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WEEKEND INSIDE THE NEWS // FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2013

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CROSS CAMPUS

street cred LORENZO LIGATO and YANAN WANG look at how urban design can combat New Haven crime. Page 3

STREET CRED DESIGNING A CITY, FIGHTING CRIME

FACULTY MEETING

BROWNELL

MEN’S SQUASH

Professors approve changes to shopping, consider grading policies

RUDD CENTER FOUNDER LEAVES YALE FOR DUKE

Bulldogs prepare for last home match of season following sweep of Brown

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FORMER UN SECRETARY-GENERAL VISITS YALE

Neither friend nor food. Nemo

is coming — this time, not as a clownfish, but as a potentially historic blizzard. The storm is expected to hit New Haven this morning and dump up to 2 feet of snow on the Elm City.

In preparation, Yale Dining has adjusted its hours and will serve dinner in the dining halls from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. In addition, Shabbat dinner will start one hour early at 6 p.m.

BY LORENZO LIGATO AND EVERETT ROSENFELD STAFF REPORTER AND SENIOR REPORTER

Rainbow nation. Five hundred students are expected to participate in this weekend’s IvyQ Conference, which will draw hundreds of LGBTQ students and allies from across the country to Yale. While the second annual LGBTQ GALA Reunion was canceled due to severe weather conditions, organizers said IvyQ will continue as planned with minor scheduling changes.

Sex and the Elm City. Cynthia Nixon, the Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress from the hit television show “Sex and the City,” will be honored during a special concert tonight with the Whiffenpoofs.

Nixon will receive the University’s first annual Artists for Equality Award, which is presented to artists who have demonstrated a strong commitment to the LGBTQ community.

Yale’s very own Captain Hammer. Daniel Perez DRA ’13

has been named the winner of the 2013 Buerki Golden Hammer Scenic Technology Award in part for his work in engineering the flying pink cotton candy cloud that Katy Perry rode during her 2011 “California Dreams” tour.

Sounds like a teenage dream.

Trashing 007. A stealthy

intruder has infiltrated Pierson’s basement and may be there to stay. In recent days, a photo cutout of a smirking and gun-wielding James Bond has been spotted above the label for Pierson’s trash room, appropriately numbered room 007. Who knew James Bond could be so comfortable next to trash?

Fighting fire. A district court judge ruled yesterday against 11 New Haven firefighters who argued that the city had unlawfully denied them potential advancement by failing to comply adequately with the 2009 Ricci v. DeStefano Supreme Court ruling on reverse discrimination.

A strategy shoutout. New York Times columnist and Jackson Institute fellow David Brooks gave a shoutout to “Grand Strategy” yesterday when he mentioned the course — and the lessons he’s learned from Machiavelli — in his weekly column. Glad at least someone is learning.

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‘I GREW UP WITH THE SENSE THAT CHANGE WAS POSSIBLE’ Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan spoke to Yale students at a Jackson Institute for Global Affairs-sponsored talk Thursday afternoon.

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After nearly two years of negotiations, New Haven Police Department officers ratified a five-year contract Wednesday night that boasts wins for both the union and City Hall.

The vote — which took place all day Wednesday at the NHPD’s Union Avenue headquarters — ratified a new deal between the city and the 413 unionized officers who have been working without a contract since 2011. The agreement includes several planned wage increases for the officers, but it also outlines changes to pension and health benefits that should help City Hall manage its finances in the long run.

The NHPD union, which has traditionally taken an oppositional stance to Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s administration, broke with its historical precedent in ratifying the contract by more than two-thirds of the vote, 247–109. Generous health care coverage and a 20-year retirement age have long been cherished by the officers, and losses on both fronts reflect a changing departmental attitude.

“There is some understanding [among those who voted to ratify the contract] SEE NHPD PAGE 6

E T H I CA L I N V E ST M E N T S

Fossil fuel divesting faces uncertain future

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n the 1970s, Yale was among the first institutions to divest from companies tied to South African apartheid. Now, students are urging the University to divest from fossil fuels — and waiting for Yale’s response. SOPHIE GOULD reports.

BY SOPHIE GOULD STAFF REPORTER Leaning against the walls and sitting in aisles, more than 80 students crammed into a classroom on the second floor of Linsly-Chittenden last Saturday afternoon. A handful wore seemingly normal white “Y” T-shirts, but with a noticeable change: The bottom half of the shirts had been dipped in black dye, intended to make them

Post-Newtown, mental health weighed

BY MICHELLE HACKMAN STAFF REPORTER In the days following the shooting in Newtown that left 20 children and six staff members dead, speculation was rife over the 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza’s mental health. Multiple news outlets reported that Lanza had been taking medication prior to the shooting and that his mother had been mulling over more intensive treatment for her son. Throughout the state, lawmakers and Connecticut citizens have been asking the same questions: Had the state’s mental health system been stronger, could the events at Newtown have been prevented?

In the wake of the shooting, the Connecticut Legislature established the Bipartisan Task Force on Gun Violence Protection and Children’s Safety on Jan. 14, charged with the mission of patching up cracks in any laws through which Lanza may have slipped. The task force is divided into three caucuses: school security, gun safety and mental health, which will each propose a bill this

legislative session. Though bills normally take the entirety of the five-month legislative session to discuss, pass through committee and come up for a vote, the task force is due to release its proposals by the end of this month.

There is no connection between what went on in Newtown and people with mental illness.

look ominous, like they were caught in a rising tide of oil.

Saturday marked the kickoff meeting of a campaign to get the University to phase out its endowment investments in the fossil fuel industry for ethical and environmental reasons.

The campaign, called Fossil Free Yale, is part of a national movement started by environmental activist Bill McKibben that has spread to 252 college campuses, including most of the

Ivy League. McKibben has said that the effort aims to push universities — whose endowments total about $400 billion — to agree to immediately freeze all new investments in the 200 fossil fuel companies with the largest oil, gas and coal reserves and phase out existing investments in those companies over the next five years. A “green” portfolio, McKibben said, should be SEE INVESTING PAGE 4

Blizzard slams into region

BY NICOLE NAREA STAFF REPORTER The Elm City is bracing for what some meteorologists are calling the “storm of the year,” which will slam into the East Coast in full force starting Friday evening and leave the region blanketed in at least a projected foot and a half of snow.

The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning and coastal flood advisory

for New Haven Thursday afternoon, which will remain in effect until 1 p.m. Saturday.

The advisory warned of poor visibility conditions, snow accumulation ranging from 18 to 24 inches with winds up to 55 miles per hour and potential power outages due to fallen trees.

University administrators and public officials across the region took measures in SEE SNOW PAGE 6

KATE MATTIAS Executive director, National Alliance on Mental Illness Connecticut Chapter Several mental health experts interviewed said that although they were glad to see an unusual spotlight shone on issues of mental health, they worried that producing legislation in reaction to a tragedy might produce regulations that were not well-thoughtout.

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Dining hall hours and food retail hours have been altered due to the incoming snowstorm.

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VIEW Holding our faculty accountable or challenge Darnell and risk his retribution. When early student concerns were raised, it is clear that administrators did not heed the warning.

Given the extent and duration of Darnell’s actions, a one-year suspension from the faculty is a mere slap on the wrist. Though he has resigned from his leadership of the NELC Department, Darnell will return to Yale next January to resume his teaching and research.

While we would like to propose a more adequate punishment for Darnell's policy violations, we are left unable to do so. The Faculty Handbook outlines the rules that govern professors' work at Yale, yet it lacks any clear description of how rule-breakers will be punished.

In fact, after outlining the many reasons why a professor must not have an intimate relationship with a student under his or her direct supervision, Section XXI, Part B of the Faculty Handbook offers a one-line suggestion concerning possible punishment: “Violations of the above policies by a teacher will normally lead to disciplinary action.”

Furthermore, Yale’s official policy suggests that it is “desirable” to reach an informal — and therefore closed-door and nontransparent — resolution.

This weak reaction to such severe violations of University policy leads us to question whether the University sees its faculty regulations as a codified set of rules, or merely strongly worded suggestions.

Until administrators explain their method for determining Darnell's punishment — and how that punishment is commensurate with his actions — the former NELC chair will serve as a testament to students and professors across the University that violations of Yale's own rules will not merit serious punishment.

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'ALEX' ON 'PROMOTING DIVERSITY AND DIALOGUE'

For a less vicious V-Day

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One month ago, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations chair John Darnell admitted to an affair with a studentturned-professor under his direct supervision. His actions violated policies set forth in the Faculty Handbook. Darnell and various administrators reached an informal resolution, deciding that a one-year unpaid suspension from the faculty would be sufficient punishment.

But it is important to remember that Darnell did not only violate the explicit terms of the handbook.

Even more troubling, his relationship with associate professor Colleen Manassa ’01 GRD ’05 created a culture of intimidation and mistrust under his departmental leadership — compromising the ability of students and faculty within the department to pursue academic research and free expression in an open and safe environment.

Through his abrupt departure, Darnell fractured his department.

Today, NELC has only one full-time Egyptologist and his former students are without their primary adviser. This state of affairs threatens the ability of its students to further their research and their careers.

But the revelation of Darnell’s affair did not merely expose a scandal in the NELC Department; it also revealed that our University — an institution that, over the past several years, has made too many headlines for its sexual climate — lacked an effective structure for handling the situation.

In the Darnell case, the University relied upon a system of complaints that would have revealed the name of anyone who came forward. This system forced NELC students and faculty to make an impossible choice: Stay silent and attempt to learn and teach in a hostile environment,

who benefit from it.”

or those of you Horaces who, in carping the very fruit of the diem, live each moment on the brink of the now, allow me to lend you my foresight: Thursday is Valentine’s Day. Yes, my poets, this is Yet Another Valentine’s Day Column.

No, I will never, ever refer to Feb. 14 as Singles Awareness Day, and please rest assured: I’m not about to spend my whole 18 inches delving into the absurdity and impropriety of this Hallmark holiday.

For to complain about Valentine’s Day is useless and, worse, cliché. Although I agree that it’s ridiculous that we have allowed a greeting card company to impress upon our feeble culture an artificial holiday which publicly celebrates the very private and personal wonder of romantic love, there’s nothing more pathetic than a jaded singleton tilting at stone-solid, though saccharine, windmills.

And, really, far be it for me to begrudge someone some fancy swag or an evening out just because I have been deemed universally unlovable. No, my children, gather ye rosebuds and/or chocolates and/or mind-blowing sexual experiences while ye may.

But while you’re tending to your flowers — or your wounds —

it’s important to remember what a m o m e n tous occasion most of us idiots (myself, MICHELLE many a time, included) have TAYLOR built this arbitrary day up to Tell It Slant be.

Of course, some of them, like your wizened and totally-not-bitter correspondent, have transcended Valentine’s Day (and indeed, romance itself). Yet for those of us less progressed on our path to nirvana, a modicum of sensibility and sensitivity are required to navigate this farce without adding to the negative charge inherent to the pink, sparkly, anxietyinducing glow of the holiday.

What I mean is, as with most holidays, etiquette is crucial. And so, out of the generosity of my heart and the wisdom of my years, I present to you, singles and couples both, A Few DOs and DON’Ts for Valentine’s Day. DON’T, if you are in a relationship, indulge in public tongueplay. PDA is kind of gross already — my mirror neurons would rather not imagine the taste of

your shaggy beau’s saliva — but on Valentine’s Day, it is an affront to all of us sexually frustrated peons who find ourselves, as the ironically tragic euphemism goes, “between partners.”

This rule also applies to your noisy “celebrations.” Sound is public; it counts as PDA. Some of us have class on Friday. Keep your ecstasy to yourself, please.

Besides, we all know you’re faking it.

If, on the other hand, you find yourself unattached, DON’T complain that you are “so single.” You are either single or you are not. It is not an adjective that requires, or merits, an intensifier. If you are having your physical, but not your emotional, needs satisfied, you get to decide whether or not you’re single, but just pick a term and stick to it.

ALSO DON’T use phrases along the lines of “spending the day with my girls (or boys),” “I don’t need a man (or woman) to satisfy me” and the aforementioned Singles Awareness Day. DON’T buy chocolates and talk at length about how you’re your own valentine. These gestures are just really tacky, and they make me feel like my Facebook feed is stuck on repeat.

And on the topic of Facebook,

please DON’T Instagram whatever Valentine’s Day present(s) you have received. This one is a no-brainer. If you didn’t realize this, you are a jerk.

DO, however, feel free to seek out a valentine, but DO ALSO be subtle about it. There’s nothing more depressing than discovering that you are attractive to all the wrong people. A quiet, but tasteful, confession of sentiment will do the trick if your feelings are reciprocated. Anything more elaborate than a well-written card or a flower will be both guiltand vomit-inducing, I promise you.

And DO, lastly, enjoy the day.

Enjoy the day not because it is Valentine’s Day, but because it is a day, and you are alive, and you might be in love or you might fall in love or you might discover that you don’t need romantic love, because the world itself is lovely, and Yale is beautiful and you — though you will not assert it on your Facebook — are beautiful.

