faces of Ravens fans that now only lives in my imagination.

And let’s not forget about David Akers trying this kick. The most vilified member of the 49ers among fans (with the possible exception of Chris “Sweet Stuff” Culliver) had the potential for the ultimate redemption. IF the kick had taken place and IF Akers had made the longest field-goalish thing in history, the game should have just ended right there. Turn off the lights at the Superdome and call it a day. Blast both the Ravens and 49ers confetti, weld a second Lombardi trophy, and bring Baddie Bey back out on the field, ‘cause everyone would have been a winner.

Contact EVAN FRONDORF at evan.frondorf@yale.edu .

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The Elis are led by guard Sarah Halejian ’15, who was recently ranked the fifth-leading scorer in the Ivy League, averaging 13.8 points per game.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 line. The Quakers also average 4.5 blocks per game, which will surely challenge Yale’s posts.

The Bulldogs are heavily reliant on center Zenab Keita ’14 and forward Meredith Boardman ’16, who pull

an average of 4.2 and 4.3 rebounds per game, respectively. Yale has also focused on improving defensive efforts and averages 8.4 steals per game.

“Defense is something we have consistently gotten better at and can take pride in as a team. Everyone has

made improvements along the way,” Graf said.

The Elis have 10 games remaining in their conference lineup and will continue seeking a NCAA tournament bid.

“In order to make postseason play we really need to win. It’s still possi-

ble but we need to play together,” Graf said.

Yale will take on Penn this Friday at 7 p.m. and Princeton this Saturday at 7 p.m.

Contact DINEE DORAME at dinee.dorame@yale.edu .

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TWO BULLDOGS IN RUNNING FOR HOCKEY AWARD Men’s hockey captain Andrew Miller ’13 and forward Kenny Agostino ’14 were selected on Wednesday as semifinalists for the Walter Brown Award, which honors the top American-born player in New England. The award is sponsored by the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston and is the oldest-running college hockey honor.

AUSTIN MORGAN ’13 HEATING UP FROM CHARITY STRIPE The senior guard has made 18 straight free throws dating back to the Jan. 6 game against Florida, and his 90.9 percent make percentage is ninth among all players in Division I. His career freethrow percentage (85.4 percent) would be a Yale record if it holds.

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“This year is marked by quicker restarts and a shot clock.”

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We could have had it all

fielder Dylan Levings ’14, will also be returning for Yale.

Despite graduating a powerful offense, including attackman Matt Gibson ’12 who was named the Major League Lacrosse Rookie of the Year last season, the Elis believe they will still pack a scoring punch.

“We have reloaded and have plenty of offensive talent to pick up where we left off last season,” Levings said. “However, we are still

Guys, we almost had a fair catch kick at the end of the Super Bowl. A FAIR CATCH KICK almost ended Super Bowl XLVII, you guys. In my warped sports fan mind, this was pretty much the most exciting thing that could have ever happened. And everyone in my general vicinity knew that it was the most incredible hypothetical in the history of the world because they probably heard me screech, “THE 49ERS COULD DO A FAIR CATCH KICK,” a good five or six times before the play occurred.

What exactly is a fair catch kick? A quick refresher: after a receiving team makes a fair catch, they have the (little-known) opportunity to attempt a pseudo-field goal directly from the spot of the fair catch. I say “pseudo” because the rules make a fair catch kick extra-special. The opposing team must line up at least 10 yards downward from the line of scrimmage, and the kicker can placekick the ball off a teammate’s hold. It’s basically a kickoff that needs to sail through the uprights, and the kicker has the advantage of taking a running start and kicking at a low trajectory because the defense is set up so far away from the line of scrimmage.

A fair catch kick is worth three points, and it’s only a rule in the NFL and some high school leagues. It’s only been attempted 21 times in NFL history, with almost all tries coming pre-1980. The last attempt was a 69-yard rocket by Green Bay’s Mason Crosby in a regular season game in 2008 that just barely missed. To round out the history lesson, the last successful fair catch kick came in November 1976.