Enjoy the day because you should enjoy every day. But for heaven’s sake, don’t be an idiot about it.

MICHELLE TAYLOR is a senior in Davenport College. Her column runs on Fridays. Contact her at michelle.a.taylor@yale.edu .

G U E S T C O L U M N I S T D I A N A S AV E R I N

The upside of upside down I

n June, I flew 6,000 miles home. I walked past the gates and newspaper vendors of LaGuardia Airport until I found my mother in the baggage claim, with arms outstretched. We hugged and waited for my backpack to pass us by on the conveyer belt. It didn’t take long for the stimuli in the room to became dizzying, though: the intercom announcements, the reuniting families, the spin of the conveyer belt, the newly turned on and buzzing phone, the parental questions about all I had done for the past couple months and all I was about to do in the next few days. I looked around the carousels of luggage and searched for one thing: a place to do a headstand.

I still search for those places, wherever I am. I sneak out of the reading room in Sterling. I take momentary leaves from dinner parties. I excuse myself from dates, slip outside of classrooms and explore random hallways of train stations. I look for a smooth patch of ground. I have used my secret spot in Bass, spongy grass outside a friend’s home, an untrafficked corner of a restaurant. I kneel, cradle the back

of my skull with interlaced fingers and push the top of my head into the earth. My tailbone lifts; my knees unfold toward the sky.

I press my heels up, push my legs together and pull my ribs in. I exhale. Upside down, I return to one simple focus: Don’t topple over.

My first yoga teacher taught me this trick when I was a kid.

She said that if I ever felt overwhelmed, I could just lift a leg.

Every part of my being would become so focused on not falling while in a balancing pose, she told me, that anything else — hyperactivity, distractedness, exhaustion, anticipation, fear, overstimulation, excitement, anxiety — would fade from my thoughts. Since then, many balancing poses have become my refuge. Headstands, more than the other ones, pull the entirety of my focus out of my surroundings and into my feet. If I look at something for too long, I can’t see it anymore. Until I see it upside down.

I used to look in wonder when some folks could just pop up into one at the end of a yoga class.

There were many weeks on my way to upside down that involved

practicing in a field. All afternoon, I would fall over myself to the amusement of passersby. The pose didn’t make sense; I kicked up and my legs flipped backward, spiraled in various directions or dropped quickly to the ground.

My legs may still get shaky when sticking straight up in the air, but I have since learned how to narrow my world to one singular focus: Don’t topple over.

I’m usually bad with that kind of thing. I swerve when I walk, scrape my knees when I run and slap nearby strangers when I dance. One mentor once described my mode of operation as “reckless striving.”

This striving usually means striding away from the things that overwhelm me: to the trails of East Rock where the branches blot out the city behind them, to a yoga studio where gauzy curtains filter away the orange streetlights outside, to any shoreline I can find, even murky New Haven harbors, where my ears fill up with water and my eyes can squeeze shut.

When I stand upside down, I feel no need to be anywhere besides where I am. I forget

about limits all together and remember that everything I need is in my bones; I just have to pay attention to them. I have to become aware of even the small ones, align and stack them, and breathe.

In many situations, aligning your bones such that your head is on the ground and feet are in the air is a weird thing to do, but in my experience, most things worth doing are weird.

Finding calm doesn’t always have to entail going upside down, though. Even when I just stand up, truly stand, with my shoulder blades pressing onto my back, my feet pushing into the earth, my chin lifting, it feels like I’m balancing.

In both situations, and many more, it just takes asking the question — what do I need at this very moment? — and answering it, even when that might mean standing on my head in the baggage claim of an airport. The worst thing that could happen is I topple onto the floor, then get back up again.

DIANA SAVERIN is a senior in Berkeley College. Contact her at diana.saverin@yale.edu .

G U E ST C O LU M N I ST CA R O L I N E SY D N EY

Entering the friend zone I

know it sounds bizarre, but though I’ve finally cracked the code of the YCC salad matrix and stopped trying to open the Branford trick gates, I’ve sort of grown to miss that period of time at the beginning of the year when it was absolutely acceptable to sit down at a table without knowing anyone. Friends are the flowers in the garden of life, so the saying goes, but how do you plant the seeds of new friendships in the dead of winter with the permafrost of last semester’s friends surrounding you?

I’m stuck in this awkward position where I sit down with my friends — who, let’s be honest, I’m so glad I have — and awkwardly ogle, or worse, make eye contact with, my assorted friend-crushes.

It’s terrible. I feel like if they just knew me, we would really, truly get along. She’s got a pile of sweet potato fries, and I’ve got a pile of sweet potato fries (but neither of us has ketchup!). We have so much in common. But I just don’t know how to make the first move.

Fortunately for you, dear reader, I’ve been experimenting with various techniques for

emerging from the friend-making slump that sets in second semester.

The first, and perhaps most obvious, option is Greek life. Go join a group of people who want to be friends! Or, at least, a group of people who may want to be your friend after you’ve gotten your girl-flirt (or bro-flirt) on with them. Unfortunately, this option has now closed, and if you’re like me, you didn’t make it to a single rush event, and if you’re unlike me, you probably aren’t reading this but rather are awash in sisterly (or brotherly) love.

So we proceed to solid advice you probably learned in preschool: Use your words. If you want to be friends with someone, tell them. Just get it out. If, hypothetically, a girl who you’ve considered to be really cool since you saw her riding by on her bike in the first week of school happens to be in your suite sitting on your couch, you should most definitely tell her that becoming her friend was your New Year’s resolution. It could work. After this, she hypothetically might wave at you a little more frequently and also occasionally suggest that

you should get a meal “sometime.” Hypothetically.

Next, the dating game. There are two ways to go about this.

The first is more straightforward: Set your friend-crush up with a friend or a suitemate and try to lure them into your social orbit.

The second version requires a little bit more ingenuity, but may yield better results. Allow me to present the Fake Double Date.

It works as such: You and your “date” pick two people who you may or may not think will actually want to date, but who both of you want to spend time with.

Lure two desired friends out to dinner with the promise of potential love. These two innocent individuals may or may not hit it off. They may be confused as to how anyone could see them together in any capacity. They definitely don’t have to know that you’re only marginally acquainted with either of them.

But at this point you and your fake date have just successfully dined with two of your friendcrushes. Score.

The beginning of second semester and a new set of classes actually play to your advantage.

I call it the Sticky Study Buddy.

Someone in your section you want to get to know? Claim them as your study partner. Do all of your work together. Double your productivity points for course work plus friend-making.

Maybe you aren’t forward enough to tell someone straight out how much you want to be friends with them or manipulative enough to stage a dinner date, or sociable enough to work in a pair. You might then ask: What then?

Fake it till you make it. Overhear your potential friend remarking that she’s going to eat at Saybrook as she leaves lecture? (Of course you didn’t, who eats at Saybrook?) But anyway, show up at Saybrook. Stalking or coincidence — it’s really just a matter of semantics.

If all of the above fails, bribe people with food. The way to a true friend’s heart is through their stomach. Nothing rounds up potential friends like “I just made cookies.”

Or, be my friend. On Wednesdays, I wear pink.

CAROLINE SYDNEY is a freshman in Silliman College. Contact her at caroline.sydney@yale.edu .

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FRIDAY FORUM

KURT VONNEGUT “We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.”

YALE TALKS DIVESTMENT I L LU ST R AT I O N S E D I T O R K A R E N T I A N

GUEST COLUMNISTS J E S S I CA B E L D I N G A N D FA I S A L H A M I D

Why divest from the occupation O

GUEST COLUMNIST ALICE BUCKLEY

Exploring ethical investing at Yale Y

ou may have noticed the sexy fliers dotting campus, the witty Facebook group or the slightly more sensible article on the front page of The New York Times.

The posters around campus say that it’s urgent, Facebook says it’s cool and The New York Times says that students at schools across the nation are talking about it. Is it surprising and unprecedented that this buzzword — “divestment” — has made its way over to Yale? Rhetorical question, and the answer is no.

Actually, Fossil Free Yale is not the first group of students to urge Yale to divest for a social cause — it has been a recurring theme, in various forms and for various causes, over the past four decades.

This all started in 1970, when four Yale professors and two graduate students led a seminar called “Yale’s Investments,” which focused on the social consequences of the endowment returns of universities and other nonprofit institutions. Two years later, three of those professors published “The Ethical Investor,” a book defining guidelines to “express the minimum moral obligation to which all institutions and individuals are subject.” These principles treat and evaluate issues of social responsibility in investment.

The Yale Corporation then adopted these principles, and The New York Times triumphantly declared Yale “the first university to resolve this issue by abandoning the role of passive institutional investor.”

At the crux of the book is the concept of “grave social injury.” “The Ethical Investor” defines social injury as the harmful impact of companies violating the basic freedoms of individuals, and argues that universities should avoid such investments.

In addition to establishing criteria for ethical investing to avoid social injury, the University formed two committees: the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility (ACIR) and the Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility (CCIR). Both of these groups consider investor responsibility and make policy recommendations to the Yale Corporation.

In the past four decades, however, Yale has only actively divested a handful of times. In the first case, amid the wave of student demonstrations sweeping the country, ACIR examined the implications of supporting companies operating in apartheid South Africa. After eight years of University investigation and student activism on campus, Yale eventually divested from 17 com-

panies operating in South Africa in 1994, but not before over 150 other universities across the country had already divested completely.

Several years later, the ACIR began to scrutinize the tobacco industry. Yale never divested, but did establish tobacco-related proxy resolutions — voting guidelines that called for increased education on the risks of tobacco and restrictions on sales and advertising to minors.

Yale was more decisive when considering its response to the genocide perpetrated by the government of Sudan in the Darfur region. Only a month after the ACIR presented to the CCIR, the Corporation divested from seven oil and gas companies operating in Sudan that were supporting the Sudanese government economically. Students from the law and management schools tried to follow suit by highlighting the violence and injury occurring in the Congo. They urged Yale to divest from mineral-seeking software companies operating there, but were less successful.

Two years ago, several impassioned Yale students formed the Responsible Endowment Project and criticized a hotel company called HEI Hotels & Resorts for its notoriously poor labor conditions and exploitation of women and minorities. They were not alone in their endeavors: Students from other Ivy League schools successfully urged their universities to divest from HEI. After three years, Yale chose not to re-invest, a decision made by the Investments Office rather than the ACIR. There were many times over the past several decades when the University did less than many of its peers. However, this trend can be reversed. There is no better time than now to take a stand and effect change. Yes, we do have a $19 billion endowment, but our greatest asset is our status as a role model and pioneer for universities across the nation and around the world. It is our obligation to prove that our students and our University prioritize the future — not just through our LEED-certified buildings and recycling bins — but in a more monumental manner, one that will send a message to our peer universities, to our students and faculty and to the government that we do not support the business of placing our planet and our future in jeopardy.

ALICE BUCKLEY is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards College. Contact her at alice.buckley@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNISTS EVI STEYER AND EUGENE YI

The hottest date around W

hen you’re in college, people love to talk to you about the hook-up culture. Your aunt will interrogate you about it over the Thanksgiving pies. Your older friends will knowingly shake their heads.

Heck, your little brother probably knows about it.

And it’s true. We’re busy, and it’s hard to find time and energy for more than a casual fling sometimes. Even when you are consistently seeing someone, so little of your days overlap that sometimes the best you can get is a good GChat while both of you are in class, where you know every “LOL” and “LMAO” is even more of a lie than usual. Really, you’re “Rolling On the Floor Laughing” in a seminar?

Relationships with clubs and campaigns are often similarly difficult to sustain. When the issues are big and remote and upsetting, it can be even harder to remain focused on them because they elicit a lot of emotion and guilt.

It’s exhausting to care for so long, and we opt instead to allow the stress of daily logistics and the worries about lesser efforts to blot out our larger fears.

So we joined Fossil Free Yale, the group working to convince the university to divest of its carbon portfolio, and it transcends our day-to-day exhaustion. Amongst the casual flings with other clubs, this campaign has been the one that has held our interest and received the majority of our efforts. We have made the commitment, and, given all the media campaigning we’ve been doing, it’s pretty much Facebook official.

We’re dating.

Around the nation, universities and colleges are being pushed to ditch their dirty energy investments, following the logic that it’s unethical and hypocritical for our educational institutions to be supporting the greatest contributors to one of the leading threats of our time. Climate change is happening and happening fast (Shout out to you, Hurricane Sandy!), and the fossil fuel sector has been shown to be the biggest supplier of greenhouse gas emissions of any single industry. Our school has an obligation to retract its support from such companies when we have committed to being on the cutting edge of sustainability and a leader in the world of academic and societal change.

Thankfully, our university seems to recognize the threat of climate change. You can see it everywhere, in the micro wind

turbines on top of Becton, the solar panels on Fisher and Kroon Hall, the buses that run on biodiesel and countless other new technologies that the university is implementing and investing in. To continue with investments that promote the development of technologies that allow us to drill deeper, burn cheaper or pollute faster is at odds with the efforts we are making all over campus and which we profess to hold as part of our core values.

But divestment is the one thing our university hasn’t done. And we need to.

OUR DEDICATION TO OUR CAUSE IS LIKE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ENVIRONMENT As anyone who has attempted the “Twelve College Challenge” can attest, it can be difficult to continually muster emotion and energy in the face of a grand undertaking. So the campaign for divestment gives us a sense of purpose, and it also makes it easier to commit to the small lifestyle changes that the fight against global warming requires. When we have the choice to bike or drive, unplug our computer chargers or leave them hanging, keep the heat blazing or find a snuggle buddy (or better yet, an individual snuggie — germ free!), we’ll need the momentum to make the right choices day after day. If we’re going to ask universities and companies to change the way they support our energy needs, we are also obliged to modify the way we use and conserve energy. It’s hypocritical not to do so.

We remain faithful to our campaign because we care about our friends and our future. Imminent as the dangers of climate change are, it can be hard to continually realize the threat of a famine continents away or the tragedy of islands lost under the rising waves when our daily demands seem so much more pressing. But we don’t need to look across the ocean or 50 years into the future to find inspiration to change our behavior today. We just need to look across the table.

EVI STEYER AND EUGENE YI are sophomores in Timothy Dwight College.

Contact them at evi.steyer@yale.edu and eugene.yi@yale.edu .

n Wednesday, we joined with Yale Students for Justice in Palestine to publically launch a campaign calling upon Yale professors to sign an open letter that would ask TIAA-CREF to divest from companies that directly profit from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Already, over 20 Yale faculty members have joined the campaign.

TIAA-CREF is one of the largest American financial corporations, and it handles the retirement funds for many Yale professors. Though TIAA-CREF claims to be socially responsible — its motto is “Financial Services for the Greater Good” — it invests in companies that materially profit from violating the Palestinian right to live in peace and security.

We see the aim of the campaign as narrow — all of the targeted companies aid in human rights violations perpetrated by the Israeli occupation. Our campaign will send a message to Caterpillar, whose bulldozers are regularly used to demolish Palestinian homes; Elbit Systems, which manufactures drones used to spy on Palestinian civilians; Motorola, which provides the surveillance equipment used in illegal Jewish-only settlements and sniper stations along the separation wall; Veolia Environmental Services, which supports the illegal settlements with the construction of a light-rail system from Jewish West Jerusalem to the West Bank; and Northrop Grumman, which supplied Israel with missiles, F-16 combat jets and parts for the Apache helicopters used to massacre of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead from 2008 to 2009.

The campaign does not call for the boycott of Israel or divestment from TIAA-CREF itself.

It is about asking TIAA-CREF to divest from companies that profit directly from the occupation of Palestinian land, not those that do trade in Israel or with the Israeli government.

Of the five companies mentioned, only Elbit is Israeli.

Our campaign does not seek to be controversial. Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories is in flagrant violation of international law. We see ourselves as following Jewish Voice for Peace, which founded this divestment campaign in 2010, and the dozens of other organizations who have signed on since.

All we want is the CEO of TIAA-CREF to live up to his company’s motto.

The campaign’s effectiveness has been demonstrated by several major successes. For instance, in June 2012, after almost 200 New York University faculty and staff signed the petition and Morgan Stanley Capital International removed Caterpillar from its World Socially Responsible Index (which guides its investments), TIAA-CREF divested more than $72 million in Caterpillar shares from its Social Choice Funds portfolio. In addition, the campaign has alerted organizations other than TIAA-CREF to the unethical practices of the aforementioned companies, occasionally leading to divestments. For example, Friends Fiduciary Corporation, a nonprofit and socially responsible investment firm, decided to drop Veolia from its portfolio in September 2012.

We in the American ivory tower often envision ourselves in a passive role in foreign conflicts. We may write papers about them or follow them in the news, but we imagine that only a solution negotiated by the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority could change the situation for the better. In reality, however, the global capitalistic institutions to which all of us are in some way bound connect us intimately to the plight of Ibrahim al-Kiswani, whose home the Israeli army unjustly demolished on Wednesday with a Caterpillar bulldozer, and to the death of Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist who was killed when an Israeli soldier in a Caterpillar bulldozer ran her over in the Gaza Strip in 2003. Scholars cannot claim to be neutral observers of these crimes while their retirement funds pay for them.

We understand that Yale faculty members did not choose to invest in the destruction of Palestinian lives and livelihoods; TIAA-CREF made that decision for them. Now, however, we are calling on them to pressure TIAA-CREF to divest. We can no longer feign neutrality while our own complicity stares us in the face.

The pension funds of 20 Yale faculty members easily amount to several hundred thousand dollars; their asking TIAA-CREF to live up to their motto already has a significant impact. Every supporter matters. We can all call on members of Yale’s faculty to join thousands of their peers across the country and take an important step for peace.

JESSICA BELDING is a senior in Davenport College. FAISAL HAMID is a senior in Trumbull College and a co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine. Contact them at jessica.belding@yale.edu and faisal.hamid@yale.edu .

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FROM THE FRONT

“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.” MARK TWAIN AMERICAN AUTHOR AND HUMORIST

Fossil Free Yale looks to divestment

VRINDA MANGLIK

Bonnie Frye Hemphill FES ’13 helped present the divestment report at the Fossil Free Yale kickoff event last Saturday.

INVESTING FROM PAGE 1 as important to universities as an energy-efficient campus.

Though experts are split on whether divestment is the best strategy to slow climate change and only three colleges have agreed to divest so far, Fossil Free campaigns are cropping up at new colleges every day. Last week, members of Yale’s campaign presented a report to the University’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, or ACIR, an entity that was formed in 1972 to consider ethical concerns surrounding the investments that make up Yale’s $19.3 billion endowment, and the committee agreed to consider Fossil Free Yale’s proposal.

But in its 40-year history, the ACIR has only divested from two causes, University President Richard Levin said in a Thursday email. The first divestment occurred in the 1970s and involved companies related to South African apartheid, and the second took place in February 2006, when the Yale Corporation adopted the ACIR’s recommendation that the University divest from Sudanese government bonds and seven oil companies operating in Sudan.

“Our guidelines recommend using our role as a shareholder to express voice on issues where

a company is engaged in causing ‘social injury,’” Levin said. “If the use of voice fails, exit in the form of divestment is the final step: taken when a company is engaged in producing ‘grave social injury’ and after all attempts at persuasion have failed. It is an expression of desperation about the futility of voice.”

ORIGINS OF PROTEST

The fossil fuel divestment bandwagon started rolling in earnest in fall 2012, when McKibben began a 21-city speaking tour called “Do the Math.” Campaign leaders interviewed said McKibben’s rhetoric captured their attention because it highlighted the urgency of the climate change problem and pointed toward a simple solution for college students to implement on their own campuses.

But socially responsible investing is not a new concept for Ivy League schools, several of which have had committees in place to review issues of ethical investing for more than three decades. Student-led divestment campaigns have been around for just as long, ever since students staged demonstrations in the 1970s calling for schools to divest from companies doing business with apartheid South Africa. Yale historian Gaddis Smith ’54 GRD ’61 said

students maintained tents outside Woodbridge Hall to protest Yale’s South African investments at the time. Over a period of many years, the campaigns saw success: At least 155 colleges and universities — as well as numerous cities, states and pension funds — divested from South Africa.

While Unity College, Hampshire College and Sterling College — which have endowments of $13.6 million, $32 million and $1 million, respectively — have announced some form of divestment from fossil fuels, schools with larger endowments, including colleges in the Ivy League, have remained relatively quiet thus far, and Yale is no exception.

Though Fossil Free Yale was only launched last week, several of its members began compiling a report on climate change and the fossil fuel industry last fall.

Two days before the kickoff event last Saturday, they presented the report to the ACIR at the committee’s annual open meeting, where members of the Yale community can bring issues or concerns to the attention of the Yale administration. Members of the ACIR said after the meeting that they will consider the report.

Law professor Jonathan Macey, who chairs the ACIR, said he was impressed by the extensive research on climate change in the

presentation and added that he looks forward to working with the group.

“We’re excited to work with Yale, not against it,” said Abigail Carney ’15, a member of Fossil Free Yale.

TO DIVEST, OR NOT TO DIVEST

Though the ACIR has agreed to continue discussions with Fossil Free Yale and “investigate” the possibility of divestment, the committee has not endorsed the campaign.

We’re excited to work with Yale, not against it .

ABIGAIL CARNEY ’15 Member, Fossil Free Yale Macey said the ACIR, which relies on a framework outlined in a landmark book published in 1972 by three Yale professors called “The Ethical Investor,” is tasked with balancing the competing missions of ensuring Yale’s assets are invested ethically and maximizing the value of Yale’s endowment to support goals such as “making a Yale education affordable to everyone who is admitted and funding important research, scholarship and teach-

ing here.”

The University must carefully weigh any restrictions it puts on where the endowment can be invested, said ACIR student representative Daniel Shen ’14, because limiting the endowment’s investment options can affect its performance.

But the ACIR has come under fire in recent years for its inefficiency and out-of-date methodology.

More than 500 members of the Yale community signed a 2010 petition written by the Responsible Endowment Project, a group that sought to improve Yale’s approach to socially responsible investing by reforming the ACIR. Proposed changes included more public meetings, elected membership, a full-time staff position and more transparency between the Yale Investments Office and the ACIR. The ACIR’s official response to the group was never publicized, but Macey wrote a column in the News in February 2010 in which he defended the ACIR’s current policies. Former members of the Responsible Endowment Project did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

For Fossil Free Yale, getting in touch with the ACIR has proved difficult. Alice Buckley ’15, a Fossil Free Yale member, said the group who wrote the report on climate change and divestment did not find out that they would be able to present at the annual ACIR meeting until two days before the meeting, despite trying to obtain a response from the ACIR since October. As a result, Buckley said the group had to stay up until late the night before to prepare its presentation.

The ACIR is currently working on its annual report to the Corporation Committee on Investor Responsibility, which makes recommendations on investment policy to the Yale Corporation as a whole, and Fossil Free Yale member Patrick Reed ’15 said he hopes the ACIR’s report will include a section about fossil fuel divestment.

“They indicated that they’re willing to consider it,” Reed said.

A LEADER?

In the 1970s, “The Ethical Investor” made Yale a leader in the then-new field of socially responsible investing.

Yale was the first major university to “[abandon] the role of the passive institutional investor” and address the issue of ethical investing, according to a 1972 New York Times editorial. Still, the policy guidelines described in “The Ethical Investor” were

hardly radical, the editorial said, commending Yale for not letting its investment decisions be shaped “under the gun of campus activism.”

In the decades since, Yale has decided not to divest from several causes that Yale students have brought to the administration’s attention, including the tobacco industry in the 1990s.

Macey said some Ivy League schools appear only to take divestment initiatives seriously in order to “appease students and to create the impression that initiatives are being taken when they in fact are not.”

“At Yale, we take the intellectual acuity of our students more seriously than that,” he said.

Though Yale’s approach has changed little since the 1970s, most colleges still have not joined the conversation about environmental, social and corporate governance.

Only 149 of the 831 colleges and universities that participated in the 2012 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments followed some form of ethical investing policies, said William Jarvis ’77, managing director of the Wilton, Conn. investment firm Commonfund Institute, adding that this number has remained stable over the past decade or so. These 149 schools use a strategy known as “negative screening,” which involves avoiding investing in certain securities deemed unethical, Jarvis said.

But he added that these schools only screen 60 percent of their portfolio on average.

“Forty percent of their portfolio can’t be screened,” Jarvis said, adding that the percentage is primarily caused by schools’ investments in asset classes such as private equity and hedge funds that are “not easily susceptible” to screening, as managers can refrain from disclosing the companies in which they are invested.

The Yale Investments Office allocates about 35 percent of the University’s endowment toward private equity and 18 percent toward absolute return, which includes hedge funds. Chief Investment Officer David Swensen declined to comment for this article.

Regardless of investing concerns, Yale and other universities will eventually have to respond to the concerns of students and growing numbers of interested alumni. For now, at least, the fate of Fossil Free Yale lies in the ACIR’s hands.

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

Involuntary commitment considered for Conn.

MENTAL HEALTH FROM PAGE 1 Kate Mattias, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Connecticut Chapter, said that Lanza’s high profile leads the public to wrongly conclude that individuals with mental illnesses have a propensity toward violence. To the contrary, according to the National Institute for Mental Health, individuals with severe mental illness are no more violent than the average population when their symptoms are controlled.

“There is no connection between what went on in Newtown and people with mental illness. We do not have any sort of diagnosis for the young man,” Mattias said. “What we do know is that the mentally ill are much more likely to be victims than to be perpetrators of crime.”

MENTAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS

In order to keep the symptoms of mental illness under control, mental health experts agree that a comprehensive mental health care system must be in place. By many accounts, Connecticut’s system is one of the most progressive in the country. According to Mary Kate Mason, the spokeswoman for the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, or DMHAS, the state employs a “recovery model” of treatment. Rather than putting the mentally ill in institutions, she said, the department seeks to integrate them into communities and teach them independent living skills.

“They have lives that are very similar to folks who don’t have

mental illness,” she said. “They go to school, they work, they live full, productive lives.”