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The exhibition games against Le Moyne and Tufts will provide the Bulldogs an opportunity to work on adjusting to the new NCAA lacrosse rules.

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER With spring season just around the corner, the Yale men’s lacrosse team, ranked No. 17 in the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) preseason polls, is on the move.

LACROSSE The Elis will compete in a total of 15 matchups this season, two

of which will be scrimmages. The exhibition games — against Le Moyne and Tufts on Feb. 9 and 17, respectively — will provide the Bulldogs an opportunity to work on adjusting to the new NCAA lacrosse rules, train the fresh offensive lineup and hone the veteran defense.

Aside from defenseman and long stick midfielder Mike Quinn ’16, the Bulldog defensive unit consists entirely of returning sophomores, juniors and seniors. The Eli

scoring defense was ranked at No. 18 in the nation and at No. 3 in the Ivy League by the end of last season. Defenseman Peter Johnson ’13 was named USILA Honorable Mention All-American last year and ranked 16th in Division I with 1.81 caused turnovers. Captain and defenseman Michael McCormack ’13, who ranked sixth in the nation with 2.13 caused turnovers last year, will bring tough defense and leadership to the field for the team.

The Elis’ top faceoff winner, mid-

Elis face winless streaks

BY GRANT BRONSDON CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Yale women’s hockey team faces a tough rivalry weekend as the Bulldogs travel north to take on No. 5 Harvard and Dartmouth.

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Penn and Princeton head to Yale

BY DINEE DORAME CONTRIBUTING REPORTER After a frustrating start to its conference schedule, the women’s basketball team is heading into the weekend looking for a win.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY The Bulldogs (4—17—2, 3—11—2 ECAC) are on a 16-game winless streak against the Crimson (17— 3—2, 14—1—1 ECAC) dating back to November 18, 2005, and Harvard currently stands in first place in the conference. Dartmouth (12—7—4, 7—6—3 ECAC), meanwhile, has a 13-game unbeaten streak over Yale, dating back to the 2005-’06 season as well.

“It’s going to take a great team effort to win in both games, and we’re ready and willing to do that,” team captain and forward Alyssa Zupon ’13 said.

Getting a win in either game would be a major step forward for the Elis. Going into the season, the team’s goal was to make the ECAC playoffs, but it stands now on the outside looking in, two points behind Princeton for the final spot. “[A win] would give us momentum leading into next weekend,” goaltender Jaimie Leonoff ’15 said.

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This weekend, the women’s hockey team will play Dartmouth, which averages 10.7 penalty minutes per game and has a 13-game winning streak over Yale.

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The Bulldogs (6–12, 1–3 Ivy) will host both Penn (9–8, 2–1 Ivy) and Princeton (12–5, 3–0 Ivy) in the John J. Lee Amphitheater this weekend in hopes of climbing up in Ivy League standings. Falling to both Harvard and Dartmouth last week put the Elis two games behind both the Crimson and the Big Green, who are currently tied for second place in the league.

“If we play the game that we are capable of playing, I am confident that we can rise in the standings,” captain Allie Messimer ’13 said. “I honestly feel a lot of confidence coming from the team going into this weekend.”

Yale is currently averaging 37.5 percent from the field, which the team will work to improve in advance of this weekend’s games. The Bulldogs are led by guard Sarah Halejian ’15, who was recently ranked the fifth-leading scorer in the Ivy League, averaging 13.8 points per game.

Guard Janna Graf ’14 has also been

a key player for the Elis and currently holds a 41.1 percent 3-point average, ranking her fourth in the Ivy League from beyond the arc.

“Offensively, we have been making a few changes that will move the ball better on offense and improve the quality of shots that we have been taking,” said Messimer.

Yale’s inside game will be put to a

Defense is something we have consistently gotten better at and can take pride in as a team.

JANNA GRAF ’14 Guard, women’s basketball test this weekend. Averaging 43.1 percent from the field and picking up 44.7 rebounds per game, Princeton brings a strong presence under the basket.

“We’ve been working on throwing in to the post more and getting more ball movement,” Graf said.

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