Christine Limone, director of political advocacy for the Connecticut chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, said that once patients emerge from hospitals, the recovery model relies on three prongs of treatment. The first is adequate clinical care, including medication and regular therapy. The second is a system of supported housing complexes, where individuals live in their own apartments, but staff work in the building to assist dwellers in taking their medication and other daily tasks. The third is known as psychosocial treatment — programs that assist patients to reintegrate into their communities, for example helping patients find work or go back to school.

Limone said that the state faces a chronic shortage of supportive housing, leaving many patients with inadequate care once they leave the hospital. But, she added, the state tends to underestimate the need for psychosocial services funding, as well.

“Psychosocial rehabilitation is the most likely to be underfunded,” she said. “People understand that at base minimum you need meds and you need a doctor. But people underestimate the power of just having people there with you.”

DEBATING INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT

Perhaps one of the most hotly contested issues surrounding the state’s mental health care sys-

tem revolves around whether the state should institute an involuntary commitment law. Currently, Connecticut is one of six states across the country that lacks such a law, which would allow family members or service providers of a person with severe mental illness to force them to seek treatment.

In Connecticut, a person can only face involuntary commitment if he or she is found unfit to stand for trial in court proceedings.

“People that are mentally ill don’t think like the rest of us,” said Howard Zonana, the director of the Psychiatry and Law Division at Yale Medical School. “So you can’t just rely on someone to say, ‘Oh yes, I’m mentally ill, and I need treatment.’”

Zonana said such a law would be more likely to pass after a tragedy such as Newtown, when the impetus to act is so strong. But he added that though involuntary commitment laws in other states have reduced arrests of those facing mental health challenges, they have not necessarily prevented all acts of extreme violence from these individuals.

Opponents of the law say that if Connecticut’s recovery modelbased mental health care system was funded adequately enough to provide every person with adequate services, they would not reach a point where involuntary commitment would be necessary. According to William Sledge, a professor of psychiatry at Yale and the director of psychiatric services at Yale-New Haven Hospital, the potential of facing involuntary commitment might be enough to scare many in need

away from the system.

“I’ve seen so many patients who — something like this has such a chilling impact on their ability to take advantage of the resources, it would have more disadvantages in turning people away from treatment,” he said.

State Rep. Terrie Wood, a Republican from Norwalk and a co-chair of the task force’s mental health caucus, said that some form of an involuntary commitment mandate would “most likely” not appear in the bill her committee will put forward this month. Such a proposal, she explained, is too complex to decide in a few short weeks.

“Some of the deeper issues should go through the regular legislative process, just because they need to be much more thoroughly vetted,” she said.

A QUESTION OF FUNDING

In December, Gov. Dannel Malloy included $7.7 million in cuts to DMHAS as a part of his deficit mitigation package to close the state’s shortfall this fiscal year.

After the events at Newtown, though, most of these cuts have since been reversed, with Malloy including several line-item increases for DMHAS in his proposed biennial budget for the two fiscal years starting on July 1. According to Mason, proposed increases include funding for 100 new units of supportive housing and increases in funding for young adult services.

Despite its weaknesses, the state’s mental health care system is one of the nation’s strongest, according to Sledge. Sledge said

BY THE NUMBERS MENTAL ILLNESS 2–4 35,000 10 11

Percent of people with severe mental illness who show a propensity for violence Suicides in the United States in 2007, double the number of homicides that year Suicide’s ranking in top causes of death in the United States Times more likely for a person with severe mental illness to be a perpetrator of violence compared to the average person

that, though Connecticut lawmakers are conscious of its cost, they are largely cognizant of the importance of a robust mental health care system.

“Politicians in Connecticut are fairly sophisticated about mental health services,” he said. “It doesn’t mean it’s their favorite thing. But as far as legislators go, I would take them over any other state that I know of.”

Sledge added that, if there were any changes he could propose to the system, he would allocate more funding to clinical research on mental illness. He said that, though Malloy maintained the large majority of DMHAS funding in his proposed budget, he cut funding for education and research.

“If there’s anything Connecticut could pass, it would be an investment in the future,” he said.

“Making sure there are adequate health care providers through education and training, and there

is adequate investigation into the causes and treatment of mental illness.”

With such a strong track record, it is unclear which areas of the system the legislative task force can fix through rushed legislation. Wood suggested that any items included in the bill later this month would be fairly noncontroversial. She declined to discuss specific proposals, though she suggested that the caucus would delve into issues such as more widespread mental health training and linking services between DMHAS and the Department of Children and Families.

During this fiscal year, the appropriation for DMHAS totaled $693 million.

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

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Yale startup runs school survey

BY MONICA DISARE STAFF REPORTER This week, New Haven Public Schools delivered their annual school climate survey to parents, but with a unique Yale twist — the surveys will be administered by a company owned and operated entirely by current Yale students.

Panorama Education, the company that will administer New Haven’s school climate surveys, is a startup founded

by Aaron Feuer ’13, David Carel ’13 and Xan Tanner ’13 that provides educational surveys and analysis to schools, districts and states across the country. This year, Panorama added the city of New Haven as one of its 15 clients and will be intimately involved with one of the most important aspects of New Haven’s School Change Initiative. The school climate surveys ask students, parents and teachers questions about their respective schools that range from safety concerns to academic satisfaction. The surveys are used to set goals in each school and make determinations about school tiering.

“There really is nothing out there that does exactly what we do,” Feuer said, “[Panorama Education has] built the tools to handle the complexities of the process.”

PANORAMA BEGINS

Feuer ’13, the CEO of Panorama Education, first decided he wanted to tackle education issues while he was the president of the California Association of Student Councils in high school. Traveling to schools throughout California as part of the job, Feuer said that he found students and teachers were interested in a survey system but that the concept was just too expensive.

Fast forward several years and Feuer received a fellowship from Yale to construct survey software that makes the data collection process both less expensive and more efficient. A year ago, Panorama Education was formed, using the new software that Feuer developed. Carel, director of sales and marketing, said that when the company began they hoped to have three to five clients by January but now boast approximately 15. Their clients include some state-level contracts and districts including Los Angeles and New Haven, with a total of about 800 schools utilizing Panoram’s surveys.

Carel said the goal of Panorama is to provide detailed analysis of school data in a manner that is affordable and presentable. Traditionally schools hire expensive consultants to examine data, he added, but Panorama’s goal is to have the computer do the job of a consultant.

“Every school in the country should be able to afford this type of service,” Carel said. “The idea is an individual teacher should feel like someone sat there and analyzed this data just for them.”

To accomplish the task, Panorama attempts to make

the report visibly appealing and break down the responses to each question with a graph.

Competitors, on the other hand, often supply only the data sets to the schools and unfortunately “people don’t respond well to information in a data table,” Feuer explained.

Other aspects of Panorama’s innovation are the ways in which the company encourages participation in the survey. The company offers the opportunity to submit surveys online or in paper, follows up with reminder calls and offers to text parents with their access codes, Feuer said.

He added that in Los Angeles, the survey response rate was below 10 percent when Panorama was hired and has now risen to above 40 percent.

THE NEW HAVEN CONNECTION

Along with technology advances and a unique presentation, Tanner said he thinks that one factor working in the company’s favor is that its turnaround time for the analysis of the data for NHPS should be much faster this year than it was last year.

In general, Panorama cofounders said their youth is an asset rather than a hindrance in attracting clients. Carel said that when the company was first founded, “We were terrified that because we were students they weren’t going to take us seriously.” But instead, the young company has found the opposite to be true.

“There’s a certain energy and passion that comes with us when we sit and chat with [clients]…this is a for profit company but the primary goal is not to make money,” Carel said.

This year, New Haven’s survey questions remained the same as in years prior to allow for historical comparisons, Tanner said. The survey places questions into five categories: academic expectations, communication, collaboration, engagement and safety and respect. Last year, 87 percent of 5th through 12th graders, 81 percent of teachers and 38 percent of parents responded to the survey.

The surveys will help determine the educational goals of schools and principals, and also factor into New Haven’s tiering system, which categorizes schools based on academic achievement and progress.

After they graduate this spring, the student entrepreneurs said they plan on continuing the company, although details about where the company will be located have not yet been finalized, Tanner said. All three said their goal to help schools better analyze and understand their students, parents and teachers outweighs the drawbacks of running a company as undergraduates.

“It is both extremely stressful,” Carel said, “And can be very exhilarating and very fulfilling.”

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Faculty discuss grading policies

BY JANE DARBY MENTON STAFF REPORTER At the first Yale College faculty meeting of the spring semester, professors returned to two key issues that initially emerged in October’s meeting — shopping period uncertainty and Yale’s grading policies.

The Teaching, Learning and Advising Committee proposed five new rules intended to minimize ambiguity during shopping period following a report released in May 2012 detailing how uncertainty during the first several weeks of

the semester adversely affects students and faculty members. Faculty at the meeting approved the new rules, but the proposals will not go into effect until the 2014– ’15 academic year. Also at the meeting, the ad hoc committee on grading policy — commissioned by Yale College Dean Mary Miller earlier this fall — presented a preliminary report on its findings, which will be discussed in more detail at April’s faculty meeting.

“I think these guidelines will help remove much of the uncertainty surrounding shopping period,” Miller said. “It’s not a per-

S U M M A RY O F S H O P P I N G P E R I O D R E C O M M E N DAT I O N S 1. Establish a uniform deadline of seven days before each term begins for faculty to post a preliminary course syllabus online, including the means of assessment, major assignments and required textbooks.

2. Require all students to submit online a nonbinding

preliminary course schedule with no fewer than 3 credits and no more than 5.5 credits by no later than the day before classes begin.

3. Standardize the length of the course selection period by making all course schedules due on the 10th day of each term.

4. Establish a schedule amendment period of five days. During

this period, students may drop any course without a fee.

They may also add one course without a fee or petition, but permission from the instructor would be required to do so.

5. Establish the deadline for electing to enroll in any course under the Credit/D/Fail option as the 15th day of each term (i.e., the end of the course amendment period).

fect system, but it will help students and faculty with the uncertainty at the beginning of the term and encourage earlier decisionmaking.”

Beginning in fall 2014, all professors will post their preliminary syllabi online at least a week before the course begins, students will submit an online nonbinding preliminary schedule before classes start, all course schedules will be due on the same day and a five-day schedule amendment period — in which students can add or drop one course as well as elect to enroll in a course Credit/D/Fail — will be added to the schedule.

Miller said some faculty members voiced skepticism about the effectiveness of these new rules and that the vote was not unanimous, but she added the final count was a clear affirmative decision.

Another major topic discussed during the meeting was Yale College’s grading policies, as the Committee on Grading — chaired by economics professor Ray Fair — presented its preliminary research and proposals to stimulate further discussion on the University’s grading policies, Miller said.

The Committee on Grading’s report began with a thorough examination of the purpose of grades, then examined grade data to show both internal Yale grading trends and the trends at similar institutions throughout the country. The committee found that grades have increasingly been compressed at the top of the GPA rubric, with A’s, A-minuses and B-pluses being “in effect [the] only three grades used” in many

departments.

In light of the grading trend, the committee proposed measures intended to increase grading transparency across departments and move Yale from a letter-grade system to a numerical system out of 100. Fair said this change would benefit students and professors by eliminating the “cliffs” that make differences between a B-plus and an A-minus a large jump under the current grading system while providing a clear way for the University to curb potential grade inflation.

“The more choices you have in grading, the fewer problems you’re going to have,” Fair said. “If you’re going to change the system at Yale from what we now have with respect to the clustering of A’s and A-minuses, you’re probably going to have to change the units of currency.”

Miller and Fair said they think the Grading Committee’s presentation was met with approval by the faculty, and both expressed enthusiasm about continuing the conversation in April.

Fair said he and the committee will spend the next two months addressing concerns and questions from faculty and students regarding the Grading Committee’s initial report. The committee plans to submit concrete proposals for a vote at April’s faculty meeting.

Yale College faculty meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month.

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

UCS expands domestic internships

BY AMY WANG STAFF REPORTER This summer, while many students will set off to work in cities all over the world, others will look toward opportunities closer to home as Undergraduate Career Services increases the number of domestic internships offered.

UCS plans to boost the number of domestic internships available in summer 2013 in several geographic areas less popular among most Yale students, such as Louisville, Ky., and St. Louis, Mo., in which students have demonstrated interest and alumni bases are particularly strong, said Jeanine Dames, director of UCS and associate dean of Yale College. UCS is currently working to increase its number of offered domestic internships from 320 last summer to 350 this summer — amounting to a 10 percent increase.

“We wanted to branch into new locations based on student interest,” Dames said. “Also, students sometimes gravitate toward larger cities because they are unaware of opportunities that exist in other cities, and that’s what we want to remedy.”

Two cities in particular, Atlanta, Ga., and San Antonio, Texas, will offer new opportunities to work in areas that include public policy and art museums — new employment options created largely through alumni. Programs in locations that are less frequented by Yale undergraduates are being expanded because many students who grew up in the areas expressed interest in taking summer jobs closer to their homes and families, Dames said. She added that programs in larger geographic areas such as Los Angeles and New York still remain popular.

New internship opportunities will exist in multiple categories of UCS’s seven domestic internship programs, which include Yale in Hollywood, Bulldogs Across America and the Yale Alumni Community Service Fellowship program. As of this month, UCS has set up 215 summer internships but is on track to offer 350 before the end of the academic year. Out of the 215 that have been set up, 190 are compensated positions.

Public service and nonprofit opportunities are among the UCS internships expanding at the fastest rates, with larger nonprofit organizations taking on proportionally higher numbers of students, Dames said. This year, UCS also began offering funding for public transportation to students who need to travel to Washington, D.C., for in-person interviews for

government positions because interest in public service internships has increased and UCS aims to ensure all students can take advantage of these opportunities, Dames said.

Despite concern among students nationwide that internships may not actually help students secure a full-time job after graduation, Dames said she still thinks the internship “experience is invaluable.”

“I think, for an undergraduate student, the most important thing about an internship is the skills you are gaining for your next step, be it the next step at that organization or at the next organization,” she said.

Jane Edwards, dean of international and professional experience and Yale College senior associate dean, said in an email to the News

that she thinks Yale students have always been interested in government and nonprofit sectors.

Edwards added that the recent rise in student interest in these fields can be attributed to the fact that UCS has worked to emphasize opportunities in the two areas.

Students who seek summer internships usually make their final decisions based on geographic location and the type of opportunity, Dames said. Though it “completely depends on the student,” most students seem to weigh the internship opporunity over the location, she said.

Andrea Januta ’14, who lives in California and participated in UCS’s Bulldogs Across America program in New Orleans, said she enjoyed being in a city that she was “familiar with, but not overly familiar with.”

“You see Los Angeles and New York in movies all the time — New Orleans has a unique culture, and it’s very much its own place,” Januta said. “I like new places, and that was one of my goals in taking the program.”

But other students still prefer to stay closer to home for convenience. Nick Smith ’16, who is looking for an internship through UCS this summer, said he would prefer an opportunity in his hometown, New York, because he would not have to pay for rent and living costs.

Last summer, the top five cities that Yale students held work positions in were New York, New Haven, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Boston.

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

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FROM THE FRONT No longer ‘us against them’ NHPD FROM PAGE 1 that the current financial situation is not entirely controlled by the municipality,” said NHPD spokesman David Hartman, speaking only in his capacity as a department officer. “While there used to be a much stronger automatic opposition to the new contracts — it’s always been an ‘us against them’ type fight — for the first time we’re seeing an acceptance that the problems in these tougher economic times are not just the problems of the municipality.”

The Elm City continues to face a tight budget, and DeStefano has called for public employee pension reform consistently for several years: Previous City Hall estimates have projected that the Police and Fire Retirement Fund will empty its funds by 2030. Under these conditions, union officials faced potential disappointment in arbitration — a traditionally labor-favoring conflict-resolution process wherein a third party legally mandates the terms of an agreement — and so they elected to compromise with DeStefano.

“We brought back the best package that we feel we could right now,” police union President Louis Cavaliere Jr. told NBC Connecticut Wednesday.

Despite the normally uncompromising NHPD union’s support, the new contract has not been received kindly by all outside observers.

“This is possibly the worst-negotiated public safety contract in the state,” New Haven Fire Department union President James Kottage told the New Haven Independent. “Their benefits have been eviscerated.”

The approved contract — which will begin retroactively on July 1, 2011, and will last until June 30, 2016 — will raise the pay of New Haven cops by 9 percent over five years while allowing the city certain long-term changes in health and pension benefits. Under the contract, officers’ pay will rise by 3 percent in the current fiscal year, 0 percent next year and 3 percent in the

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The New Haven Police Department, shown here in February 2011, protests officer layoffs. years 2015 and 2016, while monthly health premiums will rise for officers who retire after 2014. Instead of a flat $135 monthly health premium, all retirees will be required to pay the same premium they were paying at the time of retirement, with a 6 percent increase a year. Medical premiums will also increase by 7 percent for current officers.

The new contract will also reduce the number of annual sick days from 15 to 12. However, current police officers will maintain their right to retire after only 20 years on the job, which was one of the major points of contention with the city. The 20-year retirement benefit will not hold true for new police officers, who will have to spend 25 years in service before retiring under the new contract. New hires and current cadets will also be denied some of the benefits enjoyed by current police officers, Cavaliere said.

The new contract comes after months of uncertainty during which the police union seemed unable to settle on a contract with the city.

Negotiations appeared to have hit a dead end, as the city pushed for pen-

sion and medical benefits concessions that Cavaliere described as “unfair” in August 2012.

A tentative agreement between the city’s police union and the city was reached two weeks ago, on Jan. 24, when Mayor John DeStefano Jr. called the deal “fair but competitive” in an official announcement.

“It will allow us to attract the best and the brightest to the New Haven Police Department by compensating them fairly, while saving the taxpayers of the city money,” DeStefano said at the time.

The New Haven Fire Department, currently engaged in contentious contract negotiations with the city, recently elected to enter binding arbitration in lieu of bargaining progress. Union President Kottage took to the radio Tuesday morning to convince the NHPD to reject their contract and join the NHFD in arbitration.

Contact LORENZO LIGATO at lorenzo.ligato@yale.edu. Contact EVERETT ROSENFELD at everett.rosenfeld@yale.edu .

advance of the storm Thursday to ensure public safety. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy both ordered all nonessential government personnel to remain at home Friday, a Friday meeting of the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission was rescheduled for the following week and train and airline companies reduced or canceled service in the area.

While city officials did not anticipate heavy snowfall for most of Friday, they said crisis teams are poised to respond to developing weather conditions with over 30 snowplowing vehicles on 24-hour reserve. The city issued a Thursday press release urging residents to avoid driving, announcing the Friday closure of New Haven public schools and implementing a downtown parking ban starting at 10 p.m. Friday. The city’s Chief Administrative Officer and Director of Emergency Management Robert Smuts ’01 said his staff also reached out to three local shelters, which will remain open during the day and dispatch outreach teams to take the homeless off the streets.

“After Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, we got it down now,” City Hall spokeswoman Anna Mariotti said. “We’ve had a lot of practice over the last couple years.”

The city will continue to post storm updates to its website.

Maria Bouffard, Yale’s director of emergency management, said the University’s emergency response team — which is comprised of about 50 administrators and directors of campus facilities — is also in constant communication with one another about storm preparedness. Her team sent out emails to faculty and staff and posted announcements on Yale’s emergency operations website on Thursday regarding changes in University operations due to the imminent blizzard.

Some colleges in the region, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University, announced

the cancellation of Friday classes. But University Vice President Linda Lorimer wrote in a Thursday message to the Yale community that Friday classes will be unaffected, unless individual professors cancel classes because they cannot commute to campus and will instead communicate with students via email or the classesv2 website. Some University events, though, were affected by the storm. Yale GALA’s second LGBT reunion, scheduled to take place this weekend, was canceled.

Though the storm will make travel hazardous, students at least can rest assured they will not go hungry — residential colleges will serve dinner from 4–6 p.m., an hour earlier than usual, while retail units of Yale Dining — including Thain Family Café and Durfees — will close early Friday at 5 p.m. Conditions permitting, Saturday brunch will remain unaffected.

Yale College Dean Mary Miller said some dining halls may be closed, but all residential colleges will remain supplied with power. Bouffard said the University has contingency plans should dining hall staff be stranded on campus overnight.

“They are considered essential to the operations of the University,” Bouffard said of dining staff.

Lorimer said Yale’s shuttle bus service is slated to stop at 3 p.m. Friday with no door-to-door pickup that night. But should students get stranded, Lt. Jay Jones of Yale Police said they should contact the department via Bulldog Mobile. He added that the department does not anticipate any changes in its everyday operations and patrols as a result of the storm.

“We don’t expect anything out of the ordinary, but if we get out of the ordinary, we are ready for that, too,” Jones said.

Temperatures in the area are expected to drop into the 20s by Friday evening.

Contact NICOLE NAREA at nicole.narea@yale.edu .

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Annan advocates for change

BY JACOB WOLF-SOROKIN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER For Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations, change has defined his life.

Annan spoke to a packed audience of students, professors and community members at a talk sponsored by the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Thursday afternoon. Annan, who served as head of the UN from 1997 to 2006, came to campus to commemorate the publication of his official UN papers, which will be available in Manuscripts and Archives in the Sterling Memorial Library. During the talk, which was moderated by John Negroponte, a Jackson Institute senior fellow and U.S. ambassador to the UN during part of Annan’s tenure, Annan touched on his experience dealing with a broad variety of cultures and his vision for a U.N. that best reflects 21st century realities.

“I grew up with the sense that change was possible, even the most radical change and went through life testing, pushing change wherever I got,” Annan said. “When I’m told it cannot be done, I say, let’s test it.”

Annan, who lived in Ghana during the nation’s struggle for independence, worked for the U.N. or its affiliates for nearly 50 years. Once decisions are made in the General Assembly and various councils, Annan said, the secretary general is responsible for implementing initiatives and programs to execute larger goals. He said he used his power to focus on helping improve the lives of individuals by working toward better healthcare, improved access to economic opportunities and end to ethnic conflicts.

“We were there to protect these ideas and principles, but these principles belonged to the people,” Annan said. “It is up to us to give [policy] functional interpretation.”

Annan said he thinks the U.N. must stay true to its founding values while evolving to adjust to the world’s shifting geopolitical dynamics.

Plans for the organization’s structural reform are complicated because countries such as the United States have little desire to give up their power while smaller countries do not always gain the influence they want, Annan said. Still, he said, efforts for

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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan discussed current global conflicts and his life’s trajectory in a Thursday talk sponsored by the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. reform should continue because currently neither India — a nation with 20 percent of the world’s population — nor any Latin American or African country have permanent seats on the Security Council.

“If we do not reform, we are going to really not get the cooperation that we’re going to need from these big emerging countries,” Annan said.

Annan also addressed current global conflicts including the crisis in Syria, where he took up a post as a special UN envoy from February to August 2012. He added that is he is strongly concerned about the conflict in Syria because he fears it will escalate without successful international intervention.

Annan said he hopes the Security Council will lead resolution efforts in the region and called on the U.S. and the Russian Federation to start these efforts.

“This is not a type of crisis where one side wins and the other side accepts

and joins in,” Annan said. “It will lead to revenge killings, it will lead to ethnic cleansing and it will get much, much worse than it is today.”

Marilyn Wilkes, the public affairs director for the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, said she thinks lectures such as Annan’s are a tremendous asset to students and community members because they can directly engage with the speaker through questions.

Amy Chang ’16 said she enjoyed the humor and anecdotes Annan included in his discussion and appreciated hearing about the life experiences that motivated him.

In 2001, Annan and the General Assembly were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Contact JACOB WOLF-SOROKIN at jacob.wolf-sorokin@yale.edu .

Peabody renovations planned

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The Peabody Museum will temporarily close the Great Hall of Dinosaurs while the hall undergoes a $30 million renovation.

BY RAYMOND NOONAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER The Peabody Museum’s Great Hall of Dinosaurs may soon receive a $30 million makeover.

In the next few years, the Peabody’s displays may be dismantled and remodeled to include new specimens and to reflect scientific discoveries that have occurred since the mounts were last modified in 1946.

Although the start date of the renovations depends on funding, according to a Peabody official, dismantling would ideally begin in 2014 and be completed by 2016 — in time for the Peabody’s 150th anniversary. The hall will be closed while renovations take place.

“We have a lot more cool stuff to put on display,” said Daniel Brinkman, a museum assistant in the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology and one of the museum’s dinosaur

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specialists. “Just like in every science, new techniques, new interpretations appear over time. Our thinking has changed. Some of the mounts are horribly out-of-date.”

The museum’s largest mounted skeleton, the Apatosaurus, will undergo changes based on the discovery of other Apatosaurus specimens with different skeletal structures, Brinkman said. One of these planned changes includes the addition of three neck vertebrae and 20 tail vertebrae. In the last 20 years, computer simulations of the Apatosaurus — a herbivorous dinosaur that was up to 70 feet long and weighed as much as 30 tons — have suggested the dinosaur snapped its tail in a whip-like fashion to make a small sonic boom that would scare away predators, Brinkman said. The tail of the Peabody’s Apatosaurus will be lifted off the ground and bent to one side to reflect these findings.

In addition to skeletal changes, a new walkway will be constructed on the wall opposite Rudolph F. Zallinger’s ’42 ART ’71 “The Age of Reptiles,” a mural that plasters the east wall of the hall. The walkway will allow patrons to better observe Zallinger’s piece, which illustrates the evolutionary history of the earth over 300 million years and measures 110 feet by 16 feet.

“People will be able to look eye to eye at the mural, as well as look down at the dinosaurs,” Brinkman said.

The hall will change to parallel the images of Zallinger’s mural by including displays of fish, amphibians, birds, mammals and invertebrates in addition to dinosaurs, Brinkman said. Some creatures

already in the hall, such as the Archelon — the largest species of turtle ever found — will be positioned to reflect predator-prey relationships, he added.

Brinkman said he sees the Peabody’s alterations as both reflective of the changing times and leading the charge in changing how schools teach paleontology.

“For some students, this may be their first exposure to this new way of thinking about dinosaurs,” he said. He said although the best textbooks today accurately describe how dinosaurs roamed the earth, many schools do not use them.

Visitors interviewed had mixed reactions about the Peabody’s renovation plans. Looking at the Apatosaurus with her grandchild, Dottie Savastano, who grew up in Fair Haven, said she visited the Peabody often during her youth. Savastano, who began a “Museum Lady” program to connect New Haven schoolchildren to the museum’s resources, lamented the hall’s potential closing.

“The Great Hall is the big attraction for the kids,” she said. “It’s been this way forever. [Two years is] excessive time.”

Deborah Macintosh of Southampton, Mass., visiting the museum with her daughter Sarah, expressed both sadness and optimism at the hall’s closing, adding that she was relieved she visited while the hall was still open.

The Peabody has over 12.8 million specimens in its collection.

Contact RAYMOND NOONAN at raymond.noonan@yale.edu .

The fight against obesity may never be the same thanks to Kelly Brownell.

Since joining the Yale community in 1991 as a professor of psychology after serving on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine for 13 years, Brownell has revolutionized the global fight against obesity. Though obesity was once treated on an individual level, Brownell shifted the focus to “toxic environments” — a phrase he coined to describe the complex combinations of social and economic factors that draw people to unhealthy foods.

In 2005, Brownell founded the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale to house the University’s obesity research and direct public policy efforts. In 2006, Time magazine named Brownell one of “The World’s 100 Most Influential People” for his work to combat childhood obesity.

This fall, Brownell will become the dean of Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, leaving behind a legacy as a teacher, researcher, mentor and activist from his two decades of work at Yale.

“His students and colleagues all benefit from the incredible intellect and incredible science and incredible humanity that Kelly Brownell brings to everything he does,” said Tracy Orleans, senior scientist at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which has donated $11 million to the Rudd Center. “I couldn’t pick a better leader for our movement than Kelly Brownell. If there were a Nobel Prize for this kind of leadership, Kelly would get it.”

LEARNING OBESITY

In the early 1990s, researchers focused on treating obesity by helping people lose weight and keep it off, said Rudd Center Deputy Director Marlene Schwartz GRD ’96 who received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Yale under Brownell.

Schwartz said as a clinician, she would often help patients decide to adopt a healthier lifestyle only to see the “toxic environment” — the combination of aggressively marketed unhealthy foods and sedentary culture — undo this resolve .

Schwartz said Brownell was one of the first people in the field of obesity studies to think about the epidemic as a public health problem rather than a medical one.

“Over the years I became convinced that obesity was a problem that needed to be prevented rather than treated,” Brownell said. “And that leads directly down the path of public policy.”

Using $5 million in seed funds from the Rudd Foundation in 2005, Brownell assembled a multidisciplinary team of experts in fields ranging from law to psychology to conduct research in the hope of ultimately shaping public policy on a national level.

One of the most controversial issues the Rudd Center has addressed was the question of soda taxation, Brownell said. After many years of conducting research and drafting policy recommendations supporting such a tax, Brownell said such taxes are now in place in five countries.

Within the United States, soft-drink tax legislation has been introduced in approximately 20 cities and states, including New York City.

“The science that comes from the Rudd Center, especially science on food marketing and its reach and impact on kids, is incomparable,” said Orleans. “It provides a compass for understanding how to alter food marketing and create healthier choices for kids and families. We have been really privileged to work with Kelly Brownell and his colleagues at the Rudd Center figuring out how to do that.”

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Kelly Brownell, psychology professor at Yale, is highly regarded for his work combating childhood obesity.

The Rudd Center has also made considerable progress in reforming school nutrition programs.

Brownell’s research has set the stage for the United States Department of Agriculture’s “Smart Snacks in Schools” proposal, which aims to reduce high-calorie foods and increase the availability of nutritious options in public schools nationwide.

Orleans said the genesis of this new regulation, which was formally proposed on Feb. 1, stems from one of Brownell’s early congressional testimonies in 2002 about the importance of removing unhealthy foods from schools. At these Senate hearings, an industry representative claimed public school vending machines offered sufficient healthy options. Brownell responded by visiting 10 New Haven public schools and found that of the 170 total buttons students could push, only one offered pure juice, and 11 offered water.

“This is so Kelly Brownell,” Orleans said.

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Brownell’s legacy at Yale extends beyond his fight against obesity — he served as master of Silliman College from 1994–2000, chair and director of graduate studies in the Department of Psychology and a professor of epidemiology and public health at the Yale School of Public Health.

Schwartz said he thinks Brownell’s legacy at Yale is inspiring a generation of students to pursue work in food policy. From her own experience as a graduate student under Brownell’s tutelage, Schwartz called him a “terrific mentor.”

His undergraduate course entitled “The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food” has been popular among undergraduates since Brownell began teaching it in 2004.

Margot Gerould ’15, one of the 400 students currently enrolled in the course, said the material has impacted her beyond academic fascination.

“I feel like you can’t learn all the stuff he is teaching and not have it affect you in some way,” she said. “My diet has already changed — it’s causing me to completely rethink the way that I eat and the way that I cook.”

Emile Greer ’15 called it “the coolest class ever.”

Apart from his work at the Rudd Center and in the classroom, Brownell said the highlight of his 22 years at Yale were the six years spent as master of Silliman College. Silliman Dean Hugh Flick said in an email to the News that Brownell was a dedicated master who cared about connecting to the students and pushing them to foster community in the college.

“I had a ball during the six years I was master and made many wonderful friendships with students that have endured today,” Brownell said.

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Brownell said he is thrilled by the position of dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke because he will be immersed in a greater range of global issues, including climate change, poverty and international development. While the disciplines may be different, he said he hopes to transfer the Rudd Center model of “strategic science” — research that helps to answer and influence policy questions and design.

“I am one of those people who hopes to leave behind the world better than I entered it,” he said.

Schwartz said an academic of Brownell’s stature is constantly wooed by other institutions, but that she suspects he never seriously considered other offers because he was so focused on his work at Yale. She said Brownell told her that he has “one more job in him” and that he still felt he could take on a new challenge.

While Brownell will continue providing support to the Rudd Center from his office in Durham, Schwartz said Brownell was confident it has reached a critical mass and could operate without him. She added that she hopes there is a new director in line by the time Brownell leaves on July 1.

“I watched him try to make the decision, and I think it was a really tough decision because he loves Yale,” she said. “He’s been here for over 20 years, and he’s got a lot of friends.”

Orleans said she is confident in the continued leadership of the Rudd Center after Brownell leaves.

“Someday, when your kids are going to a school where there are no soft drinks sold and there are no highcalorie pizzas in the lunch line, Kelly Brownell will be in the woodwork.”

Contact DAN WEINER at daniel.weiner@yale.edu .

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Brennan defends drone strikes

BY KIMBERLY DOZIER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — CIA Director-designate John Brennan strongly defended anti-terror attacks by unmanned drones Thursday under close questioning at a protest-disrupted confirmation hearing. On a second controversial topic, he said that after years of reading classified intelligence reports he still does not know if waterboarding has yielded useful information.

Despite what he called a public misimpression, Brennan told the Senate Intelligence Committee that drone strikes are used only against targets planning to carry out attacks against the United States, never as retribution for an earlier one. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” he declared.

Referring to one American citizen killed by a drone in Yemen in 2011, he said the man, Anwar al-Alawki, had ties to at least three attacks planned or carried out on U.S. soil.

They included the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting that claimed 13 lives in 2009, a failed attempt to down a Detroit-bound airliner the same year and a thwarted plot to bomb cargo planes in 2010.

“He was intimately involved in activities to kill innocent men women and children, mostly Americans,” Brennan said.

In a sign that the hearing had focused intense scrutiny on the drone program, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told reporters after the hearing that she thinks it may be time to lift the secrecy off the program so that U.S. officials can acknowledge the strikes and correct what she said were exaggerated reports of civilian casualties.

Feinstein said she and a number of other senators are considering writing legislation to set up a special court system to regulate drone strikes, similar to the one that signs off on government surveillance in espionage and terror cases.

Speaking with uncharacteristic openness about the classified program, Feinstein said the CIA had allowed her staff to make more than 30 visits to the CIA’s Langley, Va., headquarters to monitor strikes, but that the transparency needed to be widened.

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process,” Feinstein said, but added: “I think there’s an absence of knowing exactly who is responsible for what decision. So I think we need to look at this whole process and figure a way to make it transparent and identifiable.”

In a long afternoon in the witness chair, Brennan declined to say if he believes waterboarding amounts to torture, but he said firmly it is “something that is reprehensible and should never be done again.”

[Waterboarding] is reprehensible and should never be done again.

JOHN BRENNAN Director-designate, CIA Brennan, 57 and President Barack Obama’s top anti-terrorism aide, won praise from several members of the committee as the day’s proceedings drew to a close, a clear indication that barring an unexpected development, his confirmation as the nation’s next head of the CIA is on track. The panel will meet in closed session next week to permit discussion of classified material.

Brennan bristled once during the day, when Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, accused him of having leaked classified information in a telephone call with former government officials who were preparing to make television appearances.

“I disagree with that vehemently,” the nominee shot back.

Brennan made repeated general pledges to increase the flow of information to members of the Senate panel, but he was less specific when it came to individual cases. Asked at one point whether he would provide a list of countries where the CIA has used lethal authority, he replied, “It would be my intention to do everything possible” to comply.

He said he had no second thoughts about having opposed a planned strike against Osama bin Laden in 1998, a few months before the bombings of two U.S. embassies. The plan was not “well-grounded,” he said, adding that other intelligence officials also recommended against proceeding. Brennan was at the CIA at the time.

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Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.

BY DONNA CASSATA AND RICHARD LARDNER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is determined to position small, quick reaction forces closer to global crises after the rapid assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya last September kept U.S. armed forces from responding in time to save four Americans.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress on Thursday that they moved quickly to deploy commando teams from Spain and Central Europe last Sept. 11, the chaotic day of the assault on the U.S. installation in Benghazi, but the first military unit didn’t arrive until 15 hours after the first of two attacks.

“Time, distance, the lack of an adequate warning, events that moved very quickly on the ground prevented a more immediate response,” Panetta said in likely his last Capitol Hill appearance before stepping down as Pentagon chief.

Republicans have accused the Obama administration of an election-year cover-up of a terrorist attack in the nearly five months since the assault, and they kept up the politically charged onslaught on Thursday. The military also found itself under attack, with at least one senator accusing the Joint Chiefs chairman of peddling falsehoods.

Faced with repeated questions about where units were during the attack and what they were doing, Dempsey said the military is taking steps to deal with the next crisis.

“We’ve asked each of the services to examine their capability to build additional reaction-like forces, small, rapidly deployable forces,” Dempsey said. “A small MAGTF for the Marine Corps, for example, a Marine airground task force. And the Army is looking at some options as well to increase the number of these resources across the globe, where the limiting factor, though will always be basing.”

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, put it in layman’s terms: “So you are moving the fire stations nearer the … ?”

“We’re trying to build more firemen. The question is whether I can build the stations to house them,” Dempsey answered.

In more than four hours of testimony, Panetta and Dempsey described a military faced with not a single attack over several hours, but two separate assaults six hours apart; little real-time intelligence data and units too far

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away to mobilize quickly. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attacks.

Between midnight and 2 a.m. on the night of the attack, Panetta issued orders, telling two Marine anti-terrorism teams based in Rota, Spain, to prepare to deploy to Libya, and he ordered a team of special operations forces in Central Europe and another team of special operations forces in the U.S. to prepare to deploy to a staging base in Europe.

The United States military is not and should not be a global 911 service capable of arriving on the scene within minutes to every possible contingency.

LEON PANETTA Secretary of Defense, United States The first of those U.S. military units did not actually arrive in the region until well after the attack was over and Americans had been flown out of the country. Just before 8 p.m., the special operations team landed at Sigonella Naval Air Station in Sicily.

An hour later, the Marine team landed in Tripoli.

Defense officials have repeatedly said that even if the military had been able to get units there a bit faster, there was no way they could have gotten there in time to make any difference in the deaths of the four Americans.

“The United States military is not and should not be a global 911 service capable of arriving on the scene within minutes to every possible contingency around the world,” Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

That failed to placate Republicans on the panel. In one fierce exchange, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called Dempsey’s statement “one of the more bizarre” and argued that if the administration had taken security threats seriously, aircraft and other military could have been located at Souda Bay, Crete.

“For you to testify before this committee that … consistent with available threat estimates is simply false; that our military was appropriately responsive,” McCain said. “What would have been an inappropriate response since … no forces arrived there until well after these murders took place?”

The general said the military was concerned with multiple threats worldwide and, based on time and positioning of forces, “we wouldn’t have gotten there in time.”

Several committee Republicans pressed Panetta and Dempsey about their discussions with President Barack Obama on that fateful day and his level of involvement, suggesting that after the initial conversation the commander in chief was disengaged as Americans died.

Panetta said he and Dempsey were meeting with Obama when they first learned of the Libya assault. He said the president told them to deploy forces as quickly as possible.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., questioned whether Panetta spoke again to Obama after that first meeting. The Pentagon chief said no but that the White House was in touch with military officials and aware of what was happening.

“During the eight-hour period, did he show any curiosity?” Graham asked.

Panetta said there was no question the president was concerned about American lives. Exasperated with Graham’s interruptions, Panetta said forcefully, “The president is well-informed about what is going on; make no mistake about it.”

At one point in the hearing, Graham asked Panetta if he knew what time Obama went to sleep that night. The Pentagon chief said he did not.

Panetta also pushed back against Republican criticism that the Obama administration ignored warning signs about the attack. The Pentagon chief insisted there were no signs of or specific intelligence about an imminent attack. In the six months prior to the assault, the government was apprised of 281 threats to diplomatic missions, consulates and other facilities worldwide, he said.

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., pressed Dempsey on why F-16 jets in Aviano, Italy, weren’t sent to Libya. Dempsey said it would have taken up to 20 hours to get the planes ready and on their way, and he added that they would have been the “wrong tool for the job.”

Panetta later explained to the committee, “You can’t willy-nilly send F-16s there and blow the hell out of place. … You have to have good intelligence.”

Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., asked whether Panetta and Dempsey would describe the Benghazi incident as an “intelligence failure.”

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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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“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.” ADLAI E. STEVENSON AMERICAN POLITICIAN AND DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE IN 1952 AND 1956

Tunisia Islamists say no new gov’t

BY BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA ASSOCIATED PRESS TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia sank deeper into political crisis Thursday, as the ruling Islamist party rejected its own prime minister’s decision to replace the government after the assassination of a leftist politician led to a wave of angry protests.

The murder of Chokri Belaid, a 48-year-old secularist and a fierce critic of hardline Islamists as well as the more moderate ruling party, laid bare the challenges facing this nation of 10 million, whose revolution two years ago sparked the Arab Spring uprisings.

Because of its small, welleducated population, there were hopes Tunisia would have the easiest time transitioning from dictatorship to A demonstrator raises her fist during a protest in Tunis on Thursday. democracy. But instead Tunisia — a staunchly secular state under ex-dictator Zine El Abi- ties enjoys strong support. ing with one of the assailants dine Ben Ali — is now a bat- The state news agency TAP before the politician was shot tleground pitting secular- also reported clashes in cities to death in his car outside his ists, moderate Islamists, and across the country, with police home Wednesday morning. hardline Islamists against one resorting to tear gas and warnThe latest events have another. ing shots. In the northwest raised fears Tunisia may not The economy has strug- town of Boussalem, demon- be an exception to the turgled, power-sharing negotia- strators set fire to a police sta- moil in the region, where several states are in a post-revotions have stalled, and politi- tion. cal violence is on the rise. The The tension could escalate lutionary phase. rejection of the prime minis- Friday. Dramatic turnout is U.N. Secretary-General ter’s move to create a govern- expected for Belaid’s funeral; Ban Ki-moon condemned the ment of technocrats to guide coupled with a general strike assassination and called for the country to elections also called by the main labor union, the reform process to go formade clear that divisions exist the events raise the prospect of ward, saying “Tunisia’s democratic transition should not between hardliners and mod- confrontations nationwide. erates within the ruling party, The police and army have be derailed by acts of politibeen put on alert to prevent cal violence,” U.N. spokesman Ennahda.

Police used tear gas Thurs- any outbreaks of violence and Martin Nesirky said. day to drive off the few dozen to “deal with any troublemakThe situation has yet to protesters who tried to dem- ers” announced the presiden- degenerate to the point of onstrate in front of the Inte- tial spokesman Adnan Mancer Egypt, the scene of regular rior Ministry, averting a repeat in a news conference late street battles between police and protesters and a total of the large rallies that swept Thursday. the capital hours after Belaid’s He added that police are breakdown of trust between assassination Wednesday. questioning a possible suspect the Islamist government and But full-scale riots hit in the murder — a member of the opposition. Tunisia’s the southern mining city of Belaid’s political party who Islamists rule in coalition with Gafsa, where Belaid’s Popular was working as his chauffer two secular parties and must Front coalition of leftist par- and was witnessed speak- rely on consensus more than

Iran criticizes sanctions

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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.

Ennahda was long repressed under the secular rule of Ben Ali, but after his overthrow in January 2011, the well-organized movement won subsequent elections. Overall, Ennahda is considered a moderate grouping. Hardline Islamists known as Salafis have come out against it.

Belaid’s death came as relations between the government and the opposition had deteriorated, with talks on a government reshuffle going nowhere.

To make matters worse, critics such as Belaid accused the government of relying on hired thugs to attack meetings of the opposition.

To ease tensions, Prime M inister Hamadi Jebali announced late Wednesday he would dissolve the government and form a new one of nonpartisan technocrats to manage the country until elections, giving in to the longstanding opposition demand.

TEHRAN, Iran — American proposals for direct talks with Iran are pointless while Washington is “holding a gun” to the country through sanctions, Iran’s supreme leader said Thursday, quashing a possible breakthrough in contacts with the West over the nuclear standoff.

The message from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in all major decisions in Iran, was reiterated by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a news conference in Cairo later in the day.

Their dismissal of one-on-one dialogue raises the stakes when wider negotiations between Iran and world powers, including the United States, resume this month.

Another dead-end round — after three stalemated sessions last year — could fuel accusations

by Israel and others that Iran is using the talks as a stalling tactic while it gets closer to having the capabilities to build a nuclear weapon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the world has until this summer — at the latest — to keep Iran from building a bomb. He’s hinted that Israel could attack unilaterally if all other efforts fail.

Iran denies it seeks atomic arms, saying its nuclear fuel is only for energy-producing reactors and medical applications.

Iran officials have frequently called attention to a religious edict by Khamenei that says nuclear arms are contrary to Islamic beliefs.

“Talks are held to arrive at an understanding, not to impose anything,” Ahmadinejad said.

“Such talks will be meaningless if someone raises a club and imposes” something on Iran, he added.

Talks would be productive only if they were based on mutual respect, he said. “Things will be fine if the Americans correct the manner in which they address us.”

The earlier comments by Khamenei were his first public reaction since a White House offer of direct dialogue received a high-profile boost this week from U.S. Vice President Joe Biden during a security summit in Munich attended by Iran’s foreign minister.

“Talks will not solve any problems,” Khamenei said in comments posted on his website.

“You are holding a gun against Iran saying, ‘Talks or you’ll fire.’

The Iranian nation will not be frightened by such threats,” Khamenei added in a reference to U.S. sanctions over Iran’s nuclear efforts.

The U.S. this week further tightened sanctions, which have already slashed Iran’s oil revenue by 45 percent. The new measures seek to cut deeper into Iran’s ability to get oil revenue. It calls on countries that buy Iranian crude — mostly Asian nations including China and India — not to transfer money directly to Iran and instead place it in local accounts.

Thursday’s comments followed another jab at the United States: This week Iran’s state TV broadcast a video allegedly extracted from an advanced CIA spy drone captured in December 2011 after crossing into Iranian airspace from Afghanistan.

Iran has long claimed it managed to reverse-engineer the RQ-170 Sentinel, and that it’s now capable of launching its own production line for the unmanned aircraft.

After initially saying only that a drone had been lost near the Afghan-Iran border, American officials eventually confirmed that the Sentinel had been monitoring Iran’s military and nuclear facilities. Washington asked for it back but Iran refused, and instead released photos of Iranian officials studying the aircraft.

The video, which aired late Wednesday on Iranian state TV, shows an aerial view of an airport and a city, said to be a U.S. drone base and Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Talks will not solve any problems.

ALI KHAMENEI Supreme leader, Iran “We were able to definitively access the data of the drone, once we brought it down,” said the chief of the Revolutionary Guard’s airspace division, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, in the TV broadcast.

In an attempt to embarrass Washington, Iran has claimed to have captured several American drones, most recently in December, when Tehran said it seized a Boeing-designed ScanEagle drone — a less sophisticated aircraft — after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf. U.S. officials said there was no evidence to support the latest claims.

Despite the tensions, American proposals for direct dialogue with Iran received a cautious welcome Sunday from Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi. But with caveats: Washington needs to quiet its “threatening rhetoric” for the offer to get real consideration by Tehran’s ruling clerics.

In his statement released following a meeting with air force commanders, Khamenei said: “They say the ball is in Iran’s court. The ball is in your court.”

“You have to be accountable and explain what it means to offer talks while simultaneously continuing pressure and threats.”

Washington has indicated in the past that it’s prepared to talk directly with Iran on the nuclear issue, but so far nothing has come of it.

Meanwhile, the talks between Iran and a powerful six-nation group — the permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany — have made little headway. Three rounds last year ended in stalemate with Tehran pushing for a rollback of Western sanctions in exchange for any key concessions on its nuclear program.

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SPORTS

“If he starts to break it, go tackle him. ... I don’t know what the rule is on that, but...” JOE FLACCO, BALTIMORE RAVENS QUARTERBACK, TELLING SIDELINE PLAYERS TO TACKLE 49ERS KICK RETURNER ON FINAL PLAY OF SUPER BOWL XLVII

Bulldogs on the road MEN’S BASKETBALL FROM PAGE 12 over the past three years. Yet the Elis went down early against the Big Green and could not recover, losing 71–62.

Just as the Bulldogs did last weekend, when they faced off against conference-leader Harvard and bottom-feeder Dartmouth, they will square off against squads on opposite ends of the Ivy League standings.

“It’s always tough to play the two P’s,” guard Austin Morgan ‘13 said.

The Bulldogs’ game against Penn tonight figures to be one in which the team can rally coming off a difficult weekend. The Quakers have amassed only four wins on the season including, like the Elis, a single conference victory. Penn, which has no seniors on its roster, relies heavily on the scoring production of guard Miles Cartwright and forward Fran Dougherty. Overall, the Quakers rank second-to-last in Ivy scoring per game.

MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 12

It’s always tough to play the two P’s.

AUSTIN MORGAN ’13 Guard, men’s basketball On Saturday, Yale figures to face a much steeper challenge. The Tigers are tied with Harvard for the conference lead. The key match-up to watch in that contest will be the Eli offense against the Tiger defense — while the Elis rank second in the Ivy League in points per game, the Tigers lead the conference in points allowed per game. The Tigers’ top scorer is standout forward Ian Hummer, who scores 15.9 points per game.

The Bulldogs will tip-off against Penn at 7 p.m. tonight at the Palestra and will square off against Princeton at 6 p.m. on Saturday at Jadwin Gym. Contact ALEX EPPLER at alex.eppler@yale.edu .

Game pushed to Sunday

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As seen in their 2–10 record in away games, the Elis have been unable to establish themselves on the road.

Yale crushes the Bears WOMEN’S SQUASH FROM PAGE 12 week [against Dartmouth and Harvard],” Nina Kempner ’15 said.

Even without two critical players, the cohesiveness of the Elis was palpable as the team displayed confidence in the frontcourt and forced errors throughout. In the first spot for Yale was Millie Tomlinson ’14, No. 2 nationally, who handily won her match in three games. Captain Katie Ballaine ’13 played in the second position, also winning in three games. Lilly Fast ’14 played up a spot at No. 3 due to Mao’s absence, as did Gwen Tilghman ’14 at No. 4. Both Fast’s and Tilghman’s composure and confidence forced their opponents to dive and lunge around the court.

Playing in the fifth position was Anna Harrison ’15, who added to the Elis’ tally after topping her opponent in four games.

After dropping the first game 11-9, Harrison came out and dominated, winning the second game 11-3. The texture on her hits and the placement of her shots proved too much for Brown’s Isabel Pitaro, as she went on to take the match with scores of 11-4 in the third game and 11-5 in the fourth.

“After losing the first game, I knew I had to change my game plan. [Pitaro] had really good hands, so I focused on keeping the ball deep and not letting her get in front of me to drop,” Harrison said.

The Elis are in a threeWomen’s Squash way tie for third in the Ivy Friday, 10 a.m.

League with Cornell and at Penn. Undefeated Princeton (9-0, 5-0 Ivy) appears to have a lock on the Ivy League lead with Harvard (10-1, 4-1 Ivy) in secDartmouth ond place. Yale has two key matches left to play: Sunday, 2 p.m. against Dartmouth and at Harvard this weekend.

“Dartmouth will be competitive, but Harvard will be the real challenge Harvard for us. However, we have been working hard and will be ready to give it our all come Sunday,” Ballaine said. “This Sunday’s match may be our toughest one yet, but it will give us the physical and mental preparation we need for nationals the following weekend.”

Barring weather delays by the snowstorm forecasted to hit the East Coast on Friday, the play concludes with the Dartmouth Big Green visiting the Brady Squash Center on Friday at noon. On Sunday, the Elis will travel to Cambridge to play the rival No. 2 Harvard Crimson.

Contact FRANCESCA COXE at francesca.coxe@yale.edu ,

Jones gets involved OUTREACH FROM PAGE 12 vs. Cancer Classic tournament organized by National Association of Basketball Coaches.

Jones explained his personal motivations for scheduling the Elis to play in the classic, which raises money for cancer education and awareness programs.

“My mom passed away from cancer last year around the time I was working on the schedule,” Jones said. He added that he is looking into creating an event that would honor his late mother but was unable to finalize plans this season.

On Jan. 26, Jones and his coaching staff also participated in the “Suits and Sneakers” initiative, which is run by Coaches vs. Cancer, to promote cancer awareness. Both Jones and his brother Joe Jones, who is the men’s bas-

ketball head coach at Boston University, are competitors in the third annual “Shots from the Heart” event. Run by Collegeinsider.com, the Skip Prosser Foundation and the American Heart Association, the event pits head coaches from across the country against each other in free throw-shooting competitions, with each coach shooting 25 free throws at his own school supervised by an administrator.

The Jones brothers are slated to face each other in the first round, and James made 22 of his 25 attempts on Jan. 22 for the contest. He said he does not yet know Joe’s score.

Arizona head coach Sean Miller won the 2012 “Shots from the Heart” Head Coach competition.

Contact CHARLES CONDRO at charles.condro@yale.edu .

the upcoming blizzard may push the game back to an earlier time on Sunday. Matching and superseding the Bears’ intensity, maintaining team defense and finding the back of the net will be the keys to the Bulldogs’ success in the contest.

“Brown is a team that plays fast, they finish all of their checks, they win races and they have good goaltending,” head coach Keith Allain ’80 said. “They’re a .500 team that is in every single game they play.”

While the Bears have won just eight of their 22 games this season, 14 of those games have been decided by one-goal difference or fewer. In their last matchup against the Elis, Yale came from behind for a 4–3 victory with three points from forward Antoine Laganiere ’13 and two assists from captain Andrew Miller ’13.

And with Anthony Borelli, the goaltender with the No. 2 save percentage in all of Division I hockey, suiting up for the Bears, Yale will be looking for its No. 11-ranked power play unit to approach the season-high four-goal performance it produced in the teams’ previous meeting.

After goaltender Jeff Malcolm ’13 took a bad hit in last weekend’s win against Princeton, Nick Maricic ’13 and Connor Wilson ’15 both spent time between the pipes over the remainder of the Princeton game and the next day’s loss to Quinnipiac. Allain said it is still a toss up for who will be suiting up in net for the Bulldogs, but Maricic’s experience may help the Elis at this time in the season.

“At this time last year, Nick was our guy,” Allain said. “He took us into the playoffs.”

No official description of Malcolm’s injury has been released, but Allain expects Malcolm to

continue to improve by the day and hopefully spend some more time in the net this season.

“I think he’s coming along,” Allain said. “He’s doing more and more stuff every day and as soon as he’s ready, we’ll get him back to practice and see when he is ready to play in a game.”

Due to the impending snowstorm headed toward New England, the Elis will not make the trip to Brown on Saturday but instead head to Providence once things clear up on Sunday. By making the trip a day later, the Elis will have the advantage of completing one more practice to work out any last minute details before the sole game of the weekend.

[Brown is] a .500 team that is in every single game they play.

KEITH ALLAIN ’80 Head coach, men’s hockey “We have been working on our systems, making sure we are sharp in all three zones,” Miller said.

The Elis have not played fewer than two games in a weekend since their Jan. 4 matchup against Boston College. Competing in just one game will allow the Elis to catch up on some rest following a weekend of travel to upstate New York and a weekend of fierce league competition in Ingalls against both Princeton and Quinnipiac.

“I think it’s nice, particularly coming at this time of the year,” Allain said.

The puck will drop in Meehan Auditorium this weekend at 5 p.m. on Sunday.

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

9-0 win against Brown MEN’S SQUASH FROM PAGE 12 Wednesday with its lineup largely unchanged from the team’s previous showings this season at the No.1 through No. 7 spots. The most notable addition was Chris Bradshaw ’15, who faced off against Brown’s Ross Freiman-Mendel in only his second match for Yale. The sophomore walk-on earned his first collegiate win in four matches, and Richard Dodd ’13 and Zachary Leman ’16 defeated their Bear opponents as the Elis swept the first round of matches.

Five of the nine matches played were over in three games.

Peter Dewire ’16, Sam Fenwick ’16 and team captain Hywel Robinson ’13 swept the second round of matches, with Eric Caine ’14, Neil Martin ’14 and Kenneth Chan ’13 coming out victorious in the third round of matches. Chan won his second consecutive match and Robinson extended his own personal winning streak to three.

“To be completely honest, it was a tough match,” Caine said.

“We played well and were very happy to come out with a 9–0 win.”

We are going to have to bring our A-game against Dartmouth to win convincingly.

KENNETH CHAN ’13 This Friday, the Bulldogs will look to take on the No. 8 Dartmouth Big Green at home in their last home match of the regular season. The Big Green have had an rocky season so far, going 7–6 overall and 2–3 in the Ivy League.

Dartmouth is led at the No. 1 position by team captain Chris Hanson ’13 who currently has a winning season record of 9–4.

The Big Green will be looking to

regain composure after an up and down past two weeks, with two losses and two wins.

“Dartmouth is definitely a team that is competitive,” Chan said. “They will be a good leadup to the weekend match against Harvard. We are going to have to bring our A-game against Dartmouth to win convincingly.”

Robinson added that the goal for the rest of the season is to win the next two matches in hopes to gain momentum going into nationals.

“After this weekend we have a two week gap,” he said. “This gives us the chance to reload, rebuild and focus on certain areas of training where we all need to improve.”

The Bulldogs will fight the Big Green tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. at the Brady Squash Center in New Haven.

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

SCHEDULE FRIDAY FEB. 8 Men’s Basketball

@ Penn

7 p.m.

Women’s Basketball

vs. Penn

4 p.m.

Men’s and Women’s Squash

vs. Dartmouth

10 a.m.

Men’s Basketball

@ Princeton

6 p.m.

Men’s Tennis

vs. UAB @ Nashville, Tenn.

2 p.m.

Men’s and Women’s Track & Field

vs. HYP @ Princeton

10 a.m.

Men’s Hockey

@ Brown

5 p.m.

Women’s Hockey

@ Dartmouth

2 p.m.

Women’s Basketball

vs. Princeton

2 p.m.

Men’s and Women’s Squash

@ Harvard

2 p.m.

Men’s Tennis

@ Middle Tenn.

11 a.m.

Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving

vs. Brown

1 p.m.

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“We played well and were very happy to come out with a 9–0 win.”

ERIC CAINE ’14 MEN’S SQUASH

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Men’s squash sweeps Bears

BY ADLON ADAMS STAFF REPORTER

MEN’S SQUASH

After falling to No. 1 Princeton last Saturday, the No. 4 men’s squash team had lost two of three machups and was slipping farther afield in the Ivy League title race. But the Bulldogs have regrouped strongly over their past two matches, defeating No. 12 Penn 6–3 on Sunday and sweeping No. 18 Brown on Wednesday night at home at the Brady Squash Center.

“The team played really Men’s Squash well against Friday, 10 a.m.

Brown,” team at captain Hywel Robinson ’13 said. “Everyone showed renewed focus Dartmouth and determiSunday, 2 p.m. nation after at a long weekend against Princeton and Penn. It was great to see the Harvard strength and depth we have on our team as well as the determination and positive attitude of our walk-on players.”

The Bulldogs came out on SEE MEN’S SQUASH PAGE 11

BY FRANCESCA COXE CONTRIBUTING REOPORTER The Bulldogs’ deep roster showcased its talent Wednesday evening with a 9-0 clean sweep of the No. 9 Brown Bears (11-5, 1-4 Ivy).

WOMEN’S SQUASH

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In addition to nationally ranked teams in men’s ice hockey, men’s squash and women’s squash, the Yale athletics program can boast of its significant contributions to the New Haven community this winter.

Although they have not enjoyed the same success in the arena as their nationally recognized brethren, the women’s ice hockey team and men’s basketball team have been heavily involved in giving back during the winter season. Associate Athletic Director Alison Cole ’99 said that many of the Athletic Department’s community outreach programs come from within the teams.

“We like to give the teams the freedom to get involved with whatever they want to get involved in,” Cole said. “My office will support them financially and logistically with whatever they want to do.”

Many of these ideas are sparked by events in the personal lives of athletes, such as the annual “White Out for Mandi” event hosted by women’s ice hockey.

For the past three seasons, the Elis have dedicated one game to fundraising for the Mandi Schwartz Foundation in honor of former teammate Mandi Schwartz ’10. She died in 2011 after a three-year battle with acute myeloid leukemia. Forward Alyssa Zupon ’13 said that the event, which raised more than $25,000 last year in donations, is a fitting way to commemorate her teammate.

“There’s the fundraising opportunity and it’s also an opportunity to play in Mandi’s

The No. 5 Elis (10-3, 3-2 Ivy) made a definitive statement to finish out the last week of Ivy League regular season play and redeem themselves after dropping their last three matches to top-5 opponents: No. 1 Princeton, No. 3 Penn and No. 4 Trinity. Out of contention for the Ivy League title, the Elis will use the remaining Ivy matchups against Dartmouth and Harvard as preparation for the National Championship.

In their contest against the Bears, the Bulldogs were without Shihui Mao ’15, usually No. 3 in the lineup, and Issey Norman-Ross ’15, usually No. 6, who were resting for the upcoming weekend, as they both had grueling matches versus Penn and Princeton.

“Everyone moved up in the lineup for this match because rest was needed, as we still have two huge matches to play later in the

The No. 4 Yale men’s squash team defeated the No. 18 Brown Bears 9-0 on Wednesday night at the Brady Squash Center.

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memory,” Zupon said.

Zupon has gone one step further in giving back to the community. In addition to helping with the “White Out” and the annual bone marrow drive, Zupon helped start Bulldog PAWS in the fall 2010. PAWS, which stands for Pediatric Alliance With Student-athletes, was started by two current and two former Yale student-athletes. Zupon and softball player Virginia Waldrop ’12 joined forces with Mike DiLuna ’98 MED ’03 and Dave Gimbel ’03 MED ’08 to create the program, which pairs pateints in the pediatric neurology ward at Yale New Haven Hospital with an Eli sports team. The team then “adopts” the patient, according to Zupon, inducting them onto the team, inviting them to all home games and giving the child team gear. “[Women’s ice hockey] adopted a little girl named Giana,” Zupon said. “We have birthday parties and tumor-free parties.

We go to her school to support her at concerts and she is always at our home games.”

While seven teams have currently ‘adopted’ a child, the program currently has six additional teams on the waitlist.

Student-athletes have not been the only ones looking to make an impact on the community. Men’s basketball head coach James Jones has been especially involved in service opportunities this season. In addition to participating in Bulldog PAWS and Yale’s Holiday Gift Giving Initiative, Jones has involved his team in several other events to raise awareness for cancer and heart disease, including the Coaches SEE OUTREACH PAGE 11

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Elis prep for short snowy weekend

BY ASHTON WACKYM STAFF REPORTER Two months ago, momentum swings carried the Bulldogs to a 4–3 victory over the Brown Bears in Ingalls rink. Last Saturday, the No. 10 men’s hockey team struggled to control the momentum in a 6–2 defeat to No. 2 Quinnipiac. But only one day earlier, Brown had done what Yale could not — the Bears held the high-powered Bobcat offense to a single goal and came away with a 1–1 tie.

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This weekend, the Elis will make the trip to Providence to take on Brown at Meehan Auditorium, and the team that can control the momentum is likely to come away with the win.

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Yale’s one weekend game against Brown, originally scheduled for Saturday at 7 p.m., has been rescheduled for Sunday at 5 p.m. because of the impending snowstorm.

Basketball looks to rebound

BY ALEX EPPLER STAFF REPORTER As New Haven prepares for up to 2 feet of snow this weekend, the men’s basketball team will head out of town to try to rebound from a disappointing two games last weekend.

MEN’S BASKETBALL The Elis are certainly no strangers to playing on the road this season: The team has played 12 away games this year, double its number of home games. Yet while the Bulldogs have posted a 4-2 record at home, the team has been unable to estab-

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lish itself on the road as evidenced by its 2–10 record in away games.

The team is also 1–2 on a neutral floor.

The Elis (7–14, 1–3 Ivy) will try to turn that weakness around this weekend as they visit Penn (4–16, 1–2) on Friday and Princeton (10–7, 3–0) on Saturday. “[Playing on the road] is not the best right now,” captain Sam Martin ‘13 said.

“We’re much more comfortable at home.”

Martin added that the team had a good week of practice and feels confident going into this weekend’s games.

Last week featured heartbreak for the Eli faithful in two different forms. On Friday, the team faced conference-leading — and nemesis — Harvard. Despite trailing for the majority of the game, the Bulldogs made a furious comeback during the second half, only to eventually fall 67–64.

On Saturday, the squad met perennial conference laughing stock Dartmouth.

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